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COPYRIGHT, A. D. 1906, BY THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

s$*?sz,

Twelfth Year.

Simi-raon th!y .

CHICAGO, OCTOBER 25, 1906

J Subscription $2.

I Simla CopUa, 10 Centa

"The Cherry People"

Ross Lumber Co,

Ja.mestown, N. Y.

Himmelberger tldrrison Lumber (o.

Red Gum
Specialists

Morehouse,

Missouri

Why not grasp the opportunity for salving in cost of
your insurance ? Make a. trial and be convinced.

The Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Company

Of Boston, Mass., 141 Milk Street.
CASH DIVIDENDS TO POLICY HOLDERS NOW UVs PER CENT.

The Davidson-Benedict Company

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
Everything in

Southern Hardwoods

POPLAR, CHESTNUT, ASH, OAK

(Plain and Quartered.) Straight or Mixed Cars.

DRESSED POPLAR ANY you get what you buy from
URCWEU rurLnR rtlN * US. ASK for our delivered
WAY YOU WANT IT. prices, any railroad point.

WE WANT to move

QUARTERED WHlTF fHA*

0 l.uvil ,\o. 1 and No. 2.

1 inch No. 1 Common.
0 i Inch No. 2 Common.

inch No. 1 Common Rfd Oak.

1 inch Sap Cull Poplar

il 'I : TWO YEARS DRY.

i

Mr ATLANTIC LUMBER CO.

2 Kilby Street, ■ BOSTON, MASS.

The combined facilities of the stock lumber insur i e con

LUMBER INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK

and the ADIRONDACK F!RE INSURANCE COMPANY

and allied organizations, constitute a great insuring opi>'.i ,- any owner of a first-class lumber or mill risk.

Ask for lines and rates. LUMBER INSURERS GE L p (L AGENCY, Underwriting Managers

66 Broac ui| y, ^ew York

HARDWOOD RECORD

LOUISVILLE

MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF KENTUCKY

The Norman Lumber Co., Inc.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers of

Hardwood Lumber

FOR SALE

Seasoned Ash, Oak, Poplar, and Walnut Lumber

WANT TO BUY

Walnut, Oak, Ash, Hickory and Poplar Logs and Lumber

Office and If aids : Third Street, H to K Streets
LOUISVILLE, KY.

E. L. DAVIS LUMBER CO.

POPLAR.
30,000 ft. 4/4 1st & 2d.
60.000 ft. 4/4 Common.
15,000 ft. 6/4 Common.

QUARTERED RED OAK.
50,000 ft. 4/4 1st & 2d.
60.000 ft. 4/4 Common.

QUARTERED WHITE OAK.
60,000 ft. 4/4 1st & 2d.
10,000 ft. 6/4 1st & 2d.
20,000 ft. 6/4 1st & 2d.
10,000 ft. 8/4 1st & 2d.
50,000 ft. 4/4 Common.

6,000 ft. 6/4 Common.

6.000 ft. 6/4 Common.
20,000 ft. 8/4 Common.
10,000 ft. 2%" Common.
40.000 ft. 3" Common.
1 car Hickory Plank, IV, to 4"—
8' to 16'.

OFFER FOLLOWING STOCKS:

OAK WAGON TONGUES.
12.000 ft. 4i4"i4i2"— 12', 1 — 6 mos. dry.
800 ft. 3 i4 "—12', 12—18 mos. dry.
400 ft. 314x414"— 12', 12—18 mos. dry.
300 ft. 3M>x414"— 12', 12—18 mos. dry.
250 ft. 3%x4%"— 12', 12—18 mos. dry.
800 ft. 3y4x4?4"— 12'. 12—18 mos. dry.
180 ft. 3x4" & Lgr.— 14', 12—18 mos. dry.
REACHES.

1 car 2x4" and larger, dry.

BOLSTERS.

2 cars 3x4" and larger, dry.

HICKORY AXLES.
1.500—3 x4 "—6', 1 — 6 mos. dry.
1,500— 3%x4&"— 6', 1—6 mos. dry.
2,000 — i x5 "—5'. 1—6 mos. dry.
1.000 — «V4*5V4"— 6', 1—6 mos. dry.
1.000 — 6 x6 " — 6', 1—6 mos. dry.

Dry stock W.P.Brown & Sons Lumber Co.i^vuie.Ky.

PLAIN RED OAK.
55.000' 1" 1st & 2nd.
25,000' IV 1st & 2d.
49,000' lYi" 1st & 2d.
57,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
18,000' 2%" 1st & 2d.
IG.Oiki' 3" 1st & 2d.
131,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
84,000' IVi" No. 1 Com.
44,000' 114" No. 1 Com.
47,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
8.000' 2%" No. 1 Com.
15,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

QUARTERED RED OAK.
13,000' 1' 1st & 2d.

14.000' 11'2" 1st & 2d.

5,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
15,000' 1" No. 1 Com.

7,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
13,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

PLAIN WHITE OAK.

80,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
2S.000' 114" 1st & 2d.
12,000' IV2" 1st & 2d.
42,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
23.S00' 214" 1st & 2d.
16,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
227.000* 1" No. 1 Com.
60,000' 114" No. 1 Com.
80,000' IV," No. 1 Com.

All thicknesses in cull poplar,- ash, chestnut.

50.000' 2" No. 1 Com.
17.000' 2%" No. 1 Com.
22.000' 3" No. 1 Com.

QUARTERED WHITE OAK.

50,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
28.000' 114" 1st & 2d.
45,000' 114" 1st & 2d.
49,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
19,000' 214" 1st & 2d.
18,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
30,000' 114" No. 1 Com.
40.000' 114" No. 1 Com.
22,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
10,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

ASH.

9,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
65.000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
16.000' 114" 1st & 2d.
10.000' 2" 1st & 2d.

8,000' 214" 1st & 2d.
14,000' 3" 1st & 2d.

6,000' 4" 1st & 2d.

4.000' 114" No. 1 Com.
16.000' 114" No. 1 Com.

8,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

POPLAR.
12,000' 1" 1st & 2d.

12.000'

114" 1st & 2d.

11,000'

114" 1st & 2d.

12,000'

2" 1st & 2d.

10,000'

214" 1st & 2d.

10.000'

3" 1st & 2d.

50,000'

1" No. 1 Com.

28,000'

114" No. 1 Com.

10,000'

114" No. 1 Com.

10,000'

2" No. 1 Com.

15,000'

1" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

8,000'

2" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

6,000'

2" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

4.000'

114" IS" & up 1st & 2d

3.000'

114" 24" & up 1st & 2d

Your inquiries will be appreciated.

Prompt delivery guaranteed

Ornamental Hardwood Floors

400 STYLES AND PATTERNS

Klnstrat"-" Catalog on Application

WO00 -MOSAIC FLOORING CO.

kochester, N. Y. New av Ind.

Albert R. Kampi

Manufacturer

Hardwood Lumber and Timber

Dimension Stock

Board of Trade BIdg., Louisville, Ky.

E. W. Rhubesky

Wholesale

Poplar, Rough and Dressed.

Oak, Chestnut and Other

Hardwoods

North Vernon Pump
<£ Lumber Co.

Hand Sawed Plain and Quartered

Oak and Poplar.

North Vernon, Ind.. and

Louisville. Ky.

Southern Lumber Co.

Oak, Poplar and

Chestnut.
Louisville, Ky.

'-'

We wish to move and will make close prices on:

0 £ar o t -1st and 2nd Q'd Wh"e Oak

2 Cars 8 4 Common Qtd. White Oak
!6 Car 5 4 Common Plain Ked Oak
h < ar 5 4 Common Plain White Oak

1 Car 6 4 Common Plain Ked Oak
1 Car 4 4 Log Run Ash

3 Cars 4 4 No. 3 Common Plain Oak

1 Car 8 4 No. 3 Common Plain Oak

1 Car 4 4 No. 2 Common Plain Oak
3 Cars 8 4 No. 2 Common Plain Oak

2 Cars 5 4, 6 4 and 8 4 No. 2 Com. and Sound Wormy

Chestnut
1 Car 4 4 No. 1 Common Poplar
1 Car 5 4 No. 2 Common Poplar
1 Car 4 4 Common and Better Bay Poplar

We are moving our local yard
and wish to ship this at once.

Stotz Lurifcber Company,

Keller Building,
Louisville, Kentucky

HARDWOOD RECORD

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A

ATED FOR

D

HIGH

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STANDARD OF

QUALITY

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AND MILL

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CELEBR

WORK

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MICHIGAN RED OAK

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As fine stock as was ever cut
in the famous Cadillac district.

We have some of this choice 4-4
Red Oak which will soon be iu
shipping condition.

If you are in the market, we
can please you both in quality
and price.

We also have some nice Soft
Gray Elm in 4-4, 6-4, 8-4 and
12-4. It's Bone Dry.

Mitchell Brothers Company

CADILLAC, MICHIGAN

The Cadillac Handle Co.

Band Sawn
Michigan Hardwoods

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

1 Car 5 4 Maple 10 in. and up No. I I'm in nun ,iml he Hit.

1 Car 6 4 Maple 10 in. and up No. 1 Common and better.
.", C;u> 4 4 Maple No. 1 and 2 Common.

2 Cars 4 4 Basswood No. 2 Common and better.
2 Cars 4 4 Birch No. 2 Common and heller.

2 Cars Dimension Stock, Largely Maple 4/4x2 in. and
wider x 12-18-24-30 and :S6 in. long.

MURPHY & DIQQINS

Offer all grades of the following special dry stock

MAPLE— 5/4, 6/4, 8/4, 10/4. 12 4, 14. 4, 16 4
ORAY ELM-4, 4, 12/4
BASSWOOD-4,4.
i BIRCH— 1/4, « 4

Our own manufacture. Perfect Mill Work, Uniform Grades.
LET US FIGURE ON YOUR HARDWOOD WANTS.

Cummer, Biggins & Go.

MANUFACTURERS-

"CUMMER" MAPLE
AND BEECH FLOORING

MICHIGAN HARDWOODS

Good assortment of dry stock on hand ready
for immediate shipment in Hard Maple, Beech,
Birch, Soft Elm and Cherry.

SEND US A LIST OF YOUR REQUIREMENTS.

DRY ST

OCKJ

Northern Michigan

Soft Gray Elm

What our old cork pine was to the regular
white pine — such is our Soft Gray Elm to
ordinary soft elm. Buyers who gladly discrim-
inate in favor of something better than the or-
dinary, will be interested. We have

10 cars 8-4 firsts and seconds.

1 car 10=4 firsts and seconds.

2 cars 12-4 firsts and seconds.

Wide, choice stock, our own product, seasoned right,
bone dry.

WHITE US ABOUT IT.

COBBS & MITCHELL

( INCORPORATED)

CADILLAC MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

MEMPHIS

THE. HUB OF THE HARDWOOD WORLD

Three States Lumber Company

MEMPHIS, TENN.,
Oiler the following dry stock In Cottonwood lor immediate shipment :

200M 13 in. to 17 in. Box Boards
200M 8 in. to 12 in. Box Boards
50M 18 in. and up Panel

w

E have in all thicknesses the following: kinds and
amounts of lumber at places designated. Kindly
send us your inquiries.

MEMPHIS YARD'.]

Ash 680,000 feet

Quartered White Oak. . 75,000 feet

Plain White Oak 140,000 feet

Quartered Red Oak.... 225,000 feet

Plain Red Oak 410,000 feet

Cypress 225,000 feet

Cottonwood 200,000 feet

Poplar 308,000 feet

SELMA YARD

Poplar 409,000 feet

Bay Poplar 857.000 feet

Red Gum 55,000 feet

Cypress 787,000 fe-;t

BERCLAIR YARD

Bay Poplar 100,000 feet

Cypress SOO.OOO feet

OTHER YARDS
Plain Red Oak 350.000 feet

J. W. THOMPSON LUMBER COMPANY

(Hike and Yards: Randolph Road and I. C. R R.

MEMPHIS. TENN.

LAMB-FISH LIMBER CO.

Manufacturers of

Band Sawn Oak, Ash
Gum, Cypress, Etc.

Office,

Memphis, Term.

Mills.
Chancy, Mlas.

Address all correspondence to Memphis office.

STOCK
LIST

Anderson-Tully Co.

Memphis

I .iin.

100,000 ft. 1 in. No. 1 Common Gum. f

100,000 ft 1 in. No. 2 Common Gum.

50,000 ft. 1 in. First and Second Sap Gum 6 in. to 12 in.

50,000 ft. 1 in. First and Second Sap Gum 13 in. to 16 in.

50,000 ft. 13 in. to 17 in. Gum Box Boards.

50,000 ft 1 in. First and Second Red Gum.

50,000 ft. 1 in. No. 1 Common Red Gum.

50,000 ft. 6/ 4 in. First and Second Cottonwood.
200,C00 ft. 1 in. No. 1 Common Cottonwood.

FENN BROS. COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Oak Flooring

QUARTERED WHITE HOLLOW BACKED

QUARTERED RED END MATCHED

PLAIN WHITE POLISHED

PLAIN RED BORED

Memphis, Tenn.

Briggs & Cooper Company, Ltd.

MANUFACTURERS

NORTHERN
SOUTHERN

HARDWOODS

GET OUR PRICES ON THESE ITEMS:

1,000,000 feet Soft Grey Elm, 1 to 3".

500.000 feet Unselected Birch, 1 to 3".
3,000,000 feet Michigan Hard Maple, 1 to 6".

350,000 feet End Dried White Maple, 1 to 1%".

625,000 feet No. 1 Common and Better Winter Sawn Basswood, 1 to 3".

150,000 feet Selected White Basswood, 1", \H" and l'A".

210,000 feet Plain and Quartered White and Red Oak, 1 to 2".
YARDS AT

SAGINAW, CHICAGO AND MEMPHIS

J. B. Ransom, Prest A. B. Ransom, V.-Prest. W. A. Ransom, Sec. C. R. Ransom: Tieas.

GAYOSO LUMBER CO., Inc.

Manufacturers and Dealers in

SOUTHERN
HARDWOODS

Also make a specialty of Wagon Stock in rough, such as Tongues,
Axles, Reaches, Bolsters, and 6-4 to J 6-4 Hickory.

HARDWOOD RECORD

The

FVLLERTON-POWELL

Hardwood Lumber Company

What

we want

is

orders

Manufacturers and Dealers

If you will give us the opportunity,
will please you on all varieties of
Hardwoods in Price, Quality and
Promptness. Please review our stock
list in next issue Hardwood Record.

1 104 Chamber of Commerce
CHICAGO

South Bend, Ind.

s

ch

ultz

Brothers

&

Cowen

WE ARE IN THE MARKET TO BUY

POPLAR— OAK— ASH— CHESTNUT

AND OTHER

HARDWOODS— ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

1225 to 1240 OLD COLON \

r RUIT DING

CHICAGO

JOHN C. SPRY

JOHN D. SPAULDIXG

Southern Oak Lumber Co.

Poplar

IN I Ml MARKET FOE MILL CUTS OR ROUND LOTS, FOB CASH

Hardwoods

Cypress

910 Chamber of Commerce
CHICAGO

INSPECTION \T Mil I

'i \i: DS: Mil: I II MEMPHIS

1217 Tennessee Trust Bldg.
MEMPHIS

HARDWOOD RECORD

Millmen with round lots of well manufactured stock to offer,
are sure of a square deal with

WILLIAM WHITMER & SONS, Inc.

MANUFACTURERS OF

HARDWOODS

Branches: NEW YORK, BOSTON, PITTSBURG

Girard Trust Bldg. PHILADELPHIA

R.E. Wood Lumber Company

C We own nearly a thousand million feet of virgin poplar, oak,
chestnut and other hardwood timber, and operate our own band mills
in West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
C Let us figure on your hardwood requirements.

GENERAL OFFICES:
CONTINENTAL BUILDING.

Baltimore, Maryland

Quartered Oak Flooring

Manufactured for

HIGHEST CLASS of trade only.

Also Plain Oak, Maple and other Hardwood flooring.

The name D WIGHT on flooring is a guarantee of its

excellence. 1

D WIGHT SPECIAL pattern of thin flooring is the
only suitable thin flooring to lay. Write for Sample.

DWIGHT LUMBER. COMPANY

DETROIT, MICHIGAN

OCTOBER STOCK LIST

HARD MAPLE

BEECH WHITE MAPLE

1 in. 1 .000.000 ft.

1 in. 100.000 ft End Piled

11 in. loo.ooo ft.

liin. 100.000 ft. Tin. 20.000 ft.

1 ! in. iipo.ooo ft.

3 in. 50.000 ft.

BIRCH

4 in. 50.000 ft.

1 in. .-.oo.oooit. BASSWOOD

1* in. loo.ooo ft. 1 in. 300,000 ft.

2 in. 100.000 ft.

SOFT MAPLE

2* in. 50.000 ft. GRAY ELM

1 ill. 30.000 ft.
1 1 ill. 20,000 ft.
3 in. 10.000 ft.

ash 1 in- 300.000 ft.
, -n mn ,. 1* in. 200,000 ft.
1 in. oO.OOO ft. 3" in 200,000 ft.

KELLEY LUMBER & SHINGLE CO., Traverse City, Mich.

Swann-Day Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OF

POPLAR AND OAK

PLANING MILL STOCK, BOX SHOOKS
AND HARDWOOD DIMENSION

CLAY CITY, KENTUCKY

HARDWOOD RECORD

np l_i w—* w— * A o rr*

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1

BOSTON NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA

Charles S. Wentworth & Co.

WHOLESALE LUMBER MERCHANTS
147 Milk Street

BOSTON

We are in the Market for POPLAR, PLAIN OAK, CYPRESS
and NORTH CAROLINA PINE LUMBER; also OAK, MA-
PLE and BIRCH FLOORING, and would appreciate corre-
spondence from manufacturers in position to supply any of the
stock named.

Wistar, Underhill & Co.,

WHOLESALE

HARDWOOD LUMBER

816 Real Estate Trust Building, 4> PHILADELPHIA.

W. M. GILLESPIE LUMBER

HARDWOODS COMPANY Farmers Bank Bldg.
Oak a Specialty PITTSBURGH, PA.

Thomas Forman Company

MANUFAC Tl-KEHS OF HIGH-GRADE

Maple and Oak
Flooring

New York Branch: DETROIT

McGovern 4 BoweD, And Hardwood Lumber

29 Broadway MICHIGAN

The West Florida Hardwood Co.

Ash
Hickory

Mill on Apalachicola River
MARYSVILLE, FLA.

Red and White Oak Red Gum

Yellow Cottonwood Tupelo Gum

LET US HAVE YOUR INQUIRIES

James & Abbot Company

Lumber and Timber

No. 165 MILK ST., BOSTON, MASS., and GULFPORT, MISS.

NEVER A BETTER TIME
TO PLACE YOUR LUMBER ORDERS

than right now, nor a better place than with Mcllvain's, Stocks are
complete. Shipments made promptly Quantities, grades and prices
are in your favor.

3,177,500 ft. Chestnut 695,600 ft. \\ hite Pine

1,290,000 " Hemlock 741,000 " Maple

1,228,500 " Poplar 779,500 " Yellow Pine

1,500,000 " White and Red Oak 245,000 " Ash

Bass, Birch, Cherry, Cypress, Mahogany. Spruce, Redwood, Sugar
Pine, Hemlock and Cedar Lath, Cedar and Cypress shingles.

Write L's today for what You Want

J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co.

56th to 58th Streets and Woodland Ave , PHILADELPHIA, PA.

JOHN L. ALCOCK & CO.

BUYERS OF BLACK WALNUT LOGS
BOARDS AND PLANKS

Baltimore, Md.

Inspection at point of
shipment. Spot cash.

STEVENS-EATON CO.

Buyers of

ROUND LOTS

of

Hardwoods

No 1 Madison

Avenue,

New York

ESPECIALLY IN MARKET FOR PLAIN RED OAK

WM. E. LITCHFIELD

MASON BUILDING, BOSTON. MASS.

Specialist in Hardwoods

Manufacturers are requested to supply lists of stock for sale

Holloway Lumber Company

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

In the market tor all thicknesses of
OAK, ASH and CHESTNUT.

312 Arcade Building,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

JONES HARDWOOD CO.

INCORPORATED

WANTS: Poplar, Plain Oak,
Quartered Oak and Cypress.

147 MILK STREET
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Manufacturers please send stock lists and prices.

J. H. SCHOFIELD

R. W. SCHOFIELD

SCHOFIELD

BROTHERS

LUMBER

WHITE PINE

AND HARDWOODS

1019-1020 Pennsylvania

Philadelphia

Bldo.,

8 HARDWOOD RECORD

CI HP I f~\ T T T CI

^ 1 . L, *J U 1 ^

LARGEST OF ALL HARDWOOD MARKE.TS

Wdnted— to Buy or Contract tor future Delivery

BOO. 000 to 1. 000. 000 ft. Poplar, all grades
500.000 to 1,000.000 ft. Cypress, all grades
500,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Ash, all grades

-Mill pLuMMER LUMBER CO. ST LOUIS

Inspection

MISSOURI

MASSENGALE LUMBER CO., ST. LOUIS

Manufacturers and dealers in

HARDWOODS

In the market to buy and sell OAK, POPLAR, ASH, CYPRESS
Lar^e stock dry lumber always on hand

American Hardwood Lumber Co.

14,000,000 ft. Hardwood Lumber

YARDS AT BENTON. ARK., NEW ORLEANS, LA., ST. LOUIS, MO.,
DIUKSON, TENN.

LANE- WHITE LUMBER CO,

OAK, ASH AND WALNUT T-IiS f f4\l7nr»f4c ALWAYS IN THE MARKET
OUR SPECIALTY 1 IdlUWUUWi I OR WALNUT LOGS

MAIN OFFICE AND BAND MILL at FORT SMITH, ARK.

PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM AIND OTHER HARDWOODS

Large stocks of well seasoned Lumber always carried at our yards and mills.
General Offices: HOW. Chicago Ave., CHICAGO. Mills: Cairo, 111., Marked Tree, Ark., Greenville, Miss., Arkansas City, Ark., Blytheville, Ark.

Are You in the Market ?

Send us your inquiries for prices on
the following

HARDWOODS

lOOM ft.
10OM ft.

76M ft.

25M ft.

25M ft.

50M ft.

5031 ft.
lOOM ft.

60M ft.

50M ft.
lOOM ft.
lOOM ft.
lOOM ft.

1'' Com. and Better Quartered Bed Oak.

1" Com. and Better Quartered White Oak.

\V\" Com. and Better Quartered Red Oak.

15J" Com. Quartered White Oak.

VA" 1st and 2nds Quartered Red Oak.

3" Com. and Better Quartered White Oak.

3" Com. and Better Plain White Oak.

1" Com. Plain Birch.

I" Com. Red Birch.

IK" Com. and Better Plain Birch.

1" Com. and Better Hard Maple.

llA" Com. and Better Hard Maple.

1" Com. and Better Soft Elm.

UPHAM 4 AGLER

Distributing Yards: CAIRO, ILL.
Main Offices :: American Trust Building, CHICAGO

Undoubtedly

you are interested in

Audits of the condition and op-
eration of your business.
Modern accounting methods:
Milt cost systems:

so, may we have a talk
with you?

tandard Audit Company

Suite 33S

Marquette Building, CHICAGO

HARDWOOD RECORD

C2 HP I /^fc 1 T I C!

O 1 • LrU U 1 O

LARGEST OF ALL HARDWOOD MARKETS

LOTHMAN CYPRESS CO.

AIR DRIED

Louisiana Red Cypress

FOOT OF ANGELICA STREET

STEELE & HIBBARD

WHOLESALE
MANUFACTURERS.
DEALERS AND
SHIPPERS.

MILLS:

Yazoo City. Miss.
McGregor, Ark.
England. Ark.
Derrr\ott, Ark.
O'Hai .\ . La.
Dexter, Mo.

ASH.

CYPRESS.

MAHOGANY.

OAK.

POPLAR.

ETC.

North Broadway and Dock Sts.

Roland F. Krebs
Manager

Ozark Cooperage Co. ££2-

WE BUY STOCKS READY CUT OR CONTRACT FUTURE OUTPUT

Four Inspectors in the South

Direct Shipments J COTTONWOOD.

from mill stocks) CYPRESS, GUM, OAK.

MAIN OFFICE,
FRISCO BUILDING

W. R. CHIVVIS,

Lesperance Street and Iron
Mountain Railroad.

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

BLACK WALNUT LUMBER MY SPECIALTY. Always in the market to buy
Walnut and Cherry Lumber. Pay spot cash and take up at shipping
point when amounts justify.

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Co.

203 Frisco "Building

We have the following Dry Stock for sale piled at our mill:

QTD. WHITE OAK : COTTONWOOD :

3 Cars 4/4 Common. 3 Cars 1" 1 and 2.

2 Cars 4 4 Common and Better Strips. 1 Car 1x13 to 17" Box Boards.

GUM: ELM:

h Cars 1" Common Red. 1 Car 6 4 Log Run.

1 Car 1x13 to 17" Box Boards. 4 Cars 4" Log Run.

1 Car 2" 1 and 2 Sap.

G Cars 1% Common and Better Sap.

This Stock is All Band Sawed and Equalized

Wanted-Cypress, Ash and Cottonwood

Inspection at Point of Shipment When Quantity Justifies

Hairier Manufacturing Co.

CYPRESS, HARDWOODS

Mail orders receive our immediate
attention.

YARDS: FOOT OF DOCK STREET

Garetson-Greason Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

GUM LUMBER
OUR SPECIALTY

Cnrloari Shipments Direct
from Our °wn Mills

519 Bank or Commerce

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Co.

CASH BUYERS OF OAK, ASH, CY-
PRESS, POPLAR, CHERRY AND ALL

HARDWOODS

Send Inspector When Quantity Justifies

Office and Yards : Hall and Angelrodt Sts.

CHAS. I LUEHRMANN HARDWOOD LIBER COMPANY

Carry a complete stock of Hardwood and are

constantly in the market to purchase

large blocks of stock for cash. Are

also the largest manufacturers of

the famous St. Francis

Basin Red Gum.

General Offices : 148 Carroll Street

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For thirty-three years Wilce's Hardwood Floor-
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stands today "unequaled" is the
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ove statements, try our polished surface floor-
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matched ends and holes for blind nailing — you'll
find it reduces the expense of laying and polishing.
i hn Booklet tells all about Hardwood Flooring and
how to care for it — also prices — and is/ree.

The T. Wilce Company

22nd and Throop Sts. CHICAGO. ILL.

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John O'Brien Land & Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Of All Kinds

OFFICE AND YARDS :

873 to 881 So. Laflin Street

MILL : FHILITP, MISS.

Ch

ica go

Harvey S. Hay den

IN THE MARKET FOR
POPLAR

25 M ft. \l£" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
40 M ft. 2" No- 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
25 M ft. 254" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
6i) M ft. 3" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.

WHITE ASH
30 M ft. 1" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
75 M ft. 6.4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
50 M ft. 6 4" Is and l's, standard widths and lengths.
50 M ft. 8 4" Is and 2-. standard widths and lengths.
25 M ft 10 »" Is and 3s, standard widths and lengths.
50 M ft. 16 4" Is and 2s. standard widths and lengths.
(We can use a small percentage of No I Common.)

511 Railway Exchange, - Chicago

PARK RICHMOND <&

CO.

Wholesale

Hardwood Lumber

67 West Twenty-second St.

Chicago

J. Slimmer & Company

Hardwood
Lumber

Office and Yard :

65 W. Twenty-second St.

CHICAGO

R. A. WELLS LUMBER CO,

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Fine Quartered Oak a Specialty

234 LA SALLE STREET
Yards at Canal and 21st Sts. CHICAGO, ILL.

have you anything to offer in

hickory, white ash, thick plain
oak and wagon stock?

WE ARE CASH BUYERS

PLEASE SEND US YOUR STOCK LISTS

Ryan & McFaHand

Office and Yards
Robey St. and Blue Island Ave.

Chicago

White Lumber Company

Dealers in Hardwood Lumber

ALL KINDS

Cherry Lumber a
Specialty

ALL GRADES

Laflin ®. 22d Sts.
Chicago

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Northern evrvd Southern,
Hardwoods

Railway Exchange

CHICAGO

CHAS. DARLING & CO.

Southern
Hardwoods

22nd Street and Center Avenue - CHICAGO

The Keith Lumber Company

HARDWOOD, POPLAR & SOUTHERN PINE LUMBER,

MAHOGANY,

REDWOOD,

RED CEDAR.

CYPRESS,

CHESTNUT.

SPRUCE.

MAPLE FLOORINC, OAK TIMBERS & WACON STOCK.

Office and Yards: Fourteenth and Wood Streets.

Ben C. Keator-^Wholesale Lumber

HARDWOOD AND PINE

1003-4 Manhattan Building, CHICAGO

THE WARD LIMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

HARDWOODS

CHAMBF, R OF COMMERCE BUILDING :: CHICAGO

CKds, Miller

Milton Miller

MILLER BROS.

Hardwood Lumber

Main Office, 208 ^ILLOUGHBY BLDG.,
6 E. MADISON STREET,

YARDS;

Loomis St., S. of 22nd St.,

Chicago, Mi.
Houston, Miss.
Macon, Miss.

CHICAGO, ILL.

'Phone CENTRAL 1363

WISCONSIN TIMBER <& LUMBER CO.

—BUY AND SELL

Yellow Pine and Hardwood Lumber

Want thick hardwoods and wagon box boards.
Mot.adnock Bidg CHICAGO. ILL.

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Co.

1649-50 MARQUETTE BUILDING

Are now offering bone drv BIRCH, ROCK ELM, BLACK ASH, etc., Wis-
consin stock. Also PLAIN AND QUARTERED OAK, POPLAR, etc ,
from our Memphis yard. We are constant buyers.

Heath -Witbeck Company

Hardwood Lumber

We have for quick shipment 170,000
feet DRY BIRCH. First and Seconds
and Common 2, ~}i, 3 and 4 inch.

Main Office, 6 Madison St. Yards, Loomis and 22nd St.
CHICAGO

The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Co.

Wholesale and Retail

Telephone
NORTH 223

HARDWOOD LUMBER

47 Dominick St.
CHICAGO

The only trade paper reaching all classes
of hardwood consumers

HARDWOOD RECORD
355 Dearborn St., Chicago

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the demand for the best. It is made by modern ma-
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Rough or Finished Lumber — All Kinds

Send us Your Inquiries

The I. Stephenson Company

WELLS, MICHIGAN

1L

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We stand between you
and High Rates

Lumber Underwriters

66 Broadway New York

"«/■•«• "

Michigan Maple Flooring

Ourmodel factory is equipped with thehighest
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We produce our lumber from the best rock Ma-
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Our brand "Michigan" is a guaranty of qual-
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reasonable.

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OAK FLOORING

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BANKERS, First National Bank Building, CHICAGOv

H. B. Leavitt, Prest.
I£- H. Adams, Secy.

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THE LEAVITT LUMBER CO.

Most Complete Stock of Hardwoods in
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Make Known Your Wants and Get

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Mills:

WISCONSIN

TENNESSEE

ARKANSAS

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MISSISSIPPI

General Office and Yard :

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Southern Office:

808 TENNESSEE TRUST BLDG.

MEMPHIS, TENN.

THE "FINEST" MAPLE FLOORING

W. D. YOUNG & CO.

BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

Producers from TREE to TRADE of the high-
est type of Michigan Forest Products. Large
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of Hardwoods — 1 to 4 inches thick — on hand.

Maple, Birch and Beech Lumber

MMwolRocoM

Published In the Interest of Hardwood Lumber, American Hardwood Forests, Wood Veneer Industry, Hardwood Flooring,
Hardwood Interior Finish, Wood Chemicals, Saw Mill and Woodworking Machinery.

_ : New Y

Vol. XXIII.

CHICAGO. OCTOBER 25. 1906.

No. I.

BOTAN

OaIU

Published on the 10th and 25th of each month o

y

THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

Henry H. Gibson, President

Frank W. Tuttle, Sec-Treas.

OFFICES
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Telephones: Harrison 4960 Automatic 5659

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The entire contents of this publication are covered by the general copy-
right, and articles must not be reprinted without special permission.
Entered at Chicago Postoffice as Second Class Matter.

ty Advertising copy must be received five days in advance of
publication date. Advertising rates on application.

Meeting Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers'
Association

An important meeting of this association will be held at the Park
Place Hotel, Traverse City, Mich., commencing at 10 a. m. on
Wednesday, October 31, to which all Michigan hardwood manu-
facturers and stumpage owners are invited.

General Market Conditions.

Hardwood market conditions remain strong in every part of the
country. There is no diminution in demand or prices for the entire
range of American hardwoods with the exception of quartered oak.
(Quartered white oak is commanding a fair price and is in fair call,
lint that is the best that can be said of it. Quartered red oak
is slow of sale at $5 less than the price list. There is an open con-
viction that the production of quarter-sawed oak lumber can be still
further restricted and then add to the prices obtainable for the full
run of the plain sawed log. Veneers have made such inroads into the
quarter-sawed oak trade, by reason of the lesser resultant prices in
manufactured articles, that the average manufacturer would be better
off in sweetening his oak output with a larger proportion of wide and
good stock in plain-sawed that he has heretofore quartered. Again,
quartered oak flitches are in good call at fancy prices by all the
veneer mills. This line of product will consume all the quarter-
sawed stock that the average run of oak logs should I"' required to
stand.

Weather conditions prevailing in the South during the last fort-
night have been very bad and few mills in those producing sections
have been running. The time of year is at hand when the output
will be greatly restricted for months to come.

Stocks on hand owned by the jobbing trade are ordinarily fair to
good, and there seems to be no surplus in any of the standard kinds
of lumber. The exception to this is poplar, of which there is a great
scarcity at both the manufacturing and consuming ends. Prices on
poplar have materially stiffened during the last month.

The foreign trade is finding a lot of fault with the repeated rises
in the price of American ash, oak and hickory. In a good many cases

English merchants are declining to buy ash and are putting up the
bluff that they can get all the native ash they want for their require-
ments. Quartered oak planks are more of a drug abroad than they are
on this side of the water.

The English market is buying birch very freely. Manufacturers in
this country are apparently slow as compared with their foreign com-
petitors in appreciating the intrinsic merit and high value of birch.
This country had to wait for England to discover that gum, which
abroad is known as satin walnut, was a great wood and, unfortunately,
Pennsylvania, New York and New England have not yet awakened
to this fact. The same history will be repeated with birch, which
ranks at. least second in physics to any American hardwood. The
price of this splendid cabinet and finishing wood is fully twenty-five
per cent lower in relative value than it should be.

Mahogany is doing fairly well and while it does not show any accre-
tion in price, the consumption is increasing in all quarters. Mahog-
any will eventually have its inning.

The hardwood flooring people, both in maple and oak, are still
very busy, and must remain so for months to come as present build-
ing operations, especially in large and high-class structures, are
unparalleled in the history of the country.

Trade is good and will surely remain so for the rest of the year.

Lest There Be Misunderstanding.

Recent developments in my lumber newspaper experience have
added certainty to the belief that it is impossible to conduct a news-
paper that will bo pleasing to everyone. If one could run a news-
paper that would be acceptable to every element of the hardwood
trade it wouldn't amount to much. I don't want to run that kind

of a paper,

* # *

My "Heart to Heart Talk" in the last issue of the Hardwood
Record has borne fruit. One St. Louis jobber advises me that if
1 am going to preach a doctrine that means ' ' putting him out of
business and taking the bread out of his mouth," he must decline
to advertise in my publication.

This man tacitly admits that he "salts" his grades, and if such

is the case, I am sure that I don't want his advertisement.

* ' * *

A Philadelphia man cancels his advertising arrangement on the
ground that I "so openly and strongly work for the other associa-
tion." As this man is a member of the National Hardwood Lumber
Association, he implies that I am antagonistic to his favorite or-
ganization.

I wish to respectfully deny the allegation. The National Hard
wood Lumber Association has not a better friend on earth than I
am. It is an association that has as many opportunities for good
work as any lumber organization in the country, and I hope to .-
continue and prosper. Furthermore, I hope to see it improve; hope
to see it do at all times what it professes it is trying to do; I hope
to see it eventually expel members when they are caught red handed
in crooked commercial transactions. The National Hardwood Lum-
ber Association has nothing but my best wishes and, insofar as it
works on clean commercial lines, it. will have the unqualified support

of the II ujdwood Record.

* * #

There are some bright spots. Sis members of the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association have sent me advertising contracts during

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the last fortnight and say they are squarely -with me in a campaign
looking towards good hardwood trade morals. They tell me they buy
lumber on the inspection of their association and sell it on the same
inspection; that they know how to make money as legitimate
merchants, and do not have to resort to " off " grade or short measure

to make handsome earnings.

* * *

There are other bright spots. For two weeks my mail has been
filled with letters of congratulation and encomiums on the stand
the Hardwood Eecokd is taking in relation to irregular practices in
the hardwood trade. I must confess that these letters have come
very largely from manufacturers, and I hope I shall be just as popu-
lar with them after I fully unbosom myself on matters of which I
am cognizant pertaining to some individuals in their branch of the

industry.

* * *

There are other particularly bright spots. The Hardwood Record
is in close touch with well towards twelve thousand wholesale consum-
ers of hardwoods in the United States, and this portion of the indus-
try seems to be particularly well pleased with the campaign I have
inaugurated exposing pernicious practices. As a matter of fact, they
seem to be with me to a man, for which I am duly grateful and

appreciative.

* * *

Now, I am neither antagonistic nor a censor of the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association. I am simply getting after individuals in
the trade who profess one thing and do something else. I am the
enemy of the man who uses the professed tenets of the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association, or any other association, as a cloak to
cover up irregular transactions. I contend that I have a right to do
this, and should not have the enmity of any upright, fair-minded
man in so doing.

The national government legislates that when a packer misbrands
his food products he is liable to fine and imprisonment.

The city authorities of Chicago recently arrested and punished a
lot of marketmen for short measure and under weight. .

The average decent man would not stand idly by and see' a pick-
pocket pursue his calling and not cry ' ' stop thief. ' '

This is exactly the position of the Hardwood Record. I believe in
the purification of the hardwood industry and I believe it to be pos-
sible. I am not preaching fair play, square dealing and commercial
integrity on any high moral grounds, but simply as the gospeL of com-
mon sense. On the principle that the integrity of the trade is to
its best interests the Hardwood Record will stand or fall.

.— H. H. G.

Hardwood Association Meetings.

Today and tomorrow at Cincinnati the National Hardwood Lum-
ber Association is holding a semi-annual meeting, during which it
doubtless will legislate on matters important to the trade. Owing
to the fact that the meeting is held concurrently with the publication
date of the Hardwood Record a report of the proceedings, of neces-
sity, cannot be presented in this issue.

On Wednesday, Oct. 31, the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers'
Association will hold an important meeting at the Park Place Hotel,
Traverse City. At this meeting it is expected that an agreement will
be reached upon a system of grading rules. The association will
thoroughly analyze the condition of stocks on hand in both dry and
green lumber and the prospects for the output for the year to come,
and will legislate on several important subjects of vital interest to
the manufacturers of Michigan. The meeting will doubtless call out
a large and representative number of the hardwood producers of that
state.

"How do your unfilled orders compare with this time last year?"
Twenty-four report larger, from ten to fifty per cent; twenty-
three report about the same, and ten report smaller.

"How long will your present supply of orders keep your shipping
department busy!" Seven reported two weeks; nineteen reported a
month; twelve reported three months; four reported six weeks; eleven
reported two months; two reported six months, and seven reported all
stock sold.

' ' Are your stocks on hand larger or smaller than on March 1,
1906?" Ten reported about the same; thirty-two reported smaller;
four reported all stock sold; sixteen reported larger stock, owing to
poor car supply.

' ' How are your prospects for production during the remainder of
the year; will it be larger or smaller as compared with the preceding
five months?" Twenty-four reported that it will be smaller; nine-
teen reported that it will be larger; thirteen reported about the
same, and six advised that they will not produce any stock.

' ' How is your car supply ? ' ' Twenty-nine reported poor supply ;
sixteen fairly good; sixteen good, and two normal.

"Are you able to sell lumber at current price list?" Thirty-one
reported that they were selling at. full list; six reported that they
were able to secure prices above list, and twenty reported that they
are shading the list somewhat.

' ' Do you consider that conditions point to a higher trend of prices
in the immediate future?" Forty-three say "yes"; ten "on some
items only ' ' ; seven that ' ' prices will hold firm ' ' ; twelve say ' ' no. ' '

"Do conditions warrant an advance of hardwood prices?" Twelve
think that they do; thirty-eight think that no change should be made
at present; thirteen failed to reply.

' ' What is the condition of trade outlook and your ability to sup-
ply demand ? ' ' Twenty-eight replied that the outlook was good ;
sixteen replied that they will not be able to supply orders offered,
and five reported themselves as short on some items.

"Have you received any logs by tide since Aug. 15?" Fifteen
river mills reported no tides; five river mills reported small tides
with moderate receipt of logs.

' ' If running a river mill, advise how soon you will cut out. If a
mountain or railroad mill, what is the condition of the roads for
hauling?" Of seventeen river mills reporting, ten advised that
they are now cut out; one can run for six weeks; three have logs
enough for thirty days, and three can run for three months. Of the
twenty-one mountain and railroad mills reporting, seven advised
that roads are in fairly good condition at present, and fourteen say
that roads are bad, in some cases so bad that hauling cannot be done.

Little comment is necessary on the above report. It makes certain
that there is going to be a manifest shortage in a good many items
of hardwood before the season's demands are supplied. Poplar stocks
are in especially bad shape.

The Hardwood Trade Situation.

The secretary of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association has
recently sent out a series of inquiries to leading hardwood producers
of the United States, and from the replies received the following
deductions are made:

"Are your inquiries satisfactory in volume?" Fifty-three re-
plied "yes"; five "no"; one "good," and four "fair."

Chestnut Oak.

The forest tree article in the last issue of the Hardwood Record
dealt with chestnut oak. This tree is a type of the few white oaks
in which the forests of this country abound. Up to within a com-
paratively few years ago this variety of oak has not been regarded of
very high commercial value and it has been used for the making of
ties and for coarse building purposes, although its bark has been
generally utilized for tanning.

The wagon making industry has just awakened to the fact that
chestnut oak is the best substitute offered for original growth of
white oak. The wood is tough, strong and lasting and, while it is
slightly difficult to season without warping or checking, when a little
care is exercised in this particular it goes on the market in very
attractive shape.

The chief remaining source of supply for chestnut oak is ia east-
ern Tennessee, western North Carolina, northern South Carolina and
northern Georgia, although it is found in scattering growth through
the hardwood forests of quite a large section of the Middle South.
In view of the great dearth of wagon materials chestnut oak will
soon command a much higher price than it does at the pjesent time,
for, in reality, it is a splendid wood.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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Pert, Pertinent and Impertinent.

Southern Tragedy.

A beautiful damsel of Natchez

Went roaming through nettleweed patches.

Now she sits in her room.

With a heart full of gloom.
And scratches, and scratches, and scratches.
— Chicago Tribune.

****************

My Friend.

He is my friend who loves me true,

What e'er I do ;
W1h> loves me. and yet more than me,

What I might be;
Whose trust in me's not even stirred

By my own word ;
Who's loyal to me e'en when I

Myself belle.
I think, with such a friend, I'd be

Even such as he. — Frank Crane.

******** ********

Ominous.

When the racing car tears down the pike

Its big prow like a driving spike,

lis time for man and beast to hike';

And -the freckled farmer'd better flee

When he hears the chauffeur shout with glee:

"The funnel's life is the life for me."

******** ********

Home.
Occas i 0 n a 1 1 y a
man spends a lot of
time at his club be-
cause "there's no
place like home."

A DOUBTFUL WARRANTY

The Difference.

Fools dilate where
a wise man will only
admit.

Long Term.
Students in the
school of experience
are given their di-
plomas by the under-
taker.

Wealth.
The modern stand-
ard of success — fools
worship it; ascetics
despise it; wise men
use it.

Almost.
People who agree
to everything you
say are almost as
entertaining as
phonographs.

In the Same Class.
When you dispute
with a fool, you may
be sure that he is
similarly employed.

Well-Trained.
The people who are
least often deceived
are those who de-
ceive most often.

Easier.
It is easier to ac-
quire a reputation
for greatness than it
is to keep it up.

Helpful
Alarm clocks and
stepladders have
aided a great many

men to get up in the
world.

The Horse Trader.— "I warrant this boss kind, true and sound in wind and limb, save a slight
blemish on this nigh for'd leg. It may be that he should wear a consumers' boot on it."

Intuition.

It 's always intui-
tion when we guess
right.

The Outcome.
Some men seem to
think that advertis-
ing comes out of the
profits; not a bit of
it — the profits come
out of the advertis-
ing.

Troublesome.
Queer, isn't
that when you
about trying to
good by stealth, you
get the busy signal
so often?

it,

g°
do

Equally Hard.
It 's just about as
difficult to find a
friend as it is to lose
an enemy.

Useful.
Competitors, like
adversity, are useful
- — they force us to be
industrious, and in-
dustry is the greatest
developer of capa-
bility.

The Difficulty.
Whisky will im-
prove with age, but
the trouble is it sel-
dom has the chance
to.

Certainly Not.
A woman may be a howling success at
"harping" and yet not conform to the gen-
eral idea of an angel.

The Other Fellow's.
The beauties of philosophy are far more
likely to appeal to one when trouble comes
— to the other fellow.

Truly Wise.
The wisest man is not the one who makes
in: mistakes but the one who profits by the
ones be does make.

The Way of the World.
A man never realizes the goodness of his
neighbors until he is sick— and he usually
forgets it the moment he is well.

Listen.
One can always learn more from the ideas
expressed by others than by listening to
one's own conversation.

But They're Kare.
There is sin-h a thing as the hypocrisy
,.\ eice — there are people who are not as
wicked as they pretend to be.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

Cucumber Tree.
Magnolia Acuminata — I.inn.

The habitat of the cucumber tree extends
from western New York through southern
Ontario to southern Illinois; south in the
Appalachian mountains to southern Alabama
and northeastern Mississippi, through cen-
tral Kentucky and the eastern part of Ten-
nessee, and through northeastern, southern
and southwestern Arkansas. In
the northern part of its range, the
tree is comparatively rare, finding
its best growth in the valleys and
lowlands at the base of the North
Carolina and Tennessee mountains.
It thrives best near streams in rich,
humid soil, but in no place is its
growth sufficiently common to form
much of the forest.

In nearly every state where it is
found it is known as the cucumber
tree from the resemblance of its
fruit, when green, to a small cu-
cumber. In some parts of Missis-
sippi and Kentucky, however, it is
known as mountain magnolia, in
West Virginia as the cucumber and
black lin, and in Arkansas as the
magnolia.

Thr leaves are simple and from
six to ten inches in length, with
heart-shaped base, scattered along
the branches; dark-green above,
lighter below, and covered with
white silky hairs when young. At
maturity there is only a fringe of
hair on the veins beneath. They
have ' a notable appearance from
their large clean look when con-
trasted with the foliage background
of the oaks and maples, among
which the cucumber tree is usually
found.

The bark is dark gray, quite
rough and covered with thin scales.
The flowers are three to six inches
* in diameter, terminal, solitary and
bell-shaped; green or pale yellow.
The cucumber tree in the period of
blossoming is less noticeable than
the other magnolias, as the tulip-
like flowers, though large, are
scarcely distinguishable at a dis-
tance because of the new leaves by
which they are surrounded.

Magnolia Acuminata must not be typi
confused with the umbrella tree or
large leaf umbrella, which belongs
to the magnolia species and in some states is
known as the cucumber and large-leaved cu-
cumber tree. The leaves of this tree, the
Magnolia Tripi tola (Linn), are from sixteen
to twenty inches long, of a smooth, thin,
bright green, and tapering narrowly to the
stout petiole. Its bark is thin, gray and
smooth, with bristly warts, and the fruit is
:i bright rose color when fully ripe.

THIKTY-NINTH PAPEE.

The Magnolia Acuminata ('< .rdata (Miehx)
(Loud), or yellow flowered cucumber tree,
also resembles the cucumber tree and is
known as the cucumber tree in Virginia, Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana, and as the cucumber
tree and heart-leaved cucumber tree in North
Carolina. This tree is found occasionally in
the Alleghenies, but is most perfect in culti-
vation. It has bright yellow blossoms and

CAL FOREST GROWTH CUCUMBER TREE, WEST
VIRGINIA.

its leaves are dark, almost evergreen, in color.

The cucumber tree of commerce is a large,
handsome, symmetrical tree of pyramidal
shape, sixty to ninety feet high and occasion-
ally reaching a height of 100 feet, with a
trunk three to four feet in diameter. It has
comparatively small branches, spreading be-
low and erect towards the top of the tree.

In structural qualities the wood is light, anTl amethyst.

soft, durable, but not strong. The heartwood
is light yellow, the sapwood nearly white, and
is of a close-grained, compact structure. The
weight of a cubic foot of the seasoned wood
is twenty-nine pounds.

The wood has been used for flooring and
for the sides and backs of drawers and the
bodies of carriages. It is also used for wood-
enware and paper pulp.

The cucumber tree is noted for
its scattering growth. It thrives in
common with poplar, oak and chest-
nut, but never is seen in groups in
these hardwood forests as some-
times occurs in poplar growth. It
is a tree which is never frequent
enough to become a well-known com-
mercial wood. While cucumber is
invariably felled and sawed into
lumber, where poplar, oak and
chestnut and other hardwoods are
being manufactured, it never comes
into the market under its own name,
but masquerades in the sap grade
of yellow poplar, which it quite
closely resembles in color, weight
and texture, although an expert can
readily distinguish the two. In
reality, it has a higher value than
sap poplar but, its character being
so similar, it will probably always
constitute a small percentage of the
poplar output.

The handsome cucumber tree
shown in connection with this arti-
cle was photographed recently by
the editor of the Hardwood Record
on the properties of the E. E. Wood
Lumber Company in McDowell
county, West Virginia.

Antiquity of the Saw.
The saw is an instrument of high
antiquity, says The Practical Carpen-
ter, its invention being attributed
either to Daedalus or to his nephew
Pcrdix, also called Talos, who, hav-
ing found the ja.w of a" serpent and
divided a piece of wood with it, was
led to imitate the teeth in iron. In
a bas-relief published by Winekel-
mann, Daedalus is represented holding
a saw approaching very closely in
form to the Egyptian saw. There are
also imitations of the use of the cen-
ter bit, and even in the time of Cicero
ir was employed by thieves. Pliny
mentions the use of the saw in an-
eient Belgium for cutting white build-
ing stone ; some of the oolitic and
cretaceous rocks are still treated in
the same manner, both in that part
of the continent and in the south
of England. In this case Pliny
must be understood to speak of a proper or
toothed saw. The saw without teeth was then
used just as it is now by the workers in marble,
and the place of teeth was supplied, according
to the hardness of the stone, either by emery
or by various kinds of sand of inferior hardness.
In this manner the ancient artificers were able
to cut slabs of the hardest rock6, which conse-
quently were adapted to receive the highest
polish, such as granite, porphyry, lapis, lazuli

HARDWOOD RECORD

17

Meeting Executive 'Board Hardtoood Manufacturers'

Association.

A meeting of the Executive Board of the
Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of

the United States was held at tl Bices of

that body in the First National Hank Build-
ing, 'Chicago, on Saturday, Oct. ]:'., with Wil-
liam Wilms, president, in the chair. All the
members were in attendance with the excep-
tion of J. B. Ransom, of .1. B. Ransom &
Co., Nashville, Tenn., whose presence was im-
possible because of a railroad washout. C.
M. Crawford, of the yellow Poplar Lumber
1 ompany, was elected to till the vacancy
caused by the recent death of Ferdinand C.

PRINT OP CUCUMBER LEAF.

iischer. Muring the course of the meeting
K. II. Vansant, R. M. Carrier and J. W. May-
hew were appointed a committee to draw up,
resolutions of regret on the death of Mr.
Fischer, and the following was presented to
the board, which directed that it should be
engrossed and presented I" Mrs. Fischer and
copies supplied to the trade press:

A power beyond our understanding rules the
world and the destinies of men. For a time it
is given man to be in this world and of it, to
minister to Ins physical comfort and necessities.
to care for those he loves, to help the unfortu-
nate and to assist in tic upbuilding of social
and commercial life. At most it is but a brief
time until the .Master calls and to our finite
minds the call often seems inopportune. Need
for men, for workers, for leaders is so great
that we can ill afford to spare such a one as
we, members of the Hardwood Manufacturers'
Association of the I'nited States, have lost in
the death of Ferdinand C. Fischer.

To us he was a friend, close, true and tried.
He was an originator and a leader of the great
work w-e have undertaken. The association drew
largely upon his store of wisdom, hearkened unto
his counsel. Mr. Fischer was a student first
and later a master of those problems which this

association has encountered and we have levied
freely upon his lime and his talents, for freelj
was his time given. As individuals and as a
body we realize this organization ami its ac
compllshments largely are the fruits of his en-
terprise, foresight and unflagging energy ami
devotion !•> the principles we have espoused.

Ferdinand C. Fischer stood for clean busi-
ness and clean business methods. We who have
been closely associated with him in tin- manage
meut of this organization and in commercial
transactions are proud to acknowledge Hie in
tlueine tor good which bis life and his ideals
have had upon us. Reluctantly we lake up the
work, witli misgivings we pr »ed without him.

Words do not come readily nor trip easily
when heartfelt sorrow- in' the theme. We real-
ize more fully than we can express our great
loss, and with this realization in our hearts we
ask the bereaved wife and mother to accept this
in token of our love and esteem for the one
who was nearest and dearest to her.

This inadequate expression of our sorrow shall
appear in our official records as a part thereof;
shall I ngrossed and presented to Mrs. Ferdi-
nand ''. Fisher and copies he supplied the trade
press, so that the world may know our regret
at the loss of one who while yet with us freely
was accorded our confidence, trust and esteem.

Adopted at the regular meeting of the Execu-
tive Hoard of the Hardwood Lumber Manufac-
turers' Association of the I'nited States, held
in Chicago, 1 let. 1:;. 1906.

R. H. Vansant, Chairman.
R. M. Cabbies,
.t. w. Mathew,

Commit tee.

The bond issue authorized at the meeting
of the National Lumber Manufacturers' As-
sociation held at St. Louis was discussed and
plans laid to complete the subscription for
that portion of the issue allotted to the
Hardwood Manufacturers' Association.

Hardwood lumber freight rates from the
Mississippi river to (lie. coast were fully dis-
cussed, and in a short statement Secretary
Doster outlined the present status of the
question. The petition for lower rates, which
was presented to the Transcontinental
Freight Bureau, was denied, but lumbermen
supporting the movement still have hopes of
its ultimate success, as some of the northern
lines are of the opinion that rales can be

made which will permit hardw I lumber to

be put into Seattle and Portland at lower
rates than are now charged. If such a re-
sult can be obtained it will force an adjust-
ment in rates on the southern roads.

The board decided to take action with the
oilier associations which have taken up the
question with a view of bringing it strongly
to Hie attention of railroad officials.

Secretary Duster read letters from the sec-
retary of the National Lumber Exporters'

AsSOCiati one of which, dated Sept. 'J7,

after reviewing the amended Hepburn bill en-
joining the railroads from changing their
through rates either by all rail or by rail
and water, except after thirty days' notice
to tin Interstate Commerce C mission, re-
ported the recent action of the cotton carry-
ing roads before the commission on Sept. ll'.
The commission has ordered that cotton rates

cannot be advanced except after thirty days'
notice; that until March 1, 1907, export

rates on cotton to various points may be re-
duced upon three days' notice; that until
Nov. 1, L906, carriers may continue to equal-
ize cotton rates through the various ports as
heretofore. The commission stated that the
petition as to lumber was denied. There was
no actual petition by the lumber interests,
but as practically the same system has been
in force in fixing lumber rates as on cotton,
and us unsatisfactory conditions in the ex-
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letter asked the Hardw 1 Manufacturers'

Association to consider joining in a common
action of the various lumber associations be
fore the commission.

Another letter dated (let. 8 from the same
source informed the board that there was to
be a meeting on Oct. in before the Inter
state Commerce Commission at Washington
fo consider the general subject of export
rates, and asked the support of the ass. [a
t ion.

Resolutions were passed expressing ap-
proval of the course of the National Lumbt
Exporters' Association in its efforts to se

cur realization of export lumber rate

and a committee was appointed to take cari

of the interests of the Hardwood Man
Hirers' Association at meetings before lie-
Interstate Commerce Commission.

In accordance with this resolution, R. M.

Carrier and .1. \V. Mayhew were aj pointed to

represent the association.

Secretary Doster BUbmitted a report show-
ing the establishment of local inspectors in

St. Louis and statin" that the assoi -,.■

now has a representative in that market. In

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a discussion of the work of this department
it was stated that complaints in regard to
quality could be restricted, and in large part
eliminated, if shippers made it a practice to
insist upon having the lumber inspected and
make a settlement upon the basis of the re-
port of the inspector. It was decided to
print the rules governing each kind of lumber
in full in order to assist the inspectors in in-
terpreting the rules.

In his reports Secretary Duster gave a re-
sume of the various district meetings at-
tended, and also an account of his visit to
the meeting of the Wisconsin Hardwood Lum-
bermen 's Association. The secretary was au-
thorized to print rules for grading hardwood
logs originating in Arkansas and shipped in
part to Tennessee. The action was taken in
accordance with requests from members in
the Arkansas, Missouri and Tennessee dis-
trict that a system for grading logs be
evolved and approved by the association in
order to provide a standard of value.
AFTERNOON SESSION.

In the conference of the committee on
market conditions it was resolved to report
the prices which now represent market values.
It was decided, however, to recommend a re-
duction in the price of quarter-sawed red
oak and increase in plain sawed white oak
and certain grades of poplar.

The report in full on market conditions
was as follows:

A general canvass this month shows a more
decided change in the hardwood industry than
has taken place in any fifteen-day period this
year. Heavy rains in the South, especially in
Hi'1 Mississippi Valley, have retarded production
abnormally ; the dry seasons in the river sections

gave no logs to the river mills, and country
road districts where wagon hauling regulates
production have been muddy all the year and
this volume of business has been decreased by
fifty per cent.

Taking it as a whole, our new statement of
conditions which we submit to you is based on
such conditions as well as the market demands.
We rail your attention to the changes made in
this new statement under date of Oct. 18 com-
pared with those of August 25. The following
are the advances made :

Rough poplar, inch and thicker, advanced $1.

Oak, plain white and plain red, inch and over,
advanced $1.

Ash, 1^4 inch and thicker, average advance,
?4.

Cottonwood, $1 advance on upper grades, with
$4 on wide box boards.

Prices inserted for panel and wide No. 1, 18
to 23 inches, 24 to 27 inch and 28 inch and up.

Gum, advance of from 00 cents to $1 on
grades below firsts and seconds and $3 advance
on wide box boards.

Walnut, advance of $2 on common grades.

Hickory, advance of $2 on 2 inch and thicker
firsts and seconds and $3 on No. 1 common.

Wagon stock — Felloes, advance of ten per
cent. .

The meeting was then adjourned to meet
again at the call of the president, which, it
was stated, would be in four weeks.

The attendance included :

William Wilms. President, Paepcke-Lelcbl
I. umber Co., Chicago.

R. II. Vansant, Vansant, Kitchen & Co.. Ash
land, Ky.

Clinton Crane. C. Crane & Co.. Cincinnati, O.

R. M. Carrier, Carrier Lumber & Manufactur-
ing Co., Sardis. Miss.

J. W. Mayhew, W. M. Ritter Lumber Co., Co-
lumbus, O.

C. M. Crawford, Yellow Poplar Lumber Co
Coal Grove. O.

Lewis Doster, Secretary, Chicago.

HardWood Record JMail Bag.

[In this department it is proposed to reply
to such inquiries as reach this office from the
Habdwood Record clientage as will be of enough
general interest to warrant publication. Every
patron of the paper <s invited to use this de-
partment to the fullest extent, and an attempt
will be made to answer queries pertaining to all
matters of interest to the hardwood' trade, in
8 succinct and intelligent manner.]

Seeking Birch and White Oak Hub Timber.
TiDlbOTfl, Pa., Sept. 20. — I write to ask if
you will kindly advise me, if possible, if you
know of any place in this state or any adjoin-
ing state, where we might be able to buy some
hardwood timber, either birch or white oak, suit-
able for the manufacture of hubs. — .

The correspondent has been advised gener-
ally about the location of timber areas con-
taining birch and oak suitable for hubs, but
if this inquiry interests any of the clients of
the Hardwood Record, the address of the
inquirer will be cheerfully supplied them. —
Editor.

titles he can supply during the season and his
Lowest price c. i. f. London and Liverpool ; or,
if be will not quote this way, perhaps he can
quote us f. o. b. his nearest shipping point. —
Ikvin & Sellers.

Irvin & Sellers is reputed to be one of the
most responsible houses of Liverpool and
London and their communication will be of
interest to such clients of the Hardwood
Record as have persimmon wood to market.
— Editor.

Buyers of Persimmon.

London, Eng., Sept. 26. — Editor Hardwood
Record,: We note in your issue of the 10th inst.
that one of your readers wants a market for per-
simmon. We handle large quantities of this
stuff and should be obliged if you would put our
name before* him. This wood must be winter
felled and fresh and shipped jn logs S inches and
up in diameter, 7 feet and up long. Please ask
your correspondent to let us know what quan-

Concerning Mountain Oak.

Johnson City. Tens., Sept. 20. — Editor Hard-
wood Record: Can you give me the botanical
classification of the growth known by the popu-
lar nanus of mountain oak, water oak and
spotted oak? .

Tin- oak in question has been identified
as simple Quercus rubra, the common red
oak of commerce, which identification is con-
firmed by Dr. C. A. Seheiuk, forester of the
Vanderbilt estate at Biltmore, N. C.

Tin- closer grain, greater strength of fiber
and other characteristics of this wood, which
differ somewhat from the red oak of Michigan,
Wisconsin, Ohio and Indiana, are accounted for
by tin- difference in soil and environment. The
wood in some respects is superior to north-
ern red oak; it undeniably has greater

strength, is more compact in grain, and is
almost as easily worked as the better known
northern growth. It doubtless is as good a
type of furniture oak as there is remaining
in tiny quantity in this country. — Editor.

Cellulose from Wood Refuse.

New Orleans. La., Oct. IS. — Editor Hard-
wood Record : I wish to ask whether you know
of any process by which the refuse coming out
of a sawmill can be worked into cellulose and,
if so, I would appreciate it very much if you
would give me the names of, or put me in com-
munication with, such firms who manufacture
machinery to make such cellulose. — .

Can any of the readers of the Hardwood
Record supply the information wanted by
this correspondent? If so, tney will confer a
favor by communicating it. — Editor.

Wants Hickory Hammer Handles.

Bremen, Germant, Oct. 5. — Editor Hardwood
Record : Can you supply us with a list of
American firms exporting hickory hammer han-
dles? We have sundry calls for this class of
material and would like to get into touch with
manufacturers. — .

This correspondent has been supplied with
a list of quite a number of handle manufac-
turers, but any others who would like to enter
into correspondence with this house can do
so if they will forward their addresses to this
office. — Editor.

In Market for Veneers.

New Orleans. La., Oct. 19. — Editor Hard-
wood Record: Kindly give me the names and
addresses of veneer manufacturers who are cut-
ting paper-thin cedar veneers, glued on paper.
I beg to say that I can use large quantities of
i tiis stock. Would also like to have a list of
manufacturers of all kinds of veneers" for which
1 am in the market. .

This correspondent has been supplied with
a general list of veneer manufacturers. Oth-
ers who would like to communicate with him
will kindly supply their addresses to this
office, stating the kind of stock they pro-
duce.— Editor.

Buyer of Axe Handles.

Greenville, III., Oct. 20. — Editor Hardwood
Record: We use a quantity of light 'pattern
thirty six inch cull axe handles, and, at this
lime, are in the market for a quantity. Can you
tell its where we can obtain them? — .

The writer has been supplied with the
names of a few manufacturers of axe han-
dles, and others who would care to be placed
in communication will please supply their
addresses to this office. — Editor.

Big Elms in Maine.

One of the champion trees of Maine is an
elm which stands in Hallowell. It has a
girth of seventeen feet, ten inches, and a
top spreading 110 feet. The tree is exceed-
ingly symmetrical, throwing out its branches
fifty feet in all directions.

In York one elm, known as the Grant elm,
has a girth of seventeen feet, eight inches,
and a spread of branches of seventy-one
feet. Another has a girth of fourteen feet,
ten inches, and a top spreading eighty-two
feet. -

the: teamster

Drawing by Thomas J- Nicholl.

supplement to

Hardwood Record

OCTOBER 25, 1906

ILLUSTRATING
THE HERO OF THE "THUME

HARDWOOD RECORD

19

A Woods Story

by

IDAH McGLONE GIBSON

The Hero of the "Thumb

99

(Illustrated hv Supplement.)

Wash Drawing

by

THOMAS J. NICHOLL

"What's tin' matter with old Pierre?"

' ' Oh, I guess that mare of his he 'tends
like a baby 'as got the colic."

The men had come in from supper and
heaped the great logs on the open fire that
1 nearly filled one end of the bunk shanty.

They had eaten as only men can eat who
work hard in the open, and were now
sprawled upon benches and bunks. The
smell of strong tobacco mingled with the
resinous odor of the burning pine — the air
was heavy with smoke, and the firelight
as it touched here and there a red shirt
or scarf and glinted upon the rugged faces
a moment revealed the whole as a great
genre painting. Outside, the indescribable
t-tillness of the snow-enveloped woods was
broken from time to time by a sharp crack
as an overburdened limb shook itself clear
of its ice and snow.

"I can't see why Pierre makes so much
fuss over that mare," continued the man
who had asked about the teamster. "Her
hide looks as though it was moth-eaten,
she has no tail and she's blind in one
• vr. Never could understand why the Old
Man gives her room in the barn — ought to
have her stall for one of the work horses.''

"It's a good thing there are some things
you don't know in this world, lad.'' said
Jim, the foreman, as he knocked his pipe
against the bunk end and rolled over into
the firelight and conversation.

Jim had been with the boss ever since
he had been in the lumber business and he
usually had a story to tell of the times
when the Old Man was a. young man, and
was taking out surface clear pine logs that
would scale two to the thousand.

The boys drew a bit closer about the
fire, and a snoring occupant of one of the
bunks was kicked into quiet if not wake-
fulness. Then they turned expectantly to
dim.

"It was when the Old Man and Pierre
and me were all a bit younger than we are
now that the mare earned her keep for
life, and if that stubborn French-Canuck
would consent the mare would be given a
berth at one of those new-fangled board-
ing stables, and he could live at one of
those table-ili' holies for the rest of his
days, but Pierre he says 'Non, non, 111 'son,
what for it is for me to cat if I tak ' with
me nevair 1' petit' grave.'

"When Pierre says '1' petit' ' he means
'little,'" explained Jim gravely. ''Von
see he's like all the French and half-breeds
about here, he gets kind of crazy like when
In? tries to talk United States."

"What do you 'spose ho meant by tak-

ing a grave with him.''' asked Tim, the
top-loader, curiously.

"Why, ho means that little place out
there where he leads the old mare everj
night after we quit work — the old man's
wife is under that mound," said dim,
quietly.

"What:" simultaneously came from
half a dozen throats, as the men suddenly
straightened themselves up. "Tell us about
it, Jim, ' ' said Tim.

Jim got up and filled his pipe and seated
himself somewhat in the shadow, drew a
few whiffs in silence and just as the boys
had given up hope of the story he began:

"Pierre, the Old Man and me won- hoys
together. Pierre was born over Montreal
way, but was brought up uear the Indian
settlement. The Old Man's folks lived in
Sebewaing, and I was the good-for-nothing
son of an Irishman wdio thought he could
farm, but who only managed to get a little
to eat from the clearing between here and
town. We all grew up more or less to-
gether, although Pierre never seemed to
forget Ids French ways. He always talked
his French-Canuck like he does now, and
he went off into the woods for weeks alone
just like he does now sometimes. There
were more Injuns 'round here then, and
one day I noticed Pierre talking to about
the prettiest little squaw I ever looked at.
I didn't wonder then that he'd refused to
go to town with the Old Man and me the
summer before. The boss was with me
when we saw them, and 1 noticed soon after
that he made many trips over to the set-
tlement, too. 'Twasn't long before the
squaw was living in the log shanty that
stood over there where you see the mound,
and Pierre had disappeared into the woods.

"The Old Man began to take out logs
in this section that winter, and he asked
me to go in with him. 1 w;as feeling a lit-
tle sore at the tune, for it was said in a
whisper that he'd built the log shanty and
visited it often. I told him I wouldn't
have anything to do with him, his logs or
ids squaw. He didn't get mad or cuss
either, lie only said slowly 'All right.' Be-
fore the job was begun there was a little
girl at the log shanty, and the men talked

s '4 1 deal among themselves, but no one

dared to say much to the ol.l Man, who

was openly pleased with the baby, which
its moi her called 1. '["'t it ' Bijou.

"I was over on the Cass that, winter,
and didn't know when Pierre made his re
appearance, but the boys told me in the
spring he'd turned up about the middle of

the winter, pale and gaunt. He visited the

shanty often, too, and was never so happy

as when he had Hie little half -br I kid

in his arms. But he was friends with the
Old Man, they said, and that floored me,
lor I thought Pierre was stuck on the
squaw himself, and I didn't see how he
could swallow the log shanty and the kid.
Old Injun Dave, the grandfather of the
little squaw, was drunk most of the time
these days and he never saw the Old Man
without coining away with some coin to
buy more rum.

"You know, boys, we have to work hard
in the woods, and we don't have much time
to do the preacher act, and we wouldn't
know how to go about it if we did. Things
went on just the same, and the Old Man
took out about a million feet of as good
timber as ever grew in the Thumb that
winter, and in the spring the camp shanties
were left in Pierre's charge as usual when
the boys left for the summer. I saw the
Old Man pass the clearing two or three
times a week on his way to the shanty, but
I didn't speak to him, for it went, agin'
me to think he would do anyone dirt, lei
alone an Injun woman.

" You remember that summer of '71, not
a bit of rain, everything dry as tinder, and
along about the middle of July everyone
began to talk of the forest fires that were
raging 'round us. We could even catch
the smell in the air, but no one seemed
much worried. It grew hotter and hotter."

"Oui, she mak' lak' dat pot of hell dat
is between," said a voice near the door-
\\a\. No one had noticed that Pierre had
int. red until he, overcome by the memories
brought up by Jim's talk, took up the
story.

"Nom de dieu, I nevaire know she so
hot, and she's come lak' dam hurry too. De
smoke she come down and I mak' me 'fraid
he mak' trouble for L 'petit' Bijou and her
maman.

"I fin' me Injun Dave, and sen' her
quick — tell Jim bring 01' Man here, and
lien I wait me.-'

"The sky looked like a great red-hot
brass kettle as the sun came through the
settling smoke," interrupted Jim, "and I
1(11 you I got m rvous, lor the air was
ting thicker and thicker every minute. I
finally decided to go into town and hunt
up the Old -Man and see if he really C

igh about the squaw and her kid to

send for them. 1 was walking up
wdieii I came plump upon Injun I la 1
drunk he could hardly stand.

"'What's the matter, Dave,' I asked,
for 1 mistrust.',! Pierre had sent hin

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the same errand I was on, 'are you lost?'

" 'No, no, Injun no lust,' he answered, as
he tried to stand up straight, 'Injun no
lost, wigwam lust, Injun here. Wigwam
full of fire suoii.' he continued, 'Injun find
boss me, tell him wigwam burn, kill squaw
and papoose, wigwam full of fire soon.'

" 'And you are full of firewater now,
you old whelp,' I said, as I started toward
the boss, who I saw coming toward me in
his old buckboard, with his horse dripping
with sweat. I forgot all our differences
the moment I looked into his face. Boys,
he had changed from a young man into, an
old one. He had driven his horse from Sag-
inaw on a dead run that day. He hardly
allowed me to tell him what I feared when
he got me into his buggy and we started
for the shanty. Before we reached my
house the air was so thick we couldn 't see
across the road, and we could hear the
awful sound of falling timber. Through the
steadily thickening smoke here and there
would shoot up a curling snake of fire as
one tree after another burst into flame. The
horse at last sunk in his tracks, and, I told
the Old Man we could go no further. 'We
jmist,' he shouted, and just then we heard
the voice of Pierre.

" 'Marche. allons, nom de dieu, vite,'
and out of that burning hell came some-
thing that was hardly a wagon, for one
of its wheels was off and it was dragging
along on the other three, the horses were
a mass of blistering burns without tails or
manes, and standing up in front was Pierre,
his clothes in shreds, and if ever there was
a crazy man it was that Canuck.

" 'Where is my wife!' cried the Old Man,
as we ran on beside the tired horses. Pierre
only locked behind where under some blan-
kets was what seemed to be the form of a
human being. The horses stumbled on
while back of us raced that awful sea of
fire. The darkness below grew thicker, but
the whole sky was a glowing red. The
flames seemed almost fiends as they came
rolling after us; thicker and thicker grew
the smoke. The team, crazy with fright
and pain and blind with smoke, plunged
on. Only a madman like Pierre could have
kept that rickety wagon from turning over.

" 'Where are you going?' I yelled, as
he turned off the road that led to my
bouse."

"I mak' for de lak ' dat tim'." inter-
rupted the voice from the doorway; 'I
know dam well o 'ly de water she can save. ' '

"I heard the old man calling on God to
save the squaw and the kid, between
Pierre 's mixed French and English curses,
as he tried to keep the horses in the
trail,'' continued Jim. "Suddenly behind
us the whole air seemed to explode, the
darkness became for a moment a living
sheet of flame, and then the black settled
down again only pierced by the trees of
fire.

"'Thank God, thank God,' sobbed the

Old Man, as we heard the horses splash
into the water; we could not see the lake;
we could only feel; and Pierre drove on
until I shouted to him that if he didn 't
stop he would drown us. I think he'd
have done it, too, if the mare's mate hadn't
fallen dead from flight, burns and ex-
haustion. There was a faint cry from un-
der the blankets, and in . a minute both
Pierre and the Old Man were out in the
water lifting them to look at mother and

child.

" 'ftita, ' called the Old Man softly, but
there was no answer except that wailing
cry.

" 'My God, Jim, she's dead,' he said,
as he fell partly into the wagon. Pierre
had gotten the papoose in his arms, and I
covered both the Old Man and his wife
with the wet blankets.

' ' For twenty hours we stayed there in
water to the arm-pits, with the steaming
blankets about us, too exhausted to speak.
At last I must have lost track of time, for
I don 't remember much until I heard
Pierre trying to comfort the child. We
found shortly that the Old Man still lived,
Inn his wife had gone to sleep forever. Then

came the blessed rain, and with the clear-
ing of the smoke the whole face of the
landscape had changed and the Thumb
showed only a blackened, blistering scar,
where had stood some of the finest pine
that had ever grown on this footstool.

' ' We got back to town some way, and the
Old Man brought his wife back here and
buried her, in that little mound you see out
there. ' I don 't think she would be happy
anywhere else,' he said. The child was sent
abroad, and married one of those French
counts, when she grew up. I don't think
she is very happy, for the Old Man never
says much about her and looks mighty wor-
ried when I ask. He himself married long
afterward, as you know, a very fine wo-
man."

"But de ol' man he -never forget dat
tint' when we burn up," again interrupted
Pierre. "He come two, three tim', some
tim', and he say Pierre how is de mare,
ami he stan ' by 1' petit' grave, and she
say come Pierre to me and live, but I no
do dat, nun, non, for when de spring come
1 must go catch me mus'rat. De mus'rat
is de fines' fish wot swim de lak'."

fda%ing a HardWood Door.

The fact that a hardwood door can be
built by gluing a coat of veneer to a foun-
dation of cheap, light wood and that the
finished product is equal in appearance and
better for practical use than the old-time
solid door, speaks eloquently of the ad-
vances made in the veneer industry. The
few remaining specimens of built-up colo-
nial furniture show how patiently and care-
fully the cabinet makers of that time
worked to secure something desirable in
veneer effects. Bui the process was too
slow and laborious to acquire general popu-
larity and was, moreover, so expensive that
solid woodwork was preferred. With the
introduction of the speedy and efficient
machinery of today it is possible to saw,
slice or rotary cut the log without the varia-
tion of a hairsbreadth in the thickness of
the veneer. The evolution has been neces-
sary. The great demand for high grade
furniture and doorwork, coupled with the
growing scarcity of material, makes it prac-
tically impossible to build solid articles out
of the better hardwoods unless at great
eost. At the same time the demand
for durability and attractive appearance
has been insistent. The result of these
conditions is the built-up hardwood door
which combines with a beautiful figure the
advantage of being more substantial, free
of warping tendencies, lighter and easier to
handle. Again, both sides can be veneered
differently, so that each surface matches the
di ration of the room which it faces.

Coring and Gluing.
In building up a door much depends, of
course, on the filler, or, as it is known, the

i oring, for this is the foundation, and on
its "freedom from swelling, twisting or
shrinking depends the stability of the
finished product. As a consequence rigorous
care is taken in drying lumber designed for
this purpose, and especial attention given
to extracting every bit of moisture from
it. The wood used for filler is low priced
lumber, mostly pine, sliced into strips about
one inch in thickness and the length of the
door, since experience has shown that cor-
ing in this form is the most satisfactory.
The strips are assembled on a form, care
being taken to have the outside pieces, one
for the moulding and the other for the hinges,
of the same kind of hardwood as that in
which the door is to be finished in order to
give a uniform appearance. They are then
glued together, put in the press, and left
to stand until the glue has perfectly set.
The gluing in door making is an expensive
and important part of the operation.
Rapidity of work and lasting quality de-
pend greatly on the mixing of the liquid
glue and the knowledge of its properties,
ami many of the large manufacturing plants
mix a combination of their own which they
find best suits their purposes.

When the glue is firmly set, the made-up
coring is slashed in half, making the two
long outside pieces known as stiles, and
other coring is cut into the cross pieces of
the door or, as they are technically known,
rails. The stiles and rails are then smoothed
off on the planing machine in preparation
for the veneer, which is glued on by the
same process used in fastening together the
coring strips. The veneer and its founda-

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21

tion are then placed beneath the press and
subjected to heavy pressure. Afterward
the whole goes through the sticker and
tenoning machines and the proper ends and
the .joints are put on in preparation for
joining the panels and the various parts to
gether.

Veneers.

The veneeT in tli ost expensive and in

many respects the most important pari of

i hey are veneeri d I hat they undergo the
same process of coring as the othet parts

-I the d except that the filler is not

laid in strips but in thin flat pieces of
stock. \r:nl\ all made-up panels are I hree
ply, that is. t in- \ consist oi one foundation

oi filler and i he I » o coats of \ ei r. When

:i particularly fine piece of work is re
quired the panel is made five-ply, the in-
side sheets "f filler being laid crosswise

STILE

OF HARDWOOD DOCK SHOWING BEAD AND COVE METHOD OF STICKING.
a, a. veneer; b, b, outside hardwood strips; c, c, softwood coring.

the door, not only by reason of the out-
wardly attractive appearance secured, but
also because it finishes the eheaper coring
in a way that makes it fully as strong
and durable as a solid door. In the- stiles

and rails of a made-up door the ve r

usually runs about one-quarter of an inch
in thickness, and each strip must be of
exaetlj the same thickness in order to give
a uniform protection to the filler. In panel
wink the veneer used is much thinner, run-
nine about one twentieth of an inch.

In doorwork both quarter-sawed and
rotary-cut veneers are used, but in the
larger proportion of factories, rotary-cut
finds the highest favor, as it is cheaper
and can l»- gotten out in greater widths.
This is emphasized when the panel or rail is
to be very wide and the manufacturer
wishes to use quarter-sawed stock in pieces;
liis difficulty would then appear in the
expense involved in matehing-up and the
failure to secure an evenness of figure and
appearance when the panel is jointed.
Sawed veneer lias a rougher surface than

knife-cut stock and it is harder CO S oth

out the marks in facing up than in the
sliced wood. Sawed veneer, however, has
certain advantages over rotary-cut. No
matter how excellent is the machine on
which the stock is cut or how well the work
nan performs his task, the knife side ol
each siieet of the cut stock has not as good
an appearance as the face, for the opera
tion has the effect of raising the grain and
deteriorating the figure. Sliced or rqtary-
i ut veneers are also put through a steam
ing process to make the wood soft and
pliable and the operation has a disinte-
grating effect on the coloring matter in the
w I and has a tendency to make Hie grain

I leak.

Panels and Solid Doors.
Not every panel of a made up hardwood

door is veneered. In most cases when they
are raised work, the part is solid. When
made in this way they offer nothing pecu-
liar in construction, being worked to the
proper size and form and then fitted into
the stiles and rails of the door. It is ulu-n

and the parts ej I i igethei into a substan-
tial whole.

There are several methods of sticking

the panels to the stilis ami rails, chief id'

which is the bead and cove, the ovalo, and
the eove and head. Of these, the head and
cove is most generally used, practicability

and g I results being its advantages.

As a matter of fact, few,, if any, solid

doors of haidw I are now" made. At

times, however, it is thought necessary lo
have something heavier than the made up
stock and something stronger, especially
w hci e t he prodm t is to be used for outside
work, and in these eases two solid halves
of doors are made and glued together. This
is practically the equivalent of a solid door
and, in the making, goes through the same
planing and mill processes, the advantage
Icing that the lumber can be more easily
worked in this form and is not required

;i: such thicknesses as if the door Were
made of one solid piece.
Finishing.
After the door is assembled and glued
together it is taken to the finishing room,
where it is stained, filled, varnished and
rubbed to the attractive appearance which
we know. In this operation great care is
used, for any minor defects that may ap-
pear in the finished door are smoothed and

glossed over as much as possible.

A considerable proportion of the d -s

being made now are sash doors, that is.

they have tl pen space which is usually

tilled with glass. Some of them have also
tin- small abutments In-low I he glass known

:is the apron and its support, technical]}
known as tin- stool. Iii the finish of doors,

de all. hi plays ;i great part, the raised

figures of w i on tin- surface being more

or less artistic and ornate. This is called

I In- t ■■ ill l lid a .1 ■ is said to be made with

ii without trim as it carries decoration or

is plain. All these est r:i illecls oil the ,1

are put on in the glue room, after having
I ,-.>n ,-nl to size and form mi the machines.

The w Iiitul and careful execution of

Rgun S I hand, which was a distinguish

jug characteristic of manj -l 's in olden

times, has practical!} -lied out in this

blanch of the wo, i, Iw inking art, giving
place t.: the carving machines, etc., where-
by exact duplication from a model is ^,

cured at minimum cost.

\.i red d s when used within a build-
ing aie as suitable as Ho- solid work. When

hung on the outside, however, and exposed

in tl,,- changes of the atmosphere, they do
not generally show the durable qualities
that mark tin- well-made solid door, the

reason being that, in the stress of weather.

dampness penetrates the glue between the

veneer and the coring and causes deteriora
lion. In tin- progress of the industry from
t lie first elude veil,-,-, mud,' 1 y hand and

laboriously applied to an experimental lill
i r, to the well-made modern product, ,-\,-i\
difficulty has been overcome and there is
no reason to suppose that this defect will

not also be remedied. Several of tie- hug

i-i- teems have already brought their ex

I erimeiits lo such a state as to claim that
lluir doors are absolutely weather proof.
When this condition is reached, the made
up door will I,- equal in everything — in
style, finish and durability— to its solid pro

1 ,1 \ pe.

Chicago and various manufacturing

points in south, in Wisconsin are Hie i-i-n
tors and general sources of supply ol lie

VENEERED BIRCH 1 R, MANUFACTURED

V.\ THE PAINE LUMBER > '" .
I. Tli. OSHKOSH, WIS.

l.-u -, r proport ton I ot h of \ eneei loors

manufactured in the United States, manj

of these concerns making in use quant i

Lies, 'the total, in some cases, running to

i. mi I,. a day, although there are now

local plant! in nearly all parts of tin- - I

try which produce exci Ileal wm k.

22

HARDWOOD RECORD

Radical!) eparture in Lumber Drying

I -villi:. Kv . net. 4. -Editor Hard-
wood Recobd: I have just had a long
session with Z. Clark Thwing, general man-
ager of tin' Grand Rapids Veneer Company,
Grand Rapids, Mich., who is putting in one
of his new dry kilns here for the Kentucky
Hardwood Flooring Company, and the en-
closed article is a direct result of my ses-
sion with him. It is the most startling
theory I have come across in a long time,
and so I have told Mr. Thwing, and dis-
cussed the matter with him for several
hours. He insists that his ideas are cor-
rect and he is backing them up by putting
in these kilns under the agreement that
they must do the work before they are
paid for. The purpose of the enclosed
article is not to advertise them, but to
give some idea of what it means to the
trade should this idea prove correct and
commercially practical. — .T. Chow Taylob.

One of the most novel theories advanced
ill some time is that bearing on the subject
of kiln drying lumber which claims that
the swelling or shrinking ()f wood from
moisture is due to foreign substances in
the sap and that, when these are once re-
move,!, lumber will not swell from moist-
ure or shrink from its extraction by
heat. These foreign substances in the sap
must not be confuse. 1 with pitch, turpen-
tine, etc., for they are something more ele-
mental than they and enter closely into re-
lation chemically with the sap in the func-
tions that it performs in the body of the
tree itself. The gist of the new theory is
that when sap has been evaporated by the
ordinary drying process, it leaves behind
in the wood certain substances in a more
or less solid state and that, when moisture
■ lines, these elements, having been a part
of the sap, .take kindly to the liquid and
:ibsorl ing it. swell out. The wood itself
does not expand; the swelling is confined
entirely to these substances. This foreign
matter varies greatly in its nature in dif-
ferent woods and is also found in greater
or less quantities, thus causing in somi

lumber only a slight expansion and in oth-
ers giving very serious trouble. There
seems to be no relation between the quan
tity of sap contained in the wood and the
quantity of these foreign substances con-
tained in the sap.

The solving of the drying question hinges
on the possibility of extracting these ele-
ments from the wood, and the man who
advance's the theory claims to have a pro-
cess by which it can be done and that,
after the wood is treated in this way, a

e of dry oak. for instance, can be

taken and thoroughly soaked in a bucket
of water all night without swelling per-
ceptibly.

Through the costly experiments that have
made in drying lumber, and esp'
ly gum, so that when it is dry it will retain
its form and not swell, some progress has
been made, but if the present theory is cor-
rect a satisfactory solution of the problem

is at hand. In every branch of the \\ I

working industry the question of swelling
and shrinking enters so largely that provi-
sion must constantly be made for it. In
the manufacture of tight barrel stave-, of
oak, for example, one of the greatest prob-
lems is that of trying to keep a barrel
from drying out and falling to pieces, or
at least springing leaks as the wood warps.
That is the reason why the barrel has to
have a bilge so that steel hoops can be
tightened from time to time as the wood
shrinks. It is the reason why tanks are
made larger at the bottom, it is the- reason
why flooring is made in such narrow width-.

If the correctness of this theory can lie
demonstrated and the foreign substances
can l>e extracted without materially iu-

-ing the present cost of drying, it will

relieve the lumber business of its most
troublesome element.

Netos Miscellany.

Confusion of Classifications.

In a circular issued by C. I. Millard, chairman
of the transportation committee of the National
Lumber Manufacturers' Association, to the mem-
bers of the affiliated associations he calls at-
tention to the fact that some confusion exists
owing to the different forms of classification
adopted by the various traffic associations, which
are now in effect, governing the application of
lumber rates to other articles, and that the
classifications now in effect, covering the terri-
tory west of the Illinois-Indiana state line, per-
mit the application of lumber rates on flooring,
ceiling, casing, base, siding and carpenters'
moulding, but shipments to points in the Cen-
tral Traffic Association and trunk line terri-
tories, which cover all stations lying east of the
Illinois Indiana slate line, north of the Ohio
river, including the articles named cannot be
carried at lumber rates.

He states that it is the opinion of the com-
mittee, which is shared by many eminent traffic
men. that since the originating lite- publish
rates on lumber, rough and dressed, to the

stations named, that such authorization in their
tariffs overrides the restrictions of the classifi-
cation associations, and that as flooring, ceiling,
siding, casing and base are universally recog-
nized as dressed lumber, these articles are
clearly entitled to lumber rates.

It is stated that the provisions of the Hep-
burn act include as violation of the law any
1 1 billing of mixed articles and the commit-
1.. feel that it is their duty to advise all mem-
i" rs if this ruling, and suggest that until the
movement, which is now on foot to secure re-
lief from this unreasonable rate on the articles
named is made, the shipping tickets ought to
show t lie contents of the car.

It is believed that those shipments originating
on lines which carry these articles at lumber
tate up to the point of delivery to their connec-
tions at the Central Traffic Association terri-
torial boundaries, that their portion of the
through rate can only be assessed at lumber
rates, lint if the inspectors of these associations
find articles other than those taking lumber
rates in the car, they will set up the charges

on the entire carload to the fourth, fifth or
sixth class rate, which will result in an over-
eharge on the entire carload of from 3 to 5
cents per hundredweight.

There will be a meeting with a selected num-
ber of the regular lumber committee of the
Central Traffic Association in the near future,
at which conference it is hoped that a favorable
report will be made to the general meeting to
be held at Chicago on November 14 and 15.

Clever Advertising.
Two neatly printed posters containing some
terse little epigrams were received by the Hard-
wood Record a few days ago. They are being
put out by that enterprising wholesale concern,
the Moore Company of the Fullerton building.
St. Louis, to its many patrons. Under the
heading "Sparks of Inspiration for Salesmen"
the following constitutes one sheet :

Some people get results if kindly encour-
aged— but give me the man who can do
things in spite of hell.

Many a man looking for sympathy really
needs !wo swift kicks properly placed.

It is not so much difference in oppor-
tunity as the difference in earnestness, ap-
plication, self-denial, concentration of pur-
pose.

The successful salesman does not ask,
"What kind of competition is there in this
territory." He satisfies himself that there
is, or can be created, a demand for the
product he sells, and then goes after busi-
ness. All he wants is possibilities.

Tour time is your capital. The success-
ful salesman hoards time as the miser
hoards gold. The spendthrift of time is
a sure candidate for failure.

Tlie secret of salesmanship is — work to
the utmost of your capacity, without
thought of failure, and with the one thing
iu view — results — for eight consecutive
hours a day.

The only way a salesman can hope to
catch a glimpse of opportunity is to get
outside the door and do a lot of active
-lurching for her up and down the street.

Sell yourself what you sell to others.
Think over its value ; realize it ; burn it
into your mind. Sweep out of your mind
like so many cobwebs any apologetic feel-
ing regarding it. You are not trying to
persuade the business man to waste money.
Sou are selling him something he needs.
You are helping him to increase his profits.
Vim are doing him as great a favor as he
does you.

Keep a-going and don't worry.
The other sheet is header?" "About Life and
Work," and is as follows :

Don't worry.

Keep at it. It isn't what you can do in
a minute, but what you can do in a day —
:i week — a month — a year — that counts.

Do not waste your time.

The man who keeps at it eight hours a
day has a right to twice the measure of
success due the man who wastes four of his
eight. Just try. for one week, taking count
of the time you waste, and figure out your
handicap.

All at it. always at it. brings success.

The waste of time is not always due to
lack of brain, power or energy, or ambition.
It is just as often due to the lack of sys-
tem.

System enables you to save the minutes
and to keep from doing the needless things.

Trofit lies in continuous effort.

A big success is a series of small suc-
cesses welded together. The Japs did not
get into Port Arthur by a single charge.
You can't break a block of stone with a
single blow, but you can break it with a
hundred if you put them all in the same
place.

Idleness is death

And a search for pleasure is sure to
wreck life in shallows and miseries. Safety
and sanity lie in systematic, useful effort.

Keep a-going.

HARDWOOD RECORD

23

Advance in Mechanical Drying of Veneers.

The drying of vei rs has always 1 n the

most difficult problem which confronted the man-
ufacturer of thin lumber. Air-drying was so
slow and generally unsatisfactory and the per
Centage Of mi 1 stink s.. great as I aki Hi,-

profits very uncertain. Many types of dry
houses and dry kilns were tried and although

sunn' gain in the length of time required in dry-
ing was made, tie* expense of racking or idling
the stock was great and the waste was nearly
as heavy as before. The Cue Manufacturing
Company of Painesville, 0., after several years
nt invest igat inn. finally hit upon a scientific
method of drying veneers the automatic roller
■"dryer system. The cut illustrating this
article shows the delivery end of I In Coe
dryer, the feed works and engine. This ma-
chine is in the mill of tin- Astoria Vei ' Mills.

Long island City, N. ■>

This dryer is of the latest type and has
many important features which should he of
Interest to our readers In this machine the
rolls are eight in height. Imt instead of each
roll actuating the one above it. the rolls are in

and under the stock. In this style of dryer lie-
air is distributed by an entirely new plan which
Increases tie drying capacity greatly. The shies

of the machine proper which support the rolls
are of skeleton construction, and the hot air is

Mown between the lines of stock from the sides
of the machine Crom the air ducts into which

tile large Sheet iloll pipes flotll I ill' heater dis

cnarge. The pipes discharge Into each end of

the machine on opposll teas. Half waj

down the machine on each side in the air ducts
is a partition so the heated air can only travel
half lie* length oi He' machine To deflect the
air across the machine from side i" side shields
varying in size are placed in the air duels so
that the heated air is distributed equally
throughout the machine. To Increase He- tern
perature in the kiln a coil of pipe the full
length of the machine is supported under each
pair of roll so that the Mast of hot air is
powerfullj augmented with direct beat from

these coils

Very few have any idea of Hie amount of
water in veneer which must he carried away in

tlte drying process. In most w Is it is cm

siderablj over twenty per cent of the weight of

(ELIVERY END COE VENEER DRYER SHOWING FEED WORKS AND ENGINE

pans, each line of pairs heing driven by chain
and sprocket drive which is powerful yet flexi-
hle and which completely ohviates all the trouble
experienced with the old shaft drive caused by
tie- expansion and contraction of the shaft.

Tlte veneer all travels In one direction and is
dried in one trip through the machine, the rolls
in each pair are geared together on tic back
so each roll is positively driven and there is no
danger of a jam caused by a dead roll. The
dryer shown herewith was purchased toy drying
>., and ', inch cedar, but it was found that
tin machine would handle the tenderesi slice. 1
and sawed mahogany as thin as 1 32 inch. The
result was thai a s mil machine is being in-
Stalled for this thin work which until this time
was considered beyond the range of. tin roller
dryer.

The speed of the machine is regulated by the
governor on the feed works engine. The hot
air for the machine is furnished by a blower
outfit. In the lirst machines the air was .lis
charged into the end of the kiln directly over

green stock, ami in a day's run it means that
ni:ii!\ inns of water must he disposed of. The
hot-air lakes up a certain amount of moisture in
passing over He- veneers, but if this moist air

.;.i i.e eliminated ii will precipitate the

moisture hack- to the slock- so it will come from
1 in- machine looking "swea ty."

This is overcome in a very Ingenious manner

in this machine tin the sides of the dryer OppO

site to wiere the hot air enters, the air ducts
have a number of down spouts varying in si/.-,
which all discharge into a large galvanized pipe
running in He- center of the machine. These
pipes in turn discharge into another pipe run-
ning across lie- machine and the moist air is
drawn through these pipes ami discharged into
the atmosphere by means of a large exhaust fan.
'this exhauster is driven by a small engine. All

condensal in He- heater ceils and tin .oils in

tin- kiln Itself Is carried hack in the boiler in
,-in elaborate trap system which keeps the coils
full of live steam ami insures a maximum tern
perature. -The dryer is. as a whole, the com

bination of scientific principles each one of
which is an important factor in the rapid and

Qomlcal drying of veneers The stock is

handled so rapidly that tin- dryer will pr

eallj keep nil with the veneer lathe drying the
stuck us fast as it is cut. One manufacturer
of oak veneers has taken a log from the vat, cut

il into 17 slock, dried it and Crated il ivadv

tor shipment, in forty-five plnutes. Notwitb
standing He- rapidity of drying, no veneer is
wasted by wrinkling, splitting or checking ami
roller dried veneers glue up perfectly.

Great care is taken in flu- mechanical con-
struction of these machines, the only woodwork
used is the caps and sills and air duds, the hal
am f tin- dryer being Of iron and steel. The

rolls are made of specially selected boiler tnbes

carefully straightened by hand, and tin- gudg s

in lie- ends an- driven into the rolls and pinned
in pia.e The chain is a very heavy, fiat steel
belt of great strength, and till sprockets are
keyed and set-screwed to the gudgeons. All
driven rolls have roller hearings, so very little
power is required to run the machine. The

dryer litis a sheet iron cover over which is pit d

I1., inch block asbestos; this prevents any loss
of heal by radiation. The air duct si,i.-s are
removable, so easy access can be had to the
interior of the machine for oiling, eti

Any manufacturer of veneer who is interested
in the drying proposition will do well to write
Hi.- in.- Manufacturing Company. 105 Bernard

sti t, Painesville, O. Tin- Cm- automatic veneer

dry.-r is an insurance policy against loss and a
giiarant f large profits.

District Meeting Hardwood Manufacturers'
Association.

Representatives of a large proportion of the
hardwood manufacturing concerns of Missouri
met 011 Tuesday. October 9, in the rooms of the
Commercial Club, Cape Girardeau, Mo., to dis-
cuss prevailing conditions in the trade. The
meeting was held to continue the work inaugu
rated at Morehouse on .lime IL' last.

In the absence of J. II. Himmelberger of the
llimmelberger-Harrison Lumber Company, More-
bouse, win. was appointed chairman at the first
meeting, M. E. Leming of the Charles F. Luehr-
inann Hardwood Lumber Company. Cape Girar-
deau, was chosen presiding officer, and Lewis
Doster, secretary of He- Hardwood Manufactur
ers' Association, secretary.

After a brief speech of welcome to the lum-
bermen and their gm-sts. Mr. Leming Introduced
Dr. Herman Von Schrenck of the United States
Departmenl of Agriculture, who is engaged in
experimental work at the botanical gardens in
the suburbs of St. I.ouis. Dr. V.m Schrenck
gave tin interesting talk, illustrated with stere-
opticon views, on the seasoning oi gum and
cypress lumber and I he manner in which It

should he t.-ik.-n cat ' while seasoning in pr"

teel it from deterioration and to insure the most
perfeci condition of tin- lumber when ready for
market. Cap.- Girardeau was in the midst of a

centennial celebration of thef tding of the city,

and on the 9th, Hie lirst day Of the festivities,

besides the ,1 tillg ,,| til- llaldw I l.llllllier

Manufacturers' Association tin- retail dealers of
southeast Missouri were also in session there.
They were Invited to attend the lecture and
together with a number of prominent residents

Of lln- city made a large and appreciative audi-
ence In listen In III \ "II S. hr. -lick's valuable
address.

Immediately after tin- lecture I be mi
withdrew Into another pari ol the Commercial
Club rooms, where the balance of the eonven
Hun was devoted to the business of tin- manu

fail liters of southeast Missouri.

Mr. Leming explained that lb.- iting was

In i in-- w Ith tin- results of I be meei ing h
Morehouse in June, and ci <i tin- at

tendance mi iis being a very representative one
fm ii..- district.

The mi es of the June tnei read

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and approved and an interesting Talk on asso-
ciation work was given by Mr. Doster. A num-
ber of new members were added to the associa-
tion.

The report of the committee on 1"- specifica-
tions was then read and adopted, with the reso-
lution that it be immediately referred back to
the operators in the state of Arkansas for their
further consideration. These grading specifica-
tions arc being worked tip by neighboring states
in conjunction witli each other for the purpose
of establishing a uniform basis for the purchase
grading and scaling of logs.

A general discussion was indulged in by the
members and manufacturers present regarding
conditions in different localities, the question of
log supply, amount of lumber on band and the
state of tie' markel at present and its relative
condition in the future. The consensus of opin-
i OB seemed to be that values on practically al!
items of gum up to the grade of firsts and
seconds red would increase.

A resolution thanking Dr. Von Schrenck for
his able address ami the Commercial Club for
the use of its rooms for the day was passed
unanimously.

'lie- time and place for the next meeting of
Missouri manufacturers was not decided. Due
notice will be sent of the date to all manufac-
turers in the state.

There were present the following:

William 1*. Anderson, Gideon Anderson Lum-
ber & Manufacturing Company, Gideon.
I.. W. Heagy, Bell City.

A. N. Darnell, Cape Girardeau.

Howard Kule. Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber
» lompany, .Morehouse

\V. II. Harrison, Himmelberger-Harrison Lum-
ber Company, Morehouse.

Charles L. Harrison. Himmelberger-Harrison
Lumber Company. Morehouse.

Thomas W. Fry. C. F. Luehrmann Ilardw 1

Lumber Company, St. Louis.

M. E. Leming, Cape Girardeau.

II. r. Peironult, Cap.' Girardeau.

.1. s. X. Farquhar. Riverside Lumber Com-
pany, Caruthersville.

I.. .1. Marshall, Riverside Lumber Company,
Cape Girardeau.

R. \v. Barrick, William G. Five Manufactur-
ing Company. St. Louis.

Hugh Steel, Steel Hardwood & Lumber Com-
pany. Bismarck.

Hermann Bohle, Cape Girardeau.

Theodore Ochs, I nion Lumber Company. Cape
Girardeau

Hy. L. Caldwell. Jackson.

Robert U. Fl. •tcher, Fletcher & Mills Bros
Bernie.

II. A. Danforth, II. A. Dauforlli Lumber Com
pany, Charleston.

M. D. Meisner, Altenburg.

u. A McFarland, J. I'. Lasswell Lumber Com-
pany, Campbell.

I.. B. Blackswood, architect, Cape . Girardeau.

Scott Moore, the Moore Company. St. Louis.

Henry Bengel, Jackson.

Tom Moore, the Moore Company. St. Louis.

\Y. A. Moore, Moore & Stahr, Cape Girar-
deau.

Joe D. Wilson. Wilson Bros. Realty Company,
Cape Girardeau.

Oscar Fuller. Hunter & Fuller. New Madrid.

John II. Friant. Himmelberger-Harrison Lum-
ber Company, Morehouse.

<;. I.. Roper, Senoth.

G. F. Hunt. Bismarck.

Felix A. Tetrequin. St. Genevieve Lumber
Company, St. Genevieve.

James I.. Byrd, Charleston.

C. T. Graham, Riverside Lumber Company
Hayti.

G. I'.. Gale, Miners' Lumber Company, Flat
River.

G. V. Whiten,!. Miners' Lumber Company.
Lcadwood.

G. •W. Bright. Kirby Lumber Company. St.
Louis.

B. A. Loud, New Madrid.

C. A. Vandort. Phillips Lumber & Fuel Com
pany. Cape- Girardeau.

A. W. Johanning, Jobanning Lumber Com
pany, St. Louis.

Elmer Scull, Miners' Lumhei Company, El-
x ins.

H. T. Moreau. Moreau Lumber Company, St.
Genevieve.

Lewis Hosier, secretary Hardwood Manufac-
turers' Association, Chicago.

Lawrence H. liodibaugh. Indiana Lumber
Company, Cape Girardeau.

I.. F. Kelch. Eaglette.

The Hayden & Wesico'.t Lumber Company.

i in January 1 next there will be added to
the ranks of the Chicago lumber concerns the
Hayden & Westcott Lumber Company, composed
>f Harvey S. Hayden. lor many years engaged
in the hardwood business in Chicago, and
Charles Westcott, who for twelve years has
l» en lumber buyer lor the International Har-
vester Company and its predecessor, the McCor-
mick Harvesting Machine Company. Steps were
taken for the organization of the company early
in September, when it was expected thai oper
ations would begin by October 1, but out of
courtesy to the International company Mr.
Westcott did not wish to sever his connection
with that institution until his successor had
been appointed.

i if Harvey s. Hayden, senior member of the
new company, little need lie said by way of in-
troduction, lie is well and favorably known to
the trade the country over. For twenty-five years
he has been identified with the Chicago hardwood
trade, operating during that time under the firm
names of Hayden Bros, and tic Hayden Bros.
Lumber Company at Twenty-second and Johnson
streets. Two years ago Mr. Hayden established
a wholesale hardwood business on his own ac-
count, and he has been so successful in this
venture that he felt it necessary to effect an
affiliation with a lumberman of experience to
assist him in caring for bis rapidly increasing
business.

Nor is the name of Charles Westcotl unfa-
miliar to lumbermen. Since boyhood he has
been in the employ of the International llarves-
f r Company. Upon the consolidation of five
of the huge companies manufacturing harvest-
ing machinery in August. 1902, be was made
purchasing agent for the allied interest- Later
other concerns wen- merged into the great com-
pany, and for several years Mr. Westcott lias
been head buyer of lumber for the nine Insti-
tutions associated under the name of the inter-
national Harvester Company, as well as for the
various railroad and other interests controlled
by that corporation. In this capacity his pur-
chases have aggregated an average of 150.000,-
000 feet of lumber a year, about $3,500,000 in
money value. The fact that at no time during
Mr. Westcott's service^as purchasing agent for
the International Company has any of the
plants of that great corporation been inconven-
iei d for want of lumber to continue its op-
erations has earned for him the reputation of
being one of the best posted men in the country
on Lumber conditions.

With Harvey S. Hayden and Charles West-
cott at its helm it is patent that the Hayden &
Westcott I. umber Company will meet with most
unlooked-for success from its very inception.

Handling Record Lumber Bulletins.

As is well known to advertisers in the Hard-
wooi, Recobd Ibis publication issues with fre-
quency sundry bulletins containing information
about hardwood lumber and the building indus-
tries, one part of this bulletin service com-
prises in serial form a list of wholesale con
seniors of hardwood lumber together with the
kind of goods manufactured, the name of the
buyers, and their annual requirements by kind.
grade and thickness.

Recently the Hardwood Recobd suggested a
method of handling these reports separately and
advantageously by means of a card index sys-

Charles W. Fish, the able sales manager

of the llackley-I'beips I'.onnell Company of
Grand Rapids. Mich., is practicing a method of
handling these reports which the Hardwood
Record must confess is superior to the one here-
tofore suggested. His plan is substantially as
follows; He utilizes plain cards on which he
pastes the slips containing the information and
tibs I bem in a card index drawer by name in
alphabetical order. In other drawers he uses
cards, between guide cards, naming the various
lands of woods manufactured and handled by

his company. On these cards are noted the
names and addresses of every concern using the
variety of wood in question. When specific in-
formation as to grade nad thickness is wanted,
or information concerning other kinds of woods
usi d by the sane house, reference is had to
the alphabetically arranged set of cards as
noted.

Thus, if Mr. Fish has a quantity of birch
lumber he wishes to market he can Immediately
refer to the set of cards, comprising the birch
users ami forward them his stock list or what
ever correspondence on the subject he chooses.

Many lumber advertisers in the Hardwood
Record are employing this system to their mani-
fest advantage. line advertiser reports that
through this agency he has marketed over 7. nun,
000 feet of lumber in the last ninety days. By
the majority of advertisers and wholesalers this
information service is conceded to be the most
valuable advertising adjunct that has ever been
furnished and advertisers are highly pleased
with it. especially so since it is supplied entirely
without charge.

Car Stake Equipment Meeting.
A meeting of tic car stake equipment commit-
tee, til which both the railroad and lumber
interests were represented by a full attendance,
was held at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York City,
October 1'.'. Tic meeting was called to review
the general progress made in the case to date
and t" urge upon the eastern roads the neces-
sity of prompt action in the proposed equipment
of sixty cars as a test. Walter W. Ross, conn
sel for the lumbermen, reviewed the controversy
to date, and a lengthy discussion followed on
tic merits of the Harvey stake and the advis-
ability of the eastern roads adopting it since
they had leu yet acpted any flat car device.
Tic outcome of tic meeting was that tic Boston

.V Maine agreed t |uip twenty cars as trial

and the southern roads twenty more among
them. _

The Flint, Eiving & Stoner Lumber Co.

The Flint. Erving vV Stoner interests have

I, .en consolidated under the nan f tie- Flint.

Erving & Stoner Lumber Company. The prop-
erties included in the deal are tic 9,000-acre
tract ,,r timber, mostly hardwood, at Dunlevie.
W. Va.. which the old company secured last
spring along with the town of Dunlevie and all
ilc railroad and machinery at that place, also
a large amount of hardwood and hemlock tim-
ber in northern Pennsylvania and several mills
in that section. New railroads have been built
through the Dunlevie tract and it is now in
line tunning order. The new company represents
over $750,000 worth of property. Its officers
and directors are : President, J. B. Flint of
Pittsburg; vice president. I. II. I'rotbers of
Punxsutawney ; secretary : F. II. Stoner of
I'uuxsutawney ; treasurer. R. II.-«F.i'ving of Pitts-
burg : directors. J. It. Flint. I. II. Brothers. F,
II. sinner. R. II. Erving. I. C. Mingert of
Punxsutawney and Grant Thompson and Horace
SImpkins of Clearfield, I'a.

Death of Thomas Munroe.
The II.utnwooD Riicouti chronicles with regret
the death of Thomas Munroe of the Thayer
Lumber Company. Muskegon. Mich., who died
Wednesday morning, Oct. 17. Although not a
deab-r in hardwoods, Mr. Munroe was such a
commanding figure in bis own branch of the
business and so universally known among all
classes of lumbermen, that his death will be
widely lamented and felt. He was one of the
most prominent men in the social and business
life of his city and had devoted a considerable
portion of his lime and wealth to the betterment
of conditions among the working classes. The
funeral was al tended hy men prominent in state
affairs, by members of the various Masonic and
other bodies with which he was affiliated, and
by well-known lumbermen.

Miscellaneous Notes.

Tic Pierce Tie ,V: Lumber Company has been
incorporated at Mayfield, Tenn.. with a capital
stock of SU4ii.

E. F. Fowell of Vicksburg, Miss., has pur-
chased 7S4 acres of hardwood timber land, and
will at once erect a sawmill to cut out the
stock.

T-fie Veneered Door Company of Athens. O.,

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lias selected a site for Its new factory and be-
gun building. The main building is t.> be 60x160
feet. There will also be erected a structure
20x100 feel tn be used as a trim', tool and engine
room. The dry kiln will !>•■ a separate building
and will be 20x60 feet. The factory will be
equipped with modern machinery and is . \
pected to be in operation by January l. 1907.

The Moon Desk Company of Muskegon, Mich..
has increased Its capital stock by $40,000 and
will enlarge iis presenl plain. Among t lie Im-
provements i" be made will be a large group of
kilns and a storage warehouse for lumber.

Tin' Vicksburg Veneer Company of Vicksburg,
Miss., will Install another veneer machine and
drying plant at iis factory.
* i). C. Myrick and associates have purchased
the siic f<n the new handle factory which they
intend t" establish at Gadsden, Ala. A building
luxsn feet will In- erected anil equipped for a
daily capacity of 120 dozen handles per day.
E. C. Wallace will he the general superintendent.

The (alien Company will establish a furniture
factory at Athens. Ala. The site has been de-
cided upon and machinery is now being negoti-
ated for.

A. A. Johns is building a factory lor the manu-
facture of slaves and lumber at Starke, Fla.
The building will he 30x121 feet and the equip-
ment throughout the best.

McClung & Parks recently erected a hardwood
sawmill at Havana, Ark., where they will manu-
facture a choice line of hardwoods,

A. A. Boon has purchased the interest of
Vester Thompson in the sawmill they owned
jointly in Hamburg, Ark. He will move the
plant to the property of the Greenfield Lumber
Company at Greenfield, where he will manufac-
ture hardwood lumber for the concern under
contract. The Greenfield Lumber Company has
decided not to rebuild its mill recently destroyed
by tire, but will operate another and smaller
mill at that place with the lloon mill until the
remainder of the timber in Ashley county is
worked up.

It. I.. Patterson of the Automatic Yoke Com
panj "i Indianapolis purchased the Wynne Hoop
vV Cooperage Company's plant at Wynne at the

i" Iver's sale on October '■>. The price paid

was s'_\ ii'.-,. The purchaser proposes to convert

the 1 p mill into a hickory working plant and

cut yokes, spokes, singletrees, etc. The plant
of the Wynne Hoop & Cooperage Company cost
originally $16,000 and was operated two years.
II went into the hands of a receiver one year
ago with an Indebtedness of $7,000. The com
pany was composed of M. Collins. G. W. Eldrldgc
and .1. .1 i lee.

Tie Gartner-Hancock Lumber Company is a
inw concern at Johnson City, Tenn., at the head
ot which are Waller Gartner and \V. C. Han
<oek The company will operate two circular
sawmills in western North Carolina, where it
owns a tract or oak, chestnut and poplar timber
land. Tim company will make a specially of
lumber and logs for the export trade.

.1 A Browne ..V Co.. Inc.. of North Manchester,
lnd.. will build a carriage and wagon factory at
Texarkana, Tex.

The (). II. Wheeler Company, recently incor-
porated with $1110, lino capital stock, will manu-
facture furniture, hardwood specialties, handles,
etc.. at Erie, 1'a.

Tlie West Virginia Veneered Door Company
has been incorporated at Parkersburg, W. Va.,
with $100,000 capital stock.

Tlie Asiiboi'o Wheelbarrow & Manufacturing
Company has decided to take up the manufac-
ture of handles and is installing machinery for
that purpose.

The Pierce Tie & Lumber Company of May
field, Tenn.. has been incorporated with $240,-
i» in capital stock.

The El Dorado Hardwood Manufacturing Com-
pany has been incorporated with $4,000 capital
stock to manufacture hardwoods at El Dorado,
Ark.

HardWood NeWs.

(By HARDWOOD RECORD Special Correspondents.)

Chicago.
A. C. Fuller of the Hanchet i s« age Works,
Big Ra'pids, Mich., was a Chicago visitor a few
days ago ami called on rbe Record. Mr. Ful-
ler says tluit even the large, new works of his
company are taxed to their capacity. Lasl weed
the company shipped two full carloads of tools
to the Pacific coast.

E3. II. Eldridge, the veteran retail lumberman
of Indianapolis, was a welcome caller a1 this
office a few days ago.

w. a. Gilchrist, vice-president oi the Three
States Lumber Company. Memphis, Tenn., was
in Chicago last week and paid a friendly call
to the Record.

.Tool Ettinger, Chicago manager for the S. A.
Woods Machine Company of Boston, spent last
week in Michigan and secured some large orders.
His company's tools an' very popular in thai
st a i".

C. 11. Mengel. president of tin.' C. C. Mengel
»v Bro. Company. Louisville. Ky.. left yesterday
for a two months' trip in Central America to
go over his mahogany operations.

Paul Johnson, the well-known president of tin
North Shore Lumber Company of Thompson,
Mich., was a Chicago visitor on October L.'.:.

Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood
Manufacturers' Association of the Taiited States,
is off on a southern trip, where he will visit
the various hardwood mills.

A large delegation of Chicago lumbermen is
in attendance at the semj-aninial meeting of 1 1n-
National Hardwood Lumber Association at Cln
cinnati. October 25 and 26.

Acknowledgment is made of tie* receipt of a
vry artistic wall hanging in I he form of a
calendar for the remaining months of this year
and the first nine months of 1907, which is the
gift of that enterprising concern, the Bryan

Lumber Company of Bristol, Va. The company
is to be congratulated on being the first in the
field with a calendar for 1907.

A million dollar structure is to he erected al
Harrison street and Michigan avenue, to be
known as the Harvester building, a large part
id' which will he occupied by the International
Harvester Company. Tlie building will cover an
area 77 V. feel by L73 feet, and will be fifteen
stoii.-s high. The International company will
occupy the upper ten stories and half the base-
ment, for which it pays a total rental of $3,-
041.s::s tor a period of thirty years. This is
said to be the largest office building lease ever
made in Chicago.

Fred W. Upham "i the well known local hard
wood bouse of Upham & Agler is nominee on
tin- Republican ticket to succeed himself as
president of the Board of Review. His excellent
record in tins trying office will probably result
in his reelection with an increased majority.

Tie- Hardwood Record received recently from
the American Lumber «v Manufacturing Company
of Pittsburg, l'a., a handsome desk clock. The
time-piece is set in the center of a. section of
hardwood with the bark unremoved, around
Which in gill letters is inscribed "American
Lumber & Mann lad in Ing < '"in pany, Pittsburg,
Pa., Always on Time.'" The motto is surely ap-
plicable to the donors of the gift and the SARD
wood Record lakes this opportunity to compll-
nt the company on its advertising enterprise

and l; 1 lasle.

Herbert Fuller lias become associated with
Ltindsej Shepard, He was formerly connected
with Granville Fuller & Son, Brighton, M

Tli.- Blanchard Lumber » Jompany announces
that George K. Smith, for several years in
the employ of Blacker & Shepard, has taken
a position in the New York office of this
company and will cover the New York city
trade.

The N.w i [ampshire Lumbermen's Associa
tion lias brought suits against tin- Boston &
Maine Railroad, involving in all about $1,500,-
oimi. The association claims thai for aboul
three years tin- railroad company has un-
justly, illegally and wrongfully collected from
its members ami others $2 more than the
legal rate of each ami even car shipped

within the state. The association has placed
its interests in the hands of a committee
composed of L. A. Glines of Canterbury. Mil-
ton Reed of Exeter and Nathaniel Doane of
Hillsboro county.

The C. S. Hall Lumber Company -if Epsom,
N. H.. lias bet_'n dissolved. C. S. Hall will
continue the business ami B. M. Towle and
B. R. White have retired.

George A. Litchfield of North Vernon. Ind.,
brother of "William E. Litchfield, who has been
visiting in Boston and the cast, returned home
last week. William E. Litchfield left early
this week for Cincinnati, where he will attend
the semiannual meeting of the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association.

Gardiner I. Jones of the Jones Hardwood
Company and W. M. Weston of the W. M.
Weston Lumber Company will attend the
semiannual meeting of the National Hardwood
Lumber Association at Cincinnati. Mr. Wes-
ton returned late last week from a two weeks'
trip through the west.

Charles S. Wentworth of Charles S. Went-
worth & Co.. Boston, has been making a trip
through Maine.

William A. Webster, who for some time
past has been in the employ of the Shepard
& Morse Lumber Company, lias become a o
eii led with William E. Litchfield and will
visit tin- trade in Boston and nearbj points

Harry A. Savage, who for some time pas!
has been manager of the Cypress Lumber
Company, with offices in the Broad Exchange
building, Boston, has opened ;1 new office in
i in Exchange building and will represent
' iouverneur E. Smith, the well-known New
York hardwood lumber dealer.

Oscar L. Woodruff, well known in Connecti-
cut woodworking circles, died at his bom.- in
New 1 1. 1 \ < 1 1 . Oct L3, after an illness of loni
duration. Mr, Woodruff was a manufacturei
oi croquet sets.

Boston.

John Ordway, tin- populai and well known
sah-sman of the Atlantic Lumber ' 'onipany,
Bo ton, has been recently confined to bis
home with heart disease. [I Is feared by bis

lie nds that bis illness w:tl in- very serious.

New York.

J. B. aud M. M. Wall of the Buffalo Hard
wood Lumber Company, Buffalo, were recent
New York visitors, having run down to witness
the International Automobile Race on Long
Island on the 6th ami visit their friends in the
trade. The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company
has added lately a large and complete stocl
sawed and sliced quartered oak and mahi

vei rs of all thicknesses, and also thin oak.

poplar, ash, elm, gum, bass wood, maple and

beech.

A big deal in i be wholesale trade was con
stimulated last week through the merging of the
wholesale business of Henry Cape of 1 Madison
Avenue with that of tic- Davison Lumber Com-
pany, Limited, of Nova Scotia, of which .1. M.
llastiims of Pittsburg is president, Dndei
arrangements Mr. Cape becomes vice president
of the company and a stockholder therein and

I he main office wilt be removed from Nova Sni-

i la tq, this city, and M w. Teufel, managing

director of I he compa n\ , will make his head
quarters here with Mr. Cap ompany

owns a gigantic enterprise in Nova S a ■

manufactures L00,000,000 feet of hardwoods,

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spruce, pine and hemlock yearly. A large part
of Its output will be marketed here.

The twentieth annual meeting of the New
York Lumber Trade Association, one of the big-
gest meetings in its history, occurred at the
association rooms, 18 Broadway, October 10,
preceded by a fine luncheon served by Delmon-
ico. President James Sherlock Davis presided,
and the reports rendered covering the work of
the past year proved it to be one of the most
active and satisfactory in the history of the
organization. There was only one ticket in the
field and the following officers were unanimously
elected: President, James Sherlock Davis;
first vice president, Guy Loomis ; treasurer,
Charles F. Fischer.

The report of the Board of Trustees and Sec-
retary were exceedingly interesting and showed
the membership of the present day to be 213
retailers, wholesalers and non-residents. The
credit system so successfully operated by the
association in the collection of claims for a
number of years was reported as having col-
lected J342.S07.96 back debts, or a total of 43
per cent of all the claims filed with it.

Calmes Bros., hardwood manufacturers of
North Carolina, have opened a local sales office
at 41 Broad Street.

Sam E. Barr, Flatiron building, has just
returned from a business trip through Pennsyl-
vania.

In the arrangements for an extensive enter-
tainment for the National Hardwood Lumber
Association at its next annual meeting in -May,
1907, at Atlantic City, Harry S. Dewey of Dixon
& Dewey, Flatiron building, and E. S. Foster,
head of the lumber department of the National
Casket Company, Hoboken, N. J., have been
appointed members of a committee from this
district.

The Charles F. Fischer Lumber Company has
added a new auxiliary yard to its extensive
retail hardwood business in Harlem. The new
yard is located on the north side of 134th
street, between Madison and Park avenues, and
is being stocked with a complete assortment of
choice hardwoods.

M. B. Farrin of the M. B. Farrin Lumber
Company, Cincinnati, O., was a recent visitor
on business.

G. E. Smith,- wholesale hardwoods, 17 Battery
place', has opened a branch office in the Broad
Exchange building, Boston, in charge of H. A.
Savage.

E. W. Higbie, hardwood manufacturer of 45
Broadway, returned on the 5th after another
visit to his operations in the Adirondacks. He
announces that the 10-mile railroad into his
big tract of timber has been completed and the
mill started October 1 with a good supply of

very choice logs.

Philadelphia.

Thomas B. Hammer speaks encouragingly of
the outlook for the coming fall and winter
season.

Charles F. Felin & Co. report their hardwood
department moving satisfactorily, with chestnut
and ash high and scarce. This firm is well
stocked with most woods and has not expe
rienced much difficulty in receiving supplies, as
it fortunately had ample conveyances chartered
to meet any unforeseen obstacle in this direc-
tion. Mr. Ludascher, the practical member of
the firm, reports the market firm and strong,
and indications are for a continuance of this
condition.

Henry C. Riley of Charles S. Riley & Co. is
spending a month in South Carolina In connec-
tion with the mill interests of his firm.

The East Penn Lumber Company, a new con-
cern, with headquarters at Analomink, Pa., ob-
tained a charter under Pennsylvania laws on
October 2 with an authorized capital of $20,000.
The incorporators are George B. Decker, Charles
W. Detrick, S. T. Detrick, all of Analomink,
Pa. ; George L. Nyce, Bushkill, Pa. : W. H.
Jacques and G. B. Cocker & Co. of East Strouds-

burg. Ta. ; Theodore Price. Cresco, Pa. ; 3. B.
Williams, Stroudsburg, Pa. ; W. R. Cord, Boon-
ton. N. J., and George T. Cobb, Hoboken, N. J.
ili-' purpose of the company is to manufacture
and sell lumber.

A. J. Cadwallader of George F. Craig & Co.,
Edwin B. Malone of Watson, Malone & Sons,
and George W. Smith are enjoying a moose hunt
in the Maine woods.

B. C. Currie, Jr.. Philadelphia manager of R.
M. Smith & Co., has just returned from head-
quarters at Parkersburg, W. Va. He reports
the hardwood market firm with poplar scarce
and high and mills unable, on account of the
m.a! demand, to accumulate stock.

William M. McCormick of the Clearfield Lum-
ber Company. Inc., and the Little River Lumber
Company, has been making a prolonged stay in
Tennessee, looking after the mill interests there.

The Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire
Insurance Company reports continued success.
It is highly gratified at the company's showing.
W. Z. Sener, a member of the finance committee,
made his first appearance at the meeting of the
committee after an absence of two months in
Europe.

Josiah R. Williams is home from a trip
through the western lumber districts, where he
has, made new connections. Mr. Williams,
t bough a thoroughly experienced lumberman, has
been in business only about a year, and his
friends look upon him as one of the coming
successful dealers.

As the properties of his company in eastern
Tennessee and western North Carolina require
occasional supervision, Frank T. Rumbarger of
the Rumbarger Lumber Company has just made
a short trip through these localities. He found
matters in good shape with no obstacles save
the temporary difficulty in hauling, owing to a
rain-soaked soil. The statement made in a
previous issue that the Rumbarger Lumber
Company had recently obtained 8,000 acres of
timber land in western North Carolina was er-
roneous. It is the Snow Bird Lumber Company,
controlled by the Rumbarger people, which has
made this large acquisition of timber land.

According to report, F. L. Andrews, repre-
senting a syndicate of financial men of Couders-
port. Pa., is buying a 60,000-acre timber tract
at Gainesville, Ga.

Oscar Babcock of E. V. Babcock & Co., Pitts-
burg. Pa., has been visiting the local trade.

W. W. Reiley of -W. W. Reiley & Bro. of
Buffalo, N. Y., has also been in town.

While engaged in conversation on business
matters, J. H. Turrell. the well-known member
of the Trexler-Turrell Lumber Company of
Wilkes Barre, Pa., was stricken with apoplexy
on October S and died a few hours afterward.
He was a prominent member of the trade in
eastern Pennsylvania and his death is keenly
regretted by a large number of friends.

The committee appointed to investigate the
failure of the Keystone Casket Company re-
ported that it has brought to light methods that
could not be carried out in any enterprise with
impunity. The deficiency of $28,000 was unex-
plainable by those in charge of the works, but
the committee's report revealed, as a simple
instance of the methods pursued, that casket
shells which cost $4 and over were sold for
$2.50, a figure below the actual cost of lumber
used in the manufacture of the articles. As
no better offer than the one made at the meet-
ing of October 3 could be obtained by the com-
mittee of the creditors of this company, and as
bankruptcy proceedings would simply mean lit-
tle or nothing for those interested, it was de-
cided to recommend that the offer of 40 and 25
per cent in cash to the merchandise and bor-
rowed money creditors respectively be accepted ;
tin- signatures of the creditors are now only
necessary.

Milford, Pike county, Pennsylvania, reports
a land deal made a few days ago by the Shohola
Falls Company, which conveyed to Congressman

Wright of Susquehanna for $200,000 the com-
pany's rights in a timber tract with a lumber
estimate placed at 600,000.000 feet. A railroad
will be built from Port Jervis to the property
via Milford.

The Henry II. Sheip Manufacturing Com-
pany, which recently suffered a disastrous fire,
has ordered plans and specifications to be pre-
pared for a new factory building at 1712-14-16
North Randolph street, the approximate cost of
which will be $75,000.

The Lumbermen's Exchange is still the Mecca
for the local lumber dealers. It is a rare event
not to find one or more of the members there.
Horace G. Hazard of Horace G. Hazard & Co.
recently made a call at the rooms, the first since
his two months' vacation in Europe. Another
visitor was C. Frank Williamson of Media, Fa.
A pleasant outing was anticipated by Charles
I'. Maule, Herbert P. Robinson, Joseph P. Dun
woody, F. A. Dudley and Frank M. Gillingham.
who left the exchange rooms on Friday, October
12. for an automobile trip to Toms River, N. J.,
where they will spend Saturday on Mr. Maule's
yacht, returning Sunday evening.

Baltimore.

The sale of some 4,500 acres of timber land
in Giles and Bland counties, Virginia, on Wolf
creek, and extending along the line of the New
River. Holston & Western railroad, which is
being built into Bland county, is reported from
Cumberland, Md. The land was purchased from
the Giles Lumber Company of Franklin, Va., by
Norman E. Knepper and Isaiah Good of Somer-
set, who intend to erect sawmills and proceed
with the development of the property. A large
veneering plant in Virginia will probably get
most of the timber, much of which is a fine
quality of hardwoods. The consideration is said
to have been $20,000.

Randle Cooke of the firm of James Cooke &
Co., timber brokers and importers of American
hardwoods at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England,
stopped in Baltimore during a tour of the timber
sections and lumber markets of the country, and
called on a number of firms here. He had been
down South and intended to return to that
section in a short time. His trip was for obser-
vation and education in American lumbering
methods, being the first he has ever made. In
the course of his travels he closed a number of
contracts for delivery of stocks and established
connections for his firm.

Henry G. Tample of Baltimore was married
October 3 to Miss Lucy C. Anderton, of Tappa-
hannock, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Temple have taken
up their residence at Fulton, Ark., where the
groom has established a lumber business.

John F. Fountain, an inspector of the Hard-
wood Manufacturers' Association, was in Balti-
more two weeks ago to look over the field and
ascertain howT the inspection rules here are
working. He found that the rules are gaining
in favor and that they are the means of pre-
venting much friction that might otherwise arise
between the manufacturers and the wholesalers
or retailers.

Pittsburg.

The Empire Lumber Company notes a lit-
tle slackening in the call for maple. Until
lately maple flooring has been one of the
strong pullers with the hardwood firms and
some very nice orders have been placed for
use in the skyscrapers and warehouses which
are now being inclosed.

M. Simons' Sons, whose big planing mill in
Allegheny burned over a year ago, have nearly
completed their new three-story brick plan-
ing mill on the old site at Anderson and Rob-
inson streets. The plant will be one of the
finest in the city, as it is to be equipped with
the very best machinery. Pending its erec-
tion the firm has carried on business at its
lumber yard in the lower part of Allegheny,
which it will still retain when back in its
mill.

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27

The Carroll Lumber Companj of Clairton,
Pa., is no more. Rumor putty well founded
says that the managers left in the night.
Two or three Pittsburg wholesale concerns
which backed the company in establishing its
yard at Clairton on the Monongahela river
and in its building at Brownsville and other
western Pennsylvania towns are left "holding
the bag." A. J. • Diebold of the Forest Lum-
ber Company has been appointed receiver.
As the company had some stock in its yard
the losses will not total over $20,000.

A lumber deal involving $66,700 was con-
summated a few days ago at Elkins, W. Va.,
* when J. w. Knopsnyder and w. I). Nydenger
sold to the Wyoming Lumber Company about
1,600 acres of 'timber land in Randolph and-
I '■ mlleton counties. West Virginia. The tracts
will be developed at once.

David L. Helman. president of the Stiles
Ship Building Company of Warren, Ohio.
passed through Pittsburg recently on his way
to the south to look over a tract of hardwood
which is likely soon to pass into the hands
of his company. The Stiles concern has
built up an enviable trade in ship timbers
and has at present a half dozen customers
which take all the stock it ran produce at
Warren. It has been a bonanza for the
farmers of northeastern Ohio, as it has prac-
tically stripped two or three counties there
of all the big oak timber.

Comparative quiet reigns in Pittsburg build-
ing circles at present, much to the pleasure
of the wholesale lumber firms, whose trade
has been sadly interrupted the past eight
months by strikes and lockouts. The deter-
mined stand taken by the Pittsburg Master
Builders' Association in regard to tolerating
neither strikes nor lockouts has had its ef-
fect, for many of the carpenters have gone
back to work and the succession of sympa-
thetic strikes has been cut short.

The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company is get-
ting its new mill at Jacksonburg. W. Va., in-
good running order. It is located on the
West Virginia Short Line and in the midst
of the 20,000,000 feet of oak and hardwood
which this company owns there. E. B. Ham-
ilton went down last week from the Pittsburg
office to superintend the work.

A recent prominent visitor in Pittsburg was
J. N. Smith of R. M. Smith & Co. of Parkers-
burg, W. Va.

The American Lumber & Manufacturing
Company is making a big hit this fall with
its trade in southwestern hardwoods. It is
getting them substituted to a considerable ex-
tent with wagon manufacturers and other
factories for the northern hardwoods which
are more costly. J. N. Woollett. sales man-
ager of the American, brought into port last
week a big order from New England for a
fine list of hardwoods, about the best item
of this kind that has come to a Pittsburg
firm this year. He also sold 20 cars of No. 1
four quarter common oak at premium prices.

The L. L. Satler Lumber Company is tak-
ing its full share of the business trom manu-
facturers this fall. Although it sells consid-
erable stock to planing mills and retail yards
its aim has been since it acquired the big
Hlackstone properties in Virginia to make a
specialty of delivering fine hardwood direct
to the manufactories, and it is succeeding
beyond expectations.

The Germain Company, which located in
the Fulton building last summer, is building
up a splendid business. Its southern opera
tions are very satisfactory this fall. It op-
erates at Mobile, Ala., under the name of
the Lewis Land & Lumber Company, and
Albert Germain has spent much of his time
there the past two months.

A question that is agitating the retailors
In common with the members of the Pittsburg
Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association is the

matter of classification of trade. Committees
have been appointed from both bodies which
will confer shortly with the idea of getting
up and submitting to the two organizations a
sch, me for dividing the lumbei trad* to th<
satisfaction of all concerned. The retailors
claim thai the wholesalers are selling direct to
contractors in many Instances and that if
they will stop this they will get a much large]
share of the regular trade oi the retail deal-
ers. m:in\ of Whom now go outside- for their
lumbei. The wholesalers object to giving up
such customers as the Carnegie Steel Com-
panj. the National Tube Companj and the
Westiri hou ■ Interests, although it is hardly
likely thai the retailers will go this far in
then demands.

Buffalo.

Tie Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is
Stocking its new .Memphis yard with oak. The
Buffalo yard of the company is carrying a large
supply of this wood and maple, and reports
business in good condition.

During a recent trip to Memphis and Cincin-
nati A. Miller secured a good stock of southern
oak and other hardwoods.

0. E. Yeager is increasing his business in
birch, having lately received large consignments
by lake.

J. N. Scatcherd is almost recovered from his
recent trolley accident and will be able to returr
to business in a short time.

Beyer. Knox & Co. are handling extensive
lots of Pennsylvania hardwoods and are also
extending their operations into West Virginia.

The dock yard of T. Sullivan & Co. is experi-
encing an active fall business, and is pushing
birch and ash extensively.

G. Elias & Bro. are making a specialty of
heavy timber and carry sufficient stock on hand
to make up for the car shortage in the South.

Detroit.

The Standard Tie Company, one of Detroit's
leading corporations, has secured a contract
from the Gould railroads for the delivery of
from 3,000,000 to 6,000,000 railroad ties a year
for a long term of years. Most of the ties will
be used on the Missouri-Pacific road. B. O.
s. oil. general manager of the Standard Tie
Company, closed the contract. Negotiations were
carried on directly with George J. Gould.

\V. W. Armstrong, of the Trowbridge Lumber
Company, W. E. Brownlee of Brownlee & Co.,
and 10. W. Leach leave Detroit October lit to al
tend the convention of the National Hardwood
Lumber Association at Cincinnati, Ohio, on Oc-
tober 25 -26. Mr. Brownlee intends to continue
his trip into the South before returning to Dc-

lioll.

.1. M Clifford ex Sou have recently opened 0
lumber yard at 260 Franklin street, Detroit.
Mr. Clifford was for several years manager of
the City Lumber Company's business. The Clif-
fords carry oak, maple, ash, hickory, poplar,
cypress and basswood. They will be wholesale
and retail dealers.

Saginaw Valley.

An embargo lias been placed upon the trade
of He- \;iiii.v bj a freight ear famine. Scarcity
oi cars has been common al this season the
lasi three or four years, bin nothing like the
preseni stringency has yei been experienced.
Shippers an- in dispair. They have sold lumber
and the buyers want it. aud the shippers want
tin- in. -in - inn everything is tied up. Last
month Me- Eastman Flooring Company wanted
1.1 ship out $30,000 worth of maple flooring, hut
could only gel $16,000 worth moved and con-
sidered itself lucky even then.

The Flood Mill at Bay City, which was sbui
down a shorl time recently, has a big contract

p. ,-nl hardw I Ions for Sailing. Hanson & Co.

and will tie in operation the greater portion of
the winter

Bliss & Van Auken have bad an active and

steady season for their sawmill and maple I!

uc: factory, much of the time being open I

day and ni^lit. and the Gales mill lias also had
a big year's business, with a record of several
million feet to its credit.

I-:. C. Eargrave last week cut into lumbei al
his mill a black walnut log about twenty Inches
in diameter at the butl which was lifted from
a slip near the North American Chemical Works,
where it must have, laid for thirty years. It was
perfectly sound and made some tine lumber.

At West Branch tie- Batchelor Timber Com
pany is erecting a large drying shed 40x10.0
feet, in which white maple will be seasoned for
interior finishing.

The mill plant of I he Ottawa Hardwood Lum-
ber Company at Hast Tawas has ceased opera-
tions for some time. It had about 4,000,000 feel
of logs to saw when the season opened.

Help is scarce and it is almost impossible to
get skilled men for mill or woods work. All
sorts of inducements are offered to get men into
the woods. Wages range from .$26 to ,$-l."i a
month, being a little higher north of the straits
than here. Loggers are finding that it is going
lo be even more expensive to put in logs Ibis
winter than il was last year. Not only are
wages higher, but also supplies of all kinds, with
the exception of flour.

s. A. Price has started a camp near Marl
City. Gladwin county, where he will put in
several hundred thousand feet of hardwood logs.

The Boman Lumber Company at Bomanville.
Gladwin county, is hauling and cutting hard
wood logs and has a large crew at work.

The Bay City Chemical & Color Company, a
new concern, has purchased a site at the wesl
end of the Third street bridge at Bay City and
is getting the machinery together for a plant
that will manufacture coal tar products, in-
cluding drugs and chemicals, stains for furni-
ture, polishing and coloring matter from the
refuse of hardwood mills. All of the local mills
but one manufacture hardwood and there is a
world of valuable material, heretofore either
burned up or wasted, which will be utilized in
the new plant.

There is no better locality in the country for
the location of industries using hardwoods than
the valley. More than 130,000,000 feet of hard-
wood logs come to this section every year and
there is excellent transportation afforded both
by water and rail.

The H. M. Loud's Sons Company of Au Sable
lias been shipping a number of million feet of
hardwood timber to the Welland Canal, where it.

is used for gov 1 in work. This company

makes a specially of hardw I timbers, having

facilities to manufacture- and handle sticks forty
two feet long.

The Manistique Lumber Company has acquired
a large tract of hardwood timber near Grand
Marais. which is to be lumbered and manufac-
tured at the Marais Lumber Company's saw-mill.

The Knceland, Buell & Bigelow Company and

the hi land Bigelow Company are receiving

about fifty-five carloads of Ions every twenty
tour hours.

Grand Eapids.

The NichOlfi .fc Cox Lumber Company has
trebled the capacity of its maple flooring plant
within the past lew weeks, putting in new

chinery of modern type. The company has I u

shipping a large amount of flooring cast of late
and is still away In-hind iis orders. More kilns
of the best type of brick, loo feet lone, ar,
ing added now for drying hardwood lumber in
its regular trade. This is decidedly lie- com
pany's banner year in business.

A party of fifteen or twenty lumbi
ibis city, headed by Carroll F. Sweet, president
of the Lumbermen's Association of Grand Rap-
ids and director of the National Hardwood Lum-
ber Association, will attend the Cincinnati meet-
ing "i tie- National Association October 2.J-2G.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

Men tor the woods, or for any kind ol work.
are still hard to find. At Traverse City the

other day thirty men were n led to load the

barge Sidney O. Nefl with lumber and only eight
conld I"- secured, causing a costly delay.

John F. fori, mayor of Grand Haven, lias
resigned his position as manager of the Story &
Clark l'iano Company of that city to resume a
managerial position with the Brinkerhoff l'iano
Company of Jackson, Mich. It is the plan now
to operate the Western l'iano Supply Company
it Grand Haven in connection with the new con-
cern at Jackson, turning out the case work at
the former plant.

Henry w. Carey, president of the Michigan
Maple Companj of Eastlake, was in the city
October is

Ed Turnbull of the Grand Ledge Chair Com-
pany returned home October 19 from a trip to
Europe.

James Lamb of Hie Fullerton-Powell Hard-
wood Lumber Company, South Bend, Ind.. was
in the market last week

Grand Rapids furniture concerns have been
taking orders during the past week for refur-
nishing the Hotel Van Cortlandt. an 150-room
house located close to Hie si Francis in San
Francisco.

George T. Kendal of llugliart & Kendal has
completed a modern suburban home just north
of Grand Rapids. The pretty spot lias been
named Wildwood and comprises 120 acres of
rich farming land, with residence in the .01(1
English style of architecture.

The forestry exhibit at the city museum is
now under roof, though larger quarters are
needed for the interesting display. The col-
lection is composed largely of the Michigan
state exhibit- at the St. Louis exposition and
contains some good pine specimens, but is sadly
deficient in Michigan hickory, elm. ash. oak and
maple, one interesting feature of the Japanese
woods shown is the papering of the ends of the
specimens to prevent checking, and the paper
seems to have served the purpose well.

The Hackley I'helps-Honnell Company of this
city, on the night of October 17. lost by tire
its planing mill at their Hackley, Wis., plant.
This was a comparatively small mill and fully
insured. The company will immediately pro-
ceed to the erection of a large and modern
planing mill.

Asheville, N. C.

Officials of the Pittsburg Southern Veneer
& Manufacturing Company of Pittsburg, who
have been in this section for several days,
have decided to locate a $150,000 veneer plant
on the French Broad river, two miles below
Asheville. The company row has a plant at
Narrows, Va., but owing to the scarcity of
. the proper timber and a sufficient supply it
has been found necessary to move. The Pitts-
burg concern made the proposition that if
Asheville citizens would take $25,000 worth of
stock the plant would be located in this city.
The board of trade would not agree to this,
but did offer a suitable site of 10 acres on
the French Broad river. If the Southern Rail-
way Company will place the necessary spur

track of 1,1 feet within 30 days the veneer

concern will begin operations. The plant will
employ 200 skilled workmen and will cut ve-
neer from chestnut, walnut, poplar, etc.

A wedding of interest to lumbermen oc-
curred here Wednesday evening. Oct. 17. when
Miss Nora Ware of this city became the bride
of J. M. Burns, vice president of the Una-
gusta Manufacturing Company and manager
of the Monger Lumber Company. Mr. and
Mrs. Burns will make their home in this city.
Mr. Burns is one of the best known lumber-
men in this section of North Carolina, and is
president.*! the Asheville Lumber Exchange.

Asheville lumbermen are having a little less
difficulty now in securing cars and having
their product promptly moved than has been
the ease during recent months. The freight

congestion on the local yards of the Southern
is not nearly so pronounced at this time as
previously and the situation is gradually be-
coming normal.

J. W. Adams of Chattanooga. Tenn., has in-
stituted suit in the LTnited States Circuit
Court here to clear the title to a tract of tim-
ber hinds in Macon and Clay counties, this
state. The plaintiff names several persons in
the western section of the state as defendants
and alleges that they are interfering with him
in the conduct of his business. The plaintiff
prays that the defendants be permanently en-
joined and restrained from trespassing upon
tie lands or interfering in any manner with
the plaintiff in the premises.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

Harry I'.. Farrer, vice president and general
manager of the Farrar Lumber Company of
Iialton, Ga., was in the city this week and spent
several days in this section.

Fred C. Disbro of the Woodward Lumber
Company of Atlanta, Ga.. was a visitor to the
Bristol market this week. He reports business
excellent witlt his company.

A. A. Kopp of the Yellow Poplar Lumber
Company of Coal Grove, <►.. was a recent visitor
in Bristol.

II. W. Neily, representing George H. Mell of
Kane, Pa., and Sam C. Rambo were over from
Johnson county. Tennessee, this week. They
report that heavy rain has handicapped the
country mills in that section and shipments for
this reason have not been very heavy during the

past fortnight.

I'. I!. Folsom, representing Rode & Horn. New
York export ers and dealers in domestic hard-
woods, was in Bristol on business this week.
This company has a large contract with the
Kingsport Lumber Company of Bristol and is
handling the outpui of the company's mills in
McDowell county. West Virginia.

The Richland Lumber Company of this city,
which was recently organized by J. II. Bryan of
tie Bryan Lumber Company and J. A. Canuou
of the Citizens' hunk of Bristol, is about readj
lo begin cutting on their tiniber land on the
Wateree river, near Sumter. S. C. The com-
pany will lei its logging to contract.

Tlie Bryan -Lumber Company of this city has
materially augmented its capital stock and is
rapidly extending its business. This company
has built up a business of no mean proportions
and is now one of the heaviest exporters in this
region.

The new mills of J. A. Wilkinson in South
Bristol are nearing completion and it is hoped
will soon be put into operation. The machinery
has all been installed.

Valentine Luppert of the Lupperi Lumber
Company of Butler. Tenn.. was a recent visitor
to Bristol.

E. L. Edwards, the well-known wholesale lum-
merman of Dayton, O., after spending two weeks
looking after business interests in this section,
returned to his home this week. Mr. Edwards
was much pleased with the conditions which
obtain in this section and the prospects for
winter and spring business.

William Winfrey of Medina. O., has purchased
a 3,000-aere tract of timber laud in Wise county,
Virginia, and it is said will at once arrange to
begin manufacturing same for the domestic
market.

Arrangements have been made for an elaborate
timber exhibit at the Jamestown Tercentennial
Exposition at Jamestown, Va., next year. The
lumbermen and timber dealers of Virginia have
united with the mineral operators in the organi-
zation of the Jamestown Mineral & Timber Ex-
hibit Association. A conference presided over
by Governor Swanson of Virginia was recently
held in Bristol and plans formulated for the
most elaborate mineral and timber exhibit in
the history of the Old Dominion. Governor
Swanson was elected chairman of a committee
to arrange for the exhibit and pledged ?100,000

for use in the work : S'_'r». noil was subscribed at
the meeting.

J. Mortimer. Jr., general superintendent of the
Virginia. West Virginia, Tennessee and North
Carolina operations of the W. M. Ritter Lumber
Company of Columbus, O., was a visitor in Bris-
tol this week. This company is now building a
railroad from Elizabethton, Tenn., in Carter
county, to Hampton, a distance of eight miles,
and from Hampton up Tiger's creek to its timber
properties. A large band mill is being put in
at Hampton and the work is being pushed as
rapidly as possible in order to have same ready
for operation by January 1, 1907.

E. L. Warren and G. L. Wood of the R. E.
Wood Lumber Company of Baltimore, were in
the city on business this week. '

It is generally understood in Bristol, since the
announcement that the offices of the George L.
Carter syndicate, including the South & Western
railway, would be moved to Johnson City, that
the principal offices of the Kingsport Lumber
Company will also be moved to that town. The
removal of the Carter syndicate, as well as the
Kingsport Lumber Company, will be a distinct
loss to Bristol.

George II. mud. iff, formerly with Sterling
West Company of Baltimore, is now the south-
ern representative of George C. Welch & Co. of
Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, the well known
English importers of hardwoods. Mr. Orndoff
will make this section his headquarters. He has
a number of important contracts for oak and
poplar in West Virginia as well as the Bristol
district.

George II. Mell, a prominent wholesale lum-
berman of Kane, Pa., was a recent visitor on
the Bristol market. Mr. Mell operates, exten-
sively in this section and has a big planing mill
.11 Swananoa, N. C.

William S. Whiting of the Whiting Manufac-
turing Company was down from Abingdon last
week. Mr. Whiting reports excellent conditions
with his company and the big band mill at
Abingdon running regularly.

Cincinnati.

The Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club al its meet-
ing last week completed arrangements for the
entertainment of delegates to the convention of
the National Hardwood Lumber Association on
October 25-26. Four hundred delegates are ex-
pected and a big smoker and buffet lunch at the
new Ilavlin hotel is planned.

The Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club, after a
month's discussion, has drawn up a set of rules
and regulations for the government of the
dressed lumber business. Poplar, -Cottonwood,
gum, oak and maple flooring are covered in the
new' rules which will be presented at the con-
vention of the National Hardwood Lumber As-
sociation for adoption.

Chester F. Korn, of the Farrin-Korn Lumber
Company, spent the middle part of the month in
Tennessee buying hardwoods, principally ash.

Leland G. Banning is in New York ou busi-
ness.

M. B. l'arrin attended the convention of the
Ohio River Improvement Association at Ports-
mouth October 17-18 as delegate of the Lumber-
men's Club. Lumbermen in this city are vitally
interested in the association, which is laboring
for a 9-foot stage of the Ohio river the year
round by locks and dams. Steps in that direc-
lion were taken at the convention. Lumber in-
terests from other sections of the state were also

represented.

W. A. Bennett of Bennett & Witte, paid the
Memphis office of his concern a brief visit during
the past fortnight.

Joseph Wehry, of the Littleford Lumber Com-
pany, one of the most popular men in the hard-
wood trade, was married to Miss Fannie M.
l.insky "f this city last week. The ceremony
was performed in Newport. Ky.

J. A. Northup of the Northup Company. Louisa.
Ky. was hen on a timber deal of importance on

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October 15. Nothing was made public, however

The A. B. Ciosson, jr., Company has I n

incorporated with $20,000 capital by A. B. Clos
s<m. Jr., If. It. fioss. in. M, a. Chapman, it M
Smith and Thus. II. Darby. The company will
manufacture picture frames in mis city.

A. E. stone, of the Nicola Stone .V Meyers
Company, lias returned to Cleveland after a
staj in this city. He expressed great satisfac
tlon al the business being transacted by the
local office.

The sawmill belonging to .1. A. McCoy, located
at Alvordton, <>.. was destroyed by fire October
^ 12.' The loss was $3,500. The mill will be re
built.

The John T. Towsle3 Company, of tins city.

has I n organized with $75, capital to maim

lac tun' woodworking machinery. The Incor-
porators are John T. Towsley, Win. 1-". I'fan.
Fred E. Niederhelmen, Joseph II. Gardner ami
Thos. M. Gregory.

M. B. Farrin, of the M. B. Farrin Lumber
Company, spent several days recently in Nev.
York looking after the company's office there.

The Stone & Heyser Lumber Company lias i n

incorporated by T. B. stone. \V. E. Heyser, W.
W. Stone, E. B. Kirn and John L. Lincoln. The
capital is $25,000 and headquarters will be
maintained in the Union Trust building in this
city. A branch office has been opened in Mem
phis in tin- Randolph building, witli Mr. Heyser
as manager.

'riie <ar shortage here lias reached an acute
stage and hardwood interests are experiencing
great trouble. The yards of the different rail-
roads are blocked with loaded cars, exemplifying
the need of a belt railroad here as advocated by
He Lumbermen's Club and other commercial or-
ganizations. The present car shortage is being
used as a strong argument for the belt road.

The C. E. Francis Woodworking Machinery
Company is erecting a plant at Bushville I ml..
which will have five times the capacity of the
local plant, officials of the company declare,
however, that the Cincinnati plant will he main
tained.

Nashville.

The I'.runsw iekl. alio- Coll. -nd'-i Company of
Chicago, on.- of tie- largest concerns of the sort
in tin- United states, has established a southern
office in Nashville, with IT. L. Tait in charge.
Sufficient business lias been secured in this sec-
tion to warrant the establishment of the office.
The firm lias a wan house in Memphis and ai Its
main factory in Chicago manufactures bar lix
tiin-s. refrigerators, billiard tables and bowling
alleys.

E. A. Freeman of Nashville has bought timber
rights from Capt. John A. Geary of Lexington,
Is \ , to about 25,000 acres of timber lands on
both sides of the Cincinnati Southern railway
in Pulaski county, Kentucky. The purchase
price is not disclosed at this time.

The Kimmins Lumber Company of Davidson
county lias he. -n incorporated with a capital
sto,-k of $50,000. The incorporators an- W. .1
Cude, A. M. Ransom, J. B. Ransom, McEwen
Ransom and C. H. Cude.

Marshall T. Rowland of Lebanon. Tenn.. and a
prominent lumberman of that place, was found
dead a few nights since lying beside the tracks
of tie- Southern Railway near Nashville. It is
presumed In- fell from a train. II.- was fifty
years old and leaves a wife and several children.

The sawmill of the Ware & Goodwin Excelsior
Coop factory was burned recently at Trezevant,
Tenn. The fire started in the sawdust room
and the entire plant was in danger of destruc-
tion. The loss was about $1,500, with some
insurance.

A. I.. Hayes & Co., one of the biggest manu-
tacturers of staves in Nashville, has bought
t'l-.im the First National Bank of Nashville the
timber rights to about 10,850 acres of land
forming a part of the old Aetna Furnace prop-
erty Tie- consideration was $16,275.

A special from Cloyd's Landing, Kj en the
upper Cumberland, states that .1. I-:. Lewis of
Peytonsburg has bought the Hurt farm on

lllen's Creek tor $12, I The place, which is

nearly a thousand acres in extent, has much
valuable i Imber on it.

A special from Morehead, Ky.. on tie- North
Fork -.1 He- Cumberland, states that He- Clear-
field Lumber Company of Pennsylvania has
bought ill.- ..Id Bradford place and will ereci
iw-> big sawmills on it in lie- near future.
Tie- company's line of railroad on the North
Fork will he extended to He- new inn-chase.
Th.- mills will give employment to several hun-
dred people.

An Interesting communication has been re-
ceived by Mayor T. c i. Morris regarding an al-
leged lumber trust in Nashville and tin- letter is

siu I l<\ ;in anonymous and mysterious ■•Coin

mitt. r six." in it the writers complain Men

Lumber is not taxed in Nashville, that some re
lot-in should he made in this connection, and that
i in- "Committee of six" proposes about January
1 next to "start something" in the taxation line
by man. Iannis proc lings. There will be noth-
ing done, however, as it has been held in Ten-
nessee that lumber is a product of the soil and
is in. I subject to taxation until its form has
been changed by manufacturing it.

The Nashville Transportation Company re-
ports that quit.- a lot of lumber is being brought
down from Carthage and intermediate points ou
their two towboats, the Chauncey Lamb and the
John YV. Love.

The past season lias been a had one for the
government in working on the Cumberland River
locks. .Much high water has prevailed at times
and little has been accomplished. The lumber-
men of the Cumberland River valley, however,
are rejoiced that the government has decided to
continue the work of improving the great water-
way, as it means much td them in getting more
lumber as well as better prices in transporting
it here. Active steps will be undertaken at once
io secure a liberal appropriation from tin- next
Congress for river improvement.

Memphis.

A largely attended meeting of the Lumber-
men's Cliil. >.f Memphis was held at the Hotel
Gayoso, Oct. 20. A committee, consisting of
.1. YV. Thompson, chairman; J. W. Dickson
and K. ,T. Darnell, was appointed to look after
arrangements for tin- members going t.. Cin-
cinnati to attend the semiannual meeting of
lie- National Hardwood Lumber Association.
Oct -'•". and 26. There will in- somewhere be
tween _'" and 30 delegates from Memphis.

George C. Ehemann. secretary, read a letter
from Secretarj E. M. Terry of th.- National
Lumber Exporters' Association, stating that
In- had communicated to the board of direct
ors "i' his association the action of th.- Lum-
bermen's Club in inviting that organization to
hold its annual meeting here next January
in. I that lie- board of directors had notified
linn Hint they Would act on it as soon as po

sible.

Tin- Lumbermen's Club lias grown to I ne

of Ho- strongest local hardwood lumber organi-
zations in the country, and finds it necessary
t.. revise tin- constitution and by-laws. The
following committee will do this work: George
C. Ehemann, chairman; James !•:. Stark. w n
Russe, .1. W. McClure and F. B. Robertson.
There were a number of railroad matters
taken under advisement by the club about
win. h no publicity is desired at this time.

'in- . were freely discussed i were referred

to ;i committee composed of .1. B. Grant,

hairman; s B. Anderson and A. L. Foster.
Five new members were received a follow; -
E. II. and I.. C. Nolan of Nolan Broth.-.-
I leading -\' 1 1 1 1 dwood Lumbi t I lompanj ; R. S.
Cooper of the Briggs & Cooper Company;
\v. a. Ransom of the Gayoso Lumber Com-
pany, and W. E. Heyser of the St. me & Hey-

ser Lumber Company, a recent Memphis ac

nuisii ion

Tin- National Slack Cooperage Manufactur-
ers' Association, which recently opened a sales
agency in this city in charge of C J Del
of Hough, Mo., secretary of the organization,
and others, has written a letter to Secretary
Georgi C Ehemann, advising him thai that

organization will be glad to i perate with

the Lumberman's club of Memphis in
matter affecting the lumber interests of this
territory and thanking the Lumbermen's Club
for all the courtesies extended in the past.

The Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, the con
solidation of the Bacon-Nolan Hardwood Corn
pany, the Guirl-Stover Lumber Company and
tin- Lamb Hardwood Lumber Company, has
perfected organization by the election of the
following officers: LaFayette Lamb pre I
■ I. ni; F. S. Fish, first vice president; C. K.
Lamb, second vice president; Garrett Lamb,
secretary and treasurer, and ll E. Bacon, gen-
era) manager. The company has filed a trust
deed with the register of this (Shelby) county
providing for the sale of $1,500,000 in bonds
and the payment of interest on the - in -
The trust deed is in favor of the First Trust
& Savings Bank of Chicago and sets forth
that the bonds are to be known as first pur-
chase money mortgage bonds and that tin >
will constitute a mortgage on all propertj of
the company, consisting of timber lands in
Panola. Quitman and Tallahatchie counties,
Miss., cut timber and sawmills, horses, mules.
etc.. and that the mortgage- is to be held by
the trustee. This is one of the largest trust
deeds ever filed in this county.

Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lum-
ber Exporters' Association, who appeared be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Commission in
Washington, Oct. 10, for the purpose of try-
ing- to secure equalization of lumber export
rates through Atlantic ports, has returned to
Memphis. He says the commission advised
him that lumber exporters should give the
n. -w rate law a fair test and that, if after doing
this they found that it entailed any handicap
on them, they would be given relief bj thai
body. Secretary Terry learned while before
the commission that this body did not intend
anj discrimination in favor of cotton as
against lumber and that, after March 1 next
year, cotton and lumber exporters, so far as
rates are concerned, will be placed on exactlj
the same basis. The only reason any conces

si. .us were made in favor of cotton t -i

was the f.-ar that any radical change in the
method of handling cotton at the beginning
of the period of largest business might mate
rially affect the cotton export trade and
thereby cause considerable loss of monej
This information has been received with plea
ui-e by lumber exporters. All export lumber
business is still being done through New en
leans ami there is no hope for a change in
this condition until the commission has been
advised officiallj that this is entailing any
handicap on the lumbermen who engage in the
export trade.

The Stone & Heyser Lumber Company has
been established here with headquarters In
Hi Randolph building, to conduct a general

wholesale hardw l lumber business T. B.

si. -n. of the T. B Stone Lumbet Com
of ( 'iii.-iniiati is in. ident ; W. W Stoi
the T B. Stone Lumber Company. Cincinnati,
secretary and treasurer, and w. E. Heyser,
vice president and general manager. Th.
is separate and distinct In its operation
i he T. B. Stone Lumber I lompan i of CIn
cinnnli.
Arrangements are being made here for a

record-breaking conca I em w. R.

Anderson, Vicegerent Snark for the wi

district of Tennessei . has - i-i b

committees and laid pla

affair, of which a ba nquel is to be a sp

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feature. It is expected that there will be
more than thirty kittens to be initiated.

Heavy rains have occurred in this terri-
tory, which have greatly interfered with both
milling and logging operations. The most con-
servative do not believe now that the timber
supply for the winter will be even approxi-
mately close to the smallest in recent years
at this season. The situation is the strongest
in the hardwood market known here in recent
years and one of the most difficult for either
the manufacturer or the wholesaler to cope
with because of the scarcity of lumber and
the troubles encountered in hauling and load-
ing at points some distance from the rail-
roads.

The Chicago Mill & Lumber Company, which
has been for some months constructing a
large band sawmill, veneer plant and box fac-
tory at Blytheville, Ark., has completed all
of these and they are now in operation. The
estimated cost is in the neighborhood of
$250,000 and the plant, in its entirety. Is one
of the most complete in this section.

The Anderson-Tully Company, which manu-
factures boxes, box shooks, Cottonwood and
gum lumber, reports rapid progress on its new
box factory in North Memphis which is to
have a daily capacity of three cars of shooks.

The W. E. Smith Lumber Company, with
headquarters here, announces that it has com-
pleted its big double band sawmill at Burdett.
Ark., and that this is now being operated.
The daily capacity is about 90,000 feet.

The car situation is not giving the hardwood
trade here quite as much trouble as had been
anticipated, but this is no fault of the rail-
roads. The delay of about two to three weeks
in the picking, ginning and movement of cot-
ton, which has kept back the climax to the
cotton traffic which usually comes at this
time of the year, has given the railroads more
cars for other business than they looked for.
However, the indications are for a record-
breaking cotton movement during the next six
to eight weeks and it is therefore more than
probable that lumbermen will find the num-
ber of cars available far less than during the
past thirty days.

New Orleans.

The Stave Classers, Stave Filers' and Stave
Cart Drivers' Unions in New Orleans are on
strike and have been for the last three days.
The classers demand 85 cents an hour and the
pilers and helpers 20 cents. They were receiv-
ing when they struck 27 «• cents and 17 ' ,& cents
per hour, respectively. Both sides ate anxious
for a settlement and it is regarded as probable
that this will be brought about within the next
two or three days.

Representatives of twenty-five lumber com-
panies and syndicates met in Hattiesburg, Miss..
October IS, to talk over the labor question,
which has resolved itself into a serious problem
in the lumber territory in this part of the coun-
try. The matter of disposing of the timber
blown down in the storm-swept districts was
also discussed, and the consensus of opinion was
that the best policy for the mills to pursue was
to cut with portable sawmills all the timber
that can be reached. This policy will be
adopted. Grave fears are now entertained that
such action on the part of the big lumber com-
panies will seriously affect the export market.
It is argued that to cut this timber in this
manner will flood the export market and a
big decline in prices there is said to be proba-
ble.

Millmen generally are suffering from the car
shortage which prevails throughout this terri-
tory and advices from the Hattiesburg district
and other sections state that the shortage is the
most serious ever experienced. In many in-
stances mills have entirely closed down, and
operators are unable to realize anything on
their big yard stocks simply because they can-
not get lumber moved to market. There are no

indications of an early change for the better.

The Consumers' Lumber Manufacturing Com-
pany has been organized in New Orleans with a
capital of $50,000. It will operate saw and
planing mills and will manufacture all kinds
of lumber. The officers are : R. H. Hackney,
president; D. A. Hackney, secretary and treas-
urer.

The two-story planing mill of the Benoit Lum-
ber Company and the company's storage sheds,
with a large quantity of lumber, located at
Watizit, Ouachita parish, were destroyed by fire
recently. The loss on the plant was about
$10,000 and the lumber $4,000. Five thousand
dollars' insurance was carried on the former,
but the latter was unprotected. This company's
plant was located in the heart of the hardwood
district of Louisiana.

The Southern Wrecking Company of this city
aas lieen asked to dispatch tugs and lighters to
Fensacola to aid in the work of unloading the
lumber-laden schooners and steamers which were
beached and wrecked in the recent storm. Pensa-
cola wrecking companies will not bid on the
work because of the scarcity of lumber lighters
and there are no wharves at the port where
lumber can be unloaded. Consequently the New
Orleans companies have been asked to take a
hand.-

Louisville.
The mills that log on land are having it a
little easy just now. but some of the river mills
are looking longingly up the river — in vain at
present. Kirwan Bros, hoped to get a good sup-
ply of logs out of the Big Sandy from the re-
cent rains, but obtained only a couple of rafts.
They are straightening up their yard and at-
tending to the many little things that lack of
help prevented while the mill was running, in
preparation for resuming operations.

The Ohio River Saw Mill Company has a fair
stuck of logs at the mill yet and has a tow
coming down the river which will furnish a log
supply till about the first of the year. The
Louisville Point Lumber Company has enough
logs in boom now to run them till the first of
the year.

Logging at the Berry-Davis Saw Mill Com-
pany's operations is being pushed energetically.
Mr. Berry says that there is an unusually good
demand for car stock and, in fact, everything is
selling well, with a bright outlook for trade this
winter.

The Louisville Cooperage Company has se-
cured a contract to make 90,000 gum glucose
barrels and is enlarging its plant at Twenty-
ninth and Broadway considerably, putting in
machinery to make barrels, building a new
warehouse, etc. It already operates a large
stave finishing plant, two dry kilns and a big
hand cooper shop.

The box factories here have been so busy this
fall that they have enlarged their ideas some-
what on lumber requirements and are now in
the market for low grade stock in either poplar,
cottonwood or gum. There are three of these
plants here, using large quantities of this lum-
ber— the Mengel Box Company, the Tyler Box
Company and the Bell & Coggeshall Company.

The Voss Mantel Company is loaded to the
guards with business, and say this has been
about its liveliest year.

J. E. Buscher of the Louisville Spoke & Bend-
ing Works, says there is a fair demand for vehi-
cle stock, but not at prices which should pre-
vail under present conditions. Raw material
be finds very scarce, high in price and diflncult
to secure delivered as promptly as wanted.

Minneapolis.

E. Payson Smith of the I'ayson Smith Lum-
ber Company is absent on a business trip tak-
ing in Chicago and other points. A. S. Bliss
of the same company says they are enjoying a
seasonable demand for hardwood, especially good
in eastern markets.

Osborne & Clark report that demand from

the country yards is still quiet but somewhat
improved over the last writing. The factory
trade is very fair, and stocks available to supply
it are scarce and held at firm prices.

The Minneapolis Lumber Company, whose
heads. P. R. Hamilton and W. H. Sill, are in-
terested in the Ruby Lumber Company of Ruby.
Wis., and other hardwood plants, reports that
there is great difliculty in getting men to fill
the logging crews this fall, and as a result the
log output is likely to be reduced. Last winter
their operations were curtailed by the heavy
snow, which impeded logging and kept the cut
down. It is not likely that there will be an-
other winter of heavy snow, and with fair
labor conditions there would be an increase in
the production of northern hardwoods this win-
ter, excepting white oak and possibly ash, which
are almost cut out.

The sale of state timber held at the capitol
October 11 resulted in the disposal of about
:,r,. noil. oiiii feet of stumpage at good prices. One
piece of white pine sold for the record price of
$13.55 a thousand. The state received as first
payments the sum of $62,365, and expects in the
end to realize $350,000 from the sale.

F. W. Buswell of the Buswell Lumber &
Manufacturing Company of Buswell, Wis., is back
from a business trip to Chicago and other
points, where he was looking into market con-
ditions.

Ashland, Ky.

Building is unusually active, creating a big
demand for builders' supplies. Lumber is sell-
ing slightly above list price, but dealers are
turning down large orders owing to broken
slocks. Mill men are busy getting plants
cleaned up and in shape to begin work when
The fall log run comes, which is expected now
at almost any time.

Adkins & Welsh, real estate dealers of this
city, and Hon. C. Breck Hill of Huntington.
W. Va., have closed a deal for 16,000 acres of
valuable timber land iu Breathitt county, Ken-
tucky on Tucksand Creek. The price paid is said
to be $300,000. The property was bought from
the Lexington & Eastern Railroad Company and
was purchased by them several years ago for
$15,000. This railroad will extend its lines
fifteen miles into the property. This is claimed
by expert timbermen to be the best large tract
of virgin poplar in the state.

Edward Adams, an employe of the Yellow
Poplar Lumber Company, Coal Grove, O., made a
misstep while walking on a tram road and fell
in front of a heavy truck of lumber, ^vhich
passed over his arm, tearing the ligaments
badly and bruising him up so he will be con-
fined to his bed for some time. Mr. Adams is
mayor of Coal Grove.

Fred J. Stone of Detroit, Mich., and I. G.

Ballard of the Ohio River Saw Mill Company,

Louisville, were recent visitors to this market.

R. H. Vansant has returned from a trip to

Chicago.

J. E. Walker has returned from Herndon, W.
Va.. and Graham, Va., where he looked after the
extensive interests of the Keyes-Fannin Lumber
Company.

F. E. May, former treasurer and secretary
of the Kenova Poplar Manufacturing Company,
has been elected general manager of the con-
cern to succeed M. A. Hayward, who recently re-
signed.

D. E. Hewitt, a representative of the Hutchi-
son Lumber & Manufacturing Company of Hunt-
ington. W. Va., has closed a deal with the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company
for a bill of lumber aggregating over one hun-
dred thousand dollars.

The Licking River Railroad Company has
bought the large sawmill of Emery & Co. at
Farmers, Rowan County, Ky., and will begin
operating same immediately. The price paid
was $100,000. The plant has been idle for a
number of years.

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3i

HardWood Market.

(By HARDWOOD EECOED Exclusive Market Reporters.)

Chicago.
The local trade In hardwoods remains excel
lent. The call for high-grade plain oak and the
good end of poplar is somewhat in excess of the
supply, and the prices tor straight grades are
ranging high. Northern hardwoods and miscel-
laneous southern minor woods are in fair call
at satisfactory prices. The prospects are excel-
^ lent for an exceedingly satisfactory fall and
early winter trade In all varieties of woods.
Local building operations are still increasing.
The building of many high-class commercial
structures and apartment bouses is making a

heavy call for hardw 1 flooring and interior

hardwood finish.

Boston.

The hardwood market has developed con-
siderable activity during the past two weeks
and prices are firmer In many instances. Ad-
vices from producing centers do not show any
surplus in manufacturers' hands of good dry
stock even though the demand here has been
quiet until recently. Leading dealers in this
market state that the increase in the demand
is confined chiefly to trade outside of Boston
and vicinity. Manufacturers of furniture are
doing a good business and are in the market
for supplies, as are also manufacturers of
finish. Dealers still report considerable delay
in shipments from mill points due to the car
shortage.

The demand for plain oak has not been as
active during the past few weeks as it was
early in the summer, but prices are steady.
Quartered oak moves In a moderate way.
Common quartered oak is in large supply with
prices unsettled, but ones and twos are not
in large offering, despite the small volume of
business now passing. Brown and white ash
are very firm and offerings are not large.
Brown ash has advanced slowly but steadily
of late. Since the prices of brown ash have
ruled so close to those of plain oak, many con-
sumers have preferred the latter, with the re-
sult that the demand for ash has grown less.
White ash is in smaller supply than brown.
The call for chestnut is moderate. Hickory-
is very scarce and in demand. Maple is
rather quiet, and buyers show no anxiety to
take on supplies much beyond their imme-
diate wants. Birch is in very good call. Cy-
press continues firmly held, with offerings of
desirable stocks small. Whitewood is higher
at the mills. The yards here have a fail-
supply on hand.

New York.

The situation in the local hardwood trade is
generally satisfactory. Prices on the better
grades of all hardwoods are not only exceed-
ingly firm, but on many items show a decided
tendency upward. This of course is due to the
fact that the available supplies of the better-
grades of hardwoods at mill points are small
and, in many instances, badly broken. In the
local wholesale market all the wholesale hand-
lers who have any amount of good hardwood
lumber on hand are conversant with the condi-
tions at mill points and consequently are only
selling at top prices. Sales are of good volume
and the market generally is in good shape.
As regards low grade stock, there has been a
first rate market for some months, although the
local district has suffered some in this direction
by reason of some of the smaller operators in
the country making concessions, but as a
whole the general run of business is on a very
fair range of values.

The better grades of plain oak are in good
demand, but very scarce, and have advanced $1
to $2. Common and shipping cull have eased
off from $1 to $2. Ash is active but scarce,
and inch ones and twos are ruling firm at sat-
isfactory prices. Ones and twos red birch are
in excellent call, but supplies are scarce and
prices are constantly showing an upward ten-
dency. Saps are somewhat more plentiful and
while holding firm in price have not enjoyed
the upward tendency that the better grades

have. Poplar is more than holding its own,
both in good lumber and low grades. Trices

are holding stiff and lumber of extra c, I width

or quality is bringing considerably more than
list.

There seems to be an ample supply of maple
in all grades and thicknesses, and while the
demand is fair prices can stand some changes
for the heller, i Qua itered oak has shown con-
slderable improvement of late and prices are
advi in":, although the demand for this com-
modity is not what it should lie. J'.oeeli is in
ver\ active call, especially in thick stock for
temporary structural work and planking. Hum
is also holding its own and the general market
is taking more of this stock constantly. Cotton-
wood is in large demand and prices are show-
ing an upward trend.

Philadelphia.

As reports come in from the mill districts,
where the recent destructive storms have im-
peded the getting out of orders and from those
seci ions where the car service has been defec-
tive, it is possible to obtain a fair view of
conditions. As the demand for good hardwoods
continues and stiff prices are the rule, the
accumulation of stock at the mills appears to
he difficult. Poplar, chestnut and ash are still
scarce. Birch and red cherry are firm and
quartered oak steady. Yards as a rule are stock-
ing up. though some are still under the impres-
sion that prices will be lower as more rapid
shipments arrive from the mills; but the most
of them believe that the prices are more apt to
rise than fall. The furniture factories of east-
ern Pennsylvania continue to buy freely, and re-
ports from salesmen indicate a good season.
Building operations are being rushed, and
though there has been a drop of 7 per cent in
the estimated total cost of work for September
compared with September of 1905, it has had no
immediate effect on the building trade. Some of
the better class houses are about ready to
receive their hardwood finishings and demand is
greater than the supply.

In sections of the Pennsylvania timber dis-
trict there has been a slight improvement in
car service since October 1, but the congestion
of freight farther west is still causing consid-
erable delay in shipments, consequently old or-
ders are behind and new ones piling up. The
merchants who have been fortunate enough to
charter barges are able to keep their stock in
shape, while those depending on obtaining con-
veyances at will are realizing the effect of the
loss in schooners and barges during the late
storms. Taking all conditions into considera-
tion, it is the consensus of opinion that the out-
look for fall and winter business is all that
could he hoped for.

Baltimore.

No important changes have taken place in the
hardwood trade conditions lore. Stocks continue
to be in active demand and the distribution is
relatively large. Trade is much inconvenienced
by I lie car shortage and other causes over which
He manufacturers have no control. The weath-
er in the hardwood producing regions has be-
come settled and there is less interruption to
op. 1 .,1 ions. The numerous stoppages for this
reason served to reduce materially the output of
the plants and the offerings to the trade were
curtailed as a consequence. Values are well sus-
tained and all woods rule lirni. The heavy
demand on the part of the railroads and car
building shops keeps up, and it is therefore a
safe prediction that trade conditions will not
undergo any material change and that the pres-
ent level of quotations will he maintained.

(lak is not less in demand than at any time
within the past year, and all the mills have
orders enough to keep them running for an in-

definite period. The furniture manufacturers

and other sumers are buying freely, and

there is still much competition at the mills.
M"ks locally are about large enough to meet
trade requirements, but no marked surplusage
is being reported, and a firm tone is certain to
prevail. The foreign movement is also quite
brisk, though the general tone is one ,,1 ,,

Ash and other « Is are in good demand a1

figures that stimulate production. The domestic
inquiry for walnut continues unabated

Pittsburg.

Hardwood affairs are verj sati factory in
Greater Pittsburg. The majority of firmi
kept busy filling their orders and getting tim-
ber lined up lor next spring's supply. A i/ei
encouraging feature of the situation is the
large proportion oi the orders that comi bj
letter practically unsolicited except so far as
the wholesalers have submitted prices in reply
to inquiry. The chief difficulty is in getting
dry stock to fill orders. Although the hard-
wood mills have been busy for months stocks
have not accumulated to any great extent and
very few firms have any surplus of dry lum-
ber. The planing mills and lumber yards
throughout the Pittsburg district are buying
more freely than a month ago. Finishing lum-
ber seems to be in especially good demand
this month, although bill stuff of all kinds is'
selling well. There has never been a fall when
the trade with manufacturers opened more
auspiciously than this year. In the number
of factories and plants buying stock and in
the size of their orders there are indications
of an enormous hardwood business to last all
winter.

The price situation remains unchanged.
List quotations are adhered to with firmness.
Oak leads. Chestnut is a strong factor in
sales at present. The finer grades of all
hardwoods are in good demand. Heavy tim-
bers are not so active as a month ago owing
to the fact that outside contract work will
soon be suspended in many places by railroads
and similar corporations which have been
large buyers of big sticks.

Buffalo.
Fall trade among the city hardwood dealers
is excellent and the prospects are bright for a
prosperous ending of the year. The healthy
state of the market is not so much a matter of
movement as it is of price. There is no great
boom in business, and if there was it is doubt-
ful if the orders could be taken care of very
well. A good amount of lumber is being sold,
with prices holding in fine shape and stocks
being kept up. Poplar is still scarce and not
likely to be more plentiful in the near future.
Basswood is being used to take its place in some
lines. Chestnut and ash are scarce, and birch
and maple are being substituted for them. Oak
is holding very well and if the obstructions to
southern logging in the shape of rain and car
shortage do not shut the supply down too much
there will be enough of it for some time. Prices
in the wood arc stationary.

Saginaw Valley.
There is a better inquiry reported all around,
hut shippers arc experiencing difficulty in filling
orders owing to the lack of transportation fa-
cilities. Beech and birch in particular have
been in better form of late and maple Is moving
despite the sluggishness of that commodity dur-
ing the greater portion of the season. The
market appears also to he a little firmer, though
no particular changes in quotations are noted.
There appears to be enough stock in the hands
of manufacturers to lake care of the wants of
the trade, and yet there is no surplus. The
usual output is scheduled for the winter.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

The larger mills report their yards pretty
generally depleted and shipments within the

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past fortnight very heavy. The demand for
chestnut and poplar is good and prices realized
are equal to the highest that ever has been
reached by this class of stock. There is a
heavy demand for the lower grades of lumber
suitable for box making. Oak, the principal
lumber manufactured in southwest Virginia, east
Tennessee and western North Carolina, is meet-
ing with ready sale at advantageous figures, and
in fact many of the heaviest shippers of stock
report that they have on hand orders sufficient
to keep them busy for several months.

No marked improvement is noted in the car
situation and there is little ground to hope for
relief in the near future.

Cincinnati.

While a satisfactory volume of business has
been transacted in the Cincinnati hardwood
marker during the past two weeks, there is
no doubt that a much larger business would
have resulted but for two conditions — shortage
of suitable lots of dry storks and inability to
get freight cars for shipping. Neither difficulty
is expected to be relieved in less than a month,
and some dealers declare that the troubles will
increase as time wears on.

Orders are coming in rapidly, but are not be-
ing filled on time. In some cases dealers have
orders enough to carry them for some time,
even if no new business develops.

Prices are holding their own. Plain oak is
leading the market, and is short in supply, with
Hi. consequence that fancy prices obtain. Quar-
tered red and white oak find a good outlet and
have nicely sustained their position. Chestnut
and ash have been very Arm. Cottonwood, es-
pecially in the lower grades, lias been in spirited
request, and values have remained stiff. Ited
gum shows no deviation from its old strong
position. Poplar is moving at former quota-
tions.

Nashville.

No important changes are noted in the local
market during the past fortnight. The ap-
proach of cold weather has to a certain extent
diminished the demand for building material, as
the building rush is practically over until next
spring.. Local dealers are not' letting this feat-
ure stop them in -securing all the timber they
can get, however, as the log supply this winter
is going to be about one-third the usual output.
Ordinarily a vast amount of timber comes dowu
the Cumberland river, much of it out of Obed
river at Colina, out of Roaring river at Gaines-
horo and Caney Fork at Carthage. Dealers are
looking to every available source now, however,
to the log wagon, the railroad, and the river
alike — the timber is what they want, and they
don't care how it comes just so it gets here.

All grades and thicknesses of poplar are in
the best of demand, and there is not enough of
it to supply the demand. . The decrease in
building owing to the approach of wet weather
has caused a slight let-up in the chestnut situ-
ation, but the usual big demand is expected to
lie on again next spring. Quartered red oak is
moving fairly well. No surplus plain oak, either
white or red, is noticed and each is moving
briskly. Dry ash as usual is very difficult to
get.

Memphis.
Two prominent manufacturers of hardwood
lumber, in response to an inquiry by a repre-
sentative of the Hardwood Record regarding
conditions obtaining in the hardwood business,
replied that the situation is very strong. Both
stated that the recent unfavorable weather
lias hindered lumber manufacture very de-
cidedly, and one of them went so far as to as-
sert that he believed 20,000,000 feet of timber
had been lost, so far as production this year
is to be considered. There is a pronounced
carcity of dry lumber, with the demand ex-
ceptionally good, and dry stock is eagerly

snapped up at prices that would not have
seemed possible sixty days ago. There is a
moderate movement of lumber into foreign
channels. Stocks here are very badly broken
and the trade has given up all hope of normal
holdings until next year and not until late in
the season then if the weather is not excep-
tionally favorable during the winter and early
spring months.

Plain oak is firm in both red and white and
everything offered is taken promptly at prices
considerably above those current a few weeks
ago. The demand runs to all grades, while
the offerings in stock thicker than one inch
are very light indeed. White quarter-sawed
oak is in good demand while prices are show-
ing some improvement. In quartered red.
however, there is only a moderate amount of
business, there being very little if any im-
provement reported in stock of this character.
Ash and cypress are both readily taken at full
prices, with only a moderate amount of stock
available in all grades. Cottonwood continues
to gain in strength. The demand for this
wood is exceptionally heavy, while offerings
are considered not more than 60 per cent of
normal for this time of the year, with the
prospective shortage even more pronounced
than -that now prevailing. The lower grades
are taken just as fast as they are placed on
salo at higher prices than a month ago, while
the higher grades are in splendid request at
slightly higher figures. There are very few
box boards offering and prices on these are
very high. Gum is in good demand for every-
thing outside of clear saps, and even these
show improvement over a month ago. The
demand for the lower grades of gum, as is the
case with Cottonwood, is rather better than
that for the higher, but even the latter arc
finding ready sale at very satisfactory fig-
ures. Poplar is without special change, there
being very little for sale here and no difficulty
being experienced in disposing of what is
offered.

New Orleans.
Little change has been evident in the hard-
wood market during the last two weeks. Ex-
ports continue fair, the interior demand is
still good and" the same might also be said of
prices. The mills are rapidly increasing their
stocks, which are still being drawn on heavily
by the interior demand. »

Louisville.
Better weather is greatly facilitating logging
iu the woods and local millmen are turning their
attention to that end of the business. There
is an abundance of Inquiries for oak of all
kinds, but in some lines there is so much
difference of opinion on prices, perhaps due
largely to confusion of grading practices, that
there is not the volume of business actually
being done that these inquiries would indicate.
Poplar brings its price right along and those
that have dry stock do not have to haggle
much over this point. There probably never
was such a call for car stock as at present. It
comes not only in good bunches and insistent
manner from the domestic trade, but also from
foreign sources. Quartered oak is just holding
its own well. The furniture trade does not
seem to be quite as anxious for quartered stock
right now as for some other lines of hardwood.
It is felt, however, that general conditions are
good and that an unusual volume of quartered
stock will be needed during the winter and
spring. The demand for cooperage stock is ex-
ceptionally brisk and the buyers are doing all
the sweating, for the manufacturers feel pretty
sure that there will be more needed than they
can turn out under existing conditions. In
short, tilings look favorable to the hardwood
manufacturer except the timber supply, the
weather man. the working man and a few other
handicaps, to which they are becoming more
or less accustomed.

Minneapolis.

There is decided strength in the market with
reference to everything but birch, and there are
signs of renewed vigor in the birch market.
The supply is still plentiful, the demand is
active and dealers are having no trouble in
finding customers. They are selling the low-
grade stock readily for grain doors, and the
factory trade is coming in line for upper grades.
Building operations in the Twin Cities are now
being brought towrard conclusion and the in-
terior finish is called for. All the sash and
door factories are rushed in the effort to supply
this trade, and they are consuming more hard-
wood in proportion to the total output than
at any previous time this year. They are also
using a good deal of basswood first and sec-
onds, and the low-grade basswood has been al-
most cleaned out to supply the winter needs
of the box factories.

Oak is in good demand, and nearly every-
thing except some standing contracts is being
supplied from southern mills. They are report-
ing considerable car trouble, and shipments are
giving anxiety to consignees who are anxious
for the stock. Prices are stiff on oak all along
the line, especially on plain-sawed. Rock elm
is almost out of the market, but the big con-
sumers have bought or contracted to fill their
needs, and there is not much call for it. In
tact, one car offered by a local house has gone
begging several days. Maple is moving In large
quantities, especially flooring. The country trade
is dull.

Liverpool.

Trade here is not so good as it should be.
High prices have frightened buyers away, the
majority only buying from hand to mouth. Prices
in many cases will have to come down. Ash
planks are no doubt too high in price. In many
cases our English woods are serious competitors
of American hardwoods.

The rapid rise in American ash has been the
best thing possible for English timber mer-
chants, as they can buy English ash of all
thicknesses at 3s 3d per cubic foot, delivered
into their workshops, and it is unlikely that
consumers are going to pay the present high
prices for what is undoubtedly an inferior wood.
The highest prices that merchants here can
afford to pay are : 1-inch, 2s 6d per cubic foot ;
I1,, inch and 2-inch, 2s 9d per cubic foot; 3-
inch, 3s per cubic foot, ex quay Liverpool.

To ask anything higher would mean to let
In the English timber merchants and allow them
to sell all their stock. Similar remarks apply
also to oak and hickory.

Good second growth ash and hickory of large
size will always bring its price, but this is
mostly sold in the log. There is rumor here
of some very high prices being offered for gen-
uine second growth ash logs for next season's
import, and there was some talk of 60s Scribner-
Doyle.

■ Careful watching of the large quantities of
mahogany sold at the last sales was made and
very few had the lot numbers erased.

Lower prices may confidently be expected at
the end of the year. Quartered oak boards are
still a drug on the market, and good advice to
shippers would be to ship as few as possible
here. Birch is much stronger and is finding a
ready sale at good prices.

London.

Trade in London at the moment is somewhat
dull. The demand has shown depreciation the
past few weeks, and sales lag. American woods,
however, enjoy a fair call. Oak is in good re-
quest, with prices on all grades tending up-
ward. Quartered oak is still quiet, although
there has been a slight improvement noted dur-
ing the past few days. Oak planks are a drug
on the market. Black walnut continues to be in
good request, especially in medium and cull
grades and inch boards. Mahogany is in fair
demand if of good specifications. Prices are in
most eases well maintained.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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But this is the actual price of Indemnity against Fire Loss furnished by the

Manufacturing

Lumbermen's

Underwriters

THE STRONGEST INSURANCE ORGANIZATION
TO-DAY IN AMERICA

The saving is not on a _ Only well built plants

small portion of J with adequate protection

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There are other advantages / supply are considered

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FOR LIST OF MEMBERS AND FURTHER INFORMATION, ADDRESS

HARRY RANKIN 4 CO. Kansas City, Mo.

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section at the following rates :

For one insertion 20 cents a line

For two insertions 35 cents a line

For three insertions 60 cents a line

For four insertions 60 cents a line

Eight words of ordinary length make one line.

Heading counts as two lines.

No display except the headings can be ad-
mitted.

Remittances to accompany the order. No
extra charges for copies of paper containing
the advertisement.

EMPLOYES WANTED.

HAEDWOOD INSPECTOR WAITED

By Wisconsin manufacturer. State expe-
rience and salary expected. Address

"O. C. 2," care HAEDWOOD Record.

LUMBER WANTED

OAK BALUSTEE STOCK

Wanted, any quantity l%xl%x24", 28"
anil :vi" long, for cash. G. GANS,

2011 Diamond St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

WANTED TUPELO GUM

Of tbe soft yellow variety, in all grades,
from mills having facilities for resawing, also
for working into flooring, ceiling, siding, etc.
AMERICAN LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

WALNUT— CHESTNUT— ASH.

1" No. 1 common and No. 2 common Wal
nut, also 1" Log Run, 1" sound wormy Chest-
nut and 1", l'/i" and 2" 1st and 2nd White
Ash. McCLURE DUMBER CO., Detroit, Mich.

WANTED— PERSIMMON

Shuttle blocks and lugs, 10" and up diam-
eter, 6' and longer, fresh felled and sound, for
shipment during the winter.
JAMES KENNEDY & CO., LTD., Cincinnati, O.

WANTED

For immediate shipment or as soon as pos-
sible, also for shipment during coming winter
and spring: Basswood, 1%, lx/° and 2"x6"
and up x 10 to 10'. Soft Elm in coffin stock
1x12" up x 13, 14, 10' and in half lengths, also
smaller sizes. Rock Elm, X% to 5" thick x
2y2" up x 4 to 10'. Hard .Maple. 1 to 5"x3"
UP x 10 to 16', also in 4, o and 8' lengths.'
Spot cash and inspection at shipping point.
Please quote prices f. o. b. at shipping place
JAS. GORDON, Detroit, Mich.

WANTED— HANDLE BILLETS.

Hickory for hammer, hatchet, ax, pick and
sledge handles. Maple and hickory for miners'
pick handles. White ash for shovel handles.
THE PITTSBURG SHOVEL CO., Leechburg, Pa.

WANTED.

White Oak logs and White or Gray Ash logs.
Write for specifications.

S. N. BROWN & CO., Dayton, Ohio.

WANTED— DIMENSION HICKORY.

Hickory Pole and Shaft Strips. Also good
man to travel, buying and inspecting same.
TOLEDO CARRIAGE WOODWORK CO.,

Toledo, Ohio.

WANTED— HARDWOOD LOGS.

200 M feet 28-'lnch and up White Oak logs.
200 M feet 12-lnch and up Walnut logs.

50 M ft. 12-inch and up Cherry logs.
C. L. WILLEY,

Blue Island Av. and Robey St., Chicago.

WANTED.

3 cars 0 i" and 2 bars 8 4" firsts and sec-
onds dry Poplar, 2 cars 4/4" Quartered White
Ash. either dry or cut to order.

THE A. V.. CHASE CO., Norwalk, O.

OAK.

We are in the market for plain sawed oak,
all grades and thicknesses.
P. G. DODGE & CO., 2110 Lumber St., Chicago.

OAK WANTED.

3 and 4 Inch White Oak ; also Mixed Oak ;
also 12x12 Timbers and Piling of all kinds.
CONTINENTAL L'UMBER CO.,
1213 Monadnock Bldg., Chicago, III.

TIMBER LANDS FOR SALE

ALL TIMBER ON 12,800 ACRES

In Citrus county, Florida. On river, and six
miles to railroad. Experts estimate fifteen
million feet Cypress ; twenty million Pine.
Tract also contains Oak. Gum and Ash, not
estimated. Twenty years for removal. For
further particulars write

FINLEY & RALEY, Cheraw, S. C.

FOR SALE.

1.210 aires oak timber land on the Cotton
Belt railroad, 14 miles northeast of Texar-
kana ; freight to Chicago 13 cents. Also 4,000
acres, chiefly Oak and Hickory, very fine, 2.">
miles north of Texarkana, the K. C. S. R. 11.
running through it. Both tracts are virgin
timber. Apply to F. J. PETER,

Huckins House, Texarkana, Ark.

WANTED.

A g 1 hardwood tract of timber. 7.000 to

15, acres, with plenty of Cottonwood and

Hickory. M. II. LANK. Kalamazoo, Mich.

LUMBER FOR SALE.

ORDERS WANTED.

For short leaf pine and white oak car fram-
ing, bridge timbers, switch ties, etc. Mill in
Miss. n. B. MURPHY & CO., London, Ky.

FOE SALE.

One-half carload clear Mahogany dimension
stock, I 4"x3"xl0". Address

MAHOGANY, care Hahdwood Recokd.

ELM FOR SALE.

One nice drv car thick soft elm.

JOHN T. GRAFTON. Sycamore, "

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

HICKORY.

If you want a good location for a Hickory
mill write us for further information.

STONEMAN-ZEARING LUMBER CO.,

203 Frisco Bldg., St. Louis, Mo.

HARDWOOD TIMBER.

A number of good mill propositions along
the Cotton Belt Route. Tracts ranging from
five hundred to twenty thousand acres, princi-
pally Oak, Hickory, Gum, Cypress, some Ash,
Cottonwood and other hardwoods. Can be
secured at very reasonable figures now — in
some cases at less than $1 per thousand stump-
age. Choice openings for hardwood lumber
mills, handle and spoke factories, slack coop-
erage plants and other hardwood enterprises.

A number of points on the Cotton Belt offer
free sites or will raise cash bonus or take stock
in practical propositions. Let us have your
wants and see what we can do for you.

E. W. LA BEAUME, G. V. & T. A.,

COTTON BELT. St. Louis, Mo.

MACHINERY FOR SALE

A SNAP IN 2D HAND MACHINERY.

One Stearns Saw Husk and Mandrel, with
Top Saw, two 40" Top Saws, one 56" Circular
Saw. two 62" Circular Saws, Automatic Grind-
er. Emery Wheel, Saw Swage, Hammering An-
vil and Hammer. Within 100 miles of Mem-
phis. Will sell for cash or exchange for lum-
ber.
BACON LUMBER CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

VENEER MACHINERY FOR SALE.

Owing to changes being made in our Veneer
Mill, we offer for sale —

One 50"x64" Coe Veneer Machine.

One 64" Tower Feed Clipper.

i me 60" Giant Wringer.

The above are practically new and in first-
class condition and to dispose of them prompt-
ly that the space can be utilized, we will sell
at a substantial sacrifice. For further par-
ticulars address "VENEER MACHINERY,"
Care Hardwood Record.

FOR SALE.

Six foot Band Mill, steam feed, entire plant
complete with equipment, filing machinery,
saws, rip saws, etc. Plant can be conveniently
seen now in running condition. Address
"BAND MILL," care Hardwood Record.

m |I Have you seen the

^1 HARDWOOD
^U RECORD'S

list of wholesale hardwood
consumers of the United
States, with their annual re-
quirements by kind, grade
and thickness? It contains
information essential to every
sales manager.C,A specimen
bulletin for the asking.

THERE IS NO BETTER WAY

BETWEEN

CHICAGO
INDIANAPOLIS

AND

CINCINNATI

THAN THE

Monon Route

/f TRAINS A DAY /I

Standard and Compartment Sleep-
ers on Night Trains. Parlor and
Dining Cars on Day Train.

Chas. H. Rockwell, Frank J. Reed,
Traffic Manager, Gen. Pass. Agent,

CHICAGO

HARDWOOD RECORD

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NORTHERN HARDWOODS.

Ucock, John L., & Co ;

American Lumber & \i fg, I ! panj 15

i.rpin l [ardM i i lumber < lompany IS

Babcock Lumber Companj . 15

Barnaby, C. n , i

Beyer, Knox a Co

Bliss a Van Auken , . 12

Bi j ne Cit: I umber Company 53

Brigge a Co per i kmrpanj i

fcofl nlee & Co

Buffa if i i.n-iiw i i ,umbei • ompa nj

Cadillac Handle Company

I Shea i River Lumber < ompanj 15

Chtwis, H . k .,

Cincinnati Bard wood Lbr. i 'ompanj . 53

Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc , :;

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 1 1

Connor, it.. Lumber Company 19
Crosby & Beckley Com pa in The

Crosby, ■ i- ,s

Cummer, Diggina & Co

Darling, i ha-., & Co, l i

Davis, John it.. Lumber Company.. IS

Delia Lumber & Shingle Conipanj , . is

Denuis Bros ., i

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company.!

D'Heur ,v Swain Lumber Company 54

Dl ton & i tewey ii

Dudlej Lumber I iompanj so

i 'niii melei Bros . . 52

Dulweber, John, .v Co 53

Dwlgbl Lumber Con q

Ellas, <;.. & Bro ..55

Empire Lumber Company, Buffalo.... 55
Evans & Retting Lumber Companj

Fall, E. II

Flint, Erving & S toner Company 15

I'reilicru dumber Compam , The 53

Fuller ton-Powell I lard w ! Lumber

1 fcimpa oy g

General Lumber Companj

Gillespie, W. ,m.. Lumber Company. . 7

Goldie, J, s gj

Haak Lumber Companj 38

II icklej -Phelps-Bonnell 1 ompanj :.i

1 laj den, Harvey S in

Heath-Witbecb Company 11

Holloway Lumber Company 7

rngra a: Lumber Company - is

rames & Abbot Company 7

Jenks, Robert II.. Lumber Companj 47

■' »nes, G. W.. Lumber Companj 19

Jones Ilaniw ood Company 7

Kampf, Albert It . . [" •>

Keator, Ben C .11

Keith Lumber Company [ n

Kelley Lumber & Shingle Companj <;

Kneeland-Bigelov pany it

Leavitt Lumber Companj 12

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company 11

Linehnn Lumber Company \r,
Litchfield, William G . .7

Lombard. E. IJ II

1 - -K night Lumber 1 lompany 54

Mae Bride, Thus., Lumber Company... 53

Mah-.v. Thompson & Moffetf Company. 53

Ma ley & Wertz 54

Ma : 1 In Barrlss ( lompany -17

Mason & Donaldson Lumber Company, is

McCIure Lumber Companj '. . 51

McIIvain, J. Gibson, & Co 7

Mel. •■an. Hugh, l,u in her Companj 55

Miller. Anthony 55

Miller Bros M

Mitchell I'.ros. Company . :\

Mowbray & Robinson 53

.Murphy & Digglns 3

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company., .. 50

Nicola Lumber Company, The (5

Norman Lumber < lompan | '2

North Shore Lumber Companj ... 50

North Vernon Pump .V: Lumber Co.... -

North Western Lumber Company. .. . 19

O'Brien, John, I and & I. umber bo 10

I'erriue Armstrong Companv "> I

Peters, R. <;.. Salt & Lumber i o ~.l

Priee. E. E

Radina, L. W.. & Co 53

Richmond Park & Co 10

Rosa Lumber Company I

Rumbarger Lumber Companj

Ryan .\ McParland io

Sailing, Hans.. ii & Co 50

Scat- 'her.l & Sen

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Schofield Bros.

S.'hull/ BlOS. .V < 0M .ii

Simmons Lumber I ompanj

Slimmer. J.. & <

S*. Mo Bros.

Southern Oak Lumber Company

Standard Hardwood Lumber - ompanj .

Stephenson, The l < lompany

Stewart, l. N., & Bro

Stewart, \Vm. ii. & G. s

Stimson. J. V

Stone. T. B., Lumber < lompany

Sullivan. 1.. ,V Co

Tegge i rumber I ompany

Turner. A. M.. Lumber i lompany . .

rpiiam & Agler

\an keiilen & Wilkinson Lumber Co
v. ilmar & Below. .

fl i ifl W. .1

Wahnii Lumber < iompn nj . The

War. I Lumber i ompan s

Wells, R. A., Lumber Company
Wentworth, Chas S-, & C
White Lumber Companj
White, \v. II.. Companj . .

Wlii i inrr. "Win ,. & Sons, (nc

Wiborg .v Hanna i Jom] j

\\ Ison Bros. Lumber < Company

Mis ;-;ju limber 4V I.uinl:i C'ompacj

Wistar, Onderhlll & Co .

'i eager I trsi a i:

young, W. D., & Co

Voun;: & i 'utsin-n

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS.

Advance I. umber Companj

Alcock, John L., & Co.

American Hdwd. Lumber Companj
American Lumber ,v Mfg. Company...

Anderson-Tully Company

Atlantic Lumber Company

Bei k. i:. E., I. umber ( lompany

Beyei . Knox & Co ,

Brlggs & Cooper Company . .

Brovi a - feo. < '. , & Co

Brow a. W. P., & Sous. I amber Co
Buffalo Hardwood Lumber ' ompanj
Carrier Lbr. & Mfg. Company.
Chiwis. W. It

I Ineiiina! i HardWOOd dumber I o

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company

Crane, <'.. & Co

' rosby & Beckley Companj . The. . .
< v pt.ss Lumber Compam ...
Darling, Chas., & Co: .
Davidson-Benedict Company

Davis, Edw. d,. & Co

Dennis & Smith Lumber Companj
D*Heur & Swain Lumber Company..

Dixon & Dewey

Dudley dumber Company

Duhlmeier Bros.

Dulweber, John, & Co

Ellas G . -V- Bro, . .

Empire dumber Company, Buffalo...

Evans & Retting Lumber Companj

Fall, E. H

I'arrin Koru dumber Company .

Flint, Erving & Stoner Companj

Freiberg dumber Company

Fry-Buchanan dumber Company . .
Fullerton-Powell Hardwood dumber

< lompany

Garetson-Greason dumber Companj , ,.

Gaj oso Lumber I Iompanj

Gillespie, W. M , Lumber Company.
Hack ley- Phelps- don noli Companj
Hafner Manufacturing Company

Heath-WItbeck Company

Himmelberger- Harrison Lumber Co

Indiana Lumber Company

i.i ni- & Aiil.m i lompany

Jenks, Robt. Id, Lumber Companj
■lone'-, G. W., Lumber < fompany

.Ton.s i [ardwood Company

Kampf, Albert it

Keator. lieu C

Keith Lumber Company

Kentucky Lumber Company

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company

Lane White Lumber (.'ompany

i ea vitl Lumber Company

Lesh .\ Ma i then S Lumber Compfl ii ■■

Linehau Lumber ■ 'ompany

Litchfield, Wm E

Lombard, E. B

Long-Knight Lumber Com] y

Love, Boj 'l .^ Co

Luehrmann, chas. I',. 1 [ardwood dum-
ber < 'ompa ny

McClure Lumber Companj .

Mel h ain, .1 . < . Ibson, & Co

\i. i ean Hugh I n mbei i lompany. . . .

Male j . i'i pson & VloD etl ' ompa nj ,

Martin I'.i rrls ipany

Massengale Lumber Company

Miller. Anthonj

Millei Bros

Nicola dumber Company, The

Norman dumber Company

i ' Brlen, John, Land & dumber Co. . , ,

Ozark Cooperage Company

Paepcke-1 eich I I umbei I ompany

Hummer 1 ,umber pany

Price, E. E

Radina d W., & Co

Ra usoiti. J, B., & Co

Khubesky, E! W

Richmond Park & Co

RII ter, W. -M.. 1. umbei c 'ompanj

Roj< Lumber < lompany

Rumbarger Lumber < I pany

Ryan A. McParland

s. atcherd & Son

Schofield Bros

Slimmer. .1., & Co

Southern Lumber Companj

Soui hem Oak Lumber Company

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company.

Steele ..v- Hibbard

sio\ ens Eaton i lompany

Stewart, I. X., & Bro

Stewart, Wm. II. & G. S

si Imson, J. v

Si.. no. T. I1... Lumber Company

Sti neman-Zearing Lumber Com] j

Stotz Lumber < lompanj . Inc

Sullivan. T.. & i Io

Swann-Day Lumber Company

Thomas' & Proetz Lumber Companv

Thompson, J. \\'.. Lumber Companj

i ! . i ■ . si a tea Lumber I lompany

Turner, A. M.. Lumber Companj

1 fpham tv- Agler

Vestal Lumber & .Mfg. Companj

Walnul Lumber Company, The

Wan] Lumber i fompany

YYolls, I{. A.. Lumber Company

Wentworth, Chas. S . .v Co

M'est Florida Hardwood Company . . .

While Lumber Company

Whitmer, Wm., & Sons. Inc

wiborg & Hanna Company

Willson Bros. Lumber Company

Wisconsin Timber & Lumber Company

Wood, It. E., Lumber Company

Yeager, i trson E

^ oung »v < lutslnger

POPLAR.

Advance Lumber Company

Atlantic Lumber Company

Brown, W. P., & Sons, Lumber Co.
Cheat River Lumber Company

i ihicago \ . in. 'i Company

Cram-. ('.. & Co

Davidson-Benedlcl Company

Davis. Edw. I... & CO

Hawkins, M'. ii.. Lumber Company,

Hayden, Harvey S

Kentucky Lumber Company

Massengale Lumber Company

Rhubeskj . E. w

[titter, W. ML, Lumber Company...

Roy Lumber Company

Southern Lumber Company.

Stevens-Eaton l fompany

Sv, ann-Dny Lumber * lompanj

Mi as 4v Proetz Lumber Companj

\ ansant, Kitchen & Co

W I. It. E., dumber Companj

yellow Poplar Lumber Companj

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1

COTTONWOOD AND GUM.

Anderson-Tully Company I

darrin Koru dumber Company 52

1 1 mi 'i elberger l Earrison Lumber Co. i

Lamb Flsb dumber Company I

Luehrmann, C. I".. Hardwood dumber

Companj 9

i izark i looperage • lompany '■*

v.<

5 i i 'aepcke-Leichl Lumber < k>mg

4c> Stoneman-Zearing Lumhei Cjanpani

Stotz dumber Companj , Li'
Three stales Lumber < Jompe q i

CYPRESS.
< lj press I. bei i ompany

1 la tnei M :i I in I o ■ I i:i in- I ompany . . . .

Lothman Cypress Company

Plummer Lumber Company 8

Thompson J. w.. Lumber Company l
VENEERS.

0 Veneer < ompany, Inc

u i ii onsin Veneer « lompany

HARDWOOD FLOORING.
BUSS & Viin Auken

' la i rler Lbr, & Mfg. ' lompanj

Cobbs & .Mitebell. inc

Cummer, I ilgg Ins & Co

]>w ighi Lumber Company

I last man, S. I. . Flo - ' '-nipaii.v . .

Fenn Br panj

Forman, i bos . I 'ompanj

I I i a k dumber Company

Kerry & Hanson Flooring I ' pa i

Mitchell Bros. Company

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Compan;

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company

i 'ease I lompa qj . The

Schultz Bros, .v I lov* en

Stephenson, The i , . i lompany

Wan I BrOS

u lb e Phe 1 i ompany

w 1 Mosaic Flooring Company

Voun-. W. I' • <V Co

SAW MILL MACHINERY.

Mershon, W. B . & Co

Phoenix Manufacturing Company. . . .

WOODWORKING MACHINERY.

American Wood Working Machlner;

Company

Berlin Machine Works, The

i lefla uce Machine Works

Matteson Manufacturing Company. . .

Nash, J. M

nber Manufacturing < ompanj i he

Seblndler. A. J

Smith, 11. B., Machine Company. .. .

VENEER MACHINERY.
Coo Manufacturing Company

LOGGING MACHINERY.

Clyde Iron Works

Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company

Overpack, s. C

Russel Wheel & Foundrj Company.
DRY KILNS AND BLOWERS.
Gordon Hollow Blasl Grate Company

Grand Rapids Veneer Works

Morton I iry Kiln Company

New York Blower Company

LUMBER INSURANCE.
Adirondack Fire Insurance Company,
Lumber Insurance Company of New

York

Lumber .Mutual Lire insurance Com
pany, Boston

Lumber Undent liters-

Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual
Fire Insurance Company

Rankin, Many. & Co

Toledo Fire A; Marine Insurance Co..

SAWS. KNIVES AND SUPPLIES

Atkins, E. C , & Co

Champion Saw I Iqmpany 38 &

Gillette Roller Bearing Company....

i [anchetl su age w orks

Marshall. Francis

Shinier. S. J., & Sons

MISCELLANEOUS.

Barroll, n C. & Co 12

Chllds, S. D„ & Co 16

i ; uiel te Roller Bearing Companj . - 39

Lacej . J. D., .v Co 12

Lumbermen's Credit Association 36

Martin & Co 47

Pease Company, The 52

Sehenck. C. A & Co "^

Standard \mlii Company s

n

A Porch Column "Snap

C| In the manufacture of our high-grade veneers, we produce two cars
monthly of clear, solid heart, bored Poplar Posts, 8 and 10 inches
in diameter, M> to 96 inches long.

•j) On this product we will make a price that will appeal to every
manufacturer of porch columns.

CHICAGO VENEER COMPANY, Inc.

BURNSIDE, KENTUCKY

36

HARDWOOD RECORD

Xov&Tifc ronADYtfinstts

FOBS, POCKET PIECES

BUTTONS,

LETTER OPENERS,

SCARF PINS, TRAYS,

ALUMINUM GOODS,

PAPER WEIGHTS.

ALL NEU IDEAS.

Send us 50c. and we

will send you a
Beautiful Watch Fob
S. D. CHILDS & CO.

200 CLARK ST. CHICAGO.

WALNUT.
OAK,
ASH,
POPLAR.

You want to reach Buyers of

| FURNITURE LUMBER

as

I The HARDWOOD RECORD

will do it for you.

1

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"■^$iS:$!*$i*S!SS*$i$iS:SiS*S-$SSiS$fr*^

MANUFACTURERS

Contemplating establishing plants
In the West should lake advantage
of a location on

Chicago & North-Western By.

which reaches the famous

WATER POWERS,
COAL FIELDS,
IRON ORE RANGES,

HARD AND SOFT

LUMBER DISTRICTS,
MINING DISTRICTS

of the West and Northweat, and
affords the best means of transpor-
tation to the markets of the world.

FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS APPLY TO

MARVIN HUGHITT, Jr., E. D.BRIGHAM,

Freight Traffic Manager, Gen' I Freight Agent,

'GEO. BONNELL,

I ndustria I Agent,
NW5I3 CHICAGO.

Do You Need
Maple Flooring?

Then send us your order and
you will receive a . product
that is not excelled. We
manufacture by

A

Special
Process

This costs us more, but our
prices are as low as of any
other first -class manufac-
turer. We also have a stock
of firsts and seconds Maple
4-4, 5 4, 6-4, 8 4 and 10-4, which
is bone dry and very fine.

Haak Lumber Co.

Haakwood, Michigan

Save Your Money

By Using the

RED BOOK

Published Semi-Annually
in January and July

It contains a carefully prepared list of the
buyers of lumber in car lots, both among
the dealers and manufacturers.

The book indicates their financial stand-
ing and manner of meeting obligations.
Covers the UNITED STATES and MANI-
TOBA.

The trade recognizes this book as the au-
thority on the lines it covers.

A well organized Collection Department
is also operated and the same is open to you.

WRITE FOR TERMS.

Lumbermen's Credit Association

Established 1878

1405 Great Northern Building, CHICAGO

16 Beaver Slreet. : NEW YORK CITY

MENTION THIS PAPER

You read

this=

=others

will,

too.

Thej

would

read

your

ad.

Try it.

Locations for

Industries

THE ERIE, THE COMMERCIAL RAILROAD

CHICACO TO NEW YORK

The Erie Railroad System's Industrial
Department has all the territory traversed
by the railroad districted in relation to
resources, markets and advantages for
manufacturing, can advise with man-
ufacturers of specific products as to suit-
able locations, and furnish them with cur-
rent information of a comprehensive
nature dealing with the project in its full
relation to manufacture and commerce.

The Erie is one of the greatest of trunk
lines. Its own rails connect the two
largest cities of America. Every section
of the System has its particular merits.
Profitable locations exist. It has great
general and coal, oil and natural gas
resources.

It is important in this age of modern
facilities for manufacturers to locate
where they can obtain side tracks so as
to receive from and ship directly into
cars at the factory. Information can be
promptly furnished in this connection
about every point on the system between
New York and Chicago.

Manufacturers' inquiries as to locations
are treated in strict confidence and
absolutely reliable information, so as
to promote permanent traffic, is furnished.
Address

, LUIS JACKSON

Industrial Commissioner

Erie Railroad Company
1 1 Broadway, New York

HARDWOOD
TIMBER

There is no section with so fine and
large a supply of hardwood timbers
of various kinds left for the lumber-
men as that portion of the South in
Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Missis-
sippi, North Carolina. South Carolina,
Tennessee and Virginia served by the
lines of the

Southern Railway

and

Mobile & Ohio Railroad

There are oak, poplar, hickory, gum.
cypress, ash, elm. buckeye, balsam,
spruce, chestnut, and other varieties.
There are also available pine lands.
These timber resources and many
other important features bearing on
the cost of manufacture and market-
ing give special advantages and oppor-
tunities for EVERY KIND of WOOD
USING INDUSTRY. We have infor-
mation about the best locations in the
country at towns in these States and
in Southern Indiana and Southern
Illinois, which will be given if request-
ed. All correspondence in regard to
timber lands or factory locations will
be given prompt and confidential at-
tention. Address your nearest agent.

M. V. RICHARDS.

L,audaud Industrial Agent.

Washington, D. C.
CHAS. S. CHASE, Agent.

622 Chemical Building.

St. Louis, Mo.

HARDWOOD RECORD

37

"DEFIANCE" WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY

COMPLETE EQUIPMENTS OF

HIGH GRADE TOOLS

J* FOR MAKING J*
Hubs, Spokes, Wheels, Single Trees, Hoops,

Wagons, Carnages,

Rims, Shafts, Poles,

Neck- Yokes,

Handles, Bobbins, Spools,

Insulator Pins and

Oval Wood Dishes.

No. 1 AUTOMATIC HUB LATHE

INVENTED AND BUILT BY

The DEFIANCE MACHINE WORKS

DEFIANCE, OHIO.
Send for 500 Page Catalogue

Us5C

32" AUTOMATIC SPOKE LATHE

Power
Money

S a ved
S aved

Heating, Ventilating, Mechanical Draft,
Shavings and Conveying

FANS AND EXHAUSTERS

of every description.

WRITE FOR CATALOGUE No 68-G.

ucyrusTohio New York Blower Company

CHICAGO office:
25th Place and Stewart Avenue

LIDGERW00D MACHINES

WILL STOCK YOUR MILL

SKIDDEKS
SNAKERS
YARDERS

LOADERS
PULL BOATS
CABLEWAYS

LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO. $

96 Liberty St., New York.

NEW ORLEANS

ATLANTA

■KUHnaa

SEATTLE

OrTZZi***

New Type of Combined End Matcher

SAVES 20 PER CENT. TIME, COST AND LABOR.
USED BY THE LARGEST FLOORING CONCERNS.

Write for particulars to

A. J. SCHEVDLER, 441-443 W. 21st Street, CHICAGO

38

HARDWOOD RECORD

Interchangeable Cutter Head Practice is
Not Complete Without

THE SHIMER CUTTER HEAD EXPANSION

To nccommodate the cut of the Bits to the Itind and
condition of the woody fibre as you find it iD Oak, Pine
and Poplar— dry, half dry or just as you get it from
the log. Wood that is soft or green will not go into
the cur with the same resistance as the wood that is
dry and hard, therefore the same set of Bits will not
cut the tongue and the groove to the same fit in Oak
as in Pine, or in green as in dry lumber; neither will
the cut of a newly sharpened set of Bits make ihe
tongue and the groove exactly like that which they
will cut when they are dulled,

Therefore, the Importance of

The Shimer Cutter Head Expansion

To quickly right up these little differences without tak-
ing the Cutter Heads off the Spnulles. It pays to use the
best. Send for our Catalogue. Address

SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS,

MILTON, PENNSYLVANIA

The Morton Dry Kiln

MOIST AIR SYSTEM

Recording

Ther-

•nometers.

Transfer

Cars.

Trucks.

Canvas

Doors.

HOW TO DRY LUMBER

As exemplified in our Catalog D. Free on application.

MORTON DRY KILN CO., Chicago, Ills.

A HANDY THING

TO HAVE IN YOUR DESK AND
IN YOUR TRAVELING BAG IS
A TIME TABLE FOLDER OF THE

Michigan Central

The Direct Line to All Important
Points of Michigan and Between

CHICAGO, DETROIT, NIAGARA FALLS, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, BOSTON
and NEW ENGLAND POINTS.

SEND FOR A COPY NOW

W. J. LYNCH,

Pass. Traffic Mgr.,

O. W. RUGGLES,

Gen'l Pass. Agt.,

CHICAGO

Hardwood Board Rules

FOP HARDWOOD LUMBERMEN

Best Goods, Prompt Shipment

Send your orders to the HARDWOOD RECORD, 356 Dearborn Street

Industries arc Offered Locations

WITH SATISFACTORY INDUCEMENTS, FAVORABLE

FREIGHT RATES, GOOD LABOR CONDITIONS

HEALTHFUL COMMUNITIES, on the lines of

The Illinois Central R. R. and the

Yazoo & Mississippi Valley R. R.

For full information and descriptive pamphlet address
J. C. CLAIR, Industrial Commissioner, 1 Park Row, Chicago, 111.

HARDWOOD RECORD

39

S» $$ The Pocketbook Test $$

The average man who buys largely, buys carefully.
Manufacturers who have expended $4,000.00 to
$5,000.00 each on Gillette Roller Bearing Lumber
Carts know why they did it So do we. They are
the lightest running, longest lasting carts made. Like-
wise they are marketed at honest, money-saving prices.

INVEST in Gillette Carts— Don t WASTE money
on others. What's your address?

The Gillette Roller Bearing Co.

Grand Rapids, Michigan | yR

j'ffwwiaim^iBimw!!!

Hanchett
Saw Swage

Every one made Perfect

The Swage with a Name

•I A poor Swage Ruins a Good Saw, and
for that reason the manufacturers of the

HANCHETT ADJUSTABLE SWAGE

employ only the Best Mechanics and use
only the Best Material in their construction.

It Pays Us
to make

It tells you a
ThC BeSt about them

Send for
Catalog
No. 10

It Pays You

to use

The Best

MANUFACTURED BY

Hanchett Swage Works

Big Rapids, Michigan

*f Nanchett - Hanchett - Hanchett <?

a

We Guarantee

to

KILN DRY OAK

IN A WEEK

by the application of a
new scientific principle

IN YOUR PRESENT

Old Kilns

Grand Rapids Veneer Works

DEPT. D., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Edgers for Small Mills

The "TOWER" 32-inch Edger, New Model, is especially
designed for mills cutting not to exceed 20,000 feet in
ten hours.

This edger represents the fruit of sixteen years
devoted exclusively to the manufacture of blast grates,
edgers and trimmers.

It is a combination of parts each and every one of
which has been demonstrated by many years of practical
experience to be peculiarly adapted to the purpose it serves.

It was designed by one of the most severely practical
designers in the country.

It is by far the best small gang edger on the market.
It is not a cheap machine in any sense but that of price.
It contains

Everything that is essential and nothing

that is superfluous.

There are over 2500 "TOWER" Edgers in Daily Use.

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co.

Greenville, Mich.

The largest manufacturer ol blast grates, edgers and trimmers id the world.

4<i

HARDWOOD RECORD

SHYER,

YOU DON'T KNOW HOW GOOD ATKINS1 SILVER STEEL CROSS-CUT SAWS ARE UNTIL YOU TRY
THEM. WHY DON'T YOU? ORDER TO-DAY YOU' LL B E D E LIG HTE D— C AN 'T LOS E M UC H PE R H A PS
YOU'LL SAVE THEIR COST-MILLIONS HAVE. ITS WORTH TRYING. WHY DON'T YOU DO IT?

E.C.ATKINS & CO.

INCORPORATED

HOME OFFICE AND FACTORY: INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

BRANCHES CARRYING STOCK AT CHICAGO, ATLANTA, MEMPHIS, MINNEAPOLIS AND NEW ORLEANS
ALSO NEW YORK, PORTLAND. SAN FRANCISCO, SEATTLE AND TORONTO.

42 HARDWOODRECORD

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN

APPALACHIAN
TIMBER

VIRGIN POPLAR, OAK, CHEST-
NUT AND OTHER HARDWOODS

In boundaries of from 10, 000 to 50,000 acres, either

for investment or operation, would be pleased

to have you consult us. A few tracts

of Pacific Coast Fir, Pine,

Cedar and Spruce

for Sale.

James D. Lacey & Co.

James D. Lacey Wood Beal Victor Thrane

608 Hennen Bldg„ NEW ORLEANS 507 Lumber Exchange, SEATTLE

1200 Old Colony Building, CHICAGO

HARDWOOD RECORD

43

<§C*

%M&

*4fr$,

An Inexpensive Veneer Cutter

<-!

This machine was especially de-
signed for cutting basket, crate and
cheese box stock in response to a
demand from the trade for an accur-
ate, powerful, Veneer Cutter at a
comparatively low price. We build
these with any length of knife from
26 to 64 in. and they will cut per-
fect stock in any thickness from
' 1-120 to 5-16 in.
The spindles are
Z% in. diameter,
and are turned
from a special

forged steel of great toughness. The
feed screws are 2 in. in diameter, and
all feed gears are cut from the solid.

Other important features are, the
rapid knife bar movement, adjustable
pressure plates, power dogging de-
vice, and positive clutch drive.

The machines are exceptionally
strong and rigid and are fully guar-
anteed in every respect.

Complete specifications of these
machines will be found in our cata-
log No. 5, which will be mailed you
on application.

The Coe Manufacturing Co. -s£s- Painesville, 0.

44

HARDWOOD RECORD

W. H. WHITE, Pres.

JAS. A. WHITE, Vice-Pres.

W. L. MARTIN, Secy.

THOS. WHITE, Treas.

W. H. WHITE COMPANY

BOYNE CITY, MICHIGAN

Manufacturers of Hardwood and HemlocK Lumber, Cedar Shingles,

White Rock Maple Flooring.

The KNEELAND BIGELOW CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF LUMBER

Annual Output:

20,000,000 ft. Hardwoods.
20,000,000 ft. Hemlock.

4,000,000 pes. Hardwood Lath.

9,000,000 pes. Hemlock Lath.

Mills Run tHo Year
Around.

Bay City, Mich.

RUSSEL WHEEL & FOUNDRY COMPANY

Builders of

Logging Cars
And Logging
Machinery

ARE ALWAYS PLEASED TO
HAVE OPPORTUNITY OF
POINTING OUT ADVAN-
TAGES OF THEIR
EQUIPMENT.

Detroit, Mich.

TO NEW YORK OVER. NIGHT

The :20th Century Limited

Via the LAKE SHORE and NEW YORK CENTRAL
The Route of the Government Fast Mail Trains

CHICAGO-NEW YORK 18-HOUR TRAIN

IT SAVES A DAY

FROM LA SALLE ST. STATION
CHICAGO

Leave Chicago at 2:30 p. m.
Arrive New York at 9.30 a. m.

FROM GRAND CENTRAL STATION
The Only Terminal in New York

Leave New York at 3.30 p. m.
Arrive Chicago at 8.30 a. m.

W. J. LYNCH, Passenger Traffic Manager, Chicag-o, 111.

HARDWOOD RECORD

45

PITTSBURG

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF PENNSYLVANIA

A* 1VL Turner
Lumber Company

Everything in lumber. We buy hardwoods
as well as sell them. If you have anything
to offer, please submit same to us. : t

Linehan Lumber Company

PERFECT

MAPLE FLOORING

SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES

Willson Bros. Lumber Co*

MANUFACTURERS

WEST VIRGINIA
HARDWOODS

FARMERS BANK BLDG. :: PITTSBURG, PA.

Hardwoods a Specialty

FOR SALE

POPLAR

125.000' 4/4 1sand2s
40,000' 4/4 No. 1 Com.
325,000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.
228,000' 4/4 No. 3 Com.
150,000'" 4 Mill Cull

CHESTNUT

200,000' 4, 4 Sound Wormy
80,000' 5/4 Sound Wormy

100, 000' 6, '4 Sou n d Worm y
48,000' 8, 4 Sound Wormy

PLAIN OAK
60,000' 4 4 No. 1 Com.
18,000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.

QUARTERED OAK
2 cars 4 4 No. 1 Com.
1 car 4 4 No. 2 Com.

OAK TIMBERS SAWED TO ORDER.
WRITE FOR PRICES.

CHEAT RIVER LUMBER COMPANY, Pittsburg, Pcnna.

STOCK LIST

83.000 fl. 4 4 Maple No. I Com. f Bet

Pari Drv
10,000 It. 4 4 Maple No 1 Common
160,000 fl. 5 4 Maple No. 1 Com. .- Bel.
100.000 It. 5 4 Maple No. 1 Com. t Bel.
Pari Dry
10.000 fl. 5 4 Maple lsis and 2nds

5 4 Maple No. 1 Common

6 4 Maple No 2 Com. t Bel.

12.000 11.
84,000 fl.

90,000 fl. 6 4 Maple No. 2 Com. I, Bel.

Pari Dry
18.000 II. 8 4 Maple No. 2 Com. C Bel.
33.000 II. 8 4 Maple No. I Common.
4,000 fl. 8 4 Maple No 2 Common.
88.000 fl. 10 4 Maple No 2 Com. 6 Bel.
48,000 fl. 10 4 Maple No. 2 Com. 4 Bel.

Pari Dry
15,000 fl. 10 4 Maple lsis and 2nds

FAVORABLE FREIGHT RATES TO THE EAST

Babcock Lumber Co.

MSHTOL/A, F»A.

The Nicola Lumber
Company

One million feet 4-4 Bay Poplar.
Can be shipped log run, or sold
on grade. Bone dry ; band
sawed. Send your inquiries

Dry Stock for Quick Shipment:

48,492 ft. 4/4 1st & 2da Qtd. Wblte 70,81

Oak. 14.1S2

124.982 ft. 4/4 No. 1 Com. Qtd. White 118,121

Oak. 24,128

69.793 ft. 4/4 1st & 2ds Qtd. Red 21,903

Oak. 19,246

79.341 ft. 4/4 No. 1 Com. Red Oak. 78,433

12K.402 ft. 4/4 No. 1 Com. PI. W. O. 4.2S4

ll'.l.liOl ft. 4/4 No. 1 Com. PI. R. O. 120.094

8.942 ft. 5/4 No. 1 Com. PI. Red & 49,021

White Oak.

11.312 ft. 6/4 No. 1 Com. PI. Red & 61.975

White Oak.

41,1128 ft. 8/4 No. 1 Com. PI. Red & 98.194

White Oak. 129. 4N1

38.793 ft. 5/8 1st & 2ds Poplar. 49.200

29,423 ft. 5/8 No. 1 Com. Poplar. 48.205

21,971 ft. 5/8 Sups Poplar. :>l,::s:>

9,824 ft. 5/8 No. 2 Com. Poplar. 242.841

181.921

21,974 ft. 4/4 1st & 2(is Poplar.

American Lumber &

ft. 4/4 No. 1 Poplar,
ft. 6/4 1st & 2ds Poplar,
ft. 4/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut,
ft. 6/4 1st & 2ds Chestnut,
ft. 7/4 No. 1 Com. Chestnut,
ft. 8/4 No. 1 Com. Chestnut.
ft. 6/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut,
ft. 8/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut,
ft. 4/4 1st & 2ds Cottonwood.
ft. 1/4 13 to 17" Box Boards,

1st & LMs.
ft. 4/4 8 to 12" Box Boards,

1st & 2ds.
ft. 4/4 Sap Gum, 1st & 2ds.
ft. 4/4 Sap Gum No. 1 Com.
ft. 4/4 Sap Gum No. 2 Com.
ft. 4/4 Red Gum, 1st & 2ds.
ft. 4/4 Red Gum, No. 1 Com.
ft. 4 '4 Bay Poplar, 1st & 2ds.
ft. No. 1 Com. Bay Poplar.

Mfg Co. PM%ba»*a-

Flint, Erving & Stoner Co*

Wholesale Lumber

Northern and Southern Hardwoods

Beech and Maple Timbers a Specialty

4''

HARDWOOD RECORD

JOHN B. RANSOM 4 CO.,

NASHVILLL, TENNESSEE

Wc want to move quickly the following old dry stock. All of it has been on
sticks 6 to 1 8 months. Write us for delivered prices. We are prepared to
furnish promptly mixed cars of rough and dressed hardwoods of all kinds:

QUARTERED RED OAK

QUARTERED WHITE OAK

90 M 4/4 first and second
15 M 5/4 first and second
80 M 6 4 first and second
10 M 10/4 first and second
120 M 4/4 No. 1 Common
65 M 6/4 No. 1 Common
58 M 8/4 No. 1 Common
20 M 10, 4 No. I Common
70 M 5, 8 first and second Poplar
80 M 5/8 No. 1 Common Poplar
15 M 4 4 1st and 2d Quartered Sycamore
10 M 4, 4 No. 1 Com. Quart'd Sycamore

100 M
68 M
15 M
95 M
84 M
72 M

50 M
100 M
100 M
100 M

4/4 first and second
6 4 fir.st aod second
8 4 first and second
4/4 No. 1 Common
6/4 No. 1 Common
8/4 No. 1 Common

PLAIN OAK
4 4 1st and 2nd Wnite
4 4 No. 1 Common White
4/4 first and second Red
4 4 N'o. l;CommoD Red

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Co.

Manufacturers of

"Acorn Brand''

THE FAMOUS FAULTLESS FLOORING
IN OAK AND BEECH.

Car Lots and Less Than Car Lot
Orders Solicited. Write for Prices.

Nashville, Tennessee

INDIANA LUMBER CO;

Manufacturers Lumber

DIMENSION STOCK A SPECIALTY.

Off ice and Mills : Corner Oldham TVT A C"LT\7TT T T7 TT7MTVT

Street and Cumberland River IN AOH V 1LLE., 1 E.1N IN .

GEO. C. BROWN & CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Tennessee Red Cedar Lumber a Specialty. Nashville, Tennessee

LOVE,

BOYD & CO.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Will make special prk

es on :

1.50.011(1 ft.

1 in. Tennessee Red Cedar

HOI 1,000 ft.
400,000 ft.
500,000 ft.

40.0011 ft.

60,000 ft,
13.000 ft.

1 in. to 4 in. Hickory
1 in. No. 1 Com.SPlain White Oak
1 in. to 2% in. Qrtd. Red Oak.
•iy2 in. Is & 2s Qrtd. White Oak
2)4 in. No. 1 Com. Qrtd. White Oak
5-8 Sound Wormy Chestnut

ALL BONE DRY

OUR OWN CUT

Vestal Lumber & Mfg* Co*

Manufacturers and Wholesalers
of all k nnls of

HARDWOODS

BEVELED SIDING A SPECIALTY.
UNSURPASSED FACILITIES
FOR DELIVERING.

Knoxvillc
Tennessee

Fry=Buchanan Lumber Co.

INCORPORATED.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Hardwood Lumber

Choicest Varieties.

Full Grades.

POPLAR SQUARES
A Specialty.

Asheville, N. C.

All Lumbermen, Attention!

We do what you can't do.
We measure jour stumpage correctly.
We make your maps correctly.
Bank references: Asheville, N. C.

L. A. OCnenCK Co I/O. North Carolina.

Wood Working Plants

Manufacturers seeking locations for Saw .

Mills, Stave and Heading Factories and
other Wood Working Plants in the Cen-
tral Southern States, can secure full and
accurate information as to Sites, Timber
Tracts, Fuel, Transportation Facilities,
etc., by addressing

Q. A. PARK, General Immigration and Industrial Agent,

Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

HARDWOOD RECORD 47

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LLU V fc, L, A IN L>

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF NORTHERN OHIO

The Martin-Barriss Company

Importers a.nd Manufacturers

MAHOGANY

&nd Fine Hardwoods

THE

ROBERT H. JENKS LUMBER

COMPANY

FOR SALE.

60 M feel 1 1st and 2ds Poplar
223 M !eel 1" No. 1 Common Poplar
-'25 M feet 1" No. 2 Common Poplar

25 M leel 2" 1st and 2nd Poplar. 14" and up
125 M leet 8 4" Sound Wormy Chestnut
275 M feet 1" Sound Wormy Chestnut
153 M feet 1" 1st and 2nd Plain While Oak

85 M leet 1" 1st and 2nd Plain Red Oak
125 M leet 1" No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak

Quartered White and Red OaK,-We have a good assort-
ment of dry stock, }i to 4 inches thick. Your inquiries solicited.

Plain White and Red Oak.

stock, ready for shipment.

-A limited amount of nice

Do You Want It ?
What?

Money?

What have you in lumber to
exchange for it ? We want
particularly Plain Oak, Chest-
nut, Poplar, Basswood, Ash.

What Have You?

The Advance Lumber Co.

RockefXr Bidg. CLEVELAND, OHIO

Memphis Office, No. 56 Randolph Building. J. E MEADOWS, Mgr.

SYMBOLS FOR GRADE MARKS

Adopted by the Hardwood Manufacturers Association of United States

Z-A Selects

Q Panel and Wide No. I
A Wide No. 2
IJ Box Boards

\J_, No. I Common

(2^ No. 2 Common

(5 No. 3 Common

(A- No. 4 Common

fl FAS or Firsts and
^~ Seconds
C Saps

Every Manufacturer should stamp the grade on his
Set of 10 Rubber Stamps, l'4"xl'4" in size, Pad, Pint
Spreader, packed for shipment S3. SO.

/V\/\RTIIN & CO. LEWIS DOSTER, Sec'y

191 S. Clark St.. CHICAGO, or 1535 First Nat. Bank Bide:. CHICAGO

Lumber,
of Ink, and

This is a cut of the No. 10 OBER LATHE for Turning Fork, Hoe,
Rake, Mop, Broom and Ice Hook Handles, Pike Poles, Trolley Poles,
Tent Poles, Curtain Poles, Chair Bows, Dowels, Rods and similar work.

Simple, Strong, Durable,
Economical

We also manufacture other Lathes for making Spokes, Handles, and Variety
Work, Sanders, Shapers, Borine and Chucking .Machines, etc., etc. Com-
plete Catalogue and Price List F'ree.

THE OBER MFG. CO., No. 28 Bell St., CHAGRIN FALLS, 0., U. S. A.

48

HARDWOOD RECORD

WISCONSIN

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

Mason-Donaldson Lumber Co.

RKinelander, Wisconsin.

20
12

4
15
15

5

cars
cars
cars
cars
cars

nch No. I Common Birch
nch No. 2 Common Birch
nch No. I Common & Better Red Birch
nch No. 2 Common & Better Soft Elm
nch No. 3 Common Birch
inch No. I Common & Better Basswood

5 cars 2 inch No. I Common & Better Basswood
I 0 cars I inch I st & 2nd Clear Basswood, I 4 and I 6 feet
7 cars 1 ' _• inch No. 1 Common & Better Soft Elm
4 cars 2 inch No. 1 Common & Better Soft Elm
2 cars 1 !j inch No. 3 Common Soft Elm

John R. Davis Lumber Company

PHILLIPS, WISCONSIN
The Leading Manufacturers

Wisconsin Hardwoods

"SHAKELESS" HEMLOCK and WHITE CEDAR PRODUCTS

WE HAVE THE FINEST BLOCK OF

4-4 UNSELECTED BIRCH

ON THE MARKET

Mixed Cars, Even Grades

Write for our Price Lists
and Stock Sheets

Prompt Shipmen's

2 fumb<?j? ' ($.

WAUSAU, WIS.

BASSWOOD, BIRCH

We cut four million feet of each annually
Your Inquiries and orders solicited

MILL AND YARDS AT INGRAM, WISCONSIN

ARPIN HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
Saw and Planing Mill at Atlanta, near Bruce, on the Soo Line. Offer

5 cars 1" 1st & 2d Red Birch.
1 car 1^4" 1st & 2d Red Birch.
1 car 1*4" Common Red Birch.

1 car ly," 1st & 2d Red Birch.
1,000' IV." Common Red Birch.
2,500' 1%" Com. & Btr. Red Birch.
5,000' 2" 1st & 2d Red Birch.

2 cars 2% & 3" Plain Birch.

2 cars 2Vz & 3" Log Run Unselected

Birch.
5 cars 1" Common Red Birch.
1 car 2" Plain Log Run^Birch.

2 cars 3" Clear Plain Birch Flooring.

1 car 3" Clear Red Birch Flooring.

1 car 3" Factory Birch Flooring.

1 car 3" Red Oak Factory Flooring.

1 car 1 y4 & IV1" quarter sawed Com.
and Btr. Red Oak.

Y2 car 1% and 2" Com. & Btr. quar-
ter sawed Red Oak.

1 car 5" Clear quarter sawed Red
Oak Flooring.

V* car each 1V>" Com. & Clear Maple
Flooring.

We make a specialty of high grade Maple, Birch and Oak Flooring, Bass-
wood, Pine Siding, Veiling and Finish; also Moulding.

VOLLMAR & BELOW

MARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN

Basswood, Birch

and Other Wisconsin Hardwoods

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU ARE IN THE MARKET FOR

C. P- CROSBY

RHINELANDER : : WISCONSIN

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Hard Maple a Specialty in all thicknesses from 1 inch
to 4 inch. Finest Birch in Wisconsin. Black Ash,
Rock Elm, Soft Elm, Red and White Oak. : :

DIFFICULT AND MIXED ORDERS A SPECIALTY

For Sale:

NATIONAL
INSPECTION

3,000,000 ft. inch Birch.
100,000 ft. inch Black Ash.
50,000 ft. inch Soft Elm.

All No. 1 Common and Better.
20,000 ft. 1x4 and wider, 6 ft., 1st & 2nd Birch.

Dells Lumber 4 Shingle Co.

EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN

k

HARDWOOD RECORD

4<

W 1 <^ ^ V^F 1> *3 1 1>I

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

HARDWOOD LUMBER- SZ AND

All kinds of Northern and Southern Hardwoods for sale.

»c mil vniir ntl<-iitiiin to the m.I!.," in.- items Mliirh we have to offer, to-wltt

30M II. 1 V No. 2 Com. t, Bel. Hickory
30M II. IV No. 2 Com. t Bel. Hickory
I00M II. I" Com. 4 Bel. Plain Red Oak
1 SUM II. I ' Com. £ Bel. Qld. Red Oak
I0M II. I" No. 3 Com. C Bel. Walnut
75M II. IV No. 2 Com. £ Bet. Elm
I50M II. I" No. I Com. Red Gum

50M II. 1" Curly Birch

50M II. 2" Com. and Bel. Plain Birch

80M ft. 2'." Com. and Bel. Plain Birch
150M II. I" No. I Com. Plain Birch

12M fl. 2" lsts and 2nds Red Birch
200M II. I" Com. and Bel. Hard Maple
200M fl. 2" Com. and Bel. Hard Maple

SOM II. 2" Bridge Plank—Oak
In addition to the foregoing, we have full stocks of Basswood, Birch and
Soft Elm and a full selection of Red and Sap Gum. We guarantee our
grades to be made strictly in accordance with National Hardwood Associ-
ation rules of inspection.

G.W.JONES LUMBER CO., Apple ton. Wis.

CHICAGO OFFICE: 1717 Railway Exchange.

R. CONNOR CO.

WHOLESALE M A NUFACTURERS

Wisconsin
Hardwood

PINE AND HEM-
LOCK LUMBER

bu.ndala.WU.onW C. K R M 3 TS fl f j P I fl WlS

atford.Wis.onC.&N.W.R.R. I'lUI 3IIIIUU, TM3.

Wisconsin Veneer Co*

RHINELANDER, WIS.

Largest and best equipped Veneer
cutting- plant in the country. High-
grade product from Birch, Maple,
Elm, Basswood, Ash and other na-
tive woods.

Veneers for Door Work a Specialty.

Do you want a
7=foot band mill?

This is a first-class
machine and will
give the best of re-
sults. It is strong,
well made, and as
grod as it looks.
Write us and we will
give you full particu-
lars.

Phoenix Mfg. Co.

Eau Claire, Wis.

North Western Lumber Co.

General Offices
EAU CLAIRE, WIS.

Mills at
STANLEY, WIS.

B&nd Sa.wed

Wisconsin
Hardwoods

Careful Gradings
Prompt Shipments.

SPECIAL OFFERIiNGS

1 Car 1% inch No. 1 Common Basswood.

Y-2 Car \V\ inch No. 1 Common Basswood.

Vz Car lV-2 inch 1st and 2nd Clear Basswood.

1 Car \V-z inch 1st and 2nd Clear Basswood.

1 Car llA inch, \% inch and 2 inch No. 3 Soft Elm.

LOCATIONS FOR
NEW INDUSTRIES

can be secured on the lines of the

Chicago, Milwaukee 4
St. Paul Railway

in the great middle west. It reaches the Copper Country and He
pine and hardwood areas of Northern Michigan, the lead, zinc and
iron regions of Wisconsin, the coal fields of Illinois, Iowa and
Missouri.

Traverses the great agricultural and manufacturing states of
Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota. Operates 7,000 miles of
thoroughly equipped railroad.

Correspondence is solicited with eastern manufacturers who d<-
pire to move their factories to, or establish branches in the West.
Co-operation with Business Men's Associations on the lines of this
railway in all matters affecting mutual interests Is assured.

Inquiries should be as definite as possible.

Address

Industrial Department

Chicago. Milwaukee £ St. Paul Railway,

Room 1327, Railway Exchange

Chicago

50

HARDWOOD RECORD

TV /I I /~* I I I g~\ A lN^T

iVl 1 W 1 1 1 U A IN

FAMOUS FOR HARD MAPLE AND GREY LLM

S. L. EASTMAN FLOORING CO.

■AGINAW BRAND

MAPLE FLOORING

SAGINAW, MICH.

DUDLEY LUMBER COMPANY

HAS FOR SALE

Memphis Yard Plain and Qtd. Oak

Grand Rapids Yard-Michigan Hardwoods

Hemlock Lumber Also A Specialty

OFFICES: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

Special bargains

in the following:

200 M 4-4 No.

50 M 8-4 No.
100 M 4-4 No.

50 M 8-4 No.
140 M 4 4 No.
500 M 4-4 No.

50 M 8-4 No.

2 C & B Birch

1 C & B Birch

2 C & B Grey Elm

1 C & B Grey Kim

2 C & B Beech
2 C & B Maple
2 C & B Maple

Above piled for water shipment, but the 4-4 Beech and 8-4 Maple can
be shipped by rail. Write us for prices. .

The North Shore Lumber Co. SBKffiS

i

SALLINQ, HANSON & CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Michigan Hardwoods

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

Evans & Retting Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

Hardwood
Lumber

RAILROAD TIMBERS, TIES AND SWITCH TIES

Michigan Trust Building Grand Rapids, Mich.

B

ROWNLEE

DETROIT

&C

OMPANY

MICHIGAN
Some "snaps" we are offering:

BASSWOOD
BIRCH

HARD MAPLE S-'"* N°. I Common; 6 4 and S 4 lsts and

4 4 lsts and 2nds, including one car 1x12 and

wider.

4 4 Log Run; also No. 1 and No. 2

Common.

WHITE ASH

4 4 No. 1 Common and better; rather narrow,
but very cheap.

All Bone Dry and at Bargain Prices to Close Out.

Michigan Logging Wheels

Standard
for a
Quarter
Century

Cheap and easy losgine.
Write for circular & prices.

S. C. OVERPACK

MANISTEE,
MICH.

DENNIS k SMITH LUMBER CO.

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Office and Yards, FOURTH AND HOLDEN AVENUES,
DETROIT, MICH.

MILLS AT: Orndorfl, W. Va., Healers. W. Va.. and Parkersburg, W. Va.

HARDWOOD RECORD

51

M

I

J S

C H I

FOR RED BIRCH

Q

AND

A

BASS

N

FAN O I

WOOD

"Chief Brand "
Maple Flooring

Will commend itself to you and your trade on
its merits alone. ^ Comprises all the features
desirable in good flooring. 1 Made by the latest,
most approved machinery methods and best
skilled labor. 1 We believe we can make it to
your interest to handle our "Chief Brand" and
will appreciate your inquiries.

Kerry £ Hanson Flooring Co.

GRAYLING. MICHIGAN

Hackley-PhelpsBonnell Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

Hardwood Lumber

Main Office, Michigan Trust Company Building
GRAND RAPIDS : MICHIGAN

DENNIS BROS.

GRAND RAPIDS. : : : MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD LUMBER (by water or rail)

"NATIONAL" MAPLE & BIRCH FLOORING

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN THE FOLLOWING:

120M feet 4 4 Log Run Birch
125M feet 5 4 Log Hun Birch
2 Cars 8 4 Common and Better Birch

1 Car 1x4 Clear Birch

2 Cars 1x7 and Wider No. 1 Common Birch
140M feet 5 4 Log Run Beech

150M feet 4 4 Los Run Soft Elm

Hard Maple - All grades and thicknesses

Main Office:

205-209 Michigan

Trust

Company

Building

Thos. MacBride Lumber Company

HEADQUARTERS FOR

HARDWOODS

IN MICHIGAN

Michigan Trust Building, Grand Rapids, Mich.

BIRCH

WE WANT YOUR ORDERS FOR

4-4 and 5-4 No. 1 Common Birch

A Nc i STOCK

Simmons Lumber Company

SIMMONS, MICHIGAN

McCLURE LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Hardwoods

Main Offices,
Mills, :

DETROIT, MICH.
EUTAW. ALA.

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 cars I" 1st t, 2nds 4 Com. Qld. While Oak 10 cars I" Log Run Browo Ash

2 cars 2' . 3 and 4" While Ash 10 cars 1" lo 4" Dry Hard Maple

2 cars I" While Ash 10 cars I" Log Run Birch

1 car 1 ! and 2" No. I Com. Brown Ash 10 cars 1" Log Run Basswood

4 cars 2. 3 and 4 " Isl and 2nds and No. I Com. Green While Oak

2 cars 2" Log Run Soft Elm

SOFT ELM AND ROCK ELM

==^== FOR SALE BY =^=^^^=

The R. G. Peters Salt & Lumber Co.

EASTLAKE, MICHIGAN

J. S. GOLDIE.

Cadillac.

Michigan.

SPECIAL PRICES on 500M pieces
1" to 3" Maple Squares 10" to 27" long.
1" to 3" Soft Elm Lumber,

INQUIRIES SOLICITED FOR MICHIGAN LUMBER.

B0YNE CITY LUMBER COMPANY

BOYNE CITY
MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE and other HARDWOODS

LARGE CAPACITY PROMPT SHIPMENTS RAIL OR CARGO

VAN KEULEN & WILKJNS0N LUMBER COMPANY

.urerB >imi wiioU'sniers of -

HARDWOOD LUMBER and CRATING STOCK

Complete Stocks of Michigan Hardwoods — Maple, Beech, Birch, Elm,

Ash and Basswood for sale.
Grand Rapids, : : : Michigan

HARDWOOD RECORD

CINCINNATI

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

PLAIN OAK— BASS WOOD

Are what we want. All thicknesses and grades. Spot
cash. Send us list of your offerings with prices.

DUHLMEIER BROS., CINCINNATI, 0.

IW1T\ A TTUT is t° ship the highest standard of
U UXC AIM lumber at 1

owest consistent price

"We are manufacturers and ship direct from our band mills

Oak

Poplar

Ash

W.H.& G.S.Stewart

Main Office : Cincinnati, Ohio, U. S A.

Chestnut

Basswood

Yellow Piae

THE HOUSE OR STONE

The One of Good Grades
Poplar, Oak, Chestnut, Cottonwood, Ash, Basswood and Gum

T. B. STOINE LUMBER CO.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

THE GENERAL LUMBER COMPANY

HARDWOODS

hemlock, yellow pine.
COLUMBUS a OHIO

CYPRESS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturer of Hardwoods and Cypress

^lain and Quartered White and Red Oak, Yellow Poplar,
Yellow Pine, Walnut, etc. Mills in Tenn., Ala. and Va.

OFFICE AND YARDS. OEST AND DALTON AVE.. CINCINNATI. OHIO.

FRAMES.
SASH. DOORS,
BLINDS. MOULDINGS.
COLUMNS. GLASS.
STAIRWORK.
INTERIOR TRIM.

PAINTS.

BUILDERS' HARDWARE.

MANTELS. ETC.

LARGE CINCINNATI FAC

TORIES MAKE PROMPT

SHIPMENTS POSSIBLE.

••BUY GUM"

We are in the market to buy
Dry Gum Lumber in any
quantity, from a single car
load to a million feet. Will
take all grades and thick-
nesses. We receive lumber
at shipping point, pay cash
and are liberal in inspection.

THE FARRIN.KORN

LUMBER COMPANY

General Office, Yards,

Planing MiIIb, Dry Kilns,

Cincinnati, Ohio
Purchasing Office,

Randolph Building,

Memphis, Tenn.

Cypress Red Gum Oak

<k

For items of Hardwood Stock or Hardwood
Machinery, you will find it advantageous to
write our advertisers. Get in touch !

W. H. Dawkins Lumber Co.

Manufacturers of Band Sawed

Yellow Poplar

ASHLAND, KY.

KNIVES

A man who has been in the presence of angels discloses the fact
by his action : lust one reason for our talking good machine
knives, good veneer knives or knives of any kind that do good work.

CHAMPION SAW COMPANY,

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

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C^IINOIININA I I

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

IN THE MARKET FOR

OAK-ASH-POPLAR

ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

MOWBRAY & ROBINSON

Office!

12 19 West Sixth Street

Yards:
Sixth Street, below Harriet

Cash buyers for stock in our line.

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co.

GEST AND SUMMER STREETS

Wholesalers Mahogany, Thin Lumber, Veneers

Finely figund quarter sawed oak reneera a specialty.

THE E. E. BECK LUMBER COMPANY

Cash Buyers

Poplar, Oak, Chestnut

And Other Southern Hardwoods
ALL, GRADES AND THICKNESSES. WE BUY MILL, CUTS.

THE WIBORG & HANNA COMPANY

CINCINNATI, OHIO

PLAIN
AND

QUARTER
SAWED

White and Red Oak

•CHESTNUT i
I POPLAR !
! GUM AND i
i CYPRESS j

Flooring, Siding, Ceiling, Base, Case and Molding. Rough, Dressed and Re-sawed. Mixed Carloads.

THE

MALEY, THOMPSON & MOFFETT CO.

Always in the Market for

BLACK WALNUT LOGS.
SELECTED WHITE OAK LOGS,
LUMBER OF ALL KINDS.

CINCINNATI,

OHIO

Poplar, Oak,

Ash, Chestnut,

Sycamore,

W. Va. Spruce,
Pine and Elm

C. Crane 4 Co.

We would like to buy
2.000,000 feel Dry Oak
2,000.000 feet Dry Poplar

Mostly heavy slock. Quotations Solicited.

MILLS AND YARDS
I IV1WATI, 0.

YEARLY CAPACITY
100,000,090 FT.

LONfl BILL STUFF
A SPECIALTY

L. W. RADINA & COMPANY

Correspondence Solicited with Buyers and Sellers of All Kinds of

Wanted for cash— desirable blocks of 1 inch to 4 inch Poplar, all grades,
Especially 1^-inch stock, for immediate shipment.

CLARK STREET AND DALTON AVENUE-

Special Dry Stock

FOR SALE

Quick Shipment.

Straight or Mixed Cars.

1 " Quartered Oak, Is and 2s, Common and Cull

1 •" Plain Oak, Is and 2s, and No. 3 Common

1}" Plain Oak. No. 2 and No. 3 Common

U" Ash, No. 2 Common

1J" Ash, No. 1 and No. 2 Common

GUM, CYPRESS, POP LAR , CHESTNUT, ETC.

Rouph and Dressed

KENTUCKY LUMBER CO. :: Cincinnati, Ohio

THE FREIBERG LUMBER CO.

IBXgfil •*5£8!T ^i'i Manufacturers ot

*J_-TT ,." -ilJ!|| .; ** \ Tabasco Mahogany

.^ViV ^.W^'fr v Walnut, Oak

--5STI6-&

%, J&rr w ^

Poplar, McLean and Findlay Ars.
CINCINNATI, O.

WHAT HAVE YOU FOR SALE IX

Red and White OAK Qtd- and Plain

ALSO POPLAR, CHESTNUT, WALNUT, ETC.

JOHN DULWEBER & CO., CINCINNATI, OHIO

54

HARDWOOD RECORD

$> INDIANA &

•WHERE THE BEST HARDWOODS GROW-

THE WOODS FOR
WHICH INDIANA
IS FAMOUS.

Quart Yd White Oak

Plain White Oak

Quartered Red Oak

Plain Red Oak

White Ash

Poplar

Black Walnut

Cherry

Sycamore

Red Gum

Hickory

Beech

Maple

Veneers of

Indiana Hardwoods

PERRINE-ARMSTRONG CO.

Long Timber up to 60 feet— Hardwood Specialties

The largest Band Mill in Indiana. FORT WAYNE, IND.

J. V. STIMSON

AH Kinds of Hardwood Lumber Manufactured

HUNTINGBURG, IND.

THE WALNUT LUMBER CO.

Our Specialty is Walnut

GLAD TO FIGURE ON ANY CHOICE HARDWOOD STOCKS IKTHT A M A DH( T«v TKTr»
YOU HAVE TO OFFERr INSPECTION AT MILL POINTS. HXUlAlNArUUO, 11N.LA

YOUNG & CUTSINGER

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Fine Figured Quartered Oak

EVANSVILLE, IND.

CHARLES H. BARNABY

Manufacturer of Band Sawed Hardwoods

Quarter Sawed Indiana White Oak a Specialty GREENCASTLE, IND.

D'HEUR & SWAIN LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Quartered Oak and Sycamore

SEYMOUR, IND.

LONG-KNIGHT LUMBER CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS

Quarter Sawed White and Red Oak a Specialty

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

MALEY & WERTZ

Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Exporters of Hardwood Lumber

EVANSVILLE, IND.

HARDWOOD RECORD

BUFFALO

THE GREAT WHOLESALE LUMBER CENTER OF THE EAST

Manufacturers and
Dealers in

Ash

White and Brown

Basswood
Birch

Red and White

Butternut

Cherry

Chestnut

Cottonwood

Cypress

Elm

Soft and Rock

Gum

Red and Tupelo

Hickory

Maple

Hard and Soft

Red Oak

Plain and Quartered

White Oak

Plain and Quartered

Black Walnut
White Wood

Poplar

G. ELIAS & BROTHER

BUY AND CARRY LARGE QUANTITIES OF ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

— __^^^_^_^^_^^^_^_ 955 TO 1015 ELK STREET

HUGH McLEAN LUMBER COMPANY

Specialty: INDIANA WHITE OAK

940 ELK STREET

ANTHONY MILLER

HARDWOODS OF ALL KINDS

893 EAGLE STREET

SCATCHERD & SON

HARDWOODS ONLY
Yard, 1555 SENECA STREET office. 886 ELLICOTT SQUARE

STANDARD HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

OAK, ASH AND CHESTNUT

1075 CLINTON STREET

L N. STEWART & BROTHER

Specialties: CHERRY AND OAK

892 ELK STREET

T. SULLIVAN & COMPANY

Specialties: BROWN ASH, BIRCH, PACIFIC COAST FIR AND SPRUCE

50 ARTHUR STREET

ORSON E. YEAGER

Specialties: OAK, ASH AND POPLAR

932 ELK STREET

BEYER, KNOX & COMPANY

ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

Office and Yards, 69 LEROY AVENUE

BUFFALO HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

We want to buy for cash :

Oak, Ash and other Hardwoods, all grades and thicknesses.
Will receive and inspect stock at shipping point.
P. O. Box 312, MEMPHIS TENN. 940 SENECA STREET.

EMPIRE LUMBER COMPANY

Our specialties are PLAIN »nd QUARTERED OAK and ASH.

1142 SENECA STREET.

YELLOW POPLAR

Manufacturers

BAND SAWED
POPLAR LUMBER

ALL CRADES

DRY

5-8, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, 8-4, 10-4, 12-4, 16-4

Bevel Siding, Lath and Squares

Specialty, Wide Stock.

COAL GROVE, OHIO, U. S. A

W. M. RITTER LUMBER COMPANY

COLUMBUS. OHIO

Although our Stocks, generally, are lower than for several years past, we still have the
following DRY and ready for PROMPT shipment.

BASSWOOD

POPLAR

4=4. 6=4, 8=4, 1 and 2
4=4 Saps.

4=4 No. 1 Common.
4=4 No. 3 Common.

POPLAR BEVEL SIDING

4 inch, No. 1.
6 inch Selects.
4 inch Selects.

4=4, 1 and 2, 10 and 12 feet.
4=4, 1 and 2, 14 and 16 leet.
5=4, 1 and 2, 10 to 16 feet.
5=4, No. 1 Common, 10 and 12 ft.
5-4, No. 1 Common, 14 and 16 ft.

PLAIN WHITE OAK

4=4, 1 and 2.

4=4, No. 2 Common.

4=4, No. 3 Common.

WRITE US TODAY FOR PRICES.

PLAIN RED OAK

4-4, 1 and 2.

4=4, No. 1 Common.

QUARTERED WHITE OAK

4=4, 1 and 2.

4-4, No. 1 Common.

WHITE PINE

5=4, 6=4, 8=4 B and Better.
4=4, 5-4, 6=4 "C" Selects.

Vansant, Kitchen & Co.

Old-Fashioned

SOFT

YELLOW

POPLAR

Ashland, Ky.

5-8 AND 4-4 IN WIDE STOCK, SPECIALTY

NEW ASHLAND M 1 1, 1,

■HBHBBHVmM

COPYRIGHT. A D. 1906, BY THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

MMWoM RotoM

Twelfth Year. [

Stml-raonthly. \

CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 10, 1906.

I Subacriptlon 92.

I Single Coplca, 10 Cent*

2,000,000 Feet

CHERRY

FOR SALE

ROSS LUMBER CO.

JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK

ilimmelberger Hdrrison Lumber (o.

Red Gum
Specialists

Morehouse,

Missouri

A WAY OF ESCAPE

from exorbitant insurance charges

PENNA. LUMBERMEN'S MUTUAL FIRE INS. CO.

943 Drexel Bldg.. Philadelphia. Pa.

We want to sell and ship during the months of November and December the following lumber:

,500.000
30,000
50,000

I'dO.OIIO
100,00(1
30,000
50,000
50,000
500.000
10,000

It. 4-4
ft. 5-4

(i-4

8-4

4-1

5-4

6-4

ft. <S-4

ft. 4-4

ft. 4-4

4.000

2,000

birch log run
birch log run
birch log run
birch log run
maple log run
maple log run
maple log run
maple log run
cherry log run
quartered pop!
000 ft. 4-4, 5-4
000 ft. W. Va.

60,000 ft. 4-4 poplar I and

ar 1 & L'

14.000 ft 4-4
70.000 ft. 4-4
40.000 ft. 4-4
.'.-,.1100 II. 8-4 DO]
.",.000 ft. 5-8 NO. 1 an. I

6,000 ft. 4-4 quartered
sawed lor figure
60,000 ft I- 1 quarterei
mon, sawed for figun

S in. to 'J I in.
poplar I and _'. 24 in. and up

poplar, No i common

poplar clear saps.
oplar 18 to 28 soft yellow panels
i, 24 ami up
white oak 1 anil 2

18,000 ft
mon,

24,000 fi
sawei

80,000 ft

saw i 'i

16,000 It

4-4 quartered whiti
sawed for figure.

Iiite oak No. I roiii-

1-4 quartered white oak i

for figure.

1- 1 quartered red oak No.
lor figure.

II quartered red oak el
sawed lor figure.
00,000 ft 4-4 basswood log run— i

No 2 coni-

clear sap-
i. 1 common,
clear strips,
xtra line.

ti-4, ami S- 1 white pine box, No 1 . No. 2, No. :\ liarn rough or dressed,
spruce. 10 and 12 in. wide, 12 to 30 ft. long hand sawed, gang edged and ei ptalized — rough or worke

RU/V\B/\RGER LUMBER COMPAINY

Main Ollice: 808 Harrison Bldg.. 15th and Market Sis.. Philadelphia, Pa.

New York Office: 8018 Metropolitan Bide. I Madison Av.

Pittsburgh Oflire: 701 Keyslone Bldg.

The combined facilities of the stock lumber insurance companies

LUMBER INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK

and the ADIRONDACK FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

and allied organizations, constitute a great insuring opportunity for any owner of a first-class lumber or mill risk.

Ask for lines and rates. LUMBER INSURERS GENERAL AGENCY, Underwriting Managers

o<=> Broadway. Ole-vrv York

HARDWOOD RECORD

I i^\ I t I "C: \/ ii i r~7

LOUI^V 1 L LLi

MANUFACTURING AND 1MSTK1B UT1NU CENTER Uf KEHTUCKV

Dry stock w. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co.

Louisville, Ky.

PLAIN RED OAK. 14.001)' 1V>" 1st & 2d.

5.000' 2" 1st & 2d.
15.000' 1" No. 1 Com.

7.00(1' 1}4" No. 1 Com.
13,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

PLAIN WHITE OAK.

80.000' 1" 1st & 2d.
28.000' IVi" 1st & 2d.
12,000' W 1st & 2d.
42,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
23.800" 2%" 1st & 2d.
16,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
227.000' 1" No. 1 Com.
60,000' lYt" No. 1 Com.
80,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.

All thicknesses in cull poplar, ash, chestnut.

55.000'

1" 1st & 2nd.

25,000'

H4" 1st & 2d.

49,000'

1%" 1st & 2d.

57,000'

2" 1st & 2d.

IS, '

2%" 1st & 2d.

16,000'

3" 1st & 2d.

31.000'

1" No. 1 Com.

84.000'

1U" No. 1 Com.

44.000'

IV No. 1 Com.

47.000'

2" No. 1 Com.

S.000'

2%" No. 1 Com.

15,000'

3" No. 1 Com.

QTJARTKBED RED OAK

13.000'

1* 1st & 2d.

50.000' 2" No. 1 Com.

17,000' 214" No. 1 Com.

22,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

QUARTERED WHITE OAK.

50,000' 1" 1st & 2d.

2S.000' 1V4" 1st & 2d.

45.000' 1%" 1st & 2d.

49,000' 2" 1st & 2d.

19,000' 2%" 1st & 2d.

18,000' 1" No. 1 Com.

30.000' Hi" No. 1 Com.

40.000' 1 W No. 1 Com.

22.0110' 2" No. 1 Com.

10,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

ASH.

9,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
65,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
16.000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
10,000' 2" 1st & 2d.

S.000' 2%" 1st & 2d.
14.000' 3" 1st & 2d.

6,000' 4" 1st & 2d.

4.000' Id' No. 1 Com.
16.000' 114" No. 1 Com.

8,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

POPLAR.
12,000' 1" 1st & 2d.

ooo'

000'
OOO'
000'
.000'
000'
000'
000'
000'
000'
000'
000'
000'
,000'

" 1st & 2d.

" 1st & 2d.

1st & 2d.

" 1st & 2.1.

1st & 2d.

No. 1 Com.

" No. 1 Com.

* No. 1 Com.

No. 1 Com.

18" & up 1st & 2d.

IS" & up 1st & 2d.

24" & up 1st & 2d.

" IS" & up 1st & 2d.

" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

Your inquiries will be appreciated.

Prompt delivery guaranteed

The Norman Lumber Co., Inc.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers of

Hardwood Lumber

FOR SALE

Seasoned Ash, Oak, Poplar, and Walnut Lumber

WANT TO BUY

Walnut, Oak, Ash, Hickory and Poplar Logs and Lumber

Office and f ards : Third Street, H to K Streets
LOUISVILLE, KY.

McLean -Davis Lumber Co.

Successors to

Hugh McLean Lumber Co., Highland Park, Ky.
Edward L. Davis Lumber Co., Louisville, Ky.
Berry -Davis Saw Mill Co., Louisville, Ky.

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Hardwood Lumber

Daily Capacity:
80,000 feet.

Sales Olfices:
Louisville, Ky.

Ornamental Hardwood Floors

400 STYLES AND PATTERNS

Illustrated Catalog on Application

WOOD = MOSAIC FLOORING CO.

Rochester, N. V. New Albany, Ind.

Albert R. Kampf

Manufacturer

Hardwood Lumber and Timber

Dimension Stock

Board of Trade Bldg,. Louisville, Ky.

E. W. Rhubesky

"Wholesale

Poplar, Rough and Dressed.

Oak, Chestnut and Other

Hardwoods

North Vernon Pump
4 Lumber Co.

Band Sawed Plain and Quartered

Oak and Poplar.

North Vernon,, Ind.. and

Louisville, Ky.

Southern Lumber Co.

Oak, Poplar and

Chestnut.
Louisville, Ky.

THERE IS NO BETTER WAY

BETWEEN

CHICAGO
INDIANAPOLIS

AND

CINCINNATI

THAN THE

Monon Route

/t TRAINS A DAY /f

Standard and Compartment Sleep-
ers on Night Trains. Parlor and
Dining Cars on Day Train.

Chas. II. Rockwell, Frank J. Reed,
Traffic Manager, Gen. Pass. Agent,

CHICAGO

HARDWOOD RECORD

c

A

ATED FOR

D I L

HIGH STANDARD OF

QUALITY

A

AND HILL

c

CELEBR

WORK

MICHIGAN RED OAK

c

c

As fine stock as was ever cut
in the famous Cadillac district.

We have some of this choice 4-4
Red Oak which will soon be in
shipping condition.

If you are in the market, we
can please you both in quality
and price.

We also have some nice Soft
Gray Elm in 4-4. 6-4, 8-4 and
12-4. It's Bone Dry.

Mitchell Brothers Company

CADILLAC, MICHIGAN

The Cadillac Handle Co.

Band Sawn
Michigan Hardwoods

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

1 Car 5 4 Maple 10 in. and up No. 1 Common ami better.

1 Car 6 4 Maple 10 in. and up No. 1 Common and better.
5 Cars 4/4 Maple No. 1 and 2 Common.

2 Cars 4/4 Basswood No. 2 Common and better.
2 Cars 4/4 Birch No. 2 Common and better.

2 Cars Dimension Stock, largely Maple 4 4x2 in. and
wider x 12-18-24-30 and 36 in. long.

MURPHY & DIGGINS

Cffer all grades of the following special diy stock

MAPLE— 5/4, 6/4, 8 4, 10 4. 12 4, 14 4, lfi/4
GRAY ELM-4/4, 12/4
BASSWOOD— 4/4
BIRCH— */4, 6/4

Our own manufacture. Perfect Mill Work. Uniform Grades.
LET US FIGURE ON YOUR HARDWOOD WANTS.

Cummer, Diggins & Go.

MANUFACTURERS

"CUMMER" MAPLE
AND BEECH FLOORING

MICHIGAN HARDWOODS

Good assortment of dry stock on hand ready
for immediate shipment in Hard Maple, Beech,
■Birch, Soft Elm and Cherry.

SEND US A LIST OF YOUR REQUIREMENTS.

DRY ST

OCK 1

Northern Michigan

Soft Gray Elm

What our old cork pine was to the regular
white pine — such is our Soft Cray Elm to
ordinary soft elm. Buyers who gladly discrim-
inate in favor of something better than the or-
dinary, will be interested. We have

10 cars 8=4 firsts and seconds.

1 car 10-4 firsts and seconds.

2 cars 12-4 firsts and seconds.

Wide, choice stock, our own product, seasoned right,
bone dry.

WHITE US ABOUT IT.

C0BB5& MITCHELL^

(INCORPORATED) ^?S

CADILLAC, MICHIGAN^ ^

HARDWOOD RECORD

MEMPHIS

THE. HUB OF THE HARDWOOD WORLD

STOCK
LIST

Anderson-Tully Co.

Memphis
Tenn.

100,000 ft. 1 in. No. 1 Common Gum.
100,000 ft 1 in. No. 2 Common Gum.

50,000 ft. 1 in. First and Second Sap Gum 6 in. to 12 in.

50.000 ft. 1 in. First and Second Sap Gum 13 in. to 16 in.

50.000 ft. 13 in. to 17 in. Gum Box Boards.

50,000 ft 1 in. First and Second Red Gum.

50,000 ft. 1 in. No. 1 Common Ked Gum.

50,000 ft. 6/ 4 in. First and Second Cottonwood.
200,000 ft. 1 in. No. 1 Common Cottonwood.

w

E have in all thicknesses the following kinds and
amounts of lumber at places designated. Kindly
send us your inquiries.

MEMPHIS YAED

Ash 680,000 feet

Quartered White Oak. . 75 000 feet

Plain WhiteOak 140.000 feet

Quartered Red Oak.... 225,000 feet

Plain Red Oak 410,000 feet

Cypress 225,000 fee t

Cottonwood 200.000 feet

Poplar 308.000 feet

SELMA YARD

Poplar 409,000 feet

Hay Poplar 857,000 feet

Red Gum 55,000 feet

Cypress 787,000 fe-;t

BF.Rtl.AIK YARD

Bay Poplar 100,000 feet

Cypress 800,000 feet

OTHER YARDS
Plain Red Oak 350 000 feet

J. W. THOMPSON LUMBER COMPANY

OHice and Yards: Randolph Road and I. C. R R.

MEMPHIS. TENN-

1. B. Ransom, Prest. A. B. Ransom. V.-Prest. W. A. Ransom, bee. C. R. Ransom I reas.

GAYOSO LUMBER CO., Inc.

Manufactukebs and Dealers in

SOUTHERN
HARDWOODS

Also make a specialty of Wagon Stock in rough, such as Tongues,
Axles, Reaches, Bolsters, and 6-4 to 16-4 Hickory.

FENN BROS. COMPANY

\l \ \ l l A.CTURERS OF

Oak Flooring

Quartered \A/hite
Quartered Red
Plain lA/hite
Plain Red

HoIIoia/ Backed

End matched

Polished

Bored

Offices and Plant : Kansas and Mallory Ave.
New South Memphis, Tenn.

JOHN C. SPRY

JOHN D. SPAULDING

Southern Oak Lumber Co.

IN THE MARKET FOR MILL CUTS OR ROUND LOTS. FOR CASH

Poplar H^rHwnOrlc Cypress

910 Chamber of Commerce
CHICAGO

INSPECTION AT MILL
YARDS: NORTH MEMPHIS

1217 Tennessee Trust Bldg.
MEMPHIS

Briggs & Cooper Company, Ltd.

MANUFACTURERS

NORTHERN
SOUTHERN

HARDWOODS

GET OUR PRICES ON THESE ITEMS:

1,000,000 feet Soft Grey Elm, 1 to 3".

500,000 feet Unselected Birch, 1 to 3".
3,000.000 feet Michigan Hard Maple. 1 to 6".

350.000 feet End Dried White Maple, 1 to 1!/,".

625,000 feet No. 1 Common and Better Winter Sawn Basswood, 1 to 3".

150,000 feet Selected White Basswood, 1", lit" and \'A".

210,000 feet Plain and Quartered White and Red Oak, 1 to 2".
YARDS AT

SAGINAW, CHICAGO AND MEMPHIS

H. W. Mosby & Co.

MAN 1 1 AC1 III

COTTONWOOD

GUM

ASH, ELM

Large Stock on Hand HELENA, ARKANSAS

HARDWOOD RECORD

Lamb Fish Lumber Co.

Successors to LAMB HARDWOOD UMBER CO., BACON-NOLAN HARDWOOD CO., GUIRL-STOVER LBR CO.

MA NUFA C TURERS

Oak, Ash, Cottonwood, Gum
and Cypress

pVIAINfOFFICE :]
7202MEMPHISITRUST1BUILDING,1MEMPHIS,5|TENN.

-_.„ ( Memphis, Tenn. ( Well Manufactured Stock

Three Band Mills i chancy, Miss. Our Specialties \ Good Grades

( Stover, Miss. ( Prompt Shipments

Three States Lumber Co

MEMPHIS, TENN.,

Offers the following Dry Stock for immediate shipment

50 M Cottonwood Panel, 20 in. & up.
200 M Cottonwood Box Boards, I 3 in. to 17 in:
200 M Cottonwood Box Boards, 8 in. to 1 2 in.
300 M 1 in. 1 st & 2nds Cottonwood, 7 in. & up.
I 50 M U in. 1 st & 2nds Cottonwood, 7 in. & up.

75 M 2 in. 1st & 2nds Cottonwood, 7 in. & up.

50 M Gum Box Boards, I 3 in. to 18 in.

50 M Gum Box Boards, 8 in. to 1 2 in.
50 Ml in. 1 st & 2nds Plain Red Oak.
50 M I in. 1 st & 2nds Plain White Oak.
30 M I in. Common Plain White Oak.
50 M I in. Common Plain Red Oak.
50 M 1 in. 1 st & 2nds Ash.

This stock dry in pile a.t points which ca.n be moved promptly.
All bi\nd-sa wed and equalized.

HARDIWOOD RECORD

T* 1 I r~* F^ A ^ HP

1 11 Li U A o 1

1

" BOSTON NEW YORK FH1LAULLPHIA

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co.

SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA

We have completed arrangements
to handle all our business from
our main office, Scranton.

THE

BEST

LUMBER

Band=Sawed, West
Virginia Hardwoods

JOHN T. DIXON HARRY S. DEWEY

We are not Wizards in making new grades to fit a price.

No tricks in our methods of making shipments. The
straight grades are good enough for us.

If you will give us a trial order for POPLAR, OAK,
ASH, CHESTNUT or OAK, MAPLE and YELLOW
PINE FLOORJNG, we believe we can demonstrate our
ability to please you.

DIXON & DEWEY

716 and 716 A, Flatiron Building,

NEW YORK

The Crosby & Beckley Company
HARDWOODS

We are
In the Market for Choice Stock

WRITE US

No. 1 Madison Ave.,
New York, N. Y.

New Haven,
Connecticut.

Thomas

Forman Company

MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE

Maple and Oak

Flooring

New York Branch ;
McGovern c* Boweo,
29 Broadway

And Hardwood Lumber

MICHIGAN

Millmen with round lots of well manufactured stock to offer,
are sure of a square deal with

WILLIAM WHITMER & SONS, Inc.

MANUFACTURERS OF

HARDWOODS

Branches: NEW YORK, BOSTON, PITTSBURG

Girard Trust Btdg. PHILADELPHIA

HARDWOOD RECORD

HP

H

N

E

NEW

w— 7 a c? HP

I

fc, A ^ 1

BOSTO

YORK PHILADELPHIA

JONES HARDWOOD CO.

INCORPORATED

WANTS: Poplar, Plain Oak,
Quartered Oak and Cypress.

147 MILK STREET
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Manufacturers please send slock lists and prices.

J. H. SCHOFIELD

R. W. SCHOFIELD

SCHOF1ELD

BROTHERS

LUMBER

WHITE PINE
AND HARDWOODS

1019-1020 Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Bldg.,

BALTIMORE
M A R Y L A

RE L? L7 DDI/^LT BUYER and

ND EL,. Hi. I rXlV^rii EXPORTER OF

Hardwoods, Poplar and Logs

I am always In the market for nice lots of dry and well manufactured
lumber. I inspect at point of shipment. Correspondence solicited.

Wistar, Underhill & Co.,

WHOLESALE ^=

HARDWOOD LUMBER

SI6 Real Estate Trust Building, * PHILADELPHIA.

Charles S. Wentworth & Co.

WHOLESALE LUMBER MERCHANTS
147 Milk Street

BOSTON

We are in the Market for POPLAR, PLAIN OAK, CYPRESS
and NORTH CAROLINA PINE LUMBER; also OAK, MA-
PLE and BIRCH FLOORING, and would appreciate corre-
spondence from manufacturers in position to supply any of the
stock named.

W. M. GILLESPIE LUMBER

HARDWOODS COMPANY Farmers Bank Bldg.
Oak a Specialty PITTSBURGH, PA.

The West Florida Hardwood Co.

Ash
Hickory

Mill on Apalachicola River
MARYSVILLE, FLA.

Red and White Oak Red Gum

Yellow Cottonwood Tupelo Gum

LET US HAVE YOUR INQUIRIES

Even When Business Is Good
We Continue to Advertise

Our lumber stocks. We always work best in Hie lead. We have
twelve million feet of building lumber and hardwoods "" hand

and in good shape to fill your orders promptly.

Chestnut

Yellow Pine

Poplar

Red and White Oak

Ma.ple

White Pine

Hemlock

Ash

BircK

Spruce

Cherry

Mahogany

California Sugar Pine and Cedar Lath — Cedar and Cypress Shingles,
handmade. Send your inquiry or order to-day.

J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co.

56th to 58th Streets and Woodland Ave , PHILADELPHIA, PA.

James & Abbot Company

Lumber and Timber

No. 165 MILK ST., BOSTON, MASS., and GULFPORT, MISS.

JOHN L. ALCOCK & CO.

BUYERS OF BLACK WALNUT LOGS
BOARDS AND PLANKS

Baltimore, Md.

Inspection at point of
shipment . Spot cash.

J. J. SOBLE

H. I. SOBLE

SOBLE. BROTHERS

Wholesale Hardwoods

911=912 Land Title Bldg. PHILADELPHIA

WANTED: 20 cars Common and Belter Chestnut, all thicknesses.

STEVENS-EATON CO.

Buv
ROUN

lyots Hardwoods

No 1 Madison

Avenue,

New York

ESPECIALLY IN MARKET FOR PLAIN RED OAK

WM. E. LITCHFIELD

MASON BUILDING, BOSTON, MASS.

Specialist in Hardwoods

Manufacturers are requested to supply lists of stock for sale

Holloway Lumber Company

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

In the market for all thicknesses ot
OAK, ASH and CHESTNUT.

312 Arcade Building.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

The Tegge Lumber Co.

MILWAUKEE
WI SCONSIN

BUYERS OF
ALL KINDS OF

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Quartered Oak Flooring

Manufactured for

HIGHEST CLASS of trade only.

Also Plain Oak, Maple and other Hardwood flooring.
, The name DMVGMr on flooring is a guarantee of its

■"•"'-■excellence.

D WIGHT SPECIAL pattern of thin flooring is the
U only suitable thin flooring to lay. Write for Sample.

DWIGHT LUMBER COMPANY

DETROIT. MICHIGAN

Are You in the Market ?

Send us your inquiries for prices on
the following

HARDWOODS

10OM ft.
10OM ft.

75M ft.

25M ft.

25M ft.

50M ft.

50M ft.
100M ft.

50M ft.

50M ft.
100M ft.
100M ft.
100M ft.

1" Com. and Better Quartered Red Oak.

1" Com. and Better Quartered White Oak.

I'i" Cora, and Better Quartered Red Oak.

1H" Com. Quartered White Oak.

1H" 1st and 2nds Quartered Red Oak.

3" Com. and Better Quartered White Oak.

3" Com. and Better Plain White Oak.

1" Com. Plain Birch.

1" Com. Red Birch.

1JS" Com. and Better Plain Birch.

1" Com. and Better Hard Maple.

tii" Com. and Better Hard Maple.

1" Com. and Better Soft Elm.

UPHAM 4 AGLER

Distributing Yards: CAIRO, ILL.
Main Offices :: American Trust Building, CHICAGO

NOVEMBER STOCK LIST

HARD MAPLE

I in
H in
1'. in

3 in

4 in

1 ,000,000 ft
100,000 ft
100,000 ft

Ml. I

50.000 ft

SOFT MAPLE
1 in. 30,000 ft.
li in. 20,000 ft.
3 in. 10,000 ft.

BEECH

1 in. 100,000 ft.
1 V in. 100,000 ft.

BIRCH
500,000 ft.
' 100.000 ft.
100,000 ft.
50.000 it.

ASH.

50,000 ft.

1 in.
li in.

2 in.
2* in.

WHITE MAPLE
End Piled
U i". 20.000 ft.

BASSWOOD
1 in. 300.000 ft.

GRAY ELM
1 in. 300,000 ft.
1* in. 200,000 ft.
3" in. 200,000 ft.

KELLEY LUMBER & SHINGLE CO, Traverse City, Mich.

MTT Have you seen the HARDWOOD
\ RECORD'S list of wholesale hardwood
-^J consumers of the United States, with their
annual requirements by kind, grade and thickness ?
It contains information essential to every sales
manager. C, A specimen bulletin for the asking.

PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

OUIW AIND OTHER HARDWOODS

, Large stocks of well seasoned Lumber always carried at our yards and mills.

General Offices: MOW. Chicago Ave., CHICAGO. Mills: Cairo.Ill., Marked Tree, Ark., Greenville, Miss., Arkansas City, Ark., Blyfheville, Ark.

HARDWOOD RECORD

FULLERTON-POWELL

Hardwood Lumber Co.

OFFERS THE FOLLOWING STOCK
FOB IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

1 50,000 feet 2i inch to 4 inch Common and Better Plain

Red and White Oak, six months dry.
300,000 feet 1 inch Logrun Quartered Sycamore, bone dry

1104 Chamber of Commerce \ furmshed J SOUtf) 'Betid, Illd.

CHICAGO

Swann-Day Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OF

POPLAR AND OAK

PLANING MILL STOCK, BOX SHOOKS f tr*v\7

AND HARDWOOD DIMENSION CLAY CITY, KENTUCKY

R.E. Wood Lumber Company

C We own nearly a thousand million feet of virgin poplar, oak,
chestnut and other hardwood timber, and operate our own band mills
in West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
C. Let us figure on your hardwood requirements.

^SI.RNAELNT°AFLF,SEfL:D.NG. Baltimore, Maryland

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HARDWOOD RECORD

CHICAGO

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

have vou anything to offer in

hickory, white ash, thick plain
oak and wagon stock?

WE ARE CASH BUYERS

PLEASE SEND US YOUR STOCK LISTS

Ryan & McFarland

Chica-go

Office and Yards
Robey St. and Blue Island Ave.

White Lumber Company

Dealers in Hardwood Lumber

ALL KINDS

Cherry Lumber a
Specialty

ALL GRADES

Laflin <& 22d Sts.
Chicago

A floor to adore

For thirty-three years Wilce's Hardwood Floor-
ing has been among the foremost on the market
and because it stands today "unequaled" is the
best evidence that its manufacturer has kept
abreast of modern methods and the advanced de-
mands of the trade. To convince yourself of the
above statements, try our polished surface floor-
ing, tongued and grooved, hollow backed, with
matched ends and holes for blind nailing — you'll
find it reduces the expense of laying and polishing.
Our Booklet tells all about Hardwood Flooring ami
how to care/or it— also prices -and is free.

The T. Wilce Company

22nd arvd Throop Sts. CHICAGO. ILL.

Harvey S. Hayden

IN THE MARKET FOR
POPLAR

25 M ft. l%" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
•10 M ft. 2" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
25 M ft. £'£" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
SI) M ft. 3" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.

WHITE ASH
30 M ft. 1" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
75 M ft. 5, 4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
50 M ft. 6 4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
50 M f t. 8 4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
25 M ft 10 4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
50 M ft. 16. 4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
(We can use a small percentage of No 1 Common.)

511 Railway Exchange, - Chicago

PARK RICHMOND (Sb CO.

Wholesale

Hardwood Lumber

67 West Twenty-second St.

' Chicago

John

O'Brien

Land & Lumber

Co.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Of All Kinds

OFFICE AND YARDS:

873 to 881 So. Laflin Street C K 1 C A Q O

MILL: PHILIPP, MISS. V -/ 1 1 I V» C* g \J

J. Slimmer & Company

Hardwood
Lumber

Office and Yard :

65 W. Twenty-second St.

CHICAGO

R. A. WELLS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Fine Quartered Oak a Specialty

234 LA SALLE STREET
Yards at Canal and 21st Sts. CHICAGO,

, ILL. I

HARDWOOD RECORD

II

CHICAGO

1

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

Heath-Witbeck Company

Hardwood Lumber

We have for quick shipment 170,000
feet DRY BIRCH, First and Seconds
and Common 2, 2%, 3 and 4 inch.

Main Office, 6 Madison St. Yards, Loomis and 22nd St.
CHICAGO

CHAS. DARLING &. CO.

Southern
Hardwoods

22nd Street and Center Avenue - CHICAGO

ERNEST B. LOMBARD L

Manufacturer ar»d Wholesale

Northern &.rvd Southern,
Hardwoods

Railway Exchange CHICAGO

The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Co.

Wholesale and Retail

Telephone
NORTH 223

HARDWOOD LUMBER

47 Dominick St.
CHICAGO

Ben C. Keator— Wholesale Lumber

HARDWOOD AND PINE

1003-4 Manhattan Building, CHICAGO

The Keith Lumber Co.

MAHOGANY

.5,000,000 feet ma-
hogany in stock

Large and fine stock
of Cuban wood.

FOREIGN AND

AMERICAN

HARDWOODS

14th and Wood Streets
CHICAGO

THE W4RD LIMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

HARDWOODS

CHAMBF.R OF COMMERCE BUILDING :: CHICAGO

WISCONSIN TIMBER (SL LUMBER CO.

BUY AND SELL —

Yellow Pine and Hardwood Lumber

Want thick hardwoods and wagon box boards.
Monadoock Bid* CHICAGO. ILL.

Chas, Miller

Milton Miller

MILLER BROS.

Hardwood Lumber

Main Office, 208 WILLOUGHBY BLDG.,

6 E. MADISON STREET,

YARDS;

Loomis St., S. of 22nd St.,

Chicago, 111.
Houston, Miss.
Macon, Miss.

CHICAGO, ILL.

'Phone CENTRAL 136 3

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Co.

1649-50 MARQUETTE BUILDING

Are now offering bone dry BIRCH, ROCK ELM, BLACK ASH, etc., Wis-
consin stock. Also PLAIN AND QUARTERED OAK, POPLAR, etc ,
from our Memphis yard. We are constant buyers.

The only trade paper reaching all classes
of hardwood consumers

HARDWOOD RECORD

355 Dearborn St., Chicago

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HARDWOOD RECORD

H. B. Leavitt, Prest.
E. H. Adams, Secy.

B. F. Richardson, Vice-prest.
J. G. Leavitt, Treas.

THE LEAVITT LUMBER CO.

Most Complete Stock of Hardwoods in

CHICAGO

Make Known Your Wants and Get

IMMEDIATE. RESULTS

Mills :

WISCONSIN

TENNESSEE

ARKANSAS

LOUISIANA

MISSISSIPPI

General Office and Yard :

22nd AND LAFLIN STREETS.

Southern Office :

808 TENNESSEE TRUST BLDG.

MEMPHIS. TENN.

"Ideal" IS RocK Maple Flooring

is the flooring that is manufactured expressly to supply
the demand for the best. It is made by modern ma-
chinery from carefully-selected stock and every pre-
caution is taken throughout our entire system to
make it fulfill in every particular its name— "IDEAL."

Rough or Finished Lumber — All Kinds

Send us Your Inquiries

The I. Stephenson Company

WELLS, MICHIGAN

"Michigan Maple Flooring

Our model factory is equipped with the highest
class tools and appliances made for Flooring
production.

We produce our lumber from the best rock Ma-
ple area in Michigan and have 20 years' supply.

Our brand "Michigan" is a guaranty of qual-
ity. Perfect mill work and excellent grades
distinguish our Flooring and our prices are
reasonable.

WARD BROS., Big Rapids, Mich.

OAK FLOORING

Kiln Dried

Bored

Polished

HARDWOOD LUMBER <?\

& MFC. CO.

5A RDIS
- MISS.

Hollow

and

Bundled

THE "FINEST" MAPLE FLOORING

W. D. YOUNG & CO.

BAY CITY. MICHIGAN.

Producers from TREE to TRADE of the high-
est type of Michigan Forest Products. Large
stock of Maple Flooring and 15,000,000 feet
of Hardwoods — 1 to 4 inches thick — on hand.

Maple, Birch and Beech Lumber

FIRE INSURANCE

We stand between you
and High Rates

Lumber Underwriters

66 Broadway New York

i! r

We have in stock

150,000 ft. 4-4 White Maple Cross piled with 2)4-
inch dry crossers.

125,000 ft. 4-4 Dog run Birch red in. No thick
cut out.

Please favor us with your orders.

Bliss & Van Auken

Saginaw, W. S. Mich.

Timber Bonds

SECURED BY FIRST MORTGAGE ON TIMBER LANDS

-1 (

H. C. Barroll 6 Co.

* BANKERS, First National Bank Building, CHICAGO^

flaMwoi MM

Published In the Interest of Hardwood Lumber, American Hardwood Forests, Wood Veneer Industry. Hardwood Flooring,
Hardwood Interior Finish. Wood Chemicals. Saw Mill and Woodworking Machinery.

Vol. XXIII.

CHICAGO. NOVEMBER 10. 1906.

Published on the 10th and 25th of each month by

THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

Henry H. Gibson, President

Frank W. Tuttle. Sec-Treas.

OFFICES
Sixin Floor Ellsworth Bldg., 355 Dearborn St. Chicago, 111., U.S.A.

Telephones: Harrison 4960 Automatic 5659

TERMS OF ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION
In the United States, Canada, Philippine Islands and Mexico . . $2.00

In all other countries in Universal Postal Union ..... 3.00
Subscriptions are payable in advance, and in default of written orders to the
contrary are continued at our option.

The entire contents of this publication are covered hy the general copy-
right, and articles must not be reprinted without special permission.
Entered at Chicago Postoffice as Second Class Matter.

^Advertising copy must be received five days in advance of
publication date. Advertising rates on application.

HARDWOOD ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.

Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Association.

The semi-annual meeting of this association will convene
at 1221 Hibernia Building, New Orleans, La., at 10 A. M., on
Wednesday, Nov. 14, and will probably last two days.
Matters of importance to cypress interests will be discussed,
and manufacturers, both members and non-members of the
association, are invited.

Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association.

This association will hold an important meeting at the
Hotel Pantlind, Grand Rapids, on Wednesday, Dec. 19.

General Market Conditions.

There is not a eloud on the horizon of the hardw I trade from

coast to coast. Business in every variety of hardwoods is from g I

to strong. The quantity of plain oak being offered is still insuf-
lii'iiiit to meel the demand; this is true of poplar and of quite a
number of the minor northern and southern woods. Statistic eol
lated bj the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association indi-
cate that the supply of northern hardwoods is lower than it has
been since this branch of the' lumber trade became an importanl com
mercial pursuit. Even maple, birch and beech, which were supposed
to be in oversupply, arc found to be very low. The organization
which has been completed by the Michigan operators will probablj
insure a lessened rather than an increased log output for the coming
winter.

In the South weather conditions have reduced the hardwood out-
put to a very Ion state, and buyers cannot expect any accretion of
stocks in the great southern hardwood section for months to come.

The wagon making trade is still scouring the country in all diree
tions to secure sufficient stocks of oak and hickory to keep their

plants going. There seems to be a general willingness on thi part
of this branch of the buying trade to paj even more than current
prices if they can be assured of supplies.

Large building operations keep on apace and the demai both

maple and oak flooring is practicallj up to the capacity of all the
flooring plants.

There is a constantly increasing demand for mahogany and log
prices are showing considerable advance. Mahoganj lumbet stocks
are much depleted, but still prices have not materially advanced. At

present prices this w .1 is certainly a wise purchase, as values can

not very much longer remain stationary.

The veneer people are doing a big business, but.it is questionable
if they are making very much money, as prices still range compara-
tively low.

There is an increased call foi dimension hardwoods in many va-'
rieties of stock, and steadily advancing prices are being obtained.

The average American producer who formerly took an occasional
shot at the export business has largely ceased that practice, an<
generally speaking the foreign trade is now in the hands of educated
exporters who know its requirements to a nicety and are getting very
good results from their business. This desideratum has been brought
about by the fact that every producer can sell his lumber at home al
tally as good or better prices than he can get across the ocean.

OaK'

The National Association Meeting.

The semi-annual meeting of the National llardw 1 Lumber Asso-
ciation at Cincinnati was surelj marked by no sins of commission.

If the deliberations showed any errors of judgment thej et

tainly those of omission. This meeting was railed to discuss and
legislate on the advisability of .admitting the consuming trade to

associate membership, and for the purpose' of i lifying grading

rules and bringing them up to date. While thi as of the

meeting passing on these two subjects were supposedly executive, it
is generally known that it was deemed xpedient to admit con-
sumers to membership; and the element of "stand-patters" was so
strong that in spite of efforts on the part of some members of the
association to abrogate the resolution passed ai the Buffalo meet-
ing in May, 1905, which provided that the inspection rules then
adopted should not be changed until December, 1908, thi measure
was voted down.

However, the association very sensibly formulated am
set of grading rales covering dressed poplar, and adopted a- a
part of its own rales the grading rales of the Dressed Glim \ss.

ciatiim, of the Maple Flooring Association, of tl ak fl ing

manufacturers and id' the Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Asso
eiation as amended.

The Hardwood Record will not presume to criticize thi
Association's action m refusing to admit consumers to associate
membership, although the policy and fairness ot tin- measure has
been stronglj advocated bj some of the most uprighi and conserva
tive members of tie' organization. This mattei i^ one determinable
only by tin association itself.

Regarding the refusal to amend its grading rules i" correspond
with present conditions and existing practices, with all ilue deference
to the National Hardwood Lumber Association, the Record begs to
submit the great principle that all human progress is based on the

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HARDWOOD RECORD

fundamental process of alternately (Hitting one foot before the
other. The world moves step by step. Evolution is constantly
transpiring in morals, in religion, in business. There is no such
tiling us successfully standing still. Such things us do not advance
go backward, and the great world wide impulse is forward. The
National Association made its Buffalo bargain with no one bin
itself. If it be proven (and I his seems to have been most conclu-
sively done at the Cincinnati meeting I that the present inspection
rules are not up to date ami are not ill some respects in accordance
with current commercial practices, why should not the former error
it judgment be corrected! When a just man makes a mistake his
.■arliest impulse is to right it. Why should an association differ
from an individual? This opinion is fully shared by the last ex-
president of the association — the most astute diplomat and politician
who lias ever taken part iii its work — as evidenced by his arguments
in favor of abrogating the Buffalo resolution. It can plainly be
Men that to him want of progress means retrogression.

There are many high-class, upright, intelligent business men
associated with the National. Hardwood Lumber Association. A

g I many of them were present at the Cincinnati meeting, but

another large element of the same class was conspicuous by its
absence. It is unfortunate that the importance of association work
cannot be so thoroughly impressed upon .'very man prominent in the
hardwood industry that he will be present at every business meeting
of his organization and take part in its deliberations. If he neglects
this duty and legislation transpires which is unjust, faulty, or defi-
cient, he has no one to blame but himself. The National Hardwood
Lunibei Association has almost unlimited opportunities for the bet
lering of the morals and the character of the industry. These oppor-
tunities should not lie neglected. It is the sincere hope of the
HARDWOOD RECORD that at the next annual meeting of this associa-

ti very man who is a member, who has a pride in his calling, who

stands for dean and up to date methods, who is honest with himself
and his trade, will be present and assist in legislation looking
toward the highest standard of business morals and business progress.

Crooked History Repeated.

The Hardwood Record congratulates itself that a good many of
its patrons have been saved no inconsiderable loss by its exposure of
the Pittsburg Fuel Company of Pittsburg, Fa., an. I its immediate
successor, the Delaware Hardwood Lumber Company of Wilmington.
Del. Advices recently received indicate that the latter outfit has
discontinued business, and .1. ( '. Harris and his confederates have
left for parts unknown. Of course there are creditors left to hold
the bag, which always happens to those who "fail to read the
papers.'' There is a movement on foot among creditors to raise
a fund for the purpose of putting- detectives on the trail of Harris
and Ins confederates and apprehending an. I prosecuting them in a
criminal way. In the case of the Delaware Hardwood Lumber Com-
pany he has adopted his usual and favorite plan of operation. He
induces the unsophisticated hardwood man to ship a car of lumber
t,, a certain point; upon its arrival makes a quick sale at a low
figure, and, by allowing an especially high discount, secures prompt
cash. How many creditors the concern has has not yet developed,
but they are not inconsiderable in number in spite of the repeated
warnings of the Record.

It is passing strange that any lumberman of even ordinary intelli-
gence could be induced to ship lumber to strangers, no matter how
alluring the bait in the way of price and terms proposed might be.

In the present condition of hardw I affairs there is no good reason

ivhy hardwood lumbermen should not sell every foot of their lumbei
ai a good price to reputable concerns.

Meeting of Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers.

At th af of the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso-

ciation held al Traverse City Oct. 31, that body put itself squarely
on record for the basic principle that the manufacturer is entitled to
legislate on the inspection of his own product insofar as that in-
spection is "fair and jnsl to both producer and consumer.'' In-
spection rub's covering the chief varieties of woods growing in the
Wolverine state were adopted and are printed elsewhere in this Lssui
of the RECORD. While the association declared itself as being in-

clined to cast its fortunes with the Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation of the United States, it also held out the olive branch to the
National Hardwood Lumber Association, with which many of its
members have formerly been allied, and appointed a committee to
confer with it on the subject of amending its inspection rules on cer-
tain varieties of w Is to suit the present economic needs of both

producer and consumer.

The full proceedings of this meeting, printed elsewhere in this
issne, show that identified with this movement are concerns repre-
senting between seventy-five and eighty per cent of the total hard-
wood output of the state; also that Michigan hardwood stocks have
never been in as short supply as at the present time, and fully dem-
onstrate that the position of the association for successfully adminis-
tering its own affairs is a remarkably strong one.

The meeting was marked by the manifest interest of leading
hardwood producers of the neighboring slate of Wisconsin, and it is
more than probable that the manufacturing element of that state
will promptly join the movement inaugurated by the Michigan
operators. The Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association has
made a splendid beginning, which il will certainly carry forward to
the inestimable advantage of both its members and the trade at large.

Substitutes for Favored Woods.

The Furniture Journal of Chicago in editorially discussing the
question of substitutes for favored hardwoods notes the necessity
which is being forced upon manufacturers of furniture for using
some other wood for oak in view of the steadily diminishing supply
and high cost of this wood. The writer notes that the increasing
price of oak is entirely out of proportion to the price which furni-
ture manufacturers secure for their goods. The Journal says that
one manufacturer who has looked hopefully toward birch, which it-

still cheap and plentiful and an admirable cabinet w I, finds that

the public will not buy furniture of plain birch in the natural finish,
and he has some difficulty in matching the wood, which is not
always uniform in color. Thus it is contended that to secure
uniformity of color entails more waste than the manufacturer can
afford; that the stained birch has a tendency to fade, and that con
sequently birch is not a satisfactory substitute for oak or mahogany.
Tin- Journal advocates the use of red gum as a substitute for some
of the highest class American woods for furniture making.

Undeniably gum has the making of a very desirable wood for
many kinds of medium and low-priced furniture, and in some in-
stances would work admirably into the finest goods. It certainly
is a magnificent wood and its use is extending in many directions
outside of the furniture trade In fact, the call for gum today
is well up to the full probable supply for some time t one.

Of birch as a material for furniture making the HARDWOOD
Record has information from reliable producers of medium and
high-class furniture that is quite at variance with the opinion of
He' Journal. Primarily outside of the very best furniture no
atempt is now made by manufacturers to closely match figure. In
a glued-up job the maker puts his sap edges together and his heart
edges together, because that is the only way that he can make a cer-
tainty of a g I glue joint. No matter whether the w I be

mahogany, oak or birch, he then stains it either darker or lighter.
as taste and demand may dictate. In the case of the sap, or light

u I. ii is given a coat of stain approximating the tone of the

heart wood. A second coat of stain is then applied to the entire
surface, and general uniformity is insured. The stain often is
given in part by the filler. Of birch it may be said that it has
the highest physics, i. e., the highest quality of any American hard
wood growing in a reasonably large quantity, save that of the better
types of oak. It has a density and strength far superior to gum,
will hold its finish infinitely better, and if analine stains are not
used it will hold the stained color as well as any wood. In short,
birch has density, weight, strength, good working qualities, and is
comparatively cheap. For the purpose of furniture making there
is but one weakness that .an be urged against it. Owing to the
slight percentage of oil contained in the wood considerable care
has to be exercised in the drying process^ so as to insure a perma-
nent glue joint.

HARDWOOD RECORD

'5

Vert, Pertinent and Impertinent.

0 0 0

The automobile owner crawled

With haste into his car
And sail] good-bye, for he whs called

To travel fast and fai

Hfe grasped the steering wheel with glee
Ami gave the clutch a yank,

And then, with objurgations, he
Climbed down again to crank.

Ii o o o o o o o o

An "Auto" Idyl.

Again he mounted to the seal

Piepared like wind to fly.
v.i there he lingered in the strei I

The watei tank was dry.

!!'■ filled the tank it seemed :i cinch

Once m he starts to chauff,

Behold he does not mn\ e an inch
The differential's off.

In ragi he toils with might and main

Till In- is faint and weak
Again he starts and stops again

The tire's sprung a leak

o o t

The similes of night ore Tailing fast,

But joy illumes his brow,
II shunts ahead his troubles past

Pray who ran catch him now'.'

Ami yet. arouml the corner, we
May find the same machine;

Its owner is not there, for he
Has gum for gasoline. — W. of O.

OOOOOOl

Compensation.
Happiness is the
ieu art] I't' being com-
monplace.

Not Edible.
Don't turret thai
:t hungry man can t
eat advice.

AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.

Aimed Too High.
Many a man has
failed to make a hit
because lie aimed

Inn high.

The Blues.
Women think men
have no right to the
blues, regarding that
privilege as exclu-
si\ ely feminine.

Sensible Borrowing.
What's the use of
borrowing trouble as
limy as yon ean bor-
row money !

Soldiering.
The man who kills
I mm slays h is own
character.

The Knocker.
Every knock one

ma n gi\ i's another is
intended as a boost
no himself.

True.
When a man com-
bines business with
pleasure business

usually yets t he shorl
■ ■mi of it.

On the Road.
■ ■ 1 ncidental ex-
I enses "covet a mul

iilinle of sinful
items,

The Preface.

Alone about six
months after mar-
riage a man realizes
that courtship is but
the preface to hard-
ship.

Life.
Life is a riddle; we
can 't o-iioss it — there

fine we must all give
it up.

Wrongly Blamed.

Whisky often gets
the credil for making
tools of men who
were born foolish.

Wise Procrastination.
Never do any wor-
rying- today that j mi
ran just as well posi
pone until tomorrow.

Open Acknowledg-
ment.

When a man mar
ries for money it's
equivalent to an ad-
mission on his part
thai he could not gel
ii a ny at her way.

Just a Trifle!

Must of the things
that come tn those
who wait are a trifle
■-tali' by the t i mi- they

arrive.

The Test.
A man is not beat
en as long as he 's not
'lisi raged.

Is there a hardwood lumber association that is prepared to take my hand and
guarantee me a square deal ?

A Comparison.

A u ulna n 'S heart is
like a trolley ear — al-
ways room tin
more.

'I'le splendid, big machine Hits past.

With little i nisi, hum shaft nr gear;
Well-planned ami powerful and fast.

Its whir falls lightly mi tin ear

Automobile and Man.

Willi heavy chug and rasping elank
Tim poorlj maiii machine goes by,

Proclaiming its Inferior rank
Ami failing « here the hills am high

Ami thus it is witli men: the cheap

And noisy ones are not the I,

That triumph where the hills are

And easy ways ar< hard in find.

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AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

Black Locust.
Robinia Psi udacocia — Linn.

The range of the Mack locust extends
through the eastern part of the United
States from Pennsylvania (on the Appa-
lachian Mountains from Locust Ridge in
Marion County) to northern Georgia, al-
ii gh it has been widely naturalized through

cultivation and other agencies throughout the
country oast of the Rocky Moun-
tains. It is perhaps indigenous as
a Ionn shrub in parts of Arkansas
and .■astern Indian Territory, and
also in the Great Smoky Mountains
of eastern Tennessee. It is no-
where common. In the Appalachian
forests it grows singly or in small
groups, but is most abundant and
of largest size on the western slopes
of the Alleghanies of West Vir-
ginia. It often spreads by under-
ground struts into broad thickets oi
small and often stunted trees.

The black locust lias been exten-
sively introduced into Europe, both

for orna ntation and' for wood,

the first transplanting having been
made early in the seventeenth cen-
tury by Jean Kobin, the botanist
for whom the genus is named.

In nearly all the states where it
is found it is known as the locust
,,, 'Muck locust. It is also known
as the yellow locust in Vermont,
Massachusetts, New York, Pennsj I
vani-a, Delaware, Virginia, West
Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Illinois, Indiana, Kansas. Nebraska,
and Minnesota; as the white locust
in Rhode Island and Now York;
as the red locust, green locust, and
white locust iu Tennessee, as the
acacia in Louisiana, as the false
acacia in Smith Carolina, Alabama
and Texas, and as the honey locust
and. false acacia in Minnesota. In
Maryland it is known as the pea-
flower locust and post locust. Its
distinguishing characteristics arc the
Blusters of large pea-blossom shaped
flowers, the beau-shaped pods, three
to six inches in length, and the
prickles on the bark.

Its leaves are compound and
alternate, with leaf-stalks that are
hollowed" at the base and which
cover the buds of the succeeding
year. They are from eight to
fourteen inches long; odd pinnate, with from
eleven to twenty-five oval leaflets; they are
entire, hetted-vein and glabrous; downy, when
young, and later pale beneath and dark-green
above, turning yelloV in early autumn.

A peculiar habit of the tree is the folding
of its leaflets and the drooping of its leaves
on rainy days and on the approach of even-
ing. Parkinson, describing it in 1640, ob-

FORTIETH PAPER.

srived "each leaf foulding itself double
er; evening upon Sunne setting and open-
ing again upon the rising.''

The flowers open late in May or early in
June in axillary, drooping racemes and are
filled with nectar and very fragrant. Their
petals are white, pea-like, on slender pedicels
one-half inch long. The fruit ripens late iu
the autumn, is three to four inches long and

TYPICAL FOREST GROWTH BLACK LOCUST, SWAIN
COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA.

one-half inch wide, with bright, red-brown
valves, usually four to eight seeled, and
mostly persistent until the end of winter or
early spring. The bark of the tree is from
one to one and a half inches thick, deeplj
furrowed, dark brown tinged with red, rough
and broken in ridges.

Tic wood is heavy and exceedingly hard,
strong and close-grained, very durable in

contact with the ground; brown or rarely
light green, with pale, yellow sapwood of two
or three layers of annual growth. The weight
of a cubic foot of the seasoned wood is forty-
five pounds.

Snow says of this tree : ' ' Black locust
wood is tough, durable, unequaled for tor
sicmal strength and resilience, and is in ever)
way in the front rank of American woods
It is. fitted not only for exposed
constructions, but for finer articles,
having no superior for hubs, pins,
bolts and trenails. ' '

The black locust is an attractive-
tree when young, and grows rapidly,
becoming sturdy and spreading in a
few years. It reaches a height of
fn mi seventy to eighty feet and has
a trunk growing sometimes to three
and four feet in diameter, its usual
size being from ten to twenty four
inches, with small, brittle, usually
erect branches forming a narrow,
oblong head.

The tree everywhere, except in the
mountainous parts of its natural
range, is subject to attack by an
insect called the locust-borer, which
rapidly destroys its value both as
timber and as an ornament. They
riddle the wood, even to the twigs,
and no effective means of combating
them are known.

Commercially, the wood is used
for posts and ribs of vessels. It is
a very good wood for spokes, its
vertical resistance being one-third
greater than that of oak. It is also
uf'ten use, I lei- nines nt' ladders, but
its must important use in the United
States is for telegraph and telephone
insulator pins, being the most pre-
ferred wood for this purpose and
commanding the highest price.

The picture showing typical for-
est growth of black locust, with
which this article is illustrated, is
from a photograph recently made
in the forests of the Montvale Lum-
ber Company in Swain county,
Neith Carolina, where the tree is
found interspersed on the ridges
villi red oak and chestnut oak.

In most sections along the Ap-
palachian Range, where black locust
of the highest type grows in greater
profusion than in any other part of
the United States, very little atten-
tion has been paid to its utilization for com-
mercial purposes. With the immense increase
in the building of telegraph and telephone
lines, which creates an immense demand for
insulator pins, much more attention could be-
profitably paid by lumbermen in the sections
noted to the manufacture of these pins.
They command *a high price and the demand
exceeds the supply.

HANS DIEIRKS

KANSAS CITY, MO.

supplement to
Hardv^ooo Record

november 10, 1906

ILLUSTRATING

BUILDERS OF LUMBER HISTORY

HARDWOOD RECORD

17

'Builders of Lumber History.

Hans Dierks.
Si 1 poi trait 8-upplemt nt.

Hans Dierks, the subject of the sketch and
portrait supplement presented in lliis issui
"i the II AKDwiKPi) Record, is a type of thi

- ssful and capable German stock which

has become a structural part of out nation
ality. He was born near Hamburg March
II. 1850, but is to all intents American, for
his parents emigrated to thi.s country and

located on a t'arn ar Clinton, la., when

he was but two years old. He secured the
education that the public schools of the place
afforded and worked on his father's farm
from the end of his school days until liis
twenty-fourth year. At that time he married
-Miss Bertha Schmitt of Clinton and began
farming on his own account, buying a place
near Walnut, la.

His inclinations and abilities, however,
found too narrow a scope in agricultural pur-
suits and in 1881 he formed a partnership
with his brother, John Dierks, and a Mr.
Lampson for the purpose of carrying on a
retail lumber business. The firm operated
yards at Walnut and other points in Iowa
until 1884, when the co-partnership was dis-
Mibeil and the holdings disposed of to various
parties. Hans Dierks then moved to Ne-
braska and started yards at Juniata and
Kenesaw, but he practically only established
them, for in 1885 he sold the properties to
Howard Bros, of Denver, Col. The same
year, however, he laid the foundations for
the great system of interests which has since
become known as the Dierks Lumber &
I 1.1I Company by .starting lumber yards at
Broken Bow and Litchfield. Neb., taking into
partnership his brother Herman and styling
the firm Dierks Bros. Later on Peter and
Henry Dierks, also brothers, were taken into
the firm, although Henry died about Four
years afterward, and new yards wen' added
to those already owned until the total number
under the control of the partnership amounted
to thirteen. In 1893 they moved their head
quarters to Lincoln, Neb., and incorporated
under the name of the Dierks Lumber & Coal
< 'company.

In 1S9U Mi. hierks removed to Kansas City
and opened a retail yard at Sixteenth and
Magee streets, and the same year broadened
his business by establishing a planing mill
at Petros, 1. T.. where he manufactured the
output of the small sawmills in that vicinity.
In 1889 1 In- present extensive manufacturing
interests of the Dierks Lumbei >\ Coal Corn-
pan 1 wen 1 ounded bj 1 be ei ect ion of a lai gi
yellovc pine saw and planing mill at De

Q 11. Ark., and the following year a modern

uood band mill was established at the
same place. As conditions arose which aece
sitated the extension of the company's busi
ness. they were met in a practical and com

prehensiM manner. The Di Qi 0 and

Eastern, a standard gauge railroad, fifty miles

NUMBEU XXXIV.

long, lapping 100, :n res of fine 3 ellovi

pine and hardwood timberland owned by the
impany, was built, the mills were constantly

PRINT (IF BLACK LOCUST FOLIAGE.

improved by the addition of modern ap-
pliances, and the distribution of the lumber
from the forest to the consumer through the

ium oi the retail yards and othei sources
was developed to a high degree of efficiency.

I he mills at I le Queen 1 he com

puny have a daily capacitj of lfi0,000 feet
of yellovi pine and 10,000 feet of hardwoods.

The headquarters of the Hierks Lumbe/
& Coal Company arc still located at Lincoln,
Neb., from which point the business of the
retail yards, now numbering eighteen, is
direi ted, p, bill 1 he general ma nagement of
the mill, railroad and timber interests of the
concern is carried on from Kansas City. The

present holdings of the eompi - in which

Hans Dierks is the controlling figure and
principal owner, namely, the Dierks Lumber
\ foal Company, the He Queen and Eastern
Railroad, and the Hierks & Sons Lumber
Company of Kansas City, exceed in value
$2,000,000.

The career of Haus Hierks is an incentive
to anyone who knows it. He started with no
financial advantages other than those held by
numerous young men in this country and by
strict application to business, an opportune
grasp of advantages as they came within his
vision, and the foresight to broaden his enter
prises to meet the needs of the times built up
a series of operations which give employment
to hundreds of men and are financially among
the strongest in his section of the country.

Mr. Dierks has four children, Herman, who
is manager of the mills at De Queen, Ark.;
Harry, who has charge of the wholesale offices
at Kansas City; Mrs. Ada Frey, who lives at
Broken Bow, Neb., and Miss Rosa Hierks.
He takes an active interest in lodge matters
and is a member of the Elks, 1 Idd Fellows.
A. O. U. W., and the ( oncatenated Order of
II00-H00.

HardWood Record jVfa*7 Bag.

[In this department it is proposed to reply
to such inquiries as reach this office from the
Hardwood Record clientage as will be of enough
general interest to warrant publication. Every
patron of the paper >s invited to use this de-
partment to the fullest extent, and an attempt
will be made to answer queries pertaining to all
matters of Interest to the hardwood trade, in
a succinct and intelligent manner.!

Rock Elm Dimension.

New Ycikk. i >ii *jf Editor Hardwood Rec-
ord We wish to gci into communication with
a mill that can gef ouf small sizes in rock elm,
in squares .iml dowels, and could use a carload
a month.

I f any of the readers of 1 he 1 1 \un» ood
Record can supply the requirements asked
for in this letter they will be put into com
mimical ion with 'tic writer by addressing tins
office I'm

Seeking Black Walnut.

Wii.m 1 m. pin. 1 ml. 1 id 31. Editor 1 1 urn-

u Record: Can you assist us by giving us

the 11.' s of well-known walnut manufacturers

win, would likely have * .. . ■"•„ ami :'-, Inch thick

in. 1. \\ 1 ha re an order to place for 100,

<ii and will give hank guarantee oi the ac
mm and "ill paj slghl draft attached to hill
of lading, less two per tent.

Such terms an attractive, of course, to anj
one, unci perhaps you could find a mill for us

that would want this order. We Uiink the -Mis
souri and Arkansas walnut ought to be all right

for this. .

The writer of the above letter has been
supplied with the address of quite a number
of walnut producers, but others who wish to
be put into communication with him may ad-
vise this office. — Editor.

Concerning Log Scale.

Amsterdam, Holland, Oct. 9. Editor Hard-
wood Record: We have a question at issue with

one of our buyers about the asurement of

poplar logs. We sold our buyer in dollars per
1,000 square feet and he demands a calculation
to he made -7 inches and under, per the Doyle
rule-, and us inches and over, per Si Tinner's

I'llle. while We eali'llhllecl In 111 lit pel' Uoyle TUlC

We would like to know which is correct. —

Both the Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation nt the United States and the National

Hardw I I ber Association authori

their official log measui ernes

Scribner rule, which calculi 27 inches

and Nihlia by the I >oj le rule and 2S

ami o\er In the Scribner rule This rule,

then, is practically the official and standard

on-' iii the I ni" However, in some

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HARDWOOD RECORD

few states of the United States the Doyle
rule is the legal measurement. In default of
a contract to the contrary the Doyle-Scribner
rule would prevail. — Editor.

Factory Flooring, 13-16 inch, must be of
such ;i character as will lay and give a good
serviceable floor, with some cutting. Lengths 1
to lu feet. — Editor.

Wants Chairs.
Greenville, III., net. 24. — Editor Hardwood
Record: We use considerable special medium
quality chairs, and would appreciate it if you
could put us into communication with firms
that manufacture them. — .

These people have been supplied with the
name of our prominent chair concern. Other
chair manufacturers desiring it will bo put
into communication with them on addressing
this office. — Editor.

Grades of Maple Flooring.
Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 1. — Editor Hard
wood Record: Will you kindly post me on the
rules governing lie grading of hard maple floor-
ing?— .

Below are the rules on which maple floor
my is manufactured and inspected:

('leak. 1:: li: inches, shall have one face free
of all defects, but the question of color shall not
be considered Standard lengths in all widths
in this grade shall be j to 16 feet, inclusive: the
proportion of lengths 2 to 3^6 feet shall be what
the stock will produce up to seven per cent.

No. 1. 13-16 inch, will admit of tight, sound
knots and slight imperfections in dressing, hut
must lay without waste Standard lengths in
this grade shall be trimmed from l1^ to 16

feet inclusive.

Dimension White Ash Wanted.

Bremen, Germany, Oct. 1-. — Editor Hard-
wood Record: We have an inquiry for ash. as
follows :

Sample carload of straight, tough, white ash
free from all defects and well bundled: half the
quantity l%xl%"; half the quantity 1'jxl V.
in lengths of -fi.j. 5. 5%, II. t'.'-j and 7 feel
Shipment to Bremerhaven, Geestmuende,

Knowing no mill or exporter who can deliver
this, we take the liberty to ask you to name us
sonic mills or exporters who can deliver such
-lock. — .

Anyone able to supply the demand noted
in this letter will lie put into communication
with the concern by addressing this office. —
Editor.

In Market for Oak and Ash Baluster Stock.

Brooklyn, n. v.. Sept. 6.— Editor Hardwood
Record: Could you refer me to some mills cut-
ting baluster siock l%xl%x24" in oak and ash?

Will take any quantity. — — .

Tlie above correspondent has been supplied
with the addresses of several firms which
may be in position to furnish its neeils in
this line, but if readers of the Record who arc
interested in this inquiry will communicatt
with this office they will lie put in touch with
this buver. — EDITOR.

Some Pointers on Piling.

So much has been said on the subject
I piling lumber that it would seem as if

it wort mparatively easy to get satis

factory results, ami yet tin: most skillful
lumbermen still find unsolved problems in
the work. One difficulty may be seen in
i lie accompanying photograph, which is a
view in the yard of a man who takes great
pains in the care of his stuck. As can be
seen, the stock has been carefully as-
sorted for widths before piling, and due
care lias been exercised in the actual work
of piling, but, even witli this, there re-
mains tin' problem of those extending ends
of boards longer than the main body of
the pile which are scattered here ami there
through it and exposed to the weather

in a manner that unites nun ■ less dam-

agS

'.'Why not assort fur length,'' may be
asked, "and make it all of stock of even
length?" Such a proposition would not be
as easy as it looks. It has already been
assorted for width, and to assort for both
width and length in detail would call for
more piling room than is available.

The condition considered here was
whether to assort for lengths or to assort
lot widths, ami the lumberman whose yard
is shown considered the assorting for
widths the mo:e important. Unquestion-
ably, he was right. The assorting for
lengths was not sacrificed entirely, but it
was impracticable under the circumstances
to supply a separate piling place for every

length as well .is for every width and
grade and. as a consequence, the results
are as shown. Under the circumstances
Moie can be very, little criticism, if any,
of the course pursued in this particular in-
stance. There is. however, a problem to
be solved— that of taking care of the ex
tending ends. One man suggests that in-
stead of being scattered here and there
throughout the pile they might all have
been placed in one tier or two tier-, as
their quantity might make necessary, thus
getting them together on one side of the
pile, so that by being grouped in this man-
ner they would furnish a certain amount
of protection for themselves. The sugges-
tion would be good, if it were known how
many long boards there would be. but they
were put on the pile just as they came. In
other words they were an uncertain quan-
tity and to set apart a certain space in
the pile for them would be a matter of
guess work.

Simple as it may look, it is quite an
undertaking in the practical piling of lum-
ber to conform to anything like the ideal.
nt eourse ii is possible to take a given
quantity of lumber am1, fix it up all right,
but to take the output of a hardwood mill
;.s it comes from I he .saws, assort if and
pile it on the yard from d:i\ to day and
maintain anything like the ideal is really
much more difficult than it looks, and the
problem shown here is only one of many
that confronts mill nun every day and still

lacks an entirely satisfactory solution.
It is interesting in this connection to
note how widely we differ from our Eng
lish cousins, especially in the matter of
piling oak. The\r pile the product of each
log together, while with us. instead of try-
ing to keep together the product of any
one log, we begin by assorting il for grade
and then follow by assorting it for thick-
ness and width, and also in a measure for
length, so that the product of one log may
be scattered into a dozen different piles. It
is not the purpose here to enter into a
discussion of the two systems, for much
depends on where and how the product is
to lie used, but it is desired to call atten-
tion to the fact that the proper piling
of hardwood lumber as it comes from the

TILED ECU! WIDTHS, SHOWING ONE OF
THE COMMONEST PROBLEMS l\ PILING.

mill is a subject thai might be discussed
at association meetings with fruitful re-
sults, because as simple as the work looks
to the casual observer, it is really not
only full of complications but it is an im-
portant factor in making or marring the
reputation of a mill man. which is another
way of saying that it has a direct bearing
■ • 1 1 the profit and loss account.

American Office Furniture in Egypt.

special Agent Charles M Pepper of the con
sular service in a report on the commercial pos
sibiliiies of Egypt stales that it is the concur-
rent testimony that in office and household
furniture there is an excellent opening for the
manufacturers of the United Stales.

The fine grades ami decorative sivies which
are supplied by Europe will always be in demand
ii\ the wealthier classes, hut they have not the
possibilities of growth as have the more sub-
stantial articles manufactured in the United
siahs. because the latter meet the demands of
the classes whose ability to buy is increasing
and who are demanding more material comfort
for their dwellings, office furniture is in very
good demand. Roll top desks have found their
way into numerous offices and commercial houses
in Alexandria and Cairo and are also shipped
as far as the Soudan. There is a market for
all kinds of desk's, tables, chairs, settees and
even for folding beds

HARDWOOD RECORD

19

Semu Annual National Hardtoood Lumber Association

The National Hardwood Lumber Associa-
tion held a semi-annual a tiny on Thurs-
day and Friday, October 25 and 26, at the
Hotel Havlin, Cincinnati. Although the hotel
is now ami has only recently been thrown
open tip the public il"' service was of the
best, the comfort and desires of the un-
usually large number of guests being at-
tended i" with efficiency and dispatch. The
culinary service, in particular, was excellent.

The meetings of the association were held
in the Grand Opera House, the large size of
which offered every opportunity for debate

The formal host of the occasion was the
Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati, the mem-
bers nt' which, both as .a body and as indi-
viduals, were tireless in their efforts to stimu-
late g I fellowship among the visitors. Un-

der their supervision a smoker was held on
Thursday evening in the banquet room of the
hotel in which refreshments, tobacco and in-
formal talks formed the chief features. In
the absei f any set program the Cincin-
nati men saw to it that everybody l>ecame
acquainted with everybody else, and their
tactful efforts in this direction resulted in
an enjoyable evening for the guests in at-
tendance.

THURSDAY MORNING SESSION.

At the opening of the morning session
the first day of the meeting, Thomas .1.
MoilVtt, president of tin- Lumbermen's Club,
welcomed the visitors on behalf of his or-
ganization and proffered them the assistance
of the members in any direction they might

wish and the use oi tl lub rooms during

their stay in tin- city.

The meeting proceeded to business with
the address of the president and the reports
of the officers.

Address of President.

Ai Hi.- hi st meeting of your board of managers
it was suggested that we should change our
constitution anil by-laws and admit consumers
Into tin' association as associate members, ami

thai we hold a semiannual 1 ting to consider

that question.

Tin' board after discussing tin- subject fully
Issued the call and I am glad 10 see so many
..I you show your interest by your presence here
today. That tin- influence ami usefulness of the
association is increasing and the benefits de-
rived by our members are appreciated is evi
denced by the work now being don,- by our in-

S] lion department and the applications we are

1 iving tor membership. Last year our in-
crease in mbership was phenomenal, Inn I

am pleased in inform you that since our Mem
phis meeting we have taken in forty per cent
11 e ■ 1 - members 1 ho 11 for the same period in
1905 When you consider that there has been
no unusual or concentrated effort put forth to
bring about these results, and thai practically
tin- entire lumber press has done all they could
to bring aboul dissension and discord, you will
realize two things, thai tin- National Hardwood
Lumber Association is making good, and that
lumbermen will not be dictated to or take advice
from mini who have no practical knowledge oi
our business, and who in order to get something
in their papers' that a busy man will read at
tempt to array lumbermen against Lumbermen

for reveni nly. Have these papers the good

of Hie trade ai heart? I say no. They have

ai tempted to prove ever since tin- annual 1 1

inn held here in your beautiful city thai we are
ai war with our sister association, the Hardwood
Manufacturers' Association of the Dnited states.
but I want to say here that this association has
lexer, since the meeting I have mentioned, dis
cussed or criticised 'he methods or policy the
Manufacturers' association is pursuing. I he

lieve that you all think as I do. and thai is.
they an- doing good work, for Hiey add Interest
ami zest to our work and do not let your officers
go i" sleep. Their work, while somewhat siml
far to ours, is on different lines, and while we
do not believe in some of the things they ad
vance. 1 know you all join me in wishing not
only them hul all associations of lumbermen sue

cess.

In regard to admitting consumers as associate

mheis. I wish 10 say that I have given the

matter a greal deal of thought and I believe
thai il wili he a mistake to change our constitu
lion and by-laws. The progress we have made
the work accomplished, the success thai has ai
tended our efforts, all c.rove thai we are na\
eling on the righl load Lei us keep this ass,,
eiation for lumbermen only- The consumer
would have nothing to gain by being admitted
lie can secure all the benefits of our inspection
system by buying his lumber from our members
lie would have no interest in our work except
in a general way. and 1 doubt if he would avail

himself of Urn privilege if we agr I to admit

him. 1 recommend that no change I"- made in
our constitution ami by-laws.

I NSPECTION DEPARTMENT.

Chairman Knight will in his report give the
details of the work accomplished. This depart
inent is the keystone of our structure and 1
believe that but few of our members realize Hie
amount of work and cure necessary in this de-
partment. We now have a corps of eighteen
salaried inspectors located in markets from Bos
ton to New Orleans.

« II lil SSE, PRESIDENT, MEMPHIS, TENN

Your Executive Committee lias been handi

capped by unjust criticism and requests fr

local markets to name inspectors to he appointed
for their markets, and we have i ived pro-
tests for noi consulting the local markets in
making appointments. We realize thai to make
lie inspection department a success h must he
run on strictly business principles, sentiment must
not enter into il. and our inspectors must mil

he influenced by local ideas of inspecting. \\'c
until the man in New York, and the man in
Memphis, the man in si Louis, Chicago, I'hila
deiphia. Grand Kapids, Cincinnati or wherever
he may he placed to he aide lo measure lumber
Within the lour per cenl clause, and we are glad

to inform you that we believe by 'he May I

ing we will he able to show you an Inspection
departmenl thai will not only he the pride of

every mber, but thai every member ami everj

consumer buying his lumber under our certificate
will nut onl.\ know lust whai Is and lis under
our rules are. hul will know he will gel lie same
grade, whether measured lo the deputy ai Mem
phis. New York or Boston, and I ask every mem
her in he patienl and reserve his criticisms ami
protests uniii he limls the Judgment of your

officers has I n wrong and that you have made

a mistake in placing the reins in their hands,
and I wish you also lo bear in mind thai to
bring about uniform inspection in this entire
country is ao1 the work of a day Give us your
assistance, help us along and there will he no
question aboul 'he result.

FINANCES

in this connection when the treasurer and
secretary present Heir repori you will find that
it is costing this association $40,000 pei year
ai our present rate of expense ami thai we are
now wanting five or si\ additional inspectors,
and if the demand continues we shall probably

have a corps of ins] tors composed <»f thirty

in thirty-five salaried men. bearing in mind that
we only want Hie best. You can readily see

thai we will have to provide al $60,000

Our revenue from inspection fees varies So far
this year we have paid everything we owed and
have a small balance on hand, ami I have mi
tear of any deficit ai the end "i the year, hut

feel that our dues of $23 ih t furnish enough

money to give ns the working capital we need
and I recommend we increase He- dues to $35 or
s.'.o per year.

The commit appointed bj ex President I'al

mer to confer with the Exporl association ,in
reference 10 the appointment of an inspector
abroad, look up the question with a like com
mittee appointed by the Exporl association and
reported as nor in favor of such an appointment.

INSPECTION 111 i.es.

AI the meeting in Buffalo il was decided nut
lo change our rules for three years. Then
seems to he a feeling among some of our mem
Inrs that we should change I hem. and I have
no doubt but thai the question will be brought
nil ai this meeting. 1 believe some slighl dis

rrepancies could I lilninaled and smile minor

changes could be made that would assisl lie
inspectors. Inn I do noi think we should make
any radical change in the rules at this tine

I wish in congratulate you mi the present
condition of the market. Prices are firm and
will rule higher unless some unforeseen calamity
occurs. Stocks arc [ighl all over Hie country.
and when I see so many of you attending this
meeting at this busy season I realize more than
ever thai our association is bound lo continue lo
lead and thai our efforts and work will mil
and have noi been in vain.

Secretary's Report.
The report of Secretary fish showed in
detail the activities of th.- association ami
rendered a statement of the finances insofar
as they pertained to Ins office.

The National Hardwood Lumber Association
has made progress during the time which ice-
elapsed since our lasi meeting, and as our field
of operation broadens the responsibilities of the
officers and hoard of managers increase. As your
secretary it affords me pleasure to testify thai
the interests of the association have received the
same careful study and attention from the offi
eels ami directors elected ai Memphis as those
gentlemen devote lo their personal business in
terests.

As indicated by Hm report submitted at Mem

phis, practically n ntire time during "v first

nine months in office was directed toward secur
ing an increase in our membership, and on May
:;, last. Hie association records showed an ap
proximate increase of 40 per cent over the year
previous. As a result of the growing demand
in all sections for Hie services of National inspec
tors, and Hie consequent necessity of the but
veyoi general being absent from the office a ma
iority of the time, the executive committee, ai

a meeting held on June 11. voted to transfer I he

entire correspondence pertaining to the inspec
Hon bureau to the charge oi the secretary, thus
relieving the surveyor general of all work other
than the important duly of keeping in dose
touch wiih the Inspectors throughout the United
States

As a resull of this decision by Hie executive

b d the majority of my time since June il has

been occupied in the Inspection bureau work, the
results of which will be fully covered by the re
port of He ehairm: i the Inspection bureau

i iillllllil tee.

Although comparatively little Hm,' has been
ilevoie.l io the work of securing new members,
our records show sixty-seven new application

have I n received and accepted -lie.- May ::.

which places Hm total membership at ibis time
ii 541, and Hm fad thai To per ceni ..r these
new members an manufacturers of lumber may

he of interest M may I ntirely proper to also

eall the attention of our membei to i lie fad
ibai a recent checking of the lisl lo 8 certain

111,' pe-1'ccnlac.e Of manufacturers ,,u the llU'iubel

ship roll indicates aboul 03 per i enl 01 i h
represents the manufacturing branch of the hard
wood trade

The finances have received careful : ntion

and amounts collected have I a a little

i fan -iiili, i< aii el our iii, reasetl exi

State in of receipts and disl In

Mm- 1 is as follows

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IPTS.

Membership dues § 8,950.00

Inspection fees 11,193.38

Sales of Inspection rules :;02.07

Cash deposits 2 1

Reins| tlements 494.74

L40.19

t'lSIlLKSE.V !

Remitted to i reasurer si'l. I

In addition to the above, the amount realized
from the fund of San Francisco sufferers of
$1,045 was remitted to the treasurer.

In conformity with the by-laws, the executive
committee have held meetings as follows: May
4. 1906, at Memphis, June 14 and 15 at Chi-
and August 16 and 17 a full meeting of
the board of managers was held at Chicago.
Further proof of the growth of the association
is found in the fact that during former
the hoard of managers have been able to' dis-
pose of all business during one day's session,
but under the present conditions it has been
necessary to devote two days to matters pre-
sented for their consideration. All these meet-
ings have been well attended and the chairmen of
the inspection bureau committee and the i
spection rules committee have also been pies
ent.

Result- obtained through publishing the
proceedings of our Buffalo convention in pamph-
let form were so satisfactory that the board
of managers issued instructions to publish the
official report of our ninth annual convention at
Memphis in similar form. Copies of this report
nave been senl all members and several thou-
sand additional copies have been distributed

0 0 AGLER FIRST VICE" PRESIDENT, CHI-
CAGO, ILL.

among consumers ami oilier uon-memDers. The
I. and book issued in October last proved of much
value in acquainting the trade with the methods
employed by Ihe inspection bureau, and revised
copy is now in the hands of our printer for
another edition, in which will be included a
complete list of inspectors anil members.

The recommendation of the committee on offi-
i- reports that our members adopt the em-
Mem in use on the stationery at the executive

office has i ii followed by a number of our

members, but we si ill have a supply of these
which I will be pleased to furnish on ap-
plication.

I desire to thank you for the liberal support
given my office and for your attention to this
report.

Treasurer's Report.

Tn presenting Ms report Treasurer .J. Wat!
Graham called attention to the stable finan-
cial condition of the organization and
showed a surplus on hand.

ed San Francisco fund $ 1,045.00

June 25, J. B. 1'helan, chairman re-
lief and Red Cross committee 1,045.00

ASH DEPOSIT FUND.

0. E. Seager, treasurer 1,800.4]

Deposit eight inspectors 200.00

> 2. 000. 41
Refunded to thirteen inspectors 325.00

Balance s 1,675.41

General fund. O. E. Yeager, treasurer 520.47

Dues 358 members 8,950.00

Inspection lees 11,223.23

Reinspection 514.89

Inspection rules 302.07

$21,510.66

DISBURSEMENTS.

I; inspection s 756.72

Official stenographer .Mem

phis meeting 152.20

.Secretary's salary . $1,600.00
Office and traveling

expenses . 1,565.31

Rent 448.00 4,072.57

Printing 559.26

Surveyor general's

salary $1,200.00 2,135.69

Surveyor general's
office and trav-
eling expenses. 935.69

inspector's salary. ..$7,014.35 8,644 19
Inspector's expen-
ses 1.030.14

Treasurer's bond.. 15.00
Incidental expen-

ses l.",il. SO

Balance paid on

Talbot. deposit

account 4.8.". 15.'..'.:S.;',2

$ 5,572.34
The customary committee was appointed to
receive and audit the reports of the secre-
tary and treasurer. The committee consisted
of Earl Palmer, Carrol] I' Sweei and .1. B.
Wall.
Report of Inspection Bureau Committee.

The report of the Inspection Bureau Com-
mittee was read by Chairman \V. W. Knight,
and showed an increase of five men in that
department sinci May 1.

The report presented at Memphis snowed
ten salaried inspectors. Since May 1 we have
added rive men to the list of salaried inspectors,
as follows: An assistant at Memphis, New
York and Chicago, and inspectors have been
placed at Boston and Baltimore, bringing the
present list ,,t salaried inspectors up to sixteen.
The men are stationed as follows:

i 'hieago. III 2

New Vork City 2

Memphis, Tenn •'

Buffalo, N. Y 3

Boston. Mass i

Baltimore, Md l

Philadelphia, Pa i

.Milwaukee, Wis 1

St. Louis. Mo, . , i

Cincinnati, O "

Grand Rapids, Mich j

New i irleans, La l

We have now a request for an additional in-
spector at Cincinnati, as the applications re-
ceived from that market are more than one
man can handle, and it is believed St. Louis will
require another inspector within a short time.

During the five months beginning May 1,
1906, and ending October 1, 1906, the salaried
inspectors' certificates show a total of over
16,000,000 feet, and the fee inspectors during
the same time have issued certificates on 32.000,-
000 feet. During this period the salaried in-
! is have earned SO. 692. 05. and the fee in-
spectors have remitted to this office $1,500.73,
making the total inspection fees collected by the
secretary and remitted to the treasurer $11,-
193.38, covering all expenses of the bureau.

The books show that the salary and expense
of inspectors during the same period amounts
(8,301.18, so that the total expense of main
taining the present salaried force has been fully
covered by their earnings. These figures do not
include the salary and expense of the surveyor
general, which amounts to $1,935.39 for the past
live months.

Applications from members for inspection at
points where we are unable to maintain a regu-
lar salaried inspector have increased so rapidly
that arrangements have been made with the
assistant inspector at Chicago to ha'ndle these
requests, which insures prompt and improved
service on requests of this nature.

In the report presented at our ninth annual
convention in Memphis reference was made to
the difficulty experienced in getting competent
inspectors. We have recently obtained applica-
tions from about 100 inspectors now employed
as a result of an advertisement, which have
been thoroughly investigated among references
and are now on file. Yvith this list to draw

from it is believed we will be able to set satis-
factory men as promptly as they may be
needed.

I would suggest urging upon members the
importance of giving, in their applications for
reinspection, the number of the original certifi-
cate, together with ihe name of the inspector,
as considerable delay will be avoided through
following this plau. At present very few of
theni follow the plan and correspondence and
consequent delay result.

Your committee wishes to call attention to
the fact that today the surveyor general has no
calls for reinspection on hand, wdiich we con-
sider a very favorable condition of affairs, and
in the opinion of the chairman is largely ac-
counted for by the personal work of the sur-
veyor general in the field, as he has visited
practically every market where we have paid
inspectors doing work for the association, and
has stayed wiih them a sufficient length of time
to not only see what sort of work they were
doing but to instruct them where, in his opin-
ion, the men were not doing the right sort of
work.

The total amount of lumber handled by sal-
aried and fee inspectors of 48,000.000 feet indi-
cates that the work of the association in this
direction is increasing, and has increased appre-
ciably in comparison with the corresponding five
months of last year, when the present surveyor
. qi ral was installed.

Report of Transportation Committee.

The report of the Transportation Commit-
tee, read by Chairman 0. O. Agler, was

C E LLOYD, JR.. SECOND VICE PRESI-
DENT. PHILADELPHIA, PA.

listened to with interest, as considerable ac-
tivity had been manifested by that committee
since the last meeting of the association.

For tic benefit of any members present who
weii m»t at the annual meeting at Memphis in
May, I wish to explain that the rate on lumber
from this territory to the Pacific coast is 85
cents per 100 pounds, and that the railroads are
bringing the coast product into this territory at
as low a rate as 40 cents per 100 pounds. The
Interstate Commerce transportation committee
was appointed at Memphis to do what it could
in the way of securing a reduction in the west
bound rate. Soon after our appointment we
found that a committee had been appointed by
the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association
at their .May meeting in St. Louis to take up
the same question. Their committee consisted
of John B. Ransom of Nashville, Tenn. : Eugene
Shaw of Eau Claire. Wis., and E. V. Arpin of
<:rand Rapids. Wis These gentlemen and your
committee have worked together in an effort
to secure an adjustment of the rate. On June
1 we were advised of a meeting to be held in
Chicago by the Transcontinental Freight Bu-
reau, and immediately filed formal request with
thein for a reduction in ihe west bound rate
from 85 to 00 cents, and also asked them for
a hearing of our committee. We met in Chicago
June 6, but as the meeting of the freight bureau
was postponed on that date to July 10. nothing
could be done except see some of the members
of the freight bureau personally with a view
of securing their cooperation in our behalf.
Your committee met again in Chicago on July

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16 and on the ImIi were given a hearing by
[he Transcontinental Freight Bureau. An op-
portunity was given each member of the com
tnittee to Btate our rase, and on account of
statements made to us by a number of the
individual members of t lie freight bureau we 1. It
sure that we would secure some concession;
advised, however, a few days later that
our application had been rejected, and that no
reduction would be made.

Your committee again met in Chicago on
August if, to outline a plan of action. We
found that certain new developments appeared
to warrant continued action among the indi-
vidual members of the Transcontinental Freight
Bureau, and we have recently been led to be-
lieve that some of the through lines in the
Northwest are preparing to put on a tariff of
60 cents per 100 from Chicago and common
points in the Pacific coast, based on a minimum
weight of 50,000 pounds. If tbis is done we
feel safe in saying that other lines will take
similar action, and it will result in our securing
the desired rate.

Report of Inspection Rules Committee.

The chairman of the Inspection Rules Com-
mittee, Theodore Fathauer, called attention
in his report to differences in opinion over
the construction of various rules in the code,
and stated the judgment of the committee
on certain questions.

Gentlemen of the convention : It seems to me
quite appropriate that on an occasion of this
land your chairman should advise you how he
interprets the rules of inspection as adopted by
this association. It is apparent to everyone in
the hardwood lumber business that even with
the greatest care and study it is very difficult
to describe all defects plainly in the rules of
inspection. I am well aware" of the fact that
some of the members of this association differ
with your chairman, especially as to the Inter-
pretation of that rule as printed on page 10,
-under caption "General Instructions." viz.:

"All fractions of three-quarters of a foot or
over must be counted up to the next higher fig-
ure. All fractions of less than three-quarters of
a foot must be counted to the next lower fig-
ure."

Of course, there can be no possible misunder-
standing as to the measure, for that is expressed
very plainly, but your chairman contends that
if you call up the measure you must also rail
up the grade. For example, if a board is 1 inch
thick. 5% inches wide and 12 feet long, and
otherwise up to the grade of firsts and seconds
demanded of a board f» incites wide, then this
hoard measured C. feet first and second and not
6 feet No. 1 common.

Likewise I contend that a hoard or plank
T->4 inches wide will carry tie- defects of a
board or plank S inches wide, and so on. In-
asmuch as we measure 34 of a foot as 1 foot.
we must also concede the fact that % of an
inch is 1 inch, for the unit and basis of lumber
measure is 1 inch by 12 feet long.

I have reeeivi-d a number of communications
in which I have been requested to describe sea-
son checks, stain and wane. These are three
defects which rim- committee has always found
it difficult to describe to its own satisfaction in
its inspection rules. That must be left entirely
to the judgment of the inspectors. No one can
pass judgment on these three defects without
seeing them, and T am unable to be of any
service to anyone addressing me on that subject.
It may he of some interest to you to know-
that your committee has even been requested to
describe a season cheek by giving the length,
width and depth of same. It has also been
suggested that as regards stain we should have
photographic impressions of what we termed
slightly discolored sap, etc. We also have ex-
perimented with the definition of wane, hut
have never been able to formulate one that
seemed satisfactory.

I have read statements in which the inspec-
tion rules were generally criticized, mainly that
they left too much to the judgment of the in-
spector. It has always been the aim of your
committee to be as concise and plain in forming
these rules as possible, and both manufacturers
and dealers were represented on the inspection
rules committee. I think anyone, whether or
not he is a member of this association, must in
all fairness admit that we have a set of in
spection rules that is more definite than any
Other in print today.

I have also read the comments and criticisms
in the American Lumberman, which were pub-
lished some time age. Practically all of their cor-
respondents were in favor of Inspecting lumber
on the good side. Their contention was sup-
ported by the statement that a very large per
centage of lumber in Its finished state showed
but one face. The latter statement Is undoubt-
edly correct. I must confess, however, to mv
surprise, that none of the correspondents ad-
mitted the fact that lumber In Its finished state

bowing inn one fail- is clear. Tbis well-known
fact was deftly avoided by till correspondents
I think it would I"- a very difficult matter to
find lumber in its finished state other than clear.
and as all hardwood lumbermen know, admitting

"in', two. tin anil four defects, according to

widths, on the j i' -id.', does not by any

means mean that the good side is clear." Man-
ufacturers and dealers are well aware of this.
All hardwood lumbermen know that to in-
specl particularly thick lumber on the good side
would be practically ridiculous. Even with tic
greatesl care in manufacturing hardwood lumber
it is not unusual to find 2 inch, 2%-inch, 3-inch
and 4-inch planks that are firsts and seconds
on the good side and No. 2 and even No. ::
common on the poor side. What would be the
result if all lumber were to be inspected on the
good side? It would not be a very difficult
matter, especially in sawing thick lumber, to
box your hearts, and yet you could produce
lirsts and seconds in that manner and under that
system of inspection. A system of that kind
would be ruinous to all interested, and I fail
to see bow any practical lumberman, after due
deliberation, can advocate such a system. Some
of the associations, whose membership consists
of none but hardwood lumber manufacturers.
have provided a rule, and refer to the fact
that in inspecting lumber both sides should be
taken into consideration, hut do not state defi-
nitely which side determines the grade.

Theodore Fathauer, Chairman.

.After the reports of the committees had
been read the chair stated that new busi-
ness would be in order, and Theodore Fath-
auer read a communication from the Lum-
bermen 's Club of Cincinnati stating that
the National rules of inspection governed
lumber in the rough aud made no provision
for dressed stock. The communication pre-
sented for the consideration of the meeting
a system of rules on dressed and worked
gum, dressed and worked poplar and on
maple and oak flooring. The rules offered
followed those of the Dressed Gum Lumber
Manufacturers' Association for gum; those
of the Maple Flooring Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation for maple; those of four large manu-
facturers of oak flooring for oak; and those
on dressed and worked poplar were pre-
pared by a committee of the Lumbermen 's
Club after correspondence with manufac-
turers in various parts of the country.

In the discussion which followed the
presentation of these rules Gregory S. Stew-
art asked whethei it was in order to offer
the rules at the convention, as it appeared
that tlie rules, as they wire passed at Buffalo
on rough lumber, should remain just as they
are and govern all kinds of lumber, eithei
rough or dressed.

E. E. Goodlander stated that thicknesses
should be specified on dressed lumber. Half-
inch lumber was dressed three-eighths tinder
the old rules and under the new rules it is
ihessei] one-sixteenth less. He stated that it
i- i In- same way with five-eighths.

G. E. milliard said that the association
could in it inspect cypress under the rules of
the Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation, because there are several grades
which it did not have, and suggested that
while the committee was working on the rules
pin]... so, | they should put in the balance of
tlio cypress rules which had been brought
down to date. 5e thought that the cypress
ml.- should be uniform with those of the
cypress association, but staled that there are
additions to these rules which had nut Mt
been adopted by the National.

C. F. Korn called attention to a letter
from the secretary of the Dressed Gum

Manufacturers' Association, which stated
thai they had added to the rules on the in-
spection of that ".urn ami requesting that
these rules be added in the National Asso
ciation rules.

Karl Palmer made a t ion to t he i B

that the action taken at Buffalo announcing
that the rules would not be changed for
three years be rescinded at this meeting. 1 1
v\ as objected to by Gardner I. Jones on the

| e,| that the addition of the rules did not

necessarily mean a change of rules, n, also
stated thai it would militate against the
stability of the association if the rules were
changed after having been fixed for three

Mars. Tli loir Fathauer stated that in his

opinion the adoption of the rules on dressed
lumber would not be rescinding the action
taken at Buffalo, but rather an addition or

supplement to the rules on hanlw I lumbei

in the rough. He thought that the rules on
hardwood lumber in the rough ought not to
1,.' changed, because they had been so widely
advertised and it would be a confession that
the association could not live up to its action.

Thomas .7. Moffett followed along the same
line, urging that it would be a serious mis-
take for the association to go on record at
Buffalo and then within the specified time
recall its action. He thought that the pro-
posed rules on dressed lumber could be in-
corporated without a change in the present
rules of the association, and he hoped that
such action would be taken.

An amendment to the original motion was
made by O. E. Yeager authorizing the com-
mittee to submit the rules to the different
markets, and it was seconded by ( '. E. Lloyd,
Jr. Mr. Lloyd stated that lie thought no
addition to the rules of the association ought
to be made without being submitted to every
member of the association, lb- thought also
that there was peed for rules on dressed lum-
ber, but that every member ought to see
them before tiny were finally adopted. In
replying to the amendment Ear] Palmer
slated that he concurred in it and in the
remarks made by Mr. Lloyd. He thought
that it would lie ample time for the com-
mit in to submil a set of rules on dressed
lumber til the .annual convention at Atlantic
City next year.

The question if it was necessary to change
lie rules adopted tit Buffalo in order to add
inspection rules on dressed lumber arose, and
Presidenl W. 11. Eusse made a statement to
the effect that he did not lielieve any radical
change ought to be made in tic rules. In
reply to a request fin' :i specific ruling from
\\ . 1,'. Barksdale mi the question whether the
addition of the rules mi dressed lumber was
a change in the present rules the chair said
that personally lie did not think it was, but
that lie did not wish to decide it. lie left
that to be decided by the members.

A motion was offered by Mr. Barksdale
that the addition of new rules was nut a
change in the old ones, and after con;
able discussion by various members w I
at times, was not exactly germane to

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HARDWOOD RECORD

subject, the motion was carried by a large
majority. Immediate action in the making
of the new rules on dressed lumber was then
urged. C. E. Lloyd, Jr., declared that the
convention should be in no hurry about the
matter, citing the fact that there were a con-
siderable number of manufacturers of worked
poplar to be heard from, and that if the
rules did not suit them it would be a diffi-
cult matter to ask them to join the asso-
ciation.

A motion was then made and carried that
the rules submitted by the Lumbermen's
Club of Cincinnati be referred to the In-
spection Rules Committee, and that a report
be made by that committee at the next an-
nual meeting at Atlantic City.

An invitation from the J. A. Fay & Eo;m
Company was read inviting the members in
attendance to visit the machinery manufac-
turing plant of the company.

Mr. Moffett recalled the fact that the in-
spection bureau was self-sustaining anil
thought that the association had reached a
state where it could furnish to its members
additional information. He suggested that
the association take up the question of com-
piling statistics as to the stocks of lumber
on hand and information as to the attitude
of buyers and sellers. He put the matter in
the shape of a motion and it was seconded.
After some discussion of the motion O. E.
Yeager moved as an amendment that the
matter be referred to the Board of Managers
to be reported at the May meeting. C. E.
Lloyd, Jr., spoke in support of the motion,
and the subject was also discussed by the
chairman, after which the amendment to
refer the matter to the Board of Managers
was carried.

FRIDAY MORNING SESSION.
The sessions of Friday were supposedly
executive in character, and were therefore not
reported by the Hardwood Record. The fol-
lowing abstract of the proceedings of that
day is kindly supplied by Frank F. Fish,
secretary of the association.

Upon the meeting being called to order
by President Russe, Earl Palmer, chairman
of the committee on officers' reports, sub-
mitted the following:

Mr. President: Your committee, after
carefully considering the addresses of the
officers of this association, submits the fol-
lowing report for the consideration of this
meeting:

THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS.

The concise, cogent and timely words of good
cheer and advice contained in the address of the
president of this association bespeak a man of
action whose leadership guarantees that the
ideals of past administrations are to become the
realities of the present.

The recommendations contained in his address
merit the careful consideration of the entire
membership and your committee therefore recom-
mends that the address herein referred to be
printed and a copy thereof be sent to each mem-
ber of this association, and this committee fur-
ther recommends that the recommendations con-
tained in his address be taken up section by sec-
tion at this meeting.

THE SECRETARY'S ADDRESS.

The address of the secretary demonstrates
that that important office is filled by a man
who has an intelligent grasp upon the duties
pertaining thereto and one upon whom this or-
ganization can always safely rely to successfully

administer the details of the work of this asso-
ciation in a manner that will completely safe-
guard the interest of the membership.

TREASURER'S REPORT.

The report of the treasurer exhibits a gratify-
ing condition in the finances of this association
and shows that careful attention is being paid to
that most important department of the associa-
tion on the part of the officer who has it in
charge. Earl Palmer,

C. F. Sweet,
J. Wall,

Committee.

The report of the committee was adopted.

On motion of Mr. Moffett the recommen-
dations of the president that consumers be
admitted as associate members and that no
change be made in the constitution and by-
laws under the heading of ' ' Membership ' '
were accepted and adopted.

On motion of Mr. Palmer it was decided
that it be recommended at the forthcoming
National meeting at Atlantic City that the
association raise its annual dues either to
$35 or $50 and that action on the subject
lie taken at that meeting.

Sonre discussion then prevailed concerning
the advisability of amending the inspect inn
rules, pointing out that "some slight dis-
crepancies could lie eliminated and some
minor changes be made that would assist
inspectors. ' '

Mr. Palmer moved that it be the sense of
the meeting that if any changes — any minor
changes — were necessary in the rules of the
association, the Inspection Rules Committee ,
be authorized to confer with any association
or any individuals that might have a de-
sire to change the rules and report at the
Atlantic City meeting.

The motion was seconded by Messrs. Stini-

son, Lloyd and Agler.

Mr. Bucklev : I understood that the resolu-
tion passed at Buffalo was in the shape of an
agreement or contract that the rules should not
be changed for three years. Now. I live up in
Michigan, and I know of no dissatisfaction there
with the present rules, except in the case of
one or two parties : and there are no Michigan
Maple Association rules of inspection. National
rules govern there, as you know very well, and
it would seem to be, if I understand the resolu-
tion passed at Buffalo properly, that it would be
breaking faith, it would be going back on a con-
tract. I do not like that. I do not think any
little minor changes are necessary. Why not let
them stand? I do not see any great dissatisfac-
tion in Michigan. There is an association being
formed there, but I do not think it will interfere
with our rules ; I do not think it will interfere
with us at all. I should hate very much to go
back on anything that we have done in the shape
of an agreement to maintain certain rules for a
certain period. If it is not binding upon us, and
we can consider it without going hack on our
word or our agreement, that is a different prop-
osition.

Mr. Palmer 's motion was lost.

After some discussion relative to amend-
ing the inspection rules on cypress to cor-
respond with the rules promulgated in Oc-
tober last by the Southern Cypress Manufac-
turers' Association, it was decided that it
was not necessary to pass a resolution in
order to have them so changed, as it was
understood that the rules for yellow pine and
cypress as adopted were those of the yellow
pine and cypress associations, and that any
amendment made in these rules would iorm
a part of the system of inspection as prac-
ticed by the National Hardwood Lumber
Association. It was decided that the Na-
tional inspectors be instructed to follow the
modified rules of the Southern Cypress Manu-

facturers' Association and of the Yellow Pine.

Association, and have the rules inserted in

the inspection book.

Mr. Ivorn : A great many of the members of
the National Hardwood Lumber Association are
manufacturers of dressed and worked lumber.
There is a good representation of them here at
this meeting. They got together since yester
day's meeting and talked the matter over. They
very much desire immediate relief from the con-
troversies that are continually arising in their
business by having dressed and worked lumber
roll's adopted at this meeting. In order to do
that it would be necessary to rescind the action
that was taken at this meeting whereby the
chairman of the rules committee was instructed
through the secretary to submit the rules to
the membership for action at the meeting at
Atlantic City next May. If I am in order I
therefore move that the action of the meeting
yesterday be rescinded and that the chairman
of the rules committee submit his report for
action at this meeting.

After some discussion a set of rules gov-
erning dressed poplar was presented and
adopted.

The- rules governing the inspection of oak
flooring, as adopted by the oak flooring
manufacturers, were then adopted.

The rules of the Maple Flooring Associa-
tion were then adopted.

The rules of the Dressed Gum Manufac-
turers' Association were then adopted.

Mr. Lioyd as chairman of the committee on
the action before the Interstate Commerce
Commission against the railroads by the va-
rious lumber associations, made a report re-
citing the history of the litigation up to date.
The information contained in this report has
already been recited in the Hardwood
Record.

The report was received and a vote of
thanks given the committee.

Mr. Knight offered a resolution authoriz-
ing the change in the title of ' ' surveyor gen-
era 1" to that of "chief inspector," which
was adopted.

On motion of Mr. Spaulding a vote of
thanks was given the Cincinnati members for
their kind, courteous and royal treatment of
the visiting members.

Mr. Moffett responded on behalf of the
Cinncinnati Lumbermen's Club, with a few
well-chosen words of appreciation of the
pleasure of having the association a guest of
the club.

FRIDAY AFTERNOON SESSION.
On reassembling Mr. Palmer addressed the
convention as follows:

Mr. President, there is an officer of our asso-
ciation, or one who at one time was an officer
of this association, who as we understand it is
lying on a bed of serious illness. I do not know
as it is necessary for me to appear before this
meeting to tell you anything about the qualities
of that past officer of this association, but you
know that any mistakes that he made for you
in regard to the work of this organization have
always been mistakes of the head rather than
of the heart. I refer to C. I). Strode, now editor
of Strode's Lumber World. Mr. Strode, as I
am informed, is at present on a bed of illness,
and there are some doubts as to whether he will
ever return to the activities connected with the
lumber trade.

Now it is not necessary for me to tell you
gentlemen anything about Strode. You know all
about him ; you know more about him that I can
tell you in an hour's talk ; but with all his weak-
nesses Strode was ever and forever for the Na-
tional Association. It seems to me that in this
hour it is eminently proper for this association
to take some action in regard to his condition
today. If not for the benefit of Mr. Strode —
if this action comes too late for Charlie, well,
let us take action for his family. I understand
that possibly something more than a resolution
of sympathy is required. I do not know as to
that. There are others here that are better post-

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ed and who are going to follow ine in this talk;
but 1 can say for Charlie Strode that this asso-
ciation is under a debt to him, and it is a debt
that this association is willing to pay amply
whenever the opportunity presents itself. And,
gentlemen, the opportunity is before us at the
present time.

I move — subject to any amendment that may
follow — I move that we Bend a resolution to
Charlie Strode, or to Charlie Strode's family.
that this National Hardwood Lumber Association
in convention assembled deeply sympathize with
him in the hour of trial ; I hat our hearts go out
to him individually and if there is anything that
Charlie Strode or his family desires that they
call upon the National Association to supply
that in the hour of need.

Mr. Pritehard moved a second.

On motion of Mr. Palmer a committee of

three was appointed to solicit subscriptions

tor Mr. Strode ami liis family. The result
of the canvass was that a little more than
$1,U00 was raised for this fund and placed
in the hands of Secretary Fish for disburse-
ment. The secretary was also instructed to
canvass the entire membership of the asso-
ciation for additional funds.

Mr. Crutchfield was then given permission
and addressed the convention on the subject
of a new form of ear tracer of his invention.

President Russe : Before we adjourn I wish
to make a little .statement. 1 find that in the
address I made some of the newspapers think
they have been unjustly accused from the fact
that I did not designate who 1 meant, and 1
consider their ground well taken. For that
reason I wish to state thai the newspapers I
meant in my address were the American Lum-
berman, the Hardwood Record and the New
Orleans Lumber Trade Journal. I do not want
- the other papers to rest under any charge of
thai character, because they are not guilty.

If there is no further business a motion
to adjourn will be in order.

On motion the convention adjourned to
meet on the third Thursday in May, 1907, at
Atlantic City, N. .1.

Attendance.

W. It. Anderson, Southern Lumberman, Mem
phis, Tenn.

E. E. Allee, L. W. Itadina & Co., Cincinnati, O.

1. M. Asher, I. M. Asher Lumber Co., Cin-
cinnati, O.

Stuart A. Allen, Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton Railroad Co.. Cincinnati, O.

0. O. Agler, Upham & Agler, Chicago, 111.

D. L. Arnold, Willsou Bros. Lumber Co., Hunt
ington. W. Va.

A. A. Andrldge, United States Timber Co.,
Cincinnati, O.

H. 1'. Altman. American Lumber Co., Chi-
cago. 111.

E. V. Babcock, Babcock Bros. Lumber Co.,
Pittsburg, l'a.

\v. A. Bonsack, Bonsack Lumber Co., St.
Louis. Mo.

.Tames Buckley, Brookville, Ind.

.1. II. Baird, Southern Lumberman, Nashville,
Tenn.

It. E. Becker, Cincinnati, O.

W. E. Iirownlee, Brownlee & Co., Detroit.
Midi

1. F. Balsley, Willson Bros. Lumber Co., Pitts
burg. Pa.

YV. E. Barns, St. Louis Lumberman, St. Louis,
Mo.

W. R. Barksdale, Barksdale, Denton & Co..
Memphis, Tenn.

F. L. Brown, Crandall & Brown, Chicago, III.
James Boyd, Lumber Trade Journal, New Or-
leans, La.

D. A. Brown, reporter for National Hardwood
Lumber Association, Cincinnati, O.

W. A. Bennett, Bennett & Witte, Cincin
nati. O.

.1. L. Benas, Waldstein Lumber Co., St. Louis,
Mo.

B. Rramlage. Farmers' & Traders' National
bank. Covington. Ky.

E. E. Beck, E. E. Beck Lumber Co., Cincin
nati. O.

C. II. Barnaby, Greeneastle. Ind.

S. Burkholder, S. Burkholder Lumber Co..
Crawfordsville. Ind.

Myron Banning, Leland G. Banning, Cincin-
nati, O.

Edward Buckley, Buckley & Douglas Lumber
Co.. Manistee, Mich.

Joseph E. Conn, inspector National Hardwood
Lumber Association. Baltimore, Md.

T. J. Christian, Fullerton-l'owell Hardwood
Lumber Co., South Bend, Ind.

R. B. Cooke, James Cooke & Co.. Newcastle-
on-Tyne, England.

0. E. Collins, inspector National llanlw 1

Lumber Association, Cincinnati, O.

C. Crane, C. Crane & Co., Cincinnati, 0.

Charles Cruckshank, American Lumber & Mau-
ufacturing Co., Pittsburg, l'a.

\V. A. Cool, W. A. Cn.,1 & Son, Cleveland, 11.

J. M. Card, J. M. Card Lumber Co., Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.

Albert Cone, American Lumberman, Chicago,
III.

Thomas I'.. Cop] k, s. P. Coppock & Co.,

Fort Wayne. Ind.

John Cathcart, Decatur, Ala.

James C, Cowen, Schultz Bros. & Cowen, Chi-
cago, 111.

11. 1;. Cool, W. A. Cool & Son. Cleveland. 0

\V. F. Duhlmeier, Duhlmeler Bros., Cincin-
nati, 0.

I.. E. DuBois, Cincinnati, Hamilton .v Dayton
Railroad Co., Cincinnati, O.

J. W. Darling. J. W. Darling Lumber Co-
Cincinnati, u.

George R. Dilks, Graham Lumber Co., Rich
nd, ind.

,1, 1: Defebaugh, American Lumberman, Chi-
cago, 111.

B. F. Dulweber, John Dulweber & Co., Cincin
nati. 0.

W. E. DeLaney. Kentucky I. umber Co.. Cin-
cinnati, O.

J. W. Dickson, J. W. Dickson Lumber Co.,
Memphis, Tenn.

George H. Dilks. Garr, Scott & Co., Rich
ni'tud. Ind.

E. F. Dodge, P. 1;. Dodge Lumber Co., Chi-
cago, 111-

\V. S. Darnell, I. M Darnell & Sons Co., Mem
phis. Tenn.

W. E. Douglas, Douglas & Walkley Co., Co-
lumbus, Ind.

R. J. Darnell. I;. -T. Darnell, inc., Memphis,
Tenn.

Thomas S. Evans, Lackawanna Line. Cincin
nati, (i.

J. Wistar Evans. Philadelphia Veneer & Lum-
ber Co., Knoxville. Tenn.

!•:. L. Edwards. E. I.. Edwards. Dayton, ().

Charles A. Elliott, Lumber Trade Journal.
New York, X. Y.

Frederic F. Egan, J. A. Fay & Egau Co-
Cincinnati, O.

George C. Ehemann, Bennett & Witte. Mem
phis, Tenn.

W. J. Ectzman, M. B. Farrin Lumber Co., Cin-
cinnati, 11.

L. P.. Elswick, Wilson Lumber Co., Ltd., Cin-
cinnati, O.

Harry A. Freiberg, Freiberg Lumber Co.. Cin-
cinnati, O.

Theodore Fathauer, Theodore Fathauer Co.,
Chicago. III.

F. F. Fish, secretary National Hardwood Lum
ber Association, Chicago, III.

O. E. Faught. Cincinnati. O.

C. F. Korn, Farrin-ICoru Lumber Co.. Cincin-
nati, O.

Fred Furgason. inspector National Hardwood
Lumber Association. Cincinnati. O.

M. B. Farrin, M. B. Farrin Lumber Co.. Cin-
cinnati, O.

A. J. Gregory. Cleveland, O.

W. J. Griffith, Griffith Lumber Co., Oliver
Springs, Tenn.

E. E. Goodlander, Goodlander-Robertson bum
ber Co., Memphis, Tenn.

Henry II. Gibson, n.utownon Record, Chi-
cago, ill

R. b. Gilbert, J. W. Darling Lumber Co.. Cin-
cinnati. 1 1.

William F. Galle, William F. Galle & Co-
Cincinnati. O.

J. Watt Graham. Graham Lumber Co., Cin-
cinnati, O.

George E. Hihbard. Steele & lllbbard, St
Louis, Mo.

Albert Haas. Albert Haas Lumber Co., At-
lanta. Ga.

Joseph A. llafner, Ilafner Cypress Co., St.
Louis. Mo.

.7. M. D. Heald, Price & Ileald. Baltimore, Md.

S. P. C. Hostler. Chicago. 111.

J. J. Harwooil. Robert II. Jenks Lumber Co..
Cincinnati, O.

B. F. Hodges, Milwaukee. Wis.

c. .1. Hart. Wiborg & Hanna Co., Cincin-
nati. O.

J. P. Hamilton. Duhlmeier Bros- Cincinnati. D.

William B. Hay. M. B. Farrin Lumber Co.,
Cincinnati, O.

Samuel E. Itarr. New York. N. Y.

b. II. Halsted. Richey. Halsted & Quick. Cin-
cinnati. O.

W. E. TIeyser. Stone & Heyser Lumber Co.,
Memphis. Tenn.

A. E. Hart. Leland G. Banning. Cincinnati. O.

John P. ITanna. Wiborg & Ilanna Co., Cin-
cinnati. O.

Gardner I. Jones. Jones Hardwood Co.. Bos-
ton. M;iss.

D. W. Kerr. R. M. Smith & Co.. Columbus. O.

F. M. Smith. General Lumber Co.. Colum-

Charles R. Krimm, Williamsport Hardwood
Lumber Co., WillianisiM.it, l'a.

W. W. Knight, Long Knight Lumber Co., In-
dianapolis, Ind.

B. A. Kipp, B. A. Kipp & Co., Cincinnati, (1.

F. 1". Kirby, The Stearns Co., Cincinnati, O.
Roland F. Krebs, Ozark Cooperage & Lumber

Co., St. Louis, Mo.

W. o. King, W. ti. King & Co., Chicago, III.

J. B. King, Gage Posscil Lumber Co., Cincin-
nati, O.

C. L. Lonwood, Jr., Stearns Lumber & Salt
Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

E. B. Lombard, Chicago, 111.

Joseph J. Linenan, Linehau Lumber Co., Pitts-
burg, Pa.

C. E. Lloyd, Jr., Cherry River Boom & Lumber
Co., Philadelphia, l'a.

George Littleford, I.ittleford Lumber Co.,
Cincinnati, O.

G. J. bandeck, bandeck Lumber Co., Milwau-
kee, Wis.

J. N. Day, St. Louis Lumberman, St. Louis,
Mo.

William E. Litchfield, Boston, Mass.

E. W. beech. Detroit, .Mich.

H. K. Mead, The Stearns Co.. Cincinnati. O.

W. G. Matson, Lebanon Lumber Co., Leba-
non, Ky.

S. C. Major, S. C. .Major Lumber Co.. Mem-
phis, Tenn.

George M. Morgan, Nicola, Stone & Meyers Co.,
Cincinnati, O.

William F. Morris, Leavitt Lumber Co., Chi-
cago, 111.

T. J. Moffett, Maley, Thompson & Moffett Co-
Cincinnati. 11.

II. M. McDowell, Davenport Peters Co., Bos-
ton, Mihs

L. L. Mather, Henry Disston & Sons, Cincin-
nati, O.

W. G. Matson, Lebanon, Ky.

J. McRoberts, Queen City Supply Co., Cin-
cinnati, O.

F. W. Mowbray, Mowbray & Robinson. Cincin-
nati. O.

James Myers, Enterprise Lumber Co., Cincin-
nati, O.

Edward Maphet, Logan & Maphet Lumber Co.,
Knoxville, Tenn.

A. D. Mcbeod, Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Railroad Co., Cincinnati, O.

A. J. McCay, William Whitmer & Sons, Inc.,
Baltimore, Md.

A. E. Norman. The Norman Lumber Co.,
Louisville, Ky.

Frederick K. H. S. Nills. Buffalo Hardwood
Lumber Co.. New York. N. Y.

F. S. Nichols, International Harvester Co-
Chicago. 111.

Van B. Perrine. Perrine Armstrong Co.. Fort
Wayne, Ind.

C. G. Powell. Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lum-
ber Co., South Bend, Ind.

E. K. Pritchett, Macey-Wernicke Co.. Grand
Rapids. Mich.

F. F. Paddock, Wise, Va.

William II. Perry, William H. Perry Lumber
Co., Cincinnati, O.

Earl Palmer. Ferguson & Palmer Co., Padu-
cah, Ky.

J. M. Pritehard, bong-Knight Lumber Co.,
Indianapolis, Ind.

George Puchta, Queen City Supply Co., Cin-
cinnati, O.

O. Pircy. London, Ky.

G. H. Palmer, Sheridan. Ind.

E. O. Robinson. Mowbray & Robinson. Cin-
cinnati, O.

Walter Quick. Richey, Halsted & Quick. Cin-
cinnati, O,

E. W. Robbins. Maley, Thompson & Moffetl
Co., Cincinnati. O.

S. W. Richey, Richey. Halsted & Quick, Cin-
cinnati, O.

B. F. Richardson, Leavitt Lumber I o., < hi
cago, 111.

L. W. Radina. L. W. Radiua & Co., Cincin-
nati' °- . ,

Fred E. Radina, L. W. Radina & Co., < incin-

nati, O.

(I. G. Roberts, D. G. Courtney, Charleston,

G. A. Roy. Roy Lumber Co., Nicholasville, Ky.

C. N. Royce, Jefferson, 0.

W. H. Russe, Russe & Burgess. Memphis.
Tenn.

George H. Rlemeier. Rlemeier Lumber 1 " .
Cincinnati. O.

II. D. Rlemeier. Riemeier Lumber Co., Cincin-
nati, O.

E. A. Swain. D'llenr & Swam Lumber 1 ■■
sbelliwille. Ind.

Frank V. Sowles, Cincinnati. O.

James E. Stark. James E. Stark & Co.. Mem-
phis. Tenn.

George W. Stoneman, Stoneman-Zearing bum
ber Co., St. Louis, Mo.

Will S. Sterrett, Sterret 1 Lumber Co., Cin
cinnati, O. __ . „,

George II. Schotte, Leland G. Banning. Cin-
cinnati. O.

William Stewart. John Douglas Co.. Cincin
nati, O.

c. G. Schrader, Knoxville, Tenn.

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Charles F. Shiels, Charles F. Shiels & Co.,
Cincinnati, O.

T. B. Stone, T. B. Stone Lumber Co., Cincin-
nati. O.

L. 11. Snodgrass, Buck & Suodgrass Lumber
Co., Johnson City, Tenn.

G. W. Schwartz, Vandalia Line, St. Louis, Mo.

John B. Shotwell, Lumber Trade Journal,
New York, N. Y.

W. W. Stone, T. B. Stone Lumber Co., Cin-
cinnati, O.

C. H. Schatzman, Pennsylvania Railroad Co..
Cincinnati, O.

F. L. Scott, T. P. Scott & Co., Cincinnati, 0.

T. P. Scott, T. 1". Scott & Co., Cincinnati, O.

John D. Spanlding, Southern Oak Lumber Co.,
Chicago, 111.

John Slonaker, Mowbray & Robinson, Cincin-
nati, O.

George I.. Smith, Indianapolis, Ind.

F. E. Stonebraker, Lansing Wheelbarrow Co
Memphis, Tenn.

F. II. Smith, F. H. Smith Co., St. Louis, Mo.

Carroll r. Sweet, Fuller & Rice Lumber &
Manufacturing Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

.1. V. Stimson, Huntingburg. Ind.

\V. T. Sehnaufer, Crescent Lumber Co., Mari-
etta, O.

Gregory S. Stewart, W. II. & G. S. Stewart,
Cincinnati, O.

.1. II. P. Smith, R. M. Smith & Co., Parkers-
burg, W. Va.

L. L. Skillman, Skillman Lumber Co., Grand
Rapids, Mich.

John O. Tate, E. C. Alkins & Co., Inc., In-
dianapolis, Ind.

W. E. Trainer. Trainer Bros.. Lumber Co.,
Chicago. 111.

J. S. Trainer, Trainer Bros. Lumber Co., Chi-
cago, 111.

E. J. Thoman, Bennett & Witte, Cincinnati, O.
J. E. Tuthill, Cypress Lumber Co., Cincin-
nati, O.

Charles \Y. Tomlinson. Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern railroad. Cincinnati, O.

Miles V. Todd, Lake Shore-Lehigh Valley
Route, Cincinnati, O.

\Y. E. Talbeit, \Y. E. Talbert Lumber Co.,
Cincinnati. O.

F. W. Vetter, Empire Lumber Co., Buffalo,
N. Y.

A. R. Yinnedge, A. R. Vinnedge Lumber Co.,
Chicago, 111.

James A. Van Orsdel, John Dulweber & Co.,
Cincinnati, O.

J. C. West, 15. M. Smith & Co., Parkersburg,
W. Va.

H. P. Wiborg, Wiborg & Hanna Co., Cincin-
nati, O.

E. W. Wiese. Thomas & Proetz, St. Louis, Mo.

George S. Wilkinson, Van Keulen & Wilkinson
Lumber Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

J. II. Wehry, Littletord Lumber Co., Cincin-
nati. O.

S. A. Williams, Williams & Voris Lumber Co..
Chattanooga, Tenn.

J. N. Woodbury. E. B. Lombard. Chicago, III.

Wallace D. Wolfe, William II. Perry Lumber
Co., Cincinnati. O.

W. D. White. Mead & Speer Co., Pittsburg, Pa.

J. B. Wall, Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Co.,
Buffalo. N. Y.

Orsop i: Yeager, Buffalo, X. Y.

Edward J. Young, Brittlngham & Young Co.,
Madison, Wis.

HardWood Letters.

The extensive use of large signs, both
for exterior and interior service, has cre-
ated a wide demand for hardwood letters.
, In the construction of the modern patterns
of electrical display signs they are especially
valued. These signs are made of hardwood
and sheet metal, the lettering of hardwood,
with the light bulbs outlining the words.
Hardwood letters are also extensively used
in the formation of unique interior decora-
tions. Mottoes, composed of fanciful let-
ters, are seen on the walls of library, den,
or dining-room in homes as well as in ho-
tels and other public buildings. They are
also sometimes used on glass windows, tak-
ing the place of the more usual enamelled
patterns. The great advertising signs seen
on building tops in the cities and along the
railway lines are very often composed of
hardwood letters.

During recent years the demand has in-
creased in a surprising manner and is now
of such importance that the manufacture
of hardwood letters should offer a profita-
ble field to the woodworking trade. Ash,
hickory, white oak, elm, poplar, maple, and
in fact nearly all the hardwoods are util-
ized for this purpose. The softwoods are .
almost never brought into service, since
they are more liable to split and chip in the
making and will not resist the action of
the weather as do hardwoods. It is essen-
tial of course to select wood which is free
from defects, particularly if the material
is to be bent. The bulk of the output is
made from straight stock, but most manu-
facturers are provided with bending de-
vices for the shaping of rounded portions
when required. Taking, for example, the
most common system of letter construction,
the process is well illustrated by the first
two sketches accompanying this article.
Figure 1 shows one side of the angle form-
ing the letter A. The pieces are sawed to
the proper length, smoothed on the planer
and the top sawed fo'r the juncture with
the other section of the letter. Then the
sides are mortised for the cross-piece, the
cross-piece is inserted and the letter is set
up as shown in Figure 2. A few small

wire nails are driven in to hold the parts
firmly, and a very strong article is the re-
sult. In some instances glue is employed
for securing the joints. If the letters are
to be subjected to severe strain when in
service, as in signs for exposed positions
on tops of buildings, the process of joint-
ing shown in ■ Figure 3 is adopted. The
union thus formed, with the aid of glue
and a few nails, makes a strong connec-
tion which will withstand the hardest
visage.

Letters are frequently sawed out in one
piece. The stock is first cut into sections
as shown in Figure 4, the blank in readi-
ness for the sawing. The outline of the
desired pattern is then traced on the smooth
surface of the blank, the lines followed
with a fine saw, producing a very service-
able letter in one piece as exhibited in
Figure 5. With a little finishing, truing
up, etc., the letter is ready for use. This
mode of manufacture does not turn out as
strong a product as the mortised style, but
for some purposes it is quite as satisfac-
tory. Great care should be taken to' thor-
oughly season the stock before using, as the
principal difficulty encountered in the one-
piece letter is from warping and cracking,
when of course they are a complete loss.
If well-seasoned lumber is used and the
letters are not of too great size the one-
piece article gives very good service.

Another mode of constructing the hard-
wood letter is shown in Figure 6, in which
the joints are lapped. The pieces are prop-
erly cut to make the lapping unions, and
the juncture secured with wooden pegs.
The holes are bored through both pieces
with a drill and the pegs are hardwood
stock and can be driven very securely.
The joints are mortised so as to insure an
even firmer grip.

In some forms of electric light displays
the stencil type of letter is used, a draw-
ing of which is presented in Figure 7. The
wood is carefully selected and cut to the
required size. These blanks are then
marked off with the outline of the letter

desired. The figure exhibits the manner
of making the letter O. A section of the
wood is left connecting the solid exterior
at the top and bottom as shown. These
strips serve to retain the center of the let-
ter in position. Other letters requiring a
solid center are cut on the same plan.

While the plain, solid, full-face letter
is always best for hard service in the long
run, there are numerous calls for those of
artistic design for special purposes. A very
elaborate pattern is illustrated in Figures
S and 9. Carving is often added, in some
instances very intricate, which brings the
cost of manufacture up to an almost pro-
hibitive point, and makes the use of these
types rare. Figure 10 shows a letter de-
signed for use in an electrical display sign.
The little circles are the openings in which

the globes are screwed and with which the
required thread can be tapped very readily.
Block letters for electrical signs are usu-
ally enamelled, but the work is done
at another shop. The manufacturer
of hardwood letters seldom has an enamel-
ling plant. He prepares the faces of the
letters for the application of the enamel
by spreading a coat of glue on the knots
and defective places. A coat of varnish
over all will give a good surface to the
letters.

Figures 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 show some
of the types of the cutting tools employed
in the making of hardwood letters. The
points of the tools must be kept very
sharp. They are fitted with adjustable
handles and are used in chipping out
angles, smoothing off roughness and in cut-
ting out the decorations on the fanciful
types. An assortment of files forms an
essential part of the equipment of the
maker of hardwood letters. There are num-
berless projections and defects to be gone
over and smoothed up, and the half-moon
file, Figure 16, the half round file. Figure
17, the full round file, Figure 18, the dia-
mond file, Figure 19, the common square
file, Figure 20, and the oval file, Figure 21,
are indispensable in this work. The emery
block is also useful. The emery wheel is
used to good advantage in finishing off the
surfaces of the letters, but there are places
which can not be reached with the wheel
which can easily be managed with the
block. Steel wool is employed with good
results in treating the surfaces of letters.
Figure 23 shows a bit of this material.
Common sandpaper is used in putting the
finishing touches on the letters.

HARDWOOD RECORD

25

Meeting Michigan HardWood Manufacturers' Ass'n.

The Michigan Ilardw 1 .Manufacturers'

Vssuciatiinj 1 1 < ■ 1 1 1 it- ihinl and most impoi
tant meeting at Traverse City, Wednesday,
October 31. The sessions of the organiza-
tion were held in the parlors of the Park
Place Hotel, with President \V. H. White
presiding. Me fore the general meeting the
Board of Directors and special committees
had been in session on Tuesday afternoon and
evening, so that when business was formally
taken up the work was dispatched with regu-
larity anil quickness. In opening the meet-
ing President W. II. White called attention
to the importance of the work in which the
organization was engaged and the progress
made in it up to that time.

Address of President White.

This is the third meeting of the Michigan
Hardwood Manufacturers' Association. The first
meeting was held at Ottawa Beach early in
July last, at which time twenty-five members
were secured; the second meeting was held at
Mackinac island in August, and the membership
was increased to fifty-two members. According
to this rate of progress we should increase our
membership :it this meeting to at least seventy-

.O

WILLIAM

WHITE, PRESIDENT,
CITY.

BOYXE

five members, and I hope that this will be ac-
complished. The secretary's report will show
this increase in membership in detail.

The secretary's report, which he will read.
will show that the work that the association
has already accomplished has been a remarkable
one. The membership list and the output rep-
resented by it show that there are already inter
ested in the association approximately 80 to '.to
percent of the total output of the state, which
puts us in a very strong position for dominating
our own business methods, our grading, the
establishment of a basis of value and other im-
portant features of our industry.

The statistics which the secretary has gnth
ered will show you that we have never been as
low in stock as we are at the present time, and
that our position for getting somewhat better
values is remarkably strong for the future. The
important things for which this association was
formed, and which it hopes to accomplish, are —

1. To insure uniform rules and methods of
the inspection of our lumber that will be fair
and just to both producer and consumer.

_. To get a just price for our product by
educating every manufacturer to an understand-
ing of just values.

3. To exploit our woods iti the consuming
markets of the country, that consumers may
be educated to know the high merits of Michi-
gan woods, that they may employ them more
generally in their various lines of production.

4. We also should consider the matter of

wages both in our woods and in our mills, and
legislate on a uniform scale of wages.

Lastly, we hope to accomplish a great many
things of mutual interest to the hardwood nianu
facturers of this stale, fully knowing that what-
ever is accomplished as an association will re-
flect to the advantage of every hardwood pro-
ducer of the stale.

I want to urge upon you the great benefit to
be derived from the statistical reports which
our secretary will prepare each mouth, and to
ask that you will promptly supply him with
the necessary data that he may compile the
statistics and submit them to you at frequent
intervals. In this way excess production on any
one thickness of stock will be guarded against
and the production safeguarded.

We also hope through our secretary's office
to keep you in accurate touch with market con-
ditions, that you may know exactly the value of
the lumber you have for sale and thus secure a
just price for it.

As association members we should become
thoroughly acquainted and by all means discuss
methods of logging and manufacture. Every
member should learn something from his neigh-
bor that will be for his benefit. I hope that
every member will discuss freely and frankly
everything that will help to secure a betterment
of the hardwood manufacturers' condition in this
state. In other words, we hope only for the
success of this association. It behooves every
one of us to give all the help and support we
can to each other. We want suggestions from
every member, from one committeeman to an-
other committeeman, from one officer to another
officer. When you get away from here we want
you to acknowledge that you have already been
benefited by this organization. By doing this
the success of the organization is assured.

We are all busy men. and while I do not want
to urge upon you the doing of anything hastily,
or anything radical. I hope you will recognize
the importance of prompt action. The eyes of
other organizations are upon this iufant one,
and we must needs convince them that we are
here to do business, and that we know how to
do business justly and promptly.

At the close of the president 's speech ap-
plications for membership were received from
the A. B. Klise Lumber Company, Sturgeon
Bay. Mich., and the J. F. Ott Lumber Com
pany, Traverse City, Mich.

Secretary Bruce Odell read the minutes of
the last meeting and they were approved.
He also read a statement of the receipts and
expenditures, showing a small balance on
hand.

In the discussion of the president's ad-
dress a motion was made that a committee
be appointed to take action on the sugges-
tions contained therein, and President White
appointed D. II. Hay, X. H. Porter and E.
Fitzgerald as such committee.

New Grading Rules.

The committee mi grading rules made its
report and recommended the following rules
on birch, beech and maple:

General Instructions.

The variety of defects, their size and location
upon n pice, lone such relations to each other
iliai the inspector must necessarily depend upon
his own judgment in grading, guided by the Col
lowing rules so far as they will apply prac-
tical U :

Lumber must be inspected and measured as
t lie inspector finds it. of full length and width.
lie shall make uo allowance for the purpose of
raising 1 he grade. In inspecting all lumber both
sides of 1 Ic piece shall be taken into considera-
tion in making the made, except as hereinafter
dialed. Lumber shall be well manufactured, of
practically uniform thickness, have parallel
edges anil ail ragged and bad ends shall l.e

trim 'I eft Tapering lumber shall be measured

at the narrow end of the piece, except as other-
wise specified. All lumber shall he tallied stir-

i; r face measure, the lally counted mi and

1 In one-quarter or one half added to the total
where the lumber is l'i or 1% incites thick
and if 2 inches or over thick to he multiplied
by the thickness. All lumber thinner than 1
inch and sold as such shall be measured ami
counted the same as lumber 1 inch thick. In
1 he measurement of all lumber all fractions

over i._, fool as shown on the board rule shall
he added to the next higher figure and all Erai
lions 'j font or under shall be dropped. Shal-
low wane on one edge of 1 inch boards not ex-
ceeding y2 inch in width on the face side of the
piece, running not to exceed one-third the length
of the board, shall not be considered a defect
One and \i, 1% and 2-inch plank will admit
of a proportionate amount of wane, but not to
exceed :, inch wide in any instance. The state
dard lengths are as designated under each grade
of lumber. Standard thicknesses are %, <-2.
%, %. 1, l'i. 1L.. 2, 2%, 3, 3Vi and 4 inches.
A careful piece tally must be kept of all lum-
ber. The term "clear lace cutting or ripping,"
as used in these rules, means a face free from
all defects except bright sap, the reverse side
to be practically of a sound character. The
term "sound cutting." as used in these rules,
means free from defects that would materially
weaken the strength of the piece. Boards ' j
inch scant, of minimum width mentioned in
grades, will lie included in same in limited quan-
tities. Inspection of lumber sawed for specific
purposes, such as axles, bolsters, tongues,
reaches, implements and for other uses, musl he
inspected with a view to the adaptability of the
piece for its intended use. Ten per cent of odd
lengths are allowed in all grades. The face side
of a board is the side showing the best quality
or appearance. Bright sap is not a defect in
any of the grades of maple, birch or beech, ex-
cept as stated.

Standard Defects.

Each one of the following items constitutes a
standard defect : One knot not exceeding 1^4

W. W. .MITCHELL, FIRST VICE l'KESIDENT,
CADILLAC.

inches in diameter; two knots not exceeding in
extent one standard knot; wormholes, grubholes
or ratling pin holes not exceeding in extent or
damage one standard knot; one split not di-
verging more than 1 inch to the foot and not
exceeding in length in inches the surface meas-
ure of the piece in feet, except as otherwise
specified ; one bark edge or wane not to exceed
1 inch in width, not to exceed one-third of the
length of the board, showing on only one side
ei ihe board and to be measured; heart, shake.
1 "i or jolt not exceeding in extent or damage
one standard knot.

EXPLANATION of STANDARD DBF]

Ordinary season checks are not to be con-
sidered defects, but if of so serious a chart
as io damage the lumber they are to he coi
ered by the inspector. Black stain and sap
stain that will surface off in dressing are nor,
to be considered defects. Splits that do DOi
diverge more than 1 inch for each foot in length
are straight splits. A straight split not cx-
• ceeding 6 inches in length, in one end of a
piece of lumber, 8 inches and over wide, shall
not be considered a defect. The location of de-
fects in a piece of lumber has much to do with
its value and should have great weight in de-
ciding the grade. The rules for the Inspection
of lumber are intended to define the poi
piece that will go into a given grade. When
the defects make it a line hoard, 12 foot and
longer lengths should be given the advantage in
grade, 10 foot and shorter lengths reduced.

26

HARDWOOD RECORD

Grades.

The standard grades are firsts, seconds. No. 1
common, No. 2 common and No. 3 common.

FIRSTS AND SECONDS.

Firsts and seconds are combined as one grade.

FIKSTS.

Firsts shall be 7 inches and over wide, 10
feet and over long. Pieces 7 inches and over
wide up to 10 inches wide shall be free from all
defects; 10 inches to 13 inches will admit one
standard defect ; 13 inches to 15 inches wide
will admit two standard defects, and as widths
increase defects may increase in proportion.

SECONDS.

Seconds are 5 inches and over wide, S feet
and over long. Fieces 8 feet long, 5 inches to 8
inches wide, must be clear ; 8 inches and over
wide may have one standard defect. Pieces 10
feet and" over long, 5 inches to 8 inches wide,
will admit one standard defect ; 8 inches to 10
inches wide may have two standard defects :
10 inches to 13 inches wide will admit three
standard defects: 13 inches to 16 inches wide
may have four standard defects, and as widths
increase defects may increase in proportion.
This grade will admit not to exceed fifteen per
cent of 10 foot lengths and eight per cent of
8 foot lengths.

no. 1 COMMON.

Widths 3 inches and over, lengths 6 to 16
feet. Pieces 3 or 4 inches wide must have one
face clear and two
square edges. Pieces
6 feet long. 5 to 9
inches wide may
have one standard de-
fect; pieces 10 inches
and over wide may
have two standard de-
fects or their equiva-
lent. Pieces S or 10
feet long and 5 inches
or over wide must
work two-thirds clear
face in not over two
pieces. Pieces 12 feet
or over long and 5
inches or over wide
must work two-thirds
clear face in not over
three pieces. No piece
of cutting in No. 1
common grade con-
sidered which is less
than 4 inches wide
and 2 feet long, or 3
inches wide and 3 feet
long.

MAPLE SQUARES.

Firsts and seconds : Pieces 4x4, 5x5, 6x6,
7x7 and SxS, 8 to 16 feet long, must grade firsts
and seconds on three sides and No. 1 common
on the heart side, same to be graded as firsts
and seconds. Common : All squares not up to
the grade of firsts and seconds that will cut two-
thirds of their lengths clear in 4 foot or shorter
pieces, that can be used for newells and short
turnings or will admit of stained sap without
limit if they have no more defects than would
go in a second or will admit of season checks
running full length ou two sides."

WHITE MAPLE.

Grades : No. 1 or two side and No. 2 or one
side. No. 1 or two side must grade the same
as regular firsts and seconds, except that both
sides and edges must be all white. No. 2 or one
side must grade the same as firsts and seconds
except that one side and two edges must be all
white. White maple is the sap of the maple log
and is end cured.

BED BIRCH.

Firsts and seconds red birch must be 5 inches
and over wide. Pieces 5 inches wide must be
one face all red : pieces 6 inches and over wide
must not be less than seventy-five per cent red
on one face. Otherwise red birch must be
graded by the rules of ordinary birch.

no.

COMMON.

Widths 3 inches or
over, lengths 4 to 16
feet. Pieces 6. S or
10 feet long must
work fifty per cent
clear face in not over
three pieces. Pieces
12 feet or over long
must work fifty per
cent clear face in not
over four pieces. No
piece of cutting in
No. 2 common grade
considered which is
less than 3 inches
wide and 2 feet long.

no.' 3 COMMON.

Widths 3 inches and
over, lengths 4 feet and

over. This grade must contain at least twenty-
five per cent sound cutting.

STRIPS.

Maple strips must be 3, 4, 5 or .6 inches wide,
4 to 16 feet long. Grades — clear, No. 1 com-
mon and No. 2 common. Clear strips must be
8 to 16 feet long and show one clear face and
two good edges. No. 1 common strips must be
6 to 16 feet long, not to exceed twenty per cent
shorter than 12 feet, and may have one stan-
dard defect showing on both faces. No. 2 com-
mon strips must be 4 feet or over long and
must work one-half clear face in not more than
three pieces. No piece of cutting to be less
than 2 feet in length.

STEP PLANK.

Grades — firsts and seconds and common.
Widths — 10 to 15 inches. Thicknesses — 1, H4,
1% and 2 inches. Lengths — 8 to 16 feet. Firsts
and seconds must be clear one face and one
edge. The reverse side and one edge must be
sound. Firsts and seconds may have a split
not exceeding 12 Inches ta length, excepting 8
foot pieces, which must be free from split. Com-
mons include all lumber below the grade of
firsts and seconds that will work two-thirds of
the length clear face, no cutting to be less than
4 feet long by the full width of the piece.

PART OP THOSE PRESENT. TRAVERSE CITY MEETING MICHIGAN HARDWOOD MANUFAC-
TURERS' ASSOCIATION.

After the reading of the rules on motion
they were adopted and considerable discus-
sion followed. President White stated that
it was the desire to take only deliberate ac-
tion and that therefore a motion to recon-
sider would be acceptable, if such was
the pleasure of the meeting. A motion was
then made and carried that the action be re-
considered. Charles A. Bigelow moved that
the rules for the inspection of birch, beech
and maple be taken as the official inspection
rules of the association. In the debate on
the subject D. H. Day said that he wanted
to know whether or not this bound the mem-
bers of the association when they returned
home to at once insist upon those rules when
they sold their lumber. Henry Ballou stated
that at the Mackinac meeting the grading
committee had been instructed to do some

work during the recess, which was not done.
He also stated that he would present the fol-
lowing resolution when the motion then be-
fore the house had been disposed of:

Resolved, That it is the present sense of this
meeting that the interests of the members of
this association will be better conserved by our
ultimately joining the Hardwood Manufacturers'
Association of the United States and that proper
steps to accomplish that end be taken at our
next convention ; that the chair appoint a spe-
cial committee on grading rules to confer with
the grading committee of the National Hardwood
Lumber Association and see what can be done
toward the adoption of a uniform set of grading
rules covering the different kinds of hardwood
lumber produced in Michigan, this committee
to report at our next convention.

Both the Bigelow motion and the Ballon
resolution were passed and Mr. Bigelow
moved that a sub-committee be appointed to
report at the next meeting of the associa-
tion a set of rules to cover basswood, ash,
oak, elm, cherry and other Michigan and
Wisconsin hardwoods. The motion was car-
ried.

Charles A. Bigelow,
Henry Ballou and F.
A. Diggins were ap-
pointed to confer
with the grading
committee of the Na-
tional Hardwood
Lumber Association.

Report of Executive
Committee.

The report of the
Executive Committee
was read by Secre-
tary Odell, as fol-
lows:

The report and
recommendation of
the Executive Com-
mitter was adopted.

The Executive Com-
mittee reports that it
seems necessary, and
it has decided to em-
ploy a permanent sec-
retary who shall de-
vote all his time to
the work of the asso-
ciation and that as
soon as a basis for
assessment can be de-
termined an assess-
ment be levied to
meet this additional
expense, this assess-
ment not to exceed
the amount provided
for in the bylaws.
Secretary's Report of Stocks.

The secretary read a statistical report of
sales and stocks on hand, as follows:

SEVENTY-FOUR MANUFACTURERS REPORT.

Stock
on han d.

Ash 3.158,000

Basswood 11.559,000

Beech 17.714,000

Birch 17.022.000

Soft elm 11,341,000

Rock elm 777.000

Maple 36.020, 000

Oak 1,263.000

Totals 149,763,000

FORTY-NINE MEMBERS REPORT.

Stock
on hand.

Ash 2.470,000

Basswood 9.005,000

Beech 15,339.000

Birch 12.438.000

Soft elm 9.89S.000

Rock elm 720.000

Maple 76,426.000

Oak 561.000

Totals 126,857,000 85,0457)00

Unfilled

orders.

3,154,000

7,312,000

10,966,000

8.347,000

5,991.000

705.000

58.986,000

536,000

95,997,000

Unfilled

orders.

2,817,000

5,850,000

9.489.000

6,293,000

5,525,000

705,000

54,001,000

356,000

HARDWOOD RECORD

27

TWENTY FIVE NON.MEJIBEBS REFORT.

Stock Unfilled

on hand. orders.

Ash 688,000 337,000

Basswood 2,554,000 1,453.000

Beech 2,375,000 1,477,000

Birch 4,584,000 2,054,000

Sofl elm 1,443,000 466,000

Rock elm 57,000

Maple 10,503,000 4,985,000

Oak 702.IKI0 lso.000

Totals 22,906,000 10,952,000

COMPARISON JULY. 1 AND OCTOBER 1, 1906, STOCKS.

Following is a summary of the stock reports
of forty-four manufacturers who reported their
stocks both July 1 and October 1:

Stocks on hand.

July 1. October 1.

Maple 83,398,000 65.335,000

Beech 16.415.000 14,286,000

Birch 13,927,000 10,922,000

Elm 9,005,000 10,194,000

Basswood 11,445,000 8,577,000

Totals 134,190,000 109,314,000

Unfilled orders.

July 1. October 1.

Maple 54,155,000 46,227.

Beech 10,230,000 9,550,000

Birch 8.544. I 4,814,000

Elm 4. Ml. oiio 6,011.000

Basswood 7,273,000 5,750.000

Totals 85,013,000 72,352,000

BALANCE UNSOLD.

July 1. October 1.

Maple 29,243.000 19.108,000

Beech 6.185,000 4,736,000

Birch 5.383.00(1 o.ios.

Elm 4.104. I 4,183,000

Basswood 4.172.000 2,827,000

Totals 49.177.000 36,962,000

The secretary after reading his . report
called attention to the fact that there had
been some difficulty in getting members to
report and urged on them the necessity of
promptly filling out the blanks sent them so
that the statistics could be prepared.

Market Conditions Report.

Tbe report of the committee on market
conditions was then heard, as follows:

The market conditions committee respectfully
submits the following report :

We tind from the secretary's report of the
stocks on hand and unfilled orders that availa-
ble stocks of all kinds of northern hardwoods
have materially decreased, the stock of October
1 being only about eighty per cent of tbe stock
of July 1. and the stock on hand unsold October
1 only about seventy-five per cent of that on
hand unsold July 1.

These conditions to us would indicate a strong
market and we would recommend that maple
should bring $1 a thousand over the Michigan
Maple Company's list, or $12, $18 and $24 ;
tliat No. 3 common beech and maple should
bring $10 a thousand f. o. b. shipping point, and
log run beech $15 : also that material advances
should be obtained on many other items in
northern hardwoods.

We, however, have not thought it best to rec-
ommend a hardwood price list on all items at
this time, but prefer to wait until a report of
the stocks on hand January 1, 1907, has been
received and compiled ; also a statement of total
amounts of the different kinds of hardwoods
manufactured during 1906 and tbe probable
amount to be manufactured during 1907.

Bruce Odell.

W. L. Martin.

W. W. Mitchell.

R. Hanson.

Bert Cook.

W. X. Kellet.

A. W. Newark.

R. H. Cook moved that the report on mar-
ket conditions be printed and a copy be fur-
nished all members and all other manufac-
turers of hardwood desiring it. Mr. Cook
was also called on for a view of market con-
ditions and talked as follows:

In carefully going over and reviewing the sit-
uation in connection with the various woods
we realize the present worth and the great ad-

vance in the value of stumpage. We who are
running camps also realize what labor conditions
are. To arrive at the exact price woods should
bring to keep barely even with the situation
last year would be a hard thing to cover by a
simple advance of $1 a thousand. The commit-
tee agreed, however, that its report should be a
conservative one and not one that would bring
"in an increase in the cut. I believe the advance
r.!. .[amended to this association is a very i :on-
servative one and in conversation with large
consumers, particularly of maple, I have found
they anticipate an advance. An advance of $1
a thousand will surprise them, for they are
. -\pecting that it will be larger. One consumer
admitted an advance of $2 a thousand should be
i ]c upon maple and with the consumers an-
ticipating an advance, the elements of labor and
the increased price of stumpage it would seem
that we would lie going away and doing nothing
it we did not ;it least attempt to maintain pres-
i in [irices. I believe we shall have no trouble
whatever in getting this nominal advance and
I know of several sales made recently at prices
higher than these. I know personally of one
oak sale last week at an advance of $2.50 over
last year and the buyers are in the market ai-
re adv. With conditions as they are it would
seem suicidal to ask or take less than the prices
here recommended. The committee thought best
in recommend a price that would be merely
normal and I want to say to you that this price
question is a serious one. I would like to see
everyone who feels that he can make up his
mind that he will get these prices.

On the invitation of the chair D. S. Mc-
Mullen presented some samples of flooring
which were kiln dried by his new method.
Ho claimed that green lumber can be per-
fectly cured in about eleven days to the inch;
that when it is so treated it will not shrink
or expand under any atmospheric conditions
to which flooring i> submitted.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

At the beginning of the afternoon session
the chair appointed D. H. Day, A. F. An-
derson, G. Von Platen, H. A. Batchelor and
E. J. Clark a committee to prepare grading
rules on hardwoods not included in the rules
already adopted.

President White called on George H. Chap-
man of the Northwestern Lumber Company.
Eau Claire, Wis., for a talk on the work of
the association as seen by the Wisconsin
manufacturers. In replying Mr. Chapman
said :

We want to thank you manufacturers of
Michigan for inviting us here to meet with you
hi. I lor giving us a chance to air our views.
Ah hough we may not coincide with you in all
respects we are working along the same lines
mill we can all get together as far as our inter-
ests mi' identical, which they are to a certain
extent. One of the difficulties in Wisconsin is
to get our members out to the meetings and 1
want to congratulate you on your attendance.
The position Mr. Eoster and myself are occupy-
ing at present may be illustrated by a short
history of the Wisconsin association. It was
formed ten or twelve years ago. At that time
association work was in its infancy. Several
associations were in existence, it is true, but
none of them was perfected to a point where it
was possible to tell just what was to be accom-
plished and how it should be done. We ac
knowledge we made some mistakes.

At the last meeting of the Wisconsin associa-
tion the question of official grading was brought
up and a committee was appointed by Mr. Arpin
to consider the question and formulate a plan of
official grading similar to the plans adopted Dy
the Yellow Pine association, the Wisconsin Hem-
lock Association and the Hardwood Manufac-
turers' Association of the United States. They
nil work along the same general lines. The first
principle is to do your grading at the mill and
not after the lumber goes to Chicago or Boston
or any other place. Because of our association
being made up of jobbers, etc., it was not worth
while to try this scheme with our present mem-
bership. The only result of our action was that
we made up our minds that there was nothing
to be accomplished in the present Wisconsin
association and the only thing for us to do was
to resign and form a new association of Wis
consin hardwood manufacturers. We therefore
are not here as representatives from "the Wis-
consin association but come as individuals to
see what you are going to do.

What we want particularly is to see the grad-
ing done at the mills. If we are making our
grades too low we can rely on the other fellow
to tell us, but if our grades are too high we
never hear about it. The system carried on by
the National association is such that you never
know if your men are grading too high. Of
course, there are occasions now and then when
it is necessary to regrade at destination. Even
the pine association admits that. The tendency
to have this sort of thing done is lessening all
the time. The complaints received are growing
less every day. The last report from the
Northern Pine Manufacturers' Association
shows that grading outside of the mill is con-
stantly growing less in proportion to the ship-
ments.

We would like to combine with the Michigan
Manufacturers' Association at least as far as
the office of secretary is concerned. It i^ qi
sary to have a paid secretary who gives his
entire time to the association work. The work
of the secretary is so heavy that no one with
other interests can spare the time to do it prop-
erly. The expense of a paid secretary is one of
the things we are up against. We do not care
whether the National association adopts our
grading rules or not. If we want national ap-
proval for our rules we want to go to the Hard-
wood Manufacturers' Association of the United
States. I do not think it makes a particle of
difference to some middlemen as to what the
grades are so long as they are elastic and can
be juggled as they can now under our present
grading system. I can go into my yards and
get out lumber for which I can get $5 a thou-
sand more than other lumber which I can turn
out of the same official grade. This simply Is
because of the elasticity of the rules and the
Hardwood Manufacturers' Association tells us
it will not adopt rules until we have adopted
grades that we are satisfied with. That is the
spirit which appeals to me.

As far as grading rules are concerned the
wording of your rules is the most important
thing about them. The men who are interested
in your grades are the consumers and the manu-
facturers. The consumers will pay what lumber
is worth on the market — no more, no less. It
is simply a question of supply and demand and
i i a question of the individual opinion of the
manufacturers or jobbers. I do not doubt that
the Michigan and Wisconsin people can get to-
gether on grades. So long as the grades are
definite anil reasonable it should be possible to
get together. We are not interested in beech
at all and w. have but little maple. WTe are
very .much interested in birch and basswood and
we have some oak, rock elm and a little ash.

The low grades of birch today are the best
value of any lumber on the market. I am
speaking from the point of view of the manu-
facturer, considering the proportion ot different
grades which we get. In a log run of birch we
get fifteen per cent of firsts and seconds as
against forty per cent of No. 3 common. I
would like to see the price of the common grade
go up. I want to get a price on the stock I
have. The higher grades are in such small sup-
ply that they don't matter much. It is true,
as a general proposition, that Wisconsin birch
is being held at a ridiculously low price.

I might illustrate in this way what you are
likely to run against in trying to get the Na-
tional Hardwood Lumber Association to affirm
your grades before you adopt them or even
afterward. The Wisconsin association wrote
the first rules on grading hardwoods. When
the National association came into existence it
adopted our rules in the first place and then
went ahead and changed them and the National
association has done this three times since our
first rules were written and is likely to do it
again.

A rising vote of thanks was tendered
President White for his services to the as-
sociation.

There was then some discussion looking to
a conference with Wisconsin hardwood manu-
facturers on grading rules for woods which
predominate in that state.

A communication was read from C. I
Millard of the Transportation Committee of
the National Lumber Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation of St. Louis asking for the influence
of members to have lumber rates applied to
casing, base and molding. The matter was
referred to Secretary Odell with instructions
that he take proper action.

It was agreed to hold the next meeting of
the association at the Hotel Pantlind, Grand
Rapids, December 19.

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Attendance.

A. F. Anderson, Cadillac.

U. A. Batchelor, Batchelor Timber Co., Sagi-
naw.

Charles A. Bigelow, Kiic-land -Bigrlnw Cu.. Ilnv
City.

Henry Ballou, Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc.. Cadillac.

B. H. Cook, Cook. Curtis & Miller, Petoskey.
R. .1. Clark. Peninsula Bark & Lumber Co..

Sault Ste. Marie.

George II. Chapman, Northwestern Lumber
Co., Eau Claire, Wis.

D. H. Day, Glen Haven.

J. E. Defebaugh, American Lumberman, Chi-
cago.

F. A. Diggins, Murphy & Digging, Cadillac.

C. R. Duggan, Timlle & Jackson, Pellston.
Lewis Doster, . secretary Hardwood Manufac-
turers' Ass. iiia lion, Chicago.

<:. B. Dunton, Thos. MaeBride Lumber Co.,
Grand Rapids.

!•'.. Fitzgerald, Mitchell Bros., Cadillac.

M. .1. Fox, <!- Von Platen, Boyne City.

George II. Foster, Foster-Latimer Lumber Co.,
Mellen, Wis.

Henry H. Gibson. Hardwood Rkcokd, Chicago.

R. Hanson. Sailing. Hanson & Co., Grayling.

H. S. Hull, Oval Wood Dish Co., Traverse City.

W. N. Kelley, Kelley Lumber & .Shingle Co.,
Traverse City.

A. B. Klise. A. B. Klise Lumber Co.. Sturgeon
Bay.

W. W. Mitchell. Mitchell Bros, and Cobbs &
Mitchell, Inc., Cadillac.

W. L. Martin. Embury Martin Lumber Co.,
Cheboygan.

D. S. MeMullen, Chicago

A. W. Newark. Cadillac Handle Co., Cadillac.

Guy Nash, Nash Lumber Co., Shanagolden, Wis.

Bruce Odell, Cummer. Diggins & Co., Cadillac.

John F. Ott, J. F. Ott Lumber Co., Traverse
City.

N. II. Porter. Fast Jordan Lumber Co., East
Jordan.

R. W. Smith, Louis Sands Salt ,!s Lumber
Co., Manistee.

W. H. White, W. II. White Co., Boyne City.

F. R. Williams. Elk Rapids Lumber Co.. Elk
Rapids.

' ' What do you do with these things, ' ' a
Chicago dealer was asked, who had his store
window filled with wooden shoes and another
pile on the pavement outside; "sell them for
keepsakes?" "No, I sell them to wear," he
replied, and, probably indignant at the de-
risive smile evoked, invited his questioner
back into the store. One entire side was
piled high with wooden shoes, by far the
greater part of them of the kind that has
been made familiar by pictures of scenes in
Holland and the low countries. The rest of
them had wooden soles and heels, the leather
constituting only the upper part. It was evi-
dent from the number of the articles carried
in stock that they were good sellers.

Three men were in the back of the store
trying .on wooden shoes, just as they would
try on shoes in any ordinary shoe store.

"Ask Jan here what he uses them for,"
said the proprietor, pointing to the nearest
customer. Jan replied in broken English that
they were the warmest foot covering he ever
worer "I could not do without my wooden
shoes. In the winter I get up and put them
-on and go out and milk my cows. They are
very warm. ' '

On examining the article the truth of this
becomes at once apparent. They are made
from one piece of wood and are absolutely
impervious to water. Once in a great while
one will crack. When the proprietor came
back to the front of the store, his ques-
tioner agreed with him that there was evi-
dently a market for his wares, — "But not
for Americans, only f oft foreigners. " " No,
for Americans too. Everywhere that men
work in damp places, there is need for these
wooden shoes. They are the only kind to
keep the water out. ' '

There is a market for wooden shoes in this
country. They are used in ice-houses, tan-
neries, stables and wherever dampness is
underfoot. The ordinary workman, as a rule,
does not pay a high price for his footwear,
and the cheap shoe takes water readily. If
he wishes to be at all safe, he must pay as
high as five dollars for a good pair of boots
or shoes, and even then will not be sure that
they are waterproof. Besides, if they last
six months in hard work, he is a lucky man.
He can buy a pair of wooden shoes for fifty
cents that are absolutely impermeable to
dampness, water, or moisture, and that will
last, at the least calculation, two years. "If
he only makes a dollar and a half a day,
why shouldn't he buy the wooden shoe?"
said the proprietor.

The market for these shoes is found chiefly
in the Northwest, where the immigrants from
Holland, Denmark, upper Germany, and the
northern countries of Europe congregate.
They have influenced the Americans about
them in the matter of wearing their favorite
footgear to such an extent that at least two
large firms, one in southern Michigan and
the other in the East, are busy manufactur-
ing the articles. They are made chiefly of
birch and basswood, those on sale at the
store being of the latter wood.

In the matter of their manufacture, the
same process is pursued as with shoe lasts,
the difference being that not so much care
need be taken with the wooden shoe. Blocks
of wood are put on the lathes and are
turned to a general form, then the graduat-
ing machines take the product and work
it to the required size, the toe and heel being
shaved off by hand, and the inside cut out
with a knife. The whole operation is a sim-

ple ', and the peasants in the old country

often carve their own, with the result that
the home-made article is fully equal to the
machine-made, except in the matter of finish.

The demand for wooden shoes is constantly
increasing, and even this retail dealer sells
thousands of them each year. A large shoe
last manufacturer in Chicago has been con-
templating going into the business for some
time, and litis been repeatedly urged to do so,
one of his customers offering to give him a
large order at the start. He himself, an
American, used a pair of the wooden shoes
for a long time, wearing them about his
stables, and he stated that they are invalua-
ble for that kind of work, keeping the feet
perfectly "turn and leaving no odor.

Only their shape and clumsiness .-ire against
them. As a matter of fact, in their proper
employment, for use in damp and odorous
places, they have a well defined sphere of
usefulness, and it is not improbable that as
their value for such work becomes better
known, the market for them will widen. It
is a matter that might be looked into with
profit by concerns which are engaged in last
making and similar uses of hardwoods.

Driving Screws.

A writer in the American Woodworker says :
"Modern wrinkles are not always good ones.
The other day I was in a cabinetmaker's estab-
lishment, where I saw a workingman 'driving
screws with a hammer' in regular nail-driving
fashion. It struck me that the driving of a
threaded screw into wood by hammer blows must
cause a serious rupturing of the wood, and 1
said so. The workman was "certain that the
screws went in just as well when hammered as
they would when turned in the usual way, while
the saving of time was a considerable item.'

"Curious to see how the wood looked when
penetrated by a hammer-driven screw, I drove
several of the screws and several smooth nails,
cut and wire, into a piece of sash wood on a
straight line. Splitting open the piece of wood
on the line, so as to expose the screw and nail
cavities. I found just what I expected to And.
The wood penetrated by the wire aud cut nails
fitted closely and almost unbrokenly around
them, showing but slight downward forcing of
the fibers, while in the case of the driven screws
the wood was so compressed, mangled, torn and
dislocated that it looked as though the screw
had been sent in a hole several times too large.
and that the cavity around it had been filled
with sawdust and broken bits of wood.

"It is reasonable to suppose that wood so
torn or broken by hammer-driven screws will
rot more rapidly than that around the nails.
Besides that, woodwork joined by the lacerating
screws thus driven will not be so strong as it
would be were nails used, or were the screws
driven as they are constructed and designed to
be driven. It may be all right, for those who
like that kind of work, to do work in that way,
but surely it is wrong to impose such work upon
men who do not know anything about methods
of manufacture.

To Stain Hardwoods Black.

The Holzmarkt says to stain hardwoods black,
dissolve 20 parts of anilin hydrochlorate in 300
parts of water. Add to the solution one part
of copper chloride, and apply the liquid to the
wood hot. Let dry aud then go over the surface
with a solution of potassium dichromate, 20
parts, in 400 parts of water. The stain im-
parted by this means is said to be of extraordi-
nary blackness and durability, resisting even
acids.

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Netos Miscellany.

New Grading Rules for Dressed Poplar and
Oak Flooring.

Below will be found the rules adopted on
October 26 at the convention of the National '
Eardwood Lumber Association at Cincinnati,
covering dressed poplar and oak flooring.

The rules fur the inspection of worked gnm
authorized at this meeting are the same as
those of the Dressed Gum Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation, which were adopted December 1, 1903,
and have been published in the Hardwood Rec-
oup.

The rules governing *the inspection of maple
flooring are identical with those of the Maple
Flooring Association, which have also been pub-
lished in this journal several times. These rules
have not yet bad the official signatures of the
inspection rules committee of the association,
and therefore there may possibly be some slight
discrepancies.

The Hardwood Record is indebted for this
copy of the new rules to Chester F. Korn of
Cincinnati, chairman of the committee who had
their formulation in charge :

General Instructions.
Dressed lumber must be inspected the same as
in the rough so far as standard defects are con-
cerned. In addition it will admit of unavoid-
able defects caused by the dressing.

Worked stock as a finished building product
must be inspected from the best or face side.
WORKED POPLAR.

STANDARD SIZES.

Finishing.
One-half inch S2S 5-16"; %" S2S 7-16" %"
SJS 9-16"; 1" SL'S 13-16"; 1'," S2S 1 3-32":
l%" S^S 1 11-32"; 2" S2S 1%".
Casing and Base.
Dressed to 13-16" thick: 3%, 4%, 5%, 6Vj.
'Y2. 8%, Q¥i and HV2" wide and counted V
wider than finished sizes.

Flooring and Partition.
Dressed to 13-16" thick; 2%, 314. 4', and
'>'," face width and counted %" wider than
finished sizes.

Ceiling.
%" dressed to 5-16"; ¥2" to 7-lfi" ; %" to
9 16"; %" to 11-16" : same widths as partition.

BEVEL SIDING.

Standard lengths to be 4' and over long.
Defective dressing may reduce a piece one grade.
depending on the amount or extent of damage,
except in No. 4.

Standard finished thickness of strips 13-16"x
3%, i% and ">%" and resawn on a bevel and
counted r\" wider than finished sizes.

No. 1 grade, or clear : Lengths, 8' and lon-
ger, not to exceed 10 per cent of 8'. Shall be
clear except one inch of sap and other defects
on thin edge that will be covered by the lap.

No. 2 grade, or selects: Lengths, same as
No. 1, except will admit of 5 per cent of 4 and
6'. Bright sap no defect in this grade: will
admit slightly discolored sap or two sound.
smooth knots not to exceed 14" in diameter, or ■
their equivalent.

No. 3 grade, or No. 1 common : Length. 4'
and longer. May admit 15 per cent under 10'.
Sound discolored sap admitted without limit,
or two standard knots, or their equivalent in
knots, wormholes or other defects.

No. 4 grade, 'or No. 2 common: Lengths, same
as No. 3. Must lay two-thirds sound.

DROP SIDING.

Standard lengths to be 4' and oyer.

Finished widths are 3%", 4Vi" and 5'," fa

mid counted %" wider than finished sizes. De-
fective dressing may reduce a piece one grade,
depending on Ihe amount or extent of the dam
age, except in No. 4 grade.

No. 1 grade, or clear : Lengths, 8' and Ion

ger, not to exceed 10 per cent of S'. Must be
1 ree of all defects.

No. 2 grade, or selects: Lengths, same as No
I. except will admit of 5 per cent of 4 ami 6'.
Bright sap no defect in this grade; will admil
slightly discolored sap or two sound, smooth
knots not to exceed Vii" in diameter, or their
equivalent.

No. 3 grade, or No. 1 common : Lengths, 4'
and longer. May admit 15 per cent under 10'.
Sound discolored sap admitted without limit, or
two standard knots or their equivalent in knots,
wormholes or other defects.

No. 4 grade, or No. 2 common: Lengths, sami
as No. 3. Must lay two-thirds sound.

CASING AND BASE.

Standard lengths, 8' and over ; 5 per cent of 8'
lengths admitted. Defective dressing may reduce
a piece one grade, depending on the amount or
<\icut of damage, excepting No. 1 common.

No. 1 Grade or Firsts and Seconds ; 6" and un-
der must lie clear on face side. Seven to nine
inches will admit one inch of bright sap. Ten
to twelve inches 1%" of bright sap on one edge
of face side.

No. j Grade or Selects: Bright sap admitted
to any extent if there are no other defects ; or,
in its absence, one sound knot not exceeding %"
in stock 8" and under: or one standard knot in
slock 0" and over wide.

No. 3 Grade or No. 1 Common : Will include
all stock below the grade of Selects that will
work two-thirds of its lengths clear, regardless
oi" Bap. Stained sap to any extent admitted
where there are no other defects.

FLOORING AND CEILING.

Standard lengths, 6' and over. Defective dress
[ng may reduce a piece one grade, depending on
the amount or extent of damage excepting in No.
1 Grade, No. 2 Common.

No. 1 Grade, or Clear or Yellow Face Stock.

Noi to exi 1 10 p,r cent under 10'. Must be

it f all defects on face side.

No. 2 Grade or Selects. Not to exceed 10 per
cent under 10'. Bright sap no defect in this
grade. Will admit slightly discolored sap, or
one sound, smooth knot, not to exceed Vii" in
diameter, or its equivalent.

No. •'! Grade or No. 1 Common: Lengths 6'
Miid longer. May admit 5 per cent of 0', 10 per
cent of 8'. Sound discolored sap admitted with-
out limit or one standard knot, or its equivalent
in knots, worm holes or other defects.

No. 4 Grade or No. 2 Common: Lengths same
as Xo. 3 grade. Must lay two-thirds sound.

PARTITION.

All grades to be inspected tin' same as Flooring
and <viling. excepting it is to be graded from
Ihe worst side.

MOULDINGS.

Mouldings shall be based on National Moulding
Hook.

OAK FLOORING.

Rules formulated by 1 be Oak Flooring Mann
facturers in session at Cincinnati, Nov. IS, 1904,
adopted by the National Hardwood Lumber As

social ion.

The grades of oak flooring shall be known as
Clear, Seleci and Common.

Clear shall have one face free of all defects.
except V of an inch of bright sap, but the
question of color shall not be considered.
Lengths in Ibis grade shall be 2 to 16 feet in-
cluslve ; not to exceed 10 per cent under 4 feet.

Select may contain bright sap and will also
admit of pin worm holes, slight imperfections in
dressing, or a small tight knot to every three
feet in length. Lengths in this grade to be 1

to li; feet.

Common must be of such character as will lay
and give a good, serviceable floor with some rut
ting. Lengths, 1 to 16 feet.

Death of Charles D. Strode.

Charles D. Strode, well known to the readers
of the Hardwood Record, died at his home in
Austin, a suburb of Chicago, on Saturday, Octo-
ber 27, from a complication of brain fever and
heart disease. Mr. Strode was editor and some
time owner of the Hardwood Recoup for ihe
greater part of ten years, and was associated
with the present management of this paper dur-
ing Hie earlier months of 1905, when he resigned
lo start another trade paper. He contributed
special humorous articles to the Record nuclei
the title of "Strode's Stuff," which added mate
dally to the fame he had achieved in earlier
years as a humorous writer on lumber topics
His newspaper writings were scarcely academic,
but it was characteristic of him that lie never
did anything with seriousness or placed any
particular value upon accuracy in newspaper
work. The trend of his life was to amuse, and
most successfully did he fulfill his mission. At
lumber conventions he was ever ready with a
droll or humorous speech and it was through
writings and speeches of this character thai
he became widely known to the hardwood trade.

Mr. Strode was born in Charleston, III., about
forty-five years ago. He leaves a wife and
four children. He lost both his parents when
he was three years old, and never had any edu-
cational advantages. He was a member of the
Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, having been

THE LATE CHARLES D. STRODE.

initiated into that organization by the editor
of the Hardwood Record some six years ago
al Buffalo.

For two years he was secretary of ihe Na
tional Hardwood Lumber Association, and ever
since the organization of that body was \i~vy
loyal in his support of it. Such was the regard
of the National association for him that, when
bis serious illness was learned, at the so

tion of the editor of the Hardwood Rec

the members in recent convention at Cincinnati
raised a subscription of upwards of $1,000 tor
Hie benefit of himself and family. It is believed
Unit more than $5,000 will be raised lor the
bereaved family as a result of this movement.
It is the ambition of his widow to have a little
home (hat she may call her own, and it is sin-
cerely trusted that every friend of the late
newspaperman may dig into his pocket and
bring .forth a goodly sum to contribute to Ibis
worthy purpose. The older children of Ihe
family are of sufficient age to make their own
living, but the two younger ones and ihe wldoi
certainly should have the generous support of
members of the National Hardwood Lumber As-
sociation, for which the deceased worked so
long and faithfully, and for which be re.

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a remuneration so small that be was unable to
leave bis family in tbe comfort to which they
are entitled. Mr. Strode's remains were taken
to Charleston. III., on Tuesday, Nov. 6, and the
funeral services were held and interment made
there.

A Common Sense Lumber Car.

Pictured herewith is a stake and rack car
which, as it appears to the HARDWOOD RECOitD.
comes nearer answering the requirements of a
logically equipped car for the carrying of lumber
than anything that has been presented in the
way of a fixed or collapsible car stake during the

constituted the series. The poles were of two
grades of oak and one grade of southern pine.
Part of the common oak poles were trussed,
and forty poles were tested. The axles were
of hickory aud maple of three designs, thimble
skein, thimble skein trussed, and long sleeve
skein trussed. There were eight axles of each
species and each design, making forty-eight in
all. The object in this series 'was to obtain the
comparative strength of tbe two woods and of
the different constructions.

The results from the spoke tests show more
than 50 per cent error in the present grading
system, which is due to the traditional prejudice

STAKE AND RACK CAR BUILT BY RUSSEL WHEEL & FOUN-
DRY COMPANY, DETROIT. MICH.

campaign that is going on looking to the suitable
fitting out of lumber carrying rolling stock. This
type of flat car with stake and rack adjunct is
built by the Russel Wheel & Foundry Company
of Detroit, Mich., and was constructed for the
carrying of cord wood. It was built specially
to order for the Ilackley-Phelps-Bonnell Com-
pany's operations at Hacklcy. Wis., and most ad-
mirably answers the purpose. Cord wood is
loaded on this car and carried more than twenty-
. five miles over a logging railroad without any
cross' tieing or additional stakes. It will be
noticed that there is one stake pocket on tbe
side of the car which may be utilized if necessity
requires. It will also be observed that this
form of rack presents no difficulties in the way
.if loading lumber of any length in the car:
neither does it interfere with 1 lie utilization of
tbe car for the loading of tiny other material
The same rack system can lie as readily applied
to the gondola as to a l4.at car. The extra "'st
of this stake and rack equipment is about $50
a car. It requires no argument to show bow
quickly its cost would be absorbed in the avoid-
ance of staking and tieing. Of course in some
instances one set of stakes might add to the
safety with which the load is carried, but the
ordinary load of lumber could easily be trans-
ported in this form of car by simply tying
across the load a few wires, which would be
more in the nature of safety from the loss of
lumber by theft than from its being thrown off
tbe car while in transit.

Tests on Vehicle Woods.
During the past few months the Forest Ser-
vice of the Department of Agriculture has been
conducting a series of tests on vehicle woods
at the timber testing station at Purdue Univer-
sity. Lafayette, Ind. The material was fur-
nished by wagon companies and wheel manu-
facturers anil the tests were made on three
manufactured parts: buggy spokes, wagon poles
and axles. The material tested was of the
grades in common use. Buggy spokes were of
the grades of A, B, C-" D, E and culls, for tbe
sateen wheel. In this selection the primary
object was to determine whether the grading
u was compatible with the strength and
toughness of the spokes, and also to ascertain
the relative strength and toughness of white
ami red hickory spokes. Five hundred spokes

and discrimination against red hickory. No red
spokes are now allowed in the A and B grades.
and yet these tests show that a large proportion
of the red spokes now included in the lower
grades should be included in the higher ones
because of their strength and toughness. The
resilience factor, which is determined by maxi-
mum load anil toughness, varies directly with
the weight, showing that the best criterion for
judging the utility of spokes Is the weight. The
tests also show that, weight for weight, the red
and mixed spokes are fully as strong as the
white ones. Defects near the center of the
spokes are considerably more damaging than
those near the end.

The tests on the wagon poles brought out
several important points. The present manner
of attaching poles could be much improved since
the construction at the hounds is much weaker
than the pole itself. The present style of truss-
ing is of little value because the truss is ap-
plied along tbe neutral axis of tbe pole. Tbe
southern pine pole will support a greater maxi-
mum load than the common oak pole, but is
not as strong as the select oak pole. With ref-
erence to load at elastic limit, the southern pine
ranks first. The failures in the oak poles gen-
erally occurred near the hounds and were fibrous
and localized. Fractures in the pine poles, on
the other hand, extended over distances of five
or six feet, long pieces often breaking off where
a fracture occurred. These poles were not of
the best grades of southern pine, most of them
having the appearance of short leaf pine and
being largely sapwood.

Results from the axle tests have not been suf-
ficiently correlated to warrant definite state-
ments regarding them, but it can be said that
there is considerable room for improvement in
tbe present method of trussing.

Further testing work along this line will be
carried on during the winter. A series of shaft
tests on hickory and red oak will be made, a
number mi eucalyptus axles, and some on culti-
vator pules ..I' ted fir and long leaf pine.

The Tower One-Man Trimmer.

liming the last two or three years there has
been a surprising increase in the demand for
lumber with square ends. Tbe larger mills
have always tinned out lumber of this descrip-

tion, but it is only in the comparatively recent
past that small mills have given themselves any
concern about this question. Today, however,
there are very few buyers of lumber who do not
either insist on having the lumber trimmed
or make a deduction if it is not so treated. The
Gordon Hollow Blast Crate Company of Green-
ville, Mich., has supplied the need evoked by
these conditions in their Tower 1-man 2-saw
trimmer, which enables one man to easily take
care of the output of a mill cutting up to 30,000
feet in ten hours. Further information about
the machine will be given on application to the
manufacturers.

Establishment of a Wood-Testing
Laboratory.

A conference of those interested in the Forest
Service will sooil be held in Washington to dis-
cuss the establishment of an adequate wood-
testing laboratory. The question is an impor-
tant one to the industries depending upon timber
and will open the way to large economy in the
utilization of the wood. A wide field of useful-
ness in solving the problems of wood supply
now confronting hardwood manufacturers will
be opened if the laboratory is established. The
date of tbe conference is November 16.

A Veteran Lumber Buyer.

Most of the lumber salesmen who visit Grand
Rrapids take the time to go over on Kent street,
where the yards of the Berkey & Gay Furniture
Company are located, and have a chat with Fred
Spraker, even if the chances of selling him a
small order be ever so slim. Fred is a genial
soul and has a multitude of friends in the trade.

The picture shows him seated beside a pile
of mahogany lumber in the yard, with his well-
worn board rule in hand. He has been buying
lumber for the Berkey & Gay people for the.
past thirty years and knows the ins and outs of
the hardwood trade as well as does anybody in
the city. Back in ISuO. almost a half century
ago, the original Berkey factory was built on
Mill street by the Berkey brothers, and Mr.
Spraker assisted in its construction. Of these
luothers William A. is now dead and Julius
retired from active service many years ago, but
Mr. Spraker is still doing business at the old
office with clear mind and erect shoulders.

Stock in the Perkey & Gay yards is now
almost entirely mahogany and oak. Mahogany

FRED SPRAKER OF THE BERKEY & GAY
FURNITURE CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

and Circassian walnut are imported in the log
and Mr. Spraker always goes to the Halladay
mill in Grand Rapids to superintend the cutting
operations.

Fee-Crayton Hardwood Lumber Company.

The Fee-Crayton Hardwood Lumber Com-
pany has been incorporated under the laws
of the state of Arkansas with a paid-up cap-
ital of $150,000. Frank F. Fee is president and
manager of the new concern and E. W. Cray-
ton secretary ami treasurer. Mr. Fee has
been successfully engaged in the manufacture
of hardwood lumber at Newark and other
Ohio points for the past twenty-four years
ami lias extensive business connections, both
in this country and abroad, where his lumber
is will known. The same high standard of
manufacture and grading will be maintained
in the new plant as has always been followed
in Mr. Fee. He is regarded as one of the

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3i

foremost producers of high-class quarter-
sawed oak. which will be a specialtj of thi
new concern Mi Crayton has 1 11 promi-
nent in real estate ana hanking circli s In 1 thio
for years, and his abilities will add greatly to
the strength "f the new company.

The office and first mill will be erected al
Newport, Ark. A sidetrack is now being laid
and operations will be commenced early in the
coming yeai Valuable Ian. is and stumpage
have been purchased, which will be the basis
,,t a river and rail transportation of consider-

short of stock and mans yards are entirelj de
pleted. Where the woods have dried auffi
cientlj to make it possible to haul a few logs,
the lumber is very wet, and dealers cannot hope
to move ii under ninety days. Those who tor
tunately have dry stock on band find themselves
unable to make shipments because of one of the
most stringent car famines ever experienced In

the Southwest. The cotton crop has I n enor

mens this season and this is congesting the rail
roads. It is impossible for lumbermen to gel
cars. Owing i" these adverse conditions there

FIFTY TIlorSAND WAGON POLES IN THE GAYOSO LUMBER COMPANY'S YARD.

able extent, and enable the plant to run for a
good many years. A steamboat and barge
line will be operated to bring the oak. hickory
and el her heavy woods to the mills.

Eainbow Wood.

Although it had been known to dwellers along
the sea coast of Maine for years that
driftwood picked up from the salt water
would give out beautiful iridescent tints
when burned in an open grate, they at-
tached no value to the knowledge, and it
remained for the wealthy summer tourists to
show them that the collecting of driftwood was
•a profitable calling. The gathering of rainbow
wood soon became quite an industry in Maine
For a number of years the whole coast line of
Penobscot Bay was scoured for the wood, and
as the supply gradually grew scarce prices ad-
vanced from $10 to $25 a cord. It is said that
a Boston chemist made a fortune by inventing
a powder which when burned with dry wood
produced colors almost as beautiful as wood
from the sea.

Recently a farmer in the locality who had sold
considerable rainbow wood in former years, while
digging on the salt meadows on his farm, dis-
covered a number of great pine trees which had
been buried for years. The limbs had rotted
away and the bark and sapwood were gone, hut
the dry lieartwood was found to be still very-
sound. Kindling a fire around , a log of this
wood it was discovered that it gave out bril-
liant hues of indigo and green. A cargo of this
wood shipped to Boston brought $22 a cord.
The deposit of trees lies between the clay subsoil
and an overgrowth of peat, and is fullj si\
feet in depth.

Hardwood Notes of the Southwest.
A four weeks' trip by a HabdwOOD Ukcoiid
representative through the southwest hardwood
country reveals the faet that throughout the
whole district the hardwood trade is facing two
unpleasant conditions which seriously hinder
lumber operations — wot weather and a car fam-
ine. Heavy rains have almost universally sus-
pended logging and although the weather has
recently cleared somewhat it will be long before
the woods arc sufficiently dry to permit hauling
logs. As a result dealers are without except ion

is a universal feeling of gloom throughout the
district.

One of the largest stocks of hardwoods in the
south is owued by the Gayoso Lumber Company
of Memphis. This concern, of which W. A.
Ransom is head, was organized early this year,
and during its short career has enjoyed a flour
ishing business. The position of the company
is unique in that its yards have been well
stocked all spring and summer with dry stock.
Mr. Itansom very shrewdly laid his plans early
in the year and kept a steady stream of cars
coining into Memphis. Five weeks ago he had
50,000 wagon poles piled in his yards. As this
was desirable stock he held it and received a
good price. The Gayoso Lumber Company makes
a specialty of wagon stock, although it handles
a full line of hardwood lumber.

As soon as they are running full capacity,
which will be within sixty days at least, the
Buckeye Lumber Company of Hope, Ark., will
rank as one of the largest hardwood operators
not only iu the state of Arkansas but in the
Southwest. This company was formed immedi
ately after the death of J. W. Willis, some three
months ago, and it is to carry on the operations
of the .7. W. Lumber Company and to fulfill the
personal wishes of its leading spirit, .1. W. Wil-
lis. This work will be entrusted to Carl J. Baer.
secretary and manager of the company. Mr.
Willis was a man who landed in the little ham-
let of Washington Court House, a few miles
out of Columbus, O., some years ago, without
a dollar in his pocket, and by his thrift and

industry built up a 1 lei manufacturing town,

with his own mill and factories as the life and
center of the community. It was Mr. Willis'
ambition to found a second model city in the
Southwest. With this in view he purchased a
large timber tract in Arkansas and built an
up-to-date mill at Hope, some thirty miles above
Texarkana, on the Iron Mountain railroad. The
sudden death of Mr. Willis put a temporary
check on operations, but the reorganized Buckeye
Lumber Company is now taking up Hie broken
threads and pushing his plans to completion

1; >ge W. Fouke of Texarkana is president of

the company and of the Merchants' bank of
Texarkana. The vice president is W. J. Foster,
]. resident of the Hempsted bank of Hope. Mr.
Baer. secretary and manager, is an experie d

lumberman of Cincinnati ami was long associ-
ated with Mr. Willis in upbuilding the t"«" Oi
Washington Court House. Mr. Fouke is the obi
esi lumberman in Arkansa The companj owns
several thousand acres of hardwood timber and
operates mills at Hope and al Orton, twenty
miles above Hope. 'the mills are up-to-date in

iX TV I'espeet. It also o ivi 1 s 'J lloioo building

lots in Hope, which are to be used bj employees
of the concern. The plain will cut ami utilize
all wasle products

The Allis-Chalmers Companj is building whal
is claimed to be the most thoroughly modern
and up-to-date mill in the South for the Sander
son Sullivan Company al Naples, Tex. The
Allis-Chalmers hardwood expert prepared plans
for this mill after he had made a personal in-
vestigation of the Sanderson Sullivan Company's
holdings. The foundations of the buildings arc
about completed now and work is being pushed
as rapidly as possible. Mr. Sanderson, who will
act as general manager, says the plant will be
ready to cut early in the spring. The company
owns a tract of 36,000 acres of hardwood in
eastern Texas, containing a tine made of white
oak. which will !»• the principal output of the
mill

.1. W. Thompson of Memphis has been confined
to his home by illness. The .1. W. Thompson
Lumber Company is reported by A. S. Foster.
secretary, to be all sold up for several months.

The personnel of the Hiett Wagon Company,
Tonesboro, Ark., will undergo a change the first
of the year.

The mill of 1'. C. Barton, Jonesboro, Ark., has
been closed down for some time.

The Greenfield Lumber Company, recentlj
burned out at Greenfield, Ark., has purchased a
tract of timber in Mississippi and will ereel ■>
mill at Sunflower, thai slate.

The Shultz Belting Company of St. Louis has
just shipped a large order of leather bolting to
Russia.

\V. A. RANSOM. PRES. GAYOSO LUMBER
i !l IMPANY, MEMPHIS.

Al present the l'aepke Leieht Lumber Com

pan.v has 5,000,000 feet of No. 1 . nw I on

Sticks al Arkansas City, forming what is .Maimed
h. lie the largest stock of the kind in the South

Last Tract of Wisconsin Oak.

Fay L. Cusick & Co. of West Alii-. Wis..
an ii.1 to own the last considerable tract of
red oak remaining in the Northwest. It is
situated in Bayfield county, township 48 — 8
and 40 — 7 west. The tract contain: about

I. .000 feet of oak, which the ovt

putting on cars on the Northern Pacific and
delivering to the Webster Manufacturing
Company of Superior. Wis.

32

HARDWOOD RECORD

Effect of Moisture on the Strength and
Stiffness of Wood.

The Forest Service has been making a thor-
ough study of the influence of moisture on the
strength of wood during the past three years
and is about to publish the results of its inves-
tigations in an exhaustive technical bulletin
eutitle.l "Effect of Moisture Upon the Strength
and Stiffness of Wood."

The chief points presented by the study are

1. The relation of moisture to strength fol-
lows a definite law which can be graphically ex-
pressed. Proper drying very greatly increases
the strength of all kinds of wood, the amount
of increase in strength depending upon the
species and the dryness. The strength of a
piece of unseasoned red spruce may be increased
over 400 per cent by a thorough drying at the
temperature of boiling water. Strength de-
creases again, however, as the wood reabsorbs
moisture. Air-dried wood, protected from the
weather and containing 12 per cent of moisture,
is from 1.7 to 2.4 stronger than when green.
varying with the species. Stiffness is also in-
creased by drying. These conclusions, however,
are drawn from small sized pieces not exceed-
in;; 4x4 inches in cross section, such as are
used in vehicle work, tools, etc. Large timbers
require years of drying before the moisture is
reduced to a point where strength begins to in-
crease. It must also be taken into consideration
that more or less checking always occurs when
large timbers dry ; and if this checking is ex-
cessive it may cause weakness to counterbalance,
partially or entirely, the strength gained in dry-
ing. Consequently, it is not safe to assume
that the average strength of large so-called sea-
soned timbers is much greater than that of
green or wet ones.

2. The fiber saturation point of a number
of species has been determined. This point,
which varies with conditions and species of
wood, designates the percentage of water which
will saturate the fibers of the wood. It has
been found that, under normal conditions, wood
fiber will absorb a definite amount of moisture
beyond this the water simply fills the pores
of the wood like honey in honeycomb. Only
that water which permeates the wood 'fiber
has an influence upon the strength. For the
following species this saturation point occurs at
the given percentage of moisture based on the
dry weight of the wood :

Chestnut, 25 per cent moisture
lied gum, 25 per cent moisture.
White ash, 20.5 per cent moisture. •

3. Prolonged soaking in cold water does not
reduce the strength of green wood below that
of its fiber saturation point, provided it remains
in perfect condition. When wood has been dried
ami is resoaked it becomes slightly weaker than
when green.

4. Wood soaked in heated water absorbs more
moisture because the amount of water which the
liber will contain is increased. This causes a
reduction iu strength and stillness, so in wood
that is heated or steamed for bending.

Floors and Hardwood Doors in France.

The activity iu the building industry in south-
ern France, according to reports from the con-
sulate at Nice, continues unabated. Vice-Consul
A. Piatti states that the grade of buildings is
continually improving and that there is a dis
position, which did not exist before, to intro-
duce materials of better quality as well as
modern. improvements hitherto unknown. As an
illustration, it may be mentioned that the use
of wood and parquet floors was a few years ago
confined to a very few luxurious and expensive
buildings, whereas today- "they are used to the
extent of not less than 30 per cent of all the
floors built there.

As an instance of what the market there is
for American doors, the vice-consul states an

instance of an architect who, upon examining
with him the catalogue of an American firm
manufacturing doors and windows, said, when
they came to the question of prices : "It is not
possible, I cannot believe it. There must be a
mistake." In this instance the vice-consul had
figured out that hardwood doors would cost
there, laid down, less than the most ordinary
thin pine doors sold locally.

It must be borne in mind, however, that the
French buyer demands a catalogue in his own
language and wants to ascertain the rate of
freight and duty before buying.

Refrigerators In France.

In writing of refrigerators in France, Vice-
Consul A. Piatti states that their use, which
has hitherto been limited to southern France, is
now becoming general, owing to the increase in
the manufacture of ice. He states that the
refrigerators sold at Nice are of the most primi-
tive type and in appearance are little better
than an ordinary packing box. A sample lot of
five American refrigerators of various sizes and
qualities were shipped from New York and, when
they reached the importer, astonished him by
their 'quality. The total cost of the five, in-
cluding freight and duty, was about $24 each.

The American article is not only a hand-
somer piece of furniture but is built more scien-
tifically, has a better system of isolation and
ventilation, and furnishes a higher maximum
of cold air and a lower minimum consumption
of ice than the native product. The consul calls
a I tent ion to the fact that owing to its unques-
tioned superiority, if the American product were
once introduced into the southern part of France
any other make now marketed there would be
practically unsalable at any price.

Opportunity for American Sawmill and
Railroad Machinery.

Consul F. D. Fischer reports from Tamsui
that the Formosan government has granted a
concession to a Japanese lumber company to cut
off the timber on an area twenty-five miles
square in Formosa, containing approximately
two billion feet, about three-fourths of which
is hinoki. The sum of $1,992,000 has been
invested in the enterprise, nearly three-fourths
of which will be required for the construction
of a railroad which will take about three years
to finish. A sawmill will be located at Kagi
and the first year's cuttings are expected to bo

about 16, ,000 feet, which will be gradually

increased lo 25,000,000 feet annually, although
on account of the rugged nature of the country
and the immense size of the trees, considerable
difficulty will be met with in the logging and
transportation at Kagi. American manufactur-
ers of sawmill machinery and logging equipment
can obtain information about the conditions of
supplying the machinery by addressing the Fuji-
tagumi, Osaka. Japan, and also the chief indus-
trial department of the Formosa government at
Taihoku. Formosa, giving in each case a full
description of the equipment they have to offer.

Some Noted Trees of This Country.

The elm tree at Philadelphia under which
William Penn made his famous treaty with nine-
teen tribes of barbarians.

The Charter Oak at Hartford, which preserved
the written guarantee of the liberties of the
Colony of Connecticut.

The wide-spreading oak tree at Flushing, Long
Island, under which George Fox, the founder of
the Society of Friends or Quakers, preached.

The huge French apple tree near Fort Wayne,
Ind., where Little Turtle, the great Miami chief,
gathered his warriors.

The elm tree at Cambridge in the shade of
which Washington first took command of the
Continental army, on a hot summer's day.

The tulip tree on King's Mountain battlefield
in South Carolina on which ten bloodthirsty
Tories were hanged at one time.

The tall pine tree at Fort Edward, N. Y.,
under which the beautiful Jane McCrea was
slain.

The magnificent black walnut tree near Haver-
straw on the Hudson at which General Wayne
mustered his forces at midnight, preparatory to
his gallant and successful attack ou Stony
Point.

The grand magnolia tree near Charleston,
S. C, under which General Lincoln held a coun-
cil of war previous to surrendering the city.

The great pecan tree at Villere's plantation,
below New Orleans, under which a portion of
the remains of General Packenham was buried.

The pear trees planted, respectively, by Gov-
ernor Endicott of Massachusetts and Governor
Sluyvesant of New York, more than 200 years
ago.

The Freedman's Oak, or Emancipation Oak.
Hamptou Institute. Hampton, Va., under which
the slaves of this region first heard read Presi-
dent Lincoln's emancipation proclamation.

The Eliot Oak of Newton, Mass., under which
the apostle, John Eliot, taught the Indians Chris-
tianity.

The old Liberty Elm of Boston, planted and
dedicated by a schoolmaster to the independence
of the colonies, and the rallying point for patri-
ots before, during and after the Revolutionary
War.

The Burgoyne Elm at Albany, N. Y., planted
the day Burgoyne was brought there a prisoner.

The ash and tulip trees planted at Mount
Vernon by Washington.

The elm tree planted by General Grant on the
Capitol grounds at Washington.

The Cary tree, planted by Alice and Phoebe
Cary in 1832, a large and beautiful sycamore
seen from the Hamilton turnpike, between Col-
lege Hill and Mount Pleasant, Hamilton county,
nhio.

Need of American Goods in France.

Consul J. Martin Miller, writing from Ithelms,
France, states that American enterprise prop-
erly directed might introduce into France re-
frigerators, washing machines and other modern
household articles of American make, where the
need for such goods is most urgent. He says :

"That a demand should be created in France
for scores of articles of American inventive
genius and mechanical skill is reasonable to
suppose. For instance, the common household
refrigerator so universally used in the United
States is unknown in France. Only the very
wealthy families can afford the expensive re-
frigerators to be had. It is the same with water
filters — the plain people do not use them. Wash-
ing machines and clothes wringers, such as are
iu common use iu the United States, are not
known here. In fact, the conditions do not
seem to be favorable for their introduction.
The family wash in France is done away from
the home, at one of the lavoirs publiqucs pro-
vided in every town and city.

"One of these establishments is owned by the
city of Rheims and there are others conducted
by individuals. The lavoir municipal accommo-
dates about 300 washerwomen at one time, and
the others from twenty to fifty each. Each
woman has a stall, which is rented, including
water, at 5 centimes, or 1 cent, per hour. Here
she lays the garments on a piece of wood, beats
them with a club, the same as did the washer-
woman of a century ago. In some cases she
may scrub the clothes with an ordinary scrub
brush, using soap. Some of the municipal es-
tablishments have large machines for washing
and for drying, for which they charge the wash-
erwoman a nominal price by the piece. They
are run by steam or electric power, but are in
use only in the larger cities. A revolution in
laundry methods must take place before there
can be a market in France for our washing ma-
chines."

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33

Building Operations for October.

Official reports from si. me fifty leading
cities received by the American Contractor.
■ in. ago. compiled and tabulated, show that
building operations continue decidedly active.
A gratifying feature of the situation is the
circumstance that the present prosperity and
bright prospects are widespread, all sections
.if the country sharing in them. While some
distinct losses are recorded, as compared with
the reports for the corresponding month of
last year, notably in New York, these are off-
set by gains in other leading cities aggregat-
ing 3 per cent. Though less new business is
projected in New York, it is still very large,
while all contracts representing the invest-
ment of vast sums are being carried into ef-
fect. When the high price of labor and ma-
terial is taken into account the showing made
is quite remarkable. The outlook is excellent
and it is quite clear that the present building
movement has not yet reached a climax, as
might have been expected.

Oct., 11,1 Per Per

1900, 1905, cent cent

City — cost. cost. sain. 1"**.

Atlanta If 466,023 $ 266,557 75

Birmingham .. S9.920 107,475 .. 16

Bridgeport 245.374 11S.460 10S

Buffalo 493,510 756,697 . . 34

Chicago 5,219,900 4,913,155 6

Cleveland 1,088,757 1.177,545 .. 7

Chattanooga .. 243, 2S0 97,310 150

Cincinnati 4ss,4..:, 1,460,850 .. 66

Davenport 25.2eo 52,820 .. 51

Denver 565,424 579.9S5 2

Detroit 1.516. Sim 918,150 65

Duluth 243.476 239,620 2

Bvansville 81,766 49,602 65

Grand Rapids.. 246,282 224,378 9

llnrrisburg ... 79.900 56.600 41

Hartford 300,655 522,205 .. 42

Indianapolis .. 560,176 446,693 25

Kansas City .. 764. 7on 720,160 6

Knoxville 86,894 1 2--. 775 32

Little Rock ... 40,765 14,652 .. 9

Louisville 278,920 349.474 .. 20

Los Angeles .. 1,859,267 1,348,556 37

Milwaukee ... 1. 266. 747 M7.S22 VI

Minneapolis ... 820,720 909,665 .. 9

Memphis 271.666 270,594 o o

Mobile 53.308 31.415 71

Nashville 139,084 102,097 ill

Newark 990.448 1,260,191 21

New Orleans ., 238.086 236,192 o 0

New York 11,888,082 17.onl.041 .:»

Manhattan .. 3,121,750 7,700,790 .. 59

Alteration .. 713,o]5 sn4,205

Brooklyn ... 6,541,062 6.404,886 2

Bronx 1,298,185 1.029,400 .. 32

Alteration .. 214,070 71.760

Omaha 365.150 424.700 13

Philadelphia .. 4,379,600 1,993,200 120

Paterson 91,135 76,378 20

Pittsburg 1,059,523 1,427,066 .. 23

Pueblo 13.470 17.280 .. 23

Portland 834, 1(1.-, 359,822 132

St. Joseph .... 84,486 61.700 37

St. Louis 2,853,976 1,596,383 80

St. Paul .-,71.2(11 117. sor, 36

San Antonio .. . 111. 045 83,380 33

Scranton 244,070 2S5.604 .. 14

Seattle 1,929,879 372,544 418' ..

Spokane 328,345 507,940. .. 35

South Bend 67,400 02.915 8

Syracuse 27o,722 295,390 .. S

Toledo 504.780 254,471 98

In ..ma 204.365 97,568. 172

Washington . . 833,965 010.258 36

Wilkeshanc .. 107,903 81,170 112

Total $45,609,317 $44,269,376 3

American Central Lumber Company.

The American Central Lumber Company is
the name of a new corporation just organized at
Anderson, Ind., with a capital stock of S5n,<Miu.
to engage in the manufacture and wholesaling of
oak and hickory wagon stock in the rough. The
concern is under .the management of G. A. Lam-
bert, win. has had a long experience in this line

..i production. Tie npany already has twentj

mills in various parts of the country now in
operation .-11111 while its principal office will be
at Anderson, it will not attempt to group stuck
at this point hut at various rail centers
convenient to its lumber operations. Associated
with Mr. Lumber! are several capitalists who
are familiar Willi the details of oak and hickory
wagon sioek manufacture.

The Case-Fowler Lumber Company.

Following the removal of the Case Lumber
Company's headquarters from Chattanooga.
Tenn.. to Birmingham, Ala., so as to be nearer
the mill operated by the Fowler-Personette Lum-
ber Company, an allied concern, comes the an-

DOuncement of II nsolidation of these two

companies nnder the title of the Case-Fowler
Lumber Company. The capital is .1175.000. fully
paid up, a substantial Increase over the capital
ization of the old companies.

The officers of the new company are: J. I'..
Case of Rusbville, Ind.. president: William M.
Fowler, Birmingham, treasurer and general mau-
ager ; M. M. Erb, Birmingham, vice president
and sales manager: II. C. Fowler. Birmingham,
secretary. II. C. Fowler, son of William M.
Fowler, is the only new official in the corpora-
tion.

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate.
The Cordon hollow blast grate represents one
of the most practical forced draft systems for
saw mills on the market. It adds greatly to- the
efficiency of a boiler and renders it easy to
make steam witii wet, green or frozen sawdust
i.r slabs. It solves a most important problem.

THE GORDON HOLLOW BLAST GRATE.

According to Hie testimony of users, the Gor-
don hollow blast grate saves or earns its own
1 ost every thirty days, which means a profit
,,! 1011 per citil. or '1.200 per cent per year. If
enables the user to force his fires and crowd
bis boilers. lie can burn refractory fuel and
male' from 25 to 50 per colli more steam than
with an ordinary grate.

The manufacturers of this grate have such
faith in it that they offer to ship an outfit
for thirty days' trial, the user to test the
apparatus in any manner he sees fit, and if for
any reason he concludes he does not want it,
the company will lake il back and pay the
freight both ways. Full information can be
obtained from the manufacturers, the Gordon
Hollow Blast Grate Company, Greenville, Mich.

New York Mahogany Inspection Rules.

The New York Lumber Trade Association.
through its committee on Inspection, has just
adopted the following rules governing the in-
spection of mahogany in tin- Now York market.
The rules are viewed as generally acceptable
by I be dealers in that line there. The rules in

I nil are as follows :

INSPECTION It! lis rut: MEXICAN AND AFRICAN
M Mil, 1, INI.

tirades: Firsts. Seconds. Commons. Culls.
Sound Wormy, Shorts and Counters.
Length : 2 feet and over.
Widths : :i incites and over.
Thicknesses : :ls-ineh and over.
Odd lengths are measured in mahogany.
Cross-breaks six or more in number, and if on

heart edge extending one-quarter the width of
lie* piece, shall reduce Hie lumber one grade.
Fins 1 s.
Firsts are 7 inches and over wide, 1" fe. t
and over long and free from all defects except
in pieces Hi inches and over wide, which nun
have one sound standard defect.
SECONDS.

Seconds an' 1; inches and over wide, 8 feel
and over long, not lo exceed 30 per cent under
12 feoi. Pieces il inches wide are clear.
I'i s 7 to 0 inches wide may have one stand-
ard defect. Pieces 10 10 12 inches wide maj
have Iwo slandard defects. Pieces 13 inches
and ovr wide may have three standard defects.

The combined grade of firsts and s mds must

contain 65 per cent of lirsts.

In the grades of lirsts and seconds any piece
of lumber containing one large defect, which
shall not damage it more than the combined
several defects allowed in the width of such
piece, shall grade I he same.

COMMON.

Commons are 4 inches and over wide, s feet
and over long, not to exceed 30 per cent under
12 foot. Four and 5 inch pieces must be clear.
Pieces II inches and over wide must work 75
per cent clear. No piece of cuttings in the com
mon grade considered which is less than 4 inches
wide and 4 feet long.

CULLS.

Culls are 3 inches and over wide. 2 feet and
over long, and will admit all lumber not up to
the grade of common that will work 50 per cent
clear. No piece of tail tings in cull grade con-
sidered which is less than :', inches wide and :'.
feet long.

SHORTS.

Shorts an' 1 inches and over wide. 2 to 7
feet long, and must be lirsts and seconds in
quality.

.hi' \ TERS.
Counters are 12 to 40 (eel long. 18 i" -'I

incites wide, and must he free fr all defects.

Splits lo he measured out.

SOUND WORMY.

This grade must be 1 inches and over wide
6 feet and over long, and will admit of worm
holes without limit, bin. aside from wormhoi.es,
the pieces must cut no't less than three-quarters
sound. This is a grade of lumber used to veneer
,.11 and it is not Intended to make Hi.' stock
equal in every way lo the lirsts and seconds.

CUBA MAHOGANY.

Lengths : r, let and over.
Cuban mahogany when sold 'log run" shall
be understood to contain at least 35 per cent
lirsts and seconds and 35 per cent common and
not over 30 per cent shipping culls.

New Southern Hardwood Concern.

The Stale Corporation Commission of Virginia
granted a charter on November '■'• to the S. &
W. II. Northrop Lumber Company, which is to
have ils financial office in Richmond, although
its operating office, yards and wharves will be
located at Wilmington, N. C. Us maximum

capital stock win 1..' $25, 'I'lc officers are

S. M. Woodward, president ; S. T. Pleasants,
secretary : .lames L. Robinson, treasurer, and
Samuel Northrop, general manager. Mr. Robert-
son, with Mr. Northrop, will be virtually in

charge of the business, which is to succ 1 t..

1 he export lumber business heretofore conducted
by the well known concern of S. & W. II. North-
rop of Wilmington, X. 1'.

Th mpany is authorized t,, transact a

general lumbering business in all ils branches.
with power to pur. base and sell lands, etc., and
to sell, import and export all kinds of lumber
and forest products.

New Credit Eating Book.

The sixth volume of the Credit Hating Bool

issued by the National Lumber Manufacturers'

Credit Corporal ion of Si Louis, Mo., i- now in

the hands "f the trade. The work reflects great

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. n .lit on the corporation and especially on W.
I'. Biederman, superintendent. It contains a
classified list, with capital and pay ratings of
all manufacturers and wholesale and retail
dealers in lumber in the country, as well as
factories which buy lumber in carload lots. The
book shows evidences of careful and painstaking
preparation and is without doubt as reliable a
work of reference of the kind as could be pro-
duced.

The National Lumber Manufacturers' Credit
Corporation is furnishing lumbermen with inval-
uable information in the issuance of these vol-
umes in April and October of each year ; also
in the weekly correction sheets, in which are
contained corrections, business changes, new
firms starting, failures,, fires, etc.. and the
weekly trade reports. The company urges that
members using the names appearing in the
weekly trade reports give the results of their
transactions promptly, as it is only in this
manner that information can be gathered of
value to creditors.

New Tennessee Corporation.

The Kimmins Lumber Company has been or-
ganized at Kimmins, Tenn.. to take over the
interests of W. .T. Cude at Kimmins and Uohen-
wald as well as those of J. B. Ransom & Co.
in that section. The officers are W. .7. Cude of
Kimmins, president and treasurer : ,T. B. Ran-
som of Nashville, vice president, and Arthur
KaDsom of Nashville, secretary. Headquarters
will be at Kimmins and W. J. Cude will lie in
charge.

The new company recently bought the poplar
and chestnut timber on a 13,080-acre tract,
known as the Hurricane Iron & Mining Company
tract, in Hickman county, Tennessee, which is
one of tin1 finest bodies of timber in the state
About three-fourths of this timber is fine soft
yellow poplar. It has also large timber and
lumber interests at Hohenwald, Tenn., anil be-
gins operations under most favorable conditions,
having now about 10,000,000 feet of lumber
available tin1 marketing as rapidly as same can
In' hauled in from lb'- mills.

Meeting Southern Cypress Manufacturers'
Association.
This meeting will lie held tit New Orleans on
Wednesday, November 14. It will probably be
in session two days, fur questions of great im-
portance to the cypress interests will be thor-
oughly discussed and acted upon. Members from
vorth Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Geor-
gia, Alabama. Mississippi. Arkansas and Louis-
iana will be in attendance and a general Invita-
tion is extended to till manufacturers, whether
members of the association or not. to participate
in the. meeting.

Kentucky Merger.
The Hugh McLean Lumber Company of High-
land Park, Ky.. has consolidated with Edward
L. Davis & ''". anil the Berry-Davis Sawmill
Company of Louisville, Ky.. under the name of
the McLean-Davis Lumber Company. The for-
mer concern is widely known through its main
office at Buffalo. N. Y.. its great wood mosaic
flooring plant at Rochester and its operations
in Indiana and Kentucky; while Edward L.
Oavis ,V Co. tire well-known manufacturers ol
poplar, oak, hickory and ash. with mills at
Scottsville, Ky., Camden, Tenn.. ami office and
yard at Louisville. Ky., where the headquarters
of the new company will be maintained. The
officers tire \V. A. McLean, president ; Edward
I.. Davis, vice president and' general manager;
C. M Sears, Measurer: and .1. A. Strack, secre-
tary. The company will control an output of
approximately 80,000 feel of hardw 1 a' day.

from present indications looks as though it
would revolutionize the dressing of hardwood
floors. Its name is the "Little Giant" floor
scraper and, like all important inventions, it is
based upon a scientific principle, the very sim-
plicity of which marks its success. It does
not require much effort to see the great saving
to the contractor made possible by the use of
this machine. Although it has not been on the
market very long, the factory is already running
day and night and is far behind on orders.

The following letter from the George A.
Fuller Company, a large building contractor of
ciii.ago, with branch offices in all the large
cities, will give some idea of the way the "Little
Giant" is being received:
"Hurley Machine Company, Chicago, III.

"Dear Sirs: — Enclosed please find our check
for $260 in payment for four of your "Little
Giant" floor scrapers. We have used them in
I be American Trust & Savings Bank building.
Nut only have they done- the work well Intl they
have done it economically. They have saved
us time and money and thoroughly .iustiiied all
your claims for the machine.

"William a. Merriman,

"Vice President."

To 'point out the advantages of the "Little
Giant" floor scraper is purely a matter of aritb
luetic. Under the old method of scraping floors,
one man down on his knees working hard will
scrape by band about two squares or 200 square
feet of flooring in eight hours. The wage scale

New Floor" Scraper.

The Hurley Machine Company of (.'lib ago

whose advertisement appears elsewhere in this

issue of the Hardwood Record, has lately put

upon tie market a useful little machine, which

LITTLE GIANT Fl.ncH; SCRAPER. MANU-
FACTURED BY THE HURLEY MA-
CHINE COMPANY, CHICAGO.

lor this is from 4<> to l.'c cents ati hour, or from
$3.20 to $4.40 for .'mi square feet, which makes
the cost from $1.00 to $2.20 per square. With
a "Little Giant" floor scraper one man standing
up and moving freely and swiftly will scrape
eight squares or sun square feet of flooring in
eight hours, which at the same wage scale re-
duces the cost of the work tec from 1" eents to
55 cents per square. Thus it will be readily seen
that the machine pays for itself in a few- days.
The "Little Giant" floor scraper is sold under
the Hurley Machine Company's guarantee to do
belter, faster ami cheaper work than by any
other method. It is simple in construction and
is built of the linest material, on the simplest
possible lines. There is no mechanism of any
kind to get 'nit of order. It will last a lifetime.
The machine is easily operated by one man.
with no other motive power. The principle of
operation is similar to that of a hand scraper,
while file capacity for work is greatly increased
an 1 the work done perfectly. The knife is made
of the finest imported steel. It scrapes the floor
when the machine is pulled toward the operator
and scrapes every inch of it — into corners and
along baseboards. A shaving about two inches
wide and three feet long is removed with each
stroke. All rollers of the machine are rubber-
tired, protecting tie tloc.rs The handle is
adjustable as to height and length.

Miscellaneous Notes.
Tie Indiana-Mississippi Veneering Company,
rec ntlj incorporated with $1.50.000 capital

stock, has commenced operations at Green-
wood, Lefiora county, Miss.

The Standard Tie & Equipment Company,
capitalized at $3,000,000, will carry on opera-
tions at Pittsburg, , Pa., and Guthrie, Okla.
The incorporators are: Lyman S. Ailes, Oak
Harbor, O. ; O. H. W. Case, James Murtha
ami A. Granville of Pittsburg; G. V. Pattison
and H. W. Penrose of Guthrie.

It is probable that Mellen, Wis., will have
i new veneer factory before long. Messrs.
Burkhardt, Zimmerman and Mesch of Kiel,
who recently established a veneer plant at
that place, are back of the movement. They
are now looking for about 1,000,000 feet of tim-
ber suitable for veneer manufacture.

Gorham Bros, are making extensive- im-
provements in their plant at Mt. Pleasant.
Mich. Among other additions they are setting
up the large saw mill recently in operation at
Fosters, Saginaw county. This will increase
the firm's capacity greatly and put it in posi-
tion to handle its growing business with
prompt to ss.

A petition in involuntary bankruptcy has
been filed by the Pine Bluff Lumber & Veneei
Company of Pine Bluff, Ark. Liabilities are
placed ot $87,000. The company is in tin- hands
of a receiver.

The plant of. the El Dorado Hardwood &
.Manufacturing Company, a new corporation at
EI Dorado. Ark., capitalized at $4,400, is now
running on full time after a brief shut down
owing to the illness of T. J. Emerson, man-
ager. Although the company was incorpo-
rate.! but a few weeks ago, the factory has
been in operation for some time.

A new lumber company called the Rapides
Land Company has been organized by W. O.
Hughart and George Kendal of the firm of
Hughart & Kendal of Grand Rapids. Mich.
The new company has been capitalized for
$100,000 and fifteen thousand acres of hard-
wood timber lands have been purchased in
Rapides parish, Louisiana. Following are the
stockholders: E. W. Stiles, Robert Shanahan.
Maurice- Shanahan, Butterworth & Lowe. J.
Edward Earle. Van A. Wallin, N. G. Avery, E.
H. Barnes. Ralph W. Widdicomb, A. M. Coit,
Thomas Peck and Hughart & Kendal.

Two new automatic dryers are being in-
stall il at the plant of the Great Lakes Veneer
Company. Munising. Mich., which is rapidly
nearing completion. These dryers were pur-
chased by Burdis Anderson, treasurer and
manager of the company, at a cost of $16,000.
Tie factory will be thoroughly equipped, the
company having already spent $L'0.000 for new
machinery and intending to install also a new
rotary cutter and a 300-horsepower boiler.
Work is being pushed on the Munising plant,
as the' company's cut at Grand Marais is prac-
tically exhausted.

The holdings of the Cedar River Land Com-
pany, comprising 7^.000 acres of hardwood,
hemlock, cedar ami pine timber lands, the
large sawmill at Spaulding, Mich., a number of
dwellings and other buildings, have been pur-
chased by the Oliver Iron Mining Company of
Iron Mountain. Mich., for something over
$50,000. The property is located in Dickinson,
Delta ami Menominee counties, Michigan. The
Oliver Mining Company will operate the saw-
mill, cutting mining timbers exclusively.

Z. T. Robinson of Owensboro. Ky.. is build-
ing a large addition to his veneer mill there.

The Holland Veneering Company is making
additions and improvements in its plant at
Holland. Mich., which will double its present
i apacity.

The- Knoxville Hardwood Fixture Company
of Knoxville, Tenn.. has been incorporated with
$10,000 capital stock by Noble Smithson. Guy
Smithsoii John Culver. T. B. Henly and J. J.
Henlj

The hardwood mill of the Ride Lake Ltini-
l.i Company at Rib Lake. Wis., is to be re-

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modeled. New machinery will be added and
elaborate improvements made, which will ma-
terially increase the capacity of the plant. A
lath and shingle mill is also to be installed.
The Sterling Cedar & Lumber Company has

l n incorporated with $100,000 capital stock

at Monroe. Mich. Operations will be eom-
menced shortly on a recently purchased tract
of land near St. Ignace. The purchase includi
4. nun acres of timber hind, largely hardwood.

HardWood NeWs.

(By HARDWOOD RECORD

Chicago.

Frederick VV. Lipham of [Tpham & Agler, one
of tin- leading hardwood bouses of the city,
was reelected lasi Tuesday to the Board of Re
view by a handsome plurality. The splendid
record of Mr. Upham in public office was gen
'■rally conceded, and his continuance on the
board was a deserved mark or popular confi-
dence and is especially pleasing to Ids Chicago
confreres.

Carroll I-'. Sweet of the Fuller & Rice Lumber
.V: Manufacturing Company of Grand Rapids,
Mich., was in town for a few bours the early
paii <d" the week, mi Ids way i<> the Pacific coast
for a prolonged visit.

11. 1'.. Leavitt "i tin' Leavitl Lumber Company
lefi "ii Saturday for a three weeks' cruise of
southern mill points.

.1. N. Woodbury, sales manager for E. is. Lom-
bard, is just home from a sunt hern purchasing
trip.

A half score "i w {working machinery men

prominent in the industry wire in the city last
week in consultation over business affairs.
Among those present were J. II. McKelvey of
New York, president of tin' American Wood-
working Machinery Company; Capt. Elton A.
Smith of the II. B. Smith Machine Works,

"Smithville, X. .1.: Frank F. W Is of the S. A.

Woods Machine Company, Boston, Mass., and
Capt. Thomas .1. Egan of tin' .1. A. Fay & Egan
Company. Cincinnati.

George I.. Smith, surveyor general of the Na-
tional Hardwood Lumber Association, has re-
signed that position and entered lie- wholesale
hardwood lumber business on his own account
with headquarters at Indianapolis. .Mr. Smith
was very popular in the work in- performed for
the National association and from his wide ac-
quaintance and specific knowledge of the hard-
wood Lumber business should achieve success in
his new undertaking. He lias the best wishes

Of the llAKI'W RECOBD

the demand experienced by the Cotton Belt
Lumber Company, 108 I. a Salle street, is excel-
lent, its slock being sold practically as fast as
it can In- produced. Trade is hampered some-
what by labor conditions at the Mississippi
mills and by the car shortage. W. II. Bennett,
I. resident of the company, has just returned from
a two weeks' trip to New York and eastern
points.

Charles Miller or Miller Bros., who has i ,

in the South the greater part of this year, is
spending a few weeks in Chicago. lie will
shortly return to the southern operations of the
company. He reports that progress in getting

"in lumber in the southern districts has i d

hampered en account of heavy rains and cur
shortage. At thi Chicago office Milton Miller
has been handling a huge volume of trade ami
reports business in satisfactory condition.

The Wisconsin Timber & Lumber Company
has had a successful season, and is siiil buying
poplar and Cottonwood box boards and 3-inch
common poplar.

business is exceedingly brisk Willi the Ward
Lumber Company. Ii is disposing of the output
of its mills as fast as the lumber is manufac
tured. in the present state of the demand the
company reports thai ii could keep live or six
more mills bus}

I.. It. Lesh of i.esh .x Mai thews Lumber Com
pany has ins! returned from a two weeks' trip
to si. Louis. Memphis and mill points. He finds
business iii g I condition and ii" difficulty in

Special Correspondents.)
disposing of stock

in spite of the grea! shortage of mahogany the

country over, there is one Chicago house fully

able lo take care of its trade in this w 1 This

is the Keith Lumber Company of Fourteenth
and Wood streets. This company has well to-
ward 5,000,000 feet of Cuban, Mexican and
African wood in all grades and thicknesses in
Stock. Among the items are more than .",00,0110
leet of remarkably high class and good width
Cuban wood, consisting verj largel; of firsts ami
seconds. The mahogany stock of this company
is one of the fines! ever grouped in the West.

The executive committee and the ins] lion

rules commit! 1 the National Hardwood Lum-
ber Association will hold a meeting at the or-
ganization's headquarters, Rector building, Chi
eago. on Thursday, November 22.

J. W. Mayhew, sales manager of tic- W. N.
Hitter Lumber Company of Columbus, O., was in
Chicago the latter part of the week on bust
ness.

Business with the Paine Lumber Company,
Ltd.. has been excellent. The Chicago sales
office of the concern has greatly extended its
business during the past year and finds the
demand ample to keep the factories busj

Charles Gordon of the Chicago sales depart-
ment of the G. W. Jones Lumber Company has
been away for the past two weeks in the South.
Reports from him indicate good business

N. 1'. Bigelow, at the Chicago office of the
Fourche Liver Lumber Company, returned some
time ago from a trip to the Arkansas mills of
his company. During the past six months the
company has manufactured considerable oak and
gum flooring.

Henry Sondheimer, Chicago representative of
the E. Sondheimer Company, Memphis, is away
on a selling trip through Indiana.

C. L. Miller of the L. K. Miller Company is
absent from the city on a business trip and will
not return for some days.

Wood Ileal of .lames Ii. Lacey & Co. hit
Chicago a few days ago for the New Orleans
headquarters of the company, where he will
remain for tin- winter.

Gardner I. .Tones, (he genial treasurer of the
Jones Hardwood Company. Inc.. of Boston,
Mass.. paid a hurried visit to Chicago last week
and favored the Recobd offices with an appre-
ciated call. Mr. Jones was en route home after
attendance upon the recent semiannual meeting
of the National Hardwood Lumber Association
a 1 Cincinnati.

R. I.. Witbnell. representing Duncan Ewing
& Co. of London and Liverpool, England, was a
reeeiil Chicago \isilor and (ailed at the RECORD
Offices. Mr. Withnell will make an extended
trip through the states, having span consider
abb- time already in the eastern markets lb'
will visit all the principal lumber centers, gain-
ing a general insight into c litions on this side

and paying particular attention to lumber manu-
facture. From Chicago he went south, where he
will visit Memphis, Louisville. Cincinnati. Si
Louis and other centers.

C. 11. Barnaby of Greencastle, tnd., presidenl
of the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Associa

lion, was shaking hands with his host of friend
in Chicago on November 2.

s. G. McClellan, manager of tic Simmons l.um
b"i- Company. Simmons, Mich., was in the city
on business November 1.

.1 S. Goldie. he of the auburn locks, the win
ning smile and tic maple bat' trade mark of

Cadillac, Mich., was a welcome Chicago visitor
on November i .

A. Johns i the Pennington Lumber Coin

pany, Pennington Gap, Va . was in Chicago on
business November 2.

Among the Chicago visitors the early pari ol

the month was Hairy .1, Gott, western represen
tative of Hamilton II. Salmon & Co.. New York
City.

Mitch. 'ii Brothers' Company of Cadillac, Mich.,

the well known producers of maple and birch
flooring, are .,,it with an attractive circular
pertaining to their specialty which contains in
formation that will be appreciated by both
dealer and consumer.

Tic Hardwood Record acknowledges with
thanks tic receipt of a blotting stone from the
Indiana Quartered Oak Company of New York
city. It is a unique advertisement and a depar
lure fr the style of the ordinary blotter.

Tic Hardwood Record acknowledges the re

eeipi of i wo I ks, "The Steel Square as a Cal

culating Machine" and 'The Steel Square Pocket
Hook." Both are published in the interest of
carpenters, builders, lumber dealers, etc. and
are replete with interesting information. They
are issued by the Industrial Publication Com
pany of New York City and are handsomely
bound and illustrated.

The Hardwood Record has received a hand
some booklet entitled ■"Modern Hardwood
Floors," published by Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc..
Cadillac. Mich. As this company is one of tin
leaders in floor construction and specialists in
everything pertaining to that industry, the new
bit of literature will be interesting both to the
trade and the layman. It is addressed specifi-
cally to home builders, and offers many valuable
suggestions to those contemplating building
homes. It can be had on application to the
sales department of Cobbs i*i Mitchell, Inc.

R. B. Cooke of James Cooke & Co., Newcastle-
on-Tyne, England, is visiting this country in
the interests of his house. He attended the
Cincinnati meeting of tin- National Hardwood
Lumber Association and was an interested spec
tator of the proceedings.

The It. J. Munhall Lumber Company. Pitts-
lung. Pa., is assisting President Roosevelt in
popularizing the phonetic way of spelling by
issuing a booklet containing the first 300 words
adopted by the United States government.

W. II. .Matthias, representing in the Chicago
territory the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company of
Columbus, 0., dropped into the Record offices this
week, and reports Octo'ber one of the best
months in business results to date.

Park Richmond ..v Co. have .joined tin' down-
town lumber crowd and removed their office

from I'm West Twenty second street to -no

Monadnock building. Their new telephone niim
ber is Harrison 5165.

O. E. Faught has recently engaged in the
wholesale hardwood business at o Easl Eighth
street, Cincinnati. lie has had extensive ex-
pend ami is familiar with everj department

"I the business.

Boston.

Charles s. Wi ntworth ol Charles S w
worth & C" he- returned from a trip to New
Brunswick, where he went in tic Inl
business. Considerable delay in shipment duo
i " i shortage of cars was complained of by
the mills, and .Mr. YVentworth took this trip
io New Brunswick in an endeavor to facili-
tate mattei

IT. G. Home of Rome liros. has purchased
He propertj ol I a. Wright & Co; of Gar-
dinei Mass., and reports that he is in hopes

of inducing a huge manufacturing coi rn to

loeat,.. there. The firm which he has in mind
manufactures sash and Minds.

Douglas F. Smith, manager of
River Lumber Co., Biddeford, Me., was
itor in t Ic Boston ma i ket I

William !•:. Litchfii I

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western trip. While away he attended the
convention of the National Hardwood Lumber
Association. Among other Boston lumber deal-
ers present at this meeting were W. M. Wes-
ton and Gardner I. Jones.

Lumber dealers will be interested to learn
that the Boston & Maine railroad has become
more active in the question of car staking
and has already staked ten cars. Other roads
are beginning to take the same action.

William G. Wood, who haw boon active in
the lumber business in New Bedford, Mass..
for over fifty years, died at his home in that
city late in October at the age of 73 years. In
1861, after several years' service as clerk in
the employ of Greene & Wood, he was taken
into the business as a partner. This business
was established in 1S45. In 1S71 Mr. Greene
retired and Mr. Wood became senior partner
of the firm, with George R. and Edmund Wood
the other members.

New York.

The J. Marcus Wood Working Company.
Williamsbridge. N. Y.. has been incorporated
under the same style with a capital of $50,000
by J. Marcus, E. Woodholt and S. Anderson,
all of Williamsbridge.

Dixon & Dewey. Flatiron building, this city,
who, in addition to their extensive hardwood
business, have been doing considerable in Pa-
rifie Coast products during the past yeaF. have
just closed a deal for Jarrah wood with a
foreign house and are laying plans for an
active campaign in it in the local market and
particularly in the wood-paving line. It is
generally understood that their arrangements
are particularly desirable and will be very
successful from a financial standpoint.

The H. Herrmann Lumber Company, hard-
wood manufacturers of Kentucky and Indiana
and large retail manufacturing operators at
the foot of East One Hundred and Twenty-
fifth street, have recently made considerable
expansion in their general interests through
the acquisition of some additional choice hard-
wood tracts in Kentucky running closely to
oak and poplar. At their local operation they
are constructing a river bulkhead along their
new premises at the foot of East One Hun-
dred and Twenty-fourth and One Hundred
and Twenty-fifth streets, which will greatly
improve their receiving facilities. Their fine
new factory at this latter location has been
completed and includes dry kilns and every
other feature to make an up-to-date trim,
woodworking and moulding plant.

George Dwyer, formerly of Geo. M. Grant
& Co., has joined the selling staff of Charles
E. Page & Co., at 1170 Broadway.

George H. Storm & Co., foot of East Sev-
enty-second street, Manhattan, have just pur-
chased eight additional lots, which join their
property with the East river, giving them 130
feet of water front and sixteen city lots in
all. They will erect a planing mill and dry
kilns and a new building, the motive power
for which will be derived from a rotary steam
engine recently invented and built by George
H. Storm, head of the firm, which is pro-
nounced a strong and economical machine,
generating an unusually large amount of
power from little fuel, and occupying less than
quarter the space required by the ordinary
engine.

The J. C. Turner Lumber Company recently
suffered the loss of its steamer George Far-
will, which went ashore in a gale off Cape
Henry, with a cargo of 575,000 feet of cypress.
The cargo was fully insured and the steamer
partially so.

- Colonel J. S. H. Clark of J. S. H. Clark &
Co., Newark, N. J., sailed from here last
week on a pleasure trip abroad.

The Executive Committee of the National
Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association held
a meeting here at headquarters on October 18,
at which time there was a full attendance.

General and routine matters were discussed,
but no important action taken. The work of
the organization was reported as progressing
very satisfactorily.

The Badger-Pomeroy Company of Chicago
has opened a local selling office at 74 Broad-
way, this city, where Mr. Pomeroy will make
his headquarters for the purpose of extending
their trade in this vicinity.

Charles Milne, the popular sales representa-
tive of G. E. Smith, 17 Battery Place, has
the sympathy of the trade in the loss of his
wife on October 22, They had been married
only a few months.

M. F. O'Neill, sash, door and trim manufac-
turer of 137 State and Rider avenue, is erect-
ing a fine new up-to-date plant at Walton
avenue and Cheever Place, Bronx, which will
be ready for occupancy Jan. 1. Mr. O'Neill
has purchased the property and will remove
his entire business there.

R. B. Derne, general superintendent of the
W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, Columbus. O.,
was a recent New York visitor in the interest
of business.

Curtis E. Bowman, well known lumber mer-
chant of Camaguey, Cuba, was a recent vis-
itor in the city on a trip through the eastern
markets.

Tin' annual banquet of the New York Lum-
ber Trade Association has been scheduled for
Jan. 22 in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-
Astoria. This being the twentieth anniver-
sary of the association, the plans have already
assumed such shape as to indicate the biggest
and most successful banquet in the history
of the organization.

Fire damaged the planing and moulding mill
of Meisel, Muschel & Co., 486-492 Leonard
street, Greenpoint. Brooklyn, on Oct. 24. The
loss is covered by insurance.

Philadelphia.

H. H. Ma us of the H. H. Maus Company,
Inc., is on a selling trip through the state.
Reports say he is receiving his share of
orders, and that the outlook through the state
for winter trade is good. The mills of the
company in Oak Ridge, Va., are running full
force on orders.

Miller & Miller report all branches of busi-
ness prosperous. Their hardwTood department
is doing as well as could be expected consider-
ing the stiffening prices and the scarcity of
the better woods. Frank B. Miller of this
firm, who has been traveling through New
Y'ork state for the last two weeks, reports
that the orders he has received exceed his
expectations.

The marriage of T. Wilson Potts of Park-
ersburg, Chester county, Pa., to Miss Mabel
Woodward of this city is announced. Mr.
Potts, though only twenty-six years old. has
built up a thriving lumber business in north-
ern Chester county, and is the owner of large
timber tracts near his home.

R. W. and F. E. Sch'ofield of Schofield Bros,
are making a tour through West Virginia and
Tennessee looking up stock. They will at the
same time make new connections, and visit
their offices in Elkton and Weston, W. Va.

The Colonial Lumber Company reports the
market a little off recently, but in view of
prices stiffening and a predicted steady winter
trade, it has contracted for 5,000,000 feet of
lumber in West Virginia.

H. L. Aydelotte, Philadelphia and Washing-
ton manager of the Paine Lumber Company,
Limited, of Oshkosh, Wis., states, in regard
to the reported dropping off of building work
for September, that this is nothing unusual
at this period. Mr. Aydelotte is an authority
on 'conditions in this special line.

Soble Bros, have begun operations at the
Okeeta Planing Mill Company of Honaker. Va.
A considerable number of men are employed
and enough orders are in hand to keep the
concern busy for a long time to come. The

flooring turned out at the mill is high quality
and a ready seller.

The steamship George Farwell from Jack-
sonville, Fla., for New Haven. Conn., with its
cargo of cypress timber, has been wrecked
off Cape Henry, and will probably be a total
loss.

Swenk, Benson & Co. are about to erect an
addition to their present quarters. They are
extensive handlers of mill work, and report
business so much increased as to render in-
adequate their storage capacity.

J. P. Finley, pioneer lumberman of Wil-
liamsport, Pa., died Oct. 15. He was for many
years a member of the old Finley-Young
Lumber Company, and one of the prominent
men in the industry when Williamsport was
a conspicuous lumbering center. He was
eighty-six years old.

Kirby & Hawkins Company gives a glowing
account of the business conditions in its spe-
cial line. The company is an extensive han-
dler of railroad ties and contractors' lumber,
and has orders enough to consume the whol"
output of some of its mills. Woods of all
kinds are used in this line, but oak predomi-
nates.

Brawley & Smith, hardwood manufacturers
with mills at Huntdale, N. C, report chestnut.
ash and poplar in constant demand, with
prices stiffening. • They find difficulty in accu-
mulating stock at the mills.

The J\ W. Diffenderfer Lumber Company is
busy in all its departments. The personnel
reports affairs in good state, considering the
mill conditions in the south.

Wistar, Underhill & Co. are very busy. New
contracts have been made in Tennessee to
which Mr. Wistar is about to give his per-
sonal attention. T. N. Nixon has just re-
turned from this section, and also has been
looking up stock in West Virginia and North
Carolina. II. E. Bates, another member of
the concern, has been touring the northwest
for a like purpose.

The Lumbermen's Exchange held its
monthly meeting Nov. 1, with President Geo.
F. Craig of Geo. F. Craig & Co., who has just
returned from a southern trip, in the chair.
A preliminary luncheon was served, after
which the necessary business was taken up,
the most important item of which was the
much discussed set of by laws. These laws,
which have been handed over from meeting
to meeting, have at last been adopted. Among
the recent visitors to the exchange were J.
Watson Craft, Ambler. Pa.; Wm. Godfrey,
Cheraw, S. C. : George Huginer of W. M. Rit-
ter Lumber Company. Columbus. O.; A. M.
Nevins, representing the Cypress Selling Com-
pany. Limited. New Orleans, La., and Ber-
tram P. Whedon of W. D. Young & Co., Bay
City. Mich.

Baltimore.

Worth Jennings, a prominent lumberman of
Maryland and West Virginia, who was found
unconscious in his office at Jenningstown.
W. Va., early in October, with a bullet wound
in his head, died at the Devis Memorial Hos-
pital at Elkins, W. Va., October 21. At the
hospital he first continued to improve, but an
abscess developed, causing inflammation of
the brain, which resulted in his death. All
indications showed the wound to have been
self-inflicted, though why Mr. Jennings should
have desired to kill himself is not known. He
was married and had several children. In
business he was highly successful. Together
with his brother. C. H. Jennings, he owned
large tracts of timber land, sawmills in sev-
eral states, and other property, the holdings
of the brothers being valued at more than
$1,000,000.

The Hagerstown Spoke & Bending Com-
pany of Hagerstown, Md.. has absorbed the
J. C. Hollingsw'orth Wheel Company of Wheel,
Md., and will remove the plant of this corpo-

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ration to Hagerstown, a factory building being
in course of erection there to accommodate
the plant. The Hagerstown Company has in-
creased its captial stock from $100,000 to
$150,000.

John Kahl, Sr., for many years engaged in
the cooperage business in South Baltimore,
died on October 29 of the infirmities of ad-
vanced age after an illness of five weeks.

O. C. Crane and James S. Lakin of Terre
Alta, W. Va., have concluded negotiations for
the sale to a number of Morgantown, W. Va.,
and Pennsylvania capitalists of 5.000 acres of
timber land on Roaring creek. West Virginia,
the consideration mentioned being $68,000.
The property, according to report, was ac-
quired by Messrs. Crane and Lakin not long
ago and includes the old Preston tannery tract
together with several others. The expecta-
tion is that a mill will be erected on the
tract.

The Blaekstone Lumber & Manufacturing
Company of Blaekstone, Va., has been incor-
porated with a capital stock of $50,000 to op-
erate a woodworking and ire plant. The erec-
tion of a box factory with a capacity of 25,000
feet of lumber per day is also under considera-
tion. All the other buildings are completed.
J. M. Harris is president of the company;
E. H. Ward, secretary-treasurer; L. D. Strauss,
general manager of plants and architect in
charge, and J. W. Hoover, engineer in charge.

The Randolph Lumber Company of Beulah.
W. Va., has been incorporated with a capital
stock of $25,000 to operate sawmills. The in-
corporators are: H. E. Ast and F. W. .Kirby
of Elkins. W. Va. ; J. W. Powell and J. J.
Linderman of Canisteo, N. Y.. and Clare Wil-
ley of Allegany, X. Y.

"The Krebs Lumber Company of Morgan-
town. W. Va., has purchased the timber rights
on a tract of 5.000 acres in Preston county.
\\ • si Virginia, and the intention is to erect
and operate sawmills.

Pittsburg.

The Glassport Lumber Company has pur-
chased from the Glassport Land Company 550
feet of frontage in Allegheny avenue. Glass-
port, for $20,000 and will use the ground as a
site for a big extension to its plant. At least
$50,000 will be spent on the improvement.

The L. N. Hoover Company of Camden. N.
J., has been incorporated with a capital of
$250,000. Its members are: W. J. Slaven, ■
N. L. Hoover of DuBois, Pa.; H. Gass of Glen
Campbell, Pa.; S. W. Fox of Clearfield, Pa.;
J. H. Hoenberger of Ligonier, Pa., and W. M.
Slouck of Pittsburg. The company has an
extensive hardwood operation in the south.

S. C. Reid is filling up his big yards at
Warren. O.. with the finest lot of elm timber
that lias been shipped to that city for several
years. It is second growth stock cut 4%
inches and over and three feel and over long.
The poles are being used for hubs which go
chiefly to the eastern market.

The Linehan Lumber Company notes a
strong hardwood market. Within the past
month it has taken some very good orders
for oak at $2 over former list price, most of
the stock being grade lumber.

Pittsburg made a fair showing in October
In building, but not so good as architects and
contractors had reason to expect. The fear
of more labor troubles after the first of the
year is given as the reason for the lack of
more building projects being started. In all
there were authorized 229 new projects which
are estimated to cost $1,099,523. The average
total for a month is about $1,500,000 in Pitts-
burg.

The Krebs Lumber Company of Kingwood,
W. Va., has bought 5,000 acres of land in
Preston county, W. Va. The tract, which is
largely hardwood timber, will be developed at
once.

Attorney T. M. Gailey has been named re-

ceiver of the Carroll Lumber Company of
Clairton, Pa., replacing A. J. Diebold, the first
receiver, who resigned when the Pittsburg
Plate Glass Company asked that the company
go into the hands of a receiver. It is expected
that the assets will be sufficient to nearlj
paj off the indebtedn. ss.

The Cheat River Lumber Company is push-
ing things hard at its plant :,i Burkeville, Va.
One member of the company is constantly at
the plant, and the Pittsburg office force has
been putting in a very busy two months tak-
ing care of its hardwood trade. The com-
pany has been one of the largest handlers of
.le.stnut the past year in this market and
has lately placed some very satisfactory
orders.

The Ward & Hutton Company of Swain
county. North Carolina, has purchased several
thousand acres of timber land in eastern
North Carolina, and expects to develop the
tract very shortly. B. M. Yeager of Malinton,
W. Va.. is one of the chief promoters.

'I'll.' M. B. Farrin Lumber Company is hav-
ing a brisk fall trade in poplar and southern
hardwoods from its Pittsburg office in the
Ferguson building.

George Warren of Franklin, O., has bought
4,000 acres of hardwood timberland in Knott
county, Kentucky. A company will be formed
soon to develop the tract and a large mill
will be installed.

J. B. Hart of Clarksburg. W. Va.. and other
capitalists from Wheeling and vicinity have
bought the stumpage and mills of the North
Carolina Lumber Company at Mt. Sterling,
N. C. The plant to be installed has a capacity
of 30,000.000 feet a year. The operation will
be 'arried on under the name of the Pidgeon
Lumber Company.

The Flint, Erving & Stoner Lumber Com-
pany has installed two new planers and two
double cylinder planers and matchers at its
big plant at Dunlevie. W. Va. It cut 2.000.000
feet of lumber there last month, the larger
part of it hardwood. J. B. Flint, president of
the company, recently took a trip through the
Ohio river towns, where he found affairs in
very flourishing condition.

The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company reports
a remarkably active business this fall. It has
had a big trade in mine rails and pit props
lately. The company has cut a lot of good
hardwood at Mercer. Indiana and Washington
counties, Pennsylvania, and has just con-
nected for 100 ears more to be cut at the
country mills. It has also bought another
tract of 300,000 feet of choice white oak tim-
ber in Washington county, on the Panhandle,
which will be cut off as fast as possible by a
portable mill and shipped to Pittsburg and
vicinity.

Sales Manager J. N. Wollett of the Amer-
ican Lumber & Manufacturing Company is
keeping a steady stream of big orders coming
his way this tall. Charles Cruikshank, assist-
ant in the hardwood department, is in Arkan-
sas and Tennessee on a business trip. The
American recentlj bought from O. Edwards of
the Audrey-Edwards Company of Hartsville,
Tcnn.. 6,000.000 feet of oak. poplar, chestnut.
ash and hickory to be cut under contract.
Mr. Woollett has just booked another order
for 1.400,000 feet of cottonwood firsts and sec-
onds to be cut in Arkansas.

Buffalo.

H. A. Stewart is planning a trip to Pennsyl-
vania. A lot of good cherry and chestnut
was recently brought from that state by the
firm.

O. E. Yeager lias again on hand a fine as-
sortment of cypress, including all thicknesses
of tank stock. The wood is a good seller and
seems to give the dealers less trouble than
most sorts.

A. W. Kreinheder is making a trip to Ken-
tucky.

The Empire Lumber Company is busy tak-
ing a cargo or two of birch, black ash and
maple off lake barges. As much of it is al-
ready sold it easily goes on cars direct and
is soon out of the way.

Considerable business is being done on the
docks of T. Sullivan & Co.. as an effort is
making to fill them up with lake hardwoods,
mostly ash and birch, before the end of the
lake season.

A. Miller is doing a good business in poplar
ami chestnut, both coming in and going out.
finding that there is great demand for these
woods.

Angus McLean is on mm< of his periodical
visits to the southwestern mills of the Hugh
McLean Company. The company is trying to
run the mills night and day now, to incn a
the oak supply.

Buffalo hardwood lumbermen, with extensive
timber interests in the south and southwest
appreciate the secondary value of their prop-
erty as farm land. The easiest way, of course,
is to sell cut-over land outright and let the
purchaser decide on his side of its develop-
ment. The Empire Lumber Company, how-
ever, is more far-sighted and disposes of its
lands with a view to their immediate im-
provement so as to create business for the
railroad which the company built in Arkansas,
primarily for logging purposes, but which is
now to be continued as a permanent line.
The company intends extending the road far-
ther south, into Louisiana.

Taylor & Crate take a step further and
under another firm name are doing practical
farming — raising crops, mostly cotton, on their
cut-over lands in the Yazoo delta in Missis-
sippi. They have several hundred acres un-
der cultivation, and have been engaged in this
work for several years, meeting with pro-
nounced success.

E. J. Fulghum has become associated with
the Buffalo Maple Flooring Company as man-
ager. Mr. Fulghum has had a long experience
in the manufacture of maple flooring both at
Reed City and Traverse City, Mich. He is
also a mechanical expert of high ability and
will be a valuable addition to the forces of
the Buffalo Maple Flooring Company.

Saginaw Valley.

diaries A. Bigelow, manager of the Knee-
land-Bigelow Company and the Kneeland,
Buell & Bigelow Company at Bay City, says
there is considerably more inquiry for hard-
wood lumber ami that prices are improving,
several woods having advanced a dollar a
thousand. There is a much better feeling in
regard to maple. The only handicap to busi-
ness is the lack of transportation, the rail-
roads being unable to furnish more than one-
quarter of the cars wanted. In fact, the strin-
gency has been so acute that the Saginaw
Valley Lumber Dealers' Association held a
meeting October 30 at which resolutions were
adopted alleging that unless they have prompt
relief they will lie forced to close down their
plants; that merchandise shippers have been
favored at the expense of the lumbermen, and
they recommend thai warehouse shipments
less than car lots lie discontinued two days a
week in order that lumber shippers may be
furnished with cars.

W. C. Sterling and son of Monroe and W. C.
Beck and H. C. Slocum of Bay City have
organized the Sterling Cedar & Lumber Com-
pany at Bay City with a paid-in capital of

$100,000. The company has purchased 1.

Mi.s of land along Carp river. 15 miles north
of St. Ignace. containing 25,000.000 feet of
hardwood and a large quantity of cedar, and
a saw mill plant and docks on St. Martin's
i>i>. The consider.i t ion is reported to be
$104,000. About 6,000,000 feet of hardwood
logs will be put in this winter. W. C. Ster-
ling is president, W. C. Sterling jr.. vice presi-

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dent and secretary, and H. C. Slocum, treas-
urer and manager.

At Saginaw the Strable Manufacturing Com-
pany has filed articles of incorporation with a
paid-up capital stock of $50,000. H. A. Batch-
elor and James T. Wylie hold 167 shares each
and George Strable 166. The company is
erecting a large maple flooring plant at Sagi-
naw, which will begin operations early in the
new year. It will be stocked with maple cut
at the mill of the Batchelor Timber Company
at West Branch. This company owns about
100,000.000 feet of timber in northern Michi-
gan. The Batchelor Timber Company is cut-
ting about 12.000,000 feet annually at its mill
and is installing a number of machines in its
planing mill for working up building ma-
terial.

W. D. Young & Co. have finished making
improvements at their Bay City plant and it
is running day and night. A new resaw is
one of the improvements.

T. C. Kelley & Co. operate a saw mill in
Montmorency county that is cutting 16,000
feet of hardwood a day. The concern owns a
tract of several thousand acres of land and
has a stock of 2.000,000 feet of lumber on hand

McTlver & Hughes, who operate seven small
hardwood mills in the vicinity of Onaway, are
putting in 16.000,000 feet of logs to stock the
same.

Henry Laflour is cutting and skidding hard-
wood logs in Presque Isle county and will ship
several carloads of birdseye maple to Eng-
land.

The Churchill Lumber Company, operating
north of Alpena, has over 1.000,000 feet of
hardwood logs on skids, which will be railed
to the mill at Alpena. F. W. Gilchrist will
also cut a number of million feet of hardwood
logs for his mill at Alpena.

J. Kennedy of Bay City is erecting a large
stave and heading mill at Posen and is eon-
tracting for stock for the same.

Grand Rapids.

Carroll F. Sweet of the Fuller & Rice Lum-
b i S .Manufacturing Company left for the
Pacific cdasl Nov. 2, where he expects to
enjoy . two months' respite from business
cares.

Rush Culver of the Northern Lumber Com-
pany, Marquette, was in the city Nov. 4.

M. F. and W E. Butters of I.udington were
in Grand Rapids last week.

The Grand Rapids Hand Screw Company
has awarded the contract for erection of a
factory building. 60x600 feet, two stories and
basement, to be built on Jefferson avenue,
east of the Macey Company's plant. The new
structure will enable the company to double
its present output.

The Gunn Furniture Company has plans for
adding a fourth story to. its large plant at

Fuller station, in the th limits of Grand

Rapids.

The majority of the furniture salesmen who
travel out of Grand Rapids are home for the
season, and the factory owners are bending
every energy to till orders. Very few dealers
are cancelling orders, even those placed in
July last and still not delivered. In some
cases orders are being placed for spring deliv-
ery, which indicates an unusual demand for
the goods. The season is one of the most
prosperous ever known in the furniture trade.

The Hanchett Swage Works of Big Rapids
has plans for enlarging its present factory by-
building an addition, which- -will give the com-
pany "fifty per cent more floor space. The
company is so crowded with business that it
i v to employ a day and night crew.
Over 100 men are employed and the plant is
well equipped.

The Cadillac Handle Co. is receiving several
ids of logs daily at its Cadillac mill and
the work of decking for tin' season has be-
gun. A new steam decker built by the com-

pany's foreman, Walter Fell, is used.

The latest hardwood concern to organize in
Grand Rapids is the Gogebic Lumber Co.. cap-
ital $500,000. with the following officers: Presi-
dent, Albert Stickley; vice president, E. L.
Maddox: secretary and treasurer, J. K. V.
Agnew. Offices have been opened in the Michi-
gan Trust building and the company for the
present will concern itself in buying and sell-
ing hardwood lands. The company has large
holdings in Gogebic county. Mr. Stickley, the
largest stockholder, is at the head of the
Stickley Bros. Company, large manufacturers
of furniture here, while Mr. Agnew was for-
merly in charge of the western division of
the I'eie Marquettewrailroad.

Asheville, N. C.
The settlement of the machinists' strike on
Hi Southern Railway Friday night. Now _'.
was a godsend to the lumbermen of this city
and western North Carolina. Although the
strike was of but few weeks' duration it se-
riously affected the hardwood dealers and
caused considerable financial loss. The unusu-
ally wet weather this summer greatly inter-
fered with lumbering and scarcely had this
difficulty ended when the machinists went out
on strike, and as a consequence the engine's
of the Southern went "dead" one aft r the
other until it was an utter impossibility to
make shipments of lumber. The same condi-
tions prevailed on the Murphy line, adjacent
to Asheville, from which points much of the
lumber was shipped. Three days before the
strike ended J. M. Burns of the Tnagusta
Manufacturing Company and the Monger Lum-
ber Company declared that lumbermen were
suffering great financial losses consequent to
the strike is now settled and the Southern is
results would be serious. He stated that it
was impossible to move cars, and that ordefs
long overdue could not be delivered. Although
the strige and that unless it ended quickly
enabled to move some cars of lumber the
dealers feel that they are entitled to recover
from the road, and the whole question of
claims has been placed in the hands of attor-
neys.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

Fred C. Pearre, a well known Baltimore
broker, was in the city last week and called
on local lumbermen. Mr. Pearre is buying a
considerable amount of hardwood stock from
the Bristol district.

Paul W. Fleck of the Paul W. Fleck Lumber
' ompany and manager of its Philadelphia
office is in the city on business.

1.. A. Houseman of Galax, Va., w7as in the
city en business last week.

The Faulkner Lumber Company, which
operates two big mills at Damascus. Va., has
purchased a yard site on the Virginia-Caro-
lina railway, about one mile east .if Abingdon,
anil proposes to at once establish sorting and
shipping yards at this point.

The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company is push-
ing the construction of its big band mill at
Hampton. Carter county, Tenn., and expects
to have the mill, road, etc., completed and
ready for operation by January 1. Twelve
miles nf standard gauge railroad from Eliza-
bethton to Hampton and nine miles of narrow,
gauge road up Tiger's creek to the timber
lands of the company are being built.

Melvin A. Hayes of the R. E. Wood Lumber
Company was in the city last week, and re-
ports that the big mills of the company at
Buladeen, Tenn., are running regularly to their
fullest capacity.

The first consignment of logs from the tim-
ber tract el th Came-Wyman Lumber Com-
pany, near Bluff City, ten miles south of Bris-
tel. was hauled to Bristol over the company's
strip of railroad, which has just been com-
pleted, and the Virginia & Southwestern, last
week Tie logs will be hauled to Bristol as

rapidly as possible and cut at the band mill
of the Bristol Door & Lumber Company, in
northeast Bristol. In the spring the company
proposes to build a band mill on the timber
land.

John Thomas and Wilier Roller of Bristol
have become largely interested in the manu-
facture of cypress lumber for shipbuilding
purposes in South Carolina. Messrs. Thomas
and Roller, who have just returned from the
Palmetto state, report that they have pur-
chased an immense boundary of cypress tim-
ber in an isolated part of the state and that
two hundred men are now engaged in the
logging and manufacture of this stock. The
new concern has contracts for the supply of
the stock in large quantities, cut according to
stipulated dimensions, and has several lam'
portable mills cutting.

H. W. Neily. representing George H. Mell of
Kane. Pa., was in the city on important busi-
ness last week.

The new plant of J. A. Wilkinson in south
Bristol is about complete and will be put in
operation in about two weeks. A force of men
is now engaged in putting in the railroad sid-
ings from the Southern yards. The machinery
has been installed, and it is hoped that every-
thing will be in readiness for the starting of
the big lumber plant in a very short time.
Mr. Wilkinson- has purchased additional
ground for his yards and storage sheds.

Valentine Luppert of Johnson county was in
the city last week. Mr. Luppert reports that
the lumber business in Johnson county has
been very greatly handicapped by heavy rains
and inclement weather during the past few
weeks.

A serious labor problem is just now con-
fronting employers in this section generally.
The growing tendency of the laboring classes
to live in the cities and the great industrial
development has resulted in a scarcity of labor
all over this section. Lumbermen are com-
plaining, as well as mine operators and rail-
road contractors, of their inability to secure
sufficient labor. Foreign labor has been tried
by the railroad construction contractors, but
the experiment has not been successful to a
high degree.

Employers of labor in the rural districts pro-
pus.- to get together and devise plans to check
the tendency of the laboring classes to move
to the cities. To do this it is proposed to pay
them high wages, provide good houses for
them to live in, good school accommodations
and commodities at low prices.

Chattanooga.

There is a serious shortage of cars for the
movement of lumber products in this dis-
trict. Speaking of the car shortage, Fred
Arm of the J. M. Card Lumber Company said
that the scarcity nf cars had cut down the
trade of the lumber concerns of this city
which do a foreign business about one-.half.
"We can't order cars sent to the country,
where our mills are located, for they have not
sufficient sidings and it takes so long to get
them in the country. We are simply up
against it." he said.

The demands for building material in this
city are increasing from day to day, and the
reports on building permits show that this
city has made rapid strides in the last few
years. The concerns supplying this demand,
the Willingham Lumber Company, the King-
Baxter Lumber Company, the McLain Lum-
ber Company, Snodgrass & Fields, the Loomis
& Hart Manufacturing Company, the Yellow
Pine Lumber Company, the Zack Taylor Lum-
ber Company, and others, are all exceedingly
busy.

The * ase Lumber Company of this city has
abandoned its yards here and removed to Bir-
mingham, Ala., where it has been merged with
the Fowler-Personett Lumber Company, an allied
..in .in. as the Case-Fowler Lumber Company.

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I'll. King-Baxter Lumber Company has
located a salts office at 999 Market street,
which is in charge of Douglas Baxter, vice
president of the King-Baxter Lumber Com-
pany

It is underst 1 that the city is trying to

gel control of the property occupied by the
ards of Snodgrass .v- Fields, which will be
opened up with si roots.

W. I. Young of Greensboro, X. C, has
arrived here to take charge of the work of
English capitalists in developing mineral and
Umber lands north of the city in the Wal-
den's Ridge coal fields. \V. .1. Willlngham will
spend the winter in Florida.

St. Louis.

Lewis Doster is spending a few days in this
citj looking over the work being done by the
association's inspector here. Paul H. West-
brook. the loeal inspector, has been kept very
busy, inspecting principally stock coming in
from southern manufacturers to yards here.

ll.trley H. Miller, secretary of I hi' Jno. F.
Scobee Lumber Company, returned last week
from a trip to his company's mills at Auter,

M

Wm. Dings, secretary of the It. M. l'iy
Lumber Company, is at Egremont, Miss.,
looking after the interests of his company at
that point. He reports great scarcity of labor
and cars, also says that the weather has been
t ' i . unfavorable for several weeks.

The Walilstein Lumber Company reports
business as ipiili- good fur this time of the
year. It is not pushing sales at this time,
believing there will he a material increase in
i/alues within the next few months.

Nashville.

According to Edmund II. Bowser, in charge
of the department of lumber transportation
lor the Illinois Central railroad. lumbermen of
tie south are in a bail predicament caused by
Un shortage in cars. Mr. Bowser has just
returned from a trip as far south as New
Orleans and says that many lumber concerns
in the territory covered by his road have shut
down owing to the inability to secure cars.
Th. smaller mills seem to have suffered most,
as they are crowded up with small orders.
Mr. Bowser says it is impossible even to get
enough ears to transport sufficient material to
build new ones.

Tli. legality of the sale of important timber
rights will he brought into question by a suit
instituted recently at Centreville, in Hickman
county, by Eisman & Roberts against the Bon
Air Coal & Iron Company and the New York
Trust Company. The famous Aetna and
Warner Company lands are involved and a
considerable portion of the same was recently
purchased by th.' Hays Stave & Lumber Com-
pany of Nashville. The lands in question are

worth between $125,000 and $150 and the

result of the suit will tie watched with inter-
est. The property has much valuable timber
on it.

Laird & Freeman have just closed a deal
whereby thej have bought from Ardery &
Edwards "I Paris, Ky., a large tract of, hard

w 1 lands in Grundy county, Tennessee. The

property comprises several thousand acres and
is covered with virgin oak. poplar and hjck-
.1'. Arrangements have been perfected for
III.- .ii'.li I a mill. Messrs. Laird & Free-
man and their associates are also owners
..I a 25,000 i. re i ract further . th. Cum-
ber! I plateau. Eastern capitalists are said

i.. be negotiating for the property.

Timber rights to about 10,000 acres of land
lying along Beech creek near tie- Tenni
river at Clifton have been purchased by F. M.
li.ii.i, president of the Canada Wheel Works
of Merretton, Canada, and A. G. Fitzgerald,
a prominent mill man of west Tennessee
They have also bought what is known as th
Chauncey mill and will operate it at onci

cutting Hi. hickory off the adjoining lands.
The output will be shipped to Canada to l«
used in the manufacture of carriages. There
is enough timber in these holdings to furnish
cutting for ah. .ui ii\ e yea]

A special from Union Cits to Nashville
states that the West Tennessee and Kentucky
l;. 'tail Lumber Dealers' Association has just
held its second annual session at that place
There are some thirty-five concerns who are
members of this association. Jackson, Tenn
was selected as the next place of meeting. A
number of interesting subjects were discussed
at the session an. I ji proved one of mutual
inn. nt t.. all liie members. An able address
by President W. K. Hall proved quite a feat-
ure. Five nivv firms were admitted to mem-
bership.

The Hankins-Speck Lumber Company of
Livingston, in Overton county, has bought of
H. R. Vaughn ami Joe Hatcher a tract con-
taining ah. .ui 20, lin.- trees. The consid-
eration was $r>o.iiiiii. The principal varieties ..f
timber on the tract are beech, white oak,
poplar and walnut. On one small patch of the
property twenty feet square were trees con-
taining 100.000 feet of lumber.

Three of Nashville's lumbermen were legis-
lative candidates for Davidson county in the
election of last Tuesday. They were W. H.
McCullough. president of the Capitol planing
mill; J. H. Jones, a lumber manufacturer, and
J. A. Bowling, a building contractor.

The National Lumber Company, chartered
under the law's of the state of Kentucky, with
a capital stock of $50,000, has been granted a
charter by Secretary of State John W. Morton
and allowed to engage in business in Tennes-
see.

The Hays-Henderson Saw & Supply Company
has been granted an amendment changing iis
Dame to the Eagle Saw Works.

Work has begun on the buggy factory build-
ing in West Nashville by the DeFord Buggy
Company at the corner of Seventeenth street
and Boulevard. The building will be metallic
sheathed, three stories high and will cover
an acre. It is proposed if possible to have it
ready for operation by the first of the yeai
The plant will work about 100 men.

A strong effort will be made by prominent
Nashville lumbermen and business men to
secure larger appropriations from Congress
with which to pursue the work of improving
the Cumberland river. It is of vital impor-
tance to th. lumbermen of the Cumberland
river valley that the stream be made more
navigable, as better water means better sup-
plies of lumber. The dealers are Looking espe-
cially to the river now in view of the terrible
shortage existing in cars at this time. A
locked and dammed river up to or beyond the
Kentucky line, furnishing water for boats to
inn the year around, would enable dealers to
get much more lumber t.. Nashville and make
them in a measure less dependent on the rail-
roads.

Th.' Te ssee State Board of Equalization

has under consideration the ease of the Smoky
Mountain Lumber Company. This concern

wa ■ sed .i $106, , which amount was

increased bj th trustees ..t Monroe county.
Tli.' companj is claiming the assessment is
too high.

The Graham Bowers Stave Company of
Whit.' Bluff, Tenn., is operating (he ..1.1
Whited facto] s .hi hat place. The plant
opi ii. .1 up ..1. i he first .if tic month after hav-
ing h en shut down fur some time.

1: and .1. S. young, well known lumbei
men of Burksville, Ky., have contracted with
Hi.- John B. Ransom Lumber Company to fur-
nish the latter with one and a half million
I. . t of poplar, oak and hickory lumber. The
lumber will be placed In Cumberland river
betw en Burksville and Neeley's Ferry and
in ken i... Nashville by river.

Wolf .v Wats.. ns saw mill near Charlotte,

Tenn., w.i- destroyed by lire recently, but
some of the machinery was saved. The loss
was covered by insurance and the plant will
resume operations in the near future.

Sixty-five thousand hickory clubs and spoke
wi i" shipped from Lynnville, Tenn., last week
to the Wheel ,v Jobbing Company of Muncie,
in.i by the v.ikel.y Spolv. & Handle Com-
pany. Several othei big orders are on the
hooks of the latter firm to be filled in the

near future

The Holland Blow Stave Company, which
operates extensively in middle Tennessee, has
recently purchased large holdings in north, to
Mississippi, where a branch stave factory
will be built. The principal headquarters for
this company In this section is at Decatur.
Ala.

The Budde i .in, is. :y Maiiiii.n i urlng C pan

has been incorporated at Jackson, Tenn., with

capital stock of $30,000. Bank, store, church
and school fixtures will be manufactured. The
incorporators are: Ralph Budde. T. E. Lind-
s.y. J. L. Wisdom, W. T. Harris, J. E. En-
denton and G. H. Robertson. A factory 70x100
feet and two stories high is to I"' ere. ted at
once About seventy-five hand- will be em-
ployed.

The Gallatin Spoke Works, owing to the
scarcity of timber in that section, will close
down in the near future and the concern will
be removed to Lebanon, in an adjoining
county, where it will be run on a more exten-
sive scale.

The old handle factory at Bridgeport, Ala
has been purchased by A. R. Ticknor of the
Bridgeport Stave Factory. The building will
be remodeled and made into a furniture fac-
tory. All classes of furniture will be made
from the natural woods and dimension lumber
from other plants will lie sawed there

Memphis.

The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis at a

i ting h.l.l at the Hotel Gayoso Nov. '■'■

adopted resolutions of condolence with refer-
ence to the recent death of C. D. Strode of
Chicago, editor and publisher of Strode'S
Lumbei World

One new member, James R. Blair of the
Crittenden Lumber Company, was admitted.
A letter was nail from Secretary E. M. Terry
of the National Lumber Exporters' Associa-
tion, to the effect that that organization had
decided to hold its annual meeting next Janu-
:o\ .ii Norfolk, Va., the dire, 'tors having
.h. .sen this point in preference to Memphis.
Secretary Terry, however, speaking for He
directors, warmly thanked the Lumbermen
Club for the invitation to hold the annual
meeting here as its guest.

The Standard Lumber Company, with head-
quarters in the Randolph building, is one of
the lat.i additions to the lumber fraternity
of Memphis. It is a partnership, and is com-
posed of the toll. .wing: W. .1. Riehardsi 1

west Tennessee, P. H. Ravisies, formerly of
the Sullivan Lumber Company, and C. B. Stet-
son, who has been in the lumber busim
here in several capacities for the past: five
or six years. Messrs. Ravisies and Stetsoi
are in activi charge of the business. The
firm is handling lumber from several mills In
\ikin-,i and is making dii eei mill shipmi
..i band sa wed ha rdwoi 6

The Lu.l.le- Lindsey Manufacturing Com
pany is a new organiaztion at Jackson, Tenn..

capitalized at $30,000. The incorpon

Ralph Budde, T. E. Lindsey, W. T. B n
ami others. The company will ma:
furniture, making a specialty Of bank and

store fixture: and school and church furni-

t ui e.
A. Stinson, I bin y Recht in and I n .1. D.

M.i 'ulloiigh of i '..himl.n , Mi ' Old to

the Interstate Land Companj ol Pennsylvania

6,1 acres of timber land in Lamai county,

Uaba ma and Lowndes count ■ \i

4Q

HARDWOOD RECORD

half of which is covered with pine and the
other half with hardwoods. The purchasing
company has southern headquarters at Attala,
Ala., and it is understood that mills will be
put in for the development of the timber on
this newly acquired tract.

F. M. Hara. president of the Canada Wheel
Works of Merritton, Canada, and O. G. Fitz-
patrick, a prominent lumberman of west
Tennessee, have purchased 10,000 acres of
hickory timber lands in Wayne county, Ten-
nessee. Mr. Fitzpatrick will remove his fam-
ily from Stanton to Clifton. Tenn., where he
will be engaged for the next few years in cut-
ting this timber and preparing it for ship-
ment to Merritton. where it will be used in
the manufacture of carriages and other vehi-
cles. The timber will be rough-sawed at
Clifton, where a mill is to be established at an
early date.

The Southern Lumber Operators' Associa-
tion, which has a large membership in Arkan-
sas, Mississippi. Alabama, Louisiana and
Texas, held a meeting here last week to de-
vise plans for securing relief from the car
shortage. After much discussion resolutions
were passed demanding that the Illinois Cen-
tral. Louisville & Nashville, St. Louis South-
western (Cotton Belt), the St. Louis. Iron
Mountain & Southern and two or three other
smaller roads build 150,000 additional cars as
soon as possible in order to handle the busi-
ness offered by the lumber manufacturers in
these states. At present lumber manufactur-
ers who are members of the association are not
receiving more than 50 per cent of the cars
which should be afforded them. The resolu-
tions call for the application of the principle of
reciprocal demurrage which places a premium
on the prompt loading and unloading of cars
by the shipper or receiver and therefore in-
creases the supply of cars available for the
handling of lumber shipments. The railroads,
in response to the demands for cars, reply
that they haven't them and are therefore un-
able to supply them.

The car situation in the southern hardwood
producing territory, of which Memphis is tin
logical head, is very serious. Heretofore most
of the trouble has been in the interior, where
there is less competition than in the larger
towns, but there is now a scarcity of cars for
handling lumber in and out of Memphis which
is proving a serious handicap to both manu-
facturers and wholesalers. The movement of
cotton is phenomenal all over the south, break-
ing all records during the past two weeks,
and this is largely responsible for the conges-
tion which is proving so serious to lumber
interests. Mills are being closed down in the
interior and one or two failures are reported,
with the assigned cause the inability of the
roads to give enough care for making delivery
of their output promptly. The cotton move
ment will continue for at least five or six
weeks more in this territory, and in the mean-
time lumbermen will have to do the best they
can because the railroads seem to be power-
less to cope with the situation.

The Memphis Builders' Exchange and the
Pennsylvania Builders' Exchange have taken
steps for the organization of a national build-
ers' association for the purpose of organizing
local and state exchanges; encouraging and
assisting weak and declining exchanges; de-
veloping measures of benefit to the different
exchanges; looking after legislation affecting
the building industry; (haling with labor trou-
- bles and disseminating educational literature
relating to the building industry. It is planned
to hold a meeting of the various state organi-
zations, probably in Memphis, next January
for the launching of the- national association.
There was a very enthusiastic concatena-
tion of Hoo-Hoo here last Saturday evening.
Nov. 2. at W'hich a class of twenty-six re-
ceived the degree of the "playful kitten," and
following which there was a delightful ban-

quet at the Hotel Gayoso. The occasion was
rendered all the more pleasant because of the
presence of two members of the Supreme Nine,
A. C. Ramsey of St. Louis. Snark of the "Uni-
verse, and James H. Baird of Nashville, Su-
preme Scrivenoter.

James H. Baird. Supreme Scrivenoter, ap-
peared in the hall without the black and gold
button of the order, and on motion was fined
heavily for appearing without this insignia.
W. R. Anderson, who was in his shirt sleeves
at the time, then moved that every man in
the hall without his button on be fined 50
cents. This carried, and although Mr. Ander-
son's coat had his button in it, he, like the
rest without buttons, had to put up his 50
cents. W. H. Russe acted as toastmaster at
the banquet.

New Orleans.

Announcement is made here that the Plant-
ers' Steamship Company, one of the independ-
ent firms of fruit importers operating at New
Orleans, will shortly embark in the business
of exploiting the forests of mahogany and un-
known hardwoods which are located on its
properties in Spanish Honduras. This state-
ment was made by W. J. Rands, a superin-
tendent of the company. He says it is the
purpose of his company to cut large quantities
of the timber and ship it here. Samples of
every kind of hardwood found on the com-
pany's tracts will be cut and shipped to New
Orleans with a view to determining their com-
mercial value. He says there are large quan-
tities of various hardwoods in the country
which he has not yet been able to classify,
but which take a high polish and would be
excellent for the manufacture of furniture.
Saw mills are being erected on the properties
by the Planters' Company and considerable
wood is being cut. It is definitely understood
that the company will operate extensively in
the importing of lumber.

The strike of the stave classers, pilers and
stave carl drivers, whirl] affected the opera-
tions of a number of lumber exporting firms
in New Orleans, has been practically settled.
The employers have agreed to treat with the
nun and to hear their complaints, while th<
men have agreed to go peaceably back to
work pending a final settlement of the diffi-
culty.

The stave mill of the National Manufactur-
ing Package Company at Gross Tete, a small
town on the Texas & Pacific road about one
hundred miles from New Orleans, was re-
cently sold under an order of the court. The
company's plant in New Orleans and a large
quantity of barrel staves, oak headings and
similar materials were also sold. The total
amount realized was something like $18,000.
The Memphis Stave Company made the larg-
est individual purchase, buying about $10,000
worth of the sta\ es.

The mill of the Lock-Moore Lumber Com-
pany, the Calcasieu Long Leaf Lumber Com-
pany and the J. A. Bel Lumber Company have
resumed operations after the recent strike.
Every mill in the south and southwest has
agreed to the ten-hour day and weekly pay-
day proposition, with no reduction in wages.

Advices from Alexandria. La., state, that
tin- big mill of the Lee Lumber Company was
recently destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
$75,000. The mill is located at Tioga, six miles
north of Alexandria, on the Iron Mountain
railroad. The dry kiln, shed and planer were
saved. The loss is covered by $30,000 insur-
ance.

Announcement is made that the Atlanta
Woodenware Company of Atlanta, Ga., will
establish two big factories in the Hattiesburg
district of Mississippi. A representative for
the company has already secured options on
two desirable sites.

The charter for the Lake Charles & North-
ern Railroad Company, an affiliated interest of

the Southern Pacific, and a lumber-carrying
road that will operate through a large part of
Louisiana, has been filed in this city. The
road will be built from Lake Charles to De
Ridder, both in the parish of Calcasieu, and
the privilege of extending it through a num-
ber of other parishes is made a part of the
charter. It is capitalized at $700,000. with G.
W. Nott, president; J. A. Bel, vice president,
and G. G. Moore, secretary and treasurer.
Mr. Nott is a well known financier of New
Orleans, Mr. Bel is a lumberman of Lake
Charles, and Mr. Moore is the chief clerk of
E. B. Cushing, superintendent of the Louisi-
ana lines of the Southern Pacific.

J. W. Strong of Clinton, La., is making
arrangements to resume operations at the
plant of the Baton Rouge Spoke Manufactur-
ing Company at Baton Rouge, this state. The
plant will be rebuilt, enlarged, and the latest
and most improved machinery will be in-
stalled.

It is definitely understood that the Indian-
apolis Veneering & Manufacturing Company
of Indianapolis, Ind., will erect a $150,000
veneering plant at Greenwood, Miss.

Wausau.

The Wisconsin Bark & Lumber Company
has purchased the Borth holdings near Pelican
Lake, including mill and seventy-five forties
of land. On the latter it is estimated there is
26.000,000 feet of timber, mostly hardwood.
Some of the timber will be logged this win-
ter, but the mill will not be operated. The
logs will be hauled by rail to the company's
other mill in Antigo.

The Pelican River Lumber Company of
Rhinelander has rebuilt its mill destroyed in
July. This mill was built to cut the hard-
wood leavings of the pine lumbermen on the
Pelican river, and there is assurance of at
least 15.000.000 feet. The company has been
reorganized with $50,000 capital stock. The
officers are F. J. Cook, president; O. H. Cook,
secretary; C. H. Miller, treasurer; Wm. Har-
den, general managei

The Clifford Lumber Company succeeds the
Clifford & Fox Lumber Company of Stevens
Point, and the capital stock has been in-
creased from $50,000 to $100,000. The old com-
pany was organized .six years ago. A. M. Fox
leaving the company two years ago and going
to Seattle. Wash. Wm. J. Clifford and son,
John W., are the principal stockholders in the
new organization. The former has been in
the lumber business for forty years, the latter
since leaving school.

The J. W. Wells Company of Menominee has
purchased timber lands in Ontonagon county,
Michigan, which will be logged and the logs
cut at the company's mills in Menominee. The
lands were bought of Capt. James Dickie and
the price was $7,000.

The Bissell-Zirlsdorf Lumber Company has
been organized in Wausau with a capital stock
of $20,000. The stockholders are W. H. and
Frank Bissell. W. W. Gamble and Ernst
Zirlsdorf. Frank Bissell will be general man-
ager. The concern will lease or buy mills in
Marathon county and handle hardwood almost
exclusively.

C. F. Dunbar of Wausau has purchased 1.0SO
acres of choice hardwood lands in Oneida
county of A. S. Pierce of Rhinelander. The
lands, it is said, will cut 5.000,000 feet and the
purchase price is understood to be approxi-
mately $20,000.

The Badger State Stave & Lumber Com-
pany recently held a directors' meeting and
decided to work the company's large timber
holdings in Mississippi and Louisiana. Jos.
Thomas will have charge of the manufacture
of barrel and wine cask staves, and will go
south soon. The company owns 7,000 acres,
recently purchased of R. W. Dunfee of Vicks-
burg. Miss., and E. F. Mertz of Milwaukee.
Wis., for $90,000.

HARDWOOD RECORD

4i

A. C. McComb. formerly of Tomah, has pur-
chased S,000 acres of land in Missouri. The
lands, it is estimated, will cut 50,000,000 feet
of yellow pine and 20.00,000 of red oak. The
stumpage value is $:: per thousand, and the
Frisco Railway Companj is building a branch
line toward the tract.

Geo. Richards of Gresham lias purchased a
saw mill located in the hardwoo'd country
surrounding Boudriel.

R. J. Morgan of Antigo lias entered the em-
ploy of the Brandt Lumber Company of Min-
neapolis as purchasing agent and will make
his headquarters in las limn-' town.

A. Kuckuk of Shawano 'and rive utln-r pit-sons

recently purchased T. I acres of oak lands in

Arkansas. They will not log it for the present.

The C. A. Goodyear Lumber Company of
Tomah recently doubled its capital stock.

Edward Daskam of Antigo recently sold fiSO
acres of hardwood lands in Langlade county
i" Edward Kirburger, for which he received
$11,580. The lands are situated near a new
railway that is building.

The Upham Manufacturing Company of
Marshfield has established camps and started
the winter's work of cutting and skidding logs.
The company manufactures furniture mostly.

The Scott & Howe Lumber Company of
Hurley is increasing the capacity of its mill
by building an addition.

The Stevens Lumber Company will cut about
10,000,000 feet of timber this winter near Par-
ish. A large portion of this is hardwood, and
the logs will be hauled by rail and sawed in
the company's mill in Rhinelander.

The Robbins Lumber Company of Rhine-
lander is fitting a plant for the manufacture
of matched maple flooring. A dry kiln 100x40
is also being erected of cement blocks.

A. E. Beebee of McMillan, secretary of the
Wisconsin Hardwood Lumbermen's Associa-
tion, has been elected to represent the First
Assembly district of Marathon county. Both
by native ability and training Mr. Beebee is
qualified to fulfill splendidly the duties of his
new office. The Hardwood Record congratu-
lates him.

Geo. E. Foster of the Foster-Latimer Lum-
ber Company, Mellen, Wis., is absent on an
eastern business trip and is expected to return
about Nov. 20.

Louisville.

A new hardwood company has been formed
here, the McLean-Davis Lumber Company,
which has been incorporated with a capital
stock of $220,000. This new company repre-
sents a combination of the interests of Ed-
ward L. Davis Lumber Company, the Berry-
Davis Saw Mill Company, and one plant of
the Hugh McLean Lumber Company. The
officers of the companj are: W. A. McLean,
president; Edward L. Davis, vice president
and general manager; C. M. Sears, treasurer,
and J. A. Struck, secretary. The mills in-
volved in the new deal are the Hugh McLean
Lumber Company, at Highland Park, all the
mills and property of the Davis Lumber -Com-
pany, and the Berry-Davis Saw Mill Com-
pany. It does not affect the wood mosaic
branch of the Hugh McLean Lumber Com-
pany at New Albany. Ind., of which TV'. A.
McLean is manager, merely taking over the
mill on the Kentucky side and putting it
under the management of the new combina-
tion, with Mr. Davis as manager. The Hugh
McLean Lumber Company retained the stock
of lumber on the yard and Mr. J. W. Gates
is now located here for a month or two
to look after the marketing and shipping of
it. The transfer of the property was com-
pleted the first of the month, and is now in
full charge of the new company, which will
maintain its office under the new name at the
old stand of the Berry-Davis Saw Mill Com-
pany and the Edward L. Davis Lumber Com-
pany.

Tin- iaw Kentucky Hardwood Flooring Com-
pany, mention of which has been made here-
iii'iiv begins operations this week with two
raw Woods flooring machines. The dry kiln
is not completed at this writing, but the ma-
Chines are making their initial run. and in
tin' course of another week or two the plant
will be going full blast as a material addition
to 1 in local hardwood manufacturing inter-
ests.

Another new addition to the hardwood con-
suming trade here is the Continental Car &
Equipment Company, which has a new plant
at Highland Park. This company will make a
specialty of mining cars and other light cars,
and it is said it has already placed an order
liu' a half million feet of car oak, adding not
only to the local consuming trade, but to the
general demand for car material.

J. T. Morgan & Co. say that these are busy
days with them at their hardwood yard. Cur-
rent sales, they say. are fairly good.

Albert R. Kampf reports inquiries for hard-
wood not only good at home, but are showing
a considerably better tone from abroad.

Edward L. Davis says the hardwood market
is in pretty good shap9 and there's nothing to
complain of on that score. They have. been
hampered some by adverse weather conditions
down at a mill they are erecting in the coun-
try, but on the whole are getting along very
nicely.

Minneapolis.

A new company has been organized with
headquarters in this city, tor the manufac-
ture of veneer staves from birch and other
hardwoods, by the J. J. Russell patent. Stave
mills will be established in northern Wiscon-
sin and a barrel factory here. Some well-
known lumbermen are financing the proposi-
tion. The company is called the Uniform
Stave & Package Company, and is capitalized
for $41111.000. J. B. Burkholder. George E.
Adams, E. H. Mathes, J. J. Russell and M. J.
Bell are the incorporators.

An enormous amount of hardwood has been
worked up in Minneapolis this fall, most of it
for interior finish in the buildings being hur-
ra <l to completion. The local consumption of
lumber lias been so great that a much greater
proportion is coming from outside, and the re-
ceipts of lumber as reported by railroad com-
panies entering here were over 20,000,000 feet
for the month of October alone. Last year
they were less than 14,000,000 feet for the
same month.

E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lum-
ber Company has returned from a successful
business trip to Chicago and Mississippi river
territory. IK' has been confined at home for
a few days with a severe cold since his re-
turn. A. S. Bliss of the same company re-
ports that their fall sales have been heavy,
and if they sold no more lumber between now

and tin- first of th'' year, they would still i"
making a record in the matter of shipments.
They find a brisk demand in this territory,
but an even better sale in eastern centers.

A. W. Sumner of St. Louis, Mo., represent-
ing the Massengale Lumber Company of that
place, was in this city a. few days ago calling
mi line yard headquarters and factory buyers.

The Mercer-De l.aittre Lumber Company, re-
cently organized with headquarters at 309
Lumber Exchange, Minneapolis, has com-
menced to build a hardwood and hemlock mill
ii Bass Lake. Mich., on the Northwestern
road near Choat, in the upper peninsula. It
will be in good shape for shipping stock, and
has an ample stumpage to run a number of
years, both in hardwood and hemlock.

A. F. Hein of tin' John Hein Lumber Com-
pany, hardwood manufacturers at Tony, Wis.,
was in town a few days ago looking into tin-
market situation.

W. H. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber Com-
pany and the Ruby Lumber Company has been
at Ruby, Wis., looking into conditions there,
and especially with regard to the coming win-
ter's logging. They have the product of tin'
mill there sold for some time ahead.

The Peterson-Moore Lumber Company of
St. Paul, which has a big hardwood distribut-
ing yard in that city, reports that the Fred
Nelson mill at St. Croix Falls, Wis., which
saws for the company exclusively, will run all
winter, having an ample supply of extra good
hardwood logs to be worked up.

C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, the local
wholesale firm, says their outside trade has
been good all fall, but is tapering off a little
now. Values are strong on yard stock and
on all factory lumber but birch.

Toledo.

I'll.' I'.i win Cooperage Company of Bryan, O..
was incorporated with a capital stock of
$10,000 recently by Aaron T. Vail, E. A.
Brecker, Joseph W. Vail, Clement V. Hoke
ami W. 11. Osborn.

Rowland Starr of Barbour & Starr is spend-
ing a few weeks at Bellamy, Ala., where the
concern has large timber interests.

Shealy & Stephan of LIpper Sandusky, O.,
have completed their new planing mill and
yard and are busy turning out stock to care
for their extensive trade.

George B. Stine of the Belcher-Stine Lum-
ber Company spent Sunday at his Toledo
home. Mr. Stine is looking after the firm's
interest at Belcher, Ark., and made a flying
trip home, returning via St. Paul. F. S.
Belcher, president of the company, and his
family have taken up residence at Portland,
Ore. The concern has large interests at Falls
City, that state.

W. T. Hubbard, among Toledo's must prom-
inent hardwood dealers, spent tin- fore part
nf tin' week at Charleston, W. Va.

HardWood Market,

(By HAEDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Reporters.)

Chicago.

I!i. local tradi is strong. The demand for
nearly every variety of southern and northern

woods is as g 1 ■' evei in tin- history of

tin trade. While the average Chicago jobber

fairly well stocked either in his home yard
or at grouping points north or south, still a
good many dealers arc chasing about the
sawmill district endeavoring to pick up odd
hits ni lumber with which to care for their
trade, Then Is everj prospect of the season's
business closing very strong.

Boston.

During the past two weeks tin local mar-
ket for hardwoods has shown a slight im-

provement. During the past few weeks tin

car shortage has ma been quite as pre unced

as previously. Furniture manufacturers have
a good volume of luisiin ss on hand and are
working to their lull capacity getting out
goods for the holiday trade. Desk manufac-
turers are busy, ami two of the leading manu-
facturers have orders booked for several
months to come. Manufacturers of interior
finish are working on full time The yards
in this vicinity an- carrying fan- sized stocks.
'I'ln- demand for quartered oak cannot be
termed active. There is more inquiry for one
inch, ones and twos, at full market quota-
tions, but common moves slowly, with prices
unsettled. Plain oak in in verj good 'ill. with
desirable stocks in moderate offering only.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

For brown ash a very firm market is reported,
with the demand fair. White ash also con-
tinues strong and in small offering. There is
no anxiety on the part of buyers to antici-
pate their wants for maple flooring, although
a fair demand is reported. Chestnut is in
very good call, but very little native stock is
offered. Hickory is in good demand. White-
wood continues firmly held at the last ad-
vance, with offerings of good dry stock from
the mills small. The demand here is only
moderate. Cypress continues firmly held,
although the demand is not large at present.
A leading dealer states that one reason for the
demand for cypress being quiet at the present
time is that when prices were a little easier,
a month or two ago, the large buyers stocked
up.

New York.

The general hardwood situation throughout
the metropolitan district and vicinity con-
tinues to show strength. Prices are ruling
very steady with an upward tendency on the
better grades, while the lower grades are
holding their own nicely. Ash. birch, chest-
nut, oak and poplar are all selling well and
the supplies of well manufactured stock in
the better grades are by no means plentiful.
There are quite large offerings of low-grade
hardwoods, owing to the constantly increas-
ing production of such, but there is no par-
ticular weakness noted in that line, and the
general situation in hardwood is very satis-
factory for this season of the year.

The furniture and piano manufacturing
trades are very brisk. In all directions in the
hardwood consuming trade general reports
are very satisfactory and the outlook for a
continuance of active business for some time
to come is excellent.

In cypress the demand is equal to the sup-
ply, while shipping conditions in the south
tend to curtail shipments. Prices are firm on
the better grades, but common lumber has
advanced considerably at southern manufac-
turing points. Maple, which has been slow
for some time, has improved sufficiently to
preclude any further accumulation of supplies
and the market for it is expected to show
an upward tendency from now on.

One of the salient features in the New York
hardwood trade at the present time, and one
which is of special interest, is the great
strengthening in the mahogany and cedar
market, particularly in cedar. For many
months the demand for both commodities has
been marked and receipts from various ports
inadequate to take care of current require-
ments, while the recent trouble on the Island
of Cuba has simply - tended to aggravate the
shortage, with the result that prices at the
present time, especially in cedar, have reached
the highest level known in years and every
arrival of either stock is quickly absorbed by
buyers. The prevailing prices on mahogany
run -all the way from 8 to 12 cents a foot in
the wholesale market, the latter prices ruling,
of course, on Laguna and Santiago mahogany,
which are most desirable, but the general
mahogany market is firm at from 9 to 10
■ ents, the latter price reflecting more nearly
the actual market. In cedar, prices are ruling
from 10 to 15 cents, the latter price being
asked for Laguna stock. Cuban cedar is firm
at from 11 to 14 cents On the various grades,
and the cedar from other ports from 10 to 14
cents.

All the arrivals during the past month have
been quickly absorbed and the market is
almost bare of stock in first hands. Cuban
receipts fell off fifty per cent on account of
the trouble on the islaml

tion was quick. Building operations have en-
joyed the biggest month in this line for years.
Good hardwoods are still scarce, and stock is
sin itt in the mill districts. Chestnut and oak
are easily the leaders, but ash, red cherry and
birch are strong. Poplar, though reported a
little off. is steady and salable.

The railroads are placing orders for a con-
tinuous supply of the class of hardwoods
used by them, receiving all that can be manu-
factured by certain mills. Ties are in demand
for both railroad and trolley road building.
those made of oak predominating. The build-
ers' supply manufacturers, not only are work-
ing full force on orders, but are anticipating
a steady winter trade, of course providing the
winter be an open one. Furniture factories,
both local and through the eastern Pennsyl-
vania district, aie active, buying freely; and
reports from this industry show a healthy
condition of things.

Glancing over the field, the business outlook
is satisfactory, with the exception of the car
service in th south, which universal opinion
condemns as the worst experienced for years.
Notwithstanding the impediments thrown in
the rnanufacturers' way by the obstinate
storms, no effort appears to be made by the
railroads to meet the difficulty.

Philadelphia.
The last fortnight has been a brisk one in
the local hardwood market. There was a
slight falling off in some woods, but the reac-

Baltimore.

The lumber trade of this section is keeping
up remarkably well, and the outlook is even
more reassuring than it has been. Stocks are
being sought in large quantities, and the mills
find themselves with enough orders on hand
to keep running for an indefinite period. The
range of values is firm and ability to furnish
lumber in desired quantities without delay is
a consideration which receives attention from
consumers. Railroad building continues, while
all the car building concerns have big orders
on hand, so that the needs of the trade are
bound to be heavy for some time to come.
Much competition still prevails at points of
production and the car shortage causes delay
in making deliveries, aside from the obstacles
presented until recently in the shape of bad
roads, a result of the frequent heavy rains.

An active inquiry for oak prevails.- with
stocks none too large for the needs of the
trade. Exporters still report that relative
quiet prevails in the foreign business, but
they also state that the tone of the market
on the other side of the Atlantic is healthy,
and that foreign buyers are gradually com-
ing to a realization of the fact that they must
be prepared to pay more for lumber iir the
future.

Ash is a good second to oak, being in strong
request and finding ready takers at home as
well as abroad. Chestnut, walnut and other
hardwoods are moving in relatively large
quantities and the price lists are firmly main-
tained.

Pittsburg.

Hardwoods lead the market. All indica-
tions now go to show that the hardwood deal-
ers will hold the winning cards from now till
spring. For some of them the fall market
lias been the best in the history of the lum-
ber business in Pittsburg. This is true of
oak, which has sold steadily at stiff prices
and in large quantities; also of the south-
western hardwoods, gum, cottonwood, etc.,
which are coming into use rapidly in response
to the efforts of Pittsburg wholesalers to sub-
stitute them for other more familiar woods
which cost nearly double the money.

Oak still leads in demand. There is a good
call for "trim" from the eastern firms, and
manufacturers of furniture are large takers.
Chestnut is in active call, but not such a
favorite as oak. Maple flooring is selling
well, some good orders having been placed
recently for stock to be used in the skyscrap-
ers and big buildings that are now being

erected. In the construction work on the
Ohio, Monongahela and Allegheny rivers much
beech is being used, which is bringing good
prices, most of it coming from northern Penn-
sylvania and northeastern Ohio. Hickory is
very scarce. Hardly a. car is to be found any-
where, and the small lots at the country mills
are snatched up eagerly by buyers who have
contracts with spoke and handle factories to
fill. For a like reason ash is in good demand
and is bringing better prices than last year

Buffalo.

A trip among the east side hardwood dealers
of the city finds them all as cheerful as ever.
because tiny find the demand for nearly every-
thing good and they have the lumber to meet
it. There is no complaint of small profits, as
in case of the white pine dealers. Of course,
they are bothered a good deal from lack of
cars and especially if they depend on anything
like quick shipments from the south, but that
is a complaint that runs all through business.

A detailed inquiry through the entire list
of hardwood lumber finds it in quite as good
shape as could be expected. Here and there
it is said that birch is a trifle plenty and
basswood is not as active as has been ex-
pected, but there can hardly be too much of
any wood, like birch, that will take the plare
of oak.

Oak is selling well, quartered as well as
plain, which always means a good trade gen-
erally. Besides there are a number of dealers
reporting that they have good lots of ash and
chestnut coming in, so that they will have
quite an assortment of them, at least for a
while yet.

The poplar trade is as good as the small
supply will permit. Elm is not selling rapidly.
Some very good sales of cherry are reported.

Saginaw Valley.
The market is generally strong and there is
inquiry, for all grades of stock, and when cars
can be obtained lumber is being moved. An
advance of $1 a thousand over the quotations
ruling sixty days ago is noted on some woods.
Bass and beech are in active request at ad-
vanced prices and maple is looking better.
Elm and birch are firm. If there was any ash
of consequence to be had it would bring good
prices. Local dealers have experienced little
difficulty in getting stock to take care of their
trade, and if given transportation facilities
business would be very satisfactory. The
usual stock of logs will be cut this winter
and a number of saw mills will run through
the winiet

Grand Eapids.

Birch continues the weakest item on the list
of northern hardwoods. Architects in the east
continue to specify ash for interior trim in
houses, but many of the orders for this wood
placed in Michigan have to be turned down.
Basswood is improving. The veneer trade is
rather quiet.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

Trade conditions in this section continue
favorable and the lumbermen are so busy they
have not time to complain. The demand for
ill grades of stock is good. Oak is maintain-
ing its vast prestige in the market and the
demand for poplar is unusually heavy and
prices gradually advancing. The yards are
pretty generally depleted, and it seems there is
a tendency on the part of shippers to get out
as much stuff as possible before the cold
weather.

The machinists' strike on the Southern rail-
way, which has just been settled, has handi-
capped shippers generally, and the ill effects
will no doubt be far-reaching to all lines of
trade. The situation reached an acute stage
on the Knoxville division of the Southern dur-
ing the closing days of the strike, when two

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43

hundred locomotives wore standing "dead" in
the Coster shops at Knoxville, and there were
hardly enough engines to earn on the pas-
senger traffic, while the freight was practic-
ally suspended for several days and only the
perishable stuff was moved at all. Shippers

were unable to get ems during the strike, and
after they got them were not in much better
position, as they could nol gel them moved.
The officials of the Southern are to be com-
plimented on their admirable conduct under
the trying circumstances.

Chattanooga.

The demand for all grades of poplar is now
almost equal to that of the higher grades of
oak. This is a condition which has not ex-
isted in this market in ten years. There
have been many inquiries for all grades of
poplar within the past six weeks. This is
probably because the consumer is learning to
substitute poplar for the manufacture of fur-
niture, coffins, building material, etc.

The percentage of the higher grades is
being reduced every year in consequence of
an inferior grade of logs coming in. Gum,
elm. sycamore and other woods, heretofore
rather a drug on the market, now find ready
sale, as anything in condition to ship or work
finds ready buyers. Stocks of poplar have not
been so low for years. There is a limited
quantity of poplar in the various yards here,
but the bulk of it is under contract. A num-
ber of the mills have been unable to fill their
orders as fast as the trade required the lum-
ber on account of the excessive rains here
for the past two months and the unusual
' shortage of labor in the lumber yards.

Nashville.

Nashville lumbermen are suffering severely
from the car famine. Some of the lumbermen
are from 50 to 100 cars behind on their ship-
ments and others report as high as 300.

Prices as a rule have not changed, however,
in any line; the demand is good in all lines
and nothing is dragging. Poplar at this time
is reported as being in special demand. The
uses to which this wood are put are becoming
more numerous and it has grown in popu-
larity and increased in value.

Memphis.

The hardwood lumber situation hen is quite
healthy so far as prices are concerned, but
there is a pronoun* ed scarcity of stock. The
domestic demand is exceptionally good, though
the export call is somewhat slow, largely the
result of the high prices demanded for south-
ern hardwoods. Quarter sawed red oak is
lather slow in all grades, though there is
nothing suggestive of a surplus in this wood.
The mills have made rather better progress in
cutting lumber during the past few days, but
the output is still considerably below the
average, with the result that no headway is
being made in restoring local stocks to any-
thing like normal. The demand is not only
good now, but the trade believes it will con-
tinue so because of the phenomenal evidences
of prosperity in every part of the country and
particularly in the hardwood lumber consum-
ing industries.

Ash is easily the strongest feature of the
list. The demand is active while the supply
is exceptionally limited. All grades and thick-
nesses arc wanted, especially in stock that is
dry enough, for immediate use.

Plain oak is showing continued strength.
The demand for this lumber, in both red and
white and in all thicknesses, is excellent and
prices have advanced to a record level. Quar-
ter-sawed red oak is, as already suggested,
rather quiet, but there is better demand for
quarter-sawed white oak than recently experi-
enced. The volume of business in the latter,
however, is scarcely as large as it should be
at this season.

Cypress is a reads seller in all grades at
very stiff prices. There is a scarcity of this
wood in all grades. Cypress is reported by
seme members ,,i He- trade to rank next in
strength to ash.

Poplar is in fairly good demand with offer-
ings here very limited but with prices well
maintained. Cottonwood is a good seller in all
grades, with the most pronounced strength in
box boards and in the lower grades which
are used in box manufacture. There is a
di ei.led scarcity of Cottonwood in all grades.
and the demand is reported by some to be
the best ever experienced. Firsts and sec-
onds Cottonwood arc in good demand, and the
movement of these grades is about as large
as the limited offerings will allow.

There is a lively movement in gum. though
there arc. some complaints that firsts and
seconds red are not as active as they were a
short time ago. However there is no accumu-
lation even iii this class of stock. The lower
grades and clear saps are wanted at current
prices and all off, rings are readily taken at
figures which are gratifying to the local trade.

New Orleans.

There has been comparatively little activity
in the local hardwood market during the last
fortnight. The exports continue fairly good
and the same might be said of the interior
demand. The mills are increasing their stocks
and the prices remain steady. A number of
the fall bin eis have gone to work and it is
expected that the operators of these will,
within a very short time, begin to have a
boosting effect upon the market. At present.
however, comparatively little is going on.

Louisville.

The trade here is concerning itself more
with the work of getting out and shipping
stock than with the market for hardwood.
The market is taking care of itself pretty well
and there is no complaint on this score. One
noticeable thing about the present situation
is the efforts of those who have or can pro-
duce gum to raise the market price on this
product. They are succeeding, too, and the
market value of common gum today is not
only a couple of dollars higher than it was a
few months ago but is promising to go still
higher yet and to involve the movement of
larger quantities of gum than ever before. It
leoks like the beginning of an awakening in
gum that will, if continued without mishap,
soon place the wood in the position it de-
serves in the hardwood market. In the oak
market there is practically no change to note,
and the demand is good. The most urgent
call continues to be for car stock and some
pretty good orders for this material have been
booked lately. Plain oak continues firm and
in good demand, and the manufacturers find
no trouble in making fairly good disposition of
all the stock they get. The weather of late
has been favoring the mill men in the country
districts, but rather against those depending
on lb., rivers for moving logs. Some of the

river mills are ou1 of nmission, but those

that are logging by land are doing some hus-
tling these days. Poplar is the strongest item
on the list in point ol price and also in point
of demand i i 1 1 r 1 1 1 .. 1 1 .-. I to supply of dry stock.
There is some stock moving all the time, but
not as much as there would be if it were dry
.mil reads foi the mark. I. Quite a number of
tie local people, to.,, are piling stock for
mo. . iiinii on the rivers rather than
for immediate shipment by rail, and il con-
tinues all around to be a manufacturers' mar-
ket.

Minneapolis.

Tli ri hi been an active movement of birch
1 in tin past week or two. and this lum-

ber is in, longer found carried in large stocks
The surplus which existed has been reduced

to proportions about normal, and mills ami
yards will carry just fair stocks into tin win
ei season. Prices have not advanced mate-
rially as y, t. inn there is no occasion to, ,,,,.
marked weakness in birch. All the othei
woods have been stiff iii price and remain o
Northern red and white oak are practically
gone, :im I I here is a steady call foi southern
stocks. owing I,, car shortage condition!

""■'■■ shipments are irregular ai ilatorj

Prices of oak and of oil the thern woods

but birch are Hrm. The factory trad,- is tak-
ing elm of any description now. ami factories
looking for cheap lumber are taking soft elm
freely. Maple is selling -won, and Here is a
I, a,vy call for flooring. Basswood is running
low generally. The upper grades are firm,
while culls are almost out of the market, ,,„
ing to the heavy demand from box manufac-
turers. Low-grade stock in all the hardw I

is selling readily for box and crate purposes.
and at better prices.

The large factories are all watching the mar-
ket closely now. and seeking to annex every-
thing they will need for the winter's con-
sumption, either in stocks on hand or con-
tracted. The sash and door factories and tin
flooring concerns have been particularly act
ive. Country yard trade is quiet now. and
comes mainly in small orders for yard stock-
to go into mixed cars, flooring being the chief
item demanded

Toledo.
Maple is improving; there is a better de-
mand for this wood, with stocks generally
low. The demand for basswood of late has
shown improvement. Oak seems to be hard
to get, ami the condition is generally con-
ceded to be growing worse. The general tone
of the hardwood market is good in view of the
ii' it building boom in the city at present.
At the city building inspector's office, the re-
ports are of the most encouraging nature.
For Hie ten months ,,f the present year, the
total valuation of building in the city is about
63 per cent greater than the total lor tin-
entire vein- of 1905. For October, as compared
with the same month a year ago. the Increase
in valuation is over 100 per cent. The car
shortage is a serious problem in this terri-
tory.

London.

There is a fail demand for all lumber at the
moment and while the trade is not busy stocks
are moving in a more easy manner and the
goods arriving on consignment, though not
making for firmer prices, keep the market well
supplied.

Plain oak boards and planks are in good
demand at fair prices, and most parcels if
dry are readily sold for immediate consump-
tion. There is very little demand for quar-
tered oak. except for wide stock.

In walnut, the arrivals of common one inch
boards are more than sufficient for the mar-
ket's wants, but there is a good demand for
all grades of thin boards. Logs are wanted.
but only of the best quality and fit for
veneers.

In whit, wood, there is a good demand for
prime thin dressed stock, of which the m
ket is bare, and higher prices are being asked
and paid for same. Planks are in fair de
mand, and cull boards are in very good re-
quest at full [in

The demand for medium quality inch satin
walnul boards is active, while prim,- bo
are slow ,,f sale, but Hi, market is bare of
stock.

Ash planks ami logs are in good den

mil fun prices ai.- i g paid for any pa

arriving.

Good prices are being paid for mahogany
logs off, ring, but even this does not bring a
plentiful snppl>. ami there is eager competi-
tion ai public auction, il,,. usual metbo
selling tins wood here.

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Eight words of ordinary length make one line.

Heading counts as two lines.

No display except the headings can be ad-
mitted.

Remittances to accompany the order. No
extra charges for copies of paper containing
the advertisement.

EMPLOYES WANTED.

HARDWOOD INSPECTOR WAITED

By Wisconsin manufacturer. State expe-
rience and salary expected. Address

"O. C. 2," care Hardwood Record.

SALESMAN WANTED.

< Ine familiar with the yard trade in North-
ern Indiana. Northern Ohio and Southern Mich-
igan, lo sell l'oplar. Hardwoods and planing
mill stock. Good position for a soher and In-
dustrious salesman. Address

"N. 506," care Hardwood Record.

EXPERIENCED TIMBER BUYER.

Best of reference required. State salary
wanted,

S. M. BROWN & CO., Dayton, O.

VENEER CUTTER WANTED.

For slicing machine. A man who has had
experience in cutting mahogany. A good per-
manent position lor the right man. Address
GEO. n. EMERY COMPANY. Chelsea. Mass.

LUMBER WANTED

WANTED— DRY CYPRESS.

2xo" and wider, 8 or 16', firsts and seconds
or selects or sound common.

AMEE. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg. Pa.

ASH DIMENSION STOCK.

One inch stock wanted, in carloads, from
J i.j to 10" in width and from 10 to 48" in
length. Can use large quantities if properly
-"iieu out. Stock must be clear and free from
defects. Write us for list.

BELDING IIAI.I. MFG. CO., Belding, Mich.

WANTED —PERSIMMON

Shuttle blocks and logs. 10" and up diam-
eter, 6' and longer, fresh felled and sound, for
shipment during the winter.
JAMES KENNEDY & CO., LTD., Cincinnati, O.

WANTED— HANDLE BILLETS.

Hickory for hammer, hatchet, ax, pick and
sledge handles. Maple and hickory for miners'
pick handles. White ash for shovel handles.
THE PITTSBURG SHOVEL CO., Leechburg, Pa.

WANTED— DIMENSION HICKORY.
Hickory Pole and Shaft Strips. Also good
man to travel, buying and inspecting same.
TOLEDO CARRIAGE WOODWORK CO.,

Toledo, Ohio.

WANTED.

Oak. Ash and Hickory logs.

s. N. BROWN & CO., Dayton, O.

WANTED— HARDWOOD LOGS.

200 M feet 28-inch and up White Oak logs.
200 M feet 12-inch and up Walnut logs.

50 M ft. 12-inch and up Cherry logs.
C. L. WILLEY,

Blue Island Av. and Robey St., Chicago.

WANTED.

3 ears 6/4" and 2 cars 8/4" firsts and sec-
onds dry Poplar, 2 cars 4/4" Quartered White
Ash, either dry or cut to order.

THE A. B. CHASE CO., Norwalk, O.

OAK.

We are in the market for plain sawed oak,
all grades and thicknesses.
P. G. DODGE & CO., 2116 Lumber St., Chicago.

OAK WANTED.
3 and 4 inch White Oak; also Mixed Oak;
also 12x12 Timbers and Piling of all kinds.
CONTINENTAL LUMBER CO.,
1213 Monadnock Bldg., Chicago, III.

HICKORY WANTED.

1 '.. " Hickory Plank, 8%, 9 and 17' long.

2" Hickory Plank, 10%, 12 and 16' long,
suitable for carriage wood work. Also in the
market for Hickory Logs.

AMERICAN CENTRAL LUMBER CO.,

Anderson, End.

OAK AND MAPLE WANTED.

1" sound wormy Oak. 4x5-6' and 4 ijX." '--t'.'.
Maple and Hickory axles, Oak poles 2x4x4x4-
12'. 1". I'i" and 1%" No. 1 common Red
Oak. 2", '-' ' i " and 3" wagon Oak.

McCLURE LUMBER <'<>., Detroit, Mich.

WANTED.

5 cars 5/4" Mill Cull Chestnut to be re-
sawed in the center.

DUHLMEIER BROS.. Cincinnati, O.

WHO CAN CUT

One carload 1" White Ash, Birch, White
Maple. Hazel or Gum 18" wide. it;. 18, 20 and
22' long. M. J. BERNHARD, Buffalo, N. Y.

WANTED.

Basswood.

Soft Elm,

Rock Elm,
Maple,
In Logs. Lumber and Dimension Sizes, for
Immediate shipment, also, during winter and
spring. Spot cash, and inspection at shipping
points. Please quote prices f. o. b. cars. Ad-
dress JAS. GORDON, Detroit, Mich.

WANTED.

To contract output of Pine and Hardwood
Mills. Will advance cash to reliable parties.
Address

P. O. Box 9S6, New Orleans, La.

WANTED.

5 cars 6 I" Sound Wormy Chestnut.
r> cars 8 4" Sound Wormy Chestnut.
Quote f, o. b. Cincinnati

DFIILMEIER BROS., Cincinnati, O.

TIMBER LANDS FOR SALE

HARDWOOD TIMBER LAND.

For sale 1,300 acres original growth —
Oak, Chestnut, Hickory, Pine. Poplar. :i"
miles t'n.m Asheville, \ C, near railroad.

s.s per acre.

W. M. Li: ITT, Marion, N. C.

TIMBER LANDS WANTED

WANTED.

A g 1 hardwood tract of limber, 7.000 to

L5, i acres, with plenty of Cottonwood and

Hickory. M. II. LANE, Kalamazoo, Mich.

LUMBER FOR SALE.

ORDERS WANTED.

For short leaf pine and white oak car fram-
ing, bridge timbers, switch ties, etc. Mill in
Miss. D. B. MURPHY & CO., London, Ky.

FOR SALE.

One-half carload clear Mahogany dimension
slock. 4 4"x3"xl0". Address

MAHOGANY, care Hardwood Record.

ELM FOR SALE.

ime nice dry car thick soft elm.

JOHN T. GRAFTON, Sycamore, O.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

WANTED— PARTNER.

In profitable and satisfactory woodworking
specialty business — in good city. A business
with a future. In operation three years. In-
vestment about $15,000 required, investigate
now. No agents. Address

"OWNER," care Hardwood Record.

HARDWOOD TIMBER.

A number of good mill propositions along
the Cotton Belt Route. Tracts ranging from
fire hundred to twenty thousand acres, princi-
pally Oak, Hickory, Gum, Cypress, some Ash,
Cottonwood and other hardwoods. Can be
secured at very reasonable figures now — in
some cases at less than $1 per thousand stump-
age. Choice openings for hardwood lumber
mills, handle and spoke factories, slack coop-
erage plants and other hardwood enterprises.

A number of points on the Cotton Belt offer
free sites or will raise cash bonus or take stock
in practical propositions. Let us have your
wants and see what we can do for you.

E. W. LA BEAUME, G. P. & T. A.,

COTTON BELT. St. Louis, Mo.

MACHINERY FOR SALE

VENEER MACHINERY FOR SALE.

Owing to changes being made in our Veneer
Mill, we offer for sale —

One 50"x64" Coe Veneer Machine.

One 64" Tower Feed Clipper.

i Hie 60" Giant Wringer.

The above are practically new and in first-
class condition and to dispose of them prompt-
ly that the space can be utilized, we will sell
al a substantial sacrifice. For further par-
ticulars address "VENEER MACHINERY."
Care Hardwood Record.

FOR SALE.

Six foot Band Mill, steam feed, entire plant
complete with equipment, tiling machinery,
saws, rip saws, etc. Plant can be conveniently
seen now in running condition. Address
"BAND MILL," care Hardwood Record.

jM

Excellent Through Tram Service to all points

North. West, and Northwest, via The

Chicago & jNorth-Western Rv.

THE OVERLAND LIMITED

A magnificent elecmc lighted tram. less than three
days Chicago to San Francisco, daily.

THE COLORADO SPECIAL

One night Ch

Deliver lr<

Only two. nights to
aboard

THE NORTH-WESTERN LIMITED

ihghied daily tr;
Paul, and M mneapolis.

between Chicago. St.

THE DULUTH-SUPERIOR LIMITED

A luxurious electric- lighted tram loihe Head-oft he-
Lakes, daily.

Through trams Chicago to Cedar Rapids. Des Moines.
Mason C.ty. S'Oux City. Council BiuhS, Omaha 1 he
Black Hills. Denver, Salt Lake. San Frani
Angeles. Portland. St Paul. Minneapolis. Dulutb
Superior. Ashland, and the Iron and Copper Country.

W. t, UHSKIM, hMMfW TnrtW MMaftr, CMICMO, Hi.

46

HARDWOOD RECORD

] yidVertisers9 Directory

n

NORTHERN HARDWOODS.

Alcock, John L., & Co 7

American Lumber & Mfg. Company... 62
Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company,... b'4

Babcock Lumber Company o'-

Baruaby, C. H 70

Beyer, Knox & Co 71

Bliss & Van Auken 12

Boyue City Lumber Company 07

Brings & Cooper Company 4

Brownlee & Co 00

Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company.. 71

Cadillac Handle Company *. . 3

Cheat River Lumber Company 01!

Cherry Kiver Boom & Lumber Co 6

Chivvis. W. K Gl

Cincinnati Hardwood Lbr. Company... 0!J

Cobbs & Mitchell, Iuc 3

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Connor, R., Lumber Company 05

Crosby & Beckley Company, The 0

Crosby, C. P 04

Cummer, Diggins & Co 3

Darling, Chas., & Co 11

Davis, John R., Lumber Company.... 04
Dells Lumber & Shingle Company.... 04

Dennis Bros 07

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company.... 00
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company... 70

Dixon & Dewey ,!

Dudley Lumber Company Ob

Duhlmeier Bros OS

Dulweber, John. & Co oi>

Dwighl Lumber Company 8

Blias, G.. & Bro '1

Empire Lumber Company, Buffalo.... *1
Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 00

Fall, E. H 63

Flint, Erving & Stoner Company bL

Forman Company, Thomas 6

Freiberg Lumber Company, The 69

Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber

Company : '

General Lumber Company 6b

Gillespie, W. M-, Lumber Company... 7

Goldie, J. S 67

Haak Lumber Company 47

Hackley-Phelps-BouneU Company 07

llavden, Harvey S .- 10

Heath-Witbeck Company 11

Holloway Lumber Company 7

Ingram Lumber Company 04

James & Abbot Company 7

Jenks, Robert H., Lumber Company.. 63

Jones, G. W., Lumber Company." Oo

Jones Hardwood Company 7

Kampf, Albert R 2

Keator, Ben C 11

Keith Lumber Company 11

Kelley Lumber «fc Shingle Company... S

Kneeland-Bigelow Company .r»it

Leavitt Lumber Company 12

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company... 11

Linehan Lumber Company 02

Litchfield, William E 7

Lombard. E. B 11

Long-Knight Lumber Company 70

MacBride, Thos., Lumber Company... 67
Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company. 60

Maley & Wertz 70

Martin-Barriss Company 63

Mason & Donaldson Lumber Company. 64

McClure Lumber Company 67

Mcllvain, J. Gibson, & Co 7

McLean, Hugh, Lumber Company 71

Miller, Anthony 71

Miller Bros 11 .

Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Mowbray & Robinson 69

Murphy & Diggins 3

Nichols & Cos Lumber Company 66

Nicola Lumber Company, The 0-

Norman Lumber Company -

North "Shore Lumber Company

North Vernon Pump & Lumber Co 2

North Western Lumber Company 65

O'Brien, John, Land & Lumber Co. . . . 10

Perrine-Armstrong Company 70

Peters, R. G., Salt & Lumber Co 67

Price, E. E 7

Radina, L. W-, & Co 69

Richmond Park & Co 10

Ross Lumber Company 1

Rumbarger Lumber Company 1

Ryan & McParland 10

Sailing, Hanson & Co 66

Scatcherd & Son 71

Schofield Bros 7

Schultz Bros. & Cowen 59

Simmons Lumber Company H7

Slimmer, J., & Co 10

Soble Bros 7

Southern Oak Lumber Company 4

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company. 71

Stephenson, The I., Company 12

Stewart, I. N.. & Bro 71

Stewart, Wm. H. & G. S 08

Stimson, J. V 70

Stone, T. B., Lumber Company 68

Sullivan, T.. & Co 71

Tegge Lumber Company 8

Turner, A. M., Lumber Company 62

Upham & Agler 8

Van Keulen & Wilkinson Lumber Co. . 07

Vollmar & Below 04

Wagstaff, W. J

Walnut Lumber Company, The 70

Ward Lumber Company 11

Wells. R. A., Lumber Company 10

Wentworth. Chas. S., & Co 7

White Lumber Companv 10

White. W. H., Company 66

Wliitmer, Wm., & Sons. Inc 6

Wiborg & Hanna Company 69

Willson Bros. Lumber Company 62

Wisconsin Timber & Lumber Company 11

Wistar, Underbill & Co 7

Yeager, Orson E 71

Young, W. D.. & Co 12

Young & Cutsinger 70

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS.

.\il\ mice Lumber Company 63

Alcock, John L., & Co 7

American Hdwd. Lumber Company... 60
American Lumber & Mfg. Company... 62

Anderson-Tully Company 4

At Is hi ic Lumber Company

Beck, E. E., Lumber Company 69

Beyer, Knox & Co 71

Briggs & Cooper Company 4

Brown, Geo. C, & Co &>

Brown, W. P., & Sons, Lumber Co... 2
Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company.. 71

Carrier Lbr. & Mfg. Company 12

Cherry Itiver Boom & Lumber Co 6

Chivvis. W. R 61

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber. Co 69

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Crane, C, & Co 69

Crosby & Beckley Company, The 6

Cypress Lumber Company 68

Darling, Chas., & Co 11

Davidson-Benedict Company

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company.... 66
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company... 70

Dixon & Dewey 6

Dudley Lumber Company 66

Duhlmeier Bros 6S

Dulweber, John, & Co 09

Elias. G-, & Bro 71

Empire Lumber Company. Buffalo 71

Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 66

Fall, E. H 63

Farrin-Korn Lumber Company 6S

Flint", Erving & Stoner Company '62

Freiberg Lumber Company . 69

Fry-Buchanan Lumber Company 00

Fullerton-Powell ■ Hardwood Lumber

Company 9

Garetson-Greason Lumber Company... 61

Gayoso Lumber Company 4

Gillespie. W. M., Lumber Company... 7
Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company .... 67

Hafner Manufacturing Company 61

Ha.is. Albert, Lumber Company 47

Heath-Witbeck Company 11

Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co. . . 1

Indiana Lumber Company 60

James &■. Abbot Company 7

Jenks, Robt. H., Lumber Company 63

Jones. G. W., Lumber Company 65

Jones Hardwood Company 7

Kampf, Albert R 2

Keator, Ben C 11

Keith Lumber Company 11

Kentucky Lumber Company '. , 69

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 5

Lane-White Lumber Company 60

Leavitt Lumber Company 12

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company... 11

Linehan Lumber Company 62

Litchfield, Wm. E 7

Lombard. E. B 11

I.ong-Knight Lumber Company 70

Love, Boyd & Co *. 60

Luehrmann, Chas. F., Hardwood Lum-

ber Company

Met lure Lumber Company

Mcllvain, J. Gibson, & Co

McLean-Davis Lumber Company

McLean, Hugh, Lumber Company....
Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company

Martin-Barriss Company

Massengale Lumber Company

Miller, Anthony

Miller Bros

Mosby, II. W,. & Co.-

Nicola Lumber Company, The

Norman Lumber Company

O'Brien. John, Land & Lumber Co. . .

Ozark Cooperage Company

Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company. . . .

Plummer Lumber Company

Pric "

61

67

7

Radina, L. W., & Co

Ransom, J. B., & Co

Rhubesky, E. W

Richmond Park & Co

Bitter, W. M.. Lumber Company

Roy Lumber Company

Rumbarger Lumber Company

Ryan & McParland.

Scatcherd & Son

Schofield Bros

Slimmer, J., & Co

Southern Lumber Company

Southern Oak Lumber Company

Standard Hardw .1 Lumber Company.

Steele & Hibbard

Stevens-Eaton Company

Stewart, I. N., & Bro

Stewart, Wm. H. & G. S

Stimson. J. V

Stone, T. B., Lumber Company

Stoneman-Zenring Lumber Company . .

Stotz Lumber Company, Inc

Sullivan, T., & Co

Swann-Day Lumber Company

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company...
Thompson, J. W.. Lumber Company..

Three States Lumber Company

Turner, A. M., Lumber Company

Upham & Agler

Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Company....,

Walnut Lumber Company, The

Ward Lumber Company

Wells, R. A., Lumber Company

Wentworth. Chas. S., & Co

West Florida Hardwood Company....

White Lumber Company

Whitmer. Wm., & Sons, Inc

Wiborg & Hanna Company

Willson Bros. Lumber Company

Wisconsin Timber & Lumber Company

Wood. R. E.. Lumber Company

Yeager, Orson E

Young & Cutsinger

POPLAR.

Advance Lumber Company

Atlantic Lumber Company

Brown, W. P., & Sons, Lumber Co...

Cheat River Lumber Company

Chicago Veneer Company

Crane, C, & Co

Davidson-Benedict Company

Dawkins. W. II.. Lumber Company...

Haas, Albert, Lumber Company

Ilayden, Harvey S

Kentucky Lumber Company

McLean-Davis Lumber Company.......

Massengale Lumber Company

Rhubesky. E. W

Ritter. W. M., Lumber Company

Roy Lumber Company

Southern Lumber Company

Stevens-Eaton Company

Swann-Day Lumber Company

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company...

Vansant. Kitchen & Co

Wood, R. E., Lumber Company

Yellow Poplar Lumber Company

COTTONWOOD AND GUM.

Anderson-Tully Company

Farrin-Korn Lumber Company

Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co. . .

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company

Luehrmann, C. F., Hardwood Lumber

Company

Mosby, H. W., & Co

Ozark Cooperage Company

Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Company...

Stotz Lumber Company. Inc

Three States Lumber Company

CYPRESS.

Cypress Lumber Company 68

Hafner Manufacturing Company 61

Lothman Cypress Company 61

Plummer Lumber Company 60

Thompson, J. W., Lumber Company.. 4

VENEERS.

Chicago Veneer Company, Inc 46

Wisconsin Veneer Company 65

HARDWOOD FLOORING.

Advance Lumber Company 63

Bliss & Van Auken 12

Carrier Lbr. & Mfg. Company 12

Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc 3

Cummer, Diggins & Co 3

Dwight Lumber Company 8

Eastman, S. L-, Flooring Company... 66

Fenn Bros. Company 4

Forman, Thos., Company 6

Haak Lumber Company. 47

Kerry & Hanson Flooring Company... 67

Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company 60

Nichols & Cos Lumber Company 66

Pease Company, The 6S

Schultz Bros. & Cowen 59

Stephenson, The I., Company 12

\\ anl I'.ros VJ

Wilce, The T.. Company 10

Wood Mosaic Flooring Company 2

Young, W. D., & Co 12

SAW MILL MACHINERY.

Garland, M., Company 56

Mershon, W. B., & Co 48

Phoenix Manufacturing Company 0.">

WOODWORKING MACHINERY.

American Wood Working Machinery

Company 57

Berlin Machine Works, The

Delia mi- Manufacturing Works 48

Hurley Machine Company 50

Matteson Manufacturing Company. ... 4!>

Nash, J. M 65

Ober Manufacturing Company, The...

Si bindler, A. J 48

Smith. II. B., Machine Company 51

VENEER MACHINERY.
Coe Manufacturing Company 58

LOGGING MACHINERY.

Clyde Iron Works . .' 54

Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company.. 52

Overpack. S. C

Russel Wheel & Foundry Company.. -

DRY KILNS AND BLOWERS.
Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company. 53

Grand Rapids Veneer Works 53

MortOD Dry Kiln Company 59

New York Blower Company 40

LUMBER INSURANCE.
Adirondack Fire Insurance Company.. 1
Lumber Insurance Company of New

York 1

Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
pany, Boston

Lumber Underwriters 12

Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual

Fire Insurance Company *

Rankin. Harry, & Co 44

Toledo Fire & Marine Insurance Co...

SAWS. KNIVES AND SUPPLIES.

Atkins, E. CM & Co 54

Champion Saw Company 50 & 6S

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 53

Hanchett Swage Works 53

Hurley Machine Company 50

Marshall, Francis 49

Shimer, S. J., & Sons 50

MISCELLANEOUS.
H. C, & Co.

12

Bar roll,

Cbilds. S. D., & Co 47

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 53

Lacey, J. D.. & Co 55

Lumbermen's Credit Association 47

Martin & Co 63

Pease Company, The 68

Schenck. C. A., & Co 59

Standard Audit Company

A Porch Column "Snap"

€fl In the manufacture of our high-grade veneers, we produce two cars
monthly of clear, solid heart, bored Poplar Posts, 8 and 10 inches
in diameter, 66 to 96 inches long.

IJ On this product we will make a price that will appeal to every
manufacturer of porch columns.

CHICAGO VENEER COMPANY, Inc.

BURNSIDE, KENTUCKY

HARDWOOD RECORD

47

Albert Haas Lumber Co.

BAND SAWED

Oak and Ash

YELLOW POPLAR
ATLANTA, :: GEORGIA

Do You Need
Maple Flooring ?

Then send us your order and
you will receive a product
that is not excelled. We
manufacture by

A

Special
Process

This costs us more, but our
prices are as low as of any
other first -class manufac-
turer. We also have a stock
of firsts and seconds Maple
4-4,5 4,6-4,8-4 and 10-4, which
is bone dry and very fine.

Haak Lumber Co.

Haakwood, Michigan

MANUFACTURERS

Contemplating establishing plants
In the West should take advantage
ol ■ location on

Chicago & North-Western Ry.

which reaches the famous

WATER POWERS,
COAL FIELDS,
IRON ORE RANGES,

HARD AND SOFT

LUMBER DISTRICTS,
MINING DISTRICTS

of the West and Northwest, and
• (lords the best means of transpor-
tation to the markets of Iho world.

FOB FURTHER PARTICULARS APPLY TO

MARVIN HuGHITT, Jr., E. D. BRIGHAM,

Freight Traffio Manager, Qen' I Freight Agent,

GEO. BONNELL,

Industrla I Agent,

NW513

L_

CHICAGO.

HARDWOOD
TIMBER

There is no section with so fine and
large a supply of hardwood timbers
of various kinds left for the lumber-
men as that portion of the South in
Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Missis-
sippi, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee and Virginia served by the
lines of the

Southern Railway

and

Mobile & Ohio Railroad

There are oak, poplar, hickory, gum,
cypress, ash, elm, buckeye, balsam,
spruce, chestnut, and other varieties.
There are also available pine lands.
These timber resources and many
other important features bearing on
the cost of manufacture and market-
ing give special advantages and oppor-
tunities for EVERY KIND of WOOD
USING INDUSTRY. We have infor-
mation about the best locations in the
country at towns in these States and
in Southern Indiana and Southern
Illinois, which will be given if request-
ed. All correspondence in regard to
timber lands or factory locations will
be given prompt and confidential at-
tention. Address your nearest agent.

M. V. RICHARDS,

Laud and Industrial Agent,

Washington, D. C.
CHAS. S. CHASE, Agent,

622 Chemical Building,

St. Louis, Mo.

Locations for

Industries

THE ERIE, THE COMMERCIAL RAILROAD

CHICACO TO NEW YORK

The Erie Railroad System's Industrial
Department has all the territory traversed
by the railroad districted in relation to
resources, markets and advantages for
manufacturing, can advise with man-
ufacturers of specific products as to suit-
able locations, and furnish them with cur-
rent information of a comprehensive
nature dealing with the project in its full
relation to manufacture and commerce.

The Erie is one of the greatest of trunk
lines. Its own rails connect the two
largest cities of America. Every section
of the System has its particular merits.
Profitable locations exist. It has great
general and coal, oil and natural gas
resources.

It is important in this age of modern
facilities for manufacturers to locate
where they can obtain side tracks so as
to receive from and ship directly into
cars at the factory. Information can be
promptly furnished in this connection
about every point on the system between
New York and Chicago.

Manufacturers' inquiries as to locations
are treated in strict confidence and
absolutely reliable information, so as
to promote permanent traffic, is furnished.
Address

LUIS JACKSON

Industrial Commissioner

Erie Railroad Company
11 Broadway, New York

WALNUT.
OAK,
ASH,
POPLAR.

X0V&TI& fbnADY(RTI$tt$

FOBS, POCKET PIECES^

BUTTONS,

LETTER OPENERS.

SCARF PINS, TRAYS,

ALUMINUM GOODS.

PAPER WEIGHTS.

ALL NEW IDEAS.

Send us 50c. and we

will send you a
Beautiful Watch Fob
S. D. CHILDS & CO.

200 CLARK ST. CHICAGO.

Save Your Money

By Using (be

RED BOOK

Published Semi-Annually
in January and July

It contains a carefully prepared list of the
buyers of lumber in car lots, both among
the dealers and manufacturers.

The book indicates their financial stand-
ing and manner of meeting obligations.
Covers the UNITED STATES and MANI-
TOBA.

The trade recognizes this book as the au-
thority on the lines it covers.

A well organized Collection Department
is also operated and the same is open to you.

WRITE FOR TERMS.

Lumbermen's Credit Association

Established 1878

1405 Great Northern Building, : CHICAGO
16 Beaver Street. : NEW YORK CITY

MENTION THIS PAPER

f59*SS3i$i$i$S*di$Si$Si$**t$S*i$S9a,

i

You want to reach Buyers of

FURNITURE LUMBER

| The HARDWOOD RECORD

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will do it for you.

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48

HARDWOOD RECORD

"DEFIANCE" WOOD -WORKING MACHINERY

COMPLETE EQUIPMENTS OF

HIGH GRADE TOOLS

J* FOR MAKING j*

Hubs, Spokes, Wheels,

Wagons, Carriages,

Rims, Shafts, Poles,

Neck-Yokes,

Single Trees, Hoops,

Handles, Bobbins, Spools,

Insulator Pins and

Oval Wood Dishes.

INVENTED AND BUILT BY

The DEFIANCE MACHINE WORKS

DEFIANCE, OHIO.

TRIPLE BOOP AND TRUNK SLAT3PLANER. Sen(J {„ gflj page Catalogue

HAMMER AND HATCHET HANDLE LATHE.

ME RS HON

Band Resawing

Machinery

for all requirements

WM. B. MERSHON
4 CO.,

MERSHON NEW HORIZONTAL IBANDI RESAWIFOR SAW MILLS

Saginaw,

Michigan

ALMS. CHALMERS COMPANY, Seattle, Wash., Agents for Northern Pacific Tertitory, THE EBY MACHINERY CO., San Francisco, Cal.. Agents for California and Nevada.

TO NEW YORK OVER. NIGHT

The 20th Century Limited

Via the LAKE SHORE and NEW YORK CENTRAL
The Route of the Government Fast Mail Trains

CHICAGO-NEW YORK 18-HOUR TRAIN

IT SAVES A DAY

FROM LA SALLE ST. STATLON
CHICAGO

FROM GRAND CENTRAL STATION
The Okly Terminal in New York

Leave Chicago at 2.30 p. m.
Arrive New York at 9.30 a. m.

Leave New York at 3.30 p. m.
Arrive Chicago at 8.30 a. m.

W. J. LYNCH, Passenger Traffic Manager, Chicago, 111.

HARDWOOD RECORD

49

New Type of Combined End Matcher

SAVES 20 PER CENT. TIME, COST AND LABOR.
USED BY THE LARGEST FLOORING CONCERNS.

Write for particulars to

A. J. SCHINDLER, 441-443 W. 21st Street, CHICAGO

Improved Automatic Band Saw Sharpener

^T This machine excels all others for single cutting Band Saws
^i, from 8 to 14 inches. Its construction Is mechanically correct,
simple and durable, and does not possess any of the intricate
complicated parts that confuse the operator. The head is ad-
justable so that straight wheels can be used with the same
results as concave.
^T This represents just one type of machine. We make In addi-
^i, tion a complete Jine of modern tools for the care of saws.
For particulars address

#

All

Machines

Fully

Guaranteed

MATTESON MFG. CO.,

120-128
S. Clinton St.

CHICAGO, ILLS.

fib

factory:
BUCYRUS, OHIO

Power
Money

S a ved
S a ve d

Heating, Ventilating, Mechanical Draft,
Shavings and Conveying

FANS AND EXHAUSTERS

of every description.

WRITE FOR CATALOGUE No 58-G.

New York Blower Company

CHICAGO office:
25th Place and Stewart Avenue

A machine that declares saw mill dividends

tkMJk -<&

*"5* ' IMM

AUTOMATIC SWING SAW QA1 03

•I An inexpensive little device

that saves a dollar a day and

upwards.

•J Stops one of the biggest

profit leaks at the mill. Pays

for itself several times over

during a year.

<J Isn't it worth investigating?

FRANCIS MARSHALL, - - Grand Rapids, Mich.

50

HARDWOOD RECORD

The New Way of Scraping Floors
with a

"Little
Giant"
Floor
Scraper

To scrape jloot operator
fulls machine

The "Little Giant" working saves time,
money, labor. Operated by one man. Will pay
for itself in a very short time.

Note These Comparisons

One man will scrape by hand about 1 00 sq.
feet in 4 hours at 40c per hour — cost $ 1 .60 per
square.

The "Little Giant" and one man will
scrape about 400 square feet in 4 hours at 40c
per hour — costs $ 1 .60 for 4 squares, costs 40c per
square ; saving $ 1 .20 per square.

How long will it take you to pay for the
machine, and commence saving money in its use?

WRITE YOUR DEALER FOR PRICES

Hurley Machine Company

1S3 S. Jellerson Street
CHICAGO. ILL.

1010 Flat Iron Building
NEW YORK

The

Shimer Cutter Heads

In the construction of these tools every
improvement is carefully developed,
adopted and given to the public at the
mere cost of production. That is why
thej- have grown to be popular. Their
merit has earned for them a place as
permanent in the mills as the hand saw or
the wood chisel in the hands of the car-
penter. To study them means to appre-
ciate them. Every user of a matcher or
moulder should try them 30 days and
determine for himself whether or not he
can longer afford to be without them.
Let us send you a catalogue with all par-
ticulars. It's free. Address

Samuel J. Shimer & Sons

Milton, Pennsylvania

HARDWOOD RECORD

51

The Profit Builder

NO.105-A, EXTRA HEAVY 12-INCH MOULDER

T HAS been our purpose during the last half century to develop
^k a line of wood working machines containing the best work-
iV manship and material that American skill and wisdom can
afford. This fact we are proud to say is well established in
the minds of our many patrons. We have, however, now
exceeded ourselves by the development of a remarkable Moulder, the
excellence of which is due to our obtaining written suggestions from more
than a thousand operators throughout America. This machine stands alone
as being the composite idea of the thinking operators of this country. One
year's test of its work has convinced us that it is impossible for you to
compete successfully against the Smith Moulder with any other machine.
Can't we send you prices and literature ?

Branches :

New York. Chicago,

Boston, Atlanta

H. B. SMITH MACHINE CO.

SMITHVILLE, N. J„ U. S. A.

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Skidders

Snakers

0° » •

fi>- lioceo""00'

Lidgerwood Machines
Will Stock Your Mill

Lidgerwood Skidders

Lidgerwood Snakers

Lidgerwood Yarders

Lidgerwood Readers

Lidgerwood Pull Boats

Lidgerwood Cableways

LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO.

NEW YORK
ATLANTA
S E ATT L E
NEW ORLEANS

fl^n^nwo"0

Loaders

Cableways

HARDWOOD RECORD

53

We Guarantee

to

KILN DRY OAK

IN A WEEK

by the application of a
new scientific principle

IN YOUR PRESENT

Old Kilns

Grand Rapids Veneer Works

DEPT D., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Do you lack steam? We can help you.

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co.

GREENVILLE, MICHIGAN

MANUFACTURERS OF

The Celebrated Gordon Hollow Blast Grate

- and -

The Tower Line of Edgers and Trimmers

The Gordon Hollow
Blast Grate is sold on
approval, subject to
thirty days' exhaustive'
trial, we paying the
freight both ways in
the event of rejection.
It develops from 25 to
5Cr> more steam than
an ordinary grate, - 1 1 1 < I
gives as good results
with wet, green or
frozen sawdust as a
draft grate gives with
dry wood. It saves
In most cases il

labor in firing. It is extremely durable.

Pays lor itsell in thirty days

The TOWER line of edgers and trimmers consist of thirty dif-
ferent sizes and styles of edgers and ten different size- and styles
of trimmers, making it by far the must complete on the market.

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co., Greenville, Mich.

The largest manufacturers of grates, edgers and trimmers in-the world.

S* $$ The Pocketbook Test $$

The average man who buys largely, buys carefully.
Manufacturers who have expended $4,000.00 to
$5,000.00 each on Gillette Roller Bearing Lumber
Carts know why they did it. So do we. They are
the lightest running, longest lasting carts made. Like-
wise they are marketed at honest, money-saving prices.

INVEST in Gillette Carts — Don't WASTE money
on others. What's your address?

The Gillette Roller Bearing Co.

Grand Rapids, Michigan | jQ

A Hanchett - Hanchett - Hanchett <C

Hanchett
Saw Swage

Every one made Perfect

The Swage with a Name

•I A poor Swage Ruins a Good Saw, and
for that reason the manufacturers of the

HANCHETT ADJUSTABLE SWAGE

employ only the Best Mechanics and use
only the Best Material in their construction.

It Pays Us
to make
The Best

Send for

Catalog

No. 10

It, tells you al

about them

It Pays You

to use

The Best

MANUFACTURED BY

Hanchett Swage Works

Big Rapids. Michigan

*? Hanchett -Hanchett- Hanchett «fc

54

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^TKIJVS

SOLVER

YOU DON'T KNOW HOW GOOD ATKINS' SILVER STEEL CROSS-CUT SAWS ARE UNTIL YOU TRY
THEM. WHY DON'T YOU? ORDER TO-DAY YOU'LL BE DELIGHTED- CAN'T LOSE MUCH PERHAPS
YOU'LL SAVE THEIR COST MILLIONS HAVE. IT'S WORTH TRYING. WHY DON'T YOU DO IT?

E. C ATKINS & CO.

INCORPORATED

HOME OFFICE AND FACTORY: INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

BRANCHES CARRYING STOCK AT CHICAGO, ATLANTA. MEMPHIS. MINNEAPOLIS AND NEW ORLEANS
ALSO NEW YORK, PORTLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, SEATTLE AND TORONTO.

/^

The real "meat" in any production depj
especially is this true in logging. The

^

lively on the cost the method of producing and

gets out the m
reduces switc'

McGIFFEJRIT Log Loader

Jit "snlll

Propelling itself, ill rushes the work and

mple to operate tfreVycrage engineer soon

th few helpers

HARDWOOD RECORD 55

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN

APPALACHIAN
TIMBER

VIRGIN POPLAR, OAK, CHEST-
NUT AND OTHER HARDWOODS

In boundaries of from 1 0,000 to 50,000 acres, either

for investment or operation, would be pleased

to have you consult us. A few tracts

of Pacific Coast Fir, Pine,

Cedar and Spruce

for Sale.

James D. Lacey & Co.

James D. Lacey Wood Beal Victor Thranc

608 Hennen Bldg., NEW ORLEANS 507 Lumber Exchange, SEATTLE

1200 Old Colony Building, CHICAGO .

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GARLAND

Special Hardwood 7 -it Band Mill

There are
many good
features about
this mill that
we will be
glad to tell
about.
Write for
catalogue and
descriptive
circulars.

Simplicity,

Capacity,

Economy on

Saws.

We

manufacture

a full line

of Sawmill

and

Conveying

Machinery.

A few hardwood sawmill machinery installations

Kneeland-Bigelow Co.

Kneeland-Buell Co

W. D. Young & Co.

E. C. Hargrave

Bliss & Van Auken. . .
Sailing, Hanson & Co. .
Johannesburg Mfg. Co. .
Michelson & Hanson Co,

. . .Bay City, Mich.

. .Bay City, Mich.

. . Bay City, Mich.

Bay City. .Mich.

Saginaw, Mich.

< li.iyling, Mich.

ihannesburg, Mich.

Lewiston, Mich.

Harbor Spiings Lumber Co

W. II. White Co

Mud Lake Lumber Co

Engel Lumber Co

Hardgrove Lumber Co. .

Churchill Lumber Co

Waccamaw Land <Sr Lumber Ci
Embury-Martin Lumber Co..

. Harbor Springs, .Mich
. . . .Boyne City, Mich

Raber, Mich

. . . . Englewood, La'

. . Hardgrove, Mich.

. . Alpena, Mich.

. . Wilmington, N. C.

Cheboygan, Mich.

The M. Garland Co.

BAY CITY, MICHIGAN

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An Inexpensive Veneer Cutter

Tris machine was espscially de-
signed for cutting basket, crate and
cheese box stock in response to a
demand from the trade for an accur-
ate, powerful, Veneer Cutter at a
comparatively low price. We build
these with any length of knife from
26 to 64 in. and they will cut per-
fect stock in anv thickness from
J-120 to 5X6 in.
The spindles are
3% in. diameter,
and are turned
from a special

forged steel of great toughness. The
feed screws are 2 in, in diameter, and
all feed gears are cut from the solid.

Other important features are, the
rapid knife bar movement, adjustable
pressure plates, power dogging de-
vice, and positive clutch drive.

The machines are exceptionally
strong and rigid and are fully guar-
anteed in every respect.

Complete specifications of these
machines will be found in our cata-
log No. 5, which will be mailed you
on application.

The Coe Manufacturing Co. B£ld Painesville, 0.

HARDWOOD RECORD

59

Schultz Brothers & Cowen

WE *RE IN THE MARKET TO BUY

POPLAR— OAK— ASH— CHESTNUT

AND OTHER HARDWOODS-ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

1225 to 1240 OLD COLONY BUILDING, .... - CHICAGO

The KNEELAND BIGELOW CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF LUMBER

Annual Output:

20,000,000 ft. Hardwoods.
20,000,000 ft. Hemlock.

4,000,000 pes. Hardwood Lath.

9,000,000 pes. Hemlock Lath.

Mills Run the Year
Around

Bay City, Mich.

All Lumbermen, Attention!

We do what you can't do.
We measure your stumpage correctly.
We make your maps correctly.
Bank references: Asheville, N. C.

L. A. oCnenCK 1$ LO. North Carolina.

The Morton Dry Kiln

MOIST AIR SYSTEM

Recording
Ther-
mometers.
Transfer
Cars.

Trucks.

Canvas

Doors.

HOW TO DRY LUMBER

As exemplified in our Catalog D. Free on application.

MORTON DRY KILN CO., Chicago, Ills.

Wood Working Plants

Manufacturers seeking locations for Saw
Mills, Stave and Heading Factories and
other Wood Working Plants in the Cen-
tral Southern States, can secure full and
accurate information as to Sites, Timber
Tracts, Fuel, Transportation Facilities,
etc., by addressing

Q. A. PARK, General Immigration and Industrial Agent,

Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

Industries are Offered Locations

WITH SATISFACTORY INDUCEMENTS, FAVORABLE

FREIGHT RATES, GOOD LABOR CONDITIONS

HEALTHFUL COMMUNITIES, on the lines of

The Illinois Central R. R. and the

Yazoo & Mississippi Valley R. R.

For full information and descriptive pamphlet address
J. C. CLAIR, Industrial Commissioner, I Park Row, Chicago, III.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

MASSENGALE LUMBER CO., ST. LOUIS

Manufacturers and dealers in

HARDWOODS

In the market to buy and sell OAK, POPLAR, ASH, CYPRESS
Large stock dry lumber always on hand

American Hardwood Lumber Co.

14,000,000 ft. Hardwood Lumber

YARDS AT BENTON. ARK., NEW ORLEANS. LA ., ST. LOUIS, MO.,
DICKSON, TENS.

Wanted— to Buy or Contract for future Delivery

500,000 to 1 .000,000 ft. Poplar, all grades
500,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Cypress, all grades
500,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Ash. all grades

S;S: PLUMMER LUMBER CO. ITs^r!

LANE- WHITE LUMBER CO.

|-T:it*(4\i7rv-»rJQ always in the market

llclIUWUUUa TOR WALNUT LOGS
MAIN OFFICE AND BAND MILL at FORT SMITH, ARK.

OAK. ASH AND WALNUT
OUR SPECIALTY

rVT A C5 I I "V 7 I I I r~^

IN A o n V 1LLL

HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

GEO. C. BROWN & CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Tennessee Red Cedar Lumber a Specialty. Nashville, Tennessee

INDIANA LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers Lumber

DIMENSION STOCK A SPECIALTY.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Office and Mills: Corner Oldham
Street and Cumberland River

LOVE,

BOYD & CO.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Will make special prices on :

' 150,000 ft.

300,000 ft.

400,000 ft.

500,000 ft.
40,000 ft.
(30,000 ft,
13,000 ft.

1 iii. Tennessee Red Cedar

1 in. to 4 in. Hickory

1 in. No. 1 Com. Plain White Oak

1 in. to 'iy2 in. Qrtd. Red Oak.

2% in. Is & 2s Qrtd. White Oak

2>4 in. No. 1 Com. Qrtd. White Oak

5-8 Sound Wormy Chestnut

ALL BONE DRY

OUR OWN CUT

JOHN B. RANSOM $ CO.,

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

We want to move quickly the following old dry stock. All of it has been on
sticks 6 to 1 8 months. Write us for delivered prices. We are prepared to
furnish promptly mixed cars of rough and dressed hardwoods of all kinds:

QUARTERED WHITE OAK

SO M 4/4 first and second
15 M 5/4 first and second
80 M 6/4 first and second
10 M 10/4 first and second
120 M 4/4 No. 1 Common
65 M 6/4 No. 1 Common
58 M 8/4 No. 1 Common
20 M 10/4 No. 1 Common

JO M 5/8 first and second Poplar 50 M

80 M 5/8 No. 1 Common Poplar 100 M

15 M 4/4 1st and 2d Quartered Sycamore 100 M
10 M 4/4 No. 1 Com. Quart'd Sycamore 100 M

QUARTERED RED OAK

100 M 4/4 first and second

58 M 6/4 first and second

15 M 8/4 first and second

95 M 4/4 No. 1 Common

84 M 6,4 No. 1 Common

72 M 8 '4 No. 1 Common

PLAIN OAK

4 4 1st and 2nd White
4 4 No. 1 Common White
4 4 first and second Red
4 4 No. lJCommon Red

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Co.

Manufacturers of

"Acorn Brand''

THE FAMOUS FAULTLESS FLOORING
IN OAK AND BEECH.

Car Lots and Less Than Car Lot
Orders Solicited. Write for Prices.

Nashville, Tennessee

Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers
of all kinds of

HARDWOODS

BEVELED SIDING A SPECIALTY.
UNSURPASSED FACILITIES
FOR DELIVERING.

Knoxville
Tennessee

Fry=Buchanan Lumber Co.

INCORPORATED.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Hardwood Lumber

POPLAR SQUARES
A Specialty.

Choicest Varieties. .*. Full Grades.

Asheville, N. C.

HARDWOOD RECORD

61

ST. LOUIS

LARGEST OF ALL HARDWOOD MARKETS

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Co.

CASH BUYERS OF OAK, ASH, CY-
PRESS, POPLAR, CHERRY AND ALL

HARDWOODS

Send Inspector When Quantity Justifies

Office and Yards : Hall and Angelrodt Sts.

CHAS. f.

Carry a complete stock of Hardwood and are

constantly in the market to purchase

large blocks of stock for cash. Are

also the largest manufacturers of

the famous St. Francis

Basin Red Gum.

General Offices : 148 Carroll Street

LOTHMAN CYPRESS CO.

AIR DRIED

Louisiana Red Cypress

FOOT OF ANGELICA STREET

STEELE & HIBBARD

WHOLESALE
MANUFACTURERS.
DEALERS AND
SHIPPERS.

MILLS:

Yazoo City. Miss.
McGregor, Ark.
England, Ark.
Dermotl, Ark.
0'Hari\. La.
Dexter, Mo.

ASH.

CYPRESS.

MAHOGANY.

OAK.

POPLAR.

ETC.

North Broadway and Dock Sts.

Roland
Mana

££Kbs Ozark Cooperage Co. £S

■ood
rtment

WE BUY STOCKS READY CUT OR CONTRACT FUTURE OUTPUT

Four Inspectors in the South

Direct Shipments < COTTONWOOD,
from mill stocks 1 CYPRESS. GUM, OAK.

MAIN OFFICE.
FRISCO BUILDING

W. R. CHIVVIS,

Lesperance Street and Iron
Mountain Railroad.

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

BLACK WALNUT LUMBER MY SPECIALTY. Always in the market to buy
Walnut and Cherry Lumber. Pay spot cash and take up at shipping
point when amounts justify.

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Co.

203 Frisco "Building

We have the following Dry Stock for sale piled at our mill:

QTD. WHITE OAK : COTTONWOOD :

3 Cars 4/4 Common. 3 Cars 1" 1 and 2.

2 Cars 4/4 Common and Better Strips 1 Car 1x13 to 17" Box Boards.

GUM: ELM:

f\ Cars 1" Common Red. 1 Car 6 4 Log Run.

1 Car 1x13 to 17" Box Boards. 4 Cars 4" Log Run.

1 Car 2" 1 and 2 Sap.

6 Cars l^i Common and Better Sap.

This Stock is All Band Sawed and Equalized

Wanted-Cypress, Ash and Cottonwood

Inspection at Point of Shipment When Quantity Justifies

Hafner Manufacturing Co.

CYPRESS, HARDWOODS

Mail orders receive our immediate
attention.

YARDS: FOOT OF DOCK STREET

Garetson-Greason Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

GUM LUMBER
OUR SPECIALTY

Carload Shipments Direct
from Our Own Mills

519 Bank or Commerce

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F~"> I HP TP C F> I T rr> /^l

I-* 1 I I d 13 U K Cj

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF PENNSYLVANIA

1 : : .._ .|

The Nicola Lumber
Company

One million feet 4-4 Bay Poplar.
Can be shipped log run, or sold
on grade. Bone dry ; band
sawed. Send your inquiries

A* M. Turner
Lumber Company

Everything in lumber. We buy hardwoods
as well as sell them. If you have anything
to offer, please submit same to as. : l

Willson Bros. Lumber Co*

MANUFACTURERS

WEST VIRGINIA
HARDWOODS

FARMERS BANK BLDG. n PITTSBURG, PA.

STOCK LIST

83,000 ti. 4 4 Maple No. 1 Com. « Bel

Pari Dry
10,00011. 4 4 Maple No I Common

160,000 It. 5 4 Maple No. 1 Com. t Bet.

100.000 fl. 5 4 Maple No. I Com. i Bel.

. Pari Dry

10,000 II. 5 4 Maple Ists and 2nds
12.000 fl. 5 4 Maple No. 1 Common
84.000 fl. 6 4 Maple No. 2 Com. 4 Bel.

90,000 fl. 6 4 Maple No. 2 Com. 4 Bet.

Pari Dry
18.000 fl. 8 4 Maple No. 2 Com. t, Bel.
33.000 II. 8 4 Maple No. I Common.
4,000 fl. 8 4 Maple No. 2 Common.
88,000 fl. 10 4 Maple No 2 Com. 4 Bel.
48,000 fl. 10 4 Maple No. 2 Com. 4 Bet.

Part Dry
15,000 fl. 10 4 Maple Ists and 2nds

FAVORABLE FREIGHT RATES TO THE EAST

Babcock Lumber Co.

MSHTOL/*. F»A.

Flint, Erving & Stoner Co.

Wholesale Lumber

Northern and Southern Hardwoods

Beech and Maple Timbers a Specialty

Linehan Lumber Company

PERFECT

MAPLE FLOORING

SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES

Hardwoods a Specialty

FOR SALE

POPLAR

125,000' 4/4 lsand2s
40,000" 4 4 No. 1 Com.
325,000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.
228,000' 4 '4 No. 3Com.
150,000' "4 Mill Cull

CHESTNUT

200,000' 4 4 Sound Wormy
80,000' 5/4 Sound Wormy

100,000' 6 4 Sound Wormy
48,000' 8 4 Sound Wormv

PLAIN OAI

60,000' 4 4 No. 1 Com.
18,000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.

QUARTERED OAI

2 cars 4/4 No. 1 Com.
1 car 4/4 No. 2 Com.

OAK TIMBERS SAWED TO ORDER.
WRITE FOR PRICES.

CHEAT RIVER LUMBER COMPANY, Pittsburg, Penna.

Dry Stock for Quick Shipment:

48.492 ft. 4/4 1st & 2ds Qtd. White 70,812 ft. 4/4

Oak. 14,182 ft. 6/4

124. 9S2 ft. 4/4 No. 1 Com. Qtd. White 118,121 ft. 4/4

Oak. 24,128 ft. 6/4

69,793 ft. 4/4 1st & 2ds Qtd. Red 21,903 ft. 7/4

Oak. 19.246 ft. 8/4

79,341 ft. 4/4 No. 1 Com. Red Oak. 7S.433 ft. 6/4

128,402 ft. 4/4 No. 1 Com. PI. W. O. 4.284 ft. 8/4

119.001 ft. 4/4 No. 1 Com. PI. R. O. 126,094 ft. 4/4

8,942 ft. 5/4 No. 1 Com. PI. Red & 49,021 ft. 4/4

White Oak. 1st &

11,312 ft. 6/4 No. 1 Com. Pi. Red & 61,975 ft. 4/4

White Oak. 1st &

41,028 ft. S/4 No. 1 Com. PL Red & 9S.194 ft. 4/4

White Oak. 129.4S1 ft. 4/4

38.793 ft. 5/8 1st & 2ds Poplar. 49.200 ft. 4/4

29.423 ft. 5/8 No. 1 Com. Poplar. 4S.205 ft. 4/4

21,971 ft. 5/8 Saps Poplar. 94.389 ft. 4/4

29,824 ft. 5/S No. 2 Com. Poplar. 242.841 ft. 4/4

21.974 ft. 4/4 1st & 2ds Poplar. 181,921 ft. No.

No. 1 Poplar.
1st & 2ds Poplar.

Sound Wormy Chestnut.
1st & 2ds Chestnut.
No. 1 Com. Chestnut.
No. 1 Com. Chestnut.

Sound Wormy Chestnut.

Sound Wormy Chestnut.
1st & 2ds Cottonwood.
13 to 17" Bos Boards,
2ds.
8 to 12" Box Boards,

2ds.

Sap Gum,
Sap Gum
Sap Gum

1st & 2ds.

No. 1 Com.

No. 2 Com.
Red Gum, 1st & 2ds.
Red Gum. No. 1 Com.
Bay Poplar. 1st & 2ds.
1 Com. Bay Poplar.

American Lumber & Mfg Co,

Pittsburg.
Pa.

HARDWOOD RECORD 63

1*** i c^ a 7 xn 1 a \i r^v ,

UL U V L, L A IN Li

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF NORTHERN OHIO

THE

ROBERT HJENKS LUMBER

COMPANY

FOR SALE.

60 M (eel l Isf and 2ds Poplar
223 M leel l" No. I Common Poplar
<2S M (eel I No. 2 Common Poplar

25 M (eel 2" Isl and 2nd Poplar. 14 and up
(25 M (eel 8 4" Sound Wormy Chestnut
275 M leel I" Sound Wormy Chestnut
(53 M (eel I" 1st and 2nd Plain While Oak

85 M (eel I" 1st and 2nd Plain Red Oak
125 H (eel 1 " No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak

Quartered White and Red OaK.-Wc have a good assort-
ment of dry stock, Y% (04 inches thick. Your inquiries solicited.

Plain White and Red Oak.— A limited amount of nice
stock, ready for shipment.

SYMBOLS FOR GRADE MARKS

Adopted by the Hardwood Manufacturers Association of United States
Q Panel and Wide No. 1

A w'de No. 2

Pi Box Boards

yf FAS or Firsts and
^~ Seconds
Q. Saps

Every Manufacturer should stamp the grade on his Lumber.
Set of 10 Rubber Stamps, l!4"xl!i" in size, Pad, Pint of Ink, and
Spreader, packed for shipment $3.50.

/V\/\RTIIN & CO. LEWIS DOSTER, Sce'y

191 S. Clark St.. CHICAGO, or 1535 First Nat. Bank Bldg. CHICAGO

l\ Selects
\\^ No. 1 Common
\£j No. 2 Common
(3 No. 3 Common
\A No. 4 Common

H . FALL

EXPORTER

. . . OF . .

WALNUT, POPLAR

■^=^==^ AND ^^=^=^

BIRDSEYE MAPLE LOGS

Cash paid for Black Walnut Lo^'s at point of shipment. If you have
any walnut logs to offer, write me.

I have some Sycamore, Red Oak, Ash and other hardwood logs which
I am prepared to saw to order. Correspondence solicited.

Can also supply Black Walnut lumber, sawed to any specification
required.

PORT CLINTON

OHIO

The Martin-Barriss Company

Importers a.nd Manufacturers

MAHOGANY

d.nd Fine Hardwoods

HARDWOODS

Dry Stock is Scarce

Mill Shipments are Slow in Coming Forward

We therefore call attention to stock of upwards
of SIX MILLION FEET seasoned HARD-
WOODS we offer for quick shipment from
Cleveland. WANT TO CLEAN IT OUT.
Are you interested ?

The Advance Lumber
Company

1 3th Floor, Rockefeller Bldg., CLEVELAND, O.

Manufacturers and Dealers
In White Pine, Yellow Pine, Hemlock and Hardwoods

A HANDY THING

TO HAVE IN YOUR DESK AND
IN YOUR TRAVELING B»G !■»
A TIME TABLE FOLDV R OV THE

Michigan Central

The Direct Line to All Important
Points ol Michigan and Between

CHICAGO. DETROIT, NIAGARA FALLS, BUFFALO, NEW YORK. BOSTON
and NEW ENGLAND POINTS.

SEND FOR A COPY NOW

W. J. LYNCH,

Pass. Traffic Mgr.,

c W. RUGGLES,

Gen'l Pass. Agt..

CHICAGO

"4

HARDWOOD RECORD

WISCONSIN

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

C. P. CROSBY

RHINELANDER : : WISCONSIN

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Hard Maple a Specialty in all thicknesses from 1 inch
to 4 inch. Finest Birch in Wisconsin. Black Ash,
Rock Elm, Soft Elm, Red and White Oak. : :

DIFFICULT AND MIXED ORDERS A SPECIALTY

For Sale:

NATIONAL
INSPECTION

3,000,000 ft. inch Birch. -
100,000 ft. inch Black Ash.
50,000 ft. inch Soft Elm.

All No. 1 Common and Better.
20,000 ft. 1x4 and wider, 6 ft., 1st & 2nd Birch.

Dells Lumber £ Shingle Co.

EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN

Mason-Donaldson Lumber Co.

RKinelander, Wisconsin.

20 cars
1 2 cars

4 cars
I 5 cars
1 5 cars

5 cars

I inch No. I Common Birch

1 inch No. 2 Common Birch

I inch No. 1 Common & Better Red Birch

I inch No. 2 Common & Better Soft Elm

1 inch No. 3 Common Birch

I Yi inch No. I Common & Better Basswood

5 cars 2 inch No. I Common & Better Basswood
1 0 cars I inch i st & 2nd Clear Basswood, 1 4 and I 6 feet
7 cars I ! 3 inch No. I Common & Better Soft Elm
4 cars 2 inch No. 1 Common & Better Soft Elm
2 cars I }'z inch No. 3 Common Soft Elm

John R. Davis Lumber Company

PHILLIPS, WISCONSIN
The Leading Manufacturers

Wisconsin Hardwoods

"SHAKELESS" HEMLOCK and WHITE CEDAR PRODUCTS

WE HAVE THE FINEST BLOCK OF

4-4 UNSELECTED BIRCH

ON THE MARKET

Write for our Price Lists
and Stock Sheets

Mixed Cars, Even Grades
Prompt Shipments

WAUSAU, WIS.

BASSWOOD, BIRCH

We cut four million feet of each annually
Your inquiries and orders solicited

MILL AND YARDS AT INGRAM, WISCONSIN

ARPIN HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
Saw and Planing Mill at Atlanta, near Bruce, on the Soo Line. Offer

5 cars 1" 1st & 2d Red Birch.
1 car 1%" 1st & 2d Red Birch.
1 car 114" Common Red Birch.

1 ear 1%" 1st & 2d Red Birch.
1.000' 1V4" Common Red Birch.
2,500' 1%" Com. & Btr. Red Birch.
5.000' 2" 1st & 2d Red Birch.

2 cars 2% & 3" Plain TJlrch.

2 cars 2% & 3" Log Run Onselected

Birch.
5 cars 1" Common Red Birch.
1 car 2" Plain Log Run Birch.

2 cars 3". Clear Plain Birch Flooring.

1 ear 3" Clear Red Birch Flooring.

1 car 3" Factory Birch Flooring.

1 car 3" Red Oak Factory Flooring.

1 car \Vi & 1^" quarter sawed Com.
and Btr. Red Oak.

% car 1% and 2" Com. & Btr. quar-
ter sawed Red Oak.

1 car 5" Clear quarter sawed Red
Oak Flooring.

Vt car each IMj" Com. & Clear Maple
Flooring.

We make a specialty of high grade Maple, Birch and Oak Flooring, Bass-
wood, Pine Siding, Ceiling and Finish; also Moulding.

VOLLMAR & BELOW

MARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN

Basswood, Birch

and Other Wisconsin Hardwoods

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU ARE IN THE MARKET FOR

HARDWOOD RECORD

65

WISCONSIN

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

North Western Lumber Co.

General Offices
F.AU CLAIRE, WIS.

Mills at
STANLEY, WIS.

Band Sa.wed

Wisconsin
Hardwoods

Careful Gradings
Prompt Shipments.

SPECIAL OFFERINGS

1 Car iyi inch No. 1 Common Basswood.

yi Car 1% inch No. 1 Common Basswood.

Yz Car 2V2 inch 1st and 2nd Clear Basswood.

1 Car \XA inch 1st and 2nd Clear Basswood.

1 Car ll4 inch, 1% inch and 2 inch No. 3 Soft Elm.

The Nash Automatic
Sander

FOR ALL ROUND STOCK WORK

A wonderful labor-saving machine.

Pays for itself in a short

time. For particulars

address

JW Wnol. 842-848 Thirtieth St.
. IYI. l>asll MILWAUKEE, WIS.

Broom,

Hoe, Rake,

Fork and

Shovel

Handles,

Chair Stock,

Dowel Rods,

Curtain

Poles,

Shade

Rollers,

WhipStocks,

Canes,

Veneered

Columns,

Ten Pins, &c.

Wisconsin Veneer Co*

RHINELANDER, WIS.

Largest and best equipped Veneer
cutting plant in the country. High-
grade product from Birch, Maple,
Elm, Basswood, Ash and other na-
tive woods.

Veneers for Door Work a Specialty.

HARDWOOD LUMBER

NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN

Your attention called to the following i
position to make close prices:

25M' Basswood 9" 10" 11" 1st and 2d lOONI'

12M' Birch. Red. 2" 1st and 2d 300M'

5!)M' Birch, Bed, 1" 1st and 2d 50M'

40M' Birch. Red, 1" No. 1 Common 150M'

200M' Birch 1" 1st and 2d 175M'

175M' Bircli 1" No. 1 Common 20M'

2IXIM' Birch ]}'' 1st & 2d & No. 1 Com. 20M'

150M' Birch 1 .'.-" 1st & 2d & No. 1 Com. 20M'

200M' Elm, Soft, 1" No. 2 Com. & Better 75M'

175M' Elm, Soft, li" No. 2 C & B. Choice 25M'

All lumber cut from good timber, well m

terns upon which we arc in a

Elm. Rock. 1" No. 2 Com. & Better
Maple I" No. 2 Com. & Better
Maple I!" No. 2 Com. A- Better
Maple 1 J" No. 2 Com. & Better
Maple 2" No. 2 Com. & Better
Maple 3" 1st and 2d
Oak, W. Pin, 3/4" No. 1 Com.&Bettm
Oak, W. Pin. .c S" No, 1 Com.* Betta
Gum, Sap, 3/4" No. 1 Com. & Better
Gum, Sap, 21" No. 1 Com. & Better
anufactured, grades guaranteed

G.W.JONES LUMBER CO., Apple Ion, Wis

CHICAGO OFFICE: 1717 Railway Exchange.

R. CONNOR CO.

W II O I

A I- E M A N T F AC T U R E R !

Wisconsin
Hardwood

PINE AND HEM-
LOCK LUMBER

Mills at

Auburndale,Wis.,on W. C. K. R.

Stratford. Wis. .on C. & N.W.R.K.

Marshfield, Wis.

Do you want a
7=foot band mill?

This is a first-class
machine and will
give the best of re-
sults. It is strong,
well made, and as
grod as it looks.
Write us and we will
give you full particu-
lars.

Phoenix Mfg. Co.

Eau Claire, Wis.

66

HARDWOOD RECORD

MICHIGAN

— — ■

FAMOUS FOR HARD MAPLE AND GRE.Y f.LM

DENNIS & SMITH LUMBER CO.

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Office and Yards, FOURTH AND HOLDEN AVENUES,
DETROIT, MICH.

MILLS AT: Orndorll. W. Va., Healers. W. Va.. and I: I. r 1 1 1 j W. Va.

W. H. WHITE, Pres.

JAS. A. WHITE, Vice-Pres.

W. L. MARTIN, Secy.

THOS. WHITE, Treas.

W. H. WHITE COMPANY

BOYNE CITY, MICHIGAN

Manufacturers of Hardwood and HemlocK Lumber, Cedar Shingles,

White Rock Maple Flooring.

S. L. EASTMAN FLOORING CO.

BAGINAW BRAND

MAPLE FLOORING

SAGINAW, MICH.

DUDLEY LUMBER COMPANY

HAS FOR SALE
Memphis Yard— Plain and Qtd. Oak
Grand Rapids Yard-Michigan Hardwoods

Hemlock Lumber Also A Specialty
OFFICES: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

Evans & Retting Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

Hardwood
Lumber

RAILROAD TIMBERS, TIES AND SWITCH TIES

Michigan Trust Building Grand Rapids, Mich.

SALL1NG, HANSON & CO.

MANT1ACTURERS OF

Michigan Hardwoods

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

B

ROWNLEE

DETROIT

&C

OMPANY

MICHIGAN

Some "snaps" we are offering:

BASSWOOD 4 4 lsts and 2nds> including one car 1x12 and

BIRCH

4 4 Log Run; also No. 1 and No. 2
Common.

HARD MAPLE 3-inch No. 1 Common: 6 4 and 8 4 lsts and

WHITF A*sH 4 4 No. 1 Common and better; rather narrow,
wnnc /vmi but very cheap>

All Bone Dry and at Bargain Prices to Close Out.

HARDWOOD RECORD

67

BOYNE CITY LUMBER COMPANY

BOYNE CITY
MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE and other HARDWOODS

LARGE CAPACITY PROMPT SHIPMENTS RAIL OR CARGO

VAN KEULEN & WILKINSON LUMBER COMPANY

— Manufacturers anil "Wholesalers of

HARDWOOD LUMBER and CRATING STOCK

Complete Stocks of Michigan Hardwoods — Maple, Beech, Birch, Elm.
Ash and Basswood for sale.

Grand Rapids. Michigan

SOFT ELM AND ROCK ELM

=^^==== FOR SALE BY ==^==

The R. G. Peters Salt & Lumber Co.

EASTLAKE. MICHIGAN

"Chief Brand"
Maple Flooring

Will commend itself to you and your trade on
its merits alone. ^ Comprises all the features
desirable in good flooring. ^ Made by the latest,
most approved machinery methods and best
skilled labor. ^ We believe we can make it to
your interest to handle our "Chief Brand" and
will appreciate your inquiries.

Kerry £ Hanson Flooring Co,

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

J. S. GOLDIE.

Cadillac, :: Michigan.

SPECIAL PRICES on 500M pieces
1" to 3" Maple Squares 16" to 27" long
1" to 3" Soft Elm Lumber.

INQUIRIES SOLICITED FOB MICHIGAN LUMBER.

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

Hardwood Lumber

Main Office, Michigan Truit Company Building

GRAND RAPIDS : MICHIGAN

DEIN1N1S BROS.

GRAND RAPIDS, : : : MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD LUMBER (by water or rail)
"NATIONAL" MAPLE A BIRCH FLOORING

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN THE FOLLOWING:

120M feet 4 4 Log Run Birch
125M feet 5 4 Log Run Birch
2 Cars 8 4 Common and Better Birch

1 Car 1x4 Clear Birch

2 Cars 1x7 and Wider No. 1 Common Birch
140M feet 5 4 Log Run Beech

160M feet 4 4 Log Run Soft Elm

Hard Maple— All grades and thicknesses

Main Office :

205-209 Michigan

Trust

Company

Building

BIRCH

WE WANT YOUR ORDERS FOR

4-4 and 5-4 No. 1 Common

Birch

A No. 1 STOCK

Simmons Lumber Company

SIMMONS, MICHIGAN

Thos. MacBride Lumber Company

HEADQUARTERS FOR

HARDWOODS

IN MICHIGAN

Michigan Trust Building, Grand Rapids, Mich.

McCLURE LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

iardwoods

Main Oltices. DETROIT. MICH.
Mills, EUTAW, ALA.

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 cars I" Isl £ 2nds £ Com. Qld. While Oak 10 cars 1 Log Run Brown Ash

2 cars 2;, 3 and 4" While Ash 10 cars 1" lo 4" Dry Hard Maple

2 cars I" While Ash 10 cars I" Lot Run Birch

1 car l'.< and 2" No. I Com. Brown Ash 10 cars 1" Log Run Basswood

4 cars 2, 3 and 4" 1st and 2nds and No, 1 Com. Green While Oak

2 cars 2" Log Run Soil Elm

68

HARDWOOD RECORD

THE HOUSE OF STONE

The One of Good Grades
Poplar, Oak, Chestnut, Cottonwood, Ash, Basswood and Gum

T. B. STOINE LUMBER CO.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

«t

BUY GUM"

We are in the market to buy
Dry Gum Lumber in any
quantity, from a single car
load to a million feet. Will
take all grades and thick-
nesses. We receive lumber
at shipping point, pay cash
and are liberal in inspection.

THE FARRIN.KORN

LUMBER COMPANY

General Office, Yards,
Planing Mills, Dry Kilns,

Cincinnati, Ohio
Purchasing Office,

Randolph Building,

Memphis, Tenn.

Cypress Red Gum Oak

PLAIN OAK -BASSWOOD

Are what we want. All thicknesses and grades. Spot
cash. Send us list of your offerings with prices.

DUHLMEIER BROS., CINCINNATI, 0.

CYPRESS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturer of Hardwoods and Cypress

*»lain and Quartered White and Red Oak, Yellow Poplar,
Yellow Pine, Walnut, etc. Mills in Tenn., Ala. and Va.

OFFICE AND YARDS. OEST AND DALTON AVE.. CINCINNATI, OHIO.

f\ TTTJ A T1W is to sniP the ni6nest standard of

Oak

Poplar
Ash

nrvber at lowest consistent price

We are manufacturers and ship direct from our band mills

Chestnut

Basswood

Yellow Piae

W.H.&G.S. Stewart

Main Office: Cincinnati, Ohio, U. S A.

/*5§8S\

FRAMES,

PAINTS,

SASH. DOORS.

BUILDERS' HARDWARE.

BLINDS, MOULDINGS,

jbwtoiA

MANTELS. ETC.

COLUMNS. GLASS.

■ wlrrfflPw

LAROE CINCINNATI FAC-

STAIRWORK.

^oinH^/

TORIES MAKE PROMPT

INTERIOR TRIM.

SHIPMENTS POSSIBLE.

THE GENERAL LUMBER COMPANY

HARDWOODS

Hemlock, Yellow Pine.
COLUMBUS a OHIO

n

For items of Hardwood Stock or Hardwood
Machinery, you will find it advantageous to
write our advertisers. Get in touch !

W. H. Dawkins Lumber Co.

Manufacturers of Band Sawed

Yellow Poplar

ASHLAND, KY.

KNIVES

A man who has been in the presence of angels discloses the fact
by his action : lust one reason for our talking good machine
knives, good veneer knives or knives of any kind that do good work.

CHAMPION SAW COMPANY,

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

60

Kentucky Lumber Co.

CINCINNATI OHIO

B U V EHS OF EVERYTHING I N

Southern
Hardwoods

Can handle mixed or straight cars.
Will inspect at shipping point when
quantity justifies. We pay cash.
Write us when ready to sell.

POPL VR, OAK VSH
CHESTNUT, BASS, GUM,
r\ PRESS, COTTONWOOD

WHAT HAVE YOU FOR SALE IN

Red and White OAK Qtd- and Plain

AI.SO POPI.AR, CHESTNUT, WAI.NUT, ETC.

JOHN DULWEBER & CO., CINCINNATI, OHIO

Cash buyers for stock in our line.

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co.

i.lsl AND SUMMER STREETS

Wholesalers Mahogany, Thin Lumber, Veneers

Fine 1 3 figured quarter sawed oak veneers a specialty.

= IN THE MARKET FOR

OAK-ASH-POPLAR

ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

MOWBRAY & ROBINSON

Office:
1219 West Sixth Street

Yards:
Sixth Street, below Harriet

THE E. E. BECK LUMBER COMPANY

Cash Buyers

Poplar, Oak, Chestnut

And Other Southern Hardwoods

ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES.

WE BUY MILL CUTS.

Poplar, Oak,

Ash, Chestnut,

Sycamore,

... ., - 2.000,000 feet Dry Oak

W. Va. Spruce, 2.000.000 feet Dry Poplar

Pine and Elm Mostly heavy slock. Quotations Solicited.

C. Crane 4 Co.

We would like to buy

MILLS AMI YARDS
CINCINNATI. 0.

YEARLY CAPACITY
100,000,000 FT.

LONG BILL STIFF
A SPECIALTY

THE WIBORG & HANNA COMPANY

CINCINNATI. OHIO

! PLAIN
! AND
! QUARTER
! SAWED

CHESTNUT 5

POPLAR !

GUM AND !

CYPRESS <

Flooring, Sidng, Ceiling, Base, Case and Molding. Rough, Dressed and Re-sawed. Mixed Carloads.

THE

MALEY, THOMPSON & M0FFETT CO.

Always So the Market for

BLACK WALNUT LOGS,
SELECTED WHITE OAK LOGS,
LUMBER OF ALL KINDS.

CINCINNATI,

OHIO

L. W. RADINA & COMPANY

Correspondence Solicited with Buyers and Sellers of All Kinds of

Wanted for cash — desirable blocks of 1 inch to 4 inch Poplar, all grades,
Especial y 1^-inch stock, for immediate shipment.

-CLARK STREET AND DALTON AVENUE- =

i^ U

% -'■

\ THE FREIBERG LUMBER CO.

\ Manufacturers ot

\ Tabasco Mahogany
Walnut, Oak

Wm Poplar, McLean and Findlay Ars.
J CINCINNATI. O.

HARDWOOD RECORD

$ INDIANA A

■WHERE THE BEST HARDWOODS GROW.

THE WOODS FOR
WHICH INDIANA
IS FAMOUS.

Quart Yd White Oak

Plain White Oak

Quartered Red Oak

Plain Red Oak

White Ash

Poplar

Black Walnut

Cherry

Sycamore

Red Gum

Hickory

Beech

Maple

Veneers of

Indiana Hardwoods

MALEY & WERTZ

Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Exporters of Hardwood Lumber

EVANSVILLE, IND.

PERRINE-ARMSTRONG CO.

Long Timber up to 60 feet — Hardwood Specialties

The largest Band Mill in Indiana. FORT WAYNE, IND.

J. V. STIMSON

All Kinds of Hardwood Lumber Manufactured

HUNTINGBURG, IND.

THE WALNUT LUMBER CO.

Our Specialty is Walnut

GLAD TO FIGURE ON ANY CHOICE HARDWOOD STOCKS IMHTA MAPOt T^i IND
YOU HAVE TO OFFERr INSPECTION AT MILL POINTS. llr*UU\rin.r\Jl*,l.J, J1NL/.

YOUNG & CUTSINGER

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Fine Figured Quartered Oak

EVANSVILLE, IND.

CHARLES H. BARNABY

Manufacturer of Band Sawed Hardwoods

Quarter Sawed Indiana White Oak a Specialty GREENCASTLE, IND.

D'HEUR & SWAIN LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Quartered Oak and Sycamore

SEYMOUR. IND.

lONG-KNIGHT LUMBER CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS

Quarter Sawed White and Red Oak a Specialty

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

HARDWOOD RECORD

BUFFALO

THE GRE.AT WHOLESALE LUMBER CENTER OF THE EAST

Manufacturers and
Dealers in

Ash

White and Brown

Basswood
Birch

Red and White

Butternut

Cherry

Chestnut

Cottonwood

Cypress

Elm

Soft and Rock

Gum

Red and Tupelo

Hickory
Maple

Hard and Soft

Red Oak

Plain and Quartered

White Oak

Plain and Quartered

Black Walnut
White Wood

Poplar

EMPIRE LUMBER COMPANY

Our specialties are PLAIN ind QUARTERED OAK and ASH.

11-12 SENECA STREET.

G. ELIAS & BROTHER

BUY AND CARRY LARGE QUANTITIES OF ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

955 TO 1015 ELK STREET

HUGH McLEAN LUMBER COMPANY

Specialty: INDIANA WHITE OAK

940 ELK STREET

ANTHONY MILLER

HARDWOODS OF ALL KINDS

893 EAGLE STREET

SCATCHERD & SON

HARDWOODS ONLY

Yard, 1555 SENECA STREET Office, 886 ELLICOTT SQUARE

STANDARD HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

OAK, ASH AND CHESTNUT

1075 CLINTON STREET

I. N. STEWART & BROTHER

Specialties: CHERRY AND OAK

892 ELK STREET

T. SULLIVAN & COMPANY

Specialties: BROWN ASH, BIRCH, PACIFIC COAST FIR AND SPRUCE

50 ARTHUR STREET

ORSON E. YEAGER

Specialties: OAK, ASH AND POPLAR

932 ELK STREET

BEYER, KNOX & COMPANY

ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

Office and Yards, 69 LEROY AVENUE

BUFFALO HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

We want to buy for cash :

Oak, Ash and other Hardwoods, all grades and thicknesses.
Will receive and inspect stock at shipping point.
P. O. Box 312, MEMPHIS. TENN. 940 SENECA STREET

Vansant, Kitchen & Co.

NEW ASHLAND MILL

Old-Fashioned

SOFT

YELLOW

POPLAR

Ashland, Ky.

5-8 AND 4-4 IN WIDE STOCK, SPECIALTY

YELLOW POPLAR

Manufacturers

BAND SAWED
POPLAR LUMBER

ALL CRADES

DRY

5-8, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, 8-4, 10-4, 12 4, 16-4

Bevel Siding, Lath and Squares

Specialty, Wide Stock.

COAL OROVE, OHIO, U. S. A

W. M. Ritter Lumber Co

YOU CAN MAKE MONEY
By Stocking Up NOW With

COLUMBUS. OHIO.

POPLAR
BEVEL
SIDING

You Can Make MORE MONEY

By Buying From Us, Because

Ours is the Best

The Price will Surely Advance in the Spring
We saw and ship 100,000,00(1 Feet Yearly of Band Sawed, West Virginia Yellow Poplar, Hardwoods and No. Carolina While Pine

J

MMWoI RocoM

Twelfth Year. 1

Stml-monthty . t

CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 25, 1906.

' Subscription 92.

I Slrmle Copln, 10 Cant*.

2,000,000 Feet

CHERRY

FOR SALE

ROSS LUMBER CO.

JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK

Himmelberger Harrison Lumber (o.

Red Gum
Specialists

Morehouse,

Missouri

The present DIVIDEND OF UV3% TO POLICY HOLDERS represents a RETURN
OF ONE=THIRD OF THE PREMIUMS received by:==

THE LUMBER MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

OF BOSTON, MASS.

YOUR INVESTIGATION INVITED

The Davidson-Benedict Company

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
Everything in

Southern Hardwoods

POPLAR, CHESTNUT, ASH, OAK

(Plain and Quartered.) Straight or Mixed Cars.

DRESSED POPLAR ANY you get what you buy from
uKcazcu rui-Lnn. rtiNi us AgK FQR QUR DELivered

WAY YOU WANT IT. prices, any railroad point.

DRY STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

125 000 ft. 1 Inch No. 1 and No. 2 Quartered White Oak.
200.000 ft. 1 inch No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak.

75,000 ft. 1 inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.
250.000 ft. 1 inch No. 1 Common Plain Oak.

30.000 ft. H inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.

60.000 ft. It inch No. 1 Common Plain Oak.

75.000 ft. H inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.
170.000 ft. U inch No. 1 Common Plain Oak.

18.000 ft. 2 inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.
155.00H It. I inch Scented Tennessee Cedar.
220,000 ft. 1 inch Common and Better Chestnut.

s7.o(ii) ft i ; in. h, it inch and 2 inch Comn and Bettei Chestnut

120.000 ft. Tennessee White Pine Log Run
Poplar Bevel Siding,

THE ATLANTIC LUMBER CO.

2 KILBY STREET, BOSTON, MASS.

The combined facilities of the stock lumber insurance companies

LUMBER INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK

and the ADIRONDACK FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

and allied organizations, constitute a great insuring opportunity for any owner of a first-class lumber or mill risk.

Ask for lines and rates. LUMBER INSURERS GENERAL AGENCY, Underwriting Managers

66 Broad«/ay, Nevu York

Advertisers' Classified Directory Fallows Want and For Sale Advertising Sectian.

HARDWOOD RECORD

i f^\ i t i c: \/ II i r~7

LUUIo V 1LLU

MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF KENTUCKY

McLean -Davis Lumber Co.

Successors to

Hugh McLean Lumber Co., Highland Park, Ky.
Edward L. Davis Lumber Co., Louisville, Ky.
Berry -Davis Saw Mill Co., Louisville, Ky.

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Hardwood Lumber

Daily Capacity:
80,000 feet.

Sales Oifices:
Louisville, Ky.

Albert R. Kampf

Manufacturer

Hardwood lyumber and Timber

Dimension Stock

Board of Trade Bldg., Louisville, Ky.

E. W. Rhubesky

Wholesale

Poplar, Rough and Dressed.

Oak, Chestnut and Other

Hardwoods

North Vernon Pump
4 Lumber Co.

Band Sawed Plain and Quartered

Oak and Poplar.

North Vernon, Ind., and

Louisville, Ky.

Southern Lumber Co.

Oak, Poplar and

Chestnut.
Louisville, Ky.

Dry stock W.P.Brown & Sons Lumber Co.™***®*-**-

PLAIN RED
65.000' 1" 1st &
25.000' 1%" 1st
49,000' 114" 1st
67.000' 2" 1st &
18.000' 214" 1st
16.000' 3" 1st &
131,000' 1" No. 1
84,000' 114" No.
44.000' 114" No.
47,000' 2" No. 1
8,000' 2%" No.
15.000' 3" No. 1

OAK.
2nd.
& 2d.
& 2d.

2d.
& 2d.

2d.
Com.
1 Com.
1 Com.
Com.
1 Com.
Com.

QUARTERED RED OAK.
10,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
All thicknesses in cull poplar, ash, chestnut.

14,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.

5,000' 2" 1st & 2d.

15,000' 1" No. 1 Com.

7,000* 114" No. 1 Com.

13.000' 2" No. 1 Com.

PLAIN WHITE OAK.

80,000' 1" 1st & 2d.

28,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.

12,000' 114" 1st & 2d.

42,000' 2" 1st & 2d.

23,800' 2%" 1st & 2d.

16,000' 3" 1st & 2d.

227.000' 1" No. 1 Com.

60,000' 114" No. 1 Com.

80.000' 114" No. 1 Com.

50.000' 2" No. 1 Com.

17,000' 214" No. 1 Com.

22,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

QUARTERED WHITE OAK.

50,000' 1" 1st & 2d.

28,000' 114" 1st & 2d.

45,000' 114" 1st & 2d.

49,000' 2" 1st & 2d.

19,000' 214" 1st & 2d.

18,000' 1" No. 1 Com.

30,000' 114" No. 1 Com.

40,000' 114" No. 1 Com.

22,0<Xi' 2" No. 1 Com.

10.000' 3" No. 1 Com.

ASH.

9,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
65.000' 114" 1st & 2d.
16.000' 114" 1st & 2d.
10.000' 2" 1st & 2d.

8,000' 214" 1st & 2d.
14,000' 3" 1st & 2d.

6,000' 4" 1st & 2d.

4.000' 114" No. 1 Com.
16.000' 114" No. 1 Com.

8,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

POPLAR.
12.000' 1" 1st & 2d.

Your inquiries will be appreciated.

12,000' 114" 1st & 2d.
11.000' 114" 1st & 2d.
12,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
10,000' 214" 1st & 2d.
10,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
50,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
28,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
10,000' 114" No. 1 Com.
10,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
15,000' 1" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

8,000' 2" IS" & up 1st & 2d.

6,000' 2" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

4,000' 114" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

3,000' 114" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

Prompt delivery guaranteed

Ornamental Hardwood Floors

400 STYLES AND PATTERNS

Illustrated Catalog on Application

WOOD = MOSAIC FLOORING CO.

Rochester, N. Y, New Albany, Ind.

The Norman Lumber Co., Inc.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers of

Hardwood Lumber

FOR SALE

Seasoned Ash, Oak, Poplar, and Walnut Lumber

WANT TO BUY

Walnut, Oak, Ash,- Hickory and Poplar Logs and Lumber

Office and lfards s Third Street, H to K Streets
LOUISVILLE, KY.

THERE IS NO BETTER WAY

BETWEEN

CHICAGO
INDIANAPOLIS

AND

CINCINNATI

THAN THE

Nonon Route

A TRAINS A DAY /•

Standard and Compartment Sleep-
ers on Night Trains. Parlor and
Dining Cars on Day Train.

Chas. H. Rockwell, Frank J. Reed,
Traffic Manager, Gen. Pass. Agent,

CHICAGO

HARDWOOD RECORD

MICHIGAN RED OAK

c
c

<L

<L

As fine stock as was ever cut
in the famous Cadillac district.

We have some of this choice 4-4
Red Oak which will soon be in
shipping condition.

If you are in the market, we
can please you both in quality
and price.

We also have some nice Soft
Gray Elm in 4-4, 6-4, 8-4 and
12-4. It's Bone Dry.

Mitchell Brothers Company

CADILLAC, MICHIGAN

The Cadillac Handle Co.

Band Sawn
Michigan Hardwoods

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

1 Car 5/4 Maple 10 in. and up No. 1 Common and better.

1 Car 6 4 Maple 10 in. and up No. 1 Common and better.
5 Cars 4/4 Maple No. 1 and 2 Common.

2 Cars 4/4 Basswood No. 2 Common and better.
2 Cars 4/4 Birch No. 2 Common and better.

2 Cars Dimension Stock, largely Maple 4/4 x 2 in. and
wider x 12-18-24-30 and 36 in. long.

MURPHY & DIGGINS

Offer all grades of the following special dry stock

MAPLE— 5/4, 6/4, 8/4, 10/4, 12/4, 14/4, 16,4
GRAY ELM— 4/4, 12/4
BASSWOOD— 4/4 .
; B1RCH-M, 6/4

Our own manufacture. Perfect Mill Work. Uniform Grades.

LET US FIGURE ON YOUR HARDWOOD WANTS.

Cummer, Diggins & Co.

MANUFACTURERS

"CUMMER" MAPLE
AND BEECH FLOORING

MICHIGAN HARDWOODS

Good assortment of dry stock on hand ready
for immediate shipment in Hard Maple, Beech,
Birch, Soft Elm and Cherry.

SEND US A LIST OF YOUR REQUIREMENTS.

DRY ST

OCK J

Northern Michigan

Soft Gray Elm

What our old cork pine was to the regular
white pine — such is our Soft Gray Elm to
ordinary soft elm. Buyers who gladly discrim-
inate in favor of something better than the or-
dinary, will be interested. We have

10 cars 8=4 firsts and seconds.

1 car 10-4 firsts and seconds.

2 cars 12-4 firsts and seconds.

Wide, choice stock, our own product, seasoned right,
bone dry.

WRITE US ABOUT IT.

COdBS&MITGHELL

( INCORPORATED)

CADILLAC, MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

MEMPHIS

THE, HUB OF THE HARDWOOD WORLD

JOHX C. SPRT

JOHN D. SPAULDIXG

Southern Oak Lumber Co.

IN THE MARKET FOR MILL CUTS OR ROUND LOTS. FOR CASH

p„piar Hardwoods

Cypress

910 Chamber of Commerce
CHICAGO

INSPECTION AT MILL
YARDS: NORTH MEMPHIS

1217 Tennessee Trust Bldg.
MEMPHIS

Briggs & Cooper Company, Ltd.

MANUFACTURERS

HARDWOODS

NORTHERN
SOUTHERN

GET OUR PRICES ON THESE ITEMS:

1,000,000 feet Soft Grey Elm, 1 to 3".

500,000 feet Unselected Birch. 1 to 8".
3,000 000 feet Michigan Hard Maple, 1 to 6".

350 000 feet End Dried White Maple, 1 to IK".

625,000 feet No. 1 Common and Better Winter Sawn Basswood, 1 to 3".

150.000 feet Selected White Basswood, 1", IH" and I'A".

210,000 feet Plain and Quartered White and Red Oak, 1 to 2".
YARDS AT

SAGINAW, CHICAGO AND MEMPHIS

H. W. Mosby & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM

ASH, ELM

Large Stock on Hand HELENA, ARKANSAS

sss? Anderson-Tully Co. M«,s

COTTONWOOD

50,000 ft

7 8 in. lsts and 2nds. Cottonwood 8 in. and

up

200,000 "

4 4 '

8 in. to 1

2 in.

50;ooo "

6 4 ■

6 in. and

up

50,000 "

5/4 '

12 in.

30,000 "

4 4 '

No. 1 Common 8 in. to 1
GUM

2 in.

100,000 ft

4 4 in. Lsts and 2nds Red Gum

100,000 •■

"

No. 1 Common Red Gum

100,000 "

"

lsts and 2nds. Saps 6 in. to 12 in.

100,000 "

"

13 in. and up

100.000 "

"

Box boards 13 in. to 17 in. ■

250,000 "

No. 1 Common Saps
OAK

One car 4

4 in.

its and 2nds. Plain Red Oak.

J. B. Ransom, Prest A. B. Ransom. V.-Prest. W. A. Ransom, Sec C. R. Ransonv 'I teas.

GAYOSO LUMBER CO-, Inc.

Manufacturers and Dealers in

SOUTHERN
HARDWOODS

Also make a specialty of Wagon Stock in rough, such as Tongues,
Axles, Reaches, Bolsters, and 6-4 to 16-4 Hickory.

w

E have in all thicknesses the following kinds and
amounts of lumber at places designated. Kindly
send us your inquiries.

MEMPHIS YABDli

Ash 680,000 feet

Quartered White Oak. . 75.000 feet

Plain WhiteOak 140,000 feet

Quartered Red Oak.... 225,000 feet

Plain Red Oak 410,000 feet

Cypress 225,000 feet

Cottonwood 200,000 feet

Poplar 308.000 feet

SELMA YARH

Poplar 409,000 feet

Bay Poplar 857,000 feet

Red Gum 55.000 feet

Cypress 787,000 fe-;t

BERCLA1R YARD

Bay Poplar 100,000 feet

Cypress 800,000 feet

OTHER YARDS
Plain Red Oak 350 000 feet

J. W. THOMPSON LUMBER COMPANY

Office and Yards: Randolph Road and I. C. R R.

MEMPHIS. TENN.

FENN BROS. COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Oak Flooring

Quartered \A/hite

Quartered Red
Plain TA/hite
Plain Red

HolloiA/ Backed

End Matched

Polished

Bored

Place of plant: Kansas and Mallory Ave., New South Memphis.
( Take Soulh Memphis car to Mallory Ave.)

HARDWOOD RECORD

THREE STATES LUMBER

COMPANY

OFFERS THE FOLLOWING DRY STOCK AT POINTS WHERE CARS

ARE IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE

5 Cars ZO" and up Panel Cottonwood. 5 Cars 4-4 Log Run Ash.

10 Cars Cottonwood Box Boards 13" and up. 5 Cars 4-4 1st and 2nd Plain White Oak.

10 Cars Cottonwood Box Boards 8-12". 10 Cars No. 2 Cypress for Crating.

MEMPHIS, TENN.

Lamb Fish Lumber Co.

Successors to LAMB HARDWOOD LUMBER CO., BACON-NOLAN HARDWOOD CO., GUIRL-STOVER LBR. CO

MA NUFA C TURERS

Oak, Ash, Cottonwood, Gum
and Cypress

MAINJ3FFICE :
720 MEMPHIS TRUST BUILDING, MEMPHISJTENN.

'ri_ d i **«it ( Memphis, Tenn. ( Well Manufactured Stock

lhree Band Mills \ chancy, miss. Our Specialties \ c«od Grades

( Stover, Miss. ( Prompt Shipments

HARDWOOD RECORD

R. M. SMITH J- H- P- SMITH

R. M. SMITH ®L COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

WEST VIRGINIA HARDWOODS

POPLAR, OAK, CHESTNUT, ASH AND CHERRY SPECIALTIES

EASTERN OFFICE: HOME OFFICE:

1425-6 LAND TITLE BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA PARKERSBVRG, W. VIRGINIA

Millmen with round lots of well manufactured stock to offer,
are sure of a square deal with

WILLIAM WHITMER & SONS, Inc.

MANUFACTURERS OF

HARDWOODS

Branches: NEW YORK, BOSTON, PITTSBURG Girard Trust Bldg. PHILADELPHIA

R.E. Wood Lumber Company

C We own nearly a thousand million feet of virgin poplar, oak,
chestnut and other hardwood timber, and operate our own band mills
in West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
C Let us figure on your hardwood requirements.

general offices: Raltimnrp Marvland

CONTINENTAL BUILDING. OdlUIllUl t£, IVltll J ldilU

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co.

SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA

Band=Sawed, West
Virginia Hardwoods

We have completed arrangements
to handle all our business from
our main office, Scranton.

THE

BEST

LUMBER

HARDWOOD RECORD

THE EAST

BOSTON

NEW YORK

PHILADELPHIA

WM. E. LITCHFIELD

MASON BUILDING, BOSTON, MASS.

Specialist in Hardwoods

Manufacturers are requested to supply lists of stock for sale

Holloway Lumber Company

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

In the market for all thicknesses ot
OAK, ASH and CHESTNUT.

312 Arcade Building,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

JONES HARDWOOD CO.

INCORPORATED

WANTS: Poplar, Plain Oak,
Quartered Oak and Cypress.

147 MILK STREET
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Manufacturers please send stock lists and prices.

J. H. SCHOFIELD

R. W. SCHOFIELD

SCHOFIELD BROTHERS

LUMBER

WHITE PINE
AND HARDWOODS

1019-1020 Pennsylvania Bldg.,
Philadelphia

Thomas Forman Company

manufacturers op High-grade

Maple and Oak

Fl

oonng

New York Branch:

McGovern 4 Bowen. And Hardwood Lumber

29 Broadway

DETROIT.
MICHIGAN

Wistar, Underhill & Co.,

WHOLESALE

HARDWOOD LUMBER

816 Real Estate Trust Building, * PHILADELPHIA.

W. M. GILLESPIE LUMBER

HARDWOODS COMPAN I Farmers Bank Bldg.
Oak a Specialty PITTSBURGH, PA.

Charles S. Wentworth & Co.

WHOLESALE LUMBER MERCHANTS
f47 Milk Street

BOSTON

We are in the Market for POPLAR, PLAIN OAK, CYPRESS
and NORTH CAROLINA PINE LUMBER; also OAK, MA-
PLE and BIRCH FLOORING, and would appreciate corre-
spondence from manufacturers in position to supply any of the
stock named.

The West Florida Hardwood Co.

Ash
Hickory

Mill on Apalachicola River
MARYSVILLE, FLA.

Red and White Oak
Yellow Cottonwood

Red Gum
Tupelo Gum

LET US HAVE YOUR INQUIRIES

James & Abbot Company

Lumber and Timber

No. 165 MILK ST., BOSTON, MASS., and GULFPORT, MISS.

We Delight in Filling
Special Lumber Orders

This has been a great year in our business and customers have found
out that we can fill their orders — large or small, special or regular —
promptly and satisfactorily. Good service promotes business. Let us
demonstrate our lumber quality and ability to fill your orders. What do
you want in lumber — hard or soft, from the East, West, North or South?
We have the lumber and the shipping facilities. Write for samples and
prices today.

J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co.

56th to 58th Streets and Woodland Ave , PHILADELPHIA, PA.

JOHN L. ALCOCK & CO.

BUYERS OF BLACK WALNUT LOGS
BOARDS AND PLANKS

Inspection at point of
shipment. Spot cash.

Baltimore, Md.

_

STEVENS -EATON CO.

Buyers of

ROUND LOTS

of

Hardwoods

No 1 Madison

Avenue,

New York

ESPECIALLY IN MARKET FOR PLAIN RED OAK

HARDWOOD RECORD

PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM AIND OTHER HARDWOODS

Large stocks of well seasoned Lumber always carried at our yards and mills.
Ceneral Offices: 1 40 W. Chicago Ave., CHICAGO. Mills: Cairo, III., Marked Tree, Ark.,G»eenville, Miss., Arkansas City, Ark., Blytheville, Ark.

NOVEMBER STOCK LIST

HARD MAPLE
1 in. 1,000,000 ft
1} in. 100,000 it
1* in. 100,000 ft
3" in. 50,0110 ft
4 in. 50.000 ft

SOFT MAPLE

I in. 30,000 ft.

II in. 20,000 ft.
3 in. 10.000 ft.

BEECH
1 in. 100,000 ft.
1J in. 100,000 ft.

BIRCH

500,000 ft.

100,000 ft.

100,000 ft.

50,000 ft.

1 in.

H in.

2 in.
2k in.

1 in.

ASH.
50,000 ft.

WHITE MAPLE
End Piled

H in. 20,000 ft.

BASSWOOD
1 in. 300.000 ft.

GRAY ELM
1 in. 300.000 ft.
li in. 200.0011 It.
3" in. 200,000 ft.

KELLEY LIBER & SHINGLE CO., Traverse City, Mich.

Quartered Oak Flooring

Manufactured for

HIGHEST GLASS of trade only.

Also Plain Oak, Maple and other Hardwood flooring1.

The name D WIGHT on flooring- is a guarantee of its

excellence
D WIGHT SPECIAL pattern of thin flooring is the
only suitable thin flooring to lay. Write for Sample.

DWIGHT LUMBER COMPANY

DETROIT. MICHIGAN

Undoubtedly

you are interested in

Audits of the condition and op-
eration of your business.
Modern accounting methods:
Mill cost systems:

If so, may we have a talk
with you?

tandard Audit Company

Suite 335

Marquette Building, CHICAGO

Swann-Day Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OF

POPLAR AND OAK

PLANING MILL STOCK, BOX SHOOKS
AND HARDWOOD DIMENSION

CLAY CITY, KENTUCKY

HARDWOOD RECORD

D. G. COURTNEY

MANUFACTURER OF

Yellow Poplar
Oak & Chestnut

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA

Our Timber Holdings are located exclusively in the finest sections of West Virginia
growth. Modern mills and perfect manufacture. Standard and uniform grades.

We seek the trade of wood-working factories who want a dependable lumber supply
and fair treatment.

Just now we want to move 4/4 No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 Common Oak.

F"ULLERTON-POWELL

Hardwood Lumber Co.

OFFERS THE FOLLOWING STOCK
FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

E

1 50,000 feet 2i inch to 4 inch Common and Better Plain

Red and White Oak, six months dry.
300,000 feet 1 inch Logrun Quartered Sycamore, bone dry

1104- Chamber of Commerce
CHICAGO

South 'Bend, Ind.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

1

CHICAGO

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

PARK RICHMOND ®, CO.

Wholesale

Hardwood Lumber

410 Monadnock Block

HARRISON 5165 V^lllCclgO

have you anything to offer in

hickory, white ash, thick plain
oak and wagon stock?

WE ARE CASH BUYERS

PLEASE SEND US YOUR STOCK LISTS

Ryan & McParland

Chica-go

Office and Yards
Robey St. and Blue Island Ave.

A floor to adore

For thirty-three years Wilce's Hardwood Floor-
ing has been among the foremost on the market
and because it stands today "unequaled" is the
best evidence that its manufacturer has kept
abreast of modern methods and the advanced de-
mands of the trade. To convince yourself of the
above statements, try our polished' surface floor-
ing, tongued and grooved, hollow backed, with
matched ends and holes for blind nailing — you'll
find it reduces the expense of laying and polishing.
Our Booklet tells all about Hardwood Flooring and
how to care J or it — also prices - and is free.

The T. Wilce Company

22nd and Throop Sts. CHICAGO. ILL.

Harvey S. Hay den

IN THE MARKET FOR
POPLAR

25 M ft. \XA" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
40 M ft. 2" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths. •
25 M ft. SJ4" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
6D M ft. 3" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.

WHITE ASH
30 M ft. 1" Is and 2s, standard widtlis and lengths.
75 M ft. 5 4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
50 M f t. 6 4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
50 M ft. 8 4" Js and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
25 M ft. 10 4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
50 M ft. 16 4" Is and 2s. standard widths and lengths.
(We can use a small percentage of No I Common.)

511 Railway Exchange, - Chicago

R, A. WELLS LUMBER CO,

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Fine Quartered Oak a Specialty

Yards at

234 LA SALLE STREET
Canal and 2 1st Sts. CHICAGO, ILL.

White Lumber Company

Dealers in Hardwood Lumber

ALL KINDS

Cherry Lumber a
Specialty

ALL GRADES

Laflin ©. 22d Sts.
Chicago

John

O'Brien

Land & Lumber

Co.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Of All Kinds

OFFICE AND YARDS : ^^ #

873 to 881 So. Laflin Street C h lCaPO

MILL : PHILIPP, MISS. V/1I IV/O gU

J. Slimmer & Company

Hardwood
Lumber

Office and Yard :

65 W. Twenty-second St.

CHICAGO

HARDWOOD RECORD

ii

CHICAGO

1

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

We are Prepared to Supply Your Wants in

Veneered a Solid Stave
Columns

In all Hardwoods with the

Koll's
Patent

^ THEY \»
CAN NOT IB

COHE MB

k ilPlPT A^^

Lock
Joint

Write today for prices
|

Henry Sanders Co.

900 Elston Ave.

I ERNEST B. LOMBARD 1

"*N£

Manufacturer arvd Wholesale

Northern ©.nd Southern
Hardwoods

Railway Exchange - CHICAGO

The Keith Lumber Co.

MAHOGANY

5,000,000 feet ma-
hogany in stock

Large and fine stock
of Cuban wood.

FOREIGN AND

AMERICAN

HARDWOODS

14th and Wood Streets
CHICAGO

CHAS. DARLING & CO.

Southern
Hardwoods

22nd Street and Center Avenue - CHICAGO

CHUS. MILLER MILTON MILLER

MILLER BROS.

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Main Office: 208 WILLOUGHBY BLDG. 6 E. MADISON ST.
•Phone Central 1363 CHICAGO. ILL.

Yards: LoomisSt. S.of 22nd St., Chicago. 111., Houston. Miss., Macon, Miss.

The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Co.

Wholesale and Retail

Telephone
NORTH 223

HARDWOOD LUMBER

47 DominlckSt.
CHICAGO

Ben C. Keator— Wholesale Lumber

HARDWOOD AND PINE

1003-4 Manhattan Building, CHICAGO

THE WARD LIMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

HARDWOODS

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUILDING :: CHICAGO

WISCONSIN TIMBER (EL LUMBER CO.

BUY AND SELL

Yellow Pine and Hardwood Lumber

Want thick hardwoods and wagon box boards.
Morvadnock BIdg CHICAGO, ILL.

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Co.

1649-50 MARQUETTE BUILDING

Are now offering bone dry BIRCH, ROCK ELM. BLACK ASH. etc., Wis-
consin stock. Also PLAIN AND QUARTERED OAK, POPLAR, etc.,
from our Memphis yard. We are constant buyers.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

OAK FLOORING

Kiln Dried

Bored

Polished

hAPDWOOD LUMBER ^N

& MFC. CO.
5A RDIS
MISS

Hollow
Backed

and

Bundled

H. B. Leavitt, Prest.
E. H. Adams, Secy.

B. F. Richardson, Vice-prest.

J. G. L.EAVITT, TREAS.

THE LEAVITT LUMBER CO.

Most Complete Stock of Hardwoods in

CHICAGO

Make Known Your Wants and Get

IMMEDIATE. RESULTS

Mills :

WISCONSIN
TENNESSEE

ARKANSAS
LOUISIANA
MISSISSIPPI

General Office and Yard :

22nd AND LAFUN STREETS.

Southern Office:

808 TENNESSEE TRUST BLDG.

MEMPHIS, TENN.

"Ideal" ERock Maple Flooring

is the flooring that is manufactured expressly to supply
the demand for the best. It is made by modern ma-
chinery from carefully-selected stock and every pre-
caution is taken throughout our entire system to
make it fulfill in every particular its name— "IDEAL."

Rough or Finished Lumber — All Kinds

Send us Your Inquiries

The I. Stephenson Company

WELLS, MICHIGAN

"Michigan Maple Flooring

Our model factory is equipped with the highest
class tools and appliances made for Flooring
production.

We produce our lumber from the best rock Ma-
ple area in Michigan and have 20 years' supply.

Our brand "Michigan" is a guaranty of qual-
; ity. Perfect mill work and excellent grades
distinguish our Flooring and our prices are
reasonable.

WARD BROS., Big Rapids, Mich.

Timber Bonds

SECURED BY FIRST MORTGAGE ON TIMBER LANDS

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H. C. Barroll <S Co.

BANKERS, First National Bank Building, CHICAGO^

THE "FINEST" MAPLE FLOORING

W. D. YOUNG & CO.

BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

Producers from TREE to TRADE of the high-
est type of Michigan Forest Products. Large
stock of Maple Flooring and 15,000,000 feet
of Hardwoods — 1 to 4 inches thick — on hand.

Maple, Birch and Beech Lumber

FIRE INSURANCE

That is Approved by Lumbermen
and Woodworkers

Lumber Underwriters

66 Broadway
New York

We have in stock

150.000 ft. 4-4 White Maple Cross piled with 2%-
inch dry crossers.

125,000 ft. 4-4 Log run Birch red in. No thick
cut out.

Please favor us with your orders.

Bliss & Van Auken

Saginaw, W. S. Mich.

MMwol MM

Published In the Interest of Hardwood Lumber. American Hardwood Forests, Wood Veneer Industry, Hardwood Flooring,
Hardwood Interior Finish, Wood Chemicals, Saw Mill and WoodworKlng Machinery.

' : new

Vol. XXIII.

CHICAGO. NOVEMBER 25. 1906.

No. 3.

HOT A

Published on the 10th and 25th of each month by

THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

Henry H. Gibson, President

FRANK W. TUTTLE, Sec-Treas.

OFFICES
Sixin Floor Ellsworth Bldg., 355 Dearborn St., Chicago, III., U.S.A.

Telephones: Harrison 4960 Automatic 5659

TERMS OF ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION

In the United States, Canada, Philippine Islands and Mexico . . $2.00

In all other countries in Universal Postal Union ..... 3.00
Subscriptions are payable in advance, and in default of written orders to the
Contrary are continued at our option.

The entire contents of this publication are covered by the general copy-
right, and articles must not be reprinted without special permission.
Entered at Chicago Postoffice as Second Class Matter.

"Advertising copy must be received five days in advance of
publication date. Advertising rates on application.

HARDWOOD ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.

National Veneer 4 Panel Manufacturers' Assn.

The annual meeting of this association will be held at the
Auditorium hotel, Chicago, at 10 a. m., Tuesday, Dec. 11.

Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association.

This association will hold an important meeting at the
Hotel Pantlind, Grand Rapids, on Wednesday, Dec. 19.

General Market Conditions.

The hardwood trade throughout the United States and abroad is
still running in full tide. Prices on nearly every variety of hardwood
lumber show a rising tendency and the demand is generally in excess
of the supply.

The car situation is the most serious ever known iu the history of
American railroading, and a great many shippers are able to secure
cars to deliver but a small portion of their sales. In some localities
the car situation is Jodsening up a bit, but on the whole it is in very
bad shape and probably will remain so for fully a month longer.

While all varieties of plain oak are in strong demand, poplar seems
to be in leading call. A good many advance purchases of this wood
have been made during the last fortnight. There is very little manu-
factured poplar in first hands and it is apparent that notwithstanding
the great effort that has been made to secure a stock of logs the
greatest possible output will be far below the demands of the trade.
Northern hardwoods are doing very well.

The heavy rainfall of the last fortnight throughout the oak, gum
and Cottonwood producing sections of the South means a delay of
log supply for fully a month. This feature of the situation looks to
still higher values for those standard southern products.

The shortage of the mahogany supply is stimulating purchases and
the demand, notably from the furniture trade, is excellent.

There has I n an unusual call for black locust during the last few

months, cither in the form of logs, bolts or flitches, for the production
■ 'I' telegraph and telephone pins.

The hardwood flooring plants, both in oak and maple, all remain
very busy, with plenty of orders in sight to keep them running for
months to come. Veneer manufacturers are enjoying an unusually
good, trade.

On the Subject of Knockers.

There is a legend in the Cincinnati Business .Men's Club which
reads :

A "knocker" is one who condemns the
bad things ynii approve.

I reckon that possibly 1 may be a knocker, for the president of
the National Hardwood Lumber Association at the recent Cincinnati
meeting took occasion to say, "When you consider . . . that
practically the entire lumber press has done all it could to bring
about dissension ami discord, you will realize two things, that the
National Hardwood Lumber Association is making good, and that
lumbermen will not be dictated to or take advice from men who
have no practical knowledge of our business, and who in order to
get something in their papers that a busy man will read attempt to
array lumbermen against lumbermen for revenue only."

lie amended this utterance later by specifying the Hardwood
Record and two of its contemporaries us Being "practically the

entire lumber press, " referred to in his previous 8) eh. Of course,

I personally consider the Hardwood Record about one-half the entire
lumber press, but it was very decent of I he president to place his
estimate as high as he did.

M it had 1 ii Bill Eusse, personally, uh,. made this ridiculous

attack upon the Hardwood Record, it would not have been worth
commenting on, but through the forbearance of God, the grace of
Earl Palmer, and some political measures, the history of which Bill
would not care to see in print, he is at the head of an association

of 54] hardvt I lumbermen, of whom 358 have paid their 1906 dues.

1 number among the members of the National Association many of
the best friends a man ever possessed. Very largely they constitute
the square, upright, honest, intelligent .-mil progressive element, of the
organization. They approve of the editorial policy of the Hardwood
Record. I know this positively, because I have their approval in
black and white over their signatures.

If preaching commercial advancement and business integrity in
the hardwood industry constitutes an effort to luing about "dissen-
sion and discord" and to "array lumbermen against lumbermen,"
let us have dissension and discord until the man who systematically
ships nine hundred feet for a thousand or who sells one grade of
lumber and delivers an inferior one becomes such a despised member
of the hardwood fraternity as to have no standing among his fellows.
Let us have honest lumbermen arrayed against dishonest lumbermen
until the scandals surrounding irregular sales and inspection practices
are forever ended.

In spite of President Russc 's aversion to taking advice from me, on
the assumption that I have "no practical knowledge" of his business,
1 shall be obliged to say to him that it is my honest belief that I
can go with him into any hardwood forest In America and tell with

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more accuracy than he the quantity, quality and botany of the
timber; I believe I can stand behind his band saw and manufacture
a log into lumber with as much intelligence and skill as any sawyer
in his employ ; I believe I can go upon a pile of hardwood and
inspect it with accuracy, in strict accordance with any set of under-
standable rules ever promulgated; and again I believe I can go on
the road and sell just as much lumber at just as good prices as
he can.

Mr. Kusse will kindly note that there is no qualification in the
above statement, but he will pardon that, not being overburdened
with modesty himself.

If I had time to write it and could get some other newspaper to
print it, I would like to tell the true history of Bill Eusse's life, and
show the vivid contrast between that gentleman 's opinion of himself
and the estimate placed upon him by the majority. He couldn 't
consistently expect me to print this, because he is not an advertiser
in the Hardwood Record, and he understands the lumber press is out
' ' for revenue only. ' '

Seriously, I am rather fond of Kusse and he should like me — the
quantity of "gall" we both have should make us kindred spirits.

— H. H. G.

Editorial Announcement.

The special edition scheme of some of the distinguished contempo-
raries of the Eecord seems such an easy and profitable way of graft-
ing on the supporters of the trade press that it has been decided to
issue a double golden anniversary edition of the Hardwood Eecord
in commemoration of its one hundredth anniversary. This number
of the paper will be printed on Oct. 10, 1995. Kindly remember the
date.

This edition will contain an article profusely illustrated with
historical prints by the chief of the United States Forestry Bureau
of Washington, D. C, telling about the wonderful forests that once
existed in the United States.

The editor's great-grandson will make a comprehensive review of
the life work of the present editor of the Eecord.

The President of the United States will contribute a timely article
on the subject of what the Panama Canal has done for the lumber
industry.

• The editor will comprehensively review the prospects of the even-
tual accomplishment of universal hardwood inspection.

One of the chief purveyors in cement building blocks will tell how
once wood was used in the construction of even ordinary home and
farm buildings.

The chief of the Forest Service of the Philippines will tell the
story of how the Philippine forests have not been wasted.

The leading factor in the vehicle trade will contribute a timely
article on steel farm wagons and motor cars.

This is only a brief outline of the delightfully interesting text
with which the paper will be enlivened. This we hope will make a
fitting vehicle to hold up the publication's clients for anywhere
from one to ten pages of advertising, at so much per page. Of
course this special issue will have no earthly interest or value save
to the publishers, but like newspaper men of all times, it is expected
that the Hardwood Eecord principals will then, as now, "need the
money. ' ' __

What Do You Think of the System ?

A Mississippi hardwood manufacturer sends in a circular letter
from a man in Chicago stating that he has just started in the hard-
wood lumber business and wants to buy lumber to be shipped direct
to his customers on the basis of cash less two per cent. He holds
out this tempting bait: "It will make no difference to me what
you ship as long as my customer is satisfied."

This man is typical of a great number of alleged wholesale hard-
wood lumber dealers with offices in their hats, who attempt to scalp
lumber, and incidentally get a living, on the basis outlined. The
sooner owners of lumber and wholesale consumers cease doing busi-
ness with this class of people, the better for the trade. There is no
room for the grafter in the hardwood lumber business and the sooner
he realizes that fact, the better.

The Manufacturers' Lumber Supply.

One of the most conservative and influential furniture papers of
the country is The Furniture Journal, of Chicago. In its issue of
November 10 this publication discussed the manufacturers' lumber
supply. The article is worthy of reproduction, because it gives
straight-from-the-shoulder advice that would not be presumed by even
the most radical of lumber journals.

In these times when the manufacturer of furniture is confronted
with a steady advance in the cost of the lumber which enters into
his product, with no corresponding advance in the price which
lie is able to obtain for his own product, it behooves him to buy
his lumber under the fairest and best conditions. The time was —
and that not very long ago — when the furniture factories of the
country cut into stock the material found at their doors. Wis-
consin and Minnesota furnished the lumber used by the factories
in those states, and the forests of Michigan provided about all
tin' material which the factories at Grand Rapids and elsewhere
throughout the state needed — and so on all over the country.
Every district had its own standard of grades, and inspection was
more or less local in scope, and stock was purchased on a basis
well understood between producer and factory man.

But all this, is changed. The lumber used in the furniture
factories of the country is shipped long distances, and is bought
in almost every market. It is important then that there should
be a well established and universal standard of grades, so that
when the manufacturer in Grand Iiapids, in Rockford, or Chicago
or Minneapolis, buys a car of oak or birch, or anything else of a
certain grade, in Memphis, St. Louis, Chicago, or at mill points
elsewhere, he will know with reasonable certainty what he is
going to get.

Because this is the case The Furniture Journal has upon repeated
occasions approved the effort first fathered by the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association for a universal inspection and grading
system for the so-called hardwood lumber, and has been disap-
pointed that the result has not been accomplished. Something
like thirteen years have been spent by the organization named, and
success has not been achieved. The Furniture Journal is therefore -
compelled to look in another direction for such a system as is
under consideration. Five or six years ago the Hardwood Manu-
facturers' Association of the United States was brought into
existence. This association has undertaken the proposition. In
all the other branches of the lumber industry the making of grades
is in the hands of the manufacturers. The middle man has no
part in it. And the anomalous condition that the middle man is
in control in the National Hardwood Lumber Association is prob-
ably responsible for the failure of that organization to make a
uniform system of inspection for hardwood lumber that would
prove acceptable. There are few yards in which any considerable
stock of hardwood lumber is carried. The average furniture
manufacturer buys for his own use each year about as much
lumber as the wholesaler or yardman handles for retail purposes.
As between the lumber maker and the furniture dealer, it is
therefore a matter of "from mill to factory." The interest of
the furniture maker is therefore with the lumber manufacturer In
this matter. I'rice is aoverned by grade, not grade by the price.

The Hardwood Manufacturers' Association has made a standard
of grades, inaugurated a system of inspection, and is in a fair way
of securing a standard which will be universal. The manufac-
turers of furniture can help on this desideratum by stipulating
in buying lumber that it shall be on "Manufacturers' Grades."

An Important Question.

A leading manufacturer of hardwood lumber in the South forwards
the following excerpt from a letter he has just received from a New
York correspondent, which he says exactly meets his views:

Did you look at the "Important Question" cartoon on page 15 of
the Hakdwood Record of November 10? It is a serious question
and it should be answered by all honest lumbermen, and it ought
to be the duty of all lumbermen who do make an honest grade
to see that their brother members in their association, no matter
which it may be or what the rules are, do likewise, no matter
what the cost may be. I hope that page will be found in all
lumber offices ; and there is not a lumberman in America who could
not read every issue of that magazine with profit to himself.
The cartoon page particularly seems to strike at the very root of
lumber matters.

This endorsement of the Eecord 's campaign for an honest inspec-
tion is but one of scores of like commendatory lp^ters that are daily
reaching the editor's desk.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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Vert, Pertinent and Impertinent.

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Perseverance.
A cat in despondency sighed,
And resolved to commit suicide ;
He got under the wheels
Of nine automobiles,
And after the last one he died.

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Helpful.

Little drops of water,

Little sprigs of mint,
And some cracked Ice with it,

And some whisky in't,
Help to pass the hours

In a pleasant way.
Help to bring a headache

At the dawn of day.

— Houston Post.

Mr.

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Before and After.

She always addressed him as
Until he took courage and Kr.

But now that they're wed

Like a brute he has said
That he wishes to goodness he'd Mr.

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At the Summit.
The finest prospects
in life are found at
the summit of dis-
agreeable duties.

Always.
When a man has
occasion to boast of
his past, he always
selects a part of it
that others have for-
gotten.

Doing Things.

Part of the art of
doing things is to at-
tempt but little at a
time.

Types.

Some people take
things as they come
and others grab them
as they go.

Patience.

Patience isn't nec-
essarily a virtue;
more often it's a
necessity.

Wise.
It's a good plan to
begin with an um-
brella in laying up
for a rainy day.

Busy Folks.
All the world's a
stage — and the ma-
jority of us sit in the
gallery and throw
things at the per-
formers.

Encouraging.
Most of us put to
the gossip the query
"what else do you
know?" when we
should say "how do
you know?"

BUSINESS NOTE

News Item: "An old hardwood concern now under lady management.

Disappointing.
The pessimist is of-
ten disappointed in
finding that things do
not turn out as bad
as anticipated.

Easily Satisfied.

People have
reached the limit of
self-importance when
they a r e satisfied
with their owu so-
ciety.

Tree.

It \s not the profan-
ity we utter so much
as that we cause for
which we should be
taken to task.

Dangerous.
Beware of the man
who is an adept at
making excuses.

Naturally.
This is a dirty
world to the people
who seek nothing but
dust.

Not Altogether Bad.
Life never looks al-
together bad to the
man with a clean
shave.

What Follows.
One good turn is
usually followed by
two bad ones — in the
variety show.

Mistaken.
Most men know a
great deal less than
they think other men
think they know.

Style Note.
There are no pock-
ets in shrouds.

One Way.
A spinster has been known to advance
step by step until she finally became a step-
mother.

Expensive.

It doesn't cost half as much to live as it
does to make a favorable impression on the
neighbors.

Three to One.
The three balls in front of the pawn-
broker's shop indicate that the chances are
three to one of his getting the best of the
bargain.

Egotism.
The ' belief that we are necessary while
living and shall be remembered when dead.

The Difference.

If a man shows up the evil of our ways,
he is a kicker; if he gets after the other
fellow he is a reformer.

The Truth.
There are so many ways of lying that
some people do not seem to be able to tell
the truth.

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AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

American or Gray Elm.

Vim us Americana. — Linn.
The habitat of this tree extends over the
greater part of the United States. It is
found in nearly every state east of the Bock;
Mountains. It ranges from Newfoundland
to Floi^-a and westward intermittently to Da-
kota, Nebraska, and south to Texas. It is
very common in the Northeast, where it is
one of the most familiar trees, and
in the New England states it has
been planted along the streets of
villages and towns and used in
landscape decoration almost from
the earliest settlement times. In
this respect its use is very success-
ful, owing to the fact that it grows
quickly, has a graceful form, and
is one of the first trees to blossom
in the spring.

In the New England and Middle
Atlantic states it is known as elm,
American elm and white elm; as
water elm in Mississippi, Texas, Ar-
kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa; as
gray elm in Michigan, Ohio, Wis-
consin, Minnesota and Nebraska. In
Louisiana it is called orme inaigre.
It is known variously also as
swamp elm and rock elm, but of
course it is not the true" rock elm. In
some regions it is called the orham
tree, a name possibly derived from
the French orme, meaning elm.

The American elm is a tall, grace-
ful, wide-spreading tree, seventy-
five to one hundred and twenty-five
feet high, usually of symmetrical
vase shape, with slender limbs and
pendulous twigs. Its trunk is oc-
casionally three feet in diameter
and often free of branches to the
height of sixty feet. The branches
are short, stout and spreading,
forming a narrow, round topped
head." Besides this appearance,
there are trees of this species which
present what is called the "oak-
tree form" — wider and broader
than the vase form and suggestive
of the ample crown of the oak. The
outline, however, is only suggestive,
for the limbs are curved and never
angular and tortuous, like those of
the oak.

Its leaves are simple, alternate,
with smooth petioles, and oval or
obovate. They are from two to six
inches long, unequal at the base, with parallel
ribs. If a branch of the tree that faces the
sun is' broken off, it will be observed that
the leaves twist and turn in an effort to pre-
sent an unbroken surface of green. This
phenomenon is known as a "leaf mosaic"
is not confined entirely to the elm, as
any roadside thicket shows the same habit
in all its species.

FORTY-FIRST PAPER.

The flowers appear in March before the
leaves. In color they are greenish red and
are inconspicuous. They appear on long,
slender, drooping pedicels, sometimes one foot
in length, and are in three or four-flowered
short-stalked faseiles. The fruit comes in
May and is smooth, oval, with a thin, circular
wing, notched above to the nutlet. The bark
is a thick, ashy gray, divided by deep fis-

TYPICAL FOREST GROWTH AMERICAN
ELM, VILAS COUNTY, WIS.

sures into broad ridges separating on the
surface into thin appressed scales. The wood
is heavy, hard, strong and tough. It is
coarse-grained and light brown, with thick,
somewhat lighter colored sapwood. It is
durable in water and soil. The weight of a
cubic foot of the seasoned wood is forty
pounds.

In reply to some queries concerning gray

elm a foremost Michigan operator advises
that this wood is the softest wood remaining
in Michigan since the exhaustion of white
pine, save basswood. Deals four to six
inches thick are quite frequently manufac-
tured entirely free from knots and shake. The
general defects in gray elm are very similar
to those of yellow poplar. The wood has not
the strength of rock elm but a very high type
of lumber is obtained from it, and
it is used extensively by furniture
factories, refrigerator manufactur-
ers and builders of billiard tables,
bar fixtures, etc.

The writer further advises that
the highest type of gray elm is
found in the northern portion of
the lower peninsula of Michigan.
He says that the trees grow large
and tall and the texture of the wood
is very Soft and smooth, while in
some gray elm sections the grain
is tougher and quite stringy and
the lumber does not bring as much
in the market by from two to four
dollars a thousand. In the region
noted, the trees grow from two to
five feet in diameter at the butt,
and from fifty to seventy-five feet
to the eroteh, with branches usu-
ally so large that each produces a
log. The grain of gray elm is quite
similar to that of black ash, but
not so pronounced, and it has much
more breaking strength. Gray elm
makes a very satisfactory interior
finish and can be toned to any de-
sired color that is not lighter than
the natural color of the wood, which
is about the same tone as white oak.
The correspondent further notes
that a tally of upwards of 500,000
feet of gray elm lumber recently
manufactured by his house, under
inspection showed twenty-nine per
cent of firsts and seconds, forty-one
per cent of Nos. 1 and 2 common,
and thirty per cent of No. 3 com-
mon. While in this case the Nos. 1
ami 2 common were piled together,
it showed under a division of these
two grades about sixty per cent of
No. 1 and forty per cent of No. 2.

The half-tone engraving with
which this article is illustrated is
from a photograph made by the
editor of the Hakdwood Record in
the timber holdings of the Hackley-
Phelps-Bonnell Company in Vilas county,
Wisconsin.

Gray elm in the past has not met the appre-
ciation its high qualities warrant. It can be
produced in good widths, has a large pro-
portion of high grade, and is well nigh as
soft in texture as poplar. For wood substi-
tutes elm at present prices should be very sat-
isfactory for many purposes.

JAMES S. GARETSON,

ST. LOUIS, MO.

supplement to
Hardwood Record

NOVEMBER 25, 1906

ILLUSTRATING

BUILDERS OF LUMBER HISTORY.

HARDWOOD RECORD

V

Builders of Lumber History.

NUMBER

Janies S. Garetson.
t»scc Portrait Supplement,)

James Sylvanus Garetson, second son of
James L. and Sarah Harlow Garetson, was
born in Monroe City, 111., September 24,
1852. His early education was such as the
public school of that place afforded. His
father enlisted in the Union army at the
outbreak of the Civil War when Mr. Garetson
was but a boy, and the responsibility of sup-
porting the mother and younger members of
the family devolved upon his brothers and
himself. His first important duty was his
agency with the Adams Express Company; he
afterward served as train messenger for sev-
eral years.

Owing to the ill health of his wife, Mr.
Garetson lived for some years in Eogers,

LEAF, SEED AND FLOWER, AMERICAN' ELM.

Ark., moving later to San Diego, Cal., where
she died. Returning to Missouri in 1891,
he associated himself with his younger
brother, Frank A. Garetson, and A. H. Grea-
son, in the firm of Garetson & Greason, do-
ing business as hardwood manufacturers at
Poplar Bluff, Mo. At that time the business
was conducted in a limited way, there being
but one mill, located at Fisk, Mo.

In 1895 an office was opened at St. Louis.
with Mr. Garetson in charge, and in 1898 he
and his brother purchased the interest of
A. H. Greason, incorporating as the Garetson-
Greason Lumber Company. One year later
the company acquired the timber on a
tract of 80,000 acres of land, erecting a sec-
ond and larger mill, which was supplied by
a standard gauge railroad fourteen miles in
length, incorporated as the Butler County
Bailroad.

From that time business grew steadily,
and in 1903 a new company was organized,
the Garetson-Hilton Lumber Company, with a
modern band and circular mill at Campbell,
Mo., and timber holdings sufficient to in-
sure an output of 60,000 feet of lumber per
day for several years. This plant turns out
a product of the highest class, principally

XXXV.

gum, and is under the direct management of
]■'. E. Hilton, the selling being done through
tli'' (iaretson-Greason Lumber Company at
St. Louis.

At the present time, in addition to the
lumber turned out by its own mills, the com-
pany has contracts with twelve hardwood
mills, besides keeping three buyers in the
field, in addition to a corps of car oak in-
spectors. Mr. Garetson 's duties as president
of the companies with which he is connected
require the closest personal attention, and in
the discharge of his obligations he spends
the greater part of his time away from home;
upon William W. Dings, the able secretary
of the Garetson-Greason Lumber Company,
devolves the active management of the St.
Louis office. The president, F. A. Garetson,
has retired from active business, owing to
ill health, and is now living in southern Cali-
fornia.

In September, 1874, Mr. Garetson was mar-
ried to Caroline M. Griffith, who died in
1890. Three children were born — one son,
who died in infancy, and two daughters,
Katherine and Helen, the latter now Mrs.

William W. Dings. In 1897 Mr. Garetson
married a second time, his wife being Mrs.
Katherine Bowes Beach. They have one
son.

In politics Mr. Garetson is a Republican,
although in local issues he exerts his influence
for the election of the cleanest and best can-
didates. He is a member of several clubs
and an elder in the Presbyterian Church;
notwithstanding the fact that his time is so
fully occupied, he gives much attention to the
demands of church work.

Probably his strongest characteristic, es-
pecially to those who know him intimately,
is his capacity for work and detail. There is
nothing in connection with the business too
great to be undertaken by him ; no detail
too insignificant to escape his attention. He
is a good talker, but a better listener; a man
who stands for what is absolutely clean in
business, and who demands the same from
every employee.

Mr. Garetson is a strong believer in asso-
ciations, and his time and money are freely
given to the work and support of all move-
ments which tend to the upbuilding of the
hardwood industry. To him success has come
by reason of hard and intelligent effort, and
at the age of fifty-four he is in his prime,
with the promise of many years of activity.

Construction ofHardWood Columns.

During the last twenty-five years popular
architecture has drawn away from the
severely plain and simple methods of con-
struction in vogue about the close of the
Civil War and has given place to a more
decorative style, wherein columns play a
great part. The erection of immense hotels,
railroad stations, and municipal and govern-
ment buildings has made possible elaborate
schemes of interior decoration in rotundas,
foyers and corridors, in nearly all of which
pillars and columns, either distinct or in bas
relief, are given prominence.

In building columns to supply the needs
evoked by the new specifications the industry
has been divided into what may be roughly
called two branches — the manufacture of
solid pieces and the making of built-up work.

In the solid work the stock used is, of
necessity, cheaper, because the cost of the
valuable woods renders their use, for any but
tin' must expensive work, prohibitive, and as
the greatest number of ordinary solid col-
umns are intended for porches on houses of
moderate cost they are made of the more
common woods. Nevertheless, very good re-
sults are obtained from these woods; in parts
of the South especially pine columns are used
and treated with spar varnish which slums
the .natural grain. These solid or turned col
minis are ir/ade mi the machine, the log being
worked to size and afterward earried to the
driller or punching machine where a hole is
bored through the eenter to keep it from
w .■ 1 c| 11 n l^- 'it' Into they have been made from
veneer ' coring, at least one large concern
utilizing the heart of the logs for columns,

after the veneer strips have been cut, by
boring holes in them.

But solid columns sometimes split and also
lack the durable qualities of the built-up
work. They cannot be conveniently made in
very large sizes and, when the more valuable
hardwoods are required, the operation is too
expensive to be generally adopted. For high-
class work, therefore, when beauty of figure
and lasting qualities are sought, the work is
built up.

Making and Gluing the Strips.

In making the built-up work, which is
called solid or veneered as it is to be with or
without veneer, the usual method is to cut
the lumber in strips the required length and
width. The outer surface is then worked to
;i slightly rounded form so that it may make
a part of the circumference and the sides of
tin- strips are planed to whatever lock device
is desired and patterned. The strips are also
tn|n'i'ed toward the end so that the finished
column will be smaller at the top than at the
base. When the strip has boon finished to
this form it is ready for the glue room,
although it goes first to the warming room
where it is heated to a certain degree to
facilitate the action of the glue which takej
more kindly to the wood when it is warm.

The strips are built up on a long form.
Glue is applied and the pieces are sot end to
end, the lock joints sufficing to hold them in
position and in this way the entire column
is made, the stock fitting in snugly and
forming a firm, compact, rounded shape. To
I'm! her help the action of the glue the pieces

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HARDWOOD RECORD

left to stand until the glue is set, an opera-
tion which usually takes a day.

Fluting and Finishing.
At this stage the column is practically
made. If the plans call for fluting, however,
the work is carried to the turniug machine
and the long grooves or channels, called flut-
ing, are cut into the wood. No veneered
column, of course, can be fluted, that work
being done only on the solid stock where the
machine can bite into the wood to the depth
required. Nevertheless, it is desired at times'
to have chanelled or fluted work on columns
and pillars when the stock used is very val-
uable, such as mahogany, etc., and in these
cases two layers of wood go to make up the
column. One of these is the inside strip of
cheap filler and the outside is the layer of

FLUTED MAHOGANY COLUMNS IN LA

SALLE STREET STATION. CHICAGO,

BUILT BY THE HENRY SANDERS CO.

valuable wood put on to the thickness suf-
ficient to bear the fluting operation, that is,
one inch or two inches, or whatever depth
may be required. In making a column of.
this kj,rid, where -there are two thicknesses of
wood, the same method is followed as in the
plain, solid work, the coring being built up
and the outer thickness of wood being se-
curely glued to it. In this form the finished
column combines the rich appearance of the
valuable hardwood and the artistic effect
which the fluted work gives.
" After these ornamental forms are put on
it is given a thorough overhauling in the
finishing room, where it is sanded and rubbed
to a beautiful surface. The skill with which
the manufacturers of columns finish their
work has reached such a stage that only the
most minute inspection can discover where
the various strips of wood are joined and,
after varnishing or in some cases painting,
they seem to disappear altogether.

Mahogany and oak seem to hold first place
in the requirements of these expensive col-
umns, although, of late, the figure and fine
effects' obtained with red birch have caused

this wood to be specified more and more.
Gum also is finding some favor.
The Veneered Column.

It is chiefly in veneered work and in those
cases where an extra thickness of outside
wood is put on the coring for fluting that
the art of the column maker has reached its
highest point. This is to be expected, for the
wide choice of beautiful facings obtained in
valuable veneers and the certainty that the
columns, when finished in this way, are su-
perior in appearance and more durable in
construction than the solid style, has created
a demand for them that permits the manu-
facturer to exert himself to the utmost.

In sticking the veneer, and especially where
the outside measurements of the work are
large, the veneer faces are glued together by
means of narrow cloth or linen strips which
suffice to hold them in place until they are
fastened to the columns. One-twentieth and
one-sixteenth of an inch or slightly larger
are the thicknesses usually employed in the
work. It is the boast of column makers that
so carefully and accurately is the veneer
applied and glued to the coring that it is
practically impossible to discover the joints.
The selection of veneer stock for this kind of
work is made very carefully in order to
insure a uniformity of figure and color in the
finished work.

Capitals and Bases.

A column, of course, is not complete with-
out the capital and base, for these parts give
the symmetric beauty which makes column
work so desirable. The parts are always
manufactured and delivered separately from
the shaft for, in many cases, it is necessary
for the carpenters to shave off a small frac-
tion of an inch to obtain an accurate fit in
placing the column in position.

The square base or plinth is much in favor
and in large work throws the column into
bold relief. It is susceptible of variation
in the more imposing styles, consisting occa-
sionally of a surbase, an upper plinth and
the plinth, although always plain and never
decorated like the capital.

Much beautiful carved work is done on

the capitals of columns when they are de-
signed for expensive decoration in interiors,
the carving, in some cases, being done by
hand, and consisting of rare and curious
forms. In ordinary manufacture, however,
they are turned from patterns on the ma-
chine and are often a mixture of composi-
tion work and wood, the composition, or
cempo as it is called, being fastened to the
kind of wood out of which the column is
made, in order to have a uniform appear-
ance. In every part of .the column, in the
shaft, the base and plinth or pedestal and
the capital, care is taken to secure uniformity
in the woods employed.

The lumber used for column making must
be bone dry. All possibility of expansion
or shrinkage is guarded against, and when
the strips are built up into columns the
finished work is of the most durable type.

The beautiful figure obtained from valua-

CROSS-SECTION OF BUILT-UP COLUMN,

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ble woods has probably contributed more
than anything else to the high favor in
which they are held and the wide use made
of them in expensive decorations. Most im-
posing effects are obtained from large built-
up columns, and in their use the traditions
of the best architectural styles are main-
tained in a way that would be impracticable
in stone.

Philippine Jdethods of Drying
Hardwoods.

The methods of drying lumber employed
by the natives engaged in the hardwood
business in the islands of the southern Pa-
cific offer some curious instances of the
schemes undertaken to solve the difficulty
of green stock. There are several systems of
sun-drying. which are exceedingly tedious and
equally non-effective, the sawed timber be-
ing sometimes treated for weeks and even
months by subjecting it to the hot rays
of the sun, with no care whatever taken
to prevent warping.

The attempt at artificial drying with
kilns, however, is especially interesting.
In Fig. 1 is shown one of the kilns in
common use. It is made by digging a cir-

cular excavation about two feet in depth
and ten feet in diameter in the earth and
then sinking a number of hardwood posts
in the ground about two feet apart. These
posts are supported with hemp ropes and
sometimes entanglements of branches are
placed between them. The spaces between
the stakes are filled in with loam, sand and
small stones, and in building up the kiln
an aperture is obtained in the center of
the pile by employing a bee-hive shaped
cone as a mold. A clay-like substance is
securely packed around the cone, which
can be readily removed after the walls
are set, and a number of days are allowed
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and removing the inner mold. The re- •
moving of the mold requires the use of the
door in front and it thus becomes the
manhole for permanent use. A smoke stack
made of hollow bamboo is then inserted in
the top and is so protected by fire clay
that there is no danger of ignition.

Some of the tools and devices employed
in the construction and care of these crude
kilns are shown in the accompanying illus-
trations. Fig. 2 is a type of shovel made
entirely of hardwood. Fig. 3 is a form
of single-pointed tool made from a straight
hardwood stick, with a cross piece jointed
on as shown, and is used in setting the

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pieces of lumber in the drying chamber
of the kiln. iig. 4 shows one of the bam-
boo stands, not unlike a ladder in form,
consisting of two side pieces with rounds
passing through the strips, which is ar-
ranged on pins in the kiln and serves as
a support for the smaller pieces of hard-
woods which are in process of drying.

In Fig. 5 is illustrated a common error
seen in Filipino hardwood drying processes.
The average native does not use the neces-
sary precaution and does not stop to con-
sider the harm he is doing when he places

a valuable piece of timber across an in-
ferior support for drying. He will take a
clear piece of mahogany and lay it over
a support, as in Fig. 5, and permit it to
dry out in the settled condition shown.
In this way some valuable boards are ren-
dered useless and often considerable waste
of timber results from the shiftless methods
employed.

In treating hardwoods in kilns, the na-
tives often wind the ends of the logs with
cords, as shown in Fig. 6. This they ex-
plain is done for the purpose of keeping
the logs straight, and that with this pre-
caution the ends of the logs would not
be inclined to open and split in drying.

Although queer and oftentimes useless
but ingenious schemes of kiln drying are
used, the abundance of timber is ample
enough to overcome the reckless waste
thus occasioned. Often entire logs are dis-
carded because of some minor defect in
cutting or treating. In one instance
a group of natives were found dining
.on a magnificent rosewood log which had
been thrown aside because a part of it had
been hollowed out by insects for a nest.

The Filipinos build kilns for drying
hardwoods on many different plans. Fig.
7 explains the structure of the stone kiln,
which is composed of timber for a sup-
porting frame, as shown, with the interior
lined with fire clay. Considerable expe-
rience is required in putting in the fire
clay for, if an opening is left in the wall,
the woodwork takes fire and a number of
kilns are destroyed in this way. The tim-
bers are usually mahogany and, as a rule,
are heavy pieces, mortised at the corners
and pinned with large wooden pegs. When
these are in place the exterior is built witli
clay and stones, and home-made cements,
usually mud, are used to fill up the cracks
and form a bed into which the stones may
be fitted. The exterior surface is com-
posed of sand and mud liberally plastered
over the whole top, and when this coating
bakes hard, which it does in time, a re-
liable upper works is the result. The kiln
has the usual vent in the top. Another
style of kiln construction is shown in Fig.
8, which is a built-up arrangement of earth,

sod, pieces of roots, small stones, clay,
etc., over a framework of timber rails. The
interior of the kiln is molded out and
walled up with stones.

Fig. 9 shows a kiln made of the artifi-
cial stone of the tropics, which was intro-
duced by the Spanish more than a hun-

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dred years ago and used by them in the
construction of churches and government
buildings. The stones are molded in flasks
and then linked hard. In order to secure
the correct shape in the stones for making
a hardwood drying kiln, the flasks are par-
titioned off with cross pieces and the
stones are cast so as to fit into position
correctly in shaping the arch.

The Manufacture of Tops.

Hardwood tops vary widely in their work-
manship and quality. There are cheap tops
for the boys to play with and costly tops
of fine finish and novel design for adults.
In recent years there have been numerous
changes in the top and general toy manu-
facturing situation, some of the tops being
made especially for the use of sporting peo-
ple. This class of tops includes what is
known as the spur or "fighting" top. An-
other kind is called the musical top, because
its revolutions evolve a series of harmonious
tunes. Tops are made for ornamental pur-
poses and for purposes of display as well as
for actual use. The accompanying illustra-

tions refer chiefly to the manufacture of
the new style, high-grade top, for which
hardwoods are used. Some of these woods
include such lines of stock as boxwood, ebony,
etc., in addition to the usual solid woods.
Formerly the operations of top making in-
volved very simple processes of handiwork.
The artisan sat upon his bench and did a
great deal of whittling. He did not even
use the turning lathe. He employed sand-
paper and finishing contrivances and there
was not much decorative work. Now-a-days
considerable modern labor-saving machinery
is used in top-making.

The billets of wood are selected and sawed

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to dimensions suitable for convenient hand-
ling, as shown in figure 1. Then the sizes
of the pieces for the individual tops are
marked off by means of the try-square.
These pieces are turned down to the desired
cone-shaped size on a regular turning lathe,
instead of being chipped tediously by hand,
as in the past. The speed with which the
tops can be turned down on the lathe after
the pattern is once set is surprising. From
one to twenty tops can be turned at one time.
Quite a little mechanical draughting is neces-
sary in order to develop the defining lines
for the forms of modern hardwood tops. A
regular constructive sketch is now used,
draughting paper being often employed to
assist in defining the lines for the shaping
of the top. The squared paper is used in

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some shops, while in others the plain descrip-
tions are preferred. Bond paper about 20
by 30 inches, ruled or unruled, makes good
material. The surface of this paper is hard
and suitable for the wTork.

In developing a curve for the defining line
of the top a scale may be made, and the
pattern made by the oblong a, b to c, as in
figure 2. A compass is needed and some
wood scroll patterns to help make the curve.
The two ends are simple parabolic curves,
one of which is shown. The dimension lines
can be drawn with neutral color if desired,
in order to make a distinction. The elements
of the circle can be secured as in figure

4, and then can be applied to the form of
the top as on the line d, figure 3. The essen-
tial elements of the circle, figure 4, may be
classed as the circumference, the diameter,
the radius and the section. The chord, seg-
ment, quadrant, zone or tangent in the curved
sided top will hardly be needed. However,
it is well to have these elements in readiness
and charted off. In figure 5 the use of the
radius, the sine, the cosine, the tangent, the
cotangent, and the like may be required.
These lines may be defined as per the cut,
and it will be of assistance to construct an
instrument of the character presented in fig-
ure 6. This consists of a straight, even stick,
like a rule, about three feet long, quarter of
an inch thick and three inches wide. Then
construct a sheet brass circle describing the
form with a slot e. Fasten this to the rule
f with a pin. Then mark off the rule in sec-
tions, and using the pin as the pivot, the
circular piece can be swung to any desired
angle for the making of curves for tops in
connection with the circles previously men-
tioned. The proper circumferential pitch
can be obtained with these contrivances, as-
sisted by the common try-square, as in fig-
ure 7. The steel square is a very useful
tool in the designing department of the top
manufacturer. The fixed points on the plan
of the top as at g and h are secured. A
line can be drawn through the tangent line,
straight across, and define the tapering side
of one edge of the pattern by means of the
steel square. A variety of angles may be
struck, and each defined separately and
marked off for the final form of the top de-
sign. Some of the hardwood tops are grooved,
as illustrated in figure 8. Then some of them
are of the common cone shape, one of which
is demonstrated in figure 9. The top in fig-
ure 10 is known by the sporting element as
the fighting top. The contestants in the
game fix their tops with the metal balls and
the steel point. A number of tops are thrown
by the players, each trying to strike the tops
of the other contestants and split one of them
with the steel point of his heavy top. Then

there are tops with curved, snake-like necks,
as in figures 11 and 12. These styles of tops
are worked out mostly by hand.

The actual processes of hardwood top-
making include the diagraming of the plans,
as illustrated. Then the pieces of wood are
carefully turned down according to these
pen and ink diagrams. Then the steel

points are inserted, followed by the smooth-
ing and polishing of the tops. This is
done on the turning machines, while burnish-
ing devices are held against the revolving
surfaces. The cheaper tops are burnished in
revolving cylinders, by rolling a number of
them in fine emery.

In the School of Experience.

Proportions of Concrete.

The National Builder gives the following pro-
portions for concrete of varying strengths which
are supplied by a leading cement house :

One part Portland cement, 2 parts sand, 4
parts broken stone give the strongest concrete
made.

One part Portland cement, 2% parts sand, 5
parts broken stone give an exceedingly strong
concrete, suitable for foundations of sidewalks,
engine foundations, etc.

One part Portland cement, 3 parts sand, 6
parts broken stone offer an exceedingly strong
concrete, suitable for carrying a "sky-scraper."

One part Portland cement, 4 parts sand, 8
parts broken stone furnish a sufficiently strong
concrete for ordinary purposes.

One part Portland cement, 5 parts sand, 10
parts broken stone make a cheap concrete, strong-
er than concretes from common cements.
Laying and Nailing Floors.

The fact that the floors of buildings are
scarcely secondary in importance, as a feature

of strength, their being properly nailed becomes
a material matter for consideration. No one
who understands the science of construction will
undertake to question the value of floors in
buildings as a means of bracing and stiffening,
either in brick or frame constructions. And this
fact being admitted, the question of the best
method of laying and nailing them becomes im-
portant. Yet there is no portion of the work,
as a rule, more carelessly executed, except where
care becomes an obligatory and imperative neces-
sity in special eases. To lay floors properly they
should fill out snugly to the walls at all parts.
The more solidly this is done, the more complete
will be their bracing effect. Every piece of tim-
ber used in a building has a proportionate
strengthening value, and that value is increased
or diminished by the manner in which each piece
is applied and secured. Every single nail driven
is one part of the general strength obtained,
although one nail is very insignificant considered
in connection with the thousands used in a
building. One or two or a hundred may be
omitted, and apparently no harm will result;

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but still tlieir support and strength, whatever
that might be, is taken from the whole. This
is particularly applicable to the nailing of floors.
Each and every floor should not only fit snugly
at the walls, and the joints be driven up solidly,
but they should be nailed with two nails at
each and every nailing, driven from the face, or
"through nailed," and the nails set in with nail-
sets. This is the best method of nailing floors,
with a view to their solidity : and when so laid
and nailed the full strength of the flooring is
obtained, and their entire value secured, as a
principle of strength, as well as their utility.
This "through-nailing" proposition will, however,
be met with the argument that "it makes many
holes in the surface, and detracts from neat ap-
pearances in the face of the floors." But the
argument is valueless, except in ballroom, kitchen
and other similar floors, not intended to be cov-
ered by carpets, oilcloths, etc. No argument is
possible that through-nailing does not give great
er strength and solidity. These are fixed facts:
and if so. then the method of through-nailing is
the better in all cases where floors are covered,
as nail holes do no injury and are unseen when
covered up.

The "tongue," "blind," or "secret-nailing"
process was unknown in the boyhood days of
those who have lived a half century, and when
first adopted the nails were driven into every
timber, witli due regard to the angle nt which
they were driven, and the heads of the nails
were not bruised into the wood, but when suffi-
ciently driven by the hatchet or hammer to
touch wood a nail-set was used to complete the
driving, and many a journeyman received his

discharge, and boys were kicked for driving the
nails too far. and bruising the edge of the floor-
ing. Iiut of later days the nails are banged
into t lie wood, without any regard to the bruis-
ing of edges, and not much in reference to (lie
angle at which driven, although the proper slant
of the nail is of the highest importance. The
nearer possible perpendicular they are driven,
the greater the draw, and the more solid will
be the floors. But often they are forced in at
so flat an angle that many of them bolster up
the boards, and the result is a disagreeable,
creaking sound in walking over the floors, with
very little strength from the nailing. There
would be less objection to concealed nailing if
proper care were practiced. But it is a more
acceptable method to "floor-layers," as a greater
number of squares can be laid within working
hours: and if lliere is no one watching, and the
work is being done "piecework," it is an easy
matter for the workman to omit one-fourth or
one-third of the nails, and no one be the wiser
after the following board is driven up. The
labor of secret nailing is not more than one-
fourth that of driving two nails from the face
setting them in with nail sets. In wide floor-
ing, concealed nailing is by no means good, even
if carefully performed: and as far as strength
to the building from the floors and their solidity
are concerned, by two through or face nails in
each and every board at each nailing-place, it is
much more than doubly increased. As before
remarked, in uncovered floors the secret nailing
provides a more perfect face, and this is the
only recommendation for this system of nailing.
— American Mechanic:

'lie- Keys-Fannin Lumber Company of Ash-
land. Ky.. which extended its operations last
year by making a Large timber purchase and

building a saw mill en the Deep Water railr i.

has not yet commenced shipping from this stock,
but expects to be delivering lumber from its new
plant within a short time.

NeWs Miscellany.

Hardwood Affairs Along the Ohio River.

The hardwood continent at Pittsburg, which
is getting to be an important factor in both the
manufacturing and jobbing business, is ex-
tremely busy. Everyone is complaining of the
shortage of cars, especially on branch lines.

James Hamilton of the J. M. Hastings Lum-
ber Company has taken charge of the company's
hardwood sawmill operation in West Virginia
and is putting Iho enterprise into good shape.
The tract of timber owned by this company is
said to be one of the finest in that state.

The Kendall Lumber Company is extremely
busy at its Maryland mill and like few other
shipper? of the district is getting very good car
service and consequently making large ship-
ments.

I. F. Balsley. manager of the hardwood de-
partment of Willson Brothers Company, reports
an increased volume of hardwood business.

J. N. Wollett, general manager of the Amer-
ican Lumber & Manufacturing Company, says
that the hardwood business of his company has
more than quadrupled during the last twelve
months.

E. V. Babeoek & Co. at their Ashtola, Pa.,
plant are engaged in making shipment of 3.000,-
000 feet of cherry.

R. M. Smith & Brother of Parkersburg, large
operators in West Virginia hardwoods, report
their sawmills and planing mills running at full
capacity, and that they are having a very wide
distribution of their rough and dressed lumber
products.

As noted elsewhere, the Crescent Lumber Com-
pany of Marietta. O.. has arranged to extend its
operations, having Just purchased another very
large tract of poplar and oak in Wesl Virginia,
and will erect a new sawmill immediately.

D. G. Courtney, the veteran stave, tie and
lumber operator of Charleston, W. Va., is con-
stantly adding to his timber holdings and string
of sawmills, and this year will materially in-
crease his output of poplar, oak and chestnut.
Sales Manager G. G. Roberts of this concern is
having his troubles on account of the extraordi-

nary shortage of cars. He says he has use for
ten times the number he is able to secure.

The Giles Wright Lumber Company of Ash-
land. Ky., which recently purchased the Mahan
sawmill, is engaged in overhauling the structure
and Equipping the plant with new machinery.
This company has contracts for a full stock of
loss for the coming season.

The International Hardwood Company of Cat-
lettsburg, Ky., has its new flooring plant going
ir. fine shape. This mill is equipped with new
Berlin tools and the company is turning out a
high class oak flooring product which is finding
ready sale from Ohio to Massachusetts.

The Kenova Poplar Manufacturing Company
of Kenova. W. Va., producers of finish, siding
and molding, advises that its mill is fully sup-
plied with orders for some time to come.

W. II. Hawkins Lumber Company of Ashland
has contracted a full stock of logs which it will
manufacture as usual at Ironton, O., and expects
to be able to fully take care of its poplar trade
for the year to come.

Vansant. Kitchen & Co. of Ashland. Ky.. have
a stock of logs for their big mill in sight for
the coming season. This company has recently
purchased a large tract of poplar and oak timber
in Swain county. North Carolina, where it will
erect another mill.

The big sawmill and planing mill plant of
the Yellow Poplar Lumber Company of Coal
Grove, O., has a full stock of logs in the upper
rivers which it expects to manufacture the com-
ing season. This company's new mill at White-
wood, Buchanan county. Virginia, will be ready
for operation January 1. This is a single band
mill and is located on the company's branch
line. Its shipping point will be Doran, on the
Clinch valley division of the Norfolk & Western.
At this point the lumber will be yarded and a
planing mill erected.

M. A. Hayward. who recently retired from the
management of the Kenova Poplar Manufactur-
ing Company. Kenova, W. Va., has reentered the
jobbing trade at Columbus. O. This will be
pleasant news to his numerous friends who have
purchased lumber from him for so many years.

Uuaka Lumoer Company's Purchase.

The Unaka Lumber Company of Johnson City,
Tenn., has purchased 15,000,000 feet of hard-
woods on a tract about twenty miles from Co-
lumbia, S. C, on the Atlantic Coast Line rail-
road. The company is erecting a mill on the
property which will be equipped with every
modern appliance for manufacl uring hardwoods
and, it is expected, will be ready lor operation
about December 1. Headquarters will be opened
at Columbia about this time, but the Johnson
City offices will be continued for tin present, as
it will take at least two years \<> close up the
company's operations in eastern Tennessee.

The Unaka Lumber Company has mills in
Sullivan and Unicoi counties, Tennessee, and
is an extensive manufacturer of hardwoods. Its
officers are: U. S. Archer, president and general
manager ; T. L. Earnest, vice president, and E.
II. Miller, secretary and treasurer.

Ohio Trotters.
The handsome pair of mares shown in the
accompanying illustration are the property of
W. T. Schnaufer of the Crescent Lumber Com-
pany of Marietta, Ohio. The off one is an Alli-

W. T. SCHNAUFER, AND HIS HANDSOME
PAIR UP MARES.

wood and the near one a Red Wilkes. They
can trot to a pole in 2:45 and are the particular
hobby of their owner, who is a great lover of
line horses.

Canada's Commercial Growth.

The first quarter of the present financial
year of the Dominion of Canada dosed Sep-
tember 30, with a total aggregate foreign trade
of $150,435,000, being $26}774,479 more than for
tie' same period of 1905.

The imports, including coin and bullion, for
this period were $80,141,527, a wain of $12.14*.-
682. Exports of all kinds reached a total of
$70,293,473, an increase of $1 L625/797 as against
the first three months of th«' previous fiscal
year. Exports of domestie products were
$9,312,435 more, the total being $61,938,024. One
class of exports showed a falling off. viz.. fish-
eries, amounting to $3S0,OOO. The largest in-
crease in exports of domestic products was an-
imals and their produce. $3,214,332; lumber
came next with a gain of $3,125,346, and agri-
cultural products third with $2,515,621. The
total betterment in the classes of exports in
which #the farmers are mainly interested was
$5,729,953. Exports of manufactures were
$326,238 ahead of the first three months of
1905. The comparative statement of the value
of lumber exports for the firs! three months
of 1905 and 1906 is as follows L905, $11,176,-
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Annual National Veneer & Panel Manufac-
turers' Association.

The annual meeting of the National Veneer
& Panel Manufacturers' Association will be
held at the Auditorium hotel, Chicago, at 10
a. m. Tuesday. Dec. 11. There will undoubt-
edly be a large attendance, as the association,
though only about a year old. has grown rap-
idly, and the members are enthusiastic oyer
the work already accomplished. D. E. Kline
of Louisville, Ky.. is president; J. A. Under-
wood of Wausau, Wis., first vice president;
and E. H. Defebaugh of Louisville, Ky.. secre-

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Hot Log Pond.

In- response to numerous inquiries for details
"ii the arrangement of a hot log pond, the
attached plan is submitted. The Hardwood
Record is indebted to the M. Garland Company,
the well-known sawmill and power transmission
machinery manufacturing house of Bay City.
Mich., for the suggestion.

This type of pond is almost indispensable in
northern latitudes for storing logs in winter,
and Willi the steam shut off is equally con-
venient for summer use. The steam is supplied
from the exhaust pipe of the engine. As noted,
the four or five inch pipe is suspended from
eighteen to twenty-four inches below the water
line. At approximately every twenty-five feet

and red oak, poplar, hickory and other woods.
Early in the coming year active work will be
undertaken on the property, when a few miles
of standard gauge mad will be built and a mod-
ern band mill of 10.000 feet daily capacity will
ue erected. Veneer and dimension mills will
also be installed. For the present temporary
offices will be maintained at Zanesville, in charge
of S. Mills, Jr.

Semiannual Southern Cypress Manufac-
turers' Association.

The morning session of the semi-annual
meeting of the Southern Cypress Manufac-
turers' Association was called to order at 11
A. M., Nov. 14, in the office of that organiza-
tion. Hibernian Bank building, New Orleans,
President Frederic Wilbert in the chair, and
representatives of twenty-seven operations in
atti ndance.

The report of Secretary George E. Watson
showed that eleven new members have been
added to the roll since the annua] meeting in
May last, and that several applications are
now on file to be acted upon. The work of
the statistical and traffic departments was
covered thoroughly, showing those branches
to' be in excellent working order. Mr. Watson
also read the report of Treasurer George W.
Dodge, which showed a satisfactory financial
condition, and which was promptly adopted.

introduced into the terms of sale, authorizing
inspectors to adjust disputes between buyers
and sellers regarding grades, and requiring the
loser in such cases to pay the cost of adjust-
ment.

On November 15 the association members
were taken by special train to Lutcher, La., to
visit the plant of the Lutcher & Moore Cypress
Lumber Company; thence to Garyville to in-
spect the plant of the Lyon Cypress Lumber
i 'ompany.

A Progressive Road.

( if the 1,109,055 tons of freight carried by
the Detroit & Mackinac Railroad in 1906,
eleven per cent was lumber and forty-two per
cent forest products other than lumber — un-
sawed logs, pulp wood, etc. This road runs
from Bay City, Mich., north along the west
shore of Lake Huron, and thence northwest to
Cheboygan, 195 miles. There are 148 miles of
short branches, most of which were built to
open up timber lands. The great proportion
of the timber is hardwood and hemlock, as
from Presque Isle county northwest the road
taps the strip which runs north and south
through most of the lower peninsula of Michi-
gan.

During the year seventeen miles of new
branches were built and five miles of branches
taken up. Maintenance of way cost $200,400.
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a two-foot length of smaller pipe is extended
from it two or three feet into the pond. The
end pipe extending from the steam main should
be placed on an elbow, and when the engine
is shut down it should be turned up so as- to
avoid a vacuum ; or a valve can be placed in
the' exhaust 4)ipe near the engine and closed
when the engine is stopped.

The pond should be of a depth of Ave to six
feet and when expedient should be arranged
so that it may be drained occasionally, thus
permitting bark and other debris, which always
accumulate in the bottom of a log pond, to be
cleaned* out.

The drawing accompanying this article needs
very little explanation.

New West Virginia Company.

The Shenandoah Lumber Company has been
organized at I'arkersburg, YV. Ya., with a capi-
tal stock of $1,000,1 , of which amount $750,

000 has been paid in. The officers are: Presi-
dent. C. E. Bryan. I'arkersburg, W. Ya. ; vice
president and manager. S. Mills. Jr., Zanesville,
O. ; 'secretary and treasurer, G. W. McElfresh,
Caldwell. O. Mr. Bryan is superintendent of
the Ohio River divison of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad; Mr. Mills secretary and treasurer of
the Bradley-Mills Company, prominent lumber
wholesalers of Zanesville; and Mr. McElfresh
is a well known banker of Caldwell, O.

The company owns 23,000 acres of virgin
timber land i ontaining a rich growth of white

R. H. Downman. chairman of the transpor-
tation committee, reported the present status
of the car stake matter now before the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, and stated an
encouraging feature is the fact that several
local roads are at present making experiments
in a New Orleans yard with permanent stakes
for flat and gondola oars, and that so far the
equipment seems efficient and satisfactory.

The matter of rain allowance on lumber
shipments was taken up. it having been rum-
ored that certain roads had its discontinuance
in view. The railroad committee was author-
ized to consult with the Louisiana Railroad
Commission, and exert its influence for uniform
r-ain allowance on all railroads; also to secure
a decision from the commission requiring the
acceptance of shippers' weights at such points
as are not provided with track scales.

Dr. Herman von Schrenk, of the Forest Ser-
vice, addressed the association on the subject
of tupelo gum. its physical qualities and the
progress of his experiments with the wood.
His remarks were timely and authoritative and
based on knowledge gained by exhaustive
study and practical experience.
. Chairman Bruce, of the grading rules com-
mittee, opened the afternoon session with his
report, which showed that four inspectors have
been employed, who are now at work among
the mills. The committee was instructed to
station association inspectors in northern mar-
kets as soon as possible. A stipulation was

the company has straightened all dangerous
curves, renumbered all its bridges and culverts,
and filed their specifications in the chief engi-
neer's office — an indication that it is falling in
line with the higher standards of larger roads.

Death of Hon. Nathan B. Bradley.
Hon. Nathan B. Bradley, a pioneer Michigan
lumberman and long-time resident of Bay
City, died at his home Nov. S, after a week's
illness.

Mr. Bradley was born in Lee, Mass., May 28,
1831, and was of English descent. In 1849 he
went to Wisconsin, where he gained his first Ium-
ber experience. The following year he built a
sawmill in Ohio, where he operated until 1852,
and then entered the sawmill business in Mich-
igan, cutting and sawing timber previously
purchased. He later settled at St. Charles,
Saginaw county, and entered into a partner-
ship, the firm name being Frost & Bradley.
In 1858 Mr. Bradley moved to Bay City, where
he bought a sawmill and manufactured lum-
ber. Three years later the firm, known as N.
B. Bradley & Co., and later as N. B. Bradley
& Sons, added a salt manufacturing plant to
their operations. The concern manufactured
large quantities of pine and hemlock at Bay
City and Deer Park, Mich. Ross. Bradley &
Co. was organized to operate a yard and plan-
ing mill at West Bay City, and was succeeded
by Bradley, Miller & Co., which is one of the
largest and best known companies in the Sagi-
naw valley. The Bradley-Ramsay Lumber

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Company, of which Mr. N. B. Bradley was
principal stockholder, owned 60,000 acres of
timber and a large mill at Lake Charles, La.,
which they disposed of last spring. N. B.
Bradley & Sons are at present interested in
extensive timber holdings in Tennessee, and
are manufacturing hardwoods at Elizabethton.

Mr. Bradley had other business interests at
the time of his death, being a stockholder in
the Bradley-Miller Transportation Company, a
stockholder in the First National bank of Bay
City, and a director of the Michigan Sugar
Company.

By his death the lumber contingent of the
Northwest suffers the loss of one of its most
influential and energetic members, and Bay
City one of its most prominent and philan-
thropic citizens.

The editor of the Hardwood Record was an
employee of Mr. Bradley for several years,
and wishes to add his tribute to the deceased's
many sterling qualities.

Grubbing Walnut.
J. V. Hamilton of Fort Scott, Kas., furnishes
the Hardwood Record information concerning
walnut stumps which will be of interest to the
trade. He states that while to many people
stumps would seem almost useless as an article

The short wrinkled cross figure, commonly
known as "fiddle-back," is not prized so highly
as are the different forms of "blister," while
the most sought and valuable of all stump fig-
ures is the "roll curl."

Good walnut trees and stumps are about ex-
hausted east of the Mississippi, and the supply
farther west is diminishing rapidly. The deep-
grubbing method is desirable in clearing valuable
timber, both because its dispenses with the labor
of extracting the stump afterward and be-
cause it increases the amount of figured wood
obtained; it also prevents checking the butt
log, and there is no fracturing of the stump ;
neither is the body of the tree split back from
the top by the weight of heavy limbs rebounding
when striking the ground. The accompanying
pictures illustrate these points very clearly.

All Inexpensive Veneer Cutter.

A rotary veneer cutter has been designed by
the Coe Manufacturing Company of Painesville,
O., to meet the wants of a class of trade de-
manding a stiff and strong but cheap machine
suitable for basket, box and package manufac-
ture.

These machines will swing a log up to 4i
inches in diameter, and are built in five lengths
of knife, from 26 to 64 inches. They will cut

of •.ii" main knife, two sets of chucks, a clutch
drive pulley, complete set of feed gears to
cut from three-eighths inch down, one set of
scoring knives, knife tram, spindle tram,
wrenches, etc. The horsepower required to
drive these machines varies with the timber,
thickness of stock, and temperature of the
logs, but the maximum required for cold cut-
ting does not exceed fifteen horsepower.

A few of the representative users of these
machines are: The Success Fruit-Package Co.,
Success, Ark.; S. H. Parsons, Seaford, Del.;
Illinois Match Co., Joliet, 111.; F. Baumeister
& Son, Rockwood, Mich.; Geo. Blye, Central
Square, N. Y.; Geo. A. Courbat, Mallory,
N. Y.; Canisteo Woodenware Co., Canisteo,
X. Y.; N. A. Bagger, Rockport. O. ; Eben New-
ton, Wayland, '>.; Henry Prassee & Co., South
Euclid. 1 1 ; West Park Basket Co., West Park,
O. ; Fred Kenker, Cheviot, O.; Alexander
Bros., Jacksonville. Tex.; Geo. N. Dilley &
Son, Frankston, Tex.; J. G. Slover & Son,
Croft, Tex.; N. A. Slover. Dialsville, Tex.;
Sterling Veneer & Basket Co.. Williamstown,
W. Va.; Bright Box Co.. Bright, Wis.; Fritz
& Fry, Unity, Wis.; Wisconsin Chair Co.,
Port Washington, Wis.; T. Clayton Roberts,
Daphne, Ceylon.

Any one interested in this device will do well

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DEEP GRUBBING. SHOWING THE WAY THE EARTH IS RE-
MOVED IN UNCOVERING THE SPUR OR SIDE ROOTS.

SHALLOW GRUBBING, SHOWING THE WAY THE TAP ROOT
IS BROKEN BY THE WEIGHT OF THE TREE.

of commerce, they have a considerable value to
dealers in fancy figured wood for use as veneers.
Years ago the immense forests of the country
were interspersed with magnificent black walnut
timber which was put to little use, chiefly
owing to the scarcity of transportation facilities.
When the lumbermen finally entered the forests
to cut timbers, pests or rails, the largest, most
beautiful specimens of trees were selected and
hacked off from two to three feet above the
ground, leaving the stump entirely wasted and
the ground encumbered in such a manner as to
prevent the use of the plough.

As time passes and the call for cabinet woods
continues strong, lumbermen take notice of the
great stumps which are all that remain of the
abundant black walnut growth of the West, and
dig them up in various ways, hewing from
them blocks or billets, as many and as large
as the stump will furnish. From these billets
are made veneers for the face side of panels.
They are steamed and then cut into thin sheets
from a sixteenth to a hundredth of an inch
thick, by a saw or slicing machine. Sometimes
the whole stump is cut by the rotary process
into circular disks to be used in the same way.

Most large walnut trees show more or less
figure at the base, but when this figured portion
is less than twenty-eight inches in length its
value is greatly reduced. The form of the figure
has also much to do with the value of a piece.

perfect stock up to and including one-quarter
inch in thickness, in any length of knife, and
under some conditions will cut stock three-
eighths inch in thickness, although not origin-
ally designed for such heavy work. A great
many of them are in use cutting fine veneers
for the regular trade. The frame or bed is
cast in one piece and is very heavy and
strong. The spindles are 3% inches in diame-
ter, insuring ample strength. They are turned
from tough hammered steel and are long
enough to permit the handling of logs much
shorter than the extreme length of the knives.
These tools have all the labor-saving devices
to be found on the most expensive apparatus.
The dogging and undogging is done by the
power of the machine itself, also the rapid
handling of the knife bar in and out. The
pressure bar has adjustable plates and is ar-
ranged to carry scoring or scarfing knives;
the feed gears are all cut from the solid
and a Coe clutch is furnished. The material
used is the best; the castings are of the
finest quality of gray iron, but where the
greatest strains occur steel is used. All bear-
ings are babbitted and hand-scraped to perfect
fit. Each machine is shipped in one piece,
complete, and ready for the belt, and can be
furnished with impression rolls for dividing
the veneer to width as it comes from the ma-
chine, although the regular equipment consists

to write the Coe Manufacturing Company,
Painesville, O., requesting a copy of their cat-
alog No. 5. Cuts of this machine are shown in
the advertisement of this concern in the dis-
play columns of the Hardwood Record.

Purchase West Virginia Tract.

The Crescent Lumber Company of Marietta,
Ohio, has recently closed a deal with the Elk
River Coal & Lumber Company, of Clay, W.
Va., for a tract of 8,000 acres of timber land in
Clay County, W. Va., on Buffalo creek, com-
prising the watersheds of Wallow Hole creek.
Hickory Knob and Dog Run. This is said to
be a splendid tract of virgin forest and con-
tains some of the finest oak and poplar stand-
ing today, in addition to abundant ash, hem-
lock and hickory.

Operations will begin the first of the new
year. An up-to-date band mill will be erected
and a standard gauge railroad built into the
timber, equipped with modern logging loco-
motive, steam loaders and skidders. The Buf-
falo Creek & Gauley Railroad will be extended
to the property at once. The new plant will
be in full swing by June, 1907, and when it
is completed will be one of the largest hard-
wood operations in the state.

The Crescent Lumber Company is an ex-
tensive manufacturer and wholesaler of hard-
woods, and this purchase, with the band mill

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on Blue creek. W. Va., hemlock and oak mill
at Hosterman. W. Va., and two circular mills
on Coal river, W. Va., should give the com-
pany an ample supply of lumber for some
years to come and will naturally increase its
already large business. W. T. Schnaufer is
president and general manager and H. G.
Chamberlain secretary and treasurer of the
company; under their direction the business
has developed from a very small beginning
into one of the large and influential hard-
wood firms of the country.

Vehicle Stock Operation.
T. T. Green of Newport. Ark., has recently
begun operations in wood wagon material and
hardwood lumber, producing at that point a
considerable quantity of this material. Mr.
Green, who has had long experience in the
lumber business, has represented as traveling
buyer and inspector a number of the largest
wagon manufacturers throughout the country.
By reason of his practical experience in the
production of this material, as well as his
knowledge of the requirements of the trade,
he will undoubtedly attain a measure of suc-
cess not usually achieved by operators of saw-
mills. Mr. Green has been engaged in the
lumber business in Arkansas for the past ten
years and is well known to the trade.

1857-1907.
The Hardwood Record is in receipt of a very
neat little watch fob in blue enamel bearing the
monogram "AAA" in red letters, sent with the
compliments of E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc.. the
famous saw manufacturers of Indianapolis. This
company has enjoyed a prosperous existence
for nearly fifty years, having been organized
in 1857. They are celebrating by the use of a
gold seal on all correspondence, and have in
mind a pleasant anniversary surprise which
must not be publicly announced just yet, al-
though friends and patrons may bear in mind
that they have "something up their sleeve."

Hardwood Distillation.

In a report on the quantity of hardwood
distilled and of the products, the Forest Service.
basing its computation on figures for the year
1905, states that the three states. Michigan,
Pennsylvania and New York, are in the lead.
Of all the other states Missouri ranks first.
The report says that it may therefore be stated
that the hardwood distillation industry is prac-
tically confined to these four states. The sixty-
seven plants reported from these states 659,770
cords of hardwood, with a total value of
$1,967,806. The products were 26,370.033 bush-
els of charcoal, 5,062,076 gallons of alcohol, and
S6.6S5.129 pounds of acetate. There were also
677.489 gallons of tar and oil. but, as a matter
of fact, these figures relating to tar and oil do
not even approximate the actual amount, but,
instead, represent only the amount saved and
refined, owing to certain characteristics of the
tar obtained from hardwoods, which make it of
low commercial value, most of it is used for
fuel, either in carbonizing the wood or in refin-
ing the liquor, and when so used no record is
kept of the quantity produced.

Pennsylvania leads in the amount of charcoal
per cord, the results showing an average of S60
pounds, or 43 bushels. New York ranks sec-
ond, with 840 pounds, or 42 bushels. Michigan,
with but 680 pounds, or 34 bushels, is in strik-
ing contrast to the average production. In
number of gallons of alcohol produced per cord,
New York leads both Pennsylvania and Michi-
gan/with an average of 11.6 gallons, followed
closely by Pennsylvania, with an average of 9.6
gallons. The average for Michigan is but little
more than half of either of these states, namely,
4.8 gallons. This may be due to the fact that
in New York and Pennsylvania the wood is car-
bonized almost entirely in retorts, while in Mich-
igan the brick kiln with direct fire is generally
employed.

The Hardest Wood.

Cocus wood is said to be the hardest known
wood. It is used in the manufacture of flutes,
clarinets and other musical instruments. It
produces a rich and powerful tone. The desert
ironwood tree is also exceedingly hard. It has
a black heart so hard when well seasoned that
it will turn the edge of an axe, and even pre-
sents great resistance to a well-tempered saw.

J. N. Woodbury.

The Hardwood Record recently called atten-
tion briefly to the new connection formed with
E. B. Lombard by J. N. Woodbury. Mr. Wood-
bury is a valuable man to have associated with
any concern. He has practically spent his
life in the lumber business, beginning in 1SS5
with Thomas Jones of Union City, Ind., and
being buyer and inspector from 18S9 to 1893
for Litchfield Bros, of Boston. During a part
of 1893 and for some years afterwards he was
American representative for Theodore Franke
of Berlin. Germany, and then for several years

J. N. WOODBURY, OF CHICAGO.

sales manager for the Jefferson Sawmill Com-
pany of New Orleans. Later he went to St.
Louis, where he was manager of the lumber
department of the Ozark Cooperage Company.

Mr. Woodbury has secured good results in
every position he has occupied and his wide
acquaintance among the trade and intimate
knowledge of the details of the hardwood
business will make his services of high value
to the house with which he is now associated.

Miscellaneous Notes.

YV. J. Pwyer. II. A. Lage. J. A. Malmlund.
R. E. Cochrane and D. H. Scholl, all of Los
Angeles, Cal., are the directors in the new Co-
operative Hardwood Floor Company of Los An-
geles. The company is capitalized at $10,000,
of which amount $1,640 has been subscribed.

The new flooring mill which the Manistee
Planing Mill Company is erecting at its plant
at Manistee. Mich., is nearly completed, and the
company expects to begin the manufacture of
maple flooring on a large scale in a few weeks.
Twenty-five men will be employed at the outset.

The machinery, lumber and made-up stock of
the Akron Woodworking Company of Akron, O..
which concern was lately consolidated with the
Smith-Snyder Company of Sandusky, have been
shipped to the plant of the latter company and
with the addition of considerable new machinery
makes one of the finest woodworking factories
in Ohio. The industry will give employment
t.i 150 nun. and grille work, interior finish and
a fine line of bookcases will be manufactured.

The company will be capitalized at $150,000.

The work of clearing the site of the Gerber
& Strable plant at Reed City, Mich., which was
recently destroyed by fire, is well under way,
and the erection of the buildings for the new
Reed City Veneer & Lumber Company will begin
shortly. The company is capitalized at $50,000 ;
$25,000 has been paid in. $10,000 being sub-
scribed by Reed City business men. It is ex-
pected that the plant will be in running order
in about three months.

X. Paquette of Lachute, Canada, has pur-
< based live acres of land at Lyons, Ky., on which
will be established the plant of the Paquette
Dimension Stock Company. About fifty men will
be employed and a 150-horsepower boiler and a
100-horsepower engine will be installed in the
new factory, which will work up ash, hickory,
dogwood and persimmon.

Business men of Ladysmith, Wis., will give
ten acres of ground for the site of the new
lumber and veneer factory which will be located
there. The company will expend between $15,-
000 and $35,000 on its plant and give employ-
ment to seventy-five men. The company has
10,000,000 feet of standing timber in the vicin-
ity of Ladysmith. The .excellent railroad facili-
ties offered by the town promises to make the
new enterprise a profitable one.

The D. J. Murray Manufacturing Company is
rebuilding the Fred Cary sawmill near Mem
phis. Tenn., recently destroyed by fire.

The Spier & Dierkes Cabinet Manufacturing
Company has been incorporated at St. Louis,
Mo., with $10,000 capital stock, by Charles
Spier, Robert H. Dierkes and Anton Nothey.

The Muncic Wheel & Jobbing Company of
Muncie. Ind.. has just received 65,000 hickory
hubs and spokes from the Yokely Spoke & Han-
dle < 'ompany of Yokely, Tenn. This company
has still a number of large orders to fill for the
Muncie concern within the next few months.

The Topeka Casket & Furniture Company has
been incorporated with $30,000 capital stock to
manufacture caskets and furniture. A large
plant will be erected in North Topeka.

Reedcr & Sollars have recently started opera-
tions in their hardwood mill at Somerville,
Tenn. The factory has a capacity of 8,000 to
10,000 feet a day, and oak, gum and cypress
will be manufactured.

The Texas Tie & Lumber Company has been

incorporated at Houston, Tex., with $100,1

capital stock. The officers are W. G. Burcb-
lield. president ; H. M. Holleman, vice president,
and H. H. Hyde, secretary and treasurer. The
company will erect a modern mill at Corrigan
on the. Houston East & West Texas railroad.
The first work will be the delivery of a half
million ties, which are already sold under con-
tract. Enough timber has been secured to op-
erate the mill for the first year. The company
has secured a patent tiemaking machine which
has attracted considerable attention among the
lumbermen of the city. The mill is the creation
of President Burcufield. In addition to making
ties it will also be used in working up lumber
stripped from .the sides of the logs in making
the ties.

The Ahnapee Veneer & Seating Company. Al-
goma, Wis., recently filed an amendment to its
charter, increasing its capital stock from^ $35,000
to $100,000.

Axel W. Carlson and Gus W. Westbloom of
Ely, Minn., have purchased property at Supe-
rior, Wis., on which they will erect a boat
building plant. They already operate a .small
shop at Ely, but their business has outgrown
accommodations and the new factory is a neces-
sity. Canoes, rowboats and launch hulls will
be given especial attention, but boats of a more
substantial nature can be manufactured if re-
quired.

Williams Brothers Company of Cadillac,
Mich., is building an addition and installing
new machinery in the department devoted to
the manufacture of last blocks, ten pins and
billiard cues. Operations will of necessity be

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suspended for a couple of weeks, but work will
be resumed as soon as possible as tbe company
has a large number of orders on band.

Aderly & Edwards of Paris. Tex., recently
purchased several thousand acres of timber land
in the vicinity of Nashville. Teun.. covered with
oak. poplar and hickory growth. Arrangements
are under way for the erection of a mill on the
tract.

On November 12 fire destroyed the sawmill
of Hieronymous Bros, at Mobile, Ala., and
spread to the mill of the Mobile Hardwood Com-
pany, several blocks away, damaging buildings
and stock considerably. The combined loss is
estimated al $250,000.

Ili" l'cnn Shovel Manufacturing Company of
Warren, O., and the Hanna & Young Handle
Company of poplar Bluff, Mo., have been con-
solidated. The new company will be capital-
ized at $::.j<i.oihi. A large factorj for the mann
Cacture of handles will lie erected al Wan-en.

The manufacture of patented cabinets for

dentists and physicians ami sectional 1 kcases

will"be undertaken by the Bair Cabinet Com
pany, recently incorporated with $10,000 capital
stock, at l>«-s Moines, la. l>. W. Bair, pice
president of the company, is Hie originator of

the patent. The other officers of tin1 e panj

are: Dr. G. N. Ryan, president, and S. W.
Leonard, s icre ary and treasurer.

HardWood NeWs.

(By HAEDWOOD RECORD Special Correspondents.)

Chicago.

H. F. Clark of the hardwood tirm of Osborne
& Clark, Minneapolis, visited Chicago last week.

The vehicle wood stock interests met at the
Great Northern Hotel. Nov. 14 and 15, pri-
marily for the purpose of discussing the best
in. 1 hods of preserving what little timber remains
which is suitable to the making of wagon ma-
aterial. An attempt will be made to secure the
cooperation of the Forest Service in measures
to this end, and a committee was delegated to
register a protest with the Central Freight
\- ociation against the prospective increase in
freight rates.

Jesse Thompson of Leesburg, Intl., died at
the age of 87 years on Nov. S after a short
illness. Mr. Thompson was an esteemed and
long-time resident of Kosciusko county and was
the father of J. YV. Thompson, the prominent
lumberman of Memphis.

A. B. Klise of tbe A. B. Klise Lumber Com-
pany of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., was a Chicago
visitor last week.

W. D. Johnston, president of the American
Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Pittsburg,
l;i. was a Chicago visitor on the lGth and
paid the RECORD a welcome call. Mr. Johnston
was on \n> way home after an extended trip
through the northwestern states.

G. M. Payne, special agent for the Manufac-
turing Lumbermen's Underwriters of Kansas
City, Mo., was a caller at the Record office last
week. Mr. Payne reports a steadily increasing
demand for high-class lumber insurance, and
states that a large amount of business has been
transacted by his company during the past year,
with prospects excellent for 1007.

S. G. McClellan of the Simmons Lumber
Company, Simmons, Mich., was a recent visitor
to Chicago.

James C. Cowen of Schultz- Bros. & Cowen
was contined to his home last week with a
bad cold. He is now again at his desk attack-
ing the accumulated work with his customary
energy.

Carl A. Luster, president and treasurer of
the Clyde Iron Works, Duluth, Minn., manufac-
turers of the ^McGiffert log loader, was in town
last week.

\V. A. I 'avis, hardwood wholesaler of the Mar-
quette Building, left last Tuesday for a trip
through Indiana. He finds business keeping up
well.

E. J. Schlosser, representative of the G. W.
Jones Lumber Company at Forrest City, Ark., has
been ill for some time and bis work is being
attended to by Charles Gordon. G. W. Jones
spent some days in Chicago last week on his
way home from Arkansas. He reports that dur-
ing his stay there were five inches of rain in
the eastern part of that state.

The Southern Oak Lumber Company sees no
reason why tbe price of oak should not con-
tinue to advance. In the present state of affairs
it is impossible to obtain sufficient stock to
meet the demand.

F. J. Heidler of the Fink-Heidler Company
has been visiting points in Kentucky and Ten-
nessee during the past week. He is expected
home in a few days.

Kelley, Maus & Co. are rushed with orders.

Pros] ts lor business during the next few

months are very bright. They are confronted
witli the usual shortage of stock at this season
of the year.

Conditions in the sash, door and blind busi-
ness of John A. Gauger & Co. have been excep-
tionally good during the last few months. In
1 he event of an open winter, it is expected
Unit the prosperous situation will continue,
otherwise there will be the usual slacking off
in the trade.

The Worden Lumber Company of Bundy, Wis.,
announces that on December 1, 1006, its name
will lie changed to the Bundy Lumber Company,
the officers and policy remaining the same.

The following resolutions were passed at a
recent meeting of the Chicago Hardwood Lum- '
ber Exchange :

The members of the Chicago Hardwood Lum-
ber Exchange mourn the loss of Charles D.
Strode, whose deaih occurred (ictober 27. I'.mm;.

Mr. Strode has been one of our strongest sup-
porters through tbe medium of his connection
with tbe lumber trade press and in his official
capacity when secretary of the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association.

In the death of Mr. Strode each member of
this exchange loses a warm personal friend. His
life was lull of kindly actions and charitable
thoughts for bis fellow man, and his gentle
humor lias left an impress on the minds of all.
Therefore, be it

Resolved, That we, the Chicago Hardwood
Lumber Exchange, in meeting assembled on this
Saturday, November 3, 1906, do express our
deepest and sincerest sympathy to his bereaved
family ; and be it further

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be
furnished the lumber trade papers, and that a
copy, properly engrossed, be conveyed to his
family.

Tiieo. Fathauer. President.

C. V. Kimball, Secretary.

Leopold Mayer Iiinkol, who has been spending
a year in the Untied Siales studying American
methods in the interest of his tirm. Dreyfus &
Mayer Iiinkel of Mannheim, Germany, will sail
for Europe within a few days. The Hardwood
RECORD unites with the many friends he lias
made during his stay in the LInited States in
wishing Mr. Mayer-Dinkel "bon voyage."

Sam E. Hair, hardwood wholesaler of the
1'laliron building, New York City, forwards the

H.vitnw > Record a paper named parchment

diaphragm with his business card printed there-
on. Mr. Ban- explains that this attachment is
intended i" !»■ placed on the mouthpiece of a
telephone. Its utility is not entirely clear. Inn
possibly it is 10 prevent any fumes from nigh
halls reaching the other end of the line. As no
one in this office uses intoxicants, the gift of
Mr. Parr will be carefully husbanded until such
ii as a caller arrives from Oshkosh or Mem-
phis who may make use of the appliance.

The Record acknowledges receipt from Lewis
Doster, secretary of the Hardwood Manufactur-
ers' Association of the United States, of several

copies of his booklet containing the classifica-
tion, official grading and inspection rules of his
.1 ociation, collected Up 1,, October, L906. Mr.
Doster advises that any manufacturer, jobber or
consumer of hardwoods will be supplied with a
copy on application.

Ceo. w. Hbtchkiss' Director] of the Recog
nized Dealers in Lumber ami Masons' Supplies
of ihe state ot Illinois tor L006 has been re-
ceived til this office.

II. P.. l.eaviit of the Leavitl Lumber Company
has just returned from a trip to his Arkan
.plant.

The Page ,\- Lauded; Lumber Company of Mil
waukee, Wis., has .hanged iis name to the Keith

& Ililes Lumber Company. I'h fleers tire:

X. It. Keith, president : William Landed;, vice
president, ami G. J. Landed,, secretary and
treasurer. The company, manufactures Wiscon-
sin. Indiana and Tennessee hardwoodi exten-
sively.

Boston.

William E. Litchfield is making a trip to his
lumber interests in Pennsylvania.

The lumber dealers of Providence, R. 1., are
very uneasy over the large number of incen-
diary fires of late. They have offered a
reward of $2,000 for the arrest and conviction of
the firebug, and have placed additional watch-
men on their premises. Fire in the yard of
Burrowes & Kenyon recently caused a loss of
about $15,000. The yards of William II. Har-
ris, lumber dealer, were also damaged slightly a
short time ago.

M. E. Thomas of the Mitchell Bros. Company,
Cadillac, Midi., has been visiting the eastern
representative of this company, the Boston Lum-
ber Company. Mr. Thomas was accompanied by
Mr. -Mitchell, sou of W. W. Mitchell.

The engagement of Robert W. Leatherbee, sou
of Charles W. Leatherbee, to Miss Crane of Chi-
cago has been announced. Mr. Leatherbee has
charge of the yard of the C. W. Leatherbee
Lumber Company.

At tbe annual meeting of tbe Cook Lumber
Company, Laconia, N. II., F. P. Cook was elec ted
president and L- F. Thurber treasurer.

The Universal Wood Manufacturing Company
has been organized in Hartford, Conn. The pro-
moters are Frank M. Brown of Shelby, Mo. ;
W. II. Cockran of Pittsburg and Allen w. Pence
of Grafton, l'a.

The Maiden City Lumber Company, whose
yards and sheds were recently totally destroyed
by lire, have made arrangements whereby it is
able to conduct business and fill all orders with
a good degree of promptness.

New York.

The committee on arrangements for the
annual meeting of the National Hardwood
Lumber Association, which will be held 11
Atlantic city. N. .1.. in May next, held a meet
ing on November 14 to perfect plans and appoint
committees tor the work involved, 'there was

:i g 1 alien, lance at the meeting, and after a

full discussion of Hie object of tie n ting

committees on hotel arrangements, transports
tion, etc., were appointed and will immediately
start in perfecting arrangements. Tbe work
of the committee was largely preliminary and
it will be several days before the arrangement
art finally mapped out.

The state canals have been ordered closed on
November 28 and as usual there is a big rush
on ihe part of local wholesale shippers to get
through their shipments before that time.

Theodore A. Guillnudeau, manager Of the sales
department of the well-known saw manufactur-
ing firm of Joshua Oldham & Sons, Brooklyn,
was married at Norfolk, Va., on November 9. to
Miss Elsie Williams. After an extended honey-
moon to the Pacific coast they will reside in
Brooklyn.

I he next annual banquet of the New 1 oil;
Lumber Trade Association, which will be held
on January 22. 1907, in the grand ball room of

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the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, bids fair to be a
great success. Applications for over three hun-
dred tickets are already in the hands of the
secretary. This year the wives and sweethearts
of the members and guesls will be present and
view the evening's proceedings from the sixty
odd boxes which surround [be ball room. There
will be no speeches, but a high-class vaudevil'e
performance will provide the after-dinner fea-
tures.

The furniture and cabinet works of L. Zodi-
kow, 334 Stanton street. Manhattan, was dam-
aged by fire last week, entailing a loss of
$10,000 covered by insurance.

A. P. Bigelow & Co., at the foot of East 53d
street, have purchased the lease of the yard pre-
viously conducted by F. P.. Whitney & Co.. at
West 54th and Doth streets, to which place
they will remove between now and the first of
the year. This is one of the best appointed
yards in the district.

H. O'Neill & Son, large sash and trim manu-
facturers, 137th street and Rider avenue, is
erecting a fine new up-to-date plant at Walton
avenue and Cheever place, just west of his
present plant, to which he will remove about
January 1. The new building is of brick and
its equipment will be modern in every reaped
Mr. O'Neill has likewise purchased a large block
ol ground adjoining on which he will arrange
his lumber yard.

Among the recent visitors was I!. C. Currie,
Jr., manager of the Philadelphia office of It. M.
Smith & Co. of Tarkersburg, W. Va. Mr. Currie
expressed himself optimistically as to current
and prospective hardwood conditions.

I!. W. Iligbie. 4.". Broadway, is visiting his
hardwood operations at Newton Falls in the
Adirondacks. Everything is running finely at
the new plant and Mr. Higbie is accumulating
some very choice stocks for later shipments.

The Ross Lumber Company, with a large
hardwood yard at 317 West 115th street. Man
hattan, and main office and yard at Jamestown,
N. T., has incorporated under the same style,
increasing its capital to $250,000. Warren Ross
is president and treasurer and C. E. Ross, vice-
president and secretary. The additional capital
is- to be used in extending the business. For
years this company has been known as cherry
specialists and has been one of the leading
eastern hardwood houses.

Philadelphia.

Jenkins & Henvis, lumber and millwork. office
and yard 2600-2700 South Fifth street, is a
new firm recently formed, and is composed
of John Jenkins and Bayard M. Henvis, who
succeeded Kolb Bros., by whom they were for-
merly employed as office and yard manager
respectively. Edward C. Kolb. who traded as
Kolb Bros., has gone out of the retail lumber
business and will take up manufacturing in
Virginia.

As a result of the burning of the big sawmill
plant of Hieronymous Bros., Mobile, Ala., Lewis
Thompson & Co., Inc., of this city, extensive
hardwood dealers, lost between $5,000 and
$0,000 worth of cypress timber stored in the
Mobile Hardwood Company's plant, which, al-
though a number of blocks away, was ignited.
The yards containing other more valuable tim-
ber of theirs escaped. The fire loss is fully cov-
ered by insurance.

Miller & Miller, on the alert for future pros-
pects of the hardwood market, have recently
purchased a tract of timber land in Charles
county, Maryland, estimated to contain 6,000,000
feet of oak, chestnut and poplar.

R. A. k J. A. Williams are preparing to
Incorporate under Pennsylvania laws which will
take effect January5 1. This is one of the
oldest if not the oldest lumber concern in this
country, and has always been retained in the
Williams family, which now for the first time
will change it from a firm to a chartered com-
pany. The Williams business has a remarkably
clean record from its inception. Samuel Will-

iams, who established the business, was born in
St. Austell. Cornwall, England, in 172P. and
came to Philadelphia in 17.'J3. He commenced
business for himself in 1751 under the unique
sign of Cradle & Coffin, Samuel Williams, Joiner.
The woods used in those days were principally
walnut, oak and mahogany : the logs were all
hauled to the city in wagons and sawed by hand.
Clement N. Williams is now sole proprietor.

Eli B. Ilallowell & Co. report trade good.
They appreciate the condition of the hardwood
market and may enlarge their department in this
line accordingly.

Captain Frederick A. Churchman, extensively
engaged in the lumber business, died in this city,
Nov. 12. He supplied the lumber for the
main building of the Centennial Exposition and
for the first American liners. For the last
twenty-five years he was in the towboat busi-
ness, and was president of the Towboat Owners'
Association. He was also president of the Na-
tional Board of Steam Navigation at one time,
and a member of the Maritime Exchange.

The Rumbarger Lumber Company reports busi-
ness very g 1 in all branches, and if the car

service at the mill districts were only better
"nothing more could be desired at the present
time. The company entertained a pleasant vis-
itor in J. E. Caldwell of Pulaski, Va.

A new competitor has entered the field in
the shape of the Blue Ridge Lumber Company
nf Millersburg, Pa. It obtained a Pennsylvania
charter on Oct. 30 with an authorized capital
of $10,000. The incorporators, who are also
directors, are W. H. Lyter. Liverpool, Ohio;
F. L. Landon, treasurer, C. H. Suively and
II. M. Blair, all of Millersburg. Pa.

At Union City, Pa., on Nov. 4. the entire
plant of the Standard Chair Company was de-
stroyed by fire which originated in the engine
room. Two hundred men will be deprived of
work in consequence. The loss is estimated at
$100,000.

Geo. M. Spiegle & Co. report business in
every department active. The export trade is
doing nicely and the outlook for the near future
is bright. Their mill in Newport, Tenn.. is
active, but they still have the unsatisfactory
car service to contend with.
- The Philadelphia Veneer & Lumber Company
is fully occupied supplying demands made. It
reports business in excellent condition. The
company is to be congratulated in having two
railroads running near its mill in Knoxville,
Tenn., thereby securing better car service. The
only difficulty experienced is to obtain cars to
haul logs to the mill. Francis Goodhue, Jr.,
of this concern has just returned from a trip
through the state, is pleased with the results
and reports the outlook favorable.

Vicegerent J. II. Sheip of the eastern district
of Pennsylvania announces a big concatenation
for November 24. The concatenation will be
held at 6 :30 p. m. in the Trades League room,
Bourse Building, Philadelphia, and will be fol-
lowed by a dinner and entertainment. This
meeting is held with particular reference to the
participation of Pennsylvania Hoo-Hoo in the
annual meeting at Atlantic City next Septem-
ber. Vicegerent Sheip writes that he expects to
have a large class for initiation.

Baltimore.
At the last monthly meeting of the managing
committee of the Baltimore Lumber Exchange,
Theodore Mottu of Theodore Mottu & Co., for
years secretary of the exchange, handed in his
resignation and insisted that it be accepted.
He stated that it had been his intention for
some time past to relinquish the office and that
such a step had become imperative, since he can
no longer give the time to the discharge of the
duties of secretary which they require1. The
committee reluctantly decided to look around
foi a successor. The sentiment in favor of
securing a permanent secretary who shall give
all of his time to the work and get a fixed
salary is on the increase and it is altogether

likely that such a solution of the problem will
be adopted. The name of Paul Coriell, now
secretary of the Baltimore Retail Lumber Deal-
ers' Association, is being mentioned in this con-
nection, and it is not unlikely that he will be
chosen. John L. Alcock of J. L. Alcock & Co.;
Maurice Wiley of the Wiley-Harker-Camp Com-
pany, and George Schumacher were appointed a
committee to nominate officers to be voted for
at the annual meeting of the exchange, which
will take place December 3, and were instructed
to have the slate ready by last Saturday. They
have named the following ticket : President.
William M. Burgan, the incumbent; vice-
president, E. T. Gill of W. D. Gill & Son ;
treasurer. Luther II. Gwatney, American Lum-
ber Company ; managing committee, John A.
Berryman, Norman James, Richard W. Trice,
Theodore Mottu, Lewis Dill. Ridgaway Merry-
man, E. P. Gill, Daniel MacLea. George, E.
Waters, J. Edward Duker, George H. Poehlman
and Maurice W. Wiley. Various routine matters
were also discussed at the meeting of the
managing committee, among them hardwood
inspection, but no definite conclusion was
reached on this point. The National association
rules are being observed in the main and there
is no doubt that they will finally receive the
full sanction of the exchange.

The boiler of the sawmill of D. P. Miller, on
Negro mountain, near Elk Lick and the Garrett
county border, in Maryland, exploded last Sat-
urday, and the mill was badly wrecked.

The Ltenison Lumber Company of Hagerstown,
Md., is to be formed there with a capital of
$25,000. J. A. Denison, now with the Robert
H. Jenks Lumber Company of Cleveland, O., is
to be the president and treasurer of the new
company, and the latter will do a general whole-
sale business, having its principal office at
Hagerstown.

Lewis Dill, the president of the National
Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, has been
spending ten days or two weeks in Maine with
triends engaged in moose hunting.

Thomas Hughes, of the firm of Carter, Hughes
& Co., Union Dock, has been on a trip of about
fen days through parts of Virginia visiting mills
and placing orders for stocks wherever an oppor-
tunity presented itself.

Preparations are being made for the next
annual meeting of the National Lumber Export-
ers' Association, which is to be held at Norfolk,
Va., January 23. A large attendance from Bal-
timore is expected, and various questions of
interest to the exporters will be discussed.
Among them is the shortage of railroad cars,
which is causing great embarrassment to the
trade.

Owing to the uncertainty as to the future of
the lot on which its big plant is located, the
I'ilippe A. Broadbent Mantel Company of this
city is held up in its preparations to equip the
entire factory with electric motors. The lower
floor is now operated in this manner, and the
company was ready to give out orders for about
$20,000 worth of additional machinery, but as
the factory building, at President and Aliceanna
streets, is on ground that may be taken by the
city for a pumping station in connection with
the sewerage system, the contemplated improve-
ment halts.

Much embarrassment is being also caused to
other local firms by reason of the progress of
the wharf improvement which will make it
necessary for a number of firms to vacate their
present yards. Just where to find space suitable
fur the lumber business is a serious problem,
there being no vacant lots anywhere along the
inner harbor. Of course, plenty of room can be
found down the river while some property might
be obtained on the south side of the basin, but
the haul from there would be so long as to
seriously handicap any dealers who located there.

Gustav Joseph, who represents the Bahr-
Behrend Lumber Company of Liverpool, Eng-
land, was in Baltimore last Monday and called
on several firms.

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Pittsburg.

Five million feet of hardw 1 and hemlock a

month is the speed which the Hancock Lumber
Company is maintaining at its plants at Ashtola
and Arrow, Pa., this Fall. They are located in
Somerset county and a large part of the lumber
goes to the eastern market.

The L. L. Satler I. timber Company, which
last July bought the properties of the Black-
stone Lumber Company at Blackstone. Va., in-
cluding 9,000 acres of timber, mills, houses.
st. his and railroads, has recently purchased a
one-third interest in the Blackstone Lumber &
Manufacturing Company. The company is now
installing a box shook factory with a capacity
of 100,000 feet a day. It will be electrically
equipped and the lumber will enter the mill and
come out as box shook without touching the
ground. A dry kiln will also be installed.

Frank M. Graham is filling an order for ,9,000
railroad ties of red. pin and black oak. and to
be cut in West Virginia. lie notes a little fall-
ing off in the call for railroad ties, and says
that good sawed oak ties are very hard to get.
oak bill stuff is in excellent demand with his
customers and inquiries are turned down daily.

William Whitmer & Sons, Inc., are having
"troubles of their own." At Ilorton. W. Va.,
where they have ample facilities for loading
fifteen cars of lumber a day, they consider them-
selves fortunate to get two cars. At Dobbin,
W. Va., where twenty cars a day is an average
output, they have not received any cars for
several days. Manager W. P. Craig estimates
1 hat the company has nearly 600 cars of lumber
stalled in West Virginia because of car shortage.

J. R. Edgett, president of the Interior Lum-
ber Company, got back to the city last week
after an all-summer's absence. Down at Oneida,
Tenn., the Interior is turning out hardwood at
a faster rate than ever before and is making a
fine showing in the Pittsburg trade.

Some relief is promised Pittsburg wholesalers
next year in the matter of car shortage from
the fact that the Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal
Railroad Company has announced its intention"
of putting on several thousand more cars, chiefly
on its lines in West Virginia and western Penn-
sylvania. As this is the territory where the
coal and coke shipments play such havoc with
the lumbermen, it should help matters consider-
ably. It is needless to say that if the Wabash
"makes good" it will mighty soon get the lum-
ber trade of West Virginia.

The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company is push-
ing operations at its new mill at Jacksonville,
W. Va., where it has 30,000,000 feet of oak.
Mr. Hastings has spent most of his time here
the past two months, having left the big opera-
tion of the Davison Lumber Company in Nova
Scotia. Canada, in the hands of competent lum-
bermen.

William M. Townall has secured a Pennsyl-
vania charter for the Colonial Lumber Company,
which has located at 611 Ferguson building. It
lias a capital of $10,000 and will handle the
output iif the Beulah Lumber Company at Beu-
lah. W. Va. This consists of oak. hemlock,
hardwoods and lath and shingles. Mr. Pownall
1^ a member of the New York Lumber Trade
Association and has some excellent eastern con-
nections.

II. E. Aust has started in business in the
Arrott building under the title of tin- Randolph
Lumber Company. He was formerly a West
Virginia buyer for William Whitmer & Sons,
Inc.

The W. M. Gillespie Lumber Company has
secured C. P. Rook as its hardwood manager,
lie was formerly with the Licking River Lum-
ber Company at Farmers, Ky. "Billy" Gillespie
has been off his feet a few days with sickness
and is taking a much needed pleasure trip to
recuperate.

H. Murphy, the well-known head of the H.
Murphy Mill & Lumber Company, has embarked
in business again in the Farmers' Bank building

under the title of the Alabama Hardwood Luin-

ber Company. This c tern has a big operation

under way aear Mobile, Ala. and expects to be
a strong factor in tin' southern hardwood trail-'.
It has also taken over the New Kensington
Lumber Company, whose plant at New Kensing-
ton has been dismantled as well as its offices in
tin' Washington National Bank building In Pitts
burg.

The Willson Brothers Company is cutting
41). tutu feet of lumber a day at its mills at Con-
way, N. C, and the Major & Loomis Lumber
Company, in which it is heavily Interested, is
getting mil :i like amount at Hartford. N. C.
Its transactions the past month show a lively
toiii' in tin' market for southern woods.

J. E. Mellvain iV Co. announces that business
is "extra g I" This applies to their special-
ties on hardwood, oak mini' stocks, bridge tint
litis and street car railroad and street railway
ties. The firm is also having a big call for oak
for mill trestle work.

Secretary J. II. Henderson of the Kendall
Lumber Company reports that their plants at
Kendall and Crellin, Md., are turning out a
splendid lot of hardwood and 'bid fair to make
October the banner month of the year.

The Cherry River Boom >.v- Lumber Company
is concentrating its business at Scranton. Pa.,
under 1 In' management of F. A. Kurby. The
Philadelphia ofhee will hereafter be only a
branch establishment.

The new three-story brick plant of M. Simen's
Sims, in Anderson street, Allegheny, is one of
the finest in western Pennsylvania. The com-
pany is now installing its planing mill machin-
ery and will have a capacity of more than
double that of its old plant on the same site
which burned two years ago.

The Germain Company, under the manage-
ment of Louis Germain, is building up a fine
clientele for a young firm. No lumber company
in the city has made more rapid strides in get-
ting trade of the right kind than this concern,
which is located in the new Fulton building.

The James I. M. Wilson Company say that
oak is much the firmest hardwood in the mar-
ket. The company is furnishing the maple
Hi eiiirjg for the twenty-story Union Bank build-
ing.

The Reliance Lumber Company is getting a
line lot of lumber this Fall from West Virginia
mills under contract and is shipping much of it
to the lake ports.

"Southwestern hardwoods are fast coming up
to the point of being leaders in our trade," said
J. N. Woollen, general manager of the American
Lumber i: Manufacturing Company. Mr. Wool-
let t's large purchases of timber and lumber in
Arkansas. Louisiana and the Indian Territory,
besides the stocks acquired last summer in Ten-
nessee, have put the American in position to
gel anything that comes along in the hardwood
business.

Buffalo.

.1. F. Knox ol Beyer, Knox & Co. is making
an extended trip through the middle west look-
ing after oak and other hardwood lumber.

u. 1: Yeager lias lately been on a trip south
of the uhio and set a large amount of oak and
poplar coming this way.

The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is
taking on additional office space, so that when
M. M. Wall returns from Mt. Clemens he will
have :i verj commodious private office. Yard
trade is fine.

The receipts of oak and other southern hard-
woods at the yard of A. Miller are heavy, but

it is not easy to keep a g 1 assortment of it,

as the demand is very active.

The yard of T. Sullivan & Co. is to be ex-
tended to Niagara street, thus providing space
for a much larger stock of lumber. So much
birch and ash is being received by lake that
more room had to be taken.

The mill trade of G. Elias & Bro. is taking
much of the time of the firm, as there are a

great many builders trying bard to enclose their
buildings before cold weather.

\. W. Kreinhi'der is lia.k from his trip to

Kentucky and Tenness 1 Col Standard Hard

w 1 Lumber Company. lb- secured large sup

plies of oak and poplar.

F. W. Vetter, win. lately returned from a
short trip to the North far.. linn timber holdings
of the Empire Lumber Company, has had a
slight attack of grip.

It is for I. N. Stewart >v Bro. to reporl almost

alone that they have up to ibis time never I n

out of an assortment of chestnut. II. A. Stew-
art is south again for more of the same lum-
ber, besides eherrj and oak.

The Hugh McLean Lumber Company has not

yet filled tl Bice of vice president, mad' vo

cant by the retirement of W. A. McLean. The
withdrawal of the Louisville mill will make no
difference in the amount of oak lumber that
ihe company will handle.

At its meeting of November 3 the Buffalo
Hardwood Lumber Exchange passed resolutions
on the death of Charles D. Strode, which ...-
curred recently in Chicago.

Saginaw Valley.

Conditions in the hardwood trade are improv-
ing. During the early (.art .-f th. season maple
lumber particularly tagged owing to a somewhat
light demand and the large qnanties placed
upon the market. Bui during tin- last thirty
days not only has maple developed better form,
but there has been a better demand and a slight
advance in most other hardwoods. The output

of ash has not 1 11 large the last three or four

years and that c modity has been firm, and all

that was manufactured placed in the hands of
customers without trouble and at good prices.
Beech and basswood are higher. The former is
used foi- pulleys, screen doors and windows, and
quite a lot of it goes Into flooring. It takes a
good polish, wears smoothly and makes desir-
able flooring. Beech culls are utilized in the
manufacture of box material, and the Kneeland.
Buell & Bigelow Company have a contract for
their entire output for five years, which goes
to a boxmaking firm in Hay City. Basswood
culls are also used largely in boxmaking. and
tiny have sold for sir, 1,, sn; a thousand. Large
quantities of basswood an- used in tin- manu-
facture of wooden ware, and the Bouseti.-bl
Woodenware Works take a number of million
feet of basswood every year from the concerns
in which Frank Buell is interested, they cutting
the logs and shipping them by rail to the la.
tory. Bousefield & Co. also operate quite ex
tensively on their own account.

This season some large contracts have been
taken by local concerns fur maple timbers for
bridge and other railroad work. The II. M
1. 1. ud's Sons Company has also disposed of a
number of million feet of maple for harbor im
provement work. The flooring output is moving
a little inure briskly. W. D. Young states that
business is good and his plant is running day
and night. He is spending a week at the log-
gihg camps of the tirm in tin- northern pari of
tin- lower peninsula. The stock comes to the
mill by rail. The eapacitj ol the plant has
been increased by the installing of a Garland
resaw and other Improvements. The firm is
manufacturing about 20,000,000 feet of lumber
the current year and is calculating an active
wint.-r in the woods. Outside of maple the

stocks of hardw 1 have not been large em

to cause tiny accuinulat i luring tin- year, and

this has tended I.. strengthen the market.

Walter McCormlck of tin- McCormlck Hay
Lumber Company, who was on the brink of the
grave two years ago. has entirely recovered
and is now in excellent health. lie says the
business of the firm is good. They handle hard
wood exclusively, buying .-i considerable quantity
of stock at outside points, which is sold direct
I., customers wlthoul coming through th-' Sagl
naw yard.

F.iiss & Van Aiikeii have experienced a busj

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400 horse power from this dam. The contra

requires corapietioB of the work by August

: harnessing

asent

- .

V"

H. Ki

Presqoe I- - Menominee,

. - -_ ._ , -_ j;

- . - - "

.•ntonagon. $10,995. Ehe report is

j - .- ■ 1 : : ::s r.s- — zz- izzz. s:~ = .: z'z-z
estimates seeming to be low.

ek. Mr. Miller was very much
■ ith lumber trade conditions In
-
J- t - - :' the Robert H. Jenks Lumber
-
ss las Sams ay is buy-

ing a stock in this sc t:ot. He

out.
:.. Wood of Ashevilk \ ad E. I..

more. Md . the 15. E.

- >rs in

3 r. -- : . V : Zz ■—
J. T. MHler, representing the Stevens-Eaton
Company - nt several days

■ilkner. Jr Faulkner Lumber

. was in the c::
iner reports - company is

prep.. . - - rginia

:.gdon.
J. A Wilkinson will put in a big band mill
S altera railway in South Bristol in
addition to his planing mill and woodworking
:;ieh has just been eomp:e:ed. Mr.
»ut 50,000
He hopes to have
operation spring. The logs will be

haul: . south-

raber lands glnia i

rn and th S ■. & Western. The

mpleted will be put into opera-
■

a Lumber
Com: any \

n:: . ' ~ z. :.' ^ -

^any
g ft Marshall, both
- in town last week.
: ... t
pany. - nd son have returned from Bay

re called by the death
S ,-aan B. Bradley, who
\
E. E. Saunders, for thir: . -

the best known lumbermen in the South, died in
- - i .:.. on

- ned in an acci-
Veneering Com-
ptny at Montgomery a few days befor:

S W. Kailw r has

been' soma: pear before the Corpora-

tion Come -. : Richmond and

; new uniform :: .
hich the com mission proposes
to -promuli: . should nor be made

The railro: is are oppos-

he change offer: I ssion and

- - :he case out in

the c-

Johz S and J. E . - well-

known fire [ S Bros ': iiladelphia were

in Bristol on important sii week.

seeking all kinds of hardwoods, espe-
.'hestnnt stock.
F*. * . iolesale lumber dealer

Columbus, was :n the local market

-

: M. Robinson who with

hieago is backing :he New
—as in the
week. This :— pany has recently acquired 53,-
000 acres of rich timber lands in Scott and
■ties - i3d has begun

the development pr perry :n a large

scale. This eomparjT - s being opened

up by the construction of the Tennessee Bail-
• being bur: :t Mr. Robinson
.and associ- -iopment of the Um-

ber and mineral resources of that set

. .

to the Laurel Railway, which will be built from
Damascus, Vs.. into the rich timber lands some

rginia -Tennessee
border line. The construction of the road will
mean the development of some of the finest
timber land in ginfai.

mber company with a capital stock
Log organized at Johnson

ry, w. R. Coon,

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i',

W. B. Coon and Dr. Charles W. HozL

Punxautav. • hrard J.
ar,'J I

company win <:■ i&ds in I

and Ha*:- nnessee.
J. Alwyn Cannon

■ an Imj.

other

zianager

-.ed bom a

Cincinnati

filled the small creeks »t -

estimated that

I out on tb<- ■. .^

ruber

.-Tone
In the town who co-. -o serrfee.

These firms ha-. anchored,

with the heavy ran yet to come. This is said
to be the

ther up t:. - ;ndy.

Licking a: - - big

tide. cson and Betty-ril!;

_ - and booms are run-
ning
transport a large q}-.

"imber wil! be
. from Huntington, W. Va.
Morton Butler
pany of 3

recen' 1 a labor shortage in his

territory, which has handicapped his concern

Swann-Day Lumber Com-
pany of Clay C
cently. en route fork on a business

R. L. WhitneU of 1
London, England, was in town lately "»»*'*»;

Railroad Commission at
Columbus is working ha.- 1 ar demur-

rage eases, in wiilc-
i. Generi

question of

dowr.
hare
mile-

incinna-.i
Lumber O.tnpat. treet has i

business trip to

v-pany
has been :.-

!

... .

marl but a st

- -

fcsyyws ?.

which

I

one '■.:.. • ■

-

-

Hughes created qnite a

sensi

sessions. The wi::.

rhic j

witness

:'

k M E

:ie. Cinci

. -

rs and the rime
esent time
hours. In formex

_■ ■
--

-

rational Han
cage Tisi-.ed Cincinnati ;
r lumber.

Leland G. Banning has

■

stock is no:

quiries for that lumber hi
as soon as the stock is
will be dispatched to fill

the Farrin-Korn Lumber
Company has returned from a business ::
Grand Rapids. Mich.

John R. Tuthill of Tuthill k Patrisoo of 5hef-
eturned home after risitir.
brother. J. E. Tuthiii. of the Cypress Lumber
Company of

The Cumberland Lumber Company has located
its ofilce and yards west of Har-

. amber concerns

B. F. Dulweber of John Dulweber I

z^'rlTZ-- i i~ : ~ - .--:''- : ;-.- r>= :r:7 i^*

i Mowbray of Mowbray k Robinso-
retnrned home from a business trip through the
i. where, he says. business is Tery brisk.
Thomas J. Moffet. president of the M

--- '

.-
Tennessee

■-■•-..

ad many logmen

get I

- Manufacturing Company

em installed and new ssa-
-~ " i "tory.

- new plant of Snod-

■

=cted
and a new bandznUl and other ^*T*rHi i ij an

'-'. be ready foe

. -apply Company
" -e following officers :
Z. tt

- Calloway, secretary
-
purchased - ing : Z. W. Wheland of

Chichester
:. Haston of the
_

: _

the basin-- and

-

-

fteerjon

■
tion of

I
— nieh was also adopted, provided

_

.

-

I

:

ck-
Biair.
Alah

-"

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necessary to call in some of the men sent out
to take up lumber because there are no cars on
which to load the lumber thus taken up. Cotton
is given preference over lumber, and the lum-
bermen realize that there is not much prospect
for help for themselves so long as the cotton
men are having so much trouble. The shortage
of cars in the interior has greatly curtailed re-
ceipts of lumber at Memphis, and this condi-
tion will probably continue for some time.

Heavy rains have fallen throughout the Mem-
phis territory during the past few days, the
precipitation being between 10 and 11 inches,
which is about as heavy as ever fell during the
same length of time. .The result is that the
smaller mills, which were poorly supplied with
timber, have been practically put out of busi-
ness, while the larger mills are able to operate
only partially. There is not a mill in the south
which has anything like a normal supply of
timber available because of the unfavorable
weather, labor and car situation during the pre-
vious two or three months, while most of the
smaller mills have been able to accomplish very
little.

In addition to the interference with produc-
tion, the rainfall and accompanying windstorm
have occasioned considerable loss of timber to
firms operating their plants on Wolf river, in
North Memphis. The rafts which held the logs
together were broken and the timber floated out
into the Mississippi to a rather large extent,
thus handicapping these plants. There is no
definite estimate of the amount of timber so
lost, but any loss at this time could scarcely be
regarded as anything less than very serious be-
cause of the decided shortage.

The Standard Box Company was sold at
bankrupt sale a few days ago and was pur-
chased by Jere Toohey and others, who have
since applied for a charter for the Memphis
Standard Box Company, which will operate the
plant which was equipped by the old 'concern,
chartered about a year ago. No definite arrange-
ments, however, for beginning operations have
been made. The purchasers were some of the
original stockholders in the old company.

The Baker Lumber Company, whose plant at
Tlurrell, Ark., was burned a short time ago, is
rebuilding as rapidly as possible and will be
ready for operation within the next two or
three months if there is no interruption to the
work of construction. The order for the new
machinery was given in a surprisingly short
time from the date of the burning of the old
plant. The estimated cost of the ne.w plant is
$50,000. The general offices of the company are
in the Randolph building at Memphis.

The demand for sawmill machinery in the'
lower part of the Mississippi valley is reported
to be the largest ever e/.perienced the lumber-
men purchasing large quantities of portable
saw-mill machinery for the purpose of develop-
ing the timber which was blown down in the
recent tropical storm. There is a pronounced
shortage of labor and there is moreover a short-
age of car facilities, with the result that the
manufacturers prefer to carry the mills to the
timber which is scattered over very large areas
rather than try to carry the timber to station-
ary mills. The lumbermen realize that they
must save this timber without loss of time to
prevent the worms from getting into it and ruin-
ing it for commercial purposes.

Harold Petri of Quinet & Petri of Antwerp,
Belgium, who has been in Memphis for some
time making purchases of lumber, has returned
to Antwerp. Mr. Petri reported that he encoun-
tered very little difficulty in securing lumber
and that he bought considerable quantities,
mostly oak. He declared, however, that had he
put off his trip to America a few weeks longer
he would have been abte to secure practically
nothing at a price that would have proven satis-
factory to him. His brother, H. Petri, who was
with him in Memphis for a few days, has gone
t<> Mexico.

George L. Smith, formerly surveyor general of

the National Hardwood Lumber Association and
now in business for himself at Indianapolis,
was in Memphis the past week visiting his
friends in the trade here.

Allen Yinnedge of A. R. Vinnedge & Co. of
Chicago was in Memphis the past week.

Among the foreign visitors here lately were
R. L. Withnell of Duncan, Ewing & Co. of
London and Mr. Percy and Mr. Cobbett, Jr., of
Cobbett & Co., London.

The Fullerton-rowell Hardwood Lumber Com-
pany of South Bend, Ind.. has established an
office in Memphis, room 305, Tennessee Trust
building, in charge of J. D. Bodman.

New Orleans.

The Murphy Lumber Company, manufacturers
and exporters of New Orleans are laying plans
to build a large box factory and private wharf
at Algiers, the fifth district of New Orleans,
which is directly across the river from the city
proper. The company will spend something over
$100,000 in carrying out its plans and in this
same connection wTilI reorganize so as to take in
the interests of the Bates-McAvoy Company.
At present the Murphy Lumber Company is op-
erating the old Bates-McAvoy factory at Canal
and Marais streets. Property in that neighbor-
hood, however, is considered too valuable to be
occupied by a box factory and for that reason
it has been decided to move the factory, and an
entirely new plant will be built. The factory
will occupy a site 100x200 feet, while the wharf
will be 384 feet long and 225 feet in width.
Tin' plant will manufacture about five carloads
of stuff a day, while the company will have fa-
cilities for and expects to ship anywhere from
five to fifteen cars per day.

Sidney II. Hasam, proprietor of the Hasam
Box factory & Planing Mill in Julia street, this
city, has just closed a deal for a site at Clio
and Claiborne streets, where he will build a
factory that will work about 400,000 feet of
stuff a month and give employment to about
fifty men.

William C. Gellibrand, a prominent English
lumber exporter, was in New Orleans recently
looking into the export situation. He has re-
turned to London, but will return here in about
two months to complete a number of deals for
which he has laid the fcundation. Mr. Gelli-
brand has inquired particularly into hardwoods,
and he has gone back to England to take orders
for various hardwoods suitable to the English
and continental markets. He has made a par-
ticular feature of dimension stock in hickory,
ash and persimmon, in his investigations. The
former two woods are for handle-makers and
textile mill specialties, while the latter is in-
tended for shuttle making. Mr. Gellibrand is
connected with one of the largest mills in Louis-
iana, which was recently erected at great cost
for the manufacture of these articles. In dis-
cussing hardwood conditions in the south Mr.
Gellibrand said that the great drawback was the
haphazard method of manufacture. This busi-
ness, he said, was operated by a number of lit-
tle mills without proper equipment and often
by persons without requisite knowledge to pro-
duce proper material. "With intelligent meth-
ods," continued Mr. Gellibrand. "there is a
source of wealth in the southern hardwoods that
will only be appreciated perhaps when it is too
late."

The Monroe Lumber Company of Monroe, La.,
one of the largest institutions of its kind in the
state, has been placed in the hands of a re-
celver on application of a number of its cred-
itors. The plant has been temporarily closed
down and it is probable that all the holdings
of the big concern, which is capitalized at
$1,000,000, will be sold to satisfy the claims
against it: These holdings are in the hard-
wood territory of this state. On application of
tin- Monroe Shingle Company, the Pargoud Land
& Improvement Company and other creditors.
Hon. W. M. Winters of Shreveport has been
named receiver. Since the big fire which de-
stroyed the company's planing mill some time

ago. resulting in a heavy loss, its affairs are
said to have been in a bad way.

The Meridian Furniture Factory, referred to
some time ago, has been launched at Meridian,
Miss, with a capital of $100,000. The new
company has absorbed the Meridian Coffin Fac-
tory and is temporarily using the plant of the
coffin factory. Later this will be enlarged.
A .1. Rickel of High Point, N. C, will be the
active manager in charge.

Announcement, was made recently that the
lumber shipments from Gulfport, Miss., for the
month of October amounted to 20,704,000 feet,
valued at $503,364.

The Schaefer-Elms Lumber Company has been
organized with $25,000 capital stock to engage
in an export and domestic business in pitch
pine, hardwood lumber and logs and staves.
Charles S. Elms, one of the organizers, has been
engaged in business in New Orleans under his
own name for some time and is weil known to
the trade. Offices will be maintained at 1021
Ilennen building.

Louisville.

Kirwan Bros., whose plant has been shut
down several weeks because of insufficient log
supply, are getting out enough logs on the
present tide in the Big Sandy to keep the mill
running during the winter. They will start up
their mill again in a' few days. The other river
mills here were already well fixed for logs, so
they are all in good shape now till the severe
winter weather compels them to shut down.
They are hoping that wTill not be until after the
first of the year, for they need all the stock
they can possibly cur.

F. M. Overstreet of the Southern Lumber
Company says the rains are making them some
trouble down in the woods. He finds the mar-
ket in good shape, the only difficulty being to
get out enough stock to take care of trade.

Albert R. Kamp reports business excellent.
He recently sold some log run gum at better
prices than ever before.

Among the recent Louisville visitors were :
Harold R. Stone, Chicago : J. B. Ettinger of the
S. A. Woods Machine Company, Chicago ; Jack
Harwood of the Robert II. Jenks Lumber Com-
pany, Cincinnati.

The main plant of the Bell & Coggeshall Com-
pany was destroyed by fire November 8, but the
office and shook factory just across the street
was saved. To the shook factory has been added
more machinery, the crew has been doubled so
as to work night and day, and with some help
from the other box factories the company is
making strenuous efforts to take care of its
trade till the main plant can be rebuilt.

Ed Rhubesky says that the stave business is
usurping so much of his time these days that he
has not given as much attention to the lumber
business as he should. There is a good market
for hardwoods, however, and it is generally
more trouble to get stock than it is to sell it.

The W. P. Brown & Son's Company is getting
in more lumber than it can take care of prop-
erly, while it keeps raining. They are shipping
out lots, too. In fact, the hardwood business is
moving pretty well with the company, despite
the handicap of rain and car shortage.

Minneapolis.

E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lumber
Company left this week for an extended southern
trip. He was prevented by illness during the
summer from looking over some propositions in
that section in which he is interested. C. E.
Le Crone of Memphis, Tenn., for some years
sales representative for the Advance Lumber
Company, has joined the staff of the Payson
Smith Lumber Company and will have charge of
southern territory, buying stocks and looking
after shipments. Mr. Smith will join him at
Memphis, and expects to be gone three weeks or
more.

The Pacific Timber Company has branched out
and will handle a line of hardwood lumber,
white pine and hemlock, in addition to Washing-

HARDWOOD RECORD

3i

ton fir and red cedar which it has sold for some
time from its offices in this city. R. H. Grin-
sted, an experienced salesman in pine, hemlock
and hardwood Lumber, is in charge of the new
department. A full stock of oak, birch, maple,
elm, basswood and other hardwood will be car-
ried.

A. H. Barnard, the local wholesaler, has re-
turned from a successful trip to Chicago.

P. J. Lang, representing the Wisconsin Land
& Lumber Company of Hermansville, Mich., is in
town for a few days working up trade for the
company's maple flooring and other products.

C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark is in Illinois
looking after their retail interests there.

Ashland, Ky.

A rise in the headwaters of the Big Sandy
and Guyandotte rivers has caused one of the
largest log runs in years, and from 75,000 to
100,000 logs have been received. The supply
will mean a run of from two to three months
for all the river mills in this section. The logs
are extra fine, and with the high rate of today's
market will sell at top prices.

The heaviest logging tide in years is reported
in the Cumberland river and tributaries, caused
by the recent snow and heavy rains. Logs have
been accumulating for several years in the small
feeders of the Cumberland, and it is claimed
that runs aggregating over $100,000 in value
have been made on this rise.

Col. Jay H. Northrup, a prominent lumber-
man of Louisa, Ky., has filed a petition in bank-
ruptcy, covering a sum of probably $250,000.
His assets, which are principally in land, will
not nearly cover his indebtedness. About three
years ago a sudden rise in the Big Sandy swept
a fortune in cross ties out into the Ohio, and
Col. Northrup lost at that time between $50,000
and $75,000 worth of timber, cross ties and
staves. His business has never been on a solid

footing since, ami lately be baa been interested
in various enterprises with poor success. He is

.1 stockholder in the White House Cannel 1

Company. No man in the Sandy valley has
stood higher in the financial world, ami his
trouble is very much regretted. He is a man
quite advanced in years

John W. Kitchen is in Asheville, N. ('., (los-
ing a deal for a big tract of timber land for
Vansant, Kitchen & Co.

Huntington, W. Va., capitalists will develop a
large timber tract in Tennessee, a charter bav-
in;; I n granted to the Lick Fork Lumber Com-
pany. The incorporators are Z. T. Vinson, T. J.
Bryan, E. M. Watts, Dabney Caldwell and A. E.
Bush, all of Huntington. The capital stock
is $75,000.

Engineers on the Keuova division of the Nor-
folk & Western railroad report numerous forest
fires in the West Virginia bills, anil state the
light from them is so great they have no need
for their headlights.

Toledo.

That there has been a slump in building activ-
ity is indicated by the number of permits
which have been issued since the first of the
month. Just forty-five permits, with a total
valuation of $80,918, have been issued up to
November 22, and it will hustle things consid-
erably if a total of GO permits of a total valua-
tion of $100,000 are issued for the month.

Maeomber Brothers have succeeded O. F. IIol-
loway in the Holloway Lumber Company.

Some of the local sash, door and blind con-
cerns report business a little quieter than it was
two weeks ago.

Roland Stan- of Barbour & Starr, the largest
manufacturers of inaple flooring in the state, is
expected home this week from a southern trip.

The Western Woodworking Company is en-
larging its plant to double its former capacity.

HardWood Market.

(By HARDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Reporters.)

Chicago.
With the delayed mill operations in the South
and the disastrous shortage of cars, local deal-
ers are hustling around in the effort to secure
stocks. Poplar is very scarce. Oak is decidedly
better than it was some weeks ago. In the
northern woods birch remains about the same.
and soft elm shows a better condition. Maple
is moving more briskly and basswood is still
scarce. Prices are holding strongly in all lines
and the indications are that the season will
be an unusually prosperous one.

St. Louis.
There has been a brisk movement in local
supplies of poplar and ash. but in oak the mar-
ket as a general rule has been quiet for some
time, although of late there are reports of im-
provement in this wood, quartered white oak in
first and second grades being a ready seller.
Both cottonwootl and gum are strong, the box-
makers being in need of all the stock they can
get, a condition which tends to force the prices
up even more than they have been advanced
during the past three months.

Boston.
The hardwood market is showing a little
improvement. Consuming manufacturers are
very busy. A few of the woodworking estab-
lishments have been running evenings trying to
keep up with their orders. The yards in this
vicinity are carrying very fair sized stocks,
yet are in the market for supplies from time
to time. With the furniture manufacturers,
business is of a very satisfactory character. The
fall business for the holiday and regular trade
has been good and the prospects are favorable
to its being continued during the remainder of
the year. Manufacturers of interior hardwood
finish are working on full time and find it

difficult i" keep abreast of their orders.

The demand for whitewood is of moderate
size. Prices are very firmly held and some
predict a higher level. Dry stock is not plenti-
ful, and the car shortage is causing considerable
delay in making shipment. Plain oak is in very
fair demand. Offerings are of fair size. Prices
are a little easier. The demand for quartered
oak is not active although a moderate business
is reported. Maple flooring attracts a fair
amount of new orders, but the demand is not
active. Cypress is firmly held. Offerings tire
not large. Yards here are carrying good stocks.

New York.

The hardwood situation in the metropolitan
district at the present time is very satisfactory.
The conditions as noted in a travel through
the district during the fortnight reveal a good,
healthy tone to the demand all along the line,
with prices not only firm but showing advances
in many lines. The yard trade is in possession
of fair stocks, but the general consumption in
all branches is of sufficient volume to create a
good, healthy demand among buyers. The man-
ufacturing trade, such as furniture, piano, cabi-
net work. ele.. have allowed their stocks to
run low and they are all active buyers for im-
medlate wants. This shortsightedness on the
pari of buyers was due to the belief that hard-
wood values would ease off. In general, the

1 1 situation in hardwoods is very satisfactory

an.l phenomenal in many respects when the sea-
son nf the year is considered.

The leading stocks in current trade are No.
1 common oak, the demand for which is ex-
ceedingly brisk and the supplies, short : the
same applies in all thickness of No. 1 common
poplar, the call for which is exceedingly large.
In the better grades of both ties,, stocks the
di uianil is also very fair and prices lirii). The

demand for high-grade poplar has been such
that prices have moved up from two to three
dollars a thousand during the past fortnight.
Ash is also in brisk call with prices ruling firm
on a range comparing favorably with plain oak
prices. The situation in regard to chestnut is
also very satisfactory. The better grades are
not very plentiful and are therefore command
ing good figures, and the lower grades, such as
sound wormy, are in brisk call in the coffin and
general woodworking trades. Basswood has im-
proved in demand. Stocks are only nominal
and prices are holding well. Maple, which has
been a little easy for some time, shows more
strength, although there seem to be ample offer-
ings to meet demands. Prices, however, are
holding firm. The local demand for red gum is
improving. New York has never been a red gum
market, and sales of that commodity have been
very limited, but it is fast coming into its own
now, and during the past six weeks prices on
is and 2s and common red gum have advanced
about $1.50 per M. Quartered oak is in very
fair supply. Well manufactured and figured
stock of good average width is commanding very
lair values in the local trade.

The mahogany and cedar market continues
to show strength, and prices still hold to the
highest bv.l which they have achieved for a
long time. The total receipts of mahogany and
cedar h>e.s from all points in the local market
during the month of October totaled 18,398
logs, but the state of the market was such that
all receipts were immediately sold, and on No-
vember 1 there was not a log of either com-
modity left unsold in the market.

Philadelphia.

There is but one opinion expressed at this
time concerning the hardwood market, wherever
lumber is discussed, and that is, business in
these woods is moving along in excellent shape.
The railroads are still doing just as it suits
them in and near the mill districts. The latest
outrage reported is the searching of cars by
inspectors, who instead of passing mouldings as
lumber, as heretofore, classify it under the head
of building material, furniture fixtures, etc.,
anil raise the freight rates accordingly.

A careful look over the field shows the hard-
wood dealers endeavoring to make such connec-
tions as will keep them in constant supply, in
view of the great demand for these woods. Pop
lar and walnut arc being shipped to foreign
markets from this port ; the first named is
selling well also in the local trade. Plain oak,
ash ami chestnut are hard to get at any price.
Quartered oak is still a little off, and mahogany
slow. With the exception of parts of the Ca-
nadian territory, the furniture factories are
busy, good orders are being sent in, many
inquiries also as to future supplies of certain
woods, and encouraging reports come as to the
outlook for winter trade. Building operations
have been pushed to the extreme and every
advantage taken of, the seasonable weather of
the last month. The millwork establishments
have been tried to the utmost in their effort to
keep up stocks to meet the demands of the
operations at the stages when such supplies are
required. There are indications in the hard
wood market that these conditions will continue
for an indefinite period.

Baltimore.

All the newt, obtainable about the hardwood
trade is ,,r an encouraging character, g
are in excellent demand and prices are firm,
the one drawback to the situation being the
car shortage. Representatives of local lirms tell
of inability to get cars, and slocks are piling
op at the mills t., such an extent that some of
the plants have had to suspend operations.

Meanwhil n timers of lumber are calling for

deliveries. Supplies have run low nearly every-
where, and unless conditions are bettered shortly
a hardwood famine may result.

Oak is in strong request and according to

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information available, lumber is piled up at the
mills in considerable quantities. But until
means of bringing it into the market are de-
vised the trade is bound to suffer embarrass-
ment. This difficulty of getting stocks tends
to make the inquiry more urgent and prompts
users of woods to place larger orders than
might otherwise be the ease, in the hope that
they will get enough to see them through.
Values are firm and there are no weak spots
in the list. Culls especially, it is said, were
never more in demand, and bring excellent
prices. The export movement, while not ex-
traordinary, keeps up well, and stocks are going
forward in impressive quantities. By degrees
the foreign users are bringing themselves to
meet the terms of the American shippers. Ash
is not less active than oak. Lumber finds ready
takers and the competition at milling points is
in the main keen. Of course ash is affected
by the same conditions that interfere with the
movement of oak, and more or less inconveni-
ence is caused. The range of values is steady
and high enough to stimulate the mill men
into doing their utmost to get out stocks, which
holds good in nearly every other division of
the lumber trade. Poplar is holding its own
well, the manufacturers having resisted the
temptation to put up the quotations where
they might restrict the demand for the wood.
Altogether the present state of affairs, with
the single exception of the car shortage, is en-
couraging, and the outlook appears to be not
less reassuring.

in government contracts on the local rivers.
Birch is a favorite with some dealers and small
lots of cherry are commanding fancy figures.

Pittsburg.

Short stocks ; long orders ; - few cars ; many
kicks. That tells it so far as hardwoods in
Pittsburg are concerned. Ask any wholesaler
about the general state of affairs and In- will
mention one or more of these points. Most
Pittsburg wholesalers of hardwood lumber are
busy and are likely to be for several months to
come. The mills are rushing things as fast as
possible. The wholesaler will doubtless point to
a pile of correspondence and telegrams a foot
high and make a few complimentary i V I re-
marks about the railroads which are at the bot-
tom of this heap of trouble. For in most, of
the messages received there is a kick about slow
shipments or because it is impossible for mill
managers to get cars to load their stock. It
happens every year, of course, but is none the
less exasperating to have to do without food
for two days.

The year is rounding out well. It has been
distinctively a hardwood year in this' market.
Yellow pine has had its ups and downs — chiefly
downs. So in less measure have several other
woods that usually lead in the Pittsburg trade.
But hardwood lumber has been high and dry
above any suspicion of trouble all the year. It
occupies the same position now. Xever did a
winter open so auspiciously, all things consid-
ered, as the one just starting, and never has
there .been such a thoroughly hopeful and deter-
mined feeling among the wholesalers in Greater
Pittsburg. -"They are disappointed over the im-
mediate prospect for local trade, for the building
situation is pretty hazy and the closing months
of 1006 are making some poor records. But the
local trade cuts but a small figure with most
firms and they see abundant cause for good
feeling when they survey the field at large.

Oak still leads the market by a long way.
Prices are up and demand is steady to brisk.
Chestnut is in a little better call the last month.
Stocks of both woods at the mills are not large
and some firms have recently made big purchases
of lumber under contract to supply their winter
needs. Maple flooring is a good seller. From
the furniture factories there is a good call for
maple and ash, considerable of which is now
getting into market from the country mills in
western Pennsylvania and Ohio. Elm is in good
demand wherever there is a hub operation.
Hickory is scarce. There is hardly a car to be
obtained and offerings are quickly snapped up.
Some beech is being sold at good prices for use

Buffalo.

The Buffalo hardwood trade is satisfactory
both as to sales and prices. Stocks in most
cases are low.

It is safe to say that there is oak enough in
the hands of dealers to make sure of a good
winter supply, even if the present active de-
mand keeps up.- Birch is in ample supply and
in good call. It is no longer possible to get
enough chestnut to meet the demand, but it is
still to be had in some' quantity and here and
there is a dealer with an assortment of it.

Lumbermen are now much disturbed over the
car shortage and the refusal of the roads to put
cars on neighboring switches where they can be
handled more easily. An effort will be made to
oblige them to do this.

The effort to get ash enough to meet the de-
mands of the trade continues and Washington
fir and maple are replacing it in many cases
Maple is doing well, partly on account of the
shortage of ash.

Hardwood dealers who have been south of the
Ohio lately say that the situation there is more
favorable to the hardwood trade than it was.
Even the poplar mills are better supplied with
logs than they were, so that the shortage in
that lumber is not to last all winter, or at leasl
it will not be any worse right away.

Other hardwoods are doing fairly well. Hass-
wood is moving pretty slowly, but is improving,
i le rry is a steady seller and some walnut and
mahogany is moving.

Saginaw Valley.
Hardwood dealers express confidence in the
future of the trade ami regard conditions as
having materially improved. Lumber is in bet-
ter demand and prices for most grades are
higher. There is not an excess of dry lumber
and cars for moving lumber are about as scarce
as hens' teeth, yet not much complaint is heard
as to prices or call for the stock. Dealers will
go into the winter with just fair stocks. Elm is
being held at $23 to $26. Basswood is worth
$2 1, and basswood culls bring $15 and $16.
Beech is doing very well, and sales are reported
at $14, while birch is improving, and sales have
been made at $21 and $26. Maple is firmer at
$16 to $10, and ash is active and strong at $28.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

Oak and poplar remain in the lead in this
section and the demand for each is very heavy,
in fact the demand for all kinds of stock is
holding up remarkably well. The prices on
poplar are gradually advancing, while values on
oak remain firm. The mills are as a whole
fairly well stocked with logs.

The weather was favorable to industrial ac-
tivity until about a week ago, when snows and
rains set in, and the roads are now in bad
condition. The country mills are especially han-
dicapped, though a considerable amount of stock
is being moved.

The yards are pretty generally depleted and
there is a scarcity of stock reported.

Cincinnati.

Hardwood lumber receipts have been light the
last tew weeks. A strong demand continues for
all grades and there is a ready sale for all de-
sirable stock. The hardwood market in Cincin-
nati is regarded by the larger dealers as the
strongest in years, and its general trend seems
to be toward greater activity. Cypress is re-
ported in good demand and prices are held at
a steady range. The demand for quartered oak
has received added impulse, and a fair volume
of trade in plain oak is also noted. Maple has
shown improvement, and the same can be said
of walnut.

The greatest problem that confronts the lum-
bermen in Cincinnati is the car shortage. This
is necessitating the refusal of orders in many
cases, owing to the inability of the dealers

to furnish the consumer with the desired lum-
ber owing to the large amount of orders on
file which they cannot get delivered. If an im-
provement is not noted soon lumber dealers will
lose some of the orders now on file before the
first of the year. The most desirable lumber in
Cincinnati is ponlar, and every bit that is
offered is absorbed at prices regarded to be
higher than for some time.

Owing to the high price of hardwood lumber
foreign buyers have complained to a great ex-
tent, but as there is a heavy interior demand
they will have to pay the high prices in order to
get desirable stock. The export movement is
still good.

Chattanooga.

Lumber is very scarce, is the general cry
among the lumbermen of this city. There is
little shipping stock on hand, less probably than
there has been in five years. Besides the scar-
city in stock there is a very serious scarcity of
cars. This complaint seems to be more general
with the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pa-
cific railroad than any other. One firm ordered,
for instance, twenty-five cars from this road
last month and got two. As a result this firm
and many others are shipping via the Nashville,
Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad, which handles
the situation better than any road entering this
city.

As a result of the scarcity of lumber and the
car famine prices on lumber are high, and all
grades find ready sale at the advanced rates.

Chattanooga during the last few months
ranked among the first in building operations,
and hence there is a scarcity of building ma-
terial and prices are ruling high.

Memphis.

The demand for southern hardwood lumber
continues excellent while the supply is very lim-
ited, having been rendered scarcer because of
the recent interruption to production and the
scarcity of logs brought about by the heavy
rainfall. The shortage of cars, too, which has
prevented a free movement of lumber from the
interior, has proven another handicap, having
cut down materially the receipts which should
have arrived in this market. The actual scar-
city is, in fact, more pronounced than it has
been at any time this season, while the idea
obtains among the trade that it will become
even more so because of the prospective shortage
in production. Some manufacturers even go so
far as to declare that the trade will not experi-
ence the real crux of the scarcity until some
time in the Spring, when there will be little
dry lumber for sale, because recent production
has been so small and because the outlook is for
an even more pronounced curtailment in output.
The movement of lumber out of Memphis is re-
stricted both by the lightness of offerings and by
the fact that the roads are not able to furnish
cars with anything like promptness for the
handling of shipments. The price position of
lumber, it goes without saying, is very strong
and, while prices are recognized by the trade as
high, it is felt that there are further advances
in store, because the demand is in excess of the
supply. The movement of lumber into export
channels is moderate, but the bulk of the busi-
ness is in domestic circles, as is usually the
case when such good prices are obtainable on
this side of the water.

Ash is easily the strongest item of the list.
There is very little of this to be had, while the
demand is excellent in all grades and thick-
nesses. There has never been a time, according
to those who make a specialty of handling ash.
when the offerings at this period were so light.
Cypress is another splendid seller, and the vol-
ume of business in this is limited only by the
smallness of the quantity available for shipment.
All grades are wanted, and prices obtained
therefor are regarded by the trade as excellent.
There is a good movement in cottonwood in all
grades, the demand being large and the supply
at best only moderate. There are very few box

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33

boards to be had, while there is a decided
shortage in the lower grades, which the box
people are taking just as fast as they are able
to locate available stock. There is perhaps no
lumber where the production has been so far
below the normal during the past year as cot-
tonwood and at the same time there has been
such pronounced activity in the box trade that
manufacturers of boxes have taken everything
in sight. They are now refusing to book orders
for shipment of box shooks until after the new
year has opened and they are not very anxious
for business until sixty days or more have
elapsed. Trices all along the cottonwood line
are higher now than they have been at any time
this season. Gum is selling at a very satis
factory rate, practically everything being taken
as soon as it is dry enough for shipment at
prices which are considered satisfactory by the
trade. The lower grades, however, are prob-
ably more active than the higher. Plain oak is
a good seller, while the offerings are very light
for this time of the year. Trices are high, right
up to the top notch of the season. There is no
particular improvement reported in the demand
for quarter-sawn red oak. but there is some bet-
ter call for quartered white oak. The movement
in quartered oak, however, is in rather striking
contrast with that in plain oak and some other
lumber offered for sale here. Some very fancy
prices are being paid, however, for special
dimensions in quartered white oak. The poplar
situation shows no special change. There is
very little business in this for the excellent rea-
son that there is not much for sale.

New Orleans.
Buyers for the foreign manufacturers have be-
gun operations in this market and are finding it
difficult to secure dry stocks. The domestic de-
mand, especially for high-grade white oak, has
put the prices where the English buyers cannot
touch them and it looks as if they will either
have to meet the prices or go without. Manu-
facturers believe that prices generally will ad-
vance slowly. Because of the trouble the for-
eign buyers are having in securing stock for
shipment, the exports are only fair and there
are no indications of an early change. The
mills are still busy cutting stocks, but these are'
not as large as they ought to be. Prices are
good.

Louisville.

It is almost impossible to have conditions just
right from every man's viewpoint. At present
the weather is helping the river mill men and
making those that log by land feel blue. The
recent rains, which have been unusually heavy
for this time of year, have made "tides" for the
river mill men to bring out logs, and made
mud for the others. Preceding the rains there
was some nice weather which gladdened the
hearts of the land operators but did not
shine up so well for the river mills that had
"cut out" and were tied up waiting for logs.

The demand for hardwoods is active. Pop-
lar and plain oak are running a race for first
place, with the others following closely. Buyers
of poplar are beginning to try working the
"tides" to bear the poplar market and induce
more free selling, but whether they will gain
a point by this influence or not remains to be
seen. There is one fact sure, however, and
that is that the country mill men will not bear
the market with the roads in their present
condition.

POPLAR

Rough and Dressed

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

M. A. HAYWARD

1021 Saving and Trust Bldg., Columbus, O.

Minneapolis.

This is the season when the furniture fac-
tories and other concerns operating in hard
woods through the winter are laying in their
principal supplies. The local demand is not
heavy, but then' are rumors of sunn' good sized
salts Dealers who have anything to offer in
the eastern market reporl a stronger price
situation there and say that some very larg'
buyers are getting quotations and placing or-
ders. Country trade is quiet and confined al-
most entirely to small factories. Wagon stock
in oak and maple is selling fairly well, but little
yard stock is called for. The railroad trade is
active. Some of the big car shops in the north
are waiting anxiously for oak lumber from
southern mills, which cannot be delivered for
some time to come on account of inability to
get cars for it.

Oak as usual is the scarcest thing in the
market. Ash, which was out of the market
during the summer, is fairly easy now, as con-
siderable summer sawed stock is now being
offered, but prices are holding strong. Bass
wood is still active and stiff in price. Culls
are high and will remain so. The lowrer grades
of all hardwoods are high and scarce. Birch in
tire upper grades is still rather weak, but is
moving in considerable quantity.

Toledo.

In oak. wagon or heavy stuff is scarce. Bass-
wood, poplar, chestnut, maple, elm and syca-
more stocks are also light. While there have
been no recent advances in the market quota-
tions on these woods, an advance on all of them
is looked for after the first of the year. Dimen-
sion oak is a couple of dollars higher in price
than it was the first of the month, and some
sales have recently been made at .$4 over the
price of two weeks ago. In chestnut, local mill-
ing and retail concerns have been buying mostly
sound wormy stock, wdrich is largely used for
sheathing purposes. Maple is very scarce and
there is very little wdiite ash found among the
yards. Prices are stiff for good stock.

Trade in birch is light. There seems to be
plenty of mahogany in stock, with no recent
changes in price, the demand being fair only.

The local box factories seem to be well sup-
plied with stock in most lines and are busy.
The local door, sash and blind factories, which
use hardwood for finish, and the local furniture
factories are running full blast, having all the
orders they can till from now until after the
first of the year. There is a big demand for
white oak ties at increasing prices. Railroad
construction, especially electric lines, is
strengthening the demand.

Country business among most of the yards
dealing in hardwoods is light.

Liverpool.

Three mahogany sales have been held recently
and large quantities of stock have been disposed
of. Prices, considering the large quantities
offered, were firm, but there seemed to be a
tendency on the part of some buyers to pro-
vide only for present requirements. This means
that prices will ea ;c before many months. Large
quantities of mahogany are now being received,
this being the season when the import from the
west coast of Africa is in full swing. The
gi neral demand for mahogany is far from good,
and most of the merchants who deal princi-
pally in this wood are complaining.

American hardwoods are being imported only
in very moderate quantities, which is proper.
We should like, however, to see American ship-
pers sending the goods they have on contract.
A number of merchants here complain because
the ash plank contracts are not being deliv-
ered, and not without reason. In one case a
merchant was offered ash planks by an Ameri-
can shipper through a Liverpool broker which
he offered in turn to a customer here and se-
cured an order for five cars. The contract be-
tween the merchant and the broker was duly

signed and sealed with the words "to be deln
ered within two months." Thai is ten months
ago, and no planks have arrived, the merchant

is still without his profit, and what is worse

his oust r refuses to do any further bus]

loss with him until they are delivered. The
only reply from the shipper is that he lias had
a fire or flood, or sonic absurd excuse like thai ;
if he had replied that prices had risen since
he made the contract, it would more nearly
have approached the truth.

Alfred Dobell & Co. report arrivals of round
southern oak. moderate and prices firm; Balti-
more waney logs of strictly prime quality are

wanted and would command g 1 prices; wagon

planks in oak have arrived moderately and
mainly under contract, consequently have gone
direct into consumption ; prices firm ; oak coffin
planks of prime quality are in request, but
inferior shipments will not sell readily. The
import of walnut logs has been limited; sound
logs in fair sizes are in demand and command
ing good prices ; prices of planks and bi
continue firm. Whitewood logs have not arrived
very rapidly, but the stock is still heavy and
prices are suffering in consequence ; only the
best description of shipments both as to size
and quality can be recommended ; prime planks
and hoards are in request, but inferior grades
a re sufficiently stocked and moving slowly.
Imports of ash and hickory logs, as is usual
at this season, have been light, but the ship-
ping season is about to begin ; the latter is in
fair demand, but the market for ash is suffering
from oversupply of inferior stock during the
summer. The stave situation lias improved
a little and better prices are obtainable for
some items. The mahogany market is brisk,
sonic varieties meeting with a very strong
demand, full prices being realized for ordinary
wood, while figured logs bring extreme prices.
Prime wood in good sizes and sound may be
shipped with impunity.

London.

The slight improvement in trade here noted
recently has not been maintained. The higher
prices being asked do not tempt buyers to
replenish their stocks, not that they do not
believe in the advancing prices, but simply that
the state of trade does not warrant them pay-
ing increased prices for goods which they cannot
sell at higher figures. Demand for all kinds
of lumber is quiet, and it really seems that by
way of a general improvement in trade, what
is wished for but not expected, a decline in
prices would help matters all round.

Plain oak is in fair demand, and arrivals are
not too plentiful. Three and four inch planks
in export quality are wanted, and good prices
are being paid for parcels on the quay.

Prime whitewood dressed stocks are scarce
and buyers are grudgingly paying the advances
asked.

Planks are wanted, but as the consumption
at any time is not great, these should only he
shipped under firm centralis. Culls are in very
good demand, and for this low grade high prices
are being paid.

Satin walnut prime boards are not in great
request, the call being mostly for No. i com
mon. Walnut prime logs are still in good
demand, and high prices are paid for good logs
fit for veneer purposes. Planks are slow of sale.
the demand being mostly for cull and medium
grade boards, which realize full prices, but it
Is difficult to give buyers any satisfaction by
shipping this stock under contract, bettei prlcee
being obtained when parcels can be Inspected on
arrival. Ash planks are in verj g I demand.

Hickory logs are wanted, and although there
is 'not a large demand in London, buyers are
meeting shippers' ideas of prii

In mahogany the arrivals are not heavy lint
prices are well maintained, and any logs suit
able for the American market are eagerly bought
by the agents, both here and in Liverpool, for
shipment.

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EMPLOYES WANTED.

WANTED— THREE RELIABLE MEN.

Acquainted with the manufacture of wagon
gearing, to invest, and take charge of mills.
Good salary to the right men.

E. STURM, Calhoun, Ky.

WANTED.

Contractor to log and saw three to four
million feet of Poplar and oak. Will furnish
entire equipment. For particulars address
KENTUCKY LIMIIER COMPANY,

Cincinnati, 0.

LUMBER WANTED

WANTED.

Dimension chair stock in Red Birch. Quote
prices delivered Marietta. Ga. Address
THE BRUMBY CHAIR CO., Marietta, Ga.

WANTED.
1,000,000 feet 4/4 Oak Culls and Mill Culls.
1,000.000 feet %" to 2" Poplar, all grades.
Address "LUMBER," care J. Holtzman,
319 Land Title Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa.

ASH DIMENSION STOCK.

One inch stock wanted, in carloads, from
2% to 10" in width and from 10 to 48" in
length. Can use large quantities if properly
gotten out. Stock must be clear and free from
defects. Write us for list.

BELDING-HALL MFG. CO., Belding, Mich.

WHITE OAK CAR FRAMING

And timbers wanted, for cash, from reliable
mills located in Louisiana, Alabama and Mis
slssippi.

AilER. LBR. & MFG. CO.. Pittsburg, Pa.

WANTED— PERSIMMON

Shuttle blocks and logs. 10" and up diam-
eter, 6' and longer, fresh felled and sound, for
shipment during i he winter.
JAMES KENNEDY & CO., LTD., Cincinnati, O.

WANTED— HARDWOOD LOGS.

200 M feet 28-inch and up White Oak logs.
200 M feet 12-inch and up Walnut logs.

50 M ft. 12-inch and up Cherry logs.
C. L. WILLEY,

Blue Island Av. and Robey St., Chicago.

WANTED.

3 cars 6/4" and 2 cars 8/4" firsts and sec-
onds dry Poplar. 2 cars 4/4" Quartered White
Ash, either dry or cut to order.

THE A. B. CHASE CO., Norwalk, O.

OAK.

We are in the market for plain sawed oak,
all grades and thicknesses.
P. G. DODGE & CO., 2118 Lumber St., Chicago.

OAK WANTED.

3 and 4 inch White Oak : also Mixed Oak ;
also 12x12 Timbers and Piling of all kinds.
CONTINENTAL LUMBER CO.,
1213 Monadnock Bldg., Chicago. 111.

HICKORY WANTED.

1 ' . ' Hickory Plank, 8%, 9 and 17' long.

2" Hickory Plank. 10%, 12 anil 16' long,
suitable for carriage wood work. Also in the
market for Hickory Logs.

AMERICAN CENTRAL LUMBER CO.,

Anderson, Ind.

OAK AND MAPLE WANTED.

1" sound wormy Oak, 4x5-6' and 4%x5%-6'.
Maple and Hickory axles, Oak poles 2x4x4x4-
12'. 1", IV and 1'.' No. 1 common Red
oak. 2". 2'," and 3" wagon Oak.

McCLURE LUMBER CO., Detroit, Mich.

WANTED.

5 cars 5/4" Mill Cull Chestnut to be re-
sawed in the center.

Id III. MEIER BROS., Cincinnati, O.

WANTED.

Basswood,

Soft Elm,

Rock Elm,
Maple,
In Legs. Lumber and Dimension Sizes, for
immediate shipment, also, during winter and
spring. Spot cash, and inspection at shipping
points. Please quote prices f. o. b. cars. Ad-
dress .IAS. GORDON, Detroit, Mich.

WANTED.

To contract output of Pine and Hardwood
Mills. Will advance cash to reliable parties.
Address

P. O. Box 986, New Orleans, La.

WANTED.

5 cars 6/4" Sound Wormy Chestnut.
5 cars 8 4" Sound Wormy Chestnut.
Quote f. o. b. Cincinnati.

DUIILMEIER BROS., Cincinnati, O.

LUMBER FOR SALE.

FOR SALE— OAK LOGS.

Several carloads of Red. White and Black
i lak Logs.

CARL STOSSEL, Stony Brook:, N. V

FOR SALE.

I uie half carload clear Mahogany dimension
Stock, 4 I "x.'l "\ln". Address

MAHOGANY, care Hardwood Record.

ELM FOR SALE.

One nice drv ear thick soft elm.

JOHN T. GRAFTON". Sycamore. O.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

BAND MILL FOR SALE CHEAP.

oak and Poplar locality, plenty of timber
and logs, at reasonable prices; mill in perfect
order; good reasons for selling given on appli-
cation to

"BOX 12G," care Hakdwood Record.

WANTED— PARTNER.

In profitable and satisfactory woodworking
specialty business — in good city. A business
with a future. In operation three years. In-
vestment about $15,000 required. Investigate
now. No agents. Address

"OWNER," care Hardwood Record.

HARDWOOD TIMBER
A number of good mill propositions along
the Cotton Belt Route. Tracts ranging from
five hundred to twenty thousand acres, princi-
pally Oak, Hickory, Gum, Cypress, some Ash,
Cottonwood and other hardwoods. Can be
secured at very reasonable figures now — in
some cases at less than $1 per thousand stump-
age. Choice openings for hardwood lumber
mills, handle and spoke factories, slack coop-
erage plants and other hardwood enterprises.

A number of points on the Cotton Belt offer
free sites or will raise cash bonus or take stock
in practical propositions. Let us have your
wants and see what we can do for you.

E. W. LA BEAUME. G. P. & T. A..

COTTON BELT. St. Louis, Mo.

MACHINERY FOR SALE

FOR SALE.
A complete set of new Hoop machinery, run
less than 8 months. Large boiler and engine
new : in goi d location to operate where now
located. Will be sold cheap. For further in-
formation apply to

J. B. MERSMAN, Cherry Valley, Ark.

FOR SALE.
1 Veneer Squeezer.

1 Bark Grinder, No. 3 right hand, Mitts &
Merrill. Located at Mound City, 111. Address
THE WISCONSIN CHAIR CO.,

Port Washington, Wis.

FOR SALE.

- No. 1 Oscillating Hill Steam Niggers,
10"x6'x4"j6'.

1 direct connected log stop and loader, No.
I' 1'. arms spared, s' centers on 3" shaft. lo"x
26" cylinder. These have been in use but a
short time and are as good as new.

D'HEUR & SWAIN LUMBER CO..

Seymour, Ind.

VENEER MACHINERY FOR SALE.

Owing to changes being made in our Veneer
Mill, we offer for sale —

One 50"x64" Coe Veneer Machine.

One 64" Power Feed Clipper.

One 60" Giant Wringer.

The above are practically new and in first-
class condition and to dispose of them prompt-
ly that the space can be utilized, we will sell
at a substantial sacrifice. For further par-
ticulars address "VENEER MACHINERY,"
Care Hardwood Record.

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| FURNITURE LUMBER t

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HARDWOOD RECORD

JidVertisers' Directory [

NORTHERN HARDWOODS.

Alcock. John L., & Co 7

American Lumber & Mfg. Company... 50
Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company.... 52

Babcock Lumber Company 50

Earnaby, C. H 58

Beyer, Knox & Co 59

Bliss & Van Auken 12

Boyne City Lumber Company 55

Briggs & Cooper Company 4

Brownlee & Co .' 54

Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company.. 59

Cadillac Handle Company 3

Cheat River Lumber Company 50

(berry River Boom & Lumber Co 6

Chivvis, W. R 49

Cincinnati Hardwood Lbr. Company... 57

Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc 3

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Connor, R„, Lumber Company..., 53

Crescent Lumber Company 50

Crosby & Beckley Company, The .

Crosby. C. P 52

Cummer, Diggins & Co 3

Barling, Chas., & Co 11

Davis, John R., Lumber Company.... 52
Dells Lumber & Shingle Company.... 52

Dennis Bros 55

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company.... 54
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company... 5S

Dixon & Dewey

Dudley Lumber Company ._ 54

Duhlmeier Bros 56

Dwight Lumber Company S

Elias, G., & Bro 59

Empire Lumber Company, Buffalo.... 59
Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 54

Fall, E. H

Forman Company, Thomas 7

Freiberg Lumber Company, The 57

Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber

Company 9

General Lumber Company 50

Gillespie, W. M., Lumber Company... 7

Goldie, J. S 55

Haak Lumber Company 37

Hacbley-Phelps-Bonnell Company .... 55

Hayden, Harvey S 10

Holloway Lumber Company 7

Ingram Lumber Company 52

International Hardwood Company 5G

James & Abbot Company 7

Jenks, Robert H., -Lumber Company.. 51

Jones. G. W., Lumber Company 53

Jones Hardwood Company 7

Kampf, Albert R 2

Keator, Ben C 1 11

Keith Lumber Company 11

Kelley Lumber & Shingle Company... S

Kneeland-Bigelow Company 45

Leavitt Lumber Company 12

Lesh& Matthews Lumber Company... 11

Lineban Lumber Company 50

Litchfield, William E 7

Lombard, E. B 11

Long-Knight Lumber Company 58

MacBride, Thos., Lumber Company... "."»
Maley, Thompsun & Moffett Company. 57

Maley & Wertz 5s

Martin-Barriss Company 51

Mason & Donaldson Lumber Company. 52

MoCInre Lumber Company 55

Mcllvaln, J. Gibson, & Co 7

McLean, Hugh, Lumber Company 59

Miller, Anthony 5J

Miller Bros 11

Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Mowbray & Robinson 57

Murphy & Diggins v 3

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company 54

Nicola Lumber Company, The 50

Norman Lumber Company 2

North Shore Lumber Company 54

North Vernon Pump & Lumber Co. ... 2

North Western Lumber Company 53

O'Brien, Juhn, Land & Lumber Co.... 10

Perrine-Armstrong Company 58

Peters, R. G., Salt & Lumber Co 55

Price, E. E ,

Radina, L. W., & Co 57

Richmond Park & Co 10

Ross Lumber Company 1

Rumbarger Lumber Company

Ryan & McParland 10

Sailing, Hanson & Co 54

Sratcherd & Son 59

Scbofield Bros 7

Schultz Bros-. & Cowen 45

Simmons Lumber Company 55

Slimmer. J., & Co 10

Soble Bros •

Southern Oak Lumber Company 4

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company. 59

Stephenson, The I.. Company 12

Stewart, I. N., & Bro 59

Stewart, Wm. H. & G. s 56

Stimson, J. V 58

stone. T. B., Lumber Company 50

Sullivan. T., & Co ■ 59

Tegge Lumber Company

Turner. A. M., Lumber Company 50

Van Keuleu & Wilkinson Lumber Co.. 55

Vollmar & Below 52

Wagslaff . W. J

Walnut Lumber Company, The 58

Ward Lumber Company 11

Wells, E. A., Lumber Company...... 10

Wentworth, Chas. S., -&. Co..'.'. 7

White Lumber CompaDy 10

White. W. H., Company 45

Whitmer, Wm. 6c Sons. Inc G

Wiborg & Hanna Company 57

Wills in Rrns. Lumber Company 50i

Wisconsin Timber & Lumber Company 11

Wistar, 1/nderhill & Co ". 7

Veager, Orson E 59

Young, W. D.. & Co '. 12

Young & Cutsinger 58

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS.

Advance Lumber Company 51

Alcock. John L., & Co 7

American Hdwd. Lumber Company... 4S
American Lumber & Mfg. Company. . . 50

AndersOn-Tully Company 4

Atlantic Lumber Company 1

Beck, E. E., Lumber Company 57

Beyer, Knox & Co 59

Briggs & Cooper Company 4

Brown, Geo. C, & Co 43

Brown, W. P., & Sons, Lumber Co... 2
Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company.. 59

Carrier Lbr. & Mfg. Company 12

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co 0

Chivvis, W. R 49

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co 57

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Courtney, D. G 9

Crane, C, & Co 57

Crescent Lumber Company 50

Crosby & Beckley Company, The

Cypress Lumber Company 56

Darling. Chas.. & Co 11

Davidson -Benedict Company 1

Dennis \- Smith Lumber Company. . 54
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company. .s

Dix« in & Dewey

Dudley Lumber Company 54

Duhlmeier Bros 50

Elias, C... & Bro 59

Empire Lumber Company. Buffalo. 59

Evans & Retting Lumber Companv... 54

FalL E. H

Farrin-Korn Lumber Company 57

Freiberg Lumber Company 57

Fry-Buchanan Lumber Company. .. ,48
Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber

Company 9

Garetson-Greason Lumber. Company. . 4:i

Gayoso Lumber Company 4

Gillespie, W. M., Lumber Company... 7

Haas. Albert, Lumber Company 37

llaebley-Phelps-Bonnell Company .... 55

Hafner Manufacturing Company 49

llnwvard. M. A 33

ITimmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co. . . 1

Indiana Lumber Company 4S

International Hardwood Company 56

James & Abbot Company 7

Jenks, Robt. H.. Lumber Company... 51

Jones, G. W., Lumber Company 53

Jones Hardwood Company 7

Kampf. Albert R 2

Keator, Ben C 11

Keith Lumber Company 11

Kentucky Lumber Company 57

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 5

Lane-White Lumber Company. 4S

Leavitt Lumber Company 12

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company... 11

Linehan Lumber Company 50

Litchfield, Wm. E 7

Lombard, E. B 11

Long-Knight Lumber Company 58

Love, Boyd & Co 4S

Luehrmann, Chas. F., Hardwood Lum-
ber Company 49

Maley. Thompson & Moffett Company. 57

Martin-Barriss Company 51

Ma-ssengale Lumber Company 48

McClure Lumber Company 55

Mcllvain, J. Gibson, & Co 7

McLean-Davis Lumber Company 2

McLean, Hugh, Lumber Coinpuny 59

Miller, Anthony 59

Milh-r Bros 11

Mosby, H. W.. & Co 4

Nicola Lumber Company, The 50

Norman Lumber Company 2

O'Brien, John, Land & Lumber Co. ... 10

Ozark Cooperage Company 49

Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company 8

Plummer Lumber Company 4S

Price, E. E

Kadina, L. W., & Co 57

Ransom, J. B., & Co 48

Rbubesky, E. W 2

Richmond Park & Co 10

Hitter. W. M.. Lumber Company 69

Roy Lumber Company 37

Rumbarger Lumber Company

Ryan & McParland 10

Scatcberd & Son 59

Schofield Bros 7

Slimmer, J.. & Co 10

Smith, It. M., & Co 6

Southern Lumber Company 2

Southern Oak Lumber Company 4

standard Hardwood Lumber Companv. 59

Steele & Hibbard 4!>

Stevens-Eaton Company 7

Stewart, 1. N.. & Bro 59

Stewart, Wm. H. & G. S 5".

Stims. .n. J. V 58

Stone. T. B., Lumber Company :■<;

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Company. . 49

Stotz Lumber Company, Inc

Sullivan, T., & Co 5:'

Swann-Day Lumber Company 8

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company... 49
Thompson, J. W., Lumber Company.. 4

Three States Lumber Company 5

Turner. A. M., Lumber Company 50

Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Company 48

Walnut Lumber Company, The 58

Ward Lumber Company '. 11

Wells*. R. A.. Lumber Company 10

Wentworth, Chas. S., & Co 7

West Florida Hardwood Company.... 7

White Lumber Company 10

wh-fmer, Wm., & Sons, Inc 6

Wiborg & nanna Company 57

Willson Bros. Lumber Company 50

Wisconsin Timber & Lumber Company 11

Wood, R. E., Lumber Company 6

Yeager, Orson E 59

Young & Cutsinger 58

POPLAR.

Advance Lumber Company 51

Atlantic Lumber Company 1

Brown, W. P., & Sons. Lumber Co... 2

I he.it River Lumber Company 50

Chicago Veneer Company 36

Courtney, D. G 9

Crane, C. & Co 57

D;i vidson-Benedict Company 1

Daw kins, \\\ H., Lumber Company... 56

Haas." Albert. Lumber Company 37

Hayden, Harvey S 10

Hayward, M. A 33

Kentucky Lumber Company 57

Keyes-Fannin Lumber Company ::7

Massengale Lumber Company 4S

McLean-Davis Lumber Company 2

Rhubesky, E. W 2

Ritter. W. M.. Lumber Company 6)

Roy Lumber Company 37

Smith. R. M.. & Co 0

Southern Lumber Company 2

Stevens-Eaton Company 7

Swann-Day Lumber Company S

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company... 49

Vansant. Kitchen & Co 6,0

Wood. R. E., Lumber Company 6

Yellow Poplar Lumber Company 6)

COTTONWOOD AND GUM.

Anderson-Tully Company 4

Farrin-Korn Lumber Company 57

Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co... 1

Lamb-Fisb Lumber Company 5

Luehrmann. C. F., Hardwood Lumber

Company 49

Mosby, H. W.. & Co 4

Ozark Cooperage Company 49

Paepcke-Leict t Lumber Company S

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Company... 49"

Stotz Lumber Company, Inc

Three States Lumber Company 5

CYPRESS.

Cypress Lumber Company 56-

Hafner Manufacturing Company '. 49

Lothman Cypress Company 49

Plummer Lumber Company 48

Thompson, J. W., Lumber Company.. 4

VENEERS.

Chicago Veneer Company, Inc 36-

Wisconsin Veneer Company 53

HARDWOOD FLOORING.

Advance Lumber Company 51

Bliss & Van Auken 12

Carrier Lbr. & Mfg. Company 12

1 obbs & Mitchell, Inc 3

Cummer, Diggius & Co 3

Dwight Lumber Company 8

Eastman, S. L., Flooring Company... 54

Fenn Bros. Company 4

Forman, Thos., Company 7

Haak Lumber Company 37

Kerry & Hanson Flooring Company... 55

Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company 48

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company 54

Pease Company, The 56

Sehultz Bros. & Cowen 45 .

Stephenson, The I., Company 12

Ward Bros 12

Wilce, The T-, Company 10

Wood Mosaic Flooring Company 2

Young, W. D., & Co 12

SAW MILL MACHINERY.

Garland. M., Company

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company.. 41

Mersbon, W. B., & Co

Phoenix Manufacturing Company 39

WOODWORKING MACHINERY.

American Wood Working Machinery

Company 44

Berlin Machine Works, The 46 & 47

Defiance Manufacturing Works 38

Hurley Machine Company

Matteson Manufacturing Company ....

Nash. J. M

Ober Manufacturing Company, The... 51

Schindler, A. J 40

Smith, H. B., Machine Company

VENEER MACHINERY.

Coe Manufacturing Company 43

LOGGING MACHINERY.

Clyde Iron Works 42

Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company.. 45

Overpack, S. C 54

Russel Wheel & Foundry Company... 40

DRY KILNS AND BLOWERS.

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company. 41

Grand Rapids Veneer Works 41

Morton Dry Kiln Company 39

New York Blower Company 40

LUMBER INSURANCE.

Adirondack Fire Insurance Company.. 1
Lumber Insurance Company of New

York . . : 1

Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
pany, Boston 1

Lumber Underwriters 12

Pennsylvania Lumbermen *s Mutual

Fire Insurance Company

Rankin. Harry. & Co 34

Toledo Fire & Marine Insurance Co...

SAWS, KNIVES AND SUPPLIES.

Atkins. E. C, & Co 42

Champion Saw Company 39 & 40

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 41

Hanchett Swage Works 41

Hurley Machine Company

Marshall, Francis

Shimer, S. J., & Sons 39

MISCELLANEOUS.

Barroll. H. C, & Co 12

Childs, S. D., & Co 37

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 41

Lumbermen's Credit Association 3S

Martin & Co 51

Pease Company, The 56

Sanders, Henry, Company 11

Schenck. C. A., & Co 66

Standard Audit Company 8

HARDWOOD RECORD

37

Keys=Fannin
Lumber Company

Manufacturers of Band
and Circular sawn

SOFT

YELLOW

POPLAR

Plain and quartered red and white
Oak, Hemlock, Bass and Chest-
nut. Give us a trial,

Ashla.r\d

Ky.

WALNUT.
OAK,
ASH,
POPLAR.

Albert Haas Lumber Co.

BAND SAWED

Oak and Ash

YELLOW POPLAR
ATLANTA, :: GEORGIA

n

For items of Hard-
wood Stock or
Hardwood M a -
chinery, you will
find it advantage-
ous to write our
advertisers. Get
in touch !

Do You Need
Maple Flooring ?

Then send us your order and
you will receive a product
that is not excelled. We
manufacture by

A

Special
Process

This costs us more, but our
prices are as low as of any
other first-class manufac-
turer. We also have a stock
of firsts and seconds Maple
4-4,5 4,6-4.8-4 and 10-4, which
is bone dry and very fine.

Haak Lumber Co.

Haakwood, Michigan

COUNTERFEIT CHECKS

are fretjuent
except where

Two Piece
Geometrical
Barter Coin

1b In use, then

imitation ian't

possible.

Sample if you

n k for It.

s. d. run. us

< CO.

Chicago

We also make
Time Checks,
Stencils and
Log Hammers.

MANUFACTURERS

Contemplating establishing plants
In the West should take advantage
of ■ location on

Chicago & North-Westem Ry.

which reaches the famous

WATER POWERS,
COAL FIELDS,
IRON ORE RANGES,

HARD AND SOFT

LUMBER DISTRICTS,
MINING DISTRICTS

of the West and Northwest, and
alfords the best means of transpor-
tation to the marketa of the world.

FOR further particulars apply to

MARVIN HUGHITT, Jr., E. D. BRIGHAM,

freight Traffio Manager, Gen' I Freight Agent,

GEO. BONNELL,

I ndustria I Agent,
NW513 CHICAGO.

You read

this=

=others

will,

too.

The>

would

read

your

ad.

Try it.

Industries are Offered Locations

WITH SATISFACTORY INDUCEMENTS, FAVORABLE

FREIGHT RATES, GOOD LABOR CONDITIONS

HEALTHFUL COMMUNITIES, on the lines of

The Illinois Central R. R. and the

Yazoo & Mississippi Valley R. R.

For full information and descriptive pamphlet address
J. C. CLAIR, Industrial Commissioner, I Park Row, Chicago, III.

Wood Working Plants

Manufacturers seeking- locations for Saw
Mills, Stave and Heading Factories and
other Wood Working Plants in the Cen-
tral Southern States, can secure full and
accurate information as to Sites, Timber
Tracts, Fuel, Transportation Facilities,
etc., by addressing-

G. A. PARK, General Immigration and Industrial Agent,

Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

38

HARDWOOD RECORD

"DEFIANCE" WOOD -WORKING MACHINERY

COMPLETE EQUIPMENTS OF

HIGH GRADE TOOLS

J* FOR MAKING J*

fiOfiS^a,

%&&£4

Hubs, Spokes, Wheels,

Wagons, Carriages,

Rims, Shatts, Poles,

Neck-Yokes,

Single Trees, Hoops,

Handles, Bobbins, Spools,

Insulator Pins and

Oval Wood Dishes.

AUTOMATIC LAST TURNING LATHE

INVENTED AND BUILT BY

The DEFIANCE MACHINE WORKS

DEFIANCE, OHIO.
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Nn. 4 POWER-FEED BAND RIP SAW

HARDWOOD
TIMBER

There is no section with so fine and
large a supply of hardwood timbers
of various kinds left for the lumber-
men as that portion of the South in
Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Missis-
sippi, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee and Virginia served by the
lines of the

Southern Railway

and

Mobile & Ohio Railroad

There are oak, poplar, hickory, gum,
cypress, ash, elm. buckeye, balsam,
spruce, chestnut, and other varieties.
There are also available pine lands.
These timber resources and many
other important features bearing on
the cost of manufacture and market-
ing give special advantages and oppor-
tunities for EVERY KIND of WOOD
USING INDUSTRY. We have infor-
mation about the best locations in the
country at towns in these States and
in Southern Indiana and Southern
Illinois, which will be given if request-
ed. All correspondence in regard to
timber lauds or factory locations will
be given prompt and confidential at-
tention. Address your nearest agent.

M. V. RICHARDS,

I^and and iHdustrial Agent,

Washington. D. C.
CHAS. S. CHASE, Agent.

622 Chemical Building,

Si. Louis, Mo.

Locations for

Industries

THE ERIE, THE COMMERCIAL RAILROAD

CHICACO TO NEW YORK

The Erie Railroad System's Industrial
Department has all the territory traversed
by the railroad districted in relation to
resources, markets and advantages for
manufacturing, can advise with man-
ufacturers of specific products as to suit-
able locations, and furnish them with cur-
rent information of a comprehensive
nature dealing with the project in its full
relation to manufacture and commerce.

The Erie is one of the greatest of trunk
lines. Its own rails connect the two
largest cities of America. Every section
of the System has its particular merits.
Profitable locations exist. It has great
general and coal, oil and natural gas
resources.

It is important in this age of modern
facilities for manufacturers to locate
where they can obtain side tracks so as
to receive from and ship directly into
cars at the factory. Information can be
promptly furnished in this connection
about every point on the system between
New York and Chicago.

Manufacturers' inquiries as to locations
are treated in strict confidence and
absolutely reliable information, so as
to promote permanent traffic, is furnished.
Address

LUIS JACKSON

Industrial Commissioner

Erie Railroad Company
1 1 Broadway, New York.

Save Your Money

By Using the

RED BOOK

Published Semi-Annually
in January and July

It contains a carefully prepared list of the
buyers of lumber in car lots, both among
the dealers and manufacturers.

The book indicates their financial stand-
ing and manner of meeting obligations.
Covers the UNITED STATES and MANI-
TOBA.

The trade recognizes this book as the au-
thority on the lines it covers.

A well organized Collection Department
is also operated and the same is open to you.

WRITE FOR TERMS.

Lumbermen's Credit Association

Established 1878
1405 Great Northern Building, :

16 Beaver Street, :

MENTION THIS PAPER

CHICAGO
NEW YORK CITY

A HANDY THING

TO HAVE IN YOUR DESK AND
IN YOUR TRAVELING BAG IS
A TIME TABLE FOLDER OF THE

Michigan Central

The Direct Line to All Important
Points ol Michigan and Between

CHICAGO, DETROIT, NIAGARA FALLS, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, BOSTON

and NEW ENGLAND POINTS.

S E-N D FOR A COPY NOW

W. J. LYNCH,

Pass. Traffic Mgr.,

O. W. RUGGLES,

Gen'l Pass. Agt..

Hardwood Board Rules

FOP HARDWOOD LUMBERMEN

Best Goods, Prompt Shipment

Send your orders to the HARDWOOD RECORD, 355 Dearborn Street

HARDWOOD RECORD

39

For Matching Hard, Cross-Grained and Knotty Lumber

The Shimer Cutter Head

Is the Only Tool you can Rely Upon.

It has strength, durability and correct working principles. It feeds faster, works smoother, cuts true to pattern. No fitting,
no trying no filing to shape. You sharpen the Cutters with a file and set them with a gauge — plain as day.

Even-body profits by their use. For Flooring, Ceiling, Siding. For Ship Lap, Jointing, Double Ceiling. For Doors, Sash and
Special designs. Coping Heads to match.

Your Capacity Increased— Your Labor and Expense Reduced.

SAMUEL J. SHIMER ® SONS, Milton, Pa.

The Morton Dry Kiln

MOIST AIR SYSTEM

Recording
Ther-
mometers.
Transfer
Cars.

Trucks.

Canvas

Doors.

HOW TO DRY LUMBER.

As exemplified in our Catalog I). Free 011 application.

MORTON DRY KILN CO., Chicago, Ills.

Do you want a
7=foot band mill?

This is a first-class
machine and will
give the best of re-
sults. It is strong,
well made, and as
good as it looks.
Write us and we will
give you full particu-
lars.

Phoenix Mfg. Co.

Eau Claire, Wis.

CQood saws, that do their
duty, plus.

C Cutting edge that comes
from best material skill=
fully manufactured.

CHAMPION SAW CO.

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

TO NEW YORK OVER. NIGHT

The 20th Century Limited

Via the LAKE SHORE and NEW YORK CENTRAL
The Route of the Government Fast Mail Trains

CHICAGO-NEW YORK 18-HOUR TRAIN

IT SAVES A DAY

FROM LA SALLE ST. STATION
CHICAGO

Leave Chicago at '2.30 p. m.
Arrive fv'ew York at 9.30 a. m.

FROM GRAND CENTRAL STATION
The Only Tehminal in New Yukk

Leave New York at 3.30 p. m.
Arrive Chicago at 8.30 a. m.

W. J. LYNCH, Passenger Traffic Manager, Chicago, 111.

4Q

HARDWOOD RECORD

Power
Money

S a ved
S a ve d

factory:
BUCYRUS, OHIO

Heating, Ventilating, Mechanical Draft,
Shavings and Conveying

FANS AND EXHAUSTERS

of every description.

WHITE FOR CalALOGUL No S8-G

New York Blower Company

CHICAGO office:
25th Place and Stewart Avenue

u

r New Type of Combined End Matcher

Jjflf| i^^Hr^oj,

jjkjii SAVES 20 PER CENT. TIME, COST AND LABOR.
^■°""" USED BY THE LARGEST FLOORING CONCERNS.

i H ^k Write for particulars to

1 L J. SCHINDLER, 441-443 W. 21st Street, CHICAGO

RUSSEL Wl

Builders of

Logging Cars tf|
And Logging £f
Machinery

iEEL & FOUNDRY

COMPANY

ARE ALWAYS PLEASED TO
^^^ HAVE OPPORTUNITY OF
BBa- POINTING OUT AD VAN-

"T TAGESOFTHEIR
ji H EQUIPMENT.

Detroit, Mich.

^a^fo"; ~WR>&**'j

4[; - I ■S'J-^^ai

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KNIVES

Planer knives, veneer knives or any of the good machine

knives that you use are tempered best by skilled experience.

Know the truth and get your best machine knives from

CHAMPION SAW COMPANY,

BE A VER FALLS, PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

41

Do you lack steam?

We can help you

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate adds from
25 to 50$ to the steamng capacity of a
boiler or battery of boilers. It insures a
good fire at all times, regardless of the
weather or of the character or condition of
your fuel. A blacksmith forge on a large
scale. It gives as good results with green
or wet sawdust or slabs as a draft grate
gives with dry wood. Even snow and ice
are no obstacles. Sold on approval.
Remember, we pay the freight both ways
in case of rejection. The risk is all ours.

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co.

GREENVILLE, MICHIGAN

The largest manufacturers of blast grates, cdgcrs and trimmers in the world.

We Guarantee

to

KILN DRY OAK

IN A WEEK

by the application of a
new scientific principle

IN YOUR PRESENT

Old Kilns

Grand Rapids Veneer Works

DEPT.'D., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

jiMiHiMiaiminxj

Hanchett 1
Saw Swage

Every one made Perlect

The Swage with a Name

^ A poor Swage Ruins a Good Saw, and
for that reason the manufacturers of the

HANCHETT ADJUSTABLE SWAGE

employ only the Best Mechanics and use
only the Best Material in their construction.

It Pays Us
to make
The Best

Send for

Catalog

No. 10

It tells you all

about them

It Pays You

to use

The Best

^MANUFACTURED* BY3

Hanchett Swage Works

Big Rapids. Michigan

*f Hanchett - Hanchett - Hanchett <?

& $$ The Pocketbook Test $$

The average man who buys largely, buys carefully.
Manufacturers who have expended $4,000.00 to
$5,000.00 each on Gillette Roller Bearing Lumber
Carts know why they did it. So do we. They are
the lightest running, longest lasting carts made. Like-
wise they are marketed at honest, money-saving prices.

INVEST in Gillette Carts— Don't WASTE money
on others, What's your address?

The Gillette Roller Bearing Co.

Pafentees and Sole
Manufacturers

Grand Rapids, Michigan I/O

42

HARDWOOD RECORD

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The real "meat" in any production de
especially is this true in logging. The

argely on the cost -the method of producing and

McGIFFERT Log Loader

Hets out the most
reduces switchin

h the fewetffl ''sraills.'" Propelling itself, ill rushes the work and
ptaRverfuBl yet simple to operate the^ycra^e engineer soon
nSxperl&and with few helpers/
usShijih i!S"l 00 to 150.000 feet,
ursSin facSgOO.000 has been
plishcd. Mut your cost —
•r #>t a MeKiiflert do it)
u/r method* "I hand-

aI /

ATKINS

Silver Steel

SAWS

are perfect in every detail. They stand up to their work as honest Saws should do. You'll find them cheapest in the end, because
they save shut-downs and require less attention. Order one saw from your dealer, from us or from our nearest Branch, where a
complete stock is carried for immediate shipment.

E. C ATKINS <&. CO., inc.

THE SILVER STEEL SAW PEOPLE

HOME OFFICE AND FACTORY: INDIANAPOLIS.

%. -

BRANCHES: ATLANTA CHICAGO, MEMPHIS MINNEAPOLIS, NEW ORLEANS, NEW YOBK CITY.
PORTLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, SEATTLE, TORONTO

HARDWOOD RECORD

43

An Inexpensive Veneer Cutter

This machine was especially de-
signed for cutting basket, crate and
cheese box stock in response to a
demand from the trade for an accur-
ate, powerful, Veneer Cutter at a
comparatively low price. We build
these with any length of knife from
26 to 64 in. and they will cut per-
fect stock in any thickness from
-*"'<»- 1-120 to 5-16 in.

The spindles are
3% in. diameter,
and are turned
from a special

&

/ GRAND PRIZE

VeneermaghY.^

forged steel of great toughness. The
feed screws are 2 in. in diameter, and
all feed gears are cut from the solid.

Other important features are, the
rapid knife bar movement, adjustable
pressure plates, power dogging de-
vice, and positive clutch drive.

The machines are exceptionally
strong and rigid and are fully guar-
anteed in every respect.

Complete specifications of these
machines will be found in our cata-
log No. 5, which will be mailed you
on application.

The Coe Manufacturing Co. -sSi- Painesville, 0.

44

HARDWOOD RECORD

AMERICAN

Power Feed Band Rip Saw

The strongest and most posi-
tive feeding machine of its
class in the market. Direct
Belt and Gear Drive.

(NO FRICTION.)

Investigate its merits. We will
send you our new 1 907 cata-
logue for the asking. Write
for it. Prices on application.

American Wood Working Machinery Co.

NEW ORLEANS
Hennen Building

[SALESROOMS

CHICAGO
43 South Canal Street

NEW YORK
136 Liberty Street

HARDWOOD RECORD

45

W. H. WHITE, Pres.

JAS. A WHITE, VicePres.

W. L. MARTIN, Secy.

THOS. WHITE, Treas.

W. H. WHITE COMPANY

BOYNE CITY, MICHIGAN

Manufacturers of Hardwood and HemlocK Lumber, Cedar Shingles,

White Rock Maple Flooring.

Schultz Brothers & Cowen

WE ARE IN THE MARKET TO BUY

POPLAR— OAK— ASH— CHESTNUT

AND OTHER HARDWOODS-ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

1225 to 1240 OLD COLONY BUILDING,

CHICAGO

TheKNEELAND BIGELOW CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF LUMBER

Annual Output:

20,000,000 ft. Hardwoods.
20,000,000 ft. Hemlock.

4,000,000 pes. Hardwood Lath.

9,000,000 pes. Hemlock Lath.

Mills Run the Year
Aro\jr\d.

Bay City. Mich.

LIDGERW00D MACHINES

WILL STOCK YOUR MILL

SKIDDERS
SNAKERS
YARDERS

LOADERS
PULL BOATS
CABLEWAYS

LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO.

96 Liberty St., New York.

By. " JZoW

NEW ORLEANS ATLANTA

SEATTLE

46

HARDWOOD RECORD

One of the BERI

The home of BERLIN wood- working machines continues to grow.

This picture shows the greater part of one of the erecting rooms, which covers almost
100,000 square feet of floor space and is devoted exclusively to the erection of Sizers, Matchers,
Moulders and Band Sawing Machinery.

Look at that line of Sizers in the crane-way at the right of the picture.

And still the demand exceeds the output!

The construction of this room is especially adapted to the production of good machinery.

Thereof is of "saw-tooth'' design and the windows face north, giving the best lij^lit
obtainable.

The floor consists of a special concrete foundation, in which are laid bevel-sawed joists four

THE BERLIN i

Beloit, Wis

BRANCH OFFICES: NEW YORK, CHICAGO, BOSTOI

HARDWOOD RECORD

47

4 Erecting Rooms

inches thick on the bottom and two inches on the top. Across these joists are laid two inch
matched flooring and crosswise of this seven-eighths maple flooring, side and end matched.

This makes a floor which is not only level, but absolutely free from vibx-ation — an ideal
erecting floor.

This is worth money to the users of BERLIN tools, for it insures true foundations and
perfect alignment of working parts on all machines.

The entire room is equipped with electric cranes, making it possible to handle a fourteen-
ton machine easily and rapidly.

If you care for copy of this picture, we'll be glad to send it postpaid upon request written
on your letter-head.

CHINE WORKS

in, U. S. A.

■RANG /SCO, SEATTLE, NEW ORLEANS, MACON, GA.

48

HARDWOOD RECORD

*3 1 . L-r^J^JI^

;

LARGEST OF ALL HARDWOOD MARKETS

Wanted— to Buy or Contract for Future Delivery

500,000 to 1,000.000 ft. Poplar, all grades
500,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Cypress, all grades
500,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Ash, all grades

a$3K5 PLUMMER LUMBER CO. ^k8Eksi

American Hardwood Lumber Co.

14,000,000 ft. Hardwood Lumber

YARDS AT BENTON, ARK., NEW ORLEANS, LA., ST. LOUIS, MO,
DICKSON, TENN.

MASSENGALE LUMBER CO., ST. LOUIS

Manufacturers and dealers in

HARDWOODS

In the market to buy and sell OAK, POPLAR, ASH, CYPRESS
Large stock dry lumber alwayson band

LANE- WHITE LUMBER CO,

OAK. ASH AND WALMJT IA arA\\Tr\r\Ad ALWAYS IN THE MARKET
OURSPECIALTY lldlUWUUUJ I OR WALNUT LOGS

MAIN OFFICE AND BAND MILL at FORT SMITH, ARK.

JOHN B. RANSOM 4 CO.,

NASHVILLE,, TENNESSEE

Wc want to move quickly the following old
sticks 6 to 1 8 months. Write us for deliv
furnish promptly mixed cars of rough and

QUARTERED WHITE OAK
90 M 4/4 first and second
15 M 5/4 first and second
80 M 6/4 first and second
10 M 10/4 first and second
120 M 4/4 No. 1 Common
65 M 6/4 No. 1 Common
58 M 8/4 No. 1 Common
20 M 10/4 No. I Common
70 M 5/8 first and second Poplar
80 M 5/8 No. 1 Common Poplar
15 M 4/41stand2dQuarteredSycamore
10 M 4,4 No. 1 Com. Quart'd Sycamore

dry stock. All of it has been on

ered prices. We are prepared to

are&sed hardwoods of all kinds:

QUARTERED RED OAK

100 M 4/4 first and second

58 M 6/4 first and second

15 M 8/4 first and second

95 M 4/4 No. 1 Common

84 M 6 4 No. 1 Common

72 M 8/4 No. 1 Common

PLAIN OAK

50 M 4 4 1st and 2nd White
100 M 4 4 No. 1 Common White
100 M 4 4 first and second Red
100 M 4, 4 No. l.Common Red

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Co,

Manufacturers of

"Acorn Brand"

THE FAMOUS FAULTLESS FLOORING
IN OAK AND BEECH.

Car Lots and Less Than Car Lot
Orders Solicited. Write for Prices.

Nashville, Tennessee

GEO. C. BROWN & CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

. Hardwood Lumber

Tennessee Red Cedar Lumber a Specialty. Nashville, Tennessee

INDIANA LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers Lumber

DIMENSION STOCK A SPECIALTY.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Office and Mills: Corner Oldham
Street and Cumberland River

ALL BONE DRY

Fry=Buchanan Lumber Co.

INCORPORATED.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Hardwood Lumber

POPLAR SQUARES
A Specialty.

Choicest Varieties. .'. Full Grades.

Asheville, N. C.

Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers
of all kinds of

HARDWOODS

BEVELED SIDING A SPECIALTY.
UNSURPASSED FACILITIES
FOR DELIVERING.

Knoxville
Tennessee

r— = —

fVT A C^ I ■ "\ 7 I I I ITT

iNAoil V I L LL

HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

LOVE, BOYD & CO.

NASHVILLE, TE\N.

Will make special prices on :

150,000 ft. 1 in. Tennessee Red Cedar
300,000 ft. 1 in. to 4 in. Hickory
400,000 ft. 1 in. No. 1 Com. Plain White Oak
500,000 ft. 1 in. to 2% in. Qrtd. Red Oak.
40,000 ft. 2V2 in. Is & 2s Qrtd. White Oak
60,000 ft. 2l/i in. No. 1 Com. Qrtd. White Oak
13,000 ft. 5-8 Sound Wormy Chestnut

OUR OWN CUT

HARDWOOD RECORD

49

^ HP

•
OF

I 4^% 1 T I d

^ I

LU U lo

LAR GEST

ALL HARDWOOD MARKETS

Wanted-Cypress, Ash and Cottonwood

Inspection at Point of Shipment When Quantity Justifies

Hafner Manufacturing Co.

CYPRESS, HARDWOODS

Mail orders receive our immediate
attention.

YARDS: FOOT OF DOCK STREET

Garetson-Greason Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

GUM LUMBER
OUR SPECIALTY

Carload Shipments Direct
from Our Own Mills

519 Bank of Commerce

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Co.

CASH BUYERS OF OAK, ASH, CY-
PRESS, POPLAR, CHERRY AND ALL

HARDWOODS

Send Inspector When Quantity Justifies

Office and Yards : Hall and Angelrodt Sts.

CHAS. F.

Carry a complete stock of Hardwood and are

constantly in the market to purchase

large blocks of stock for cash. Are

also the largest manufacturers of

the famous St. Francis

Basin Red Gum.

General Offices: 148 Carroll Street

LOTHMAN CYPRESS CO.

AIR DRIED

Louisiana Red Cypress

FOOT OF ANGELICA STREET

STEELE & HIBBARD

WHOLESALE
MANUFACTURERS.
DEALERS AND
SHIPPERS.

MILLS:
Yazoo City. Miss.
McGregor. Ark.
England. Ark.
Dernrvott. Ark.
O'HaraL, La.
Dexter, Mo.

ASH.

CYPRESS.
MAHOGANY.
OAK.

POPLAR,
ETC.

North Broadway and Dock Sts.

Roland

Manager

££"* Ozark Cooperage Co, s

ardwood
Department

WE BUY STOCKS READY CUT OR CONTRACT FUTURE OUTPUT

Four Inspectors in the South

Direct Shipments 5 COTTONWOOD,
ftom mill stocks! CYPRESS, GUM. OAK.

MAIN OFFICE.
FRISCO BUILDING

Wn /"1LJT\7A7IC Lesperance Street and Iron
• AV. LlfllV V lO, Mountain Railroad.

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

BLACK WALNUT LUMBER MY SPECIALTY. Always in the market to buy
Walnut and Cherry Lumber. Pay spot cash and take up at shipping
point when amounts justify.

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Co.

203 Frisco "Building

We have the following Dry Stock for sale piled at our mill:

QTD. WHITE OAK : COTTONWOOD:

3 Cars 4/4 Common. 3 Cars 1" I and 2.

2 Cars 4/4 Common and Better Strips. 1 Car 1x13 to 17" Box Boards.

GUM : ELM :

ft Cars 1" Common Red. 1 Car 6 4 Log Run.

1 Car 1x13 to 17" Box Boards. 4 Cars 4'' Log Run.

1 Car 2" 1 and 2 Sap.
6 Cars 13i Common and Better Sap.

This Stock is All Hand Sawed and Equalized

5o

HARDWOOD RECORD

S T O C K

LIST

6.000 II. 4 4 Maple No. 1 Cora. Dry

6.000 It. 8 4 Maple No. 2 Com.. Dry

12,000 II. 4 4 Maple No 1 Com ( Bet .

7,000 II. 8 4 Maple No. 2 Com.4 Bel..

Dry

Dry

85,000 II. 4 4 Maple No. 1 Com.« Bel..

1 Car 10 4 Maple lsis and 2nds.Dry

Pari Dry

52.000 It. 10 4 Maple No. 2 Com. 6 Bel..

I Car 5 4 Maple No. 1 Com., Dry

Pari Dry

1 Car 5, 4 Maple 1 sis and 2ads, Dry

48.000 It. 10 4 Maple No. 2 Com. 4 Bel..

116,000 II. 5 4 Maple No 1 Com. 6 Bel.

Pari Dry

Dry

19.000 II. 12 4 Maple No. 2 Com. « Bel..

77.000 tl. 5 4 Maple No. 1 Com. 4 Bet.

Pari Dry

Pari Dry

4,000 It. 16 4 Maple No. 2 Com. & Bet..

1 Car 6 4 Maple No. 1 Com.. Dry

Pari Dry

1 Car 6 4 Maple I sis and 2ods, Dry

2 Car 4 4 Basswood Log Run mill

47.000 It. 6 4 Maple No. 2 Com. 4 Bel..

culls oul. Dry

Dry

2 Car 8 4 Basswood Log Rud mill

67,000 II. 6 4 Maple No 2 Com. t Bel.,

culls out. Dry

Pari Dry Favorable Freight Rates to the East.

BABCOCK LUMBER CO., Ashtola, Pa.

The Nicola Lumber
Company

One million feet 4-4 Bay Poplar.
Can be shipped log run, or sold
on grade. Bone dry ; band
sawed. Send your inquiries.

A* M. Turner
Lumber Company

Everything in lumber. We buy hardwoods
as well as sell them. If you have anything
to offer, please submit same to us. : t

Willson Bros. Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS

WEST VIRGINIA
HARDWOODS

FARMERS BANK BLDG. k PITTSBURG, PA.

DRY STOCK

--for:

Quick Shipment

48.492

124. 9S2

69,793

79,341

128.402

119.001

8,942

11.312

41.1)28

38.793
29.423
21.971
29.824
21,974

ft. 4/4 1st & 2ds Qtd. White

Oak.
ft. 4/4 No. 1 Com. Qtd. White

Oak.

& 2ds Qtd. Red

1 Com. Red Oak.
1 Com. PI. W. O.
PI. R. O.
PI. Red &

1 Com
1 Com.

70.812
14.1S2

US. 121
24.128
21.9<l3
19.246
78.433
4.284

126.094
49.021

ft. 4/4 1st

Oak.
ft. 4/4 No.
ft. 4/4 No.
ft. 4/4 No.
ft. 5/4 No.

White Oak.
ft. 6/4 No. 1 Com. PI. Red & 61.975

White Oak.
ft. 8/4 No. 1 Com. PI. Red & 98.194

White Oak. 129. 4S1

ft. 5/8 1st & 2ds Poplar. 49.200

ft. 5/8 No. 1 Com. Poplar. 48.205

ft. 5/8 Saps Poplar. 94.3S9

ft. 5/8 No. 2 Com. Poplar. 242.841

ft. 4/4 1st & 2ds Poplar. 181.921

ft. 4/4 No. 1 Poplar,
ft. 6/4 1st & 2ds Poplar,
ft. 4/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut,
ft. 6/4 1st & 2ds Chestnut.
ft. 7/4 No. 1 Com. Chestnut,
ft. 8/4 No. 1 Com. Chestnut,
ft. 6/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut.
ft. 8/4 Sound Wormy Chestnnt.
ft. 4/4 1st & 2ds Cottonwood,
ft. 4/4 13 to 17" Boj Boards,

1st & 2ds.
ft. 4/4 8 to 12" Box Boards,

1st & 2ds.
ft. 4/4 Sap Gum, 1st & 2ds.
ft. 4/4 Sap Gum No. 1 Com.
ft. 4/4 Sap Gum No. 2 Com.
ft. 4/4 Red Gum, 1st & 2ds.
ft. 4/4 Red Gum. No. 1 Com.
ft. 4/4 Bay Poplar. 1st & 2ds.
ft. No. 1 Com. Bay Poplar.

American Lumber 4 Mfg. Co.

PITTSBURG. PA.

Linchan Lumber Company

PERFECT

MAPLE FLOORING

SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES

Hardwoods a Specialty

FOR SALE

POPLAR

125.000' 4/4 lsand 2s
40.000' 4/4 No. 1 Com.
325,008' 4/4 No. 2 Com.
228.000' 4/4 No. 3 Com.
150,000' \"4 Mill Cull

CHESTNUT

200.000' 4 4 Sound Wormy
80,000' 5/4 Sound Wormy

100,000' 6, '4Sound Wormy
48,000' 8. '4 Sound Wormy

PLAIN OAI
60,000' 4 '4 No. 1 Com.
18,000" 4/4 No. 2 Com.

QUARTERED OAK
2 cars 4/4 No. 1 Com.
1 car 4 4 No. 2 Com.

OAK TIMBERS SAWED TO ORDER.
WRITE FOR PRICES.

CHEAT RIVER LUMBER COMPANY, Pittsburg, Pcnna.

HARDWOOD RECORD

5i

The Martin-Barriss Company

Importers a.nd Manufacturers

MAHOGANY

dind Fine Hardwoods

THE

ROBERT H. JENKS LUMBER

COMPANY

FOR SALE.

60 M leel 1" 1st and 2ds Poplar
223 N feet 1" No. 1 Commoo Poplar
<25 M leel I" No. 2 Common Poplar

25 M leel 2" I si aod 2nd Poplar. 14" and up
125 M teel 8 4" Sound Wormy Chestnut
275 M feet I" Sound Wormy Chestnut
153 M leel 1" 1st and 2nd Plain While Oak

85 M leel 1" 1st and 2nd Plain Red Oak
125 M leet 1" No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak

Quartered White and Red Oall. — We have a good assort-
ment of dry stock, Yi to 4 inches thick. Your inquiries solicited.

Plain White and Red Oak.— A limited amount of nice
stock, ready for shipment.

HARDWOODS

Dry Stock is Scarce

Mill Shipments are Slow in Coming Forward

We therefore call attention to stock of upwards
of SIX MILLION FEET seasoned HARD-
WOODS we offer for quick shipment from
Cleveland. WANT TO CLEAN IT OUT.
Are you interested ?

The Advance Lumber
Company

1 3th Floor, Rockefeller Bldg., CLEVELAND, O.

Manufacturers and Dealers
In White Pine, Yellow Pine, Hemlock and Hardwoods

SYMBOLS FOR GRADE MARKS

Adopted by the Hardwood Manufacturers Association of United States
Q Panel and Wide No. I Z\ Selects

f\ Wide No. 2
Fi Box Boards

(j^ No. 1 Common

(2 No. 2 Common

(? No. 3 Common

M- No. 4 Common

y FAS or Firsts and
^~ Seconds
CI Saps

Every Manufacturer should stamp the grade on his Lumber.
Set of 10 Rubber Stamps, l'A"xl</i" in size. Pad, Pint of Ink, and
Spreader, packed for shipment $3.50.
mARTIN & CO. LEWIS DOSTER, Sec'y

191 S. Clark Si., CHICAGO, or 1535 First Nal. Bank Bldg. CHICAGO

This cut shows the O BE R PATENT AUTOMATIC SANDER tor

sanding Fork, Hoe, Rake, Mop and Broom Handles and all similar work.

Simple, Durable
Great Capacity

We also manufacture Lathes for turning Handles, Spokes, and Variety Work,
Shapers, Boring and Chucking Machines, Rip Saws, etc. Complete Cata-
logue and Price List Free.

THE OBER MFG. CO., 28 Bell St., CHAGRIN FALLS, 0., U. S. A.

52 HARDWOOD RECORD

\\ r f CT f^* 'f~\ MCI 1X.T

W 1 o L U IN o 1 IN

WHERE THE FINE.ST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

ARPIN HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
Saw and Planing Mill at Atlanta, near Bruce, on the Soo Line. Offer

5 cars 1" 1st & 2d Red Birch.
1 car lYt" 1st & 2d Red Birch.
1 car 1*4" Common Red Birch.

1 car ly." 1st & 2d Red Birch.
1.000' 1%" Common Red Birch.
2.500' 1%" Com. & Btr. Red Birch.
5.000' 2" 1st & 2d Red Birch.

2 cars 2% & 3" Plain Birch.

2 cars 2% & 3" Log Run Unselected

Birch.
5 cars 1" Common Red Birch.
1 car 2" Plain Log Run Birch.

2 cars 3" Clear Plain Birch Flooring.

1 car 3" Clear Red Birch Flooring.

1 car 3" Factory Birch Flooring.

1 car 3" Red Oak Factory Flooring.

1 car 1*4 & 1^" quarter sawed Com.
and Btr. Red Oak.

M car 1% and 2" Com. & Btr. quar-
ter sawed Red Oak.

1 car 5" Clear quarter sawed Red
Oak Flooring.

% car each l^" Com. & Clear Maple
Flooring.

We make a specialty of high grade Maple, Birch and Oak Flooring, Bass-
wood, Pine Siding, Ceiling and Finish; also Moulding.

VOLLMAR & BELOW

MARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN

Basswood, Birch

and Other Wisconsin Hardwoods

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU ARE IN THE MARKET FOR

C. P. CROSBY

RHINELANDER s j WISCONSIN

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Hard Maple a Specialty in all thicknesses from 1 inch
to 4 inch. Finest Birch in Wisconsin. Black Ash,
Rock Elm, Soft Elm, Red and White Oak. : :

DIFFICULT AND MIXED ORDERS A SPECIALTY

For Sale:

NATIONAL
INSPECTION

3,000,000 ft. inch Birch.
100,000 ft. inch Black Ash.
50,000 ft. inch Soft Elm.

All No. 1 Common and Better.
20,000 ft. 1x4 and wider, 6 ft., 1st & 2nd Birch.

Dells Lumber 4 Shingle Co.

EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN

Mason -Donaldson Lumber Co.

RKinelander. Wisconsin.

20 cars I inch No. 1 Common Birch
12 cars 1 -inch No. 2 Common Birch

4 cars 1 inch No. 1 Common & Better Red Birch
I 5 cars 1 inch No. 2 Common & Better Soft Elm

1 5 cars 1 inch No. 3 Common Birch

5 cars 1 % inch No. 1 Common & Better Basswood

5 cars 2 inch No. I Common & Better Basswood
1 0 cars 1 inch 1 st & 2nd Clear Basswood, 1 4 and I 6 feet
7 cars 1 ! 2 inch No. I Common & Better Soft Elm
4 cars 2 inch No. I Common & Better Soft Elm
2 cars 1 s/i inch No. 3 Common Soft Elm

John R. Davis Lumber Company

PHILLIPS, WISCONSIN
T li e Leading Manufacturers

Wisconsin Hardwoods

"SHAKELESS" HEMLOCK and WHITE CEDAR PRODUCTS

WE HAVE THE FINEST BLOCK OF

4-4 UrsfSELECTED BIRCH

ON THE MARKET

Write for our Price Lists
and Stock Sheets

Mixed Cars, Even Grades
Prompt Shipmenis

yfat fhrn^m^M,

WAUSAU, WIS.

BASSWOOD, BIRCH

We cut four million feet of each annually
Your Inquiries and orders solicited

MILL AND YARDS AT INGRAM. WISCONSIN

HARDWOOD RECORD 53

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w i^c^ors^irN

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

North Western Lumber Co.

General Offices
FAU CLAIRE, WIS.

Mills at

STANLEY, WIS.

Ba.rvd Sa.wed

Wisconsin
Hardwoods

Careful Gradings
Prompt Shipments.

SPECIAL OFFERINGS

1 Car \lA inch No. 1 Common Basswood.

yi Car ll/i inch No. 1 Common Basswood.

Yi Car 2J4 inch 1st and 2nd Clear Basswood.

1 Car 1% inch 1st and 2nd Clear Basswood.

1 Car \% inch, llA inch and 2 inch No. 3 Soft Elm.

LOCATIONS FOR
NEW INDUSTRIES

can be secured on the lines of the

Chicago, Milwaukee 4
St. Paul Railway

In the great middle west. It reaches the Copper Country and the
pine and hardwood areas of Northern Michigan, the lead, zinc and
Iron regions of Wisconsin, tho coal fields of Illinois, Iowa and
Missouri.

Traverses the great agricultural and manufacturing states of
Iowa, Minnesota. North and South Dakota. Operates 7,000 miles of
thoroughly equipped railroad.

Correspondence is solicited with eastern manufacturers who de-
Fire to move their factories to, or establish branches in the West.
Co-operation with Business Men's Associations on the lines of this
railway in all matters affecting mutual interests Is assured.

Inquiries should be as definite as possible.

Address

Industrial Department

Chicago, Milwaukee 4 St. Paul Railway,

Room 1327, Railway Exchange

Chicago

R. CONNOR CO.

WHOLESALE M A N D I- A C T D R E K S

Wisconsin
Hardwood

PINE AND HEM-
LOCK LUMBER

WStaS&M: Marshfield, Wis.

Wisconsin Veneer Co.

RHINELANDER, WIS.

Largest and best equipped Veneer
cutting- plant in the country. High-
grade product from Birch, Maple,
Elm, Basswood, Ash and other na-
tive woods.

Veneers for Door Work a Specialty.

HARDWOOD LUMBER

NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN

Your attention called to the following i
position to make close prices:

25M' Basswood 9" 10" 11" 1st and 2d 100M'

12M" Birch, Red. 2" 1st and 2d 300M'

5'IM' Birch. Red, 1" 1st and 2d 50M'

4'lM' Birch, Red, 1" No. 1 Common 150M'

200M' Birch 1" 1st and 2d 17.5M'

175M' Birch 1" No. 1 Common 20M'

2lhiM' Birch 1J" 1st 4 2d 4 No. 1 Com. 20M'

150M' Birch l|" 1st & 2d & No. 1 Com. 20M'

2O0M' Elm. Soft, 1" No. 2 Com. 4 Better 75M'

175M' Elm, Soft, 1*" No. 2 C 4 B. Choice 2511'

terns upon which we are in a

Elm, Rock, 1" No. 2 Com. 4 Better
Maple 1" No. 2 Com. 4 Better
Maple IV No. 2 Com. 4 Better
Maple lj" No. 2 Com. 4 Better
Maple 2" No. 2 Com. & Better
Maple 3" 1st and 2d
Oak. \V. Bin. 3 4" No. 1 Com.* Better
Oak, W. Bin. ,: h," No. 1 Com.* Better
Gum, Sap. 3/4" No. 1 Com. 4 Better
Gum, Sap, 23" No. 1 Com. 4 Better
anufactured, grades guaranteed

All lumber cut from good timber, well m

G.W.JONES LUMBER CO., Apple Ion, Wis.

CHICAGO OFFICE: 1717 Railway Exchange.

^TT Have you seen the HARDWOOD
^1 RECORD'S list of wholesale hardwood
-^ consumers of the United States, with their
annual requirements by kind, grade and thickness ?
It contains information essential to every sales
manager. C A specimen bulletin for the asking.

HARDWOOD RECORD

SALLING, HANSON & CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Michigan Hardwoods

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

DUDLEY LUMBER COMPANY

HAS FOR SALE
Memphis Yard— Plain and Qtd. Oak
Grand Rapids Yard-MlcHlgarv Hardwoods

Hemlock Lumber Also A Specialty
OFFICES: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

S. L. EASTMAN FLOORING CO.

SAGINAW ■HAND

MAPLE FLOORING

SAGINAW, MICH.

QUOTE ON SMALL OR LARGE LOTS.

WILL PLACE ORDERS FOR STOCK TO

BE MANUFACTURED

Wanted- Soft Maple

One-inch and Two-inch Log Run, Mill Culls Out, Pin
Worms no Defect. Will also buy Mill Culls.

BROWN LEE & COMPANY, Detroit, Mich.

Special bargains in the following:

200 M 4-4. No. 2 C & B Birch

SO M 8-4 No. 1 C & B Birch
100 M 4-4 No. 2 C & B Grey Elm

SO M 8-4 No. 1 C & B Grey Elm
140 M 4-4 No. 2 C & B Beech
500 M 4-4 No. 2C&B Maple

SO M 8-4 No. 2 C & B Maple

Above piled for water shipment, but the 4-4 Beech and 8-4 Maple can
be slupped by rail. Write us lor prices.

The North Shore Lumber Co. KcTO

DENNIS & SMITH LUMBER CO.

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Office and Yards, FOURTH AND H0LDEN AVENUES.
DETROIT, MICH.

MILLS AT: Orndorfl, W. Va., Healers. W. Va.. and Parkersburg. W. Va.

Michigan Logging Wheels

Have made them 2"> years and know C P A V F P P A f K" MANISTEE,

how. Easy and cheap way of logging. O. V*. UVLlirnlil MICHIGAN

Evans & Retting Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

Hardwood
Lumber

RAILROAD TIMBERS, TIES AND SWITCH TIES
MichY/an Trust Building Grand Rapids, Midi.

HARDWOOD RECORD

55

MICHIGAN

FAMOUS FOR RED BIRCH AND BASSWOOD

BIRCH

WE WANT YOUR ORDERS FOR

4-4 and 5-4 No. 1 Common

Birch

A No. I STOCK

Simmons Lumber Company

SIMMONS, MICHIGAN

McCLURE LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Hardwoods

MainOIhces, DETROIT. MICH.
Mills. : EUTAW, ALA.

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 cars 1" 1st £ 2nds t, Com. Qtd. While Oak 10 cars I" Log Run Brown Ash

2 cars 2'i, 3 and 4" While Ash 10 cars 1" lo 4" Dry Hard Maple

2 cars 1" While Ash 10 cars 1'' Log Run Birch

1 car l'r and 2" No. 1 Com. Brown Ash 10 cars 1" Log Run Basswood

4 cars 2. 3 and 4" lsl and 2nds and No. 1 Com. Green While Oak

2 cars 2" Log Run Soil Elm

BOYNE CITY LUMBER COMPANY

BOYNE CITY

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE and other HARDWOODS

LARGE CAPACITY

PROMPT SHIPMENTS

RAIL OR CARGO

VAN KEULEN & WILKINSON LUMBER COMPANY

■ Manufiiclurers ami Wholesalers of

HARDWOOD LUMBER and CRATING STOCK

Complete Stocks of Michigan Hardwoods — Maple, Beech, Birch, Elm,
Ash and Basswood for sale.

Grand Rapids,

Michigan

SOFT ELM AND ROCK ELM

=^^=^=^= FOR SALE BY ===^^=

The R. G. Peters Salt & Lumber Co.

EASTLAKE, MICHIGAN

J. S. GOLDIE.

Cadillac, :: Michigan.

SPECIAL PRICES on 500M pieces
IV to 3 Maple Squares 16" to 27" long
250M feet Maple cull
INQUIRIES SOLICITED FOB MICHIGAN LUMBER.

"Chief Brand"
Maple Flooring

Will commend itself to you and your trade on
its merits alone. ^ Comprises all the features
desirable in good flooring. ^ Made by the latest,
most approved machinery methods and best
skilled labor. T We believe we can make it to
your interest to handle our "Chief Brand" and
will appreciate your inquiries.

Kerry 4 Hanson Flooring Co.

GRAYLING. MICHIGAN

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

Hardwood Lumber

Main Olfice, Michigan Trust Company Building

GRAND RAPIDS : . . . MICHIGAN

DBININIS BROS.

GRAND RAPIDS, : : : MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD LUMBER (by water or rail)

"NATIONAL" MAPLE & BIRCH FLOORING

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN THE FOLLOWING:

120M feet 4 4 Log Run Birch
125M feet 5 4 Log Run Birch
2 Cars 8 4 Common and Better Birch

1 Car 1 x4 Clear Birch

2 Cars 1x7 and Wider No. 1 Common Birch
140M feet 5 4 Log Run Beech

160M feet 4 4 Log Run Soft Elm

Hard Maple— AU grades and thicknesses

Main Office :

205 209 Michigan

Trust

Company

Building

Thos. MacBride Lumber Company

HEADQUARTERS FOR

HARDWOODS

IN MI-CHI G AN

Michigan Trust Building, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

/■\TT"D A TTl/f is to ship the highest standard of
vUiC AxlTJ. lumber at lowest consistent price

We are manufacturers and snip direct from our band mills

°:PlarW.H.&G.S. Stewart B"

Ash Main Office: Cincinnati, Ohio, U. S A. Yellow Pile

THE HOUSE OF STONE

The One of Good Grades
Poplar, Oak, Chestnut, Cottonwood, Ash, Basswood and Gum

T. B. STONE LUMBER CO.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

PLAIN OAK— BASSWOOD

Are what we want. All thicknesses and grades. Spot
cash. Send us list of your offerings with prices.

DUHLMEIER BROS., CINCINNATI, 0.

THE GENERAL LUMBER COMPANY

HARDWOODS

Hemlock, Yellow Pine.
COLUMBUS a OHIO

W. T. SCHNAUFER

H. G. CHAMBERLAIN

CRESCENT LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of

Hardwood Lumber
co. a

MARIETTA, O.

CYPRESS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturer of Hardwoods and Cypress

^lain and Quartered White and Red Oak, Yellow Poplar,
Yellow Pine, Walnut, etc. Mills in Tenn., Ala. and Va.

OFFICE AND YARDS. GEST AND DALTON AVE., CINCINNATI, OHIO.

FRAMES,
SASH. DOORS,
BLINDS, MOULDINGS,
COLUMNS, GLASS,
STAIRWORK.
INTERIOR TRIM.

PAINTS,

BUILDERS' HARDWARE.

MANTELS, ETC.

LARGE CINCINNATI FAC-

TORIES MAKE PROMPT

SHIPMENTS POSSIBLE.

OAK FLOORING

Thoroughly Kiln Dried.
Perfectly Manufactured.
We are located in the best Oak Timber section in the

Inited States; have new and modern machinery and-

experienced operators.
Why should we not be able to furnish the best Oak

Flooring?
Write us and we will convince you that we can.

The INTERNATIONAL HARDWOOD COMPANY

Catlettsburg, Kentucky

All Lumbermen, Attention!

We do what you can't do.
We measure your stumpage correctly.
We make your maps correctly.
Bank references: Asheville, N. C.

L« A. OCnCnCK (q I/O. North Carolina.

W. H. Dawkins Lumber Co.

Manufacturers of Band Sawed

Yellow Poplar

ASHLAND, KY.

HARDWOOD RECORD

57

/~* I 1N.T /^* I rVT rVT A TP T

wlINUlIN IN A I I

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

THE

MALEY, THOMPSON & MOFFETT CO.

Always « r» the Market for

BLACK WALNUT LOGS,
SELECTED WHITE OAK LOGS,
LUMBER OF ALL KINDS.

CINCINNATI,

OHIO

We Want to Buy

Southern Hardwoods

SEND LIST WITH PRICES

Kentucky Lumber Co.

CINCINNATI. OHIO.

THE FREIBERG LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers ol

Tabasco Mahogany
Walnut, OaR

Poplar, McLean and Findlay A vs.
CINCINNATI. O.

"BUY GUM"

We are in the market to buy
Dry Gum Lumber in any
quantity, from a single car
load to a million feet. Will
take all grades and thick-
nesses. We receive lumber
at shipping point, pay rash
and are liberal in ini-pection.

THE FAKRIN-KORN

LUMBER COMPANY

General Office, YardB,
Planing Mills. Dry Kilns,

Cincinnati, Ohio
Purchasing Office,

Randolph Building,

Memphis, Tenn.

Cypress Red Gum Oak

Cash buyers for stock in our line.

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co.

GEST AND SUMMER STREETS

Wholesalers Mahogany, Thin Lumber, Veneers

Finely figured quarter sawed oak veneers a specialty.

THE E. E. BECK LUMBER COMPANY

Cash Buyers

Poplar, Oak, Chestnut

And Other Southern Hardwoods
ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES. WE BUY MILL CUTS.

IN THE MARKET FOR

OAK-ASH-POPLAR

ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

MOWBRAY & ROBINSON

Office:
1219 West Sixth Street

Yards:
Sixth Street, below Harriet

Poplar, Oak,

Ash, Chestnut,

Sycamore,

u, u „. 2.000.000 feet Dry OaK

W. Va. Spruce, 2.000.000 feet Dry Poplar

Pine and Elm | Mostly heavy slock. Quotations Solicited.

C. Crane 4 Co,

We would like to buy

MILLS AND YARDS
CINCINNATI, 0.

YEARLY CAPACITY
100,000,000 FT.

LONG RILL STUFF
A SPECIALTY

L. W. RADINA & COMPANY

Correspondence Solicited with Buyers and Sellers of All Kinds of

Wanted for cash — desirable blocks of 1 inch to 4 inch Poplar, all grades,
Especially 1^-inch stock, for immediate shipment.

CLARK STREET AND DALTON AVENUE-

THE WIBORG & HANNA COMPANY

CINCINNATI. OHIO

PLAIN
AND

QUARTER
SAWED

White and Red Oak

! CHESTNUT

POPLAR

GUM AND

CYPRESS

Flooring, Siding, Ceiling, Base, Case and Molding. Rough, Dressed and Re-sawed. Mixed Carloads.

58

HARDWOOD RECORD

$ INDIANA $

■WHERE THE BEST HARDWOODS GROW.

THE WOODS FOR
WHICH INDIANA
IS FAMOUS.

Quart Yd White Oak

Plain White Oak

Quartered Red Oak

Plain Red Oak

White Ash

Poplar

Black Walnut

Cherry

Sycamore

Red Gum

Hickory

Beech

Maple

Veneers of

Indiana Hardwoods

LONG-KNIGHT LUMBER CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS

Quarter Sawed White and Red Oak a Specialty

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

MALEY & WERTZ

Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Exporters of Hardwood Lumber

EVANSVILLE, IND.'

PERRINE-ARMSTRONG CO.

Long Timber up to 60 feet — Hardwood Specialties

The largest Band Mill in Indiana. FORT WAYNE, IND.

J. V. STIMSON

All Kinds of Hardwood Lumber Manufactured

HUNTING BURG, IND.

THE WALNUT LUMBER CO.

Our Specialty is Walnut

GLAD TO FIGURE ON ANY CHOICE HARDWOOD STOCKS IMniAMAPOf T*S IMD
YOU HAVE TO OFFERr INSPECTION AT MILL POINTS. ll^L/l/l.i/N fir VJC1J, 11>1^.

YOUNG & CUTSINGER

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Fine Figured Quartered Oak

EVANSVILLE, IND.

CHARLES H. BARNABY

Manufacturer of Band Sawed Hardwoods

Quarter Sawed Indiana White Oak a Specialty GREENCASTLE, IND.

D'HEUR & SWAIN LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Quartered Oak and Sycamore

SEYMOUR, IND.

HARDWOOD RECORD

59

BUFFALO

THE GRE.AT WHOLESALE LUMBER CENTER OF THE EAST

Manufacturers and
Dealers in

Ash

White and Brown

Basswood
Birch

Red and White

Butternut

Cherry

Chestnut

Cottonwood

Cypress

Elm

Soft and Rock

Gum

Red and Tupelo

Hickory
Maple

Hard and Soft

Red Oak

Plain and Quartered

White Oak

Plain and Quartered

Black Walnut
White Wood

Poplar

BUFFALO HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

We want to buy for cash :

Oak, Ash and other Hardwoods, all grades and thicknesses.
Will receive and inspect stock at shipping point.
P. O. Box 312, MEMPHIS. TENN. 940 SENECA STREE!

EMPIRE LUMBER COMPANY

Our specialties are PLAIN tnd QUARTERED OAK and ASH.

1142 SENECA STREET.

G. ELIAS & BROTHER

BUY AND CARRY LARGE QUANTITIES OF ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

955 TO 1015 ELK STREET

HUGH McLEAN LUMBER COMPANY

Specialty: INDIANA WHITE OAK

940 ELK STREET

ANTHONY MILLER

HARDWOODS OF ALL KINDS

S93 EAGLE STREET

SCATCHERD & SON

HARDWOODS ONLY

Yard, 1555 SENECA STREET Office, 886 ELLICOTT SQUARE

STANDARD HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

OAK, ASH AND CHESTNUT

1075 CLINTON STREET

L N. STEWART & BROTHER

Specialties: CHERRY AND OAK

892 ELK STRKET

T, SULLIVAN & COMPANY

Specialties: BROWN ASH, BIRCH, PACIFIC COAST FIR AND SPRUCE

50 ARTHUR STREET

ORSON E. YEAGER

Specialties OAK, ASH AND POPLAR

932 ELK STREET

BEYER, KNOX & COMPANY

ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

Office and Yards, 69 LEROY AVENUE

W. M. Ritter Lumber Co.

COLUMBUS, OHIO.

POPLAR

YOU CAN MAKE MONEY rtT>17^¥ You Can Make MORE MONEY

By Stocking Up NOW With BlL V iLLt B? BuyinS From Us» Because

_ _ _^ _ _ - ^» Ours is the Best

SIDING

The Price will Surely Advance in the Spring

We saw and ship 100,000,000 Feet Yearly of Band Sawed, West Virginia YellowiPoplar, Hardwoods and No. Carolina White Pine

Vansant, Kitchen & Co.

Old-Fashioned

SOFT

YELLOW

POPLAR

Ashland, Ky.

5-8 AND 4-4 IN WIDE STOCK, SPECIALTY

^j—SBh' I

_.-

1 ^

NEW ASHLAND MIH

YELLOW POPLAR

Manufacturers

BAND SAWED
POPLAR LUMBER

ALL CRADES

DRY

5-8, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, 8-4, 10-4, 12-4, 16-4

Bevel Siding, Lath and Squares

Specialty, Wide Stock.

COAL, GROVE, OHIO, U

flaMwoM RqcoM

Twelfth Tear. I
Semi-monthly. ■

CHICAGO, DECEMBER 10, 1906.

I Subscription 92.

I Single Copies. 10 Cents.

2,000,000 Feet

CHERRY

FOR SALE

ROSS LUMBER CO.

JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK

Himmelberger- Harrison Lumber (o.

Red Gum
Specialists

Morehouse,

Missouri

A WAY OF ESCAPE

from exorbitant insurance cKarges

PENNA. LUMBERMEN'S MUTUAL FIRE INS. CO.

943 Drexel Bldg.. Philadelphia. Pe^.

We want to sell and ship during the months of November and December the following lumber:

100,000
30,000
50,000

200,000

500,000
30,000
50,000
50,000

500,000
40,000

ft. 4-4 birch log run

ft. 5-4 birch log run

ft. 6-4 birch log run

ft. 8-4 birch log run

ft. 4-4 maple log run

ft . .">-4 maple log run

ft. 6-4 maple log run

ft. 8-4 maple log run

ft. 4-4 cherry log run

ft. 4-4 quartered poplar 1 & 2
4,000,000 ft. 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, and 8
2,000,000 ft. W. Va. spruce, 10 £

60,000 ft. 4-4 poplar I and 2, 8 in. to 24 in.
14,000 ft. 4-4 poplar 1 and 2, 24 in. and up.
70,000 ft. 4-4 poplar, No. 1 common
40,000 ft. 4-4 poplar clear saps.
25,000 ft. 8-4 poplar 18 to 28— soft yellow panel
5,000 ft. 5-8 No. 1 and 2, 24 arid up
6,000 ft. 4-4 quartered white oak 1 ami 2—
sawed for figure
60,000 ft. 4-4 quartered white oak No. 1 com

raon, sawed for figure.
-4 white pine box, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 barn— rough or dressed.
a,nd 12 in. wide, 12 to 30 ft. long— band sawed, gang edged and equalized— rough or worked

18,000 ft. 1-1 quartered white oak No 2 com-
mon, sawed for figure.

24,000 ft. 4-4 quartered white oak clear saps
sawed for figure.

80,000 ft. 4-4 quartered red oak No. 1 common,
sawed for figure.

16,000 ft. 4-4 quartered red oak clear strips,

sawed for figure.
200,000 ft. 4-4 basswood log run— extra fine.

RUMBARGER LUMBER COMFVANY

Main Olfice: 80S Harrison Bldg., 15th and Market Sis., Philadelphia, Pa.

New York Olfice: 8018 Metropolitan Bldg.. I Madison Av.

Pittsburgh Oilice: 701 Keystone Bldg.

Combined Assets
over $750,000.

The combined facilities of the stock lumber insurance companies

LUMBER INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK

and the ADIRONDACK FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

and allied organizations, constitute a great insuring opportunity for any owner of a first-class lumber or mill risk.

Ask for lines and rates. LUMBER INSURERS GENERAL AGENCY, Underwriting Managers

66 Broadwayi IS&\jw York

Advertisers' Classified Directory Follows Want and r'or Sale Advertising Section.

HARDWOOD RECORD

LOUISVILLE

MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF KENTUCKY

Dry stock vv. P. Bro wii & Sons Lumber Co.

Louisville, Ky.

PLAIN RED
55,000' 1" 1st &
25,000' Hi" 1st
49,000' 1%" 1st
57,000' 2" 1st &
18,000' 2%" 1st
16,000' 3" 1st &
131,000' 1" No. 1
84.000' lVt" No.
44,000' 1%" No.
47,000' 2" No. 1
8,000' 2%" No.
15,000' 3* No. 1

OAK.
2nd.
& 2d.
& 2d.

2d.
& 2d.

2d.
Com.
1 Com.
1 Com.
Com.
1 Com.
Com.

QUARTERED RED OAK.
19,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
All thicknesses In cull poplar, ash, chestnut.

14,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.

5,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
15,000' 1" No. 1 Com.

7,000' Hi" No. 1 Com.
13,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

PLAIN WHITE OAK.

SO.000' 1" 1st & 2d.
28,000' IVi" 1st & 2d.
12,000' Hi" 1st & 2d.
42,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
23,800' 2V," 1st & 2d.
16,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
227,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
60,000' Hi" No. 1 Com.
80,000' 1MT No. 1 Com.

ASH.

50,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
17,000' 2M," No. 1 Com.
22,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

QUARTERED WHITE OAK.

50,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
28,000' 114" 1st & 2d.
45,000' IV," 1st & 2d.
49.000' 2" 1st & 2d.
19,000' 2%" 1st & 2d.
18,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
30.000' 114" No. 1 Com.
40,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
22,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
10,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

Your inquiries will be appreciated.

9,000'

1" 1st & 2d.

65,000'

H4" lBt & 2d.

16.000'

Hi" 1st & 2d.

10.000'

2" 1st & 2d.

8.000'

2%" 1st & 2d.

14,000'

3" 1st & 2d.

6.000'

4" 1st & 2d.

4.000'

lVt" No. 1 Com

16.000'

Hi" No. 1 Com

8,000'

2" No. 1 Com.

POPLAR.

2,000'

" 1st & 2d.

12.000' H4" 1st & 2d.
11,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
12,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
10,000' 2M" 1st & 2d.
10,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
50,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
28,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
10.000' 114" No. 1 Com.
10,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
15,000' 1" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

S.000' 2" IS" & up 1st & 2d.

6,000' 2" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

4,000' 1%" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

3,000' 114" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

Prompt delivery guaranteed

McLean -Davis Lumber Co.

Sue

Hugh McLean Lumber Co., Highland Park, Ky.
Edward L. Davis Lumber Co., Louisville, Ky.
Berry - Davis Saw Mill Co., Louisville, Ky.

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Hardwood Lumber

Daily Capacity:
80,000 feet,

Sales Olfices:
Louisville, Ky.

Ornamental Hardwood Floors

400 STYLES AND PATTERNS

Illustrated Catalog on Application

WOOD = MOSAIC FLOORING CO.

Rochester, N. Y. New Albany, Ind.

Albert R. Kampf

Manufacturer

Hardwood Lumber and Timber

Dimension Stock

Board of Trade Bldg., Louisville, Ky.

E. W. Rhubesky

Wholesale

Poplar, Rough and Dressed.

Oak, Chestnut and Other

Hardwoods

North Vernon Pump
4 Lumber Co.

Band Sawed Plain and Quartered

Oak and Poplar.

North Vernon, Ind., and

Louisville, Ky.

Southern Lumber Co.

Oak, Poplar and

Chestnut.
Louisville, Ky.

THERE IS NO BETTER WAY BETWEEN

CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS
and CINCINNATI

THAN THE

Monon Route 4

TRAINS A ±
DAY ^

Standard and Compartment Sleepers on Night Trains,
and Dining Cars on Day Train.
Chas. H. Rockwell, Frank J. Reed,
Traffic Manager, Gen. Pass. Agent,

CHICAGO

Parlor

Swann-Day Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OF

POPLAR AND OAK

PLANING MILL STOCK, BOX SHOOKS
AND HARDWOOD DIMENSION

CLAY CITY, KENTUCKY

HARDWOOD RECORD

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D I L

HIGH STANDARD OF

QUALITY

A

AND MILL

c

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WORK

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MICHIGAN RED OAK

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As fine stock as was ever cut
in the famous Cadillac district.

We have some of this choice 4-4
Red Oak which will soon be in
shipping condition.

If you are in the market, we
can please you both in quality
and price.

We also have some nice Soft
Gray Elm in 4-4, 6-4, 8-4 and
12-4. It's Bone Dry.

Mitchell Brothers Company

CADILLAC, MICHIGAN

The Cadillac Handle Co.

Band Sawn
Michigan Hardwoods

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 Cars 4/4 Maple. No. 1 and 2 Common.

3 Cars 4/4 Maple 1st and 2nds.

2 Cars 5/4 Maple No. 1 Common and better.

1 Car 6/4 Maple No. 1 Common and better, 10 in. and over wide.

2 Cars 8/4 Maple No. 1 Common and better.
2 Cars 4/4 Birch No. 2 Common and better.

We are prepared to contract No. 3 Common Maple, for future sawing.

MURPHY & DIQQINS

Offer all grades of the following special dry stock

MAPLE— 5/4, 6/4, 8/4, 10/4, 12,4, 14/4, 16, 4
ORAY ELM— 4/4, 12/4
BASSW00D— 4/4;
!BIRCH-l/4, 6/4

Our own manufacture. Perfect Mill Work. Uniform Grades.
LET US FIGURE ON YOUR HARDWOOD WANTS.

Cummer, Diggins & Go.

MANUFACTURERS-

"CUMMER" MAPLE
AND BEECH FLOORING

MICHIGAN HARDWOODS

Good assortment of dry stock on hand ready
for immediate shipment in Hard Maple, Beech,
Birch, Soft Elm and Cherry.

SEND US A LIST OF YOUR REQUIREMENTS.

DRY ST

Northern Michigan

Soft Gray Elm

What our old cork pine was to the regular
white pine — such is our Soft Gray Elm to
ordinary soft elm. Buyers who gladly discrim-
inate in favor of something better than the or-
dinary, will be interested. We have

10 cars 8-4 firsts and seconds.

1 car 10=4 firsts and seconds.

2 cars 12 1 firsts and seconds.

Wide, choice stock, our own product, seasoned right,
bone dry.

WHITE US ABOUT IT.

C0BB5& MITCHELL

(INCORPORATED)

CADILLAC. MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

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E have in all thicknesses the following kinds and
amounts of lumber at places designated. Kindly
send us your inquiries.

MEMPHIS YARD','

Ash 680,000 feet

Quartered White Oak. . 75,000 feet

Plain White Oak 140,000 feet

Quartered Red Oak.... 225,000 feet

Plain Red Oak 410,000 feet

Cypress 225,000 feet

Cottonwood 200.000 feet

Poplar 308,000feet

SELMA YARD

Poplar 409,000 feet

Bay Poplar 857.000 feet

Red Gum 55,000 feet

Cypress 787,000 f e-!t

BERCLAIR YARD

Bay Poplar 100,000 feet

Cypress 800,000 feet

OTHER YARDS
Plain Red Oak 350.000 feet

J. W. THOMPSON LUMBER COMPANY

Office and Yards: Randolph Road and I. C. R R.

MEMPHIS. TENN.

FENN BROS. COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Oak Flooring

Quartered YX/hite
Quartered Red
Plain \A/hite
Plain Red

Hollow Backed

End Matched

Polished

Bored

Offices a.r\d Pla.r\t i

Kansas and Mallory Ave., New South Memphis.

(Take South Memphis car to Mallory Aye.)

STOCK
LIST

Anderson-Tully Co.

Memphis
Tenn.

COTTONWOOD

50,000 ft. 7 8 in. lsts and 2nds. Cottonwood 8 in. and up

(111 (1AH " A A " " " " O in tr, 1Q in

2011,1101)
50,000
50,000

30,00(1

4 4
6 4

5/4
4/4

No.

1 Common

GUM

100,000 ft. 4 4 in. lsts and 2nds Red Gum
100.000 " " No. 1 Common Red Gum
100,000 " " lfts and 2nds. Saps 6 in. to 12 in.

100,000 " '■ 13 in. and up

100.000 " " Box boards 13 in. to 17 in.
250,000 " " No. 1 Common Saps

OAK

One car 4 4 in. lsts and 2nds. Plain Red Oak.

to 12 in.
6 in. and up
12 in.
8 in. to 12 in.

WAGON STOCK

IN ROUGH.

TONGUES, AXLES. REACHES, BOLSTERS
AND 6 4 TO 16 4 HICKORY. ALSO ALL

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

Gayoso Lumber Co., Inc.

Memphis, Tenn.

THREE STATES LUMBER

COMPANY

OFFERS THE FOLLOWING DRY STOCK AT POINTS WHERE CARS

ARE IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE

5 Cars 20" and up Panel Cottonwood.

10 Cars Cottonwood Box Boards 13" and up.

10 Cars Cottonwood Box Boards 8-12.

MEMPHIS, TENN.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Briggs & Cooper Company, Ltd,

MANUFACTURERS

HARDWOODS

NORTHERN
SOUTHERN

GET OUR PRICES ON THESE ITEMS:

1,000,000 feet Soft Grey Elm, 1 to 3".

500.000 feet Unselected Birch, 1 to 3".
3,000,000 feet Michigan Hard Maple, 1 to 6".

350,000 feet End Dried White Maple, 1 to 1J4".

625,000 feet No. 1 Common and Better Winter Sawn Basswood, 1 to 3".

150,000 feet Selected White Basswood, 1", \H" and 1'A".

210,000 feet Plain and Quartered White and Red Oak, 1 to 2".
YARDS AT

SAGINAW, CHICAGO AND MEMPHIS

The Tegge Lumber Co.

MILWAUKEE
WI SCONSIN

BUYERS OF
ALL KINDS OF

1

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Lamb Fish Lumber Co.

Successors to LAMB HARDWOOD LUMBER CO., BACON-NOLAN HARDWOOD CO., GUIRL-STOVER LBR. CO.

MA NUFA C TURERS

Oak, Ash, Cottonwood, Gum
and Cypress

MAIN OFFICE :
720 MEMPHIS TRUST BUILDING, MEMPHIS, TENN.

TL 0 - --.„ ( Memphis, Tenn. ( Well Manufactured Stock

1 nree Band Mills \ chancy, miss. Our Specialties \ Good Grades

( Stover, Miss. ( Prompt Shipments

PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM AJND OTHER HARDWOODS

Large stock* of well seasoned Lumber always carried at our yards and mills.
General Offices: 140 W. Chicago Ave., CHICAGO. Mills: Cairo, 111., Marked Tree, Ark., Greenville, Miss., Arkansas City, Ark., Blytheville, Ark.

HARDWOOD RECORD

T*

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NEW

r~? a c np

1

D A o 1

BOSTO

YORK PHILADELPHIA

R.E. Wood Lumber Company

C We own nearly a thousand million feet of virgin poplar, oak,
chestnut and other hardwood timber, and operate our own band mills
in West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
C Let us figure on your hardwood requirements.

GENERAL OFFICES:
CONTINENTAL BUILDING.

Baltimore, Maryland

JOHN T. DIXON HARRY S. DEWEY

We are not Wizards in making new grades to fit a price.

No tricks in our methods of making shipments. The
straight grades are good enough for us.

If you will give us a trial order for POPLAR, OAK,
ASH, CHESTNUT or OAK, MAPLE and YELLOW-
PINE FLOORING, we believe we can demonstrate our
ability to please you.

DIXON & DEWEY

716 and 716 A, Flatiron Building,

NEW YORK

Thomas Forman Company

MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE

Maple and Oak
Flooring

New York Branch : DETROIT

McOovem & Bowen. And Hardwood Lumber

29 Broadway MICHIGAN

THE BUFFALO MAPLE FLOORING CO.

„ MANUFACTURERS OF

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE AND OAK FLOORING

BUFFALO, NEW YORK

Wantcd-Dimension Oak/lainandQuartered'

White and Red. Send for specifications.

Irvdia.ua. Quartered Oak Co.

7 Ea.st 42nd Street, New York City

Millmen with round lots of well manufactured stock to offer,
are sure of a square deal with

WILLIAM WHITMER & SONS, Inc.

MANUFACTURERS OF

HARDWOODS

Branches: NEW YORK, BOSTON, PITTSBURG

Girard Trust Bldg. PHILADELPHIA

HARDWOOD RECORD

HT* I ..I ■"""* ¥^ A ^ HP

I 11 b fc, A ^ I

1

BOSTON NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA

We Have Large Demands
And Large Stocks To Meet Them.

: nun, linn In I c'IhMiiii!
1,135,000 Poplar

825,000

750,000

I M

137.000

White 1'illi-

Maple
Birch

Do you gel Mcllvain':

►rders send us your specification!

1,290,000 Feel Hemlock

i 500,000 •' White and Red Oak.

780, " \ ellow Pine

195, Cherrv

950,000 Cyj

500 Shingle.: ^ygg^«-

'Lumber News?' Before placing your

J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co.

56th to 58th Streets and Woodland Ave , PHILADELPHIA, PA.

STEVENS-EATON CO.

Buyers of

ROUND LOTS

of

Hardwoods

No 1 Madison
Avenue,

New York

ESPECIALLY IN MARKET FOK PLAIN RED OAK

Holloway Lumber Company

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

In the market for all thicknesses of
OAK, ASH and CHESTNUT.

312 Arcade Building,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

J. J. SOBLE

H. I. SOBLE

SOBLE, BROTHERS

Wholesale Hardwoods

911=912 Land Title Bldg. PHILADELPHIA

WANTED: 20 cars Common and Better Chestnut, all thicknesses.

J. H. SCHOFIELD

R. W. SCHOFIELD

SCHOF1ELD

BROTHERS

LUMBER

WHITE PINE
AND HARDWOODS

1019-1020 Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Bldg.,

BALTIMORE
M A K Y L A

R E r~" r« DDI/^L? BUYER AND
N D JL. £_,. I l\lv>lli EXPORTER OF

Hardwoods, Poplar and Logs

I am always in the market for nice lots of dry and well manufactured
lumber. I inspect at point of shipment. Correspondence solicited.

Wistar, Underhill & Co.,

WHOLESALE

HARDWOOD LUMBER

816 Real Estate Trust Building, * PHILADELPHIA.

Charles S. Wentworth & Co.

WHOLESALE LUMBER MERCHANTS
147 Milk Street

BOSTON

We are in the Market for POPLAR, PLAIN OAK, CYPRESS
and NORTH CAROLINA PINE LUMBER; also OAK, MA-
PLE and BIRCH FLOORING, and would appreciate corre-
spondence from manufacturers in position to supply any of the
stock named.

W. M. GILLESPIE LUMBER

HARDWOODS COMPANY Farmers Bank Bldg.
Oak a Specialty PITTSBURGH, PA.

The West Florida Hardwood Co.

Ash
Hickory

Mlt. ON Apalachicola River
MARYSVILLE, FLA.

Red and White Oak Red Gum

Yellow Cottonwood Tupelo Gum

LET US HAVE YOUR INQUIRIES

WM.

E.

LITCHFIELD

MASON BUILDING,

Specialist in

BOSTON, MASS.

Hardwoods

Manufacturers are requested to

supply lists of stock for sale

James & Abbot Company

Lumber and Timber

No. J65 MILK ST., BOSTON, MASS., and GULFPORT, MISS.

JONES HARDWOOD CO.

IN'i'iiKIMRATEI)

WANTS: Poplar, Plain Oak,
Quartered Oak and Cypress.

147 MILK STREET
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Manufacturers please send stock lists and prices.

JOHN L. ALCOCK & CO.

BUYERS OF BLACK WALNUT LOGS
BOARDS AND PLANKS

Inspection at point of Rattimnro TVTrl

shipment. Spot cash. DailimOre, IVld.

IO

HARDWOOD RECORD

CHICAGO

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

Harvey S. Hayden

IX THE MARKET FOR
POPLAR

25 M ft. l'A" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths
40 M ft. 2" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
25 M ft. 2'4" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
60 M ft. 3" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.

WHITE ASH
30. M ft. 1" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
75 M ft. 5 4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
50 M ft. 6/4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
50 M ft. S 4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
25 M ft 10 4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
50 M ft. 16/4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
(We can use a small percentage of No 1 Common.)

511 Railway Exchange, - Chicago

J. Slimmer & Company

Hardwood
Lumber

Office and Yard :

65 W. Twenty-second St.

CHICAGO

PARK RICHMOND <S>> CO.

Wholesale

Hardwood Lumber

4 1 0 Monadnock Block
HARRISON 5165 V^IllCclgO

R. A. WELLS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Fine Quartered Oak a Specialty

234 LA SALLE STREET
Yards at Canal and 21st Sts. CHICAGO, ILL.

have you anything to offer in

hickory, white ash, thick plain
oak and wagon stock?

WE ARE CASH BUYERS

PLEASE SEND US YOUR STOCK LISTS

Ryan & McParland

Office and Yards PKirnriA

Robey St. and Blue Island Ave. ^niC^-gO

White Lumber Company

Dealers in Hardwood Lumber

ALL KINDS

Cherry Lumber a
Specialty

ALL GRADES

Laflin ®. 22d Sts.
Chicago

A floor to adore

Af

For thirty-three years Wilee's Hardwood Floor-
^ ing has been among the foremost on the market
K and because it stands today "unequaled" is the
best evidence that its manufacturer has kept
abreast of modern methods and the advanced de-
mands of the trade. To convince yourself of the
'jove statements, try our polished surface floor-
g. tongued and grooved, hollow backed, with
matched ends and holes for blind nailing — you'll
find it reduces the expense of laying and polishing.
Our Bonk/?/ tells a/1 about Hot dwood Flooring and
how to care for it — a/so prices— and is free.

The T. Wilce Company

22nd and Throop Sts. CHICAGO. ILL.

John O'Brien Land & Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Of All Kinds

OFFICE AND YARDS :

873 to 881 So. Laflin Street

MILL : PHILIPP, MISS.

Chi

ica go

HARDWOOD RECORD

ii

CHICAGO

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

The Keith Lumber Co.

MAHOGANY

5,000,000 feet ma-
hogany in stock.

Large and fine stock
of Cuban wood.

FOREIGN AND

AMERICAN

HARDWOODS

14th and Wood Streets

CHICAGO

CHAS. DARLING & CO.

Southern
Hardwoods

22nd Street and Center Avenue - CHICAGO

SCHULTZ BROTHERS ®> COWEN

LET US FIGURE ON YOUR REQUIREMENTS

POPLAR OAK ASH CHESTNUT

AND OTHER HARDWOODS-ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES
1:2:25 to 1240 Old Colony Building, CHICAGO

WISCONSIN TIMBER ®L LUMBER CO.

BUY AND SELL —

Yellow Pine and Hardwood Lumber

Want thick hardwoods and wagon box boards.
Honadnock Bldg CHICAGO. ILL.

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Co.

1649-50 MARQUETTE BUILDING

Are now offering bone dry BIRCH. ROCK ELM. BLACK ASH. etc., Wis-
consin stock. Also PLAIN AND QUARTERED OAK, POPLAR, etc ,
from our Memphis yard. We are constant buyers.

J ERNEST B. LOMBARD I

■*\*

Manufacturer ar\d Wholesale

Northern eurvd Southern.
Hardwoods

Railway Exchange - CHICAGO

(HAS. MILLER MILTON' MILLER

MILLER BROS.

H/\RD\A/OOD LUMBER

Main Office: 208 WILLOUGHBY BLDG. '1 E. MADISON ST.
'Phone Central 1363 CHICAGO, ILL.

Yards: LoomisSt. S.ol 22nd St., Chicago, 111.. Houston. Miss. Macon, Miss.

The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Co.

Wholesale and Retail

Telephone
NORTH 223

HARDWOOD LUMBER

47 Dominick St.
CHICAGO

Ben C. Keator^Wholesale Lumber

HARDWOOD AND PINE

1003-4 Manhattan Building, CHICAGO

THE WARD LIMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

HARDWOODS

CHAMBER OK COMMERCE BUILDING :: CHICAGO

12

HARDWOOD RECORD

Michigan Maple Flooring

Our model factory is equipped with the highest
class tools and appliances made for Flooring
production.

We produce our lumber from the best rock Ma-
ple area in Michigan and have 20 years' supply.

Our brand "Michigan" is a guaranty of qual-
ity. Perfect mill work and excellent grades
distinguish our Flooring and our prices are
reasonable.

WARD BROS., Big Rapids, Mich.

We have in stock

150,000 ft. 4-4 White Maple Cross piled with 2}£-
inch dry crossers.

125,000 ft. 4-4 Log run Birch red in. No thick
cut out.

Please favor us with your orders.

Bliss & Van Auken

Saginaw, W. S. Mich.

OAK FLOORING

Kiln Dried

Bored

Polished

/ HARDWOOD LUMBER <$\

& MFC. CO.
5A RDIS
- MISS-

Hollow
Backed

and

Bundled

l!==

H. B. Leavitt, Prest.
E. H. Adams, Secy.

B. F. Richardson, Vice-prest.

J. G. 1.EAVITT, Treas.

THE LEAVITT LUMBER CO.

Most Complete Stock of Hardwoods in

CHICAGO

Make Known Your Wants and Get

IMMEDIATE. RESULTS

Mills:

WISCONSIN

TENNESSEE

ARKANSAS

LOUISIANA

MISSISSIPPI

General Office and Yard :
22ND AND laflin STREETS.

Southern Office:

808 TENNESSEE TRUST BLDG.

MEMPHIS, TENN.

Clark L. Poole (& Co.

Announcement

The undersigned who have been members of the firm
of H. C. Bar roll & Company, Bankers and Bond Dealers.
since the organization of that firm, announce that they
have Foi med -i co-partnership, under the name of Clark L.
Poole & Co., ami have purchased the assets, assumed the
liabilities and succeeded to the business of H.C.Barroll
& ( lompany.

Clark L. Poole
Edward C. Cronwall

First National Bank Bldg.

Chicago. Dec. 1st, 1906

THE "FINEST" MAPLE FLOORING

W. D. YOUNG & CO.

BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

Producers from TREE to TRADE of the high-
est type of Michigan Forest Products. Large
stock of Maple Flooring and 15,000,000 feet
of Hardwoods — 1 to 4 inches thick — on hand.

Maple, Birch and Beech Lumber

"Ideal" £ Rock Maple Flooring

is the flooring that is manufactured expressly to supply
the demand for the best. It is made by modern ma-
chinery from carefully-selected stock and every pre-
caution is taken throughout our entire system to
make it fulfill in every particular its name— "IDEAL."

Rough or Finished Lumber — All Kinds

Send us Your Inquiries

The I. Stephenson Company

WELLS, MICHIGAN

FIRE INSURANCE

That is Approved by Lumbermen
and Woodworkers

Lumber Underwriters

66 Broadway
New York

MMwoM Rotor!

- Published In the Interest of Hardwood Lumber, American Hardwood Forests, Wood Veneer Industry, Hardwood Flooring, ^g\V Y
Hardwood Interior Finish, Wood Chemicals, Saw Mill and Woodworking Machinery.

Vol. XXIII.

CHICAGO. DECEMBER 10. 1906.

No. 4.

Published on the 10th ann* 25th of each month by

THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

Henry H. Gibson, President

FRANK W. TUTTLE, Sec-Treas.

OFFICES
Sixin Floor Ellsworth Bldg., 355 Dearborn St Chicago,

Telephones: Harrison 4960 Automatic 5659

I., U.S.A.

TERMS OF ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION

In the United States, Canada, Philippine Islands and Mexico . , $2.00

In all other countries in Universal Postal Union ..... 3.00
Subscriptions are payable in advance, and in default of written orders to the
contrary are continued at our option.

The entire contents of this publication are covered by the general copy-
right, and articles must not be reprinted without special permission.
Entered at Chicago Postoffice as Second Class Matter.

-■Advertising copy must be received five days in advance of
publication date. Advertising rates on application.

scramble for maple, birch, elm and beech before there is any new
stock on the maiker. Generally speaking the entire hardwood
lumber situation is strong.

The mahogany market has taken on a reversal of form during
the last few months. The high price of oak has tended to an
increased use of mahogany for interior finish and furniture and
what were supposed to be ample mahogany stocks six months
ago are now depleted. The same situation has materialized in
Great Britain, which is an important center of the mahogany log
industry, with the result that the British market is bare of ma-
hogany. The big eastern mahogany producers are generally over-
sold. The same is true of Cincinnati, Louisville and New Orleans
manufacturers. There is probably more mahogany on hand in
Chicago than in any other mahogany grouping section of the
country and this city can properly be called the center of that
industry at the present time.

Makers of hardwood flooring in oak, maple, birch and beech
are busy, and the current demand is fully up to the capacity of
the plants. Prices, of course, remain firm.

HARDWOOD ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.
Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association.

This association will hold an important meeting at the
Hotel Pantlind, Grand Rapids, on Wednesday, Dec. 19.

Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association.

The eighth annual meeting of this association will be held
at the Grand Hotel, Indianapolis, on Friday, Jan. 11, 1907.
Matters of much importance to the trade will be brought
up for discussion and a large attendance is desired.

General Market Conditions.

There is no new feature in the general market conditions pre-
vailing throughout the country. The demand is remarkably strong

for all varieties of hardwoods in the middle west, fairly g 1

on the Pacific coast, and considerably above normal throughout
the entire east. In the eastern sections of the country the call
for poplar, especially for the good end, is much in excess of the
supply. Owing to the recent tides which have prevailed in the
streams of the poplar producing sections this demand will be fair-
ly will covered, but not before midsummer.

Oak of all varieties is sought in excess of the supply. In the
most important oak producing sections there has been practically
a cessation of production for some weeks, owing to the bad
weather conditions. The average daily sawing of that district
has fallen off more than fifty per cent. Considering that oak has
been in very short supply for months it goes without saying that
"oak will be oak" before there is any more dry stock offered.
Optimists profess to believe that good oak will show an advance
of fully $5 a thousand between now and spring. Both gum and
Cottonwood are in good demand at slightly increased values.

There is every prospect of a diminution of the output of Michi-
gan and Wisconsin hardwoods during the coming winter and, as
is well known, dry stock on hand being short, there will be a

American Methods of Sawing Lumber.

The Timber Trades Journal of London scolds American lumber
producers on their crude method of manufacturing lumber. Its
contention is said to be based on observation of shipments of
American lumber to Great Britain, which show that the methods
must needs be crude and that there is an absence of parallel
thickness and width. It says in the main that there is not the
least improvement in point of economy over methods of twenty
years ago. There is the same careless "butting" or absence of
"butting." Boards are carelessly sawn with gullet-toothed circu-
lars. In many cases the fiber is simply torn out so that it takes
nearly one-fourth of an inch off the thickness to get a surface.
The editor believes that it is a most serious reflection on Ameri-
can sawmill manufacturers, and alleges that if the world had
been toured to find lumber manufactured as crudely as possible
the Americans would certainly be entitled to gold medals for their
primitive methods. It argues that the importance of the question
is so vast and far-reaching in the face of advancing prices that
the time has come when American manufacturers by improved
means and by the exercise of greater care in producing lumber
should obtain a very much larger percentage of stock from their
stumpage.

A writer in the same paper, who claims to be well acquainted
with the saw mill business in Canada and the United States,
alleges that most of the machinery in use is old and obsolete;
that the old circular saw is still the chief means of converting
the rough log into serviceable timber; that most of the modern
machinery, such as the band saw, is either too costly or too dan-
gerous to trust to unskilled hands and manufacturers will not use
it; he alleges that the roughest unskilled labor is used and that
the men have no training at all and are sawyers in name only.

There is still more of such "rot" published in the Timber
Trades Journal, which bears on the same subject and which is in
the same vein. It seems unbelievable that a well-informed lum-
ber trade newspaper should give space to such childish assertions
concerning American sawmilling machinery or the product of
American mills.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

American sawmilling and woodworking machinery, not in ex-
ceptional instances, but in the majority of cases, is so much
superior to the same line of tools manufactured in Great Britain,
in accuracy, efficiency, speed and economy as to bear no com-
parison whatever with the foreign-made articles. In the intelli-
gent operation of this equipment the American mechanic is far
the superior of his over-the-seas cousin, and in the quality of
the lumber product, with regard to accuracy of sawing, edging
and trimming, the greater percentage of lumber manufactured in
this country when dry will dress two sides on one-six-
teenth of an inch. To be sure, considering the vast aggregate
of lumber produced in the United States, there is still a consid-
erable quantity manufactured in small ground circular mills. How-
ever, a good proportion of this is well and accurately made, al-
though there are still some amateurs in the trade who butcher
their logs and make pretty bad lumber.

When the wise British merchant sends a representative to this
country with instructions not to bid anything like a reasonable
price for lumber, the buyer sometimes, is perforce compelled to
seek out the owner of some little portable saw mill and buy from
him a dinkey lot of lumber in the attempt to save his scalp at
home. That sort of lumber is entirety unsuitable for the trade
of Great Britain and the continent of Europe and /when such con-
signments of stock arrive on the other side, they should not be
set up as a criterion for the genera] run of American lumber
products. When Great Britain is willing to pay a price equal
to that of the home market it can secure in the United States
just as well manufactured lumber as was ever produced on a
crude and cumbersome, slow-moving .English sawmill. A modern
American sawmill will drop three boards to one of its English
prototype, sawed just as accurately, and the quantity of good .
lumber in the log can be just as carefully conserved.

The Timber Trades Journal acknowledges that it is not asking
the impossible, "as is proved by the well-carved boards produced
by a few of the successful oak and poplar exporters in the
States." It' the Journal had reversed the proposition and said
"by the well-carved boards produced by the majority of exporters
in the States," it would have come very much nearer hitting the
mark.

Cigar Box Lumber.

Among the cedar wood and cedar veneer manufacturers there i*;
considerable indignation expressed over what they claim is an unfair
and unjust article, which has appeared in a paper published in the
interests of tobacco and cigar dealers and manufacturers. In this
article the cigar box manufacturers are criticised and charged with
raising unfairly the price of boxes at a time when there is no ne-
cessity for so doing. This newspaper article is doing considerable
harm, as it has arrayed cigar manufacturers against box makers to
the extent that it has already been proposed that the first named
should combine to start a large box factory for themselves.

It is evident that cigar manufacturers do not realize the great
scarcity of raw material required in the manufacture of these boxes.
It is well known that cedar is today selling at 60 per cent more
than at this time a year ago, while cedar veneer costs from $2 to
$2.50 more than at the same period of last year. There never was a
time when cedar logs were so scarce as now, and the scarcity is not
only local, but is felt even in Cuba, where it is difficult to obtain
sufficient logs for the trade. Veneer mills are working day and night
and yet it seems almost impossible to keep ahead of increased orders.

These are facts that should prove to every fair-minded cigar manu-
facturer that the present condition of the cedar market is the real
cause of the rise in prices and not an agreement among the box
makers.

The Woodworking Trade Down East.

Tins country is so big and the conditions in its various sections
so unlike that there must needs be diverse customs prevailing.
The eastern manufacturer of anything made out of lumber has
been by inheritance, taste and education, a stickler for high-
grade lumber products. He has always been willing to pay a
Tittle higher price for a little better lumber than his western
confrere^ He has frequently been criticised for his inability to
recognize a western or southwestern grade as being up to his
standard of requirements. In fact, he has often been denomi-

nated a "kicker." In a great measure this stigma has been
unjust.

A singular feature of the woodworking trade in the east, that
is scarcely conceivable in the middle west, is the absence of a
lumber yard as an adjunct to a general woodwork manufacturing
establishment. In many cases in the west this • is a larger in-
stitution than the average metropolitan lumber yard of the whole-
sale dealer. The western man buys lumber from a manufacturer
or merchant in a wholesale way. In the east there are thousands
of woodworking establishments which have no lumber yards at-
tached to them. In fact, they do not presume to be in the lumber
business but in the business of making furniture, pianos, interior
woodwork or what not. Their lumber is bought from the local
hardwood dealer and delivered at their mill doors day in and
day out, week in and week out, year in and year out, in exactly
the quantity and quality which they require. Such methods of
business are entirely unknown to the woodworking manufacturer
of Chicago, Grand Bapids and other great commercial centers
of the middle west.

These observations concerning eastern methods are of course
confined to the large manufacturing trade centers like Pkiladel-
phia and Xew York, and to a few of the smaller cities; in all
these larger trade centers, however, this system of buying lumber
from the local yard man on almost daily requisition prevails to a
very great extent. These manufacturers argue that, they succeed
in buying just exactly the quantity and grade of lumber that they
want and by not being obliged to carry stock on hand and by
the avoidance of yard cost and yard rentals they can better afford
to pay the retail hardwood lumbermen a reasonable profit than
they can by being jointly in the lumber and manufacturing busi-
ness.

The Manufacturing Situation.

The cartoon in this issue of the Hardwood Record depicts the
sentiment prevailing to a considerable degree in regard to the
current situation in the hardwood lumber industry. The weather
the country over is bad and has been so for some time. The
tides in the mountain streams have torn out bridges on the log-
ging railroads and damaged the roadways to an alarming extent.
In other sections of the country the woods are inundated and the
loggers have been drowned out. In both sections it has meant a
great reduction of the lumber output. One redeeming feature of
the situation is that the heavy rise in the streams of the poplar
country has given the mills depending on the Big Sandy, Guyan-
dotte, Ohio, Kentuck}', Tennessee and Cumberland rivers a fairly
good stock of poplar logs. In fact, it has been the best "run"
they have had for several years. The extra output in this sec-
tion, however, will be more than offset by the diminished quan-
tity of lumber available from the mountain mill regions and
from the southwestern oak and gum sections.

The car situation in all the remote and most of the central
distributing lumber sections has been desperate for months and
still the supply of cars for the shipment of stock on hand is en-
tirely inadequate for the demand. Shippers who have had use
for ten cars a day have on an average not received one. This
state of affairs has tied up the stocks of the majority of hard-
wood lumbermen.

Again, the supply of woods, sawmill and yard labor has gone
from bad to worse. This unfortunate condition prevails from
Maine to the Pacific coast and from Lake Superior to the Gulf
of Mexico. The large number of young, stalwart woodsmen of
a decade ago seem to have disappeared and many and many a
camp today is manned by any available recruits, from old men
to mere youths, capable of hanging on to a cant-hook or slowly
dragging a crosscut through a log.

Another serious menace to the hardwood lumberman's peace
of mind just now is the tightness of the money market. Lum-
bermen who for several years have not been obliged to have re-
course to bank accommodations find today that it is with diffi-
culty that they obtain money, and if obtainable at all it is in
limited quantities and at very high rates.

The only redeeming feature in the situation is that the limited
output with the very strong demand is tending to conserve values
to the point that they are on the increase rather than on the de-
cline.

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Vert, Pertinent and Impertinent.

To buy or not to buy; ah, there's the rub,

Whether it be better that I delve

Deep in the pocket of my pantaloons

And take therefrom the paltry coins, and few.

Or, chop short off, and chopping thus refrain

From calling at her home as heretofore ;

Christmas Cunning.

Side-step her In the street as best I may,
Likewise at ball and parties, operas, too,
A van nt Vamoose — Flee — Vanish — Disappear —
In short, drop from this mundane sphere forth-
with.

1'ntil the season wanes and is no moiv.
And by SO dropping, chances take — they're des-
perate 1 know —
Of later winning back affections lost,
ly this, the nmsi cold-blooded scheme extant.

— W. op 0.

Hard to Please.
The man that
wants most in this
world is the man who
really doesu 't know
what he does want.

Woman.

Would that wc
might fall into her
arms without falling
into her hands.

Religion.
Some men look
upon religion as a
sort of moral fire es-
cape. t

Success.
Keep to the trail.
Success lies in con-
tinued effort along a
certain line.

Not Related.
Charity and piety
are not always on
speaking terms.

The Difference.

A man 's age com-
mands veneration; a
woman 's commands
tact.

Very Often.
It is the power of
speech that often de-
velops a man's weak-
ness.

The Danger.

The danger's not
in the big ears of
little pitchers but in
the big mouths.

Lose by Winning.

Lucky in love and
unlucky at cards
often means that you
lose by winning.

A ROCKY ROAD.

Objections.
Objections may be
unpleasant to meet
but they are helpful
if you are successful
in overcoming them.

Making Friends.

Do a man a good
turn and you will
straightway begin to
like him; do him
harm and you will
soon learn to despise
him.

True.

An inspiration is
greater than an ex-
ample.

She's a Shark.
The profess i 0 n a 1
dressmaker is about
the only woman in
the world who is good
at figures.

Self -Confidence.

One of the most
difficult things for a
man to acquire is
self-con fidence un-
adulterated by ego-
tism.

Ended at Least.

About the easiest
way to settle an
argument is to shut
up.

Poor Choice.

When a man is un-
able to choose be-
tween two evils, he
not inf requently
hunts up a third.

How the hardwood situation looks to a good many manufacturers.

Very Few.
When money talks
iv u of us are hard
of hearing.

Some day

I'll write the promised letters that I owe
To all the many dearest friends I know,
And big and little debts I'll surely pay —

Some day.

Some day

I'll scorn the soothing weed in various forms.
The fragrant pipe, the mild Havana's charms,
And shun the flowing bowl fore'er and aye —

Some day.

'Ballad of "Procrastination.

Some day

To one fair maid my heart I shall resign,
To her myself and worldly goods assign,
Her girlish wishes and commands obey —

Some day.

Some day

I'll reach the topmost pinnacle of fame,
Iilazon abroad the glory of my name.
All youthful follies sternly cast away —

Some day.

Si ■ day

I'll realize that Spring has long gone by,
Sweet Summer past, and Winter drawing nigh,
December snows Instead of flowers of Maj

Some day.
Some day

These things I prophesy might come to pas-.
But long ere then, beneath the wind blown

grass,
I fancy I shall in. ike a pleasant stay,

For aye.

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AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

Overcup Oak.
Quercus lyrata — Walt.

The range of growth of the overcup oak is
from Maryland, along the Potomac river near
the District of Columbia, southward to parts
of Florida; westward through the Gulf states
to the Trinity river in Texas; throughout
Arkansas, sections of Missouri, central Ten-
nessee, southern Illinois and Indiana.

In North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas
and Illinois it is commonly known
as overcup ; in Alabama, South
Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Missouri it is called the swamp post
oak; the name water white oak is
applied to it in Mississippi and
parts of South Carolina; swamp
white oak in Texas; forked-leaf
white oak among lumbermen in sev-
eral of the southern states.

This species of oak grows occa-
sionally to a height of one hundred
feet, though its average is about
seventy feet. It has a trunk two to
three feet in diameter, which spreads
out after .attaining a height of fif-
teen or twenty feet, into small,
often pendulous branches, forming
a symmetrical round top. The
branchlets are green, slightly tinged
with red; pubescent when first ap-
pearing, becoming- grayish and
glabrous during their first winter,
eventually becoming ashen gray or -
brown.

The bark is three-quarters to one
inch thick, light gray in color, shed-
ding in thick plates, its surface be-
ing divided into thin scales. The
winter buds are about Vs of an inch
long, ovate and obtuse; having
light colored scales.

The staminate flowers grow in
long, slender, hairy spikes four to
six inches in length ; the calyx is
light yellow and hairy. The pistil-
late flowers are stalked or sessile
and are also pubescent.

The- fruit of the overcup oak is
found on slender, fuzzy peduncles,
sometimes an inch or more in length,
but often sessile; the acorn is half
to one inch long, broad at the base;
light brown and covered with short, TYPICAI

light hairs, usually almost entirely
enclosed in the deep, spherical cup,
w'iich is bright reddish-brown on its inside
surface, and covered on the outside with
scales; thickened at the base, becoming thin-
ner and forming an irregular edge at the
margin of the cup. _

The leaves of this tree are obovate-oblong,
narrow and wedge-shaped at the base ; divided
into from five to nine lobes by sinuses,

FORTY-SECOND PAPER.

tin terminal lube usually broad, with acute,
elongated apex, and having two small
triangular lobes, one on each side. When the
leaves unfold they are brownish green and
hairy above and below; at maturity they are
thin and firm, darker green and glabrous on
the upper surface, silvery or light green and
pubescent below ; seven to eight inches long,
one to four inches broad; in autumn turning

i-OREST GROWTH OVERCUP OAK. WASHING
TON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI.

rounded, oblique or straight at the bottom ;

a beautiful bright scarlet or vivid orange.
The wood is heavy, hard, strong, tough and
very durable when in contact with soil. In
color the heartwood is a rich dark brown,
with thick, light-colored sapwood; commer-
cially it is apt to be confused with the wood
of Quercus alba (white oak) and is used for
like purposes. The distinguishing feature of
this tree, however, is its fruit. The scaly

cup usually hides the nut almost completely,
as noted above. The color of bark and leaf
lining, as well as the leaves and wood, are
characteristics that show the close relation-
ship of this species with several others.

A correspondent in the Mississippi delta

country, in speaking of the confusion often

arising from attempts to distinguish between

Qui reus minor (true post oak), Quercus

miohauxii (cow oak), and Quercus

lyrata (overcup oak), the subject

of this sketch, says:

' ' The genuine forked-leaf white
oak I have only seen growing in the
hills. The oak we have here in Mis-
sissippi, which is classed as white
oak, is cow oak, which has an oval
shaped leaf, something like an ash
only larger; and the post oak, or
overcup, which has a small forked
leaf, but not exactly like the genuine
forked-leaf white oak. I consider
the cow oak the best we have in this
section, and it is nearer like the
genuine forked-leaf white oak than
either the post or overcup. The
average post or overcup runs very
small and is better suited for car
stock and ties than it is for lumber,
whereas the cow oak runs up as
large as sixty inches, and I have seen
some trees which were sixty feet to
the first limb, though of course
there are not many of this kind.
The white oak we have here is in-
ferior to that found in the North
and weighs more, not drying out as
fast nor as well as the northern oak.
In my opinion there is very little
good oak left in the Delta, espe-
cially in this immediate vicinity.
Most all the oak which we have here
now is grubby and full of black
streaks, the latter defect no doubt
being due to early forest fires dam-
aging the tree while young. We
have to get logs twenty inches and
up and in doing this select them to
make an average of thirty to forty
per cent firsts and seconds; same
amount of No. 1 common ; about
twenty per cent of No. 2; and ten
per cent No. 3 or mill cull; often
then we find the heart so shaky that
it is good for nothing but firewood.
The overcup is not as defective in
the heart as the cow oak, but splits
very easily and is more susceptible
to checking than the latter. ' '

The wood is used extensively for construc-
tion timbers, cooperage, furniture, doors, in-
terior finish and car material. The coarse
end is conceded to be the best wood for rail-
way ties. The accompanying photograph
was made on the property of the Chicago-
Mississippi Land & Lumber Company in Wash-
ington county, Mississippi.

GEORGE H. CHAPMAN

STANLEY, WIS.

supplement to
Hardna/ood Reooro

DECEMBER 10, 1906.

ILLUSTRATING
BUILDERS OF LUMBER HISTORY*

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'Builders of Lumber History.

George H. Chapman.

{See Portrait Supplement.)

George H. Chapman, the subject of the
sketch and portrait supplement presented
in this issue of the Hardwood Record, is
widely known in the lumber fraternity of the
middle Northwest, where he occupies the
responsible position of sales manager of the
North Western Lumber Company, one of the
strongest and largest concerns of that sec-
tion.

He was born at Indianapolis, Ind., Jan.
30, 1867. His father was George H. Chap-
man, during his lifetime one of the leaders
of the bar iu that city and a veteran of the
Civil War, having by distinguished service
attained the rank of major general. His
mother before her marriage was Harriet Gil-
man. She is still living and makes her home
in New York.

Mr. Chapman was not educated with a
view to making the lumber business his life
work. He attended the public and privati
schools in Indianapolis until he was seven
teen years old and then was enrolled as a
student in the Bose Polytechnic Institute at
Terre Haute, Ind., and was graduated from
there in June, 1SSS, with the degree of me-
chanical engineer. After leaving school he
took up the practice of his profession anil
for a few months worked for the Janney
Electric Company of Indianapolis.

In March, 1SS9, he began his career in the
lumber business, taking a position with the
North Western Lumber Company. Since that
time he has been in the service of that com-
pany continuously, having at times worked
for the Sterling Lumber Company and the
Montreal Eiver Lumber Company, both of
which concerns are owned by the North
Western Lumber Company.

Mr. Chapman's education in the lumber
business has been thorough. His first work
was helping graders at the Porters Mills
yard of the North Western Lumber Company
and during the first few years of his connec-
tion with the company was employed as
helper, grader and yard foreman. During
the latter part of 1890 he spent about six
months at Sterling, Wis., looking after ship-
ments of the Sterling Lumber Company, and
during 1S91 was in charge of the yard and
shipments of the Montreal Eiver Lumber
Company at Gile, Wis. From 1892 to 1899
he was assistant to George S. Long, sales
manager of the North Western Lumber Com-
pany, located at Eau Claire, and when Mr.
Long left the company on Jan. 1, 1900, Mr.
Chapman was advanced to the position of
Bales manager and was in charge of the Eau
Claire office until September, 1903, when he
removed the office to Stanley, Wis., and took
on the management of all the operations at
Stanley. He is now sales manager for both
the Stanley and Eau Claire plants and is in
charge of all operations at Stanley, Wis.,

NUMBER XXXVI.

which is I lie main manufacturing point of the
company.

The North Western Lumber Company, of
which .Mr. Chapman is sales manager, was
tnuudi'd some thirty years ago by D. E. Moon,
S. T. McKnight and Gilbert E. Porter. In
the beginning it had only a small circular
sawmill, but the operations have grown until
it is now one of the largest plants in any
section of this country. There are now two
modern mills and a planing mill, all equipped

PRINT OF OVERCUP OAK LEAF.

with the must modern and efficient machinery.
The company operates a two-band gang mill
a 1 Eau Claire. It also operates a plant at
Sterling, twenty miles from Stanley, which
lias a capacity of 50,000 feet every ten hours.
Besides his work in connection with the
North Western I, umber Company Mr. Chap-

man is secretary of the Linderman Box &
Veneer Company of Eau Claire and also a
stockholder in it.

Mr. Chapman's work for the North West-
ern Lumber Company has been of the most
substantial kind. Besides the duties of his
office he is identified with movements looking
to the good of the trade in general and is
an important factor in association work.

He was married on Aug. 31, 1S98, to Har-
riet S. Hubbard at Eau Claire and has one
child, a boy. He is a Eepublican of the
strongest kind, an Elk and a member of the
Valley Club of Eau Claire.
The company owns and operates a logging
road with a main line forty-five miles long,
besides various branches known as the Stan-
ley, Merrill & Phillips Eailroad.

Mr. Chapman's services to the North Wesl
em Lumber Company have been of the most
Substantial kind. He has brought to bear
on his work as sales manager the experience
and knowledge of many years of intelligent
activity in both the managing and selling
ends of the lumber business.

In personality lie is alert, forceful and
clean-cut in all his statements, and these
qualities, combined with a comprehensive in-
sight into the broader problems that confront
the lumber industry, have made his advice
and cooperation invaluable in association
work. He is identified prominently with
movements looking to the good of the trade,
his own business methods being unassailable.

Mr. Chapman, although occupying an in-
fluential position in the lumber world, is still
a young man, and all things point to a still
greater future for him in the trade.

Besides his work in connection with the
North Western Lumber Company, Mr. Chap-
man is secretary of the Linderman Box &
Veneer Company of Eau Claire and a stock-
holder in it.

Personally, George H. Chapman is a most
agreeable gentleman with a wide circle of
business and social friends. The liberal edu-
cation he received as a young man has been
widened and broadened by studious tastes
and he has always found time to display in-
terest in the activities of his fellow man out-
side of the narrower pursuits of business. On
Aug. 31, 1898, he was married at Eau Claire
to Harriet S. Hubbard and has one child, a
son. He is a Eepublican of the strongest
kind, an Elk and a member of the Valley
Club of Eau Claire.

The Modern Furniture Factory.

THE DRY KILN.

The proper seasoning of lumber is a highly
important question in every line of woodwork-
ing, but it assumes an acute phase in furni-
ture manufacture. If the lumber worked up
in the furniture factories could be dried be-
yond the possibility of twisting or shrinking
the industry to-day would be on a plane of
craftsmanship superior to any ever attained.
Any skillful manufacturer of high-class stuff
will concede thai the violent extremes of heat
and cold, of moisture and dryness, that are

encountered in the living rooms of most mod- ,
ern houses are the greatest test of the dura-
bility of finished stock. The lasting qual-
ities of well-made furniture of the seven-
teenth and eighteenth centuries are due in
great part to the thoroughly seasoned condi-
tion of the wood that went into the pieces.
In most cases a cabinet-maker would not
touch stock that had not been air-dried for
from three to fifteen years, and even after
that kept on sticks in a warm room to insure

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absolute reliability. As a consequence, the
results of his work have come down to us as
strong and well .set as when they left his
hands. The extreme durability of well-made
furniture is shown by the chairs of ancient
Egyptian manufacture which are on exhibition
in the British Museum and which are still in
a serviceable state, although their estimated
age is about 3,000 years.

No detail of modern furniture making
offers more of a contrast to the methods em-
ployed by the old cabinet-makers than that
of drying. Air drying, whereby the lumber
was seasoned by natural processes, was the
only method known to the earlier generations,
but the necessity of putting furniture on the
market in as short a time as possible has
done away with that system and has evolved
the dry kiln, and it is pro cable that if per-
fection is attained in artificial drying it will
lie along this line. The first step to hasten
the processes of nature was taken when direct
heat was applied to the lumber, the planks
being piled on supports in the open air and
a fire started underneath. This rude kiln
was later enclosed by a wall and in process
of time the present scientific dry kiln was
evolved.

The end of all drying processes, of course,
is to extract the moisture without injury to
the appearance or strength of the material.
As this moisture in green lumber amounts in
some eases to one-half its total weight, the
task of thoroughly seasoning it in a few days
or weeks is no inconsiderable one. Whatever
the kind of kiln used to dry the lumber there
crust be certain features present that prevent
injury to the lumber. The process must act
uniformly on all parts of the material in or-
der to secure results without injury or warp-
ing, for if dry heat is applied to only one
side or edge of a board the result will be a
warp and su-ain. It is generally conceded
that lumber can be dried successfully if the
interior moisture flows to the surface and
keeps pace with the surface evaporation, for
this avoids the possibility of unevenness in
the process and insures against splits and
checks.

What every furniture manufacturer requires
is well-seasoned lumber that will not swell or
shrink, that will make good joints and cut
soft on the machines. He also demands that
the. figure in the wood be not injured in the
drying process. In order to secure such stock,
in the best condition, it has generally been
found desirable to take lumber that has been
on the yard for sixty or ninety days or more
and thoroughly dry it out in the kiln. When
the stock is being put through the process
care must be taken to keep the temperature
even, if the best results are to be obtained,
and it is also important to keep the surface
soft and the pores open in order to equalize
the shrinkage and avoid splitting. In all
cases a certain amount of humidity ought to
be present in the kiln because otherwise there
will be a tendency to case-harden, that is,
the outer part will dry before the inner
layers and the result will be a shell of

shrunken and often checked wood around the
interior part. This checking, which is the
result of case hardening, comes only after the
first shrinking and the tendency is not pres-
ent in lumber that has been air dried for any
length of time. In stock that is green from
the saw, the fault can be prevented by steam-
ing in the kiln and by the employment and
proper regulation of a certain amount of
humidity. This has also the effect of loosen-
ing up all the ducts and passages from the
outer surface to the inner strata, thus giving
the wood a chance to respond throughout its
whole thickness to the drying treatment.

After the wood has been subjected to the
kiln operations it should be allowed to temper
in the air for a while before it is cut up so
that it may acquire a natural condition from
the effects of the atmosphere.

The increasing demand for stock and the
consequent necessity of taking it green or
almost green from the saw has given an im-
petus to experiments tending to solve the
problem of seasoning green lumber directly
and eliminating the drying yard. One con-
cern claims to have reached a solution of the
problem in an attachment which can be placed
in any kiln. According to their theory the
swelling and shrinking of the wood is caused
by the foreign matter brought into the tree
along with the sap. This substance, which is

Some two hundred years ago a group of
artists were accustomed to gather in a cer-
tain London inn and spend the evenings.
The sides of the large lounging room were
finished in broad panels of a peculiarly soft,
wide-grained and unpainted wood which had
attained by much scrubbing and cleaning a
surface of great smoothness. On one occa-
sion a member of the party took a red-hot
poker from the fire-place and burned a figure
into the wood. From time to time other fig-
ures and scenes were added by the artists of
that and succeeding generations until the
entire sides of the room were a series of
impromptu sketches. It was a rough ex-
hibition of pyrography done with elemental
tools.

Before and after that time, both in Eng-
land and on the continent, some ambitious
work had been attempted, but the difficulty
of securing suitable wood worked to the
necessar}7 condition and the clumsiness of the
tools, together with the troublesome methods
of heating them, proved such obstacles that
the art languished.

On the invention of the pyrographic needle,
the ease with which the work could be done
revivified the art. During the past eight
or nine years work in burnt wood has be-
come more than popular — it has become a
fad. In practically every department store

intimately connected with the wood, expands
or contracts according as it receives or dis-
pels moisture. If it were possible to extract
this foreign elemental substance without in-
jury to the fibers of the wood, the tendency
of the lumber to swell or shrink would be
practically eliminated, and it is claimed that
this result is attained and attained in such a
complete and decisive manner that the stock
can be thoroughly dried in from a week to
fifteen days.

The question of kiln drying, although it
has not reached a perfect stage, has been de-
veloped to such an extent that it is possible
to dry lumber in any of the various ap-
pliances now on the market, if reasonable
care is taken in the operation and a knowl-
edge of some of the elemental principles of
kiln diving is had. The kiln is now a neces-
sary adjunct to any modern mill and present
conditions are emphasizing its necessity. The
drying question has come to be recognized as
one of the most important in woodworking,
and experiments are being constantly made
that will result in still further improving the
types of kilns now on the market until the
taking of lumber green from the saw and the
delivering of it to the cutting room of the
furniture factory in workable shape is an
accomplished fact.

pmmmPMW

of the country and in shops where artists'
materials are sold a stock of wood panels and
medallions is kept on hand to supply the
trade. As the Christmas season approaches,
especially large additions are made to the
supplies and many well-known artists execute
the decorations on the more pretentious ob-
jects.

In order to achieve the best results in py-
rography, the wood must be white and soft.
Basswood is highest in favor because it offers
a grain of such uniform softness and breadth
that at a short distance the face resembles
a smooth, white surface, practically free of
markings. The work has been done on oak,
but its heavier markings and the fact that
it lias both hard and soft grain renders the
wood unsuitable for the purpose, both from
the viewpoint of effect and that of uniform
workmanship, for the needle cannot be man-
aged with the best results when the wood
is not of similar grain throughout.

Birch has also been used as a basis, but is
undesirable because, like oak, although in
smaller degree, it is hard and heavy. Its
markings are also of such variety that it
lacks the plain qualities of background af-
forded by other less figured woods.

Besides basswood, Cottonwood and soft
maple are extensively employed. Cotton-
wood is white and gives a beautiful sur-

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face, but is harder than basswood and its
grain is more pronounced. Soft maple also
is hard, compared to basswood, and has a
surface that is slightly less desirable for
pyrographic purposes than either of the
other two woods.

A wide variety of objects is made at the
several large factories dealing in wood for
this kind of work. Besides the furniture,
screens, etc., which are decorated with the
pyrographic needle, more pretentious work
is frequently attempted, one large hotel in
Chicago having the frieze about the ladies'
dining room finished in this style, and mural
decorations in private residences and hotels
are often executed in this way.

All kinds of minor decorative and useful
objects are manufactured from basswood,
cottonwood and soft maple, and finished for
pyrographic work, such as boxes for gloves,
handkerchiefs and neckties, picture frames,
etc.

Furniture is also manufactured. In order
to secure the necessary strength the wood used
for coring is strong, usually oak or birch, and
the veneer is basswood, sanded to the smooth
surface required for the work. Pedestals,
tabourets, chairs, coat hangers, etc., are
among the familiar objects manufactured for
the trade, although any kind of furniture will
be made to order.

In the large pieces, as in the small objects,
figures are stamped on the work in outline
so that the amateur may finish the decora-
tion. In the case of important artistic ef-
forts, however, where the designs are to be
worked out by skilled artists, these outlines
are not stamped in, but the figures and scenes
are drawn and burned by the craftsman him-
self.

Occasionally most attractive work is done
by supplementing the pyrography with paint-
ing, oil being used, and a most harmonious
effect being obtained.

For pure decoration, without the idea of
utility, ovals or medallions are made, these
in many eases being laminated and three or
five-ply, the coring being of some cheap wood
and the veneer of basswood or the other
species suitable for the work. The stock is
cut on the bandsaw a dozen or more at a
time and the veneer prepared to size. The
veneer on the filler runs from 1-16 to 1-20
of an inch in thickness and the inside stock
generally 14 or 3-16 of an inch. The veneer
is glued on with its grain running in the
opposite direction to that of the foundation
wood and several of the made-up panels are
placed in the hydraulic machines together and
stand under pressure until the glue has set.
Becoming firmly jointed they are run through
a sand-papering machine and brought to a
certain degree of smoothness; then through
a finer sanding roll and afterwards put on
the sand drum and given the peculiarly glossy
and even surface which is susceptible of high
class work.

Pyrographic work is more than a recreation
for amateurs. Some of the best of modern
artists have expended their energies in em-
bellishing and beautifying the white and per-

fect surfaces of basswood, cottonwood and
soft maple. The improvements in wood-
working machinery have made possible a face
of such smoothness and the methods of dry-
ing both the filler and veneer used in built-up
panels and medallions have made the stock
so free of warping tendencies that it is pos-
sible to obtain splendid artistic results. The
stock used must be entirely free of defects.
Workers in pyrography claim for their art
that it is more durable than oil and that the
wood, when old, has a mellowed appearance
similar to old ivory. It is certain that beau-
tiful effects can be secured by a skilled

craftsman on a surface of well-seasoned and
finely treated wood and that the most diffi-
cult subjects, even landscapes, can be worked
out with creditable effect. The American hard
woods mentioned above have peculiarly de-
sirable qualities as a material on which to
work, basswood being most popular. There
has always been a shortage of the white bass-
wood used for pyrographic work and there
is considerable trouble this year to supply
the needs. Houses interested in this line of
work report that orders for the coming season
show a demand greater than at any other time
in their history.

ReVieW of the Southern HardWood

Situation.

Under date <.f December 8, Lewis Doster,
secretary of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation of the United States, makes the follow-
ing statements, which tell the story of northern
hardwood conditions succinctly and with author-
ity :

Oak.

Hardwood production lias shifted from its
center to both the north and the south. Indi-
ana and Ohio first supplied the requirements of
users of oak. The increase in the consumption
of oak products shaped to meet the needs of
hundreds of different classes of users made it
impossible for the two great oak states to sup-
ply all that was desired. Commerce levied trib-
ute upon the resources of West Virginia and
Kentucky, later branching out so as to include
eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina
and West Virginia on one side and southeastern
Missouri. Arkansas. Mississippi and Louisiana
on the other. Small quantities of oak are se-
cured in Michigan and Wisconsin.

Today the lower Mississippi river section
may be defined as the heart of the oak lumber
producing territory. In former years this sec-
tion produced oak in small quantities only, the
bulk of the timber cut being made into staves
and railroad ties. Operations in .the earlier days
were contingent upon circumstances. If the de-
mand was heavy and conditions favorable for
production operations were carried on with
great activity, but in the event of a contrary
stale of affairs work in the camps and at the
mills ceased. Naturally attention first was
given t" timber of easy accessibility, a prefer-
ence being shown for that located on high
ground not subjected to inundation during the
wet season. Enlargement of the work carried
on both at the mills and in the woods has
pushed the workmen out on to soft ground.
While heretofore operators were but little in-
convenienced by wet weather they now in, large
part are compelled to regulate their affairs by
conditions in the woods. Never before in the
history of hardw I manufacture in I be Missis-
sippi valley lias the precipitation been so beat 1
At some point- as much as fourteen inches of
water is reported i" have fallen in five days.
Ihr result has been to cause many plants to
shut down temporarily and to bring logging op-
erations to a standstill. It has been found

n ssary to move the animals used in logging to

higher ground ami keep them there until the
water shall have receded. Steam logging also
has ceased because the floods have washed
away (be railroads, otherwise disarranged equip
incut and caused a decrease in woods work if
possibly on per cenl

s 11 operators are the heaviest sufferers.

Many of them are located away from railroads
ami now state that it will be impossible for
them to get "in any quantity of stock until dry
sveather will set in next summer. Those who

handle this class of mill products, and make
advances to the mills, claim they are confronted
by conditions which make it impossible to get

the stock to the railroads and in s< ses

this lumber will not reach the market until
next summer.

Operators on higher ground also have felt the
influence of Hie disastrous weather cond tions,
rain having played havoc with the conduct of
their business. The outlook for oak stock from
now until March 1 is not very encouraging.
The production will be curtailed by those fac-
lois which now dominate and prices should
remain steady. It is more than probable that
some advances will be made, quarter sawed
white oak already showing signs of increase
owing to heavy demand. In fact, the barometer
which indicates weather conditions may also be
regarded as the governor of the oak market.
Poplar.

Poplar in some respects has received a set-
back during the last few years owing to the
decreased output. The river mills prior to the
November tide received few logs. Their poplar
output naturally has fallen off. Conditions dur-
ing the past few years have operated to reduce
the available supply of poplar lumber and com-
petition for poplar stock has operated to ad-
vance prices. This wood is considered a neces-
sity by some manufacturers who so far have not
found any satisfactory substitute. The heavy
demand for poplar has caused most of the mills
lo oversell and to put forth great exertion and
spend large sums of money in efforts to secure
logs from which the stock might be manufac-
1 ured.

The November tides brought to the river mills
in Hie Ohio and Kentucky river districts a
supply of logs that will keep them busy for
some time. Along the Tennessee and Cumber-
land rivers manufacturers were not greatly bea-
efitted by the lides. hut earlier in the season
those sections received logs the majority of
which have been cut into lumber and distrib-
uted. Some of I he mills have been depending

upon logs 1 i.iil by rail, furnished by owners

1 1 small tracts who have put their timber on
1 he market in this way.

Logging operations in the mountains of Ken-
imkv and Tennessee have been very greatly
interfered with by the rains, which have washed

away the tramways, caused mountain slides to

block other mails and generally upset arrange-
ments. The excess isture has greatly in-
creased I he expense of pulling in logs. In fact,
ihe niosi rapid advance has been made in
rest of delivering h>c,s to poplar mills The
heavy tide carried some of the poplar logs past
Hie, milling points, necessitating their towage
back to ihe mill.

Little if any of this stock will be in condi-
1 0 hi to use before spring, as the bulk of it is
air dried, a very slow process of curing during

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the winter months. Inasmuch as low grade
poplar has been used extensively in the manu-
facture of boxes and for other purposes for
which white pine is employed the scarcity of
both poplar and pine may well be regarded with
concern by those who use either. A conserva-
tive estimate places the decrease in white pine
for 1907 at 400,000,000 feet. A similar de-
crease in the output of poplar will not take
place, but the proportion of loss probably will
be as great. This condition carries its own
recommendation to all concerned in the out-
come.

Cottonwood and Gum.

Within tie last few years both eottonwcod
and gum have become established parts of the
hardwood lumber supply of the country. Sup-
plies have been more adequate than in many
other kinds of wood because timber has been
more plentiful. This is the natural position of
new material seeking favor but scarcely is ap-
plicable to conditions of the Cottonwood trade
in 1906. Conditions surrounding the produc-
tion of gum and cottonwood are the same, >.\
ing to the close relation in which these timbers
grow. Manufacturers are experiencing the same
trouble outlined in the case of oak producers in
the Mississippi valley. It is scarcely possible,
owing to the interruption of logging operations,
for an output of normal size to be reached. The
result of this state of affairs is to strip both
cottonwood and gum of the advantage of ade-
quate stock which most of the younger suitors
for public favor enjoy.

Values show the influence of an enlarged de-
mand. Cottonwood box boards are now bringing
?51 and No. 1 common .$25 f. o. b. Cairo. All
grades are moving freely, but the lower grades
of cottonwood are becoming scarce owing to
the unusually heavy demand for package mate-
rial. The majority of producers are oversold
on low grades and some of them are having
difficulty iu meeting the demand for box boards
and tirsts and seconds.

A broader knowledge of the qualities and
merits of gum has given this wood a niche of
its own among the hardwoods. Under normal
conditions it would be possible to enlarge pro-
duction materially, but at present the weather
interposes an insurmountable obstacle, as condi-
tions in the sections where gum abounds are
decidedly unfavorable for logging operations. This
year it has been impossible for the manufac-
turer to accumulate any sizable stocks of sap
grades. Box manufacturers and furniture fac-
tories have supplied a ready market for all
stock in condition to ship. The red or heart
stock has not moved as fast as the sap lumber
but owing to the relatively small production
of these grades manufacturers have had no diffi-
culty in carrying the small surplus and have
excellent prospects of a. satisfactory market for
this material in the near future. Red gum has
advanced rapidly but the future probably will
see still greater improvement.

Producers and users of gum have studied the
peculiarities of this wood and now handle and
use gum as gum should be used, not in accord-
ance with' methods which proved satisfactory
when some other kind of lumber is involved.
Gum has taken its place as one of the standard
articles' of hardwood produced by manufacturers
in this country.

ASH.

Ash is one of the woods which fill a certain
function in the trade. It is perhaps in greatest
demand and lightest supply of any hardwood in
the country. Particularly is this true with re-
spect to t.he better qualities. Demand is heavier
than the supply and those producing ash of any
kind find it difficult to accumulate anything like
a respectable assortment of sizes and grades.
The heaviest call at this time is for thick sizes,
which manufacturers are recommended to cut
in order to satisfy the wants of users.

Hickoet.

Hickory supplies are practically a minus
quantity. The output is decreasing rapidly and
the call from vehicle manufacturers and other
users steadily is enlarging. There does not
seem to be any satisfactory substitute for it.
The tendency of the times will keep prices at
least on the present level should further ad-
vances not be made because of light supplies.

Of late years carriage and wagon manufactur-
ing concerns have endeavored to buy hickory cut
to suit their requirements. Realizing this
change, some of the larger lumber concerns have
installed separate plants so as to shape the ma-
terial as the user desires it. This methed of
handling the timber makes it of more value and
should enable the manipulator to secure more
for his hickory, because only those portions
which are suitable for their several special uses
are shipped.

Dimension Stock.

Furniture dimension stock has not responded
as readily as many desire to the generally im-
proved demand and price of other kinds cf
hardwood lumber. Producers feel, however,
that they should have proportionate prices for
their material. Low values this year are due
largely to carrying out contracts made early in

the season, with which at least one party thereto
is dissatisfied. In the event contracts are made
for 1907 delivery it is generally thought prices
will show a material advance over those ruling
in 1906.

Other Woods.

Conditions affecting chestnut, basswood, ma-
ple, elm, sycamore, walnut, butternut and
cherry, comprising those woods of lesser impor-
tance, quantity of product considered, with few
exceptions have been entirely satisfactory. Val-
ues have improved this year in sympathy with
the general betterment of prices of the hard-
wood leaders in the market. Sound wormy
chestnut is in great demand and stocks are lim-
ited. Basswood is becoming more widely known
and the demand is heavy.

. The Year.

The hardwood trade of 1906 has been ex-
tremely gratifying to producers and distribu-
ters. The demand has been broad enough to
furnish a market for practically every foot of
every grade and size that was produced. It
has not been a case of a heavy call for one
item and a limited market for many others,
but a broad, uniform demand for the whole
range of woods, gum and cottonwood to cherry
and walnut.

HardWood Record Moil Bag.

[In this department it is proposed to reply
to such inquiries as reach this office from the
Hardwood Record clientage as will be of enough
general interest to warrant publication. Every
patron of the paper >s invited to use this de-
partment to the fullest extent, and an attempt
will be made to answer queries pertaining to all
matters of interest to the hardwood trade, iu
a succinct and intelligent manner.!

Insurance Standard Woodworker.

Boston, Mass.. Nov. 22. — Editor Hardwood
Record: Enclosed find copy of the Insurance
Standard Woodworker, which shows how to re-
duce the fire hazard and obtain a low insurance
rate. The undersigned, who is inspector for the
Lumber Mutual Insurance Companies, wrote the
pamphlet and will furnish one gratis to any lum-
berman or owner of a woodworking plant who
mentions your paper in his application.

This goes to the trade papers and record will
be kept of results from each paper. We think
there is need for such a book and also wish in-
formation as to which paper is in touch with
people the companies should reach. Will be
] chased if you will put this letter in your read-
ing matter. Very truly yours. A. L. Artz, In-
spector, 1133 Oliver Building, Boston. Mass.

Accompanying the above letter was the
pamphlet referred to, which should be in the
hands of every lumberman and which will
be sent to anyone interested on application
to the writer. — Editor.

An Appreciation and a Record.

Colimiua. Tkxn., Dec. 1. — Editor Hardwood
Record : Enclosed find our check for $ 2 covering
subscription for the coming year. We can't well
do hardwood business without the Record. We
recently sold to the Central Lumber Company
hi' Nashville. Tenn., seven old time yellow poplar
logs scaling 9,398 feet. Can you beat this? —
Mavberry Mill Company.

The Mayberry Mill Company is an old
and esteemed subscriber. Its story of 9,39S
feet for seven yellow poplar logs looks as if
it might be a record. If anyone can beat it
the Hardwood Eecord will be glad to an-
nounce it.

Wants Quarter-Sawed Oak.

New York City, Dec. 6. — Editor Hardwood
Record : I am in the market for the rather diffi-
cult requisition of 2.500 feet firsts and seconds
one and one-half inch. IS feet quarter-sawed
white oak, and 3,500 feet same grade and thick-
ness, 16 feet long. Can you suggest anyone who
would be willing to get this order cut for me?

Quarter-sawed white oak of the grade,
thickness and length named is a pretty diffi-
cult order, even in the small quantity re-
quired. However, if any of the clients of the
Hardwood Record would like to figure on
this requisition the name of the correspond-
ent is at their disposal on application. —
Editor.

Wants Table Legs.

Newark, O., Nov. 20. — Editor Hardwood Rec-
ord : We are in the market for immediate ship-
ment of two or more cars of oak table legs in the
following sizes :

3 x3 —26".
3'jx3U— 26".

4 x4 —20".

If you can put us in communication with any
mill in position to furnish this stock we will
appreciate it greatly and beg to thank you for
your kindness, in anticipation. — Com-
pany.

The address of the writer of above inquiry
will be furnished to anyone interested. —
Editor.

Annual American Forestry Association.

The annual meeting of the American Forestry
Association will be held at Washington, D. C,
Wednesday, January 9. The meeting should
bring out a large attendance of members of the
association and friends of forestry, as impor-
tant business is to be transacted and officers
elected.

Considerable attention will be given to the
White Mountain and Southern Appalachian Re-
serves, their significance, the importance of pass-
ing the bill establishing them and the methods
to be employed to secure such legislation. A
large attendance is greatly desired.

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National Veneer & Panel Manufacturers' Association.

The first annual meeting of the National Ve-
neer & Panel Manufacturers' Association is being
held at the Auditorium hotel, Chicago, December
11, as the Hardwood Record goes to press.

The meeting was called to order with the
following in attendance:

E. H. Benjamin, Cadillac Veneer Company,
Cadillac, Mich.

B. A. BowinaD, Williauison-Kuny Mill and
Lumber Company, Mound City, 111.

J. \V. Clinard, High l'oiut Veneering Com-
pany, High I'oint, N. C.

H. J. Cuniugliam, National Manufacturers'
Mutual. Janesville. Wis.

M. C. Dow, Goshen Veneer Company, Goshen,
ind.

E. H. Defebaugh, Barrel & Box, Louisville, Ky.
11. C. Dayton, Wisconsin Veneer Company.

Rhinelander, Wis.

II. II. Gibson, Hardwood Record, Chicago.

A. E. Gordon, Hardwood Record, Chicago.

L. P. Groffman, St. Louis Basket & Box Com-
pany, St. Louis, Mo.

A. O. Hubbard, Puffer-Hubbard Manufacturing
Company, Minneapolis.

C. T. Jarrell, B. C. Jarrell & Co., Humboldt,
Tenn.

D. E. Kline, Louisville Veneer Mills, Louis-
ville, Ky.

B. W. Lord, Chicago Veneer Company, Burn-
side, Ky.

M. C. Moore, Packages, Milwaukee. Wis.

W. T. Pierpont, Beldenville Lumber Company,
Bruce, Wis.

M. W. Perry, Ahnapee Veneer & Seating Com-
pany, Algoma, Wis.

Carroll Quimby, Wisconsin Timber & Land
Company, Mattoon, Wis.

J. N. Roberts, Roberts & Conner Company,
New Albany, Ind.

Z. T. Robinson, Robinson Veneer Works,
Owensboro. Ky.

W. H. Roddis, Roddis Lumber & Veneer Com-
pany, Marshtield, Wis.

F. A. Richardson, Michigan Veneer Company,
Alpena, Mich.

William Schoenlau, Schoenlau-Kukkuck Trunk
Top & Veneer Company, St. Louis, Mo.

J. M. Schloenbaeh, Hardwood Record, Chi-
cago.

C. J. F. Steiner, Baltimore Veneer Panel Com-
pany, Baltimore, Md".

E. P. Sawyer, Cadillac Veneer Company, Cad-
illac, Mich.

J. A. Underwood, Underwood Veneer Company,
Wausau, Wis.

W. S. Walker, Portsmouth Veneer and Panel
Co., Portsmouth, O.

D. W. Williamson, Williamson Veneer Com-
pany, Baltimore, Md.

C. Fred Yegge, Chicago Mill & Lumber Com-
pany, Chicago.

Owing to the absence of the secretary, who
was delayed by a late train, President Kline in
his opening remarks suggested that the regular
session of the association be deferred until
afternoon, but that some preliminary work be
done by members looking toward the prompt
furtherance of the business before the meeting.

President Kline said that the Inspection rules
should be somewhat amended to meet curr -nt
conditions and that the matter was already
under discussion by the committee, and that
they would have a report to submit.

He also suggested that it would be necessary
to have a committee on nomination and election
of officers — this being the annual meeting— and
appointed the following as such committee : M.
C. Dow, E. H. Benjamin and R. C. Dayton.

He deemed it wise to appoint a committee
looking toward the poss'ble necessity for changes
in the constitution and by-laws and appointed
as such committee the following : M. W. Perry,
L. P. Groffman and J. W. Clinard.

The meeting then adjourned until 2 p. m.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

After roll call by Secretary E. II. Defebaugh,
reading of minutes of last meeting being dis-
pensed with. President Kline delivered his ad-
dress as follows :

Address of President.

It is with great pleasure that I welcome such
a large and so representative an attendance at
the first annual meeting of the National Veneer

& Panel Manufacturers' Association. A little
over a year ago a few manufacturers met at Cin-
cinnati and organized a temporary association.
A call was then sent out to everyone using
cutting machines and making panels and glued-
up stock urging them to attend a meeting which
was held here at Chicago on December 14, 1905.
At that time a permanent organization was per-
fected, which I have had the honor of serving
as first president. Right here I wish to say the
idea of a national association of veneer manu-
facturers is not a new one. More than ten
years ago a movement was set afoot by a prom-
inent manufacturing house looking toward the
establishment of an association. The time and
places set for preliminary meetings seemed to
be unfortunate and after two or three unsuc-
cessful attempts to get manufacturers together,
efforts ceased. Since then several spasmodic
efforts have been made, none of them with any
success until the present organization was
formed.

It is a singular fact that the forerunning
agitation of the movement to organize the pres-
ent association was from the outside. Barrel
and Box, a trade paper published by our dis-

D. E. KLINE, LOUISVILLE, KY., RE-ELECT-
ED PRESIDENT

tingulshed secretary, E. H. Defebaugh, took the
initiative, ably seconded by M. C. Moore of
Packages, and H. IT. Gibson of the Hardwood
Record, Much "f the success that has crowned
our work is attributable to their efforts, both in
print and otherwise, and to the assistance and
advice obtained from these gentlemen. Mr. Def-
ebaugh has served us without compensation as sec-
retary and has to my personal knowledge spent
both his valuable time and money for our better-
ment. At our first meeting some criticism was
made ■ •! the diverse lines represented, and the
opinion was expressed that it would be impos-
sible to reconcile these interests and have a har-
monious working whole. It was at once sug-
gested that these various lines would very early
discover the necessity of getting together to
discuss their own peculiar line or lines and that
the probability was that subordinate organiza-
tions under the parent organization might be
found necessary. Carrying out this idea there
have been held from time to time, at convenient
places, meetings of manufacturers interested in
special lines. As, for instance, those making
rotary cut lines, that is to say the line covering
poplar,, oak and at a later date gum. That
they will also consider birch, basswood and

other woods Is a foregone conclusion. The
makers of panel stock have also held a number
of meetings, as have also those whose line is
quartered oak, veneers and thin lumber in both
sawed and slice cut stock. Having attended
many of these meetings, I wish to say that it
is agreeably surprising to see the friendly dis-
cussions that are had of modes of manufacture,
costs, etc.

There has also been organized during the year
a southeastern branch of the association com-
posed of members in North Carolina, Tennessee
and Georgia. On account of their long distance
from the majority of the manufacturers it was
deemed best that they should have a local or-
ganization so that frequent meetings could be
had. This branch is represented in the asso-
ciation meetings by duly accredited delegates.

There has also been organized for the same
reason the New York & Pennsylvania Veneer &
Panel Association, with headquarters at James-
town, N. Y., also similarly represented in the
association meetings. The association has held
meetings in January, February and June of this
year and a delegation, including your president,
went to Asheville, N. C, in April, meeting there
the southeastern manufacturers, and assisted
in the establishment of the southeastern branch
already mentioned.

A point that has been raised by some of our
people, already members of the association, u
that we must do nothing in violation of the so-
called Sherman law against trusts, which pro-
vides, I believe, against combinations in re-
straint of trade. I assume that we are all law-
abiding citizens of this country and that no one
of us is disposed to do anything that lays him
or his associates liable to punishment for viola-
tion of laws.

The facts as to the condition of the trade we
represent were and are at present (excepting
the betterments that may have occurred during
the past twelve months) that the results at the
end of each year's business for a considerable
term of years have not justified the investment
in plants and equipment and the risk of fire,
flood and credits. This I believe to be the
unanimous opinion of all concerned. How are
we to better conditions is the question to be
solved by the association. First, we have not
been getting enough for our goods, and second,
the buyers, whether consumers, dealers or mid-
dlemen of any character whatever, have used
one manufacturer against the other to whittle
down our prices. Men with first-class reputa-
tions for honor and honesty have not refrained
from using the lie direct in naming prices to
one salesman, alleged to have been quoted by
another. The effect has been demoralization in
prices, terms and deliveries all along the line.
In our friendly intercourse with each other dur-
ing the past year we have found our competitors
to be men, and men willing and anxious to learn
as to methods and costs and to obtain all for
their goods that their competitors can. We
have shown up the unfair schemes of buyers
and have laid the groundwork for an effective
campaign of reform, and for a legitimate profit
for our output in future. The association has
made no prices, but has discussed costs and
established grades (as yet in imperfect form but
awaiting your action), and it has been sug-
gested that the minimum prices for certain
goods of certain grades ought not to be less
than figures presented from time to time.

Upon legal advice of the best character we
believe this to be our privilege within any ex-
isting law. I think that the fear of being
drawn into some illegal action has caused many
houses to withhold their memberships. I be-
lieve these houses will become members sooner
or later, as we are continually growing.

Another objection urged is from a few houses

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who say they are very busy, are getting top
prices, and don't need an association. rerbaps
not now, but these times will not eominue for-
ever. The time will come when we will all
need orders and then if we have an association
in good working order the benefits will be ap-
parent. However, I claim that the high priced
man needs the association fully as much as the
one who has been low priced.

The last objection to the association that I
think of comes from a house which says it sees
among our officers men who have sold goods for
the lowest possible prices. Perhaps so. They
are of the men who have needed education and
have taken and applied practically the lessons
they have received. We want them all, aud the
high priced man is the best teacher of the low
priced one.

There is another matter I wish to touch upon.
After our organization it was discover d that
there was an association with headquarters at
Indianapolis which calls itself the National Ve-
neer .Manufacturers" Association. This ass < lis
tion is composed exclusively of manufacturers of
quartered oak. Efforts in the early part of the
year to have them become members of this asso
ciation were without effect. They, however, have
taken ci gnizance of the apparently satisfactory
working of the association : they have held re-
peated meetings (luring tlie year, and are oper-
ating witli the sarin- end in view that we are.
and will, 1 think, be represented here. I have
hope that the two associations can be merged
into one, and thus have one grand parent organi-
zation.

The subject of grades has been mention id,
and there will be presented to you grading rules
on various lines that have already been the
subjects of much discussion. This notwith-
standing the fact that this association has al-
ready formulated some grading rules in some
lines. It is hoped that this convention of the.
association can accept rules that will be later
presented, and make them thus in fact the
national rules for grading.

At times during the y ar there has been much
to cause us to feel discouraged that results have
not been more quickly attained. Those familiar
with association work say. however, that we
have made wonderful progress. I mist that it
is so. They point to other associations thai
have spent years of time and much money before
getting matters upon a satisfactory basis. There
seems, therefore, reason for us to continue the
work vigorously, smoothing down the rough
places within the association and urging those
still on the outside to come in with us and
derive the benefits thathave already commenced
to show and certainly will be increased in the
future.

Secretary Defebaugh then read his report, as
follows :

Secretary's Report.

Gentlemen — I will not take up your time with
the details of the work of the secretary's office
the past year, but wish in prefacing my remarks
to thank the veneer trade for the extreme cour-
tesy extended to the writer in his voluminous
correspondence with the various members of the
trade for the past twelve months.

When we made our first effort to promote a
national organization we met wi.th discourage-
ments not anticipated, but in cooperation with
the officers your secretary has not allowed these
to decrease his interest in the promotion of an
organization that will add pleasure and profit to
your business. And, while a very busy man,
I have found time to visit, either through my
representatives or personally, every section of
the veneer territory with the exception of Wis-
consin, and I am happy to say that conditions
have been improved by the influence of the
work of this organization. Too much credit can-
not be given to the individuals who have gone
out of their way to try to influence their neigh-
bors, their competitors and their friends to get
in line with the up-to-date men of this organi-

zation, and the result has been local organiza-
tions in each section.

It is true that these have not all been consum-
mated on lines that we feel would have mate-
rially increased the volume of the bank acccunt
of the veneer and panel men. But progr ss
has been made, and the best testim: ny that this
is true is the correspondence that reaches our
office which says. "We have advanced our pre s.
thanks to the association." or "We are better
off because of the influence of the National or-
ganization and we desire to cooperate in any
way." These encouraging messages do not come
from the sixty-three members of the association
only, hut from the 220 manufacturers in the
trade. This should be encouraging to any man,
and our only regret is that we are not able to
report to you that we have 220 members. But
Borne was not built in a day. and I have known
many organizations that have spent much more
money and exerted more energy with less suc-
cess. Hence I think the association may be
congratulated on its efforts, for we have with'
us, for us and supporting every effort of the
organization the best men in the trade. There
are others who should be preferred stockholders

.]. A. UNDERWOOD, WADSAU, WIS. RE-
ELECTED FIRST VICE PRESIDENT.

in this prosperity wagon of the veneer and panel
trade, and we hope that we may shake hands
with many of these gentlemen today and enroll
them so we can have their moral and financial
support.

Twelve mouths ago your secretary urged you
to work with the association and get your neigh-
bor to do likewise, to join in the movement sug-
gested for wheels within this big wheel, and I
trust that the meetings held before and after
and during this general meeting will insure more
aggressive work by these local bodies that they
may uphold the recommendations of the officers
of this association, for if in our swaddling
clothes we could accomplish the results which
mean dollars and many of them in our bank
accounts because of membership in this organi-
zation and the branches formed within it, no
man in the trade can afford to stay outside the
fold. Your secretary can see great possibilities
for the organization. It is true we need money
enough in the treasury to employ a man who
will give his whole time and effort to the up-
building of the veneer trade.

As a point for cons'. deration, because ven er
manufacturers not in the association cut the
price in the month of October, lumber manufac-
turers who are in competition with you for the
same logs veneer is made of had to cut the lum-
ber price down $o a thousand. Veneer and lum-
ber in ii should cot be in competition either in

purchasing or selling, but should work together
to buy the logs as cheap as possible and sell
their manufactured product at the top of the
market, and with this cooperation you need not
fear hut what dividends will be paid each year
on the capital stock of your institution.

You can accomplish nothing in life without
effort. Effort is made easy by the cooperation
of the individual with the high class organization
whose aim is to improve the conditions in the
craft. We have the organization. We have
sixty-three tried men who have been and are
making the effort to assist each other, but there
is plenty of room en the front seat in this
organization to make additions to this roster and
to enlarge the influence and effort of this body
for the greater prosperity of the industry. If
you have not .gone on record as being favorable
to this greater prosperity you can only blame
yourselves for any disasters that may come from
high-priced logs and low-priced manufactured
products.

It is true there has been absolutely no com-
bined effort in this organization to put in effect
an iron-clad price list. We tannot do it: we
would not do it if we could. We are happy to
say that the suggestions of the wisest men in
the trade have been accepted by the majority of
the veneer and panel manufacturers because we
had an organization where we could all get
together and talk it over, rjere we are again
gathered together to work out plans for l'JOT.
Let us give our time and talk freely and from
the heart and we can accomplish much more
than we have ever done before at this meeting.
We know, because we have tried it, that the
other fellow will follow our lead. If this meet-
ing is not composed of 200 men, as it should be,
don't be discouraged, but remember that ycu
have the same experience in the town meeting,
the commercial club, the church and the lodge,
thai two or three must do the work, must out-
line the plans, and the American manufacturers
are willing to help themselves when some one
suggests a possible way to improve their condi-
tion. Don't let anyone discourage you. Our
organization's work can be put up beside the
effort of any like organization in its first year's
life and we can show the man from Missouri or
any other state that we have accomplished won-
derful things. That being the case, we should
be encouraged to give more effort, more time,
more money to create more dividends for the
individuals in the veneer and panel business.

If I have gone too much into generalities in
this little talk I have not been bluffing. I have
got four aces in my hand and they represent and
will take the pot of the veneer and panel trade
against any hand that the seller of logs or the
buyer of veneer can hold if you will give, your
attention to the business game and cooperate
through the national organization of the vein- r
and panel trade.

Secretary-Treasurer Defebaugh then delivered
his report on the financial condition of the asso-
ciation, which showed a balance on hand on
June 19, 1906, of J12S.65 : receipts since that
date of $190 ; balance on hand at date. $86.91.
He reported dues unpaid of about $110, and re-
quested prompt attention.

The report was referred to an auditing com-
mittee composed of Messrs. Walker, Richardson
and Benjamin.

H. J. Cunningham of the National Manufac-
turers' Mutual Insurance Company, Janesville,
Wis., was then introduced and gave a clear and
comprehensive resume of the work which his
company and others organized along the same
lines are doing.

B. W. Lord was asked to deliver an address
which he had prepared on "Waste in Manufac-
turing Veneei, but reouested that it oe de-
ferred until the next session.

J. H. Talge of the Talge Mahogany Company,
Indianapolis, was then called upon for a paper
on "Cost of Logs." but was not present.

M. C. Dow then spoke on "Manufacturers'

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Cost in the Veneer and Panel Business," going
over the various items of cost of logs, manu-
facture, labor, etc., very carefully, and pointing
out t lint manufacturers are logically entitled to
more money for their output.

Messrs. Underwood, Kline, Steincr and Dow
took prominent parts in the free discussion
which ensued on points brought out in the ad-
dress.

J. A. Underwood was called upon for an ad
dress upon "The Contract for 1907." Discus-
sion followed by Messrs. Groffman, Koddis. Bow-
man, Kline and Schoenlau, who also brought up
the question of prices being paid for logs at
various points, the car shortage problem, econ-
omy in the use of material, etc.

L. 1'. Groffman read an interesting paper upon
"Good Fellowship in Association Work," fol
lowed by K. P. Sawyer, who delivered an able
discourse upou "Our Business Progress in the
Future."

Election of Officers.

The report of the nomination committee, rec-

ommending the reelection of the present officers
with the exception of third vice president, was
adopted and L. P. Groffman, was Instructed i"
cast the ballot for the association. The Board
of Directors also remains practically 11"' same.
The rosier is as follows :

President, D. E. Kline,

I iisi vice president. .1. A. Underwood.

Second vice president. YV. 8. Walker.

Third vice president, YV. II. Roddis.

Secretary-treasurer, E. II. Defebaugh.

Directors, s. I:. Anderson. 1'. D. Hatch, I..
P. ' Groffman, M. W. Perry, J. J. Kincaid, C. F.
Yegge and M. C. Dow.

It was moved and seconded that the board of
directors be authorized to secure an assistant
lo the secretary to take up detail work.

The committee on constitution and by-laws
appointed al the morning session reported that
they found no changes necessary. Their report
was adopted.

Adjournment was then taken until i) a. m.,
December 12.

charcoal of any timber in the state. No ton Ign
hardwood can hope to compete with it iu this
market, but what could be done with it in for-
eign markets through live, up-to-date American
export methods is a subject for interesting spei
illation, and one which on investigation might
prove worthy of a trial.

The timber business is practically controlled
by one corporation formed by a combination of
eight originally separate companies, and, whib
ii may not be described as a trust, for that
word is particularly objectionable in Austra ia.
its methods of doing business are regarded here
as not entirely dissimilar to those of other In
dustries bearing that unpopular label. While
there are a few independent limber companies
engaged in the business, it is fair to assume,
according to the business men of Western Aus-
tralia, that their enterprises are carried on by
permission of, rather than in competition with,
the corporation to which reference has been made.

Netos Miscellany.

The Covel Manufacturing Company.
When the Covel Manufacturing Company's
new plant is completed, which will be shortly
after the first of the year, this concern will
have more than twice its present capacity. This
means that the company will have one of the
largest and most modern plants in the country
for making machinery for manufacturing, sharp-
ening, stretching, brazing and keeping in condi-
tion all kinds of saws. The factory is a fire-

/1&jL_

AUTOMATIC SHARPENER, MANUFACTURED

BY THE COVEL MANUFACTURING

CO.. BENTON HARBOR. MICH

proof structure located at Benton Harbor, Mich.
It is expected that the plant will be in full
operation in about six weeks, when the com-
pany will be able to catch up to some extent
with its orders, a thing it has been unable to
do for several months.

The plant occupies five acres of land and con-
sists of a machine shop, 250x50 feet ; foundry,
175x60 feet ; warehouse, 32x126 feet ; storehouse,
26x79 feet, and a boiler house, 22x50 feet. The
general sales offices will be located after May
1, 1907, in the Fisher building, Chicago, in
charge of Mr. Seek.

The Covel Manufacturing Company is well
known to the hardwood trade and its products
are extensively used. The concern has built up a
large and profitable business from a small begin-
ning and arrived at its present state of prog-
ress by building honest machines. The company
was established In 1874 by Milo Covel, who
originated the principle upon which the ma-
chines have been built. The business was leased
from Mr. Covel in 1895 and four years later
was incorporated with the following officers :
L. L. Filstrup, president ; J. H. Seek, vice presi-
dent ; A. W. Filstrup, secretary ; E. A. Filstrup,
treasurer. The two latter are the sons of L. L.
Filstrup, president of the company. Both boys
entered the business when young and have

acquired a profound knowledge of the technical
detail of the Covel machines and modern meth-
ods of marketing them. The elder Filstrup
grew up at the bench with Milo Covel and knows
the business from ground up.

At present the company is featuring a ma-
chine for taking care of the largest band saws
made. It has been practically demonstrated
that the wide baud saw has come to stay. This
is particularly so where the timber runs large.
This naturally created a demand for a massive
machine of larger capacity for the widest band
saws, namely, 18 and 20 inch. To meet this
demand the Covel Manufacturing Company has
recently put upon the market a machine known
as No. 99D. Several cf these machines are
now in operation on the Pacific coast, handling
18 and 20 inch band saws with as much ease
as the ordinary sharpener bandies a 10 or 12
inch saw. A cut of this machine is shown
herewith. In addition to machines of this type,
the company manufactures a complete line of
filing room machinery.

Timber Industry in Australia.

The timber industry in Australia is still in its
iufancy, but from the latest and most accurate
figures obtainable showing its production enough
can be learned to gauge its importance and value
as a national asset and the steady rate of ils
development. The demand for western Austin
lia hardwoods for railway sleepers, street paving
blocks, piles for wharves and piers, jetties,
bridges, etc., is increasing both in the common-
wealth and for export. The United Kingdom is
the chief buyer of these woeds outside of the
Australian states, but a fairly large quantity
finds its way to other countries.

The principal hardwood timber trees of the
Western Australian forests are called "jarrah"
and "kauri," but of these the jarrah is regarded
as greatly superior for general construction pur-
poses. A recent government estimate gives
8,000,000 acres of jarrah forest and 1,200,000
acres of kauri forest, and the latest published
records of the Western Australian Land Depart-
ment indicate an acreage of only 904,260 of
forest land under timber leases and licenses.
These figures show the great expansion possible
for this industry under intelligently directed
effort and its increasing importance as a source
of state wealth. A fair specimen of a jarrah
tree would run about 90 to 100 feet in height,
and from two and one-half to three and one-half
feet in diameter at the base.

The weight of the jarrah wood when newly cut
is a little over seventy pounds prr cubic foot,
which is reduced to sixty pounds when thor-
oughly seasoned. It is red in color, polishes
well. Is easily worked, and it makes the best

His First Deer.
Thomas H. Wall, vice-president of the Buf-
falo Hardwood Lumber Company of Buffalo.
N. T., has been a sportsman for a good many
years, but last month he shot his first deer.
Mr. Wall, John MeLeod of Buffalo, and several
Irish and Canadian friends went on a hunting

T. II. WALL AND HIS PRIZE.

tour of the Perry Sound district of Canada m
November, and Mr. Wall was one of the few
fortunate memoers of the party and succeeded
in bringing down a fine buck. The accom-
panying illustration showing Mr. Wall bearing
his prize on his shoulders is from a photo-
graph captured by one of the party on the
spot. The deer weighed upward of 150 pounds,
and naturally Mr. Wall is as proud of his
prowess as the proverbial small boy with his
nisi pair of red-topped boots. The hunting
trip was successful from start to finish.

Succeeds H. C. Barroll & Co.
Clark L. Poole and Edward C. Cronwall, who
have been connected with the firm of II. C. Bar-
roll & Co. of Chicago, bankers ami bond dealers,
since its organization, announce I hat they have
formed a partnership under the name of Clark
L. Poole & Co. and will succeed to the business
of II. C. Barroll & Co., purchasing the assets
and assuming the liabilities of that company.
Both Mr. Poole and Mr. Cronwall have hail wide
experience in the handling of timber lands and
in similar negotiations. The office of the new
concern will be located in the First National
I lank Building, Chicago.

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An Excellent Forced Draft System.
On the approach of bad weather it is an ex-
cellent plan for all sawmill operators to render
themselves independent of atmospheric condi-
tions by installing a forced draft system, thus
doing away with annoying and expensive shut-
downs to wait for steam to rise, during which
production is at a standstill, while expenses go
on. No one would think of heating or melting
iron without a blast (witness the blacksmith
shop and the foundry) ; and the same principle
is used in the Gordon Hollow Blast Grate to
burn wet or green sawdust, slabs, etc. Its manu-
facturers will supply an outfit of this kind with
the understanding that thirty days' time will be
allpwed in which to thoroughly test it, and that
if not satisfactory it may be returned and they
will pay freight both ways. Doubtless many
operators will be glad to take advantage of this
liberal offer. The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate
Company is located at Greenville, Mich.

Death of J. W. Himebaugh.

J. W. Himebaugh, president of the Ohio
Sash & Door Company of Cleveland, O., and
vice-president of the Paine Lumber Company
of Oshkosh, Wis., died suddenly at the Conti-
nental Hotel, Philadelphia, on Dec. 3. Mr.
Himebaugh was widely conversant with con-
ditions in the sash and door trade, in which
he had spent the greater part of his life, and
was a specialist in everything bearing on that
branch of the lumber manufacturing industry.
He was a man of exceptional executive capa-
city and his prominence in the affairs of both
the large -corporations in which he was inter-
ested had much to do with their success. He
leaves a widow and one son, Clinton M. Hime-
baugh, who is well known in the business life
of Chicago. The deceased .was fifty years old.

The funeral was held at the family home at
Oshkosh on Saturday, Dec. 8. and was attended
by men from the East and the Middle West
prominent in the sash and door industry. The
services were quiet and impressive and the
occasion was marked by a great wealth of
floral offerings.

Annual Northwestern Hardwood Lumber-
men's Association.

The Northwestern Hardwood Lumbermen's As-
sociation held Its eighteenth annual meeting in
Minneapolis, Dec. 4. A short but interesting
business session came to a close with the elec-
tion of the following officers for the ensuing
year :

President, D. F. Clack, Minneapolis ; Vice
President, A. H. Barnard, Minneapolis ; Treas-
urer, C. F. Osborne, Minneapolis ; Secretary, J.
F. Hayden, Minneapolis.

Board of arbitration, — F. H. Lewis, P. R. Ham-
ilton and S. H. Davis, Minneapolis ; F. A. Nolan
and A. E. Peterson, St. Paul.

Membership committee — W. C. Stanton, St.
Paul ; I. P. Lennon and N. C. Bennett, Minne-
apolis.

The meeting was held in one of the club rooms
of the Minneapolis Commercial Club and was
called to order at 4 p. m. by President A. E.
Peterson. Secretary Hayden read the minute,
of the previous annual meeting and of the last
monthly meeting and both were approved.

C. F. Osborne, Treasurer of the association,
then presented his report, in substance as fol-
lows :

Balance Dec. 5, 1905 .$ 39.67

Receipts during year . 60.50

Total $100.17

Expended to date 89.45

Balance on hand ? 10.72

Secretary J. F. Hayden in his annual report
reviewed the state of trade and called attention
to what the association had done at its meetings
during the year.

F. H. Lewis, chairman of the board of arbitra-
tion, reported that nineteen cars had been in-
spected under authority of the board during the
year and that all inspections had been satis-
•factory but one.

The railroad committee appointed at a pre-
vious monthly meeting was not ready to report.
C. F. Osborne, its chairman, announced that he
would call the committee together in January
and take up several propositions. The subject
of estimated weights was discussed, disclosing
that the railroads have no standard that is uni-
form as to hardwoods, and that the cases are
few when a claim for overweight on hardwood
is recognized by the Western Railway Weighing
Association. A motion by P. R. Hamilton was
carried, directing the railroad committee to pre-
pare a table of estimated weiglits to submit,
with the idea of adopting it as official associa-
tion weights, backed up by the organisation.

W, C. Bailey moved the appointment of a nom-
inating committee of three. President Peterson
appointed W. C. Eailey, I. P. Lennon and W. ' '.
Stanton. They* retired and reported the list of
officers and committees already given. On mo-
tion of W. II. Sill the secretary was instructed to
east the ballot of the association for all of them.

THE NEW PRESIDENT. D. F. CLARK, OF
OSBORNE & CLARK. MINNEAPOLIS.

D. F. Clark, the newly elected president, was
called on for a speech. He responded with cor-
dial thanks for the honor, which he sad was a
complete surprise to him. He appre iated the
responsibility meant by the position and ex-
pressed his high regard for the members, one
and all, pledging them his best services in an
effort to keep up to the high standard set by the
presidents who have preceded him.

Following the meeting a banquet was served in
the club room. From the banquet table the
members went to the Mrpheum Theater, where
they enjoyed a gocd vaudeville program, round-
ing out the evening nicely.

The following were present at the meeting:

A. E. Peterson, Peterson-Moore Lumber Com-
pany, St. Paul.

D. F. Clark, Osborne & Clark. Minneapolis.

I '. F. Osborne, Osborne & Clark, Minneapolis.

W. C. Stanton, Stanton-De Long Lumber Com-
pany. St. Paul.

W. C. Bailey, Minneapolis.

F. H. Lewis. Minneapolis.

P. K. Hamilton, Minneapolis Lumber Company,
Minneapolis.

W. II. Sill. Minneapolis Lumber Company. Min-
neapolis.

A. 11. Barnard, Minneapolis.

C. A. Kellogg, A. H. Barnard, Minneapolis,

F. A. Nolan, St. Paul.

S. H. Davis, S. H. Davis Lumber Company,
Minneapolis.

I. P. Lennon, I. P. Lennon & Co., Minneapolis.

George J. Agnew, Payson Smith Lumber Com-
pany, Minneapolis.

T. T. Jones, G. W. Jones Lumber Company,
Appleton, Wis.

F. H. Bartelme, Minneapolis.

N. C. Bennett, N. C. Bennett Lumber Com-
pany, Minneapolis.

Charles Oliver, Minneapolis.

G. W. Everts, G. W. Everts Lumber Company,
Minneapolis.

J. F. Hayden, secretary, Minneapolis.

Conference on Establishment of Wood-Test-
ing laboratory.

A number of representatives of associations
of manufacturers and users of forest products
met the officers of the Forest Service Nov. 16 to
discuss plans for the establishment of a wood-
testing laboratory. The conference was held as
a result of action taken by a number of such
associations strongly favoring the movement.

This laboratory is for the purpose of making
tests on commercial timbers with the idea of
definitely establishing their essential properties,
as to strength, stiffness and genera! durability
under all conditions of construction. The gov-
ernment has wood-testing laboratories at Yale
University, New Haven, Conn. ; Purdue Uni-
versity, Lafayette, Ind. ; at the University of
Washington, Seattle, and at the University of
California, Berkeley. The laboratories have al-
ready made a number of important tests.

The meeting was held to discuss the question
of a national laboratory to be operated by the
Forest Service in cooperation with lumber manu-
facturers and users. Gifford Pinchot, Forester,
on request of the members of the conference, out-
lined the scope of investigation which such a
laboratory could cover, and showed the need of
cooperation between lumbermen and manufac-
turers and the forest administration. Two
points, he said, are absolutely necessary to con-
serve the timber resources of the United States :
one is the greater economy in the use of timber,
and the other is the conserving of present for-
est resources by elimination of waste, fire and
wrong methods of lumbering.

William L. Hall, chief of the office of products,
Forest Service, pointed out that consumers de-
mand certain timbers regardless of their actual
litness and irrespective of the fact that other
and cheaper woods might answer the purpose
equally well. As a result of these traditional
prejudices many wrong practices exist in the
manufacture of wood products. "In order that
tin- Forest Service carry on the tests requested
by the lumbermen," said Mr. Hall, "the govern-
ment work should possibly be under the direc-
tion of a committee to supervise and put it on
practical lines, and to see that it is kept there."

The delegates of the various associations
showed that the Forest Service's cooperation has
already helped their industry by pointing out
good substitutes for disappearing species and
establishing new uses for the less commonly
known woods.

Tne members of the conference advocated the
presenlation of a bill in Congress, which they
will ursre their associations to heartily support,
to appropriate a necessary sum of money to
establish and equip a laboratory to make neces-
sary timber tests in the interest of the lumber
ami wood-using industries of the United States.

The following resolution was adopted :

"Resolved, That it is the unanimous sense of
this conference that a laboratory for testing the
strength and other characteristics of wood, and
for solving problems connected with its economic
use. is absolutely essential to the manufacturers
and users of forest products of this country;
that we ask these interests to petition Congress
for an appropriation of $200,000 to establish

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such a laboratory, and that it be under the con-
trol of the Forest Service of tbe Department of
Agriculture."

The delegates to the meeting took lunch at
the Cosmos Ciub at 1 o'clock and were received
by the Secretary of Agriculture afterward.

Before adjournment a permanent organization
to further the laboratory movement w<;s estab-
lished, vith it K. Goodenow chairman and
Thomas E. Will secretary. The delegates present
and tbe associations represented were as follows :
Edward Stimson, National Hickory Assjciatton ;
Max Robinson, National Wagon Manufacturers'
Association ; Henry C. McLear, Secretary and
Tieasuier Carriage Builders' National Associa-
tion . Kufus K Goodenow, National Association
of Box Manufacturers ; O. B. Bannister, Western
Wheel Manufacturers ; George K. Smith, Secre-
tary National Lumber Manufacturers' Associa-
tion; T. J. Moffett, National Hardwood Lumber
Association ; Dr. Thomas E. Will, Secretary
American Forestry Association, 1311 G street
N. W., Washington, D. C.

be a liberal amount on the basis of the gain to
them which the free weight is already giving as
an annual saving and to make it possible to con-
tend to the end for tbe permanent equipment
which, if adopted, will greatly add to this an-
nual saving for every lumberman. Each asso-
ciation will then remit to C. I. Millard, treas-
urer, or E. F. Perry, secretary of the Car Stake
and Equipment Complaint, GG Broadway, New
York.

Because of the pledge made by all of the al-
lied associations to supply the required money,
and considering tbe results obtained and the
benefits now being received and which will con-
tinue, individuals are urged to act immediately
and liberally.

Dry Kiln of Western Electric Company.
The Morton Dry Klin Company completed last
week the Installation of eight dry kilns for the
new plant of the Western Electric Company at
Twenty-sixth street and Forty-sixth avenue, Chi-
cago. Each kiln Is seventy-six feet long and
eighteen feet wide, with a height of fourteen
feet. The capacity of each kiln is 40,000 feet.
Two of the kilns will be usd for drying soft-

The Crown Iron Works.

To tbe sawmill trade tbe Crown Iron Works
of Minneapolis, Minn., needs no introduction.
The concern has been iu existence some thirty
years, and during a large portion of that time
has been manufacturing saw sharpening ma-
chinery. These machines, it may be added, are
of especial interest to hardwood mill men, par-
ticularly the neat little machine known as the
Blackmer Improved No. 2.

A representative of the Hardwood Record
called at the Crown Iron Works tbe other day
and found the factory "full up" on orders. E.
L. Anderson, treasurer of the company, took
especial pride in pointing out the merits of the
Blackmer Improved No. 2. Said he :

STORAGE WAREHOUSE AND DRY KILNS WESTERN ELECTRIC
CO., CHICAGO, EQUIPPED BY MORTON DRY KILN CO.

woods and six for hardwoods. Tbe building in
which they are installed, a photograph of which
accompanies this article, includes both the kilns
and the storage rooms and is of fireproof con-
struction throughout, even the doors of the kiln
being of fireproof steel. This installation is one
of tbe largest jobs of 'its kind ever competed
in Chicago.

An Urgent Need.

A circular letter was sent to individual lum-
bermen during midsummer appealing for funds,
but practically failed to bring results, and at a
recent meeting in New York, attended by thirty
of the interested lumber committeemen, the fol-
lowing explanation and urgent request for the
immediate raising of a fund sufficient in quan-
tity to pay the obligations already made and to
carry the costs to tbe time of agreement or de-
cision by the Interstate Commerce Commission
was directed to be sent to all pledged associa-
tions. The accounts of the treasurer showing
the receipts and disbursements to date were sub-
mitted to the committee and endorsed by it.

In a contest of this magnitude money is abso-
lutely necessary for Its success. Counsel fees'
and expenses must be paid, as well as the fees
and expenses of a statistician and of the me-
chanical engineers, also the expense of construct-
ing and supplying steel stakes and experimenting
with tbem.

Lumbermen are therefore urged to remit to
their respective associations such a sum as may

"These machines present the most practical
features for gumming and perfectly shaping the
teeth of all kinds of circular saws of any diam-
eter. They have been thoroughly tested, and
that they are all that is claimed for them can
be noticed by the fnct that a very large portion
of the best mills are using tbem. It is a well
known fact that previous to this invention there
were serious difficulties with all the machines in
use for grinding the bevel teeth of cross-cut
saws. The trouble has been that when shifting
the saw for grinding bevel teeth the saw was
thrown out of line with tbe center of the grind-
ing wheel so that other complicated adjustments
had to be made to bring it in place to do the
work correctly. This annoyance has been
entirely overcome by the use of the seg-
ment of a large circle to which slides
and a cross-head are attached for the purpose
of carrying tbe saw to the ground. As the con-
sequence of considerable thought and expense we
produced a machine which we call No. 2. It is
of medium size and will grind saws up to 44
inches in diameter.

"This machine contains all the good features
of tbe large ones and in addition is tilted with
a large cup on the cross-head which will admit
of edger saws being ground without removing

Hi liars. A smaller cup will be sent when re-

qulred for saws smaller than ten inches in
diameter.

"For all saws of its capacity there is nothing
equal to it from the fact that it is so easily and

perfectly adjusted to all of the different kinds.
For shingle saws it will be found just what has
long been needed. Every circular or band mill
needs just such a machine as this to grind all
their small saws. We guarantee that there is
nothing equal to it for the amount and quality
of the work that can be done on it.

"The most approved form of tooth, either
square or bevel, can be made on either machine,
and tbe change from one form of tooth to the
other is made instantly. They are strong, prac-
tical, accurate, simple in construction and easy
to operate. The arrangement for jointing Is
complete.

"There are many advantages that a hand ma-
chine has over an automatic that should be re-
membered. It is admitted by a majority of
fliers that a much better shaped tooth can be
made with a good hand machine, and a much
greater amount of work can be done in a given
time : also that it requires less engineering to
run it.

"Among the many reasons why they have be-
come so popular is because of tbe great amount
and quality of the work done with them. It is
so well adapted to all kinds of circular saws
and the change from one kind of saw to an-
other can be made so easily that generally if tbe
large machine is used this one is all that Is
needed for all tbe circulars in a large mill.
Every user is a friend. We ask you to consult
them, feeling assured they will, speak well of
our dealings with them and of tbe quality of the
machines. They have now been on tbe market
about ten years and we have yet to learn of any
user that wishes to change to any other make.
The No. 1 machine weighs about 750 pounds,
the No. 2 370 pounds, the. No. 2 Improved 450
pounds."

The Hurley Machine Company.

The Hurley Machine Company has already
taken rank as one of the solid manufacturing
concerns of Chicago — and this, notwithstanding
the fact that it is hardly six months old. The
business was started a half a year ago in a
small way and has grown by leaps and bounds
until at this writing the concern not only oper-
ates branch selling houses in New Y'ork and
San Francisco but has started to manufacture
machines at Toronto, Canada, and Paris, France.

The success of the business has exceeded all
expectations of the management, and is due
to the fact that the machine known as the
"Little Giant" floor scraper is so simple in con-
struction and does the work of several men so
thoroughly and economically that the demand
is practically without end. The merits of the
"Little Giant" floor scraper were spoken of in
detail in a former issue of the Hardwood Rec-
ord. It is operated by one man standing up
and it scrapes every inch of floor well Into the
corners and close along the baseboards. Tbe
very low cost of the machine has been another
factor in its great success.

At first tbe Hurley Machine Company manu-
factured the floor scraper by contract, but it
has since put in its own special machinery and
is now taking care of a large and growing trade,
making the addition of new floor space fre-
quently necessary. Up to date over 5,000 ma-
chines have been sold and it is a significant fact
that out of this total not one machine has been
returned to tbe factory.

Building Operations for November.
Official reports from the building departments
of some fifty leading cities, received by the
American Contractor, Chicago, and tabulated,
show a continuation of the building activity
that has long prevailed, although in many cities
a falling off as compared with the figures for
November of last year must be noted. This
is a little more pronounced than It was last
month, amounting in the aggregate to seventeen
per cent, but building still contines decidedly
active. The operations last year were so enor-

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mous, breaking all records, that the pace could
not be expected to be maintained. The reports
show a condition of healthful activity and indi-
cate that prosperity in the building line is to
continue. The high price of material and labor

doubtless has the effect of curtailing present

operations, particularly in cities where there is
no pressing demand for more buildings.

Nov., Nov., Per Per

1906, 1905, cent cent

City — eost. cost. gain. loss.

Atlanta $ 371,775 $ 32S.563 13

Bridgeport .... 190,375 173.321 9

Buffalo 54S.50O 668.865 . . IS

Chicago 4,615.300 5,099,600 .. 9

i leveland 808,027 6S2.740 18

Chattanooga ... 62,175 152,582 .. 59

Cincinnati 408,825 615,035 .. 33

i uvenport 15,700 25,200 .. 37

I .alias 142.732 124,622 14

Denver 45S.155 1,051,835 .. 56

I!es Moines 23,695 57.701 .. 59

Detroit 722,200 853,400 .. 15

Iluluth 132,586 115.960 14

Grand Rapids .. 17S.694 160.439 11

llarrisburg 75,550 39,420 92

Hartford 219, SS5 192,925 14

Kansas City ... 496.S10 773,990 .. 35

Knoxville 104.386 S2.750 26

Louisville 159.72.:. 533,670 .. 70

Los Angeles ... 1,089,543 1,259.265 .. 13

Manchester .'..: 101.090 48.350 110

Milwaukee 925,242 858.425 8

Minneapolis .... 549,130 438,360 25

Memphis 30S.610 301,284 2

Mobile 23.090 57,534 . . 59

Nashville 131.07S 214,574 . . 3S

New Haven :... 116,270 US, 480 1

Newark 1,010,442 832,006 21

New Orleans . . . 222.2S0 210,969 5

Manhattan ... 4,031,425 7,814,252 .. 48

Alteration ... 533,350 903.SO5

Brooklyn 5.5S0.209 6,206.097 .. 10

Bronx 1,937,500 2,625,735 .. 26

Alteration ... 10,325 37,920

New York 12,092,809 17.5S7.809 .. 31

Omaha 357,175 406,250 . . 12

Paterson 100.S49 76.871 31

Pittsburg 1.062.772 1,182,265 .. 10

Philadelphia . . . 2,013,615 2,699,765 .'. 25

Pueblo 192,930 122,890 56

Rochester 393.290 308,455 27

St. Joseph 72.190 61.700 IS

St. Louis 2,351,071 2,385,537 .. 1

St. Paul 586,780 570.249 3

San Antonio . . . 117,655 124.855 . . 5

Scranton 191,770 154.SU) 24

Seattle 600,628 - 364.892 65

Spokane 252,515 336.480 .. 25

South Bend 31,450 54,725 42

Syracuse 336,850 273.560 23

Topeka 35,860 6S.620 . . 48

Toledo 163,050 17S,375 . . 8

Tacoma 171.285 230.385 .. 25

Wilkesbarre ... 72,093 99,025 .. 27

Winnipeg 39S.600 265.400 50

Total $35,807,107 $43,624,783 . . 17

Miscellaneous Notes.

The trustee in bankruptcy of the Lansing
Veneered Door Company of Lansing, Mich.,
acting on the report of appraisers, has asked
ieave to sell the property of the concern. The
total assets amount to over $15,000, and there
is a mortgage against the property for $22,000,
1 esides claims for labor and other liabilities.

The Consolidated Timber Company and the
G. F. Sanborn Company, two of the largest
owners of timber lands in the Lake Superior
regions, have merged their interests and will
hereafter exist as one company. The Con-
solidated Company held 50,000 acres in Hough-
ton, Ontonagon and Iron counties, Michigan,
and the Sanborn Company owned 200.000 acres,
mostly hardwood lands, in northern Wisconsin
".nd upper Michigan. The capitalization of the
combined interests will be $1,500,000.

The . boiler house and connecting tramways

of the Biggs Cypress Company, Ltd., of Pat-
terson, La., were destroyed by fire on Nov. 25.
The loss is covered by insurance.

Neil. Patterson & Co. of Illinois have pur-
chased the Mitchell sawmills north of Clarks-
ville. Tex., and will take charge of the prop-
erty at once. They have also acquired a large
tract of hardwood timberland in that vicin-
ity. Extensive improvements to the mill prop-
erties are contemplated.

The Consolidated Handle Company of Manor.
Pa., has been incorporated to manufacture
all kinds of hickory handles. The capital is
$1,000,000 and the incorporators are William
J. Eeamer, Michael Beamer. Edward E. Rob-
bins. Michael R. Grace, A. A. Chipman and
H. W. Davis.

Articles of incorporation for the Fordyce
Manufacturing Company of Fordyce, Ark.,
have been filed with the secretary of state,
showing a capital stock of $20,000, of which
$10,000 has been subscribed. The company
proposes to manufacture hardwood products.

The Columbus Show Case Company of Co-
lumbus, Ga., is erecting and equipping a new
plant at that place at a cost of more than
$100,000. The new operation will be equipped
with the latest in machinery, dry kilns, and
electrical installation.

R. J. Velvin of Lewisville. Ark., is organiz-
ing a company which will establish a wagon
and spoke factory.

The Wagon Stock Lumber Company of Tul-
lahoma, Tenn., has been incorporated with
$5,000 capital stock to manufacture axles,

tongues, bolsters, sawed felloes, etc. W. R.
Campbell, Jr., is president; J. L. Dann, treas-
urer, and J. E. Brantley, secretary and gen-
eral manager. The company has already begun
operations.

The Dickson Spoke & Handle Manufacturing
Company of Dickson, Tenn., is reported con-
templating improvements in its plant which
will double its present output.

The Budde-Lindsey Manufacturing Company
was recently incorporated at Jackson. Tenn.,
to manufacture school, church and bank fix-
tures. J. L. Wisdom is president and W. T.
Harris secretary and treasurer.

The Hill Trunk Company of Nashville, Tenn.,
whose plant was recently destroyed by Are,
will build a new structure, the largest of the
kind in the South. The building will be a five-
story structure and equipped throughout with
the most improved machinery. About $25,000
will be expended.

The Clark-Danforth Handle Company of
Cairo, 111., is erecting a large addition to its
handle factory.

D. E. Short of Wauseon. O.. will establish a
spoke and handle factory at Lafayette, O.

F. A. Wellman of South Boardman, Mich.,
is rebuilding his handle factory which was de-
stroved by fire some time ago. It will be a
model structure and equipped 'throughout with
the most improved machinery.

Briggs Cunningham and others have organ-
ized the Motor Car Manufacturing Company.
with $100,000 capital stock, and headquarters
at Cincinnati, O.

HardWood NeWs.

By HARDWOOD RECORD

Chicago.

Tin' Record received a call last week from
F. A. Kirby. George B. Jobson and J. II. Chap-
man. Mr. Chapman is president of the New
Dominion Lumber Company of Sutton, W. Va.,
and has been spending some time at various
points in Michigan, notably Mt. Clemens, where
he has been in search of health. Mr. Kirby has
been connected with the Cherry River Boom &
Lumber Company . of Scranton, Pa., for several
years and on Jan. 1 will assume the position of
sales manager in place of C. E. Lloyd, Jr., re-
signed. Mr. Jobson was for some time in charge
of the hardwood department of the Producers'
Lumber Company of Philadelphia, but for the
past few months has been Ohio representative of
the Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company at
Columbus.

Edwin D. Johnson, 1040 Old Colony Building,
will leave in a short time for the northern mills
of the concern. Business during the past season
has been brisk, especially in birch, of which
wood the concern has been handling great
amounts.

F. A. Curtis of the Vehicle Wood Stock Com-
pany has removed from the First National Bank
Building to 1508 Fisher Buildins. Mr. Curtis
spent a few days this week out of town.

R. S. Kellogg of the Forest Service spent a few-
days in Chicago on his way to the national capi-
tal from the Pacific Coast, where he inspected
some of the government work being done in the
western states.

The railroad work of the Nourse-Taylor Lum-
ber Company. 1117 Chamber of Commerce, has
been in fine shape during the past few months.
The demand experienced in that line has kept
pace with that experienced in other lines of
hardwoods.

The new mills of the Riverton Lake Lumber
Company at Riverton Lake, La., with offices at
827 Stock Exchange Building, Chicago, have been
completed and planers, lathes and dry kilns in-
stalled. They have a capacity of 50,000 feet and
will be in operation by Dec. 15. A. D. W. Gill,
president ; Edward . Levy, vice president ; C. S.
Dunkle, secretary and general manager, left Chl-

Special Correspondents. )

cago last week to inspect the new operation.
They were accompanied by Samuel McFeeley of
the J. C. Ames Lumber Company of Streetor, 111.,
and M. B. Haskell, capitalist, of the same city.
The company will manufacture gum, red and
white oak, poplar, cypress and some hickory. It
has a timber supply sufficient to keep busy for
twenty-five years.

Frederick W. Upham of Upham & Agler has
been selected for treasurer by the nominating
committee of the Illinois Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation. The annual election of the body took
place at the Auditorium, Chicago, Dec. 7.

W. I>. Johnston of the American Lumber &
Manufacturing Company, Pittsburg, Fa., was a
Chicago visitor last week. Mr. Johnston was
en route home from a tour of mills in the
Northwest.

Howell C. Humphrey of the G. W. Jones Lum-
ber Company of Appleton, Wis., accompanied by
its Chicago manager, A. H. Ruth, was a caller at
the Record office on Saturday.

The Merchants' Lumber Company has been in-
corporated at St. Louis with a capital stock of
$25,000. F. A. Shellabarger is president ; R. H.
Shellabarger, Jr., vice president and treasurer,
and J. P. Richardson, Jr.. secretary. The com-
pany's office is at 307 Fullerton Building.

C. I. Hoyt of C. I. Hoyt & Co., manufacturers
of high grade lumber at Pekin, Ind., was a caller
at the Record office last week. Mr. Hoyt's firm
is well known among the wagon wood stock trade
and makes a specialty of executing orders for
odd sizes, thicknesses and grades in this mate-
rial.

E. C. Groesbeck, secretary of the Stearns Com-
pany, Cincinnati, O., and Grand Rapids, Mich.,
was a Chicago visitor last week.

John C. Spry of the Chamber of Commerce
Building, spent last week out of the city.

C. B. Curtis, secretary of the Morton Dry Kiln
Company, left last week on a trip to Cincinnati,
Virginia and the South. The past season has
been an extraordinarily busy one with the com-
pany.

E. C. Mershon of the well-known band resaw
manufacturing firm of W. B. Mershon & Co. of

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Saginaw, Mich., was in Chicago this week look-
ing after some important patent litigation.

Irvine McCauley, president of the McCauley-
Saunders Lumber Company of the Fisher Build
ing. left Dec. 4 for New Orleans, where he will
visit the company's milling operations. He ex-
pects to get things into shape there in a few
days so as to take care of orders more promptly
than has been possible during the car shortage.
This company has become one of the important
[ai tors in the cypress trade of this city and sec
lion during the past few years.

Frank F. Fish, secretary of the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association, is absent in the Fast
on an extensive trip, visiting members of that
ass* 1 iation.

A handsome new booklet, receipt of which is
herewith acknowledged, has just been issued by
the Iiussel Wheel & Foundry Company, Detroit,
Mich. The work comprises a series of some fifty
half-tone engravings, made from photographs of
actual operations in the woods, showing the va-
rious skidding and loading appliances manufac-
tured by this company. Copies can be secured br
those interested on application.

It is with regret that the Hardwood Record
announces the death of S. S. Saunders of the
well -known D. G. Saunders Lumber Company of
Kansas City, Mo. About three years ago Mr.
Saunders was injured in a railroad wreck in
southern Kansas and since that time has been
in poor health. He died Nov. 20 of rupture of
1 In- heart.

The Buffalo Maple Flooring Company has is-
sued an attractive booklet containing manufac-
turers' specifications for hardwood flooring as
adopted by the different manufacturers' associa-
tions. It also contains much valuable informa-
tion regarding flooring for roller skating rinks,
howling alleys, etc.

A. C. Campbell of Antlgo. Wis., manager of
the T. D. Kellogg Lumber & Manufacturing Com-
pany of Polar, on Dec. 7 shot and killed Dr.
Benjamin Harris, formerly of Antigo, in the
St. ck Exchange Building, this city. The per-
sons involved are doubtless victims of misrepre-
sentations and blackmail, which culminated in
the recent tragedy. Details have been fully cov-
ered by the daily press.

Arthur A. Watts, representing the Seaman-
Kent Company, Ltd., Meaford, Ont., Canada, was
a late caller at the offices of Hardwood Record.
His company is a large manufacturer of flooring,
supplying the Canadian trade very generally
from New Brunswick to the most western prov-
inces.

"Sunset" is the inscription on the calendar
for 1007 just received by the many friends of
the Southwestern Lumber & Box Company of
New Orleans, La. This handsome wall panel
with its harmony in color and design is a strong
piece of advertising, for even a glance must
prompt happy memories and equally pleasing
thoughts of the sender.

The McCauley-Saunders Lumber Company of
the Fisher Building, Chicago, is sending out to
its many friends in the trade a seasonable
gift — a very artistic four-page calendar. I. F.
McLean, extensive manufacturer of staves and
lumber at Nashville, Tenn., is also sending out a
very practical calendar to his friends and cus-
tomers.

Boston.

The outlook for a much larger export lumber
business from Boston is bright, as the Boston &
Albany Railroad Company has brought forward
fifty cars of lumber from Buffalo, N. Y., which
are being loaded at East Boston for South Amer-
ica. This is the first time this railroad has
sought this trade. Heretofore the bulk of the
lumber for South American ports has been loaded
;it Mystic after being brought here by the Los-
ton & Maine Railroad.

The Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Dealers'
Association will be asked to send delegates in
February to a conference of all eastern associa
tions to be held at Jacksonville. Fla. A commit-

tee was appointed at a meeting of the Georgia-
Florida Sawmill Associaii n to arrange for this
i'lim meeting in hopes of bringing about closer
business relations,

The Bridgeport Wood Finishing Company of
New Britain, Conn., has voted to Increase its
capital stock from $230,000 to $400,000.

Car shortage is still a serious handicap to
trade here. All dealers complain and some orders
have been lost because lumbermen could not
promise delivery at the time wanted.

Aimer Atwood of the Atwood-Crawford Com-
pany, manufacturers of fancy wood turning.
Pawtucket, R. I., died at his home la'.e lait
month at the age of 81 years. He had been a
member of this firm since 1860 and was its pres -
dent at the time of his death.

The Enterprise Lumber Company has bei n
organized in Rochester, N. H., to conduct a
wholesale lumber business. The Incorporators
are George W. Marston, Charles L. Sibley and
E. F. Marston.

The Enfield Lumber & Coal Company of En-
field has been incorporated to take over the busi-
ness of the late Amos D. Bridge of Thompson-
ville. Conn. The capital stock is .$50,000. The
incorporators are H. S. Bridge, A. G. Bridge,
H. E. Bridge and W. T. Bell.

Mr. Swift of Nellis, Amos & Swift of Utica.
X. Y., visited Boston and the East recently.

Several Massachusetts lumber dealers are men-
tioned as candidates for public office. Among
them are L. A. Williston of the Ely Lumber
Company. Mr. Williston is talked of for mayor
of Holyoke, and Albin M. Richards as an inde-
pendent candidate for mayor of Cambridge.

Mitchell & Harding, lumber dealers, South
Lawrence, Mass., have enlarged their yards by
the purchase of 12,000 feet of land.

The Glentz Woodworking Company of Pitts-
tield, Mass., sustained a loss of about $4,000 by
fire recently.

Representatives of the George D. Emery Com-
pany, large mahogany importers and dealers,
have been investigating the timber prospects in
the locality of Campeche, Mexico.

New York.

Among recent business visitors was Frank T.
Rumbarger of the Rumbarger Lumber Com-
pany, Philadelphia. His company has pur-
chased the output of three new mills in the
South, which will give them a large amount of
cottonwood, gum and cypress in addition to hard-
wood. They have not handled these latter com
modifies in the past, but are aiming to conduct
an active business compaign in their interest
during the coming year.

Chairman C. E. Lloyd, Jr.. of the special com-
mittee of arrangement and entertainment f r
the convention of the National Hardwood
Lumber Association, which will be he d
at Atlantic City, N. J„ in May, 1007.
has announced the appointment of the fol-
lowing committees to handle the work.
He advises that every member of the various
committees has entered enthusiastically and vig-
orously into the work, and It is their intention
to make the approaching annual a record-breaker
from every standpoint.

The permanent committee of arrangements
representing members of eastern states for the
annual meeting in May, 1007, at Atlantic City,
N. J., are :

Boston — John M. Wocds, Jchn M. Woo !s >V
Co. ; Gardiner I. Jones, Jones Hardwood Com
pany.

Providence — Nelscn H. Walcott, L. H. Gase
Lumber Company.

New Haven, Conn. — E. A. Beckley, Crosby &
Beckley Lumber Company.

New York — Harry I. Dewey, Dixon & Dewey ;
E. S. Foster, National Casket Company ; Sam E.
Barr.

Philadelphia — J. J. Rumbarger, Rumbarger
Lumber Company ; J. P. Dunwoody, J. P. Dun-
woody & Co.; C. E. Lloyd, Jr.

Baltimore — K. E. Wood, R. E. Wood Lumber
''< mpany ; J. L. Alpock, J. I.. Alcock & 1 0

Pittsburg I. I'. Balsley, Wilson Bros. I.umb.r
t ompany.

West Virginia — B. C. Currie, Jr., R. M. Smith
& Co.

Norfolk — II. M. Dicks Dickson Lumber Com

pany.

Officers— C. Ii. Lloyd, Jr., chairman; E. A.
Beckley. treasurer.

Finance committee 1. F. Balsley, John M.
Woods, R. E. Wood.

Hotel and entertainment committee — J. p.
luimvoody. J. J. Rumbarger, B. C. Currie, Jr.

Railroad and transportation committee — Harry
I. Dewey, Gardiner I. Jones, J. L. Alcock

George F. Burgess of Russe & Burgess, Mem-
phis. Tenn.. was among recent arrivals from
abroad, where he spent several months on both
business and pleasure.

The Barnes Manufacturing Company if Jersey
City, which lost its plant by fire some months
ago, has completed the erection of an up-to-date
sash, door and trim plant, which lias just
started operation. It is one of the best plants
of its kind in that vicinity.

Doyle, Thomson & Co., 16 Beaver street, re-
port hardwood trade as very satisfactory.

Philip L. Cohen of the Mott Haven Lumber
Company, one Hundred and Thirty-seventh
street and Fifth avenue, was united in marriage
on November 2 to Miss Edna Belle of Harlem.

The Ross Lumber Company, large hardwood
wholesalers, headn,uarters at Jamestown, N. Y.,
and branch yard at 317 West One Hundred and
Fifteenth street, Manhattan, has increased its
capital stock under the formation of a new
corporation of the same style to $250,000. The
increased capital will be utilized in further ex-
tending the business and the corporation in-
cludes the entire business of the company at
both places. Thfe president and treasurer is
Warren Ross, vice-president and secretary, C.
Edward Ross. The Jamestown, N. Y., operation
has been one of the leading wholesale hard-
wood enterprises of the East for a number of
years, making a specialty of cherry. The New
Y'ork branch yard, which has been in opera-
tion for several years, has developed an exten-
sive business on the upper west side, all of
which necessitated increased facilities for
handling. C. Edward Ross of the company was
recently married at Sherry's to Mis. Josephine
Bates : they are spending their honeymoon
abroad.

Ion II. Benn of Hunter, Benn & Co., London,
England, was a recent visitor, having come to
visit Canadian lumber producing points.

George B. Breon of the Breon Lumber Com-
pany, Williamsport, Pa., was a recent visit, r,
and announced that his company is preparing
for an active hardwood campaign next year.

James Graham of Graham, Roxburgh & Mc-
Laughlin, proprietors of the Firhill Saw Mill,
Glasgow, Scotland, sailed from this port after
an extended visit to leading lumber manufac
tilling centers in Canada and throughout the
territory east of the Mississippi river. Mr.
Graham was much impressed with the general
methods of conducting business and lumber
manufacturing in this country.

Col. J. S. II. Clark of J. S. II. Clark & Co.,
Newark, X. J., has returned from Europe after
a brief pleasure trip.

Roswell Henry Johnson, retired, for many
years one of the leading retail lumbermen of
the metropolitan district, as a member of the
firm of Johnson Bins.. Brooklyn, died recently
at bis residence in New Rochelle, in the seventy
seventh year of his age.

J. Douglas Miir, Christy, Moir & Co., 110
Broadway, sails on Hie eighth to spend the
Christmas holidays with his relatives in Eng-
land.

A. Trice & Co., wood workers and turners of
Passaic, N. Y.. are in bankruptcy, as is also

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the Pevier Improved Wood I'aring Company of
220 Broadway, New York.

The Southern Cypress Selling Company, Ltd.,
of New Orleans, La., controlling a large major-
ity of the output of the Gulf mills, is arrang-
ing to open an office in this city under the man-
agement of E. L. Hunter of New Orleans, who
has heretofore been associated with the large
cypress operations of R*. H. Dowuman. Mr.
Hunter is expected in town about this c'ate and
will immediately arrange location.

J. M. Jackson of the Everglade Cypress Lum-
ber Company of Parkersburg, W. Va., was in
town last week in the interest of business.

Sam E. Barr, Flatiron building, left today for
a ten days' trip in West Virginia hardwood
fields.

J. H. r. Smith of R. M. Smith & Co., Farkers-
burg, YV. Va., has been spending several days
in town on pleasure.

Philadelphia.
At the present time the Lumbermen's Ex-
change is much interested in the question of
canal facilities, which will come before the
National River and Harbor Congress during the
early part of this month. S. B. Vrooman of
the S. B. Vrooman Company of this city, one
of our best-known and widely-experienced lum-
bermen, has been selected by the Exchange to
represent them at the Congress.

W. G. Underwood of the Albemarle Lumber
Company, Hartford, N. C, was a recent visitor
at the Exchange.

Norman B. Taylor, late of Justice P. Taylor
& Co., died on November 21, in his twenty-
sixth year. He was a son of the late Justice
P. Taylor, who established the business, and
who died some six or seven years ago. Young
Taylor, then only twenty years of age, con-
tinued the business. His partner, Harry S.
Field, will continue under the old firm style.

The Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company
has been making new busiuess arrangements.
The Philadelphia office will now be used for a
salesroom only, and all official matters will be
transacted hereafter at the home office in Scran-
ton, Pa., where C. E. Lloyd, Jr., manager, will
make his headquarters. The company antici-
pates good trading for the winter months. Their
four salesmen, E. C. Collins, A. S. Buckman,
J. G. Jobson and C. Holden, have been in Rich-
wood and Camdeu-on-Gauley. W. Va., for a few
days. They were accompanied by F. A. Kirby
of the Scranton office.

Joseph H. Sheip of Sheip & Vandegrlft has
recently returned from Hanover, Mo., where
one of their mills was destroyed by fire on No-
vember 15. The fire started in the veneer room
and the damage sustained was $20,000 on the
machinery and between $5,000 and $6,000 on
stock. There was only a partial insurance. The
loss of this mill will gre*atly inconvenience the
firm at this time, as Mr. Sheip reports a rush
of orders, and, though they are manufacturing
1,500,000 feet of veneered and imitation woods
a month at their Knoxville, Tenn., mill, they
find themselves unable to keep up with their
increased business. This firm has applied for a
charter under Pennsylvania laws to take effect
on January 1, 1907. Authorized capital, $250,-
000.

The Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire
Insurance Company reports continued success,
and has on its books about eighty per cent of
the most successful lumber firms in this section.
The company recently issued a small check book
with fac simile copies of dividend checks re-
turned to policyholders, showing their share of
the earnings of the company ; also a neat
pamphlet 'containing copies of letters received by
them from parties who have been visited by
disastrous fires, among whom are the Morgan
Sash & Door Company, Chicago, 111. ; J. Gibson
Mcllvain & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. ; the Wood
Mosaic Flooring Company. New Albany. Ind. ;
the Whissel Lumber Company, Buffalo, N. Y'.,

and others. These letters testify to the fair ad-
justment and prompt settlement of claims by
this concern. All the mutual lumber fire insur-
ance companies in the country now co-operate
harmoniously upon a uniform basis, which is a
vast improvement over the former desultory
methods, and which will ultimately result in a
curtailing of expenses, a reduction of the fire
loss, and as a consequence the issuing of larger
dividends.

Halfpenny & Hamilton speak favorably of the
hardwood department of their business, which
they are arranging to enlarge. Mr. Halfpenny
of this firm reports very encouragingly of a
recent trip to the East, and he is now absent
on a tour through West Virginia looking for
additional connections.

John W. Coles is just home from a trip
through Virginia and North Carol na, where he
has been making new connections. He is look-
ing forward to more extensive trading in the
hardwood line in the near future.

The Henry H. Sheip Manufacturing Company
is pushing every department to the utmost to
keep up with the increased demands, and its
mill in Verona, N. C, is taxed to its capacity.
The loss of their burned building is being felt,
and the erection of one to replace it is in
progress. The company has just purchased an-
other property adjoining their p^ant on Sixth
street for $22,500, where it intends to erect a
six-story building at an estimated cost of $40,-
000.

The members of the National Hardwocd Lum-
ber Association in the eastern states are actively
preparing for the coming meeting at Atlantic
City, N, J., in May, 1907.

J. J. McDonough, president of the Savannah
Locomotive Works & Supply Company of Sa-
vannah, Ga., recently spent a few days in Phila-
delphia. He is a prominent man in bis section
and an ex-mayor of Savannah.

The Hoo-Hoo of the Eastern District of Penn-
sylvania held its first concatenation cf the sea-
son on Saturday, November 24, in the Trades'
League room. Philadelphia Bourse building.
Vicegerent Snark J. H. Sheip officiating. The
transformation of four gentlemen, Albert Kramer,
Frank Vansant, Joseph Shea and Horace A.
Tompkins, into Hoo-Hoo kittens was as usual a
unique and interesting ceremony. A dinner fol-
lowed in the Bourse restaurant with Frank T.
Rumbarger as toastmaster. The next concatena-
tion will take place in January, 1907, when
committees will be appointed to see that every
effort is made to make this first Hoo-Hoo annual
to be held in the East an event long to be re-
membered.

Baltimore.

The annual meeting and banquet of the
Lumber Exchange was held December 3 at
the Merchants' Club with eighty members in
attendance. As is the custom, the business
meeting took place first, the yearly reports be-
ing read, officers elected, topics of sperial inter-
est discussed and other matters disposed of.
The election, there being only one ticket in the
field, resulted as follows : President, William
M. Burgan : vice-president, Edward P. Gill ;
treasurer, Luther II. Gwaltney ; managing com-
mittee, Richard W. Price, Lewis Dill, Theodore
Mottu, John A. Berryman, Norman James,
Rldgaway Merryman, Edward P. Gill. Daniel
MacLea, George E. Waters, J. Edward Duker,
George H. Poehlmaun and Maurice M. Wley.

The suggestion that the city acquire the
square bounded by East Falls and Eastern ave-
nues, President street and Canton avenue for a
park has been made and it touches the members
of the Exchange in a vital spot. The block in
question is located right in the heart of the
lumber district and its reservation for park
purposes would necessitate the removal of a big
planing mill as well as of other establishments.
besides further curtailing the space, already en-
tirely too small, where lumber may be unloaded

from vessels and stored. The park idea has been
advanced because the city intends to establish
a pumping station nearby in connection with
the projected sewerage system. The members
of the Exchange emphatically oppose the scheme,
especially since the park would be in a busi-
ness instead of a residential district, and strong
statements concerning the project were made at
the meeting. The question of a paid secretary
was also discussed, but action was laid over.
The name of Paul Coriell, who is now the secre-
tary of the Retail Lumber Dealers' Association,
has been mentioned in connection with the of-
fice, and it is not improbable that he will be
chosen.

M. S. Burger of Cumberland, Md., has pur-
chased 15,000 acres of timber land in Walker
Mountain and 1'Oglesburg Valley, Virginia, for
$70,000. The property is to be developed.

Miller & Winston have begun the erection at
Manchester, Va.. of a sawmill of a capacity of
60,000 feet per day. The plant is to be equipped
with all modern appliances and work is being
rapidly pushed.

The Bowen Lumber Company of Virginia has
been chartered with S. C. Bowen as president
and Samuel E. Bowen as secretary. The main
office is to be at Charleston, where a plant is
already in operation.

Samuel Eccles, Jr., for years engaged in the
lumber business here and prominent in the
trade, died early on the morning of November
21 after an illness of more than a year. He
was a member of the firm of Tunis, Eccles &
Co. until five years ago, when he retired, al-
though he retained an active interest in the
trade.

E. E. Trice, the hardwood exporter, has just
closed a deal for the purchase of a walnut
tree of unusual size. The tree will yield a log
14 feet long and 50 Inches thick 3 feet from
the ground, two smaller logs of 10 feet each
cut from the trunk, and several logs of the
thickness of the average tree from the limbs.
The tree has been a landmark for years and is
centuries old.

Pittsburg.

The Ruskauff Lumber Company is now lo-
cated in the Lloyd building, East End, having
moved there from the Park building, where It
was located several years. This is one of the
best-known hardwood concerns in the city.

The Blairsville Lumber & Manufacturing Com-
pany has sold its plant at Blairsville, Pa., to
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and has
been itself absorbed in the Alabama Hardwood
Lumber Company, which has opened offices in
the Farmers' Bank building. Mr. Murphy, for-
merly head of the Murphy Mill & Lumber Com-
pany, is the controlling spirit in the Alabama
company.

The Colonial Trust Company has been ap-
pointed receiver of the Baker Contracting Com-
pany, which recently asked its creditors to take
some action leading to a settlement of its af-
fairs. The Baker company did a large amount
of government work on the local rivers and
had over 400 men employed. Several Pitts-
burg lumber firms are among the big creditors.
Those which can prove that their lumber was
used in permanent work on the rivers will get
their pay, as the -bondsmen of the contracting
company are obligated for these debts. If, how-
ever, the lumber was used in sheds, scaffolding.
etc., temporary work, the creditors can only look
to the Baker company for their pay.

The Commercial Sash & Door Company is
carrying a stock at its plant at Liberty avenue
and Thirty-third street which is valued at $100,-
000. At its Beaver Falls. Pa., plant, where the
company manufactures work to special order, it
is turning out $25,000 worth of stock a month
and employs 125 men constantly.

President George W. Nicola of the Nicola Lum-
ber Company says that his company has been
forced to turn down orders lately on account

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of the inability to get suitable stock to fill them
and the shortage of ears, which prevents any
iliink like a prompt shipment. Hardwoods are
figuring conspicuously on the Nicola orders this
winter, and the prices received for the lumber
arc most encouraging.

A. M. Turner of the A. M. Turner Lumber
Company has gone South to look over the com-
pany's big operations in Mississippi. General
demand is excellent is the report from this
company, which has been booking some of the
mi, si satisfactory business in Ms history this
fall.

J. E. Mcllvain & Co. are selling 15,000 ties
a month. These go to the Baltimore & Ohio,
the Pittsburg & Lake Erie and the Kanawha &
Michigan railroads and the Pittsburg Railways
Company, The Mcllvain company has started
on filling an order for 250.000 feet of lumber to
be used in the construction of the big band
stand which the city of Pittsburg is building
in Sehenley Park. This will be 356 feet long
and will accommodate 4,000 persons. Its cost
is estimated at $20,000.

The Pittsburgh Floor Company has been or-
ganized under a Pennsylvania charter to build
floors and ceilings. Its members are F. M.
Bacon, Charles Warburton and Karl E. Wil-
son.

The Kendall Lumber Company is doing a big
business in hardwoods from its plants at Ken-
dall and Crellin, Md. J. L. Kendall is now in
the West on a two weeks' trip and J. H.
Henderson has gone down to the Quaker City
to have another round with some big customers
there.

W. II. Herbertson of the Cheat River Lumber
Company is sending to the home office in Pitts-
burg some very encouraging reports of the opera-
tions at Burkeville, Va., where he is spending
his time this winter looking after the company's
interests.

William T. Monroe, who makes a specialty
of factory mill work and bridge work, has
just received an order for all the mill work
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad station at
Cleveland and another at Chicago Junction,
Ohio. He is also putting the finishing touches
to a big job for the Oliver Iron & Steel Company
on the South Side and another for the Crucible
Steel Company in the East End.

James A. Lewis, president of the Lewis Land
& Lumber Company of Mobile, Ala., spent a
week in Pittsburg recently with the Germain
Company, which represents his concern here.
Louis Germain, Jr., accompanied Mr. Lewis to
the East for a business trip. This is one of the
youngest concerns in the city, but has a very
flourishing trade started already.

November building operations in Pittsburg
fell off slightly from the total of November.
1905, and also from the total of October, 100C.
In all 278 operations were authorized, amount-
ing to .$1,002,772. The November total for the
past seven years has averaged about $1,000,000,
so that last month's showing is not so bad as
was anticipated by many when the labor troubles
and the high prices of materials were taken
into account.

The first prize in the competitive tree1 plant
lng contest of the Pennsylvania Forestry Asso-
ciation has been awarded to the district of
Monongahela, l'a. In April, 1906, the associa-
tion announced its intention of recognizing the
twentieth anniversary of its formation by award-
ing prizes totaling $100 for trees planted In
the state on- the Arbor days, April 6 and 20,
and properly cared for until the fall Arbor in
October. It is expected that these prizes with
others to be given later by the association will
stimulate tree planting all over the state and
bring to public notice much valuable knowledge
concerning the kinds of trees that are best
for certain sections.

President J. R. Edgett of the Interior Lum-
ber Company of this city spent a week in Pitts-
burg recently sizing up the lumber situation,
lie returned to the company's plant at Oneida,

Tenn., well satisfied with the Pittsburg market.
'tin' mills at Oneida are turning out a fine lot
"i hemlock and hardwood this winter, most of
which is being sold in the Pittsburg district
through the agency of J. G. Criste, local man-
ager for the company.

"Our hardwood business never looked so alto-
gether healthy," said General Manager J. N.
Woollett of the American Lumber & Manufac-
turing Company last week. "The volume of
Inquiry is away above the average for this
season and prices are firm all along the line.
We find that southwestern hardwoods are com-
ing into market more rapidly the last few
weeks than before and that they are gaining
in fayor very fast with manufacturers." Two
of the company's hardwood men are now off on
long business tours. Samuel Dunseith has khiii'
to Canada and Charles Cruikshank is doing
trade stunts up in New York.

J. S. McNaugher of the L. L. Satier Lumber
Company is at Blackstone, Va., in charge of the
big operation of the company there. The box
shook plant of the company at Blackstone will
be completed by January 1, and will turn out
100,000 feet a day. Besides, the firm is putting
in a dry kiln which will greatly facilitate its
operations. Mr. Satier reports general business
excellent, with fine prospects for a good winter
Made in hardwoods.

The James I. M. Wilson Company is taking
care of a very satisfactory lot of orders for
oak lumber. In a few quarters it notes a tend-
ency among manufacturers to buy oak for im-
mediate needs only, as they seem to think that
the little falling off in price a few months ago
is to be followed by another. This Is far from
being the opinion of most manufacturers or of
the Pittsburg wholesalers, who are firmly of
the opinion that oak is tip to stay.

Buffalo.

The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has
improved its home yard considerably, kept it full
of stock, opened a new one in Memphis and
gone on with timber cutting and sawmill opera-
tions further south. Besides this, it has lately
added to its manufactures by organizing the
Plus & Minus Desk Company, with $100,000 cap-
ital stock, and rented two floors in the mill of
Montgomery Bros, for handling built-up veneers,
having gone into the veneer trade some time ago.
The table factory In the suburb of Blasdell will
be run as strong as ever.

The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company is
extending its yard southward to hold a million
feet more, and has oak, chestnut and poplar
coming in to fill it.

I. N. Stewart & Bro. are carrying in their
Buffalo yard the best lot of chestnut lumber
they have ever had, an assortment that chal-
lenges the stocks of other yards, either here or
elsewhere.

G. Ellas &. Bro. are making the most of the
lake fleet up to the end of the season, bringing, in
a cargo of birch this month after several others
of all assortments that came in earlier.

O. E. Yeager still manages to get some cars of
good oak from Ohio, having sent a man out
there to patrol the section, and getting both plain
and quartered in quantity and bringing it in
here.

A. Miller is still able to do a good business in
basswood and elm, having a very good stock of
both. He says the railroads are fighting over
car sidings and the shippers have to take the
blows.

J. F. Knox is south again buying hardwood
stock for Beyer, Knox & Co., mainly oak, but
also cherry and other woods.

J. N. Scatcherd lately made a gift of a build-
ing to the Buffalo General Hospital, as a nn 1110
rial to his father, James N. Scatcherd, who was
much interested in that institution.

The new yard of T. Sullivan & Co. is being
filled up rapidly. They have some choice black
ash stock as well as other hardwoods.

The Empire Lumber Company is especially
busy now, as it has two lake cargoes in with

assorted hardwoods, and is getting them ready
for the yard, which Is fast returning to its old
well-filled condition.

The Hugh McLean Lumber Company reports
the logging outlook in the South improving, it
is now not so much a question of price in the
trade as a question of lumber and the company
always has the lumber.

Saginaw Valley.

Lumbermen are beginning to get ready for the
business of the incoming year. Generally trade
this year has been much more satisfactory both
in regard to prices and volume of business than
it was last year.' The scarcity of cars has not
been relieved, but is as acute today as It has
been at any time during the fall. Railroad offi-
cials here are unable to furnish a tithe of the
ears wanted.

Charles A. Bigelow of the Kneeland-Bigelow
and Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow concerns, says the
hardwood business is in good shape ; that the
light receipts of pine by water during the last
two months owing to heavy weather on the lakes
makes the hardwood situation especially strong,
forcing the substitution of hardwoods for many
purposes. The Kneeland-Bigelow Company mill
is running day and night and will continue to
do so during the winter. The Kneeland, Buell &
Bigelow mill runs ten hours a day all winter.
The stock for these two plants comes off the
Mackinaw division of the Michigan Central at
the rate of three tralnloads every twenty-four
hours.

The Bliss & Van Auken mill and flooring fac-
tory Is operated day and night, and has had a
fine run of business. The output of hardwood
for the year will approximate 7,000,000 feet.

The mill of W. D. Young & Co. Is also running
day and night. The firm is operating six lum-
ber camps in the vicinity of Haakwood and is
buying logs from a number of small operators
in the northern part of the state and bringing
them here by rail. Mr. Y'oung says the firm
will do a heavy business in the logging line dur-
ing the winter.

The H. M. Loud's Sons Company is doing a
large business in hardwood timber for harbor
and structural work. The steamer Kongo, owned
by the company, left Oscoda Tuesday with 500,-
000 feet of hardwood timber and planking for
the Michigan Central Railroad tunnel at De-
troit, the second cargo of this kind of material
shipped this fall for the tunnel. The Loud
Company has shipped about 4,500,000 feet of
timber and planking this season.

The Campbell-Brown Lumber Company mill
will start up right after the holidays on a long
run of hardwood stock.

E. H. Colville of Rose City has purchased a
small sawmill and tract of hardwood timber in
Clare county, containing a number of million
feet, which will be cut and converted into lumber
the ensuing year.

The hardwood mill of Park & Kelley at Van
derbilt, which burned a few days ago, involving
a loss of $2,500, is being rebuilt and it is in
tended to have it in operation in January.

Walter McCormick of the McCormick Hay
Lumber Company, having a yard at Saginaw and
handling hardwood exclusively, reports the trade
of the firm as growing steadily. It has been
especially good this fall. The company handles
a considerable quantity of southern oak In addi-
tion to northern woods. It Is gratifying to the
friends of Mr. McCormick to know that he has
entirely recovered his health.

The S. L. Eastman Flooring Company recently
erected a fine large warehouse at Its plant for
storing lumber. It has enjoyed a prosperous
business and will handle over 12,000,0()ii feet of
lumber this year.

Grand Rapids.

A. F. Anderson of Cadillac was in Grand Rap-
ids December 4.

At a dinner given by local furniture manu-
facturers at the Morton House December 3,
which was attended by a number of outside

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manufacturers, the recent action of the national
association of case goods people in making a
straight advance of ten per cent in prices was
endorsed. The advance is understood to take
effect at once, hut the manufacturers, practically
without exception, are sold up to January 1,
the opening of the spring season, and the new
schedule will go into effect on the new goods.

The Lumbermen's Association of Grand Rap-
ids held its monthly meeting November 27 at
the Pantlind. The next meeting will be held
January 29, when officers will be elected.

L. L. Skillman has returned from a trip
North. He reports dry stock scarce and few
of the mill men ready to contract their output
until after the first of the year. Prospects indi-
cate the usual cut this winter, though the crop
of logs delivered at mills will depend to a large
extent on the weather.

Fire in the factory of the Novelty Wood
Works, Sixth street, caused a loss estimated at
$2,000.

The sawmill of the Ranney Refrigerator Com-
pany at Greenville was burned recently ; loss.
.fS.000 to $10,000; partially insured. It is not
likely to be rebuilt, owing to the scarcity of
logs in that section.

The Dennis Bros. Lath & Lumber Company
is building a new mill near Dighton, which will
have about 30,000 feet capacity daily, and will
be in operation January 1. The company has
several other mills in operation on its holdings
there.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

James Strong, former head of the James Strong
Lumber Company of this city, with a number
of prominent Pennsylvania lumbermen, has or-
ganized the Fenwiek Lumber Company with a
capital stock of .$500,000. The new company
has acquired a tract of 20,000 acres of rich
timber land in Greenbriar and Nicholas counties.
West Virginia, and announces that it will build
a mill at Fenwiek with a capacity of 23,000,000
feet annually. The company also owns timber
lands in Pennsylvania and New York and has
taken over almost the entire holdings of the
Tennant-Richards Lumber Company. The incor-
porators of the new company are James Strong
of Philadelphia ; Sherman L. Richards and S.
L. Tennant of the Tennant-Richards Lumber
Company, and S. L. Tennant of Kingston, Pa.,
and George It. McLean and J. C. Wiegand.

J. H. Bryan of the Bryan Lumber Company,
Pee Dee Lumber Company, Richland Lumber
Company, etc., has just returned from a trip
to South Carolina. He reports that his com-
panies' mills at Pee Dee and on the Wateree
river are in operation and turning out oak,
poplar, ash and gum in large quantities. Mr.
Bryan estimates that they have seven or eight
years' cut.

J. A. Wilkinson has returned from a business
trip in Virginia. H. M: Hoskins, sales manager
for J. A. Wilkinson, has just returned from
Knoxville, Tenn., where he has been on busi-
ness.

Frank Price of Price & Heald of Baltimore,
Md , is spending some time with the company's
local manager, Fred W. Hughes, going over busi-
ness in this section.

The Kingsport Lumber Company of this city
reports that its mill at Caretta, McDowell
county, West Virginia, is running regularly and
is turning out about 1,000,000 feet of lumber
per month. The company has almost 10,000,-
000 feet of lumber on sticks on the Caretta
yards.

W. M. Dickey of Brookville, Pa., was looking
after business interests in this section last
week.

Almost $75,000 has been raised to date toward
the mineral, lumber and timber exhibit at the
Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition at James-
town, Va., next year, and it is believed that it
will be swelled to $100'000, as an exhibit to
cost this stupendous sum is planned. The
matter of arranging for the exhibit, construction
of the buildings, etc., is in the hands of his

excellency, Governor Swanson of Virginia, and
a committee representing the mineral, lumber
and timber interests of the state.

The Lick Ford Lumber Company has been or-
ganized under the laws of West Virginia, with
headquarters at Huntington. The company has
a capital stock of $75,000 and will manufacture
and deal in West Virginia hardwoods.

The James Cortlan Lumber Company of Phila-
delphia has just acquired a 7,000-acre tract of
timber land on the French Broad river in Green
and Hawkins counties, Tennessee, and announces
that mills will be erected and the property
developed at once. A flume four miles in length
will be constructed.

Messrs. D. C. Hughes of Canton. Ohio, and
W. R. Coon of Punxsutawney, Ta., have about
perfected the organization of the Buckeye Lum-
ber Company, with headquarters at Hampton,
Carter county, Tenn.. and with a capital stock
of $40,000. The company owns a large tract
of timber land in Carter and Hawkins counties,
Tennessee.

The L'naka Lumber Company of Johnson
City, Tenn., is making preparations to operate
extensively in the lower part of Sullivan and
Hawkins counties, and it is announced will
build a number of portable mills for the devel-
opment of the untouched timber resources of
that region.

Charles H. Fuller of the Masse & Felton
Lumber Company of Macon, Ga., was a recent
visitor in Bristol.

E. R. Sprinkle, a lumber manufacturer of
Dante, Va., was in Bristol last week.

An important timber land deal has just been
made in Wythe county, Virginia, and W. S.
Burger, a well-known lumberman of Cumberland,
Maryland, becomes the owner of a 15,000-acre
tract of timber land lying in Walker's Mountain
and Foglesong Valley. The consideration was
$70,000. It is announced that Mr. Burger and
his associates will prepare to develop same at
a very early date. The vendors were E. E.
Trinkle, Mrs. Ellen B. Stuart. M. M. Caldwell
and A. A. Caldwell, and the heirs at-law of the
late Congressman General James A. Walker. The
property is easily accessible to transportation
facilities.

W. M. Greer and F. G. Kelsey of the Kelsey-
Dennis Lumber Company of North Tonawanda.
N. Y . were buying lumber in this section a
few days since.

EL E. Wentz, representing John R. Gobey &
Co. of Columbus, Ohio, was a visitor in this
section last week.

John T. Nagle of the W. M. Ritter Lumber
Company of Saginaw. N. C, was in the city
last week. Mr. Nagle states that the Ritter
company is operating two big baDd mills, one
at Saginaw and the other at Pianola, and that
it has some fifteen years' supply of timber for
the Pianola mill. This company is operating
extensively in western North Carolina and East
Tennessee, as well as West Virginia, and is put-
ting in a big band mill at Hampton, Carter
county, Tenn.

Cincinnati.

The Earrin-Korn Lumber Company and the
M. P.. Farrin Lumber Company are negotiating
for a large tract of land near their plants for
the construction of a large flat building to be
rented to their employes. The decision was
reached after a conference and discussion of
last winter's experience, when labor was hard
to get because the plants are some distance out
and necessitated early rising and a long car ride.
The building will have all modern improvements,
will contain fifty-two flats, and rent for $10 to
$12 a month, including heat and water.

The police of Cincinnati are on the lookout
for a traveling salesman who claimed to repre-
sent a hardwood lumber concern and passed
a bogus check on the Owl Drug Company for
$25. The names of the firm and man are with-
held by the police.

At the monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's

Club, held Monday evening at the Business
Men's Club, it was decided to begin an active
agitation for a reform in fire Insurance rates
on lumber. The insurance committee was in-
structed by the club to compile statistics cover-
ing lumber fires for years back. Under present
classification of insurance companies lumber is
classed regardless of the character of the wood.
The average rate on yards here is between 1%
and 2 cents. This the hardwood people claim
is a discrimination against them. They contend
that the destructive fires in lumber yards are in
the pine yards, and that for years they have
been compelled to carry the pine risk. The in-
surance committee consists of W. B. Hay, chair-
man : T. B. Stone, J. P. Hanna, F. W. Mowbray
and W. E. Talbert. Two thousand dollars was
contributed at this meeting to the fund of the
Receivers' and Shippers' Association to be used
by the latter in its fight for uniform switching
rates. Twelve members of the club were added
to the roster of the Receivers' and Shippers'
Association.

J. Gordon Wright of Goodman & Wright fell
dead on the street Saturday, December 1, of
heart disease. Mr. Wright was fifty-four years
of age and a native of Cincinnati, where he has
spent the greater part of his life. Besides be-
ing a member of the firm of Goodman & Wright,
lie was vice-president of the- Southern Ohio
Loan Company, a director of the Strobrldge
Lithographing Company, and was also a stock-
holder in a half dozen big Cincinnati corpora-
tions.

John Stengel, a large furniture manufacturer
of Dayton, Ohio, was in the city recently pur-
chasing hardwood lumber.

W. E. Delaney of the Kentucky Lumber Com-
pany has returned from a business trip through
the South. He reported that the heavy rains
through the South had seriously delayed opera-
tions in that locality.

The Wildberg Box Company of Arlington
Heights has purchased new machinery and hired
more labor to care for its rapidly Increasing
business.

The Union Association of Lumber Dealers will
hold a convention in Cincinnati for four days
beginning Jan. 20, 21, 22 and 23. Secretary
II. S. Adams of Chillicothe, Ohio, engaged head-
quarters at the Grand Hotel on Thursday. The
convention means that over 200 lumbermen from
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio
will be present. The car shortage will be thor-
oughly uiscussed at the assembly, and every
means will be exercised to help the disastrous
crippling of business.

The Acme Veneer Company's new warehouse
and salesroom at Eighth and Harriet streets
have been completed and are a great improve-
ment to the plant.

Nine of C. Crane & Co.'s mills are in opera-
ration as a result of the recent big tide. Mills
along the Kentucky river of Central Kentucky
and Tennessee which have been idle all summer
are again buzzing, and there is plenty of work
for all hands to run them almost through the
winter.

The Freiburg Lumber Company has been mak-
ing improvements in its plant lately.

The Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company has
logs .stacked up from fifty to one hundred feet
high in front of the mill, and an extra force
of men has been employed so as to cut the
stuff into salable lumber as soon as possible.

The Steinman & Meyer Furniture Company,
which carries a very large stock of hardwood
lumber, has purchased a lot 100x150 feet east
of its plant for a storage yard.

Thomas J. Moffet, president of the Maley.
Thompson & Moffett Company, has just re-
turned from a business and pleasure trip to
New York.

M. B. Farrin of the M. B. Farrin Lumber
Company is in Washington to attend the meet-
ing of the rivers and harbors committee.

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J. W. Graham of the (iraham Lumber Com-
panj is making a trip through Tennessee ami
Kentucky.

George Zorborg of the Cincinnati Hardwood
Lumber Company is on a business trip to Chi
cago.

iieorge Littleton] of the Littleford Lumber
Company 1ms returned from a business trip
through the South and East. He reports great
activity in lumber circles in that locality.

C. M. Clark of. the Swann-Day Lumber Com-
pany of Clay City, Ky . returned a few days
ago from a trip East, and left immediately for
Virginia on a quail hunting trip.

Walter Quick of RIchey, Halsted & Quick, has
returned from a trip through Mississippi, Ten-
nessee and Arkansas. He reports a scarcity of
gum lumber and a general tendency to higher
prices.

Chattanooga.

Chattanooga lumbermen have had an extremely
prosperous year. They have only one or two
complaints to make about their business ; one is
that they have not been able to get sufficient
cars — in fact they can get hardly any at all ;
and the other is that they cannot get the timber
that they need. As a result they cannot supply
the demands. Dry stocks are scarcer than they
have been for years and prices have continued
to soar skyward for many months.

Lumbermen depending on the river for their
supply of logs did not get as many as they
expected. Logmen have been so handicapped on
account of rains during the past summer that
they could not get their logs to the river.

Within the past year four lumber concerns
have practically gone out of business in this
-city for various reasons. Recently the Case
Lumber Company abandoned its yards at East
End and the interests of the concern were
pooled with those of the Fowler -I'ersonett Lum-
ber Company of Birmingham, Ala. Ferd Bren-
ner, who operated big yards here, has abandoned
them and gone to Norfolk, Va., where he has
large mills and yards. F. W. Blair sold the
yard property near the Tennessee river and Is
preparing to move his mill. He has not decided
where he will locate, but it will probably be in
this vicinity. He is still having many logs
sawed by the Central Manufacturing Company
and others in this city and is doing' a jobbing
business.

Snodgrass & Fields, who were refused a per-
mit by the city authorities to rebuild their
plant, are going ahead with its construction.
They are now erecting the sheds, etc., and will
purchase new machinery at once. An ordinance
has passed the city council, however, authoriz-
ing the board of public works to expend $6,000
in condemning a portion of the property of the
concern for street purposes. The city govern-
ment wants to open about four streets through
the yards of Snodgrass & Fields and build a
magnificent drive along the bluff overlooking the
river on this property. The company Intends to
oppose the city's action.

A. A. McGregor, proprietor of two or three
stave concerns in this city, is at Paint Rock,
Ala., where he has another stave factory.

M. M. Erb, vice president of the old Case
Lumber Company of this city, has removed bis
family to Birmingham, where he Is interested
in the new Fowler Lumber Company.

E. II. Warner of Warner & Son of St. Louis
was a recent visitor to this city and bought
several carloads of lumber.

[or occupancy about January 1. In the mean-
time Mr. Love will take a trip to Florida for
his health, as he has 1 n suffering from rheu-
matism for some time.

Among Hie recent visitors to Nashville were:
R. F. Scobee of Winchester, Ky., representing

the Scol Williams Spoke Company; Owen

Percy of London, England, representing Cob-
bett & Co., and Charles Cruikshank of Pitts-
burg; Pa., representing the American Lumber
& Manufacturing Company.

Three thousand feet of, lumber at Buford.
Term., was destroyed by fire. It was the prop-
city of .1. I>. Rhea. Cinders removed that night
from the engine at the plant are supposed to
be responsible for the loss.

The state of Tennessee is going into the lum-
ber business on a pretty extensive scale, al-
though such a step was not contemplated by
those at the helm of this commonwealth. Ten-
nessee has decided to buy about 15,000 acres
of coal lands in Warren, Van Buren, Sequatchie
and Bledsoe counties. About $165,000 is to be
paid for the property, which is being bought
outright, and such a purchase of course in-
cludes the timber on the property as well.
This the state will also develop and sell while
it is getling out the coal. The land to be
bought is on the western plateau of Cumberland
mountains and is covered with white oak, black
oak, red oak, post oak, pine, gum and hickory.
A railroad spur will be run to the property
in order to market the output.

Secretary of State John W. Morton has
granted the Stone & Heyser Lumber Company
of Ohio the right to engage in business in this
state. The company is chartered for $25,000.

The plant of the Tennessee Chair Manufac-
turing Company at Covington, Tenn., has been
totally destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
$12,000. The insurance amounted to $4,000.
Lightning struck a wire and then ran to the
building in that way setting fire to it.

An interesting question in the hardwood line
has been brought up before the Chancery Court
of Dickson county for adjudication. The defini-
tion of the term "white oak'' is involved in 1 In-
case of J. C. Oakley vs. the Holcomb-Lobh Com-
pany et al. The question presented, to be exact,
was whether or not "overcup oak or burr oak*'
is white oak in the ordinary meaning of the
word. The jury found that such was not the
case and their answer was simply "No." Many
prominent lumbermen were witnesses in the
case, which has been appealed to the Supreme
Court of Tennessee.

A special to Nashville from West Liberty,
Ky., stales that the Morehead & West Liberty
railroad is making great progress on its new
road in that section. When completed this
line will open up one of the largest tracts of
timberland in eastern Kentucky.

The Schoenlau -Kukkuk Trunk Top & Veneer
Company of St. Louis, Mo., has filed an ab-
stract of its charter for the purpose of extend-
ing its operations into Tennessee. The company
Is one of the most prominent in St. Louis and
is capitalized at $60,000.

The Blrchett Lumber Company of Shelby
?ounty, Tennessee, has been incorporated with
$24,000 capital stock by J. G. Blrchett. C. M.
Collier, J. Thompson, W. M. Green, .1. K. Ditls
ind C. L. Marslllot.

Nashville.

Millard Filmore Green of the Davidson-Bene
diet Lumber Company leaves shortly for Rock
Ledge, Fla., with his family, where he will re-
main until about March 1. John B. Ransom
of the John B. Ransom Lumber Company will
probably go to Rock Ledge in the near future.

The handsome new home of Hamilton Love of
Love, Boyd & Co., on West End avenue, is
nearing completion and will doubtless be ready

Memphis.
According to a number of manufacturers in
this section the outlook for the production of
southern hardwoods wras never more unfavorable
than at present. The heavy rainfall of a fort-
night ago was very disastrous in that it stopped
practically all logging and interfered materially
with the operation of the mills In this territory.
The weather of the past few days has been
more favorable, but the outlook now Is for con-
tinued precipitation, as the season which usu-
ally brings much rainy weather is close at hand.
The larger mills here are running, but they

say present product inn is at the expense of
their future cut. since they will have to close
down their plants, at least temporarily, just as
soon as they have cut. up the timber which bad
aci umulated when the storm came. Production
is not even fifty per cent of normal for this
section, and the trade Is of the opinion that
the amount of logging accomplished within the
next three or four weeks will be very small
compared with the average accomplishment in
this direction at this time, of the year.

The car shortage is causing serious trouble
In this territory. Some lumbermen go so far
as to say that they are threatened with the
necessity of shutting down, at least temporarily,
because they are unable to get all the cars
mccssary. They see no prospect of improve-
ment in the supply of cars so long as the move-
ment of cotton continues on such a large scale
as ;it present. Shipments of lumber out of
Memphis are very slow, but those from in-
ferior milling centers are much worse. Receipts
of lumber in Memphis are very light because
of this scarcity of cars and stocks are decreas-
ing rapidly.

The ratterson Lumber Company of Philadel
phia has purchased 7,000 acres of timberlands in
the section tributary to Greeneville, Miss., and
the announcement is made that plans are being
considered looking to the development of this
timber. The tract is reported to be some dis-
tance from the railroads of that section, and
lor this reason the timber has never been culled,
thus making this an exceptionally valuable
tract.

The Builders' Exchange Building Company
lois been organized here with I. N. Chambers.
chairman, and O. O. Howard, secretary of the
Exchange, as secretary. Thirty members have
subscribed to stock in the company and plans
have been formulated for a building which is
to be headquarters for the Exchange and to
contain a floor for the exhibition of building
material and offices for members of the organi-
zation, and which will also have offices to be
rented to those connected with the building In-
dustry or its allied trades. As soon as possible
the remaining members of the organization will
be asked to subscribe to stock in the Building
Company. No outsider will be allowed to sub-
scribe stock and each member so subscribing will
be entitled to a certificate showing him to be
part owner of the building.

Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lum-
ber Exporters' Association will go to New York
about the 15th Inst, and will remain there until
the annual meeting of the association in Nor-
folk, which will be held January 23.

The annual election of officers of the Lum-
bermen's Club of Memphis will be held January
12, and two committees, composed respectively
of C. W. Holmes, chairman, A. N. Thompson
anil s. p.. Anderson; and R. I. Darnell, chair-
man, W. A. Dolph and G. A. Farber, have been
appointed to nominate the candidates on the two
tickets which are provided for under the re-
vised constitution. The names of the rival can-
didates will be given out December 15. It is
understood that George C. Ehemann of Bennett
& Witte, who has been secretary and treasurer
lor I he past two years, will not he a candidate
in succeed himself.

There were a number of visitors present at
this meeting, among them George W. Stoneman
of the Stoneinan-Zearing Lumber Company, St.
Louis; II. II. Ilalliday of the Carey-Halllday
Lumber Company, Cairo; R. L. Wl.thnell, Lon-
don representative of Duncan, Ewing & Co.,
Liverpool, England, and A. W. Wylle, the Casey
Company, Chicago. Honorary membership in
the club has been conferred upon O. K. Palmer,
formerly with the Guirl-Stover Lumber Com-
pany. Memphis, but now at the head of the
Palmer Lumber Company, Seattle, Wash.

Dispatches received from Malvern, Ark., re-
port the burning there of the planing mill of

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the Rockwell Manufacturing Company, with a
loss of about $35,000, partially insured. There
is no fire department and the adjoining build-
ings and lumber were saved only by the quick
and persistent efforts of the "bucket brigade."
The plant was one of the largest in that sec-
tion. The fire is supposed to have originated
from the engine in the building.

The federal grand jury has returned a true
bill against Hugh Murdock. president of the
Murdock Lumber Company, charging him with
having raised United States bank notes, and
the case will be tried here during the next few
days. It is alleged that Murdock passed a
$2 bank note which had been raised to $20
by the addition of a cipher. He was arrested
last May by the police authorities here and
bound over to the federal grand jury. His
friends did all they could to break down the
charges against him by pointing out that a
man of his business and social standing would
not resort to such crude practices, but the fed-
eral authorities declare their intention of prose-
cuting him, and the ease has already been
set.

The Fordyce Manufacturing Company has
been incorporated under the laws of Arkansas
with a capital stock of $20,000 and with head-
quarters at Fordyce. J. L. Williams is presi-
dent, T. M. Rowland vice-president and Wiley
Downs secretary-treasurer. The company will
manufacture hardwood products.

The Tolley Lumber & Feed Company has been

incorporated with domicile at Batesville, Ark.,

and with capital stock of $25,000. W. S. Tol-

-ley is president; J. G. Wolfe, vice-president,

and Charles Podgett, secretary-treasurer.

The Automatic Yoke Company of Indianapolis,
Ind., has secured by lease, with privilege of
purchase, the plant of the Braughton Mantel
Company in North Memphis, and will install
therein $10,000 worth of additional machinery
for the manufacture of automatic yokes, single-
trees, doubletrees and similar products. The
deal was closed through President Samuel L.
Pattison of Indianapolis. Memphis, it is under-
stood, is to be made the manufacturing head-
quarters of the company, though distributing
headquarters will be continued at Indianapolis.
O. .M. Krebs, one of the managers of the
Hugh McLean Lumber Company here, was at-
tacked by footpads some nights ago and, with
two revolvers held at his head, forced to band
over his money, $45, and a handsome gold
watch. He reported the matter to the police
authorities, but no arrests have been made. The
holdup occurred at the end of the 'New South
Memphis car line.

Articles of incorporation were recently filed
by the Kittrell Lumber Company, which is to
engage in the manufacture of hardwood lumber
at Hamburg, Ark. The" company is really the
successor of the private business formerly con-
ducted by W. E. Kittrell, who, under the pres-
ent organization, becomes president. The capi-
tal stock is $20,000.

The Cleveland & Palmer Handle Company of
Frankfort, Ky., which is said to be affiliated
with the American Fork & Hoe Company, which
is operating a large plant here, has recently
taken out a permit for the construction of a
large warehouse in New South Memphis.

Box manufacturers in this city are doing the
largest business in their history. They are not
answering inquiries, because they already have
so much business on their books and tbey are
not in position to accept orders for shipments
in any quantity from outsiders under thirty
to sixty days. Cottonwood is very scarce and
they are confronted with more business than
they can promptly take care of.

Frank C. Cannon, secretary-treasurer of the
Cannon Box Company of" Cairo, 111., is in Mem-
phis. He reports an excellent demand for boxes
and box shooks in Cairo.

George D. Burgess of R"usse & Burgess, who
has been in Europe for some months on busi-

ness for his firm, has returned to this city.
He is looking remarkably well and expresses
pleasure at being home again.

I{. L. Withnell, London representative of
Duncan. Ewing & Co. of Liverpool, England,
has been in Memphis for some days, having
come here last week from St. Louis.

The management of the American Car &
Foundry Company, which has the largest wood-
working establishment in this section at Bins-
bamton, a suburb of Memphis, has enough or-
ders on its books to keep running on full time
for six months. It furthermore denies the re-
port that the company has any intention of
removing from Memphis, asserting that, on the
contrary, nothing is being left undone in the
way of adding equipment and increasing the
facilities here.

The Dixie Lumber & Manufacturing Company
of this city has been incorporated with $15,000
capital stock. C. G. Wagner, E. J. Thomas,
F. J. Ozanno, James Hutchinson and Charles
Heekle are the incorporators.

The Standard Lumber Company was recently
incorporated by P. M. Ravesies, W. J. Richard-
son, C. B. Stetson, T. C. Richardson and E. W.
Ravesies. The capital stock is $30,000 and
headquarters will be maintained in Memphis.

New Orleans.

Judge Parlange in the United States Circuit
Court here has handed down an opinion sus-
taining the Interstate Commerce Commission
in its fight to force a number of railroads to
remove a two-cent advance on Southern ship-
ments to Ohio river crossing, which advance
was put on by the railroads some time ago.
Since this decision, however, the case has
been appealed by the railroads to the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals. The suit has
been pending for many months in the local
court. It was filed by the Interstate Com-
merce Commission with a view to securing a
decision that would force the railroad compa-
nies to comply with its orders demanding that
the two-cent advance in freight rates be re-
moved. Judge Parlange's decision brings first
blood for the Interstate Commerce Commission
and the Lumber Shippers. If his decision is
upheld in the higher court it will mean that
suits aggregating nearly $3,000,000 will be fiied
by the lumber shippers, who all of this time
have been paying the two-cent advance.

The Gillican & Vizard Company was recently
incorporated with an authorized capital of
$1,000,000 to speculate in timber lands. Its
charter was filed for record several days ago in
the office of the Recorder of Mortgages. The
officers are Walter B. Gillican, president;
Edwin A. McKoy, vice-president, and Anthony
Vizard Jr., secretary-treasurer. Mr. Gillican
is vice-president of the New Orleans Naval
Stores Company, while Mr. Vizard until re-
cently was the secretary-treasurer of that firm.
The Lane Lumber Company has been organ-
ized in this city with an authorized capital of
$200,000. It will manufacture all kinds of lum-
ber, and will construct and operate sawmills.
The officers are: Edward E. Moberly, presi-
dent; Walter T. Kent, vice-president and
treasurer; Harry H. Hall, secretary.

The charter of the Flasdick-Black Land and
Lumber Company has been filed for record in
the office of the Recorder of Mortgages. This
company will buy, sell and speculate generally
in timber lands and is also empowered to build
and operate saw and planing mills. It is capi-
talized at $100,000 and has the following offi-
cers: Rudolph Flasdiek, president; Bryan
Black, vice-president; Edwin W. Rodd, secre-
tary. '

Announcement is made that unless an early
settlement of the trouble among the stave han-
dlers in New Orleans is effected, Bobet Bros.,
who handle a large amount of the staves ex-
ported annually out of New Orleans, will re-
move their headquarters to Gulfport, Miss.
Several ships which have come here recently

for staves have been turned away because the
members of the longshoremen's union refused
to load them. The labor troubles in this par-
ticular have become very serious and threaten
to cripple temporarily the stave shipments out
of New Orleans.

The large box factory and veneering plant in
the northern suburbs of Baton Rouge, La., for-
merly owned by W. T. Burks and William
White, have been transferred to the Standard
Box Factory and are now being operated by
this company. Messrs. White and Burks re-
cently transferred their holdings to Col. J. C.
Dozier for $38,000, and he in turn sold out to
the Standard Company for $44,000.

Advices here state that the steamship Cor-
inth, having on board the largest consignment
of mahogany logs ever shipped to New Or-
leans, and the first to be loaded in West Africa
for shipment to the United States, is aground
on Grand Cayman group, off the coast of Ja-
maica.

The Mississippi Seating Company, a new
$50,000 corporation of- Jackson, Miss., has
awarded to Fairbanks, Morse & Co. the con-
tract for supplying the machinery for its new
plant. It will manufacture chairs for theaters
and auditoriums.

Another charter recently filed in New Or-
leans is that of the Victor Lumber and Export
Company. It will buy and sell all kinds of
lumber, rough and dressed, and will do consid-
erable exporting. The company is capitalized
at $5,000 and its officers are: P. M. Roby, pres-
ident and secretary-treasurer; R. U. Schmide.
vice-president.

The Dutch steamer Beta has arrived at Pas-
cagoula to load a cargo of 2,000,000 feet of
lumber from the plant of Hunter, Been & Co.

At a recent meeting of the stockholders of
the Padget Wagon Company of Laurel, Miss.,
it was decided to increase the capital stock so
as to make certain needed improvements and
add to the capacity of the plant. George
Bacon, cashier of the First National Bank,
was elected president and Hon. Henry Hilbun
was named as secretary-treasurer. E. D. Tra-
vis and Dr. Brent were added to the board of
directors.

Wausau.

The Blodgett-Booth Lumber Company Is one
of the new hardwood concerns to file articles
of incorporation. Its headquarters will be
Marshfield. The incorporators are C. E. and
X. E. Blodgett and George D. Booth. Capital
stock, $50,000.

The Foster-Latimer Lumber Company of Mel-
len has purchased 149 forties of hardwood lands
in lion county, which was the property of
W. D. Connor and E. E. Winch of Marshfield.

A company is being organized in Grand Rap
ids with $50,000 capital for the manufacture
of furniture. George W. Brown of that city
will be president and manager, and W. R.
Wright of Pittsburg, Pa., will be secretary.
E. P. Arpin of Grand Kapids, Wis., is inter-
ested.

The United States Leather Company, which
last summer purchased the mill and timber
holdings -of the Upham Manufacturing Company,
has decided to keep the mill in operation in
Marshfield, instead of moving it. The company
has large holdings around Athens and in Tay-
lor county, and is assured of ten years' run.

The Glidden Veneer Company was recently
reorganized and the capital stock increased to
$100,000. About 50,000,000 feet of timber
tributary to the plant was recently acquired,
which, added to previous holdings, will give the
company a great many years' run. A sawmill
has also been purchased and about 10,000,000
feet of lumber will be manufactured yearly.
The president, J. W. Bishop, will spend the
winter in Sand Toint, Idaho, looking after his
mining interests.

The Fay L. Cusick Company of Milwaukee is
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red oak tract in Wisconsin. The logs are being
delivered to the Webster Manufacturing Com-
pany in Superior. They have three camps. It

is estimated that the tract contains 7.

feet of timber of a superb quality. It Is situ
ated in Bayfield county.

The Menasha Woodenware Company's stave
and heading factory located in Edgar is be'ng
stocked and will lie operated this winter, after
a long period of idleness. The company's map'e
logs will be shipped elsewhere.

Jobn Senbert of Marathon City, one of the
principal stockholders in the Senbert & Hasken
Land Company of Cologne, Minn., recently de-
parted for Monroe, La., for the purpose of lo k-
ing over 7,000 acres of land which his firm
intends purchasing. The company already owns
30,000 acres in that state, covered with millions
of feet of oak, gum and cypress.

The Wisconsin Timber & Land Company's ve
neer mill in Mattoon was destroyed by fire le-
cently ; also the lumber yards. The sawmill
was saved. The factory was stocked with
birdseye maple, oak, birch, etc., and the loss \v:is
about $100,000 on lumber and $25,000 on In.
lory.

The Wisconsin Veneer Company of Rhine-
lander is laying railroad tracks to its timber
lands.

W. D. Connor, head of the W. D. Connor
Company of Stratford, Laona and other towns.
who was elected lieutenant-governor of Wiscon
sin. at the recent election, will speud the month
of December in California.

Lumbering operations are hampered to some
extent by the appearance of smallpox in camps
and the quarantining of the men.

Louisville.

The Wood Mosaic Flooring Company on the
New Albany side of the river has added a ne v
boiler to its power plant, so that it will not
have to discontinue operations during the win-
ter. It has a fine lot of logs at the mill and is
very busy in the sawmill, in the wood mosaic
Mooring plant and in the veneer mill. Early in
the fall it' had quite a stock of quarter-sawed
veneer on hand, but at this writing is com-
paratively well sold up on quartered oak ; In
fact, stock is pretty well cleaned up all through
the veneer line. It has a little black walnut
veneer cut about one-eighth inch which it is
seeking a market for, but in oak the main point
now is to get stock ahead.

The Norman Lumber Company is having a
good run of business, the main complaint being
lack of cars and the slow movement of stock
on the railroads after it is once loaded.

Up on the Point the river mills are busy
and present indications are that they will have
to run all winter and not shut down for the
mid-winter season. Kirwan Bros, have a fresh
lot of logs. The same tides that brought these
logs in played more or less havoc with other
logs along the river. There have been large
numbers of stray logs going by this point ever
since the rise, and it is estimated that at Ibis
writing there are fully 100,000 logs which have
passed here. Many of the stray logs from the
up state streams, however, have been caught
above here at various points along the river,
and there is a deal on now between the mil s
here and the owners of the logs to have them
brought in here and sawed up. If this deal
materializes it means that the river mills will
have to run night and day all winter, or as
much of the time as possible to clean up their
own logs and take care of those belonging to
others. The Louisville Foint Lumber Company
says it- has logs enough in the mills to keep
running probably until the middle of January,
and are figuring with Vansant, Kitchen & Co.,
C. Crane & Co. and others who have logs scat-
tered along the river above here to saw some
for them. They find no trouble in disposing
of their lumber, and, in fact, have contracts
covering their entire output.

J. L. Berry of the McLean-Davis Lumber
Company says his company is well fixed for
logs :it the Highland Park mill, but not so well
provided at the Fourth street mill. Still it
keeps enough to run steadily notwithstanding
the handicap of bad roads and bad weather.

Ashland.

The local mills are all running, with enough
logs to keep them busy for several months.
There is an unusual demand for poplar, and the
prices keep up, big orders coming in to all of the
local dealers, who find it hard to fill same,
owing to stocks being broken on account of
the long enforced idleness of the mills from
lack of timber.

The lumber being cut now will not be ready
for shipment before sixty to ninety days. Many
of the logs that came out on the rise are badly
damaged, having lain at head waters for from
one to four years, and are sap rotted, being
almost a total loss.

The office of the Giles Wright Lumber Com-
pany has been removed from this city to the
new mill at North Catlettsburg that has been
recently purchased, enlarged and greatly im-
proved.

Fifty men, divided into live crews, employed
by the various sawmills of Southeastern Ken
tucky, which lost 250,000 logs in the recent
sudden rise in the Big Sandy and other rivers,
have begun the work of assembling and identify
ing their logs. The crews are working between
Catlettsburg and Louisville, and approximately
$250,000 will be distributed in saving the tim-
ber and paying the salvage and other charges.
Fifty thousand of the logs were beached be-
tween Cincinnati and Louisville.

Charles Kitchen is in Cincinnati gathering
up the logs belonging to Vansant, Kitchen &
Co. that came out on the recent rise.

Herbert J. Munro of Munro-Brice & Co., wood
brokers, Liverpool, England, was a recent visitor
to our markets.

R. II. Vansant spent the week at Eedford,
Trimble county, prosecuting some timber thieves
in the courts at that place.

John W. Kitchen has gone to Asheville, N. C,
to have the large tract of timber recently
bought by the Vansant-Kitchen Company sur-
veyed.

.lames Dotson of Huntington, W. Va., was in-
stantly killed by being caught by a saw log he
was helping to move. The accident occurred
near Hamlin, Lincoln county, W. Va., where
he was engaged in logging.

Toledo.
Building operations, according to Information

gleaned from architects, building contractors
and building supply people, are slack, beins;
somewhat behind the same period of a year ago.
The ciiy building inspector issued sixty seven
permits with a total valuation of $163,050 dur-
ing the past month as compared with sixty
four permits with a total valuation of $178,375
1 in- November, 1905.

Charles I. Barnes of Barnes & Mauk is ex-
pected home from a trip to the Pacific coast
about the 20th.

David Trotter has returned from a few weeks'
slay in northern Michigan.

E. J. Robinson of Robinson & Duttweiler wl 1
return this week from a visit among the lum-
ber trade in the South.

An involuntary petition in bankruptcy lias
been filed against the Baer Furniture Manufac-
turing Company of this city, one of the creditors
being the rhoenix Box Company of Toledo, which
claims $584.18 due on account.

Minneapolis.

The Peterson-Moore Lumber Company of St.
Paul has bought the oak stock of the Columbia
Lumber Company at Nevers Dam, Wis., a good
run of oak but not on the railroad, so it will
have to be hauled in this winter over saow
roads.

• P. H. Hammer of the Red Birch Lumber
Company, Catawba, Wis., was in Minneapolis a
few days ago looking into market conditions
relative to hardwood and hemlock, which are
their products.

A. F. Hein of the John Hein Lumber Com-
pany, Tony, Wis., was a visitor a few days ago
to the Twin Cities.

E. Blaisdell, the well-known Chicago whole-
saler in hardwoods, called on business acquaint-
ances in Minneapolis last week.

G. H. Tennant, the hardwood flooring man,
sustained a $1,000 loss by fire in his factory
in Southeast Minneapolis a few nights ago.
Fire broke out in the grinding room of the
planing mill, and damaged building and ma-
chinery somewhat before it could be controlled.
None of the stock was burned and the rest
of the plant was uninjured, so it was able to
start up as usual next morning.

T. T. Jones of the C. W. Jones Lumber
Company, Appleton, Wis., ran over to Minne-
apolis for the Northwestern Hardwood Lumber-
men's Convention and incidentally attended to
some business.

Lumber receipts at Minneapolis show gains
every month over last year, indicating the
growth in consumption here, and also the
progress of the city as a distributing market
for woods other than pine.

HardWood Market.

(By HAEDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Reporters.)

Chicago.

Scarcity of stock still continues to be a
feature of the market and reports from mill
centers indicate that no speedy relief can be
expected. The supply of oak, especially thick
stock, continues to be below the demand with
prices correspondingly high and the probability
of another advance in a short time. The
trade in birch, which for some time did not
keep pace with that In other hardwoods, has
shown considerable activity during the last
fortnight, birch culls in particular being very
brisk. Poplar is much in demand, good dry
stocks being scarce and what there is of the
supply being sold rapidly. Gum is experienc-
ing a ready sale and in basswood and cotton -
wood there is some difficulty in satisfying
the demand. In these two last woods trade
is excellent, and has been so for some time,
owing to the steady demand from box makers,

and indications point to a continuance of the
present prosperous conditions. The southern
producing field continues to be tied up by un-
fortunate weather conditions, labor shortage
and lack of cars, and the scarcity of southern
stocks has been correspondingly notable.

A gratifying feature of the market Is the
fact that the interior finish people, the great
furniture manufacturing concerns and the
hardwood flooring factories, all of which con-
sume immense quantities of lumber, are in
short supply of stocks, thus insuring a good
trade for a long while to come.

Boston.

The market for hardwood lumber in Boston is
moderately active only, although a few special
sizes in different woods are in good demand.
Prices are generally well held. Manufacturers
of interior finish are very busy and are con-
stantly in the market for supplies. Furniture
manufacturers are also busy and have good or-

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ders hooked abend. This is especially true as
regards desk manufacturers. The latter are
carrying good-sized stocks of lumber. Dealers
state that it is difficult to get orders placed in
the West, as higher prices are obtainable there
for home trade than buyers here are willing to
pay. Because of this, offerings of the. most de-
sirable lumber are not large here. Good orders
are reported from New York and Pennsylvania,
but the demand within a radius of fifty miles of
Boston is not active.

Plain oak has been offered here at lower prices
by some mills than for several months, but the
best stock in one inch ones and twos still brings
good prices. Quartered cak is not in active de-
mand. A very fair call is found for brown ash.
with offerings limited. White ash is also in
small offering. Maple flooring is in moderate
call. A leading dealer states that the demand
for maple flooring has not been as large as usual
this fall. Whitewood is in very good demand
and values are firmly held. Dealers report offer-
ings of dry stock small. Cypress is firmly held
with moderate demand.

New York.

Conditions in the local hardwood market con-
tinue very satisfactory for this season of the
year. Trices are not only firm but bullish on
the better grades of well manufactured bard-
wood lumber, and many of the lower grades like-
wise show much strength. The demand is phe-
nomenal, but the true secret of current condi-
tions seems to lie in the fact that there are
insufficient supplies of the better grades of bard-
wood for even such demand as is now present,
with the result that all holders of better grades
are naturally insisting on prices commensurate
with the supply. There is of course a good
amount of low grade hardwood offering, but
even in that direction the market shows very
satisfactory steadiness. The salient feature of
trade at this time may truly he said to be the
efforts of the wholesale trade in the direction
of securing adequate supplies for next spring's
trade. Buyers returning from producing sources
all bring the same tale of not only sho.t stocks
at the present time, but indications of a short
supply of good hardwocd lumber for spring de-
livery. This is specially true in the poplar, oak
anil ash trade, and some of the holders in those
woods go so far as to say that they do not
know where a sufficient supply of poplar for
next spring is coming from. These facts, to-
gether with the general indications of an active
year next year in all the consuming lines in the
local trade presage firm and advancing prices in
the general hardwood market for some time to
come.

Locally at the present time there is not a
weak item in the wholesale hardwood market.
It is true that on certain commodities such as
maple and quartered oak -there' are .ample sup-
plies for the current demand, but in poplar,
plain oak, ash, birch and chestnut the demand
is such that offerings are commanding excellent
prices, with a bullish tendency all along the
line. Cottonwood shows special strength at
this time, due to the very unsatisfactory weath-
er conditions which have prevailed in the log-
ging districts, and all grades are exceedingly
short in the face of a big demand and prices
have moved up in sympathy.

The foreign mahogany and cedar marki t con-
tinues to show great strength.

Philadelphia.

An extensive business in hardwoods is beiu'i
done at the present time. Every industry re-
quiring hardwoods is prospering, but owing to
the detripient of storm and winds and the lack
of car service, which have produced a scarcity in
these woods, the demand is over and above the
supply. The railroads in the South still persist
in ignoring the lumbermen's needs, but In the
Pennsylvania district there has been a slight
relief as regards the defective car service during
the last fortnight.

Reports coming in from the furniture facto-
ries of eastern Pennsylvania are still farvorable
and they are buying freely. Sash and door mills
continue to rush orders for building operations
hearing completion. Although the favorable sea-
sou for this line of business is on the wane,
there has really been no perceptible sign of
slacking up. Cigar box makers are in a quan-
dary on account of the extreme scarcity of cedar
and though working day and night in the mill
districts they find it difficult to fill orders.

Taking the hardwoods altogether the condi-
tion of the market is very favorable for all lines.
Basswood. chestnut and poplar are easily the
leaders just now, but they are scarce and high.
Oak keeps strong. Ash remains firm and dry
stock in hardwoods is always in demand. Low
grades of red cherry are active. Quartered oak
has a little better showing of late. Veneers are
being snapped up as rapidly as mills tan manu-
facture and railroads convey them to the con-
suming points. Prices all along the line remain
high.

Baltimoi'e.

No changes of note have taken place in the
hardwood trade of this section. The demand
continues very active, but millmen experience
much- difficulty in supplying it, for the reason
that the car shortage is as acute as ever. The
price asked makes no difference. Consumers are
willing to pay any reasonable figure. I'nder the
circumstances it is to be expected that the quota-
tions should be high, though this does not at
as a check upon the Inquiry. Oak is in the lead
as to demand, with buyers especially eager i"
get culls, which have been moving very freely
for some time. Ash is perhaps next in point i f
spirit, with prices very firm and the tendency
upward. In fact, the prediction is freely made
that the level of values will be higher in 1907
than in lOOfi. Nothing like it has been seen
The export business, though quiet, is satisfactory
both as to the demand and with respect to the
freight rates, which, for some of the ports, tend
to give especial encouragement to the exporters.

Pittsburg.

Considering the season of the year, the hard-
wood market is manifesting an activity that is
surprising. Not only is the trade in hnrdw. oi
lumber much the most encouraging feature of
the lumber situation in Greater Pittsburg at the
opening of winter, but the unlooked-for activity
in several lines is such as to keep wholesalers
hustling to cover their orders. Building, as was
expected, has fallen off badly and very little new-
work is starting. Enough contracts were taken
early in the year, however, for fine hardwood t >
be used in interior finish in the big skyscrapers
and public buildings to keep many fi:nn busy
and at profitable prices, too.

In two respects the present demand is a'most
phenomenal. The coal and coke companies are
buying more heavily than for years at this se.i-
son. Pit posts, ties, rails and coke slats are in
the best of demand at good prices. Timbers and
ties for use in coal mines are equally strong in
demand, as are bridge timbers and trestle stuff.
Both the railroads and the street railway com-
panies are placing large orders for ties and p les
for early spring delivery and if one-half the
trolley lines under contemplation are bui t next
spring every tie man in Pittsburg will have all
he can do.

From the manufacturers, especially those in
the East and the Middle West, there Is coming
an inquiry for good hardwood lumber that con-
stitutes the second feature of the trade at pres-
ent. The handle and spoke factories as well a<
the furniture plants are crowded to their doo.s
with orders and see already that their stock of
lumber is too small for the year's needs. The
same is true of the implement works and the
casket manufactories, which are in the market
for all the hardwood they can get providing it
is dry. •

Very firm prices prevail throughout the hard
wood lists. Oak and chestnut have advanced
slightly in price. Mill cull poplar is command-
ing a little premium. Ash has sold $1 per thou-
sand higher than one month ago. Maple is firm
at the prevailing quotations, with light stocks
in sight. Southern hardwoods are going at
slightly better prices than last year at this time
and dealers believe the present big demand fore-
shadows still higher quotations.

Buffalo.

The hardwood market is active, with the best
possible prospects for the winter trade. The
great difficulty is lack of cars and it is possible
that there will be trouble in that line all win-
ter. Buffalo is not suffering for out-bound cars
as much as for those to bring in lumber from
points in the South, where the famine has been
the worst on record. Still, the dealers have
somehow managed to get a fair amount of stock
in and they will begin winter with a fairly good
assortment of lumber.

Just now birch is in active call to take the
place of the more expensive woods in short sup-
ply. The shortage of poplar is still apparent
and the trade is using basswood as a substitute
in many cases.

Oak is doing well and there is not the com-
plaint of its running short that there was.
Plain and Quartered seem to work in together
better than lor some months. Ash is still very
short, though some of the dealers in the lake
trade have brought in good amounts of it, black
and brown leading. White ash is scarce, and
maple and Washington fir are being used by the
trade in its place.

Saginaw Valley.
The trade in hardwood is fairly satisfactory
with light slocks of dry lumber in dealers' bands
and a much firmer range of prices than obtained
earlier in the season. Business is harrassed by
the scarcity of cars. Not a great deal of ash is
produced here this year and It has commanded
a ready sale. Maple is doing better. During
the early months either too much maple was
produced or there was not enough of it wanted.
and it was the weakest commodity in the hard-
wood list. But later in the season it brightened
up and is now in greater favor. Beech has done
well and is quoted about $1 a thousand better
than during the early months. There is also
a better movement in birch, which was neglected
early in the year. There is a good call for
basswood and prices have materially improved,
only a limited amount of oak comes into this
market and it is firmly held.

Bristol, Va. -Term.

Business has been holding up unusually well
in this city and section, and while little change
is noted, it is evident that there is an upward
tendency in prices. Oak and poplar continue
to lead, both in demand and supply, and it is
more a question of where to get the lumber than
where to sell it. The quantity of ash and gum
manufactured by local mills has been augmented
to meet an increased call.

The car situation is still the chief topic of
conversation and it has done much toward handi-
capping shippers within the past few weeks.
Conditions have grown worse if there has been
any change at all, since the settlement of the
machinists' strike on the Southern, and there is
little ground to hope for early relief of the situa
tion.

Cincinnati.
No imp'ortant changes have been perceptible in
the local situation during the early part of De-
cember, a steady demand prevailing. The recent
high tide has enabled all lumber dealers to pile
up enough logs in their yards to keep the
mills busy for some time to come, and at present
there is no evidence of a change of prices. All
grades of hardwood continue in good demand,
and if cars were obtainable much lumber would
be moved.

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Toplar seems to he most active in demand,
and there is also a good call for quartered oak.
Birch has remained steady for some time, and
it is possible that it will take a decided jump
and be one of the features of the market. Ma-
hogany has so'd readily without any price change.
<t:iks, red and white, have me1 with a good in
quiry.

Nashville.
Some improvement is noted in the local lum-
ber market ; in fact, conditions are much better
than two weeks ago. Some relief has been re-
ceived in the matter of the supply of cars, al-
though the railroads, in order to prevent addi
tional delays, have slopped routing cars over
certain lines, but "ii Ho' other band are getting
the shipments to given points the very best way
they can. Orders continue good and prices re-
main brisk. With present stocks short, with a
short crop of logs due from up the river tbis
season, the local yards will have to face the
spring season witli generally short stocks and
advances are confidently looked for in various
hardwoods. Poplar, chestnut, ash and oak will
likely advance. Hardwoods of all kinds are
strong now. The planing mills still have more
than they can handle and work is being rushe I
on local jobs in order to tiuisli them before the
real cold weather sets in. The scarcity of pop
lar has become quite alarming. In fact, there
is practically none of it lo be had anywhere.
Lumbermen are facing the condition that tbis
valuable wood is practically exhausted in what
has been one of the best poplar producing sec-
tions in the country. The dealers are being
forced to use gunl and cottonwood as substi-
tutes. Practically all the hardwoods, however.
. are bringing better I ban I be association list
prices.

Memphis.

The demand for hardwood lumber continues
excellent and is far in excess of the supply, ac-
cording to the statements of members of the
trade. Local stocks are very much broken be-
cause of the drain that has been going on for
some time. The outlook from a supply stand-
point is serious because of the prospective short-
age growing out of the scarcity of timber and
the limited production of lumber now being
placed on sticks to meet the demands of the
late winter and early spring trade. Then- is
hardly an item of the list that is not selling at
the highest prices of the year. In fact, it is
no longer a question of what shall be paid for
lumber, the buyers interesting themselves more
with trying to find where there is any large
quantity of southern hardwoods for sale. Buyers
are coming here In constantly increasing num-
bers and they all report it difficult to operate.
The export market is furnishing some orders,
but most of the business is in domestic circles.

Ash is very strong, very high and very scarce.
All grades are wanted and there is no trouble
in disposing of anything that Is offered. There
is likewise an exceptionally strong demand for
cottonwood in all grades, though the box grades.
No. 1, No. 2 and No. Ii common, are in better
request and relatively stronger than any other
feature. Gum is a good seller in all grades, the
scarcity and high prices of other items forcing
this lumber as a substitute in numerous direc-
tions. Cypress is a good seller, though there is
some complaint that this wood is not showing
relatively as much strength as some other fea-

POPLAR

Rough and Dressed

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

M. A. HAYWARD

1021 Saving and Trust Bldg.. Columbus, O.

tures of the list. The call for poplar is aoiiv.
but offerings are very limited. There Is an excel-
lent demand for plain oak, while there is a
u".,d call for quarter-sawed while oak in the
higher grades. In quarter sawed red oak there is
no large volume of business, but prices are re-
ported satisfactory. The general opinion of the
trade is that the market will work higher dur-
ing ilc n-'Xt thirty to sixty days.

New Orleans.

Recent heavy rains in the noil loin part of
the state have delayed operations in the hard-
wood territory and there is a noticeable scar-
City of hardwoods on the local markets. The
foreign buyers are still operating here, but
are meeting with very little success in securing
stuff for shipments. Exports are only normal.
rie- interior demand continues good and the
same may be said of the prevailing prices.

Louisville.
There appears to be a peculiar situation and
some strange switching around between hard-
wood and yellow pine in this market. Framing
and bill stuff and gum, beech and some other
hardwoods have been taking the place of pine
somewhat, while pine, on the other hand, seems
to be replacing some low-grade poplar for crating
purposes. I taring the past year No. 1 common
poplar has been taking the place of pine in fin-
ish and planing mill work. This substitution is,
of course, due to the extreme scarcity at time-*
in certain grades and lines of stock. In poplar
there has been such a demand for low-grade stock
1 hi I the prices have climbed up to the point
where some users have been led into experiment-
ing with low-grade pine hoards. Common poplar,
on the other hand, has been in better supply
than any other grade of this wood, and as a
consequence its market has widened accordingly.
The demand easily exceeds the supply now in
practically every line of hardwood, and it is not
a question with the manufacturer of selling his
product, but merely a question of how much he
ought to have for it. The weather continues
adverse to operations in the woods, and with
these conditions the millmen naturally are cau
lions about loading up with too many orders
It is a very active demand everywhere, with a
decidedly limited supply of stock as compared to
the volume of trade requirements.

Toledo.

Hardwoods are in strong demand and prices
are firm on all lines and grades with but a few
exceptions. In reviewing the present conditions
as compared with a year ago one well-known
dealer, who handles hardwoods exclusively, states
an advance of fully thirty per cent has taken
place iu the price of oak over the figures of a
year ago. Taking hardwoods as a whole, this
class of lumber is from five to I en per cent
higher than last spring. Dimension stuff Is also
stiffer in price. The local dealers are busy tak-
ing inventories of stocks on band that they may
be in position lo fully anticipate their wants
after New Year's, when they will stock up.

Minneapolis.
While the heaviest of the fall trade Is out of
ilic way wilb the factory buyers, there is still
considerable trade, and in almost everything but
birch wholesalers lind it easy to make sales at
standard prices. In fact, it is easier to sell than
it is to deliver the goods, as both dealers and
consumers are finding out to their sor-
row. There are one or two good stocks 10
draw from ibis winter, and by this time
nexl year or sooner it. is predicted that
there will uot be enough northern white oak of
good quality to lill a fair-sized order. Oak is
selling freely where offered with a good guar-
antee of quality, and most of the stock moving
comes from the South. Owing to high water,
delivery from that section is slow and uncertain.
I'.asswqod is active in the market and the uppers
are reduced to a lower point In stocks than they

have 1 D lor a good many years. As for the

culls, they are practically sold out to the box
trade.

Low grade lumber of all kinds continues to be
active. The high price of pine causes many to
turn to birch and olher hardwoods, where they
can get the same grade of stuff cheaper, .as a
rule, and just as good for their uses. Grain
doors have used a large amount of hardwood
stock. Birch is beiug sold fairly well, and is
by no means a drug on the market. There will
be stock enough lo run till next summer, bnl
there is not going to be any surplus sufficient to
depress prices. In fact, they are stiffer now than
for some time. Maple is moving well, also elm
and ash. at strong prices. The country yard
trade is light.

Liverpool.

Everything points to lower prices on mahogany
in the near future. The stock offered this week
contains several very finely figured logs, which
are sure to command high prices.

Hardwoods are generally very quiet here and
in many classes next to nothing is being done.
It cannot now he expected that the revival of
trade which has been looked for so long will
come until the turn of the year. Brokers and
shippers bolb say that all hardwoods are scarce
and are going up in price. Prices seem to be the
chief difficulty with merchants who are at pres-
ent handling American goods. English people
are very conservative and believe in waiting for
either a reduction or a substitute of other goods.

English timbers have without doubt largely
taken the place of American, but now everything
points to an increase in the price of these woods.
Several carloads of oak boards have changed
hands at extremely low prices.

Quartered oak is firmer and now that the
large surplus stock has been reduced prices of
this material will increase. Ash planks are
stagnant and will remain so until the large
contracts which are still undelivered and overdue
are completed. Birch and maple logs are als.,
quiet. Birch, however, is recovering nicely from
the awful slump of last summer.

London.

The market at the moment is dull and In-
active, the higher prices asked by shippers tend-
ing to restrict speculative buying, although it
must be frankly admitted that where buyers are
forced to fill their requirements they are paying
the advance, but are only buying on a small
scale.

The steamship Argyle, from New Orleans, is
due shortly and carries over one hundred cars of
lumber of various kinds, but mostly on firm
orders, which tends to strengthen the prices of
slocks already landed and stored In docks here.

Whitewood — There is a very fair demand for
cull grade of %-Incb boards, but arrivals are of
very poor quality. No 1 commons are in request
at good prices, but firsts and seconds are slow
of sale, as are planks.

Plain oak — All grades are scarce and consign
ments, of which there is a fair quantity consid
cring the high prices asked by shippers, are sell
ing well : quartered strips are slow in arriving
and fair prices are being paid for firm orders ;
the demand for one-Inch boards, although dull,
is showing a slight improvement.

Walnut This wood is scarce and buyers are
inclined to pay better prices for good medium
boards, also for cull boards; only prime logs are
wanted, and good prices :11c being realized for
veneer logs.

Satin walnut — The demand is mostly for No.
1 common in boards 1 inch and % inch thick,
and buyers are also taking up with sap grades in
thes.c two thicknesses as the prices compare
favorably wilb the cheaper grades of whitewood

Asli planks are selling well at good prices;
logs are in demand.

Hickory — Some good orders have been placed
recently at a slight advance on last year's prices.

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on buying and selling end. Good Judgment
necessary. Give age, references, experience
and salary. Will hold in strict confidence.
Address "HARDWOOD JOBBER," care Hard-
wood Record.

WANTED— THREE RELIABLE MEN.

Acquainted with the manufacture of wagon
gearing, to Invest, and take charge of mills.
Good salary to the right men.

E. STURM, Calhoun, Ky.

EMPLOYMENT WANTED

BY EXPERIENCED MAN.

A young married man, 36 years old, with 20
years' experience in large hardwood and hem-
lock mill as edgerman, inspector and foreman,
Is open for a position with some good lumber
company. Have made the defects in tree,
logs and lumber a special study. Know how
to get all the good lumber out of logs and
how to manufacture lumber proper. Best of
references as to character and ability. Ad-
dress "H. E. K.," care Hakdwood Record.

LUMBER WANTED

WANTED— YELLOW PINE POLE
STOCK.

From reliable mills in Florida, Georgia, Ala-
bama, Louisiana and Texas. No. 1 pole stock,
clear and straight grain quality, for prompt
cash. AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg,
Pa.

WANTED.

BASSWOOD, MAPLE,

SOFT ELM, ASH,

ROCK ELM. HICKORY.

In Logs, Lumber and Dimension Sizes, for
Immediate shipment, also during winter and
spring. Spot cash, and inspection at shipping
points. Please quote prices f. o. b. cars. Ad-
dress JAS. GORDON, Detroit, Mich.

ROCK ELM WANTED.

150.000' 2%x3x5" and wider, C. & B. Will
Inspect at point of shipment. We can use
fresh sawn wood. Terms, cash less 2%. THE
BRADLEY COMPANY, Hamilton, Ont., Can.

WANTED— HARDWOOD LOGS.

200' M feet 28-Inch and up White Oak logs.
200 M feet 12-inch and up Walnut logs.

50 M ft. 12-lnch and up Cherry logs.
C. L. WILLEY,

Blue Island Av. and Robey St., Chicago.

OAK.

We are In the market for plain sawed oak,
all grades and thicknesses.
P. G. DODGE & CO., 2116 Lumber St., Chicago.

ASH DIMENSION STOCK.

One inch stock wanted, in carloads, from
2y3 to 10" in width and from 10 to 48" In
length. Can use large quantities if properly
gotten out. Stock must be clear and free from
defects. Write us for list.

BELDING-HALL MFG. CO., Beldlng, Mich.

OAK WANTED.
3 and 4 inch White Oak ; also Mixed Oak ;
also 12x12 Timbers and Piling of all kinds.
CONTINENTAL LUMBER CO.,
1213 Monadnock BIdg., Chicago, III.

WANTED.

1,000,000 feet 4/4 Oak Culls and Mill Culls.
1,000,000 feet %" to 2" Poplar, all grades.
Address "LUMBER," care J. Holtzman,
319 Land Title BIdg., Philadelphia, Pa.

HICKORY WANTED.

1 V' Hickory Plank, 8V*, 9 and 17' long.

2" Hickory Plank, 10%, 12 and 16' long,
suitable for carriage wood work. Also in the
market for Hickory Logs.

AMERICAN CENTRAL LUMBER CO.,

Anderson, Ind.

WANTED.

To contract output of Pine and Hardwood
Mills. Will advance cash to reliable parties.
Address

P. O. Box 986, New Orleans, La.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

BAND MILL FOR SALE CHEAP.

Oak and Poplar locality, plenty of timber
and logs, at reasonable prices ; mill in perfect
order ; good reasons for selling given on appli-
cation to

"BOX 126," care Hardwood Recobd.

HARDWOOD TIMBER.

A number of good mill propositions along
the Cotton Belt Route. Tracts ranging from
five hundred to twenty thousand acres, princi-
pally Oak, Hickory, Gum, Cypress, some Ash,
Cottonwood and other hardwoods. Can be
secured at very reasonable figures now — In
some cases at less than $1 per thousand stump-
age. Choice openings for hardwood lumber
mills, handle and spoke factories, slack coop-
erage plants and other hardwood enterprises.

A number of points on the Cotton Belt offer
free sites or will raise cash bonus or take stock
In practical propositions. Let us have your
wants and see what we can do for you.

E. W. LA BEAUME, G. P. & T. A.,

COTTON BELT. St. Louis. Mo.

TIMBER LANDS WANTED

BARGAIN FOR QUICK BUYER.

1,838 acres timber land, with nearly new
mill on it. Two miles M. & O. R. R., in West
Tennessee. C. E. BILES, Sharon, Tenn.

LUMBER FOR SALE.

THICK PLAIN OAK.

Two cars 2y." No. 1 and No. 2 common
plain Ohio White Oak, good widths, suitable
lor building' or furniture purpo i

(HAS. I". SHIELS & CO., Cincinnati, O.

FOR SALE.

One half carload clear Mahogany dimension
stock, 4/4"x3"xl0". Address

MAHOGANY, care Hardwood Record.

ELM FOR SALE.

One nice drv car thick soft elm.

JOHN T. GRAFTON, Sycamore, O.

MACHINERY FOR SALE

FOR SALE.

1 Veneer Squeezer.

1 Bark Grinder, No. 3 right hand, Mitts &
Merrill. Located at Mound City, 111. Address
THE WISCONSIN CHAIR CO.,

Port Washington, Wis.

FOR SALE.

2 No. 1 Oscillating Hill Steam Niggers,
10"x6'x8"x6\

1 direct connected log stop and loader, No.
B-2, arms spared. S' centers on 3" shaft, 10"x
26" cylinder. These have been in use but a
short time and are as good as new.

DHEUR & SWAIN LUMBER CO.,

Seymour, Ind.

$ You want to reach Buyers of

I FURNITURE LUMBER |

I The HARDWOOD RECORD 1

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HARDWOOD RECORD

H ^Advertisers' Directory

NORTHERN HARDWOODS.

Alcock, John L., & Co

American Lumber & Mfg. Company... 50
Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company.... 5^

Babcock Lumber Company »0

Bamaby, C. H. 59

Beyer, Knox & Co

Bliss & Van Auken i_

Boyne City Lumber Company a»

Briggs & Cooper Company o

Brownlee & Co

Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company.. 5»

Cadillac Handle Company *

Cheat River Lumber Company.. »"

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co ^»

Chivvis, W. It ■■ ••■' _

Cincinnati Hardwood Lbr. Company... 57

Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc •

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Connor, R., Company °

Crescent Lumber Company no

I roaby & Beckley Company, The »<

Crosby, C. P J

Cummer, Diggins & Co

Darling. Chas., & Co

Davis, John R.. Lumber Company.... W
Dells Lumber & Shingle Company.... M

Dennis Bros ' * K .

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company.... 54
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company... 58

Dixon & Dewey

Dudley Lumber Company **

Dublnieier Bros '

Dwight Lumber Company £

Elias. G., & Bro

Empire Lumber Company.. -••■ °»

Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 54

Fall, E. H -■• - g

Forman Company, Ihomas....

Freiberg Lumber Company, The...... »<

Fnilerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber ^

Company " _fl

General Lumber Company °°

Gillespie, W. M.. Lumber Company... ^

Goldie, J. S '* .,_

Haak Lumber Company J"

Hackley-Phelps-Bonuell Company . - . 55

Harden, Harvey S

Holloway Lumber Company '

Hoyt, C. I.. & Co °»

Indiana Quartered Oak Company 6

Ingram Lumber Company "*

International Hardwood Company ob

James & Abbot Company '

Jenka. Robert H.. Lumber Company . 51

Jones, G. W., Lumber Company 5d

Jones Hardwood Company '

Kampf, Albert R

Keator, Ben C

Keith Lumber Company -4

Kelley Lumber & Shingle Company... 8

Kneeland-Bigelow Company «

Leavitt Lumber Company S J-

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company... 11

Linehan Lumber Company 50

Litchfield, William E *

LombaTd, E. B J J

Long-Knight Lumber Company 5t>

MacBrlde, Thos., Lumber Company... 55
Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company. 57

Maley & Wertz JS

Martin-Barriss Company 51

Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company... 6~

McClure Lumber Company 55

Mellvaip. J. Gibson, & Co 7

McLean, Hugh, Lumber Company 59

Miller, Anthony 59

Miller Bros **

- Mitchell Bros. Company ■• 3

Mowbray & Robinson 57

Murphy & Diggins 3

Nichols & Cos Lumber Company 54

Nicola Lumber Company, The 50

North Shore Lumber Company

North Vernon Pump & Lumber Co.... 2

North Western Lumber Company 53

O'Brien, John, Land & Lumber Co 10

Perrlne-Armstrong Company 58

Peters,. R. G., Salt & Lumber Co 55

Price. E. E 7

Radina, L. W., & Co 57

Richmond Park & Co 1"

Uoss Lumber Company 1

Rambarger Lumber Company ..." 1

Ryan & McParland 10

Sailing, Hanson & Co 54

Sawyer-Goodman Company 53

Sratcherd & Son 59

Schofleld Bros 7

Schultz Bros. & Cowen 11

Simmons Lumber Company 55

Slimmer, J., & Co 10

Soble Bros 7

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company. 59

Stephenson, The I., Company 12

Stewart, I. N., & Bro 59

Stewart, Wm. H. & G. S 56

Stimson, J. V 58

Stone, T. B., Lumber Company 56

Sullivan, T., & Co 59

Tegge Lumber Company 5

Turner. A. M., Lumber Company 50

Van Keulen & Wilkinson Lumber Co. . 55

Vollmar & Below 52

Wagstaff, W. J

Ward Lumber Company 11

Wells, R. A., Lumber Company 10

Wentworth, Chas. S., & Co 7

White Lumber Company 10

White, W. H., Company 47

Whitmer, Wm. & Sous, Ine 6

Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company.. 54

Wiborg & Hanua Company 57

Willson Bros. Lumber Company 53

Wisconsin Timber & Lumber Company 11

Wistor, Underbill & Co 7

Yeager, Orson E... 59

Young, W. D., & Co 12

Young & Cutsiuger 5S

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS.

Advance Lumber Company 51

Alcock, John L., & Co 7

American Hdwd. Lumber Company... 4S
American Lumber & Mfg. Company.. 50

Anderson-Tully Company 4

Atlantic Lumber Company

Beck, E. E., Lumber Company 57

Beyer, Knox & Co 59

Briggs & Cooper Company 5

Brown, Geo. 0., & Co 48

Brown, W. P., & Sons, Lumber Co... 2
Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company.. 59

Carrier Lbr. & Mfg. Company 12

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co 8

Chivvis, W. R 49

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co 57

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Courtney, D. G 9

Crane, C, & Co 57

Crescent Lumber Company 56

Crosby & Beckley Company, The '. 47

Cypress Lumber Company 56

Darling, Chas.. & Co 11

Davidson-Benedict Company

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company 54

D'Heur & Swaiu Lumber Company... 58

I ttxon & Dewey 6

Dudley Lumber Company 54

Duhlrueier Bros 56

Elias, G., & Bro 59

Empire Lumber Company, Buffalo 59

Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 54

Fall, E. H 51

Farrin-Korn Lumber Company 57

Freiberg Lumber Company 57

Fry-Buchanan Lumber Company 48

Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber

Company 9

Garetson-Greason Lumber Company... 49

Gayoso Lumber Company 4

Gillespie, W. M.. Lumber Company... 7

Haas, Albert, Lumber Company 35

Hackley-Pbelps-Bonnell Company 55

Hafner Manufacturing Company 49

liny ward, M. A * 31

Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co... 1

Hoyt, C. I., & Co 58

Indiana Lumber Company 48

Indiana Quartered Oak Company 6

International Hardwood Company 56

James & Abbot Company 7

Jenks. Robt. H., Lumber Company... 51

Jones, G. W., Lumber Company 53

Jones Hardwood Company 7

Kampf, Albert R 2

Keator, Ben C H

Keith Lumber Company 11

Kentucky Lumber Company 57

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 5

Lane-White Lumber Company 48

Leavitt Lumber Company 12

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company... 11

Linehan Lumber Company 50

Litchfield, Wm. E 7

Lombard, E. B H

Long-Knight Lumber Company 58

Love, Boyd & Co 48

Luehrmann, Chas. F.. Hardwood Lum-
ber Company 49

Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company. 57

Martin-Barriss Company 51

Masseugale Lumber Company 4S

McClure Lumber Company 55

Mcllvaiu, J. Gibson, A: Co 7

McLean-Davis Lumber Company 2

McLean, Hugh. Lumber Company 59

Miller. Anthony 59

Miller Bros 11

Mosby, H. \Y., ..V Co 47

Nicola Lumber Company, The 50

O'Brien, John, Land & Lumber Co.... 10

Ozark Cooperage Company 49

Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company 5

Plummer Lumber Company 48

Price, E. E 7

Radina, L. W., & Co 57

Ransom. J. B., & Co 48

Rhubesky, E. W 2

Richmond Park & Co 10

Ritter, W. M.. Lumber Company 60

Roy Lumber Company 35

Rumbarger Lumber Company 1

Ryan & McParland 10

Scatcherd & Sou 59

Schofield Bros 7

SUmmer, J., & Co 10

Smith. R. M., & Co 8

Southern Lumber Company 2

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 59

Steele & Hibbard 49

Stevens-Eaton Company 7

Stewart, I. N., & Bro ". 59

Stewart, Wm. H. & G. S 55

Stimson, J. V 58

Stone, T. B., Lumber Company 56

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Company. . 49

Stotz Lumber Company, Inc

Sullivan, T., & Co 59

Swanu-Day Lumber Company 2

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company... 49
Thompson. J. W., Lumber Company.. 4

Three States Lumber Company 4

Turner, A. M., Lumber Company 50

Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Company 48

Ward Lumber Company 11

Wells, R. A., Lumber Company 10

Wentworth. Chas. S., & Co 7

West Florida Hardwood Company. ... 7

White Lumber Company 10

Wliitmer, Wm., & Sons, Inc 6

Wiborg & Hanna Company '... 57

Willson Bros. Lumber Company 50

Wisconsin Timber & Lumber Company 11

Wood. R. E.. Lumber Company 6

Y'eager, Orson E 59

Young & Cutsinger 5S

POPLAR.

Advance Lumber Company 51

Atlantic Lumber Company

Brown, W. P.. & Sons, Lumber Co... 2

Cheat River Lumber Company 50

Courtney, D. G 9

Crane, C, & Co 57

Davidson-Benedict Company

Hawkins, W. H., Lumber Company... 56

Haas. Albert. Lumber Company 35

Hayden, Harvey S 10

Hayward, M. A 31

Kentucky Lumber Company 57

Keyes-Fanuin Lumber Company 35

Massengale Lumber Company 48

McLean-Davis Lumber Company 2

Rhubesky. E. W 2

Ritter, W. M.. Lumber Company 60

Roy Lumber Company 35

Smith, R. M., & Co S

Southern Lumber Company 2

Stevens-Eaton Company 7

Swann-Day Lumber Company 2

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company... 49

Vansant, Kitchen & Co 60

Wood, R. E., Lumber Company 6

Yellow Poplar Lumber Company 6J

COTTONWOOD AND GUM.

Anderson-Tully Company 4

Farrin-Korn Lumber Company 57

Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co... 1

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 5

Luehrmann, C. F., Hardwood Lumber

Companv 49

Mosby, H. W., & Co 47

Ozark Cooperage Company 49

Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company 5

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Company.. 49

Stotz Lumber Company, Inc

Three States Lumber Company 4

CYPRESS.

Cypress Lumber Company 56

Hatner Manufacturing Company 49

Lothman Cypress Company 49

I'lummer Lumber Company 48

Thompson, J. W., Lumber Company.. 4

VENEERS.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works 40

Wisconsin Veneer Company 53

HARDWOOD FLOORING.

Advance Lumber Company 51

Bliss & Van Auken 12

Buffalo Maple Flooring Co., The 6

Carrier Lbr. & Mfg. Company 12

Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc 3

Cummer. Diggins & Co 3

Dwight Lumber Company 8

Eastman, S. L., Flooring Company... 54

Fenn Bros. Company 4

Forman, Thos., Company 6

Haak Lumber Company 35

Kerry & Hanson Flooring Company... 65

Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company 48

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company 54

Pease Company, The 56

Schultz Bros. & Cowen 11

Stephenson, The I., Company 12

Ward Bros 12

Wilce. The T., Company 10

Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company.. 54

Wood Mosaic Flooring Company 2

Young, W. D., & Co 12

SAW MILL MACHINERY.

Garland, M., Company 46

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company. 40

Mershon, W. B., & Co 39

Phoenix Manufacturing Company 37

WOODWORKING MACHINERY.

American Wood Working Machinery

Company 45

Bartlett, A. F., & Co 36

Berlin Machine Works, The

Crown Iron Works 39

Defiance Manufacturing Works 36

Hurley Machine Company 37

Matteson Manufacturing Company 38

Nash, J. M 63

Ober Manufacturing Company, The. . .

Schindler. A. J 38

Smith, H. B., Machine Company 41

VENEER MACHINERY.

Coe Manufacturing Company 43

LOGGING MACHINERY.

Clyde Iron Works 44

Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company.. 42

Overpack, S. C

Russel Wheel & Foundry Company...

DRY KILNS AND BLOWERS.

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company. 40

Grand Rapids Veneer Works 40

Morton Dry Kiln Company 37

New York Blower Company 38

LUMBER INSURANCE.

Adirondack Fire Insurance Company.. 1
Lumber Insurance Company of New

York 1

Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
pany, Boston

Lumber Underwriters 12

Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual

Fire Insurance Company 1

Rankin, Harry, & Co 31

SAWS, KNIVES AND SUPPLIES.

Atkins. E. C, & Co 44

Bartlett, A. P., & Co 36

Champion Saw Company 37 & 38

Crown Iron Works 39

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 39

Hanchett Swage Works 40

Hurley Machine Company 37

Marshall, Francis 40

Shimer, S. J., & Sons 37

MISCELLANEOUS.

Childs, S. D., & Co 35

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 39

Lumbermen's Credit Association 36

Martin & Co. 51

Pease Company, The 66

Poole, Clark L. & Co 12

Sanders, Henry, Company 47

Schenck, C. A., & Co 56

Standard Audit Company

HARDWOOD RECORD

35

Do You Need
Maple Flooring?

Then send us your order and
you will receive a product
that is not excelled. We
manufacture by

A

Special
Process

This costs us more, but our
prices are as low as of any
other first-class manufac-
turer. We also have a stock
of firsts and seconds Maple
4-4,5 4,6-4.8-1 and 10-4, which
is bone dry and very fine.

Haak Lumber Co.

Haakwood, Michigan

4fT [J For items ol 1 lard-

™ wood S toe k oi

"^ Hardwood Ma-

chinery, you will

find it advantage-

ous to write our

advertisers. Get

in touch!

COUNTERFEIT CHECKS

are frequent

except where

i. Hi-
Two Piece
Geometrical
Barler Coin

1b in use, then

imitation isn't

possible.

Sample if you

ask for it.

S. D. (MINIS

e> co.

Chicago

We a 1st
Time Checks
Stencil;- and
I.of? Hai

WALNUT.
OAK,
ASH,
POPLAR.

MANUFACTURERS

Contemplating establishing plants
In the West should take advantage
of a location on

Chicago & North-Western Ry.

which reaches the famous

WATER POWERS,
COAL FIELDS,
IRON ORE RANGES,

HARD AND SOFT

LUMBER DISTRICTS,
MINING DISTRICTS

of the West and Northwest, and
affords the best means of transpor-
tation to the markets of the world.

FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS APPLY TO

MARVIN HIM.HITT, Jr., E. D. BRIGHAM.

Freight Traffic Manager, Gen' I Freight Agent,

GEO. BONNELL.

I ndustrla I Agent,
NW5I3 CHICAGO.

Keys=Fannin
Lumber Company

Manufacturers of Band
and Circular sawn

SOFT

YELLOW

POPLAR

Plain and quartered red and white
Oak, Hemlock-, Bass and Chest-
nut. Give us a trial,

Ashler rvd

Ky.

Albert Haas Lumber Co.

BAND SAWED

Oak and Ash

YELLOW POPLAR
ATLANTA, :: GEORGIA

You read this=

=others

will, too.

They would

read your

ad.

Try it.

Wood Working Plants

Manufacturers seeking- locations for Saw
Mills, Stave and Heading Factories and
other Wood Working Plants in the Cen-
tral Southern States, can secure full and
accurate information as to Sites, Timber
Tracts, Fuel, Transportation Facilities,
etc., by addressing'

G. A. PARK, General Immigration and Industrial Agent,

Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

Industries are Offered Locations

WITH SATISFACTORY INDUCEMENTS, FAVORABLE

FREIGHT RATES, GOOD LABOR CONDITIONS

HEALTHFUL COMMUNITIES, on the lines of

The Illinois Central R. R. and the

Yazoo & Mississippi Valley R. R.

For full information and descriptive pamphlet address
J. C. CLAIR, Industrial Commissioner, I Park Row, Chicago, III.

36

HARDWOOD RECORD

"DEFIANCE" WOOD -WORKING MACHINERY

COMPLETE EQUIPMENTS OF

HIGH GRADE TOOLS

J* FOR MAKING j*

Single Trees, Hoops,

Handles, Bobbins, Spools,

Insulator Pins and

Oval Wood Dishes.

Hubs, Spokes, Wheels,

Wagons, Carriages,

Rims, Shaits, Poles,

Neck-Yokes,

No. 1 PLANING AND ROUNDING MACHINE

INVENTED AND BUILT BY

The DEFIANCE MACHINE WORKS

DEFIANCE, OHIO.
Send for 500 Page Catalogue

AUTOMATIC KNIFE GRINDER

Bartlett's No. "O" Hog. used with Hardwood Flooring Scrapers.

HOGS

We Build All Kinds
Tell Us What Kind You Need

A. F. BARTLETT & CO.

Manufacturers of

SAWMILL MACHINERY

960 South Tilden Street
Saginaw, Mich.

Save Your Money

By Using the

RED BOOK

Published Semi-Annually
in January and July

It contains a carefully prepared list of the
buyers of lumber in car lots, both among
the dealers and manufacturers.

The book indicates their financial stand-
ing and manner of meeting obligations.
Covers the UNITED STATES and MANI-
TOBA.

The trade recognizes this book as the au-
thority on the lines it covers.

A well organized Collection Department
is also operated and the same is open to you.

WRITE FOR TERMS.

Lumbermen's Credit Association

Established 1878

1405 Great Northern Building. CHICAGO

16 Beaver Street, : NEW YORK CITY

MENTION THIS PAPER

HARDWOOD
TIMBER

There is no section with so fine and
large a supply of hardwood timbers
of various kinds left for the lumber-
men as that portion of the South in
Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Missis-
sippi, North Carolina. South Carolina,
Tennessee and Virginia served by the
lines of the

Southern Railway

and

Mobile & Ohio Railroad

There are oak, poplar, hickory, gum,
cypress, ash, elm, buckeye, balsam,
spruce, chestnut, and other varieties.
There are also available pine lands.
These timber resources and many
other important features bearing on
the cost of manufacture and market-
ing give special advantages and oppor-
tunities for EVERY KIND of WOOD
USING INDUSTRY. We have infor-
mation about the best locations in the
country at towns in these States and
in Southern Indiana and Southern
Illinois, which will be given if request-
ed. All correspondence in regard to
timber lands or factory locations Trill
be given prompt and confidential at-
tention. Address your nearest agent.

M. V. RICHARDS.

Land and Industrial Agent,

Washington, D. C.
CHAS. S. CHASE, Agent,

622 Chemical Building,

St. Louis, Mo.

Locations for

Industries

THE ERIE, THE COMMERCIAL RAILROAD

CHICACO TO NEW YORK

The Erie Railroad System's Industrial
Department has all the territory traversed
by the railroad districted in relation to
resources, markets and advantages for
manufacturing, can advise with man-
ufacturers of specific products as to suit-
able locations, and furnish them with cur-
rent information of a comprehensive
nature dealing with the project in its full
relation to manufacture and commerce.

The Erie is one of the greatest of trunk
lines. Its own rails connect the two
largest cities of America. Every section
of the System has its particular merits.
Profitable locations exist. It has great
general and coal, oil and natural gas
resources.

It is important in this age of modern
facilities for manufacturers to locate
where they can obtain side tracks so as
to receive from and ship directly into
cars at the factory. Information can be
promptly furnished in this connection
about every point on the system between
New York and Chicago.

Manufacturers' inquiries as to locations
are treated in strict confidence and
absolutely reliable information, so as
to promote permanent traffic, is furnished.
Address

LUIS JACKSON

Industrial Commissioner

Erie Railroad Company
1 1 Broadway, New York

HARDWOOD RECORD

37

The

Shimer Cutter Head

Has a Permanent Make=Ready

Built into its seat combination to line up the
Bits and set them right for all time.

Don't buy a Cutter Head with faulty seats
that bend in a few month's use and thus lose
their alignment. But when you need one,
buy the Shimer Cutter Head, and give pre-
ference to the STEEL FORGED HEAD
which has TWICE THE STRENGTH of
any "gun metal" composition — is lighter in
weight — runs lighter on the spindle.

Observe the order of little things (little improve-
ments) for from "little acorns great oaks grow."

Samuel J. Shimer & Sons

Milton, Pennsylvania

The New Way of Scraping Floors with a

"Little Giant" Floor Striper

NOTE THESE COMPARISONS

Our man will scrape by hand about
100 square feet in I hours at 40c per
hour— cost $1.60 per square.

The "LITTLE GIANT" and one man
will scrape about 101] square feet in 4
hours at 40c per hour— cost $1.60 for
4 squares, or 40c per square; saving
SI. 20 per square.

How long will it take you to pay for
the machine, and commence saving
money in its use?

.TX

WRITE
YOUR

DEALER

FOR
PRICES

Hurley ,

Machine

Company

To scrape floor operator f>nl/s machine.

153 s. .1. ll. i son Street CHICAGO. ILL.

1010 Flat Iron Building NEW YORK

117 Home Lite Building TORONTO

The Morton Dry Kiln

MOIST AIR SYSTEM

HOW TO DRY

As exemplified in our Catalog D. Free on application.

MORTON DRY KILN CO., Chicago, Ills.

Trucks.

Canvas

Doors.

LUMBER.

Do you want a
7=foot band mill?

This is a first-class
machine and will
give the best of re-
sults. It is strong,
well made, and as
g«od as it looks
Write us and we will
give you full particu-
lars.

Phoenix Mfg. Co.

Eau Claire, Wis.

38

HARDWOOD RECORD

Improved Automatic
Band Saw Sharpener

For particulars address

MATTESON MFG. CO.

120-128 S. Clinton St.

CHICAGO, : : : : ILLS.

c

This machine excels all others for single cutting Band

ically correct, simple and durable, and does not possess
any of the intricate complicated parts that confuse the
operator. The head is adjustable so that straight wheels
can be used with the same results as concave.

^7 This represents just one type of machine. We make
^Mn addition a complete line of modern tools for the
care of saws.

All Machines Fully Guaranteed

Power
Money

S a ved
S a ved

factory:

6UCYRUS, OHIO

Heating, Ventilating, Mechanical Draft,
Shavings and Conveying

FANS AND EXHAUSTERS

of every description.
WHITE FOR CATALOGUE No 68-G.

New York Blower Company

CHICAGO office:
25th Place and Stewart Avenue

New Type of Combined End Matcher

SAVES 20 PER CENT. TIME, COST AND LABOR.
USED BY THE LARGEST FLOORING CONCERNS.

Write for particulars to

A. J. SCHINDLER, 441-443 W. 21st Street, CHICAGO

KNIVES

Planer knives, veneer knives or any of the good machine

knives that you use are tempered best by skilled expetience.

Know the truth and get your best machine knives from

CHAMPION SAW COMPANY,

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

39

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u

Burn your old trucks'

was the- advice given by one of Michigan's greatest
lumbermen — "burn them and buy Gillette's." He
had used both and knew that the Gillette Roller
Bearing Lumber Cart lasted so long and moved so
easily as to make it the cheapest cart on earth.
The reason why for the asking.

The Gillette Roller Bearing Co.

Grand Rapids, Michigan 1/Q

THE BEST MACHINE IN THE BUSINESS

"Blackmer Improved No. 2"

Saw Sharpening Machines

We make numerous other types
Write tor Descriptive Circular and Quotations

CROWN IRON WORKS

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN

ME RS HON

Band Resawing

Machinery

for all requirements

MERSHON NEW HORIZONTAL BAND RESAW FOR SAW MILLS

WM. B. MERSHON
4 CO.,

Saginaw, Michigan

ALLIS-CHALMERS COMPANY, Seattle. Wash.. Agents lor Northern Pacific Territory. i;THE EBY MACHINERY CO., San Francisco, Cal.. Agents lor California and Nevada.

4Q

HARDWOOD RECORD

A machine that declares saw mill dividends

AUTOMATIC SWING SAW GAUGE.

•J An inexpensive little device

that saves a dollar a day and

upwards.

<J Stops one of the biggest

profit leaks at the mill. Pays

for itself several times over

during a year.

•I Isn't it worth investigating?

FRANCIS MARSHALL, - - Grand Rapids, Mich.

A Hanchett - Hanchett - Hanchett 4L

Hanchett

Saw Swage

Every one made Perfect

The Swage with a Name

•I A poor Swage Kuins a Good Saw, and
for that reason the manufacturers of the

HANCHETT ADJUSTABLE SWAGE

employ only the Best Mechanics and use
only the Best Material in their construction .

It Pays Us
to make

rwim_ n » II tells y°u aU
file BeSt about them

Send for
Catalog
No. 10

It Pays You

to use

The Best

MANUFACTURED BY

a

Hanchett Swage Works

Big Rapids, Michigan

BsngmagmEiE

THE MARKET IS DEMANDING

MOKE AND MORE

Boards with Square Ends

As well as STRAIGHT and PARALLEL edges

The straighl and parallel edges you can obtain
with a "TOWER" Edger, while the "TOWER"
One-man 2-saw Trimmer will give you the
square ends with a minimum of time, labor and
waste. In all other trimmers the manner of
shifting the saws is such that every time the
position of the saws is changed the operator has
to go clear to the end of the machine. In the
"TOWER" One-man 2-saw Trimmer he never
has to go beyond the end of the board. Espec-
ially with short boards, this means a great sav-
ing in time and labor. It also greatly reduces the
amount of waste, as it is much easier to see how
to trim a board to the best advantage from the
end of the board than from the end of the ma=
chine. In all of these trimmers there are two feeds,
which may be instantly started, stopped or
changed, without stopping the saws. Both are
controlled by the same lever, which is located in
the most convenient position.

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co.

GREENVILLE, MICHIGAN

The largest manufacturers of grates, edgers and trimmers in the world.

Green Lumber Dried in a Week

Our new method of kiln drying, applied in your old kilns,
will thoroly dry green lumber in from a week to fifteen days

COSTS YOU NOTHING TO TRY

We guarantee better results than you are able to secure
otherwise, and a positive saving in operating and cutting the
lumber. If it does not make good our every claim, we will
not charge a dollar for the process.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works

Dept. D

Grand Rapids, Mich.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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25S2 The Profit Builder

NO.105A, EXTRA HEAVY 12-INCH MOULDEB

T HAS been our purpose during the last half century to develop
a line of wood working machines containing the best work-
W manship and material that American skill and wisdom can
afford. This fact we are proud to say is well established in
the minds of our many patrons. We have, however, now
exceeded ourselves by the development of a remarkable Moulder, the
excellence of which is due to our obtaining written suggestions from more
than a thousand operators throughout America. This machine stands alone
as being the composite idea of the thinking operators of this country. One
year's test of its work has convinced us that it is impossible for you to
compete successfully against the Smith Moulder with any other machine.
Can't we send you prices and literature '■

Branches :

New YorK, Chicago,

Boston. Atlanta

H. B. SMITH MACHINE CO.

SMITHVILLE, N. J., U. S. A.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

Skidders

Snakers

By, „"ZoQQ*

""" Lidgerwood Machines
Will Stock Your Mill

Lidgerwood Skidders

Lidgerwood Snakers

Lidgerwood Yarders

Lidgerwood Roaders

Lidgerwood Pull Boats

Lidgerwood Cableways

LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO.

NEW YORK
ATLANTA
S E ATT L E
NEW ORLEANS

Loaders

Cableways

HARDWOODRECORD 43

You Can't Make Perfect

Veneers

with an imperfectly ground knife. To do the work properly the knife must

have an absolutely straight, true edge. Instead of moving the knife back and

forth, with the resulting overhang at the end of travel, the knife on the Coe

Automatic Knife Grinder is held perfectly rigid on a knife bar which is one

solid piece of iron, heavily reinforced and incapable of any spring.

C. The stone does the traveling.

C. This looks like the sensible and only proper mechanical way, doesn't it?

C. The grinder mandrel runs on a heavy cross head, which slides between

parallel planed ways.

C This insures for the stone an exact and true line of travel, without end
play or vibration.

C The Coe Knife Grinders are made in a number of sizes, and they will grind
any length of knife, from the shortest planer knife to a knife 168 inches in length.
Knives can be ground with either a straight or a concave bevel. The feed is
automatic, and can be adjusted from 1-1000 to 4-1000 of an inch. The grind-
ers weigh from 3,500 to 5,000 pounds. Our Catalog No. 5 illustrates and fully
describes them.

THE

Coe Manufacturing Co.

105 Bernard Street
PAINESVILLE, OHIO, U. S. A.

While we carry in stock, ready for immediate delivery, veneer machines of nearly every pattern and size mentioned in our
catalog, we yet wish to call PJSPECIAL ATTENTION to the following:

VENEER SLICER

This Slicer embodies all latest improvements, and will cut flitches of any size up to 12 feet 5 inches in length by 30x30 inches.
Knife and pressure bar can be adjusted tog<-ther or sipurahlv while machine is in operation- ami can be run back and forth
by power independently of feed gear. This machine has a capacity of from 20,000 to 100,000 surface feet per day of trn hours,
depending on dimensions of flitches and thicknesses cut- Will cut perfect stock up to | , Inch in oak.

COE AUTOMATIC KNIFE GRINDER

Will grind knives of any size, from the smallest planer knife up to a 100-inch veneer knife. Grinds straight or hollow bevel.
Feed can be adjusted from 1-1000 to 4-1000 of an inch, weight 1.500 pounds.

COE ROTARY VENEER CUTTER

Style "B"' extra heavy pattern, diameter of swing 50 inches. Any length of knife up to 100 inches. Diameter of spi:;.
inches, weight 36,000 pounds.

COE VENEER CLIPPER
Style "A" heavy pattern, power or hand feed, or both. Length of knife 100 Inches, weight 5,500 pounds.

We also have for sale one second-hand 90-inch St. Joe Veneer Lathe, and a St. Joe 90-inch Clipper. These machines were i n
use less than a year. They have been thoroughly overhauled and are in tirst-class condition. Both machines are equipped
with knives.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

ATKINS

Silver Steel

SAWS

are perfect in every detail. They stand up to their work as honest Saws should do. You'll find them cheapest in the end, because
they save shut-downs and require less attention. Order one saw from your dealer, from us or from our nearest Branch, where a
complete stock is carried for immediate shipment.

E. C ATKINS & CO., inc.

THE SILVER STEEL SAW PEOPLE

HOME OFFICE AND FACTORY: INDIANAPOLIS.

BRANCHES: ATLANTA CHICAGO, MEMPHIS MINNFAPOLIS NEW ORLEANS, NEW YORK CITY.
PORTLAND, SAN FRANClStO, SEATTLE, TORONTO

The real "meat" in any production depgnr
especially is this true in logging. The

nets out the most "
reduces switching

lively on the cost the method of producing and

Log Loader

." Propelling itself, i
mple to operate the
ith few helpers
to 150. 000 feet
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do it)
and-
eal

i.shes the work and
ferage engineer soon

HARDWOOD RECORD

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GARLAND

Special Hardwood 7=ft. Band Mill

There are
many good
features about
this mill that
we will be
glad to tell
about.
Write for
catalogue and
descriptive
circulars.

Simplicity,

Capacity,

Economy on

Saws.

We

manufacture

a full line

of Sawmill

and

Conveying

Machinery.

A few hardwood sa.wmill machinery installations

Kneeland-Bigelow Co Bay City, Mich

Kneeland-Buell Co Bay City, Mich

W. D. Young & Co Bay City, Mich

E. C. Hargrave Bay City, Mich

Bliss & Van Auken Saginaw, Mich

Sailing, Hanson & Co.. . Grayling, Mich

Johannesburg Mfg. Co Johannesburg, Mich

Michelson & Hanson Co Lewiston, Mich

Harbor Spiings Lumber Co Harbor Springs, Mich.

W, H. White Co Boyne City, Mich.

Mud Lake Lumber Co Raber, Mich.

Engel Lumber Co Englewood, La.

Hardgrove Lumber Co Hardgrove, Mich.

Churchill Lumber Co Alpena, Mich.

Waccamaw Land & Lumber Co Wilmington, N. C.

Embury-Martin Lumber Co Cheboygan, Mich.

The M. Garland Co.

BAY CITY. MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

47

We are Prepared to Supply Your Wants in

Veneered m Solid Stave
Columns

In all Hardwoods with the

Roll's
Patent

gW they ^m

Kg CAN NOT IH

■ come HI

Lock
Joint

Write today for prices

Henry Sanders Co,

900 Elston Ave.

The Crosby & Beckley Company

HARDWOODS

We are
In Ihe Market for Choice Stock

WRITE US

No. 1 Madison Ave.,
New York, N. Y.

New Haven,
Connecticut.

H. W. Mo'sby & Co.

JANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM

ASH, ELM

Large Stock on Hand HELENA, ARKANSAS

W. H. WHITE, Pres.

JAS. A. WHITE, Vice-Pres.

W. L. MARTIN, Secy.

THOS. WHITE, Treas.

W. H. WHITE COMPANY

BOYNE CITY, MICHIGAN

Manufacturers of Hardwood and HemlocK Lumber, Cedar Shingles,

White RocK Maple Flooring.

The KNEELAND BIGELOW CO

MANUFACTURERS OF LUMBER

Annual Output:

20,000,000 ft. Hardwoods.
20,000,000 ft. Hemlock.

4,000,000 pes. Hardwood Lath.

9,000,000 pes. Hemlock Lath.

Mills Rvin the Year
Arovmd.

Bay City, Mich.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

C^ HP I i^\ 1 T I d

^ I . LU U 1 o

LARGEST OF ALL HARDWOOD MARKETS

MASSENGALE LUMBER CO., ST. LOUIS

Manufacturers and dealers in

HARDWOODS

In the market to buy and sell OAK. POPLAR, ASH, CYPRESS
Large stock dry lumber alwayson haod

American Hardwood Lumber Co.

J 4,000,000 ft. Hardwood Lumber

YARDS AT BENTON, ARK., NEW ORLEANS, LA., ST. LOUIS, MO.,
DICKSON, TENN.

LANE- WHITE LUMBER CO.

OAK, ASH AND WALNUT T-I -a fA \\ Tf\r\A C ALWAYS IN THE MARKET
OURSPECIALTY lltUUWUUUS I OR WALNUT LOOS

MAIN OFFICE AND BAND MILL at FORT SMITH, ARK.

Wanted— to Buy or Contract for future Delivery

500.000 to 1.000,000 ft. Poplar, all grades
500,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Cypress, all grades
500.000 to 1,000,000 ft. Ash, all grades

SS3EL PLUMMER LUMBER CO. &38S

NASH VILLE

HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

INDIANA LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers Lumber

DIMENSION STOCK A SPECIALTY.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Office and Mills: Corner Oldham
Street and Cumberland River

GEO. C. BROWN & CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Tennessee Red Cedar Lumber a Specialty. Nashville, Tennessee

LOVE, BOYD &. CO.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Will make special prices on :

150,000 ft. 1 in. Tennessee Red Cedar
300,000 ft. 1 in. to 4 in. Hickory
400,000 ft. 1 in. No. 1 Com. Plain White Oak
500,000 ft. 1 in. to 2% in. Qrtd. Red Oak.
40,000 ft. 2</2 in. Is & 2s Qrtd. White Oak
60,000 ft. 2>4 in. No. 1 Com. Qrtd. White Oak
13,000 ft. 5-8 Sound Wormy Chestnut

ALL BDNE DRY OUR OWN CUT

JOHN B. RANSOM & CO.,

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

Wc want to move quickly the following old dry stock. All of it has been on
sticks 6 to 1 8 months. Write us for delivered prices. Wc are prepared to
furnish promptly mixed cars of rough and dressed hardwoods of all kinds:

QUARTERED WHITE OAK

90 M 4/4 first and second -
15 M 5/4 first and second
80 M 6/4 first and second
10 M 10/4 first and second
120 M 4/4 No. 1 Common
65 M 6/4 No. 1 Common
58 M 8/4 No. 1 Common
20 M 10/4 No. 1 Common
70 M 5/8 first and second Poplar
80 M 5/8 No. 1 Common Poplar
15 M 4, 4 1st and 2d Quartered Sycamore
10 M 4/4 No. 1 Com. Quart'd Sycamore

QUARTERED RED OAK

100 M
58M
15 M
85 M
84 M
72 M

4/4 first and second
6/4 first and second
8/4 first and second
4/4 No. 1 Common
6 4 No. 1 Common
8, 4 No. 1 Common

PLAIN OAK

50 M 4 4 1st and 2nd White
10D M 4 4 No. 1 Common White
100 M 4 4 first and second Red
100 M 4/4 No. rcommon Red

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Co,

Manufacturers of

"Acorn Brand''

THE FAMOUS FAULTLESS FLOORING
IN OAK AND BEECH.

Car Lots and T-ess Than Car Lot
Orders Solicited. Write for Prices.

Nashville, Tennessee

Fry=Buchanan Lumber Co.

INCORPORATED.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Hardwood Lumber

POPLAR SQUARES
A Specialty.

Choicest Varieties. .*. Full Grades.

Asheville, N. C.

Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers
ot all kinds of

HARDWOODS

BEVELED SIDING A SPECIALTY.
UNSURPASSED FACILITIES
FOR DELIVERING.

Knoxville
Tennessee

HARDWOOD RECORD

49

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& I • L, (J U I ^

LARGEST OF ALL HARDWOOD MARKETS

WT} riTTTT ^T riQ Lesperance Street and Iron
• IV. Vjlll V VlO, Mountain Railroad.

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

BLACK WALNUT LUMBER MY SPECIALTY. Always in the market to buy
Walnut and Cherry Lumber. Pay spot cash and take up at shipping
point when amounts justify.

Roland F. Krebs Manager Hardwood Dept.

Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Co. l™™1Ka

FOR SALE: The Following Stocks Shipped Direct From Our Mills:
12 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common Cottonwood, Dry. 5 cars 1 in. Log Hun Elm ( Bone Dry. I
8 " 1 in. lst.v -2ndsSapi;um,lirv. 5 cars 1 in. No. 1 A-2, i'oiii. Pin. Red Oak. •'

2 " 1 in. " •■ Ked •• " 200M re. 1 in. and 2 in. ]'r> C\ ptess. tail grades I

Write Us for Prices

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Co.

20 3 Frisco Building

We have the following Dry Stock for sale piled at our mill:

QTD. WHITE OAK : COTTONWOOD:

3 Cars 4/4 Common. 3 Cars 1" 1 and 2.

2 Cars 4/4 Common and Better Strips. 1 Car 1x13 to 17" Box Boards.

GUM : ELM :

5 Cars 1" Common Red. 1 Car 6 4 Log Run.
1 Car 1x13 to 17" Box Boards. 4 Cars 4'' Log Run.
1 Car 2" 1 and 2 Sap.

6 Cars 1% Common and Better Sap.

This Stock is All Band Sawed and Equalized

Wanted-Cypress, Ash and Cottonwood

Inspection at Point of Shipment When Quantity Justifies

Hafner Manufacturing Co.

CYPRESS, HARDWOODS

Mail orders receive our immediate
attention.

YARDS: FOOT OF DOCK STREET

Garetson-Greason Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

GUM LUMBER
OUR SPECIALTY

Carload Shipments Direct
from Our Own Mills

519 Bank or Commerce

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Co.

CASH BUYERS OF OAK, ASH, CY-
PRESS, POPLAR, CHERRY AND ALL

HARDWOODS

Send Inspector When Quantity Justifies

Office and Yards : Hall and Angelrodt Sts.

CHAS. F. LUEMAl HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY

Carry a complete stock of Hardwood and are

constantly in the market to purchase

large blocks of stock for cash. Are

also the largest manufacturers of

the famous St. Francis

Basin Red Gum.

General Offices: 148 Carroll Street

LOTHMAN CYPRESS CO.

AIR DRIED

Louisiana Red Cypress

FOOT OF ANGELICA STREET

STEELE & HIBBARD

WHOLESALE
MANUFACTURERS.
DEALER.S AND
SHIPPER.S.

MILLS:

Yazoo City. Miss.
McGregor, Ark.
England, Ark.
DfiniH.it. Ark.
0'Har&, La.
Dexter. Mo.

ASH.

CYPRESS.

MAHOGANY.

OAK.

POPLAR.

ETC.

North Broadway and Dock Sts.

5°

HARDWOOD RECORD

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HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF PENNSYLVANIA

Willson Bros. Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS

WEST VIRGINIA
HARDWOODS

FARMERS BANK BLDG. :: PITTSBURG, PA.

STOCK LIST

I 4 Maple No. 1 Cora. Dry
I 4 Maple No. 1 Com. 4 Bel ,

6.000 fl. 4
12.000 11. 4

Dry
85.000 II. 4 4 Maple No. 1 Com.« Bel..

Pari Dry

1 Ca

1 Car

116.00011.

Dry
77.000 II.

Pari Dry

5 4 Maple No. I Com.. Dry
5 4 Maple 1 sis and 2ods, Dry
5 4 Maple No. 1 Com. & Bel.

5 4 Maple No. 1 Com. & Bet.

1 Ca

1 Car
47,000 II.

Dry
67.000 II.

4 Maple No. 1 Com., Dry
4 Maple 1 sis and 2nds. Dry
4 Maple No. 2 Com. 4 Bel..

Pari Dry

4 Maple No 2 Com. fi Bel.,

Favorable Freight I

6.000 II. 8 4 Maple No. 2 Com.. Dry
7,000 II. 8 4 Maple No. 2 Com.4 Bel.,
Dry

1 Car 10 4 Maple Ists and2od9,Dry
52.000 II. 10 4 Maple No. 2 Com. 4 Bel..

Part Dry
48.000 II. 10 4 Maple No. 2 In,,,,,' Bel.,

Pari Dry
19,000 It. 12 4 Maple No. 2 Com. t, Bel..

Part Dry
4.000 II. 16 4 Maple No. 2 Com.C Bel..

Pari Dry

2 Car 4 4 Basswood Log Run mill
culls out. Dry

2 Car 8 4 Basswood Log Run mill
culls out. Dry
lates to the East.

BABCOCK LUMBER CO., Ashtola, Pa.

The Nicola Lumber
Company

One million feet 4-4 Bay Poplar.
Can be shipped log run, or sold
on grade. Bone dry ; band
sawed. Send your inquiries.

A. M. Turner
Lumber Company

Everything in lumber. We buy hardwoods
as well as sell them. If you have anything
to offer, please submit same to us. : i

Hardwoods a Specialty

FOR SALE

POPLAR

125.000' 4/4 lsand2s
40.000' 4/4 No. 1 Com.
325.000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.
228,000' 4/4 No. 3 Com.
150,000' -"4 Mill Cull

CHESTNUT

200,000' 4 4 Sound Wormy
80,000' F> 4 Sound Wormy

100, 0O0' (i, 4 Sou nd Wormy
48,000' 8, 4 Sound Wormy

PLAIN OAK
60,000' 4/4 No. 1 Com.
18,000" 4/4 No. 2 Com.

QUARTERED OAK
2 cars 4 4 No. 1 Com.
1 car 4 4 No. 2 Com.

OAK TIMBERS SAWED TO ORDER.
WRITE FOR PRICES.

CHEAT RIVER LUMBER COMPANY, Pittsburg, Penna.

Special Bargains

»,.«,. v

3 cars IxlO inch wider, quartered White Oak,
1 sts and 2nds, 2 years dry, very choicest,

6 cars 1 x 13 to 17 inch, lsts and 2nds, Cottonwood.

7 cars 1 x 13 to 17 inch, No. 1 Com., Cottonwood.
14 cars 1x0 inch and up. lsts and 2nds, Cottonwood.
18 cars 1x4 inch and up. No. 1 Com., Cottonwood.

1 car l1'. x 18 inch and up, lsts and 2nds, Yellow

Poplar.

2 cars 1 x 24 inch and up, lsts and 2nds, Yellow

Poplar.

American Lumber $ Mfg. Co.

PITTSBURG. PA.

Linehan Lumber Company

PERFECT

MAPLE FLOORING

SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES

HARDWOOD RECORD

51

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LL Li V L L AINU

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF NORTHERN OHIO

THE

ROBERT HJENKS LUMBER

COMPANY

FOR SALE.

60 M (eel I lsl and 2ds Poplar
223 M feel 1" No. 1 Common Poplar
125 M leet 1" No. 2 Commoa Poplar

25 M [eel 2" 1st and 2nd Poplar. 14" and up
125 M feel 8 4" Sound Wormy Cbeslnul
275 M feel I" Sound Wormy Chestnut
153 M feel 1" lsl and 2nd Plain While Oak

85 M feet 1" lsl and 2nd Plain Red Oak
125 M feel 1" No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak

Quartered White and Red OaK. — We have a good assort-
ment of dry stock, ^104 inches thick. Your inquiries solicited.

Plain White and Red Oak.— A limited amount of nice
stock, ready for shipment.

SYMBOLS FOR GRADE MARKS

Adopted by the Hardwood Manufacturers Association of United States

Z_A Selects

Q Panel and Wide No. I

A Wide No. 2

r"j Box Boards

>_ FAS or Firsts and
^~ Seconds

Q. Saps

(J^ No. I Common

(_2, No. 2 Common

Q> No. 3 Common

(A No. 4 Common

Every Manufacturer should stamp the grade on his Lumber.
Set of 10 Rubber Stamps. l!4"xl!{" in size, Pad, Pint of Ink, and
Spreader, packed for shipment $3.50.

/VAARTIN & CO. LEWIS DOSTER, Sec'y

191 S. Clark St.. CHICAGO, or 1535 First Nat. Bank Bide. CHICAGO

FRAMES

FOR HARDWOOD RECORD
SUPPLEMENTS

Complete with backing, but without the glass, made
from Flemish Oak, are to be had delivered by ex-
press, charges prepaid to any point east of the
Missouri river, at 50 cents each ; or at the Hard-
wood Record office, at 30 cents each. Prepay orders
with two-cent stamps or postal notes, addressed

Hardwood Record, 355 Dearborn Street, Chicago

The Martin-Barriss Company

Importers o.nd Manufacturers

MAHOGANY

o.nd Fine Hardwoods

HARDWOODS

Dry Stock is Scarce

Mill Shipments are Slow in Coming Forward

We therefore call attention to stock of upwards
of SIX MILLION FEET seasoned HARD-
WOODS we offer for quick shipment from
Cleveland. WANT TO CLEAN IT OUT.
Are you interested ?

The Advance Lumber
Company

1 3th Floor, Rockefeller Bldg., CLEVELAND, O.

Manufacturers and Dealers
In White Pine, Yellow Pine, Hemlock and Hardwoods

H . FALL

EXPORTER
. . OF . . .

WALNUT, POPLAR

^=^=^=^= AND =^^^==^=

BIRDSEYE MAPLE LOGS

Cash naid for Black Walnut Logs at point of shipment. If you have
any walnut logs to offer, write me.

I have some Sycamore, Red Oak, Ash and other hardwood logs which
I am prepared to saw to orde*\ Correspondence solicited.

Can also supply Black Walnut lumber, sawed to any specification
required.

PORT CLINTON

OHIO

52

HARDWOOD RECORD

WISCONSIN

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

John R, Davis Lumber Company

PHILLIPS, WISCONSIN
The Leading Manufacturers

Wisconsin Hardwoods

"SH AKELESS" HEMLOCK and WHITE CEDAR PRODUCTS

WE HAVE THE FINEST BLOCK OF

4-4 UNSELECTED BIRCH

ON THE MARKET

Write for our Price Lists
and Stock Sheets

Mixed Cars, Even Grades
^ Prompt Shipments

We have to
offer the
following
stock in
pile at
Ingram, Wis.

mmfe/n(><^(6*

WAUSAU, WIS.

1 In. Log IUm Plain Birch.
1 In. No. 1 Common Plain Birch.
1 in No. 2 Common Plain Birch.
1 in. 1st and and Bed Birch.

1 in. No. 1 Common Red Birch.
1% In. No. 1 Common Bed Birch.
l'/i In. 1st and 2nd Ued Birch.
]l/i in- No. 1 Common Bed Birch.

2 In. 1st and 2nd Bed Birch.
1 in. Curly Birch.

154, ll= and 2 In. Curly Birch.
1 In. End Dried White Birch.
1 In. 1st and 2nd Soft Elm.
1 in No. l Common Soft Elm.
1^5 in. Log Bun Soft Elm.

Your orders

and

inquiries

solicited

ARPIN HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
Saw and Planing Mill at Atlanta, near Bruce, on the Soo Line. Offer

5 cars 1" 1st & 2d Red Birch.
1 car \W 1st & 26 Red Birch.
1 car 1*4" Common Red Birch.

1 car liA" 1st & 2d Red Birch.
1,000' 1%" Common Red Birch.
2,500' 1%" Com. & Btr. Red Birch.
5,000' 2" 1st & 2d Red Birch.

2 cars 2% & 3" Plain Birch.

2 cars 2% & 3" Log Run Unselected

Birch.
5 cars 1" Common Red Birch.
1 car 2" Plain Log Run Birch.

2 cars 3" Clear Plain Birch Flooring.

1 car 3" Clear Red Birch Flooring.

1 car 3" Factory Birch Flooring.

1 car 3" Red Oak Factory Flooring.

1 car 1% & IMi" quarter sawed Com.
and Btr. Red Oak.

i/2 ear 1% and 2" Com. & Btr. quar-
ter sawed Red Oak.

1 car 5" Clear quarter saw.ed Red
Oak Flooring.

V% car each 1^" Com. & Clear Maple
Flooring.

We make a specialty of high grade Maple, Birch and Oak Flooring, Bass-
wood, Pine Siding, Ceiling and Finish; also Moulding.

VOLLMAR & BELOW

MARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN

Basswood, Birch

and Other Wisconsin Hardwoods

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU ARE IN THE MARKET FOR

C. P. CROSBY

RHINELANDER : : WISCONSIN

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Hard Maple a Specialty in all thicknesses from J inch
to 4 inch. Finest- Birch in Wisconsin. Black Ash,
Rock Elm, Soft Elm, Red and White Oak. : :

DIFFICULT AND MIXED ORDERS A SPECIALTY

For Sale:

NATIONAL
INSPECTION

3,000,000 ft. inch Birch.
100,000 ft. inch Black Ash.
50,000 ft. inch Soft Elm.

All No. 1 Common and Better.
20,000 ft. 1x4 and wider, 6 ft., lst&2nd Birch.

Dells Lumber & Shingle Co.

EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN

Mason-Donaldson Lumber Co.

RKinelander, Wisconsin

20 cars
12 cars
4 cars
1 5 cars
1 5 cars

inch No. I Common Birch

inch No. 2 Common Birch

inch No. 1 Common & Better Red Birch

inch No. 2 Common ck Better Soft Elm

inch No. 3 Common Birch

5 cars 1 )-2 inch No. I Common & Better Basswood

5 cars 2 inch No. I Common & Better Basswood
1 0 cars I inch 1 st & 2nd Clear Basswood, 1 4 and I 6 feet
7 cars 1 J 2 inch No. 1 Common & Better Soft Elm
4 cars 2 inch No. 1 Common & Better Soft Elm
2 cars I % inch No. 3 Common Soft Elm

HARDWOOD RECORD 53

XTL 7 I CJ /""* /^\ rVT C^ I rVT

W 1 O L U IN O 1 IN

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

After Jan. 1, 1907

We will be ready to sell

Five Million Feet Winter Sawed

Basswood, Elm and Birch

Carefully manufactured from
logs of superior quality

Sawyer Goodman Company M„i„,..,. wis.

HARDWOOD LUMBER

NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN

Your attention called to the followin
position to make close prices:

25M' Basswood 9" 10" 11" 1st and 2d 100M

12M' Birch, Red. 2" 1st and 2d 300M
5'IM' Birch, Red, 1" 1st and 2d 50M'

4HM' Birch, Red, 1" No. 1 Common 150M'

2i »IM' Birch 1" 1st and 2d 175M'
175M' Birch 1" No. 1 Common 20M'

2IKIM' Birch 1J" 1st & 2d & No. 1 Com. 20M'

150M' Birch 1*" 1st & 2d & No. 1 Com. 20M'

200M' Elm, Soft. 1" No. 2 Com. & Better 75M'
175M' Elm, Soft, li" No. 2 C & B, Choice 25M'
All lumber cut from good timber, well m

items upon which we are in a

Elm, Rock 1" No. 2 Com. & Better
Maple 1" No. 2 Com. & Better
Maple H" No. 2 Com. & Better
Maple 1 i" No. 2 Com. & Better
Maple 2" No. 2 Com. & Better
Maple 3" 1st and 2d
Oak, W. Pin, 3 4" No. 1 Com.4 Better
Oak, W. Pin. 5/8" No. 1 Com.* Better
Gum, Sap, 3 '4" No. 1 Com. & Better
Gum, Sap, 2J" No. 1 Com. & Better
anufactured, grades guaranteed

G.W.JONES LUMBER CO., Apple ton. Wis.

CHICAGO OFFICE: 1717 Railway Exchange.

North Western Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OF BAND-SAWED

Wisconsin Hardwoods

CAREFUL GRADINGS — PROMPT SHIPMENTS

General Offices, EAU CLAIRE, WIS. Mills at STANLEY, WIS.

The Nash Automatic
Sander

FOR ALL ROUND STOCK WORK

A wonderful Labor-saving machine.

Pays for itself in a short

time. For particulars

address

JM \lnc*U 842-848 Thirtieth St.
. JY1. l>dSn MILWAUKEE.WIS.

Broom,

Hoe, Rake,

Fork and

Shovel

Handles,

Chair Stock,

Dowel Rods,

Curtain

Poles,

Shade

Rollers,

WhipStocks,

Canes,

Veneered

Columns,

Ten Pins, &c.

R. CONNOR CO.

WHOLESALE M \ v i p A C r U R E R S

Wisconsin
Hardwood

PINE AND HEM-
LOCK LUMBER

Aubutndale.Wis.on W.( k R March t'iHfl Wk

5tratford.Wis.,onC.&N.W.R.R. I'lQI 3IIIICIU, f?l3.

Wisconsin Veneer Co*

RHINELANDER, WIS.

Largest and best equipped Veneer
cutting- plant in the country. High-
grade product from Birch, Maple,
Elm, Basswood, Ash and other na-
tive woods.

Veneers for Door Work a Specialty.

54

HARDWOOD

RECORD

M

I C H I G A

IS FOR HARD MAPLE AND G R E. Y

IN

FAMOl

ELM

IXL POLISHED

Rock Maple Flooring

Our slow method of air seasoning and kiln drying

IXL Hardwood Flooring has stood

the test for 20 years.

Please write for prices and I klel

Wisconsin Land ^ Lumber Co.

HERMANSVILLE, MICHIGAN

Evans & Retting Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

Hardwood
Lumber

RAILROAD TIMBERS, TIES AND SWITCH TIES

Michigan Trust Building Grand Rapids, Mich.

SALL1NQ, HANSON & CO.

MANUFACTURERS OH

Michigan Hardwoods

GRAYLING. MICHIGAN

DUDLEY LUMBER COMPANY

HAS FOR SALE
Memphis Yard— Plain and Qtd. Oak
Grand Rapids Yard Mlchigarv Hardwoods

Hemlock Lumber Also A Specialty
OFFICES: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

S. L. EASTMAN FLOORING CO.

•AGINAW BRAND

MAPLE FLOORING

SAGINAW, MICH.

QUOTE ON SMALL OR LARGE LOTS.

WILL PLACE ORDERS FOR STOCK TO

BE MANUFACTURED

Wanted Soft Maple

One inch and Two-inch Log Run, Mill Culls Out, Pin
Worms no Defect. Will also buy Mill Culls.

BROWNLEE & COMPANY, Detroit, Mich.

DENNIS & SMITH LUMBER CO.

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Office and Yards, FOURTH AND HOLDEN AVENUES,
DETROIT, MICH.

MILLS AT: Orndorff, W. Va., Healers W. Va.. and Parkersburg. W. Va.

A HANDY THING

TO HAVE IN YOUR DESK AND
IN YOUR TRAVELING BAG 1^
A TIME TABLE FOLDER OB' THE .

Michigan Central

The Direct Line to All Important
Points of Michigan and Between

CHICAGO, DETROIT, NIAGARA FALLS, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, BOSTON
and NEW ENGLAND POINTS.

SEND FOR A COPY NOW

W. J. LYNCH,

Pass. Traffic Mgr..

O. W. RUGGLES,

Gen'l Pass. Agt.,

CHICAGO

HARDWOOD

RECORD

55

M

I

J s

C H I

FOR RED BIRCH

G

AND

A

BASS

IN

FAMOl

WOOD

DEININIS BROS.

GRAND RAPIDS.

MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD LUMBER (by water or rail)
"NATIONAL" MAPLE & BIRCH FLOORING

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN THE FOLLOWING:

120M feet 4 4 Log Run Birch
125M feet 6 4 Log Run Birch
2 Cars 8 4 Common and Better Birch

1 Car 1x4 Clear Birch

2 Cars 1x7 and Wider No. 1 Common Birch
140M feet 5 4 Log Run Beech

150M feet 4 4 Log Run Soft Elm

Hard Maple -All grades and thicknesses

Main Office :

205 209 Michigan

Trust

Company

Bulletin

g

Thos. MacBride Lumber Company

HEADQUARTERS FOR

HARDWOODS

IN MICHIGAN

Michigan Trust Building, Grand Rapids, Mich.

BIRCH

WE WANT YOUR ORDERS FOR

4-4 and 5-4 No. 1 Common

Birch

A No. 1 STOCK

Simmons Lumber Company

SIMMONS, MICHIGAN

McCLURE LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

iardwoods

Main Olfices, DETROIT. MICH.
Mills. : EUTAW.ALA.

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 cars 1" 1st 4 2ods 6 Com. Qtd. While Oak 10 cars 1" Log Run Brown Aih

2 cars 21 ■, 3 and 4" While Ash 10 cars 1" to 4" Dry Hard Maple

2 cars 1" While Ash 10 cars I" Log Run Birch

I car 1 '_< and 2" No. 1 Com. Brown Ash 10 cars 1" Log Run Basswood

4 cars 2. 3 and 4" Isl and 2nds and No. 1 Com. Green While Oak

2 cars 2" Log Run Soft Elm

B0YNE CITY LUMBER COMPANY

BOYNE CITY
MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE and other HARDWOODS

LARGE CAPACITY PROMPT SHIPMENTS RAIL OR CARGO

VAN KEULEN & WILKINSON LUMBER COMPANY

Manufacturers and Wholesalers <>f

HARDWOOD LUMBER and CRATING STOCK

Complete Stocks of Michigan Hardwoods — Maple, Beech, Birch, Elm,

Ash and Basswood for sale.
Grand Rapids. : : : Michigan

SOFT ELM AND ROCK ELM

^=^=^== FOR SALE BY ==:==

The R. G. Peters Salt & Lumber Co.

EASTLAKE, MICHIGAN

J. S. GOLDIE.

Cadillac, :: Michigan.

•SPECIAL PRICES on 50nM piei -
H" to 3'' Maple Squan-s It',' to L'7" Ions
250M feet Maple cull
INiiuimlia bULnuu, .OR MICHIGAN LUMBER.

"Chief Brand"
Maple Flooring

Will commend itself to you and your trade on
its merits alone. *\ Comprises all the features
desirable in pood flooring. 1 Made by the latest,
most approved machinery methods and best
skilled labor. If We believe we can make it to
your interest to handle our "Chief Brand" and
will appreciate your inquiries.

Kerry 4 Hanson Flooring Co.

GRAYLING. MICHIGAN

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

Hardwood Lumber

Main Office, Michigan Trust Company Building

GRAND RAPIDS . MICHIGAN

56

HARDWOOD RECORD

d~+ I TVT /""* ¥ rVT rVT A HP I

OllNOlININA I 1

THE, GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

PLAIN OAK— BASSWOOD

Are what we want. All thicknesses and grades. Spot
cash. Send us list of your offerings with prices.

DUHLMEIER BROS., CINCINNATI, 0.

FRAMES.
SASH. DOORS.
BLINDS. MOULDINGS.
COLUMNS. GLASS.
STAIRWORK.
INTERIOR TRIM.

PAINTS,

BUILDERS' HARDWARE.

MANTELS. ETC.

LARGE CINCINNATI FAC

TORIES MAKE PROMPT

SHIPMENTS POSSIBLE.

/\TT"D A TTUT Is to ship the highest standard of

umber at lowest consistent price

We are manufacturers and ship direct from our band mills

Oak

Poplar

Ash

W.H.&G.S. Stewart

Main Oilier.: Cincinnati, Ohio, U. S A.

Chestnut

Basswood

Yellow Pi«e

CYPRESS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturer of Hardwoods and Cypress

**lain and Quartered White and Red Oak, Yellow Poplar,
Yellow Pine, Walnut, etc. Mills in Tenn., Ala. and Ya.

OFFICE AND YARDS. GEST AND DALTON AVE., CINCINNATI, OHIO.

THE HOUSE OF STONE

The One of Good Grades
Poplar, Oak, Chestnut, Cottonwood, Ash, Basswood and Qum

T. B. STOINE LUMBER CO.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

THE GENERAL LUMBER COMPANY

HARDWOODS

hemlock, Yellow pine.
COLUMBUS 0 OHIO

All Lumbermen, Attention!

We do what you can't do.
We measure your stumpage correctly.
We make your maps correctly.
Bank references: Asheville, N. C.

L. A. OCfienCK {£ LO. North Carolina.

W. H. Dawkins Lumber Co.

Manufacturers of Band Sawed

Yellow Poplar

ASHLAND, KY.

W. T. SCHXAUFER

H. G. CHAMBERLAIN

CRESCENT LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of

l. Hardwood Lumber

co. a

MARIETTA, O.

OAK FLOORING

Thoroughly Kiln Dried.
Perfectly Manufactured.
We are located in the best Oak Timber section in the

United States; have new and modern machinery and

experienced operators.
Why should we not be able to furnish the best Oak

Flooring?
Write us and we will convince you that we can.

The INTERNATIONAL HARDWOOD COMPANY
Catlettsburg, Kentucky

HARDWOOD RECORD

57

THE WIBORG & HANNA COMPANY

CINCINNATI. OHIO

PLAIN
AND

QUARTER
SAWED

CHESTNUT !

POPLAR !

GUM AND *

CYPRESS «

Flooring, Siding, Ceiling, Base, Case and Molding. Rough, Dressed and Re-sawed. Mixed Carloads.

THE

MALEY, THOMPSON & MOFFETT CO.

Always in the Market for

BLACK WALNUT LOGS,
SELECTED WHITE OAK LOGS,
LUMBER OF ALL KINDS.

CINCINNATI,

OHIO

Kentucky Lumber Co.

CINCINNATI. OHIO.

WHOLESALE BUYERS OF

Hardwood Lumber

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET TO BUY
WRITE US WHEN YOU ARE READY TO SELL

IN THE MARKET FOR

OAK-ASH-POPLAR

ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

MOWBRAY & ROBINSON

Officei
1219 West Sixth Street

Yards:
Sixth Street, below Harriet

THE FREIBERG LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers ol

Tabasco Mahogany
Walnut, OaK

Poplar, McLean and Findlay Avs.
CINCINNATI, O.

41

BUY GUM"

We are in the market to bu.v
Dry Gum Lumber in any
quantity, from a single car
load to a million feet. Will
take all grades and thick-
nesses. We receive lumber
at shipping point, pay cash
and are liberal in inspection.

THE FARR1N.KORN

LUMBER COMPANY

General Office, Yards,

Planing Mills, Dry Kilns.

Cincinnati, Ohio
Purchasing Office.

Randolph Building.

Memphis, Tenn.

Cypress Red Gum Oak

Cash buyers for stock in our line.

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co.

GEST AND SUMMER STREETS

Wholesalers Mahogany, Thin Lumber, Veneers

Finely figured quarter sawed oak veneers a specialty.

THE E. E. BECK LUMBER COMPANY

Cash Buyers

Poplar, Oak, Chestnut

And Other Southern Hardwoods
ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES. WE BUY MILL COTS.

Poplar, Oak,

Ash, Chestnut,

Sycamore,

W. Va. Spruce,
Pine and Elm

C. Crane 4 Co.

We would like to buy

2,000,000 feet Dry OaK

2,000.000 feet Dry Popla

Mostly heavy stock

_ jplar
Quotations Solicited.

MILLS AND YARDS
CINCINNATI, 0.

YEARLY CAPACITY

100,000,000 FT.

LONG RILL STUFF
A SPECIALTY

L. W. RADINA &, COMPANY

Correspondence Solicited with Buyers and Sellers of All Kinds of

Wanted for cash— desirable blocks of 1 inch to 4 inch Poplar, all grades,
Especially lj^-inch stock, for immediate shipment.
CLARK STREET AND DALTON AVENUE-

58

HARDWOOD RECORD

$ INDIANA A

•WHERE THE BEST HARDWOODS GROW-

THE WOODS FOR
WHICH INDIANA
IS FAMOUS.

Quart Yd White Oak

Plain White Oak

Quartered Red Oak

Plain Red Oak

White Ash

Poplar

Black Walnut

Cherry

Sycamore

Red Gum

Hickory

Beech

Maple

Veneers of

Indiana Hardwoods

D'HEUR & SWAIN LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Quartered Oak and Sycamore

SEYMOUR, IND.

C. I. HOYT & CO.

OFFER FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT
75,000 FT. 4-4 LOG RUN CHESTNUT-90 DAYS OLD

PEKIN, IND.

LONG-KNIGHT LUMBER CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS

Quarter Sawed White and Red Oak a Specialty

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

MALEY & WERTZ

Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Exporters of Hardwood Lumber

EVANSVILLE, IND.

PERRINE-ARMSTRONG CO.

Long Timber up to 60 feet — Hardwood Specialties

The largest Band Mill in Indiana. FORT WAYNE, IND.

J. V. STIMSON

All Kinds of Hardwood Lumber Manufactured

HUNTINGBURG. IND.

YOUNG & CUTSINGER

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Fine Figured Quartered Oak

EVANSVILLE, IND.

CHARLES H. BARNABY

Manufacturer of Band Sawed Hardwoods

Quarter Sawed Indiana White Oak a Specialty GREENCASTLE, IND.

HARDWOOD RECORD

59

BUFFALO

THE GREAT WHOLESALE LUMBER CENTER OF THE EAST

Manufacturers and
Dealers in

Ash

White and Brown

Basswood
Birch

Red and White

Butternut

Cherry

Chestnut

Cottonwood

Cypress

Elm

Soft and Rock

Gum

Red and Tupelo

Hickory
Maple

Hard and Soft

Red Oak

Plain and Quartered

White Oak

Plain and Quartered

Blaek Walnut
White Wood

Poplar

BEYER, KNOX & COMPANY

ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

Office and Yards, 69 LEROY AVENUE

BUFFALO HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

We want to buy for cash :

Oak, Ash and other Hardwoods, all grades and thicknesses.
Will receive and inspect stock at shipping point.
P. O. Box 312. MEMPHIS. TEW. 940 SENECA STREET

EMPIRE LUMBER COMPANY

Our specialties are PLAIN »nd QUARTERED OAK and ASH.

1142 SENECA STREET.

G. ELIAS & BROTHER

BUY AND CARRY LARGE QUANTITIES OF ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

955 TO 1015 ELK STREET

HUGH McLEAN LUMBER COMPANY

Specialty: INDIANA WHITE OAK

940 EI.K STREET

ANTHONY MILLER

HARDWOODS OF ALL KINDS

893 EAGLE STREET

SCATCHERD & SON

HARDWOODS ONLY
Yard, 1555 SENECA STREET Office, 886 ELLICOTT SQUARE

STANDARD HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

OAK, ASH AND CHESTNUT

1075 CLINTON STREET

I. N. STEWART & BROTHER

Specialties: CHERRY AND OAK

892 ELK STREET

T. SULLIVAN & COMPANY

Specialties: BROWN ASH, BIRCH, PACIFIC COAST FIR AND SPRUCE

50 ARTHUR STREET

ORSON E. YEAGER

Specialties: OAK, ASH AND POPLAR

932 ELK STREET

YELLOW POPLAR

Manufacturers

BAND SAWED
POPLAR LUMBER

ALL GRADES

DRY

5-8, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, 8-4, 10-4, 12-4, 16-4

Bevel Siding, Lath and Squares

Specialty, Wide Stock.

COAL GROVE, OHIO, U. S. A

W. M. Ritter Lumber Co.

COLUMBUS. OHIO.

POPLAR

YOU CAN MAKE MONEY T11T^7!7*¥ You Can Make MORE MONEY

By Stocking Up NOW With OlL> V iL L By Buy'n2 From Us» Because

_ _ _ , «. _ _ w —_ Ours is the Best

SIDING

The Price will Surely Advance in the Spring

We saw and ship 100,000,000 Feet Yearly of Band Sawed, West Virginia Yellow Poplar, Hardwoods and No. Carolina White Pine

Vansant, Kitchen & Co.

Old-Fashioned

SOFT

YELLOW

POPLAR

Ashland, Ky.

5-8 AND 4-4 IN WIDE STOCK, SPECIALTY

NEW ASHLAND MILL

COPYRIGHT. A. D. 1906, BY THE HaRDWOOD COMPANY

floMwoofl RocoM

rwelfth Year. t

itml-monthly. I

CHICAGO, DECEMBER 25, 1906.

(Subscription 92.

I Single Copies, 10 Cents.

2,000,000 Feet

CHERRY

FOR SALE

ROSS LUMBER CO.

JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK

Kimmelber^r- Harrison Lumber (o.

Red Gum
Specialists

Morehouse,

Missouri

The present DIVIDEND OF S3l/3% TO POLICY HOLDERS represents a RETURN
OF ONE=THIRD OF THE PREMIUMS received by:==

THE LUMBER MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

OF BOSTON, MASS.

YOUR INVESTIGATION INVITED

DRY STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

125.000 ft. 1 inch No. 1 and No. 2 Quartered White Oak.
200.000 ft. 1 inch No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak.

75.000 ft. 1 inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.
250,000 ft. 1 inch No. 1 Common Plain Oak.

30,000 ft. li inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.

60.000 ft. H inch No. 1 Common Plain Oak.

75,000 ft. 1* inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.
170.000 ft. li inch No. 1 Common Plain Oak.

18.000 ft. 2 inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.
155.000 ft. 1 inch Scented Tennessee Cedar.
220.000 ft. 1 inch Common and Better Chestnut.

87,000 ft. 1J inch. 1J inch and 2 inch Common and Better Chestnut.
120.000 ft. Tennessee While Pine Log Run
Poplar Bevel Siding,

THE ATLANTIC LUMBER CO.

2 KILBY STREET, BOSTON, MASS.

The Davidson-Benedict Company

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
Everything in

Southern Hardwoods

POPLAR, CHESTNUT, ASH, OAK

(Plain and Quartered.) Straight or Mixed Cars,

DRESSED POPLAR ANY you get what you buy from

„, „ ,"„ UiT ~£_ ,,* US. ASK FOR OUR DELIVERED

WAY YOU WANT IT. prices, any railroad point.

The combined facilities of the stock lumber insurance companies Comfe,4VV?™?>se,s

^ over $750,000.

LUMBER INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK

and the ADIRONDACK FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

and allied organizations, constitute a great insuring: opportunity for any owner of a first-class lumber or mill risk.

Ask for lines and rates. LUMBER INSURERS GENERAL AGENCY, Underwriting Managers

€>€> Broadway, INeiA/ York

HARDWOOD RECORD

i /^\ i t i c: \/ ii i m?

LU U lo V 1 L LL

MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF KENTUCKY

McLean -Davis Lumber Co.

Successors to

Hugh McLean Lumber Co., Highland Park, Ky.
Edward L. Davis Lumber Co., Louisville, Ky.
Berry -Davis Saw Mill Co., Louisville, Ky.

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Hardwood Lumber

Daily Capacity:
80,000 feet.

Sales Olfices:
Louisville, Ky.

Albert R. Kampi

Manufacturer

Hardwood Lumber and Timber

Dimension Stock

Board ol Trade Bldg., Louisville, Ky.

E. W. Rhubesky

■Wholesale

Poplar, Rough and Dressed.

Oak, Chestnut and Other

Hardwoods

North Vernon Pump
£ Lumber Co.

Band Sawed Plain and Quartered

Oak and Poplar.

North Vernon, Ind.,and

Louisville, Ky.

Southern Lumber Co.

Oak, Poplar and

Chestnut.
Louisville, Ky.

Dry stock w. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co.

Louisville, Ky.

PLAIN EED OAK.
55,000' 1" 1st & 2nd.
25,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
49,000' lMi" 1st & 2d.
57,000' 2" 1st & 2d. •
18,000* 2(4" 1st & 2d.
16,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
131.000' 1" No. 1 Com.
84,000' 1*4" No. 1 Com.
44,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
47,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
8,000' 2%" No. 1 Com.
15.000' 3" No. 1 Com.

aUARTX&ED BED OAK.
10.000' V 1st & 2d.

14.000' 1%" 1st & 2d.

5,000' 2" 1st & 2d.

15.000' 1" No. 1 Com.

7.0O0' H4" No. 1 Com.

13,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

PLAIN WHITE OAK.

80,000' 1" 1st & 2d.

28,01X1' 1*4" 1st & 2d.

12,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.

42,000' 2" 1st & 2d.

23,800' 2!4" 1st & 2d.

16,000' 3" 1st & 2d.

227,000' 1" No. 1 Com.

60.000' 1*4" No. 1 Com.

80,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.

50.000' 2" No. 1 Com.
17,000' 1W No. 1 Com.
22,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

QUARTERED WHITE OAK.

50.000' 1" 1st & 2d.

28,000' 1*4" 1st & 2d.

45,000' \Vk" 1st & 2d.

49.000' 2" 1st & 2d.

19,000' 2%" 1st & 2d.

18,000' 1" No. 1 Com.

30,000' 1*4" No. 1 Com.

40,000' 1V4" No. 1 Com.

22.000' 2" No. 1 Com.

10,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

ASH.

9,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
65.000' 1*4" 1st & 2d.
16,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
10,000' 2" 1st & 2d.

8,000' 2%" 1st & 2d.
14,000' 3" 1st & 2d.

6.000' 4" 1st & 2d.

4.000' 1*4" No. 1 Com.
16.000' 1%" No. 1 Com.

S.000' 2" No. 1 Com.

POPLAR.
12,000' 1" 1st & 2d.

All thickuesses in cull poplar, ash, chestnut.

Your inquiries will be appreciated.

12,000* 1*4" 1st & 2d.
11,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
12.000' 2" 1st & 2d.
10,000' 2*4" 1st & 2d.
10,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
50,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
28,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
10,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
10.000' 2" No. 1 Com.
15,000* 1" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

8,000' 2" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

6,000' 2" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

4,000' 1%" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

3.000' IVi" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

Prompt delivery guaranteed

Ornamental Hardwood Floors

400 STYLES AND PATTERNS

Illustrated Catalog on Application

WOOD = MOSAIC FLOORING CO.

Rochester, N. Y. New Albany, Ind,

AH Lumbermen, Attention!

We do what you can't do.
We measure your stumpage correctly.
We make your maps correctly.
Bank references: Asheville, N. C.

C. A. Schenck 4 Co.

Biltmore.
North Carolina.

WE HAVE JUST MOVED

into this particular advertising sedtion, and

Will Occupy This Space Permanently

You may see items lisled here that will interest you. Will you watch it ?

15M ft, 1 in. 1 and 2 Bass, 9 in. and 10 in.
15M ft. 1 in. 1 and 2 Bass, 11 in.
15M ft. 2 in. 1 and 2 Birch, Red.

200M ft, 1 in. No. 2 Com. and Better Soft Elm.

150M ft. 1 in. 1 and 2 Birch.

50M ft. 1 in. 1 and 2 Birch, Red.

50M ft. 1 in. No. 1 Common Birch, Red.
100M ft. 1 in. No. 1 Common, Mixed Color.

G. W. JONES LUMBER CO., APPLETON, WISCONSIN

HARDWOOD RECORD

CADILLAC

CELEBRATED FOR HIOH STANDARD OF QUALITY AND HILL WORK

MICHIGAN RED OAK

c
c

«L

C

As fine stock as was ever cut
in the famous Cadillac district.

We have some of this choice 4-4
Red Oak which will soon be in
shipping condition.

If you are in the market, we
can please you both in quality
and price.

We also have some nice Soft
Gray Elm in 4-4, 6-4, 8-4 and
12-4. It's Bone Dry.

Mitchell Brothers Company

CADILLAC, MICHIGAN

The Cadillac Handle Co.

Band Sawn
Michigan Hardwoods

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

S Cars 4/4 Maple. No. 1 and 2 Common.

3 Cars 4/4 Maple 1st and 2nds.

2 Cars 5/4 Maple No. 1 Common and better.

1 Car 6/4 Maple No. 1 Common and better, 10 in. and over wide.

2 Cars 8/4 Maple No. I Common and better.
2 Cars 4/4 Birch No. 2 Common and better.

We are prepared to contract No. 3 Common Maple, for future sawing.

MURPHY & DIGGINS

Offer all grades of the following special dry stock

MAPLE— 6/4, 6/4, 8/4, 10/4, 12/4, 14/4, 16/4
OHAY ELM— 4/4, 12/4
BASSW00D-4/4.
;BIRCH-»/4, 6/4

Our own manufacture. Perfect Mill Work. Uniform Grades.
LET US FIGURE ON YOUR HARDWOOD WANTS.

Cummer, Biggins & Go.

MANUFACTURERS

"CUMMER" MAPLE
AND BEECH FLOORING

MICHIGAN HARDWOODS

Good assortment of dry stock on hand ready
for immediate shipment in Hard Maple, Beech,
Birch, Soft Elm and Cherry.

SEND US A LIST Or YOUR REQUIREMENTS.

DRY ST

OCKJ

Northern Michigan

Soft Gray Elm

What our old cork pine was to the regular
white pine — such is our Soft Cray Elm to
ordinary soft elm. Buyers who gladly discrim-
inate in favor of something better than the or-
dinary, will be interested. We have

10 cars 8-4 firsts and seconds.

1 car 10-4 firsts and seconds.

2 cars 12-4 firsts and seconds.

Wide, choice stock, our own product, seasoned right,
bone dry.

WRITE US ABOUT IT.

CGBB5& MITCHELL

( INCORPORATED)

Cadillac. \m\mjmA

HARDWOOD RECORD

STOCK
LIST

Anderson-Tully Co.

Memphis
Tenn.

COTTONWOOD

50,000 ft. 7 8 in. lsts and 2nds. Cottonwood 8 in. and up

200,000
50.000
50,000
30.000

4 4
6/4

5/4
4 4

No. 1 Common

GUM
100,000 ft. 4 4 in. lsts and 2nds Red Gum
100.000 " " No. 1 Common Red Gum
100,000 " " lsts and 2nds. Saps 6 in. to 12 in.
100,000 " " " " " 13 in. and up

100.000 " " Box boards 13 in. to 17 in.
250,000 " No. 1 Common Saps

OAK

One car 4 4 in. lsts and 2nds. Plain Red Oak.

8 in. to 12 in.
6 in. and up
12 in.
S in. to 12 in.

WAGON STOCK

IN ROUGH.
TONGUES, AXLES, REACHES, BOLSTERS
AND 6 4 TO 16 4 HICKORY. ALSO ALL

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

Gayoso Lumber Co., Inc.

Memphis, Tenn.

W

E have in all thicknesses the following- kinds and
amounts of lumber at places designated. Kindly
send us your inquiries.

MEMPHIS YARD!*

Ash 680.000 feet

Quartered White Oak. . "5,000 feet

Plai n W hite Oak • 140,000 feet

Quartered Red Oak .... 225.000 feet

Plain Red Oak 410,000 feet

Cypress 225,000 feet

Cottonwood 200.000 feet

Poplar 308.000 feet

SELMA YARD

Poplar 409.000 feet

Bay Poplar 857,000 feet

Red Gum 55,000 feet

Cypress 787,000 fe-:t

BERCLAIR YARD

Bay Poplar 100,000 feet

Cypress 800,000 feet

OTHER YARDS
Plain Red Oak 350 000 feet

J. W. THOMPSON LUMBER COMPANY

Oifice and Yards: Randolph Road and I. C. R. R.

MEMPHIS. TENN.

FENN BROS. COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Oak Flooring

Quartered White
Quartered Red
Plain \A/hite
Plain Red

Hollow Backed

End Matched

Polished

Bored

Offices and Plant :

Kansas and Mallory Ave., New South Memphis.

(Take South Memphis car to Mallory Ave.)

THREE STATES LUMBER

COMPANY

OFFERS THE FOLLOWING DRY STOCK AT POINTS WHERE CARS

ARE IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE

5 Cars 4-4 1st and 2nd Plain White Oak.

5 Cars 4-4 Log Run Ash.

10 Cars No. 2 Cypress for Crating.

MEMPHIS, TENN.

HARDWOOD RECORD

FULLERTON-POWELL

Hardwood Lumber Co.

a

OFFERS THE FOLLOWING STOCK
FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

20 Cars 1 " 1 & and 2nds Plain Red Oak
2 Cars 1 " Clear Plain Red Oak, 1 2" and wider
1 0 Cars 1 " Saps and Seleds Poplar
1 0 Cars 1 " No. 1 Common Poplar

1104- Chamber of Commerce
CHICAGO

305 Tennessee Trust "Buildine
MEMPHIS. TENN.

South 'Bend, Ind.

Lamb Fish Lumber Co.

Successors to LAMB HARDWOOD LUMBER CO., BACON-NOLAN HARDWOOD CO., GUIRL-STOVER LBR. CO.

MA NUFA C TURERS

Oak, Ash, Cottonwood, Gum
and Cypress

MAIN OPTICE :
720 MEMPHIS TRUST BUILDING, MEMPHIS, TENN.

[ Memphis, Tcnn. - ( Well Manufactured Stock

Three Band Mills ] chancy, miss. Our Specialties ]^a Grades

( Stover, Miss. ( Prompt Shipments

HARDWOOD RECORD

WE WILL BUY YOUR OUTPUT OF WELL MANUFACTURED

HARDWOODS

YOURS FOR A "SQUARE DEAL."

WILLIAM WHITMER & SONS, Inc.

Branches: NEW YORK, BOSTON, PITTSBURG Girard Trust Bldg., PHILADELPHIA

Quartered Oak Flooring

Manufactured for

HIGHEST GLASS of trade only.

Also Plain Oak, Maple and other Hardwood flooring.

The name D WIGHT on flooring: is a guarantee of its

excellence.
D WIGHT SPECIAL pattern of thin flooring- is the
only suitable thin flooring to lay. Write for Sample.

DWIGHT LUMBER. COMPANY

DETROIT, MICHIGAN

DECEMBER STOCK LIST

HARD MAPLE

BEECH

WHITE MAPLE

1 in. 1,000,000 ft.

1 in. 100,000 ft.

End Piled

1} in. 100,000 ft.

li in. 100,000 ft.

1} in. 20,000 ft.

li in. 100,000 ft.

3 in. 50,000 ft.

4 in. 50,000 ft.

1 in. 500,000 ft.

BASSWOOD

li in. 100,000 ft.

1 in. 300,000 ft.

2 in. 100,000 ft.

SOFT MAPLE

2i in. 50,000 ft.

GRAY ELM

1 in. 30,000 ft.
IJ in. 20,000 ft.
3 in. 10,000 ft.

ASH.
1 in. 50,000 ft.

1 in. 300,000 ft.
li in. 200,000 ft.
3 in. 200,000 ft.

KELLEY LUMBER & SHINGLE CO., Traverse City, Mich.

The Crosby & Beckley Company
HARDWOODS

We arc
In the Market for Choice Stock

-WRITE US

No. 1 Madison Ave.,
New York, N. Y.

New Haven,
Connecticut.

Briggs & Cooper Company, Ltd.

MANUFACTURERS

HARDWOODS

NORTHERN
SOUTHERN

GET OUR PRICES ON THESE ITEMS:

1,000,000 feet Soft Grey Elm, 1 to 3".

500.000 feet Unselected Birch, 1 to 3".
3,000,000 feet Michigan Hard Maple, 1 to 6".

350.000 feet End Dried White Maple, 1 to 1%". •

625,000 feet No. 1 Common and Better Winter Sawn Basswood, 1 to 3".

150,000 feet Selected White Basswood, 1", lit" and \\i".

210,000 feet Plain and Quartered White and Red Oak, 1 to 2".
Y AR DS AT

SAGINAW, CHICAGO AND MEMPHIS

Thomas Forman Company

MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE

Maple and Oak
. Flooring

New York Branch : DETROIT

McGovern n Bowen. And Hardwood Lumber .„„„„, , ».,

29 Broadway MICHIGAN

THE BUFFALO MAPLE FLOORING CO.

MANUFJCTURERS OF

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE AND OAK FLOORING

BUFFALO, NEW YORK

Wantcd-Dimension Oak, Plain and 0uartered'

White and Red. Send for specifications.

Indiana Qviartered Oak Co.

7 Ea.st 42nd Street. New York City

HARDWOOD RECORD

HP I .1 T~7 E^* A Cr HP

I H b fc A ^ 1

1

BOSTON NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA

JONES HARDWOOD CO.

INt'OKI'OHATEII

WANTS: Poplar, Plain Oak,
Quartered Oak and Cypress.

147 MILK STREET
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Manufacturers please send stock lists and prices.

JOHN L. ALCOCK & CO.

BUYERS OF BLACK WALNUT LOGS
BOARDS AND PLANKS

Baltimore, Md.

Inspection at point of
shipment. Spot cash.

WM. E. LITCHFIELD

MASON BUILDING, BOSTON, MASS.

Specialist in Hardwoods

Manufacturers are requested to supply lists of stock for sale

James & Abbot Company

Lumber and Timber

No. 165 MILK ST., BOSTON, MASS., and GULFPORT, MISS.

We Will Buy or Sell
Being Specialists in Hardwoods

r""~ We are getting together again something like the tine large special
stock of hardwoods which the fire destroyed last year in our Philadelphia
yard. We didn't lose a day's business though hampered for a short time
in filling special orders. What have you for sale, or what do you want
to buy in lumber? Ask for Mcllvain's "Lumber News."

J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co.

56th to 58th Streets and Woodland Ave., PHILADELPHIA, PA.

STEVENS-EATON CO.

Buve
ROUN

Pts Hardwoods

No 1 Madison

Avenue,

New York

ESPECIALLY IN MARKET EOF PLAIN RED OAK

Holloway Lumber Company

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

In the marttet for all thicknesses of
OAK, ASH and CHESTNUT.

312 Arcade Building.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

J. J. SOELB

H. I. S0BLE

SOBLE, BROTHERS

Wholesale Hardwoods

911=912 Land Title Bldg. PHILADELPHIA

WANTED: 20 cars Common and Better Chestnut, al! thicknesses.

J. H. SCHOFIELD

R. W. SCHOFIELD

SCHOF1ELD

BROTHERS

LUMBER

WHITE PINE
AND HARDWOODS

1019-1020 Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Bldg.,

BALTIMORE
M AR Y L A

RE L? L7 DDI/^L? BUYER AND

ND Ej, Hi. I r\lv>rii EXPORTER OP

Hardwoods, Poplar and Logs

I am always in The market for nice lots of dry and well manufactured
lumber. I inspect at point of shipment. Correspondence solicited.

Wistar, Underhill & Co.,

WHOLESALE

HARDWOOD LUMBER

816 Real Estate Trust Building, # PHILADELPHIA.

Charles S. Wentworth & Co.

WHOLESALE LUMBER MERCHANTS
J47 Milk Street

BOSTON

We are in the Market for POPLAR, PLAIN OAK, CYPRESS
and NORTH CAROLINA PINE LUMBER; also OAK, MA-
PLE and BIRCH FLOORING, and would appreciate corre-
spondence from manufacturers in position to supply any of the
stock named.

W. M. GILLESPIE LUMBER

HARDWOODS COMPANY Farmers Bank Bldg.
Oak a Specialty PITTSBURGH, PA.

The West Florida Hardwood Co.

Ash
Hickory

Mr :>n Apalachicola River
MARYSVILLE, FLA.

Red and White Oak Red Gum

Yellow Cottonwood Tupelo Gum

LET US HAVE YOUR INQUIRIES =

HARDWOOD RECORD

R. M. SMITH J. H. P. SMITH

R. M. SMITH (®l COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

WEST VIRGINIA HARDWOODS

PARKERSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA

WE CARRY IN STOCK FROM TEN TO FIFTEEN MILLION FEET OF ASH, BEECH, BASSWOOD, CHESTNUT, CHERRY,

MAPLE, PLAIN & QTD. OAK, POPLAR, WALNUT, &C. OUR PLANING

MILL FACILITIES ARE UNSURPASSED.

EASTERN OFFICE: Band Mill: Orndoff, Webster County, W. Va.

1425-6 LAND TITLE BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA Planing Mill; Heaters, W. Va.

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co.

SCRANTON, PA.

BAND-SAWED
HARDWOODS

MILLS:

"THE BEST LUMBER" cmSSSSSS^V va.

HOLCOMB, W. VA.

R.E. Wood Lumber Company

C, We own nearly a thousand million feet of virgin poplar, oak,
chestnut and other hardwood timber, and operate our own band mills
in West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
C Let us figure on your hardwood requirements.

GENERAL OFFICES

continent^ 'KffiwNG. Baltimore, Maryland

HARDWOOD RECORD

PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OP

COTTONWOOD

QUM AIND OTHER HARDWOODS

Large stock* of well seasoned Lumber always carried at our yards and mills.
General Offices: 1 40 W. Chicago Ave., CHICAGO. Mills: Cairo, 111., Marked Tree, Ark., Greenville, Miss., Arkansas City, Ark., BIytheville, Ark.

D. G. COURTNEY

MANUFACTURER OF

Yellow Poplar
Oak & Chestnut

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA

Our Timber Holdings are located exclusively in the finest sections of West Virginia
growth. Modern mills and perfect manufacture. Standard and uniform grades.

WTe seek the trade of wood-working factories who want a dependable lumber supply
and fair treatment.

Just now we want to move 4/4 No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 Common Oak.

Swann-Day Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OF

POPLAR AND OAK

PLANING MILL STOCK, BOX SHOOKS
AND HARDWOOD DIMENSION

CLAY CITY, KENTUCKY

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HARDWOOD RECORD

CHICAGO

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

The T. Wilce Company

22nd and Throop Sts. CHICAGO. ILL.

A floor to adore

For thirty-three years Wilce's Hardwood Floor-
ing has been among the foremost on the market
and because it stands today "unequaled" is the
best evidence that its manufacturer has kept
abreast of modern methods and the advanced de-
mands of the trade. To convince yourself of the
above statements, try our polished surface floor-
ing, tongued and grooved, hollow backed, with
matched ends and holes for blind nailing — you'll
find it reduces the expense of laying and polishing.
Our Booklet tells all about Hardwood Flooring and
ht w to care for it — also prices— and is free,

Harvey S. Hayden

IN THE MARKET FOR
POPLAR

25 M ft. l%" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
40 M ft. 2" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
25 M ft. 2%" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
60 M ft. 3" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.

WHITE ASH

30 M ft. 1" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
75 M ft. 5 4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
50 M ft. 6 4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
50 M ft. 8 4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
25 M ft. 10/4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
50 M ft. 16 4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths.
(We can use a small percentage of No. 1 Commou.)

511 Railway Exchange, - Chicago

PARK RICHMOND <& CO.

Wholesale

Hardwood Lumber

410 Monadnock Block

HARRISON 5165 V_/IllCclgO

John O'Brien Land & Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Of All Kinds

OFFICE AND YARDS:

873 to 881 So. Laflin Street

MILL : FHILIPP, MISS.

Chicago

J. Slimmer & Company

Hardwood
Lumber

Office and Yard :

65 W. Twenty-second St.

CHICAGO

R. A, WELLS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Fine Quartered Oak a Specialty

234 LA SALLE STREET
Yards at Canal and 21st Sts. CHICAGi

V ILL.

have you anything to offer in.

hickory, white ash, thick plain
oak and wagon stock?

WE ARE CASH BUYERS

PLEASE SEND US YOUR STOCK LISTS

Ryan & McFarland

Office and Yards PKJr.a rin

Robey St. and Blue Island Ave. *^I\ICa.gO

White Lumber Company

Dealers in Hardwood Lumber

ALL KINDS

Cherry Lumber a
Specialty

ALL GRADES

Laflin (& 2 Id Sts.
Chicago

HARDWOOD RECORD

II

C H I C A O

o

WORLD

3|

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE

I ERNEST B. LOMBARD I

Manufacturer ar»d Wholesale

Northern a.i\d Southern
Hardwoods

Railway Exchange - CHICAGO

CHAS. DARLING & CO.

Southern
Hardwoods

22nd Street and Center Avenue - CHICAGO

The Keith Lumber Co.

MAHOGANY

5,000,000 feet ma-
hogany in stock.

Large and fine stock
of Cuban wood.

FOREIGN AND

AMERICAN

HARDWOODS

14th and Woorl Streets
CHICAGO

THE WARD LIMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

HARDWOODS

CHAMBKR OF COMMERCE BUILDING :: CHICAGO

CHAS. MILLER

MILLER BROS.

MILTON MILLER

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Main Office: 208 WILLOUGHBY BLDG. 6 E. MADISON ST.
'Phone Central 1363 CHICAGO, ILL.

Yards: Loomis St. S.of 22nd St., Chicago, 111., Houston Miss., Macon. Miss.

WHAT HAVE YOU TO OFFER IN

Poplar — Oak — Ash — Chestnut

ALSO OTHER HARDWOODS-ALL GRADES
AND THICKNESSES

SCHULTZ BROTHERS <& COWEN

1225 to 1240 Old Colony Building. CHICAGO

WISCONSIN TIMBER (Si LUMBER CO.

BUY AND SELL —

Yellow Pine and Hardwood Lumber

Want thick hardwoods and wagon box boards.
Morvadrvock BIdg CHICAGO. ILL.

The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Co.

Wholesale and Retail

SS?». HARDWOOD LUMBER

47 Dominick St.
CHICAGO

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Co.

1649-50 MARQUETTE BUILDING

Are now offering bone drv BIRCH. ROCK ELM, BLACK ASH. etc., Wis-
consin stock. Also PLAIN AND QUARTERED OAK, POPLAR, etc.,
from our Memphis yard. We are constant buyers.

Ben C. Keator— Wholesale Lumber

HARDWOOD AMD PINE

1003-4 Manhattan Building, CHICAGO

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"Ideal" IS Rock Maple Flooring

is the flooring that is manufactured expressly to supply
the demand for the best. It is made by modern ma-
chinery from carefully-selected stock and even,- pre-
caution is taken throughout our entire system to
make it fulfill in every particular its name — "IDEAL.1*

Rough or Finished Lumber — All Kinds

Send us Your Inquiries

The I. Stephenson Company

WELLS, MICHIGAN

' Michigan Maple Flooring

Our model factory is equipped with the highest
class tools and appliances made for Flooring
production.

We produce car lumber from the best rock Ma-
ple area in Michigan and have 20 years' supply.

Our brand "Michigan" is a guaranty of qual-
ity. Perfect mill work and excellent grades
distinguish our Flooring and our prices are
reasonable.

WARD BROS., Big Rapids, Mich.

OAK FLOORING

Kiln Dried

Polished

& MFG. CO.
5A RDIS
*: MISS-

Hollow
Backed

and

Bundled

flThe HARDWOOD RECORD

publishes a

series of bulletins, showing the annual h

ardwood re-

quirements of many thousands of wholesale consumers,

by kind, grade and thickness.

<j| Indispensable to every lumber sales manager.

•I Specimen bulletin for the asking.

FIRE INSURANCE

That is Approved by Lumbermen
and Woodworkers

Lumber Underwriters

66 Broadway
New York

We have in stock

150,000 ft. 4-4 White Maple Cross piled with 2'/i-
inch dry crossers.

125,000 ft. 4-4 Log run Birch red in. No thick
cut out.

Please favor us with your orders.

Bliss & Van Auken

Saginaw, W. S. Mich.

WE ARE OFFERING

TIMBER LAND 6% BONDS

Secured by first mortgage on Southern timber
lands at less than SO per cent of their present
market value. Issued by large, well established,
responsible lumber companies. Full particu-
lars will be mailed on request.

CLARK L. F»OOL_E & CO.

SUCCESSORS TO

H. C. BARROLL ® CO.. Bankers

First National Bank Building CHICAGO

THE "FINEST" MAPLE FLOORING

W. D. YOUNG &. CO.

BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

Producers from TREE to TRADE of the high-
est type of Michigan Forest Products. Large
stock of Maple Flooring and 15,000,000 feet
of Hardwoods — 1 to 4 inches thick — on hand.

Maple, Birch and Beech Lumber

MMwoMReaJM

Published in the Interest of Hardwood Lumber, American Hardwood Forests, Wood Veneer Industry, Hardwood Flooring,
Hardwood Interior Finish, Wood Chemicals, Saw Mill and Woodworking Machinery.

Vol. XXIII.

CHICAGO. DECEMBER 25. 1906.

No. 5.

Published on the 10th and 25th ot each month by

THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

Henry H. Gibson, President Frank W. Tuttle, Sec-TYeas.

OFFICES
Sixin Floor Ellsworth Bldg., 355 Dearborn St. Chicago, 111., U.S.A.

Telephones: Harrison 4960 Automatic 5659

TERMS OF ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION
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In all other countries in Universal Postal Union ..... 3.00
Subscriptions are payable in advance, and in default of written orders to the
contrary are continued at our option.

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HARDWOOD ASSOCIATION MEETING.
Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association.

The eighth annual meeting of this association will be held
at the Grand Hotel, Indianapolis, on Friday, Jan. 11, 1907.
Matters of much importance to the trade will be brought
up for discussion and a large attendance is desired.

The Compliments oi the Season.

Another year is nearly at an end. It has been a year of unex-
ampled prosperity in all legitimate business pursuits. The hardwood
trade of the country has met with its full share of success.

With tin- 11 u;li\vood Record the year has been a successful one, The
circulation of the publication has grown by leaps and bounds, and
the advertising patronage has shown an increase of more than fifty
per cent.

The publishers of the Eecord, while not satisfied with the standard
of excellence attained, can simply say that they have done their
best in making a newspaper that should be of value to the totality
of the manufacturing, jobbing and consuming hardwood and veneer
trade of the country. This ' ' best ' ' of 1906, it is sincerely hoped,
may lie mail'' better in 1907.

For the support the paper has had during the year — for this mani-
festation of confidence and approval — the publishers wish to return
their sincere thanks, and to wish their patrons a .Merry Christmas
and a Happy New Year.

General Market Conditions.

The year is ending the country over with the strongest buying in
hardwoods that has prevailed since 1892, and the demand is even in
excess of the remarkable last month of that year. These conditions
prevail in the buying field throughout the middle West and in fact
clear to the Pacific Coast. If there is any diminution in demand
anywhere it is manifest in the chief commercial centers of the East.
Some of the dealers in the latter section claim that business is just
as active as it has been any time during the year, while others say
that owing to the holiday and stock-taking season buyers are not
making as free purchases as they did late in the fall. If the latter
statement be true it is nothing more than might be expected, but
every one prophesies an increased demand immediately after the
first of the vear.

The highest values obtained in any lumber producing section are
doubtless realized in the Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi river
regions. Stocks have grown very short in these sections, with very
little prospect of any accretion for months to come, and prices have
been gradually advanced. The extremely active buying which has
prevailed in the middle West for months has tended to show com-
paratively high prices in the general sources of supply for lumber
that goes to the great manufacturing districts of Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois. It is probable, freights taken into consideration, that the
lumber manufacturers in the territory noted are getting more for
their hardwoods than the manufacturers of West Virginia, Virginia
and North Carolina, whose stock goes largely into the eastern trade.
This fact is partially manifest in the matter of price and partially
in the somewhat higher grading of lumber demanded by the eastern
trade. It is safe, therefore, to assume that southern manufacturers
of hardwoods have succeeded in securing a considerably larger net
price for their output than has accrued to hardwood manufacturers
farther east.

Although there have been heavy tides in the streams which supply
poplar logs there is no diminution in the demand or price for this
wood, as it is well known that there will be no dry stock available
from this run of logs for several months to come. The demand for
poplar is so strong that there is very little chance that prices will
diminish.

Weather conditions that have prevailed in the oak-producing sec-
tions for the past six weeks preclude the possibility of any over-
stock in any variety, and the tendency of prices is constantly upward.
It would not be surprising if oak commanded an average advance
of $5 per thousand before spring. Both Cottonwood and gum are in
short supply and prices are ranging firm.

The call for hickory is still far in excess of any possibility of
supply. Every hickory-producing section is being scoured for sup-
plies. White ash is almost as scarce, and the trend of values is
upward.

The call for cherry and walnut is exceptionally good for these
woods, which are only sold in limited quantities for special purposes.
There is probably less in sight at the present time than there has
been in many years.

The mahogany situation is anomalous. Stocks are generally very
light with a remarkably strong demand, and still values have not
advanced to any appreciable extent. The English markets are barren
of logs and comparatively limited quantities are arriving at home
ports. There is such a manifest shortage of mahogany that the
wood would seem to be an excellent purchase at present values. The
Spanish cedar market, so far as stock goes, is in about the same
shape. However, prices of this wood have materially advanced dm
ing the last twelve months.

The flooring factories engaged in the production of oak, maple,
birch and beech flooring are still tested to their capacity to take
care of contracts for the many large office, mercantile and public
buildings going up throughout the country.

Manufacturers of veneers and panels are loaded down with orders
ahead of their output from sixty days to six months. It is probable
that with the clean-up of orders on hand the price of both veneers
and panels will be materially advanced, as certainly they are very
much lower in comparison than hardwood lumber.

The Veneer and Panel Business.

While the making of sawed veneers is an old industry the develop-
ment of the veneer and panel business into a great commercial pur-
suit is comparatively recent. Handsome veneer furniture built more
than a century ago is in evidence to this day. The veneers used in
this work were painstakingly sawed by a slow and laborious
process and were finished by hand. Perhaps a quarter of a century
ago manufacturers commenced to slice veneers from flitches. It has
only been within the last few years that the great development has
come in the production of large quantities of veneers which have

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HARDWOOD RECORD

been made by the rotary cut process; i. e., a log has been projected
against a fixed knife and slices of the wood thus removed in a con-
tinuous sheet. This system is adaptable to many varieties of wood
and has cheapened veneers very materially. With the cheapening
process has come a great development in tin- use of veneers for
many purposes. Today the greater proportion of hardwood doors
are veneered. Vast quantities of furniture panels, table and dressei
tops are of built-up stock. In fact every day shows a new use for
laminated woods, and still the veneer and panel industry is in its
infancy.

This trade is divided into three classes: The manufacturer who
makes sawed, sliced and rotary cut veneers only; the manufacturer
who makes veneers and built-up stock or panels, and the manufac-
turer who buys his veneers and makes panels only.

Through the creation of the National Veneer & Panel Manufac-
turers' Association these three elements of the trade are working in
entire harmony and are gradually establishing a basis of grading
veneers and panels and a uniform base of cost which will eventually
result in a comparative uniformity of values. The business in its
general character being a new one, manufacturers have had a great
deal to learn about it. It. may In- said that the veneer and panel
industry lias been passing through experimental stages. It is a
business which "looks good" on paper, but which cost figures have
never proved to lie so. Paper profits of a hundred per cent have
dwindled down to twenty-five, to ten per cent, to cost, and in quite
a number of eases to less than cost. The veneer'trade is just learn-
ing how to figure cost, and when this desideratum is reached there is
]nts in store for the skilled veneer and panel producer.

Manufacturers of furniture, doors and a good many other articles
of general utiJitj hove discovered that the veneer and panel people

have not 1 n "onto their job," and ever since the production of

v,., is bias grown to be a leading pursuit thej have bought this

material at very low prices. In fart, their original reason fur Inly-
ing veneers was that they could produce a laminated rail, panel or
furniture table top from this material of a better quality and at a
less cost than they could make it of solid \\ I.

Although the National Veneer & Panel Manufacturers' Associa
lion has been in existence only a little more than a year, tin/ efforts
of its enterprising members have resulted in educating themselves
as well as the trade at large up to making cost figures that will
result in a vast deal of good to the trade. While today the veneer
and panel manufacturers of the United States are behind their
orders from sixty days to six months, it is believed thai the ednea
tional work performed by the association will result in the evolution
of a uniform system of manufacture and grading, and that the
coming year will see a base of values established for this line ol
goods that will show a handsome profit for the producers.

Reciprocal Demurrage Law Convention.

The American Lumberman has issued a call for a national ear
demurrage convention to lie held in Chicago on Friday, January 4.
next, to discuss the present ear situation, its causes and remedies, and
if its members shall so decide, t.'i devise and arrange for the presenta-
tion tn Congress of an amendment to the Interstate I rce law.

which shall provide:

That shippers and receivers of carload freight shall pay to

'railroads without delay or recourse .-i fixed a mi per car per day

beyond a certain fixed time allowed I'm- loading or unloading, sucb
amount and time to be determined by tin- interstate Commerci
Commission ;

Thai, reciprocally, failure by a railroad to place cars for loading
within a reasonable, fixed time after demand for cars shall be
made by prospective shippers shall subject such railroad to a like
charge or penalty ;

That, failing to deliver a car at destination within a reasonable
time, the railroad collecting the freight charge shall pay to the
consignee or party holding bill of lading such amount per car per
day of delay as the Interstate Commerce Commission shall decide
to be just and equitable; such payment to be automatically col-
lectable, perhaps by having stamped on the receipt or bill of lading
given by the railroad the date of delivery of car to the railroad,
and the* mileage to destination, the consignee having the right and
power to make payment in full o£ freight bill by tendering the
amount of the bill, less the penalty for delay shown to have ac-
crued ;

Or to take such other action, or to recommend such other meas-
ures, as the members of the convention shall in their assembled
wisdom decide to be equitable, practicable and wise, having due
regard to the rights of the railroads or other common carriers

engaged in interstate coin rce as well as to the interests thej

[ epresent .

With all due respect to the enterprise of an esteemed eotemporary
in attempting to assist in legislation that shall ameliorate existing
transportation evils, At is the belief of the Hardwood Record that
little can be done in this way to bring about this much-ueeded relief.
In fact, the Record is entirely in accord with Weyerhaeuser & < o..
who express themselves on this subject as follows: "We believe
the proposed reciprocal demurrage law utterly impracticable. It will

impede rather than expedite movement of cars. * * * Self-
interest will produce better railway service than government regula-
tions. The railways need more cars, more motive power, more track.
but legislation will not produce them."

It is getting to be a general belief that there already is too much
railroad legislation. If the position of shippers has been in auy
wise improved by Interstate Commerce laws during the past few
years it is not generally conspicuous. In the very nature of the busi-
ness railroads cannot be expected to increase their supply of equip-
ment to such an extent that they can take care of double or treble
an average month's business during the few weeks of active move-
ment of farm products. It would lie asking too much. Mr. Weyer-
haeuser has apparently sounded the keynote of the situation when
he says that self-interest will produce better railway service than
governmental regulations.

However, the proposed convention can do no harm, and it may
result in threshing out certain problems that will prove of eventual
good to both transportation companies and to the shipping public.
It is a piece of newspaper enterprise that is highly commendable.

The Lumber Combine.

Press dispatches announce that Commissioner of Corporations Gar-
field has begun an investigation of the operations of the so-called
' ' lumber trust."

The operations of the said lumber trust are receiving a good deal
of consideration in Congress. Senator Kittridge of South Dakota
introduced a resolution in the Senate some days ago directing the
Commissioner of Corporations to investigate the cause or causes of
the high price of lumber in its various stages of manufacture from
the log, and to ascertain whether or not a lumber trust exists. A
resolution to the same effect was introduced in the House by Repre-
sentative Miller of Kansas. It is alleged that preliminary informa-
tion shows that during the past three years the prices of lumber have
advanced by regular -logos, indicating at least uniformity of con-
trol, and that the advance has ranged from $5 to $10 a thousand feet.

Commissioner of Corporations Garfield can be. advised in advance
that he will not find any lumber trust, or any trust methods that
have contributed to the increase of the prices of hardwood lumber
at least. The prices of hardwood have advanced from the very
.lie ii nt and natural cause of insufficient supply for the demand;
from the diminished area and greater stumpage cost of the timber,
and the very materially increased cist of lumber production. Under
these conditions it is surprising that the rise in hardwood lumber
values has not been much more than it has.

It is also suggested that possibly the $1^ tariff on lumber has con-
tributed materially to increased cost. From the viewpoint nt' t

hardv. I operator he would m.t .-are a rap if lumber was on the

tree list, because he has no fear of competition from oak, poplai
Cottonwood or gum from any other section of the world. In fad.
if all lumber was mi the free list it is doubtful if the price would
In- diminished on any item. The important advantage that would
accrue from abrogating the lumber tariff would be to prolong the
lit',, of the forests of the United States.

Fire Losses for 1906.

It is authoritatively stated that the lire losses foi the year draw-
ing to ;i close will exceed by hundreds of millions of dollars the lost
for any previous year in the history of this country. Tin- San
Francisco earthquake fire alone entailed losses aggregating nearlj
three times the total losses resulting from the I hicago fin
of 1871, seven times the total of the Boston fire of 1872,
and ten times the loss in Baltimore from the 1904 fire. The statis-
tics recently prepared by the National Board of Fire Underwriters
indicate an average per capita fire loss of $3.10 for a period of five
years in 252 American cities. This great tax upon American nianii
fa.tuiers and merchants has sent scores of old line insurance com
pi is into bankruptcy during the year.

In the face of this fire loss history is it not worth the time of lum-
bermen and the manufacturing clientage of the Hardwood RECORD'
to consider the success that has been attained by the various purelj
lumber insurance companies of the United States.' These companies
commencing in a small way have gradually grown in strength until
today an ordinary sized fire risk in strictly lumber or in a lumbei
consuming industry can be placed among a few of them with a
positive guarantee that their protection is sure, and beyond that tin
are securing this protection at from twenty-five to thirty-live pel
cent less cost than offered by the old companies. The underwriters
of lumber risks have demonstrated beyond peradventure that the
lumber trade in the past has paid too much of the proportion of
losses for other lines of trade and have therefore not been buying
1 1 1 s 1 1 1 .- at a just price.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Verts Pertinent and Impertinent.

I want to be a millionaire,

I am not really mercenary :
For wealth, indeed, I do not care

At least not more tban's necessary ;
I do not pine for motor cars,

I want no 00-cent cigars,
The trolley and my pipe, you see.

Are plenty good enough for me.

The Ragtime Muse.

"Lis mi! that I would like «" deck

My wife with diamonds and lac<
Or hang rare pearls abouf her neck,

She has enough of airs and graces.
She likes thai sort of thing, but I'll

Be hanged if I can care for style.
My tastes are simple as can be,

The unassuming life for me.

I want to wear just whal I choi i
Old coats, nor care if they arc seedy,

Old hats, old gloves, old, easy shoei
Worn only by the rich or needj

But I'm not rich nor poor enough
And so I have to make a bluff.

To wear old clothes I shall not dare
Till I become a millionaire.

15

Too Common.

Did you ever no-
tice Imw cute a
homely girl isn't?

Carefully Polite.

Some men are so
considerate that they
even lie to their
wives in order to
avoid telling them
things that would

probably make them

unhappy.

Common Caution.

Do as you would
be done by when you
discover any one
trying to do you.

Sure to Follow.

K\ el yl hing collies

to t lie man who waits
and t he bill collector
heads I he procession.

A Proverb.
A quail on toast is
worth two ill the
ot her t'elli.w \ game
bag.

Sure Thing.
1 1 's a padded cell
for any man who
thinks he can please
all his relations.

Absolute Truth.
1 toe b 11 r I e s <j u e

show will keep the

average man awake
longer than a dozen
-i-i mons.

A Diplomat.

A wise ma 11 never
tells his wife enough
to set her guessing.

THE CHRISTMAS TREE.

Type of the most important American forest tree— at this time of the year.

Be Game.
Don't, balls at tin
little hills. It Mm

<lo, you will novel

climb the mountain.

Too True.

Alter a man lias

taken aboard a few
highballs he begins

to look like the reel

t hi no.

But It's History.
Even at this stagi
of the game then
are men who deny
thai George Wash
ingl on e\ rr owned a
1 1 ; 1 1 1 ■ h 1 ■ I .

Take Notice.
Riches tnaj have
wings, but don't sit
down and wait for

a II o t ll e r III .1 11 ' S

riches to fly your
way.

A Winning Hand.

Enterprise and ad-
vertising make the
biggest pair in the

deck.

She's Too Eloquent.

A man is never

too busy to listen

w hen I be lady on

the dollar talks.

A Sad Case.
A lot of emp!

I r I'oi t les is one

kind of a hopeless

.1 1

Marked Men.
Many a marked

man has the tattoo
1 it ist tot hank for it

Advance Ladies; Step Lively.

Some men slay single all their years
Because no perfect she appears;
Not finical like these am I,
Any to whom these lines apply

Will do for me.
She may not chant a simple lay
Except in amateurish way :
Vet if she knows when not to sing —
Alack! a more unusual thing —

She'll do for me. '

She may not speak with fluent ease
Latin or French or — what you please —
II' her own tongue she's learned to hold
1. ei lea he dumpy, wrinkled, old,

shell do for me.
1 care not if her general hue
Be quite another one than blue ;
She mayn't have read one learned book,
let, oh, ye gods! an' she can cook —

■She'll do for me.

Boston Tbaxscbipi

Just as It Happens.

The .lays are like the 1 pie that

We have to deal with, you and I:

Some arc bad and some are g !.

And no man seems to know just why.

Disappointed Malice.

It makes a fellow simply feci
Like falling through the (lour.

To meet a man he's roasted and
To find he isn't on

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HARDWOOD RECORD

AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

Red or River Birch.
Ha nigra — Linn.
The range of growth of river birch is
through certain sections of New York and
Massachusetts; southward on the east side
of the Allegheny mountains to Florida;
through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana to the Trinity river district of
Texas; north to Indian Territory; through
eastern Kansas and Nebraska; cen-
tral Minnesota, southern Wisconsin
and Ohio.

It is known as red birch in
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New-
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Delaware, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Louisiana, Missouri, Wis-
consin, Kansas, Nebraska and Ohio ;
as river birch in Massachusetts,
Rhode Island. New Jersey, Dela-
ware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Mis-
souri, Illinois, Wisconsin and Ohio;
as water birch in the southern
states; as blue birch in Arkansas;
as black birch in Florida, Tennes-
see and Texas; as birch in North
and South Carolina, Mississippi and
Louisiana.

The leaves of this tree are one
to three inches long; alternate;
oval, with pointed apex; saw-
toothed, thin and tough; in color
they are shiny, dark green above
and pale yellowish-green below; in
autumn they turn a dull yellow-;
tlieir petioles are short and thin.

The flowers appear before the
leaves, in March or April; they
grow in catkins in groups of three,
staminate ones two to three inches
in length; in color, yellowish-brown;
the pistillate catkins are' about
three-fourths of an inch in length,
erect; fuzzy; light green in color.

The fruit ripens in" June, and is
erect and cone-shaped, one to two
inches in length; the bracts are
fuzzy, and three-lobed ; the nut is
oval and hairy, with broad wings.

The bark is a dark reddish-brown,
and deeply furrowed when old, its
surface scaly; on the branches it
has a silvery tinge and rolls back in
tattered plates; the lenticels are
pronounced. It is from the bark
that the tree derives the name
"red" birch.

In height it ranges from seventy to ninety
feet, .and is sometimes five feet in diameter,
often divided at a distance of fifteen or more
feet from the ground, into two or three
diverging limbs of equal size, which support
the drooping, horizontal branehlets. The
whole presents a slender, graceful appearance,
in common with the other members of this
familv.

FORTT-THIKD PAPER.

The habitat of the river birch is tin- I ks

of streams, lakes or swamps, in deep rich soil
often flooded for several weeks at a time; it
is the only semi-aquatic species, and in fact
the only birch which grows in the damp low-
lands of the South, where it attains its great-
est development. It is a desirable ornamental
tree, and is sometimes planted in copses to
prevent the banks of streams from washing.

Mississippi, where its roots and base of
trunk are inundated for half the year. The
fruits of the red birch are ripe in June, and
the wind, shaking the erect cones, scatters
the seeds on the rich land from which the
water iias subsided. Here they germinate at
iiiiit, and are rooted, vigorous little seedlings
by the time the floods return, able to keep
tlieir heads above water, and to thrive like
their parents, adding color and
grace of line and motion to the
landscape of many different regions.
It is a surprise to find this, our
semi-aquatic and southernmost birch,
growing in apparent complacency
and comfort in dry, upland soil in
the New England states and Minne-
sota. But so it behaves in cultiva-
tion. It well exemplifies the versa-
tility of the family."

The wood of Betula nigra is light
and hard, strong and close-grained;
the heartwood is light brown and
the sapwood yellowish. It is made
up into furniture, wooden shoes,
lasts, ox-yokes, woodenware, turnery,
and is used for fuel.

The halftone illustrating this
sketch is from a photograph taken
on the property of the Montvale
Lumber Company in Swain county,
North Carolina.

TY

PICAL 1'OIiEST GROWTH RIVER BIRCH,
COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.

SWAIN

In writing of Betula nigra, Rogers says:
"No birch loves the stream borders more
ardently than this southern member of the
family. The lustrous leaves do not conceal
the flying silken tatt?is of bark which cover
the tree to its leafy twigs the year round.
It is foolish to call 1;his tree nigra, for it is
not black but red, frjia top to bottom. It is
at its best along the bayous of the lower

Oak and Pine.

Positively standing first in the list
oJ American hardwoods is the oak,
and equally certain is it that white
pine will always bear the distinction
of being the king of soft woods.
The timber of the oak combines in
itself the essential elements of
strength, durability, hardness and
elasticity in a degree of which no
other tree can boast. In beauty it
is also unrivaled. It is an essential
material in ship building, architec-
ture, cabinet makiug, carving, coop-
erage and innumerable other indus-
tries.

To make a list of the uses for
which white pine is employed would
be well-nigh impossible. This wood
never has had a peer for pattern
making or for sashes, and although
substituted in some instances to a
considerable extent at the present
time, it is invaluable for ship car-
pentry and exterior use in house
building.
Unfortunately both of these kings of the
American forest are nearing extinction. Prac-
tically every last remaining area of oak and
white pine timber in the United States is now
in the hands of operators, and the only hope
of a supply beyond the immediate future lies
in the comparatively small natural reforesta-
tion that can be depended upon, and the pros-
pect ivf a sane reforestry regime.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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Hardwood Record f&ail 'Bag.

[In this department it Is proposed to reply
to such inquiries as reach this office from the
Hardwood Record clientage as will be of enough
general interest to warrant publication. Every
patron of the paper 's invited to use this de-
partment to the fullest extent, and an attempt
will be made to answer queries pertaining to all
matters of interest to the hardwood trade. In
a succinct and intelligent manner.l

Dry Kiln Processes.

Dresden, Ont., Dec. 14. — Editor Habdwoop
Record: Can you tell us how to kiln dry 2%
in. x 4 in. x 10 ft. pieces of green white and
red oak, if possible, so that they will have no
season checks in them at any time during the
drying process?

The inquirer has been furnished the ad-
dresses of several firms claiming to make a
dry kiln which will accomplish this task, and
others wlm would like to communicate with

the inquirer will be furnished his nam

application. — Editor.

How to Burn Cottonwood Sawdust.
A correspondent writes: "If there is anything
harder to burn than Cottonwood sawdust, those
who operate mills cutting this wood will be hard

PRINT OF RIVER BIRCH LEAF.

to convlnc f the fact. However, the Otis

Manufacturing Company of New Orleans, La.,
has discovered how- to gel results from this
fuel. The company is burning all its cotton-
wood sawdust, and it saws nothing but cotton-
wood on the night run, and does not lind it
necessary i" us,' any dry wood at all, keeping
steam entirely with Ihe sawdusi anil the small

blocks direct from, ihe saw. All the firevi

is sold. For this gratifying condition of affairs
the company gives credit to Ho- Gordon Hollow
Blast Grate, manufactured by the Gordon Hoi
i..w Blast Grate Company of Greenville, Mich.
Before this grate was put in the company could
ir t burn mere than halt tie' sawdust, and had
to tit-.- 1 ■ r > almost entirely on dry wood, \..w
it is never delayed by lai k of Steam and fre-
quently has to shut off the blast while running
on good-sized logs."

Who Uses Willow?

Columbus, O., For. 17.— Editor Hardw

Record: Can you give me the address ■
firm which uses willow in the manufacture
artificial legs?

The writer has been supplied with a list ol

a dozen manufacturers of artificial legs. The
name of the writer will be furnished to any
others interested. — Editor.

Felloes Wanted.
Stockton, Cal., Dec. 12. — Editor Habdwood
i;i,, ,1:1,. We tire seeking tor some felloe manu-
facturer who will saw for us thr r tour car-
loads of saw.'.l oak felloes, consisting of the fol-
lowing sizes ;

:: s:i',
::cx4
4 x3
4',x4>J
4 -\4 1 1
These felloes i" be all circles from :: feet to
I feel 10 inches high. If you know of any one
who can furnish such material, kindly put us in
touch with them. — — Manupactubing

Compact.

Anyone wishing to communicate with the
above inquirer will be furnished the address
on reouest. — Editor.

Greasy If Not Slippery.
I'tiTSBURG, Pa., Dec. 19. — Editor Hardwood
Recobd : Enclosed please find copy of corre-
spondence which we have had with the Reliance
nil i: Crease Company of Cleveland, O., in ref-
erence to a carload of lumber which we sold
them a short time ago.

They intended evidently to catch us bj their
old time trick, 1ml we told them that we could
not take oils in exchange, and they instructed
us to go ahead and ship the car at regular
terms. When it arrived at destination they
wired us finding fault with thr stock and ask-
ing a reduction, which we refused to allow.

We then instructed them to turn this car
over to the Mills Carlton Company of Cleveland.
1 1. The following day they wired us that they
bad seen their customer again and that they
would take the ear as per their original order.
of course, we naturally overlooked the fact
of their original order calling for an exchange
of oils. We wired them. ■All right, go ahead
and take the car," and confirmed same by letter
asking them to promptly hand us freight bill
and check covering the amount of the car.

This was nolo.' 10 1I10 Reliance Oil & Grease

Company that we undersf 1 their telegram to

mean that they would take tin' stock as per out-
original invoice.

As a matter of fact, we do n..i believe that
they ever showed ibis lumber to any customer
in Cleveland, 0., but merely duplicated their
trick in handing us this last telegram. Wo
immediately got out a circular to find out
where the car was finally disposed of, and we
finally learn. rd thai it was purchased by the
Brown Lumber Company, Massillon, O., for
1. net .sum of $465.74. By referring to our
Invoice, copy of same herewith attached, to the
Reliance Oil & Grease Company, you will, see
1 h.n ibis car cosl them $595.55.

Consequently, on the face of it they would
make a loss of $129.81. This of itself is evi-
dence of gross fraud and we are informed by
quite a number of the lumber drains in Cleve
land that Ibis firm has been in this line of
business for manj years past and are practically
a standing joke among the lumber trade of
.land. At the same time we are informed
that the Reliance nil & Grease Company make
a hal/ii of buying anything which they can get
a hold of, either a carload of boots and shoes,
a carload ol hardware, a carload of grain, or
hay, or lumber, of anything else, working the
ame exchange "i oil game right along

They have certainly picked us up. but al the
same time we believe that we are i" a position
to prove'fraud and false pretenses without any
question, and we have therefore placed our claim

in the hands of McGraw & Messick, attorueys-
at law. Cleveland, O., and at the same time we
have requested R. 1;. Dun & c... Bradstreel and
also He Cleveland Wholesale I. umber Dealers'
Association to co-operate with our attorneys

As far as the question of libel is concerned
you need not have any fears whatever on this
score, as tins concern's reputation is too well
established to justify them to think for a mo-
ment of bringing a libel suit.

It seems that nearly every business house in

Cleveland has 1 a on t., their game for many

years, but the difficulty is that no one victim
has taken the trouble to give the matter proper
publicity. As far as we are concerned we are
certainly not proud of the fact of our having
been picked up. and any advertisement in con-
nection with the same would not be at all de
sirable. However, for Ihe benefit of the lumber
trade, we are willing you should use our name
and the information we give you in any way
which you mas see tit. Yours very truly.
American Lumber & Mfg. o>.
W. It. Johnstos , President

The above letter is accompanied in 1 0]
..I voluminous correspondence by mail and
wire covering the transaction noted. It peri
ties the facts set forth herewith, it is pub
lished not so much as n warning againsi the

Iiil.lACi: AMi llllll OK RIVER BIRCH.

Reliance Oil & Grease Company's busini
methods as it is in illustrate how even careful
and painstaking business houses get caught
on technicalities. The Hardwood Record is
especially pleased to publish tins eommuni a
nun because the average lumberman when he
gets "soaked" iu a transaction like the fore

g o. keeps the matter to himself ami pd 1

.•is his loss rather than confess ins di
lilure and warn other: in I he I rade. There

i, our readei - eai I fail t mmend the

attitude of the American Lumber &■ Manu-
facturing Company in frankly fessing that

ia been stuck by a scheme and
others to profit ■ perience. Editor,.

The- W. F. Williams Company of Trs
City, Mich., which makes a specially of m

Hg, had one of the most
in its history in 1906. The factory put out
last year over 7,500,000 feet of flooring, which
was shipped all over the country.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

A Christmas Story

by

IDAH McGLONE GIBSON

When 'Barney 'Butted In

UHuitiated by Supplement:)

Wash Drawing

by

THOMAS J. NICHOLL

"I wonder if Barney's goin' to town to-
night?" said Dave to the camp oracle as he
rilled bis pipe before the crackling logs:

"Goin' to town on Christmus Eve?" ex-
claimed the camp oracle. "Of course, he is.
Ye couldn't keep old Barney away from his
boy "ii i IniMiiuis Eve if ye paid him the price
■of the whole winter's cut."

"His boy?." repeated the man who had
joined the crew only a month before. "I
thought Barney was au old batch who'd
learned to rook by bavin' to do it for him-
self."

"He is an old batch," answered the camp

oracle; "Imt lie's responsible for about tin'
cutest youngster in Wisconsin jess the same,
if bringin' its father through the smallpox
and playin' widwife at the bornin ' of the
baby makes a man responsible for it. Boys,
Barney's a hero, jess like one of them fellers
that Shakespeare or Tennyson writ about in
the time ot Christ, when he said, 'Kind
hearts are worth more than gold-plated cor-
nets, and the best blooded Norman colt isn't
in it with the man that knows he can do
things and goes ahead and does 'em.' Of
je, them ain't jess the words, Imt that's
what the poet meant," said the oracle, as he
looked about on the admiring faces of the
men.

"Gosh, .loo, ye must have read a lot in
your time," said the youngest man in the
gang..

"Not so much, lad," answered the oracle,
modestly; "but, ye see. what I read I remem-
ber. P'raps if I hadn't been so all-bred fond
of leadin' I might bine 'mounted to more.
The boss and me was boys together, an. I ye
.an see where I come in now;, but I always
thought that the man who said 'Burn up your
obi wood; remember that whisky that has age
is the- smoothest goin' .down; never trusi a
$111 bill to anyone but your oldest friend, and

you can fuel mighty good readin' in a 1 k

f' si an feller before ye has torn tin
cover off,' was pretty near right in his views
of livin '. ' '

Tin- youngest man looked at the oracle ad-
miringly and then remarked: "I'll bet the
boss don't never read nothin' but the lumber
trade papers. What makes him so thick with
Barney?" he asked curiously. "Old Har-
ney's only the i-ook, ami they sav the bo
worth more 'n a million. ' '

"Well, ye see, lad," said tin- oracle, "Bar-
ney fixed up a little mistake that the boss
made birce and hi' never forgot it, and if he
should forgit for a minut I think that party
daughter-in-law of hisn would bring him up
short. Why, I've seerf her with her arms
'round Ban neck, and her nice dress all

flour from tryin' to kiss him while he was

. makin ' the biscuits for supper."

"She ain't no relation of hisn, is she?"
asked t he youngest man.

"No; but he saved her life once and
helped bring her boy into the world when
everybody bad forsaken her and the kid's
father. ' '

"Tell us about it," said the youngest
man. "Old Barney don't look like no hero
to me. I can tell ye."

"Heroes don't always look like we think
they do, ' ' affirmed the oracle. Just then the
cook appeared at the door to call the boy- to
supper, and surely he was far from a heroic
figure as he stood there with his cap partly
covering bis grizzled head, his striped woolen
shirt open at the throat, and bis sleeves above
the elbow showing bis sinewy arms and neck.
The deep set eyes were kindly, and the
wrinkles about the face showed there tad
been more smiles on the gray-mustached
mouth than frowns on the good-natured
brow .

"Hurry up, ye sons-of-guns, " the cook
thundered. "Didn't ye hear the horn? I'm
in a hurry tonight. My boy is waitin' for
Santy Clans.- and Santy can't eel there till
1 show up. (let a move on ye. ami I'll be
back in time to lix ye up sometbin' fine tor
Christmus dinner tomorrow."

"Barney's boy" was an object of interest
i i every man in the camp, not so much be-
cause be was the grandson of tl old man"

as because of the fact that bis birth was at
tended by a thrilling incident which appealed
to the great simple heart of every lumber-
jack who winked in the Wisconsin camp ai
that time.

Alen who live much in the open, whose work
is the hardest ami whose fare is the simplest.
an- real children, ready to accord admiration
and regard where it is due. They extend their
confidence quickly and give their sympathy
sincerely where it is needed. They are ever
ready to "ivo praise for a great act of
heroism; lint it must be primitive and show
upon it- face just what it is. They are not
troubled by the subtleties of conventionality
in their measure of a man. The oracle re-
marked one day when excusing a slight lapse
from grace on the part of one of their num-
ber: "As the Irish poet Burns said, a man's
a man and I hat '- all there is to it." Con-
sequently old Barney, the cook, was reverenced
and slightly envied by all the old crew of the
Wisconsin camp. Re had done what any one
of them would have done bad he been given
a chance. However, there were a few men
in the camp that winter who were new, and
they began to grumble a little after supper
because tie- cook gave them such meager fare
on Christmas Eve.

"Don't you make no mistake, pardner, "
said the oracle ; ' ' you '11 get a turkey dinner
tomorrow, all right. The old man always sets
up turkey and toddy for Christmas, and we've
got the cook that can fix 'em up right; but
Christmus Eve belongs to Barney and his boy,
and I think if this whole camp was to go
straight to hell if Barney went to visit him,
still he would go to the kid. ' '

"Tell us about it, Joe," said the youngest
man. The oracle needed no further excuse,
for iie dearly loved to bear himself talk.

"It was about four years ago last sum-
mer that the old man bad a quarrel with his
son. The old man, ye see, wanted the boy
to go to college, put on dog, and he a reg'lar
dude; said he didn't want him to work as
he'd done; that he'd enough money to make
him a college professor. But the youngster
was jess wild about the woods, and nothin'
would do but he must go into one of the
camps for the winter. Ye see, the kid had
fallen in love with the purty daughter of the
boss of this camp, and the old man seemed
to think she wasn't good enough for his son,
although the boy's mother herself came near
marryin ' the boss instead of the old man.
Well, things got to be pretty bad between
'em ; the old man said the boy should go to
college in the fall, and the kid said he would
marry the girl and go into camp in the
winter.

" 'Not in my camp, sir,' thundered the old
man one day.

" 'Then into some other one.' answered the
be, as he slammed out the door.

"He went straight to the old man's worst
enemy and got a job in the camp just below
here, and then he married the girl. All sum-
mer the two lived over there in a little shack
— the girl called it a bunggaloo — that the boy
had built himself, and as both were erazj
about the woods as well as each other, they
were very, very happy. When winter came
the girl stayed right along in the place. The
boy banked the snow all round the bouse, put
in double window lights and double doors, and
every mornin' we could hear him whistle as
he started out for work. Old Barney
used to steal over often to the bunggaloo, and
as he always made hot biscuits for supper on
the niehts be went, the boys wen- always glad
to see him go. Along about Christmus Bar-
e. 3 begun to look a bit serious, and we didn't
even catcha glimpse of the girl's bright face
as we sheepishly passed by the bunggaloo once
in a while. Finally, the word got round that
there was goin ' to be a baby over at the
bunggaloo and that Barney was goin' to make
a try the next time the old man came up to
get him to go over to see his boy and the
girl wife.

the: camp cook.

Drawing by Thomas J. Nicholl, from photograph by Henry H. Gibson.

SUPPLEMENT TO

Hardwood Record

DECEMBER 25, 1906.

ILLUSTRATING

"when barney butted in.'

HARDWOOD RECORD

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" 'Joe, says Barney to me one night, after
he had come back and found me in the cook
Bhanty, 'it's just like heaven over there in
that hunggalou. ami if the old man don't do
somethin' for them kids I'll never cook
another meal for him as long as I live.' I
saw that Barney was all winked up over
somethin', so i said, 'Ye know Shakespeare
says, "Be it ever so humble, there is no
place like home," and the Bible tells us
"Heaven is love." So with that bunggaloo
hi a home and each other tn love thej ean
git alnng without the old man fer a little
w bib'. '

" 'But, Joe. the girl's got to get out to
town soon. She can't staj here much lunger.
She'll soon need the doctor's care and some
11. hi tn be with her, and this mornin' the
1 1 . . % came home sirk. He looked feverish to-
night. I tell ye, when the old man comes
up agin he's got to go over to that bunggaloo
if 1 have to take him in my arms.'

" 'Ye ran do it. Harney, and if ye ean't,
1 il help ye,' 1 sai.l to him as I turned in.
The nrxt night as we was settin' down to
the supper table I thought I saw through the
window the girl cumin' up the path, but I
went tn the door and as I found no one 1
tin. light I was seein' things and said nothin'

body. But .jess as we were goin' to bed

Barney came to me and whispered, 'Come out-
side, and don't let the boys get onto ye.'

••I. got out as i|iiick as I could, and there
was Barney and the girl, her face all teary
and pale-like, her lips bine ami In -r teeth
chatterin' with cold.

" 'Joe,' saiil Barney, 'can ye hitch up and
go fer the doctor? The buy is crazy sick and
the girl here is much worried about him.
We've gut tu git over there as soon as we
kin.' He followed me to the barn and
whispered, 'I am afraid that buy's gut the
smallpox, so it I don't come back in the
mornin' will you and the shanty buy do the
b 1st ye ' an foi 1 he boys ' breakfast .' '

" 'Sure 1 will,' 1 called back as I drove out

for the doctor. As luck would have it I 1

him ah. nit two miles out eoniin ' in to see
Jim, who ha.l smashed his leg, ami we hur-
ried back to the bunggaloo. Barney met us
at the door ami he would nut let me come
iieac. tui' he said In was sure the buy had the
smallpox. 'Ye go out tu the town,' he sai.l.
'ami ye see thai old skunk that claim- to
I,.- this buy's father, ami ye tell him his eook
is takin' care ul' a man with the smallpox,
aail it lie iluii'l want his camp tu go on a
strike he better get another doughmixer .lam
quick.' .lust as I was turnin' round he came
as neai tu me as he dared and sai.l, 'Joe, ye
must contrive tu see the boy's mother ami

tell her she must get a couple of w en out

here purty quick, because il looks as though

Eore mornin' there'll be a live baby or a
dead mother in here besides the smallpox
patient. Drive like hell, Joe,' he yelled after
in., ami don't come back without a couple of
women if ye have tu kidnap 'em.'

"Boys, did ye ever drive all night through
1 snow-covered forest? It was so still, and I
was m. nervous that the horses' houfbeats on

the hard snow seemed poundin ' on my heart.
I believe I cried as well as swore, and I
killed one of the ..hi man's best mares that
night, buys. It dropped in its tracks as T
pulled up at the gate uf the old man's house
as the sun was cumin' up over the tree tops.
I commenced tu holler before I '.I fairly pulled

il)i the horses, ami he flung up an upper win-
dow with a jerk. 'What's the matter?' he
asked, 'Are the camps burnin ' up?'

" 'Worse 'n that.' I answered. 'Old Bar-
ney's gone to nurse a man with the smallpox,
and you've gut a strike on your hands.'

" 'Damn his rotten hide,' 1 heard him ex-
claim, and then the white face uf a woman
appeared at the window.

"Someway, buys, mothers always guess.

•• 'Joe, is it my buy that's got tin- small-

puN

the ul'l mail 's w ife asked.

' ' I nodded my head.

"It didn't seem a minut before that
blessed woman was downstairs, ami then I
told her the whole story. In less than an
hour we were on our way agin with two
women, a man who'd had the smallpox, tic
buy's mother and enough hot-water bottles,
rubes ami other things to keep a regiment
warm. A bed was put in the back of the big
sled, and the old man's wife said quietly,
'John, I'll bring our sun's wife home.' The
ul. I man didn't speak; lie blew his nose jest

terrible. It was 1 n before we gut to the

bunggaloo, and we drove up as near the door

as we dared. Barney c ut. his face

whiter 'n I've ever seen it. but his eyes was
all tender-like ami his mouth was smiling.

" 'Mary, ye 're a grandma,' he said. The
old man's wife answered, 'Thank God for
ye, Barney. Ye have done for me and mine
inure than any other mi this earth.' Jess
then I remembered that Harney and the old
man wanted tu marry the same girl, and it
kinder choked me all up.

"It was fixed up between them that tin
mother and the baby should be wrapped up
well and taken out to the old man's house,
though the girl begged hard to be left with
her husband. I heard Barney say to her as
he tucked the hot-water bottles and robes
'round her, 'Don't you worry, dear, old Bar-
ney'11 stick by him and he'll come out all
right. Ye see. we musn't let the kiddie get
the smallpox. '

"Well, buys, Harney ami the nurse brought
the boy through, and the mother and baby-
got along fine, and 1 never heard him speak
of that night but, once, and that was when

the whole family can nt tu tell him the

boy was name. I after him. It was then the
girl threw her arms about his neck, and Bar-
ney said as the tears streai I down his face,

'I'm damned glad, little gal, that old Bar-
ney was 'round that night, for God only
knows what you'd dune there all by yourself,
but I'm free tu say that nut fur ten years
of my life would 1 go through it agin?'

"Ye see," concluded the oracle, as the
siiuml of Barney's sleigh bells grew fainter in
the distance, "it's just as the Scotch poet
Milton says. 'The boss may be the cuss with
the dollars, but even the camp cook can be a
man fur all t hat. '

National Veneer & Vanel }Aanufac=
turers9 Association.

The report of the first .lay's session uf the
first annual meeting uf the National Veneer &
Panel Manufacturers' Association appeared in

the last issue of the ll.utnw Recohd, save Unit

three very practical ami interesting addresses
were uf necessity omitted. They were those of
M. ('. Dow on lie subject of "Manufacturers'
c'usl in Veneer ami Panel Making"; of L. I'.

Groffman on "G I Fellowship"; ami of E. r.

Sawyer un "Our Business Progress in the Fu-
ture." These three addresses arc herewith re-
produced

M. C. Dow's Speech.

1 pur worthy secretary lias on several asions

at our meetings endeavored to start a discussion
relative to the cost o£ the different articles pro-
duced in the plants of the members of this

assiicialii.n, but fur some mini untable reason

his efforts have uei 1 n responded tu.

It is without question true that t.. bring up a
discussion on this subject would develop several

tacts which would tend to show that tin si

ul production in one plant could nut lie. or was
in. 1. met by that in another. The handling <>1
the logs, which is the lirsi step in any plant,
is much more economically carried out in s..m.'
plants than in others, and while the difference
in cost may not be very great in the .lay's run,
Still (luring 1 In- year il amounts to quite an

item. The si .1 at which the lathes are run

is another very serious cuTisi.ieraii.in. In some
plains the lathes are geared to run fourteen to

eighteen revolutions, white in others the si 1

1. twice as great, and I have in mind where
lathes are run in plains owned by members of
1 his association as high as fifty revolutions.
v.. 11 can readily see that the difference in the

-1 .] of the lathes makes quite a difference in

the daily output. The question of handling the

mat. -rial' from the lathe to the drying apparatus,

time required in the different modes of drying,

of stock in the drying and handling differs

so greatly in the different plants that it would
he an extremely difficult task to get facts that
could be reiie.i upon.

The handling of the stock from the drying
room to the glue room and the gluing up of
same is another problem which is so vastly
different in the several plants that it would be
extremely hazardous for anyone to set up a
standard to a., by. The spread of glue and
handling of the material after being glued to-
gether differs very materially in the different
plants. We are all uf us prone to think we
have the best system in our own plants, and it
is best perhaps to feel Unit way. for it is about
the onlv satisfaction we are gelling. Inasmuch
as the facts stated are true, as I believe every-
one will recognize, the question arises, what are
we here for as an association? Some of us,
while we wish to be on friendly terms with our
competitors, do not care to have them visit our
plants and ascertain our ways of doing busi-
ness: and admitting that to be a fact, what can
we do to benefit all without giving away the
secrets of our ways of running our plants'/

We have met from time to time and we all
agree that we have been benefited in many ways
by our meetings, and outside of the friendships
made, and they have been many and pleasant,
the benefits all point to the gain account
Whether we have gained knowledge, how to do
this or that thing more cheaply, or increase 1
our output without increasing our wage account,
or whether we have received encouragement,
thereby enabling us to gel more money for our
goods, it has all resulted in our being benefited
financially, and to be benefited in that manner
is must pleasant, we will all admit. I presume
every member present her.' today believes him-
self'well versed in his business, but I would
like to call your attention to a matter that I
believe has a bearing on future pries of panels.
By many il is believed that t<. belong to an
association of this kind is to make them forget
their friends among their many customers, and
that prices may be advanced to a point beyond
prudence: I am one who believes that way, al-
1 1,,, iuIi up to tic present time we have been so

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HARDWOOD RECORD

greatly benefited by our associations that I am
willing to travel further along the road. While
every panel maker is a manufacturer of veneers
there are lots of people who make veneers that
do not make panels, and right here is where I
think we have so far acted very conservatively,
and there is still a chance for bettering our
conditions. A veneer manufacturer proper is
one who sells his product as veneers, and those
who buy his product make panels therefrom,
it you will acquaint yourselves with the prices
these different manufacturers are selling their
goods tor I think you will find there is still a
held open tor advance in prices for panels with-
out inviting competition or doing the consumer
an injustice. In order to make plain my con-
tention I ask you to allow me to lay before you
some figures which you are all acquainted with.
., To '""strate, we will take a plain oak panel.
•'-Ply, Vi inch thick, that is selling today on the
market at $40 per thousand feet. The two
outside veneers are usually 1-20. inch in thick '
uess and the center or core 1-6 inch in thick-
ness. I>rom what I can learn the veneer men
are today getting for oak 1-20 inch thick, f. o
l,~ Iact0l'y. $8 per thousand feet for faces
and $0 per thousand feet for rejects or backs
this would make the average cost to the buyer
*i per thousand feet. Center stock varies in

?fi5e ^ ,t0 siz^ from *12 t0 $16 Pe'- thousand
feet. Taking $13 per thousand feet to be a fail-
average price, together with twice $7 for the
outside pieces, gives .$27 as the cost of the wood
'"/'i-'"* 3"Ply Panel. To this you should
■ idd the difference between the size von can
buy your veneers and the actual size" of the
panel when completed, and as this is usually
1 v2 to 2 inches on both side and end, the waste
or loss would figure very nearly if not quite 10
per cent. This added to the first cost brings
feetC°St mateHal UP to $29.70 per thousand

t„T«lroast of. ,gIue va"es. running from $2.50
to $3.50 per thousand feet, and we will there-
lore assume that $3 per thousand feet for one
spread of glue, or $6 per thousand feet for 3-plv
work is a fair estimate. With these two items
we have an amount equalling $35.70 as the
cost of a .(-ply oak panel, leaving $4.30 pel-
thousand feet to the maker of panels for his
labor, loss ot panels, shop rent and general e\
penses If these figures are correct the panel
man should have more money for oak panels
otherwise he should sell the veneers he puts into
panels to the trade, for it is hardly possible
that anyone here would take the ground that
panels can be assembled, stuck up to dry. sawed
i" sues, sanded, crated, the veneers "handled

Per thoSsa^f£eta' CSl'V"*"* U"'""U" t0t

r lLlh?K is £ny pIant that is °f can do it
aj£ ,nf ffmy hat t0 "•• Now t0 mr """I this
state of affairs amounts to this : Those engaged
m the panel business are not making any profits
"leu ever on the panels they are producing On
the contrary, if they would sell their veneers as
many do, they would be better oft, for I do not

b^of^S'ner t?n tUr,n -°ut P»»*'" on the
oasis ot $4.o0 per thousand feet without a loss
While we are making some money "a of us do
not let us delude ourselves with 'the idea that
the panel business is doing it. for we are '
using the panel proposition tb market oVv!?-

If these figures given are facts don't vm,

ahlsnmaUe SS?E.1,aTe am' are we D°t entitIedyto
iJ , aclTaDCI? over present prices'' We do

? Lr^v^ate p-uttiDg prices to a figure that is
thint tl P °'" mJusti(,e to the buve?, but we do

nnd ifth/» mattPr Should be carefully consi

and if facts warrant higher prices let us have

them-and get some return for beta- in the nanel

must have it. If they should be able o seel, re
^3E^£%*Sr&»3£4 Planet

many « not alFff us! mfol'mation «* value to

than of circumstances that men fail to succeed
lhe want of application rather than the means
to acquire success results in life's failure.

Good fellowship also indicates good feeling
But strong feelings do not necessarily constitute
strong character. In our business dealings we
must consider the feelings of others if we would
not have our own injured.

By association men improve their talents and
strengthen their minds, which leads to new ideas
and progression. A fellow feeling makes us
K'ondrous kind and a good humor is the health
or the soul. Good nature indicates a peaceful

Carlyle says that "we would not believe in hell
were It not for dyspepsia." Our indigestion has
mucA^t0 do Wltn our humor. It appears to me
that there are some dyspeptics in the veneer and
panel business.

In fellowship we each share in the gain. It
is human weakness to be selfish. Self-interest
is the mainspring in our actions, and utility is
the test of their value. There are many reasons
why every manufacturer should join the circle
A strong will and a settled purpose can ac-
complish anything. The principal object is to
create a more uniform price for our product
also to interchange ideas, discuss manufacturing
costs, bring about a standard of quality and to
promote in every way possible the veneer and
panel industry.

Whoever fears to submit any question to the
test of their discussion loves his own opinion
more than the truth. Men are never so likely
to settle a question as when they discuss it
freely, and contradiction should awaken atten-
tion. Competition is the life of trade and
without organization it invariably means the
death of trade.

Kesvtme of E. F. Sawyer's Speech.
Business men of the day are divided into three
classes — the men who are behind their times ;
the men who are ahead of their times, and the
men who are abreast of their times. Of these
three classes the first two do not seriously affect
their day and generation. The first is a dreamer
or a genius, and whatever he accomplishes, if
anything benefits only a coming age. The sec-
ond operates only as a dragnet or anchor ; he
may prevent the craft from being forced upon
the breakers, but his only office is to keep things
as they are — he never moves anything. It is
the man who is in touch with his times who
moves the world.

Our times are peculiar. We all know that
our age is the age of the combine. We are

living ID the dav.S Of mmliinntinna qn^ ,,,,.<..

E I'. SAWYER, CADILLAC VENEER CO.,

I M'lI.LAC. MICH.

L. P. Groffman's Speech.
I have been asked by our secretary to resnond

jVGtnf C»Shn*nd Why ™hers TCd
•join tne cucle. 1 have consented with some
reluctance, fearing that I could not do tne sTb
ie»™„J,Ustr' forever, I want to preface mv
^mdarf0S„by Vtyius- that jt is far easier to be a
good fellow than it is to enter into a discourse

?n t. SU«30cL A£,Pr makin8 some inquires Is
to the definition of "good fellowship," f was told

n»aUt'm,eaDt.."A pocket fu" of money and a
nearby saloon." However, my version of it is
"To be a good fellow requires but two qua "ties'
iowmmyan."°neSty &nd g00d wi" towa™ ^rS
No man possesses honesty, character or good
fellowship who absolutely refuses to associate
?fnne°^eHa^ with ,his competitors foi -the Promo-
tion of business interests. Few things areim
practicable. It is for want of application father

Willi the unprecedented prosperity of the na-
tion today rare opportunities are offered, and
by fellowship profitable business can be secured
by all.

Opportunities neglected are lost. Success in
lite results from seizing opportunities as they
present themselves, and this is the golden mo'-
inent. Opportunity has a lock of hair in front
I m I the back of her head is bald. If you seiz-
her by the forehead you retain her. *To miss
success neglect your opportunity.

Our organization now includes some of the
leading manufacturers, and it is a foregone con-
clusion that the association will continue to
grow and prosper, if those of vou among us
today who are not already members will join
u,s' ,f°r we need your counsel and assistance.
Conditions have already been wonderfully im-
proved, and the association needs only the com-
bined efforts of the manufacturers to reach the
zenith of success.

There are many other reasons whv vou should
be one of us. which have been so ably presented
in the bulletins sent out by -our secretary from
time to time. If these bulletins are carefully
perused and acted upon there is no doubt in m'v
mind that it will be but a question of a short
time when our strength will only be manifest
but the mutual benefits to be derived will be
far-reaching.

. . ^et our motto be "Excelsior — higher and

".... «&^ ,o tUG «5c ui uue comuine. we are
living in the days of combinations and trusts.
If we had been born a hundred years ago we
would nave lived in the days of competition.
In those days it was supposed that if you gave
the individual fair conditions and opportunities,
competition would settle all business difficulties,
l'or a hundred years and more competition held
full sway ; the eighteenth century and nearly all
of the nineteenth was ruled by competition. It
prevailed in politics, in religion, in business and
in every other line. The nations in the early
eighteenth century were divided up, the whole
German empire was composed of small petty
states, and even our own country, as we all
know, tried to divide itself in the latter part
of that era.

But in this age everything Is combining. BIs-
mark combined the German principalities, and
our own country refused to divide. So it is
with politics, with the church and with business.
Combination is the keynote of the times, and
lias largely taken the place of competition. It
originally took its form out of individualism,
which necessitated a continual fight, and cer-
tain combinations at first fought other combina-
tions, and particular individuals. Then came the
great era of trusts, which endeavored to swallow
everything in sight.

Now we are moving more rapidly than for-
merly, and the day of force is largely gone, and
we have reached what might be termed, for
want of a better name, fraternalism. I am very
glad we have reached that day when we can
see fraternalism in everything. For instance, an
able representative of one of the large mutual
insurance companies has just spoken to you,
showing the benefits that are derived from their
workings, and even their name — "mutual" — car-
ries out the idea of fraternalism. The older men
here can well remember when the Masons and
Odd Fellows were about the only secret societies
we had. but now they are legion. I am glad
that fraternalism is in the air. If we are here
only as an aggregation in which we are going
to fight each other we will not be benefited as
we will by a union in the nature of a brother-
hood. A combine takes a good deal of the fight
out of individuals and organizations.

We have heard quite a good deal about busi-
ness methods here, .but I am not going to dis-
cuss details. What has been said here reminds
me of the boy with the Bantam hens. He sold
a good many eggs to his neighbors, who con-
tinually complained that the eggs were under
size. He accordingly cast about in his mind
for some cause for this defect which might be

ie .e.|. inn, linding none, lie hit upon .'i plan

He took a couple of goose eggs and hung them
up in the hen house, and between them a placard
on which he had printed : "Gaze on these and
do your best."

Now, gentlemen, it is the lumbermen who are
producing the "goose eggs," and it is up to us
to gaze upon their results and do our best.

There is another thing about fraternalism
which I particularly wish to dwell upon. There
are very few secrets in it : it does away with
the privacy of the competitive system. It does
away with much of the secrecy of the trust
system. There was a time when men built walls
around their industries. Every one seemed to
think he had all the knowledge there was iD
the world In his line of business ; in other words,
that he was "it." This applied to the veneer
business; it applied to the furniture business,
and to a multitude of others. The reason why
secrecy seemed necessary under the competitive
system was because of its isolated conditions ;
now under our methods it is volume of trade
that counts. If a man produced a particularly
fine article it would be almost valueless to him
until he established a demand for it in the
market, and in nine cases out of ten the best
way to do this is by getting his neighbors to
make the same thing and fhev in turn will
help him make a market. I think the first in-
dustry which adopted the open door was the
lumber industry. The sawmill is. and always
has been, just as free as the open air. And
what is the result? Every sawmill is a good
one, for if it isn't it has to go out of business.
I believe that the greatest injury that can be-
fall the veneer business is to keep a closed
door. It was supposed a few years ago that
nobody should be allowed inside the doors of a
glue room, but gradually the veil of secrecy was

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21

lifted, and what was discovered ? Nothing, only
that glue rooms were practically all alike. If
this association is able to throw open the doors
of its factories as sawmills have been thrown
open, it will be greatly to the advantage of
every member, and particularly to the advantage
of the men who have, up to this time, enjoyed
the closed door.

Two boys were once at school when the teacher
placed the motto, "Be sure you are right, then
go ahead," upon the blackboard. One of the
boys was an Israelite, and he whispered to the
other, "Mine fodder says, be sure you are ahead
and den you know you is all right."

The lumberman by adopting the open door
has proved the truth of the boy's version of
the matter.

I am of the opinion, speaking of the free
discussion to which Mr. Groffman referred, that
nothing can so benefit a man as to listen to
what his neighbor has to say. Some men will
ask you your opinion ou a certain point, and
before you have said anything will go ahead
with their own views and those of others on
the same subject; and will talk and talk. Then
say good-bye and rush away perfectly satisfied.

thinking they have I n well advised, when

all the time you haven't said a word. Opinions
freely expressed here in open meeting are of
great benefit to us all and I wish we could
have more of them.

You all remember when in the dark alleys and
slums of our cities it was thought necessary to
station great numbers of policemen to guard
against crime and insure the safety of indi-
viduals. But finally it was discovered that
bright lights over such places would have prac-
tically the same effect, so today we have more
arc lights and less policemen. If our association
is going to succeed by means of fines and penal-
ties we will be behind the times, but if we will
turn on the light, open and free discussion, it
will act as a guide and we won't need any po-
licemen, and we will advance, not retrograde.

Some of our members' conduct in relation to
"Hi' association reminds me of a story. In an
elevated car one day sat a fat woman looking
somewhat disconsolate. At last she turned and
spoke to a dapper young man who sat behind
her. "Will you help me off at the next stop?"
she said. "Why?" he asked. "You see," she
said, "I am very fleshy and the steps are so
steep and narrow I can't get off like others but
. must go backwards. So when I am trying to
alight the conductor thinks I am trying to get
aboard and pulls me back ou again. lie has
dene this at three stations."

The cultivation of fraternalism in our asso-
ciation is time well spent. It may appear to
some that we consume a great deal too much
time talking and visiting around the hotel lobby
and not enough in doing business in the asso-
ciation meetings. I believe, however, that the
getting acquainted, the fraternizing is two-thirds
"i the proposition, and that it is time extremely
well spent. It helps us to work together and to
understand each other better ; it helps fraternal-
ism.

Therefore. I would say to you as my contri-
bution to this afternoon's discussion that our
association can assist the future progress of
our business better by the spirit of fraternalism
than in any other way. that we will have a com-
pact body, consider ourselves ;is one family,
without any fear that some one of us is going
to do some mean little thing to another. In
this connection, and as the best advice I can
give to our association, I would repeat the ad-
vice our great president gave to a boy's school
not long ago: "Don't flinch; don't foul; but
buck the line hard."

Don't flinch — that is. don't shirk your part
in the association work. If you are asked to do
a disagreeable thing, don't shirk your duty, or
loose your nerve, but stand boldly in your place
and perform the part assigned you to the best
Of your ability. Don't foul — that is, do not do
:i mean or underhanded thing in business ; don't
in the price just a little to make a sale. Don't,
in a word, do anything that is unmanly, but
play tin- business game in which you are en-
gaged fairly, honestly and above board. Con-
iii your business with the greatest possible
energy and enterprise; that is, buck the busi-
ness line hard.

SECOND DAY'S SESSION.

On the morning of December 12 the members
of the association reassembled in the south par-
lor of the Auditorium.

President Kline first called for the report of
the Auditing Committee on the statement sub-
mitted by Secretary-Treasurer Defebaugh. The
committee stated that it found the financial
conditions of the association very satisfactory,
and the statement correct. The report was ac-
cepted.

The Committee on Constitution and By-laws
reported that it found some inconsistencies in
the rules as existing, and recommended that the
clause "four directors shall be elected to serve
one year and five to serve two years thereafter"

(In the last sentence of Art. IV of the constitu-
tion) be stricken out, because of a different
provision for directors made in the first clause
of the same article.

On motion the report of the committee was
laid on the table for action at the next meet-

ing.

B. W. Lord Talks.

B. W. Lord was called upon to speak on the
subject, "Waste in Manufacturing Lumber," and
addressed the convention as follows :

No one wants to hear another man's troubles,
as we all have troubles of our own, so this is
not a very pleasant subject.

When we sell a man stock he pays for the
good, but the waste we have to pay for our-
selves, and pay dearly for it.

A sawmill man buys his logs, manufactures
them into lumber, what the logs will make, and
then goes out and sells what he has, and he.
knows what he has to sell, but a veneer man
lias to sell his stock long before it is manufac-
tured, and then he has to depend on making
this special stock out of what logs he happens
to have on hand, and he has to take all the
chances until this stock is shipped.

In the first place, when the veneer man goes
to buy logs, because he manufactures veneer,
they expect him to measure the logs more lib-
erally, do not want to make allowances for de-
fects in logs they would expect to make to a
sawmill man or other log buyers. In fact, when
you mention the word veneer, the logs cost you
more money, and you have to pay for consider-
able waste right there.

It is almost impossible to keep orders that
will work up the lengths of logs not exactly,
but even closely, and there are two ends to a

J. W. CLINARD, HIGH POINT VENEERING
CO., HIGH POINT, N. C.

block, the same as two ends to a log, so that a
log for veneer you can figure has four to eight
cuds, which luiv i,, |„. trimmed off and wasted.

Logs damage very fast on the ends, and, if
the bark is off, the sap is apt to be greatly hurl
or possibly worthless, then checks and splits
will so damage the log that you have to cut
them out before you commence to manufacture
veneer Hint you can sell, so that, before you
commence to cut veneer you have a large amount
of waste in sawing your logs, and the damage
on the outside, both of which you have to pay
for, but have to waste, and, as all your orders
are in a hurry, you are so anxious to please a
customer that you will waste a good part of the
length of the log in cutting out some rush
order.

In order to manufacture good stock, your ma-
chines have to have good-sized spindles, and
good sized chucks. In a small log the core Is a
large percentage of the log, and, In order to
i ii a large log, you have to use a large chuck,
so thai your core in any kind of a log Is large
in proportion.

After you pile up a large amount of cores. It
seems like a very sinful waste and you wonder
what to do with them. You can saw them into
boards and make short and narrow lumber of a
low grade ; you can sell them for pulp wood, if
you have enough of the right kind, or, if they
are extra long and choice, you can bore them for
porch columns, but. after you are through with
them, vou find that you have done a lot of

work: you have good experience, and the satis-
faction of knowing that the stock is not wasted.
In regard to the cutting, veneer will shrink in
thickness and will also shrink in width, so that
it is necessary to cut the stock thicker and
wider than ordered.

A log always appears a great deal better than
it turns out. and there is no limit to the amount
Of defects which appear in a log when It is be-
ing manufactured ; but it is almost an unheard-
of occurrence to have a log that looks bad turn
out good. In order to trim out the defects there
is an enormous amount of stock wasted, and, as
you are cutting orders to size the defects in a
log will appear just where you do not want
them. So you have a large piece to cut off,
which you can either throw away or save, with
lots of other slock which accumulates for a long
time, takes up lots of room and is a great fire
hazard. And when you do sell it you secure
so little for it that it is a question whether
you had not bet let- have thrown it away in the
first place, as the handling and drying of this
small stock is very expensive, and, on account
of the small sizes, it does not figure up much
in the total number of feet.

When you take the stock to your clippers or
cut-off saw, there is another chance for waste.
It is hard to secure a man who can keep all the
different sizes In his mind, and he is bound to
make more or less mistakes. When he does he
looks around to see if anyone is looking, and
if not, will tear the sheets and throw them in
the waste pile, or make two or three extra cuts
with a knife, so you cannot tell that the stock
has been spoiled.

Veneer has to be handled piece by piece, very
carefully, and it is very easy to break up stock
or lose a percentage in one of the many opera-
tions it has to go through.

One of the great causes for waste is the in-
clination to hurry out certain orders which do
not work out well with the logs that you have,
and, if you will stop and figure what it costs
you to manufacture these special orders with-
out taking time to work the other orders in
connection with them, you will find it an enor-
mous waste, which you have to pay for.

A few months ago I called on a very large
concern who wanted a few carloads of % panels,
about 24 to 30 inches wide. I saw the presi-
dent of this concern personally, and quoted him
a high pflce, and explained that the price was
on account of the enormous waste. This man
told me he had been in the lumber and wood-
working business all his life and knew all about
the veneer business, and that he could take pop-
lar logs and cut %-incn panels nothing under
24 inches, and overrun on his log measurement
15 per cent.

Most buyers of veneer will figure that as you
have no sawdust or saw kerf that you can over-
run the veneer from a log to quite an extent, and
Hint is why so many men go into the veneer
business, but before they go out, as most of
them do, they can figure their waste in their
different operations of manufacture and a good
many will find that they have had more waste
than' their log measured.

It seems to me Mint whenever a customer
asks any questions t hat are hard to answer, or
any question of price that seems startling, the
explanation and the answer for any question
would be tic. wast.' in manufacturing veneer.

An application for membership was received
from Adams & Raymond of Indianapolis, which
was acted upon and accepted.

Secretary Defebaugh 's Resolution.
Secretary Defebaugh made an urgent plea for
an active paid secretary or assistant to take
charge of the work of the association, and pre-
sented the following resolution :

We, the signers hereto, petition the association
to change Hie constitution and bylaws, making
the annual dues fifty dollars ($50), to employ
assistants to widen the scope and increase the
usefulness of this organization. As evidence
of our good faith in the matter we agree to be

one of forty i I anul'acturers to start this

movement by paying the treasurer before Janu-
ary 1. 1907, fifty dollars ($50).

In case this resolution does not become opera-
tive this amount will be prorated to the signers
hereto, less any expense authorised by the Execu-
tive Coinniitti !' Hie association.

The subject brought considerable discus-
sion, in which Messrs. Kline. Sawyer, Richardson,
Hubbard and Quimby took active part, the latter
moving that the clause "As evidence of our good

faith in the mailer we agree i" i ne of forty

manufacturers t<, start ibis movement by pay-
i .. : lie 1 1 easurer before Januarj i . 1907, fifty
dollars" lie Btricken out. The motion was sec-
onded, put lo vote, tm. i carried.

Report of Grading Rules Committee.

The Committe n Grading Rules, consisting

of Messrs. Lord, William- and Roberts presented

its report, as follows :

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HARDWOOD RECORD

Geadixg Rules of Plain Rotahy Cut Oak
Veneers.

No. 1 --Flit* h stock, consists of veneer cu1
sundry lengths, -i ft. and up long, and sundry
widths, in inches and up. The sheets are kepi
in consecutive order, as ; hey are cut from the
Hitch. This stock must be at least two- thirds
face stock.

No. - — Log run stock, consists of veneer of
such widths and lengths as the log will make,
(i inches and up wide, not over 25 per cent to be
H ti> 11 inches wide, 4 ft. and up long, not
under 50 per cent face veneer and balance can
be defective as the logs may turn out.

No. 3— Dimension widths, consist of veneer
cut sundry lengths. 4 ft. and up. and sundry
widths. The sheets are sized for widths with-
out regard to the grain matching in contiguous
sheets.

Under 1*2 inches wide, will admit of sap and
close splits.

Twelve to l.~> inches wide, will admit of sap,
close splits, scattered pinworm holes, streaks and
discolorations.

Sixteen to 18 inches wide, will admit of sap,
scattered pinworm holes, close splits and, when
;» ft. to 4 ft. long, one or two small bark sores

Nineteen to 30 inches wide, will admit of sap,
scattered pinworm holes, close splits, or splits
that are open, but not over ', Inch wide by 3
inches Long, and, when sizes are over 48 inches
long, not over three knots or hark sores. !4 inch
wide or long, when tight and firm.

No, 4 — Dimension face stock, consists of ve
neer cut to required sizes, and will admit ot'
same defects as dimension widths.

No. ."» — Dimension backs, consist of veneer cut
to required sizes, not suitable for faces but rea
sonably sound.

\o. 6— Cull veneer, consists of stock of random
widths and lengths that will not grade as flitches
or log runs but is suitable for hacking only.

Classification and Grading of Rotary Cut
Poplar Veneer.

Dimension Face Stock.

One-sixteenth inch thick and thicker cut to re
quired sizes. Shall admit of sap, splits thai
close, discolorations or streaks, where firm, tighl
knots and pinworm holes when strength of
sheets is not impaired. *

Flitch Stock
Consists of veneer cul sundry lengths t ft. and
up and sundry widths in inches and up. The
sheets are kept in consecutive order, as they
are cut from the flitch. Shall admit of sap.
-splits, discoloratipns or streaks, pinworm holes,
when strength of piece is not impaired, and
heart knots where the sheets will cut two-thirds

face stock.

Dimension Width Stock.

Consists of veneer sundry lengths 4 ft. and
up and sundry widths 1 2 inches and up. The
sheets are sized for width without regard to
grain matching in contiguous sheets. Shall ad-
mit of sap, splits that close, discolorations or
streaks, tight knots and pin worm holes when
strength of sheets is not impaired.

L«».; Run Stock.

Consists of veneer of such widths and lengths
as the log will make. 8 indies and up wide not
over 25 per cent to be (i to 11 inches wide, and
4 ft. and up long not under 50 per cent face
veneer, and balance can be detective as the logs
may turn out.

Cross Banding.

One-twentieth inch thick and thinner, cut to
required sizes under 49 inches long and under
73 inches wide. Shall admit "of sap. splits, dis-
colorations or streaks, worm holes, small knots
and hark spots.

Center and Backing Stock.
All thickness cut to required sizes not suil
able for faces but reasonably sound.

It w ; moved and seconded that these classi-
fications and grading rules be adopted by the
association as standard classifications and grad-
ing, on rotary cut poplar and oak veneer. The
motion was carried.

Miscellaneous Business.

Mr. Sawyer moved thai a committee of three
be appointed to classify and grade northern
woods and report at the next meeting. Sec-
onded and carried.

President Kline appointed a committee on the
grading of northern woods, consisting of Messrs.
Underwood, Thompson and Pierpont, with the
understanding that the present committee be
continued. t

L. P. Groffman moved that two additional men
be added to the committee on grading, who
should represent southern woods, including gum
and cottonwood. The motion was voted upon

I, P. GROFFMAN, ST. Lulls BASKET & BOS
CO., ST. I. oris. MO.

and cairied. whereupon the chair appointed
Messrs. Groffman and S. B. Anderson of Mem-
phis as such additional members

1 k YV. Williamson moved that a sufficient
number of ((.pies of the classification and grad-
ing rules be printed to be circulated among the
em ire membership. < larried-

Secretary Defebaugh read Interesting and eu-
couraging letters from the Great Lakes Veneer
i 'ompany of Grand Marais, Mich. ; the Kincaid
Veneer & Lumber Company of Salisbury, .v C. ;
the Southern Veneer Company of Birmingham,
Ala. ; the New York & Pennsylvania Veneer &

Panel Association, headquarters at Jamestown,
X. Y. ; and C. B. Allen of the Standard Oak Ve-
neer Company. Johnson City, Tenn. He said
it was a matter of disappointment that the
New York and Pennsylvania branch was unable
t" send a representative to the meeting, but
called attention to the fact that the southeastern
branches were well represented.

Mr. Roddis presented two resolutions, as fol-
lows, both of which were adopted :

Resolved. That previous to the next meeting
of thi- association the president is requested
and authorized to write to the Hon. Gifford
Pinehot, head of the Forestry Department, Wash-
ington, stating that this association would be
pleased to adopt resolutions in support of his
work and appreciation of its service, and asking
him for his suggestions.

A standing vote was had on a resolution of
sympathy to the family of C. C Boyd, deceased,
which was passed unanimously :

Whereas, One of our members is no longer
with us and his former cheery presence is missed
from our meetings,

Therefore, Resolved, That we mourn the re-
cent death of Charles C. Boyd, and in this way
wish to express to his family our heartfelt sym-
pathy and condolence, knowing, however, the In-
adequacy of anything which we may do or say
to alleviate the poignancy of their grief.

Resolved. That this resolution be spread upon
the minutes of the association, and that a copy
of the same be presented to the family of the
deceased.

['resident Kline announced that pursuant t"
action taken earlier in the year the association
had become allied with the American Forestry
Association, and was thereby entitled to a vice-
p resident and two advisory directors in that or-
ganization. No action was taken, however.

It was moved and seconded that the selection
of a place to hold the June meeting be left
to the Kxecutive Committee. The motion was
carried.

Adjournment was then taken to the banquet
hall of the Auditorium Hotel, where a delicious
luncheon was served.

1905 Lumber Cut of the United

States.

From advance proof sheets of the Forest
Service, the Hardwood Record is able to supply

information covering the total hardw 1 cut of

iIk' count-ry during 1905

Diagrams and tables accompanying this article
show the relative quantity of lumber by kinds
that is being produced in the United States,
as well as the relative output of Lumber by
states.

The following lable gives a list of states

which produced over 100, ,000 feet of lumber

in 1905 as reported from a total of 11,666
mills, and shows the total quantity produced by
each state ;

Dili.,

Vermont ....

Massat lui~rtr-

Idaho

Monta an
Maryland
Iowa

Illinois

All other* . .

1.1
.11
.8

.4
.4
.0

Total

.30,502,961 1OO.0

Cypress.

Slate.

Washington

Wisconsin

Louisiana

Minnesota

M feet. Per cent.

::.:>17,l(j(; 12.8

2,:.4::^o:: v:;

2,283,809 7.5

1,925,804 0.3

Michigan 1,719,687 5.6

Arkansas 1,448,589 4.9

Pennsylvania 1,397,164 4.(1

Mississippi 1,299,390 4.:;

Oregon 1,262,610 4.1

North Carolina 1.080,602 ::..".

California 1.061,608 3.5

Texas 929.863 3.1

Alabama s4:;.s:it 2.8

Sen l'ork 7r>o,-jso 2.5

Maine 745.705 2..".

Virginia 71.">.l!i7 2.4

Sia 712. iin4 2.::

West Virginia 672.902 2.2

Florida (tr.s.iMiT 2.2

Tenne 540.920 l.S

South ' arolina . . 466,478 1.5

Kentucky 464,676 1.5

Missouri MC2.217 1.2

Indiana 352,362 1.2

New Hampshire ... 340,727 1.1

The out of cypress bj 4i;s mills in 1905 was
753,369,000 feet. Louisiana, as shown by table
is far the largest producer, with a cut of 4N7.-
504,000 leei. ,,r C4. 7 per cent of the total.
Relatively small amounts were cut in fourteen
other states. Arkansas reported s per cent of
i he total, Florida 7.4 per cent. Mississippi 7.-
per cent. South Carolina 3.5 per coin. North
Carolina 2.7 per cent, and the remaining states
combined 6.5 per cent.

('IT OF CYPRESS IN 1905.
Number
Stale of mills. M feet. Percent.

Louisiana 7:1 487,504 64,7

Arkansas Us .Gn.252 S.O

Florida 17 55 569 7.4

Mississippi 74 7.4.211 7 2

South Carolina :!" 26.216 :: 5

North Carolina 52 20 12 ! 2'. 7

All others 134 49,194 6.5

Total 4iis 753,369 1

The output of cypress lias apparently not yet
reached its maximum, as the Forest Service
figures for 1905 are slightly greater than the
census figures for 1904, and over 50 per cent
larger than those of the census for 1899.

HARDWOOD RECORD

23

Oak.

The cut i)f white and red oak reported for
1905 is given in the following tables. No
further separation into the various kinds
hi oak was practicable. Without question,
n number of species were included under
each head by the manufacturers, and quite
probably in making out their reports they
tliil qpt, in many cases, distinguish carefully
between tin white anil red oak. The oaks are
among the most widely distributed hardwoods,
and reports of oak lumber were received from
thirty-five stairs. The total amount of white
oak reported was 1,210,216,000 feet, of which
West Virginia produced 12.9 per cent. Kentucky
12.7 per cent, Ohio 11.4 per cent, Tennessee
101; per cent, and .Indiana Hi per cent. The
total amount of red oak reported was 623,553,-

0110 feet, if which Tenni'ss nt 12.8 per cent.

Arkansas 10.8 per cent. Kentucky 9.3 per cent,
and Indiana 8.8 per cent.

While the Forest Service figures upon the out-
put of oak in 1905 are incomplete, there is no
doubt that the cut is decreasing because of the
diminished supply of stumpage. The census
reports show a decrease of about '.14r1.lMHi.oiHi
feet between 1 n'.iii and 1904.

CUT OF WHITE OAK IN 1905.

Number

State. of mills. M feet. Percent.

West Virginia 252 156,099 12.9

Ke :kj 380 153.682 12.7

Ohio 167 i::7.20s 11.4

Tennessee 412 127.599 toil

Indiana 380 121.091 loo

Arkansas 27o 100,502 S :

Pennsylvania 169 111;, :ms 7.7

Virginia 2.".:: 63,432 5.3

Mississippi 137 58.S99 4.0

North Carolina 333 W.622 ::,4

Missouri 141 30,888 2.li

Alabama no 20,302 1.7

All others 1.142 mii.744 8.5

Total

4.7L'i;

1,210,216 loo. o

LIT 1

F BED OAK IN

Number

IPO."..

State.

nf mills.

M feet. Per cent

Dent ■

hit

79.793 12.8

Arkansas

214

117... 14 10.8

58,056 ••' 'I

Indiana .'17."i

Mississippi 112 41.4.".:: 6.6

North Carolina 261 41. in 6.6

Pennsylvania 403 10,054 6.4

West Virginia 149 2f..::7s i 2

oln,. 385 24.. ,7.". 4.o

Virginia 167 2::.2os ::.s

lllin.. is 145 23.072 3.7

Wisconsin 2i.l 20,097 3.2

All others 1.207 12::. 12s 19.8

Total 4.2ii:; in':;. .-,:.:: 100.0

Maple.
The cut of maple reported by 2.711.". mills in

1905 was 008,746, 4 feet, as shown in table

1. clow. Michigan is by far the greatest pro-
ducer of maple lumber, reporting 357,611,

feci. ,.r 58.8 per cent of the total. Vermont cut
53,745,000 led. or 8.9 per cent; Pennsylvania
18,883,000 led. or s per cent; New York 44.-

."..".11. 1 fed. or 7.3 l»'i- .cut : Wisconsin 40,-

425,000 fed. or 6.6 per cent ; Indiana 15,828,

feet, or 2.6 per cent, and twenty oilier stales.
combined, 47. 7o4.imhi feet, or 7.s per cent.
There lias apparently been little change in the
total output of maple for several years.

CUT OF MAPLE IN 1905.
Number

state. of mills. M feet. Percent.

Michigan 311 357,611 58 8

Vermont is;; ."..".. 74.". S.9

Pennsylvania 326 4s,ss:: s.O

,\e« Vork 421 44. ."..".0 7.:i

Wisconsin 223 40.42.". 6.6

Indiana 298 15,828 2. 11

All others 1.002 47.704 7.s

Total 2.7.::. 608.746 moo

Yellow Poplar.
The cul of yellow poplar is reported by 2.11.".
manufacturers. This n-as 582,748,000 feet.
Kentucky is the leading state, with 21 per cent
of the total, followed by West Virginia, with
19.2 per cent; Tennessee, with 19 per cent :
Ohio, wilh 9.5 per cent; North Carolina, with
s..", per cent : Virginia, witlt 7.1 per cent ; Ala-
bama, with 6.5 per cent, and small amounts in
nine other siaios. The Forest Service figures
upon j -Mow poplar are incomplete, but prob-
ably the cul ol' lllis species is still deerea si lie.

The census figures show a heavy decrease be-
tween 1899 and 1904.

CUT OF YELLOW POPLAR IN 1905.

Number
Stale "I mills. M feet. Per cent.

Kentucky 309 122.4s", -.'I...

West Virginia 197 112,230 19.2

Tennessee -'nil llo.4so 1:1.0

Ohio 203 .-,.-,.110 p..".

North Carolina 271 4s.il'.' 8.3

Virginia 156 41.2:14 7.1

Alabama 7". 37,808 6.5

Indiana 27il is. 1 1.: ::.i

Mississippi 63 1 1,165 2. 1

<; gia 7s 11.12s 1.9

All others . 14s 11. 7.".:: 2.0

Total 2.11.". .".S2.74S 1. 100

Red Gum.

In 1905, Mis mills .01 ::ir...".ss. feet of red

gum. The leading stale, as shown by table be-
low, is Arkansas, which cut PI .:i 12. 001 1 led. or
2:1 per .cut of the total. Missouri comes sec-
ond, with 71. '.'is. noil fed. or 22.7 per cent,
and Mississippi third, wilh 47,320,000 fed. or 17.
per cent. Then follow Tennessee, with 11.7 per
cent; Kentucky, wilh 6.2 per cent; Indiana,
with 4.1 per cent, and Illinois, wilh 3.2 per
cent. Eleven other siaies combined cut s.i per
cent. The cut of red gum has increased In some
extent in the lasl lew years, the census figures
on gum of all kinds in 1899 being 268,251,00.0
feet.

CUT "!' RED GUM IN 1905.
Number
State. of mills. M feet. Per cent.

Arkansas 14s 91,942 29.0

Missouri Co 71,948 22.7

Mississippi 95 47,:l2o 15.0

Tennessee 1::.". 37,147 11.7

Kentucky . 121 19,758 6.2

Indiana 94 IL'.sr.s 4.1

Illinois ".I 10,072 ::.2.

All others 217 25,543 8.1

Total ...... :'2I ::ic,,.-,ss pio.o

Basswood.

In 1905, 258,390,000 feet of bassw 1 was cut

by 2.212 mills, as given in table below. Wis
ii.nsin produced nearly one-half the total, or
47.1 per cent. .Michigan ranks second, wilh
ls.l per cent, followed by New York with 9.6
per .cni, Pennsylvania with l.'.t per cent, and
West Virginia wilh 4 per cent. fifteen other

HARDWOODS

Alabama

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Pelaware

Florida

Cieorgia

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Indian Territory

Iowa ...

Kentucky

Louisiana. .

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts. . .

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

New Hampshire.

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina . .

Ohio

Oregon

Pennsylvania. ..

Rhode Island

South Carolina. .
South Dakota. . .

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Arizona, Nevada and

New Mexico.
Kansas. Nebraska . .

Total.

hi ltd.
92,170
404,328

2,756
100

60,630

5,000

1.001

33, 401

29,026

85,263

I.M.9U2

0,451

6,715

428, 904

68,345

41,726

52,570

30, 178

042, 138

35, 194

227,988

185,253

13,356

34,884

9,726

246, 077

188,524

328. 56.5

6,672

372.425

5. CIO

32,288

472,322

18,078

65

98,957

183,580

1.887

301.424

413,354

'15

18,090

\1 .<,,
20, 302
100,502

i., 472

2,260

55

8,615

" IS, 529

121,091
1,440
1,139
153,682
6,568
1,740
18,261
1,000
0, 521
3.671
58,899
30,888

I..,.,:,
2,765
7, 425
40,622
137,268

92.998

805

1,810

12V599
5,3.59

Maple.

M/ttl
12,923

i',7.514

4.856

1,685

18

5,895

23,072

54,725

2,130

930

58,056

1,974

4,338

11,891

2,743

5,633

2,044

41,453

39,977

4.847
2,069
12.375
41,411
24, 575

257
61 132

166,099

12.567

40.054

515

1,273

79^793
2.848

f/Ml.

2,851
15,828

938

1.601

Yellow

poplar.

4.129
2,463
1,827
357,611
2,638

2. 739

2,094
23,298

26,378
20,097

4,343

122
44.550

'ii,002

3.009

48,883

248

1,323

231
6,939
40,425

>l fttt

37,808
1 . ti.'.O

359
11,128

760
18,143

122,485

2.797

14,165
2,508

Red
gum.

M ltd.
9,524
91,942

283
1,007

10.072

12, 868

100

i'1,'758
2, 1.'.',

47,320
71.948

4h. 122

55,140

3,679
"li6,'480

41.294
112,280

1,117.1
560

M 1

M ltd.

515
6,116

.' I*',

913

431

46,759

7,926

17

1,248

II

24.760

7,'965

12 '.-'..

37,147
1,522

2,260
"'J66

10.251
121,857

20, 161
1 , 150
1.503

39.093
4,228

7.51IJ

24

24,760

23, 852
40

21,750

Cotton.

wood.

M/ret.

420

90,920

38

80

:., 442

924

2,187

2,141

1.187

653

38,093

713

972

1.150

28,083

4,0118
65

1,201
299
65

M ltd.

.12

i. 121

24,911

140
1,803
2,351

7
421
61
72

57. 305

. .1

2.037

8, 425

.VI
100

7, 125

2,323

17

.1.309
47

116

70,327

I hest-

nut.

305

-■'■, •..-'
21

J.772

' 1
1,087

7111
1 1 . 228
10,388

3,111
3.. 177
:. 425
25,028
5,542

u.'ils

3,015

50

181

M ltd.

l , :.n7

30. 527

2.169

59, 890

310

2, 929-
23

24, 760

' 14,297'
53,494

....
1 014

227.038 224,113 219.000 159,034

M led.
1.471
13,034

904

50

873
13,340

410

12,939

1,493

1,279

601

614

26, 141

2,003

S.I INI
4.308

1,390

120
a.'HHI
4, 111

10,539

i , .'.:»>
0,091

5,810
1,988

1,269

050

205

J. 'IIS

II, .88

Hick-
ory.

M ltd.
1,005

13,262

1.409
13
81

1,330

' '5,'308

15, 138

60

■ so
728
42

6.239
3,430

520

7 J' i

11,054

5.146
112
81

ll.'.I.W
111

124
910

Tupelo.

.If ltd.
6,302
2,828

3,928

8,610

M led.

J36

4,472
8,957

104
3,704

4,477

919
.....

2,. |.».

M fed.
2,024
13,217
2,756

890

5

1,225

23,584

12,230

26,201

44.527

102

8,327

ii,47'j

1,392

3.322
27,794

1,152
12, 792
36,688

18,090

IIAIiHWiMiH lU'TITT Fill! 1905 BY STATICS AND KINDS.

24

HARDWOOD RECORD

states combined cut 16.3 per cent. The cut of
basswood given by the census o£ 1S99 was
280,025,000 feet, but there has been some de-
crease since that time.

CUT OF BASSWOOD IN 1905.

Number

State. of mills. M feet. Per cent.

Wisconsin 300 121,857 47.1

Michigan 280 46.759 18.1

New York 375 24,760 9.6

Pennsylvania L'uu 12,520 4.9

West Virginia 94 10,251 '4.0

All others 957 42,243 10.3

Total 2,212 25S.390 100.0

Birch.

In 1905, 1,327 mills cut 210.704.000 feet of
birch. The figures for the leading states are
given in table following. By far the largest
amount was cut in Wisconsin, which reported
05,191,000 feet, or 39.5 per cent of the total.
Michigan cut 39,693,000 feet, or 16.5 per cent ;
New York, 24,760,000 feet, or 10.3 per cent :
Pennsylvania, 23,S52,000 feet, or 9.9 per cent ;
Vermont. 21,750,000 feet, or 9 per cent ; Maine,
20,164,000 feet, or S.4 per cent ; and nine
other states, combined, 15,294,000 feet, or 6.4
per cent of the total. There has been a rela-
tively large increase in the cut of birch since
1899, for which year the census reported 128,-
410,000 feet.

CUT OF BIRCH IN 1905.

Number

State. of mills. 11 feet. Per cent.

Wisconsin 223 95.191 39.5

Michigan 191 39,693 16.5

New York 225 24,7(jo 10.3

Pennsylvania 142 23.852 9.9

Vermont 185 21,750 9.0

Maine 122 20,164 8.4

All others 239 15.294 6.4

Total 1.327

240,704

100.0

BILLIONS OF BOARD FEET
0 12 3 4

Wash ington

Wi scons in

Louisiana

Minnesota

Michigan

Arkansas

Pennsylvania

M ississippi

Oregon .

North Carolina

California

Texas

Alabama

Maine

Virginia

Georgia

West Virginia

Florida

New York

Tennessee

Sout h Carolina

Ke ntucky

Missouri

Indrana

New Hampshire

Ohio

Vermont

Massachusetts

Idaho

Montana

Mary iand

Iowa

I llinois

AllOthers

Cottonwood.

The cut of Cottonwood reported for 1905 by
422 mills was 236,000,000 feet. The leading
state was Arkansas, with 90,920,000 feet, or
38.5 per cent of the total. Next in order came
Mississippi, with 43,462,000 feet, or 18.4 per
cent; Louisiana, with 38,693,000, or 16.4 per
cent; Tennessee, with 2S,6S3,000, or 12.2 per
cent ; and small amounts in twenty-three othjer
states, aggregating 34,242,000 feet, or 14.5 per
cent of the total. The cut of Cottonwood in
1899, according to census figures, was 401,437,-
000 feet, so it is probable that the cut in 1905
was considerably larger than is indicated by
the reports to the Forest Service, though not
eqdal to that of 1809.

CUT OF COTTONWOOD IN 1905.
Number

State. of mills. M feet. Per cent.

Arkansas 66 90,920 38.5

Mississippi 30 43.462 18.4

Louisiana 15 38.693 16.4

Tennessee 16 2S.683 12.2

All others 295 34,242 14.5

Total 422 236,000 100.0

Elm.
The cut of elm reported for 1905 was 227,-
068,000 feet, as shown by table following. Of
this amount Wisconsin cut 31 per cent ; Michi-
gan, 25.2 per cent; Indiana, 11 per cent; Ohio,
9.9 per cent ; Arkansas, 4.1 per cent ; Missouri,
3.7 per cent ; and twenty-six other states, com-
bined, 15.1 per cent. The cut of elm given by
the census for 1899 was 38S,095,000 feet. There
has been a falling off in the output since that
time, but the cut in 1905 was probably some-
what larger than is indicated from the reports
to (lie Forest Service.

CUT OF ELM IN 1905.

Number

State. of mills. M feet. Per cent.

Wisconsin 254 To. '.27 31.0

Michigan 254 57,305 25.2

Indiana 299 24,911 11.0

Ohio 316 22,464 9.9

Arkansas 54 9,321 4.1

Missouri 72 8.425 3.7

All others 688 34,285 15.1

Total 1,937 227.038 100.0

Chestnut.
The cut of chestnut by 1,599 mills in 1905
was 224,413,000 feet. The figures for the lead-
ing states are given herewith. Pennsylvania
heads the list, with 41,018,000 feet, or 18.3 per
cent of the total ; Tennessee comes next, with
28.010,000 feet, or 12.5 per cent ; and then fol-
low North Carolina, Connecticut and West Vir-
ginia, with over 25,000,000 feet each and ap-
proximately equal amotiuts. Kentucky reported
0.7 per cent -of the total ; Virginia, 6.2 per cent;
Maryland, 5 per cent ; Massachusetts, 4.6 per
cent, .and thirteen other states combined, 12.6
per cent. The cut of chestnut in 1904 was
243,537,000 feet, according to the census.

CUT OF CHESTNUT IN 1905.

Number

State. of mills. M feet. Per cent.

Pennsylvania 397 41.018 18.3

Tennessee 171 28,010 12.5

North Carolina 117 25,628 11.4

Connecticut 73 25,562 11.4

West Virginia 141 25,256 11.3

Kentucky 147 | 15,017 6.7

Virginia 84 13.994 6.2

Maryland 31 11,228 5.0

Massachusetts 117 10.38S 4.6

All others 321 2S.312 12.6

Total 1,599 224,413 1O0.0

Beech.

The output of 1,853 mills was 219.000,000
feet. Michigan is the leading state, with 59,-
S96.000 feet, or 27.3 per cent of the total.
Pennsylvania comes next, with 53, 494, 000 feet,
or 24.7 per cent, and then Indiana, with 30,-
827,000 feet, or 14 per cent. Beech was re-
ported from seventeen other states, but only

BILLIONS OF BOARD FELT
2 3 4 5 6 7

Yellow Pine
White Pine
Douglas Fir
Hemlock
White Oak
S pruce
WesternYellow Pine

i

Cypress

■m

Red Oak

MB

Maple

■■

Poplar
Redwood

Ml

Cedar
Red Gum

■

Basswood

■

Cottonwood

■

Birch

■

Clm

■

Chestnut

■

Beech

■

Ash

■

Sugar Pine

1

Western White Pine

1

H ickory

1

Other Kinds

Mixed

RELATIVE OUTPUT OF LUMBER FOR 1905
BY STATES

RELATIVE OUTPUT OF LUMBER FOR 1905
BY KINDS.

HARDWOOD RECORD

25

relatively smail amounts were cut outside of
Michigan, Pennsylvania and Indiana, which fur-
nished 66 per cent of the total quantity re-
ported. The census gave no figures upon beech
in 1899, so there is no basis for comparison.

CUT OP BEECH IN 1905.

Number

State. of mills. M feet. Per cent.

Michigan 192 59.896 27.3

Pennsylvania 238 63,494 24.7

Indiana 285 . 30,827 14.0

New York 275 24,760 11.3

Ohio 269 14,297 6.5

Vermont 123 7,829 3.6

Kentucky 129 7.7S7 3.5

All others 342 20,110 9.1

Total 1,853 219,000 100.0

Ash.

In 1905, 159,034,000 feet of ash was cut by
2,653 mills. Michigan was the leading state,
with 20,141,000 feet, or 16.5 per cent of the
total. Next comes Wisconsin, with 14,588,000
feet, or 9.2 per cent, and then Indiana, Ar-
kansas and Kentucky, with approximately 13,-
000,000 feet, or over S per cent each. Relatively
small amounts were reported from twenty-nine
other states, but over half of the output came
from the five states mentioned. The cut of ash
in 1S99, according to the census, was 256,431,-
000 feet, but the output is decreasing, because
of the scarcity of stumpage.

CUT OF ash in 1905.
Number

State. of mills. M feet. Per cent.

Michigan 253 IIG. 141 16.5

Wisconsin 203 14.5SS 9.2

Indiana 279 13,340 S.4

Arkansas 8S 13,034 8.2

Kentucky 157 12.939 8.1

Ohio 280 10,539 6.1

Mississippi 68 8.0S3 5.1

South Carolina 12 7,460 4.7

Pennsylvania 237 6,691 4.2

Tennessee 154 5.819 3.6

All others '. . 922 41.000 25.9

Total 2,653 159,634 100.0

Hickory.
The cut of hickory for 1905 by 1.S29 mills
nas 95,S03,000 feet. Indiana leads, with 15,-
138,000 feet, or 15.8 per cent ; followed by
Arkansas, with 13,262,000 feet, or 13.8 per
cent ; Kentucky, with 12,S94,000 feet, or 13.4
per cent ; Tennessee, with 11,958,000 feet, or
12.5 per cent, and Ohio, with 11,054,000 feet,
or 11.5 per cent. Mississippi reported 6.5 per
cent of the total, Illinois 5.6 per cent, Penn-
sylvania 5.4 per cent, Missouri, 3.6 per cent,
West Virginia 2.4 per cent. Twenty other states
combined reported 9.5 per cent. The total cut
of hickory in 1905 reported to the Forest Service
is practically the same as that given by the
census for 1899, but there is no doubt that these
figures are considerably below the actual annual
consumption of hickory. A considerable amount
of hickory, particularly spoke material, is sold
by the piece, and consequently was not reported
as lumber. The members of the National Hick-
ory Association estimate their annual require-
ments as equivalent to 250,000,000 board feet.

CUT OF HICKORY IN 1905.
Number

State. of mills. M feet. Percent.

Indiana 319 15.13S 15.8

Arkansas SI 13,262 13..8

Kentucky 148 12.894 13.4

Tennessee 14S 11,958 12.5

Ohio 352 11,054 11.5

Mississippi 40 6,239 6.5

Illinois 103 5,308 5.6

Pennsylvania 1S8 5,146 5.4

Missouri 68 3,430 3.6

West Virginia 71 2,310 2.4

All others 308 9,064 9.5

Total 1,829 95.S03 1O0.O

Production by States.
The production of lumber in 1905 by 11,666
mills shows that the following states led In the

production of the kinds specified :

Arkansas : Red gum and Cottonwood.

California : Western yellow pine and red-
wood.

Idaho : Western white pine.

Indiana : Hickory and walnut.

Kentucky : Yellow poplar.

Louisiana : Yellow pine and cypress.

Maine : Spruce and balsam.

Michigan : Maple, beech and ash.

Minnesota : White pine.

Montana : I. arch.

Pennsylvania : Hemlock and chestnut.

Tennessee : Red oak.

Washington: Douglas fir and cedar.

West Virginia : White oak.

Wisconsin : Basswood, birch, elm and tama

rack.

The JWodern Furniture Factory.

THE CUTTING ROOM.

The history of the cutting room in the mo-
dern furniture factory is practically the his-
tory of woodworking machinery. No compari-
son is possible between the methods now em-
ployed in cutting stock for up to date furni-
ture and the means in vogue when the work
was a handicraft. For ease, accuracy and
speed the work of no man can be compared
to that of a machine. The machine has other
advantages, also, for when stock is cut ac-
cording to chart, it is possible to duplicate the
pieces whenever they are required. In sec-
tional bookcase work, parts made ten years ago
can be replaced, in ease of need, with as much
ease as if they were made yesterday.

The distinguishing feature of the cutting
room is the amount of stuff turned out. Every
part is made and worked in quantities. At
certain stages of the operation this induces
waste, notably in the work of the swing saw
man. In most factories there is in vogue the
old method of cross cutting lumber where the

to change the stops. They work automatical-
ly and do not require the attention of the
sawyer, so that he is enabled not only to prac-
tically eliminate waste but also to save the
time formerly spent in watching the chalk
mark. Workmen operating the machine say
that it is a decided help and, besides saving
time, eliminates the chances of poor judgment
and consequent loss of material, which before
were difficulties always encountered in the
work.

Furniture in the modern factory is built
according to plans sketched out beforehand.
The lumber is sawed according to these speci-
fications and the result is that each machine
man becomes an expert in his particular
branch. In former times the whole of each
piece was made by one workman and he was
in reality a cabinet maker, but modern con-
ditions have changed the old-time methods in
this trade as in almost every other one. Pres-
ent day methods have the great advantage

AUTOMATIC SWING SAW

GAUGE, MANUFACTURED BY FRANCIS MARSHALL,
RAPIDS, MICH.

GRAND

workman makes a chalk mark to measure his
board and judges the length of each piece by
a hurried adjustment of the board to the mark
before he pulls his saw. Nearly every manu-
facturer will concede that this method is pro-
ductive of waste, the amount of it being reck-
oned by the greater or less accuracy of the
sawman 's judgment. It is hard to secure con-
vincing data on just how much waste occurs
because as a rule when a length has been
spoiled the workman will cut it up and seud
it to the furnace rather than have it reach
any considerable size where it can be seen.
One manufacturer, in order to gauge the loss,
weighed the lumber before and after sawing
it, and it was his experience that the per-
centage was high. There is in use in many
factories at the present time an automatic
swing saw gauge, a cut of which is shown
herewith, whereby absolute adjustment of the
lumber on the saw table is insured by the
use of automatic stops. Any number of
lengths can be cut on the table without having

of absolute accuracy, which is one of the
most important qualities in making a joint.
A plain glued joint, if it is to be a good one,
must have the edges cut perfectly true and
square. Care must be taken in selecting the
wood to be joined and it should be borne
in mind that the pieces should be of the
same structural qualities. If sapwood edges
and heartwood edges are joined together the
greater absorbing power of the sapwood will
cause an uneven strain in the pieces when
exposed to atmospheric influences. When the
strain is great this results disastrously. A
jilaiu glued joint, when properly managed, is
often so strong that it shows more resisl
to splitting than many woods. Other ele-
mental details enter in the proper making of
a joint. When the glue is applied, the parts
must be warmed to a proper temperature in
order to best receive the glue, the operation
must be done in a fairly warm room, free
from drafts to guard against too rapid evapo-
ration and thickening of the glue, and the

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glue itself must be put on at the proper tem-
perature and density.

When the joints are to be reinforced with
tenons or dowels, the pieces are taken to the
machines and the holes punched or the tenons
put on, as the case may be. The same de-
gree of accuracy is necessary in these cases
as in making a plain joint, and the operation
. is being done so skillfully today that a misfit
is practically never encountered in the best
factories.

Veneered furniture is now turned out in
great quantities. Aside from the fact that
the more valuable woods are growing scarcer,
thus inducing the use of laminated wood from
motives of economy, better effects can be ob-
tained from built-up work because a finer
figure can be secured and the tendency to
swell and shrink eliminated or greatly less-
rued. In cutting up the stock for coring
just as much care must be employ.-, 1 as for
face stock. In the best furniture the filler
is of the Kiine wood as the veneer, giving
throughout a uniformity that insures durabil-
ity and strength. A plain joint is used, and
when the pieces are assembled with the grain
running in opposite directions, they are mi
to the size required and taken to the planing
machines to be smoothed off in preparation
for the veneer. The surface cannot lie made
too smooth. Laying the. veneer on the coring
is practically making a joint, and unless the

stock is sanded to a very fine surface the best
results with glue are not obtained. The sand-
ing operations are conducted on machines of
varying quality, the pieces being run
through a comparatively rough one and after-
wards taken to a finer tool. The finishing
touches are generally put on by hand. For a
long time it was thought that the finest sand-
ing operations could not be done on machines.
One large furniture plant, however, has now
in operation a new machine, lately patented,
which is called the veneered roll sander, which
gives a finer and more uniform polish than
can be secured by hand. The arrangement
ran l,e set on top of any sander and has an
i ndless belt attachment with a speed of about
I.miii feet a minute. The patterns on the
machine can lie made to polish large or small
pieces, and by changing the rolls make them
wiiler or narrower, as the work requires.

Scientific methods in the cutting room mean
well built furniture. When the parts leave
there to go to the cabinet room to be assem
bled they must be so accurate in construction
that there is no room for faulty joining.

hi all except the cheapest stilt!' tills IS DOW

the case, and the good stuck put into the
work, the thoroughly dried condition in which
it is used, ami the perfect joints made, result
in a strong, durable piece of furniture that
stands up well under practically all condi

tiims.

Shoe Last Mailing.

Shoe last making is a business that inti-
mately touches two trades. The manufacturer
of this commodity must know both the wood-
working business and the shoe industry. In
building his products for use on the machines
of the great shoemaking houses it is necessary
that'ho should select the best stock, get it in
the most durable condition and then work it
to the form in which it will do the best work
for the particular purpose required. Several
kinds of machines are used in the manufac-
ture of shoes, some of them require the last
to have a metal sole, some a. metal heel and
some metal on both sole and heel, while oth-
ers use the last without the addition of any
sheathing whatever.

American hardwoods offer the best material
fur lasts. Maple, persimmon and basswood
are the stuck most used, maple predominating.
The strong, durable qualities of hard maple
offer such a resistance to the rough machine
work and its price is so comparatively low
that it has come to be widely used. Persim-
mon is- very scarce and is used to supply only
special orders, but in strength and longevity
it is superior to maple. Basswood is used to
make hollow sample lasts for salesmen, its
lightness being a considerable factor when ex-
press charges are considered. It is neverused
for actual work on the machines.

The material for lasts comes to the factory
in what are called last blocks which are
roughly turned pieces of wood twelve inches in
length ami from three and a half to four ami
i half inches in diameter at their thickest
part. Before they can 'be worked to shape
they must be bone dry and there is consider-
able difficulty in reducing them to this condi-

tion, owing to their great thickness. Any split
or check makes them unserviceable. The mo-
.lein improved kilns have done much to assist
the drying process but even with artificial
help, there is a loss amounting sometimes to
twelve and fifteen per cent in the lasts.
Scarcely any lot of lasts is fit for use until it
has been put through a drying process for at
least eighteen months, nine of which are gen-
erally under air drying and nine under kiln
drying methods. When the rough blocks are
turned at the factory they are thrown nut In
dry and care is taken to turn them frequently
s.i that the atmosphere may work as evenly as
possible on all sides. After they have gone
through this process for nine months thej are
ship], eil t,, the factory where they are pot
through the kilning operation for another nine
months. As in kilning lumber, care must be
taken to keep the temperature from varying
and to make sure that the moisture comes t,,
the surface evenly so as to avoid cheeks. Al-
though they have been both air dried and kiln
,lrio,l at the mill before they are sent to the
factory, the lasts are nevertheless warmed
again so as to insure against any effects from
the moisture they might have absorbed while
in transit. While stored to await working up
they must be kept in a warm and dry atmos
phere.

In the smaller factories carloads of lasts
are ordered as they are required, but in large
establishments a supply of the different kinds
is constantly kept on hand, i'oii.ihiii pairs of
lasts being no unusual number to have in the
bins at one time.

The block resembles slightly the finished
last, tapering roughly toward the toe. The

first operation of working the blocks consists
in putting them on the graduating machines
which shave them off to the size and form
required. The last then goes to the finisher
who cuts off the small projection at the toe
and heel where the block was affixed to the
machine and completes the work by trimming
and fashioning it to the exact style demanded
by the pattern. TTie form of the last block is
shown in the cut accompanying this article.
as is also the last in a partially worked state
and the finished product. Considerable ingen-
uity and skill are required in shaping new

EVOLUTION OF A LAST BLOCK.

patterns. An idea of the number of the var-
ious styles may be gathered when it is known
that it is not an unusual thing for a large
factory to carry in its storage bin as many as
15,000 distinct styles of lasts. These are, of
course, a record of the business, for a sample
of each style is kept so that at any future

ti an eriler can be filled from it. It seems

incredible to the layman, however, that such
an immense number of different forms can be
fashioned about such an object as a shoe
which, in substance, has only one general
form.

In making a new style the lines of the last
are changed to what is thought will be a
pleasing innovation in mode. In many cases
the distinction between the old lines and the
new is so delicate as to be unobserved by the
uninitiated. These sample lasts are not for use
but when completed are taken out and exhib-
ited to the shoe manufacturers and if orders
arc secured on them the working last is made
along the same lines with or without such ad-
nition of metal sheathing or hinges as may be
required. The hinge last is made by first cut
ting off the heel and afterward attaching it
to the other part of the last by a hinge. This
gives the advantage of being able to bend
away the heel when it is desired to work the
toe of the shoe. The insertion of the metal
joints ami rods is done on machines as is also
the reinforcement of the heel and toe by
sheathing when this is required.

One part of the finishing operation consists
in scouring the lasts. This is done on a scour-

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27

ing machine consisting of a wheel to which
the power is carried by a belt. The wheel is
provided with a covering of felt over which is
;< coat of quartz which gives the desired scour-
ing quality. The quartz gives better results
when it is warm and for this reason a quan-
tity nf it is always kept iu a warm state in a
box near the machine. When the last comes
to the polishing room it is put on the polish-
ing machine, which is also a wheel and oper-
ated by a belt like the scouring wheel. The
polishing wheel, however, is armed with sheep-
skin, which is of the softest and most pliable
material obtainable in order not to scratch the
surface of the last. When the last has finally
I a pul through these several operations ii

has a smooth and glossy surface, without a
fault or scratch, and shows the natural grain
if the wood.

The life of a last depends much on llir
usage it gets. Some machines destroy it in a
short time and when used on others it is serv-
iceable for months. At all events, it speaks
highly of the splendid qualities of American
hardwoods that they can lie given such rough
usage and stand such a strain as is endured
by the lasl on a Bhoemaking machine. The
American shoe the world over is a standard
of excellence and in the development of its
successful market the last manufacturer has
played and will continue to play an important
part.

NeWs Miscellany.

hood, or the lop as it is nun- muionly known,

will lose its color within six months.

The practice of tic South Australian carriage
builders of Importing American parts and manu-
facturing therefrom Australian vehicles is firmly
established, and. while it wou'.d unque 1 numbly
prove an obstacle in the way of bui'ding up or
rehabilitating an export market for the finished
article, it certainly cannol be regarded :is work
ing a hardship en other American industries.
It is undoubtedly a difficult task to find -ale
here for a finished buggy manufactured in the
1 nlted states, nut the demand is large and np
parently increasing for every pari used iu its
construction, and practically all of them an' of
American make.

High Water in Arkansas.
Tin' Leavitt Lumber Company of this city
conducts operations at Hollywood, Tunica

'' I\. Ark The n. .'in heavj ruins iu Unit

Forestry in Wisconsin.

It is expected that when the Wisconsin legis-
lature meets this winter efforts will be made to
pass iiills favorable to tin' protection of forests

in certain districts and to provide for re

stringent laws for the punishment of thus.' guilty
of Btarting forest fires, and alsn a measure which
will compel lumbermen to carefully burn up the
liniUs and tops left in their slashings after a
winter's work. Had a law containing the pro
visions hist mentioned been passed at an early
day much of the wealth of Wisconsin would have
been preserved, tor it is estimated that of all
Hie standing timber in the state twenty years
ago not over forty per cent has reached the saw-
mill, 'flu' Wisconsin legislature at its hist session
passed a law creating the office of Are warden
and providing for 350 deputies. It is estimated
that nearly ninety per rout of the destructive
tires are started by the carelessness of settlers
rather than by campers or hunters.

The forest commission is now working lor the

protect! 1 tin' head waters of the Flambeau

and Wisconsin rivers. It is hoped to have set

aside 100. acres of wooded lands. To protect

fhe developed and undeveloped water power the
state must carry on forestry on a large scale. It
is estimated that about 1,500,000 acres will lie
required in the Wisconsin reserve. The federal
government has given 20,000 acres of its own
lands on the broad principle that protect! n of
Wisconsin rivers means benefit to the whole
West. In the territory involved the pine lum-
bermen have stripped the lands of the pine tim-
ber, leaving a growth of liardw I, .Much of

the latter is large bodied, but a large percentage
is of young growth, so that the work of the
forestry commission will insure the protection
of native hardwoods in the years to come. In
this connection President Roosevelt has empha-
sized two points. He holds thai the home makers
should not be sent into a barren region, for they
deserve better of the commonwealth: also thai
forests me the only natural resource which can
be made in yield year after year.

American Vehicles in Australia.

In discussing why the trade in buggies and
other vehicles made in the United States has
decreased in South Australia to such a marked
degree, Special Agent Hairy R. Burrill sates
that the objection to the American goods is their
lack of durability, strength and adaptability to
the climatic conditions existing in thai country.

Buggies manufactured in the United Slates
have been exported to South Australia in fairly
large Quantities, and because of their attractive
design and appearance attained considerable pop
ularity. It was not long, however, befora the
absence of proper seasoning became apparent
through their lack 1 £ durability and inability
generally to stand up under the conditions pre-
vailing there. This struck a blow to the trade
in American vehicles from which it lias never
recovered. It is evident, from the experiences

Of the South Australian importers, thai a vital
mistake was made at the beginning in exporting
to this market from the United Slates cheap,

lightly constructed, tinseas I vehicles, unsu id

to the extreme dry heat of this climate, which
prevails for four or five months ol the year,
and defective in other important particulars
Whether the trade in Ameri an vehicles, iin

ported ill a finished condition from the hi

factories, can ever be restored to a paying basis
is problematical, but it is safe to assume ttat
a careful in vest iga i b.n by an expert of the re-
quirements of the market would disclose the
necessity for a radical change in the style of
goods designed for the South Australian trade

if any attempt wen. to be made to in n

plish it.

With such alterations in the construction of
an American-made vehicle as would appeal to a
practical man examining the field with a view
to again becoming a factor in the market, it
would not, under ordinary circumstances, appear
to be difficult to secure a foothold : but t lie con-
ditions now obtaining are such as somewhat to
discourage efforts in this direction. The first,
and perhaps the greatest, obstacle is the si ong
prejudice against any vehicle manufactured in
and exported from the United States. In the sec-
ond place the demands of the Smith Australian
trade have resulted in the establishment of sev-
eral carriage factories, mor ■ less extensive,

and fairly well equipped to turn out acceptable
work. These factories guarantee their output
for at least one year, which guaranty carries 110
risk, for, profiting by the failure of cheaply
made, lightly constructed vehicles to retain their
hold on the market, the South Australian iiianu
factum's, using the material best suited for their
climate, build a heavy, durable article, and
charge therefor a price sufficiently high to in
sure a reasonable profit. These vehicles are
built to stand rough usage without bre.tk.ng
down, and because of their strength meet the
requirements of the trade.

I'sf. of American Materials.
One other feature, as peculiar as ii i; uni-
versal there, is noticeable In every carriage fac-
tory of any size in that state. The vehicle*
turned out are called "Australian-made vehicles,"
ami ibis is true so far a- the assembling of the
parts is concerned. Careful inquiries, however.
elicited the information that, in practically

every carrlag instructed A rican material is

largely used The wl Is. tires, metal work.

springs and various other essent'al parts are
Imported from the United States, put together
lure, with the woodwork properly seasoned, and
the finished article is exhibited in the show
room, or sold as a vehie'e Of Australian manu
fact ure. There is. however, one pari of a buggy
that an Australian declines to buy in the United

Stales, and that is the h I, 'fhe reason as-

signed is -the worthlessness of the material used.
for, according 10 the dealers of Adelaide, the

WOODS COMMISSARY IN HIGH WATER IN

ARKANSAS

section have caused an overflow of their lands
to an extent hitherto unknown. In fact, nearly

II nl he property is under water save the saw

mill. The two pictures ace panying this para

graph are from snapshots made by II. II. I.eavilt
oti his recent trip to the mill. One shows one

PICKING IT

FLOATING

SAS

LOGS IN ARKAN

of the c pany's woods commissaries completely

surrounded by water; 11 ther shows one of the

gangs of laborers engaged in gathering up float
ing logs. Mr Leavitt -ays that while bis rail-

r I is from one 10 [our feet under water, the

high water lias assisio.i them materially in col
biting limber from remote points which they
are Moating to the mill. In Ibis manner he
says he has saved fully 1,000,00 I Ol cypres*

s ioi oak f imbet

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HARDWOOD RECORD

Arrangement to Sell Veneer Output.

The Veneer Marketing Company of the Rail-
way Exchange building, Chicago, organized last
May to dispose of the output of the Asheville
Veneer Company of Biltmore, N. C. the Holley-
Matthews Manufacturing Company of Sikeston,
Mo., and the White Veneer Company of Boyne
City, Mich., has created such a market for its
product that the mills it represents will be
kept busy during the next twelve months. This
grouping of the selling ends of various distinct
concerns under an altogether independent enter-
prise, incorporated for the purpose, is new in
the veneer industry, although not unknown in
other lines of business. It gives a wide variety
of product from which to satisfy the needs
of the trade and has distinct advantages in the
disposition of stock.

The Veneer Marketing Company deals in all
kinds of veneers, sawn, sliced and rotary cut.
Besides selling the product direct from the mill
it has a warehouse on Michigan street on the
north side of the city.

B. Williams Cypress Company, on the steamer
Suwanee, to the mills along the picturesque
Teche. The banquet will be attended by the
heads of all the departments of the company
and each mill will be represented by one or
more persons. Following the dinner will be an
informal talk on topics of interest to both the
manufacturing and selling branches of the busi-
ness.

The Cypress Selling Company has been giving
most efficient service to its trade during the
past year, yet Manager Franklin Greenwood
says : "We want to give the buyers of cypress
50 per cent better service next year than we
have this." Already prospects look bright for
a continuance of prosperity, as the company
has orders on file for shipment after the first
of January for nearly 25 per cent of its output
for next year.

The Henry Sanders Company.
The Henry Sanders Company is now installed
in its new factory at Elston and Webster ave-
nues, Chicago, which was finished some months
ago. The buildings cover considerable ground
and are equipped with every facility for the con-
struction of columns. It has a splendid reputa-

Copartnership Dissolved.

Announcement Is made that the copartnership
heretofore existing between J. F. Holloway and
J. N. Holloway of Philadelphia, trading as the
Holloway Lumber Company, was dissolved on
December 10 by mutual consent. J. F. Holloway
will continue the business of the Holloway Lum-
ber Company under the same style as heretofore,
assuming all the obligations of the firm and
collecting the outstanding indebtedness.

J. N. Holloway will continue in the lumber

NEW FACTOR* HENRY SANDERS CO., CHICAGO.

tion for the quality of its output, having made
some of the most expensive work done in col-
umns in this country. In building up its work
the company uses the Koll system of lot-king, a
device patented some years ago by Ernst Koll,
which has been found to give the .best results
from its scientific and simple CQnstruction. Mr.
Koll superintends the building of the columns
and is a specialist in the making of high-class
work. Under his supervision some of the most
striking work in this line in Chicago has been
done, notably the columns In the La Salle Street
Station and those in the interior of the home of
the Union League Club.

For Cypress Selling Co.'s Salesmen.

The Cypress Selling Company, Ltd., with
headquarters at New Orleans, La., is planning
an unusually enjoyable time for its salesmen's
annual educational trip this year. This com-
pany, represents a large majority of the gulf
mills in the Southern Cypress Manufacturers'
Association and this year has been one of the
most successful in its history, sales during re-
cent weeks ranging from 12,000,000 to 13.000.000
feet and even higher, and the company takes
this method of showing its appreciation of the
earnest work of its selling force, which has
contributed largely to this record.

Between thirty-five and forty of the company's
salesmen will attend the festivities, which will b3
held early in January and consist of an elaborate
banquet at the St. Charhss hotel, New Orleans,
a tour of the thirty odd mills of the company
and a three days' trip, as the guests of the F.

business under the style of J. X. Holloway &
Co. at 417 Crozer building, Philadelphia.

Both of the above gentlemen are well known
in the lumber trade of Philadelphia and the
East, where for a number of years they have
enjoyed a. wide acquaintance and a well merited
reputation as progressive business men. The
Hardwood Record extends its best wishes to
both for a successful business under the new
conditions.

Railroad Spike Test.

The Forest Service has completed a series of
tests to determine the holding power of different
forms of railroad spikes. The tests were made
on ordinary commercial ties of loblolly pine,
oak, chestnut and other woods. The spikes used
were of four kinds : common driven spikes, a
driven spike which has about the same form as
the common spike with a lengthwise channel on
the side away from the rail ; screw spikes of the
American type; and screw spikes similar to
those in use on European railroads, and differ-
ing from the American spike mainly in the man-
ner of finishing the thread under the head. The
common and the channeled spikes were driven
into the ties in the usual manner to a depth of
five inches. A hole of the same diameter as
the spike at the base of the thread was bored
for the screw spikes, which were then screwed
down to the same depth as the driven spikes,
'the ties were then placed in the testing ma-
chine and the force required to pull each spike
was recorded. The average force required to
pull common spikes varies from 7,000 pounds
in white oak to 3,600 pounds in loblolly pine,

and 3,000 pounds in chestnut. The holding
power of the channeled spike is somewhat
greater. The two forms of screw spike have
about the same holding power, ranging from
13,000 pounds in white oak to 9,400 pounds in
chestnut and 7,700 pounds in loblolly pine.
There is a marked difference between the be-
havior of driven and screwed spikes in knots
and in clear wood. Knots are brittle and lack
elasticity, so driven spikes do not hold as well
in them as In clear wood. On the other hand,
screw spikes tend to pull out the whole knot
which they penetrate. This increases the resis-
tance so much that the increase of holding power
of screw spikes in knots is considerably above
that for clear wood.

Annual and "Home Coming" of Indiana
Association.

The Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Associa-
tion is making preparations for its annual meet-
ing on January 11, 1907. Besides routine busi-
ness, important topics will be discussed. An
interesting feature of the occasion will be the
"Home Coming" banquet tendered to former
lumbermen of the state by the association. Fol-
lowing is the announcement and invitation ex-
tended to the members and the trade :

By order of the board of managers we an-
nounce that the eighth annual .meeting of the
Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association will
be held at the Grand hotel, Indianapolis, Friday,
January 11, 1907. The convention will be
called at 2 p. m.

"In addition to the regular order of business,
matters of special importance will be brought
before the convention for discussion — trade con-
ditions, the car stake and equipment complaint,
forestry, inspection rules, etc.

"A special feature of the meeting will be a
'Home Coming' of the Indiana boys who are
now engaged in the lumber business elsewhere,
who will be our guests at a banquet at 7 :30 p.
m. We will also have with us as guests many
other prominent lumbermen and friends. Every
preparation is being made to make this an en-
joyable and interesting occasion.

For Ex-Hoosier Lumbermen.

"You are cordially invited to come home Janu-
ary 11, 1907, and attend the eighth annual
meeting of the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's
Association to be held at the Grand hotel, In-
dianapolis. You are also to be our guest at the
banquet to be given during the evening.

"This meeting is to be a 'home coming' of all
Indiana boys now engaged in the lumber busi-
ness elsewhere. If you do not attend our meet-
ing will not be a complete success ; therefore,
by all means arrange your plans to attend this
meeting. While many things of importance will
come up for discussion, we wish to make the
main feature of the meeting an old-fashioned
'home coming.'

"Remember we will not take 'no' for an an-
swer.

"C. H. Barnabt, President.
"J. M. Pritchard, Secretary."

Durability of Cypress.
Cypress grows in an extremely slow manner
and its wood is notoriously durable. It resists
the action of the weather in a totally different
manner from all other woods, and seems to be
wholly uninfluenced by immersion ip water for
a long period of years. It has many curious
chemical properties which hold its fibers and
other constituents together so indissolubly that
the common changes which break down the tis-
sue of ordinary woods leave the cypress unin-
jured. Instances are known where the wood
of the cypress tree has endured for more than
1,000 years, leaving it still in a solid condition,
subject only to the attrition of the elements,
such as the gradual wearing away one sees in
exposed rocks. In the lower valley of the Mis-
sissippi a species of cypress is extremely abun-

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dant ; and in New Orleans some years ago, while
■ XI, nations were being made in a trench, a
cypress stockade was found which had been
erected in 1730 by the French as a protection

against the Indians. Son t the pieces meas-

nred twenty-one inches in width, with a thick-
ness of about twelve inches! ami, although it
had been buried for so many years, it was In
perfect condition when exhumed, even the tool
marks being still visible.

By a series of experiments extending over
many years it has been found that cypress
wood endures the varying conditions of green-
house work better than any other wood. Green-
houses are exposed to all the vicissitudes of
heat, cold and moisture, and changes of tem-
perature show the cypress timber used in their
construction to be practically unchanged after
more than fifty years of use. Many old doors of
this wood made by the early Spaniards are
still serviceable, although exposed to a most
trying climate.

It has also been found to be one of the most
durable materials for the manufacture of tanks,
its close structure and strong fiber resisting the
influence not only of water but also of the
chemical elements which are used or engen-
dered in the manufacture of spirituous liquors
and fermented beverages.

cone of the wheel. This of course does away
with the use of rivets and the consequent annoy-
ance from their working Loose, etc., and maket
1 be wheel much stronger.

These fans arc scientifically built and are so
strong and solid that thej may be run at maxi
mum speed without any DOticeable vibration.
They are provided with increased pulley sur
face, the crown sheet and inlet being made of
steel. There is no buckling of suction side while
running at high speed. The fans are fitted with
universal adjustmenl of bearings, and the bear
ings are double ring oiling <it the best babbitt
and reamed to size.

The New York Blower Company manufactures
its reversible fan in sizes from 30 inches to 60

inches, either single or double.. They have 1

with appreciative users all over the country, as
they give most satisfactory results. AH in
quiries addressed to the New York Blower Com
pany will receive prompt attention.

Exports of Wood.
Wood and manufactures of wood are forming
a constantly and rapidly increasing share of the
exports of the United States. The total value
of wood and its manufactures exp< rted in the
nine months ending witli September, 1:1111;, ex-

of the principal European countries, but to most
of the countries of South and Central America.
Australia. Philippine Islands, Japan and even
Africa. The value of this class of wood, namely.
"Logs and sawed and hewn timber," exported
to the United Kingdom in 1906 was five and one-
half million dollars against three millions in

in 1S90; to British North America nearly

against one million In 1896; to Netherlands one
and one third millions against one half million
in ism;; to British North America nearly ane
and one half millions: to Mexico one million;

to Italy practically one million ; to France tin

quarter million; to Central American states one
half million; and to British Australia over four
hundred thousand in 1:11a; against one hundred
and thirty thousand in 1S90.

The largest value of this class of exports Is
found in the two groups designated, respectively,
as "boards, deals and planks," and "joists and
scantlings," the bulk of this being "boards, deals
and planks," and, therefore, a class of merchan-
dise popularly designated as "lumber." til' this
the expiration in 1906 was over twenty tune
million dollars, exclusive of that sent to our
linn eontiguous territory/ or over thirty millions
in all, and it went not only to the principal
countries of Europe, hut tn Mexico, Central and

REVERSIBLE FAN, MANUFACTURED BY NEW YORK
BLOWER CO., CHICAGO.

FAN Willi SUCTION SIDE REMOVED, SHOWING CON-
STRUCTION OF WHEEL.

"Built Right, Run Right."
A little over a year ago the New York Blower
Company, with general offices at Twenty fifth
place and Stewart avenue, Chicago, and works
at Bucyrus, O., conceived the idea that a tan
to handle shavings, wool, cotton dust, sawdust
and stringy material should he reversible so as
to feed and discharge, and should be provided
with a wheel that would be unobstructible.

The officers o£ this concern worked diligently
with this end in view, and after the expenditure
of much time and money succeeded in bringing
about what is practically an evolution in [dan
ing mill exhausters. These fans have proven
their worth, shown the truth of the company's
axiom, "built right, run right," and have made
for the company an enviable reputation in this
line of manufacture.

The first cut shown herewith pictures the New
York Blower Company's reversible fan, with a
right hand vertical up discharge. Anyone fa-
miliar with fans will readily detect the strong
points of this one. The second cut shows I he
fan witli the suction side removed, revealing the
inside of the fan, from which may be received
a fairly clear idea of how the wheel is con-
structed. The chief recommendation for this
wheel is that the blades are east directly in the

ceeded by thirty three per cent those of the
corresponding period of last year and aggie-
gated, for the nine months, no Less than fifty-
nine million dollars. If to this are added the
shipments of this character to the non-contig-
uous territory of the ["luted States, not now

Included in our foreign trade figures, the total

value of wood and its manufactures leaving our
ports in the nine months in question will aggre
gate sixty-one million dollars or at lie rate of
eighty-one million dollars a year. A decada agtJ,

in the fiscal year 1896, the total value of w 1

and its manufactures exported was practically
thirty two million dollars, and in the fiscal year
L906, was in round terms, sixty-nine millions,
and if to this are added the shipments to non-
contiguous territory, the total, in round terms,
would he seventy-one millions. The increase in
the single year 1906 over 1905 was eleven mil

lion dollars in the shipments to foreign terri
tory.

Practically the whole world is asking for
American wood and its products. Even <f 'logs
and sawed and hewn timber" the total exports
lor the fiscal year 1906 were fifteen and 1 ne
third million dollars against seven and one third
millions in 1896, and the shipments of the ma-
terial in this crude form went to not only all

South America. Cuba and the other West Indian
islands, the South American states. China, Hong-
kong, Philippine Islands, British Australia.
British North America and smaller quantities to
Africa and Oceanica. The value of lumber senl
to the United Kingdom in 1906 was five and
three-quarter million dollars against less than
two millions in 1896; to Germany marly two
and one-quarter millions against one-third of a
million in 1896; to British North America, lum-
ber producing country, over two and one-half

millions in L906 against a littli ire than a

half million in L896 ; 10 Cuba practically two

and half millions in 1906 against less than

One-third of a million in 1896; to Mexico, prac
lieally two millions against less than three
fourths million in 1896; to Argentina three ami
one-half million dollars' value in i906 against
a little less than one million in 1898; to British
Australasia over a million dollars in L906
against a half million dollars in 1896; to lei
glum more than three-fourths million; France,
a half million ; Italy, a half million ; Nether-
lands, two and one half millions; Brazil, a half
million; Chile, more than a half million; Cen
tral American states, over three hundred thou
sand dollars' worth: Hongkong, thirty-five thou
sand dollars' worth, and Japan, titty two thou-
sand dollars' worth in 1906.

3°

HARDWOOD RECORD

Wood Used for Veneer.
The Forest Service, in circular 51, publishes
a study of the woods used for veneer in 1905.
The statistics are based on reports gathered
from 128 establishments in the United States.
These use annually more than 189,000,000 feet
log measure, the equivalent of approximately
217,000,000 board feet, which yield 1,108,000,000
square feet of veneer. Although the returns
from the manufacturers did not indicate whether
the veneers were sawed, sliced or rotary cut.
there is little doubt that 75 per cent of the
oak veneers are either sawed or sliced. The
rotary process is very extensively employed for
all woods except oak.

The importance of red gum, which furnishes
in this industry 21. S per cent of the raw mate-
rial and nearly 17 per cent of the veneer, is
clearly indicated. This is the more striking
when it is remembered that this species has
been utilized only a few years.

Maple ranks second in quantity of raw mate-
rial, and furnishes 14.5 per cent. Yellow poplar
is the only other kind of timber furnishing more
than 10 per cent of the raw material. It ranks
third both in quantity o£ wood and square feet
of veneer. These three species — red gum, maple
and yellow poplar — furnish more than one-half
of the total quantity of wood used.

White oak, although ranking fifth in the scale
of quantity, holds a high place among the veneer
woods. Probably no other veneer is so much
in demand as this, and if data were available
to show its exact value the result would be a
revelation to those not thoroughly familiar witli
the situation.

The results show that for all species the
average number of veneers produced per foot
board measure is 5.1. Of the individual species,
beech is cut the thinnest, the average being 11.1
square feet per board foot. This is doubtless
due in part to the fact that this is a favorite
wood for the manufacture of wooden plates,
and such stock is cut about thirty to an inch.
Walnut ranks next, with 10.2 to the inch. The
fact that it is a scarce and valuable wood read
ily accounts for this. Sycamore, cottonwood and
pine are cut thickest.

The use of a large number of species for
veneering is shown by the reports. While the
fifteen kinds tabulated constitute by far the
greater part of the wood used, there are nearly
as many more used in small quantities, among
which are cherry, chestnut, butternut, hickory,
cucumber and holly. It will be noted that in
Wisconsin the leading wood is basswood ; in
Tennessee, red gum ; in Indiana, white oak ; in
New York, maple, and in Missouri, cottonwood.
Not all of the wood classed as veneer is actu-
ally used for veneering in the true sense, for
with the development of veneering machinery a
number of new uses have been found for wood
in the form of veneer. Such of the softer woods
as gum, cottonwood and poplar are largely
veneered for boxes, baskets, egg crates and sim-
ilar products. Such woods do not yield high
grade veneers, but are used extensively for
building up panels to be finished with a choice
wood.

Woods which take a good finish and possess a
pleasing grain or color, such as oak, maple,
birch, or walnut, furnish the bulk of the true
veneers ; in fact, it may safely be assumed
that practically all of the walnut and oak and a
large percentage of the maple shown in this
report are used in this way. Furniture and, to
a limited extent, interior finishing, consume the
most of these species.

One of the most difficult problems to solve
in the handling of veneer stock is the drying.
A query in regard to drying methods was sent
to manufacturers, but the replies failed to indi-
cate a marked preference for any one method.
One-third of the establishments use no arti-
ficial process. It does not follow, however, that

as much as one-third of the veneer is dried in
the open air. On the contrary, probably much
less than one-third is so dried.

The economical use of the cores which remain
after a log is cut by the rotary process is a
problem of such general interest that inquiry
was made on the schedules as to the present
practice. The results show that 30 establish-
ments use all cores for fuel ; 50 use all or part
of them for fuel ; 33 convert them into excel-
sior. One reports use for pulp ; another their
use for porch posts. The remainder report vari-
ous uses, chiefly, however, combinations of lum-
ber, excelsior, crates, boxes and baskets.

Postponement of Michigan Hardwood Man-
ufacturers' Association Meeting.

After careful consideration the Executive Coni-
tnittee of the Michigan Hardwood Manufac-
turers' Association decided to postpone the meet-
ing scheduled to be held at Grand Rapids, De-
cember 10, until after the first of the year. Due
notice of the date of the meeting will lie given

publicity in the Il.ua.u RJbcoed. This step

was decided upon for the purpose of securing
full information from the hardwood manufac-
turers of the state covering stocks of hardy, I

on -hand January 1, unfilled orders, and state-
ments showing the quantity manufactured dur-
ing 1906 and the probable output of 1907. This
information was deemed essential before effect-
ing any further legislation covering the hard
w Is of the state for the year to come.

Miscellaneous Notes.

The Cadillac Veneer Company is erecting a
new office building at its plant at Cadillac,
Mich., also additional quarters for the installa-
tion of kiln drying apparatus. It is expected
that the improvements will be completed early
in the new year. The company recently iu
creased its capital stock from $75,000 to $85,-
000.

The White Cooperage Company has been in-
corporated at New York City with $50,000 capi-
tal stock to manufacture lumber, cooperage
stock, etc. H. Sinclair Hunter. 590 Quiucy
street, Brooklyn; Charles A. Orton, iu'T Slier
merhorn street, Brooklyn; Edward C. Taylor,
3 8S9 Grand avenue. The Bronx, incorporators.

T. B. Baker of Hackney, Kan., who lately
engaged in the business of buying walnut logs,
has been quite successful in getting some choice
stock which he has shipped to various parts
of the country.

The woodworking plant of the National Lum-

ber Company at Jackson, Miss., was destroyed
by tire on December 7. together with 3,500,000
feet of dressed lumber. This company was or-
ganized about a year ago and its plant was
tilted with the most modern equipment. The
property is said to have been insured at $75,-
000, although worth considerably more than
that amount.

The Chattanooga Wheelbarrow & Manufac-
turing Company of Chattanooga. Tenn., has in-
creased its capital stock from $25,000 to $5Q,000
for the purpose of building a large addition to
its plant.

W. L. Clemens and others have organized the
South Atlantic Lumber Company a1 Greensboro,
X. C, to engage in the manufacture of spokes
and bobbins. ■

J. T. Halbrook and Pitt Ileuslee of Dickson,
Tenn.: M. It. Campbell, M, R. Campbell, Jr., and
J. D. Campbell of Tullahoma, Tenn., have or-
ganized the Campbell Manufacturing Company
with $ 10, 000 capital stock. The company will
take over the plant of the Dickson Spoke &
Manufacturing Company, which will be enlarged
and equipped for the manufacture of all kinds
of bent goods in addition to spokes.

The Manchester Lumber Company of Rich-
mond, Va., will erect two two-story brick build-
ings, each 200x80 feet, to be equipped as a
woodworking plant.

After January 1 the main office of the Benoit
Lumber Company of Watizit, La., will be located
at Monroe, La., where it will have facilities for
handling orders with greater dispatch than here-
tofore.

The II. R. Cigar Box & Manufacturing Com-
pany has been incorporated at Cleveland, O.,
by E. S. Byers, G. Trevelen, E. M. ilanna and
others.

George Hammerly ot Monticello, Ark., will
build a sawmill with a daily capacity of 10,000
feet of hardwoods

The Arkansas Oak Company will establish a
plant at Monticello, Ark., for the manufacture
of wagon and vehicle sb ck

The Southern Railway will build a woodwork
ing plant near Knoxville, Tenn.

J. II. Fogle will establish a plani ut Howard,
Ark., for making wagon material.

Watson, Barnard & Rogers, r mtly organized

al Petersburg, Va., with a capital stock ot $50
000, will engage in the manufacture of trunks,
putting them out at the rale of fifty to sixty
di /co a week. George S. Barnard, Jr.. Herbert
Rogers and J. Powell Watson arc interested
in the enterprise.

HardWood NeWs.

(By HARDWOOD RECORD Special Correspondents.)
Chicago.

Schultz Bros. & Cowen report hardwood busi-
ness iu the same satisfactory condition as dur-
ing the last couple of months. James C. Cowen
has now completely recovered from his recent
illness.

The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company,
47 Dominick street, has had a successful year.
The concern is still iu the market for good
stocks of oak and other hardwoods to complete
its supplies.

I'lii party of capitalists who recently visited
the Louisiana holdings of the Riverton Lake
Lumber Company of S27 Stock Exchange build-
ing returned a few days ago well satisfied with
their inspection. The capitalization of the com-
pany has been increased to $150,000 and the
whole sum subscribed. The concern will begin
to market its output the first week in January
and already has orders for hardwoods sufficient
to keep it busy for many months.

Johnson & Carlson, 252-258 North Halsted
street, have several large tanks and vats un-
der construction. Iu building its work the con-
cern uses considerable quantities of poplar and
oak.

F. C. Van Norstand of the Cotton Belt Luna
ber Company, 108 La Salle street, speni several
days in the South last week and returned on
Friday. Conditions at the mills of the com-
pany in Mississippi have somewhat improved
lately and the concern is able to get out the
stock with more speed

II. P. Coe of Hi.' Coe .Manufacturing Com-
pany, Painesvillc. O., spent several days last
week in Chicago looking after business for his
company. Mr. Coe was also a visitor to the
first annual meeting of the National Veneer ,\;
I'anel Manufacturers' Association.

The Fullerton-I'owcll Hardwoi d Lumber Com-
pany, Chamber of Commerce building, reports
hardwoods active, with fairly good supplies in
the iiands of consumers.

A. IT. Ruth. Chicago representative of the
G. W. Jones Lumber Company, will visit the
headquarters of the concern at Appleton, Wis.,
the early part of the year. Afterward he will
go south to the mills of the company. The
Arkansas mills of the company are in slightly
better condition than during the recent bad
weather. The G. W. Jones Lumber Company
has had a very rapid selling season and indi-

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cations are that prices will be verj strongly held
in the future.

Charles Miller of Miller Brothers, 208 Wil
lougbby building, is a1 the southern mills .11
the company looking over shipments. Milton
Miller of Ihe Chicago office is in charge of the
home business of the company which has shown
splendid results during the past yeai

C. I'.. Curtis, secretarj of the Morton Drj
Kiln Company, 218 la Sail.' Btreet, spent a
por 1 "f last week at Grand Rapids superin-
tending th" installation of some kilns. The
Morton Dry Kiln Company lias already quite a
number of its appliances in operation at the fur-
niture citj and reports from th"-- employing
them say that they are giving complete sat
1 tact ion.

The Orr & Lockett Hardware Company, 22d and
Jefferson streets, manufacturers of built up ma-
ple blocks for buti bets and large ice diesis.

Ian.- had a very suci e -1 ul year. ' h t their

recent large jobs was the constructi >f a

large cooler Beventy-seven feet long and thir-
teen feel wiilo for tin1 new Boston store.

Wendnagie >v Co., lank ami vat makers of
Twenty-second and Jefferson sti is, are com-
pleting the erection of a new addition to their
plant. The building is four stories high and
has a measurement of 60x114 feet. It is
equipped with electrical installation, elevators
anil all modern mill improvements. Although the
company has only been in business at its pres-
ent location for six years its trade has in-
creased to such an extent that the new quar-
ters are necessary.

II. It. Leavitt of the Leavitt Lumber Com-
pany, Twenty-second and r.allin streets, has
recently returned from a visit to his company's
"Hollywood, Ark., plant. -Mr. Leavitt, acconi-
panied by his brother Jerome G. Leavitt, con
templati shortly after the first of the year
making an extensive trip to look over several
hardwood timber propositions with a vievs to
making additional purchases.

YV. .1. Wagstaff, mil- Oshkosh friend, was a
Chicago visitor last week and called at the
klriii.'n office.

Dr. L. W. Edwards ..1' Antigo and F. A. Fuller
.,i Oshkosh, Wis., both i>t" the Edwards Lumber
Company, were in Chicago on the 19th and paid

a \ l-il to tile Itl COED office. I 111- C pally has

offices both at Oshkosh and Antigo and mills at
Kempster, Neva and Washburn Siding. While
both hardwoods and hemlock are manufactured
the company's specialty is red birch

The Lumber World .if Chicago, published by
the late C. D. Strode, has made iis reappeal
anee under the editorial management of L. E.

fuller. Mr. Fuller has I n the local man for

the American Lumberman for many years, is
popular with the Chicago trade, and will have
ihe besl wishes of many friends for the suc-
ei ss of his new undertaking, it is announced
thai the paper will be general in character and
devoted in the interests of manufacturers, whole
salers, retailers and salesmen.

F. I'. Southgate, bead of Hie inspection bu-
reau "f the National Hardw I Lumber Associa

Hon at New STork City, has been making his
headquarters at Me- general "Hue- of the assn
elation in Chicago during the last two weeks
assisting in .leaning up a surplus of inspection
mailers in this city ami vieinily.

W. A. Davis, the well known hardwood whole
saler of the Marquette building, accompanied by
his wil'e. left fur Oklahoma City on Saturday
1, 1 spend the Christmas holidays with relatives.
A well known hardwood wholesaler who ships
considerable quantities of lumber from Ket
lucky points during the current ear shortage
has surprised both his customers and . ipel

itors by ihe promptness with which be has sue
ceeded in delivering lumber t" ihe Chicago trade.
When asked how he is able i" -'■' air cars
with the present dearth of equipment, he sim
ply exhibits the expense accounts of his buyers,

which show that they have 1 n able thus far

to secure cars from local freight conductors in

; Ki ntuckj bj paj ing from $2

I,, $2.50 each Tie' tipping craze is Still spi
ing

The 11 \u.w 1:1 cokd had ile' pleasure of a

,all ,01 Dec. 19 from .1. Gibson Mcllvain, Jr.. of
.1. Gibson Mcllvain ,v 1 ■ < . Philadelphia, win.

was accompanii .1 bj "i ' in associates, B. C.

Heritage. The gentlemen were on their wa\

I, 11 a two months' Pacific coasl trip where

thej have 1 n looking over the big timber ..i

thai region Mr Mcllvain says that notwith
standing the disastrous lire from which their

icern suffered a year ago in Philadelphia,

thej lane si cc.ir.i mi grouping a large quan

tity of lumber at their yards there during Ihe
,, ,, aad have enjoyed one ol ihe he-t seasons
in their history.

E. L. Edwards, the well known wholesale
lumberman of Dayton, O., was a Chicago vis
itor "U I lee. 19.

W. A, Gilchrist of tin- Three Siales Lumber
Company. Memphis, was in the city last week.

Harry Gi 1 ui h, tat 1 of ihe retail 0 0

elation of Kansas city. Mi... was a visiter al
Ha. offices ..1 the Hardwood Recobd during the

past week.

The eh.se of Hie year has brought to the
II.ua. w... .1. Ul'.c'iKli rememl. ranees from various
members of Ihe trade in Hie shape of calendars.
mi ,.t them of attractive design and well
printed. Among the firms to which the Recobd
in.lei.ied for this courtesj are the following:
E. W. Leech, the well known dealer in hard-
woods "f Lit nth street and Warren avenue,

Detroit, Mich.; shut & Kiehn, importers of lum-
ber and logs with headquarters at Hamburg and
Dusseldorf, Germany, ami American offices al
Now Orleans, La., Mobile. Ala., and Savannah.
Ga. ; Samuel II. shearer .v Co., Crozer building,
Philadelphia; Hoshall & McDonald Bros, of
Eola, La.; the Hatten Lumber Company of New
I.,, ad. 01. Wis. : Richey, Halsted .* Quick, who
,i,.,,i extensivelj in southern lumber, Cincinnati;
William Buchanan of St. Louis, Mo., the Moffetl
Powman Lumber Company, Madison, Iml., and
ihe standard Hardwood Lumber Company, well
known in the Hade of Buffalo' A handsome desk
clock was ais., received from the Florala Saw
a, ill Company of Paxton, l-l.i . I'm- which the
Record is grateful.

Boston.

I rank W. Holmes, a very popular lumber
salesman in this part of ihe country, died very

, .mil ai Rutland; Vt., Dec. II. Mr. Holmes

i,,,. ihe past thirteen years has been salesman
f0r ihe firm of Furber, Stockford & Company.

Charles S. Wentworth of Charles S. Went
worth & Company, has been spending a few
days in New Hampshire in Hi.- Interests of
business.

William E. Litchfield siales thai husincss is
normal. The difficult! of guaranteeing trans
,„, riaiinn has kept many from taking orders
f01. future delivery. The fact that the rail

, Is are unable to supplj ears has kept

certain shippers from doing I. ashless in this
. 1 1 inn.

The following officers were elected for the

ensuing mar al the recent meeting of ihe Mas

acliusetls Wholesale Lumber Association; II

|; Clark, president : II. W. Bll hard, vice

president; W. C. B. Robblns, secretary and

nrer. Executive committee; Chairman, T.

11 Shepard C. C Batchelder, Waldo 11. Bige-

low, Wendell M. Weston, William Bacon, B. .1.

11, a. 1. II. P.. Liske. Morris A Hall. Horace

I.. Hearse. Wendell I'. Brown, Francis E. 1 1

1 he lidated Lumber Company, Boston,

1 been incorporated win. a capital stock of
$10,000. The promoters are Miner K. Thomas
and Edward M. Robinson.

The American Liim ' Company, Quincy,

Mass., has been Incorporated with a capital

tocl of $8, - The incorporators are .1.

Franklin Faxon and A D. Newcomb.

M. w.iii.i iiari. who started in the whole
all lumber business under his own name in

Boston ah. nil two years ago, has been obliged
to take larger quarters in ihe Mason Building
ami will remove about January 1

.lames A. Hurd has removed from Kin.y street
hl Room ::ns. Exchange Building, and Walter
Moore, win. has had an ..nice in Room 340 of
same I. nil. ling, has taken part of Ihe office
with Mr. Hold.

The Sebago Lake Lumber Company has I n

organized ai Portland, Me. with a capital of
$10,000. The incorporators are Henry Rich
;,i„l John II. Rich of Slamlish.

K. s. Piatt of New Britain, Conn., has pur

I, , , .! Ihe business of Ihe Meriden Lumber

ii,.nn an. 1 of ihe Lyon >' Billiard Companj

\i, 11.111 ... alreadj interested in several lum-
ber concerns in Connecticut.

The mill of Shaw & Kiuibv. Medford, Mass..
has been damaged by fin to ihe extent of
$2,500. Much of the kiln dried lumber was
badly damaged.

The Blair Veneer Company of North Troy,
Vt., has been installing new machinery.

Andrew T. Allen, recently foreman for 11.. •
George W. Hale Lumber Company, Cambridge,
and Lawn lie.' Chamberlain of Boston, an-
nounce thai they have reopened the William
Pettigrew mill al Wesl Newton, Mass.. where
they will manufacture and deal in all kinds of
finish materials and do a general woodworking

business under the linn nan I Chamberlain

& Allen.

New York.

The New York members of Hoo-Hoo are gel

ting together with Hie rubers of the other

hading eastern cities for the purpos ' pre

paring plans for the entertainment of the order
ai Atlantic city next September. The eastern
trade will he generally pretty busy in the host
line by reason of the eastern hardwood men
making similar preparations for the entertain

meut of the National Hardw 1 Lumber Ass..

elation at Atlantic city next May. 'Ihe bit
Id s committees are already actively at work
and are planning a big lime, and the Hoo-Hoo
members will be a .lose second, although, of

use. they will have three or four months

more in which to round out their work. At
lantic City is such a popular resort that both
conventions bid fair to he record breakers in
attendance.

The volume of new building planned during
the month of November in Greater New York
shows ihe following decreases as against last
year: Manhattan, 4s per cent; Brooklyn. 10
,„., cent : Bronx borough, 26 per cent. But
nevertheless the total volume of new building
planned was : ill $12,000,000 for Ihe greater

City, and while it is : isiderable decrease as

against November, 1905, it is sufficiently large

to indie. :ontinuance of building activity.

as L905 was a record breaker all around and

therefore hardly a criterion.

The \ew York Lumber Trade Association,
through its Committee on Railroads and Trans-
portation, is following along Ihe line of other
organizations in delving into the transportation

pr in-, confronting the local trade in the

receipt of I ber.

•I'be Hasbrouck ci loring Company has been

incorpon 1 in this city with a capital of

$25,000. The incorporators are: W. G. Mer
i-iti. New i'ork; C. H. Briscoe and I C.
Horschej of d klyn.

p. epat atlons are al I complete for tl o

,,„.,, banquel Of He' New I'ork Lumber L' ■

Association, which occurs at the Waldorf-As
t0ria mi Tuesday, January 22, and ihe number
of tickets alreadj sold is in the neighborhood

which will make it by fur the bl|

gathering of thai character in the history .o

the "local trade. The grand hail i m has been

secured and an exceedingly fine entertainmenl

will follow Ihe dinner Boxes will I -ciipied

by Hie ladies.
' Secretary Frank I ■ if the National

Hardwood Lumber Association has been spend-

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ing a week or two in New York in the interest
of association affairs. He has also visited Bos-
ton and Philadelphia and other eastern points,
being east on a general tour of inspection.

T. S. Miller, manager of the hardwood de-
partment of the Stevens-Eaton Company, 1 Madi-
son avenue, has just returned from an exten-
sive business trip among the hardwood mills in
Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and
Georgia. He reports conditions as very strong,
with stocks in the better grades of all hard-
woods scarce.

The Smith-Lasher Lumber Company has been
incorporated at Hoboken, N. J., with a capital
of $100,000. The leading principal is L. P.
Lasher, who has been associated with New
York and Hoboken trade for a number of
years. P. P. Sinclair of West New York and
A. R. Sterling of Weehawken are the other in-
corporators.

M. J. E. Hoban of the Hoban & Curtis Lum-
ber Company, 1 Madison avenue, has just re-
turned from a trip to the southern cypress
lields. He found conditions at manufacturing
points to be strong and believes that the cypress
market fur some time to come will be exceed-
ingly bullish.

H. D. Boweii of Magovern & Bowen, 29 Broad-
way, has the sympathy ot the trade in the loss
of his mother, who died a1 Pasadena, Cal., the
latter part of November. The interment was
at Auburn, N. Y., last week.

1!. W. Higbie. 45 Broadway, is on a visit to
his large hardwood operation in the Adiron-
dacks, where he will spend sunn' time devoting
his attention to mill affairs. Everything is
reported as running very satisfactorily and he
will have a very choice stock of hardwood
lumber to offer in the near future.

Gardiner I. Jones of the Junes Hardwood
Company, Boston, has been here mi a visit in
connection with the work of his committee in
preparation for the National Hardwood an-
nual at Atlantic City in May next.

Charles M. Kimplaud, the widely known tim-
ber and piling operator of IS Broadway, this
city, died recently at his residence at 300
President street, Brooklyn.

Sam. E. Barr, Flatiron building, is just, back
from a business trip among the West Virginia
hardwood and spruce mills and reports condi-
tions there as exceedingly strong. Stocks of
good lumber are scarce, prices firm and every
indication of a dull market for some months to
come.

Carl Fischer-Hansen has been appointed re-
ceiver in bankruptcy for the assets of Druks &
Heifling, manufacturers of store "fixtures at 350
Bowery, with a bond of $1,000.

M. M. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber
Company has been spending a few days here on
business. He reports current activities among,
the hardwood trade of Buffalo as very satis-
factory.

Philadelphia.

The Lumbermen's Exchange held its regular
monthly meeting on December 6, President
George F. Craig in the chair. The meeting was
preceded by a light luncheon in Griffith Hall,
which was attended by about titty members.
A reaffirmation of the preamble and resolutions
adopted on February 1, 1906, relating to the
necessity for a material increase of American
shipping in foreign trade, was made at this
meeting, copies of which were sent to the rep-
resentatives of this district in congress. Notices
were sent out by the Exchange to all the local
trade organizations requesting them to send a
delegate . to meet W. C. MacBride of The
Haney-White Company, who is chairman of the
committee on legislation of the Lumbermen's
Exchange, at a joint meeting to be held at the
Exchange rooms on DecemBer 20 at 1 :30 p. m.
This meeting has been called in accordance with
the resolution passed by the Exchange, the ob-
ject of which is to the effect that the trade or-

ganizations of Philadelphia join this Exchange
in an effort to obtain the repeal of the Mer-
cantile Tax Law, and with this object in view
to appoint one delegate each to meet with the
chairman of the committee on legislation of
this Exchange for the purpose of drafting an
act for presentation at the next session of the
state legislature.

Emil Guenther. the successful hardwood lum-
ber dealer, who for years has conducted a re-
tail yard, has now embarked in the general
wholesale lumber business, with office at 302
Pennsylvania building.

The following visitors recently paid their re-
spects to the local trade : R. H. Paul, East
('oast Lumber Company, Watertown, Fla. ; E.
H. Galloway, Galloway-Pease Company, Johnson
City, Tenn. : Harold Weston, Weston & Zaring
Company, Jacksonville. Fla., and John T. Dixon,
John T. Dixon Lumber Company, Elizabethon,
Tenn.

Horace G. Hazard & Co. report that last
month's business was one of the best of the
year. They consider the outlook good for fu-
ture trading, as they have already booked
some good sized orders for next spring's de-
livery.

The Fenwick Lumber Company of Wilkes
Barre, Pa., took over the entire business of the
Tennant-Richards Lumber Company of this place
on December 1 and will hereafter occupy the
offices 502-1 Bennett building, formerly used by
the Tennant-Richards concern. All obligations
of the absorbed company have been assumed by
I lie Fenwick company and all bills due to the
Pennant-Richards Lumber Company will be re-
ferred to them. The Fenwick Lumber Company
claims to own, in addition to the present hold-
ings of the absorbed company, 19,000 acres of
fine timber land in West Virginia, which is
equipped with a modern, up-to-date baud mill.
This timber is composed of chestnut, poplar,
oak. hemlock, spruce and yellow pine.

Samuel H. Shearer & Son report the bardw I

department of their business moving along in
excellent shape and the outlook for future
trading very good. Yards have a fair stock on
band and are buying only for special orders re-
ceived.

S'liilc Cn.s report business prosperous. They
are laying plans to meet increasing demands.
John J. Soble, of this firm, spent the last two

nibs at their mill district in Honaker. Va . .

where they are interested in the Okeeta Planing
Mills Company and the Long Pole Lumber Com-
pany. Mr. Soble reports everything working
along smoothly. II. r. Minard, formerly with
the Missouri Land & Lumber Company of
Grandin, Mo., an experienced and well known
lumberman, has just been appointed superiu
tendent of the Okeeta Planing Mills Company.
This firm has been fortunate in making arrange-
ments with the Case-Fowler Lumber Company,
Birmingham, Ala., to handle its entire output.
consisting of plain and quartered oak.

Schofield Bros., have just made an advan-
rageous connection. II. \Y. and J. H. Schofield,
of this firm, while on a recent southern trip,
contracted for the whole output of a hardwood
mill, which will run between 5,000,000 and
7. ,000 feet of lumber. The firm has sus-
tained a sad loss in the death of one of its best
salesmen, Wm. F. Abbott, a resident of York,
Pa., who covered the territory of Baltimore,
Washington and the Cumberland valley. He
left ins home with his wife for a few days'
Christmas shopping in this city, stopping witli
relatives in West Philadelphia. He was taken
ill on the morning following his arrival at 1
o'clock and died at 2 p. m. of the same day,
December s. A stroke of apoplexy brought on
by tin a I lack of acute indigestion caused his
death. 1 1 is loss is much deplored and his many
friends tender their sincere condolence to his
widow.

William II. Fritz of William II. Fritz & Co.
is traveling through the east and reports coming

therefrom show profitable results. E. B. Hay-
man of this firm is confined to his home from
the effects of a fail from his horse while at-
tending a fox hunt. It is feared he will not
be able to resume business for several weeks.

The Philadelphia Hardwood Lumber Company
is pleased with the universal prosperity in
hardwood circles. H. N. Pattison of this firm,
trading under above corporate name, has just
returned from a trip through the state, of.
which he reports excellent results. Wm. E. and
II. N. Pattisou, who compose the firm, assert
that their business for 1906 has been just
double that of 1905.

Chas. F. Felin & Co., extensive dealers in
lumber and millwork, report all departments
moving along in grand style. Millwork is in
constant demand, and judging from the large
orders already placed for next spring, the year
of 190T will be marked with great activity in
building operations.

Baltimore.

VV. O. Price, the hardw I exporter, with of-
fices in the Continental Trust building, Balti-
more and Calvert streets, returned this week
from an extended tour through southwestern
Virginia and adjacent lumbering sections. He
conferred with a large number of mill men and
closed contracts for stocks.

For the first time in the history of the Balti-
more Lumber Exchange the boxmakers are rep-
resented on the managing committee, this
branch of the lumber business having hereto-
fore remained rather in I lie background. The
box trade, however, lias gained greatly in im-
portance during 1 lie current year, and large
quantities of poplar are now being cut up into
shooks.

Much interest is being takeu here in the
meet ing of the National Hardwood Exporters'
Association, which is to be held about January
2.'1 next iu Norfolk. A large representation
from Baltimore is expected at the meeting, and
various matters of importance will come up for
consideration. Among them is the question of
clean through bills of lading. The relations of
the exporters toward the steamship . and rail-
road lines are mure or less unsatisfactory and
give rise to much complaint. Notwithstanding
.lodge Munis' decision last spring the transpor-
tation companies are disposed to take advan-
tage of all kinds of pqints to evade liability Cor
damage, ami the shippers are often called upon
to make good losses for damage to lumber sus
tained through no fault of theirs. These pay-
ments frequently absorb the entire profit on
transactions and should rightly be borne by
(he companies in the care of which the damage
was sustained. The car shortage will also form
a topic fur consideration and suggestions will
be received as to how the obstacle of utterly
inadequate transportation facilities might be
overcome.

Pittsburg.

The Henderson Lumber Company is doing a
tine business in stock for coal mines and coke
ovens. James Henderson reports a bigger trade
in these specialties than ever before and sees
uo reason to look lor a let up before next fall
at least

President George W. Nicola of the Nicola
Lumber Company is one of the most enthusiastic
believers in the great hardwood business for
Pittsburg in 1907. He says that his company is
now turning down business that is strictly < >. K.
but which is rejected because the company is
overtaxed now to keep up with its orders and
get cars enough to keep ils customers from going
crazy

J. E. Mellvain & Co. are branching out. They
heard that oak was selling at over $100 per
thousand out in Oregon and forthwith they pro-
ceeded to land an order for six cars of just
such oak as makes an old lumberman grin and
at a price away above that mentioned. This Is
a new departure for a Pittsburg firm, but it is

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said that oak in large quantities is being sent
to Oregon for use in the manufactories.

The Reliance Lumber Company is increa
its output so fast that it will put on two more
salesmen the first of the year. Its business in
oat tor the last six months has been eminently
satisfactory and it sees a big demand ahead for
the next half year. II- w. Qenninger of litis
inn,' is 'Hi" of the iiesi posted n on hard-
wood conditions in the city and is studying the
situation very carefully with a view to making
some large purchases soon.

The Colonial Lumber Company, which was
chartered recentlj and bas located in the Fer-
guson building, will have as an abb' assistant
in getting business E. ( '. Maloney, win. bas
been associated with W. \V. Pownall and II. I..
Karrick at is Broadway, New Stork. The com-
panj will male a specialty of spruce and will
open a New York office early in (be year.

in 1 the big local consumers of lumber the

Qg spring is going to be the Coney Island
amusement paid; now being established on Ne-
ville island in the Ohio river. Over 2,1

feet of lumber is on the ground now and at
least three times that amount will be needed
there before May 1. according to statements of
Captain John I'. Klein and other members of
I lie company.

The Crescent Lumber C panj of Marietta.

<>.. lias boughl from the Elk River Lumber &
foal Company of Clay, w. Va., 8,000 acres of
timber land in Clay county, West Virginia. It
includes virgin oak. ash, poplar, hemlock and
bickOry, and the new owners will ereel a band

sawmill at once 10 work off the | luct. The

Crescenl compa Q3 1 1 already opei a I ing a band
sawmill at Hosterman, w. Va., and two circular
sawmills on Coal river in the same state.

The Scott Lumber & Transportation Company
of Bridgeport, Ox, bas been chartered. The

capital slock is $100,1 and the incorporators

are W. \V. and John T. Scott, Ralph Bethel,
Walter I.ylc and Frank Stillwell. Sawmills
will be built in West Virginia and also a con-
siderable ai in of 1 rani road.

The James I. M. Wilson Lumner Company is
authority for the statement that this is one of
the best, if not the best, year for the sale of
poles that Pittsburg has ever seen. The ex-
tensive operations of tie railroads and street
railway companies, together with the projects of
the independent telephone companies to the
north of Pittsburg have made a market for poles
thai is seldom equalled anywhere. Most of the
stock has been cut in West Virginia and the
demand for chestnut poles since I iceembcr 1 has
been much too great tor the supply at the
:i ilroads.

"Six hundred cars behind." 'ibis is the sig-
nificant statement made by -Manager W. 1'.
Craig of William Whitmer & Sons. Incorporated,
about the lumber situation in West Virginia at
present. It means thai the Whitmers have bun
cars of lumber cut ami sold and ready for ship-

it, inn thai they cannot get a ear to move it.

At some of their mills where fifteen can a da;
1 an be loaded easily only two or three a week

are sent in. The Pittsburg Offl ! the Whit 1

will sell more than .".. feet of lumber

this month and for the vein it Is certain to
round up a total of 70.000,000 feel

John c. Parsons and I:. W. Cross have
formed a partnership under ibe name
Parsons ,N Cross. Mr. Parsons bas been tor
years a salesman for the well known linn 01
Nicola, stoic' & Myers of Cleveland, and Mr.

Cross has been identified with Hie Whit p

lumber Interests for some time. The new firm
win sian in business January 1 ami win bavi
some excellent connections in West Virginia and
in the eastern mauket.

The cheat River Lumber Company is pushing
ils business in chestnut and poplar bard and
will handle one-third mere chestnut ibis month
than any month this year to date. More than
one-half of its lumber is being si. Id within a

radius of 60 miles of Pittsburg and not a small
proportion of ibis g,>es 1.1 manufactories.

There Is quite a general complain! among
linns which arc pushing tag operations in West
Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky ami Tenne iei
about ibe scarcity of g i labor, s whole-

.1 far as I.. say thai 20 per eeul more

being paid I., good men. I... lb sawncii bands
and woodsmen, than lasi year and thai thej are
glad I" get desirable help even at this advance
The chief reason given is that able bodied men

hay ' north to the Pittsburg district in

large numbers to gel better wages and more
steady work in ibe big steel plants. Their place
has been filled, it is said, largelj bj negroes,
who are unsteady in their habits and cannoi be
held down to labor when lbe\ have money. So

keen lias bee ibis call for demand for 1; I

men that men an- going south from the small
mills of western Pennsylvania, where the opera
t i. .ns have 1 u finished lately.

The American Lumber .v Manufacturing Com

pany for a month past bas bad a demand for

oak and poplar that bas 1 11 exceedingly hard

lo fill in view of the fact (bat dry slocks of

I.. .1 li w is arc low at (he mills and that when

the lumber is actually procured it is almost im-
possible to move it. Chestnut, too. has been
selling faster than for months and (be pros
pectt now are for a very lively winter's trade.
Both President G. W. Johnson and Genera]
Manager .1. X. Woollett of ibe American predict
a splendid winter's trade and feel that Ibe hard
wood situation is. all things considered, in better
shape than it lias I n for several years.

"We are selecting our trade from the big
bulk of inquiry thai comes lo us." said President
I I Sailer of Ibe 1.. I,. Sailer I, umber Com-
pany last week when asked about the hardwood
conditions that are prevailing now. At (lie

Blackstone plant of lb pany 1 In men are

working twelve hours a day to gel oul stock
and by their efforts How have more than doubled
the output of the Blackstone plant since last
December. It is expected now that the new
box shook factory of the Satlers will be in opera
lion by February l. which will put ibis concern
in the front ranks of producers of box stuff.

The Linehan Lumber Company sums up the
situation in these closing days of 1906 thus:
"II has been a phenomenal year for hardwood.
Prices are uniformly higher than one year ago
and stocks are smaller at Ibe mills. Both the
railroads and I he big manufactories are up to
their ears in projects thai are requiring and wall

reqi ire enormous amounts of bardw I lumber,

and the Pittsburg wholesalers are seeing to it

thai they get their shai ! the trade. Oak.

poplar and ash are very -iron- in market now.
especially ibe first, which has been foremost in
demand among the bardw. .oils tor months."

Ibe West Virginia Sawmill Association at a
leeeut meeting at lilkins appointed committees

1 infer with the officials of the Western Mary

land Railroad Company with a view to getting
relief from Ibe ear famine. If no relief is ol,
talned the committees win go before ibe state
legislature of West Virginia and trj to gel
lav, .na.'ied forcing railroads 1.. provide cars for
lumber shippers.

ibe Ohio Pyle Companj has chosen these
officers for the coming year: President, James
McKelvey ; vice-president, .1. 11. Henderson; sec

\ ami manager, 1 >. 11 Horton ; treasurer.

.1. A. Ginter. ''ibe fire which ibe .■ pany bad

ai Ohio Pyle lately destroyed its locomotive

and a new one is being in tailed this week.

I h ■■ pany now- has 5,000 aires of first-class

white ..ak timber, baying about doubled its tim
her holdings in Ibe past year.

Saginaw Valley.

For ibe in at Lumbermen are turning their

nib. n to the holidays, alter a must sue

ul ] .ar They are taking ace 1 of stock

no I pulling their business in shape for next

bin inr ' .1 which I be ear 1.1111

ine has placed up. .n business ibe [asl ninety

days there would be no complaint. X. .tiling
like n bas ever ben experienced. Everybody is
shorl ..I ca rs a ml p,i rt Icularly 1 be I
w. 11. Young & Co., state that Here hasn't 1 a

a day ill two weeks thai 111..! haven't been 1 I » I

.ars shorl .a' their business requirements ami

they are thirty days behind in shipping orders.
A. C. While expects tu be compelled to shut
down on account of not having cars. It is Ibe

same along Ibe line- ..i the t Is lb where

sawmills are located

Tiie prospects for the coming year in the

lianlw I trade are better than they have I n

Ibe present year. Is land I'.igolow Company

yesterday sold all the mapb' ibe mills will cut
n. xi year to 'be s I. Eastman Flooring Com
pany, at considerable advance over present

prices. This yon the la iiiiau I pany look-
in. ilild.i feel of maple from Ibe same con

ecru. The K land-Bigelov. C panj bas also

Contracted half ..i its next year's output of

beech l ber, at about si over present quota

I ions.

S. mills have been obliged I" close down.

The Ilargravc mill will (ill some lumber after
tiie Holidays and the Campbell Brown mill also
has a contract I" cut out some stock. -I. .1

i lood exj - to run the greater portion of the

winter. Both of the Kneeland-Bigelow mills
will run all winter, one of them day and night.

li. e two mills are cutting nearly 40, ."no

feet Of lumber this year. I'.liss & VanAilken

have bad a g I year and their plant is being

operated day and night. It takes a dozen train
loads of cars a day lo keep all these plants in

operation, and the greater porti ome over

the Mackinaw division of the Michigan Central.

w. li. Young -V: Co. an- operating four log
ging camps up near the slrails and have two
jobbers also pulling in slock for them.

the li, M. l d's s.uis' Co., at AuSable, have

finished shipping for the season. They have

shipped several million feel of heavy bardw I

limber for Ibe lielri.it tunnel and for harbor
work on Lake fade.

R. I'. Holihan of Millersburg expects i" stock
Ibe Derry & Co. mill for the winter run.

The Jackson ,\ Wylie Company at Gaylord
consumed 6,000,000 feel "i beech ."id elm logs
the past vai. II manufactures staves and

head liuin^-

Tbe Batchelor Timber Company at Wesl
Branch is running steadily, the mill having a
capacity of 12,000,000 feet, 'the logs come lo
the mill by rail.

The new plant of the suable Manufacturing
Company at Saginaw is being rushed and it
will begin manufacturing flooring early after
the new j ear

Archie McKay is culling and manufacturing
over i.-< a a i, i >i a i feci of hardwood near Hose
lily.

A s -e of portable mills are cutting hard-
wood ai points north of Baj Citj » here i racts

..I bardw I exist These mills are in to

localities where there are tract! "i -landing
limber.

The Hanson Waul Veneer Company will run

iis plani all w inter, ba\ Ing equipped a hoi pond

into which the logs that e e by rail are

dumped.

lie sawmill at Grace Harbor, on the Lake

Huron shore, was burned la'sl week and will
in. I be rebuilt.

Grand Rapids.

I lie l'.".\ in' i 'ily 1. umbel i pany held il

annual l ling lie. ■ember 1.9 and a dividend "I

12 per ieiil i.. stockholders was declared, iiuli
i ating a prosperous year's buslnei The Col
lowing board ot' directors was ere-elected: W.
II. While. Thomas White, L. H. Wit]
s. Mussoinian, Edward Fitzgerald, i . v\
,,ii.i Henry Idema. Officers wen selected as fol-
lows: President, W. II. While. Boyne City;
1 a e president. Thomas While, I'e

trea tirei I leni ■ it , ( Irand Rapid
lan , \\ 1.. Mart in. Boj ae City.

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The Petoskey Block & Manufacturing Com-
pany has shut down its plant at Petoskey for
two weeks tor repairs, but will start up again
the first of the year.

A special meeting of the common council of
Boyne City was held last week and a committee
of three was appointed to take up the matter
Of giving encouragement toward the erection of
a new flooring plant there, a proposition that is
being considered by the Boyne City Lumber Com
pany.

W. A. Hosmer of Bellaire has started his saw
mill on the season's run.

Former Mayor W. II. Beach of Holland heads
a syndicate of prominent business men of that
city which lias purchased the interest of B. I'.
Bush in the Bush & Lane Piano Company, and
the general offices of the company will be re-
moved from Chicago to Holland. Mr. Lane will
continue to look after the mechanical end of the
business.

About $2,000 has been spent in repairs and
improvements at the pin mill of the Custer
Manufacturing Company in Custer. Mason
county, and the plant will resume operations
during the first week of January.

Tin. II. JL 0. Lumber Company, capital $300
000, has been incorporated with the following
Grand Rapids men as stockholders: Fryer Hal-
laday, W. J. Breen, Ward B. Miller. Edwin
(iweu, George M. Ames and Edward W. Sea-
mans. Headquarters will be in Grand Rapids
and the company plans to carry on manufac-
turing operations in Gogebic county, owning a
large tract of timber there. Officers will Ice
elected later.

The Wexford Lumber Company, capital $100,-

». has been incorporated with the following

stockholders: A. F. Anderson, Joseph S.
' mi!. bell and Wm. F. Gustine of Cadillac, and
Joseph Anderson of South Boardman. The
company's sawmill is located at: Buckley and has
begun operations. It is estimated that the cm
of hardwood and hemlock timber in the vicinity
Of Buckley will last at least six years. Officers
are as follows: President, A. F. Anderson:
vice-president and general manager. J. S. Camp
hell; secretary and treasurer. W. F. Gustine.

Jones & Green of Big Rapids expect to have
their new maple flooring plant in operation at
Dighton by May 1. The mill will have a yearly
capacity of six million feet and it is estimated
the supply of timber at that point will last ten
years. Jones & Green will continue their Big
Rapids mill as usual.

G. R. Mohr of Chicago, in association with
Vern Wood and other Traverse City men. have
arranged for purchasing the D. E. Carter fac-
iei y at Traverse City for the manufacture of a
new type of refrigerator.

The Cadillac Handle Company is decking logs

in its yards at Cadillac for use during the

pring and summer, having a quarter of a

million feet already stored up. The mill is in

st< ady operation.

The Williams Bros. Company will start its
mill at Cadillac January ^ after a shutdown of
several weeks for repairs.

Tie1 ■lie 's oi the Michigan Maple Company

iii in Grand Kapids December 20 with the Eol
lowing board members present : M. I-'. Butters,
l.udington ; W. 'J'. Culver. Ludington ; II \
Loud, An Sable: Edward Buckley. Manistee;
W. II. White, \V. I.. Martin and M. .1. Fox,
Boyne City; R. G. Peters, Manistee; W. I'.
Porter, Fast Jordan, and Harry Nichols. Charle-
voix. The annual meeting of the association
occurs February .", and nothing was done at

this n ihg except ... ihscuss trade conditions.

Dry stock I- arce, prices firm, and with the

scarcity of help In the w Is and the- light snow

so far the indications are thai the log crop will
■■ light.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.
E. L. Ritter, Sain Holland, and others of the

W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, of Columbus,
<>., were in the city last week en route to Hamp-
ton. Tenn., where the company is putting into
operation a newly erected baud mill.

II. F. Wood, president of the H. E. Wood Lum-
ber Company of Baltimore, Md., accompanied
by his brother. ('. L. Wood, general manager of
the company, came to the city this week and
spent several clays here on business 'Ibis

company is operating extensively in western
North Carolina and at Buladeen, Carter County.
Tenn., where it has a band mill in operation.
The R. E. Wood Lumber Company owns nearly
a thousand million feet of poplar, oak, chest
nut. hemlock, etc., in North Carolina. Tennessee,
and West Virginia.

Plans are on foot for the development of
millions of feet of fine untouched maple timber
in Wise county. Virginia, and L. O. Pettit of Big
stone Gap, Va., and associates, are interested
in the proposed organization of a big chair and
furniture manufacturing plant to be located at

Wise Court HOllSe.

I'. W. Bevins, who operates several country
mills in Scott county, Virginia, near Hiltons,
was in the city last week. Mr. Bevins says that
be has shipped over five hundred cars of lum-
I ci 'from bis Scott county mills this year and
has prospects for shipping a much larger volume
ncx l year.

.1 II. Bryan, of the Bryan Lumber Company,
is in South Carolina on a trip of inspection of
i mpany's mills on the Pee 1 lee river, in
thai state

lie clinch Valley Lumber Company lias
moved its offices from Bluelield. W. Va., to St.
Paul. Va. The change was made in order to
have the headquarters of the company in prox-
imity to its operations and timber property.
M. It Fussier, formerly "i Bristol, is presi-
dent of i be company.

A. F. Willey, of the .Morton. Lewis >x Willey
Lumber Company, has gone to Grand Kapids.
Mich., to attend the funeral of his mother-in-
law. Mrs. II. .1. Richardson.

.1. A. Wilkinson has returned from a business
trip in Virginia. His new planing mill, which

has just I n completed, will be put into op

• ration at once, and his new band mill, which
is being constructed, will be ready March 1.

II ili.es n! the Kingsport Lumber Company

are being moved from Bristol to Johnson City.
This company operates a band mill and a cir-
cular mill at Caretta, McDowell county, W. Va.,
ami receives ulnuit a million and a half feet of
lumber per month from the two mills. It has
almost ten million feet of sawn lumber, chiefly
oak, in its yards at Caretta at present, and 'is
disposing of same as fast as possible.

The Patterson Lumber Company, which re-
cently purchased a 7,000 acre tract of timber
land ou the French Broad river, on the Ten-
c ic cc -North Carolina border line, at a consider
ation of S.'.u.iiiiii. is arranging t" develop same
at once. A water flume for transporting the
logs to the French Broad river, four miles in
i, will be built.

The Buckeye Lumber Company and the Penn
Lumber Company, recently organized at John-
son City, Tenn.. by W. R. Coon, D. C. 1 Inches.
and associates, an getting ready for active op-
cral ion.

F. II. Wilson, who has been superintendent
of the W. M. Hitler Lumber Company opera-
tions ai Saginaw, N. <',, for some time, has been
appointed superintendent of the company's new
i perations fifty miles south of Charleston, W. Va.
Mr. Wilson was in Bristol this week en route t"
West Virginia to take charge of the. new work.
I'be company has purchased the business of
i he Raleigh Lumber Company, one of the most
extensive lumber manufacturing operations in
that part of the stale 0. C. Hathaway, who
has heretofore been superintendent of the com-
pany's operations at Hampton, Tenn., has been
appointed i" succeed Mr. Wilson as superin-
tendent of the operations at Saginaw, N. C.

Cincinnati.

The proposed building of a belt line around
Cincinnati will in all probability go through
within the next few- weeks, and when the con-
struction is completed will benefll every business
man in the Queen City. A meeting was held
inly by the committee, consisting of Messrs
Thomas .1. Molten, chairman, w. A. Bennett
and A G. Brunsman, who discussed incorpora
ticcn of Hie new enterprise. The company will
be incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000
This amount is only to cover the preliminary
work and will be increased as necessity re-
quires The read will extend around the out-
skirts of Cincinnati, connecting with all rail
roads, and will also invade Kentucky. A bridge
will be constructed over the river in the Fast
End, which, according t,. estimate figures, will
cost $1,000,000. The complete construction' will
amount to $10,000,000. About four miles oi
road will be laid in Kentucky and about fifteen
to twenty miles in Cincinnati, connecting i Ic
various railroads and passing through such sub
ui'bs as Oakley, Madisonville, Norwood, the Mill
creek valley ami others. The Lumbermen's
club. Carriage Makers and a host of others
have urged the construction for the past three
years and the final developments have now
cropped out- Lumbermen of Cincinnati i:i
speaking of the new belt line .ill assert thai they
will derive a meat benefit anil are all willing
to subscribe to the stock that will be issued in
be near future.

The K. & P. Lumber Company of this city
has reduced ils capital from $150,000 to $75,
i.

J. T. Ilanna of the Wiborg & llanna Company

Las goni a business nip through the South.

lie will remain there for some weeks to look
after lumber Per his firm.

Charles Duhlmeier of Duhlmeier Brothers
lias returned from a southern trip, where he
bat plentj ol logs are seen but little
lumber ready for shipment.

The monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's
Club will be held at the Business Men's Club
.1 .i unary 7. A discussion of the belt line will
he made and several other important things will
be dealt with.

Chester F. Korn of tin- Fan-in Korn Lumber
• ompany has left the city for the South on a
business trip, lie will be away for a week or
more.

L. G. Banning has recently returned from
Tennessee, where he was on a business trip.

"A g 1 Christmas gift that would please

iii lumberman in the Queen City is an ample

; nl of cars to allow shipments and receiving

of lumber," said Thomas J. Molfett of the
Maley, Thompson & Moffett Lumber Company in
speaking of the car shortage.

St. Louis.

The Thomas & I't'oelz Lumber Company has
been making strenuous efforts to accumulate
slock, both at the local yards ami at the mill at

Belzoni, Miss., and has si eded even beyond

expectations, as the announcemenl is made that
i' will have in pile more hardwood lumber on

January 1 nexl than al any ti in its bistorj

Early in the month the company received a
barge load of lumber, consisting of 700,000
feet of cottonwood, poplar and ash, considerable
ccf which has already been sold. Another at-
tractive item which was recently added to the

leal stock was 100, feel Of l'i and 1 > ... -inch

plain white and red oak step plank. Hi inches
wide and over. At Belzoni the stock consists
of oak and gum mostly, with some cottonwood.
cypress and ash. which by the first of the year

will undoubtedly aggregate 3,000, feel. This

is surely a commendable record, considering the
delays incident to the car shortage, but which
hindered the company little, since it logs its mill
by river with its own steamboat and barges.

HARDWOOD RECORD

3i

\v. w. Dings, secretary of the Garetson-
Greason Lumber Company, is looking over the
bard wood situation generally In producing ter
rltory and visiting the mills in which the com
pany Is Interested.

The St. Louis branch of E. C. Atkins & 1
inc. has moved Into new quarters at 2329 1 Hive
street. Here will be .carried a complete line ol
their celebrated silver steel circular and band
saws and ither mill goods and mill supplies,
which will put the concern in position to take

of thi Ir western and soul hw estern trade

better than ever before. G. W. Gladding, well
kin.un to users of saws the country over, who
was [or many years at the Memphis branch
and for the pas! eigh! years bas looked after
the concern's interests in the South and South-
west ir headquarters in St. Louis, will be In

charge of the sales department. In connection
with the St. Louis branch will be a well equipped
saw repair shop under the supervision of W. D.
Quinn.

Alter a trip .to 1I1 mpany's mill at De Vails

Bluffs. Ark. Geo. \V Si man of the Stone

man-Zearing Lumber Company takes an optimis-
tic vie* of the bardw 1 situation and says that

conditions in the producing districts of Arkan-
sas are deplorable, owing to the recent heavy
rains, and thai probably only the larger mills
with railway logging equipment will be able to
continue operations through the winter. Hence
he predicts that hardwood prices will be con-
siderably higher by next spring.

C. E. Thomas of the Thomas & Proetz Lum-
ber Company returned a few days ago 11 1 a

trip to Chicago, Bockford and other northern
points, where the company disposes of a great
. deal of its excellent hardwoods.

R. F. Krebs of the lumber department of the
Ozark Cooperage Company returned recently
from a trip to the company's mills in Arkansas.
Mr. Krebs also reports manufacturing opera
lions in a bad way and looks for higher prices
before spring.

.TohQ Davis of Davis & Reeves of Halley, Ark.,
who operate two mills, was a recent St. Louis
visitor. S. C. Major of the S. C. Major Lum-
ber Company, Memphis, Temi. : E. D. Williams.
representing W. K. Canady of Bentoni, Miss..
and H. M. Mcintosh, a buyer for Steele &
Hlbbard, with headquarters at Dexter, Mo., were
also in 1 own recently.

Memphis.

The committee of the Lumbermen's Club 11

sisting of Ave members headed by C. D. lien
drickson, chairman, which went to St. Louis

to attend the hearing o£ the Interstate C

merce Commission regarding the car shortage,
has returned. Mr. llendrickson appeared as a
witness before the commission and states that
a formal statement was filed with thai bodj
registering the protest of the Lumberman's
Club of Memphis against the conditions which
now obtain with reference to cars. The com-
mittee is much Impressed with the earnest In-
quiries Instituted by the commission and be-
lieves that some good will result from the
fixing of the responsibility for the present
conditions. Mississippi lumbermen will send
a large delegation to Chicago next week to
attend a conference which has been called to
consider the ear shortage from (he standpoint
of lumber interests. Lumbermen of the Mis
sissippi valley have been more seriously hit
by the ear shortage than any other class of
business men, and they therefore regard this
conference as of vast importance. Mississippi
lumbermen are now demanding that the rail-
road commission of that state shall amend the

• i ii.ije ami delayage rules by granting to

shippers full demurrage charges tor unrei

able delay after ears have been ordered. Al
present shippers, including lumbermen get
no demurrage except in cases of unusual de
lay in transit, having no recourse lor delays

in furnishing cars after requisition lias I n

made. Lumbermen of that state are responsi-

ble ior the assertion that the shortage of ears

is :ai ioned largelj bj the fact that agents

and officials of the roads at junction points are
deui.d the right to in. rease their forces when
there Is a large increa le in 1 raffle.

In addition lo sending a committee to St.

1, 3, the Lumbermen's Club al its last meet

ing passed resolutions asking that Congress
pass a national reciprocal demurrage law and
adequate reciprocity in ear service. Moreover,

ii b passed resolutions indorsing the move

meni inaugurated by T. Peyton Giles of Rich

11 1. Va.. calling for I lie passage of a law

i,\ Congress empowering the Interstate Com-
merce C mission lo issue a rule lo all rail-
roads regarding a lime liinil on all interstate
shipments, conforming to length of haul, with
a certain percentage of discount on freight

hills payable lo consignee for every twenty-
four hours of delay beyond the daily move-
ment prescribed by Hie commission. Thus it
may he seen readily thai the lumbermen of
Memphis are thoroughly aroused over Hie sit-
uation. And it may be noted in passing that
all action taken on this question was partici
pated in by 1 lie largest number of lumbermen
thai has attended a monthly meeting here in
si me nionl lis.

The nominating committee appointed by the
Lumbermen's club, recommended the following

officers for 11 nsuing year: Ticket No. 1:

President, George l> Burgess; first vice presi-
dent. F. E. Gary; second vice president, J. B.
(Hani: secretary-treasurer, John \V. MeClure;
directors, E. E. Goodlander, 1-'. E. Stonebraker
and A. L. Foster. Ticket No. '-! : President, W.
S. Darnell; first vice president. .lames 10. Stark;
so,, mil vice president, w. C. Dewey; secretary
treasurer. John W. MeClure ; directors, W. R.
Barksdale, .1. \V. Dickson and George ('. Ehe-
mann. The race promises to he quite lively
1 hough the rivalry will bo of the most friendly
sort. The election will be held January 11'.
The membership of the club is now the largest
in the history of that organization; three new
members are: William Wilms, of the Paepcke-
Leichl Lumber Company. Chicago and Memphis;
.1 II Iline-, of Harm \ ,y Hines, Memphis, and
W. Ii. Reeves, of the W. D. Reeves Lumber Com-
pany. Helena. Ark. This brings Hie total to
nearly 100.

The Three Stales Lumber Company has begun
work on a large planing mill ami box plant at
Burdette, Ark., with a consumptive capacity of
something like 7.",. nun to 100,000 feet of cotton-
wood lumber daily. Work will be pushed as rap-
idly as possible hut no idea is given of the time
ai which the plant will probably be completed.
This company only recently put in another band
saw at its mill at Burdette, making it a double
hand sUw plain, with capacitj of nearly 100,000
lei a day. The headquarters of the company-
are in this city. The company owns large hold-
ings of cottonw 1 and gum in eastern Arkan-
sas.

Commissioner Matthews of the Federal Court
lor Hie Western District of Tennessee, before
whom the cases of the United states against the
Bennett Hardwood Lumber Company, the Ten
nessee Hoop Company and Moore & McFerren
were heard tin w.'i. has reserved judgment
until later. Warrants were sworn out against
officials of these companies charging them with
throwing sawdust, slabs and other refuse into
Wolf river, a navigable inam. The principal

witness for the pros an was Capt. Wm. D.

i onnor, of He- 1 unci States Engineering Corps,

who declared that be proc led against these

gentlemen becat be tad that, in dredging

Wolf river, he found thai about twenty per

cent of ii..' deposit taken from Hie river c

sisied of sawdust. All the defendants stoutly

denied that they bad throw 11 sawdust into I lie

river, that tiny wen.- anxious to keep the
stream navigable and bad done everything in

Iheir power lo this end. ami that thej bad re
clai 1 considerable land by the use of saw

du-i and oiler refuse placed in casings of slabs

at the water's edge. The decision will prob
al,h iioi he handed down until after t'hrisi
mas.

The Southern Handle Company, of Memphis,
has leased Hie plant oi the Royal Handle Man-
ufacturing Company al llnrrisburg. Ark., and
the plant will be operated lo Ho' same officials
as before though under the direction of the
lessees. Edward Snyder has been appointed
manager.

The Deemer Manufacturing Company al Phil-
adelphia, Miss, announces that it is now cut-
ting the timbers lor two large hand sawmills
io he erected tor the development of the lim

her holdings on ils 50, acres of land in

Leake, Winston and Neshoba counties in Mis-
sissippi, and that there will he a full comple-
ment of gang saws. The company is now lay-
ing out the routes for ils logging mads which
are to be of standard guage and work will be
pushed without delay. The machinery and

equipment for the two hand mills have I n

purchased. The capacity will lie between 175,-

000 ami 200,000 feet a day.

A number of Texarkana. Ark . capitalists have
purchased Hie mill and timber land holding of
the Ed Rand Lumber Company, Alexandria, I. a..
the consideration being nearly $1,000,000. The
mill has a capacity of 125,000 feel of lumber a
day while the timber lands have on them more
than 200,000,000 feet of standing timber. .1. S.
Crowell, J. K. Wadley, K. E. Porter and others
are the purchasers. Messrs. Crow ell and Wad-
ley will probably he managers of the company.

The Chickasaw Cooperage Company of this

city has 1 a awarded jmlg nl in the sum of

$20,000 against the Union Railway Company for
a sixteen foot strip which was condemned by the
defendant and lor injury done to the buildings
of the plaintiff. The soil has been pending for
some years.

Louisville.

E. M. Overstreet of the Southern Lumber
C, mpany says his concern is suffering badly
from car shortage. He has an urgent call to
move about twenty-five cars of stuff and in
reply to his requisition on railroads for cars.
accompanied with explanations of his situation,
the railroads have, figuratively, thrown up their
hands and practically admilled lhal Hm car
shortage is worse today than it was ever known
before, and while they -would do the best they
could, they simply could not promise anything.
As far as orders are concerned. Mr. Overstreet
ihey have more than thej can take care
of and are well satisfied with all conditions in
the lumber business except that of transporta
Hon.

Sam Callaway, whose .specialty is railway
ties, says I hat he has rounded out a good year
and the end of He' year finds him in fairly
good shape for stock, considering the many
handicaps lhal have appeared ibis season. The
active demand for lies and other railway ma
tei'ial continues unabated, and it is still simply
a question of getting the limber ami moving it
out.

Albert R. Kampf rep, ils Hie demand for car
oak in good Shape and the general run of in
quiries continue about the same in volume as

usual, with heller prices turning up every now

anil then attached lo orders of special urgency.

II. M. Ml ( la, Ken of Hie KentUCkj \ el r

Works says the call lor quarter sawed oal
veneer has quieted down a little with the end of
the year. There is some buy ing goini:

on right along, but I" 1 1 ex] 1 Hie call

for this stock i" become verj active again until
, the lust of February. For rotary out
gum and poplar Hare i i splendid demand, ami
ihe veneer business generally is in satlsfa torj
shape.

Minneapolis.
1;. l'ayson Smith of the Payson-Smith Lumber

1 1 ni|. in, I. ret urn, ,1 from : .,,,,, 1, d , iip i"

ihe southern hardwood country. He says thai
conditions down there have not I n 1

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HARDWOOD RECORD

gerated. Owing to heavy rains and high water
logging in the bottoms is practically at a stand-
still. Most of the mills have had to shut down
much earlier than usual, and as there is little
prospect of better conditions for some time to
come, the mills are going to have a very scanty
log supply. There is very little dry stock to be
had. In northern territory he reports quite a
brisk demand for factory stocks, coming at a
time when business is usually very dull. This
Mr. Smith attributes to the fact that dry lum-
ber is scarce and that wise buyers are getting
Heir orders in early to make sure of getting
what they waut.

Considerable building is still in progress in
the Twin Cities and the sash and door factories
continue to deliver quantities of finish. Floor-
ing is also an active article. The permits issued
in November by the Minneapolis building in-
spector had a total value of .$549,130, while
St Paul showed a total of $570,249. The total
for eleven months in Minneapolis was $8,983,4 10
compared with $8,499,540 in the same period
last year. St. Paul's record was $6,534,890,
compared with $5,942,700 iu the eleven months
of 1005.

D. F. Clark of Osborne & Clark, local whole
salers, the new president of the Northwestern
Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, says there
is a strong tendency on the part of dealers to
contract for green lumber, and that a consider-
able portion of the new cu1 has already I n

sold. The indications are that the production
,,1 northern hardwood will fall off, and there is
a very fair demand for dry stock, which is not
abundant.

The St. Croix River Lumber Company of St.
Taul is about to build a new planing mill in
that city, a brick structure with the latest im-
proved machinery.

The Learned Lumber Company is the name of
a new concern established in Minneapolis to do
a general wholesale lumber business. G. A".
.Learned and C. E. Learned are at the head of
the enterprise. Both have till recently been con
luihd with the Bruce-Edgerton Lumber Com-
pany of this city, line yard operators, one as
buyer and the other as manager at Sioux Falls.

The Northwestern Cedarmen's Association has
voted to hold its annual meeting January S in
Duluth. •

The Minneapolis cedar & Lumber Company,
dealers in white > ■■■■Lir I hardwoods, have re-
moved their offices in (his city to the tilth floor
of the Lumber Exchange, where they have se-
cured larger space.

Toledo.

The Milburn Wagon Company and the Wit-
ter Manufacturing Company were the ouly
two concerns to suffer by fire during the
year. Both concerns have rebuilt for in-
creased capacity. The Buckeye Parlor Furni-
ture Company are contemplating erecting' a
big plant during the coming year in the south
part of the city.

For two weeks during the month, a grand
jury groped about to unearth a national lum-
ber trust during the session held at Lima. O.
No convicting evidence could be found that
would implicate local lumber dealers of that
town, but the prosecuting attorney believes that
the trust is higher up the ladder, among the
owners of stumpage and wholesalers.

G. B. Stlne. of - the Belcher Stine Lumber
Company, which concern is sawing up a tine
tract of oak and other timber at Belcher. Ark.,
is here (o spend the holidays with his family.

T. L. La Doux will have charge of the Mason-
Donaldson Lumber Company's office in Rhine-
lander after January 1.

Braun Bros, of Athens will install six ma-
chines in their plant for the manufacture of
hardwood phius. used in paper mills to roll
paper on. Two and one-half million will be
manufactured the first year.

George W. Price of Wonewoc will move the
machinery of his plant to Crandon, where b*
will manufacture cross arms and pins for tele-
graph poles. Elm will be used.

The I'. MacKinnon Manufacturing Company
01 Grand Rapids has installed hub manufacture
ing machines in its plant, which will be op-
era i ed all winter. The company has a large
stock of logs.

('. A. Goodyear, who operates a mill and has
large hardwood yards in Toman, was recently
married to Mis. Emma A. McBean in Chicago.

The Yawkey Itisseli Lumber Company of Ilaz-
i linn st has opened an office iu Chicago, in
charge of Edward Deschamps.

As a result of a recent purchase of timber
lands. Edward Lynch of Grand Rapids has
resumed operations at his mills in Milladore.
The purchase was made from the Frank Cody

tate and includes timber enough to keep his
plant in operation for two seasons.

Ah. .ut 10,000,000 feet of timber owned by
the Wisconsin Veneer Company of Rhinelander
has been made easier of access by the build
ing of two miles of railroad into the tract. The
company is constantly acquiring more timber
and recently closed a deal for a big tract near
Gagen.

Mcssling Bros, of Appleton recently pur-
chased-a tract of timber land near Longwood,
Clark county, valued at $50,000. They gave
$30,000 and a deed to lie- Briggs hotel in Ap-
pleton, valued at $3J

The Wisconsin-Louisiana Land Company
osed a deal in Marshfteld recently with R. \Y.
Durfey of Vicksburg, Miss., and K. F. Mertz of
Milwaukee for 7,800 acres of oak lands in
Louisiana. The work of cutting the timber
and manufacturing il will begin at once. While
in Marshlield Messrs. Durfey and Mertz also
closed a deal with the- Seubert-Haskins Lumber
Company of Cologne, Minn., for a tract of
17. tino acres iu the same stale, adjoining the
lirst mentioned tract. Much of the' limber will
be cut into wine cask and barrel stock.

A deal is pending for the purchase of the
Jones Lumber company's screen door plant in
Antigo, by the Port Washington Chair Com-
pany of which A. Dennet of Sheboygan is presi
dent. If the deal is consummated the plant
will be equipped for a chair factory.

-An effort will be made to organize a com-
pany for the manufacture of tables in Nellls-
ville. It is proposed to build a factory in con-
nection with George W. Trogner's saw and
planing mill.

Some of the hardwood companies of Oshkosh
are cutting large supplies of logs for next
season. The Paine Lumber Company has a
number of camps in operation in Langlade
county. The company employs about 500 men.
I' 1 [ccllisier Amos Company is also operating
i amps in the same county and is employing
about -on nun. W. .1. Campbell has five camps
in Chippewa and Taylor counties and has 250
men at work. The Morgan Company, the R.
McMilleu Company and Radford Brothers &
' ' inpany will be supplied by other firms and
jobbers.

All loggers report plenty of snow and favor-
able conditions, aside from the question of
labor. Men are very scarce and are paid
the highest wages in the history of Wiscon-
sin logging operations. They are demanding
hotel accommodations, daily newspapers and
other privileges, which the operators readily
grant, glad to secure the men at any price.
It will cost at least a third more to cut logs
this year than it did two years ago.

A deal was recently closed in Marinette for
one of the largest timber sales in' tin.' history
of lumbering operations in that county. The
Oliver Mining Company bought the sawmill of
the Cedar River Land Company near Spalding
.Mid practically all of the available timber
lands left in the county. The deal also in-
cludes in addition to the sawmill and 65,000
of land in that county, thousands of
in iu Dickenson and other counties in the
northern peninsula of Michigan. This collec-
tion of kinds originally belonged to Ross
Brothers & Cann of Spalding, under the name
of the Spalding Lumber Company. The mem-
bers of ibis firm were not very well off when
they went into the busiin ss. and they were
i i i borrow- heavily of the Bradley-Watkins
i onipany of Tomahawk, Wis. Putting too much
money into improvements, the firm was unabli
to swing its liabilities and with Bradley and
W'atkins a new firm was organized. Later.
Ross Bros. & Cann disposed of their interests
and the mill was shut down. It will be the
last large deal in that section, for it includes
almost all available timber lands.

The Uniform stave & Package Company,
recently organized in Ashland with $400,000
capital stock, will start its new plant in opera
(ion January 1. William Arnett, formerly man-
ager of a Marshfield veneer mill, will have
charge of the plant.

HardWood Market.

(By HARDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Reporters.)

Wausau, Wis.

A new 'hardwood firm, Stapleton, Barnes &
Edmonds, of Rhinelander, has closed a deal
whereby it acquires possession of timber lauds
in Oneida counly owned by Ales. McRea, also of
thai city. There are 5,000,000 eeet of timber
on the property. Since organization three
months ago the company has secured title to
several thousand acres of land.

Chicago.

Strength marks every feature of local hard-
si i conditions: While the supply of southern

woods almost without exception has beeD de-
ficient for months and the price high, just
now it seems that northern woods are having
their inning. Bass wood is almost as scarce
as poplar and Cottonwood, and is showing in-
creased values, Birch is in good call, in fact,
better than at any time in its history. Cray
elm, which has been in oversupply at manu-
facturing points all the year, is now receiving a
good deal of attention on the part of buyers,
and during the last few weeks has been very
Closely picked up. .Maple of all grades and
thicknesses is sharing its full proportion of de-
mand and there are no surplus stocks in any
part of the north country.

The weather conditions prevailing in the
South, together with the car shortage, have
made it almost impossible to either secure
stock or to ship whatever there was in sight.
There is a dearth in all varieties of oak, poplar,
cottonwood and gum, with no prospects of the

markel situation being relieved for many months
to come.

There promises to be a demand for hardwoods
in the local market throughout the winter which
will be in excess of the ability of trade to
supply.

Boston.
The market for hardwood lumber in New Eng-
land has not shown any great amount of activ-
ity during the two weeks under review, so far
:■- new business )•- concerned. All consumers
have orders of more or less volume placed, and
would be glad, to have them delivered. Il is
difficult to get prompt delivery and in many
instances orders placed three and four months
ago are either tied up at the mill for want of
cars or have been sidetracked in transit so that
they have not arrived at their destination as
yet. The manufacturers of house finish are busy
and are constantly in the market for small lots.
Furniture manufactures continue busy and the
prospects are that a good demand will follow
the 1st of January.

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One of the strongest features of the market
is whitewood, which is very scarce. Mills in
the mountains have been unable to ship their
product out owing to bad roads, and this, coupled
with the fact that it is difficult to get cars.
has resulted in firmer prices. Buyers are now
beginning to show more anxiety to cover their
wants. Low grades of plain oak are easier.
The demand for quartered oak is not as good
as it was the first of the season. Thick stock
is strongly held, but one inch is in plentiful
supply, and buyers are not free operators at
full prices. Brown ash is in fair demand, with
offerings limited. Maple continues fairly steadj
In price, with offerings of fair size.

New York.
The local hardwood situation continues in
good shape, the great difficulty being the se-
curing of sufficient supplies in the better grades
of pretty much all woods. There seems to be
the usual amount of lower grade hardwood
available, but the better grades in poplar, oak,
ash, birch and chestnut are scarce and fancy-
prices are being paid for the right kind of
stock where it is offered. The volume of trade
enjoyed by the local yards and wholesalers
during the past fortnight has shown some fall-
ing off, due to the approach of the holiday sea-
son, the retailers reporting trade to be of the
hand to mouth order on account of consumers
not desiring to have very much stock on hand
at the close of the year. Optimism prevails,
however, as regards the outlook for trade dur-
ing the balance of the winter and everyone
looks with much promise to the spring, when
it is believed there will be a very fair volume
■ o£ trade, with good, firm prices, due to the
shortage in supplies. A number of leading rep-
resentatives have just returned from mill points
in the interest of next spring's supplies and all
bring the same story of a shortage in good
lumber, with very stiff prices, among the manu-
facturers. The stability which such a condi-
tion gives to prices seems to be viewed with
satisfaction by the trade, who naturally under
these conditions feel sure In the fact that what
stock they have on hand, or bought, Is a val-
uable asset and one which will be readily and
profitably realized upon in due course.

The leaders in present trading still continue
to be ash, plain and No. 1 common oak, all
grades of birch and chestnut, and pretty much
everything in poplar. The general trend of
prices is upward and there are no weak items
in the better grades, although there are some
concessions noted on some of the lower grades
on certain stock which is overpientiful.

The mahogany and cedar situation still con-
tinues exceedingly bullish, both as to price and
demand. Total arrivals from foreign ports of
both commodities were again inadequate to meet
the demand of the market as compared to a
number of grades of mahogany in first hands,
and shipments are being urged. Prices are ex-
tremely stiff, mahogany running from 6% to
12 cents, the latter being the selling price for
Laguna and Santiago stock, which is the most
desirable. Indeed, the general market is said
to be practically on a 12-cent basis. Cedar is
ruling firm from 9 to 15 cents, but 13 or 14
cents is an average price governing sales. The
price situation in both mahogany and cedar is
stronger than it has been for a number of
years and there does not seem to be any let up
in sight as to the demand.

turers are noplussed as to where to look for a
further supply of cedar logs, and though their
mills are rushed to the limit, they fail to keep
up with constantly increasing demands. Build-
ing operations are being hurriedly completed, in
anticipation of bad weather, and the sash and
door mills in consequence are pushed to ex-
tremes. Though there is a notable dropping off
in I he volume of business in the building line
just now, it is nothing unusual at this time of
the year, and as large orders are already being
booked for the spring, both for mill work and
building lumber, authorities in this line predict
a continuance of the recent prosperity In 1907.
Ash and chestnut are still high and scarce,
oak and poplar, though not plentiful, are re-
ceiving more calls of late. Bed cherry has not
advanced any during the fortnight, but quar-
tered oak still shows improvement. No com-
plaints are coming in from the Pennsylvania dis-
tricts regarding the railroad service there, but
there is still the old complaint of delinquency
in this direction in the southern mill terri-
tories. Stocks pile up at the mill, orders are
plentiful, and still no hope of an early relief.
The transportation of the cotton crop is now
believed to be of special interest to the rail-
road companies, to the detriment of the lum-
bermen. A suggestion has already been made
that the Lumbermen's Exchange combine in an
effort to get at the actual cause of the per-
sistently unsatisfactory railroad service and
start some sort of proposition in the way of
relief for the long suffering shipper.

Baltimore.

The year is drawing to a close with the lum-
ber trade in excellent shape. Every grade of
oak is in good request, with culls exceptionally
strong, and the belief now prevails throughout
the trade that a decline in the quotations is
not to be expected for the present. The move-
ment is still greatly hampered by the scarcity
of railroad cars, which serves in not a few
instances as a complete embargo upon hard-
wood activities. The pressure is not quite as
great now as it has been, but this may be
attributable to the fact that the inquiry has
slackened and will not resume its normal sway
until after January 1, 1907. Owing to the dif-
ficulties of getting lumber to market the calls
for delivery have been more urgent than usual
at this season, and this has given an appear-
ance of briskness to the situation which would
not ordinarily be in evidence. As a matter of
fact, the distribution does not now exceed mod-
erate proportions, while stocks at the mills are
adequate enough. All the indications, however,
point to a prosperous new year, with every
hardwood selling freely and stocks in great de-
mand. During the last year prices have been
as a rule well sustained, and all other condi-
tions have been satisfactory. Poplar in par-
ticular, .among the woods other than oak, has
been actively sought, and the consumption has
attained exceptionally liberal proportions. Much
lumber has gone into the manufacture of box
shooks, in which department of the lumber
trade Baltimore lias enjoyed a veritable boom,
and the whole range of values has been strength-
ened thereby. The domestic revival with re-
spect to walnut also continues, and this wood
is bringing values sufficiently high to draw
out logs in surprisingly large quantities.

extensively are closing up the best year's busi-
ness they ever had.

Demand now Is well distributed, although
there are certain features of the market that
stand out prominently. The call for mine sup-
plies is by far the largest that Pittsburg whole-
salers have had for ten years, and along with
this the coke companies are ordering immense
supplies of hardwood. Among manufacturers
the furniture men are taking fully one-third
more hardwood than one year ago. So also are
the box makers, for every factory In this dis-
trict is driven hard to keep up with its orders.
Low grade hardwoods are going to these fac-
tories and to the glass works in big quantities
and at very good prices. The demand from
railroads has fallen off this month, as was
expected, when outdoor operations were cur-
tailed by the weather. Because it is the time
for stock taking and yearly settlements, the
local yards are buying less freely and will prob-
ably not be in the market much till January
15. Local firms, however, are glad of even this
little respite to enable them to catch up a
little at the mills.

Philadelphia.
There is very little variation in the history
of the hardwood market at the present time.
Lumber is scarce, prices high, and still climb-
ing. The furniture factories in eastern Penn-
sylvania still continue busy. Unfortunately
hardwoods, especially in dry stocks, are not to
be had at any price, owing to adverse weather
and the deplorable railroad conditions at the
mill districts. Cigar box and veneer manufac-

Pittsburg.
A car shortage such as has seldom been ex-
need by Pittsburg wholesalers is playing
havoc with lumber shipments at present.

Hardwoods -till occupy the center of the
,i .. No one disputed the fact that they are
in much better demand today than any other
line of lumber, and it is equally certain that
prices are firmer and prospective business bet-
ter than in other lines of the lumber business.
The past year has outstripped all previous
records in the sales of hardwood, and firms
which have been in the hardwood market at all

Toledo.

In reviewing the trade conditions for the
year, it might be stated that the local dealers
in hardwood lumber have had the most prof-
itable year in the history of the business.
As approximately estimated by the local con-
cerns that deal exclusively in hardwoods, the
business for 1906 will be fully twenty-five
per cent ahead of 1905. While this Is true,
the local fraternity experienced considerable
difficulty in getting certain kinds of hard-
woods, especially dimension stuff. Red a"nd
white oak, poplar and cottonwood lumber and
timber have been especially hard to get. True
it is that stocks can be picked up, . but it is
asserted that the stumpage is in the hands
of a few big concerns, who report that they
have sold the output ahead. And the car sit-
uation has been a bugaboo throughout the en-
tire year, while higher prices in almost every
line of hardwoods have not been a welcome
feature. As to next year, It is generally be-
lieved that the same conditions will prevail.

While building operations have let up to a
considerable extent, the demand for hardwoods
has been good for this time of the year. Lo-
cal yards are undergoing invoice, and after
the first dealers are expected to anticipate
their wants and buy quite freely. The total
permits issued for the year will reach a total
valuation of approximately four and a half
million dollars. This means that Toledo has
gone ahead of the total valuation of building
improvements for 1905 about sixty-five per
cent. The hardwood people have not experi-
enced as hard a battle against concrete and
cement building materials as dealers of soft
lumber, since hardwoods are extensively used
for inside finish against soft woods for out-
side work.

Several years ago about as much lumber was
brought to Toledo by water as by rail. This
year the custom house report shows a little
less than 46,000,000 feet landed here by lake,
while fully 200,000,000 feet were brought here
by rail. This is explained by the fact that
the shores of the lakes have been pretty well
cleared of timber, and the stumpage is now
found farther inland.

Railroad ties and poles are in strong de-
mand and have been so throughout the year.
While both have advanced considerably dur-
ing the season, higher prices are inevitable.

Sajinaw Valley.
Hardwood is looking up. Basswood is being
contracted for at about $2 higher than the prices
during i in- summer. There will be use for all the
basswood manufactured at an advance. Beech
will be $1 higher and possibly more. Some
beech has already been contracted for delivery
next season, at an advanced price. Nearly all

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the ash which will be manufactured has been
contracted for next season and at a good ad-
vance. In the early part of the year maple
was very dull— in fact the dullest item in the
list, but it has picked up and contracts for
stock for nest season delivery are being made
at $1.75 and .S'J above this year's quotations.
Elm has been doing better of late, but birch still
holds dull. Dealers report no excess of dry
lumber. Many of the mills in this part of the
state have shut down.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

There is a marked tendency toward increase
in the volume of hardwoods manufactured in
Ibis section and steady gains are manifest.
Manufacturers and wholesalers say they are
rushed to the limit of their capacity and the
outlook for spring business was never brighter.
Buyers coming into this section are rinding thai
it takes high prices to get the stock as the
demand has been unusually heavy recently
and to some extent exceeded the supply. Good
dry oak is in greal demand and this wood con-
tinues in the lead. The demand for poplar
is holding up and the prices are better than
they have been for some time. Neatly all of
the mills are supplied with logs, Inn in many
eases the supply is running low and some few
mills have had to close down until they could
catch up.

There continues great activity in the rich
rial fields of Virginia and there is now more
railroad building in progress in this section
than ever has been before in its history. In a
year or two this section will be covered with
a network of railroads and the timber will
nearly all be accessible.

The yards are pretty general!; depleted and
the heavy demand for lumber of all kinds
keeps tin- stock moving as soon as it comes
from the mill ready for the market.

Cincinnati.

At the end of 1906 the general sentiment in
1 lie lumber market is still strong. The pros-
pers of beginning the new year with a rush
is evident. But for the shortage of cars, a
better activity would develop and many of the
orders on file for delivery in December would
he supplied. oak of all descriptions is very
stmng in this market, especially in t lie larger
dimensions. The supply hardly meets the de-
mand and additional stocks are coming in
slowly. Trices show a tendency to firmness.
Red gum has received added impulse in the last
fortnight, but prices remain the same. Good
poplar probably is the strongest feature in the
market. Good yellow stork is meeting with
great demand and the supply is not sufficient.
Inferior southern poplar sells at prices slightly
below the list, but good stock is held steadily.
The paucity of the supply of hemlock has caused
a slight stiffenine in prices, and while no more
business was done than the preceding weeks,
it is entirely due to the limited supply, and
dealers ate holding for higher prices. Cypress
meets with a fairly active demand for all items
and prices are, if anything, a little firmer than
during the previous months. Common lumber
of all kinds is very firm, largely due to the ab-
sorbing of it by box manufacturers, who have
done an unusually large volume of business this
year. '

St. Louis.
On tie- whole the present volume of business
in hardwoods in St. Louis is not as heavy as
mighl be expected at this time of "year. Furni-
ture factories, implement works and other es-
tablishments using large quantities of hard-
woods are preparing for the annual Invoicing,
which naturally keeps them out of the market
pt for immediate wants. There are numer-
small orders being received for prompt de-
livery, which makes up in' some measure for
the lack of larger ones. Dealers have for the
past few weeks devoted most of their time to
accumulating stock for the spring trade and for

the most part have been fairly successful, con-
sidering the adverse conditions in producing
territory and the car shortage.

Plain oak stocks are of fair size in most yards
and of good quality, while the demand is some-
what quiet. Quartered oak finds only a limited
demand and stocks are consequently adequate
for almost any future requirement. Ash and
poplar are very scarce and have advanced in
price recently. Demand is active. Cottonwood
and gum are also scarce, with the demand
strong and the tendency of prices upward.

Memphis.
Conditions surrounding production have not
shown much change for the better. There
have heen further rains in this section during
the past fortnight which have prevented a re-
sumption of logging operations on even a small
scale and which have made it certain that
little or nothing will be accomplished in
this direction until after the turn of the year.

firm in North Memphis says that il had

several million feet of timber in sight at this
time last year and that now it lias no more
than 700,000 feet. It predicts for itself sus-
pension of operations before the middle of
February. There are other firms here which
are not in as good position as the one just
quoted and the outlook for production even
in the larger centers is y^vx discouraging. In
the interior there are comparatively few mills
in operation and an even smaller number run-
ning on full time. The forecast that this year
would witness the smallest available supply
"f timber for the winter, made several months
ago in these columns, has been fully realized,
condition- in tliis respect being even worse
than looked for.

Louisville.
There has developed during the last week
an exciting situation in the whisky cooperage
branch of the hardwood market, brought about
as a result of the recent sitting of the Pure
Food Commission here and its ruling on the
question of blended whisky. The practical put-
ting of blended whisky' under the ban has been
followed by ;i stampede to buy and operate dis-
tilleries, and this in turn has produced a de-
mand for whisky barrels which the coopers
cannot hegin to meet. One man was lamenting
because he had offered S4 a barrel and had been
unable to obtain any at that figure, hut one of
the prominent coopers here says it would have
been the same if he had offered $10 a barrel.
The final effect of this will he a greater hustling
in the woods for staves than ever and a keener
bidding for white oak stumpage. The situation
in The lumber market is all that could be de-
sired in point of demand, and about the worse
thing the trade has to contend with is the car
shortage. Some buyers may be letting up in
their efforts for the end of the year" stock-
taking season, but as far as the trade here is
concerned in most lines it is not enough to
have any effect, because there are plenty of
unfilled orders to keep them busy even if no
more were coming along right now. And there
is plenty coming along all the time to call for
more stock than is available, except possibly in

quartered oak. The low grades in hardw 1

have probably advanced more sharply in price
than anything else, and especially is this true
with poplar, cottonwood and gum. Sap com-
mon gum is worth here today about $19.50,
and shipping cull poplar and cottonwood from
$21 to $22.50, and. regardless of price, there
doesn't st-em to he enough to meet the demand.

Minneapolis.

The future is playing an important part in
the calculation of both dealers and consumers.
Wholesalers are active in contracting for new
stocks. They are getting out to do business
with the mill men for next year's product much
earlier than usual, and in greater numbers.

Stocks of oak and ash are particularly sought
after. The indications are that a much larger
proportion of next year's cut will be bought
up and controlled by the strong dealers than in
former years. Some of the large consumers are
also going direct to mills to contract for green
stock. Logging conditions are reported very-
bad, both north and south, and everywhere be-
cause of too much water. The northern mills
will all run. but they will have a short supply
of logs in most cases, and the total production
will show a decrease. Higher prices are gener-
ally anticipated. As dry stock is now held in
very limited quantities, the market is extremely
firm. Gooa" lumber is easily sold, either for de-
livery now or some time after the first of the
year. Buyers are not haggling much as to
prices. They want the stock, and are willing
to pay any price within reason if it is satisfac-
tory. They are aware of the fact that all hard-
wood except birch is in very limited supply,
and birch cannot be said any longer to show a
surplus. The low grade stock is well cleaned
up and considerable is being sold at mill run
figures. Basswood is being snapped up quickly
whenever offered, and storks are low. Consid-
erable stock on band is already sold, and most
dealers have only broken assortments left to
supply their trade. In two or three months
more an actual shortage is predicted by some.

Liverpool.

'I lie mahogany sale priees quite fulfil what
was prophesied some weeks ago that easier
prices were coming. Prices weir distinctly
lower at these sales, and no doubt at the next
sales a further drop will be sustained.

Trade is only quiet here in view of the close
• if the year, at which time most of the buyers
make up their accounts for the year, and this
i perhaps only natural.

Values in oak boards, planks and logs are
keeping firm, and wagon oak planks and panel.
cabinet and coffin planks are good sellers. Prime
coffin oak planks are particularly firm, and will
bring good prices. sires-, should be put on the
prime, however. So-called coffin oak is sent here
which is shaken and rough, and shippers should
be careful what they send out as coffin oak.
A 6 — 6" length, for example, is of no use what-
ever if shaken at the end.

Shippers are taking much more care as to
shipping on consignment lately, which is appre
ciated here.

London.

There has been a general falling off in the trade
for This month, which, however, is not unusual
with the approach of the holidays, and the fact
that most of the yard-keepers take the oppor
t unity of the slack time to go through their
stn«ks and balance their books. The arrivals
id' lumber have heen light and all of the new
Stocks have gone to buyers' yards direcl from
the quays.

There is a fair call for whitewood of
all grades", but most of the shippers' selling
agents have withdrawn prices. This buyers have
taken without excitement, as it has been diffi-
cult for them to get higher prices from con-
sumers owing to the dull state of trade. Plain
oak is in moderate demand, with a better call
for quartered. Walnut demand is mostly for
medium quality. In satin walnut good me-
dium boards are selling at top priees ami sto< I>
are light.

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EMPLOYES WANTED.

WANTED.

An intelligent young fellow, a hustler that
understands selling Hardwood Flooring. A
gnod salary will be paid the right party. Ad-
dress "W. G., No. 17,'' care Hardwood Rec-
ord.

WANTED— THREE RELIABLE MEN.

Acquainted with the manufacture of wagon
gearing, to invest, and take charge of mills.
Good salary to the right men.

E. STURM, Calhoun, Ky.

LUMBER WANTED

ROCK ELM WANTED.

150,000' 2 Mi and 3"xo" and wider, C. &
B. Will inspect at point of shipment. We
can use fresh sawn wood. Terms cash less
2 per cent. THE BRADLEY COMPANY,

Hamilton, Ont., Can.

OAK WANTED.

Plain & Qtd., Ix3y2xll — 16^—19. Plain,
1x3 and wider, 40", 1x2*4x14, 1x1x15. Qtd.,
1x4x11 — 16y» — 19. Chair backs, plain and
qtd., 2y2 to 6 wide, 15 & 19 long. Quote
f. o. b. your mill.

THE WISCONSIN1 CHAIR CO.,

Port Washington, Wis.

WANTED TUPELO GUM.

Of the soft yellow variety. In all grades
from mills having facilities for resawing, also
for working into flooring, ceiling, siding, etc.

AMER. LliK. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

ASH DIMENSION STOCK.

One inch stock wanted, in carloads, from
2% to 10" in width and from 10 to 48" in
length. Can use large quantities if properly
gotten out. Stock must be clear and free from
defects. Write us for list.

BELDING-HALL MFG. CO., Belding, Mich.

WANTED.
BASSWOOD. MAPLE,

SOFT ELM, ASH,

ROCK ELM, • HICKORY.

In Logs, Lumber and Dimension Sizes, for

Immediate shipment, also during winter and

spring. Spot cash, and inspection at shipping

Soints. Please quote prices f. o. b. cars. Ad-
ress JAS. GORDON, Detroit, Mich.

OAK.

We are In the market for plain sawed oak,
all grades and thicknesses.
P. G. DODGE & CO., 2116 Lumber St., Chicago.

WANTED— HARDWOOD LOGS.

200 M feet 28-Inch and up White Oak logs.
200 M feet 12-inch and up Walnut logs.
50 M ft. 12-inch and up Cherry logs.
C. L. WILLEY,

OAK WANTED.

3 and 4 inch White Oak ; also Mixed Oak ;
also 12x12 Timbers and Piling of all kinds.
CONTINENTAL LUMBER CO.,
1213 Monadnock Bldg., Chicago, III.

WANTED.

1,000,000 feet 4/4 Oak Culls and Mill Culls.
1,000.000 feet <&" to 2" Poplar, all grades.
Address "LUMBER," care J. Holtzman,
•319 Land Title Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa.

HICKORY WANTED.

1%" Hickory Plank, 8y2, 9 and 17' long.

2" Hickory Plank, 10y2, 12 and 16' long.
suitable for carriage wood work. Also in the
market for Hickory Logs.

AMERICAN CENTRAL LUMBER CO.,

Anderson, Ind.

LUMBER FOR SALE.

THICK PLAIN OAK.

Two cars 2y>" No. 1 and No. 2 common
plain Ohio White Oak, good widths, suitable
for building or furniture purposes.

CHAS. F. SHIELS & CO., Cincinnati, O.

HICKORY SPLIT SPOKES.

Wanted an order. Give specifications and
name best prices on board cars Wabash, C. &
E. I. or Big Four R. R.

FRANK GILL. Fairmount, 111.

WANTED.

Inquiries from consumers of dimension stock
in Oak and Maple, also Hickory logs.

S. C. MILLER, Greenbrier, W. Va.

MARKET WANTED FOR HARD MAPLE.

In lower grades such as boxed hearts, sizes
cut to order. Also 4/4 and 5/4 mill cuts. Ad-
dress "Box 707," care Hardwood Record.

MACHINERY FOR SALE

FOR SALE.

1 Veneer Squeezer.

1 Bark Grinder, No. 3 right hand, Mitts &
Merrill. Located at Mound City, 111. Address
THE WISCONSIN CHAIR CO.,

Port Washington, Wis.

FOR SALE.

2. No. 1 Oscillating Hill Steam Niggers,
10"x6'xS"x6'.

1 direct connected log stop and loader, No.
B-2, arms spared. S' centers on 3" shaft, 10"x
26" cylinder. These have been in use but a
short time and are as good as new.

D'HEUR & SWAIN LUMBER CO.,

Seymour, Ind.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

FOR SALE.

Half or entire interest in 30,000 ft. mill,
available to 2,500 acres of virgin oak, ash
and hickory about 2 miles from railroad.

H. G. CADY, Pine Bluff, Ark.

BAND MILL AT BARGAIN.

Dirt cheap for cash or on time ; fine loca-
tion, abundance hardwood logs ; cheap timber
situated on river and railroads ; low freight
rates to all points east, west and foreign.
Address

"BOX 497," care Hardwood Record.

HARDWOOD TIMBER.

A number of good mill propositions along
.the Cotton Belt Route. Tracts ranging from
fire hundred to twenty thousand acres, princi-
pally Oak, Hickory, Gum, Cypress, some Ash,
Cottonwood and other hardwoods. Can be
secured at very reasonable figures now — In
some cases at less than $1 per thousand stump-
age. Choice openings for hardwood lumber
mills, handle and spoke factories, slack coop-
erage plants and other hardwood enterprises.

A number of points on the Cotton Belt offer
free sites or will raise cash bonus or take stock
in practical propositions. Let us have your
wants and see what we can do for you.

E. W. LA BEAUME. G. P. & T. A.,

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COAL FIELDS,
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HARD AND SOFT

LUMBER DISTRICTS,
MINING DISTRICTS

of the West and Northwest, and
affords the best means of transpor-
tation to the markets of the world.

FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS APPLY TO

MARVIN HUGHITT, Jr., E. 0. BRIGHAM,

Freight Traffic Manager, Gen' I Freight Agent,

geo. bonnell,

/ ndustria /Agent,
NW513 CHICAGO.

HARDWOOD RECORD

37

Advertisers' Directory

NORTHERN HARDWOODS.

Alcock, John L., & Co V

American Lumber & Mfg. Company... 50

Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company 52

Babcoek Lumber Company 50

Barnaby, C. H 58

Beyer, Knox & Co 59

Bliss & Van Auken 12

Boyne City Lumber Company 65

Briggs & Cooper Company 6

Brownlee & Co 54

Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company.. 59

Cadillac Handle Company 3

Carter, Frank. Company 63

Cheat River Lumber Company 50

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co 8

Chivvis, W. R 49

Cincinnati Hardwood Lbr. Company... 57

Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc 3

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Connor, R., Company 53

Crescent Lumber Company 56

Crosby & Beckley Company, The 6

Crosby, C. P 52

Cummer, Diggins & Co 3

Darling, Chas., & Co 11

Davis, John R., Lumber Company 52

Dells Lumber & Shingle Company 52

Dennis Bros 55

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company.... 54
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company... 58

Dixon & Dewey

Dudley Lumber Company 54

Duhlmeier Bros 57

Dwight Lumber Company 6

Ellas, G.. & Bro 59

Empire Lumber Company 59

Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 54

Fall, E. H

Forman Company, Thomas 6

Freiberg Lumber Company, The 57

Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber

Company 5

General Lumber Company 38

Gillespie, W. M., Lumber Company... 7

Goldie, J. S 55

Haak Lumber Company 38

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company 55

Hayden, Harvey S 10

Holloway Lumber Company 7

Hoyt, C. I., & Co 5S

Indiana Quartered Oak Company 6

Ingram Lumber Company -. . 52

James & Abbot Company 7

Jenks, Robert H., Lumber Company.. 51

Jones, 0. W.. Lumber Company 2

Jones Hardwood Company 7

Kampf, Albert R 2

Keator, Ben C 11

Keith Lumber Company 11

Kelley Lumber & Shingle Company... 6

Kneeland-Bigelow Company 47

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company... 11

Linehan Lumber Company 50

Litchfield, William E 7

Lombard, E. B 11

Long-Knight Lumber Company 58

MacBride, Thos., Lumber Company... 55
Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company. 57

Maley & Wertz 58

Martin-Barriss Company 51

Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company... 52

McClure Lumber Company 55

Mellvain, J. Gibson, & Co 7

McLean, Hugh, Lumber Company 69

Miller, Anthony 59

Miller Bros 11

Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Mowbray & Robinson 57

Murphy & Diggins 3

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company 54

Nicola Lumber Company, The 50

North Shore Lumber Company 54

North Vernon Pump & Lumber Co.... 2

North Western Lumber Company 53

O'Brien, John, Land & Lumber Co 10

Perrine-Armstrong Company 58

Price, E. E 7

Radina, L. W., & Co 57

Richmond Park & Co 10

Ross Lumber Company 1

Rumbarger Lumber Company

Ryan & McParland 10

Sailing, Hanson & Co 54

Sawyer-Goodman Company 38

Scatcherd & Son 59

Schofield Bros 7

Simmons Lumber Company 55

Slimmer, J., & Co 10

Soble Bros 7

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company. 69

Stephenson, The I., Company 12

Stewart, I. N., & Bro 59

Stewart, Wm. H. & G. S 56

Stimson, J. V 58

Stone, T. B., Lumber Company 56

Sullivan, T., & Co 59

Tegge Lumber Company

Turner, A. M., Lumber Company 50

Van Keulen & Wilkinson Lumber Co. . 55

Vollmar & Below 52

Wagstaff, W. J

Walnut Lumber Company, The 4S

Ward Lumber Company 11

Wells, R. A., Lumber Company 10

Wentwortb, Chas. S., & Co 7

White Lumber Company 10

White. W. H., Company 47

Whitmer, Wm. & Sons, Inc 6

Wlborg & Hanna Company 57

Willsiiu Bros. Lumber Company 50

Wisconsin Laud & Lumber Company.. 54

Wisconsin Timber & Lumber Company 11

Wistar, Underbill & Co 7

V eager, Orson E 59

Young, W. D., & Co 12

Young & Cutsinger 58

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS.

Advance Lumber Company 51

Alcock, John L., & Co 7

American Hdwd. Lumber Company... 4S

American Lumber & Mfg. Company. . 50

Auderson-Tully Company 4

Atlantic Lumber Company 1

Beck, E. E., Lumber Company 57

Beyer, Knox & Co 5U

Briggs & Cooper Company 6

Brown, Geo. C, & Co 48

Brown, W. P., & Sons, Lumber Co... 2

Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company.. 5'.)

Carrier Lbr. &. Mfg. Company 12

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co S

Chlvvis, \V. H ■■ 4:i

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co 57

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Courtney, D. G 9

Crane, C, & Co 56

Crescent Lumber Company 56

Crosby & Beckley Company, The. , 6

Cypress Lumber Company 56

Darling, Chas., & Co 11

Davidson-Benedict Company 1

Dennis & Smith Lumbei I .54

D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company... ">s

Dixon & Dewey

Dudley Lumber Company "• 1

Duhlmeier Bros 57

Elias, G., At Bro 59

Empire Lumber Company. Buffalo 59

Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 54

Fall. E. H

Faniu-Korn Lumber Company 57

Freiberg Lumber Company J7

Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumb* c

i Jbmpany , 5

Garetson-Greason Lumber Company... 4',)

Gayoso Lumber Company 4

Gillespie. W. M., Lumber Company... 7

Haas, Albert. Lumbei' Company iX

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company .... 55

Hafner Manufacturing Company... [9

Hayward, M. A 2i

Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co. . . 1

Hoyt, C. I., & Co 58

Indiana Lumber Company 4S

Indiana Quartered Oak Company 6

James & Abbot Company 7

Jenks, Robt. H., Lumber Company... 51

Jones, G. \v., Lumber Company 2

Jones Hardwood Company 7

Kampf, Albert R 2

Keator, Ben C n

Keith Lumber Company 11

Kentucky Lumber Company 57

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 5

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company... II

Linehan Lumber Company 60

Litchfield, Wm. E 7

Lombard, E. B 11

Long-Knight Lumber Company 58

Love, Boyd & Co 48

Luehrmann, Chas. F.t Hardwood Lum-
ber Company 49

Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company. 57

Martin-Barriss Company : 51

Massengale Lumber Company '19

McClure Lumber Company 55

Mellvain, J. Gibson, & Co 7

McLean-Davis Lumber Company 2

McLean, Hugh, Lumber Company 59

Miller, Anthony 59

Miller Bros 11

Mosby, II. W., & Co 48

Nicola Lumber Company, The .' . 50

O'Brien, John, Land & Lumber Co 10

Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Company- 49
Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company.... '.»

Plummer Lumber Company 4S

Price, E. E 7

Radina, L. W., & Co..l 57

Hansom, J. B., & Co 48

Rhubesky, E. W 2

Richmond Park & Co 10

Hitter, W. M., Lumber Company 60

Roy Lumber Company 38

Rumbarger Lumber Company

Ryan & McParland 10

Scatcherd & Son 59

Schofield Bros 7

Schultz Bros. & Cowen 11

Slimmer, J., & Co 10

Smith, R. M., & Co S

Southern Lumber Company 2

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 59

Steele & Hibbard 4t>

Stevens-Eaton Company 7

Stewart, I. N., & Bro 59

Stewart, Wm. H. & G. S 56

Stimson, J. V 58

Stone, T. B., Lumber Company 56

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Company ■ . 4'J

Stotz Lumber Company, Inc

Sullivan, T., & Co 5'.)

Swann-Day Lumber Company 9

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company... 4!)
Thompson, J. W., Lumber Company.. 4

Three States Lumber Company 4

Turner, A. M., Lumber Company 50

Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Company 48

Walnut Lumber Company, The Is

Ward Lumber Company 11

Wells, R. A., Lumber Company 10

Wentwortb, Chas. S., & Co 7

West Florida Hardwood Company 7

White Lumber Company 10

Whitmer, Wm., & Sons, Inc 6

Wiboig & Hanna Company 07

Willsou Bros. Lumber Company...... 50

Wisconsin Timber & Lumber Company II

Wood, It. E.( Lumber Company S

Yeager, Orson E 59

Young & Cutsinger

POPLAR.

Advance Lumber Company 51

Atlantic Lumber Company 1

Brown. W. P., & Sons, Lumber Co... 2

< lieal River Lumber Company 50

Courtney, D. G 9

Crane, C, & Co 56

Davidson-Benedict Company 1

Dawkins, W. H., Lumber Company... 56

Haas, Albert, Lumber Company 3S

Hayden, Harvey S 10

Hayward, M. A ':i

Kentucky Lumber Company 57

Keyes-Fannin Lumber Company. . 38

Massengale Lumber Company 19

McLean-Davis Lumber Company 2

Rhubesky, E. W 2

Rltter, W. M., Lumber Company.- 60

Roy Lumber Company 38

Schult2 Bros. & Cowen 11

Smith, R. M., & Co 8

Southern Lumber Company 2

Stevens-Eaton Company 7

Swann-Day Lumber Company 9

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company. I'.i

Vansant, Kitchen & Co 60

u 1, It. L.. Lumber Company s

Yellow Poplar Lumber Company 60

COTTONWOOD AND GUM.

Amlerson-Tully Company 4

1,'iiriii Koin Lumber Company 57

Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co. . . l

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 5

Luehrmann, c. F., Hardwood Lumber

Company 40

Moebj , II. W., & Co 18

Coopi & Lumber < ompan

Paepcke-Leicbi Lumber Compapy. ... '■>

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Company. . 49

Stotz Lumber Company, Inc

Three States Lumber Company 4

CYPRESS.
Cypress Lumber Company 66

Hafner Manufacturing Company 49

Loth man Cypress Company 49

Plummer Lumber Company 48

Thompson, J. W., Lumber Company^., 4

VENEERS.

Gl "l Rapids Veneer Works 43

Wisconsin Veneer Company 53

HARDWOOD FLOORING.

Advance Lumber Company 51

Bliss & Van Auken 12

Buffalo Maple Flooring Co., The 6

Carrier Lbr. & Mfg. Company 12

Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc 3

Cummer, Diggins & Co 3

Dwlgbt Lumber Company 6

Eastman, S. L., Flooring Company... 54

Fenu Bros. Company 4

Forman, Thos., Company 6

Haak Lumber Company 3S

International Hardwood Company. ... 56

Kerry & Hanson Flooring Company... 55

Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company 48

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company 54

Pease Company, The 56

Stephenson, The I., Company 12

Ward Bros 12

Wilce, The T., Company 10

Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company.. 54

Wood Mosaic Flooring Company 2

Young, W. D., & Co 12

SAW MILL MACHINERY.

Bartlett. A. F., & Co 3D

Garland. M-, Company

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company. 40
Mershon, W. B.. & Co

Phoenix Manufacturing Compauy 53

WOODWORKING MACHINERY.

American Wood Working Machinery

Company 46

Bai ilett, A. F., & Co 39

Berlin Machine Works, The

Covel Manufacturing Company 42

i frown Iron Works 4.';

Defiance Machine Works. The 39

Hurley Machine Company 37

Matteson Manufacturing Company... 41

Nash, J. M

Ober Manufacturing Company, The... "»1

Schindler, A. J 42

Smith, II. B., Machine Company

Woods, S. A., Machine Company 40

VENEER MACHINERY.

Coe Manufacturing Company 45

LOGGING MACHINERY.

Clyde Iron Works 44

Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company . . 47

Overpack, S. C 47

i. .1 Wheel & Foundry Company... 41

DRY KILNS AND BLOWERS.

Cordon Hollow lilasi Grate Company . 1-

Grand Rapids Veneer Works 43

Morton Dry Kiln Company 47

New York Blower Company 41

SAWS, KNIVES AND SUPPLIES.

Atkins. E. C, & Co 44

' I love! Manufacturing Company 42

Champion saw Company 10 & 4.1

Crown Iron Works 43

Gillette Roller Bearing Company.. 13

Hanchetl Swage Works 42

Hurley Machine < !ompany

Marshall, Francis

Matteson M facl ui Ing I iompany . . . n

Shimer, S. J., .v- Sons u

LUMBER INSURANCE.

Adirondack Fire Insurance Company.. 1
Lumber Insurance Company of New

Zork 1

Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
pany. Boston '

Lumber Cndi 1-

r Ivania Lumbermen's Mutual
i tre Insurance l 'ompany

Rankin, Harry, & Co

MISCELLANEOUS.

D.. & Co . 3S

Gillette Roller Bearlnj i
Lumbermen 's Credit As

Martin & Co 51

Pease Company, The 56

Clark L. & Co 12

Rem!

Sanders, i tenry, Compai

Schenck, C A , & Co..

St a n. lard Audit Company

38

HARDWOOD RECORD

THE GENERAL LUMBER
COMPANY

Hardwoods

HEMLOCK
YELLOW PINE

COLUMBUS, OHIO

We Have on Hand Ready for
Shipment a Nice Stock of

2*4 Clear Maple
Flooring

ALSO OTHER SIZES AND GRADES

Send us your orders

Our fine timber, modern plant and
skilled workmanship combine to
make a flooring that cannot be ex-
celled. You will be pleased with it

HAAK LUMBER CO.

HAAKWOOD, MICH.

WALNUT.
OAK,
ASH,
POPLAR.

Keys=Fannin
Lumber Company

Manufacturers of Band
and Circular sawn

SOFT

YELLOW

POPLAR

Plain and quartered red and white
Oak, Hemlock, Bass and Chest-
nut. Give us a trial,

Ashla-nd

Ky.

M [I For items of Hard-

m 1 1 wood Stock or

Hardwood Ma-

chinery, you will

find it advantage-

ous to write our

advertisers. Get

in touch!

Albert Haas Lumber Co.

BAND SAWED

Oak and Ash

YELLOW POPLAR

ATLANTA, :: GEORGIA

COUNTERFEIT CHECKS |

are frequent

except where ^^

our _>£?&

Two Piece ^^Spafc]
Geometrical yMptfSftiir'
Barter Coin /jr3$&?r?(!*!L

1 1 i h ■ ■ 1 1 /7j^VWOT~V/

Imitation isn't /^"""^zDr/? *
possible. //?■' '■■■'' ff«£v' -JM
Sample if y.Mi ftf A^F? ''#■
ask for it. ($' -?lfJ7 '■'•'•' M

S. D. CHILDSlBSsfflfe&J

t> co. m&K^w

Chicago V^^^P^^M
We also make vfrSflKSlK'*«S
Time Checks, Y%pw^NN-3
Stencils and V^-'-JM^a
Log Hammers. nSSXjeS

"pATD Q Vw£§S#

THE NEW MODELS
OF THE

REMINGTON

TYPEWRITER

are the product of the second
generation of Remington
genius and workmanship.
They represent age plus
youth; the experience of the
old combined with the pro-
gressiveness of the new.

SALES IN 1906 ARE BREAKING
ALL RECORDS FOR 30 YEARS

REMINGTON TYPEWRITER CO.

15-4 WABASH AVENUE
CHICAGO

After Jan. 1, 1907

We will be ready to sell

5,000,000 ft. Winter Sawed

Bass wood. Elm and Birch

Carefully manufactured from
logs qf superior quality

Sawyer -Goodman Company Marinette

Wis.

Industries are Offered Locations

WITH SATISFACTORY INDUCEMENTS, FAVORABLE

FREIGHT RATES, GOOD LABOR CONDITIONS

HEALTHFUL COMMUNITIES, on the lines of

The Illinois Central R. R. and the

Yazoo & Mississippi Valley R. R.

For full information and descriptive pamphlet address
J. C. CLAIR, Industrial Commissioner, 1 Park Row, Chicago, III.

HARDWOOD RECORD

39

"DEFIANCE" WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY k&yiptfl

COMPLETE EQUIPMENTS OF

HIGH GRADE TOOLS

Jt FOR MAKING J*

Hobs, Spokes, Wheels, Single Trees, Hoops,

Wagons, Carriages, Handles, Bobbins, Spools,
Rims, Shatts, Poles, Insulator Pins and

Neck-Yokes, Oval Wood Dishes.

INVENTED AND BUILT BY

The DEFIANCE MACHINE WORKS

DEFIANCE, OHIO.
Send for 500 Page Catalogue

AUTOMATIC THREADING MACHINE

INSULATOR PIN LATHE

Bartlett's No. "O" Hog, used with Hardwood Flooring Scrapers.

HOGS

We Build All Kinds
Tell Us What Kind You Need

A. F. BARTLETT & CO

Manufacturers of

SAWMILL MACHINERY

960 South Tilden Street
Saginaw, Mich.

Locations for

Industries

THE ERIE, THE COMMERCIAL RAILROAD

CHICAGO TO NEW YORK

The Erie Railroad System's Industrial
Department has all the territory traversed
by the railroad districted in relation to
resources, markets and advantages for
manufacturing, can advise with man-
ufacturers of specific products as to suit-
able locations, and furnish them with cur-
rent information of a comprehensive
nature dealing with the project in its full
relation to manufacture and commerce.

The Erie is one of the greatest of trunk
lines. Its own rails connect the two
largest cities of America. Every section
of the System has its particular merits.
Profitable locations exist. It has great
general and coal, oil and natural gas
resources.

It is important in this age of modern
facilities for manufacturers to locate
where they can obtain side tracks so as
to receive from and ship directly into
cars at the factory. Information can be
promptly furnished in this connection
about every point on the system between
New York and Chicago.

Manufacturers' inquiries as to locations
are treated in strict confidence and
absolutely reliable information, so as
to promote permanent traffic, is furnished.
Address

LUIS JACKSON

Industrial Commissioner

Erie Railroad Company
11 Broadway, New York

Save Your Money

By Using the

RED BOOK

Published Semi-Annually
in January and July

It contains a carefully prepared list ot the
buyers of lumber in car lots, both among
the dealers and manufacturers.

The book indicates their financial stand-
ing and manner of meeting obligations.
Covers the UNITED STATES and MANI-
TOBA.

The trade recognizes this book as the au-
thority on the lines it covers.

A well organized Collection Department
is also operated and the same is open to you.

WRITE FOR TERMS.

Lumbermen's Credit Association

Established 1878
1405 Oreal Northern Building, :

16 Beaver Street, :

MENTION THIS PAPER

: CHICAGO
NEW YORK CITY

HARDWOOD
TIMBER

There is no section with so fine and
large a supply of hardwood timbers
of various kinds left for the lumber-
men as that portion of the South in
Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Missis-
sippi, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee and Virginia served by the
lines of the

Southern Railway

and

Mobile & Ohio Railroad

There are oak, poplar, hickory, gum,
cypress, ash, elm, buckeye, balsam,
spruce, chestnut, and other varieties.
There are also available pine lands.
These timber resources and many
other important features bearing on
the cost of manufacture and market-
ing give special advantages and oppor-
tunities for EVERY KIND of WOOD
USING INDUSTRY. We have infor-
mation about the best locations in the
country at towns in these States and
in Southern Indiana and Southern
Illinois, which will be given if request-
ed. All correspondence in regard to
timber lands or factory locations will
be given prompt and confidential at-
tention. Address your nearest agent.

M. V. RICHARDS.

L,andand Industrial Agent,

Washington, D. C.
CHAS. S.CHASE, Agent,

622 Chemical Building,

St. Louis, Mo.

4Q

HARDWOOD RECORD

The No. 24 c —

A new Fast Feed Floorer for dressing hard or soft wood
producing an extra fine finish at an unusually fast feed.

ELTLT TO WORK 8 INCHES OR 15 INCHES WIDE EIGHT ROLES

EMBODIES SPECIAL FEATURES REPRESENTING A REMARKABLE DEVELOPMENT IN FLOORING MACHINES

S. A. WOODS MACHINE COMPANY, Boston

CHICAGO SEATTLE

SPECIALISTS IN FLOOrE RS, MOU LVERS AND PLANERS

We are Prepared to Supply Your Wants in

Veneered a Solid Stave
Columns

In all Hardwoods with the

i9k

Koll's Sr^ty^m Lock

mg CAN NOT IB

come Ml

VE>. A PACT Atf

Patent

^^A PART ^B

Joint

Write today for prices

Henry Sanders Co.

900 Elston Ave.

CGood saws, that do their
duty, plus.

C Cutting edge that comes
from best material skilU
fully manufactured.

CHAMPION SAW CO.

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

41

M

fsw tjm' ps,

The Shimer Cutter Heads

The expense that enters into the every day make-ready of the
on Unary Cutter Heads is relegated as a thing of the past the minute
you begin the use of The Shimer Cutter Heads.

The Bits have the shape of the pattern — a fixture in line with
the cut, protected by the valuable clearance feature — the concave
bit seat.

A very clear description is given in our latest Catalogue, No. 28,
a copy of which we will be pleased to mail you.

SAMUEL J. SHIMER <& SONS, Milton, Pa

Improved
Automatic
Band Saw
Sharpener

All Machines Fully Guaranteed

^T This machine excels all others for single cutting Band Saws from 8 to 14
^nnehes. Its construction is mechanically correct, simple and durable, and
does not possess any of the intricate complicated parts that confuse the oper-
ator. The head is adjustable so that straight wheels can be used with the same
results as concave.

^T This represents just one type of machine. We make in addition a com-
^^plete line of modern tools for the care of saws.

For particulars address

Matteson Mfg. Co.

120 128 S. CLINTON STREET,

CHICAGO, ILLS.

factory:
BJJCYRUS, OHIO

Power
Money

Saved
S aved

Heating, Ventilating, Mechanical Draft,
Shavings and Conveying

FANS AND EXHAUSTERS

of every description.

WRITE FOR CATALOGUE No S8-G.

New York Blower Company

CHICAGO office:
25th Place and Stewart Avenue

RUSSEL WHEEL & FOUNDRY COMPANY

Builders o f

Logging Cars
And Logging
Machinery

ARE ALWAYS PLEASED TO

HAVE OPPORTUNITY OF

POINTING OUT ADVAN-

T A GES OF THEIR

EQUIPMENT.

Detroit, Mich.

42

HARDWOOD RECORD

New Type of Combined End Matcher

SAVES 20 PER CENT. TIME, COST AND LABOR.
USED BY THE LARGEST FLOORING CONCERNS.

Write for particulars to

A. J. SCHDVDLER, 441-443 W. 21st Street, CHICAGO

The New 1907 Catalog

is ready, ask for
one. Itdescribes
the most com- '
plete line of fil-
ing room ma-
chinery manu-
factured, includ-
ing our New No.
99 Automatic
Sharpener, a s
shown by cut,

also our New No. 109 Stretcher with

automatic Re-toother.

COVEL MANUFACTURING CO.

CHICAGO, U. S. A.

^t> Hanchctt - Hanchett- Hanchett <C

Hanchett
Saw Swage

Every one made Perfect

The Swage with a Name

•I A poor Swage Ruins a Good Saw, and
for that reason the manufacturers of the

HANCHETT ADJUSTABLE SWAGE

employ only the Best Mechanics and use
onlv the Best Material in their construction.

It Pays Us
to make
The Best

Send for

Catalog

No. 10

It tells you all

about them

It Pays You

to use

The Best

MANUFACTURED BY

Hanchett Swage Works

Big Rapids, Michigan

*f Hanchett - Hanchett - Hanchett <£

KNIVES

Planer knives, veneer knives or any of the good machine

knives that you use are tempered best by skilled expetience.

Know the truth and get your best machine knives from

CHAMPION SAW COMPANY,

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

43

IS DESIRED

"Here's to your good
health and the good
health of your family. May you live long and

prosper." —Joseph Jefferson in Rip Van Winkle.

You can move 1000 feet of lumber on a GILLETTE
ROLLER BEARING LUMBER CART with the same
power or strength required to move 500 feet on a
cart having common, friction-producing axles.

THERE'S

THE

REASON

Gillette Roller Bearing Axle.

RFAI I7FR Prosperity through the help
ntHLI^LU of the Gillette Roller Bearing
Company, Experts in the Elimination of Expense,
Grand Rapids, Michigan.

II you're wanting to reduce your lumber handling costs we're [)y^^
at your service ■ CI 1

Why lose good money
By poor kiln drying?

By our new method, we dry hard-
wood lumber so that it is absolutely
free from swelling or shrinking.

We do this in half the time of any
kiln sold and can apply our system
to your present kiln.

After installing the apparatus, if it
does not do all we claim, we will
take it out free of expense to you.

} on can't lose in a trial.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works

Dept. D

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

THE MARKET IS DEMANDING

MORE AND MORE

Boards with Square Ends

As well as STRAIGHT and PARALLEL edges

The straight and parallel edges you can obtain
with a "TOWER" Edger, while the "TOWER"
One-man 2-saw Trimmer will give you the
square ends with a minimum of time, labor and
waste. In all other trimmers the manner of
shifting the saws is such that every time the
position of the saws is changed the operator has
to go clear to the end of the machine. In the
"TOWER" One-man 2-saw Trimmer he never
lias to go beyond the end of the board. Espec-
ially with short boards, this means a great sav-
ing in time and labor. It also greatly reduces the
amount of waste, as it is much easier to see how
to trim a board to the best advantage from the
end of the board than from the end of the ma=
chine. In all of these trimmers t here are two feeds,
which may be instantly started, stopped or
changed, without stopping the saws. Both an
controlled by the same lever, which is located in
tin' most convenient position.

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co.

GREENVILLE, MICHIGAN

The largest manufacturers of grates, edgers and trimmers in the world.

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The real "meat"" in any production deppnd&largely on the eost the method of producing and
especially is this true in logging. The

McGIFFHRC Log Loader

' with the fewcS "'stfjllls." Propelling itself, jh rushes the work and
Being very pSiicerfM yet simple to operate the^yerage engineer soon
becomes aiifxpeimind with few helpers/
,can loud a#iigh M 1 00 to 150.000 feet
v in 8 hoursjjin faeSB00,000 I
ccompligHhed. Mut your
{rather let a MSEiffcrt
form y<mr meutwms of h;
^ liny jfilgs isjflKhe it

ATKINS

Silver Steel

SAWS

are perfect in every detail. They stand up to their work as honest Saws should do. You'll find them cheapest in the end, because
they save shut-downs and require less attention. Order one saw from your dealer, from us or from our nearest Branch, where a
complete stock is carried for immediate shipment.

E. O. ATKINS & CO., inc.

THE SILVER STEEL SAW PEOPLE

HOME OFFICE AND FACTORY: INDIANAPOLIS.

BRANCHES: ATLANTA CHICAGO, MEMPHIS MINNEAPOLIS NEW ORLEANS, NEW YORK CITY.
PORTLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, S E ATTLE , TO RONTO

HARDWOOD RECORD

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Be Your Own Santa Claus

Present yourself with some Coe veneer machinery, and get busy
helping supply the rapidly growing demand for thin lumber.
C The Coe Rotary Veneer Cutter utilizes the entire log. There
are neither slabs nor sawdust. Any kind of timber can be cut.

The cutter here illustrated is known as our style "B." It is the
popular size. The diameter of swing is 50 inches. Any length
of knife up to 100 inches can be used. Diameter of spindles, 6
inches. Weight, 36,000 lbs. It will cut the finest figured veneers
as well as the heaviest box stock (from 1-100 to 5 inch), and will
in a given time produce from 10 to 25 per cent, more stock and
better stock than can be cut on any other machine on the market.

LET US FIGURE WITH VOU

The Coe Manufacturing Co.

105 Bernard Street
PAINESVILLE, OHIO, U. S. A.

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Merit Always Triumphs

Note the Following:

"Your favor of the 13th has not had earlier attention owing to absence of
writer. With reference to question as to condition of 72" Sander which we

recently exchanged in connection with purchase of two of your 48" machines, we wish to
state we consider it practically as good as new. The reason for displacing same was not
due to machine being worn out, but on account of our impression that your Sanders would
serve our purpose better than the 72" — , in which opinion we have been confirmed by

their use since being installed in our plant."

American
Wood Working Machinery Co.

NEW ORLEANS:
Henning Bldg.

Salesrooms:

CHICAGO:

43 So. Canal St.

NEW YORK:
136 Liberty St.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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The KNEELAND BIGELOW CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF LUMBER

Annual Output:

20,000,000 ft. Hardwoods.
20,000,000 ft. Hemlock.

4,000,000 pes. Hardwood Lath.

9,000,000 pes. Hemlock Lath.

Mills R.\jn the Year
Around.

Bay City, Mich.

W. H. WHITB, Pres.

JAS. A. WHITE, Vice-Pres.

W. L. MARTIN, Secy.

THOS. WHITE, Treas.

W. H. WHITE COMPANY

BOYNE CITY, MICHIGAN

Manufacturers of Hardwood and Hemlock Lumber, Cedar Shingles,

White RocK Maple Flooring.

Michigan Logging Wheels

Standard
for a
Quarter
Century

Cheap and easy logging.
Write for circular & prices.

S. C. OVERPACK m^7h " '

The Morton Dry Kiln

MOIST AIR SYSTEM

Recording
Ther-
mometers.
Transfer
Cars.

Trucks.

Canvas

Doors.

HOW TO DRY LUMBER.

As exemplified in ourCatalogD. Free on application.

MORTON DRY KILN CO., Chicago, Ills.

LIDGERW00D MACHINES

WILL STOCK YOUR MILL

SKIDDERS
SNAKERS
YARDERS

LOADERS
PULL BOATS
CABLEWAYS

LIDGERWOOD MFG. GO. 3

96 Liberty St., New York.
NEW ORLEANS ATLANTA SEATTLE

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Vestal Lumber & Mfg*Co*

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

of all kinds of

HARDWOODS

BEVELED SIDING A SPECIALTY.
UNSURPASSED FACILITIES
FOR DELIVERING.

Knoxville
Tennessee

Wanted-to Buy or Contract for future Delivery

500,000 to 1.000,000 ft. Poplar, all grades
500.000 to 1,000,000 ft. Cypress, all grades
500,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Ash, all grades

iSSi! PLUMMER LUMBER CO. g^SM

American Hardwood Lumber Co*

14,000,000 ft. Hardwood Lumber

YARDS AT BENTON, ARK., NEW ORLEANS, LA., ST. LOUIS, MO.,
DICKSON, TENN.

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET

For choice lots of hardwoods.
Walnut our specialty.
Inspection at Mill Points.

The Walnut Lumber Company

Indianapolis, Indiana

H. W. Mosby & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM
ASH, ELM

Large Stock on Hand HELENA, ARKANSAS

TS.T A C I— I X T I i » *~"^

rNAoIiVlLLrfc,

HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

JOHN B. RANSOM 3 CO.,

NASHVILLE. TENNESSEE

Wc want to move quickly the following old dry stock. All of it has been on
sticks 6 to 1 8 months. Write us for delivered prices. We are prepared to
furnish promptly mixed cars of rough and dressed hardwoods of all kinds:

QUARTERED WHITE OAK

90 M 4/4 first and second
15 M 5/4 first and second
80 M 6/4 first and second
10 M 10/4 first and second
120 M 4/4 No. 1 Common
65 M 6/4 No. 1 Common
58 M 8/4 No. 1 Common
20 M 10, 4 No. 1 Common
70 M 5/8 first and second Poplar
80 M 5/8 No. 1 Common Poplar
15 M 4/4 1st and 2d Quartered Sycamore
10 M 4, 4 No. 1 Com. Quart'd Sycamore

QUARTERED RED OAK

100 M 4/4 first and second
6/4 first and second
8, 4 first and second
4/4 No. 1 Common
6/4 No. 1 Common

58 M
15 M
95 M
84 M

72 M 8/4 No. 1 Common
PLAIN OAK

50 M 4/4 1st and 2nd White
100 M 4/4 No. 1 Common White
100 M 4'4 first and second Red
100 M 4 4 No. lJCommon Red

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Co.

Manufacturers of

"Acorn Brand''

THE FAMOUS FAULTLESS FLOORING
IN OAK AND BEECH.

Car Lots and Less Than Car Lot
Orders Solicited. Write for Prices.

Nashville, Tennessee

INDIANA LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers Lumber

DIMENSION STOCK A SPECIALTY.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Office and Mills: Corner Oldham
Street and Cumberland River

GEO. C. BROWN & CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Tennessee Red Cedar Lumber a Specialty. Nashville, Tennessee

LOVE,

BOYD & CO.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Will make special prices on :

150,000 ft.
300,000 ft.
400,000 ft.
500,000 ft.

40,000 ft.

60,000 ft.

13,000 ft.

1 in. Tennessee Red Cedar

1 in. to 4 in. Hickory

1 in. No. 1 Com. Plain White Oak

1 in. to 2% in. Qrtd. Red Oak.

2Y2 in. Is & 2s Qrtd. White Oak

2% in. No. 1 Com. Qrtd. White Oak

5-8 Sound Wormy Chestnut

ALL BONE DRY

OUR OWN CUT

HARDWOOD RECORD

LOTHMAN CYPRESS CO.

AIR DRIED

Louisiana Red Cypress

FOOT OF ANGELICA STREET

\XT n pOI\7yiC Lesperance Streei and Iron
" • *^-* V^-nl V V lO, Mountain Railroad.

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

BLACK WALNUT LUMBER MY SPECIALTY. Always in the market to buy
Walnut and Cherry Lumber. Pay spot cash and take up at shipping
pont when amounts justify.

Roland F. Krebs

Manager Hardwood Dept.

Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Co. 1™C<

ISCO

ING

FOIl SALE: The Following Stocks. Shipped Direct From Our Mills:

12 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common Cottonwood, Dry. 5 car* 1 in. Log Run Elm (Bone Dry 1
8 " 1 in. 1st &2nd8Sap<;uni, Dry. 5 cars lin. No. 1 A 2, Com. Pin. Red Oak. "
2 " 1 ln- " " Red " " 2uUM fi. 1 in. and 2in. Dry CypieBS, (allgradeB*

Write Us for Prices

CHAS. F. L

Carry a complete stock of Hardwood and are

constantly in the market to purchase

large blocks of stock for cash. Are

also the largest manufacturers of

the famous St. Francis

Basin Red Gum.

General Offices: 148 Carroll Street

STEELE & HIBBARD

North Bioivdwav and Dock Streets

Wholesale Manufacturers. Dealers and Shippers

ASH. CYPRESS. MAHOGANY.O AK. POPLAR. &c.

Mills: Yazoo City. Miss.; McGregor, Ark.; England, Ark ;

Dennott, Ark. O'Hara, La.; Dexter, Mo.

MASSENGALE LUMBER CO., ST. LOUIS

Manufacturers and dealers in

HARDWOODS

In the market to buy and sell OAK, POPLAR, ASH, CYPRESS
Larye stock dry lumber alwayson hand

Wanted-Cypress, Ash and Cottonwood

Inspection at Point of Shipment When Quantity Justifies

liafner Manufacturing Co.

CYPRESS, HARDWOODS

Mail orders receive our immediate

attention.

YARDS: FOOT OF DOCK STREET

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Co.

20 3 Frisco "Building

We hare the following Dry Stock for sale piled at our mill:

QTD. WHITE OAK : COTTONWOOD :

3 Cars 4/4 Common. 3 Cars 1" 1 and 2.

2 Cars 4, 4 Common and Better Strips. 1 Car 1x13 to 17'' Box Boards.

GUM : ELM :

5 Cars 1" Common Red. 1 Car 6 4 Log Run.
1 Car 1x13 to 17" Box Boards. 4 Cars 4'' Log Run.
1 Car 2" land 2 Sap.

6 Cars \\ Common and Better Sap.

This Stock is All Band Sawed and Equalize. 1

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Co.

CASH BUYERS OF OAK, ASH, CY-
PRESS, POPLAR, CHERRY AND ALL

HARDWOODS

Send Inspector When Quantity Justifies

Office and Yards : Hall and Angelrodt Sts.

Garetson-Greason Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

GUM LUMBER
OUR SPECIALTY

Carload Shipments Direct
from Our Own Mills

519 Bank 01 Commerce

5°

HARDWOOD RECORD

O w >Tp rp* ^ |-> J T |-> g^*

r 1 1 1 oL5 U KU

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF PENNSYLVANIA

- ,

A. M. Turner
Lumber Company

Everything in lumber. We buy hardwoods
as well as sell them. If you have anything
to offer, please submit same to us. : t

Willson Bros. Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS

WEST VIRGINIA
HARDWOODS

FARMERS BANK BLDG. n PITTSBURG, PA.

STOCK

LIST

6.000 It. 4 4 Maple No. 1 Com. Dry

6,000 II. 8 4 Maple No. 2 Com., Dry

12.00011. 4 4 Maple No. 1 Com. 4 Bel.

7,000 II. 8 4 Maple No. 2 Com.4 Bel.,

Dry

Dry

85,000 II. 4 4 Maple No. 1 Com.4 Bet..

1 Car 10 4 Maple Ists and2nda.Dry

Part Dry

52,000 It. 10 4 Maple No. 2 Com.4 Bel.,

1 Car 5 4 Maple No. 1 Com., Dry

Pari Dry

1 Car 5 4 Maple Ists and 2nds. Dry

48.000 It. 10 4 Maple No. 2 Com.4 Bel.,

116.000 It. 5 4 Maple No. 1 Com. 4 Bel.

Part Dry

Dry

19,000 II. 12 4 Maple No. 2 Com. 4 Bel.,

77,000 it. 5 4 Maple No. 1 Com. t, Bet.

Pari Dry

Part Dry

4,000 It. 16 4 Maple No. 2 Com.4 Bel.,

1 Car 6 4 Maple No. 1 Com., Dry

Pari Dry

I Car 6 4 Maple Ists aad2nds. Dry

2 Car 4 4 Basswood Log Run mill

47,000 It. 6 4 Maple No. 2 Com. 4 Bet..

culls out, Dry

Dry

2 Car 8 4 Basswood Log Run mill

67,000 It. 6 4 Maple No 2 Com. 4 Bel.,

culls oul. Dry

Pari Dry Favorable Freight Rates to the East.

BABCOCK LUMBER CO., Ashtola, Pa.

The Nicola Lumber
Company

One million feet 4-4 Bay Poplar.
Can be shipped log run, or sold
on grade. Bone dry ; band
sawed. Send your inquiries.

Linehan Lumber Company

PERFECT

MAPLE FLOORING

SEND US YOUR INQUIRES

Hardwoods a Specialty

FOR S AT. E

POPLAR

125,000' 4/4 lsand 2s
40,000' 4/4 No. 1 Com.
325,000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.
228,000' 4/4 No. 3 Com.
150,000' ■'. '4 Mill Cull

CHESTNUT

200,000' 4 4 Sound Wormy
80.000' 5/4 Sound Wormy

100,000' fi, 4 Sound Wormy
48,000' 8 '4 Sound Wormy

PLAIN OAK
60,000' 4 '4 No. 1 Com.
18,000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.

QUARTERED OAK
2 cars 4/4 No. 1 Com.
1 car 4/4 No. 2 Com.

OAK TIMBERS SAWED TO ORDER.
WRITE FOR PRICES.

CHEAT RIVER LUMBER COMPANY, Pittsburg, Pcnna.

WE WANT

ORDERS! ORDERS! ORDERS!

For
2 Car 1x18 to 25" Isl and 2nds Cottonwood.
5 Car 1x13 to 17" Is! and 2nds Cottonwood.
l5Mft. 1x6" and up I si and 2nds Cottonwood.
200M ft. 1 x4" and up No. 1 common Cottonwood.
210Mft. 4-4 1st & 2nds plain Red and White Oak.
240M ft. 4-4 No. I com. plain Red and White Oak.
1 90M ft. 4-4 No. 1 com. quartered White Oak.

V v. v

American Lumber 4 Mfg. Co.

PITTSBURG, PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Si

/"* I I"~ ^ "\ f I~^ I A TV T I~"\ 1

C^ L, LJ, V U L A IN U

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF NORTHERN OHIO

The Martin-Barriss Company

Importers ;\ruf Manufacturers

MAHOGANY

and Fine H&rdwoods

THE

ROBERT H. JENKS LUMBER

COMPANY

FOR SALE.

60 M leel 1 lsl and 2d: Poplar
223 M feel I" No. 1 Common Poplar
!25 N feet I" No. 2 Common Poplar

25 M feet 2" 1st and 2nd Poplar, 14" and up
125 M feel 8 4" Sound Worm; Chestnut
275 M feet 1" Sound Wormy Chestnut
153 M feel 1" lal and 2nd Plain White Oak

85 M feet I" 1st and 2nd Plain Red Oak
125 M feel 1" No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak

Quartered White and Red Oall. — We have a good assort-
ment of dry stock, y% to 4 inches thick. Your inquiries solicited.

Plain White and Red Oalv — A limited amount of nice
stock, ready for shipment.

HARDWOODS

Dry Stock is Scarce

Mill Shipments are Slow in Coming Forward

We therefore call attention to stock of upwards
of SIX MILLION FEET seasoned HARD-
WOODS we offer for quick shipment from
Cleveland. WANT TO CLEAN IT OUT.
Are you interested?

The Advance Lumber
Company

1 3th Floor, Rockefeller Bldg, CLEVELAND, O.

Manufacturers and Dealers
In White Pine, Yellow Pine, Hemlock and Hardwoods

SYMBOLS FOR GRADE MARKS

Adopted by the Hardwood Manufacturers Association of United States
fTj Panel and Wide No. 1

P\ Wide No. 2
|""j Box Boards

Z_A Selects

(J_, No. I Common

\2^ No. 2 Common

(3 No. 3 Common

(A No. 4 Common

y FAS or Firsts and
^~ Seconds
Q. Saps

Every Manufacturer should stamp the grade on his Lumber.
Set of 10 Rubber Stamps, 1K"X1K" in size, Pad, Pint of Ink, and
Spreader, packed for shipment S3. SO.
MARTIN & CO. LEWIS DOSTER, Sec'y

191 S. Clark St.. CHICAGO, or 1535 First Nal. Bank ildg. CHICAGO

Hi^

This cut shows the- O BE R PATENT AUTOMATIC SANDER for
sanding Fork, Hoe, Rake, Mop and Broom Handles and all similar work.

Simple, Durable
Great Capacity

We also manufacture Lathes for turning Handles, Spol es, and Variety Work,
Shapers, Boring and Chucking Machines, Rip Saws, etc. Complete Cata-
logue and Price List Free.

THE OBER MFG. CO., 28 Bell St., CHAGRIN FALLS, 0., U. S. A.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

WISCONSIN

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

Mason -Donaldson Lumber Co.

RKinelander, Wiscorvsin

20
12
4
15
15

cars
cars
cars
cars
cars

nch No.
nch No.
nch No.
nch No.
nch No.

Common Birch

Common Birch

Common & Better Red Birch

Common & Better Soft Elm

Common Birch

5 cars I Yi inch No. 1 Common & Better Basswood

5 cars 2 inch No. I Common & Better Basswood
10 cars I inch 1st & 2nd Clear Basswood, 14 and 16 feet
7 cars 1 ': inch No. I Common & Better Soft Elm
4 cars 2 inch No. I Common & Better Soft Elm
2 cars 1 % inch No. 3 Common Soft Elm

John R. Davis Lumber Company

PHILLIPS, WISCONSIN
The Leading Manufacturers

Wisconsin Hardwoods

"SHAKELESS" HEMLOCK and WHITE CEDAR PRODUCTS

WE HAVE THE FINEST BLOCK OF

4-4 UNSELECTED BIRCH

OX THE MARKET

Write for our Price Lists
and Stock Sheets

Mixed Cars, Even Grades
^ Prompt Shipments

'<mj&m4®^({&

WAUSAU, WIS.

We have to
offer the
following
stock in
pile at
Ingram, Wis.

1 In. Log Run Plain Birch.
1 In. No. 1 Common Plain Birch.
1 in No. J Common Plain Birch.
1 iu. 1st and and Red Birch.

1 In. No. l Common Red Birch.
lhi In. No. 1 Common Red Birch.
114 In. 1st and 2nd Red Birch.
1(4 In- No. 1 Common Red Birch.

2 In. 1st and 2nd lied Birch.
1 In. Curly Birch.

]»4. 114 and 2 In. Curlv Birch.
1 In. End Dried White Birch,
l In. 1st and 2nd Soft Elm.
1 In No. l common Soft Elm,
1 14 In. Log Run Soft Elm.

Your orders

and

inquiries

solicited

ARPIN HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
Saw and Planing Mill at Atlanta, near Bruce, on the Soo Line. Offer

5 cars 1" 1st & 2d Red Birch.
1 car 114" 1st & 2d Red Birch.
1 car iy4" Common Red Birch.

1 car 114" 1st & 2d Red Birch.
1,000' 114" Common Red Birch.
2,600' 1%" Com. & Btr. Red Birch.
5,000' 2" 1st & 2d Red Birch.

2 cars 214 & 3" Plain Birch.

2 cars 2% & 3" Log Run Dnselected

Birch.
5 cars 1" Common Red Birch.
1 car 2" Plain Log Run Birch.

2 cars 3" Clear Plain Birch Flooring.

1 car 3" Clear Red Birch Flooring.

1 car 3" Factory Birch Flooring.

1 car 3" Red Oak Factory Flooring.

1 car 1 14 & 1 14" quarter sawed Com.
and Btr. Red Oak.

% car 1% and 2" Com. & Btr. quar-
ter sawed Red Oak.

1 car 5" Clear quarter sawed Red
Oak Flooring.

14 car each 114" Com. & Clear Maple
Flooring.

We make a specialty of high grade Maple, Birch and Oak Flooring, Bass-
wood, Pine Siding, Ceiling and Finish; also Moulding.

VOLLMAR & BELOW

MARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN

Basswood, Birch

and Other Wisconsin Hardwoods

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU ARE IN THE MARKET FOR

C. P. CROSBY

RHINELANDER ; ; WISCONSIN

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Hard Maple a Specialty in all thicknesses from 1 inch
to 4 inch. Finest Birch in Wisconsin. Black Ash,
Rock Elm, Soft Elm, Red and White Oak. : :

DIFFICULT AND MIXED ORDERS A SPECIALTY

For Sale:

NATIONAL
INSPECTION

3,000,000 ft. inch Birch.
100,000 ft. inch Black Ash.
50,000 ft. inch Soft Elm.

All No. 1 Common and Better.
20,000 ft. 1x4 and wider, 6 ft., 1st & 2nd Birch.

Dells Lumber 4 Shingle Co.

EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN

HARDWOOD RECORD

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WISCONSIN

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

North Western Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OF BAND-SAWED

Wisconsin Hardwoods

CAREFUL URADINGS — PROMPT SHIPMENTS

General Offices, EAU CLAIRE, WIS. Mills al STANLEY, WIS.

Frank Carter Co.

MANUFACTURER

Wisconsin Hardwood

SPECIALTY-HARD MAPLE

Mills: DURAND

SPRING VALLEY
GLEN FLORA
ELMWOOD
HILLSDALE

General Offices :

MENOMONIE, WIS.

Wisconsin Veneer Co*

RHINELANDER, WIS.

Largest and best equipped Veneer
cutting plant in the country. High-
grade product from Birch, Maple,
Elm, Basswood, Ash and other na-
tive woods.

Veneers for Door Work a Specialty.

R. CONNOR CO.

WHOLKSALE MANUFACTURERS

Wisconsin
Hardwood

PINE AND HEM-
LOCK LUMBER

Mills at _ _ . _.

Auburndale.Wis.onW.C. R.R MarChllPln WIC

Stratford. Wis.,on C.& N.W.R.K. I'ldl Mil ICIU, HIS.

you want a
foot band mill?

This is a first-class

machine and will
give the best of re-
sults. It is strong,
we 11 made , a nd as
gr>od as it looks.
Write us and we will
give you full particu-
lars.

Phoenix Mfg. Co.

Eau Claire, Wis.

LOCATIONS FOR
NEW INDUSTRIES

can be secured on the lines of the

Chicago, Milwaukee 4
St. Paul Railway

In the great middle west. It reaches the Copper Country and the
pine and hardwood areas of Northern Michigan, the lead, zinc and
iron regions of Wisconsin, the coal fields of Illinois, Iowa and
Missouri.

Traverses the great agricultural and manufacturing states of
Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota. Operates 7,000 miles of
thoroughly equipped railroad.

Correspondence is solicited with eastern manufacturers who de-
fire to move their factories to, or establish branches In the West.
Co-operation with Business Men's Associations on the lines of this
railway in ail matters affecting mutual interests Is assured.

Inquiries should be as definite as possible.

Address

Industrial Department

Chicago, Milwaukee 4 St. Paul Railway,

Room 1327, Railway Exchange

Chicago

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HARDWOOD

RECORD

M

I

IS

C H I Q A

FOR HARD MAPLE AND GREY

IN

FAMOl

ELM

S. L. EASTMAN FLOORING CO.

■AGINAW BRAND

MAPLE FLOORING

SAGINAW, MICH.

DUDLEY LUMBER COMPANY

HAS FOR SALE
Memphis Yard Plain and Qtd. Oak
Grand Rapids Yard— Michigan Hardwoods

Hemlock Lumber Also A Specialty
OFFICES: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

Special bargains in the following:

200 M 4-4 No. 2 C & B Birch

SO M 8-4 No. 1 C & B Birch
100 M 4-4 No. 2 C & B Grey Elm

SO M 8 4 No. 1 C & B Grey Elm
140 M 4-4 No. 2 C & B Beech
S00 M 4-4 No. 2 C & B Maple

50 M 8-4 No. 2 C & B Maple

Above piled for water shipment, but the 4-4 Beech and 8-4 Maple can
be shipped by rail. Write us for prices.

The North Shore Lumber Co. KgSrSSS

IXL POLISHED

Rock Maple Flooring

Our Slow method of air seasoning and kiln drying

IXL Hardwood Flooring has stood

the test for 20 years.

Please write for prices and booklet

Wisconsin Land { Lumber Co.

HF.RMANSV1LLE, MICHIGAN

Evans & Retting Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

Hardwood
Lumber

RAILROAD TIMBERS, TIES AND SWITCH TIES

Michigan Trust Building Grand Rapids, Mich.

SALLINQ, HANSON & CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Michigan Hardwoods

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

QUOTE ON SMALL OR LARGE LOTS.

WILL PLACE ORDERS FOR STOCK TO

BE MANUFACTURED

Wanted- Soft Maple

One-inch and Two-inch Log Run, Mill Culls Out, Pin
Worms no Defect. Will also buy Mill Culls.

BROWNLEE & COMPANY, Detroit, Mich.

DENNIS & SMITH LUMBER CO.

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Office and Yards, FOURTH AND HOLDEN AVENUES,
DETROIT, MICH.

MILLS AT: Orndorff. W. Va., Healers W. Va.. and Parkersburg, W. Va.

HARDWOOD RECORD

55

MICHIGAN

FAMOUS FOR RED BIRCH AND BASSWOOD

"Chief Brand"
Maple Flooring

Will commend itself to you and your trade on
its merits alone. 1 Comprises all the features
desirable in good flooring. 1 Made by the latest, '
most approved machinery methods and best
skilled labor, t We believe we can make it to
your interest to handle our '•Chief Brand" and
will appreciate your inquiries.

Kerry 4 Hanson Flooring Co.

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

Hardwood Lumber

Main Office. Michigan Trust Company Building
GRAND RAPIDS . MICHIGAN

DE1N1NIS BROS.

GRAND RAPIDS, : : : MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD LUMBER (by water or rail)
"NATIONAL" MAPLE & BIRCH FLOORING

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN THE FOLLOWING:

120M feet 4 4 Log Run Birch
125M feet 5 4 Log Run Birch
2 Cars 8 4 Common and Better Birch
' 1 Car 1x4 Clear Birch

2 Cars 1x7 and Wider No. 1 Common Birch

140M feet 6 4 Log Run Beech

150M feet 4 4 Log Run Soft Elm

Hard Maple-All grades and thicknesses

Main Office :

205-209 Michigan

Trust

Company

Building

Thos. MacBride Lumber Company

HEADQUARTERS FOR

HARDWOODS

IN MICHIGAN.

Michigan Trust Building, Grand Rapids, Mich.

BIRCH

WE WANT YOUR ORDERS FOR

4-4 and 5-4 No. 1 Common Birch'

A No. I STOCK

Simmons Lumber Company

SIMMONS, MICHIGAN

McCLURE LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

iardwoods

Main Ollices, DETROIT. MICH.
Mills. EUTAW. ALA.

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 cars 1" 1st f 2ods 4 Com. Qld. While Oak 10 cars 1" Log Run Brown Aih

2 cars Zli, 3 and 4" While Ash 10 cars 1" lo 4" Dry Hard Maple

2 cars 1" While Ash 10 cars I" Log Run Birch

1 car Wz and 2" No. I Com. Brown Ash 10 cars 1" Log Run Basswood

4 cars 2. 3 and 4" lsl and 2nds and No. I Com. Green While Oak

2 cars 2" Log Run Soil Elm

B0YNE CITY LUMBER COMPANY

BOYNE CITY

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE and other HARDWOODS

LARGE CAPACITY PROMPT SHIPMENTS RAIL OR CARGO

VAN KEULEN & WILKINSON LUMBER COMPANY

■ Manufacturers und WhOleBalera of ■

HARDWOOD LUMBER and CRATING STOCK

Complete Stocks of Michigan Hardwoods — Maple, Beech, Birch, Elm,
Ash and Basswood for sale.

Grand Rapids,

Michigan

You read this==others
will, too. They would
read your ad. Try it.

JSSsti

MichWari

J. S. GOLDIE.

Cadillac. :: Michigan.

SPECIAL PRICES on SOoM pieces
li" to 3" Maple Squares 16" to 27" long
250M feet Maple cull
INQUIRIES SOLICITED FOR MICHIGAN LUMBER.

S6

HARDWOOD RECORD

/~* I l^T f~* ¥ 1N-T TVT A *TT* I

c^irNt^ir>rNA i i

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

C. CRANE & COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS

Poplar, Oak, Ash, Chestnut, Sycamore,
W. Va. Spruce, Pine and Elm

YEARLY CAPACITY 100,000,000 FEET

LONG BILL STUFF A SPECIALTY

Mills and Yards: CINCINNATI, OHIO

/\TTJ3 A TTUT Is to ship the highest standard of

lumber at lowest consistent price

We are manufacturers and ship direct from our band mills

Oak

Poplar

Ash

W.H.&G.S. Stewart

Main Olllcc: Cincinnati, Ohio, U. S A.

Chestnut

Basswood

Yellow Pile

FRAMES,
SASH. DOORS.
BLINDS. MOULDINGS.
COLUMNS, GLASS,
STAIRWORK.
INTERIOR TRIM.

PAINTS,

BUILDERS' HARDWARE.

MANTELS. ETC.

LARGE CINCINNATI KAC-

TORIES MAKE PROMPT

SHIPMENTS POSSIBLE.

THE HOUSE OF STONE

The One of Good Grades
Poplar, Oak, Chestnut, Cottonwood, Ash, Basswood and tiurn

T. B. STOINE LUMBER CO.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

CYPRESS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturer of Hardwoods and Cypress

•Main and Quartered White and Red Oak, Yellow Poplar,
Yellow Pine, Walnut, etc. Mills in Tenn., Ala. and Va.

OFFICE AND YARDS, GEST AND DALTON AVE.. CINCINNATI, OHIO.

W. T. SCHNAUFER

H. G. CHAMBERLAIN

CRESCENT LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of

Hardwood Lumber

MARIETTA, O.

OAK FLOORING

Thoroughly Kiln Dried.
Perfectly Manufactured.
We are located in the best Oak Timber section in the

United States; have new and modern machinery and

experienced operators.
Why should we not be able to furnish the best Oak

Flooring?
Write us and we will convince you that we can.

The INTERNATIONAL HARDWOOD COMPANY

Catlettsburg, Kentucky

W. H. Dawkins Lumber Co.

Manufacturers of Band Sawed

Yellow Poplar

ASHLAND, KY.

HARDWOOD RECORD

57

4~* I 1XT /~* I rVT TVT A T* I »■■

L/ir> uifN rs a i i

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

IN THE MARKET FOR

OAK-ASH-POPLAR

ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

MOWBRAY & ROBINSON

Officei
1219 West Sixth Street

Yards:
Sixth Street, below Harriet

L. W. RADINA & COMPANY

Correspondence Solicited with Buyers and Sellers of All Kinds of

Wanted for cash— desirable blocks of 1 inch to 4 inch Poplar, all grades,
Especially lj^-inch stock, for immediate shipment.

=CLARK STREET AND DALTON AVENUE^

PLAIN OAK— BASS WOOD

Are what we want. All thicknesses and grades. Spot
cash. Send us list of your offerings with prices.

DUHLMEIER BROS., CINCINNATI, 0.

THE WIBORG & HANNA COMPANY

CINCINNATI. OHIO

PLAIN
AND

QUARTER
SAWED

White and Red Oak

I CHESTNUT

POPLAR

GUM AND

CYPRESS

Flooring, Siding, Ceiling, Base, Case and Molding. Rough, Dressed and Re-sawed. Mixed Carloads.

THE

MALEY, THOMPSON & MOFFETT CO.

Always in the Market for

BLACK WALNUT LOGS,
SELECTED WHITE OAK LOGS,
LUMBER OF ALL KINDS.

CINCINNATI,

OHIO

THE FREIBERG LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of

Tabasco Mahogany
Walnut, OaR

Poplar, McLean and Findlay A vs.

CINCINNATI, O.

"BUY GUM"

w.' art- In the market to buy
Dry (liim Lumber in any
quantity, from a single car
load to a million feet. Will
take all grades and thick-
nesses. We receive lumber
at shipping point, pay cash
and are liberal in inspection.

THE FAWRIN-KORN

LUMBER COMPANY

General Office, Yards,

Planing Mills, Dry Kilns.

Cincinnati, Ohio
Purchasing Office,

Randolph Building,

Memphis, Tenn.

Cypress Red Gum Oak

POPLAR, OAK, ASH, CHESTNUT

BASSWOOD, BUCKEYE, CYPRESS, GUM

WANTED BY

Kentucky Lumber Co.

CINCINNATI. OHIO.

We will send man to receive stock at shipping point

when quantity justifies
WE PAY CASH WRITE US

Cash buyers for stock in our line.

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co.

GBST AND SUMMER STREETS

Wholesalers Mahogany, Thin Lumber, Veneers

Finely tlgure d quarter sawed oak veneers a specialty.

THE E. E. BECK LUMBER COMPANY

Cash Buyers

Poplar, Oak, Chestnut

And Other Southern Hardwoods
ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES. WE BUY MILL CUTS.

58

HARDWOOD RECORD

$ INDIANA $

■WHERE THE BEST HARDWOODS GROW-

THE WOODS FOR
WHICH INDIANA
IS FAMOUS.

Quart Yd White Oak

Plain White Oak

Quartered Red Oak

Plain Red Oak

White Ash

Poplar

Black Walnut

Cherry

Sycamore

Red Gum

Hickory

Beech

Maple

Veneers of

Indiana Hardwoods

CHARLES H. BARNABY

Manufacturer of Band Sawed Hardwoods

Quarter Sawed Indiana White Oak a Specialty GREENCASTLE, IND.

D'HEUR & SWAIN LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Quartered Oak and Sycamore

SEYMOUR, IND.

C. I. HOYT & CO.

OFFER FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT
75,000 FT. 4 4 LOG RUN CHESTNUT-90 DAYS OLD

PEKIN, IND.

LONG-KNIGHT LUMBER CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS

Quarter Sawed White and Red Oak a Specialty

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

MALEY & WERTZ

Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Exporters of Hardwood Lumber

EVANSVILLE, IND.

PERRINE-ARMSTRONG CO.

Long Timber up to 60 feet — Hardwood Specialties

The largest Band Mill in Indiana. FORT "WAYNE, IND.

J. V. STIMSON

All Kinds of Hardwood Lumber Manufactured

HUNTINGBURG, IND.

YOUNG & CUTSINGER

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Fine Figured Quartered Oak

EVANSVILLE, IND.

HARDWOOD RECORD

59

BUFFALO

THE GREAT WHOLESALE LUMBER CENTER OF THE EAST

Manufacturers and
Dealers in

Ash

White and Brown

Basswood
Birch

Red and White

Butternut

Cherry

Chestnut

Cottonwood

Cypress

Elm

Soft and Rock

Gum

Red and Tupelo

Hickory

Maple

Hard and Soft

Red Oak

Plain and Quartered

White Oak

Plain and Quartered

Black Walnut
White Wood

ORSON E YEAGER

Specialties: OAK, ASH AND POPLAR

932 ELK STREET

BEYER, KNOX & COMPANY

ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

Office and Yards, 69 LEROY AVENUE

BUFFALO HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

We want to buy for cash :

Oak, Ash and other Hardwoods, all grades and thicknesses.
Will receive and inspect stock at shipping point.
P. O. Box 312. MEMPHIS. TENN. 940 SENECA STREET

EMPIRE LUMBER COMPANY

Our specialties are PLAIN »nd QUARTERED OAK and ASH.

1142 SENECA STREET.

G. ELIAS & BROTHER

BUY AND CARRY LARGE QUANTITIES OF ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

955 TO 1015 ELK STREET

HUGH McLEAN LUMBER COMPANY

Specialty: INDIANA WHITE OAK

940 ELK STREET

ANTHONY MILLER

HARDWOODS OF ALL KINDS

893 EAGLE STREET

SCATCHERD & SON

HARDWOODS ONLY
Yard, 1555 SENECA STREET Office, 886 ELLICOTT SQUARE

STANDARD HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

OAK, ASH AND CHESTNUT

1075 CLINTON STREET

Poplar

L N. STEWART & BROTHER

Specialties: CHERRY AND OAK

892 ELK STREET

| #

T. SULLIVAN & COMPANY

Specialties: BROWN ASH, BIRCH, PACIFIC COAST FIR AND SPRUCE

50 ARTHUR STREET

Vansant, Kitchen & Co.

NEW ASHLAND MUI,

Old-Fashioned

SOFT

YELLOW

POPLAR

Ashland, Ky.

5-8 AND 4-4 IN WIDE STOCK, SPECIALTY

YELLOW POPLAR

Manufacturers

BAND SAWED
POPLAR LUMBER

ALL CRADES

DRY

5-8, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, 8-4, 10-4, 12-4, 16-4

Bevel Siding, Lath and Squares

Specialty, Wide Stock.

COAL GROVE, OHIO, U. S. A

W. M. Ritter Lumber Co

COLUMBUS, OHIO.

SAW AND SHIP 100,000,000 FEET YEARLY

West Virginia Yellow Poplar
North Carolina Cork White Pirve
And Hardwood

DRY KILNS AND PLANING MILLS

ALL OUR MILLS RUN THE YEAR ROUND

SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES AND ORDERS

*m

C0PV3IGHT, A. D. 1907, BY THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

MflPiltfoofl Rocopfl

Twelfth Year. (
Semimonthly. I

CHICAGO, JANUARY 10, 1907.

f Subscription $2.

i Single Copies, 10 Cents.

2,000,000 Feet

FOR SALE

ROSS LUMBER CO.

JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK

WE INVITE YOU

To Thoroughy Investigate Our Company

PENNA. LUMBERMEN'S MUTUAL FIRE INS. CO.

943 Drexe Bdg., Philadelphia^, Pa.

We want to sell and ship promptly the following lumber:

100,000
go 000
60,000
200,000
500,000
30,000
50,000
50, i

,1)11.001)
" 10,00(1

1-1

.r>-4
6-4
8-4
4-4
5- 1
6-4
8-4
4-4
4-4
4,000
2,000

birch log run
birch log run
birch log run
birch log run
maple log run
maple log run
maple log run
maple log run
cherry log run
quartered poplar 1
,000 II. 1-1, 5-4, 6-4
,000 ft. W. Va. spn

60,000 ft. 4-4 poplar 1 and 2, 8 in. to 24 in.
14,000 ft. 4-4 poplar 1 and 2, 24 in. and up.
70,000 ft. 4-4 poplar, No. 1 common
40,000 ft. 4-4 poplar clear saps.
25,000 ft. 8-4 poplar L8 to 28— soft yellow panels
5,000 ft. 5-8 No. 1 and 2, 24 and Up
6,000 ft. II quartered white oak 1 and 2 —
sawed for figure
60,000 ft. 4-4 quartered white oak No. 1 com-
& 2 nion, sawed for figure.

, and S- 1 white pine box, No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 barn— rough
10 and 12 in. wide, I _' to 30 ft. long — band sawed, gang

18,000 ft. 4-4 quartered white oak No. 2 com-
mon, sawed for figure.

24,000 ft. 4-4 quartered white oak clear saps
sawed for figure.

80,000 ft. 4-4 quartered red oak No. 1 common,
sawed for figure.

10,000 ft. 4-4 quartered red oak clear strips,
sawed for figure.
200,000 ft. 1-1 basswood log run -extra line.

or dressed,
edged and equalized — rough or' worked.

RU/V\B/\RGER LUMBER COMF»/\INY

Main

Office: 8D8 Harrison BIdg.. ISrh and Market Sis.. Philadelphia. Pa.

New York Office: 8018 Metropolitan B I rl i; . . I Madison Av.

Pittsburgh Office: 701 Keystone BIdg.

COMBINED ASSETS OVER. $750,000.00

DUMBER INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NEW YORK

ADIRONDACK FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY

The combined facilities of these stock lumber insurance companies and allied organizal Ions constitute a great insuring
opportunity for any owner of a first-class lumber or mill risk. Ask for lines and rates.

LUMBER INSURERS GENERAL AGENCY, Underwriting Managers, 66 BROADWAY, NEW YORK

ADVERTISERS' CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY FOLLOWS WANT AND FOR SALE ADVERTISING SECTION.

HARDWOOD RECORD

LOUISVILLE

MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF KENTUCKY

c

Dry stock w. p. Brown & Sons Lumber (

PLAIN BED OAK.
55,000' 1" 1st & 2nd.
25.000' lYt" 1st & 2d.
49,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
57,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
18,000' 2%" 1st & 2d.
16,000* 3" 1st & 2d.
131,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
84,000' 114" No. 1 Com.
44,000' m," No. 1 Com.
47,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
8,000' 2%" No. 1 Com.
15,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

QUARTJEHED RED OAK.
19,000' 1" 1st & 2d.

14.000' ly2" 1st & 2d.

5,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
15,000' 1" No. 1 Com.

7.000' 1%~ No. 1 Com.
13,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

PLAIN WHITE OAK.

80,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
28.000' 1-4" 1st & 2d.
12,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
42,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
23,800' 214" 1st & 2d.
16,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
227,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
60.000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
80,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.

All thicknesses in cull poplar, ash, chestnut.

50,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
17.000' 214" No. 1 Com.
22.0OU' 3" No. 1 Com.

QUARTERED WHITE OAK.
50,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
28.000' 114" 1st & 2d.
45,000' 114" 1st & 2d.
49,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
19.000' 214" 1st & 2d.
18.000' 1" No. 1 Com.
30,000' 114" No. 1 Com.
40,000' 114" No. 1 Com.
22,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
10,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

ASH.

9.000'

1" 1st & 2d.

fi.-.niKi'

114" 1st & 2d.

16.000'

114" 1st & 2d.

10,000'

2" 1st & 2d.

S.000'

214" 1st & 2d.

14.000'

3" 1st & 2d.

6.000'

4" 1st & 2d.

4.UO0'

114" No. 1 Com

16.000'

114" No. 1 Com

S.000'

2" No. 1 Com.

POPLAR.
12.000' 1" 1st & 2d.

Your inquiries will be appreciated.

12,000'
11.000'
12,000'
10.000'
10,000'
50,000'
28,000'
10,000'
10,000'
15,000'
S.OOO'
6.000'
4,000'
3,000'

Prompt

McLean -Davis Lumber Co.

Successors to

Hugh McLean Lumber Co., Highland Park, Ky.
Edward L. Davis Lumber Co., Louisville, Ky.
Berry - Davis Saw Mill Co., Louisville, Ky.

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Hardwood Lumber

Daily Capacity:
80,000 feet,

Sales Oifices:
Louisville, Ky.

Albert R. Kampf

Manufacturer

Hardwood Lumber and Timber

Dimension Stock

Board of Trade Bldg., Louisville, Ky.

E.

Popla:
Oak,

North Vernon Pump
€ Lumber Co.

Band Sawed Plain and Quartered

< lak and Poplar.

North Vernon, Ind.. and

Louisville. Ky.

Soutr

Ornamental Hardwood Floors

400 STYLES AND PATTERNS

Illustrated Catalog 00 Application

WOOD = MOSAIC FLOORING CO.

Rochester, N. Y. New Albany, Ind.

All Lumbermen, A

We do what you can't do.
We measure your stumpage
We make your maps correct
Bank references: Asheville,

C. A. Schenck ^ Co.

WE HAVE JUST MOVEI

into this particular advertising sedion, and

\A/ill Occupy This Space Rermar

You may see items lifted here that will interest you. Will you watch it ?

15M ft. 1 in. 1 and 2 Bass, 9 in. and 10 in.
15M ft. 1 in. 1 and 2 Bass, 11 in.
15M ft. 2 in. 1 and 2 Birch, Red.
200M ft. 1 in. No. 2 Com. and Better Soft Elm.

150M ft. 1 in. 1 and 2 Birch.

50M ft. 1 in. 1 and 2 Birch, Red.

50M ft. 1 in. No. 1 Common Birch, Red.
100M ft. 1 in. No. 1 Common, Mixed Color.

G. W. JONES LUMBER CO., APPLETON, WISCON*

HARDWOOD RECORD

LET US TALK TO YOU
ABOUT

HARD MAPLE

£ have the following Dry Stock to offer :

15M ft. 1-1 Birdseye Maple, End Dried.
ISM ft. 5-4 White Maple, End Dried.
32M ft. 8-4 White Maple, End Dried.

D the following Dry Yard Stock in Maple :

59M ft. li-4 Firsts and Seconds.
40 M ft. 8-4 Firsts and Seconds.
46M ft 10-4 Firsts and Seconds.
1l!M ft. 12-4 Firsts and Seconds.

ALL MANUFACTURED OUR WAY

itchell Brothers Company

CADILLAC, MICHIGAN

The Cadillac Handle Co.

Band Sawn
Michigan Hardwoods

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 Cars 1 4 Maple, No. 1 and 2 Common.

3 Cars 4 4 Maple 1st and L'nils.

2 Cars 5 4 Maple No. 1 Common and better.

1 Car 6 4 Maple No. 1 Common and better. 10 in. and over wide.
_' Cars 8/4 Maple No. 1 Common and better.

2 Cars 4 4 Birch No. 2 Common and better.

We are prepared to contract No. 3 Common Maple, for future

MURPHY & DIGGINS

Offer all grades of the following special dry slock

MAPLE— 0/1, 6/4, 8/4, 10/4, 12/4, 14/4, 16/4
CRAY ELM-4 4, 12/4
BASSWOOD— i/*
BIRCH-M, 6/4

Our own manufacture. Perfect Mill Work. Uniform Grades.

LET US FIGURE ON YOUR HARDWOOD WANTS.

Cummer, Biggins & Go.

^MANUFACTURERS-

"CUMMER" MAPLE
AND BEECH FLOORING

MICHIGAN HARDWOODS

Good assortment of dry stock on hand ready
for immediate shipment in Hard Maple, Beech,
Birch, Soft Elm and Cherry.

SEND US A LIST Of YOUR REQUIREMENTS.

DRY ST

V *3I

OCK |

Northern Michigan

Soft Gray Elm

What our old cork pine was to the regular
white pine — such is our Soft Gray Elm to
ordinary soft elm. Buyers who gladly discrim-
inate in favor of something better than the or-
dinary, will be interested. We have

10 cars 8-4 firsts and seconds.

1 car 10-4 firsts and seconds.

2 cars 12=4 firsts and seconds.

Wide, choice stock, our own product, seasoned right,
bone dry.

WRITE US ABOUT IT.

C0BB5& MITCHELL

(INCORPORATED)

CADILLAC, MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

WAGON STOCK

IN ROUGH.

TONGUES, AXLES, REACHES, BOLSTERS
AND 6 4 TO 16 4 HICKORY. ALSO ALL

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

Gayoso Lumber Co., inc.

Memphis, Tenn.

FENN BROS. COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Oak Flooring

Quartered \A/hite Hollow/ Backed

Quartered Red End Matched

Plain \A/hite Polished

Plain Red Bored

Offices arvd Plant :

Kansas and Mallory Ave., New South Memphis.

(Take South Memphis car to Mallory Ave.)

Anderson -Tully Company

OFFERS STOCK FOR SALE

50,000 ft. % in. first and second Cottonwood 8 in. and up wide

100,000 " 1 " " " " $

100,000 " 1 '• No. 1 common " 13

100,000 " 1 " " .2
100,000 •' 1 " •' 3

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

<$

For items of Hardwood Stock or
Hardwood Machinery, you will
find it advantageous to write our
advertisers. Get in touch !

^r^j^pL

Cl

'6j.

-MANUFACTURERS OF STANDARD SIZE

WAGON FELLOES AND WAGON STOCK

Send your requirements and receive price. COLUMBUS MISS

PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

OUA4 AIND OTHER HARDWOODS

Large stock* of well seasoned Lumber always carried at our yards and mills.
General Offices: MOW. Chicago Ave., CHICAGO. Mills: Cairo, 111., Marked Tree, Ark., Greenville, Miss., Arkansas City, Ark., Blytheville, Ark.

HARDWOOD RECORD

W.MLRitter Lumber Co

COLUMBUS. OHIO

YOU CAN MAKE MONEY by Stocking up NOW with

POPLAR BEVEL
SIDING

You Can make MORE MONEY
b}r Buying ' from Us, Because
Ours is the Best. The Price Will
Surely Advance in the Spring.

We Saw and Ship 100,000,000 ft.
Yearly of Band Sawed West Vir-
ginia Yellow Poplar, Hardwoods
and North Carolina White Pine.

FULLERTON-POWELL

Hardwood Lumber Co.

3

OFFERS THE FOLLOWING STOCK
FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

30 Cars 1 " 1 st and 2nds Plain Red Oak
1 Car 3" 1st and 2nds Plain White Oak

1 Car U"No. 1 Common White Ash

2 Cars 1 i" No. 1 Common White Ash

BRANCH OFFICES:
CHICAGO, 1104 Chamber of Commerce
MEMPHIS, TEHH., 30S Tennessee Trust Bldg.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., 30S Lumber Exchange
WINNIPEG, MAN., 411 Union Bank Building

MAIN OFFICES

South 'Bend, Ind.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Thomas Forman Company

MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE

Maple and Oak

Fl

oonng

New York Branch :

McCovern 6 Bowen. And Hardwood Lumber

29 Broadway

DETROIT.
MICHIGAN

Charles S. Wentworth & Co.

WHOLESALE LUMBER MERCHANTS
147 Milk Street

BOSTON

We are in the Market for POPLAR, PLAIN OAK, CYPRESS
and NORTH CAROLINA PINE LUMBER; also OAK, MA-
PLE and BIRCH FLOORING, and would appreciate corre-
spondence from manufacturers in position to supply any of the
stock named.

WE WILL BUY YOUR OUTPUT OF WELL MANUFACTURED

HARDWOODS

YOURS FOR A "SQUARE DEAL,'

WILLIAM WHITMER & SONS, Inc.

Branches: NEW YORK, BOSTON, PITTSBURG

Girard Trust Bldg., PHILADELPHIA

Quartered Oak Flooring

Manufactured for

HIGHEST GLASS of trade only.

Also Plain Oak, Maple and other Hardwood flooring.

The name 0 WIGHT on flooring is a guarantee of its

excellence.
D WIGHT SPECIAL pattern of thin flooring is the
only suitable thin flooring to lay. Write for Sample.

DWIGHT LUMBER COMPANY

DETROIT, MICHIGAN

The Crosby & Beckley Company

HARDWOODS

We are

In the MarKel for Choice StocK

WRITE US

No. 1 Madison Ave.,
New York, N. Y.

New Haven,
Connecticut.

JOHN T. DIXON

HARRY S. DEWEY

We are not Wizards in making new grades to fit a price.

No tricks in our methods of making shipments. The
straight grades are good enough for us.

If you will give us a trial order for POPLAR, OAK,
ASH, CHESTNUT or OAK, MAPLE and YELLOW
PINE FLOORING, we believe we can demonstrate our
ability to please you.

DIXON & DEWEY

716 and 716 A, Flatiron Building,

NEW YORK

HARDWOOD RECORD

7

in i .1 t~? iz? a cr nn

1 n t bi /Y & 1

1

BOSTON NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA

ALBERT

HAAS LUMBER

CO.

BAND SAWED

OAI

YELLOW POPLAR

ATLANTA

l: ::

GEORGIA

1

THE BUFFALO MAPLE FLOORING CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE AND OAK FLOORING

BUFFALO, NEW YORK

The West Florida Hardwood Co.

Ash
Hickory

Mil. os Apalachicola River
MARYSVILLE, FLA.

Red and White Oak Red Gum

Yellow Cottonwood Tupelo Gum

LET US HAVE YOUR INQUIRIES

JOHN L. ALCOCK & CO.

BUYERS OF BLACK WALNUT LOGS
BOARDS AND PLANKS

Baltimore, Md.

Inspection at point of
shipment. Spot cash.

Wanted-DimenSiOn Oak" Plain and Quartered,

White and Red. Send for specifications.

Indiana Qvia.rtered Oak Co.

7 Ea.st 42nd Street, New York City

James & Abbot Company

Lumber and Timber

No. 165 MILK ST., BOSTON, MASS., and GULFPORT, MISS.

JONES HARDWOOD CO.

INCORPORATED

WANTS: Poplar, Plain Oak,
Quartered Oak and Cypress.

147 MILK STREET
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Manufacturers please send stock lists and prices.

STEVENS-EATON CO.

Buyers of

ROUND LOTS

of

Hardwoods

No 1 Madison

Avenue,
New York

ESPECIALLY IN MARKET FOR PLAIN RED OAK

WM. E. LITCHFIELD

MASON BUILDING, BOSTON, MASS.

Specialist in Hardwoods

Manufacturers are requested to supply lists of stock for sale

Holloway Lumber Company

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

In the market for all thicknesses of
OAK, ASH and CHESTNUT.

312 Arcade Building,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

Sales Agents: Long Pole Lumber Co., Case-Fowler Lumber Co.

Mills: CADI r irUATUCDC Specialties:

Honaker, Va. 9UDLT DKVlllEiKiJ Quartered White

Birmington, Ala.

Oak, Poplar.

WHOLESALE LUMBER
Land Title Building ■ Philadelphia, Pa.

J. H. SCHOFIELD

R. W. SCHOFIELD

SCHOFIELD BROTHERS
LUMBER

WHITE PINE
AND HARDWOODS

1019-1020 Pennsylvania Bldo.,
Philadelphia

We Can Handle Your
Lumber Orders Anywhere

Large stocks— good shipping points — rail and water routes. Give us a

trial order.

2,650.000 feet Chestnut 4-4 to 10-4. all grades.

1,400.000
815,000

1,115,000
650,000

1,512,000

Hemlock Boards, sizes, flooring.
1 Maple 4-4 to 6 inch, 1 and 2 Common.
' Poplar 5-8 to 16^, 1 and 2 Common.
' Cypress 1 and 2 select, shop.
' Oak Red and White, Plain and Quartered.

Do you get Mcllvain's "Lumber News?" Send us your -inquiries.

J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co.

56th to 58th Streets and Woodland Ave., PHILADELPHIA, PA.

Wistar, Underhill & Co.,

WHOLESALE

HARDWOOD LUMBER

816 Real Estate Trust Building, •# PHILADELPHIA.

W. M. GILLESPIE LUMBER

HARDWOODS COMPANY Farmers Bank Bldg.
Oak a Specialty PITTSBURGH, PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

The Tegge Lumber Co.

MILWAUKEE
WI SCONSIN

BUYERS OF

ALL KINDS OF

1

HARDWOOD LUMBER

JANUARY, 1907, STOCK LIST

HARD MAPLE
1 in. 1,000,000 ft.
1J in. 100,000 ft.
li in. 100,000 ft.

3 in. 50,000 ft.

4 in. 50,000 ft.

BEECH
1 in. 100,000 ft.
BIRCH

1 in. 500,000 ft.
li in. 100,000 ft.

2 in. 100,000 ft.
2i in. 50,000 ft.

BASSWOOD
1 in. 300,000 ft.

GRAY ELM
1 in. 300,000 ft.
li in. 200,000 ft.
3 in. 200,000 ft.

Kelley Lumber & Shingle Co.

Traverse City, Mich.

Swann-Day Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OF

POPLAR AND OAK

PLANING MILL STOCK, BOX SHOOKS
AND HARDWOOD DIMENSION

CLAY CITY, KENTUCKY

R.E. Wood Lumber Company

C We own nearly a thousand million feet of virgin poplar, oak,
chestnut and other hardwood timber, and operate our own band mills
in West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
C. Let us figure on your hardwood requirements.

GENERAL OFFICES:
CONTINENTAL BUILDING.

Baltimore, Maryland

R. M. SMITH

J. H. P. SMITH

R. M. SMITH (& COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

WEST VIRGINIA HARDWOODS

PARKERSBVRG, WE:ST VIRGINIA

WE CARRY IN STOCK FROM TEN TO FIFTEEN MILLION FEET OF ASH, BEECH, BASSWOOD, CHESTNUT, CHERRY,

MAPLE, PLAIN & QTD. OAK, POPLAR, WALNUT, &C. OUR PLANING

MILL FACILITIES ARE UNSURPASSED.

Band Mill: Orndoff, Webster County, W. Va.

EASTERN OFFICE:
1425-6 LAND TITLE BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA

Planing Mill; Heaters, W. Ya.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Hardwoods

WE MANUFACTURE

ASH POPLAR CHESTNUT BASSWOOD

BEECH CHERRY RED OAK HARD MAPLE

BIRCH HICKORY WHITE OAK SOFT MAPLE

"THE BEST LUMBER"

Cherry River Boom &
Lumber Co.

BAND MILLS:

RICHWOOD, W. VA.

CAMDEN-ON GAULEY, W. .VA.

HOLCOMB, W. VA.

SCRANTON, PA.

WRITE FOR
PRICES

D. G. COURTNEY

MANUFACTURER OF

Yellow Poplar
Oak & Chestnut

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA

Our Timber Holdings are located exclusively in the finest sections of West Virginia
growth. Modern mills and perfect manufacture. Standard and uniform grades.

We seek the trade of wood-working factories who want a dependable lumber supply
and fair treatment.

Just now we want to move 4/4 No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 Common Oak.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

Ryan & McParland

CHICAGO AND MEMPHIS

In the Market to buy Ash, Hickory, Poplar
and Oak Lumber; also Wagon Stock

In the Market to buy Hardwood Logs for
our Memphis Band Mill

Chicago Car Lumber Co.

504 Pullman Building
CHICAGO

Buyers of Round Lots

Poplar, Oak, Ash and Car and R. R.
Material

Hayden & Westcott Lumber Co.

IN MARKET FOR

POPLAR

25 M ft. 1*" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
40 M ft. 2" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
25 M ft. 2£" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
60.M ft. 3" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.

ROCK ELM
200 M ft. 5/4 No. 1 Common and better
500 M ft. 8/4 No. 1 Common and better

BLACK ASH
50 M ft. each 4 4, 5 4 and 6 4 No. 1 common and better

OAK AND ASH
100 cars car oak framing
25 cars white ash from 1" to 4" green or dry Is and 2s

511 Railway Exchange, - Chicago

PARK RICHMOND <§b CO.

Wholesale

Hardwood Lumber

410 Monadnock Block

PH0NE CWimrrs\
HARRISON 5165 V^IllCdgO

White Lumber Company

Dealers in Hardwood Lumber

ALL KINDS

Cherry Lumber a

Specialty

ALL GRADES

Laflin ®. 22d Sts
Chicago

John

O'Brien

Land & Lumber

Co.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Of AU Kinds

OFFICE AND YARDS : ^^^ #

873 to 881 So. LaHin Street ChlCaPO

MILL : PHILIPP, MISS. ^"^ '^a 5

J. Slimmer & Company

Hardwood
Lumber

Office and Yard :

65 W. Twenty-second St.

CHICAGO

R. A. WELLS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Fine Quartered Oak a Specialty

234 LA SALLE STREET
Yards at Canal and 2 1st Sts. CHICAGO,

, ILL.

HARDWOOD RECORD

II

CHICAGO

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

McCauley - Saunders Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

BAND SAWED
LOUISIANA GULF COAST

RED CYPRESS

Products Exclusively

£»,3o J 703 Fisher Bldg., CHICAGO, ILL.

CHAS. DARLING & CO.

Southern
Hardwoods

22nd Street and Center Avenue - CHICAGO

;

ERNEST B. LOMBARD 1

Manufacturer and Wholesale

Northern ao\d Southern
Hardwoods

"•N*

Railway Exchange

CHICAGO

WISCONSIN TIMBER (Si LUMBER CO.

BUY AND SELL

Yellow Pine and Hardwood Lumber

Want thick hardwoods and wagon box boards.
Mona.dr\ock Bldg CHICAGO, ILL.

W. A. DAVIS

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

1612 Marquette BUlg., CHICAGO
Branch Offices : PADUCAH, KY., and MEMPHIS, TENN.

The Keith Lumber Co.

MAHOGANY

5,000,000 feet mar
hogany in stock.

Large and fine stock
of Cuban wood.

FOREIGN AND

AMERICAN

HARDWOODS

14th and Wood Streets
CHICAGO

THE WARD LIMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

HARDWOODS

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUILDING :: CHICAGO

CHAS. MILLER MILTON MILLER

MILLER BROS.

H/\RD\A/OOD LUMBER

Main'Office: 20S,W1LLOUGHBY BLDG. 6 E. MADISON ST.
'Phone Central 1363 CHICAGO, ILL.

Yards: Loomis St. S.of 22nd St., Chicago, 111., Houston Miss., Macon, Miss.

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Co.

1649-50 MARQUETTE BUILDING

Are now offering bone dry BIRCH, ROCK ELM, BLACK ASH, etc., Wis-
consin stock. Also PLAIN AND QUARTERED OAK, POPLAR, etc.,
from our Memphis yard. We are constant buyers.

The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Co.

Wholesale and Retail

Telephone
NORTH 223

HARDWOOD LUMBER

47 Dominick St.
CHICAGO

Ben C. Keator*^ Wholesale Lumber

HARDWOOD AND PINE

1003-4 Manhattan Building, CHICAGO

STANDARD AUDIT COMPANY

Expert Accountants and Auditors
335 Marquette Building - Chicago

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HARDWOOD RECORD

OAK FLOORING

Kiln Dried

Bored

Polished

HARDWOOD LUMBER ^X

& MFC. CO.
5A RDIS
- MIS5.

Hollow

and

Bundled

u

Ideal" £ Rock Maple Flooring

is the flooring that is manufactured expressly to supply
the demand for the best. It is made by modern ma-
chinery from carefully-selected stock and every pre-
caution is taken throughout our entire system to
make it fulfill in every particular its name— "IDEAL.'*

Rough or Finished Lumber — All Kinds

Send us Your Inquiries

The I. Stephenson Company

WEI.LS, MICHIGAN

Michigan Maple Flooring

Our model factory is equipped with the highest
class tools and appliances made for Flooring
production.

We produce our lumber from the best rock Ma-
ple area in Michigan and have 20 years' supply.

Our brand "Michigan" is a guaranty of qual-
ity. Perfect mill work and excellent grades
distinguish our Flooring and our prices are
reasonable.

WARD BROS., Big Rapids, Mich.

THE "FINEST" MAPLE FLOORING

W. D. YOUNG & CO.

BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

Producers from TREE to TRADE of the high-
est type of Michigan Forest Products. Large
stock of Maple Flooring and 15,000,000 feet
of Hardwoods — 1 to 4 inches thick — on hand.

Maple, Birch and Beech Lumber

Always Think Before You Act-
But in the Matter oi

FIRE INSURANCE

But Don't Delay Too Long For
IT IS DANGEROUS.

Write at Once For Our Rates, etr.

Lumber Underwriters

66 Broadway, New York

We have in stock

150,000 ft. 4-4 White Maple Cross piled with 2'/2-
inch dry crossers.

125,000 ft. 4-4 Log run Birch red in. No thick
cut out.

Please favor us with your orders.

Bliss & Van Auken

Saginaw, W. S. Mich.

q The HARDWOOD RECORD publishes a
series of bulletins, showing the annual hardwood re-
quirements of many thousands of wholesale consumers,
by kind, grade and thickness.

•J Indispensable to every lumber sales manager.

^ Specimen bulletin for the asking.

WE ARE OFFERING

TIMBER LAND 6% BONDS

Secured by first mortgage on Southern timber
lands at less than 50 per cent of their present
market value. Issued by large, well established,
responsible lumber companies. Full particu-
lars will be mailed on request.

CLARK L. F»OOLE & CO.

SUCCESSORS TO

H. C. BAR ROLL «f CO., Bankers

First National Bank Building CHICAGO

Published In the Interest of Hardwood Lumber, American Hardwood Forests, Wood Veneer Industry, Hardwood Flooring,
Hardwood Interior Finish, Wood Chemicals, Saw Mill and Woodworking Machinery.
NEW Y(

Vol. XXIII.

CHICAGO. JANUARY 10. 1907.

No. 6.

Published on the 10th and 25th of each month by

THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

Henry H. Gibson, President

FRANK W. TUTTLE, Sec-Treas.

OFFICES
Sixtn Floor Ellsworth Bldg., 355 Dearborn St.. Chicago, 111., U.S.A.

Telephones: Harrison 4960 Automatic 5659

TERMS OF ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION

In the United States, Canada, Philippine Islands and Mexico . . $2.00

In ell other countries in Universal Postal Union ..... 3.00
Subscriptions are payable in advance, and in default of written orders to the
Contrary are continued at our option.

The entire contents of this publication are covered by the general copy-
right, and articles must not be reprinted without special permission.
Entered at Chicago Postoflice as Second Class Matter.

- V Advertising copy roust be received five days in advance of
publication date. Advertising rates on application.

HARDWOOD ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.
Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association.

The eighth annual meeting of this association will be held
at the Grand Hotel, Indianapolis, on Friday, Jan. 11, 1907.
Matters of much importance to the trade will he brought
up for discussion and a large attendance is desired.

Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the U. S.

The fifth annual meeting of this association will be held
on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 29 and 30, 1907, at the
Gayoso Hotel, Memphis, Tenn.

National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association.

This association will hold its next annual convention on
Wednesday and Thursday, March 6 and 7, 1907, the place
of meeting to be decided upon later. Due notice will be
given of the selection in these columns.

General Market Conditions.

There has been no essential change in general market conditions
of hardwoods during the last month, save in poplar. The tides of
the last few weeks in poplar producing streams having their sources
in Kentucky and Tennessee have brought out a fair quantity of logs
— enough perhaps to serve the river mills for sixty days. These
tides are two months in advance of expectations, and if the winter
remains open and the booms meet with no calamity from ice, the
supply of logs will eventually make quite a showing of poplar for
the midsummer trade. However, the same tides which gave the river
mills a stock of logs have played havoc in the mountain producing
districts, tearing out logging railroads and interrupting operations
in these sections very seriously. There were not nearly so many logs
delivered on the tide as currently reported and the receipts were not
of sufficient importance to give even a suspicion of a possible over-
stock of poplar lumber. This fact is well understood by thoroughly

posted buyers of this wood, as poplar values have materially
m lengthened during the last month.

The oak situation remains unchanged. There is a heavier de-
mand for the wood than the possibility of supply. Many varieties
of very ordinary oak are going on the market masquerading as the
veritable white and red, but they are poor substitutes for the first-
■ • 1 : i -;s article. However, such is the shortage of oak of high physics
that manufacturers are glad to get almost anything that will enable
them to carry on their line of production.

The extremely high prices of oak are tending to stimulate the
demand for mahogany. Many furniture manufacturers are using
this wood extensively. The result is that the comparatively small
quantity of mahogany in the country is being exhausted very fast.
The Cuban wood, which is regarded as of the highest utility for
furniture and chair making, is in specially short supply. The
dealers of Chicago have possibly more of this variety of mahogany
in stock than is owned in all other parts of the United States, and
this quantity is probably not much in excess of 2,000,000 feet.

All the northern woods are doing fairly well, and dry stock at
milling points is in shorter supply than at any time in the history
of the trade. The northern peninsula of Michigan and northern
Wisconsin have a good fall of snow and this hardwood section is
bringing out a fair quantity of logs. There is very little being done
on snow in the southern peninsula of Michigan and in central Wis-
consin, but logging railroads operated in these regions are drawing
a fair stock of logs. The weather conditions in the southern hard-
wood districts are still very bad and many mills are shut down for
want of logs. The car shortage is still about as bud as at any time,
and what little dry lumber there is in the South can be shipped but
intermittently.

The demand for hardwood flooring in oak, maple and beech is still
well up to the capacity of the plants, with no signs of diminution.

The veneer people are all busy with orders that will last for from
sixty days to six months. The range of values for veneers and
panels still is low, much lower than the relative value of lumber
that might be used for the same purposes.

National Reciprocal Demurrage Convention.

The call issued by the American Lumberman for a National
Reciprocal Demurrage Convention resulted in the attendance at Chi-
cago on Jan. 4 and 5 of several hundred prominent shippers from
all parts of the United States. Very largely represented in the
assembly were delegates from more than a hundred leading associa-
tions and mercantile bodies representing the lumber, coal, grain
and hay interests of the country. S. B. Anderson of Memphis was
chosen chairman of the meeting and J. E. Defebaugh of Chicago
secretary.

The convention resulted in the dissemination of a vast amount
of information covering the stringent car shortage prevailing in all
parts of the country, and evidence was presented to show the
astoundingly slow movement of bulk commodities after their delivery
to the railroads. In many individual cases it was shown that i

ere moved only at the rate of from three to ten miles a day and
a maximum movement was barely fifty mile?. It was conceded that
if railroads could be induced to move their freight at an average
rate of sixty miles in twenty-four hours the situation would prac-
tically be relieved, as this would give shippers double the quantity
of cars they now have.

The convention went on record by resolution as advocating a

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reciprocal demurrage law that shall penalize railroads if they do not
move and deliver commodities with reasonable promptness.

An Executive Committee of nine members was appointed to pro-
ceed at once to Washington and present the crux of the situation to
President Eoosevelt, requesting him to present a special message to
Congress urging the passage of a reciprocal demurrage law. This
committee was authorized to add to its number one representative
from each of the many associations interested in transportation
matters throughout the United States, which are favorable to this
movement.

The convention was primarily one of education and agitation, and
it is hoped that it will result in speedy relief to the shippers of the
country.

Justice to Consumers.

Today consumers of hardwood lumber are required to make their
purchases based on certain specific inspection rules promulgated and
carried into effect by sundry lum-
ber associations and exchanges.
These organizations not only make
the laws under which hardwood
lumber is inspected but also exe-
cute them. In case of dispute
over the quality or measurement
of a lot of lumber the only re-
course the buyer has is the ex
parte machinery of reinspeetion
offered by the association or ex-
change under whose rules the
lumber was purchased.

It appeals to the ' Hardwood
RECORD that this is not an emi-
nently fair deal. If the lumber
buyer by bargain agrees to accept
certain specific rules of inspection
he certainly should be entitled to
know that, if it becomes necessary
to reinspect this lumber, he will
be treated justly. This reinspee-
tion is entirely out of his hands
and- is practically under the con-
trol of the seller, as ordinarily
the seller only is a member of the
association or exchange under
Hfhose rules the lumber was pur-
ehased.

It would seem but just and
equitable that the wholesale con-
sumer of hardwood lumber be ad-
mitted to at least a certain form
of membership in lumber associa-
tions that would give him the same
rights in the matter of reinspee-
tion that redound to the seller.
It' this class of membership
should carry with it no other
rights to the buyer than an as-
surance of a square deal on reinspeetion, it certainly would lie of
manifest advantage to him. The suggestion is therefore made to
both associations and exchanges that if they would fully satisfy the
wholesale buying element of the country that they are willing to
live up to the system of grading they promulgate, buyers should
certainly be recognized on what might be known as a "board of
arbitration ' ' in the event of a controversy over grade or measure-
ment. '

Misinformation Conceining Mahogany.

The secular and eve'n the lumber press is prone to disseminate a
vast amount of misinformation on the subject of mahogany. One
of the recent paragraphs that has appeared in the daily newspapers
and in some of the lumber trade journals states that an associate

Cbe Prayer of a Good fellow.

O Powers That Be, make me sufficent to my own occa-
sions. Teach me to know and to observe the Rules
of the Game. Give me to mind my own business
at all times, and to lose no good opportunity of holding
my tongue. Let me never lack proper pride or a due
sense of humor. Preserve, oh! preserve me, from growing
stogy or unimaginative.

Help me not to cry for the moon or over spilled milk;
to manage my physical constitution and my practical
affairs discreetly; never to dramatize my spiritual discom-
forts.

Grant me neither to proffer nor to welcome cheap praise;
to distinguish sharply between sentiment and sentimen-
tality, cleaving to the one and despising the other.

Deliver me from emotional excess. Deliver me from
atrophy of the emotions.

When it is appointed me to suffer, let me, so far as may
humanly be possible, take example from the dear well-bred
beasts, and go away quietly, to bear my suffering by myself.

Let me not dwell in the outer whirlwind of things and
events; guide me rather to the Central Calm, and grant
that I may abide therein. Give me, nevertheless, to be
always a good comrade, and to view the passing show with
an eye constantly growing keener, a charity broadening
and deepening day by day.

Help me to win, if win 1 may; but— and this, 0 Powers,
especially — if I may not win, make me a Good Loser.

Vouchsafe me not to estrange the other me at my elbow;
suffer not my primal light to wane; and grant that 1 may
carry my cup brimming, yet unspilled, to the last. Amen.

ELIZA ATKINS STONE.

of the C. C. Mengel & Brother Company of Louisville, Ky., the
well-known mahogany importers, has been in Saginaw recently iu
search of experienced lumberjacks to take to Africa for the lumber
i-amps and for building logging dams, it alleges that the gold coast
is rich in mahogany for four hundred miles and that this com-
pany has concessions of many thousands of acres in that region.
The veracious chronicler also tells glowing stories of wealth that
outdo Michigan records, stating that he has rafted out single
mahogany logs worth $300 each and that shipments of mahogany
are frequently sent to America that are worth over $2,000,000.

Primarily, it is safe to assume that the C. C. Mengel & Brother
Company is not responsible for the foregoing and cannot be held
liable for the silliness of the papers of the country on this subject
and the absurd statements promulgated.

Take this valuation of $300 per log, and assume that every log in
a ertain cargo is north that price (which is apparently considered
an extraordinary one) and note how it figures out. The steamers

running in the mahogany trade
are among the largest boats afloat
which engage in log carrying' and
with timber the size of this Af-
rican w 1 they could not carry

more than 1,200,000 feet, or 2,500
round logs to a cargo. Tins
would show a cargo value of
$750,000, which is not only wildly
extravagant, but extreme, accord-
ing to the figures quoted.

Taking the figures the other
way, and assuming that a possible
cargo of mahogany could really
be worth over $2,000,000— on the
basis of what the cut of a cargo
itself would be — it will be found
that a ship would have to contain
20,000,000 feet of logs in order
to carry a cargo worth $2,000,000,
as the average price of the wood
does not run over In cents a foot.
Attention is called to this speci-
men of the ridiculous statements
promulgated about mahogany as
it has the effect of creating false
ideas and does a vast amount of
harm to the legitimate mahogany
trade.

Car Shortage.

There is no gainsaying the fact
that to the mind of the average
shipper of lumber the car situa-
tion is desperate. For example,
it is said that in the state of
Washington there are 800,000,000
feet of lumber in pile awaiting
shipment, and that nearly 150 saw-
mills are shut down because of
the impossibility to secure transportation facilities.

There is only one redeeming feature of the situation. The close
of the books for last year will probably show that the average lum-
berman has shipped more lumber than he has manufactured during
1906. While he did not deliver this lumber with promptness, never-
theless he delivered it, and eventually received returns for his com-
modity. This very shortage of cars, combined with the general short-
age of lumber, has contributed materially not only to steadying but
to advancing prices. It is without doubt true that the loss that has
been entailed by the manufacturer and jobber because of this
shortage has been more than made up by the increased prices they
have received for their lumber. As a matter of fact, the real suf-
ferers in the car shortage matter are the consumers of lumber rather
than the producers. They are the people who are paying the piper.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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Vert, Pertinent and Impertinent.

Just a "Ballad of Repentance J\eW Year's Efe.

1 do doI feel bo chipper as I should,

A weakness seems to brood in either i
I think I'm even deader than the wood

In the last discarded Christmas tree.
I wish 1 were a flounder in the sea —

The waves would cool my forehead, 1 believe.
I ask you, gentle friends, to pity me;

There was a punch bowl— somewhere — New
Year's Eve.

I wouldn't give the address if I could,
, Trom petty tattling traits I'm ever free;

The street — the last I saw of it -looked good.

The number let us call it twenty-three,
l fell so great 1 used the pronoun "we''

Thinking a friend was hanging to my sleeve.
Bui now I moan "To be, or not to be?"

There was a punch bowl somewhere New
Year's Eve.

Thai nighl 1 felt as gay as Robin Hood,

Who drank his mead In many a jolly spree;
Serene throughout the fray that punch howl
stood,

Yielding its mammoth store of liquid glee :

And then I started « Inding o'er i lie lea
To my abode, there was no 1 Ime to grlevi

There's time I'm' nothing now save miser]

There was a punch bowl somewhere New
Year's Eve.

ENVOY.

0 Prince! Do stomachs always disagree

Willi well-meant 1'uletide cl r that thej re

ceive 3

Hell,, |c| in I,,,, six feel Of sad clehris

There was a punch howl —somewhere New
Year's Eve ! William I'. KiltK.

Always.
People who sow no
joy are the first ones
to complaiu when
they reap none.

Very Common.
Honesty is the ex
<iuse of many a man
for his poverty.

Longs for Death.

Death is a weh 01110
relief to a man who
is forced to hustle
eighteen hours a day
in order to keep the
premiums .on his lite
insurance policies

paid up.

Best Charity.
It is better to put
warm clothes on a
few folks than to
talk about celestial
garments for many.

But Don't Try It.

You will never dis-
cover a man's true
nature until you per-
mit him to owe j mi
money.

Our Common Failing.
With most men
duty means some-
tin n g unpleasant
which the other fel-
low ought to do.

A Modern Defini-
tion.

A pedestrian is a
chap who tries to in-
terfere with the
progress of an auto-
mobile.

PREVAILING SENTIMENT.

One View of It.

The aim of 1 lie liar
is simpjy In charm,
to delight, to give
pleasure. lie is the
verj basis of civil-
ized society.

Real Talent.
Some men have

bus ss tact, but, it

is the financial gen-
ius Who 'in r

11 ; "ot Mi' each

ami every bank-
ruptcy.

Accidental.

Many a fool has
acquired a reputa-
tion for wisdom by
accidentally doing
the right thing at
the right time.

Beware.

The man who has
a kind word for
'everybody generally
is suspected of hav
ing something up his

Too Busy.

An.l some people
arc so industrious
that when they

ha \ en '1 s ething

to do they proceed
to do somebody.

Hardwood Lumberman: — "This looks dead easy to me.

As We All Know.

It is so much cas
ier to tell what
ought to be done
than it is to yet busy
and do it.

For Vegetarians.
Meat eating may he very bad.
But all the trouble you have had —
And all that's in the world to boot —
Was caused, we're told, by eating fruit.

— The Bohemian.

A Paradox.

Way down in old Kentucky,

This paradox was born :
The corn is in the Colonel,

Ami the kernel's in the corn !

An Ad — Vantage.

I le who would add unto his I rade

Should have an "ad." and well displayed.
For "ads." it' one knows how to
AUil ie one's trade ad infinitum

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HARDWOOD RECORD

AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

Shortleaf or Yellow Pine.

Pin us cchinata — Mill.
Pinus mitis — Michx.

This tree flourishes from New York to
northern Florida; through West Virginia and
Tennessee and the Gulf states, southern Mis-
souri and eastern Texas.

In the states of New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Caro-
lina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisi-
ana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois,
Indiana, Kansas and Ohio it is
known as yellow pine ; in North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana,
Texas and Arkansas as shortleaf
pine; in Virginia as bull pine; in
Delaware as shortshat pine; in Mis-
souri as pitch pine; in Florida as
poor pine; in North Carolina as
shortleaved and rosemary pine, also
as North Carolina yellow pine and
Carolina pine; as slash pine in Vir-
ginia- in Alabama and Mississippi
as oldfield pine.

Shortleaf pine ranges in height
from forty to a hundred and twenty
feet. In shape it is pyramidal, with
spreading, regular branches which
give it a stately appearance. Louns-
bery says: "Dark, but clear
against the autumn sky, this hand-
some tree raises itself on the sandy
hills, or in the flat meadows. It
breathes a sense of sturdiness. Often
we see its leaves so clothed with .
.lust that the very life of their
coloring appears to be gone; then
they are washed by the rain and
their sombre brightness is re-
stored."

The leaves are from three to. five
inches long ; dark green in color.and
growing closely along the branches
in groups of two or three; they are
needle-shaped and .very slender;
hollowed on one side and rounded on
the other; remaining always green;
sheathed at the base.

The branchlets are purplish-green ;
stout and waxy when young. The
bark is brown; it is very rough and
much broken into discs. The tree
blooms in May or June, and its fruit
is a cone about two inches long,
solitary, with scales thick at the
apex and tipped with a prickle
which disappears soon after maturity.

The bulk of the country's supply of hard
pine is obtained from the longleaf, short-
leaf, Cuban and loblolly species of the Gulf
and south Atlantic states. It differs from
soft pine in that it is much stronger, heav-
ier, tougher and more resinous, and the an-
nual rings are much more pronounced. Eoth
' says that no method of invariably distin-
guishing these several species of wood has

FORTT-FQTJRTH PAPER.

ever been discovered. Any or all of them
may be delivered in response to a demand
for southern hard pine. Many lumbermen
regard shortleaf pine as good as longleaf of
equal weight and can identify the two only
by environment. The name mitis as applied
to the former species refers only to the soft,
delicate foliage of the tree.

Shortleaf pine is valuable and ornamental

TYPICAL FOREST GROWTH SHORTLEAF PINE,
ARKANSAS.

fur interior trimmings, flooring, ceiling, ship
building and construction work. When used
for fuel it gives off great heat and burns
with a large, brilliant flame. The grain of
the wood is exceedingly handsome, showing
long streaks of deep gold, though perhaps not
so rich in coloring as the wood of Pinus
palustris, or longleaf pine. It is closely
grained and of variable quality.

Sogers says that in the lumber trade of
the eastern and southern states the shortleaf
ranks next to the longleaf pine as one of the
most important lumber trees. Just a shade
inferior to the former in quality, this species
is likely, by its vigor and wide range, to be-
come greatest of them all in economic im-
portance as the exploitation of the timber
lands of the South progresses. Against the
destructive agencies at work the
longleaf cannot hold its own. Its
ultimate extinction must follow
present methods of lumbering and
orcharding. But the shortleaf pine,
less sensitive to injuries, more pro-
lific of seeds, able to renew itself
indefinitely by throwing up suckers
from the stump, and to survive
shading of its saplings better than
the longleaf and Cuban pines, has
a distinct advantage over these, its
compeers, in the South and East.
The distribution of the species is
over a vaster area, and each grove
is the center of a growing and
widening territory. It industriously
colonizes adjacent land abandoned
by the farmer or' the lumberman.
In a free fight with hardwood trees
this pine is the wiuner, and the
young forests it is planting will be
marketable in eighty to a hundred
years. The forest center of this
species is west of the Mississippi
and below the Arkansas river. This
great tract was practically un-
touched at the time the tenth
Census Eeport, issued in 1SS0, esti-
mated its merchantable timber then
standing at 87,000,000,000 feet
board measure. This counted only
the area in Texas, Louisiana and
Arkansas, and left out the forests
in Missouri and Oklahoma. There
is little of the vast eastern territory
once covered by the shortleaf pine
that has not been worked to some
extent by lumbermen, especially
where railroads made possible the
distribution of the lumber. In the
past twenty-five years astonishing
inroads have been made on the
southwestern forests.

In regard to the qualities of the
wood, lumber of Pinus echinata is
often preferred to that manufac-
tured from Pinus palustris, because
the latter is harder, and is there-
fore more difficult to work. Sash, blinds,
doors and interior finish are made from the
wood. It is steadily growing in popularity
for trim in moderate priced houses, and is
an especially attractive finish for bedrooms.
The picture with which this article is il-
lustrated was made in one of the finest belts
of shortleaf yellow pine in the country run-
ning through southern Arkansas.

WILMER H. DAWKINS

ASHLAND, KY.

SUPPLEMENT TO

HARDWOOD RECORD

JANUARY 10, 1907

ILLUSTRATING

BUILOPRS OF LUMBER HISTORY

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17

'Builders of Lumber History.

NUMBER XXXVII.

Wilmer H. Dawkins.
(See portrait supplement.)

The biographical sketch and the portrait
supplement accompanying it in this issue
of the Hardwood Record are of Wilmer H.
Dawkins, of the W. H. Dawkins Lumber Com-
pany, Ashland, Ky., who exemplifies in its
finest acceptation the phrase "Builders of
Lumber History. ' '

Mr. Dawkins is of the best Virginian
strain. His mother was a native of that state
and a distant relative of Stonewall Jackson
of Civil War fame. His father was au
Englishman. He was born on a farm near
Parkersburg, W. Va., on Feb. 13, 1863. The
house in which this interesting event took
place was built of poplar by his grandfather
nearly a century ago, and is still in a good
state of preservation. His boyhood and early
youth were spent at the family homestead
and he attended the school in Parkersburg
up to the time he was sixteen years of age.

At that age, in common with most other
American youths, he became anxious to enter
the battle of life and secured his first em-
ployment with W. H. Sherwood & Co. at Kan-

CONE AND STRAW OF SHORTLEAF PINE.

awha Station on the B. & 0. railroad. His
intelligence and natural aptitude for the
work quickly won him recognition and when
he left the employ of the company six years
later he was superintendent of its sawmill
plant. He worked for the Little Kanawha
Lumber Company of Parkersburg for the
next four years, and in 1889 moved to Ash-
land, where he entered the service of the
Yellow Poplar Lumber Company. He re-
mained there until 1893 as superintendent of
shipping for their three mills. At this period
of his career an opportunity for a more in-
dependent position presented itself and he
became a partner in the Central City Lum-
ber Company of Huntington, W. Va., which
was doing a planing mill and jobbing busi-
ness. He retained his interest in this con-
cern but a short time, however, disposing of

his holdings in 189."j and leaving the enter-
prise to go on the road selling lumber for

the Alexander Lumber Company of Alexan-
der, W. Va.

The year 1897 marked a turning point in
the career of Mr. Dawkins for at that time
he organized the W. H. Dawkins Lumber
Company at Ashland and associated in part-
nership with himself R. D. Davis, president
of the Second National Bank of Ashland, and
\V. E. Berger, the latter being office manager
of the concern. The successful business done
by the W. H. Dawkins Lumber Company is
.1 matter of general knowledge in the lum-
ber world of the eastern part of the United
States. The company has confined its opera-
tions exclusively to the manufacturing of
poplar lumber, obtaining its supply of logs
from the Big Sandy and Guyandotte rivers.
It does not own a mill, but leases by the
year several large band mills, and has the
timber manufactured exactly as though the
mills .were its own property. In this way
none of the capital is lying idle but is in-
vested and active all the time. Its extensive
business has made the company one of the
best known and most powerful factors in
that particular branch of the trade and the
magnitude of its output has steadily grown
until it has reached the total of from 15,000,-
000 to 18,000,000 feet of lumber annually.

Mr. Dawkins ' promotion and masterly oper-
ation of this enterprise alone would have been
sufficient to insure his reputation as an alert
and successful business man, but his interests
have branched out into other fields. In con-
nection with other Ashland capitalists he has
recently organized the Citizens' Bank & Trust
Company of Ashland, which begins business

on Jan. 14, 1907. Mr. Dawkins is president
of the new institution, which has the largest
capitalization of any bank in Ashland and
which, viewed in the light of its personnel
and financial equipment, starts business un-
der the fairest possible auspices.

Mr. Dawkins is much interested and exceed-
ingly active in association work. His ef-
forts along this line have been very fruitful,
since he is largely responsible for the forma-
tion and existence of the Hardwood Manu-
facturers ' Association of the United States,
of which he is a director at the present time.
He was the prime mover in bringing manu-
facturers together for the three preliminary
meetings held before the association was for-
mally organized, and they convened in his
office.

Mr. Dawkins is married and has one child,
a daughter now approaching womanhood, who
is a student at Fairmount College, Washing-
ton. Personally he is a man of unassuming
manner, devoted to his family, and of edu-
cated tastes. He likes to surround himself
with artistic things, even his office, which is
handsomely furnished and arranged, reflect-
ing these tendencies.

The career of Mr. Dawkins has been a very
successful one and since he is still a com-
paratively young man much can be expected
of him. His business life has been scrupu-
lously clean and there are none more ready to
attest his commercial probity and worth than
his competitors. His preseut success is a
striking example of what can be achieved
by a strong personality, a wholesome respect
for the rights of other men and strict devo-
tion to duty. Mr. Dawkins is a man who
has aided much in the progress of his town;
is esteemed by his fellow citizens and by his
associates in the lumber industry, and in his
home and social life is as fortunate as in his
business relations.

A Study in Planer Practice.

When one sees hardwood flooring come
through a machine at the rate of ninety
lineal feet a minute almost as smooth as if
it had been scraped, and then sees other
stock, dressed more slowly, that shows waves
suggestive of washboard corrugations, one
begins to speculate about the reason. When,
with the best machine with the finest adjust-
ment, flooring is produced, the unevenness of
which, with poor matching, makes the task
of the floor scraper almost impossible, it
shows that something is wrong. There are
new hardwood flooring plants being estab-
i constantly, making competition keen,
and the operator who puts out the best manu-
factured stock is the one who will capture the
orders.

Without presuming to diagnose the case in
hand, it may bo well to make a little study
of planers and their work. A simple method
is to take a compass and draw a few seg-
ments of circles touching a line. The line
represents the itace of the board, and the

segments the circle of the planing knives in
their travel. For the sake of even numbers
and so that it may be worked out readily and
the difference seen plainly, assume that the
planer head has a diameter of six inches and
the .stock and head are traveling at such a
rate that the stock moves forward a hajf inch
at each revolution of the cutter head. Then,
set the compass three inches, draw two
straight lines, one just touching the compass
marks and the other intersecting, say one-
eighl b inch 01 one qua rtei Inch in from the
first one. Then draw a line through the
center compass stand, parallel with this, so
that when one segment is reached yon
move along this line in steps of a half inch
each and strike other segments intersecting
this one until you hi :iough

ti give you a clear idea of how the lines
travel across each other. This will illustrate
how the cutting is done when only one knife
mi tin; head is doing the work, and it will
show the wherefore of waves. Then, to un-

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derstand the difference between this and
what happens when all four knives are cut-
ting, make another set for the compass the
same way and divide it up into eighth inch
steps instead of half inch and observe the
difference in the lines. This not only re-
duces the waves until they are invisible to
the eye, but it reduces the amount of cut
for each knife to such a fine point that there
is not much danger of splintering and tear-
ing out knots and cross grain.

After this study a practical demon-
stration will make it both plain and con-
vincing that the secret of smoothness is in
making all the knives cut alike, and it will
also become apparent that if there were more
knives, say eight instead of four, the stock
could be made smoother even at a higher
speed.

"But, what's all this got to do with it?"
may be asked. "Don't all flooring machines
run four knives, and don 't they make them
all cut?" The answer to this is an em-
phatic no, by those who have made a thor-
ough demonstration. There are many planer
men who will assert emphatically that they
■ .in set four knives on a cutter head so thai
they will all cut. They can, too, but they
will not all cut evenly. The difference and
consequent marking will not be the same as
those shown in the diagram, partly because
the stock does not stand still while the knives
pass through a given section, and partly be-
cause each knife cuts some. But each knife
does not cut alike unless the knives have been
jointed off after having been carefully set
in tlic 1-111 1 < r head. One might happen to get
it right once in a hundred times, but to a
man who has seen the knives carefully set
in the cutter head of a flooring machine with
positive setting device, with microscopic ad-
justment, and then seen the work of these
same knives after and before having been
jointed off in motion, there is no use to argue
about the feasibility of adjusting and set-
ting four knives on a head so that they will
all cut the same. They can be set so thai
they will do fairly good work, but in planing
a real- smooth finish with all four knives cut-
ting exactly the same, the only practical w : i \
is by jointing while in motion.

Now, it goes without saying that jointing
does not improve the edge of the knife, and
does not .make it pull lighter either, so that
the lighter the jointing required the better,
and the finer the adjustment made before-
hand the less jointing will be required.
But some is necessary, and unless planer
practice changes materially, it is probable
that there will come a time when every
planer for fine work will have to have an
appliance for jointing the knives in motion.

Manufacturers who have machines with-
out a jointing appliance might do well to
try a few experiments. Try carefully set-
ting the knives before whetting and then
run through a few rough boards to settle
the edges down and give an idea by leaving
their marks which knives are doing the
deepest Cutting. Then, guided by this,

whet and shape the knives up, run them
awhile and repeat the operation. It will
likely be found that the longer the knives
can be kept on the head the more fre-
quently they are filed and whetted; if due
attention is given to the brightness of the
edge that indicates to what extent the
knife is doing the cutting, the better work
they will do. This would argue for com-
paratively soft knives which may be
dressed up on the machine and will not
have to be taken off every time they get
a little dull. And this Immediately sug-
gests another thing, and that is, knives
giving good finish to hardwood are fre-
quently ground differently from the average
planer knife. Something near the V point
seems to be the favorite, with the angles
and the bevels depending somewhat on the
position of the knife in the cutter head.
Matters of this kind call for different treat-
ment in the details of trying experiments,
but they do not alter the fact that the most

important thing in connection with doing
smooth planer work on oak, no matter
whether it is for flooring or cabinet work,
is to make sure that all four of the knives
in the head are cutting, and cutting to the
same depth. It is the latter point many
experts fall down on. They figure that
they can make all cut, which they can, but
forget that to make them cut to exactly the
same depth is a different thing and many
have not yet learned that at present the
only possible way of getting them set posi-
tively to the same depth is by jointing
them off slightly after having them care-
fully set. On a machine that has not an
appliance for this purpose possibly some
home-made device could be fixed up. At
least, it is worth experimenting with, and,
unless you have seen some of this work
done, the result will likely bring some new
ideas in regard to planer practice and the
possibilities of smooth work at a high rate
of feed.

The Modern Furniture Factory.

SOME PHASES OF

Trade conditions and the evolution of
machine/y have done away with the old-
time cabinet maker — at least, in this coun-
try, lie still survives in parts of France
and England, where the whole question of
furniture making from the rough plank to
the finish.'. I product is left in his hands. A
characteristic feature of his business was
the length of time he had at his disposal in
which to work out his stuff, while in this
country at this day it is necessary to get the
material from theplank to the consumer in
as short a time as possible. Lovers of the
antique in furniture claim that the old-
time business was an art and that modern
furniture does not approach in design or
construction the old handicraft.

No one man performs all the work in the
construction of furniture in the up-to-date
factory. The cutters, machine men, cabinet
makers an.! finishers take the pieces in their
turn, and although there are now no general
craftsmen, each man is a specialist in his
particular department. Each phase of fur-
niture making, however, is dependent upon
the others, just as in the old-time trade.
Win n the machines cut up the stock in
preparation for joining there is no room fur
error in calculation or for misjudgment,
because when the machine is once set it
must necessarily do the work with absolute
correctness. As a consequence, there is
very little trouble with joints insofar as
fit is concerned. "When the joint is to be
plain-glued, the pieces are simply set edge
to e.lge an. I connected with glue. Such a
joint is strong when properly put together.

The tongue. 1 joint and dovetailed joint
are used when great strength is required,
as in backs of chairs and in drawers. The
old craftsman who could construct a good
drawer and fit it properly so that it would
work firmly and smoothly v#as looked upon

CABINET WOBK.

as a master in the trade. This difficult
piece of work is now being done in modern
furniture making plants with au invariable
success that proves probably more than any
other ..ne thing the superiority of machines
ami present-day methods. It is not, how-
ever, au easy thing to construct the various
j. aits of the drawer so that it will run
smoothly and evenly. The common difficulty
which lias been observed by everyone of a
drawer becoming fast especially in damp
vvathcr shows hew carefully the work ought
to be done. In making a drawer the front
is constructed to fit as tightly as practicabl*
in the length and in width is cut slightly in
excess to allow for shrinkage. The drawer
sbles are also left a trifle full in length.
In most cases the lap dovetail is used in
front to fasten the si.les, and the back is
grooved ami glued. The grain must always
b. across the drawer, that is, from side to
side of it. As drawers are found in so-
many pieces of furniture, the importance of
this part of the furniture maker's craft is
apparent. Of course, the assembling of the
pie.es is a simple matter, as they are cut
i.. -ize on the machines and a miscut is
almost impossible.

There seems to be an opinion abroad that
wooden bedsteads have been practically
superseded by iron and brass ones, but it is
erroneous. A walk through any shop mak-
ing high-class furniture shows that in this
detail the skill of the furniture maker is
still expended, although it is true that the
relative quantity once made has decreased.
This, however, is the case in bedsteads of
low quality. Some of the most beautiful
specimens of high .lass woodwork, in mate-
rial, figure of wood and the artistic carving
executed thereon, are found in the broad
surfaces of mahogany and oak bedsteads.
They are usually massive and veneered, the

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19

coring being of tbe same material as the
surface woods. The object in using lam-
inated wood is to secure a better figure,
avoid the tendency to swell and twisl
which ;s present in solid pieces, and make
a lighter and more easily handled product.
Besides this quality a beautiful surface,
durable for a life time, is put on the wood
so that it excels in workmanship and dura-
bility any of the old pieces of furniture.

Bedsteads, tables and wardrobes have
long been the particular pieces on which

g 1 work shows up best. The size of the

wardrobe, together with the fact that both

the cornii upper part and the plinth oi

loner part are susceptible of mere or less
artistic decoration makes it possible tp work
with excellent results. These parts are
usually made Separate and in many cases
handsome pieces of furniture are made that
are collapsible, the parts being fitted with
tenons and dowels, and when assembled
forming a strung, firm whole. The plinth
in the more pretentious objects is fitted with
drawers which slide in grooves.

Of the making of tallies there is no end.
Tallies like chairs are the earliest known
expression of man's instinctive need for
furniture. Even where .hairs are nut con-
sidered a necessity, as in Japan, the devel-
opment of the table has kept pace witli the
needs of the people. The styles of the
pieces range from the simply constructed
kitchen tal Ic to the massive mahogany
article with carved legs. In the simplest
form of construction, the rails are fastened
tn the legs by dowel or mortise and tenon,
as may be considered the must convenient,
and the top fixed on. In slight parlor
tables it is usually sufficient to fasten it
with glued blocks placed in the angle*
formed by the frames and the tops. In massive
table work, the solid tups are rarely, if
ever, fastened witli glue or screws, but are
secured with buttons fastened to the under
side of the top which travel in grooves cut
in the framework to allow for expansion
and shrinkage. One approved fashion in
heavy table work is to turn the legs with a
shoulder and insert them in holes in the
rails. If they fit tightly, glue alone will
do to secure them, but otherwise a small
wedge may be driven into the top of each

ll g.

In most cases the legs are turned. The
framing is either tenoned or doweled into

the legs and s< -times screws are driven

from the inside. The tops of tables de-
mand the best care of the maker. At one
time they were almost all solid in the
more ambitious work, but modern experi-
ence shows that better results and a better
appearance can be secured by using lam-
inated wood, the surface strip being about
1-26 of an inch in thickness. The coring is
cut into strips, uneven in width but
scarcely ever more than four inches, and
in the best work always of the same mate-
rial as the veneers, and this method is fol-
lowed not only in table tops but also in all
the heavier and more elaborate pieces such

as bedsteads, wardrobes, bureaus, drawers,

etc.

(if course, the ideal way to make furni-
ture would be to eliminate entirely glue and

nails aii 1 use in their place t< nuns, mortises
ami dowels, trusting to skilled workman

ship to tit the parts 80 nicely as in form a
siilistunt i;ll anil "lni:i^ whole. This method

is not always possible. It is never possible
in laminated or built-up work when the
joining of pic,-.-- In glue is one of the must

necessary and important parts of the busi-
ness, with tongue and groove, dovetailing
and other methods reinforced with git
joint is obtained thai rarely or never fails

In hill, I.

Hardwoods Used for Pipes.

Advices from London saj thai pipe smokers
in. threatened with an advance of 50 per cent

in tic price ut briars. This is owing 1 om

binatiuu of circumstances. The chief cause is
strikes in 1 he two great pipe working districts,
si Cloud, France, am] Nuremburg, Germany,
which have practically stopped the output for
three months. There has also been a scarcity
of gooi] briar in Italy, which produces the best
roots. Tbe scarcity is liable 10 become more

EVOLUTION nf A PIPE BLOCK.

pronounced, fur the enormous demand made on
the commodity has visibly decreased the sup
plj

The briar root, which is not briar nun at all
l.ui iic- roof "i ;i large heath scientifically known

as 1:1 nu arboreo ami lie- English nai if which

is only a corruption "t the French bruy&re, was

first inlrnilii I tur pipes about fifty years age.

The industry began in tin- Pyrenees, and as the

supply there became exhausted it traveled

tin- French Rlveria ami the Lygurian coast to

the Tuscan Maremma ami has now- its richest
field in Calabria in the South. This locality

shows signs alSO ut being SOOn exhausted. The

south Italian briar is the best commodity, hut
a large quantity of Calabrian root comes into
the market.

In order to prepare the stock for export tin-
roots, which are two feet or more in circumfer-

ei an- cut into blocks and boiled. They are

rarely manufactured at the pla tporl but

are shipped to tbe various centers of the pipe
industry of Germany, France ami the United
States.

Briar root material for pipes is cut into about
twenty different sizes ami three principal shapes.
The material is turned on the machine, the top
ni the bowl first emerging from the block, then
the base and finally the stem. Tin- evolution of
a pipe from the block to a finished condition is
shown in lie- cut herewith. Tin- howl is dug
out by a knife ami in this operation the great-
est care must be taken in order to secure just

tl \aet thickness required tur the walls of

the bowl. After the howl is dug anil the stem
pierced the product is finished by hand into
the numerous varieties of shapes known to pip''
smokers.

Briar root for the purpose "f pipe making
must he hone dry. It acquires this condition by
exposure to the atmosphere.

Briarwood pipes are almost proof against the
heal and Same engendered in smoking them.
But they will burn, like any other wood, unless
care is taken to moisten them when new for a
i.-w minutes before smoking I hem. The water
I hits used prevents I he bowl from being burned
and causes the tobacco to form a crust which
afterward becomes a protective sheathing for
tic pipe bowl.

The panic caused among dealers by 1 he an-
nouncement that the supply of briar was giving
out is, at the best, nothing hut an instance of
much ado about nothing. The great variety
of American hardwoods, from which a selection
lias heen made to meet practlcallj every re-
quirement where wood is needed, will also be
able to supply this deficiency. Already Ian'
quantities 01* pipes are being made from apple

w 1. which, although it has not the durable

qualities which tin- so-called French briar has,

is still able to furnish pipes that will satisfy a
reasonable smoker. The American briar also

has 1 n found a good substitute for the foreign

variety and is pushing iis way into tic market.
The mills of Hi.- rhododendron have been used

fur the purpose and in many eases, when

giiud stuck has been secured, with notable suc-
cess. It is Impossible that with the numerous
varieties of heath trees, bardu is and strung

lihered hushes growing On American soil that a

1 1 substitute cannot he found 1 bat « i:t

a durable and si rung wooden pipe. The trouble
in France ami. Germany will lend interest to
such substitution and will at least make the
merits of applewood and American briar
known to smokers.

I he Hansen \\ aril \ e C 1 einpain of Baj

City, Mich., is making extensive Improvements
in it- factory which wen- made necessary to
pace wiili iis rapidly increasing business. A
large addlt Ion i" the fire built

ami w boiler Installed which will Increa e

tl input of tin- factory considerably.

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HardWood Record Jfiail 'Bag.

[In this department it is proposed to reply
to such inquiries as reach this office from the
Hardwood Record clientage as will be of enough
general interest to warrant publication. Every
patron of the paper is invited to use this de-
partment to the fullest extent, and an attempt
will be made to answer queries pertaining to all
matters of interest to the hardwood trade, in
a succinct and intelligent manner.]

Wants Gum Rug Poles.
Philadelphia, Dec. 29. — Editor Hardwood
Record : Can you give us the address of any
firm who manufactures rug poles of gum? We
would be glad if you would put us into com-
munication with some firms who are in a posi-
tion to furnish these square surfaced four sides.
with rounded corners, also all round. Thanking
you in advance. Company.

The name of above inquirer will be sup-
plied to anyone interested. — Editor.

Holly and Persimmon.

Philadelphia, Dec. 26. — Editor Hardwood
Record: We have contracted for the output of
some saw mills in South Carolina, and among
other timber is some holly and persimmon. We
would like to know what this is used for. and
the price on it and where there is a market for
it. We understand that the holly is used for
the manufacture of woodenware, such as wooden
spoons, etc.. and is usually cut in the flitch 2%
inches and 3 inches long. We also understand
it is usually handled in the log. We understand
that persimmon is used for shuttles to some
extent. Any information you can give us in
regard to these two woods will be appreciated.
Lumber Company.

The writer of the above letter has been
given some information regarding holly and

persimmon, but anyone wishing to communi-
cate with him may do so through this office.
— Editor.

Wants Oak Squares.
Buffalo, Dec. 2S. — Editor Hardwood Record :
\\ i use a good many oak squares, such as 2x2-
30-inch and different thicknesses and lengths,
and the thought occurred to us that possibly
you could give us the names of a number of
mills which get out this class of work. If you
can do so, we would be very much pleased to
have you give us a list.

Lumber Company.

The writer of the above inquiry has already
been furnished with the names of a few
operators who turn out oak squares, and
others who wish to be placed on this list or
who wish to know the name of the inquirer
should communicate with this office. — Editor.

Rock Elm Wanted.

A prominent Philadelphia house writes
that they are in the market for several car-
loads of rock elm, to be 2 in., 3 iu. or 4 in.
in thickness; to be i in. and up wide, and 8
ft. to 16 ft. long, quality to be firsts and
seconds, though they might possibly be able
to use a ear or two of Xo. 1 common; grade
to be according to the rubs of the National
Hardwood Lumber Association.

Anyone in a position to meet the above
requirements will be given the address of the
inquirer on application to this office. —
Editor.

NeWs Miscellany.

Collins Lumber Company Removal.

The Collins Lumber Company of Charles
W. Va., has removed its principal office from
that city to Elkhurst, W. Va., postoffice address
Yaukee Dam. This company is a large manu-
facturer of oak and beech flooring, interior trim
and planing mill stock, and is a large exporter
to the Scotch and English trade. On September
17 the company purchased the village of Elk-
hurst from the Elkhurst Planing" Mill Com-
pany, as well as its other assets, aud the latter
concern will soon dissolve. The Collins Lumber
Company will retain a branch office in Charles-
ton for the transaction of local business.

The officers are : David S. Collins, president ;
H. B. Davenport, vice president ; C. S. Ross,
treasurer ; J. O. Turner, secretary. These with
E. E. Kelley form the board of directors ; all at
pies. Mit are residents of Clay county, West Vir-
ginia.

The Christmas Tree.

The idea of utilizing the balsam fir as a
prominent feature of Christmas celebration is
a comparatively new one, having originated in
this country within the last score of years.
Holly and mistletoe have been associated with
Yuletide festivities since time Immemorial, but
the tinsel and candle bedecked tree is an inno-
vation of the present day.

The unique plan of utilizing the balsam in
this way originated with someone who observed
the millions of picturesque young firs that
grew along the Maine coast, apparently useless
and valueless to the extent that the land upon
which they flourished was exempt from taxa-
tion. The first propositions to sell the little
trees came as a great surprise to their owners,

but a market was sojon established and the value
of the Canada balsam, which grows intermingled
with the tip, was thereby discovered. Within
in years after the Christmas tree was gener-
ally adopted, the coast of Maine had been
stripped of its little balsam firs and the trade
had become so profitable that the farmers be-
wail planting new ones to continue an industry
which has become one of the great ones of the
state. Five years is required for the production
of a salable tree, so that a fresh crop is planted
>\r\y year, for marketing five years hence. So
rapidly did the popularity of the Christmas tree
increase that today over a million are annually
shipped to .New England and New York alone.
Trainloads of trees are sent to all the large
cities of the laud. The nurserymen realize from
5 to 4ii cents on each tree, and the retail price
is from 25 cents to ST.. varying with size and
symmetry. The wise farmers find it more prof-
itable to raise a small number of trees and
give them plenty of room to spread and develop
than to crowd a given space with all it will
hold, which invariably results in stunted and
inferior growth. An acre will yield about 5,000
trees.

Cutting commences in November anil gives
employment to thousands who would otherwise
be idle during that season. The trees are
shipped to commission men and by them sold to
the hawkers, who may be seen vending them at
every nook and corner as the holidays approach.
Chicago's supply of Christmas greens and trees
comes largely from northern Michigan and Wis-
consin.

ditions resulting from an advance in cost of
many vehicle materials — notably timber, iron and
steel — were carefully studied. The standard-
ization of wagon construction received an
equal amount of attention. Great difficulty has
been experienced in getting the large quantity
of wide lumber necessary for deep boxes, and
for some time boxes with the lower side con-
structed of more than one piece have been put
upon the market and thoroughly tested, with
the result that they have been found satisfactory
in every particular, where proper care has been
taken in building them, and found less liable
to warp and check. The association decided
that wagon boxes so constructed shall be con-
sidered standard.

Conferences with lumber manufacturers con-
firmed the general belief that wagon makers
will soon be compelled to go to the forest for
their supplies and measures are now being taken
along that line. Present cost of manufacture
and prospective increase warrant a strong ad-
vance in prices, but no steps were decided upon
for immediate enforcement.

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company.

The Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company
announces that it has completed arrangements
to handle all business from the Scranton office
and has reorganized the sales department. E.
A. Kirby assumes the position of manager of
sales in place of C. E. Lloyd, Jr., resigned. Mr.
Kirby will be assisted by A. P. Waterfleld, for-
merly connected with the Yellow Poplar Lumber
Company. A. S. Buckman will continue to look
after the New Jersey and Pennsylvania trade,
as heretofore. C. H. Holden will handle the
Pittsburg and West Virginia field, with head-
quarters at Wheeling, W. Va. G. B. Jobson
will look after the trade in the middle west,
with headquarters at Columbus, Ohio. The Phil-
adelphia offices will be maintained as a branch
and E. C. Collins will look after the trade in
that territory.

In addition to the double band mills located
at Richwood. W. Va., and Camden on-Gauley. W.
Va., this company has taken over the single
band mill formerly operated by the Evans &
Curll Lumber Company at Holcomb, W. Va.,
and it will be run as an exclusively hardwood
proposition. The company has enjoyed a very
prosperous year. The mill at Camden-on-Gauley
is turning out 4,000,000 feet of hardwoods per
month, while that at Richwood is making over
6,000,000 feet of spruce and hemlock. Both are
running day and night.

Gum Exhibit.

The Dressed Gum Lumber Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation will hold an exhibit at the meeting of the
Indiana Retail Lumbermen's Association which is
to be held at Tomlinson hall. Indianapolis, on
January 11 and 12. They intend to demon-
strate fully the possibilities of red gum as a
house building and interior finish wood. The
enterprise of the gum manufacturers is to be
commended. Red gum is one of the most beau-
tiful of woods for these purposes and is steadily
growing in popularity. It is only a question of
its becoming better known to insure very general
use.

The Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Associ-
ation will meet in the same city on January 11
at the Grand hotel.

The Vehicle Trade.
At the annual meeting of the National Wagon
Manufacturers' Association, held recently, con-

Clem Lloyd's New Venture.
C. E. Lloyd, Jr., has opened offices at 143"
Land Title' building. Philadelphia, for the pur-
pose of handling the hardwood output of the
Boice Lumber Company. Inc., of Abingdon, Va..
of which he is vice president, and to conduct
a wholesale lumber business, handling also
western and southern hardwoods, spruce, pine,
etc. With the output of fine lumber manufac-
tured by the Boice Lumber Company at its
several mills and the stock of well graded hard-
woods piled up in its large yards at Norfolk

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ready for quick shipment, it is well prepared to
give excellent service to customers.

Mr. Lloyd has had a long, untarnished record
In the lumber business and success in his new
departure is assured.

Cincinnati Concatenation.
A lloo Hon concatenation will be held in Cin-
cinnati on January 22. Vicegerent Snark It. F.
Dulweber is making elaborate preparations and
the meeting bids fair to be a lively one. The
Union Association of Lumbermen' will be in
convention in Cincinnati at the same time.

New Branch Office.
The Fullerton-Powel] Hardwood Lumber I'lun-
pany, manufacturer and dealer in hardwoods at
South Bend, Ind., has opened a new branch of-
fice In Minneapolis. Minn., at 305 Lumber Ex
change building, which is in charge of Messrs,
llnlsted and Booream. This step was necessi
tated by the steadily increasing business of the
company in the Northwest.

St. Louis Lumbermen's Exchange.
The Lumbermen's Exchange of Sr. Louis had
a dinner and caucus at the Missouri Athletic
Club on Friday evening, Dec. 21, 1906. Presi-
dent E. If. Warner gave his annual address, in
which he comprehensively reviewed matters of
Importance that have arisen in Exchange cir-
cles during the year just ended. He took up
the adoption of National Hardwood Lumber
Association rules in place of St. Louis rules;
the work of a committee consisting of L. G.
Harris, C. 1'. Liehke and himself in appealing
to the government for the protection of lands
along the Mississippi from floods; the subscrip-
tion relief fund for San Francisco, consisting
of $1,350, which was raised in the Exchange
within three days, and forwarded.

The president further brought up the fact
that the Missouri Pacific railroad had issued an
order making the minimum weight on lumber
40. into pounds and upward, collecting freight on
tilts basis, regardless of actual weight. Action
was taken, and W. W. Milne. Alcee Stewart
and E. II. Warner appointed as a committee to
look into the matter and attempt to get the
order recalled.

The Exchange responded to a call from the
Business Men's League for a delegation to al
tend a meeting of those interested in procuring
a deep waterway from Chicago to the Gulf, by
appointing as representatives the full board of
directors and L. G. Harris and C. F. Liebke.
This meeting of business men from all the states
bordering on the Mississippi resulted in an or-
ganization ami it was decided that a committee
should go to Washington in the interest of this
great navigation project. L. G. Harris was ap-
pointed on this committee, as representative of
the Exchange.

President Warner spoke further of the work

of ,i c mittee of which Geo. E. Hibbard was

chairman, in taking up with the Interstate
Commerce Commission the car shortage problem.
.liter which I. G. Harris, a delegate to the
National Rivers & Harbors Congress held in
Washington I lee, i; and 7. made a report.

A Domination committee was appointed at
this in. ting, ami I lie election ot officers held
at the regular- annua] meeting on Jan. 2 re
suited as follows :

President — F. Waldstein.

Vice president W. W. Dings.

Directors C. E. Thomas, E. II. Warner. W.
A. Bonsack. R. E. Krehs. A. J. Lang, Lloyd G
Harris. F. ('. Moore.

Arbitrators — George H. Cottrill, W. R. Chiv-
vis, II. W. Teckemeyer, J. D. Harnett. Thomas
Powe.

Mr. Waldstein is president of the Waldstein
Lumber Company and a prominent factor in
St. Louis lumber affairs: and W. \Y. Dings is
the popular secretary of the Garetson-Greason
I. niuKr Company.

Publicity Manager for Lidgerwood Mfg. Co.
Francis E. Coleman, formerly with the West
Inghouse and Allis Chalmers Companies and
recently with the Traylor Engineering Company,
has joined the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Com-
pany, of New York, as publicity manager. Mr.

Coleman takes to the service of the Lidgerw I

Manufacturing Company not only a wide expe
rience gained in the service of the companies
mentioned, but an interesting literary style
acquired during years of experience on various
New York newspapers. Mr. Coleman was for
a time editor of the Electrical Age before the
late Louis Gassier bought that publication.
While with the Westinghouse Coinpany he wrote

the catalogue of the Westingl se steam tur

bine. During his engagement with the Allis
Chalmers Company lie designed and edited the
new series of catalogues which that company
issues and wrote the two admirable special pub-
lications issued by the company in 1904-5, "Tin'
Book of the Four Powers" and "The Power ot
the Subway." Al the Louisiana Purchase Ex-
position at St. Louis Mr. Coleman was in
charge of the three large exhibits of the Allis
Chalmers Company, making his headquarters
at the "Big Engine" in Machinery Hall. He
was the organizer and first vice president of
the Machinery Club and was active in bringing
about the organization of the United Exhibitors'
Association at the Fair. He is a member of the
Technical Publicity Association. Mr. Coleman's
headquarters are at the main office of the Lid
gerwood Manufacturing Company, tit; Liberty
street, New York, where he will be pleased to
receive visits from both business office and edi-
torial representatives of the trade and technical
periodicals.

Big Handle Merger.

An important merger in handle circles was
recently effected, involving the consolidation of
the Southern Handle Company of Memphis,
Tenn. : the Southern Handle Company of llunts-
ville, Ala.: the Royal Handle Company of Har-
risburg. Ark., and the Beamer Handle Company
of Manor. Pa., under the title of the Consoli-
dated Handle Company. The capital stock is
placed at $1,000,000. Headquarters will be
maintained in Memphis. M I: Grace, president
of the Southern Handle Company of Memphis
and Huntsville, has been elected president. The
company is incorporated under the laws of New
Jersey, and the proper papers are being pre
oared for tiling in the several stales in which
it will operate. Mr. Grace has been working
on this consolidation for aoout two years and
has been unable to perfect his plans because the
Turner. Day & Woolworth Handle Company of
Louisville, Ky.. refused to enter the combine.
The new company controls ten factories in
Arkansas. Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and
l'< nnsylvania. Eastern offices will he established
al Pittsburg, hut these will be subordinate to
i hose in Memphis.

New Memphis Company.

Two well known Memphis concerns, Thompson
& McCIure and Crenshaw & Cathey, have com-
bined and organized tic Bellgrade Lumber Com
i hi ii \ . with $100,000 capital stock, to engage in
the manufacture and wholesaling of southern
hardwoods While the company will begin
operations immediately, the two individual firms
will continue business separately for some time.

Tic company has seemed timber rights on
p. nun ncres of timber hind near Belzoni, Miss.
on which will he erected an up-to-date band
mill of large capacity. Offices have been secured
in tic Randolph Building, Memphis, and yards
will also be maintained at that place.

Ill' officers of the new company are: W. L.
• renshaw, president : A. X. Thompson, vice-
president : j w. McCIure, secretary-treasurer;
'! M. Cathey, general manager, and F. p.
Gearhart, assistant manager. Mr. Gcarhart has
ho- some years looked after the milling Interests
of Thompson & McCIure in Mississippi, and

Hie other officers are members of the combining
firms.

These two hardwood firms are too well known
to the trade of the country to need any intro-
duction. Thompson & McCIure have for some
years been engaged at Memphis in the manu-
facture and wholesale handling of hardwoods,
and Crenshaw tV Cathey tire numbered among
the prominent sawmilling interests of the Mem-
phis district. They are composed of men of
long experience in the Lumber business who
have met with pronounced success In the held
Needless to say that a combination of two such
strong concerns will soon make a reputation in
hardwood circles.

The Brasneld-Thompson Lumber Coinpany.

A new company which, from its pers lei,

will undoubtedly et with great success is the

Brasneld-Thompson Lumber Company, in. or
porated with $50,000 capital slock to engage in
Hie manufacture and wholesaling of southern
hardwoods on an extensive scale. Headquarters
of the concern will he maintained at Memphis,
where offices have been leased in the Rogers
Building. The company has purchased a large
tract of limber hind and a modern hand saw
mill on the Cache river near Biscoe, Ark., on
tlio Rock Island railr 1.

The incorporators of the Brasneld-Thompson
Lumber Coinpany are: George ■ M. Brasfield,
formerly president and owner of the Memphis
Slave Manufacturing C puny ami an ex-
tensive owner of timber lands in Mississippi:
.1 w Thompson, president, and A. L. Foster,
assistant treasurer, respectively, of the .1. W
Thompson Lumber Company, and E. C. Turner.
While the details of organization have nol yet
been completed, it is generally understood Unit
Mr. Itraslield will he chosen president and gen-
eral manager and Mr. Thompson vice-president
,,: i he new company.

An Echo from the Preacher-Lumberman Deal.

A •dispatch from Lake Charles. La., dated

January I. says thai Dr. G ge E. Hall, presi

dent of the Chicago Land & Lumber Company.
Uas arrived there to investigate a deal by which
bis company lost the town site of Hall City,

■i hardwood null, and 17,000 acres of hardw 1

limber land located in the western portion of
Calcasieu Parish, which bad an alleged value
of more than $500,000. The Doctor says that
all his company's immense holdings were pur
chased by W. Scott Mathews from M. W.
Greeson and others for the pittance of $170
>ii mi Dr. Hall alleges that Greeson acquired
the properties from Harold Robertson, his at-
torney, who held them in trust, lie thinks that
he and his stockholders have been swindled.

This lamentable wiping out of the Chicago
preacher-lumberman's crazy financial enterprises
is but a natural sequence of tic transaction.

I ..r several years be has divided bis time be
iw.en preaching at Bush Temple and mixing up

, uateiir lumber deals, and has flooded the

country with alluring literature in an attempt
to demonstrate the vast profits that would ac

, t in- to peis. .us investing in his schemes. The
public has been repeatedly warned against Dr.
Hall ami his methods, and advised that while
be might be perfectly honest in his convictions.

ibere was no possible opportunity for n j

making in any such .system as that inaugurated
In him. The wind-up of the affair shows the
wisdom of tic advice proffered, as the stock
|. ..biers will realize but very little from their
In vi stments.

The Laguna Coinpany.
Tic Laguna Company, with headquarters at
Davenport, la.. which is the owner of

C00, teres of mahogany and oiler timber

lands in Mexico, operated with a capital of $3.-

lino, bus opened an eastern office at No. 1

Madison menu,. New York, and yards ;\l tic
foot of Steinway avenue. Long Island Citj ,i

II Hill, Jr., who is well known in tb m

any trade in the hast and who has spent tin

i . r port i. ii of t\\r past year on H

pany's estates in Mexico, has charge et this
eastern venture. IE will have mahogany logs
brought to \ew York, manufactured into lumber

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at that point and shipped throughout the United
States

The officers of the Laguna Company are 6.
Watson French, president: Nathaniel French,
vice president; .1 .1 Merrill, treasurer: A \v.
Vanderveer, secretary: .1 II Hill, Jr., man-
ager of lumber department.

Executive Board Meeting.
The Executive Board of the Hardwood Manu-
facturers' Association of the United States held
a meeting in the association's offices in Chicago
on Saturday, January o, and made plans cover-

ing the program of the forthcoming fifth annual
meeting at Memphis, which is to be held on
January i".> and 30. This program, while not
yel fully completed, will include the reading
of papers by quite a number of gentlemen
prominent in forestry, lumber, railroad and
other interests. There will be a good many mat-
ti is of pertinent interest tii the hardwood in-
dustry discussed at this meeting, and much new
and important business will come before it. It
is anticipated that the ((invention will be the
largest in numbers that this association has
ever held.

HardWood NeWs.

(By HARDWOOD RECORD Special Correspondents.)
Chicago.

George Kelley, of the firm "t" J. Slimmer &
Co., hardwood wholesalers of 65 W. 22nd St..
has just returned from a business trip through
out the South. While away Mr. Kelley estab-
lished a purchasing office for his concern at
Citronelle, Ala., in charge of Fred W. Schaefer,
formerly with the .1. M. Card Lumber Company,
of Chattanooga. Tenn.

E. F. Taenzer, of the well known lumber firm
of E. E. Taenzer & Co., of -Memphis, Tenn., was
a Chicago visitor the latter part of I >< tuber.

Hans l-'oreliheimer. of the prominent export
inu firm of Hugo Forehheimer, of Frankfort-on-
ilie.Main. Germany, is making a tour of the
I iiitcd States. lie is at present visiting the
concern's branch office at New Orleans, La.,
where he will re in for the winter,

Victor Thrane. of .lames 1 1. Lacey .V. Co.. tim-
ber brokers of New- Orleans, I. a., was in Chicago
last month on his way. to New Orleans, where
the firm makes its winter headquarters. Mr.
Thrane had been on the Pacific coast for several
months looking after the concern's increasing in-
terests there, and will return early in the new
year.

Alter being confined to his home for two weeks
by a sprained knee, .lames s Trainer, of the
Trainer Bros. Lumber Company, is again at his
office looking after business with his accus-
tomed energy. The company reports business
active and has an excellent assortment of lum-
ber on its yard to supply the wants of iis trade

The Hardwood Record lias prepared for the
Paepcke-Leichl Lumber Company, of Chicago,
a very handsome calendar composed ,,f six
sheets, each bearing on.- of the familiar lumber
characters which have appeared from time to
time as supplements to this publication. It is
attractively printed in red and black on heavy
enameled paper ii ml is a most appi'opi'i a t e re-
minder of this gnat manufacturing concern.

William D. Hitchcock, once prominent in the
hardwood lumber trade of Chicago, died in h
tour. Mich.. Dec. :M. after a long sickness.
Years ago .Mr. Hitchcock maintained an office
in Chicago and made his home in Evanston. He
was seventy years old- at the n ,,f i,js death.

G. G. Roberts, sales manager of D. G. Conn
ney. Charleston, W. V"a., was i„ Chicag busi-
ness the early part of the week, and visited the
i: tD - iffice.

The name of tie Penrod Walnut Corporation
of Kansas City. M... of which John N. Penrod,

1 ll'' -walnut king." is president, has I n

.hanged. The company will henceforth be known
as the 1'' mod Walnut Veneer Company.

Invital ems hi \e Been received in this ■ it\ t,,
the marriage "t Bole'na May Saunders, daughter
of Mr and Mrs lianiel Green Saunders, of Kan
sas City, Mo.. io John Alfred Cochran, which
will take place in that city .Ian 12

F. s. Underbill, ol Wistar, Cnderhill & Co.,
Philadelphia, was a caller at tie- Record office
.Ian :;

M. A Hayward, hardw I wholesaler of Co-
lumbus, (i.. visited Chicago on business las:
week 'anil called on the Record.

D. .1 Peterson, of Toledo. 0., was in this city
(luring He- holidays, accompanied by his wife.

E. 11. Eldridge. of Indianapolis, made the
Record a short call w-nile in Chicago lasl week.

The Reciprocal Demurrage Convention held in
Chicago last week called to the city a large
number of well known hardwood men. Mem-

phis was represented by the largest delegation.
luit a good many people prominently identified
with tin- industry from Cincinnati. Philadelphia,

Si I. "His. Cadillac and other hardw d trade

( enters were present.

Harry Rankin, the well known head of the
Manufacturing Lumbermen's Underwriters ol
Kansas city, was in town on Friday. Mr. Han
kin says that his company closed the year with
more than thirty per cent more business than
lasl year, and its record of saving on insurance

(■"■si t" its members is al t forty per cent.

Mr. Rankin has achieved an enviable record in
his management of this great lumber insurance
company.

.1. W Mayhew. sales manager of the \V. M.
bitter Lumber Company, of Columbus, 0., was
a welcome caller on his Chicago friends Jan. 8.

During the past fortnight the Hardwood
Record has received a number of verj accept
able gifts from the various members of the
trade, for which it wish.-s to express iis grati-
tude Calendars came from the following:
Thus McFarland Lumber Company, Cairo. III.:
Bryan Lumber Company, Bristol, Ya. Tenn. : I..
\V. Radina & Co. Cincinnati, 0. : John Dul-
weber & Co., Cincinnati; Righter-Parry Lum-
ber company. Philadelphia: Mitchell Bros, ('..in
pany. Cadillac, Mich.: Mackle Lumber Company.
Piedmont, \Y. Va. ; Win. II. Fritz & Co., Phila-
delphia . Bliss & Van Auken, Saginaw, Mich. :
John M Woods & Co., l-aisi Cambridge, Mass
s. M Brady. Morehead, Ky. : Barker ,y Co
Inc. Boston, Mass.; McClure Lumber Company.
Detroit, Mich.: .Hruckinan Lumber Company,
Allegheny, Pa.; Duhlmeier Bros., Cincinnati. 0. :
American Wood Working Machinery Company,
Nl w \ uk cit, Anderson-Tullj Co., Memphis,
and Colonial Lumber Company. Philadelphia

1 the ]•:. n Fldridge Lumber Company, of

Indianapolis, Ind.. came a very mat little loath

1 'r I id pocket blank book with the editor's

name inscribed on it in gilt letters: from the

Louise of Philadelphia was r ived a daily

calendar pad also one from E. E. Price, of
Baltimore, .Mil : s M. Bradley, of Morehead,
Ky.. in addition to the handsome calendar, sent
three excellent lead pencils and .lames Crow-ell.
of Newark. X. J., sent an artistic card hearing
a \e« Year's greeting from r.ior Richard.

Boston.

Morn. A. Hall, in speaking of the cypress

situation, states that h< nsiders the market

favorable. The general review of the past year
show-.-d considerable activity with advancing
prices He states that stocks are not large and
In- is inclined to consider the situation of this
wood and its prospects as good as any other
"'""1 in the market and that some time will
elapsa before a supplj is found sufficient to
meet the present and prospective demand.

William Bacon, of Davenport, Peters & Co..
says that several of the large poplar mills ,1 ■
pi iiding on their supph of logs to come in by
water, nave waited months for tides. In other

ctions wb i ■ poplar logs are hauled ten to
twenty-five miles over roads, there have been
rains bj actual count everj day in four months

■ Pi fifteen days, leaving the roads in such

'-"1 '■ iition thai no logs could be hauled ovet

""■" He stated thai he knew- of one firm in
the southwest, who has hen caused a heavy
dally loss no a long period on account of too
i"1"11 water in the rivers, in speaking of hard

WOOlls, he State,] ,h.lt tile OUSloril mills ill W'esl

Virginia and North Carolina were receiving a
very heavy demand from western centers and
that in many instances eastern buyers had found
that their western competitors have negotiated
fur the entire cut of a mill that they had al-
ways been accustomed to getting supplies from.

At the last meeting of the Massachusetts
Wholesale Lumber Association, several mem-
h: is of the Lumber Trade Club of Boston were
present as guests and an informal discussion
relative "To the Metropolitan Lumber Exchange
was held. Xo definite action was taken. II.
1 1. Wiggin. who is a member of the committee
of the proposed exchange, stated that the object
was simply a betterment of the conditions of
and between the wholesale and retail trade.
'The identity of the respective associations is
to be retained, but heretofore the work and
efforts of the two bodies had been along sim-
ilar lines and naturally one large association
would he more influential than two small ones.
E. W. Cottle, of Hie Curtis & Pope Lumber
Company, stated that In heartily favored any-
ihing which would tend to a better acquaint-
ance of lumber dealers.

A committee comprised of J. <;. Rugl II D.

Wiggin. Fred Joyce and Morris A. Hall have
si hi out a report to the trade of an informal
meeting of tie wholesale and retail lumber deal-
ers of greater Boston, which was held at
Young's hotel. Nov. 21, to consider the advisa-
liiliiy of organizing an association represent
•ug jointly the wholesale and retail branches of
tie trade. Accompanying this report is a set
oi bj laws drawn up by the committee in which
it siat.-s th-- association shall be called the
Metropolitan Lumber Exchange of Boston. A
final meeting will he held in Huston. .Ian. s. at
Young's Hotel. Many prominent dealers have
signified their intention of joining such an ass,,
. iat ion

William E, Litchfield," of Boston, is visiting
his luoiher at their mill ,-u North Vernon. Ind.
lb will attend the convention Io lie held in In-
dianapolis. .Ian. 11. and will then leave for
Washington. Ii c. to attend a meeting .Tanu-

ai-. 14.

New York.
The current conditions sin rounding the re-
ceipts and delivery of lumber shipments, de-
murrage charges, etc. which have been the sub-
ject of recent meetings and conferences among
tin- New Jersey Lumbermen's Protective Asso
elation and the Building Material Men's Club of
Newark, and the New York Lumber Trade Asso-
ciation, are best summed up in the following
resolution adopted last week by tin- Building
Material Men's Club at another meeting called
for a discussion of the matters mentioned:

"Resolved, That the merchants of the metro-
politan district are entitled to as liberal terms
as given any town. city, or state to load and un-
load cars, we wish to protest and call atten-
tion to th.- following discriminations: The N.
Y.. N. II. & II. and the X. Y. ('. and B. & O.
allow ninety-six hours at the Boston terminal
and forty-eight hours at New York : the Penn-
sylvania, seventy two hours at Norfolk and other
Virginia points and ninety-six hours in Ohio.
The Erie and X. Y. C. and Lake Shore allow
i in- n six hours at some western points, and
fortj eight hours in the metropolitan district.''

All tic- organizations mentioned an- busily cii-
gag.,1 in this matter and Iat.- advices are n, the
effect that the ear service association and the
railroads are revising their local regulations,
en completion of which further conferences will
be held and it is hoped conditions much im-
proved.

Tie car stake matter was the subject of a
recent conference in this city between Lewis
Hill. Baltimore; F. Ii. Babcock, Pittsburg
R. W. Iligl.ie. New- York, and Secretary E. F.
Perry, at the National Wholesalers' head
ciiarters. 66 Broadway. It was announced that
i he sixty-odd cars which are being equipped by
th.- eastern roads for trial with the committee
stake are about ready to he loaded and will be
thoroughly tried out. after which joint commit
tees will undoubtedly get together promptly and
it is hoped finally settle the matter.

C. E. Lloyd. Jr., of Philadelphia, was a visitor
lasi week in the interest of his new connection.
Hi Boice Lumber Company ai Abingdon, Va.

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Mr. Lloyd has opened Bales offices in the Land
Title Building, Philadelphia, and his new com
pans plans an active business camp.aign during
1 lit- coming year in the eastern markets. It will
operate six or seven mills in the South with
wholesale shipping yard at Norfolk, Va., from
which prompl shipments will be made to the
. astern trade.

The business of Chas. F\ Finch & Co., Coney
Niami avenue and Avenue 11. Brooklyn, is about
it. be Incorporated under the same style owing
to the recent death of Chas. II. Finch. No
other changes will be made in the business.

The Iroquois Door Company of Buffalo, Large
manufacturers of hardwood doors, trim, etc..

has r mtlj added to its local force W. C.

Mason, chief estimator of the Buffalo plant.
who will hereafter be associated with Manager
E. P. Salmon in the local office, thereby enabling
visitors i" receive immediate figures after mak-
ing selections from the large line of samples
which 1 hey carry her--.

The Atlantic Lumber « 'ompany, wholesale
hardwood, Boston, Mass, has opened a New
York office a 1 66 Broad -a reel . under the man
age me ill of S. Herrnstadt, who tor a number of
years has been closely Identified with the local
hardwood trade. The company's mill in the
Tennessee district is running full time and thej
will have choice offerings of hardwoods Cor the
1 oming season.

Sam I). Han. Flat iron Building, has just re
turned from a long trip to the poplar and oak
mills in West Virginia and Tennessee and re-
ports conditions as very stiiT at the manufactur
Ing end. Quite 0 large percentage of the mills

had a i'aii*l.\ g 1 stock on hand, hut it was all

sold and held up for lack of transportation facili
ihs. but so Far as available unsold stocks are
concerned be reported them as exceedingly
si arce.

Laurens P. Rider of 1 Madison avenue and
Guy K. Robinson of 1123 Broadway, Manhattan.
two «>i" the most popular local sales repre-
sentatives, sailed with their wives for Europe
nil the 22d ult. for a two months' pleasure trip.

At a meeting of the creditors of J. II. Fink
& Co., Weehawken, X. J., held in this city De-
cember 26, a dividend of 25 per cenl was de-
clared January 7 The conditions of the firm
really warranted a paymenl of 50 per cent, but
thai action was advised against by the receiver
according to law, and il is expected that another
dividend of i!" or 25 per cent will follow within
ten days.

A petition in bankruptcy filed August 16
against Wm. I'. Mohr, doing business as i\ Mohr
& Co.. manufacturers of furniture at 112 West
Forty-Sficond street. .Manhattan, was dismissed
by the court on December 24, owing to settle
im nt having been made with the creditors. The
business will be continued by l\ Mohr & Co., a
corporation just formed with a capital of

SUM).

T. .1- Kerry of the Kerry & Hanson Flooring
Company, Grayling, Mich., was a recent visitor
here on his way to Gloversville, N. V.. to spend
the holidays with relatives. While lure he
visited Sam E. Ihirr. Flatiron Building, who
looks after the local interests of his company.

Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lum-
ber Exporters' Association, with headquarters
ai Memphis, Tenn.. is on a visit to New York
in the interest of husiness and will remain her.'
until the annual meeting of the association,
which occurs on January '.?..

wm I-'. Bailey of Bailey & Ailing, prominent
Newark, X. .7.. house, died suddenly Christmas
day at his home at Summit. X. J., in the 70th
year of his age. lie had been associated with
the Newark lumber trade tor a great many years
and was widely known throughout the slate,

John Clifton Orr, senior head and president
of the John C. Orr Company, extensive retail
[umber dealers and trim manufacturers of Brook
lyn. died suddenly in Paris, Franc.-, December
15, as a result of an operation for intestinal
trouble Mr. *)]■]■ left New York in the best of
health Thanksgiving day for a six weeks rest
abroad and was taken ill on the steamer, Mr,
Orr was horn in New York in 1841 and entered
the lumber husiness m 1870, and though the
tii in has changed in style a number of t Imes
since then, through the deaths of partners and
otherwise, ii has been increasingly successful

until today its operations cover a large area in
i In- Greenpoint disl rict of Brooklyn and com-
prises one of the hie^est trim manufacturing
plants and Lumber yards in this section of the
country. lie was widely known throughout the
eastern ami northern lumber trade and a host of
friends mourn his loss. His son, Henry S. Orr,
has sailed for Europe to accompany the body
home.

Philadelphia.
The Lumbermen's Exchange held iis regular
monthly meeting on Jan, '.'.. President Geo. F.

Craig in the (hair. There was a good attend
ame. but no husiness i>\' any importance was
transacted. The committee on railroads and
i ransportat ion. appointed to investigate slow
movement of freighl i rains, reported nothing in
the way of e| ue ida lion. J. N. 11 olio way *V Co.
have made application for membership to I he
exchange. John A. Calhoun, of Savannah. Ga.,
who is of Geo. F. Craig & Co., of Philadelphia,
spenl Christinas in this city, was a visitor at
i he exchange, as was also .lames Faulkner, of
the Faulkner Lumber Company, Crandell, Tenn.

The notices recently sent oul by the exchange
to all trade organizations, requesting them to
appoint delegates to meet \v. c. MacBride in an
effort to repeal the mercantile lax. were effica
cious in assembling delegates from eighteen in
dustrial associations, in the exchange rooms,
on Dec. 20, when the following resolutions were
unanimously adopted ;

"Resolved, That a permanent organization be
effected to obtain the repeal of the mercantile
lax. said organization to consist of one dele
gate and one alternate from the various trade
bodies in favor of this movement.

"Resolved, Thai a copy of the above resolu
tion he sen! to the trade bodies with a requesl
to appoint their delegates."

The chairman has decided to call another
meeting to he held at the rooms of the Lum
bermen's Exchange, on Jan, 15, a1 1 :30 p. m.
Numerous other trad- bodies not represented
at this meeting have promised to semi delegates
to the next meeting.

J. Et. Williams, finding his present quarters
too small for his increasing husiness, has moved
to 909 Land Title building. During his recent
tour of New Orleans, Mr, Williams made exten
sive purchases and established new connections.
Harry W. Alexander, formerly with Mershon,
Schuette, Parker & Co.. Saginaw, Mich., lias

i n engaged by him as salesman to look after

i he met ropolitan district .

The Coppock Warner Lumber Company, Land
Title building, Philadelphia, has recently est ah
I i shed a branch office at 1 12 Law Exchange
building, Buffalo, under I he management of F.
M. Jobs OP. This step was felt necessary in

order to hud; more closely after the company's
growing trade in thai territorj ,

Richard Tarpin & Co. dissolved partnership
on Jan. 1, Wm. S. Lilly retiring and Richard
Tarpin. Jr.. admitted in his place. .Mr. Lilly
has secured a large yard and shed at J41*.i
Hamilton street, where In- will conduct a retail
lumber business, making hardwoods a specialty.

It is announced thai the flrm of Camp iV
Weber, carriage ami wagon builders, has been
dissolved. The husiness will he carried on un
der the old name h\ .i George Weber, a1 3860
Lancaster avenue.

The (iwen M. Bruner Company has jusi en-
gaged J. A. Finley as salesman, to represent
the company in the metropolitan district. Mr.
Finley, who for a number of years was with
llenson & Pearson, of this city, stands high in
the trade.

The Penn Coal & Lumber corporation. Bed
ford. Pa., is a new concern chartered under

Delaware laws ami capitalized at $200,1 The

incorporators are John M. Reynolds, A. I. Lyon
and R, C Ha der man, all of Bedford, Pa., and
T. Frank Bayer, of Huntingdon, Pa.

The Keystone Veneer Company obtained a

charier under New Jersey laws Dec. 3; capital,
sinn. him). The incorporators are It. M. Cole, W.
IL RIckenbrodc ami II. s. Crymble, h is learned
indii-ciiy from 1 1. \i. Cole, a resident of Sigh
ciift'. Tenn.. ihai the company will be located
somewhere in Alabama .

The Rumbarger Lum her Company has just
made a deal with three large hand mills in
South Carolina, to handle their Output for the
ii"\i three years, Two of these mills are al-
ready in operation, and the third about to
start. Tin- lumber comprises poplar, plain and
quartered oak. cottonwood, ash. holly, red gum,

persimmon, cypress and sycamore. A few Of

these w Is are a new departure from the usual

products handled and make the slock lis! of the
company Include all the principal hardwoods.

i >. M Lane, for many years senior member

of 1 1, M Lane's Sons, carriage huilders. died
on Dec. 21. The husiness is an old established
one. started by his father about a half century
ago. Mi". Lane was forty-seven years of age,

F. l'. Southgate, surveyor general of the Na-
tional Hardwood Lumber Association, of Chi-
cago, recently paid his respects to the Philadel-
phia i rade.

Lewis Hosier, secretary of the Hardwood
Manufacturers' Association, Chicago, a former
resilient of i his city, spent Christmas with his
mother, who still has her home hero.

W. T. Laihan. buyer for the Northern Lumber
Company, of New York, was recently an inter-
esting visitor to the local trade,

Mr Howard, of the Pocahontas Lumber Com
pany, Burner, W. Va.. and Merrill Wilson, of
the Wildell Lumber Company, Wildell, W. Va.,
representing Lhe Wes1 Virginia Saw Mill Asso
eiation, spent a few days in this city consult-
ing with Mr. 1'aiioii. of the Pennsylvania Kail
road Company, concerning the car shortage in
tin nill districts,

II, C Trexler ,\: Co., of Allentown, 1 a., met
with a tire loss on Dec. 25. Their planing mill
was entirely destroyed.

Tii- Righter Parry Lumber Company has
found it necessary to meet expansion of busi-
ness to increase its staff. The services of
( >gden 1 1 off ma u. formerly with the Pennsylvania

Sash & Door Company, have I n secured to

look after the New Jersey district.

11. il. Mans iV Co.. Inc., report their hard
wood department in good shape, and that they
are looking forward to a sturdy activity in this
line right along. II IL Mans, president of this
company, stales thai lhe year just ended stands
out as the ni.'sl -ill round satisfactory for many
years,

R B Wheeler & Co. report husiness in good
shape, wiiii prospects flattering. Only the car
service mars the lumberman's outlook.

Wistar. Underbill & Co. have had a very suc-
cessful year. F. S. Cnderhill was one of the
delegates to represent Philadelphia at Hie Re
clprocal Demurrage Convention in Chicago. T.
X. Nixon, <if this concern, is looking after the
Arm's contracts, in Tennessee, and Messrs, An
di i son and Bates are buying slock iii North
Carolina.

In preparation for the Ffoo-Hoo annual, lo he
Inhl at Atlantic city on the ninth month, ninth
day of 1907, a meeting will soon be held of
representatives of the organizations of Phlla
delphla. New York. Pittsburg and Baltimore, to
appoint committees to formulate plans and dis

cuss means for action.

lhe "homecoming'' of the Indiana Hardwood

Lumbermen's Association will he a 1 1 ended by
Crank T. Rumbarger, ol the Rumbarger Lum
her Company. The Rumbargers are ex-HoosIers,
.1 l. Rumbarger, the veteran member of the
company, having moved to Indiana from Penn
sy"Wan ia in i860 and settled in Decatur county.
where he became distinguished as the first
manufacturer of quartered white oak in the
state. The present active members of the com-
pany. John J, ami Crank T Rumbarger, spent

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their boyhood in Indiana and started business
there. About ten years ago the principal office
of the concern was moved to Philadelphia. The
call for a "home coming," therefore, appealed
Strongly to all members of the company, and
an enjoyable time is anticipated when they re-
new their old friendship with the present Boos
ier lumbermen.

Baltimore.

Local lloo IIoo will assemble for the initia-
tion of about a dozen candidates on the 16th
inst. The concatenation will be the first one
under the direction of the present vice-gerent
snark of Maryland. Maurice M. Wiley, and he
will aim to make it a gala occasion.

The John J. Kidd Lumber Company, with
office and yards on South Sharp street, has been
succeeded by the Kidd & Buckingham Lumber
Company. Emory G. Buckingham being the new
partner. Mr. Buckingham acquired an interest
in the company some time last year, the affairs
of Mottu & Buckingham, in which he was junior
partner, being gradually wound up. Both Messrs.
Kidd and Buckingham are young men and full
of energy and they are determined to conduct
business on a larger scale than was previously
the case. They do a yard trade and also look
after other branches.

M. S. Baer of the hardwood firm of R. 1'.
Baer & Co.. Keyser Building, returned from a
trip to North Carolina and other states just be-
fore the holidays. He reports that he found
stocks low everywhere and that the greatest con-
fidence in the future prevailed. The business
of the firm was very satisfactory during the
past year. ; They entertain the most optimistic
views for the future, being, of the opinion that
values will keep up and that a brisk demand
for hardwoods will continue to prevail.

John Stoppel. for years engaged in the cooper-
age business at Port Deposit, Md., died at the
Johns Hopkins Hospital on December 21 of
diabetes. Since his retirement several years ago
he had lived in Baltimore.

The firm of John S. Helfrich, lumber commis-
sioners, has removed from the Union Trust
Building to the Law Building.

The Edge View Realty Company, a corpora-
tion formed to do a general real estate and'Ium-
ber business, has been incorporated at Salisbury.
Md.. with a capital stock of $30,000, which may
be increased to sen, it will have head-
quarters at Delmar, on the eastern shore of
Mania nd, and its incorporators are : Elijah
Freeny, Matilda M. Freeny, Mary E. Hickey, J.
William Freeny, Henry E. Freeny and Edwin
Freeny, who an' also named as directors for the
first year.

Pittsburg.

The rdaning mill of John Davis & Co. a1
McKee's Rocks, tivc miles west of Pittsburg,
was burned recently, emailing a loss of $10,-
000, of which $5,000 was covered by insurance.
Tlir plant will probably lie rebuilt.

The Ravenscroft Lumber Company of < >ak-
land. Md., has been incorporated with a capital
of $25,000 and has taken options on extensive
tracts "i timber in West Virginia and Mary-
land.

William Whinner & Sons. Inc.. are fitting up
a fine Mii- of Offices on the ninth floor of the
Empire building, which will afford much better
quarters than those previously occupied. E, R.
Loehr, a well known railroad man. has been
added to the office force, and George Whitehead,
late of the Flint, Erving & Stoner Company,
will be a new salesman on the road. ■ E. H.
Shreiner. who lias been traveling for tin- Whit
mers several years, has come to Pittsburg to
he office manager in place of B. W. Cross, re-
signed.

The L. L. Satler Lumber "Company shut down
its big mills Christmas week to take stock.
Tt reports a splendid outlook for oak and the
genera] inquiry for hardwoods very pleasing.

Louis Germain. Jr., and A. A. Germain spent
the holiday week at their old home in Sagi-
naw, Mich.

'1 he Lamb-Davis Lumber Company of Leaven-
worth. Wash., and the Lamb-Eish Lumber Com-
pany of Memphis. Tenn.. have established
agencies at 111<» Machesney building, with II.
C. Morris as local representative.

The Parsons-Cross Lumber Company started
in business January 1 on the fifteenth floor of
the Farmers* Bank building. John T. Parsons
has been in the employ of Nicola, Stone &
Myers of Cleveland for eleven years and B. W.
I'mss with the American Lumber & Manufac-
turing Company two years, and a like period
with William Whitmer & Sons. Inc., as office
manager. Charles A. Nicola is president of the
company and Mr. Parsons vice-president; A.
L. Stone is treasurer ; Mr. Cross, secretary,
and Max Myers, general manager.

I. E. Balsley. hardwood manager for the
Willson Brothers Lumber Company, has just re-
tcrnad from an extended trip through the
southern hardwood mills, where he found a
very busy state of affairs. Late in December
he mad'1 a lour of the New England states
and drummed up a line line of business for his
company.

The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company reports
an enormous call for white oak, especially tim-
bers. Prices are thirty per cent higher than a
year ago in many lines and the market is in
much better shape. The Hastings mill at Jack-
son, W. Ya., is now running full time and gets
out 30.000 feet of oak a day.

General manager .1. N. Wollett, of the Ameri-
can Lumber & Manufacturing Company, started
the new vear right by contract inn for l..VH>.int<(
feet more of cottonwood to he cut in the Indian
Territory and shipped to points throughout the
middle west. The American has made a signal
success of its cottonwood and gum trade the
last six months and now has under contract
7,000,000 feci f.,r 11(07 delivery. Incidentally
the company is sending out one of the finest
holiday souvenirs that ever was mailed by a
Pittsburg firm in the shape of a large combina-
tion pearl handled knife, which is a most ac-
cep table gift to. any busy man.

The Liberty Lumber & Planing Mill Company.
which acquired the business of J. W. Galla-
gher last spring, has moved into the Lloyd
building in the east end. Its new officers are:
I'. W. Ruskauff. president : Charles N. Burt,
vice president; Frank Gundling, secretary. The
company has a large planing mill and yards at
Braddoek avenue and the Pennsylvania rail-
road.

The Linehan Lumber Company notes no cessa-
tion in hardwood inquiry except the natural
few days' relaxation due to the holiday season.
<>ak is a strong leader on its list of woods and
members of the firm predict a still larger sale
of oak than last year.

The Nicola Lumber Company starts the new
year with an unprecedented call for hardwoods,
especially oak. Both timbers and railroad
stock arc in splendid call with this firm. The
outlook for building lumber is also, according
to them, improving very fast and they look for a
big year in hardwood specialties,

The mills of the Cheat River Lumber Com
pany ai Burkeville, Va., were closed down Christ-
ma sr week to permit of stock taking. R. H.
' rerbertson has been at the plant for several
days getting things organized for the new year.
1 i' company is getting out some splendid stock
and lately sold a few orders of chestnut and
oak in New York at fancy prices.

The state of Pennsylvania lately secured sev-
i ral thousand acres of valuable timber land in
Union, Lycoming, Clinton and Center counties.
Pennsylvania, as parr of the forest reservation.
Most of the land was bought from Munroe H.
Kulu & Co.. of Shamokin, for about $30,000.
one of The besl lots of timber in tie' tract is in

Union county and is still thickly wooded with
virgin trees.

The Pittsburg Lumbermen's Mutual Fire In-
surance Company has been organized as the re-
sult of efforts of the Greater Pittsburg Retail
Lumber Dealers' Association and will start in
business Feb. 1 in the Fulton building. The
company is formed along the lines of the Mans-
field Mutual, of Mansfield. < *., which has paid
dividends of thirty and thirty-five per cent the
last few years. Its promoters have found that
during the last ten years only twenty-eight per
cent of the money paid in to lumber fire insur-
ance companies by retailers in the Greater Pitts-
burg district as premiums has been paid out
again for fire losses, there having been only two
fires of over $18,000 in that time. The new
company charges stock company rates and will
declare a dividend annually under ordinary con-
ditions. Following are the officers of the com-
pany : President. J. C. Parsons ; vice presi-
dent, Nathaniel Green: treasurer, George N.
GlasK : secretary. A. C. Rightor.

The Hardwood Door Company has been or-
ganized in Pittsburg, with the Paine Lumber
Company, Ltd., of Oshkosh. Wis., as a prin-
cipal and several well known Pittsburg firms
as allies. For three years the Paine company
has had an agency in the Farmers Bank build-
ing, with J. W. Anderson in charge, and has
made a great hit with its birch veneered doors.
The new company has leased two of the largest
warehouses in the terminal system on the south
side and will carry a stock of 20,000 hardwood
doors in addition to a big stock of window
frames, balusters and stair work and hardwood
trim. J. C- Scofield will be manager of the new
plant and Mr. Anderson will go to New York to
lake an important position in the office of the
Paine company there.

The Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber Dealers'
Associat ion. through its railroad committee, of
which J. L. Kendall is chairman, is taking up
the matter of equitable rates for freight trans-
fers within tii'- switching limit of Greater Pitts-
burg. This has been a subject of great annoy-
ance and considerable extra cost to Pittsburg
firms for years and they are determined to make
the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
roads come to a more just basis of dealing. At
presenl neither of these roads will deliver cars
in the city consigned over the other road with
out an extra charge of 60 and 70 cents a ton
for transferring them. The distance is never
but five or six miles and the extra charge makes
the lumber cost the wholesaler from $1 to $1.50
per M more, thus taking off his profit in many
cases. The Pennsylvania and the Pittsburg &
Lake Erie railroads have a better working agree-
ment and the latter road and the B. & O. have
i"> trouble. The main transfer points are East
Pittsburg and Allegheny and local wholesalers
are subjected to endless delays if they object
at all to the hdld-up charge for transfer, where-
as in other large cities where an inter-switch-
ing agreement is in force, deliveries are prompt
and cheap.

Buffalo.

The effort to organize a lumbermen's club is
si ill being considered by a committee, hut it
will be known soon whether such a thing is
desired. Some dealers say that there are or-
ganizations enough now. with the hardwood men
meeting every week when the Lumber Exchange
does not bring them together as a whole.

IT. S. Janes of the Empire Lumber Company
came home from the Arkansas plant of the
company for Christmas, but will return again
soon, as the operations there seem to require
special attention.

I. N. Stewart & Bro. report less trouble from
car shortage in their West Virginia oak and
cherry operations than last year, as they have
bought at points more convenient to the trunk
lines. Their yard shows a well assorted line.

The enlargement of the home yard of the

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Standard Hardwood Lumber Company will in-
clude a loading dock that will facilitate hand
ling greatly with so much oak, chestnut and
poplar coming in from the South.

Beyer, Knox & Co. still keep their hold cm the
besi hardwood-producing districts of Pennsyl-
vania, while looking after the hardwoods of the
tar South. Home-yard stocks are good, in spite
of the active demand.

The interest in the lirm of Scatcherd & Son
si ill centers largely on Mr. Scatcherd's health,
for he is far from recovered from his accident,
not being able to use his right arm yet.

The oak supply on the yard of A. Miller is
u< "'I anil includes a lot of 3% to 4-inch stuff,
plain oak is going fast: quartered somewhat
more slowly. A large amount of elm and bass
wood has been sold lately.

The fine office addition of the Buffalo Hard
wood Lumber Company is a great convenience
to the establishment. It is the second enlarge-
ment since locating there, not to mention tin'
good showing already made in the new Memphis
yard.

G. Elias & Bro. have been busy all the fall
with lake cargoes, which have brought all
sorts of lake hardwoods to add to the stock of
southern and Pacific coast lumber carried.

There are some complaints of stocks running
down and fears of further shortage, but the
yard of O. E. Yeager is well stocked, much good
oak and other woods coming from his Ken-
tucky headquarters.

The Hugh McLean Lumber Company finds the
wet weather in the South much against log-
ging and is afraid there will be an oak shortage
before long, such as has not been known before.
The yard stock is good yet.

Waecaman Lumber Company has filed articles
of incorporation to operate near Wilmington,
N. C. E. Nelson of Detroit anil Watts
Humphrey of Saginaw are the heaviest stock
holders. Chicago and Wilmington parties ate
also interested.

Detroit.

Warren <;. Vinton, president of the Vinton
Company, Detroit's largest builders and hard-
wood finishers, died from an attack of broncho-
pneumonia, contracted on Christmas day. He
had just celebrated his seventy-seventh birth-
day. Mr. Vinton was born in Utica, N. Y., Jan.
3, 1830, and was the son of a carpenter. He
received his first contract as a builder when
seventeen years of age. Then he went to Cali-
fornia as a forty-niner. He roughed it in the
wilderness but did not strike a fortune there.
He came to Detroit in 1855 and opened a car-
penter shop. He served in the Civil War. Sev-
eral business firms in Detroit other than the
Vinton company owe their existence to Mr.
Vinton. He was a silent partner in the Me
Clure Lumber Company, Fox Brothers, the
Mantel Manufacturing Company, Bailey Art
Statuary Company and the Kalsey-Herbert Com-
pany.

Hal H. Smith of Detroit has returned from
Chicago, where he was made a member of the
executive committee of the National Reciprocal
Demurrage Association, which body is working
to abate the car shortage.

W. C. Brownlee of Brownlee & Co. is on a
business trip to Baraga and other northern
lumber points.

The Manufacturers' Lumber Company, owned
and controlled by the Vinton Company, has
bought the Wolverine Lumber & Box Company,
formerly owned by Clayton Gibson. The latter
will devote his time in the future to the whole-
sale hardwood lumber business in this city and
throughout the state. Mr. Gibson is supposed
to have received $20,000 from this sale.
The Manufacturers' Company, which bought
out Gibson, is capitalized at $100,000, which
will not be increased at this time. The Wolver-
ine plant will run separately until April 1,
when it will be moved to a new factory building
now being constructed at the Wight street
yards. 1'. L. Dessert, it is expected, will be
manager of the box company under the Vinton
management.

With a paid-in capital of $9,300, all cash, the

Saginaw Valley.

Lumbermen have been settling accounts for
tie' year, taking account of stock and Inci-
dentally enjoying some holiday rest. The situ-
ation is much stronger with the beginning of
the new year than it was a year ago at this
date, both as to price and conditions govern-
ing trade. All grades ol hardwoods have ma-
terially advanced.

One of the important moves inaugurating
the new year business is the formation of the
Mershon-Bacon Company with a capitalization
of $50,000, the stockholders being W. B. Mer-
shon. E. C. Mershon and Ansley W. Bacon.
These gentlemen have purchased the Bay City
property of Mershon, Schuette, Parker & Co.,
including planing mill, box factory and lum-
ber yard with piling capacity for 30.000,000
feet. The new company has taken possession
and stands to do a large and increasing busi-
ness. This is what was formerly the Eddy-
Sheldon & Co. property, and it is one of the
finest arranged and best located sites for lum-
ber business in Michigan. The largest lake
boats can discharge cargo at the yard docks
and three lines of railway have trackage in the
premises. A. W. Bacon is manager, but W. B.
.Mershon will give much time to extending the
business. This plant has heretofore been en-
gaged chiefly in the pine business, but that is to
be gradually eliminated and the hardwood in-
dustry built up for all it will stand. The box
factory has for some time been manufacturing
box stuff from hardwood culls and the Knee-
land, Buell & Bigelow Company have a contract
to furnish a number of million feet of hardwood

culls annually for five years, and 20, ,000

feet of lumber annually for five years, to be
dressed in the planing mill. W. It. Mershon has
retired from the presidency of Mershon,
Schuette. Parker & Co- and the active man-
agement of the concern, although both himself
and his brother retain their stock holdings in
the concern. The company has, however, no
connection whatever with the Mershon-Bacon
Company. With the world of hardwood tribu-
tary to Bay City by rail and water there is a
wonderful opportunity for this company to build
up an immense business, and Mr. Mershon isn't
the man to miss any opportunity.

In a previous letter it was noted that the
Kneeland Bigelow Company, the selling company
for all the lumber manufactured by that con-
cern and the Kneeland, Buell & Bigelow Com-
pany has sold 12.000,000 to 15.000.000 feet
of maple for this year's delivery to the S. L.
Eastman Flooring Company of Saginaw. Since
that Mr. Bigelow has sold the entire cut of
hasswood this year of the two mills, estimated
at something like 3,000,000 feet, to A. C.
White of Saginaw. The price is considerably
better than basswood sold for last year. A. C.
White is the heaviest dealer in basswood in
eastern Michigan, if not in the state, making
a specialty of that wood. He handled over
7.000,000 feet last year and always carries a
number of million feet of choice lumber in
stock.

W. D. Young & Co. last week closed a deal
for 40.000.001) feet of hardwood timber in
Otsego county, the consideration being private.
This with previous holdings of this concern
will give their mill a fifteen years' stock at
20,000,000 a year. The firm manufactured 17.-
000,000 feet the last year, and calculate on
handling 20,000.000 feet of logs for this year's
cut into lumber. They always carry a large
stock" of flooring and lumber on hand and have
15,000,000 on hand at this time. There would

be less if the firm could get cars to move it, as
they are thirty days' short on their shipping
orders

The shortage of cars for hauling logs on the
Mackinaw division of the Michigan Central has
been relieved by the release of over 200 flats
which were employed on track construction on
the main line. Frank Buell alone required 104
cars every twenty-four hours, and could only
get about one-half the supply, but with the ar-
rival of the flats referred to all the cars needed
lor hauling logs on this line are available. Box
cars, however, continue to be desperately short.

E. C. Hargrave left early in the month for
Mexico, where he is extensively concerned in a
lumbering proposition. lie manufactured 250.-
111 11 1 feet of hardwood the last season and has
2111. nun feet in stock.

Bliss & Van Auken of Saginaw experienced
a marvelously successful year, the mill cutting
8,117,721 feet of hardwood lumber and about
5,000,000 feet of hemlock and pine. They closed
the year with 4, '.125,228 feet of very choice
hardwood lumber on hand and calculate to
manufacture 14,000.000 feet the current year.
The trade has only been limited by the capacity
of the railroads to fill orders for cars, and in
fact they are sold away ahead, but can't keep
up with shipments.

II. M. Loud's Sons Company at Au Sable
manufactured 0.9G0.460 feet of hardwood lum-
ber last year. The concern ships up closely
during the season of navigation, but accumu-
lates stock during the winter months. It has
furnished a number of million feet of timber
contracts for river and harbor work at Lake
Erie points and for the Michigan Central tun-
nel at Detroit.

Grand Rapids.

The January sales of furniture are opening
wi II In this market witli indications that orders
will be placed freely. Prices are decidedly higher
in tables and case goods, the only articles re
maining unchanged being odd pieces and non-
sellers that the manufacturers contemplate drop-
ping out. Business started promptly on the
opening day. January 2, and dealers from all
sections of the country report the conditions
so prosperous that a record-breaking business for
the month is anticipated in this market.

A lumber dealer of long experience in Grand
Rapids tells the Hardwood Record correspond-
ent that he has noticed that the manufacturers
who buy a good grade of lumber are the ones
almost invariably who succeed. He has watched
this thing for a long time and says it is proven
bey 1 ;i doubt that failures in business gen-
erally come to the concerns that are after cheap
and cull stock all the time.

Gov. Warner is friendly toward the forestry
movement in Michigan. He says In his annual
message at the opening of the state legislature:
"The problem of reforesting the denuded timber
lands of the state is one which calls for prompt
and intelligent solution. Early provision for
future needs should be made along lines that
will produce the best results and at the least
possible cost. Whatever plan is adopted should
embody ample provision for protecting the grow-
ing trees from fire. The growing forests should
be encouraged in every proper and legitimate
manner."

The Charlevoix Lumber Company is operating
more extensively than last year on its hardwood
holdings near Marion and already has more logs
skidded than at this time a year ago. The cut
will be about 2,000.000 feet, with a two years'
cut left in that section and with large holdings
about Horton's bay and Boyne river.

The steam barge Three Brothers, owned by the
W. II. White Company, came to dock at Boyne
City through thick ice at holiday time, discharg-
ing a cargo of baled hay, then taking on 475,-
000 feet of lumber for Chicago, where she has
been put In winter quarters.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

J. A. White of Buffalo, who was in Boyne
City to attend the annual meeting of the W. II.
Whir.' company, was detained there several 'lays

by illness. __

Indianapolis.

Tie' plant owned by tie' Kendallville Furni-
ture Company at Peru, Ind., was destroyed by
tire on Dei. '.i. The plant ami material were

valued tit $45, and tie- company carried

$29,500 insurance. The Kendallville Furniture
Company recently moved to nakdale. a suburb
,,f Peru, Erom Kendallville, Ind. The suburh
is without adequate Are protection ami on this
account the tin- could not be extinguished.

on I tee. LIT. fire that originated in tie- engine

,. n totally destroyed the planing mill leased

by the Winter, Mercer & Bvannum Lumber Com-
pany at Anderson, Ind. The loss to the Winter,
Mercer & Branuum Lumber Company was about
$15,000, fully insured, while .1. B. Bosworth,
who owned the building and machinery, lost
about $20,000, partially insured.

According to figures just compiled from the
records of the building inspector's office in In-
dianapolis, the year of 1906 fell nearly $2,

<ioo below the year 1905 in the total cost "t
buildings for which permits were issued. The
total eost of permits for 1905 was $7,225,325,
while ... it"',; ,t was only s:..:;l:l::i 7. a decrease
ol $1,901,008. The falling off was due to the
exceptionally large number oi costly office build-
ings for which permits were issued in 1905, hut
which were not completed t ill it. 1906.

The I'. T. Harrison Lumber Company has

I n incorporated with $150,000 capital stock

at Terre Haute. Ind.. by' Charles 1'. Pierson,
John T. Pierson and William T. Dry.

The Planet Lumber & Manufacturing Com-
pany, "f Laporte, has 1 n organized with $100,

capital stock to take over the business and

factory of the Planet Manufacturing Company,
which failed last spring- Henry S. Candee, of
Cairo, 111., is president of the company, and
W. i'. Taylor and Carl It. Latham are also
largely interested. The company will manufac-
ture mouldings and do a general lumber and
woodworking business.

A new concern at Indianapolis is the Wright
Lumber Company, capitalized at $15,000. The
directors an- William B. Cooley and Carl Van
Hake, of Indianapolis, and O. A. Wright, of
Maugham, La.

The Enterprise Lumber Company was recent-
ly organized at Seymour with $10,000 capital
stock by M A. St John, T. .1. St'aiifield and
.1. II. Itoake.

Asheville, N. C.

A deal in hardwood timber lands in Swain
county, North Carolina, involves the Transfer of
22;000 acres belonging t" W. A. Rexford to the
recently organized Kitchen Lumber Company, a
corporation chartered under the laws of North
Carolina, with principal offices at Bryson city.
The Kitchen Lumber Company paid Mr. Rexford
a fraction over $9 per aire for the land, or
.it,, en $200,000. The principal stockholders of
.In Kitchen Lumber Company are members ol
the firm of Vansant. Kitchen & Co. of Ashland.
Ky. The tra.t purchased by the Kitchen Lum-
ber company contains much line timber and all
the hardwoods of this section are to be found on
it. The company will establish and operate saw-
mills on the boundary and will at once begin
marketing the product. This deal was reallj
made several months ago. but it was only closed
and the .pap.-.s registered this week

A new chair company chartered in North Caro-
lina this week is the Alexander Chair Company
of Taylorsville, Alexander county.. It will manu-
facture all kinds of chairs from oak. walnut.
, I.. stunt, poplar and other woods. The capital

stock of the company is $25, i with $17,500

paid in.

The standard Chair Company of Thomasville

secured an amendment to its charter this week.
increasing the capital stock from $25,000 to
siur,. i.

It is still impossible for lumbermen to secure
an adequate supply of •■empties" and business is
hampered greatly thereby. Lumbermen are

agr I that the trade has suffered thousands

and thousands of dollars' loss during the past
year on account of the car shortage and that
there is little prospect for an early betterment
of the situation. Relative to the prevalence of
a ear shortage that has extended over months
and months of time the Asheville Lumber Ex-
change al the meeting of the North Carolina
;, neral assembly will seek to have some legis-
lation passed that will give them some relief.
It is hoped that the law can be so constructed
as to make possible the collection of penalty by
the lumber dealers tor every day that a railroad
fails or neglects to furnish ears. Although the
lumber dealers would still be unable to make
prompt shipments. I hey would at least be re-
imbursed to some extent for loss of business.

The Town Creek Railroad & Lumber Company
and the Brunswick & Southern Railroad Com
pany of Wilmington are now allied corporations.
recently organized at Wilmington for the pur-
pose of conducting extensive milling operations.
Officers of Hie new allied concerns were elected
at a recent me, ting in Wilmington, when an-
nounce ni was made that the company had

purchased some months ago the B W. Gibson
properly and that since that time it had been
quietly adding to its holdings until it has
1. iiiiii. nun. iiiiii feet of pine and cypress and our
25,000, I feet of hardw Is, The mill facili-
ties of the company have been increased ma

terially and it now lias a daily output of 75,

feet of lumber. The railroad is controlled by the
lumber company.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

The ear famine is attracting the attention
of the lumbermen and shippers generally in
this section, and while many of them favor
a reciprocal demurrage, it is generally admitted
thai it would be in a manner asking the rail-
roads to work a physical impossibility, and
with many it is doubtful whether national legis-
lation on (lie subject will aid or retard improve
tnent of the conditions, since the railroads in
this section seem to pretty thoroughly substanti-
ate their claim that they are doing everything

ill their power to relieve the eolllli t ions.

lie lumbermen report trad.- conditions very
favorable, with an upward tendency of prices.

Tile demand tor stoek is very heavy, but now
the shippers will not accept orders for quick
shipment, except upon the car shortage eon
t ingen. j

The breaking of a flywheel on the engine
at the Hampton. Trim., mill of the W. M. Bitter
Lumber Company of Columbus, Ohio, caused a
shutdown of a month. The accident occurred
last week and several persons narrowly es-
caped a tragic end The big wheel broke while
running al a speed of 145 revolutions per min-
ute and badly wrecked the mill, twisting and
leafing down the line shafting and other ma-
chinery This mill had been in operation but
three weeks when the accident occurred. It
will probably I"' started again about Febru-
ary 1.

I'lie W. M. Rittcr Lumber Company has pur-
chased tie mills and timber of the Baleigh
Lumber Company, south of Charleston. W. Va..
and has assumed the control and operation of
same. Several foremen from the Carter County,
Tennessee, and the I'ineola. X. C, operations
of tie compa'nj have been transferred to the
new- West Virginia operation.

Paul W. Fleck of the Paul W. Fleck Lumber
Company of Philadelphia is looking after his
company's interests in this city. Mr. Fleck is
much gratified with tie conditions and outlook
for the lumbei business ill the Bristol dis-
trict.

John T. Dixon of the John T. Dixon Lumber
Company of Elizabethton. Tenn.. and Dixon &
Dewey, New York, was a visitor in the city last
week.

The Fenwick Lumber Company, recently or-
ganized by James Strong, former bead of the
James Strong Lumber Company of this city,
and associates, is preparing to begin the con-
struction of a band mill with an annual ca-
pacity of I'll. ,000 feet at Fenwick, W. Va..

on its timber property in Nicholas and Green-
briar counties. ,

The offices of the Tug River Lumber Com-
pany and Boice, Burns & Offett have been moved
from the Susong building into more commodious
quarters on the second floor of the new First
National Bank building.

Joseph P. Dunwoody, of Joseph I'. Dunwoody
& Co., Philadelphia, is a prominent visitor in
the city this week

Fred W. Hughes, local representative of
Price & Herald, of Baltimore, is receiving the
congratulations of his friends over the arrival
of a young lumberman at his home on Windsor
avenue.

J. W. Difenderfer. of the J. W. Difenderfer
Lumber Company, Philadelphia, is in this sec-
lion on business and to look over bis company's
mills at Damascus ami hurry up orders.

T. II. Carrier and <>. II. Vial were among
the Johnson county lumbermen visiting in the
city this Week.

Thomas E. Nixon, representing Wistar, Un-
derbill & I'm., of Philadelphia, is buying hard-
wood lumber in this section this week.

Clarence I.. Meckley, a Philadelphia wholesale
lumberman, is in the city this week.

R. L. Withnell, representing Duncan. Kwiug
& Co., Ltd.. of London. England, is buying
hardwood stock in this section this week for
export.

c. F. Cullman has succeeded II. G. Bramm as
general manager of the Bristol operations of
Charles A. Schieren & Co.. of New York. Mr.
Bramm having entered the wholesale furniture
business iii Bristol.

Cincinnati.

The proposed creation of a perpetual furni-
ture exposition to embrace the products of Cin-
cinnati's fifty furniture manufactories as well
as those of allied interests, was discussed at a
recent meting of the Queen city Furniture
Club. The club expects to take up the subject
in the near future with a view to making the
exposition a reality. In addition to the furni-
ture exhibits it is intended to display the prod-
ucts of lumber manufactories, hardwood deal-
ers, varnish factories and kindred interests.

At the monthly meeting of the Cincinnati
Lumbermen's Club, held at the Business Mens
Club, the proposed furniture exhibit for this
city whs discussed and indorsed. Arrangements
were made for the meeting of the union dealers
ai the i iiand Hotel on January Hi. '-"J and 23,
and for a concatenation of Hoo-Hoo on the
:2nd, when fifty candidates will be admitted.
The invitation extended by the Indiana Hard-
wood Lumbermen's Association to attend their
banquet and home-coming at Indianapolis, on
January 11, was accepted, and a large delega-
tion will be sent. The delegates who attended
the recent Reciprocal Demurrage Convention at
Chicago reported on the work done at that meet
iug which, they say. will be of much assistance.
Creditors" of the Gallipolis Furniture Com-
pany, of Gallipolis, Ohio, met in Cincinnati re-
cently, and appointed a committee to take
charge of the creditors. A Columbus public
accountant was engaged to go through the com-
pany's books. The assets of the firm are said
to he si 4ii. nun and the liabilities $1S0,000.

W. A. Bennett, of Bennett & Witte, has been
nominated for the presidency of the Chamber
of Commerce on the regular ticket. The elec-
tion will take place January 9.

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27

Aboul 100, feet of timber lias been Boated

up the Millet k from the Ohio river to the

mills of the Mai. -v. Thompson ..v. Moffett
Company. This company is the first to use
the Millcreek for commercial purposes. The
present high stage of the creek has made it
possible for the log rafts to !><• Boated to with-
in 150 feet of the mill, where they are now
anchored. After the water recedes M will leave
them dry, when they can be dragged to the mill.

I.e Grande A. Harris, lumberman of Honaker,
Va., arrived in Cincinnati on December 26,
when he was to be married to Miss Susan Moore,
of Harrisburg, Ky. The bride to he was twen
ty-four hours late and the ceremony was de-
layed. On the evening of December 27, how-
ever, they were married at the liavlin hotel.

.1. T. Hanna, of the Wiborg & Hanna C

pany, has returned from a business trip through
the south.

'the following members of the Cincinnati Lum-
bermen's Club, appointed by President T. .1.
Moffett. attended the Reciprocal Demurrage Con
vention in Chicago: M. B. Farrin. chairman;
\V. A. Bennett, W. W. Stone. I. M. Asher, A.
A. Andridge, II- P. Wiborg, J. w. Graham. I..
G. Banning, S. \v. Richey, George Littleford,

It. 1'. Dnlweber, F. Ii. Mowbray, R. Rie ier,

I.. II. Case and L. \V. Darling.

The Cincinnati Belt Railway & Terminal Com:
pany. preliminary capital $100,000, was incor-
porated at Columbus by T. .T. Moffett. W. A.
Bennett, A. G. Brunsman, M. B. Farrin. Fred
A. Geier, .lanes .1. Hooker, .1. C. Hobart, R. 11
West, A. J. t'onroy. K. 10, Williamson. George
r. Dieterle, Casper II- Rowe, .1. T. McHugh,
Maurice .1 Freiberg and Alberl Bettinger. The
Cincinnati belt line is thus i 11 the hands of a
regularly authorized company which will pro-
ceed at onee 1,1 the gathering of its capital, its
organization and then to active work. Con-
struction on the belt line will begin before
summer. There is much talk among those in-
terested of electing Thomas .1. Moffett. of the
Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company, presi-
dent of the new organization. Subscrip
tions will be issue, I in the near future and a
limit will be placed, allowing not more than
$1,000 to an individual. It is the intention of
the promoters of the enterprise to preserve Its
character as a citizens1 movement, and to this
end the subscriptions will lie limited in amount.

There is every prospect for a boost in the

prii f poplar during the next two weeks. A

limited supply of that item has caused the ad-
vance. Those that have poplar on hand are
holding out for higher prices!

The M. P.. Farrin Lumber Company has made
arrangements for the erection of a two story
brick office building directly adjoining the old
office. This will double the office room of the
company and Incidentally benefit the Farrin-
Korn Lumber Company, which has offices at the
same location.

. A. I.. Nannuys, of this city, who has been
employed as manager of the Ferd Brenner Lum-
ber Company at Salisbury, N. C, has resigned
his position and will return to tic Queen- City.

Ernst A. Jvrauss. vice president of the Shore
Saw Mill & Lumber Company and a heavy
stockholder of the Krausst.vnn Lumber Com-
pany, of Cleveland, Ohio, passed away * recently
at his residence, after an illness of three
months.

M. It. Farrin. of 1 he M. 1'.. Farrin Lumber
Company, will leave the early pari of February
for his annual trip abroad. He expects to be
gone three months or more. I luring bis absence
Chester F. Korn will have charge.

The monthly report of the Chamber of Com-
merce shows that 5.G63 ears of- lumber were
received in Cincinnati, while 4,584 were shipped.
Cars are hard to get, in this territory, as is evi-
dent from the figures shown.

Despite several drawbacks to the lumber trade
this market, one of the greatest hardwood cen-
ters in the world, has experienced a year of

unprecedented prosperity, witli an encouraging
outlook for ltinT. The business of 1905 was
conservatively valued at $50,000,000, and repre
sentatives of the Largest lumber firms in Cin-
cinnati estimate the increase in 1906 oxer 1905

from HI to 25 per cent. Tile lowest of these.

therefore, would make the business of 1906
worth $55,000,000, while the average of the
estimates would make it over $57,000,000

W. A. Bennett, of Bennett >V Witte, says:
"Our business for the year of 1906 has by far
e\reede,l that of 1905 and from present indi-
cations the year 1907 will he even more active."

.1. E. Tuthill. general manager of the Cypress
Lumber Company, says: -Last year was one
of our best years, and the year previous to that
was the best, showing an increase every year.
The demand for all grades of lumber during

the year was very g I and the general range

of prices strong."

The Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Company
reports that in sizing up the year 1906 it found
that its business had greatly Increased over last
year's, and that it will continue during 1907 is
evident from lite amount of orders already re-
ceived. The company has on tile orders for
lumber for three months, most of which are
large ones.

R. McCracken, of the Kentucky Lumber Com-
pany, says: "The year just passed was one of
tie most prosperous in the company's career,
there being only one had feature, the car short-
age, which cut in on about IT. per cent of the
prolits. Prices were satisfactory and a brisk
demand held out the whole year. From pres-
ent indications 1907 will be better in almost
every respect. We have plenty of timber on
hand to keep our three mills going for at least
six to eight months, and if cars are obtainable
a rushing business will ensue."

Owing to tin- swampy conditions of the Mis-
sissippi valley, the gum region, the Kentucky
Lumber Company has been forced to suspend
business in that territory and operations will
not I,,- resumed until about the first of March.

'file company has a g 1 amount of logs already

cut. and as soon as the weather is more favor
abb- will have an abundance of gum lumber on
hand.

■•The members of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's
Club have had a remarkably successful year,"
said T. .1. Moffett, president of the club, "and
the indications are that the prosperous condi-
tions w-ill continue for another twelve months.
It has been a seller's market all year, with no
surplus slock. Lumbermen enter the new year
with smaller stocks than a year ago. Keports
show tin unusually huge sale of furniture,
pianos, etc.. requiring hardwoods, and heavy
demands will continue to be made for some
time on the lumber supply. Lumber has not

ndvan I in value in keeping with the increase

in other materials the past year. The vast
amount of construction work going on in till
parts of the country is cleaning up entire lum-
ber yards. Our club has been Interested in
the past year in securing better railroad rates,
a belt line for Cincinnati, Improved insurance
conditions, an Improved grading system and

oiler vemeiits. and litis I n getting good re

suit s "

Friends of 'I'. .1. Moffett assert that he will
In- the next mayor of Cincinnati, but when he
was asked concerning it In- immedin tel y said
that he would not accept the nomination tor a
million dollars.

Chattanooga.
While none of the lumbermen of this city at-
tended the National Demurrage Convention held
in Chicago. January f and 5, they are all
nevertheless interested in the question. Every
lumberman in the city has been brought face to
face with the conditions and has had various
annoying experiences. Speaking on this subject
recently, I-'. W. Blair, a prominent lumberman
of Chattanooga, said: "About three weeks ago I

ordered a car of lumber from Cohutta, Ga. It

was received ill the local yards about ten days
ago and litis not been delivered to me- yet. This
shows that it lakes about a week or ten days

for the railroads to carry a car through their

yards before they can deliver it i have found
lb. greatest trouble in this direction witli the
Southern and Alabama Clear Southern railroads
The other roads, and particularly the Nashville.
Chattanooga & SI. Louis, are more prompt in
handling ears."

There is now a slight tide tn tin- Tennessee
iiver which will bring about 1,00,0,000 [eel ol

logs to the river mills. I nis & Hart, the

li. L. .Iiidd Manufacturing Company and the
Central Manufacturing Company will benefit by
this tide. The I.oomis ,y. Hart mill is aboul the
only on,- in the city which has sufficient logs to
tun it for i wo months.

It is understood that since the city authorities
have refused to grant Snodgrass & Fields a per

mil to rebuild their mill which was i -itily

burned, the firm will probably locate its mill on
tie- Tennessee river in Fast Chattanooga. The
ciiy authorities refused to grant the permit, it
is said, because the danger of tire to the rcsi
ib nee section surrounding tie- mill was so great.

II. M. Mcintosh, representing Steele lV. Ilib

bard, of St. Louis, was here r lltly buying

lumber for his concern.

It. II. KeevV. tl Wholesale I II III I ic rtutt |) of \ew

York City, was in Chattanooga a few days ago
laying in supplies of lumber.

St. Louis.

It. it. Currier, wholesale lumberman of spring
I'n Id. Mass.. was in the city on business recently.

The Bonsack Lumber Company reports sales
for the last two months of 1906 considerably
in excess of those for a corresponding period the
year before, and is well satisfied both with the
year .just ending and with the outlook for 1907.

II. G. Buckner, of the International Hard

v I Lumber Company, was in a railroad wreck

on lice. Is. and is still confined to his house as
a result of injuries sustained at that time.

Tin- Chas. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber
Company are transacting a large amount of
business, though not nearly so much as they
would were it not for bad logging conditions
and car shortage which prevail.

A branch office of the International Ilnrdw I

Lumber Company has I n opened at Littb- Rock,

Ark.. Located at Main and Fourth streets. The
capitalization of this concern is to lie increased
shortly.

Tin- iiafner Manufacturing Company's sup
ply of cypress has recently been augmented by
huge pur, bases ; this wood is their specialty,
and they hope to make further purchases in the
near future, in order to insure ample facilities
for taking care <>i spring business

The Lothnian Cypress Company has purchased

.',ii. ,000 feet "i* cypress timber, which gives

it v>-vy extensive Stumpage holdings, and is now
transporting a huge quantity of lumber from
southern mills to this city.

The Massengale Lumber Company litis r nt

ly purchased a tine tract of oak and poplar tint
ber in Tishomingo county, Mississippi, and is
converting it into lumber. Tie- mill cuts about

,i carload a day, and the c pany hopes to get

about a million feet of lumber off ibis land to
take <:w.- ot prospective trade.

Tin- Careisnn creason Lumber Company, of
this city, will move Into Offices at rooms 1212,
1213 and 1214 new Times building. Broadway

and Chestnut sit ts. abOUt Feb. I, and extend

a cordial invitation to friends to call.

The St. Louis Car Company has increased
the capital sio, k from $2,500, to $3,

V-..1 la I ion

whereby the stat

Nashville.
have practically been completed

if Tennessee acquires I lie

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HARDWOOD RECORD

Herbert domain of coal and timber lands. There
are 11,000 acres in the tract, for which the
state pays about .$140,000. There is enough
timber on the tract to cover the purchase price
and more. The must abundant varieties are
white and red oak, there being several million
feet of each. The N. C. & St. L. Ry. will prob-
ably run a spur track through the property.

Secretary of State John W. Morton has
granted charters to new companies during the
past few days as follows :

Nashville Furniture Company. Davidson
county, capital stock, $20,000 ; incorporators :
George A. Karsh, E. G. Cullum, T. W. Cunning-
ham. J. W. Bracy and T. J. Christ man,

Roach Creek Coal, Coke & Timber Company,
Scott county, capital stock, $15,000'; incor-
porators : U. S. Carden, C. W. Willis, A. F.
Agee, A. L. Carden and W. L. Carden.

Sells Lumber & Mfg. Co.. Washington county,
capital stock, $50,000 ; incorporators : S. A.
Sells. C. T. Hayward, J. P. lib. -a. S. T. Mil-
lard and E. A. Cox.

A rather unusual find for a lumber yard was
contained in a tiny bundle spied by the watch-
man at the yards of Lieherman, l.oveman &
O'Brien of Nashville a few nights since. The
package contained a baby, a little girl only a
few hours old. When found the little one was
blue from cold and exposure, but was taken in
-charge by Ollie Williams, who lived nearby.
A mother will be found for the little one in the
near fill lire,

-I G, Kuss. of Clifton. 'JVnn., has secured
from G- L. Mucsse & Co., of Caruthersville,
Mo., the timber rights on about 8,000 acres
of hickory timber land on. the Tennessee river.
The consideration was $10,000. The new pur-
chasers will put in a mill at Clifton and another
one at Bob, six miles down the river. About
one hundred workmen will be given employment.

Arbitrators have agreed upon the loss sus-
tained in the recent tire at the plant of Lieher-
man, Loveman & O'Brien. The total damage
was figured to be $132,344. It was ascertained
that there were about 20.0o0.000 feet of lum-
ber in the yard and that about 3,500,000 feet
were burned. The insurance companies, in ar
riving at the loss, named Capt. A. W. Watrous
to represent them. lie is a well-known lumber-
man of Charleston. \V. Va. Lieberman, Love-
man &. O'Brien named John H. Baskette, of the
Prewitt-Spurr Manufacturing Company to repre-
sent them, and the two men thus selected agreed
upon Col. F. M. Hamilton, of the Indiana Lum-
ber Company.

The Estes Machine Company, Qf Davidson
county, has been chartered with a capital stock
of $5,000. Saws and saw mill machinery will
be made. The incorporators are: F. L. Estes,
W. II. Fickliug, Frank Rives, E. S. Wright and
Will Cason.

The John B. Ransom Lumber Company has
bought twelve acres of land from the J. L.
Smith Company in West Nashville, known as
the Dodge lumber yards. The company has
leased the property for some time, operating a
mill and yard on the site. The consideration
was $10,000.

A new enterprise at Huntingdon, Tenn., is a
lumber yard operated by F. S. Patrick, of Iowa.
Huntingdon is a good lumber market with a
large quantity of hardwood timber about it.

Large sales of chestnut poles to be used for
telephone and telegraph poles are reported from
Cookeville, Tenn. The men interested in the
enterprise at that point, however, are howling
about the shortage of cars and claim that 300
cars could not get away with the supply that
has been accumulated at that point. The poles
are of every length and size and are bringing
all the way from 50 cent? to $8 apiece.

Considerable activity In the timber line is re-
ported from Overton county, around Livingston,
Tenn. The Hankins-Spreck Lumber Company
has sold to the Welch Stave Company, of Mon-

terey, the white oak timber on its holdings for
$3 t.r.uo. This is about one-third of the value
of the standing timber owned by the Haukins-
Spreck Company. The report that a railroad is
to be run from Livingston to a point in Ken-
tucky, joining with the Queen & Crescent, has
caused no little excitement. Such a line would
open up a rich timber and mineral section.

The Lamous Wagon Company, of Greenville.
Tenn., has just completed a large plant which
greatly increases its capacity. Farm wagons
will be manufactured as a specialty. Spring
wagons, shacks, buggies and other spring vehi-
cles will also be manufactured, however. Im-
proved woodworking machinery will be installed
at once.

Two railroads, one steam and the other elec-
tric, are being promoted at Nashville just now
that will open up large timber sections in Ten-
nessee. They are the Nashville & Huntsville
railroad, a line to be run through Nolensville,
Triune. Eagleville, Lewisburg and other points
southwest, to Huntsville, Ala. The other is an
electric railway, the Nashville & Lewisburg.
which will tap pretty much the same territory.
The electric line will have a freight service,
like the steam line, however, and each system
expects In do a large business in hauling lumber
and other products from this new section.

Several of the local lumber firms are much in-
terested in a complaint to the state railroad
commission asking that body to take up the
matter of regulating terminal charges made by
the L. & N. Terminal Company and the Nash-
ville terminals. It is claimed that in some in-
stances as much as 12% per cent a hundred
is being charged for switching in the city.

A special to Nashville for Brownsville, Tenn ,
announces the sale of the planing mill run by
the Hurt Smith Company of that town, to sat
isfy a general creditors' bill.

William Martin, at White Bluff, has put in a
large saw mill near that place on the Gum
Spring branch. Hardwood is said to be rather
plentiful in that particular section in spite of
the largely increased number of saw mills.

Memphis.

The Bellgrade Lumber Company, which has
bei n formed by members of Crenshaw & Cathey
and Thompson & McCIure of this city, and
which is capitalized at $100,000, has been
granted a charter and will be ready for opera-
tion in a short time. The two firms which
have united iu the formation of this company
will, at least for the present, continue their
business separately. The offices of the Bell-
grade Lumber Company are in the Randolph
building, this city, being between the rooms
occupied by Thompson & McCIure and Cren-
shaw & Cathey. The officers are : W. L. Cren-
shaw, president : A. N. Thompson, vice-presi-
dent : J. W. McCIure, secretary-treasurer ; T.
M. Cathey, general manager, and F. P. Gear-
hart, assistant manager. The company has
secured timber rights on approximately 9,000
aens of hardwood timber lands near Belzoni.
Miss., and will erect a band mill at that point
for the development thereof.

The Brasfield-Thompson Lumber Company,
with a capital stock of $50,000, is another con-
cern recently chartered in this city. The In-
corporators are : George M. Brasfield, formerly
president and owner of the Memphis Stave
Manufacturing Company and an extensive owner
of timber lands in Mississippi ; J. W. Thompson,
president, and A. L. F'oster, assistant treasurer,
respectively, of the J. W. Thompson Lumber
Company, and E. C. Turner. Organization has
not yet been perfected, but It is generally un-
derstood that Mr. Brasfield will be elected presi-
dent and general manager and Mr. Thompson
vice-president. The company has purchased tim-
ber lands and a large band sawmill on the
Cache river near Biseoe, Ark., on the Rock
Island. The timber will be handled almost

exclusively by water. The offices of the com-
pany will be In the Rogers building.

The Southern Handle Company, Memphis; the
Southern ilaudle Company, Huntsville, Ala.;
the Royal Handle Company, Harrisburg, Ark.,
and the Beamer Handle Company, Manor, Pa.,
have combined to operate under the name of
the Consolidated Handle Company, with a capi-
tal stock of $1,000,000. The offices are to be in
Memphis. M. R. Grace, president of the South-
ern Handle Company of Memphis and Hunts
ville. has been elected president. The company
has taken out a charter under the laws of New
Jersey and the proper papers are being filed
with the states in which it will operate. Mr.
Grace has been working on this consolidation
for about two years and has been kept back
by the refusal of the Turner. Day & Woolworth
Handle Company of Louisville to enter it. The
new company controls ten handle factories in
Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and
Pennsylvania. Eastern offices will be main-
tained at I'ii tsliurg, Pa., but these will be
subordinate to those in Memphis.

The committee which recently went to St.
Louis from the Lumbermen's Club to appear be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Commission at
its hearing regarding the car shortage has made
its report to the club and has received its dis-
charge. The committee, in its testimony before
the commission, made a number of valuable
suggestions, including a decided increase in the
terminal facilities of the roads operating in
Memphis and the surrounding territory ; a large
increase in the amount of equipment in use
thereon, and the placing of carload shipments
of otton on a basis different from that in
force at present, so that cotton shippers in
this section will be on a footing where they
will have to pay demurrage just as other
shippers do. The committee likewise strongly
maintained in its testimony that cotton is no
more perishable than lumber, as evidenced by
the fact that cotton is stored on the streets
"i Memphis and other cities for weeks and
otherwise handled in a manner more careless
than any experienced lumberman would allow
in the handling of his lumber. In its report
to the Lumbermen's Club the committee recom-
mended the appointment of a permanent car
shortage committee to co-operate with the rail-
roads with a view to preventing a recurrence
of unfavorable traffic conditions.

Following close upon the St. Louis meeting
the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis sent a
much larger delegation to Chicago to partici-
pate in the National Reciprocal Demurrage Con-
vention which has been in session in that city
during the past few days and of which S. B.
Anderson, one of the most prominent lumbermen
of this section, has been made permanent chair-
man. The car situation has been more serious
this year than ever before, and lumbermen have
given more time and money to the correction of
the evil than they have ever previously devoted
to any phase of lumber transportation. Some
lumbermen say there is slight improvement in
the situation, but others maintain that there Is
no betterment whatever. There is less lumber
to move because of the cessation in produc-
tion and the small amount of timber cut dur-
ing the past few weeks, and the situation there-
fore should be slightly better for this if for no
ether reason. But lumbermen here who have
mills in the interior or who handle the output
of Memphis territory mills say they are having
very great difficulty in securing cars.

Weather conditions during the past fortnight
have been about as unfavorable for hardwood
lumber manufacture and logging operations as
could be well imagined. There have been fre-
quent rains and the woods are now so wet
that it will be some weeks, even with a cessa-
tion of rainfall, which is by no means certain,
before logging operations can be resumed on
anything like a normal scale. The amount of
timber already cut and awaiting transporta-

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Hon by either water or fail is far below the

average, perhaps the smallest ever 1 wn at

ihis- season. Stocks of lumber drj enough Cor

shi] 1 are painfully small and the amount

being placed on sticks, owing to tin- [nterrup
tions i" production recently experienced, is also
\i' small. Some 01' tin- big mills are in
operation and are getting out timber regardless
of iii'' unfavorableness of the weather, but the
smaller mills are almost all out "i c mis tot

.1. (I. Iiliss of Clifton, Ti'lili., has jus! closed
a deal in which he has sold i" Caruthersville

1 Mo. 1 .111.1 Cli n i Iowa 1 ' apitalists sin. mm

worth ni' hickory timber Lands near thai plan',
ih.' purchasers will put in plants al Clifton
and Bob, Trim.. I'm' the development of the

timber, which will give employ ni 10 about

200 persons 'Tin' timber will be worked into
buggj and carriage stock. This is the second
large deal in hickory in thai section recently.

.1. B. Galloway, manufacturer of plow- beams
ai Clarendon, Ark., has purchased 3,100 acres

of hardw I timber land near Des Arc, Ark.,

and will remove his plant from the former
10 iiic tatter place

The Fourche River Lumber Company, which
owns extensive timber lands in Arkansas, h.i ,

Bled a certificate with the secretary of state,
increasing iis capital slock from $500,000 to
$800,000. The company has been engaged for
sonc tunc in the construction of a railroad
which is to be an importanl factor in the de
elopmenl of its timber holdings.
Tin' Bank of Wilmar, Wilmar, Ark., has
brought suit in the Chancerj Court here against
the Bankers' Trust Company, Lena Hastings.
Jamie Hastings and the American Building &
1.0. in Association, in which it makes the allega-
tion that B. B. Hastings, late president of the
Hastings Lumber Company, whose Midden death

caused considerable surprise in lumber and

mi icial circles, was insolvent al the time of
Ids death. The suit is brought primarily for

the purpose of collecting an alleged indel Iness

ni $4,743.54 Incurred bj Hastings last October.
The bill further alleges that, in order to raise
money. Hastings had given several trust deeds
on the same property. His sudden death was
attributed to heart disease.

The following new members have been taken
in by the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, bring
ing the total to 100 : R. E. Lee Wilson of Lee
Wilson & Co., Wilson. Ark.: 10. Payson Smith
of the Payson Smith Lumber Company, Mime
apolis, Minn.; II. .1. Dudley of the Dudley Lum-
ber Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.; .1. 10
Meadows of the Advance Lumber Company,

■Memphis; 10. M. Ford of I he lit' f the same

name; C. A. Lacj of Lacy Brothers & Kimball;
G. M. Brasfield of the newly-incorporated Bras-
field Thompson Lumber < lompany.

'Idle annual election of officers will he held
by the Lumbermen's Club Saturdaj evening,
January 12. A supper will be given al 7 p. m.
at the Hotel Gayoso, after which the fate oi

the various candidates will he decided. The

two tickets, which have been published in full

in the Hakdwood Record, are headed in G ge

D. Burgess ami w. s. Darnell, respectively.
No steps have yet been taken regarding the
annual banquet, but this will probably lie done
at Hie meeting to lie held next Saturday.

New Orleans.
Nlcaraguan advices at this point ate to the
effect that the George D. Emery Company, the
mahoganj exporting firm of Boston, has up
pealed to the United States government
through United Slates Minister Merry for help
in iis light to regain control nf its big plant in
Nicaragua, which has been seized bj the goi
ernment of that republic, because it was
charged that the Emery companj had been
guilty of violating its concession. The big plant

of the mahogany exporting firm was seized some
time ago, hut after considerable wrangling it

was decided 10 allow the differences nf the lum

bermen and the governmet tie arbitrated.

\o« . however, it is understood i 'en the 1
people are afraid of being unfairly deall with

I have asked that a United stales warship

lie sent lo Bluefields to protect their interests.
i he pla f t he company was seized o ten

Weeks ago. tile eXCUSe of the \ i e;| I'.'l g 1 1 a II goV

ernment being that the company had violated
its contract in that it had -old supplies and pro-
visions to persons other than those employed bj
ii. The plant consists of a number of ware
houses, a fleet of laun, -lies, docks at Bluefields

and a coasting steamship. Vulii. all valued at
$^50,000. Tie' matter was goni over i>,\ the
lOmen representatives and arbitration of the
claims was decided upon, it is feared, though,
thai the arbitration will he unfavorable to the

• oiiip.'iiiv and that il will not get a lair deal.

it is for this reason that the United states
govern nt has I n appealed to.

Tim A .1. (Tailor Lumber Company, with
$100,000 capital, has been organized in New
Orleans to carrj mi a general export business

in lumber and staves. II (fleers of the com

pany are: A. .1 Cri r, president ; .1. 1'.. Bate-
man, .ft-., vice-president; It. II. Wolfe, secretary
t reasurer.

Advices from Lake Charles, La., tire to the
effect thai the Chicago Land ,\_ Lumber Com-
pany will contest the recent sale of its holdings
in Calcasieu parish lo a syndicate headed by W.

Scot. Matthews. Approximately 17. t acres of

hardwood timber is involved. The Matthews
syndicate acquired tin- title lo the land from
M. W. Greeson of I rescott, Ark., and associates,
who had purchased il from an attorney in
Washington named Robertson. Dr. George
Hall, president of the Chicago Land & Lumber
Company, who is ai Lake Charles, says Robert-
son had no right lo sell, and il is believed the
case will he taken into the courts. .Matthews
el al. paid SITU. n 'or the land.

It is staled from Gulfport, Miss, that the
total lumber shipments from there in 1906 ex-
ceeded the shipments nf 1905 by neatly 100,

000.000 feet. Tl xpotis in the first named

year amounted to 293,125,000 feet, as against
L'07.c.l4. eel exported in 1905.

The interesting trial of W. 10. Brewer and
F. r. Brewer, millionaire lumbermen of Wis-
consin, who were charged in the United states
court here with having conspired lo defraud the

ei cut in certain land deals in Catahoula

parish, this slate, has been brought lo a .lose.
I' iv Brewer was declared not guilty, while
the jury could not agree in the case of the
elder Brewer and Josiah Ininlap. who was
charged with the same offense in conjunction

with I he nt her I w n

Telegraphic advices from r.'lisacola. Lla .
state that the big plant of the German-Ameri
• an Lumber Company at Milville, Fla'., was

totally destroyed by iii arly on the morning

m |i iiiiicr 21. The loss was estimated ai

$100,000. It is underst t that the plant will

be immediately rebuilt. The principal owners
of the company are F. It. Julius Schryer of
Bremen, Germany, and IL II. Boyer of Pensa-
cola. The insurance on the plant, it is said.
amounts lo $52,000.

The Railroad Commission of Louisiana has
in, a in session here for the last three days

listening to Hi mplaints of the lumbermen

against the railroad companies. Considerable

mi has i a taken, but no decision has

been announced by the commission.

The new Louisiana Export, Box & Lumber
Company, which lias grown out of a merger of
tlie Murphy Lumber and Bates-McAvoy Box com-
panies, is now readj to proceed with the build-
ing of it new plant across the river from New

Orleans. A box factory 1 j 2 i ami a

private wharf 384 feet in length will he con
Structed. The lew company is capitalized al
s 'i.n.iimi and the following are the officers: N.

N\ Murphy, president; Charles 10. McAvoy, vice-
president, and 10. 10. Johns. in. secretary I fas
iiei- 'lie company will spend about $100,000
mi iis new plant and expects to manufacture
about live carloads of stuff per day. while it
will handle for export an average of from live
i" fifteen carloads daily.

The Standard Box Factory of Baton Rouge is
looking I'm- a large site on which lo rebuild.
The company is now negotiating for a tract
adjoining i he site of its burned plant. An
adjustment of the losses of the company show
that Urn hie cost il $50,000, which was cov-
et.',1 by si::.'. mm insurance.

The recent announcement of the death of L.
N. Dantzlor, president of the Dantzler Lumber
Companj of Moss Point, Miss., has been re-
ceived with regret in lumber circles throughout
this territory. Mr. Dantzler was a native of
Mississippi and was ;:: years of age lie organ-
ize! the lumber company which heats his name
in Lss7. The aged lumberman is survived by
four sons Col. .1. Lewis Dantzler, L. Noll
Dantzler, Air. I' Dantzler and Dr. G. I! Dantz-
ler.

Toledo.

During mm; Toledo hardwood lumber dealers
enjoyed the most prosperous year in the his-
tory of the trade. The demand lot hardwood
finish .lining the year was unprecedented, as the
city enjoyed an eta of ..nice and shop building
of no small proportions, while there have never
before been so many modern dwellings and flat
buildings erected as during 190G. The city
building inspector's office issued 1,303 permits
of a total valuation of $4,698,958 during the
year, which is more than r>2 per cent greater
than the total valuation of building done during
1905.

George I;. Stine of the Belcher-Stine Lumber
Company has returned to Arkansas to look after
the interests of the concern at Belcher, having
spent a couple weeks here with his family.

Robert Hixon of the Robert Hixon Lumber
Company left before the holidays for California
to spend the remainder of the winter. lie will
he located ai Pasadena.

Barney ('revision, formerly interested in the
Paulding Lumber Company al Paulding, has
again become interested in the concern, fie sold
1 is Ml. Victory yard to the Robert Hixon Lum-
ber i lompany last February.

C. Ralph Bowersox of Bryan, O., secretary of
the I'.iiins Lowcrsox Lumber Company and stock-
holder ni th" Eureka Hoop Company, surprised
Ins many friends in announcing a few days ago

his marriage to Miss Lenore Grant of l'i.u r,

Ohio, the marriage having been kept a secret
sin.e i iscember 15.

Wausau.

J. I.. Wells on January 1 again assumed
charge of the Girard Lumber Company's busi-
ness at Dunbar, after an absence of two years,
during which time be was in Canada.

G. W. Hanley, secretary of the Stevens Lum-
ber Company at Marinette, is confined in a sani-
tarium as a result of a fall. His condition does
n. ii improve very fast.

A huh factory will he in operation in Alliens
ah. mi February 1. The principal stockholders
ate Geo. Sutter. Ceo. Ivreu I zcr and IL B. Essel-
nian. Carriage hubs will he manufactured ex
tvely at the start and there is sufficient hub
timber in that locality to supply one factory I'm'
twenty years.

The MacKir n Manufacturing Company of

G eel Rapids reports .a very sui ssful year.

with Sod. (mil worth of orders already "ti the
i k, i"t 1907

Perhaps lor the first time in the history of
logging operations in Hie N'orthwest a number
ni companies this year supplied their camp
I a hies wilh turkey and accessories on Christmas
day. The crews enjoyed all the (aide luxuries

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,,i ;i Uotel Among thi companies to thus serve
their men is noted the Bradley and the John
Oelhafen companies oi Tomahawk; Langley .x
Alderson and the R. C. Thielman Company of
.Morrill ; the Heinemann Lumber Company of
Heinemann and the Worden Lumber Company of
Ann-. i. li is s.i hard to secure men this winter
that the employers will meet most any demand
to keep them at work.

The Glidden Veneer Company, which has been
enlarging its plain at Glidden and buying more
timber, expects to employ 300 hands soon and
this number may shortly I"' increased to 500.
The company also expects to build a sawmill this
winter.

The Wansaii W. C. T. I'. is (his winter collect
ing papers, books and magazines, which are
packed ami shipped to the logging crews in
ramps.

A. II. Stange, one of Merrill's leading manu-
facturers, lias announced his intention of build-
ing a sawmill and W lworking plant iu

Grand Rapids, to cost $100,000. He has
chosen thai city because it has an outlet on four
railroads, while Merrill has but one. 10. \Y.
lOllis of Grand Rapids will be one of the in-
corporators "1" the new concern. Hardwood floor-
ing and fixtures will be the main products of
the factory.

The Morgan Sash & Door Company of Oshkosh
has purchased a site at the corner of Blue Island
avenue and Wood street, Chicago, for the erec-
tion of a large warehouse ami a factory for odd
work in the sash and door line. The factory
will lie iii operation ah.nu April 1. The main
building will he 240x100 feet in size, four stories
and a basement, of brick . construction. 11. A,
Sellin will he the Chicago manager. The
Morgan company suffered a disastrous Are in its
Oshkosh plant in October.

J. W Wells has retired as general manager
Of the I. Stephenson Company's interests at
Wlls, Mich., which includes a sawmill, har.l

w 1 factory and shingle mill. The business i-

owned by the Wells estate of Milwaukee and
by I. Stephens.. n of Marinette. Wis., and the
hitler will manage the business iu the future.
Mr. Wells expects to spend the winter in Cali-
fornia.

The Crookston Lumber Company of Minne-
apolis lias offered a reward of $1,000 tor in-
formation regarding Leroy J. Kelly, the firm's
bookkeeper, who disappeared November 20 in
Milwaukee. His baggage was found in a Mil-
waukee hotel, but all trace of him has been Inst,
lie was twenty three years of age anil resided at
Crookston, Minn.

At a recent session of the Wisconsin railroad
rate commission it was decided that a rate of
so p.-r cent of the present tariff on lumber be-
tween points in Wisconsin be hereafter charged
lor clippings. The same percentage -shall hold
good wher. there is a joint rate on two or more
roads. The matter was brought before the com-
mission by W. J. Campbell of Oshkosh.

A. i'. McComb of Oshkosh recently dispose. 1

of i" acres of lands in Iron county to the

Hamilton-Smith Company, a trust company and

others of Chicago. The sale price was $100,

The lauds are located near Hurley, on the <\ ..V
N.-W. Ry.j and are covered with a growth of
red birch, maple ami scattering pin... Mr. Mc-
Comb has two other tracts of hardwood in the
same county, one of 3,200 acres, the other of
0,000. He also has a tract of 2.500 in Gogebic
county, Michigan. The reason be is disposing of
his north, rn Wisconsin holdings is that he has
become heavily interested in the South, lie has
bought 126,000 acres of oak and hickory lands in
White county, Arkansas, which it is estimated
will cut 200,000,000 feet of timber. He has
...in.- cypress holdings iu Florida and a sawmill
at West Point, Ark.

The Black River Falls Lumber & Mercantile
Association has let a contract to Horace Ball
and Sol I'aquette to cut about 250,000 feet of

hardw 1 on Morrison creek. This will be the

lasi lumber cm in Jackson county.

When w 1 1. Connor of Marshfield, Wiscon-
sin's new lieutenant governor, is not mixing iu
politics lie is attending strictly- to his extensive
iiusiin ss Though reputed to be a millionaire.
he .Ions a ma. kinaw jacket and woodsman's rub-
bers and makes the rounds of his dozen or more
.amps, mingling with the •'lumberjacks" and
eating camp cooking. His company will this
winter cut 20,000,000 feet of mixed timber at
its nine camps mar l.a.ma and several millions
more near Stratford and other places.

Co. M. Maxson, who lately retired as man-
ager of the Girard Lumber Company's interests
,ii Dunbar, has formed a co-partnership with
Win. 10. and Finnic A'. Cooper of Milwaukee and

they hav ganized the Cooper & Maxson Lum-

i.ei Company, with headquarters in the latter
. in The capital stock is $25,000.

Ashland.

The various tributaries of the iilii... including
the Guyandotte and Big Sandy rivers, are on

quite a rise in consequence of rt nt heavy

rains. There is a small output of timber, which

was left stranded by the r nt rise hi these

two st renins. The local millmen hope to have
lumber ready for shipment by March 1 from
their present cutting, but as it is stocks are
so broken that orders are refused every day,
and thing- mingly at a standstill iu

local markets.

John F. Daniels of Catlettsburg has closed
a big timber deal, buying up all the timber of
William and Grant Thornburg on the Elkhorn
and that ..f Bentley & Belcher in the Big
Sandy. Mr. Daniel lias already disposed of
the timber iu the Big San.h .

Articles of incorporation have been tiled at
Frankfort by Hie Radburn Heading & Lumber
Manufacturing Company of Rowan county. The
capita] stock is $6,000 and the incorporators are
W. B. Whitt, M. T. Dillon and J. P. Wbitt.

John A. Bentley of Pikeville has sold to the
General Lumber Company a large tract of tim-
ber. Consideration is sin.

Rush F. Williamson of Catlettsburg has ac-
cepted a position with the Ohio Valley Lumber
Company as manager of their vast interests oil
t he Kent in ky river.

The Probst-Beggs Furniture Company of
Huntington. \y. Ya., has been incorporated to
i.wn real estate tor warehouses, lumber yards,
factories, etc., and to manufacture furniture.
Capital. $100,000. Incorporators: George X.
Biggs, Mrs. S. G. Biggs of Huntington. Lewis
Probst, George I Probst and Charles McKnight
of Pomeroy, (l. This furniture factory will be
quite a large one and work will begin on same
iu the early spring.

Herbert Hayward has resigned his position
with the Kenova Poplar Manufacturing Com-
pany to accept a more lucrative oue with a
lumber company at Battle Creek, Mich. Before
leaving Kenova he gave a dinner party to a
number of friends at the Hotel Frederick in
Huntington, W. Va.

Louisville.

W. I*. Brown & Sons Lumber Company have
bad a splendid year iu hardwood. They have
handled considerably more lumber than ever

l..re in Hie same time and are well pleased
with the bright outlook.

Barry Norman of the Ohio River Sawmill
Company seems to he well satisfied with the
year's work. They make a practice of running
their mill here double shift, and iu addition to
what they manufacture themselves, handle a
lot of hardw l lumber of all kinds.

A. P. 'Turner & Co. is one of the new ex-
clusively hardwood lumber concerns in Louis-
ville, with office in the South Louisville Bank
building. This concern is composed of .T. E.

Buscher and A. I'. Turner, who were formerly
connected with the Louisville Spoke & Bend-
ing Company. They have several mills cut-
ting for them in the country and are now fig-
uring on quite a large tract of timber on
which they expect to put a good mill, to which
tiny may also add saws for making quarter
sawn veneer. They are a little slow at present
about accepting orders, as they don't wain to
get loaded up with work they cannot furnish,
but are gradually spreading out at the pro-
ducing end. Both are good practical lumber-
men, know what they are doing, what timber
will make, and how to cut it to the best ad-
vantage.

A. 10. Norman says the hardwood business
with him is pretty much to the good. It has
been a good year all through and Hie outlook
ahead is splendid.

The Jacob Kraus Carriage Works is to move
from Lexington to Louisville and will add one
nor. to Hie local hardwood consuming factors,
of which this year lias brought a fair number.
The new consumers, in the list of which there
is a novelty works, ear works and flooring
plant, have raised the hardwood consumptive
requirements of this city about 5.000,000 feet
annually. Thej are now estimated at 200,000,-

llllll feel

Minneapolis.

Halsi d <x Booraem, who have been conduct
ing a who:.. sale hardwood business at Si. An-
thony Park, a suburb between the two cities,
have opened offices at 305 Lumber Exchange,
this .ity. iron: which they will sell a full line

of hardw 1 stocks, both northern and southern.

! i. \ are representatives in this section of the
Fullerton I'owell Hardwood Lumber Company, of
South Bend, 1 ml.

F. M. Bartelme, the local hardwood whole-
saler, will move about Feb. 1 from bis present
offices in the Ambus building to a more commo-
dious suite on Hie eighth floor of the Security
Bank building, better suited to the needs of his
expanding business. -Mr. Bartelme says he is
finding an active demand for dry stock, rather
heavier in Chicago and other points than here.
He thinks the small mills are holding their next
year's cut rather loo high.

10. 1'aysou Smith, of the Tayson Smith Lum-
ber Company, is iu northern Minnesota looking
at some pine stocks. This company has ex-
panded in the last two years, and where it
formerly carried nothing but southern hardwood,
chiefly oak and poplar, and southern pine, it
cow handles a full line of northern hardwood,
also pine and hemlock lumber and lath. A. S. .
Bliss, of the same company, says they are en-
joying an excellent run of business, and their
only complaint is the difficulty in making ship-
ments from southern mills.

D. F. Osborne, of Osborne & Clark, says their
yard trade is beginning to pick up, and dry
stock is scarce in nearly everything. The chief
interest now seems to be in securing options and
contracts for green lumber still in the log.

Minneapolis lumber shipments for the year
just closed, according to the railroad reports.
came to a total of 324,048,000 feet. In 1905
the total was 349.360.000. As the production
here feli off about 72,000,000 feet, it would look
like a great scarcity of stock, but for the fact
that this was also partly balanced by increased
receipts, amounting to 201,760.000 feet, as
against 107.312,000 feet received in 1905. The
lumber cut of the Minneapolis mills for the year
was 297.112,811 feet, and 53.717.850 lath. The
1905 cut was 368,947,000 feet of lumber and
65,699,000 lath.

Building activity for the year was the heav-
iest known, as shown by the building inspector's
total of permits. The estimated cost of build-
ings authorized was $9,432,300. not including
permits for plumbing, heating and electrical
apparatus. The record for 1905, another big
year, was $8,905,205.

HARDWOOD RECORD

3i

HardWood Market.

(By HARDWOOD EECOED Exclusive Market Reporters.)

Chicago.
As compared with the very active local buj

Ing for 1 iths past, for the last two week

trade in hardwoods in Chicago has 1 11 rather

dull. This is invariably true in this market at

this time oi year. Furniture 1 pie are all busj

arranging their samples at the furniture ex
iii.ii> and preparing for their regular sales

season. This class of trade, therefore, p"-i| es

buying until the volume of furniture sales has
been practically established. Some important
deals are reported, bul od the whole trade is

quite spotted, which is to 1 xpected for the

month of January. Every indication points to
a speedy resumption of active buying within
the next ten days.

Boston.

The market for hardwoods has 1 1 ■ > 1 ruled very
active since the first of the year, and during
the last week "i" 1900 trading was quiet. Prices
Cor the mosl pari are well held Manufactur
ing consumers have a fair amount of business
ahead and are taking very good lots. The greal
est trouble drain's have to contend with is the
slow movement of freight. Orders placed sev-
eral months ago have not 1 11 delivered In

many cases. This is largely due to the fact

that ii has I □ very difficult to get cars at

mill points. Furniture manufacturers were very
busy during the last few in. mi lis of last year,
inn are now taking account of stock.

The market for piain oak is very firmly held.
For one inch, firsts and spends, the ruling quo-
tation is $53 i" $55. Offerings of the latter
arc not large. A prominent dealer states that
it is difficult to get the best western lumber
for this market, as western consumers are will-
ing to pay better prices than are obtainable
here. Quartered oak, 1-inch, tirsis and seconds,
is in fair call, with offerings limited, at $78

to $80. C 1m.11 quartered oak is plentiful.

The market for whitewood is very firm and
offerings are small. Leading dealers state1 thai
they anticipate a material shortage in supplies
of desirable stork, and higher prices. Cypress
is also well held, but the demand at present is
quiet. Brown ash is firm, with offerings small

New York.

The local conditions in hardwoods are not
only on a yen- satisfactory basis for this season
of the year, but are full of promise as regards
the ouih.ok for spring trade. 1'ricrs are well
maintained. There is a shortage noted in all
kinds ot" good lumber. Every buyer who returns
from a trip among lie' mills in quest of stock
brings the same story of tow supplies and very
tirm prices. Willi the result that those whole-
sale houses or manufacturers who have any
stock in hand are holding out tirm for a full
realization as the spring season opens. II is
true that a trip among the mills in certain sec-
tions will reveal a fair amount of [umber on
hand, hut the actual fact is thai almost all such

Stock has 1 n sold and awaits delivery by

reason of the car shortage.

The export trade shows a much better tone

than it did al this time last year and n at

yisiiors from abroad all acknowledge that they
can see nothing in the domestic situation hut
what points to the fad thai the foreign buyers
must meet current values in order to supply
their wants. This was not so last year, when
the foreign markets were holding off almost as
a unit with a tirm belief that prices would
slump.

The general trend of trade in the matter of
demand still favors good and No. 1 common
plain oak. ash. birch, chestnut and poplar, hut
the balance of the ii>t is enjoying a very fair
call also. Low grade lumber while, of course.
much more plentiful than the better grades is.
nevertheless, being absorbed in sufficient volume
to maintain juices on a firm scale.

Philadelphia.
A satisfactory hardwood market, witli glow
ing prospects for future trade, is the report of

Philadelphia lumbermen The seeming apathy

in business circles at this time of the year
argues nothing, as it covers the period of stock
taking. The car shortage is still troublesome,

and there u i yidence as yet, unfortunately,

of improvement along this line.

Among the hardw Is. poplar and chestnut

are mosl in demand, and both are very scarce
l'.asswoid and asli remain til in. and oak is still
a goo 1 seller. Quartered oak is not quite so
active. Low grade red cherry is running some
what ahead of the high grade, and red cherrj
planks, in all grades, find a ready market.

fir eastern Pennsylvania furniture factories
are all humming. Kail and trolley n.ad build
ing shows no letup, and sash and dorr mills
are working straight through the winter, which
is unusual, and on orders for the coming season.
Building operations promise to he heavy, and
1907 will doubtless he another record breaker
in this lit f business.

Baltimore.

the holiday period brought a partial suspen
si.,11 of activity, but this did not in the least
affeci the situation, which is as strong us ever
and gives promise of remaining unchanged (<<v

an indefinite period. Prices of all hardw Is

are well sustained, and while some ; uuinlal i. .11

is reported, stocks are generallj depleted.

oak. of course, beads the list in point of firm-
ness and demand. Information from the mills
is to the effect that stocks are low. a considers

hie part of last year having 1 11 unfavorable

I'm- manufacturing operations. Oak and ash
are firm as to price and by no mans plentiful,
there being practically no change in the market
conditions. Poplar is holding its own remarka
hlv well. The tendency still is to work up large
quantities of this wool into box si ks. Chest-
nut and all other lines are in fair request, with

11 fferings decidedly restricted, The export

business is likely to remain quiet during a part
of the winter, but it must nevertheless be re
garded as being in good condition. Lumber is
going forward in liberal quantities, and the
foreign buyers have become somewhat ac
customed to the ruling prices

Pittsburg.

uv.r 750.000,000 feet of hardw is sold during

the year 1906 by Pittsburg agencies tells briefly
the story of bj far the best year in hardwoods
that Pittsburg has ever seen. This lumber was

valued at sun. nun. 1. The year showed a

dear gain of twenty per cent in sales over
1005, which was considered a phenomenal pe-
riod. The year closed with general hardwood
conditions much better than at iis beginning, if
w except the car shortage, which is the most
aggravating that Pittsburg dealers have ever
had 10 face. General demand for hardwood lum
l.rr is much better than a year ago and there
Is not a mill owned or operated by Pittsburg
firms which is not driven to iis last extremity
I,, keep iis order books cleaned sufficiently to
1 1 lain 1 he fa i"r of iis wailing customers

1 if mi 1 he hardw Is oak Ii .1 the market

througl 1 1906. It was a phenomenal seller

the last four months Of lb" year and tie- call

for dry lumber is still increasing in no prev-
ious year was the inquiry for mine slock so
large as dining 1906 Never did railroads and

manufacturing concerns take more oat, than

l:;sl year, and in bul few previous VOIl'S did

the business done with manufacturing firms

amount to so large- a total.

Present conditions vary in several respects
from those of a year ago. The stocks al mills
arc smaller. While many mills have a fair
amount of lumber in their yards, ii is all prac-
tically sold and wailing onlj to be shipped.

Prices are fully twenty per cent higher on most
hardwoods than a year ago. This higher level
of quotations is exceedingly well maintained
and there is little likelihood of a break in
prices during He- present year in the face ,.f

1 1 normous demand bot b pn sent and pros

1 tive. for good hardw I lumber. The supply

of available hardw I timber In the Pittsburg

district is also much smaller than a year ago.
Many large purchases have been made during
the year and the timber is now In strong hands
and will be held intact nnlil it is cut off.
Smaller tracts which were bought within the
year were sawed up rapidly and the firms which
owned them are now scouring the country for
similar timber acreage. This is especially true
.if oak timber throughout western Pennsylvania
and Ohio.

'the tirsi week in the new year has as usual
been devoted chiefly to .losing books and taking
stock. Little business has been done and whole
salers have been content to spend a few days in
retrospection as well as in forecasting the future
demand as besl tliey can. Loral wholesalers
in several instances are enlarging their forces
..r salesmen and office workers preparatorj to
making inn? a record breaker. They regard
general industrial and financial conditions in
the Pittsburg district as extremely favorable
and with every big increase in wages know that
more lumber will he sold. This prosperity is
especially noticeable among the furniture linns
and implement and carriage factories, which are
running day and night to keep pace with the
,1, iuaii.l for their stock and which are taking
proportionately large quantities of He1 best
hardwood lumber in the market

Buffalo.
There is a strong demand for hardwood lum-
ber in Buffalo and vicinity al the present time
Dealers who are besi posted on the situation

11 uintiy ov.r say that there is a serious

shortage of oak in sight.- There seems to be
much less production of oak in sections from
which most of the oak comes ami the resull is
likely to prove disastrous. Still there is no ad
vance in oak prices and then' maj be none lill
the shortage .actually occurs.

There is less .omplainl of Shortage in chrsl
1 in and ash than Here was. for the lakes have
turned out a big supply of ash. especially black
ami brown, compared to what was on hand of
lair, and research in the South lias discovered
a better supply of chestnut. Prices remain firm
and holders of both woods will realize good
1 ruins .hi He in. There is a growing call for
the more expensive woods, mahogany, walnut
:in,l cherrj Every effort is made to get as
much cherry and walnut stock as possible to

|:ll-e care of I he wants of buyers.

There is a good demand for maple, with no
evress of stock. Maple flooring is active and
prices are firm.

The dealer who has not laid in a stork of
ii,, I, by lake during the fall is unite an exi 1 p
tion. and yet there is no prospect of an over-
stock, as it takes the place of oak so readilj
Elm and basswood are less active, bul sell very
wrii. Poplar is loo scarce to show ;m\ weak

less

Saginaw Valley.
The situation is strong, with light stocks of
dry lumber on band and millions of feet con

in, i.d for 1 - rui for delivery during the

pear, as it comes from the saw. Almost every
n-iii in the lisl has piek.,1 up. Not only is the
price feature more encouraging but trade pros
peers all along the line look good and consider-
ably-, more lumber is likely to he handled this
year than last. The car shortage is bad. and

holds up business, bin tw he largest 1 on

.-. ins iii eastern Michigan state that taking the
year through, despite tie' famine in cars, lb -

red a great 1 - - of lumber in 1906

than they did 1 in- prei ious j ■■■< 1 1 hey are not

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kicking over lack of cars, but take their modi
cine. They assert that it isn't alone the fault
of the roads, which are anxious to handle all
the business they can reach and are doing the
liest they can, but ii Is the overwhelming pros
perity that has stimulated business of all kinds
and loaded the country with more traffic than
ever before in its history. Slocks of maple, No
2 common and better, are Quoted here at $25
and $28; for log ruu with mill culls out the

quotations here arc: Elm. $25; I b, $15;

maple, .SIT and $18; ash. $30; red oak, $35,
and birch. $22; basswood mill culls are quoted
at $18.

Cincinnati.

Conditions in the local hardwood market con-
tinue satisfactory. Prices are firm on the bet
ter grades of hardwoods, and many of the lower
grades show much strength. The car shortage
is still the chief topic of conversation. Condi-
tions have if anything grown worse.

Basswood, chestnut and poplar are scarce;

high prices rube Cottonw I shows special

strength and as g 1 grades arc exceedingly

short prices have increased. Mahogany is fair
ly active. Quartered oak lias experienced a
good call. Maple, cypress and birch are all in
good request and prices arc firm. An unusual
amount of business was transacted during the
holidays. This is regarded as the dull season
of the year, but 1906 proved otherwise. Reports
coming from the furniture manufacturers are
still favorable, and they arc pur, basing lumber
freely. Box manufacturers have experienced a
very prosperous year, and are still busy.

Chattanooga.

The demand for hardwoods in Chattai a

and. vicinity is unusually active, with stocks
b.w.r than they have been in fifteen years
There are two important reasons for this. There
has been so much rain throughout producing
sections that operations have I n either en-
tirely suspended or at least greatly hampered
Then, too. the car shortage lias seriously handi

capped lumbermen, Cars cannot I btained to

ship either the finished or unfinished product,
As a natural result of this many of the mills

in the South have 1 n shut down. Lumber is

so scarce in this territory that inquiries arc

being r ived here from such Important centers

as Memphis and Nashville, one large manufac
turer stating that he could undoubtedly sell a
million feet of lumber in Memphis providing
he bad it to sell.

All hardwoods are in good demand and prices
are firm with an upward tendency. Chestnut
and basswood are particularly strong items, and
large orders- are being filled for the coffin and
casket* manufacturers of southern cities.

Nashville.

Nashville lumbermen start the year's busi-
ness with the best of prospects. Prices on all

hardw Is were firm during the year and the

volume of business transacted was unpre-
cedented. There is little prospect of any a. 'cu-
mulation of stock, (biiing the lumber will be
tln> main proposition, the rest is easy, with the
exception of a sufficient supply of cars.

There has I n an advance in the price of

poplar of every grade. The local market is
now practically bate of dry stock. The call
for low grade poplar lias been unusually heavy.
This is accounted for by the fact that box
manufacturers have been unusually busy, as
well as other industries using short length
lumber. firsts and seconds in poplar ock
are almost out of the local market.

Bj reason of the great activity among vehicle

and implement manufacturers ash has I n in

very heavy demand. Thick ash of clear grade
will bring most anything the seller chooses to
ask for it. It is simply a question of getting
the stock. The rapid increase in the use of

chestnut for interior finishing purposes has put
the price on thai wood very high and made
the demand for it unusually heavy. Quartered
white oak is firmer and quartered red has not
shown so marked an advance.

Memphis.

There is an excellent demand for hardw I

lumber and the market is exceptionally strong.
The scarcity of shipping dry lumber is more
pronounced than it has ever been, perhaps, In
the history of the trad'' ai ibis point. More-
over, production is being curtailed by unfavor-
able weather to such an extent that the scar-
city now prevailing promises to be eclipsed in
the near future. As a result of this condition.
prices are very firmly held and the tendency
is toward a higher level. That buyers realize
conditions fully is shown by the fact that Here
are many inquiries for lists of lumber for sale
in the south, together with prices and term.
It has been a long while since large consumers'
asked for such lists and ibis serves to illus
trate bow hard buyers arc striving to local''
what stock is available. There is usually a lull
after the holidays and during the greater por-
tion of January, but there is more .demand tins
season (ban manufacturers and wholesalers are
able to take care of promptly.

Everything in the hardwood list sells without

difficult*. Ihen is no ..rent ai int I activity

in quarter sawed vni oak. but there is very
little of Ibis to be bad Ash is painfully scarce.
high and bard to buy and the same is true of
Cottonwood and gum, which have become the
most active features.. Plain oak is in excellent
call in all grades, while there is a pretty liberal
movement of quarter-sawed whit k. particu-
larly in the higher grades. The movement of
both poplar and cypress is restricted because
of i he I imited quant i i y of both available in
this market." Prices are firm and all offerings
an readily absorbed.

Toledo.
Tbe hardwood situation m Toledo is excep
tionally strong. Prices show a tendency to ad
vance on almost everj line of hardwoods, stocks
arc low and good lumber of any kind is hard to
get. Tin Outlook for an active spring trade is
excellent, and concerns having desirable stocks
on hand are holding on to them in anticipation
of higher prii es

Louisville.

Right now mill men and wholesalers in Ibis
territory are not anxious to accept many orders.
They rather expect bad weather to interfere
with operations during the next two months,
and. because of past experience, none of them
arc anxious to attempt more than they can ban-
die. Everybody is happy over the outlook in
the hardwood lumber market. The trade is kept
exceedingly busy planning and executing ways
and means to get out stock, it is a little diffi-
cult to figure out just what is in most demand,
as the factory trade is urgently seeking all
kinds, and tbe building trade wants poplar sid-
ing or something just as - I. so badly that

the past year has seen quite a lot of redwood
brought into this territory. After becoming
acquainted with the good qualities of poplar sid
ing the builders here don't take kindly to yellow
pine, si, when poplar gets scarce and limb they
turn to gum and to California redwood. The
future, "i course, depends on the price and sup
ply of poplar and bow redwood stands up in
comparison through the test of time. The de
mand for oak is strenuous in afl lines, plain
sawed lumber, small dimension sio.-k, vehicle
slock, car slock. ii,s and everything is wanted,

and tbe want seems to pxc I tbe supply. The

demand for low grade poplar, Cottonwood and
gum continues unabated, There is everything
to stimulate extra efforts on the part of manu-
facturers by promise of good returns.

Minneapolis.
While there is a temporary quiet in the mar-
ket, all dealers have a good volume of business

in sight. 1 feel optimistic over conditions.

The factory trade is in the market for good

s k in almost ahj line, and dealers feel so

much confidence in the future that they are
employing these days of comparative leisure in
hustling up contracts for tic cut of mills next
season Tbe mills have become thoroughly in-
fected with the price fever, and are holding
their output at prices thai would have made a
dealer mo]' a year or so ago, but which are not
far oni of tbe way now. Tbe logging opera-
tions in Wisconsin are reported as having more
favorable conditions than those in Minnesota.
There is not so uittcli deep s 1 1 o w as in Minne-

*- ami tlie camps that arc running expect to

get in a e i season's work, bul there is little

chah if surplus production. In dry stock

the only thing that can lie said to be at all out
of line now is inch common birch. It is still
weak op account of plentiful slocks on baud,
but there is a good demand that will take care
of it all right, since those who cannot get what
they want will eventually have to come around
and lake what they can get, Birch culls are
cleaned up, and there is very little first and

see, aid: iii thick s k there is not much in

Sight, I'.assw 1 i- searee now and up in pie

Culls are advance,| $2 a thousand, and it is a

bard mailer lo find any. Other northern w Is

arc scarce, and in Hie South' a great deal of
trouble is reported in getting ears to make de
liveries. Some yard trade is developing situ-
New "i ear's, hut il is small yet.

Liverpool.

AI the lasi mahogany sabs some 4.000 logs
were sold, and as was expected prices were
somewhal lower in fact, lower prices will
doubtless rule for some months.

A circular has I n issued by one of tbe lead

ing timber brokers here dealing in American

hardw Is offering ash plank at the following

prie s: 1 14-inch, 9] cents per cubic foot: 2 and
a, 95 cents per cubic foot ex-quay Liverpool.
II is generally known that it is of no use lo
offer a fraction less anil also that no cheaper
planks are lo he bought.

lin brings up a mailer which is looked upon
a- serious here and about which many angry
things are being said. It tan lie proved that
this same firm of brokers sold several carloads
on behalf of an American shipper about ten
months ago. 1 '-, inch at 69 cents and 3-inch at
76 cents. Buyers here declare thai planks tire
not being delivered because they arc now bring-
ing higher prices Surely this is a mailer that
tlie lumber associations should take up tor se-
rious consideration, as methods of this kind
reflect discreditably on the entire trade Tbe
broker is no doubt equally lo blame. Shippers
should be warned no] to be led into shipping a
single plank on consignment lo this market, as
they are doubtless being advised lo do.

All hardwoods are scarce. Oak has risen in
prie. Second growth ash logs are in demand,
but shippers should obtain orders and hold to
pi'iies firmly. Hickory is not so linn, and
prices have eased oil' slightly. Quite a rise is
reported in poplar prices. The market is prac-
tically bare of ibis w 1. and sellers have things

their own way.

RORLAR

Rough and Dressed

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS
M. A. HAYWARD

1021 Saving and Trust Bldg.. Columbus, O

HARDWOODRECORD 33

1}

AT COST

IS AN UNCOMMON TERM AS APPLIED TO INSURANCE

But this is the actual price of Indemnity against Fire Loss furnished by the

Manufacturing

Lumbermen's

Underwriters

THE STRONGEST INSURANCE ORGANIZATION
TO-DAY IN AMERICA

The saving is not on a -. Only weil built plants

small portion of J with adequate protection

your insurance but on the V and a* least

entire line. ). five years timber

There are other advantages / supply are considered

equally interesting. ^ eligible.

FOR LIST OF MEMBERS AND FURTHER INFORMATION, ADDRESS

HARRY RANKIN 4 CO. Kansas City, Mo.

34

HARDWOOD RECORD

Statement of Hardwood Market Conditions.

In arriving al prices for surfaced stock, deliv-
ered, use the same basis of weights as on rough
stock.

When the cents in delivered prices are 12c.o or
under, drop to lower quarter; when over 12c.e.
raise to next quarter.

All prices herein are based on Ohio River points.
Memphis or Cairo, as stated. Thy Ohio River
basing points arc those taking a LO-eenl rate to
Chicago, i in, .in rate to low York City or Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, gateway.

For eastern deliveries add to Cincii ii basing

price: Cents

Boston 21

New York City Ill

Philadelphia i ,

Baltimore, Md 18

Buffalo, X. Y m

Rochester, X- Y 12W

Pittsburg, I'a in

Cleveland. Ohio 10

Toledo. Ohio 9

Detroit. Mich 10

Indianapolis, I ml 7

This list is intended to show the market condi-
tions in Hi,- consuming territories as closely as pos-
sible. They aic tiic prices being obtained from the
manufacturing consuming trade.

Tliis list supersedes all former issues.

LEWIS DOSTER, Secretarj
Chicago. Ill . December S, liinfi.
POPLAR.
Rough Stock.

Panel and Wide Wide
Thickness Width. No. 1. No. 2,

%" 1600 n» . IS" t" 23" $;

■V 1000 His . 21" to 27" 56 00

■%" 1600 lbs. . . . 28" ami up 68 it"

1" 2SO0 His . is- t„ 23" 60.00 $47.00

1" 2S0O lbs 24" to 27" 74.00 52.00

1" 2S00 lbs 28" and up 81.00 57.0J

No. 1
1 and 2 Selects 6" Saps -i" Com. 5"
Thickness 7" to 17". & wider. .V wider. & wider.

%" Iiiiiii Hi- ...$40.00 $32.00 $32.00 $27.00

fi" 2100 lbs 46.0ft 35.00 35.00 29.00

1 " 2800 lbs 51.00 38.00 .".sun 34.00

I1," 2800 Hi- ... 5.1.00 4n.(«i 40.00 36.00

I1-' 2800 His . 53.00 41). '"I 4O.00 36.00

_• " 2800 Lbs . 54.00 41.00 jr. 00 37.00

214" 2800 lbs ... 59.00 46.00 44 no

3 " 2800 lbs . . . 59.00 46.00 4 LOO

4 " 2800 lbs. . . . 61.00 48.00 i

No. 2 No 3

Coin. 4" Coin. 1"

Thickness & wider. & wider.

V 1 lbs . ,$17.00 si l 0 i

'■," 2100 lbs 19.00 15 00

1 " 2800 lbs 23.00 20.00

1 V 2800 lbs 25.00 22.00

IV 2Ni to lbs 25.00 22.00

2 " 2800 lbs 26.00 23 00

2V 2800 lb- 31.00 26.00

3 " 2800 lbs 31.00 26 00

I " 2800 lbs 33 '«' 28.0 i

Squares — 2800 Lbs.
Dimension 1 and 2. Commi i

HI $54.00 $44 00

ox 5 57.00 47.00

6x 6 58.00 48.00

7x 7 01.no 51.00

Xx x 65 00 55.00

9s9 66.00 56 00

10x10 69.00 59.00

12x12 75.00 65 00

1" Box Boards — 2800 Lbs.

8 i" 12" ; $43.00

13 to 17" 57.01)

2" Sign Boards— 2800 Lbs.

12 to 16 fl $62 00

18 to 20 ft 67 00

QUARTERED POPLAR— 2800 LBS.

Thick-- No: 1, No. 2

ness. 1 and 2. Com. . Com.

1 " $50.00 .$.12. (Ml $22.00

I ' i" 52.00 : I o i 21 00

BEVEL SIDING— SCO LBS.

No. 1 No. 2

. ions. No i Selei ts. i torn. Com

1 jx-'i- $25.50 $21.50 $16.00 $13.00

'jx.l" 24.50 20.50 15.00 12.00

'.'Xt" 2.1 19.50 11. on 11.00

PATENT OR DROP SIDING— 2000 LBS.

No. 1 No. 2

Width. \>. 1. Selects. Com. Com

6" $43.00 $37.00 $29.00 $23.03

■""'" 12.00 36.00 28.00 22, (in

4" 11.00 35.00 27.00 21 00

CEILING.

Xo. 1 No. 2

Dimensions and Weight. No. 1, Com Com

■V'x.1. 4. 5 and 6" 900 lbs $22.00 $18.00 $14.00

Vx.l. 4. .. and 6" 12n(i in- 28.00 22.011 17 on

56"x3, 1. 5 and 6" 150 1 lbs. 30.00 26.00 21.00

V'xl. I. 5 and 6" 2000 lbs. 37.00 29.00 23.00

1.1 1U"x:i. 1 5 \ 6" 2 2(i 1 lbs 37.00 29.00 23.00

Add $5.00 io above prices !eilin£ tor Yellow

Pace.

PARTITION.

No. 1 No, 2

Dimensions and u eight. No 1, Com. (

j"\l, 5 and 6" 1200 lbs $34.00 $211,110 $24.00

r%"x4, .". and 6" 1501) lbs .".".oft 31.00 26.00

%"x4. .-, ami 6" 2000 lbs . . . .. . 1200 34.00 2s no

1 ! 16"s I. 5 and (i 2200 lbs . 12 00 11 00 28 00

Add $5.00 to above prices ou Partition for Yellow
I ai e.

DIMENSION STRIPS— 2200 LBS. S 2 S.

No. 1 No. 2

Sizes. N.. 1 Selei 1 1 !oin 1 !

i" $45. Oil $37.00 $2S.0O $21.00

based on stock s

30.09

23.00

34 00

25.00

36 00

27.00

38 mi

29 011

; S: for

stock

s, 1 '

.-inch

5" and (I" 47.00 In. on

7" I 8". .. . 49.00 12 no

9" and 10" . . 51.00 ti "11

11" and 12" 54.00 48.00

Above prices .

S -I X. add $1.00

Finished size. 13/16-incb in thickness,
si am in width.

Standard Finish.

•Si lard Finished Fan- Measure, 2Yj 3%. i'i

ami 534-inch. If stock is required, finished on the

Vincll. strip measure must be counted. I'i 41,
i'i and II', -inch.

Special Range of Widths on Rough Stock.
For Wide Run of Slock add to prices of Random
Widths. 7-incb and up Poplar, 1st ami 2d grade

only. I nder 9-inch, same as niiscella m s widths.

to 11-inch, inclusive $2. Ill) per M extra

to 17-inch, inclusive 3.00 per \i extra

to 17-inch, inclusive. 5.00 per \i extra
20-inch, inclusive per \i extra

in

12
is t
Fi

s| ili' Widths, add to 11 loin widths

and up, lsi and 2.1 grade only.

10-inch wide, add $2.00 Is in, |, wide add

de. add 5 "" 20-inch wide add

add ..(in 22-inch w ide. add

(d'l 9.00 21 w ide add

■inch

M I do

12-inch

14-inch wide, add 7.00 22-incll wide add Is

16-im h wide, add 9.00 24-iw h n Ide, add 20 00

For si.

For xiock all it feet add

For Stock 1 1 ami in feet, add

Re-Sawing

Kiln-Drying

Bundling

Surfacing, one oi two sides
General.

Gauges and Widths ol Drop Siding: Thicknpss.
"i -in : width, 4-in. worked to :: ' , in : .Yin worked
to I ' i In.: ('.-in. worked to 5 ' j In face

Bevel Riding Widths- 6-in. worked to .: n
worked to 1%-in ; i in. worked to ::\ in

1" feci add s ', on

: no

2.00

.$1.00 per \l extra

2 mi per \1 extra
1.00 per \l extra
1.00 per M extra

face

SI, i
w bier

Tin.

1 "
1','

l ' ."

■I1 essed f ■ sides to be i ounted

i him size a i ter « i rking.
BASSW00D.
Weighl per M feet 2,500 Ibs.l

I and :

- 36.0 i

",s no

SS.Ofl

' I

No 1 . .on

$2f

27 o"
27 "('
28.00

No 2C

$211 I II I

22.00

2.1 "(I

WALNUT.
I Weighl nor M I. oi
Thi'-kness. 1 and 2,

1 " $ 117.(1(1

IV.".. . Ki7,(«l

1 ' ■" IO7.0 i

2 " .112.00
2'.." 130.00

.1 " 130.00

1 140.00

v. , , "I MM

$33 00
14,(1(1
34.00
33.00
38.00
IS on
38.00

3.8 lis .

No II oljl

si I 00
u

i: I. on
is no

64.00

I.I II I

72.1 Ml

BUTTERNUT.
i Weighl per M (,,,, i ;:u „, |DS
Thickness. 1 and 2. X.. l i .on

1 " s ,.Mo,

Thicker siock. $5.00 per M over above prices.

PLAIN SYCAMORE.

(Weight net- M feet. 4.000 lbs )

Thi-kness 1 and 2. No.lCom. No 2C m

1 ".. . S 27, (M. $2 i ,, , $16 o:

Thicker Stock. $2.00 per M over above prices

QUARTERED SYCAMORE.

.)

Xo. :

(Weight

per M feet. 4.000 lbs.

1

1 and 2. X". 1 Com.

No. 2 c t"

1 "

s ." s ; i " ,

$20 en

Thicker Slock.

$.i.mi per m over above prices.

HICKORY.

\\ eighl

per m feel i lbs

1

Tin. k

1 and 2.

Xo. 1 Com.

1 inch

$48.00

SL'7 "1

1 ( . inch.

58.00

12.01

2 inch.

03.00

35 ' "

2'.'. inch.

71.1'f)

40.00

.1 inch.

70 01

1

1 inch

7i;.(mi

CHERRY.

-In. on

i Weighl

net- H feci isii 1 |1)S

)

'1 liickness

1 and 2. Xo. 1 Com.

Xo, 2C i"

1 "

$ 87.00 $45.00

.$21 00

l ' ■ " .

92.00 50.00

25 11"

i ! .'

97 "i in iki

28.i 0

2 "... .

111.(1" 50. (HI

o, ...

ii7"(i fio.no

2X "(1

1 '• .

122.00 <:■• no

28 "I

127.IKI

CHESTNUT.

28.0 1

(Weighl

pet M feel 2 Son ||,,

)

Sound

1 liickness

and 2. No. 1 Com.

Wormv

1 " .

s I'i 111. s a; 00

$19.00

1 i , "

.11.1111 38.00

-■I 00

1 i ..".

".1 .11 38.00

21.00

59.00 IP. (Ml

SOFT ELM.

22.50

i Weighl

per M feet. 3.250 lbs.

T hickness

Log Run.

1 i , in, n

.... 24.0'i

1 1 . inch

24.00

2 inch.

SOFT MAPLE.

24.50

(Weight

per J I ted 1,259 lbs

1 hickness

Log Run.

1 inch

S22 no

2 inch

1 be foregoing pr

ces are based f. 0. b.

Ohio River

Points which lake a rate of Ki cents to 1 In.
and lb cents to Xew x n,.c city.

COTTONWOOD.
1 Weighl per M feet. 2,800 lbs.)
Thick-
ness. Grade

1" Panel and Wide Xo, 1. Is" to 23" ...
1" Panel and Wide Xo. 1. 24" Io 27"
1" Panel and Wide Xo. 1. 2S" and up...
1" Box Hoards. 11" to 17"....
t" Box Boards, 8" 1.. 12'

r. it. ii.

( 'aire.
$53.00

1" Firsts and Seconds, 13" and up

1" Firsts and Seconds, 0" ami up
1" Firsis uiiil Seconds, 6" to 12"

,".2.il:i

. 42. mi

. 17.(mi

32 n 1

11.ni)

' Xo. 1 Common, 1.1" to 17" 30.00

l" Xo. 1 Common 25.00

1" Xo 2 or I'.ox ( '. nun 20.00

for 1)," add $2.00 per M, and for 1'.." add SI iki
per M over j. rice ot 1"

lor 2" and thicker add $1.1:11 per M over price
of 1".

1 0 o.ii" 1 prices arc based r o. b. paints which

ilc 1 I" cent rale Io Chicago, 111.

ASH

(Weighl per \i feet, 3.500 lbs 1

J nick- |\ o. b. F. 0. B.

ness. Grade. Ohio Riv. Points. Cairo, 111.

" Isis and 2nds $47. (Ml $14.""

1 ' 1 " Ists and 2nds Ii .1.1 47.00

1 '.■" Ists and 2mls 51.00 1.x 00

2 " Isis and 2inls 54.00 51 (in
2'.." Ists and 2nd- 61.00 5s . ».

1 " Ists and I'li.l- 63.00 1:

1 " Ists and 2iids 65.00 62.00

" Xo. 1 Cnmii .11,5(1 ::o 11 1

1 '," Xo. 1 Common 10. on :::; .hi

1 '_■" No. 1 Common i7.im( 34.00

2 X". 1 Col ,;sihi 35011

2'_." X... 1 Common 14.00 • 41.00

1 " Xo. 1 Common 16,00 43.00

1 " N" 1 cm mi (8.00 45.00

No. 2 Common 23 50 20.00

I ' i No 2 ( ' i 25.00 22 'in

1 V Xo. 2 Common. 25 no 22!(M>

2 " Xo. J Conn 26.00 2.1. mi

-' ' Xo. 2 Common 28.00 21 im)

:: " Xo. 2 Common 28.00 25.00

4 " Xo. 2 Common 28.00 25. Ob-
Strips.

1" Clear Face, 2'.." p. 1 ( . " , -17, (H, $34.00

I" Colin i. 2'.." to 5'_." I'I."" 22.00

PLAIN WHITE OAK.
Firsts and Seconds.

I " I'- F. O. B.

thick- (iui„ Cain.,

nes- Width. Weight. Riv. 1'ls. 111.

%" 6" am) up 2,000 lbs. $1(1. (HI $ 13 on

6 and up 2.20 i lbs. in (hi a; (hi

11 "i'i up 2.700 lbs, 42.(1(1 in (mi

:. " 6" ami up 3,200 lbs. 4.1.(iii II on

rod up 1,000 lbs. -in, (hi 45.011

1 ' 1" 6" and 11,. I lbs. 51.00 17 (Ii)

1 ' i" '''" and up 1,000 lbs. 51 (Hi 17 ""

2 " 6" and up I mi 1 lb-. 52.00 18 (»'

6" i up 1.0 in lbs. 56.50 .12.5"

n ami up I o i > ||,-. 61.50 17 .1"
4 " I" ami II], i.ihi i IPs 66.50
No. 1 Common.

F. O. B. F. (l. It.

1 l>i( I Ohio (ail".

ness. Width. Wciyli i Riv. pts. 111.

%" 4" and up 2(1(11 lbs. $21.00 $17 00

i ."id ii|' 2.2 hi lbs, 24 on 20 ""

I 1 up , 2 7'Hi IPs 27.11" 2.1.11"

i " i" "ml up 3,200 lbs. 30.00 26.00

1 " 4" and up. . 1,000 lb- 33 00 29 (in
I1," 4" and up , .. l.dlHl lbs. :::, on .•;] no
I'a" 4" and up 4,000 lbs. 35.00 II 00

2 " 4" and up .4.000 lbs. Ili .hi :

2'_." 1" and up I.ihiii lbs. 41. (Hi 15 no

.1 " 4" and up ..... 1,000 lbs, 4.1.0(1 111 (in

1 " -1" and up 1,000 lbs. 4S. .Ml h.ihi

No. 2 Common.

F. 0. B. I'd. P..

(■ >- OhiO lair...

ncs- Width \\ eight. Iliv. I'ts. III.

''-" ■"•" and ipi 2.. II.-. $14.00 $12.00

'.-" '■'■" ami up 2,2111 lbs. 16.00 1 I 00

''-" 1" and up 2.7"" lbs 1S.00 111. hi

"i" 1" 1 up 3.200 lb-. 19.00 17.00

and up 4. (I. hi lbs. 22.00 19.00

I'i" 1" and up I, (Ml I IP-. 24. (M) 21 00

1 V 1" and up 4.000 lbs 24. on 21 no

I" and up IK in lbs. 26.00 23.00

2'j' 1" 1 up I .hi i IPs. 27. IM) 24O0

3 " 1" and up 1,000 lbs. 28.00 2.1 (hi

4 " 3" and up 4,000 lbs, 29.00 26.00

No. 3 Common.

F. (I. II. F. <). B.

Thick- Ohio Cairo,

ness. \\ nil Weight. Riv. PIS. 111.

1 " 1" and up 1,000 lb-. $18.00 $11 00

1 ' 3" and up I.ihiii lbs. 20.00 16.00

1 ! ■ I" and nil . , i.ihiii lbs. 20 ,„, ,,.<„>

2 " 3" and up 4,000 lbs. 21.IKI 17.00

P. W. 0. Strips.

F. O. B. F. O. B.

Ohio Cairo.

Riv. Pts. ill.

1" Clear face, 2C IC", 4(1(111 lbs . .$40.1111 $36.00

1" Common, 2c.-.iv, 4. (inn lbs.... 2s.hi 24.00

QUARTERED WHITE OAK.

Firsts and Seconds.

F. O. P. I' (i B,

I I"' k Ohio Cairo.

Width. Weight. Riv. Pts. 111.

--" 6" ton" 2,000 lbs. $40.00 $37.00

' j" 6" I" 9" 2.2(H) lbs. 17,511 11(111

6" I.. 9" 2,200 lbs. 55.00 .12 (hi

5f" 12" and up 2.700 lbs, S5.00 82.00

"," b" t" 9" .1,200 lbs. i;2. .Io 60.00

1 " 6" and over. . .4,000 lbs. 7b\('n 72. (Ml

1 " 6" to 9" ... .4,000 lbs. 7(>."(> 60.00

1 " 10" and 11" 4,000 lbs. :'.' S9.00

HARDWOOD RECORD

ti

1 "

12" to 11" l.OdO ll.S.

1 1 ;

iio.no

1 "

15 :111c! i' 1,00 1 lbs

163.011

100.00

["4"

8" anil over. l.ODU lbs.

7:

77. iiii

7U.I".

75.00
75.00

s:

SI .00

1 II

' '

S5 i ii i

i

4.111H1 n.s.

05.00

90.00

No. 1 Common.

F ii l:

r ii B.

Thiol

Ohio

I 'aim.

IK'SS

Width. Weight

Rh Pts

111.

V

-I" and in. 2, lbs

>-■"

$22 00

'.,"

4" and up, . 2.2 »• lbs

:: i.OO

27.00

's

1 1 lip 2,700 Mis

;

32.00

i and up. - 3,200 lbs.

Ill llll

37 mi

I "

1" .mil ovei 0 lbs.

Hi ill

12.00

1

4" to 0" l.ooo n.s.

11' III.

38.0 i

1 "

n" and up 1,000 lbs

llll. II 1

50.00

1 ', -

I" and hi' 1,000 n.s.

IS 1, I

ll "h

! ' .. "

i" and u|. . .4,0 He ids

IS II 1

N .<i:i

._, ,.

4" and up 4, mm lbs.

I:

15 mi

No. 2 Common.

i' ii r.

1 ii B.

Thick

Ohio

ness.

\\ nil! Weight.

lliv. Pts

III.

1 "

$25.00

$21.00

l\' .

" .mil up 4. mm ll.s

2S.O0

21.011

1 '.."

:" and up, 1,000 lbs,

LIS i ii i

21 IWI

2 " .

i up 4,1111,1 His.

'JS .1 ,

24.00

No. 3 Common.

F. 0. B.

Thick

Ohio

uess

\\ i

Weight.

Biv. Pts.

I "

; i up

II, s

$16.00

li,4"

: and up

. 1,000 lbs.

IS. Ill)

1(4"

i" and up

1 His.

IS. IIII

L, ..

1" ami up

1,'IIIH His.

IS llll

Q. W, 0. Strips.

1 ii II 1 ii B.

Ohio Cairo,

Kiv. l'ls. III

I" I'll Face, 2(4" In l'.".l,IIIMI Ihs $50.00 $40 "'I

1" Cl'r Face, ■"■" to 5(4". ..4.000 His. 60.00 56.00

I i in. ui. 2(4" t.i 5(4" Limn ll.s. 32.00 28.00

PLAIN RED OAK.
i Weigh! per M feet, 1,000 lbs. i

F. ii. B. 1 0. I'-

Thick- iiiii.i Cairo,

uess. i.i; ltiv. ris in

I " lsts and 2nds .$49.00 $45.00

1 i," lsts and 2mls 51.00 47.00

i ! ." lsts and 2nds i 47. on

2 " lsis and L'nils ... .vj. mi is mi

2(4" lsis ami L'n.ls 56.50 i2.50

:: " lsis and 2nds 61.50 57.50

4 " lsis and 2nds.... lit;.. ".(I 62.50

1 " N.i. 1 (' m..ii 33.00 20.00

1(4" Nil I Con ii 35 ii ' 31.00

1(4" Nil l Common 35.00 31.00

2 " N... I Common 36.00 ::2.imi

2(4" No. 1 Common 11.00 37.00

3 " Nil 1 Common 43.00 39.00

4 " Nil 1 Common. . 48.00 44.00

1 " N". 2 Common 22.00 19.00

1(4" Nn. 2 Common 24.00 lm 00

1 14" \" - Common . 24.00 21.00

2 " Nn. 2 Common 26.00 23.00

i-'1 No. 2 Common 27.00 24.00

3 " No. 2 Common 2S.no 25.00

4 " Nn. 2 Common 29.00 26.00

1 " Nu. :: Common 18.00 I I no

1(4" Nn. :; Common 20.00 16.00

1(4" Nu. :; Common 20.00 16.00

2 " Nn :: Common 21.00 17.00

P. R. 0. Strips.

F. O. B.
Ohio

ltiv. Pts.

i ' ii.H Face, 2(4 i" 5(4" $38 00

I" Common, 2(4 to 5(4" 27.00

CAR BILL OAK— 6.000 LBS.

F, (I. B.

Ohio
llll Pts

White Oak, Freight $30.00

W'lilic Oak. Passenger 37.50

Bed Oak, Freight 27.50

Kill 'ink. Passenger 35.00

QUARTERED RED OAK.
i Weighl per M feel I 000 lbs I

r. ii. n. F. ui'..

Thick- Ohio Cairn,

oess. Grade. Kiv. l'ls. ill.

1 " lsis anil L'liils $58.00 $54.00

I1," 1-ls ami L'ruls 61.00 .".7. (Ml

IV lsis ami 2mls Ill nn 57.00

2 " I -Is ami 2mls 111. (ill 57.00

1 " Nn. 1 Common 34.00 30.00

I'," Nn. i Common 37.00 38.00

1(4" Nn. 1 Common 37.00 33.00

L' " Nu. i Common 37.00 33.00

1 " Nu. 2 Common 2" <», 16.00

1(4" Nu. 2 Common 22.00 18.00

1(4" N". 2 Common 22.00 18.00

2 " Nn. 2 Common 22. no 18.00

1 " Nu. :: Common 14.00

1 ! i " No. Ii I 'minium 111. on

i j ■ ' No, 3 Common 16.00

2 " Nn. .". Common 16.00

Q. R. 0. Strips.

I'll!. F. O. B.

Ohio Cairn.

Riv. l'ls 111.

.$40.00 $36.00

50.00 46.00

25.00 22.00

I" Clear Face, 2(4" I" |i.."

I " I 'lear I'aie. ,"i" In .",!.,"

1" Common, 2(4" I" 5(4"

RED GUM.

(Weighl per M feet, 1" ami thicker, 3,250 lbs

Rough.

F. ii B, 1 n B

Thick Call,. Mein

uess. Grade. Weight, or Thebes. phis.

■"s" F. A. s., Red.. .1,300 lhs. $16.50 $16.50

t." F. A. S., Red 1,700 lbs. 20.7.". 20.75

%" F. A. S., Red.... 2.100 lbs. 23.50 23.50

%" F. A. S., Red 2,500 lbs. 26.50 26.50

1 " P, A. s.. Bed ::u. "u

I \ S Sap I 'inn ll.s. 1 1.50 i" 50

1 I AS. Sa|, 1,700 Hi-. 1 1.75 13.75

I A S . Sap .2, i Us 17 "" 15.50

a r A. s . Sap . . .2,1 in- i' -17.50

1 " F A s . Sap. ... 2] .50 19 00

I " Bos Board, 8" i" 12" 21 L'::.ni)

1 " Box Boards, 13" P. IT". . . . 32 00 30.00

" l.vil t n .... I. His. ll.oo

1 .." Red i iiinuiun I. Ton ll.s. 14.00 13.00

V Red c mini. 2, inn lbs. 16.00 15.00

i Red c mini 2.7,110 ll.s. is no 17 (in

i Red i 20 :,'i in ,"

'- " No. I Common. . . 1,300 lbs. 10.50 9 50

14" Nn. i Common.. i.7ikiHis. 13.25 12.25

N'o. I Common. 2. 100 His. 15.00 I i "•

i " No, I C i 2,500 n.s 17", i in mi

I " No. 1 < '..in ii 20.00 19 "(i

1 " Nn. 2 Ci.liil i 17.1111 16.00

1 " No. ■*; Common 13.00 12.110

Cur It," a. ill fl.00 pet' M. ami tut I 14" add $2 ""

per M mi Firsl ami Second Red, ami $1.50 pel \i

nn Firsl anil See I Sap, Red Cnnimnii ami Nu. 1

Common, over price ..i i inch.

i ,,i _•" ui, I $5.00 per \i mi Firsl ami Second Red,

ami $2.50 per M nil First ami Second Sap. Bed

nn i anil No. I i'iiiio , nver price of I Inch.

Add 50c pel' m in these pines 1,11- all bundling anil

si ililllX.

Gum priies delivered f " b si i is, add $1.00

per M in caii.i prices; Chicago, $3.00; Louisville,

Kj„ $3.00; New Orleans, $3.0J, nn l-inch basis.
V Beveled Siding— 9C0 Lbs.

F. ii. I: c <i. B.

I .nn. ( 'in, in

.is Thebes. uati.

4" worked 3(4" N" 1 $14.00 $15.50

4" worked 3(4" No. 2 11.50 13.00

4" worked 3(4" N... :: ii.uii 10.00

."." worked t ' .." No. 1 15.00 16.50

5" worked 4(4" No 2 12 :." 14.00

."'•' worked 5(4" No. 3 10.00 11.00

ii" worked 5(4 " — No. 1 16.00 17.50

ii" worked 5(4" Nn. 2 13.50 15.00

ii" worked 5(4" No. ,: 1 1.00 12.00

Patent or Drop Siding— 2,200 Lhs.

I . (1. B. 1\ Ii. 15.

Cairn Cimili-

& Thebes. itati.

7." worked 13/16x4(4" No. 1 $26.00 $27.00

u" worked 13/16x4 1 ," No 2 ... 21.00 23.00

.." worked 13/16x4(4" -No. :: 17."" 20.00

1;" worked 13/16x5(4"— No 1 ... 27.i«i 2s.n0

1;" worked 13/16x5(4" No. 2 22.00 21. no

1;" worked 13/16x5(4"— No. 3 1S.O0 21.00

Flooring — 2,200 Lbs.

I 11. B. F. O. B.

1 1 11'" Cincin

& Thebes. uati.
:: "i t iiu ii. worked I" 16x2! , or

3(4 No. 1 $2.-.. 00 $26.00

.; ." t inch, worked 13 16x2(4 or

3(4 -No. 2 21.00 22.00

:; "i- 4 inch, worked 13 16x2(4 or

'■' 1 No. ,'l 16.00 18.00

Matched Sheathing or Flooring — 2.200 Lbs.

F. U. B. F. O. B.

Cairn Ciiiein-

& Thebes. uati.
7. or 6" worked I" 16x4 ' , or •"• ' , "

N". 1 $26.00 $27 in

5 or 'i" worked 13 I6x I ' , or 5' ,"

Nn. 2 22.00 23 ""

■ worked 1:: 16s 1 ' , or ■", ' , '

No. :; 17,110 10.1111

Beaded Ceiling.

I' 11. II. I " I:

Cairo Clncin-

& Thebes. nati.
I" worked 9&x3j4", 900 lbs. -

Nu. 1 . .$15.00 .flG.OU

4" worked \i:;',". I s

No. 2 13.00 13.50

1" worked 96x3(4", 900 lbs

No. ■". in 00 ll.Oo

I" worked (4x3(4", ' 300 lbs.- -

N'o, I is. ".1 2" ""

1 worked ' ..v;1,", 1 300 lbs

No. 2 16 "11 is nn

1 uui ked 14x3(4", 1,300 lbs.

No. :: 11. 00 14.00

1" worked 54x3(4", 1,600 lbs. -

N". 1 . 20.00 22.110

1" worked :',i:ii,", 1.600 lbs

No. 2 17.00 I" 50

4" worked ■"■- x", \ " 1.6 10 lbs.—

Nu. 3 .... 12 50 15.00

4" worked %x3(4", 2,0110 lbs.—

No. 1 25.0 1 27.00

4" worked :',x:;',". 2,000 lbs

Nn 2 21 "' ' Jinn

1" worked -, x3(4", 2,000 lbs.

Nn .", 15.00 2" no

Finishing Lumber — 2,600 Lbs.

I 11 r. I n|'.

Cairo Cincin

,ii Thebes. nati.
\.. 1 Finish, :; ami r

s 2 s. 1:; 11; $23.(411 $21;. ""

No. 1 Finish. •"., 1;. 8 and 10"

S 2 S. 13/16 21; on 29.00

Nu. 1 Finish, 12' s 2 s. 13 In 28.00 31.00

No. 1 Finish, 1 1 t"lii" s 2 s. 13 11; 30.00 3 I 00

No. 2 Finish, 3 ami t" s 2 s. 1:; 16 2""" 22. no
Nn. 2 Finish, 5, 'I. 8 ami In"

S 2 S. 1:; Ii; 2:; nn 27' ""

\.. 2 Finish, 12" s 2 S, 13 16 25.00 27.00

HICKORY VEHICLE AND IMPLEMENT STOCK.

1 Weighl pei m feet. 5,000 lbs. ■

Rim Strips.

Si 1 Black Fores!

Growth. Hickory. 1 Irowth.

1(4", Cs". 1(4" and l%". .$110.00 .$70. on $60.00

I","-. I7s"aml2" 135.00 75.00 65.00

2(4" and 2(4" 1. ",11110 so. on 70.00

Standard lengths of ihese strips shall be .". feet 6

inch, G feet. 6 feet 6 inch, 7 feet. 7 feet 6 Inch.

S feet, and 8 feet 6 inch, not to exceed 10 per cent

of ,"' reel 1; hub. and to contain nboul 50 per cent
7 feel '• inches long.
\\ie caps ami Single Trees,
admitting the same defeci

as -ime grade of rims ss , ,„, $60.00 $45.00
Implement Stock.
Double Trees, Siue,le Trees ami Neek.Mikes for

agricultural work $32 50

Foresl Growth, Shaft Strips 1; 1.0O

Curesi Growth, Poles 75.00

Forest 1 ""will. Tongues B

WAGON STOCK.
(Weigh! per M led. 1..100 lbs. .in, ii.uii lbs green.)
Oak Reai lies . $60.00

1 lick. a v Reaches 30.00

Oak Bolsters, ■'; Inch \ 1(4 Inch ami large]

1 feel I inch, 4 feel n inch in length iO 00

Oak BolStei-S, :; ini b V I inch ami smaller

1 feel in length 10.00

Oak ami Ash wagon tongues, dear 6

llickui.i Avies. 3 inch \ 1 Inch to ,;', Inch x

4 ' , inch -ii feci in length 7,7,. 11,1

Hickory Vxles, '•', inch x 4(4 Inch ami target

1; feci in length 7

'ink Hounds i" be 11a I on a basis "t the

am 1 of lumber required in their iiuiini-

factllle.

Drop I ongues, or shorl 1;

Stiff Tongues, or long 60.00

Hind 1 luuiiil- 1 su a \ Bars 50.00

Felloes.

(Weighl per \l led, I .". I" lbs ,|| , 0 lbs ciecn I

3 led I" I feel, (I Inch ill', le

Per Set, I'd- Set,

2 x 2%" *l 4", :;> , x 2i." .S2..-.I

2', x 2(4" I 47. :;■:. x 2%" 1.02

2', x 2ii," I 7,7 :;c \ :; " ;; :;2

2i , x :; " 1.83 ,;' . x :;'.," 3.80

2', x .■;'," 2.11 I " x 2(4" :: 35

i'j x 2(4".. . 1.7.7 I \ L'a 3.57

:<; x 2"," 1 s:: i •, :: " :; o.;

2C x :; " 2.17 I x :;i ." 1. 10

2(4 x 3(4" 2 20 ii, x 2(4". ... 3 96

2", x 2(4" 1.83 I', x 2%". . I 17.

2:;, x 2"," 2,11 I', x :; ' I Ii:.

2" x :: " .... 2.20 I', x ::'," ... 7, 22

2", x 3(4" 2.54 4(4 x 2(4".. I "2

:; x 2' ." 2,17 I'". \ 2 '■]" 1.95

:: x 2'V 2 20 4(4 x :: " 71,22

:; x :; ".. 2.54 1(4 x 3(4". ., 7, ui

n x 111," 3.02 1(4 x 3(4" 5.99

3 x :;t;." :;.:;2 7, x 2'"". . . 4.95

3(4 x 2'.." 2 12 7, x 2'V . 7, ,2S

3(4 x 2'V' 2,71 7, x :; ". . , 5 in

3(4 \ " ", 3.02 7. x :;',". c.27

;;t, x 3(4" 3.32 7. x 3(4" n in.

:;i, s 3(4". 3.63 6 x 3 " 7 ",1

\\:i-,iii stock ami Felloes based mi Green Mate-
rial.

Plow Handle Strips.
(Weight per \l led, 1,250 lbs i

When Prv.

Iisx2" ti, 1(4x2(4" 3 fed 6 inch ami I feet. $41.00
i'sx2" I,. 1(4x2(4" I feel 6 Inch ami .". ted 13.00

1 i. x2" In I ' ,x2' ," .- led " inch 45.00

1 ''sX2 is" ami I i,\2' ,

I led ll Inch ami "• led 4.",, 110

l%x2%" and I (4x2(4 7. feel 6 ini Ii 18 ""

CHAIR AND FURNITURE STOCK.

i Weighl per M I. 1,250 lbs I

Plain Sawed Oak Seat Stock.

1x3" I,. 1x7, o i" 23" in length $32.50

Ix'i" i" 1x6" 21 to 30" in length 40.00

I'ix:;" p. ii,x.v -9 in •>:;" in length 37.50

l ' , x3" i" i 1 1 xu" 24 in :;ii" in length 17. 00

Quarter Sawed Oak Seat Stock.

. Weighl per M feel, I 27," lb- '

1x:i" I" 1x5" ii i" 23" iii length $50.00

ix;;" I.. 1x6" 21 b> 30" in length 60.00

1(4x3" in iy,xo" o to 23" in length 55.00

1 14x3" t" I 14x6" 21 tu 30" in length. . . . 6;

I'-xll" to 1" ami wilier -21" in length, w!

oak 65.00

1(4x3" I" 4" ami wider 21" in leqgth, red

"i 1 7,7. ii"

Quarter Sawed White Oak Chair Backs.

I Weight pel M fed, 1,000 lbs. I

14x2' in width— 10 to IS" in length $45.00

i'ix.';, 4 ami 7." in width Hi In 20" in length. 7.7.7."
ii, xii t" 10" in width -III to 21" in length 7,7. 7."

Red (ink $5.00 per 7\1 let less than above.

Lengths ami widths in all Chair Stock as grouped
above to be piled and shipped together.
Table Tops, Plain Sawed Oak.
(Weighl per M feet, 4.250 lbs.)
1x4" up. random widths 17, to 21" in length. $32.50
1x4" up. random widths — 23 to 27" in length. 35.00
hi" up. random widths— 2!) to:;:;" in length. 411.00
Ixl" up. random widths— 35 In .".0" in length. 40.00
1x4" up. random widths 41 to 43" in length. 40.00
1\|" up, random widths— 45 tu 47" in length :,u<">
ixi" up. random widths- lo to 54" in length. 50.00

For Mi,,-., sal Ilmensions in quarter-sawed

sleek. a, 111 $20.00 PCI' M feel Id' wlllle i ,|l k . ail. I
$12. ."HI per XI feet I'd' led uak.

Oak Squares.
' B eight per M feet. 1,7,110 lbs.)

HI II b. :;l" in length $30.00

III" 32 i" ,".7" in length 33 00

1x1" 58 t" 68" in length 40.00

1(4x1(4 1 (4x1(4" 1 1 p. :;i" In length 35.00

1(4x1(4" 1(4x1(4" 32 in 7,7" in length 42.50

i 1 1 n I ' , I ' ,xi i ," 58 to 64" in length 12.50

2x2" ll in 31" in length 35.00

2x2'" 32 in .",?" in length 10.00

2x2" 58 i" 0!" iii length 47.."."

1x2 :•; I., ll" in length 40.00

I'm' i; d and Maple, deduct .$2. (in per m from

the prices on Plain Sawed Oak, as above set nut.

I'riccs nu Veliicl. anil Implement Stuck am!
Chair and Furniture Stock based f. o. b. Ohio River
Puints which take a rate of 10 cents to Chicago
and 19 cents to New York City.

36

HARDWOOD RECORD

-SECTION-

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Advertisements will be inserted in this
section at the following rates :

For one insertion 20 cents aline

For two insertions 35 cents a line

For three insertions 50 cents a line

For tour insertions 60 cents a line

Eight words of ordinary length make one line.

Heading counts as two lines.

No display except the headings can be ad-
mitted.

Remittances to accompany the order. No
extra charges for copies of paper containing
the advertisement.

EMPLOYES WANTED.

WANTED— HARDWOOD SALESMAN.

To travel Eastern states. Must I"' man

with experience and Al references. I

salary. Add

■HARD PINE." ■ :i i e Hardwood Re ■

WANTED.

A good all round hardw. od office man

..n buying, and selling end. G I judgment

essary. Give age, references, experience
and salary. Will h"lcl in stricl confidence.
Address -HARDWOOD JOBBKK."
care 1 1 w;n« Record

FOREMAN WANTED.

A first-class, up-to-date foreman who under
stands the manufacture of rem and

interior finish and one who is familiar with esti

mating on all work of tins kind. '■ I salary

to right man. Must furnish good references.
Address WEST VIRGINIA VENEER DOOR
COMPANY, Box 588, Parkersburg, W, Va.

WANTED.

An intelligent young fellow, a hustler that
understands selling Hardwood flooring A
good salary will be paid the right party. Ad-
dress "W. G., No. 17," .are Hardwood Rec-
ord.

LUMBER WANTED

WHITE ASH WANTED. "

:,n M ft. 6 1, 73 ! i-i and 2nds, 25' S'o
i common.

go M ft. 8 I. T.v. 1st and 2nds, -•"• No,
: i "...11.

50 Mi 7'.', 1st and 2nds, -•.'. No.

1 i-onui

."in M ft. 4 . 75' I i-i and 2nds, 25' . No. 1
common.

I.. \i n 6x6 75 i-i and 2nds, 25% No. 1
common.

To be cut Mii.1 ready to ship on or u n
May I. 1907.
AMERICAN LBR A. VIEG CO., Pittsburg, Pa

WANTED TO BUY.

Axles, tongues, reaches, bolsters and bos
i rds. Add

"J. 14." cat ' 1 [ARDW Rl CORD.

WHITE OAK WANTED.

im>. nun feet ■"■" plain lsi and 2nd White Oak
lumber. Presenl or future delivery. Name
, o. b. St. Louis w R. CH1VVIS,

■Main and 1.. -si.. Taint' si-. St, Louis, Mo.

WANTED.

200 M ft 1 ' Ima Log Run Walnut or 200
\I 1 1 \.. 1 and So 2 c. mmon Walnut.
MeCLI RE LUMBER CO., I tetro I Mich.

WANTED— HARDWOOD LOGS.

200, ft. 28" and up White t >ak logs

_■...... H hi ft. 1 2 and up Walnut logs.

50,000 ri . I 2" and up i Iherry logs.
('. L. WILI.EY, 12S5 s Robey Si . Chicago

OAK WANTED.

t'i. ii White Oak lsts and 2nd*. 1". also No
i common %". 1" and 2". Make offers f. ... b.
cars Norfolk, Baltimore. New int. 'an- or other
shipping port, stating quantity and shipment.
Terms cash less 2%. Address

■PLAIN OAK,' care Hardwood Record.

WANTED.

To contract for the entire cut of a Southern

Hardw I Sawmill.

Mi i LURE LUMBER Cl I., Detroit, Mich.

ROCK ELM WANTED.

'".hi. 2 and 3"xo" and wider, C. &

B. Will inspect at point of shipment. We
ran use fresh sawn wood Terms cash less
2 per cent. THE BRADLEY COMPANY,

Hamilton, Ont., Can.

ASH DIMENSION STOCK.

One inch stock wanted, in carloads, from
2V2 to 10" in width and from 10 to 4S" in
length. Can use large quantities if properly
gotten out. Stock must be clear and free from
defects. Write us for list.

BELDING-IIAI.L MFG. CO., Belding, Mich.

WANTED.
RASSWOOD. MAPLE,

SOFT ELM. ASH,

ROCK ELM. HICKORY.

In Logs, Lumber and Dimension Sizes, for
Immediate shipment, also during winter and
spring. Spot cash, and inspection at shipping
points. Please quote prices f. o. b. cars. Ad-
dress JAS.. GORDON, Detroit, Mich.

OAK.

We are in the market for plain sawed oak,
all grades and thicknesses.
P. G. DODGE & CO., 2116 Lumber St., Chicago.

WANTED.

l.i a a i.OOO feet 4/4 Oak Culls and Mill Culls.
1.000,000 feet %" to 2" Poplar, all grades.
Address "LUMBER," care J. Holtzman,
319 Land Title Bldg., Philadelphia, Ta.

OAK WANTED.

3 and 4 inch White Oak: also Mixed Oak;
ilso 12x12 Timbers and Piling of all kinds.
CONTINENTAL LUMBER CO..
1213 Monadnock Bldg., Chicago, III.

MACHINERY WANTED

WANTED.

Second-hand vuleanizer, Musi he in good
condition. WOOD-MOSAIC FLOORING rt).,
Rochester, X. Y.

AT ONCE.

If yon are in need of machinery— new or

second band w Lines in i his column will

your wants before those who have such
<roods I'M- sale For particulars address

Hardwood Record, Chicago, II!.

LUMBER FOR SALE.

THICK PLAIN OAK.

Two cars 2%" No. 1 and No. 2 common
plain Ohio White Oak, good widths, suitable
for building or furniture purposes.

i 'HAS. F. SIIIELS & CO., Cincinnati, O.

MACHINERY FOR SALE

FOR SALE.

1 Veneer Squeezer.

1 Hark Grinder, No. 3 right hand, Mitts &
Merrill. Located at Mound City. 111. Address
THE WISCONSIN CHAIR CO.,

Port Washington, Wis.

FOR SALE.

2 No. 1 Oscillating Hill Steam Niggers,

J.6'x8"x6'.
1 direct connected log stop and loader, No.
P-2, arms spared, 8' centers on 3" shaft, 10"!
26" cylinder. These have been in use but a
short time and are as good as new.

D'HEUR & SWAIN LUMBER CO.,

Seymour, Ind.

RAILWAY EQUIPMENT

"3

RAILS AND LOCOMOTIVES.

\H Inquiries for industrial railway equip-

in Listed before Record readers will find

ready response.

Hardwood Record, i Ihieago, III.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

WANTED.

Reliable party with mill to cut hardwood in
Mississippi. Healthy location. Five to tin
years' cut. Address

"K. 37," care Hardwood Record.

FOR SALE.

Half or entire interest in 30,000 ft. mill,
available to 2.500 acres of virgin oak, ash
and hickory about 2 miles from railroad.

II. G. CADY, Pine Bluff, Ark.

BAND MILL AT BARGAIN.

Dirt cheap for cash or on time ; fine loca-
tion, abundance hardwood logs ; cheap timber
situated on river and railroads ; low freight
rates to all points east, west and foreign.
Address

"BOX 497," care Hardwood Record.

MISCELLANEOUS

FACTS FROM PRACTICAL MEN.

The Hardwood Record is always in tin- mar-
ket for articles on any and every feature of
the hardwood industry, li wants practical
statements of fact from practical men who
kimw how certain things can be done in the
besl way. Literary quality nol essential. Lib-
eral pay for acceptable articles. Address

Editor II \i:ii\\ ood Record.

HARDWOOD RECORD

37

'DEFIANCE" WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY

COMPLETE EQUIPMENTS OF

HIGH GRADE TOOLS

Jt FOR MAKING J*
Hubs, Spokes, Wheels, Single Trees, Hoops

Wagons, Carriages,

Rims, Shafts, Poles,

Neck-Yokes,

Handles, Bobbins, Spools,

Insulator Pins and

Oval Wood Dishes.

AUTOMATIC LONG HANDLE LATHE.

INVENTED AND BUILT BY

The DEFIANCE MACHINE WORKS

DEFIANCE, OHIO.
Send for 500 Page Catalogue

HAMMER AND HATCHET HANDLE LATHE

COUNTERFEIT CHECKS

are frequent
except where
our

Two Piece
Geometrical
Barter Coin

1b in use, thpn

Imitation isn't

possible.

Sample if you

ask for it.

S. D. CHILDS

C CO.
Chicago

We also make
Time Checks,
Stencils and
Log Hammers.

THE NEW MODELS
OF THE

REMINGTON

TYPEWRITER

are the product of the second
generation of Remington
genius and workmanship.
They represent age plus
youth; the experience of the
old combined with the pro-
gressiveness of the new.

SALES IN 1906 ARE BREAKING
ALL RECORDS FOR 30 YEARS

REMINGTON TYPEWRITER CO.

154 WABASH AVENUE

CHICAGO

Keys=Fannin
Lumber Company

Manufacturers of Band
and Circular sawn

SOFT

YELLOW

POPLAR

Plain and quartered red and white
Oak, Hemlock, Bass and Chest-
nut. Give us a trial,

Ashlexnd

Ky.

We Have ox Hand Ready for

Shtp.m ent a N ice Stock of

2*4 Clear Maple
Flooring

ALSO OTHER SIZES AND GRADES

Send us your orders

Our fine timber, modern plant and
skilled workmanship combine to
make a flooring that cannot be ex-
celled. You will be pleased with it.

HAAK LUMBER CO.

HAAKWOOD, MICH.

Y,oc^

WALNUT.
OAK,
ASH,
POPLAR.

THE GENERAL LUMBER
COMPANY

Hardwoods

HEMLOCK
YELLOW PINE

COLUMBUS, OHIO

DO YOU WANT T( ) BUY ?

Poplar — Oak — Ash — Chestnut

ALSO OTHER HARD WOODS- ALL GRADES
AND THICKNESSES

SCHULTZ BROTHERS (& COWEN

1225 to 1240 Old Colony Building. CHICAGO

38

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] Advertisers' Directory

NORTHERN HARDWOODS.

Alcock, John L., & Co 7

American Lumber & Mfg. Company.. .".4
Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company.... 06

Babcock Lumber Company 54

Barnaby, C. B 62

Beyer, Knox & Co 63

BUSS & Villi Auken 12

Boyne City Lumbei Company 59

Browulee & Co 58

Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company . 63

Cadillac Handle Company 3

Carter, Frank, Company 57

Cbeal River Lumber ( Jompany 54

Cherry River Bchjih & Lumber Co... '.»

rhivvis. \V. R 53

Chicago Car Lumber Company 10

Cincinnati Hardwood Lbr. Company . . CI

Cobba & Mitchell, Inc 3

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Connor., R., Company 57

Crescent Lumber Company 60

Crosby & Beckley Company, The <;

Crosby, C. P 56

Cummer, Diggins & Co '•'•

Darling, Cbas., & Co 11

Davis, John R., Lumber Company.... 56

Davis, W. A 11

Dells Lumber & Shingle Company.... 56

Dennis Bros 59

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company. 58
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company... 62

Dixon & Dewej 6

Duhlmeler Bros 61

Dwight Lumber Company 6

Elias, G-, & Bro 63

Empire Lumber Company ...... 63

Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 58

Fall, E. II 55

Forman Company, Thomas 6

Freiberg Lumber Company, The 61

Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber

Company 5

General Lumber Company 37

Gillespie, W. M., Lumber Company. . . 7

Goldie, J. S 59

Hank Lumber Company 37

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company .... 59

Hayden -V Westcott Lumber Co 10

Hollow ay Lumber Company 7

Hoyt, C. L, & Co 62

Indiana Quartered Oak Company 7

Ingram Lumber Company 56

James 4V Abbot Company 7 ^

Jenks, Robert 1L. Lumber Company.. 55*

Jones, G, V\'.. Lumber Company....'. 2

Jones Hardwood Company 7

Kampt, Albert R -

Keator, Hon C H

Keith Lumber Company 11

krlirs Lumber & Shingle Company... S

Kneelaiid-Bigekm Company ."1+

I.isli & Matthews Lumber Company... 11

Linehan Lumber Company 54

Litchfield, William E 7

Lombard. E. B _. 11

Long-Knight Lumber Company 62 .

MacBride, Tims., Lumber Company... 59

Maley. Thompson & Moffett Company. 61

Maley & Wertz 62

.Martin I'.arriss Comp:i uy 55

Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company. . . 56

Mil lure Lumber Company 59

Mellva in. J 1 ; ibson, & Co 7

VIcLean, Hugh, Lumber Company 63

Miller. Anil y <;;;

Miller Bros M

Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Mowbray & Robinson 61

Murphy & Diggins 3

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company 58

Nicola Lumber Company. The 54

Northern Lumber Company 51

North Shore Lumber Company .......

North Vernon Pump & Lumber Co.... 2

.North Western Lumber Company 57

O'Brien, John, Land &, Lumber Co... 10

Perrine-Armstrong Company 62

Price, E. E *

ftadina, L. W., & Co 61

Richmond Park & Co 10

Ross Lumber Company ». . 1

UuinbririaT Lumber Company 1

Ryan &. McParland 10

.Sailing, Hanson & Co :..s

Sawyei Goodman Company 57

Scatcherd & Son 63

Schofield Bros 7

Simmons Lumber Company 59

Skillman Lumber Company 58

Slimmer, J., *v Co 10

Soble Bros 7

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company. 63
Stephenson. The L. Company 12

Stewart, I. N., »v Bro 63

Stewart, Win. II. & G. s 60

Stimson, J. V 62

Stone. T. B., Lumber Company 60

Sullivan. T.. & Co 63

Tegge Lumber Company s

Turner, A. M., Lumber Company 54

Van Keulen & Wilkinson Lumber Co. 59

Vollmar & Below 56

Wagstaff, W. .(

Walnut Lumber Company, The 52

Ward Lumber Company 11

Wells, It. A.. Lumber Company In

Weiitworth, Cbas. S.. & Co 6

White Lumber Company 10

White. W. II. , Company 51

Whitmer, Wm„ & Sons, tuc 6

Wiborg & Ha in 1:1 Company 61

Willson Bros. Lumber 1 ompany 54

Wisconsin Land &f Lumber Company 58
Wisconsin Timber «.v Lumber Company 11

Wis tar, 1 underbill & Co 7

Yeager, ( Irson E 63

Young, W. D., & Co 12

Young & Cutsinger , , , 62

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS.

Advance Lumber Company ■"'-",

Aleock, John L. , & Co 7

American Hdwd. Lumber Company. .~>2
American Lumber & Ally. Company 54

Anderson 'l'ully Company 4

Atlantic Lumber Company

Beck, E. E., Lumber Company 61

Beyer, Knox & Co 63

Brown. Geo. C, & Co 52

Brown, W. P., & Sons, Lumber Co... 2

Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company. . n;'.

Carrier Lbr. &, Mfg. Company 12

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co 9

Chicago Car Lumber Company 10

Chivvis, W. It •'•■;

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co <n

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Courtney, ]>. G 9

Crane, C. & Co 60

Crescent Lumber Company 60

Crosby & Beckley Company, The 6

i \ press Lumber Company 60

Darling, Chas., & Co 11

Davidson-Benedict ' lompany

Davis. W. A H

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company.... 58
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company... 62

Dixon & I lew ej 6

Duhlmeier Bros 61

Elias, c.. & Bro '"'::

Empire Lumber Company, Buffalo. . . *>■'!
Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 58

Fall. E. II 55

Farrin-Korn Lumber Company 61

Freiberg Lumber i ! pany, The 61

Fullerton-Powell Hindu l Lumber

< lompanj 5

Garetson-G reason Lumber Companj

Gayoso Lumber Company 4

Gillespie, W. M., Lumber Company.. 7

Haas, Albert, Lumber Company 7

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company .... 59

Hafner Manufacturing Company 53

JLn ward, M. a 32

Himmelberger-Harrison Lumbei1 ''"■ . . 1

Hoyt. C. 1 . .V ' o 62

Indiana Lumber Company ."2

Indiana Quartered Oak Company 7

International Felloe Mfg Co 4

.Tames & Abbot Company 7

Jenks. Robert H., Lumber Company 55

.tones, C, W., Lumber Company 2

Jones Hardwood Company 7

Kampf, Albert B 2

Keator, Ben C 11

Keith Lumber Company. n

Km i ucky Lumber Company 61

Lamb-Fish Lumber < ompany , , . 64

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company... 11

Linehan Lumber Company ."4

Litehfleld, William E 7

Lombard, E. B 11

Long-Knight Lumber Company 62

Love. Boyd & Co 52

Luebrmann. Cbas. !■'., Hardwood Lum-
ber Company 53

Maley. Thompson A Moffett Company 61
Martin-Barriss Company 55

\[.i -m'iil-;! ie Lniniiei < oiiipinn ;.:;

MeClure Lumber Company.... .".!»

McCauley -Saunders Lumber Co . . 11

Mellva in. J. Gibson, & Co 7

McLean-Davis Lumber Company 2

McLean, Hugh, Lumber Company 63

Miller, Anthony 63

Miller Bros 11

Mosby. II. W., & C.i .52

Nicola Lumber Company, The 54

O'Brien. John, Land & Lumber Co... 10

Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Company. 53

Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company 4

Plummer Lumber Company ."'2

Price. E. E

Radina, L. W., & Co. . 61

Hansom. J. B.. & Co 52

Rhubesky. E. W 2

Richmond Park & Co 10

Kilter, W M., Lumber Company .... .">

Roy Lumber Company :;7

Rumbarger Lumber Company 1

Ryan & McParland 10

Scatcherd & Son i;;;

Schofield Bios 7

Schultz Bios. & Cowen. .... ';7

Slimmer. J., tV Co 10

Smith, U. M., & Co... .v

Southern Lumber Company 2

standard Hardwood Lumber Company. 63

Steele & HIbbard 53

Stevens-Eaton Company 7

Stewart, I. \ . & Bro r,:;

Stewart. Win, II & <;. S i;o

Stimson, J. V d2

Stone. T. B.. Lumber Company, do

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Company . , .">::

Stotz Lumber Company, Inc

Sullivan. T., & Co 63

Swann-Day Lumber Company. . S

Thomas tv Proetz Lumber Company... 53

Three States Lumber Company 64

Turner, A. M, , Lumber Company 54

Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Company. . 52

Walnut Lumber Company. The . 52

Ward Lumber Company 11

Wells, b. a.. Lumbei' Company . . . .10

Wentworth. (has. S., & Co 6

West Florida Hardwood Company. ... 7

White Lumber Company 10

Whitmer. Win, & Sons, tnc 6

Wiborg & Hanna Company 61

Willson Bros. Lumber i ' pany . . 54

Wisconsin Timber & Lumber Company 11
Wood, B. Iv. Lumber Company .... s

JTeager, < u-son E 63

Young .v < lutsinger 62

POPLAR.

Advance Lumber Company 55

Atlantic Lumber Company

Brown, W. P., & Sous, Lumber Co... 2

Cheat River Lumber Company .~>4

< 'oitriiiey. i). G 9

Crane. C. . & Co Q\>

Davidson- Benedict < 'ompany

Hawkins, w. H . Lumber Company . . . 63

Haas, Albert, Lumber Company 7

Hayden a- Westcotl Lumber Co I"

Hay ward. M. A ;!2

Kentucky Lumber Company 61

Keyes-Fannin Lumber Company :'.'

Massengale Lumber Company 53

McLean-Davis Lumber Companj 2

Rhubesky. E. W 2

Bitter. W. M., Lumber Company ."•

Boy Lumber Company ::7

Schultz Bros. & Cowen :;7

Smith. K. M.. & Co s

Southern Lumber (.'ompany 2

Stevens- I']a ton Company 7

Swann-Day Lumber Company S

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company... .">■':

Vansant, TXitehen & Co 64

Wood, B. E., Lumber Company 8

Yellow Poplar Lumber Company 64

COTTONWOOD AND GUM.

Anderson-Tully Company 4

Farrin-Korn Lumbei' Company 61

Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co. , . 1 -

Lamb-Fish Lumber t ompany 04

Luehrmanu, C. F.. Hardwood Lumber

Company 53 .

Mosby, H. W., & Co 52

Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Company. 53
Paepeke-Leieht Lumber Company. ... 4

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Company. . :>:;

Stotz Lumber Company, Ine

Three States Lumber Company 64

CYPRESS.

Cypress Lumber Company 60

Hafner Manufacturing Company 53

Loth man Cypress Company ;,:;

McCauley-Saunders Lumber Co 11

Plummer Lumber Compauy .".2

VZNEERS.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works 40

W is isin Veneer Company .~>7

HARDWOOD FLOORING.

Advance Lumber Company

Bliss & Van Auken

Buffalo Maple Flooring Co., The

Carrier Lbr. & Mfg. Company

Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc

Cummer, Diggins & Co

Itw ight Lumber Company

Eastman, S. L.. Flooring Company...

Fenn Bros. Company

Forman, Tints., < '0111 pany

Haak Lumbei- Company

International Hardwood • ompany ....
Kerry <\; Hanson Flooring Company...

Mitchell Bros. Company

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company

I 'ease Company, The

Stephenson, The I., Company

Ward Bros

Wilce, The T.. Company

Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company

Wood Mosaic Flooring Compauy

Young, W. D.. & Co. . . :

SAW MILL MACHINERY.

Bartlett, A. F., & Co 4::

Garland, M., Company 5*>

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company 4:;

Mershon, W. B., & Co 46

Phoenix Manufacturing Company 51

WOODWORKING MACHINERY.

American Wood Working Machinery

i ompany 4!)

Bartlett. A. F., & Co 4:;

Berlin Machine Works, The 45

Covel Manufacturing Company 4:t

< row n Iron Works 41

Defiance .Machine Works, The 37

Hurley Machine Company 4o

Matteson Manufacturing Company. . . . 39

Nash, .1 M 57

Ober Manufacturing Company, The...

Sehindler, A. J :;n

Smith, II. B., Machine Company 42

Woods, S. A.. Machine Company 44

VENEER MACHINERY.

1 oe Manufacturing Company 47

LOGGING MACHINERY.

I lyde Iron Works 44

Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company i*

Overpack, S. C

Russel Wheel & Foundry Company...

DRY KILNS AND BLOWERS.

Cordon Hollow Blast Crate Company. 43

Grand Rapids Veneer Works 40

.Morton Dry Kiln Company 58

New York Blower Company 3D

SAWS. KNIVES AJJD SUPPLIES.

Atkins, E. C, & Co 4*;

Champion Saw Company 30 & 41

Covel Manufacturing Company 4:;

Crown Iron Works 41

Gillette Roller Bearing Company..... t3

Hancbett Swage Works 41

Hurley Machine Company 40

Marshall, Francis 40

Matteson Manufacturing Company. 39

Shimer, S. J., & Sons 41

LUMBER INSURANCE.

Adirondack Fire Insurance Company., 1
Lumber Insurance Company of New

York 1

Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
pany, Boston

Lumber Underwriters 12

Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual

Fire Insurance Company 1

Rankin, Harry & Co 33

MISCELLANEOUS.

Childs, S. D., & Co ,;7

Gillette Roller Bearing Compauy 43

International Felloe Mfg. Co 4

Lumbermen's Credit Association 3<J

Martin & Co 55

Pease Company, The 60

Poole, Clark L.. & Co 12

Remington Typewriter Company 37

Sanders, Henry. Company 40

Schenck, C. A., & Co..." 2

Standard Audit Company 11

HARDWOOD RECORD

39

Power
Money

Saved
S a ve d

Heating, Ventilating, Mechanical Draft,
Shavings and Conveying

FANS AND EXHAUSTERS

of every description.
WHITE FOR CATALOGUE No S8-G.

BUCYR

usJohio New York Blower Company

CHICAGO office:
25th Place and Stewart Avenue

New Type of Combined End Matcher

SAVES 20 PER CENT. TIME, COST AND LABOR.
USED BY THE LARGEST FLOORING CONCERNS.

Write for particulars to

A. J. SCHINDLER, 441-443 W. 21st Street, CHICAGO

Improved
Automatic
Band Saw
Sharpener

All Machines Fully Guaranteed

^T This machine excels all others for single cutting Band Saws from 8 to 14
^Mnches. Its construction is mechanically correct, simple and durable, and
does not possess any of the intricate complicated parts that confuse the oper-
ator. The head is adjustable so that straight wheels can be used with the same
results as concave.

^T This represents just one type of machine

We make in addition a com-
plete line of modern tools for the care of saws.

For particulars address

Matteson Mfg. Co.

120 128 S. CLINTON STREET,

CHICAGO, ILLS.

KNIVES

I

Planer knives, veneer knives or any of the good machine

knives that you use are tempered best by skilled experience.

Know the truth and get your best machine knives from

CHAMPION SAW COMPANY,

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

Hardwoods Dried in a Week!

(jjOur method can be attached to your old Kiln.
(fllf it does not do all we claim after being installed,
we will take it out without expense to you.

Dept. D.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works

Grand Rapids, Mich.

We are Prepared to Supply Your Wants in

Veneered 2 Solid Slave
Columns

In all Hardwoods with the

Koll's
Patent

CAN NOT H
COME PB
k upAOr Atf

Lock
Joint

Write today for prices

Henry Sanders Co,

900 Elston Ave.

The New Way of Scraping"_Floors with a

"Little Giant" Floor Scraper

NOTE THESE COMPARISONS ^B|

One man will scrape by hand about jm±.

100 square feet in 4 hours at 40c per £*

hour — cost $1.00 per square. , rf.'& £ I . \

The "LITTLE GIANT" and one man
will scrape about 400 square feet in 4
hours at 40c per hour — cost $1.60 for
4 squares, or 40c per square; saving
$1.20 per square.

How long will it take you to pay for
the machine, and commence saving
money in its use?

WRITE

YOUR

DEALER

FOR
PRICE

Hurley <0i.Wi~r^

Machine

Company

To scrape flooi operator pulls machine.

153 S. Jefferson Street CHICAGO. ILL.

1010 Flat Iron Building NEW YORK

1 17 Home Lite Building TORONTO

A machine hat declares saw mill dividends

fD An inexpensive little device

that saves a dollar a day and

upwards.

^ Stops one of the biggest

profit leaks at the mill. Pays

for itself several times over

during a year.

<I Isn't it worth investigating?

AUTOMATIC SWING SAW GAUGE.

FRANCIS MARSHALL, - - Grand Rapids, Mich.

HARDWOOD RECORD

4i

"3

THE BEST MACHINE IN THE BUSINESS

"Blackmer Improved No. 2"

Saw Sharpening Machines

We make numerous other types
Write for Descriptive Circular and Quotations

CROWN IRON WORKS

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

^ Hanchett - Hanchctt - Hanchett 4U

The

Shimer Cutter Head

Is the Only Tool
You Can Rely Upon

For Matching

Hard. Cross=G rained

and

Knotty Lumber.

It has Strength, Durability and correct working
principles. It feeds faster, works smoother, cuts-
true to pattern. No fitting, no tryine— no filing to
shape. You sharpen the Cutters with a file and
set them with a gauge — plain as day Everybody
profits by their use. For Flooring, Ceiling, Siding.
For Ship Lap, Jointing. Double Ceiling. For Doors,
Sash and Special Designs. Coping Heads to match.

YOUR CAPACITY INCREASED = YOUR
LABOR AND EXPENSE REDUCED

Samuel J. Shimer & Sons

Milton, Pennsylvania

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The Profit Builder

NO. 105-A, EXTRA HEAVY 12-INCH MOULDER

T HAS been our purpose during the last half century to develop
^k a line of wood working machines containing the best work-
W manship and material that American skill and wisdom can
afford. This fact we are proud to say is well established in
the minds of our many patrons. We have, however, now
exceeded -ourselves by the development of a remarkable Moulder, the
excellence of which isdue to our obtaining written suggestions from more
than a thousand operators throughout America. This machine stands alone
as being the composite idea of the thinking operators of this country. One
year's test of its work has convinced us that it is impossible for you to
compete successfully against the Smith Moulder with any other machine.
Can't we send you prices and literature '■

Branches :

New YorK, Chicago,

Boston, Atlanta

H. B. SMITH MACHINE CO.

SMITHVILLE, N. J., U. S. A.

Branches:

New YorK, Chicago,

Boston, Atlanta

HARDWOOD RECORD

43

Bartlett's No. "O" Hog, used with Hardwood Flooring Scraper?.

HOGS

We Build All Kinds
Tell Us What Kind You Need

A. F. BARTLETT & CO.

Manufacturers of

SAWMILL MACHINERY

960 South Tilden Street
Saginaw, Mich.

STEAM

Have You Plenty of It?

Do you want to obtain every ounce of steam your boilers are capable of

generating, every hour in the day. in any kind o! weather.

regardless of (he character or condition 'it

your Fuel ? II So, put in

THE GORDON HOLLOW BLAST GRATE

w hicii intakes

Two Boilers Do the Work of Three
"A Magnified Blacksmith's Forge"

The only practical forced draft system for wood burning furnaces or

ovens. Burns sawdust, slabs, etc , even wh-n covered with

scow and ice. r »-t us send you an outfit on

approval. We will pay the freight

both ways in the event

of rejection.

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co.

GREENVILLE, MICHIGAN

THE NEW 1907
CATALOG

is ready, ask for
one. It describes

the most com-
plete line of fil-
ing room ma-
chinery manu-
factured, includ-
ing our New No.
99 Automatic
Sharpener, a s
shown by cut,

also our New No. 109 Stretcher with

automatic Re-toother.

Covel Manufacturing Co.
Chicago, U. S. A.

DESIRED

"Here's to your
gocd health and the
good health of your
family. May you live
long and prosper." —

Joseph Jefferjon
in Hip Van WinKle

You can move 1000 feet of lumber on a GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING
LUMBER CART with the same
power or strength required to move
500 feet on a cart having common
friction-producing axles.

u1

THERE'S THE REASON

If You're wanting to reduce
your lumber handling costs we're
at your service.

Gillette Roller Bearing Axle

REALIZED

—Prosperity-
through the help of
the Gillette Roller
Bearing Company, Ex-
perts in the Elimina-
tion of Expense, Grand
Rapids, Michigan.

44

HARDWOOD RECORD

Long logs and heaOy logs are loaded by the

McGIFFERT Log Loader

just as easily as other kinds of logs.

Fact is — its heavy steel construction, great power

and wide base make it equal to any condition where

a loader could possibly be used. (15.000 pound logs

are handled by it.)

It propells itself, stops and switches its own cars, and

is always ready.

Ask for our booklet

CLYDE IRON WORKS,

DVLVTH. MINN.

W&fr-

The No. 24 C

Special Fast-Feed Flooring Machine

BUILT TO WOKK 8" <JIt 15" WIDE.

I K,ll 1 ROLLS

This Floorer is the logical outcome of specializing in the manufacture of Planers and Matchers. It con=
tains a number of original features, every one of which will interest any user of flooring machines

- BUT PRIMARILY ITS GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT IS THE PRODUCTION OP
POLISHED FLOORING AT A SPEED FORMERLY UNKNOWN.

S. A. WOODS MACHINE CO., BOSTON

, CHICAGO SEATTLE

SPECI A LISTS I N P L A N E B S A N D M 0 U L I) E B -

HARDWOOD RECORD

45

BERLIN No. 284 BAND RESAW

Buying a Band Resaw without seeing tin' rear
of it is like buying a lior.se when you can see noth-
ing but its head sticking out of the stable door.

Have you ever noticed that the rear view of a
resaw is seldom shown ?

Why'.'

Simply because the rear \ iew of most oi them
shows bad features, or, at the best, no good our-.

It's different with this machine.

Look at that hase extending beyond the lower
wheel at both sides.

No chance for vibration there !
No special foundat on necessary. See those out-
side bearings, supported at both ends of a column

east in one piece.

Hot bearings not known by users of this machine.

i tin- Hand Saw Hook illustrates and describes our
complete line of Band Etesaws ami Kip Saws.

It also contains an illustrated treatise on "1 it
tint; and Operating," and we'll gladly send it to
you postpaid if you are interested.

What is your address?

The Berlin Machine Works, Builders

BELOIT, WISCONSIN, U. S. A.

Branches ;' New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco. Seattle, New Orleans, and Macon, Ga.

46

HARDWOOD RECORD

ATKINS

Silver Steel

SAWS

are perfect in every detail. They stand up to their work as honest Saws should do. You'll find them cheapest in the end, because
they save shut-downs and require less attention. Order one saw from your dealer, from us or from our nearest Branch, where a
complete stock is carried for immediate shipment.

E. C ATKINS & CO., inc.

THE SILVER STEEL SAW PEOPLE

HOME OFFICE AND FACTORY: INDIANAPOLIS.

BRANCHES: ATLANTA CHICAGO, MEMPHIS MINNEAPOLIS NEW ORLEANS, NEW YORK CITY.
PORTLAND, SAN FRANCISCO. S EATTLE , TORONTO

M E R S H O N

Band Resawing

Machinery

for all requirements

MERSHON NEW HORIZONTAL BAND RESAW FOR SAW MILLS
VLLIS-CHALMERS COMPANY, S :at(le. Wash., Agenis lor Northern Pacific Terrilory.;

WM. B. MERSHON
4 CO.,

Saginaw, Michigan

THE EBY MACHINERY CO., San Francisco. Cal.. Agents lor California and Nevada.

HARDWOOD RECORD

47

A Rolling

Stone Gathers

no Moss

onaCOE AUTOMATIC KNIFE GRINDER, but as it moves hack and
forth, it puts a straight and perfectly true edge on a veneer or slicer knife.

C. The Coe grinder is heavy, weighing from 3,500 to 6,000 pounds. The
knife is held rigidly in place, and cannot vibrate. The grinder mandrel
runs on a heavy cross head which slides between parallel planed ways.
This insures for the stone an exact line of travel. In its various operations
the grinder is entirely automatic. The feed can be adjusted from 1-1000
to 4-1000 of an inch." The grinder mandrel is adjustable, and will grind
either a straight or a hollow bevel. Cut steel and rawhide gears are used
in conjunction, which makes the machine practically noiseless. No belts
or ropes are used except for the main drive.

C The standard sizes of the grinder range from 54 to 168 inches; and any
size of knife can be ground, from the smallest planer knife up to a 168-inch
slicer knife.

C If you wish henceforth to grind your knives so that you can cut veneers
of uniform quality and thickness, drop us a line or two and we will tell
you more about the grinder, and send you a copy of our catalog, No. 5.

The Coe
Manufacturing Co.

105 Bernard Street

PAINESVILLE, OHIO, U. S. A.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

Skidders

Snakers

4? *■*«.

By, "TqOO '

Lidgerwood Machines
Will Stock Your Mill

Lidgerwood Skidders
Lidgerwood Snakers
Lidgerwood Yarders
Lidgerwood Roaders

Lidgerwood Pull Boats
Lidgerwood Cableways

LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO.

NEW YORK
ATLANTA
SEATTLE
NEW ORLEANS

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Loaders

Cableways

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GARLAND

Special Hardwood 7=ft. Band Mill

There are
many good
features about
this mill that
we will be
glad to tell
about.
Write for
catalogue and
descriptive
circulars.

Simplicity,

Capacity,

Economy on

Saws.

We

manufacture

a full line

of Sawmill

and

Conveying

Machinery.

A few hardwood sa.wmill ma.chinery installations

Kneeland-Bigelow Co Bay City, Mich.

Kneeland-Buell Co Bay City, Mich.

W. D. Young & Co Bay City, Mich.

E. C. Hargrave Bay City, Mich.

Bliss & Van Auken Saginaw, Mich.

Sailing, Hanson & Co Grayling, Mich.

Johannesburg Mfg. Co Johannesburg, Mich.

Michelson & Hanson Co Lewiston, Mich

Harbor Spi ings Lumber Co Harbor Springs, Mich.

W. H. White Co. . . , Boyne City, Mich.

Mud Lake Lumber Co Raber, Mich.

Engel Lumber Co Englewood, La.

Hardgrove Lumber Co Hardgrove, Mich.

Churchill Lumber Co Alpena, Mich.

Waccamaw Land & Lumber Co Wilmington, N. C.

Embury-Martin Lumber Co Cheboygan, Mich.

The M. Garland Co

BAY CITY. MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

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A floor to adore

For thirty-three years Wilce's Hardwood Floor-
ing has been among the foremost on the market
and because it stands today "unequaled" is the
► best evidence that its manufacturer has kept
^abreast of modern methods and the advanced de-
mands of the trade. To convince yourself of the
above statements, try our polished surface floor-
ing, tongued and grooved, hollow backed, with
matched ends and holes for blind nailing — you'll
find it reduces the expense of laying and polishing.
i hir Booklet telh all about Hardwood Flooring and
how t<> care fot // — also prices— and is_free.

The T. Wilce Company

22nd and TKroop Sts. CHICAGO. ILL.

.#

^ml

you want a
foot band mill?

This is a first-class
machine and will
give the best of re-
sults. It is strong,
well made, and as
gi-od as it looks.
Write us and we will
give you full particu-
lars.

Phoenix Mfg. Co.

Eau Claire, Wis.

You can't go astray
when in the market

II M.I w RITE THE

Northern Lumber
Company

RUSH CULVER, Pres.

BIRCH, MICHIGAN

C We manufacture from our
own forests, the finest line of
Northern Hardwoods on the
market. C. We have the woods,
the machinery, the experience,
enabling us to fill your orders
right.

The KNEELAND BIGELOW CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF LUMBER

Annual Output:

20,000,000 ft. Hardwoods.
20,000,000 ft. Hemlock.

4,000,000 pes. Hardwood Lath.

9,000,000 pes. Hemlock Lath.

Mills Hun the Year
Around.

Bay City, Mich.

W. H. WHITB. Pres.

JAS. A. WHITE, Vice-Pres.

W. L. MARTIN, Secy.

THOS. WHITE, Treas.

W. H. WHITE COMPANY

BOYNE CITY, MICHIGAN

Manufacturers of Hardwood and Hemlock Lumber, Cedar Shingles,

White Rock Maple Flooring.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

H. W. Mosby & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM

ASH, ELM

Large Stock on Hand

HELENA, ARKANSAS

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET

For choice lots of hardwoods.
Walnut our specialty.
Inspection at Mill Points.

The Walnut Lumber Company

Indianapolis, Indiana

American Hardwood Lumber Co.

14,000,000 ft. Hardwood Lumber

YARDS AT BENTON, ARK., NEW ORLEANS, LA...ST. LOUIS, MO.,
DICKSON, TENN.

Wanted— to Buy or Contract for future Delivery

500,000 to 1,000.000 ft. Poplar, all grades
500,01)0 to 1,000,000 ft. Cypress, all grades
500,000-to 1,000,000 ft. Ash, all grades

i^o'n1 PLUMMER LUMBER CO. gklffi

Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers
of all kinds of

HARDWOODS

BEVELED SIDING A SPECIALTY.
UNSURPASSED FACILITIES
FOR DELIVERING.

Knoxville
Tennessee

rVT A cr I I x 7 ¥ I ¥ T~2

1 > A o 1 1 V ILLfc

HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL. SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

INDIANA LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers Lumber •

DIMENSION STOCK A SPECIALTY.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Office and Mills: Corner Oldham
Street and Cumberland River

GEO. C. BROWN & CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Tennessee Red Cedar Lumber a Specialty.

Nashville, Tennessee

LOVE,

BOYD & CO.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Will make special prices on :

150,000 ft.
300,000 ft.
400,000 ft.
500,000 ft.

40,000 ft.

60,000 ft.

13,000 ft.

1 in. Tennessee Red Cedar

1 in. to 4 in. Hickory

1 in. No. 1 Com. Plain White Oak

1 in. to 2y2 in. Qrtd. Red Oak.

2Vz in. Is & 2s Qrtd. White Oak

2>4 in. No. 1 Com. Qrtd. White Oak

5-8 Sound Wormy Chestnut

ALL BONE DRY

OUR OWN CUT

JOHN B. RANSOM 4 CO.,

NASHVILLE.. TENNESSEE

We want to move quickly the following old dry stock. AH of it has been on
sticks 6 to i 8 months. Write us for delivered prices. We are prepared to
furnish promptly mixed cars of rough and dressed hardwoods of all kinds:

QUARTERED WHITE OAK

90 M 4/4 first and second
15 M 5/4 first and second
80 M 6/4 first and second
10 M 10/4 first and second
120 M 4/4 No. 1 Common
65 M 6/4 No. 1 Common
58 M 8/4 No. 1 Common
20 M 10/4 No. 1 Common
70 M 5/8 first and secoid Poplar
80 M 5/8 No. 1 Common Poplar
15 M 4/4 1st and 2d Quartered Sycamore
10 M 4/4 No. 1 Com. Quart'd Sycamore

QUARTERED RED OAK

100 M 4/4 first and second
58 M 6/4 first and second
15 M 8/4 first and second
95 M 4/4 No. 1 Common
84 M 6/4 No. 1 Common
72 M 8/4 No. 1 Common

PLAIN OAK

50 M 4 '4 1st and 2nd "White
100 M 4 4 No. 1 Common White
100 M 4 4 first and second Red
100 M 4 4 No. i;Common Red

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Co.

Manufacturers of

"Acorn Brand''

THE FAMOUS FAULTLESS FLOORING
IN OAK AND BEECH.

Car Lots and Less Than Car Lot Nscrnrllio T*nnOCCO<>

Orders Solicited. Write for Prices. INaMIVllie, 1 ennefciCC

HARDWOOD RECORD

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LAR GEST

ALL HARDWOOD MARKETS

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Co.

CASH BUYERS OF OAK, ASH, CY-
PRESS, POPLAR, CHERRY AND ALL

HARDWOODS

Send Inspector When Quantity Justifies

Office and Yards : Hall and Angelrodt Sts.

Garetson-Greason Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

GUM LUMBER
OUR SPECIALTY

Carload Shipments Direct
from Our Own Mills

519 Bank of Commerce

LOTHMAN CYPRESS CO.

AIR DRIED

Louisiana Red Cypress

FOOT OF ANGELICA STREET

CHAS. F. LUEHRMANN HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY

Carry a complete stock of Hardwood and are

constantly in the market to purchase

large blocks of stock for cash. Are

also the largest manufacturers of

the famous St. Francis

Basin Red Gum.

General Offices : 148 Carroll Street

WTJ /""'T-J T\7^\7T C Lesperance Street and Iron
• tV« l^Ol V VlO, Mountain Railroad.

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

BLACK WALNUT LUMBER MY SPECIALTY. Always in the market to buy
Walnut and Cherry Lumber. Pay spot cash and take up at shipping
point when amounts justify.

STEELE & HIBBARD

North, UMiAdwAv and Dock Streets
Wholesale Manufacturers, Dealers and Shippers

ASH. CYPRESS. MAHOGANY. OAK, POPLAR, «.c.

Mills: Yazoo City, Miss.; McGregor, Ark.; England. Ark.;
Dermott Ark. O'Hara, La. ; Dexter, Mo.

Roland F. Kret.

Manager Hardwood Dept.

Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Co

FRISCO

• BUILDING

FOR SALE: The Following Stocks, Shipped Direct From Our Mills:

12 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common Cottonwood, Dry. 6 cars 1 in. Log Hun Elm ( Bone Dry. i
8 " 1 in. 1st ■£ 2ndsSap Gum, Dry. Bears lin.No. 1 & 2, Com. Pin. Red Oak, *' "
2 " 1 in. " " Red " " 200M ft. 1 In. and 2 in. Dry Cypress, (all grades i

Write Us for Prices

MASSENGALE LUMBER CO., ST. LOUIS

Manufacturers and dealers in

HARDWOODS

In the market to buy and sell OAK, POPLAR, ASH, CYPRESS

Large stock dry lumber always on hand

Wanted-Cypress, Ash and Cottonwood

Inspection at Point of Shipment When Quantity Justifies

tlafner Manufacturing Co.

CYPRESS, HARDWOODS

Mail orders receive our immediate
attention.

YARDS: FOOT OF DOCK STREET

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Co.

203 Frisco "Building

We have the following Dry Stock for sale piled at our mill:

QTD. WHITE OAK : COTTONWOOD :

3 Cars 4/4 Common. 3 Cars 1" 1 and 2.

2 Cars 4/4 Common and Better Strips. 1 Car 1x13 to 17" Box Boards.

GUM : EL,M :

F) Cars 1" Common Red. 1 Car 6/4 I,og Run.

1 Car 1x13 to 17" Box Board9. 4 Cars 4'' Log Run.

1 Car 2" 1 and 2 Sap.

6 Cars 1% Common and Better Sap.

This Stock is All Band Sawed and Equalized

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HARDWOOD RECORD

T""> I IP TP O T~> ¥ T !""> 4~\

F* 1 1 1 O D U K U

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF PENNSYLVANIA

1

The Nicola Lumber
Company

One million feet 4-4 Bay Poplar.
Can be shipped log run, or sold
on grade. Bone dry : band
sawed. Send your inquiries.

A. M. Turner
Lumber Company

Everything in lumber. We buy hardwoods
as well as sell them. If you have anything
to offer, please submit same to us. : l

Willson Bros. Lumber Co*

MANUFACTURERS

WEST VIRGINIA
HARDWOODS

FARMERS BANK BLDG. a PITTSBURG, PA.

STOCK LIST

4 Msple No. 1 Com. Dry
4 Maple No. 1 Com. 4 Bel ,

6,000 II. 4
12.000 II. 4 <

Dry
85,000 II. 4 4 Maple No. I Com. 4 Bet.,

Pari Dry

ICa
1 Car

116.000 11.

Dry
77.000 II.

Pari Dry

5 4 Maple No. I Com., Dry
5 4 Maple lsis and 2nds. Dry
5 4 Maple No. 1 Com. 4 Bel.

5 4 Maple No. 1 Com. t Bet.

1 Car
ICar

47.000 II.

Dry
67,000 II. 6

Part Dry

6 4 Maple No. 1 Com., Dry
6 4 Maple lsis and2nds. Dry

6 4 Maple Nn. 2 Com. 4 Bel.,

4 Maple No 2'Com . C, Bel..

Favorable Freight

6,000 11. 8 4 Maple No. 2 Com.. Dry
7,000 It. 8 4 Maple No. 2 Com.g Bel.,

Dry
1 Car 10 4 Maple lsis and 2ndl, Dry
52,000 II. 10 4 Maple No. 2 Com.< Bel.,

Pari Dry
48.000 II. 10 4 Maple No. 2 Com. t, Bet.,

Pari Dry
19,000 II. 12 4 Maple No. 2 Com. {, Bet.,

Part Dry
4,000 II. 16 4 Maple No. 2 Com.fi Bel.,
Part Dry
1 2 Car 4 4 Basswood Log Run mill

culls out. Dry
1 2 Car 8 4 Basswood Log Run mill

culls out, Dry
Rates to the East.

BABCOCK LUMBER CO., Ashtola, Pa.

WE WANT

ORDERS! ORDERS! ORDERS!

For
h Car 1x18 to 25" I ft and 2nds Cottonwood.
| Car 1x13 to 17" 1ft and 2nds Cottonwood.
1 5 M f t. 1x6" and up 1ft and 2nds Cottonwood.
200M ft. 1x4" and up No. 1 common Cottonwood.
210Mft. 4-4 1ft & 2nds plain Red and White Oak.
240M ft. 4-4 No. 1 com. plain Red and White Oak.
1 90M ft. 4-4 No. 1 com. quartered White Oak.

V« V- V

American Lumber ti Mfg. Co.

PITTSBURG, PA.

Linehan Lumber Company

PERFECT

MAPLE FLOORING

SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES

Hardwoods a Specialty

FOR SALE

POPLAR

125,000' 4/4 lsand 2s
40,000' 4, 4 No. 1 Com.
320,000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.
228,000' 4/4 No. 3 Com.
150,000' { '4 Mill Cull

CHESTNUT

200,000" 4 4 Sound Wormy
80,000' 5/4 Sound Wormy

100,000' fi 4 Sound Wormy
48,000' 8, 4 Sound Wormy

PLAIN OAI
60,000' 4 '4 No. 1 Com.
18,000 4/4 No. 2 Com.

QUARTEREB^AI
2 cars 4/4 No. 1 Com.
1 car 4 4 No. 2 Com.

OAK TIMBERS SAWED TO ORDER.
WRITE FOR PRICES.

CHEAT RIVER LUMBER COMPANY, Pittsburg, Penna.

HARDWOOD RECORD 55

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HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF NORTHERN OHIO

THE

ROBERT HJENKS LUMBER

COMPANY

FOR SALE

(0 M leel 1" Isl and 2ds Poplar
223 M feel 1 ' No. I Common Poplar
125 M feel 1" No. 2 Common Poplar

25 M feet 2" 1st and 2nd Poplar, 14" and up
125 M feel 8 4" Sound Wormy Cheslnul
275 M feel 1" Sound Wormy Chestnut
153 M feel 1" lsl and 2nd Plain While Oak

85 M feel 1" lsl and 2nd Plain Red Oak
125 M feel 1" No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak

Quartered White and Red Oak. — We have a good assort-
ment of dry stock, yi to 4 inches thick. Your inquiries solicited.

Plain White and Red Oak.
stock, ready (or shipment.

-A limited amount of nice

SYMBOLS FOR GRADE MARKS

Adopted by the Hardwood Manufacturers Association of United States

A

O
A
B

2

Panel and Wide No. 1

Wide No. 2

Box Boards

FAS or Firsts and

Seconds
Saps

Selects
(J^ No. 1 Common
No. 2 Common
No. 3 Common

&

No. 4 Common

Every Manufacturer should stamp the grade on his Lumber.
Set of 10 Rubber Stamps, l-5<"xl» in size. Pad. Pint of Ink, and
Spreader, packed for shipment S3. 50.

MARTIN & CO. LEWIS DOSTER, Sec'y

191 S. Clark St., CHICAGO, or 1535 First Nat. Bank lldg. CHIC AGO

FRAMES

FOR HARDWOOD RECORD
SUPPLEMENTS

Complete with backing, but without the glass, made
from Flemish Oak, are to be had delivered by ex-
press, charges prepaid to any point east of the
Missouri river, at 50 cents each ; or at the Hard-
wood Record office, at 30 cents each. Prepay orders
with two-cent stamps or postal notes, addressed

Hardwood Record, 355 Dearborn Street, Chicago

The Martin-Barriss Company

Importers a.nd Manufacturers

MAHOGANY

a.nd Fine Hcxrdwoods

HARDWOODS

Dry Stock is Scarce

Mill Shipments are Slow in Coming Forward

We therefore call attention to stock of upwards
of SIX MILLION FEET seasoned HARD-
WOODS we offer for quick shipment from
Clej/eland. WANT TO CLEAN IT OUT.
Are you interested ?

The Advance Lumber
Company

1 3th Floor, Rockefeller Bldg., CLEVELAND, O.

Manufacturers and Dealers
In White Pine, Yellow Pine, Hemlock and Hardwoods

H . FALL

EXPORTER
. . . OF . . .

WALNUT, POPLAR

~=^^^^^^^=. AND ^^^=^=^=

BIRDSEYE MAPLE LOGS

Cash paid for Black "VVaJnut Logs at point of shipment. If you have
any walnut logs to offer, write me.

I have some Sycamore, Red Oak, Ash and other hardwood logs which
I am prepared to saw to order. Correspondence solicited.

Can also supply Black Walnut lumber, sawed to any specification
required.

PORT CLINTON

OHIO

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HARDWOOD RECORD

WISCONSIN

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

C. P. CROSBY

RHINELANDER : : WISCONSIN

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Hard Maple a Specialty in all thicknesses from 1 inch
to 4 inch. Finest Birch in Wisconsin. Black Ash,
Rock Elm, Soft Elm, Red and White Oak. : :

DIFFICULT AND MIXED ORDERS A SPECIALTY

For Sale:

NATIONAL
INSPECTION

3,000,000 ft. inch Birch.
100,000 ft. inch Black Ash.
50,000 ft. inch Soft Elm.

All No. 1 Common and Better.
20,000 ft. 1x4 and wider, 6 ft., 1st & 2nd Birch.

Dells Lumber 4 Shingle Co.

EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN

Mason-Donaldson Lumber Co.

RKinelander. Wisconsin

20 cars
1 2 cars

4 cars
1 5 cars
1 5 cars

5 cars

rich No. 1 Common Birch

nch No. 2 Common Birch

nch No. I Common & Better Red Birch

nch No. 2 Common & Better Soft Elm

nch No. 3 Common Birch

2 inch No. 1 Common & Better Basswood

5 cars 2 inch No. 1 Common & Better Basswood
I 0 cars I inch 1 st & 2nd Clear Basswood, 1 4 and 1 6 feet
7 cars 1 K> inch No. 1 Common & Better Soft Elm
4 cars 2 inch No. 1 Common & Better Soft Elm
2 cars 1 J _• inch No. 3 Common Soft Elm

John R. Davis Lumber Company

PHILLIPS, WISCONSIN
The Leading Manufacturers

Wisconsin Hardwoods

"SHAKELESS" HEMLOCK and WHITE CEDAR PRODUCTS

WE HAVE THE FINEST BLOCK OF

4-4 UNSELECTED BIRCH

ON THE MARKET

Write for our Price Lists
and Stock Sheets

Mixed Cars, Even Grades
Prompt Shipments

WAUSAU, WIS.

We have to
offer the
following
stock in
pile at
Ingram, Wis.

1 In. Log Kun Plain Birch.
1 In. Nu. 1 Common Plain Birch.
1 In No. 2 Common Plain Birch.
1 In. 1st and 2nd Red Birch.

1 !n. No. 1 Common Red Birch.
lii In. No. 1 Common Red Birch.
l'/a In. 1st and 2nd Red Birch.
lii in. No. 1 Common Red Birch.

2 in. 1st and 2nd Red Birch.
1 In. Curly Birch.

1%. m and 2 In. Curly Birch.
1 In. End Dried White Birch.
1 in. 1st and 2nd Soft Elm.
1 in. No. 1 Common Soft Elm,
\\4i in. Log Run Soft Elm.

Your orders

and

inquiries

solicited

ARPIN HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
Saw and Planing Mill at Atlanta, near Bruce, on the Soo Line.

"We are prepared to furnish mixed carloads and
solicit your inquiries and orders. At present we
are offering Red Birch in thicknesses, 1 inch to
%Yz inches common and better, also maple, birch
and one quarter sawed red oak flooring, basswood
ceiling and siding and finish ; also molding.
Our hardwood flooring, "A. H. L." Brand, is the
highest grade as to workmanship and quality."

VOLLMAR & BELOW

MARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN

Basswood, Birch

and Other Wisconsin Hardwoods

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU ARE IN THE MARKET FOR

HARDWOOD RECORD 57

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W I^OCJrN^IfN

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

R. CONNOR CO.

WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS

Wisconsin
Hardwood

PINE AND HEM-
LOCK LUMBER

Auhurnd»le.Wls..on W. C. K.R. ItlArchfiplH WlC

Stratford, Wis., onC.&N.W.K.R. I'ltU .3111 ICIU, f?l».

After Jan. 1, 1907

We will be ready to sell

5,000,000 ft. Winter Sawed

Basswood, Elm and Birch

Carefully manufactured from
logs of superior quality

Sawyer-Goodman Company Marinettcwi*.

North Western Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OP BAND-SAWED

Wisconsin Hardwoods

CAREFUL GRADINGS — PROMPT SHIPMENTS

General Offices, EAU CLAIRE, WIS. Mills al STANLEY, WIS.

Frank Carter Co.

MANUFACTURER

Wisconsin Hardwood

SPECIALTY— HARD MAPLE

Mills: DURAND

SPRING VALLEY
GLEN FLORA
ELMWOOD
HILLSDALE

General Offices :

MENOMONIE, WIS.

Wisconsin Veneer Co*

RHINELANDER, WIS.

Largest and best equipped Veneer
cutting plant in the country. High-
grade product from Birch, Maple,
Elm, Basswood, Ash and other na-
tive woods.

Veneers for Door Work a Specialty.

The Nash Automatic
Sander

FOR ALL ROUND STOCK WORK

A wonderful labor-saving machine.

Pays for itself in a short

time. For particulars

address

Broom,

Hoe, Rake,

Fork and

Shovel

Handles,

Chair Stock,

Dowel Rods,

Curtain

Poles,

Shade

Rollers,

WhipStocks,

Canes,

Veneered

Columns,

J. M. Nash KBSSffi&S Ten Pins,&c.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

M I C H I Q A N

FAMOUS FOR HARD MAPLE AND GRE.Y ELM

SKILLMAN LUMBER CO.

We Want To Buy For Cash

PLAIN AND QUARTERED RED AND WHITE OAK

Write Us What You Have To Oder
GRAND RAPIDS :: :: :: MICHIGAN

S. L. EASTMAN FLOORING CO.

■AGINAW BRAND

MAPLE FLOORING

SAGINAW, MICH.

IXL POLISHED

Rock Maple Flooring

Our slow method of air seasoning and kiln drying

IXL Hardwood Flooring has stood

the test for 20 years.

Please write for prices and booklet

Wisconsin Land ■•$ Lumber Co.

HERMANSVILLE, MICHIGAN

DENNIS & SMITH LUMBER CO.

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Office and Yards, FOURTH AND HOLDEN AVENUES,
DETROIT, MICH.

MILLS AT: OrndorH. W. V»., Beaters W. Va., and Parkersburg. W. Va.

The Morton Dry Kiln

MOIST AIR SYSTEM

Recording
Ther-
mometers.
Transfer
Cars.

Trucks.

Canvas

Doors.

HOW TO DRY LUMBER,

As exemplified in our Catalog D. Free on application.

MORTON DRY KILN CO., Chicago, His.

Evans & Retting Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

Hardwood
Lumber

RAILROAD TIMBERS, TIES AND SWITCH TIES
Michigan Trust Building Grand Rapids, Mich.

SALLING, HANSON & CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Michigan Hardwoods

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

QUOTE ON SMALL OR LARGE LOTS.

WILL PLACE ORDERS FOR STOCK TO

BE MANUFACTURED

Wanted-Soft Maple

One-inch and Two-inch Log Run, Mill Culls Out, Pin
Worms no Defect. Will also buy Mill Culls.

BROWNLEE & COMPANY, Detroit, Mich.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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MICHIGAN

FAMOUS FOR RED BIRCH AND BASSWOOD

BOYNE CITY LUMBER COMPANY

BOYNE CITY

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE and other HARDWOODS

LARGE CAPACITY

PROMPT SHIPMENTS

RAIL OR CARGO

J. S. GOLDIE.

Cadillac, :: Michigan.

SPECIAL PRICES on SOoM pieces
li" to 3" Maple Squares 16" to 27" long
250M leet Maple cull
INQUKIES SOLICITED FOR MICHIGAN LUMBER.

You read this=

=others

will,

too.

They

would

read

your

ad.

Try it.

VAN KEULEN & WILKINSON LUMBER COMPANY

Manufacturers and "Wholesalers of •

HARDWOOD LUMBER and CRATING STOCK

Complete Stocks of Michigan Hardwoods — Maple, Beech, Birch, Elm,
Ash and Basswood for sale.

Grand Rapids, : : : Michigan

"Chief Brand"
Maple Flooring

Will commend itself to you and your trade on
its merits alone. 1 Comprises all the features
desirable in good flooring. ^ Made by the latest,
most approved machinery methods and best
skilled labor. U We believe we can make it to
your interest to handle our "Chief Brand" and
will appreciate your inquiries.

Kerry 4 Hanson Flooring Co.

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

DEININIS BROS.

GRAND RAPIDS, : : : MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD LUMBER (by water or rail)

"NATIONAL" MAPLE & BIRCH FLOORING

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN THE FOLLOWING:

120M feet 4 4 Log Run Birch
125M feet 6 4 Log Run Birch
2 Cars 8 4 Common and Better Birch

1 Car 1x4 Clear Birch

2 Cars 1x7 and Wider No. 1 Common Birch
140M feet 5 4 Log Run Beech

160M feet 4 4 Log Run Soft Elm

Hard Maple— All grades and thicknesses

Main Office :

205-209 Michigan

Trust

Company

Building

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

Hardwood Lumber

Main Office, Michigan Trust Company Building

GRAND RAPIDS : MICHIGAN

Thos. MacBride Lumber Company

HEADQUARTERS FOR

HARDWOODS

IN MICHIGAN

Michigan Trust Building, Grand Rapids, Mich.

BIRCH

WE WANT YOUR ORDERS FOR

4-4 and 5-4 No. 1 Common Birch

A No. 1 STOCK

Simmons Lumber Company

SIMMONS, MICHIGAN

McCLURE LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Hardwoods

Main Offices, DETROIT, MICH.
Mills. : EUTAW. ALA.

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 cars I" 1st f 2nds 4 Com. Qld. While Oak 10 cars I" Log Run Brown Ash

2 cars 2'.~, 3 and 4" While Ash 10 cars 1" lo 4" Dry Hard Maple

2 cars 1" While Ash 10 cars I" Log Run Birch

1 car I'? and 2" No. 1 Com. Brown Ash 10 cars \" Log Run Basswood

2 cars 2" Log Run Soil Elm 5 cars 6 4 and 8 4, Green Log Run Hickory.

4 cars 2, 3 and 4" 1st and 2nds and No. 1 Com. Green While Oak
500M feel 1" lo 2", I's and 2's. selects and common, Dry Poplar:
2 cars 6 4 and 8 4, Log Run, Second Growlh While Ash.

6o

HARDWOOD RECORD

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CirS t/lIN IN A I 1

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

THE HOUSE OF STONE

The One of Good Grades
Poplar, Oak, Chestnut, Cottonwood, Ash, Basswood and Cum

T. B. STOPME LUMBER CO.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

CYPRESS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturer of Hardwoods and Cypress

Plain and Quartered White and Red Oak, Yellow Poplar,
Yellow Pine, Walnut, etc. Mills in Tenn., Ala. and Va.

OFFICE AND YARDS. OEST AND DALTON AVE., CINCINNATI, OHIO.

/\TTT3 A TTUT Is to ship the highest standard of

lumber at lowest consistent price

We are manufacturers and ship direct from our band mills

Oak

Poplar

Ash

W.H.&G.S. Stewart

Main Office: Cincinnati, Ohio, U. S A.

Chestnut

Basswood

Yellow Pile

FRAMES,
SASH. DOORS,
BLINDS, MOULDINGS.
COLUMNS, GLASS.
STAIRWORK.
INTERIOR TRIM.

PAINTS,

BUILDERS' HARDWARE,

MANTELS, ETC.

LAROE CINCINNATI FAC

TORIES MAKE PROMPT

SHIPMENTS POSSIBLE.

C. CRANE & COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS

Poplar, Oak, Ash, Chestnut, Sycamore,
W. Va. Spruce, Pine and Elm

YEARLY CAPACITY 100,000,000 FEET

LONG BILL STUFF A SPECIALTY

Mills and Yards: CINCINNATI, OHIO

W. T. SCHNAUFER

H. G. CHAMBERLAIN

CRESCENT LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of

Hardwood Lumber

MARIETTA, O.

OAK FLOORING

Thoroughly Kiln Dried.
Perfectly Manufactured.
We are located in the best Oak Timber section in the

United States; have new and modern machinery and

experienced operators.
Why should we not be able to furnish the best Oak

Flooring?
Write us and we will convince you that we can.

The INTERNATIONAL HARDWOOD COMPANY

Catlettsburg, Kentucky

W. H. Dawkins Lumber Co.

Manufacturers of Band Sawed

Yellow Poplar

ASHLAND, KY.

HARDWOOD RECORD

61

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L/ir\L/IfN fN A I 1

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

IF YOU HAVE IT TO SELL WRITE US

POPLAR

ROUGH AND DRESSJED

Will Fake Any Quantity from a Carload to Ten Million Feet.
Will Receive at Shipping Point When Quantity Justifies

KENTUCKY LUMBER CO.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

THE E. E. BECK LUMBER COMPANY

Cash Buyers

Poplar, Oak, Chestnut

And Other Southern Hardwoods

ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES.

WE BUY MILL CUTS.

L. W. RADINA & COMPANY

Correspondence Solicited with Buyers and Sellers of All Kinds of

Wanted for cash— desirable blocks of 1 inch to 4 inch Poplar, all grades,
Especially lj^-inch stock, for immediate shipment.

=CLARK STREET AND OALTON AVENUE-

IN THE MARKET FOR

OAK-ASH-POPLAR

ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

MOWBRAY & ROBINSON

Office:
12 J 9 West Sixth Street

Yards:
Sixth Street, below Harriet

PLAIN OAK— BASS WOOD

Are what we want. All thicknesses and grades. Spot
cash. Send us list of your offerings with prices.

DUHLMEIER BROS., CINCINNATI 0.

■*SS8^ $^ I'1'- 1

-unsafe

THE FREIBERG LUMBER CO.

L Manufacturers ot

■ Tabasco Mahogany
Walnut, Oak

McLean and Findlay Avs.

CINCINNATI. O.

THE WIBORG & HANNA COMPANY

CINCINNATI. OHIO

PLAIN

AND

QUARTER

SAWED

White and Red Oak

! CHESTNUT J

J POPLAR !

J GUM AND I

', CYPRESS J

Flooring, Siding, Ceiling, Base, Case and Molding. Rough, Dressed and Re-sawed. Mixed Carloads.

THE

MALEY, THOMPSON & MOFFETT CO.

Always in the Market for

BLACK WALNUT LOGS,
SELECTED WHITE OAK LOGS,
LUMBER OF ALL KINDS.

CINCINNATI.

OHIO

"BUY GUM"

We ore in the market to buy
Dry Gum Lumber in any
quantity, from a single ear
load to a million feet. Will
take all grades and thick-
nesses. We receive lumber
at shipping point, pay cash
and are liberal in inspection.

THE FARRIN-KORN

LUMBER COMPANY

General Office, Yards,

Planing Mills, Dry Kilns.

Cincinnati, Ohio
Purchasing Office,

Randolph Building,

Memphis, Tenn.

Cypress Red Gum Oak

Cash bxiye.rs for stock in our line.

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co.

GEST AND SUMMER STREETS

Wholesalers Mahogany, Thin Lumber, Veneers

Finely figured quarter sawed oak veneers a specialty.

HARDWOOD RECORD

$ INDIANA $

.WHERE THE BEST HARDWOODS GROW-

THE WOODS FOR
WHICH INDIANA
IS FAMOUS.

Quart Yd White Oak

Plain White Oak

Quartered Red Oak

Plain Red Oak

White Ash

Poplar

Black Walnut

Cherry

Sycamore

Red Gum

Hickory

Beech

Maple

Veneers of

Indiana Hardwoods

YOUNG & CUTSINGER

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Fine Figured Quartered Oak

EVANSVILLE, IND.

CHARLES H. BARNABY

Manufacturer of Band Sawed Hardwoods

Quarter Sawed Indiana White Oak a Specialty GREENCASTLE, IND.

D'HEUR & SWAIN LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Quartered Oak and Sycamore

SEYMOUR. IND.

C. I. HOYT & CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Quartered and Plain Oak, Poplar, Ash and Chestnut

Specialty in Difficult Orders in Wagon Stock. PEK.IN, IND.

LONG-KNIGHT LUMBER CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS

Quarter Sawed White and Red Oak a Specialty

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

MALEY & WERTZ

Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Exporters of Hardwood Lumber

EVANSVILLE, IND.

PERRINE-ARMSTRONG CO.

Long Timber up to 60 feet — Hardwood Specialties

The largest Band Mill in Indiana. FORT WAYNE, IND.

J. V. STIMSON

All Kinds of Hardwood Lumber Manufactured

HUNTINGBURG, IND.

HARDWOOD RECORD

63

BUFFALO

THE GREAT WHOLESALE LUMBER CENTER OF THE EAST

Manufacturers and
Dealers in

Ash

White and Brown

Basswood
Birch

Red and White

Butternut

Cherry

Chestnut

Cottonwood

Cypress

Elm

Soft and Rock

Gum

Red and Tupelo

Hickory
Maple

Hard and Soft

Red Oak

Plain and Quartered

White Oak

Plain and Quartered

Black Walnut
White Wood

Poplar

T. SULLIVAN & COMPANY

Specialties: BROWN ASH, BIRCH, PACIFIC COAST FIR AND SPRUCE

50 ARTHUR STREET

ORSON E. YEAGER

Specialties: OAK, ASH AND POPLAR

932 ELK STREET

BEYER, KNOX & COMPANY

ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

Office and Yards, 69 LEROY AVENUE

BUFFALO HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

We want to buy for cash :

Oak, Ash and other Hardwoods, all grades and thicknesses.
Will receive and inspect stock at shipping point.
P. O. Box 312. MEMPHIS. TENN. 940 SENECA STREET.

EMPIRE LUMBER COMPANY

Our specialties are PLAIN *nd QUARTERED OAK and ASH.

1142 SENECA STREET.

G. ELIAS & BROTHER

BUY AND CARRY LARGE QUANTITIES OP ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

955 TO 1015 ELK STREET

HUGH McLEAN LUMBER COMPANY

Specialty: INDIANA WHITE OAK

940 ELK STREET

ANTHONY MILLER

HARDWOODS OF ALL KINDS

893 EAGLE STREET

SCATCHERD & SON

HARDWOODS ONLY
Yard, 1555 SENECA STREET Office, 886 ELLICOTT SQUARE

STANDARD HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

OAK, ASH AND CHESTNUT

1075 CLINTON STREET

I. N. STEWART & BROTHER

Specialties: CHERRY AND OAK

892 ELK STREET

^ T a MANUFACTURERS OLD-FASHIONED

Vsinsaint, soft yellow

5-8 AND 4-4

IN WIDE STOCK.

SPECIALTY

Kitchen &

POPLAR

Ashland, Kentucky

Company

Three States Lumber Co.

20 Cars 4-4 Common and Better Plain White Oak
10 Cars 4-4, 13 to 17", Cottonwood Box Boards
10 Cars 4-4, 8 to 12", Cottonwood Box Boards
5 Cars 4-4, 20" and up, Cottonwood Panels

FOR PROMPT SHIPMENT

DRY BAND SAWED STOCK MEMPHIS, TENN.

Lamb-Fish Lumber Co.

SUCCESSORS TO LAMB HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY. BACON-NOLAN-HARDWOOD COMPANY GUIRL-STOVER LUMBER COMPANY

Manufac-
turers

OAK, ASH, COTTONWOOD, GUM
AND CYPRESS

MAIN OFFICE: 720 MEMPHIS TRUST BUILDING. MEMPHIS. TENN.
rr\t w\ <• mu i Memphis, Tenn. /% g\ • |,a . Well Manufactured Stock

Three Band Mills c^ncy Miss Our Specialties good Grades

f Stover. Miss. r I Prompt Shipments

YELLOW POPLAR

MANUFACTURERS

BAND SAWED
POPLAR
LUMBER

DRY

ALL GRADES

5-8, 4 4, 5-4,6-4, 8 4, 10-4, 12-4,16 4

.Bevel Siding, Lath & Squares

SPECIALTY, WIDE STOCK

Coal Grove, Ohio, U, S. A.

COPYRIGHT, A. D. 190T1 BY THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

MMwol Rocorfl

Twelfth Year.

Semi-raonthty,

CHICAGO, JANUARY 25, 1907.

Subscription $2.
I Single Copies, 10 Cents.

)

2,000,000 Feet

FOR SALE

ROSS LUMBER CO.

JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK

The present DIVIDEND OF 33l/3% TO POLICY HOLDERS represents a RETURN
OF ONETHIRD OF THE PREMIUMS received by:==

THE LUMBER MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

OF BOSTON, MASS.

YOUR INVESTIGATION INVITED

DRY STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

125.000 ft
200,000 ft

i II

250,000 ft

.KI.IMIII II

60.000 ft

75.000 ft
170.000 ft

18,000 ft
155,000 ft
220,000 II

87,000 li
120;000 II

1 inch No. 1 and No. 2 Quartered White Oak.
1 inch No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak.
1 inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.

1 inch No. 1 Common Plain Oak.
1J inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.
\\ inch No. 1 Common Plain Oak.
H inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.
li inch No. 1 Common Plain Oak.

2 inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.
1 inch Scented Tennessee Cedar.

1 inch Common and Better Chestnut,
li inch, 1} inch and 2 inch Common and Better Chestnut.
Tennessee White Pine Log Run
Poplar Bevel Siding.

THE ATLANTIC LUMBER CO.

2 KILBY STREET, BOSTON, MASS.

The Davidson-Benedict Company

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
Everything in

Southern Hardwoods

POPLAR, CHESTNUT, ASH, OAK

(Plain and Quartered.) Straight or Mixed Cars,

DRESSED POPLAR ANY you get what you buy from

™ Tl ,7 ,J™, ™T»«,t. , J US- ASK FOR OUR DELIVERED

WAY YOU WANT IT. prices, any railroad point.

TOLEDO

FIRE & MARINE INSURANCE CO.

In the Year 1906 Paid Sixty Losses

ranging from nominal amounts to £12,500, withoul a contention and
to the entire sal isfaction ol the assured increased assets, incn
surplus, an increased volume of business have marked the compa
progress for 1906. Specialists in Lumbei and woodwoi king risk

SANDUSKY,

OHIO

ADVERTISERS' CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY FOLLOWS WANT AND FOR SALE ADVERTISING SECTION.

Hardwood record

I f\ ITICA^II I T~*

L, CJ U 1 ^ V I L L LJ,

MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF KENTUCKY

McLean -Davis Lumber Co.

Successors to

Hugh McLean Lumber Co., Highland Park, Ky.
Edward L. Davis Lumber Co., Louisville, Ky.
Berry - Davis Saw Mill Co., Louisville, Ky.

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Hardwood Lumber

Daily Capacity:
80,000 feet.

Sales Oifices:
[Louisville, Ky.

Ornamental Hardwood Floors

400 STYLES AND PATTERNS

Illustrated Catalog on Application

WOOD - MOSAIC FLOORING CO.

Rochester, N. Y. New Albany, Ind.

Dry Stock W. P. Bl*OWIl & SOIlS LlimbCr CO.Louisvi.le,Ky.

PLAIN RED
65,000' 1" 1st &
25,000' 114" 1st
49,000' 1%~ 1st
57,000' 2" 1st &
18,000' 2%" 1st
16,000' 3" 1st &
131,000' 1" No. 1
84,000' 114" No.
44,000' 1V4" No.
47,000' 2" No. 1
8,000' 2%" No.
16,000' 3" No. 1

OAK.
2nd.
& 2d.
& 2d.

2d.-
& 2d.

2d.
Com.
1 Com.
1 Com.
Com.
1 Com.
Com.

QUARTERED RED OAK.
10,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
All thicknesses in cull poplar, ash, chestnut.

14.000' ly2" 1st & 2d.

5,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
15,0110' 1" No. 1 Com.

7,000' 114" No. 1 Com.
13,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

PLAIN WHITE OAK.

80,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
28,000' IV 1st & 2d.
12,000' 114" 1st & 2d.
42,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
23.800' 2 Mi" 1st & 2d.
16.000' 3" 1st & 2d.
227,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
80,000' 114" No. 1 Com.
80,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.

50,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
17,000' 2>A" No. 1 Com.
22.000' 3" No. 1 Com.

QUARTERED WHITE OAK.

50.000' 1" 1st & 2d.

28,000' 114" 1st & 2d.

45,000' lMs" 1st & 2d.

49,000' 2" 1st & 2d.

19,000' 214" 1st & 2d.

18,000' 1" No. 1 Com.

30,000' 114" No. 1 Com.

40,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.

22,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

10,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

ASH.

9,000' 1" 1st & 2d.

65,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.

16.000' 114" 1st & 2d.

10.000' 2" 1st & 2d.

S.000' 2V>" 1st & 2d.

14.000' 3" 1st & 2d.

6,000' 4" 1st & 2d.

4.000' 114" No. 1 Com.

16.000' 11£." No. 1 Com.

S.OOO' 2" No. 1 Com.

POPLAR.
12.000' 1" 1st & 2d.

Your inquiries will be appreciated.

12.000' 114" 1st & 2d.
11.000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
12,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
10.000' 214" 1st & 2d.
10,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
50,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
28,000' 114" No. 1 Com.
10,000' 114" No. 1 Com.
10,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
15,000' 1" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

8.000' 2" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

6,000' 2" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

4,000' 1%" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

3.000' 114" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

Prompt delivery guaranteed

Albert R. Kampf

Manufacturer

Hardwood Lumber and Timber

Dimension Stock.

Board of Trade Bldg., Louisville, Ky."

E. W. Rhubesky

Wholesale

Poplar, Rough and Dressed.

Oak, Chestnut and Other

Hardwoods

North Vernon Pump
4 Lumber Co,

Band Sawed Plain and Quartered

Oak and Poplar.

North Vernon, Ind.. and

Louisville, Ky,

-

Southern Lumber Co.

Oak, Poplar and

Chestnut.
Louisville, Ky.

All Lumbermen, Attention!

We do what you can't do.
We measure your stumpage correctly.
We make your maps correctly.
Bank references: Asheville, N. C.

L« A. OCnenCK CJ) I/O. North Carolina.

may be paved with
good resolutions

-BUT

if you will make a New Year's Resolve to let us quote you on your requirements in hardwoods.
Northern or Southern, it will be a resolution you will keep, for it will be to your advantage.

A Few Leaders in Dry Stock:

200M feet 1 inch 1st and 2nd Sap Gum 50M feet 1} inch No. 2 Common and Better Birch

200M feet 1} inch No. 1 Common Red Gum 75M feet 1 inch 1st and 2nd Red Birch

200M feet 1 inch 1st and 2nd Birch 50M feet 1 inch No. 1 Common Red Birch

250M feet 1 incli No. 1 Common Birch 15M feet 2 inch 1st and 2nd Red Birch

G. W. JONES LUMBER CO.

Mills:
Wisconsin, Arkansas

APPLETON, WISCONSIN

HARDWOOD RECORD

LET US TALK TOIYOU
ABOUT

HARD MAPLE

We have the following Dry Stock to offer :

15M ft. 4-4 Birdseye Maple, End Dried.
<>M ft. 5-4 White Maple, End Dried.
32M ft. 8-4 While Maple, Knd Dried.

Also the following Dry Yard Stock in Maple:

59M ft. ti-4 Firsts and Seconds.
40M ft. 8-4 Firsts and Seconds.
46M ft. 10-4 Firsts and Seconds.
12M ft. 12-4 Firsts and Seconds.

ALL MANUFACTURED OUR WAY

Mitchell Brothers Company

CADILLAC, MICHIGAN

The Cadillac Handle Co.

Band Sawn
Michigan Hardwoods

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 Cars 4, 4 Maple. No. 1 and 2 Common.

3 Cars 4 4 Maple 1st and 2nds.

2 Cars 5 4 Maple No. 1 Common and better.

1 Car 6 4 Maple No. 1 Common and better. 10 in. and over wide.

2 Cars 8 4 Maple No. 1 Common and better.
2 Cars 4 4 Birch No. 2 Common and better.

We are prepared to contract No. 3 Common Maple, for future sawing.

MURPHY & DIGGINS

Offer all grades of the following special dry stock

MAPLE^i/4, 6/4, 8/4, 10/4, 12/4, 14/4, 16/4
CRAY ELM-4 4, 12/4
BASSW00D-4/4
BIRCH-V4, 6/4

Our own manufacture. Perfect Mill Work. Uniform Grades.
LET US FIGURE ON YOUR HARDWOOD WANTS.

Cummer, Diggins & Go.

^MANUFACTURERS

"CUMMER" MAPLE
AND BEECH FLOORING

MICHIGAN HARDWOODS

Good assortment of dry stock on hand ready
for immediate shipment in Hard Maple, Beech,
Birch, Soft Elm and Cherry.

SEND US A LIST Of YOUR REQUIREMENTS.

DRY ST

OCK J

Northern Michigan

Soft Gray Elm

What our old cork pine was to the regular
white pine — such is our Soft Gray Elm to
ordinary soft elm. Buyers who gladly discrim-
inate in favor of something better than the or-
dinary, will be interested. We have

10 cars 8=4 firsts and seconds.

1 car 10-4 firsts and seconds.

2 cars 12=4 firsts and seconds.

Wide, choice st"ck, our own product, seasoned righl
bone dry.

WHITE US ABOUT IT.

C0BB3& MITCHELL

(INCORPORATED)

CADILLAC, MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM AIND OTHER HARDWOODS

Large stocks of well seasoned Lumber always carried at our yards and mills.
General Offices: MOW. Chicago Ave., CHICAGO. Mills: Cairo, 111., Marked Tree, Ark.,Greenville, Miss., Arkansas City, Ark., Blytheville, Ark.

WAGON STOCK

IN ROUGH.

TONGUES, AXLES, REACHES, BOLSTERS
AND 6 4 TO 16 4 HICKORY. ALSO ALL

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

Gayoso Lumber Co., Inc.

Memphis, Tenn.

FENN BROS. COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Oak Flooring

Quartered \A7Hite Hollow Backed

Quartered Red End Matched

Plain \A/hite Polished

Plain Red Bored

Offices and PIa.r»t :

Kansas and Mallory Ave., New South Memphis.

(Take Soulh Memphis carlo Mallory Ave.)

Anderson -Tully Company

OFFERS STOCK FOR SALE

50,000 ft. i/% in. first and second Cottonwood 8 in. and up wide
100,000 " 1 " " '" " 8 " " " "

100,000 " 1 " No. 1 common " 13 " '

100,000 " 1 " "2
.100,000 " 1 " "3

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

|TTFor

items c

f Hardwood Stoc

k or

^Har

dwood

Machinery, you

will

find

it advantageous

to write

our

advertisers

Get ir

i touch !

Swann-Day Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OP

POPLAR AND OAK

PLANING MILL STOCK, BOX SHOOKS
AND HARDWOOD DIMENSION

CLAY CITY, KENTUCKY

HARDWOOD RECORD

FULLERTON -POWELL

Hardwood Lumber Co.

-. OFFERS THE FOLLOWING STOCK fj

J FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT I

30 Cars 1" 1 si and 2nds Plain Red Oak
1 Car 3" 1st and 2nds Plain White Oak

1 Car 1 i" No. 1 Common White Ash

2 Cars 1 i" No. 1 Common White Ash

BRANCH OFFICES:

CHICAGO, 1104 Chamber of Commerce I Quotations \ MAIN OFFICES

MEMPHIS, J EMM. ,305 Tennessee Trust Bldg.

WINNIPEG. MAM., 411 Union Bank Building

MIHMEAP0LIS,MIHM.,305 Lumber Exchange \ furmshei / iSOlttf) ^Hetld, I fid.

W.M.Ritter Lumber Co

COLUMBUS. OHIO

Saw and Ship 100,000,000 Feet Yearly

WEST VIRGINIA YELLOW POPLAR
NORTH CAROLINA CORK WHITE PINE

AND HARDWOOD

DRY KILNS AND PLANING MILLS. ALL OUR MILLS RUN THE YEAR ROUX I >.
SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES AND ORDERS!

HARDWOOD RECORD

R. M. SMITH

J. H. P. SMITH

R. M. SMITH (& COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

WEST VIRGINIA HARDWOODS

PARKERSBURG. WEST VIRGINIA

WE CARRY IN STOCK FROM TEN TO FIFTEEN MILLION FEET OF ASH, BEECH, BASSWOOD, CHESTNUT, CHERRY,

MAPLE, PLAIN & QTD. OAK, POPLAR, WALNUT, &C. OUR PLANING

MILL FACILITIES ARE UNSURPASSED.

Band Mill: Orndoff, Webster County, W. Va.

EASTERN OFFICE:

1425-6 LAND TITLE BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA

Planing Mill; Heaters, W. Va.

JANUARY, 1907, STOCK LIST

HARD MAPLE
1 in. 1,000,000 ft.
1} in. 100,000 ft.
100,000 ft.
50,000 ft.
SO, 000 ft.

li in

3 in

4 in

1 in.
li in.

2 in.
2i in.

BEECH

100,000 ft.
BIRCH

500,000 ft.

100,000 ft.

100,000 ft.
50,000 ft.

BASSWOOD
1 in. 300,000 ft.

GRAY ELM
1 in. 300,000 ft.
H in. 200,000 ft.
3 in. 200,000 ft.

Kelley Lumber & Shingle Co.

Tra.verse City, Mich.

Quartered Oak Flooring

Manufactured for

HIGHEST CLASS of trade only.

Also Plain Oak, Maple and other Hardwood flooring:.

The name D WIGHT on flooring- is a guarantee of its

excellence.
DWIGHT SPECIAL pattern of thin flooring- is the
only suitable thin flooring to lay. Write for Sample.

DWIGHT LUMBER. COMPANY

DETR.OIT, MICHIGAN

Thomas Forman Company

MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE

Maple and Oak
Flooring

New York Branch : DETROIT.

McGovern 6 Bowen. And Hardwood Lumber

V> Broadway MICHIGAN

We Have the Stocks
For 1907 Lumber Trade

A fler the disastrous fire of last March we started in right away to
replace our large stock of the finest hardwoods and building lumber.
We have handled the largest business in our history in 1906, and built
up large stocks of choice lumber of all kinds and grades. We can handle
the largest orders satisfactorily. Send in your inquiries. Do you get
McIIvain's "Lumber News,'"

J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co.

56th to 58th Streets and Woodland Ave., PHILADELPHIA, PA.

WE WILL BUY YOUR OUTPUT OF WELL MANUFACTURED

HARDWOODS

YOURS FOR A "SQUARE DEAL,"

WILLIAM WHITMER & SONS, Inc.

Branches: NEW YORK, BOSTON, PITTSBURG

Girard Trust Bldg., PHILADELPHIA

HARDWOOD RECORD

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BOSTO

YORK PHILADELPHIA

W. M. GILLESPIE LUMBER

HARDWOODS COMPANY Farmers Bank BIdg.
Oak a Specialty PITTSBURGH, PA,

BALTIMORE
M A R Y L A >

R E L7 L7 DD I (~* E7 buyer and

N D £_,. ELi. 1 r\lV-.Ili EXPORTER OF

Hardwoods, Poplar and Logs

I am always in the market for nice lots of dry and well manufactured
lumber. I inspect at point of shipment. Correspondence solicited.

The West Florida Hardwood Co.

Ash
Hickory

Milt on Apalachicola River
MAEYSVILLE, FLA.

Red and White Oak
Yellow Cottonwood

Red Gum
Tupelo Gum

LET US HAVE YOUR INQUIRIES

ALBERT

HAAS LUMBER

CO.

BAND SAWED

OAI

YELLOW POPLAR

ATLANTA

l: ;:

GEORGIA

JOHN L. ALCOCK & CO.

BUYERS OF BLACK WALNUT LOGS
BOARDS AND PLANKS

Baltimore, Md.

Inspection at point ot
shipment. Spot cash.

THE BUFFALO MAPLE FLOORING CO.

0 MANUFACTURERS OF

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE AND OAK FLOORING

BUFFALO, NEW YORK

James & Abbot Company

Lumber and Timber

No. 165 MILK ST., BOSTON, MASS., and GULFPORT, MISS.

Wantcd-Dimension Oak, plain and Quarte|,ed-

White and Red. Send for specifications.

Ir\diev.naL Q\ia.rtered Oak Co.

7 East 42nd Street. New York City

STEVENS-EATON CO.

Buvers o:

ROUND LOTS

of

>™ Hardwoods

No 1 Madison

Avenue,

New York

ESPECIALLY IN MARKET FOR PLAIN RED OAK

JONES HARDWOOD CO.

INCORPORATED

WANTS: Poplar, Plain Oak,
Quartered Oak and Cypress.

147 MILK STREET
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Manufacturers please send stock lists and prices.

Holloway Lumber Company

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

In the market for all thicknesses of
OAK, ASH and CHESTNUT.

312 Arcade Building,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

WM. E. LITCHFIELD

MASON BUILDING, BOSTON, MASS.

Specialist in Hardwoods

Manufacturers are requested to supply lists of stock for sale

J. H. SCHOFIELD

R. W. SCHOFIELD

SCHOEIELD BROTHERS

LUMBER

WHITE PINE
AND HARDWOODS

1019-1020 Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Bldg.,

Sales Agents: Long Pole Lumber Co., Case-Fowler Lumber Co.

Mills: CADI I? DDATIIEDC Specialties:
Honaker, Va. dUDLE DKUlllLIO Quartered White
Birmington, Ala. Oak, Poplar.

WHOLESALE LUMBER

Land Title Building = - Philadelphia, Pa.

Wistar, Underhill & Co.,

=^^ WHOLESALE =====

HARDWOOD LUMBER

816 Real Estate Trust Building, 4> PHILADELPHIA.

The only trade pa-per reaching all classes
of hardwood consumers

HARDWOOD RECORD

355 Dearborn St., Chicago

8 HARDWOOD RECORD

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HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF PENNSYLVANIA

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The following list covers the hardwoods we now have on hand. Special
price f. o. b. cars mill for all one grade. Wt- would be pleased to have
you favor ns with your inquiries and orders.
1 4 Maple, No. 1 Common 2 Cars

5 4 " " " 2 Cars

| 5 4 " " " and Better . .... 59.000 Feet

6 4 " " I Car

6 4 " Hirsts and Seconds 2 Cars

8 4 " No. 2 Common 2,500 Feet

10 4 " Firsts and Seconds . . . T I Car

10 4 " No. 2 Common and Better 1 1 ,000 Feet

12 4 " No. I " 1,500 Feet

12 4 " "2 " 1,000 Feet

4 4 Basswood, Log Runm.c. o I car

8 4 " 1 car

DRY STOCK
Favorable Freight Rates to the East.

BABC0CK LUMBER CO., Ashtola, Pa.

The Nicola Lumber
Company

One million feet 4-4 Bay Poplar.
Can be shipped log run, or sold
on grade. Bone dry ; band
sawed. Send your inquiries

A* M, Turner
Lumber Company

Everything in lumber. We buy hardwoods
as well as sell them. If you have anything
to offer, please submit tame to us. : t

Willson Bros. Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS

WEST VIRGINIA
HARDWOODS

FARMERS BANK BLDG. :: PITTSBURG, PA.

Hardwoods a Specialty

FOR SALE

POPLAR

125.000' 4 '4 Is and 2s
4.0,000' 4/4 No. 1 Com.
325,000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.
228,000' 4/4 No. 3 Com.
150,000'-: '4 Mill Cull

CHESTNUT

200.000' 4 4 Sound Wormy
80,000' 5 4 Sound Wormy

100,000' e 4 Sound Wormy
4S,000'8 4 Sound Wormy

PLAIN OAK
60,000' 4/4 No. 1 Com.
18,000' 4/4 No. ?. Com.

QUARTERED f'AK
2 cars 4/4 No. 1 Com.
1 car 4/4 No. 2 Com.

Linchan Lumber Company

PERFECT

MAPLE FLOORING

SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES

OAK TIMBERS SAWED TO ORDER.
WRITE FOR PRICES.

CHEAT RIVER LUMBER COMPANY, Pittsburg, Pcnna.

WE WANT

ORDERS! ORDERS!

ORDERS!

For
| Car 1x18 to 25" Is! and 2nds

Cottonwood.

\ Car 1x13 to 17" Island 2nds

Cottonwood.

1 5M ft. 1x6" and up IsT: and 2nds

Cottonwood.

200M ft. 1x4" and up No. 1 common Cottonwood.

2 1 0M ft. 4-4 la & 2nds plain Red

and White Oak.

240M ft. 4-4 No. 1 com. plain Red

and White Oak.

1 90M ft. 4-4 No. 1 com. quartered White Oak.

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American Lumber $> Mfg. Co.

PITTSBURG. PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

D. G. COURTNEY

MANUFACTIRER OF

Yellow Poplar
Oak & Chestnut

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA

Our Timber Holdings are located exclusively in the finest sections of West Virginia
growth. Modern mills and perfect manufacture. Standard and uniform grades.

We seek the trade of wood-working factories who want a dependable lumber supply
and fair treatment.

Just now we want to move 4/4 No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 Common Oak.

Hardwoods

WE MANUFACTURE

ASH POPLAR CHESTNUT BASSWOOD

BEECH CHERRY RED OAK HARD MAPLE

BIRCH HICKORY WHITE OAK SOFT MAPLE

THE BEST LUMBER'

Cherry River Boom &
Lumber Co.

BAND MILLS: SCRANTON, PA. WRITE FOR

RICHWOOD, W. VA. x * v*^

CAMDEN-ON GAULEY, W. LVA. PRTPP^

HOLCOMB, W. VA. .T IxJ.V-.EO

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HARDWOOD RECORD

PARK RICHMOND <Sb CO.

Wholesale

Hardwood Lumber

410 Monadnock Block

PH0NE r^kiVarr/^
HARRISON 5165 ^IllCdgO

Ryan & McParland

CHICAGO AND MEMPHIS

In the Market to buy Ash, Hickory, Poplar
and Oak Lumber; also Wagon Stock

In the Market to buy Hardwood Logs for
our Memphis Band Mill

Chicago Car Lumber Co.

504 Pullman Building
CHICAGO

Buyers of Round Lots

Poplar, Oak, Ash and Car and R. R.
Material

Hayden & Westcott Lumber Co.

IN MARKET FOR

POPLAR

25 M ft. U" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
40 M ft. 2" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths
25 M ft. 2i" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
60 M ft. 3" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.

ROCK ELM
200 M ft. 5/t No. 1 Common and better
500 M ft. 8/4 No. 1 Common and better

BLACK ASH
50 M ft. each 4 4, 5 4 and 6.<4 No. 1 common and better

OAK AND ASH
100 cars car oal< framing
25 cars white ash from 1" to 4" green or dry Is and 2s

511 Railway Exchange,

Chicago

R. A. WELLS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Fine Quartered Oak a Specialty

234 LA SALLE STREET
Yards at Canal and 2Jst Sts. CHICAGO

, ILL. I

White Lumber Company

Dealers in Hardwood Lumber

ALL KINDS

Cherry Lumber a

Specialty

ALL GRADES

Laflin en. 22d Sts.
Chicago

John O'Brien Land & Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Of All Kinds

OFFICE AND YARDS :

873 to 881 So. Laflin Street

MILL : PHILIPP, MISS.

Chi

icago

J. Slimmer & Company

Hardwood
Lumber

Office and Yard :

65 W. Twenty-second St.

CHICAGO

HARDWOOD RECORD

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THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

A floor to adore

For thirty-three years Wilce's Hardwood Floor-
ing has been among the foremost on the market
and because it stands today "unequaled" is the
.best evidence that its manufacturer has kept
'abreast of modern methods and the advanced de-
mands of the trade. To convince yourself of the
above statements, try our polished surface floor-
ing, tongued and grooved, hollow backed, with
matched ends and holes for blind nailing — you'll
find it reduces the expense of laying and polishing.
Our Booklet tells all about Hardwood Flooring and
how to care for it— also prices—and is free.

The T. Wilce Company

22nd arvd Throop Sts. CHICAGO. ILL.

CHAS. DARLING & CO.

Southern
Hardwoods

22nd Street and Center Avenue - CHICAGO

McCauley- Saunders Lumber Co,

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

BAND SAWED
LOUISIANA GULF COAST

RED CYPRESS

Products Exclusively

&&930 1703 Fisher Bldg., CHICAGO, ILL.

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Co.

1649-50 MARQUETTE BlIUDING

Are now offering bone drv BIRCH, ROCK ELM, BLACK ASH. etc., Wis-
consin stock. Also PLAIN AND QUARTERED OAK, POPLAR, etc ,
from our Memphis yard. We are constant buyers.

Ben C. Keator^-Wholesale Lumber

HARDWOOD AND PINE

1003-4 Manhattan Building, CHICAGO

! ERNEST B. LOMBARD I

Manufacturer arvd Wholesale

Northern &.nd Southern.

Hardwoods

Railway Exchange

CHICAGO

W. A. DAVIS

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

1612 Marquette Bldg., CHICAGO
Branch Offices : PADUCAH, KY., and MEMPHIS, TENN.

THE WARD LIMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

HARDWOODS

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUILDING :: CHICAGO

The Keith Lumber Co.

MAHOGANY

5,000,000 feet ma-
hogany in stock.

Large and fine stock
of Cuban wood.

FOREIGN AND

AMERICAN

HARDWOODS

14th and Wood Streets
CHICAGO

CHAS. MILLER MILTON MILLER

MILLER BROS.

H/\RDWOOD LUMBER

Main Office: 208 WILLOUGHBY BLDG. 6 E. MADISON ST.
'Phone Central 1363 CHICAGO, ILL.

Yards: Loorais St. S.of 22nd St., Chicago, 111., Houston Miss., Macon, Miss.

The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Co.

Wholesale and Retail

Telephone
NORTH 22 3

HARDWOOD LUMBER

47 Dominick St.
CHICAGO

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Michigan Maple Flooring

Our model factor)* is equipped with the highest
class tools and appliances made for Flooring
production.

We produce our lumber from the best rock Ma-
ple area in Michigan and have 20 years' supply.

Our brand "Michigan" is a guaranty of qual-
ity. Perfect mill work and excellent grades
distinguish our Flooring and our prices are
reasonable.

WARD BROS., Big Rapids, Mich.

OAK FLOORING

Kiln Dried

Bored

Polished

HARDWOOD LUMBER -oX

"&MFG.CO. ''

5ARDIS .
MISS

Hollow

Backed
Bundled

"Ideal" SI RocK Maple Flooring

is the flooring that is manufactured expressly to supply
the demand for the best. It is made by modern ma-
chinery from carefully-selected stock and every pre-
caution is taken throughout our entire system to
make it fulfill in every particular its name— "IDEAL."

Rough or Finished Lumber — All Kinds

Send us Your Inquiries

The I. Stephenson Company

WELLS, MICHIGAN

WE ARE OFFERING

TIMBER LAND 6% BONDS

Secured by first mortgage on Southern timber
lands at less than 50 per cent of their present
market value. Issued by large, well established,
responsible lumber companies. Full particu-
lars will be mailed on request.

CLARK L. F»OOLE & CO.

SUCCESSORS TO

H. C. BARROLL <a CO.. Bankers

First National Bank Building

CHICAGO

THE "FINEST" MAPLE FLOORING

W. D. YOUNG & CO.

BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

Producers from TREE to TRADE of the high-
est type of Michigan Forest Products. Large
stock of Maple Flooring and 15,000,000 feet
of Hardwoods — 1 to 4 inches thick — on hand.

Maple, Birch and Beech Lumber

Always Think Before You Act —
But in the Matter of

FIRE INSURANCE

But Don't Delay Too Long For
IT IS DANGEROUS.

Write at Once Fo r Our Rates, et .

Lumber Underwriters

66 Broadway, New York

€| The HARDWOOD RECORD publishes a
series of bulletins, showing the annual hardwood re-
quirements of many thousands of wholesale consumers,
kind, grade and thickness.

<J Indispensable to every lumber sales manager.

^ Specimen bulletin for the asking.

We have in stock

150,000 ft. 4-4 White Maple Cross piled with 2'/2-
inch dry crossers.

125,000 ft. 4-4 Log run Birch red in. No thick
cut out.

Please favor us with your orders.

Bliss & Van Auken

Saginaw, W. S. Mich.

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Published In the Interest of Hardwood Lumber, American Hardwood Forests, Wood Veneer Industry, Hardwood Flooring,
Hardwood Interior Finish, Wood Chemicals. Saw Mill and Woodworking Machinery.

Vol. XXIII.

CHICAGO. JANUARY 25. 1907.

No. 7.

Published on the 10th and 25th of each month by

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THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

Henry H. Gibson, President

FRANK W. TUTTLE, Sec-Treas.

OFFICES
Sixtn Floor Ellsworth Bide;., 355 Dearborn St Chicago, III., U.S.A.

Telephones: Harrison 4960 Automatic 5659

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Subscriptions are payable in advance, and in default of written orders to the
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The entire contents of this publication are covered by the general copy-
right, and articles must not be reprinted without special permission.
Entered at Chicago Postoffice as Second Class Matter.

^Advertising copy must be received five days in advance of
publication date. Advertising rates on application.

HARDWOOD ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.

Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the U. S.

The fifth annual meeting of this association will he held
on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 29 and 30, 1907, at the
Gayoso Hotel, Memphis, Term.

National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association.

This association will hold its next annual convention on
Wednesday and Thursday, March 6 and 7, 1907, at the New
Winard Hotel, Washington, D. C.

National Hardwood Lumber Association.

The tenth annual convention of this association will be
held on Thursday and Friday, May 23 and 24, 1907, at
Atlantic City, N. J.

General Market Conditions.

A.-tivc Inlying still marks the situation in hardwoods. The great
shortage of hardwoods of nearly all descriptions has been emphasized
<luring the last two weeks. There is scarcely an item of stock that
lias not a dozen buyers after it. Perhaps the shortest item is oak in
all grades, with poplar a close second. The tides that have prevailed
in the southern rivers during the last two weeks have practically
closed down all operations. Comparatively few logs came forward
on this last rise. Streams are now settling away and an active
manufacturing period will prevail. The situation, however, means no
dry poplar for some months.

There are a good many foreign buyers visiting the United States
at the present time, attempting to secure stock to supply their wants;
most of them are very much discouraged over the situation, as
domestic trade promises so much that manufacturers are loth to
accept much business for export.

The flooring factories are all still verj busy and the demand
seems to be fully up to the output. This is not only true of oak
flooring but of maple and beech as well. Incidentally, beech flooring
is attracting a great deal of attention in the market, and the public
is fast learning that beech is a remarkably good flooring material.
The comparatively low price at which it is sold is somewhat of a
stimulus to the demand for it; outside of this, however, beech is
gaining recognition as a standard flooring material of unsurpassed
excellence.

The demand for mahogany, notably in the furniture trade, seems
to be in excess of the supply. This is the first time in years that
the general mahogany market of the country lias been nearly depleted
of stock.

The veneer factories are busy and the product of many of them
is sold from three to six months ahead.

Getting Together.

There were some interesting developments at the recent annual

ii ting of the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association. The

gentlemen composing this body, in common with all others who have
the best interests of the hardwood trade at heart, gave voice to the
spirit of conciliation in their discussions, expressing the hope that
eventually all elements of the hardwood trade might get together in
an agreement upon a universal base of hardwood inspection. This
expression of common sense is by no means a new attitude for the
Indiana association, as many of its members have preached this com-
mendable doctrine for years.

Outside of the few radicals always encountered in association
work and a certain other element of the trade which delights in
having a confusion of grades to facilitate grade-juggling, the fact is
generally recognized that it would be the greatest wisdom to unify
all hardwood grading rules.

Inspection should be made the same in all parts of the country,
and it looks now as though that desideratum is possible of realiza-
tion. In spite of the antiquity of the hardwood lumber business, all
capable men in the trade recognize that evolution prevails in all lines
in, lay, and that to keep up with business progress there must needs
be concessions from all elements of the trade to accomplish gnat
results.

The discussion on the subject of grading prevailing at the
Indiana meeting, in which not only members of the Indiana associa-
tion but of the National Hardwood Lumber Association participated,
was all tempered with this spirit of harmony. From these discussions
and from opinions expressed by many other lumbermen prominent in
the hardwood industry, it would seem that the trade is beginning to
realize certain basic principles which are eminently just, and which
should influence a uniform inspection system. These basic principles
may be analyzed about as follows:

First, that values can not be legislated into grades — the higher
the grade, the higher the price it will command the lower the grade,
the lower the price.

Second, that so long as grades are made to fairly well suit the
requirements of the consuming trade, it is an indifferent matter what
specific rules shall apply.

Third, that as in all other lines of manufacture, the man who
makes the lumber should be the arbitrator of gradesj so long as he

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makes grades that are acceptable to the consuming elements of the
trade.

Fourth, that inasmuch as the great bulk of hardwood lumber is
used for cutting-up purposes, both sides of the board shall be taken
into consideration in determining grades and values.

Fifth, that the ' ' give-and-take ' ' system of measurement on the
half -inch is just alike to seller and buyer.

Sixth, that the increasing value of lumber makes it a matter of
economy to utilize odd lengths.

There are now scheduled early meetings of both the big hard-
wood associations, and it is sincerely to be hoped that at these
conventions the same spirit of conciliation will prevail which char-
acterized the Indiana meeting. The olive branch should be held out
by everyone who has the interests of the hardwood trade at heart,
and while it doubtless is eminently desirable that both the national
associations retain their individuality, it is merely a matter of comity
and common sense that they get together and agree upon a set of
uniform inspection rules and organize a competent, disinterested,
impartial bureau to carry on the work of reinspection in all cases of
dispute. This should be the logical outcome of inspection agitation
and surely will be if a few radicals in both associations will do the
right thing.

Reciprocal Demurrage Natters Progressing.

On Jan. 16 President Roosevelt received the Executive Committee
appointed by the National Reciprocal Demurrage Convention at its
session in Chicago Jan. 5. Various members of the Committee laid
before him facts and conditions regarding car shortage — the great
and steadily increasing delay of shipments, the loss of custom by
shippers, the damage caused thereby, and the actual suffering ensu-
ing to residents of certain sections of the country, notably the
Northwest. Abundant testimony was presented to show that the
above conditions actually exist, and to convince the President that
some decisive steps should be taken at a very early date to amel-
iorate the situation. The hope was expressed that he himself would
take the initiative in such action.

The Executive Committee presented a comprehensive brief in which
the grievances of shippers were recounted. Fifteen lines of trade
were represented in the complaint, which showed that lumbermen
had perhaps been the chief sufferers from inadequate transportation
service, while consignors of coal, grain, hay, and food products — the
essentials of every-day life — had been scarcely less inconvenienced.

Stress was laid upon both phases of the transportation matter —
the failure of the railroads to provide suitable cars for the movement
of commodities, and their habitual delay in forwarding them to
destination when provided and loaded. The Committee explained
that they had prepared no bill for presentation to Congress and
wished to make no arbitrary demands, but placed itself on record
as recognizing the justice of the demurrage rules and charges which
the roads enforce upon shippers at the present time, and as of the
opinion that the roads themselves should recognize a corresponding
obligation to move with reasonable promptness the tonnage accepted
by them.

President Roosevelt called Judge Knapp of the Interstate Com-
merce Commission into the conference, with the result that a special
session of the Commission was called to discuss the question with the
Committee that day. This special hearing lasted several hours, and
on the following afternoon the joint body assembled before the
President, who listened carefully to the conclusions arrived at by the
Commission after hearing the evidence presented. Several of its
members voiced the opinion that the Interstate Commerce Commission
should be given further powers that they might meet like difficulties
which may arise in future, and that they should be authorized to
prepare rules regarding car interchange and other features of the
situation, which would be applied after a suitable time, during
which the organization of associations for car interchange and the
inauguration of other measures looking to prompt remedial action
could be undertaken^ by railroads.

The opinions. expressed at the instigation of President Eoosevelt
showed to the entire satisfaction of the Committee that the Com-
mission's support is an assured fact. The President indicated that

he would expect the Interstate Commerce Commission to formulate a
bill for presentation to Congress, to be supplemented by a special
message from himself, in the very near future, which would relieve
the situation and tend to prevent a recurrence of like conditions.

The Executive Committee was exceedingly gratified by the receptive
attitude of the President and Commission, and left Washington con-
fident iu the ultimate adjustment of matters to the entire satisfaction
of both the railroads and the vast numbers of shippers throughout
the country.

The "King of Trusts."

If Senator Kittredge of North Dakota could but realize what an
ass he is making of himself, it would lie an excellent thing — for that
gentleman. Washington dispatches, under date of Dee. 16, quote
him as delivering the following harangue on the "king of trusts"
before the Senate, which is reproduced in part, not so much because
it furnishes amusing reading for lumbermen as that they may recog-
nize one of the sources from whence spring the absurd statements
now being scattered abroad regarding the trade:

"In its far-reaching effects there is none to compare with ii.
It is remorseless in its grasp on the people, and the only change
which it contemplates is to increase the price of its products
at frequent intervals. The consumer not only bears the burden
of its aggressive monopoly in advancing prices but also of the
profits of intervening agencies. For him there is no escape
from the avarice of this monopoly. To him the lumber trust
is a tangible, living reality.

"When he sees these advancing prices without reference to
increased cost of production he needs no argument to convince
him that the government to which he contributes his support
and renders true allegiance is derelict in its duty unless it em-
ploys all the resources at its command to relieve him of these
oppressions.

"The people demand this as a right and not as a favor. The
trust has become so bold in its operations within the last year
or two that it has eliminated in many localities all semblance
of competition and from a central point controls both the whole-
sale and retail trade and fixes the price to the consumer.

"Its prices are identically the same, whether in Minnesota or
Arkansas, Illinois or Texas, Indiana or Missouri, or in any
other portion of the country. * * * It costs $10 to manu-
facture the lumber at the mills and it yields to the trust a profit
of at least 200 per cent. According to the last census the value
of timber products in 1900 was $566,600,000.

"The retail dealers are not alone in the clutches of the trust :
if the wholesaler sells to an unauthorized dealer, he is subjected
to boycott and other penalties. The millmen are also subject
to like domination. * * *

"Within the past live years the prices of lumber and timber
products have been arbitrarily advanced from 100 to 500 per
cent. This is nothing better than robbery and is, in fact, the
plunder of a commercial outlaw. * * *

"This criminal combination is a menace to the whole country
on which it preys, of all the trusts this is the only one of
which it may be truthfully said that it is literally with us from
the cradle to the grave. The federal government alone has the
legal authority and judicial power to punish and dissolve it."

The Furniture Season.

The furniture season is in full swing at the great exhibits both
in Chicago and in Grand Rapids. From the fact that it has been
well known to the buying trade for some months that values would
be advanced 5 to 15 per cent on many lines the first of the year, a
good deal of buying has prevailed for some months. It is therefore
more than likely that the volume of sales at the semi-annual exhibits
will not be quite as great as it was a year ago. However, the fac-
tories are largely loaded with business and the total quantity of
goods turned out on both old and new orders will doubtless be in
excess of any other period in the history of the trade.

While the increased cost of the production of all lines of furni-
ture is a marked feature of the situation, it is also observable that
the higher price of lumber is cutting a comparatively small figure
in this augmented expense. The average manufacturer is learning
to decrease his total cost on most lines of production, but he is up
against one thing that is a constant menace to cheapness — the labor
proposition. The general increased cost of living has made it neces-
sary to advance wages. However, new and improved woodworking
tools -which effect considerable economy are constantly being placed
upon the market until apparently the maximum of efficiency and of
capacity has been reached. Some few operators profess that they
are making their lines as cheaply as they did when labor and material
cost were much lower than at the present time, but on the whole the
advance asked by producers of furniture is comparatively small when
the largely increased values of all materials entering into furniture
construction and the high cost of labor are considered.

HARDWOOD RECORD

15

Vert, Pertinent and Impertinent.

Life is full ol small relations,

Little worries, little nibs.
(Unexpected aggravations,

Petty set-backs, sneers and snub*.
If you mean to lei 'em tret you,

Hankie iiml' tim i h your hide.
Soon an rarly grave will get you

Let 'em slide.

Here's the "Best Way.

Laugh and cast away your troubles;

Never lin^ them to your breast.
Worry, ami your grievance doubles

Don't take sorrow for your guest.
Bound to linger if you pet it,

Laugh and ii won't long abide
Let it so and then forget ii

Lei it slide.

Not a lot of use in crying

Over any milk 1 hat's spilled.
Nothing's ever helped by sighing —

Care a nine-lived cat lias killed.
i'ou've y ■ trials— I don't doubt it:

still. It's time your tears were dried.
Never look so glum about it —

Let it slide.

Unprofitable.
Advertise y 0 u r

competitor 's weak-
ness and he will cor-
rect it.

Active.
The term "idle
gossip" is scarcely
applicable — most gos-
sips work twenty
three hours a day.

True.
When a friend in
need drops in the
average man gets
cold feet.

Or Should Be.
A man's conscience
is his private watch-
man.

Not the Same.
Are you patient or
just lazy?

Universal.

Everybody hates to
be short long.

Good Excuse.
A man usually
charges his poor
judgment t 0 b a d
luck.

Too True.

Running expenses
go right on even when
business is at a
standstill.

Hardly.

A man never goes
around looking for
trouble in the guise
of a creditor.

Very Useful.
While money may
not make a man
great it enables peo-
ple to see what little
greatness he has.

THE BIGGEST GAME OF ALL.

j^-j-^wi:

[That bugaboo the "lumber trust"— finds manifestation In Rldgeway's magazine, an alleged
"militant weekly for God and country," in the form of a cartoon which is herewith reproduced.
it is published for the sole purpose Of showing bow foolish the secular press can be when it
attempts to discuss matters of which it has no technical knowledge. As a matter of fact the
lumber trust is just about as hollow as the empty cask which forms the chief feature of the pic
ture. ]

Much Better.
It's it lot better to
be a small success
than a big failure.

Slightly Twisted.

It 's a still wind
that blows nobody
harm.

Cleverness.

Cleverness is ser-
viceable for every-
thing, sufficient for

nothing.

The Sequel.

A bushel of fun is
very often followed
by a peek of trouble.

Policy.
Men who tire hon-
est for policy will be
dishonest f 0 r the
same thing.

That's Sure.
Try to live right
a n d don 't worry'
about how you are
going to die; you'll
die all right.

A Recipe.
For a case of the
blues — Mix a quan-
tity of hard work
with an equal
amount of resolution;
add a hearty laugh,
and stir together
with an hour of vig-
orous exercise.

The Real Reason.

Most, people who
pose as martyrs be-
cause they are ' ' hope-
lessly misunder-
stood" are merely
smarting from t h e
discovery that some-
body has seen clear
through them.

Nine men toll while one man plays,
Nine men serve one all their days ;
Nine men beg what one may give.
Nine men die that one may live.

The One Man Out of Ten.

One man laughs while nine men sigh ;
One succeeds where nine men try ;
One man wins the love he craves,
Nine men to pretense are slaves.

One man hopes while nine despair ;
One usurps what nine should share;
"Sonic time," nine men weakly say,
Boldly one man says "Today." — S. E. KlSEE.

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AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

Slippery Elm.

limits fulva — Michx.
I I runs pabescens — Wall.

The range of growth of slippery elm is
from the lower St. Lawrence river district
through Ontario to North Dakota and eastern
Nebraska ; thence southward to parts of Flor-
ida, through Central Alabama and Missis-
sippi, and the district around the San An-
tonio river in Texas.

The common name slippery elm is
given to the tree in Vermont, New
Hampshire. Massachusetts, Ehode
Island, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia,
West Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Florida, Alabama,
Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Texas, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas,
Nebraska, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Minne-
sota and Ontario. It is often known
as red elm in Vermont, Massachu-
setts, New York, Delaware, Penn-
sylvania, West Virginia, South Car-
olina, Alabama, Mississippi, Louis-
iana, Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky,
Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Ne-
braska, Iowa, Ohio, Ontario, Wis-
consin, Michigan and Minnesota.
The name red-wooded ebn is some-
times applied to the tree in Tennes-
see, as is also the term (incorrect-
ly) rock elm! Orrm gras is the
French term used in Louisiana,
while the Indians knew the tree by
the term oo-hoosk-ah, meaning " it •
slips. ' '

The slippery elm has a somewhat
ragged outline, often being quite
one-sided in shape, with broad, flat
head and spreading branches. It is
a rapid grower and reaches a height
of from thirty to seventy feet.

Its flowers grow on short pedicels
in clusters, and are very fragrant
when dried. The tree blooms in
March or April and fruits in May,
the samaras being dull yellow and
containing a round, flat seed.

The leaves are simple and alter-
nate; "they are exceedingly coarse
and rough, perhaps rougher than
those of any other tree. The up-
per side of the leaf is very hairy
and the lower covered with a dense
down. The teeth are coarse and
double; the ribs very prominent and
hairy at ' the angles. The leaf of slippery
elm is much larger than that of other elms,
occasionally measuring seven inches in length.

The outer bark is reddish brown ami
rough, even on the small branchlets, and the
tree may be identified by the gummy, aro-
matic taste of the small twigs. The inner
bark is white and mucilaginous — hence the
term ' ' slippery. ' '

FORTY-FIFTH PAPER.

Lounsberry says: "There is something
intensely human in the desire to chew —
to chew the cud of meditation; and
when in the open country one meets a boy
with a certain felicitious expression and
wagging jaws, it is good evidence that some-
where in his rambles he has met with the
slippery elm tree. Should his pockets be
turned inside out there would also be a

him, when it is cultivated as an ornament
in parks, and its identity is known. In a
more conventionalized form the inner bark
is sold by chemists, and its properties are
medicinal and nutritious. ' ' For the treat-
ment of acute febrile and inflammatory af-
fections the bark of slippery elm is highly,
valued by the medical profession; when
ground and mixed with milk it forms a
desirable food for invalids; when
made into poultices it will relieve
many throat and chest disorders.

The wood is heavy, hard, strong
and very durable when in contact
with the earth. Its interlacing fibers
make it difficult to split. The
weight of a cubic foot of seasoned
wood is forty-three pounds. The
heartwood is greatly in prepon-
derance, and is dark brown or red-
dish in color; the sapwood is
much lighter, very compact,
and has the annual layers
marked by rows of large open
pores. Slippery elm timber is
very generally used for making
fence posts, railway ties, sills, the
hubs of wheels and agricultural
implements.

The illustration accompanying this
article is from a photograph fur-
nished by William H. Freeman,
;i i retary of the State Board of For-
estry of Indiana.

TYPICAL FOREST GROWTH Sl.irrERY ELM. INDIANA

chance of finding a quantity of its fragrant,
inner bark stored away for future disposal.
To chew this gummy, slippery substance is
not, perhaps, the smallest item in his en-
joyment, as he carelessly breathes the sum-
mer air or gazes at a cloudless sky. Unfor-
tunately this innate desire of the boy is
often gratified at the tree's expense. In fact,
it is almost impossible to protect it from

An Extinct Tree.
In the region about Tonkin,
China, are found peculiar deposits
apparently constituting "wood
mines," the origin of which cannot
be satisfactorily explained. The
Celestials have legends that in very
remote ages dense forests existed
over the whole region and that the
buried wood is the result of some
great disturbance of the earth 's
surface whereby these forests were
uprooted and precipitated into can-
yons between mountains, becoming
gradually buried as the centuries
rolled by. Be this as it may, the
wood today brings considerable
wealth to those who are fortunate
enough to unearth any quantity of
it. It is of a peculiar resinous
quality and possesses remarkable
preservative power, which is rec-
ognized by the Chinese, who value
it highly as casket material. The natives
exhibit great care in the choice and orna-
mentation of coffins, and often a man pur-
chases his own, and it frequently occupies a
conspicuous place in his home. Three hun-
dred dollars is not thought exorbitant for a
box of this wood. No living specimen of the
tree is known to be in existence at the pres-
ent time.

NELSON A. GLADDING

INDIANAPOLIS, I IM D.

QUPPLEMENT TO

HARDWOOD RECORD

JANUARY 25, 1907

ILLUSTRATING

MAKERS OF MACHINERY HISTORY.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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Makers of Machinery History.

NUM

Nelson Augustus Gladding.
(.Sec portrait supplement.)

( hie of the most energetic, popular and
successful young business men known to
the lumber and hardware trades of the
country is Nelson Augustus Gladding of
Indianapolis, Ind., whose portrait appears
as a supplement to this issue of the Hard-
wood Eecord.

Mr. Gladding was horn in Providence, R.
]., July 8, 1S63, and is of English descent,
his paternal ancestors having settled at
Bristol, E. I., as early as 1640. The genealogy
of his family can be traced back to the
eleventh century.

His father died in 1870, leaving t lie
mother ami five sons in somewhat straight-
e I circumstances. At the age of nine the

FOLIAGE AND FRUIT SLIPPERY. ELM.

boy Kelson showed his desire to help in a
practical way. Although so young, he was
able to add materially to the income of the
family by selling newspapers, which work
he carried on in connection with his regular
school duties. Mr. Cladding's determina-
tion and tenacity, always dominant traits in
his character, were evinced even at this
early ago in his earnest efforts each night to
sell all his papers before going home. To
this day he remembers distinctly what
anxious moments came to him when his
stock commenced to dwindle, lest he would
not be able to dispose of the remaining few;
and the fraternal feeling which these youth-
ful experiences engendered remains with
him still and causes keen interest in the
welfare of each newsboy he meets.

In 1S74 the family removed to Cham-
paign, 111., where the boys attended public
school and worked during vacations and
leisure time. Two years later N. A. Glad-
ding took a position in a store at Paxton,

HER VI.

111., the balance of the family having moved
to Indianapolis. lie retained this position
for a year or more, when lie rejoined them
there.

He was continually reading and studying
in order to enlarge his capacity for future
work and to tit himself for the right oppor-
tunity when it came. He studied book-
keeping ami steongraphy at night schools,
and in 1883, owing to ill health, left Indian-
apolis to take a position as private secre-
tary to one of the officers of a large tele-
phone company in Kansas City, Mo. The
young man was soon made special traveling
auditor of the company, covering territory
in contiguous states and doing a small
brokerage business in telephone stocks. That
same year while on a visit to Providence he
became corresponding clerk for the large
mill supply house of Brown Brothers & Co.,
where he gained his first experience in the
business in which he has achieved his pres-
ent great success.

In 1886 Mr. Gladding entered the personal
employ of E. C. Atkins of Indianapolis,
head of the saw manufacturing Ionise
which hears his name. In this capacity he
came in dose touch with Mr. Atkins and,
having proved himself fully capable in
every way, was tendered the management of
E. ( '. Atkins & Co.'s branch house at Mem-
phis, Tenn. At this time the office there
had been in existence only a few months.
It employed three people aside from a saw-
maker required for repairing old saws. At
the end of three years more roomy quarters
had to be secured ami a much larger stock
was carried, the business having made most
gratifying progress. He devoted consid-
erable time to traveling in the interests of
the house, covering territory from Missouri
to southern Texas, through Louisiana and
hack to Ohio river points. This traveling
experience gave him a wide acquaintance
throughout the South, which has been main-
la ine.l up to the present time. The lumber
industry of that section was then in its
infancy and he has carefully studied and
kept pace with its rapid development.

In 1897 Mr. Gladding left the Mem], his
office in a flourishing condition; there were
twenty people on the pay roll and the vol-
ume of business had increased correspond-
ingly. He returned to Indianapolis, having
been elected secretary and sales manager
of the corporation. By dint of his bound-
less energy and ambition he has built up
this department of the great industry until

the fame of the Atkins product has pe

trated to all parts of the world.

Some idea of the magnitude of the busi-
ness may be gained when it is known that
there are over twelve hundred employees
in the Indianapolis factory alone. This en-
tire force is engaged in the exclusive manu-
facture of saws, saw tools and mill special-

ties, making it easily the largest .exclusive
saw manufactory in the world.

Mr. Gladding nas established seven branch
offices, in Port land, Ore.; Seattle, San Fran-
cisco, \eu fork City, Chicago, New Orleans
and Toronto, Can., which, witli the three
older offices at Memphis, Atlanta and Min-
neapolis, ei\,. tin- company ten branch
houses. A complete stock of standard saws
is kept at each of these places, and repair
shops are maintained at most of them, en-
abling the company to meet all ordinary
needs.

In 1901 Mr. Gladding was elected Nice-
president of E. ('. Atkins i- Co., so that he
is now the incumbent of three important
posts in the management of its affairs.

In reviewing what Nelson A. Gladding
has accomplished in a business way it would
seem that he must have had but little time
to devote to outside interests. This, how-
ever, is far from the case. In 1903 the
governor appointed him a member of the
Indiana Commission to the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition at St. Louis, which body
was continued for two years. He has been
very active in association ami club work
ami lias served long on the executive and
oilier committees of the American Hard-
ware Manufacturers' Association, one of
the largest business organizations in the
country, ami file American Supply aud
Machinery Manufacturers' Association. He
is also vice-president of the American Motor
Car Company of Indianapolis.

Mr. Gladding is a Mason, a member of
the Columbia, Commercial, Country, Ger-
man, University anil Dramatic elubs of
Indianapolis; of the Lotus ami Hardware
clubs of New York City, ami of the Ten-
nessee anil Business Men's chilis of Mem-
phis.

His travels in establishing ami supervis-
ing the conduct of the various branch
I ses have taken him from Maine to Cali-
fornia ami into Canada, so that his ac-
quaintance in this field is perhaps as broad
as among hardware and lumbermen of the
South. In 1898 he was elected Snark of the
Universe, the highest office within the gift
of Hoo Hoo, and he has always been promi-
nent in tiie affairs of that order, taking part
in concatenations from the Atlantic to the
Pacific.

In 1S8S Mr. Gladding married Aliss Mary
-D. Atkins of Indianapolis; they have two
daughters.

Nelson A. Gladding is a man who by dint
of great capacity for work, unlimited en-
ergy ami exceeding thoroughness is bound
to make his influence felt in whatever line
he undertakes. His is a. personality which
never fails lo stand out boldly, whether en-
cm nt erod in business or social life, lie is
a lover of the esthetic, ami versatili — an
interesting writer, a brilliant after-dinner
speaker, a clever amateur actor, a deep
student of men ami affairs, a clean-cut
twentieth century business man. More than
this, he is an optimist who has faith in his
fellow man ami the future of his countrv.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

Annual Meeting American Forestry

Association.

The annual meeting of the American Fur
estry Association was held at Washington, U.
C, January 9, 1907, in the parlors of the New
Willard hotel at 10 a. m. Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wilson, president of the association, deliv-
ered the opening address. Mr. Wilson spoke of
the national forest reserves, saying that the
government now has 113,000,000 acres set aside.
mostly in the West, the wood from which will
eventually be used in the West in time of need
to the exclusion of eastern demands. lie spoke
of the rapidly decreasing forests and strongly
urged that the different eastern states take de-
cisive, concerted action toward securing tie'
While Mountain and Appalachian forest re-
serves, stating that the prospect for securing
lie in is not good at present, owing to lack .if
enthusiasm and effort on the part of states,
which should be vitally interested. He referred
to the good work United States engineers arc
doing in the present reserves. regarding the
proper handling of moisture on valuable lands,
and commended their efforts highly. Mr. Wil-
son urged more careful study of proper trees
and plants and where to plain them; of econ
oniy in the use of diminishing woods, and of
substitution of certain soft woods for hard.

'I'll, secretary closed his able and appropriate
address by heartily welcoming the association to
the city of Washington, -and then introduced Dr.
Edward Everett Utile, chaplain of the Senate.

In a very interesting manner Dr. Hale made
a strong plea for the conservation of our for-
ests, citing many instances from history to
show of how great importance this mailer is,
and pointing out famous examples of binds in
the old world which have gone to rack and ruin
wilh this very neglect a prominent factor in
their downfall. He deplored the fact that in-
dividuals often seem to regard the state as
their enemy in these forestry affairs, and ex-
plained that while individuals have only their
own protection and investments to secure. Hie
state us a body must look forward to the protec-
tion and welfare of future generations.

The annual report of the Board of Dire,
tors was presented by Dr. Thos. E. Will, secre
tary of the association. It covered the various
phases of the work clearly and exhaustively and
showed that in the entire history of the forest
movement iu the United Stales, the present
year has been the most notable The Ameri-
can Forestry Association has materially in
i leased in numbers, financial strength and gen-
eral activity ; the Forest Service -has moved
forward with giant strides, new states have
established foresters or instruction in forestry.
stales which had already made beginnings have
formed associations and extended their work,
and Important legislation in the interest of for-
estry is now pending before Congress.

The association gained during the year 2,780
mw members, a growth of seventy-nine per
cent, and the net receipts were proportionately
large.

During the year the association has again
given special attention to the promotion of leg-
islation, looking to the establishment of na-
tional forest reserves in the White Mountains
and the Southern Appalachians.

The amalgamated bill recommended at the
lasl annual meeting has . been unanimously
passed by the Senate, and with equal unanimity
has been recommended for passage by the House
Committee on Agriculture. Strong stress- was
-laid upon the fact that should the bill fail of
passage at this session, the ground gained
would be lost, since in that case the bill would
have lo lie returned for repassage by the Sen-
ale There was, therefore, urged "upon all

friends of the forest, and of the interests tan-
gent thereto, immediate, united and tireless ef-
forts to insure the passage of the bill at the
present session of Congress."

The promotion of legislation for the establish-
ment of a wood-testing laboratory in connection
with the Forest Service1 was also strongly rec-
ommended in the report.

The railroads, mine owners ami other large
users of timber products have manifested un-
precedented interest iu studying and applying
forestry as it will best serve Heir varied needs
during the past year.

Increased activity in forest planting has re-
sulted from renewed confidence based on a better
knowledge of the proper trees and planting
methods to be used to insure success. Especially
to he noted is the tact that larger areas than
ever before are planted by railroads and other
large interests to supply their own future needs,
or by capitalists for commercial returns.

By the educational work of the Forest Service,
the dissemination of information through lec-
tures and the press has 1 n more widespread

than ever before.

An additional instructor at the Michigan For-
est School, a chair of lumbering with corre-
sponding strengthening of the faculty at the
Yale Forest School, additional lectures at the
Biltmore Forest School, the increased attendance
at lectures on forestry in the various state uni-
versities are evidences thai energetic forest
students shall not fail through lack of educa-
tional facilities to place American forestry,
young though it may be in years, in the front
ranks of scientific attainment.

The lumbermen and the Forest Service have
been brought into closer touch through co-
operation in compiling detailed, classified sta-
tistics of forest products.

Interesting addresses were given by ,T. IV
Blades of New Bern, N. C, voicing the strong
desire of the people of his section for the South-
ern Appalachian Forest Reserve : by Prof.
Henry S. Graves, director of the Yale Forest
School, on the progress of foresl education : by
Enos A. Mills of Colorado on the marked change
in sentiment in favor of the forest reserves by
the people of the West upon a better acquain-
tance witli their purposes and administration,
and by George K. Smith, secretary of the Na-
tional Lumber Manufacturers' Association, on

tb operation in forest work by the lumber

associations, and by James W. Pinchot.

The association gave its hearty approval, by
resolution, of Hie recommendation of President
Roosevelt, in bis special message to Congress

of December 17. that $5,000, be loaned for a

period of live years to the Forest Service, to be
expended in developing the resources of the re-
serves.

Tie meeting then took a recess until 2:15.

Those who addressed the meeting in the aft-
ernoon were : J. S. Palmer, secretary of the
National Slack Cooperage Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation: Dr. F. It. Fernow on Financial Results
of Forest Management : Hon. I.. A. Thurston on
Progress of Forestry in Hawaii ; S. T. Kelsey on
Ho Relation of the Blue Ridge to the Water
sheds of the Southeastern I'nited States ; Col.
Win. F. Fox on Fire Protection of New York
Forests : Judge Warren Iligley on the Adminis-
tration of New York's Forest Lands: George
Ward Cook on the Influence of the White Moun-
tains on the Merrimac River : Alfred Gaskill on
the Forest Reserve question.

The principal speaker of the afternoon was
Hon. Gifford Pinchot. Chief Forester of the
I'nited States Department of Agriculture, who

addressed the association at length on What
the Forest Service Stands For.

Before adjournment reports were received from
committees on resolutions, on affiliation with
other associations, on revision of by-laws, and
on nomination of officers. The resolutions pre-
sented were all adopted as follows:

Whereas, the bill for national forest reserves
in the Southern Appalachian and White Moun-
tain regions lias passed the United States Sen-
ate without dissent; has been unanimously re-
ported to the House of Representatives from
the Committee on Agriculture ; aud its pas-
sage has been repeatedly urged by the President
in messages to Congress ; and

Whereas, if the bill does not pass at the pres-
ent session of Congress, time will elapse in
which denudation will continue unchecked, with
Irreparable damage to the water powers and to
He- timber and agricultural interests of the
country, both North and South: and

Whereas, the price of land and timber is so
rapidly increasing that action cannot again be
so effective as now. therefore.

Resolved. That tin' American Forestry Asso-
ciation instruct its Executive Committee to ap-
point a suitable delegation to present the above
lads to the Honorable Speaker of the House of
Representatives, in order that this measure may
come before the House for action at the present
session ;

Resolved also. That each member of the as-
sociation present in Washington is requested to
confer with his Representative to the same end.
and that each member of the association
throughout the country is requested to write
promptly to his Representative, asking him not
only to vote for this measure if it comes up,
bin also to see that it does not fail to come up
for action at this session of Congress.

Whereas, the welfare of all the people is in-
juriously affected by the increasing scarcity and
cost of wood materials, and much of their sav-
ings throughout the country is invested in
various enterprises dependent on water powers
which would be ruined by the destruction of the

foresl s.

Resolved, That this association warns inves-
tors irrespective of locality, of the danger of
loss on their investments unless the govern-
ment safeguards forest conditions.

Resolutions were also adopted urging Congress
lo repeal the timber and stone act; approving
the action of manufacturers in asking Congress
to appropriate $200,000 to establish a wood-
testing laboratory, and commending the untir-
ing efforts of the Chief Forester.

The following officers were elected for the en-
suing year : President, Hon. James Wilson,
Secretary of Agriculture; vice-presidents. Dr.
Edward Everett Hale, chaplain of the senate.
F. E. Weyerhaeuser of the Weyerhaeuser lumber
interests. James W. Pinchot. Dr. B. E. Fernow.
consulting forester. John L. Kaul of the Kaul
Lumber Company; treasurer. Otto Luebkert of
the American Audit Company; board of direc-
tors. Secretary James Wilson. Wm. L. Hall,
Chief of the Office of Forest Products, Forest
Service: George 1'. Whittlesey. James II. Cutler,
Rutherford I'. Hayes. Prof. Henry S. Graves,
Director of the Y'ale Forest School : F. H.
Newell, Chief Engineer of the Reclamation Serv-
ice : Gifford Pinchot, Forester of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture : N. J. Bachelder, Albert
Shaw, editor of the Review of Reviews; W. W.
Finley. president of the Southern railway:
George K. Smith, secretary of the National Lum-
ber Manufacturers' Association : Wm. S. Har-
vey, chairman of the Committee on Forestry aud
Irrigation of the National Board of Trade; H. A.
Pressey and George Foster Peabody.

White Ash Wanted.

The Habdwood Recobu is in receipt of a let-
ter from a Washington. D. C, correspondent
who is in the market for four or five cars 6/4
white ash. firsts and seconds, 6 in. and over
wide, standard lengths. Anyone in a position
to furnish this stock may have the name of
the writer on application to this office.

The Portland Chair Company is the name of
a new and large enterprise recently launched at
Portland. Ore. The company has just broken
ground for a big plant and is in the market for
a full line of chair and furniture machinery.

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Eighth Annual Indiana HardWood Lumbermen's Assn*

On Friday, Jan. 11, at 2 p. m., the Indiana
Hardwood Lumbermen*^ Association convened
in the Grand Hotel, Indianapolis. J. D.
Maris of Cndianapolia presented to the asso-
ciation a "walnut gavel, which President
Charles H. Barnaby accepted on behalf of tin'
members, before calling tin1 meeting to order.
The reading of the minutes being dispensed
with, In' addressed the convention as follows:
President's Address.

I take pleasure in calling to order 11 ightb

annual convention of the Indiana Hardwood

C. II. BARNABY, GREENCASTLE, PRESIDENT.

Lumbermen's Association, and I take greater
pleasure in welcoming to this convention the
Hoosiers, the ex-HoosIers and ought-to-be I-Ioos-
iers. In welcoming you here, and especially
il x-IIoosiers, I do not want you to misunder-
stand me. We invite you here as guests of the
association and to break bread with us this
evening. Hut don't get the idea into your heads
that you are expected to tome back here and
enter into the lumber business in Indiana! To
be square with you. I will say that our associa
tion has every tree in the state numbered and
tagged and we can tell you to the very day
when the last tree will have been cut, so that it
is useless for you to attempt to enter business
here.

The most prosperous year in the history of
our country has just closed. We congratulate
the lumbermen in having shared this great pros-
perity to a larger extent, probably, than those
in other lines of trade. 11 is an especial pleas-
ure to be able to congratulate the Indiana hard-
wood lumbermen who have shared in this un-
precedented advancement to ;i greater degree,
perhaps, than our friends from other sections,
having had no high water to contend with,
making logging operations possible at all times,
and have also been more fortunate than some
in the matter of car shortage, a grave hindrance
to the lumber trade in general.

One important feature in regard to hardwood
lumbermen in this great wave of prosperity is
the fact that all of us have prospered. At every
place where lumber is handled or produced the
prosperity has been felt. This fact alone should
be sufficient evidence to prove that there Is no
such thing as a hardwood lumber trust. Should
there be or had there been, as some of our
overly ambitious reformers claim, a few men
only would have enjoyed these prosperous times,
instead of a general sharing according to our

business capacity. The prosperity is caused by
the good. old. healthy condition of supply and
demand, and by the free and open competition
of the lumbermen.

Indiana is spoken of as once being 1 he greal
-si hardwood state in the Union. The tact thai
it still holds third place in the production of
valuable hardwoods will doubtless surprise many
of you. The amount of fine hardwoods and
veneers manufactured within the slate is truly
remarkable and we are still recognized among
t he leaders.

Probably the greatesl menace confronting the
shipping interests of this country today is Hie
alarmingly increasing car shortage. It has been
shown quite clearly that the railroads have suf-
ficient cars at the present time to care for all
demands if they were handled promptly. In
our opinion, this great difficulty would be
largely, if not entirely, overcome by the enact-
ment of reciprocal demurrage laws. This has
been demonstrated satisfactorily by the reports
from the stall' of Georgia, in which we under-
stand reciprocal demurrage laws are in force.

The question of reciprocal demurrage will no
doubt be taken up by our national congress. In
the meantime every effort should be bent to
have such state laws enacted during the presenl
session of our state legislature as will invest
our railroad commission with ample power to
make all necessary rulings. We want such leg-
islation as will enforce a reasonable and effec-
live demurrage upon all shippers and nil com-
mon carriers.

The Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's A sso ela-
tion has always been awake to the importance
of equable and just rules for the inspection and
grading of hardwood lumber. While the present
rules are being used with little friction, there
is room for improvement. We should have rules
that conform to custom as nearly as possible.
We believe the rules should lie gone over care-
fully one- each year by the inspection commit-
tee and sudi changes be recommended as will
meet the new conditions as they arise. We be-
lieve the time is not far distant when all hard-
woods will be measured on the half inch. No.
1 common and lower grades will be inspected

<; II. PALMER, SHERIDAN, VICE PRT3S1
DENT.

from the best side of the board and put on a
strictly cutting up basis, and that another grade
will be necessary, either divorcing the firsts
from the seconds or making a select common

grade. J. M. Pritchard will read a paper today

which covers the matter more fully.

A word of caution will not, I hope, brand one
as a pessimist. While no! one single cloud can
he seen on the horizon at Ibis time, still it is
wise for all members to take advantage of these
splendid limes and fortify themselves against
the dull period which no doubt will come, and
even now we may be on the very crest of pros-
perity. Such prosperous times as we have en-
joyed for the past eight years lead to wild spec-
ulations and the inflating of values; and if such
wild speculations continue there must and will
be a settling up day. When thai time <oiues

.1. M PRITCHARD, INDIANAPOLIS, SECRE

TAUV.

we should be ready to meet it by having our
affairs in such shape as to cause us no loss.

Before closing and turning the office of presi-
dent over to my successor, 1 wish to thank the
members and officers for the loyal support given
me 011 all occasions. It has been an honor and
a pleasure to be at the head of such an organi-
zation as the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's
Association, and I am your debtor.

Secretary's Report.

Gentlemen: The report and address made to
you by our worthy president so completely cov-
ers the held that it is not necessary for the sec-
retary to make a lengthy report, and all I shall
do is to read to you the names of our new
members, many of whom I think are here today:

I». L. Adams & Co.. Portland.

F. M. Bachman, Indianapolis.

W. A. Fulwider, IJloomington.

Hi r- Wilkinson Lumber Co., Indianapolis.

Indiana Veneer & Lumber Company. Indian
apolis.

National Veneer & Lumber Company, Indian
apolis.

Thompson. Thayer & McCowen, Fvansville.

W. A. Guthi'fe, 1 lupont.

Rockporl Box & . Manufad tiring Company,
Rockport.

0. L. Wade. Indianapolis.

Flora Sawmill * !ompany, Flora.

Talge Mahogany * !ompany, Indianapolis.

Ben Lukens, Greencastle.

Ilobert Fessler, Indianapolis.

George II. Henuey & Son. Noblesville.

A. *',. Dwiggins, Fountain City.

A. .f. Sanders & Son, Gosport.

J. II. Barclay, Bedford.

Franklin Lumber Company, Franklin.

R. U.- James, Vincennes.

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Treasurer's Report.

RECEIPTS.

Amount iu treasury, paid by C. II. Bar-

naby $220.01)

Amount collected for dues and banquet

tickets 7G.00

Amount collected for dues 32.00

Total $328.09

DISBURSEMENTS,

Cost of banquet $133.50

Incidental expenses of convention. 24 93

Subscription to Interstate Com-
merce Law convention ."iO.OO

Contribution, account of car stake

and equipment complaint 50.00

Check to James T. Eaglesfleld, ac-
count reciprocal demurrage. . . . 61.30

- 319.73

January 1. amount in treasury.... S.3G
Since January 1. 1907, collected for dues,

etc 297.00

Amount now in treasury $305 ::r,

The treasurer's report was accepted.

J. V. Stiinson addressed the association re-
garding the death of C. D. Strode, and voiced
the general regret at his loss and the high
esteem in which he was held.

Excursion Committee.

The committee on the Cuban excursion,
composed of J. M. Pritchard, George H.
Palmer and Sam Burkholder, recommended
that the prospective trip be postponed until
after the next annual meeting. The report
was adopted.

On the Car Stake Matter,

W. W. Knight addressed the meeting on
the car stake matter, and made an urgent
plea for funds with which to forward tie.'
work.

Mr. Bennett — Mr. President: I don't wanl
to throw cold water on the matter, bin it
strikes me that the car stake business don't
interest us very much. Now, gentlemen, this
car stake proposition, in my judgment, although
it has been handled by the National Wholesale
Lumber Dealers' Association, has been a very
foolish project from first to last. In the first
place, why didn't they ask the railroads for a
lower rate on flat cars? You can afford to
equip if you have a lower rate on. a flat car ;
you can load it heavier, and they ought to be
willing to give you a lower rate on a flat car
than on a box ear. This thing of suing the
railroads in order to get something out of them
is a false proposition. You can do more with a
man by persuasion than with a lawsuit. The
railroads are ready to meet us on a fair anil
square basis, and I believe that by persuasion
we can make a good deal more money out of
the railroads than we can by suing them. The
Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club has never even
noticed this matter. We did raise two thousand
dollars down there to take the railroads of our
city up before the commission and make them
do right on our switching charges. We haven't
settled that yet. Besides, we support the Na
tional Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association.
Our firm gives them $100 a year, and a great
many other people do the same thing. Aboul
twenty* per cent of our business goes to the
railroads. The railroads are making more
money than any other class of people. We. to-
gether with the merchants of Cincinnati, have
just been through a tight with them, and you
have no idea how we fought them, and we beat
them, hands down. It was the railroads against
the people, and the people ' won for the first
time. You want to get this association into the
idea of taking their part against the railroads.
Don't you be afraid of the railroads — they will

take care of themselves. The trouble is that
they won't take care of themselves and us, too.
Now let us take care of ourselves. That strikes
me as being the proper spirit in this matter.

Mr. Knight — In answer to Mr. Bennett's
statement with reference to the situation at
Cincinnati being a fight of the people against

S. BURKHOLDER, CRAWFORDSVTLLE.

the railroads. I want to say that our fight is
equally one of the people against the railroads.
These people ask for subscriptions and I move
you, Mr. President, that wc make a contribu-
tion with which to carry on this work.

Mr. Stimson I second Mr. Knight's motion,
and in doing so I desire to say that I heartily
agree with much that Mr. Bennett has said with
reference to the railroads. But on this propo-
sition I don't quite agree with Mr. Bennett. We
are simply asked to join our interests with
those of an organization that is making a fight
against the railroads and in the interests of
the shipper, ami it is only in such reciprocal rela
tions thai we get strength, or make any pres-
ume or accomplish anything. The greatest or-

C. II. KRAMER, RICHMOND.

gauizations in the world are the railroad com-
panies, and the people are keeping them busy
just now in a good many ways. We know that
the pine people are the big shippers on flat cars
and gondolas, but somehow I think it is bet-
ter for our Interests and our business to help

our neighbor, and I am in favor of the mem-
bers of this association giving as they can af-
ford to give to support this movement.

President Barnaby called for a vote on Mr.
Knight's motion; it was carried.

S. Burkholder on Forestry.

Gentlemen — The work attempted and accom-
plished by the board for the period of time cov-
ered by the herein report was a continuation
of the plans as outlined in former reports.
Much information of both scientific and prac-
tical import was ascertained and given out from
time to time through correspondence, visits
and lectures to those who made inquiry for
forestry knowledge.

There is at this time a strong sentiment fa-
vorably inclining to the institution of stronger
forestry methods in almost every community
within the state. The board finds on every
hand interested men and women of clear and
advanced conceptions of the forestry problem
and who. are rendering assistance by both word
and action.

It is a rare instance where an individual of

g 1 business judgment, capable of broad dis-

eernmcut and unbiased by selfish motives, is
found opposed to the project. The cause of for-
estry will never lie opposed or hampered by the
strongest thinking men and women of the coun-
try, but all danger is to be looked for from
individuals who do not understand its im-
portance and who will not give it a just con-
sideration or who by nature are opposed to any
form of evolution. It is from this element that
: ry must be guarded in its future advance-
ment. The most dangerous individuals to the
general welfare arc those who always oppose a
thing when they are in doubt as to its im-
portance.

As has been stated before, the money invested
in the two thousand acres as a real estate
transaction is $1G,000. The state appropriates
annually $3,000 with which to manage and per-
form the various kinds of work thereon in the
advancement of the forestry feature to the ex-
tent as such sum will go. Sundry amounts
have been specifically appropriated to improve
the lands and the forest area and place the
-.Hie in such an organized condition as will
make it sland out as a state institution of merit
anil recognition. The aggregate of such allow-
ance is $10,190, divided between the coming
I wo years. Of this amount $3,600 is for the
cultivation of the aforesaid area and putting
upon the market such material as is taken off
in doing this work, the money received from the
sal-- of the same to be returned to the state
treasurer to be in the general funds of the
state. The amount expended for the last year,
$1,800, has been returned to the state treasurer
and we are confident that the full amount of the
$3,600 will be returned and we will have that
part of tic forest area in good condition for
nature to do the rest. And this amount should
not be figured in the total of the amount in-
vested in the institution. The amounts so far
appropriated will not equip, improve and organ-
ize the institution as it should be to make it
the most valuable and influential in its aims
and purposes.

The forest reservation and experimental sta-
tion is a stale concern and must therefore be
improved to meet the expectations of ideal cit-
izenship in such matters. The individual who
will stand out against any intelligent improve-
ment of this land to meet the ideas of up-to-
date citizens of Indiana is no more nor less than
the same citizen who will wail against any and"
all modern improvements, whether of municipal
or private concern. This institution, though
conducted upon the highest plane of forestry
technique, if not improved and organized In a
business manner, will fail to have the best re-
sults upon its observers. Splendid state park
i, in nr. - add il in the insl it nt ion w ill not hindi i

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its aims and purposes in the least, but on the
contrary would advance the influence a hundred-
fold. The model man of any community, no
matter what business he be engaged in, is the
individual who keeps alive to the civic advance-
ment of the day, and whose hand and voice
are uplifted in their behalf. The rightful im-
provement of the forestry institution should be
carried forward until such attractions are added
as will, with the forestry work being done, at-
tract both esthetically and intellectually. It
must also be borne in mind that it is not an
eighty-acre farm so sought to be improved and
conducted, but twenty-five such tracts and con-
sequently proportionate appropriations must be
mad''.

An interesting paper on inspection rules
was read by J. M. Pritchard:

Mr. Pritchard 's Paper.

Eight years ago ihe Indiana Hardwood Lum-
bermen's Association was organized and the
main object of that organization was to exert
an influence for a set of national inspection
rules for the measurement and grading of hard-
wood lumber, to conform to "custom.*'

The perfectly natural law of supply and de-
mand is the author of "custom" and from the
beginning has established a basis for arriving at
values between buyer and seller of hardwood
lumber. We do not believe there was ever a set
of rules written for grading hardwood lumber
that was not a direct effort to define the grades
already established by custom. In other words,
inspection rules have been written after lie
grade or grades have already been established.
Black walnut furnishes a good illustration of how
rules follow custom. Until the advent of In-
diana quartered white oak, about twenty-five
years ago, black walnut was king. It was very
difficult to supply the demand for this beautiful
native hardwood -and the price of firsts and sec-
onds went to about $95 a thousand feet, from
which point it did not vary greatly. But as
time went on the grades were lowered, not by
national associations making rules, but by the
law of supply and demand, until in 1002 at St.
Louis the National Hardwood Lumber Associa-
tion adopted rules for grading walnut lumber,
admitting boards into firsts and seconds, which
old-time walnut men say would scarcely have
been accepted in the grade of culls thirty or
forty years ago. As any given hardwood grows
scarcer, it is evident that a lower class of tim-
ber will be manufactured to meet the demand,
and grades must lower correspondingly.

At St. Louis in 1902 the National Hardwood
Lumber Association practically accepted the ver-
sion of "custom" as recommended by our asso-
ciation and we felt at that time that our work
along this line was completed. But conditions
have changed. I'nprecedented prosperity has
prevailed since that time, which has brought
out the fact very clearly and forcibly that our
valuable hardwoods are becoming very scarce,
and that it is a problem to supply the demand.
The advent of veneers down to 1-20 of an inch
in thickness has not been entirely sufficient to
meet the situation. Everyone recognizes now
thai in former years there has been a criminal
waste of our valuable hardwood timber. Econo-
mies are noticed now that would not have been
thought of even eight years ago. Timber that
was considered valueless eight years ago is now
in sir. tug demand. Rules, although made to con-
form to custom as nearly as possible, without
having any precedent to guide their written
construction, now need some revision to meet
the necessities of these new and changed condi-
tions. Inspection rules, in the main, only define
the lowest line boards admitted in any given
grade, and it must be borne in mind that prob-
ably 90 per cent of the lumber in any given
grade is better than the boards defined.

Now as to theory of inspecting lumber,
whether from the best side, the poor side or

from consideration of both sides of the board.
There is good argument given in favor of either
of the first two theories named. We all know,
however, that it is a fact that inspectors arrive
at the grade and value of a board from consid-
eration of both sides. It seems that this is only
natural and fair, inasmuch as Hi.' inspection of

B

K. SWAIN, SHELBYVILLE.

lumber is largely a matter of judgment. A
[udge will nol decide a ease brought ' before his
court after hearing only on.- side presented.
We believe that the lumbermen among them
selves can settle this Question, for it does not
seem to matter so much which theory may be
used, provided Hie rules are otherwise made
lo define the grades lo conform to present ne-
cessities.

There is much discussion now. among lum-
bermen, as to who should be Hie author of in-

s| lion rules, and many views have been given

through the trade journals.

There are those who say that the manufac-
turer of lumber should dictate the rules; others
claim that the wholesaler or dealer should be

JAMES BUCKLE'S . BROOKVIL) I

consulted. Still others maintain that the con
sinner should make the rules, and there are
advocates thai the consumer and manufacturer
of lumber should jointly construct the rules.
It is clearly observed that the wishes and needs
of the consumer of lumber have been carefully

considered and taken into account by inspection
rules committees. For illustration, a wagon
maker requires a certain kind of lumber, the
lumbermen supply this material in accordance
with the requisition of the wagon maker, and
when the lumber rules are written, we find a
grade called "box boards." The consumer was
not present when the rules were adopted, but
nevertheless his influence was great, for the
rules committee has not attempted to put into
the grade of box boards a class of material not
suitable for this purpose. And the same thing
is true of other classifications. The consumer
must and will be considered in order that a
ready market for all classes and grades of hard-
wood lumber may be had. As to the other
propositions, I will say that, if uniform in-
spection is to be realized, all interests in the
trade must get together. One branch of the
trade can only force its mandates for a time.
The manufacturer of lumber is often Ihe whole-
saler. The wholesaler is often the manufacturer;
and when we analyze the situation carefully, we
find that their Interests are identical and that
I heir views are not so very fart apart. One
thing noticed in all this discussion is the unani-
mous opinion in favor of a uniform set of in-
spection rules. This is recognized as the great
need of the trade today, and we believe that all
lumbermen should work honestly and earnestly
to attain that end.

The "juggler" of grades receives considerable
attention and it is desired that rules be made
which will make this practice impossible. We are
up against it here sure. The "juggler" does not
care what the standard is, and the more stand-
ards, the better for him. But the buyer and not
the lumbermen are to blame for this practice,
and so long as we have buyers who insist upon
placing their order at less than the genuine mar-
kel price, some fellow will be found who will
accept the business and juggle the grades enough
lo make up the difference. The lumberman does
not want to do this and would not if he were
not forced. Other methods than legislation on
inspection rules will have to be adopted before
this evil is stopped, and in working for uniform
inspection we can just as well eliminate the
"juggler" from the discussion.

The Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Associa-
tion claims to be and is, so far as we know, on
perfectly friendly terms with all lumber organ-
izations, and recognizes the good that these
various associations have done and are doing
for the benefit of the lumber business. We have
ever si I ready to join hands with any or-
ganization in an effort lo better conditions. We
recognize the great work done by the National
Hardwood Lumber Association toward the goal
of uniform inspect ion, as resolutions adopted at
our various annual meetings will testify. We
want uniform inspection and that the rules be
made according to custom, and to meet the
present necessities. We, therefore, recommend
that this association appoint a committee, whose
.Inly it shall be to work for uniform inspec-
tion.

.Mr. Burkholder — Mr. President, my friend
Bennett has been decrying I lie talk about pros-
perity and the lumbermen getting rich, on ac-
count of (he high price of lumber, and I just
uanl to say that I never yet have beard any-
one say anything about the high price of tim-
ber, 1 line been in the business for thirty
years and I haven'1 got rich at it. 1 find to-
day that we at.' paying 300 per cent higher
juices for timber, and we are gelling about 200
i" i ''in higher prices for Lumber, than we did
fifteen or twenty years ago. If prosperity is

reigning, il is an g the tanners. If there is

any trust al all, il is among Ihe farmers. The

I: er says be don't have to sell it, and the

lumberman has lo have il, and the price of
timber has gone fat beyond the price of lumber.

As to this matter of inspection, why not bring
that before congress and have government In-
spection of lumber? I would call my friend

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Russe's attention to that proposition; Let the
National association take the matter up. We
Indiana men don't want to appropriati every-
thing that i- _ od in if this thing isn't taken
up by the National association wo will have to
annex -no, we won't annex; we will do like
Teddy did about Cuba — we will put a protei or
ate over the National association and do what
we want done.

President Barnaby — You might go a little bit
further. Mr. Burkholder, and add in the bill that
the grade1 and number of feet should be stamped
on every board.

Mr. Burkholder — Well, that would be all right,
too, Now, with reference i" this paper of Mr.
Fritchard's, I think we should take some action
on the suggestions mini'.

A motion was made and seconded that a
permanent inspection committee I"- appointed

Mr. Farrin — Mr. President, I do not believe I
ever made any suggestion with reference to
rules, except that the fractions be divided on
Tie' half inch, hut the associations seemed to
think it neeessarj to give from $2 to $5 of our
money to out customers without their solicita-
tion, and I simply had to tall in with the bal-
ance of them.

But now. in relation to the- changing of the
rules. I want to ask if it is contemplated that a
third set of rules be gotten up? I hope that
is not in contemplation. I think most any set
of rules i< ali right, as long as they are' we'll

unders! 1 and used body. In fact, I

don't think it makes a great deal of difference
what those rules are, because the trade very
quickly lits itself to the rules — those who make
the lumber and those who consume it. I think,
however, that if it could be done it would be a
very good idea "> secut one uniform sel of
rules. But I view with a great deal of alarm
the introduction of a third set.

Presidenl Barnaby — Mr. Farrin, 1 will ease your
mind on that proposition. Most emphatically,
no ; we have no idea of putting in a third set
of rules. It is our purpose to have a perma-
nent inspection committee for the purpose of
working'for one set of rules, and if any changes
he mad", to watch the interests of Indiana. We
are In favor of one set, if possible, and one sel
only.

Mr. Farrin — I am very glad to hear it. Mr.
President, and I don't think there ought to be
a dissenting voice iu this convention upon that
pri position.

Mr. Russe — Mr. President, I heartily endorse
the remarks of Mr. Farrin. I have- always ad-
vocated lie- measurement on the half inch, and
when any changes are mail'' the changes of
measurement should be to measure on the half
inch. Ami not only that, but I don'1 see why.
in oak and finish woods for furniture and leu-
finish, we ought not to put in odd lengths. We
take down a 14-foot board and it has a foot of
worthless end on it. and we' have got to cut off
two feel : we are actually throwing away one
foot in length there ot clear stock because we
have followed custom and made our lengths
eight, ten, twelve, fourteen and sixteen feet.
There isn't a single furniture man who will not
admit that he could use odd as well as even
lengths, and in house trim a great deal of it is
used in odd lengths. I simply want to bring
that out. so that you wall think about it when
changes in the rules do come up. 1 am iu favor
of measuring on half inch and odd lengths.

Mr. Stimson — Mr. President, I have listened
to Mr. Russe's remarks with much interest and
wish id say that that is exactly my judgment.
We measure walnut by the odd foot, nine, ten,
eleven, twelve and thirteen. Gentlemen, quar-
ter-saw. d oak is mighty pear as high as walnut
today, ami wiiy not measure the other woods the
as we measure walnut'.' They are
tie' same: they are cut for the same
purposes, ami there is no reason in the world

why lumber should not be measured on the odd

foot.

I also heartily support the half-inch proposi-

I the idea of cutting out the give-and-take

proposition —cut it out: establish the rule to
measure exactly what you invoice, and if a
board measures seven feet anil a half, there is

ill m:V MAI. FY,

A ANSYH.I.F.

seven feet and a half of lumber in it that
should be paid for.

Mr. Farrin — Mr. President, this is the hap-
piest moment of my life, I xpected these gen-
tleman to see tie- error ot their ways, but 1
didn't think it would take them five years to

it. I mad.- the suggestion at St. I
in 1902, ami while they an- slow in getting
around to it. I ing there, and I

think if we give them a little more time they
will be all right.

Mr. Pritchard — Mr. President, I want to say

to Mr. Farrin thai we certainly d< I want any

•more inspection rutes than we already have, and
the main object for which we want to work is
sel "i inspection rules, that we may have

W. W. KNIGHT, INDIANAPOLIS.

uniform inspection. It doesn't matter so much
what the rules are, so long as they conform to
the interests of the lumber business, and that
we have on*' sit of rules.

Mr. Fathauer — Mr. President, I have listened
to this discussion with much interest, and I

want to say that it doesn't make any difference
to the National Hardwood Lumber Association
whether you call a bushel of wheat sixty
pounds, or some other number of pounds, but
you must not change that standard every year.
You must have a standard that you cannot
change every year. If you say divide on the
fraction, bt us do that: if we agree to divide
on the three-quarters inch up and three-quar-
ters inch down, let us do that. Let us be true
to the pledge we makg.

Mr. Bennett — Mr. President, it strikes me
that we have made an agreement among our-
selves and with the people of this whole coun-
try, that there would be no recommendation
made as to change in the rules of the National
Hardwood Lumber Association until a certain
time.- I- believe the people in Indiana are just
as honest as they are in Ohio or in any other
state' of the union, and this is a matter of non-
sty ami integrity, gentlemen, entirely. You
can talk about your timber getting poorer and
all that sort of thing. Why didn't you think
you made your agreement? It
makes no difference what your grades are, but
you agreed to a grade and if you lower your
grade you will lower your price. Your hon-
n'l mi _uiv will prevent you making any
change in these rules until the proper time. It
rfectly right for this association to appoint
iimittee on inspection to take care of In-
diana's interests, and when they take care of
Indiana they take care of everybody. But
don'1 let us make any changes until the time we
agre d to.

Mr. Stimson — Mr. President and gentlemen,
' very one of you here will remember just a few
years ago when the Indiana association ap-
pointed a committee which went to the National
association meeting at Chicago, asking for cer-
tain changes in the inspection rules, and asking
for the establishment of a rule, and we went
in with a draft of the- same. You will remem-
that Mr. Bennett made against
this matter in Chicago, and lie was just as
honest and just as earnest in it then as he is
now. He has since acknowledged that the
measure was the proper thing, and he supports
i as heartily today as he did the rule that
was in existence before that time. And when
',■ gel 8 nib- along tie- liu.'s suggested here,
Mr. Bennett will be just as hearty in support of
ir as In- is wiili referende to the existing rule
today. We believe that Mr. Bennett is just as
sincere and honest in his views as we are. But
Mr. Bennett don't like to change his custom,
is no reason why. when the pressure
-. as it does today in favor of a revision
o] the rules, it should not be mad-: there is no
reason why it ought not to be discussed and let
the majority of the members of the National
iation iu the meeting at Atlantic City next
May decide. We are all democratic in our
views, and believe in the voice of the people and
in accepting the vote of the majority. It can-
hoi ,],, any harm, and that is all we ask — that
ented and considered. Let the decision
be what it may. and we. as men. will accept
ami abide by the result.

President Barnaby — I would state that the duty
of this committee, which is to be appointed,
will not lie to jump right onto the National as-
sociation ami make them change the rules. That
is not the idea at all. It is simply to have a
permanent committee to watch any changes that
are contemplated and to work for a uniform in-
spection.

Mr. Palmer — Mr. President, there are several
gentlemen here who possess what are called
idiosyncrasies. Mr. Farrin's is on the half inch,
Mr. Russe's is on the odd foot and Mr. Ben-
nett's is that we should stand up so straight
that we lean over backwards. It is said that we
have made some agreement with somebody, we
don'1 exactly know who, that we must adhere
to. I want to say to you gentlemen that that
idea is fallacious. It won't hold water at all.

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23

If the members coming together down at At-
lantic City want to change the rules, if it seems
wise to change the rules, if there is a demand
from the entire country that the rules are to be
changed, and I think it is a verj wise plan
that you gentlemen have inaugurated, for the
appointment of a committee i" see that the in-
terests of Indiana are fully protected when
those changes take place. 1 want to say further
thai the inspection rules committee of the Na-
tional association is ready today, or tomorrow,
OP any day between now and the meeting a1
Atlantic City, to consider any changes that the
inspection rules committee of this association, if
appointed, may desire to have made at the At-
lantic fin meeting. There is nobody that has
authority in the .National association to state
to thai committee that those changes will he
made, because there is no authority, except in
the membership, to make the changes. But if
we go io Atlantic City with a plan well out
lined, a reasonable plan, a plan for a change
thai may be made necessary by the new- condi
tions which were not apprehended when we were
in Buffalo, I believe that the reason of the
National association will rise to the occasion
and say thai we will make those- changes.

Committee on Inspection.
President Barnaby Gentlemen, if there is no
further discussion on this question, we will vote
on it. It has been moved and seconded that
a permanent inspection committee be appointed.
I hot in Eavor of this motion will signify the
same by saying aye ; those opposed no. The
ayes have it. and the motion is carried. I will
appoint as that committee, John M. Pritchard,
chairman; Ed. F. Swain. C. II. Kramer. T. .1
Christian and Claude Maley.

Railroad Committee.

On motion, duly seconded and curried.
President Barnaby appointed a committee on
railroads, which consists of the following:
\V. A. Guthrie, S. Burkholder and E. A.
Swain.

Nomination Committee.

Election of officers being next in order, the
chair appointed S. Burkholder, W. If. Cop-
pock and J. D. Maris as nomination com
niittee.

On request, W. A. Guthrie, a member of
the present legislature, addressed the meet-
ing-.

Mr. Guthrie -Mr. President, as this is the
first time that I haye met with you, I am not
exactly familiar with what you desire. While I
am in the hardwood lumber business, I am also
largely interested in the cross-tie business. I
am with you on the rate proposition and this
handling of cars. Congressman Madden of Illi-
nois lias drafted a hill to introduce in congress
thai si rikes me as coyering some points that I
was very much interested in. one was with
reference 10 ordering cars and compelling rail
road companies, as common carriers, to furnish
them in a reasonable length of time, and if they
should not furnish them the shipper would he
entitled to ;, dollar a day for the time that he
was delayed. Thai struck me as a fair proposi-
tion. That is what they require of us. If we
order ears and we don't load them at once, they
1 barge us demurrage, and why not put it the
other way? Another thing was with reference
to the time the cars were to he moved from the
station after they were loaded, .lust recently I
lad an order for which a const ruction company
paid me an extra price to get two carloads of
stuff on the cars in a day's time for them. That
shipment was thirty days in going sixty-five
miles. Who was to blame for that? I am
strongly in favor of giving our railroad com-
mission additional power so that they may con-
trol this situation to a greater extent.

Election of Officers.
Tie- committee on nomination selected the

follow mo officers, who wore unanimously
elected :

For president — C. II. Barnaby, Greencastle.

For vice president <1. II. Palmer, Sheridan.

VAX B. PEKRINE, FORT WAYNE.

A. Wood, Muncie.
M. Pritchard, Indianapolis.
Burkholder, Crawfordsville ;
Richmond : James Buckley,

Swain. Seymour ; Claude

For treasurer — C

For secretary — J.

For directors — S.
Clarence H. Cramer
Brookville ; B. F.
Maley. Fvansville.

On motion, the session adjourned.

EVENING SESSION.

About one hundred members of the Intliana
association atel their guests sat down to the
home-coming dinner. Among them were not

only lumber n who are at present residents

of the state, but many who wore prominently

STIMSON, IIUXTIXGBUUG.

identified with the earlier history of the in-
dustry- in that section, now engaged in the
same pursuit in various parts of the United
States..

President Barnaby acted as toastmaster,

and at the close of the e> Ileal dinner called

upon W. II. Busse of Memphis for remarks.
.Mr. Busse eulogized the state of Indiana as
the home of some of the pioneers and most
influential men in the lumber business and
noted tli.it nearly half the members of the
.Memphis Lumbermen's Club were originally
from thai state.

Earl Palmer of Paducah, Ky., spoke in his
usual breezy manner, paying tribute to the

associat s hospitality, and telling several

stories in his inimitable way. In conclusion
lie proposed a toast to the memory of C. D.

SI rode.

\V. A. Bennett of Cincinnati addressed the
banqueters and called attention to the impor-
tance of his home city as a lumber market.

1'. Crane of Cincinnati followed Mr. Ben-
nett with further facts about its resources
for handling lumber, incidentally paying trib-
ute also to his native town — Peru, Ind. Mr.
('lane'- humorous remarks regarding as-,
tions. grading, etc.. were much enjoyed by
his hearers.

William E. Litchfield of Boston in a very
graceful s| h told of his lumbering experi-
ences in Indiana covering a period of twenty
Mens, and spoke of the great resources of
tin stat.- and the high quality of its timber.

William Threlkeld of New York city ex-
plained the standard knot very carefully,
slating ho has found a knot 1% inches in
diameter, or the size of a silver dollar, when
green will when dry lie reduced to 1',
inches, or the diameter of a half-dollar, the
size of tin- prevailing standard knot. A
quarter covers exactly a 1-inch knot. These
remarks of .Mr. Threlkeld were evidently in
tended to be facel tons. Ho further expressed
himself as a believer in unity, and -an advo-
cate of universal inspection.

J. V. Zartman of Indianapolis, chairman
of the allied shipping associations, requested
the cooperation of the association in seeking

to widen the sco] f power of the state

railroad commission.

Waldron Williams of New STork city com-
plimented Indiana lumbermen on their hos-
pitality, their astute business methods, their
high standard of manufacture, and the excel-

ll III ■ of tliel I' products.

During the banquet an orchestra furnished
enjoyable music and Ho c I!. Van Wie de-
lighted the guests with his rendition of sev-
eral songs.

Those present were:

List of Attendants.

G. il, Worland, Thompson. Thayer ,v. \h
Cow-en. Fvansville.

W. II. CoppOCk, S. F. Co) ,k & Co., Ft.

\\ aviie.

Key Burkholder, S. Burkholder Lhr. Co.,
< Ira wfordsville.

W. A. Fulwider. W. A. Fulwidcr & Co. Bloom
i lie. I on.

D. S. Barnaby, Greencastle.

.1. .Ie Wetz. Columbus.

B. Young, loung ,*i Cutslnger, Fvansville.

Robert H. Fessler, Indianapolis.

J. D. Marls, Indianapolis

W. W. Garrott. Frankfort.

G. II. Palmer. Sheridan.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

II. C. Humphrey, G. W. Jones Lumber Co.,
Appleton,. Wis.

Earl Palmer, Ferguson & Palmer Co., Pa-
ducah, Ky.

J. W. -Martin, Veedersburg.

Watt G. Bass, National Veneer & Lumber Co.,
Indianapolis.

H. J. Barnard, Indianapolis.

C. M. Crim, C. M. Crim & Son, Salem.

James C. Dickson, Indianapolis.

John Hellenbrand, Hellenbrand Co., Bates-
ville.

J. A. Hellenbrand, Hellenbrand Co., Bates-
ville.

C. II. Kramer, C. & W. Kramer Co., Rich-
mond.

William 1'. Schmuhl, Ford & Johnson Co.,
Michigan City.

Otis Henry. Geo. W. Henry & Son Lumber
Co., Noblesville.

Gardiner I. Jones, Jones Hardwood Co., Bos-
ton, Mass.

W. W. Knight, Long-Knight Lumber Co., In-
dianapolis.

B. F. Swain, D'Heur & Swain. Seymour.

J. N. Day, St. Louis Lumberman, St. Louis,
Mo.

L. E. Fuller, Lumber World, Chicago. 111.

A. K. Vinnedge, A. R. Vinnedge Lumber Co.,
Chicago, III.

Theodore Fathauer, Theo. Fathauer Co., Chi-
cago, 111.

E. A. Swain, Swain-Karmire Lumber Co.,
Shelbyville.

Thomas B. Coppock, S. 1'. Coppock & Co.,
Ft. Wayne.

Claude Maley, Male; & Wertz, Evansville.

Sam Sanders, A. J. Sanders' Sons, Gosport.

W. II. Russe, Russe & Burgess, Memphis,
Tenn.

J. H. Wooley, Franklin.

Frank R. Shepard, Eaglesfield & Shepard, In-
dianapolis.

R. O. James, Vincennes.

J. H. Barclay, Bedford.

William Threllceld, Indiana Quartered Oak
Co., New York.

Walter II. Crim, C. M. Crim & Son, Salem.

B. A. Kipp. B. A. Kipp & Co., Cincinnati, O.

F. M. Bachman, F. M. Bachman Co., In
dianapolis.

William E. Ferguson, Rockville.

Charles A. Wood, Kirby-Wood I.br. Co.. Mun
cie.

II. W. Bates, Ft. Wayne.

V. P. Kirby, Kirby-Wood Lbr. Co., Cincin-
nati, O.

Thomas H. Kirby. Kirby-Wood I. In. .Co.. Mun
eie.

J. Watt Graham, Graham Lbr. Co.. Cincin-
nati, O.

C. H. Barnaby, Greencastle.

.7. M. Pritcbard, Long-Knight Lumber Co.,
Indianapolis.

S. P. Coppock. S. P. Coppock & 'Co., Ft.
Wayne.

w. A. Bennett, Bennett & Witte, Cincinnati,
Ohio.

S. Burkholder. S Burkholder I.br. Co., I 'raw
fordsville.

Daniel Wertz, Evansville.

J. A. Thompson, Edinburg.

J. H. Baird, Southern Lumberman, Nashville,
'I run

M. B. Farrin, M. B. Farrin Lbr. Co., Cincin-
nati, Ohio.

C. F. Korn, Farrin-Korn Liu-. Co., Cincinnati,
Ohio.

Henry H. Gibson, Hakdwood Record, Chicago,
111.

Ben Lukens. Greencastle.

J. D. Bolton, Hayden & Westcott Lbr. Co..
Chicago, HI. ,

O. O. Agler, Upham & Agler, Chicago, 111.

G. J. Landeck, Landeck Lumber Co., Milwau-
kee, Wis.

Charles Wertz, Daniel Wertz & Co., Gram-
mer.

W. P. Brown, W. P. Brown & Sons Lbr. Co.,
Louisville, Ky.

Henry Maley. Edinburg.

J. W. Brockie. Peabody Bros. Co., LaFon-
taine.

EARL PALMER, PADI'CAII. KY

«'. E. Bell, l'eabody Bros. I'm. Denver.

Charles Lleb, Rockport Box Mfg. Co., Rock-
port.

G. A. Dwiggins, Fountain City.

Harry Asmann. Graham Lumber Co., Cincin-
nati, Ohio.

I. M. Asber, I. M. Asher Lumber Co., Cincin-
nati, Ohio.

James Buckley, Brookville.

W. A. Bonsack, W. A. Bonsack I.br. Co., St.
Louis, Mo.

Edward Buckley, Buckley & Douglas Lbr. Co.,
Manistee. Mich.

Walter K. Crim, C. M. Crim & Sou. Salem.
1ml.

C. Crane. ('. Crane & Co.. Cincinnati. Ohio.

R. G. Edwards, Sheridan.

E. C. Dann, Pittsburg Plate Glass Co., In-
dianapolis.

F. F. Fish, National Hardwood Lbr. Assn.,
Chicago, 111.

W. A. Guthrie, Dupont.

A. N. Holloway, Cloverdale.

A. C. Hyser, Indianapolis.

Rollin R. James, Indianapolis.

W. S. Jacobs, Kirby-Wood Lbr. Co., Mun-
cie.

L. A. Keithley, Bedford.

L. B. Lesh, Lesh &. Matthews Lbr. Co., Chi-
cago.

William E. Litchfield, Boston, Mass.

II. A. McCowen, H. A. McCowen & Co.,
Salem.

John Meyer. Meyer I.br. & Ildwe. Co., Bates-
ville.

Joint Montano, Bennett & Witte, Cincinnati,
Ohio.

John R. Mutz, Edinburg.

George F. Massmann, Farrin-Korn Lumber
Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Charles E. Osborn, Veedersburg.

X. F. Owings. Indianapolis.

C. W. Osgood, Indianapolis.

W. C. Pulse, Greensburg.

E. K. Pritchctt. Macey Company. Grand Rap
ids. Mich.

Van B. Ferrine, Perrine-Armstrong Lbr. Co.,
Ft. Wayne.

F. M. Platter, North Vernon Lumber Co.,
North Vernon.

Ed. Richardson, Long-Knight Lbr. Co., In-
dianapolis.

W. P. Sherman. Willoughby, Ohio.

J. V. Stimson. Huntingburg.

Edward O. Wild, American Lumberman, Chi-
cago, III.

Fred II. Wade. Indianapolis.

George M. Waters, New Palestine.

J. II. Wooley, Franklin.

Waldron Williams. New York.

J. V. Zartman, Indianapolis.

W. II. RUSSE, MEMPHIS, TENN.

E. R. Cooledge. Southern Lumberman, Chi-
cago.

J. W. Dickson, J. W. Dickson Lumber Co.,
Memphis, Tenn.

J. E. Dulweber. Cincinnati. Ohio.

C. W. Davis, Edinburg.

The Toy Industry of Germany.

Something of the extent of the toy manufac-
turing industry in Germany may be learned
from a recent report of Consul George H. Ifft.
of Anuaberg, one of the greatest toy making
centers of Germany. From January 1 to Sep-
tember 1, 1900. a total of 9.895 tons of toys
were sent to the United States, as against 8.716
tons for the same period in 1905. The exports
to England during these months were nearly
equal to those to the United States, and it is
estimated that over $3, 500, 000 worth of toys
are manufactured annually to supply the Ger-
man market.

Throughout the entire toy manufacturing dis-
trict of Germany factories were busy all through
the year, but labor conditions were very unsat-
isfactory. The increased cost of living every-
where in Germany has caused a demand for
higher wages, and in many cases a strike has
been resorted to in the effort to enforce these
demands. At Nuremberg a strike, affecting
many workmen and lasting many weeks, has
just been terminated by granting not only
higher wages but shorter hours. Toy makers,
both the factory employees and the house work-
men (those who work at their own homes), are
organizing to enforce their wants. Added to
this has been the increased cost of raw mate-
rials, in some cases the advance being as high
as 50 per cent, and the result has naturally
been a very unsatisfactory condition of the
industry both from the standpoint of the manu-
facturer and the workman.

In the Erz mountains of Saxony the toys
made are mostly of wood, and while there are
quite a number of factories, the work done by
men in their homes is the larger factor. Labor
there is not so well organized as at Nuremberg
and other points, and the industry has not been
interrupted by strikes, etc. Manufacturers have
had a very busy year and a fairly prosperous
trade with the United States.

HARDWOOD RECORD

25

<r__ - ■uw * »—» • _*. »-» v with the careless placing of veueer on cheap

1 f)6 J\l0d€m £ Umitlire r QCtOTy, furniture, when one strip may be of a nat-
urally beautiful figure and the one next to it

GIA'E AND THE LAYING OF VENEEK. .,,.«? . T „

01 an entirely different grain. In fine work

Although glue in some form has been used The importance of the glue room can .u, tMs ig avoided and ^ greategt care

from the earliest times for furniture work, never be overestimated, but as a feature of . , , , , ,, . ,, ,,

........ is taken to match the grain exactly, the

tue question of its proper preparation and furniture building it becomes of exceptional .

..... , . ,, , .... . ., , . . , . . .. ,. parts of the veneer surtace being numbered

handling is a problem that still perplexes the interest when considered in relation to the

factory manager. It must be reduced to amount of laminated work being turned so that the best of the striP can be laid

workable shape without loss of its strength out at the present time. In the laying of with taste- In the makinS UP of good ma"

or spreading qualities or the joints to which veneer great attention should be given to hogauy stock, when the work is laminated,

it is applied will be unsatisfactory. Expe- the condition of the face wood and the cor- beautiful surfaces are obtained with crotch

rience and repeated tests are the only cri- ing. As a general rule veneers, being very mahogany, the darker heartwood giving an

terions by which to judge the quality of thin, are well dried, many times their sea- attractive and finely graduated figure. It is

glue. In determining the value of glue its soning is much more thorough than that of evident that in this work only the greatest

strength and water-taking capacity ought to the body on which they are placed. Unless care caa avoi(i error; for to have the iaoal

be thoroughly ascertained. The investiga- good judgment is exercised in the proper surface the figure must join and match per-

tion should be conducted in a scientific man- tempering of wood after it comes from the feetly. In table tops and in general in

ner and a careful record kept of the weight kiln so that it will not err in the extreme a11 Iarge surfaces of the best work the same

of the glue and the amount of the water. of being too dry, there is a possibility of its skill is shown, so that when the finish is put

There are some elemental facts about glue absorbing moisture on exposure to the air on the grain of the wood is brought out in a

which, of course, are observed wherever it and thus expanding and wrecking the work. harmonious figure throughout all the differ-

is used, and one of these is that glue should This disaster is avoided in many cases by ent pieces.

never be heated in anything brought direct- making the work with several plies of stock The proper matching of the veneered strips

ly in contact with the fire, for it is apt to and placing them with the grain running iu on the surface of any fine class work is one

be, burnt and thus rendered worthless. It opposite directions; but it is a mark of scien- of the most careful and striking features of

must also be softened in water before it tific craftsmanship to first get the stock in furniture making. In this phase of the in-

can be melted by heat, and in this particu- as nearly perfect condition as possible before uustry the craft has attained a level far in

Jar glues differ widely, taking from eighteen making it up. advance of any hitherto reached, for the de-

and twenty ounces to thirty-five ounces of The matching of veneers for large sur- velopment of veneer machinery has put with-

water to a pound of glue. But the thickness faces like those of the headboards of bed- in the reach of the manufacturer a surface

of the glue depends on the temperature, for steads and fine table tops is rightly con- at once perfect, beautiful and susceptible of

as the temperature increases the glue will sidered a fine art. Every one is familiar the most exquisite treatment.

stand more water. If glue dissolves in cold

^l^J^ZtlZ^lZ:: The Mahogany and Cedar Trade.

it is melted. T1]0 active conditions governing the mahogany utilized in large quantities in lines of manufac-
Since the development of the veneer in- an(j foreign cedar trade during the year just ture into which it has heretofore but lightly en-
dustry to its present magnitude the spread- closed, both as regards demand and prices, makes tered. This is occasioned more particularly by
ing capacity of glue has become a theme a re™ew for that period of more than passing reason of the marked advance in the value of
0 r J ° interest " general domestic hardwoods, which are now on
for study, and in this connection there are Jn an int,,,.vi„w wlth ,.,,„ F Herrimann. one a level that enables mahogany to come into corn-
several features that are of importance. of tU(? leading brokers of New York city and the petition freely, to say nothing of its own mer-
While the glue is being spread on the stock, only statistician in that mahogany and cedar its as a wood of beauty.

its temperature must be carefully looked trade center, he stated that during 100G his fig- The current range of prices at this writing

after for this quality affects the spreading ures showed the following receipts for that year on mahogany run from 0 to 12 cents per foot

.. -Tiii y, from various producing countries as compared in the log. wholesale, according to quality and

capacity to a considerable degree, often as ... ,n„. . . . _. . . ... . r„

r J fe > w,tii 19O0 : point of origin. The most desirable, such as La-
much as twenty-five per cent. The liquid mahogani logs- beceived. gu°a and Santiago, are firm at 12 cents, but
must be carefully protected from any strong the general market averages between 9 and
drafts, as this tends to dull it by evaporat- ,, , ™?;'n "ijf' 10 cents. Cedar prices range from 9 to 15

;„„ <■!,„ „.„*„,. „ni,„, „i • i„„„ „*„„ ""ban ports 14.0-J dAu.i.. cents under the same conditions, with the aver-

nig the water, although more or less water \iPVie-in norts t; ''.so 0 055 , ....

. . . f Mexican ports 0,00a v.voo age close to ]3 aud 14 ceDts.

is being constantly taken from it on its ex- Central & South American ports. 5,229 3.84G . . . . .„ , ..„ „.„.. t„„,,„ ,,„.,

b ' ' ,0-1 • An important factor in the cedar trade during

posure to the air. The handling of glue African ports ■ 4,204 l.,74t, the year was the trouble on the Island of Cuba,

from the pot to the face of the wood is a ,. kt tuq which occurred at the height of the season and

scientific process, and one that should be forced a curtailment in shipments when the

carefully looked after if the best results ' ' dab logs received. wood was in ^urgent Aomana here. Had it m>t

are to be attained. With a proper test of ^ ™^ 19°6- '",/,',,, ^ave 'been 'much6' Urger° and have per-

the substance and a thorough knowledge of Mexican ports" "l'ii'>:: r.'w.i mitted of increased trade,

its qualities combined with the requisite Central & South American ports. 1,362 2,409 The increase in receipts of Mexican mahog-

care in preparing and handling it, the best any, as above noted, were greatly appreciated

work can be obtained and many instances Totals 91,335 160,065 by the trade, and all wee sold promptly show-

- j. ,. . . . , . , ., „_.' . . ing the popularity of this grade. Several
of faulty joining which are often attributed Notwithstanding the marked gain in receipts months claps,, 1 without any receipts from Mex-
to the glue can be traced back to poor as shown above, the market has been such that ico, owing to lack of rain which compelled
workmanship in other departments. all arrivals have been promptly absorbed dur- buyers to use other grades, but immediately re-
Even when the glue has been tested and inc tbe year at a higher range of values than ceipts arrived. Mexican stock came into its own
. . .. . ,,3,i, has been obtained for many years. Further- and the year opens with a very active call and
found satisfactory care should be taken to more ,,„. market has been ehai.acterized during „;u.ly sMpments urged. Cuba mahogany has

have the wood properly tempered for its re- a greater part of the year by a demand far in likewi.se enjoyed increasing saleand large, good

ception. When both the coring and face of excess of receipts, with the result that at many logs are in active call. San Domingo has prac-

built-up stock are of the same warm tern- periods the local wholesale market was bare of tically ceased as a factor in local trading, there

perature glue does its best work and when stock: Especially was this so of cedar, the in- having been only about 1,000 logs received dm-

r ° creasing use of which has been nothing short of ing the past three years. There is, however,

applied to thoroughly seasoned lumber should marvelous, and in that respect it is a fact in some demand for large, good logs, but the aver-

give a durable and strong joining. current trading that mahogany is likewise being age receipts have been of small wood and a

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drug on the market. Honduras receipts were
aboul equal to 1905 and the demand good.

A salient feature of 1906 was the big in-
crease iu African receipts, compared with
previous years. This was due in a measure to
ased receipts from other ports, but Afri-
can stock is growing rapidly in favor. Then,
too, the African shipments in past years have
come almost exclusively via the Liverpool
market, where American importers were forced
to pay prices based on the expense of handling
there as well as profit to the broker. The past
year, however, has witnessed the arrival of two
consignments dii t. which resulted so profit

ably that au increased traffic with African ports
direct is looked for this year.

The cedar market in general has been very
active and has permitted of profitable trading
to all concerned. Receipts from Mexico and
Cuba were greatly in excess of any year for a
long time, notwithstanding the handicap in
Cuba as above stated, but the consumption has
been enormous, with every prospect of a con-
tinuance.

The whole situation is most promising for
this year and the general trade is exceedingly

optimistic.

NeWs Miscellany.

Hardwood Manufacturers' Annual.
A meeting of great interest to hardwood,
vehicle and furniture dimension stock manufac-
turers and planing mill operators will be held
at Memphis. January 29 and 30, when the
Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the
United States will hold its fifth annual gather-
ing. It promises to be a large and enthusiastic
one. Memphis lumbermen are making elaborate
plans for the entertainment of visitors and the
program of the meeting, which is given here-
with, presents many attractive features :

FIRST DAI' TUESDAY, JANUARY 29.

10:30 a. m. — Registration of delegates. Sou-
venir badges will be distributed at time of
registration.

11 a. m. — Meeting called to order.

Address of welcome — Hon. James H. Malone,
mayor of Memphis.

Response in behalf of visiting lumbermen —
William "Wilms.

Annual address of president — William Wilms.

Report of treasurer— C. M. Crawford.

Report of secretary — Lewis Doster.

Report of chief inspector — J. Y. Hill.

Recess.

AFTERNOON SESSION- 3 P. 31.

Address — "Cooperation of Railroads and Lum-
ber Interests in the Soutli and Developments
Resulting Therefrom" — J. C. Clair, industrial
agent Illinois Central railroad.

Address — Dr. Hermann Von Shrenck. plant
pathologist Missouri Botanical Gardens, St.
Louis Mo., department of agriculture.

Address — "Drainage, Irrigation and Improve-
ment of Waterways in Relation to the Lumber
Business" — John A. Fox of the National Livers
& Harbors Congress.

Address — "The Relations Between the Manu-
facturers and the Manufacturing Consumers of
Hardwood Lumber" Capt. A. J. Gahagan,
Loomis & Hart Manufacturing Company, Chatta-
nooga', Tenn.

EVENING.

Entertainment to all by the Lumbermen's Club
of Memphis.

SECOND DAY- WiEDNHSDAY, JANUARY 30.

. 10:30 a. in- -Meeting called to order.
Reports of standing committees.
General discussion

Reports of committees appointed preceding
day.

General busine
Recess.

AFTERNOON SESSION— - J'. M .

Reports of committees.

General business.

Election of officers for 1007.

Adjournment.

The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis have
tended to all members, manufacturers and vis-
itors to the convention an invitation for enter-
tainment, and Tuesday night will l"1 reset 6
Cor such purpose. The entertainment will be
strictly an informal affair.

elected president of the Cincinnati Chamber of
Commerce at the annual election the second work
in January, defeating .1. M. Sears. Mr. Bennett
had adopted a staunch position in favor of sev-
eral measures which directly affect the lumber
trade, and lumbermen are therefore jubilant
over ltis successful candidacy. He strongly
indorses the belt line railway for Cincinnati,
lovyer switching charges, increased terminal
facilities, removal of discrimination rates, regu-

W. A. BENNETT OF BENNETT & WITTE,
CINCINNATI.

lations and conditions against shippers, and a
nine foot stage in the Ohio river from Pittsburg,
La., to Cairo, 111.

Mr. Bennett has been in the lumber business
for twenty-five years, and his house is one of
the most prominent in his section, handling an
use quantity of lumber annually, and con-
suming an important factor in oak and cotton-
wood operations.

W. A. Bennett Honored.

Win. A. Bennetl of Bennett & Wittc, whole-
hardwood dealers of Cincinnati, Ohio, was

American Woodenware in Scotland.

Consul Rufus Fleming of Edinburgh, Scotland,
states that there is a considerable market in
that part of Scotland for American wood goods
of every kind, from furniture to clothespins.
Of furniture the principal article in use there
is office desks ; in other lines the leading items
are handles for various implements, doors, sash
and blinds. The trade in American woodenwTare
in Scotland is not extensive, but it shows signs
of betterment, and if some effort were displayed
by American makers a much larger share of
the business might be turned their way. It is
perhaps questionable whether the trade would
ever grow to great volume, for some of the
wooden articles are not as widely used there
as in England or America, but a certain few
articles are essential in every household, and

since British woodworking firms must import
much of their material. American manufacturers
have a good opportunity for extending the
market for their goods. With the greater vari-
ety and comparative abundance of woods here
suitable for this line of manufacture and the
superiority of our woodworking machinery,
American goods are necessarily of particular
worth and would doubtless be given preference
over all others. Although the United Kingdom
is one of the best customers of our woodworking
establishments, Consul Fleming says that in
the district about Edinburgh little effort has
been made to bring the merit of these wares be-
fore the trade. Only the best grade of wooden-
ware can be sold on this market.

New Atkins Tool.

E. C. Atkins & Co.. Inc.. the saw manufactur-
ers of Indianapolis, have just closed a deal
whereby they secured the rights to make and
sell the Rogers belt punch. This little device
for making holes in belts, straps, etc.. is too
well known to require an introduction. It is
light, convenient and does its work to perfec-
tion. The blade of sharpened stool slips into
the handle, so that it is entirely protected when
not in use. To operate, it is only necessary to
pull out a thumb spring, which fits into notches
in the handle. The blade is graduated and
slightly concave, so that the size of the hole
to be cut may be regulated by the amount of
blade exposed. By slight pressure, the blade
is forced through the belt or strap and by turn-
ing the handle around once, an even hole of
uniform size is easily cut.

The punch sells for fifty cents and should be
in the pocket of every one having to cut uni-
form holes in belting, straps and leather. Many
of the best jobbers carry this tool and it can
always be bought through E. C. Atkins & Co..
Inc., at Indianapolis, or at any of their branch
houses.

The Teak Tree of Java.

The principal wealth of the forests of Java
at tli" presenl time consists in the wood of the
teak tree. The trees are usually cut when
lo i have' attained an age of about fifty years,
at which time they are between 60 and To
foot in height. The species most highly valued
has wood of a brown color and a smooth, greasy
'- to the touch.

Since 1880 the tree has been cultivated and
the cutting regulated by the Dutch government.
In order to cause tit" tree to lose its sap slowly
the trunk is girdled a short distance above the
ground two years before felling. The wood is
used extensively in ship building and Is ex-
ported to all parts of Europe.

New Cypress Inspectors.
The Southern Cypress Manufacturers' A<-i

siation committ in grades and specifications

announces that inspectors have been sent north
for the purpose of investigating complaints on
grades or measurements. It is the intention to
have the who:,, northern country thoroughly ...\
i red by inspectors within easy reach of any
point, and this has already been accomplished
through the territory from Denver on the west,
to Pittsburg on the east. Within a compara-
- short time the territory from Pittsburg
ii to Boston will be covered. In the mean-
time the department is prepared to make in-
spection anywhere west of Pittsburg on short

National Wholesalers' Meeting.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the
National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association,
bold in New York, January IS. it was unani-
mously decided to hold the next annual con-
vention at tie' Now- Willard hotel, Washing-
ton, I', i '.. on Wednesday and Thursday. March
6 anil 7. 1907. Special committees have been

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appointed to take entire charge of details and
arrangements for the program and entertain-
ment. From t lie very large number of members
\vh<> have expressed themselves in favor ol hold
ing the convention at Washington tins year, the
association will undoubtedly have the largest
attendance in its history; the deep intei
shown in various matters of national importance
will undoubtedly bring to the meeting a very
large representation of lumbermen from ■■ill ovei
the country.

Building Operations for 1906 and 1905.

An interesting table is supplied by the Amer-
ican Contractor, Chicago, showing the building
operations of some fifty Leading cities of the
United States during the past year, as compared
wiili those .if 1905. The total building transac-
tions in the cities contained in this list

a unted to $591,283,573 tor the year 1906, or

a gain ol $13,077,622 over those of 1900, which
stood at $578,205,949. This is a very sub-
stantial increase when it is considered thai
many who are in close touch with building oper
aliens predicted a falling off in this lino dur-
ing 1906.

That prosperity in building lines is as broad
as the- country is shown by the accompanying
table. There have been losses. it is true, but
they are widely distributed and evidently de-
pend upon local conditions, which argue little
or nothing against future prospects. The loss

in New York, where tl perations of 1905

were exceptionally large, amounted to nearly
25 millions, yet this was offset with more than
lo millions in addition in oilier cities. The
present year promises to equal, if not surpass,

the one just brought to a closi .

Per Per

1906. 1905. cent cent

Oim CbSI Cost. gain. less.

Atlanta s 5,156,149$ 3,212,931

Bridgeport 2,684,399 1,937,021 38

Buffalo 8,686,030 7,401,006 17

Chicago 64,822,030 63,970,950 13

Cleveland 12,972,974 9,777,145 32

Chattanooga 2,231,742 1,259,556 77

Davenport 717. Is7 944,352 21

Dallas 3,181,274 2,sifi,513 13

Denver 7,000,996 6,374,537 I)

Detroit 13.282,350 10,462,100 27

Piilulli 2,761,023 1,662,655 66

Evansville 1,048,680 608,860 72

Grand Rapids. ... 2,181,306 2,145,265 16

Harrisburg 1.849,345 1,975,470 .. 6

Hal tford 3,732,915 3,076,091 2

Indianapolis 5,541,676 7,225,325 23

Kansas City 10.765,480 10.917,024 .. 13

Louisville 5,116,917 4,474,002 14

Los Angeles 18,502,446 15,615,083 Is

Milwaukee 9,713,284 9,806,729 .. :i

Minneapolis 9,466,150 8,905,205 <'•

Memphis 4,346.767 3,554.883 22

Mobile 1,078,331 1,122,688 .. 4

Nashville 2,840,211 2,552.802 11

New Haven 3.0H8.747 2.1 12.. v,:, I"

Newark 10,411,328 10,214,615 2

New Orleans 5,563.434 5,129,880 s

Manhattan ... - 107,977,515 124,746.552 13

Alterations 18,098,050 14,105,720

Brooklyn 71,442,148 73,017,706 .. 2

Bronx 27,622,730 38,313,495

Alterations 1,266,360 866,760 27

New York 226,406,803 251,050.233 .. 0

Omaha 1,273,050 4,387,464 2

Philadelphia 10 71 1 510 34 822,235 17

Pittsburg 14,478,513 16,075.158 .. 9

Providence 3.855,850 1,562,950 .. 15

Rochester 6,175,499 5,676,624 .. s

St, .1. .septa 1,052.746 1,273,513 17

St. Louis 29,938 693 2::. 134 734 27

Scranton 2,177,975 2,178,850

Seattle 11,920.488 6,704.784 77

Spokl 3.801,859 3,905,908 .. 2

South Bend 1,073,397 1,014,790 5

Syracuse 2,275,610 1,313,261 .. 31

i i ij 827,408 923,016 . . 10

foledo 1,696,058 3,087.1 12

Tacoma 3.023.305 1,906.085 58

\\ o tei 2 103 2,182,940 34

Wllkesbarre 2,224,833 1,480,899 60

W e 12.766,1 10,840,150 Is

Totals $591,283,571 $578,205,949 2

Reorganization of Philadelphia Company.

On January 1 the copartnership existing be-
tween William E. Pattlson and II. N. Pattlson,
trading as the Philadelphia Hardwood Lun
Company, was dissolved by mutual consent and
a new company formed to do business under tin-
same name and to include, besides the Me
Pattlson, John T. Dixon of Elizabethton, Tenn.

Mr. Dixon is well known as a hardwood lumber-
man throughout the Tennessee district, and as
the progress of the Philadelphia Hardwood
Lumber Company has been markedly rapid dur-
ing its buslnes life, it is expected that the align
nieni of the two forces will insure success in

I lie lie\\ \ ent 'lie

The Philadelphia Hardwood I. umbel' (' panj

has had a successful year during 1906 and has
completed arrangements to extend its business
during the coming season.

Memphis Lumbermen's Club.
The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, Tenn..
held its annual election of officers on the evening
of January 12. The club boasts a membership
ot* nearly a hundred and is one of the most
Influential of the kind in the country. While
not a very old organization it carries on its
roster the names of many pioneers In the ltim-
b, r industry of the South as well as newer but
none the less prominent members of the trade.
Col. W. R. Barksdale is the retiring president
and George C. Ehemann has acted as secretary
for a number of years; W. S. Darnell served
during the past year as first vice president :
1'. E. Gary, second vice president, and It. J.
Darnell, J. W. Thompson and F. 11. Robertson

m

GEORGE D. BURGESS, PRESIDENT MEM-
PHIS LUMBERMEN'S CLUB.

as board of directors. The new officers cannot
ii the club any more efficiently than did
these gentlemen, but their selection is certainly
i happy one. The balloting resulted as follows:
President, George D. Burgess; first vice presi-
dent, t\ I '..ii con,! vice president, -I. It.
Grant: secretary "id treasurer, John W. Mc
Clure ; directors. A. I I., ter, i\ E. Stonebraker
and George C. Ehemann. A very enjoyable din-
ner at tic Ilotd i.ayoso preceded He election.

Important Deal in Walnut.
J. K. Barnes of Des Moines, [a., has recently,

dosed a deal of much interest to the walnut
industry. It' has purchased all the walnut tim-
"i on the property of the Meramae Iron
Works Company in Phelps and Crawford coun-
ties. There are about LO.OOO acres in the tract,
but the walnut timber is confined to about 6,000
acres. .Mr. Barnes paid $20,000 tor the walnut
on this property.

Mr. I'.ni h Ii. hi i.i' I to furnish the

eminent gun stocks and ibis timber will be
I up into two-foot lengths and shipped to
I" Moines, where the slocks will be finished.
It is estimated thai the trees on this tract will
produce 1,000,000 stocks. A very large number

will also I ut from tin- root: of Hie trees.

which is i sidered much more valuable, and

which be has contracted to deliver to the Martin
Arms Company of Massachusetts.

Mr. Barnes plans the erection of a mill at
SI James, w here tic timber will be cut to the
proper lengths, and will probably give emploj

ment to 150 men. Wiih ibis for,,, i stimates

that it win take two years to cut and deliver
all the walnut on the properly. This is re

[ d to be ilc liiiest body of walnut limber in

i he country outside of the state of Arkansas.
where is found the best and most prolilic growth

ol Ibis wood.

To Operate in Indian Territory.

iin Boggy Creek, near Bently, in the Choi

law nation, there is now under construction a

woodworking plant which will I ic of the

largest and best equipped in the Dnited Stati
The Scott-Martin Lumber ix. Pin Companj ol
Dallas, Tex., appreciating tic advantages of the
local ion, has for Hie past two months been
i ting buildings and shipping machinery for
this plant, which will manufacture wagon parts
and pins used in fastening wires on telegraph
poles. For the latter purpose hois d'arc, of
which vast quantities are to be found in this
section, will be used exclusively. There is an
abundant supply of the woods especially prized
lor this line of manufacture — hickory, unusual-
ly line oak, etc.

Although enterprising manufactures are aware

Of tl xistence ami value of the timber supply

of this territory, becaus ' the restrictions of

the government in seeking to protect the inter-
ests "f the Indian owners. little has been accom-
plished in the way of creating a timber mar-
l.'i so that the land owner could realize any-
Ihing worth considering for the wood growth

on his land. This pany in taking the inia-

live in this direction is to be commended, as in
this way land will be cleared for homesteads,
while at the same time good use will be made
of He timber. Heretofore the deadening of
great areas of w led property has been re-
sorted to for the sole purpose of cultivating the
land.

Miscellaneous Notes.

The Muskegon Log Lifting Cornpanc ol Mus
kgoii, Mich., during the season just ended,
raised logs that will measure 3,000,000 lit. A
large percentage of the quantity is pine and
hemlock, and there is also a good representa-
tion of the various hardwoods. The logs are
now piled on the banks of Muskegon lake and
next spring will be floated to Muskegon.

Joseph P. Wadell, who for several years his
bein manager of the manufacturing operations
of Alexander H. Revell & Co., at Chicago, re-
cently resigned that position and purchased a
plant at Detroit, Mich., well equipped for the
manufacture of store and bank fixtures and
show cases, which be will operate under the
title of tile .1. ]'. Wadell Show Case ,V Cabinet
Company. Inc.

By a contract entered into by the state Board
of Prison Commissioners with the Ford & John-
son Company, of Chicago. 200 boys, inmates of
the Kentucky reform school, located two
from Lexington, will he farmed out to the I ord
*x- Johnson Company by the slat' They will
■ pay by the dozen chairs for the labor of
the boys. 'The Ford St Johnson Company will
o.:ii" a big chair factory on the reform school
farm and the boys will all be employed there.
The state expects to derive $9,000 annually
from the labor of the boys.

The Taylor & Milkey hardwood saw mill at
Wrightville, Ark., is being moved to Felsenthal.
where, after various improvements and addi-
tions have been made upon it, Milkey Brothers,
-ors to the above firm, will operate it.
manufacturing oak. gum and pine lumber. New
machinery will be installed and the mill will
have a capacity of 110,000 feet of lumber daily.
Tie' concern will have access to a recently con-
structed spur road and the lumber can be han-
dled direct from the saws to the cars for

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merit. The erection of another mill adjacent to
this one is being planned by the concern. Theo-
dore B. and Omar Miikey, both energetic and
resourceful business men, compose the firm of
Miikey Bros., which is a welcome addition to
the business interests of Felsenthal.

Rice & Ward, of Oakdale, La., recently erected
a saw mill with a daily capacity of 90,000
feet. Dimension stock and railway timbers
will be manufactured.

Late in December the Chicago & Alton sus-
tained a loss of $150,000 by fire at its planing
mill at Bloomington, 111.

Since the location of terminals of the Mis-
souri & North Arkansas railroad at Helena, Ark.,
that city has gained considerably as a manu-
facturing center. The Ford-Johnson Chair
Company, of Frankfort, Ky.. and Michigan City,
Ind., will build a new plant there which will
give employment to 700 men. The Helena
Woodenware Company and the Arkansas Oak
Company are both erecting large plants.

The Turner, Day & Woolworth -Handle Com-
pany, of Louisville. Ky., has filed an amendment
to its charter asking permission to operate in
Arkansas. R. E. Eldridge and YV. L. Graves,
of Paragould, are named as state agents, and
$30,000 of the company's capital stock stated as
being used in Greene county, Arkansas.

Frank E. Milburn has purchased from J. E.
Edlngton, trustee in bankruptcy for the Lion
Spoke Works of Alton Park, Chattanooga, Tenn.,
the plant and holdings of that company, the
consideration being $5,650. Mr. Milburn has
for some time been superintendent for the Chat-
tanooga Wagon Company, but has resigned that
position to devote his entire time to this new
enterprise.

A new concern at Hardy, Ark., is the Morgan
Company, recently organized with $20,000 capi-
tal stock and the following officers : John L.
Reid, Zanesville, O., president ; J. A. Parker,
Louisville, Ky., vice president ; C. V. Morgan,
secretary, and W. S. Morgan, treasurer. Offices
will be located at Hardy. The company will
manufacture lumber on an extensive scale from
a tract of heavily timbered land in Chicot
county.

The Holland Veneering Company, of Holland,
Mich., is moving into new quarters, trie fac-
tory formerly occupied by the Pneumatic Horse
Collar Company. New buildings have been
erected and the company is now in position to
fake care of its large and increasing business
with promptness.

The Bluff City Coffin Company has been or-
ganized by Keith Blanton and Royster Thurman,
members of the Blanton-Thurman Lumber Com-
pany, and other capitalists of Memphis. The
company is capitalized at $30,000. It has pur-
chased tip- business and plant of the Griffith
Casket Company and will remove the machinery
from the plant to the old spoke fa'ctory of
Jacob Weiss & Sons in South Memphis. Exten-
sive improvements will be made in the plant.

The plant of the Planet Manufacturing Com-
pany, of La Porte, Ind., which concern failed
last spring, has been purchased by H. S. Can-
dee, of Cairo, 111., well-known to the lumber
trade of the Mississippi district. Associated
with Mr. Candee in this new undertaking is W.
C raylor, a prominent lumberman of Cairo.
The plaut will be put in operation as soon as
possible and will manufacture mouldings on an
extensive scale.

The Huber-Schneider Hardwood Floor Com-
pany has been incorporated at Seattle, Wash.

It is said that the biggest contract, ever let
for railroad ties was closed in New York last
month, vVhereby the Rock Island Railroad Com-
pany agreed to purchase from A. T. Hert, of
Louisville, Ky., $1,000,000 worth of railway
ties every year for ten years. This progressive
road intends to arrange for a good supply be-
fore another advance in prices.

Geo. W. Kelley, of Pine Top, Ky., has pur-

chased 5,000 acres of property in Knott county,
lying along Ball's Fork and Troublesome creeks,
which is a fine coal and timber region. The
consideration amounted to several hundred thou-
sand dollars.

Z. P. East, of Worthington, Ind., has pur-
chased from heirs of Jacob Peter, a tract of
land covering 1,200 acres, situated between Wor-
thington and Bloomfield, Ind., which is covered
with high-class virgin timber. The tract is
one of the best in that section and the purchaser
intends to subdivide it and sell it in small
parcels. The purchase price was $100,000.

Ben M. Talbot, of Lake Charles, La., has sold
to the Hayes Cypress Lumber Company, Ltd., a
cypress shingle and lumber mill and a tract of
cypress timber, the consideration being $32,000.
The Hayes Cypress Lumber Company is com-
posed of J. G. Gingerass, president ; W. C. Carle-
ton, vice president ; H. W\ Taylor, secretary,
and C. F. Crockett, treasurer. All are well-
known Louisiana lumbermen, Mr. Carleton hav-
ing for years been in the employ of the Bradley-
Ramsey Company there.

The Wagon Makers' Association of Chicago
has bought the plant and land of the Rock City
Lumber Company, of Little Rock, Ark., and will
install a hardwood mill employing 200 men.
Operations will be commenced March 1, and
$100,000 will be expended in machinery and
other improvements. The factory will be a
very large one, and will supply members of the
association with raw wagon material.

Capt. W. II. Alexander, of Pineville, Miss.,
closed a deal last week with the Chess Wymond
Cooperage Company, of Louisville, Ky., for 2,-
000 acres of hardwood timber lands near Pine-
ville. The company will proceed at once to put
in a first class up-to-date stave and heading
factory on this tract of land, from which they
will cut and market the timber. They expect
to have their plant in operation by March 1,
1007, and will ship their entire output by the
K. C. railway from Montrose.

The Richmond Furniture & Picture Frame
Company has been organized with $10,000 cap-
ital stock at Richmond, Va., by J. A. Mallory,
T. W. Swift and J. R. Tisdale.

The R. I.. Fromc Manufacturing Company of
Sheboygan, Wis,, contemplates the erection of a
veneer factory at Ladysmith.

While in London recently Fred Hoffman,
treasurer of the Hoffman Lumber Company of
Fort Wayne* Ind., made a large purchase of
mahogany logs. Three of these logs Have al-

ready I □ received. They are the largest ever

brought into Fort Wayne, measuring 44 inches
square. They will be cut up into veneer and
will produce some very choice stock.

The Vincennes Hardwood Lumber Company of
Vincennes, Ind., has sold out to Claude Maley,
Daniel Wertz and Frank W. Snaff, well-known
Hoosier lumbermen. The plant will be operated
by these men under the firm name of Maley,
Wertz & Snaff.

A line of high-grade furniture will be manu-
factured by the Holly Cabinet Company of
Holly. Mich., recently incorporated with $60,-
000 capital stock. The officers are : Henry
Johnson, Detroit, president ; J. W. Brown. Grand
Rapids, vice president ; John W. Patterson,
Holly, secretary and sales manager.

Marshneld. Wis., is one of the largest lumber
centers in the state. A rough estimate of the
lumber handled by the concerns of the city
(luring the past year places the total at 100,000,-
000 feet, which: with the exception of a little
pine handled by the R. Connor Company, is
hardwood and hemlock. This company heads

the list, with 40, .000 feet; Vollmar & Below

totalled 20,000, i feet : the L'pham Manufac-
turing Company and Roddis Veneer Company,
each 15,000,000 feet ; the Blodgett-Booth Com-
pany, a new concern, 12,000,000 feet, and F. R.
Pollard, 8, .ooo feet.

Work on the new plaut of the Washington

Veneer Company at Puyallup. Wash., is pro-
gressing rapidly, and the company will in a
short time be in position to turn out stock with
rapidity. The factory will be equipped
throughout with modern machinery and will be
one of the finest plants in the west.

A single mahogany tree in Honduras was re-
cently cut into boards which, when sold in the
European market, brought over $10,000.

Tasmanian myrtle, which has found consid-
erable favor abroad, has recently been imported
into the United States and is being used with
good results in the manufacture of pianos. It
is of a rich pink color.

A very profitable industry in Texas is the
cutting of red cedar, which is sawed into thin
strips and exported to Germany to he used in
the manufacture of pencils. There are some
40,000 acres of this wood in Matagorda, Whar-
ton and Brazoria counties.

After a brief shutdown, necessitated by the
making of repairs, the hardwood mill of the
Rice Lake Lumber Company at Rice Lake, Wis.,
has resumed operations. The company has a
large stock of logs on hand, with additional
supplies arriving by rail daily, and the mill
will be run day and night.

New machinery and extensive improvements
have recently been made in the plant of the
Embury-Martin Company at Cheboygan. Mich.,
and the company is now sawing hardwoods
with increased facility.

The Duggan & Brennan Company of Reeds-
ville, Wis., has recently purchased the timber
on 960 acres of hardwood land near Leona,
from the Brillion Lumber Company of Brillion.
The company is having the timber cut and
transported to its mill for sawing.

The Kentucky Tie Company has been incor-
porated with $45,000 capital stock to manufac-
ture ties and lumber at Elizabethtown, Ky. O.
S. Pond is president of the company and A. B.
Montgomery is secretary and treasurer.

The Greenpoint Grill, Mantel & Molding Com-
pany has been incorporated at Brooklyn. N. Y.,
by John Murray, J. E. Poppe and C. P. Kirwin.
The company is capitalized at $5,000.

The Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company's rail-
way from Bruce to Swan Creek, Wis., will be
extended in the spring to Radisson, and later
to Hayward.

The new Grand View Coal & Timber Com-
pany of Chattanooga, Tenn.. intends to develop
0,500 acres of coal and timber lands in Marion
county and to build a new town on Walden's
Ridge.

The British steamship Vermont is under
charter to bring a cargo of Siberian hardwoods
to Portland, Ore. It is now loading in one of
the Asiatic ports. The wood will be brought in
the form of logs. Banfield & Kuntz are build-
ing a sawmill for the purpose of manufactur-
ing the Siberian and some Oriental hardwoods
into lumber.

That Omaha will have a large new factory
for the manufacture of butter tubs, washing
machines, tubs, etc., is practically assured.
William Keogh, an extensive manufacturer of
excelsior, with factories in Wisconsin, is the
prime mover.

The plant of the Graham & Davis Manufac-
turing Company at Windfall, Ind., was par-
tially destroyed by fire recently. The concern
manufactured kitchen cabinets.

The Petroleum Iron Works, of Houston, Texas,
recently purchased a tract of land on which it
will erect buildings to be fitted up with machin-
ery for the manufacture of storage tanks, etc.,
and a general line of cabinet goods.

A. W. Jones, J. Monk, W. A. Blair, E. R.
Coombs and Delia C. Jones are the incorporators
of the Oklahoma Hardwood & Handle Company,
recently organized with $25,000 capital stock.
Headquarters will be maintained at Quinton,
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The Racine General Manufacturing Company
of Camden, Ark,, is erecting ;i hardwood maim
facturing plant. Tracks have been laid to the
site 1 11. n 1 the I mil Mountain road. The rum
pan3 has had aboul 400,000 feel of logs cut.
'iii'' mill will be ready for operation within
iii>' near future.

T. J. Williams will expend $10, n the

establishment of a hardwood operation a1 Hous-
ton, Texas. Mr. Williams owns two large saw
mills in N;ii"l:<|m. ins county, cutting hardwoods
from a tract of several thousand acres of fine
timber land. This timber will be manufactured
Into interior finish at Houston, where large
yards will be provided for storage purposes,
Mr Williams also owns large timber interests
in Chihuahua, Mexico, rich in hardwood growth,

which will also be manufactured al the Houston

plant.

The Wagner Manufacturing Company, of
Waterloo, la., has had a busy season, having
manufactured 36,000 hand sin is, ;is well as
its usual amount of other articles. The com
pany lias a well equipped plant and Turns out
an unusually tine line of go. ids. using only tilt-
lust material in its work.

All kinds of carriage and wagon spokes will
be manufactured by the United Manufacturing
Company, of Jonesboro, Ark., which is erecting
a plant to be equipped throughout with up-to-
date machinery for this line of manufacture.
.1. ]>. Moody, one of the promoters of the enter-
prise, expects 10 have the factory in operation
by ih" firsl of February.

HardWood NeWs.

(By HARDWOOD RECORD Special Correspondents.)

Chicago.

Several prominent Memphis ami Chicago lum-
bermen were the guests of S. !.. Dodds al Hick-
man, K.v.. the first of the month, who enter-
tained them with a very enjoyable hunting
party. Among them were Charles Westcotl of
1I1-' Hayden & Westcott Lumber Company, * ' 1 1 i-
cago ; F. 1'.. Montgomery of tin' International
Harvester Company, Chicago; Wylie E. Hooper
of Chicago, ami .Max Sondheimer of the E.
Sondheimer Company, Memphis.

William Wilms of the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber

Company has been making a trip i" the

pany's operations in southern Illinois, Tennes-
see. Arkansas anil Missouri.

A. c. Quixley, representing the Mason-Don-
aldson Lumber Company of Rhinelander, Wis..
lias established an office at ltiL'l First National
Bank building.

<'. II. Wolfe of the Heath-Witbeck Company
has been very ill.

On Jan. 26 J. W. Embrc f the Rittenhouse

& Embi Company, is planning to sail from

New York on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse.
accompanied by his family, to take an extended
Mediterranean trip.

During the past fortnight the llumw

Record has i n the recipient of a number of

verj acceptable gifts from the various members
of the trade. .1. S. Goldie sends a wall hanger
on which is embossed a most tempting display
of "Choice Apples" with his card. The Cherry
River Boom & Lumber Co. of Philadelphia sends
on>- of the most complete memo hooks seen this
season, hound in red morocco. Calendars of
unusually attractive design were received from
the Niiholls & Cox Lumber Co.. Grand Kapids.
Mich.; He- Billmeyer Lumber Co., Cumberland,
Md. : Ii. II. Day, Glen Haven, Mich ; the W. 1'.
Brown & Sons Lumber Co., Louisville. Ky. ; the
John Gillespie Lumber Co., Chicago; Robert C.
Llppincott, Philadelphia; W. M. Hitter Lumber
Co., Columbus; .las. Kennedy & Co., whose
headquarters are at Glasgow, Scotland, and
American branch al Cincinnati.

Word has I n received here that the part-
nership existing between William Mallinson,
.lames Richardson and William .lames .Mal-
linson, operating under tie arm n. if

William Mallinson & Co., London. Eng., has
i n dissolved by mutual consent, Mr. Richard-
son retiring. The new firm to he known as
William .Mallinson & Sou will assume all debts
of the old concern and will continue business
as timber and veneer merchants as heretofore.

The Atlas Engine Works, large exclusive
builders of steam engines and boilers at Indl-

anapolis, Ind.. is sending to its pan a a gen

eral bulletin, No. 134, containing specifications
and illustrations of a number of its engines and
boilers. The company, with branch offices all
over the United States, is peculiarly well titled
lo take care of the wants of users of this elass
of products of which it manufactures perhaps
a more complete line than any other concern

in the world. Copies of this bulletin may be
had on application.

Chas. L. Himmeiberger of the Himmelberger-
Harrison Lumber Company of Morehouse, Mo.,
spent a few days in Chicago last week. He
states the business outlook for 1907 is excellent.

Tie- Hardwood Record is in receipt of a
handsome little volume entitled "In Forest,
Land" which contains a hundred or more poems

from the pen <•! 1 glas Mai loch, published by

the American Lumberman, and illustrated
with reproductions from negatives by Sidney
Vernon Streator. The poems, as may he in-
ferred from the title, deal with Hie woods and
with other beauties Of Nature: with the quaint
characters found about logging opera i ions, and
the various phases of camp life. They range
in style from the humorous to the pathetic, and
the collection well displays the talent and ver-
satility of this clever young writer.

Gardner I. .Lines of the Jones Hardwood
Company, Boston, visited Chicago last week
Mr. Jones was accompanied by his wife.

(1. J. Landeck of the Page & Landeck Lumber
Company, Milwaukee, was a business visitor
within the last few days.

W. A. Bonsack of the Bonsack Lumber Com
pany, St. Louis; E. C. Groesbeck of the Stearns
Company of Grand Kapids and Cincinnati; W.
W. .Mitchell of Cadillac: Delos F. Im^his ,,i

C mer, Diggins ,v Co., and John II. Jenks of

tic Robert II. Jenks Lumber Company of Cleve-
land, were visitors to the Chicago market within
the week.

John Murphy of Murphy & Co.. Liverpool,
England, is paying a visit lo the United States,
ami was a caller upon members of the Chicago
trade this week.

.1. J. Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Company
of Pittsburg, was a Chicago visitor a few days
ago

John rjlrich of the Chicago Car Lumber Com
pany is taking a trip to the Pacific coast.

J. v. Hill, chief inspector for the Hardwood
Manufacturers' Association of the United states.
is in Chicago on business

Advices have I o received from St. Mary's,

Pa., stating that M, II. Scott, for fourteen years
hardwood buyer for the Kaul ,x Hall Company,
suffered a severe stroke of apoplexy Jan. 7,
and for a time his life was despaired of. He
is improving slowly, however, and his many
friends arc hopeful of his complete recovery.

Boston.
The Metropolitan Lumber Exchange of Boston,

which has been talked of for the past three
months, was finally organized at the Exchangl
Club, Boston, January Hi. The membership of
this organization comprises both wholesale ami
retail lumber dealers who have come together

t itual benefit.

E. J. "Marsh of ihe Seaooast Lumber Company,
Ne„ Eork, was a recent visitor in this market.

M. W. Hart, on,- of the youngest hardwood
if alers in Boston, ha, taki a a large offii •■ in the
Mason building. Mr. Hart reports the outlook
t.o business very bright.

It. F. Lamb & Co. tiled a voluntary petition
ill bankruptcy. The assets arc given as about

$12,000 and liabilities si i..- This firm has

1 n in business in Lesion for several years.

Samuel Hutchinson .0 the Hutchinson Lumber

Company, Lynn, Mass. is making a s hern

trip.

The lion. John M. Wood left Boston recentlj
tor a European trip

W. M Weston of the W. M Weston Company
has returned from a trip to New York.

New York.

Victor E. freeman, a prominent stave inanii
facturer of 17 Battery place, has just purchased
.1111,11110. (inn feil of standing timber in Ihe
vicinity of Norton, Va., on which he will
immediately erect large stave and heading mills.

The recent changes in the business of Mer
shon, Schuette, Parker & Co., at Saginaw and
Bay City. Mich,, as announced from those
I" inis. carry with them a broadening on- 01
tic local branch office ai is Broadway, in charge
of W. 1). Mershon. Mr. Morshon has increased

his selline stalT by securing the services of Ceo

1' Gray, who will look after trade in Pennsyl
vania and .New Jersey. The local office will
push their big California redwood connection
actively in future and will add North Carolina
pine and hardwoods to their general business.

The local sales office and exhibition room of
the Iroquois Hour Company of Buffalo, located
at 18 Broadway, carries samples of veneer and

solid hanlw I doors and interior w 1 work

which an- as complete and handsome as cm be
imagined. 'The doors arc particularly attractive:

each sample has been finished in differen lors

and imitations and the exhibit is well worth
inspection.

Halfpenny & Hamilton, prominent Philadelphia
wholesalers, have opened a local sales office in
He New Stork Lite building, 346 I', road tvn y . with
ic urge E. Demming as sales manager. They will
make their specialties hemlock and har.lw Is.

John McKelvey. vice-president of the Toledo
Fire & Marine Insurance Company, Sandusky,
Ohio, left last week for a month's stay in Cuba.
accompanied by -Mrs. McKelvey and daughter.

At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the
New York Lumber Trade Association, held Jan
uaiy '.i. an important feature of the meeting was
ihe discussion of the question of revising tic
New Votk hardwood inspection rules, which.

after full deliberation, was referred to the c

millee on inspection, and that committee was
also given power to confer with the National
Hardwood Lumber Association in ihe premises,
if it so desired

A happening of more than passing interest
during the fortnight was the arrival of the
clipper ship Shenandoah, 131 days out of Port
Blakley, Wash., with 2,500,000 feet oi big fir
limbers consigned to Dixon & Dewey, well known
wholesale hardwood house in the Flatiron build
ing, Manhattan, who have become interested in

that eon litj during the past year. The cargo

averaged thirty feet and up. including lots of
24x24 Ml feel sticks. It was loaded by the

Port Blakley Mill company and tin- entire cargo

was sold before arrival.

s. Lieberman of Leiberman, Loveman ..V
O'Brien, Nashville, Tenn., spent several days in
town during the fortnight, devoting his alien
Hon to a settlement of lire insurance on their
big loss at Nashville some months ago. The
matter has been finally readjusted and the plan!
will be rebuilt at once

George \v Stoneman, well known wholesale

lumberman, for rly of Chicago but now of SI

Louis, was a visitor here during the fortnight
in the Interest of his new operation at Devalls
Bluff, Ark., which is being carried on by Ihe
Stoneman-Zearing Lumber company.

E. J. Marsh of He Sea Coast Lumber C m

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pany, cypress specialists, l Madison avenue, has
just returned from a lengthy trip among the
mills in Florida. Louisiana and Mississippi and
brings with him stories of great activity in
cypress producing points. Dry stocks are scarce
and he looks for a very firm and active markel
during the year.

W. B. Wilkinson, hardwood manufacturer of
Asheville, N. C, was a recent visitor in the
interest of business.

J. S. Carvalho of Willson, Adams & Co . 149th
street and Harlem river, returned last week
from a six weeks' European trip.

Chas. E. Pell, formerly of Danuat & Pell, tin
first treasurer of the New York Lumber Trade
Association,' from 1S86 to 1904, died at his
residence January 17 in the sixty-fourth year
of his age.

.1. II. Dickinson, manager of the Lidgervi 1

Manufacturing Company's logging department,
has left New York for the South and experts
to spend the next week or two in and about
New Orleans, where he has a host of friends
Everybody in lumber circles around New Orleans

knows Mr. Dickinson and he exr ts In have a

royal time during his stay there. II. \Y. Dexter,
the company's southern representative, and M.
H. Dickinson. Seattle manager, were in New-
York on business last week.

The annual banquet of the New York Lum-
ber Trade Association, in commemoration of
its twentieth anniversary, was held at the
Waldorf-Astoria ou the evening of January
22, and was participated in by about four
hundred of the members and their guests,
among whom were many out-of-town lumber-
men. A pleasant feature of the occasion this
year was the presence of the ladies, who oc-
cupied boxes surrounding the grand ball room
and added much to the enjoyment of the even-
ing. Each lady was presented with a box of
Eepetti's as a souvenir.

Philadelphia.

The delegates of the various trade organiza-
tions, appointed to meet W. C. MacBride of the
Haney, White Company, with a view to having
the mercantile tax repealed, held another m
ing in the rooms of the Lumbermen's Exchange
on - January 15. Mr. MacBride in the ■ chair.
There' was a representative body of merchants
present, and the chairman was authorized to
appoint a committee to draft a bill on the sub
ject, to be presented to the legislature of litis
state for consideration.

Among the recent visitors to the Exchange
rooms were : W. S. Clark of Essex Lumber
Company, Newark, N. .1.: W. C. Peirce of Peirce
& Williams, Bristol, Pa., and Fred J". Johnson
of liliss & Van Auken, New York, who is a
member of the Exchange.

.1. IT. Lank, the affable, secretary of the Lum-
bermen^ Exchange, and wife were present only
a few days ago at the golden wedding of Hi"
parents of the latter. It was a joyful reunion,
and as the honored couple were only a little over
seventy years of age there was no thought that
this might In' tie- last meeting of the entire
family. "On the 10th of this month Mr. Lank
was notified of the sudden death of the father.
Mr. Lank and wile have the sympathy of their
many friends.

It has been announced by J. II. Sheip. vice
gerent snark of the eastern district of Pennsyl-
vania, that a concatenation will be held on '
February S. at which time a number of kittens
will be welcomed into the Hoo-Hoo circle.

The Codling Lumber Company, although iu its
first year, is rapidly coming to the front. Frank
B. Codling, an experienced lumberman who was
for nineteen years with Chas. Este, commenced
business for himself about nine months ago,
handling hardwoods, and lias succeeded beyond
all expectation. >

W. M. McCormick reports difficulty in accumu-
lating stock at the various mills, and orders are
taken only for actual stock on hand. Mills are
active, car service inactive, hence the complaint.

R. M. Smith & Co. have opened a branch office
in Alderson, W. Va., where they have acquired
control of a number of small mills, which with
the extensive mills already owned by this firm
in Parkersburg. W. Va., will enable them to
cover a much larger field than heretofore. The
Philadelphia manager, B. C. Currie, Jr.. speaks
in glowing terms of trade conditions, car service
excepted, and reports orders far in excess of a
possible supply.

The Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire
Insurance Company will hold its annual meeting
on January 22. The conscientious management
of this concern, its cautious selection and strin-
gi nt inspection of risks, have borne the follow-
ing good fruits : Fire loss for year, $36,000, or
a loss ratio to premiums in force of about
twenty-four per cent. The statement of the
company shows net available assets of $247,-
106.72; premiums in force December 31, 1906,
amounting to $149,727, while the company now
has .fLOO.OOO of its assets invested in gilt-edge
securities. The company during the past year
has paid a thirty per cent dividend.

Brawley & Smith, the well known hardwood
manufacturers, 926 Beal Estate Trust building,
win, have a mill in Huntdale, N. C, have flis
solved partnership, John B. Brawley retiring.
Elbert Smith, the active principal and manager,
continues the Imsinrss as the Brawley & Smith
Company.

The J. W. L»ifenderfer Lumber Company has
just engaged II. L. Atkinson as salesman to
cover the northern New Jersey district. The
selection of Mr. Atkinson, who was formerly
with II. M. Bitford & Co. of New York, is
regarded as a wise one.

The annual meeting of the Philadelphia
Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association was held
on the evening of January 10 at the Union
League club house. One of the most important
features of the session was the report of F. s.
Underhill of Wistar, Underbill & Co., who was
appointed a delegate to the car shortage conveu-
li'.n recently held in Chicago. The meeting
adopted unanimously this report of Mr. Under-
hill, and declared itself in accord with his stand
for a good federal reciprocal demurrage law.
Almost the full strength ,.,f the association was
present at the meeting. Robert G. Kay was
n elected president; B. Franklin Betts re-elected
vice president, and F. S. Underhill. secretary
and treasurer.

Baltimore.

The first concatenation of the local branch of
Hoo-Hoo under the direction of Vicegerent
Snark Maurice W. Wiley of the Wiley. Darker &
Camp Company was held January 10 at the
Hotel Belvedere, when a commendable addition
was made to the membership of the order. The
initiation was followed by the customary dinner,
and about seventy-five members of the order
occupied seats at the tables. At a short busi-
ness session arrangements were made for a visit
of Baltimore Hoo-Hoo to the annual meeting of

Hi der to lake place in Philadelphia, and

Maurice W. Wiley, William D. Gill, John L.
Alcock and George E. Waters were named as the
committee to complete the details.

On the complaint of Henry E. Cook, one of
the partners, receivers have been appointed to
'lose up the lumber business of Storck & Cook,
on North Front street, because irreconcilable dif-
ferences have arisen between the partners which
make it desirable that the undertaking should
be closed, though it has been profitable, the
assets largely exceeding the liabilities. The
court named Harry E. Karr and Carville D.
Benson, two lawyers, as receivers. Mr. Cook, in
his complaint, stated that he had served writ-
ten notice on Mr. Storck terminating the part-
nership in accordance with the agreement en-
tered into by them on December 26, 1901. The
receivership, consequently, Mr. Cook stated, had
become necessary. The firm, it is stated, had
no connection with the sash, door and blind
mill business conducted by Mr. Cook.

The Bald Knob Furniture Company has been
incorporated at Richmond, Va., with a minimum
capital of $25,000, which may be increased to
$50,000, the incorporators and officers being
N. P. Angle, Rocky Mount. Va., president ; B. L.
Angle, Rocky Mount, and J. A. Martin, Calla-
way, vice presidents ; ,T. M. Farrow, J. M. Wil-
liams and H. W. Peak, of Rocky Mount. The
company will establish a plant at Rocky Monnt.

Another recent incorporation at Richmond.
Va., was that of the Eagle Hardwood Lumber
Company, which will have a capital of not less
than $150,000 nor more than $300,000. and will
conduct a general timber and real estate busi-
ness. The officers and incorporators are: Col.

I. H. Saunders of Washington. D. C, president;
W. II. Saunders, also of Washington, vice presi-
dent: C. G. Maphis of Charlottesville, and John

II. Shaw of the same place.

Walter Orr has retired from the firm of Orr,
Eppley & Co. of this city and the business is
now being continued by Everett S. Eppley. The
firm is engaged in the exportation of staves and
heading and has also taken up cypress and other
woods.

The widely known hardwood concern, the Eis-
enhaeur & MacLea Company, ou West Falls ave-
nue, this city, recently received one of the larg-
est cargoes of cypress ever docked here. It
came from Gulfport, Miss., and \\as brought by

tin four-masted Bel ler R. W. Hopkins. The

cargo included about one million feet, all of it
excellent in quality. The Hopkins went aground
near Fort McIIeury on the trip, but was for-
tunate enough to work off unaided when the
wind took a turn, so that there was no salvage
to pay.

Mrs. Elizabeth Price, wife of Winfield S.
Price, manager of the Price Hardwood Com-
pany, died suddenly on January :;, of apoplexy,
at her home, 2001 North Charles street. Her
demise was a great shock to her family and
many friends.

Among recent visitors in Baltimore was J. P.
Stephenson-Jellie, representing tbe firm' of
Bryce, Junor & White of Bristol, England, with
branches at London and Glasgow. Mr. Stephen-
son-Jellie is on an extended trip through the
States and called on several linns while here.

David T. Carter of Carter. Hughes & Co., who
spent tin' holidays here, has returned to Trout-
dale. Va.. where he is superintending the opera
tions of the mill owned by the Iron Mountain
Company, an allied concern.

Pittsuurg.

D. L. Helman of the Ilelman Lumber Com-
pany of Warren, Ohio, a large ship building
supply firm, has bought from Kinsman Bros.
Ion aires of line white oak timber in Trumbull
county, Ohio, on the Lake Shore. He will at
once move a large portable sawmill to the tract
and manufacture most of the trees into ship
timbers.

J. L. Lytic of the Curll & Lytle Lumber
Company, J. G. Criste, secretary of the Interior
Lumber Company, and E. H. Stoner of the Flint.
Erving & Stoner Company will represent the
Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associa-
tion at the convention in Cincinnati January 22
and 23. There they will confer with representa-
tives of the wholesale associations at Cleveland,
Toledo, Saginaw and Cincinnati in respect to
si \ rial important matters which affect the wel-
fare of the five associations which work to-
gether.

The Standard Box & Lumber Company has
bought a big site at Millvale, just above Pitts
burg on the Allegheny river, for $21,000 and
will build a plant there at once.

The box factory of the Russell-Kress Bos .V
Lumber Company at McKees Rocks was burned
tin days ago. The total losses will reach over

$90,000. The box company's loss was $52,C

most of which is covered by insurance. In
addition to a large stock of finished boxes and
the building, which was leased, the company lost
over 100,000 feet of lumber. In the same build-

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inir was 1 !•<- Fort Tin Washboard Company,

which l"~i $2 in stock ami fixtures. lis

loss was 011I3 partialis covered. The Russell
Kress company proposes t" build a new ami

larger plant al ■ •' ,

The Anderson Lumber Company in which
several PIttsburgers are Interested lias sold

11 aci is of timber land in s reel county.

Pennsylvania, on in" main lino of the Pennsyl
vauia railroad i" capitalists ..1 nil City, l'a.
The property will be developed ai once.

Tii.' Mi.. la Lumber Companj is booking some
splendid orders Cor hardwoods to be used in
building ami mining operations. lis officials

look for no l.i up in I ho demand for •- 1

lumber for another year al least and are forti

fying their 1 ipany with extensive purchases of

hardwood under contract.

The A. M. Turner Lumber Co mp any is fur-
nishing the 1, ..no, 0110 feel ..1 lumber which the
Coney Island Amusement Company is using in
the erection of, n Coney Island resort on Neville
island in the uhio river. In the spring the

Turner <■ pany will move from Us present

quarters in the Ferguson building to a fine suite
of rooms in the new Union Bank building at

Fourth avenue and W I street

Che Kendall Lumber Companj recentlj pur-
chased 2,200 acres of timber adjoining iis hold-
ings at Crellin, Mil making a total of over

25, acres al that point. J. L. Kendall has

g i i'.-mii again i" close up more deals in

timber lands. He expects to have 20, acres

purchased on branches of the Columbia river

before June and the company will ei 1 a mill

ill, 1 , 1.1 mi 250,000 feet a day.

Frank M. Graham last week hooked an ordei
for 25,000 street ear ties, 6x8x8, oak and chest-
nut, and l,00o poles, all of chestnut. The price,
13 ..ails each for the ties more than what he
received for similar stock lasl January, is an
indication of the scarcity of good stock.

The Southern Lumber Company has hen
formed as an off shoot of the Saginaw Bay
Company and will ha mil.- poplar and southern
hardwoods. Us officers are: President, C. II
Prescott; vice president, O. \V. Prescott; secre
tary and manager, F. E. Kimball; treasurer, W
II Prescott. The Pittsburg representative will
I., I; B. Gannon who has offices in the Ferguson
building.

The Parsons-Cross Lumber Company is fairly
launched in business in a fine suite of offices on
the fifteenth floor of the Farmers' Hank building.
Its members arc well acquainted with the Pitts-
burg trade and they have some excellent haul
wood connections.

William Whitmer & Sons. Inc., are now in a
large snip- of offices on the ninth floor of the
Empire building. The firm has just contracted
through Manager W. P. Craig to handle the
entire output of the Nottoway River Lumber
Company at Blackstone, Va,. which will give the
Whitmers a new stronghold in that part of the
South.

Local firms are going \-i\v slowly nowadays In

bidding on hardw is for use in minis. Tipple.

stmT especially is i.-ing figured with much care
unless ii can be loaded al the mills on t.. cars
and delivered by rail. The had condition of the
country roads precludes the possibility of profits
when- long hauls have to be mad'' and a few
firms outside the city have lately gol caughl bad
in making up estimates for a large amount of
tippie stuff as ii is costing iIictii from $10 to
sl'o per \I i>. gel II hauled.

J. <;. Crlste of the interior Lumber C puni

has gone to Oneida, Teun., i" lake stock at the
mills. Conditions and prospects are vcrj sails

factory, he says, and his companj is getting

some good orders for planing mill and pattern
work. President J. R. Edgetl of the Interior is
taking a trip through Tennessee looking up
desirable stocks of lumber.

The cleat River Lumber Companj 1- pushing
its chestnul trade hard. The first week In
January it sold over 60 cars of lumber and iis
inquiries are 40 per cenl better than last Jan

nary. Its mills al Burkeville, Va., shut down
for ii..' holiday week but are now running full
again

Buffalo.

Hugh McLean has made the round <>i the
southwestern mills of his companies sine the
beginning of the vac. finding them all doing
_, , ,1 business.

II. A. Stewart has been South for some time.

It is the plan .a" hi "i eager to make a trip
to his Kentucky mill interests early this year
1,, assist in keeping up his fine yard assortment.

II. s. Janes of the Empire Lumber 1' pany

finds that he can keep logging ea.inr, .01 in Hi.'
company's Arkansas woods in spite of rains

T. II. Wall of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber
Company is South again, looking after the com-
pany's CUl "f oak and other hardw. .oils un both
sides of the Mississippi.

'i'lie Standard Hardwood Lumber Company has
established a new ..Mice mar Florence, Miss, to

assist in getting hold of oak and poplar.

The enlargement of the offices of <;. Elias ,v
Hi.. 1 her will he complete iii a few days, which
will entirely relieve (he overcrowded state of the
..I. I quarters.

Manager Hopkins of Scaieh.nl & Son will l;..
(o his plantation in the Isle of Tines very soon.
:,s he needs a rest. Mr. Scatelieril will look
after affairs al the office here, though far from
recovered from his accident.

The business of A. Miller has of late included

the moving of quite an amount of bassw 1 and

elm along with other hardwoods; his yard stock
is always large and cars more than usually
handy.

T. Sullivan & Co. are still shipping ash and
birch from original piles on the flock ; much of
this lumber came in late, hut it will be cleaned
up this month, though the stock is Iain..

There is always plenty of oak and cherry
waiting for Beyer, Knox & Co. in Pennsylvania,
though J. 1'. Knox knows where to find more
-till further Smth. Near home means lower
freights and heller ear service.

Detroit.

A legislative investigation into Michigan

railroads lias I n begun, and as it is extended

ii „ni provide not only for an inquiry into car
shortage, car demurrage, rates and fares, but

int., the wh piestion of Michigan railroads

in their relations 1.. Urn stale. Representative
John Ii. Mackey of Detroit has introduced a
I, ill for Hie appointment of a commission t..
investigate the ear shortage, while Representa-
tive John Gordon of Marquette has introdt 1

;i similar measure. Railroad ..llicials. lumber

shippers and experts are ex] led to he sub

p.emed and made to tell lie facts.

Robert C Faulconer, formerly of Detroit, ami
,,,,,. of the founders of the Leland & 1 aulconei
Company, died in New Bedford, Mass. aged
62 years. II.- was a his lumber operator in
Detroit and Alpena before joining in the for
mation of 11 ompany which hears his nam.

Joseph G. Johnston has 1 11 appointed dis-

ti-ict manager ol the American car .\: Foundrj
Company ai Detroit, to succeed Wesley R.
Mason, wh.. ;....s i.. the Montreal plant. Pat
li.k 11 Sullivan, a lumber inspector, is made
Mr, Johnston's assistant.

A sail by the Wolverine Lumber & Box Com
pany against the City of Detroit, for the clos-
ing ol La Salle -11 1. is being heard iii Judge

Man. I. II - courl

11,., is ill of ii..' • late Warren G. \ ml 1

[In' Vinton Company disposes ..I' property val 1

,i s jo. 000 ami upwards."

Saginaw Valley.
feu sawmills were ..perilled on the Saginaw
river lasl year, in eight of which hardwood
lumber was manufactured in whole or in pari
ii,. year was a successful one all around, both
in point of production and trade conditions.
The output was over G, nun. mm feel of hard-
wood in excess of thai in 1905. 'the year closed

with prices materially lusher than they were in
the pring while stocks in the hands of manu-
facturers are light, 'the hardwood cut ol tie
individual operators was: Kneeland-Blgelow

pany, 13,030,71 I feet ; Kneeland, Buell &

Bigelow Company. 8,777,352 feel : W. D. Young
,\ Co . lT.iioo. feet ; .1. -I. Flood, 1,000,000

feel ; S. G. M. Cams. 2,500,000 I' 'I C:im|,l„ -I

Brown Lumber Company, 1,510,000 feet : B. C.
Hargrave, 250,000 feet : r.iiss & Van Auken,

s.H7.7-'l fe.t: total, 55,185,787 feel.

All the mills, wiili tic exception of the Uliss
& Van Auken, are located ai Hay City. There
was in the hands of manufacturers at the close
of the year 28,668,877 feel ei hardwood lumber.
This is not large compared with the output
when it is understood thai some firms always
carry large stocks the entire year.

'the hardw- 1 output in the valley last year

exceeded that of any other.

Kneeland. Buell & Itisclow Company last
week bought 6,000,000 feet of hardwo...! timber
located in the vicinity of Wolverine, on Hie line
.,f l he Mackinaw divish.ii of the Michigan Cm
I nil railroad. It will come to Bay City to be
manufactured.

The weather has been mostly mild until within
a couple of days, and there is no snow to speak
of in the valley. Up north some si.iy miles

and thenc i to the Straiis there is enough

snow lor log hauling and lumber operators are
making the most of it. The usual quantity of
logs will he cut this winter. The cost of log-
ging is high. Hardwood stumpage Is figured al
s:,. and the cost of putting the loss to the
Stream or mill is $5 more. If they are hauled
by rail that costs $3 a thousand, so ii will he
seen very cheap lumber cannot be expected.

The Filler Company is the designation of a
concern at the head of which is II. W, Kennedy
,,r Bay City. It is building a factory at Posen,
north of Alpena, in the hardwood hell, and will
manufacture wooden supplies for railroad use.
Beech and maple timber are used for this pur-
lins. ■.

The II. M. I.oud's Sons Company at An
Sable last year manufactured 6,960,460 feet of
hardwood lumber. The company has just
placed an order for 2,000.000 feet of maple to
s., east. It has also supplied a lot of hardwood
timber for harbor work and for the Detroit tun-
nel.

The Johannesburg Manufacturing Company

manufactured 9, 1,000 feel of hardwood lum-

ber last year. This plant is some thirty miles
from Grayling and is healed in the heart of
a his tract of hardwood timber.

Keys & Warboy have bought the ''ale mill
:il Onaway and a large body of timber and will
build a large stave and heading plant.

Prescott, Miller & Co., who operate a mill
ai, out two miles from Rose City, manufactured
1,000,000 feel of hardwood lumber last year.

The Kimball Lumber Company, al Alpena,
manufactured 4,000,000 feet of hardwood lum-
ber last year and did 3,000,000 feel of custom
sawing.

s F. Derry .a' Saginaw manufactured 1,340

eel of har.iw I lumber and had 1,000,000

feei un hand ai the eh se of the year

The McCormtck Hay Lumber Company of
Saginaw has purchased a number of hundred
thousand feet of hardw... ..I lumber within the
last two weeks l reports the Bituation en-
tirely satisfactory.

Grand Rapids.

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furniture s.l.s in this inarkel 075 buyers I. ad
ai in. -.I. an increase .o' about >'.'i over a yeai ago
The Grand Rapids manufacturers report an ex-
cellent business, s I the yen claiming tin

season to he a record break, r.

.1 "m. Lamb of Detroit, Mich., representative

, the Fullerton-Powell Hardw I Lumber C

pany of South land. Ind., was in the eitj for
several days last week

The Petoskey Kitchen Cabinet Company has
„ , .. org "i al !•"!.. >k"> bj M. S, Planl

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A. F. Hart, for the manufacture of kitchen
furniture. The cabinets will be made of black
ash in four different grades.

P, W. Martin of Toledo, in a recent interview
in Detroit, said: "Hardwood limber is so hard
to got nowadays that twelve inch trees are con-
sidered large enough to cut and Lumbermen are
buying patches of trees as small as 100 acres or
Less, and are glad to get them. A lumber buyer
told me he recently bought the framework of ah
old building down in Ohio, paying 1." cents :i
foot for the timber, which was walnut. AH
walnut rails have been bought up and when an
old building N torn down the framework is
eagerly purchased by lumber dealers."

The Vilas County Lumber Company met iu
Grand Rapids, January 15, and elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, John J. Foster: vice
president, Lewis n. Withey; secretary, \\ C
Winchester : treasurer, Henry Edema. The com
pany is operating in Vilas county. Wisconsin.

The -Michigan Forestry Association will pre-
sent three bills at this session of the Legislature,
the most important one providing for the ap
pointment of a commission of twenty-one men,
including several slate officers, a regent of the
university, a member of the boa'rd of agricul-
ture, representatives of the school of mines and
of the state normal schools, and three practical
lumbermen, in look into forestry conditions in
Michigan and report their findings at tin- next
session of the legislature. Another bill author-
izes the appointment of a slate forester, salary
not to exceed $1,500; while the third measure
relates to the creation of an efficient lire warden
system.

The business men and manufacturers of Boyne
City will hold a banquet January 30, at which
time plans will lie discussed for organizing a
hoard of trade,

The first annual banquet of the Muskegon
Chamber of Commerce was held January li; with
over Jim guests present. President I'aul S.
Moon of the Moon Desk Company made the
opening address, while the leading speech by an
out-of-town man was by G, G. WhitwOrth of the
B.erkey & (lay Furniture Company. Grand Rapids.
Muskegon aims to have u population of 30,000
in 1910.

Asheville.

The hardwood men of Asheville and western
North Carolina are to make a determined effort
i" secure the enactment by the North Carolina
General Assembly now in session of a law com-
pelling the Southern Kailway Company to fur-
nish under penalty a sufficient supply of empties
and also to more speedily transport to their
destinations cars loaded with lumber. The
Asheville Lumber Exchange, representing the
hardwood industry in I his section of the state.
has taken the initiative and has had dra fted
by its attorneys a hill which with a letter has

been mailed to every hardw 1 dealer in the

state. The proposed legislation is fail to both
the hardwood men and the railroad. The first
section provides "that a penalty of $5 per day
is provided for failure of shipper or consignee to
load or unload cars promptly, and a like penalty
for failure of the railroad company to furnish
cars or move them with reasonable promptness."
A second important provision is "•that nil said
penalties are to be instantly payable and col-
li'' table at the station where the business is
handled." At present the railroads demand and
collect their demurrage and it is contended by
the hardwood men that ir is right that shippers
should be able to do the same without delay on
the part of the railroad.

There, is a material shortage in hardwood
lumber in western North Carolina this month.
Itealers are unable to secure an adequate supply
and many orders are for the time unfilled. The
best grades are now inconstant demand and
there is less hardwood ready for shipment in
this section than ever before. Good prices
prevail.

The Laurel Fork Lumber Company of this

section is defendant in a damage suit for $5,000
instituted by Thomas It. Brown, a former
employe. The plaintiff alleges that lie received
sei inns and permanent injuries last October
while in the employ of the concern through the
negligence and carelessness of the lumber com-
pany and its servants.

The Mason & Featherstone Lumber Company
is the name of a new firm organized here with
headquarters in the new Electric building. Tin'
mw company is composed of Bert Mason, son of
W. T. Mason, one of the best known and most
prominent hardwood men in this section, and A.
A Featherstone, Jr., a well known and highly
respected young man of this city. The inu
firm will handle hardwoods.

Bristol. Va.-Tenn.

The Boice Lumber Company has been orga u

ized at Abingdon, Va.. by C. Boice, J. W. Bell

and others. C E. Lloyd, Jr., of Philadelphia,

formerly sales agent of the Cherry River B i

& Lumber Company, is connected with the new
corporation and will have charge of its eastern
office, at Philadelphia. Mr. Lloyd was in Bris-
tol last week in connection with the organiza-
tion of the e.uiipain .

The Whiting Manufacturing Company of ('al-
ter county, Tennessee, has increased its capital

stock From $50, I to $500,000.

The Wendall Manufacl uring < lompany has
been organized at Wendall. V C, and will build
a furniture factory near that place.

The Sells Lumher & Manufacturing Company,
which was recently incorporated al Johnson

City, Tenn.. with a capital stock of $50, is

beginning the erection <>r planing mills near
CarneL'ie.

"The car supply is much better in Johnson
county and on the Tennessee division of the
Virginia & Southwestern railway." said C. II.
Vial, a wholesale lumberman and manufacturer
of Mountain City, in Bristol last week.

J. A. Wilkinson returned ibis week from an
important business trip to Chicago and i tic
East

George II- Mell of Kane. Pa., was a visitor
in this section last week.

Tie' Kitchen Lumber Company, which was re
cently organized by K. II Vansant, .1. W.
Kitchen ami others at Ashland, Ky., will shortly
begin the development of a 25,000-acre trad of
limber land lying in Graham and Swain coun-
ties, X. C.

Cincinnati.
The Maie\, Thompson ».v Moffetl Company's
big mill, located on Kapid liiver Run al Delhi,
'Ohio, has been closed down owing to high water.
The water has swept over the yards, and while
no serious damage has as yet been done, there is
fear of the mill Moating away. To prevent this
the company has constructed a boom around it.

■We have i n benefited and stand to lose."

said T. .1. Moffett. "The flood enabled us to tow
a large number of ]oeS down the Ohio river to
the millcreek and then directly to the doors of
our mill, which has saved us considerable in
hauling expense. Approximately we were saved
$4,000, and if the Mood continues I suppose
when we sum up everything we will find that

matters have been about evened up."

The Daniel Maul Lumber Company of Gettys-
burg has been incorporated with a capital stock
of $40,000 by Daniel. Martha A., John 11.. John
M. Maul and Clarence J. Miller

Gifford Pinchot of the Forest Service will
lecture on "Forestry" before the Lumbermen's
Club at tin' Business Men's Club Saturday
evening, January 26.

The lumber yards of T. 1'. Scott & Co. were
flooded by the big rise in the Ohio river The
portion of the yard that is under water is
occupied by lumber on sticks. The offiee of the
concern, however, is still out of danger as it is
en an elevation.

John Dulweber & Co. have been driven from
their offices by the flood. A large boom has
been built around the yards so as to preveril

the loss of slock. Temporary offices have been
opened on the second floor of the Cincinnati
Soul hern Railroad building at McLean and
Western avenues.

The following officers of the Furniture Club
were elected al their annual election: President,
Henry A Sprengard ; vice president, Carl Streil :
secretary i W, Uees ; treasurer, Henry Franke :
trustees, John Dornette, Jr.; D. C. Tappe, AY.
X. Hind. George Schutte and Henry Backer.
The establishment of a furniture exposition will
be considered al the February meeting.

The Southern Lumber Company of Cleveland
has been incorporated with a capital stock of

$25, by C. II. Prescott, W. II. Prescott, <>.

W. Prescot t. 1". E. Kimball. Amos and Burl
Thompson.

Joseph Niehatts, president of the Commercial
Carriage Company, who lias been ill at his resi-
dence for some weeks, is reported much im
proi ed.

U. McCracken of the Kentucky Lumber Com
pany attended l he convention of the Indiana
Retail 1 >ea I ers' Associal ion al Indianapolis.
January 11. lie reported that the retailers of
that locality are willing to purchase poplar al
the prevailing prices for delivery in the spring.
He also said that the eon vent ion was run on
a strictly business basis and every one bad a
good time.

The next monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's
club will be held at the Business Men's Club
Monday, February 4.

M. C. Treworgy of the \. c. Treworgy Lumber
Company of Boston, Mass.. was in Cincinnati
recently purchasing hardwood lumber. He found
l he desired lumber very scarce, hut a few sabs'
weii' made.

.1. A. Van Orsdel has resigned his position
with John Dulweber & Co. to go with Leland
i : Banning.

E. Kuzer of the Jones Lumber Company of
Boston, Mass. was in Cincinnati recently pur-
chasing hardwood lumber. Owing to scarcity of
the desired stock he was unable to gel as much

as needed

K. Edwards, a prominent lumberman of Day-
Ion, visited the Queen City on a business trip
lately. He reported that lumber is very scarce
in 1 ia \ ton

The Kentucky Lumber Company lias purchased
a tract of timber land within two miles of
its mill at Habersham, Tenn., which contains

about 10,000,000 feet of cl :e oak, besides other

hardwoods. The company will purchase a new-
band sawmill to work up the tract.

K. M. Schantz, a lumberman of North Fair-
mount, has in practical working order at bis
mill a device which almosl does the thinking
for the dimension sawy r. The device measures
a plank just as soon as it is placed on the saw
bench without the use of a rule or figuring.
Ibe indicator is capable of showing 6,000 dimen-
sions, and is worked by a series of electric wires
and small light bulbs abou 1 one-quarter inch in
diameter. The saw guide has sixty of these
bulbs, one inch apart, which show the length
in inches, while at the left of the sawyer is an
indicator which shows the width in inches at
the same time. At a glance the sawyer can tell
what size can best be cut. and as he has a
number of different sizes marked by the bulbs
I here is little or no waste through defects in a
plank. Ky the use of this machine one swing
saw. with a sawyer and helper and boys lo carry
away and arrange stock, can do more work in a
day than can be performed by the methods now
in use in 'a whole week. The rapidity with
which this machine cuts up dimension stock is
astonishing.

St. Louis.

The St onei nan /earing Lumber Company, the
well known hardwood firm of this city, has re
moved to He Vails Bluff, Ark., where the com
pany requests thai all correspondence be ad*
dressed.

The Plummer Lumber Company, through Theo-

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dore M. Plummer, lias made a contract with .'i
mill al Knoxville, Tenn., for 1,000,000 tee! of

poplar and chestnul 1 lelivered before the

flrsl ol Jtilj The l' er will be shipped to the

,- pany's • ustomers direct.

Among the purchases made last week by the
Teckemeyer & Wetiinger Lumber Company was
250,000 feel of choice cypress. The companj also
lias a very good stock of plain oak and other
desirable woods and is gradually getting in shape
to take care of a brisk spring business.

The Garetson-Greasou Lumber C pany. on

account of recent heavy rains, has been forced
to slmt down iis mills ai Campbell, Mo. The
company is building, as the weather will permit,
b mile and a half of tram road to supplj this
mill As tu trade conditions, Secretary W. W.
Dings says thai all hardwoods are in good call
and the demand for gum lumber is so active thai
he sells it readily at better than list price. The
company expects to be settled in its new offices
in t he Times building by Feb I

.1. c. Collier and W. II. Rhomberg of the Carr.
Rider & Adams Company, Dubuque, towa, were
in St. Louis last week buying hardwoods.

W. A. Bonsack of the Bonsack Lumber Com
pany reports the outlook for business during the
coming year as bright. His company last year
had a more profitable business than for some
time previous and from present indications 1907
will fully equal the standard of last year. The
only annoying feature of the situation is the
shortage of stuck.

\V. It. Chevvis had a very satisfactory year
during 1906 and is looking forward tu an equally
active business for 1 '.hit. He is fairly well sup-
plied with all the hardwoods and has some very
choice walnut on hand, which he makes a spe
cialty.

Marvin Crow of Crow Bros., who operate a
mill at Ellington, Mo., was a recent St. T.mtis
visitor. While the we1 weather has hindered
logging considerably at the linn's plant its mill

is so situated that it can I perated even al

high stages of water, and is now cutting yellow

pine, oak and other hardw Is at the rate of

10,000 feet a day.

L. II. Brothers of Carnthers, Mo., who oper-
ates two hardwood mills near thai place, was
another prominent St. Louis visitor lasl week.
lie. inn. reports sawmilling conditions very bad
on account of the heavy rains.

About the first of February the American
Hardwood Lumber Company will "pen an office
in Memphis. Tenn., in charge of F. B. O'Leary.
Mr. O'Leary has fur the past seven years ben
identified with (he company, flrsl as traveling
salesman and later holding a responsible position
in the St. Louis offices. For the past two years

he has given especial attention ti rresponding

having to do with buying, and il is in this direi

tlon that his energies will I xpetnleil al the

Memphis branch. The American Hardwood I.um
her Company is coming to he "tie of the largest

operators in the c try. having offices at Nash

ville, Tenn.. .New i'ork lily. Chicago, Meridian,
Miss., and Benton, Ark. and a large export yard

111 New I ll'lcins.

The si. Louis Maple ,\ (ink Flooring Com
pany has enough orders on hand t" give truth
in the statement that the outlook for spring

business is exceptionally bright. Among 1 h

ders recently taken was "in- from the contract
ors of the new Bixby building for 520,000 feci
in' 1JI4" face common maple flooring, of which
about i50,000 feci will i.e used in thai struc-
ture.

According t" I.. M. Borgess "I s Ie & Hlb

hard, hardwood consumers have not yet begun
in buy "ti an extensive scale, hut they are keep
ing in touch with the situation. Within the pasl

two weeks buyers for larg isuming houses

have visited St. Louis and made inquiries with
regard to good lots of stuck, sn that activity in
Inlying is expected shortly. The firm is on the
lookout for stock to round oul Us already well-
assorted line.

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Nashville.

The Kimmins Lumber C pany, "t which W.

.1 cude is president and John B. Ransom a
large stockholder, has made application i"
change the name of the company t" the w. .1
Cude I. an, 1 ,\ Lumber Company and to Increase

the capital stuck from $50, to $250,000.

concern owns a large plain at Kimmins, T
and extensive timber interests in that section.
11 has grown s,, rapidly that an enlargement "i

iis scope and operations was determined u]

Hamilton Love of Love, Boyd & Co. has gone
In Miami. Fla., I'm' a slay of several we
Km- smile lime he has been a sufferer 1

articular rheumatism and his health has 1 n

seriously impaired on that account. lie has
tried many waters and remedies without avail
and now hopes that the balmy climate ,,1 mid
winter Florida will he beneficial. His services
in the meanwhile to the firm "i which he Is a
valuable member will he greatly missed.

Several Nashville lumber concerns came near
being heavy losers in the high tide in the

C berland, by reason of the act of some

miscreants win. cut loose several line rails and
set them adrift in the river during the night.
The rafts, which were tied .lit along the east
bank of the Cumberland just above the city

and were strung for more than a mile, were

one after another released with the aid "t" a
knife. The logs were cedar and poplar tor the
mosl part and were the property of Lieberman,
Lo.veman >v- O'Brien, Davidson Benedict Company,
Southern Lumber & Box Company, standard
Lumber Company and the Cedar Tie ,\- Pole Com-
pany. As soon as the hiss of the property was
discovered the owners dispatched several small

hunts down the rivet'. Sonic of I he logs had
Indued mi islands, but most of them were found
about forty miles below Nashville in mid
stream on their way to the nlii... The lumber
was worth more than $20,000.

The Sewanee Planing Mills of Clarksvllle,
Montgomery county, have applied for a charter
The incorporators are: II. \Y. Kilter. Horace
Kilter. Austin I'eay and E. 1'. Morrow. 'the

company sine Is the former firm of II. W. Kit

icr & Co., and will manufacture a general line
of building material.

Maurice Jacobs, presidenl of the .Newman
Land & Coal Company, which has large holdings
near Crossville, in Cumberland county, Tennes-
see, has gone to New York "ti a business nip.
This company, which was recently organized,
will begin the development of its property al
once. In addition to its large coal mining inter
esis the property is covered with much line titn
her which will he Cut for the market in the
hear future.

It is probable that the Gentry Furniture Fac-
tory of Baxter, Tenn,. will he moved to llarts-
ville or Carthage in Hie near future. II is said
ihe timber supply at these places is more abund
ant. Employment will he given t" about sev-
en! V five men

Oscar Daniel, a highly esteemed citizen of,
Dresden, Tenn,. was killed a few days since
while telling a tree at Unit plac, A projecting
limb struck him on the side and head, killing
him instantly, lie was 28 years "id and left
a wife and "lie child,

T. I.. Kless. representing the Muesse Kins. &
Granl Lumber Company of Caruthersville, Mo.,
has gone i" Clifton, Tenn. 1.. look for a loca

tioi the hickorj mill his company proposes

to establish there by March 1. The companj
owns about 8,000 acres of timber rights in the

section. A planing mill will also he operated.
Shepherd Brothers of Shelbyvllle, Tenn,, arc

■stablishlng a large spoke, huh and rim factors

al thai place. It will he in operation si and

will give employment to a large force.

Waller ,v Porter, carriage manufacturers, have
moved into their new quarters at 119 and I'Jl
Fifth avenue, south. The factor} will emploj
about fifty men.

.1"

r. Ransom >v- Co., which has for many

years been one of tin- largest lumber fin

the South, has incorporated with a capital stock
of $500,000. Tic incorporators are: .lulin B.
Ransom, Arthur I'. Ransom, Marvin M, Kan
M.111, MeEwen Ransom and K. T. Wilson. John
l: Ransom Is presidenl of tie1 new companj
and Arthur Ransom secretary and treasurer.
This will nut all'eel John B. Ransom's interest
In other concerns in which he is part owner.
Among other concerns in which Mr. Ransom
is largely interested are the Gayoso Lumber
Companj "I Memphis, W. .1. Cude Land & I. inn
her Company of Kimmins, Tenn., and Ihe Nash
ville Hardwood Flooring Company of Nashville.
Simon Lieberman, the veteran lumberman of
hville and a member of the firm "f Lieber
Loveman .x O'Brien, lias 1 1 reappointed

Nash
man.
by May

1 1I11, al h.li

1 Incl em

r Morris a 1
if Nashvill
previous t
merit has given genera

Another Nashville
cently been honored is
,,r Norvell .x- Wall;

■ 1,111 lor ..I ihe hoard of
Me served with dis
onus and his re-appOlnl
1 satisfaction,
lumberman who has re
w. E. Norvell of Hie firm
Justice Norvell. who is a

member of the Davidson County Court, has

1 11 named as one ,,f a committee of six lo

superintend Hi instruction of two big bridges

ov.-r Cumberland river. The structure will cost
,i,,s ■ i" a minimi dollars.

The citizens of Newport, Tenn., are consul
eiine. a proposition looking lo ihe establishment
of a large chair factory al that place. A com-
mit! f citizens has I n appointed to solicit

stock. It is proposed lhai the 1 pie of New

port give about $20,000 and that the parties

f,. North Carolina, who are promoting the

scheme, give III

Levi Mulegai
levlc

balance, $40,000.
of Centreville, '1
vented

lioni/.e Ihe Use
cost of fuel ill

more power. 11
ville in the neai
in\ ill ion.

The new Hun
Tenn.. which

for some tinn

replaces one thai was burned about a yeai ago
A s mil from Hopkinsvillc, Ky.. announces

that He- recently incorporated Hopkinsvllle

Lumber Company has bought out

Of Wallace ,X Ade.ick. WhO llllVi

lumber business there, togethei

and stave mil I

by ihe purchasing

■tin., has in

which he claims will revolu

if steam power by cutting the

uilf and al Ihe same time give

will build an engine in Nash

r future I" experiment with the

ilop planing mill at Clarksville,

is been ill course of colisl IIU'I "lull

is now iii operation. The plant

II

the interests

been running a

with a planing

New buildings are to he creeled

firm of which K. II. He

Treville
secrets ry

s in,

presidenl and .1.
The company

Arthur Wallace
; incorporated

Memphis.

The Brasfield-Thompson Lun r Company,

[•ecentlj formed here with a capital stock of
$50,000, has perfected organization by the elec

t|on of G 'ge M. I'.rasiiebl as president, and

.1. W. Thompson of ihe .1, W. Thompson Lumber
Company as vice president. This company has

purchased about 2,000 acres of hardw I timber

lands from Ihe T. .1. Orr Laud & Lumber Com
pany near BiSCOe, Ark., as well as a large band

sawmill. There will be some improvements made
in the plant, however, before this is operated, ill
order to facilitate the cutting "f lumber. .1- D.

Allen, wli" has I n connected with the .1 W.

Thompson Lumber Company for s.uue years, will
be iii control of the operation of the plant.

'Ihe I'ottihoiio Taylor Company, with lead
quarters at Mobile, Ala . and engaged largelj in

th,. exportation of hardw I and other lumber,

has opened an office in Ibis city. 11 is in charge
0f \v T. Cowers. Jr., and is located in the

Randolph building. F. W- I'd i and s. K.

Taylor are the members of the firm which lias
been doing business al Mobile for some years.

The Lindsey r.u.lde Manufacturing Company,

organized al Jackson, Tenn.. some time ag

the purpose oi manufacturing school and 1 h
furniture and office aud bank fixtures, has just

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placed an order for $S,000 worth of machinery

which will be installed as soon as ir has 1 n

reo Ived. The company is capitalized al $30,000.

Dispatches received here state that Camp &
Hinton, large lumber manufacturers and whole-
salers, have Bled a trust deed in Mississippi
with the proper authorities in favor of the
Central Trust Company of Chicago. The instru-

at covers all the mills, timber lands and

other holdings of the company in Lamar, Perry,
Marion and Pearl river counties and has been

executed because of the desire of the c pany to

provide funds 1" take care >>i nil the timber
blown down during the fierce slorm of last
fall. The timber will be worthless if not worked
up within the next six months.

There has never been as much rain in a given
period as has fallen in this section during the
past ten weeks and it is so warm that there is
little promise .of any Improvement in the- imme-
diate future. Production is exceptionally light
and will probably be even lighter in the next
few weeks because, even with good weather,
there is so much moisture in the ground and so
much water on the surface, particularly in the
lew lands, that there will he little or no lugging
done. In addition to this unfavorable condition
is high water in the Mississippi river. This
si ream is now showing a stage of about .'!4
feet, which is considerably above the danger line,

1 there is an abnormally large amounl "I"

water in the Ohio and some of the other tribu-
taries which will have to pass Memphis. In
fact, the flood in the (thin promises t<> eclipse
all records, and predictions here an' that the
stage at Memphis will come close to the pre-

vious highest level. Levee authorities are

what uneasy about the, levies taking care of this
immense volume of water and they an- taking
every precaution to prevent breaks by strength
ening the weak places and patrolling the entire
levee system. There is not much danger of
large timber losses this season, because the
supply of logs and lumber is so far below nor-
mal. but the high water, if Here are anj breaks
in the levee system, will further interfere with
I notion and thus prove a handicap to manu-
facturers in this territory.

There is some improvement u. I in the car

situation, hut even with this lumber is not
moving out with as much freedom as it should.
The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis has done
what it could during the past few weeks for
Hie alleviation of traffic conditions by bringing
pressure to bear on railroad officials, and the
members thereof feel thai they have accom-
plished something in this direction.

R. .1. Darnell, Inc.. one of the largest manu-
facturing and exporting firms in the hardwood
trade here, has begun work on a new double
band mill in South Memphis, adjacent to the
plant it has used for some years. The capacity
of the mill will be exceptionally large "and the
planl will be equipped with everything needed
to bring it thoroughly up to dale. The firm.
in addition to this mill, has other interests out
side of Memphis. When the new planl has hem
eompletedjthe old one will he dismantled.

There was a meeting of the Lumbermen's

Club tit the ii i Gayoso January in. called for

the purpose of hearing the report of the com-
mittee having in hand the mapping out of the
entertainment features to be given to the Hard-
wood Manufacturers' Association of the United
States, which will be in convention here January
29-30. The committee announced Unit it had
decided to give a Dutch lunch an. I smoker to
the _'iiu delegates expected tic evening ol tin
lirst day, .and that an orchestra aud vocal quar-
tette would he features of tie- evening. The
club accepted this report and authorized the
committee to proceed along the line indicated.

The c i consists of G. A. Parber, ebair-

C. W. Holmes, W. C. Dewey, R. T. Cooper.
P. II. Ravisies, W. B. Morgan. George C. Ehe-
mann. .T. W. Thompson, W. R. Barksdale, W. A.
Dolpli and J, \v. McClure.

John N. renrod, who is interested in the

.1. \V. Thompson Lumber Company and other
lumber firms in tit's city and section, has been
spending a (f\v days in Memphis.

YV. II Russe, president of the National Lum-
ber Exporters' Association, and the members of
the same organization in this city will leave
for Norfolk early this week to attend the annual
convention there. E. M. Terry, secretary, with

headquarters in Memphis, will go down Ir

New York where he has bee'n spending the pasl
four or live weeks'.

It. .1. Darnell of R. .1. Darnell, Inc., has
purchased a large lol on Union avenue, .me of
Hie principal residence thoroughfares of this
city, and is preparing t.. erect thereon a hand-
some home that will cost a], proximately $60,000

It is to he finished throughout in hardw I ami

will have fifteen rooms.

Mis Edith Bennett Wright, wife of \v. M.
Wright of the Wright Bachenian Lumber Com-
pany ..r Portland, Ark . and daughter of E. T.
Bennett, president of the Bennett Hardwood
Lumber Company of this city, died here Jan 21
while visiting her father's family. She was 26
years old and leaves two children, one three
years old and the other only fifteen days.

New Orleans.

The car situation in this territory has mi
proved slightly .luring the last fortnighl and

lumberme t nearly all the lines get cars more

promptly than for some time. 'This is due to
tie laot that the crop movement in this section
is about over. Indications are that conditions
will continue to improve and that within in
n.\i f.-w months lumbermen throughout this

portion of the country will have litli. ulty in

supplying Hie interior demands.

Telegraphic advices from Monroe, La., state
thai .-i deal has been dosed whereby the plant

and timber holdings of the Monroe I her Com

pany, the affairs of which are in the bauds of a
receiver, have I u bought by Michigan capital-
ists for half i i dollars. The planl of the

Monroe companj is one of the fines! sawmill
properties in the hardwood territorj ol the
stat-. The purchasers tire 0. B. Law and 1'. S.

MeClurg of Detroit, Mich.: A. I-:. Nichols f

Grayling. Mich.: D. M. Kneeland and William
Henson of West Branch. Mi.h. The holdings of
the Monro.- company are said to be worth con
siderably more than $500,000, the price paid for
them.

The Chicago Land & Lumber Coin], any has
filed suit in the United States Court a I Lake
Charles seeking to lane annulled the re, cut sale

1,1 'Ii'1 IT. acre trad ofbardwo.nl timber land

on the Sabine river, in Calcasieu parish, which
wtis bought in by an Illinois syndicate headed
by W. Soit Matthews for $160,1)00. The i •• - 1 i
li.m relates that 1,500 people in moderate cir-
cumstances, of whom over TOO are preachers.
make up the Chicago Land & Lumber Company,
and that He- company turned over tic property
to David G. Robertson, a Chicago lawyer, giving
him a deed of trust to the land, but not a title
It is further alleged that the president and
secretary of the Chicago Land & Lumber Com-
pany sig I Hie d 1 of trust without reading it.

not knowing that Robertson would attempt to
misusi privileges that were granted. It is then

■ ii ". I that Robertson sold the property which
was subsequently bought by the syndicate headed

by W. Si'ol I Mall hi B -

The RIckels Furniture Manufacturing C

pany, which has succeeded the Meridian Coffin
Factory, litis begun operations at .Meridian. Miss.
The company will manufacture furniture and

other hardw 1 products. It is capitalized at

$50,1 with the following officers: B. V.

White, president; A. J. Kickels. general man
,-iger : \, Meed- secretary- treasurer.

G. r. Haines and E. C. Drew of Minden, La .
have associated themselves with a number of
other Minden parties with a view to establishing
at .Monroe. La., a wood-working plant that will
employ about fifty hands. The plant will turn
out only finished material.

The Tusclameter Spoke Company has been
organized at Lake, Miss., to manufacture, buy
and sell spokes, spoke billets, and to manufac-
ture handles; capital, $2n. John B. Loper.

Claude E. Mann and Dan P. Ott of Lake are
the incorporators.

The Golden Spoke Company of Horseshoe.
Sett county, Mississippi, has been incorporated
with $lii.U00 capital by John E. Golden, Cut lis
Golden and others.

Minneapolis.
The presence of several hundred retail dealers
in Minneapolis last week for the convention of
the Northwestern Lumbermen's Association
caused quite a resumption of buying in yard
stock, and dealers here report that there was

isi.lerable selling and a good deal more in

• piiry. which means sales in the near future.
The country demand for hardwood has been
very light so far, owing to the car troubles
which have kept the farmers short of monej
and long on grain. A good many of the retailers
reported thai they had sold their yard stock
down to a low point, and they were surprised
I" learn of the scarcity and higher price of
stuff which tli.-y want.

.News received by local manufacturing and
wholesale firms from Wisconsin hardwood log-
ging .-amps would indicate that there will be at
least an average output of logs. The snow has
not been anything like so heavy in that territory
as in Hi.- pine woods of northern Minnesota.
The weather has not been severe, but cold
enough to keep roads in good hauling condition.
There are no while oak stocks in sight that
amount to anything, aud northern oak will cut
very little figure in the market when the small
stocks of dry lumber now on hand are sold out.
In other hardwoods there is a very fair prospect
tot siock.

The Minneapolis Lumber Company, which
until lately lias handled nothing but hardwoods,
now has a stock of hemlock lumber cut at the
Ruby Lumber Company's mill at Ruby, Wis., and
made a bid to the retailers .luring convention
week, keeping open hours and inviting them all
in to visit and talk business. W. H. Sill was
in charge, as on January 13 sad news came to
P. R. Hamilton, announcing the death of his
mother, who passed away very suddenly at
Richmond, Quebec. Mr. Hamilton left inline
diately to attend the funeral.

I'". J. Lang, representing the Wisconsin Land
& Lumber Company of Hermansville, Mich.,
maintained temporary offices here during the
convention season, at 71b' Lumber Exchange, and
will remain during January. He did missionary
work among the retailers for their white cedar,
hemlock and hardwood lumber products, espe-
cially rock maple and birch flooring and bass-
wood finish lumber.

The Minneapolis Cedar & Lumber Company of
this city, producers of hardwood, hemlock and
white cedar, has increased its capital stock to
$175,000; at the annual meeting held here
January 0 William Miller of Minneapolis was
re-elected president ; Henry Hauser, Franklin,
Minn., vice president, and ,1. 1'. .Miller, Minne-
apolis, secretary and treasurer.

The Lusk Lumber Company is a new whole-
sale concern which will handle both northern
and southern hardwoods, also pine and west
coast lumber. It has established headquarters at
B29 Security Bank building. !•'. II. Lusk is
ma iiager.

Hardwood dealers are much interested in the
contest for- a reciprocal demurrage law. which
has been started lor a second time in the
Minnesota legislature. Representative W. A.
.Nolan of Grand Meadow has introduced the bill,
which provides that railroads shall pay shippers
$1 a car for every day of delay in furnishing
cars when requested, or moving them when
loaded, or delivering them to the consignee after
reaching the company's terminals. The same
penalty is assessed for failure to move loaded
cars faster than tin average of sixty miles a day.

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3i

Louisville.

The flood has crept up and poked its nose into
the sawmills on the Point and told the operators
thereon in silent but Impressive language to take
a little vacation. Fortunately most of the mills
have practically cut out their winter log supply
and had expected to shut down on account of
cold weather along about this time, so things
are not so had as they might !"•. There am
some logs in boom, and millmen are having their
hands full to take care lest they get scattered,
although they fee] thai they can handle them.
Tli" river is siill rising, ami if it continues there
will be trouble among the lumber yards on the
Point. Already the Tyler Box Company is hav-
ing to move about .",.",0,000 feci whieh they had
yarded <"t tie' river side of their factory.

The Louisville Point Lumber Company say
that they only had a tew logs left on hand when
the Hood eame and have these under pretty good
control.

Kirwan Brothers, who are farthest up the
river on the highest ground, were the last to
close down.

C. C. Mengcl & Brother Company are getting
in mahogany' at a fair rate and keep running
the mill pretty steadily. They are cutting on a
cargo at this writing and have another coming;
everything is working smoothly with a splendid
di mand for mahogany.

Tie Kentucky Hardwood Flooring Company
reports good sales and Mr. Garland, who has
charge of the up town office, says (hat consider-
ing t lie time they have been in business they
have built up a splendid trade. In fact, the
yolume of the business has reached the point
now where they feel the necessity of enlarging
and they are preparing to put in a resaw and
some additional machines.

Albert R. Kampf says that ear stock prices
and all other hardwood prices are going higher
titan anybody predicted earlier in the season.
He is well pleased with the market hut is up
against the same trouble in the woods that
everybody else is having to contend with — too
much water and mud.

B. M. Overstreet of the Southern Lumber
I !i rnpany says that they have quite a lot of
lumber tied up back in the woods, a stream
intervening between it and the railroad which
is at present impassable, and they don't know-
just when they can haul in more stock.

H. J. Gates of the Hugh McLean Lumber
Company, Buffalo. N. Y.. is in Louisville for a
short stay and is making an effort to ship out
the balance of the lumber they have in their
yard here, but is considerably handicapped in
the work by lack of cars.

ing to the last report, a bed was erected at the
mill, where be was being cared for.

\v. W. Magoon, recently of C. Crane & Co.,
Cincinnati, has been made general superintendent
of the Camden interstate Street Railway Com-
pany, a position whieh he held once before.

Ashland.

Flood conditions prevail all over this section.
The Ohio, Big Sandy and Guyandotte rivers all
being very high, and thousands of logs will he
lost. The iUnited States Gas Company's main
broke at Hanging Rock, Ohio, about seventy live
feet from the Ohio shore, and the escaping gas
threw a volume of water thirty feet into the
air, sending saw logs, etc., in every direction.

The river mills are all under water, and the
damage to some will he great. Perhaps the Yel-
low Poplar Lumber Company will suffer the
greatest loss, as their whole plant and yards
are flooded and a number of their tenement
houses are covered clear out of sight.

The Leicht Sawmill Company's plant is in
bad shape, and .Mr. Leicht estimates the loss to
machinery alone will be $2,000. The loss to the
W. IL Dawkins Lumber Company and Vansant,
Kitchen & Co. will be slight, as their lumber
is all secured.

King Dawson, a prominent lumberman of
Ft. Gay, W. Ya., was at work in his mill at'
Drag, W. Va., when one of the cylinder beads of
the engine blew out, knocking out one of his
eyes, badly mutilating his face and bruising
his arms. lie was so badly injured that he
could not be removed to his home, and, accord-

Toledo.

An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has

1 n filed against A. Bruner & Sons of Tiffin,

Ohio, manufacturers of hoop avi and crates.
It is alleged that the concern has an indebted-
ness of $75,000 and that the assets will not

total more than S to, 000. The concern has 1 n

operating a factory at Tiffin, one at Napoleon.
Ohio, one at Gibsonburg, Ohio, and one at New-
port. .Mich. Besides the plants, the petition
makes mention of considerable manufactured
stock on hand, logs and other material, thirteen
teams of horses. w7agons, harness, etc.

The Davidson Lumber Company is the lat-
est accession to the local lumber fraternity.
It has opened an office at 527 Nasby building.
For the present the firm will handle poles and
posls, having contracted for the output from
a tract in northern Michigan. Later the con-
cern expects to handle a general line of lum-
ber

Frank Hafer was last week elected a direc-
tor in the Milburn Wagon Company, succeed-
ing A. L. Mills, resigned. The company held
its annual meetine, last wTeek, re-electing the
old list of officers and directors, with the ex-
ception as stated above.

Frederick A. Turnbull, formerly a member
of the Turnbull Wagon Company, at Defiance,
Ohio, died at La Porte, Ind., where he estab-
lished a large wheel works after leaving De-
lia in..

William T. Hubbard, the largest hardwood
dealer in Toledo, last week sold a part inter-
est in an important piece of down-town realty
for ,f:o,000.

David Trotter, of the firm of David Trot-
ter & Co.. returned from the South last Sat-
urday after spending a month among lumber
mills In that part of the country.

J. G. Kuehnle & Co., manufacturers of in-
terior finish, will make improvements at their
plant which will increase the capacity fully

third. New sheds will be built and about

a dozen new machines will be installed. The
company uses large quantities of plain red
and quarter-sawed white oak and birch.

The flood in the upper section of the Mau-
mee river during the past several days caused
the plant of the Turnbull Wagon Company,
.11 Defiance, to be closed down, the water fore-
ing its way into the tire rooms. The Aspacher
lumber mills in North Defiance were also put
under water, while the plant of the Toledo
Wheelbarrow Company, located at the same
place, suffered likewise.

The Robert Hixon Lumber Company, whieh
operates more than a dozen country yards

throughout this secti f the country and

which has its central office in Toledo, last
week closed a deal for the purchase of the
yard of A. J. Mason & Son, at Butler, Ind.

Wausau.

The Murphy Lumber Company's mill at Green
Bay bas been sold. This much is given out for
publication by A. M. Murphy, manager, bin 1 be
purchasers arc not mentioned. When the mill
closed down recentlj Mr. Murphy stated that a
deal would be made with lumbermen owning

enough hardw 1 timber to keep the plant in

operation for ten years.

Geo. Tinetti, who has charge of the Shirland
Lumber Company's yards in Shirland, 111., is
confined to his home in Mosinee with an attack
of malarial fever.

C. A. Johnson, of Marshfield, representing
ilc G. W. Jones Lumber Company, of Appleton,
left this week for Kentucky to look over a 10,-

acre tract of hardwood and coal lands. He

will be- absent from home six weeks.

loci. Sutter has sold bis interests in the Ath-

ens Manufacturing Company. Athens, to the
company. lie win devote his lime in the in
ture to the management of a bub facti ry, which
he- and others will start in operation about
February 1.

The Wisconsin & Northern railway, which is
in process of building between Shawano and
Crandou, will open the finest hardwood bell in

the state. It is estimated that thei'e is .".. ,

ono, oon let of timber in that section practically
undisturbed by an ax.

Tbe Stange-Ellis Lumber Company was re
cently Incorporated with a capital stock of
$100,000. The incorporators are 1:. \y. Ellis,
Guy (i. BabCOCk and K. .1. Wood. The presi-
dent is A. W. Stange of Merrill ; vice president
and manager, 10. W. Ellis of Grand Rapids; C.
.1. Kinzel of Merrill is secretary and treasurer.
The company will erect a factory in Grand
Iiapids in the spring, and expects to be manu-
facturing by July 1.

A deal involving the purchase of a whole
town, including water works and sewer sys
tern, 15,000 acres of land on which is 150,000,-
000 feet of hardwood, was consummated n
cently by W. 11. Hatten and W. II. Pick of
New London. The property is located at Phil
lips. Miss., on tbe Illinois Central railway.
Besides the railroad the owmrs will have ship-
ping facilities on tin- Tallahatchie river to
Vicksburg and New Orleans. 'Tbe timber is
mostly oak.

A new corporation, to be known as the Tal-
bot Lumber Company, has been formed by tin
Peirizo Bros, of Daggett, to manage the affairs
of the old Lily Lumber Company of Talbot
The property taken over by the new concern
consists of a sawmill, store building ami twenty
dwelling houses.

The Lloyd .Manufacturing Company of Min-
neapolis, which lias a plant in Marinette, is
operating tie- same at present in making hard
wood novelties.

One of the largest deals in timber made in

the state in r nl years was consummated in

Milwaukee January 19, when the Ashland Iron
& Steel Company purchased 50.000 acres of
hardwood timber in Northern Wisconsin from
the Foster-Latimer Lumber Company of Mellen.
It was concluded by Geo. E. Foster for the Fos
ter-Latlmer Company and Wm. C. Sharp of
Elyria, Ohio, for the steel company. The hit
ter, which is headed by Jos. II. Berny of lie
licit. .Mich., now controls 200,000 acres of
timber land in northern Wisconsin.

Tbe stockholders of the newly organized
Louisiana Land Company met recently in Marsh-7
field and completed its organization by electing
a board of seven directors anil the following of-
ficers : President, G. W. Albn of Loyal; vice
president, J. F. Teaman; secretary, M. C.
Fleckensteinj treasurer, J. C. Marsh. The latter
three arc Marshfield men. The company is cap
italizcd at $100,000 and owns a large tract of
land in Louisiana, on which are several million
fi et of oak, whieh it is proposed to manufac-
ture Into barrel stock mostly. The tract will
In- surveyed into quarter sections.

The Shawano Lumber Company, Shawano, at
its annual meeting, elected Leandcr Choate,
Oshkosh, president; John Black, Shawano, vice
president ; J.' J. St'eiger, Oshkosh, secretary ;
Jos. Black, Shawano, treasurer and manager.
Tbe company purchased C. w. Magee's stock.'
Ilc owned a quarter Interest and received $1S,-

000 for the same. Several improvements in the
conn, any's plant are contemplated iii the near
t'ut nrc.

W. D. Connor of Marshfield, head of the R.
Connor company and lieutenant governor of

1 he state, has taken up bis residence in Madi-
■ i.ii during the session of the legislature.

Representative W. E. Brown has introduced
a bill in Congress providing for the cutting of
all limber on certain portions of the Menom-
inee Indian reservation, in Wisconsin. Od
July lit. 1905, a cyclone blew down from 15 to
_'n per cent of the standing timber on about

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twenty-seven sections of the reservation. A
bill was passed at the lasl session providing
for the cutting of only the down timber. This
plan was unpractical, and the present bill is

to remedy existing conditions. There is said

to be :;".. i feet of hardwood lying on the

ground which must be cut soon or it will be
worthless.

HardWood Market.

(By HARDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Reporters.)

Chicago.

The local hardwood trade ran be estimated
:iv very fair to good. The trade in most lines is
heller than a year ago, but just at this time
tlie furniture people are not buying very
strongly, as this is the semi-annual sales period
■ if lliis industry, and manufacturers will ii"l
stock ii|i heavily until the result of the January
sales is generally known.

Boston.

The markel tor hardwood lumber has mil

shown anj degl I' activity during the past

two weeks, although a steady business is in
progress. Many consuming manufacturers are
busy and have good orders bonked ahead. There
is no relief from car shortage and a slow move
men! of freight. Leading dealers stale that all
their advices from mill points show that it is
almost impossible to get ears when they are
wanted. In one section in the South several
thousand ears are lied up in repair shops and

the railroad company has not tnonei et gh to

rush these repairs through. Furniture manu-
facturers' in this section of the country are busy.

The plain oak situation shows but little
change. Offerings are not large. The demand
for quartered oak is not heavy, tine inch stock
is steady, but commons are in larger offering.
Brown ash is in fair demand and firm. The
call for whitewood is fair. Yards here are not
carrying large stocks and offerings of desirable
grades from mill points are small.. The demand
for cypress is moderate. The most desirable
grades ami sizes are scarce. Shipments from
the mills arc slow. .Maple flooring is steady.

New York.
There is but little change in hardwood condi-
tions. The salient feature of local trailing
continues to be the scarcity of good dry bard
wood lumber of all kinds, in the face of a good
healthy demand. As a matter id' fact there is
less complaint beard in both the wholesale and
retail hardwood trade now than is usually the
case at this time of year, while prices on nearly
everything ire remarkably Arm. Reports reach
ing the local market from mill points and
through returning buyers are all of the same

tenor, to the effect that g I lumber is'scarce ai

mill points and that the usual spring trade will
be ushered in with short stocks and high prices
To this end holders of any amount of hard-

\\ Is ill the heller grades are either holding On

to them or only letting them go at excellent
prices. Tbe demand is very general tor the
better grades of all slocks, oak. ash. poplar.
birch and chestnut possibly having the most
call, but the general list is in good shape as
regards Both demand and price. Dry while ash

is exe Hugh scarce and He' trade is practieallj

paying whatever the millman or wholesaler has
-a mind to ask. The lower grades are holding
up very well. As a whole lb,' local situation is
very firm and satisfactory.

Philadelphia.
Reports from all sides give evidence of con-
tinued prosperity in the lumber business. In-
stead of the usual inertia of the month of
January, business has been brisk during tic past
fortnight", with an Inclination to buy ahead,
in, accounl Of the scarcity of stock at the mills
anil the car shortage some bouses, which have

a lair slock of a specially called lor w 1 on

band, allow only a certain amounl to be sold

per nib, and olhers have issued instructions

to their representatives not to take any more
orders for the month, as it is necessary to get

out the delayed orders first. Trices accordingly
are soaring. Conditions in the mill districts are
desperate. Orders are piled up to enormous
figures. A prodigious prosperity marks the lum-
ber industries; buyers arc anxious to obtain
stocks ami yards are looking to increase their
supplies, especially as the delay means higher
figures 'in the near future, but the stock is
wanting. The car shortage is very serious and
there is no indication as yel of any improve
ment.

Poplar, chestnut and ash are especially hard
in get. wiih prices high. Oak keeps a firm hold
on the market, and basswood is in good call,
with prices advancing. Red cherry is steady.
with the low grades in the lead. Quartered oak
retains iis old position.

Building operations continued active through
mil' the mild weather, but work has been re-
tarded during the pas! fortnight by the constant
rains. The furniture factories of eastern
Pennsylvania, sash and door mills, rail and
trolley road building, indoor finishings, ami the
veneer working industries are still lively.

Baltimore.

There have been no developments of special

moment in the hardw 1 trade during the past

two weeks. All the woods in general use re
main firm and active as far as the demand for
slocks can he satisfied, with weather condi-
tions and the roads as well as the car
shortage against the manufacturers. In many
instances especially high prices are quoted for
supplies, and even then dealers are compelled to
admit it is impossible to promise delivery. As a
consequence quoted figures do nol always bear
an accurate relation to the markel. which, it
must In- added, continues high and evinces a
tendency inward further advances. Inquiry ai
I be mills shows that little lumber remains in
Hie bands of the manufacturers, while the roads
are deep in mud and operations are conducted
in the most favorable instances only under
serious difficulties. Some of the plants have
had to shut down on account of floods, and
production, generally speaking, has been greatly
curtailed. Ash is in urgent request and the
lumber thai reaches the markets is readily taken
up at figures thai must appear very attractive
to the producers. The chief question now is
one of gelling supplies. I'pon it the dealers
as well as the exporters depend, for foreign busi-
ni ss is appreciably curtailed by the scarcity of
stocks al a time when buyers had been brought
to regard I be current quotations as acceptable.
The local linns all report that they are doing
little at the present time, while the require-
ments of the city and surrounding territory in
Hie way of hardw is seem practically un-
diminished.

Pittsburg.
In spile of the customary lull in business
attendant upon the closing of one year's
accounts and opening those of a new. the hard-
wood trade is pretty active. It is doubtful if
any year for a long time has opened with con-
ditions so uniformly favorable to the hardwood
trade. The tremendous volume of business in
rite country is making railroads and manufac-
turing projects "l all kinds go ahead with a
rush which makes a v*'i-y active call for hard-

W Is

Prices show- an upward tendency. Local yards
arc beginning to buy again to replenish their
slocks which the annual inventories showed
were badly broken.

Oak is still the prime favorite with buyers
and there is not enough of it to go around.
Wholesalers are leaving no stone unturned to
gel small stocks, of white oak especially. Agents
have done thorough work this winter in scouring
Ohio ami western Pennsylvania for small tracts
of oak and by spring it is estimated that there
will not be 21111 acres of oak timber left avail-
able within a U"i mile radius of Pittsburg.

Hickory, ash. cherry and maple are all moving
well. The larger part of the shipments goes to
manufacturers of furniture and implements in
tie- Last and in Michigan. Ohio and Indiana.
Dry stocks are low and prices named by the
wholesaler are paid with little murmuring by
the yards and factories.

Buffalo.

Tin' hardwood lumber concerns of Buffalo are
now getting pretty well through their inven-
tories, the natural holiday lull is over and
business is improving. Ii has not been bad,
although there has been no disposition to push it
lately. It is so hard to keep up a yard stock
that a dealer often feels ii just as well I" let
sales lake cat f themselves.

Prices of hardwoods at the mills, especially in
the lake region, are goiug up. This is pleasing
le the dealer with mills of li is own. though it

does Hot suit tile jobber SO Well.

There is a steady drain on stub lumber as
oak. Handlers of it are wondering if they can
bold their own. They long ago gave nil the
hope of keeping more than occasional lots of
ash and chestnut. As to poplar the report favors
a rather better stock this year than last, for
certain of the larger producers, who fairly went
without any last year, are reporting that they
ba\e a pretty fair stock of logs now. Prices
a re high and si rung.

Some of Hie dealers arc afraid that there will
he a demand for birch strong enough to cut it
down lo the level of other hard woods. This will
be a misfortune, as it has been easy of late to
substitute birch if there was shortage of the
wood wanted.

Troubles over cars continue. The supply is
somewhat better, but the roads are so jealous
oi each other that they will not take ears from
one line to another unless they come according
to certain rules, which are constantly changing.
The latest regulation is In make shippers mark
even board with the name of the consignee
if ii is to go into piece ear bus, which makes
a lot of work.

Saginaw Valley.
The shortage of cars has somewhat handi-
capped lumber shippers, nearly all of them being
short, but market conditions are satisfactory.
Lumber has taken on a . much stronger tone.
There is not an excess of stocks in dealers*
hands and the outlook for spring trade is par-
ticularly favorable. Some large blocks of lum-
ber yet lo he manufactured have been sold by
local millmeu to he delivered when ready.
Prices are strong. No. 2 common and better
basswood is held at $25 to .si's ; mill culls,
$18; elm is held, at $22 to $29. Log run beech
is quoted at $15, and Xo. 2 common birch at
$20 to $25. Maple firsts and seconds are held
ai $24 : No. 1 at .$17 and $18; No. 2 at $11 and
$12, and No. :: al $9 and $10. Ash is strong at
$30. Not a great deal of ash is now available
in this market. Red oak is held at $35.

Cincinnati.
Lumbermen are doing an active business, and
everything in hardwoods sells without difficulty.
The brisk demand that has prevailed over this
district continues, and if desirable stocks were
obtainable a much greater volume of business
would be transacted. At the present time there
is not one item on the list of hardwoods that
consumers do not seek, and it is not a question
of price hut simply gelling the lumber desired.
Poplar without doubt is the leader of all woods,
despite the recent rise in price. This advance
did not interrupt the demand, but rather added

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33

to it, buyers apparently fearing another rise.
Furniture manufacturers are still taking ma-
hogany in large quantities at firm prices. A
large volume of business is still transacted in
quartered oak and maple. Prices are unchanged.
No change has been noted in the car shortage,
conditions generally remain the same. Rainy
weather has prevailed over this territory for
some time, but business was not seriously inter-
rupted.

Nashville.
Little change is noted in the market situation
in Nashville since the first of the year. There is
a good market and firm prices for all the good
timber that can be secured. A general advance
in all lines is anticipated in the near future ;
in fact, some hardwoods have already taken a
jump, notably poplar and chestnut. Quartered
red oak is moving better than usual. Ash has
increased in price, for the manufacturers of
spokes, handles and vehicle stock are buying up
all the clear stock they can find. All grades
of poplar are in demand, the better grades for
interior work, vehicles, etc., and the culls for
box manufacture, etc.

Memphis.
The demand for hardwood lumber continues ex-
cellent, and the main trouble with the situation
is the difficulty to get hold of enough lumber to
take care of all the business offering. There has
never been a time when there was so little south-
ern hardwood lumber for sale, and the indica-
tions are that there will be an even more pro-
nounced scarcity in the near future because of
the interruptions to production. Lumber in this
city is in many cases selling at the record level,
and there are indications that still higher values
may prevail because the relations between supply
and demand are more strained than they have
ever been known to be in this section. There is
. a moderate quantity of hardwood lumber going
into export, but the bulk of the orders is coming
from domestic sources. Many of the larger mills
are closed down now owing to the shortage of
timber and the recent heavy rainfall, and there
is a very small percentage of the normal amount
of timber for this time of the year being placed
on sticks, a feature which will have an important
bearing on the prospective supply.

Ash is one of the strongest features of the
list, the demand for this being excellent in all
grades and thicknesses. Cottonwood is a quick
seller in all grades, though the lower grades,
used in the manufacture of boxes and box shooks,
are even stronger than the higher. The demand
for these is, in fact, almost insatiable and very
high prices are current. Box boards have sold
recently at $50 per thousand f. o. b. cars here,
which breaks the record for this market. The
supply of all grades is exceptionally light. Gum
is a ready seller in all grades, with rather more
strength in the lower than in the higher grades.
Plain oak sells freely, while there is further im-
provement reported in the demand for quarter-
sawed stock, especially red, which has been slow
of sale for about two years. There is very little
of this to be had now and some of the trade pre-
dict quite a scarcity in the near future. Cypress
is passing into consumption as fast as it is dry
enough to be moved. There is a very satisfac-
tory demand for poplar, including common.

Minneapolis.

There is not a great deal of buying activity
on the part of factories just now, as most of

RORLAR

Rough and Dressed

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

M. A. HAYWARD

1021 Saving and Trust Bldg,, Columbus, O

them have turned in orders that are still un-
filled, but there is a good deal of inquiry indi-
cating a healthy activity in furniture and im-
plement lines, and a good prospect for the
interior finish business. It also indicates that
buyers are aware of the short supply of most
stocks, and find it advisable to keep in close
touch with the market. Everything in the
hardwood line, without exception, is commanding
higher prices than in November. Oak dimension
is fully $5 a thousand stronger, and inch oak
commands $2 more. Basswood is up all along
the line, and elm is strong. All low grade stuff
is scarce and held at top prices. Birch is no
longer considered too plentiful, and dry stock Is
running low in everything but inch common.

The yard trade is beginning to buy again, and
some good orders for flooring and wagon stock
have been placetl within the last few days.
Retail stocks in these lines have generally run
low, and replenishing is in order, as farmers
are beginning to make their repairs and get
ready for spring work. The flooring trade has
been good right along, as mild weather has
permitted a great deal of building to be carried
on to completion.

Louisville.

Just at this writing hardwood people are busy
keeping out of the way of the flood", and the
trade here doesn't care about anything but low
water. The talk about Kentucky's being a dry
state and having the lid on in various places is
all nonsense. There is not a dry place in it —
nothing but water, and nasty muddy water at
that. It comes down from overhead and creeps
till from under foot until it looks as though all
the water wagons that were started on New
Year's day have had their contents clumped into
this territory. As a result of all this, you could
not find the hardwood market with a steamboat.
I; will find itself and land safe some day when
the clouds roll by, but just exactly where no one
can tell.

There is evidence of more lumber wanted than
can be supplied, and the question is how soon
manufacturers can get at it. Since the first
of the year some record prices have been touched
in car stock and in several other lines of hard-
wood ; mill men who have held off and refused
to book orders for future delivery are now pat-
ting themselves on the back, because the same
orders are worth more money today, and there
are still others to be had. At present, however,
mill men are waiting with what patience they
can command for the weather man to give them
a chance, and meantime many buyers are almost
distracted.

Toledo.

Trade is somewhat dull just now, but it is
nothing more than local lumbermen look for at
this time of the year. The number- of building
permits taken out since the first of the year is
small, the cold weather having had a decided
effect on building operations. Inquiry among the
local manufacturing establishments shows that,
while some plants are running a little lighter
than usual, most of them are busy in finishing
up the building jobs that have been commenced.
While the lumber trade is not expected to show
great improvement before spring, from every
source comes the expression that big trade is
looked for in the spring or just as soon as build-
ing operations open up for the season.

Some advances in hardwoods have been noted
since the first of the year. Hard maple has
made the strongest advance, the Quotations be-
ing $2 higher. Plain red oak is also stiffening
in price, local manufacturing concerns report-
ing that they are compelled to pay $2 over the
price of three months ago. Within the same
time birch has made an equal advance. Chest-
nut is in strong demand, the construction of
telephone lines and electric railroads being very
active. The demand for ties is very strong also.
and local dealers are fearing marked advances
most any time.

Liverpool.

Trade has been almost stagnant during the
past ten days, all being engaged in celebrating
Christmas and the New Year. Large parcels of
hardwoods had to be removed from the quay,
and it was reported that many cheap lines went
"a-begging."

Hickory logs are not in strong demand this
year, and several consignment parcels were
recently sacrificed. When will shippers learn
the wisdom of the "no consignment" policy?
In the case of hickory and many other woods
there is no reason why shippers should not
obtain much better prices, if they sent goods to
this market only on order.

Over and over again is heard the same tale.
Last year when birch could be sold at any price
the shipper flooded the market. The result was
very soon seen in the ruinous prices which
eventually prevailed.

The same thing is being done in second
growth ash logs, good prices being paid at this
port on contract, yet one shipper sends a parcel
on consignment which is sold at very low
figures. This is deplorable, as it. undoubtedly
makes buyers very nervous about touching large
lines. Prices ruling here are generally lower
than those in the states, buyers not being able
to bring themselves up to shippers' ideas.

John II. Burreli & Co.'s wood circular shows
that there has been no import of birch logs
during the month of December, and only a
moderate supply of planks; the consumption of

both has I n fair, and stocks are therefore

slightly reduced. Arrivals of ash logs have been

I rate and principally on contract; prime

quality thick planks are inquired for. Arrivals
"t black walnut logs have also been moderate
and the call is excellent for prime wood as are
the prices obtained ; lumber supplies are more
than sufficient to meet the demand. Elm logs

are quiet, while arrivals of hickory have I n

coming in too freely, with result that the mar-
ket is weak. Oak timbers are in fair call, stocks
are light and prices firm ; quartered boards are
more inquired for than plain : cabinet plank
supplies are ample, but coflin planks of really
good specifications are readily salable at good
prices ; wagon planks arrived very freely — more
so than any previous month of the year, but the
call is unabated and good specifications bring
firm prices. Prime poplar logs and lumber are
having good call and the supply of the better
qualities is limited. Satin walnut lumber of
good specifications is doing well, while the im-
port of staves has not been heavy and the
demand is therefore fair.

London.

The market here is still affected by the holi-
days and most of the buyers are busy taking
stock, hut there is little stock offering and what
little there is is selling at prices that tend to
show that buyers are really beginning to realize
that lumber is dearer. .Most of the stock offer-
ing still comes on consignment, giving buyers
the impression that these parcels are shipped so
as to enable American shippers to keep the
prices up. as buyers here are not always in a
position to discriminate between the regular
shippers and the consignment shippers.

All grades of whitewood are scarce and are
in good demand, anil what few agents are in a
position to make sales an- getting prices which
pay shippers very well.

Oak boards and planks have a good call at top
prices

,Ash planks are in good demand, but only for
best quality. There is no use here for second
quality in this wood.

The demand for hickory logs is fair, and
prices are firm. For satin walnut there is little
demand for prime, most inquiry being for
medium quality and a fair call for saps.

E. L. Garrett, lately connected with the firm
of Gellibrand, Heywood & Co., is on his first
visit to tie' siates.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

Statement of Hardwood Market Conditions.

In arriving at prices for surfaced stock, deliv-
ered, use the same basis of weights as on rough
stock.

When the cents in delivered prices are 12%c or
under, drop to lower quarter; when over 12%c,
raise to nest quarter.

All prices herein are based on Ohio River points.
Memphis or Cairo, as stated. The Ohio River
basing points arc those taking a ln-cent rate to
Chicago, a 19-cent rate to New York City or Cin
cinnati. Ohio, gateway,

For eastern deliveries add to Cincinnati basing
price: Cents.

Boston 21

New York City 19

Philadelphia 17

Baltimore. Md 10

Buffalo. X. Y 1"

Rochester. X. Y 12%

Pittsburg. Pa In

Cleveland. Ohio 1"

Toledo. Ohio g

Detroit. Mich in

Indianapolis. Iud 7

This list is intended to show the marker condi-
tions in the consuming territories as closely as pos-
sible. They are the prices being obtained from th
manufacturing consuming trade

This list supersedes all former issues.

LEWIS POSTER, Secretary.
Chicago. 111.. December S. 1006..
POPLAR.
Rough Stock.

Panel and "Wide Wide
Thickness. Width. No. 1. No. 2.

%" 1600 lbs 18"to23" .«:•"»"

%" 1600 lbs 24"l"27" 56.00

•V 1600 lbs. . . . 28" and up 68 0 I

1" 2800 lbs IS" to 2:!" 6 M7i«,

1" 2800 lbs 24" to 27" 74.00 52.00

1" 2800 lbs. . 28" and up 81.00 57.0 l

No. 1
1 and 2 Selects 6" Saps 4" Com. 5"
Thickness. 7" to 17". & wider. & wider. & wider.

%" 1600 lbs $40. (Hi $32.00 $32.00 $27.00

54" 2100 lbs 4i;.0i) 35.00 35.00 29.00

1 " 2800 lbs 51.00 3S.00 38.00 34.00

1%" 2800 lbs 53.no 4u. (hi 4n (hi ::i;.oo

li.'." 2800 Hi- . . 53.00 40.00 40.00 36 (hi

2 " 2800 lbs ... 54.00. 41.00 45.00 37.00
2W 2800 lbs 59.00 46.00 44.00

3 " 2800 His . . 59.00 46.00 44. on

1 " 2800 lbs 61.00 48.00 46 00

No 2 No ::

Com. 4" Com. 3"
Thickness. & wider. & wider.

%" 16 in His $17 00 si I (i '

::," 2100 lbs 19.00 15 mi

1 " 2SIH) lbs 23 00 2(i.(i(i

li," 2800 lhs 2.". ii i 22.011

li.'," 2800 lbs 25.00 22.no

2 " 2800 lbs 21 23.00

2i." 2800 lbs 31.00 26.00

3 " 2800 lbs ::l 00 26.00

4 " 2S00 lbs 33.00 28.00

Squares — 2800 Lbs.
Dimensions. 1 and 2. Common.

4x 4 $54.00 $44.00

5x5 57.110 47.0(1

6x 6 58.00 is •'"

ix 7 i;i mi 51.00

8s S 65 on 55 00

Ox 0 06.00 56.00

Klxln 69.00 59.00

12x12 75.00 65 00

1" Box Boards — 2800 Lbs.

S i" 12" ; $43.00

13 to 17" _ 57 00

2" Sign Boards— 2800 Lbs.

12 to 10 ft $62.00

18 to 20 ft 67 00

QUARTERED POPLAR— 2800 LBS.
Thick-' . No. 1. No. 2

ness. 1 and 2. Com. . Com.

1 "... $50.00 $32.00 S22.no

1%" ."2.ihi 34.0 i I'l.iKI

BEVEL SIDING — SCO LBS.

No. 1 No. ^

Dimensii No. 1. Selects. Com. Com

$25 50 $21 50 $16 00 $13.00

%x5" 24.50 20.50 15.00 12.00

V4".. 23.50 19.50 14. 0;i 11.00

PATENT OR DROP SIDING— 2000 LBS.

No. 1 No 2

Width. No 1. Selects. Com. Com.

6" sr $37.00 $2 $23.00

5"..: 42.00 30.00 2S.O0 22.00

4" 41.0(1 35.00 27.00 21.00

CEILING.

No. 1 No. 2
Dimensions and Weight. No. 1. Corn. Com.

9&"x3, 4. 5 and 6" 900 lbs. ..$22.00 $1S.OO $14.00
Vx.';. 4, 5 and 6" 1200 lbs... 26.00 22.00 17.00
%"x3, 4. 5 and 6" 1500 lbs. . 30.00 26.00 21.00
l :, and 6" 2000 lbs. . . 37 0 > 29 0 l 2 I QO
; ! I6"s I 5 S i, ' 220 i lbs. . 37 00 29 00 23.00
Add $5.00 to above prices on Ceiling for Yellow

l':i. E

PARTITION.

No. 1 No. 2

Dimensions and Weight. Nil. Com. Com

ij"x4. ;, and 6" 1200 lbs $34.00 $29.00 $24.00

•Vxl, ;, and 6" 1500 10s 37.00 31.00 26 00

9i"x4. 5 and I'," 2000 lbs..\:. 42.00 34.00 28.00

l. 5-and 6" 2200 lbs... 42.00 34.00 28.00

Add $5.00 to above prices on Partition for Yellow
Face.

DIMENSION STRIPS— 2200 LBS. S 2 S.

No. 1 No. 2

Sizes. No. 1. Selects. Com. Com.

3" and 4" $45.'00 $37.00 $28.00 $21.00

5" and 0" 47.00 40.00 30.00 23.00

7" and 8" 19.00 42.00 34.00 25.00

3" and 10" 51.00 44.of> 36.00 27. (in

11" and 12" 54.00 4S.00 3.8.00 29.00

Above prices are based on stock S 2 S; for stock
S .i s. and si 00.

ed size. 13 16-incb in thickness, and ij-inch
stant in width.

Standard Finish.
Standard Finished Face Measure. 21,, '■'■',. 4',
and 5 ! i Inch. If. stock is required, finished on the
i_.-iiicli. strip measure must be counted, o'4 4}4,
51, and 6% -inch.

Special Range of Widths on Rough Stock.
1.11 Wide Run of Stock, add to prices of Random
Widths. 7-inch and up Poplar. 1st and 2d grade
only, ruder 9-inch, same as miscellaneous widths.

9 to 11-inch, inclusive $2.00 per M extra

In 1" 17-inch, inclusive .. 3. (hi per M extra

12 tn 17-inch, inclusive 5. on per M extra

18 to 20-inch, inclusive 9. (Hi per M extra

For specific widths, add to Random widths, 7-inch
and up. 1st and 2d grade only.

10-inch wide, add .$2.00 18-inch wide. add.. $14.00
12-inch wide add 5.00 20-inch wide add.. 16.00
14-inch wide. add.. 7.00 22-inch wide, add . 18.00
16-inch wide, add . nun 24-inch wide. add.. 20.00

For Stock all 16 feel, add $3.00

For Steel; all 14 feet, add 3.00

For Stock 11 and in 1 add 2.011

Re-Sawing $1.00 per M extra

Kiln-Drying 2.00 per M extra

Bundling I'm per M extra

Surfacing, one or two sides 1.00 per M extra

General.

Gauges ainl Widths (1f Drop Siding: Thickness.
94-in.; width. 4-in. worked to 3%-in.; 5 in. worked
te 1 1 1 - j 1 1 . : 6-in. worked to 5V, in face.

le\.i Siding Widths: cin. worked to 5% in :
."-in. worked to 4%-in.; 4-in. worked te
face.

Sleek dressed four sides to he counted i_.-meh
wider than size after working.
BASSWOOD.
(Weight per M feet. 2,500 lbs. 1
Thickne 1 and 2. NV li'nm. No. 2Cen,

1 " $ ::n 'in $25 00 $20.00

IV 38.00 27.00 22.(111

Hi." 38 "11 27. mi 22 mi

2 " 28.00 23.00

WALNUT.

Weight pel M in. 3,800 lhs.)

Thickness. 1 and 2. No. 1 Com. No. 2 Com.

1 " $97 i"' $54 0 ' $33.00

IV 107.1111 6 ■ "" 1 ' "

IV." In7 !»• n .".4.011

2 " 112 '"I :,s mi ;:■; mi

2%" 13 ni mi 38.00

:: " 130.00 "i 00 38.00

4 " 1 I" "" 72 00 38 'K'

BUTTERNUT.

(Weight per M feet. 3,000 lhs.)

Thickness 1 and 2. No.lCom. No.20om

1 " S 1;:. "1 - I $20.00

Thicker Stock, Sean per M ever above prices.

PLAIN SYCAMORE.

(Weight per M feet, 4,000 in- 1

Thickness. 1 and 2. No. 1 Com. No. 2 Com.

1 " s L'7 00 $2 1 'i 1 $16.0 •

Thickei Sleek $2.00 per M over above pi 1
QUARTERED SYCAMORE.
(Weight per M feet, 4,000 lbs

Thickness. 1 and 2. No.lCom, No.2Com.

1 ".; ... S .....ill. - SIM 00

Thickei Stoi 1 $5 00 per M over above prices.

HICKORY

(Weight per M feet, '4,000 lbs.)

Thick. 1 and 2. Xo. 1 Com.

1 inch $48.00 $27.00

l1, inch 58.00

Hi inch 58 "" 32.00

2 inch (',:;.( in 35.00

-'i inch 71.00 40 mi

itch 72.00 40.00

inch 76.00 40.00

CHERRY.

(Weight 1"'! \| lee| \ S" I ]!,-

[fciekne 1 and 2, No.lCom. No.2(

- " $87 "a si: $2 : ""

IV 92.0 :," 11 1 25 i"

IV 071111 .-iinn 28.00

2 " 1 15 '" 50.00 28 en

2ii" 117.00 60.00 28 00

3 " 122.00 62.00 28.00

4 " 127.00 66 0 ' 28.00

CHESTNUT.
1 u eight per M feet, 2,800 lie

Sound
Thickm 1 and 2. No. 1 Com. Wormy.

1 " $36 00 $19.00

li," eli" 38.00 21.nfi

IV 5 1 1 " 38.00 21.0O

2 " 39.00 22.50

SOFT ELM.

1 Weight per M feet. 3,250 lbs.)

Thickness. Log Run.

1 li $22.50

l'i inch

l1.^ inch 24. nn

2 inch 24.50

SOFT MAPLE.
1 Weight per M feet 4,250 lbs.)
Thickness. Log Rnn.
inch S22 nn

1 '; inch 24.00

lri inch 24.IH1

2 inch 2 1 ., . 1

The foregoing prices are based f. ". b. Ohio River

Points which take a rate of 10 cents to Chicago
and 10 cents to New York City.

COTTONWOOD.

(Weight per M feet, 2.S00 lhs.)

Thick- F. O. B.

He-- Grade. Cairo.

1" Panel and Wide X... 1. Is" to 23" $53.00

1" Panel and Wide X". 1. 24" to 27" 60.00

1" Panel and Wide No. 1. 28" and up 65.00

1" Box Boards, 13" to 17" 52.00

1" Box Boards, S" to 12" 42. On

1" Firsts and Seconds, 13" and up 37.00

1" Firsts and See Is. 1;" and op 32.00

1" Firsts and Seconds. 0" to 12" 31.00

1" X". 1 Common. 13" to 17"

1" Xo. 1 Common 25.00

1" No. 2 or Box Common 20.00

Fur li, " add $2.00 per M, and for IV add $3.00
per M over price of 1".

For 2" and thicker add $4.00 per M over price
of 1".

Cottonwood prices are based f. o. b. points which

take a 10 cent rate to Chicago, 111.

ASH.

I Weight per M feet. 3.500 lbs.)

Thick- F. O. B. F. O. B.

ness. Grade. Ohio Riv. Points. Cairo. 111.

1 " lsts and 2nds $47. (hi $44.00

IV lsts and 2nds 50.00 47.ini

IV lsts and 2nds 51.00 Is. (m

2 " lsts and 2nds 54.00 51.00

2 V lsts and 2nds t 61.00 5S.00

3 " lsts and 2nds 63.00 oo.ihi

4 " lsts and 2nds 85.00 62. (XI

1 " Xo. 1 Common 33.50 30.00

li," X". 1 Common 36.00 33.00

IV Xo. 1 Common :;7.ihi 34.00

2 " No. 1 Common ,",s , „ 1 35.00

2V Xo. 1 Common 44.00 , 41.0(1

3 " Xo. 1 Common 46.00 i:;on

4 " Xe. 1 1 'em ,,,..,, 4S.(H, 45.00

1 " \". 2 Common 23.50 20.00

IV Xe. 2 Common 2: 22.00

IV X". 2 Common 2: 22. OO

2 " Nn. 2 Common 26.00 23.00

2'_" No. 2 Common "sun 25.00

3 " Xo. 2 Common 28.00 2:1.(1"

4 " Xo. 2 Common 2s.,hi l:, " i

Strips.

1" r Fine. 2V te :, 1 ., " $37.00 $34.(1(1

1" Common, 2! to ' 24.00 22.00

PLAIN WHITE OAK.
Firsts and Seconds,

F. O. B. F. O. B.

jhnk- Ohio Cairo,

: — Width. Weight. Riv. Pts. 111.

%" «" and up 2.IKJO lbs. $30.00 $33.00

V 6" and up 2,200 lbs. 30.00 36.00

%" d" and up 2.7(10 lbs. 42.IH. : 1

%" 6" and up 3,200 lbs. 45.00 41.00

1 and up 1,000 lbs. P' 00 45 nn

1 ' 1" 6" and up 4.000 His. 51.00 47.00

' and up 4,000 lbs. :■! .00 47.1111

2 " C" and up 1,000 lbs. 52.00 48.00

2%" 6" and up 4,000 lbs. 56.50 52.50

3 " 6" and up I. lbs, 6 I 50 57.50

I " 6" and up 4.01111 lhs. 66.50 62.50

No. 1 Common.

F. O. B. F. O. B.

Thick- Ohio Cairo.

ness width. Weight. Riv. Pts. III.

%" 4" and up 2.00a lbs. $21.00 $17.00

V 4" and up 2,200 lbs. 2 1.00 20.00

:•-" 4" and up 2 lbs. 27"" 23.00

1 " I" and up 3,200 lbs. 3 26 00

1 " 4" and up 4, P.- : ; 00 29.00

1 V 4" and up 4.000 lhs. 35.00 31.00

1J4" 4" and np 1,000 lbs. : 1 00 31.00

_' "4" and up 4.000 lbs. 36.00 32.00

2V 4" and up -4. 000 ll,s 41.00 37.00

-"• " 4" and up 4.000 lbs. 43.00 39.00

4 " 4" and up 4,000 lbs. 48.00 44.00

No. 2 Common.

F. O. B. F. 0. B.

Thick- Ohio Cairo,

ness. Width. Weight. Riv. Pts. 111.

%" 3" and up 2.000 lbs. S14.00 $12.00

V o" and up 2,2"" IPs. 16.00 14.00

:,s" ::" and np 2.700 ins. 18.00 16.00

94" 3" and np 3,200 lbs. 19.00 17.00

1 " 3" and np 4. nun lhs. 22.00 m on

1 i," 3" and up 4.IHHI lbs. 24 00 21.00

: and np 1,000 lbs. 24 00 21.00

2 " 3" and up 1,1 IPs 26.00 23. (HI

: and np 4,000 lbs. 27 00 21 00

3 " 3" and up 4,000 lbs. 28.00 25.00

4 "3" and up... l.i lbs. 29.00 26.00

No. 3 Common.

F. O. B. F. O. P..

Thick- Ohio Cairo,

ness. Width. Weight. Riv. Pts. 111.

1 " 3" and up 4.000 lb-. SIS.nO $14.00

114" 3" and up 4. nun lhs. J 16.00

V ::" and up 4,000 lhs. 20.00 in on

2 " 3" and up .4,000 lhs. 21.00 17.00

P. W. 0. Strips.

P. O. r.. F 11 B.

( lllio I aire,

Riv. Pts. 111.

1" Clear Face. 2'W, 4.000 lbs.. $40. 00 $36.00

1" Common. 21.-51.". 4.000 lbs.... 28.00 24.00

QUARTERED WHITE OAK.

Firsts and Seconds.

F. O. B. F. 0. B.

Thick- . Ohio Cairo,

Width. Weight. Riv. Pts. 111.

%" 6" to 9" 2, nun lbs. $40.00 $37. 00

V '"' t" 9" 2,200 lbs. 47.50 15.00

1 to 9" 2,200 lbs. 55.00 52 00

12" and up 2.700 lbs. S5.00 82.00

94" ■'•" to 9" 3.200 lbs. 62.50 60.00

1 " 0" and over. ..4,000 lbs. 70 ii 1 72 "i

1 " 0" to 9" 4.('Hi0 lbs. 70 nn 66.00

1 " 10" and 11" 4,000 lbs. 93.00 S9.00

HARDWOOD RECORD

35

1 " 12" to 14" 4,000 lbs. 115.00 110.00

1 " 15" and up 4,000 lbs. 165.00 16

1'," 6" niiil over. . .4,000 lbs. 7:' 00

1,00 i iii

4, "in lb

i.ikki lbs.

4,000 His.

No. 1 Common.

79.00
85.00
90.00
95.00

7r..l«i
75.00
75.00
si .(III
85.00

Thick-
ness. Width.
■'V 4" 1 up.

V' 4" and up.
54" 4" and up.

;>i" 4" and up,

WeigBt.
.2 000 lbs.

I' 2 Kl III-.

.2,700 ll.s.

.3,200 His.

1 "•' 4" and oyer. . .4,000 lbs.

1 " 4" in 9" 1,000 His.

1 " in" and up 4,000 ll.s.

IV 4" and up. . . 1,000 lbs.

i ' . i " and up 1,000 lbs.

2 (" and ui I 000 lbs.

No. 2 Common

Thick-
ness. Width Weight.

1 " 3" anil ii |> 1,000 lbs.

li," 3" and up I. i ll.s.

1 <■■" ;;•• and up 1,000 lbs.

2 " 3" and up 4,000 His.

F. O. B. P. 0. I'.-

i iiii.. • aire

Riv. Pts. 111.

$25.00 $22.00

: 27.00

35.00 32.IUI

10.00 ■"7. mi

16.00 12.00

12.00 3S.00

60.00 56.00

-is. nil 14.00

18.00 44.00

49.00 15.00

F. 0. B. P. 0. B.

Ohio Cairo.

Riv. Pts. 111.

J25T00 $21.00

28.00 24.IHI

28.00 24.00

28.00 24.00

No. 3 Common.

F. O. B.

Thick- Ohio
ness. Width. u eight. Riv. Pts.

1 " 3" and up 1,000 His $16 00

li," ;;" „iiil np 4,000 lbs. 18.00

1 ' , " 3" and up 4,000 lbs. 18.00

2 " 3" and up 4,000 lbs. 18.00

Q. W. 0. Strips.

F. 11 B. 1 'I B.

Ohio Cairo,

Riv. Pts. 111.

1" Cl'r Face. 2".." t.. 4 > .'. " . 4 . < m " » ll.s. s.-.u.ki sin.nii

1" CFr Face. 5" to 5' . .1 lbs. 60.00 56.00

1" Common, 21.." to 5 14". .4,000 lbs. 32.00 2S.00

PLAIN RED OAK.

(Weight pet M feet, 4,000 lbs.)

V. 11 Ii. F. O. B.

Thick- Ohio Cain..

ness. Grade. Riv. Pts. 111.

1 " lsts and 2nds $49.00 $45.00

114" lsts and 2nds 51.00 47. mi

1'." lsts and 2nds 51.00 47.00

2 "" lsts and 2nds 52.00 18.00

214" lsts and 2nds 56.50 52.50

3 " lsts and 2nds Iil.50 57.50

4 " lsts and 2nds 66.50 62.50

1 " No. 1 Common 33.00 29.00

1'," N11, 1 Common 35 0 1 31.00

l>.." No. 1 Common 35.00 31.00

2 " No. 1 Common 30 00 32 00

21," No. 1 Common 41. on 37.00

:: " No. 1 Common 13 00

4 " No. 1 1 ".mil 4S.O0 44. nil

1 " No. 2 Common 22.00 19.00

1 '," No, 2 Col 11 21 on 21.00

1 1 ." No. 2 Common 2) 00 21.00

2 " N... 2 Common 26.00 23.00

2'," No. 2 Common 27.00 24.00

:; " No. 2 Common 2S.00 25.00

4 " No. 2 Common 29.00 26.00

i " No, ;; Common 18.00 1 1.00

114" No. 3 Common 20.00 16.00

11," No. 3 Common 20.00 16.00

2 " No. 3 Common 21.00 17.00

P. R. 0. Strips.

F. 0. B.

1 ihio
Riv. Pts

1" 1 i ■ Face, 2'", to 51 ■" $38 On

1" Common, 214 t.. 514" 27.00

CAR BILL OAK— 6.000 LBS.

1 11 B.

Illil, 1

Riv. Pts

White Oak, Freight $30.00

White Oak, Passenger 37.50

Red Oak, Freight 27.50

Red Oak, Passenger 35.00

QUARTERED RED OAK.
1 Weight per M feet, 1 Ibi

I 'ii:. 1 ui:

Thick- Ohio Cairo,

ness. Grade. Riv. Pts. III.

1 " lsts and 2nds $58.00 $54.00

1 1 ," 1-1 ■ 1.1 -VI- 61.00 57 00

1 ' ," lsts and 2nds 61.00 57 0 I

2 " lsts and 2n.ls 61 00 57.00

1 " N... 1 Common 34 00

IV No. 1 Comi 1 37.00 33 00

1 1 ," No, 1 ' ommon 37.00 33 0 1

2 " No. 1 Common 37.00 33 00

1 " No. 2 Common 20.00 16.00

114" N". 2 Common 22.00 18.00

114" N.,. 2 Common 22.00 18.00

2 " No. 2 Common 22.00 is. 00

1 " N... :: Common 1 1.00

I1," No, 3 Common 16.00

I Common 16.00

2 " No. 3 Common 10.00

Q. R. 0. Strips.

F. 0. B. F 1. ::

Ohio 1

Riv. Pts 111.

1" Clear Face. 2C" to 414" - I ' 00

1" Clear Face. 5" to r. > ," 50.00 16 00

1" Common. 214" to 5%" 25.00 22.00

RED GUM,

(Weight per M feet, 1" and thicker, 3,250 lbs 1

Rough.

F 11 B. F .1 1:

Thick- Mem-

uess tirade. Weight.»or Thebes. phis,

94" r. A. S., Red 1,300 lbs. $16.50 $16. no

1 ," F A. S., Red. .. .1.7H.I lbs. 20.75 20.75

--"' F. A. S., Red 2.1.»> ll.s. 23.50 23.50

54" F. A. S., Fed 2.500 lbs. 26.50 26.50

1 " F V s Red 30.00 30.00

36" F. A s.. Sup , , .1,300 lbs. 1 1.:." 10.50

1 vs.. Sap. . . . 1,700 lbs. 14.75 13.75

% 1 A. s . Sap. .. .2.1'in IPs. 17.00 15.50

V' F. A. S., Sap 2.500 lbs. l'.l.nn 17.50

1 " F. A. S., Sap 21.50 1

1 " Box Board, S" to 12" 25.00 23.00

1 " F.,.x Hoards. 13" to 17" 32 00 30.00

%•' Red Common 1,. 'inn lbs. 11.00 10.00

1." lied I1.lnm1.11 1.71)11 ll.s. ll.llil 13.00

■V Red Common 2, LOO lbs. 16.00 15.00

Red 1 mill . 2,500 lbs. 18.00 17.011

1 " Red Common 20.50 19.50

94" No. 1 Common... 1,300 lbs. 10.50 9.50

1.," N.. I Conn 1. . . 1.700 lbs. 13.25 12.25

jf N,,. 1 Common. . .2.100 lbs. 15.00 1 1.00

[" No 1 1 ton.. .2,500 lbs. I7.nn 16.00

1 ' " No. 1 Com a. .. 20.00 19.00

1 " N,. 2 C in. .11 17.00 16 no

1 " No. 3 Common 13.00 12.00

For li," add $1.00 per M. and for IV add $2.00

per M on First and S ml Red, and $1.50 per M

on First and Second Sap, Red Common and No. 1

1 in.ii. over price of 1 inch.

I",,r 2" add $5.00 per M .ui First and Second Red.
and $2.50 per M on Firs! and s 1 Sap, Fed Com-
mon and No. I Common, over price of 1 inch.

Add .".He per M to these prices for all bundling anil
stenciling.

Gum prices delivered f. o. b. St. Louis, add .$1.00
per M to Cain, prices; Chicago, $3.00; Louisville.
Ky., v.: 00. Nov* Orleans, $3.00, on 1-inch basis.
V Beveled Siding — 900 Lbs.

F. O. B. F. 0. B.

Cairo Cinoin-

& Thebes. uali.

4" worked 314" No. 1 *14.ini .sir,. r,n

4" worked 314"— No. 2 11.50 13.00

4" worked 314" — No. 3 9.00 10.00

5" worked 4c,"— No. 1 loam 16.50

5" worked 414" -No. 2 12.50 14.00

."1" worked 514"— No. 3 lii.iBi 11.00

6" "inked 514"— No. 1 16.00 17.30

6" worked 514" — No. 2 13.50 IE

0" worked 514" — No. 3 11.00 12.00

Patent or Drop Siding — 2,200 Lbs.

F. 0. B. F. 0. B.

Cairo Cincin-

& Thebes. nati.

.-," w.nke.l 13 1'lvlV No. 1 $20.11(1 $27.00

5" worked 13 Hix4 ■ , " - No. 2 21.00 23.00

."." worked 13/16x414"— No. 3 17. on 2n.no

ii" worked 13 16x514"— No. 1 27.nn 28.00

6" worked 13 16x514" No. 2 22.hu 24.00

6" worked 13/16x514"— No. 3 1S.00 21.00

Flooring — 2,200 Lbs.

F. O. B. F. 0. B.

Cairo Cincin-

& Thebes. nati.
3 or 4 In. li, worked 13 16x214 or

314— No. I $23.00 $26.00

: , 1 I inch, w ..rke.l 13 16x214 or

,', No. 2 21.00 22.00

3 or 4 inch, worked 13/16x214 or

\ No. 3 16.00 18.00

Matched Sheathing or Flooring — 2,200 Lbs.

F. O. B. F. 0 B.

. :i 110 Cinciu-

& Thebes. nati.
5 or 6" worked 13 16x414 or '.'," —

N... 1 $26.00 $27.00

5 or 6" worked 13 lnx I ', or 514" —

No. 2 22.00 23.00

5 ..r 6 ' «.n ked 1 I 16s 1 ' , or 514"—

NO. 3 17.00 19.00

Beaded Ceiling.

F. O. B. F. 0. H.

Cairo Cincin-

& Thebes. nati.
4" worked \x5V, Hon lbs. —

No. 1

1" worked -. x;; ,", Lbs

r worked - "- ■ 1 "', 966'lbs.— "

No. ::

1" .in I id 1 ,\:;' ,". 1.3HH lbs.—

No. 1 .....

4" worked 1 1x314", 1,300 lbs.

No. 2

I" Worked 1 ,x5 ',". 1.

No. 3 ll.no

1" woi 1 ui 6x314" 1 .; hi lbs.—

No. 1 20 "n 22 00

4" work.. I ■ £314", 1,600 ll.s.—

No. 2 . 17.01) 19.50

4" worked ■- £314", I ,6 10 lbs.—

N... 3 12.50 15.00

I" worked , s ": " 2,000 lbs.—

No. 1 25.0 1 27.HH

1 woi keel "!, s |i ,"", 2, lbs.—

No 2 21.00 23.00

1" work.- 1 I 114", 2.000 lbs.—

No. 3 15.00 20.00

Finishing Lumber — 2,600 Lbs.

F. II. B. F " l:

Cairo Cinein-

.v Thebes. nati.
No 1 Finish, 3 and 4"

s 2 s. 13 16 $23.00 $26.1

No. 1 1 nii-ii 3 1;. s 1 in-

. s 2 S 13 16 2il mi 29.00

N... 1 Finish. 12" S 2 S. 13/16 28.00 31 00

No. 1 Finish, 1 1 I..1H" s 2 s. 13 16 30.00

N... 2 1 ,iii-1i. : and 4" s 2 s. 13 16 2 1 00 22.no

No 2 I [nish, 5, 6, 8 and 10"

S 2 S, 13/16 23 no 25.00

No. 2 Finish, 12" s 2 s. 13 16 25.00 2700

.HICKORY VEHICLE AND IMPLEMENT STOCK.

i v\ eight per M I.. "'i lbs.)

Rim Strips.

nl Black 1

. 1 ;row th. Hick. ui-. 1 irowtn.

1 14", 1%", 1 14" , , 1 si 10 00 $70.00 $6 1.00

1 ■ in. I 2" 12:,. .1.1 7." 65.00

2C" and 2 V 150.00 80.00 To. OH

Standard lengths of these strips shall be 5 feet 6

inch. 6 feet, 6 feel 6 inch. 7 feet. 7 feet t; inch,

8 feet, and 8 feet 6 inch, not to exceed 10 per rent

.$15.00 $16.00

. 13.00 13.3')

. 10.00 11.01)

. 18.00 20.00

. 16.00 1S.00

14.00

of 5 feet G inch, and to contain about 50 per cent

7 feet 6 inches long.

Axle Caps and Single Trees.

admitting the same defects

as same grade of rims $S5.00 $60.00 .$4... On

Implement Stock.
Double trees. Single Trees and Neckyokes for

agi I- ultural work $32 50

Forest Growth, Shaft Strips Hh.hh

Forest Growth, Poles 75.00

Fores! Growth, Tongues 80.00

WAGON STOCK.
(Weight per VI feet. 1,500 li- dry, 6,0 0 lbs. green.)

1 ' it. lira, lies SCO. on

if, i., ,i\ Reaches sn.no

Dak Bolsters. 3 inch x 4'.. inch and larger —

4 feet 1 inch. 4 feet 0 inch in length 50.00

Oak Bolsters, 3 Inch x 4 inch and smaller —

4 feet in length 10.00

flak ami Ash wagon tongues, dear .: i

Hickory Axles. :: inch x 4 Inch to :;', inch x

41, inch -6 feel in length 331111

Hickory Axles. 31, inch x p , inch and larger

— 6 feet in length 711.011

Oak Hounds to be figured on a basis of the
amount of lumber required in their manu-
facture.

Drop Tongues, or short 4a. 00

stitT Tongues, or long.. ho. on

Hind Hounds and Swaj Bars 50.00

Felloes.
(Weighl per vi feet, 1,500 lbs. dry, 6,000 lbs. green.]

3 feet to 4 feet. 0 inch Circle.

I V r Set Per Set.

2 x 2a," $1 15 31 , x ji..- „•;..,,

214 x 2>i" 1.4.-. 314 x 2%" 3.02

2'i x 2%" 1.57 314 x 3 " 3 32

V x 3 " 1.83 314 x 314" 3.80

2', X 3Vi" 2.11 4 x 214" : ,

2'u x 2'.." l.r.7 4 x 2%" 7

2% X 2a," FS3 4 X 3 " 1.96

214 x 3 " 2.17 4 x .IF." 4.40

214 x 314" 2.2H 414 x 214" 3.96

2% x 2%" 1.83 414 x 2:;," 4.45

2% x 2%" 2.11 414 x 3 " For,

234 X 3 " 2 2H 4i, X 31," 3 22

2% x 3%" 2.54 4C x 2C" 132

3 x 211" 2.17 4% x 2%" I 95

3 x 294" 2.2H 411 x 3 " 5.22

3 x 3 " 2.54 41. x 314" 5.61

3 x 314" 3.02 414 x 314" 5.99

3 x 314" 3.32 5 x 2'~," 4315

314 X 214" 2.42 5 X 2"V 5 2S

314 x 2%" 2,71 5 x 3 " 1.94

31/1 X 3 " 3.02 5 X 314" 0.27

314 x 314" 3.32 5 x 314" 6.60

3i, x 314" 3.63 0 x 3 " 73:1

Wagon Stock and Felloes based on Green Mate-
rial.

Plow Handle Strips.
(Weight per M feet, 4.2..H ll.s.,

When Dry.
114x2" t.. l!4x2!4"— 3 feet c, inch and 4 feet. $41.00
114x2" t,, 114x214" — 4 feet 6 inch and .". feet. 13.00

l'-x2" t.. 114x214"— 5 feet 6 inch 45.00

F;-x2:k" and 1Cx2V—

I feet H inch and 5 feet 45.00

i ".3 ." and 114x214"— 5 feet 6 inch 18.00

CHAIR AND FURNITURE STOCK.
(Weight per M feet. 4.2r.n ll.s. 1
Plain Sawed Oak Seat Stock.

1x3" 1.. 1x5" 'I I,, 2.3" in length $32.50

1 , 1,, 1x6"— 24 to 30" in length 40.00

114x3" lo 114x5"— 9 to 23" in length 37.50

114x3" to 114x6" — 24 to 311" in length 15.00

Quarter Sawed Oak Seat Stock,
Weighl per vi feet, 1 250 lbs

1x5" to 1x5"- :i to 23" in length

1 \5" to 1x6" 21 1,, 30" in length 6 1

114x3" to li,\5"--..i to 2:" iii length 55.00

114x3" to 1 i,\n"- 24 to 5 1" in length . 65.00

114x3" to 1" and wider— 21" in length, white

oak .,

1 ' . c:" 1,, i" and wider— 21" in length red

oak 55.00

Quarter Sawed White Oak Chair Backs.
(Weight per M feet, 4,000 lbs.)

",x2" in width— 10 to IS" in length $45.00

:'.x5, 1 ami ,,- in width— 16 io 2ii" in length. 57.50
34x6 to lo" in width- -ID to 24" iii length.... 57.50

Fed Oak S5.no per M feel less lion i„.

Fourths and widths to all Chair Stock as ,
above to be piled and shipped together.
Table Tops, Plain Sawed Oak.
(Weighl per vi feet, i 250 lbs
1x4" up, random widths— 15 to 21" in length. $32. 50
1x4" up, random widths — 23 to 27" in length. 35.00
lxi" up, random widths— 29 to 33" in length. 40.00
ixl" up. random widths— 35 to 39" in length. 10.00
1x4" n]i, random widths— 41 to 43" in length, 10.00
ixl" up, random widths — 45 to 47" in length. 5000
el' up random widths— 49 1.. 54" in length. 50.00

For these sal Ilmen [OHS 11 quarter :-:ie, e,l

h 1 1 add $20 00 per VI feet for white oak, and

$12 50 pel VI (eel fm" red oak.

Oak Squares.

1 Weight per M feel 1 iO 1 lbs.)

1 • 1 ii'.. 31" in length $30.«

Ixl" 52 lo 57" 111 I, • null, :

ixl" 58 i" 68" in length 40.00

114x114" 114x114" 11 t,. 31" in length 55. on

114x114"— 114x1 14 "^-32 p. 37" in length 12.50

' ' 1 xj i 1 ' , 1 1 . ' 58 to HI" 111 length 12 50

2x2"— 14 to 31" in length

2x2"— 32 P. 5," in length 40.00

2x2" 58 to 04" in length 47.511

1 -2 36 in li" in length 40.00

1 -h and Maple, deduct $2.00 per vr from

Sawed Oak, , , set out.

Prices on Vehicle and Implement Sto
Chair and Furniture Stock based f. o. h. Ohio Fiver
Points which take a rate of 10 cents to Chicago
and 10 cents to New York City.

36

HARDWOOD RECORD

AT COST

IS AN UNCOMMON TERM AS APPLIED TO INSURANCE

But this is the actual price of Indemnity against Fire Loss furnished by the

Manufacturing

Lumbermen's

Underwriters

THE STRONGEST INSURANCE ORGANIZATION

TO-DAY IN AMERICA

The saving is not on a
small portion of
your insurance but on the
entire line.

There are other advantages
equally interesting.

Only well built plants
with adequate protection
and at least
five years timber
supply are considered
eligible.

FOR LIST OF MEMBERS AND FURTHER INFORMATION, ADDRESS

HARRY RANKIN 4 CO. Kansas City, Mo.

HARDWOOD RECORD

37

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Eight words of ordinary length make one line.

Heading counts as two lines.

No display except the headings can be ad-
mitted.

Remittances to accompany the order. No
extra charges for copies of paper containing
the advertisement.

EMPLOYES WANTED.

WANTED.

A good all round hardwood office man, posted
on buying and selling end. Good judgment
necessary. Give age. references, experience
and salary. Will hold in strict confidence.
Address "HARDWOOD JOBBER,"

care Hardwood Record.

FOREMAN WANTED.

. A first-class, up-to-date foreman who under-
stands the manufacture of veneered doors and
interior finish and one who is familiar with esti-
mating on all work of this kind. Good salary
to right man. Must furnish good references.
Address WEST VIRGINIA VENEER DOOR
COMPANY, Bos 5SS, Parkersburg, W. Va.

WANTED.

An intelligent young fellow-, a hustler that
understands selling Hardwood Flooring. A
good salary will be paid the right party. Ad-
dress "W. G., No. 17," care Hardwood Rec-
ord.

LUMBER WANTED

OAK AND POPLAR WANTED.

We arc in the market for plain and quar-
ter sawed oak and poplar — ail thicknesses and
grades. Send list stock. Describe, quote price.
E, BAILEY & SONS, Patchogue, N. Y.

LARGE QUANTITIES HARD MAPLE.

1" and ."> 4" thick. 4 to 1G' long to aver-
age 11 tn 12'. Make offers f. o. b. cars sea-
port. Address

"MAPLE," care II\kdwood Record.

WHITE ASH WANTED.

50 M ft. 6 4, T.v;; 1st and 2nds, 25' So
1 common.

50 M ft. 8/4, 75% 1st and 2nds, 25'. No.
1 common.

50 M ft. 3%, 75% 1st and 2nds, 2.V ; X...
1 common.

50 M ft. 4", 7.V~ 1st and 2nds, 25% No. 1
common.

10 M ft. 6x6, 7-V: 1st and 2nds, 25% No. 1
common.

To be cut and ready to ship on or before
May 1. 1907.
AMERICAN LBB. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

WHITE OAK WANTED.

100.000 feet 3" plain 1st and 2nd White Oak
lumber. Present or future delivery. Name
price f. o. b. St. Louis. W. R. CHIVVIS,

Main and Lesperance Sts., St. Louis, Mo.

WANTED— HARDWOOD LOGS.

200,000 ft. 2S" and up White Oak logs.
200,000 ft. 12" and up Walnut logs.
50,111111 11. !_"• anil up 1 'hern logs
C. L. WILLEY, 1235 S. Robey St., Chicago.

OAK WANTED.

Plain White Oak lsts and 2nds, 1", also No.
1 common %", 1" and 2". Make offers f. o. b.
cars Norfolk, Baltimore, New Orleans or other
shipping port, stating quantity and shipment.
Terms cash less 2%. Address

"PLAIN OAK," care Hardwood Record.

ROCK ELM WANTED.

150. 1 2% and 3"x5" and wider, C. &

B. Will inspect at point of shipment. We
can use fresh sawn wood. Terms cash less
2 per cent. THE BRADLEY COMPANY,

Hamilton, Ont., Can.

ASH DIMENSION STOCK.

One inch stock wanted, in carloads, from
2'/2 to 10" in width and from 10 to 48" in
length. Can use large quantities if properly
gotten out. Stock must be clear and free from
defects. Write us for list.

BELDING-HALL MFG. CO., Belding, Mich.

WANTED.

BASSWOOD. MAPLE,

SOFT ELM, ASH,

ROCK ELM. HICKORY.

In Logs, Lumber and Dimension Sizes, for
Immediate shipment, also during winter and
spring. Spot cash, and inspection at shipping
points. Please quote prices f. o. b. cars. Ad-
dress .IAS. GORDON, Detroit, Mich.

OAK.

We are in the market for plain sawed oak,
all grades and thicknesses.
P. G. DODGE & CO., 2116 Lumber St., Chicago.

OAK WANTED.

3 and 4 inch White Oak ; also Mixed Oak ;
also 12x12 Timbers and Piling of all kinds.
CONTINENTAL LUMBER CO.,
1213 Monadnock Bldg., Chicago, III.

TIMBER LANDS FOR SALE

FOR SALE.

::. nun acres hardwood timber land in south-
west Arkansas, one mile from Iron Mountain
R. R. Timber is principally oak of the white
varieties, 5,000 feet to the acre, price $14
per acre. 1.240 acres in Miller County. Ark.,
near Cotton Kelt R. R., 4.000 feet to the
acre principally oak, $10 per acre. Both
tracts in virgin growth. Apply to

F. J. Peter, Iluckius House, Texarkana, Ark.

MACHINERY WANTED

WANTED.

Second-hand vulcanizer. Must be in good
ondition. WOOD-MOSAIC FLOORING CO.,
Rochester, N. Y.

AT ONCE.

If yiui are in need of machinery — new or
sir, mil hand — a few lines in this column will
place your wants before those who have such
goods for sale. For particulars address

Hardwood Record,, Chicago, III.

LUMBER FOR SALE.

BIRCH FOR SALE.

1 car 4/4 and 8/4 1st and 2nds Dry Birch.

1 car 4/4, 6/4., and 8/4 1st and 2nds Dry

Red Birch. G 1 widths and lengths. All f.

o. b. Detroit, National inspection. Write for
prices if interested.

E. W. LEECH, Detroit, Mich.

THICK PLAIN OAK.

Two cars 2%" No. 1 and No. 2 common
plain Ohio White Oak, good widths, suitable
for building or furniture purposes.

CHAS. F. SHIELS & CO., Cincinnati, O.

MACHINERY FOR SALE

FOR SALE.

One Thomas & Albright bolter with a 34"
saw in Al iiiiiiliiiiin.
I'.l.l I I I us II ARI1W0 'ii-. IJliiffton, Ohio

RAILWAY EQUIPMENT

RAILS AND LOCOMOTIVES.

All inquiries for industrial railway equip-
ment listed before Record readers will And
ready response.

Hardwood Record, Chicago, 111.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

FOR SALE.

Half or entire interest in 30,000 ft. mill,
available to 2,500 acres of virgin oak, ash
and hickory about 2 miles from railroad.

H. G. CADY, Pine Bluff, Ark.

BAND MILL AT BARGAIN.

Dirt cheap for cash or on time ; fine loca-
tion, abundance hardwood logs : cheap timber
situated on river and railroads ; low freight
rates to all points east, west and foreign.
Address

"BOX 497," care Hardwood Recobd.

MISCELLANEOUS

FACTS FROM PRACTICAL MEN.

The Hardwood Record is always in the mar-
ket for articles on any and every feature of
the hardwood industry. It wants practical
statements of fact from practical men who
know how certain things can be done in the
best way. Literary quality not essential. Lib-
eral pay for acceptable articles. Address

Editor Hardwood Record.

.■aiMiici^JHiMttiMMCMMMUftiMmi

't1 You want lo reach Buyers of *

% FURNITURE LUMBER $
§ The HARDWOOD RECORD |

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will do it for you.

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] Advertisers' Directory

NORTHERN HARDWOODS.

Mcock, J"lm I.., & Co 7

American Lumber & Mfg. Company . S
Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company*... 52

Babcock Lumber Company 8

Barnaby, C. H 58

Beyer, Knox .v Co 59

Bliss & Van Auken 12

Boyne City Lumber Company 55

Brownlee & Co 54

i :i. ffalo 1 1 i rdw ood Lumber < iompany . . 59

Cadillac Handle Company 3

• larter, Frank-, Company 53

Cheat River Lumber Company S

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co.... 9

Chicago Car Lumber Company 10

Chivvis, W. R 4u

Cincinna i i I lardw I Lbr. ' !ompa oj 57

Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc 3

■Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

tor, U.. Company

Crescent Lumber Company 56

Crosby & Betrkley Company, The

Cn i ■ * i P 52

Cummer, Digging & Co ;:

Darling, Chas., & Co 11

Davis, John R., Lumber Company 52

Davis, W. A 11

Dells Lumber & Shingle Company 52

Dennis Bros 55

Dennis & Smith Lumber Companj .... 5-1
D'Heur iV Swain Lumber Company... 5S

Dixon & Dewey

Dulilmeier Bros 57

Dwigbt Lumber Company 6

Elias, <;., & Bro 50

Empire Lumber Company... 58

Evans & Retting Lumber Company... .".4

Fall E 11

Forman Company, Thomas 6

Freiberg Lumber Company, The 57

Fuller ton-Powell Hardw 1 Lumber

Company g

Gillespie \V. M., Lumber Company... 7

Goldie, .1. S

Haak Lumber Company 39

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company .... 55
Hay lie n tV Wes.-oit Lumber Company, lo

Holloway Lumber Companj 7

Hoyt, C. I.. & Co 58

Indiana Quartered Oak Company 7

Ingram Lumber Company 52

James & Abbot Company 7

Jenks, Robert II., Lumber Company.. 5]

■Join-. < ■ W., Lumber Company L'

-Four;-, i [ardvi ood * iompany 7

Kampf, Albert R . 2

Keator, Ben C 11

Keith Lumber Company 11

Kelley Lumber & Shingle C y... ■ i;

Kneeland Bigelow Company 50

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company... Ih"

Liuehan Lumber Company . S

Litchfield, William E , 7

Lombard, E. B ±\

Longrltnight Lumber Company 5S

Mai Bride, Thos., Lumber Company . 55

Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company. .".7

Maley & Wertz 5S

Martin-Barriss Company 5]

Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company. . . 52

McClure Lumber Company .".;.

Mcllvain, .F. Gibson, & Co li

McLean, llugu. Lumber Company 59

.Miller, Anthony 59

Miller Bros H

Mitchell Bros 1 Iompany -, . 3

Mowbray & Robinson 57

Murphy & Diggins 3

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company 54

Nicola Lumber Company, The 8

Northern Lumber Company 50

Noi Hi Shore Lumber Company 54

North Vernon Pump & Lumber Co.... 2

North Western Lumber Company 53

O'Brien, John, Land & Lumber Co... 1"

Osburn, Nerval 39

Perrine -Armstrong Company 58

Price, K. E 7

Radiua, L. W., & Co .".7

Richmond Dark <fc Co 1"

Ross Lumber Company. . . .\ 1

Rumbarger Lumber Company

Ryan & McParland 10

Sailing, Hanson & Co 54

Sawyer-Goodman Company '>■'•

Seatcherd & Son 50

Schofield Bros 7

Simmons Lumber Company 55

Skillman Lumber Company 54

Slimmer. J.. & Co 10

Soble Bros 7

Standard Hardwood Lumber Companj , 59

Stearns Company, The 54

Stephenson, The L. Company 12

Stewart, I. N., & Bro 59

Stewart, Wm. H. & G S 56

Stimson, J. V 58

Stone, T. B., Lumber Company 56

Sullivan. T., & Co 59

Tegge Lumber Company

Turner, A. M., Lumber Companj 8

Van Keulen & Wilkinson Lumber 1 0 55

Vollmar & Below 52

Wagstaff, W. J

Walnut Lumber Companj 1 he 4S

"Ward Lumber Company '1

Wells, R. A.. Lumber Gompany i'1

White Lumber Company 10

White, W. IL. Company 50

Whitmer, Wm., & Sons. Inc 6

Wiborg & Hanna Company * 57

Willson Bros. Lumber C pan} s

Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company., 50

Wistar, Underbill & Co 7

"i eagei . I trson E

Young, W. D-, & Co 12

\ g iV ' futsinger ~,s

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS.

Advance 1 ,umber 1 lompanj 51

Alcock, John L., & Co. . 7

American Hdwd. Lumber Company. 18

American Lumber vV Mfg Company .. 8

\o.lrisoi, Tully Company 4

Atlantic Lumber Company 1

Beck, E. E., Lumber Company 51

Beyer, Knox tv Co 59

Brown, Geo. C, & Co IS

Brown, W. P., & Sons. Lumber Co... 2

Buffalo Hardw l Lumber < iompany - . 59

Carrier Lumber & Mfg. Company.... 12

Cherry River B 1 «v Lumber Co 9

Chicago tar Lumber Company 10

Chi wis, W. R 4;i

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co...

Columbia Hardwood Lumbei I ompany 11

Courtney, D. G 9

Crane, C. & Co -- - 56

Creseenl Lumber Company 5G

Crosby & Becklej 1 Iompany, The

Cypress Lumber Company 56

Darling Chas., & Co 11

1 lai idson- Benedicl • ompanj 1

Davis, W. A 11

Dennis & smith Lumber Company.... .-4
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company.... 5S

Dixon & Dewey

Dulilmeier Bros 57

Elias, G., & Bro 59

Empire Lumber Company, Buffalo .. 59
Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 54

Fall, E. .H

Farrin-Korn Lumber Company 57

Freiberg Lumber Company, The 57

Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber

< Iompany 5

"Garetson-Greason Lumber Company. . . 4;»
1 ;m \ oso Lumber < iompany 4

Gillespie, W. M-, Lumber Company... 7

Haas, Albert, Lumber Company . . . . 7
Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company . .

Hafner Manufacturing Companj 49

Has ward. M. A

Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co. . . 1

Hoyt, C. I.. & Co 58

Indiana Lumber Company 48

Indiana Quartered Oak Company 7

International Felloe Mfg. Company... 47

.Tames & Abbot Company 7

Jenks, Robert IL, Lumber Company.. 53

Jones, G. W-, Lumber Company 2

Jones Hardwood 1 'ompum 7

Kampf, Albert R -

Keator, Ben C 11

Keith Lumber Company 11

Kentucky Lumber Company -".7

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company. ........ 60

Lesh & Matthews Lumber' Company .. . 11

Linehan Lumber Company 8

Litchfield, William E 7

Lombard, E. B 11

Long-Knight Lumber Company 58

L.w. Boyd & Co 18

Luehrmann, Chas, F., Hardwood Lum-
ber Company 49

Maley. Thompson & Moffett Company. 57

Martin-Barriss Company 51

Massengale Lumber Company 40

McClure Lumber Company 55

MeCauley-Saunders Lumber Co..» 11

Mcllvain, J. 1 ; ibson, & Co

McLean-Davis Lumber l ompany

\b Lean, Hugh, Lumber Company , ,.

Miller, Anthony

\i ii ler Bros

VLosby, H W., & Co

Nio'i.i Lumber Company, The

O'Brien, John, Land & Lumber Co....
Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Company.

Paepcke-Leicht Lumber < Iompany

Plummer Lumber Company

Prii e, E. E

ftadina, L. W . & Co

Ra nsom, J. B. . & Co

Rhubesky, E. W

Richmond Park & Co

Hitler, W. M., Lumber Company

Roy Lumber Company

Rumbarger Lumber iompany

Ryan A: McParland

Seatcherd & Son

S( hofield Bros

Sehultz Bros. & 1 loweu

Slimmer, J.. & Co

Smith. R. M., & Co

Soul hern Lumber 1 Iompany

Standard Hardwood Lumber Cornpany.

Stearns 1 !ompanj . The

Steele & Hlbbard

Stevens 1 in ion Companj

Stewart, I. N., & Bra

Sti wart, Wm. IL & G. S

si imson, J. V

Stone, 1 B., Lumber < Iompany

S1 iman-Zearing Lumber Company...

Sullivan. T.. & Co

Swann-Day Lumber Company

Thomas & Proetz Lumber iompany..

'I in ee Slates Lumber < Iompany

'1 inner. A. M., Lumber Company

Vestal Lumber & Mfg, Company

Walnut Lumber 1 ompany, The

Ward Lumber Company

Wells, R. A . Lumber Company

West Florida Hardw 1 Company....

White l n tnbei 1 impanj

Whitmer, Win., & Sons, [nc

Wiborg \- Hanna Company..'

w illson Bros, l .umber 1 oiopa tiy

Wood, R. E., Lumbei ' lorn] j

Y eager, * trsou E

Young «v ( lutsinger

54
19

59

56
58

56
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11
10

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POPLAR.

Advance Lumbei 1 ompany

Atlantic Lumber Compans ,

Bro'n 11. W. P., & Sons, Lumbe I

Cheal River Lumber Company ...... .

I -111 I nr V , I I < . . , ,

! 'rane, C., & Co

Davidson -Benedicl 1 Iompany

Dawkins, W. IL. Lumber Company..,

Haas. Albert:. Lumber Companj

Hayden & Westcott Lumber Companj

l l.iyw ard, M. A

Kentucky Lumber Company

Keyes-Fannin Lumber Company

Massengale Lumber Companj

McLean-Davis Lumber Company

Rhubesky, E. \Y . .

Litter. W. M., Lumber ' Iompany. . . .

Roy Lnnibi r 1 "ompany

Schultz Bros. & < owen

Smith. R. M., & Co

Soui hem Lumber Company

Stevens-Eaton Company

s« aini-l lay Lumber ' lompanj

Thomas & Proetz Lumber ''ompany.-

Vansant, Kitchen & Co

Wood, R. E., Lumber < 'ompany

b'lbw Poplar Lumber Company

COTTONWOOD AND GUM.

HARDWOOD FLOORING.

idvance Lumber Company 51

Bliss & Van Auken 12

Buffalo Maple Flooring Company. The. 7

Carrier Lumber & Mfg. Company 12

Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc :j

Cummer, Diggins & Co 3

Dwigbt Lumber Company 1;

Eastman, s. i... Flooring 1 ompany.... 54

Fenn Bros. Company -1

Forman, Thos., 1 Iompany f 6

Haak Lumber Company 39

International Hardwood Company 56

Kerry & Hanson LI -ing Company. . . 55

Mitchell Bros. Company ;;

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company 4S

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company 54

Pease 1 Iompany, The 56

Stephenson, The L, Company 1°.

Ward Bros 12

WUce, The T., Companj 11

Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company.. 50

Wood Mosaic Flooring Company 2

i'oung, W. D., & Co 12

SAW MILL MACHINERY.

Bartlett, A. F., & Co 40

Cat land, M., Companj

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company. 44

Mersbon, W. B., & Co

Phoenix Manufacturing company j;j

01

1

10
33

39

47
6

Anderson-Tully Company 4

I'ai rin-Korn Lumber Companj 57

Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co. . 1

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 60

Luehrmann, C. F., Hardwood Lumber

Companv 49

Mosby, II. W., & Co 18

Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Company. 49

Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company 4

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Company... 40

Three States Lumber Company 60

CYPRESS.

Cypress Lumber Company 56

Hafner Manufacturing Company 19

Lothman Cypress Company 40

MeCauley-Saunders Lumber 1 ompany. 11

Plummer Lumber Company is

VENEERS.

WOODWORKING MACHINERY.

American Wood Working Machinery

( Iompany 45

Bartlett, A. F., & Co 40

Berlin Machine Works, The

Covel Manufacturing Company

( !rown Iron Works

Defiam e Machine Works, The 30

Hurley Machine Company

Matteson Manufacturing Company. ... 41

Nash. .1. M

Obei Manufacturing Company, The... 51
Si 1 Her, a. J 41

Smith, I ! . B., Ma> bine Company

w Is, s a , Machine Companj ...... 44

VENEER MACHINERY.

1 or Manufai turing ' ompany 43

LOGGING MACHINERY.

CI3 .lo Iron Works 46

Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company . , 47

Overpack, S. C 50

Russel Wheel & Foundry Company... 4u

DRY KILNS AND BLOWERS.

Gordon Hollow Bias! Grate Company. 44

Grand Rapids Veneer Works 47

Morton Drj Kiln Company 53

New York Blower Company 41

SAWS, KNIVES AND SUPPLIES.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works

Wiso nsln Veneer Company . ,

Atkins, i; C. .v Co 4G

Champion Saw Company 41 & 44

Covel Manufacturing Company

1 n >w 11 I n m Works

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 42

Hanchetl Swage Works 42

Hurley Machine Company

Marshall, Francis

Matteson Manufacturing Company. .. . 41

Shiner. S. J., & Sons 42

LUMBER INSURANCE.

Adirondack Fire Insurance Company..

Lumber Insurance Companj ■■! New-
York

Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
pany, Boston 1

1 amber 1 nderw liters 12

Pennsylvania Lumber men's Mutual
Fire Insurance Company

Rankin. Harry. & Co 36

Toledo Fire & Marine Insurance Co... 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

Childs, S. D., & Co 39

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 42

International Felloe Mfg. ('ompany... 47

Lumbermen's Credit Association 40

Martin & Co 51

Pease Company, The 56

Poole, Clark L., & Co 12

Remington Typewriter Company 39

Sanders, Henry, Company 42

Schenck. C. A., & Co 2

Standard Audit Company 40

HARDWOOD RECORD

39

"DEFIANCE" WOOD -WORKING MACHINERY

42" SPOKE AND HANDLE BLANK SAW

COMPLETE EQUIPMENTS OF

HIGH GRADE TOOLS

J* FOR MAKING j* .

Hubs, Spokes, Wheels, Single Trees, Hoops,

Wagons, Carriages, Handles, Bobbins, Spools,
Rims, Shafts, Poles, Insulator Pins and

Neck-Yokes, Oval Wood Dishes.

INVENTED AND BUILT BY

The DEFIANCE MACHINE WORKS

DEFIANCE, OHIO.
Send for 500 Page Catalogue

WALNUT.
OAK,
ASH,
POPLAR.

Keys=Fannin
Lumber Company

Manufacturers of Band
and Circular sawn

SOFT

YELLOW

POPLAR

Plain and quartered red and white
Oak, Hemlock, Bass and Chest-
nut. Give us a trial,

Ashla.r\d

Ky.

We Have ox Hand Ready for
Shipment a Nice Stock of

2^4 Clear Maple
Flooring

ALSO OTHER SIZES AND GRADES

Send us your orders

Our fine timber, modern plant and
skilled workmanship combine to
make a flooring that cannot be ex-
celled. You will be pleased with it.

HAAK LUMBER CO.

HAAKWOOD, MICH.

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

Winn von have anyth
purchase any tin

ng t o Bell, <>r wish to

il; in tin.' w <y "i

HARDWOOD LUMBER

CROSS TIBS

OH PILING

Norval Osburn,

Seaman, Ohio

COUNTERFEIT CHECKS

are frequent
except where
our

Two Piece
Geometrical
Barter Coin

is in u*;

I !)■

imitation lso
possible.

Sample if you
ask for it.

S. D. CHILDS

e, co.

Chicago

We also make
Time checks,
Stencils and
Log Hammers.

THE NEW MODELS
OF THE

REMINGTON

TYPEWRITER

are the product of the second
generation of Remington
genius and workmanship.
They represent age plus
youth; the experience of the
old combined with the pro-
gressiveness of the new.

SALES IN 1906 ARE BREAKING
ALL RECORDS FOR 30 YEARS

REMINGTON TYPEWRITER CO.

154 WABASH AVENUE
CHICAGO

HARDWOOD RECORD

A Journal of

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

fo every Manufacturer, Merchant and
Consumer of Hardwoods

R.E. Wood Lumber Company

C We own nearly a thousand million feet of virgin poplar, oak,
chestnut and other hardwood timber, and operate our own band mills
in West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
C Let us figure on your hardwood requirements.

GENERAL OFFICES:
CONTINENTAL BUILDING.

Baltimore, Maryland

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■Hp ^^^^^^^?f

Bartlett's No. "O" Hog, used with Hardwood Flooring Scrapers.

HOGS

We Build All Kinds
Tell Us What Kind Von Need

A. F. BARTLETT & CO.

Manufacturers of

SAWMILL MACHINERY

960 South Tilden Street
Saginaw, Mich.

SAVE YOUR MONEY

By Using the

RED BOOK

Published
Semiannually
in January
and July.

It contains a carefully prepared list of the
buyers of lumber in car lots, both among
the dealers and manufacturers.

The book indicates their financial stand-
ing and manner of meeting obligations.
Covers the UNITED STATES and MANI-
TOBA.

The trade recognizes this book as the au-
thority on the lines it covers.

A well organized Collection Department
is also operated and the same is open to you.

WRITE FOR TERMS

Lumbermen's Credit
Association

Established 1878

1405 Great Northern Bids ,
CHICAGO

18 Broadway,
NEW YORK CITY

MENTION THIS PAPER

Undoubtedly you arc
interested in one or all
of the following:

Audits of the condition and op-
eration of your business.
Modern accounting methods.
Mill cost systems.

If so, may we have a talk
with you?

tandard Audit Company

Suite 335

Marquette Building, CHICAGO

Irusselwheel&foundr YCOMPANY

HARDWOOD RECORD

41

Improved
Automatic
Band Saw
Sharpener

^T This machine excels all others for single cutting Band Saws from 8 to 14

^■•inches. Its construction is mechanically correct, simple and durable, and

*% does not possess any of the intricate complicated parts that confuse the oper-

i ator. The head is adjustable so that straight wheels can be used with the same

results as concave.

<L

This represents just one type of machine. We make in addition a com-
plete line of modern tools for the care of saws.

For particulars address

IHatteson Mfg. Co.

All Machines Fully Guaranteed

120-128 S. CLINTON STREET, =

CHICAGO, ILLS.

factory:
65JCYRUS, OHIO

Power
Money

S a ved
S a ved

Heating, Ventilating, Mechanical Draft,
Shavings and Conveying

FANS AND EXHAUSTERS

of every description.
WRITE FOR CATALOGUE No S8-G.

New York Blower Company

CHICAGO

25th Place and

office:
Stewart Avenue

New Type of Combined End Matcher

SAVES 20 PER CENT. TIME, COST AND LABOR.
USED BY THE LARGEST FLOORING CONCERNS.

Write for particulars to

A. J. SCHINDLER, 441-443 W. 21st Street, CHICAGO

KNIVES

Planer knives, veneer knives or any of the good machine

knives that you use are tempered best by skilled experience.

Know the truth and get your best machine knives from

CHAMPION SAW COMPANY,

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

42

HARDWOOD RECORD

DESIRED

"Here's to your
good health and the
good health of your
family. May you live
long and prosper." —

Jojeph Jefferjon
in Hip Van WinK/e

You can move 1000 feet of lumber on a GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING
LUMBER CART with the same
power or strength required to move
500 feet on a cart having common
friction-producing axles.

D*~THERE'S THE REASON

If You're wanting to reduce
your lumber handling costs we're
at your service.

REALIZED

— Prosperity-
through the help of
the Gillette Roller
Bearing Company, Ex-
perts in the Elimina-
tion of Expense, Grand
Rapids, Michigan.

Hanchett
Saw Swage

Every one made Perfect

The Swage with a Name

^ A poor Swage Kuins a Good Saw, and
for that reason the manufacturers of the

HANCHETT ADJUSTABLE SWAGE

employ only the Best Mechanics and use
only the Best Material in their construction.

It Pays Us
to make

Send for

Catalog

No. 10

It tells you al

I lie BeSt about them

It Pays You

to use

The Best

MANUFACTURED BY

l Hanchett Swage Works

Big Rapids, Michigan

We are Prepared to Supply Your Wants in

Veneered a Solid Stave
Columns

In all Hardwoods with the

Koll's
Patent

Lock
Joint

4^%

■T they ^m
CAN NOT IB
COME PB

Write today for prices

Henry Sanders Co,

900 Elston Ave.

IS»~

The Shimer Cutter Head!

Our business is to make Cutter Heads for people who find it pays to use
them. If it don't pay, we don't sell, for we make them to your order and
send on trial 30 days. Our faith in THE SHIMER CUTTER HEAD
speaks volumes. Made to suit every variety of Matcher or Moulder.
Full information in our catalogue and Pattern Book.

SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS,

MILTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

43

Sawdust

.Makers of bund saws lay stress upon the fact that a band saw makes less
sawdust than does a circular saw. We wish to lay stress upon the fad
that lumber (thin lumber) can be cut on a Coe Rotary Veneer Cutter with-
out making any sawdust at all.

Then, too, there are no slabs. The entire log is utilized.

Nearly every large sawmill in the country could profitably add a veneer
department. There is money in thin lumber. Many logs which are now
fed into the voracious maw of a band or circular saw might better be con-
verted into veneers. The day is .not far distant when a veneer department
will be considered an indispensable feature of every sawmill. The economi-
cal utilization of our forest products combined with the growing demand for
veneers for almost every conceivable use will result in a growth in the
manufacture of veneers that will be start lingly rapid.

The style "B" Coe Veneer Cutter, here illustrated, weighs 36,000 lbs.
Diameter of swing, 50 inches. Any length of knife up to 120 inches. Di-
ameter of spindles, (i inches.

It will cut stock from 1-120 to \ inch, i. e., it will cut anything from
the finest figured veneers up to \ inch box stock ; and it will, in a given
time, produce from 15 to 25 per cent, more stock, and better stock, than
can be cut on any other machine on the market. Our Catalog No. 5 is
interesting reading.

The Coe
Manufacturing Co.

105 Bernard Street

PAINESVILLE, OHIO, U. S. A.

44

HARDWOOD RECORD

Any Manufacturer

WILL 81

No

WILL SAVE MONEY

ITS POSSIBILITIES

Built to work S or 15" wide

IN THE ECONOMICAL PRODUCTION OF THE HIGHEST GRADE
OF POLISHED FLOORING ARE PRACTICALLY UNLIMITED. WE PROVE IT.

S.A.WOODS MACHINE CO., BOSTON

CHICAGO SEATTLE

SPECIALISTS IN PLANERS AND MOULDERS

STEAM

Have You Plenty ol It?

Do you want to obtain every ounce of steam your boilers are capable of

generating, every hour in the day. in any kind of weather,

regardless of the character or condition of

your Fuel ? If so, put in

THE GORDON HOLLOW BLAST GRATE

which makes

Two Boilers Do the Work of Three
"A Magnified Blacksmith's Forge"

The only practical forced draft system for wood burning furnaces or

ovens. Burns sawdust, slabs, etc., even when covered with

snow and ice. Let us send you an outfit on

approval. We will pay the freight

both ways in the event

of rejection.

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co.

GREENVILLE, MICHIGAN

CGood saws, that do their
duty, plus.

C Cutting edge that comes
from best material skill=
fully manufactured.

CHAMPION SAW CO.

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

45

Is Your Sander Doing
Perfect Work?

Not good enough, or satisfactory work, but the best ? Almost any sander will do "good
enough," but none will produce perfect work, unless scientifically so constructed as to keep the
sandpaper at an even tension at all points and at all times. The COLUMBIA is the only Sander
with a positive automatic take-up device. Investigate its merits. Built all sizes from 30 inches
to 84 inches.

American
Wood Working Machinery Co.

NEW ORLEANS
Hennen Building

SALESROOMS

CHICAGO
43 S. Canal Street

NEW YORK
136 Libert v Street

46

HARDWOOD RECORD

Long logs and heaOy logs are loaded by the

McGIFFERT Log Loader

just as easily as other kinds of logs.

Fact is — its heavy steel construction, great power

and wide base make it equal to any condition where

a loader could possibly be used. (15,000 pound logs

are handled by it.)

It propells itself, srops and switches its own cars, and

is always ready.

Ask for our booklet

CLYDE IRON WORKS,

DVLUTH, MINN.

ATKINS

Silver Steel

SAWS

are perfect in every detail. They stand up to their work as honest Saws should do. You'll find them cheapest in the end, because
they save shut-downs and require less attention. Order one saw from your dealer, from us or from our nearest Branch, where a
complete stock is carried for immediate shipment.

E. C ATKINS & CO., inc.

THE SILVER STEEL SAW PEOPLE

HOME OFFICE AND FACTORY: INDIANAPOLIS.

BRANCHES. ATLANTA CHICAGO, MEMPHIS MINNEAPOLIS N EW ORLEANS, N EW YORK CITY.
PORTLAND. SAN FRANCISCO, SEATTLE , TORON TO

HARDWOOD RECORD

47

WHAT HAVE YOU TO OFFER IN

Poplar — Oak — Ash — Chestnut

ALSO OTHER HARDWOODS-ALL GRADES
AND THICKNESSES

SCHULTZ BROTHERS ®L COWEN

1225 to 1240 Old Colony Building. CHICAGO

fmtna

6j&.

MANUFACTURERS OF STANDARD SIZE

WAGON FELLOES AND WAGON STOCK

Send your requirements and receive price.

COLUMBUS, MISS.

Hardwoods Dried in a Week!

CjJOur method can be attached to your old Kiln.
ijjlf it does not do all we claim after being installed,
we will take it out without expense to you.

Dept. D.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works

Grand Rapids, Mich.

LIDGERWOOD MACHINES

WILL STOCK YOUR MILL

SKIDDER.S
SNAKERS
YARDERS

LOADERS
PULL BOATS
CABLEWAYS

LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO. j

96 Liberty St., New York.
NEW ORLEANS ATLANTA SEATTLE

»M„««i«*

48

HARDWOOD RECORD

Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers
of all kinds of

HARDWOODS

BEVELED SIDING A SPECIALTY.
UNSURPASSED FACILITIES
FOR DELIVERING.

Knoxville
Tennessee

Wanted— to Buy or Contract for future Delivery

500.000 to 1.000,000 ft. Poplar, all grades
500.000 to 1.000.000 ft. Cypress, all grades
500.000 to 1,000,000 ft. Ash, all grades

g£2 PLUMMER LUMBER CO. ISsiffl

American Hardwood Lumber Co*

14,000,000 ft. Hardwood Lumber

YARDS AT BENTON, ARK., NEW ORLEANS, LA., ST. LOUIS, MO.,
DIUKSON, TENS.

H. W. Mosby & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM

ASH, ELM

Large Stock on Hand HELENA, ARKANSAS

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET

For choice lots of hardwoods.
Walnut our specialty.
Inspection at Mill Points.

The Walnut Lumber Company

Indianapolis, Indiana

TVT A C l-I \7 I I I r^

1> A o 1 1 V 1 LLb

HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

JOHN B. RANSOM 4 CO.,

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

We want to move quickly the following old dry stock. All of it has been on
sticks 6 to 18 months. Write us for delivered prices. We are prepared to
furnish promptly mixed cars of rough and dressed hardwoods of all kinds:

QUARTERED WHITE OAK

90 M 4/4 first and second
15 M 5/4 first and second
80 M 6/4 first and second
10 M 10/4 first and second
120 M 4/4 No. 1 Common
65 M 6/4 No. 1 Common
58 M 8/4 No. 1 Common
20 M 10/4 No. 1 Common
70 M 5/8 first and Becond Poplar
80 M 5/8 No. 1 Common Poplar
15 M 4/4 1st and 2d Quartered Sycamore
10 M 4/4 No. 1 Com. Quart'd Sycamore

QUARTERED RED OAK

100 M 4/4 first and second

58 M 6/4 first and second

15 M 8/4 first and second

95 M 4. 4 No. 1 Common

84 M 6 4 No. 1 Common

72 M 8/4 No. 1 Common

PLAIN OAK

50 M 4 4 1st and 2nd White
100 M 4 4 No. 1 Common White
100 M 4 4 first and second Red
100 M 4 4 No. l;Common Red

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Co.

Manufacturers of

"Acorn Brand"

THE FAMOUS FAULTLESS FLOORING
IN OAK AND BEECH.

Car Lots and Less Than Car Lot
Orders Solicited. Write for Prices.

Nashville, Tennessee

INDIANA LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers Lumber

DIMENSION STOCK A SPECIALTY.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Office and Mills : Corner Oldham
Street and Cumberland River

GEO. C. BROWN & CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Tennessee Red Cedar Lumber a Specialty. Nashville, Tennessee

LOVE,

BOYD & CO.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Will make special prices on :

150,000 ft.
300,000 ft.
400,000 ft.
500,000 ft.

40,000 ft.

60,000 ft.

13,000 ft.

1 in. Tennessee Red Cedar

1 in. to 4 in. Hickory

1 in. No. 1 Com. Plain White Oak

1 in. to 2}4 in..Qrtd. Red Oak.

2Y2 in. Is & 2s Qrtd. White Oak

2y2 in. No. 1 Com. Qrtd. White Oak

5-8 Sound Wormy Chestnut

ALL BONE DRY

OUR OWN CUT

HARDWOOD RECORD

49

C HP

•
OF

I /^\ I T I C

^ I

L U U 1 o

LARGEST

ALL HARDWOOD MARKETS

Wanted-Cypress, Ash and Cottonwood

Inspection at Point of Shipment When Quantity Justifies

Hafner Manufacturing Co.

CYPRESS, HARDWOODS

Mail orders receive our immediate
attention.

YARDS: FOOT OF DOCK STREET

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Co.

20 3 Frisco "Building

We have the following Dry Stoclc for sale piled at our mill:

QTD. WHITE OAK :
3 Cars 4/4 Common.

COTTONWOOD :
3 Cars 1" 1 and 2.
2 Cars 4/4 Common and Better Strips. 1 Car 1x13 to 17'' Box Boards.

GUM : EL,M :

5 Cars 1" Common Red. 1 Car 6/4 I,og Run.
1 Car 1x13 to 17" Box Boards. 4 Cars 4'' I,og Run.
1 Car 2" 1 and 2 Sap.

6 Cars 1% Common and Better Sap.

This Stock is All Band Sawed and Equalized

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Co.

CASH BUYERS OF OAK, ASH, CY-
PRESS, POPLAR, CHERRY AND ALL

HARDWOODS

Send Inspector When Quantity Justifies

Office and Yards : Hall and Angelrodt Sts.

Garetson-Greason Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

GUM LUMBER
OUR SPECIALTY

Carload Shipments Direct
from Our Own Mills

519 Bank or Commerce

LOTHMAN CYPRESS CO.

AIR DRIED

Louisiana Red Cypress

FOOT OP ANGELIGA STREET

CHAS. F. LUEHRMANN HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY

Carry a complete stock of Hardwood and are

constantly in the market to purchase

large blocks of stock for cash. Are

also the largest manufacturers of

the famous St. Francis

Basin Red Gum.

General Offices : 148 Carroll Street

W. R. CHIVVIS,

Lesperance Street and Iron
Mountain Railroad.

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

BLACK WALNUT LUMBER MY SPECIALTY. Always In the market to buy
Walnut and Cherry Lumber. Pay spot cash and take up at shipping
point when amounts justify.

STEELE & HIBBARD

North Brortdwav and Dock Streets
Wholesale Manufacturers, Dealers and Shippers

ASH. CYPRESS. MAHOGANY. OAK. POPLAR. &c.

Mills: Yazoo City, Miss.; McGregor, Ark.; England Ark.;
Dermott Ark. O'Hara, La.; Dexter, Mo.

Roland F. Krel

Manager Hardwood Dept.

Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Co

FRISCO

• BUILDING

FOR SALE: The Following Stocks, Shipped Direct From Our Mills:

12 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common Cottonwood, Dry. Scars 1 in. Log Run Elm (Bone Dry.)
8 " 1 in. 1st & 2ndBSapCrum,Pry. 6 cars 1 ill. No. 1 A 2, Com. Pin. Red Oak. " "
2 " 1 in. " " Red " " 2U0M ft. 1 In. and 2 in. Dry Cypresa, tall grades)

Write Us for Prices

MASSENGALE LUMBER CO., ST. LOUIS

Manufacturers and dealers in

HARDWOODS

In the market to buy and sell OAK, POPLAR, ASH, CYPRESS
Large stock dry lumber always on hand

5o

HARDWOOD RECORD

W. H. WHITE, Pres.

JAS. A. WHITE, Vice-Pres.

W. L. MARTIN, Secy.

THOS. WHITE. Treas.

W. H. WHITE COMPANY

BOYNE CITY, MICHIGAN

Manufacturers of Hardwood and Hemlock Lumber, Cedar Shingles,

White Rock Maple Flooring.

IXL POLISHED

Rock Maple Flooring

Our slow method of air seasoning and kiln drying

IXL Hardwood Flooring has stood

the test for 20 vears.

Please write for prices and booklet

Wisconsin Land «S Lumber Co.

HERMANSVILLE, MICHIGAN

Michigan Logging Wheels

-il

V^^Uf

" HI ■ "^A.

r W*r

.... P* \V-

'"' ~M

^L^ -

Have made them 85 years and know c P A \7 P D P A P IT MANISTEE,
how". Easy and cheap way <f logg.ng. O. \j» UV LI\rrtll\ MICHIGAN

You can*! go astray
when in the market

, IF YOU WRITE THE

Northern Lumber
Company

RUSH CULVER, Pres.

BIRCH, MICHIGAN

C We manufacture from our
own forests, the finest line of
Northern Hardwoods on the
market . C. We have the woods,
the machinery, the experience,
enabling us to fill your orders
right.

The KNEELAND BIGELOW CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF LUMBER

Annual Output:

20,000,000 ft. Hardwoods.
20,000,000 ft. Hemlock.

4,000,000 pes. Hardwood Lath.

9,000,000 pes. Hemlock Lath.

Mills ILvin the Yea.r
Arovirvd.

Bay City, Mich.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Si

f** i i~^ "\ 7 r^ i A ivt r~^

LL U V L L AIN L)

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF NORTHERN OHIO

The Martin-Barriss Company

Importers and Manufaclurers

MAHOGANY

?vnd Fine Hardwoods

THE

ROBERT HJENKS LUMBER

COMPANY

FOR SALE.

60 M leel 1" 1st and 2ds Poplar
223 N feel I'' No. 1 Common Poplar
!25 M feet 1" No. 2 Common Poplar

25 M feel 2" 1st and 2nd Poplar, 14" and up
125 M feel 8 4" Sound Wormy Chestnut
275 M feet 1" Sound Wormy Chestnut
153 M feet 1" 1st and 2nd Plain While Oak

85 M feet 1" 1st and 2nd Plain Red Oak
125 M feet 1" No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak

Quartered White and Red OaK.-We have a good assort-
ment of dry stock, Y& to 4 inches thick. Your inquiries solicited.

Plain White and Red Oah.— A limited amount of nice
stock, ready for shipment.

HARDWOODS

Dry Stock is Scarce

Mill Shipments are Slow in Coming Forward

We therefore call attention to stock of upwards
of SIX MILLION FEET seasoned HARD-
WOODS we offer for quick shipment from
Cleveland. WANT TO CLEAN IT OUT.
Are you interested?

The Advance Lumber
Company

13th Floor, Rockefeller Bldg., CLEVELAND, O.

Manufacturers and Dealers
In White Pine, Yellow Pine, Hemlock and Hardwoods

SYMBOLS FOR GRADE MARKS

Adopted by the Hardwood Manufacturers Association of United States

o

Panel and Wide No. 1
Wide No. 2

A

1*^ Box Boards

%

FAS or Firsts and

Seconds
Saps

l—\ Selects

(J^ No. 1 Common

(2, No. 2 Common

(3 No. 3 Common

(? No.

-1 Common

Every Manufacturer should stamp the grade on his Lumber.
Set of 10 Rubber Stamps. lX"xl'i" in size. Pad, Pint of Ink, and
Spreader, packed for shipment $3.50.

MARTIN & CO. LEWIS DOSTER, Sec'y

191 S. Clark St.. CHICAGO, or 1535 First Nat. Bank Bldg. CHICAGO

This cut shows the 44 inch No. 2

OBER LATHE

for turning Pick , Sledge .Hammer,
Hatchet and Double Bitted Axe
Handles, Whiffletrees, Yokes,
Spokes, Porch Spindles, Stair
Balusters, Table and Chair Legs,
Ball Bats, etc. We also manufac-
ture the No. 2 Lathes in 3 other
sizes, viz.: 36 in., 33 in., 22 in.

Simple, Strong,
Durable, Economical

We also manufacture other
Lathes for making Spoke-.
Handles and Variety Work.
Sanders, Shapers, Boring and
Chucking Machines, etc., etc.
Complete catalogue and price
list free.

THE OBER MFG. CO., 28 Bell St., CHAGRIN FALLS, 0., U. S. A.

52

HARDWOOD RECORD

\\ r f c? 4~* f~\ IV T ^ I TVT

W 1 o L (J IN o i r\

1

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

ARPIN HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
Saw and Planing Mill at Atlanta, near Bruce, on the Soo Line.

"We are prepared to furnish mixed carloads and
solicit your inquiries and orders. At present we
are offering Red Birch in thicknesses, 1 inch to
'Zyi inches common and better, also maple, birch
and one quarter sawed red oak flooring, basswood
ceiling and siding and finish ; also molding.
Our hardwood flooring, "A. H. h." Brand, is the
highest grade as to workmanship and quality."

VOLLMAR & BELOW

HARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN

Basswood, Birch

and Other Wisconsin Hardwoods

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU ARE IN THE MARKET FOR

C, P. CROSBY

RHINELANDER s : WISCONSIN

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Hard Maple a Specialty in all thicknesses from 1 inch
to 4 inch. Finest Birch in Wisconsin. Soft Elm,
Red Oak, 35,000 feet 3 in. Birch, Red all in.

DIFFICULT AND MIXED ORDERS A SPECIALTY

For Sale:

NATIONAL
INSPECTION

3,000,000 ft. inch Birch.
100,000 ft. inch Black Ash.
50,000 ft. inch Soft Elm.

All No. 1 Common and Better.
20,000 ft. 1x4 and wider,6ft., 1st & 2nd Birch.

Dells Lumber 4 Shingle Co.

EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN

Mason -Donaldson Lumber Co.

Rh.inela.nder, Wisconsin.

WE HAVE TO OFFER

25 cars 1 inch No. 2 Common & Better Soft Elm
.5 cars 1 '_• inch No. I Common & Better Soft Elm

3 cars I inch No. 3 Common Soft Elm
1 5 cars 1 inch No. 1 Common Plain Birch

8 cars 1 inch No. I Common & Better Red Birch

2 cars I l4 inch No. 1 Common and Better Red Birch

3 cars I '2 inch No. 1 Common and Better Red Birch

4 cars 2 inch No. 1 Common and Better Red Birch

3 cars 1 inch I st & 2nd Clear Basswood, 1 4 and 1 6 feet
25 cars 2 inch No. 3 Hemlock, Rough

John R. Davis Lumber Company

PHILLIPS, WISCONSIN
The Leading Manufacturers

Wisconsin Hardwoods

"SJiAKELESS" HEMLOCK and WHITE CEDAR PRODUCTS

WE HAVE THE FINEST BLOCK OF

4-4 UNSELECTED BIRCH

ON THE MARKET

Write for our Price Lists
and Stock Sheets

Mixed Cars, Even Grades
Prompt Shipments

We have
to offer
the

following
stock in
pile at
Ingram,
Wis.

^WAUSAU, WIS.

400.000 ft. 1 in. No. 1 Com. & Better PI. Birch.

12,000 ft. iy4 in. First & Second Plain Birch.

2O.000 ft. 2 in. No. 2 Common Plain Birch.

24.000 ft. 1 in. First & Second Red Birch.

15,000 ft. 1 in. No. 1 Common Red Birch.

2.500 ft. 114 in. First & Second Red Birch.

11.460 ft. l>i in. First & Second Red Birch. f Your

4.700 ft. 2 in. First & Second Red Birch. \ orders

2,144 ft. 1 in. Curly Birch. > and

2.350 ft. Hi. l'i and 2 in. Curly Birch. / innniries

22,000 ft. 1 in. End Dried White Birch. 1 SSKKS

42,000 ft. 1 in. No. 1 Com. & Better Soft Elm.l suiicuiu

M.OOO ft. 1 in. Select Pine. 1

57,000 ft. IV. in. No. 3 Shop & Better Pine. J

IO.ihiO ft. 1>., in. Select Pine. /

26,000 ft. 1'2 in. No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 Shop
Pine.

HARDWOOD RECORD S3

XTL T ¥ O /"* d~\. 1X.T O I 1X.T

w i^oor>^ir>

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

Frank Carter Co.

MANUFACTURER

Wisconsin Hardwood

SPECIALTY-HARD MAPLE

Mills: DURAND

SPRING VALLEY
GLEN FLORA
ELMWOOD
HILLSDALE

General Offices :

MENOMONIE, WIS.

Wisconsin Veneer Co*

RHINELANDER, WIS.

Largest and best equipped Veneer
cutting- plant in the country. High-
grade product from Birch, Maple,
Elm, Basswood, Ash and other na-
tive woods.

Veneers for Door Work a Specialty.

R. CONNOR CO.

WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS

Wisconsin
Hardwood

PINE AND HEM-
LOCK LUMBER

Mills at ■■,*...■■

Autmrndale,Wis..on W. C. R.K. \1;i fell \ |1> Ifl WlC

Stratford. Wis.,onC.&N.W.R.K. 1'lfll SIIIIClU, *Vl>.

After Jan. 1, 1907

We will be ready to sell

5,000,000 ft. Winter Sawed

Basswood, Elm and Birch

Carefully manufactured from
logs of superior quality

Sawyer-Goodman Company

Marinette, Wis.

North Western Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OF BAND-SAWED

Wisconsin Hardwoods

CAREFUL GRADINGS — PROMPT SHIPMENTS

General Offices, EAU CLAIRE, WIS. Mills at STANLEY, WIS.

The Morton Dry Kiln

MOIST AIR SYSTEM

Recording
Ther-
mometers.
Transfer
Cars.

Trucks.

Canvas

Doors.

HOW TO DRY LUMBER.

As exemplified in our Catalog D. Free on application.

MORTON DRY KILN CO., Chicago, Ills.

you want a
foot band mill?

This is a first-class
machine and will
give the best of re-
sults. It is strong,
well made, and as
g<-od as it looks.
Write us and we will
give you full particu-
lars.

Phoenix Mfg. Co.

Eau Claire, Wis.

54

HARDWOOD

RECORD

M

I C H I Q

IS FOR HARD MAPLE AND

A

GREY

IN

FAMOl

ELM

SALLING, HANSON & CO.

MANUFACTURERS OK

Michigan Hardwoods

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

WHEN VOL WANT ANY

NORTHERN OR. SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

WRITE

SKILLMAN LUMBER CO.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

S.L.EASTMAN FLOORING CO.

SAGINAW BRAND

MAPLE FLOORING

SAGINAW, MICH.

The Stearns Company

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

HARDWOODS

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Cincinnati, 0.

QUOTE ON SMALL OR LARGE LOTS.

WILL PLACE ORDERS FOR STOCK TO

BE MANUFACTURED

Wanted- Soft Maple

One-inch and Two-inch Log Run, Mill Culls Out, Pin
Worms no Defect. Will also buy Mill Culls.

BROWNLEE & COMPANY, Detroit, Mich.

The North Shore Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS

Hardwood and Hemlock Lumber

Rail and water shipments

THOMPSON

MICHIGAN

DENNIS & SMITH LUMBER CO.

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Office and Yards, FOURTH AND HOLDEN AVENUES,
DETROIT, MICH.

MILLS AT: Orndorlf. W. Va., Healers W. Va., and Parkersburg, W. Va.

Evans & Retting Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

Hardwood
Lumber

RAILROAD TIMBERS, TIES AND SWITCH TIES

MichTgln Trust Building Grand Rapids, Mich.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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MICHIGAN

FAMOUS FOR RED BIRCH AND BASSWOOD

BIRCH

WE WANT YOUR ORDERS FOR

4-4 and 5-4 No. 1 Common

Birch

A No. I STOCK

Simmons Lumber Company

SIMMONS, MICHIGAN

BOYNE CITY LUMBER COMPANY

BOYNE CITY

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE and other HARDWOODS

LARGE CAPACITY PROMPT SHIPMENTS RAIL OR CARGO

You read this=

==others

will,

too.

They would

read

youi

* ad.

Try it.

"Chief Brand"
Maple Flooring

Will commend itself to you and your trade on
its merits alone. 1 Comprises all the features
desirable in trood flooring. 1 Made by the latest,
most approved machinery methods and best
skilled labor. V We believe we can make it to
your interest to handle our "Chief Brand" and
will appreciate your inquiries.

Kerry £ Hanson Flooring Co.

GRAYLING. MICHIGAN

DEININIS BROS.

GRAND RAPIDS. : : : MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD LUMBER (by water or rail)
"NATIONAL" MAPLE & BIRCH FLOORING

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN THE FOLLOWING:

120M feet 4 4 Log Run Birch
125M feet 5 4 Log Run Birch
2 Cars 8 4 Common and Better Birch

1 Car I x4 Clear Birch

2 Cars 1x7 and Wider No. 1 Common Birch
140M feet 5 A Log Run Beech

160M feet 4 4 Log Run Soft Elm

Hard Maple— AU grades and thicknesses

Main Office :

205 209 Michigan

Trust

Company

Building

McCLURE LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Hardwoods

Main Offices.
Mills,

DETROIT. MICH.
EUTAW. ALA.

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 cars I" 1st 4 2nds C Com. Qld. While Oak 10 cars 1" Log Run Brown Ash

2 cars 2'j, 3 and 4" White Ash 10 cars 1" to 4" Dry Hard Maple

2 cars I" White Ash 10 cars I'' Log Run Birch

1 car 1 '-2 and 2" No. 1 Com. Brown Ash 10 cars I" Log Run Basswood

2 cars 2" Log Sun Soft Elm 5 cars 6 4 and 8 4. Green Log Run Hickory.

4 cars 2. 3 and 4" 1st and 2nds and No. 1 Com. Green White Oak
500M feel I" to 2", I's and 2's. selects and common. Dry Poplar:
2 cars 6 4 and 8 1. log Run, Second Growth While Ash.

'---Michl

J. S. GOLDIE.

Cadillac. :: Michigan.

SPECIAL PRICES on 50oM pieces
li" to 3'' Maple Squares 16" to 27" long
250M feet Maple cull
INQUIKIES SOLICITED FOR MICHIGAN LUMBER.

VAN KEULEN & WILKINSON LUMBER COMPANY

- M.inufaeturerH and Whole

HARDWOOD LUMBER and CRATING STOCK

Complete Stocks of Michigan Hardwoods — Maple, Beech, Birch, Elm,

Ash and Basswood for sale.
Grand Rapids, : : : Michigan

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

Hardwood Lumber

Main Office, Michigan Trust Company Building

GRAND RAPIDS . MICHIGAN

Thos. MacBride Lumber Company

HEADQUARTERS FOR

HARDWOODS

IN MICHIGAN

Michigan Trust Building, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

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UlINC/ir> JN A I I

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

C. CRANE & COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS

Poplar, Oak, Ash, Chestnut, Sycamore,
W. Va. Spruce, Pine and Elm

YEARLY CAPACITY 100,000,000 FEET

LONG BILL STUFF A SPECIALTY

Mills and Yards: CINCINNATI, OHIO

THE HOUSE OF STONE

The One of Good Grades
Poplar, Oak, Chestnut, Cottonwood, Ash, Basswood and Qum

T. B. STOINE LUMBER CO.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

CYPRESS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturer of Hardwoods and Cypress

*'Iain and Quartered White and Red Oak. Yellow Poplar,
Yellow Pine, Walnut, etc. Mills in Tenn., Ala. and Va.

OFFICE AND YARDS. GEST AND DALT0N AVE.. CINCINNATI. OHIO.

/\TT"U A TTl/ps to ship the highest standard of

Oak

Poplar

Ash

lumber at lowest consistent price

We are manufacturers and ship direct from our band mills

Chestnut

Basswood

Yellow Pine

W.H.&G.S. Stewart

Main Office : Cincinnati, Ohio, U. S A.

FRAMES,

SASH, DOORS,
BLINDS. MOULDINGS.
COLUMNS, CLASS,
STA1RW0RK.
INTERIOR TRIM.

PAINTS,

BUILDERS' HARDWARE,

MANTELS. ETC.

LARGE CINCINNATI FAC

TORIES MAKE PROMPT

SHIPMENTS POSSIBLE.

W. H. Dawkins Lumber Co.

Manufacturers of Band Sawed

Yellow Poplar

ASHLAND, KY.

OAK FLOORING

Thoroughly Kiln Dried.
Perfectly Manufactured.
We are located in the best Oak Timber section in the

United States; have new and modern machinery and

experienced operators.
Why should we not be able to furnish the best Oak

Flooring?
Write us and we will convince you that we can.

The INTERNATIONAL HARDWOOD COMPANY

Catletisburg, Kentucky

W. T. SCHNAUFER

H. G. CHAMBERLAIN

CRESCENT LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of

Hardwood Lumber
co. a

MARIETTA, O.

HARDWOOD RECORD

57

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L/lfN U1IN fS A 1 I

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

THE

MALEY, THOMPSON & MOFFETT CO.

Always in the Market for

BLACK WALNUT LOGS,
SELECTED WHITE OAK LOGS,
LUMBER OF ALL KINDS.

CINCINNATI,

OHIO

Cash buyers for stock in our line.

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co.

iEST AND Sl'M.Ml.K STREETS

Wholesalers Mahogany, Thin Lumber, Veneers

Finely figured quarter sau.il oak veneers a specialty.

THE E. E. BECK LUMBER COMPANY

Cash Buyers

Poplar, Oak, Chestnut

And Other Southern Hardwoods
ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES. WE BUY MILL COTS.

WE WANT

HARDWOODS

ALL THICKNESSES : : ALL KINDS
ALL GRADES

WRITE FOR PRICES

KENTUCKY LUMBER CO.

Cincinnati f^nI/mL* Ohio

L. W. RADINA & COMPANY

Correspondence Solicited with Buyers and Sellers of All Kinds of

Wanted for cash — desirable blocks of 1 inch to 4 inch Poplar, all grades,
Especially lj^-inch stock, for immediate shipment.

CLARK STREET AND DALTON AVENUE-

PLAIN OAK—BASSWOOD

Are what we want. All thicknesses and grades. Spot
cash. Send us list of your offerings with prices.

DUHLMEIER BROS., CINCINNATI, 0.

IN THE MARKET FOR

OAK-ASH-POPLAR

ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

MOWBRAY & ROBINSON

Office:
12 1 9 West Sixth Street

Yards:
Sixth Street, below Harriet

\ THE FREIBERG LUMBER CO.

\ Manufacturers ol

r-wJltili&fcj: ^Tt" ■ -'.l,v*lll >*jr'"- \ Tabasco Mahog!
^S^f^PS1.^ ..l.^v;''-fc«"ji Walnut, Oak

WL^r5l=5f "" ^ * M" T^ FV" EL/ Poplar, McLean and Findli

>gany

*&,

Poplar, McLean and Findlay Ats.

CINCINNATI, O.

44

BUY GUM"

Wf are in the market to buy
Dry Gum Lumber in any
quantity, from a single car
load to a million feet. Will
take all grades and thick
n esses. We receive lumber
at whipping poini. pay cash
and are liberal in inspection.

THE FARRIN-KORN

LUMBER COMPANY

General Office, Yards,

Planing Mills, Dry Kilns,

Cincinnati, Ohio
Purchasing Office.

Randolph Building.

Memphis, Tenn.

Cypress Red Gum Oak

THE WIBORG & HANNA COMPANY

CINCINNATI. OHIO

PLAIN

! AND

! QUARTER

! SAWED

White and Red Oak

; CHESTNUT
! POPLAR
! GUM AND
! CYPRESS

Flooring;, Siding, Ceiling, Base, Case and Molding. Rough, Dressed and Re-sawed. Mixed Carloads.

58

HARDWOOD RECORD

$> INDIANA $

■WHERE THE BEST HARDWOODS GROW-

THE WOODS FOR
WHICH INDIANA
IS FAMOUS.

Quart Yd White Oak

Plain White Oak

Quartered Red Oak

Plain Red Oak

White Ash

Poplar

Black Walnut

Cherry

Sycamore

Red Gum

Hickory

Beech

Maple

Veneers of

Indiana Hardwoods

J. V. STIMSON

All Kinds of Hardwood Lumber Manufactured

HUNTINGBURG, IND.

YOUNG & CUTSINGER

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Fine Figured Quartered Oak

EVANSVILLE, IND.

CHARLES H. BARNABY

Manufacturer of Band Sawed Hardwoods

Quarter Sawed Indiana White Oak a Specialty GREENCASTLE, IND.

D'HEUR & SWAIN LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Quartered Oak and Sycamore

SEYMOUR, IND.

C. I. HOYT & CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Quartered and Plain Oak, Poplar, Ash and Chestnut

Specialty in Difficult Orders in Wagon Stock. PEKIN, IND.

LONG-KNIGHT LUMBER CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS

Quarter Sawed White and Red Oak a Specialty

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

MALEY & WERTZ

Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Exporters of Hard-wood Lumber

EVANSVILLE, IND.

PERRINE-ARMSTRONG CO.

Long Timber up to 60 feet — Hardwood Specialties

The largest Band Mill in Indiana. FORT WAYNE, IND.

HARDWOOD RECORD

BUFFALO

THE GREAT WHOLESALE LUMBER CENTER OF THE EAST

59

Manufacturers and
Dealers in

Ash

White and Brown

Basswood
Birch

Red and White

Butternut

Cherry

Chestnut

Cottonwood

Cypress

Elm

Soft and Rock

Gum

Red and Tupelo

Hickory
Maple

Hard and Soft

Red Oak

Plain and Quartered

White Oak

Plain and Quartered

Black Walnut
White Wood

Poplar

L N. STEWART & BROTHER

Specialties: CHERRY AND OAK

892 ELK STREET

T. SULLIVAN & COMPANY

Specialties; BROWN ASH, BIRCH, PACIFIC COAST FIR AND SPRUCE

50 ARTHUR STREET

ORSON E. YEAGER

Specialties: OAK, ASH AND POPLAR

932 EI.K STREET

BEYER, KNOX & COMPANY

ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

Office and Yards, 69 LEROY AVENUE

BUFFALO HARDWOOD LUMBER CO,

We want to buy for cash :

Oak, Ash and other Hardwoods, all grades and thicknesses.
Will receive and inspect stock at shipping point.
P. O. Box 312, MEMPHIS. TENN. 940 SENECA STREET-

EMPIRE LUMBER COMPANY

Our specialties are PLAIN »nd QUARTERED OAK and ASH.

1142 SENECA STREET.

G. ELIAS & BROTHER

BUY AND CARRY LARGE QUANTITIES OF ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

955 TO 1015 ELK STREET

HUGH McLEAN LUMBER COMPANY

Specialty: INDIANA WHITE OAK

940 ELK STREET

ANTHONY MILLER

HARDWOODS OF ALL KINDS

893 EAGLE STREET

SCATCHERD & SON

HARDWOODS ONLY

Yard. 1555 SENECA STREET Office, 886 ELLICOTT SQUARE

STANDARD HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

OAK, ASH AND CHESTNUT

1075 CLINTON STREET

Vansant,

5-8 AND 4-4

IN WIDE STOCK.

SPECIALTY

Kitchen &

MANUFACTURERS OLD-FASHIONED

SOFT YELLOW
POPLAR

Ashland, Kentucky

Company

Three States Lumber Co.

250M DRY 1 3" TO 1 7"
COTTONWOOD BOX BOARDS

Prompt Shipment Memphis, Tennessee

Lamb -Fish Lumber Co.

SUCCESSORS TO LAMB HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY, BACON-NOLAN-HARDWOOD COMPANY GUIRL-STOVER LUMBER COMPANY

Ma.nufa.c-

turers

OAK, ASH, COTTONWOOD, GUM
AND CYPRESS

MAIN OFFICE: 720 MEMPHIS TR.VST BUILDING. MEMPHIS, TENN.
_._ n _ ««•«« \ Memphis. Tervrv. r\ £\ • « .. , Well Manufactured Stock

Three Band Mills g^nc^?Ita* Uur Specialties Good Grades

**m*^'v ■»••••»• *• «— »» / Stover, M'ss. r I Prompt Shipments

mm poplar

MANUFACTURERS

BAND SAWED
POPLAR
LUMBER

DRY

ALL GRADES

5-8, 4-4. 5 4,6-4, 8 4, 10 4, 12-4,16 4

flevel Siding, Lath & Squares

SPECIALTV, WIDE STOCK

Coal Grove, Ohio, U, S. A.

MMwolRoaiM

Twelfth Year, (
Semi-monthly, f

CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 10, 1907.

| Subscription $2.
(Single Copies, 10

Cents.

1

2,000,000 Feet

FOR SALE

ROSS LUMBER CO.

JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK

rly manufactured and treat
lit Accordance with method
featy-five years1 experience

WE INVITE YOU

To Thoroughy Investigate Our Company

PENNA. LUMBERMEN'S MUTUAL FIRE INS. CO.

943 Drexe Bdg.. Philadelphia. Pol.

Nffw York Office:

8018 Metropolitan Building

I Madison Avenue

RUMBARGER LUMBER COMPANY

Main Office: 808 Harrison Bldg., 15th and Market Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
OFFERS FOR SALE

IPittsburg'Office:^
'|70l_Keystone Building

5 Million feet Southern White Pine, 1 in., 1J in., H in.
and 2 in. thick, stock widths, mostly one, two and
three Barn and Box, rough or worked.
5 cars 1 in. No. 1 and No. 2 Cherry
5 cars 1 in. No. 1 and No. 2 Poplar
20 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common Poplar
20 cars 1 in. No. 2 Common PoplaJ

50 cars 1 in. Log Run Oak

7 cars 1 in. No. 2 Common Quartered White Oak
12 cars 1 in. No. 2 Common Quartered Bed Oak

Full stocks in 1 in. to 2 in. Log Run Birch and 1 in. and
2 in. Log Run Maple, also dimension sizes Wesl Virginia
Spruce and Hemlock

COMPANIES SPECIALIZING IN LUMBER AND WOODWORKING RISKS:

LUMBER INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK

66 BROADWAY, NEW YORK

CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $300,000

ADIRONDACK FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

66 BROADWAY, NEW YORK

CAPITAL AND SURPLUS. $300,000

ADVERTISERS' CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY FOLLOWS WANT AND FOR SALE ADVERTISING SECTION.

HARDWOOD RECORD

LOUISVILLE

MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF KENTUCKY

Dry stock vv. P, Brown & Sons Lumber Co.

Louisville, Ky.

PLAIN BED
65,000' 1" 1st &
25,000' 1%" let
49,000' 1%" 1st
57,000' 2" 1st &
18,000' 2%" lBt
16,000' 3" 1st &
131,000' I" No. 1
84,000' 1%" No.
1%" No.
2" No. 1
2V," No.
No. 1

44,000'

47,000'

8,000'

15,000'

OAK.
2nd.
& 2d.
& 2d.

2d.
& 2d.

2d.
Com.
1 Com.
1 Com.
Com.
1 Com.
Com.

QUARTERED BED OAK.
19,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
All thicknesses In cul poplar, ash, chestnut.

14,000' 1H" 1st & 2d.

5,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
15,000' 1" No. 1 Com.

7,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
13,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

PLAIN WHITE OAK.

80,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
28,000' 114" 1st & 2d.
12,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
42,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
23.800' 2%- 1st & 2d.
16,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
227,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
60.000' 114" No. 1 Com.
80,000* IV," No. 1 Com.

50,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
17,000' 2H" No. 1 Com.
22,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

9.UARTEEED WHITE OAK.

50.000' 1" 1st & 2d.
28,000' 1H" 1st & 2d.
45,000' ly," 1st & 2d.
49,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
19,000' 2%" 1st & 2d.
18,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
30,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
40.000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
22.000' 2" No. 1 Com.
10,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

ASH.

9.000' 1" 1st & 2d.
65,000' 1%" lBt & 2d.
16,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
10.000' 2" 1st & 2d.

8,000' 2%" 1st & 2d.
14,000' 3" 1st & 2d.

6,000' 4" 1st & 2d.

4.0O0' 1%" No. 1 Com.
16.000' Hi" No. 1 Com.

8.000' 2" No. 1 Com.

POPLAR.
12,000' 1" 1st & 2d.

Your Inquiries will be appreciated.

12,000' Hi" 1st & 2d.
11.000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
12,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
10,000' 2U" 1st & 2d.
10,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
50,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
28,000' lVt" No. 1 Com.
10,000' \%" No. 1 Com.
10,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
15,000' 1" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

8,000' 2" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

6,000' 2" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

4.000' 1H" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

3.000' 1M>" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

Prompt delivery guaranteed

McLean -Davis Lumber Co.

Successors to

Hugh McLean Lumber Co., Highland Park, Ky.
ltd ward L. Davis Lumber Co., Louisville, Ky.
Berry - Davis Saw Mill Co., Louisville, Ky.

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Hardwood Lumber

Daily Capacity:
80,000 feet

Sales Oifices:
Louisville, Ky.

Albert R. Karnpi

Manufacturer

Hardwood Lumber and Timber

Dimension Stock

Board of Trade Bldg., Louisville, Ky.

E. W. Rhubesky

"Wholesale

Poplar, Rough and Dressed.

Oak, Chestnut and Other

Hardwoods

North Vernon
Lumber Co.

Band Sawed Plain and Quartered

Oak and Poplar.

North Vernon, Ind., and

Louisville, Ky,

Southern Lumber Co.

Oak, Poplar and

Chestnut.
Louisville, Ky.

If the
Blamed Railroads

. will give us cars,
You can get quick action on:

15M feet^lA inch 1st and 2nd Basswood.

13M feet H inch No. 2 Common Basswood.
200M feet 1 inch 1st and 2nd Birch.
12.">M feet 1 inch No. 1 Common Birch.

15M feet 2 inch 1st and 2nd Birch. Red
100M feet 1 inch No. 2 C. & B. Maple.
100M feet 11 inch No. 1 Common Red Gum.

75M feet f inch 1st and 2nd Sap Gum.

50M feet 1] inch No. 1 Common Sap Gum.

30M feet 2J inch No. 1 C. and B. Sap Cum.
100M feet 1 inch 1st and 2nd < >ak.

7.")M feet 1 inch No. 1 Common Oak.

WHAT ARE YOUR FUTURE REQUIREMENTS ?

Ouh Mills Will :
Cut to your order. Grade to your order.

Pile to your order. Ship to your order.

Arkansas MILLS Wisconsin

G. W. JONES LUMBER CO.

APPLETON, WISCONSIN

Ornamental Hardwood Floors

400 STYLES AND PATTERNS

Illustrated Catalog on Application

WOOD - MOSAIC FLOORING CO.

Rochester, N. Y. New Albany, Ind.

All Lumbermen, Attention!

We do what you can't do.
We measure your stumpage correctly.
We make your maps correctly.
Bank references: Asheville, N. C.

L. A. OCnenCK Co L0. North Carolina.

HARDWOOD RECORD

CADILLAC

CELEBRATED FOR HIGH STANDARD OF QUALITY AND MILL WORK

Mitchell's Make-
Dry

Michigan Hardwoods

78,000 ft. 4/4 Birch No. 2 Common and Better

4,000 " 4/4 Cherry "

5,000" 4/4 " No. 3 Common
40.000 " 8/4 Gray Elm 1st and 2nds
.59,000 " 4/4 Hard Maple
45,000 "6/4 "
33,000 " 10/4 "

2,000 " 12/4 "
79,000 " 4/4 Red Oak No. 2 and Better

END DRIED IN SHED

25,000 ft. 4/4 White Basswood, Clear

5,000 " 5/4 White Maple
23,000 " 8/4 "

PLEASE SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES

Mitchell Brothers Company

CADILLAC, MICH.

The Cadillac Handle Co.

Band Sawn
Michigan Hardwoods

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 Cars 4/4 Maple, No. 1 and 2 Common.

3 Cars 4'4 Maple 1st and 2nds.

2 Cars 5 4 Maple No. 1 Common and better.

1 Car 6 4 Maple No. 1 Common and better, 10 in. and over wide.

2 Cars 8 4 Maple No. 1 Common and better.
2 Cars 4/4 Birch No. 2 Common and better.

We are prepared to contract No. 3 Common Maple, for future sawing.

MURPHY & DK3GINS

Offer all grades of the following special dry stock

MAPLE^5/4, 6/4, 8/4, 10/4, 12 4, 14/4, 16/4
GRAY ELM-4/4, 12/4
BASSWOOD— 4/4 .
BIRCB-4/4, 6/4

Our own manufacture. Perfect Mill Work. Uniform Grades.
LET US FIGURE ON YOUR HARDWOOD WANTS.

Cummer, Biggins & Co.

=MANUFACTURERS-

"CUMMER" MAPLE
AND BEECH FLOORING

MICHIGAN HARDWOODS

Good assortment of dry stock on hand ready
for immediate shipment in Hard Maple, Beech,
Birch, Soft Elm and Cherry.

SEND US A LIST OF YOUR REQUIREMENTS.

DRY ST

OCK J

Northern Michigan

Soft Gray Elm

What our old cork pine was to the regular
white pine — such is our Soft Gray Elm to
ordinary soft elm. Buyers who gladly discrim-
inate in favor of something better than the or-
dinary, will be interested. We have

10 cars 8-4 firsts and seconds.

1 car 101 firsts and seconds.

2 cars 12=4 firsts and seconds.

Wide, choice stock, our own product, seasoned right,
bone dry.

WRITE US ABOUT IT.

C0BB5&M1TGHELL

( INCORPORATED)

CADILLAC, MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

Anderson-Tully Company

OFFERS STOCK FOR SALE

100,001) ft. 1 iii. firsts and seconds Cottonwood 13 in. and up wide
500,000 " 1 in. and 1| in. shops and better Cypress
One car 4-4 firsts and seconds Plain Red Oak
One car 4-4 " " " " White Oak

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

WAGON STOCK

IN ROUGH.

TONGUES, AXLES, REACHES, BOLSTERS
AND 6 4 TO 16 4 HICKORY. ALSO ALL

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

Gayoso Lumber Co., Inc.

Memphis, Tenn.

Swann-Day Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OF

POPLAR AND OAK

PLANING MILL STOCK, BOX SHOOKS
AND HARDWOOD DIMENSION

CLAY CITY, KENTUCKY

FENN BROS. COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Oak Flooring

Quartered lA/hite Hollow Backed

Quartered Red End /Watched

Plain \A/hite . Polished

Plain Red Bored

Offices and Plant :

Kansas and Mallory Ave., New South Memphis.

(Take Soulh Memphis car lo Mallory Ave.)

H. W. Mosby & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM

ASH, ELM

Large Stock on Hand HELENA, ARKANSAS

PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM AIND OTHER HARDWOODS

Large stocks of well seasoned Lumber always carried at our yards and mills.
General Offices: 1 40 W. Chicago Ave., CHICAGO. Mills: Cairo, III., Marked Tree, Aik.,Gieenville, Miss., Arkansas City, Ark., Blytheville, Ark.

HARDWOOD RECORD

W.MLRitter Lumber Co

COLUMBUS, OHIO

^Saw and Ship 100,000,000 Feet Yearly

WEST VIRGINIA YELLOW POPLAR
NORTH CAROLINA CORK WHITEIPINE

AND HARDWOOD

DRY KILNS ANDTLANING MILLS. ALL OUR MILLS RUN THE YEAR ROUND.
SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES AND ORDERS.] "'

FULLERTON-POWELL

Hardwood Lumber Co.

OFFERS THE FOLLOWING STOCK
FOP. IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

40 Cars 1 inch 1st and 2nds Plain Red Oak
20 Cars 1 inch 1st and 2nds Plain White Oak

1 Car 3 inch 1st and 2nds Plain White Oak

2 Cars 2 inch 1st and 2nds White Ash

2 Cars 3 inch 1st and 2nds White Ash

10 Cars 1 inch 1st and 2nds Red Gum, 10 to 16 feet

3 Cars 1 inch 1st and 2nds Red Gum, 12 feet

BRANCH OFFICES:

MAIN OFFICES

CHICAGO, 1104 Chamber of Commerce

MEMPHIS, TFMM.,305 Tennessee Trust Bldg. \ Z"; T "j / CVw«*A 1±*f*i/1 fft/}

MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.. 30B Lumber Exchanae \ ^^ J OOttf/> Betid, 1110.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Phila. Veneer 4 Lumber Co.

817 NORTH FIFTH STREET. PHILADELPHIA, PA.

SLICED AND SAWED

Quartered Oak Veneer

CUT TO DIMENSION SIZES (JOINTED AND TAPED)

WE HAVE A GOOD STOCK OF PLAIN AND QUAR-
TERED OAK ON YARD AT KNOXVILLE MILL

Thomas Forman Company

MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE

Maple and Oak

Fl

oonng

New York Branch :

McOovern 6 Boweo, And Hardwood Lumber

29 Broadway

DETROIT.
MICHIGAN

WILLIAM WHITMER. ®> SONS, Inc.

fALWAYS IN THE MARKET FOR STOCKS OF
WELL ^MANUFACTURED

HARDWOODS

BRANCHES: 1

NEW YORK, BOSTON, PITTSBURG

MAIN OFFICES:!

GIRARD TRUST BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA

The Crosby & Beckley Company

HARDWOODS

We aire
In the Market for Choice Stock

WRITE US

No. 1 Madison Ave.,
New York, N. Y.

New Haven,
Connecticut.

Quartered Oak Flooring

Manufactured for

HIGHEST GLASS of trade only.

Also Plain Oak, Maple and other Hardwood flooring.

The name D WIGHT on flooring is a guarantee of its

excellence.
D WIGHT SPECIAL pattern of thin flooring is the
only suitable thin flooring to lay. Write for Sample.

DWIGHT LUMBER COMPANY

DETR.OIT, MICHIGAN

John t. dixon

HARRY S . DEWEY

We are not Wizards in making new grades to fit a price.

No tricks in our methods of making shipments. The
straight grades are good enough for us.

If you will give us a trial order for POPLAR., OAK,
ASH, CHESTNUT or OAK, MAPLE and YELLOW
PINE FLOORING, we believe we can demonstrate our
ability to please you.

DIXON & DEWEY

716 and 716 A, Flatiron Building,

NEW YORK

HARDWOOD RECORD

T* ¥..! ■"" * F^ A ^ HP

l II b b A o i

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BOSTON NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA

Wistar, Underhill & Co.,

==== WHOLESALE ===

HARDWOOD LUMBER

8i6 Real Estate Trust Building,

PHILADELPHIA.

W. M. GILLESPIE LUMBER

HARDWOODS COMPAN I Farmers Bank Bldg.
Oak a Specialty PITTSBURGH, PA.

What Do You Want
In Hardwood and Building Lumber?

Asli 275,000 ft. Oak 1,300.000 ft.

Chestnut 2,225,000 ft. White Pine 828,500 ft.

Cypress 675,000 ft. Yellow Pine 775,000 ft.

Hemlock l.lOO.OOO ft. Poplar 832,500 ft.

Maple 810,000 ft. Cherry 210,000 ft.

WE WILL BE GLAD TO RECEIVE YOUR INQUIRIES
FOR THESE OR ANY OTHER SPECIAL LUMBER.

J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co.

56th to 58th Streets and Woodland Ave., PHILADELPHIA PA.

The West Florida Hardwood Co.

Asb
Hickory

Mitr on Apalachicola River
MARYSVILLE, FLA.

Red and White Oak Red Gum

Yellow Cottonwood Tupelo Gum

LET US HAVE YOUR INQUIRIES =

ALBERT

HAAS LUMBER

CO.

BAND SAWED

OAI

YELLOW POPLAR

ATLANTA

l:

GEORGIA

JOHN L. ALCOCK & CO.

BUYERS OF BLACK WALNUT LOGS
BOARDS AND PLANKS

Baltimore, Md.

Inspection at point of
shipment. Spot cash.

THE BUFFALO MAPLE FLOORING CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE AND OAK FLOORING

BUFFALO, NEW YORK

James & Abbot Company

Lumber and Timber

No. J65 MILK ST., BOSTON, MASS., and GULFPORT, MISS.

Wantcd-Dimcnsion OaK>plainandQuartered'

White and Red. Send for specifications.

Indiana Qxia-rtered Oak Co.

7 EaLSt 42nd Street, New York City

STEVENS-EATON CO.

Buyers of

ROUND I.OTS

of

Hardwoods

No 1 Madison

Avenue,

New York

ESPECIALLY IN MARKET FOR PLAIN RED OAK

JONES HARDWOOD CO.

IN' 'HHATEI'

WANTS: Poplar, Plain Oak,
Quartered Oak and Cypress.

147 MILK STREET
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Manufacturers ph-ase send slock lists and prices.

Holloway Lumber Company

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

In the market for all thicknesses of
OAK, ASH and CHESTNUT.

312 Arcade Building,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

WM.

E. LITCHFIELD

MASON BUILDING

BOSTON, MASS.

Specialist in

Hardwoods

Manufacturers are requested to

supply lists of stock for sale

J. H. SCHOFIELD

R. W. SCHOFIELD

SCHOFIELD

BROTHERS

LUMBER

WHITE PINE
AND HARDWOODS

1019-1020 Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Bldg.,

Sales Agents: Long Pole Lumber Co., Case-Fowler Lumber Co.

Specialties:
bartered Wh
Oak, Poplar

Mills:

Honaker, Va.

Birmington, Ala.

S0BLL 'BROTHERS Quartered White

WHOLESALE LUMBER
Land Title Building ■ • Philadelphia, Pa.

HARDWOOD RECORD

To Timber Buyers

We have been established since 1880. We employ a larger force of
expert timber cruisers than any other firm in the world. We have
furnished banks and trust companies with expert reports on
timber properties upon which Millions of Dollars of timber certifi-
cates or bonds have been issued. We solicit correspondence with
bonafide investors. Our Specialty: Timber lands in the South,
Pacific Coast and British Columbia. We furnish detailed esti-
mates, thus enabling you to verify our representations at very
little expense and without loss of valuable time.

JAMES D. LACEY & CO.

JAMES D. LACEY

608 Hennen Bldg.. NEW ORLEANS. LA.
1200 Old Colony Bldg.. CHICAGO, ILL.

WOOD BEAL VICTOR THIiANE

507 Lumber Exch. Bldg., SEATTLE, WASH.
Chamber of Commerce. PORTLAND, ORE.

R. M. SMITH

J. H. P. SMITH

R. M. SMITH (& COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

WEST VIRGINIA HARDWOODS

PARKERSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA

WE CARRY IN STOCK FROM TEN TO FIFTEEN MILLION FEET OF ASH, BEECH, BASSWOOD, CHESTNUT, CHERRY,

MAPLE, PLAIN & QTD. OAK, POPLAR, WALNUT, &C. OUR PLANING

MILL FACILITIES ARE UNSURPASSED.

Band Mill: Orndoff, Webster County, W. Va.
Planing Mill; Heaters, W. Va.

EASTERN OFFICE:
1425-6 LAND TITLE BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA

The Tegge Lumber Co.

MILWAUKEE
WISCONSIN

BUYERS OF
ALL KINDS OF

1

HARI

)WOOD LUJ

VIBER

FEBRUARY STOCK LIST

1 in.
H in.
l| in.

3 in.

4 in.

HARD MAPLE

1,000,000 ft.

100,000 ft.

100,000 ft.

50,000 ft.

50,000 ft.

1 in.
1* in.

2 in.
2iin.

BEECH

100,000 ft.
BIRCH

500,000 ft.

100,000 ft.

100,000 ft.
50,000 ft.

BASSWOOD
1 in. 300,000 ft.

GRAY ELM
1 in. 300,000 ft.
1} in. 200,000 ft.
3 in. 200,000 ft.

Kelley Lumber & Shingle Co.

Traverse City, Mich.

HARDWOOD RECORD

SPRUCE

HEMLOCK

SPECIAL:

4-4 inch No. I Common Oak.
White or Red.

/

HARDWOODS

Cherry River Boom ®> Lumber Co.

"~l Scranton, Pa.

Band Mills: — Richwood, W. Va., Camden-on-Gauley, W. Va., Holcomb, W. Va.

D. <5. COURTNEY

MANUFACTURE R^O F

Yellow Poplar
Oak & Chestnut

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA

Our Timber Holdings are located exclusively in the finest sections of West Virginia
growth. Modern mills and perfect manufacture. Standard and uniform grades. ) ..""ifjj

We seek the trade of wood-working factories who want a dependable lumber supply
and fair treatment.

Just now we want to move 4/4 No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 Common Oak.

IO

HARDWOOD RECORD

CHICAGO

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

Hayden & Westcott Lumber Co.

IN MARKET- FOR

POPLAR

25 M ft. 1*" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
40 M ft. 2" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
25 M ft. 2*" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
60.M ft. 3" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.

ROCK ELM
200 M ft. 5 4 No. 1 Common and better
500 M ft. S 4 No. 1 Common and better

BLACK ASH
50 M ft. each 4 4, 5 4 and 6 '4 No. 1 common and better

OAK AND ASH
100 cars car oak framing
25 cars white ash from 1" to 4" green or dry.ls>nd'2s

511 Railway Exchange,

Chicago

PARK RICHMOND <&

CO.

Wholesale

Hardwood Lumbei

•

410 Monadnock Block

HARRISON 5165 V^IllCclgO

Ryan & McParland

CHICAGO AND MEMPHIS

In the Market to buy Ash, Hickory, Poplar
and Oak Lumber; also Wagon Stock

In the Market to buy Hardwood Logs for
our Memphis Band Mill

Chicago Car Lumber Co.

504 Pullman Building
CHICAGO

Buyers of Round Lots

Poplar, Oak, Ash and Car and R. R.
Material

J. Slimmer & Company

Hardwood
Lumber

Office and Yard :

65 W. Twentv-second St.

CHICAGO

R. A. WELLS LUMBER CO. |

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Fine Quartered Oak a Specialty

234 LA SALLE STREET
Yards at Canal and 21st Sts. CHICAGO,

>, ILL. I

White Lumber Company

Dealers in Hardwood Lumber

ALL KINDS /'
1

Cherry Lumber a s
Specia-Sty

ALL GRADES

Laflin <& 22d Sts.
Chicago

John O'Brien Land & Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Of All Kinds

OFFICE AND YARDS \

873 to 881 So. Laflin Street

MILL : PHILIPP, MISS.

Ch

ica go

HARDWOOD RECORD

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| O \V 1 C/ A O CJ

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

The Keith Lumber Co.

MAHOGANY

5,000,000 feet ma-
hogany in stock.

Large and fine stock
of Cuban wood.

FOREIGN AND

AMERICAN

HARDWOODS

14th and Wood Streets
CHICAGO

CHAS. DARLING & CO.

Southern
Hardwoods

22nd Street and Center Avenue - CHICAGO

A floor to adore

For thirty-three years Wilce's Hardwood Floor-
ins has been among the foremost on the market
and because it stands today "unequaled" is the
best evidence that its manufacturer has kept
abreast of modern methods and the advanced de-
mands of the trade. To convince yourself of the
above statements, try our polished surface floor-
ing, tongued and prooved, hollow backed, with
matched ends and holes for blind nailing — you'll
lnid it reduces the expense of laying and polishing.
V; / i in> Booklet tells all about Hardwood Flooring and

\m how to care Jar it — also prices— and is ft ■

The T. Wilce Company

22nd and Throop Sts. CHICAGO. ILL.

i

Wts

The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Co.

Wholesale and Retail

Telephone
NORTH 223

HARDWOOD LUMBER

47 Dominick St.
CHICAGO

IX \l\.l \A/VI IF^ 1101 FISHER BUILDING
J-\. 1/V . \TV Y 1^1 C, CHICAGO . ,LLINOis

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS
OAK GUM CYPRESS

McCauley - Saunders Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

RED CYPRESS

LOUISIANA GULF COAST

Products Exclusively

Sat&so 1703 Fisher Bldg., CHICAGO, ILL.

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Co.

1649-ftO MARQUETTE BUILDING

Are now offering bone drv BIRCH. ROCK ELM, BLACK ASH. etc.. Wis-
consin stock. Also PLAIN AND QUARTERED OAK, POPLAR, etc.,
from our Memphis yard. We are constant buyers.

W. A. DAVIS

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

1612 Marquette Bldg., CHICAGO
Branch Offices : PADCCAH, KY., and MEMPHIS, TENN.

1 ERNEST B. LOMBARD 1

Manvif&cturer ar\d Wholesale

Northern e^rvd Southern,
Hardwoods

Railway Exchange

CHICAGO

THE WARD LIMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

HARDWOODS

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUILDING :: CHICAGO

CHA3. MILLER

MILLER BROS.

MILTON MILLEB.

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Main Office: 20S WILLOUGHBY BLDG. 6 E. MADISON ST.
'Phone Central 1363 CHICAGO, ILL.

Yards: Loorais St. S.of 22nd St., Chicago, 111., Houston Miss., Macon, Miss.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

"ldeal"!s RocK Maple Flooring

is the flooring that is manufactured expressly to supply
the demand for the best. It is made by modern ma-
chinery from carefully-selected stock and every pre-
caution is taken throughout our entire system to
make it fulfill in every particular its name— "IDEAL-''

Rough or Finished Lumber — All Kinds

Send us Your Inquiries

The I. Stephenson Company

WELLS, MICHIGAN

We have in stock

150,000 ft. 4-4 White Maple Cross piled with 2%-
inch dry crossers.

125,000 ft. 4-4 Log run Birch red in. No thick
cut out.

Please favor us with your orders.

Bliss & Van Auken

Saginaw, W. S. Mich.

"Michigan Maple Flooring

Our model factory is equipped with the highest
class tools and appliances made for Flooring
production.

We produce our lumber from the best rock Ma-
ple area in Michigan and have 20 years' supply.

Our brand "Michigan" is a guaranty of qual-
ity. Perfect mill work and excellent grades
distinguish our Flooring and our prices are
reasonable.

WARD BROS., Big Rapids, Mich.

OAK FLOORING

Kiln Dried

Bored

Polished

/, HARDWOOD LUMBER x>\

& MFG. CO.

5ARDIS
- MISS-

Hollow
Backed

and

Bundled

CJ The HARDWOOD RECORD publishes a
series of bulletins, showing the annual hardwood re-
quirements of many thousands of wholesale consumers,
by kind, grade and thickness.

t| Indispensable to every lumber sales manager.

•J Specimen bulletin for the asking.

WE ARE OFFERING

TIMBER LAND 6% BONDS

Secured by first mortgage on Southern timber
lands at less than 50 per cent of their present
market value. Issued by large, well established,
responsible lumber companies. Full particu-
lars will be mailed on request.

CLARK L. F»OOLE & CO.

SUCCESSORS TO

H. C. BARROLL ® CO.. Bankers

First National Bank Building

CHICAGO

THE "FINEST" MAPLE FLOORING

W. D. YOUNG & CO.

BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

Producers from TREE to TRADE of the high-
est type of Michigan Forest Products. Large
stock of Maple Flooring and 15,000,000 feet
of Hardwoods — 1 to 4 inches thick — on hand.

Maple, Birch and Beech Lumber

Always Think Before You Act —
But in the Matter of

FIRE INSURANCE

But Don't Delay Too Long For
IT IS DANGEROUS.

Write at Once For Our Rates, etc.

Lumber Underwriters

66 Broadway, New York

MMWoM RecoM

Published In the Interest of Hardwood Lumber, American Hardwood Forests. Wood Veneer Industry. Hardwood Flooring.
Hardwood Interior Finish, Wood Chemicals, Saw Mill and Woodworking Machinery.

v<

Vol. XXIII.

CHICAGO. FEBRUARY 10. 1907.

No 8.

Oa),'|i,

Published on the 10th and 25th of each month by

THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

Henry H. Gibson. President

FRANK W. TUTTLE, Sec-Treas.

OFFICES
Sixin Floor Ellsworth Bldg., 355 Dearborn St Chicago, 111., U.S.A.

Telephones: Harrison 4960 Automatic 5659

TERMS OF ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION

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In all other countries in Universal Postal Union ..... 3.00
Subscriptions are payable in advance, and in default of written orders to the
contrary are continued at our option.

The entire contents of this publication are covered by the general copy-
right, and articles must not be reprinted without special permission.
Entered at Chicago Postoffice as Second Class Matter.

Advertising copy roust be received five days in advance of
Publication date. Advertising rates on application.

ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.

National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association.

This association will hold its next annual convention on
Wednesday and Thursday, March 6 and 7, 1907, at the New
Wiuard Hotel, Washington, D. C.

National Hardwood Lumber Association.

The tenth annual convention of this association will be
held on Thursday and Friday, May 23 and 24, 1907, at
Atlantic City, N. J.

General Market Conditions.

In all hardwood producing sections, both north and south, the
situation is practically the same. Nearly all dry lumber is sold, and
the shipment of it is going forward just as fast as cars can be
obtained. In the North the early winter was without snow and the
ground was soft. Today this section of the country is buried with
snow to an unusual depth and the fall came on soft ground, with the
result that logging has been carried on under extreme difficulty and
at very heavy expense. In many cases proposed logging operations
have been abandoned for these reasons and because of the short and
high-priced labor supply. To a certainty the result will be that the
hardwood log output of the North for the winter of 1906-7 will be
considerably less than that of a year ago.

In the southern hardwood producing sections the weather has been
very bad since early in the fall. The rainfall has been prodigious.
Operators in mountain districts have had their bridges and tram
roads torn out repeatedly by tides in the streams. Throughout the
Mississippi valley the woods have been flooded and the greater portion
of logging operations had to be abandoned for weeks at a time.
These conditions have resulted in a diminution of the log supply and
the consequent shutting down of a large number of sawmills in the
southern district for days and even weeks at a time. Beyond per-

adventure, therefore, the incoming stock of hardwoods from the South
is going to be comparatively light; in fact, much lighter than the
output of a year ago. lu many localities green lumber is being
sought by buyers, and advances almost to its full value are being
made upon it for the sake of securing supplies even for midsummer
trade. Every condition in the hardwood manufacturing situation
points to short stocks and higher prices.

The wholesale manufacturing consumers of hardwoods are almost
without exception busy in their several lines of trade. While a
good many of these concerns have taken time by the forelock and
secured stocks of lumber to carry them through for some time, in
many eases their supplies are extremely light. Again this consuming
trade contends that the sellers have been unable to fill many of the
orders they have placed, owing to conditions which have prevailed,
and they have been obliged to place them a second and even a third
time to take care of current wants.

The high prices prevailing are of course contributing to the instal-
lation of a great many small mills throughout the country. In fact,
everyone, from the farmer-lumberman up, is making all the hard-
wood lumber he can. At the same time the aggregate of all that can
be produced will not be up to the normal demands of the trade by
any possible chance.

The hardwood flooring factories are busy and there is a special
call from oak flooring producers for common and cull stock. Maple
flooring manufacturers are fairly well supplied with lumber, but
they are still buying every desirable lot offered.

Plants of the interior finish people are taxed to the utmost to
execute orders. Furniture factories are busy, and many of them have
secured a considerable advance over prices heretofore obtained, and
are thus able to pay augmented prices for lumber.

The demand for mahogany lumber is constantly increasing and
stocks are gradually growing very light.

The Dove of Peace.

While every lumberman in the country who has the interests,
the well-being, and the integrity of his calling at heart will be
rejoiced at. the spirit of conciliation now manifest between the two
great hardwood associations of the country, which — say what you
will — have been at outs for the past five years, there is no element
interested in the trade which will rejoice more thoroughly at the
possibilities of an amicable outcome of hardwood inspection matters
than the lumber trade press. Outside of the accomplishment of
harmony and prosperity in the lumber trade, this result would be of
far-reaching benefit to the "brief chronicler of the times" which
attempts to publish the news and give publicity to ideas of interest
to the calling. Without harmony of interests there must needs be
a lack of harmony in reflecting facts pertaining to them, and it
therefore goes without saying that the lumber trade press of the
country will rejoice in pacification and unity of all branches of this
great 'and important industry.

There is no faction that will not welcome this panacea for the
evils that have beset the lumber business save the grade juggler.
The present system is one that leaves the way open for his nefarious
calling. The slight difference in the two systems of grading gives
him an opportunity to make it still wider, until confusion worse
confounded ensues. When the lumber manufacturer or merchant
attempts to market his product abroad, he encounters difficulties

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HARDWOOD RECORD

attributable to this present two-system inspection prevailing in the
United States.

As a matter of fact the actual difference in results, under com-
petent interpretation of either system, amounts to very little. Many
prominent buyers insist that they do not give a twopence under
which inspection they buy, but nevertheless the rules are expressed
a little differently, and there is always the chance for the line boards
going one way or the other. There is really not difference enough
to require more than a day's deliberation on various minor points,
to get the two systems framed into one. This accomplished the
formation of a disinterested, impartial, competent inspection bureau
to handle reinspection on this uniform basis, not only for the two
big associations, but for all the minor hardwood lumber exchanges
of the country would logically follow.

Let the spirit or mutual concession, good will and common sense
go on, and if the happy result be accomplished it should lie recalled
that the credit for the movement is largely due to the Indiana
Hardwood Lumber Association, which for many years lias so per-
sistently advocated it.

The Hardwood Dimension Business.

The department of hardwood manufacturing known as the
dimension business is at last coming into its own. For years it has
been the "poor house" end of lumber production, and the average
manufacturer who made it an important part of his operations has
ordinarily charged up a good deal of money to experience. This
dimension business covers a line of production suitable for wagon
making, furniture making, chair making and an infinity of other
purposes. Buyers long contended that it was a product resulting
from mill offal and that they should pay for it only practically labor
cost. As a matter" of fact, while considerable dimension material
can be made from slabs and crooked trunks, limbs and other forest
and mill refuse, the greater portion of it requires material that
would make good lumber, and it should command a price commen-
surate with its basic value.

Manufacturers have learned as the years go by. to properly
make and season dimension material into forms entirely suitable to
the specific requirements of the wholesale manufacturing trade, and
have educated each other up to the values of their product, so that
year by year they are getting a much increased price for their
product. On the other hand, as consuming manufacturers become
convinced that they can secure a sufficient supply of this sort of
material to keep their plants going, they have grown not only willing
but anxious to buy it in preference to lumber. With this feeling
values are constantly increasing.

A leading furniture producer recently said : "In my business
well-manufactured dimension material is worth to me fully twenty
per cent more than firsts and seconds. When I buy it I am not
buying firsts and seconds but I am buying clear lumber which goes
through my factory without waste, and when I can buy this material
at the price of firsts and seconds I am buying cheaper material than
the highest lumber product." This is a common souse statement
of fact and should be fully digested by every hardwood manufacturer
and wholesale consumer.

Two years ago on the average dimension material was going
upon the market at considerably less than the juice of No. 1 com-
mon. Today it is vacillating between the price of No. 1 common
and the price of firsts and seconds. Within this period there has
been an average accretion of at least thirty per cent in the price
of this stock, and it has considerably more coining to it before it
commands its just value. Lumber manufacturers who in the past
have "ducked" dimension production, can now- undertake it with
the surety of getting very good results from their mill and forest
waste, and it should be produced by many operators whose offal
now rots on the ground or goes to the burner.

The Memphis Meeting and Its Possibilities.

The recent meeting of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa-
tion at Memphis was the largest in attendance, the strongest in wise
legislation, and the most thoroughly enjoyable one ever held by that
organization. The legislation enacted makes for the betterment of

hardwood conditions; seeks to enlist governmental aid for the im-
provement of waterways and a drainage system for the Mississippi
Valley; looks toward economy in hardwood production by the utiliza-
tion of the small percentage of odd length lumber that accrues in
manufacture, and endorses a plan whereby the buyer of lumber
shall have a voice in the control of its reinspection machinery.

Of paramount and vital interest to the meeting was the spirit
of fraternity manifested between its supporters and the many promi-
nent and influential members of the National Hardwood Lumber
Association present. Presidents of both the associations made most
admirable speeches in advocacy of the entire hardwood trade of the
country getting together on a basis of uniform inspection. If the
wholesome advice of these principals is followed, in a very short
time this desideratum will undoubtedly be an accomplished fact.

Another Interesting Hardwood Story.

A prominent West Virginia operator tells the Record of an experi-
ence he has had with the shipment of a ear of lumber. At the
instance of an alleged Columbus jobber, he shipped him, thoroughly
mixed, a car containing one-third firsts and seconds poplar and two-
thirds No. 1 common. Shortly afterward he received an inquiry from
another alleged jobber stating that he understood the car had been
shipped by him and inquiring the original contents. The jobber was
truly advised, but came back with the statement that he had pur-
chased the car for two-thirds firsts and seconds and one-third com-
mon. A week later the West Virginia millman had another inquiry
relating to the same car from a Buffalo man, stating that he had
purchased the car for a straight shipment of firsts and seconds and
he also was anxious to know what the original shipment was. This
man was also truly advised.

"Now," says the shipper, "both jobbers No. 1 and No. 2 have
had the nerve to ask me for a rebate, in reply to which I have
politely invited both of them to go to ! "

It may be that this method of certain intermediaries in the lumber
business is going to continue forever, but the Hardwood Record
has its doubts about it. The wholesale consumer, the manufacturer
and the upright merchant in hardwood lumber are fast ceasing to
countenance this sort of business, ami the sooner it is ended, the
better for all concerned.

Report oi the Memphis Meeting.

This edition of the Hardwood Record contains the only com-
plete report that has been printed of the fifth annual meeting of
the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, held at Memphis January
29 and .'lit. Furthermore it will be noted that the report is illustrated
with pictures of the officers, executive board and directors, and
chairmen of all leading committees. The document will prove
profitable reading to all those interested in the evolution and
development of hardwood affairs.

January Building Operations.

Last month's building operations throughout the United States,
as compared with January, 1900, show a falling off of seventeen,
per cent in the aggregate, according to reports from the American:
Contractor of Chicago. Optimists contend that this fact is occa-
sioned by insufficient supply of building material ; but before the
year is over it will very likely be demonstrated that people who con-
template large investments in the way of structures of various kinds
are deciding to take a chance on waiting for these new improve-
ments until materials and labor cost seek a somewhat lower plane.

Although a seventeen per cent reduction in building operations;
seems large, the losses are so widely distributed, and so interspersed
with gains in many cities,, as to indicate that the movement is fol-
lowing the regular rule of supply and demand. In New York a
falling off of twenty-nine per cent is reported, but this still leaves:
the enormous amount of more than $14,000,000 expended for Jan-
uary of this year. The chief cities that show gains are Atlanta,
Buffalo, Chicago, Chattanooga, Davenport, Duluth, Indianapolis,
Memphis, Moline, New Orleans, Omaha. Philadelphia, Pueblo, Roch-
ester, St. Paul, Syracuse, Washington and Worcester.

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15

Vert, Pertinent and Impertinent.

So Wags the World.

Knock, and the world knocks \\iih you;

Boost, and you boost alone.
When you roasl good nrnl loud you will find that
the crowd

Has a hammer ;is big as your own.

Buy, arid the gang is with you :

Renig, ami the game is off.
For the lad with the thirst will see you first

If you don't proceed to cough.

Be rich and lite gang will praise you ;

r-' poor, and they pass you 'he Ice.
You're a warm young guy when you start to buy,

You're a slob when you haven't the price.

Be Hush, and your friends are many;

Go broke, and they say "Ta-ta ;"
When your hank account burns, .von will gel
great returns,

When It's out, you will get the ha-ha.

the

will

lie gay, and

They'll shoul \\ bile youi

sin.u ;i tearful lamp ami
i ra nip.

And it's back to He- woods for yours.

There's always a buncb to boost you
while at your 1 ley they glance;

lint you'll find them all gone in the cold
dawn.
When the fringe shows up on your pants.

beer yuu ;
weal! h endures :
you'll see them all

gl .n

Always.
Always keep to the
right and you won't
go wrong.

Even That.
Being bad all the
time e v e n grows
monotonous.

Eare.
Common sense is
an uncommonly good
thing to possess.

The Eeason.

.Many a man walks
around on his uppers
because he is unable
to run into debt.

Essential.

Money isn't the
only thing in the
world — but it takes
money to get the

oi hers.

Little Consolation.
About all the con-
solation some men get
out of losing their
money is the belief
that they are dead
game sports.

A Definition.
Success is a con-
stant sense of discon-
tent, broken by brief
periods of satisfac-
tion on doing some
especially good piece
of work.

On the Way to the
Top.
A man is a coward
if he lets another
knock him. down
when climbing, and
still more of a cow-
ard if he tries to rise
by knocking another
down.

•OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES."

First Bov "I've got a bully ball!"

Second Boy "I've got a cracker-jack bat!"

Both Boys— "Let's play ball!"

— From Hardwood Record, Jan. i« rgos.

It is to be hoped that at last they have concluded to PLAY BALL.

Uncertain Fortune.
Fortune smiles on
some people and
laughs at many.

A Frequent Waste.

A decision without
accompanying acts is
a waste of brain
power.

The Skeptic.

A skeptic is a man
who uses testing
acids on his golden
opportunities.

Exciting.
A club is .1 place
where middle-aged
men sit around and
tell each other what
devils they used to be.

Big Majority.
Xine persons out of
a possible ten are dis-
satisfied either with
what they have or
with what they
haven't.

The Point.

After all, getting
replies to an adver-
tisement is not half
the battle. It is the
follow-up that makes
customers out of in-
quirers.

Just So.
You will notice that

the millionaires who
talk so niueli about
the certainty of re-
ward for earnest ef-
fort keep a pr< 1 1
close watch on the
payrolls to see that
the promised reward
doesn 't make much of
an inroad on their in-
comes.

Their True Mission.
Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's
aid,
Some banished lover, or some captive maid."
Hut now we know they're handy for devising
<iood. up-to-date, effective advertising.

His Lucky Stroke.
For years he toiled in penury.

Then made a fortune in three weeks
By taking down his junkshop sign

And making it to read "Antiques."

Cold Consolation.
Don't let your troubles make you sigh,

They're certain to disperse.
You will have ot Iters, by and by,
And maybe they'll be worse.

— Washington Star.

r6

HARDWOOD RECORD

AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

Hardy Catalpa.
Catalpa spi eiosa — Warder.

The only region where this tree was origi-
nally found is southeastern Illinois, south-
western Indiana — along the lower ninety
miles of the "Wabash — and as far as the
mouth of the Ohio. At the present time, how-
over, it grows in many states, under cultiva-
tion, and intermingled with inferior varie-
ties.

It is known as hardy catalpa in
Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Michi-
gan; as western catalpa in Penn-
sylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Illinois and
Nebraska; as catalpa in Rhode
Island, New York, Louisiana, Illi-
nois, Indiana, Missouri, "Wisconsin,
Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota; as
the cigar tree in Missouri and Iowa,
from the fact that children use the
pods to smoke; as bois puant in
Louisiana; as Indian bean and
Shawneewood in Indiana.

The bark of the tree is dark grey
and broken. The leaves are large
and simple; broad and ovate, with
pointed apex; in color they are light
green; the under side is pubescent,
especially along the ribs. The flow-
ers bloom in June or July and are
white, with the inside showing
streaks of rich purple and yellow;
they grow in erect, terminal pan-
icles and are very large and fra-
grant. The fruit is a slender pod,
a foot or more in length, which con-
tains sweet-scented, winged seeds. It
matures in September or October.

In shape the tree is tall, slender
and symmetrical, with spreading
branches. In native forests the
specimens are tall, straight • and
have few branches along the trunk.

When it is considered that only a
hundred years ago Catalpa speciosa
was confined to the district about
the mouth of the Wabash and parts*
of states contiguous to Indiana, it is
wonderful to what a variety of soils
and climates it has since adapted it-
s»lf under cultivation — the rich al-
luvial soils of the Mississippi vail. \
as well as to the arid plains of the
western states. However, pure sandy
soil is its ideal habitat. Where
abundant moisture and long hot
seasons furnish the proper stiniu
lus for rapid growth the tree often
increases two inches in diameter within a
year. It is frequently contended that this
rapid" growth will not furnish as substantial
timber as more slow-growing trees. This
argument, however, has been successfully re-
futed by. prolonged and careful tests. Tim-
ber lands which have been cut over and are
not of great value may be profitably planted
with catalpa.

FORTY-SIXTH PAPER.

There is such a close resemblance between
tin- different species of this genus, both
those of Asiatic and American nativity, that
it is only within the past few years that dis-
tinctions have been carefully and correctly
drawn. .Virginia, the original home of Ca-
talpa bignonoides has large areas well
adapted to the cultivation of speciosa, but
must of the t roes found there, as well as in

TYPICAL FOREST GROWTH, CATALPA
SPECIOSA, INDIANA.

tin- city of Washington, are the former,
planted under the impression that they were
speciosa, and almost without exception
crooked, deformed, scrubby and worthless,
naturally exciting the contempt of forestry
experts, and explaining the violent opposi-
tion offered the catalpa by the Forestry
Bureau. This mistake has frequently oc-
curred, causing great confusion among bot-

anists and the laity, who have thus been led
to believe and propagate the doctrine that
t he- catalpa is a valueless and unimportant
tree. The Rio Grande Western Railroad
planted 65,000 trees, supposedly speciosa, at
Provo, Utah,' in 1900, a large portion of
which turned out to be bignonoides, which
in equal time and under the same treatment
will attain a height of only four or five feet,
while speciosa will range from
twelve to sixteen, and show a girth
of perhaps eight inches.

Numerous hybrids are raised by
intermixture of the several varie-
ties, none of which are the equal
of the great forest tree of the
Wabash, which is an entirely distinct
and much superior type — the only
form which should be cultivated
for any purpose. All other forms
should be avoided, particularly the
bignonoides, which is the most com-
mon, and hence fosters the general
belief that the value of all catalpa
for commercial purposes is prac-
tically nil; this variety, from its
low growth and spreading habit, is
indeed totally worthless as a tim-
ber tree. A photograph of a typical
bignonoides is shown in the smaller
halftone accompanying this article.
There are several means of iden-
tifying speciosa, not the least im-
portant of which is examination of
the bark of an old tree. It is
thick, heavy and deeply furrowed,
while that of other kinds is in-
clined to scale off and does not
form such prominent ridges. Spe-
eiosa usually blooms earlier and
continues later than do others in
the same locality. The flowers have
a broad border of white, which
makes the color tone considerably
lighter than that of other varie-
ties. It develops fewer seed pods
and longer ones from the same-
sized cluster of flowers, and the
seed has a broad pencil of fila-
ments at each end, while the infe-
rior species have these filaments
drawn together and even twisted.
The low spreading trees of hybrid
or Oriental origin are so prolific in
the production of seeds and they
may be so easily gathered that
many thousand pounds have been
scattered broadcast throughout the
country to the serious detriment of nursery-
men and the great disadvantage of the
catalpa speciosa, causing it to be condemned
utterly because mistaken and unknown.

Of this tree as a timber producer, a lead-
ing authority and enthusiast says: "It is
the most rapidly growing tree in America
that possesses economic value. A greater
quantity of valuable wood may be produced

FRANK F. FEI

NEWPORT, ARK.

supplement to
Harowooo Record
FEBRUARY 10, 1907

ILLUSTRATING

BUILDERS OF LUMBER HISTORY.

HARDWOOD RECORD

17

upon a given area in a specified time than
from any other American tree. The wood
is the most enduring of all our trees. It
succeeds over a greater range of territory
than any other valuable tree of this conti-
nent. Its habit of growth is upright, with
long trunk, where it has an opportunity, thus
differing from all other forms of oatalpa.
The chemical constituents of the wood are
so resistant of decay as to make expensive
artificial wood preservation entirely unneces-
sary. The roots are strong, vigorous, large
and deep, holding so firmly to the earth that
storms do not blow them over. It is
subject to disease and attacks of ins -
than any other tree of my acquaintanc. .
The wood has the same texture as butternut,
firm enough for tie purposes and hoM-
spike well. For inside car finish it is ad-
mirably adapted, partakes of high polish, lias
a handsome grain and is a superb wood for
furniture and inside finish. It is easily
manipulated with edge tools. Its strength is
ample for all requirements in railroad
work.

TYPICAL '1/ iLPA BI6\ONOIDB8 GROWTH.

This last named fact is well recognized by
railroad men. A prominent official of the
Illinois Central stated as long ago as 1871
that the catalpa will make a tie whieh will
last forever: that it is easily cultivated, of
rapid growth and will hold a spike as well
as oak, and will not split. An expert with
the Iron Mountain wrote that a railroad
once tied with catalpa will find its annual
expenses for repairs diminisheu $200 per
mile.

Telegraph and telephone companies will
speedily welcome relief from the increasing
expense of obtaining poles, and this tree
with its tall, straight bole, is peculiarly
adapted to this -purpose, quickly grown, and
an admirable substitute for the rapidly di-
minishing cedar. For mining pari - -
eanoes, fence-posts, rails, cabinet work and

interior finish its lumber is desirable; it is
suitable for the medium grades of furniture
and as a base for veneering it neither warps,
sivells nor shrinks unduly, and holds the glue
well.

Tin- heartwood is brown, the sapv
lighter, nearly white: - - grained

anu compact, with the annual layers plainly
indicated. Its open grain absorbs filling
readily and it may well be employed for the
purpose of imitating more expensive woods.

The Hardwood Record is indebted to
.lohn P. Brown of Connersrille, Ind., author
Practical Arboriculture" tor much of
ti.e information contained in this article, and
fnr the photographs with which it is illus-
trated. Mr. Brown is the highest authority
in the United States on this subject and is
in charge of a number of plantations which
have been established by railroads in this
country and Mexico for the purpose of grow-
ing this wood in commercial quantities.

'Builders of Lumber History.

Frank F. Fee.

The clean-cut, youthful-appearing mag-
netic face depicted in the supplement to this
issue of The Hardwood Record will be
recognized by a wide circle of lumbermen
as that of Frank F. Fee of Newark. O.. and
Newport. Ark., one of the most prominent
factors in the oak trade of the United
States.

Mr. Fee was born in Ft. Wayne. Ind.. in
- . and comes of sturdy Scotch-Irish stock.
His grandfather was an Ohio pioneer, re
moving from Massachusetts to the present
site of Cleveland about 1S00. when that city
contained but five houses. His father was a
furniture merchant at Ft. Wayne, and it
was there that Mr. Fee received his educa-
tion, graduating from the high school at an
eariy age. He was about to take up a uni-
versi-v course when stricken with a severe
attack of malarial fever, and he was
obliged to give up the plan. In lieu of it
he de3ided to read law. and continued the
study for three years. Before he was able
to complete the course, illness again over-
took him and prevented the consummation of
that purpose, and forced him to take up some
line of business - \:ng and confining.

In 1S>1 he began his career as a lumber-
man in the office of the Peters Box & Lum-
ber Company of Ft. Wayne, a position which
he kept for two years. He then went into
business on his own account, starting a hard-
wood sawmill at Markle. Inn., which he
operated for eight years. At the end of that
time, scarcity of timber caused him to
abandon this site and he erected a mill at
Lima, O.. which he operated for the next six
years. At the end of that time he closed out
the business there and removed to Xewark.
O., where he has been manufacturing lumber
■rs.

Mr. Fee has always been known as a -
cialist in oak. particularly quarter-sawed,
and his thoroughness in everything pertain-
ing to his business enables him to turn out
a product whi - - shed his reputa-

tion as a manufacturer of the finest oak
lumber ever produced v. 9 of Ohio

and Indiana.

Within the last few months he I -
ized the Fee Crayton Hardwood Lumber
Company, with temporary ..See at Newport,
Ark. This new enterpris arge and

NUMBER XXXVT1I.

diversified one, including as it does the pur-

chase of several large timber tracts: a band
sawmill formerly owned by the Windsor
Lumber Company at Dermott. Ark.; the
building of a new band mill at Newport; the
purchase of a circular sawmill and wagon
material factory at Jacksonport. Ark., for-
merly owned by J. M. Gibson, and also a

LEAF ANT' FLOWER. CATALPA SPl

circular mill formerly the property of the
Snyder Lumber Company at Strawberry,
Ark. Th- - - ind important inter-

- - will make Mr. Fee s company one of
the most prominent factors in the state of
Arkansas in the production of oak. hickory
and gum lumber, and in the manufactui
g n material as well.

The timber properties and various lumber
operations are all located upon the White and
Black rivers, making the entire ente
easily - . and on the whole a remark-

ably com;

of hardwoods will unnu-

ally, a portion of this _ into the

rt trade by wi Orleans: the

- 'ill lie marketed in the East. Mr. I
lumber is as favorably ;v

IB

HARDWOOD RECORD

known abroad as in the home markets, and
the same high standard of manufacture and
grading that he has always followed will be
maintained in the new plant. Associated
with Mr. Fee as secretary and treasurer of
the new company is E. W. Crayton, who has
long been prominent in real estate and bank-
ing circles in Ohio.

Mr. Fee at present resides at Newark, but
is making plans to almost immediately move
his family to Little Rock. He is married
and lias several children. Not only will lie
prove an acquisition to the social life of

that city, but a great addition to the lumber
manufacturing element of Arkansas.

Personally he is an all-around ''good fel-
low" in the very best sense of the term —
companionable, agreeable and popular, but
withal a man who holds out for high stand-
ards in everything he undertakes, and strict
integrity in business methods. He is promi-
nent in the affairs of the Hardwood Manu-
facturers ' Association of the United States,
and at its meeting in Memphis on Jan. 30
last was elected to membership on its Ex-
ecutive Board.

Lumber Insurance Affairs.

The Lumber Underwriters.

The Lumber Underwriters, 66 Broadway, New
York City, announce that the results of last
year's business- are the most satisfactory of any
in the history of the organization. It is con-
stantly growing, although limited strictly to the
lumber business, which includes lumber mills
and woodworkers. The present quarters have
been enlarged. The name has been changed,
"at Mutual Lloyds" having been dropped. Eu-
gene F. Perry is the present attorney, taking
the place of 1". W. Mattocks, resigned. The in-
terests of J. .1. McKelvey, Pendennis White and
F. W. Mattocks have been bought by (be com-
pany, and Tin* remaining underwriters are C.
11. Carleton, Frederick W. Cole, Lewis Dill, R.
W. Higbie, W. A. Holt, W. C. Laidlaw, H. Shum-
way Lee. II. «'. Lippincott, E. F. Perry, C II.
Prescott. Jr.. Frank C. Rice, Horace F. Taj lor
and M. S. Tremaine. The Lumber Underwriters
are in no way whatever, , either directly or Indi-
rectly, .■.»nii. '.'ifil wiiiA any other insurance rum-
pa ny.

Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual.
The annual meeting of the policyholders of the
above company was held at its office, 943 Drexel
building. Philadelphia. < n January '2'2. The
secretary's, treasurer's and auditors' reports
were presented and the showing for the year
was most satisfactory. During 1906 the pre
miums in force have increased from' $129,874 to
$149,727 ; the nel cash resources have grown
from $205,390 to $247,123; securities invested
amount to $200,242. This is the market value
-ui December 31, 1906, and shows an increase
of $47,055 for the year. The surplus increased
nearly $82,000 and amounted on December 31,
1906. to .?17'J,200. The company was mosl for

tunate in its tire record during the past year;
its hisses amounted to $36,755. As a result of
the very excellent reports for the year, the
board of directors unanimously agreed to a 35
per cent dividend. This is an increase of 5 per
cent, the dividend paid during 1906 having
been 30 per cent. The company is writing in-
surance at full board rates where these rates
are regarded as adequate, relying upon the divi-
dends to effect a saving for its policyholders.

/The officers for the ensuing year are as fol-
lows : Edward F. Ilenson, president ; Richard
Torptn, first vice president : W. Z. Sener, second
vice presidcnl ; Fdwin II. Coane, treasurer ;
Harry Humphreys, secretary.

Lumber Insurers' General Agency.
The Lumber Insurers" General Agency, of
which K. II. McKeUey is secretary, has issued
financial statements of the three companies un-
der its management for the year ending January
1. 1907. These companies are the Lumber In-
surance Company of New York, the Toledo Fire
& Marine Insurance Company of Sandusky, O.,
and i he Adirondack Fire Insurance Cumpany
with headquarters in New York City. The lat-
ter, the youngest company of the group, began
business May 1. 1906, and in its short existence
has accumulated a volume of business almost
equal to the average amount of insurance car-
ried by the ten or twelve specializing lumber
companies in the United States. This record
certainly emphasizes the fact that the lumber
trade is awake to its opportunities and quick to
take advantage of ,the facilities of a new com-
pany entering the field. The Toledo Fire &
Marine Insurance t'ompany was organized in
1848, and reorganized under the present man-
agement in 1902, since which time the fire losses
paid have amounted to but $158,494.01.

The Modern Furniture Factory.

THE FINISHING BOOM.

The value of tin/ finishing room as an aid
to selling goods is exemplified in the experi-
of :< Michigan firm less than three
years old. In the short time they have been
in the business of furniture making thej
have -'in their sales increase over 300 per
cent, and they trace their success to the care
bestowed on their stock in the finishing
room. Before the pieces were sent out they
were filled, stained, and varnished most care-
fully ; in fact, considerable more time was
s|m nt on them than is usually the case in
the modern furniture factory. The result
was that when trial orders were secured their
stock stood out so decidedly on the floor
among competing products that sales wen-
rapid. Their furniture was not better made,
but it had been given a finish that was a
little more expensive and had been put on
more carefully than that of their competi-
tors.

By the time a piece of furniture has been
made up and assembled for the finishing
loom, the surface of its parts have been
planed and sanded on the different marl s

to an almost perfect face. It is then ready
to have the filler applied to it. The fillers
are compositions made up in different colors
to prepare the surface of the wood previous
to the varnishing. They fill up the pores of
the wood, rendering the surface hard and
smooth. In cases where the wood is to be
finished in the natural no stains are applied,
but after the filler has dried, which it does
in about twenty-four hours, the first coat of
varnish is applied. When shellac is used as
a liasis for the varnish it is dissolved in
alcohol or some other solvent and applied
with a brush over the surface of the piece.

G I varnish ought to dry quickly and show

a hard and tough film. It ought also to
show a good and permanent gloss and be
durable on exposure to the weather. When
these qualities are found in a high degree
the surface attained after several coats is
one that will last without perceptible change
for a generation.

In order to secure such a finish and be
sure of a durable surface, fine class furniture
is put through the varnishing process many

times. In the case of the more pretentious
work in mahogany as many as twelve coats
are given the wood, and as each one tends
to render the surface smoother and the grain
clearer a most beautiful effect is produced.

After the coat of varnish is applied it is
left to stand until it thoroughly dries, a
period of some ten days, before it is given
to the rubbers to be polished. The rubbers
use a felt mitt with oil in order to rub in
the substance and sweep the surface from
en. I to end, being careful to rub slowly in
the direction of the grain. Too fast and
too hard rubbing induces a heat that destroys
tne effect. After the coat has been thor-
oughly polished, another surface is put on
and again left to stand until it thoroughly
dries when the same careful process of rub-
bing is gone through again.

It is when woods are stained to other than
their natural color that the skill of the fin-
isher becomes most apparent. For instance,
the back and arms of a rocking-chair may be
made of mahogany, and the legs and rock-
ers of birch which is a strong, tough wood
and better suited for the purpose thau the
other. In order to secure a uniform appear-
ance, the birch is stained a mahogany color
and as the grain is somewhat similar it is

exi dingly hard for anyone not an expert

to tell the difference. Birch takes all the
shades of dark stain with beautiful effect,
has a fine grain and takes a high ponsh.

The filler must be a good one, having as
its basis silex, and thoroughly penetrate the
wood, for if it is only a species of cheap
varnish it will remain on the surface and
fail to cover the marks and pores

In order to secure the best results the bet-
ter practice is to use a thinner filler on open-
grained woods such as oak, ash, cypress, etc.,
than on close grained woods such as maple,
lurch, etc.

In making uniform the color of a piece
of furniture or finishing one wood to re-
semble another stains are employed, either
lighter or darker as the ease may require.
Tin' wood then stands until it is dry before
the varnish that gives it a durable and
glassy appearance is put on. In the weath-
ered oak effects, which are very popular, wax-
plays a great part in the final surface, being
thoroughly rubbed into the wood after the
filler ana stain have been applied. It also
shows a surface that does not mar, is dura-
ble, and what is of more importance to the
average housekeeper can be renewed with
little trouble, by using beeswax with a very
Utile paraffine and enough turpentine to dis
solve it. When this is rubbed into the sur-
face it renews the finish and makes it more
durable than ever, so that each time the
operation is performed, the coat becomes
more substantial and lasting.

The preparation of fillers, stains, varnishes
and wax is now being done so scientifically
that the most beautiful results are being at-
tained. When it is considered that there is
little difference in the price of good and bad
varnish, and that one coat more or less does
not materially affect the cost of production,
but on the other hand results in an increased
degree of attractiveness in the piece, the
economy in a hurried and slovenly treatment
of furniture in the finishing room can hardly
be recognized.

HARDWOOD RECORD

19

Fifth Annual HardWood Manufacturers' Association.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 29 and

30, Memphis, Teiin., nas tin- Mctfa of tin1
hardwood manufacturers of the country.

It was the jasion of the fifth annual

meeting of the Hardwood Manufacturers'
Association of the United States.
OPENING SESSION.

The convention was called to order in
the assembly room of the Gayoso Hotel at
II a. in. on Jan. 29, with practically every
s.at in the room occupied by delegates,
President William Wilms of
Chicago occupying the chair,
and Lewis Doster acting us sec-
retary, in point of numbers
the meeting was by far the
largest ever hold l>y the asso
ciation.

In calling the meeting to
order President Wilms said:
"Gentlemen, before I get into
our regular session, I take
pleasure in introducing to you
Mr. George D. Burgess, presi-
dent of the Memphis Lumber-
men's Club.

.Mr. Burgess was greeted with
applause, and said :

i Gentlemen — As the mayor of
Memphis was unavoidably de
tained, he lias delegated his first

assistant windjammer to g 1

you this morning. Now. in every
community they have their silver-
tongued, orator, but Memphis ex-
cels not only in the quality and
quantity of its lumber hut also in
oratory. It gives me great pleas-
ure to Introduce this gentleman,
and he might better he termed
the golden-tongued orator than
the silver-tongued orator. Gentle-
men, 1 introduce the represents
five of the mayor. Colonel "Jack"

Appersoll.

Mr. Appersiiii then spoke as

follows :

Address of Welcome.

Mr. President and Gentlemen
My good friend Burgess has al-
most taken my breath away. It
reminds me somewhat of the
story of a fellow visiting New
York, who went to Delmonico's

for breakfast, lie was very 1 1

of beefsteak and onions, and he

oid.-r. -it t fsteak and onions.

with the onions nice and crisp.
The waiter handed him a bill Cor
ST.. lie said: "In Memphis we

get that for •". nts." "Well,"

the waiter said. "that's our
price." The man paid the bill
and went down the street and
met ;i friend. He said. "Where
are you going?" "Going to break-
fast." "Where are you going
to breakfast?" "At Delmonico's.'
"Well, how do you like beefsteak and onions
"Why." he said, "that is my favorite dish."

"Well, I eau reeoiiiinend I fsieak and onions at

Delmonico's; the finest you ever ate." "No. 1
don't want beefsteak and onions this morning.
I don't like the odor of onions on my breath. 1
am going to meet a young lady this morning."

Tl ther replied: "Don't be' bothered ;d 1

that. When the waiter brings you the hill it
will take your breath away." 1 1. a lighter. |

On this occasion the mayor has kindly asked
me to represent him. He didn't ask me' on ae
count of any personal qualities, but probably he
cause he knew that I, as a son of the state of
Tennessee and a volunteer, always volunteer on
every occasion. 1 was told once 1 I' a fellow
sluing in the congregation when the preacher
was speaking in regard to the sheep and the

goals. -Ale. said: "Now. brethren, won't you
come ll|i and join this thick 7 Come up, now."
lie siivs. "Who is going to he the goat V Don't
he the goal." He said: "Parson, if nobody

else Will he Hie goal 1 Will." So tile minor.

in looking over bis flock could find no firsts or

sec Is, and lie sent Hie common. [Laughter.J

1 know not what to say about your organiza
lion. They tell me that Memphis is the largest
hardwood lumber market in tne world. I kuo,\
vfvy little about hardwood, yet it strikes me

that the lumber n are the pioneers of civilizn

tinn. They blazed the pathways through I he
forests: they have made it possible for us to
live in frame houses, as most of us do. Yon
manufacture the cradle that rocks us in infamy,
ven manufacture the sideboard thai holds the
elixir of liie; and when life is ..vet, you make

JOHN B RANSOM, NASI I VI 1.1.1'.. TENN. PRESIDENT-ELECT

the coffins in which we are consigned Lo the

grave.

Now, gentlemen, on behalf of the great cltj

of Memphis mid when I say "great city of
Memphis" 1 say it advisedly, because it is a

meal eily: it is a growing eily; tiler.- is no

question about that the mayor wished me to

impress upon you the faet thai had you I n

here a few months ago all our thoroughfares
would have been streets and alleys. Today thej
:ii.- avenues and boulevards. We have changed
it for your benefit. I can't say that the mock-
ing-bird sings a welcoihe to you. because the
mocking-bird is not singing at this time of tin-
year. I can't say thm the beautiful magnolia

is waving a wele. ime lo you and Ihat the Mowers
are emitting a fragrant welcome i<» you, bui I
say thai we welcome you. There is nothing in

the phrase "southern hospitality." Memphis
does uoi extend to you southern hospitality;

il gives to you Memphis hospitality. L Applause. I
I hm is distinctive in itself.

The mayor said to me that some of you gentle
men might have that unquenchable thirst, and
that lie has provided the river with a full stage
of water on this occasion. We sometimes cry
"Fourteen feet of water from the mouth of the
Chicago river to the gulf." We have got It
v. ha lever Memphis wants she gets We have
plenty of water. The mayor didn't mention a
word in regard to tin- tire department or the
police department, hut he assured me that as
long as each and every one of you behave your
selves you will have no trouble with cither one
of tin se departments.

In conclusion, gentlemen, allow me to say
i ha i the city of Memphis wel
comes yon ; thai our lntclist ring
is always on the outside Of our
door: our hearts, our homes and
our hands are always out for
you. | Apple use. |

President Wilms : Mr. Apper-
son. I thank you for the hearty
welcome which you have extended
to us. Individually we may be
strangers within your gates, but
as a elass of business men we
are well known to this commun-
ity, and I have no reason to
doubt that every member of our
assoeiatiou will behave himself in
such a fashion that the mayor
will not be compelled 1o call on
the lire department or the police
department. Should anything ol
that nature occur and a membei
of our association be so found
lacking, he can be readily recog
niy.cd by the label which we have

given him. You have m i I

the beauty of your city and Mem
phis hospitality; you have men
I iom-il the close connection thai
this i ilv has had for years with
the trade, and that is the reason
we came here. A good many of
our members have business con-
nections with your citizens. We
felt that by coming to Memphis
to hold our convention that we
might bring about a better per-
sonal understanding ami meet
the lumbermen outside of your
town as well as those within
your gales. I thank you for ex-

tending this welct lo us.

Mr. Burgess: Gentlemen, it af-
fords me great pleasure to ex
tend to you, in behalf of the
Memphis Lumbermen's Club, the
right hand of fellowship. The
mayor's representative lias for-
gotten to tell you thai the mayor
authorized me to say that the
keys had been thrown into the
river thirty-eight feet of water.
Therefore, you need mil fear the
p., lo.- department. If you do,
siint.lv ring up Colonel Apperson
lie knows the chief of police
I also wish to extend to yen the

n loin of our mills and offices.

We think it very proper that this
organization should be holding a
meeting in Memphis, as Memphis
is without doubt the largest hard

w I center in the United Stati

We jot) more hardwood lumber
b.-ie "than in any other point in
this country. We are glad to
have ion willi us. The Memphis
Lumbermen's Club has arranged
an entertainment for your organ-
izaiiou and your friends tonight
at s :::u. in i in- banquet room of
this hotel. The proper cn-den
Hals have been furnished to your
secretary, and if you have not received them 1
would ,-isk you to call upon Mr. Hosier for them.
President Wilms: Mr. Burgess, in accepting
your Invitation to this entertainment ton
speaking in behalf of the association, we feel
higblj Battered and we shall be pleased to be
iherc'and attend with a full house. [Applause I

I now a e the op.-ning of our fifth an-

nii-l convention, and i take pleasure in submit
ting i-i you the few remarks which I have for-
i ii ,i i ed for I his occasion.

President's Address.

Gentlemen and Members of the Hardwood
Manufacturers' Association of the United states

\o better meeting place than Memphis could

have I ii selected for this fifth annual meeting

ct the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of

20

HARDWOOD RECORD

W. A. GILCHRIST, MEMPHIS, TENN., FIRST
VICE PRESIDENT.

the United States, and I greet you here with
particular satisfaction since, until lately, the
opinion seems to have been prevalent that the
efforts of our work were primarily devoted to
the interests of the lumber industry located
larther north and east. While it is true that
our organization was conceived in a territory
with no, or little, contact with this section of
the country, our recognized policy and the
effective work which we have accomplished in
other parts of the country gradually have gained
for us universal recognition, and w'e count today
among our staunchest members some of the mos"t
successful lumber manufacturers of the southern
Mississippi valley who, in the beginning of our
existence, were indifferent to our work.

Wt have occasion to look back Willi much
satisfaction on the commercial results of 1906.
It probably touched the highest mark yet at-
tained in point of individual and national pros-
perity. The products of the soil, of the mines
and of the factories were in their aggregate
never before equalled. I do not believe there
can be found a single important item which was
not in strong demand at good prices. The pro-
duction of iron ore, copper, of the precious
metals and of coal were limited only by lack
of labor supply and adequate facilitiex'for" trans
portation.

Dun's Index of Commodity Prices shows that
the average during the year was the highest of
any within ten years past, and to find their
equal we would have to go back before the

resumpti £ specie payments. The high prices

of commodities were counterbalanced by in-
creased wages which in turn stipulated con-
sumption. The lumber industry, and our own
branch of that industry, shared in the general
conditions. Each month showed an increase in
demand and prices and while stumpage increased
in value and prices for machinery, supplies and
labor were higher than ever before, the value
of our manufactured product has approximately
kept pace, thus securing to us at least a normal
profit on the volume of business done.

The improvement iu the hardwood " market
affected all woods alike, but the results varied
according to the supply. More oak and less
poplar was turned out of the mills than during
the previous year, the deficiency in poplar stim-
ulating the demand for its competitors. The
production of chestnut, Cottonwood and gum
was increased. In all hardwood lines, however.
prices were lirm. The development of certain
comparatively new lines of industry has had
its effecl upon ours. The remarkable activity
in the wagon and carriage industries, and the
wonderful increase in the automobile output,
together with some other industries requiring
wide lumber, had a marled effect upon that class
of material. But it is difficult to single out any
particular items to which special credit can be
given.

In former years timber resources were consid-
ered valuable only if located within easy access
of consuming markets, and if susceptible of easy
and inexpensive logging. Today quite different
conditions obtain. The well located timber has
been largely consumed, and the majority of
manufacturers are operating in localities far
removed from points of consumption, and pre-
senting difficulties in logging which formerly
would have been considered insurmountable.
i eater efforts and more scientific methods have
to be exerted In all branches of our business
tu keep abreast of the times and stay in line

with competition. Apparent changes in the
( limatic conditions in the hardwood timber belt
Itnvi created additional hardships for those en-
gaged in our line of business, and the occurrences
during the last few months in various parts of
the country bear out this statement.

Floods in some parts of our producing terri-
tory, excessive rains in others have created
adverse conditions which all of us know only too
well, and which have made themselves felt in
ihe various departments of our business.

The government is well aware of conditions
prevailing throughout the lumber industry and
is endeavoring to render assistance by placing

at our disposal 1 1 Iiservations, researches and

experiments of a trained corps of foresters, leav-
ing it to the judgment of the individual to apply
the remedies suggested, if in his opinion they
will result to his benefit under his particular cir-
cumstances.

If depletion in forest supplies continues in
the same ratio in which it has been experienced
during the last decades, one may readily foretell
that at no far distant date the scientific sug-
gestions today offered by the Forestry Depart-
ment of the United States will necessarily find
greater recognition and more practical applica-
tion in the future than is the case today.

The rapidly decreasing supply of some of the
better known species of our hardwoods made the
use of other kinds, which may be regarded as
substitutes as it were, during late years a
necessity, and by this means new avenues have
been opened to our industry which might have
■ aii-'il disastrous competition in some quarters,
had it not been for the fact that the entire haul

JOHN II. IIIMMELBERGER. MOREHOUSE,
MO., SECOND VICE PRESIDENT.

wood industry has been confronted with steadily
increasing difficulties in transforming its raw
material into marketable product.

Applied forestry offers a means to prolong the
life of our stumpage. increase the product of
every acre of our lands, reducing the waste,
either by teaching more modern and approved
methods in the handling of timber or educating
the consumers in the uses of woods once neg-
lected and which are gradually coming into the
market as substitutes.

Systematic and scientific drainage of the
great basins of the Mississippi valley, which
include a large percentage of our hardwood pro-
ducing sections, is now being suggested in a
number of states, both for the purpose of in-
creasing the value of the soil for agricultural
purposes and also with the object in view of
creating conditions under which logging can be
■ ' ■ r i • 1 1 1 ■ i ,-, I for a longer period during the year
and at less expense than heretofore. Wherever
such drainage is being advocated or legislation
is being suggested to improve existing conditions
which retard the development of the country,
the progressive lumber manufacturer should lend
willing and active support to a movement which
will result in benefit to the country in which he
lives and will enable him to operate his business
with less friction and better final results. Then'
is but one step from drainage to improvement of
waterways, and not infrequently these two sub-
jects are worked harmoniously in conjunction
where the particular conditions make such meth-
ods practicable.

The overburdened traffic of our great railroads
has made improvement of existing waterways
and creation of new ones an important topic of
late. Some of the foremost railroad men and

engineers in the country, notably James J. Hill
and Theodore P. Shouts, admit that the only
solution of the present difficulty lies in supplying
waterways for the transportation of the heavier
bulk commodities which are tributary to them.
The railroads are in development many years
behind the country at large. Relieved of the
burden which could and should be transferred to
waterways, they would be better able to handle
the remaining traffic, which, being ordinarily of
a higher average class, would result in better
profit to them. All kinds of freight are delayed
in transportation because of the extent to which
the railroads are burdened by the excess tonnage
of bulk commodities. Fortunately, the produc-
tion of those commodities is to a considerable
extent in localities where they can be taken care
of by means of natural or artificial waterways.
It seems to me that it is a shortsighted policy
which would object to improvements now greatly
needed and which will be increasingly demanded
as years go on on the ground of cost. I do not
know that a 14-foot waterway from the lakes
to the gulf- is practicable from an engineering
standpoint, but I do know that an eight or nine
foot channel extending all along the main tribu-
taries of the Mississippi, including the Ohio and
Missouri rivers, would furnish highways for a
commodity such as ours which would afford
cheaper transportation and. strange as it may
seem, more rapid movement during the season
of navigation. I can speak positively in this
matter because it has been thoroughly worked
out and demonstrated abroad. In my native
country. Germany, the waterways, consisting of
improved rivers and canals, are to large sec-
tions of that country what the Great Lakes of
this country are to the states adjacent to them.
The waterways carry the bulk freight, thus leav-
ing the railroads to care for lighter, miscellane-
ous business and the traffic of higher classifica-
tion. When you are told that the average
freight rates of German railroads are higher
than this country you should remember that it
is, in part at least, because the railroads there
are largely relieved of the carriage of such
commodities as lumber, coal and grain, which
in the United States is in the main responsible
for the low ton per mile charge of which we
are so proud.

In connection with the conditions which have
been prevailing in railroad traffic of late, it
might be well to mention that remedies to
relieve the situation have been sought in various
directions. Early in January a reciprocal de-
murrage convention was held in Chicago, and
your organization was represented by delegates
from different parts of its field. This convention
in which lumber interests were so dominantly
represented made arrangements to urge the en-
actment of a national law to govern the move-
ment of carload commodities and to promote
more satisfactory car service. The executive
committee from this convention visited Wash-
ington, and on January 16 and 17 held confer-
ence with President Roosevelt and the Interstate
Commerce Commission, with the result that the
commission w-as instructed to prepare recommen-
tlations for a law covering the subject which
will be sent to congress accompanied by a special
message from the president.

At the same time the officials of leading rail-
roads have been formulating a car service organ-
ization which has for its main purpose the or-
ganization of a car clearing house or pool. It
is hoped, therefore, that such wise legislation

LEWIS DOSTER, CHICAGO-.
SECRETARY.

HARDWOOD RECORD

21

will be adopted, to be cooperated in as to some
of its features at least by the railroads, that the
burden of Inadequate railroad transport a lion
service will be Largely lifted from the Lumber
industry. I would suggest in this connection
that when such a bill is introduced in congress
as meets th" requirements of the case, as Indi
viduals you will use every influence possible
wiiii your representatives in congress to secure
its passage.

inasmuch as applied forestry, improvement of
presenl drainage systems, or creation of new ones,
as well as active support to the movement, to-
wards bitter utilization of our waterways, and
active interest in proper railroad Legislation is
of paramount interesl to the hardwood business
at largo and to the members of this association
in particular, I desire to bring to the attention
of this convention the advisability of devoting
pari of our t [me to these four subjects, and to
Legislate or to organize committees to represent
and execute the Ideas of this convention, and to
aid in the furtherance of any plans thai might
be i or ib coming, either from individual interests
or public institutions along these lines.

our method of grading lumber has for its
principle harmonious cooperation between t he
manufacturer and the consumer of our product,
and the efforts of our grading committees, car-
ried into effect by an efficient corps of inspectors,
has produced such a favorable impression among
the consumers that it promises to bring about
• loser connections between the manufacturers
and consumers; in fact, it has of late been seri-
ously considered by your executive board to
invite the consumers of our product to affiliate
with our association, and I recommend to the
committee in charge of this subject to present
to this convention feasible plans for the con-
summation of such project.

In this connection I desire to add that during
the past year the office of this association has
ben canvassing a list of S.000 to 10,000 names
of buyers of lumber, for the purpose of obtain-
ing their wants. This plan originated with your
former president. K. II. Vansant, and I am
glad to report thai the first publication of the
book will be issued within a few weeks. The
report of the secretary will show in detail this
matter, as well as other points which I have
brought out in this address to you. I believe
thai action should be taken at this convention
relative to publishing a consumers' list in book
form for the membership of the association.

During the past fiscal year our membership
has increased steadily in a large territory. Our
work has been made more effective by the estab-
lishment of state exchanges, which would enable
circles of manufacturers adjacent to such ex-
changes to carry into effect with better success
suggestions resulting from their particular re-
quirements, and I recommend that the policy of
this association in the future he continued along
the same Hues; that individual aims and circum
stances be given the fullest recognition compati-
ble with the broad policy of this association as
a unit.

The National Lumber Manufacturers' Associa-
tion, with which this association is allied, repre-
sents the entire lumber manufacturing industry
of this country. It will hold its annual conven-
tion at Norfolk this coming May. and this con
vention should take steps for representation at
that meeting.

The executive board met regularly during the

past year and discussed different subjects, either
in routine or business or brought before its meet-
ing by members, and the policy of our associa-
tion to give each member an opportunity of
voicing bis opinion has been steadily maintained

Your executive board, as well as the associa-
tion at Large, met a serious loss during the year
in the death of Ferdinand C. Fischer, one of Its
members, who was one of the leading spirits in
this organization, as well as one of Its most
faithful supporters. We miss the services of his
logical mind and his diplomatic talents, which
were inspired by a genuine good fellowship ami
a broad and systematic knowledge of the difficul-
ties with which we have to contend.

Another serious loss was sustained by the
death of Charles A. Ward, who for years had
been the vice president of this association for
the state oi Illinois. lie was particularly Iden-
tified with the industry in the lower Mississippi
valley, and was a man whose conservative judg-

nt and strong personality made bis counsel

and support particularly valuable.

In conclusion, I desire to thank the executive
board, as well as The various committees, for
the active and loyal cooperation and support
which I have enjoyed during my administration.
Realizing thai such cooperation, both on the part
of the commit tees and the membership at large,
will lie a fundamental necessity for the further
success of our organization, I urge upon all of
our members a continuance of faithful work
along the lines which we have had heretofore,
and feel assured that by such cooperation the
success of this association will be a great and
permanent one.

Gentlemen, I thank you.

II. II. VANSANT, ASHLAND, KY . EX PRBS1
DENT AM» MEMBER EXECUTIVE BOARD.

President Wilms— 'Ihr- report of the treasurer

is the next business before us.

Secretary Duster then load the report of

C. M. Crawford, treasurer, which is as fol

lows:

Treasurer's Report.

Mr. President, in my repori to you. owing to
the fad thai I was appointed to till the vacancy
caused by the death of your former treasurer, F.

('. Fischer, I desire to COVer the work as shown
by his records as well as that since [ have
i aken charge by appointmenl :

Cash on hand January l.
1906 $

(';isll received fl'om Secre

tarv's office to November

i by i<\ <\ Fischer

( 'ash received in November
and December by C. M.

( Tawford

(;ish received in January
io da ie applying i □ dues

for past year 2,:::;7.::«;

$28,834 Ti

Voucher checks paid out in
1906 from B 134 to B-
i:-:; i.\ I C. Fischer. . . . 20,579.17

From C I io c --i by C. M.

Crawford 5,865.98 _'ti.4 15, 1 :■

765 *•*>

21,072.42

1,659 ::::

WILLIAM WILMS. CHICAGO, RETIRING
PRESIDENT AM' MEMBER EXECU-
TIVE BOARD.

Balanci

s 2,389.56

Respectfully submitted.

. (_'. M. C'uawi "ia>, Treasurer.

W. M. EtITTER, COLUMBUS, 0., EX-PRESI-
DENT AND MEMBER EXECUTIVE BOARD

President Wilms- Mr. 1 >oster, our secretary,

w ill read his report.

Secretary's Report.

S!MMAlt\ «U SEAR'S EVENTS.

Muring the pasl year we have set down as
they occurred events transpiring that directly
affected our office and general association work,
which calendar shows the following items:

February 21 and 22 — The Hardwood Dimen-
sion Association, after meeting several times in
convention, decided unanimously to apply to our
associat ion for admissh n.

February 23 Meeting of cur executive board
in Cincinnati, a1 which was received full report
of i lie ii 'eel in- of i he dimension slock manufac-
turers on February '-'1 and 22. The proposition
made by t hem for admission was carefully eon
sidered and accepted, and thai association was
absorbed by accepting individually each member

I hereof

March 7 The offices of the association were
moved from Hie Harrison building, Columbus,
O., io the First National Bank building. Chi
cago, where they are now located suite 1535.

Match in Conference of manufacturers of
gum and cottonwood a1 Morehouse, Mo. This
meeting was held for the purpose of developing
proper methods of producing gum ami cotton
wood lumber, especially kiln drying gum and
working it into planing mill stocks.

March :'.i Meeting of manufacturers of bard
wood, held at the Gayoso hotel, Memphis. Tenn ..
ai which thirty-five were present, including Pres-
ident Wilms ,\ number of new members were
added to tin- roll at Ibis meeting ami mailers
of vial importance to the manufacturers and
members of the .Memphis district were discussed
and i be secretary's offioe ordered to put Into
effect.

April J.". Meeting of Mississippi hardwood
manufacturers held ai Greenville, Miss.; thirty-
eighl were present. Matters pertaining to eon
ditlons in Mississippi were thoroughly discussed

and association work made more prominent in
that stale old members were reinstated and
new members added.

April UT —Meeting of hardwood manufacturers
held at New Orleans. Owing to the fact thai
the Confederate Reunion was on ai New Orleans
the attendance was small, and it was felt that
there should bo a Louisiana state organization

of Ibis association and plans were made to
hold the meeting in the northern part of Hie
stale a i a later da I e,

May 4 Dlstrlri meeting held at Bristol,
Tenn., a1 which time the Lumber Exchange of
Easi Tennessee & Souihwest Virginia was organ
Ized. Our official grading rules were adopted by
i bis exchange.

May 5— District meeting held at Ashevllle,
N. c..' when the Ashevllle Lumber Exchange was
organized. Our official grading rules were
adopted by t bis body.

June 9- District meeting held ai the Arling
ion hotel, Hot Springs, Ark., a1 which t!me a
committee was appointed to formulate specifica-
tions for hardwood logs. tO act in conjunction

with a similar commitl f Missouri and other

manufacturers. New members were enrolled and
matters of Importance besides the grading of
hardwood logs were also considered. The a

22

HARDWOOD RECORD

grading of hardwood logs, dimension stock and
tupelo.

MEMBERSHIP.

Our membership list the past year has stead-
ily increased, applications being received both
at the different district meetings which have been
held from time to time and by correspondence
to the office. Our total membership has thus
been increased to 2S0 members, whose produc-
tion represents the running of over 550 mills.

STOCK REPORTS.

Our system of sending, out stock for sale and
stock wanted memorandums has been carried on
in practically the same manner as we have been
working this department for the past two years.
and we have endeavored to make this phase of
our work of greater beneiit to the members by
sending it out as often as twice a month.

We have also added a page to this report,
showing wants of consumers. Frequently we
have requests from consumers to be put in" com-
munication with firms who can furnish certain
items, and this information we are submitting
under this department, so that you can communi
cate direct with the parties who want stock.

MARKET REPORTS.

We have continued the system put into effect
:i year or more ago of sending out a report show-
ing the actual conditions of the consuming mar-
kets and the values which are being obtained
for tin' woods represented in this association.
:itii this information is obtained at first hand
I.- in tin' various members comprising the com

CLINTON CKANE, CINCINNATI. 0., MEMBEK
EXECUTIVE BOARD.

iation methods were thoroughly discussed and
explained to all present.

June 12 — District meeting held at Morehouse.
Mo. The work of the association was thor-
oughly explained and new members were enrolled
and subjects discussed regarding the product of
this section. A committee was appointed to
w.ni; in connection with the Arkansas committee
for the purpose of arriving at a proper basis
lor the grading of logs.

June If. District meeting held at the Gait
House, Louisville. Ky. At this meeting the Ken
tacky operators were thoroughly instructed us to
the proper methods of association work and
much interest developed among all present.

August 14 — An inspector was placed in the
St. Louis district to make local inspections for
members of the association and others who sold
their lumber to be graded in accordance with our
official rules, and for local consumption.

October '.i -District meeting of hardwood man-
ufacturers of Missouri at Cape Girardeau. Dr
von Schrenk gave an illustrated address.

October 13 — Meeting of the executive board
of this association at Chicago, at which time
resolutions were adopted on the death of V. C
.Fischer, treasurer, and ordered engrossed and
sent to Mrs. Fischer. C. M- Crawford, secretary
and treasurer of the Yellow Poplar Lumber
Company. Coal Grove, O.. elected to fill the
unexpired term of Mr. Fischer, also being elected
to fill Mr. Fischer's place on the executive board

November 19 — Kdition of grading rule book
published by the association, showing rules for

M. CARRIER, SAUDIS. MISS .
EXECUTIVE BOARD.

MEMBER

COMPARATIVE' STATEMENT OF VALUES FOR

Jan. to April,

I9u5. mini

POPLAB.

Panel and wide. No. 1. 18 to 23'' $52 mi S54 mi

Box boards, 13-17 47 mi 50.00

las. , to 17" 43.00 45. no

No. 1 common . 29.00 3

No.- 2 common 20.00 20.50

OAK. PLAIN.

I'as • 42.50 17.00

No. 1 common 30.00 31 mi

No. 2 common 18.00 19.00

COTTONWOOD.

1 ox boards, 13-17 37.00 4.', 00

r-ls - :' 27 00 31.00

No. 1 common 22. no 22 00

x" 2 ■ n 14 50 TiT.-.n

GUM.

1:"'l I'as 26.00 30.00

Sap Fas . . 4 7 ,„, 2] 50

Box boards, 13-17 22. tin 29.00

Red common 15.00 18.50

No. 1 common, sap 13.50 16. on

No. 2 common 11 mi i., oo

CHESTNUT.

I'as 40.00 44. tin

No. 1 common Us. mi ::i m

Sound wormy 17.00 17 00

HICKORY.

1" I'as 45.00 45.00

2" Fas 55.00 55.00

1" No. 1 common 25.00 25.00

2" No. 1 common 3n.ii i ■ 30.00

ASH.

1" Fas r- 4O.00 13 t t

2" Fas. 4:: mi u; .

1" No. 1 common 27.50 29 50

2" No. 1 common 29.50 ■■••no

Above prices are based on inch, excepl ash and hickory.

1906 ani

1905.

May to Aug..

Sept

In I >ei .

1905

1906.

1905.

1906.

$56 mi

$59.00

$52.00

$51

52.00

54.00

50.00

57.011

If, mi

4P.IIU

43.1111

50.00

29 nn

22. mi

29 00

33.00

20 00

22.00

20.00

22.IMI

15.00

48.00

44.1111

40.1111

31.00

22. nn

30.00

33.00

19.00

21.00

18.00

22.011

38.00

16 nn

30.00

52.00

28 00

.'U.nii

29.00

,",7.no

22.00

22.IMI

22.1111

25.00

n 50

18.00

14.50

20.00

26.00

29.00

28.00

17.00

21.50

19.50

21 50

22.00

2!

IT. nn

32.00

15.00

18.50

17.00

20.50

13.50

17.00

15 25

20.00

11.00

14.00

12.0U

17.00

40.00

18.00

40.00

49.00

28 nn

35.00

28.00

2i;. no

17.00

17.00

18.00

18.00

45.00

46.00

47.IIH

48.00

55.00

E

56 nn

63.00

25.00

26 00

26.00

27.00

30.00

31.00

32.00

35.00

i

44.1111

n 00

47.00

43.50

47.IIH

41.IHI

.-, 1 nn

27 50

3

28 00

33.50

29.50

33.00

30 nn

38.00

All prices

are f. o. b. basing point.

millees on the different woods, as well as other
information which has been furnished to this
office from time to time. Six reports were sent
out in 1906 as occasion demanded, when there
was a change shown in the market values at
consuming points, or an average of one state-
ment every two months.

In the publication of the list of market con-
ditions at the present time we have used every
effort we could to canvass not only the producing
markets but the consuming markets as well,
keeping in touch with both buyer and seller.
The book form of statement which we have pub-
lished has proven satisfactory. It is sent free
to members in single copies, additional copies
being furnished at 10 cents each.

Owing to the broadening of our producing
sections the woods covering a number of states,
such as oak, ash, etc., are based both on Ohio
river and Mississippi river points, the latter
taking Cairo as a basis.

I present herewith a comparative statement
which show-s the values of some woods of our
association in 1906 as compared with the same
periods of 1905.

COMMERCIAL REPORTS.

During the past year we have continued our
system inaugurated in 1902 of sending out in-
quiries to all members relative to their dealings
with certain firms, and have included under this
department inquiries on 120 different concerns,
i in an average each inquiry was answered by ten
members, which makes a total of 1,200 different
reports received and submitted back to all mem-
bers.

That this department is working to the bene-
fit of those interested is shown from the fact
that we have received as many as eight requests
from the same member at one time. We en-
deavor to get these matters out to all members
as quickly as possible, realizing that it is infor-
mation wanted quickly. An immediate return of
the inquiry when received will materially assist
us in furnishing this information at thetime it
is wanted.

INFORMATION BUREAU.

In this department we have carried matters
like the car stake equipment complaint, the
freight rates to the Pacific coast, etc., both of
which were of great importance to the members
of the association. Statistics were obtained from
different localities for the general committees to
secure practical results, and along this line
would suggest that as this association has not
had a transportation committee, it should be
provided at this meeting for such a committee
to take care of problems of this kind.

At different times members of the association
have wanted publicity in matters not only per-
taining to rough lumber but logs, timber and
sawmills, and under this department we have
endeavored to supply that information to the
members as soon as requested by those wanting
to buy or sell these commodities.

GRADING RULES.

Our work during the past year on the grading
rules has been in line with recommendations
made at the last annual meeting by the various
grading rule committees. We have canvassed
thoroughly the committees on the different woods
for their ideas as to how the rules should read,
by showing a separate rule for each kind of
wood, and to eliminate from the rules anything
that was not necessary and to put them in the

FRANK F. FEE, NEWPORT, ARK.,
EXECUTIVE BOARD.

MEMIiLI!

HARDWOOD RECORD

23

clearest possible language. The replies from the
different committee members have been carefully
compiled and we have placed the result of such
compilation before the executive grading com-
mittee for their report to you.

We should also state in further explanation
that at the time the dimension manufacturers
became affiliated with this association grading
rules for their product were formulated, and
have been inserted in our grading rule book.

Grading rules for hardwood logs have also
been formulated during the year, adopted, and
are now published in our official grading rule
In. nk.

owing to the fad thai a number of our mem-
bers in the South manufacture a quantity ol
cypress and tupelo, we have inserted the rules
as adopted by the Southern Cypress Manufac-
turers' Association for these woods.

Since January 1, L906, we have sent out about
15,000 copies of our rule book, making a total of
over 1)0.000 copies which we have furnished to
the trade since 1902.

I find that in the study of the grading situa-
tion, it is the endeavor of all concerned to have
grading rules so written when published that
they will not be misunderstood either by the
purchaser or the shipper. Your executive grad-
ing committee, which has been working during
the year on the compilation of the rewritten
rules, will no doubt report at this convention.
and believe that your bureaus which handle this
matter will be greatly assisted by such work.

BUREAU OP GRADES.

We have established a force of inspectors to
exemplify our grading rules both at the mills
and at destinations where cars are in dispute,
and we are proud to state that this bureau is
composed of men of the highest integrity and
ability to carry on such work, they having given
entire satisfaction in their rulings on the grades
of lumber, with the result that settlement of
disputed shipments has been made easy.

Our system of making reinspections is as fol-
lows : We have a card form to be used by
members in submitting their instructions for
reinspections which provides for the number of
pieces, amount of feet, grade, thickness, kind
of wood and any brand marks or mill marks on
the lumber. This information is usually given
us in the form of a letter. When we have re-
ceived such instructions and information neces-
sary, we acknowledge the same by postal card
form, and at the same time by another postal
card form advise the holders of the lumber that
we have been instructed to reinspect certain
Lumber, and that stock should be held intact for
relnspection purposes.

Our inspectors are then sent from the nearest
point we can route them, and are provided with
statement forms showing that all the lumber
found in the said car is shown the inspector, or
that the customer finds that he is able to use
the stock or has used it and will settle for the
car according to original invoice. One of these
statements is signed by the customer and submit-
ted by the inspector to the secretary's office to
gether with his tallies, and together also with
a letter form setting out the complaints made
by the customer to them, the kind of defects
found in the lumber reducing it below the grade
Invoiced, their treatment by the customer and
any other information of value, all of which is
submitted to the shipper.

After the inspector's tallies have been figured
up 1 hey are carefully checked over and report

made ou1 in triplicate form, the original being
sent to the shipper, the duplicate i" the holder
of the lumber and the triplicate retained as the
office copy.

At the tin 1 sending to the shipper ins copy

of the report we determine the amount of varia-
tion shown by the report from his original in-
voice, and If more than 4 per cent variation in
grade or measurement, we submit to them a

■date ni ni' the actual expenses of the inspeclor

in making the relnspection, the services of the
inspector at all times in making the relnspection
work being without charge. If the variation is
less than 4 per cent no charge whatever is made,
unless the labor to handle the lumber is supplied
by the inspector, winch is always charged. The
above explanation refers only to the manner in
which our work is handled to the members of
l he association, especially the matter of arriving
at the basis of charges for the work.

Your bureau adopts this policy for the inspec-
tion of lumber requested by anyone regardless
of their membership, and naturally such reports
.■; re always based only on the rules adopted offi-
cially by this association. Our services for this
work are charged on a per diem basis and ex-
penses.

The work of the inspection bureau has been
very carefully watched by the members. Our
system lias been installed in new plants this year
and would have been put in operation more thor-
oughly had the amount of logs been received,
the climatic conditions and the car situation
been favorable for visits of the inspectors to a

P. MANN, MEMPHIS, TENN.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.

MEMBER

G. E. W. LUEHRMANN, ST. LOUIS, ARKAN-
SAS VICE PRESIDENT.

greater number of plants, II is our intention
ibis year to cover in a systematic manner the
different sections of the. country for the pur-
pose of demonstrating to the manufacturing in-
dustry the correct handling of our grading rules.
Our manner of currying on this work, in which
we take ui) carefully the manufacture, seasoning,
proper handling and careful shipment places upon
the market a product of a higher class, and with
the correel interpretation of the grading rules
il reduces to a minimum the undesirable matter
ni' complaints and at the same lime protects the
shipper from loss in overtrading.

CONSUMERS' LIST.

A.s outlined lasl year, we started a list of users
of the different woods produced by our members.

We have kept up our canvass ibis year, enverim:
a list of over 10,000 names, sending out several
requests at different times. The returns from
these canvasses have been compiled and arc now
ready to be set up by the printer for publica-
tion. As a matter of fact, we have with us
today some specimen pages of the manner in
which this Information is being prepared for
publication, and which we hope to be able to
complete in a very short time.

This book has been asked for by a great many
members who are willing to purchase it. and we
believe thai the sale of this book confined to
members of the association will be of vast in-
terest The receipts from the sale will enable
us to keep tin- work currenl and show next
year a larger book in proporl ion to the added
information we are able to secure during the

year.

The information contained in this book is no)
only valuable but necessary, and when such pub
lication can be submitted, showing each kind of
wood, each state, subdivided into cities, and all

II KRAMER, RICHMOND,
PRESIDENT

I\MA\A VICK

6,664.00
1. 120.60
1,193.51
1,154.06

968 tic,
156.76

388.79

$26,022.39

alphabetically arranged, it will be a credil to
t his associat ion to employ the necessary means
to keep it in active circulation. Specimen copies
are provider! for exhibition purposes, which can
b- seen at any time.

CLASSIFICATION op EXPENSE.

In order to show the phases of associal Ion
work which require the largest expenditures, we
attach below a statement showing the cost of
1 he various details in maintaining our inspection
force and the office work :

Bureau of grades :

Mill inspection work $1,341.17

Relnspection deparl ment. . 8.881.11
Miscellaneous Prinl ing,

etc :;:.t 33

$10

Salaries, offiee

Traveling, office and field work

Print ing and stationery

Postage

Kent

Telegraph and telephone

Assessment to the National Lumber
Manufacturers' Association

The expenses and the work of this association
have been gauged on the amount of income de-
rived, based on the regular dues of 5 cents per
thousand. Your treasurer's report shows the
amount of money that has been handled, and
although the membership has increased, our In-
come has not been increased in proportion, owing
lo the peculiar conditions which have surrounded
the hardwood industry in this period. The ex
cesslve high waters of the southern district
caused a decrease in the amount of logs deliv-
ered to the mills; the extreme car shortage also
caused a diminution in the receipts of lumber
on the markets and the lack of tides tor the
river mills prevented shipments, all of which
was noticeable in tin- returns of our monthly
assessments in the aggregate.

DEPARTMENTS.

The various departments are subdivided ac
cording to class of manufacture.

First, the sawmill man, for whom it is our
endeavor to have lumber properly manufactured
and graded and whom wre endeavor to keep
advised as to the correct thicknesses to be pro
duced which are in demand, etc.

Second, (he planing mill operator, who ma nil
factures siding, both bevel and drop, ceiling,
casing, base and mouldings, for which we have
adopted standard grades and sizes in govern
proper sale.

Third. I be dimension stock operator who cuts
for the vehicle and furniture trades. Grading

rules have been adopted tor Ibis class Of '
rial, all of which has been a greal bem

Fourth, we have now before us requests from
producer's of hardwood flooring who, realizing
the bonefits which we have obtained for the
former three, have asked ibis association if 11
is possible to lake u] 1 thai class of work in
addition to what we have already put in ef-
fect. This latter class is composed of tic, pi.'
who are very close to 1 he hardwood indusl ry,
and I offer ;is a recommendation, if it is possi
ble lo do so. 1 hat we establish a departmenl

of hardu in d flooring.

24

HARDWOOD RECORD

FLOYD HAY. il. AY CITY. KENTUCKY VICI
PRESIDENT.

REMOVAL hi ASSOCIATION OFFICES.

The removal of the association headquarters
lo Chicago has been a great benefit to the
organization, owing to the fact that Chicago is
the largest consuming market for hardwoods
in tlie United States, and we are able to meet
a great many people who .nine t.i our offices,
members as well as those in all lines of trade.

We are at the command of the trade at
large which uses our offices for information
which we lire glad to furnish. Our inspection
force, which covers the consuming markets of
the country, is most easily handled from this
section. In addition to this I believe our asso-
ciation has increased in membership by our ac-
tum in (imiing to Chicago.

TRAVELING.

In my chronological history I covered some
■ if the important events which occurred dur.ng
ihe association year, all of which I attended,
and will also state that I visited by invitation
many meetings in other states, and was also
asked to attend the regular meetings of the
exchanges, all of which assisted the association
in my being able to explain the benefits of out-
work. In covering this work the travel ex-
tended over about 50,000 miles.

SUGGESTIONS MADE To nil: SECRETARY'S OFFICE

Various suggestions have been made to the
secretary's office at different times during the
year, a great many of which have been acted
upon by us with the result, I believe, of added
benefits to the membership.

The following changes in our constitution
have been suggested:

Article in. Objects.

Article VI. Questions in Issue.

Article X, Duties of Secretary.

Also for the purpose of being used by mem-
Iiiis and the railroads in settling disputed
weights for shipments of hardwoods, if is sug-
gested that the secretary's office publish in card
form the official weights of the association as
set out in our statement of market conditions.

STANDING COMMITTEES.

Your standing committee on grading and on
market _ reports assisted the secretary's office
immensely this year through a mail canvass and
by holding meetings in various sections of the
country, and the grading rules which have
been prepared and presented to your executive
grading committee and the statements of market
conditions published from time to time were
the result of such hearty cooperation.

The success of such results proved that their
appointment was to the best advantage of tin-
organization, and I ll'llsl that tile ouimit tees

to be appointed to serve for the ensuing

will continue such active communication with

the secretary's office.

Your president and executive board have been
in close communication with the office during
the year by holding meetings, and. such action
has given to our office the proper methods of
carrying on our work for the year.

I want to thank the officers' and the different
committees, also all the members, for their
prompt action in various requests whit I

i - sending from time to time, as such action
allows us to obtain the proper results, which,
when submitted back to the members of the
association, enables them to reap benefits which
not only keeps them closer to our organization

but adds new members who recognize the im-
portant work which this organization is effect-
ing. Respectfully submitted,

Lewis Doster, Secretary.

1 'resident Wilms : Gentlemen, the next in order
■ t business is the report of our chief inspector,
Mr. Hill.

Chief Inspector J. V. Hill then read his
repOTt. It was as follows:

Chief Inspector s Report.

Mr. President I desire to submit the re-
porl ni the Bureau of Grades for the year just
closed. We have added to our inspection force
during the year, having inspectors traveling in
the consuming territories as follows: In the
eastern district, east of Pittsburg; in the mid-
dle west, covering iihio. Indiana and Kentucky;
in the western district, covering Chicago, Michi-
gan and vicinity, and in the St. Louis district,
covering Missouri, southern Illinois and points
nest of the .Mississippi. These inspectors travel
in any point in their territory where there may
be cars in d:spute.

Of tlie claims that have been entered on our
leinspe. tiim liles the past year s.'i have not been
reinspected, owing to th. fact that settlement
had been adjusted before the arrival of the in
spector - not infrequently it happens that
the ear is found to be up to grade upon explana-
tion to file customer of what the grade should
contain. Hfty-one per cent of those reinspected
for members have been found to be off-grade.
Last year we showed 711 per cent off-grade.
which shows a reduction of 18 per cent in nff-

15LMER \V HARRIS, CEDAR FALLS, IOWA
VICE PRESIDENT.

grade shipments in 1906. The reduction in the

percentage of off-grade lumber is due to the
facl Hint members are continually working
.loser to our official grading rule book, and each
succeeding year we believe that by such action
the percentage will be still further reduced.

tit the lumber reinspected in 1906 bv nou-
members 85 per cent was found to be off-grade.
I no increasing interest in the proper applica-
tion of the rules will reduce the percent, igi
we hope with i In- proportion.

We make re nspections for anyone request-
ing such work, regardless of their member-
ship, hut who ship their lumber to the con
suming markets graded according to our official
rules of inspection However, the charges |(h
nonmembers differ from the charges to mem-
bers.

When the ,-ar is not intact and only rejects
are there to he inspected, it is impossible to re
port on the true condition of the car. for the
reason that if the stock was invoiced as No. 1
common or any grade lower than that and the
customer makes complaint for stock below
grade, there is always a chance that the in-
spector, if loading out any low grade stock.
ii. .n also put in some boards of a better grade
in even up the shipment, and if the car is not
intact, naturally these better hoards would not
In- among flu- rejects, and the report under such

Clrcumstai would not he fair to the ship

per.

Resawed stock at destination is impossible
to reinspect properly unless the boards have
been held intact. us the? were loaded int.. tlie
car, owing- to the fact that the grade invoiced
is decided upon before resawing, and as in cases
where boards with clear face cuttings are sold

resawed, it not heid intact us above, it is
niiite evident ttiat one-halt of tue board would
possibly be one grade lower than invoiced.

The inspectors of tnis association have the
past year, with very few exceptions, received
most courteous treatment at the hands of the
customers, who have always waited with a
great deal of interest for our men to visit
.. est mation for tue purpose of establishing a
basis for the adjustment of complaint.

At a number of places where we have been
and complaint has been made, upon explanation
oi what tne grade invoiced should be buyers
have tound that they had no cause for com-
plaint and have indicated their willingness to
accept the car as billed. Customers in different
cities have also requested us to instruct their
inspectors in the correct interpretation of our
luies, so that they will leel competent to decide
whether they are getting the grade they have
purchased, and we are always glad to accede
i" such requests.-

A great ueal of confusion is being caused on
account of lumber being purchased on one grade
and sold as another, ana we find in investigat-
ing that it is advisable when more than one
grade is placed in a car. especially where it may
ne possible to manipulate tuem, that the grades
he piled separately, ami each hoard have a
distinguishing graue mark, it cannot then be
said mat they were originally shipped for the
Higher grade.

A great deal has been said about uniform
inspection, but I tnitik that too much cannot
be said on this very important point. The mill
man should very careiully study this matter
and see to it that his inspectors are careful
in their interpretation of tue rules. It is an
excellent idea to have regular meetings of the
inspectors and their interpretation of the rules
lined up so that they wilt all grade alike.

Sawyers, edgermeu and trimmers are now be-
ing taken into the meetings and discuss the
gi ailes the same as inspectors, both on the
green and dry lumber, at various points, and
i have in my routine work visited the mills of
members and attended such meetings and we
are always ready to continue such practice.

If is important that a certain grade of wood
shipped from a mill in Mississippi should not be
materially different from the same grade shipped
in in a mill in West Virginia. We have found
i hat a great many consumers making com-
plaini mi a shipment had nothing to say as to
whether ii was graded strictly according to our
rules or not. merely that it was not as good
as another car they had received.

A very important point that has been im-
pressed upon the members in previous conven-
iens is the matter of having some mark of
identification on their lumber. Our inspectors
this yen have had a number of cases come
before them where it was absolutely impossi-
ble, to identify the stock, even when the shipper
himself was present, as was the case on one
occasion. This could be very easily obviated
bj a brand mark on the end or side of the
hoards as a number of our members. 1 am glad
to say, now use There can be no question then
about the inspector's getting the right lumber.
This is for your own protection, gentlemen, not
our convenience.

In closing 1 want to say that I would be
very glad to receive, verbally or by letter, any
inquiries regarding Hie proper interpretation of
any purl of our rules or fuller explanation of
in\ point in our rule book; also if at any time

HALL, ASIIEVILLK. NORTH CAROLINA
VICE PRESIDENT

HARDWOOD RECORD

25

during the yeai' there should come up in your
business such points, a letter addressed to the
secretary's office will be given immediate alien
Lion in *as complete a manner as possible.
Respectfully submitted,

. J. V. lln.i., Chief Inspector.

President Wilms : Gentlemen, you have heard
the officers' reports for the past year. What is
your pleasure?

On motion of R. H. Vansant the chair
was instructed to appoint a committee of
five to review the addresses and reports of
the officers and make a report thereon. The
president appointed as such committee A.
J. Gahagan, Frank F. Fee, W. C. Dewey,
W. H. Dawkins and W. W. Dings.
Discussion on Grading Rules.

As chairman of the executive grading
committee R. H. Vansant made a formal
report covering the recommendations that
had been authorized by his committee. The
report so far as complete, covered general
instructions on the subject of inspection
and an attempt at clarifying the descrip-
tions of poplar grades. After the reading
of the report a general informal discussion
ensued and special reference was made to
the term "well manufactured." On this
subject J. W. Taylor said:

We are not specific enough in our definitions.
I bump into these words quite frequently and
then wonder why the other fellow is so stupid.
When the other fellow pulls the book on inl-
and shows me why he is doing a certain thing
in a certain way I am at fault. I think the
rules should be lined up. I want to support
what the majority decides upon. Personally I
do not know what the word "judgment" means
in lumber or what the term "well" defines as
applied to quality of manufacture.

Mr. Vansant: "Well" is not as strong a term
as "perfect."

Mr. Taylor: I would say "not allowing over
one-eighth inch variation from standard widths."
There are many ways to confine I lie definition so
it will be understood. I have sawyers who do
not know what "well" means and sometimes
I think they do not know what "lumber" means.

The argument resulted in the committer's
conclusion to omit the word "well" with
the bald statement that lumber shall be
manufactured of practically uniform thick-
ness. The committee also on the basis of
the arguments presented, was induced to
change its base of standard thicknesses to
read ::s, '_•, %, %, 1 inch and in successive

quarter inches up to and including 4 inches
in thickness.

Dr. Herman von Schrenk asked t

enlightened on what constituted "equiva-
lent defects." Mr. Vansant stated that in
the past it had been determined by the
actual waste in cutting but that it was
now desired to change the rules so thai the
equivalent of standard defects should be
the actual damage to the lumber.

The convention then adjourned until
afternoon.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

The afternoon session was not called to
order until 4 o'clock, the delay being
caused by important committee work. The
program for the afternoon included ad
dresses on important topics. President
Wilms first introduced .1. C. Clair, industrial
commissioner of the Illinois Central, who
delivered an address on the Cooperation of
the Railroads and Lumber Interests in the
South and the Developments Resulting There-

W. I. BARR, GREENFIELD, OHIO VICE PRES-
IDENT.

W. M. McCOEMICK, PHILADELPHIA, PENN-
SYLVANIA VICE PRESIDENT.

from. Mr. Clair's most interesting address
follows:

J. C. Clair's Address.

Mb. President and Gentlemen — I appreciate

h. honor and happy privilege of being with you

today and addressing such a brilliant body of

representative business men. The subject as

gig I me is a very important one and covers

1 broad field — "Co-operation of Railroads and
Lumber Interests in the South and Developments
Resulting Therefrom." I will not undertake to
ci ver the whole field, but will make a few
suggestions pertinent to the great Illinois Cen-
tral railroad system and roads tributary thereto.
Progress is the watchword of the twentieth
century, and I do not know of any trade or in-
dustry that means so much to commercial and
Industrial development as does the lumber busi-
ness. Without transportation, however, all com-
mercial life would come to a standstill. It. there-
stands to reason that the railroads and the
lumbermen should co-operate for the mutual
interests of both, and what applies to the lum-
bermen is correspondingly significant with refer-

to all trades and industries generally.

The Illinois Central railroad is a producing rail-
road, when you take into consideration the
great commodities that are handled and loaded
upon its tracks, including lumber, cotton, coal,
live stock, fruits and vegetables and general
merchandise. I think. If you will allow me
in make the remark, it is the prominent rail-
road Of the world as a self-producing system of
traffic, handling locally about 8G per cent of
the traffic that goes over the system. There

S: LIEHERMAN, NASHVILLE. TENNESSEE
VICE PRESIDENT.

was loaded on the Illinois Central and the
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroads with the
year ending June SO. 1906, 1,049,717 cars. That
is not counting the traffic delivered from eon
necting lines. Of that most remarkable tonnage
1 am pleased to advise you that lumber com-
prised 73,071 cars loaded on the Illinois Central
and V:i/oo vv. Mississippi Valley railroads for
the year 1906, or about 14% per cent of the
traffic handled for t lie whole system. It, there-
fore, is most essential to the railroads as
well as to the public at large to take into con-
sideration the great importance of the organiza-
tion you gentlemen represent. And I want
to say that the Illinois Central recognizes the
members of your association among its best and
most substantial patrons. In the line of indus
trial development I might cite for your infor-
mation that in the state of Mississippi alone
are located upwards of 5U0 sawmills and wood-
working plants, which demonstrates another
great important feature of the lumber inter-
ests.

I want to say a few words, gentlemen, in re-
gard to the great timber acreage of the delta
country from lssl iq) to the present time. Of
the 756,000 aires of timber land owned by the
Louisville, New Orleans & Texas railroad in
issi there was turned over to t lie Yazoo &
Mississippi Valley railroad in 1892 600,000
acres. The Louisville. New Orleans & Texas
sold 156,000 acres in eleven years. The Illinois
Central, through its land department, in thir-
teen years disposed- of the 600,000 acres, the
last sale having been made jn November, 1905.
Our company disposed of about four times as
much as the Louisville, New Orleans & Texas
in the same time. There is a reason for it. The
first thing the company did was to reduce the
profits, for what purpose? To not only have
the advantage of disposing of the property to
men who would develop it and give us the
traffic but also to interest and assist agriculture
and the general development of the great delta
country. The Illinois Central sold that prop-
erty to 6,000 purchasers. The largest purchaser
bought 156,848 acres. The Illinois Central ap-
preciated the importance of the general dis
tributlon of the land, and 6110,0110 aires means
a great deal to any portion of our country
in handling lumber or any other commodity.

There is a great future for your organization,
apprehending, and if you will allow me to say,
predicting, that with the completion of the
Panama canal this great Mississippi valley is
going to be the center of the commercial life
of the United States. it is well to consider
it now. The industrial department of a rail-
road looks out for tomorrow as well as to, lay.
The operating and traffic departments are busy
looking out for the time being, arid they are
kept on tlie jump wiili the handling of the great
traffic you are giving them and endeavoring
to answer the complaints. That, however, is
something I will not touch upon, although it is a
serious matter for all of us. It is sale to pre
diet, however, that the railroads have u,,i to
Increase their mileage as well as their equip-
ment, and in turn you people must also do
your part in meeting us half way.

'As I look Into the faces of this audience I
see a gentleman who, I trust, appreciative of
his modesty, will allow me to make reference
to him, to his work, what lie has accomplished
and is accomplishing for this great city of
Memphis. If there is any one department off

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A. JOHNSON, PENNINGTON GAP, VIRGINIA
VICE PRESIDENT.

railroad that is important in its development,
as well as co-operating with the towns along
the system, it is the industrial department. We
must have a knowledge of the resources of the
road and be ready at all times to present the
opportunities and advantages for the location of
industries along the line. My work, to a large
extent, is to go about from Dakota to Louisi-
ana, as our road covers t welve states, and co-
operate with the citizens in forming industrial
clubs, hoards of trade, commercial organizations
and such, calling their# attention to the imporl
ance of being wide awake, taking advantage
of their natural surroundings and being willing
to co-operate with the railroad system for the
upbuilding or greater development of their re-
spective towns or cities. You are today holding
your (.invention in one of the fastest growing,
most progressive and in every way up-to-date
cities in the United States. There has been a
great deal accomplished here in the past five
years. How much you have had to do with it
I don't know.

but going back to my allusion of a moment
ago — you have in your audience a gentleman
who has had much To do with the building up
of this city. I. P. Peters, secretary of the In-
dustrial League of ibis city. I have co-operated
with" him, and the traffic officials in Memphis
have done the same, and all in all we have
brought about the great natural development
here, thanks particularly to Mr. Peters. When
he assumed the office he* now holds in 1901 their
was very little known of the general commercial
advantages of thus city, but with an excellent
organization and the support of the people of
this city progress has gone on. He has been
instrumental in locating eighty-five industrial or
manufacturing plants, with 10,000 -employes,
which, according to the customary way of num-
bering individuals of a family, would mean 50j-

000 additional population to Memphis since
1901. .

I realize that you are great producers, great
manufacturers of one of the greatest commodi-
ties in the United States. Beyond the sawing
of lumber and its sales, how much have you
gentlemen co-operated by way of bringing to
the point of production woodworking and manu-
facturing plants? Possibly you have done a
great deal ; at least, you are the people who can
accomplish a great deal, and in behalf of the
Illinois Central railroad and its Industrial De-
partment I today solicit your co-operation for
future work.

I stepped into a store on Main street today,
being- attracted by some nice model pieces, and

1 thought I would ask the merchant where they
were manufactured. I did so, and to my as-
tonishment he said he didn't know. He said
they came from the North, possibly Grand Rap-
ids. I said, "Have you any furniture manufac-
turing plant in Memphis'.'" He said, "No, sir.'*
I t hink you grasp the poin t .

lu my opinion, from a railroad or traffic
standpoint, it would seem to me that there
should be an unusual and an extraordinary effort
upon the part of the people engaged In your
line to call the attention of your northern and
eastern friends to the importance of loeat'ng
at the point of production. There must be more
or less waste, throwing out of the culls or small
timber that would not be merchantable in the
northeast or west that could be made so, prac-
tically at the mill door, by bringing the furni-
ture man, the veneer manufacturer, the stave

man and all others in the woodworking indus-
try to the point of production, which would
mean not only profit to yourselves, not then
having to call upon the railroad people to make
quite so many cars, but you would also
get a good price for your lumber and sell
that part of it that is not merchantable
now. It would give us the opportunity of cut-
ting out the heavier traffic and handling that
which is most profitable, a point your worthy
president alluded to this morning in speaking of
the merchandise and transportation of Germany.
I assure you that this matter of getting together
is wise — there is nothing -like good fellowship,
and certainly men can accomplish more where
there is .ioint action than can the individual.
We know that to be the case with railroads.
I want to emphasize this point, if you have not
already given it the attention it deserves. Upon
returning to your respective homes, wherever
they may be, whether on the Illinois Central or
any other railroad, that if you have not already
a commercial club in your town or city that you
use your influence in bringing about such an
organization. Through such organizations much
may he accomplished. If you have a proposition
in go before a railroad you can transact the
business more quickly and satisfactorily through
a committee from a commercial organization
representing the town or city as a whole than
you can by taking it up individually. "In union
there is strength." The business man and the
railroad corporation can do much by working
together. We have at the head of our company
an officer that every other official and every
man is proud of — a man who has studied the
technical and practical points of railroading
probably as no other man has done in this

C. L. RITTER, HUNTINGTON, WEST VIR-
GINIA VICE PRESIDENT.

country. He is interested in the progress of
our southern territory, the great Mississippi val-
ley, and I am sure that he knows full well and
appreciates the importance and magnitude of the
Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the
United States. 1 refer to J. T. Harrahan.

In conclusion, in behalf of the railroad I
represent, as well as personally, I thank you for
your kind attention, and I sincerely hope that
I may hear from some of you gentlemen, particu-
larly those of you who desire the upbuilding of
your cities, especially if they are located on our
line. I will always give you a ready response
and I will, to the best of my ability, work in
the interest of all. [Applause.]

The next speaker introduced was Dr. Her-
man von Schrenk of the Missouri Botanical
Garden at St. Louis, who is also associated
with the Department of Agriculture. Dr.
von Schrenk took up several topics of
spec i lie interest to the lumber trade and
made quite a number of valuable sugges-
tions. His scholarly address follows:

Dr. von Schrenk* s Address.

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Associa-
tion— I feel like expressing my appreciation of
the very cordial invitation I received to meet
with the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association
of the United States, but I felt some hesitation

about coming here because of a fear of my ina-
luiiiy To say something of interest to you. "How-
ever. 1 fee] tnal we are all working with one
end in view : the best realization tuat we can
get out of the development of the hardwood
industry. I have no formal paper to present to
you. but I jotted iiown some notes about some
of the factors in connection with the hardwood
industry and the lumber industry as a whole
which nave struck me and which may be of
some interest to you.

All of the operators in the lumber industry
nowadays are stuuenis, not only of the present
situation but of the future. One of the tnmgs
1 want to talk about is the present method of
operating the logging situation in a sawmill,
u.e relation which tnat bears to market condi-
tions and what H will be as the years go on.
i think we have all felt sometimes that while
we have a lot of things to count on at present,
some of us feel rather shaky as to what will
be the situation of a tew years hence. Hut what
are we going to do? If you will look over toe
present circumstances you will see that the
source of supply of hardwood is limited. You
realize that the trees now coming from the for-
ests are not what they were some years ago.
i la \ are further removed trom the center of
i perations ; it costs more to get them to the
sawmills; and you don't get the quality of
lumber you did years ago. It is a condition that
lias brought into the market certain kinds ot
lumber which you did not consider five or ten
years ago : which are growing in importance
daj after day. replacing some of the woods you
counted on some years ago. The question is,
What is going to be the character of the lumber.
hardwoods as well as pines, in the future, and
how best may the changed conditions be met 7
I am not a great believer in trying to pry into
the future and say what will happen, but it is
always wise to look a little into the future and
see where we are going.

If you will look at the trend of business in
the past you will find that the first operators
in lumber were sawmill men. As they increased
their business the yard business started, oper-
ated usually by another man. As the yard busi-
ness increased and lumber was more difficult to
get the yard man turned around and became a
mill operator, and the lumber was obtained from
one or more distributing points. As the result
of this sort of policy we see the great manufac-
turing establishments of today holding vast
anas of timber land, with a large daily output.
Smaller plants have, to a large extent, gone out
of existence— at least small in number compared
with the larger ones— and hand in hand with
that has gone an increased cut year after year
of a certain definite hardwood supply which
existed when the hardwood business first began.

What are we going to expect to happen in
the next few years? With that increased output
of the large mills will come a corresponding
future decrease of supplies. A certain number
of the largest sawmills have to stop in their op
erations because of the exhaustion of supplies,
and whether it is going to be five or ten years
from now I foresee the swinging back of the
pendulum -the condition of the small operator
going on to the tracts abandoned by the large
operator, and you will have the small sawmills
again, possibly with the return of the independ-
ent yards in our cities. Those are reflections of
a general nature, which I want to prefix to some-
thing more specific and definite. I think most

A. DEUTSCH, SAX ANTONIO, TEXAS VICE
PRESIDENT.

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27

of you will agree with me that the United
States is what you might call a wooden house
building nation. Iu other words, a large per-
centage of the lumber manufactured iu our saw
mills goes into the construction of wooden
buildings or allied products. That house building
tendency is i" be held responsible for to.- fact
thai our lumber products today are largelj
boards and board products, lu other words, »■•
take the logs from the woods and the tegd,encj
is to manufacture ii'on.ls and laths, shingles and
things of that character. The tendency lias

i n. furthermore, on the pari of each operator

perhaps 1 ought not I" put ii so strong
inn the majority of operators put up a sawmill
to saw as many boards as they can with the
plant at their disposal. The aim is. by means "I
ili,. application of improved machinery tot- log-
ging operations, etc., to gel out the greatest out-
put. At the end of tin' day a man will rush

iiii.. tl Bice and say: "Hurrah, ii has been

our banner day/' because the-y have sawed more
lumber that day than ever before on any day.

\\\ next topic is that our lumber is not as
good as it was; Ihai it is harder to get to the
mill; that we .aimed get quite the same quality
of boards that we used to get. What an- we
going in ib, about it; Our supplies are decreas-
ing. Is there anything that the manufacturers
can-do towards holding off the day that manj
tear in the near future when there will be a
greater scarcitj of supplies than ever before?
In a little talk I gave a lew weeks ago to some
hardw I manufacturers 1 referred to this ques-
tion under two terms, namely: specialization of
manufacture as distinguished from specialization
in sabs. All of you are aware of the fact that
if you take an oak tree as it stands in the woods
i.ilav and measure the cubical contents — I don't
mean the log scale, but the actual available wood
in that tree from the time it stands in the forest
until manufactured into a chair or a table or a
floor — a large percentage has gone to waste,
estimated at some 30 to 35 per cent, certainly a
large per cent is lost. How can we make better
timber out of it'.- That is the problem. Your
cutting should be from mature trees, keep
ing the voung ones standing for the future. The
In.-, should be kept down in the forests. I per-
sonally do not believe that in the majority of
.ases 'at the present time our manufacturing op-
erations are very profitable except for the very
largest manufacturers. 11 is certainly a subject
well worthy of the consideration of every man
ufacturer of hardwood lumber.

My second topic is economical methods. I
said before the tendency seems to he to make
I be must lumber, irrespective of conditions. Let
us follow the path of the log from the woods
to the sawmill, until marketed. Trees are now
telle, I usually without reference to any effect
that the felling may have upon the log after it
-Hikes the ground. The average woodehopper
fells a tree because it happens to have a certain
leaning or because it is more convenient to fell
it in one direction, irrespective of whether it
will strike another tree or fall over a fallen
log. Thousands of feet of lumber are ruined
every year in hardwood and pine operations by
absolute inattention in logging operations l" any
kind of care, except in certain instances. I do
not want you to accuse me of making sugges-
tions that are highfaluting or theoretical. 1
am simply pointing out the channels through
which a great deal of loss takes place. Some-
limes there mav be no remedies for that kind of
operation, bu! In the majority of cases there is
a remedy. The felling of logs cannot be done

according to any particular kind of scheme to
save waste, but you can save the thrashing

around of the log in iho woods. No one is more
conscious than I am of the difficulty of handling
logs from the woods to the mill, but I have
seen thousands of rases which appeared to me
io he a useless and barbarous handling on the
part of Hie log operators, destroying a large
pari of the log by careless operation, the driving
in of bolts and spikes and hooks, mutilating the
log without any particular gain

The next siep iii logging operations is at tin'
sawmill and here, il seems to me. most reform
can be effected. We will say we are sawing
boards so fast that as we stand by the band saw.
as we stand by the re saw. it is almost impos-
sible, even for a person who is an expert in the
mailer, to take in at one glance the quality 0)

i he boards passing through. I have si 1 many

an hour behind the saw table and tried to gain
information from the sawyer as to how be man
aged io determine the grades of the boards, but
1 was unable to do so. Now. is it possible to
decrease the speed of the outpul and accomplish
a realisation of the besl grades of boards'.' I
know one or two mills which are paying more
attention to that feature now than heretofore.
The decrease in the percentage of the cut and
the better quality of the lumber was surprising
even to themselves.

Closely following that is the education of the
Sawyer in the grading rules of the lumber lie is
handling. The sawyer can make or unmake the
particular quality of the boards coming from the
sawmill, and while we have men in the mill
who are simply trained to pull up the saw
automatically, the man who pays attention to
the rules anil tries to adjust himself lo Hie situ-

II W. MOSBY, HELENA. AUK.. DIRECTOR.

LANG, CHICAGO, DIRE! Tl IK

a I ion is of considerable value. The inability of
I be sawyer, owing to the speed of operating, to
judge fully the quality of the material he is
using is responsible to a large extent for the
present situation which may or may not be
Improved upon. At least, it is something worth
lliinking alioiil. following closely upon Ilia",
is the handling of the lumber after il leaves lb.-
sawmill, checking and the process of kiln drying
operations. In other words, the making of thai
particular lumber into the form which will be
acceptable to the purchaser. 1 refer very fee)
ingly to that particular phase, because I bale
very much to see what I consider valuable tim-
ber' ruthlessly mutilated by careless operating.

1 have much Interest in the question asked
ibis morning as to whether any rule had been
drawn up for warped lumber. Take, for in
stance, red gum. I hate to see a timber that is
really very valuable and such a high grade
product slaughtered and put upon the market.
I say advisedly to you, gentlemen, you are re-
sponsible for giving it a name which it will
lake a great many years to overcome, simply
because of failure' to' pay attention to drying.
You mav say, "Red gum is hard to dry and we
don't know bow to do it." if that is the case,
unci out how to do it. Experiment with the
material. Some people can do it. I have seen
red gum boards. Iwo and three inch stock, irre
spective of climate and other conditions, which
has ,ome out good. You will remember the cabi-
neis that we had at the World's Fair. They
sioo.l out in the rain after the fire, and when
i h,v were sent to the cabinetmaker he did not
have anything to do to make the drawers come
out easily, and nothing to do but polish and
ad hist them.

There was anolher thing I would like to im-

HAMEI. WERTZ, EVANSVILLE, 1NI>.. DIREC-
TOR.

press upon you, a thing that is bound i" appeal
to the consumer — to be proud of the inherent
qualities of the wood you manufacture. It is
your bonnden duty to qualify yourselves as to
values. Bring the attention of the consumer to
the specific quality of the wood, and when you
have done i hat. don't overcapitalize il. State

the case fairly. Give the w I a proper chance

and I am sure that none of you will ever be dis
appointed on account of having shouted for the
particular pic, duct you deal in.

1 have been going out among the architects
.somewhat during the last few years and have
tried to find out their reasons for ado], Hug cer-
tain kinds of wood in building houses, and I
have been surprised at their ignorance as to
many of the qualities of hardwood lumber. The
hardwood industry more than any other is ceas-
ing to be distinctly a board manufacturing in-
dustry. There is a demand for special manufac-
i ni e such as stringers and railroad ties in cer-
tain woods. You are dealing with materials
which arc lit for special manufacture, and I
would like to put forth the idea 'that perhaps
some of you now and then may find it advisable
lu consider (he possibility of utilizing special
logs iu your mills. Your president will agree
with me," I think, that when, we regard the situ-
ation in Europe, no manufacturer of chairs or
of furniture would dream of going to a lumber
yard and buying twenty-five boards. He goes out
into the woods or into the logging yard, selects
bis particular logs because' of the grain and free-
dom from knots as far as can be told from the
c. inside : he makes a contract with the sawmill
man to saw that particular log, but he does not
trim il or do anything to it as far as clearing it
is concerned. He sells the whole log and it is
pul on a car and shipped to the spot where the
manufacturer has his establishment, and he gets
the whole thing. He not only reduces the waste,
hut pays a higher price for the log instead of
doing what we do today Certain oak logs are
better fitted for making spokes, etc.. and for
.hairs; certain hickory logs for railroad ties.
Certain manufacturers may not realize that
idea I don't want you to think 1 am throwing
ibis out as a thing you should begin tomorrow.
11 is an idea as to what line of work we may
follow in the future, how it may develop so we
can use what is in the log. because after all
what we want is the most money for the mate
rial we have, aud if you can get more by taking
a selected log and using that, working ip a sen-
timent for that kind of wood. I don't sec- why
you should not get fancy prices lor it.

As to specialization I will not say much be-
cause it is t jxtensive a subject — the desire

bilitv of showing the special fitness of particular
woods. Take red gum, for instance. I always
feel that an object lesson is worth more than
any talk. I have been going around for some
data to present to the long distance telephone

pany on the fitness of certain hardwood for

manufacturing cross arms, for conduits and
things of that character. They wanted to know
about red gum. We went down the Mississippi
valley and si ruck by accident in one town in
Arkansas an electric light plant which had been
furnished red gum for cross arms ten tears ago.
We had beard about red gum and we had been
told. "That is no good: it will warp all to
pieces." I brought with me a section of the
cross arm that I cut from au electric light pole
a few weeks ago. I want yon to examine thaf-
and there are hundreds of them in that condi-

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E. W. PKATT, JR., CROFTON, KY, DIRECTOB

tion. [Here the speaker passed among the audi-
ence a sample of red gum.] We furthermore
found that an experiment had been made by
some of the railroad lines in Louisiana for iis
purpose. Those ties have been thoroughly tried,
laid in the ground and have given an average
service of nine years in the sod. Those are tu-
tors of the lasting quality of red gum. As to
finishing, etc., you know what this particular
wood is capable of. The small difficulties which
we meet in handling these wo. ids in the forests,
the question of insects 'getting into it and the
question of rot. I regard as pass.ng evils, nol
as anything derogatory to the lumber.

If I had the time I would like to go into the
subject of the specific weights this is capable of
sustaining. We can stop strain and warp and
rot in the softer woods as easily as in some of
I he better woods for finishing purposes, because
there is nothing inherent in any wood fiber, and
I say this advisedly, which cannot be remedied in
some way or other. The evils that wood is
heir i" tin* due to the natural organic substances
therein. The disappearance of water at various

liites from the w 1 makes it crack, split, warp,

etc. The presence of these various organic sub
stances makes wood decay. We can remedy
these defects and bring out the character of
the-wood fiber which, in itself, may be a desir
able thing.

I want to express my firm belief, and I don't
think 1 am overoptimistic, in the continued prog-
ress and continued development of every phase
oi the lumber industry, and specifically the hard-
wood business, provided we keep doing as all
of you have done in the past, and as I think all
of you mean to do — informing ourselves of these
qualities I have spoken of, and the way in which
those materials can be handled best _ Although
there is intense competition between these woods.
although we are blessed by great numbers, ea'ch
lias its place. I am sure that by concerted effort
that optimism which I am willing to confess
will "not he misplaced. I thank you, gentlemen.
[Applause.]

In introducing the next speaker President
Wilms referred to his own address, in which,
he called attention to the importance of
waterways and drainage in the lower Mis
sissippi valley. lie said that while the sub-
ject might not be considered germane to
the lumber convention, he regarded it of
such manifest advantage to the lumber in-
dustry that he made no apology in calling
upon John A. Fox of Blytheville, Ark., as-
" sociate Becretary of the National Eivers
and Harbors Congress for an address on
this subject. Mr. Fox spoke without notes,
and the information he conveyed was a
revelation to the majority of those present.
At its conclusion he was heartily applauded.
Following is his speech,. in full:

John A. Fox's Speech.

Mr. President and Gentlemen — The engineer is
not usually gifted and versed in forensic elo-

quence, having to deal usually with figures of
fact rather than figures of speech. So. if I
should not entertain you with that glorious
forensic ability. I hope you will pardon me.

Lord Bacon once said, "There be three things
which make a people great and prosperous. They
be productive mines and fields and forests and
busy workshops, with easy means of transporta-
tion for man and things." I do not think that
this epigrammatic expression of the great phil-
osopher can be equalled anywhere and brought
home more closely than to the business in which
you gentlemen are engaged, because it comes
directly to your minds when you have the forest
at hand : your sawmills and your factories rep-
resent the workshops ; your wide operations in
getting your logs and the railroad facilities rep-
resent the means of transportation. It was ex-
tremely gratifying to me this morning to listen
to the address of your president and hear him
call attention to things which apparently are
not germane to this particular line of business,
hut in the advancement of this country and in
our great progress it is eminently proper that

men ol your enpaeit\ no, I ol your menl lill.si

ness ability should consider the questions that
pertain to the economics of the country, and it
is particularly gratifying that your president
called attention to matters of drainage, to the
protection of these lands and to the general im-
portance of your waterways. I thank you for
this opportunity of addressing you on this occa-
sion and I hope you will not feel that some
extraneous condition is being injected into your
particular work.

Our country has advanced during the last
twenty-five years in strides that exceed all the

W. II. HAWKINS, ASHLAND, EX, DIRECTOR

dreams of the past dreamers. Our farms have
grown in value in the last twenty-five years
from $12,270,000,000 to $26,280,000,000. The
products of our farms have increased from

$2,212,000,000 in 1880 to $6,412, 1,000 in 1!)05.

The production of iron has increased from

3. 2 25, i tons in lssn to lt,.ihio,(ioo t,.Us in

1905. The production of steel has increased
from 1,247,000 tons in 1SS0 to 23,023,000 tons
in 1905. The output of our coal mines has in-
creased from 71,000, 000 tons in 1880 to 392, (,-

000 tons in 1905. The ton mileage of our rail
roads during the last fifteen years has grown
from S'.i.tioo. ooo. 000 ton miles to 187,000,000,00(1
■ton miles in 1905. Keeping pace with this great
growth of our' country our railroad mileage,
which began in 1830 with but twenty-three niile^
of road, in lsso was lso,.".5n miles and in 1905
more than 217,000 miles, and this year it is
reckoned at more than 223,000 miles. -

Although keeping pace with this development
in our growth and in our railroad construction,
the government of this country has been ex-
tremely negligent with regard to its development
of those commercial highways which have fallen
to us as a heritage. In England, in 1890, water
transportation was the means of making Eng-
land supreme in her commercial relations with
the world, and England because of her canals
was held up to the world as the model nation,
and we emulating her great example began, in
1832, to construct in addition 103,000 miles of
navigable waterways, 16,800 miles of canals or
artificial waterways. The railroads, however,
coming as they did and helping to build up
the country more rapidly, tended to destroy the
great impetus that had been given to canaliza-
tion and waterway development, until today the

waterways have practically gone into disuse.
This government in its magnificent development
and advance, while it has acquired territory in
the Philippines, Porto Rico and Cuba ; while it
has built a navy that now ranks third among
the nations of the world, and has expended over
$900,000,000 upon that enterprise, has expended
upon its magnificent waterways the meager sum
of $470,000,000 in all the United States, or
directly upon these internal water courses during
the history of this government we have spent
only a little oyer $207,000,000.

How does that contrast with the magnificent
empire that today in Europe stands commercially
at the head of the nations of the world? Ger-
many, in 1871, recognized that her cities, being
far inland, she was at a disadvantage with
England, w'hose cities stood close to the coast.
Ellsbacher, who was appointed by the British
government to investigate conditions in Ger-
many in 1903 and report to the British parlia-
ment his success, returned and stated that Ger-
many's supremacy was due to her magnificent
system of waterways, connecting every city in
Germany with every other city ; that her manu-
facturing cities fifty to 300 miles inland from
the coast had been put into communication with
the seaboard, so that Germany could manufac-
ture her products and carry them out by ship
for export. He also ascertained that from 1875
to 1895 Germany had constructed 1,091 kilo-
meters of artificial canal, bringing the sea coast
inland ; had undertaken the construction of
3,752 miles of additional canals at a cost of
$250,000,000. lie also reported that while the
internal commerce of Germany had increased
from 410,000 tons per mile by rail to 590,000
tons in 1895, the internal commerce of her
waterways had increased from 208,000 tons per
mile to 790,000 tons. Or, in nther words, the
German waterways in their carriage of the com-
modities of Germany had exceeded the railroad
carriage 150 per cent.

Now, while Germany striving to place herself
at the head of commercial nations is expending
these great amounts — and her territory is but
208,000 square miles, or 57,000 square miles
less than the state of Texas — and while in her
history she has expended $1,400,000,000 in de-
veloping her waterways and making communica-
tion possible with all parts of her country, this
magnificent government, with 3,000,000 square
miles, has spent the meager sum of $470,000,000,
or only half a billion, and France has spent
$1,200,000,000 on her 3.000 miles of waterways.

Does it pay to construct these waterways and
is it possible to construct waterways that will
play a part in the commercial development of
our great nation?

In the Mississippi valley alone — about which
Napoleon said "the nation that owns that val-
ley will be the nation that will rule the world"
there are 16,800 miles of waterways, 2,2oo
miles from St. Anthony's falls to the gulf. 940
miles from Pittsburg to Cairo, 2,680 miles from
Fort Benton to St. Louis, and on all of these
magnificent waterways the internal improve-
ments that have been made have hardly ex-
ceeded $1,000,000. On the Great Lakes there
has been expended $08,000,000 out of the total
of $470,000,000 that has been spent. As the

result of the expenditure of that $68,000,1

upon the Great Lakes alone a commerce has
developed since 1830 that has grown from 12,500
tons as measured at the Sault Ste. Marie canal
to 44.U70.000 tons as measured there in 1905 and
to 72,268,000 tons as is exemplified by the

WILLIAM E. LITCHFIELD. BOSTON', DIREC-
TOR.

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29

report of Colonel Davis for the year just ended
It is hard to comprehend what a commerce
that is, but when you realize that it is twelve
times as great as the commerce of the Suez
canal and eight times as great as the commerce
Oi the citj ol New York; when you realize that
if that commerce were placed In freight cars
it would reach from Dulnth to Seattle nine limes

In cars of a carrying capacity of mi, 1 pounds,

you will realize the greatness of the commerce
upon our inland sens. Thai commerce lias been

brought about at a total cost oi $68, 1,000,

resulting annually in the saving of more than
$232,000,000 to the people of this country. The
average railroad rate ton mileage in the United
States is 7'-j mills, the rate per ton mile on the
Great Lakes is .85 mills. As near as I can
ascertain the rate which governs the railroads
in their carriage the average rate, I might say,
because large tons of raw material are carried —
is about 4'j noils on the lines which parallel
the Great Lakes and enter into competition with
its transportation. Apply the three mills there
saved as the difference between railroad ton
mileage and the lake ton mileage and it amounts
annually to more than $132,000,000, and mul-
tiply tliat by the commerce that must come in
by that same route in manufactured products,
and von have doubled the amount that goes

out ; that is, $232,000,1 saved annually on an

investment of $68,000,000. But the railroads
that parallel the lakes which make those rates
are not the only ones which feel the effect of
it. but Albert Fink testified that those rates
were felt as far as the Gulf of .Mexico; there-
fore, you can add an additional saving by rea-
son of cheap transcontinental rates.

How would the rates be affected if the United
States government — which owns the waterways
and owns the canals of the country — if those
rales were applied to the great systems of in-
land waterways? It would cost $220,000,000
approximately to thoroughly improve the Mis
souri river from umaha to the Mississippi, to
improve the Ohio from Pittsburg to the Missis
sippi from St. Anthony's falls to the Gulf of
Mexico and to improve the Cumberland and tin-
Tennessee and Arkansas rivers. As the result

of the expenditure of $220, for the raw

-material that originates in the states adjacent
to these magnificent water courses, taking ad-
vantage of water shipments for these commodi-
ties, such as iron, stone, coal, lumber and the
eerejils. and if we could succeed in getting the
benefit of simply one mill per ton per mile out
of 7!_. mills, and it is reasonable to suppose
they would get that much since the rate bj
water is only 1 mill on the Mississippi. .7ti
mills on the Ohio and .85 mills on the Great
Lakes, and by rail it is 7 '■> mills, the difference

in the clear being i;'2 mills. If these c modi

ties constituting the low class freights could
have had the advantage of complete and exten
sive water transportation, it would have resulted
in the output of 1904 in the saving of .*ls::,

oho. 1 to the people. These figures seem in

comprehensible, but they are based upon the
statistics furnished by the Bureau of Statistics
,v Labor, and the rates are furnished by the
commission and you can obtain them.

What is the solution of this great problem
that confronts us today in keeping pace with
the output of the country, one in which you
gentlemen are particularly interested — the move-
ment of freight 1 Mr. Hill, on October 0, said
before the Commercial Association in Chicago
that while 1 he output of the country bad in-
creased 110 per cent, the railroad facilities for

taking care of that output had increased only
20 per cent. Mr. Hill further stated that it
would take leu years to score I he equipment
and railroad mileage to handle the outpul of the
country and ii would require an expenditure of

s: .000. 1. Me pointed out particularly that

n behooves this national government to im

prove its targe water courses at 11 stimated

cost of $500, .mm. so that H could take , are

of the low- class commodities. If these water
ways were improved there are certain freights
which would seek 1 lu'in for cheap transportation,
and among I hose freights are lumber and timber
which enter into your business. Should we
antagonize tin- railroads by any such move?
By no means. Stuyvesant i-'ish. in a conversa-
tion once, remarked that tie- railroads were not
antagonistic to the development of the water
ways on a wholesome and judicious basis. He
said that if the waterways were wholly devel-
oped and were not used simply as m subterfuge
and a hammer for rates Hoy would lie bene
licial to the railroads in thai 10 the waterways
and to water transportation would he relegated
the low- class tonnage: that an increased amount
of this tonnage would he carried by water, anil
enhanced commercial development would add

io the manufactured product for the railr Is

in carry, and no one would suffer. This was
illustrated by the great to do thai was made
in Xew York when tin- elevated lines were
started. The surface lines fought them because
they believed they would take their traffic; but
1 levated railroads were built and the surface

\Y. .7. CUDE. KIMMINS, TI'.NN., DIRECTOR.

VV. It. MORGAN, MEMPHIS, TENN., DIREC-
TOR.

lines were still unable to take care of Hie traffic.
I in- subwaj was built and still they are all
unable to take care of the traffic.

I believe there should be fourteen feet of
water between Chicago and the gulf, and I
believe it is practicable because engineers have
reported that il is so between Chicago and St.
Louis and a survey is being made that will
demonstrate that it is practicable between St.
Louis and tin- gulf. I do not have any dreams
of great vessels going up this channel, but I
believe future transportation by water will be
by large sleel barges, such as are used 011 the
Herman waterways, carrying 150 to 1,500 tons
of freight at a low cost. If this river were
placed in a navigable condition there would
result a movement of freight originating adja-
cent to the livers amounting to 27,000,000 tons
carried at a saving of 3 mills per mile a dis

lame of 231 miles — a saving of $11,400,01

year, or almost half the total amount invested,
!,nd it these waterways wen- systematically im
proved within the next ten years it would re-
lieve the great congestion of freight now con
fronting you; it would awake prosperity in this
country not now dreamed of : it would opeu up
to the South American countries trade that
would be marvelous.

It behooves everj man in this association to
study this question, and it behooves you gentle-
men as a body Io indorse certain movements that
■ii-e heinu made Io have this ijiu-stion investi-
gated by the government, and a reliable scheme
undertaken for the immediate improvement of
these waterways.

As to the other question, the matter of drain-
age, 1 believe that the hardwood growth of the
country is found largely in the alluvial valleys
of the 'country, and 1 hat necessarily there is a
great deal of rainfall where the hardwood for-
ests exist, and therefore the perplexing question

THOMAS W. FRY, ST. LOUIS, MO.. DIREt
TOR.

of drainage must be taken care of and bandied
before efficient logging in hardwood can be ac-
complished. In the immediate Mississippi valley
there are more than 20,000 square miles of ter-
ritory covered with large hardwood forests in
which the rainfall is more than 54 inches per
annum, greater than anywhere else in the
United States, and this rainfall renders logging
operations very expensive when drainage is not
provided for.

The efforts to improve these conditions should
receive the hearty support of every man in this
country who is interested in the manufacture

of bardw Is. Perhaps most of you are uot

familiar with the great question of levees and
of the protection of this country, and it he-
hooves you to take a direct interest in this
matter in whatsoever Locality you are situated;
;,. |,in if possible wiili the levee boards ami to
familiarize yourselves with tin- methods in use
that you may be largely responsible for the re-
sults that are obtained. Do not stand back in
indifference and allow political parties and oth-
ers to take charge of these affairs when your
interests an- at stake and it is your province
to take a direct interest in them. These ques-
tions are particularly germane to your work,
and you should not feel that we have injected
something outside or foreign to the business of
hardwood manufacturers. It is your duty as
business men to investigate such things as in-
directly hear upon your particular work, and I
trust you will draw such resolutions before you
adjourn as will commend the work which is
now being promulgated to enhance the water-
ways of this country, and I trust that you will
embody in those resolutions such clauses as will
convince congress of the necessity of expending
larger and more regular sums upon the devel-
opment of our waterways. I also trust that
you will interest yourselves in the question of
drainage and the levees. I thank you very much
lor your attention.

The speaker then introduced Capt. A. J.
Gahagan of Chattanooga, who read a paper
mi the "Relations Between the Manufac-
turers and the Manufacturing Consumers
of Hardwood Lumber." Like all the
previous papers delivered by Capt. Gahagan,
tins address proved a most interesting ami
timely one and was most thoroughly ap-
preeiated. Tl follows:

Capt. Gahagan 's Address.

There is a well established rule in the con-
ilori of business that lie- more closely He- pro
iliieer ami consumer are related to each other

He- better for each of them

The producer of hardw 1 lumber, or any

other product for that mailer, is interested in
procuring the best values for his output, and
the consumer of any product is directly Inter-
ested in procuring his supply at the lowest pos-
sible prices.

Every time any commercial article, whether
it be tin product of the forest, the mine or the
Ibid, changes hands the transfer necessarily
adds something to the cost as all commercial

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HARDWOOD RECORD

W. W. DINGS, ST. LOUIS, MO., DIRECTOR.

products are handled with a view of making
something out of them in the way of a profit to
each man handling the same.

In practically all lines of commercial busi-
ness the jobber or distributor is a necessity as
the medium between the manufacturer and pro-
ducer and a certain class of buyers. It would
be inconsistent to assume any position that
meant the elimination of the jobber or distrib-
utor from the avenues of business. The manu-
facturer of any commercial product and par-
ticularly of lumber is interested in making large
and permanent contracts. The consumer often
buys in small quantities. In cases of this char-
acter the jobber or distributor is a necessary fac-
tor- between producer and consumer. This rule
will apply alike between producer and consumer
of lumber the same as producer and consumer of
agricultural or any other commercial product.
In the relations between the large manufacturer of
lumber and the large manufacturing consumer of
lumber the more closely they can identify then-
interests the better for each. They can consist-
ently cultivate and encourage mutual relationships
between each other that will prove iu every way
satisfactory to the producer and likewise profit-
able to the manufacturer. If the large manufac-
turer of lumber distributes the products of his
mill through the wholesale dealer or jobber, it must
be on such a basis of prices as will give the
wholesale lumber dealer or jobber a profit in
bis transaction with the consumer. The large
manufacturing consumer in many cases employs
men whose business it is to look directly after
the lumber supply of the business they repre-
sent, and necessarily he must go either to the
lumber manufacturer, to the wholesale lumber
dealer or to the broker. In order- to supply his
wants a1 the lowest possible cost he naturally
would seek the lumber manufacturer first. This
• lass of buyers in many cases handle more
lumber than many small wholesalers or jobbers
do.. In the list of large buyers there are many
of the large furniture manufacturers, wagon
and carriage manufacturers, car constructors,
railway builders, agricultural implement manu-
facturers, bridge builders, etc. The successful

conduct "t ...in ;ii;ii business in this twentieth

century makes it necessary for the producer to
sell bis products at the very best price possible
to obtain, and the same rule makes it necessary
for the large manufacturing consumer to buy
his supplies at the lowest possible basis of cost.
To do this, in case of lumber, it is natural that
he should look to the producer for his source of
supply, consequently no two interests in hand-
ling lumber can possibly be more closely iden-
tified with each other than that of the lumber
manufacturer and the large manufacturing con-
sumer.

Another strong reason for mutual relationship
between the lumber producer and large manu-
facturing consumer is that as a rule the manu-
facturing consumer requires nearly all the grades
of lumber turned out by the mills, and in buying
directly from the mills they will usually * get
about the proportions of each grade required
in the conduct of the business. And, as a
rule, lumber purchased under such conditions
will run of a more uniform grade than if bought
through the wholesale dealer. It is natural for
the wholesale dealer to regrade his lumber in
many cases and put in .a higher grade when he
sells lumber that has been bought on a lower
grade.

Then again many wholesale dealers and job-
hers are prepared to handle lumber and cut it up
into dimension stock. In doing this they natur-

ally sell the dimension stock on grade, and very
justly and appropriately there will be a great
deal of the stock that was bought on the basis
of the lower grade that when put into dimen-
sion stock properly belongs to the higher grade.

If the large manufacturing consumer buys
from the mills direct, he saves to his factory
all the advantages to be gained by cutting into
dimension stock and by the improvement in
grades in this way.

Now it would not be at all consistent to ad-
vocate that all manufacturing consumers of
lumber should buy direct from the producer.
The whole country is full of worthy and suc-
cessful small manufacturing consumers of lum-
ber who cannot for want of capital or piling
space lay in large quantities such as the large
manufacturing producer would want to sell,
hence that class of manufacturing consumers
must necessarily go to the small mills or the
wholesale lumber dealer for his supply.

In my opinion there has been no better sys-
tem or rules for grading adopted than the rules
approved by the Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation. They appear to me to be simple, plain
and fair alike to seller and buyer. If properly
construed they are not accessible to so many
constructions as other rules that are now and
have been heretofore in use by lumber dealers.
In the conduct of nearly all lines of manufac-
turing business, with the single exception of
lumber, the methods of grading are fixed by the
producer, or if not directly so by common con-
sent and custom, and practically a uniform rule
applies in all sections of the country. It would
be far belter for both producers and consumers

C. A. SCI1ENXK. BILTMORTE, N. C, DIREC-
TOR.

of lumber to be governed by one uniform rule
of grading. In this both the producer and con-
sumer are alike interested.

The policy of the Hardwood Manufacturers'
Association should be to continue the high plane
upon which the association was first organized.
Its effort should be to cultivate the most inti-
mate relationship between the manufacturer and

pr icer and the manufacturing consumer of

lumber, and to accomplish this end I would ad-
vocate extending the limitation of membership
and making eligible planing mills, car builders,
furniture manufacturers, wagon and agricultural
implement manufacturers, bridge and ship build-
ers, and in fact all legitimate enterprises using
largely of wood products who could be classed
as manufacturing consumers. This plan would
interest a much larger number of manufacturing
consumers and more closely identify them with
the manufacturing producers.

There is probably no industry in the country
today that is surrounded with more uncertainty
and more complications than that of producing,
distributing and consuming lumber.

ii' forests are being rapidly exhausted. Each
year will show a greater shortage in the supply
of lumber and necessarily a corresponding ad-
vance in its market value, and as lumber gets
scarcer and more diflieult to obtain, the interest
of the producer and the manufacturing consumer
will necessarily become more closely identified.

One of the greatest benefits to the lumber in-
dustries of the country, and this applies alike
to producer and consumer, is the information
and statistics derived, compiled and distributed
through the Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa-
tion, covering the supply and demand for lum-
ber.

Every large manufacturing consumer of lum-
ber is directly interested both in the supply and

price. Information covering both of these points
can be no more accurately obtained anywhere
than through the olfice of'the secretary of the
Hardwood Manufacturers' Association ; through
that medium the producer is enabled to locate
t he buyer, and the buyer is advised where he
«au find the producer.

The relationship brought about between the
manufacturing producer and the manufacturing
consumer through the systematic methods of the
Hardwood Manufacturers' Association tends
largely to minimize losses through bad debts
and the sale of lumber to irresponsible buyers.

As the scope of the association is extended and
its membership increased the extent of the bene-
fits io both buyer and seller will be increased.
There will perhaps never be a greater number
of sawmills in operation in the United States
than a i t lie present time. It is very doubtful
if there are as many mills in operation now as
there were five years ago. This condition is
being broughl about by the depletion of the
forests, and .as this process goes along greater
economy in the production of lumber and its
distribution and uses must lie practiced both by
the producer and the consumer.

Through the work of the Hardwood Manufac-
turers' Association since its organization great
improvements in the conduet of producing and
distributing lumber have been made. Its mission
has by no means been finished. Its policy should
be io mutually identify in its work every inter-
esl embracing production, distribution and con-
sumption of lumber.

It should contiuue to advocate a uniform
method of grading, and in every possible way
encourage a closer relationship between the man-
ufacturing producer and the manufacturing con-
sumer of lumber.

Report of Committee on Reports of Officers.
Next was received the report of the com-
mitter appointed at the morning session to
consider the addresses and reports of the
association officers. Their report, which
follows, was on motion adopted:

Mr. President — We your committee have thor-
oughly digested the reports of the president,
secretary and treasurer in their details, and be-
lieve that the association can be greatly bene-
fitted by bringing out the important subjects
that have been fully covered by their recommen-
dations.

The first subject is one of great importance to
the entire producing sections of the hardwood
industry embraced within the territory drained
by the Mississippi river or its tributaries. TJn-
der this bead is embraced the most important
source of transportation that interests lumber
manufacturers, and we therefore recommend
that every possible encouragement be given to
the development and improvement of the water-
ways of the country by appointing a committee
of five.

In the past we have been asked as an organi-
zation to fake active part iu matters which have
do1 been fully developed, regarding the methods
of transportation by rail — rates, weights, speci-
fications, etc., and the suggestion that a trans-
portation committee of five be appointed is one
of importance to the association as one of its
great items of cost.

We recommend that the rules of the associa-
tion be so amended as to admit manufacturing

W. H. NIGH, IRONTON, O., DIRECTOR.

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31

consumers of lumber t<> membership in this asso-
ciation, and that the president appoint a com-
mittee hi three to take up the methods by which
they can be admitted.

lour committee has looked on the consumers'
list, as suggested by the president and secretary,
wiih ii great deal oi Interest, and feel that this
work is oi the bighesl advantage to the mem-
bers of the association, and we believe that
when its usefulness is thoroughly known there
is nothing "i equal value that has come up to
our association for years past. We take great
pleasure in recommending and praising the work
thai has so far been accomplished, and we be-
lieve that this work alone should be the cause
of largely Increasing our membership. We
therefore recommend that the incoming execu-
tive board adopt the methods best soiled to the
interests of the association for the publication
and distribution of the work. Our opinion is
thai the sai,. of ibis book should be confined to
the membership of the association.

We recommend that the convention authorize
the president to appoint delegates at the proper
time to represent ibis association at the meeting
of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Associa
tion at Norfolk, \'a.

We recommend the creation of an executive
grading commission that will be composed of
men whose interests are directly identified with
tlic manufacture, sale and purchase of your
products. The number of members to be lixed
by the executive board of the association as
circumstances may require.

In line with our usual procedure, the variety
of the woods in the methods of grading have
been controlled by standing committees, subdi-
vided into tlie different woods, and we recom-
mend that sucjb plan siill be retained and that
committees be appointed as follows :

Poplar and basswood, to consist of seven.

Oak, ash and chestnut, seven.

Cottonwood, seven.

Gum, seven.

Cherry, walnut, sycamore, hickory and pecan,
seven.

Beech, birch, soft and rock elm, bard and soft
maple, three.

Vehicle dimension stork, five.

Furniture dimension stork, five.

We recommend that a statistical committee,
for the purpose of maintaining proper services
for the benefit of the members of the association
in disseminating information regarding the
stocks on hand, market conditions and other in-
formation of value which can be submitted to
the membership, be appointed and be subdivided
as follows :

Poplar and basswood, In eotisist of seven

Oak, ash and chestnut, seven.

Cottonwood, seven.

<ium, seven.

1 'berry, walnut, butternut, sycamore, hickory
and peean, seven.

Beech, birch, soft and rock elm, hard and
soft maple, three.

Vehicle dimension stock, five.

Furniture dimension stock, five.

Hardwood flooring being a product that is
closely related to the production of woods rep-
resent* ed in ibis association, we recommend that
the policy of this association should be to create
a department of hardwood flooring for ibis asso-
ciation, and that a committee of three be ap-
pointed to draft the proper rules and regulations
for the admission of this class of manufacturers.

We have noted the treasurer's complete and
concise report, and congratulate the association
upon its financial condition.

The chief Inspector's reporl is a \fvy inter
esting document. He is emit led to the recog
nitlon of the association for his efficient services,
The president is entitled to the thanks of this
association for the unselfish work he lias done
during the past year. By bis strict attention
to the Interests of the association he has en
deared himself to ever} member of the organize
tion.

The association is t<> be congratulated In con-
sequence of the efficient work of the president.

The association is to lie congratulated greatly
in ennsequence of the efflclenl work done by its
secretary, Lewis Doster. His continuous re-
election to the position he has held since the
organization of t his association is the strongest
possible evidence of our appreciation of bis
services. Respect fully submitted,

A. J. Gahagan.

W. II. Hawkins.

Frank F. Fee.

W. w. Dings.

w. C. Dewey.

Discussion on Odd Lengths.
R. II. Vansant, chairman of the executive
commit tee, presented the recommendations
of his committee on the matter of grading
lilies, and moved they be adopted. One of
these recommendations was to the effect

W. H. HERBERTSON, PITTSBURG, VA.t DI-
RECTOR.

.1. J. MEAD, PITTSBURG, PA., DIRECTOR.

that standard lengths be eight to twenty
feet inclusive, and that standard thick-
nesses be increased, so as to provide for an
increase of one-fourth of an inch in the
gtandard thicknesses of all lumber more
than one inch thick and up to four inches,
this division giving one-fourth, one-half
and three-fourths of an inch of each unit
up to four inches.

C. Crane amended the recommendation with
the words "odd lengths shall be considered
standard lengths, the same as even lengths."

The President We arc going back to the point
we had up this morning as to whether or not
the expression "s to Uii feet inclusive" would
really include odd lengths. This is the point to
decide now. We will put it to a vote as to
whether these words properly express what the
committee which brought in the report intended
to convey or whether the committee shall bring
In another report. There is danger of becoming
too technical in these matters, as I said before.

Mr. Crane I quite agree with you that it Is
1 technical point but think the other statement
is plainer. People wilt know what we mean If
we 1 'ut in such words and it will not hurt
anyone.

Mr. Love — 1 am opposed to odd lengths. We
have always sold lumber on even lengths. If
we put in odd lengths, we will have to buy on
them. If the report is left as it is, eight to
twenty feet, everyone will know what is meant.

M. F. GREENE, NASHVILLE, TENN., DIREC-
TOR.

Mr, Crane- In other countries there is a
preference for odd lengths.

Mr. Vansant — The executive committee does
not agree with Mr. Love In his attitude on what
eight to twenty feet means. We asy "all
Lengths and widths are inclusive." That will
enable us to measure 9-inch boards as well as
Hi inch boards. It was considered that eight to
twenty feet would mean odd lengths the same as
seven to seventeen inches means odd widths.

Mr. Love— There is a question as to whether
I am mistaken or not. In Nashville we have no
eleven or thirteen foot lumber. I do not think
anyone would want to buy odd lengths.

Mr. Fee — It strikes me these words read a
little bit different from what Mr. Vansant thinks
they read. Why, under that construction, are
we not forced to measure twelve feet nine
inches? We have had a custom for years of
measuring walnut and cherry in odd lengths.
Hickory is used in the same way. The point
that I want to bring out especially is that if
you make eight to twenty feet there is no pro-
vision as to uieasurinc inches. I move, therefore,
that in measuring lengths the standard shall be
eight feet, adding a foot for each length up to
twenty feet.

A member — I believe if you will leave it as
you had it, "eight to twenty feet." there will
unavoidably be discussion as to what is meant.
Say a customer objects to a carload of lumber.
The inspector says be is not sure whether the
odd lengths are standard or not. There is a
question as to what is meant. In the past we
have always measured our lumber in lengths
separated by two feet. Buyers will point to this
custom and on the strength of the custom will
assert that the seller is not justified in claiming
that he must adapt himself to the seller's views.

Mr. Gahagan — The universal rule has been to
cut lumber even lengths. As timber gets scar-
cer every producer is anxious to get every foot
there is* in a board. I would suggest that the
rule be changed to read : Standard lengths shall
be eight to twenty feet and no fraction of a
foot to be counted.

Another amendment was offered reading
" lengths eight to twenty feet in whole feet."
A suggestion was made that odd lengths be
specified thus: eight, nine, ten, eleven feet,
etc.

Mr. Crane— I think it is just as much to the
advantage of the consumers as it is to the
producers and it should enable the latter to sell
lumber a little cheaper and probably would make
a difference of -SI a thousand feet in lumber cut
from logs coming from the mountainous districts.
Ninety per cent of the orders we have from
Europe contain specifications for odd lengths.

J. B. Ransom moved that standard lengths
shall be 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20 feet, and
this was supplemented by the statement that
if anyone wanted to sell odd lengths he was
at liberty to do so.

One or two of the motions and amendments
to the motion were withdrawn and the propo-

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A. J. GAHAGAN, CHATTANOOGA, TENN., DI-
RECTOR.

sition to adopt odd lengths as standard was
lost.

The convention then adjourned until
30:30 the following morning.

WEDNESDAY'S SESSION.
On reassembling on Wednesday morning
President Wilms announced the following
committees in conformity with the recom-
mendations contained in the report of the
committee on officers' addresses and re-
ports:

Committee on Drainage and Improvement of
Waterways— S. B. Anderson, Memphis, Tenn.;
R. E. Lee Wilson, Wilson, Ark.; Clinton Crane,
Cincinnati. 0. ; G. E. \V. Luehrmann, St. Louis,
Mo.; W. c. Dewey, Marked Tree, Ark.

Committee on Transportation — R. L. McCle]
land, Chicago; J. W. Mayhew, Columbus. Ohio :
J. 8. Garetson. St. Louis, Mo. ; W. B. .Morgan,
Memphis, Tenn. ; J. R. Mcllvaine, Nashville,
Tenn.

Committee on Consumers' Membership — R. II.
Vansant, Ashland, Ky. ; John IS. Hanson, Nash-
ville, Tenn. ; Clinton Crane, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Executive Grading Commission — R. H. Van-
sant. Ashland, Ky. ; W. A. Gilchrist, Memphis.
Tenn. : E. A. Lang, Chicago ; John W. Love.
Nashville, Tenn. : W. M. Kitter, Columbus, Ohio ;
John H. Himmelberger, Morehouse, Mo. ; P. W.
Webster, Decatur, Ala. ; George E. Breece,
Charleston, W. Va.

Committee on Poplar and Basswood,, Grading
— C. M. Crawford, Coal drove, Ohio ; C. M.
Clark, Clay City. Ky. ; J. W. Mayhew, Colum-
bus, Ohio; S. Lieberman. Nashville. Tenn.; F. A.
Kirby. Scranton, Pa.; John W. Kitchen. Ash-
land, Ky. : T. E. Powe,. St. Louis, Mo.: W I,
Delaney, Cincinnati, Ohio; W. J. Cude, Kim
mins, Tenn.

Committee on Oak, Ash and Chestnut, Grad-
ing— John W. Love, Nashville, Tenn. ; R. M
Carrier, Sardis. Miss. : W. I.. Watson, Malum.
\V. Va. ; Clinton Crane, Cincinnati. Ohio : W. E.
Delaney. Cincinnati, Ohio ; W. W. Dings, St.
Louis, Mo. : J. W. Mayhew, Columbus, Ohio.

Committee on Cottonwood. Grading and Sta-
tistics— E. A. Lang, Chicago ; W. A. Gilchrist.
Memphis, Tenn. ; W. C. Dewev, Marked Tree,
Ark. ; R. E. Lee Wilson, Wilson, Ark. ; W. p,
. Morgan. Memphis, Tenn. ; C. H. Moore, Mem-
phis, Tenn. : Thos. W. Fry, St. Louis. Mo

Committee on Gum. Grading and Statistics —
Howard Rule, Morehouse. Mo. ; W. II. Greble
Memphis. Tenn. : Thos. W. Fry, St. Louis. Mo. •
W. W. Dings, St. Louis. Mo. : P. L. Throne,
Fair, Ark. : John W. Dickson, Memphis. Tenn. ;
E. E. Sweet, Memphis. Tenn. ; Geo. F. Riel,
Memphis. Tenn. ; F. E. Gray, Memphis, Tenn.

Committee on Beech, Birch, Soft and Rock
Elm, Hard and Soft Maple, Grading and Sia
tistics — Thos. W. Fry, St. Louis, Mo. : I \
Kirby, Scranton, Pa. ; J. W. Mayhew, Columbus,
Ohio.

Committee on Vehicle Dimension Stock. Grad-
ing and Statistics — George E. Breece. Charles-
ton-, W. Va. ; E. W. Pratt, Jr., Crofton, Ky. •
O. C. Galloway, Clarendon, Ark. ; E. L. Davis
Louisville, Ky. : W. W. Dings, St. Louis, Mo.

Committee on Chair and Furniture Dimension,
Grading and Statistics — F. W. Webster, Decatur,

Ala. ; George E. Breece, Charleston, W. Va.
Frank F. Fee, Newport. Ark.; Van B. Perrine.
Fort Wayne, Ind. : O. C. Galloway, Clarendon
Ark. ; J. S. Garetson, St. Louis, Mo. ; C. M,
Clark, Clay City, Ky. ; R. M. Carrier, Sardis.
Miss. : John W. Love. Nashville, Tenn.

Committee on Poplar and Basswood. Statis-
tics— A. J. Gahagan. Chattanooga. Tenn. ; A,
Loveman, Nashville. Tenn. ; J. W. Kitchen. Ash-
land, Ky. : J. W. Mayhew, Columbus, Ohio : C.
M. Crawford, Coal Grove, Ohio; F. A. Kirby,
Scranton, Pa.: Flovd Day, Clay City, Ky. : W.
II. Dawkins, Ashland, Ky. ; A. B. Ransom, Nash-
ville, Tenn.

Committee on Oak, Ash and Chestnut. Statis-
tics— A. P. Steele. Sardis, Miss. : Clinton Crane,
Cincinnati, Ohio ; J. W. Mavhew, Columbus.
< >hio : W. L. Watson, Mahan, W. Va. : John B
Ransom, Nashville, Tenn. : Daniel Wertz, Evans
ville, Ind. ; G. O. Worland, Evansville, Ind.
W. A. McLean, New Albany, Ind.

Committee on Cherry, Walnut, Butternut, Syc-
amore, Hickory and Pecan. Grading and Statis-
tics— W. I. Ban. Greenfield, O. ; Wm. Burke,
Dayton. O. : Robert Vestal. Knoxville, Tenn. ;
V. A. Kirby, Scranton, Pa. : J. W. Taylor, Colum-
bus. O.

The Odd Length Question.
R. H. Vansant, on behalf of the executive
grading committee, advised that during the

recess this nmittee had gotten together

and would amend its report by recommend-
ing that standard lengths shall be from four
to' twenty feet in length, and that odd

grades as shown in the ruugh, and not subject
to any changes which may be caused by future
mill working, except as to stained sap as herein-
after stated.

6. Sap that will show bright after dressing
to standard thickness shall be considered bright;
all sap to be estimated in the average.

7. Sound heart in firsts and seconds, if lon-
ger than the width of the piece, will reduce it
to the next lower grade.

8. Splits that do not diverge more than one
inch for each foot in length are to be considered
straight splits.

9. Ordinary season checks are not to be con-
sidered defects and are those that come in lum-
ber when it has been properly piled and pro-
tected after manufacture.

10. A straight split not exceeding 6 inches
in length in one end of a piece of lumber S
inches and over wide shall not be considered a
defect.

11. The rules foi- the inspection of lumber
are intended to define the poorest piece that
will go into agiven grade; all the better boards
up to the next higher grade being also included
in the grade described. When the defects are
slightly beyond the specifications, 12-fuot and
longer shall be given advantage in grade, and
10-foot and shorter reduced.

12. Clear face cuttings must show one face
clear of all defects excepting bright sap, as
hereinafter stated.

The reverse side of clear face cuttings may
contain two or three small defects, or one large
defci 1 not exceeding two inches in diameter
thai will not materially weaken the strength of
the piece and that will not show through the
face when worked.

13. Sound cuttings may contain firm knots ;
pin worm holes, sap aud other defects which
would not materially weaken the'Strength of the
piece.

The word ■cuttings" is intended to include
both rippings auil cross cuttings.

14. Log Run means the full run of the log
with all grades excluded that will not cut 50
per cent into sound cuttings.

MEASUREMENT.

1. Lumber must be inspected and measured
as the inspector finds it, of full length and
width. He shall make no allowance for the
purpose of raising the grade.

2. In the measurement of all lumber, frac-
tions exactly on the half foot are to be dropped
and all fractions above the half-foot are to be
counted to the next higher figure on the board
rule.

3. A careful piece tally must be kept of all
lumber showing the face measure. This shall
be considered the board measure in all lumber
one inch and thinner. To obtain the board
measure in stock thicker than one inch, multiply
the face measurement by the thickness ip inches.

4. In the absence of 8-foot lengths in the
grade where the same is alb, wed, the per cent
of 10-foot lengths may be increased proportion-
ately.

5. Tapering lumber shall be measured at one-
third the length of the board from the narrow
end, except strips.

6. All widths and lengths mentioned in these
rules shall be inclusive.

A. The standard lengths are 4. 6, S. 10, 12,
14. 1G. 18 and 20 feet, admitting the percentage
ROBER1 VESTAL, KNOXVILLE, TENN'., DI- of lengths as designated under each grade. Ten
RECTOR Per cent of odd lengths in feet in any grade

admitted.

lengths be admitted up to 10 per cent of
the total in any shipment. This recom-
mendation proving acceptable, the report
of this committee was then adopted as a
w hole, as follows:

INSTRUCTIONS FOR MANUFACTURE, INSPECTION
AND MEASURSMENT.

MANUFACTURE.

Lumber shall be manufactured of practically
uniform thickness and parallel edges, with ail
ragged and bad cuds trimmed off.

INSPECTION.

The location, size and kind of defects have
much to do with the value of a board, and the
inspector must depend to some extent on his own
judgment, guided by the following rules :

1. In inspecting all lumber, both sides of the
piece shall be taken into consideration in making
the grade, bearing in mind that 90 per cent of
all lumber shows only one face when finished.

2. The face side of lumber is the side showing
the best quality or appearance.

3. Wide pieces of lumber that would take
two or three standard defects mav have one
large defect equal in damage to two or three
standard defects.

4. In woods where no select grade is pro-
\ ale, I. boards S inches and over wide with one
clear face shall be raised a grade above the re-
verse side.

5. Lumber shipped rough must be accepted on H. FUG ATE, RICHLANDS, VA., DIRECTOR.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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It In all grades above Nil 1 common, stand-
ard lengths are 8 to 20 feet, admitting to uol
■ i r, per cent of 8 foot and 15 per cent of
10-foot, except walnut and cherrj

C. In No. 1 common the standard lengths are
6 to mi feet, admitting not to exceed m per cent
,,t 6-foot, except walnut and cherry.

7. The standard, thicknesses are: %", V4".
%". %", 1", IV. 1%", 1 94", 2", 'J',", 2%",
j a ::". ::',". 3%", '■■' > , '

ST LNDARD DEFE1 I S.

1. Each one of the following items constitutes
a standard defect, any of which may appear in
the board up to the limit specified in the rule
covering its quality.

A. One knot not exceeding I1, inches in
diameter.

B. Two knots so located that they will not
exceed in damage one standard knot.

C. Worm holes, grub holes or rafting pin
holes not exc ling in damage one standard knot.

1>. Heart, shake, rote, dote or any other
defects not exceeding in damage one standard
knot.

E. Bark or waney edge not to exceed one
inch in the average, running not to exceed one-
third the length of the board, only showing on
one side and to be measured.

Following came action on the report of
the committees on grading of various
woods. These rules will be printed in full
in the Hardwood Record within a short
time. The general changes inaugurate, I
were slight and the entire tenor of the
document was rather to simplify the word-
ing of the rules than to make any decided
alterations.

Concerning Consumers.

R. II. Vansant, as chairman of the com-
mittee ou consumers' membership, ad-
dressed the convention, stating that the
committee deemed it eminently desirable
to get in as close touch with the manufac-
turing consumers as possible, and submitted
the following report:

Manufacturing consumers are eligible to mem
bership based on the following rules :

First, Inspection- They are to have all privi-
leges of calling for the inspection of hardwoods,
subject to the rules and regulations of the
Bureau of Grades as interpreted by the secre-
tary's office.

Second, Mail — To lie privileged to the infor-
mation of stocks fer sale, market condition re
ports and such ether information as the executive
board may determine.

Third, Representation — To have proper repre
seniaiion on the executive grading committee
and other committees of importance to their
interests,

Fourth, lues To be subject to the annual
dues of $ . payable In advance, the amount of

dues to be decided by the executive board on a
basis of not less than sin nor over $25 per an

1111111 ill ad\ ale e

R. II. Vansant.
.1 I:. Ransom.
C. Cranes.

One member stated that be thought it
bad policy to admit consumers into the as-
sociation; that their sole interest was buy-
ing as high grades at as low prices as pos-
sible, while the producers, if their attitude
be resolved to a finality, were as insistent
on selling as low a grade for as high a price
as possible.

Chairman Wilms stated that it was not
intended to invite the membership of con-
sumers with a view to having them control
the policy of the association, but to estab-
lish friendly relations with consumers and
give them an opportunity to conserve their
own interests. The subject was threshed
out at some length by various members, and
Frank F. Fee analyzed the situation as fol
lows:

DAVIDSON, PARKERSBDRG, W. VA.,
DIRECTOR.

W. L. WATSON, MAHAN, W. VA., DIRECTOR.

There is perhaps one line of II ghl which

has not been touched upon, or, it' so. it was
during mv absence. Those of us who go into
il,,. offices of buyers or who are on the road
have to defend ourselves whenever prices are
mentioned. We say conditions force the advance
in prices. We try'to convince them so that ihev
will accept our ideas, Tnis idea of introducing
the consumer as I understand ii is that be maj
represent preferred slock and we the common
stock, but the government of I he association
remains with the producers. I believe if thej
come in here on the Boor where in detail the
causes of higher prices arc explained they will
appreciate our position a great deal better; they
will understand that we are losing logs i,y exces-
sive rains, that insects are damaging timber and
that stumpage values arc increasing. Where
would it he possible to Impress them more thor
• Highly with these facts than on the floor of this
association? I think we could do this better
h.i., as an association than we can on the road.

The report was referred to the executive
committee with the instructions to act in
the matter to the best interests of all con-
cerned.

On null ion of It. II. Vansant the recess
provided for was dispensed with and it was
decided to complete the work of the con-
vention before adjournment.

On motion the chair was instructed to
appoint a committee of three on resolutions

S. B. ANDERSON, MEMPHIS. TENN., CHAIR-
MAX DRAINAGE AND WATERWAY IM-
PROVEMENT COMMITTEE.

and nominations. He appointed as such
committee: A. J. Gahagan, chairman, A.
Loveman and W. W. Dings.

On motion the committee on statistics
aud market conditions governing the various
woods was instructed to report direct to the
secretary instead of going into the detail
of the work on the floor.

Report of Committee on Drainage and
Improvement of Waterways.

The committee on drainage and improve-
ment of waterways, through R. E. Lee Wil-
son of Wilson, Ark., submitted the follow-
ing resolution as its report, which was
adopted:

Whereas, This country is gifted by nature
with a matchless system of water courses which
could be made use of for transporting cheaply
large volumes of commerce if adequately im-
proved : and

Whereas, The present congested condition ot

the freights ot Ih uiutry and the inability of

0Ur railroads to cope with the proposition dem-
onstrate the need for the immediate development
of these water courses ; and

Whereas, Improved commercial relations with
the South American countries and the construe
lion of the Panama canal will tend to promote
such additional inland commerce as lo accentu-
al,, the present congested condition-; and

Whereas, n lias been demonstrated by other
countries that water transportation for inland
commerce is six times as cheap as it is by rail
and is in every way practicable; ami

Whereas, The genera1 improvement oi this
country has never entered upon a systematic
ami comprehensive plan for the proper utiliza-
tion of our water courses ; and

Whereas, There is now being promulgated
generally throughout the I"nitcd States a senti-
ment in' favor of larger and more regular appro
priations for river and harbor development to
the end that these waterways may be speedily
and adcpiaii Iv improved : therefore be it

Resolved. By the Hardwood Manufacturers
Usociation of the United stales, assembled in
Memphis this 29th day of January, 1907:

Pirst that we heartily approve of such a
police for improved waterways as of dn t ben-
efit to the lumber traffic generally throughout
the I nil oil States and that we beartilj commend
I'm National Rivers & Harbors Congress In their
efforts to bring about the desired end.

Second, thai we aid both as an organization
and as individuals in disseminating such infor-
mation and in creating such a sentiment in our
several congressional districts as will cause the
general government to adopt such a policy and

eanV 11 "ill iuili'odialoh _

Third that co] - of these resolutions be sent

to President Joseph E. Itamsdell of the National
Rivers & Harbors Congress, to Chairman Theo-
dore E I'urton of the rivers and harbors com-
mittee of congress, to the Hon. Joseph cannon,
speaker of the House of Representatives, and to
Pi, -ideni Theodore Roosevelt

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HARDWOOD RECORD

J. S. GARETSON, ST. LOUIS. MO., TRANS-
PORTATION COMMITTEE.

Chair and Furniture Dimension Stock.
P. W. Webster of Decatur, Ala., chairman
of the committee on oak chair and furniture
dimension stock, prefaced his report by
saying that:

Last year at an annual meeting in Louisville
the idea was conceived by some members ot this
association to organize a dimension department
the matter was taken up later and at Cincinnati
it was consummated. Manufacturers of dimen
sion stock found themselves quite disorganized
and at the Cincinnati meeting we found some
of us were selling the same class of goods at
&10 more than others were receiving. We
thought if the information was given to others
they would be able to get as much as we did
for their products.

Through systematized efforts, members whom
we have talked with in regard to this matter
said that they were able to get more satisfactory
results than before the organization of this asso-
ciation. We are getting a little above the prices
ot firsts and seconds for quartered oak chair
baeks-'-m other words about the same prices as
lor lumber out of which chairs are cut. We are
now selling quartered red oak backs at within
»1 of the price of quartered white oak firsts and
seconds. It seems there are various members of
this association who are wasting a great deal
of their products they could convert into salable
stock for furniture, chair and other dimension
business. If they will take care of it and man-
ufacture such stuff as they are now shipping as
mmbei- to the consumers to manufacture such
stock out of they would get more out of their
timber. Any information this committee can
give we will be glad to furnish at any time.

C. M. Carrier and others observed that they
believed the association should take up- this
dimension stock trade in order to get it into
shape, and that stuff was being burned up which
ought to be utilized. A manufacturer of wagon
stock found that there were a great many small
mills manufacturing specialties, dimension stock
etc., not posted on prices. He said he received
more than most of them, and that he was verv
caretul to make a good grade of stock, but
thought others should be able to get the same
for equal stock, and that they should belong
to the association. Of about twenty-five mill!
an his section only two were members.

The chairman suggested the idea of district
meetings to get- others into the fold.

The committee's report, which was
adopted, was as follows:

At a meeting of the people interested in man-
ufacture and sale of oak furniture and chair
2ime,nnSo2n .,t-ock heId at Cincinnati on February
ii 19S?'' li!IS <"omml"ee was appointed to look
after the dimension stock affairs in the above
two lines. We have done our best the past year
to stimulate through the market reports of this
association the manufacture of oak and chair di-
mension furniture stock and" to give the manufac-
turers of this stock an opportunity to realize
quite a nice sum for the waste of their saw-
mills, and to give the consuming trade at lar"e
well manufactured stock at reasonable prices

and we report fairly satisfactory results. Our
experience is that there are quite a few small
manufacturers of this class of material who are
not particular and careful about their meth-
ods of manufacture, and are manufacturing
their product unevenly and are not careful about
their grades, consequently have to sell for a
very much lower price than the real value of the
well manufactured product should be. Too much
stress cannot be put upon careful and correct
manufacturing and proper grading. We should
not ship dimension stock that does not come
up to the grade as laid down in the grading
rules of this association, and if we ship it ac-
cording to these grading rules our experience
has been that the shipments give satisfaction.
Since the organization of this department of the
Hardwood Manufacturers' Association more uni-
versal prices have prevailed, and if our work is
kept up we see no reason why all producers of
dimension stock will not very soon obtain prices
for their output at least equal to the price of
firsts and seconds lumber out of which the con-
sumer of dimension stock will be compelled to
cut his dimensions in the event that he can buy
it from some producer. We urge upon all mem-
bers of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association
their hearty cooperation and help for this com-
mittee. F. W. Webster.

J. S. Garetsox.

C. M. CLARK.

Vehicle Dimension Stock.
E. W. Pratt, Jr., of Crofton, Ky., sub-

J. W. MAYHEW, COLUMBUS, O., TRANSPOR-
TATION COMMITTEE.

mitted the following report on vehicle
dimension stock, which was adopted:

At the beginning of the season 1906 the vehi-
cle dimension stock trade was in a very unsat-
isfactory condition. General trade was good, a
large volume of business was being done, but
owing to the vast difference in the value placed
upon the product by the different manufacturers,
the difference in the manner of grades, the arbi-
trary and at times unjust methods of Inspection
by the purchasers buying this class of material,
all made the business unprofitable.

In February. 1906, there was a meeting held
in Cincinnati of the manufacturers of dimension
stock. At this time it was decided to unite with
the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association. A
committee was appointed for arriving at a sat-
'sfactory basis of grading, etc. After carefully
considering the different conditions rules were
formed for grading the different material and
adopted. The results accomplished during the
past season have been verv satisfactory.

We would recommend that there be no changes
made and that the present rules continue in ef-
fect for the grading of vehicle dimension stock.
E. W. Pratt, Jr.,
W. w. Dings,
O. C. Galloway.

Election of Vice Presidents and Directors.

The next subject taken up was the elec-
tion of vice presidents and directors for the
several states, which resulted as follows:
Aekansas.

G. E. W. Luehrmann, vice president, Indiana &
Arkansas Lumber & Manufacturing Co.. St. Louis.

R. E. Lee Wilson, director two years, R. E
Lee Wilson & Co., Wilson, Ark.

H. W. Mosby, director one year, Helena Box
Co., Helena. Ark.

F. E. Gary, Baker Lumber Co., Turrell, Ark.
Illinois.

William Moore, vice president, Moore & Mc-
Ferren, Memphis.

E. A. Lang, director two years, Paepcke-Leicht
Lumber Co.. Chicago.

E. T. Scott, director one year, Metropolis Lum-
ber Co., Metropolis, 111.

INDIANA.

C. H. Kramer, vice president, C. & W. Kramer
Co., Richmond, Ind.

Daniel Wertz, director two years, Maley &
Wertz. Evansville, Ind.

Frank May, director one year, May Bros., Ev-
ansville, Ind.

Kentucky.

Floyd Day. vice president, Swann-Day Lumber
Co., Clay City, Ky.

E. W. Pratt, Jr., director two years, Pratt-
Worthington Co., Crofton, Ky.

W. II. Dawkins, director one year, W. H. Daw-
kins Lumber Co., Ashland, Ky.
Iowa.

Elmer W. Harris, vice president, Harris & Cole
Bros., Cedar Falls, Iowa.

Massachusetts.

George E. French, vice president, Atlantic
Lumber Co., Boston, .Mass.

William E. Litchfield, director two years,
Litchfield Bros., Boston, Mass,
Mississippi.

W. B. Burke, vice president, Memphis, Tenn.

W. J. Cude. director two years, W. J. Cude
Hardwood Lumber Co.. Kimmins, Tenn.

W. P.. Morgan, director one year, Anderson-
Tully Co., Memphis, Tenn.

Missouri.

J. II. Friant, vice president, Hirnmelberger-
llarrison Lumber Co., Morehouse, Mo.

Thomas W. Fry. director two years, C. F.
Luehrmann II. L. Co., St. Louis, Mo.

George B. Wheeler, director one year, Fergu-
son & Wheeler. Poplar Bluff. Mo.

W. W. Dings, Garetson-Greason Lumber Co.,
St. Louis, Mo.

North Carolina.

A. F. Hall, vice president, W. T. Mason Lum-
ber Co., Asheville, N. C.

G. N. Hutton, director two years, Hutton &
Bourbonnais, Hickory, N. C.
r C. A. Schenck, director one year, Biltmore,

Ohio.

W. I. Iiarr. vice president. Greenfield. O.

W. II. Nigh, director two years, Nigh Lumber
Co., I ronton, O.

H. C. Hossafous, director one year, Dayton, O.
Pennsylvania.

W. M. McCormick, vice president, Little River
Lumber Co.. Philadelphia.

W. H. Herbertson, director, two years, Cheat
River Lumber Co., Pittsburg, Pa.

J. J. Mead, director one year. Mead & Speer
Co., Pittsburg, Pa.

Tennessee.

S. Lieberman, vice president, Lieberman, Love-
man & O'Brien, Nashville, Tenn.

M. F. Greene, director two years, Davidson-
Benediet Co., Nashville. Tenn.

C. M. CLARK, CLAY CITY, KY., POPLAR AND
BASSWOOD GRADING COMMITTEE.

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35

A. J. Gahagan, director one year, Loomls &
Hart Manufacturing Co., Chattanooga.

Robert Yestai, Vestal Lumber & Manufactur-
ing Co.. Knoxville.

VIRGINIA.

A. Johnson, vice president, Pennington Lum-
ber Co., Pennington Gap.

II. Fugate. director one year, The II. Fugate
Co., Riehlands. Va.

Wbst Virginia.

C. L. Rltter, vice president, C. L. Ritter I.um-
ber Co., Huntington,* W. Va.

E. L. Davidson, director two years, Parkers-
burg Mill Co., Parkersburg.

W. L. Watson, director one year. John W.
M:ih:in Lumber Co., Mahan, YV. Va.
Texas.
A. Deutsch. vice president, San Antonio, Tex.
Alabama.

F. YV. Webster, vice president, Huntsville Lum-
ber i !o . Decatur, Ala.

South Carolina.
X. W. Gennett, vice president. Ceniiett Lumber
Co., .Madison. S. C.

Miscellaneous Business.

C. M. Carrier, chairman of the committee
on hardwood flooring, asked for permission
to refer the matter of making a division
of hardwood flooring manufacturers of the
Manufacturers' Association to the executive
committee, which permission was granted.

On motion a change was made in the rule
covering log run lumber, so as to specify
that log run lumber shall include at least
50 per cent of sound cuttings.

Secretary Doster made a brief statement
concerning the proposed book to be issued
by the association covering a list of whole-
sale consumers and their requirements. He
said that the sale of this book would be
confined entirely to members of the associa-
tion and that the price would be $25 per
annum. Subscriptions were received from
about fifty members.

Referring to another subject, Mr. Doster
said:

I have noticed that the assignment of commit-
tees Is much larger than in 1906 and think we
should get together as often as possible. It is
our intention this year to keep up more thor-
oughly the system of canvassing conditions. We
want to know what you are selling lumber for.
The information which we obtain from you is
held absolutely confidential. None of our re-
ports show from whom our information is re-
ceived.

If there arc any questions at any time from

any committees we would like to have them
and to keep closer in touch witli you and we can
give you information only when we get it from
all sources and compile it for your benefit. We
want members to feel at liberty to call on us at
any time. I believe you have 'all felt at liberty
in the past and I want this policy to continue

.Mr. Dings — Mr. President. Mr. Doster in his
report, while it was very complete, did not dwell
very strongly on the fact that we have in St.
Louis a local inspector. 1 wish be would explain
to this association why that Inspector is there.

Secretary Doster — I am glad ti> do so. I tried
in cover as many details as 1 thought advisable
in my report. The Executive Board authorized
me as the superintendent of the Bureau of
Grades in further that bureau in every section
of the country in whatever manner it must he
handled in different districts. The St. Louis
market is peculiar and different from any other
city market in the United States. It has there
a system which has been in use for many years
of establishing the inspection at destination.
Practically all lumber is inspected when it is
unloaded from the cars instead of when it is
loaded. Prior to our establishing a system many
members of our association refused to ship lum-
ber to St. Louis, owing to the fact that the lum-
ber was not taken care of properly on arrival,
and such conditions were felt by the buyers and
handlers of hardwood products in that market.
Upon the request of members of our association
we Inaugurated our inspection system in St.
Louis, placing a man there to meet conditions
and work expressly for that market. Since the
establishment of this bureau we have found that

.1. W. KITCHEN, ASHLAND, KY., POPLAR
AND BASSWOOD GRADING COMMITTEE.

W. Iv DELANEY. CINCINNATI. O., POPLAR
AND BASSWOOD GRADING COMMITTEE.

shipments have increased to a great extent, and
such increases were rated within thirty days
alter the establishment of our system. This is
i.ne n] the peculiar markets we must contend
with for such shipments on grading. Practically
we do for all members of the association the
s-- inspecting and reinspectlng that we do in
.iher markets, but we have not established this
local work in any other section of the country,
etui we (in not think it necessary to do so, other
than by using our traveling force for the in-
spection of lumber. The system of charges is
made according to the amounl of work handled
by t tie inspei I or

Address of Mr. Fee.

While awaiting tin- return of the commit-

t i mi nominations and at the request of

li'esi.leiit Wilms. Frank F. Fee addressed

the convention on the subject of the bene-

lits nf associal ion work:

This is a very unexpected pleasure, gentlemen
In tins ease 1 really have mil any prepared notes.

Relating to our work as an association I think
there is very little in he s:iiil negatively. It is

all for our y I. 1 look around this assemblage

ami at tin- friends thai have met here and am
impressed. Comparing this gathering with that
which met foul or live years ago I am sure that
we have better faces, better clothes and some of
us now are able to shine our shoes. I am sure
our bank accounts have been increased. I be-
lieve as successful nun thai our wives and chil-
dren find a little better husbands and fathers

JOHN W. LOVE, NASHVILLE, TENV. CHAIR-
MAN OAK. ASH AND CHESTNUT
GRADING COMMITTEE.

because of the change which this association has
brought about. At our first meeting there was
reticence — there was some vicious snapping
among us all. We bad a lack of conliilenee in
our competitor whom we thought a villain to
whom truth was unknown and if be told the
truth we did not believe it. Today we work as
• me man. as a body and instead of it being a
hear market as it was heretofore we have made
ii a seller's market. I recall years ago when sell
ing Lumber in New York City we had to figure a
price that would admit of a deduction <>i $75
in $100 a car. If we could not stand for this
we had no call to send lumber into the general
market. Conditions have changed. We have not
told them what they should buy but said this is
I lie price we are willing to sell raw material for
which admits of a fair and reasonable profit.
Lumber today is like money from the mint. It
lias value. We till believe in that value. We
are not a trust but wc talk these things over and
our prices are based on the principle used by
L'ncle Sam in paying his soldiers — a fair price.

I can only thank you for this opportunity of
presenting these ordinary facts. I believe there
are more happy smiles in our hearts and larger
rolls in our pocket books than were there before
we started this association.

Election of Officers.
A. .1. Gahagan, chairman of the commit-
tee on resolutions and nominations, sub-
mitted the following report:

Mr. President, your committee on nominations
recommends ;is follows: For president. John I'..
Ransom of Nashville, Tenn. : for first vice presi-
dent. W. A. Gilchrist of Memphis. Tenn. : for
second vice president, John II Hlmmelberger of
Morehouse, Mo.: for treasurer, C. M. Crawford
nt' Coal Grove, O. For members of the Execu-
tive Board: W. M. Ritter, Columbus, O. ; Clinton
i e.i in-. Cincinnati, O. : R. II Vansant, Ashland,
Kv. : William Wilms. Chicago; I'. 1'. -Mann. Mem
phis. Tenn.: W. A. Gilchrist, Memphis, Tenn.;
R. M. Carrier. Sardis, Miss.: John B. Ransom,
Nashville, Tenn. ; Frank F. Fee, Newport, Ark.

We also recommend the adoption of the follow-
ing :

Whereas, The cordial reception of the city
and the generous hospitality of the Lumbermen's
club of Memphis on the occasion of the lift li
annual meeting of the Hardwood Manufacturers
Association of the United states will he a pleas
ant memory to every member of the association
pri in* at this meeting, as an evidence nf our
appreciation of hospitalities never surpassed by
any city in which the association lias held its
former meet ings ; ' herefore,

Resolved, Thai the thanks of the Hardwood

Manufacturers' Associati f the United States

in- ;iinl is hereby tendered in the city and also
I., the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis. As gt
nl i he Lumbermen's club our pleasure has l.een
lull to overflowing, and in its membership we
have, found an Ideal host. Wc will part with
them as warm friends, and we will leave with

ihein g 1 wishes iii lavish abundance for their

future prosperitj as individuals and continued
usefulness in the city nf Memphis as a social
and business nruaniza i ion.

We lender In .Mr. Wilms, our retiring presl-

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HARDWOOD RECORD

J. W. DICKSON. MEMPHIS. TENN., GUM
GRADING COMMITTEE.

dent, the sincere thanks of the association for
his unselfish work and his untiring interest in
its behalf. His administration has been one of
unbounded success. By his labors he has added
much in usefulness to the association. Its value
as a business organization representing one of
the great industries of the country is becoming
more appreciated every year. In his retirement
as president he carries with him the thanks of
every member of the association. We appreciate
his good fellowship as a man and his executive
ability as a presiding officer.*

It was with sincere regret that the member-
ship of this association learned of the death of
its former treasurer, Mr. Ferdinand C. Fischer.
The association will miss his advice and pres-
ence at our meetings, lie was a splendid busi-
ness man, one who made friends among all he
met. We tender to his family our most sincere
sympathy in his death.

To our efficient secretary, Mr. Lewis Doster,
this association is very much indebted fur the
work be has done during Ihe five years since
organization. He has proven an official who has
given of his time and energy without limit. He
has met every demand that has come upon him
in the discharge of his duties. It is rare that we
find embodied in any one man such a pleasant as-
sociate such a faithful employee and one so well
qualified to discharge the duties that have de-
volved upon him as secretary of the association.
He has been the strong right arm of each one
who lias held the position of president since the
first organization of this association. We would
not pretend to dictate to the incoming Executive
Board who it should elect to till the various
places at its disposal, but we earnestly hope that
in their wisdom they will find it to the continued
interest of the association to retain Mr" Doster
as its secretary. All of which is respectfully
submitted. A. J. G ah AG AN j

A. LOVEMAN,

w. w. Dings.
The report was unanimously and* en-
thusiastically adopted ami tin- nominees de-
clared elected. President Wilms thereupon
surrendered the chair to the new president,
John B. Ransom of Nashville, who said:

Gentlemen, I am really too full for utterance —
of gratitude. 1 mean. This is the greatest honor
that I have ever had thrust uih.ii me. and I hope
I shall be able to get through this year without
anything to regret. I understand that our vice
president, Mr. Gilchrist, is a good speaker I
will ask him to do the speaking and I suppose
Mr. Doster will do the other work. I realize
that I am in the presence of a very distinguished
body of business men and I really believe that
some of them have been hypnotized in selecting
me as your president. I really don't feel equal
to the occasion, as I s.< told some of the com-
mittees who waited upon me, but I am going to
do the best 1 can— and we now are ready for
business.

Mr. Gilchrist— Gentlemen, I don't know just
what to say, but I thank you very much. I will
do the best I can.

President Ransom — I realize, gentlemen, that I
am taking the place of a very strong man who
was our former president, and 1 would like to
hear from him — Mr. Wilms.

Mr. Wilms — Gentlemen, in retiring from the

office of president I take with me a recollection
of the cooperation of the members and the Ex-
ecutive Board that will be permanent, and I
can't express it more fittingly than by saying
that, in spite of the labor and extra work put
upon me, it has been a pleasure to serve you.

I desire to express to you my gratitude for hav-
ing had sufficient confidence in me to place me at
the head of this association. If, in withdrawing

I I Mm that place of honor, you feel that I have
performed my duties to your satisfaction, I shall
go home with my heart full of gratitude to you
and the association. I shall continue the same
loyalty to the association in the future as I
nave in the past and if at any time my services
may be of hen. 'lit to the association I will serve
you with the same effort as heretofore. [Ap-
plause.]

The Chair — I know our secretary is always
ready to talk, and we would be pleased to hear
from him.

Mr. Doster — Gentlemen, I have not any com-
mittee reports to read. [Laughter.] That is all
I know — association work and association talk.

I am certainly pleased with the manner in
which you have taken hold of the association and
the manner in which you have transacted the
business. It gave me a great deal of pride to
listen to your applause, and that is worth trav-
eling 50,000 miles to hear. This association has
broadened me out by meeting men of this class.
I never shall forget the kind treatment which
you have given me during the year, while my
work was in progress and at the eonvention.
The members of the committees and the indi-
vidual members of the association have always
laid aside their business whenever I have called
upon them. The manner in which they have

E. L. DAVIS, LOUISVILLE, KY.. VEHICLE
DIMENSION COMMITTEE.

treated me with their hospitality, as well as
commercially, has almost spoiled me, for it
makes me feel like traveling when I have office
work to do.

1 want to thank you for your kindness, but I
want you to feel that 1 have been supported not
only by the members but I have also been sup-
ported by the lumber press. The office assist-
ants I have obtained have also enabled me to
produce the results from which I get the bene-
fits. The inspection bureau also works in your
interests and we have been working together like
one large family. While we continue that policy
we should be successful, and I believe everyone
should be given due credit. I thank you very
kindly. [ Applause.]

lie- ('hair — Gentlemen, we are always glad to
hear from the biggest man in the association —
the biggest man in many ways — and I will call
upon Mr. Vansant.

Mr. Vansant — Gentlemen, it is hardly neces-
sary for me to undertake to respond to the
problem given me, because I know Brother Ran-
som was not sincere. I have in mind one matter
which I think Mr. ( ;ahagan and his committee
overlooked in their resolutions. I think all lum-
bermen will recognize that one of the most potent
factors in this organization has been the practi-
cally united support of the lumber press. [Ap-
plause.] They are as essential to our business
as an- our inspectors and bookkeepers. It is
our duty not only to encourage them in their
business, but to support them. I move that the
thanks .if this convention be tendered unaui-
mously to the lumber press, which has so ably
assisted us in rallying on our work.

The Chair—Another heavyweight with us
whom we would be pleased to hear from is Mr.
Crane.

Mr. Crane — Well, I don't believe I can add
much to what has already been said. I have
watched the progress of this association. I was
one of the first at the organization ; I attended
the meeting at St. Louis and have never missed
one. I have tried to attend all the Executive
Board's meetings and perform my duties the best
I know how. I am impressed with the growth
of the association, and I think this is one of the
grandest meetings we have ever had. Everybody
is pleasant ; everybody is looking well and mighty
few are hunting up buyers for lumber. They
seem to be getting ready to manufacture some—
which, I think, is the general condition of the
whole country. I don't know whether the asso-
ciation brought that condition about or not, but
I shouldn't wonder. The difference in inspection
and method of doing business is worth hundreds
of thousands of dollars a year, and I hope the
association will continue along the lines we have
been running on. After we get the consumers a
little closer with us we will be stronger and the
misrepresentations some people are making about
us will be at an end. [Applause.]

On Mr. Vansant 's motion the lumber
press received the thanks of the association.

Mr. Gahagan, chairman of the resolutions
committee, then spoke as follows:

Mr. President — There is one wrord of explana-
tion due from the Committee on Resolutions. It
is impossible for the most intelligent committee
to cover all the delicate points which come to
our attention inside of fifteen minutes. When I
looked at this splendid body of newspaper men,
representing, to my mind, one of the greatest
business organizations in all the world, I felt
that we had forgotten something: At the time
I could not get the committee together to make
another report, hence we overlooked the news-
paper men.

While I am not identified with any newspaper
in a business way, they always have found in
me a business friend and one who has been al-
ways ready to serve them. I have been called
upon from time to time to give them informa-
tion and have always done so.

I notice also that we omitted any reference to
the death of a splendid man. Mr. C. A. Ward.
who has rendered valuable service to the associa-
tion, and we ask your pardon for that omission
and request that Mr. Doster add a supplement
to our report referring to the death of Mr. Ward

To look into the faces of the gentlemen who
constitute this organization and who make up
an industry that is one of the greatest and most
important that pertains to the welfare and
growth and development of this entire country
gives me great pleasure. I have never' missed a
single meeting of this organization. I am a busy
man at home, having but a few hours for any-
thing except the details of business, but I come
to these meetings and spend two or three days
of real recreation and go home feeling about ten
years younger, better qualified to discharge my
obligations.

Cooperation is the watchword of the day.
Good fellowship has as much to do with the pro-
motion of business as dollars and cents'. As men
go along and time passes and as men become
educated in the details of business they come
closer together. There was a time when a man.
in the conduct of business regarded every fellow
as his enemy and "the devil take the hindmost."

VAN B. PERRINE, FT. WAYNE, IND.. FURNI-
TURE DIMENSION STOCK COMMITTEE.

HARDWOOD RECORD

37

That condition floes no lunger exist. Men co-
operate in their business relations. Their fellow-
snip is warmer than ever before.

One tiling that pleases me and 1 am talking
to the younger gentlemen here— in my associa

lions witii business i pie wherever I go is

Hie fact that we are associating with sober men
[applause] : men who have an idea of the real
proprieties of lite; men who regard manhood n ^
worth more than anything else; men who stand
flat-footed on their feet ready to be governed
by the Golden Itnle. There is less deception to-
daj than ever before in tile world. There is
more real business manhood today than ever
existed before. We have better business men
today than tile world ever knew before, and we
have a better class of aewspapers today than were
ever published before. We are living in a new
day. under new environments. There is no land
in the world, my friends, like this splendid south-
land. I am a southern man myself. There is
no spot that appeals to me stronger than this
great southland- Memphis. The development of
the cotton crop, the development of the mines,
what is produced by felling the forest, meeis
with no parallel in all the world's history. With
thousands of millions of wealth being added to
the country with every deeade, and growth and
development in population the like of which the
country lias never known. I cannot but stand on
my feet today and almost envy the young man
in his enjoyment of the resources and advantages
which fifty years will firing about. | Applause. [

W. E. Delaney of Cincinnati made a com-

pli ntary reference to Chief Inspector

Hill, stating thai his work had been found

entirely satisfactory and suggested that

Mr. Hill should lie duly complimented on

lie splendid service he had rendered the

association. At the suggestion of the chair

Mr. Hill responded:

From the Chief Inspector.
There is only one subject I can talk about at
.all, and that is inspection of lumber. The other
details of the association work are carried out
by others. Since I have? been witii the associa-
tion we have endeavored to treat every man.
members of the association and consumers of
lumber, strictly impartially. We have tried to
give you just what you have shipped. We have
tried to give to tile consumer just What he
bought, and if at any time the report of our
inspections or reinspections does not suit the
shipper and lie feels that possibly the Lumber
might have been better. I want to impress this
upon you — thai we have done exactly what the
rules prescribed for us to do. I am proud that
I am employed by an association such as ihis
that is strictly hones! in everything that it un-
dertakes. 1 am proud to say that I have 1 n

instructed by the president and our secretary,
and Mr. Yansanl. our expert. In he strictly im-
partial in all things. I thank you. | Applause. |

The meeting then adjourned.

The Attendance.

Apperson, .1. W. acting mayor. Memphis. Tenn.
Anderson. S. 11. . Anderson Tullv Co., Memphis.
Tenn.

Anderson. W. R., Southern Lumberman, Mini
phis. Tenn

Alien. .1. ii.. Riechman-Crosby Lumber Co..
Memphis, Tenn,

Allen. .1. D., Jr., I'.rastirld Tlminp-i.il Lumber
Co., Memphis, Tenn.

Bacon, II. E., Lamb-Fish Lumber Co., Mem
phis, Tenn.

Barksdale, W. Ii., w. K, Hancock Lumber Co.,
.Memphis. Ti nil

Bryant, r. <'.. Newfoundland s. & R. Co., si
John, Newfoundland.

Barr, William I.. Greenfield, 1 1.

Burgoyne, George w.. Chicago, in.

Bodman, F. D., Fullerton Powell Hardwood
Lumber Co., South Bend, Ind.

Bartholomew, C. A. Ozark Cooperage Co.,
Memphis, Tenn.

Blair, .lames it.. I., ii. cage Lumber Co., Mem
phis, Tenn.

Borcherding, Oliver, Kentucky Lumber Co.,
Greenville, Miss.

Calcutt, N. W.. X. W. Calcutl A Son, Dyers
burg. Tenn.

furrier, R. M., Carrier Lumber .^ Manufactur
ing Co., Snrdis. Miss.

Clair, I. C, Ind. Com. 111. Central. Chicago. Ill

Cochran. .1. 1... Vansnnl, Kit. ben & Co., Ash
land. Ky.

Crenshaw, W. I... Crenshaw & Cat bey. Mem
phis, Tenn.

Crane. C. C. Crane & Co., Cincinnati. 1 1.

Cheeley, .1. M., Kentucky I, umber Co., Wil
liainsburg, Kv.

W. A. McI.EAN, NKW ALBANY, IND.. OAK,
■ ASH AND CHESTNUT. STATISTIC
COMMITTEE.

GEO. F. KIEL, MEMPHIS, TENN., GUM
GRADING COMMITTEE.

Clark. I'. M.. Swunn -Day Lumber Co., Clay
city. Ky.

Crawford, C. M .. Yellow Poplar Lumber Co.,
Coal Clove. CI.

Conkling. I*'. A.. Karrin Korn Lumber Co.. Mem-
phis, Tenn.

Cooper, j; i . Cochran Lumber Co., Memphis,
Tenn.

Cooper. M. 1!., Three Slales Lumber Co.. Mini
phis. Tenn.

Christensen, C. J., Norton Wheel Co., Worces
ter, Mass.

i 'randall, Roy, Dayton, 0.

Christian. T. J., fullerton Powell llardw I

Lumber Co., South Bend, Ind.

Christine, Wesley, American Lumberman, Chi-
cago, III.

Day, .1. M., Si. T.ouis Lumberman, St. Louis,
Mo.

Day, Floyd, Swann-Day Lumber Co.. Clay
City, Kv.

Hawkins. W. II., W. II. Hawkins I. umber Co..
Ashland. Ky.

liuee, Charles, American Lumberman, Chlca
go, 111.

Dewey, w. c. Chapman & Dewey Lumber Co.,
Marked Tree. Ark.

Defebaugh, .1. F.. American Lumberman, Chi
cago, in.

I links, ii.. Askins & DIrcks Lumber Co., Union
City, Tenn.

Ilelaney. W. iv. Kentucky Lumber Co., Cin-
cinnati, 0.

Darling, Charles. Charles Darling iV Co., Chi-
cago, HI.

Darnell, W. S.. I. M, Darnell & s.ms Co., Mem
phis, Tenn.

.1 K. WILLIAMS. FAYETTEVILLE, TENN.

Darnell, I:. J., R. .1. Darnell, Inc., Memphis,
Tenn.

Deutsch, A., San Antonio. Tex.

Dolph, W. A., I. M. Darnell & Sons Co., Mem
phis. Tenn.

Hosier. Lewis, secretary II. M. A.. Chicago, III.

Fsles. T. II.. Prewitt-Spurr .Manufacturing Co.,
Nashville. Tenn.

Emmons, Benjamin, Brinkley Car Works &
Manufacturing Co., Brinkley, Ark.

Eheniann. George i '.. Bennett & Wide, Mem-
phis. Tenn.

Ferguson. W. It. Phoenix Lumber Co., Little
Rock, Ark.

fellows, t; ge II.. G. D. fellows Lumber Co..

Racine, Wis.

Fry, Thomas w.. c. f. I.uehi inann Hardwood
Lumber » !o., SI. Louis. Mo.

Fox, John A.. National Rivers & Harbors Con-
gress, Washington, !►. C.

fassoid. George, Indiana Lumber Mutual In-
surance Co.. Indianapolis, Ind.

Foote, George II.. Fullerton-Powell Hardwood
Lumber Co., South Bend, Ind.

Friant. .1. II.. 1 1 ininielbcrger Harrison Lumber
< 'o., i ape i lirardeau, Mo.

Fooshe. George W.. .New York Lumber Trade
Journal, Memphis, Tenn.

Greble, W. Ii.. Three states Lumber Co., Mem
phis. Tenn.

Gary, F. E., Laker Lumber Co.. Turrell, Ark.

Garrett, E. L., Page, Hull & c,,., Ltd., Lon-
don. Eng.

Gibson, Henry II., Habdwood Recobd, Chlca

go. HI.

Gilchrist, w. A., Three states Lumber Co..
Memphis, Tenn.

Gilchrist, F. W., Three Slates Lumber Co..
Memphis, Tenn.

Garetson, .1. s., Garetson-GreaSon Lumber Co..
Sl. Louis, Mo.

Calloway, 0. C, .1. 1'.. Galloway Co., Claren
don. Ark.

cram. .1. B., Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Co.,
Buffalo, x. v.

Gladden, c. s.. Memphis, Tenn.

Cladding. X. A., E. C. Atkins &, Co., Inc., In-
dianapolis, Ind.

Harris, L. L., Harris & Cole Bros., Cedar
falls. Iowa.

Hill. G. S.. Three siales Lumber Co., Mem-
phis. Tenn.

Hale. Janus I... Hale & Keiser. Memphis.
Tenn.

Iliiier. .1. I! , Memphis, Tenn.

Hannahs. M. ]•'.. Memphis, Tenn.

Hossafous, II. c.. Dayton, I Ihio

Hi all. n. N. 1... II. \l. A.. Chicago, 111

Hill, .1. \'.. chief inspector II. M. A., Chicago.

III.

Hartzell, George W., Dayton, Ohio.
Jeffris, 'I'. .1 . Chicago car Lumber Co.. Chi-
cago, ill.

Johanning, A. w.. Johanning Lumber Co.. si.

Louis. Mo.

Johnson, A.. Pennington Lumber Co., Pen-
nington Gap, Va.

Joy, Levi. Arthur Hardw I Flooring Co.,

Memphis. Tenn.

Kitchen. .1. w.. Vansant, Kitchen & Co.,
Ashland. Ky.

Kiihy. F. A.. Cherry River Loom & Lumber
Co., Scranton, Pa.

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Kellogg, C. M., Barksdale-Kellogg Co., Mem-
phis. Tenn.

Keyser, W. E., Stone-Keyser Lumber Co.,
Memphis, Tenn.

Kibbe, M. G., Kibbe Sullivan Lumber Co.,
Sullivan, 111.

Kramer, II. M.. C. & W. Kramer Co., Rich-
mond. Ind.

Knight, W. W., Long-Knight Lumber Co.,
Indianapolis, Ind.

Loveman, A., Lieberman, Loveman & O'Brien,
Nashville. Tenn.

Lang, E. A., I'aepcke-Leicht Lumber Co., Chi-
cago, 111.

Lockwood, R. J., Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Co.,
Memphis, Tenn.

Lippman. E. C. Tupelo, Ark.

Lucas, A. W., A. \v. Lucas & Co., Waverley,
Tenn.

Lewis, Ii. N., Memphis, Tenn.

Love, John W., Love, Boyd & Co., Nashville,
Tenn.

Lamb, F. M., Earl, Ark.

Love, A. M., Darnell-Love Lumber Co., Le-
land, Miss.

McCulloch, E. B., Lamb-Fish Lumber Co.,
Memphis, Tenn.

Maphet, Ed J., Logan & Maphet Lumber Co.,
Knoxville, Tenn.

M.Ilvaiue, J. R., Southern Lumber & Mfg.
( ... Nashville, Tenn.

Mann, D. P., Chapman & Dewey Lumber Co.,
Memphis, Tenn.

MeCausland, A. J., W. E. Kelley & Co., Chi-
cago. 111.

.Meadows, J. E., Advance Lumber Co., Cleve-
land, Ohio.

Morgan, W. B., Anderson-Tully Co., Memphis,
Tenn.

Mayhew, J. W., W. M. Ritter Lumber Co..
Columbus, Ohio.

McClure, J. W., Thompson & McClure, Mem-
phis, Tenn.

Major, S. J., S. ,T. Major Lumber Co., Mem-
phis, Tenn.

Mallory, J. H., Commercial Agent Illinois Cen-
tral, Memphis, Tenn.

Newman, R. H., Simonds Mfg. Co., Chicago,
111.

Nash, G. V., YVisarkaua Lumber Co., Nettle-
ton, Ark.

Nolan, E. II.. Nolan Bros., Memphis. Tenn.

Nolan, L. C, Nolan Bros., Memphis, Tenn.

Oakford. James \\\, Cherry River Boom &
Lumber Co., Scranton, 1'a.

Powe, Thomas E., I'lummer Lumber Co., St.
Louis, Mo,

Pratt, E. W., Jr., Pratt-Worthington Co., Crof-
ton, Ky.

Palmer, YV. C, Wiborg & Hanna Co., Cincin-
nati, O.

Philpot, W. S., Chicago, 111.

Peterson, C. F., Morehead, Miss.

Peters, Col. I. F., commissioner Industrial
League, Memphis, Tenn.

Powell, C. G., Fullerton-Powell Hardwood
Lumber So., South Bend, Ind.

Reichman, J. A., Reiehman-Crosby Co., Mem-
phis, Tenn.

Rush, J. C, Brodhead-Garrett Co., Clay City,

Ky-

Ransom, John B., Johu B. Ransom & Co.,
Nashville, Tenn.

Richards, H. A., Grand Trunk, St. Louis, Mo.

Rhodes, T. W., Jackson, Tenn.

Ravesies, E. II., standard Lumber Co.. Mem-
phis, Tenn.

Roper, G. L., Senoth, Mo.

Roily, A. A.. French Lumber Co., Crawfords-
ville, Ark.

Ransom, \Y. A.. Gayoso Lumber Co., Memphis,
Tenn.

Russe, W. II., Russe & Burgess, Memphis.
Tenn.

Riel, George F., Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Co.,
Memphis, -Tenn.

Sweet, E. E., Lamb-Fish Lumber Co., Mem-
phis, Tenn.

Stevens, S. J.. Forest Citv Land & Lumber
Co., Woodruff. Miss

Smith, F. H., Lumber World, Chicago, III.

Steele, A. P., Carrier Lumber & Manufactur-
ing Co., Sardis, Miss.

Scheve, J. L., W. D. Reeves Lumber Co., He-
lena, Ark.

Sterling, S. W., New Orleans Cooperage Co.,
New Orleans.

Scott, G. E., Stevens Lumber Co., Dyersburg,
Tenn.

Stoneman, E. C, Stoneman Lumber Co.,
Clarksdale. Miss.

Smith,' A. V., Smith & Sons Co., Lanark. Ark.

Stoneman, G. W., Stoneman-Zearing Lumber
Co., Devall Bluff, Ark.

Schlosser, E. J.. Forrest City Manufactur'ng
Co.. Forrest City, Ark. _

Stonebraker, F. E., Lansing Wheelbarrow Co.,
Parkin. Ark.

Stetson, C. B., Standard Lumber Co., Mem-
phis, Tenn.

Smith. J. II., Rittenhouse & Embree Co., Chi-
cago, 111.

Taylor, J. W., General Lumber Co., Colum-
bus. O.

Thompson, J. W.. .7. W. Thompson Lumber
Co.. Memphis, Tenn.

Throne. 1'. L., American Wash Board Co.,
Fair. Ark.

Taenzer, E. E., E. E. Taenzer & Co.. Memphis.
Tenn.

Thompson, A. N., Thompson & McClure, Mem-
phis, Tenn.

Vansant, R. II.. Vausant, Kitchen & Co., Ash-
land, Ky.

Von Schrenk, Dr. Hermann, Missouri Botani-
cal Gardens. St. Louis, Mo.

Vestal, Robert, Vestal Lumber & Manufac-
turing Co., Knoxville, Tenn.

Wilms, William, I'aepcke-Leicht Lumber Co.,
Chicago, 111.

Wertz, Daniel, Maley & Wertz, Evansville,
ind.

Wetland. G. 0., Thompson, Thayer & Mc-
Cowen, Evansville, Ind.

Webster, F. W., Huntsville Lumber Co.,
lluiiisville, Ala.

Walker, James C. Mississippi Valley Lumber-
man. Minneapolis.

w.st brook, P. H., Sowell Lumber Co., Marked
Tree, Ark.

Williams, E. E., E. E. Taenzer & Co., Mem-
phis, Tenn.

Warren, R. W., E. II. Warner, St. Louis. Mo.

Woiceski, E. J., Fitzhugh-Luther Co., Chicago,
111.

J. V. HILL. CHICAGO, CHIEF INSPECTOR.

Williams, .1. K., Williams-Haas Lumber Co.,
Fayetteville, Tenn.

Watson, W. L., J. W. Mahan Lumber Co.,
Mahan, W. Va.

Wilson. R. E. Lee, R. E. Lee Wilson & Co., Inc.,
Wilson, Ark.

Wheeler, C. L.. J. W. Wheeler & Co., Madison,
Ark.

Wall. J. O., Chapman & Dewey Lumber Co.,
Marked Tree, Ark.

Waldron. J. E.. Columbus, O.

Westfall, Martin, Dayton, O.

Woods, Earl, E. E. Taenzer & Co., Memphis,
Tenn.

Young. B., Young & Cutsinger, Evansville,
Ind.

Znpke, Fred. E. E. Taenzer & Co., Memphis,
Tenn.

LUNCH AND SMOKER.

Ou Tuesday evening the members of the
Hardwood Manufacturers' Association were
the guests of the Lumbermen's Club of
Memphis at a "lunch," which developed
practically into a banquet and smoker, in
the main dining room of the Gayoso Hotel.
This function was presided over in a
most pleasing manner by George D. Bur-
gess, president of the club. The gTeat room
beautiful^' decorated with palms,
American flags and bunting, and incident
to the feast and its concomitants of liquid
refreshments and cigars, a delightful enter-
tainment of song and story was rendered

from a temporary stage erected at the side
of the room. Interspersed was orchestral
music of a very high character. Seated at
the tables scattered about the room were
v than 300 guests and hosts.

President Wilms' Address.

As the cigars were lighted, President
Burgess introduced William Wilms, presi-
dent of the Manufacturers' Association,
who said:

Lumbermen of the Universe — I believe that in
addressing yuu tonight, as president of the liard-

" 1 Manufacturers' Association of the United

status, I should broaden on my authority the
limits that have been placed upon us as an as-
sociation. We- should henceforth call ourselves
the Lumbermen of the Universe. And the thought
lhat dictates this almost sacrilii;iotis assumption
comes to me on account of the fact that Mr.
Burgess has presented to us tonight stars in
various lines of business who have cost the lum-
bermen of Memphis an enormous amount of
money. If in keeping with the policy followed
tonight by the most representative lumbermen
of the United States [applause] we follow up
what we might call a universal lumber policy, we
will all go broke. There is one satisfaction, how-
ever, gentlemen — that if we go broke we will do
so in a jolly way, Mr. Burgess, in announcing
the various numbers of entertainment, pointed
out to us the expense that the Memphis Lum-
bermen's Club had to go to to afford us these
pleasures. lie omitted to state; however, the
cost that was imposed on the Lumbermen's Club
in getting us to come here. No one will ever
know what the expense was in getting us here.

A Voice — Cheap at that.

Mr. Wilms — No, I don't think it was cheap,
not in comparison to what they produce. What-
ever was produced here tonight was flrst class,
irrespective of expense, and I think till that was
produced during the day by our association was
just as much lust class. [Applause.] We are
placed in rather a peculiar position tonight from
the viewpoint of a man who is an association
man. At the bottom of our hearts we are all
jolly good fellows. There are some little points
of divergence in our opinions ; some slight dis-
agreements have created members in both asso-
ciations who can well be classed by the general
name, "the big men from Cincinnati." No mat-
ter whet iter they are from Cincinnati or else-
where, they have some idiosyncrasies that have
developed to such a state that they cannot be
eliminated. I believe this meeting tonight has
done more for the benefit of the lumber fraternity
than, anything else that could have been done.
[Applause.] Points of friction have been
smoothed over in such a way that in the future,
if not we, perhaps our descendants or our grand-
children will say. "Well, boys, there was a meet-
ing once in Memphis when all these troubles
were eliminated," and if there is a possibility
..f foreseeing such a time, nearer to the present
than to the future, I think every one of you
gentlemen should contribute your share towards
its realization. [Applause.]

In reviewing this assembly I see faces and
expressions, particularly Bill Russe's, that might
be misinterpreted if it were not for the fact that
George Burgess, who is sitting over there, ex-
plained to him before we came in to be quiet.
But I think there is more to this meeting than
mere personality. The last few years' experi-
en< .■ in our business has taught us that trifling
misunderstandings among the members of either
one of the associations should not be a cause for
disrespect, disregard or what you might call the
lowering of our opinions in the esteem of one
another. I believe, as president of our associa-
tion, that the time will come when the interests
of ail lumbermen, irrespective of their possession
of timber land or not, w'ill be universal, and
when that time comes we will see what we have
experienced at this meeting tonight. We have
been received in Memphis in a spirit of hos-
pitality that exceeds anything that has ever been
experienced in the history of our association.
[Applause.] And if I say to you that every
member of our Executive Board, every member
of our association, is touched deeply by this re-
ception, I believe I am saying what everybody in
this hall feels at this moment. If the seed that
has been planted tonight grows, as it ought to
grow, under the sun of prosperity, that means
benefit to all of us, then in the future we will
realize that we are not enemies, that we are
friends on a common ground, that we are friends
carrying on a business that stands third in the
development of our national prosperity. I de-
sire to thank the president of your club and to
thank every member of your club for the spirit
that has been manifested here, and I hope if
anyone here still has the idea that we are dic-
tating our policy from a central place you will
meet us at that central place, and we shall try
to prove to you that we are not lacking in hos-
pitality, but full of the spirit that tends to

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make an understanding among men who are
representative business men of the Lnited States.
I Applause.]

Mr. Burgess We will now hear from the presi
dent of the oppOSil ion.

W. H. Russe Speaks.

Mr. Kusse, president of the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association, then addressed the
audience as follows :

I think the president of the Memphis Lumber-
men's Club should not have used that word "op-
position." [Applause.] When I listened to the
songs here, especially the one entitled "Dream-
ing," I did not want you members of the Manu-
facturers' Association to think you were dream-
ing. We of Memphis realize that you are Lum-
bermen, and that rovers the ground. I am only
too glad to welcome you here tonight, not as
president of the National association, but as a
member of the Memphis Lumbermen's Club, and
I hope thai you will all realize that we are
lumbermen ; that we are not one taction fighting
another, and I hope that the seeds sown here
tonight will hear fruit. I believe that the two
associations as far as inspection is concerned,
should get together. [Applause.] And l don't
see why they should not. If the lumbermen had
been left alone they would have been together
long ago. [Applause. J In one of the songs to-
night they said "Remember me." They should
have said "Remember us." We realized when
you came here in the stronghold, I might say. of
the National Hardwood Lumber Association that
we should recognize only one fact that you are

brother lumber n, and we wanted to show you

that we did not take into consideration whether
you think jusi as we do but that we are all one.
We as lumbermen should paddle our own canoe;
we should not allow anything to come between
us. I had a talk with Mr. Crane tonight —
and I want to come right down to a little busi-
ness. ] know it is not the proper place to bring
it forward, but I understood that you were con-
sidering today dividing on the half inch ; that
is. that you were going to divide, give and take.
I don't believe in that, i believe in measuring
pn the half inch; don't give anything and don't
take anything, hut let a man get what he pur-
chases. The man that is receiving for the buyer
will forget where the division comes in. Ho'n't
adopt that rule, but make it on the half inch.
Make your tallies 6, 'J1-, 7. 7J/2. S, 8%, and then
don't forget the odd lengths. [Applause. J With
timber getting scarce, in trimming your lumber
why should you cut off two feet when there is
only six inches bad in the board? Cut off one
foot. There is not a single buyer in the furni-
ture trade or house furnishing trade but can use
odd lengths. Why should we throw that away?
Timber is getting too scarce. There is one thing
that I want to bring out. and that is that our
interests ore mutual. Everything that we adopt
should be on mutual ground. We should get to-
gether, and I can't see any reason why we should
not have on inspection rule that will govern this
country. [Applause.] Why should we imagine — ■
and it is all imagination — that the Manufactur-
ers' Association is fighting the National, or the
National is fighting the Manufacturers' ? It is
all imagination, and there is no reason under
Cods sun why we should not get together. I
am only too glad that you came to Memphis to
hold your meeting. We have in our Lumbermen's
Club a vast majority belonging to the National
Association and not to your association; but we
realize that you are nil lumbermen, and that
means that we are brothers, and we want you
to understand that there is no fight between "the
National and the Manufacturers' Association.
I Applause.]

I believe that a scheme can be brought about
by which we cau get together. [Applause.] The
National can have their organization, the Manu-
facturers' theirs: but we can get together on one
inspection rule, and I don't see why we don't.

A Voice -Do it now.

Mr. Ilusse, — We have paved the way. my
friend. We have shown that, regardless of
whether you are members of the Manufacturers'
Association or members of the National Asso-
ciation, we have gathered together here as lum-
ber n. We have paved the way. and I believe

that with the talk we have had and the under-
standing that the leaders of your association
have, there is no reason why we should not get
together. Is there, Mr. Crane?

Mr. Crane — None that T know of.

Mi-. Kusse It is true that there has been an-
tagonism, because the Manufacturers' Association
will have to admit they were pari of t he Na-
tional up to the time of the St. Louis convention.
it is like a family quarrel a little bitter. We
can't overlook these little things. We are sus-
picious of each other. But why should we be?
Let us wipe it out. There is no reason why we
should not wipe.it out; there is no reason why
we should not all stand together. I hope and
pray that this meeting will bring about just what
it ought to bring about — universal inspection.
I Applause. | We .an bring it about. Inspection
is like law : it is like every bill that Congress
passes ; it is a matter of compromise.

We don't, all think alike. There has never
been an inspection rule made yet that pleased

everybody. There never will be one that pleases
everybody, but we can get together on a basis of
give and take as is done in making laws for the
government of this country.

Now, let this he the foundation of getting
together. We can do it, and there is no reason
why we shouldn't. Let us wipe out the feeling
that we don't want to do it because we favor
certain ideas of association. I feel so strongly
about this, and I am so satisfied that if the lum-
bermen would get together and consult with each
Other, we would wonder why we were ever part.
I hope and pray that (his next year, when you
hold your meeting in Memphis again — and I
think you will do it that we will be one and
together. I don't want to bring in newspaper
talk. I may lie mistaken, but I have felt lor the
last three years that if the lumbermen bad been
It it alone there would have been no differences.
We want the newspapers and we Deed them, but
let us make our own tight. Let us get together
with our own differences. Lout let us have that
feeling that talk and editorials can keep us
apart, as no doubt, to my mind, has been the
case in some of our disagreements. I feel that,
whether you are a National man or a Manufac-
turers' manj we ate together and will he to-
gether if we simply take up and discuss the
questions with each other.

I hope the members of the Manufacturers'
Association have enjoyed themselves, and as a
member of the Memphis Lumbermen's club I can
say that I am glad we have had the opportunity
oi showing to you that we want you here; that
we are pleased in have you with us and that we
want you again. [Applause.]

Mr. Burgess — We will have a few remarks in
response to Mr. Russe's address by Mr. Wilms.

Mr. Wilms — Gentlemen, it would be out of
place tonight to go into a detailed discussion of
the subjects that Mr. Russe has placed before
us. There is no doubt that our interest as lum-
bermen is a common one. There is no doubt that
on the principle of give and take and on the
principle of mutual understanding an amalga-
mation between the two factions which now rep-
resent the two largest hardwood organizations
in the United States could be brought about. I,
as presiding officer of the Hardwood Manufac-
turers' Association of the United States, feel that
it is my duty to thank Mr. Kusse for bis ex-
pressions and words of kindness. The point
which is the center of friction is grading rules
and could he harmonized, I think, by an amal-
gamation,, if I may call it that, of the lumber
interests of the hardwood trade of the country.
[Applause.]

Reviewing the subject of grading rules, which
as you know has been the subject of divergence
among us, you will recall that in spite of the
\ei \ best efforts on both sides nothing was ac-
complished when committees were appointed to
represent both of our associations in pursuance
of an agreement that might have resulted in ■
amalgamation. Our associai ion, representing
that part of the hardwood industry that derives
its profits from standing timber, has justly or
unjustly been accused of following a policy that
in its finality would be disastrous to 1 hose who
were not as fortunate as we are or some of our
members are, I might add, because all of our
members are not in possession of timber lands.
He that as it may, no success in any organization,
in any association, in any business that lias had
lor its principle cooperation on the part of those
interested in it was ever attained if personal in-
terest and personal viewpoints were given prefer
ence to the benefit of the unit represented in such
trades and organizations. I believe that all of
us, that all the members of our association feel
tonisrht that never in the history of our business
have we met with a reception equal to the one
we have met tonight. [Applause.] Whether it
he ascribed to the sense of hospitality or to the
sense of fraternity that should prevail among
lumbermen is immaterial ;ii this moment. If
during our deliberations tomorrow and in pre-
senting to the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis our

vote of thanks we should come to tl onclusion

that we were not brothers on the same plane,
we better had not come to Memphis. [Applause.]
If. on the other hand, any member of the Na-
tional Association should think that the hospi-
tality offered us tonight was not highly appre-
ciated and was not received in the same manner
in which it was tendered. 1 believe the other
members of the National Association should not
regard such a member worthy of retaining his
membership. [Applause.]

Now, to sum up the situation. We are all lum-
bermen : each of us represents in a financial way
his business interests. What that means was
well expressed by fail Schurz. one of the great-
est men that the German nation ever sent to
i bis country. When asked what he considered
the most sensitive point in a man's makeup, he
said: ■'The most sensitive point of a man, of a
community, and even of a nation in its makeup

centers in the pocketl \<" Now, gentlemen.

that is in a manner the vital point upon which
we do not agree, and upon which we should
agree. This disagreement on our of the vital
points, hut primarily on personal questions, has
been the reason why we have not been aide to
get together. I don't believe that in an open
meeting like this we will ever he able to accom-

plish anything. But I do believe that if the
National Association will appoint a committee
io meet a committee of our association on tin1
basis of mutual understanding, and on the basis
of absolute fairness, the millennium of the hard-
wood lumber indust iy i an be attained. | Ap-
plause.] And if that can be made possible we
will have accomplished more than was ever
brought about by hospitality and meeting on a
common ground. We will have buried the past:
we will have buried small, inferior ideas that
should not interfere with our business, and n

during I be t i t if my administration (which

will end some time tomorrow) anything on the
part of the National Association can be pre
sented, I shall make a special effort to bring it
before our committees ami shall take pains i"
bring aboul the result that all of us desire.

Gentlemen, I thank you again in in-half of
our association for your hospitality. We have
held meetings in a good many [daces, but never
in our history have we met a reception equal to
the reception we have had here. |Applause.] I
will now ask you t<> join me in three cheers for
Hi" future prosperity and the future welfare of
a town that: has long been recognized as the
center of the hardwood business of the world.

CONVENTION NOTES.

John B. Ransom of Nashville, president-elect
of the Ilardyvood Manufacturers' Association,
has occupied the position of vice president for
two years, and this year for the first time was
prevailed upon to accept the presidency. Mr.
Ransom is one of the foremost hardwood man-
ufacturers id" the Lniled Stales, and has achieved
distinguished success in his commercial enter-
prises. His range of experience is extremely
wide, as in addition to being a manufacturer of
many varieties of hardwood lumber, poplar and
oak "being the principal ones, he has for many
years operated planing mill enterprises, is asso-
ciated with several large hardwood distributing
nouses and is head of the great Nashville Hard
wood Flooring Company, producer of oak and
beech flooring. Mr. Hansom is a man of broad
and catholic commercial attainments, has a
reputation for sagacity and probity second Io
none in the trade, and will undoubtedly prove
a most excellent president for the Manufactur-
ers' association.

W. A. Gilchrist of Memphis, elected to the
office of first vice president, although a compara-
tively young man. has had experience in lumber
man ma- luring pursuits since early boyhood,
espe. [ally in the state of Michigan, where he
was for 'many years associated with his father,
F. W. Gilchrist of Alpena. Today he is at the
head of the second largest Cottonwood manu
la. luring enterprise in the country— the Three
States Lumber Company of Memphis. Mr. Gil-
christ is a man of remarkable force and his
energy, backed by his enthusiasm for the tenets
of the Manufacturers' association, will make him
a very desirable officer.

John H. Himmelberger of Morehouse, Mo..
elected to the second vice presidency, is one of
the best known hardwood manufacturers of the
country and is at the head of the Ilimmelberger-
Harrison Lumber Company, the largest red gum
producing institution in the United States. Mr.
Hiinmelberger's characteristics of conservatism
and sagacity in the conduct of his own business
prove bis selection for this office a very wise

one.

C. M. Crawford, reelected to the office of
treasurer, is at the head of the great poplar
manufacturing house — the Yellow Poplar Lum
her Company of Coal Grove, u. Mr. Crawford
is a close student of hardwood affairs, and al-
though of a retiring and unostentatious dlsposl
tion, his counsel in association affairs will be
extremely valuable.

The executive board held a hurried meeting
immediately after the conclusion of Wednesday's
session, atid the only business transacted wa
the reelection of Lewis Hosier as secretary
Mr. Hosier's record in Ibis position is so well
known as to scarcely need comment. His re

election followed :i^ 8 mailer of course, as he is
undeniably the right man for this arduous posi-
tion.

The badges used at t he convention were in
the similitude of a miniature map of the United
states, stamped out of bronze. Across the face

,,] the map in gill appeared the name of the
association and on the back was inscribed "Fifth
\nnita!, Memphis. Tenn.. January 29-30, 1907.
The map was suspended by a chain to a swivel
catch, and now does duty as a wai.h fob for
many members. t ,

Xhe Gayoso hotel, the leading hostelry in
Memphis, did everything in its power to make
U,,. iav of ils guests at I he convention pleai
ant and while it was well filled witli ils regular
trade the management took special paius to

accommodate the lumbermen, it further c

plimented i'^ visitors by preparing a very beau-
tiful souvenir menu card for lb -vision.

George I'. Burgess, president of the Memphis
Lumbermen's Club, Cm- hosl of the occasion, is
io i,e congratulated on his graceful handling of
i he smoker, over which he presided as too !
master

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HARDWOOD RECORD

HardWood Record fdail Bag.

[In this department it is proposed to reply
to such inquiries as reach this office from the
Hardwood Record clientage as will be o£ enough
general interest to wan-ant publication. Every
patron of the paper !s invited to use this de-
partment to the fullest extent, and an attempt
will be made to answer queries pertaining to all
matters of interest to the hardwood trade, in
a succinct and intelligent manner. 1

Hardwood Used for Pipes.

Louisville, Ky . Jan. 26.- Editor Hardwood
Record: The interesting article under the above
head appearing in the Hardwood Record of
January 1u did nol furnish quite enough specific
light on the subject of the possibilities of Ameri-
can substitutes for what is known as French
briar in pipe making. The price of pipes may
advance, but there is nothing to indicate that tin-
supply of what is termed French briar is any-
thing like exhausted, because to the initiated it
is well known that quite a lot Of this product
has been furnished for some time from the moun-
tains of North Carolina. When the great World's
Fair was held iu St. Louis there was exposed in
a showcase in connection with the North Caro-
lina exhibit a number of pipe blanks somewhat
tjmilar to those illustrated in Hie Record's arti-
;le. Prof. II. II. Brimley, who had charge of Ibis
display, was very much interested in this pipe
material and the manufacture of the finished
article. He said the product was gotten from it
species of mountain laurel, and the pipe blanks
•r blocks were cut by small sawmills and shipped
to Rochester. N. Y.. where they were made into
finished so-called French liriar pipes, line ob-
ject in displaying this product was to interest
capital with a view of having established in that
part of Nortli Carolina a factory for finishing
these pipes so the entire industry might be main-
tained there. It is the root of the mountain
laurel that is used in this work, ami it is
grubbed out by mountain dwellers and sold by
the ton.

There are a number of members of the laurel
tamily and it is difficult now. withoul specific
Information at hand, to recall just which member
of the family it is which is employed so' exten-
sively for pipes. However. Professor Brimley
said it is the same species that is found along
the northern shore of the Mediterranean, the old
source of supply of French briar. Possibly it

is what is known as the purple laurel, or moun-
tain rose bay.

It is said to have been owing to the color
effect of these flowers that Roan mountain re-
ci hi.l its name, and it seems that in many of
the mountain sections this laurel forms veritable
iuneles. sometimes in small patches and some-
times covering many acres.

While there is of course a limit to Hie sup
ply of Hie North Carolina mountains, there is
probably no immediate danger of its being ex-
hausted, and Hie little flurry in the pipe market
will doubtless give fresh life to Hie industry
down there and enable it tn attain a little more
conspicuous place in the_ hardwood world. — J.
C. T.

Apropos of tins subject, Consul James A.
Smith of Leghorn writes that the larger

part of Italian briar w 1 is found along

the Mediterranean coast and the islands of
Corsica and Sardinia furnish an uluin-
dant supply. The work of excavating the
root of the briar wood tree is carried on
from October until the end of May. -V kind
of grubbing spade with one sharp ode,' for
cutting away the large billet or heart of the
root (the valuable part) from the surround-
ing small roots is used in this work. After
being thoroughly cleaned and trimmed it is
brought to the mill and by means of cir-
cular saws cut into small blocks correspond-
ing roughly to the shape of a pipe bowl and
stein. These blocks are of various sizes,
depending upon the dimension ami shape of
the billet. Afterward they arc immersed
in boiling water for a period of about
twelve hours and then thoroughly dried.

This process completed, they are sort.'. I.
the Imperfect pieces thrown aside, placed in
large jute bags, and are then ready for
shipment. The pieces unsuitable for pipes
are sold for firewood. Exports of briar

w I from this district to the United States

have shown a decided increase .luring the
past few years. — Editor.

NeWs Miscellany.

Yale Forest School.
Several very Important changes are shown
in the. latest catalogue of the Yale Forest School.
Most important among them is the institution
of a course in practical lumbering. The en-
dowment fund of $150,000 being raised for this
purpose by the National Lumber Manufacturers'
Association has not been completed, but arrange-
ments have been made whereby the new work
has alrendy been started. For the present and
until the fund is all raised the work will be
under the direction of a committee of lumber-
men, no regular professor having been ap
pointed. The committee consists of N. W. Mr
Leod of the Grayson & McLeod Lumber Com
pany, St. Louis ; C. I. Millard of the Chicago
Lumber & Coal Company, St. Louis, and F. E.
Weyerhaeuser of Weyerhaeuser & Co., St. Paul.
Lectures will be given by practical lumbermen
from different sections of the country, each
expert in his special line of work. The school
will sooh be ready to announce the names and
subjects of the several lecturers secured for this
purpose. Aside from these special lectures, pu-
pils will be given Instruction in the economics
of the lumber industry ; its position ' in com
merce ; the many industries dependent upon it :
prices of stumpage ; the trend upward of prices
for lumber; future sources of supply; transpor-

tation of exports and imports; markets; cost
of logging of various kinds of woods in different
sections of the United States.

The field work is in charge of 1!. C. Bryant.
It will consist In laying plans for lumbering a
given woodlot near New Haven. Amount of
limber on the tract must be estimated; local
methods, cost of logging and milling, character
of material required in local markets, values,
etc., must all be fully investigated by the
students. In this field work Mr. Bryant has
the assistance of a prominent lumberman who
accompanies the students to the lot and dis-
misses for their benefit economy in utilization
of the timber, methods of logging, etc., and
criticizes the work of individuals.

It has been the custom of the school to send
the senior class into the woods about Thanks-
giving time for three weeks, and again in the
spring for final field practice. This year the
.lass will remain in New Haven until March,
and will then lie sent out to remain until gradu-
ation, covering the field work in one trip to a
region where the climate is favorable for work
at that season and conditions suitable for thor
ough instruction.

During the spring term pupils will be given
final practice in estimating; surveying; laying
out logging roads for engines and wagons; se-

lection of camp sites ; logging ; transportation ;
handling logs at mills ; sawmills — character,
management, capacity ; grading lumber ; piling ;
drying ; shipping ; fire protection, etc.

The work in forest management will be Con-
ducted by H. H. Chapman, and it is expected
that Henry Gannett, geographer of the Geologi-
cal Survey, will be secured for the purpose of
giving instruction in topographic surveying.

The catalogue shows that the new course in
lumbering will be taught in a remarkably prac-
tical and comprehensive way, and that it will
impart to the student information and actual
experience not usually gained until the graduate
has done several years' hard work as an actual
forester.

Meeting National Lumber Exporters' Asso-
ciation.
nil January 23 the National Lumber Expor-
ters' Association convened at Norfolk, Va., in the
looms of the Virginia Club. The business trans-
acted consumed the greater part of two days,
adjourning on the afternoon of the 24tn.

The first session opened with Vice President
John L. Alroek of Baltimore in Hie chair, Presi-
dent W. II. Kusse being delayed by Hoods, as
were several members of the association en
route from Memphis and other points west and
south. The meetings convened at In a. in..
■1 :::n p. in. and s p. m. the first day. No regu-
lar routine or program was laid out. Hie pro-
ceedings being executive; plans for future work
were laid and matters of interest brought up.
I In- secretary was Instructed to write the Inter-
state Commerce Commission approving the hill
which will be presented to congress providing
for better railroad facilities. Certain members
expressed themselves as much opposed to the
practice of foreign brokers who send circulars
to lumbermen in this country offering big profits
on lumber to be shipped on consignment, and it
was understood as the sense of the association
thai this misleading system should lie discour-
aged as much as possible.

Tbe inaller of rates at Norfolk was taken up
and the association will endeavor to equalize
railroad ami steamship rates for the good of the
port: A committee was named to take up the
matter of the system of measuring lumber now

in force at Liver] 1. and one to look after

shortage, breakage and other claims against
transportation companies.

flu' Thursday session transacted little busi-

i ess of general interest with fl xception of

election of officers, which resulted as follows :

John L. Alcock. John L. Alcock & Co.. Balti-
more. Md., president; George M. Speigel. George
M. Speigel & Co.. Philadelphia, Pa., first vice
president; Harvey M. Dickson, Dickson Lumber
Company. Norfolk. Va., second vice president:
R. W. Price. Price & Heald, Baltimore, Md..
treasurer, and E. M. Terry, secretary.

The following committees were appointed:
Transportation— Harvey M. Dickson, chair-
n an : William Wilms. George M. Speigel. Max
Kosse. John L. Ah. .ok. Edwin Barber, Max Sond-
heiiner. A. L. Foster. W. A. Powell. Richard W.
Price. R. .1. Camp and Elliott bang

Arbitration and Complaints — L. Methud.v.
chairman : F. E. Taenzer. Fred Arn, J. L. Eng-
lish, F. E. Price and George Burgess.

It was decided to move the headquarters of
Hie association from Memphis to Baltimore.

A vote of thanks was tendered Messrs. Dick-
son and Brenner who so ably provided for the
entertainment of members, and they then visited
Cape Henry in a body to enjoy an old-fashioned
.lain bake.

Those attending the convention were:
John I.. Alcock. John I.. Alcock & Co. Haiti
more. Md.

Richard w Price. Price & Heald. Baltimore,

Mil.

W. II. Price. Baltimore. .Mil.

Edwin Barber, Ellingworth, Ingham & Co., Cin-
cinnati, ii.

E. Stringer Boggess. Clarksburg. W. Va.

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Max Kosse, K. & I*. Lumber Co., Cincinnati,
0:

George M. Spelgel, < leorge M. Spelgel & Co.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Harvey M. Dickson, Dickson Lumber Company,
Norfolk, Va.

Ferd Brenner, Ferd Brenner Lumber Company,
Norfolk, Va.

\Y. F. Best, Ferd Brenner Lumber Company,
Norfolk, Va.

Mr. Patterson, Dickson Lumber Company, Nor
folk, Va.

Fred Am, J. M. Card Lumber Company, Chat-
tanooga, Tenn.

W, II. Russe, Russe ,V Burgess, Memphis,
Tenn.

George I>. Burgess, Russe & Burgess, Memphis,
Tenn.

G. A. Farber, Memphis, Tenn.

W. E. Weakley, \V. M. Bitter Lumber Com-
pany, Columbus, O.

The Saw.
The pleasant "surprise" to be perpetrated By
E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc., of Indianapolis, alluded
to In these columns a shorl time ago, has mate-
rialized in the form of an exceedingly handsome
souvenir book entitled The Saw. commemorat-
ing the fiftieth or golden anniversary of this

nr 1. -i-v r-j — r~* t

tuted, from its humble beginning in 1856 to Its

I hi sent wn rid wide fame and greatness.

The book Reflects greal credit upon Rogers &
Co. of Chicago, who prepared it. it is printed
upon dlamond-d enameled paper, and all Illus-
trations are made d\ die half tune process, from
actual photographs when possible, and from
drawings by skilled artists after authentic de-
scriptions or history, in other eases; some are
in three colors and vignetted so as to impart
a shaded effect to the page. The cover is of
Japanese hand-made veneer paper, with a wide
binding of T-grain vellum de luxe cloth, while
the insheets are of taffeta paper with prominent
conventional design of which the Atkins trade
mark forms the center. To combine simplicity
with beauty is the hardesl task of the designer,
and this exquisite Uttb volume embodies them
both, representing In its entirety the acme of
the bookmaker's art.

Arrangements for Hoo-Hoo Annual.
Jerome II. Shelp, vicegerenl snark for the
eastern district of Pennsylvania, held a con-
catenation oil February 8 a1 the Hotel Walton
which in point of attendance was the Largest
ever held in Philadelphia. An important execil
tive meeting, at 1 ended h\ several members of
the Supreme Nine and by all the vicegerent and

CItj Hoo-Hoo. The crowd will then proc I to

New fork, where the Concatenated Order of
that city will keep them alive and breathing
until a special steamer of one of the Old Point
Comfort lines, which is to he specially chartered,
will have cast off her mornings en route t<> the
exposition. On this ocean trip the western mem
hers will he accompanied by the Philadelphia,
New York and Baltimore hosts. The cost of the
transportation on all the excursions projected
will be well within the reach Of all and special
efforts will be made by the entertainment com-
mittee to so arrange affairs that il will he
possible for the younger members resident
throughout the middle and far west to spend
some days at Atlantic City and complete their
eastern trip by a visit to New York. Philadel-
phia, Baltimore and the Jamestown Exposition.
Vicegerent Snark Sheip has been assured of con-
siderable financial assistance and will be aide
tu follow out the elaborate schemes of enter
tainment proposed.

An Enviable Record.
During the year 1906 the Coe Manufacturing
Company of Painesville, **.. the famous manu
facturer of veneer cutting machinery) made and
sold 152 machines for veneer mills, weighing in
the aggregate 4,158,350 pounds, or 2,079 tons.

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house. Although such a remembrance consti-
tutes an excellent advertisement for the Atkins
product, the hook cannot by any means be
considered wholly in that light, since it is no1
in any sense an exploitation of the company's
line of tools, hut rather a tjexl hook or treatise
on the saw, its history and evolution, so com-
plete in every particular that il will become a
part of the library of all who are favored with

a copy.

It tells Of the earliest uses lo which iron was
put, and the crude methods of manufacture
employed by the ancient Ethiopians. Egyptians
and Phoenicians; of the bronze saws with jew
eled teeth which were used to cut stone and
thus facilitate the building of the pyramids of
the Pharaohs; of the earliest process of sawing
logs — the pit over which timber was placed,
while one man stood above ami the other below
to operate the tool ; of the primitive water power
sawmills erected in Germany as early as 1322;
and of the invention of the circular saw by
Brunei in 1790; concluding with the life of 1;
< '. Atkins, founder of the house which hears
his name— to write which is to write a history
of the development of the modern saw— and
the evolution of the business which he iusti-

ex- vicegerent snarks of the eastern slates, was
held in the afternoon in the parlors of the hold.
at which plans were formulated and arrange-
ments made for the annual at Atlantic City
next September.

Tl ncatenation ceremonies took place at

<; o'clock and a promising class was admitted.
At 7 :30 ;' dinner was served in the banquet
hall and addresses made by Snark Sheip and
various members prominent in the order. a
line musical program was rendered and a high
class vaudeville en I ert a in men I presented.

In regard to the annual at Atlantic City next
September, it was decided to inn special trains
from Si. I.ouis, Chicago and Pittsburg direct to
Atlantic City, each train taking up separate
bodies of Hoo-Hoo at various points. Members
of the order prominent in the passenger traffic
service of the railroads pledged themselves to
secure proper train facilities and a fail- reduction
in rates to the seaside city. The tickets will
he good from western points to Atlantic City
and thence to \ew York and the Jamestown
Exposition. When the pilgrims return from the
annual at Atlantic City there will be a grand
sendofC awaiting them in Philadelphia in the
well known hospitable manner of the Quaker

To its already greal facilities tor handling a
large amount of business, the company has re
cently added 30,000 square feet of floor space
and a large number of the most expensive and
up-to-date tools that money can purchase, so
1 hat ii will not he surprising if the enviable
record of last year's production is doubled

in P.m>7. The Coe machines, as is well known to
the veneer trade, embody every known appliance
necessary to accurate work and rapid and ecu
nomlcal production. of perfect stock

Keys-Fannin Removal,
on February •*- the general offices of the
Keys-Fannin Lumber Company, manufacturers

and dealers in hardw I lumber at Ashland.

Ky.. were removed lo llerndon, Wyoming county.
West Virginia, where the company has large
sawmill interests. This step was taken in order
that the business of the concern may he handled
direct from the mills and I hat il may he con-
tinually posted regarding stocks on hand -
width, length, dryness, etc., and therefore in bet-
ter position lo make quotations. The Keys-
Fannin Lumber Company is manufacturing a
tine assortment of both hand and circular sawed
poplar, oak, hemlock, basswood, chesinut ami

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lath at its Herndon operations, where it has
about L5.000 acres of virgin forest; the poplar
is of particularly line quality ; the oak is
mostly red. On the tract are located oue large
band sawmill with lath machinery, one circular
mill for handling bill stuff, eight miles of
35-pound steel rails, three 20-ton lugging en-
gines and one loader. Herndon is of course the
principal manufacturing point but the company
has several other mills in the vicinity, and this
establishment of its general offices in West Vir-
ginia is doubtless a wise move.

Utility and Simplicity Combined.
The cut herewith shown represents a very
simple, strong and durable machine for turning
fork, hoe, take, mop and broom handles, pike,
trolley, tent and curtain poles, dowels, rods and
other work of this class. It is the No. 10 lathe
made by the Ober Manufacturing Company of
Chagrin Falls, 0. The lathe has an entirely
automatic feeding device, the operator having
only to pile the squares between the guides, and
is provided wilh a lever and clutch for starting
or stopping the feed. The lirst knife rounds the
work to the size of the die, and the finishing
knife, automatically moved toward or from the
renter of the die by the cam pattern, makes the

OBER MANUFACTURING COMPANY NO. 10

LATHE.

shape of I he haudje. The work done by the
finishing knife can he made large or small by
tinning a screw on the arm which is raised and
lowered by the cam pattern. The latter is of

w I and any pattern can be made and put

upon the lathe very quickly and at little ex-
pense. The taper or knob on any article can
be lengthened or shortened without changing the
cam pattern. The machine will turn from 500
to Too broom handles per hour, and other work
accordingly. The regular size will turn up to
1 11-16 inches diameter and is supplied with
four dies, any si/.es desired, and with gearitm to
turn from U to IS feet long. Extra dies and
extra gearing can lie supplied .at additional _rost.
or special lathes may be made to turn 2, '_' ' ,
and -% inches in diameter.

New Veneer Plant Booming.
The National Veneer Products plant of Easi
Mishawaka. Ind.. is doing a steadily growing
business, and has added three or four new build-
ings, although a comparatively young institution.
Seventy men are now employed by Hie company,
and within a year it is probable that 200 will
hi' required to take care of the business. The
line of manufacture includes beer cases, trunks
and barrels. It will soon include suit eases
n;ad.' of veneer, which will be strong, light and
durable. The concern cuts its own veneer from
logs steamed on the premises.

W. M. Eitter Lumber Company.

An eastern contemporary in its last issue.
under a display head, saysj "As we go to press
we receive advices of the formation of a gigantic
lumber company, etc." The article presumes to
be of a news character, and refers to the W. M.'
Hitter Lumber Company of Columbus, O. Un-

fortunately stub statemepts as are true are not
new. and such as are new tire not true.

The facts of the case are that in March, 1000,
the capita] slock of the \V. M. Hitter Lumber
Company was increased from $1,000,000 to $8,-

.nun. At this time there was issued $2,500,-

in preferred stock and $5,500,000 in common

stock. At the present time there is outstand-
ing $2,000.01"! preferred stock and $.1,000,000 of
the common stock, the remainder being held in
the treasury of the company. The personnel of
the concern remains unchanged and the stock is
held by comparatively few people, most of whom
ari> identified with the enterprise. Blair & Co.,
the well-known New York bankers, are stock-
holders. The W. M. Hitter Lumber Company is
the owner of upwards of 1,000,000,000 feet of
hardwood stumpage, growing on some 300,000
a ties. A part of this land is beld in fee and
the remainder in timber lights. The company
operates seventeen mills and is cutting lumber at
the rate of over lun. feel per annum.

The officers and directors are as follows:
\V. M. Hitter, president, Columbus, O. ; Isaac T.
Mann, vice president, Bramwell, W. Ya. ; James
I. Ilamill. secretary. Columbus. 0. ; C. I!. Weak-
ley, treasurer, Columbus. 0. ; .1. Mortimer, gen-
era) superintendent, Panther, W. Ya. ; Harvey
Derne, superintendent manufacturing. Panther,
W. Va. ; J. W. Mayhew, sales manager, Colum-
bus, O. ; directors, W. M. Hitter, I. T. Mann,
.lames L. Ilamill, .1. M. Barr, Norfolk, Va. ; Ed-
win Mann, Bluefield, W. Ya.

Market Conditions.

Tlio Hardwood Manufacturers1 Association lias
just issued a new statement of market conditions
in conformity with suggestions made at the re-
cent Memphis meeting. As compared with this
report as published in the two last issues of the
Hardwood Record, wide poplar stock shows an
advance of from $2 to $5 and regular width $1:
both plain and quartered oak are advanced $1:
ash. s:; to sr.: wide Cottonwood, $4 !.. so ; regu-
lar widths. $1 : gum. 50 cents to $1.50. Slight
advances were also made in hickory, maple, and
furniture dimension stock.

$250,000 Fire.

The woodworking plant of the Wilts Veneer
Company at Plymouth, N. C, was burned ou
February 1. Nothing was saved but the office.
Loss is estimated at $250,000, on which there
was partial insurance.

Miscellaneous Notes.

Ed. L. Williams of Hogersville, Ala., who has
been out of the hardwood business for some
time, has just commenced operating his sawmill
again and will manufacture red and white oak
exclusively.

Prices of woods labor in the north country are
very high this winter and still going up. Woods-
men are getting from $35 to $45 a month, and
even this apparently high wage scale seems to
be little inducement.

J. H. Newberry of Riverside county, Califor-
nia, is about to plant eucalyptus trees on his
600-acre ranch along the Santa Ana river. His
expectation is to produce merchantable timber
within a short time.

The Continental Realty Company has sold to
the Southern Timherlaud & Mineral Company of
Nashville. Tenn., 52,000 acres of coal and timber
lauds in Breathitt, Knox and Perry counties.
Kentucky, for sums ranging between $800,000
and $1. i.t ii in.

The Allen Powell Company of Orange, Tex.,
recently purchased 300,000 feet of ash timber
for export.

The Ilunlsville Lumber Company of Decatur,
Ala., has disposed of its retail yard at Hunts-
ville and in future will confine itself entirely to
the manufacture of rough and dressed hardwoods
and dimension stock at Decatur. .

It is reported that W. II. Alexander has pur-
chased 2,000 acres of hardwood timber laud
near Pineville, Miss., and will install a stave
and heading factory at once.

W. II. llatten and W. II. I lick of New London,
Wis., have purchased 15.000 acres of hardwood
timber land in Mississippi. The property in-
cludes the village of Phillips, with stores, hotel,
churches, schools and sewer and waterworks
systems. The town is situated on the main line
of. the Illinois Central railroad, which is now
building a branch line through the timber.

The White Oak Lumber & Plantation Company
has been incorporated at Milwaukee: capital.
$100,000. Its principals are Herman Wegwarl.
Louis I. and Arthur C. Friend.

'f'lie West African Timber & Trading Company
has been incorporated in Edinburgh, Scotland,
with a capital of $10,000.

The Fosrer-Latimer Lumber Company of Mei-
len. Wis., has sold to the Ashland Iron & Steel
Company 50,000 aires of hardwood limber in
northern Wisconsin, a large producer of charcoal,
pig iron and by-products, and now controls
200,000 aires of timber land.

HardWood NeWs.

By HARDWOOD RECORD

Chicago.

E. C. Mershon and Harry Batchelop of Sagi-
naw, Mich,, were in town recently en route to
Mexico for a short trip.

The partnership previously existing between
A. W. Wylie and Howard D. Casey & Co., in the
hardwood and yellow pine department of their
business, has been dissolved by mutual consent
and both will continue along the same line. Mr.
Wylie will engage in business under his individ-
ual name, with office at llol Fisher building,
< hicago.

E. D. Pennell, representing the Briggs &
Cooper Company, Ltd., of Saginaw. Mich., was
in Chicago last week and favored the Record
wit h a call;

William II. White, president of the W. II.
White Company of Boyne City, Mich., was in
the city last week. With Mr. White were his
two sons, Thomas and Lyle. The party was en
route t" the Pacific coasl on a combined business
and pleasure trip, and expects to be there about
two months.

A welcome visitor from Nashville, Tenn., re-
cently was D. S. Hutchinson of the Nashville
Hardwood Flooring Company, who spent a week
.moiig the Chicago trade.

Special Correspondents.)

The Hardwood Record is in receipt of several
pamphlets published by the Bureau <>t' Forestry

of the Philippine Islands, of which Maj. George
P. Ahern is director, one covering Ids report for
the period of the year end inn June 30, 1906,
containing valuable statistics and profusely illus-
trated, showing methods of logging, wanton de-
struction of valuable trees, etc.; another on the
mechanical tests, properties and uses of thirty
Philippine woods, the Philippine sawmills, lum-
ber market, and prices; two giving preliminary
working plans for the public forest tracts of the
Insular Lumber Company of Negros Occidental,
and of the Mindoro Lumber & Logging Company
of Bongabou ; the latter also contain many band-
some illustrations.

Wagstaff - Lumber - Oshkosh - Chicago - last
week - very busy.

The Lumbermen's Credit Association. 77 Jack-
son boulevard, Chicago, publishers of Clancy's
Red Book, have just issued a new edition for
January, 1907. The book now contains approxi-
mately 60,000 names; it has been carefully re-
vised and a great deal of money spent in bring-
ing it up to date. There has been the usual per-
centage of increase iu uames, and additions to
this number over the last issue amount to some-

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thing like 2,000. The Red Book is exceedingly
valuable to lumbermen, and none of them should
attempt to "keep house" without it.

For several years past the office of the big
timber house of J. D. Lacey & Co. has been
migratory, it having been located in the Old
Colony building, Chicago, during the summer
season, and in the winter In the Hennen build
ing, Now 'oilcans. With the increased business
of this big concern it was obliged to open
an office at Seattle last year, and during the
greater part of this winter it has been obliged
to keep open its Chicago office as well. Victor
Thrane of this house has spent a good portion
of his time in Chicago to care for the wauts of
clients, but has made occasional trips to the
coast and to New Orleans.

F. W. Gilchrist, the eminent Alpena, Mich.,
lumberman and ship owner, spent a day in Chi-
cago last week en route home from Memphis.

A. B. Baker of the F. .1. Hellmann Company,
of Soddy, Tenn., was a Chicago visitor February
7 and honored tin- Recobd with a call.

F. A. Curtis has retired from the firm of
Houston & Curtis, 737 Marquette building, man-
ufacturers of wagon wood stock, to take the man-
agement of the Vehicle Woodstock Company,
with offices in the Fisher building. His entire
interest in the firm of Houston & Curtis has

I a purchased by J. S. Houston, and will be

continued under the firm name of ,T. S. Houston
& Co. J. S. Houston & Co. have just purchased
a large tract of land near Grenada, Miss., and
are now erecting a sawmill which will be readj
for operation in March. They will produce oak.
poplar and yellow pine. The firm will also
continue the operation of its band mill and
bending factory at Memphis, and its circular
sawmill at Newport, Ark.

A welcome Chicago visitor on Thursday last
was Seeley Parker of Parker Brothers, the well
known lumbermen of Findlay. O. Mr. Parker is
a large lumber buyer through the Chicago mar-
ket, and was in town placing orders to replenish
stock.

The Hardwood Recokd is indebted to the
Boss Lumber Company "t Jamestown, N. Y., and
C. M. Crini & Son of Salem. Ind., for very
artistic calendars.

Boston.

Theodore P. Green, for many years active in
Hi, lumber business, died in Boston January 23.
Mi. Green has not been engaged in active busi-
ness during the past live years, but up to that
time he was widely known as a manufacturer
and had a Boston office in the Exchange build-
ing.

C. P. Chase of C. P. Chase & Co., Springfield,
Mass., has recently returned from a trip to New
York.

Chas. S. Wentworth of C. S. Wentworth &
Co. returned last week from a trip to the prov-
ince of Quebec.

Henry A. Grimwood & Co., Providence, R. I.,
have recently sustained a loss of $00,000 by
fire.

John M. Rice, president and treasurer of the
Bnttrick Lumber Company, Waltham, Mass-
died suddenly at his home January 31 of heart
failure. Mr. Rice was a Mason and member
of the G. A. It. As a young man he engaged
in the lumber business in his home town,
Hampden, Me., and about twenty-five years ago
came to Waltham and purchased an interest in
the lumber business of Francis Buttrlck, which
concern later became the Buttrick Lumber Com-
pany. A widow and one daughter survive.

Herbert A. Fuller has been engaged by Fur-
ber, Stockford & Co. as salesman, to take the
place of the late Frank W. Holmes. Mr. Fuller
is of the well known lumber family of Fullers
of Brighton, Mass. For the past year he has
been in the employ of Lindsay Shepard.

Charles C. Batchelder of the Boston Lumber
Company is making an extensive trip through
the south.

Samuel C. Hutchinson of the Hutchinson

Lumber Company, Lynn. Mass.. with Mrs.
Hutchinson is making a trip to the Mediter-
ranean and will visit Egypt and Hie Holy Land
before returning home.

A slight change has been made by the new
Metropolitan Lumber Exchange of Boston rela-
tive to location. Quarters have been secured at
7 Merchants' Row instead of in the Broad Ex-
change building, as was first suggested.

New York.

The twentieth annual banquet of the New
York Lumber Trade Association, which was held
in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria
on Hie evening of January 22, was pronounced
one of the finest of its kind ever held. Dinner
was served to 400 members and guests, the lat-
ter representing many prominent associations of
tin' country. Dinner was served in the Waldorf's
famous style, the ballroom being beautifully
decorated, and one of the most attractive fea-
tures was the presence of the many women who

upied the boxes surrounding the ballroom.

Each was served with fancy ices and cakes and
a handsome box of candy as she entered the
box, and the social interchange between box
parties added greatly to the enjoyment of the
evening. At the close of the dinner President
James Sherlock Davis made a brief but inter-
esting address and called for Secretary J. D.
Cruiy, to whom lie presented a handsome Tiffany
purse containing a certified check for $3,500 as
a token of appreciation of the members for his
long and valued services to the organization cov-
ering the past twenty years. The balance of
the evening was devoted to the enjoyment of
an excellent vaudeville entertainment.

John M. Woods of J. M. Woods & Co., promi-
nent Boston hardwood house, lias sailed from
this port for a six weeks' pleasure trip abroad.

J. S. Coleman, general manager of the J. S.
Coleman Lumber Company of Asheville, N. ('..
was a recent visitor, accompanied by Mrs. Cole
man.

Hugh McLean of the Hugh McLean Lumber
Company, Buffalo, N. Y., is spending several
days in town in the interest of business.

John J. and Frank T. Rumbarger of the Ituiii
barger Lumber Company of Philadelphia, Pa.,
were recent visitors, attending the annual din-
ner of the New York Lumber Trade Association.
Vicegerent Charles C. Fischer, the prominent
Manhattan hardwood retailer, is arranging a con-
catenation to be held here on February 21, at
which a big class of the Yale Forestry students
and a number of other candidates will be initi-
ated.

The annual meeting of the New Jersey Lum-
bermen's Protective Association has been called
for February 20 at the Board of Trade rooms,
704 Broad street, Newark, N. J., to be followed
by the usual banquet.

Church E. Gates & Co., extensive Harlem
dealers, have sold their entire yard properly at
138th street and Mott avenue, running through
to the Harlem river, for a consideration amount
ing to more than $500,000.

Halfpenny & Hamilton, spruce and hardwood
wholesalers at Philadelphia, have opened a
branch selling office in room 325, New York Life
building, 346 Broadway, under the management
of George E. Demming.

The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad
last week shipped a carload of veneers for Fer-
guson & Clark, the leading Brooklyn hardwood
bouse, to Toledo, O., in two days. This is cer-
tainly a record for quick shipment in these days.
President r. B. Yates of the Berlin Machine
Works, Beloit, Wis., was a recent visitor in the
city, combining business with pleasure. He was
accompanied by Mrs. Yates. They were inter
ested attendants at the Automobile Show.

Edward Hines, the distinguished Chicago lum-
berman, sailed from this city on January 20 on
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse for a three months'
pleasure trip abroad. C. F. Weihe accompanied
him east.

Philadelphia.

The Saltkatchie Lumber Company of rimers.
S. C., in which Seholield Brothers are heavily
interested, has completed the building of its
sawmills and is installing the necessary ma-
chinery. Tie- company has approximately 10,000
acres of timber land wooded principally with
cypress and a very fair grade of poplar. R. W.
Seholield is manager of the new concern. The
product will be handled chiefly through Scho-
liebi Lies., whose experience in manufacturing
and in marketing lumber insures a successful
future for the new company.

Jos. 1'. Dunwoody & Co. are preparing for
extensive hardwood dealings and will handle
the output of the Norva Land & Lumber Com-
pany of Wallacetown, Va., in which they are
interested, Mr. Dunwoody having recently been
elected treasurer. The company is a new one
and is located near Norfolk, Va. ; it has acquired
the sawmill plant of the Virginia Land & Lum-
ber Company and expects to start sawing about
March 1. It owns some 11,000 acres of timber
land, the product of which comprises principally
poplar, gum, pine and cypress.

The Lumbermen's Exchange held its regular
monthly meeting on February 7. Only routine
business was transacted. Recent visitors to the
Exchange wen, G. W. Hoover of Williamsport,
Pa., and Ghas. G. Blades of the old Blades Lum-
li"i Company of Elizabeth City and Newbern.
X. C. ; the latter left New Y'ork on February 7
for an extended Mediterranean trip.

The Philadelphia Hardwood Lumber Company
has engaged the services of William D. Kauf-
man as buyer. Mr. Kaufman will have his
headquarters at Elkins, W. Va.

The Philadelphia Veneer & Lumber Company
is installing a new taping machine for dimen-
sion veneer ill its mills at Knoxville, Tenn. A
recent heavy tide in the Holston and Clinch
rivers brought the company a large quantity
of choice logs. It now has on hand a lot of
sawed flitches selected for width and figure.
The past year was Hie most successful in the
history of the company, an increase of 00 per
cent in sales being noted.

Sheip & Vandegrift are installing a new elec-
tric light plant in their establishment on North
Lawrence street. They have also added sev-
eral of the latest woodworking machines to
their factory lately.

The hardwood department of the Righter-
l'airv Lumber Company, lately established, is
now in full swing. The company is handling
mostly southern hardwood. Among its output
are beech, birch, maple, chestnut, poplar and
oak.

T. N. Nixon of Wistar, Underbill & Co. has
just ret iiriied from an extensive southern trip.
Mr. Nixon reports that conditions in the sec-
lions he visited are excellent. He brought back
a bunch of orders.

Recent visitors to the local trade were T. II.
[rugate of Richmond, Va., a well-known hard-
wood lumberman of this section, and R. H.
Phillips of William Phillips' Sons of Charles-
town. \V. Va.

J. W. Floyd, a popular young lumberman with
the Bolce Lumber Company, Inc.. was married
on January 31 to Miss Emma Campbell of 4433
Chestnut street.

Samuel II. Shearer & Son are making exten-
sive preparations to push their hardwood busi-
ness. They have established a southern office at
I'barlesiown, W. Va.. with John Hall as buyer
Chas. L. Mackley is rapidly coming to the
front as a hardwood dealer. He makes a spe-
cialty of ash, oak and elm squares. He re-
cently made a ten days' tour through Ten-
n -see and contracted to handle the entire out-
put of two small mills in that section, the
product comprising red and white oak, chest-
nut, poplar and elm.

Plans have been posted for erecting a new
building for the Boyertown Burial Casket Com-
pany of Boyertown, Pa., on the lot at 1211 to

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1217 Arch street, Philadelphia, purchased sev-
eral months ago for $250,000. The new build-
in- will be ten stories and basement, covering
80 by 120 feet, and will cost about $250,000.

William M. McCormick has sold to the Henry
C. Patterson Company the "Id lumber yard at
Dauphin street, Glenwood avenue and the Penn-
sylvania railroad, an area of about '-!'.I2 by 418
feet.

The Potter-Graham Timber Company lias been
organized with a capital stock of $25,000, to
be located at Philadelphia. The incorporators
are James R. Potter, Philadelphia; W. M. Gra-
ham, Malvern, Pa., and Frederick W. Focht,
Norristown, Pa.

Schofleld Bros, have engaged James McNerney
as salesman. He entered upon bis duties Febru-
ary l and will cover eastern Pennsylvania,
Maryland and neighboring states. Mr. McNer-
ney «as formerly with the Wiley. Harker &
Camp Company.

Baltimore.
Much gratification is expressed here over the
election of John I.. Alcock to the presidency
of the National Hardwood Exporters' Assoeia-
toin at the annual meeting in Norfolk. The
new lead of the organization lias many warm
friends and his popularity is by no means eon
lined !■> the export trade. He has been for
years active in all endeavors to promote the in
terests of the lumber business, being a member
of the Lumber Exchange and having served as
chairman of the Hardwood inspection Commit-
tee of the National Wholesale Lumber Healers'
Association, besides tilling other positions that
called for the expenditure of much time and en-
ergy in the pursuit of unselfish aims. Mr. Al-
cock also stands high in ' the councils of Hoo-
doo, having been Vicegerent Snarl;', and being
at the present time one of the officers, lie is
engaged in the export business under the firm
name of John L. Alcock & Co.. maintains exten-
sive connections with different foreign bouses
and is unusually well posted on the export trade.
Though an Englishman by birth be married an
American and has become thoroughly identified
with Baltimore institutions.

The Exporters' Association at the Norfolk

a ting resolved to transfer headquarters from

Memphis to Baltimore. Tin- transfer has been
made' with great alacrity by Secretary E. M.
Terry, who was busy last week securing quar-
ters and making arrangements necessitated by
the change. lie lias secured offices in the
Equitable building, Calvert and Fayette streets,
and is now ready for business. Mr. Terry has
also brought bis family to Baltimore, He is not
a stranger, having lived here for a number of
years and attended the local schools.

One of the reasons that dictated the transfer
of the office of secretary was the fact that the
president lives here, and the change will make
it possible to consult him frequently, which is
necessary. Furthermore, the leading steamship
and other transportation lines with which bard-
wood men maintain relations can be more easily
reached from an eastern point. It is especially
important now, when hardwood men have under
consideration various questions, among them
clean through bills of lading, the car shortage,
and oilier matters affecting transportation, that
the secretary be in close touch with the common
carriers over which the members of the associa-
tion ship most of the lumber.

Norman James of the N. W. James Lumber
Company, who is largely interested in the
Pigeon Lumber Company, on the Pigeon river,
North Carolina, made a trip to the scene of the
company's operations last week.

Lewis Dill, president of the National Whole-
sale Lumber Dealers' Association, was in Buffalo
last week on business and also conferred with
Mr. Sc.it chard concerning the Washington meet-
ing.

A number of Baltimore Hoo-Hoo will go over
to Philadelphia on the 8th to meet members
of the order from all the other eastern jurisdic-

tions and make arrangements for the next an-
nual coueatenation of the national body at At-
lantic City in September.

During a fire which broke nut on January 23
in the building of the Williams Slate Company
in Richmond, Va., the Whiteburst dry kilns were
destroyed among other property. The loss on
the kilns is $18,000, with no insurance.

Pittsburg.

Tin- Pennsylvania Railroad Company has ap-
pointed A. A. Sterling, formerly assistant fores-
ter in the Department of Agriculture at Wash-
ington, as forester of its great properties. He
will be the first railroad forester in America.
During the last live years the Pennsylvania has
plained 1,. ".oii.tiiiti trees to furnish a supply of
cross ties in the future. Now it proposes to
plant 680 acres of land near Altoona. Pa., with
chestnut and red oak seedlings this spring and
next. The Pennsylvania is now using 5,500,000
ties a year and the price has risen steadily Hie
last few years until some first class ties have
been sold lately for 70 cents each.

Among the last week's visitors to Pittsburg
wholesalers were J. Natwick, lumber agent lor
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad; George N. Com
fort, secretary of the Central Lumber Company
of Cleveland; W. B. Ingram of Ingram & Gibson,
wholesale lumber dealers at Uniontown, Pa.

The American Lumber & Manufacturing Com
pan.v sold over $150,000 worth of hardwood
Lumber in January, according to its general
manager. J. .V Woollen, who was last week
elected vice president.

John M. Hastings, president of the Davison
I. umber Company of Nova Scotia, Can., is con-
fident that by spring the company will have
25,000,000 feel oi logs ready for cutting at ils
mill. The company uses nothing but horses in
its operation, having discarded all the "Canuck"
oxen, and had over 1,000 men on its pay roll
in January. It is shipping enormous quantities
of lumber to England and other European coun-
tries.

The Western Reserve Land Company of War-
ren, O., one of the oldest bardw 1 concerns in

the Pittsburg district, lias elected officers for
11IH7 as follows: President. W. I). Packard:
vice president, S. A.'Corbin; secretary and treas-
urer. C. L. Wood. Tbc company declared a 0
per cent dividend.

A tract of 2,o00 acres of timber near Titus-
ville, Pa., forty miles from Pittsburg, has been
bought by Thomas McCabe of Kinzum. Pa., and
C. W. Stone of Warren, Pa. The price is $75,-
000. The timber consists of oak. chestnut, Yir
ginia pine and hemlock, and will be cut oil at
once.

James I. M. Wilson & Co. report that bin b is
playing some part in their business this winter,
as it is coming to be used considerably for fine
interior finish, a mahogany stain adding greatly
to its attractiveness.

Manager Craig of William Whitmer & Sons.
Inc., has gone to West Virginia and Virginia for
a general survey trip.

Frank M. Willson of Willson Brothers says
there is a noticeable scarcity of good labor at
the hardwood mills of the South. He lias just
returned from a long trip among the West Vir-
ginia mills.

A. D. Knapp of the Nicola Lumber Company
has gone to the Northwest for an extended trip.

The W. E. Tcrhnne Lumber Company has
moved to a very desirable suite of offices on the
ninth floor of the House building. F. (.1. Lillo
of Ibis firm is making quite an extended trip
through West Virginia in search of new stocks
of hardwood.

The mill and tract of timber land of J. S. Bell
at Moore. W. Va.. near Elkins, has been sold to
a capitalist from Baltimore, Md. There are
about 4.000 acres of hemlock and hardwood on
the tract aud Hie price is said to have been
nearly $200,000.

Louis liermaln of the Germain Company has

gone to Mobile, Ala., to attend the annual Mardi
Gras there in company with fellow officers in
Hie Lewis Land & Lumber Company, . which sup-
plies the Germain Company with its southern
woods.

Buffalo.

Report from the Batavia Woodworking Fac-
tory, of which concern J. N. Scatchard is presi-
dent, says that it has never employed so large
a force as now. It eaters entirely to the east-
ern hardwood door and finish trade.

The Hugh McLean Lumber Company is able
to report a very satisfactory supply of logs at
Memphis, considering the general scarcity in
that section, and a prospect of a fair run of
them for at least a while yet.

A. Miller is now drawing his supplies of plain
oak and poplar from West Virginia and other
points south, and getting enough of it to give
bis yard all of the former appearance of full
stocks.

0. E. Yeager will be in the market early with
a supply of oak ami poplar from the other side
of the Ohio.

This month will see A. W. Kreinheder off
lo the Kentucky and Tennessee mills of the
Standard Hardwood Lumber Company, press of
business at home having prevented his going
sooner.

The Empire Lumber Company's yard has sev-
eral limes the amount of stock that it carried
a year ago, as the plan is now to keep it filled
up and not go out of the yard business, as was
contemplated.

J. F. Knox will soon make another of his long
southern raids after oak for the yard of Beyer,
Knox & Co.

1. N'. Stewart i Bro. are' still able to show a
fine assortment of cherry and are in line for
more when wanted. No lumber has such an
"air" in yard as cherry.

The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company ex-
pects to open a factory for its new Plus &
Minus Desk business in the city soon, but for
tic present it builds the desks at the Blasdell
factory. A good trade has already set in.

Saginaw Valley.

The week has been marked by the coldest
weather of the winter. In the woods condi-
tions are favorable for logging and there is just
snow enough for hauling. Not in years have
conditions been better. The output of hardwood
will be probably a little larger than last winter
because the trade is in much better form than
ii was a year ago. The demand Is much better
and prices are more of an inducement to oper-
ators than they were a year ago.

Between Bay city and the straits there are
some thirty portable sawmills in operation, some
located in patches of timber where the haul is
quite lengthy. For instance. Wolf Brothers have
a mill in operation in Iverness township, Che-
boygan county, cutting hardwood lumber and
they liinc five teams hauling the lumber to Che-
boygan, where It will be shipped out to market
by rail.

The Embury-Martin Lumber Company, at Che-
boygan, started its sawmill Monday on hard-
wood logs and has a number of million feet to
cut. The mill will run through the year.

Bliss & Van Auken have installed a large
Wiekes tubular boiler in their plant, which is
running day and night, with business in sight
to keep the saws humming.

Robert Larkins of St. Louis, Mich., is buying
lumber for the Ranhey Refrigerator Company of
Greenville; has 700.000 feet at St. Louis ready
to ship and 400,000 feet of logs ready to be
hauled to the railroad.

A. P. Bertram has had the Schadig sawmill
at \loltke, Presque Isle county, cutting several
hundred thousand feet of hardwood lumber,
which is being hauled to the dock at Rogers City
for shipment when navigation opens.

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East Tawas manufactured 850,000 feet of hard-
wood lumber last season. The company expects
to manufacture 3,500,000 feet this year.

Walter McVittle and Frank Barnaby have
bought fifty acres of hardwood timber on the
Towar farm two miles north of Ann Arbor.
They have put in a portable sawmill and will

manufacture .".tin.., feet of lumber and ship

it to Detroit.

The Prescott-Miller Company, at Rose City,
manufactured 1,000,000 feet of hardwood lumber
last year and is operating a number of camps
this winter.

The Kneeland-Bigelow Company and the Knee-
land, Buell & Bigelow Company, operating two
large sawmills at Bay City, manufactured 21,-
808,006 feet of hardwood lumber last year, the
largest output of any one concern in Michi-
gan.

At Millersburg, S. F. Derry & Co. manufac-
tured last year 4,340,000 feet of hardwood lum-
ber last year, and are putting in only 1,000,000
teet of logs ibis winter.

S. G. M. Gates is putting in 7,500,000 feet
of logs near Roscommon, which will come here
to be manufactured, mostly hardwood.

E. II. French of Columbus, O., has been here
this week on business. He says that in 1902 he
designed, equipped and completed a chemical
plant in Bay City for the manufacture of wood
alcohol .and other products from refuse wood
from the sawmill operated by W. D. Young &
Co. The plant was subsequently sold to the Du-
pont Powder Company of Wilmington for $100,-
000 and is at present being actively operated
by that company. Mr. French claims the plant
was constructed under a partnership arrange-
ment between Young and himself and he is here
for the purpose of securing an accounting and to
settle the respective rights of the partners.

Grand Rapids.

'Hie Emmett Lumber Company of Grand Rap-
ids has filed notice of an increase of capital

stock from $125. to $175,000. The company

has been operating a mill in Emmett county,
but has cut out there, and the reorganized com-
pany has bought a tract of 9,500 acres of hard-
wood, pine and hemlock located in Iron county,
Wisconsin. Officers were elected as follows :
President, John J. Foster, Greenville; vice pres-
ident, Walter (.'. Winchester; secretary, Claude
Hamilton ; treasurer, Henry Idema.

The G. N. Wagner Lumber & Shingle Com-
pany, paid up capital $30,000, has been incor-
porated, succeeding the G. N. W7agner Shingle
Company.

N. J. G. VanKeulen of the VanKeulen &
Wilkinson Lumber Company tells us that Janu-
ary was a record breaking month with that con-
cern in the matter of shipments.

W. N. Kelley of the Keliey Lumber & Shingle
Company, Traverse City, was in the city Feb-
ruary 4.

The Cadillac Handle Company of Cadillac has
increased its capital stock from $65,000 to
$200,000.

W. W. Mitchell of Cadillac has offered to sub-
scribe $10,000 to the Young Men's Christian
Association fund in that city contingent on the
securing of $20,000 additional by February 15.

The Grand Rapids Lumbermen's Association
held its annual banquet at the Livingston hotel
this year. President Carroll F. Sweet was toast-
master and the principal address of the evening
was made by Manager Booth of the Evening
Press, the topic being "The Commercial Value
of Character." A business meeting was held
afterwards and G. B. Daniels, H. G. Dykehouse
and J. I". Retting were elected directors to serve
three years. At a board meeting held February
2 the following otlicers were elected : President,
Carroll F. Sweet : vice president, Harry C. An-
gell ; secretary, George B. Daniels ; treasurer,
William E. Cox. Mr. Angell was made chairman
of the railroad and transportation committee
and Charles W. Fish head of the membership

committee. L. L. Skillman, who has served as
secretary since the association was organized,
declined reelection. He was voted $50 for his
faithful services. The association will meet
again February 26.

The Ranney Refrigerator Company of Green-
ville has 700,000 feet of lumber at St. Louis,
Mich . ready for shipment and has 400,000 feet
of logs bought in that vicinity ready for hauling
to the railroad. At Elwell the company also
has 800,000 feet of lumber ready for shipment.

Cleveland.

The J. N. Hahn Box Company is erecting an
addition to its box factory. It will be a two
story brick building 54x37 feet and 64x80 feet.

The Southern Lumber Company has been in-
corporated by the following; C. H. Prescott,
Jr.. W. II. Prescott and O. W. Prescott of the
Saginaw Bay Company ; F. W. Sandfear and R.

E. Gannon, who have been with that company
for a number of years, and F. E. Kimball. They
will do a general wholesale business.

F. E. Kimball, formerly secretary and mana-
ger of the Central Lumber Company, resigned
the first of the year. J. W. Wagner, for a
number of years manager of the yellow pine
department of the R. H. Jenks Lumber Com-
pany, and G. N. Comfort, manager of the hem-
lock department of the same company, resigned
the first of the year to join (he Central Lumber
Company, Mr. Wagner being vice president and
manager and Mr. Comfort secretary.

J. H. Jenks and J. L. Sands of the R. H.
Jenks Lumber Company have returned from a
trip to Kentucky and West Virginia mills.

J. C. West of R. M. Smith & Co., Parkersburg,
W. Va., and James Miller, representing William
Whitmer & Sons, Pittsburg, were recent visi-
tors.

Indianapolis.

The Southern Lumber Company has been in-
corporateil in Indianapolis and has a capital
stock of $15,000, held by some of the best
known lumbermen in the state. The directors
are Oscar A. Jose, Lee Burns and J. T. Shimer.

John Ghere has been arrested at Frankfort
on a charge of embezzlement upon the complaint
of John M. Buck, proprietor of the Bluffton
handle factory. Ghere has bought timber in
various parts of the state for the company for
several months and was intrusted with various
sums of money. It is charged that he embezzled
about $130. He has refused to discuss the case
further than to declare that he is innocent.

The Foster Lumber Company of Indianapolis,
one of the largest lumber companies in that
city, has just entered the jobbing business in
oak and birch veneered doors. In order to care
for this new part of its business the company
has recently completed a large building.

Representatives of a number of lumber com-
panies have invaded the big deer park of the
late Col. Tom Johnson, near Petersburg, in Knox
county. The park consists of about 300 acres
of primeval forest that until now has never been
disturbed. Johnson died some time ago and his
heirs were unable to keep the big forest intact.

Among recent incorporations is the New Haven
Lumber & Supply Company of New Haven. Witli
a capital stock of $20,000 the company will
enter business on a large scale. Directors have
been elected as follows : Diederich Rodenbeck,

F. K. Albersmeyer, C. H. Rodenbeck and H. C.
C. Wehrenberg. It is expected that the com-
pany will be ready lor business in a short time.

Asheville.
A. J. Coumbe, a prominent lumberman of
western .North Carolina, residing at 93 Beardeu
avenue, this city, died Thursday, January 29,
after an illness of three days. Pneumonia was
the cause of death. Mr. Coumbe was probably
the wealthiest lumberman in this section and
had large holdings in this city. He had been
engaged in the lumber business in this city and
section for a number of years and was highly

respected. He was 30 years of age and leaves
a widow.

Col. George W. Clark of New Jersey has pur-
chased from W. II. Silver what is known as the
Long boundary in Haywood county, consisting of
nearly 2,000 acres of timber land. The price paid
was $17,000. Another tract of 900 acres of land
in Haywood was sold recently to s, Montgom-
ery Smith, while an option has been taken on a
third tract of 1,700 acres at a fixed price of
s|o per acre. A Philadelphia concern has this
option. The work of constructing a flume for
the transportation of lumber and acid from
these properties to the railroad will begin in a
few days.

The hardwood men are enthusiastic over the
bright prospect of securing the passage of a
reciprocal demurrage law by the present North
Carolina general assembly. More than 3,000 let-
ters have been sent to lumbermen by the Ashe-
ville Lumber Exchange requesting that the hard-
wood men of the stale cooperate with the Ashe-
ville association in securing an equitable law
in the interest of the hardwood industry. Re-
plies to a majority of these letters have been
received and in every instance hearty cooperation
is assured. The legislators — many of them at
least — favor such a law as the hardwood men
desire enacted and will seek to have the bill now
pending passed.

The Fry-Buchanan Lumber Company of this
city has been adjudged bankrupt by United
States Circuit Court Judge J. C. I'ritchard. The
cause came before Judge Pritchard on petition
of the Rumbarger Lumber Company seeking a
receiver for the insolvent company. R. M.
Ramsey of Marshall was appointed receiver. He
has given bond in the sum of $8,000 and has
taken possession of all the lumber and other
property of the alleged insolvent company. J. J.
Britt of this city has been appointed special
master to take testimony and report facts and
conclusion of law to the court. The receivership
of the Fry-Buchanan Lumber Company came as
a result of the suit recently instituted by Dr.
J. E. Hawthorne against the Fry-Buchanan con-
cern in which false pretenses and fraud are
alleged.

Bristol.

James A. Stone and William R. Stone of the
Stone lluliug Lumber Company of this city and
Hugh Allen of Middlesboro, Ky., are preparing
to organize the Allen Lumber Company at Mid-
dlesboro, Ky. The organization of the company
is for the purpose of supplying the heavy demand
for building lumber in the coal fields of Ken-
tucky and Virginia and for the manufacture of
hardwood lumber for the eastern trade.

G. I.. Wood of the R. E. Wood Lumber Com-
pany of Baltimore came to Bristol on business
last week en route to the company's operations
at Buladeen, Tenn.

The Eagle Hardwood Company, recently organ-
ized at Charlottesville, Va., is getting ready to
begin active work.

J. A. Wilkinson has returned from a business
trip to Philadelphia. Work on Mr. Wilkinson's
new band mill in South Bristol is progressing
and he hopes to have same completed and in
..[..•ration in March. The mill is being built in
addition to the big planing mills which be has
just completed on the same site.

W. R. Stone of the Stone-IIuling Lumber Com-
pany left this week for an important business
nip to New Orleans, Mobile, Birmingham and
Atlanta.

George W. Peter of the Paul W. Fleck Lumber
Company has returned from a trip to Johnson
county, Tennessee, where he has been looking
after his company's interests.

Emil Guenther of Philadelphia, Pa., a whole-
sale lumberman of that city, was iu Bristol last
week in company with Valentine T.uppert, en
route t.. Butler, Johnson county, Tenn. Mr.
Guenther has purchased an interest in the Lup-
pert Lumber Company, Inc., and will handle the

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output of its Johnson county operations for-
merly handled by the Paul W. Fleck Lumber
Company of this city.

The Paul W. Fleck Lumber Company has
leased twenty-two acres of land on the V. &
S. W. Railway in South Bristol and will estab-
lish big assorting yards there. The site was for-
merly used by the James Strong Lumber Com-
pany and is suitable for a lumber yard. A mil-
lion feet of stock will be piled on the Bristol
yards at once.

Cincinnati.

At a meeting of the Manufacturers' Club
held at the Queen City Club recently, A. G.
Brunnsniiiu of the Anchor Buggy Company and
Thomas J. Moffett of the Maley, Thompson &
Moffett Company delivered very interesting ad-
dresses. Mr. Brunnsman dealt with "Transpor-
tation," and he referred to some concessions
recently granted by the railroads to Cincinnati-
ans in regard to switching, but held that in
general the switching system in Cincinnati is
altogether out of date. "It is absurd," he
said, "to narrow the switching limits to the
basin of the city. The extension of the limit
to Lockland is a step in the right direction, but
the terminal limits should be extended also to
North Bend on the west, Oakley on the east
and Latouia and Erlanger (Kentucky) on the
south." T. J. Moffett, chairman of the Belt
Line System, declared "Railroad facilities have
been outgrown everywhere. The shippers say
I he trouble is the lack of cars," said Mr. Moffett,
"while the railroad men declare it is the lack of
terminal facilities and trackage. It often takes
longer to switch a car from across the river
to Ivorydale than it does- to haul the car from
Nashville to Cincinnati. Tnus the effectiveness
of the car is reduced 70 per cent. Traffic has
increased 100 per cent in recent years, while
railroad facilities have only increased 15 per
cent. The business of Cincinnati is being throt-
tled by these inadequate railroad facilities. The
belt line will All a great want. We wish to
enroll a hundred leading shippers as stock-
holders in the belt line company, each to take
ten shares at $100 a share. With such an im-
provement Cincinnati will soon be the gateway
for. 40 per cent of the business into the- South,
whereas now only 15 per cent passes through
the city. There are only fifteen miles of spur
tracks and sidings in the city, an amount totally
inadequate. The belt line will cost about
$5,000,000."

M. B. Farrin of the M. B. Farrln Lumber
Company left for an extensive tour through
Europe and a trip up the Nile and through the
Holy Land. He will be accompanied "by Mrs.
Farrin and will not return until .May.

Sixty kittens were made members of the Con-
catenated Order of Hoo-Hoo on January 23. It
was an extra large class, and a number of- spe-
cial surprises were sprung by some of the Cin-
cinnati members on some of the oldest and most
hardened of the Hoo-Hoos, as well as on the
kitten candidates. The officers who conducted
the initiation were : A. D. McLeod, Bojum ;
C. W. Thomas, Junior Hoo-Hoo; II. H. Gibson,
Senior Hoo-Hoo: J. S. Hayward, Arcanoper ; E.
L. Edwards, Gurdon ; George Dewey, Custoca-
tian ; J. M. Powers, Scrivenoter ; Walter Cook,
Jabberwock ; B. F. Dulweber, Snark.

The Stewart-Roy Lumber Company of Cincin-
nati was incorporated recently with a capital
stock of $50,000 by Charles J. Hunt, Norwood
.1. Uttir. ii. W. Bennett, Gregory S. Stewart and
William II. Stewart to succeed the Arm of G.
S. & W. II. Stewart. The company will conduct
a wholesale lumber business.

The total number of lumber cars received in
Cincinnati during the mouth of January was
5,040, and cars shipped out 4,1157. The above
figures will show distinctly that cars can be re-
ceived more rapidly than they can be shipped.
C. F. Thauwald & Co., manufacturers of hard-
wood mantels, have made preparations for the

erection of a large dry kiln, seventy-five feet
square and twelve feet high.

Building operations in Cincinnati for the
month of January were more than 100 per cent
greater than for the same month a year ago.
Total permits aggregate $532,219.

The monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's
Club was held at the Business Men's Club on
February 4. The meeting was a strictly busi-
ness affair.

By the collapse of a scaffold which the men
themselves had constructed, .T. A. Cook was
killed and Charles M. Noble and Alonzo Secher,
carpenters, were injured at the new mill being
erected by C. Crane & Co. The men fell forty
feet, landing on a pile of timber.

The Thomas Kelsall Company, large manufac-
turer of office furniture, was visited by fire
recently and the plant almost totally destroyed.
The total loss on building, stock and machinery
is estimated at $75,000.

Harry D. Reimeier of the Reimeier Lumber
Company is the proud father of a baby boy that
recently arrived at the Reimeier homestead.

Chattanooga.

Snodgrass & Field, the largest producers of
poplar in this market, whose mill was burned
last fall, have met with considerable opposition
in getting a permit to rebuild on their old loca-
tion. They are now rebuilding and will have
a new mill in operation before a great while
unless some other complications arise. Recently
a number of citizens residing near the plant of
this concern filed a bill in the chancery court
alleging that the plant is a nuisance because of
danger to fire, the smoke, odors, etc. The court,
however, dissolved the injunction, requiring Snod-
grass & Field to give bond in the sum of $20,000
to indemnify these citizens against any loss by
tire. The concern has commenced the erection
of the new mill, but the city has now taken
action to have its property condemned for street
purposes. The Bluff View Land Company owns
land in that vicinity which it proposes to de-
velop, and ii is understood that it wants streets
extended through the property of Snodgrass &
Field.

Fred Arn of the J. M. Card Lumber Company
recently attended the meeting of the National
Hardwood Exporters' Association at Norfolk,
Va. J. M. Card, president of the company, is
on a business trip through the South.

Capt. A. J. Gahagan of the Loomis & Hart
Manufacturing Company, one of the busiest lum-
bermen in this city and one of Chattanooga's
most enterprising citizens, attended the meeting
of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association at
Memphis on January 29 and 30. Captain Ga-
hagan is one of the leading members of the
new county court, being chairman of the finance
committee.

T. W. Brazelton, a lumber broker of this city,
recently filed a bill In bankruptcy, giving his
liabilities at about $4,000.

A. J. Garrett of Page-Bull & Co. of London,
England, was a recent visitor among the lum-
bermen of this city.

Nashville.

After twenty-five years' association with the
well known Trewitt-Spurr Manufacturing Com-
pany, John N. Baskette, general manager and
secretary and treasurer, has severed his con-
nection with the company and will at once
establish the Helena Woodenware Company at
Helena, Ark. This new enterprise represents an
investment of $50,000 and will manufacture
candy and oyster buckets and lard tubs. Mr.
Baskette will continue to live in Nashville, al-
though he will be in Helena most of the time.
The Prewitt Spurr Manufacturing Company
which he is leaving operates the only red cedar
bucket factory in the world. T. H. Estes has
been appointed treasurer in Mr. Baskette's
place : the general manager has not yet been
named

The grand jury of Davidson county has re-
turned five indictments against Jim Miller and
John Dodd, charging each with housebreaking
and larceny. These cases grow out of the cut-
ting of a number of fine rafts of timber loose
from their moorings in the river just above
Nashville. The prosecutors in the indictments
are Davidson & Benedict, Liebermau, Loveman &
O'Brien, the Standard Lumber & Box Company
and the Nashville Tie &, Pole Company. The
defendants cut five rafts loose that contained
about $20,000 worth of timber and then sold the
ropes with which the logs had been tied.

Arthur B. Ransom of the firm of John B.
Ransom & Co. has been appointed by President
Douglas of the Board of Trade as. a member of
the transportation committee of that organiza-
tion. This is one of the most important com-
mittees of the organization.

The railroad commission of Tennessee has
just taken a step that will be of interest to
every lumber dealer in the state. The commis-
sion has addressed letters to every railroad in
the state, stating the public is complaining of
delays on account of car shortage, and informa-
tion is asked concerning delays in moving freight
from initial points and delays on the roads. The
commission desires to know if the delays are
attributable to the car shortage alone or to the
general industrial conditions that have produced
freight for shipment in excess of the capacity of
the railroads to handle it. They ask further if
the conditions are due to shortage of cars alone
or to a shortage of engines and tracks as well.
The railroads are asked what steps they have
taken or are taking looking to the relief of their
patrons. President Finley of the Southern was
the first to reply, and he states that his road
has already placed orders for thousands of new
cars.

The Louisville & Nashville railroad has noti-
fied the Tennessee river packet lines that it will
not receive any more lumber from river packets
consigned to St. Louis and Chicago. The general
shortage of cars and the heavy business in other
lines are given as the reasons for the discon-
tinuance of such hauls.

One of the biggest suits heard by the supreme
court of Tennessee at the present term was that
of John B. Ransom & Co. for the use of a num-
ber of insurance companies against the North
Carolina & St. Louis railway. The insurance
companies are suing the railroad to recover more
than $100,000 they paid when the Ransom lum-
ber yards burned several years ago. They are
merely using the name of the lumber company
for the purpose of suing in proper form. They
claim the yards were tired by sparks from one
of the company's passing engines.

A special from Benton, Tenn., announces that
Pennsylvania capitalists have purchased the
Parmientier timber lands near there for a con-
sideration of about $100,000. The tracts com-
prise some 30,000 acres. A spur track is to be
run from the new portion of the Louisville &
Nashville to the mouth of Greasy creek, a dis-
tance of twenty-eight miles, and tapping the
heart of this lumber region.

The work of installing the buggy stock and
handle plant of Muesse Bros. & Grant Lumber
Company of St. Louis in the old Rhyne mill
near Clifton is under way. The company claims
to have located enough hickory nearby to run
the plant ten years.

O. G. Fitzgerald of Clifton, Tenn., has bought
a tract of hickory timber lands containing half
a million feet on Hardin's creek, and is erecting
a mill on the site for the purpose of manufac-
turing carriage stock.

A special from Bolivar, Tenn., announces that
the Ward-Kent Company of Greenfield has pur-
chased a tract of 3,000 acres of elm and gum
timber for $20,000.

Several northern capitalists have visited Char-
lotte, Tenn., within the past few days looking
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of locating a wagon and buggy factory there.

The Hartzell Handle Company of Shelby
county has been granted a charter with a capital
stock of $10,000. The incorporators are Irvin
Hartzell, B. W. Marr, .T. \V. Canada, L. B. Me
I-'arland and A. L. Foster.

Memphis.
Secretary E. M. Terry of the National Lumber
Exporters' Association, which had headquarters
in Memphis during the past year, has removed to
Baltimore, where they -will be maintained in
future. He had been here only a year but made
many warm friends during that period. Former
President W. H. Russe, in speaking of what was
accomplished at the annual meeting at Norfolk,
said that the association placed itself strongly
on record in favor of equalization of rates
through the various southern and eastern ports
on export lumber traffic, a thing which has been
impossible since the new rate law went into
effect late last August. Mr. Russe says that
the forcing of all lumber exports through New
Orleans is Injurious to the trade because result-
ing in delay and congestion.

The American Car &. Foundry Company at
Binghamton, a suburb of Memphis, is making
excellent headway in the production of cars, its
output during January having broken all rec-
ords, averaging, including Sundays, sixteen and
one-half cars per day. This is one of the lar-
gest woodworking plants in this section and its
activity has no small bearing on the hardwood
situation.

The American Hardwood Lumber Company of
St. Louis has opened a buying agency here in
the Randolph building, in charge of It. B.
O'Leary.

The E. Sondheimer Company has brought suit
against the Rock Island system for the purpose
of restraining the latter from removing a quan-
tity of rails loaded at Heth, Ark., by Isaac Wil-
liams, on the ground that the rails are the
property of the complainant and have been re-
moved from their place on a narrow gauge rail-
road, used for logging purposes, without right or
authority.

The Howard County Lumber Company is put-
ting in a large hardwood plant at Dial, Ark.
The machinery is on the ground and the plant
will soon be ready for operation.

Dispatches from Perryville, Ark., are to the
effect that Reynolds & Quenliven have sold their
sawmill west of that place to Leo Patterson and
that Thomas Reynolds has been engaged as
manager of the business.

The owners of the Fremont Lumber Company
at Farmerville, Ark., have decided to build a
road from their mill that will connect with the
road running through that place with a view of
facilitating the handling of their output.

The Ayer & Lord Tie Company of Chicago,
which is under contract for supplying large
quantities of ties and bridge timbers for the
Rock Island system in Arkansas and other
states, has purchased a site of 120 acres for the
purpose of erecting thereon a large plant to be
used in treating by chemical process the mate-
rial used in the manufacture of these products.
The site is located near the central portion of
Arkansas and when completed will be the sec-
ond largest in the country.

The Sowell Lumber Company at Marked Tree,
Ark., of which E. E. Lee Wilson of Memphis is
president, has authorized the construction of a
line of railway about twenty miles south to
Earle, Ark., for the purpose of facilitating the
handling of its output. The new road will be
an extension of the Marked Tree & Southern
railway and connection will be established di-
rect with the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & South-
ern into Memphis.

C. C. Cameron, who has been prominent in
the southern freight department of the Illinois
Central for some time, has been promoted to
the head of the freight traffic department of
that road, with headquarters in Chicago.

The first main mill building of the Ford-
Johnson chair manufacturing plant at Helena,
Ark., is now being rushed to completion. The
company has already purchased about 1,000,000
feet of lumber.

The following have been received into mem-
bership in the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis,
thus bringing the total to 102, the largest in
the history of the organization : D. P. Mann,
C. R. Ransom, E. E. Sweet and V. I. Williams
of Clarksdale, Miss.

The fact that the Lumbermen's club of Mem-
phis is composed of members of the 'National
Hardwood Lumber Association to the extent of
00 per cent brought forth frequent expressions
to the effect that the officials of the Hardwood
Manufacturers' Association builded better than
they knew when they acepted the invitation of
Memphis to hold a convention here. Develop-
ments making for peace between the two associ-
ations and for universal inspection were very
striking, the addresses of President Wilms and
President Kttsse, leaders of the two organiza-
tions, sounding the keynote that may be fol-
lowed with resultant harmonious amalgamation
and universal inspection.

The flood situation is one of the absorbing
topics of conversation among lumber interests
and especially among those lumber and wood-
working companies in North Memphis whose
plants have been forced to suspend operations
and whose stock is being damaged by the enor-
mous volume of backwater in that stream re-
sulting from the record breaking stage reached
here this week by the Mississippi. The gauge
here Sunday showed a level of 40.3 feet. The
levees are holding well and there is less danger
of these breaking than for some days. The river
has begun to fall here and the pressure is rap-
idly being relieved to some extent. There is a
very serious handicap to many mills in eastern
Arkansas in the fact that there is so much back-
water from the various rivers and smaller
streams in that section. Some of them are
closed down now and will not be able to resume
operations until there has been a decided de-
crease in the volume of water.

The rise will have the effect of further delaj
ing logging, interfering with the supply of tim-
ber and preventing operations on anything like
a normal scale. The woods of this entire dis-
trict and especially those in the lowlands are
either covered with water or too soft to admit
of the cutting or hauling of timber. There is
very little timber in hand now and prospective
supply is much reduced.

Minneapolis.

Minneapolis lumbermen interested in Wiscon
sin hardwood mills report that because of the
recent heavy snows logging operations will be
hindered for some weeks. Up to a. week or so
ago they had enjoyed fairly good weather for
logging, but the snows have made considerable
trouble. P. R. Hamilton and W. H. Sill of the
Minneapolis Lumber Company and the Ruby
Lumber Company have returned from Ruby,
Wis., and they say they have little dry stock
left, and that is going fast. The output of the
Ruby mill in most lines has been sold for the
coming year.

C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, Minneapo-
lis, has gone south for an extended trip, expect-
ing to be gone two weeks. He will first visit
two brothers whom he has not seen in several
years, living near Chandler. Okla., and will go
from there to Arkansas and Tennessee, looking
over the hardwood situation in that part of the
,,,ui,try, and returning up the Mississippi val-
ley, stopping at Erie, 111., where the firm owns
a retail lumber yard. Mr. Osborne says thai
they have been having a surprisingly heavj de
mand for lumber in the past week or two, and
that dry stocks are going fast.

The F. W. Buswell Lumber & Manufacturing
Company has secured the services of N. K. Hen-
derson as superintendent of the mill at Buswell,

Wis. Mr. Henderson is an experienced mill
superintendent. He recently returned from a
timber estimating expedition to the Bahamas,
where several Minnesota lumbermen have se-
cured timber limits.

E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lum-
ber Company has returned from a trip into
southern territory, where he was negotiating for,
some oak lumber. George S. Agnew is still in
that section of country looking up stocks.

F. J. Lang, representative of the Wisconsin
Land & Lumber Company of Hermansville.
Mich., who is maintaining headquarters here for
a while, reports that the company has recently
made three large purchases of hardwood logs.
One lot of several million feet was secured from
the William Mueller company at Blany, Mich.,
one of a million and a half feet from the White
Marble Lime Company of Manistique, Mich., and
a million and a quarter from the Bay de Noquet
company. Nehma, Mich. These will help out the

npany's supply of logs, which has been made

:essary by the demand for their flooring and

other specialties.

R. H. Orinsted, manager of the hardwood de-
partment of the Pacific Fir Company, is back
from a short business trip to Milwaukee and
other Wisconsin points.

E. H. Trump, with the Thomas & Proetz Lum-
ber company of St. Louis, was a visitor here a
few days ago. He offers an exceptionally wide
line of southern stock, including oak, ash. maple,
birch, cherry, hickory, gum, poplar and cotton-
wood.

Wausau.
Messrs. W. C. Zachow. Joseph Black, Aug.
Anderson, A. Kuckuk, J. F. Gallagher and others
of Shawans have gone to Louisiana to look over
timber lands they have secured an option on.
These lands comprise some 5,000 acres covered
mostly with oak.

The Lloyd Manufacturing Company of Mari-
nette has been incorporated with $400,000 cap-
ital. The incorporators are Franklin A. Dlm-
stead, John Henes, C. I. Cook, Warren S. Car-
penter and Marshall B. Lloyd. Furniture,
wheeled vehicles and hardwood novelties will
be manufactured.

The Spalding Lumber Company recently sold
25,000 acres of timber lands in northern Wis-
consin and Michigan to the Cedar River Land
Company. The consideration was $129,000.

The Nash Lumber Company of Shanagoiden
will in the future saw nothing but hardwood
lumber. It has disposed of its other stocks to
the Foster-Latimer Lumber Company of Mellen.
C. F. Stewart of Vassar, Mich., will start a
dowel pin factory in operation in Tomahawk,
Wis. For the past year he has been perfecting
machinery for the manufacture of that stock.

A satisfactory settlement to till parties was
made in the circuit court in Wood county last
week of a civil suit entitled 1'. II. Johnson vs.
the Marshfield Land & Lumber Company and
the tlpham Manufacturing Company. In the
summer of 1906 the defendant companies gave
an option on hardwood lands in Lincoln and
Taylor counties to J. S. Crosby of Greenville,
Mich., at a price of $500,000. Crosby trans-
ferred the option to F. II. Johnson of Rhine-
lander and while the latter was engaged in
looking over the lands, he claimed, they were
sold to the Copper River Land Company for
$600,000. He claimed the lands were worth at
least Sl.000,000 and he brought suit to recover
the difference between the option price and that
amount or to compel the transfer of the lands
to him in consideration of the payment of the
option price. It was the largest civil suit ever
brought in Wisconsin. The purchasing company
has .acquired veneer mills, and much of the
,- on the lands involved will be cut into
veneer.

The newly incorporated Stange-Ellis Lumber
Company of Grand Rapids has purchased the
saw mill, office, etc., of the Grand Rapids Luiu-

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ber Company. In addition to this a factory
120x100 feet will be built in the spring and a
warehouse 60x100 feet, both two stories.

Aside from the scarcity of labor, logging oper-
ations were never more favorable in northern
Wisconsin than at present.

The Wisconsin Box Company and the Wausau
Land Company, both Wausau concerns, have
consolidated under the firm name of the first
mentioned. The capital stock has been increased
to $210,000. With the transfer of the latter
company's stock is included 10,000 acres of
timber lands. The box company, in addition to
manufacturing all kinds of boxes, deals largely
in hardwood lumber, dressed and undressed.

Fifteen miles of railroad will be built in the
vicinity of Athens for the purpose of giving an
outlet to millions of feet of timber which will
be cut, hauled to and sawed in the Upham mill
in Marshfield.

The E. E. Winch stave and heading plant in
Clark county has been purchased by Messrs.
McBride and Montague of Cairo. 111.

Ashland.

The Southern Timber Land & Mineral Com-
pany of Nashville has bought from the Conti-
nental Realty Company 52,000 acres of coal and
timber lands in Breathitt, Knox and Perry coun-
ties, Kentucky, for sums ranging from $800,000
to $1,000,000. The land involved in the deal
lies principally on the proposed extension of
the Louisville & Nashville railroad and is the
richest land in coal and timber in eastern Ken-
tucky's mountains. The Commercial Realty
Company will invest the money made on this
sale in other eastern Kentucky coal and timber
lands. The purchasing cbrnpany will clear the
land of its timber and establish large sawmills
on the tracts as they are cleared.

A company has been formed at West Liberty.
Morgan county, to begin at once the develop-
ment of timber and coal tracts, with a capital
of $300,000. Delaware people are at the head
of the company, which owns about 5,000 acres
of land in Morgan county, containing several
million feet of oak, poplar, hemlock and ash
timber. The company will build a large sawmill
to handle the timber.

Henry Osborn, a timberman of Catlettsburg,
Ky., 'died lately from pneumonia, contracted in
taking up logs during the late rise. Mr. Osborn
was 38 years old. He leaves a wife and two
children.

The January high water caused the loss of
much property to West Virginia timbermen.
The Elk Lick lumber railway sustained a loss
of $2,000 in damage done to their trestles. The
Otter Creek mill lost about $1,000 in "damaged
trestles and lumber washed away. The mills
along Dry Fork were also heavy losers.

A fine son has arrived at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. T. N. Fannin.

Charleston, W. Va.

The recent heavy tide brought out consider-
able timber, but nearly all of it belongs to the
mills in Ashland and vicinity. Even with the
present supply stocks of poplar are exceedingly
short and nearly all mills have all the orders
they can handle for some time to come. Wide
panel and No. 1 poplar are bringing top prices,
with very little on hand.

Low-grade poplar suitable for crating and
boxes is out of the market, being shipped out
just as fast as sufficient quantity to make a car-
load accumulates.

Good oak and chestnut are in active demand.

Among recent visitors to this section were
John H. Jenks and J. L. Sands of the Robert H.
.Tenks Lumber Company and W. A. Cool and
E. L. French of W. A. Cool & Son, Cleveland.
Ohio.

W. M. Ritter of Columbus, accompanied by
Harry Derne, superintendent of the Panther op-
erations of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company,
passed through Charleston recently, after a trip
to the Raleigh plant.

Toledo.

Ben Johnson has taken the management of
the T. H. Clark Lumber Company at Mount Ver-
min. O., for the J. M. Hastings Lumber Company
of Pittsburg. Mr. Johnson was formerly in
charge of the Toledo business for the Chicago
Coal & Lumber Company of St. Louis.

Ulysses Brout of Leatherwood, O., owner of
sawmill interests, was killed by a tree falling
nil him January 20 while sawing timber near
Stryker, O.

F. I. Reynolds and W. E. Reynolds of Win-
throp, Me., were recently in this section inspect-
ing handle factories with a view to erecting a
factory in Maine to cut from a big tract in that
state. They reported that ash can be purchased
for one third what it can here.

Watson Hubbard, aged 88 years, who a half
century ago went to the frontier to develop
Michigan timber lands, died on January 31 at
his residence in Sandusky, O.

The plant of the old Miami Planing Mill Com-
pany, which has been occupied for some time
by the Ephart Lumber Company, has been leased
by J. P. McAfee, who will organize a new com-
pany to operate the plant.

The Spencerville Hoop Company recently pur-
chased a tract of elm timber north of Delpbos,
O., paying $3,000.

The Lumbermen's Bureau of Credit Company
held its annual meeting and banquet on the 201 h
of last month. Fourteen local concerns were
represented at the meeting, the banquet table at
the Valentine Cafe seating twenty-eight. There
was no change in the official board of the com-
pany.

C. L. Barnes left, on the 4th for a trip to the
Pacific coast. The concern of Barnes & Mauk is
a big dealer in cedar shingles.

G. B. Stine was home for a few days this
week from Belcher, Ark. On his return trip he
was accompanied by his wife and two children,
who will remain in the Southwest for some
time.

Elisha Sarnes, of Elmore, O., has sold his
sawmill to E. II. Fall of Port Clinton, O.

B. F. Wagoner has decided to remove his
sawmill at Milton Center, O., to Virginia, where
he has large timber interests.

S. T. Winegardner has sold his lumber yard,
planing mill and sawmill at Harrod, O., to S.
B. Miller.

G. W. Fox & Co. wil open a new planing mill
at Forest, O., also enlarging their yard facili-
ties.

Calvin Spitler has been appointed receiver of
the property of A. Bruner & Sons at Tiffin.
Gibsonburg, Napoleon and Defiance, this state,
and Newport, Mich.

The Price Lumber Company of Fremont, O..
elected the following officers at its annual meet-
ins; a couple of weeks ago: President, George
Wehrung ; vice president, A. H. Jackson ; treas-
urer, J. M. Sherman : secretary, J. Youngman ;
manager, L. S. McGormley.

HardWood Market.

fields for supplies for spring business. In fact,
more effort is being made to supplement depleted
stocks than to sell. The prevailing opinion con-
cerning the demand for the coming season is
that it will be the strongest buying year, at the
highest prices, that the hardwood industry has
ever known.

Boston.

The hardwood market in this vicinity is not
active, yet in the aggregate the volume of
new business is fair. Prices are firm. Many
buyers who have been holding out of the mar-
ket for several weeks are now making inquiries
and few are refusing to buy when good dry
stock is offered, although in some instances
they feel that prices are too high to permit of
Imying in a large way in anticipation of their
wants. Furniture manufacturers are fairly
busy and are constantly in the market for sup-
plies. Manufacturers of house finish are also
busy.

The principal feature of this market is ash.
Prices have materially advanced of late under
a good demand and short supplies. The lar-
gest handlers of white ash report that the de-
mand exceeds the supply. But little one inch
stock can be had at less than $55 and two-inch
stock and larger is even firmer. The call for
brown ash is also good with prices firm, due
to small offerings of desirable stock. Wbitewood
is another wood showing increased strength.
Several buyers are considering using substitutes
for this wood, owing to the high level of val-
ues. Stocks are small on spot, and offerings of
dry stock from mills are not large. There is a
very fair call for basswood. Western white
pine is exceedingly firm and prices are advanc-
ing. A fair call for mahogany is reported.
Cypress is firm with the demand fair. Plain
oak is moving in a moderate way. Quotations
for one-inch, ones and twos, range from $55
to $57. Offerings are not large and dealers
show no disposition to make concessions in
order In secure orders. Quartered oak remains
firm, on a higher level ; one-inch is quoted at
$80 i" $85, according to shipper. Elm is not
active. Maple is in moderate request.

(By HARDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Reporters.)

months that the Chicago call for hardwoods
in nearly all varieties has not been active. IIow-
ever, the lull is only temporary, and with good
weather a continued strong demand is certain.
Local dealers are hustling in all the producing

Chicago.

The heavy snows and stormy weather of the

last few days have contributed materially to the

lessening of the hardwood demand locally. As

a matter of fact, it is the first time in many

New York.

Local hardwood conditions continue strong and
reports indicate a strong and active market,
including the usual spring trade. The salient
feature continues to be the shortage in supplies
of the better grades of hardwoods, with prices
accordingly bullish. During the past thirty
days prices on the better grades have moved up
from $1 to $3 per thousand, due to the scarcity
at mill points and the consequent opportunity
for good profits. Buyers returning home all
bring the same story of short stocks and high
prices, the only accumulation of stocks being
due to inability to move them, but mill points
are practically cleaned up of unsold stock.
Those local dealers and buyers of hardwoods
who have been farsighted enough to accumulate
their winter and spring wants are congratulat-
ing themselves, for there is a large demand still
unfilled.

The conditions above noted are particularly
striking in connection with poplar, oak, ash,
chestnut and birch, in all of which the move-
ment is such as to keep stocks in shipping con-
dition absorbed pretty much to the limit. But
perhaps the best feature of the situation is the
fact that current conditions are not fictitious in
any sense, but are due to weather conditions
which have long been decidedly unfavorable to
securing timber. Poplar is particularly scarce.
Ash is practically out of the market, and the
balance of the list is ruling very firm, with good
call all along the line. Maple, which has been
sluggish for some time past, is showing increased
activity, and thick stock from three inches up
is going to be a mighty scarce article between
now and spring. The whole situation is in
very good shape for this season of the year.

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Philadelphia.
There has been general activity in the hard-
wood business for the last fortnight. All wood-
working concerns are anxious to obtain dry
stink. Prices are hrni and stocks are light.
Railroad service is invariably deficient and there
is nothing to indicate a change. Poplar con-
tinues in front rank, and ash and chestnut are
guoted among the leaders. A considerable call
[or basswood is noted; cherry is doing well,
and all grades of oak apparently sustain t lie
activity which lias lately characterized them.
Flooring manufacturers seem to have no diffi-
culty in disposing of their product, maple espe-
cially being in firm demand. Both in flooring
and interior finish there has been a noticeable
call for the high grades of all kinds of hard-
woods, in this movement poplar and quar-
tered oak have shared to a considerable degree.
Furniture ana wood Implement factories still
continue to take large quantities of the woods
sold in this market. The erection of numerous
large buildings requiring the best grades of
interior finish is a constant stimulus to sales of
that commodity, and permits for buildings for
spring erection are a sufficient guarantee for
another big year in this line. Veneer and cigar
box manufacturers are rushed to the limit, and
trolley and railroad building show no let up.
It is noticeable that numerous firms, which
formerly were exclusive handlers of softwoods,
are now making extensive preparations to handle
hardwoods.

Baltimore.
There has been, no Improvement in the lumber
situation the past two weeks. Bad weather and
floods have greatly interfered with sawmill oper-
ations, while car shortage and a bad condition
of the roads have prevented distribution, with
the result that stocks at points of consumption
are decidedly low and the users of hardwoods
are unable to get supplies in desired quantities.
High quotations are current and in not a few
instances, even when an intending buyer agrees
to pay what the seller asks, he is not sure of
having his wants filled, at least not without
more or less protracted delay, so that the figures
given do not always bear an accurate relation
to the trade. Slocks at the mills are reported
to be low, various conditions having combined to
check production. The manufacturers are mak-
ing every possible effort to get out lumber, but
they meet numerous obstacles and there is not
likely to be an adequate offering of supplies for
-Mine time to come. Meanwhile the inquiry re-
mains active, all the dealers here being unani-
mous in the expression of the belief that the
trade will remain good and that there will be
an opportunity to dispose of stocks in any quan-
tity which can be turned out. The recent floods,
which are just about subsiding, have compli-
cated matters, large numbers of logs having
been washed away and many mills put out of
commission for the ' time being, though these
plants are generally located on elevated ground
and did not suffer by reason of the high water.
The roads are in such a condition that hauling
is impossible and weeks are likely to elapse. be-
fore a marked improvement can be expected.
As Jar as can be learned the trade requirements
are certain to continue large, so that business
will be brisk even after the mills are once more
in a position to turn out a maximum of stocks.
There is such a shortage of output at the pres-
ent time that much lumber will be needed to fill
the channels of trade to a normal extent. Fop-
lar continues in fine shape, with values rather
higher than otherwise, and the market decidedly
receptive. Buyers are out again scouring the
mill sections, and the lumber is snapped up
wherever it can be found. The exporters state
that business with them in quiet, and they do
not expect a marked increase in activity until
some of the present drawbacks are overcome.
The range of values Is fair, and under ordinary
circumstances the shipments might be expected
to attain a relatively large volume.

Pittsburg.

If the year 1907 does not prove to be the
banner twelve months' period in the history of
hardwoods in Greater Pittsburg, the judgment
of every wholesaler in this city is at fault. The
demand for hardwood lumber of all kinds is

going to I Mutinous. On every hand firms are

trying to replenish their stocks of lumber or to
buy more timber near their present operations,
or where it can be easily reached by railroad.

I he shortage in stocks is apparent in nearly
every line of hardwoods, due to the fearfully
I. ail roads that have prevailed for weeks in the
South and West, Wholesalers say that sound
wormy chestnut and elm are very hard to obtain
and that all kinds of chestnut, or in fact any
hardwoods that go into the making of boxes,
are practically out of market. Birch and cherry
are in excellent demand and are bringing a fancy
price in many instances. King of all hardwoods
in the market is oak. It matters not what kind,
just so it is oak, and every man in the city who
pretends to handle oak is worrying day and
night how and where to supply his customers.
In the face of this demand it is not strange
that prices are advancing.

Building lags fearfully this month. This ap-
plies only to the city. In all the outlying towns
there is a big movement in house building. Add
to this the enormous activity that is manifest
in the building of railroads and traction lines
and the large amount of work that is being done
on the local rivers and It makes a mighty satis-
factory volume of inquiry for hardwoods. Then.
too, the industrial plants within a radius of 100
miles of Greater Pittsburg are enlarging their
capacity and other concerns are building new
plants — conditions that call for much hardwood
lumber. The manufacturers of furniture and
vehicles and implements were never so busy and
me calling upon the Pittsburg wholesalers to
furnish a lot of the hardwood lumber they use.

Buffalo.

There is all of the former activity in the
hardwood lumber trade, so that there is fear
that it will not last till I lie new cut is in,
oak and maple especially being low for the time
of year. Oak does not come in as it should and
it promises to be slow all year, on account of
the bad logging weather south, so that prices
are very strong here and the outlook not as
pleasing as it might be.

There is all possible effort to get all sorts of
hardwood lumber in from the South. About
the scarcest lumber that used to be plenty is
poplar, so that the trade has about given up
the receipt of a good supply of logs at southern
mills. There is a little better supply of cars
from the South now, but it is not easy to keep
lumber moving at a good rate, for the roads
are slower than ever before after the cars are
loaded and they do not promise to do much bet-
ter right away.

There has been a big movement of birch both
in and out of Buffalo yards of late, and if the
supply is a trifle low now there is said to be
enough to come in to make up for it. Birch
has been a great help to the trade in general,
as it takes the place of so many other woods
thai have run short.

Buffalo is doing very well still in the building
line and promises to use rather more hardwood
lumber than formerly. Hardwood dealers say
that the move of the retail dealers to stop re-
tailing by the wholesalers does not hit them to
any extent, as they sell almost exclusively in
car lots to eastern customers. This city has
always been so hard to classify into wholesale
and retail interests that it has been pretty well
left alone in that respect, everybody selling
about as he pleased.

in the woods. There isn't a large stock of dry
lumber available. Two or three are carrying a
good deal, but both manufacturers and dealers
as a rule are carrying small stocks. The old
trouble of shortage of cars affects some opera-
tors. Basswood, No. 2 common, is quoted at
$25 to $28, and mill culls are worth $18. Elm
is quite firm at $22 to $29, and mill culls are
quoted at $13 and $14. Log run beech is held
at $13 and No. 2 birch is $20 and $25. Maple
firsts and seconds are firm at $24 ; No. 1 com-
mon. $17 and $18; No. 2, $11 or $12. Ash Is
si ion;; at $30 and red oak $35.

Indianapolis.

The hardwood market is especially active Just
now, the furniture factories of this and adjoin-
ing cities taking all that can be supplied as
quickly as they can get it. There is a general
shortage of hardwoods, which the local men are
at a loss to understand. The greatest shortage
is iu oak, walnut and heavy ash, although there
is not enough of any of the other hardwoods.
With the opening of spring the market is ex-
pected to become still more active, with a
slight raise in prices. At present, so far as
prices are concerned, the market is about sta-
tionary. There is, of course, the usual car short-
age, although this does not seem as bad as it
has been in past months. The reason for this is
that lumbermen are loading the same cars upon
which they receive consignments, and thus keep
the cars in service all of the time. What car
shortage there is is said to be due to the fact
that the railroad yards iu Indianapolis are
filled with broken down and disabled cars, while
the railroad repair shops are also filled to their
full capacity.

Because of the recent high waters, rather seri-
ous conditions prevail at Evansville, according
to Young &' Cutsiuger of that city. The market
for all kinds of hardwood lumber is good, with
quartered white oak, poplar and ash in the lead.
Foreign buyers are clamoring for oak strips.
although they do not seem to want to pay the
prices prevailing. Prices on all kinds of lumber
arc still soaring and it is said that there is no
telling where they will stop. It is believed.
however, that when they reach the highest point
there will be a reaction. Evansville mills are
about out of logs and will probably have to
close down soon unless dry weather intervenes
to let them get logs to run their mills.

Saginaw Valley.
The market continues strong and featureless.
For the- present trade is fully satisfactory and
some large lots have been sold, which are still

Asheville.

Prices of hardwood in western North Carolina
remain firm and the dealers are enjoying a good
sen son. The demand for poplar is greater than
for months past and the price of this wood has
increased since the close of the past year. The
price of chestnut and oak remains practically
unchanged. The same price prevails that has
"II lined for the past ninety days. The good
weather in this section during January has re-
sulted in the getting out of much wood. The
demand, however, is still greater than the sup-
ply, and the hardwood men say that there is
only a limited supply of choice wood to be had.
The serious car shortage is practically at an
end. While in instances the lumbermen are
unable to secure an adequate supply of "empties"
ye1 as a whole the supply is almost equal to the
demand.

Bristol.

The past fortnight has seen little or no change
in lumber trade conditions in this section. An
appreciable improvement is noted in the car
conditions within the past few weeks, in fact
since the advent of the new year. This increase
in supply of this class of railroad equipment is,
however, regarded as more or less temporary
and due to local conditions. The improvement
is more apparent on the Virginia & Southwestern
than any other of the roads. There has been
little or no improvement in the conditions on
the Southern. The improvement which, as above

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stated, is regarded as temporary, is attributable,
doubtless, to the decrease in shipping generally
during the months of January and February,
the most inactive of the year.

A heavy demand exists for all kinds of stock,
especially oak, poplar and chestnut.

Cincinnati.

While some loss was sustained by various
lumber concerns here by the recent flood, it will
in the near future benefit them, as much lumber
will be required for repairs on buildings that
were damaged by the water.

The demand for hardwoods continues excel-
lent, the main trouble being the difficulty to get
enough lumber to supply the inquiry. Poplar
heads the list, and despite the advance made
some weeks ago large sales are being made.
Oak is the next most desired in this market, and
large dealers say that prices are being held at
a firm range. A number of transactions are
being made in cypress, chestnut, mahogany and
sycamore at firm prices. Cottonwood, basswood
and gum are going a lively pace. Taking every-
thing into consideration, the hardwood market
is at its best, and with the advent of spring
a record breaking trade will undoubtedly result.
Little lumber is being put into stock ; most of
it has a ready sale as soon as it leaves the
mills.

Chattanooga.

There has been no material change in lumber
conditions in the Chattanooga market during
Hi'1 past thirty days other than increased de-
mand, and higher prices are being offered. The
trouble in this market just now is shortage of
stock, and very few of the* mills or lumber yards
have any considerable surplus in shipping con-
dition. There seems to be no holding up in
local building operations, consequently all kinds
of lumber required for building purposes are
finding ready sale and at high prices.

Poplar has been scarce here for the past
twelve months and stocks have been nothing like
what they were during former years. Each
year shows not only smaller amount of poplar
cut, but a greater percentage of the lower grades.
The Loomis & Hart Manufacturing Company,
the H. L. Judd Company and the Central Manu-
facturing Company are the only river mills now
in operation here, and each of these mills has
only a limited supply of logs.

The continued wet weather during the last
six months of 1906 very much hindered logging
operations on the Tennessee river and tributaries
above Chattanooga. Logs now have to be hauled
as a rule a long distance, over bad roads, as a
result of rain, which makes it very expensive
and inconvenient to haul heavy loads from the
timber to the river.

Again, the great scarcity of standing limber
is becoming more apparent each year, conse-
quently there are not nearly so many people
engaged in the logging business as formerly.
The year 1907 will show the shortest supply of
logs by river of any year since 1S80.

Chestnut is in good demand. The coffin man-
ufacturers are finding trouble in buying chestnut
at satisfactory prices to meet their wants. There
is considerable oak handled in Chattanooga, but
the bulk of it is used right here. The furniture
manufacturers and other woodworking enter-
prises take a very large percentage of what is
offered, and at prices as a rule satisfactory. Of
low grades of poplar, basswood and gum the box
manufacturers take everything that is offered.

Wagon manufacturers are all the time on
the lookout for poplar box boards. The great
scarcity of this grade of poplar has made it
necessary to substitute tupelo gum, cypress, etc.,
but nothing has yet been found to as fully
meet this demand as does poplar. Wide poplar
stock is almost entirely out of the market.
Boards 30 inches and up in width are now
bringing fancy prices. There is a good deal
of elm, gum and water birch, which are being

used for a good many commercial purposes, and
stocks are rapidly being exhausted. The furni-
ture manufacturers and car builders are among
the greatest users of oak. Ash is still very
popular in many lines of work and the supply
is very limited.

Nashville.

Nashville lumbermen have been taking advan-
tage of the recent cold spell to wind up their
stock taking and closing out of accounts tor the
year that has just passed. " A glance backwards
shows the year just passed was a most pros-
perous one. The shortage in stocks and car
shortage was in a measure compensated for by
good prices. Little relief is expected in the near
future in the car situation, as the fertilizer
movement is on now and that is being given
the right of way.

The river is low just now and the movement
in new stock is rather slow. During the recent
high water, however, considerable timber was
brought down the Cumberland. A good spring
trade is anticipated by all dealers. Prices re-
main firm and there is a steady call for all
lines of hardwoods. Nothing seems inclined to
drag and that of itself is taken as an excellent
indication.

is the best they can get for six months and
that prices are not going to get any better.

Toledo.

Memphis.

The demand for hardwood lumber continues
■ v' llent while the volume of business is some-
what restricted by the limited quantity of dry
stock available. The holdings are now the light-
est they have been for years at this season, and
production is likewise small. There is scarcely
an item on the list which is not selling at the
best figure in its history. There is some busi-
ness in export channels, but the bulk of the
lumber from this city and section is going into
domestic consumption.

The call for cottonwood is particularly active.
The call for the lower grades is very persistent,
with offerings limited. The higher grades are
firm but show less strength than the lower. Ash
is strong in all grades, and sales would be much
larger if there were more of it available. Plain
oak is a ready seller in all grades and thick-
nesses and quarter-sawn oak is moving about as
rapidly as the offerings will allow. Gum is in
excellent position. Cypress is holding its own.
the quantity offered being comparatively small.
Poplar sells readily and prices are reported sat-
isfactory.

Minneapolis.

The Northwest is snowed under and has had
some extremely cold weather, a condition which
usually produces stagnation in the lumber trade.
Nevertheless business is active, stocking up for
spring trade being fairly under way. The trade
is evidently aware of the scarcity of dry stock
which exists in all hardwoods except birch, and
even that wood is not anything like as plentiful
as it was. Low grade birch has practically all
been picked up for grain doors, crating, etc.
Basswood is splendid property just now, and
there is not enough in the market to supply the
prospective demand. Culls are almost exhausted
and prices are high.

Everything in dry stock is higher, even birch,
which has advanced on part of the list. Oak is
about cleaned up, and the southern mills are
out of business because of high water and car
shortage, so that the northern stocks remaining
unused have to supply the trade. There is a
good demand for maple flooring, and elm and
ash are both active, but vanishing fast. There
is a big buying movement in progress on the
new cut and a number of mills have already
sold every foot they will produce this year at
good prices. The logging conditions are bad
now because of recent storms and the output
will be somewhat curtailed. Wholesalers are
busy rounding up stocks and already are selling
lumber for summer delivery. Fear of a short-
age is prompting a good many buyers. All
know that the present assortment of dry lumber

The local demand for hardwoods is not strong,
as cold weather has stilled building operations
to a marked degree. On the other hand, the city
filed sixty-two building permits, with a total
valuation of $167,365, during January, as com-
pared with sixty-four permits, with a total valu-
ation of $141,890, for January, 1906. This looks
good for the first month of the year and, while
building operations will not really begin for 6ix
or eight weeks yet, the indications point to big
business when the spring season opens up.

The car shortage proposition is not quite as
serious as it was, and this is permitting local
dealers to get in their stocks in readiness for
the spring rush. Local yards snow stocks quite
low on almost all lines of hardwoods, hut by
the first of the month these stocks will have
been greatly added to. In view of business
being somewhat light, the present stocks of
hardwoods anions the local yards seem to be
sufficient to meet all the demands of the trade.

As to prices, oak quotations are the stiffest.
No local dealer is looking for a decline in any
line. Instead there is a tendency to stiffen the
prices all along the lines. It is rumored that
the carpenters of the city will demand more pay,
which indicates that local interests may have
to deal with the strike Question.

Liverpool.
The mild weather that has been experienced
here during the past few weeks has been a big
drawback to trade. It is a good thing for all
the merchants here that the imports have been
only light or we would never have succeeded
in getting the quays cleared. Good prices are
without doubt being obtained for different kinds
of hardwoods. Oak planks are very valuable
just now, especially if the specifications can
show a good proportion of 15-foot and up. There
is quite a little famine of poplar boards and
prices have considerably advanced. Ash planks
are in demand and we have heard of several
good sales. A large contract has been placed
with one of our leading engineers which will
require a large quantity of 3-inch planks. If
shippers have any to offer let them write or
cable for an order, but do not let them ship on
consignment. The old contracts we mentioned
some weeks ago are still unexecuted ; the latest
excuse for non-delivery we heard was that they
were waiting for cars to load the planks. Cot-
tonwood is firmer, following the lead of white-
wood, but is not in much demand at this mar-
ket. Hickory is better again and we think will
be very scarce before the end of March. Buyers
have been frightened off by the shipments on
consignment, which have been sold at low
prices. Southern hickory, or in fact any wood
with a large proportion of white, would bring
good prices. We are afraid, however, that buy-
ers on contract would be difficult to find, and
we think shippers would be well advised to
ship to a firm of reliable brokers, if such a
thing can be found, and give them instructions
not to sell under a certain limit. The mahogany
sales, as we anticipated, failed to realize the
higher prices we heard of. There is far too
much stock on this side and we will not see
higher for some few months to come. The best
advice we can offer to buyers in the United
States of America is to buy from hand to mouth.

RORLAR

Rough and Dressed

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

M. A. HAYWARD

1021 Saving and Trust Bldg., Columbus, O

HARDWOOD RECORD 51

AT COST

IS AN UNCOMMON TERM AS APPLIED TO INSURANCE

But this is the actual price of Indemnity against Fire Loss furnished by the

Manufacturing

Lumbermen's

Underwriters

THE STRONGEST INSURANCE ORGANIZATION
TO-DAY IN AMERICA

The saving is not on a _ Only well built plants

small portion of J with adequate protection

your insurance but on the W and at least

entire line. I five years timber

There are other advantages / supply are considered

equally interesting. ^> eligible.

FOR LIST OF MEMBERS AND FURTHER INFORMATION, ADDRESS

HARRY RANKIN 4 CO. Kansas City, Mo.

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For two Insertions 36 cents a line

For three insertions 50 cents a line

For tour insertions 60 cents a line

Eight words of ordinary length make one line.
Heading counts as two lines-
No display except the headings can be ad-
mitted.
Remittances to accompany the order. No
extra charges for copies of paper containing
the advertisement.

EMPLOYES WANTED.

WANTED.

Ambitious young men to act as agents for
our fine line of calipers, etc. For particulars
address E. G. SMITH CO., Columbia, Pa.

YOUNG MEN WANTED.

A leading hardwood manufacturing company
wants to engage the services of a number of
ambitious, well educated young men of good
character, from 25 to 35 years old, to learn
various details of lumber manufacturing. Low
salaries at start, but advancement to good po-
sitions certain to worthy workers. Address
"S 76," care Hardwood Record.

MANAGER WANTED

For plant S, 000, 000 feet per annum Cypress
in South Carolina ; must be competent and
worthy ;is treasurer, office manager and handle
sales. Address

"D 39," care Hardwood Record.

SALES DEPT. COEEESPONDENT.

One familiar with Hardwood Flooring de-
tails. None but experienced and high class
desired. Address

"E. J.," care Hardwood Record.

A GOOD SALARY

Is open to an intelligent young man who
can prove he understands selling Hardwood
Flooring. Address with particulars in strict
confidence

"W. G. No. 17," care Hardwood Record.

WANTED.

An experienced man in the handling of
Quartered Oak Veneers to take charge of our
shipping department at Knoxvile, Tenn., mill.
I'll 1 LA. VENEER &. LBR. CO., INC.,

817 N. 5th St., Philadelphia, Pa,

LUMBER WANTED

CHESTNUT WANTED.

Five cars each 4/4, 0/4 and 8/4" Sound
Wormy Chestnut. Quote delivered f. o. b. Cin-
cinnati. DUHLMEIEE BROTHERS,

Cincinnati, O.

YELLOW PINE POLE STOCK

Wanted — From reliable mills who under-
stand how to manufacture No. 1 Pole stock,
clear and straight grain quality, free from all
defects excepting sap.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

BASSWOOD AND POPLAE.

10 carloads Cull and Common Basswood
wanted. Also 5 carloads Poplar.

SHEIP & VANDEGRIFT,
814 N. Lawrence St., l'hila, Fa.

HICKOEY AXLES WANTED.

100.000 ft. 4x5x6 No. 1 Hickory Axles. Can
be shipped green.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

WANTED— DEY CYPEESS.

2x5" and wider, 8 or 16', lsts and 2nds,
selects or sound common.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

BED AND WHITE OAK WANTED.

No. 1 and No. 2 common 4/4 plain in any
quantity you have to offer.

FENN BROS. CO., Memphis, Tenn.

YELLOW PINE CAE MATEEIAL.

Long Leaf Car Sills, Switch Timbers and
Decking wanted, rough or dressed. Also Long
or Short Leaf Car Siding, 1x4 6"-9 or 18', also
10' kiln dried and worked to pattern. Quote
cash price f. o. b. mill.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

OAK AND POPLAE WANTED.

We are in the market for plain and quar-
ter sawed oak and poplar — all thicknesses and
grades. Send list stock. Describe, quote price.
E. BAILEY & SONS, Fatchogue, N. Y.

DEY SOFT YELLOW POPLAE.

All grades and thicknesses, rough or dressed,
wanted. Prompt cash. Willing to contract.
AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

WANTED— HAEDWOOD LOGS.

200,000 ft. 28" and up White Oak logs.
200.000 ft. 12" and up Walnut logs.
50,000 ft. 12" and up Cherry logs.
C. L. WILLEY, 1235 S. Robey St., Chicago.

WHITE ASH WANTED.

50 M ft. 6/4, 75% 1st and 2nds, 25% No.
1 common.

50 M ft. 8/4, 75% 1st and 2nds, 25% No.
1 common.

50 M ft. 3%, 75% 1st and 2nds, 25% No.
1 common.

50 M ft. 4", 75% 1st and 2nds, 25% No. 1
common.

10 M ft. 6x6, 75% 1st and 2nds, 25% No. 1
common.

To be cut and ready to ship on or before
Mav 1. 1907.
AMERICAN LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Fa.

OAK WANTED.

Flaiu White Oak lsts and 2nds, 1", also No.
1 common %", 1" and 2". Make offers f. o. b.
cars Norfolk, Baltimore, New Orleans or other
shipping port, stating quantity and shipment.
Terms cash less 2%. Address

"PLAIN OAK," care Hardwood Record.

ASH DIMENSION STOCK.

One inch stock wanted, in carloads, from
2% to 10" in width and from 10 to 48" in
length. Can use large quantities If properly
gotten out. Stock must be clear and free from
defects. Write us for list.

BELDING-HALL MFG. CO., Belding, Mich.

EOCK ELM WANTED.

150.000' 2% and 3"x5" and wider, C. &
B. Will inspect at point of shipment. We
can use fresh sawn wood. Terms cash less
2 per cent. THE BRADLEY COMPANY,

Hamilton, Ont., Can.

OAK.

We are in the market for plain sawed oak,
all grades and thicknesses.
P. G. DODGE & CO., 2116 Lumber St., Chicago.

OAK WANTED.

3 and 4 inch White Oak; also Mixed Oak;
also 12x12 Timbers and Piling of all kinds.
CONTINENTAL LUMBER CO.,
1213 Monadnock Bldg., Chicago, III.

TIMBER LANDS FOR SALE

FOB SALE.

4.000 acres choice Hickory in southern Ar-
kansas. This is as fine as was ever found in
the south. Stumpage on 1.000 acres in south-
west Arkansas. 2.000,000 feet of it choice Ash;
remainder Cottonwood and Oak. Apply to
F. J. PETER, Huckins House, Texarkana, Ark.

MACHINERY WANTED

1

AT ONCE.

If you are in need of machinery — new or
second hand — a few lines in this column will
place your wants before those who have such
goods for sale. For particulars address

Hardwood Record, Chicago, 111.

LUMBER FOR SALE.

SOFT COBK WHITE PINE.

High grade Michigan stock for sale, all
thicknesses up to 4", bone dry, suitable for
making patterns and fine cabinet work.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Fa.

WALNUT AND CHEEEY FOE SALE.

Walnut 5/4-16/4 common and lsts and 2nds :
•4 4 10" and up lsts aud 2nds ; 4/4 one Clear
Black Face. Cherry 4/4 all grades.

C. J. FRANK, Logansport, Ind.

BIECH FOB SALE.

1 car 4/4 and 8/4 1st and 2nds Dry Birch.

1 car 4/4, 6/4 and 8/4 1st and 2nds Dry
Red Birch. Good widths and lengths. All f.
o. b. Detroit, National inspection. Write for
prices if interested.

E. W. LEECH, Detroit, Mich.

RAILWAY EQUIPMENT

BAILS AND LOCOMOTIVES.

All inquiries for industrial railway equip-
ment listed before Record readers will find
ready response.

Hardwood Record, Chicago, 111.

MISCELLANEOUS

FACTS FEOM PEACTICAL MEN.

The Hardwood Record is always in the mar-
ket for articles on any and every feature of
the hardwood- industry. It wants practical
statements of fact from practical men who
know how certain things can be done in the
best way. Literary quality not essential. Lib-
eral pay for acceptable articles. Address

Editor Hardwood Record.

You want (o reach Buyers o!

I FURNITURE LUMBER

I

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m

The HARDWOOD RECORD

will do it for you.

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JldVertisers9 Directory [

NORTHERN HARDWOODS.

Alcock, John L.. & Co 7

American Lumber & Mfg. Company.. 70
Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company. ... 72

Babcock Lumber Company 70

Barnaby, C. II 78

Beyer, Knox & Co T:i

Bliss & Van Auken 12

Boyne City Lumber Company 74

Brownlee & Co 75

Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company . ~'.\

Cadillac Handle Company 3

Carter, Frank, Company 73

Cheat River Lumber Company 70

Cherry River Booni & Lumber Co.... 0

Chicago Car Lumber Company 10

Chivvis, W. R 67

Cincinnati Hardwood Lbr. Company... 77

Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc 3

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Connor, R., Company 73

Crescent Lumber Company 7G

Crosby & Beckley Company, The 6

Crosby, C. P 72

Cummer, Diggins & Co 3

Hurling, Chas., & Co 11

Davis, John R., Lumber Company.... 7-'

■ Davis-, W. A 11

Dells Lumber & Shingle Company.... 72

Dennis Bros 75

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company.... 74
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company... 78

Dixon & Dewey 6

Duhlmeier Bros 77

Dwight Lumber Company 6

Elias, G., & Bro 79

Empire Lumber Company 79

Eyans & Retting Lumber Company... 74

Fall, E. H 71

Forman Company, Thomas 6

Freiberg Lumber Company, The 77

Fuller ton-Powell Hardwood Lumber

Company 5

Gillespie, W. M., Lumber Company... 7

Goldie, J. S 74

Haak Lumber Company 54

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company .... 75
Hayden & Weseott Lumber Company. 10

Holloway Lumber Company 7

Hoyt, C. I., & Co 78

Indiana Quartered Oak Company 7

Ingram Lumber Company 72

James & Abbot Company 7

Jenks, Robert II.. Lumber Company.. 71

Jones, G. W., Lumber Company 2

Jones Hardwood Company 7

Kampf, Albert R 2

Keith Lumber Company 11

Kelley Lumber & Shingle Company... 8

Kueeland-Bigelow Company 69

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company... 11

Linehan Lumber Company 70

Litchfield, William E 7

Lombard, E. B 11

Long-Knight Lumber Company 78

MacBride, Thos., Lumber Company... 75
Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company, 77

Maley & Wertz 78

Martin-Barries Company 71

Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company . . 72

Mel lure Lumber Company 75

Mcllvatn, J. Gibson. & Co 7

McLean, Hugh, Lumber Company. ... 79

Miller, Anthony 79

Miller Bros 11

Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Mowhray & Robinson 77

Murphy & Diggins 3

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company /4

Nicola Lumber Company, The 70

Northern Lumber Company 68

North Shore Lumber Company 74

North Vernon Lumber Company 2

North Western Lumber Company 73

O'Brien, John. Land & Lumber Co... 10

Osburn, Norval 54

Perrine-Armstrong Company '. 78

Price, E. E

Radina, L. W., & Co '.. 77

Richmond Park & Co 10

Ross Lumber Company 1

Rumbarger Lumber Company 1

Ryan & MeParland 10

Sailing, Hanson & Co 74

Sawyer-Goodman Company 73

Scateherd & Son 79

Schofield Bros 7

Simmons Lumber Company 75

Skillman Lumber Company 74

Slimmer, J., & Co 10

Soble Bros 7

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 79

Stearns Company, The 74

Stephenson, The I., Company 12

Stewart, I. N., & Bro 79

Stewart. Win. II., & G. S 76

Stimson. J. V 78

Stone, T. B., Lumber Company 76

Sullivan, T., & Co 79

Tegge Lumber Company 8

Turner, A. M., Lumber Company 70

Vollmar & Below 72

Wagstaff, W. J

Walnut Lumber Company, The GG

Ward Lumber Company 11

Wells. R. A., Lumber Company 10

White Lumber Company 10

White, W. H„ Company 69

Whltiner, Wm., & Sons, Inc 6

Wiborg & Hanna Company 77

Willson Bros. Lumber Company 70

Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company. 75

WIstar, Underbill & Co 7

Wylie, A. W 11

Yeager, Orson E 79

Young, W. D., & Co 12

Young & Cutsinger 7S

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS.

Advance Lumber Company 71

Alcock, John L., & Co 7

American Hdwd. Lumber Company.. 06
American Lumber & Mfg. Company.. 70

Anderson-Tully Company 4

Atlantic Lumber Company

Beck, E. E.( Lumber Company 77

Beyer, Knox & Co 79

Brown, Geo. C, & Co 66

Brown, W. P., & Sons Lumber Co... 2
Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company.. 79
Carrier Lumber & Mfg. Company.... 12
Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co. . . . 9

Chicago Car Lumber Company 10

Chivvis, W. R 07

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co. . . . 77
Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Courtney, D. G 9

Crane, C, & Co 76

Crescent Lumber Company 76

Crosby & Beckley Company, The. ... 6

Cypress Lumber Company 76

Darling, Cbas., & Co 11

Davidson-Benedict Company

Davis, W. A 11

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company.... 74
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company. . 78

Dixon & Dewey 6

Duhlmeier Eros 77

Elias, G-, & Bro 79

Empire Lumber Company, Buffalo... 79
Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 74

Fall, E. H 71

Farrin-Korn Lumber Company 77

Freiberg Lumber Company, The 77

Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber

Company 5

Garetson-Greason Lumber Company. . . 67

Gayoso Lumber Company 4

Gillespie. W. M., Lumber Company... 7

Haas. Albert, Lumber Company 7

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company 75

Hafner Manufacturing Company 67

Hay ward, M. A 50

Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co. . . 1

Hoyt, C. I., & Co 78

Indiana Lumber Company 66

Indiana Quartered Oak Company 7

International Felloe Mfg. Company. <>'■>

James & Abbot Company 7

Jenks, Robert H.. Lumber Company.. 71
Jones, G. W., Lumber Company. . . ... 2

Jones Hardwood Company 7

Kampf. Albert R 2

Keith Lumber Compnny 11

Kentucky Lumber Company 77

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 80

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company... 11

Linehan Lumber Company 70

Litchfield, William B 7

Lombard, E. B n

Long-Knight Lumber Company 78

Love. Boyd & Co 66

Luehrmann, Chas. F., Hardwood Lum-
ber Company 67

Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company 77

Martin-Barriss Company 71

Mnssengale Lumber Company 67

McClure Lumber Company 75

MrTanley-Saunders Lumber Co 11

Mcllvaln, J. Gibson, & Co 7

McLean-Davis Lumber Company. ..... 2

McLean, Hugh, Lumber Company 79

Miller, Anthony 79

Miller Bros 11

Mosby, H. W. , & Co 4

Nicola Lumber Company. The 70

O'Brien, John, Land & Lumber Co. . . 10

Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Company . 07

Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company 4

Phila. Veneer & Lumber Company.... 6

Plummer Lumber Company 06

Price, E. E

Radina, L. W., & Co 77

Ransom, J. B., & Co 06

Rhubesky, E. W 2

Richmond, Park & Co 10

Ritter, W. M., Lumber Company. ... 5

Roy Lumber Company 54

Rumbarger Lumber Company 1

Ryan & MeParland 10

Scateherd & Son 79

Schofield Bros 7

Schultz Bros. & Cowen 69

Skillman Lumber Compauy 74

Slimmer, J., & Co 10

Smith, R. M., & Co 8

Southern Lumber Company 2

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company. 79

Stearns Company, The 74

Steele & Hlbbard 67

Ste\ .-ns-Eaton Company 7

Stewart. I. N., & Bro 79

Stewart, Wm. H. & G. S 76

Stimson, J. V 78

Stone, T. B., Lumber Company 76

Stoneman-Zearlng Lumber Company. . 67

Sullivan, T., & Co 79

Swann-Day Lumber Company 4

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company... 67

Three States Lumber Company SO

Turner, A. M., Lumber Company 70

Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Company 66

Walnut Lumber Company, The 66

Ward Lumber Company 11

Wells, R. A., Lumber Company 10

West Florida Hardwood Company.... 7

White Lumber Company 10

Whitmer, Wm., & Sons, Inc.... 6

Wiborg & Hanna Company 77

Willson Bros. Lumber Company 70

W I, R. E., Lumber Company 54

Wylie, A. W 11

Yeager, Orson E 79

Young &, Cutsinger 78

POPLAR.

Advance Lumber Company 71

Atlantic Lumber Company

Brown, W. P., & Sons. Lumber Co... 2

Cheat River Lumber Company 70

Courtney, D. G 9

Crane, C & Co 76

Davidson-Benedict Company

Dawkins. W. H.. Lumber Company... 76

Haas, Albert, Lumber Company 7

Hayden & Westcott Lumber Company. 10

I lay ward, M. A 50

Kentucky Lumber Company 77

Keys-Fannin Lumber Company 54

Massengale Lumber Company 67

McLean-Davis Lumber Companv 2

Rhubesky, E. W ' 2

Ritter, W. M., Lumber Company 5

Roy Lumber Company 54

Schultz Bros. & Cowen 69

Smith, R. M.. & Co s

Southern Lumber Company 2

Stevens-Eaton Company 7

Swann-Day Lumber Company 4

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company... 67

Vansant. Kitchen & Co 80

Wood, R. E., Lumber Company 54

Yellow Poplar Lumber Company 80

COTTONWOOD" AND GUM.

Anderson-Tully Company 4

Farrin-Korn Lumber Company 77

Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co. .. 1

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 80

Luehrmann, C. F., Hardwood Lumber

Company 67

M<»sby. II. W.. & Co 4

Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Company. 67

Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company 4

Stoneman-Zearlng Lumber Tompany... 67

Three States Lumber Company So

CYPRESS.

Cypress Lumber Company 76

Hafner Manufacturing Company 67

Lothman Cypress Company 67

McCauley -Saunders Lumber Company. 11

Plummer Lumber Company 66

VENEERS.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works 68

Phila. Veneer & Lumber Company.... 0

Wisconsin Veneer Company 73

HARDWOOD FLOORING.

Advance Lumber Company 71

Bliss & Van Auken ii>

Buffalo Maple Flooring Company. The. 7

Carrier Lumber & Mfg. Compauy 12

Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc 3

Cummer, Diggins & Co 3

Dwight Lumber Company. . . . 6

Eastman, S. L., Flooring Company. .. 74

Feun^ Bros. Company '. 4

Forman, Thos., Company 6

Haak Lumber Company 54

International Hardwood Company 70

Kerry & Hanson Flooring Company... 75

Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company 66

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company 74

Pease Company, The 76

Stephenson, The I., Company 12

Ward Bros , , j2

Wilce, The T., Company 11

Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company.. 75

Wood Mosaic Flooring Company . 2

Young, W. D., & Co 12

SAW MILL MACHINERY.

Bartlett, A. F., & Co 57

Garland, M., Compauy 59

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Compauy. 57

Mershon, W. B., & Co *. . 68

Phoenix Manufacturing Company 73

WOODWORKING MACHINERY.

American Wood Working Machinery

Company 63

Bartlett, A. F.. & Co 57

Berlin Machine Works, The

Covel Manufacturing Company 58

Crown Iron Works 55

Defiance Machine Works, The 54

Hurley Machine Company 55

Mattesou Manufacturing Company 56

Nash, J. M 58

Ober Manufacturing Company, The..

Schindler, A. J 55

Smith, II. B., Machine Company 65

Woods, S. A., Machine Company 60

VENEER MACHINERY.

Coe Manufacturing Compauy 61

LOGGING MACHINERY.

Clyde Iron Works 62

Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company.. 64

Overpack, S. C 55

Russel Wheel & Foundry Company. ', '. '.

DRY KILNS AND BLOWERS.

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company. 57

Grand Rapids Veneer Works 68

Morton Dry Kiln Company 7:;

New York Blower Company 56

SAWS, KNIVES AND SUPPLIES.

Atkins, E. C, & Co 62

Champion Saw Company 56 & 58

Covel Manufacturing Company 58

Crown Iron Works 55

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 57

Hanchett Swage Works 57

Hurley Machine Company 55

Marshall, Francis 68

Mattesou Manufacturing Company 56

Shinier, S. J., & Sons 60

LUMBER INSURANCE.

Adirondack Fire Insurance Company.. 1
Lumber Insurance Company of New

York 1

Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
pany, Boston

Lumber Underwriters 12

Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual

Fire Insurance Company l

Rankin. Harry, & Co 51

Toledo Fire & Marine Insurance Co. . .

MISCELLANEOUS.

Childs, S. D., & Co 54

Gillette Roller Bearing Company...' 57
International Felloe Mfg. Company... 69

Lacey, James D., & Co 8

Lumbermen's Credit Association 55

Martin & Co 71

Pease Company, The , 76

Poole, Clark L., & Co 12

Remington Typewriter Company '. 54

Sanders, Henry, Company 5R

Schenck. C. A., & Co . 2

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HARDWOOD RECORD

"DEFIANCE" WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY

COMPLETE EQUIPMENTS OF

HIGH GRADE TOOLS

J* FOR MAKING j*
Hubs, Spokes, Wheels, Single Trees, Hoops,

Wagons, Carriages,

Rims, Shafts, Poles,

Neck-Yokes,

Handles, Bobbins, Spools,

Insulator Pins and

Oval Wood Dishes.

NECK-YOKE AND SINOLE-TIEE LATHE

INVENTED AND BUILT BY

The DEFIANCE MACHINE WORKS

DEFIANCE, OHIO.
Send for 500 Page Catalogue

32" VARIETY TURNING LATHE

COUNTERFEIT CHECKS

are frequent
except whei e
our

Two Piece
Geometrical
Barter Coin

is in use, th^n
imitation Isn't
possible.
Sample if you
ask for it.

S. D. CHILDS
4 CO.

Chicago
We also make
Time Checks,
Stencils and
Log Hammers.

We Have on Hand Ready for
Shipment a Nice Stock of

2J4 Clear Maple
Flooring

ALSO OTHER SIZES AND GRADES

Send us your orders

Our fine timber, modern plant and
skilled workmanship combine to
make a flooring that cannot be ex-
celled. You will be pleased with it.

HAAK LUMBER CO.

HAAKWOOD, MICH.

Keys=Fannin
Lumber Company

Manufacturers of Band
and Circular sawn

SOFT

YELLOW

POPLAR

Plain and quartered red and white
Oak, Hemlock, Bass and Chest-
nut. Give us a trial.

Herndon, Wyoming Co., W. Va.

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

When you have anything to sell, or wish to
purchase anything in the way of

HARDWOOD LUMBER

CROSS TIES OR PILING

Norval Osburn, Seaman, Ohio

THE NEW MODELS
OF THE

REMINGTON

TYPEWRITER

are the product of the second
generation of Remington
genius and workmanship.
They represent age plus
youth; the experience of the
old combined with the pro-
gressiveness of the new.

SALES IN 1906 ARE BREAKING
ALL RECORDS FOR 30 YEARS

REMINGTON TYPEWRITER CO.

154 WABASH AVENUE
CHICAGO

WALNUT.
OAK,
ASH,
POPLAR.

HARDWOOD RECORD

A Journal of

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

to every Manufacturer, Merchant and
Consumer of Hardwoods

R.E. Wood Lumber Company

C. We own nearly a thousand million feet of virgin poplar, oak,
chestnut and other hardwood timber, and operate our own band mills
in West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
C Let us figure on your hardwood requirements.

GENERAL OFFICES:
CONTINENTAL BUILDING.

Baltimore, Maryland

HARDWOOD RECORD

55

The New Way of Scraping Floors with a

"Little Giant" Floor Semper

NOTE THESE COMPARISONS #Bl

One man will scrape by hand about jm*.>

100 square feet in 4 hours at 40e per
hour — cost $1.60 per square.

The "LITTLE GIANT" and one man
will scrape about 400 square feet in 4
hours at 40c per hour — cost $1.00 for
4 squares, or 40c per square; saving
$1.20 per square.

How long will it take you to pay for
the machine, and commence saving
money in its use?

WRITE jwm

YOUR /

DEALER

FOR
PRICE

i

Hurley &.

Machine ' m^m

Company

To scrape lion} operator pulls machine.

153 S. Jefferson Street CHICAGO, ILL.

1010 Flat Iron Building NEW YORK

117 Home Life Buitding TORONTO

Michigan Logging Wheels

Have made them 25 years and know Q p ftVFRPAPK* WANISTJ5E,
ohw. Easy a nd chea p way of logging. 0« \j» U V Lninvll MICHIGAN

Hardwood Board Rules

FOP HARDWOOD LUMBERMEN

Best Goods, Prompt Shipment

Send your orders to the HARDWOOD RECORD, 355 Dearborn Street

SAVE YOUR MONEY

By Using the

RED BOOK

Published
Semi Annually
in January
and July.

It contains a carefully prepared list of the
buyers of lumber in car lots, both among
the dealers and manufacturers.

The book indicates their financial stand-
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Covers the UNITED STATES and MANI-
TOBA.

The trade recognizes this book as the au-
thority on the lines it covers.

A 'well organized Collection Department
is also operated and the same is open to you

WRITE FOR TERMS

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Association

Established 1878

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CHICAGO

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HARDWOOD RECORD

New Type of Combined End Matcher

SAVES 20 PER CENT. TIME, COST AND LABOR.
USED BY THE LARGEST FLOORING CONCERNS.

Write for particulars to

A. J. SCHEVDLER, 441-443 W. 21st Street, CHICAGO

Improved
Automatic
Band Saw
Sharpener

^T This machine excels all others for single cutting Band Saws from 8 to 14
^^inches. Its construction is mechanically correct, simple and durable, and
does not possess any of the intricate complicated parts that confuse the oper-
ator. The head is adjustable so that straight wheels can be used with the same
results as concave.

^T This represents just one type of machine. We make in addition a com-
^^plete line of modern tools for the care of saws.

For particulars address

Matteson Mfg. Co.

All Machines Fully Guaranteed

120-128 S. CLINTON STREET,

CHICAGO, ILLS.

ESPECIALLY

Adapted for Handling Shavings, Saw=
dust and Stringy Material of All Kinds

Get Catalogue

58=G

NO OBSTRUCTIONS.

Works
BUCYRUS. OHIO

l-PIECE FAN WHEEL.

We Also Make Lumber Dryers.

New York Blower Company

Main Office :

25th Place and Stewart Avenue

CHICAGO

KNIVES

Planer knives, veneer knives or any of the good machine

knives that you use are tempered best by skilled experience.

Know the truth and get your best machine knives from

CHAMPION SAW COMPANY,

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

57

DESIRED

"Here's to your
good health and the
good health of your
family. May you live
long and prosper." —

Joseph Jefferson
in "Rip Van Winkle

You can move 1000 feet of lumber on
LUMBER CART with the same
power or strength required to move
500 feet on a cart having common
friction-producing axles.

a GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING

;WT THERE'S THE REASON

If You're wanting to reduce
your lumber handling costs we're
at your service.

Gillette Roller Bearing Axle

REALIZED

— Prosperity-
through the help of
the Gillette Roller
Bearing Company, Ex-
perts in the Elimina-
tion of Expense, Grand
Rapids, Michigan.

Cheapest Edger on Earth

The "Tower" 32-inch Edger, New Model

Especially designed for mills cutting not to exceed 20,000 feel in ten
hours. The fruit of sixteen years devoted exclusively to the manufact-
ure of blast grates, edicts and trimmers. This edger is not, however,
cheap in any sense hut that of price. It contains everything that is
essential and nothing that is superfluous. There are over 2500 of them
in daily use, which alone speaks volumes. Its wonderful popularity is
due to exceptional merit, which makes every machine sold a standing
advertisement.

It takes up little room.
It requires little power.
It costs little.

At the same time il i-. strong and thoroughly practical, fulfilling every
requirement .

WE MANUFACTURE

THE CELEBRATED GORDON HOLLOW BLAST GRATE

Tin- "TOWER" Edgers, comprising thirty different sizes and styles, and
the "TOWER" Trimmers, made in ten different sizes and styles.

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co.

GREENVILLE, MICHIGAN

The largest manufacturers of blast grates, edgers and trimmers in the world

Jt Hanohett - Hanchett - Hanchett 4L

Hanchett I

Saw Swage

Every one made Perlect

The Swage with a Name

<I A poor Swage Kuins a Good Saw, and
for that reason the manufacturers of the

HANCHETT ADJUSTABLE SWAGE

employ only the Best Mechanics and use
onlv the Best Material in their construction.

It Pays Us
to make

Send for

Catalog

No. 10

It tells you all

I lie BeSt about them

It Pays You

to use

The Best

MANUFACTURED BY

Hanchett Swage Works

Big Rapids, Michigan

*f Hanchett -Hanchett- Hanchett ^

Bartlett's No. "O" Hog, used with Hardwood Flooring Scrapers.

HOGS

We Build All Kinds
Tell Us What Kind You Need

A. F. BARTLETT & CO.

Manufacturers ot

SAWMILL MACHINERY

960 South Tilden Street
Saginaw, Mich.

5»

HARDWOOD RECORD

We are Prepared to Supply Your Wants in

Veneered s Solid Stave
Columns

In all Hardwoods with the

Roll's
Patent

ig^ THEY ^m

mm can not ■ ■
■ C0ME IH

Lock
Joint

Write today for prices

Henry Sanders Co.

900 Elston Ave., Chicago

THE NEW 1907
CATALOG

is ready, ask for
one. It describes
the most com-
.plete line of fil-
ing room ma-
chinery manu-
factured, includ-
ing our New No.
Bqg j Br*"" 99 Automatic
^^m|Ur Sharpener

shown by cut,

also our New No. 109 Stretcher with

automatic Re-toother.

Covel Manufacturing Co.
Chicago, U. S. A.

The Nash Automatic
Sander

FOR ALL ROUND STOCK WORK

A wonderful labor-saving machine.

Pays for itself in a short

time. For particulars

address

JIM \T„™L, 842=848 Thirtieth St.
. JYl. l>clSn MILWAUKEE, WIS.

Broom,

Hoe, Rake,

Fork and

Shovel

Handles,

Chair Stock,

Dowel Rods,

Curtain

Poles,

Shade

Rollers,

WhipStocks,

Canes,

Veneered

Columns,

Ten Pins, &c.

CGood saws, that do their
duty, plus.

C Cutting edge that comes
from best material skill=
fully manufactured.

CHAMPION SAW CO.

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

59

GARLAND

Special Hardwood 7=ft. Band Mill

There are
many good
features about
this mill that
we will be
glad to tell
about.
Write for
catalogue and
descriptive
circulars.

Simplicity,

Capacity,

Economy on

Saws.

We

manufacture

a full line

of Sawmill

and

Conveying

Machinery.

A few hardwood sa.wmill ma.chir\ery installations

Kneeland-Bigelow Co Hay City, Mich.

Kneeland-Buell Co Hay City, Mich.

W. D. Young & Co Hay City, Mich.

E. C. Hargrave Hay City, Mich.

Bliss & Van Auken Saginaw, Mich.

Sailing, Hanson & Co Grayling, .Mich.

Johannesburg Mfg. Co Johannesburg, Mich.

Michelson & Hanson Co Lewiston, Mich.

Harbor Spiings Lumber Co Harbor Springs, Mich

W. H. White Co Boyne City, Mich

Mud Lake Lumber Co Raber, Mich

Engel Lumber Co Englewood, La

Hardgrove Lumber Co Hardgrove, Mich

Churchill Lumber Co Alpena, Mich

Waccamaw Land & Lumber Co Wilmington, N. C

Kmbury-Martin Lumber Co Cheboygan, Mich

The M. Garland Co,

BAY CITY. MICHIGAN

6o

HARDWOOD RECORD

fT*

The Worth

of a

Cutter Head

Is based upon that which it will do
and the length of time it
will continue in satis-
factory service

■Piifl'i

Its best service will always depend upon tire material of which it is made as to whether it will be a good
and lasting investment. A Cutter Head runs at high speed and is subjected to enormous strains depending on the
kind and quality of lumber that is being worked. Hani and knotty maple tests the material of which the
Head is made.

STEEL FORCINGS, with a guaranteed tensile strength, form the basis of material for the SHIMER
CUTTER HEADS — that is why they stand the tests which are so remarkable for endurance. That is why you
should equip all your machines with the Shimer Cutter Heads and reap the benefit of their best service.

We make a number of Heads for special purposes. Upon any design of material you get out in quantity let
us give an estimate on the Head to do the work. Our prices are all uniformly low- our goods of best quality.

•

address Samuel J. Shimer & Sons, Milton, Pennsylvania.

No. 24 C Flooring Machine

Features such as WEDGE PLATEN, VERTICAL ADJUSTMENT OF SIDE SPINDLE
AND BELT-RELEASING DEVICE applied to our Flooring Machines INCREASE THE
OUTPUT and DECREASE THE OPERATING EXPENSES. EIGHT FEED ROLLS.

S. A. Woods Machine Co., Boston

CHICAGO

Specialists in
Planing and Moulding Mill Machinery

SEATTLE

HARDWOOD RECORD

61

We Made and Sold

152 Machines for Veneer Mills, Weighing

4,158,350 Pounds or 2,079 Tons,

in the Year 1906.

|() OUR facilities to handle this amount of business, we have
recently added 30,000 square feet of floor space and a large
number of up-to-date machine tools the best that money can
buy— and we are now prepared to double the above output
during the current year. The workmanship on our machines
is that of skilled mechanics working under expert supervision
in highly organized shops.

Those who contemplate manufacturing thin lumber and veneers for any
conceivable purpose, cannot do better than consult with us and get the
benefit of our advice, based upon an intimate knowledge of every detail of the
business which has been gained from more than thirty years' experience.

We make veneer lathes in sixty styles and sizes, sheers, veneer sawing
machines, roller dryers, clippers, wringers, knife grinders, drag saws,
etc., to meet any and all practical requirements. Our machines embody
every known appliance necessary to accurate work and the rapid and eco-
nomical production of perfect stock— and every machine is absolutely guar-
anteed. These machines passed through the experimental period many
years ago. They are considered standard the world over, and are strongly
and unqualifiedly endorsed by the largest and most prominent users — by
those who have had unlimited experience in the management of veneer mills.

We do not go into details as to the manner in which these machines are
constructed, as their leading features are well known to most of the
veneer manufacturers of the country. To those, however, who contemplate
entering the veneer industry and who are not familiar with our machines,
we shall be pleased to send detailed descriptions, circulars and catalogs.

( )ur experience of over thirty years in the building of veneer machinery
quite naturally places us in position where we can intelligently and
readily handle any practical proposition in the veneer industry; and with
our extensive and unequaled facilities of every nature, we can render
prompt and efficient service.

We solicit correspondence from those who are interested. Have you
seen our catalog No. 5 ?

The Coe
Manufacturing Co.

105 Bernard Street

PAINESVILLE, OHIO, U. S. A.

62

HARDWOOD RECORD

Silver

ATKINS S3 SAWS

cost more than other Saws, because they are BETTER.
The First cost of a Saw does not .count for much
What you want is your Money's Worth. Isn't it better
to pay a fair price and get the best rather than a low
price and get poor goods? Try an ATKINS SAW.
They're better.

E. C. ATKINS & CO., Inc.

The Silver Steel Saw People.
Home Office and Factory, Indianapolis.

Brunches: Atlanta, Chicago, Memphis, Minneapolis,

New York City, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle,

New Orleans,
Toronto.

HARDWOOD RECORD

63

How About You?

Perfect sanding can only be accomplished by sandpaper being kept at an even tension
at ALL POINTS and at ALL TIMES.

Accomplished ONLY on the "Columbia." Investigate.

Take the "Show Me" treatment.

Built all sizes from 30 in. to 84 in. wide.

Other sizes when so ordered.

American
Wood Working Machinery Co.

NEW ORLEANS
Hennen Building

SALESROOMS

CHICAGO

43 S. Canal Street

NEW YORK

136 Liberty Street

64

HARDWOOD RECORD

Skidders

Snakers

•v.

Lidgerwood Machines
Will Stock Your Mill

Lidgerwood Skidders

Lidgerwood Snakers

Lidgerwood Yarders

Lidgerwood Roaders

Lidgerwood Pull Boats

Lidgerwood Cableways

LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO.

NEW YORK
ATLANTA
SEATTLE
NEW ORLEANS

Loaders

Cableways

HARDWOOD RECORD

65

The Profit Builder

SMITH 0/

SMITHVILLE

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j "e.SMlTH MACHINE CO. SMlTH*iu!CTTC*-<Uat__^^.

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IT^-v^^m**.

--

NO. 10S-A. EXTRA HEAVY 12-INCH MOULDER

T HAS been our purpose during the last half century to develop
^k a line of wood working machines containing the best work-
ilr manship and material that American skill and wisdom can
afford. This fact we are proud to say is well established in
the minds of our many patrons. We have, however, now
exceeded ourselves by the development of a remarkable Moulder, the
excellence of which is due to our obtaining written suggestions from more
than a thousand operators throughout America. This machine stands alone
as being the composite idea of the thinking operators of this country. One
year's test of its work has convinced us that it is impossible for you to
compete successfully against the Smith Moulder with any other machine.
Can't we send you prices and literature?

Branches :

New York, Chicago,

Boston, Atlanta

H. B. SMITH MACHINE CO.

SMITHVILLE, N. J., U. S. A.

Branches:

New YorR, Chicago,

Boston, Atlanta

66

HARDWOOD RECORD

American Hardwood Lumber Co*

14,000,000 ft. Hardwood Lumber

YARDS AT BENTON. ARK., NEW ORLEANS, LA., ST. LOUIS, MO.,
DICKSON, TENS.

Wanted— to Buy or Contract for future Delivery

500.000 to 1.000,000 ft. Poplar, all grades
500.000 to 1.000.000 ft. Cypress, all grades
500,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Ash, all grades

Ss^on1 PLUMMER LUMBER CO. £k£gS§

Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers
of all kinds of

HARDWOODS

BEVELED SIDING A SPECIALTY.
UNSURPASSED FACILITIES
FOR DELIVERING.

Knoxville
Tennessee

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET

For choice lots of hardwoods.
Walnut our specialty.
Inspection at Mill Points.

The Walnut Lumber Company

Indianapolis, Indiana

mFor

items c

>f Hardwood Stoc

k or

tJJHar

dwood

Machinery, you

will

find

it advantageous

to write

our

advertisers

Get ir

i touch !

NASH VILLE

HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL. SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

JOHN B. RANSOM 4 CO.,

NASHVILLE. TENNESSEE

We want to move quickly the following old dry stock. All of it has been on
sticks 6 to 1 8 months. Write us for delivered prices. We are prepared to
furnish promptly mixed cars of rough and dressed hardwoods of all kinds:

QUARTERED WHITE OAK
90 M 4/4 first and second
15 M 5/4 first and second
80 M 6/4 first and second
10 M 10/4 first and second
120 M 4/4 No. 1 Common
65 M 6/4 No. 1 Common
58 M 8/4 No. 1 Common
20 M 10/4 No. 1 Common

70 M 5/8 first and second Poplar 50 M

80 M 5/8 No. 1 Common Poplar 100 M

15 M 4 4 1st and 2d Quartered Sycamore 100 M
10 M 4,4 No. 1 Com. Quart'd Sycamore 100 M

QUARTERED RED OAK

100 M 4/4 first and second
6/4 first aDd second
8/4 first and second
4/4 No. 1 Common
6/4 No. 1 Common

58M
15 M
95 M
84- M

72 M 8/4 No. 1 Common

PLAIN OAK

4/4 1st and 2nd White
4 4 No. 1 Common White
4/4 first and second Red
4 4 No. l;Common Red

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

"Acorn Brand"

OAK AND BEECH FLOORING

"The product de Luxe."

.Market price on car lnt<.
promptly. We especially invite inquiries for Flooring,

Less than car lot orders shipped
nptly. He especially invite inquiries for Flooring, Oi
and Poplar lumber and other Hardwoods in mixed cars.

ak

DELIVERED ANYWHERE.

Nashville, Tennessee

INDIANA LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers Lumber

DIMENSION STOCK A SPECIALTY.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Office and Mills : Corner Oldham
Street and Cumberland River

GEO. C, BROWN & CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Tennessee Red Cedar Lumber a Specialty. Nashville. Tennessee

LOVE,

BOYD & CO.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Will make special prices on :

150,000 ft.
300,000 ft.
400,000 ft.
500,000 ft.

40,000 ft.

60,000 ft.

13,000 ft.

1 in. Tennessee Red Cedar

1 in. to 4 in. Hickory

1 in. No. 1 Com. Plain White Oak

1 in. to 2% in. Qrtd. Red Oak.

2y2 in. Is & 2s Qrtd. White Oak

2l/2 in. No. 1 Com. Qrtd. White Oak

5-8 Sound Wormy Chestnut

ALL BONE DRY

OUR OWN CUT

HARDWOOD RECORD

67

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L U U 1 0

LAR GEST

ALL HARDWOOD MARKETS

Roland F. Krebs

Manager Hardwood Dept.

Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Co

FRISCO
• BUILDING

FOR SALE: The Following Stocks, Shipped Direct From Our Mills:

12 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common Cottonwood, Dry. 6 cars 1 in. Log Run Elm (Bone Dry.)
g ** 1 in. 1st & andBSapUurn, Dry. f>cars lio. No. 1 A'2, Com. Pin. Red Oak. *« "
2 " 1 in. " " Red " " 200M ft. 1 in. and 2 in. Dry Cypress, ( all grades )

Write Us for Prices

MASSENGALE LUMBER CO., ST. LOUIS

Manufacturers and dealers in

HARDWOODS

in the market to buy and sell OAK, POPLAR, ASH, CYPRESS
Large stock dry lumberalwayson hand

W. R. CHIVVIS,

Lesperance Street and Iron
Mountain Railroad.

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

BLACK WALNUT LUMBER MY SPECIALTY. Always in the market to buy
Walnut and Cherry Lumber. Pay spot cash and take up at shipping
point when amounts justify.

STEELE & HIBBARD

North Urortdwav and Dock Streets
Wholesale Manufacturers, Dealers and Shippers

ASH. CYPRESS. MAHOGANY, OAK. POPLAR, &c

Mills: Yazoo City. Miss.; McGregor, Ark.; England. Ark.;
Dermott Ark. O'Hara, La. ; Dexter, Mo.

Wanted-Cyprcss, Ash and Cottonwood

Inspection at Point of Shipment When Quantity Justifies

Hairier Manufacturing Co.

CYPRESS, HARDWOODS

Mail orders receive our immediate
attention.

YARDS: FOOT OF DOCK STREET

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Co.

203 Frisco "Building

We have the following Dry Stock for sale piled at our mill:

QTD. WHITE OAK : COTTONWOOD :
3 Cars 4/4 Common. 3 Cars 1" 1 and 2.

2 Cars 4/4 Common and Better Strips. 1 Car 1x13 to IT'' Box Boards.

GUM : ELM :

5 Cars 1" Common Red. 1 Car 6/4 Log Run.
1 Car 1x13 to 17" Box Boards. 4 Cars 4'' Log Run.
1 Car 2" 1 and 2 Sap.

6 Cars X% Common and Better Sap.

This Stock is All Band Sawed and Equalized

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Co.

CASH BUYERS OF OAK, ASH, CY-
PRESS, POPLAR, CHERRY AND ALL

HARDWOODS

Send Inspector When Quantity Justifies

Office and Yards : Hall and Angelrodt Sts.

Garetson-Greason Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

GUM LUMBER
OUR SPECIALTY

Carload Shipments Direct
from Our Own Mills

519 Bank of Commerce

LOTHMAN CYPRESS CO.

AIR DRIED

Louisiana Red Cypress

FOOT OF ANGELICA STREET

ClUS. F. L

Carry a complete stock of Hardwood and are

constantly in the market to purchase

large blocks of stock for cash. Are

also the largest manufacturers of

the famous St. Francis

Basin Red Gum.

General Offices: 148 Carroll Street

68

HARDWOOD RECORD

MERSHON

BAND-RESAWING EQUIPMENT

25 MODELS

ADAPTED TO
EVERY REQUIREMENT

Wm. B. Mershon & Co., Saginaw, Mich., U.S.A.

Why lose good money
By poor kiln drying?

By our new method, we dry hard-
wood lumber so that it is absolutely
free from swelling or shrinking.

We do this in half the time of any
kiln sold and can apply our system
to your present kiln.

After installing the apparatus, if it
does not do all we claim, we will
take it out free of expense to you.

} on can't lose in a trial.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works

Dept. D

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

You can't go astray
when in the market

IF YOU WRITE THE

Northern Lumber
Company

RUSH CULVER, Pres.

BIRCH, MICHIGAN

C We manufacture from our
own forests, the finest line of
Northern Hardwoods on the
market. C. We have the woods,
the machinery, the experience,
enabling us to fill your orders
right.

A machine that declares saw mill dividends

•]] An inexpensive little device

that saves a dollar a day and

iipwards.

•J Stops one of the biggest

profit leaks at the mill. Pays

for itself several times over

during a year.

•J Isn't it worth investigating?

AUTOMATIC SWING SAW GAUGE.

FRANCIS MARSHALL, - - Grand Rapids, Mich.

HARDWOOD RECORD

69

The KNEELAND BIGELOW CO

MANUFACTURERS OF LUMBER

Annual Output:

20,000,000 ft. Hardwoods.
20,000,000 ft. Hemlock.

4,000,000 pes. Hardwood Lath.

9,000,000 pes. Hemlock Lath.

Mills R-vin the Year
Around.

Bay City, Mich.

W. H. WHITE, Pres.

JAS. A. WHITE, Vice-Pres.

W. L. MARTIN, Secy.

THOS. WHITE. Treas.

W. H. WHITE COMPANY

BOYNE CITY, MICHIGAN

Manufacturers of Hardwood and Hemlock Lumber, Cedar Shingles,

White Rock Maple Flooring.

WE CAN TALK BUSINESS WITH YOU ON

Poplar — Oak — Ash — Chestnut

ALSO OTHER HARDWOODS-ALL GRADES
AND THICKNESSES

SCHULTZ BROTHERS <& COWEN

1225 to 1240 Old Colony Building. CHICAGO

MANUFACTURERS OF STANDARD SIZE

WAGON FELLOES AND WAGON STOCK

Send your requirements and receive price. COLUMBUS, MISS.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Willson Bros. Lumber Co*

MANUFACTURERS

WEST VIRGINIA
HARDWOODS

FARMERS BANK BLDG. :: PITTSBURG, PA.

Linchan Lumber Company

PERFECT

MAPLE FLOORING

SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES

STOCK LISX

The following list covers the hardwoods we now haveon hand. Special
price f. o. b. cars mill for all one grade. We would be^pleased to have
you favor us with your inquiries and ord'

4 4 Maple, .No. I Common 2 Cars

5/4 '" " '• 2 Cars

5 4 •• and Better 59,000 Feet

04 " " ". | Car

6 4 Firsts and Seconds ... 2 Cars

8/4 No. 2 Common 2,500 Feet

10/4 " • Firsts and Seconds I Car

10/4 " No. 2 Common and Better 71,000 Feet

12/4 " No. 1 " 1,500 Feet

12/4 " " 2 " 1,000 Feet

4 4 Basswood, Log Run m. c. o I car

8 '4 1 car

DRY STOCK

Favorable Freight Rates to the East.

BABCOCK LUMBER CO., Ashlola, Pa.

Tke Nicola Lumber
Company

One million feet 4-4 Bay Poplar.
Can be shipped log run,- or sold
on grade. Bone dry ; band
sawed. Send your inquiries.

A. M. Turner
Lumber Company

Everything in lumber. We buy hardwoods
as well as sell them. If you have anything
to offer, please submit same to us. : t

Hardwoods a Specialty

FOR SALE

POPLAR

125.000' 4/4 lsand2s
40,000' 4/4 No. 1 Com.
325,000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.
228,000' 4/4 No. 3 Com.
150,000' < '4 Mill Cull

CHESTNUT

200,000' 4 4 Sound Wormy
80,000' 5/4 Sound Worm v

100,000' fi '4 Sound Wormy
48,000' 8, 4 Sound Wormy

PLAIN OAK

60,000' 4/4 No. 1 Com.
18,000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.

QUARTERED f AK
2 cars 4/4 No. 1 Com.
1 car 4/4 No. 2 Com.

OAK TIMBERS SAWED TO ORDER.
WRITE FOR PRICES.

CHEAT RIVER LUMBER COMPANY, Pittsburg, Penna.

WE WANT

ORDERS! ORDERS! ORDERS!

For
\ Car 1 x 1 8 to 25 " 1 si and 2nds Cottonwood.
\ Car 1 x I 3 to 17" 1 & and 2nds Cottonwood.
15Mft. 1x6" and up I si and 2nds Cottonwood.
200M ft. 1x4" and up No. I common Cottonwood.
2 1 0M ft. 4-4 1st & 2nds plain Red and White Oak.
240M ft. 4-4 No. 1 com. plain Red and White Oak.
1 90M ft. 4-4 No. 1 com. quartered White Oak.

American Lumber $, Mfg. Co.

PITTSBURG. PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

71

/"* ¥ T~l ~\ 7 X^ ¥ \ rVT 1""^

CL U V bL A1N U

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF NORTHERN OHIO

THE

ROBERT HJENKS LUMBER

COMPANY

FOR SALE

60 M (eel 1" lsl and Ms Poplar
223 M feet 1" No. 1 Common Poplar
!25 M leel 1" No. 2 Common Poplar

25 M feel 2" lsl and 2nd Poplar, 14" and up
125 M feel 8 4" Sound Wormy Chestnut
275 M feel 1" Sound Wormy Chestnut
153 M feel 1" lsl and 2nd Plain While Oak

85 M leel I" 1st and 2nd Plain Red Oak
125 M feel 1" No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak

Quartered White and Red OaK.— We have a good assort-
ment of dry stock, Y% to 4 inches thick. Your inquiries solicited.

Plain White and Red OaK.— A limited amount of nice
stock, ready for shipment.

SYMBOLS FOR GRADE MARKS

Adopted by the Hardwood Manufacturers Association of United States

Z_A Selects

o

A
B

%

Panel and Wide No. 1

Wide No. 2

Box Boards

FAS or Firsts and

Seconds
Saps

\\^ No. 1 Common

\2^ No. 2 Common

(3 No. 3 Common

(4 No. 4 Common

Every Manufacturer should stamp the grade on his Lumber.
Set of 10 Rubber Stamps, Wxl5£" in size, Pad, Pint of Ink, and
Spreader, packed for shipment S3. 50.

M/\RTIiN & CO. LEWIS DOSTER, Sec'y

191 S. Clark St., CHICAGO, or 1535 First Nat. Bank »ldg. CHICAGO

FRAMES

FOR HARDWOOD RECORD
SUPPLEMENTS

Complete with backing, but without the glass, made
from Flemish Oak, are to be had delivered by ex-
press, charges prepaid to any point east of the
Missouri river, at 50 cents each ; or at the Hard-
wood Record office, at 30 cents each. Prepay orders
with two-cent stamps or postal notes, addressed

Hardwood Record, 355 Dearborn Street, Chicago

The Martin-Barriss Company

Importers a.nd 'Manufacturers

MAHOGANY

o.nd Fine Hardwoods

HARDWOODS

Dry Stock is Scarce

Mill Shipments are Slow in Coming Forward

We therefore call attention to stock of upwards
of SIX MILLION FEET seasoned HARD-
WOODS we offer for quick shipment from
Cleveland. WANT TO CLEAN IT OUT.
Are you interested ?

The Advance Lumber
Company

1 3th Floor, Rockefeller Bldg., CLEVELAND, O.

Manufacturers and Dealers
In White Pine, Yellow Pine, Hemlock and Hardwoods

H . FALL

EXPORTER

. . . OF . . .

WALNUT, POPLAR

=^^^=^^^= AND :=^=^==^

BIRDSEYE MAPLE LOGS

Cash paid for Black Walnut Logs at point of shipment. If you have
any walnut logs to offer, write me.

I have some Sycamore, Red Oak, Ash and other hardwood logs which
I am prepared to saw to orde*-. Correspondence solicited.

Can also supply Black Walnut lumber, sawed to any specification
required.

PORT CLINTON

OHIO

"2

HARDWOOD RECORD

A1. 7 I C> d~* S~\ T^T O ¥ IX. T

W 1 o vv u rs o 1 r>

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

John R. Davis Lumber Company

PHILLIPS, WISCONSIN
The Leading Manufacturers

Wisconsin Hardwoods

"SHAKELESS" HEMLOCK and WHITE CEDAR PRODUCTS

WE HAVE TIIM FINEST BLOCK OF

4-4 UNSELECTED BIRCH

OX THE MARKET

Write for our Price Lists
and Stock Sheets

Mixed Cars, Even Grades
%, Prompt Shipments

C. P.

RHINELANDER :

CROSBY

:. WISCONSIN

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Hard Maple a Specialty in all thicknesses from J inch
to 4 inch. Finest Birch in Wisconsin. Soft Elm,
Red Oak, 35,000 feet 3 in. Birch, Re*d all in.

DIFFICULT AND MIXED ORDERS A SPECIALTY

We are prepared to furnish mixed carloads

And solicit your inquiries and orders. At present we are

999 offering Red Birch in thicknesses, I" to 2J" common

and better, also Maple, Birch and one quarter sawed

RED OAK FLOORING

Basswood Ceiling and Siding and Finish, also Molding

5 Our hardwood flooring "A. H. L." Brand, is the

* highest grade as to workmanship and quality.

ARPIN HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
Saw Mill, Planing Mill and Yard at Atlanta, near Bruce, Wis. on "Soo" Line.

i^ Ikmi^m^ ^

We have
to otter
the

following
stock in
pile at
Ingram,
Wis.

!•-

12,000
20,000
24,000
15,000
2,500
11,460
4,700
2,144
2,350
22,000

(2.IMKP

4 4. OKI
57,000
19.000

20 •««!

WAUSAU, WIS.

ft. 1 iu. No. 1 Com. & Better PI. Birch.
ft. IVi in. First & Second Plain Birch.
ft. 2 in. No. 2 Common Plain Birch. \
ft. 1 in. Fust & Second Red Birch. \

ft. 1 in. No. 1 Common Red Birch. J

ft. 1', in. First & Second Red Birch. I
ft. 1% in. First & Second Red Birch. f
tt. 2 in. First & Second Red Birch. 1

ft. 1 in. Curly Birch. \

ft. 11.,. VA and 2 in. Curly Birch. /

ft. 1 in. End Dried White Birch,
ft. 1 in. No. 1 Com. & Better Soft Elm.l
ft. 1 in. Select Pine. 1

ft. 1% in. No. 3 Shop & Better Pine. I
ft. 1L, in. Select Pine. /

ft. IV' iu. No. 1. No. 2 and No. 3 Shop

Your

orders

and

inquiries

solicited

VOLLMAR & BELOW

MARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN

Basswood, Birch

and Other Wisconsin Hardwoods

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU ARE IN THE MARKET FOR

For Sale:

NATIONAL
INSPECTION

3,000,000 ft. inch Birch.
100,000 ft. inch Black Ash.
50,000 ft. inch Soft Elm.

All No. 1 Common and Better.
20,000 ft. 1x4 and wider, 6 ft., 1st & 2nd Birch.

Dells Lumber 4 Shingle Co.

EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN

Mason -Donaldson Lumber Co

RKinelander. Wisconsin

WE HAVE TO OFFER

25 cars 1 inch No. 2 Common & Better Soft Elm

5 cars 1 % inch No. I Common & Better Soft Elm

3 cars 1 inch No. 3 Common Soft Elm
1 5 cars I inch No. I Common Plain Birch

8 cars I inch No. 1 Common & Better Red Birch

2 cars 1 % inch No. I Common and Better Red Birch

3 cars 1 x/2 inch No. 1 Common and Better Red Birch

4 cars 2 inch No. 1 Common and Better Red Birch
3 cars 1 inch 1st & 2nd Clear Basswood, 14 and 16. feet

25 cars 2 inch No. 3 Hemlock, Rough

HARDWOOD RECORD

73

WISCONSIN

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

North Western Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OF BAND-HAWED

Wisconsin Hardwoods

CAREFUL (SHADINGS — PROMPT SHIPMENTS

General Offices, EAU CLAIRE, WIS. Mills al STANLEY, WIS.

Frank Carter Co.

MANUFACTURER

Wisconsin Hardwood

SPECIALTY-HARD MAPLE

Mills: DURAND

SPRING VALLEY
GLEN FIORA
ELMWOOD
HILLSDALE

General Offices :

MENOMONIE, WIS.

c R. CONNOR CO.

WHOLESALE' M A N C F A C I D R V. R S

Wisconsin
Hardwood

PINE AND HEM-
LOCK LUMBER

MiMs at
tratfoid,Wls.,onC.&N.W.R.R. IMOISIHIKIU, WIS.

The Morton Dry Kiln

MOIST AIR SYSTEM

Recording
Ther-
mometers.
Transfer
Cars.

Trucks.

Canvas

Doors.

HOW TO DRY LUMBER.

As exemplified in our Cat a lot; D. Free on application.

MORTON DRY KILN CO., Chicago, Ills.

Wisconsin Veneer Co.

RHINELANDER, WIS.

Largest and best equipped Veneer
cutting plant in the country. High-
grade product from Birch, Maple,
Elm, Bassvvood, Ash and other na-
tive woods.

Veneers for Door Work a Specialty.

WE ARE NOW
OFFERING

5,000,000 ft. Winter Sawed

Basswood, Elm and Birch

Carefully manufactured from
logs of superior quality

Sawyer-Goodman Company

Marinette, Wis.

you want a
foot band mill?

This is a first-clas:;
ic and will
give the best of re-
sults. It is strong,
well made, and as
good as it looks.
Write us and we will
give you full particu-
lar:,.

Phoenix Mfg. Co.

Eau Claire, Wis.

74

HARDWOOD

RECORD

M

I C H I G

IS FOR HARD MAPLE AND

A

GREY

IN

FAMOl

ELM

The Stearns Company

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

HARDWOODS

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Cincinnati, 0.

SALLINQ, HANSON & CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Michigan Hardwoods

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

WE WANT

Bass wood — Bass wood

WRITE US WHAT YOU HAVE To OFFER.

SKILLMAN LUMBER CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

S. L EASTMAN FLOORING CO.

•AGINAW ■HAND

MAPLE FLOORING

SAGINAW, MICH.

Evans & Retting Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

Hardwood
Lumber

RAILROAD TIMBERS, TIES AND SWITCH TIES

Michigan Trusi Building Grand Rapids, Mich.

DENNIS & SMITH LUMBER CO.

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Office and Yards, FOURTH AND HOLDEN AVENUES.
DETROIT, MICH.

MILLS AT: Orndorfl, W. Va., Healers W. Va., and Parkersburg. W. Va.

The North Shore Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS

Hardwood and Hemlock Lumber

Rail and water shipments

THOMPSON

MICHIGAN

BOYNE CITY LUMBER COMPANY

BOYNE CITY

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE and other HARDWOODS

LARGE CAPACITY PROMPT SHIPMENTS RAIL OR CARGO

J. S. GOLDIE.

Cadillac, :: Michigan.

SPECIAL PRICES on 50oM pieces
li" to 3'' Maple Squares 16" to 27" long
250M feet Maple cull
INQUIRIES SOLICITED rOR MICHIGAN LUMBER.

HARDWOOD RECORD

75

M

I

J S

C H I

FOR RED BIRCH

Q

AND

A

BASS

IN

FAMOl

WOOD

DEININIS BROS

GRAND RAPIDS, : : :

MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD LUMBER (by water or rail)
"NATIONAL" MAPLE & BIRCH FLOORING

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN THE FOLLOWING:

120M feet 4 4 Log Run Birch
125M feet 5 4 Log Run Birch
2 Cars 8 4 Common and Better Birch

1 Car 1x4 Clear Birch

2 Cars 1x7 and Wider No. 1 Common Birch
140M feet 5 4 Log Run Beech

160M feet 4 4 Log Run Soft Elm-
Hard Maple— All grades and thicknesses

Main Office :

205-209 Michigan

Trust

Company

Building

BIRCH

WE WANT YOUR ORDERS FOR

4-4 and 5-4 No. 1 Common

Birch

A No. 1 STOCK

Simmons Lumber Company

SIMMONS, MICHIGAN

QUOTE ON SMALL OR LARGE LOTS.

WILL PLACE ORDERS FOR STOCK TO

BE MANUFACTURED

Wanted- Soft Maple

One -inch and Two-inch Log Run, Mill Culls Out, Pin
Worms no Defect. Will also buy Mill Culls.

BROWNLEE & COMPANY, Detroit, Mich.

"Chief Brand"
Maple Flooring

Will commend itself to you and your trade on
its merits alone. 1 Comprises all the features
desirable in good flooring. 1j Made by the latest,
most approved machinery methods and best
skilled labor. *f We believe we can make it to
your interest to handle our "Chief Brand" and
will appreciate your inquiries.

Kerry 4 Hanson Flooring Co.

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

Thos. MacBride Lumber Company

HEADQUARTERS FOR

HARDWOODS

IN MICHIGAN

Michigan Trust Building, Grand Rapids, Mich.

IXL POLISHED

Rock Maple Flooring

Our slow method of air seasoning and kiln drying

IX I, Hardwood Flooring has stood

the test for 20 years.

Please write for prices and booklet

Wisconsin Land $> Lumber Co.

HERMANSV1LLE, MICHIGAN

McCLURE LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Hardwoods

Main Offices,
Mills.

DETROIT, MICH.
EUTAW, ALA.

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 cars \" lsl 6 2nds t Com. Qld. While Oak 10 cars 1" Log Run Brown Ath

2 cars 2' 2, 3 and 4" While Ash 10 cars 1" lo 4" Dry Hard Maple

2 cars 1" While Ash 10 cars I" Loe Run Birch

1 car VA and 2" No. I Com. Brown Ash 10 cars 1" Log Run Basswood

2 cars 2" Log Run Soil Elm 5 cars 6 4 and 8 4, Oreen Log Run Hickory.

4 cars 2. 3 and 4" 1st and 2nds and No. 1 Com. Green White Oak
500M feel 1" lo 2", l's and 2's. selects and common. Dry Poplar:
2 cars 6 4 and 8 4. Log Run, Second Growth While Ash,

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

Hardwood Lumber

Main Ollice, Michigan Trust Company Building

GRAND RAPIDS : . . . MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

/VTyn A TTUT's *o ship the highest standard of

imber at lowest consistent price

We are manufacturers and ship direct from our band mills

Oak

Poplar

W.H.&G.S. Stewart

Main Olficc : Cincinnati, Ohio, U S A.

Chestnut
Basswood
Yellow Pine

THE HOUSE OF STONE

The One of Good Grades
Poplar, Oak, Chestnut, Cottonwood, Ash, Basswood and Gum

T. B. STOINE LUMBER CO.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

FRAMES.
SASH. DOORS.
BLINDS. MOULDINGS.
COLUMNS. CLASS,
STAIRWORK,
INTERIOR TRIM.

* jkS ^^L *

Building

Material.

PAINTS.
BUILDERS' HARDWARE.
MANTELS. ETC.
LARGE CINCINNATI FAC-
TORIES MAKE PROMPT
SHIPMENTS POSSIBLE.

CYPRESS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturer of Hardwoods and Cypress

^laiu and Quartered White and Red Oak, Yellow Poplar,
Yellow Pine, Walnut, etc. Mills in Tenn., Ala. and Va.

OFFICE AND YARDS, GEST AND DALTON AVE.. CINCINNATI, OHIO.

C. CRANE & COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS

Poplar, Oak, Ash, Chestnut, Sycamore,
W. Va. Spruce, Pine and Elm

YEARLY CAPACITY 100,000,000 FEET

LONG BILL STUFF A SPECIALTY

Mills and Yards: CINCINNATI, OHIO

OAK FLOORING

Thoroughly Kiln Dried.
Perfectly Manufactured.
We are located in the best Oak Timber section in the

United States; have new and modern machinery and

experienced operators. •
Why should we not be able to furnish the best Oak

Flooring?
Write us and we will convince you that we can.

The INTERNATIONAL HARDWOOD COMPANY

Catlettsburg, Kentucky

W. T. SCHNAUFER

;H. G. CHAMBERLAIN

CRESCENT LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of

Hardwood Lumber
co. a

MARIETTA, O.

W. H. Dawkins Lumber Co.

Manufacturers of Band Sawed

Yellow Poplar

ASHLAND, KY.

HARDWOOD RECORD

77

d~* I TVT 4~* I TVT TVT A T* I

t/irSIOIININA 1 I

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

THE WIBORG & HANNA COMPANY

CINCINNATI. OHIO

PLAIN
AND

QUARTER
SAWED

White and Red Oak

CHESTNUT

POPLAR

GUM AND

CYPRESS

Flooring, Siding, Ceiling, Base, Case and Molding. Rough, Dressed and Re-sawed. Mixed Carloads.

THE

MALEY, THOMPSON & MOFFETT CO.

AUjyi in the Market for

BLACK WALNUT LOGS,
SELECTED WHITE OAK LOGS,
LUMBER OF ALL KINDS.

CINCINNATI,

OHIO

Cash buyers for stock in our line.

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co.

GEST AND SUMMER STREETS

Wholesalers Mahogany, Thin Lumber, Veneers

Finely figured quarter sawed oak veneers a specialty.

THE E. E. BECK LUMBER COMPANY

Cash Buyers

Poplar, Oak, Chestnut

And Other Southern Hardwoods
ALL, GRADES AND THICKNESSES. WE BUY MILL. CUTS.

KENTUCKY LUMBER CO.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

BUYERS OF EVERYTHING IN

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

POPLAR, OAR, ASH, CHESTNUT, BASS, GUM, C) -
PRESS, COTTONWOOD. Can handle mixed or straight cars

WILL INSPECT AT SHIPPING POINT WHEN QUANTITY JUSTIFIES

WE PAY CASH WRITE US WHEN READY TO SELL

L. W. RADINA & COMPANY

Correspondence Solicited with Buyers and Sellers of All Kinds of

Wanted for cash — desirable blocks of 1 inch to 4 inch Poplar, all grades,
Especially lj^-inch stock, for immediate shipment.

CLARK STREET AND OALTON AVENUE-

PLAIN OAK—BASSWOOD

Are what we want. All thicknesses and grades. Spot
cash. Send us list of your offerings with prices.

DUHLMEIER BROS., CINCINNATI, 0.

IN THE MARKET FOR

OAK-ASH-POPLAR

ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

MOWBRAY & ROBINSON

Office!
1219 West Sixth Street

Yards:
Sixth Street, below Harriet

THE FREIBERG LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers ol

Tabasco Mahogany
Walnut. O&K

Poplar, McLean and Findlay Ats.

CINCINNATI, O.

"BUY GUM"

We are in the market to buy
Dry Gum Lumber in any
quantity, from a single car
load to a million feet. Will
take all grades and thick-
nesses. We receive lumber
at shipping point, pay cash
and are liberal In inspection.

THE FARRIN-KORN

LUMBER COMPANY

General Office. Yards,

Planing Mills, Dry Kilns.

Cincinnati, Ohio
Purchasing Office,

Randolph Building,

Memphis, Tenn.

Cypress Red Gum Oak

•8

HARDWOOD RECORD

$> INDIANA §>

-WHERE THE BEST HARDWOODS GROW-

THE WOODS FOR
WHICH INDIANA
IS FAMOUS.

Quart Yd White Oak

Plain White Oak

Quartered Red Oak

Plain Red Oak

White Ash

Poplar

Black Walnut

Cherry

Sycamore

Red Gum

Hickory

Beech

Maple

Veneers of

Indiana Hardwoods

PERRINE-ARMSTRONG CO.

Long Timber up to 60 feet — Hardwood Specialties

The largest Band Mill in Indiana. FORT WAYNE, IND.

J. V. STIMSON

All Kinds of Hardwood Lumber Manufactured

HUNTINGBURG, IND.

YOUNG & CUTSINGER

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Fine Figured Quartered Oak

EVANSVILLE, IND.

CHARLES H. BARNABY

Manufacturer of Band Sawed Hardwoods

Quarter Sawed Indiana White Oak a Specialty GREENCASTLE, IND.

D'HEUR & SWAIN LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Quartered Oak and Sycamore

SEYMOUR, IND.

C. I. HOYT & CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Quartered and Plain Oak, Poplar, Ash and Chestnut

Specialty in Difficult Orders in Wagon Stock. PEKIN, IND.

LONG-KNIGHT LUMBER CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS

Quarter Sawed White and Red Oak a Specialty

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

MALEY & WERTZ

Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Exporters of Hardwood Lumber

EVANSVILLE, IND.

HARDWOOD RECORD

79

BUFFALO

THE GREAT WHOLESALE LUMBER CENTER OF THE EAST

Manufacturers and
Dealers in

Ash

White and Brown

Basswood
Birch

Red and White

Butternut

Cherry

Chestnut

Cottonwood

Cypress

Elm

Soft and Rock

Gum

Red and Tupelo

Hickory
Maple

Hard and Soft

Red Oak

Plain and Quartered

White Oak

Plain and Quartered

Black Walnut
White Wood

Poplar

STANDARD HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

OAK, ASH AND CHESTNUT

1075 CLINTON STREET

L N. STEWART & BROTHER

Specialties: CHERRY AND OAK

892 ELK STREET

T. SULLIVAN & COMPANY

Specialties: BROWN ASH, BIRCH, PACIFIC COAST FIR AND SPRUCE

60 ARTHUR STREET

ORSON E. YEAGER

Specialties: OAK, ASH AND POPLAR

932 EI.K STREET

BEYER, KNOX & COMPANY

ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

Office and Yards, 69 LEROY AVENUE

BUFFALO HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

We want to buy for cash :

Oak, Ash and other Hardwoods, all grades and thicknesses.
Will receive and inspect stock at shipping point.
P. O. Box 312. MEMPHIS. TENN. 940 SENECA STREET

EMPIRE LUMBER COMPANY

Our specialties are PLAIN »nd QUARTERED OAK and ASH.

1142 SENECA STREET.

G. ELIAS & BROTHER

BUY AND CARRY LARGE QUANTITIES OF ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

955 TO 1015 ELK STREET

HUGH McLEAN LUMBER COMPANY

Specialty: INDIANA WHITE OAK

940 ELK STREET

ANTHONY MILLER

HARDWOODS OF ALL KINDS

893 EAGLE STREET

SCATCHERD & SON

HARDWOODS ONLY
Yard, 1555 SENECA STREET Office. 886 ELLICOTT SQUARE

W J MANUFACTURERS OLD-FASHIONED

VSHlSSintf SOFT YELLOW

POPLAR

Kitchen &

5-8 AND 4-4

IN WIDE STOCK.

SPECIALTY

Ashland, Kentucky

Company

Three States Lumber Co.

250M DRY 1 3" TO 1 7"
COTTONWOOD BOX BOARDS

Prompt Shipment Memphis, Tennessee

Lamb -Fish Lumber Co.

SUCCESSORS TO LAMB HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY, BACON-NOLAN-HARDWOOD COMPANY GUIRL-STOVER LUMBER COMPANY

Manufac-
turers

OAK, ASH, COTTONWOOD, GUM
AND CYPRESS

MAIN OFFICE: 720 MEMPHIS TRUST BUILDING. MEMPHIS. TENN.
__ _ - w.«« I Memphis. Tenn. ffc O • li« I Well Manufactured Stock

Three Band Mills chancy, m.... Our Specialties good Grades

*****'*■' •*••••*• * **»»w i Stover. M'ss. r I Prompt Shipments

YELLOW POPLAR

MANUFACTURERS

BAND SAWED
POPLAR
LUMBER

ALL GRADES

HD V 5'8, 4'*' 5"4 6 4 8 4 10 "*! 12-4.16-4-

UflY. Bevel Siding, Lath & Squares

SPECIALTY. WIDE STOCK

Coal Grove, Ohio, U, S. A.

C0PY3IGHT, A. D. 190T, BY THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

MMwol Roil

Twelfth Year. I

Semi-monthly. \

CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 25, 1907.

I Subscription $2.
(Single Copies, 10 Cents.

2,000,000 Feel

FOR SALE

ROSS LUMBER CO.

JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK

3

The present DIVIDEND OF 33'/3% TO POLICY HOLDERS represents a RETURN
OF ONE-THIRD OF THE PREMIUMS received by:-

THE LUMBER MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

OF BOSTON, MASS.

YOUR INVESTIGATION INVITED

The Davidson-Benedict Company

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
Everything in

Southern Hardwoods

POPLAR, CHESTNUT, ASH, OAK

(Plain and Quartered.) Straight or Miicd Cars.

riDiccnn POPl AR ANV YOU GET WHAT YOU BUY FROM
DRESSED POHLAK AIN Y ^g" ASK FOR OUR DELlVERED

WAY YOU WANT IT. prices, any railroad point.

DRY STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

1(53,000 ft. 1 inch No. 1 and No. 2 Quartered White Oak
104.000 ft. 1 inch No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak.
285.000 ft. 1 inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.
360,000 ft. 1 inch No. 1 Common Plain Oak.

22,000 ft. U inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.

38,000 ft. lj inch No. 1 Common Plain Oak.

16,000 ft. H inch No. I and No. 2 Plain Oak.

24.000 ft. '-' inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.

16,000 ft. 2 inch No. 1 Common Plain Oak.
170.000 ft. 1 inch Scented Tennessee Cedar.
217,000 ft. J inch No. I Common Poplar.
Poplar Bevel Siding

THE ATLANTIC LUMBER CO.

2 K1LBY STREET, BOSTON, MASS.

COMPANIES SPECIALIZING IN LUMBER AND WOODWORKING RISKS:

LUMBER INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK ADIRONDACK FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

66 BROADWAY, NEW YORK

CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $300,000

66 BROADWAY, NEW YORK

CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $300,000

ADVERTISERS' CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY FOLLOWS WANT AND FOR SALE ADVERTISING SECTION.

HARDWOOD RECORD

LOUISVILLE

MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF KENTUCKY

McLean - Davis Lumber Co.

Successors to

Hugh McLean Lumber Co., Highland Park, Ky.
Edward L. Davis Lumber Co., Louisville, Ky.
Berry -Davis Saw Mill Co., Louisville, Ky.

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Hardwood Lumber

Daily Capacity:
80,000 feet>

Sales Oifices:
[Louisville, Ky.

Ornamental Hardwood Floors

400 STYLES AND PATTERNS

Ulostrated Catalog on Application

WOOD = MOSAIC FLOORING CO.

Rochester, N. Y. New Albany, Ind.

Dry stock w. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co.

Louisville, Ky.

PLAIN RED
55.000' 1" 1st &
25.000' 1V4" 1st
49.000' 1%- 1st
57.000' 2" 1st &
18.000' 2V," 1st
16.0(10' 3" 1st &
131.000' 1" No. 1
84,01X1' 1V4" No.
44.000' 1%" No.
47,000' 2" No. 1
8.O00' 2%" No.
15,000' 3" No. 1

OAK.
2nd.
& 2d.
& 2d.

2d.
& 2d.

2d.
Com.
1 Com.
1 Com.
Con..
1 Com.
Com.

QUARTERED RED OAK.
19,000' 1" 1st & 2d.

All thicknesses in cul poplar, ash, chestnut.

14,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.

5,000' 2" 1st & 2d.

15,000' 1" No. 1 Com.

7,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.

13,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

PLAIN WHITE OAK.

80,000' 1" 1st & 2d.

28.000' H4" 1st & 2d.

12.000' 1%" 1st & 2d.

42.000' 2" 1st & 2d.

23,800' 2W 1st & 2d.

16.000' 3" 1st & 2d.

227.000' 1" No. 1 Com.

60.000" 1W No. 1 Com.

80.000' 1%- No. 1 Com.

50,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
17,000' 2%" No. 1 Com.
22,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

QUARTERED WHITE OAK.

.000' 1" 1st & 2d.

0U0' 1%" 1st & 2d.

000' 1%" 1st & 2d.

000' 2" 1st & 2d.

000' 2%" 1st & 2d.

000' 1" No. 1 Com.

.000' iyt" No. 1 Com.

000' 1%" No. 1 Com.

000' 2" No. 1 Com.

000' 3" No. 1 Com.

ASH.

0,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
65.000' lW 1st & 2d.
16,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
10.000' 2" lBt & 2d.

8.000' 2%" 1st & 2d.
14.000' 3" 1st & 2d.

6,000' 4" 1st & 2d.

4.000' H4" No. 1 Com.
16,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.

8.000' 2" No. 1 Com.

POPLAR.
12.000' 1" 1st & 2d.

Your inquiries will be appreciated.

12,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.

11,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.

12,000' 2" 1st & 2d.

10.000' 2%" 1st & 2d.

10,000' 3" 1st & 2d.

50,000' 1" No. 1 Com.

28,000' IVi" No. 1 Com.

10,000' IW No. 1 Com.

10.000' 2" No. 1 Com.

15,000' 1" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

8,000' 2" IS" & up 1st & 2d.

6,000' 2" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

4,000' 1%" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

3.000' 1%" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

Prompt delivery guaranteed

Appleton, Wis. , 2-25-07.

Consumers

oi

Hardwoo

d,

Evei

ywh

ere ,

u.

S. A.

Gentl emen

-

Do you

alw£

ys

writ

3 us 'when in the market

for

hardwood

lumber?

It

s not a bad habit to

get

into,

for

we

may

have just what you want.

Slot

ks are

pretty low, just no_w, but here are a

few

items

that we can move quickly: -

40M

ft.

1

in.

1&2

Red Birch.

100M

ft.

1

in.

1&2

Plain

50M

ft.

1

in.

No.

1C. Red

100M

ft.

1

in .

No

1C, Plain "

1.5M

ft.

1

in.

No.

2C. Red ' ■ 8 in & up.

15M

ft.

2

in .

18.2

300M

ft

1

in.

No.

2C.&B. Maple.

50M

ft

1

in.

162

Red Oak.

50M

ft.

1

in.

No.

1C. Red Oak.

50M

ft,

1

in.

1&2

Sap Gum.

75M

ft.

n

in.

No.

1C. Red Gum.

OAK

BRIDGE PLANK

AND CAR STOCK UP'TO 5000M ft.

V

ery

truly yours ,

G. V. JONES LUMBER CO.

Albert R. Kampi

Manufacturer

Hardwood Lumber and Timber

Dimension Stock

Board of Trade Bldg., Louisville, Ky.

E. W. Rhubesky

Wholesale

Poplar, Rough and Dressed.

Oak, Chestnut and Other

Hardwoods

North Vernon
Lumber Co.

Band Sawed Plain and Quartered

Oak and Poplar.

North Vernon, Ind.. and

Louisville, Ky.

Southern Lumber Co.

Oak, Poplar and

Chestnut.
Louisville, Ky.

All Lumbermen, Attention!

We do what you can't do.
We measure your stumpage correctly.
We make your maps correctly.
Bank references: Asheville, N. C.

!/• A. oCnenCK Co LO. North Carolina.

HARDWOOD RECORD

CADILLAC

—

CELEBRATED FOR HIGH STANDARD OF QUALITY AND MILL WORK

.

Mitchell's Make-
Dry

Michigan Hardwoods

78,000 ft. 4/4 Birch No. 2 Common and Better

4,000 " 4/4 Cherry "

5,000 " 4/4 " No. 3 Common

40,000 " 8/4 Gray Elm 1st and 2nds

59,000 " 4/4 Hard Maple

45,000 " 6/4 "

33,000 " 10/4 "

2,000 " 12/4 "

79,000 " 4/4 Red Oak No. 2 and Better

END DRIED IN SHED

25,000 ft. 4/4 White Basswood, Clear

5,000 " 5/4 White Maple
23,000 " 8/4 "

PLEASE SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES

Mitchell Brothers Company

CADILLAC, MICH.

The Cadillac Handle Co.

Band Sawn
Michigan Hardwoods

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 Cars 4 4 Hard Maple, 1st and 2nds.
3 Cars 5/4 Hard Maple 1st and 2nds.

6 Cars 5 4 Hard Maple, No. 1 and 2 Common

1 Car 6/4 Hard Maple. 10 in. and wider, No. 1 Com n and

Better.

2 Cars 4/4 Birch, No. 2 Common and Better.

MURPHY & DIGG1NS

Offer all grades of the following special dry stock

MAPLE— 6/4, 6/4, 8/4, 10 4, 12,4, 14/4. 16/4
CRAY ELM-4/4, 12/4
BASSWOOD^/4
BIRCH— 1/4, 6/4

Our own manufacture. Perfect Mill Work. Uniform Grades.

LET US FIGURE ON YOUR HARDWOOD WANTS.

Cummer, Diggins & Co.

^MANUFACTURERS^

"CUMMER" MAPLE
AND BEECH FLOORING

MICHIGAN HARDWOODS

Good assortment of dry stock on hand ready
for immediate shipment in Hard Maple, Beech,
Birch, Soft Elm and Cherry.

SEND US A LIST 0¥ YOUR REQUIREMENTS.

DRY ST

OCKJ

Northern Michigan

Soft Gray Elm

What our old cork pine was to the regular
while pine — such is our Soft Gray Elm to
ordinary soft elm. Buyers who gladly discrim-
inate in favor of something better than the or-
dinary, will be interested. We have

10 cars 8-4 firsts and seconds.

1 car 10-4 firsts and seconds.

2 cars 12-4 firsts and seconds.

Wide, choice stock, our own product, seasoned right,
bone dry.

WHITE US ABOUT IT.

m, COBBS&HITCIIELL

(INCORPORATED)

W CADILLAC MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

PLAIN AND QUARTER SAWED
WHITE AND RED OAK, ELM,
COTTONWOOD. POPLAR, GUM,
WHITE ASH AND CYPRESS

ISondl}^!^

CABLE ADDRESS:
"SONDERCO" MEMPHIS

CODES USED:

LUMBERMAN'S. TELECODE AND

A B C 5th EDITION

MANUFACTURERS

HARDWOOD, GUM, COTTONWOOD AND CYPRESS

LUMBER

Main Office: Tennessee Trust Building

MEMPHIS, TENN.

Offers the following specials

30 Cars 1 in.

1 O Cars

1 O Cars

20 Cars

1 O Cars

154 in.

V/2 in.

154 in.

r<o. 1 Common Plain \A/hite Oak.

No. 1 Common Plain \A/hite Oak.

No. 1 Common Plain YA/hite Oak

INo. 1 Common Quartered lA/hite Oak

in. INo. 1 Common Quartered Red Oak

lO Cars 154 ««">• 1st and 2nd Quartered Red Oak

Direct shipments from our own Mills of Lumber from our own Timber our Specialty
We manufacture and put in pile 300,000 ft. Hardwood every 24 hours

Anderson-Tully Company

OFFERS STOCK FOR SALE

100,000 ft. 1 in. firsts and seconds Cottonwood 13 in. and up wide
.500,000 " 1 in. and li in. shops and better Cypress
One car 4-4 firsts and seconds Plain Red Oak
One car 4-4 " " " " White Oak

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

FENN BROS. COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Oak Flooring

Quartered VA/hite Hollow Backed

Quartered Red End Matched

Plain \A/hite Polished

Plain Red Bored

Offices a.rvd Plant :

Kansas and Mallory Ave., New South Memphis.

(Take South Memphis car to Mallory Ave.)

WAGON STOCK

IN* ROUGH.

TONGUES, AXLES. REACHES. BOLSTERS
AND 6 4 TO 16 4 HICKORY. ALSO ALL

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

Gayoso Lumber Co., Inc.

Memphis, Tenn.

FEBRUARY STOCK LIST

HARD MAPLE
1 in. 1,000,000 ft.
1} in. 100,000 ft.
li in. 100,000 ft.

3 in. 50,000 ft.

4 in. 50,000 ft.

1 in.
li in.

2 in.
2i in.

BEECH

100,000 ft.
BIRCH

500,000 ft.

100,000 ft.

100,000 ft.
50,000 ft.

BASSWOOD
1 in. 300,000 ft.

GRAY ELM
1 in. 300,000 ft.
li in. 200,000 ft.
3 in. 200,000 ft.

Kelley Lumber & Shingle Co.

Traverse City, Mich.

HARDWOOD RECORD

FULLERTON-POWELL

Hardwood Lumber Co.

OFFERS THE FOLLOWING STOCK I.

FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT |'

40 Cars 1 inch 1st and 2nds Plain Red Oak

20 Cars 1 inch 1st and 2nds Plain White Oak

1 Car 3 inch 1st and 2nds Plain White Oak

2 Cars 2 inch 1st and 2nds White Ash

2 Cars 3 inch 1st and 2nds White Ash

10 Cars 1 inch 1st and 2nds Red Gum, 10 to 16 feet

3 Cars 1 inch 1st and 2nds Red Gum, 12 feet

BRANCH OFFICES:

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., 305 Lumber Exchange

MAIN OFFICES
CHICAGO, 1104 Chamber of Commerce cheerfully ) - -a r 1

MEMPHIS, TENN.,305 Tennessee Trust Bldg. \ furnished / \SOttth 2J £/!£/, J/lU.

W. M. Ritter Lumber Co

COLUMBUS. OHIO

Saw and Ship 100,000,000 Feet Yearly

WEST VIRGINIA YELLOW POPLAR
NORTH CAROLINA CORK WHITE PINE

AND HARDWOOD

DRY KILNS AND PLANING MILLS. ALL OUR MILLS RUN THE YEAR ROUND.
SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES AND ORDERS.!

HARDWOOD RECORD

Thomas Forman Company

MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE

Maple and Oak

Fl

oonng

New York Branch :

Mdiovern 6 Bowen. And Hardwood Lumber

29 Broadway

DETROIT.
MICHIGAN

What Do You Want
In Hardwood and Building Lumber?

Ash 275,000 ft.

Chestnut 2.225,000 ft.

Cvpress 675,000 ft.

Hemlock 1,100,000 ft.

Maple S10.000 ft.

Oak 1,300,000 ft.

White Pine 828,500 ft.

Yellow Pine 775,000 ft.

Poplar 832,500 ft.

Cherry 210,000 ft.

WE WILL BE GLAD TO RECEIVE TOUR INQUIRIES
FOR THESE OR ANY OTHER SPECIAL LUMBER.

J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co.

56th to S8th Streets and Woodland Ave., PHILADELPHIA PA.

Quartered Oak Flooring

Manufactured for

HIGHEST GLASS of trade only.

Also Plain Oak, Maple and other Hardwood flooring.

The name D WIGHT on flooring is a guarantee of its

excellence.
D WIGHT SPECIAL pattern of thin flooring is the
only suitable thin flooring to lay. Write for Sample.

DWIGHT LUMBER. COMPANY

DETROIT, MICHIGAN

Phila. Veneer 4 Lumber Co.

817 NORTH FIFTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

SLICED AND SAWED

Quartered Oak Veneer

CUT TO DIMENSION SIZES ( JOINTED AND TAPED)

WE HAVE A GOOD STOCK OF PLAIN AND QUAR-
TERED OAK ON YARD AT KNOXVILLE MILL

WILLIAM WHITMER. @> SONS, Inc.

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET FOR STOCKS OF
WELL MANUFACTURED

HARDWOODS

BRANCHES:' .

NEW YORK, BOSTON, PITTSBURG

MAIN OFFICES:

GIRARD TRUST BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA

Swarm-Day Lumber Company

lUKUfACTUIlKl OF

POPLAR AND OAK

PLANING MILL STOCK, BOX SHOOKS
AND HARDWOOD DIMENSION

CLAY CITY, KENTUCKY

HARDWOOD RECORD

7

THE EAST

BOSTON NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA

1

J. H. SCHOFIELD

R. W. SCHOFIELD

Schofield Brothers

LUMBER

WHITE PINE
AND HARDWOODS

1019-1020 Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Bldg.,

Sales Agents: Long Pole Lumber Co., Case-Fowler Lumber Co.

Mills: CADI I? DDATIIEDC Specialties:

Honaker, Va. dUDLL DKvllltKj Quartered White
Birmington, Ala. — Oak, Poplar.

WHOLESALE LUMBER

Land Title Building • ■ Philadelphia, Pa.

Wistar, Underhill & Co.,

WHOLESALE

HARDWOOD LUMBER

8l6 Real Estate Trust Building, Ji PHILADELPHIA.

H.

H

. MAUS

MANUFACTT

& CO.,

REUS

INC.

HARDWOOD and YELLOW PINE.

Write ns if you wish

o 1'iiv or sell.

420 Walnut

St.,

PHILADELPHIA. PA.

W. M. GILLESPIE LUMBER

HARDWOODS COMPANY Farmers Bank Bldg.
Oak a Specialty PITTSBURGH, PA.

BALTIMORE

M A R Y L A N

E L7 L7 DDirT BUYER AND

D £1,. £,. I f\lv>Ili EXPORTER OP

Hardwoods, Poplar and Logs

I am always in the market for nice lots of dry and well manufactured
lumber. X inspect at point of shipment. Correspondence solicited.

The West Florida Hardwood Co.

Ash
Hickory

Mill, ON Apalachicola River
MARYSVILLE, FLA.

Red and While Oak Red Gum

Yellow Cottonwood Tupelo Gum

LET US HAVE YOUR INQUIRIES

ALBERT

HAAS LUMBER

CO.

BAND SAWED

OAI

YELLOW POPLAR

ATLANTA

i: ';:

GEORGIA

JOHN L. ALCOCK & CO.

BUYERS OF BLACK WALNUT LOGS
BOARDS AND PLANKS

Baltimore, Md.

Inspection at point of
shipment. Spot cash.

THE BUFFALO MAPLE FLOORING CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE AND OAK FLOORING

BUFFALO, NEW YORK

James & Abbot Company

Lumber and Timber

No. J 65 MILK ST., BOSTON, MASS., and GULFPORT, MISS.

WantCd-DimenSiOI. Oak Plain and Quartered,

White and Red. Send for specifications.

Indiana Qvia.rtered Oak Co.

7 East 42nd Street, New York City

STEVENS-EATON CO.

robots Hardwoods

No. 1 Madison

Avenue,

New York

ESPECIALLY IN MARKET FOR PLAIN RED OAK

JONES HARDWOOD CO.

INi (IKPOKATEI)

WANTS: Poplar, Plain Oak,
Quartered Oak and Cypress.

147 MILK STREET
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Manufacturers please send stock lists and prices.

Holloway Lumber Company

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

In the market for all thicknesses of
OAK, ASH and CHESTNUT.

312 Arcade Building,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

WM. E. LITCHFIELD

MASON BUILDING, BOSTON, MASS.

Specialist in Hardwoods

Manufacturers are requested to supply lists of stock for sale

HARDWOOD RECORD

PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER COMPANY

M A N I'FiC T 0 R B RS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM AIND OTHER HARDWOODS

Large stocki of wtll seasoned Lumtxr always carried at our yard» and mills.
General Offices: HOW. Chicago Ave., CHICAGO. Mills: Cairo, 111., Marked Tree. Ark., Greenville, Miss., Arkansas City, Ark., Blythtvillc, Ark.

To Timber Buyers

Wchave been established since LS80. We employ a larger force of
expert timber cruisers than any other firm in the world. Wehave
furnished banks and trust companies with expert reports on
timber properties upon which Millions of Dollars of timber certifi-
cates or bonds Lave been issued. We solicit correspondence with
bonafide investors. Our Specialty: Timber lands in the South.
Paeitie Coast and British Columbia. We furnish detailed esti-
mates., thus enabling you to verity our representations at very
little expense and without loss o\ valuable time.

JAMES D.LACEY & CO.

JAMES D. 1 U 1 \ WOOD Bl VICTOK THKANi:

608 Hennen BIds.. NEW ORLEANS. LA. 507 Lumber Exch. Bids.. SEATTLE. WASH.

1200 Old Colony Bldg.. CHICAGO. ILL. Chamber oi Commerce. PORTLAND. ORE.

R. M. SMI I'll j. h. P. SMITH

R. M. SMITH (& COMPANY

V:W 3 OF

WEST VIRGINIA HARDWOODS

PARKERSBURG. WEST VIRGINIA

WE CARRY IN STOCK FROM TEN TO FIFTEEN MILLION FEET OF ASH. BEECH. BASS«"OOD. CHESTNUT. CHERRY,
MAPLE, PLAIN & QTD. OAK. POPLAR, WALNUT, &C OUR PLANING
MILL FACILITIES ARE UNSURPASSED.
• .ekx OF] Band Mill: Orndoff, Webster County, \V. Va.

1425-6 LAND TITLE BUILDING. PHILADELPHIA Planing Mill: Heaters. W. Va.

HARDWOOD RECORD

D. G. COURTNEY

M A N I P A C T I R E R <> P

Yellow Poplar
Oak & Chestnut

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA

Our Timber Holdings are located exclusively in the finest sections of West Virginia
growth. Modern mills and perfect manufacture. Standard and uniform grades.

We seek the trade of wood-working factories who want a' dependable lumber supply
and fair treatment.

Just now we want to] move 4/4 No.Jl, No. 2 and [No. 3jkCommon ^Oak.

'i

HARDWOODS

SPECIAL:

4/4 1 and 2 Cherry.
4/4 No. 1 Common Cherry.
10/4 LR Hickory (Flitch Sawed.i

BAND MILLS:

Richwood, W. Va.

Camden-on-Gauley, W. Va..

Holcomb, W. Va.

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co.

Scranton, Pa.

IO

HARDWOOD REC

ORD

C H I C A

Q

IN THE

o

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET

WORLD

Chicago Car Lumber Co.

504 Pullman Building
CHICAGO

Buyers of Round Lots

Poplar, Oak, Ash and Car and R. R.
Material

Hayden & Westcott Lumber Co.

IN MARKET FOR

POPLAR

25 M ft. 1J" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
40 M ft. 2" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
25 M ft. 2£".No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
60. M ft. 3" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.

ROCK ELM
200 M ft. 5 4 No. 1 Common and better
500 M ft. S'4 No. 1 Common and better

BLACK ASH
50 M ft. each 4 4, 5 4 and 6, 4 No. 1 common and better

OAK AND ASH
100 cars car oak framing
25 cars white ash from 1" to 4" green or dry^ls and!2s

511 Railway Exchange,

Chicago

PARK RICHMOND ®> CO.

Wholesale

Hardwood Lumber

410 Monadnock Block

Chi

PHONE
HARRISON 5165

ncago

Ryan & McParland

CHICAGO AND MEMPHIS

In the Market to buy Ash, Hickory, Poplar
and Oak Lumber; also Wagon Stock

In the Market to buy Hardwood Logs for
our Memphis Band Mill

John

O'Brien

Land & Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Of All Kinds

OFFICE AND YARDS : ^^^

873 to 881 So. Laflin Street C h lCaPO
mill: philipp, miss. — '^a 0

J. Slimmer & Company

Hardwood
Lumber

Office and Yard :

65 W. Twenty-second St.

CHICAGO

R. A. WELLS LUMBER CO. |

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Fine Quartered Oak a Specialty

234 LA SALLE STREET
Yards at Canal and 21st Sts. CHICAG<

, ILL.

White Lumber Company

Dealers in Hardwood Lumber

ALL KINDS

Cherry Lumber a.
Specia-Ity

ALL GRADES

Laflin r& 22d Sts.
Chicago

HARDWOOD RECORD

11

CHICAGO

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

I ERNEST B. LOMBARD ■

Manufacturer and Wholesale

Northern cvrvd Southern,
Hardwoods

Railway Exchange - CHICAGO

The Keith Lumber Co.

MAHOGANY

5,000,000 feet ma-
hogany in stock.

Large and fine stock
of Cuban wood.

FOREIGN AND

AMERICAN

HARDWOODS

14th and Wood Streets
CHICAGO

CHAS. DARLING & CO.

Southern
Hardwoods

22nd Street and Center Avenue - CHICAGO

CHAS. MILLER

MILLER BROS.

dlLTON MILLER

H/\RD\A/OOD LUMBER

Main'Office: 208 WILLOUGHBY BLDG. 6 E. MADISON ST.
'Phone Central 1363 CHICAGO, ILL.

Yards:'LoomisSt. S.of 22nd St., Chicago, 111., Houston Miss., Macon, Miss.

The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Co.

Wholesale and Retail

Telephone
NORTH 223

HARDWOOD LUMBER

47 Dominick St.
CHICAGO

Estabrook - Skeele

Lumber Company

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Oak, Ash, Gum, Cottonwood, Wagon
Stock and Other Hardwoods

In the market for round lots of Hardwood and
Wagon Stock. Write us before selling.

Fisher Building, CHICAGO

IX \JKf 1A/VI IF? 1101 FISHER BLILDINQ

/-% , 1/1/ . 1/1/ T L.IC, CHICAGO - ILLINOIS

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS
OAK GUM CYPRESS

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Co.

1649-50 MARQUETTE BUILDING

Are now offering hone dry BIRCH. ROCK ELM. BLACK ASH, etc., Wis-
consin stock. Also PLAIN AND QUARTERED OAK, POPLAR, etc.,
Irom our Memphis yard. We are constant buyers.

McCauley - Saunders Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

BAND SAWED
LOUISIANA GULF COAST

RED CYPRESS

Products Exclusively

Sfs^o 1703 Fisher Bldg., CHICAGO, ILL.

W. A. DAVIS

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

1612 Marquette Bldg., CHICAGO
Branch Offices : PADUCAH, KY., and MEMPHIS, TENN.

THE WARD LIMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

HARDWOODS

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUILDING :: CHICAGO

12

HARDWOOD RECORD

OAK FLOORING

Kiln Dried

Bored

Polished

/ HARDWOOD LUMBER ^N

. . ■

& MFG. CO.
5A RDIS
- MISS. -

Hollow

Backed

and

Bundled

a

Ideal" £ Rock Maple Flooring

is the flooring that is manufactured expressly to supply
the demand for the best. It is made by modern ma-
chinery from carefully-selected stock and every pre-
caution is taken throughout our entire system to
make it fulfill in every particular its name— "IDEAL."

Rough or Finished Lumber — All Kinds

#Send us Your Inquiries

The I. Stephenson Company

WEI.LS, MICHIGAN

" It * ♦ i • "

Michigan Maple Flooring

Our model factory is equipped with the highest
class tools and appliances made for Flooring
production.

We produce our lumber from the best rock Ma-
ple area in Michigan and have 20 years' supply.

Our brand "Michigan" is a guaranty of qual-
ity. Perfect mill work and excellent grades
distinguish our Flooring and our prices are
reasonable.

WARD BROS., Big Rapids, Mich.

Always Think Before You Act—
But in the Matter of

FIRE INSURANCE

But Don't Delay Too Long For
IT IS DANGEROUS.

Write at Once For Our Rates, etc.

Lumber Underwriters

66 Broadway, New York

We have in stock

150,000 ft. 4-4 White Maple Cross piled with 2'/2-
inch dry crossers.

125,000 ft. 4-4 Log run Birch red in. No thick
cut out.

Please favor us with vour orders.

Bliss & Van Auken

Saginaw, W. S. Mich.

WE ARE OFFERING

TIMBER LAND 6% BONDS

Secured by first mortgage on Southern timber
lands at less than 50 per cent of their present
market value. Issued by large, well established,
responsible lumber companies. Full particu-
lars will be mailed on request.

CLARK L. F»OOLE & CO.

SUCCESSORS TO

H. C. BARROLL fa CO., Bankers

First National Bank Building CHICAGO

^The HARDWOOD RECORD publishes a
series of bulletins, showing the annual hardwood re-
quirements of many thousands of wholesale consumers,
by kind, grade and thickness.

^ Indispensable to every lumber sales manager.

^ Specimen bulletin for the asking.

THE "FINEST" MAPLE FLOORING

W. D. YOUNG & CO.

BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

Producers from TREE to TRADE of the high-
est type of Michigan Forest Products. Large
stock of Maple Flooring and 15,000,000 feet
of Hardwoods — 1 to 4 inches thick — on hand.

Maple, Birch and Beech Lumber

AaMwolRooJM

Published In the Interest of Hardwood Lumber. American Hardwood Forests, Wood Veneer Industry, Hardwood Flooring,
Hardwood Interior Finish, Wood Chemicals, Saw Mill and Woodworking Machinery.

Vol. XXIII.

CHICAGO. FEBRUARY 25. 1907.

No. 9.

Published on the 10th and 25th of each month fey

THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

Henry H. Gibson, President

Frank W. Tuttle, Sec-Treas.

OFFICES
Sixin Floor Ellsworth Bldg., 355 Dearborn St Chicago, III., U.S.A.

Telephones: Harrison 4960 Automatic 5659

TERMS OF ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION

In the United States, Canada, Philippine Islands and Mexico . . $2.00

In all other countries in Universal Postal Union ..... 3.00
Subscriptions are payable in advance, and in default of written orders to the
Contrary are continued at our option.

The entire contents of this publication are covered by the general copy-
right, and articles must not be reprinted without special permission.
Entered at Chicago Postoffice as Second Class Matter.

^Advertising copy must be received five days in advance of
Publication date. Advertising rates on application.

ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.

National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association.

This association will hold its next annual convention on
Wednesday and Thursday, March 6 and 7, 1907, at the New
Wiliard Hotel, Washington, D. C.

National Hardwood Lumber Association.

The tenth annual convention of this association will be
held on Thursday and Friday, May 23 and 24, 1907, at
Atlantic City, N. J.

General Market Conditions.

On another page of the Hardwood Record will be found a com-
prehensive review of the hardwood stocks on hand in the state of
Michigan on Jan. 1 of this year, together with a record of unfilled
orders at that time. These figures are based on the reports of manu-
facturers controlling about eighty-five per cent of the total hard-

v. I output of tin- ^tate, and reflect the prospective shortage of

hardwoods in that state for the coming year. Further statistics
show that the estimated lumber cut for 1907 is 417,000,000 feet, as
against an actual cut of 387,000,000 feet during 1906. It can
scarcely lie expected that this prospective increase of 30,000,000
feet will be realized. This analysis of supply for the year to come
carries out the prophecy that has been made by the Hardwood
Record for some weeks past that the supply of hardwoods from that
state will be short and that prices will surely, on the basis of supply
and demand, show an upward tendency. Undeniably, an analysis
of the condition of the present and prospective supply of hardwoods
in Wisconsin will show a very close parallel to that of Michigan,
save that the quantity will be considerably less. In fact, it is fair
to presume that the total output of Wisconsin for 1907 will not be
very much in excess of 300,000,000 feet. It is well known that the
dry stock in Wisconsin is fully as closely sold up as it is in Michi-

gan, and that like weather conditions during the logging season have
prevailed.

In the hardwood producing sections of the South there has
been a couple of weeks of good weather and of receding waters,
which has enabled loggers to again resume operations. It is very
likely that the majority of mills will receive a fair quota of logs and
that sawing will now be resumed on a normal scale. In the Mem-
phis district, which depends very largely on railroads for log sup-
plies, the capacity of the mills will probably not be reached this
season, owing both to the shortage of the general log supply and to
the. fact that there is insufficient railroad capacity to transport the
logs. Good weather conditions have also contributed to letting the
mountain mills again get into operation and nearly all of them are
now sawing lumber. The river mills are fairly well stocked with
poplar and they will have a stock of reasonably dry lumber by mid-
summer. However, as a good many logs delivered on the extremely
high tides of the past few months have laid out for several seasons,
there will be only a moderate supply of the good end produced,
owing to rotted sap and stained timber.

Oak of all kinds still remains in very active demand and prices
are ranging high. Even quartered red oak, which has been quite
sluggish for a while, is receiving a fair call, and a good many
transactions have been made in this variety of late.

The foreign demand for both thin oak and thin gum continues
very strong and exporters are shipping just as fast as their stocks
reach a fairly merchantable condition.

The call for vehicle and furniture dimension stock is manifestly
increasing and buyers seem willing, in view of the high price of
lumber, to pay a much increased price for this variety of product.
The flooring trade is active. The present demand is fully up to
the capacity of the factories and quite a number of new establish-
ments for the production of oak, maple and beech flooring are
projected. Among other hardwoods seeking recognition as a flooring
material gum may be mentioned. Several houses contemplate manu-
facturing this wood into flooring on an extensive scale, as it is
meeting with the approval of many large buyers.

The veneer situation is very spotted. The old-time operators,
who have had long experience and training in the manufacture of
veneers and panels, seem to be having an excellent trade at fair
prices, but there are others new to the business who are not succeed-
ing in making any money out of their enterprises. In spite of the
active demand, quite a number of veneer plants have closed down
simply because the managers have failed to make any money.

The enhanced price of oak is tending to constantly increase the
consumption of and consequent demand for mahogany, and in most
of the mahogany distributing centers stocks are very short and prices
firm, though not unduly high. High-class Cuban wood seems to be
in better supply than that from Africa and Central America.

The Status of the Merchant in the Hardwood Business.

Under conditions that have prevailed iu the hardwood trade dur-
ing the last eighteen months', the average lumber jobber avers that
he is being crowded out of business by reason of increased cost in
buying and assembling stocks and in marketing his lumber. Some
even go so far as to say that they think they can see the beginning
of the end for the hardwood jobber. This observation refers not
only to the dealer who carries stocks of lumber at trade centers, but

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also to the jobber who buys stocks outright and ships to his cus-
tomers direct from points of manufacture.

While there has been a tendency on the part of large hardwood
producers during the last few years to assort and distribute their
lumber by cars to the wholesale consuming trade through an organ-
ized sales department, it is the belief of the Hardwood Record
that there is nothing permanent in conditions that should warrant the
opinion that the wholesale hardwood merchant is going to be driven
out of business. During the last eighteen months there has been a
marked shortage of most varieties of hardwoods. Many manufac-
turers have supplemented their stocks by outside purchases from
minor manufacturers and have practically entered into competition
with the old-time merchants in the producing sections of the coun-
try. This is the feature that has caused jobbers to think they were
being driven out of business. They have been up against an in-
creased expense in securing stocks as well as in selling lumber. One
of the largest jobbers in the country reports that his cost account
during 1906 was $2.65 a thousand. This sum is probably very much
below the average and an analysis of the books of many jobbers will
show that their cost has run $3, $4 and even up to $5 a thousand.
Thus it happens that high lumber values have not meant large
profits for the majority of lumber jobbers during the year 1906.

With the renaissance of a normal supply, which will obtain only
with a diminishing demand, the hardwood lumber jobber will un-
doubtedly find that his business will be just as profitable as it has
ever been. The jobbing of lumber is a peculiar business from the
fact that it does not show steady profits year by year, but about
every third year shows extraordinary profits. The following year it
may show fair gaius and perhaps the next a loss. On the whole,
last year was not a very advantageous one for the majority of
wholesale merchants in hardwoods. Furthermore, when people talk
about the elimination of the wholesale merchant from the hardwood
business, they are talking ," through their hats." He will be an
important factor of the trade as long as hardwood is manufactured.
As a matter of fact, he constitutes not only the safety valve but the
governor of the business. To be sure, he buys lumber at the lowest
possible price and must secure on sales this cost price, a consider-
able expense account and a reasonable profit. The hardwood jobber
doing business on legitimate lines tends to foster good and increas-
ing -values for the product rather than diminishing ones. Through
hardwood jobbers many small manufacturers are enabled to carry
on their business because of the advances made to them and by
securing a fair price for their output which otherwise they might
sacrifice to buyers less scrupulous than wholesale merchants.

The Small Millman and the Prices He Gets.

The average small millman who produces one, two, three or even
five million feet of hardwood per year professes to fail to under-
stand why he cannot get as much money per thousand for his output
as does the man who produces ten, fifteen 'or thirty million feet a
year.

There are two distinct departments in a lumber manufacturing
enterprise. One consists in manufacturing lumber and the other
in marketing it. The average large producer latterly has, in addi-
tion to conducting his manufacturing enterprise, also introduced
into his business an organized sales department, and disposes of his
lumber through one general organization in varying quantities to
various classes of trade, which may include jobbers, retailers and
wholesale manufacturing consumers. He enters this division of the
business because he thinks that he can assort and sell his lumber
at a lower cost per thousand feet than he can through the jobber, and
thus secure a maximum price with a minimum cost.

A sales equipment for a lumber manufacturer is an expensive
proposition, but the cost per thousand feet is decreased as the output
is increased. While a man manufacturing 25,000,000 feet of lumber
a year may be able to market his output at from fifty to sixty
cents a thousand, the same expense being entailed in a sales or-
ganization for the marketing of 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 feet might
cost $2 a thousand. Therefore, many small manufacturers contend
that they can sell their output through the medium of the lumber
merchant in bulk and secure a net revenue from their stock in excess

of what they would secure if they peddled it out to the wholesale
consuming trade in car lots. This is patent from the fact that the
jobber who buys 3,000,000 feet from one small millman may buy a'
like quantity from a dozen others, and thus secure a quantity of
stock of sufficient size to enable him to develop a sales organization,
and thus he is able to reduce his cost to a comparatively small
amount per thousand feet.

Undeniably the small manufacturer of hardwoods is at a dis-
advantage as compared with the large operator in this particular.
He may manufacture his lumber just as cheaply as the big man,
but owing to his small output he cannot market it as cheaply. Again
the small manufacturer cannot take advantage of large and desirable
orders. He must sell his product mill run or in mixed orders in
order to keep his stock cleaned up. Often he does not make as-
good lumber on his small ground mill as is manufactured by the
large and up-to-date band equipment. Again, perhaps he does not
handle his product as well. All these reasons make up the sum
total of why the small operator cannot secure for his product the
same average per thousand feet as does the large operator.

Cottonwood.

Cottonwood lumber is coming into appreciation. For many years
this wood has been made into lumber, but only in limited quantities
and in sections where it constituted a very scattering growth. Lat-
terly, since operations on a considerable scale have been undertaken
in the lower Mississippi valley, which contains a large aggregate
stand of the wood, it is fast assuming the position of a standard
lumber material of the country.

The wood shows a high percentage of good grades, is soft in
texture, and, weight considered, is perhaps the strongest known wood.
The growth is of such size that it produces a good percentage of
white stock suitable for high-class box boards, panels, etc. For
many purposes it is scarcely inferior to poplar, and it is assuming a
range of values almost equal to poplar prices. Cottonwood holds
paint remarkably well, and it has been demonstrated that it makes
a very good material for bevel and patent siding; in fact, for years
it was manufactured and sold as poplar sap siding. The merits of
the wood have now become recognized, and it is possible to market
it on its own qualities.

Eecent tests on box material made by the government have demon-
strated that Cottonwood and gum in breaking strength are superior
to any of the yellow pines, to white pine or to western spruce.

Waste of Lumber in Cigar Boxes.

A secular contemporary says that there is a continual hue and
cry being raised by the forestry division of the Department of
Agriculture over the remarkable waste in forest products. This paper
notes that one of the regulations of the government forbids the use
of cigar boxes the second time and demands that they be destroyed.
Spanish cedar is one of the most valuable woods that is imported to-
this country, and it seems as if the government should be able to-
protect itself in some way if cigar boxes were repacked many times.
There should certainly be some way of cancelling the stamp on a
cigar box without destroying the box itself. This willful waste of
valuable box material entails an expenditure of many thousands of
dollars annually which might be saved.

The World's Timber Supply.

People have come to look upon the United States as the only country
on this continent, other than Canada, able to supply large quanti-
ties of timber, as, save for fancy cabinet woods, it is doubtful if
Mexico will ever furnish any great supply of woods to the world at
large, but will need and retain its lumber output for domestic uses.
In Europe there are five countries that are capable of supplying a
good deal of timber to the world at large for years to come — Austria-
Hungary, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Eussia. Outside of Russia's
timber holdings there is no considerable stand that is not already
seriously threatened by increase of population and industrial develop-
ment. Say what you will, the same conditions will soon prevail irn
the United States, and the warnings of forestry experts that this
country is approaching the beginning of the end of its vast wealth
in timber resources is far from idle talk. It would not be surprising
if fifty years hence the central and northern portion of South America
became the center of lumber industry and development.

HARDWOOD RECORD

15

Vert, Pertinent and Impertinent.

'Fame Is a Food That Dead Men Eat."

Fame is a tood that dead men eat — ■
I have no stomach for such meat.
In little light and narrow room,
They eat it in the silent tomb,
With no kind voice of comrade near
To bid the banquet be of cheer.

But friendship is a nobler thing —
Of friendship it is good to sing.
For truly, when a man shall end.
He lives in memory of his friend,
Who doth his better part recall,
And of his faults make funeral.

■ — The Century.

In the (Wedding) Ring.

I'eter, Peter Overeater

Once, upon a summer's day.
Had a wife and tried to beat her

In the good old-fashioned way.

How the Women New do vex us !

Wife let loose her bunch of fives ;
Soaked him in the solar plexus.

Broke his nose and blacked his eyes.

She was born in Minnesota :

Female champion was she ;
Teter fled to North Dakota —

(In-com oat-ability !)

— Saturday Evening Tost.

The Germ-Theory Optimist.

There are germs of wheat 'mid the germs of

weevil ;
There are germs of good 'mid the germs of

evil;
There are germs of right 'mid the germs of

wrong ;
'Mid the germs of weeping are germs of song.
There are germs of peace 'mid the norms of

strife ;
'Mid the germs of death there are germs of

life.
There are germs of truth 'mid the genus of

faking ;
There are germs of square deal 'mid the germs-

of muck raking.

— Strickland W. Gu.lii.an.

Good Remedy.
Hard work worries
the life out of worry.

A LAUDABLE ENDEAVOR.

Advisable.
Look out for things
that won't bear look-
ing into.

True.
The man who pities
himself always is piti-
able.

Grafting.

Large fortunes from
small grafts soon
«row.

The Difference.
Everybody can say
nothing. Few know
when to say it.

Preferable.

It's better to craw 1
out than to be thrown

1. tit.

And More.

■ A n ounce of hustle
is worth a pound of
rabbits' feet.

Belated Aids.
Our tact and good
judgment invariably
s'hO'Vi up the day
after.

Good Advice.
In ease of doubt
tell the truth.

Hard to Please.

Some men are not
satisfied when they
kill two birds with
one stone — they want
the stone back.

Domineering.
To hamper the-
body is to subdue the
spirit; when man
wanted to insure his
dominion over wo-
man he provided her
with skirts.

Always.
Pleasure before-
duty means that
duty will lose out.

Accommodating.

Other people die-
that the undertaker
may live.

Very Few.
In the country

young men sow
wheal an. I raise corn.
In the city young
men sow wild oats,
and raise Cain.

The First Step.

A man begins to
acquire wisdom when
In- discovers that he
makes just about as
many mistakes as his
neighbor.

True.

1 1 's all right to-
ll 11 try home after
you leave the office,
but some people only
hurry until they get
outside of the office.

For Heaven's sake, boys, get him into the pen, and don't let him get away from you again!

Worthless.
Consistency is a
jewel — but it doesn't
interest the three-
ball merchant.

Come, bow about the frugal board

That while our blessings we may number —
A newer board we can't afford

Because we have a trust in lumber.
Be thankful for this scanty roast

Which will be carved for us to eat ;
He eats the least who pays the most,

Because we have a trust in meat.

The Ubiquitous Lumber Trust.

The soup sends up no fragrant scent,

'Tis weaker than the weakest gruel —
Our heads in humbleness are bent

Because we have a trust in fuel.
The rolls are dark and flat and cold,

But we'll not let our hearts grow sour,
But keep them light, as we are told,

Because we have a trust in flour.

The, stuff we spread upon our rolls

May bring us thoughts we cannot otter.
But we will not stir up our souls

Because we have a trust in butter.
The vegetables may be "flat"

And otherwise we might find fault,
But we shall not now dwell on that,

Because we have a trust in salt.

— St. Louis RepnbHci

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HARDWOOD RECORD

AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

Butternut.
Juglans cinerea Linn.

Butternut thrives best iu rich moist soil,
along the banks of rivers and on low, rocky
hillsides. It is found through southern New
Brunswick and the valley of the St. Law-
rence river iu Ontario, westward to Dakota,
into southeastern Nebraska, central Kansas,
northern Arkansas and Delaware, and along
the Appalachian mountains to
northern Georgia and Alabama
where it grows at the headwaters
of Black Warrior river in Winston
county.

It is known as butternut in
Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con-
necticut. New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania. Delaware, West Vir-
ginia. North Carolina, South Caro-
lina, Alabama. Arkansas, Kentucky,
Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana,
.Mulligan, Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Kansas, Nebraska, Ohio and On-
tario; as w-hite walnut in Delaware,
Pennsylvania, Virginia,' 'West Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, South Caro-
lina, Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri,
Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Nebraska, Minnesota and South Da-
kota; as walnut in Minnesota; as
oil nut in Maine, New Hampshire
and South Carolina; as buttnut in
New Jersey, and is occasionally re-
ferred to as white mahogany.

The leaves of butternut are com-
pound, consisting of nine to seven-
teen leaflets, which are unevenly
toothed and attached to pubescent,
sticky petioles; the stem of the en-
tire leaf is noticeably horse-hoof-
shaped. The leaflets are alternate,
and oval in shape, tapering to a
point, and blunt at the base. They
are light green above, and extreme-
ly fuzzy below. The butternut
loses Us leaves very early in the
fall. When the first heavy frost
comes, perhaps at the beginning of
October, its effect on the tree is
lasting and exceedingly destructive.
The next morning the leaves and
stems wilt and die, dropping rapid-
ly from the branches, so that in
the course of perhaps a single day,
it will be almost entirely stripped
of foliage. Before the arrival of
a heavy frost the leaves change
their summery yellowish-green color for a
brighter shade of autumn dress.

The flowers of butternut are monoecious;
the staminate ones form catkins and grow
from axillary buds; they are pubescent; the
pistillate ones grow in terminal spikes and
are covered with sticky hairs. The fruit
ripens in October, and is a pointed, oblong
nut, growing in a husk from two to three

FORTT-SEVENTH PAPER

inches long, which when ripe, falls away
from the nut. The kernel is sweet and high-
ly-flavored and children . and squirrels are
great lovers of it.

This tree attains a height of from thirty
to a hundred feet, and in general appear-
ance would frequently be a tall and impos-
ing figure, were it not that its beauty is
often marred by gaunt, dried branches

great claim to beauty and symmetry.

The bark of young stems and branehlets
is smooth and light gray, but becomes very
thick and brown, deeply furrowed and scaly
with age. The inner bark, and the husks
of the nuts furnish medicinal substances;
also a strong, yellow dye.

The wood of butternut is light, soft,
coarse grained, not strong, and easily worked.
The sap contains sugar which is fre-
quent!}' used with maple sap to
form an adulterated "maple"
sugar. The heartwood is a light,
grayish-brown, and becomes much
darker with exposure. The sapwood
is very light in color, often nearly
while. A cubic foot of the wood
weighs approximately twenty-five
pounds. It takes a high polish,
showing an almost 'satiny luster,
and makes a very handsome in-
terior finish or furniture lumber.
Cabinet makers admire and value it
highly. The wood of Juglans cine-
n a has one advantage over that of
the more common and better ap-
preciated Juglans nigra or black
walnut, in that its soft brown tones
when finished in the ' ' natural ' ' are
more cheerful and attractive. It is
therefore strange that it is not more
frequently employed for these pur-
poses, instead of for coffins, posts,
rails, bowls, carriage panels, etc.

The accompanying illustration,
showing typical forest growth of
butternut, is from a photograph ob-
tained through the courtesy of Wm.
H. Freeman, secretary of the In-
• liana State Board of Forestry.

CYPICAL FOREST GROWTH OF BUTTERNUT, INDIANA

which on account of their length have been
broken by the wind and further blemished
by insects. It is sometimes entirely free of
limbs for half its height, but usually its
tough, scraggy branches commence to deviate
horizontally at a height of about twenty
feet from the ground, giving the tree a
broad, low head; this combined with its
sparse foliage, robs the butternut of any

Relative Qualities of Woods.
If the shellbark hickory is taken as
the standard of hardness — 100 — the
other common woods rank with it as
indicated in figures given after each
kind : Fignut hickory 96, white oak
St. white ash 77, dogwood 75, scrub
oak 73, white hazel 72, apple 72, red
oak 60, white beech 65, black walnut
65, black birch 62, yellow oak 60, hard
maple 5S, white elm 58, red cedar 56,
wild cherry 55, yellow pine 54, chest-
nut 52, yellow poplar 51, butternut 4o,
white birch 43, white pine 30.

To determine the durability of dif-
ferent woods, experiments have been
made by driving sticks, each two feet
long and one and one-half inches
square, into the ground, leaving only
one-half inch projecting above the sur-
face. After five years it was found
that those made of oak, elm, ash, fir,
soft mahogany and nearly every variety of pine
were totally rotten. Larch, hard pine and teak
wood were decayed on the outside only. Acacia
was slightly attached on the outside but other-
wise sound. Hard mahogany and cedar of Leb-
anon were in fairly good condition ; but only
Virginia cedar was found to be in as good con-
dition as when put into the ground.

When wood is kept dry its durability is
greater than that of some metals. Cedar, oak,
yellow pine and chestnut are the most durable
when kept dry.

FREDERICK S. UNDERHII

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

Supplement to
HARDWOOD RECORD

FEBRUARY 25, 1S07

ILLUSTRATING
BUILDERS OF LUMBER HISTORY

HARDWOOD RECORD

17

'Builders of Lumber History.

NUMBER

Frederick S. Underbill.

(See portrait supplement.)
Frederick Saunders Underbill of the firm
of Wistar, Underbill & Co. of Philadelphia,
who is the subject of the portrait supplement
that accompanies this issue of the Hardwood
RECORD, offers an instance of that self-re-
liance and application to business which has
carried so many lumbermen to success. He
is the sun of John Underbill of Manchester,
England, who came to Canada and estab-
lished himself as an optician in Montreal,
afterwards achieving such success that he
was honored with the appointment of op-
tician to H. R. H., the Prince of Wales.
The mother of Frederick S. Underbill was
Annie Ireland Underbill, who although a
native of Belfast, Ireland, was reared, edu-
cated and wedded in Canada. The father's
business did not continue successful and
when reverses came he paid his obligations
in full and moved to Philadelphia where
he died about 1S79. F. S. Underbill was
the oldest of three boys and was educated
in the public schools of Philadelphia. On
the death of his father he left school to
aid in the support of the family but con-
tinued his education by study at home and
cniTcspondence courses with the Chautauqua
and other institutions. He first obtained em-
ployment as office boy at the Baldwin Loco-
motive Works; later he studied shorthand
and soon became stenographer for and as-
sistant to William H. Morrow, superintend-
ent of the extra part department of the
works.

At every opportunity he changed positions
if be thought there would be some possible
benefit to himself, and ho was respectively
stenographer for George I. McKelway, drug-
gist, 1410 Chestnut Street; was stenographer
for Thomas Potter Sons & Co., oil cloth
manufacturers, and finally secured a posi-
tion with James Strong & Co., among the
most prominent and successful wholesale
lumber merchants of Philadelphia, who were
at that time operating a wholesale lumber
yard. He devoted himself conscientiously
to the work and soon mastered the details
of the business, taking special care to ob-
tain as much technical knowledge as .pos-
sible by handling and inspecting lumber in
the yard when his office duties permitted it.
He finally came to be intrusted with the
details of selling and ordering lumber by
Mr. Strong.

Ten years of this work served to give a
broad and comprehensive knowledge of all
the phases of handling and selling lumber,
and at the expiration of that period spent
with James Strong & Co., Mr. Underbill
joined forces with K. Wyati Wistar, who
for eight or nine years had been a co-worker
under Mr. Strong and who had wide ex-
perience as inspector, yard foreman, and
traveling salesman. The new concern was

XXXIX.

a partnership and was known as Wistar
& Underhill. It immediately took a rela-
tively important position in the trade, ow-
ing to the confidence its members inspired.
The first year the work was done entirely
by tin' two partners assisted by a clerk, Mr.
Underbill traveling in nearby territory and
doing tin- correspondence and office work at
night. limine that year the firm secured a
strong tooth. ild and the lumber handled
averaged about eight million feet. The
business doubled the second year and has
hao a Steady increase of about eight million
feet a year since then until now it averages
about sixty million feet per annum.

The business of the firm was at first most-
ly in hemlock and white pine with a small
percentage of hardwoods, but as time went
on this latter end of the business was grad
u.nlly increased until it became the chief de-
tail of the firm's trade and the especial
branch on which its importance is based. It

LEAF AMi FRUIT OF BUTTERNUT.

particularly pushes poplar, oak, and chest-
nut, handling in connection therewith maple,
beech, birch, red gum and basswood. The
firm is a widely recognized specialist in
quartered oak, and enjoys an enviable repu-
tation in this line, owing to the fact that
great care is given to the selection of the
products handled.

In every department of its business, the
linn makes it a point to handle only that
lumber which is properly manufactured and
graded to better. Its various members pay
frequent personal visits to their mills to
see that the stock is being properly put out
and cared for.

On February 1. 1905, the style of the firm
v as changed to Wistar, Underbill & Co. by
1 he admission of Thos. X. Nixon, who bad
traveled for the firm and had shown excep-

tional ability as lumberman and salesman.

Frederick Saunders Underbill was married
in 1SSG to Hannah W. Dukes of Tuckahoe,
X. J.

Mr. Underbill is noted for the great inter-
est he takes in the various activities that
claim his attention. lie is an ardent church
worker, is a member of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church and trustee of Lansdowne M.
E. Church; for some years he was Sunday
School superintendent and is still active in
aii departments of church work. He is chair-
man of the executive committee of Dela-
ware County Sunday School Union and re-
cently served as president of the Delaware
County christian Endeavor Union.

In oiher walks of life bis interests aud
activities are no less keen. He 1- a member
of Washington Lodge, No. 59, A. F. & A.
M.; is a member of the American Forestry
Association; a member of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Lumbermen's Exchange, Phila-
delphia; is secretary Measurer of the Phil-
adelphia Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso-
1 iation and his firm is a member of the
National Hardwood Lumber Association.
He also takes a deep interest in the work of
the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' As-
sociation.

In politics he is a Republican, and during
the recent agitation for reform in Pennsyl-
vania took a prominent part in organizing
the Lincoln Republican party in Delaware
County and the state, lie is now a member
of both the county and borough committees.

.Mr. Underhill, besides his connection with
the firm of Wistar, Underhill & Co. is also
treasurer of the Evergreen Lumber Com-
pany of Evergreen, X. C, an allied corpora-
tion whose chief output is longleaf and
shortlcaf yellow pine and cypress.

The present success of Wistar, Underhill
iV Co. is due to the thorough lumber knowl-
edge and clean, active policy of -Mr. Under-
bill and his partners. The conspicuous part
accorded Air. Underhill in the various trade
movements and organizations devoted to the
lumber industry is at once a tribute to his
tact and an acknowledgment of his high
-landing among his fellows.

The firm of Wistar. Underbill & Co. is
primarily a young men's concern and the
years of its existence are comparatively few.
It occupies an influential position in the
Philadelphia trade and there is no doubt,
considering the character of the men com-
posing it, that it is but at the beginning of
its success

Gold Ring in an Oak.
While workmen were engaged in cutting
railroad ties in woods near Willoughby, Md.,
they discovered a gold ring in the heart of
an oak. I1 was in perfect condition, except
that the saw had disfigured its setting. The
theory that the ring was' lost in the woods
years ago, when the tree was but a sprout
of an acorn, and that i encircled

about the young shoot, is doubtless the ex-
planation of the mystery.

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The Manufacture of Toys.

A very interesting feature of the hard-
wood industry is the manufacture of toys.
.Formerly the greater proportion of toys were
manufactured from soft wood. The light-
est and most pliable woods were selected as
the character of the tools used in the shap-
ing of the figures made it necessary that

the w 1 1 asy to work. Much of the

working of the stock was done by hand de-
vices. There were but very few mechanical
■contrivances, such as are seen in the toy-mak-
ing establishment of today.

There has- been a wonderful change in
toys in recent years. The jumping-jack has
given way to the automatic toy. There are
book-and-ladder trucks of large size and per-
fect construction designed for the chil-
dren 's use as toys. There are walking dolls
and animals ; there are improved descrip-
tions of tops and all manner of vehicles;
there are locomotives and houses and boxes
of all descriptions made of wood. Because
of the progress which has been made in the
designing of these devices, the soft woods no
longer answer the purpose.

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Woodworking machinery has been installed
in all the large toy manufacturing plants
and hardwood stock is carefully selected in
which the grain is even and the once small .
trade has grown to the proportions of a
great industry.

For many years dolls of foreign manufac-
ture made of softwood carved out with a
jack-knife were shipped into America. Since
the introduction of improved woodworking
machinery, hardwood of even grain and
tough fiber is selected and a stronger and
more reliable doll results. The process of
manufacture is explained in the diagrams.
In Figure 1 is exhibited a cut of hardwood
prepared for the first turning. These cuts
are made in large numbers, by sawing them
direct from the straight stock. They are
next uniformity turned to a convenient size
for the preparation of the first form of the
body of the doll as represented in Figure 2.
The next operation involves the turning of
the piece to the shape of the head and body
as illustrated in Figure 3. This gives the

base upon which to work. In some instances
a wax-faced head with hair is applied, the top
being prepared for this purpose. In other cases
the wooden head is utilized, sometimes carved
by hand to represent the features of a
face and again the face is manufactured sep-
arately and adjusted over this portion. The
arms and the legs are mortised into the sides
as shown and pinned. The mortises are
grooved out by machinery and the arms
and legs are likewise mechanically produced.
In this way a very good hardwood body is
made. Of course shapely arms and legs go
with the specially formed face, but the rude
structure is composed of the plain parts ex-
hibited in the illustrations.

Top manufacturers have also revolution-
ized their business since the advent of ma-
chinery. In former years there were many
softwood tops on the market. There are
some on sale now, but the demand for them

is very meager. The full-sized, hardw 1

top of perfect design finds greatest favor.
The tops are shaped from first cuts, us Fig-
ure 5, in a serial line, so that it is possible
to turn down a number on the same series
at one time. Often four to six are turned
simultaneously. Next comes the plugging or
inserting the steel point and head stock.
Sometimes the head stock is turned as :i part
of the top . and again it is fitted in later.
Hardwood humming tops as shown in Fig-
ure S are turned out in large numbers. The
humming sound is obtained by wings around
the edges of the top as shown. This is done
by slotting the sides and inserting the thin
pieces with glue. The blades strike the air
as the top turns, and a humming, musical
sound is produced.

Everyone is aware of the wide demand
existing for hardwood boxes for cuffs, col-
lars, ties, etc. Boxes are sometimes made
of one piece, by hollowing out a block with
tools, but the common style of box, as il-
lustrated in Figure 9. is the most used for
this purpose. Hardwood boxes are shaped in
the usual manner, and finished neatly. The
soft wood box receives little or no call.

There is a wide variety of boxes manu-
factured at the present time. Boxes for
use in tli. pantry, for tools, for shoe pol-
ishing outfits, for sewing cases, stationery

supplies, toilet articles, etc. Manufacturers
produce many descriptions of small boxes,
some liberally ornamented with metal cor-
ners and devices and handsomely finished.

A large number of hardwood wheels for
toy wagons are manufactured. The hub is
turned as in Figure 10 and is slotted for the
spoKes. and tic wheel set up as in Figure 11.
Boys buy these wheels and make wagons.
They are not satisfied with the light toy
wagon once made, but want a substantial
ma in which they can ride and carry articles
of weight.

There is a considerable demand for hard-
wood novelties in the way of cats and other
animals of comic design as shown in Figure
12. Manufacturers at first considered these
figures an annoyance, but as the trade in-
creased rapidly, workmen were hired and
machinery put in for this special purpose and
they catered to it because it brings profit-
able returns.

Figure 13 is a locomotive made of hard-
wood. The wheels are cut separately and
are fitted to the body on pins. Often these
locomotives are sold for children to finish
off the parts. When the toymaker does the
finishing, metal trimmings are put on and,
after painting and staining, the toy is a very
clever representation of a locomotive.

Trays made of the best hardwood are
called for and bring good prices. Figure 14
shows one of the popular forms, although
trays of hardwood made very much like the
sheet metal trays of the dining room are
also in use.

Small hardwood houses, like that in Fig-
ure 16. are manufactured in considerable
number. For this reason it is possible to
turn them out quite cheaply. There are parts
of the toy which may well be made of soft
wood, but hardwood enters into the principal
portion of the little house.

There are imitations of forms of pipes
made of hardwood, as in Figure 15, and, in
fact, all kinds of articles. A visit to a toy
manufacturing plant or a stroll through a
modern toy store will quickly show the won-
derful progress which has been made in this
line during the past few years. And this
advancement does not materially increase the
cost- of toys, for the reason that most of the
work is done by machinery, which not only
keeps the expense down, but makes the
articles mure accurate.

Advances in &ank and Vat Building.

The tank and vat manufacturing business
is today experiencing a period of decided
prosperity. The uses to which such work can
be applied are constantly broadening. Not
only in breweries, tanneries, vinegar-making
houses and similar lines are they used, but
an extensive market is being made for them,
especially for tanks, in all establishments
where a water supply is necessary for engi-
neering purposes. In these cases, the tanks
are placed on the tops of buildings and water
conducted from them to the boiler room or

other sections of the plant where it is needed.
In many cases, they are also used for fire pro-
tection, their elevation giving the pressure
needed for a hose.

In making the larger work, heavy stock is
employed, the staves being two, two and a
half and three inches in thickness and of the
best possible material. This is necessary, for
the tanks are subject to the hardest use,
continued and violent atmospheric changes,
and the deteriorating influences of water and
other liquid agents.

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The stock must be well tempered. The
drying question enters largely into this phase
of the woodworking industry as into all
others, but the material is brought to the
desired condition by natural processes and not
by kilns, manufacturers claiming that the
artificial method deadens the wood and ren-
ders it more liable to decay. Another dif-
ficulty lies in the fact that the stock is of
such unusual thickness that the kiln treatment
found effective with thinner lumber fails of
success when applied to tank and vat ma-
terial. The planks us a consequence are
always air dried and arc considered unfit for
use unless they have been exposed to the
atmosphere for at least nine months.

When the stock is in the cutting room
caution is employed in selecting the finest
quality, lu the best \\<irk sapwood is never
used, because it rets quickly, readily absorbs
and soaks through water and has a life much
shorter than the heart wood, which, owing to
its better and closer structure, offers greater
resistance to the elements. When the wood
comes to the saw table it is cut into staves
the size required. Each stave is made convex
on one side and concave on the other and the
edges are beveled to make a fit when the
piece is assembled as a part of the circum-
ference of a round tank or vat. It is also
tapered at the top, the swelling quality thus
secured making the steel hoops fit tightly,
liroove- are cut across the width of each
stave to make the setting for the joint when
the sta\es are fixed to the top and base of
the work, or, when the tank is to have only
the base and no top, the groove is cut solely
at the lower end to fix the base.

The best tank and vat makers of today
secure what is practically a perfect joint.

The grooves ! tut to fit so perfectly on the

base and top and the staves join so nicely
that nothing but the parts and the steel hoops
on the outside enter into the construction of
the work. This applies only to the large cir-
cular tanks, for in the square and rectangular
vats the parts are reinforced with iron or
steel rods. Under the old methods of con-
struction in vogue in Europe and in the east-
ern part of this country white lead and
flagging are used in the joints, but these
substances, or anj help outside of wood itself
are rejected by the best manufacturers who
succeed in making an absolutely water tight,
and in many eases an almost air tight tank.
by the application of superior methods of
craftsmanship. It was formerly the custom
in the trade to guarantee that the tanks
would be tight and serviceable after they had
stood for a while, the idea being that the
humidity in the air would cause the staves to
swell to such an extent that any fault in the
joints would be remedied. That is no longer
the ease, for the wooden tank and vat manu-
facturer is so sure of the quality of his out-
put that he guarantees its fitness for the work
as Soon as it is assembled.

In making the bases, and where required
the tops, the lumber is sawed to the form
required in pieces. The tops and bases are
either round or square, according to the form

of the tank or vat required, and are joined
with dowels, the parts, after they are cut to
such a size as will insure a circular form,
being put on the boring machines and the
holes put in them. The dowels are usually of
maple or hickory, other woods, however, being
also used. In no case is glue or any other
foreign adhesive substance employed to ce-
ment the pieces, the whole work being done
with wood alone. In the square vats or tanks
the sides and bottoms are fitted in the same
manner with the grooved joint, but in order
to secure great strength they are reinforced
by iron rods run through the center of the
pieces. The sides and tops are put on the
machines and bored and the rods secured by
screw tips. Small wooden blocks are then
nailed over the screws to conceal them and
give a smooth surface. These iron rods play
the same part in the construction of the
square and rectangular vats as the heavy
steel hoops do in the large circular tanks,
giving them strength and resisting power.

The boring machines used to make the holes
for the iron rods and wooden dowels are of
the highest type of modern construction. For-
merly all the work was done by hand tools
and afterwards when machines were first
1 mployed only one hole could be drilled at a
time, the operation requiring one man to
guide the machine and another to hold the
lumber. Today, large factories have their
machines made to order, some of them boring
six holes at once and permitting the entire
operation of adjusting the lumber and guid-
ing the machine to be done by one man.

Besides the circular, square and rectangular
tanks there is a semi-circular or half-round
vat manufactured for the use of tanneries.
The building of this work follows the general
lines of construction for the other objects,
the sides and tops being doweled together and
the staves fitted in half way around the cir-
cumference. The vat can be placed on end,
the sides then being what would otherwise be
the top and bottom. In connection with this
vat there is also made a paddle wheel which
revolves inside the vat on rods. A belt is
attached to the rod which extends through
the side of the vat and the paddle is thus
revolved, agitating the contents.

In the very large work, especially in water
tanks, where a piece of work fourteen feet in

height and fourteen feet in diameter is not
unusual, it is manifestly undesirable to
assemble the work in the shop and freight it
to its destination. Hence, in jobs of this
kind, the parts are sent forward and after-
ward assembled at the place where the work
is to be used.

In building a tank or vat it is of prime
importance that the manufacturer should
know to what use his work is to be put for
there are various qualities in the several
woods that render them more valuable for
some purposes than for others. Poplar has
been found to be a good wood for tanks for
• butterine factories, because it leaves no taste.
It has also been used extensively in the manu-
facture of vinegar and spirit keeping tanks,
but owing to the scarcity and high price of
this wood Oregon fir has been substituted for
it in many cases with suecess. Cypress and
oak are used for brewery vats. Cypress
because it is a strong, durable wood under
such conditions, and oak because its close
grain and heavy structure give it a strong
resisting power. Maple when used for this
purpose has been found unsatisfactory, the
surface becoming soft and pulpy. In making
water tanks, fir has been used in great quan-
tities, but poplar and oak have also played a
considerable part in construction work des-
tined for this purpose.

Generally speaking, cypress, poplar and oak
are the American hardwoods that have been
found most suitable for the purposes to which
tanks and vats are usually put. In the con-
stant substitution of one species for another
it is altogether likely that as oak and poplar
become scarcer others of the more plentiful
woods will be brought in to take their places.
Experiments, at least, will be made along
these lines.

In methods of construction and durability
of work the modern manufacturer is far ahead
of any of his predecessors for he builds out
of wood, strengthened with steel hoops, an
article that is superior in every way to what
was formerly constructed with the help of
lead and cement. The market for his work is
broadening and will continue to broaden, for
in certain lines of work, especially in large
manufacturing establishments, there is ur-
gent need for well built water tanks for
storage and engineering purposes.

HardWood Balls.

The hardwood ball industry used to con-
sist chiefly in the manufacture of bowling
balls, croquet balls, toy balls, etc., and balls
for use in constructing articles of a circu-
lar nature, utilizing the wood ball for an
interior foundation on which to build; also
for billiard balls and a few other kinds. At
the present time balls of the various species
of hardwoods are used to a considerable ex-
tent in the furniture and housebuilding in-
dustries. Hardwood balls, ready for adjust-
ment, are provided in singles, pairs and
series., for the designer and erector of cabi-
nets and furniture. They are made in all

styles and finish to be used in the making of
rails for hall stairs. They may be seen in
alcoves, on porch arches along the ridges and
cornices of houses and in many other places.
The result is that hardwood ball manufac-
turers are doing a lively business. It may be
interesting to the reader to notice some of
the methods employed in turning out these
articles for the purposes enumerated. The
processes differ to some extent from the com-
mon mode of turning with the lathe. The
turning lathe is used for the work, but the
adjustments of the block, the chuck and
tools are somewhat different. When single

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balls are to be turned, much small stuff can
be worked off. Refuse hardwood pieces from
the mills are often used. If, however, the
balls are turned in series on a shaft, it be-
comes necessary to have pieces of stock of
ample length for the purpose. The introduc-
tion of the modern ball-turning machinery
has done much towards improving the style

of work and increasing the output of shops.
Nevertheless, there are many of the old-time
methods of hardwood ball turning used to-
day.

Usually the block is marked off as in Fig-
ure 1 and placed in the lathe for turning.
The two points a, a, sustain the block and
eventually the ball, while the chuck of the
lathe holds it from turning, as explained in
Figure 2. Of course, the artisan uses the
best of cutting tools, perfectly ground and
prepared for the purpose. If the hardwood
ball is small, he experiences difficulty in get-
ting a good grip on it and much time is con-
sumed in working the circumference down to
the regulation dimensions. Moderate-sized
balls are quite readily managed. The sur-
face is cut down to the uniform proportions
prescribed in the pattern and then comes
the operation of smoothing.

Much time is given to turning and finish-
ing billiard and bowling balls and the like.
Many billiard balls are of ivory, in which
case the work is done with special grinding
devices', but the cheaper classes of balls,
manufactured from ebony, box-wood, etc.,
are handled by the woodworker. Sometimes
he turns out tnese balls in series, as illus-
trated in Figure 3. The block is supported
at the ends as at b, b and the cuts are made
in rotation, after which the balls are sep-
arated and treated singly.

Some are not turned as a whole but are
composed of sections or disks, one of which
is shown in Figure 4. The disks may be di-
vided into portions and these are secured by
a process of cementing and dovetailing.
Some of the balls which are made up on this
plan are constructed of white and dark
woods, st) that the intersections show, and a
checkered effect results. There are inlaid
balls, and some in which metal and stone are
mortised, also with gems' set in them. The
variety of hardwood balls in the market is
large and interesting. Some of them are

faced on ouo side, with corrugated effect, as
explained in Figure 5. Some are rough-fin-
ished and some smooth as glass, depending
upon the use to which they are to be put.

There are balls in which the interior is to
be utilized for some purpose, and these are
turned on a mandrel as shown in Figure 6.
Ine supporting point is c. Figure 7 illus-
trates a mode of getting the radial of a ball.
Jb'irst get the dimension from the center line
from top to bottom and then divide the axis
into a convenient number of spaces, as shown
by the Figures 1 to 6. The tangential lines
from the center to the curve give the defin-
ing lines for the setting of the pattern of
the ball. Thus striking in at any juncture
on the model will give the defining line for
the ball.

Perhaps a ball is required for use in hall
furniture structures, in which there is me-
chanical motion. In Figure 8 is shown a
drawing of the form of the race-way or cup
in which the ball would move. There are de-
vices for libraries, desk fixtures, etc., in
which mechanical movements are employed
for the convenience of the user, and the sin-
gle-point of contact of ball and cup, as in
this cut, may be used.

In Figure 9 are shown the two points of

contact of ball and bearing designated by e
and f. Figure 10 is another form showing
two points of contact with the points assigned
at g, g; as is also Figure 12, used in making
bearings for sliding doors. There are balls
of hardwood used in modern mechanical fur-
niture construction in which a stem is em-
ployed as in Figure 11. The stem consists
of a shaft turned from wood of the same
kind as the ball. One end is threaded and
screwed into the ball.

Some of the cutting tools utilized in turn-
ing down the round surfaces are shown in
the other diagrams. Figure 13 shows one of
the turned points of cutting tools, designed
for cutting direct into the work.

This design of tool is preferred by some
ball turners to that shown in Figure 14, al-
though the latter is often used. Figure 15
is another kind of point used for ball turn-
ing. The same principle of setting the cut-
ting point of the tool a little below the cen-
ter line of the work, as in Figure 16, is rec-
ommended. Here the cross line j defines
the center, and the point of the tool is a lit-
tle below, with the clearance k about right to
make a free space for the front of the tool
and the work. Figure 17 is another form of
cutting tool.

'Butchers' Blocks and Ice Chests.

Built-up maple blocks for the use of
butchers have superseded the round ones
formerly seen in the shops. The old syca-
more blocks were so large and unwieldy
that it was practically impossible to dry
them to a condition that would withstand
long exposure to varying atmospheric condi-
tions. As a consequence it was no uncom-
mon thing to have them split, and when
they did crack their usefulness was gener-
ally at an end. Modern manufacturers have
overcome the difficulty by cutting maple
planks into rectangular pieces and building
up a butchers' block that lasts until it has
been worn down so low that it is no longer
serviceable.

These maple pieces of which the block is
composed are usually sixteen inches long,
• three inches thick, four inches wide, and are
glued together. Blocks built in this way
last longer, never crack or split, and offer
a uniformly hard surface of wood. Under
the old method of building this work, the
block naturally showed the heartwood in
the center and the sapwood toward the
outer edge of the circumference because it
was practically a section of the tree, but
when constructed of many pieces as now a
choice of the best material for all parts is
possible.

The best material only is employed. The
stock must also be thoroughly dry. Both
air drying and kiln methods are used to
bring it to the desired condition, the arti-
ficial process usually taking from six to
eight weeks.

In gluing the pieces together great care
must be exercised, for it is important that

the joints should fit perfectly and leave no*
glue along the edges to affect in any way
the meats that are cut up on the block.
A flat glued joint is used and after the
blocks are cut to size and planed the sur-
faces are roughed in order to make the glue
stick better. When about to he glued to-
gether, the pieces are warmed in order to
help the action of the glue. In making this
plain glue joint great care is taken because
the finished block is subjected to extremely
rough usage, and as the block holds together
solely by the glue with the ends reinforced
with iron rods, more strain is put on the
joints than in most other work where the
same method of sticking is used.

A hydraulic machine gives the desired
force to weld the pieces together and they
are kept under pressure for about twelve
hours. The holes for the iron rods are then
punched through the blocks, screw heads
placed over them, and a wooden rosette
fastened over the iron to make a uniform
and attractive appearance.

In building up a block and especially in
the sticking process the finest glue must
be employed. The use of glu<' in this in-
stance is so important that any fault in its
quality, melting or application will have
a disastrous effect on the durability of the
finished block. The heavy legs to support
the blocks are turned on the machines and
dowels, generally about two inches in
length, are put on. When these are fitted
into the corresponding holes the block sets
perfectly in the supports. It is not necessary
that the completed block should stand for
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makers guarantee that it will stand the
work for which it is intended as soon as it
comes from the press and lias the iron rods
and the wooden legs attached to it.

In connection with butchers' blocks, ice
chests which consume a considerable
amount of hardwoods are made. The chests
run from what are practically small re-
frigerators to large sectional cases the size
of a room. These are built-up work, the
inside wood and the outer layers both being
of considerable thickness in order to guard
against the penetration of heat. As an
instance of their solid construction it can
be stated that in a large chest 53x13 feet
it is possible to secure a temperature of
thirty-six degrees from ice alone.

All of these chests have softwood on the
inside, being usually lined with spruce. The
reason for this is that many hardwoods have
an odor and wood with such a quality is
manifestly unfit for any storage receptacle
that is to contain perishable foodstuffs.
The outer sheathing of many of the large
chests consists of oak and birch, the latter
wood being a very popular one. The stock
for this kind of work is especially well
dried. It has to be so on account of the

extremes of heal and cold to which it is
subjected when used.

Many American firms make refrigerators
and ice chests for foreign trade and when
the work is destined for a hot and dry
climate the drying methods employed are
very thorough, it being necessary to extract
all the moisture from the wood and get it in
a bone dry condition. It is no uncommon
thing to make these chests large enough to
hold comfortably 175 tons of ice besides
the food products placed in them for preser-
vation. As is natural in this size of work
the task of building up the chests and
then sending them out in a finished condi-
tion is practically impossible and they are
as a rule first constructed in the shop and
afterward taken apart »ud sent to their
destination where they are assembled.

In the best work of this kind the leading
manufacturers construct what is practically
an air-tight chest. Their product will with-
stand all conditions and last a long term of
years. Considerable attention is also given
to their finishing so that when the hard-
wood surfaces of birch or oak or whatever
wood is used are built over the inner layers
and properly finished the chest is not only
best for the work intended but also shows
up as an attractive piece of furniture.

HardWood Record fdail Bag,

[In this department it is proposed to reply
to such inquiries as reach this office from the
Hardwood Record clientage as will be of enough
general interest to warrant publication. Every
patron of the paper >s invited to use this de-
partment to the fullest extent, and an attempt
will be made to answer queries pertaining to all
Blatters of interest to the hardwood trade, iu
a succinct and intelligent manner.]

Quarter-Sawed Oak.

Four Smith. Ark., Jan. 10, 1907. Editor
Hardwood Record We see that you are always
willing to publish articles of interest to the
lumber trade. Will say that we are interested
especially as to quarter-sawed oak. We find
I hat the rules adopted by the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association are not explicit on
this matter, and we believe that it will be of
Interest to every one concerned. We submit to
you herewith a diagram of four pieces of lum-
ber supposed to be quarter-sawed. We note
that the rules state that quarter-sawed oak
must show figure on one side. The question
with us, as well as with a great many others.
is where to draw the line between quartered
and plain oak, as you will see by the different
diagrams submitted. We would like you to pub-
lish this article if possible, showing the differ-
ent diagrams, A. B, C, and D, and state, if
possible, where the line should be drawn by
inspectors between plain-sawed and quarter-
sawed oak. For instance, if you should place
an order with a mill for a car of No. 1 common
quartered oak, and upon receipt and Inspection
of said car containing, say, 10,000 feet, you,
would find 50 to 75 per cent of 4" and 5"
strips cut from the corner (or on turn'ng of
the log), as shown in diagram C, won: I yi u
be forced to accept' this shipment as a grade of
No. 1 common quarter sawed oak, admitting the
fact that the 4" and 5" stuff would be up to
grade, so far as defects are concerned? But,
un the other hand, the lumber would show no
flake at all. but would show small streaks.

Is there any general rule whereby a certain
percentage of this class of small streak figures
is admitted in No. 1 common grade or any
other grade? Further, suppose you are com.
pelled to accept such shipment as No. 1 com-

mon, and at the same time you cannot use
such class of lumber for the purpose intended
and it would be of no value whatever as quar-
tered stock to you, however, you could ordi-
narily apply No. 1 common grade to the use
intended, should you receive a fair percentage
of log run, showing a reasonable percentage of
flake? What are you going to do in a case of
this kind?

We would be pleased to hear from you on this
matter, giving full details. — A Subscriber.

It must be confessed that the rules of the
National Hardwood Lumber Association gov-
erning quarter-sawed oak are 'not very ex-

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plicit. The quarter-sawing of oak is under-
ti '.' ii very hugely for the purpose of show-
ing figure and wdien this result is not accom-
plished it does not meet the requirements or
purposes intended. The rules of the Hard-
wood Manufacturers' Association specify
tliat all quarter-sawed oak must show figure
on one face. When the log is sawn at direct
right angles with the rings of growth, it will
invariably show this figure, and sometimes it
will show figure when somewhat at variance

with this method of sawing. When the saw-
ing is so far out of line as to conceal the
figure it surely is not quarter-sawed oak
from a commercial viewpoint, and should be
classed .-is plain sawed. Therefore, it is. my
opinion that if a purchaser were to buy
quarter sawed oak for furniture purposes,
etc., and it showed little or no figure, the
stock could not be classed commercially as
quarter-sawed lumber. On the contrary, if a
purchased were to buj material for the mak-
ing of flooring and it showed a preponder-
ance of edge- grain stock it might be admit-
ted as quarter-sawed stork for this purpose.
As this is an important point I would be very
glad to have others interested in quarter-saw-
ing lumber express their opinions on the
subject for publication in these columns. —
Editor.

Approves Universal Hardwood Inspection.

Baltimore, Md., Feb. 21. — Editor Hardwood.
Record: I am glad to note your attitude on.
universal hardwood inspection as expressed in
the lust issue of the Hardwood Record. I can
draw a good sensible deduction from the cartoon
on page 15. The National association has the
inspection rules and the Manufacturers' the bat
with which to put them in place. Why can't
the different associations, through their inspec-
tion committees, decide upon one system of
hardwood inspection and make it universal?
Then everybody could burn up the old inspection
rules and take up the ones adopted by the dif-
ferent associations. I am very anxious to have
this brought about, and think that at the annual
liim ot the National Wholesale Lumber Deal-
ers' Association ni Washington, March 0 and 7,
the matter should be taken up. The writer has
always advocated tliis move and trusts that a
universal system can be adopted. If this is a
sensible unci practical one, all should agree to it.
Then the manufacturer will know what to man-
ufacture ; the dealer will know what to buy;
and the consumer will always be sure what will
he delivered on his order. We are undertaking
to support too many associations for the amount
of good we receive from them. I would appre-
ciate your comment on these suggestions — R. E.
Wood.

Mr. Wood is one of the foremost hardwood
manufacturers of the country and his senti-
ment on the subject of the value of universal
hardwood inspection is not new to the Hard-
wood Record. It is, however, very glad to
have his endorsement of the proposal now
before the hardwood associations of the
country to agree on a set of joint inspection
rules and a union grading bureau. It is the
most logical and sensible proposition that has
come before the hardwood industry for many
yours. — Editor.

Cypress Directors for Northern Territory.

The Hardwood Record is in receipt of the
following letter from the secretary of the
Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Associa-
tion :

New Orleans, La., Feb. 10. — Editor Hard-

w Record: January 8, 1:107, we made the

announcement thai inspectors had been located
in tlie^norl liern country for 1 he purpose of in-
vestigating complaints on grades or measurement
throughout the territory, as far east as Pitts-
burg, Pa. We are now ready to announce that
the territory east of Pittsburg, including the-
New England states, New York, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and.
West Virginia, i also covered, and we are there-

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fore prepared to investigate complaints on short
notice throughout the whoie territory in which
cypress lumber is sold. Very truly yours,
George E. Watson.

Wants Bark of Shellbark Hickory.

El Centro, Cal., Feb. 19.— Editor Hardwood

Record: Will you kindly send me a copy of

your paper? I want to get into communication

with someone who can furnish the bark of shell-

bark hickory. I want to get it in large quanti-
ties for medicinal use. Any assistance you can
render me will greatly oblige. — D. H. Chaplin.

Manufacturers of shellbark hickory who
may be interested in harvesting a crop of the
bark for Mr. Chaplin's use are invited to
communicate with him on this subject. —
Editor.

Kiln Drying Hardtoood Lumber.

The Forest Service of the United States De-
part of Agriculture recently issued circular No.
48 on kiln drying hardwoods, which con-
tains so much valuable information on this sub-
ject that the Hardwood Record reprints it here-
with :

Difficulty of Drying Wood.

In drying wood, whether in the form of stand-
ard stock or finished product, the application of
the requisite heat and circulation must be care-
fully regulated throughout the entire process,
or warping and checking are almost certain to
result. Moreover, wood of different shapes and
thicknesses is very differently affected by the
same treatment. Finally, the tissues composing
the wood, which vary in form and physical prop-
erties, and which cross each other in regular
directions, exert their own peculiar influence
upon its behavior during drying. With our na-
tive woods, for instance, summer wood and
spring wood show distinct tendencies in drying,
and the same is true in less degree of heartwood
as contrasted with sapwrood. Or, again, pro-
nounced medullary rays further complicate the
drying problem. Flain "oak and quartered oak
require different treatment. Even in mahogany
and similar tropical woods which are outwardly
more homogeneous, various kinds of tissue are
differenciated.

The Water in Wood.

In the living tree and in green wood there is
a large amount of water. Part of this is closely
held in the material of the cell walls, and can-
not be removed without affecting the physical
condition of the wood : the rest, which fills the
pores of the wood, is free water. In drying, the
free water within the cells passes through the
'cell walls until the cells are empty, while the
cell walls remain saturated. When all the free
water has been removed, the cell walls begin to
yield up their moisture. Heat raises the absorp-
tive power of the fibers, and so aids the passage
of water from the interior of the cells.

A confusion in the use of the word "sap" is to
be found in many discussions of kiln drying ; in
some instances it means water, in other cases it
is applied to the organic substances held in a
water solution in the cell cavities. The term is
best confined to the organic substances from the
living cell. These substances, for the most part
of ( lie nature of sugar, have a strong attraction
for water and water vapor and so retard drying
and absorb moisture into dried wood. High tem-
peratures, especially those produced by live
steam, appear to destroy these organic com-
pounds, and therefore both to retard and to limit
the reabsorption of moisture when the wood is
subsequently exposed to the atmosphere.

Air dried wood, under ordinary atmospheric
temperatures, retains from 10 to 20 per cent of
moisture, whereas kiln dried wood may have
no more than 5 per cent as it comes from
the kiln. The exact figures for a given species
depend in the first case upon the weather condi-
tions, and in the second case upon the tempera-
ture of the kiln and the time during which the
wood is exposed to it. When wood that has
been kiln dried is allowed to stand in the open
it apparently ceases to reabsorb moisture from
the, air before its moisture content equals that
of wood which has merely been air dried in the
same place and under the same conditions.

Kilns and Methods Studied.

WOODS.

The studies upon which this report is based

covered the following woods : White oak, red

oak, maple, birch, basswood, chestnut, ash, red
gum, mahogany, cherry and walnut.

TIME REQUIRED.

The time consumed in drying, one of the most
important items in the expense account, varies
very widely among operators. Take, for exam-
ple, 1-inch plain white oak, which is a standard
material dried throughout the region studied.
As a rule, this is dried from one to two weeks,
yet many operators, even when crowded for kiln
space, double this period, whereas at the larger
and more progressive plants, especially those dry-
ing hardwood flooring, it is reduced to five, four
or even three days. When the kiln is larger
than necessary it is a not uncommon practice to
use it as a storage room for surplus stock.

The time of drying differs widely also with the
species, as well as with the intended use. Quar-
ter-sawed oak usually requires half again as
long as plain oak. Mahogany requires about the
same time as plain oak ; ash dries in a little less
time, and maple, according to the purpose for
which it is intended, may be dried in one-fifth
the time needed for oak or may need a slightly
longer treatment. For birch the time required
is from one-half to two-thirds, and for poplar
and basswood, from one-fifth to one-third that
required for oak.

COST.

The information secured upon cost indicates —
especially among smaller operators, where econ-
omies-are less carefully studied — the widest di-
vergence. The extreme figures, for products not
widely different, are 75 cents and $5 per thou-
sand feet.

USE OP KILN DRIED WOODS.

With the exception of structural timber, nearly
all hardwoods are kiln dried before they are
made into the finished product. A surface fin-
ish such as that demanded in furniture and in-
terior work and the high degree of strength and
stiffness demanded in vehicle and implement
stock are impossible without thorough drying,
and this drying is most quickly accomplished in
a kiln. For the very exacting requirements of
wheel work and of shoe last and printing type
wood rapid kiln drying has not yet proved en-
tirely satisfactory, but new and improved meth-
ods appear to promise success.

Defects of Present Methods.
Dry kilns are at present constructed and op-
erated largely without thoroughgoing system.
Forms of kiln and modes of operation have com-
monly been copied by one woodworking plant
after the example of some neighboring establish-
ment. In this way it has been brought about
that the present practices have many shortcom-
ings. The most progressive operators, however,
have experimented' freely in the effort to secure
special results desirable for their peculiar prod-
ucts.

RESULTS OF MISTREATMENT.

Mistreatment of the material results in numer-
ous defects, chief among which are warping and
twisting, checking, casehardening and honey-
combing.

Many woods, as, for example, tupelo and red
gum, will warp and twist in drying unless spe-
cial care is taken. This difficulty is not con-
fined to kiln-drying, but is quite as great in air-
drying. Indeed, drying in the open with
exposure to the sun often develops the worst
examples. In both cases the remedy lies in
proper piling. In piling lumber for the kiln the
cross sticks should always be placed directly
over the trucks, following a perpendicular line.
Where the intervals between trucks are so great
that intermediate sticks are required, heavy tim-
bers should first be laid upon the trucks, to
form a foundation for the pile. It is a good
practice to place sticks at the very end of the
pile.

If the kiln-drying is too rapid the lumber may
open up at the ends in deep checks. This defect
is common to all grades of veneer stock and is
most conspicuous in thin hardwood veneers.
Frequently checks which appear after kiln-drying
were originally formed during previous air-dry-
ing and are merely reopened in the kiln. These
may readily be distinguished from fresh checks
formed in the kiln, since their inner surfaces
have been filled with dust and darkened by the
weather. It appears to be almost impossible to
prevent their reopening.

Casehardening occurs when the kiln-drying is
pushed too rapidly without proper precautions.
The surface of the wood becomes dry and im-
pervious, while the interior remains almost as
moist as before. Thorough drying is thus quite
prevented, and effort to secure it usually pro-
duces honeycombing.

Honeycombing can occur only together with
casehardening. It is, in effect, internal checking
in which the checks, following the medullary
rays, may run nearly from end to end of the
piece but do not, except in extreme cases, show
upon the surface.

Theory of Drying.

Despite the diversity of practice, it is possible
to find among the larger and more enterprising
operators a measure of agreement, as to both
methods and results, and from this to outline
the essentials of a correct theory.

Before any drying occurs both the wood and
the water it contains must be raised to the tem-
perature at which the drying is to take place.
If the wood is slowly heated and circulation Is
meantime suffered to carry off the surface mois-
ture as fast as it is vaporized, the surface be-
comes entirely dry before the internal moisture
is even moderately heated or has begun to move
in quantity to the surface. Moreover, if pre-
liminary air-drying has taken place, it should
be remembered that more moisture has been lost
from the surface than from the interior and
that it is important that this condition should
not be accentuated in the kiln. It is necessary,
therefore, that surface drying be delayed in the
kiln by retaining the moisture first vaporized
about the wood while the continued heat pene-
trates to the internal moisture. Thus far this
is essentially the moist-air system of drying.
Steam may be used to advantage to wet the
wood, and though this increases the water con-
tent it shortens the time required for drying by
quickly raising the wood to the drying tempera-
ture.

When once the wood has been raised to a high
temperature through and through, and especially
when the surface has been rendered most per-
meable to moisture, drying may proceed as rap-
idly as it can be forced by artificial circulation,
provided the heat lost from the wood through
vaporization is constantly replaced by the heat
of the kiln.

The drying is actually carried out by admit-
ting hot, unsaturated air to contact with tie
heated wood and replacing it constantly as it
becomes saturated. The best rate of circulation
for the air, as well as the best degree. of humid-
ity, is still unsettled. Provided the internal
moisture is kept moving toward the surface as
rapidly as the surface moisture is removed, the
problem of hastening the drying by increasing
the circulation and regulating the humidity is
comparatively simple. It should be quite pos-
sible to discover by simple experiments what
means of fulfilling the conditions are suited to
the drying of lumber on a commercial scale.

Successful kiln-drying depends chiefly upon
these two principles and upon keeping separate
the two distinct stages of the process which they
govern.

To carry out right drying principles a rightly
constructed kiln is necessary. The essentials of
kiln construction, deferring details for the pres-
ent, include the following points :

The system of heaters and radiators should be
capable of maintaining the desired temperature
at all times.

The temperature and humidity of the drying
chamber should be under perfect control and pro-
tected from outside influences.

Simple devices should control the circulation
as desired, both between the kiln and the outer
atmosphere and between the two ends of the
kiln.

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Toward the end o£ the process abundant and
Vigorous circulation should be provided for, due
care being taken not to lower the temperature.

The Dry Kiln.

TYPES.

As regards construction there are two general
types of dry kilns. In the radiator kiln the
timber is heated by coils of steam pipes under
the floor ; in the blower kiln heat Is supplied by
a current of air heated outside the kiln and
forced in by a fan.

The common designations are "hot blast" and
"moist-air" kilns, but these refer to methods of
operation rather than to construction. Moist-air
kilns, whether of the blower or the radiator
type, are managed on the moist-air principle.

PAETS.

The essential parts of a dry kiln are the dry-
ing chamber, the steam coils and the ventilating
device.

The drying chamber varies greatly in length,
according to the output desired and the process
used. It may be as short as 15 feet or as long
as 150 feet. In most cases its height is from ti
to 8 feet, with a width of from 10 to 30 feet.
Though it may be made of a number of mate-
rials, wood is widely used where the building
laws permit. The choice of material depends
otherwise upon the kind of lumber to be used
and the thoroughness of drying desired. Some
of the best drying is done in brick kilns with
concrete foundations.

The steam coils which furnish the heat have
various forms in both types of kilns. In the
radiator type they extend under the floors from
the "dry" end of the kiln part way or all the
way to the opposite end. They may be of single,
double or treble thickness of inch pipe, accord-
ing to the heat required. To secure provision
for their contraction and expansion, and for
their drainage, special attention is given to
their installation. In the blower type of kiln
there are no steam pipes in the drying chamber
itself ; the heat is supplied by air heated outside
and forced into the kiln by a fan.

To maintain in the kiln the circulation of air
needed in drying, there are a number of devices.
of which the simplest is possibly a system of
ventilator shafts for removing the lighter moist
air from the top of the kiln. In blower kilns a
fan is used for the same purpose, and in some
radiator kilns in which the humidity is kept
very high the only outlets are heavy dampers
through which the air must force its way. There
are certain makes of both radiator and blower
kilns operated on the moist-air principle, which
are equipped with condensing chambers for the
removal of a portion of the moisture from the
air.

Doors are made of a number of materials, of
which canvas and wood are most widely used.
The doors are never hinged, but slide along a
track or in grooves, or are counterbalanced so
as to be thrown up like windows.

The lumber is carried through the chamber on
trucks holding from one to three thousand feet,
or even more. These are usually of steel bars,
6 feet long, with a wheel at each end. Accord-
ing as there are two or three tracks in the kiln,
two or three of these trucks are used. In piling
the lumber upon them the pieces are not placed
in contact, but. as in piling for air-drying, are
"stuck" — that is, held separate above and below
by inch strips laid crosswise.

Methods of Operating.

There are two methods followed In kiln opera-
tion— the progressive and the charge systems.
The progressive system requires a kiln of con-
siderable length, say upwards of 50 feet. Tem-
perature and moisture are so distributed in the
kiln that in passing from the green to the dry-
end a load of lumber is first moistened, then
heated, and finally dried otit. In this way all
Btages of the process are under way in the dif-
ferent parts of the kiln at once. Circulation
may be carried on by a draft lengthwise of the
kiln which carries back the moisture from the
dry end of the kiln and deposits it on the wood
in the wet end, or, where the extreme of moist-
air drying is practiced, there may be no such
longitudinal circulation and very little circula-
tion nf any kind. In the latter case the hu-
midity is very high even at the dry end. The

temperature may be fairly uniform throughout
the whole length of the kiln, in which case the
wood must be very hot on exit to insure the
removal of residual moisture, or a difference of
20° to 40° F. or more may exist between the
two ends. The progressive system of operating
is most widely employed in factories where the
wood to be dried is of fairly even thickness and
quality and where the drying is done in large
amounts and continuously.

Kilns for operation in the charge system are
typically square. The kiln is charged and this
charge is dried before fresh material is admitted.
Wheeled carriages may be used to carry the ma-
terial, or it may be piled upon the floor or ar-
ranged along the walls. For novelty works and
other establishments with a highly varied prod-
uct of which smaller amounts are dried at once
tills method is widely employed, and wherever
particular attention must be paid to the thick-
ness and quality of the stock it probably yields
the best results. Conditions are controlled en-
tirely from outside the kiln and are varied to
suit the operator's ideas of the requirements of
the case.

Drying may be continuous or intermittent.
From necessity or economy many kilns are op-
erated only by day. At night, in such cases, the
heat is shut off, the blower is stopped, and the
temperature is allowed to fall, while the humid-
ity may reach the dewpoint. Intermittent opera-
tion is not adapted to yield the best quality of
product. It would be highly expensive, owing
to the loss in heat in restoring the drying tem-
perature in the morning, were it not that in this
case only exhaust steam is used.

Where the drying is continuous, the kiln Is
supplied with live steam when the engines are
shut down at uight. This means that drying
progresses evenly. The material is held at a
regular temperature and, provided the humidity
does not fall too low, checking and warping are
less apt to occur.

Moist-Air Drying.

It has been pointed out that moist-air drying
can be carried on in both blower and radiator
kilns, and that the moist-air system has the
wider use. Builders of radiator kilns, however,
generally advertise them as moist-air kilns and
refer to blower kilns as hot-blast kilns. They
lay stress on the damage done to the heavier
grades of stock by treatment in a fan kiln and
deprecate the use of any kiln with forced draft.
Careful study shows that as a matter of fact
most successful kilns drying lumber heavier than
pine and poplar are operated on the moist-air
system, whether or not they are equipped with a
fan. Moist air can easily be secured in blower
kilns by using the saturated air as it leaves the
kiln, or by admitting wet steam either into the
heater itself or into direct contact with the
lumber in the chamber, and in radiator kilns by
merely closing the drafts and gradually raising
the temperature. The humidity is generally se-
cured by steam, some operators, during winter,
secure it by piling snow upon the lumber as it
enters the green end of the kiln. In any system
of moist-air drying where no fan is used the
lumber, upon coming out of the kiln, retains
a residuum of moisture, which evaporates from
the heated surface in the open. For this rea-
son many operators, especially when the weather
favors, or shed room is available, keep the stock
exposed to the fresh air for a day or two after
it leaves the kiln.

Most of the past and present improvement in
the kiln-drying of lumber follows the line of
moist-air operation.

Preliminary Seasoning.

Hardwood lumber is commonly air-dried at the
sawmill for a period of from two to six months.
Present demand for lumber is, however, so great
that there is strong inducement to market it as
air-dried when actually it is nearly or entirely
green from the saw.

To supplement the drying at the mill, or to
make up for it when it has been omitted, kiln
operators who are particular about the quality
of their product very often pile the stock, as it
comes from the cars, in their own yards, and
allow if to air-dry there for a few months or
even for a year or two. This yard-drying un-
questionably improves the stock and indeed is

indispensable for certain types of kilns. On the
other hand, for kilns which yield the best re-
sults when considerable moisture is present,
green material may be most suitable. It Is prob-
able that, for the sake of economy, yard-drying
will be eliminated In the kiln-drying of the
future without loss to the quality of the prod-
uct.

The extreme form of preliminary seasoning is
found in the shed-drying of stock as practiced
by vehicle and implement makers. Shed-drying
for two or three years leaves so little moisture
in the wood that the kiln-drying which follows is
but a very brief process.

From shed-drying it is only a little further
to the treatment given to such close-grained
woods as boxwood, which is dried for wood-
engraving blocks. Such blocks are wrapt in
pieces of coarse gunny sack and stored in small
barrels or boxes in a temperature of about sum-
mer heat, very frequently in a room directly
over a kiln. After about a year the blocks are
completely dried. So tedious a process can, of
course, be profitable only when the product
must be absolutely free from checks and other
imperfections.

Preliminary Use of Steam.
In addition to supplying heat to the kiln,
steam may be used either to maintain the proper
humidity in the kiln, as in certain kinds of
moist-air operations, or to moisten and heat the
lumber before it enters the kiln. For prelimi-
nary steaming in the progressive system of dry-
iug, a steaming chamber must be provided at
the green end of the kiln ; with the charge sys-
tem the drying chamber may be used instead.

WET STEAM.

In preliminary treatment with wet steam,
when the drying is progressive, provision is made
at the green end of the kiln for a steam cham-
ber. This may be detached from the drying
chamber or may be a part of the drying chamber
cut off from the rest by a wooden or canvas par-
tition. It is large enough to hold a single truck
of lumber. Under the floor there is a perforated
steam pipe, usually running diagonally across
the bottom. If the heat of the unconfined steam
which enters through the perforated pipe is In-
sufflcient, as may be the case if the kiln is of
wood and much heat is lost, the steam radiators
used throughout the kiln in heating the charge
may also extend under this floor. The loaded
truck is run into the steam chamber, the outer
doors are closed as tightly as possible, and steam
is admitted. Although in one sense steam thus
used may be regarded as live steam because the
pipe conveying it runs directly from the boiler
to the steaming chamber, the pressure when it is
released in the chamber is reduced in effect to
zero, so that it is really exhaust steam. The
pressure of true live steam, though no greater
than a single pound per square inch, would de-
stroy a chamber built of ordinary masonry.

Duration of treatment varies with different
operators ; it depends mainly upon the efficiency
of the steaming chamber and method of drying
which is to follow. The longest steaming noted
in this study, thirty hours, was given where a
completely detached wooden kiln was operated
on the charge system. The shortest, two hours,
sufficed with a concrete kiln in which a single
truck load was steamed at one time, preparatory
to treatment in a blower kiln equipped with
condensing coils.

LIVE STEAM.

A steel retort, or boiler, capable of withstand-
ing considerable pressure, is necessary for pre-
liminary treatment with live steam. Though
at present not in wide use, this method appears
to promise exceedingly well. It is true that
when operations are on a large scale an extra
handling of the lumber is necessary to move It
from the steaming retort to the kiln, but the
reduction of the time subsequently needed for
drying is so great as to offset this and result
profitably. A further saving is effected by the
fact that green timber, fresh from the saw, can
be treated as readily as older stock, sometimes
apparently more readily, so that preliminary
seasoning may be dispensed with. In respect
to the effect of live steam on the strength of
wood, experiments upon loblolly pine railroad
ties have shown that long treatment does pro-
duce weakness, 20 pounds pressure for four hours
having been shown to reduce the strength about
16 per cent, though a portion of this loss was

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regained upon subsequent seasoning. It is quite
certain, however, that the brief steaming pre-
paratory to kiln-drying, which lasts only from
five to fifteen minutes, will have only very slight
effect, or no effect at all, on the strength of the
material.

Submersion in Water.
Prolonged submersion of wood in water is be-
lieved to prepare it well for drying. The prob-
able reason for this is the leaching out of the
sap constituents so that the cell cavities finally
contain approximately pure water ; for the or-
ganic sap, as we have already seen, appears to
hamper the extraction of water in drying. In
rafting, logs frequently remain a long time in
water before they are sawed, and the lumber cut
from such logs is held to dry more readily and
thoroughly. For the past two years the Forest
Service has been conducting experiments on the
influence of submersion upon subsequent air-
seasoning. These experiments are not yet con-
cluded, but present results add weight to these
views. The effect of submersion upon subsequent
drying varies with species and climate.

Testing the Results.
For thoroughly testing the effects of kiln-
drying on the wood, methods must be employed
which call for specially trained men. The quality
of workability in the mill, for instance, though
hard to explain to the tyro, is readily recognized
by planing mill men, sawyers and woodworkers
generally.

Kiln-dried material should work smooth under
the planer and sander ; should pass through the
saw with a peculiar resonance, and should stand
up to cutting edges of all descriptions with little
tearing of the fiber. Improperly dried material
tears out either with or across the fiber and can
be given a polished surface only with difficulty.
Workability is thus rather a. complex quality; it
is determined by the general judgment of the
trained workmen handling the stock-
Differences of color, smell and resonance, by
which also the experienced kiln operator judges
his stock, are almost as difficult for the layman
to distinguish.

Measurement of shrinkage and of loss in
weight forms a somewhat more scientific test for
freshly kiln-dried material. For this, disks are
cut from the middle of kiln-dried stock and care-

fully measured either with a scale or by tracing
their outline, and are also weighed. The disks
are then put in a hot box or placed directly on
a steam pipe, with free circulation of air. After
being heated for a few days to a temperature
higher than that in the kiln, they are remeas-
ured or compared with their former outlines to
determine shrinkage, and reweighed to determine
loss in weight. The extent to which kiln-drying
has fulfilled its purpose is thus brought out.

Unsolved Problems.

That the foregoing discussion of hardwood
kiln-drying is incomplete is due to lack of exact
information upon a number of points of more or
less importance. It may prove helpful to call
special attention to several of these.

Physical data of the properties of wood in
relation to heat are very meager. Figures on
the specific heat of wood, for instance, are not
readily available, though upon this rests not
only the exact operation of heating coils for
kilns, but the theory of kiln-drying as a whole.

Great divergence is shown in the results of
experiments in the conductivity of wood. It
remains to be seen whether the known varia-
tion of conductivity with moisture content will
reduce these results to uniformity.

The maximum temperature to which the wood
may be exposed without serious loss of strength
has not been determined.

The optimum temperature for drying Is en-
tirely unsettled.

The interrelation between wood and water is
as imperfectly known to dry-kiln operators as
that between wood and heat. What moisture
conditions obtain in a stick of air-dried wrood ;
how is the moisture distributed ; what is its
form? What is the meaning of the peculiar sur-
face conditions which, even in air-dried stock,
appear to indicate incipient casehardening? These
questions can be answered thus far only by
speculation or at best on the basis of incom-
plete data.

Until these problems are solved kiln-drying
must remain without the guidance of complete
scientific theory. The Forest Service is now
studying the effect of temperatures and steam
pressures used in drying upon the strength of
wood, and will take up other related problems as
opport unity permits.

Netos Miscellany.

Conference Over Inspection Matters.
A conference has been arranged to take place
early in March between representatives of the
National Hardwood Lumber Association and of
the New York Lumber Trade Association for
tie purpose of considering inspection matters,
particularly the system now In use in that
market. The enthusiasm regarding uniform in-
spection, which has been so marked at several
recent meetings in the middle west, has reached
the east, and it is presaged that the forthcom-
ing conference will show important results.

Enterprise of a Contemporary.
The St. Louis Lumberman has commenced the
publication of a series of articles on the utiliza-
tion of wood waste by distillation by W. B.
Harper, M. S. In the discussion of this subject
the chief wood that will be considered is long-
leaf yellow pine, although reference will be made
to others. The articles are from a standard
authority and it is proposed to eventually pub-
lish them in book form.

of the compauy. were indicted for using the
mails to defraud. The criminal case is pending
in the federal court. Miller, in his petition,
informed the court that the business of the con-
cern was still being conducted.

Isaiah B. Miller, involved in the foregoing
cases. Is of the firm of Markley & Miller, con-
tractors for the International Lumber & Devel-
opment Company, which has its headquarters
at Philadelphia. They were the promoters of
that enterprise as well, and these two institu-
tions are of a number of enterprises of a sim-
ilar nature which have been instituted and
exploited by Miller, Markley and others.

Bankruptcy Proceedings Dismissed.
On Wednesday. February 20, Judge Landis
dismissed the bankruptcy proceedings begun in
Chicago August 24 last against the Tobasco-
Chiapas Trading & Transportation Company, of
which Isaiah B. Miller is treasurer. The dismis-
sal was based upon the petition of the treasurer,
in which the court was informed that the con-
troversy between the persons' who had filed the
involuntary petition in bankruptcy and the com-
pany had been settled, and that due legal notice
had been served upon all the creditors and none
had protested. Following the filing of the in-
voluntary petition against the concern, Isaiah
B. Miller and Henry D. Bushnell. another officer

American Woods Abroad.

Statistics show that practically the whole
world is calling for American woods and wood
goods. Exports of this kind increased 33 per
cent during nine months of 1906 over 1905, and
in that time amounted to . $50,000,000. which
sum does not include the value of shipments
from American ports to contiguous territory,
which amount to at least $3,000,000. This sum
is nearly double the total value of exports of
this kind made ten years ago. They consist in
large part of boards, deals, planks, joists and
scantling, the next important item being furni-
ture.

Wood Pavements.
The five cities in which the largest amount of
wood pavement are found are. in order, Indian-
apolis, New York. Minneapolis. Toledo and Bos-
ton. Together these cities have more creosoted
wood pavement than all other cities in the
United States combined. The total amount of
this pavement in use in this country at the end
of the year 1903 was about 1.400.000 square
yards, equivalent to nearly eighty miles of pave-
ment on a street thirty feet wide. — Woodcraft.

Manufacturers of Parquet Flooring Meet.

The parquetry flooring industry is beginning
to mark some of the important steps in its
progress. This trade has been growing consid-
erably of late years, and to insure its growth
in the right manner and to increase the use of
the product, the leading manufacturers of par-
quetry flooring have recently organized an asso-
ciation, which held an interesting meeting at
the Seelbach hotel, Louisville, Ky., February
11 and 12. Several of those prominent in the
trade have been meeting together informally
for some time, and this meeting practically com-
pletes the work of cementing the members to-
gether into an association for working in har-
mony to promote the use of parquetry flooring
and the general good of the industry.

Sessions were held during the two days for
the discussion of various topics of special inter-
est to the manufacturers gathered together, and
between sessions the visitors were the guests of
W. A. McLean of the Wood Mosaic Flooring
Company of New Albany. Intl. On Monday even-
ing Mr. McLean treated the visitors to a lunch-
eon at the Pendennis Club, and a theater party.
After the final session. February 12, they wTere
taken in automobiles out to the Highland Park
plant of the Wood Mosaic Flooring Company,
which manufactures hardwood ' lumber, part of
which is used at the New Albany plant to make
flooring and part of which is used for flitches
in the veneer mill there ; considerable of it is
also shipped east, direct from the mill. Later

W. A. McLEAN, WOOD MOSAIC FLOORING
CO., NEW ALBANY, IND., PRESIDENT.

the guests were taken to New Albany to look
over the plant of the Wood Mosaic Flooring
Company there, which is not only extensive but
strictly up-to-date in every respect.

The officers of the new association are : Pres-
ident, W. A. McLean, New Albany, Ind. ; vice
president, C. H. Comstock, Indianapolis, Ind. ;
secretary. M. J. Traub, Anderson, Ind. ; treas-
urer, Henry Latham, Indianapolis, Ind.

Not only the officers but all the manufacturers
are enthusiastic over parquetry flooring, and
tiny feel confident that it is the coming flooring
material. Oak and the other hardwoods that
go into this work are acknowledged to be the
best for the purpose, and manufacturers of par-
quetry hold that their method of putting it up
not only gives a grace and elegance of pattern
not found elsewhere, but insures economy In the
use of woods, which is a great point in Its
favor.

Eoddis Veneer Plant Burns.
On the night of February IT fire destroyed
the plant of the Roddis Lumber & Veneer Com-
pany at Marshfield, Wis., causing a loss of

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$60,000, covered by insurance to the extent of
$43,000. The tin- »as discovered at midnight
and all attempts to check it were unavailing.
President \V. II. Roddis intends to rebuild the
plant at once, but may locate the new operations
at Park Falls instead of Marshfield. This is
the third Are that has totally destroyed the
plant, and each time it has been rebuilt larger
and more complete than before. The new build-
ings will doubtless be built of con. -rote or some
other non-combustible material.

Unusual Tree Growths.

Near Clay city, Iiul.. in the timber lauds
about Eel river, is a timber freak that arouses
considerable discussion and attention and is a
landmark for miles around. Two elm trees
standing at least twelve feel from each other
have become grafted together at a height of
twenty-five feet or more. Above this union of
the two trunks the elms are perfectly blended
into one tree.

A sycamore in Branch county, Michigan, re-
cently cut down, was found to measure six feet
through at the base. It was cut up into four
logs; the butt log contained 1,155 feet of lum-
ber and took four horses to haul it to the mill.
In all, the sycamore contained 5,155 feet of
lumber, and is believed lo have been the largest
tree in that county.

A cedar tree recently felled near Onaway,
Mbh., made a telegraph pole eighty-five feet in
length, said to be the largest pole ever cut in
that part of the stale. When compared with
the many 45-foot poles now in use. it will be
seen that its length was decidedly out of the
ordinary. Poles of that size are so scarce, at
least in that section, that they are not listed
in Michigan cedar, and the owner of one can
almost name his own price for it.

New Lumber Company Organized in New
York.

The Douglas Fir Lumber Company is the
name of a new incorporation organized in New
York City recently, with D. E. Skinner as presi-
dent. L. I'.. Stoddart vice president. Victor Elfen-
dahl secretary and treasurer and Harry S. Dewey
managing director. The new company will make
a specialty of handling Pacific coast products
and will carry in New York a stock of large
and long fir timbers. It takes over the lumber
from three ships now under charter by Dixon &
Dewey which are loaded with fir, and will also
succeed to the other business of this firm. Those
interested in the new enterprise are largely
identified with the manufacture of lumber on
I he Pacific coast and in vessels that will carry
stock from the mills to New York. By a friendly
arrangement between partners, the affairs of
Dixon & Dewey are being liquidated as rapidly
as possible and the outstanding indebtedness will
be cared for in regular form as it becomes due.
When the affairs of Dixon & Dewey are closed
up .Mr. Dewey will give his entire attention to
the management of the Douglas Fir Lumber
Company, and his office will be continued in the
Flatiron building.

A New-Old Detroit House.

The old established wholesale house of Brown-
lee & Co.. at Detroit, Mich., has just been
reorganized as the Brownlee-Kelly Company. The
change is merely in name, the management re-
maining the same as it has been for the past
five years. W. E. Brownlee is the second son
of the founder of the business. W. W. Kelly
has been connected with the lumber trade of
Detroit for the past eighteen years, during a
large part of that time as secretary of the
Delta Lumber Company and manager of its
large wholesale yard in South Detroit. For the
past five years he has been associated with Mr.
Brownlee in the management of Brownlee & Co.

The large yard at River Rouge, South Detroit,
will be continued, and an extensive line of hard-
woods will be received there from lake points

t.\ vessel, to be distributed by car over a wide
field, including the New York and New England
territory. The offices will be. as heretofore, in
the Telegraph building, Detroit.

This business was established by the late W.
G. Brownlee in 1870, and has enjoyed a steady,
substantial growth until it now ranks among
the largest wholesale lumber enterprises in Mich-
igan. The firm is manufacturing hardwood in
the Saginaw valley this winter and is also pro-
ducing large quantities of yellow pine through
its affiliated companies, the Brownlee Lumber
Company of Shubuta, Miss., and C. C. Brownlee
,v. Co. of Cisco, 6a.

Hood Lumber Company Purchase.

The Hood Lumber Company of Bridgeport, W.
Ya.. has purchased what is known as the Mills
tract of timber land located in Wetzel county,
on the West Virginia Short Line. The land
consists of about 6,000 acres and was sold for
approximately $60,000. The timber consists of
line white and red oak and yellow poplar, and
will produce between 40,000,000 and 50,000,000
feet of lumber. Operations will be commenced
at once, and the company expects to have sev-
eral consignments of lumber ready for shipment
within the next thirty days. Instead of install-
ing a big plaut at a cost of several thousand
dollars, a number of small mills in the heart
ot tlie forest will be constructed. Two tram-
ways will be built to connect with the railroad.

Advance in Arkansas Hardwood Rates.

The press of Arkansas announces an advance
in freight rates on hardwood lumber within the
state of Arkansas which becomes effective on the
Iron Mountain and Cotton Belt March 1 aud on
the Rock Island system March 7. This increase
is on hardwood and hardwood products, and
amounts to an average increase of about 15 per
cent. The territory affected is divided by the
Arkansas river, with the south side having an
increase of 2 cents per hundred, while on the
north side of the river the rate is increased 1
cent per hundred. It is alleged that the iu-
creased rate will amount to about $8 per car
out of the north section of the state, and $16
out of the south section. Hardwood manufac-
turers and shippers in that section of the
country have filed vigorous protests against the
advance and have strong hopes of prevailing
upon the railroads not to insist upon it.

Stewart-Roy Lumber Company.

On January 23 under the laws of Ohio the
Stewart-Roy Lumber Company of Cincinnati was
organized with a capital stock of $50,000 paid in.
The company is made up of the well known
members of William H. & G. S. Stewart of Cin-
cinnatl and G. A. Roy, the hardw 1 manufac-
turer of Nicholasville, Ky. The officers of the
new company are: Gregory S. Stewart, presi-
dent; G. A. Roy, vice president, and William 11.
Stewart, secretary and treasurer.

On March 1 the company will take over the
poplar and hardwood business of the present
firm of William 11. & G. s. Stewart, and will
open an assembling yard at Cincinnati. The
offices of the new company are at 611 and 012
Mercantile Library building.

All the members of the new company have
iiad long experience in the lumber trade and are
well equipped financially and otherwise to carry
on a successful hardwood lumber enterprise.
They have always been sticklers for high and
uniform grades, and all persons doing business
with tie- new company can rely on fair treatment
and satisfactory dealings.

Extension of Wall Interests.

The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company of
Buffalo, N. Y., an extensive manufacturer and
dealer in hardwood lumber, has just established
a large plant in that city for manufacturing
glued up veneer stock.

The fac.ory is equipped with (he most mod-

ern machinery and appliances known for get-
ting out this 1 hiss of work, and places the com-
pany in position to furnish goods of superior
quality witli promptness.

The principal output will be veneered tops,
fronts and panels of all woods. The company
is particularly well equipped for furnishing
quartered oak, mahogany, figured birch and other
fancy woods, cut to length, jointed and taped to
required widths, ready lor the glue room. The
quality of glued up veneered slock that this
house will manufacture puts it in the market
as one of the largest buyers of rotary cut,

sawed and sliced ve irs, wormy chestnut and

other hardwood lumber, etc., in the United
States. The plant is now in operation and is
turning out large quantities of glued-up stock.

The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is so
well atul favorably known to the producing and
consuming hardwood trade of the entire coun-
try that this new addition to their extensive
business is tin assured success. Its motto has
always been "Good goods and prompt delivery,"
and this precept will be as carefully lived up
to in future its it has been in the past.

A Fine Ohio Oak.
The Hardwood Record is indebted to the
Bluffton Hardwood Company of Bluffton, O.,
for the photograph from which the halftone
engraving accompanying this article was repro-
duced. It is a while oak which was cut near
Bluffton and scaled upwards of 6,000 feet. The

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logs were quarter-sawed into 1-inch stock. At
the base of the tree was a hole which at one
time was a bear's den, and it was within this
opening that the man whose head appears in the
foreground was concealed.

Standard Lumber Reference Book.
The Hardwood Recobd has received from the
Southern States Publishing Company of Atlanta,
Ga., a bound volume containing upwards of 250
pages, entitled Standard Lumber Reference Book
and Code. The book has a compendium of rules
hi classification and inspection of lumber as
adopted by the principal lumber associations
and railroad companies of the United States,
together with a telegraphic cipher code and
other information of value to the lumber trade.
It is sold by the publishers at $3 per copy.
The work is compiled by Benjamin F. Ulmer and
will doubtless prove a standard reference book
for lumbermen and students of lumber affairs.

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New Model Edger.

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company of
Greenville, Midi., has recently made some Im-
portant improvements In the Tower 32-inch
edger, of which it has always made a specialty.
The new model, herewith illustrated, is designed
for mills cutting not to exceed 20,000 feet in
ten hours. It meets the requirements of small
mills in every particular, taking up little room,
consuming little power and costing little. At
the same time it is very strong and perfect in
every way, since it represents the fruit of six-
teen years' labor devoted exclusively to the
manufacture of blast grates, edgers and trim-
mers, and is the product of one of the most
practical designers in the United States.

The edger is not a cheap machine in any
sense except price, which is low chiefly because
the edger contains everything essential but noth-
ing superfluous. Its exceedingly practical char-

together, and it reflects great credit on the in-
dustry and perseverance of Secretary Odell in
accomplishing it. Concerning the report Mr.
Odell says :

"Attached herewith you will find the first an-
nual stock report of the Michigan Hardwood
Manufacturers' Association, or, perhaps it would
be more nearly correct to call it the first end of
the year report, as it does- not show a full year
owing to the fact that our association was not
organized until July 13, 1906. In many re-
spects, however, it is an annual report and one
that contains information that will be of bene-
fit to the manufacturer, wholesaler, jobber and
consumer. You will find on a careful study of
the report that it contains more complete and
accurate information in regard to the hardwood
situation in Michigan than any other report yet
furnished the manufacturer.

"It is more complete because it probably rep-

THE TOWER 32-INCH EDGER.

acter is demonstrated by the fact that there are
over 2,500 of the old style machines, much in-
ferior to the present pattern, in use. Particular
attention is called to the following features :

The vital parts are carried by a substantial
Iron husk resting solidly on the floor. There are
three long bearings — the third outside the driv-
ing pulley. The saws may be removed without
disturbing the arbor, the whole operation being
the acme of simplicity. The arbor is provided
with a steel feather key extending throughout
its entire length, thus doing away with small
individual keys for the different collars. There
Is an exceedingly simple aDd practical adjust-
able guide on the side nearest the stationary
saw. The figures indicating the position of the
saws are in full view of the operator. The
manner of shifting the saws is in accord wjth
the most modern and approved practice. All
parts are made to template, and are therefore
exaetly alike, and hence interchangeable.

The Tower 32-inch edger, new model, will
edge from two to eight boards while the main
saw or side edger is edging one, leaving the
saw free to perform its proper function of cut-
ting up logs, increasing the capacity of the" mill
25 per cent and producing lumber with edges
that are parallel as well as straight. In fact,
it converts a small mill into a large mill in
miniature.

Hardwood Situation in Michigan.

The Hardwood Record is indebted to Bruce
Odell, secretary of the Michigan Hardwood Man-
ufacturers' Association, for a tabulated analysis
showing by grade, kind and thickness the vari-
ous amounts of hardwood lumber in the hands
of manufacturers in Michigan on January 1,
1907, , together with a report showing the unfilled
orders for stock held on the same date.

The report is supplemented with figures show-
ing the total cut of 1906, and the estimated cut
for 1907. An abstract'of these statistics is re-
produced in connection with this article. Unde-
niably it is the best statistical report pertaining
to the hardwood industry of Michigan, or per-
haps any other state, that has ever been gotten

resents 80 to 85 per cent of all the hardwood
lumber cut in Michigan, shows the amount of
each kind of hardwood cut during the year
1906. the estimated cut for the year 1907, the
amount of stock on hand January 1, 1907, the
amount of unfilled orders for 1906 stock and
the amount of the 1906 cut remaining at the
mill unsold ; also the amount of orders booked
January 1, 1907, to be furnished from stock to
be cut during the year 1907. You will note in
the report of the amount of stock on hand and
unfilled orders that it shows the different sizes
and grades of each kind of hardwood, informa-
tion that probably no other general report has
contained.

"It is more accurate because it was made at
the end of the year, when every manufacturer
had a complete inventory of his stock and could
furnish actual figures instead of estimates.
Probably it is more accurate than any other re-
port for the further reason that it is one in
which every manufacturer reporting feels that
he has a personal interest.

"Among many other items of interest to all
concerned in northern hardwoods are the follow-
ing : Only a little over 8 per cent of the total
1906 cut remained in the hands of the manufac-
turer unsold at the end of the year. The propor-
tion of the different woods manufactured dur-
ing 1906 and unsold January, 1907, is as fol-
lows: Eight per cent of the basswood, less
than 6 per cent of the beech, less than 19 per
cent of the birch, less than 12 per cent of the
elm and less than 8 per cent of the maple. The
report also shows that more than 10 per cent
of the 1907 cut was contracted at the beginning
of the year, so that counting all unfilled orders
in the hands of the manufacturers at the be-
ginning of the year 1907, there was not enough
stock remaining at the mills to fill the orders
booked by the manufacturers.

"A comparison of the actual cut of the year
1906 and the estimated cut for the year 1907
shows the following results: A decrease in the
amount of beech, birch and rock elm, with bass-

w 1 and ash about the same, a slight increase

in the amount of soft elm and an increase of
about 1" per rent in the amount of maple. The

increased cut of maple is nearly all reported by
a few mills that manufacture maple flooring,
and the increase is to cover the increased capac-
ity of their flooring plants. Owing to their be-
ing no snow until late in the winter and the
scarcity of labor, it is very doubtful if the man-
ufacturers will be able to put in the amount
of logs for lumber that they estimate for 1907.
"Taken as a whole the prospects for northern
hardwoods over the year 1907 seem very good
and the output should bring full values. The
manufacturers £0 into the year with an unusu-
ally light stock of many woods and there ap-
parently is no surplus in any one of the north-
ern hardwoods. It is not the policy of this asso-
ciation to try to dictate prices, but rather to
furnish the manufacturer with as complete in-
formation as possible and let him be his own
judge as to prices. With conditions as shown
in this report and every indication that more
than the usual amount of northern hardwoods
will be required during the year 1907, it would
appear from all the usual sources of reasoning
that it will be reasonable to expect higher prices
for all kinds of northern hardwoods than have
prevailed during 1906."

STOCK ON HAND AND UNFILLED ORDERS JANUARY
1, 1907.

Feet

Feet unfilled

on hand. orders.

Black ash 1,401,000 856,000

Basswood 7,507,000 5,444,000

Beech 15,269,000 12,845,000

Birch 12,030,000 6,588,000

Rock elm 1,047,000 507,000

Soft elm 7,502,000 5,412,000

Maple 73,636,000 53,936,000

Totals 118,392,000 85,588,000

CUT OP 1906.

Ash : 8,695,000

Basswood 20.238,000

Beech 43,052,000

Birch 2S'.858,000

Rock elm 3,267,000

Soft or gray elm 19.907,000

Maple, hard and soft 241.207,000

All other hardwoods 15.817,000

Total 387,041,000

ESTIMATED CUT FOR 1907.

Ash ' 9.511,000

Basswood 26,382,000

Beech 40,622,000

Birch 26,083,000

Rock elm 2,674,000

Soft or gray elm 24,366,000

Maple, hard and soft 265.932,000

All other hardwoods 21,592,000

Total 417,162,000

Miscellaneous Notes.

Dispatches from Beaumont, Tex., state that
the Allen Powell Lumber Company and C. R.
Cummings of Houston have purchased a site for
a proposed hardwood mill. The tract fronts
along Brakes bayou, adjoining the pumping plant
of the Beaumont Water Company, and is near
the Reliance mill of the Kirby Lumber Company.
It consists of about seven acres and cost $S,000.
A plant will be installed at a cost of about
$50,000. All kinds of hardwood will be handled
and prepared for export.

J. Pierpont Morgan recently purchased 1,200
acres of Adirondack timber land for $35,000.
It formerly belonged to Daniel Strobel of Herki-
mer and is completely surrounded by the state
forest preserve. Mr. Morgan now holds 2,751
acres in this locality.

The Kaukauna Lumber & Manufacturing Com-
pany of Kaukauna, Wis., is securing many logs
for its new sawmill, 200.000 of which have al-
ready been obtained, and large stocks are being
hauled on custom orders. John Jansen is presi-
dent.

Five sawmills are operated in Hayti by Amerl-

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cans. There is much good timber on the island,
and reports say there is room for more modern
mills. Few cross-cut saws are used, but hand-
saws are sold at all the coast towns.
, Most of the wood used in making reels for
cotton in England and the United States is cut in
Maine, although the drain on the forests there
is so heavy that the resources of that state
must soon be exhausted. Birch is the material
best adapted to this purpose, and over 2,000,000
feet are shipped to Scotland every year to the
great thread manufacturers there ; a like quan-
tity goes to England.

The Red River Hardwood Lumber Company
was organized at Alexandria, La., recently with
a capital stock of $50,000. The stockholders are
all from Pollock. John Pennington, president of
the Little River Lumber Company at George-
town, was elected president and A. H. Frank
was elected secretary and treasurer. Among the
other prominent citizens of Pollock who are
stockholders are W, H. Bradford and J. B. Wil-
mot. The sawmill will be erected at once either
in the lower part of the city or a few miles
below on the Red River Valley railroad.

Fire recently destroyed the large sawmill and
lumber yards owned by John A. Reitz & Co. at
Evansville, Ind. The loss is $50,000, with
$25,000 insurance.

The Pittsburg Ilardwood Door Company has
been incorporated with $50,000 capital stock, to
be located at Pittsburg.

A cargo of 2,100,000 feet of Siberian oak was
recently brought to Portland, Ore., by the British
steamship Vermont. This oak weighs seven
pounds to the foot, making the weight of the

i-argn 7, :•.."." tons The w I was consigned to

Banfield & Kunz of Portland, who will saw it
for local distribution.

An English paper reports that in consequence
of the growing scarcity and appreciation in value
of American whitewood or poplar, the trade is
casting about to find a satisfactory substitute
therefor. Several varieties of pines have been
experimented with, with but indifferent success.
A prominent London concern . is importing an
Australian whitewood which is said to be similar
in character to the American variety and which
is expected will make a satisfactory substitute
for it.

The Mercantile Lumber Company, Inc., has
been formed in New York City, with a capital
stock of $10,000, by the following principals:
Charles Sobel, William Weiss, B. W. Weiss and
Isaac Levy, the latter being manager. The com-
pany will engage in buying and selling, at whole-
sale and retail, all kinds of lumber, and offices
have been established at 1 Madison avenue.

John J. Carter of Titusville, Pa., has just
concluded the sale of his West Hickory farm,
comprising 3,000 acres, to O. W. Stone and
James Wetmore of Warren and Thomas McCable
of Kinzua. The tract includes 2,500 acres of
good timber. The purchase price approaches
$100,000.

The Kentenia Corporation of Big Stone Gap,
Va., has been granted a charter under the laws
of that state. Its purpose is to develop mineral
and timber properties in Kentucky, Tennessee
and Virginia, and it is capitalized at $10,000,-
000. Charles H. Davis of South Yarmouth,
Mass., is president.

HardWood NeWs.

(By HARDWOOD RECORD Special Correspondents.)
Chicago.

E. E. Taenzer of E. E. Taenzer & Co., Mem-
phis, was a Chicago visitor on Saturday en
route home from New York. Mr. Taenzer had
a very fortunate escape in not being a passen-
ger on the ill-fated Pennsylvania lS-hour train
which left New York Friday afternoon. He
was unable to secure accommodations on this
train, so came to Chicago on the Twentieth
Century Limited.

L. II. Briggs, president of the Morse & Briggs
Lumber Company of Los Angeles, Cal., was a
Chicago visitor on Saturday, en route home
from a trip to Michigan points.

Arthur Hill of Saginaw was in the city
February 2.3 on his way to California.

M. M. Wall of the Buffalo Ilardwood Lumber
Company, Buffalo, N. Y'., was a Chicago visitor
on Feb. 13.

The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company of
this city has recently added a ' yard to its
branch office at Nashville. It is well stocked
with a wide variety of hardwood lumber and
logs, enabling the company to take care of the
wants of its trade in the South with dispatch.
S. W. Benbow, who for years has been in
charge of the Nashville office, continues in that
capacity.

The Anguera Lumber Company has added a
hardwood department to its business and will
handle miscellaneous hardwoods and wagon ma-
terial in addition to its usual line. It has
engaged the services of Frank W. Hall, for-
merly secretary of the John O'Brien Land &
Lumber Company of this city, who will have
entire charge of the hardwood department. Cor-
respondence and inquiries should be addressed
to the company's new offices at 601 and 603
Fisher building, and will receive Mr. Hall's
prompt attention.

C. L. Willey, the veneer man, is spending
some time in Memphis assisting in getting
his new and up-to-date band mill in that city
into operation. He expects to have the plant
started within the next month, and already
has about 5,000,000 feet of logs on hand for

immediate sawing. Mr. Willey's son Charles
will have charge of the Memphis business.

Among recent Chicago visitors who paid the
Recoup a call was E. W. Pratt, Jr., of the
Pratt-Worthington Company, Crofton, Ky.

J. A. Lewis of the Chicago-Mississippi Land
& Lumber Company has returned from a visit
to the company's operations at Greenville, Miss.

Max Sondheimer, the well known Memphis
lumberman, spent a few days in this city last
week and was welcomed by a host of old friends.

Fire which threatened the complete destruc-
tion of the lumber yards of the Pullman Car
Company was discovered the morning of the
18th. It started in a shed used for storing
mahogany lumber for car trim. The flames soon
spread to neighboring buildings and lumber
piles and the blaze was extensive when the first
fire companies arrived. Bad roads delayed the
engines and the smoke from the burning lumber
overcame eight firemen while at work. After
three hours' fighting a sudden shifting of the
wind saved the rest of the stock ; a loss of
$150,000 was entailed, however. The yards
cover two square blocks.

W. C. Calhoun of the Frost Veneer Seating
Company, Sheboygan, Wis., was in Chicago last
week.

The Edward Hines Lumber Company has
leased for ninety-nine years a tract in the
lumber district along the south branch of the
Chicago river on which it will erect a first class
permanent dock. The land is valued at about
$100,000.

G. G. Roberts of the lumber house of D. G.
Courtney, large poplar and oak manufacturers
of Charleston, W. Va., was a visitor to the
Chicago market within the fortnight.

W. A. Gilchrist, vice president and manager
of the Three States Lumber Company of Mem-
phis, large cottonwood producers, was a Chicago
visitor last Tuesday. Mr. Gilchrist was on his
way to Cleveland to attend the convention of
the National Box Manufacturers' Association.

A meeting of the directors of the Vehicle
Woodstock Company was held at the Great

Northern hotel on Feb. 21. Only routine busi-
ness was transacted.

Charles H. Barnaby of Greencastle, Ind., pres-
ident of the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's
Association, was a Chicago visitor on Wednes-
day last.

Geo. L. Smith, formerly inspector general for
tlir National Ilardwood Lumber Association, has
reengaged with that organization and is now
in charge of reinspection at Philadelphia and
vicinity.

Boston.

The Boston Lumber Trade Club held its anuual
meeting at the Exchange Club February 13. E.
D. Walker was elected president.

The George D. Emery Company, the largest
importers and dealers in mahogany in this sec-
tion of the country, have just purchased a large
Cadillac touring car which they will use in con-
uection with their business.

Charles S. Wentworth of C. S. Wentworth &
Co. will leave shortly on a southern trip and
intends to be present at the National Wholesale
Lumber Dealers' Convention at Washington,
March 6 and 7.

E. G. Phinney of Jacksonville, Fla., has left
for home after spending about a week in this
city.

The O. D. Britt Company's woodworking plant
in Swampscott, Mass., has been destroyed by
lire, causing a loss of about $25,000. This plant
was fully equipped with modern woodworking
machinery and was completed only about six
months ago.

Morris Hall of the Hall Lumber Company left
early this week for a trip to the Pacific c< ast
Mr. Hall will combine pleasure with business.

Charles C. Batchelder, treasurer of the Boston
Lumber Company, has returned from a trip to
Jamaica. Upon hearing of the earthquake in
that island Mr. Batchelder make quick plans to
■j' 1 there as soon as possible and left by the first
steamer. He has in the neighborhood of 400
pictures taken there, which are very interesting.

John Ordway, who for many years has been
associated with the Boston office of the Atlantic
Lumber Company, is again calling npou his many
friends in this city after an absence of over five
months from business. Mr. Ordway has been
confined to his home by sickness.

The Greenwich Sash & Door Company of
Greenwich, Conn., has been incorporated with a
capital of $10,000. The incorporators are Henry
1'enn. Lawrence Gallagher and D. W. Miles.

II. B. Fiske of the George McQuesten Com-
pany. Boston, has been confined to his home for
a few days by sickness.

The steamship Chelston has arrived from Be-
lize and Livingston, British Honduras. The
cargo consisted of 3,415 logs of mahogany, which
is one of the largest cargoes ever received in this
port,

Beckwith Brothers & Co., manufacturers of
piano legs, Westfield. Mass.. have taken larger
quarters and decided to continue business in that
place. Several months ago it was announced
thai they were planning to move then busines
to New York.

'i "ge E. Briggs Is now treasurer of the Lex-

Ington Lumber Company. For several years Mr.
Briggs was connected with Lee, Higginson &
Co.

New York.

The Cherry River Room & Lumber Company
of Scranton, Pa., has opened a local sales office
.ii Is Broadway, for the purpose of catering
more closely to the large buying trade ot" the
Metropolitan district. Sales Manager F. A.
Kirby of the company was a recent visitor, at
which time he arranged the new offices, which
will bo looked after by A. S. Buckman, who will
look after New York City proper, and E. C.
Collins, who sells for the company in the Brook-
lyn and Long Island trade. The company has
made application for membership in the New
Yoik Lumber Trade Association.

The American Lumber Company, extensive

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hardwood wholesalers and retailers, have re-
moved their yard from Twenty-eighth street and
First avenue, Manhattan, to Jersey City, where
they have leased a fine location. The offices of
the company will hereafter he maintained at 143
Liberty street.

Local members ol Hoo-Hoo under the leader-
ship of Vicegerent Charles F. Fischer, the prom-
inent hardwood retailer at 1916 Park avenue.
will hold a big concatenation at Reisenweber's
Circle hotel, Fifty-eighth street and Eighth ave-
nue, on Friday evening, March 1, at which time
a large class of candidates, composed principally
of students in the Yale Forest .School, New
Haven. Ccnn., will be initiated. The concatena-
tion will be followed by the usual "on the roof"
features, which will include a fine dinner and
vaudeville entertainment, during which plans
will be discussed for the participation of the
local jurisdiction in the entertainment of the
rder at Atlantic City next September.

The Mercantile Lumber Company has just been
incorporated with offices at 1 Madison avenue,
to conduct a general wholesale hardwood busi-
ness, with a capital of $10,000.

Among the recent departures for Europe were
I nomas A. Murphey of the Murphey-Hardy Lum-
ber Company. Newark, N. J. : .!. B. Blades of the
Blades Lumber Company. Elizabeth City, X. «'..
and Hamilton V. Meeks of the Gardner & M
Company, Weehawken, N. J. Mr. Murphey w;is
tendered a fine dinner by his friends in the
wholesale trade of Newark just previous to his
departure.

Gilbert II. Shepard, l".i Broadway, is on a busi-
ness trip south in the interest of his cypress
trade.

C. O. Shepherd, sales representative of the
Emporium Lumber Company, Manhattan, which
is one of the biggest hardwood operators in
the eastern states, in speaking of the hardwood
situation states that the market is extremely
strong wiili stocks scarce and a large degree of
uncertainty in figuring on the part of sellers.
He explains the present situation on the ground
•of decreased production in many of the old pro-
-ducing sections and the general stiff market in
'Consuming lines.

Schedules of Martin Weisman, manufacturer
■of furniture frames, 818 East Fifth street, show
liabilities $19,790 and assets $3,460.

Cadenas & Coe, one of the leading export and
•commission houses iu this city and extensive
lumber exporters, have made an assignment to
•C. B. Hubbell, 31 Nassau street. They are big
shippers to the South American markets and
:the trouble was precipitated by the death on
1'ebruary 1 of M. C. Stanley, one of the partners
•who was active in the management of the busi-
ness. The firm started in 1S79. It is stated
that the trade in the South American markets
suffered by reason of the revolutions there and
likewise the failure of J. M. Cedallas & Co., big
Cuban house, made matters worse. The liabili-.
ties are reported at $250,000.

Supreme Court .Indue Greenbaum has ap-
pointed Harry S. Dewey receiver of the assets
of the firm of Dixon & Dewey, lumber mer-
chants, 949 Broadway, in a suit brought by
John T. Dixon against his partner. Mr. Dewey,
for a dissolution of the partnership and an ac-
counting. The firm was formed on January 1,
1906. and was financed by Mr. Dixon, who is
a Virginia lumber merchant and banker. The
firm handled the product of Mr. Dixon's mills in
Tennessee. The receiver's bond was fixed at
$50,000.

Sam E. Barr, Flatiron building, has just re-
turned from an extensive trip among the West
Virginia mills.

F. H. Loud, sales manager of the Buffalo
Maple Flooring Company. Buffalo, N. Y., was a
i recent visitor in the interest of business.

Alrott & Co., wholesalers of 29 Broadway,

:are reported in trouble' The office has been

I' sed for several days and it is authoritatively

sstated that bankruptcy proceedings will follow.

McBrlde & Co., lumber and parquet flooring

manufacturers, 1932 Park avenue, Manhattan,
are bankrupt. Charles D. Chase has been ap-
pointed receiver of the assets, which are esti-
mated at .flu.tlOO, with liabilities at $25,000.

Philadelphia.
Owen M. Brunei* of the Owen M. Brunei'
Company is making an extensive tour of the
South looking up stock and will not return until
March 1. The company, deplores the chronic
inefficiency of the car service. Their mills are
filled with orders waiting for cars and little
effort will be made for new business until the
pile of back orders is reduced.

Charles 1". l-'elin vV Co., extensive lumber and
millwork manufacturers, report their manufac-
turing department humming. Considerable of
their product comes by boat, but there is much
uncertainty in water transportation at this time,
owing to storms and ice accumulation, conse-
quently they find it difficult to supply the in-
creased demands, but they are in the market for
good woods. They were fortunate, considering
present difficulties, in receiving a cargo a few
days ago of over 400,000 feet of lumber.

John W. Coles, who has recently returned from
North Carolina and West Virginia, where he has
made some new connections, reports business
moving along in good style. He has engaged
George I.. Earker as salesman. Mr. Barker will
look after eastern Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey ; he was formerly with Frank C. Kolb.

Recent visitors to the trade were E. II. Silli
man of the Waccamaw Lumber Company, Wil-
mington, X. C.j who was also present at the

n in Hoo-Hoo concatenation and banquet at

ilc Walton hotel, and E. B. Nettleton. treasurer
ni i lie West Florida Hardwood Company. Marys-
ville. Fla.

.1. R. Williams, who is now installed in his
new offices, 909 Land Title building, reports
many inquiries and good orders coming in. Mr.
Williams handles both hard and soft w'oods, and
has made rapid strides towards the front rank
since he has been in business.

Emil Gueuther has recently returned from a
trip to Tennessee, where he purchased the en-
tire ontpul of a mill, which will run about

1". iv, i of lumber, principally hemlock.

with a few hardwoods. A comparatively low
man in the wholesale market, he is rapidly '_r<t-
ting his business in shape 1" meet all demands.

The McCormick Lumber Company was Incor-
porated under Pennsylvania laws February 9

with an authorized capital of $40, The

incorporators are M. A. McCormick and E. II.
Holstine, both of Fairchance, Pa., and C. E.
Roland of Greensburg, Pa.

A charter was granted under Pennsylvania
laws February 9 to the Moul-Miller Lumber
Company, capitalized at $10,000. Incorporators
are C. E. Moul of McSherrystown, Pa., C. F.
Moul and W. IL Moul, both of Hanover. Ta.,
and C. J. Huff, Chambersburg, Pa.

The Walter Construction Company, to manu-
facture building material, was chartered under
New Jersey laws February 13, with a capital
sieck of $125,000. The incorporators are
Amasa B. Walter and Lillian Clark of Philadel-
phia ; Fred A. Marcy, Cape May, N. J. ; Melvin
M. Garrison and Amos S. Flowers, Camden,
N. J.

As the citizens* permanent relief committee
of this city had collected $5,000 for the Jamaica
earthquake sufferers, the Kingston authorities
advised that it be used for the purchase of
lumber to build small homes for accommodation
of the homeless. The lumber trade bodies were
notified to this effect, and will forward as soon
as practicable.

The William Cramp Ship & Engine Building
Company had a narrow escape from a very
serious fire loss on February 13. Several build-
inns were destroyed as it was, including the pat-
tern house. Though the loss is estimated at
over $100,000, officials of the eompany claim
that a much less amount will cover the damage.
Edwin s. Cramp, vice president of this concern,
and the only member of the family remaining

in the company, which has been operated for
years only by members of the Cramp family,
resigned a few days ago, a move which created
quite a sensation in financial circles. No cause
is given, but it is known that since the company
was reorganized a few years ago the Drexel-
Morgan banking house has been the controlling
factor in the concern.

Baltimore.
At a meeting of the managing commit-
tee of the Baltimore Lumber Exchange
it was resolved that the exchange should
contribute to the end that the city may be rep-
resented at the Jamestown Exposition by a suit-
able building and that adequate provision should
lie made for the entertainment of exposition visi-
tors who call at the Baltimore building, and es-
pecially that visiting lumbermen be cared for.
It was resolved to donate not less than $500
to the purpose.

E. M. Terry, secretary of the National Lumber
Exporters' Association, who was required to
change his headquarters from Memphis to Balti-
more so as to be in close touch with John L.
Alcoek, the new president of the organization,
has installed his furniture in an office in the
Equitable building, Calvert and Fayette, streets,
and has resumed the threads of his work. Pres-
ident Alcoek has named a number of standing
committees, as follows : Measurements at Liver-
pool— George M. Spiegle, Philadelphia ; R. P.
Baer of II. I'. Baer ..v Co., Baltimore; H. L.
Lew man of the R. 1-:. Wood Lumber Company,
Baltimore. Equalization of rates — W. II. Russe
of Russe & Burgess, Memphis, Tenn. ; Harry M.
Dickson of the Dickson Lumber Company, Nor-
folk, Va. ; Frederick Arn of the Card Lumber
Company, Chattanooga, Tenn. New membership
— Gustave A. Farber of Memphis, Tenn. ; George
M. Spiegle and George D. Burgess of Russe &
Burgess.

At the annual meeting of the Kelly & Broad-
bent company John J. Kelly was elected presi-
dent, Felippe A. Broadhent first vice president,
John J. Kelly, Jr., second vice president, and
Thomas P. Kelly secretary and treasurer.

The Lick Run plant of the Decker Valley
Lumber Company, near Kingwood, W. Va.,-was
badly damaged by fire on the morning of Febru-
ary l'i.

The Lafayette Mill & Lumber Company of
i his city is erecting a two-story office building
and storage shed at 2100 West Lafayette ave-
nue, where the mill is located.

The Pennsylvania Coal, Coke & Lumber Com-
pany has purchased from Charles E. Cunning-
ham of Baltimore about 4,000 acres of coal and
timber lands in Boone county. West Virginia,
for $400,000. Mr. Cunningham acted for New
York interests.

The Norva Land & Lumber Company, of which
Robert McLean, a well known Baltimore lum-
berman, is one of the leading members, has pur-
chased the mills, equipment and timber holdings
of the Virginia Land & Lumber Company, in
Norfolk county, and will develop them. Associ-
ated with Mr. McLean are David Baird of Cam-
den, N. J., president ; Joseph P. Dunwoody of
Philadelphia, treasurer ; George Warner, Phila-
delphia, and Redmond C. Stewart, Baltimore.
Mr. McLean is secretary of the company, which
has a capital stock of $230,000, $60,000 thereof
being in cash and the rest representing the valu-
ation placed upon the land and plant. There
is a mill on the property, together with a saw
mill, dry kilns and drying shed. The land em-
braces 10,500 acres, is located eighteen miles
from Norfolk on the Dismal Swamp and, accord-
ing to an estimate, contains 100,000,000 feet of
gum, oak, poplar, cypress, pine and other woods.
Just at present the plant is not being operated,
but as soon as a 4-mile tramway is completed,
which will be about March 1, work will be
resumed. A stave and heading plant is among
the equipment. The company, which was organ-
ized last December under the laws of Virginia,
has orders in hand to keep the mill going for
months.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Xurman James of this city, who is largely
Interested In the Pigeon River Lumber Company,
on the Pigeon river, North Carolina, recently
visited the scene of the company's operations
<in one of his tours of inspection.

\l S. Baer of the hardwood arm of E. P. Baer
,v Co., with offices in tie Keyser building, this
city, is on one of his periodical trips to Mobile,
Ala., where the firm is interested in milling oper-
atiuns. While in that section he is also giving
attention to the taking up of stocks turned out
by nther mills.

Mr. Withnell of Duncan, Ewing & Co., London.
was in Baltimore two weeks ago. stopping here
In i lie course of an extended trip through the
lumbering regions of the United States. He
called on a number of local firms.

Among other recent visitors was Gustave A.
I arber, formerly a member of the firm of Price
& ileald, this city, and for a time represented
that firm at Memphis, but who afterward went
Into business on bis own account.

Pittsburg.

ii. W. Stone and James Wetmore of Warren,
Pa., and Thomas McCabe of Kinzua, Pa., have

ight from John J. Carter of Titusville 3,000

acres of oak and hickory timber near Titusville.
Pa . for about $100,000. The tract will be
developed at once.

An experiment of considerable significance to
tin' lumber industry was tried on the Penn-
sylvania lines west last week under the direc-
tion of Superintendent of Telegraph Cellar. Ce-
ment, poles of various size and strength were
tested and were found to be satisfactory for
telegraph purposes. As soon as the proper sizes
can be agreed upon the Pennsylvania lines will
place a large order. Some of the poles tested
were designed for only one string of wires, while
■■others held fifty or more wires. Owing to the
very high cost of timber pules, this experiment
1$ likely to lead to a quite general adoption of
concrete p°'es in Pennsylvania.

According to the C. B. Caughey Lumber Com-
pany, oak bill stuff is selling for $5 a thousand
more than a year ago and car stuff also. Oak
.staves, hand worked, are bringing $110 per
thousand pieces in New York and a few Pitts-
burg firms are profiting by the high prices to
dispose of small stocks which they had worked
up.

The Isle of Pines Company has been formed
to develop extensive resources on the Isle of
Tines, which is situated forty-five miles from
Cuba. The company lias been chartered in New
Jersey and is being brought into active work
t in "ugh the American Newspaper Association.
with offices in the Wabash building in this city.
Thomas J. Keenan of this city is one of the
must interested stockholders. There are 130,000
acres of land on the island and the timber re-
sources are estimated as follows: 20,000,000
le.i of mahogany, 40,000,000 feet of Spanish ce-
dar, 10,000,000 feet of sablcu, o,000,000 feet of
n.liie. .-,,000.0110 feet of satinwood and 20,000,000
feet of other hardwoods.

.Manager .1. X. Woollen of tin' American Lum-
ber ,\; Manufacturing Company has just booked
an order for 25,000 street railway ties, 0x8x8,
to be delivered in the Pittsburg district. Charles
Cruikshank, assistant hardwood manager, is tak-
ing a "furniture trip" among the Grand Rapids
concerns. The American lias just enrolled in
its services 1'. C. Clark, formerly manager of
the W. M. ltitter Lumber Company at Columbus,
O.. who will help push its hardwood business.
The company has two barges of cottonwood on
the way up the Mississippi to !»• unloaded at
Joppa, 111., for distribution throughout the mid-
dle west. President W. 1). Johnston of the
American has tired of the continued cold
weather ::nd has gone to Cuba for a few weeks"
recreation.

The report of building operations in Pittsburg
for the fiscal year ended January ?,l shows
2,245 new buildings constructed, costing $13,-
792,000. This is a considerable falling off from

the year 1905, when the total was $14,652,700.
The slump is attributed largely to the two
months' carpenters' strike last spring.

The W. M. Gillespie Lumber Company has
lately bought 6,000,000 feet of high grade hard
wood in West Virginia and will be ready to start
shipments by March 1.

The Parsons-Cross Lumber Company had its
Cleveland representative, Max Myers, in the city
last week noting conditions.

An indication of how busy tie1 Western Re-
serve hardwood plants are in Ohio is furnished
by the report of the Warren Handle Company.
which is now 3,000 dozen handles behind its
orders. The handles this company make go
mostly to Tennessee and Kentucky.

The L. L. Satler Lumber Company reports that
a very destructive sleet and hail storm put their
big plant at Blackstone, Va., on the idle list tor
a tew days this month. Work is being pushed
hard on the Satler box shook factory, which
will employ eighty men, and is already assured
of an enormous trade throughout the Pennsyl-
vania factories.

President J. R. Edgett of the Interior Lumber
i ompany was in the city for a few days and
reports a good measure of activity at the com-
pany's plant at Oneida, Tenn.

About 1,900 acres of timber land near Pied-
mont, W. Va., have been sold to R. R. Daton of
Westernport, Md. A sawmill will be erected at
once and the entire tract will be developed.

The Cheat River Lumber Company will hence-
forth do its own logging, skidding and hauling
at its big plant at Burkeville, Va. M. L. and
R. K. Herbertson are now at the plant and will
spon have quite an addition to the present line
of tram. The company's inquiry for chestnut
is one of the brightest spots in its market out-
look just now.

Secretary J. H. Henderson of the Kendall
Lumber Company is now in Oregon arranging
for the enormous operation which the Kendalls
will shortly undertake on the Pacific coast.

Manager W. P. Craig of William Whitmer &
Sons, Inc., is back from a long trip through the
South, where he found conditions in hardwoods
very favorable.

The marked increase in the consumption of
hardwood flooring during the past two years is
significant in the Pittsburg district. It estab-
lishes firmly the fact that the competition of
tlie more progressive builders is having its ef-
fect upon the building business generally. In
former years the relative values of the harder
oak, maple and beech flooring and the softer
woods have been such as to induce the builder
to make his choice where his money would go
farthest. In the last two years, however, the
alliance in the price of both yellow and North
Carolina pine has been so marked that there is
but a slight difference between the hard ami
soft woods in cost. Previously when the values
oi oak, maple and beech were so much higher
than pine the only buildings that consumed the
former were private dwellings and the better
class of apartment houses. Today hardwood is
used extensively in the cheaper class of houses.

The American Woods Corporation of West Vir-
ginia lias Increased its capital stock from sin.

to $5,000,000. It was Incorporated last fall
and since then has been acquiring options on
West Virginia timber lands until it now has
under control over 100,000 aires. Options have
lately been taken on some large plants and it is
proposed to ,arry on operations on a scale siml
lar to that in the Adirondacks. The storage
yards, mills and dry kilns of the company will
be at l'.elington, W. Va. Following are the di
rectors of the corporation: Creed Collins, a
prominent lumber manufacturer and president
of the First National bank of Pennsboro. \Y.
Va. : It. E. Jackson, president of the Citizens'
National hank of Belington ; Frederick Moore,
president .of the Mountain State Investment
Company of Belington: S. G. Boyce, a promi-
nent lumber manufacturer of Owls Head, N. Y. ;

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A- J- St •, .New York; J. W. Selvey, president

of Grafton Banking & Trust Company, Grafton,
W. Va. ; N. M. Marshall, president of People's
National bank of Malone, N. Y'. ; F. C. Emerlek.
Buffalo, N. Y. Charles E. Cochran is president
of the corporation, Creed Collins is vice presl
dent, Frederick G. Moore is secretary and Scott
G. Boyce is treasurer.

Buffalo.

Of particular interest here is the retirement
of F. W. Vetter from the Empire Lumber Com
pauy of this city. II. S. Janes, who has looked
after i be Arkansas mills of the company lately,
lias assumed management of the Buffalo busi-
ness, with office in the White building. Mr. Vet-
ter will retain the Buffalo yard.

Beyer. Knox & Co. are looking South again
for more oak and chestnut, but will not go there
in person until the high water reports stop.

O. E. Yeager and J. B. Wall have been at
Mount Clemens for some time. Their yards are
very busy shipping out oak and other hard-
woods.

H. A. Stewart will go South after oak and
cherry again as soon as he can do business on
dry land and get some cars to handle stock.

Manager Hopkins is a Cuban planter in per-
son just now, instead of looking after the Buf-
falo business of Scatcherd & Son. Mr. Scatcherd
attends to the office.

The Hugh McLean Lumber Company's south-
ern oak mills are running steadily in spite of
the rains, but oak is scarce, nevertheless, as the
demand is so good.

The yard of A. Miller has been headquarters
for basswood for some time, but there is also a
good assortment of all the hardwoods.

The mill and box factory of G. Elias & Bro.
are busy and they are prepared to take care of
more city house building next year than ever.

Oak has been crowding into the yard of the
Standard Hardwood Lumber Company of late,
as it managed to get hold of a lot of cars in
Alabama and make the most of them.

T. Sullivan & Co. will receive more ash and
birch by lake again next season before the
present supply is out, though trade is fine.

Bay City.

"All kinds of hardwood, especially ash, elm
and basswood and hardwood culls of all kinds.
are particularly firm with an upward tendency
in price. The prospect is the output of hard-
wood lumber this year will be no larger than
it was last, and the stocks of lumber in the
bands of dealers and manufacturers is much
smaller than they were a year ago at this date."
This is the statement made by Charles A. Bige-
low, one of the largest manufacturers of hard-
wood in the state, and a gentleman well in-
formed as to conditions and stocks.

The logging conditions are fairly favorable.
The weather in the main has been satisfactory,
with not enough snow to interfere with active
operations in the woods. But during the fall
men were very scarce and there are many camps
yet running a little short handed. Teams are
about as scarce as ears for shipping purposes.
Loggers have ransacked the entire lower penin-
sula for teams for hauling purposes and the
supply is still inadequate.

S. I.. Eastman of the S. L. Eastman Flooring
Company says factory grades of maple flooring
will be advanced owing to the advance in price
of the raw material. lie is carrying about
in, nun, nun feet in stock all of the time. Com-
plaints tire still filed as to ear shortage.

The Strable Manufacturing Company's plant
at Saginaw has started operations. It manufac-
tures maple flooring and has unlimited capital
and lumber resources behind it. It is expected
io handle 10,000,000 or 12,000,000 feet annu-
ally.

The Mershon p.aeon Company's plant, which
heretofore has been employed mostly in pine,
will go over largely into hardwood products.
Mr. Mershon Is interested in a vast quantity of

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hardwood timber land north of the straits and
the plant is assured of a long run.

The W. D. Young & Co. plant is very busy
being operated day and night, and the firm says
the demand for hardwood stocks has materially
Increased.

Similar stories come as to the operations of
the Bliss & Van Auken plant at Saginaw, which
is exceptionally busy, and the Kerry & Hanson
maple flooring plant at Grayling. All signs of
the times, in fact, point to a successful year in
the flooring industry.

At Au Sable the* H. M. I.oud's Sons Company
has contracted for a large quantity of maple for
Lake Erie points, 2,000,000 feet going to one
concern.

It is estimated that the Sailing-Hanson Lum-
ber Company, recently reorganized at Grayling
with a capitalization of $850,000, has timber to
keep their mills at Johannesburg and Grayling
busy for thirty years yet.

Grand Rapids.

A bill to create a commission of nine mem-
bers, appointed by the governor, for the pur-
pose of investigating the forestry problems of
Michigan and to report to the next legislature,
was introduced at Lansing February 20. The
sum of $25,000 is to be set aside to meet the
needs of the commission of inquiry in starting
the state on a consistent and complete policy
with reference to handMng its delinquent tax,
denuded, waste and forest lands. The measure
was carefully prepared by Charles W. Garfield,
president of the Michigan Forestry Commission,
and it has the support of Governor Warner and
the administration forces of the legislature.
Iteing likely to pass, it is hope^i by the friends
of the forestry movement that the governor will
in his appointive work name men who have the
interests of the state, not of a political party.
at heart, and that the work may be forever
divorced from politics.

N. Michelson, a well known lumberman of
Grayling, asks the citizens of Lake City to aid
him in his efforts to induce the Grand Rapids &
Indiana railway to extend its line from Lake
City to Houghton lake. Mr. Michelson will
build a saw and shingle mill on the Muskegon
river, in the vicinity of Houghton lake, this

summer, and says that he will have 75,1 ,000

feet of forest products to be hauled over the
road. He believes that the opening up of this
country will be of great advantage to Missaukee
county.

A legislative bill has been introduced author-
izing the withdrawal from sale ■ of the lands
owned by the agricultural college in Iosco and
Alcona counties, and making an appropriation
for a forest reserve to be started on these lands,
which include thousands of acres along the Au
Sable river. II. X. Loud of the State Forestry
Association is author of the measure.

R. G. Peters of the Feters Salt & Lumber
Company. Manistee, has brought suit by sum-
mons against Henry W. Carey of Eastlake to
force a settlement of Mr. Carey's business rela-
tions wjth the company. The Peters company
was established more than forty years ago and
has a high financial rating. Mr. Carey entered
the offices of the company back in the seventies,
and eventually became secretary and treasurer,
though his financial interests in the concern, it
Is stated, were never very large. Mr. Carey was
in Grand Rapids February 20, but declined to
discuss the suit.

A. F. Anderson of Cadillac was in the city
February 21.

F. E. Ranney of the Ranney Refrigerator
Company is president and chairman of the board
of directors of the Greenville Improvement Asso-
ciation, just organized in that city.

Both houses of congress have passed the river
and harbor bill, which' provides for examination
of the Grand river at this point by United States
engineers to plan against recurrence of floods,
also the sum of $88,000 for deepening the chan-
nel for boa's below the city.

Fire destroyed the plant of the Mancelona
Handle Company at Mancelona. Loss nearly
$18,000 ; insured for $10,000. The cut of tim-
ber was nearly completed in that section and
it is not probable the plant will be rebuilt
there. About fifty men were employed.

Cadillac people had a jubilee February 13.
having succeeded in raising the $20,000 neces-
sary to supplement the gift of $10,000 made by
W. W. Mitchell for the erection of a Young
Men's Christian Association building. The
money was secured two days before the expira-
tion of the time limit, and Mitchell street from
end to end was full of enthusiastic people, who
burned red fire, powder, and shouted themselves
hoarse, the yell being : "Rip, rip. rap, roar !
How about that twenty more? Did we get it?
Well, I guess. Right on time and two days less.
Now Will Mitchell has to pay ; Rah, rah, rah !
Y. M. C. A." Mr. Mitchell was afterwards sere-
naded at his home.

Cleveland.

W. J. Fell, a prominent lumber and stone
manufacturer of Salt Lick, Ky., was here yes-
terday.

F. J. Jeffries of the Chicago Car Lumber
Company, Chicago, and H. C. Horr, secretary of
the Tucker Woodworking Company, Sidney, O.,
were among the visitors of the week.

J. H. Jeuks, vice president of the Robert H.
Jenks Lumber Company, has been confined to
his home for several days, the result of an at-
tack of pneumonia.

The National Association of Box Manufactur-
ers is in session here this week, with a large
;ti tendance.

Indianapolis.
The Long-Knight Lumber Company, one of

the largest dealers in hardwoods in Indianapolis,
has the following to say concerning the hard-
wood market in that city : "All hardwoods are
in excellent demand at the present time and we
hare more inquiries for the stock we have on
hand than we have ever had before. We think
the outlook for trade is unusually bright. At
present we are not having any great trouble to
get cars, except in the South. 1 'rices are re-
maining steady."

I 'reparations to run night and day because
of heavy orders on hand are being made by the
Batesville Lumber & Veneer Company at Bates-
ville. A dynamo has been installed for the pur-
pose of furnishing electric light and other im-
provements have been made in the plant.

Stockholders of the Central Manufacturing
Company, Connersville. have elected W. B. Aus-
ted of Greensburg president of the company.
Announcement of an increase in capital stock
from $50,000 to $100,000 was recently made.
At the annual meeting a very profitable busi-
ness last year was reported.

Probably in no city in the state is the effect
"I the car shortage felt more strongly than at
Shelby ville, where there are thirteen furniture
factories. At least twenty cars are needed a
Hay to ship the product of these factories, while
only five or six cars a day are available. Ware-
houses are filled to the top with furniture which
is sold and hardwood dealers are beginning to
feel the effect of the situation, as the factories
will no doubt have to limit their production be-
fore long from lack of storage and shipping fa-
cilities.

The National Flooring Company has been In-
corporated in this city with a capital stock of
$1,500, and offices have been opened in the
Pembroke Arcade. I'. S. Brown, F. W. Waldko-
itter and W, s. Kimberlin are interested in the
company.

Orders tor 102 Morris chairs have been re-
ceived from Sydney, Australia, by the National
Adjustable Chair Company of Greenfield. Re-
cently the company received a large order from
Venezuela, and during the last year has sent
large shipments to Egypt. Germany. France,
(bile. Italy. Japan ami china.

A recent organization is that of the Shelby-
ville Woodworking Company at Shelbyville. The
company has taken a long lease on a former
elevator building which will be equipped at once
with new machinery. Directors are Harry Boeh-
ning, Jacob Rizer, George Kelley, Joshua Inman
and Andrew Clark. The capital stock is $5,000.

John A. Reitz & Sons of Evansville, one of
the largest sawmill concerns in that part of the
state, suffered heavy loss by fire on the night of
February 14. Practically the whole plant was
destroyed at a loss of $50,000, only part of
which was insured. Steps will be taken to re-
build the plant at once and it is expected that
it will be ready for operation within a short
time.

It is reported that the Dearborn Desk Com-
pany, with its principal offices in Chicago, has
closed a deal to purchase the plant of the ITnion
Cabinet Company in North Marion. The plans,
it is understood, include one of the largest desk
factories in Marion, with a specialty of office
and typewriter desks.

The Grabill Lumber Company will conduct one
"i the largest institutions of its kind in the
northern part of Indiana, according to incorpora-
tion papers that have just been filed with the
secretary of state. The capitalization is $16,000
and the concern will be located at Grabill. Those
who have capital invested are Philip, C. C, D. C.
and Levi Sprunger, Julius Gehring and Daniel
Stucky.

J. V. Stimson, one of the largest hardwood
dealers in southern Indiana, with headquarters
at Huntingburg, was elected vice president of
the Manufacturers Bureau of Indiana at its
organization in this city a few days ago. The
bureau has been organized for the purpose of
binding the 7,000 manufacturers of the state
more closely together for protective purposes.
The bureau will wage war on measures before
the Indiana legislature deemed unfavorable to
manufacturers.

The plant of the Roachdale Novelty & Veneer
Company at Roachdale has just been sold, the
purchaser being Martin Cutsinger of Edinburg.
Mr. Cutsinger will improve the plant immediately
and greatly enlarge its capacity. The price paid

for the plant, it is understood, was $1S.

The plant is one of the largest in central Indi-
ana.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

R. E. Wood, president. G. L. Wood, general
manager, and J. H. Yost of the office force of
the R. E. Wood Lumber Company. Baltimore,
were visitors in the city last week en route to
the company's operations at Huladeen, Carter
county, Tennessee. They will also visit the
company's North Carolina operations before re-
turning to Baltimore.

J. H. Bryan of the Bryan Lumber Company
is at Cranberry. N. C, looking after his com-
pany s mills in that section and hurrying for-
ward orders.

The Paul W. Fleck Lumber Company is stock
ing its new lumber yards in South Bristol as
rapidly as possible and will soon have about 100
cars of lumber on hand.

II. M. Iloskins has resigned as general sales
agent for J. A. Wilkinson and rumor has it that
he is organizing a new lumber concern to deal
in hardwoods for the domestic and foreign trade.
Mr. Hoskins is well known to the trade in the
East, having been in business in New York for
three years. He spent some time in London and
is well acquainted with the export trade. G. E.
Goodell, who has been with Mr. Wilkinson for
a number of years, succeeds Mr. Hoskins as sales
manager.

Irving Whaley of the Tug River Lumber Com-
pany is contemplating a trip to the West Indies
and expects to sail from New York the early
part .it' March.

C. W. Hiles. representing J. H. S. Clark &
Co., hardwood dealers of Newark, N. J., was
calling on the local trade last week and buying
hardwood.

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3i

James A. Martin, the veteran lumber manu-
facturer of Johnson City, last week closed a deal
for a 5,000-acre tract of fine virgin hardwood
forest in Swain and Haywood counties. North
Carolina. Mr. Martin announces that he will
develop the property, beginning operations at an
early date.

The Sells Lumber & Manufacturing Company,
which was recently incorporated with a capital
stock of $50,000, is building planing and saw
mills at Carnagie, near Johnson City. The
company is headed by Sam R. Sells of this
city.

G. W.
Company

Lumbi
trip

Peter of the Paul W. Fleck
returned this week from a
Johnson and Carter counties, Tennessee.

W. C. Davecmon, a well known attorney <>i°
Cumberland, Md., who has extensive lumber in-
terests in southwest Virginia, was a visitor in
Bristol last week. Mr. Davecmon is prominently

connected with the United States Spruce C

pany, which operates a big mill and railroad at
Marlon, Smyth county, Virginia.

C. H. Hett of the Kingsport Lumber Company
came up from Johnson City last week on busi-
ness.

C. K. Mount, president of the Iron Mountain
Lumber Company of Maymead, Tenn., was in
Bristol last week on business.

The mills of the Little River Lumber Com-
pany, at Townsend, Tenn., are now in operation
and turning out 120,000 feet of stock per day.
The completion of the Little River railroad,
which was recently washed away for a consider-
able distance by high tides, was accomplished
last week.

Aldrich & Coon of Johnson City, Tenn.. last
week purchased from ('apt. W. H. Nelson a
1, mm acre tract of timber land lying in Carter
county, Tennessee, which the purchasers will de
velop at once.

James A. ami W. I!. St. .in- of the Stone-Huling
Lumber Company of this city, and Hugh Allen
of Middlesboro. Ky., are organizing the Allen
Lumber Company. The new concern will be or-
ganized under the laws of Kentucky and will
have headquarters at Middlesboro. W. R. Stone
has gone for a trip through the South. He will
visit several big mills in Alabama, Georgia and
Mississippi.

Among recent visitors to the local market
were : W. O. Gillespie, representing James
Gillespie, a wholesale lumberman of North
Tonawanda. N. V. : \V. I.. Reynolds of
White & Reynolds, Coebnrn. Va. : F. J. Alliger
of North Tonawanda, N. Y. : W. S. Whiting of
the Whiting Manufacturing Company, Abingdon,
Va. ; L. H. Snodgrass of the Buck-Snodgrass
Lumber Company. Johnson City, Tenn.

Cincinnati.

"Although not much has been said lately
about the progress of the Belt Line, we are get-
ting along splendidly," says Thomas J. Moffett.
chairman of the committee of business men hav-
ing charge of -the project. "I had previously
gone over the territory to be traversed by the
belt line in ar. automobile, but in order to be-
come familiar with details of the route I am
walking over it, and have tramped over one-
1 li til of the line — about seven miles. Every-
where I found the property owners and manu-
facturers favorably inclined toward the road."

President Roosevelt's recommendation that the
government reserve western coal and timber lands
for future generations and prevent their monopo
lization is generally looked upon with favor by
Cincinnati coal and lumbermen. William A.
Bennett of Bennett & Witte. president of the
Chamber of Commerce, recently said : "Roosevelt
I- tli" best president we have had in many a
day and, though he seems very strenuous at
times, he is always looking out for the general
good of the people, and I have no doubt he
studied this coal ami timber reserve proposition
carefully before making his recommendation. His

attitude, 1 believe, is a praiseworthy one. In
his desire to protect future generations he Is
doing a wise and clever thing. The forests are
one of the world's greatest sources of wealth,
though they are being rapidly denuded. No
other industry ships as many carloads of mate-
rial into Cincinnati daily as does the lumber in-
terest, and this is true everywhere. While I
think the president is right on this subject, no
blame can be attached to lumbermen who bought
timber lands very cheaply in the West, which
have increased in value from 300 to 1,000 per-

I olll."

Thomas J. Moffett of the Maley, Thompson &
Molfett Company has returned from a trip to
New York on behalf of the Business Men's Club,
w here he went in an effort to secure the next
general conference of the Methodist Episcopal
1 hurch for the Queen City.

"Inspection" will be the theme of the next
monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's Club, Mon-
day, March 4. The subject is an interesting one
and lively discussion will undoubtedly result.

The Cincinnati Furniture Exchange held its
monthly meeting February 12 and discussed the
new measure to be presented to congress to
remove the restrictions from the manufacture of
denatured alcohol. The measure was indorsed.
It will be presented to congress by the manu-
facturers' committee.

The American Cabinet Company has been
formed with a nominal capital of $5,000. The
incorporators are W. A. Bennett, D. W. Miller,
Charles Moeser, R. E. Becker and W. B. Mente.
The ottiies are located in the Pickering build-
ing.

!•:. M. Schauta of the E. M. Schantz Lumber
Company is engaged upon his new device foi-
st ill further simplifying the progress of cutting
dimension stock. The machine now in operation
is a marvel and, when understood, is as simple
as it is possible to be, but his latest work will
reduce to a minimum the skill aud amount of
labor required in operation, while increasing the

oUtpilt.

The new Liberty hank established in the west
end of this city is practically a lumber and
furniture institution. These men compose the
directors: B. F. Duhveber, W. F. Duhlmeier, J.
E. Dulweber, George Morgan, lumbermen ; J. F.
Dietz, F. II. Ballman, A. G. Steinman, furniture
men. F. H. Ballman was elected president.

Chester F. Korn of the Farrin-Korn Lumber
Company has been admitted to membership in
the Queen City Furniture Club. Mr. Korn is an
industrious young lumberman and will add much
spirit to the organization.

W. E. Delaney of the Kentucky I. umber Com-
pany has returned from a business sojourn at
their mill in Williamsburg, Ky.

The Spalding sporting "...oils house on Fifth
street has been temporarily converted into a
lumber concern. They have received enough
hardwood lumber in the form of baseball bats
to build a large log cabin.

St. Louis.

W. A. Bonsack has 1. ntly returned from a

southern buying trip; he spent several days at
Memphis while away.

F. p. Southgate of Chicago, now inspector for
the National Hardwood Lumber Association, was
a recent visitor to this market, where he has
many friends among the lumber fraternity.

II. G. Buckner of the International Hardwood
Lumber Company is now located at Iuka, MlSS.,
where he has established headquarters, ami will
act as the company's buyer through that terri-
tory.

E. II. Luebrmann of the Chas. F. Luehrmann

Hardw 1 Lumber Company says that owing to

high water the company recently had to shut
down nearly all its mills and suspend operations
on its logging roads, bul that several of the
larger plants were started up again this week,
lie reports business excellent.

George II Cottrill, secretary of the American

Hardwood Lumber Company, >a.\s the company
is behind on Its orders because of bad weather
conditions. 11. A. Singer. New York manager,
visited the main office last week. A branch office
has recently been opened in Memphis by the
. ompany.

Nashville.

Secretary Lewis Doster of the Hardw 1

Manufacturers' Association has returned to Chi-
cago after a stay of several days in Nashville
in conference with President John P.. Ransom
and other local lumbermen.

Extensive Cumberland county properties are
soon to be developed by the Clear Creek Coal
& Coke Company, a concern capitalized at
$1,000,000. It is proposed to issue .f230,O00 in
bonds. Tlie eompany owns 7, mid acres of land
in Marion and Cumberland counties on which
is much fine timber.

A special from Athens. Tenn., announces
that Walker Brothers of that place have com-
pleted arrangements for the establishment of
a saw. p laning and lath mill. The machinery
is at hand and the buildings to house it are
uearing completion.

Messrs. Puryear and Bason of Mebane, N. C,
are contemplating the establishment of a sin. mm
chair factory at Newport, Tenn.

O. G. Fitzgerald, operating a big hickory mill
near Clifton, Tenn., has closed a contract for
1,000,000 feet of hickory timber. He will begin
sawing about March 1.

Chalmers Vestal, president of the Caney Fork
Lumber & Tie Company and one of the best
known lumbermen of middle Tennessee, was shot
and killed a few days since. It was at
first thought that the deceased had killed
himself while cleaning out his revolver, but later
his bookkeeper, W. S. Bryant, was arrested on
suspicion. Bryant was with Mr. Vestal when
the latter met his death, hut stated that the
latter either killed himself voluntarily or invol-
untarily.

By mutual agreement the Nashville lumber
firm of Hews, Card & Co. has been dissolved.
C. E. Dews has formed the wholesale hardwood
company of C. E. Hews & P.i-o. A. H. Card has
organized the lumber firm of A. H. Card & Co.

John A. Ray & Co. of Bedford county are
putting in a plant at Bluff Point lor the manu-
facture of buggy rims. It will be in operation
by April I.

Memphis.
Lumbermen of this city are preparing to enter
vigorous protest against the proposed advance of
2 to 5 cents per hundred on lumber shipments
from points on the Frisco system, St. Louis. Iron
Mountain & Southern and St. Louis Southwest-
ern (Cotton Belt) in Arkansas, Missouri, Louis-
iana and Oklahoma Territory to all Ohio and
Mississippi river crossings. The advance is to
become effective March 1, but every effort will
be made to prevent it, especially on lumber that
has been sold during the past two or three
months for Immediate shipment hut which has
not yet been delivered because the railroads
have been unable to supplj the necessary trans-
portation facilities. If direel appeals to the
railroads for slaying the advance are not effec
the. the matter will he taken to the Interstate
Commerce Commission for the purpose of secur
ing an Injunction preventing the advance front
becoming effective within a certain specified
lime. Lumbermen feel that the advanced rate
should not he applicable on lumber that bat

1 a sold for later delivery, the price of which

was based mi 1 lie existing schedules.

line large firm here, with mills at Montrose,
Ark., is authority for the statement that it has
void enormous quantities of cypress lumber to
be Belivered as soon as possible, the sales having
been spread over the past few months, and that
ir has heel, unable to deliver but a fraction 1 f
, I,, amount because the railroads refused to fur
oisli ih. necessary cars, This firm contends that
1 , fault lies w Ith the railroads and that it

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should not therefore be made to suffer. The
advance on hardwood lumber from Montrose is
2 cents per hundred, while that on cypress and
pine is 5 cents per hundred to St. Louis, making
the rate now 15 cents on hardwoods and is
cents on cypress, against 13 cents on both hard-
woods and cypress and pine under the old re-
gime. It is striking to note in this connection
that there is practically nothing but cypress
being shipped from this mill at present, which
may be an explanation of the widening of the
• differential 3 cents per hundred in favor of the
railroads.

The car situation in this territory does not
improve. Some lumbermen say conditions are
growing steadily worse and that there is no
• hope of early improvement. The situation is
bad enough in Memphis proper, but it is much
worse at inland points, where there is less com-
petition.

C. D. Hendriekson, chairman of the rivers
and rail committee of the Lumbermen's Club,
recently read a very interesting paper on "Car
Troubles in- Congestion of Traffic." He said
there was no such thing as a shortage of cars
and laid the whole trouble at the feet of operat
ing officials who are either incompetent or who
are not given the proper resources and facilities
at terminal points by their superior officers. He
openly charged that many of the higher officials
of the railroads are so anxious to take advan-
tage of stock market opportunities that they do
not give proper attention to their business and
that they tie up for speculative purposes large
sums of money which should go either to the
stockholders in the form of dividends or be
put back into the road in the form of improve-
ments and betterments. The paper has at-
tracted much favorable comment and has been
given wide circulation through one of the lead-
ing dailies here.

Weather conditions throughout the Memphis
hardwood producing area .show much improve
ment, with the prospect that logging may be
resumed in the more favorably located tracts in
a comparatively short time. However, with the
ground so thoroughly rain soaked, manufacturers
say it will be some time before much logging
will be possible. The supply of timber on hand
is very light and the prospect for large opera-
tions between now and May 1 is not regarded as
particularly promising.

The l'aepcke-Leicbt Lumber Company of Chi-
cago, which has offices in this city, has pur-
chased a site at Pine Bluff, Ark., and closed
negotiations for the erection there of a mam
moth veneer plant, box factory amd sawmill,
which will give employment to between 300 and
400 persons. The combined plants will i
about two acres and will represent one of the
largest .industries of the kind in this section.

The Anderson-Tully Company, which is erect-
ing a bux factory duplicating the present one,
with a daily capacity of three cars of shooks.
is being delayed'somewhat and will not get it in
operation before March 13. It was expected
it would be ready by February 1 at the latest.

The box plant and sawmill of Moore & Meter
ren. the stave plant of the Chickasaw Cooperage
Company and the hoop plant of the Tennessee
1 loop Company have resumed operations after a
shutdown of some duration occasioned by the
high water in Wolf river. There are several
woodworking plants further up this stream
■which are still closed down and which may re-
main so for some days yet.

The Memphis Rim & Bow Company, of which

J. F. Mclntyre is manager, has purchased :_'.

acres of hardwood and pine timber lands near
Grenada^ "Miss., and will put in a 13, 000-foot
mill for the development of the timber thereon.
The most abundant growth is forked leaf white
oak, which is used in manufacturing bent wagon
stock, and the company purchased the tract
with a view to securing the necessary raw ma-
terial for the manufacture of this class of
material. The remaining timber will be cut

and sold in the open market. The purchase,
- ther with the mill, will represent an outlay
of about $30,000.

R. J. Darnell has taken out a permit for the
construction of a building which is to contain
the new double band mill to be erected here by
that firm. There will also be a large veneer
mill operated in connection with the plant, in
which oak, gum and other veneers will be man
ufactured.

The Kimball-Lacy Lumber Company of Arkan-
sas City, Ark., has purchased 750 acres of Cot-
tonwood timber lands from, the Valley bank at
Rosedale, Miss., and will soon take steps for the
development of this property. The company
controls three mills, two of which are now in
operation. C. A. Lacy of this city is secretary-
treasurer of the company.

George C. Ehemann, formerly secretary-treas-
urer of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, has
been presented by the retiring board of directors
with a handsome signet ring, scarf pin and cuff
buttons. This was the method the old board
took of expressing its appreciation of the splen-
did services rendered by Mr. Ehemann. The
presentation was made by W. R. Barksdale, who
was recently succeeded as president by George
D. Burgess.

J. L. Boone, Jr., of Shreveport, La., represent-
ing the Friedlander & Oliver Lumber Company
■ >f Berlin. Germany, has located at Mena, Ark..
and is making preparations for cutting white
oak timber on a large scale for shipment to
Germany.

Blake Barton, who is interested in the Cove
Lumber Company, is building a large plant at
Black Springs, Ark., which i- to he operated by
the Black Springs Lumber Company.

The Felsenthal Hardwood Lumber Company.
Felsenthal, Ark., lias been incorporated under
the laws of that state with a capital stork of
$10,000.

The executive commitl .i the local branch of

the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Iieep Waterwaj - Association,
of which W. H. Russe is chairman, is taking
active steps for the raising of $5,000 for the
furtherance of the cause of river improvement.
An appeal for subscriptions has been sent out in
which it is stated Jhat Memphis would grow-
much more rapidly than in the past if made a
seaport town by the deepening of the channel of
the Mississippi.

C. B. Kelly, former president of the ( '. ];.
Kelly Lumber Company at Homan. Ark., has
filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the
Federal Court at Texarkana, Ark., in which be
places his liabilities at $331,500 and asserts that
his assets are only nominal.

The Memphis Log Loading Company has moved
into the offices in the Tennessee Trust Building
formerly occupied by the National Lumber Ex-
porters' Association. Rates for log loading in
Jhis territory have been uniformly increased by
the company.

The W. E. Hyde Lumber Company, one of the
more recent acquisitions in Memphis, has made
arrangements for the opening of yards in North
.Memphis on which a considerable stock of hard-
re I lumber will l,c- carried.

New Orleans.

J. V. Hill, chief inspector for the Hardwood
Manufacturers Association, was one of the
principal speakers :ii the meeting of lumbermen
held at the Progressive Union Hall last Sunday
morning. This was one of the most unique
meetings ever held in this city. Probably sev-
enty or eighty lumbermen were present and
these Included the graders In nearly all the mills
in this territory. The meeting was a sort of
uional gathering and the fact that the
yard men took part in the proceedings made it
very unusual. They were called upon for ex-
pressions and gave much valuable information
as to i!i. best system of interpreting the grad-
ing rules.

S. C. Majors of the S. C. Majors Lumber

Company of Memphis was a recent visitor to
New' Orleans.

Carl Wedderin, expert accountant, and a man
well known to lumbermen throughout the south,
died suddenly at his home in this city last
Friday night.

The new $100,000 plant of S. T. Alms &
Co., box manufacturers, has begun operations.

The transfer of the Hill-Drummond properties
in Louisiana to the Advance Lumber Company
of Cleveland, O., has been completed. The
holdings of the company in the vicinity of
Baskin. La., include something like 60,000.000
feet of pine and oak on 10,000 acres, and a
sawmill plant at Baskin. The price paid was
$150,1

The Mississippi Seating Company, organized
at Jackson, Miss., to manufacture opera chairs,
school furniture and other hardwood products,
has begun operations. The plant cost $50,000
and employs fifty-five workmen.

Destructive forest fires have been raging in
the vicinity of Hattiesburg, Miss., for the last
week or so. Large quantities of timber are be-
ing consumed, the principal food for the fire be-
ing the large amount of timber which was
felled by the storms last September. Much of
this has dried and is burning like tinder. The
loss from these fires will be very heavy.

J. II. Jones, a prominent lumberman of Hous-
ton, is negotiating for 7,000 acres of hardwood
timber land in the Calcasieu district on the
Colorado Southern road. He expects to build a
mill to cut his timber.

The Interstate Lumber Company has filed its
charter in Mississippi and is making prepara-
tions to build a $100,000 woodworking plant at
Columbus.

A new factory, the Southern Box Manufac-
turing Company, has begun operations at New
Albany, Miss.

Tin Fairley Lumber & Manufacturing Com-
pany has been organized at Hattiesburg. Miss.,

with an authorized capitalization of $20

The incorporators are H. S. Magerty. B. D.
Moore and Daniel Fairley.

Morehead, Ky.
S. M. Bradley, Morehead, Ky., has purchased
-..".nil acres of the finest oak timber in Kentucky
and will commence operations on it at once. He
predicts 1007 will be a banner year in oak and
has benight several small tracts.

The S. B. Reese Lumber Company of Farmers

lnii'' -tinted a circular mill, as their large band

mill was not sufficient to saw all the logs they

have at the mill this year. This will be the

i cut of lumber in the history of this

.uiy.

The Lie king River Lumber Company, Farmers,

claim they cannot furnish lumber fast ei gb

for their trade. They will have a large cut this
year.

The Salt Lick Lumber Company is doing a
ni.e- business in finished lumber, which plant
they run in connection with their large band
mill.

W. J. Fell, Salt Lick, has bought a large tract
of timber in West Virginia which he will have
worked into staves. He is one of the few who
realize the worth of oak stumpage, and is buying
all he can find.

S. M. Bradley, the Morehead lumberman, has
just closed a deal with a large trunk line for
all their switch ties this year. This is the
largest contract ever given to a single firm in
eastern Kentucky and will amount to about
$1,000,000.

The Clearfield Lumber Company has just com-
pleted a large tunnel near Morehead, and are
now ready to lay ten miles of track on their
railroad. They have received one engine and
four cars which will be used for construction
work. They expect to be able to commence
operation by the first of April.

Charlotte, N. C.
The Asheville Lumber Exchange is making a

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determined effort to have the legislature enact
a law compelling the Southern Railway Com-
pany under peDalty to furnish a sufficient sup-
ply of empties and also to transport with
greater speed cars loaded with lumber. The
exchange has written thousands of letters to
hardwood meu all over the state urging co-
operation. The first section of the bill which
has been drafted provides that the Southern
shall pay a reciprocal demurrage of $5 per day
for failure to speedily remove cars to and from
the lumber yards. The fight between the rail-
road company and the lumber Interests is being
•watched with uo little interest.

J. L. Vest has sold to northern capitalists
8.000 acres of valuable timber and mineral lands
in western North Carolina. Mr. Vest controls
about 460,000 acres of timber and coal lands in
North Carolina, middle Georgia and eastern Ten-
nessee. He is now in the North seeking pur-
chasers for his lands.

The lumber firm of Foushee & Curren of
Rowan has purchased from one of the Williams
families of Yadkin county 4,000,000 feet of
lumber at the rate of $15 per thousand, $00,000
being involved in the deal. The timber is some
of the best in the forest counties of North
Carolina ; 1,000,000 feet have already been de-
livered and the other 3,000,000 are being felled.
Mr. Curren is one of the most experienced
hardwood men iu the state.

E. L. Wilson and E. F. Wilson have secured
a large interest in the Dallas Lumber Manufac-
turing Company of Dallas, N. C, manufactur-
ers of sash, doors, blinds and other building
material. It is stated that the Messrs. Wilson
will shortly increase the capacity of the plant
-and make extensive improvements, supplanting
the steam with electric power. Large quanti-
ties of timber are now being cut in Catawba
county where the sawmills ol the company
have been placed in operation.

Minneapolis.

C. F. Osborne, of Osborne & Clark, the local
wholesalers, returned Tuesday from a southern
trip. He went partly for pleasure, and visited
two brothers in Oklahoma. He spent some time
in the Arkansas and Tennessee hardwood terri-
tory and was greatly interested in noting the
difference in lumbering methods and in labor
conditions iu the North and South. lie ex-
pected to buy some hardwood stocks, but found
prices too high, and also found that to secure
shipment it was necessary to stay right on the
ground and pay personal attention.

The Northwestern Hardwood Lumbermen's
Association at its monthly meeting the other
day appointed a committee to appear before
the Minnesota legislature and use its influence
in behalf of the reciprocal demurrage bill. The
bill passed the bouse Wednesday and the hard
wood men were represented at the capitol by
W. ('. Bailey and A. II. Barnard of Minneapolis
and by A. E. Peterson of St. Paul. The task
of lifting the bill through the senate is be-
lieved to be more difficult and shippers will
have to do some work. The senate killed a
similar bill two years ago after the house had
passed it.

E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lum-
ber Company writes from southern Missouri
that conditions there have improved somewhat.
The high water lias subsided so that nearly all
the mills are able to ship again, when they
can get cars.

G. W. Everts of the G. W. Everts Lumber
Company has returned from a business trip to
points in southern Wisconsin,

Samuel H. Davis of the S. H. Davis Lum-
ber Company has the sympathy of his many
friends iu the loss of his wife, who died Febru-
ary 19. Mrs. Davis was a woman of excep-
tionally fine character and attainments, promi-
nent and highly regarded in church work and
in club circles, being a leading member of the
Art History club.

F. J. Lang, representative of the Wisconsin
Land & Lumber Company of Hermansville,
Mich., closed up his temporary office here last
week, and after a short trip to Duluth and Ash-
land went to Milwaukee this week to air. nil
the convention of tin.1 Wisconsin retailers.

Osborne & (lark have enlarged their offices
iu the Lumber Exchange by adding another

r and now have a suite extending from

300 i" 302, giving Mr. Osborne and Mr. (lark
each a private room and providing needed ad-
ditional space.

I 'he Schock Manufacturing Company of this
city has been declared insolvent and proceed-
ings for the appointment of a trustee are pend
ins before the referee in bankruptcy. The com-
pany lias been manufacturing sofa and lounge
frames and several bardwood firms are on the
list of creditors.

E. o. Massey, the hardwood manufacturer of
Menomonle, Wis., was in Minneapolis this week
on business.

Toledo.

10. L. Guild, local manager of the Laurens-
Hull Lumber Company of Tiffin, has resigned
liis position and will go to Chicago, where he
will again •Titer the lumber brokerage and com-
mission business. F. L. Neiswender will succeed
Mr. Guild as manager of the Laurens-Hull Com-
pany.

The Toledo Sash & Door Company has been
incorporated at Columbus with a capital of
$20,000. This is the company that recently

I sin the property of the Ephardt Lumber

Company on Superior street. The incorporators
of the new company are C. V. Wagner, S. L.
McAfee, M. O. Topliff, M. J. Brown and E. A.
Murphy.

The handle factory at Fayette is receiving
large quantities of logs and is doing a big busi-
ness.

i'.liiliion. IniL, has landed a large piano fac-
tory Hun will employ 250 men when it is in full
swing.

A practical monopoly of the lumber industry
at Marion, o., was accomplished last week when
;i si no. linn deal was closed whereby the newly
formed Wollenweber Lumber Company absorbed
the Prendergast Lumber Company and the
Marion Lumber & Coal Company. Toledo, Cleve-
land, Columbus and Marion capitalists are be-
hind the new company, of which Oswald Wollen-
weber is president. The Prendergast company
will devote its interests in the future to the
wholesale trade. This company owns large
ii tcts of timber in the southern parts of Ohio
ami in various sections of \\ est Virginia. The
Wollenweber v company will occupy offices with
the Prendergast company and will look after the
retail trade. The stock of the new company has

all been subscribed and the stockholders are the
same as those interested in the Prendergast
company

Louisville.

Frosty weather following the flood delayed
the local mills along the river from cleaning up
and getting to work again and they are only
now getting in good shape once more. Over on
the New Albany side the flood did not bother
the Wood Mosaic Flooring Company much, al-
though they feared the water would enter the
warehouse floor ; however, they practically es-
caped interference. Recently one of their boil-
ers gave out, which weakened the power plant
so that temporarily they have run the mill part
on the ilny shut ami part on the night shift to
keep them all going.

At the plant of t lie I. F. Force Handle Com-
pany, New Albany, Ind., the flood did consider-
able damage to stock, as it was high enough in
their yard to set the stock afloat and leave a
sediment on both rough and finished stock. The
same thing occurred at the plant of Roberts &
Conners, veneer manufacturers, just below them.

The Mengel Rox Company lost its pail stave
plant at Hickman, Ky., by lire a few days ago.
Mr. Roberts says the loss will amount to about
$25,000, which is covered by insurance. They
are getting to work immediately to reconstruct
it. Meantime they are rigging up some of their
machines temporarily to keep them making stock.
They have quite a stock of staves at that place
which escaped the fire and also their veneer
plant there, which was about 500 feet away
from the stave plant, escaped unhurt.

A. I'. Turner & Co., manufacturers and deal-
ers in hardwoods, who were formerly located in
South -Louisville, have now moved into new
offices down town in the Commercial building.
J. E. Buscher of this company is at present on
a trip to Chicago.

H. J. Gates of the Hugh McLean Lumber
Company, who is here shipping out some of the
company's stock of quarter-sawed oak, has been
delayed considerably on account of car short-
age. He says of late he has been able to get
more cars and is moving the stock out more rap-
idly. The company has about 1,500,000 feet
yet to ship.

The Kentucky Hardwood Flooring Company
is well pleased with business so far and has
found its stuck meeting with such favor that it
is already planning enlargement of its plant.
This was built originally with the purpose in
view of enlarging as trade increased.

The Louisville Lumber Company is the name
of a new corporation which succeeded the
sioiz Lumber Company of this place. The new
company is simply a r ganization of the busi-
ness under a new name

HardWood Market.

(By HARDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Reporters.)

Chicago.
The local hardwood market shows si rone buy
tag in nearly all lines of wood. Furniture man-
ufacturers, flooring makers, interior finish pro-

'I rs and others engaged in the consumption

of hardw is are busy. They have advance or-
ders for months to come, and they are buying
with freedom where anything like a desirable
offer is presented to them. There is every pros
peel that the local demand for hardwoods in
1907 will at least equal and possibly exceed that
ot 1906. Oak is sought on every hand and
there is a manifest shortage of the good end of
poplar, which both wholesale, and consuming
buyers are seeking in all sections.

Boston.

The Boston hardwood market Is very firm,

with a fair demand in progress. Buyers want

stock badly as a rule and do not question the

price to any extent, but if a consumer is ap-

proached at a time when he is not in immediate
need of stock the price question comes In for
considerable consideration. Dealers who have
customers outside of New England all state that
they can sell them more easily at the high
prices than customers here. The majority of
buyers in this market, according to a leading
dealer, are not yet awake to the true condi-
tions existing in the primary markets. Desirable
hardwood lumber is scarce and western con-
sumers are reported as being more willing to
pay the prices than eastern buyers. Much in-
convenience is caused by the slow movement
of freight and the inability upon the part of
the shipper in gei cars when they are wanted.
Furniture manufacturers are busy. In fact,
about all consumers of hardwoods are doing a
fair business.

The market for plain oak continues firm.
one inch, ones and twos, is quoted at $55 to
$57, whereas a few months ago prices were

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from $3 to $4 less. Sales are reported at the
outside figure. Quartered oak is also very firm,
being held at $S3 to $S5 for one inch stock.
A leading dealer received an order for common
quartered oak this week at a higher price than
he ever sold at before. A good call is found
for ash and prices are strong. Maple flooring
is moving. Chestnut is Arm. but offerings are
very moderate. Whitewood is in small supply
both here and at mill points. Prices are higher
than they were a few weeks ago.

A very moderate export business is being ex-
perienced here. Dealers do not have to depend
upon the foreign markets for an outlet as
much as they once did. One of the veterans
in the Boston trade is authority for the state-
ment that a few years ago the foreign market
was used as a dumping ground when stocks got
large here, but that now the home demand prac-
tically absorbs receipts.

New York.

Local conditions in hardwoods continue bull-
ish all along the line and an active market
between now and spring is assured. With a
demand which seems to be general in all con-
suming branches, the only regrettable feature
is the market shortage of good hardwood lum-
ber in the better grades, and it is generally con-
ceded that all available supplies of hardwood are
going to bring fancy prices before the spring
wants of the trade are satisfied. Indeed, it is
not a. question of selling among the wholesale
trade, but distinctly one of buying, and all re-
turning pilgrims from hardwood producing sec-
tions bring the same tale of bare mill yards
and high prices. Another unfortunate condi-
tion in the present situation Is the inability
of such wholesale houses as have lumber at
mill points to ship the same out on order, due
to the car shortage. This is an exasperating
feature by reason of the fact that some of the
sharp wholesale buyers saw the present condi-
tion coming and bought heavily during the sum-
mer, and now that they are willing to allow
some of their holdings to go m the present
active market, they are unable to do so, although
the general attitude in the selling trade is to
hold on to stocks in view of the excellent out-
look for still better prices with the approach of
spring.

Ih view of these conditions it Is almost super-
fluous to mention the market feature of the
different stocks. Ash is practically out of the
market, with prices exceedingly high. Better
grades of plain oak, birch, chestnut. and poplar
are exceedingly scarce and entirely in the hands
of the seller. Maple and beech are in scarce-
demand, and thick maple is going to be a scarce
article between now and spring. Quartered oak
is holding its own and. prices are constantly
tending upward. Cottonwood is likewise bullish
in price in view of the short stocks at mill
points.

Conditions in the local mahogany and cedar
trade continue extremely active, with prices
still ruling on the highest level known in years,
namely, 8 to 12 cents for mahogany and 9 to 14
cents for cedar, according to quality. The
arrivals during the past month were a fair
average from all ports, but the demands of the
market were such that receipts almost imme-
diately passed into second hands, and the unsold
stock on hand Feb. 15 was meager. The market
in both woods is very strong and early ship-
ments from supply sources are urged and badly
needed.

The car service remains the same serious im-
pediment to business and the mills, both in the
East and South, on account of the trade ob-
structing conditions there, are able to supply but
a fraction of the increased demands made upon
them.

Chestnut, ash, poplar and basswood are scarce,
with prices high. Oak is a little easier to ob-
tain of late. Walnut is not called for to any
extent in this market and it is hard to get.
Maple flooring has a steady demand. Prices on
all hardwoods are steep and will probably go
higher yet. Preparations for building operations
in the spring go on, but trolley and railroad
building has been retarded somewhat by the
severe weather during the fortnight. Yards are
fairly well stocked and dealers are anticipating
considerable activity in the spring. Authorities
on the subject, who were dubious a few months
ago as to a continuation of the phenomenally
prolific business of 1906, now predict another
banner year.

Baltimore.

The hardwood lumber situation here has
undergone practically no-change during the past
two weeks. Stocks of all kinds are still in
active demand and prices are as high as ever.
In fact, the prevailing tendency seems to be
upward and dealers are eager to take up stocks.
The bad weather and the bottomless roads, to-
gether with the almost unprecedented floods in
various sections, have served to curtail the pro-
duction of the mills and prevent shipments, so
that the available supply is smaller than ever,
while the demand continues unabated. Car
building shops and other large consumers are
ready to place large orders, and much competi-
tion at milling points is the result. It is quite
evident that months must elapse before the
production will again attain a volume commen-
surate with the inquiry, and meanwhile more
or less embarrassment to users of lumber must
result. It is now the general belief that the
range of quotations will be maintained for an
indefinite period, at least no easing off is ex
pected. Oak leads in point of demand, with
mills receiving numerous inquiries, and making
.■very effort to get out lumber. though
delivery is very uncertain and shipments
are attended with much delay. The sup
plies are now below actual needs of the
trade, and in numerous instances the figures
asked do not represent the real market condi-
tions, for the reason that mill men, if their
terms were accepted, would not be in a posi-
tion to furnish the stocks. The exporters are
also after supplies, but the foreign business con-
tinues rather quiet and no decided change is
expected for the present. Ash is hardly less
active, with values well up to the highest notch
and the outlook for getting lumber in adequate
quantities by no means promising. Chestnut,
' beech and other woods are also moving as freely
as circumstances will permit. Walnut is taken
up as rapidly as desirable lumber and logs reach
the market, and the prices realized are suffi-
ciently attractive to bring out trees that have
been preserved for years. The inquiry for pop-
lar is very brisk, the boxmakers and other
consumers being in urgent need of supplies, and
the range of prices ruling very firm.

Philadelphia.

All lumbermen agree on the general prosperity
in the hardwood business. The furniture fac-
tories of eastern Pennsylvania are buying freely.
There is no diminution of activity in sash and
door mills and indoor finish plants. Box makers
are buying up everything that can be converted
into boxes, and veneer manufacturers are plac-
ing large orders.

especially with respect to oak and chestnut, but
very few dealers have advanced their quotations
lately. It is pretty certain that price advances
will be made, however, as soon as the spring
building season opens fairly.

Oak takes precedence over all other hardwoods
in demand. Stocks are low and dry lumber is
very hard to get at any price. The call for oak
trim and for heavy timbers is strong and buyers
are anxious for early deliveries. The oak mills
of western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia
have been running as steadily as the weather
would permit, but are not accumulating any sur-
plus of oak.

Chestnut is also a good seller at present.
Poles are going well and box manufacturers are
taking considerable lumber of the lower grades.
Elm is badly wanted by the cooperage concerns.
Ash and hickory, especially the latter, are taking
a foremost place in the list of hardwoods and
are commanding excellent prices in the eastern
market and among the implement and furniture
firms of the Middle West. Recently some big
inquiries have been received for maple flooring
and Pittsburg firms are taking more interest in
this wood than for some time previous.

Pittsburg.

The hardwood market is in splendid shape,
with every indication that it will be equally
prosperous throughout the year. Present condi-
tions are bearing out fully the predictions made
by a few conservative wholesalers last August
that the man who had a chance to buy hard-
woods then stood to make money before summer
came again. Some dealers profited by the ad-
vice and loaded up with all the common stock
and mill culls they could get. Now they are
selling lumber at a good profit and the buyers
come to them to deal.

Throughout the hardwood list prices are well
maintained. Rumors of higher prices are heard,

Buffalo.

Trade in hardwoods in Buffalo and vicinity is
active, and prices on all woods are firm. Lum-
bermen look for a continuance of present pros-
perous conditions between now and spring and
many predict a big rush of orders then.

Oak is very scarce and in active demand.
Dealers who have looked into the question care-
fully state that there will doubtless be enough
I»la in oak to supply the demand, but quartered
will remain short for a while, as many mills
have cut plain stock almost to the exclusion of
quartered. Ash is very scarce and the demand
for it frequent, which is true also of chestnut.
Birch is plentiful, but is being used so much
more now than formerly that the stocks on hand
cannot last very long. Maple is in fairly good
supply and prices are strong. Local mills have
received some poplar logs recently and a replen-
ishing of the poplar market is looked for
eagerly. However, this stock will not last long
considering the activity of the demand. Prices
are of course high.

Saginaw Valley.

Trade is good and the market for basswood,
elm and ash is hardening. The supplies of ash
are not large, that timber having been pretty
thoroughly cleaned up, but elm and basswood is
in fairly good supply. Prices are stiff. No. 2
common basswood brings $25 to .$28 and mill
culls bring $18. Elm is quoted at $22 to $29
and culls at $13 to $14.

Maple flooring is strong and looking up. Nos.
1 and 2 are quoted at $30 and the lower grades
at $20 and up.

For firsts and seconds maple lumber the quota-
tion is $24: No. 1 common, $17 and $18; No.
2. $11 and $12, and culls $9 and $10.

Log run beech is held at $15 and there is a
very good movement for the season. No. 2 com-
mon birch is held at $20 and $25.

There isn't a great deal of oak in the market,
but it is firm at $35. Ash is quoted at $30 for
the top grades and $12 for the bottom.

Stocks in dealers' and manufacturers' hands
are much smaller than they were a year ago and
the market conditions and prospects are in every
way improved.

Indianapolis.

Trospects for an enormous spring business in
hardwoods are bright in this city and in all
parts of Indiana. Car service does not seem to
be much improved, but enough shipments are
being made to meet demands in a fairly satis-
factory manner. In the southern part of the
-i mii' the high waters have receded and have
greatly improved the situation, allowing hard-
wood men to get logs to the mills. The furni-
ture factories are all busy and there seems to be

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no reason why an unusually successful business
should not be conducted this year.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

The past two weeks have fulfilled the predic-
tion generally made a month ago that the
sudden and marked improvement in the. car
supply was transitory and due to local condi-
tions coupled with the fact that there is less
demand for cars at this season of the year than
any other. Though the Virginia &. Southwestern
has augented its supply with a thousand
new cars within the past month, the situation
is not what it should be.

The demand for stock is holding up well and
lumbermen have a roseate view of the future.
Heavy spring and summer business is looked for.
The mills in this section are nearly all run-
ning. The weather has been very propitious
for the past two weeks, though during January
and the first part of February much time was
lost on account of the extreme inclemency of
the weather. Indications are that spring will
open up early and the prospects for more activ-
ity in the lumber business than ever are bright.

Cincinnati.
The local hardwood market has received added
impulse the last few weeks, the demand has
increased and some dealers report that they
have advanced the prices of the more desirable
stock $1 per M feet. There is but one setback
In this market and that is the car shortage ;
if some one could find a method of securing
desired facilities a small fortune would await
him. At present poplar grades continue to lead
all descriptions of lumber, and with added in-
quiry for spring trade a shortage in that stock
will undoubtedly result, as at present all stock
has a ready sale as soon as it leaves the mill.
Another strong factor is oak. All kinds are
meeting an unusually good demand and prices
are being held stiff. Hemlock, cypress and bass-
wood have a ready sale, with prices ranging
firm. Many spring orders are making their ap-
pearance and a difficult proposition now con-
fronts the lumbermen to accommodate them all.
Many concerns have orders on file that will
keep them busy for some weeks, and unless
other agreements are reached a serious loss of
trade will result. Each lumberman when asked
concerning the market asserted that it is at its
very best, and with the advent of spring even
a busier season is promised.

St. Louis.

The recent pleasant weather prevailing
throughout this region of late has had some
effect on the demand for hardwoods from con-
sumers, and manufacturers who have stocks to
offer are anticipating strong and more lively
buying in the near future. Unless very unfavor-
able • weather conditions again interpose, the
spring trade, which usually becomes noticeable
about this time, or even earlier, should immedi-
ately set in and soon be in full swing. The
hardwood men in this market, while of course
interested in prospective business, are usually
anxious to make sure of good supplies with
which to meet it when it comes. The car short-
age is still decidedly noticeable and the high
water and damp ground in the timber are still
hindering logging operations so that it is difficult
to round up shipments from the sections affected
In spite of the present clear weather.

There is considerable stock on hand at the
mills which was sold up long ago but has not

PORL/\R

Rough and Dressed

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

M. A. HAYWARD

1021 Saving and Trust Bldg., Columbus, O.

been moverl for lark of ears; however, holdings
arc below the usual amount on hand at this
season. Another result of bad weather condi-
tions was the shutting down of many plants for
a time, and many are still closed.

All these factors contribute necessarily to keep-
ing prices strong on almost all items. Ash,
gum, poplar and Cottonwood are in great de-
mand, and in fact it is a matter of speculation
as to where sufficient stocks of these woods are
to be obtained to meet the anticipated spring
trade. Oak is unusually quiet.

Nashville.
Local lumbermen state that conditions here
are quite unsatisfactory. Many reasons have
contributed to the situation. To begin with,
they will start into the spring business with a
great shortage of dry stock. They have orders
on hand now for all the dry stuff they have.
But this is not all. These conditions have made
prices rtrm. Some of the dealers say the ad-
vance in all lines will average $1 a thousand.
But with top prices and a big demand the local
lumbermen can't ship what they sell owing to
the shortage of cars.

Memphis.

The demand continues active and there is a
decreasing rather than increasing tendency in
the dry stock available in this center as well as
in tributary territory. The mills are much han-
dicapped by the scarcity of timber and the un-
favorable conditions surrounding production,
with the result that only moderate quantities of
lumber are going on sticks to supply the late
spring and early summer trade. This condition
is arousing much activity among buyers who are
actively competing for what is to be had and
as a consequence prices are about the highest
ever known here. The demand extends to prac-
tically every item of the list and is more pro-
nounced from domestic than foreign consumers.
Values are altogether in the sellers' favor and,
in the opinion of the majority of the trade, this
condition will continue indefinitely because, even
with more favorable weather, it will be well
along toward summer before there can be any
resumption of either logging or milling opera-
tions on a normal scale.

Cottonwood is one of the strongest features,
being in very active demand in all grades, but
in most urgent request in the lower grades used
in box manufacture. The supply is much re-
stricted in these grades and buyers are having
unusual difficulties in securing their require-
ments. Box boards have sold here during the
past few days as high as $52 per thousand, f.
o. b. cars, which is something in the way of a
record itself. Very few Cottonwood mills are
running on full time. Gum is another strong
feature and, as with cottonwood, the demand for
Uiis is relatively better in the lower than in
the higher grades, though the latter are by no
means slow of sale. Ash is an excellent seller.
There is a liberal movement, limited offerings
considered, in plain red and white oak as well
as in quarter-sawed white oak. Quarter-sawed
red is less active than the other descriptions of
oak, but even this shows a tendency toward im-
provement. Cypress is a very satisfactory seller,
while poplar is moving without difficulty, even
the lower grades of this finding ready sale.
Predictions of further advances are being made
with confidence, and the basis on which hard-
woods in the South can be bought during the
next few weeks may be changed somewhat by
the announcement of a rather pronounced raise
in freight rates on lumber on the part of some
of the railroads operating in the Southwest.

Minneapolis.
Trade In hardwoods is not very heavy, but
it is good considering the limited amount of
dry stock in sight. The price situation has not
greatly changed of late. While dry stock is un-
doubtedly low, it is a sure thing that most of
the big consumers of hardwood have laid in

supplies for the coming two or three months.
Winter mills have some stock that is going to
be ready to ship fairly early in the spring, and
there is a good supply of hardwood logs going
in right along. The recent mild weather put
the woods in good shape, and did not last long
enough to spoil roads. Work is now going for-
ward in the logging camps rapidly, and it looks
as though there would not be any trouble in
hauling all the logs that are cut. The high
price of basswood has stimulated production in
that line and there is also a big crop of birch
being gotten out.

There is a good run of orders for birch, which
is somewhat firmer in price and Is profiting by
the scarcity of other hardwoods. The factories
are all busy and are working up considerable
hardwood. -The sash and door people are al-
ready getting a good run of special orders call-
ing for oak and birch. The retail yard demand
is fair, but there is great difficulty in getting
hold of cars to fill orders and the movement of
stock to smaller towns is very light.

Louisville.

Better weather during the past two weeks has
enabled mill men In the Louisville territory to
get in good shape for the lirst time siuce the re-
cent Hood. The rain and high water has put
them behind considerably and now they are work-
ing strenuously in an effort to get in a little
better shape so lhat they can turn out stock
and make deliveries as they should. There is a
scramble for logs where cross country hauling is
necessary, and while most of the plants seem
well supplied it is only by extra efforts that
they have been able to keep enough logs coming.
The market meantime has continued to call fre-
quently for all sorts of hardwood stock, both for
Immediate and future delivery, and the millmen
who were in shape to turn out stock have a
prospect before them of an unusually good spring
with prices at which they can realize a fair
profit and with a demand for everything on the
hardwood list.

Toledo.

The local hardwood market is dominated by
a spirit of active buying, both by the retailer
and wholesaler. The demand is not equal to
the supply and this fact has stiffened prices.
All hardwoods are scarce, but oak seems to be
the hardest to get In anything like the quantities
and qualities demanded. Prices are expected to
go higher when the building season opens. To-
ledo this spring will have an exceedingly busy
season in all lines of building. Hardwoods
from the south are almost impossible to get
just now because of the car scarcity.

London.

Although the hardwood trade is not brisk, it
must be admitted that a fair amount of stock
is going into consumption at full prices.

Three and 4-inch oak planks are badly wanted
and buyers are making bitter complaints to
shippers' agents about the nonfulfillment of con-
tracts made some months ago. Parcels arriving
are selling at very good prices, but most arrivals
of this thickness are sold on firm contracts. One,
1% and lVa inch boards have arrived on con-
signment very freely during January and most
parcels have been stored. These arrivals are
mostly Nos. 1 and 2 common, with which the
market may be said to be well stocked. Prime
boards are scarce, but the demand Is ouly fair.
Quartered boards are slow of sale, but there is
a fair demand for good planks.

There have been several parcels of walnut
culls and "poor" medium received which have
been difficult to sell, the demand being for the
better grade wood in all thicknesses. Good logs
are badly wanted. Satin walnut is scarce, but
the demand is good for all grades and the sappy
wood is coming into favor with consumers here,
more especially if planed both sides. YVhitewood
of all grades is scarce, and high prices are being
paid to any agents who will guarantee their
contracts.

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But this is the actual price of Indemnity against Fire Loss furnished by the

Manufacturing

Lumbermen's

Underwriters

THE STRONGEST INSURANCE ORGANIZATION
TO-DAY IN AMERICA

The saving is not on a _ Only well built plants

small portion of J with adequate protection

your insurance but on the y and at least

entire line. J f jve years timber

There are other advantages / supply are considered

equally interesting. V£> eligible.

FOR LIST OF MEMBERS AND FURTHER INFORMATION, ADDRESS

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No display except the headings can be ad-
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Remittances to accompany the order. No
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EMPLOYES WANTED.

BUYER-INSPECTOR WANTED
For the export oak plank trade, West Vir-
ginia territory. Apply
ILLINGWOItTII, INGHAM & CO.. LTD.,

Cincinnati, O.

IN WHOLESALE LUMBER OFFICE.

Wanted experienced and capable lumberman
. to handle correspondence, both buying and
selling. WOODWARD & SOX, Richmond, Va.

RELIABLE MAN WANTED

Who is fully capable to take position of
Superintendent of Handle Factory making D
Shovel Handles and Hickory Axe Handles, Pick
Handles, etc. Must be sober, honest and reli-
able, and must have necessary executive ability.
Address "K. O. 52," care Hardwood Record.

INSPECTOR WANTED.

First-class, all-round lumber inspector. Ad-
dress, with references,
THE MONTAGUE MFG. CO., Richmond, Va.

WANTED.

Ambitious young men to act as agents for
our fine line of calipers, etc. For particulars
address E. G. SMITH CO., Columbia, Pa.

MANAGER WANTED

For plant 8,000,000 feet per annum Cypress
In South Carolina ; must be competent and
worthy as treasurer, office manager and handle
sales. Address

"D 39," care Hardwood Record.

WANTED.

An experienced man in the handling of
Quartered Oak Veneers to take charge of our
shipping department at Knoxvile. Tenn., mill.
PHILA. VENEER & LBR. CO.. INC.,

817 N. 5th St., Philadelphia, Pa.

LUMBER WANTED

YELLOW PINE. CAR MATERIAL.

Long Leaf Car Sills, Switch Timbers and
Decking wanted, rough or dressed. Also Long
or Short Leaf Car Siding, 1x4 6"-9 or IS', also
16' kiln dried and worked to pattern. Quote
cash price f. o. b. mill.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

MAPLE WANTED.

150 M ft. 6/4" good Log Run Hard Maple.
50 M ft. 8/4" good Log Run Hard Maple.
Quote delivered t. o. b. Cincinnati, O.

DUHLMEIEU BROS., Cincinnati, O.

YELLOW PINE POLE STOCK

Wanted — From reliable mills who under-
stand how to manufacture No. 1 Pole stock.
clear and straight grain quality, free from all
defects excepting sap.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO.. Pittsburg, Pa.

WANTED— DRY CYPRESS.

2x5" and wider, S or 16', lsts and 2nds,
selects or sound common.

AMER. LBR. ,v MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

CHESTNUT WANTED.

Five 'mis each 4/4, 6/4 and S/4" Sound
Wormy Chestnut. Quote delivered f. o. b. Cin-
cinnati. DUIILMEIEK BRllTIIERS,

Cincinnati, O.

DRY SOFT YELLOW POPLAR.

All grades and thicknesses, rough or dressed,
wanted. Prompt cash. Willing to contract.
AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

WANTED— HARDWOOD LOGS.

200,000 ft. 28" and up White Oak logs.
200,000 ft. 12" and up Walnut logs.
50,000 ft. 12" and up Cherry logs.
C. L. WILLEY. 1235 S. Robey St., Chicago.

HICKORY AXLES WANTED.

100.000 ft. 4x5x6 No. 1 Hickory Axles. Can
be shipped green.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO.. Pittsburg, Pa.

WHITE ASH WANTED.

50 M ft. 6/4, 75% 1st and 2nds, 25% No.
1 common.

50 M ft. 8/4, 75% 1st and 2nds, 25% No.
1 common.

50 M ft. 3%, 75% 1st and 2nds, 25% No.
1 common.

50 M ft. 4", 75% 1st and 2nds, 25% No. 1
common.

10 M ft. 6x6, 75% 1st and 2nds, 25% No. 1
common.

To be cut and ready to ship on or before
Mav 1. 1907.
AMERICAN LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

ASH DIMENSION STOCK.

One inch stock wanted, in carloads, from
2% to 10" in width and from 10 to 48" In
length. Can use large quantities if properly
gotten out. Stock must be clear and free from
defects. Write us for list.

BELDING-HALL MFG. CO., Belding, Mich.

ROCK ELM WANTED.
150.000' 2y2 and 3"x5" and wider, C. &
B. Will inspect at point of shipment. We
can use fresh sawn wood. Terms cash less
2 per cent. THE BRADLEY COMPANY.

Hamilton, Ont., Can.

OAK.

We are in the market for plain sawed oak,
all grades and thicknesses.
P. G. DODGE & CO., 2116 Lumber St., Chicago.

OAK WANTED.

3 and 4 Inch White Oak : also Mixed Oak ;
also 12x12 Timbers and Piling of all kinds.
CONTINENTAL LUMBER CO.,
1213 Monadnoek Bldg., Chicago. III.

TIMBER LANDS FOR SALE

CHOICE ARKANSAS PROPERTY.

Well equipped sawmill with plenty yard
room ; ten houses for employees ; 44 town lots
and 5,000 acres, all under three miles of the
town of Success. Tram road to timber. Out-
put ('(insists .if small squares, all kinds wagon
stock, hickory rims and car material; long
timbers, bridge plank. It. R. ties, hickory axles.
JOE McCRAKEN, Success, Ark.

MISSISSIPPI HARDWOOD LAND.

I have Hickory, Red and White Oak lands
tr sale in tracts of 1,000 acres and up. Fine
Dtton land after timber is cut off.

A. H. CAUTHEN, Canton, Miss.

MACHINERY WANTED

WANTED.

Good second-hand automatic drop saw trim-
mer, and good second band heavy gang edger.
STONEMAN-ZEAKING LUMBER CO.,

De Vails Bluff, Ark.

AT ONCE.

If you are in need of machinery — new or
second hand — a few lines in this column will
place your wants before those who have such
goods for sale. For particulars address

Hardwood Record, Chicago, 111.

LUMBER FOR SALE.

WANTED— TO CONTRACT

2,000,000 ft. of While and Red dak. green.
to be cut any thickness that purchaser may
want from 1" to 4".

DAVIS & HODGES, Harrisburg, Ark.

SOFT CORK WHITE PINE.

High grade Michigan stock for sale, all
thicknesses up to 4", bone dry, suitable for
making patterns and tine cabinet work.

AMER. LBR. &. MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Fa.

WALNUT AND CHERRY FOR SALE.

Walnut 5/4-16/4 common and lsts and 2nds :
4/4 10" and up lsts and 2nds ; 4/4 one Clear
Black Face. Cherry 4/4 all grades.

C. J. FRANK, Logansport, Ind.

RAILWAY EQUIPMENT

RAILS AND LOCOMOTIVES.

All inquiries for industrial railway equip-
ment listed before Record readers will And
ready response.

Hardwood Record, Chicago, 111.

WANTED— SASH AND DOOR FACTORY.

If your Sash and Door factory does not pay,
and you wish to manufacture a profitable line
of store fixtures, using Oak and Poplar, write
W. M. PATTESON, Penn Yan, N. Y.

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the hardwood industry. It wants practical
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best way. Literary quality not essential. Lib-
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Advertisers* Directory

NORTHERN HARDWOODS.

Alcock. John L.. & Co 7

American Lumber & Mfg. Company.. 50
Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company.... 52

Babcock Lumber Company 50

Baruaby, C. H 58

Beyer, Knox & Co 59

Bliss & Van Auken 12

Boyne City Lumber Company 54

Brownlee-Kelly Company 55

Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company.. 59

Cadillac Handle Company 3

Carter, Frank, Company 53

Cheat River Lumber Company 50

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co.... 9

Chicago Car Lumber Company 10

Chivvis, W. R 47

Cincinnati Hardwood Lbr. Company... 57

Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc 3

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Connor, R., Company 53

Crescent Lumber Company 56

Crosby & Beckley Company, The

Crosby, C. P 52

Cummer, Diggins & Co 3

Darling, Chas., & Co 11

Davis. John R., Lumber Company 52

Davis, W. A 11

Dells Lumber & Shingle Company 52

Dennis Bros 55

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company 54

D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company... 58

Dixon & Dewey

Duhlmeier Bros 57

Dwight Lumber Company 6

Klias, G„ & Bro , 59

Empire Lumber Company 59

Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Company.... 11
Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 54

Fall. E. H

Forma n Company, Thomas 6

Freiberg Lumber Company, The 57

Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber

i lompany 5

General Lumber Company, The 39

Gillespie, W. M., Lumber Company... 7

Goldie, J. S 54

Haak Lumber Company 39

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company .... 55
Hayden &, Westcott Lumber Company. 10

Holloway Lumber Company 7

Hoyt. C. I., & Co 58

Indiana' Quartered Oak Company 7

Ingram Lumber Company 52

James & Abbot Company 7

Jenks, Robert H., Lumber Company.. 51

Jones, G. W., Lumber Company 2

Jones Hardwood Company 7

Kampf , Albert R 2

Keith Lumber Company 11

Kelley Lumber & Shingle Company... 4

Kneeland-Bigelow Company 49

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company... 11

Linehan Lumber Company 50

Litchfield, William E 7

Lombard, E. B 11

Long knight Lumber Company 5S

MaeBride, Thos., Lumber Company.. 55
Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company. 57

Ma ley & Wertz 58

' Martin-Barriss Company 51

Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company. . . 52

Maus, H. H., & Co:, Inc 7

McClure Lumber Company 55

Mcllvain, J. Gibson, & Co 6

McLean, Hugh, Lumber Company..... 59

Miller, Anthony 59

Miller Bros 11

Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Mowbray & Robinson 57

Murphy & Diggins 3

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company ^.... 54

Nicola Lumber Company, The 50

Northern Lumber Company 4S

North Shore Lumber Company 54

North. Vernon Lumber Company 2

North Western Lumber Company 53

O'Brien, John, Land & Lumber Co. . . 10

Osburn, Norval 39

Perrine-Armstrong Company 5S

Price, E. E f 7

Radina, L. W., & Co 57

Richmond Park & Co 10

Ross Lumber Company 1

Rumbarger Lumber Company

Ryan & McParland. 10

Sailing. Hanson & Co 54

S;iw j er-Goodman Company 53

Scatcherd & Son 59

Schofield Bros 7

Simmons Lumber Company 55

Skillman Lumber Company 54

Slimmer, J., & Co 10

Soble Bros 7

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 59

Stearns Company, The 54

Stephenson, The I., Company 12

Stewart, I. N., & Bro 59

Stewart, Wm. H., & G. S 56

StimBon, J. V 58

.stone, T. B., Lumber Company 56

Sullivan, T., & Co 59

Tegge Lumber Company

Turner, A. M., Lumber Company 50

Vollinar & Below 52

Wagstaff, W. J

Walnut Lumber Company, The 46

Ward Lumber Company 11

Wells, R. A., Lumber Company 10

\\ hue Lumber Company 10

While, W. IL, Company 49

\\ hitmer, Wm., <fc sous, Inc 6

Wiborg & Hauua Company 57

\\ illson Bros. Lumber Company 50

Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company. 55

Wistar, Underbill & Co 7

Wylie, A. W 11

Y eager, Orson E 59

Young, W. D., A: Co 12

Young &. Cutsinger 5S

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS.

Advance Lumber Company 51

Alcock, John L., & Co 7

American Hdwd. "Lumber Company... 46
American Lumber &, Mfg. Company.. 50

Anderson- TuUy Company 4

Atlantic Lumber Company 1

Beck, E. E., Lumber Company 57

Beyer, Knox & Co 59

Blown. Geo. C, & Co 46

Brown, W. P., & Sons. Lumber Co... 2
Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company.. 59

Carrier Lumber it Mfg. Company 12

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co 9

Chicago Car Lumber Company 10

Chivvis, W. R 47

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co 57

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Courtney, D. G '. . , 9

Crane, C, & Co 56

Crescent Lumber Company 56

Crosby & Beckley Company, The

< lypress Lumber Company 56

Darling, Chas., & Co 11

Davidson-Benedict Company 1

Davis. W. A 11

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company.... 54
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company... 5S

Dixon & Dewey

Duhlmeier Bros 57

Elias. G-, & Bro 59

Empire Lumber Company, Buffalo. ... 59
Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Company.... 11
Evans & Retting Lumber Company..". 54

Fall. E. H

Farrin-Korn Lumber Company 57

Freiberg Lumber Company, The 57

Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber

Company 5

Garetson-Greason Lumber Company... 47

i rayoso Lumber Company 4

General Lumber Company, The. 39,

Gillespie, W. M.. Lumber Company.. 7
Haas, Albert, Lumber Company ...... 7

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company .... 55

Ilafner Manufacturing 'Company 47

Ilayward, M. A 35

Hiinmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co. . . 1

Hoyt, C. I., & Co 58

Indiana Lumber Company 46

Indiana Quartered Oak Company 7

International Felloe Mfg. Company... 49

James & Abbot Company 7

Jenks. Robert H., Lumber Company.. 51

Jones, G. W., Lumber Company 2

Jones Hardwood Company 7

Kampf, Albert R 2

K i-i t b Lumber Company 11

Kentucky Lumber Company 57

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 60

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company... 11

Liuehan Lumber Companv 50

Litchfield. William E...". 7

Lombard, E. B n

Long-Knight Lumber Company 5S

Love. Boyd & Co 46

Luehrmann. Chas. F., Hardwood Lum-
ber Company 47

Maley. Thompson & Moffett Company 57

Martin-Barriss Company 51

Massengale Lumber Company 47

Maus, H. H., & Co., Inc 7

McClure Lumber Company 55

McCauley-Saunders Lumber Co 11

Mcllvain. J. Gibson, & Co 6

McLean-Davis Lumber Company 2

McLean, Hugh, Lumber Company 59

Miller, Anthony 59

Miller Bros 11

Mosby, H. W., & Co 46

Nicola Lumber Company, The 50

O'Brien, John, Land & Lumber Co.... 10
Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Company. 47

Paepcke-Leieut Lumber Company 8

Phila. Veneer & Lumber Company.... 6

Plummer Lumber Company 46

Price, E. E 7

Radina, L. W., & Co 57

Ransom, J. B., & Co 46

Rhubesky, E. W 2

Richmond Park & Co 10

Ritter, W. M., Lumber Company 5

Roy Lumber Company 39

Rumbarger Lumber Company

Ryan & McParland 10

Scatcherd & Son 59

Schofield Bros 7

Skillman Lumber Company 54

Slimmer, J., & Co 10

Smith. It. M., & Co 8

Sondheimer, E., Company 4

Southern Lumber Company 2

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company. 79

Stearns Companv, The 54

Steele & HIbbard 47

Stevens I ::it.,n i niDpany 7

Stewart. I. N., & Bro 59

Stewart. Wm. H. & G. S 56

Stimson, J. V 58

Stone, T. B., Lumber Compauy 56

Stoneinan-Zearing Lumber Company. , 47

Sullivan, T., & Co '. . . 59

Swann-Day Lumber Company 6

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company... 47

Three States Lumber Company. 80

Turner, A. M., Lumber Company 50

Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Company 46

Walnut Lumber Company, The 46

Ward Lumber Company 11

Wells, R. A., Lumber Company 10

West Florida Hardwood Company. ... 7

White Lumber Company 10

Whitmer. Wm.. & Sons, Inc 0

Wiborg & Hanna Company , . . 57

Willson Bros. Lumber Company 50

Wood. R. E.. Lumber Companv 4S

Wylie, A. W .. 11

Yeager, Orson E ; . . . . 59

Young & Cutsinger 58

POPLAR.

Advance Lumber Company 51

Atlantic Lumber Company 1

Brown, W. P., & Sons, Lumber Co. . . 2

Cheat River Lumber Company 50

Courtney. D. G 9

Crane, C, & Co 56

Davidson-Benedict Company 1

Dawkins. W. H., Lumber Compauy... 56

Haas, Albert, Lumber Company 7

Hayden & Westcott Lumber Company. 10

Hay ward, M. A 35

Kentucky Lumber Company 57

Keys-Fannin Lumber Company 39

Massengale Lumber Company 47

McLean-Davis Lumber Company 2

Rhubesky, E. W 2

Ritter, W. M., Lumber Company 5

Roy Lumber Company 39

Smith. R. M., & Co 8

Southern Lumber Company 2

Stevens-Eaton Company 7

Swann-Day- ktimber Company 6

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company... 47

Vans ant. Kitchen & Co 60

Wood. R. E.. Lumber Company 48

Yellow Poplar Lumber Company 60

COTTONWOOD AND GUM.

Anderson-Tully Company 4

Farrin-Korn Lumber Company 57

Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co... 1

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 60

Luehrmann, C. F., Hardwood Lumber •

Company 47

Mosby. H. W., & Co 46

Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Company. 47

Paepcke-Leicbt Lumber Company 8

Sondheimer. E., Company 4

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Company... 47

Three States Lumber Company 60

CYPRESS.

Cypress Lumber Company 56

Hafner Manufacturing Company 47

Lothman Cypress Company 47

McCauley-Saunders Lumber Company. 11

Plummer Lumber Company 46

VENEERS.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works 48

Phila. Veneer & Lumber Company.... 6
Wisconsin Veneer Company 53

HARDWOOD FLOORING.

Advance Lumber Company 51

Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company.... 52

Bliss is. Van Auken 12

Buffalo Maple Hooting Company, The. 7

Carrier Lumber & Mfg. Company 12

Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc 3

Cummer, Diggins & Co 3

Dwight Lumber Company 6

Eastman, S. L., Flooring Company... 54

Fenn Bros. Company 4

Formau, Thos., Company 6

Haak Lumber Company 39

International Hardwood Company 56

Kerry & Hanson Flooring Company... 55

Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company 46

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company 54

Pease Company, The 56

Stephenson, The I., Company 12

Ward Bros 12

Wike. The T., Company 42

Wisconsin Laud &. Lumber Company.. 55

Wood Mosaic Flooring Company 2

Young, W. D., &, Co ' 12

SAW MILL MACHINERY.

Bartlett, A. F., & Co 41

Garland, M., Company

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company. 42

Mershon, W. B., & Co

Phoenix Manufacturing Company 53

WOODWORKING MACHINERY.

American Wood Working Machinery

Company 45

Bartlett, A. F., & Co 41

Berlin Machine Works, The

Covel Manufacturing Company

Crown Iron Works

Defiance Machine Works, The 39

Hurley Machine Company

Matteson Manufacturing Company.... 40

Nash, J. M

Ober Manufacturing Company, The... 51

Schindler, A. J 40

Smith, H. B., Machine Company

Woods, S. A., Machine Company 43

LOGGING MACHINERY,

Clyde Iron Works 44

Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company.. 41

Overpack. S. C 42

Russel Wheel & Foundry Company.... 41

DRY KILNS AND BLOWERS.

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company. 42

Grand Rapids Veneer Works 48

Morton Dry Kiln Company 53

New Y'ork Blower Company 40

SAWS, KNIVES AND SUPPLIES.

Atkins, E. C, & Co 44

Champion Saw Company 40 & 42

Covel Manufacturing Company

Crown Iron Works

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 41

Hanchett Swage Works 42

Hurley Machine Company

Marshall, Francis

Matteson Manufacturing Company 40

Shinier, S. J., & Sons 43

LUMBER INSURANCE.

Adirondack Fire Insurance Company. . 1
Lumber Insurance Company of New

York 1

Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
pany, Boston 1

Lumber Underwriters 12

Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual

Fire Insurance Company

Rankin, Harry, & Co 36

Toledo Fire & Marine Insurance Co...

MISCELLANEOUS.

Childs, S. D., & Co 39

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 41

International Felloe Mfg. Company... 49

Lacey, James D., & Co 8

Lumbermen's Credit Association 39

Martin & Co 51

Pease Company, The 56

Poole, Clark L.. & Co 12

Remington Typewriter Company 39

Sanders, Henry, Company 48

Schenck, C. A., & Co 2

HARDWOOD RECORD

39

"DEFIANCE" WOOD -WORKING MACHINERY

COMPLETE EQUIPMENTS OF

HIGH GRADE TOOLS

J* FOR MAKING J*

Hubs, Spokes, Wheels, Single Trees, Hoops,

Wagons, Carriages, Handles, Bobbins, Spools,
Rims, Shafts, Poles, Insulator Pins and

Neck-Yokes, Oval Wood Dishes.

INVENTED AND BUILT BY

The DEFIANCE MACHINE WORKS

DEFIANCE, OHIO.
Send for 500 Page Catalogue

NOLE SURFACER

26 IN. DOUBLE SURFACER

WALNUT.
OAK,
ASH,
POPLAR.

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

When you have anything to sell, or wish to
purchase anything in the way of

HARDWOOD LUMBER

CROSS TIES OR PILING

Norval Osburn, Seaman, Ohio

Save Your Money

By Using the

RED BOOK

Published Semi-Annually
in January and July

It contains a carefully prepared list of the
buyers of lumber in car lots, both among
the dealers and manufacturers.

The book indicates their financial stand-
ing and manner of meeting obligations.
Covers the UNITED STATES and MANI-
TOBA.

The trade recognizes this book as the au-
thority on the lines it covers.

A well organized Collection Department
is also operated and the same is open to you.

WRITE FOR TERMS.

Lumbermen's Credit Association

Established 1878

1405 Great Northern Building, CHICAGO

18 Broadway. : NEW YORK CITY

MENTION THIS PAPER

THE GENERAL LUMBER
COMPANY

Hardwoods

HEMLOCK
YELLOW PINE

COLUMBUS, OHIO

COUNTERFEIT CHECKS

are frequent
except where
our

Two Piece
Geometrical
Barter Coin

la in use, then
imitation isn't
possible.
Sample if you
ask for it.

S. D. CHILDS
£ CO.
Chicago

We also make
Time Checks,
Stencils and
Log Hammers.

THE NEW MODELS
OF THE

REMINGTON

TYPEWRITER

are the product of the second
generation of Remington
genius and workmanship.
They represent age plus
youth; the experience of the
old combined with the pro-
gressiveness of the new.

SALES IN 1906 ARE BREAKING
ALL RECORDS FOR 30 YEARS

REMINGTON TYPEWRITER CO.

154 WABASH AVENUE
CHICAGO

We Have on Hand Ready for
Shipment a Nice Stock of

254 C1ear Maple
Flooring

ALSO OTHER SIZES AND GRADES

Send us your orders

Our fine timber, modern plant and
skilled workmanship combine to
make a flooring that cannot be ex-
celled. You will be pleased with it.

HAAK LUMBER CO.

HAAKWOOD, MICH.

You read this==others will, too.
They would read your ad. Try it.

Keys=Fannin
Lumber Company

Manufacturers of Band
and Circular sawn

SOFT

YELLOW

POPLAR

Plain and quartered red and white
Oak, Hemlock, Bass and Chest-
nut. Give us a trial.

Herndon, Wyoming Co., W. Va.

4o

HARDWOOD RECORD

Works
BUCYRUS. OHIO

ESPECIALLY

Adapted for Handling Shavings, Saw-
dust and Stringy Material of All Kinds

l-PIECE FAN WHEEL.

Get Catalogue
58=G

NO OBSTRUCTIONS.

We Also Make Lumber Dryers.

New York Blower Company

Malr\ Office :

25th Place and Stewart Avenue

CHICAGO

New Type of Combined End Matcher

SAVES 20 PER CENT. TIME, COST AND LABOR.
USED BY THE LARGEST FLOORING CONCERNS.

• Write for particulars to

A. J. SCHINDLER, 441-443 W. 21st Street, CHICAGO

Improved
Automatic
Band Saw
Sharpener

/

^T This machine excels all others for single cutting Band Saws from 8 to 14
^•Inches. Its construction is mechanically correct, simple and durable, and
does not possess any of the intricate complicated parts that confuse the oper-
ator. The head is adjustable so that straight wheels can be used with the same
results as concave.

^T This represents just one type of machine. We make in addition a com-
^^plete line of modern tools for the care of saws.

For particulars address

Matteson Mfg. Co.

All Machines Fully Guaranteed

120-128 S. CLINTON STREET,

CHICAGO, ILLS.

KNIVES

Planer knives, veneer knives or any of the good machine

knives that you use are tempered best by skilled experience.

Know the truth and get your best machine knives from

CHAMPION SAW COMPANY,

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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Bartlett's No. "O" Hog, used with Hardwood Flooring Scrapers.

HOGS

We Build All Kinds
Tell Us What Kind You Need

A. F. BARTLETT & CO.

Manufacturers of

SAWMILL MACHINERY

960 South Tilden Street
Saginaw, Mich.

LIDGERW00D MACHINES

WILL STOCK YOUR MILL

SKIDDER-S
SNAKERS
YARDERS

LOADERS
PULL BOATS
CABLEWAYS

LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO.

96 Liberty St., New York.
NEW ORLEANS ATLANTA

SEATTLE

RUSSEL WHEEL & FOUNDRY COMPANY

\ Hi) I y^JtyfejF** tar -*0t^^mr ; — MVlfe*'- - J IB \\SJl^B^^ \ «

W

ft

DESIRED

"Here's to your
good health and the
good health of your
family. May you live
long and prosper." —

Joseph Jefferjon
in "Rip Van Winkje

You can move I000 feet of lumber on a GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING
LUMBER CART with the same
power or strength required to move
500 feet on a cart having common
friction-producing axles.

WT THERE'S THE REASON

If You're wanting to reduce
your lumber handling costs we're
at your service.

REALIZED

—Prosperity —
through the help of
the Gillette Roller
Rearing Company, Ex-
perts in the Elimina-
tion of Expense, Grand
Rapids, Michigan.

&

42

HARDWOOD RECORD

Raise the Grade of Your
Lumber by Trimming It

■■Ag

THE TOWER ONE-MAN 2-SA"W TRIMMER

Produces boards with SQUARE ENDS and of STANDARD
LENGTHS, which is what buyers are demanding, more and more.

Not "iili does trimming IMPROVE THE APPEARANCE of your
lumber and ENHANCE ITS VALUE, but it PREVENTS YOUB
PAYING I HEIGHT ON WASTE ENDS

Tlie •'TOWER" One-man 2-sa\v Trimmer, small size, enable- one
man to easily trim the output of a mill cutting up to 30.000 feet in ten
hours.

Our printed matter {rives LOGICAL REASONS why our trimmers
will do more work in a given length of time than any other machines of
their class on the market, and that with less fatigue to the operator.

Do not forget that we are also the leading manufacturers of edgers in
the world, making a specialty of the well known | ,

"Tower" 32-Inch Edger, New Model

especially "designed for mills cutting not to exceed 20.000 feet in ten
hours, which is pronounced by experts to be

ABSOLUTELY THE BEST GANG EDGER FOR
SMALL MILLS ON THE MARKET.

Another of our products is the celebrated

Gordon Hollow Blast Gra.te

."An Enormous Blacksmith's Forge"),

the only successful because only "tuyere" hollow blast grate. It is a
wonderful promoter ©f combustion.

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co.

GREENVILLE, MICHIGAN

The largest manufacturers of blast grates, edgers and trimmers in the world

A Hanohett - Hanohett - Hanchett <|L

Hanchett [
Saw Swage |

Every one made Periect

The Swage with a Name

i

•I A poor Swage Ruins a Good Saw, and
for that reason the manufacturers of the

HANCHETT ADJUSTABLE SWAGE

employ only the Best Mechanics and use
onlv the Best Material in their construction.

It Pays Us
to make
The Best

Send for

Catalog

No. 10

It tells you all

about them

It Pays You

to use

The Best

MANUFACTURED BY

Hanchett Swage Works

Big Rapids, Michigan

*f Hanchett - Hanchett - Hanchett ^

<LGood saws, that do their
duty, plus.

C Cutting edge that comes
from best material skill
fully manufactured.

CHAMPION SAW CO.

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

Michigan Logging Wheels

Standard
for a
Quarter
Century

Cheap and easy logging.
Write for circular & prices.

S. C. OVERPACK M^|TEE

A floor to adore

For thirty-three years Wilce's Hardwood Floor-
ing has been among the foremost on the market
and because it stands today "unequaled" is the
.best evidence that its manufacturer has kept
'abreast of modern methods and the advanced de-
mands of the trade. To convince yourself of the
above statements, try our polished surface floor-
ing, tongued and grooved, hollow backed, with
■]±A f matched ends and holes for blind nailing — you'll
find it reduces the expense of laying and polishing.
Our Booklet tells ail about Hardivood Flooring and
W how to care for it — also prices— and is free.

The T. Wilce Company

22nd arvd Throop Sts. CHICAGO. ILL.

\ i

HARDWOOD RECORD

43

No. 24 C Flooring Machine

Features such as WEDGE PLATEN, VERTICAL AD JUST. UK XT OF SIDE SPINDLE
AND BELT-RELEASING DEVICE applied to our Flooring Machines INCREASE THE
OUTPUT and DECREASE THE OPERATING EXPENSES. EIGHT FEED ROLLS.

S. A. Woods Machine Co., Boston

CHICAGO

Specialists in
Planing and Moulding Mill Machinery

SEATTLE

Interchangeable

Cutter Head

Practice

IS NOT COMPLETE WITHOUT

i^JL

nr»

The Shimer Cutter Head Expansion

TO accommodate the cut of the Bits to the kind and condition of the woody fibre as you find
it in Oak, Pine and Poplar — dry, half dry or just as you get it from the log. Wood thai is
soft or green will not go into the cut with the same resistance as the wood that is dry and hard,
therefore, the same set of Bits will not cut the tongue and the groove to the same fit in Oak, as
in Pine, or in green as in dry lumber, neither will the cut of a newly sharpened set of Bits make
the tongue and the groove exactly like that which they will cut when they are dulled,

mf^Therefore, the Importance of The Shimer Cutter Head Expansion, to quickly right up these
little differences without taking tfn cutter heads off Ike spindles. It pays to use the Lest. Send for
our catalogue.

Address SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS, Milton, Pennsylvania

44

HARD. WOOD RECORD

cost more than other Saws, because they are BETTER.
The First cost of a Saw does not count for much.
What you want is your Money's Worth. Isn't it better
to pay a fair price and get the best rather than a low
price and get poor goods? Try an ATKINS SAW.
They're better.

E. C. ATKINS & CO., Inc

The Silver Steel Saw People.
Home Office and Factory, Indianapolis.

Branches: . Atlanta,
New York City,

Chicago, Memphis, Minneapolis,

Portland, San Francisco, Seattle,

New Orleans,
Toronto.

HARDWOOD RECORD

45

Catalogue
for
the
Asking

Just What You Want

GOOD MACHINES

The American Will Stand Investigation

-^^r^^^J-T-^-

%W f

k>*-"

Hoyt No. 129 Hardwood Plane] and Matcher

Glen Cove No. 200 Automatic Knife Grinder

Clement 54 in. Band He-saw

Hoyt Hardwood Gang Edger

Information

and

Prices

on

Application

American Wood Working Machinery Co.

-SALESROOMS-

NEW ORLEANS, Hennen Bldg. CHICAGO, 43 S. Canal St. NEW YORK, 136 Liberty St.

46

HARDWOOD RECORD

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET

For choice lots of hardwoods.
Walnut our specialty.
Inspection at Mill Points.

The Walnut Lumber Company

Indianapolis, Indiana

Wanted— to Buy or Contract for Future Delivery

500.000 to 1,000,000 ft. Poplar, all grades
500,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Cypress, all grades
500,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Ash, all grades

SsteTuo" PLUMMER LUMBER CO. ?

MISSOURI

American Hardwood Lumber Co.

14,000,000 ft. Hardwood Lumber

YARDS AT BENTON, ARK., NEW ORLEANS, LA., ST. LOUIS, MO.,
DICKSON, TENN.

H. W. Mosby & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM

ASH, ELM

Large Stock on Hand HELENA, ARKANSAS

Vestal Lumber & Mfg.Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers
of all kinds of

HARDWOODS

BEVELED SIDING A SPECIALTY.
UNSURPASSED FACILITIES
FOR DELIVERING.

Knoxville
Tennessee

1X.T A C^ I I "V 7 I I I I~^

IN A o 1 ! V 1 LLU

HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

GEO. C. BROWN & CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Tennessee Red Cedar L,umber a Specialty.

Nashvtlle, Tennessee

INDIANA LUMBER CO,

Manufacturers Lumber

DIMENSION STOCK A SPECIALTY.

Office and Mills: Corner Oldham
Street arid Cumberland River

NASHVILLE, TENN.

LOVE, BOYD & CO.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

\Y

make special prices on :
150,000 feet Tennessee Red Cedar Boards
3,900 feet 10/4 Is and 2s Hickory
3,800 feet 16/4 Is and 2s Hickory
20,000 feet 8/4 No. 1 Common Hickory
200,000 feet 8/4 No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak
44,000 feet 10/4 No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak
200,000 feet 4/4 Shipping Cull Quartered White Oak
80,000 feet 8/4 No. 1 Common Quartered Red Oak
300,000 feet 4/4 Shipping Cull Plain Oak
ALL BONE DRY OUR OWN CUT

JOHN B. RANSOM 4 CO.,

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

Wc want to move quickly the following old dry stock. All of it has been on
sticks 6 to 1 8 months. Write us for delivered prices. Wc are prepared to
furnish promptly mixed cars of rough and dressed hardwoods of all kinds:

QUARTERED WHITE OAK
90 M 4/4 first and second
15 M 5/4 first and second
80 M 6/4 first and second
10 M 10/4 first and second
120 M 4/4 No. 1 Common
65 M 6/4 No. 1 Common
58 M 8/4 No. 1 Common
20 M 10/4 No. 1 Common
70 M 5/8 first and second Poplar
80 M 5/8 No. 1 Common Poplar
15 M 4/4 1st and 2d Quartered Sycamore
10 M 4/4 No. 1 Com. Quart'd Sycamore

QUARTERED RED OAK

100 M 4/4 first and second

58 M 6/4 first and second

15 M 8/4 first and second

95 M 4/4 No. 1 Common

84 M 6 4 No. 1 Common

72 M 8/4 No. 1 Common

PLAIN OAK

50 M 4 '4 1st and 2nd White
100 M 4/4 No. 1 Common White
100 M 4 \ first and second Red
100 M 4/4 No. i;Common Red

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

"Acorn Brand "

OAK AND BEECH FLOORING

"The product de Luxe."

f Market price on car lots. Less than car lot orders shipped
promptly. We especially invite inquiries for Flooring, Oak
and Poplar lumber and other Hardwoods in mixed cars.

DELIVERED ANYWHERE.

Nashville, Tennessee

HARDWOOD RECORD

47

^ 1 . L* 1^ l*J I ^

LARGEST OF ALL HARDWOOD MARKETS

LOTHMAN CYPRESS CO.

AIR DRIED

Louisiana Red Cypress

FOOT OF ANGELICA STREET

CHAS. F. LLEHRMANN HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY

Carry a complete stock of Hardwood and are

constantly in the market to purchase

large blocks of stock for cash. Are

also the largest manufacturers of

the famous St. Francis

Basin Red Gum.

General Offices: 148 Carroll Street

Roland F. Krebs Manager Hardwood Dept.

Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Co. buying

FOR SALE: The Following Stocks. Shipped Direct From Our Mills:

12 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common Cottonwood, Dry. 5 cars 1 in. Log Run Elm I Bone Dry. I
8 " 1 in. lst*2nds8apGuin,Dry. Rears 1 in. No. 1 & 2, Com. Pin. Red Oak. " "
2 " lin. " " Red " " 200M ft. 1 in. and 2 in. Dry Cypress, i all grades )

Write Us for Prices

MASSENGALE LUMBER CO., ST. LOUIS

Manufacturers and dealers in

HARDWOODS

In the market to buy and sell OAK, POPLAR, ASH, CYPRESS
Large stock dry lumber always on hand

W. R. CHIVVIS,

Lesperance Street and Iron
Mountain Railroad.

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

BLACK WALNUT LUMBER MY SPECIALTY. Always in the market to buy
Walnut and Cherry Lumber. Pay spot cash and take up at shipping
point when amounts justify.

STEELE

&

HIBBARD

NortK Broad

way and Dock Streets

Wholesale Manufacturers.

Dealers and Shippers

ASH. CYPRESS. MAHOGANY. OAK. POPLAR. &c

Mills: Yazoo City. Miss.; McG
Dermott Ark. O'Hara

-egor, Ark.; England Ark.;
La. ; Dexter, Mo.

Wanted-Cypress, Ash and Cottonwood

Inspection at Point of Shipment When Quantity Justifies

Hafner Manufacturing Co.

CYPRESS, HARDWOODS

Mail orders receive our immediate
attention.

YARDS: FOOT OF DOCK STREET

Stoneman-Zearing Lumber Co.

203 Frisco "Building

We have the following Dry Stock for sale piled at our mill:

QTD. WHITE OAK : COTTONWOOD:
:\ Cars 4/4 Common. 3 Cars 1" 1 and 2.

2 Cars 4/4 Common and Better Strips. 1 Car 1x13 to 17" Box Board!.

GUM: EI.M:

5 Cars 1" Common Red. 1 Car 6/4 Log Run.
1 Car 1x13 to 17" Box Boards. 4 Cars 4'' I,og Run.
1 Car 2" 1 and 2 Sap.

6 Cars \% Common and Better Sap.

This Stock is All Band Sawed and Equalized

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Co.

CASH BUYERS OF OAK, ASH, CY-
PRESS, POPLAR, CHERRY AND ALL

HARDWOODS

Send Inspector When Quantity Justifies

Office and Yards : Hall and Angelrodt Sts.

Garetson-Greason Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

GUM LUMBER
OUR SPECIALTY

Carload Shipments Direct
from Our Own Mills

519 Bank or Commerce

48

HARDWOOD RECORD

R.E. Wood Lumber Company

C We own nearly a thousand million feet of virgin poplar, oak,
chestnut and other hardwood timber, and operate our own band mills
in West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
C. Let us figure on your hardwood requirements.

GENERAL OFFICES:
CONTINENTAL BUILDING.

Baltimore, Maryland

We are Prepared to Supply Your. Wants in

Veneered 2 Solid Stave
Columns

In all Hardwoods with the

Koll's
Patent

ST THEY ^»

Kf CAN NOT IB
■ COME PH

WV A PARTIES'

Lock
Joint

Write today for prices

Henry Sanders Co,

900 Elston Ave., Chicago

You can't go astray
when in the market

IF YOU WRITE THE

Northern Lumber
Company

RUSH CULVER, Pres.

BIRCH, MICHIGAN

C We manufacture from our
own forests, the finest line of
Northern Hardwoods on the
market. C. We have the woods,
the machinery, the experience,
enabling us to fill your orders
right.

Green Lumber Dried in a Week

Our new method of kiln drying, applied in your old kilns, will thoroughly dry green lumber in

from a week to fifteen days.

COSTS YOU NOTHING TO TRY

We guarantee better results than you are able to secure otherwise, and

a positive saving in operating and cutting the lumber. If it does not

-make good our every claim, we will not charge a dollar for the process.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works, grand rapIdsTmichigan

HARDWOOD RECORD

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MANUFACTURERS OF STANDARD SIZE

WAGON FELLOES AND WAGON STOCK

Send your requirements and receive price. COLUMBUS, MISS.

The KNEELAND BIGELOW CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF LUMBER

Annual Output:

20,000,000 ft. Hardwoods.
20,000,000 ft. Hemlock.

4,000,000 pes. Hardwood Lath.

9,000,000 pes. Hemlock Lath.

Mills Run the Year
Around.

Bay City, Mich.

W. H. WHITE, Pres.

JAS. A WHITE, Vice-Pres.

W. L. MARTIN. Secy.

THOS. WHITE. Treas.

W. H. WHITE COMPANY

BOYNE CITY, MICHIGAN

Manufacturers of Hardwood and Hemlock Lumber, Cedar Shingles,

White Rock Maple Flooring.

WE CAN TALK BUSINESS WITH YOU ON

Poplar — Oak — Ash — Chestnut

ALSO OTHER HARDWOODS-ALL GRADES
AND THICKNESSES

SCHULTZ BROTHERS <& COWEN

1225 to 1240 Old Colony Building, CHICAGO

5°

HARDWOOD RECORD

r> i T* T* c: r~> i t r> i~i

F* 1 1 1 ^ L5 U K O

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF PENNSYLVANIA

■ — ■ >l

A. M, Turner
Lumber Company

Everything in lumber. We buy hardwoods
as well as sell them. If you have anything
to offer, please submit same to us. t I

Willson Bros. Lumber Co*

MANUFACTURERS

WEST VIRGINIA
HARDWOODS

FARMERS BANK BLDG. t: PITTSBURG, PA.

SXOCK LIST

The following list covers the hardwoods we now have on hand- Special
price f. o. b. cars mill for all one grade. We would beipleased to have
you favor us with your inquiries and orders.

4/4 Maple, No. I Common 2 Cars

5/4 a " " 2 Cars

54 " " " and Better 59,000 Feet

6 4 " " " I Car

6 4 " Firsts and Seconds 2 Cars

8/4 " No. 2 Common .- 2,500 Feet

10/4 " Firsts and Seconds I Car

10/4 " No. 2 Common and Better 71,000 Feet

12/4 " No. I " 1 ,500 Feet

12/4 " "2 ." 1,000 Feet

4/4 Basswood, Log Run m.c. o I car

8 4 '• " " " 1 car

DRY STOCK

Favorable Freight Rates to the East.

BABC0CK LUMBER CO., Ashtola, Pa.

WE WANT

ORDERS! ORDERS! ORDERS!

For
\ Car 1x18 to 25" I si and 2nds Cottonwood.
\ Car 1 x 1 3 to 17" I si and 2nds Cottonwood.
15Mft. 1x6" and up Isl and 2nds Cottonwood.
200M ft. 1x4" and up No.l common Cottonwood.
2 1 OM ft. 4-4 1 si & 2nds plain Red and White Oak.
240M ft. 4-4 No. 1 com. plain Red and White Oak.
1 90M ft. 44 No. 1 com. quartered White Oak.

^. v v

American Lumber 4 Mfg. Co.

PITTSBURG. PA.

Linehan Lumber Company

PERFECT

MAPLE FLOORING

SEND US YOUR INQUIRES

Tke Nicola Lumber
Company

One million feet 4-4 Bay Poplar.
Can be shipped log run, or sold
on grade. Bone dry ; band
sawed. Send your inquiries.

Hardwoods a Specialty

FOR SALE

POPLAR

125,000' 4/4 Is and 2s
40,000" 4/4 No. 1 Com.
325,000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.
228,000' 4/4 No. 3 Com.
150,000' < '4 Mill Cull

CHESTNUT

200,000' 4/4 Sound Wormy
80,000' 5/4 Sound Wormy

100,000' R 4 Sound Wormy
48,000' 8, 4 Sound Wormy

PLAIN OAK

60,000' 4 '4 No. 1 Com.
18,000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.

QUARTERED OAK
2 cars 4 4 No. 1 Com.
1 car 4 4 No. 2 Com.

OAK TIMBERS SAWED TO ORDER.
WRITE FOR PRICES.

CHEAT RIVER LUMBER COMPANY, Pittsburg, Pcnna.

HARDWOOD RECORD

51

CL E V EL AND

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTtR OF NORTHERN OHIO

The Martin-Barriss Company

Importers and M<\ n vif<-\< turei s

MAHOGANY

cDw n d Fine Hardwoods

The

Robert H. Jenks Lumber

Company

44 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, O.

OFFERS:

."> Cars 4/4 1st and 2nd Poplar— 7" to 17"
4 Cars 4/4 1st and 2nd Poplar— 18" to 23"
:i Cars 4/4 Poplar Box Boards— 7" to 12"

HI Cars 4/4 No. 1 Common Poplar (Selects in)

111 Cars 4/4 No. 2 Common Poplar
3 Cars 4/4 No. 3 Common Poplar

2 Cars ."1 4 No. I Common Poplar (Selects in)
8 Cars 8/4 No. 1 Common Poplar (Selects in 1

10 Cars 4/4 1st and 2nd White Oak
15 Cars 4/4 1st and 2nd Red Oak
15 Cars 4/4 No. 1 Common Red Oak
10 Cars 4/4 No. 1 Common White Oak
10 Cars 4/4 No. 2 Common White Oak
20 Cars 4/4 Mill Cull Oak

3 Cars 4/4 Common and Better Chestnut
1 Car 6/4 Common and Better Chestnut

4 Cars 4/4 No. 1 Common Chestnut

5 Cars 5/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut
5 Cars 6/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut

10 Cars 4/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut
10 Cars 8/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut

HARDWOODS

Dry Stock is Scarce

Mill Shipments are Slow in Coming Forward

We therefore call attention to stock of upwards
of SIX MILLION FEET seasoned HARD-
WOODS we offer for quick shipment from
Cleveland. WANT TO CLEAN IT OUT.
Are you interested ?

The Advance Lumber
Company

1 3th Floor, Rockefeller Bldg., CLEVELAND, O.

Manufacturers and Dealers
In White Pine, Yellow Pine, Hemlock and Hardwoods

SYMBOLS FOR GRADE MARKS

Adopted by the Hardwood Manufacturers Association ot United States

/ \ Selects

Q Panel and Wide No. 1

A wide No- 2

pS Box Boards

y FAS or Firsts and
^~ Seconds

Q. Saps

(^ No. 1 Common

(2, No. 2 Common

(3 No. 3 Common

(A- No. 4 Common

Every Manufacturer should stamp the grade on his Lumber.
Set of 10 Rubber Stamps, Wxl V in size, Pad, Pint of Ink, and
Spreader, packed for shipment $3.50.
MARTIN «fc CO. LEWIS DOSTER, Sec*y

191 S. Clark Si.. CHICAGO, or 1535 First Nal. Bank Ildg. CHICAGO

This cut shows the 44 inch No. 2

0BER LATHE

for turning Pick, Sledge. Hammer,
Hatchet and Double Bitted Axe
Handles, Whiffletrees, Yokes,
Spokes, Porch Spindles, Stair
Balusters, Table and Chair Legs,
Ball Bats, etc. We also manufac-
ture the No. 2 Lathes in 3 other
sizes, viz.: 36 in., 33 in., 22 in.

Simple, Strong,
Durable, Economical

We also manufacture other
Lathes for making Spokes,
Handles and Variety Work.
Sanders, Shapers, Boring and
-Chucking Machines, etc., etc.
Complete catalogue and price
list free.

THE 0BER MFG. CO., 28 Bell St., CHAGRIN FALLS, 0., U. S. A.

HARDWOOD RECORD

\\ 7 f ^ g~+ g^\. 1K.T O ¥ 1V.T

VV 1 o L/ U IN b 1 IN

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

Mason -Donaldson Lumber Co.

RKinelander, Wisconsin

WE HAVE TO OFFER

15 cars 2
5 cars 1

3 cars 14
18 cars 1

4 cars 1A

No.

No.

No.
in. No.
in. No.

.3 Hemlock Rough.

1 Common & Better Hard Maple.

1 Common & Better Hard Maple.

2 Common & Better Soft Elm.
1 Common & Better Soft Elm.

12 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common Plain Birch.
6 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common & Better Red Birch.
2 ears \\ in. No. 1 Common & Better Red

2 cars \\ in. No. 1 Common & Better Red

3 cars 2 in. No. 1 Common & Better Red

Birch.
Birch.
Birch.

John R. Davis Lumber Company

PHILLIPS, WISCONSIN
The Leading Manufacturers

Wisconsin Hardwoods

"SHAKELESS" HEMLOCK and WHITE CEDAR PRODUCTS

WE HAVE THE FINEST BLOCK OF

4-4 UNSELECTED BIRCH

ON THE MARKET

Write for our Price Lists
and Stock Sheets

Mixed Cars, Even Grades
%, Prompt Shipments

We are prepared to furnish mixed carloads

And solicit your inquiries and orders. At present we are
offering Red Birch in thicknesses, 1" to 24" common
and better, also Maple, Birch and one quarter sawed

RED OAK FLOORING

Basswood Ceiling and Siding and Finish, also Molding

Our hardwood flooring "A. H. L." Brand, is the
highest grade as to workmanship and quality.

ARPIN HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
Saw Mill, Planing Mill and Yard at Atlanta, near Bruce, Wis. on "Soo" Line.

C. P. CROSBY

RHINELANDER j : WISCONSIN

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Hard Maple a Specialty in all thicknesses from J inch
to 4 inch. Finest Birch in Wisconsin. Soft Elm,
Red Oak, 35,000 feet 3 in. Birch, Red all in.

DIFFICULT AND MIXED ORDERS A SPECIALTY

>mffa

We have
to offer
the

following
stock in

File at
ngram,
Wis.

WAVSAV, WIS.

400,000 ft. 1 in. No. 1 Com. & Better PI. Birch.
12,000 ft. 1% In. First & Second Plain Birch.
20,000 ft. 2 in. No. 2 Common Plain Birch.
24,000 ft. 1 in. First & Second Red Birch.
15,000 ft. 1 In. No. 1 Common Red Birch.

2,500 ft. 1% in. First & Second Red Birch.
11,460 ft. 1*5 in. First & Second Red Birch.

4,700 ft. 2 in. First & Second Red Birch.

2,144 ft. 1 in. Curly Birch.

2,350 ft. 1%, m and 2 in. Curly Birch.
22.000 ft. 1 in. End Dried White Birch.
42,000 ft. 1 in. No. 1 Com. & Better Soft Elm.
44,000 ft. 1 in. Select Pine.
57,000 ft. 1% in. No. 3 Shop & Better Pine.
19,000 ft. IK in. Select Pine.
26,000 ft. 1% in. No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 Shop'
Pine.

Your

orders

and

inquiries

solicited

VOLLMAR & BELOW

MARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN

Basswood, Birch

and Other Wisconsin Hardwoods

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU ARE IN THE MARKET FOR

For Sale:

NATIONAL
INSPECTION

3,000,000 ft. inch Birch.
100,000 ft. inch Black Ash.
50,000 ft. inch Soft Elm.

All No. 1 Common and Better.
20,000 ft. 1x4 and wider, 6 ft., 1st & 2nd Birch.

Dells Lumber 4 Shingle Co.

EAU CLAIR.E, WISCONSIN

HARDWOOD RECORD

53

"%1. 7 ¥ O S-+ ^V T^T C> I 1VT

W 1 o L U IN o 1 IN

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

R. CONNOR CO.

WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS

Wisconsin
Hardwood

PINE AND HEM-
I.OCK LUMBER

tfoid.Wis.,onC.&N.W.R.R. I'lOl 3IIIICIU, nIS.

WE ARE NOW
OFFERING

5,000,000 ft. Winter Sawed

Basswood, Elm and Birch

Carefully manufactured from
logs of superior quality

Sawyer-Goodman Company Marme«e.wis.

North Western Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OF BAND-SAWED

Wisconsin Hardwoods

CAREFUL GRADINGS — PROMPT SHIPMENTS

General Offices, EAU CLAIRE, WIS. Hills al STANLEY, WIS.

Frank Carter Co.

MANUFACTURER

Wisconsin Hardwood

SPECIALTY-HARD MAPLE

Mills: DURAND

SPRING VALLEY
GLEN FLORA
ELMWOOD
HILLSDALE

General Offices :

MENOMONIE, WIS.

Wisconsin Veneer Co,

RHINELANDER, WIS.

Largest and best equipped Veneer
cutting plant in the country. High-
grade product from Birch, Maple,
Elm, Basswood, Ash and other na-
tive woods.

Veneers for Door Work a Specialty.

The Morton Dry Kiln

MOIST AIR SYSTEM

Recording
Ther-
mometers.
Transfer
Cars.

Trucks.

Canvas

Doors.

HOW TO DRY LUMBER.

As exemplified in our Catalog D. Free on application.

MORTON DRY KILN CO., Chicago, Ills.

Do you want a
7=foot band mill?

This is a first-class
machine and will
give the best of re-
sults. It is strong,
well made, and as
good as it looks.
Write us and we will
give you full particu-
lars.

BbL I Phoenix Mfg. Co.

Eau Claire, Wis.

54

HARDWOOD

RECORD

M

I C M I G

IS FOR HARD MAPLE AND

A

GREY

IN

FAHOl

ELM

S. L. EASTMAN FLOORING CO.

SAGINAW BRAND

MAPLE FLOORING

SAGINAW, MICH.

tochio-an

J. S. GOLDIE.

Cadillac, :: Michigan.

SPECIAL PRICES on 500M pieces
1J" to 3'' Maple Squares 16" to 27" long
250M feet Maple cull
INQUIRIES SOLICITED FOB MICHIGAN LUMBER.

WE WANT TO CONTRACT FOR

PLAIN AND QUARTERED OAK

Skillman Lumber Company

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

BOYNE CITY LUMBER COMPANY

BOYNE CITY

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE and other HARDWOODS

LARGE CAPACITY PROMPT SHIPMENTS RAII, OR CARGO

The Stearns Company

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern"

HARDWOODS

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Cincinnati, 0.

SALXING, HANSON & CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Michigan Hardwoods

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

Evans & Retting Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

Hardwood
Lumber

RAILROAD TIMBERS, TIES AND SWITCH TIES

Michigan Trust Building Grand Rapids, Mich.

DENNIS & SMITH LUMBER CO.

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Office and Yards, FOURTH AND HOLDEN AVENUES,
DETROIT, MICH.

MILLS AT: Orndorfl, W. Va., Healers W. Va.. and Parkersburg, W. Va.

The North Shore Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS

Hardwood and Hemlock Lumber

Rail and water shipments

THOMPSON

MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

55

JV1

I

J S

C H I

FOR RED BIRCH

a

AND

A

BASS

N

FAMOl

WOOD

"Chief Brand"
Maple Flooring

Will commend itself to you and your trade on
its merits alone. 1 Comprises all the features
desirable in good flooring. \ Made by the latest,
most approved machinery methods and best
skilled labor. * We believe we can make it to
your interest to handle our "Chief Brand" and
will appreciate your inquiries.

Kerry 4 Hanson Flooring Co.

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

Hardwood Lumber

Main Olfice, Michigan Trust Company Building

GRAND RAPIDS : MICHIGAN

DENNIS BROS.

GRAND RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD LUMBER (by water or rail)
"NATIONAL" MAPLE & BIRCH FLOORING

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN THE FOLLOWING:

120M feet 4 4 Log Run Birch
125M feet 6 4 Log Run Birch
2 Cars 8 4 Common and Better Birch

1 Car I x4 Clear Birch

2 Cars 1x7 and Wider No. 1 Common Birch
140M feet 5 4 Log Run Beech

150M feet 4 4 Log Run Soft Elm

Hard Maple— All grades and thicknesses

Main Office :

205-209 Michigan

Trust

Company

Building

Thos. MacBride Lumber Company

HEADQUARTERS FOR

HARDWOODS

IN MICHIGAN

Michigan Trust Building, Grand Rapids, Mich.

BIRCH

-

WE WANT YOUR ORDERS FOR

4-4 and 5-4 No. 1 Common

Birch

A No. 1 STOCK

Simmons Lumber Company

SIMMONS, MICHIGAN

IXL POLISHED

Rock Maple Flooring

Our slow method of air seasoning and kiln drying

IXL Hardwood Flooring has stood

the test for 20 years.

Please write for prices and booklet

Wisconsin Land £ Lumber Co.

HERMANSVILLE, MICHIGAN

Sa.me Folks
New Na.rrve

The Brownlee=Kelly Company

DETROIT. MICH

MAKERS OF MICHIGAN HARDWOOD LUMBER

Succeeding Brownlee ci Company

McCLURE LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Hardwoods

Main OHices,
Mills,

DETROIT. MICH.
EUTAW, ALA.

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 cars I" lsl 6 2nds C Com. Qld. While Oak 10 cars I Log Run Brown Alh

2 cars 2'3. 3 and 4" While Ash 10 cars 1" lo 4" Dry Hard Maple

2 cars 1" While Ash 10 cars 1" Log Run Birch

1 car 1 5s and 2" No. I Com. Brown Ash 10 cars \" Log Run Basswood

2 cars 2" Log Sun Soil Elm 5 cars 6 4 and 8 4, Green Log Run Hickory.

4 cars 2, 3 and 4" lsl and 2nds and No. 1 Com. Green While Oak
500M leet I" lo 2", I's and 2's. selects and common. Dry Poplar:
2 cars 6 4 and 8 4, Log Run, Second Growth While Ash,

56

HARDWOOD RECORD

4~* I TVT /~* I TVT TVT A TP I

t/IrMt/irNINA I I

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

C. CRANE & COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS

Poplar, Oak, Ash, Chestnut, Sycamore,
W. Va. Spruce, Pine and Elm

YEARLY CAPACITY 100,000,000 FEET

LONG BILL STUFF A SPECIALTY

Mills and Yards: CINCINNATI, OHIO

/\TTTJ A TTUT's to ship the highest standard of

Llumber at lowest consistent price

We are manufacturers and ship direct from our band mills

Oak
Poplar

W.H.&G.S. Stewart

Main Office : Cincinnati, Ohio, U. S A.

Chestnut
Basswood
Yellow Pine

FRAMES.
SASH. DOORS,
BLINDS, MOULDINGS.
COLUMNS. CLASS.
STAIRW0RK.
INTERIOR TRIM.

PAINTS,

BUILDERS' HARDWARE,

MANTELS, ETC.

LARGE CINCINNATI FAC

TORIES MAKE PROMPT

SHIPMENTS POSSIBLE.

THE HOUSE OF STONE

The One of Good Grades
JPopIar, Oak, Chestnut, Cottonwood, Ash, Basswood and Gum

T. B. STOINE LUMBER CO.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

CYPRESS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturer of Hardwoods and Cypress

**lain and Quartered White and Red Oak, Yellow Poplar,
Yellow Pine, Walnut, etc. Mills in Tenn., Ala. and Va.

OFFICE AND YARDS. GEST AND DALT0N AVE.. CINCINNATI, OHIO.

W. H. Dawkins Lumber Co.

Manufacturers of Band Sawed

Yellow Poplar

ASHLAND, KY.

OAK FLOORING

Thoroughly Kiln Dried.
Perfectly Manufactured.

We are located in the best Oak Timber section in the
United States; have new and modern machinery and
experienced operators.
. Why should we not be able to furnish the best Oak
"Flooring?
Write us and we will convince you that we can.

The INTERNATIONAL HARDWOOD COMPANY

Catlettsburg, Kentucky

CRESCENT LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of

Hardwood Lumber

MARIETTA, O.

HARDWOOD RECORD

57

4~* I rVT f~* I fVT rVT A HT* I

L/1INU1IN fS A I I ^n

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

IN THE MARKET FOR

OAK-ASH-POPLAR

ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

MOWBRAY & ROBINSON

Office!
12(9 West Sixth Street

Yards:
Sixth Street, below Harriet

"BUY GUM"

We ore in the market to bin
Dry On in Lumber in an;
quantity, from a single car
load Vj a million feet. Win
take all grades and t hick
tiesses. We receive lumber
at shipping point, pay cash
ninl are liberal in inspection.

THE FAWRIN.KORN

LUMBER COMPANY

Oeneral Office, Yards,

Planing Mills, Dry Kilns.

Cincinnati, Ohio
1'urchaplnpr Office,

Randolph Building,

Memphis, Tenn.

Cypress Red Gum Oak

Cash buyers for stock in our line.

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co.

JEST AND SUMMER STREETS

Wholesalers Mahogany, Thin Lumber, Veneers

Finely figured quarter sawed oak veneers a specialty.

THE WIBORG & HANNA COMPANY

CINCINNATI, OHIO

PLAIN
AND

QUARTER
SAWED

White and Red Oak I

J CHESTNUT

POPLAR

GUM AND

CYPRESS

Flooring, Siding, Ceiling, Base, Case and Molding. Rough, Dressed and Re-sawed. Mixed Carloads.

THE

MALEY, THOMPSON & MOFFETT CO.

Always in the Market for

BLACK WALNUT LOGS,
SELECTED WHITE OAK LOGS,
LUMBER OF ALL KINDS.

CINCINNATI,

OHIO

We Want To Buy

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

SEND LIST WITH PRICES

Kentucky Lumber Co.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

THE E. E. BECK LUMBER COMPANY

Cash Buyers

Poplar, Oak, Chestnut

And Other Southern Hardwoods
ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES. WE BUY MILL CUTS.

L. W. RADINA 6l COMPANY

Correspondence Solicited with Buyers and Sellers of A1J Kinds of

Wanted for cash — desirable blocks of 1 inch to 4 inch Poplar, all grades,
Especially l#-inch stock, for immediate shipment.

CLARK STREET AND DALTON AVENUE-

PLAIN OAK— BASS WOOD

Are what we want. All thicknesses and grades. Spot
cash. Send us list of your offerings with prices.

DUHLMEIER BROS., CINCINNATI, O.

St*

THE FREIBERG LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers o!

Tabasco Mahogany
Walnut, Oak

Poplar, McLean and Findlay A vs.
CINCINNATI, O.

58

HARDWOOD RECORD

$> INDIANA A

■WHERE THE BEST HARDWOODS GROW-

THE WOODS FOR
WHICH INDIANA
IS FAMOUS.

Quart Yd White Oak

Plain White Oak

Quartered Red Oak

Plain Red Oak

White Ash

Poplar

Black Walnut

Cherry

Sycamore

Red Gum

Hickory

Beech

Maple

Veneers of

Indiana Hardwoods

MALEY & WERTZ

Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Exporters of Hardwood Lumber

EVANSVILLE, IND.

PERRINE-ARMSTRONG CO.

Long Timber up to 60 feet — Hardwood Specialties

The largest Band Mill in Indiana. FORT WAYNE, IND.

J. V. STIMSON

All Kinds of Hardwood Lumber Manufactured

HUNTING BURG, IND.

YOUNG & CUTSINGER

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Fine Figured Quartered Oak

EVANSVILLE, IND.

CHARLES H. BARNABY

Manufacturer of Band Sawed Hardwoods

Quarter Sawed Indiana White Oak a Specialty GREENCASTLE, IND.

D'HEUR & SWAIN LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Quartered Oak and Sycamore

SEYMOUR, IND.

C. I. HOYT & CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Quartered and Plain Oak, Poplar, Ash and Chestnut

Specialty in Difficult Orders in Wagon Stock. "llK-lN, IJND.

LONG-KNIGHT LUMBER CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS

Quarter Sawed White and Red Oak a Specialty

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

HARDWOOD RECORD

59

BUFFALO

THE GREAT WHOLESALE LUMBER CENTER OF THE EAST

Manufacturers and
Dealers in

Ash

White and Brown

Basswood
Birch

Red and White

Butternut

Cherry

Chestnut

Cottonwood

Cypress

Elm

Soft and Rock

Gum

Red and Tupelo

Hickory
Maple

Hard and Soft

Red Oak

Plain and Quartered

White Oak

Plain and Quartered

Black Walnut
White Wood

Poplar

SCATCHERD & SON

HARDWOODS ONLY

Yard. 1555 SENECA STREET Office, 886 ELLICOTT SQUARE

STANDARD HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

OAK, ASH AND CHESTNUT

1075 CLINTON STREET

L N. STEWART & BROTHER

Specialties: CHERRY AND OAK

892 ELK STREET

T. SULLIVAN & COMPANY

Specialties: BROWN ASH, BIRCH, PACIFIC COAST FIR AND SPRUCE

50 ARTHUR STREET

ORSON E. YEAGER

Specialties: OAK, ASH AND POPLAR

932 ELK STREET

BEYER, KNOX & COMPANY

ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

Office and Yards, 69 LEROY AVENUE

BUFFALO HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

We want to buy for cash :

Oak, Ash and other Hardwoods, all grades and thicknesses.
Will receive and inspect stock at shipping point.
P. O. Box 312. MEMPHIS TENN. 940 SENECA STREET

EMPIRE LUMBER COMPANY

Our specialties are PLAIN »nd QUARTERED OAK and ASH.

1142 SENECA STREET.

G. ELIAS & BROTHER "

BUY AND CARRY LARGE QUANTITIES OF ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

955 TO 1015 ELK STREET

HUGH McLEAN LUMBER COMPANY

Specialty: INDIANA WHITE OAK

940 ELK STREiST

ANTHONY MILLER

HARDWOODS OF ALL KINDS

893 EAGLE STREET

Vansant,

5-8 AND 4-4

IN WIDE STOCK.

SPECIALTY

Kitchen <&

MANUFACTURERS OLD-FASHIONED

SOFT YELLOW
POPLAR

Ashland, Kentucky

Company

Three States Lumber Co.

OFFERS

300,000 ft. 5=4 Firsts and Seconds Cottonwood

Prompt Shipment Memphis, Tennessee

Lamb -Fish Lumber Co.

SUCCESSORS TO LAMB HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY, BACON-NOLAN-HARDWOOD COMPANY GUIRL-STOVER LUMBER COMPANY

Manufac-
turers

OAK, ASH, COTTONWOOD, GUM
AND CYPRESS

MAIN OFFICE: 720 MEMPHIS TRUST BUILDING. MEMPHIS. TENN.
__ _ - *«•«« I Memphis. Tertrv. rk O • 1a' I Well Manufactured Stock

Three Bai\d Mills £ha^ »Miss Our Specialties good cra^s

■»»»»*»*' ■*•«■»*• * ******* i Stover. M'.ss. r ' Prompt Shipments

YELLOW POPLAR

MANUFACTURERS

BAND SAWED
POPLAR
LUMBER

DRY

ALL GRADES

5-8, 4-4, 5-4,6-4, 8 4, 10 4. 12-4,16 4

Bevel Siding, Lath & Squares

SPECIALTY, WIOE STOCK

Coal Grove, Ohio, U. S. A.

COPYRIGHT, A. D. 190T, BY THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

flaMrVooil RocoM

Twelfth Year.
Semi-monthly.

CHICAGO, MARCH 10, 1907.

I Subscription $2.

1 Single Copies. 10 Cents.

)

2,000,000 Feet

FOR SALE

ROSS LUMBER CO.

JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK

The ljt'e of out business is the production oft

tuf&ctored and treated forey
;;^*t^K&eordanee with methods dey«lo
twenty-five yeara^experience.

A MONEY MAKER

The L\imberma.n who Insures with this Compavny.

PENNA. LUMBERMEN'S MUTUAL FIRE INS. CO,

943 Drexel Bldg.. Philadelphia,. Pssl.

New York Office:

8018 Metropolitan Building

I Madison Avenue

RUMBARGER LUMBER COMPANY

Main Office: 808 Harrison Bldg., I5th and Market Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.

Pittsburg Office:
701 Keystone Building

We have piled in West

t cars 14 ash, log run

5 i.ii - 4 4 bass wood, log run

1 car 5/ 1 basswood, log run

l car 6 4 basswood, log run

5 cars 4 4 beech, log run
14 cars 14 birch, log run

3 cars 8 4 birch, log run
10 cars 4 4 cherry, log run

5 cars 4 4 chestnut. No. l & 2 and No. l commoi

_• « ,n s l l chestnut, No. 1 & 2

i i M 1 4 chestnut, No. 1 common
10 cars 4 4 chestnut, No. 2 common

5 curs 8 4 chestnut, log run— mostly No. 2 com.

] car 4 4 cottonwood, log run

1 car 4 4 cypress, log run

9 cars 4 4 gum, log run (red and white mixed I
We are operating a tract of timber land contai
dressed, via any railroad.

Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina, the following hardwood lumber:

1 car 4 4 hickory, log run
8 cars 4 4 maple, log run
4 cars 8/4 maple, log run

17 cars 4 4 plain red and white oak, log run
3 cars 4 4 plain red and white oak, No. 2 com.
£ car 5/4 plain red and white oak, No. 1 and 2

and No. 1 com.
A car 4 4 plain red and white oak, No. 1 ami 2

2 cars 4 4 plain red oak, No. 1 & 2

3 cars 4 4 plain red oak, No. 2 common

1 car 8, 4 plain red oak, No. 1 and 2 and No. 1
common
1 car 5 4 & 6/4 pin. red oak, No. 1 &2 &No. 1 com

1 car 4/4 and 5/4 plain red oak. No. 1 and 2
10 cars 4/4 quartered red oak, No. 1 common

4 car 4, 4 quartered red oak, clear strips

h car 5 4 quartered while oak, No. 2 common
\ car 4/4 quartered white oak, No. 1 and 2, 65

per cent 10' long
4 cars 4/4 oak, No. 3 common
6 cars 4/4 oak and chestnut. No. 3 common,

mostly oak
1 car 4/4 poplar, No. 1 and 2
1 car 4 4 poplar. No. 1 and 2, IS" to 24"
1 1 cars 4 4 poplar, No. 1 common
11 cars 4 4 poplar, No. 2 common
l car 4 4 poplar, No. 3 common
1 car 8 4 poplar. No. 1 common and No. 2 i om,
1 car 8/4 poplar, No. 2 common
1 car 5/4 poplar. No. 1 common and No. 2 com.
6 cars 4 4 poplar No. I and 2 clear saps and No, 1

common (mixed)

ning considerable Holly and Persimmon, We can ship W. Virginia spruce sizes and boards, either rough or

COMPANIES SPECIALIZING IN LUMBER AND WOODWORKING RISKS:

LUMBER INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK ADIRONDACK FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

66 BROADWAY, NEW YORK
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $300,000

66 BROADWAY, \EW YORK

CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $300,000

ADVERTISERS1 CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY FOLLOWS WANT AND FOR SALE ADVERTISING SECTION.

HARDWOOD RECORD

i i^\ i t i c x/ it i r*

LUUIdV 1 L L L

MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF KENTUCKY

Dry stock vv. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co.

Louisville, Ky.

14.000' \W 1st &. 2d.

5.000' 2" 1st & 2d.
15.000' 1" No. 1 Com.

7,000* 1%" No. 1 Com.
13,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

PLAIN WHITE OAK.

80,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
28,000' IVi" 1st & 2d.
12.000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
42,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
23,800' 2%" 1st & 2d.
16,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
227,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
60,000' IVi" No. 1 Com.
S0.000' 1%" No. 1 Com.

All thickaesses in cul poplar, ash, chestnut.

PLAIN BEE

OAK.

55.000'

1"

1st &

2nd.

25.000'

1 v,

" 1st

& 2d. *

49,000'

m

- 1st

& 2d.

57,000'

._,..

1st &

2d.

18,000'

•i <A

" 1st

& 2d.

16,000'

::■■

1st &

2d.

31,000'

1"

No. 1

Com.

84,000'

i M

" No.

1 Com.

44,000'

114

" No.

1 Com.

47,000'

-■"

No. 1

Com.

8,000'

2V,

" No.

1 Com.

15,000'

3"

No. 1

Com.

QUAKTEHED RED OAK

19,000'

1"

1st &

2d.

50.000' 2" No. 1 Com.
17,000' 2%" No. 1 Com.
22,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

QUARTERED WHITE OAK.

50.000' 1" 1st & 2d.

28,000' 114" 1st & 2d.

45,000* 1%" 1st & 2d.

49,000' 2" 1st & 2d.

19,000' 2%" 1st & 2d.

18,000* 1" No. 1 Com.

30,000' 1"4" No. 1 Com.

40.000' 1%" No. 1 Com.

22,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

10,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

ASH.

9.000' 1" 1st & 2d.

65,000" 1*4" 1st & 2d.

16.000' \%" 1st & 2d.'

10.000' 2" 1st & 2d.

S.000' 2%" 1st & 2d.

14.000' 3" 1st & 2d.

6,000' 4" 1st & 2d.

4.000' IVi" No. 1 Com.

16.000' lVi" No. 1 Com.

8,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

POPLAR.
12.000' 1" 1st 4 2d.

Your inquiries will be appreciated.

12.000' 114" 1st & 2d.
11.000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
12.000' 2" 1st & 2d.
10.000' 2%" 1st & 2d.
10,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
50,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
28,000' 114" No. 1 Com.
10,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
10,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
15,000' 1" 18" & up 1st & 24.

8.000' 2" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

6.000' 2" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

4.000' 1%" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

3.000' 1V4" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

Prompt delivery guaranteed

Albert R. Kampf

Manufacturer

Hardwood dumber and Timber

Dimension Stock

Board of Trade Bldg., Louisville, Ky.

E. W. Rhubesky

Wholesale

Poplar, Rough and Dressed.

Oak, Chestnut and Other

Hardwoods

North Vernon
Lumber Co.

Band Sawed Plain and Quartered

Oak and Poplar.

North Vernon, Ind..and

Louisville. Ky

Southern Lumber Co.

Oak, Poplar and

Chestnut.
Louisville, Ky.

That Satisfied
Feeling

comes when you KNOW
that YOUR order will be
filled RIGHT; thai YOU'LL
gel JUST THE GRADE
you wanted, nothing less.
That's wi'ii li something,
mi t 1 AND WE DE=
LIVER THE GOODS. We
make 1 he sort of grades you
like ' !>• buy. It 's up to you.

G. W. JONES LUMBER CO.

- APPLETON, WIS.
Northern and Southern Hardwoods

McLean -Davis Lumber Co.

Successors to

Hugh McLean Lumber Co., Highland Park, Ky.
Edward L. Davis Lumber Co., Louisville, Ky.
Berry -Davis Saw Mill Co., Louisville, Ky.

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Hardwood Lumber

Daily Capacity:
80,000 feet.

Sales Olfices:
Louisville, Ky.

Ornamental Hardwood Floors

400 STYLES AND PATTERNS

Illustrated Catalog on Application

WOOD = MOSAIC FLOORING CO.

Rochester, N. Y. New Albany, Ind.

All Lumbermen, Attention!

We do what you can't do.
We measure your stumpage correctly.
We make your maps correctly.
Bank references: Asheville, N. C.

V« A. oCnCnCK C3 L0» North Carolina.

HARDWOOD RECORD

.1

^•i^YI^IL^Lwi^VW

CELEBRATED FOR HIGH STANDARD OF QUALITY AND MILL WORK

— j

Mitchell's Make— ^

CHOICE

WHITE BASSWOOD

ALL CLEAR
ALL WHITE
BONE DRY

End stuck in shed and just
what you want if you use
suchstock. It is l inch thick
and we have one large car.

PLEASE SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES

Mitchell Brothers Company

CADILLAC, MICH.

Cummer, Biggins & Go.

^MANUFACTURERS^

"CUMMER" MAPLE
AND BEECH FLOORING

MICHIGAN HARDWOODS

Good assortment of dry stock on hand ready
for immediate shipment in Hard Maple, Beech,
Birch, Soft Elm and Cherry.

SEND US A LIST OF YOUR REQUIREMENTS.

The Cadillac Handle Co.

Band Sawn
Michigan Hardwoods

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 Cars 4 4 Hard Maple, 1st and 2nds,
3 Cars 5 4 Hard Maple 1st and 2nds.

6 Cars 5 4 Hard Maple, No. 1 and 2 Common

1 Car 6 4 Hard Maple, 10 in. and wider, No. 1 Common and

Better.

2 Cars 4 4 Birch, No. 2 Common and Better.

DRY STOCK

MURPHY & DIGGINS

Offer all grades of the following special dry stock

MAPLE— 5/4, 6/4, 8/4, 10/4, 12/4, 14/4, 16 4
GRAY ELM— 4/4, 12/4
BASSWOOD— 4/4
BIRCH-M, 6/4

Our own manufacture. Perfect Mill Work. Uniform Grades.
LET US FIGURE ON YOUR HARDWOOD WANTS.

Northern Michigan

Soft Gray Elm

What our old cork pine was to the regular
white pine — such is our Soft Gray Elm to
ordinary soft elm. Buyers who gladly discrim-
inate in favor of something better than the or-
dinary, will be interested. We have

2 cars 8-4 firsts and seconds.

1 car 10-4 firsts and seconds.

2 cars 12-4 firsts and seconds.

Wide, choice stock, our own product, seasoned right,
bone dry.

WRITE TJ9 ABOUT IT.

C0BBS& MITCHELL

( INCORPORATED)

CADILLAC, MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

FENN BROS. COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Oak Flooring

Quartered YA/liitt*
Quartered Red
Plain White
Plain Red

Hollow Backed

End Matched

Polished

Bored

Offices &nd Plant :

Kansas and Mallory Ave., New South Memphis.

(Tike South Memphis car to Mallory Ave.)

Anderson-Tully Company

OFFERS STOCK FOR SALE

100,000 ft. 1 in. firsts and seconds Cottonwood 13 in. and up wide
500,000 " 1 in. and H in. shops and better Cypress
One car 4-4 firsts and seconds Plain Red Oak
One car 4-4 " " " " White Oak

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

PLAIN AND QUARTER SAWED
WHITE AND RED OAK. ELM.
COTTONWOOD, POPLAR, GUM,
WHITE ASH AND CYPRESS

(^ndlj^l^

CABLE ADDRESS:
"S0NDERC0" MEMPHIS

CODES USED:

LUMBERMAN'S. TELEC0DE AND

A B C 5th EDITION

MANUFACTURERS

HARDWOOD, GUM, COTTONWOOD AND CYPRESS

LUMBER

Main Office: Tennessee Trust Building

MEMPHIS, TEIN1N.

Offers the following specials:

30 Cars 1 in. INo. 1 Common Plain \A/hite Oak

1 O Cars V/4 in. INo. 1 Common Plain lA/hite Oak

1 O Cars V/-2 in. INo. 1 Common Plain lA/hite Oak

2.Q Cars 1*4 in. INo. 1 Common Quartered lA/hite Oak

lO Cars 1 in. INo. 1 Common Quartered Red Oak

1 O Cars 1'4 in. 1st and 2nd Quartered Red Oak

Direct shipments from our own Mills of Lumber from our own Timber our Specialty
We manufacture and put in pile 300,000 ft. Hardwood every 24 hours

WAGON STOCK

IN ROUGH.

TONGUES, AXLES, REACHES, BOLSTERS
AND 6 4 TO 16 4 HICKORY. ALSO ALL

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

Gayoso Lumber Co., Inc.

Memphis. Tenn.

MARCH STOCK LIST

1 in.
1} in.
li in.

3 in.

4 in.

HARD MAPLE

1,000,000 ft.

100,000 ft

100,000 ft

50,000 ft

50,000 ft

1 in
1} in.

2 in.
2i in.

BEECH

100,000 ft.
BIRCH

500.000 ft.

100,000 ft.

100,000 ft.

50,000 ft.

BASSWOOD
1 in. 300,000 ft.

GRAY ELM
1 in. 300,000 ft.
li in. 200,000 ft.
3 in. 200.000 ft.

KeUey Lumber & Shingle Co.

Tra.verse Cily, Mich.

HARDWOOD RECORD

W.M.Ritter Lumber Co

COLUMBUS, OHIO

Saw and Ship 100,000,000 Feet Yearly

WEST VIRGINIA YELLOW POPLAR
NORTH CAROLINA CORK WHITE PINE

AND HARDWOOD

DRY KILNS AND PLANING MILLS. ALL OUR MILLS RUN THE YEAR ROUND.
SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES AND ORDERS.

FULLERTON-POWELL

Hardwood Lumber Co.

a

OFFERS THE FOLLOWING STOCK
FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

15 cars 1 in. 1st & 2nds Qtd. White Oak 10 cars 1 in. 1st & 2nds Red Gum, 10 to 16 ft,
20 cars 1 in. No. 1 Com. Qtd. White Oak 3 cars 1 in. 1st & 2nds Red Gum, 12 ft,

40 cars 1 in. 1st & 2nds Plain Red Oak 10 cars 2 in. 1st & 2nds Sap Gum

20 cars 1 in. 1st & 2nds Plain White Oak 10 cars 2 in. No. 1 Common Sap Gum
2 cars 3 in. 1st & 2nds Plain White Oak 5 cars 2 in. No. 2 Common Sap Gum

BRANCH OFFICES:
CHICAGO, 1104 Chamber of Commerce

MAIN OFFICES

MEMPHIS, TENN.,305 Tennessee Trust Bldg. \ . .. , / CVwWA 1} **+* s4 1 ++ si

MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.. 30S Lumber Exehsneo V fumshed / KJ OUtf) Bella, 1710.

HARDWOOD RECORD

The Crosby & Beckley Company
HARDWOODS

We are
In the Market for Choice StocK

WRITE US

No. 1 Madison Ave.,
New York, N. Y.

New Haven,
Connecticut.

Phila. Veneer 4 Lumber Co.

817 NORTH FIFTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

SLICED AND SAWED

Quartered Oak Veneer

CUT TO DIMENSION SIZES JOINTED AND TAPED)

WE HAVE A GOOD STOCK OF PLAIN AND QUAR-
TERED OAK ON YARD AT KNOXYILLE MILL

Thomas Forman Company

MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE

Maple and Oak
Flooring

New York Branch: DETROIT.

McOovem i Bowen, And Hardwood Lumber ^^

29 Broadway MICHIGAN

Place Your Hardwood
Orders With Us==Now

The demand for hardwoods, just now. from manufacturers is brisk.
The supply, owing to storms and car famine, is short. These conditions
seem likely to last until midsummer. We have good stocks and good
grades on hand, in all the leading woods, and can fill special orders
satisfactorily. If you want some special dry lumber, send us your
orders. We have it. or will get it quickly and hold for your orders
without extra charge. We have extra facilities for filling special orders
of all kinds.

J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co.

56th to 58th Sts. and Woodland A»e. PHILADELPHIA, PA.

JOHN T . DIXON HARRY VS . DEWEY

We are not Wizards in making new grades to fit a price.

No tricks in our methods of making shipments. The
straight grades are good enough for us.

If you will give us a trial order for POPLAR, OAK,
ASH, CHESTNUT or OAK, MAPLE and YELLOW
PINE FLOORJNG, we believe we can demonstrate our
ability to please you.

DIXON & DEWEY

716 and 716 A, Flatiron Building,

NEW YORK

WILLIAM WHITMER. ®> SONS, Inc.

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET FOR STOCKS OF
WELL MANUFACTURED

HARDWOODS

- BRANCHES:

NEW YORK, BOSTON, PITTSBURG

MAIN OFFICES:

GIRARD TRUST BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA

HARDWOOD RECORD

HP I--I IT E^ A Cr T*

I rl fc, fc, A ^ I

1

BOSTON NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA

Holloway Lumber Company

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

In the market for all thicknesses of
OAK, ASH and CHESTNUT.

812 Arcade Building,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

WM. E. LITCHFIELD

MASON BUILDING, BOSTON, MASS.

Specialist in Hardwoods

Manufacturers are requested to supply lists of stock for sale

J. H. SCHOFIELD

R. W. SCHOFIELD

SCHOF1ELD

Brothers

LUMBER

WHITE PINE
AND HARDWOODS

1019-1020 Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Bldg.,

Sales Agents: Long Pole Lumber Co., Case-Fowler Lumber Co

no,Sva SOBLE BROTHERS

Birmington, Ala. —

Specialties:

Quartered White

Oak, Poplar.

WHOLESALE LUMBER
Land Title Building ■ - Philadelphia, Pa.

Wistar, Underhill & Co.,

WHOLESALE

HARDWOOD LUMBER

816 Real Estate Trust Building, S PHILADELPHIA.

H.

H

. MAUS & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS

HARDWOOD and YELLOW PINE.

Write us if you wish to buy or sell.

INC.

420 W

alrvvit

St.. - - - PHILADELPHIA, PA.

W. M. GILLESPIE LUMBER

HARDWOODS COMPANY Farmers Bank Bldg.
Oak a Specialty PITTSBURGH, PA,

BALTIMORE
M A R Y L A N

E T-" r? DDIPC BUYER AND
D J2j. £,. 1 rxlCylli EXPORTER OF

Hardwoods, Poplar and Logs

I am always in the market for nice lots of dry and well manufactured
lumber. I inspect at point of shipment. Correspondence solicited.

The West Florida Hard wood Co.

Ash
Hickory

Mil: on Apalachicola River
MARYSVILLE, FLA.

Red and White Oak Red Gum

Yellow Cottonwood Tupelo Gum

LET US HAVE YOUR INQUIRIES =

ALBERT

HAAS LUMBER

CO.

BAND SAWED

OA1

YELLOW POPLAR

ATLANTA

l: ::

GEORGIA

JOHN L. ALCOCK & CO.

BUYERS OF BLACK WALNUT LOGS
BOARDS AND PLANKS

Baltimore, Md.

Inspection at point ol
shipment. Spot cash.

THE BUFFALO MAPLE FLOORING CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE AND OAK FLOORING

BUFFALO, NEW YORK

James & Abbot Company

Lumber and Timber

No. J65 MILK ST., BOSTON, MASS., and GULFPORT.MISS.

Wantcd-Dimcnsion Oak, p'™ ™* Q»artgrcd>

White and Red. Send for specifications.

Indiana Qvia.rtered Oak Co.

7 East 42nd Street, New York City

STEVENS-EATON CO.

Buvers of

ROUND LOTS

of

Hardwoods

No 1 Madison

Avenue,

New York

ESPECIALLY IN MARKET FOR PLAIN RED OAK

JONES HARDWOOD CO.

IN< ORP< 'RATED

WANTS: Poplar, Plain Oak,
Quartered Oak and Cypress.

Manufacturers please send slock lists and prices.

147 MILK STREET
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

HARDWOOD RECORD

R. M. SMITH

J H. P. SMITH

R. M. SMITH (EL COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

WEST VIRGINIA HARDWOODS

PARKERSBURG. WEST VIRGINIA

WE CARRY IN STOCK FROM TEM TO FIFTEEN MILLION FEET OF ASH, BEECH, BASSWOOD, CHESTNUT, CHERRY,

MAPLE, PLAIN & QTD. OAK, POPLAR, WALNUT, &C. OUR PLANING

MILL FACILITIES ARE UNSURPASSED.

Band Mill: Orndoff, Webster County, W. Va.

EASTERN OFFICE:
1425-6 LAND TITLE BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA

Planing Mill; Heaters, W. Va.

The Tegge Lumber Co.

MILWAUKEE
WI SCONSIN

BUYERS OF
ALL KINDS OF

L

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Quartered Oak Flooring

[Manufactured for

HIGHEST GLASS of trade only.

Also Plain Oak, Maple and other Hardwood flooring.

The name D WIGHT on flooring is a guarantee of its

excellence.
O WIGHT SPECIAL pattern of thin flooring is the
only suitable thin flooring to lay. Write for Sample.

DWIGHT LUMBER. COMPANY

DETROIT. MICHIGAN

Swann-Day Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS Of

POPLAR AND OAK

PLANING MILL STOCK, BOX SHOOKS
AND HARDWOOD DIMENSION

CLAY CITY, KENTUCKY

PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM AIND OTHER HARDWOODS

Large stocks of well seasoned Lumber always carried at our yards and mills.
General Offices: MOW. Chicago Ave., CHICAGO. Mills: Cairo, 111., Marked Tree, Ark., Greenville, Miss., Arkansas City, Ark., Blytheville, Ark.

HARDWOOD RECORD

HARDWOODS

SPECIAL:

•

BAND MILLS:

4/4 1 a.nd 2 Cherry.

Richwood, W. Va.

4/4 No. 1 Common Cherry.

Ca.mden-on-Ga\iley, W. Va.

10/4 LR_ Hickory (Flitch Sawed.)

Holcomb, W. Va.

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co.

Scranton, Pa.

D. G. COURTNEY

MANUFACTURER OF

Yellow Poplar
Oak & Chestnut

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA

Our Timber Holdings are located exclusively in the finest sections of West Virginia
growth. Modern mills and perfect manufacture. Standard and uniform grades.

We seek the trade of wood-working factories who want a dependable lumber supply
and fair treatment.

Just now we want to move 4/4 No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 Common Oak.

IO

HARDWOOD RECORD

CHICAGO

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

Ryan & McParland

CHICAGO AND MEMPHIS

In the Market to buy Ash, Hickory, Poplar
and Oak Lumber; also Wagon Stock

In the Market to buy Hardwood Logs for
our Memphis Band Mill

Chicago Car Lumber Co.

504 Pullman Building
CHICAGO

Buyers of Round Lots

Poplar, Oak, Ash and Car and R. R.
Material

Hayden & Westcott Lumber Co.

IN MARKET FOR

POPLAR

25 M ft. li" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
40 M ft. 2" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
25 M ft. 2i" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
60 M ft. 3" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.

ROCK ELM
200 M ft. 5/4 No. 1 Common and better
500 M ft. 8/4 No. 1 Common and better

BLACK ASH
50 M ft. each 4, 4, 5 4 and 6 4 No. 1 common and better

OAK AND ASH
100 cars car oak framing
25 cars white ash from 1" to 4" green or dry Is and; 2s

511 Railway Exchange,

Chicago

PARK RICHMOND (& CO.

Wholesale

Hardwood Lumber

410 Monadnock Block
HARRISON 5165 V-^lllCclgO

White Lumber Company

Dealers in Hardwood Lumber .

ALL KINDS

Cherry Lumber a
Specialty

ALL GRADES

Laflin <& 22d Sts.
Chicago

John O'Brien Land & Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Of All Kinds

OFFICE AND YARDS :

873 to 881 So. Laflin Street

MILL : PHILIPP, MISS.

Ch

icago

J. Slimmer & Company

Hardwood
Lumber

Office and Yard :

65 W. Twentv-second St.

CHICAGO

I R, A. WELLS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Fine Quartered Oak a Specialty

234 LA SALLE STREET
Yards at Canal and 21st Sts. CHICAG"

, ILL. I

HARDWOOD RECORD

11

CHICAGO

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

McCauley - Saunders Lumber Co,

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

BAND SAWED
LOUISIANA GULF COAST

RED CYPRESS

Products Exclusively

i££T«3o J703 Fisher BIdg.r CHICAGO, ILL.

CHAS. DARLING & CO.

Southern
Hardwoods

22nd Street and Center Avenue - CHICAGO

I ERNEST B. LOMBARD I

Manufacturer and Wholesale

Northern a.nd Southern
Hardwoods

Railwa.y Exchange

CHICAGO

THE WARD LIMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

HARDWOODS

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUILDING :: CHICAGO

CHAS. MILLER

MILTON MILLER

MILLER BROS.

H/XRDWOOD LUMBER

Main Office: 20S WILLOUGHBY BLDG. 6 E. MADISON ST.
'Phone Central 1363 CHICAGO. ILL.

Yards: LoomisSt. S.of 22nd St., Chicago, 111., Houston Miss., Macon, Miss.

The Keith Lumber Co.

MAHOGANY

5,000,000 feet ma-
hogany in stock.

Large and fine stock
of Cuban wood.

FOREIGN AND

AMERICAN

HARDWOODS

14th and Wood Streets
CHICAGO

The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Co.

Wholesale and Retail

Telephone
NORTH 223

HARDWOOD LUMBER

47 DominickSt.
CHICAGO

f\ W/ IA/VI IF 1101 FISHER BUILDING
/-\ . 1/V . \TV YLIF, CHICAGO - ILLINOIS

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS
OAK GUM CYPRESS

Estabrook - Skeele

Lumber Company

.Manufacturers and Dealers in

Oak, Ash, Gum, Cottonwood, Wagon
Stock and Other Hardwoods

In the market for round lots of Hardwood and
Wagon Stock. Write us before selling.

Fisher Building, CHICAGO

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Co.

1649-50 MARQUETTE BUILDING

Are now offering hone drv BIRCH, ROCK ELM. BLACK ASH. etc., Wis-
consin stock. Also PI^AIN AND QUARTERED OAK, POPLAR, etc.,
from our Memphis yard. We are constant buyers.

W. A. DAVIS

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

1612 Marquette Bldg., CHICAGO
Branch Offices : PADUCAH, KY., and MEMPHIS, TENN.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Michigan Maple Flooring

Our model factory is equipped with the highest
class tools and appliances made for Flooring
production.

We produce oar lumber from the best rock Ma-
ple area in Michigan and have 20 years' supply.

Our brand "Michigan" is a guaranty of qual-
ity. Perfect mill work and excellent grades
distinguish our Flooring and our prices are
reasonable.

WARD BROS., Big Rapids, Mich.

OAK FLOORING

Kiln Dried

Bored

Polished

9\ER LUKtB

& MFC. CO.
5A RDIS
- MISS-

Hollow
Backed

and

Bundled

"Ideal" S Rock Maple Flooring

is the flooring that is manufactured expressly to supply
the demand for the best. It is made by modern ma-
chinery from carefully-selected stock and every pre-
caution is taken throughout our entire system to
make it fulfill in every particular its name— "IDEAL."

Rough or Finished Lumber— All Kinds

Send us Your Inquiries

The I. Stephenson Company

WEHS, MICHIGAN

qThe HARDWOOD RECORD

publishes a

series of bulletins, showing the annual h

ardwood re-

quirements of many thousands of wholesale consumers.

by kind, grade and thickness.

•J Indispensable to every lumber sales manager.

fl Specimen bulletin for the asking.

THE "FINEST" MAPLE FLOORING

W. D. YOUNG & CO.

BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

Producers from TREE to TRADE of the high-
est type of Michigan Forest Products. Large
stock of Maple Flooring and 15,000,000 feet
of Hardwoods — 1 to 4 inches thick — on hand.

Maple, Birch and Beech Lumber

FIRE INSURANCE

Specialists on Lumber and

Lumber Working

Plants

Lumber Underwriters

HOME OFFICE:

66 Broadway, New York

We have in stock

150,000 ft. 4-4 White Maple Cross piled with 2%-
inch dry crossers.

125,000 ft. 4-4 Log run Birch red in. No thick
cut out.

Please favor us with your orders.

Bliss & Van Auken

Saginaw. W. S. Mich.

WE ARE OFFERING

TIMBER LAND 6% BONDS

Secured by first mortgage on Southern timber
lands at less than 50 per cent of their present
market value. Issued by large, well established,
responsible lumber companies. Full particu-
lars will be mailed on request.

CL/\RK L. F»OOLE & CO.

SUCCESSORS TO

H. C. BARROLL & CO., Bankers

First National Bank Building

CHICAGO

flaMwolRecoM

Published In the Interest of Hardwood Lumber, American Hardwood Forests, Wood Veneer Industry, Hardwood Flooring,
Hardwood Interior Finish, Wood Chemicals, Saw Mill and Woodworking Machinery.

Vol. XXIII.

CHICAGO, MARCH 10. 1907.

No. 10.

Published on the 10th and 25th of each month by

THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

Henry H. Gibson, President Frank W. Tuttle. Sec-Treas.

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ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.

Wisconsin Hardwood Lumbermen's Association.

This association will hold a special spring meeting at Grand
Rapids, Wis., on Tuesday, March 19, 1907.

National Hardwood Lumber Association.

The tenth annual convention of this association will be
held on Thursday and Friday, May 23 and 24, 1907, at
Atlantic City, N. J.

General Market Conditions.

Perhaps the loading feature of the hardwood market situation is
the stupendous demand for the coarse end of all hardwood lumber.
This demand is occasioned by the immense consumption by manu
facturers of boxes and crating. There was a time when all stock
of this sort was produced from white pine, hemlock and a tev, of
the softer hardwoods, but nowadays every known hardwood inters
into their manufacture. Owing to the immense and growing produc-
tion of such variety of manufactured articles in this country there
is a constant!) increasing demand for box and crating materials.
One Chicago house is said to have purchased within the last few
works no loss than 25,000,000 feet of cull hardwood lumber in Mich-
igan and Wisconsin, for delivery during Hi iming season. For

more than a year every available foot of cull Cottonwood and gum
hns been closely picked up In the South by box manufacturers. The
stock of coarse hardwoods of all varieties is now generally sold for
this line of production. Oak for cooperage material is so scarce that
manufacturers are at a loss where to turn for their much needed

supplies.

A feature of the trade of the last fortnight is a considerable
advance in the price of maple flooring. This increase in price is
$1.50 on clear, $2 on No. 1 and $3 on factory grades. The greal

advance on common flooring is attributable to the demand that has
been made on the low grades of maple for crating purposes, which
moved the price of the lumber up to a point where increase oh the
flooring product was absolutely necessary. The new values for maple
flooring will doubtless very soon have their effect on oak flooring,
which will then be advanced in corresponding ratio.

(ink lumber is still in verj active demand and even thai slow seller
of several years past, quartered red, is in good request al verj fair
values. Good poplar, especially in wide stock, is in active call, and
prices are ranging higher than ever. In fact, all grades of I It is

w 1 arc having a run which surpasses anything in this line of late

years. The same situation is true in cottonwood. Gum demand is
strong, with advancing prices. Ash, in any commercial quantity, is
practically out of the market, and birch, elm and basswood occupy
an exceedingly strong position.

The entire hardwood jobbing fraternity of the country alleges
that it is costing a great, deal more to buy and group stocks for their
trade than it is to dispose of the lumber after it is purchased. The
bad weather which prevailed in the South, particularly the lower
Mississippi basin, for so long a t inn-, and the high water, of course,
left their impression upon the market. In the North the soft roads
halve curtailed the logging season. During the last fortnight, how-
over, better weather has prevailed in both the northern and southern

hardw I producing sections and manufacturing has been quite

generally resumed. However, dry stocks are pretty well exhausted
al all initial manufacturing points. Where there is any stock on
hand at sawmills it has been sold and is simply awaiting cars for
shipment.

As for the general hardwood market situation, it has sorely never
been stronger than tit the present time.

Two Classes of Hardwood Buyers.

Nearly all the hardwood lumber produced in the country is eventu-
ally sold to the manufacturing trade, which cuts it up in the mak-
ing of various lines of products. In making sales to this endless
line of hardwood consumers a salesman encounters two distinct,

■ hisses of buyers. One buyer invariably seeks high standards of
whatever grades he may buy; the other invariably names the maxi-
mum price1 which he thinks he can afford to pay for lumber. One

■ lass of these buyers is known as "grade buyers"; the other doss
as "price buyers." The grade buyer has familiarized himself with
grading standards and believes that he is buying to the best advan-
tage when he purchases on the basis of quality. The other man pays
little attention to grading rules or to established customs, but says
to the salesman, "I want lumber that I can cul up to produce clear
lengths for my particular line of production." If he makes interior
finish he wants ripping boards from which he can cut strips that will
make casing, stiles, rails and muntins. If he is a manufacturer of
tables he seeks lumber from which he can cut pieces of considerable
length to make up his tops. If he is a manufacturer of office desks
he wants to negotiate for the cheapest kind of lumber that will cut
with economy to the short lengths necessary to the making of his
type of furniture. The chair man demands a special quality of wood
of strength for his purpose. Another buyer is more critical of the
figure of his quarter-sawed wood than of the quality. Still another
will ask for a big flash, while the next man says. "Give me a small
figure. ' '

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HARDWOOD RECORD

Thus it is that the salesman must needs eater to a great variety of
tastes and requirements. It is no wonder then that there is very little
doing in the way of uniform inspection when lumber reaches the
ultimate consumers of hardwoods. The general run of this trade
does not seem interested in the uniform grade proposition. On the con-
trary their interest lies in securingthelowest-prieedshipmentthatwi.il
fairly meet their requirements. These "price buyers," as they are
called, have rendered it almost impossible up to this date to seeure and
maintain uniform inspection. The very system under which hard-
woods are sold leaves the gate wide open for the unscrupulous in the
trade. While one manufacturer or jobber may conscientiously make
a special grade for a consumer that will constitute good value, the
trade juggler invariably tries to "salt'' the grade to the very limit,
and thus secure the very maximum of profit out of each individual
transaction. Every manufacturer and jobber of hardwoods will tell
you that there is invariably more money to be made out of the "price
buyer'' than out of the "grade buyer.''

What tin' end of hardwood inspection systems will be is conjectural,
lint it is to be hoped that any attempt to unify thorn will eventually
result in the evolution of a system of grades that shall more nearly
cover the individual requirements of consumers. The basis of such a
system would be primarily the making of tin 'approximately clear
grade of lumber, then a sap grade, and a series of rutting grades In
both ripping and cross-cutting stock, which should provide for cutting
certain proportions of varying lengths and widths in each named
grade.

Today the term •• firsts and seconds" does net mean very much,
atid "common'' means a good deal less.

A New Lumber Paper. '

The West Virginia Saw ilill Association, over the signature of its
president, K. H. Stover, of Elkins, announces that in April next the
association will issue a trade paper "devoted to the interests of
lumbermen." It is stated that this journal will be owned and its
policy dictated by the members of the association. The excuse for
this publication is set forth in the following paragraph:

"Lumbermen in West Virginia in common with those of other
states have suffered much from many legalized and other abuses.
Realizing the power of the press and that we have not laid adequate
support from the lumber papers in general in our efforts to minimize
these wrongs, we decided that the only available means at our com
mand, by which our side of the c:ise would be properly presented to
the public, was to own and publish our own organ."

The Hakdwood Record believes that the West Virginia Saw Mill
Association is entirely wrong in its premises, is absolutely untruthful
in its statement that it has not had the support of the lumber press,
and that in foisting another lumber trade paper upon the public it
is- taking into its hands a very expensive toy.

Within the last few years West Virginia has become a very im-
portant lumber producing state. Among manufacturers and whole-
salers of that commonwealth comparatively few have ' ' realized the
, power of the press," as manifested by their non-support of the lum-
ber trade papers, for in the past the West Virginia contingent as a
whole has most signally failed in lending them its aid ami patronage.
The wrongs and abuses of West Virginia operators have always been
most ably defended by the lumber newspapers, and it is an astonishing
piece of nerve on the part of the Saw Mill Association to allege other-
wise. If this body thinks it needs a distinct organ, it has a perfect
right to establish one, and the lumber press of the country in com-
mon with lumbermen of other states — although feeling that there is
today a plethora of lumber newspapers — will wish it godspeed in the
enterprise.

Ethics of the Hardwood Trade.

In the building \\ 1 trade it has become a recognized and intelli-
gent custom on the' part of both manufacturers and wholesalers to
market their product through the medium of retail lumber yards.
Wherever building lumber is consumed to the extent of even a
million feet a year, one or more retail lumber yards are in evidence.

They represent, therefore, an advantageous and logical method of
marketing lumber used for the general run of structural purposes.
It would be a manufacturer of considerable temerity who would
undertake to supply direct to the • contractor, carpenter or house-
builder the miscellaneous requirements of lumber for anything
from a warehouse to a hencoop. Building lumber reaches its eventual
destination through this multitude of very essential retail yards.
There is no just argument against manufacturers and wholesalers
doing business in this way. It simply constitutes a common sense
method of marketing.

On the contrary, the ethics of the hardwood trade are decidedly
and distinctly different. Hardwoods, almost in their entirety, are
sold to manufacturing consuming concerns which remanufacture into
furniture, woodwork for railway cars, automobiles, chairs, refriger-
ators, interior finish and an infinity of other things. In many cases
these consumers of hardwoods buy lumber in large quantities. Often
their annual requirements are in excess of the quantity of building
lumber purchased by even the largest retail yards in the country.
They are regular buyers, year in and year out. They are people of
financial responsibility. The two trades are entirely dissimilar in
the eventual consumption of lumber.

Again, outside of commercial manufacturing centers hardwood
lumber yards do not exist save at sawmill points. It has come about
that the ethics of the trade demand that hardwoods shall be sold
dnect to wholesale consumers by manufacturers and wholesalers.
There is no just argument against, this system of sale, and no one
with the least knowledge of the radical difference between the build-
ing wood and hardwood lumber business will for a moment attempt
to controvert it or make arguments against the varying systems of
conducting the two lines.

To assist manufacturers and jobbers of hardwood lumber in
analyzing the wholesale manufacturing consuming trade of the United
States and Canada and to supply them with a list of such legiti-
mate buyers, during the last year the Hardwood Recobd has spent
a good deal of time and money in preparing a list of financially
responsible buyers of this class, which it publishes in serial bulletins
and supplies gratis to every lumber advertiser represented in its
I aues. The system contemplates the utilization of the information
supplied by means of a Simple card index system, which is possible
nf constant enlargement and correction. Similar work is now being
undertaken by the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, which pro-
poses to cover this same service to a considerable extent in book
form.

Undoubtedly through misconception of the idea, two retail building
lumber associations at recent conventions passed resolutions con-
demning the proposed plans of the manufacturers' association in
making this list, and against lumber manufacturers and jobbers sell-
ing to this trade direct. This attitude is unqualifiedly silly on their
I art. Only to a very limited extent are they handlers of hardwood
lumber, and they have comparatively little interest in the development
of this branch of the industry. It is preposterous for a retailer of
building woods in a town of perhaps 3,000 population, whose annual
sales may perhaps aggregate 2,000,000 feet, to demand that a manu-
facturer of furniture in that town, whose annual requirements in
hardwoods may perhaps be 5,000,000 feet, make his purchases through
the medium of a building woods yard.

In communities where manufacturing is conducted on an extensive
scale, as Chicago, New York, Philadelphia or St. Louis, the larger
quantity of hardwoods is sold through the medium of the local whole-
saler, who oftentimes has sawmill interests remote from these trade
centers and who assorts and supplies lumber extensively to the local
trade. While a large portion of such lumber sold to the manufac-
turing consumers of these communities reaches them in ear lots direct,
still there is another large amount of it delivered by wagons from
the wholesaler's local yards in less than car lots.

This system of carrying on the manufacture and sale of hardwoods
has become a custom that surely will not be broken up by the radi-
cals of the retail building woods trade in their attempt to cry down
the ethics of direct sale by manufacturers and jobbers to the whole-
sale consuming trade.

HARDWOOD RECORD

15

Verts Pertinent and Impertinent.

Some folks they jes keep rantin' round,

I reckon that's their way —
A liudin' fault with everything,

A "knocker" in life's fray :
They'd like to change sun, moon ami stars,

There's notliin' right, yon see;
This world, they say. is all-fired bad.

But It — looks — good — to me !
* * *
The weather, too. they give a roast;

Too hot, too cold, too dry,
The rain's too wet, there's too much dust.

This World Looics Good to Me.

By T. .) . Nichuli..

The mud is ankle Midi ;
In fait, there's nothin' 'neath the skies

That's absolutely free
Prom hm and sneers in this old world :

But it — looks — good — to me :

The simple life fer me, some cry,

While others say instead.
Jes let us go the limit now —

We'll be a long time dead.
A six months' trial is what some want

1 if matrimonial g lee,
Some think the world's :i great 1

lint it — looks— good to me!
* * *
now oft we get the same old dope

\l our world of sorrow ;

Of care ami woe where'er «. go,

And troubles that we borrow:
But now I want to say right here

In all sincerity —
'Ibis world's the best I've ever seen

An' looks — dura — good — to me!

Necessary.
For t )i 0 traveler
the best guide book
is a cheek book.

FOLLOWING EMINENT EXAMPLE.

if.

If there won' no
temptations t 0 b e
naughty there would
be no virtue in being
nice.

Morality a la Mode.
M 0 il e r n moral ity
consists in accepting
the standards of one 's
age.

Companion Traits.
A It a r d character
always is a weak one.

To Others.

The self-sat isfio. I
seldom a r e sat tsfac-
tory.

Kind of Them.
Polks that take life
as a .lose always want
to prescribe for the
rest of the world.

Just a Little.
There is some dan-
ger of mistaking a
resolution for a re-
form..

Never.
\'o\ or lend yourself
to the borrowing of
trouble.

Best Approval.
To It a v e the ap-
proval of one's con-
science is truly worth
while.

A Toast.

May the best you Forestry Pafly : "Don't you know that It's a crime to slaughter trees like those?"

wish for be the Bucolic Party : "I'm Iralnlng In pretty good company, If It Is. Didn't Washington chop

down a cherry tree; didn't Lincoln split rails, and didn't Teddv have to cut down quite
worst you get. a sizable tree to get his big sHck7>.

Procrastination.
Many people live a

life nf o.illlo- t,, ,]„

ami die with nothing
done.

Already Lost.
"He who thinks be
can 't win is quite
sure to be right about
it. for ho has already
lost."

Do It Today.

Today is the time
to do tilings; tomor-
row is the t into t0 ill)

nothing.

Truly Wise.

Wise is t h e 111 a 11
w ho knows just what
to say -and when not
i" say it.

A Compliment.
Just praise only
discharges a debt, but
a compliment conveys

a present.

Its Highest Value.
The chief good of
money is the being

tree from t lie need of
Hi in king of it.

Worth the Effort.

A man may lie born
with ability, but he
has to hustle tor ex-
perience.

The Difference.

A II 111 e II m a y 1, e

born equal, bul thej

ilon 't all .lie I h a t

way.

Gossip.

Time will tell — but
lie- gossips usually
tell first.

Here's to laughter, the sunshine of the
soul, the happiness of the heart, the leaven
of youth, the privilege of purity, the echo

of ini nee, the treasure of the humble,

the wealth of the poor, the head of the cup
of pleasure; it dispels dejection, banishes

Toast to Laughter.

/') n)>i Life.

blues ami mangles melancholy; for it 's the

foe of woe, the destroyer of depression, the
em in;, of grief; it is what kings envy tin-
peasants, plutocrats envy the poor, I In-
guilty envy the innocent; it's the sheen on
Hie silver of smiles, the ripple on tin

water's delight, the glint on the gold of
gladness; without it wit. would wither, dim-
ples would disappear and smiles would
shrivel, for it's the glow of a clean con-
science, the voice of a pure soul, the birth
cry of mirth, the sunn song of sadness.

i6

HARDWOOD RECORD

AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

Bur Oak.
Quercus macrocarpa Miehx.
This tree is found from New Brunswick
and Nova Scotia westward through the St.
Lawrence river vallej in Ontario, and along
Lake Winnipeg in southwestern Manitoba;
in the Penobscot river region of Main.' and
along tin- shores of Lake Champlain in Ver-
mont; in certain sections of Massachusetts
and Pennsylvania ; westward to
Montana, western Nebraska, central
Kansas; through Texas, Indian Ter-
ritory and central Teuness. e

It is known as bur oak in Ver-
mont, New York, Pennsylvania, Del-
aware, West Virginia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana. Texas, Ar-
kansas, .Missouri, Ohio, Illinois,
Kentucky, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota,
North Dakota and South Dakota;
it is called mossycup oak in Massa-
chusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Ar-
kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas and Ontario: incorrect!} as
overcup oak in Rhode Island, Dela-
ware, Pennsylvania, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Illinois and Minnesota;
as blue oak in Ontario; as scrub
oak in Nebraska and .Minnesota;
overcup white oak in Vermont ; and
mossycup whit!' oak in Minnesota

The leaves of bur oak are from
six to fifteen inches long, simple
and. alternate; the petioles are
thick with flattened and enlarged
bases; the leaves are wedge-shaped
at the base, and have from five to
seven long, irregular lobes, the ter-
minal one very large aud broad.
They are dark green in color, and
are smooth and shiny above, silvery
white and pubescent below.

Trie staminate flowers grow in
slender yellow catkins; the pistil-
late in sessile catkins, with hairy red
scales and brilliant stigmas. Their
fruit is an acorn from half an
inch to two inches long, the cup
covered with rough pointed scales,
those at the top growing long and
forming a mossy fringe along the
edge of the cup, a distinguishing
mark of this species. The nut is
oval and large, although nearly cov-
ered by the cup. The acorns are
usually solitary and variable in
shape and size.

The bark of bur oak is brownish-graj
and very deeply furrowed; it scales off
with age, and the dark brown branches be-
come roughened, with, thick, corky winged
ridges, while the younger twigs are smooth,
stout and hairy.

Under favorable conditions the bur oak
reaches a height of 160 feet or more, al-

FORTY-EIGHTH PAPER

though as a rule it grows to a height of
only about 80 feet. When unhampered and
in favorable soil, it develops a broad, round
head, growing clear of limbs for perhaps
70 feet.

The branches spread out boldly, giving
the tree a rugged appearance; about it
there is the same semblance of strength and
vitality which characterizes many members

beauty and size, in the .Mississippi basin,
although in the rich valley of the Ohio speci-
mens nearly 200 feet in height may some-
times be found in virgin forests. The sturdi-
ness of this tree, its rapid growth in suit-
able soil, and its singularly beautiful ap-
pearance in summer, due to its size and the
continual shading of its abundant foliage
from green to silver, should commend it to
landscape gardeners and to planters.
The bur oak presents a semblance
of maturity when very young and
blossoms and fruits early. A more
beautiful tree ran scarcely be found
for cultivation, when given sufficient
spare to follow its natural tendency
toward expansion.

As timber, bur oak is rivalled by
few North American trees. Its

u ] is occasionally confused with

that of Quercus alba or white oak,
but is considered superior to it in
-i length. It is very close-grained,
heavy, hard, strong, tough and dura-
ble w hen m contact w ith the soil. The
ueartwood is a rich, dark brown;
the sapwood much lighter in color;
the medullary rays are' broad and
conspicuous. A cubic foot of sea-
soned wood weighs forty-six pounds.
The timber of bur oak is used for
the same purposes as is that of the
white oak — ship-building, construc-
tion work, cooperage, railway ties,
i a bi net-making, etc.. and takes a
very excellent polish.

The large half-tone on this
page, illustrating forest growth of
bur oak, is from a photograph
furnished by William II. Freeman,
Indianapolis, secretary of the In-
diana State Board of Forestry.

TYPICAL FOREST GROWTH BTJR OAK, INDIANA.

of the oak family. It is one of the largest
types of the genus Quercus, and is more
widely distributed than any other.

Bur oak has a wonderful power of adapta-
tion to varied climates and soils, as evi-
denced by the fact that it is found as far
north as Nova Scotia, and in Texas on the
south. Bur oak is most abundant and
reaches its maximum development, both in

Lumber for Crating.

In reviewing the general uses of
lumber, it is common to consider of
greatest importance its consump-
tion in the construction of bridges,
fences, houses, large public build-
ings, and other objects conspicuous
from their size. However, a rela-
tively small percentage of the tim-
ber used is devoted to such pur-
poses. More lumber is used in
making boxes and packing cases
of various kinds than in the numer-
ous structures above mentioned,
and much is wasted. As a rule boxes
and crates are used but once, and are de-
stroyed'on arrival at their final destination
— perhaps within a few davrs after their con-
struction. The same thing applies to barrel
staves and many other forms of wood, and
this destruction doubtless aggregates many
million feet a month. On the contrary, lum-
ber which goes into large buildings, bridges,
and even fences, often endures for centuries.

JOHN M. HASTINGS

PITTSBURG, PA.

SUPPLEMENT TO

HARDWOOD RECORD

MARCH 10, 1907

ILLUSTRATING
BUILDERS OF LUMBER HISTORY

HARDWOOD RECORD

17

Builders of Lumber History.

NUMBER XL.
of 111

John M. Hastings.
S( 1 portrait supph mi nt.
John M. Hastings of Pittsburg, the newlj
elei ted president of the National Wholesale
Lumber Dealers' Association, was born Aug.
16, 1859, in Allegheny, Pa. His father,
James Hastings, was a native of Belfast, Ire-
land, and his mother was Margaret McBride
of Glasgow, Scotland. They ■•hum to this
country when young and Bettled in Allegheny
where the famirj home iu still located.

John M. Hastings received his early educa-
tional training in the public schools of Alle-
gheny,and on completing theircourse entered
the Iron City College at Pittsburg, where he
spent one term. At the age of fifteen, how-
ever, he entered the employ "l' the William
Dilworth Sawmill Company, and whs given
charge nt' its timber along the Allegheny
river. He remained with this company one
year, then took a position with DuBois &
Fuller. His aptitude and thoroughness en-
abled him to master all the details of the
business ipiekh ami intelligently, ami at the
age nt' nineteen lie bought out the interest
of Mr. DuRnis. The lumber yard was then

operated under the nai if Sidney Fuller,

but after five years this title was changed in
Cowan & Hastings, ami a few years later
.Mr. Hastings bough! out Mr. Cowan's inter-
est. His next step was to dispose of the
entire business to -tart nut for himself in
the wholesale lumber trade in Pittsburg under
the name .1. M. Hastings. For twelve years
this enterprise was maintained with great suc-
cess, ami in 1901, having found the affairs
ami responsibilities of his position as head
of the concern too arduous, Mr. Hastings
1,11 ue.l the .1. M. Hastings Lumber Company,
of which he is president

Tin- .1. M. Hastings Lumber Company is
one of the foremost institutions in Pitts-
burg ami is a leading manufacturer ami job-
ber of white pine, hemlock, yellow pine ami
hardwoods. The house has a considerable
acreage of hardwoods in West Virginia and
operates a sawmill in that state. It has an
extensive wholesale lumber yard at Sandusky,
(1., where it groups hemlock ami pine from
northern sections and distributes by ears.

Aside from this main interest Mr. Hast-
ings is also president of the Commercial
Sash & Door Company, the Davison Lumber
Company, Ltd., ami the Pittsburg-Honduras
Company; a director of the McClure Timber
Company, the Valley Watei Company, the
Mnrelaml Trust Company, the Youngstown
Street Railway Company, the Bellaire Bridge
Company, and the Pittsburg Plate Glass
Company.

In 1903 Mr. Hastings, in company with
other Pittsburg capitalists, purchased the
property of E. I'. Davison ic Sims, ltd., of
Nova Scotia, for a consideration of $1,-
000,000. This is one of the largest lumber
and timber transactions on record, and it
brought Air. Hastings into prominence as one

foremosl timber owners and lumber
operators of < anada, as well as of the United

States.

The greaf Davison lumber business has a
history which extends back more than sixtv

LEAF AND ACORN' OF BUR OAK.

»

Mais. Early in tin- forties the late Edward
D. Davison founded it. building in 1 845 and
ls.'iii the first steam sawmills erected in Nova
Scotia. Hi- : 1 i hi and aiiibitinn were tn con-

solidate ami secure a m poly nt' all the

lumber interests in the southern section ol
that province, and with this object contin-
ually before him. he worked steadily tn de
v. lop it. Il.iw well be succeeded was shown

by the fact that numerous lumbermen, -

of whom were Americans, commenced busi-
ness in 1 lie Bame reg but found it un-
profitable, so that the I >ai tson interests kept
mi accumulating properties until thej con
trolled about 200,000 acres of tine timbei
land. They maintained headquarters at
Bridgewater mi La Have river and sawmills
at Alpena, Bridgewater, Mill Village and
Greenfield. All were run by water power,
and two Of them had a capacity of 250,000
feet of lumber a day when Mr. Hastings took
possession. He immediately reorganized the
Davison interests into a compact, harmonious
and up-to-date proposition.

Contrary to what would naturally be ex-
pi 11 ted of a man who has such wide and im-
portant commercial interests to oversee, Mr.
Hastings nevertheless finds time to devote
considerable attention to municipal affairs
and to soeial life. He is generally known
as a Republican, although in local politics
he N broad-minded enough to vote for the
candidate he considers the right man fur the
office. He is a prominent member of the
Presbyterian Church, and of the Duquesne,
Pnion and Mm gahehi clubs of Pittsburg.

Mr. Hastings was married tn Miss Katli-
erine Brown in 1886; she lived but a few
years. In 1895 he married Miss Mary (lilies-
pie, a sister of D. L. Gillespie. They have
three daughters and live in a handsome home
in North Highland avenue, one of the finest
residence districts of 1'ittsburg.

Steel Ties Unsatisfactory.

in special interest to the hardwood lumber
world ami in particular to that part nt' the
trade which is engaged in the manufacture and
sale nt wooden ties, posts, etc., for railroad
work is the report of the special committee
appointed by the Pennsylvania railroad tn deter
mine the cause of 1 he accident to the eighteen-
I11.111 train at Mineral Point, Pa., mi February

Jl' last. 'I'll.- committee i-nnsisled nt' Herbert M

Carson, assistant tn the general manager; A. C.
Shand. chief engineer of the railroad, and 1.. It.
Zollinger, engineer of maintenance nt way. The
track, He- condition of the road bed and the
various circumstances surrounding the derail-
ment of the train form pari of the report, a
section of which, pertinent 10 the subject of

lies, is as follows :

■AVe made a careful inspection of the track
of steel tie construction ahead of the portion
damaged by the wreck, and therefore not affected
thereby, a distance of about half a mile and

found ii in first-class condition; all tl tslde

clips being tight against the base of the rail,
and tin- bolts "ii the inside, with lew excep
tions. being tight, holding the clips in position;
the line ami surface being as nearly perfect as
ii was possible to get track, ami the whole mass

of s I crossties frozen tight to the ballast and

not ihe slightest Indication of shifting in any
direction whatever, nor was there the slightest
Indication of movement on the top of the steel
crossties by am of the rails for the entire
distance, 11 the accident had occurred on tie-

a of ihe track laid with w len crossties

it is our judgment that less Injury would have
been done to the track structure, for after the
one I'l'i 0) wl Is of the tender of the locomo-
tive were derailed, the bolts of tl utsldi a

the high tail were snapped off throughout the
entire distance the tender was derailed, the rail
oU this sine having been slimed out and off
ml .,: 1 be . rossties.

"We are unable to definitely account I'm- the
cause of the accident, but ihe best reason tor ii
that we can advance is that at the point where
the derailment occurred some foreign material
became wedged between the fiange of ihe left

rear tender truck wheel and the insid ■ low

rail, which, on account of the rigidity of the
Steel lies and fastenings, and on account of the
low temperature, the temperature being twelve
degrees below zero, produced sufficient lateral
force to sear the holts on the outside rail. It
is possible thai this foreign substance was the
brake shoe or a pari thereof, which, as before
stated, has not been found. We tire informed
that the usual inspection was made of the loco
motive before leaving the engine house, and the

gauge of the wheels was 1 silted ill oil]' pros

ence after the accident and found to I"' correct
"We are of Ihe opinion, on account of the lack
of positive evidence as lo the cause of lids
derailment, and on account of the fact that the
damage subsequent to the derailment was more
serious than would have been the case with
wooden tie-, that the remaining steel ties should
l.i- removed."

li has been generally ki>own in tie- trade for
some time that ihe officials of tin- Pennsylvania
::i Iroad did not look n Ith favor on the substitu-
tion of steel lies ioi- w Lai ones, but in ordei

to settle the question thej determined to Ii
mile stretch of track between Johnstown and
Pittsburg w ith metal. The accident has re
in ihe issuance of an order from the office of
W. w. Aiieiiiniv. general manager of the road,

that all such ties be supplanted with vv len

o probablj given tin- deathblow
,,, an ''mil to replace the pi

ties willi -l' el or iron.

Tin- Pennsyh ania lin ' three and

four million tie v per cent

of ihi. number being utilized east of Pittsburg.
ii,,. can buy them at about eighty-five cenl

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delivered at the docks at Philadelphia, but after
they have been inspected, worked, shipped to
destination and laid they probably cost the rail-
road a dollar or a dollar and a half. Under
difficult conditions the ties perhaps represent an
expenditure of two dollars apiece. In order to
guard against a future failure of supply the
Pennsylvania railroad has instituted a forestry
department for the purpose of securing suitable

ties. White oak is used almost exclusively, being
deemed the strongest and most lasting material.
The final exclusion of the steel tie as unfit
and unsuitable for the best roadbeds has been
expected by the various eastern firms engaged
in supplying ties to railroads, and it is gener-
ally conceded that the accident has eliminated
the metal construction as a formidable com-
petitor of wood.

Parquetry Flooring.

The first record of parquetry flooring be-
ing introduced into this country that was
at all remarkable for quality was that made
under the supervision of Thomas Jefferson,
the Virginian patriot. It is said that Jef-
ferson brought the architect from France
and helped to draw up the plans for the
decorations. Both contemporaneously with
him and immediately after his time more
or less elaborate floors were laid in the

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colonies, but it was not until comparative-
ly recent years that they were laid in any
profusion in the better houses in this coun-
try.

When the use of this flooring first be-
came general there was a. prevalence of
garish designs, few of which possessed high
artistic merit. As a better conception of
(he uses to which this style of floor could
I"1 put became general good taste was
shown in its laying, and today when the
work is done under competent design, the
flooring is usually of a plain, continuous
color throughout. The floors are, moreover,
not nailed down, but are tongued and
grooved and the strips laid closely together.

In special rooms, such as music rooms
arid apartments set aside for specific pur-
poses, flowery designs are still in vogue,
especially when they match the decoration
of the salon or room. Considerable talent
is devoted to the elucidation of the scheme
of decoration as it applies to the floor and
the most competent designers, authorities
in respective branches of art, are employed
to draw the plans of the floors so that they
will be in harmony with the furnishings.
For instance, one of the foremost masters
of .Louis XV style was charged with the
design of a parquetry floor to be laid in
one of the costliest New York homes and
the expense involved in this alone was no
small item.

The manufacturer of fine parquetry floor-
ing probably uses a larger variety of good
hardwoods and fancy woods than other
woodworkers. Among the stock figure rose-
w K ebony, mahogany, tulip, black wal-
nut, satinwood, prima vera, and others.

Great care is exercised in preparing the
stock. It is absolutely essential that it
should be thoroughly dried, and what is
considered bone-dry in some lines of wood-
working must be put through the kiln pro-
cess before it is suitable for parquetry floor
work. Even with the extreme care used
the wood swells and shrinks, and old floors
thai have been laid for twenty years have
been taken up and been found to swell on
exposure to the atmosphere.

In order to secure stock that will give
the best results the manufacturer demands
boards which have been air dried for eigh-
teen months or longer and then subjects
to a kiln drying process for several
• weeks. At the end of this time they are
taken to the cutting department of the
shop and kept in a warming room until
needed.

•The floor is built in strips, usually three
ply, and these strips are from twelve to
eighteen inches wide and twelve feet long.
The coring is made of various woods, in the
better class of work much ash is used, al-
though sometimes cheap pine is substituted,
as is done in the more common kinds of
laminated work. The coring is planed down
to aboul five-eighths of an inch in thick-
ness, and when the ornate part of the floor
is superimposed the whole thickness meas-
ures commonly thirteen-sixteenths of an
inch, although the body of the work varies
under different plans. The face on the cor-
ing is built up with extreme care, each
section fitting snugly into the other pieces
thai go to make up the part and being
glued together, and to the bottom, between
the long strips that form the outside rails.

In making the walls of Troy, other Gre-
cian figures, or any stock design whatever,
the small pieces forming the face of the

floor are cut to size and inserted in the cus-
tomary manner. In the delicate scroll work
or the artistic figures seen in some of the
more ambitious designs of parquetry the
cutting is done, of course, after the work
is made up and the vari-colored woods de-
sired for the pattern are inserted. So per-
fect is this work that in many cases it is
impossible to find where the knife has cut.

In making oak floors, where it is desired
to have a dark and light effect, strips of
oak are fumed in a kiln to the desired dark
shade. The tint is permanent and when the
process is correctly applied the fiber of the
wood is not injured. It must, however, be
done when the wood is green, and after the
color has been obtained the strips must be
dried for three weeks or more.

Although floors should be laid with a
tongue and groove and without nailing this

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latter process is often adopted, especially
in thin work. When the floor is thus nailed
any splits or apertures are filled up with a
composition the color of the wood, and the
whole is then finished.

American manufacturers not only supply
a heavy home demand but many of them,
especially in the east, do - a considerable
trade in foreign countries, notably in South
America. The floors are built to specifica-
tions furnished by New York jobbing houses
and shipped through them to destination.
The general high quality of the American
product and the good workmanship dis-
played lias succeeded in holding the market
against foreign competition.

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Annual National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Ass'n.

The fifteenth annual meeting . ■ r' the N.i
tional Wholesale Lumber Dealers' \ssocia-
tion was called to order at 11 a. m. on
Wednesday, March 6, in bhe New Willard
Hotel, Washington, D. C. President Dill
occupied the chair, and E. P. Perry fulfilled
his duties as secretary. A large number of
members was in attendance. The annual

LEWIS HILL OF BALTIMORE, RETIRING
PRESIDENT.

1 ting of this organization is an event of

no inconsiderable importance to the lumber
world, representing as it does such extensive
and diversified interests. It has accomplished
\iist good for the industry, and invariably
stands for progression, strength and commer-
cial integrity in the trade.

After disposing of minor preliminaries
President Dill delivered his annual address,
as follows:

Address of President.

The passing of another year, the fifteenth in
the life of the association, has brought us again
to the nation's capital for the purpose of con
ference and action upon ihe many matters which
concern the great industry which we represent,
ami at the same time has imposed upon your
officers the duty of reporting their business pro-
ce dings for that period.

With the continuing prosperity of the country
and the share in this prosperity which the lum-
ber trade is appropriating; with government
ownership of public service corporations and the
Head of public sentiment and of law-making in
relation to it ; with ship subsidies and like Oues-
1 ions of commanding importance, this report does
not deal, because we should approach all of
these public questions first as citizens of this
great nation before we do so as lumbermen, and
1 shall not assume to act as Instructor. I know
my limitations but it would take too long to tell
you about them.

There are, however, many other ami equally
important questions which concern the individual
and the country and the right adjustment of
which will have much to do with the present
and future prosperity of all. Chief among these
are the issues involved in railroad transporta-
tion of both freight and passengers, forestry, for-
est reservations and public lands. No set of
men, however representative of section or how
ever well assorted for individual fitness, could be
assembled in convention wdio would be better
informed or who would have been more in touch
with these vital matters during the past decade,
and consequently better fitted from personal ex-
perience and observation, than the men here
today to rightfully pronounce judgment on these
questions and take their places as leaders in the

settlement of them. By you it must be accepted
as a duty as well as a privilege to help solve
these problems in which you have a vital inter-
est because you are lumbermen four trustees
have given these particular matters their besl
and most tactful handling during the past year,
but now with three hundred men from thirty
stales present, together with a score of men
foremost in the commercial affairs of our sister
countrj Canada -to lend their aid. based on
experience with government usages different from
those on our side of the line, we should be able
to pronounce on these questions in such fashion
as to make our influence tell and bring us fol-
lowers from the other branches of commerce and
irad'' who would be willing to go where we go.
as long as our leadership is safe and sane. We
should also 1 tins pronounce in order that those
to whom the affairs of the association are com-
mitted our officers who will carry forward the
work of the association itself -may have no
reason to doubt our wishes and judgment in

regard to them. This is important, as I"

we will have met together agaiu,' twelve months
hence, a crisis may come, even a testing time
to flie government itself.

Under the by-laws and in the wisdom of the
regulations provided for executing the plans
evolved on these occasions by the members, and
during the year by the trustees, it remains in
large "measure the work of the various standing
committees to investigate and direct the several
agencies and departments. These committees
will advise you with all necessary detail regard-
ing their work ami you are urged to give
careful attention to the reading of the reports
and. following the presentation of each, to ask
any information or offer any criticism or sug-
gestion that the result of the discussion and
ci nsideration of these principal features may
be a broader view and better understanding of
how to proceed in the future.

The car stak ptipment complaint is still

pending. The initiative in this contention was
taken by our association and it has been eon

spieuous in ihe prosecution of it. because s e

of the officers and a number of the members
were chosen by the allied associations to assist
in the work. A half-dozen or more conferences
have been held with a view of hastening an
adjustment, and the Interstate Commerce 1 '0111
mission has given two hearings previous to the
.lie now -oiim en. and the end is not yet. The

justness 01 ■ claim and the equity of the

lumberman in it was never so apparent as it is

FREDERK K

W. COLE "I' NEW
TRE VSTJRER.

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at this time and it is confidently expected that
our cause will prevail.

The delay in transportation of loaded .al-
and Ihe Inadequate supply of empties for
loading, resulting as it has in a demand very
generally supported by' shippers, and by lum-
bermen in particular, for reciprocal demurrage,
is worthy of your most careful consideration.
and upon investigation if further inquiry is
needed will no doubt be found deserving of
your support and vigorous action. The principle
involved in the demand is one that may be

endorsed by all of us, and leaves open only the
consideration of the manner "f proceeding to
enforce it.

We plead not guilty to the charge of the
senator from South Dakota that we are a
lumber trust ami assume that we will not be
convicted without a hearing. If the distin-
guished legislator is basing his charge that there
is a lumber trust on I lie same authority and
figures which permit him to make his statement
concerning the cost of stumpage and manufac-
ture and of selling prices, and then by the
simple rules of addition and substraction fix
our margin at fi 1 thirty to one hundred dol-
lars tier thousand feet, then indeed it is not to

E. I'. PERRY, iif NEW STORK, SECRETARY.

he wondered at that he thundered at us from
his place in the Senate. For this association
we demur to the indictment, at the same time
wishing it were half true or true to half the
amount of the margins he charges against us.

The general business of the association is
steadily- increasing and during the past year
lias been large. Many of the matters brought
to the attention of the trustees and officers
have been complicated and some of them dif
ficult of adjustment, but you may be assured
that in even instance careful and conscientious
study has been made of them and it has been
their aim to render justice to all — to accord to
every member of the association his full rights
and 'to treat each section fairly, if section were
involved.

The present situation and prospects of the
association are in every particular gratifying.
the membership which was increased in the
previous year by net fifty-two, making it the
then highest number recorded, has been held
with a slight net gain over that figure, closing
Hi- year with a roll of 368.

'The charges or dues were increased at the
last annual meeting but not without some mis
givings at the time as to the effect this action
would have upon numbers in membership, but
not a single member has been lost nor a protest
recorded against the increase. From this fact
alone it is fair to assume that the association,
with its management and results, is satisfying
the members and bringing such benefits as to
merit their loyal support. The increase in the
revenue from this source has permitted a policy
of aggressive ami prompt action to be adopted,
and by care in expenditures, permits a showing
for the first time in several years of a credit
balance of $1,000, after all bills are paid, and
this as against a deficit of between $3,000 and
S|. oho reported a year ago.

'trade relations, or relations between the
several divisions of the trade, in so far as we
are in position to know them are profitable
and mutually satisfactory. Our policy con-
fines to be that of maintaining ihe close rela-
lions and friendships which have been estab-
lished between the several retail dealers' asso
ciations and our own. We must remember
always that we are wholesalers, pledged to trade
in fixed channels and under accepted ethics "i
these later limes. In pursuing this policy, which
involves protection and reciprocity, we find the
retailer willing in equal degree to return full
measure for what be received, and barring a
sin of omission and. perhaps an occasional sin
of commission on the part of either one or both

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HARDWOOD RECORD

of us. there are more and better reasons today
for believing that by a concession here and a
bit of leniency in judging some separate sus-
picious transaction there, we can move together
to the common ground of accord and apprecia-
tive understanding

We feel honored in having received from all
our sister associations acceptance "t our invita-
tion to send representatives to join with us in
this convention to consider what action had
best be taken, whether mutual or otherwise, to
cement the existing relations and lessen the
grievances which have in the past been caused
in great part by wrong customs anil lack ni
understanding of' each other. We welcome these
delegates and tender them all the privileges of
membership in a joint effort to bring about such
result, and hope the retailers, the press repre-
sentatives and all who have accepted our invita-
tion to meet with us will make themselves as
comfortable as they would be at home, and of
-course dine with us tomorrow eveuiug.

The bureau of information, with the legal
and claim collecting branches, maintains its
lead in the fixed departmental work. it has
demonstrated, beyond all question, its ability to
serve with profit the members of the bureau
and all of the membership as well who use the
splendid advantages offered to them in legal aid
and the collection of claims. It is needless to
say to you that this department is experienced
and well equipped, having at hand a fund of
information which makes it at once the most
reliable and skillful of agencies serving lumber-
men anywhere in the conduct of these important
features of the business of the individual. These
facts are attested to by voluntary statements of
members which reach the association almost
daily.

The department established by the committee
on railroads and transportation, which has been

E. V. BABCOCK OF PITTSBURG, TRUSTEE.

in ' operation through an experimental stage
only, gives promise of deserving on its merits to
become a fixture. This traffic department is, in
a way, giving the same class of service, with
its information on transportation questions and
in the collection of freight claims, adjusting
weights, keeping track of routing changes and
charges, etc., that the bureau of information is
supplying in its larger field. It is today an
important feature of the work and deserves a
'.rial at least, and we believe that if it had the
upport of every member it would prove at once
its usefulness because of the pronouueed and
plain results obtained.

One other reference before closing — the uncer-
tainty of lite was never more strikingly pointed
out than in the untimely death of Pendennis
White, lie had so recently stepped from leader-
ship and out of the presidency of the associa-
tion that it seems he can not be gone. A year
ago in this room he was zealously aiding in
every movement looking to the advancement of
the association and its prestige.

Within but little more time than a year death
has. claimed two of the men who had both so
ahly and loyally served us in high places, Our
...emorial last year was to the lamented Charles
M. Betts, who had reached his three score years
and ten ; today it shall be to Pendennis White.
taken in' the flower ami prime of life. A beau-
tiful thought and an admonition as well comes
to us in this connection in the lines of the poet :

"And our hearts, though stout and brave,

Still like muffled drums are beating
Funeral marches to the grave."

Permit me to thank the officers, committee-
men and all of the members of this association
for their willing assistance to me upon every
occasion and to acknowledge the tireless and
effective service rendered to me and to the
association by the secretary.

I shall always esteem the honor of having

been your president or t I In- greatest that can

c to me, and Cor you all my wish is health,

happiness and increasing prosperity.

The chair then called for tin- secretary 'a
report and E. I'. Perrj responded as follows:

Secretary's Report.

The annual task of trying to give in a report

any lair idea of the year's work and toe

phshments of au association whose interests are
s,, diversified as ours is probably more than
should he expected, and I sometimes feel that
such reports are not only detrimental but often
convej a \er\ false impression as to the exact
situation. lit such a brief report as I am
expected to make one can treat of the work only
in a general way.

There are but a few members here today who
were active in the association ten years ago.
and fewer still who have followed the work of
the organization through the various phases.
Ten years ago we had 201 members ; today,
368. * Then our members were located in 11
stales; today we have members in 21) states and
3 provinces in Canada and extending from coast
to coast. During the past year we have had 30
new applications for membership, of which :;.:
were acted upon favorably, and there have been
31 withdrawals, leaving a net gain for the year
"I J. We have double the number of committees
over ten years ago, and there are three times
as many members working on these standing
committees.

You will recall that at the last annual meet-
ing there was considerable discussion over in-
creasing the annual dues, and it was predicted
that a considerable loss of membership would
result. With that in mind, and also the prob-
able open field of the Pacific coast, a special
canvass was planned in the early spring toward
increasing the membership. 'The San Francisco
disaster came, coupled with an annoying car
shortage on the coast, and delay was advised,
consequently no organized effort was made until
the trustees' meeting in January. 1*J07, at which
time a small net loss of members was reported.
Since then special effort has been made, with
the result that today we show a slight gain
over hist year.

This is lire eminently au age of centraliza-
tion; an age of intense concentration of energy,
power and facilities in all lines of endeavor.
The slogan of our members seems to be "the

maximum results at the minimum cost of ti

or effort consistent with efficiency." Expansion
scents to be the order of the day. Our associa-
tion is no exception to this rule, and I doubt
very much whether any other organization of
tiny character has during the last decade so
broadened its scope, or been forced to meet
such a wide range of interests, S<> quietly and
\,i so forcibly have these evolutions been at
work in extending our operations, that even we
in charge are astounded at the advance wheu
we calmly consider the situation.

Edmund Burke says. "When had men combine

g 1 men must associate." Only a lew years

ago association work was unrecognized : today
nearly every lumberman is a member of some
association, and many are members of several,
'itir association, in order to keep pace with
business progress, has constantly added special
' facilities for handling its varied and growing
business, and thus we have many departments :
First, Executive and General Correspondence ;
second, the Bureau of Information or Credit
Department ; third, the Legal or Collection
Department : fourth, Arbitration; fifth. Railroad
and Transportation ; sixth. Fire and Marine
Insurance; seventh. Forestry: eighth. Terms of
Stile; ninth. Legislation; tenth. Trade Rela-
tions; eleventh. .National Inspection Rules: and
so on, and each of these in turn has its im-
portant function : and each from a national
standpoint has a relative value which is not at
all comprehended by the average member, for
it seems to be the rule that the individual
member is rarely at one time interested in more
than two or three phases of general association
work.

An old saw much used is that "The world
is small." but it is so old that it becomes
trite aud applies with great force to the lumber
situation. Shipping points are no longer close
to consuming centers when measured in miles,
but when considered by general conditions,
"The world is small, and all the world is akin."
Personal acquaintance witli the man you sell is
no longer esseutial. What you want to know-
is his general reputation, what others think
of him and how he has treated them, and what
his needs are. You are no longer willing to sell
your lumber to everyone who is willing to pay
. hut the legitimate retailer, although a
thousand miles away, can buy of you if he is

ii. K. ; therefore, our bureau of information
or credit department.

You no longer alone try to cope with the
railroads, but you ask your competitor to help
you to get your rights, while at the same time
you ask for no special favors over other ship-
pers. Legislation is no longer ignored and
allowed |>, go unnoticed, but you co-operate with
fellow members and other organizations to get
the best and fairest legislation possible and the
most effective for the good of all.

You have disputes with your customers, who
sometimes are your competitors, and instead of
trying to adjust your differences by long-drawn
out law suits, you use your association's good
offices to adjust them and in case of failure,
then you ask for arbitration.

You fight fire insurance companies with
organizations conducted in your interests aud
controlled by men of your selection. And so
on down the full list of the association depart-
ments.

To report what our association has done in
the past year is but to give" in detail the work
of the above departments, all of which will be
referred to in the reports of the various cm
mittees who have had these matters in charge,
and as intimated at the start, even these reports
will not fully portray the actual accomplish-
ments. Many committeemen refrain from taking
the credit due them for work performed, as
much of their work is that of negotiation and
supervision, and visible results tire not always
a true portrayal of the actual work done, but
1 bespeak a careful consideration of all com-
mittee reports.

The association again this year has been
actively engaged in the prosecution of the car
stake equipment complaint, which undertaking
has required considerable attention, and is

.\ II WALCOTT OF PROVIDENCE, TRUSTEE.

acknowledged t<> he cue of the most important
matters we have before us.

Next in importance possibly is the work done
under the plans laid down last year by the
executive committee and the trade relations
committee along trade relations lines. Little
of this work has come directly under the notice
of that committee, but the action taken at
Ottawa has enabled us to work in greater
harmony with the retail associations, and a
large number of classifications of trade have
been made, apparently to the satisfaction of all
concerned. Probably the most noticeable change
has been our work in conjunction with the
New Jersey Lumbermen's Protective Association.
We have had the hearty co-operation of our

members in that held, ami it lias been a - <,

of great satisfaction to note the hearty response
of our members in matters taken up with them :
in fact, our effort to adjust certain unsatisfac-
tory conditions has extended to wholesalers not
members.

Lest our president should not refer to it. I
am sure you will be pleased to learn that the
New Jersey Lumbermen's Protective Association,
appreciating his interest in trade relations, the
existing relations between them and the National
association, last week elected him to honorary
membership in their association, conferring the
same honor upon your secretary. I am sure
this will be appreciated by all. because we have-
not always been able to agree with that associa-
tion in trade relation matters, hut a new light
seems to have dawned upon the situation, and
I know we will all profit by it.

We maintain most cordial relations with all

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21

the individual associations comprising the Easl
ern Retail Lumber Dealers1 Association, the

Retail 1. umber healers' \ss<n-inti<>n of the State
of New York, and all the western retail associa-
tions, and there seems to be prevalent among'
us such a spirit of harmony that trade relation
topics the past year have been mosl successfully
and satisfactorily disposed of.

I believe the great mass of business men
would rather do business on the level than in
any oiher way. and If we could round up all
the vicious people In ibis country, they would
be hopelessly in the minority, and we could rest
contented knowing that In the hands of the
majority the business of the country would be
safe. To lie sure, it is easier today than ever
he fn re in control the would-be scalper, because
we bave no trouble to sell our lumber: in fact,
h seems to he difficult to keep from selling.

in a group i>t very prominent retailers the
Other day the remark was made to me, and
heartily concurred in. that trade relations be-
tween wholesaler and retailer is in the best
condition today that has ever prevailed, and I
believe that it' there is any credit due to the
wholesalers, and undoubtedly there is, our asso-
ciation alone is entitled to it.

I do not know to what extent the committee
on arbitration will cover its work in its
report, hut the chairman may not bring out what
I consider a feature of national association work,
and that is the fact that we have the privilege
of going to that committee, which would bring
about many amicable adjustments which other-
wise would result in ordinary quarrels and
probably legal complications and law suits. The
association has been instrumental in disposing
of a large number of these matters during the
year — how satisfactorily can only be determined
by those of you who have been interested — hut

W. THOMPSON OP MEMPHIS, TRUSTEE.

as there has been no expressed dissatisfaction,
it has been very gratifying for us to condud
this method of adjustment,

A good deal of the work of the secretary
is in handling the general correspondence and in
supervising the large amount of detail work
which usually devolves upon a secretary. It is
needless to mention the work dour in connection
with our visiihej members, but this is an in
creasingly pleasant duty and one of the -most
important, and l believe is appreciated by those
of you who find it convenient to call at our
office.

It has also been possible to make aboiil the
usual number of trips to the various Lumber
centers, both east and wesl i bu1 with our in
creasing membership I find I am unable to call
upon as large a percentage of the membership
as formerly, although we meet by far a larger
number in the course of a year.

In January at the suggestion of the Board of
Trustees I attended a conference in Chicago
called to consider the quest ion of national
reciprocal demurrage. 'I he deliberations consumed
two days, and there were in attendance delegates
from all sections of the country, representing
shippers of coal, hay, groceries, feed, ice, Lumber
and many other commodities. The result of thai
Conference was the appointment of a special
committee to wait upon the President and the
Interstate Commerce Commission with a view
of getting such legislation in Congress as will
give the desired relief.

During the year we have bad four meetings
of the Board of Trustees; two a1 the time of

the annual meeting, and the usual spring and
fall meeting. Inning the interval the executive
committee has held meetings whenever necessary,
and several limes have had witli them the
chairmen of some of the regular standing or
special committees Cor purposes of conference

upon special subjects.

Your president has been constant in his atten
tion to the duties <>f iiiui office and In addition
to a very targe correspondence lie has made
i ■>■ than the usual number of visits to the

\cw York office and has also attended such
other conferences :is the work has required.

A very splendid showing for the past twelve
months convinces us that the association is well
worth tin' effort and the diversified demands
upon its boards and committees shows thai pos-
sibilities for accomplishing good are appreciated.
I feel that a further word regarding the Increas-
ing membership is not out of place, and if the
members will distribute their efforts over the
entire year, ami even though the effort is not
strenuous, we could easily show a net gain of
100 this coming year. With an organization as
well planned and as nicely equipped to handle
the problems of the day as they affect lumber-
men as we are, I can conceive of no reasonable
excuse that can be offered by lumbermen to not
contribute their share, not only by becoming
members but by a more substantial co-operation
— that of their personal services. I can easily
understand why, when an organization is young
and not established, we may not join, but this
association is no longer an experiment.

I am pleased to report that, from the secre-
tary's standpoint at least, the organization is in
good condition ; that the members all respond
heartily to the call of duty ; and that we are
well equipped and ready to serve the trade in
any right call that is made upon us.

I wish to once again thank all the members
who have so nobly stood by during the past year.

Respectfully submitted.

E. F. PERK'S . Secretary.

E. M. Wiley, chairman of the Audit and
Finance Committee, submitted the following
report in behalf of liis committee:

Report of Audit and Finance Committee.

To the members of the National Wholesale
Lumber Dealers' Association : Appended lie re
with is a statement from the Sidney r. Waud
Auditing Company, which was engaged by the
audit and finance committee to audit the secre-
tary's and treasurer's reports. The report states
that the books have been examined and found
correct. The auditor makes no suggestions as to
improvement in the present system of book
keeping.

However, our voucher system does not seem
to be in just the right shape for an association.
and as the association lias grown and new work
been undertaken, (he receipts and disbursements
have naturally increased correspondingly, ami
with this fact in mind and with a view of
adopting every possible safeguard in disbursing
i be funds of the association, the treasurer ami
secretary bave prepared a voucher check, which
it is believed will meet the requirements. This
matter has been considered by the Board of
i i i tees ami the form meets with their approval.
\"u\ committee believes that the voucher sug-
gested "ill enable a belter re, or. | of the disburse
ments of the association and recommended iis
adopt ion. Respectfully submit ted.

E. M. Wiley, Chairman.

The Board of Managers of the Bureau of
I Minimal ion, through Chairman F. E. Par] ei
mads a very interesting report of tin- work
accomplished during t in- past year. It was
as follows:

Report of Board of Managers of Bureau of
Information.

Your Board of Managers are again called upon
to make their annual report and lind themselves
able to report another year of successful work
and progress ami development.

The bureau si ill occupies the leading place in
t lie association work, and it is accomplishing
better results than ever, profiting by age and
experience, in its younger days much had to be
[earned bj experience; systems had to be devel-
oped and more than one plan started with the
best of intentions had to be given up after
i pei lence had proven a wise teacher. Now it
emerges with the mature judgment which only

ii and experience can give, and its success and

i iln lency are accordingly strengthened, and
judged by ils e(H1(] works it is deserving of the
most loyal support of every member of the
association.

The membership of the bureau has now in-
creased to r.ts, a net gain of one Cor the year.

The number of reports on tile has Increased
from 19.235 on February 1. 1906, to 21,122 on

February 1, L907, an Increase of 1,SS7 reports
tor the year. An average of IIP reports per
day were sent out tor the months of January
and February. Tin- reports are insured for

SIT. , showing that a considerable money

value has been placed on them, but the amount
of in tor inatiou ibese reports contain and the
work and care thai has been expended in gath-
ering together ibis mass of information can
carcely be measured by dollars and cents. And
here again out Board of Managers appeal to the
members of the association who are nol sub-
scribers to the bureau to give their consideration
to the good work which the bureau is doing, not
only for its subscribers but for the whole lumber
trade. The indirect benefits which the bureau
has accomplished are great indeed and difficult
to estimate, and no Lumberman should hesitate
io come into the fold of this Important depart-
ment and do his share to help the general condi-
tions of the lumber trade.

The legal department lias finished its year
with a successful record and has demonstrated
the wisdom of the changes which were inaugu-
rated two years ago.

Claims ou hand March 1, 1906. and received
during the year amounted to $180,410.14. Of
this amount $99,817.43 has been settled through
the bureau or paid direct; $20,676.52 has been
withdrawn ; $46,974.66 is in the hands of local
attorneys, and $12,941.53 is in course of settle-
ment through the superintendent's office. The
fees to the bureau from the legal department
for the past year were $2,258, but better than
the monetary gain is the satisfaction which the
Board of Managers have reason to believe that
this department under the new system is giving
to its subscribers, and it is indeed with a feeling
of pride that we point to the results of the past
year.

We believe the bureau is infinitely above and

Si &TCHERD OF BUFFALO.

superior to ordinary commercial agencies, and
the legal department is likewise head and shout
ders above the ordinary collection agency, and
many who have used both the bureau and the
Legal department have so testified during the
past year in a most encouraging way on several
occasions.

Your Board of Managers wishes to again
express their appreciation of the work of the
superintendent. What success has been achieved
must be attributed to his careful and conscien-
tious conduct of this work, and we will venture
to predict many years of successful work if this
department is carried on on these same careful
and conscient ions lines.

We are approaching a time when the as
tion work is more scattered and more diversified
every year. Our Meld now stretches from the
Atlantic to the Pacific. New ideas, new systems
and new developments are needed to lit this
enlarged field. As in every other field of bus!
oess life Hie system of yesterday becomes obso

lete and out of date today, We must l

stantly watchful, ever on the alert to meet with
these new conditions and grapple with the new
problems, bin the organization of the bureau is
built , on a rock; it is capable of rising to meel
the new conditions. II has benefited many lum-
bermen on many occasions in the past. It will
benefit all who" will lend their support and u e
its guidance in the future. it pays many fold
in ruanv ways. Can any lumberman afford to be
without ii i benefits? Will any refuse to give if
1 heir hea i lv CO Operation and support?

r i:. Parker, chairman.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

The superintendent of the Bureau of In-
formation read a very exhaustive report
which is presented herewith:
Eeport of Superintendent of Bureau of
Information.

A more intimate knowledge of the bureau's
methods of communicating and compiling credit
information is causing more extended use of this
department of the association. It stands today
as the point of contact between its subscribers
add questionable trade, either as regards tinan-
cial responsibility or unbusinesslike methods, in
that it transmits valuable information which
cannot be secured through ordinary commercial

sources. . , , < ,,

The statistical features ot the bureau are fully
covered in the report of the Board of Managers
of the Bureau of Information and presents as
fair an idea of what vour association is doing

in the way of disseminating as much cr i

information as is possible in a short report,
although no figures can be submitted to illus-
trate "the magnitude of detail correspondence
and special investigation necessary to keeping
the records and reports up to date, and within
the prompt reach of all its subscribing members.
\11 are agreed that the abnormal conditions
of the past few years have combined to keep the
trade more than usually alert for facts and
information regarding credits and business
methods. This extraordinary volume ot trade,
coupled with the unusual delays in shipment and
transit, have necessitated most careful Inquiry
and insight into conditions affecting both selling
and buying trade. Ordinarily this might indicate
a situation more easy to contend with, but com-
bined with a stringent money market has caused
concerns in many quarters to curtail their buy-

M. M. WALL OF BUFFALO.

ing ; in fact, the past year or so has been so
much a sellers* market that many of our theories
regarding credits and fairly well-rated concerns
have changed, and caused more than the usual
periodical revision of reports. I am happy to
state that, with slight exceptions, the situation
has been easily met, either by careful foresight
or diligent work through our usual sources of
information.

The bureau is so well established that it seems
needless to go very far into detail : but its
constantly growing influence, systematic method
of disseminating credit information, unquestion-
ably places It at the head of lumber credit
agencies. Slight reference made to its special
Features will give a better idea of what has been
accomplished.

A couple of years ago, as you will recall, the
Board of Trustees decided to make a radical
change in the legal or collection department, and
instead of having claims and disputes, or. in fact,
any matter of a legal nature handled .by outside
parties, they are now handled through the asso
rial ion. where they receive the proper persona]
supervision that is' in direct line with the plans
as at first outlined at the organization of the

::ition.

This work was undertaken willi some misgiv-
ings as to our ability to carry out the scheme
as laid out by our Board of Managers, and while
last year's reports were quite optimistic as to the
success of the plan, the results this year have
amply proven the wisdom of the change, and
today we claim for the collection department
the fullest measure of your co operation : for. it

has really proven that it can handle your over-
due and "disputed accounts far better than any
other agency. This may seem to be putting it
too strong, but the successful negotiation of so
many accounts, and the very satisfactory-
acknowledgments we have received from our
patrons allows us to make this strong claim.
In addition the collection department has proven
its ability to act successfully an arbiter, as will
probably be stated to you by the arbitration
committee, especially iD reference to the many
cases that have been reported to the committee,
but which have been eventually settled before
being officially considered by the arbitration
committee.

The figures submitted in Chairman Parker's
report show a very substantial increase in the
claims collected or settled, and while the
pecuniary results to the association have been
gratifying, it is not the intention of the Board
of Managers to make this department a money-
making feature ; rather it is expected and be-
lieved that the services rendered and information
and experience received through the claims
handled will be of such value to the bureau as
to justify conducting this work on a basis of
nearly cost. The Collection Department per-
forms a double function, makiug it well worth
while on that basis, even though not at a large
profit, for while it handles your past-due and
disputed claims at a minimum charge, much
lower than through individual attorneys, it at
the same time assists very materially in supply-
ing the bureau members with important facts
that cannot otherwise be obtained.

Numerous letters on file testify to the value of
the department in collecting claims, while many
other communications indicate the desirability of
our reports containing the data made possible
from the experience in handling claims. Fur-
thermore, our attorneys all over the country,
who are of the very best class and who are
protected to us through the bonding system of
the United States Fidelity & Guarantee Com-
pany, are interested in our class of business,
because our claims usually run large, and they
are always alert to advise us by wire or mail
of any information bearing on the affairs of
parties in whom our members are interested,
inn are undoubtedly aware that all attorneys
prefer to receive collectable accounts than
accounts against bankrupts ; therefore, they
sometimes seem overanxious to advise of any
seeming weakness.

On the other hand, we have found by es
perience that when our department can handle
all the claims of our members against bankrupts,
or those financially embarrassed, we can give
better service and realize more on an adjust-
ment than can be accomplished by each member
acting individually. Much of the information
secured through this department frequently pre
vents a loss and a probable claim, and it is this
operation in a deal capacity that permits the
bureau and its Collection Department to stand
so prominently before the members as a special
association privilege. I believe the department
is entitled to your support and this lengthy
reference.

A substantial part of the special information
contained in our weekly List A. & B. comes
through our Collection Department, which list is
looked for by our members as a regular visitor.
This enables you to promptly secure important
information, either as to questionable financial
v risks, delinquent settlements, business changes,
tires or court record items, and with this data
before you. you ought frequently to be able to
determine if the facts are sufficiently important
to make sales, stop lumber in transit, start
suit, or make further inquiry of us.
. It is the invariable rule of the bureau, after
obtaining information of the character above
referred to, to carefully investigate and revise
our reports, with a view of keeping our informa-
tion for you up to date, and include all possible
subsequent details pertaining to the affairs of
the party listed.

The little pink sheets which you receive each
week are given very careful consideration by the
members, and are most important to the bureau
in determining the advisability of putting the
name of any concern on List A. & B. The
present condition of trade necessitates prompt
and concise reports from you as to renewals,
delayed payments, unjust claims, protested paper,
etc.. and much valuable information comes to us
from the pink sheets, which are promptly
scrutinized immediately they arrive at the office.
I notice a few members rarely send us any of
this voluntary information. Gentlemen, this is a
mistake on your part. Be fair to your fellow
members, give as much as you hope to get, and
keep this department fully posted.

Occasionally, a member will overlook the fact
that under a ruling of the Board of Managers
of the bureau it is necessary to have at least
three separate complaints of slow pay, making
unjust deductions, or not settling in accordance
with terms, before we can list a name, although
it is always possible, and usually desirable, to
use this information in our reports, and they
always have our most careful attention, and a
large measure of the success of the bureau must
be attributed to the voluntary information that

comes to us through these weekly reports, as
well as by personal letters, etc.

Our members, however, are becoming more
adept each year in this scheme of furnishing
information, and one of the features of the
organization is the personality which enters into
the make-up of its special reports, and makes
them more reliable and more valuable than those
secured through the ordinary commercial
agencies.

We continue to lay stress on the importance
of signed statements of assets and liabilities,
and I am pleased to again report increased
co-operation by your customers in sending .us.
voluntarily, annual statements. This, together
with the numerous requests mailed each day
from the office, has resulted in obtaining a very
large percentage of statements, and instances
are not rare where the bureau gets a statement
from parties who are otherwise averse to sub-
mitting anything but general facts to commercial
agencies. This is as it should be — because your
Bureau of Information is conducted entirely as
a specializing agency and on a mutual basis,
and its reports are exclusively for lumbermen,
who are just as desirous of selling a safe man
as to avoid selling an unsafe man.

In accordance with the plan adopted by the
board two years ago the matter of adequate fire
insurance continues to receive careful considera-
tion, and where statements show what appears
to be insufficient insurance in comparison to
value and liability of the risk and probable result
in case of fire loss, attention is called to the
discrepancy and suggestion made that more in-

111:111. e he had in protect h Ij the creditoi

but the buyer as well. -

Too much importance cannot be placed on the
matter of keeping on file with, the bureau a
revised list of your customers, which are held
strictly confidential and in no way can they
possibly get into other hands. Filing these lists

W. KNIGHT OF INDIANAPOLIS.

with us enables a prompt notification, particu-
larly if you have failed to ask for a report.
This feature cannot be too strongly emphasized
and most members are familiar with the advan-
tage of keeping these customers' lists up to date.

Reports on band at present aggregate over
22,000, covering all sections of the country.
Their value to the wholesale trade five or ten
years ago, when only half or one-third that
number were accessible, is a good commentary on
what its value must be today, and it should not
require one-half the argument to increase our
membership in the association or bureau, or to
retain its present membership as was necessary
eaiiier in our history. In order to keep pace
with this growth the working force in the office
has been increased largely, and additional office
space is again necessary.

The Board of Managers of the bureau and its
chairman have been untiring in their efforts to
improve the service wherever possible, and as
the bureau is under their direct supervision,
criticisms or suggestions are given careful con-
sideration and are solicited, and if warranted
any modification in the existing plan will be
gladlv adopted.

This report has been, in part at least, but a
repetition of former reports, although you have
all seen each year a constant and systematic
growth. It seems to me that if ten years ago
the members gladly paid $50 per year extra for
1 Ins,, bureau reports, present members could well
afford to pay double, and outside of a personal
interest. I riinst say that I wonder often why
every wholesaler does not quickly avail himself

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21

of tilt- privileges of this department. I believe
that the wholesaler who does the smallest busi-
ness can save the cost many times over each
year, and while every department of the asso-
elation work has its important place, this bureau
is in my belief the most valuable, n is in es
cellent condition so far as I can observe and
report, and we hope for a gain, of fifty new
subscribers next year. Respectfully submitted.

The report of the Fire Insurance Com
mittee, which follows, was read by Chair-
man G. M. Stevens, Jr.

Report of Fire Insurance Committee.

Mr. President and Members of the National
Wholesale Lumber Healers' Association: The
report of your Committee on Fire Insurance this
year will be brief owing to the fact that little
of importance has been brought before the com
mittee during the past year.

1 Hiring the infancy of this insurance move-
ment in your association there were naturally
questions of great importance before this com-
mittee, but in later years the various compa
nies making a specialty of lumber insurance have
handled these matters themselves, consequently
about the only purpose of a standing Commit
tee on Fire Insurance at the present time is to
be in readiness to act upon the call of the mem-
bers on questions between themselves and the
insurance organizations, and also to review the
Held of insurance at this season and be watchful
of any derogatory movements or methods of these
organizations against the policy holders.

It is astounding when one considers the mag-
nitude to which this insurance movement has
grown from its inception at the annual meeting
held at Boston, March. 1899, when a small

FRANK W. LAWRENCE OF BOSTON.

• oterie of our members got together and formed
what was known as the Protective Trust Fund,
which was the first plan of mutual insurance
laid before this association.

To quote you figures as to the saving that this
has made would be a most difficult problem.
It is sat\> to say that today there is undoubtedly
$100.0110,000 of risks carried by the various lum-
ber insurance companies throughout this coun-
try. You tan judge for yourselves what this
means in the wray of a saving to the lumber
trade at large. Without these trade companies
who can tell to what extent lumber rates would
have been advanced the last few years by tin-
board companies to reimburse them tor hea\y
losses which they have recently sustained. I
refer to the Baltimore insurance loss of $37,

i »io. the Rochester losses, amounting to $2,

500,000, and the San Francisco disaster, which
cosl mi, out $180,000,000.

There can be no question but what the forma
tion of mutual and stock companies throughout
the whole country which have made a specialty
of lumber risks has saved the day so far as
rates are concerned. If it were not for the
independent underwriting companies undoubted^
the rates made by the old stock companies would
in some instances be double what they are at tin-
present time.

Another great benefit derived from the inde-
pendent companies has been the improvement
of the physical hazard of lumber risks by reason
of the close attention given by these companies
to the inspection of plants. Their inspectors
arc experts in lumber risks, and are consequently

able to render much better services in this re-
gard than a general inspector.

'I'railc insurance has been one of the biggi I
material benefits accruing from association work,
ami is something worthy of a jealous guarding
by those interested. The companies have to
date demonstrated beyond peradventure tin' safe-
ty ami excellent character of lumber risks at
considerable less than board rates. Thej are

now sufficiently old to hav mplled their own

experience tables, and it is generally conceded
that the experience of the trade companies is
today the very best criterion of the hazard Of
such underwriting.

As a trade institution lumber insurance lias
come to stay, and we believe thai tic companies
in the field today are worthy of the full con-
fidence and patronage of every member of the
lumber trade.

In closing, your committee cannot rcc iicnd

I,,,, strongly tin' support of all tin' companies
now in the field. They are all writing business
on sound insurance principles, and we believe
their aim is fair treatment and just dealings
with all police holders. Respectfully submitted,
G. M. Stevens, .lie Chairman.

William G. Frost, chairman of the Com
mittee on Arbitration, made tin- following
report :

Report of Committee on Arbitration.

National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Usocia
tion: The work of your Arbitration Commute.-
for the year just closing has been somewhat
less in the number of ras.-s actually arbitrated
than formerly, which is an indication thai our
members and the wholesale and retail trade
generally are able to carry on and consummate
deals in large numbers and representing large
transactions with but little friction or trouble —
certainly less than in former years. We do not
say this' without first having the knowledge that
our legal department, entirely separate and dis-
tinct from the arbitration work, lias bad lower
disputed cases in court each year, even in face
,,f our association's larger membership and a
much increased volume of business done generally
by the members. ,,

Believing it to be the desire of all to avoid
trouble, and that any properly directed, eon
eciteil action looking toward the avoidance 01
trout. b ■ is a worthy and important work for the
association, we desire to cite or explain some-
thing of the workings of the department.

First, we have evidence and proof thai the
mere existence of this arbitration tribunal has a
salutary effect in lessening the number of law-
suits and litigations in which our members
would be involved.

Second, we are convinced thai tl ases sub-
mitted to us are in the main adjusted to the
satisfaction of all concerned, and that the saving
of time, collection and lawyers' fees and court
expenses has been great.

Again, we believe that parties to an arbitra
tion as a rule can consistently, and often do,
continue dealings with each other, whereas bad
the same eases been brought to suit the feelings
of on ■ both participants would generally pre-
vent further transactions.

During the year now closing a large number
of cases have in one way and another been
submitted to the association, some with instruc-
tions to commence suit at once, others for sub
mission to our committee, still others merelj
citing the trouble and seeking a remedy. Mr.
Perry, sometimes after consultation with one or
more members of the committee, but usually
without assistance, has amicably negotiated an
adjustment of many of these difficulties. Many
cases where a settlement outside of court seemed
impossible have been quickly adjusted to the
satisfaction of all. Your committee wishes to
heartllj thank Secretary Terry for bis interest
and attention t.. this part of the work, realizing
be lias not only relieved the committee by
greatly lessening the number of cases, but has
]n eS, -tiled publicity and expense as well, which
ih, interested parties must appreciate

The Arbitration Committee has and docs at all
times stand ready to consider and order a [air
ami Impartial settlement of all eases placed In
it- bands. We thoroughly believe in arbitration
and strongly approve of its continued applica
tion in our' association work and highly com
mend ils use to our members. Respectfully
submitted, William G. Frost, Chairman.

YV. W. Knight, chairman of the Commit-
tee on Terms of Sab-, report.-, I on behalf of
his committee as follows:

Report of Committee on Terms of Sale.

Your committee has little or nothing new to
report as having taken place during the past
year on this subject.

The question of equalizing or unifying the
t.i-ius ,,f sale all over the country and to applj
in all the different branches of the lumber trade
is a difficult one. Local conditions and old

established customs are hard to change. To
quote from a letter recently received by the
chairman. "It is reported thai practically all of
the Philadelphia and Pittsburg concerns allow 2

pel nt for cash in thirty days. These terms

are said to be printed on their stationery. Many
firms in these markets allow 2 per cent thirty
days, 1 per cent sixty days, or ninety days
net." The writer shows that in a measure
this reported condition is a fact, and the same
remarks apply in a measure to other markets.

The time consumed in transit has a very large
bearing on the question also, as shipment from
the Pacific coast never takes less than thirty
days and sometimes as much as sixty days for
delivery. The consignee is presumably entitled
to examine tin- shipment before payment, and is
further entitled to discount his bills after re-
ceipt of the goods.

The same remarks apply to shipments from
the South to the North and from the Fast to
the West, where the delays in transit are likely
to retard the prompt delivery of any shipment.

We all suffer from the natural inclination of
the purchaser to take advantage of every point
possible to prolong the time in which he is
entitled to discount, and the millennium will
have arrived when the lumberman is able to dis-
pose of his merchandise for ion cents on the
dollar instead of 08 cents or 98 V- cents, as at
present.

This is the condition in which we are doing
business. We practically say to the purchaser
that our lumber is not worth what we ask for
it. and therefore offer it subject t«. a _' per cent
discount. Whether litis condition can be elimi-
nated in time to come is a question for the
future to decide.

The committee hesitates to make any s| al

recommendations at this time further' than to
ask the cooperation of the trad.- in general to a
stricter enforcement if possible of tin- terms

C. E. LLOYD OF PHILADELPHIA.

already established by this association. It is in
such prosperous times as these that the seller
can more consistently carry out and insist on ills
own terms of settlement, than to wait for a
time when the lumber trade is seeking business
and the manufacturer or consumer being on the
still hunt for practically all the lumber that can
be delivered with any degree of promptness,

.Mr. Perry reports that a question which has

pled his attention a good deal is t be quest ion

of the legality of having printed across the
top of the letter-head or across tin- bottom of it
or on the back of it certain conditions. In the
legal department the question has come up very
often as to the cause of the delays, etc. and its
effect on conl tacts. At Mr. Perry's suggestion
and in consultation with a number of the mem-
bers during the past two years the question
of making these conditions a pari of a letter has
Men considered from many standpoints, and a
number of our members have adopted tin- plan
of making the special conditions a part of the
letter by having it printed in their letter in a
way that ill quoting or writing tin- conditions be
come a part of the quotation or letter; the
name, address, etc., being first inserted above

the .conditions and the l.alan. ! the letter

following the conditions.

Your committee believes that s united ac

tion mi the part of the members along this line
would very materially aid the association in the
collection of dispute. I accounts, for it is .lint
cult at times to arrive at a tan- adjustment of
disputed accounts because parties claim that they
did not pay any attention to th nditions

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printed on the head or back of a letter or order

sheet, and the courts in two or three insta

have made a point that those conditions were
printed in such a manner that there could be no
claim made, that they formed a part of the
contract or quotation. Respectfully submitted.
W. YV. Knight, Chairman.

The repori of the M bership Committee

was read by Chairman M. S. Tremaine.

Report of Membership Committee.

The trusters just previous to the last annual
meeting of the association had an exhaustive
discussion as to the effect an increase in dues
would have on the membership. At that time
the opinion prevailed thai we might perhaps los-
fifty members on this account and that we would
be doing well if the association did not show a
net loss of over twenty-five members at the end
of the association year.

The association is to be congratulated on the
fact that its membership has been maintained

and thai we did not have tl xpected loss

owing t" the fact Hun the wholesale dealers
realize more fully than ever its value and In-
creasing benefit.

while the Hoard of Trustees and the Mem
bership Committee are entitled to credit for
their efforts, we believe that the satisfactory
results are due in a great measure to the fad
that this association is becoming more and more
important, and that the members realize thai
the enrollment of their tninies is well worth
the price of the dues. In fact, several iiient
bers have indicated this: one man went so fat-
as to say that it helped to keep his bank bal-
ance out of red ink.

The secretary has been especially diligent

GARDNER I. JONES OF BOSTON.

in keeping before us prospective names, anil
the office has sent out frequent communications
io the members urging them to be on the look
out for desirable additions. The committee
has written upwards of 200 letters from their
respective offices in an effort to keep the asso-
ciation before the people who could use anil
appreciate ijs benefits. We believe that the
resignations were due almost entirely to the

usual cl ges in business lirms.

The figures are as follows:

ASSOCIATION.

Membership March 1. 1906 366

Applications received since 3G

Elected :;:;

Rejected 2

In hands of committee 1

399
Withdrawals :;i

Membership March 1. 1907 : . . 368

BUREAU.

Subscribers March 1. 1906 197

Subscribers joined since 14

211
Withdrawals 1:;

Subscribers March 1. 1007 fas

Respectfully submitted,

M. s. Tiu'.maim:, Chairman.

Tito reports of' the officers ami the various
committees as given were on motion for-
mally accepted ami adopted.

On motion President Dill appointed the
following Committee on Resolutions: F. E.
Parker of Saginaw, R. C. Lippincotl of
Philadelphia, K. II. Downman of New Or-
lens, R. D. Baker of Pittsbvitg, W. J. Oath
out of Newark.

Also, on motion, the following Committee
on Nominations for Hoard of Trustees was
named: .1. L. Lytle of Pittsburg, H. C.
Riley of Philadelphia, M. S. Tremaine of
Buffalo, F. S. Morse of Springfield, Mass.,
H. C. Corwin of Edenton, X. C, C. 11. Carl-
ton of ( leveland, .1. V. Stimson of Hunting-
burg, 1ml.

The chair announced that tin invitation
had been received from the Eastern States
Retail Lumber Dealers' Association to at
tend a reception at Rooms 103-5, New Wil
lard "Hotel, tit 2 p. m. tin motion the invi-
tation was accepted.

Presiden! Hill .also announced that a re-
ception and supper would be tendered to the
lad\ visitors at the convention, on Thursday
evening, ami a banquet to members of the
association and guests at 7:30 the same
evening.

On motion adjournrr.t at was taken at 1 :30
for the day.

THURSDAY MORNING SESSION.

At 11 .-t. m. the convention was called to

order for its sec I session. A very large

and increased audience was ooticeable, and
the registration showed the attendance to be
tie- largest in the history id' the association.

R. \\. II igbie piesi lited t he report of the

Conjmittee on Legislation, of which he is

Chairman. His report was accepted and its

recommendations adopted.

Report cf Committee on Legislation.

The Committee on Legislation begs leave to
submii the following report: Since the last
annual meeting several matters of considerable

importance have had the attention of j -

i ' iniiiitt i Legislation.

. The Edward Mines Lumber Company ol i In
cago and Eastman, Gardiner & Co. of Laurel,
Miss., speaking for themselves and a large num-
ber of others engaged in the lumber trade, asked
our association to indorse their petition to the
i ongress of the United States in which they
asked that the government take over the port
located at Gulfport, Miss., making it a govern-
ment harbor, and also asking that a suitable
appropriation be made for maiutaiuing it as
such.

This matter was carefully investigated and
commended itself so strongly, not only to your
committee but also to some of the executive
officers of our association, that a circular letter
was seni to all tie- members of our association
under date of January 23 asking our members
to urge upon 'their representatives in Congress
the importance of this matter and to ask for
their support.

Your committee is pleased to report that the
appropriation bill known as the rivers and har-
bors bill contains a provision that the govern-
ment should take over Gulfport. and contains an
appropriation for the maintaining of the same.

During the latter part of the year a call was
issue.] for a convention of shippers to he held
in tie- city of Chicago early in January for
tie- purpose of urging on Congress the necessity
ami importance of passing some law to compel
railroads t" furnish cms for loading more prompt-
ly ami to move loaded cars to their destination

more pr ptly. This convention has since been

known as the Reciprocal Demurrage Conven-
tion. » »ur association was represented at that
convention by Edward nines of Chicago and
St cretarj Perry.

While our representatives at ibis oonvention
believed in the importance anil necessity of the
prompt vement of freight and did what in

their judgment seemed for the best interest of
all concerned, it is perhaps not unwise to say
that owing to circumstances over which they had
no control they were in the minority at that
. .invention, and yet the reports which have
come to your committee as to the outcome of
that convention will bear out the statement
that the action of our representatives had a
most wholesome effect upon its proceedings and
deliberations. This matter is subsequently re-
ferred to at length in this report.

Our association was invited by the Foreign
Commerce Convention, which was held at
Washington on the 14th and loth of January,
to send a representative delegate. We were
fortunate in having our association represented
at that convention by William E. Litchfield of
Boston. Mr. Litchfield has been invited to
make a report to you at this convention and
will be heard at the proper time.

At our last annual convention you wTill re-
call that we indorsed the movement to repeal
the compulsory pilotage bill now on the statute
hooks of the United States. This matter was
referred to a special committee of which Rob-
ert R. Sizer of New York was made chairman,
and Mr. Sizer has been invited to submit his
report on this matter.

Inasmuch as there have always seemed to
be many opinions on the question Who owns
goods iit transit ? and as our association has
received many inquiries from members cover-
ing various phases of this subject, this ques-
tion was referred by our association to Walter
W. Loss, general counsel to the Car Stake and
Equipment Complaint Executive Committee and
also an experienced railroad attorney, for his
opinion. This opinion was published by our
association in July. 1906, in a .paper called
Lumber Legal Opinions."

The Board of Trustees of our association at

J. V. STIMSON OF HUNTINGBTJRG, IND.

a meeting held in the association rooms in
January of this year referred to the commit-
tees oil railroad and transportation and on
legislation for their joint consideration the
question of car shortage and other kindred
matters, which may all be embraced in what is
known as the railroad problem.

This railroad problem is not easy of solution.
The present conditions existing between the
railroad companies on the one hand and the
traveling and shipping public on the other hand
are the result of years of growth, and any at-
tempt at radical changes in these conditions
would result disastrously to one or both of the
parties interested.

It is undoubtedly true that there seems to
have always been antagonism of interests exist-
ing between the common carriers on the one
hand and the public on the other. This ought
not to have been so. because the interests of
both are largely identical. This is not the
time nor the place, however, to enter into a
discussion as to the why and wherefore of this
antagonism. A brief review of the situation
may perhaps not be amiss.

just twenty vears ago, as a result of sev-
eral vears of agitation. Congress passed an act
known as the Act to Regulate Commerce. Ten
v.ars later the Supreme Court of the United
Shii.s rendered a decision which, from the view-
point of the shipper, largely nullified the bene-
fits which the shippers had hoped to derive
from the passage of that act. In 1000 there
began, at a convention held in St. Louis, an
agitation tor the further amending of the Act

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to Regulate Commerce. The result of this agi-
tation was the passage "< 'wo amendments to
this act; one, commonly called the Flkins' Law,
which sought to eliminate and prohibit rebating
among other things, and the other was the acl
of last year known as the "rate bill." This
bill was very mucb wider and broader in its
sic.pe than the Flkins' act, and was intended to
restore to the Interstate Commerce Commission
the powers which were supposed to have been
given to this commission under the original act

of 1887, and to adtl others that seemed s

sary and desirable.
This association for several years has sup

ported this movement to amend the Act to

Regulate Commerce, and while it litis not done
more than it ought to have done, it has,
through its proper committees, been closely
Identified with the movement which resulted
successfully in the amendment of last year

Since the amendment was successfully en
arted into law there lias arisen a widespread
agitation and demand for further amendments
or laws to compel the railroad companies to do
certain other things, and among them and
chiefly is the demand that the railroads be com-
pelled to furnish cars promptly upon request
for them; that they be further compelled to
deliver them promptly to the consignees, and
failing in this, that the railroad companies shall
be penalized.

The result of all this has been that the
whole railroad problem is now being studied as
never before by not only the officers of the
national and various state governments, but
also by railroad officials and shippers as well.
We think it wise, however, to call your atten-
tion to a certain provision of the interstate
commerce law as it now stands. The amend-
ment to the Interstate Commerce Act, which
became a law on the 29th of June, 1906. pro-
vides, among other things, that "the term trail-

WILLIAM E. LITCHFIELD OF BOSTON.

portation shall include cars and other vehicles
and till instrumentalities and facilities for ship-
ment or carriage, irrespective of ownership or
of any contract, expressed or implied, for the
use thereof, and it shall be the duty of everj

r subject to the provisions of this acl to

provide and furnish such transportation upon
reat onable request t herefoi

The act further provides that "nothing in
this act contained shall in any way abridge
or alter the remedies now existing at common
law or by statute, but the provisions of this act
are in addition to such remedies"; anil further.
"A carrier which shall tail to furnish trans
portation as thus defined is subject to a penalty
a- provided in section 111 of the act, which
reads as follows : "Any common carrier sub
iect to provisions of tin's act who shall wilfully
omit or fail to do any act, matter or thing in
iet required to be done, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction there-
of in any circuit Court of the United Stales
within the jurisdiction of which such offense
was committed, lie subject to a fine not to
exceed .$5,000.' "

Looking at the matter from a broad and
reasonable standpoint, this question presents it
self to your committee: Have we not laws
enough already, and would not a proper en-
forcement of existing laws produce remedies
which would meet the reasonable requirements
of the shippers? Ought we not to give the
present law a fair and just trial before de
manding additional legislation?

This committee holds no brief for the rail-

road panies- We know full well thai abuses

in the transportation of merchandise and In
the treatment of shippers and localities have

always existed and doubtless always will exist.
It is also true thai we have ;m annual short

age oi ears and that the Lumbermen particu-
larly suffer from this ear shortage; hut your
committee is nol willing to concede thai tie
ear shortage is deliberate^ caused bj the rail

roads or any of them.

As a matter of fact the most serious 1

gestion Of freight .and shortage of ears during

'In last tew Hhs litis 1 n in the .-in nl

Galveston, Texas, and yet the stale of Texas
contains most stringent laws on the subject of
regulation of the supply of ears and a penaltj
in form of a demurrage upon the railroad emu
panies for not furnishing ears when requested.

Certain things must lie evident to every stn
•lent oi this question. We must admit that
self-Interest plays a very large part in all busl
ness transactions, and it certainly is to the

Interest verj railroad company that then

cars should move as many miles per day as it
i- possible for the railroads to make them' move

Unit the ears should be loaded as pr ptlj

as possible and unloaded as promptly as pos-
sible, tor unless this is done the ears .1

earn any money. Statistics also show that the

increase in the equipment of the rallr Is has

1 n very large, and the further fact is dis

closed that the average carload has Increased
very greatly.

tin the other hand, we do not forget that
the annual ear shortage occurs, and we do
know that at certain points there is congestion
of freight and that cars are not delivered ■<
promptly in a great many eases as they should
be. This whole matter, however, is so com
plicated that your committee is not prepared
at this time to recommend any of the various
remedies which have been suggested. Indeed
it is not yet clearly demonstrated whether the
trouble is with the equipment of the railroads
or with their trackage or terminal facilities.
We think that the first thing to do is to find
out the causes and sources of the trouble, and
we know from several sources that this matter
of bettering of the service furnished by the
railroads to the public is receiving the most
careful consideration of the best experts that
this country has, and we believe that the wise
thing for our association to do is to wait until
such lime as these experts, namely, the members

of the Interstate Commerce Coininissi make

their report and suggest definite recommenda-
tions. After this shall have 1 1 done we will

be in better position to know what steps if any
our association ought to take, and your com-

11 n lee therefore ree m. ml- 1 hat this mall, i bl

referred to the Board of Trustees with full

power to act at such time ami in such manner

as 11 I.I X -eel St to the,,! I ! e - pei ■ | f 1 1 | ] V Sill'

milted. it. \v. Higbie, Chairman.

George f. < raig, chairman of the Forestry
Committee, then presented his report, which
was adopted as read.

Report of Committee on Forestry.

While pour Forestry Committee has not been
inactive it has little to present to you in the
way of actual results. 'Tin- work which it ha
undertaken is of the kind which requires much
seed sowing ami patient cultivation before any
fruit is apparent.

Vcting on the conclusions reached In our re-
port of last year, we took up the subject of
legislation for the regulation of taxation and the
prevention of fires on deforested lands, and
rinding the subject of taxation to be full ol

difficulties and Of absorbing interest, the less
knotty problem of tires was pushed Into tin
background.

Such legislation being entirely under state
control, and the state oi Pennsylvania being for

uy reasons best prepared for experimental

purposes, an efforl has been made to frame a
taxation law for this state which will till all
vital requirements and. with slighi modifications
to meel varying conditions, be adaptable for
oi her stal es.

Through the active cooperation of Hon. S B
Elliott, of the Pennsylvania Department of
I oi. -try. the mailer was brought to the alien

t i< in of lie- Pennsylvania Forestry Association
ami ai a meeting belding in Wilkesbarre in

.lane hist a committee was appointed t" .ban

lite necessary law. The chairman "t your

niiitee was accorded a place on this committee.
Owing t"*the usual difficulties met in a com-
mit! f any size*, and as die biennial session

oi i he Pennsylvania legislature was approach-
ing, Mr. Elliott, acting with your committee,
undertook to drs it an ait w bicb w ould sei ure

lite desired t'.liel

III framing this act. suggestion were re
elved from representat Ives of I he \a i Ions I
Forest Service, Pennsylvania State Forestry
Commission, Vale Forest School, and from a
number of members of this association and
other individuals, and when completed it

finally submitted to the Pennsylvania Forestry

Association.

There were three important requirements to
be met ; t" have an acl which would afford the
oecessarj relief; t" have an acl which would

I he LegiSlat ore ; and to have tin act
which would stand the lest of constitutional

it v : the three are tar from being synonymous.

These labors finally brought forth two tea

the lirsl establishing a class of lands to be

known as "auxiliary forest reserves" and the
.10. 1 regulating the taxation of all lands in

this class.

'flic gist Of the first act is that any owner of

surface lands suitable for forestry purposes may,
on application i" the Commissioner of Forestry,
have said lands certified to the County Commis-
sioners us auxiliary forest reserves, upon enter-
ing into an agreement to treat said lands in
accordance whh the instructions of the Forestry
Commissioners. The second tot provides that in,

lands so certified shall he assessed in excess of
SI per acre for the purposes of taxation.

'Tin- two ads were Introduced simultaneously
in the House on .Ian. 30, 1907, were referred
10 the Committee on Forestry, and were re
ported out from the committee on Feb. i They
passed first reading without debate, but on
seend reading, meeting with expected opposi-
tion, were referred hack to l he Forestry Com
tiiittee. The greatest objection arose from the
fact that the low assessed valuation on these
lands would naturally reduce the revenues appll
cable to school and road purposes.

To meet this objection Mr. Elliott has offered
to the coiinnii ice a third bill, under the pro-
visions of which the state shall pay t" munici-
palities an annual charge of 1 cent per acre
and to school districts tin annual charge of 2
per acre on all auxiliary forest reserves
situate within their respective limits. While

SAM E. BARB til' NEW YORK.

Hie principal Objection has thus been met. it
is impossible to predict the fate of these bills

ami we are reduced I" tin- consolation of hope

The Pennsylvania Department of Forestry has

prepared a tire act w Inch was iiiin duced In
tlm House on .lan. 31, 1907, and also referred

I'- lb'' I ' .Ill lit i I lei Forestry. This bill .oil

siitutes all constables, justices and employee
of the Department ol Forestrj eat officio fire
ardens with power to employ other pet on foi

I he purpose of suppressing forest lires, and ap

pOl'tiOnS the expense thereof equally between the

tate ami 1 he count ii'- in which said tires i

and without limiting the amount which maj
expended.

Within a few days we have l n advised that

a bill regulating taxation on somewhat the same
lines as our Pennsylvania bill has been intro-
duced in tin- Legislature of the state of Iowa,

inn we have mi had ti pportunity of obtain

ing a copy of it

The libera i subscript Ion pledged tit last <

i iting to tin fund tor the endowment of the

Chair of Applied Forestry and Practical Lum

bering in £ali I ore I f has not i n called

in by lie- association, ami we have been unable
to obta in any Inforn to the pre eni

-tain. ,,i the fund Mr. F. E. Weyerhaeuser,
chairman of the committee, writes that owing
to pressure ol private affairs he has turned
this matter over to Mr. X. w. McLeod, and a
biter addressed to Mr. McLeod has elicited
no response 11 left to the association at
large to indici ' ■ ■ desire to

pursue with refere to thesi ptlons.

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Your committee makes uo suggestions whatever
A resolution was passed at our last meeting
indorsing the southern Appalachian and White
Mountain Forest Reserves. At the session of
Congress which expired on March 4 the bill
authorizing these reserves was unanimously
passed bv the Senate, but failed to come up in
House. Some opposition to forest reserves gen-
ii:.- i n found to exist among lumber-

ni.ii." This appears to be based on the possi-
i.iliiv of reserves conflicting with lumbering
operations, iu which case it is questionable
whether the federal government could afford
and would be willing to pay a price which
would fully represent the value of a timber
traVt in active operation.

While your committee does not feel com-
petent to pass Anal judgment on this Question
ii believes thai lumbermen are able to cope
with each individual situation as it may arise,
and further that lumbermen as a body are suf-
ficiently broad and liberal to risk a minimum
of personal profll for a maximum of general
benefil

Bearing on this question we have received
from Mr. Gifford 1'inchot a letter explaining
the position of the government with regard to
forest reserves. Mr. Pinchot's attitude in for
estry matters lias always been so practical and
so universally fair- to the lumbermen that we
have taken tile liberty of inserting the full text
of his letter. In practical forestry Mr. Pinchot
is the government, and his assurances ought
to allay any doubts regarding the wisdom and
safety of our indorsement of forest reserve legis-
lation.

"Reserves and the government reserve policy
are deeidedlv to the trout just now. It seems

i that the western lumbermen who criticize

this policy ought to take a broader view. Were
the timber on unreserved public lands lumber-
men would doubtless tind a way to secure these
lands when wanted, as they have other lauds
from the public domain ; but they could not
secure them legally, and. having secured them,
it is highly improbable that they would man-
age them conservatively. Waste by tire and de-
strnctive lumbering would repeat the old story,
and in one region after • another the lumber
business would be sell' exterminating. Is it not
better for the lumbermen to be able to buy
stumpage from the government at a fair price
and cut under regulation, knowing that the
forests will always be there for them to draw
upon, than to connive at fraud, or perhaps take
the timber in order to get it at all, and make
an end to the forests, even though they may
realize a larger inlmediate profit on this opera
i ion: Is it not essentially a choice between
honesty and a steady business and growing rich
on public plunder ';

"In the East, of course, the case is different.
If the southern Appalachian and White Moun-
tain Reserves are created the government would
have to pay a fair price for the laud, since this
is already in private ownership. 1 believe, hoyt
ever, that these reserves also will in the long
run benefit the lumbermen by making the in-
dustry more stable. There is no reason why
lands' now held by lumber companies should
not be purchased subject to the removal of the
standing timber, under such regulations as would
preserve the forest itself. As you of course
know, the present measure for creating these
reserves is killed, yet the same question must

up again. 1 think. Too much sentiment

lias been n noised to let the matter drop, and
the evils of deforestation iu their relation to
water power and floods must, as they become
more progressively felt, sooner or dater compel
government intervention.'.'

A year's education and experiment have modi
fled but have not materially changed what may
have been regarded as our ultra-conservative
views on practical forestry from the lumber-
man's standpoint. Our present conclusions are
advanced not as facts, not as definite laws. Inn
as theories deduced from a modest attempt to

discover tie' best thods of handling cut-over

lands. The experiment in the higher Appals
chian forest must confine these theories to the
timber of similar regions.

Practical forestry is an experiment, a prob-
Tern 'whose solution may be as varied as the
value of "X." and it is therefore of paramount
importance that -our lumbering show the best
possible financial results and that present profit
he not sacrificed to posterity. Therefore we
believe that the "preservation of the smaller
growth of the forest" and the "natural refores
tation of cut-over lands" must remain as the
basis of lumbermen's forestry, with only such
modifications as experience may justify..

Hemlock seems doomed to disappear with the
exhaustion- of the present crop. It is not only
uncertain of reproduction, but exceedingly slow
in growth. Existing conditions illustrate this.

Narrow fire strips in dense stands of virgin
hemlock have grown up to birch and beech,
and natural reproduction' of the hemlock is en-
tirely wanting. This transitory type of hard-
wood might again give place to hemlock. Inn
not within the limit of time for commercial
purposes. On the basis that at least no harm
will result, and primarily for the purpose of

fire protection, strips of standing hemlock about
300 feet in width may be left in selected loca-
tions, extending from top to bottom of the
slopes and at intervals of about half a mile.
They will be of some value for seeding pur-
poses, though possibly only from the spruce
and hardwoods which occur in mixture with
the hemlock and for economic reasons must be
removed before logging improvements are aban-
doned. They should be kept free from slash
in felling the adjacent timber and will be more
effective for Are protection if the adjoining skid
row on each side be burned oVer.

In spruce stands the only advisable method
is practically clean cutting. The second crop
would as a rule be insufficient to justify the
improvements necessary for its removal. The
small timber, subject to damage in the first
cutting, is later liable to destruction by in-
sects, lire and wind, particularly where the soil
is thick humus. Therefore all timber which is
profitably marketable for any purpose should be
removed, using such care as is possible to pre-
serve the unmarketable saplings. A portion of
the extra revenue derived by clean cutting may
In expended in artificial reforestation with bet-
ter ultimate results.

By thus eliminating hemlock as a future for-

esi in id reducing to a minimum the amount

of young spruce left for natural reproduction,
it apparently becomes necessary to assist nature
in her efforts to reestablish the coniferous for-
est. Present conditions will not warrant the
more expensive experiment of setting out young
stock, and we must be content with artificial
seeding.

While the ground is still frozen, the slash
between the skid roads should be burned, or
perhaps better, the slash between every second
or third skid road, care being taken to select
these strips which contain least natural repro-
duction. These burnt areas form an excellent
seed bed and act as a fire break for the pro-
tect ion of the growing forest.

On the bed thus prepared, reliable seed select-
ed to fit the conditions of soil and climate
should immediately be sown. Spruce, particu-
larly Norway spruce, fir, larch and while pine
have been selected for first experiment. Black
locust, is suggested iu mixture with the con-
ifers as producing some earlier revenue by con-
version into ties, while furnishing protection
from sun and frost to the evergreen seedlings.

Interspersed with spruce and hemlock areas
on these higher altitudes occur pure stands of
hardwood, consisting of ash, chestnut, oaks,
beech, birch and maple, with some cucumber
and basswood. Were it practicable to do so
lie lust management might be to allow these
hardwoods to remain for future operation, or,
at most, to confine present operations to im-
provement cuttings. This, however, would vio-
late the rule to consider first of all the present
financial returns.

The smaller trees- of these species, producing
as they do lumber of the lowest grades, may
consistently be left on the ground. It may le-
as well, however, to remove as far as possible
even the smaller trees of the less valuable
kinds, such. as beech and maple, in order in give
better opportunity to more desirable woods.

Where the young growth is not sufficiently
dense selected seed trees may be left iu addi-
tion, but as these may be either defective timli. i
or of but moderate size, little loss will be occa-
sioned. Ash and red birch are recommended
both on account of their value for a second crop
'and their ability to reproduce themselves read
ily. Respectfully submitted,

Geoege F. Ckaig, Chairman.

in; tin- invitation of President Dill, the
association was favored with an address by
the Hon. Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the
Forest Service of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture, which follows:

Address of Hon. Gifford Pinchot.

I have only just a word or two to say this
morning, gentlemen, and I shall be very brief.
First, I want to thank you and Mr. Dill for the
chance to say it, and second, I want to express,

as I have bad asion to do before, the great

gratification which tin- support of this associa
lion and the National Lumber Manufacturers'
Assoeiatioii of the Forest Service gives to every

oi f the members of that service. 1 have I n

here several times when Mr. Craig has read the
reports of the forestry committee and every time
that report has been practical and to the point,
and on this occasion I think the committer has
carried its work further than ever before by
get tine legislation before state legislative bodies
with the prospect of enactment. That is the
kind of thing that seems to be most worthy of
congratulation on the part of the association.
The association is now getting on the ground
where its work counts, through Mr. Craig and
his committee. I know it will give every mem-
be r of the association pleasure, as it doe's every
member of the Forestry Service.

Now your chairman has referred to the fact
that there has been some little disagreement at

tlie other end of the avenue on the subject of
the forest Service. I have known from the time
when my conscience awoke to me in early life
that I was a bad man, and 1 have now had it
not only seared upon my trembling conscience
but the specifications have been given to me so
there is no question about it any more. We
will accept that ; I know it is so now. On the
other hand, I want to enter a demurrer to one
of the charges which has been made, and that
is the question of not merely Forest Service, but
of the general land policy of the government.
If any of you have read the reports of the
debates you have seen that the Forest Service
has been repeatedly charged with two things :
In the first place, it is busy gettiug all the
timber of the country into the hands of the
so-called lumber trust, if such an organization
exists, in order to raise prices and prevent the
small man from going into the lumber business ;
in the second place, it has been busy in pre-
venting the honest settler from going on to the
lands in the West and making a home.

Now there is one authority on this subject
who when quoted seems to me to settle the
question, and that is the President of the
United States [great applause]. Now what the
President says about what the Forest Service is
doing and what the whole land policy of his
administration is doing is this : That the whole
thing that he is trying to do in forestry, m
grazing, mineral resources and the general ad-
ministration of the public laws is to promote
tlie foundation and maintenance of prosperous
homes ; that is the first object of the whole
thing, and it is the exclusive object. All the
rest of the things that the Forest Service is
trying to do, tlie Land Office and the Geological
Survey are means to that 'end. If there are, and
there are certainly many acres of- land included
in forest reservations in the West, we are going
to call them national forests in the future, as
they have been so designated by Congress. The
Forest Service has no more eager desire than to
see (hat laud used for the making of a home;
that is the end of our existence. Every bit of
that land may be taken up on a showing that it
is adaptable to agriculture, for the making of a
home, and every bit of that land where it comes
in large enough bodies to make it possible, when
we ascertain It is suitable for agricultural pur-
poses, so far as the Forest Service has anything
to say, it will be exclusively offered for home-
stead entries.

There is no other way of protecting the for-
ests from fire, except to have scattered through
that forest a lot of men whose interest it is
to prevent tires ; that is the first and most
desirable thing. We want settlers all through
the forest reserves everywhere. The idea that
these forests are lands withdrawn from use and
that the object is to keep men out is as dia-
metrically contrary to the fact as anything can
be. .We want the settler and his co-operation
and assistance in protecting the forests against
tire, against the taking of timber, and against
any other possible harm that might come to
t bein, and we propose to see, so far as the
Forest Service has anything to do with it, that
those lands are open for that use.

When we pass outside of the boundaries of
the national forests then we come into direct
co-operation with your great work of making
homes, whether in the East or iu tlie West. It
is the supplies that the national forests are
going to furnish that will keep your business
going ultimately, and they will make it possible
to continue this great work of home making in
all sorts of ways all over the country. It is
one of the keenest sources of satisfaction to me
that we are working together along these lines.
A word as to the fact that the forest asso-
ciation controls a great deal of stumpage. It
does control several hundred million feet, but
-" nothing like so much as is controlled on the
outside, but nevertheless a very large amount.
It is perfectly obvious that the possession of
this vast amount of standing timber by the
government is going to have a steady effect on
prices and is going to prevent the cornering of
the product by any man or combination of men,
and is going to act very powerfully for the
general good. That we "all see will have a
very steadying effect — the possession of these
great areas of timber which will not be with-
drawn from use, but on the other hand put to
very vigorous use. During the past year we
have sold about a billion feet of standing timber
and we shall sell more of it in the next year.
This timber will be removed under restrictions
which will make the forests permanent. Nearly
all of it is in the western states. We have on
tile now applications for about two billion feet
from the northwestern states, Oregon and Wash-
ington. In the large pine districts we find we
could take in one place suppressed trees only
t wo inches in diameter and use them for lagging
in the mines. In other places it is impossible
to use anything except timber 16 and IS inches
in diameter. The Forest Service is trying to be
practical in everything of that kind.

Gentlemen, that is about all that I wanted to
say, except to express once more my very great
satisfaction at being in co-operation with "a body
of men like this. If anybody will make a
motion — while I am not authorized to express

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27

the mind of the chairman if anybody will make
a motion to substitute this bodj for the United
States Senate, I bave no doubl your chairman
u ill entertain it. | Applause. I

F. R. Babcock presented a report of the
' Ommittee on Railroads anil Transportation,
which covered ably and thoroughly the his-
tory of the car stake controversy up to the
present, in all its details; these matters have
been discussed in the HARDWOOD RECORD
from time to time, as they progressed, so
1 hat the publication of the report in this
issue is nut deemed necessary.

On motion, reading of the report of Traffic
Managi t B. .1. Eddy was dispensed with, but
was ordered duly printed and circulated.

Through the courtesy of George M.
Stevens, a large photograph of the late Pen-
dennis White was exhibited, draped with the
American Hag, and John M. Scateherd deliv-
ered an impressive memorial address, recit-
ing the history of Mr. White and eulogizing
his splendid character.

On motion of E. W. Higbie, ami as a
token ot the association's respect for the
memory of Mr. White, adjournment was
then taken until tin1 afternoon session;

THURSDAY AFTERNOON SESSION.

The Thursday afternc session convened

.it L':45 p. m.

The firsl item in the order of business
was the report of the Committee <>n Compul-
sory Pilotage, which was read by 1.'. S. Cohn,
wlio reported that the effoit to secure an ab-
rogation of compulsory pilotage failed to
secure congressional approval.

W. E. Litchfield, a delegate of the associ-
ation to the National Convention for the

I '1 inicit 1 1 l-'ureign * "in im 1 ee, held al

Washington, D. t .'., Jan. 15, made a verbal
report covering the excellent work done at
that meeting.

F. S. Morse, chairman, made a report on

behalf of the Committ n Trade Relations,

which follows:

Report of Committee on Trade Relations.

Yum' committee is pleased to report the pas'

year as that may properly lie termed tic

ii,..-i peaceful in the history of trade relations.

in the report our committee presented to you
last year it stated that "As long as the retail
associations protest such names, indicating care
ml consideration on their part, they will meet
with our approval, and we bespeak a continuance
of our present closely affiliated relations." Since
lien the results show the retail associations
have had a disposition to protest only such
names as they knew to be right and would meel
the approval of ilie N. \v. 1.. D. A ; this.
together with tic general conditions of trade,
1.1- combined to make the situation far , more
satisfactory than lias heretofore existed.

All of 1 lie retail associations have shown, in
their attitude, that the N. W. L. D. A. stands
for true principles in protecting tic trade, both
wholesale and retail, and our method of Inform
Eng ■ members of the various retail classifica-
tions has proven verj satisfactory.

Since March 1. 1906, there have been t;.",
protests from the retail associations conununi-
cated to ,inr members, and since this system
was adopted at Ottawa in August, L905, there
have been protested altogether lot; names. With
comparatively few exceptions these protests
have been satisfactory to our members. In two
instances the president appointed special elussi
licat ion committees to render an independent
opinion, but in each ease they concurred with
that expressed by the retail association, one
members notified accordingly and refrained from
quoting or selling that particular trade.

The scalper is still the usual source of annoy-
ance, and while the complaint is probably not
as great as it has been heretofore, there are a
frw parties who persist in using the lumber

trade as they -ee lit. regardless of trade prin
ciples or customs, and while they are gradually
licinu brought into line it is slow work and
requires very diplomatic handling both on the
part of the wholesaler and retailer.

During the year there has been a request from

association for special classification work in

tie city in which the local organization was
interested. This was referred by the Board of

Trustees to a commitl t members in that

city, and the matter was adjusted satisfactorily
to all concerned.

Another- feature that lias 1 n brought promi-
nently before the trade the pas! year is that in
certain localities, ami in Nome instances where a
regular retail lumber yard already exists. a
contractor, or several contractors joining to-
gether, organize a corporation to c luci a retail

lumber business. In some instances they run a
legitimate retail business with a competent man
in charge, and it seems to be conducted in such
a way as to make it a regularly established
retail lumber yard. In other instances it is
merely a pretense to enable the contractors who
are interested in the company to buy their
lumber at wholesale.

These ate cases that cannot be considered on
a general basis, but each one should be taken
up, carefully investigated and an opinion ex-
pressed on die merits of thai separate ease.

Now that such a satisfactory understanding
i'vi"i- between the wholesale and retail dealers,
we lirmly believe that only the most amicable
relations will continue.

Respectfully submitted,

Fred S. Morse, chairman.

The committee's report was accepted as
lead.

Addresses on the subject of amicable
trade relations between all branches of the
lumber industry were then made by George
W. Hotchkiss, secretary of the Illinois Be
lail Lumber Dealers' Association; .1. S.
Davis, president of the New York Lumber
Trade Association; L. A. Mansfield, secre
tary of the Eastern States Retail Lumber
healers' Association, and Richard E. White
of the Xew York Lumber Trade Association.

F. E. Parker, chairman of the Committee
on Resolutions, offered a resolution at
the instance of the Eastern States Retail
Lumber Dealers' Association, condemning
the proposal of the Hardwood Manufactur-
ers' Association of the United States in its
intention to issue in book form a. list of
wholesale hardwood consumers and asking
that the Hardwood Manufacturers' Associ
ation reconsider this proposed action, as con-
ti.nv to good trade ethics.

The resolution was adopted.

New Trustees Appointed.

b\ P. Babcock, on behalf of a committee

to suggest na s for new trustees, reported

t lie following:

F. P. Babcock of Pittsburg. X. II. Walcott
of Providence, C. Walter Betts of Buffalo, I'.
S. Underhil] of Philadelphia, W. A. Holt of
Chicago, II. J. Amos of Utica, and J. W.
Thompson of Memphis.

tin motion the recommendation was ac
ci pied and the gentlemen lake the places of
the se\ou whose terms have expired.

J. M. Hastings for President.

L. L. Sathr of Pittsburg nominated for

president .1. M. Hustings as the t it nieuda

ii if the association to the Hoard of Trus-
tees. The nomination was seconded by

tl ge b. Craig of Philadelphia, and Mr.

Eastings was elected by unanimous vote.

.Messrs. Sutler .and Craig were then ap-
pointed a committee to locate Mr. Hastings
and conduct him to the chair, which they
did. and he made a very graceful and appro-
priate speech of acceptance of the honor
paid him.

• in motion of I,'. c. Lippincott a rising
vote of thanks and esteem was given retir-
ing President Lewis Dill. On insistent re-
quest for a speech Mr. Dill made an address,
and heartily thanked the association for the
honor paid him.

On motion of p. ];. Babcock a resolution
of condolence upon the death of Pendennis
White was referred to the Board of Trustees
for suitable action and promulgation.

The convention then adjourned.

Meeting Board of Trustees.

At a meeting of the Board of Trustees
held immediately after the close of the ses
sion the election of President Hastings was
confirmed, and C. H. Prescott of Cleveland
was elected first vice president, George F.
Craig of Philadelphia second vice president.
Fredk. W. Cole of New York reelected treas
urer, and E. F. Perry of New York secretary.

At 7:30 p. m. an elaborate banquet was
served to members of the association and
quests in the New Willard Hotel. At the
same hour a reception, supper and musicale
was given the lady visitors in another pari
of the hotel.

NeWs Miscellany.

H. B. Smith Machine Company.

The 11. I'.. Smith .Machine Company of Smith-

ville, N. .1.. one of the foremost manufacturers

of woodworking tools in the country, last year

issued a mauliilici nt catalogue of its line of

production. This very progressive concern is
constantly enlarging the variety and improving

the lv] [ il- various machines, and ii ^ efforts

in thai direction during the hist year have
included a new inoblcr of the very highest type,
an improved triple drum sander, a new planer
and matcher, a new single-end tenoner, a new
automatic feed saw bench, a new. jig saw and a
new panel raiser. These tools are illustrated
and described in n handsome series of supple-
ments which arc now being sent out to
10,000 holders ot the Twentieth Century Cata-
logue above mentioned.

The II. 1'.. Smith .Machine Company, from long

a union with the Chicago trade, is almost

claimed as a Chicago institution. Thomas II.
Martin, western manager of the company, con-

ducts the large branch store at lo and 1 fj North
Canal street, and has on display there specimens
of ibe leading types of machinery produced by
t bis compa ay.

Building Operations for February.
Viewed in a ino.nl way. He building siaiistics
from some fifty leading cities throughout the
country for February, 1907, officially reported to
the American Contractor, Chicago, ami tabu-
lated, an- as satisfactory as could lie expected by
those who are well informed as to the building

ire in for the jiasi few j ears A

with the responding month of last year there

is. in tie- aggregate, quite a decided falling Off.
This was M be i xpected, since a con ta 0

i ., .. was out of the question, particularly in
cities where all records, all anticipations, have

I a broken and surpassed. In those cities, evi a

that have ' o subjected to tin- greatest loss.

the business reported is still of great proportions,
far in exces of anything recorded before the

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development of the building movement of the
past four years. This is the waiting season, and
developments as to labor, the price of material
and other matters may lead to much more ex-
tensive operations in the near future. While no
boom is in sight construction, in general, is in
a healthful condition.

Feb., Feb., Per Per

1907, 1908, cent cent

' i!\ cost. cost. gain. loss.

Atlanta ..$ 602,411 $ 301,549 "loo

I:ri.li;i-]Miri Is. I.:. 143,200 ... 6(i

Buffalo 381,700 472,075 ... 0

Chicago 3,159,130 4,600,400 ... 31

I'levohnul r.74.245 129,905 57

Chattanooga .. 81.220 143.. 560 ... 4:

Davenport 12,100 93,650 ... 54

Dallas 204.070 142.752 43

Denver 472.700 458,770 3

Detroit 520.300 369,700 4::

Dulutta 7::. 72n 32,570 128

Evansville 07,535 84,933 ... 20

Hawisburg . . . 74.750 100,735 . . . 26

Hartford 56,365 S23.070 ... 93

Indianapolis . . 165.864 392.234 . . . .".7

Kansas City... 602,215 464,255 20

Louisville 157,250 684.805 . . 77

Los Angeles . 1.086,115 1,082.875

Milwaukee ... 156,749 337,582 ... 54

Minneapolis .... 285,795 798.835 ... 69

Memphis- 479,257 300,862 57

Mobile 423,036 31,914 '.124

Nashville 88,877 1211, 307 ... 31

Newark 520,340 561,060 ... 7

Manhattan .. 4,422,300 8,419,150 ... 47

Alteration . 880,267 3,107,004

Brooklyn ... 4,793,765 4,071,801 17

Bronx 1,955,350 1,549,820 26

Alteration... 42,785 131,675 '

New York 12,094.467 17.2S0.350 ... 30

Omaha 172,370 147.050 17

Philadelphia .. 987.455 3,063,720 ... 07

Paterson 75,755 84,785 ... lo

Portland 891,739 308,388 189

Rochester 185,500 24O.740 ... 22

St. Joseph 29,640 31,395

St. Louis 1.703.492 1,636,263 4

St. Paul 349.692 ] 40,10:: 140

San Antonio . . 163,785 77,635 111

Seranton lis. 700 96,850 23

Seattle 1.300,412 321.848 304

Spokane 107.050 322.776 ... 38

South Bend ... 32,835 42,700 ... 23

Syracuse 184,410 103,625 78

Salt Lake Citv. 102,300 1:15.050 ... 47

Toledo 108,170 201,010 ... 46

Topeka 22.800 42.770 ... 47

Tacoma 276.185 119,285 131

Washington ... S20.427 010.155 ... 9

Worcester .... 73.362 37,995 07

Wilkesbarre .. 203,796 33,460 515

Total J30.501.411 $38,419,511 ... 20

Enviable Record of a St. Louis Hardwood
House.

It is a far cry from the inception of a- small
lumber commission business, capitalized at
$2,500, to the successful evolution of a great
wholesale and manufacturing hardwood enter-
prise, with a capital and surplus of a quarter of
a million. However, this is what has been
accomplished by the principals of the Thomas
& Proetz Lumber Company of St. Louis within
the remarkably short space of ten years.

Charles E. Thomas, founder of the company,
was born in St. Louis in 1S72 and became
identilied with the lumber business when a
youth, - spending several years in the employ of
the Russell-Massengale Commission Company as
salesman and later as secretary and treasurer
of the Central Mantel Company. In 1896 Mr.
Thomas spent some time looking over the lumber
field with the idea of returning to his original
work of selling hardwoods if he could find a
satisfactory position; but owing principally to
"hard times" was unsuccessful in this attempt.
Not to be daunted in his determination to
reenter the lumber business, he turned t<. his
brother in-law, Mr. Proetz, for aid, and with the
modest capital of $2,500 formed the Thou,
Proetz Lumber Company, of which he was
manager.

At first the concern did a commission business
strictly, but soon branched out and opened a
yard at St. Louis avenue and the Wabash tracks.
Two years later another yard was opened at
Dock and "Hall streets. In the year 1903, In
order to handle the rapidly increasing trade
more conveniently and capably, the company
purchased nearly nine acres of ground at Hall
and Angelrodt streets in the lumber district of
north St. Louis and consolidated its yard inter-
ests a1 that point, taking up its office on the

CHARLES E. THOMAS, PRESIDENT THOMAS
& PROETZ LUMBER CO.

same site. Here the company has an ideal
location, facing the Mississippi: spur tracks,
furnishing connection with the railroads, enter
the yard, thus providing it with every facility
for handling lumber by rail or river.

In February. 190G, the company took over an
up-to-date hardwood mill at Belzoni, Miss., and
incorporated the Belzoni Hardwood Lumber Com-
pany .to operate it. They made extensive im-
provements in the mill, and purchased a logging
fleet, composed of a 12x50 quarters boat, two
derrick boats equipped with Lidgerwood hoisting
machinery, a twin-screw steamboat and three
24xl50-foot barges. The plant consists of a
Sinker-Davis band mill; a thoroughly modern
planing mill containing seventeen machines,
capable of turning out a wide variety of work :
and a shingle mill. The manager of the opera
tions at this point is Raymond Brattain, a
member of the Belzxtni company who was lor
several years in the employ of the Thomas &
Proetz Lumber Company as Inspector. The mill
cuts about 30,000 feet of lumber a day, prin-
cipally ash, Cottonwood, cypress, gum and oak.
At the beginning of the current year nearly
3,500,000 feet of lumber were in stock there,
with logs enough on hand to last at least until
the month of May. The Belzoni company's out-

put is sold exclusively by the Thomas & Proetz
Lumber Company, which carries a fine stock of
between 5.000,000 and 6,000,000 feet of hard-
woods piled in its St. Louis yards.

•To the ability and industry of Edward W.
Wieso, as well as to the founder, much of the
success and extension of the business of the
Thomas & Froetz Lumber Company is due. Mr.
Wiese entered Mr. Thomas' employ about 1897
as bookkeeper and stenographer, and four years
later acquired a linaueial interest in the concern.
He is now vice president of the St. Louis
company, and secretary and vice president of
the Belzoni Hardwood Lumber Company.

Both Mr. Thomas and Mr. Wiese stand very
high in the esteem of not only their local
contemporaries, but also of manufacturers and
consumers throughout the wide field in which
they have commercial transactions.

Death of John O'Brien.

John O'Brien, president of the John O'Brien
Land & Lumber Company of Chicago, died at
his h.. no'. 452:'. Prairie avenue, on Monday,
February 25. For several years he had not
been in good health, and his large business
interests have been in the hands of his sons.

Mr. O'Brien was born in Tralee, County
Kerry, Ireland, January 6, 1847. At the age of
nineteen he came to Chicago. He spent a
number of years in the employ of lumber con-
cerns, serving in various capacities and learning
the business thoroughly. His first venture for
himself was in 1885, when with P. J. Doyle he
started a yard on Armour avenue, under the
firm name of Doyle & O'Brien. Two years later
Mr. O'Brien bought out Mr. Doyle's interest, and
with George G. Wilcox and Mat. George Green
incorporated the O'Brien & Green Company,
which established a yard at the south end of the
Throop Street bridge. This concern, was capi-
talized at $75.0110. Some years afterward, on
the retirement of Mr. Green, the company was

ganized under the name of the John O'Brien

Lumber Company and removed to Throop and
Twenty-second streets. It conducted a general
wholesale and retail business at that location
until its timber resources began to, decline, when
the yard was closed out and the office removed
to the Chamber of Commerce.

Between the years 1807 and 1903 the com-
pany made several extensive purchases of pine
stumpage in Wisconsin and vicinity and con-
ducted operations in Ashland. Washburn and
Duluth. handling out 500,000,000 feet of lumber
in that length of time. With its exhaustion,
Mr. Wilcox retired from the concern and Mr.
O'Brien and his sons formed the John O'Brien
Land & Lumber Company, capitalized at $300,-
000. They purchased 40,0i"i acres of hardwood
land with sawmill plant, logging railroad, etc.,
in Mississippi, including the village of Phillip.
Here the business has been conducted success-
fully up to the present time.

John O'Brien, Jr., and his brother Robert IV
are at the head of affairs of the Jno. O'Brien
I and & Lumber Company and hold important
offices.

Mr. O'Brien leaves a wife and eight children.
The funeral took place on Thursday, February
28, :it Corpus Christi Church, Chicago; the
interment was at Calvary.

EDWARD W. WIESE, VICE PRESIDENT
TIloMAS & PROETZ LUMBER CO.

Mahogany Ties in Mexico.

J. M. Neeland, vice president of the Pan-
American railroad, now open from a connection
with the Tehuantepec National near San Geron-
imo, Mex., to Pijijiapam, 161 miles, is reported
as saying that hardwood is used almost alto-
gether for ties, and that fully 12 per cent of the
ties thus far laid are mahogany. The chico
zaporte, from which chicle gum is extracted, is
also used. The intense hardness of this tree,
which increases with time after it is cut down,
makes it particularly valuable as a railroad
tie.

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29

American Forestry Honored.

The Forest Service of the United States gov-
ernment is to become a member of the Inter-
national Association of Forest Experiment Sta-
tions. Other countries represented in the asso-
ciation are Germany, Austria. France, Italy,
Russia and Switzerland — the leading countries
in the practice of scientific forestry. The pur-
pose of the association is to standardize experi-
mental work generally, so that the methods of
investigation in each country will be uniform,
and to collaborate in researches affecting two
or more of the countries interested.

That the Forest Service should be able to
enter this association on equal terms with the
European countries through w7hose researches,
conducted for many years, a science of forestry
has been built up, is evidence of the rapid
progress we are making in this science. Ma-
terial development and the practical problems
which it has presented have absorbed most of
our energies, and our contribution to the world's
progress along scientific lines has been in the
field of invention and applied science rather
than in discovery and research.

The science of forestry has until very lately
been altogether foreign to us. It is hardly ten
years since the first attempt to introduce scien-
tific forestry upon American soil was made,
and the opening of the Cornell School of For-
estry in 1S9S was a pioneer step in American
education. Nor was it possible in this field to
import a developed science and start abreast
of European investigators by borrowing their re-
sults. Both the natural and the artificial con-
ditions which determine forest utilization are su
different from those found abroad that a new
science had to be built up from its foundations.

America may well feel proud of the rapid
progress made, for the country is now in posi-
tion to utilize wisely one of its greatest re-
sources and to do what may be done to avert
the national peril threatened by forest destruc-
tion. We have now a science and practice of
forestry based upon American conditions, and
are ready to enter upon the stage of higher sci-
entific research with the other nations repre-
sented in the international association.

Affiliation with foreign workers will ma-
terially aid us on the way toward further goals.
Better and better methods of practical manage-
ment can be devised as knowledge of the under-
lying scientific problems becomes fuller. The
United States will profit also through the eriti
cism of its published results by the older and
more experienced foresters of Europe, since a
part of the plan of cooperation is the mutual
exchange and discussion of forest publications.
The conventions of the associations will give
opportunity for the discussion of international
problems, for personal contact with foreign lead-
ers, and for promoting the feeling of fellowship
among workers in a common field whicli helps to
draw the whole civilized world together.

Foreign forestry will profit from our investi-
gations, because no other country has so wide a
variation in climate or such a wealth of forest
flora as America. As we advance in knowledge
of silviculture we shall place at the disposal
of Europe facts which may well prove of im-
portance for the management of European for-
ests. New species will doubtless be made avail-
able for commercial use abroad, the vexed
problem of the influence of forests on climate
should be brought toward solution, and new
methods of practice will be brought to light.

William Landeck.

On Wednesday, February 27, at his home in
Milwaukee, Wis., occurred the death of William
Landeck, one of the pioneer lumbermen of that
state. Mr. Landeck had been ill but a week,
pneumonia having developed from a severe cold
contracted while on a recent southern trip.

William Landeck was born at Graudenz, Ger-
many, in 1832. In his youth he followed the
trade of cabinetmaker, as did his father. On
coming to America in 1860 he settled at

Hoboken, N. J., where he lived only a year. He
then went to Milwaukee and worked at his
trade for a time, later starting one of the first
sash and door factories in that city. In 1880
he took up the retail lumber business, ami was
connected with a number of yards, some of
which he owned. He then commenced the whole-
sale manufacture of lumber, and in 1SS9 was
instrumental in forming the Page & Landeck
Lumber Company, which owned extensive stump-
age ; 1 1 1 < 1 operated a mill at Crandon. Wis.

Mr. Laudecl; maintained this connection until
about six months ago, and at the time of his
death was contemplating new operations in the
South. Although retiring from active business
in 1893, he always maintained a lively interest
in the affairs of his company ; his sons, who were
in business with him, have conducted it capably
and profitably. Gus J. Landeck, although a
young man, is already a prominent member of
the lumber fraternity.

Mr. Landeck was a man of great commercial
sagacity and integrity, and by his death Mil-
waukee is deprived of one of its most faithful
and respected citizens. A wife and eight chil-
dren survive him.

Sailing, Hanson & Co. Incorporate.

The great lumber manufacturing house of
Sailing, Hanson & Co. of Grayling, Mich., has
recently been incorporated under the name of the
Sailing-Hanson Company. This does not change
the interests of the various members of the old
firm in any wise, since the step was taken
merely to put affairs in such shape that in case
of the retirement of any of its members the
business would not be interrupted. In short,
'the organization is simply a matter of con-
venience.

The Sailing-Hanson Company Is one of the
old-established and foremost lumber manufactur-
ing institutions of the state of Michigan. Its
past history has been very largely identified with
the production of white pine, Norway and hem-
lock, but lately it is entering quite largely into
the production of Michigan hardwoods, of which
it is a large limber holder. Allied houses of the
company are producers of maple and beech
flooring, veneers and a variety of manufactured
hardwood products.

An Improved Factory Truck.

The demand on the part of manufacturers for
better vehicles upon which to move their raw
material and finished product about the factory
seems to have been met in a very satisfactory
fashion by the Gillette Roller Bearing Company
of Grand Rapids, Mich. After a careful study
of the factory truck market this firm has pro-
duced a truck possessing several distinctive fea-
tures, every one of them being the result of an
effort to avoid the annoying defects so common
in the construction of many such vehicles. Of

Meeting Wisconsin Hardwood Lumbermen's
Association.

Secretary A. E. Beebee of McMillan, Wis.,
announces that there will he a special spring
Hireling of the Wisconsin Hardwood Lumber-
men's Association at Grand Rapids, Wis., on
Tuesday. March 19. Matters of much importance
will be brought up at this time and delegates
from the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association,
the National Hardwood Lumber Association and
the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa-
tion will be present.

Open New Hardwood Department.

William Schuette & Co., Inc., the large whole-
sale lumber house with main office in suite 1107
Machesney building, Pittsburg, Pa., has recently

THE GILLETTJfi MALLEABLE
IRON CASTER FORK.

THE GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING AXLE.

these features those for which the makers claim
most are the roller-hearing axle and the mallea-
ble iron caster-fork. It is said that the use of
this axle reduces the draft of the truck one-
third to one-half and adds just that much to the
efficiency of the man who uses It. In support
of this claim the makers cite a letter recently
received from one of their largest customers
who says of their truck : "One man can move a
load of 3,000 pounds, while with many other
trucks it takes three men." Noting the expense
and loss incident upon the breaking of caster-
forks, the makers have provided a fork of mas-
sive construction made of malleable iron and
therefore practically unbreakable.

Other points of merit are the improved stake
pockets, the method of fastening the frame to-
gether and the general character of the con-
struction, all of which are duly emphasized in
a new catalogue Issued by the makers, copies of
which will be sent on request.

added a hardwood department to its business,
and will handle all kinds, both northern and
soul hern, as well as wagon and car stock.

The company has secured some excellent con-
nections both in the North and South, and is
in position to satisfy the requirements of manu-
facturers in the above lines. It announces that
it is "in the market full-fledged and to stay"
and that while the Pittsburg district and tribu-
tary territory is in excellent (one. it docs not
intend to confine operations to that locality
alone, but will go after the trade in the Middle
West as well. R. C. Patterson, a capable and
practical hardwood man. is in charge of the new
department.

William Schuette & Co., Inc., will undoubt-
edly take an important position in the hardwood
line, and rapidly build up an extensive clientage,
since its operations are based upon absolutely
square dealing, and its reputation as a pine con-
cern has always been unassailable.

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A Competent Inspection Force.

The Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of
the United States is justly proud of its inspec-
tion force, and the following sketch of the indi-
vidual members of it, with accompanying pho-
tographs, will be of interest to the trade, and

H. M. Marshall, a native Virginian, has spent
practically his entire life in the lumber indus-
try and by his travels in West Virginia, Ken-
tucky, Virginia. Tennessee, Mississippi and ad-
joining states has become thoroughly familiar
with all kinds of hardwoods ; most of this time
has been spent in the inspection of lumber. He

J. V. HILL, CHICAGO, CHIEF INSPECTOR.

particularly to manufacturers who have come
in contact with their careful and conscientious
work in the past.

J. V. Hill, chief inspector of the Hardwood
Manufacturers' Association, is a native of Ohio,
and was born and raised in the vicinity of Co-
lumbus. Since early boyhood he has been en-
gaged in one lumbering pursuit or another, and
has successfully filled a wide variety of posi-
tions connected with the manufacturing of tim-
ber into lumber and placing it upon the market,
so that he is thoroughly conversant with every
detail of production and grading. He has spent
considerable time at various periods in the
employ of manufacturing consumers, especially
of dimension stock. He has been employed by

JOHN F. FOUNTAIN, STURGEON, MO., TRAV-
ELING INSPECTOR.

entered the employ of the Manufacturers' asso-
rt: "Hun iu November, 1906, and was shortly
thereafter located in the St. Louis district,
where he handles the inspections of the local
trade, and also travels to mill points or to the
plants of. consumers as occasion may require.
Mr. Marshall has shown himself peculiarly
adapted to the duties of such a position.

E. W. Hill Is a brother of J. V. Hill, and like
him has spent a large part of his time in various
phases of the lumber industry, making a special
study of the wants of manufacturing consumers.
He was employed' by the association late in 1906.
and is well qualified both by his intimate knowl-
edge "I hardwood lumber and his personal char-

that section, and becoming thoroughly acquainted
with all forms of the product, both rough and
dressed. Later he spent considerable time in
the Southwest and became familiar with cotton-
wood, gum and other hardwoods of western Ten-
nessee and contiguous territory. He has been
employed by the association since March, 1906,
and has thoroughly convinced the management
of his integrity and ability to interpret and ap-
ply the rules of the bureau of grades. He is
employed as traveling inspector.

E. W.- HILL, COLUMBUS, 0., TRAVELING
INSPECTOR.

t lie Hardwood Manufacturers' Association since
1903, and by his thorough study of the grading
question and careful application of its prin-
ciples, both at mill points and in consuming
territories, h» has become an authority on such
matters.

H. M. MARSHALL, ST. LOUIS, MO., DISTRICT
INSPECTOR.

acteristlcs for the position of traveling inspec-
tor which he holds.

John F. Fountain was born and bred in cen-
tral Missouri. He began his career as a lumber
inspector in eastern Tennessee, spending con-
siderable time studying the woods indigenous to

American Woodworking Machinery Company
Removal.

The space covered by the American Woodwork-
ing Machinery Company's salesrooms at 43-45
Canal street, Chicago, will soon be utilized by
the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company
for Its new depot, which will necessitate the
removal of the former in the near future. Ac-
cordingly the American has secured offices in
the new Fisher building. Dearborn and Van
Buren streets, and the sales department will be
located there on and after May 1. In order that
the company may have a large stock of ma-
chinery on hand to show prospective buyers it is
now building a large warehouse at Thirty-sixth
and Morgan streets, which will have Chicago
Junction railway switching tracks, making it a
general distributing point in the West for the
company's different factories ; wire connections
will be maintained with every freight depot in
Chicago.

Simmons Lumber Company.

The timber holdings, plant and equipment of
the Simmons Lumber Company, located on Duel
lake in Mackinac county, Michigan, have been
purchased by the newly organized Earle Lumber
Company, of which Dr. W. O. Earle, president
of the Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company of
Hermansville, is at the head. The railroad
which connects Simmons with the Soo Line, as
well as the sawmill, timber, village buildings,
etc., are all taken over by the Earle interests.
The Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company is one
of the largest manufacturers of hardwood floor-
ing and other dressed hardwood products in the
North.

Superintendent S. G. McClellan, to whose ef-
forts and business ability the village of Simmons
largely owes its existence, and who has been for
some time at the head of operations for the
Simmons Lumber Company, has been engaged by
the new concern and will continue in the same
capacity. Work is going ahead briskly again. '

Miscellaneous Notes.

C. R. Cummings, the well-known lumber
exporter of Houston, Tex., is removing his
Saliine mill to Beaumont, where it will be set
up on a recently purchased, site on the Neches
river. The mill has a daily capacity of 50,000
feet and new and improved machinery will be
added which will considerably increase the out-
put. Mr. Cummings expects to use the mill
principally for cutting hardwoods for export to
Europe, but some pine will also be turned out.
The mill will be in operation in about eight
weeks.

The Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company of
Curtin, W. Va., has recently purchased 9,000
acres of fine hardwood timber land in Nicholas
and Greenbrier counties, the price paid not
having been made public. The property is
adjacent to the company's operations at Curtin
and contains some very choice timber.

The Union Lumber Company has been organ-
ized with $100,000 capital stock by Perry Hatt
of Hillsboro, Ind. ; George C. Pratt of Indian-
apolis, and C. F. Johnson of Casey, 111. The
new company will engage in a wholesale busi-
ness in hardwoods and yellow pine and will
maintain offices at 817 Lemcke building, Indian-
apolis, and in the Casey National Bank building,
Casey. III. Arrangements have been made
whereby the company becomes the exclusive.

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agents of the Nashville Hardwood Flooring Com-
pany and John It. Ransom & Co., both well-
known concerns of Nashville, Tenn.

The Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company, whose
Marshfield plant was burned February 17, suf-
fered another severe loss by tire a few nights
later, when its Park Falls saw and shingle mill
was destroyed. The estimated damage is about
$30,000, with $20,000 insurance. Rebuilding
will be commenced at once, and the company
expects to be running again within two months.
The planing mill aud lumber yards were saved
through hemic efforts of firemen.

The Orange Judd Farmer reports that initial
shipments oi" denatured alcohol have been made
from distilleries at Peoria, 111., to New York,
where it is quoted at 37 cents a gallon in single
barrels and 36 cents in lots, the equivalent of
::i cents in Peoria, package included. The price
of wood alcohol has dropped from To to 45
cents.

Marion Creek of Hartford City, Ind.. has pur
chased a large tract of timber land in Arkansas,
and is about to install a sawmill and commence
Lumber operations. The tract contains several
of the valuable kinds of timber for which that
state is noted.

The city of Hartford, Conn., prides itself on
its plentiful supply of beautiful shade trees,
and the city council is about to act upon an

ordinance presented by several of its members
recommending the appointment "i a city fur-
ester. This progressive measure provides that
the care of trees in the city Streets shall he
vested in the streel board, which shall have
power to appoint a city forester t«i act under its
direction, and to reporl annually what he has
done and proposes to do regarding care of
old trees and the planting of new ones; the new
officer to be recompensed at not more than $5 a
day ami the expense of carrying out his work to
be borne by the city.

The Western Wood Bending company has
been Incorporated at Kilbert, Calumet county.
Wisconsin, with a capital of $25,000 ; the in-
corporators are Peter Westenberger, .1. Brill and
IS. Schreiner.

Reports from Birchwood, Wis., say that the
recent thaw has injured logging roads to a
considerable extent. The Arpin Hardwood Com-
pany, which has several camps south of Birch-
wood, may be obliged to leave about L',i .nun

feet of logs on skids if the bad weather con-
tinues.

A late report from the Department of Agri-
culture shows that Michigan mines have been
consuming more timber than those of any other
state; Minnesota, Colorado and Alabama follow
closely in consumption. The demand for timber
for mining purposes is increasing rapidly.

HardWood NeWs.

(By HARDWOOD KECOBD Special Correspondents.)

Chicago.

The Pullman Palace Car Company has do-
nated $500 to the firemen's pension fund in
appreciation of the successful efforts of the
firemen to save the lumber yards of the com-
pany, which were menaced by fire recently.

A fire which for a time threatened to spread
over the vast lumber district south of West
Twenty-second street .started in over-heated dry
kilns of the National Box Company at West
Thirty-eighth street and Center avenue, Febru-
ary 24. Only hard work on the part of firemen
saved adjoining property. Lumber piles belong-
ing to the box company were burned and a
freight house damaged, their loss being about
$35,000.

The plant of the E. J. Davis Manufacturing

1 pany, makers of cabinets and shutters, at

Wes( Twenty first and Morgan streets, was dam-
aged by fire February 23 to the extent of
$25,000. The fire swept through the lumber
yards and for a time threatened to do much
greater damage.

The Schlimau & Mitchell Company has been
incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000
to manufacture and deal in picture frames and
moldings ; the incorporators are Benj. Schliman,
(lias. Mitchell and F. W. Kraft.

F. B. Cockrell announces that the business
heretofore conducted by him under his name
at T.'is -9 National Life building, Chicago, has
been incorporated, and after March 1 will be
known as the F. B. Cockrell Lumber Company.
This change is made necessary for the better
handling of increasing business. The new offices
of the company will be located at 820 First
National Bank building, and inquiries for hard-
wood, yellow pine and western stock will be
looked after with the usual careful attention.

An announcement from J. Richardson, Arenig,
Oaklelgh Park, London, England, dated February
16, says that on the suggestion of several firms
of brokers and merchants he has taken up the
work of arbitrator and expert in the hardwood
timber business. Mr. Richardson was connected
with Wm. Mallinson & Co. for twenty-two years
and has traveled in Mexico, Cuba, India, Bur-
mah and often through the United States and
Canada, so that he is thoroughly familiar with
the grading of American hardwoods, pine and
spruce, as well as mahogany, teak, all kinds of
veneers, etc.

After a trip to Montreal, Quebec and other

Canadian points, Joseph II. Dion of the promi-
nent hardwood firm of Maisey & Dion, this city,
has returned to his duties with renewed energy.

Theodore Fathauer, president of the Theo.
Fathauer Company, has returned to his office
after a slight illness which kept him at home
several days. W. M. Hopkins of this company
is making an extended trip to Little Rock and
other Arkansas cities, and Memphis, returning
by way of Louisville and Cincinnati.

William Wilms of the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber
Company returned a few days ago from a trip to
the southern operations of the company in
Mississippi and Arkansas. He reports conditions
in producing territory more favorable than for
some time.

The Hardwood Rkcokd has received a very
artistic calendar from Taylor & Crate of Buffalo,
N. Y., for which it wishes to express thanks.

II. B. Leavitt of the Leavitt Lumber Company
has gone to Florida for an extended stay. As
soon as he recovered sufficiently from an attack
of la grippe, from which he suffered last month,
Mr. Leavitt left for the balmy climate of Florida
w here he is now improving steadily.

The Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company
was over-generous in its gift of a half-dozen
aluminum ash trays to its friends in the trade.
These convenient little articles which were de-
signed by Sales Manager D. S. Hutchinson are
a pleasant reminder of the great Nashville
flooring concern.

W. C. Winchester of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
largely interested in several important hardwood
producing companies of northern Wisconsin, was
a caller at the Record office last week.

Advices have been received from the New
Orleans Lumber Exporters' Association stating
that at a recent meeting J. O. Elmer was
engaged as permanent secretary. Mr. Elmer has
been dock agent of the New Orleans Terminal
Company at Port Chalmette for the last eight
years, and has had thorough experience in rail-
road and steamship matters, so that the associa-
tion is to be congratulated upon securing a
secretary who will be able to handle the work
so competently and successfully.

II. I". Wiborg of the Wiborg & Hanna Com-
pany, Cincinnati, was in Chicago recently, en
route home from Milwaukee.

W. W. Mitchell of Cadillac was in the city
last week visiting friends.

R. J. Clark, president of the Teninsula Bark

& Lumber Company of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.,
spent several days in town.

.1. D. Lacey of tin1 well known house of J. D.
Lacey ,^ Co., timber brokers, returned to the
Chicago "Hire February 27. after an eastern trip.

Wood Beale of the sat ncern left recently

for the Pacific coast.

The Hardwood Record lias received from the
Brownlee-Kelly Company, manufacturers of
hardwood, hemlock and yellow pine lumber,
Detroit, Midi., a very neat little paper cutter.

A meeting of the executive committee of the
National Hardwood Lumber Association was
held at the organization's Chicago offices on
Wednesday, February 27. The program for the
forthcoming annual meeting at Atlantic City
was discussed, sundry inspection matters were
cleaned up anil considerable routine business
transacted.

A conference lias been arranged between com-
mittees of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso-
ciation and the New York Lumber Trade Asso-
ciation to take place in New York on Tuesday,
March 19. The object of the conference is to
attempt to arrive at a mutual agreement on the
subject of the proposed union inspection rules.
The committee that will act on behalf of the
National association consists of Vice President
o. O. Agler, Director Earl Palmer and Geo. D.
Burgess, The committee of the New York Lum-
ber Trade Association consists of P. Moore,
Waldron Williams, .7. H. Eckstein, William F.
Clarke, Charles Grant, Charles K. Buckley, J.
C. Turner, Robert W. Higbie, T. S. Miller and
Sam E. Barr.

His name is George Washington Kimball ; he
arrived on February 22; his weight is 9%
pounds — and he is the latest addition to the
family of Carl V. Kimball of the A. R. Vinnedge
Lumber Company.

A. R. Vinnedge spent a few days among the
St. Louis trade last week.

The Ferd Urenner Lumber Company an-
nounces that it has recently removed its gen-
eral offices to the Tank of Commerce building,
Norfolk, Va., from its yards at Pinners Point.
The company is here more centrally located and
will now be able to handle its large and grow-
ing business with greater convenience.

A. de Jong & Zonen, timber agents of Amster-
dam, Holland, announce that their office has
been removed from Keizersgracht 211 t<> Roelof
Hartstraat i2:',.

Boston.

Frank W. Lawrence of Lawrence & Wiggin
was in Washington last week in attendance at
the annual convention of the National Wholesale
Lumber Dealers' Association, held there March
0 and 7. William E. Litchfield also attended
this convention.

E. S. Nail, president of the Mansfield Lumber
Company, Mansfield, it., was a recent visitor in
Boston.

Frank A. A rend of F. A. Arend & Co., Boston,
has been obliged to give up active business for
a short time at least, due to ill health. He is
now abroad.

Charles S. Wentworth of Charles S. Went-
worth & Co. has been making a trip through
the South.

John F. Steeves of C. E. Gales & Co., New
York, was in Boston recently.

Morris A. Hall of the Hall Lumber Company,
this city, has returned from a trip to the Pacific
coast.

It. B. Currier of t lie Springfield Lumber Com-
pany, Springfield, Mass.. called upon the trade
here last week.

The Metropolitan Lumber Exchange of Boston
is now well established in new rooms on Mer-
chants"" Row. The second floor is given up to
general business. The third floor is devoted
entirely to the dining room and forty to fifty
members of the trade are served there dally.

The Hawkes Bay Lumber Company of Boston
has been incorporated with a capital stock of

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$100,000. The incorporators are Jarvis E.
Baker, William F. Bowman and Samuel W. Cul-
bert.

Harry B. Clark of Sweet, Clark & Co. has
given up his office on Exchange place and has
been elected vice president of the Boston Lum-
ber Company. Mr. Clark's southern and west-
ern business will be conducted in the future by
the Boston Lumber Company.

The annual meeting of the Mutual Fire Insur-
ance Company of Boston was held February 27
in this city. The following officers were elected :
George W. Gale, president ; Horace B. Shepard,
first vice president ; Jerome C. Borden, second
vice president; William O. Curtis, treasurer; H.
E. Stone, secretary; John Dieckelmann, Jr.,
assistant secretary ; directors, Alfred W. Booth,

A. W. Booth & Bro., Bayonne City, N. J. ;
Jerome C. Borden, Cook, Borden & Co., Fall
River, Mass. ; Edwin Bradley, treasurer Mer-
rick Lumber Company, Holyoke, Mass. ; K.

B. Currier, president Springfield Lumber
Company, Springfield, Mass. ; William O.
Curtis, president William Curtis' Sons Com-
pany, Boston ; George H. Davenport, Daven-
port, Peters & Co., Boston ; George W. Gale,
president George W. Gale Lumber Company,
Cambridgeport, Mass. ; Louis A. Mansfield, New
Haven, Conn. ; E. S. Nail, president Mansfield
Lumber Company, Mansfield, O. ; William M.
Paul, J. F. Paul Company, Boston ; William H.
Sawyer, president W. EL Sawyer Lumber Com-
pany, Worcester, Mass. ; Horace B. Shepard,
president Shepard & Morse Lumber Company,
Boston ; John F. Steeves, Church E. Gates &
Co., New York City ; John B. Bugbee, Holt &
Bugbee, Boston ; George E. Kimball, llingham,
Mass. __s "^

New York.
The local members of Hoo-Hoo headed by Vice-
gerent Charles F. Fischer held a delightful con-
catenation at Reisenweber's Circle Hotel on
March 1, at which time a class of ten candidates,
among whom were several students of the For-
estry School, Yale University, was initiated.
Plans were also discussed for the raising of New
York's share of the finances necessary to enter-
tain the order at Atlantic City nest September.
Fire at Mount Vernon, N. Y., on February 27
totally destroyed the big planing mill, woodwork
ing plant and lumber yards of Hartman Broth-
ers, together with considerable adjoining prop
erty. The total loss is $300,000.

The Astoria Veneer Mills of Long Island City,
the biggest manufacturers of mahogany and for-
eign hardwoods in the country and which does
practically all the sawing for the mahogany trade
of New York City and the East, has just in-
stalled a mammoth veneer slicer weighing fifty
tons. It was manufactured by the Coe Manu-
facturing Company, the- large veneer machinery
manufacturers of Painesville. <>.. and can resaw
flitches up to a size of 32x32 inches. 12 feet long,
with thirty-two strokes to the minute. An in-
teresting feature of this great machine is the
fact that it was built under patent owned by
William II. Williams, president of the Astoria
Veneer Mills, who has a wide experience in that
line of manufacture.

Guy E. Robinson, 1123 Broadway, and Laurens
P. Rider, 1 Madison avenue, who are well known
in the local wholesale trade, returned last week
on the Cedric after a pleasure trip abroad.

The Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company
of Scranton, Pa., is now thoroughly settled in
its new sales office at IS Broadway, where A. S.
Buckman, sales representative for the metropoli-
tan district, will make his headquarters. E. C.
Collins, representative in Long Island and Brook-
lyn, will likewise make the office his stopping
place when in town. This well-known company
is manufacturing 10,000,000 feet of spruce and
hardwoodsper month and will, through the new
office, pay still closer attention to the demand
of the local market.

Jacob Bayer, who for the past twenty-six

years has been identified with leading retail
hardwood houses in the local district, has en-
gaged on his own account under the style of the
Jacob Bayer Lumber Company, 602 to 606 West
Fifty-seventh street, where he will conduct a
retail hardwood business, making his specialty
high-grade stock and wheelwright and automo-
bile material.

George H. Storm of G. H. Storm & Co., foot
East Seventy-second street, is on a pleasure trip
with Mrs. Storm to Cuba and Florida points.

Another addition to the local retail hardwood
trade is the Balfour & Koch Company, recently
incorporated, to operate at the foot of East
Thirtieth street, on the property previously oc-
cupied by the Jacob Doll Piano Company. This
company is composed of George R. Balfour, Jr.,
and Henry Koch, both of whom were previously
associated with the American Lumber Company
of this city, and F. C. Buckhout, the well-known
retailer at the foot of East Thirtieth street. The
interest of Mr. Buckhout in the new corporation,
together with the wide experience of the other
two gentlemen, starts the corporation out under
most favorable auspices. They will carry a full
line of hardwood lumber suitable for the local
trade and will likewise install a complete dry
kilcing plant with a capacity of 50,000 feet. .

Business is reported excellent by C. O. Shep-
herd,, the popular local representative of the
Emporium Lumber Company, 1 Madison avenue.
The big mills of the company are running full
time turning out a large output of all kinds of
hardwood lumber, but the demands of the trade
are such as to keep the output well absorbed.

George B. Breon of the Breon Lumber Com-
pany, Williamsport, Pa., was a recent visitor in
the mterest of business. His company has just
started up a big poplar and cypress operation
at Ulmers, S. C, the new mill having a capacity
of 40,000 feet a day. From the Williamsport
March 4 at the Commercial Club in this city.
ash and chestnut.

S. L. Eastman, S. L. Eastman Flooring Com-
pany, Saginaw, Mich., was a visitor last week
in the interest of business. Mr. Eastman spoke
optimistically of the general hardwood trade and
looks for an active year.

The special conference which has been ar-
ranged between representatives of the New York
Lumber Trade Association aud the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association to consider hardwood
inspection matters pertinent to the New York
market, as noted in the last issue of the Hard-
wood Record, has been scheduled to take place
in this city on March 19, at which time a promi-
nent delegation from both organizations will
consider the subject.

Philadelphia.

On account of the annual convention of the
National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association,
held at the new Willard Hotel, Washington, D.
C, on March 0 and 7, which was attended by
quite a number of the Exchange members, the
regular monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's
Exchange was postponed until March 14. At
the request of the Georgia Interstate Saw Mill
Association, Tifton, Ga., for a conference with
those associations and exchanges which assisted
in the making of the 1905 rules, a committee
of members of the Exchange attended a large
meeting at Jacksonville, Fla., on February 26,
for the purpose of a joint consideration of
inspection rules, etc.

John J. Rumbarger, treasurer of the Rum-
harger Lumber Company, recently returned from
New York, where he called upon the trade and
at (he company's office. Frank T. Rumbarger
of this concern reports all their mills actively
engaged, orders piling up, and with the exception
of the car service, business is moving along in
good shape.

The Boice Lumber Company, Inc.. is busy.
Through Vice President C. E. Lloyd, Jr., in
charge of the Philadelphia end, trade has rapidly
increased, necessitating an extension of capacity.

The company recently purchased the entire out-
put of three hardwood mills in the Tennessee
district, which added to the product of its other
mills, will enable it to meet all demands.

Miller & Miller have engaged Geo. C. Tidden,
who was formerly with the Rappahannock Lum-
ber Company as salesman, to represent them in
the eastern Pennsylvania and New York district.
The firm reports its hardwood department active,
with good orders coming in.

John Halfpenny of Halfpenny & Hamilton is
on a stock hunting trip in West Virginia. R. C.
Hamilton of this firm reports the hardwood end
of their business prosperous, and their New Y'ork
office showing good results.

Among the recent visitors to the trade were
James H. Krom of Krom Lumber Company,
Krom, Wash. ; Mr. Mason of Saxon Lime &
Lumber Company, Bluefield, W. Va. ; G. W.
Shank of Virginia Lumber Company, Inc.,
Staunton, Va. ; W. A. McLean, vice president
and general manager of Wood-Mosaic Flooring
Company, New Albany, Ind. ; J. M. Frost, Ethel-
felts, Va., and F. E. Highley, Glade Mountain
Lumber Company, Atkins, Va.

The Millville National Bank of Millville, N. J.,
an old and strong financial institution, is about
to erect a handsome new building on the north-
west corner of Main and High streets, at an
estimated cost of $65,000. An interesting fea-
ture in connection with this work is that the
contract has been awarded to F. Reeves & Son,
lumber dealers and contractors of this place, the
senior partner of which firm erected the building
now occupied by the bank, fifty years ago.

The Kimball & Prince Lumber Company of
Vineland, N. J., the most extensive mill-work
and lumber concern in southern New Jersey,
reports the past year to have been an eminently
prosperous one in every respect, and the outlook
for 1907 equally good. This concern is an old
one, having been established in 1870, and has
always borne in business dealing a reputation
lor reliability and integrity. It traded as Kim-
ball & Prince until nearly a year ago, when the
business was incorporated. Mr. Prince, although
a stockholder, has retired from active work and
the management is now successfully conducted
by the president, Myron J. Kimball, and his son.

Robert Wilson of Franklinville, N. J., who for
years has been a dealer in telegraph poles, owns
some five thousand acres of timber land scattered
over southern New Jersey containing cedar, oak,
chestnut and pine. He will invest in a portable
mill to cut same.

A deal was recently announced, in which J. W.
Lusher of Titusville, Pa., and G. S. Hastings of
Tidioute, Pa., sold to W. B. Poor of Shamburg,
Pa., 1,144 acres of fine oak and chestnut timber
land on Beaver Run, about eight miles east of
Hickory, Pa.

The Wills Creek Lumber Company of Pitts-
burg was incorporated under Pennsylvania laws
February 21 ; authorized capital, $10,000. The
incorporators are John H. Madden, Wilkinsburg,
Pa. ; John Eichenlaub, Pittsburg, Ta., and How-
ard Phillips, Meyersdale, Fa.

The present J. G. Brill Company, recently
incorporated under Pennsylvania laws with $10,-
000,000 capital stock, is a consolidation of the
various car-building companies, hitherto con-
trolled by the Brill interests. It will assume
all the obligations and contracts of the old con-
cern, and take over from the Brill interests the
entire capital stock of the American Car Com-
pany of St. Louis, the G. C. Kuhlman Car
Company of Cleveland and the John Stephenson
Company of Elizabeth. The officers are : Presi-
dent, James Rawle ; vice president, John A.
Brill ; second vice president and general man-
ager, Samuel M. Curwen ; treasurer, Edward
Brill, and secretary, M. Herman Brill.

Baltimore.
The monthly meeting of the managing com-
mittee of the Lumber Exchange and the quar-
terly meeting of the latter body were held last

HARDWOOD RECORD

Monday afternoon, the committee assembling at
the rooms of the exchange and the larger body
in t In- Merchants' Club. Among the business
discussed was a recommendation of the inspec-
tion committee Involving a radical change in the
system of Inspecting lumber; Heretofore the ex-
change has licensed a number of inspectors,
who would be called by members as needed.
Tims, the larger dealers commanded the services
nf Inspectors nearly all the time and smaller
dialers were unable to have their work dune
promptly. The Inspectors depended mi ids. and
there was hesitancy about increasing the force
because ibis would have resulted in cutting down
i be earnings nf tic men. The inspection com-
mittee recommended that the by-laws be amended
sn as to permit the appointment of a chief in-
spector with a corps of men under him, he to
have charge nf all the work, t" name his subor-
dinates and in detail inspectors whenever they
are needed. The plan was worked out by Ridgaway
Merryman, chairman of the committee, who has
given the matter serious thought and lias also
Studied the systems in effect elsewhere. It was
decided to lake up the proposed amendment for
final action at a special meeting to be held March
IS. It is proposed to increase Hie inspection lee

fj 1 i'.~> to :'.n cents per 1,000 feet, the extra 5

cents to be used in creating a fund which will
enable the chief inspector to pay inspectors with-
out compelling them to waste time in collecting
small amounts. The adoption of means to pre-
vent the selling by wholesalers and mill men
direct to builders, who are classed as consumers,
was also discussed, but no action was taken.
Winn the business in band bad been disposed of
the members of the exchange sat down to an
elaborate dinner.

A systematic agitation has been inaugurated
by the National Lumber Exporters' Asso-
ciation, through Secretary E. M. Terry, against
the shipping of lumber to foreign countries on

consignment. The move lit is designed to

check a practice which cannot lie otherwise than
harmful to the trade. Another matter which
engaged the attention of Mr. Terry was the
influencing of congress in favor of the re-
ciprocal demurrage bill, but the adjournment
of the national lawmaking body lias made fur-
ther efforts in tliis direction useless for the
present. Mr. Terry has all bis books and pa-
pers in shape now and is as hard at work as
ever in bis office in the Equitable building.

John A. Murphy of the Liverpool firm of
Vincent, .Murphy & Co. was in Baltimore recently
and called on several firms here with a view
to interesting them in the purchase of African
mahogany logs, Mr. Murphy's firm is a large
importer of such logs and he has come to the
United States to establish a number of connec-
tions through which a part of these receipts
can be distributed in the American market.

The Felippe A. Broadbent Mantel Company of
this city, which operates what is said to be the
largest factory of its kind in the world, has
increased Its capital stock t.. $200,000. The
increase will be used to Improve the plant, which
is to be operated by electricitj throughout.

Among the visiting lumbermen here during the
past ten days was R. W. Wistar of Wistar, H'n-
derhill .v Co., the well known Philadelphia bard
wood firm.

Pittsburg.
Better weather lias helped the hardwood manu-
facturers greatly the past two weeks. The mills
of Western Pennsylvania and Ohio which were
tied up the early part of the winter by the bad
roads have been able to do much of their skid-
ding on snow and with the frozen roads have
got a large amount of lumber at the track ready
for ears. The river mills have repaired the
damage done by the January floods and are once
more running full time — many of them double
time. In the hardwood districts" that contribute
most to the Pittsburg market it is probable thai
the cut of logs will be larger than last year, to
judge from present estimates by wholesalers.

The Kendall Lumber Company will increase
i be output of its mill at Crellin, Mil., from 70,-
iioii to 125,000 feet per day in a short time. Sec-
retary J. II. Henderson last week booked an
older for 15,000 ties and says the market for
tics is mie of Hi,, brightest features of the local
market.

YV. E, Terbune of the W. E. Terhune Lumber

C puny Is back from a long I rip through the

Northwest.

The J. M. Hastings Lumber Company is one
of the largest producers of oak in Hie city this
winter, its plant at Jacksonburg, W. Va., has
I n very busy for six months and E. B. Ham-
ilton is now liter,, keeping things on the rush.
Mr. Hastings is taking quite a trip through the
South this month.

The Buckeye Lumber Company is doing a rush-
ing business at its Pennsylvania and West Vir-
ginia mills. Hie larger part of Hie cut being
hardwood lumber. A big proportion of its logs
are cut into wagon stock, but it is also getting
out considerable heavy dimension stock. Man-
ager c. L. Wicket-sham reports more buying
among the out-of-town yards and looks for a
very busy summer in hardwoods.

Ties and railroad stock are keeping J. E. Me-
II vain & Co. busy this winter. J. J. Penney is
now in West Virginia looking up new stocks of
ties, the company's present demand being much
in excess of its available supply.

W. W. Dickey of the West Virginia Lumber
Company has gone to California for his health
and will not return until late in the spring.
The company is getting out a good winter's cut
of lumber at its mills at Johnson City, Tenn.

J. X. Wollett, general manager of the American
Ln tuber & Manufacturing Company, says that
during I be months of January and February the
American booked more hardwood business than
during the entire year 1906. This was due in
large part to the fact that it bad planned a
strenuous campaign months before and had
stocks of hardwood at its Tennessee and West
Virginia plants that were dry and ready for
shipment. Then, too. its trade in southwestern
hardwoods contributed largely to the total, gum
and cottonwood being sold through the middle
west in Large quantities. Mr. Woollett is an en-
tbusiast on southwestern woods, and will start
next week on an extended trip through Louis-
iana, Arkansas, Indian Territory, Florida, Ten-
nessee and Kentucky.

William M. Pownall, manager of the Colonial
Lumber Company, will shortly open a New York
office.

r. E. Kimball of Cleveland, manager of the
Southern Lumber Company, was in the city a
few- days ago to complete arrangements with
Robert E. Gannon for representing the new com-
pany here. Mr. Gannon litis looked after the
interests of the Saginaw Bay Company bore for
years ami the Southern is Identified with it to
quite an extent in general interests.

Fred R. Babcock, .1. I.. Lytic and K. D. Baker
will represent the Pittsburg Wholesale Lumber
Dealers' Association at the Washington conven
tion this week. J. G. Criste of Hie Interior

Lumber Company, E. II. Si r of tin' Flint.

Erving & Stoner Company and Air. Lytle will be
a committee from the Pittsburg association to
confer with the representatives of the associa-
tions from Cleveland. Saginaw. Toledo and Cin
cinnati, which work along much the same lines
as He- Pittsburg organization.

The .lames I. M. Wilson Lumber Company,
which makes a specialty of poles, is up to its
cars in orders just now. Orders for more than

5, more poles than it has in stock are now

on its books and the market seems to be tight-
ening among the producers. Chestnut poles are
going up in price and are scarce, Mr. Wilson
says, because so many owners of chestnut timber
an- cutting it into lumber.

The Parsons-Cross Lumber, Company wound up
tin- months of February in a way to make the

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managers very well pleased. Through its good
connections at Cleveland and other points the
new company is enabled to gel right into the
center of Hie market in Pittsburg at the start.

The Pittsburg Lumbermen's Mutual Fire In-
surance Company has elected Car] Vandervort
secretary and general manager of its Pittsburg
office. This office will cover Pennsylvania, West
Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky. About twenty-live
firms have already joined.

<i. II. Rectanus of the a. M. Turner Lumber
Company and G. W. Cantrell of the Herman H.
Ilettler Lumber Company attended the recent
concatenation of Hoo-Hoo at Philadelphia. They
are now working up an event for the Pittsburg
Hoo-Hoo which is likely to surpass anything of
lb'- sort that lias ever been seen west of the
Alleghanies.

Detroit.
William W. Kelly of Hie Bjrownlee-Kelly
C pany, large hardwood manufacturing con-
cern, has been on a live weeks' trip through
Cuba and Mexico. He is now at Hie company's
plant at Cisco, Georgia.

Albert T. Allan, a city alderman who was
general manager of the Manufacturers' Lumber
Company, controlled by the Vintons, has re-
signed and gone into the wholesale lumber busi-
ness with his brother, A. E. D. Allan. They
have offices at 610-61] Majestic building, and
will handle yellow pine and hardwoods.

Itussell A. Alger, Jr., lias been elected bead of
the large Michigan lumber interests controlled
by bis father, the late Senator Alger, who died
iti February.

Notice of the dissolution of the partnership
of Chesbrough Brothers, large lumber operators
in upper Michigan with main offices in the
Penobscot building, Detroit, and articles of
incorporation of the Chesbrough Lumber Com-
pany have been filed. This is the result of
Fremont B. Chesbrough's having bought out the
interest of A. W. Chesbrough of Toledo and
Frank I". Chesbrough of Detroit. The Ches-
brough mills are in Emerson, Chippewa county.
Tlie linn, is one of the largest holders of stand-
ing hardwood and pine timber in the state.

Mayor Thompson of Detroit has been trying to
stir up a rumpus with the Board of Works,
alleging many things which he has had dif-
ficulty in proving. He says the city is in the
grip of a lumber trust and declares that the
Board of Works has been purposely playing
into the hands of this alleged "combine." Most
of the trouble was over the tiling of specifica-
tions for Norway pine and for hemlock. Local
wholesalers say the bids were drawn up at a
time when lumber was low and Hie city has
really profited by Hie recent: boost in prices.
They laugh at the idea of a ••combine."

That the great railroad car manufacturers are
gradually establishing big branches in the south-
ern states, nearer to the inexhaustible supplies
of hardwood ami pine, is the story told by
George McClure of McClure Brothers, which
concern owns large mills at Eutau, Ala. Mr.
McClure says the South is greater now, as a
lumber market, than ever before

Clayton Gibson, who recently sold out his
Wolverine Box Company to the Manufacturers'
Lumber Company, has started on tin extensive
hardwood buying trip through the southern
states. Mr. Gibson is now in the wholesale
lumber trade. He is thinking of settling in the
South.

The Brownlee Kelly Company has sent out to
its patrons a very neat advertising souvenir ln
the shape of a celluloid paper cutter.

Saginaw Valley.
The weather has been especially favorable for
logging operations this winter There has not
been enough snow to call out the snow plows
on railroads hauling logs, and not enough to
bother operations in the woods at all. The
wen t her has been generally snug. Some est!

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mates have been made that the log output
will be smaller than a year ago, but there isn't
anything to satisfactorily make this apparent.
Hardwood lumber is more than a dollar a thou-
sand higher than it was a year ago, there is
a better tone to the trade, more inquiry and
a better winter to operate in. These condi-
tions would naturally encourage log owners and
millmen to do their best. Early in the season
there was a dearth of men, and there are none
too large crews now, but lately there is heard
less complaint. Teams have been exceedingly
scarce and everything that can draw a sleigh
is wanted. The supply of teams is inadequate.
On the other hand there are no evidences of
Spring coming on.

Last year there was manufactured on the
Lake Huron shore approximately 70,000,000 feei
of hardwood lumber. Reports are in from all
save a few portable and three or four isolated
sawmills the output of which is small. This
includes the territory between Bay City and
Cheboygan and east of the Mackinac division
of the Michigan Central railroad, but it does
not include the output of the Saginaw river
mills, the output of the latter being 55,000,000,

Lumber was well sold up in the latter part
• it" the year and dealers went into the winter
with rather light stocks. Meantime the trade
has brightened up and there is more inquiry.
The prospects for the year appear to be much
better than they were a year ago.

The Athens Lumber Company at Athens is
buying and cutting a large quantity of oak and
other big timber. The company has two steam
loaders engaged in loading the timber and three
cars of logs are shipped daily to New York
and go thence by boat to England.

Alpena has bonded itself for the purpose of
extending to that city from Gaylord the Boyne
City, Gaylord & Alpena railroad. This road is
owned by the White brothers of Coyne city,
among the largest lumber operators in the state,
and it has been in operation to Gaylord since
last Spring. It is devoted chiefly to lumber-
ing business. If the road goes through to
Alpena it will traverse one of the most ex-
tensive belts of hardwood timber in the state.

At Elwell, Tubbs & Son are shipping out by-
rail 200,000 feet of hardwood lumber, and John
Miller is sawing 500,000 feet of logs for Clark
& Hooper.

At Cheboygan last year M. D. Olds manufac-
tured 8,000,000 feet of mixed hardwoods and
is making extensive improvements to his mill,
including a new band resaw.

W. B. Mershon of the Mershon-Bacon Com-
pany at Bay City left Monday with a party
of friends for Arizona and Mexico.

The Metz Manufacturing Company has pur-
chased 2.000,000 feet of mixed hardwood logs
and will convert them into lumber.

The name of the Sandusky Box and Lumber
Company at the Soo has" been changed to the
Woolworth Land and Lumber Company and a
$20,000 sawmill to cut hardwood is to be erected
at Neebisb, contract for machinery having al-
ready been let. It will cut 50,000 feet of hard-
wood a day and will be ready to start sawing
August 1. This company is to erect at the Soo
the coming season a woodenware plant which
will employ 200 people.

Some slight repairs will be made to the
Kneeland-Bigelow Company's sawmill early in
the Spring. The mill has been operated day
and night since last Winter. Practically the
entire output this year has been sold, the East-
man Flooring Company taking the maple. The
basswood and beech mill culls have also been
sold for the entire year.

been unfavorably affected by the severe weather
this winter.

John L. Retting of the Evans & Retting Lum-
ber Company, Harold Davis of the Haekley-
Phelps-Bonnell Company and Dick Schornstein
have been appointed by President Carroll F.
Sweet of the Lumbermen's Association of Grand
Rapids as entertaining committee for the meet-
ing'of the association March 20. Harry C. An-
gell will report at that time as to what he has
been able to do in conference with furniture men
and others as to the formation of a business
men's club.

H. W. Flatau, who looks after the timber im-
porting of the furniture manufacturing house of
Harry Lebus. London, Eng., was in this city
recently. This company carries 10,000,000 feel
of lumber all the time in its yards there. While
the larger share of the lumber that is cut up in
this big plant of 3.000 employes comes from the
States, some of it is secured in Sweden and the
Baltic region, while practically all the mahogany
use. I is Cuban. Mr. Flatau was of the opinion
that timber values have not appreciated in
Europe to the extent that they have here in
the past six months.

Michigan Hoo-Hoo will hold a concatenation
at the Livingston hotel in this city March 2S
About thirty kittens will be initiated. The com-
mittee in charge is as follows : Carroll V. Sweet,
John Wood and lied .1. Verkerke of the Fuller &
Rice Lumber & Manufacturing Company; J. B.
Webb and Carl H. Schneider of this city. S. .1.
Rathbun of Battle Creek. II. II. Nichola of
Charlevoix. <;. M. Gotshall of the Thayer I. urn
ber Company. Muskegon; i;. w. Whipple, R.
Klunpell and W. P. Vivian of Detroit.

The newly organized Young Men's Christian
Association of Cadillac, which has just raised
$30,000 for a new building, has elected as its
board of trustees W. W. Mitchell, D. F. Diggius.
I'- A. Diggins and F. .1. Cobbs.

L. J. Tripp, handle manufacturer of Mesick.
who removed to Kalamazoo with his family about
a year ago, will return to Wexford county this
year.

Louis J. Baker of Petoskey has taken a posi-
tion as salesman for the Petoskey Block & Manu-
facturing Company, covering territory between
Chicago and Omaha. -

The Alaska Refrigerator Company is operating
its sawmill at Muskegon Heights at full capaci-
ty. The company has bought over a million feet
of logs in Antrim county, mostly elm, beech,
maple and hemlock, also a bunch of logs in
Dalton township, Muskegon county, mostly ash.
Considerable of the stock cut this winter is from
bolts and short logs.

Grand Rapids.

The Skillman Lumber Company has removed
its offices from the Widdicomb to the Michigan
Trust building. „

H. P. Loiselle, furniture buyer for Henry
Morgan & Co., Montreal, visited this market
recently. He reports that trade in Canada has

1 Indianapolis.

The mill of the National Veneer and Lumber
Company has just been completed and opera-
tions started, and the plant is one of the most
complete in this city. It is located at West
Michigan street and the Belt railroad, and at
present will employ thirty men. Later about
100 men will be employed, to be added grad-
ually as the demand requires.

Within a short time the Davis Cooperage
Company of Martinsville will open a new plant
at Worthington, operations to begin as soon as
the plant is completed. Grant Norman will be
general manager and George Burns foreman of
the sawmill department.

Notice has been filed with the Secretary of
State by E. V. Knight, secretary, that the New
Albany Veneer and Panel Company has increased
its capital stock from $34,000 to $102,000. It
is understood that the additional capital is to
be used in improving the plant and extending
the business of the concern.

The Talge Mahogany Company of this city
has just received a large shipment of mahogany
logs' from Mexico. While mahogany is coming
in rapidly enough to fill present demands, ship-
ments are slow and there may be a shortage
unless it begins to arrive more rapidly in the
city.

Due to an overheated boiler flue under the
floor, the engine room of the Singer Manufac-
turing Company at South Bend was damaged
to the extent of $5,000 a few days ago. One of
the principal losses was that to a 78-inch trans-
mission belt worth $2,500. which drove the
machinery in the woodworking department.

The Paul Casket Company has tiled articles
of incorporation and will begin at Cambridge
City in the near future with a capital stock of
$15,000. Those who are interested in the com-
pany- and who have been elected directors are
E. O. and E. E. Paul and A R. Feemster.

The Crawfordsville Wire Bound Pox Company
has been organized in that city and will become
a subsidiary to the Indiana Match Company, as
both plants are owned by the same people.

A new woodworking machinery plant is being
built at RushviUe and when completed will he
occupied by Charles E. Francis & Bro.

A tract embracing one-half square of ground
has been purchased by the Maas-Neimeyer Lum-
ber Company of this city and within a short
time the company will erect a fireproof mill.
At present the company has a mill of ample
capacity to care for its business, but it is a
frame building located in their yards. The new
mill will be built on the ground just purchased,
which is divided from the yards by a street.

Lumber companies organized in the state dur-
ing the last two weeks have been the Gary
Lumber Company of Gary and the Huntington
Lumber Company of Huntington, capitalized at
$00,000 and $15,000 respectively. The directors
of the Gary Company are Clyde Gough, W. G.
Paxton and .7. W. Paxton. Those of the Hunt-
ington company are J. G. La Mont. Niel p
Sailing and Myrtle La Mont.

The North Vernon l'ump & Lumber Company,
operating extensive hardwood mills in North
Vernon and Louisville, Ky., reports that business
is veiy satisfactory at both mills. "Our inspect-
ors keep busy shipping orders and we are moving
stocks as fast as we can secure cars," said
O. R. Platter of the company a few days ago.
"We have many inquiries and orders coming in
and our new stock list, which will be out in a
few days, will not make quite the showing it
has heretofore in quantity and assortment of
hardwoods. There is a strong demand for oak.
poplar and walnut."

A large addition will be made to the plant
of the Rockwood Manufacturing Company.

1 lie W'orld Furniture Company at Evansville,
witli a capitalization of $100,000, and the Wright
Furniture Company at Newcastle, with $6,000
capital stock, are new concerns in Indiana.
Alfred F. Karges and Henry J. Karges, well
known vehicle manufacturers, are among those
interested in the Evansville company.

Milwaukee.

Isaac Stephenson, one of the best known
lumbermen in Wisconsin, is being pushed by his
friends for the United States senatorship made
vacant by the resignation of Senator Spooner.
W. H. Hatten of New London, also a well-known
lumber dealer with interests not only in this
state but throughout the South, has announced
his candidacy for the same position at the urgent
demand of his friends.

The Fred Landeck Lumber Company is one of
the latest bidders for public favor. Fred Lan-
deck has many warm friends not only in Mil-
waukee but wherever lumbermen meet, and the
indications are that within a short time this
will be one of the leading firms in Milwaukee.
Its offices are located in the Wells building.

Market conditions in Milwaukee continue
inactive, although lumbermen anticipate a big
demand especially in the building lines in the
early spring. Building operations the last few
weeks have shown considerable falling off, which
in a measure has caused a weakening of prices
on lumber used for interior furnishing and
floors. Chair manufacturers are active and
furniture factories are also busy and are placing

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large advance orders. Astute buyers, anticipat-
ing ail advance in prices within the next few
months, are preparing to book their orders at
current rates, all of which augurs well for a
brisk business HiN spring.

Asheville.

The Craggy Lumber Company and the Bee
Tree Railroad Company, owning all the timber
lands in the big Craggy -Mountain boundary and
operating a railroad into the timber belt, have
just borrowed from a local bank $87,000, giving
a mortgage on all its property to secure the loan.
The deed of trust recites that the money is
needed to carry on the business of the lumber
company aud to develop the great boundary
owned by the company. The Craggy Mountain
boundary was sold to the Craggy Mountain
Lumber Company several years ago for a con-
siderable sum. Shortly after the war this same
boundary was sold for a good mule.

The lumbermen of North Carolina, hacked by
the Asheville Lumber Exchange of this city, are
making a desperate effort to secure favorable
legislation at the present session of the North
Carolina General Assembly. A bill providing
demurrage of $5 per day instead of $1 per day
has been introduced and reported upon favorably.
The bill also provides that the railway companies
shall pay demurrage at the various stations
instead of having to he sued for the money.
It is likely that this hill will pass. In . the
event that it does the car shortage problem will
have been successfully solved.

The tone of the local market remains firm.
There is a marked shortage of stock and hard,
wood men are compelled to hustle for the goods
with which to fill their orders. Nos. 1 and 2
poplar now bring $35 to $40 at the mills and
are hard to get. Owing to the scarcity of poplar
this section of North Carolina lias become quite
an -'ak market, and great quantities of this wood
are now being shipped. The prices for oak
remain firm and the month of February closed
well with the hardwood dealers. The sawed
lumber in the mountains is bard to get to the
railway stations on account of bad roads and
for this reason there is less hardwood along the
route of the railroad at present than for months
past

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

F. C. Knight, superintendent of the Wise
county, Virginia, operations of the Tug River
Lumber Company, has been transferred to the
company's general offices in the First National
Bank building, this city, in the capacity of
purchasing agent.

A meeting of the lumber and timber com-
mittee of the Jamestown Mineral and Timber
Exhibit Association was held in Bristol in the
parlors of the Ilolston Club March 4 and plans
formulated for the lumber and timber exhibit
at the Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition. It
was decided that the lumber interests of this
section unite and occupy 600 square feet of
tloor space in one of the buildings now in course
of construction at Jamestown by the association,
of which Governor Claude A. Swanson of Vir-
ginia is at the head. M. N. Offutt, chairman
of the lumber and timber committee, presided.
The association has already raised nearly $100,-
000 for the exhibit through its soliciting com-
mittee, of which General It. A. Ayers of Big
Stone Gap is chairman. One of the finest
exhibits of Its kind, in keeping with the im-
portance and magnitude of the lumber and min-
eral business in the Old Dominion, will be
afforded.

J. H. Bryan of the Bryan Lumber Company
has returned from a visit to the company's mills
at Cranberry, N. C, and reports satisfactory
conditions at the mills.

The James Strong Lumber Company, Inc., of
which Elias Deemer of Williamsport, Pa., is
president, has just sold to W. M. and C. W.
Dickey of Brookville, Pa., a tract of 5,580 acres

..f rich timber land in the ilolston mountains,
about fifteen miles from this city. It is said
thai tin' purchasers propose to develop the prop-
erty at an early dale and that they are inter-
ested in other timber land in this section.

.lames A. Martin of Johnson city. Tenn., has
just put' based a 5,000-acre tract of timber land
in Swain and Haywood counties, North Carolina,
which he proposes to develop at an early date.

II. M. IlosUins, who recently resigned as sales
manager tor .1. A. Wilkinson i" go into business
for himself, will he temporarily connected with
the lumber and timber exhibit at the Jamestown
T'T i 'entennial Exposition.

Irving Whaley will leave next week for Sew
York, whence lie will sail tor the West indies.
He will be accompanied by Dr. Lindsay Bunting
of this city.

C. N. Biles, representing .1. s II. Clark & Co.,

Iiardw ! dealers of Newark. N. .1., was a recent

visitor to the local market.

E. L. Edwards of Dayton, Ohio, is buying
hardwood lumber in this section and looking
after his mills.

G. E. Goodell has been promoted to the posi-
tion of general sales agent lor .1. A. Wilkinson,
succeeding II. M. Hoskins, resigned to enter
business lor himself.

The large hardwood plant of Win. E. I'ple-
grove & Bro. at Johnson City. Tenn., has been
put in operation and employs several hundred
men.

B. 1',. Burns of the Tug River Lumber Com-
pany has returned from a business trip to New
York.

Congressman Walter 1'. Brownlow is much
interested in the appropriation of $25,000 which
was included in the bill of sundry civil ap-
propriations, for the survey of the proposed
White Mountain and Appalachian Forest Re-
serve. Congressman I'.rowniow some years ago
introduced a hill in Congress providing for an
Appalachian forest reserve.

Western North Carolina furniture manufac-
turing concerns are shipping furniture to the
Republic of Panama on the order of the Isthmian
Canal Commission, The White Furniture Com
pany of Mebaue, N. C. lias just shipped a num-
ber of cars of high-class goods.

The Beck Timber «t Sawmill Company has
been organized at Cid, N. C, with a capital
stock of $15,000 to do a general manufacturing
business.

Black Bros, of Blackburg, Va., will imme-
diately begin the construction of a sash and
door factory to cost about $15,000.

The organization of the Dill-Tramer-Cruitt
Corporation at Suffolk, Ya., is reported from
the office of the Virginia Corporation Commis-
sion. The new company will do a general
lumber business and will erect a big plant at
Suffolk.

Cincinnati,

A deal which the Globe Wernicke Company
has been negotiating for six months has about
been completed. The deal Involves $2,000,000
and includes timber rights to 00,000 acres of
timber land in northern Tennessee, and the pur-
chase in fee simple of 3,000 acres of timber, coal
and mineral lands in the same section. The
land is about twenty miles from the main line of
the Cincinnati Southern road, and a railroad
is being built to connect with the Southern.
The capital stock of the Globe Wernicke Com-
pany will probably be increased at its next an-
nual meeting.

The Freiberg Lumber Company has received
the largest consignment of mahogany logs ever
known in this city — forty cars from Mexico.
The shipment contains a very fine collection of
logs, some of them being forty feet in diameter
and of choice grain. The company makes a spe-
cialty of mahogany and supplies much lumber to
furniture and kindred manufacturers.

At a recent meeting of the board of directors
of the Kentucky Lumber Company it was de-

.i.l.il 1" appoint William E. Delaney, who is at
present located in Cincinnati, general manager.
Richard McCracken was appointed secretary In
addition to his being city sales manager, with
headquarters in Cincinnati.

J. II. Keyes. vice president of the Kentucky
Lumber Company, who is in business at Terre
Haute. Ind., and able to visit the plant and
offices only occasionally, is making a short stay
.ii i he local offices in the First National Bank
building.

The Receivers' & Shippers' Association will
hold its monthly meeting at the Business Men's
Club March 14. Hoke Smith, governor of Geor-
gia and regarded as one of the best posted men
on railroads and their methods, will deliver an
address on the railroads and rates in the South.
Many business organizations will attend the
meeting. The Lumbermen's Club will be repre-
sented in a body.

The Cincinnati Hardwood Lumbermen's Club
held its monthly meeting at the Business Men's
Club March 4 and discussed general trade ques-
tions. The meeting was executive, as the matter
under discussion only concerned the internal
affairs of the club.

The "New Idea" dimension mill of the Schantz
Lumber Company at North Fairmount is doing
:i big business with its patented dimension saws.
E. M. Schantz is the inventor of the device and
the practice of furnishing consumers witli the
stock skillfully cut to requirement and without
defects is rapidly adding to the business. The
company is also adding dry kilns to its plant.

Receipts of lumber during the month of Feb-
ruary reached 5,702 cars, as compared with
5,346 for the same period last year. The ship-
ments again were light, showing that lumbermen
are having much trouble in getting cars. The
car shortage is still troublesome, but some relief
is expected when Thomas J. Moffett gets his
Belt Line in operation.

F. II. Gamble of Gamble Brothers, Louisville,
Ky.. was in the city recently and called on the
Kentucky Lumber Company in quest for lum-
ber.

No official confirmation of rumors of contem-
plated advances in freight rates has been made
and speculation is rife. With increase already
announced from the Pittsburg district on certain
commodities, chiefly coal, there is a disposition
on the part of shippers generally to take fearful
view of the prospects. Several freight officials,
however, declare that no definite action has been
decided upon and that the matter thus far has
practically been considered in a casual way
only.

Chattanooga.

All the local saw mills are running now except
Snodgrass & Fields', which will be ready for
operation in about thirty days. The concern is
rebuilding its mill which was burned some time
ago. A band mill with 40,000 feet daily capacity
is being installed. This concern has been ham-
pered considerably by litigation, in which the
city is seeking to condemn the yards of the
concern for street purposes. The courts will

soon appoint : ndemnatlon jury to decide first

upon the feasibility of condemning this property
and second, upon the value of the property to be
condemned

One of the best logging tides for two years or
more is now on in the Tennessee river. Prob
ably 1,500,1100 feet of logs will he floated down
the river for the river mills, including Snodgrass
& Fields, the Loomis & Hart Manufacturing
Company and the Central .Manufacturing Com-
pany.

J. W. Vernon, representing Wistar. Underbill
& Co. of Philadelphia, was a recent visitor
among the lumbermen of this city.

P. W. Decker of J. Gibson McIIvain & Co. of
Philadelphia purchased a good supply of lumber
from Chattanooga lumbermen recently.

J. W. Willingham, president of the Wlllingham
Lumber Company, will return soon from Florida
where be has been spending the winter.

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P. F. Fitzgibbous. manager of tbe McLean
Lumber Company, is very much worried over the
news ot the illness of Angus McLean, an officer
of the company. Mr. McLean is seriously ill
with kidney trouble at his home in Buffalo,
N. V.

St. Louis.

R, F. Krebs. under the title of the R. F.
Krebs Lumber Company, has entered the whole-
sale hardwood business on his own account, with
offices at 1313 Chemical building. Mr. Krebs for
the last year has been manager of the Ozark
Cooperage & Lumber Company, and for many
years before that was associated with Steele &
Hibbard. He is one of the best-posted and best-
liked men in the St. Louis trade, and his long
experience and wide acquaintance will undoubt
edly gain for him immediate success in his new
enterprise.

The Garetson-Greason Lumber Company is mm
nicely established in its new quarters on the
twelfth floor of the Times building. J. S. Gar-
etson of this company is absent on a three weeks
trip in Old Mexico.

Recent visitors to the St. Louis market were
W. A. Gilchrist of the Three States Lumber Com
pany of Memphis; Edmund F. Dodge of the
P. G. Dodge Lumber Company, Chicago ; T. S.
Estabrook ot the Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Com
pany, Chicago, and W. P. Strangway of the P. &
S. Lumber Company of St. Francis, Ark.

Dr. Herman von Schrenk of the Missouri Bo-
tanical Gardens is home from a three weeks' trip
in the East.

Steele & Hibbard, the hardwood house which
has been prominently identified with the St.
Louis trade for the past twenty-one years, has
been incorporated as the Steele & Hibbard I. urn
ber Company, with a capital of .$210,000, fuuy
paid in. The incorporation was dated March 1 :
it will make no change in the personnel of the
institution. William II. Steele is president, Geo.
E. Hibbard, vice president and general manager,
and S. M. Borgess, secretary. The Steele &
Hibbard Lumber Company carries one of the
largest and most complete stocks of hardwood
in the St. Louis district and is also interested
in various sawmill enterprises in Tennessee and
Arkansas

Hardwood stocks piled in St. Louis, which
ordinarily aggregate about 80,000,000 feet, are
now reduced to approximately 50,000,000 feet
owing to the excess of demand over .the ability
of dealers to secure stock and get it moved into
local yards. With a resumption of production
in Missouri and Arkansas hardwood sections and
increased facilities for moving, it is anticipated
that local stocks will soon reassume normal pro-
portions. As it is, the combined area of hard-
wood "lumber presented by St. Louis dealers is
much in excess of that held in any other dis-
tributing center, and the assortment is still very
comprehensive.

A. .1 Lang «as elected treasurer of the Lum-
bermen's Exchange at a recent meeting to suc-
ceed J. It. Massengale. resigned.

Tom Moore of the Moore Company is absent
on a trip among the leading lumber producing
points of the South. He hopes to secure all the
■necessary stock with which to meet the antici-
pated spring demand.

The Ozark Cooperage & Lumber Company is
now located on the fourteenth floor of the new
Liggett building, at the corner of Chestnut and
Eighth streets. The company has a very hand-
some suite, consisting of eight private offices and
a large general office.

Joseph A.- Hafner, manager of the lumber de-
partment "of the Hafner Manufacturing Company.
recently made a trip to Louisiana mill points,
where he placed contracts for 5,000,000 feet of
cypress. *-

Nashville.

In E. A. Roser of Chicago and Hamilton Love
of Nashville the lumber business can boast two

mighty fishermen and fish tale swappers.. Tie
two gentlemen are now at Miami. Fla., winter-
ing and fishing and having a good time. They
-" out fishing every day, and one day when the
catch was especially good they even had the
temerity to have their picture "took" with the
aforesaid catch. The principal fish was a man-
eating shark weighing 509 pounds, and in addi
tion there were five king fish, six margots and
three groupers. It took eight hours to pull all
of this assortment out of the briny deep and
tie shark alone fought for two hours before be
was finally landed.

The Rock City Lumber & Manufacturing Com-
pany, is Nashville's newest industry. The com-
pany is capitalized at .$50,000 and the incorpo-
rators are: J. B. McDonald, I. L. Pendleton,
J. T. Christman, J. G. Dean and G. W. Dodson.
The company has taken over the former plant of
I. N. He Hart & Son. and after improving it ex-
tensively will manufacture house furnishing sup
plies and cedar chests.

The Conasauga Lumber Company, organized re-
cently by prominent Nashville lumbermen and
business men, has applied for an amendment to
its charter changing the corporate name to the
Sylce Lumber Company. Tbe members of the
company are C. II. Benedict, M. F. Greene and
C. B. Benedict of the Davidson-Benedict Lumber
Company anil Walter Keith and John Byrns,
also prominent business men. The company is
capitalized at $100,000 and owns 30,000 acres ot
fine timber land in Polk county on the Cona-
sauga river; poplar and white pine are the pre-
vailing varieties and there is also a quantity of
oak to be-cut. A large sawmill will be erected.

II. Orman is engaged in erecting a spoke and
hoop 'plant at Gallatin. Tenn. The machinerj
formerly used by the Gallatin Spoke Works has
I n purchased by Mr. Orman.

Just now a modest lumberman at Centrevillo,
Tenn.. is very much in the public eye. This gen-
tleman is Levi Malugen, who has patented tin
appliance or engine that It is claimed will develop
ten per cent more horse power than the average
engine on half the fuel. A model of the inven-
tion has been completed for Mr. Malugen by
M. S. Jonte of Nashville and he now has the
same running at his handle fa'ctory at Centre-
ville. Mr. Malugeu's friends claim his engine
will revolutionize steam power and at the same
time make him a fortune.

R. Campbell's huh aud spoke factory at Tul-
lahoiiKt, Tenn., which was destroyed by fire a
few days since, has taken a new lease on life
ami will soon be again in operation. New ma-
chinery has been ordered and the work of re-
( building the big plant will be pushed.

W. O. and J. L. Averett s tie and lumber plant
wits damaged by fire a few nights since. It is
located at the Dowdy river farm near Hnden.

A new manufacturing plant for Nashville is
the Dust-Avoid Manufacturing Company. It will
be located in the old John B. Ransom & Co.
building in West Nashville. The company will
make a sweeping compound of cedar sawdust,
oil, etc. This is the only plant of the kind in
the South. The capacity at first will be a car
a day, but this will be increased later. Joseph
Glick will be general manager of the company.
He was engaged in such business for several
years in the East. The officers of the company
a re ; Arthur B. Ransom, president ; John B. Ran-
som, vice president; A. E. Baird, secretary and
treasurer. "Dust-avoid" is described more par-
ticularly as a mixture of cedar pulp and foreign
oil. which makes a sawdust-like preparation to
he' sprinkled on the floor to be swept. It is of
an absorbent nature and has a most pleasing
odor.

A rule has just been adopted by the railroads
running into Nashville whereby all shippers are
required to pay storage charges of 1 cent per
hundred pounds on all freight remaining after
forty eight hours. This rule, it is believed, will
help the car shortage situation in Nashville to
some extent.

Granville Merritt's sawmill at Huntingdon,
Tenn.. has been destroyed by fire.

Alter a preliminary trial lasting two days, the
latter of which was Sunday. W. S. Bryant has
been b.utnd over to the circuit court by a justice
at CookeviUe, Tenn., in Putnam county, to an-
swer the charge of murdering Chalmers Vestal
of the Caney Fork Lumber & Tie Company.
Bryant claimed that he loaned Vestal his pistol
with which to shoot some rats. He said Vestal
took the bullets out, then turned the weapon
toward his head and fired. Mrs. Vestal rather
corroborated him in his evidence. At the trial,
however, considerable evidence was introduced to
the effect that Bryant aud Mrs. Vestal were on
very familiar terms and that neither appeared
to show much concern over the death of Vestal.
Bryant's bond was fixed at $10,000.

The slat factory of Journey ..V. McCombs at
Nashville has been destroyed by lire. The loss
is about $4,000, covered by insurance.

Sbelton & Co. of Covington, Tenn., last week
shipped a big load of oak. gum and cypress to
Cairo, III. There was about a quarter of a mil-
lion feet in the lot and it netted several thou-
sand dollars.

A special from Johnson City announces that
the big hardwood finishing plant belonging to
William E. Uptegrove, Frank Ketchnm and
C. It. Allen has begun operations. A monster
;;iin horsepower Corliss engine will furnish the
power. The plant has a floor space of 23.000
feet, une hundred men will be employed. Kin-
dred concerns to the above one. in which the
same parties are interested, are the Standard
Oak Veneer and the Allen Panel Works.

A special from Jackson announces that C. H.
I'eiiell's hoop tat tory at Humboldt has been
bought by Charles B. McKee for $8,000. Several
thousand dollars will be spent in enlarging and
improving the plant.

A special from Elizabethton announces that
a new shuttle plant is to start there at once.
It is to be run by N. G. T. Simerly and Dodge
Malls.

Memphis.

The River and Kail Committee of thc-Lumber-
ui ns Club is considering the best plan of pro-
cedure in opposing the advance of 2 to 5 cents
on hardwood and other lumber from points in
tic Southwest to Ohio and Mississippi river
crossings ordered by the Si. Louis. Iron Moun-
tain & Southern, the Frisco System and the St.
Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt), which be-
eanie effective .March 1. The committee will
co-operate with the St. Louis Lumber Exchange
in the opposition, and it is generally understood
that tbe matter will be carried before the Inter-
state Commerce Commission.

Railroads announcing an advance in grain
rates effective April 1 have granted an extension
until June 1 in order that grain shippers may be
given a fair show, and lumbermen contend that
the railroads, even if they can establish the
in-tness of the advance, should not put it into

effect right away. I ause, through inability to

properly take care of the lumber traffic offered,
the- railroads are themselves responsible for the
fact that there is so much lumber sold but un-
delivered.

There is much objection to the classification
of rough cypress as dressed yellow pine, lumber-
men believing that this will work considerable
hardship. It is noted that in some instances
cypress is advanced 5 cents per hundred pounds.
Another feature to which the lumbermen object
is the statement of the railroad officials, whose
fines have already ordered the advance effective,
that the roads east of the river will in a short
time follow suit. They say they are justified in
advancing rates because of the increased cost of
operation and other factors entering into the
transportation problem. This attitude on their
part has aroused lumber interests to the necessity
of both prompt and vigorous action and both the
St. Louis Lumber Exchange and the Lumbermen's
Club of Memphis have employed able counsel so

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that they may take such actiou as will bring the
best results. The plan of procedure has not
been fully outlined. It is intimated that, In the
event appeal to the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission is not effective, lumber shippers will be
advised to file damage suits against the railroads
for the difference between the old rate and the
new on all lumber sold on the former and de-
livered on the latter.

The various commercial organizations of this
city are determined to give the Interstate Com-
merce Commission an opportunity lo furnish re-
lief from the congestion of traffic which has fol-
lowed the handling of all export shipments from
this city and section through the single port of
New Orleans under the rigid enforcement Qf the
new rate law which prevents equalization of ex-
port rates through the various southern and
eastern ports. Each organization has appointed
a committee and these committees are acting
jointly with a view to securing such informa-
tion as will prove to the commission the injus-
tice of so strict an application of the rate law.

The car situation fails to show improvement
and traffic officials hold out little or no encour-
agement. In view of prevailing unsatisfactory
conditions, the river and rail committee of the
Lumbermen's Club has been instructed to take
up the matter with the operating officials of the
different roads in Memphis and to use its best
efforts to obtain some relief.

In order that a recurrence of car shortage may
be prevented next fall an appeal will be made to
consumers of hardwood lumber in all parts of
the country to anticipate their requirements and
buy so that deliveries may be made during the
dull months of July, August and September.
Secretary McC'lure has been instructed to have
a number of cards printed bearing such an ap-
peal and these will be mailed to railroad officials
and to consumers of hardwoods. The idea is to
show the railroads that the club is doing every-
thing it can to co-operate with them and as little
as possible to antagonize them in dealing witli
traffic problems.

The Standard Lumber Company of this city
has acquired a controlling interest in a corpora-
tion at Tyronza, Ark., which has 3,000 acres of
timber land rights and which operates a sawmill
with a daily capacity of 25,000 feet. The com-
pany has just completed two and one-half miles
of tram road for facilitating logging operations.

The L. II. Gage Lumber Company's big plant
at Earle, Ark., which was shut down for some
time because of backwater resulting from the rise
in the Mississippi river, has resumed operations.
It has a good supply of timber in sight and hopes
to be able to continue without further interfer-
ence.

General regret is felt in lumber circles here
over the recent tragic death of W. L. Smith,
general agent of the Illinois Central and per-
sonal representative of President Harahan in
the South. Mr. Smith was drowned in Menasha
Lake a little more than a week ago while he
and his fourteen-year-old son McCIellan were
cluck shooting. Their boat capsized and they
made a heroic effort to reach the shore but both
perished.

The Brasfield-Thompson Lumber Company has
begun the operation of the large band sawmill
it recently acquired at Biscoe, Ark., together with
considerable timber land in that section. George
M. Brasfield is president and general manager
and J. W. Thompson of the .T. W. Thompson
Lumber Company is vice president. The com-
pany has a large quantity of timber on hand.

The Bellgrade Lumber Company, recently in-
corporated here, is tryiDg to get everything in
shape for the beginning of the construction of
its mill at Belzoni, where it has secured a large
tract of timber land. It is meeting with some
difficulty, however, in locating the plant because
the railroads have given no definite answer re-
garding the trackage facilities necessary.

G. D. Hendrickson has gone to Indian Terri-
tory where he is looking after tne milling in-

terests of his firm, the F. S. Hendrickson Lumber
Company.

Articles of incorporation of the Pearl River
Valley Railroad Company have been filed. The
road is backed by the Hogue-Herrick Interests
and will prove an important factor in the de-
velopment of the timber land holdings of these
interests. Mr. Herrick is president of the In-
terior Lumber Company of Jackson, Miss., which
announces its intention of erecting a $1,000,000
plant at that point.

The report is circulated here that work on
the Memphis & Pensacola road will soon be com-
menced. This is attracting attention from lum-
ber export interests because the distance from
Memphis to Pensacola is only 400 miles, as
against 307 miles to New Orleans over the Illi-
nois Central. It is only six miles from Tensacola
to deep water, while It is 120 miles from New
Orleans, thus making the Pensacola route a
feasible one for the handling of export lumber.
In fact, some of the export interests contend
that the building of this line ought in a measure
to solve the situation brought about by the in-
ability to equalize lumber export rates.

been sold to A. M. Herring fur $1S,000. The
tract contains mostly hardwood, which will be
cut for the market by the Herring mill.

New Orleans.

Exporters here are much concerned over the
big increase in ocean freight rates that has been
imposed by the steamship lines operating out of
this port. An advance ail along the line has
been made, amounting from 1 to 2 cents per 100
pounds on all kinds of lumber. The increase is
said to have resulted from the scarcity of ton-
nage, especially tramp steamers. The congestion
which existed here during January forced the
ship agents to let up on their demands for ton-
nage and the result was that there was a notice-
able scarcity of vessels here during February.
This condition still applies and things have
reached a point where the ship agents are said
to be discriminating in favor of some freights.
The increase in the rates on lumber has cur-
tailed the exports to a large extent and it is
Indicated that the exports for March will be
similarly affected.

At a recent meeting of the New Orleans Lum-
ber Exporters' Association J. O. Elmer was
elected secretary and iiniii<'di;itely assumed
charge. This association was organized for the
purpose of effecting co-operation among the hand-
lers of lumber and forest products in considering
various matters bearing on the New Orleans ex-
port trade. The association has established
headquarters at 218 Hibernia Bank Building and
has already begun operations.

Crawford & Mombolas are building a new hard-
wood mill a short distance southeast of Esther-
wood, La., and will devote themselves to cutting
the oak and other hardwood on the Duzon tract
which was recently bought by these lumbermen.

C. J. Millard, secretary of the Chicago Lumber
& Coal Company, is in the city and has an-
nounced that his company will probably estab-
lish in Tangipahoa parish a new town, to be
built on the same lines that the Great Southern
Lumber Company is building Bogalusa. The
Chicago company recently bought a $4,500,000
tract iu Tangipahoa which contains a rich
growth of pine and hardwood timber.

The Interstate Lumber Company has been or-
ganized here to carry on a general lumber busi-
ness. It Is capitalized at $100,000. It recently
bought the plant and holdings of the D. C. Bacon
Lumber Company at Shipman, Miss., and will
operate that mill, cutting about 25,000,000 feet
per annum. Most of the mill's cut will be ex-
ported through Mobile. The directors in the
new company are : W. G. Day, who is president ;
II. C. Brownell, C. R. Brownell and H. C. Day.

Advices from Moss Point, Miss., state that
the export business of that port for the first two
months of 1907 will go down as the best ever
experienced there. Thousands of feet of lumber
are being exported weekly from that place.

The Herring sawmill property near Monroe,
La., which was owned by the Herring heirs, has

Minneapolis.

The monthly meeting of the Northwestern
Hardwood Lumbermen's , Association was held
March 1 at the Commercial Club in this city.
The chief topic of discussion was the Inspection
service. The association Is now using the Na-
tional grading rules, and sentiment is growing
in favor of dropping the Northwestern inspec-
tion and securing a National association inspec-
tor to make reinspections here. The members
are generally convinced that the National service
would be more satisfactory. The question of
railroad weights was also taken up at the meet-
ing. Opinion was unanimous that shippers are
suffering unjustly at all times from the rulings
and policy of Chairman Becker of the Western
Railway Weighing Association. His refusal to
accept any table of weights, and his insistence
on taking the stencil weight in all cases, Is re-
garded as unjust and illiberal. The question of
remedies is being taken up and is given quite a
little consideration by hardwood men.

P. R. Hamilton of the Minneapolis Lumber
Company and the Ruby Lumber Company says
his companies are getting along nicely with log-
ging at this time, but with the poor start and
the hindrances that have come all winter, only
about two-thirds as many logs as last season have
been gotten out. He expects to see the produc-
tion all over the northern hardwood field much
lighter.

E. Tayson Smith of the I'ayson Smith Lumber
Company is back from an extended stay in the
southern hardwood territory. He says things are
easing up in that section at last and they are
able to begin shipping out to fill their contracts.
The log production has been so small that the
mills are sold out. What dry stock there is left
is all in strong hands, and nearly all has been
sold awaiting shipment. Mr. Smith left George
S. Agnew and another of his assistants in the
South to keep things moving.

D. F. Clark of Osborne & Clark, the local
wholesalers, says they are getting a very fair
line of trade locally from their yard, but coun-
try business is quiet yet. There is still some
dry stock In the country, but the question is to
get cars and move it.

Hardwood dealers are interested in the re-
ciprocal demurrage bill now before the Minnesota
legislature. The house has passed the bill and
the senate committee gave it a public hearing
Wednesday night. Most of the hardwood deal-
ers are strongly in favor of the legislation.

Ashland.

J. W. Thompson of Richmond, Ind., Attorney
Paul Scott, J. W. Johnson, II. T. Lovett and
Mary E. May of Huntington are the incorporat-
ors of the Guyandotte, Big lUgly & Guyandotte
railroad, that has secured the right of way for
a road that will start at the mouth of the Big
Ugly and open up the rich timber lands of that
section.

M. C. and J. W. Clay of Mount Sterling, Ky„
have purchased a tract of fine timber land on
Rose Fork, In Wolf county, for $10,000. The
tract comprises 800 acres. Mills will be built
and the timber sawed for eastern markets.

J. C. M. Day, the noted lumberman of the
mountains, has donated 100 logs for use in build-
ing the fort of Boonesboro at the Jamestown
Exposition.

Eastern capitalists have been looking over the
ground with a view to locating a box factory In
this city. They speak very favorably of the
pros-pects.

A company known as the Sandy River Coal &
Lumber Company, headquarters at Tremont Tem-
ple, Boston, Mass., has been formed for the pur-
pose of testing the validity of the Walcott title
in Johnson county, Kentucky. This company
claims the ownership of 15,000 acres under the

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title. The east side of the river is the only
territory in Johnson county affected by the
Walcott title, as the original Walcott survey
only includes the lands lying between the Levisa
and Tug river forks of the Big Sandy river.

Toledo.

W. H. Hoagland of the Hankey Lumber Com-
pany of Bowling Green, Ohio, has just returned
from Michigan where he bought a large tract
of timber land. He claims that it is one of the
finest tracts of timber in the state and that it
will take four years to clear it. The deal marks
a turning point in the business of the Hankey
company which has heretofore done nothing but
a retail business. All the timber with the
exception of what will be required in the yards
at Bowling Green will be sold on the wholesale
market.

The past winter saw cue of the greatest
hardwood timber harvests ever experienced in
the northern part of Ohio. The little town of
Bryan was the center of the industry and during
the winter received about 1.500 loads of logs.

The mills there will have more than 1.

feet of lumber to work up this spring.

William Winzler, an employee of the Bryan,
Ohio, stave factory, has recently fallen heir to
$30,000. He will leave his present employment
but expects to start in the lumber business on
his own responsibility soon.

The American Wood Block Company of
Delphos, Ohio, which recently bought the nlii"
Wheel Company property and is now manufac
turing hub blocks on a large scale, is arranging
to add a new feature to its business. New
machinery has been installed and the company
will make a finished hub. The plant has been
greatly enlarged and will require a big addi-
tional force of men to operate it.

Probably the largest tree in Ohio was cut
the other day near Fremont. The tree was an
elm and straight as an arrow. It measured GO
feet to the first limb and when sawed made
5,568 feet of lumber. It was bought by the
Michigan Heading & Hoop Company of Oak
Harbor.

A. Bruner & Sons, lumber dealers of Tiffin.
Ohio, have filed a schedule in the federal court
here listing their liabilities at $89,986 and their
assets at $49,400. The heaviest creditors of the
company were the banks in the towns where
the company had its yards.

Louisville.

W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company say
of the hardwood situation here at present that
the outgoing shipments from the yard are con-
siderably exceeding their receipts, and as a
result -they are depleting their piles rapidly,
although they bid fair to hold out until receipt
of new stocks. Between the bad country roads
and the car shortage, which is again manifest-
ing itself with uncomfortable severity, the re-
< eipts of hardwoods from country points have
been disappointing of late, while on the other
baud the dejnand has been very urgent, even at
advanced prices. Tbey believe the outlook in
general is good.

Edward L. Davis says that they are cleaning
si n.k out of their yard rapidly these days,
reducing the stock on hand to a much lower
figure than usual, because of the urgency of the
demand and the slow receipts from country
points. They are feeling good over the outlook
because there is a volume of demand that it
will take all spring to fill, and they are accumu-
lating stock in the woods that can be brought
out as soon as weather permits.

The Norman Lumber Company reports prac-
tically the same good conditions existing, with
probably more emphasis on the interference with
movement of stock caused by the shortage of
cars and slow movement of freight after it has
started.

Albert R. Kampf is extending his lines of
operations a little as spring opens, looking

around not only for fresh tracts of hardwood
timber to enlarge his manufacturing operations,
but also for outputs of other hardwood mills.
He has a good string of orders coming his way
and desires to enlarge his mill connections a
little t.. take care of them.

The Kentucky Veneer Works, which has been
operated bete for a number of years by II. M.
McCracken, lias now been incorporated with a
capital stuck of $100,000. The incorporators
are II. M. McCracken, P. I. Brown of Fort
Wayne. Ind. : M. E. Freeman. W. Geiger and F.
C. McCracken. This concern operates (our saws
making quartered oak veneer and a rotarj
machine making cut veneer, in addition to which
they also carry a large stock of mahogany with
which to supply the wants of their trade in that
line. They are enjoying a splendid volume of
business and talking of enlarging the equipment.

Morehead, Ky.

W. A. Kessler of the Crescent Lumber Com
pany, Pittsburg, Pa., was a recent visited- here
in the interest of business.

J. B. Kitchen of the Standard Planing Mill
& Building Company, Ashland, visited local mills
last week and contracted for lumber for the
spring trade.

H. N. Macnichol of the White Oak Cooperage
Company, New York city, visited this city dur-
ing the past week and made several contracts.

U. A. Swisshelm of the Portsmouth Veneer &
Panel Company, Portsmouth, Ohio, placed sev-
eral orders here last week.

C. C. Peters of the Kenova Poplar Manufac-
turing Company, Kenova, W. Va., was in town
last week and placed quite a large order for
poplar with S. M. Bradley. Mr. Peters says his
company has been unable to get stock enough to
keep its mills going.

The Clearfield Lumber Company of this place
received twenty-five cars of steel last week for
its railroad. The company is working quite a
large, force of men and sparing no expense to
get its mills in- operation.

The mill men at Farmers are jubilant over the
tides they have had the past week. All the
booms are full of logs.

The Farmers Lumber Company, Farmers,
is operating its mill full time and looks forward
to an active business this year.

The S. B. Reese Lumber Company, Farmers,
has I. ecu fortunate of late in receiving cars
for shipments. The car shortage in this terri-
tory lias been very embarrassing for the past
four months, but is easing up some now.

HardWood Market.

(By HAEDWOOD RECORD

Chicago.
The demand for practically everj Item of
hardwoods from both northern and southern
section^ is good. Comparatively few jobbers are
able to supply the requirements of their trade.
By extraordinary efforts some of the local con-
tingent have been able to secure very fair bold
ings of oak and northern woods, but the market
is very nearly bare of good poplar and cotton-
wood. Everything points to a demand even in
excess of last year's and there will be continued
hustling on the part of buyers to provide stock
for the seasons business.

Boston.

The Boston hardwood market on the whole
cannot be termed active. Considerable complaint
of slow movement of freight and also the ina-
bility of the railroads to furnish cars at mill
points with any degree of promptness is still
heard, but these features are a little improved
in some instances. Manufacturing consumers are
fairly busy, although some have very good stocks
on hand. Retail yards also have seasonable
stocks. The demand from points outside of New
England is still reported as better than that in
the immediate vicinity and better prices are
obtainable.

The demand for plain oak is moderate and
prices are firm. Quartered oak is steady at
satisfactory figures, but the demand is not brisk.
A good call for common quartered oak is re-
ported. Brown ash is firm and in demand and
offerings of white ash at the prevailing high
prices are not large. Whitewood is very firmly
held by dealers, but consumers are staying out
of the market. One of the large buyers says
that he looks for an easier turn of prices dur-
ing the late spring, providing the logs come out
of the woods freely. Dealers hold out no hopes
of a decline. Cypress is firm in price, but the
demand is rather quiet.

New York.
The local hardwood market continues strong.
The demand for good lumber is nothing short of
marvelous for this season of the year, with
every indication that with the opening of spring
prices will soar still higher, with stocks at mill
points at a minimum. The local demand for
stock is general in all branches of the trade.
The yards through quite heavy purchases last
fall have been wintering a fair amount of hard-

Exclusive Market Reporters.)

woods, but the active demand which has pre-
vailed in local manufacturing and consuming
circles has kept stock moving out rapidly with
the result that buying is general in all branches.
Dealers foresee an active spring and are taking
a good volume of stock for spring supplies, while
the manufacturers of pianos, furniture, etc., have
at least awakened to the situation as regards
supplies at mill points and are eagerly absorbing
all offerings of good lumber. TJie salient feature,
however, is in the shortage of the better grades
of all the principal hardwoods. It has abso-
lutely ceased to be a question of prices, but
merely one of delivery. Ash is practically out
of the market, and birch and maple are in good
call, while the better grades of plain oak and
poplar are in very free demand all along the line.
So far as the business outlook is concerned for
hardwoods, it could not be better, and the only
regrettable feature is insufficient stock.

Philadelphia.

Trade during the past fortnight has beer,
good. A steady activity has prevailed all along
the line, and prospects are for another pros-
perous year. Wood working concerns are all
humming. Permits are issued almost daily for
improvement and erection of large structures, as
also for the general building work which will
begin as soon as the weather is propitious.
Good reports are .coming in from the southern
mill districts ; the weather is more favorable,
and mills that have been idle for some time are
again rushing things. The conveying service is
still precarious, with no hope of improvement.
ifardmen are stocking up, in anticipation of a
good spring trading. Although some of the
hardwoods have been more plentiful during the
fortnight, prices have held firm. With some of
the woods there is an increasing scarcity, with
values soaring.

Poplar, ash and chestnut are the present lead-
ers. They are hard to get, however, and prices
are steep. Basswood is in good call, with values
well maintained. Cherry has shown a tendency
to lag. Oak, all grades, maple and birch are
more easily obtained at this time, and are in
active demand, with well sustained prices.

Baltimore.

All hardwoods are in excellent demand, with
practically no stocks unsold and the mills far
behind in their orders. Bad roads and unsettled

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weather may be expepted to restrict production
for some time to come, and meanwhile the
inquiry is as active as ever. The car shortage
also continues to cause trouble and makes the
call for stocks all the more urgent. Months
must elapse before the output can catch up with
the demand and the manufacturers are conse-
quently confronted by a prospect of continued
high values. In fact, the quotations have ad-
vanced from $1.50 to $2 per 1.000 feet during
the past sixty days, and the tendency seems
still to be upward.

Oak takes the lead among the hardwoods in
point of activity and may also he said t<< coin
mand relatively the highest price. The export
situation is about the same, the trade having
been decidedly quiet during the past few months,
but the situation is considered in a way quite
satisfactory, and with the opening of the season
for heavy shipments the movement is expected to
attain a liberal volume.

Ash is close behind oak with respect to the
urgency of the inquiry. The trade is able to
absorb all the lumber which can possiblj be
turned out.

The attractive prices realized for walnut logs
serve to bring out stock in surprising quantities,
even from localities where walnut timber was
believed to be exhausted. Such is the popularity
of walnut that all offerings are quickly taken,
the quotations ranging in accordance with the
quality of the stocks offered. The export busi-
ness continues to absorb a large part of the
available supply, and no waning in popular favor
is noticeable.

Pittsburg.

Decidedly hardwoods are the backbone of the
lumber market so far as Pittsburg trade is con-
cerned. Other woods are in fair call, but
throughout the hanlw I list there is a buoy-
ancy that is not seen in any other branch of
the lumber trade. Buyers all want quick ship-
ments and most of them are in the market for
larger quantities of first-class lumber than at
any time for months.

Even hardwoods, however, are suffering locally
because of the general apathy in the building
business in Pittsburg. Architects and contrac-
tors have very little work to do. There is con-
' siderable cheap house building scheduled, but the
more costly building projects are few. Yards
throughout the Pittsburg district are ordering
fair quantities of lumber and the manufacturing
plants and railroads are proving, as was antici-
pated, better customers than for years. In the
east and the middle west the carriage, wagon,
implement and furniture factories are contrib-
uting enormously to the hardwood trade in Pitts-
burg, and local firms are reaching out alter a
larger proportion of this trade than ever before.

Prices on hardwoods are uniformly firm and
withal satisfactory. Dealers as a rule recognize

the fact that in the la. I rather discouraging

financial conditions and a dull building season
it is best to be conservative about pushing up

quotations. Several minor changes have I n

made in the hardwood list within the past
month and all were well received. There is a
steady trend toward higher prices, a condition
which is backed by the shortage of stocks at

the mills and by the current and pros] live

demand, both of which make the wholesalers feel
safe in their well chosen position.

Detroit.
The hardwood market is very much on the
boom in all lines. Wholesalers are not com-
plaining of any scarcity in any particular line.
and say they are too busy to talk.

Saginaw Valley.

previous time this winter, or in ten years in
fact. Railroads coming into the valley are being
overwhelmed with orders for cars for all uses.
particularly for hardwood products. This in a
measure holds up trade. Stocks in this market
are not excessive and as local mills have sold
their cut this year for future delivery there
isn't going to be any great accumulation of
lumber. Maple is far and away better than it
was a year ago, both in the matter of trade
requirements and prices. There is a good call
for flooring and the trade is healthy. Nos. 1
and 2 maple are quoted at $24 ; No. 1 common
al SI 7 and $18; No. 2 common at $11 ami S 1 l'.
and culls at $9 and $10.

Maple flooring is held ai $30 for Nos. 1 and
2. and lower grades are $20 and up. Basswood.
X'o. 2 common, Is worth in this market $25 and
$28, and culls are worth $18. Elm is held at
$22 and $29.

Xo. 2 common birch is held at *-'i> and $25.
Log run beech is quoted at $15 and is quite firm
at that figure. Some ash is handled and is
quoted at $30, and a little red oak brings $35.

ing that they are too high. In keeping with the
prices paid for other descriptions, mahogany is
fairly reasonable.

Indianapolis.
There is very little change in the hardwood
market from the conditions existing two weeks
ago. Before long, it is generally understood, the
market will have an upward tendency and prob-
ably all kinds of hardwoods will lie raised. On
quartered oak ami plain oak there has been a
strong advance since January 1. and poplar is
at high-water mark. The supply of hardwoods
in Indianapolis is about equal to the demand
and shipments ordered in December and January
for spring business are beginning to arrive. In
the smaller cities of the state the furniture
factories are not faring so well in getting ship-
ments, especially those who buy much of their
stock through the Indianapolis market. Dealers
here, while able to get some stock, find it exceed-
ingly diflncult to ship any. as it is hard to get
cars for the purpose. Dealers who usually issue
a stock price list at this time are holding their
lists from the printer, pending the expected
advance, which will likely occur by May 1.

The hardwood market is in good form here,
with increasing orders and a general hardening
of prices. During the last two weeks the car
scarcity has been more pronounced than at any

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

It is believed that there will be little more
cold weather and manufacturing business will
now go forward uninterruptedly. The mills
which have been closed down for various rea-
sons, chiefly on account of bad weather, are
nearly all resuming operations with the return
of mild weather.

While the car supply is not what it should
be, there is not a great amount of complaint,
at least not nearly so much as there was a
few months ago. Nearly all the railroads have
received fresh consignments of cars and hurried
them to the relief of the shippers.

The demand for all kinds of stock, chiefly oak
and poplar, is holding up well and the warm
weather brings many lumber buyers from the
East,

Cincinnati.
Trade in the local hardwood market has
shown additional strength over the previous
two weeks. Orders are coming in at a lively
pace and it is the question of when they can be
tilled that is worrying lumbermen. At present,
I he car situation is considered by large dealers
a i iis worst, and this, coupled with a slight
shortage of stock, keeps the lumbermen in con-
stant jeopardy. All hardwoods are sought, but
poplar seems to be in greatest request. Prices
are high. Cypress is an important factor and
wilh a brisk inquiry and a limited supply prices
of course are firm. All grades of oak are ex-
periencing a good call, but as the supply of these
items is good, no fundamental change in prices
has been recorded. Furniture men are urgent
requestors for mahogany, and with a good de-
mand and liberal receipts the stock is being sold
at prices generally ranging steady, although some
furniture men are objecting to the prices, deciar-

Chattanooga.

Trade in hardwoods in this city and section is
active, and barring the shortage of cars and the
scarcity of dry stock conditions are very satis-
factory. The supply of box cars Is said to be a
little easier than for some time, but flat cars
are still very hard to get. The Alabama Great
Southern railroad has of late exercised great
diligence in supplying flat cars for shippers
along its line, having only recently placed 200
new cars in operation. Owing to the heavy and
long continued rains and the generally unfavor-
able weather the number of logs cut this season
has not been up to normal.

Poplar leads (lie list, being in very active
demand with prices firm. Oak, both plain and
quartered, is in good call. In fact, the market
is strong for all lines of hardwoods. Box
factories are working full time and taking large
quantities of low-grade lumber, and furniture
factories are in the field for large supplies of
the better grades.

St. Louis.
During the past fortnight trade in hardwoods
in St. Louis and vicinity has been very active,
due to a considerable extent to the pleasant
weather. The only thing that has prevented
sales of record-breaking volume is the scarcity
of all kinds of hardwoods. The only hardwood
that even approaches a fair supply is oak:
stocks of gum, cottonwood, ash and poplar are
very low. Prices are uniformly high and
advances are generally expected as spring
approaches.

Nashville.
The past week the Nashville market has been
a very busy one. The river is high and quite a
supply of logs has been received by local mills.
The car situation is easing up somewhat and
sales and shipments have been unusually active
during the past few days. The demand for pop-
lar and the prices current on this wood are the
feature of the market at this time. Ash is also
high. Dealers can get almost anything they ask
for either of these woods. Quartered oak brings
top-notch prices, with stocks more plentiful than
is the case in poplar and ash. Demand Is active.
The call for chestnut on the part of furniture
manufacturers and boxmakers has been so strong
that prices have increased materially. Stocks
are rapidly becoming depleted. From all pros-
pects this will be a banner year for local lum-
bermen provided stocks hold up at all well.

Memphis.

The demand continues all that could be de-
sin, I and the main trouble with the hardwood
lumber situation is the inability to' secure dry
stock and the difficulty encountered in finding
cars in which to make shipments of lumber that
is sold. Weather conditions have shown some
improvement and there is more lumber going on
sticks now than for some time, but the amount
placed on sticks during the past lour or five
months has been so small that the trade is still
unable to see where they will secure the lumber
to take care of spring and early summer require-
ments. Prices are firm and the prevailing belief
is that still higher values will be current before
there is a return to anything even approximating
normal holdings. The export demand is fairly
active.

Cottonwood aud gum are among the strongest
items. The demand for these in all grades is
good, but the best call is for the lower grades
in -which the offerings, from all reports, are ex-
ceptionally light. Record prices are being paid
for both items and. with the interference to cot-
tonwood production, which is more serious than
noted in some other directions, predictions are
for still better values in the near future, Asb,

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and plain oak sell without difficulty, the demand
for both being in excess of the available supply
of dry stock. Quarter-sawed white oak is in
excellent call, while there is some improvement
reported in the demand for quarter-sawed red.
Poplar is offering in rather limited quantities
here, but is well maintained, while all the cypress
available can be sold much more easily than it
can be delivered.

New Orleans.
Rains throughout the hardwood territory in
Louisiana have interfered with the logging in
many sections, but in other places the mills have
been busily engaged in cutting stock. The in-
terior demand is good and those mills which are
getting good car service are shipping as fast as
they can cut. Others are not so fortunate, how-
ever, and are seriously affected by the car short-
age. Exports are not satisfactory because of
the high ocean freight rates, but as a general
rule conditions are above the average and very
satisfactory in many sections.

Minneapolis.

The situation with regard to dry stock is en-
gaging general attention. There is very little
northern hardwood unsold, and there would be
no trouble about selling it if located where it
could be used, but it is almost impossible to get
cars at the hardwood mills. Manufacturers who
have bought southern hardwood are in most
cases still waiting for it, and a good many are
embarrassed in their work by the shortage of
material. It has been almost impossible to get
anything moved, but in the last few days the
condition has improved in .southern hardwood
territory. The latest advices show that the
mills are loading out cars in lively fashion, and
deliveries may be expected soon. Evidently
stocks now on hand will have to carry consumers
through for some time, as the southern mills
is all in strong hands, and nearly all has been
have been shut down on account of high water,
and few northern mills have been doing any-
thing. The price situation is strong, and it is
justified by the small output of logs in the
northern woods. The season is not quite over,
but from all accounts the log supply will be
much shorter than last year.

The city demand is good. Factories, especially
those making interior finish, are buying early
and cleaning up the dry stock. They are also
going after mill stocks for the coming year.
Some deals have been reported lately between
the mill and the consumer direct, and a large
share of the new cut is in the hands of whole-
salers already. Early buying is the general
tendency. The city trade is going after every-
thing needful for its early operations, and there
is a good trade in flooring. The country dis-
tricts are snow bound, and the yards are not
active at present in seeking stock.

Ashland.

The lumber market is steady, but there is
great complaint about the car shortage, which is
greatly inconveniencing shippers.

The Guyandotte and Big Sandy rivers are
both at timber stage and there is a good run of
logs, of exceptionally fine quality. One small
raft of walnut logs recently received represented
a fortune in itself, and prices are generally high.
Telephone and telegraph poles are in great de-
mand, and there is a ready sale for what came
out on the recent rise.

Toledo.

Reports from the various hardwood yards in
the city show that stocks are generally very
short in nearly all lines, and there are poor
chances of their being replenished soon. Great
quantities of stock have been bought in the lake
districts and in the southern markets. That
from the North can not be brought down before
May, and there is no telling, because of the car
famine, when the southern stock will be received.

Prices are higher here than ever before and the
prospects are that they will go still higher.

Toledo at this time is experiencing one of the
biggest building booms in its history, and there
is question in the minds of those who are in
close touch with conditions whether dealers will
be able to meet the demands.

Louisville.

Oak is higher and the outgoing demands of
late have exceeded the receipts from country
points so that the local wholesale yards have
been making inroads on their piles here and
depleting the yard stocks considerably. Reports
from traveling salesmen who have been visiting
the furniture trade of late indicate an unusually
active demand from that source, not only for
oak lumber but also for oak veneer and oak
panel stock. Then, to add more zest to the
chase after oak, the tight barrel cooperage
people are not only seeking oak staves diligently
but are running prices up higher than they were
ever known before. Stave prices a're today fifty
per cent above what they were a year ago on
some stock, and most of the stave men have
nearly everything in sight already sold and
plenty of bids coming in for more, so that oak
is doing such a lively stunt in nearly every
branch of the market that it is by long odds
the leading feature of the hardwood situation at
present. Dry stock in poplar is scarce, of course,
and this applies to everything from shipping
culls to box boards and firsts and seconds.
There continues quite a strong demand for low
grade hardwoods of all kinds for box and crating
purposes, and while the mills are apparently
getting in better shape to supply this demand,
the demand continues easily ahead of the supply.

Liverpool.
The market here is taking a good turn and
lumbermen look forward to a good run of trade
during the next few weeks. The boom which
our two staple trades in the north have enjoyed
during the past twelve months is at last work-
ing round our way. The bad weather has, how-
ever, been a serious drawback to the timber
trade and the railways have had difficulty in
coping with the traffic. Poplar continues in its
upward career and will go higher, as there is
little or no stock to offer. Oak planks are still
in request and good lengths fifteen feet and up
would bring almost any price. Ash planks are
still firm and seasoned planks are in much
demand and doubtless higher prices will yet be
seen. Hickory logs and birch logs still continue
weak, but importers hear of little or nothing
coming forward and have no hesitation in
prophesying mvch higher prices very shortly.
Mahogany continues weak, and in the judgment
of many will go weaker. Oak boards are not in
very great demand, but plain No. 1 common 1V4
would come to a good market. Quartered stock
is, h"owever, better and will follow the examples
of all other hardwood and raise rapidly.

London.

There has been a decided improvement in the
market here .and buyers are waking up to the
fact that if they want stock they have to face
higher prices, and also give firm orders for
requirements as there is no great quantity of
lumber arriving on consignment.

Whitewood boards in all grades and thick-
nesses are slow in coming forward and are badly
wanted as the market is now very bare of stock,
and good prices are being paid for what little is
offering. Planks are in good demand at full
prices. Logs are not wanted.

The scarcity of whitewood has caused a good
many people to look round for substitutes, those
giving greatest satisfaction being New Zealand
white pine, which takes the place of the prime
grades, and saps and gum which replace white-
wood in the lower qualities.

There has been a very fair supply of plain
oak in all thicknesses except 2, 3 and 4-inch,
which ate in good demand at top prices. Quar-

tered oak boards are in much better demand, but
the stock held here in docks is sufficient. Plain
and quartered strips are in great demand, but
only if in good dry condition.

Satin walnut prime boards are neglected, but
there is a very fair call for No. 1 common, and
some of the prices realized for good lots have
been nearly as high as the price of prime. Saps
are gaining much in favor, especially when sent
dressed both sides.

The demand for ash planks in all thicknesses
continues brisk, and the .only parcels arriving
are under firm contracts.

There have been several large parcels of
hickory logs arriving, which are sufficient for all
demands.

Walnut logs of good quality are wanted and
best prices would be paid for same. Prime
boards and planks are selling well and care in
selecting these for this market always pays.
Medium and cull boards are active, while there
is little or no call for planks.

The mahogany market is still rising, with an
eager demand for all classes, but supplies are
not heavy.

In birch logs and planks there have been
several parcels of poor quality recently cleared
at public auction and prices will now recover.

PORLAR

Rough and Dressed

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS
M. A. HAYWARD

1021 Saving and Trust BIdg., Columbus, O.

We Have on Hand Ready fob
Shipment a Nice Stock of

254 Clear Maple
Flooring

ALSO OTHER SIZES AND GRADES

Send us your orders

Our fine timber, modern plant and
skilled workmanship combine to
make a flooring that cannot be ex-
celled. You will be pleased with it.

HAAK LUMBER CO.

HAAKWOOD, MICH.

THE GENERAL LUMBER
COMPANY

Hardwoods

HEMLOCK
YELLOW PINE

COLUMBUS, QHIO

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AT COST

IS AN UNCOMMON TERM AS APPLIED TO INSURANCE

But this is the actual price of Indemnity against Fire Loss furnished by the

Manufacturing

Lumbermen's

Underwriters

THE STRONGEST INSURANCE ORGANIZATION
TO-DAY IN AMERICA

The saving is not on a _ Only well built plants

small portion of J with adequate protection

your insurance but on the V7 ar)(j a( (east

entire line. V five years timber

There are other advantages / supply are considered

equally interesting. >9 eligible.

FOR LIST OF MEMBERS AND FURTHER INFORMATION, ADDRESS

HARRY RANKIN 4 CO. Kansas City, Mo.

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WaiMandFopMe

-SECTION-

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Heading counts as two lines.

No display except the headings can be ad-
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Remittances to accompany the order. No
extra charges for copies of paper containing
the advertisement.

EMPLOYES WANTED.

WANTED.

Thoroughly competent hardwood inspector.
Must be familiar with hickory lumber.
MUNCIE WHEEL & JOBBING CO.,

Muncie, Ind.

COTTONWOOD INSPECTOR WANTED.

tine who is honest, sober, industrious and
thoroughly competent to take up Cottonwood at
mills. Immediate employment to right party.
Write, giving references and salary wanted.

AMEE. LBIt. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

RELIABLE MAN WANTED

Who is fully capable to take position of
Superintendent of Handle Factory making D
Shovel Handles and Hickory Axe Handles, Pick
Handles, etc. Must be sober, honest and reli-
able, and must have necessary executive ability.
Address "K. O. 52," care Hardwood Record.

WANTED.

Ambitious young men to act as agents for
our fine line of calipers, etc. For particulars
address E. G. SMITH CO.. Columbia, Pa.

MANAGER WANTED

For plant 8,000,000 feet per annum Cypress
in South Carolina ; must be competent and
worthy as treasurer, office manager and handle
sales. Address

"D 39," care Hardwood Record.

LUMBER WANTED

WANTED— DRY CYPRESS.

2x5" and wider, 8 or 16', lsts and 2nds,
selects or sound common.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Ta.

WANTED.

100 M. ft. 4x5 Hard or Sugar Maple Wagon
\\lrs and Bolsters. Also large quantities all
kinds Northern and Southern dimension and
band sawed stock. Will contract mill cuts lum-
ber and dimension stock. Mill inspection and
cash. RACINE LBR. & MFG. CO.,

Racine, Wis.

YELLOW PINE CAR MATERIAL.

Long Leaf Car Sills, Switch Timbers and
Decking wanted, rough or dressed. Also Long
or Short Leaf Car Siding, 1x4 6"-9 or 18', also
10' kiln dried and worked to pattern. Quote
cash price f. o. b. mill.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

BASSWOOD WANTED.

A few carloads 4/4 and 8/4 Northern White
Basswood dressed two sides. Quote price de-
livered on New York rate of freight.
II. J. ROSEVELT,
GG Broad St., New York, N. V.

YELLOW PINE POLE STOCK

Wanted — From reliable mills who under-
stand how to manufacture No. 1 Pole stock,
clear and straight grain quality, free from all
defects excepting sap.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

MAPLE WANTED.

150 M ft. 6/4" good Log Run Hard Maple.
50 M ft. 8/4" good Log Run Hard Maple.
Quote delivered f. o. b. Cincinnati, O.

DUHLMEIER BROS., Cincinnati, O.

DRY SOFT YELLOW POPLAR.

All grades and thicknesses, rough or dressed,
wanted. Prompt cash. Willing to contract.
AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

WANTED— HARDWOOD LOGS.

200,000 ft. 28" and up White Oak logs.
200,000 ft. 12" and up Walnut logs.
50,000 ft. 12" and up Cherry logs.
C. L. WILLEY, 1235 S. Robey St., Chicago.

HICKORY AXLES WANTED.
100.000 ft. 4x5x6 No. 1 Hickory Axles. Can
he shipped green.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

ASH DIMENSION STOCK.

One inch stock wanted, in carloads, from
2% to 10" in width and from 10 to 48" In
length. Can use large quantities if properly
gotten out. Stock must be clear and free from
defects. Write us for list.

BELDING-HALL MFG. CO., Belding, Mich.

ROCK ELM WANTED.

150,000' 2V> and 3"x5" and wider, C. &
B. Will Inspect at point of shipment. We
can use fresh sawn wood. Terms cash less
2 per cent. THE BRADLEY COMPANY,

Hamilton, Ont., Can.

OAK.

We are in the market for plain sawed oak,
all grades and thicknesses.
P. G. DODGE & CO., 2116 Lumber St, Chicago.

OAK WANTED.
3 and 4 Inch White Oak ; also Mixed Oak ;
also 12x12 Timbers and Piling of all kinds.
CONTINENTAL LUMBER CO.,
1213 Monadnock Bldg., Chicago. III.

TIMBER LANDS FOR SALE

CHOICE ARKANSAS PROPERTY.

Well equipped sawmill with plenty yard
room ; ten houses for employees ; 44 town lots
and 5,000 acres, all under three miles of the
town of Success. Tram road to timber. Out-
put consists of small squares, all kinds wagon
stock, hickory rims and car material ; long
timbers, bridge plank. R. R. ties, hickory axles.
JOE McCRAKEN, Success, Ark.

MACHINERY WANTED

AT ONCE.

If you are in need of machinery — new or
second hand — a few lines in this column will
place your wants before those who have 6uch
goods for sale. For particulars address

Hardwood Record, Chicago, 111.

LUMBER FOR SALE.

SOFT CORK WHITE PINE.

High grade Michigan stock for sale, all
thicknesses up to 4". bone dry, suitable for
making patterns and fine cabinet work.
, AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

WALNUT AND CHERRY FOR SALE.

Walnut 5/4-16/4 common and lsts and 2nds ;
4/4 10" and up lsts and 2nds ; 4/4 one Clear
Black Face. Cherry 4/4 all grades.

C. J. FRANK, Logansport, Ind.

MACHINERY FOR SALE

FOR SALE.

Second-hand circular saws, all sizes, 10" to
GS" diameter, rip and cut off saws. Repaired
in first class condition. Cheap prices. How
many and what sizes do you need?

BARCUS SAW WORKS, Muskegon, Mich.

SAW MILL AND STAVE MILL.
Machinery cheap. Write for list and prices.
E. E. HEMINGWAY, Mattoon, Wis.

WOODWORKING MACHINES.
2 Berlin "Invincible" No. 88 hardwood floor-
ing machines, .practically new.

2 S. A. Woods No. ."•■'. 6 roll double planers,
27".\1U" and 30"xl0", 7,580 lb. power hoist.
1 Buss single planer. 26"x8", about 3,000 lb.
i Berlin 27"x6" double cabinet planer.
CHIC. WOODWORKING MACHINERY CO.,
40-42 W. Quincy St., Chicago, 111.

BAND MILL OUTFIT— BARGAIN.

We oiler for sale the following machinery.
new and thoroughly rebuilt and refitted, good
as new, ready for immediate use :

1 Prescott 8' left hand band mill No. 3, suit-
able for 12" saws.

1 Allis left hand three block carriage, 52"
opening, blocks and knees of cast iron, with
automatic offset. Knight duplex dogs.

1 8y2"x32' shotgun feed with sawyer's lever
center valve and carriage bracket.

1 new Wickes G' to :\-' No. 1 two-saw trim-
mer

10 10x24" gear driven live rolls and one
idle roll.

1 new Wickes 8 and I0"x6' steam nigger.

1 Covel automatic band saw sharpener.

1 Baldwin, Tuthill & Bolton roller or
stretcher.

1 filing clamp. G ft,

1 Smith swing cut off saw (heavy).

1 new Wickes No. ?, single geared log haul
up rig, with foot wheel and two idlers.

300 feet l"x6" chain.

30 log chairs for same.

1 60" Williams & white six-saw double edger
with six inserted tooth saws, to have new
press roll frame.

1 style B brazing clamp with legs.

1 new Wickes hand feed lap grinder.

1 Buckeye automatic engine 14y>x24, 10'x
24" band wheel.

1 sturtevant upright engine 5x6 for electric
lighting.

1 75-light Westinghouse dynamo with rheo-
stat and base.

2 85 horsepower Babcock & Wilcox water
tube boilers with stack, grates, etc.

J. A. BROWN & CO., INC.,

North Manchester. Ind.

RAILWAY EQUIPMENT

RAILS AND LOCOMOTIVES.

All inquiries for industrial railway equip-
ment listed before Record readers will find
ready response.

Hardwood Record, Chicago, 111.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

WANTED— SASH AND DOOR FACTORY.

If your Sash and Door factory does not pay,
and you wish to manufacture a profitable line
of store fixtures, using Oak and Poplar, write
W. M. PATTESON, Penn Yan, N. Y.

MISCELLANEOUS

FACTS FROM PRACTICAL MEN.

The Hardwood Record is always in the mar-
ket for articles on any and every feature of
the hardwood industry. It wants practical
statements of fact from practical men who
know how certain things can be done In the
best way. Literary quality not essential. Lib-
eral pay for acceptable articles. Address

Editor Hardwood Record.

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When you have anything to sell, or wish to
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HARDWOOD LUMBER

CHOSS TIES OK PILING

Norval Osburn, Seaman, Ohio

Keys=Fannin
Lumber Company

Manufacturers of Band
and Circular sawn

SOFT

YELLOW

POPLAR

Plain and quartered red and white
Oak, Hemlock, Bass and Chest-
nut. Give us a trial.

Herndon, Wyoming Co., W. Va.

W. H. Dawkins Lumber Co.

Manufacturers of Band Sawed

Yellow Poplar

ASHLAND, KY.

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Advertisers' Directory [

NORTHERN HARDWOODS.

Alcock, John I... & Co

American Lumber & Mfg. Company..1
Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company. .. .

Babeoek Lumber Company

Barnaby. C. II

Beyer, Knox tv Co

Bliss & Van Auken

Boyne City Lumber Company

Brownlee-Kelly Company

Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company..

Cadillac Handle Company

Carter. Frank, Company

Cheat River Lumber Company

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co

Chicago Car Lumber Company

Chivvis, W. R

Cincinnati Hardwood Lbr. Company..

Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc.

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company

Connor. R., Company

Crescent Lumber Company

Crosby & Beckley Company, The

Crosby, C. P

Cummer, Diggins & Co

Darling, ('has.. & Co. .

Davis, John R.. Lumber Company

Davis, \y. A

Dells Lumber & Shingle Company....

Dennis Bros

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company...
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company...

Dixon & Dewey

Duhlmeier Bros

Dwight Lumber Company.,

Elias, G-. & Bro

Empire Lumber Company -
Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Company"!
Evans & Retting Lumber Company

Fall. E. H

Forman Company, Thoma
Freiberg Lumber Company, The
Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber

' 'oinpany

General Lumber Company, The
Gillespie, W. M., Lumber Compaq
Goldie, J. s.
Haak Lumber Comp i ..

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company

Hayden & Westcott Lumber Company
Holloway Lumber i oinpain

Hoyt, C. I.. & Co. ...

Indiana Quartered Oak Company!.!!]

Ingram Lumber Company.

James & Abbot Company ]]

Jenks, Robert n.. Lumber Companj
Jones, G. W., Lumber Companj

Jones Hardwood Company

Kampf, Albert R

Keith Lumber Company..

Kelley Lumber & Shingle Company!!

Kneeland-Blgelow Companj

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Compaq

Linehan Lumber Company

Litchfield, William E...

Lombard. E. B. . . . ,

Long-Knighl Lumber Company

M(1 '■' i- II-- . Lumber : mpany
Maley, Thompson & Mnffett

Maley tv Wertz

Martin Barriss Company

Mason I aldson Lumbei Company

Mans, II. II.. & Co., Inc

M: : lar; Cumber Comptny

Mcllvain, .T. Gibson, & Co !!.!!!!

McLean, Hugh, Lumber Company

Miller. Anthony ...

Miller Bros. ....

Mitchell Bros. Company. !!!!!!

Mowbraj & Robinson

Murphy & Diggins

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company!!
Nicola Lumber Company, The..'...

Northern Lumber Company

North Shore Lumber Company...'
North Vernon Lumber Company...
North Western Lumber Company..
O'Brien, John. Land & Lumber* Co

Osburn, Norval

Perrine Armstrong Company

Price, E. E *

Radina. L. YV.T & Co

Richmond Park .V Co

Ross I umbei I lompany

Rumbarger Lumber Company

Company

Ryan & McParland 10

Sailing-Hanson Company 62

Sa n yer-Goodman Company 60

Scatcberd & Son 67

Schofield Bros 7

Simmons Lumber Company 63

Skillman Lumber Company 62

Slimmer, J., & Co 10

Soble Bros 7

Standard Hardw I Lumber Company 67

Stearns Company, The 64

Stephenson, The I.. Company 12

Stewart. I. N., & Bro 67

Stewart-Roy Lumber Company 64

Stimson, J. V 66

Stone. T. B., Lumber Company 64

Sullivan, T.. & Co 67

Tegge Lumber Company S

Turner. A. M-, Lumber Company 5S

Vollmar & Below 60

Wagstaff, YV. .7

Walnut Lumber i !ompany, The 55

Maid Lumber Company . 11

Wells, R. A.. Lumber Company 10

White Lumber Company 10

White, W. II.. Company 62

Whitmer, Wm.M & Sons, Inc 6

Wlborg & Banna Company 65

Willson Bros. Lumber Company 58

Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company. 63

W istar, I nderhill & Co 7

Wylie, A. w 11

Meager, Orson E 67

Young. W. D., & Co 12

Young & Cutsinger 66

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS.

Advance Lumber Company 50

Alcoek. John L., V- Co 7

American Hdwd. Lumber Company. 56
American Lumber & Mfg. Company.. 5S

\ i i.ieis. iii-Tul ly Company 4

At hint ie Lumber Company

Beck, K. E., Lumber Company 65

Beyer, Knox & Co 67

Brown, Geo. c, vv Co 56

Brown, W. P., .^ Sons, Lumber Co... 2
Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company. . 67

Carrier Lumber \ Mfg. Company 12

Cherry River Boom & L ber Co ... 0

Chicago Car Lumber Company 10

GhivviS, W. R :... 57

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co 65

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company ll

Courtney, D. G :i

Crane, C, & Cm 64

i L'escent Lumber Company 64

Crosby & Beckley Company. The 6

Cypress Lumber Company 64

Darling, Chas., & Co 11

Davidson-Benedict Company

Davis. W. A 11

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company... 62
D'Heur & Sw;iin Lumber Company... 66

Dixon A lir\\..\ 6

Duhlmeier Bins 65

Elias, G., ..v Br.. 67

Empire Lumber Company, Buffalo.... 67

i stabrook Skeele Lumber i lompany ... 11

Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 62

Call. E. H * 50

Farrin-Korn Lumber Company 65

Freiberg Lumber Company, The 65

Fullerton -Powell Hardwood Lumber

I lompany 5

Garetson-Greason Lumber Company... 57

Gayoso Lumber Company 4

Genera] Lumber Company, The 40

Gillespie W. M.. Lumber Company.. 7

Haas, Albert. Lumber Company 7

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company ... b\s

I la! tea' MamiCi.'turing Company 57

Hayward, M. A pi

I I iiiimelher::ei I Li rri-on I umber i '« ■ 1

Hoyt, C. I.. & Co 66

Indiana Lumber Company 56

Indiana Quartered < >;ik Company ..... 7
International Felloe Mfg. Company... 56

James & Abbot Company ' 7

JenkS, Robert II.. Lumber Company.. 50
Jones, <;. W., Lumber Company....*. 2

Jones Hardwood Company 7

Kampf, Albert 1! 2

Keith Lumber Company ll

Kentucky Lumber Company 65

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 68

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company. . 11

Linehan Lumber Company 5S

Litchfield, William E.... 7

Lombard, E. B n

Long-Knighl Lumber Company 66

Love, Boyd & Co 56

Luehrmann, Chas. F., Hardwood Lum-
ber Company 57

Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company 65

Martin-Barriss Company 59

Massengale Lumber Com pa in 57

&aus, II. II.. 4v Co., inr 7

McClure Lumber Company 63

MeCau ley -Saunders Lumber Company. 11

Mcllvain, J. Gibson. & Co 6

McLean-Davis Lumber Company 2

MeLean. Hugh, Lumber Company. ... 67

Miller, Anthony * 67

Miller Bros h

Mosby, H. W., ,V Co. .... 55

Nicola Lumber Company. The 58

CTBrien, John. Land & Lumber Co... 10

I'aepeke-Leieht Lumber Company S

Pbila. Veneer & Lumber Company 6

Plummer Lumber Company 57

l'i Ice, E. E 7

Radina. L. W.. & Co 65

Ransom, J. B., & Co 56

Rhubesky, E. W 2

RIchm i Park & Co 10

Ritter, AY. M.. Lumber Company 5

Rumbarger Lumber Company 1

Ryan & McParland lo

Seatcherd & Sou 67

Schofield Bros 7

Skillman Lumber Company 62

Slimmer, J.. & Co 10

Smith, R. M.. & Co S

Sondheimer. L\, Company 4

Southern Lumber Company 2

Standard Hardwood Lumber 1 lompany 67

Stearns Company, The 64

Steele & Hibbard 57

Stevens-Eaton Company 7

Stewart, I. X., tv Bro 67

si Imson, .1. V 66

Stone, T. 1:.. Lumber Company 64

Sullivan, T., & Co 67

Swann-Day Lumber Company 8

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company., 57

Three Slates Lumber Company 68

Turner, A. M.. Lumber Company 58

Yestal Lumber & Mfg. Company 56

Walnut Lumber Company, The 55

Ward Lumber Company 11

Wells, l;. A., Lumber Company 10

Wesl Florida Hardvi 1 Company.... 7

White Lumber Company 10

Whitmer, Win.. & Sons. Inc 6

WHmml: \ Manna Company 65

Willson Bn.s. Lumber Company 58

W 1. 1:. E., Lumber Company 54

Wylie, A. W 11

Yeager, Orson E 67

Young .v Cutsinger 66

POPLAR.

Advance Lumber Company 50

Atlantic Lumber Company

Brown, W. 1'. & Sons, Lumber Co... 2

'ii'i River Lumber Company 58

Courtney. D. G it

crane, r .. & Co . . 64

Davidson Benedict Company

Dawkins, W. II.. Lumber Company.. 43

Haas. Albert. Lumber Company...... 7

Hayden & Westcott Lumber Company 10

l ta\ ward, M. A 40

Kentucky Lumber Company (;.">

Kej Fannin Lumber Company 1.:

Massengale Lumber Company 57

McLean-Davis Lumber Company 2

Rhubesky. E. \Y ' 2

Ritter, W. M.. Lumber Company 5

Smith. R. M., & Co * S

Southern Lumber Company 2

Stevens-Eaton Company 7

stew art- Roy Lumber < lompany 04

Swann-Day Lumber Company. ...... . S

Thomas \ Proetz Lumber Company... 57

Vansant, Kitchen & Co 68

Wood, R. E., Lumber Company 54

Yellow Poplar Lumber Company 68

COTTONWOOD AND GUM.

Anderson-Tully Company 4

Farrin-Korn Lumber Company 65

Himmelherger-Harrison Lumber Co... 1

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 6S

Luehrmann, C. F., Hardwood Lumber

Company 57

Mosby. II. W.. & Co 55

Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company S

Sondheimer. E.. Company 4

Three States Lumber Company 6S

CYPRESS.

Cypress Lumber Company 64

Hafner Manufacturing Company 57

Lothman Cypress Company 57

McCauley-Saunders Lumber Company. 11
Plummer Lumber Company 57

VENEERS.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works 55

Phila. Veneer & Lumber Company.... 6
Wiseonsiu Veneer Company 61

HARDWOOD FLOORING.

Advance Lumber Company 59

Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company... 60

Bliss & Van Auken \2

Buffalo Maple Flooring Company, The 7

Carrier Lumber & Mfg. Company 12

Cobbs & Mitchell. Inc

Cummer, Diggins & Co

Dwight Lumber Company . S

Eastman, S. L., Flooring Company... 62

Fenn Bros. Company 4

Forman, Thos., Company..., t>

Haak Lumbei- Company 40

International Hardwood Company.... 64

Kerry & Hanson Flooring Company... 63

Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company 62

Pease Company, The ., . . 64

Stephenson, The 1., Company 12

Ward Bros ' 12

Wilee, The T., Company 45

Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company., i;::

Wood Mosaic Flooring Company 2

Young, W. D., & Co 12

SAW MILL MACHINERY.

Bartlett, A. F.. & Co 54

Garland, M., Company 43

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company. 46

Mershon, W. B.. & Co

Phoenix Manufacturing Company 61

WOODWORKING MACHINERY.

American Wood Working Machinery

Company 51

Bartlett, A. F., & Co 54

Berlin Machine Works', The....

Covel Manufacturing Company 47

Crown Iron Works 47

Defiance Machine Works, The 43

Hurley Machine Company 47

Matteson Manufacturing Company. . . . 45

Nash, J. M 61

Ober Manufacturing Company, The...

Smith, H. B., Machine Company 52

Woods. S. A., Machine Company 50

LOGGING MACHINERY.

Clyde Iron Works 49

Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company. . .".;;

Overpack, S. C

Russel Wheel *V Foundry Company...

DRY KILNS AND BLOWERS.

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company. 40
Grand Rapids Veneer Works....'... 55

Morton Dry Kiln Company C

New York Blower Company 45

SAWS, KNIVES AND SUPPLIES.

Atkins, E. ('., A Co 49

Champion Saw Company 45 & -if,

Covel Manufacturing Company 47

Crown Iron Works 47

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 46

l [am aetl Sw ■■!■-:>■ Works 46

Hurley Machine Company 47

Marshall, Francis

Matteson Manufacturing Company. . . . 45

Shimer. S. .1.. & Suns ". 50

LUMBER INSURANCE.

Adirondack Fire Insurance Company., t
Lumber Insurance Company oi n-'\\

York 1

Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
pany, Boston

Lumber Underwriters 12

Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual

Fire Insurance Company 1

Rankin. Harry, & Co 41

Toledo Fire & Marine Insurance Co

MISCELLANEOUS.

Childs, S. D.. & Co ' 43

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 46

International Felloe Mfg. Company... 56

Lacey. James D., & Co 54

Lumbermen's Credit Association 43

Martin & Co 59

Pease Company, The 64

Poole. Clark L.. & Co 12

Remington [Typewriter Company 43

Sanders. Henrv. Companv 47

Schenck, C. A.. & Co 2

HARDWOOD RECORD

45

;*' »

) A floor to adore

fejfc

For thirty-three years Wilce's Hardwood Floor-

" market
is the
kept
d de-
mands of the trade. To convince yourself of the
above statements, try our polished surface floor-
ing, tongued and grooved, hollow backed, with
matched ends and holes for blind nailing — you'll
find it reduces the expense of laying and polishing.
Our Booklet tells alt about Hardwood Flooring and
how to care/or it — also prices— and is free.

The T. Wilce Company

22nd and Throop Sts. CHICAGO, ILL.

The Morton Dry Kiln

MOIST AIR SYSTEM

Recording
Ther-
mometers.
Transfer
Cars.

Trucks.

Canvas

Doors.

HOW TO DRY LUMBER.

As exemplified in our Catalog D. Free on application.

MORTON DRY KILN CO., Chicago, Ills.

Improved
Automatic
Band Saw
Sharpener

All Machines Fully Guaranteed

^T This machine excels all others for single cutting Band Saws from 8 to 14
^-inches. Its-construction Is mechanically correct, simple and durable, and
does not possess any of the intricate complicated parts that confuse the oper-
ator. The head is adjustable so that straight wheels can be used with the same
results as concave.

^T This represents just one type of machine

We make in addition a com-
plete line of modern tools for the care of saws.

For particulars address

Matteson Mfg. Co.

120-128 S. CLINTON STREET, =

CHICAGO, ILLS.

Works
BUCYRUS. OHIO

ESPECIALLY

Adapted for Handling Shavings, Saw=
dust and Stringy Material of All Kinds

1-FIECE FAN WHEEL.

Get Catalogue
58=G

NO OBSTRUCTIONS.

We Also Make Lumber Dryers.

New York Blower Company

Mairv Office :

25lh Place and Stewart Avenue

CHICAGO

KNIVES

Planer knives, veneer knives or any of the good machine

knives that you use are tempered best by skilled experience.

Know the truth and get your best machine knives from

CHAMPION SAW COMPANY,

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

46

HARDWOOD RECORD

Us;? "out* BUD

This Truck— The Gillette Truck— with its Roller Bearing Axle —
Unbreakable Malleable Iron Caster-Fork, Improved Stake Pockets
and general Superiority of Construction is the Easiest Running
Truck made. Strongest where other trucks are weakest. Best
Truck tu buy. Cheapest Truck to use Invest money in these
trucks. Do not waste it on others.

GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING COMPANY 63

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Keep Steam Blowing Off

^=^^=^^^^= ALL THE TIME =====
BY USING

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate

"An Enormous Blacksmith's Forge"

This celebrated grate has been on the market'for many years and
represents the most practical forced draft system ever devised for
saw, hoop, stave or heading mills. It enables one to burn wet, green
or frozen sawdust, wet or green slabs, etc., and produces as satis-
factory results with them as a draft grate gives with dry wood. If
you have any difficulty in burning your refuse, or if you can't hold
the desired steam pressure all day, don't fail to give this grate atrial.

Sold on APPROVAL, thirty days being given in which to thor-
oughly test it. In the event of rejection, we pay the freight BOTH
WAYS. State how many boilers you have and give width and length
of grate surface, also stating whether you have furnaces or ovens.

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co.

GREENVILLE. MICHIGAN.

The largest manufacturer ol blast grates, edgers and trimmers in the world.

Jt Hanchett - Hanchett - Hanchett <C

Hanchett
Saw Swage

Every one made Perfect

The Swage with a Name

^ A poor Swage Kuins a Good" Saw, and
for that reason the manufacturers of the

HANCHETT ADJUSTABLE SWAGE

employ only the Best Mechanics and use
only the Best Material in their construction.

It Pays Us
to make
The Best

Send for

Catalog

No. 10

It tells you all

about them

It Pays You

to use

The Best

MAl\'D»4CTORED BY

Hanchett Swage Works

Big Rapids, Michigan

+f Nanchett - Hanchett - Hanchett ^

HARDWOOD RECORD

47

THE NEW 1907
CATALOG

is ready, ask for
one. Itdescribes
the most com-
plete line of fil-
ing room ma-
chinery manu-
factured, includ-
ing our New No.
99 Automatic
Sharpener, a s
shown by cut,

also our New No. 109 Stretcher with

automatic Re-toother.

Covel Manufacturing Co.
Chicago, U. S. A.

The New Way of Scraping Floors with a

"Little Giant" Floor Scraper

NOTE THESE COMPARISONS ff$

One man will scrape by hand about. >*.

100 square feet in 4 hours at 40c per v«

hour — cost $1.60 per square. / 1^;

The "LITTLE GIANT" and one man
will scrape about 400 square feet in 4
hours at 40c per hour — cost $1.00 for
4 squares, or 40c per square; saving
$1.20 per square.

How long will it take you to pay for
the machine, and commence saving
money in its use?

WRITE

your a

DEALER
FOR

PRICE

I

Hurley /..

Machine

Company

To scrape fiooi operator pulls machine.

153 S. Jefferson Street CHICAGO. ILL.

1010 Flat Iron Building NEW YORK

117 Home Life Building TORONTO

We are Prepared to Supply Your Wants in

Veneered 2 Solid Slave
Columns

In all Hardwoods with the

Koll's
Patent

gw they \m

■H CAN NOT ■ ■
■ COME HB

Lock
Joint

Write today for prices

Henry Sanders Co,

900 Elston Ave., Chicago

^

J

THE BEST MACHINE IN THE BUSINESS

"Blackmer Improved No. 2"

Saw Sharpening Machines

We make numerous other types
Write for Descriptive Circular and Quotations

CROWN IRON WORKS

MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.

48

HARDWOOD RECORD

GARLAND

Special Hardwood 74t. Band Mill

There are
many good
features about
this mill that
we will be
glad to tell
about.
Write for
catalogue and
descriptive
circulars.

Simplicity,

Capacity,

Economy on

Saws.

We

manufacture

a full line

of Sawmill

and

Conveying

Machinery.

A few hardwood sa.wmill

Kneeland-Bigelow Co Bay ( it y, Mich.

Kneeland-Buell Co... . Bay City, Mich.

W. D. Young & Co Bay City, Mich.

E. C. Hargrave Bay City, Mich.

Bliss & Van Auken Saginaw, Mich.

Sailing, Hanson & Co Grayling, Mich.

Johannesburg Mfg. Co Johannesburg, Mich.

Michelson & Hanson Co Lewiston, Mich.

ma.chin.ery installations :

Harbor Spiings Lumber Co Harbor Springs, Mich

W. H. White Co Boyne City, Mich

Mud Lake Lumber Co Raber, Mich

Engel Lumber Co Englewood, La

Hardgrove Lumber Co Hardgrove, Mich

Churchill Lumber Co Alpena, Mich

Waccamaw Land & Lumber Co Wilmington, N. C

Embury-Martin Lumber Co Cheboygan, Mich

The M. Garland Co.

BAY CITY. MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

49

Silver

ATKINS S3 SAWS

cost more than other Saws, because they are BETTER.
The First cost of a Saw does not count for much.
What you want is your Money's Worth. Isn't it better
to pay a fair price and get the best rather' than a low
I nirc and get poor goods? Try an ATKINS SAW.
They're better.

E. C. ATKINS &, CO., Inc

Branches : Atlanta,

New York City,

The Silver Steel Saw People.
Home Office and Factory, Indianapolis.

Chicago, Memphis, Minneapolis,

Portland, San Francisco, Seattle,

New Orleans,
Toronto.

50

HARDWOOD RECORD

Mill Men

SjH

LEAKS!

.

You would not tolerate leaks in your boiler and .system of steam pipes because you burn coal without receiving
value therefor, ami sustain not only inconvenience and absolute loss, deterioration of property through neglect
as well. Yet you permit a good workman to labor earnestly and faithfully, but unsuccessfully, in an endeavor
to make things count by sharpening and fitting Si might Bits day after day, resulting in needless waste of time and
effort when The Shimer Cutter Heads and Bits will save all of the fitting. Do you see the force of this comparison?

Stop the little leaks that curtail your output. Use the Shimer Cutter Heads.

It has been demonstrated many times that monies invested in a small outfit of The Shimer Cutter Heads will
save their cost in a few weeks' use. They arc built for business, having within their make-up the principles
required to reduce to a system the routine of keeping the knives in perfect order. Address

SAMUEL J. SHIMER 4 SONS, Milton, Pennsylvania

No. 107 INSIDE MOULDER

A NEW HEAVY INSIDE MOULDER having every known requirement for working mouldings and finish.

SPECIAL HOLD-DOWN FEATURES and BAR ADJUSTMENTS for working FLOORING.

GREAT RANGE AND CAPACITY. QUICK ADJUSTMENTS.

S. A. WOODS MACHINE CO., BOSTON

PACIFIC COAST OFFICE, 617 LUMBER EXCHANGE, SEATTLE
WESTERN OFFICE, 811 RAILWAY EXCHANGE, CHICAGO

SPECIALISTS IN
PLANERS, MOULDERS AND FLOORERS

HARDWOOD RECORD

5i

— Clement No. 41 —
Single and Double

New
Patterns

Surfacer EvcryLa,c

Improvement

<J The frames are deep and heavy. The entire machine rests mainly on two foot flanges
under the cylinder. The other flanges act only as balancing or steady points. <J Patent
side clamping cylinder boxes with automatic oil circulation. ^ Conical split clamping sleeves
in cylinder pulleys. No keys or set screws. All adjustment gears are in continuous even
mesh, tfl All main gears are on shafts with two boxes, not on studs. Teeth are very heavy
and wide and well protected by detachable hoods. <J Chipbreakers swing concentrically with
cylinders. Cfl Variable feed is attached to all sizes. <J Write for descriptive circulars.

Built to work 24
in., 27 in., 30 in.
and 36 in. wide by
7 in. thick. Hav-
ing sectional, sol-
id or divided rolls
as ordered.

American Wood Working Machinery Co.

SALESROOMS

NEW ORLEANS, Hennen Bldg. CHICAGO, 43 S. Canal St. NEW YORK, 136 Liberty St,

HARDWOOD RECORD

The Profit Builder

NO. 105-A, EXTRA HEAVY 12-INCH MOULDER

T HAS been our purpose duriug the last half century to develop
a line of wood working machines containing the best work-
S/ manship and material that American skill and wisdom can
afford. This fact we are proud to say is well established in
the minds of our many patrons. We have, however, now
exceeded ourselves by the development of a remarkable Moulder, the
excellence of which is due to our obtaining written suggestions from more
than a thousand operators throughout America. This machine stands alone
as being the composite idea of the thinking operators of this country. One
year's test of its work has convinced us that it is impossible for you to
compete successfully against the Smith Moulder with any other machine.
Can't we send you prices and literature ?

Branches :

New YorH, Chicago,

Boston, Atlanta

H. B. SMITH MACHINE CO.

SMITHVILLE, N. J., U. S. A.

HARDWOOD RECORD

53

Skidders

Snakers

9

Lidgerwood Machines
Will Stock Your Mill

Lidgerwood Skidders

Lidgerwood Snakers

Lidgerwood Yarders

Lidgerwood Roaders

Lidgerwood Pull Boats

Lidgerwood Cableways

LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO.

NEW YORK
ATLANTA
SEATTLE
NEW ORLEANS

L.oteo"003

Loaders

Cableways

54

HARDWOOD RECORD

R.E. Wood Lumber Company

C We own nearly a thousand million feet of virgin poplar, oak,
chestnut and other hardwood timber, and operate our own band mills
in West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
C Let us figure on your hardwood requirements.

GENERAL OFFICES:
CONTINENTAL BUILDING.

Baltimore, Maryland

To Timber Buyers

We have been established since 1880. We employ a larger force of
expert timber cruisers than any other firm in the world. We have
furnished banks and trust companies with expert reports on
timber properties upon which Millions of Dollars of timber certifi-
cates or bonds have been issued. We solicit correspondence with
bonafide investors. Our Specialty: Timber lands in the South,
Pacific Coast and British Columbia. We furnish detailed esti-
mates, thus enabling you to verify our representations at very
little expense and without loss of valuable time.

JAMES D. LACEY & CO

JAMES D. LACEY

608 Hennen BIdg.. NEW ORLEANS. LA.
1200 Old Colony BIdg.. CHICAGO, ILL.

WOOD BEAL VICTOR THRANE

507 Lumber Exch. BIdg.. SEATTLE. WASH.
Chamber of Commerce. PORTLAND. ORE.

.

Bartlett's No. "O" Hog, used with Hardwood Flooring Scrapers.

HOGS

We Build All Kinds
Tell Us What Kind You Need

A. F. BARTLETT & CO.

Manufacturers ol

SAWMILL MACHINERY

960 South Tilden Street
Saginaw, Mich.

HARDWOOD RECORD

55

H. W. Mosby & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM

ASH, ELM

Large Stock on Hand HELENA, ARKANSAS

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET

For choice lots of hardwoods.
Walnut our specialty.
Inspection at Mill Points.

The Walnut Lumber Company

Indianapolis, Indiana

You can't go astray
when in the market

IF YOU WRITE THE

Northern Lumber
Company

RUSH CULVER, Pres.

BIRCH, MICHIGAN

C We manufacture from our
own forests, the finest fine ' of
Northern Hardwoods on the
market. C. We have the woods,
the machinery, the experience,
enabling us to fill your orders
right.

WE GUARANTEE

TO

KILN DRY OAK

IN A WEEK

By the application of a new scientific prin-
ciple in your present old kilns.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works

Dept. D. Grand Rapids, Mich.

The

KNEELAND BIGELOW CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF LUMBER

Annual Output:

20,000,000 ft. Hardwoods.
20,000,000 ft. Hemlock.

4,000,000 pes. Hardwood Lath.

9,000,000 pes. Hemlock Lath.

Mills R.Vin the Year
Arovjnd.

Bay City, Mich.

HARDWOOD RECORD

NASH VILLE

HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

Bone Dry Stock Joilll B. RailSOIII & CO. Nashville, Tenn.

.,.1 m:ii i:i I Willi

20.000 ft.
13,000
79.800 "

3,000

7,200 "

3 mi'
20,1

43.500 "
4,500 "

96,560 "
6,000 "

I 5 .mil 2's

No, I i ommon

\n ] Common

10.030 II 24"

33 mii •• l "

26,180 " 1 S"

8,070 •' I1."

4.040

J SMI

IMA! \ WHITE OAK.

L3.000 It I " I 's I 2's

2.000 " 11"

38.875 " 11" No. ] common

;,.7sn i ' " •■ I

4,800 •■ 2 " " 1

.',-,ii I " "|

9,300 ft, l 1" No -' Common
8,100 ' lj" " 2
4.800 " 2 " " 2

II1I-.SI Ml

69,725 ft. 1 " l's mid 2's

I ',

\K '.'. ',',

1 " No. i i' "in

11" " 1
14" ■• l

13.075
25,400
13,000

135.000
24.000
16.000
14.500

245.960

1

J i'i", A S \\

QUAR1 BRED RED OAK.

55,000 ft. 1 " l's ami J s
26.4011 " U'

2,000 " 24

129,900 " l " No. 1 common
21,960 " 2 " " 1

PI.AI.V RED OAK.

80,000 ft. 1 " l's and 2's
40.000 " 1 " No. l common

8.750 " 11" " 1

4.500 " 14" " 1
L2, 150 " 2 " " 1

Send foi out Stock List of POPLAR, ash, HICKORY, CEDAR, Etc. Your inquiries will be appreciated

GEO. C. BROWN & CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Tennessee Red Cedar Lumber a Specialty. Nashville, Tennessee

INDIANA LUMBER CO,

Manufacturers Lumber

DIMENSION STOCK A SPECIALTY.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Office and Mills : Corner Oldham
Street and Cumberland River

LOVE, BOYD & CO.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Will make special prices on :

150,000 feet Tennessee Red Cedar Boards
3,900 feet 10/4 Is and 2s Hickory
3,800 feet 16/4 Is and 2s Hickory
20,000 feet 8/4 No. 1 Common Hickory
_'ii( 1.000 feet 8/4 No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak
44,000 feet 10/4 No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak
200,000 feet 4/4 Shipping Cull Quartered White Oak
80,000 feet 8/4 No. 1 Common Quartered Red Oak
300,000 feet 4/4 Shipping Cull Plain Oak
ALL BONE DRY OUR OWN CUT

wfaUw

MANUFACTURERS OF STANDARD SIZE

WAGON FELLOES AND WAGON STOCK

Send your requirements and receive price.

COLUMBUS, MISS.

Vestal Lumber & Mfg.Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers
of all kinds of

HARDWOODS

BEVELED SIDING A SPECIALTY.
UNSURPASSED FACILITIES
FOR DELIVERING.

Knoxville
Tennessee

American Hardwood Lumber Co,

14,000,000 ft. Hardwood Lumber

YARDS AT BENTON, ARK., NEW ORLEANS, LA.. ST. LOUIS, MO.,
DICKSON, TENN.

n

For items of Hardwood Stock or Hardwood
Machinery, you will find it advantageous to
write our advertisers. Get "in touch !

HARDWOOD RECORD

57

CT HP

•
OF

I j~\ ¥ T I ^

& 1

L, O U I &

LARGEST

ALL HARDWOOD MARKETS

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company

2 cars 5/8" 1st & 2d plain red oak

1 car 5/8" common plain red oak

2 cars 1}" 10" and up plain red oak step plank
1 ear \" 1st and 2d quartered red oak

1 car 5/8" 1st and 2d quartered red oak

2 ears 5/8" 1st and 2d ash
2 cars 5/8" common ash

2 cars 1x10 to 14V" wide 1st and 2d ash

OFFERS FOLLOWING SPECIAL STOCKS:

4 car 1}x10 to 14J" wide 1st and 2d ash

1 tar UxlO to 14 j" wide 1st and 2d ash

I car 1x15" and up 1st and 2d ash

J car 1 jxl5" and up 1st and 2d ash

i ear j}" 1st and 2d plain white oak

1 car J" 1st and 2d and coin, plain white oak

2 ears 5/8" 1st and 2d plain white oak
i ear 5 8" common plain white oak

Offices and Yards, Hall & Angelrodt Sts., St. Louis, Mo.

1 car 3 '4" plain white oak

2 cars 5/8" 1st and 2d quartered white oak

1 cat ,'i 8" 1st and 2d quartered white oak
4 cars li" common quartered white oak

2 cars 1" common quartered white oak strips
:i ears :S" 1st and 2d poplar

i car ljxl5" and up 1st and 2d ash

Mills at Belzoni, Miss.

CHAS. F.

Carry a complete stock of Hardwood and are

constantly in the market to purchase

large blocks of stock for cash. Are

also the largest manufacturers of

the famous St. Francis

Basin Red Gum.

General Offices: 148 Carroll Street

Garetson-Greason Lbr\ Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

SOUTHERN
HARDWOODS

Ash, Oak and Gum Lumber

Straight or mixed carload
shipments direct from
our own mills.

J 2 12-1 3-1 4 Times Building

ST. LOUIS

STEELE & HIBBARD

North Brortdway and Dock Streets
Wholesale Manufacturers, Dealers and Shippers

ASH. CYPRESS. MAHOGANY. OAK. POPLAR. &c

Mills: Yazoo City, Miss.; McGregor. Ark.; England Ark.;
Dermott Ark. O'Hara, La.; Dexter, Mo.

MASSENGALE LUMBER CO., ST. LOUIS

Manufacturers and dealers in

HARDWOODS

In the market to buy and sell OAK, POPLAR, ASH, CYPRESS
Large stock dry lumber alwayson hand

Wanted— to Buy or Contract for future Delivery

500.000 to 1,000,000 ft. Poplar, all grades
500,000 lo 1.000,000 ft. Cypress, all grades
500,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Ash, all grades

fn^rn1 PLUMMER LUMBER CO. g&|ggg

W. R. CHIVVIS,

Lesperance Street and Iron
Mountain Railroad.

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

BLACK WALNUT LUMBER MY SPECIALTY. Always in the market to buy
Walnut and Cherry Lumber. Pay spot cash and take up at shipping
point when amounts justify.

Wanted-Cypress, Ash and Cottonwood

Inspection at Point of Shipment When* Quantity Justifies

Hafner Manufacturing Co.

CYPRESS, HARDWOODS

Mail orders receive our immediate
attention.

YARDS: FOOT OF DOCK STREET

LOTHMAN CYPRESS CO.

AIR DRIED

Louisiana Red Cypress

FOOT OF ANGELICA STREET

58

HARDWOOD RECORD

PITTSBURG

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF PENNSYLVANIA

The Nicola Lumber
Company

One million feet 4-4 Bay Poplar.
Can be shipped log run, or sold
on grade. Bone dry ; band
sawed. Send your inquiries

A* M. Turner
Lumber Company

Everything in lumber. We buy hardwoods
as well as sell them. If you have anything
to offer, please submit same to us. : I

Willson Bros. Lumber Co*

MANUFACTURERS

WEST VIRGINIA
HARDWOODS

FARMERS BANK BLDG. :: PITTSBURG, PA.

stock: list

The following list covers the hardwoods we now have on hand. Special
price f. o. b. cars mill for all one grade. We would be pleased to have
you favor us with your inquiries and orders.

4/4 Maple. No. I Common 2 Cars

5/4 " " " 2 Cars

5/4 " " " and Better 59,000 Feet

6/4 " " " , 1 Car

6/4 " Firsts and Seconds .' 2 Cars

8/4 _" No. 2 Common 2,500 Feet

10/4 "" Firsts and Seconds 1 Car

10/4 " No. 2 Common and Better 71,000 Feet

12/4 " No. 1 " 1,500 Feet

12/4 " "2 " ' l,000Feet

4/4 Basswood, Log Run m. c. o I car

8/4 " ' 1 car

DRY STOCK
Favorable Freight Rates to the East.

BABC0CK LUMBER CO., Ashtola, Pa.

Hardwoods a Specialty

FOR SALE

POPLAR

125,000' 4/4 lsand2s
40,000" 4/4 No. 1 Com.
325,000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.
228,000' 4/4 No. 3 Com.
-150,000' -"4 Mill Cull

CHESTNUT

200,000' 4 4 Sound Wormy
80,000' 5/4 Sound Wormy

100,000' 6, 4 Sound Wormy
48,000" 8/4 Sound Wormy

PLAIN OAK
60,000' 4/4 No. 1 Com.
18,000' 4/4 No. ?. Com.

QUARTERED "AK
2 cars 4/4 No. 1 Com.
1 car 4/4 No. 2 Com.

OAK TIMBERS SAWED TO ORDER.
WRITE FOR PRICES.

CHEAT RIVER LUMBER COMPANY, Pittsburg, Pcnna.

DR.Y STOCK FOR.
QUICK SHIPMENT

1 50M ft. 1x13 to 17" I si and 2nds Cottonwood.
1 00M ft. 1x13 to 17" No. 1 common Cottonwood.
350Mft. 1x6 to 12" lsl'and 2nds Cottonwood.
450Mft. 1x4 to 12" No. I common Cottonwood.

40Mft. 1x18 to 25" I si and 2nds Cottonwood.

50M ft. 4-4 I si & 2nds plain Red and White Oak.
300M ft. 4-4 No. 1 com. plain Red and White Oak.
300M ft. 4-4 No. 1 com. quartered White Oak.

American Lumber ^ Mfg. Co.

PITTSBURG. PA.

Linehan Lumber Company

PERFECT

MAPLE FLOORING

SEND US YOUR INQUIRES

HARDWOOD RECORD

59

CLE V ELAND

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTE.R OF NORTHERN OHIO

The

Robert H. Jenks Lumber

Company

44 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, O.

OFFER. S:

5 Cars 4/4 1st and 2nd Poplar— 7" to 17"

4 Cars 4/4 1st and 2nd Poplar— 18" to 23"

3 Cars 4/4 Poplar Box Boards— 7" to 12"

10 Cars 4/4 No. 1 Common Poplar (Selects in )

10 Cars 4/4 No. 2 Common Poplar

3 Cars 4/4 No. 3 Common Poplar

2 Cars 5/4 No. 1 Common Poplar (Selects in)

8 Cars 8/4 No. 1 Common Poplar (Selects in)

10 Cars 4/4 1st and 2nd White Oak

15 Cars 4/4 1st and 2nd Red Oak

15 Cars 4/4 No. 1 Common Red Oak

10 Cars 4/4 No. 1 Common White Oak

10 Cars 4/4 No. 2 Common White Oak

20 Cars 4/4 Mill Cull Oak

3 Cars 4/4 Common and Better Chestnut

1 Car 6/4 Common and Better Chestnut

4 Cars 4/4 No. 1 Common Chestnut

5 Cars 5/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut

5 Cars 6/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut

10 Cars 4/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut

10 Cars 8/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut

SYMBOLS FOR GRADE MARKS

Adopted by the Hardwood Manufacturers Association of United States
Q Panel and Wide No. I

A Wide No. 2

[3 Box Boards

yf FAS or Firsts and
^~ Seconds

Q. Saps

L-\ Selects

^1 No. 1 Common

\Z-^ No. 2 Common

(3 No. 3 Common

(? No.

4 Common

Every Manufacturer should stamp the grade on his Lumber.
Set of 10 Rubber Stamps. lWxl'4" in size, Pad, Pint of Ink, and
Spreader, packed for shipment $3.50.

LEWIS DOSTER, Sec'y

IS35 First Nat. Bank t\Az. CHICAGO

MMRTIIN & CO.

191 S. Clark St.. CHICAGO, or

FRAMES

FOR HARDWOOD RECORD

SUPPLEMENTS

Complete with backing, but without the glass, made
from Flemish Oak, are to be had delivered by ex-
press, charges prepaid to any point east of the
Missouri river, at 50 cents each ; or at the Hard-
wood Record office, at 30 cents each. Prepay orders
with two-cent stamps or postal notes, addressed

Hardwood Record, 355 Dearborn Street, Chicago

The Martin-Barriss Company

Importers a.nd iMa.rv\ifacturers

MAHOGANY

&nd Fine Hardwoods

HARDWOODS

Dry Stock is Scarce

Mill Shipments are Slow in Coming Forward

We therefore call attention to stock of upwards
of SIX MILLION FEET seasoned HARD-
WOODS we offer for quick shipment from
Cleveland. WANT TO CLEAN IT OUT.
Are you interested ?

The Advance Lumber
Company

1 3th Floor, Rockefeller Bldg., CLEVELAND, O.

Manufacturers and Dealers
In White Pine, Yellow Pine, Hemlock and Hardwoods

H . FALL

EXPORTER
. . . OF . . /

WALNUT, POPLAR

^=^^= AND ■====■

BIRDSEYE MAPLE LOGS

Cash paid for Black Walnut Logs at point of shipment. If you have
any walnut logs to offer, write me.

I have some Sycamore, Red Oak, Ash and other hardwood logs which
I ani prepared to saw to order. Correspondence solicited.

Can also supply Black Walnut lumber, sawed to any specitication
required.

PORT CLINTON

OHIO

So

HARDWOOD RECORD

"» H. 7 I C> j~* ^~X 1V.T C> 1 1K.T

W lo L/U IN o 1 I\ |

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

C. P. CROSBY

RMNELANDER s : WISCONSIN

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Hard Maple a Specialty in all thicknesses from 1 inch
to 4 inch. Finest Birch in Wisconsin. Soft Elm,
Red Oak, 35,000 feet 3 in. Birch, Red all in.

DIFFICULT AND MIXED ORDERS A SPECIALTY

VOLLMAR & BELOW

MARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN

Basswood, Birch

and Other Wisconsin Hardwoods

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU ARE IN THE MARKET FOR

Mason -Donaldson Lumber Co.

RKinelander, Wisconsin.

WE HAVE TO OFFER

15 cars 2
5 cars 1

in.
in.

No. 3 Hemlock Rough.

No. 1 Common & Better Hard Maple.

3 cars 1^ in. No. 1 Common & Better Hard Maple.
18 cars 1 in. No. 2 Common & Better Soft Elm.

4 cars H in. No. 1 Common & Better Soft Elm.

12 cars 1
6 cars 1

No.
No.

1 Common Plain Birch.
1 Common & Better Red Birch.
2 cars l\ in. No. 1 Common & Better Red Birch.

2 cars 1£ in. No. 1 Common & Better Red Birch.

3 cars 2 in. No. 1 Common & Better Red Birch.

John R. Davis Lumber Company

PHILLIPS, WISCONSIN
The Leading Manufacturers

Wisconsin Hardwoods

"SHAKELESS" HEMLOCK and WHITE CEDAR PRODUCTS

WE 'HAVE THE FINEST BLOCK OF

4-4 UNSELECTED BIRCH

ON THE MARKET

Write for our Price Lists
and Stock Sheets

Mixed Cars, Even Grades
^ Prompt Shipments

We are prepared to furnish mixed carloads

And solicit your inquiries and orders. At present we are
offering Red Birch in thicknesses, I" to 2|" common
and better, also Maple, Birch and one quarter sawed

RED 0/\K FLOORING

Basswood Ceiling and Siding and Finish, also Molding

Our hardwood flooring "A. H. L." Brand, is the
highest grade as to workmanship and quality.

ARPIN HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
Saw Mill, Planing Mill and Yard at Atlanta, near Bruce, Wis. on "Soo" Line.

)ifa%m&&P€$L

We have
to offer
the

following
stock in

file at
ngram,
Wis.

WAUSAU, WIS.

400.000 ft. 1 In. No. 1 Com. & Better PI. Birch.

12,000 ft. 1U In. First & Second Ptaln Birch.

20,000 ft. 2 In. No. 2 Common Plain Birch.

24,000 ft. 1 In. First & Second Red Blroh.

15,000 ft. 1 In. No. 1 Common Red Birch.

2.500 ft. IV, In. First & Second Red Birch.

11.460 ft. 1% In. First & Second Red Birch.

4,700 ft. 2 in. First & Second Red Birch.

2,144 ft. 1 in. Curly Birch.

2.350 ft. 1%. 1% and 2 In. Curly Birch.

22.000 ft. 1 In. End Dried White Blrcn.

42.000 ft. 1 In. No. 1 Com. & Better Soft Elm

44.000 ft. 1 In. Select Pine.

57.000 ft. IV, In. No. 3 Shop & Better Pine.

19.000 ft. 1% In. Select Pine.

26,000 ft. 1V2 In. No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 Shop
Pine.

Your

orders

and

Inquiries

solicited

WE ARE NOW
OFFERING

5,000,000 ft. Winter Sawed

Basswood, Elm and Birch

Carefully manufactured from
logs of superior quality

Sawyer-Goodman Company n», . ... . ■. .u «.

HARDWOOD RECORD

6l

i -i ~\TL 7 I ^ i~** /""* rV T O ¥ IK. T

W l^OU IN o I IN

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

Frank Carter Co.

MANUFACTURER

Wisconsin Hardwood

SPECIALTY— HARD MAPLE

Mills: DURAND

SPRING VALLEY
GLEN FLORA
ELMWOOD
HILLSDALE

[GeneralJOffices:

MENOMONIE, WIS.

Wisconsin Veneer Co*

RHINELANDER, WIS.

Largest and best equipped Veneer
cutting plant in the country. High-
grade product from Birch, Maple,
Elm, Basswood, Ash and other na-
tive woods.

Veneers for Door Work a Specialty.

North Western Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OF BAND-SAWED

Wisconsin Hardwoods

CAREFUL GRADINGS — PROMPT SHIPMENTS

General Offices, EAU CLAIRE, WIS. Mills at STANLEY, WIS.

R. CONNOR CO.

WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS

Wisconsin
Hardwood

PINE AND HEM-
LOCK LUMBER

Milts at

Auburndale. Wis., on W. C. R. R.

Stratford, Wis., on C. & N.W.R.R.

Marshfield, Wis.

you want a
foot band mill?

This is a first-class
machine and will
give the best of re-
sults. It is strong,
well made, and as
gr-od as it looks.
Write us and we will
give you full particu-
lars.

Phoenix Mfg. Co.

Eau Claire, Wis.

The Nash Automatic
Sander

FOR ALL ROUND STOCK WORK

A wonderful labor-saving mac-nine.

Pays for itself in a short

time. For particulars

address

JM M n oli 842=848 Thirtieth St.
. 111. l>dSll MILWAUKEE, WIS.

Broom,

Hoe, Rake,

Fork and

Shovel

Handles,

Chair Stock,

Dowel Rods,

Curtain

Poles,

Shade

Rollers,

WhipStocks,

Canes,

Veneered

Columns,

Ten Pins, &c.

62

HARDWOOD

RECORD

M

I

IS

C H I Q A

FOR HARD MAPLE AND GREY

IN

FAMOl

ELM

S. L. EASTMAN FLOORING CO.

■AGINAW BRAND

MAPLE FLOORING

SAGINAW, MICH.

DENNIS & SMITH LUMBER CO.

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber .

Office and Yards, FOURTH AND HOLDEN AVENUES,
DETROIT, MICH.

MILLS AT: Orndorll. W. Va., Healers W. Va., and Parkersburg, W. Va.

J. S. GOLDIE.

Cadillac, :: Michigan.

SPECIAL PRICES on 600M ->leces
14" to 8" Maple Squares 16" to 27" long
250M feet Maple cull
INQUIRIES SOLICITED FOR MICHIGAN LUMBER.

WE WANT TO CONTRACT FOR

PLAIN AND QUARTERED OAK

Skillman Lumber Company

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

BOYNE CITY LUMBER COMPANY

BOYNE CITY

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE and other HARDWOODS

LARGE CAPACITY PROMPT SHIPMENTS RAIL OR CARGO

W. H. WHITB, Pres.

JAS. A. WHITE, Vice-Pres.

W. L. MARTIN, Secy.

THOS. WHITE, Treas.

W. H. WHITE COMPANY

BOYNE CITY, MICHIGAN

Manufacturers of Hardwood and Hemlock Lumber, Cedar Shingles,

White RocR Maple Flooring.

SALLING, HANSON CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Michigan Hardwoods

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

Evans & Retting Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

Hardwood
Lumber

RAILROAD TIMBERS, TIES AND SWITCH TIES

Michigan Trust Building Grand Rapids, Mich.

HARDWOOD RECORD

63

Sa.me Folks

New Name

The Brownlee=Kelly Company

DETROIT, MICH.

MAKERS OF MICHIGAN HARDWOOD LUMBER

Succeeding Brownlee cSw Company

McCLURE LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Hardwoods

Main Offices. DETROIT. MICH.
Mills, : EUTAW.ALA.

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 cars 1" 1st 4 2ods £ Com. Qtd. While Oak 10 cars t" Log Run Brown Aih

2 cars 2: : , 3 and 4" While Ash 10 cars 1" lo 4" Dry Hard Maple

2 cars I" While Ash 10 cars 1'' Log Run Birch

1 car I V? and 2" No. 1 Com. Brown Ash 10 cars 1" Log Run Basswood

2 cars 2" Log Run Soft Elm 5 cars 6 4 and 8 4, Green Log Run Hickory.

4 cars 2, 3 and 4" 1st and 2nds and No. I Com. Green While Oak
500M feel 1" lo 2", l's and 2's. selects and common. Dry Poplar:
2 cars 6 4 and 8 4, Log Run, Second Growth White Ash,

"Chief Brand"
Maple Flooring

Will commend itself to you and your trade on
its merits alone, t Comprises all the features
desirable in good flooring. ^ Made by the latest,
most approved machinery methods and best
skilled labor. ^ We believe we can make it to
your interest to handle our "Chief Brand" and
will appreciate your inquiries.

Kerry £ Hanson Flooring Co.

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

Hardwood Lumber

Main Office, Michigan Trust Company Building

GRAND RAPIDS : MICHIGAN

DEININIS BROS.

GRAND RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD LUMBER (by water or rail)
"NATIONAL" MAPLE & BIRCH FLOORING

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN THE FOLLOWING:

120M feet 4 4 Log Run Birch
125M feet 5 4 Log Run Birch
2 Cars 8 4 Common and Better Birch

1 Car 1x4 Clear Birch

2 Cars 1x7 and Wider No. 1 Common Birch
140M feet 5 4 Log Run Beech

160M feet 4 4 Log Run Soft Elm

Hard Maple-All grades and thicknesses

Main Office :

205-209 Michigan

Trust

Company

Building

Thos. MacBride Lumber Company

HEADQUARTERS FOR

HARDWOODS

IN MICHIGAN

Michigan Trust Building, Grand Rapids, Mich.

J

BIRCH

WE WANT YOUR ORDERS FOR

4-4 and 5-4 No. 1 Common Birch

A No. 1 STOCK

Simmons Lumber Company

SIMMONS, MICHIGAN

IXL POLISHED

Rock Maple Flooring

Our slow method of air seasoning and kiln drying

IXL Hardwood Flooring has stood

the test for 20 years.

Please write for prices and booklet

Wisconsin Land $, Lumber Co.

HERMANSVILLE, MICHIGAN

64

HARDWOOD RECORD

f** ¥ fVT t^* I rVT rVT A HP I

t/IJNUIIN f> A I I

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

The Stewart=Roy Lumber Co.

CINCINNATI

Selling Agents

for

Product of

ROY

LUMBER

CO.

Will Buy

OAK, ASH,

POPLAR,

CHESTNUT,

BASSWOOD

All Grades and
Thicknesses

The Stearns Company

MANUFACTURERS OP

Northern and Southern

HARDWOODS

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Cincinnati, 0.

C. CRANE & COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS

Poplar, Oak, Ash, Chestnut, Sycamore,
W. Va. Spruce, Pine and Elm

YEARLY CAPACITY 100,000,000 FEET

LONG BILL STUFF A SPECIALTY

Mills and Yards: CINCINNATI, OHIO

THE HOUSE OF STONE

The One of Good Grades
[Poplar, Oak, Chestnut, Cottonwood, Ash, Bass wood and Gum

T. B. STOINE LUMBER CO.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

FRAMES,
SASH. D00BS,
BLINDS, MOULDINGS.
COLUMNS, GLASS,
STAIBWORK.
INTERIOR TRIM.

*.\mHiT.-

PAINTS,
BUILDERS' HARDWARE,
MANTELS. ETC.
LARGE CINCINNATI FAC-
TORIES MAKE PROMPT
SHIPMENTS POSSIBLE.

You read this==others
will, too. They would
read your ad. Try it.

CYPRESS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturer of Hardwoods and Cypress

*>lain and Quartered White and Red Oak, Yellow Poplar,
Yellow Pine, Walnut, etc. Mills in Tenn., Ala. and Va.

OFFICE AND YARDS, GEST AND DALT0N AVE., CINCINNATI, OHIO.

THE

CRESCENT LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of

iS Hardwood Lumber

MARIETTA, O.

OAK FLOORING

Thoroughly Kiln Dried.
Perfectly Manufactured.
We are located in the best Oak Timber section in the

United States; have new and modern machinery and

experienced operators.
Why should we not be able to furnish the best Oak

Flooring?
Write us and we will convince you that we can.

The INTERNATIONAL HARDWOOD COMPANY
Catlettsburg, Kentucky

HARDWOOD RECORD

65

/""* I rVT 4~* I rVT TVT A HT* I

L/IfN UlfN IN A 1 1

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

Kentucky Lumber Co.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

Wholesale buyers of

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Always in the market to buy

WRITE US WHEN YOU ARE READY TO SELL

IN THE MARKET FOR

OAK-ASH-POPLAR

ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

MOWBRAY & ROBINSON

Office:
12 1 9 West Sixth Street

Yards:
Sixth Street, below Harriet

THE FREIBERG LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers ot

Tabasco Mahogany
Walnut, OaK

Poplar, McLean and Findlay Ars.
CINCINNATI, O.

"BUY GUM"

We are in the market to buy
Dry Gum Lumber in any
quantity, from a Mingle car
load to a million feet. Will
take all grades and thick-
nesses. We receive lumber
at shipping point, pay cash
and are liberal tn inspection.

THE FARRIN-KORN

LUMBER COMPANY

General Office, Tarda,

Planing Mills, Dry Kilns,

Cincinnati, Ohio
Purchasing Office,

Randolph Building.

Memphis, Tenn.

Cypress Red Gum Oak

Cash buyers for stock in our line.

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co.

GEST AND SUMMER STREETS

Wholesalers Mahogany, Thin Lumber, Veneers

Finely figured quarter sawed oak veneers a specialty.

THE E. E. BECK LUMBER COMPANY

Cash Buyers

Poplar, Oak, Chestnut

And Other Southern Hardwoods
ALL, GRADES AND THICKNESSES. WE BUY MILL CUTS.

THE WIBORG & HANNA COMPANY

CINCINNATI. OHIO

PLAIN
AND

QUARTER
SAWED

CHESTNUT

POPLAR

GUM AND

CYPRESS

Flooring;, Siding, Ceiling, Base, Case and Molding. Rough, Dressed and Re-sawed. Mixed Carloads.

THE

MALEY,

THOMPSON & MOFFETT CO.

Always in the Matfcct for

BLACK WALNUT LOGS,
SELECTED WHITE OAK LOGS,
LUMBER OF ALL KINDS.

CINCINNATI,

• • •

• • •

OHIO

L. W. RADINA & COMPANY

Correspondence Solicited with Buyers and Sellers of All Kinds of

Wanted for cash — desirable blocks of 1 inch to 4 inch Poplar, all grades,
Especially l#-inch stock, for immediate shipment.

CLARK STREET AND DALTON AVENUE- .

PLAIN OAK— BASS WOOD

Are what we want. All thicknesses and grades. Spot
cash. Send us list of your offerings with prices.

DUHLMEIER BROS., CINCINNATI, 0.

66

HARDWOOD RECORD

$> INDIANA $

.WHERE THE BEST HARDWOODS GROW.

THE WOODS FOR
WHICH INDIANA
IS FAMOUS.

Quart Yd White Oak

Plain White Oak

Quartered Red Oak

Plain Red Oak

White Ash

Poplar

Black Walnut

Cherry

Sycamore

Red Gum

Hickory

Beech

Maple

Veneers of

Indiana Hardwoods

LONG-KNIGHT LUMBER CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS

Quarter Sawed White and Red Oak a Specialty
INDIANAPOLIS. IND.

MALEY & WERTZ

Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Exporters of Hardwood Lumber

EVANSVILLE, IND.

PERRINE-ARMSTRONG CO.

Long Timber up to 60 feet — Hardwood Specialties

The largest Band Mill in Indiana. FORT WAYNE, IND.

J. V. STIMSON

All Kinds of Hardwood Lumber Manufactured

HUNTINGBURG, IND.

YOUNG & CUTSINGER

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Fine Figured Quartered Oak

EVANSVILLE, IND.

CHARLES H. BARNABY

Manufacturer of Band Sawed Hardwoods

Quarter Sawed Indiana White Oak a Specialty GREENCASTLE, IND.

D'HEUR & SWAIN LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Quartered Oak and Sycamore

SEYMOUR, IND.

C. I. HOYT & CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Quartered and Plain Oak, Poplar, Ash and Chestnut

Specialty in Difficult Orders in Wagon Stock. PEKIN, IND.

-»s

HARDWOOD RECORD

67

BUFFALO

THE GREAT WHOLESALE LUMBER CENTER OF THE EAST

Manufacturers and
Dealers in

Ash

White and Brown

Basswood
Birch

Red and White

Butternut

Cherry

Chestnut

Cottonwood

Cypress

Elm

Soft and Rock

Gum

Red and Tupelo

Hickory
Maple

Hard and Soft

Red Oak

Plain and Quartered

White Oak

Plain and Quartered

Black Walnut
White Wood

Poplar

ANTHONY MILLER

HARDWOODS OF ALL KINDS

893 EAGLE STREET

SCATCHERD & SON

HARDWOODS ONLY

Yard, 1565 SENECA STREET Office, 886 ELLICOTT SQUARE

STANDARD HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

OAK, ASH AND CHESTNUT

1075 CLINTON STREET

L N. STEWART & BROTHER

Specialties: CHERRY AND OAK

892 EI.K STREET

T, SULLIVAN & COMPANY

Specialties: BROWN ASH, BIRCH, PACIFIC COAST FIR AND SPRUCE

50 ARTHUR STREET

ORSON E. YEAGER

Specialties: OAK, ASH AND POPLAR

932 ELK STREET

BEYER, KNOX & COMPANY

ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

Office and Yards, 69 LEROY AVENUE

BUFFALO HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

We want to buy for cash :

Oak, Ash and other Hardwoods, all grades and thicknesses.
Will receive and inspect stock at shipping point.
P. O. Box 312. MEMPHIS. TENN. 940 SENECA STREET

EMPIRE LUMBER COMPANY ~"

Our specialties are PLAIN »nd QUARTERED OAK and ASH.

1142 SENECA STREET.

G. ELIAS & BROTHER

BUY AND CARRY LARGE QUANTITIES OF ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

955 TO 1015 ELK STREET

HUGH McLEAN LUMBER COMPANY

Specialty: INDIANA WHITE OAK

940 ELK STREET

W T MANUFACTURERS OLD-FASHIONED

vsmsa-nt, soft yellow

5-8 AND 4-4

IN WIDE STOCK.

SPECIALTY

Kitchen 6v

POPLAR

Ashland, Kentucky

Company

Three States Lumber Co.

OFFERS

300,000 ft. 5=4 Firsts and Seconds Cottonwood

Prompt Shipment Memphis, Tennessee

Lamb -Fish Lumber Co.

SUCCESSORS TO LAMB HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY, BACON-NOLAN-HARDWOOD COMPANY GUIRL-STOVER LUMBER COMPANY

Manufac-
tvirers

OAK, ASH, COTTONWOOD, GUM
AND CYPRESS

MAIN OFFICE: 720 MEMPHIS TRUST BUILDING. MEMPHIS. TENN.
mi n « i.,.i , Memphis. Tenn. /v r> • i.> . Well Manufactured Stock

Three Band Mills ffh0tnrcyMMiss 0ur Specialties ^od c^r

i atover, M*ss. * ( Prompt Shipments

YELLOW POPLAR

MANUFACTURERS

BAND SAWED
POPLAR
LUMBER

DRY

ALL GRADES

5-8, 4-4. 5-4,6-4. 8 4, 10 4. 12-4,16 4

Bevel Siding, Lath & Squares

SPECIALTY, WIOE STOCK

Coal Grove, Ohio, U, S. A.

COPYRIGHT, A. D. 1907. BY THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

MMwoM RotoM

Twelfth Year.

Semi-monthly.

CHICAGO, MARCH 25, 1907.

I Subscription *2.
tSlii '

Ingle Copies, 10 Cent*.

)

2,000,000 Feet

FOR SALE

ROSS LUMBER CO.

JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK

TWELVE YEARS' EXPERIENCE

Policy Holders have saved OVER $250,000 IN DIVIDENDS received

Have You Participated ?
PRESENT RATE OF DIVIDEND, 35 PER CENT.

THE LUMBER MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

OF BOSTON, MASS.

The Davidson-Benedict Company

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
Everything in

Southern Hardwoods

POPLAR, CHESTNUT, ASH, OAK

(Plainand Quartered.) Straight or Miied Cars.

DRFSSFD POPLAR ANY YOU GET WHAT YOU BUY FROM
UK.EOaE.LJ rurLrtK. rtix I us ASK poR QUR DEL1VERED

WAY YOU WANT IT. prices, any railroad point.

DRY STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

163.000 ft. 1 inch No. 1 and No. 2 Quartered White Oak
104,000 ft. 1 inch No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak.
285,000 ft. 1 inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.
360,000 ft. 1 inch No. 1 Common Plain Oak.

22,000 ft. 11 inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.

38,000 ft. 11 inch No. 1 Common Plain Oak.

16,000 ft. 1* inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.

24.000 ft. 2 inch No. 1 and No. 2 Plain Oak.

16,000 ft. 2 inch No. 1 Common Plain Oak.
170.000 ft. 1 inch Scented Tennessee Cedar.
217.000 ft. J inch No. 1 Common Poplar.
Poplar Bevel Siding

THE ATLANTIC LUMBER CO.

2 KILBY STREET, BOSTON, MASS.

66 TO 88

EROM o<5 BRO/\D\A//\Y to 88 U/ILLIAm STREET

Headquarters of Lumber Insurance will move on Mav 1st'. Growth of business demands larger quarters. Entire twelfth flooi ol the New Royal Insurance

■ Building will be taken by

LUMBER INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK, ADIRONDACK FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,

LUMBER INSURERS' GENERAL AGENCY, Underwriting Managers, i Present Address) 66 Broadway, New York.

ADVERTISERS' CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY FOLLOWS WANT AND FOR SALE ADVERTISING SECTION.

HARDWOOD RECORD

I f^\ I T I C X/ II I T~7

LU U 1 o V ILrL^ti

■ MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTING CENTliK OF KENTUCKY

Albert R. Kampf

Manufacturer

Hardwood Lumber and Timber

Dimension Stock

Board of Trade Bldg., Louisville, Kv.

E. W. Rhubesky

Wholesale

Poplar, Rough and Dressed.

Oak, Chestnut and Other

Hardwoods

North Vernon
Lumber Co.

Dand Sawed Plain and Quartered

Oak and Poplar.

North Vernnn, Ind.and

Louisville, Ky

Southern Lumber Co.

Oak, Poplar and

Chestnut.
Louisville, Ky.

McLean -Davis Lumber Co.

Successors to

Hugh McLean Lumber Co., Highland Park, Ky.
Ldward L. Davis Lumber Co., Louisville, Ky.
Berry - Davis Saw Mill Co., Louisville, Ky.

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Hardwood Lumber

Daily Capacity:
80,000 feet

Sales Offices:
[Louisville, Ky.

Dry stock vv. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co.

Louisville, Ky.

PLAIN BED OAK.
65.000' 1" 1st & 2nd.
25,000' 1V4" 1st & 2d.
49.000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
67,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
18,000' 2%" 1st & 2d.
16,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
131.000' 1" No. 1 Com.
84,0110' IVi" No. 1 Com.
44.000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
47.0110' 2" No. 1 Com.
8.000' 2%" No. 1 Com.
16.000' 3* No. 1 Com.

aUAETKHED BED OAK.
10.000' 1" 1st & 2d.

14.000' 1M," 1st & 2d.

5,000' 2" 1st & 2d.

15.000' 1" No. 1 Com.

7.000' 1%" No. 1 Com.

13,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

PLAIN WHITE OAK.

S0.000' 1" 1st & 2d.

28,000' IVi" 1st & 2d.

12,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.

42,000' 2" 1st & 2d.

23.800' 2%* 1st & 2d.

16,000' 3" 1st & 2d.

227,000' 1" No. 1 Com.

60,000' IVi" No. 1 Com.

80,000' IV," No. 1 Com.

50,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
17.000' 2V4" No. 1 Com.
22.000' 3" No. 1 Com.

aUAETEEED WHITE OAK.

50,000' 1" 1st & 2d.

28,000' 114" 1st & 2d.

45,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.

49,000' 2" 1st & 2d.

19,000' 2V," 1st & 2d.

18,000' 1" No. 1 Com.

30,000' IVi" No. 1 Com.

40,600' 1V4" No. 1 Com.

22,000' 2" No. 1 Cora.

10,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

ASH.

9,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
65.000' 114" 1st & 2d.
16.000' IV," 1st & 2d.
10,000' 2" 1st & 2d.

8,000' 2V4" 1st & 2d.
14,000' 3" 1st & 2d.

6.000' 4" 1st & 2d.

4.(100' lvi" No. 1 Com.
16.000' IV," No. 1 Com.

8,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

POPLAB.
12.000' 1" 1st & 2d.

000' IVi" 1st & 2d.

000' IV," 1st & 2d.

000' 2" 1st & 2d.

000' 2V4" 1st & 2d.

,000' 3" 1st & 2d.

000' 1" No. 1 Com.

.000' 1V4" No. 1 Com.

000' 114" No. 1 Com.

000' 2" No. 1 Com.

000' 1" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

000' 2" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

,000' 2" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

,000' IV," 18" & up 1st & 2d.

.000' 1V6" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

All thicknesses in cult poplar, ash, chestnut.

Your inquiries will be appreciated.

Prompt delivery guaranteed

QUALITY

IS EASILY RECOGNIZED. TRY OUR GRADES

WE ARE OFFERING

50 Cars
Birch

1 INCH FIRSTS AM) SECONDS
1 INCH No. 1 COMMON

G. W. JONES LUMBER CO.

APPLETON, WIS.

Ornamental Hardwood Floors

400 STYLES AND PATTERNS

Illustrated Catalog on Application

WOOD = MOSAIC FLOORING CO.

Rochester, N. Y. New Albany, Ind.

All Lumbermen, Attention!

We do what you can't do.
We measure your stumpage correctly.
We make your maps correctly.
Bank references: Asheville, N. C.

is* A» 0CI16nCK Co L0. North Carolina.

HARDWOOD RECORD

3

CADILLAC

CELEBRATED FOR HIGH STANDARD OF QUALITY AND HILL WORK

-J

t — Mitchell's Make— %

CHOICE

WHITE BASSWOOD

ALL CLEAR
ALL WHITE
BONE DHY

End stuck in shed and just
what you want if you use
such stock. It is l inch thick
and we have one tai ge i a i

PLEASE SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES

Mitchell Brothers Company

CADILLAC, MICH.

The Cadillac Handle Co.

Band Sawn
Michigan Hardwoods

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 Cars 4 4 Hani Maple. 1st and 2nds.
3 Cars 5 4 Hani Maple 1st and 2nds.

6 Oars 5 4 Hani Maple, No. 1 and 2 Common

1 Car 6 4 Hard Maple, 10 in. and wider, No. I Common and

Bettei

2 Cars 4 4 Birch, No. 2 Common and Better.

MURPHY & DIGGINS

Offer all grades of the following special dry stock

MAPLE -6/4, 6 J, 8 4, 10 4 12 4, 14 4, 16/4
CRAY ELM— 4/4, 12/4
BASSW00D-4/4.
BIRCH-* 4, 6 4

Our own manufacture. Perfect Mill Work. Uniform Grades.
LET US FIGURE ON YOUR HARDWOOD WANTS.

Cummer, Biggins & Go.

^MANUFACTURERS

"CUMMER" MAPLE
AND BEECH FLOORING

MICHIGAN HARDWOODS

Good assortment of dry stock on hand ready
for immediate shipment in Hard Maple, Beech,
Birch, Soft Elm and Cherry.

SEND US A LIST OF YOUR REQUIREMENTS.

DRY ST

OCKJ

Northern Michigan

Soft Gray Elm

What our old cork pine was to the regular
white pine — such is our Soft Gray Elm to
ordinary soft elm. Buyers who gladly discrim-
inate in favor of something better than the or-
dinary, will be interested. We have

2 cars 10-4 firsts and seconds.
4 cars 12-4 firsts and seconds.

Wide, choice stock, our own product, seasi
bone dry.

WRITE US ABOUT IT.

COBBS&MITCrlELL

( INCORPORATrD)

CADILLAC, MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

WAGON STOCK

IN ROUGH.

TONGUES, AXLES, REACHES, BOLSTERS
AND 6 4 TO 16 4 HICKORY. ALSO ALL

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

Gayoso Lumber Co., inc.

Memphis, Tenn.

FENN BROS. COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Oak Flooring

Quartered lA/hite Hollow/ Backed

Quartered Red End Matched

Plain \A/hite Polished

Plain Red Bored

Offices and Plar\« :

Kansas and Mallory Ave., New South Memphis.

(Take South Memphis car to Mallory Ave.)

Anderson-Tuliy Company

OFFERS STOCK FOR SALE

Three ears (i 4x8 in. and up 1st & 2nd Cottonwood

One " 7/8x8

Two " 5 4x12 "

Two "4/4 " " Plain Red Oak

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

H. W. Mosby & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM

ASH, ELM

Large Stock on Hand

HELENA, ARKANSAS

PLAIN AND QUARTER SAWED
WHITE AND RED OAK, ELM.
COTTONWOOD, POPLAR, GUM,
WHITE ASH AND CYPRESS

<§Mi*2I^>

CABLE ADDRESS:
"SONDERCO" MEMPHIS

CODES USED:

LUMBERMAN'S. TELECODE AND

A B C 5th EDITION

MANUFACTURERS

HARDWOOD, GUM, COTTONWOOD AND CYPRESS

LUMBER

Main Office: Tennessee Trust Building

MEMPHIS, XENIN.

Offers the following specials:

10 Cars 1 14 inch Is and 2s Quartered Red Oak.
3 Cars 1 1/2 inch Is and 2s Quartered Red Oak.
10 Cars I 1/4 inch is and 2s Plain Red Oak.

10 Cars I 14 inch No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak.
10 Cars 1 1/4 inch No. 1 Common Qrtd. White Oak.
16 Cars I inch No. 2 Common Qrtd. White and Red
Oak — mostly strips.

Direct shipments from our own Mills of Lumber from our own Timber our Specialty
"We manufacture and put in pile 300,000 ft. Hardwood every 24 hours

HARDWOOD RECORD

FULLERTON -POWELL

Hardwood Lumber Co.

OFFERS THE FOLLOWING STOCK
FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

15 cars 1 in. 1st & 2nds Qtd. White Oak
20 cars 1 in. No. 1 Com. Qtd. White Oak
40 cars 1 in. 1st & 2nds Plain Red Oak
20 cars 1 in. 1st & 2nds Plain White Oak
2 cars 3 in. 1st & 2nds Plain White Oak

10 cars 1 in. 1st & 2nds Red Gum, 10 to 16 ft.

3 cars 1 in. 1st & 2nds Red Gum, 12 ft.
10 cars 2 in. 1st & 2nds Sap Gum
10 cars 2 in. No. 1 Common Sap Gum

5 cars 2 in. No. 2 Common Sap Gum

BRANCH OFFICES:

CHICAGO, 1104 Chamber of Commerce
MEMPHIS, TEMM., 305 Tennessee Trust Bldg.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., 30S Lumber Exchange

MAIN OFFICES

South Bend, Ind.

i

W.MRitter Lumber Co

COLUMBUS, OHIO*

Saw and Ship 100,000,000 Feet Yearly jj

WEST VIRGINIA YELLOW POPLAR
NORTH CAROLINA CORK WHITE PINE

AND HARDWOOD

DRY KILNS AND PLANING MILLS. ALL OUR MILLS RUN THE YEAR ROUND.
SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES AND ORDERS'.

HARDWOOD RECORD

WILLIAM WHITMER. @> SONS, Inc.

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET FOR STOCKS OF
WELL MANUFACTURED

HARDWOODS

BRANCHES:

NEW YORK, BOSTON, PITTSBURG

MAIN OFFICES:
GIRARD TRUST BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA

Quartered Oak Flooring

|Manufactured for

HIGHEST GLASS of trade only.

Also Plain Oak, Maple and other Hardwood flooring.

The name D WIGHT on flooring is a guarantee of its

excellence.
D WIGHT SPECIAL pattern of thin flooring is the
only suitable thin flooring to lay. Write for Sample.

DWIGHT LUMBER COMPANY

DETROIT, MICHIGAN

Phila. Veneer 4 Lumber Co.

817 NORTH FIFTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

SLICED AND SAWED

Quartered Oak Veneer

CUT TO DIMENSION SIZES ( JOINTED AND TAPED) ^

WE HAVE A GOOD STOCK OF PLAIN AND QUAR-
TERED OAK ON YARD AT KNOXVILLE MILL

Thomas Forman Company

MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE

Maple and Oak
Flooring

New York Branch: DETROIT

McOovero 4 Bowen, And Hardwood Lumber

29 Broadway MICHIGAN

MARCH STOCK LIST

HARD MAPLE

I in. 1,000,000 ft.

II in. 100,000 ft.
li in. 100,000 ft.

3 In. 50,000 ft.

4 in. 50,000 ft.

BEECH
1 in. 100,000 ft.
BIRCH

500,000 ft.

100,000 ft.

1 in.
li in.

2 in.
2i in.

100,000 ft.
50,000 ft.

BASSWOOD
1 in. 300,000 ft.

GRAY ELM
1 in. 300,000 ft.
li in. 200,000 ft.
3 in. 200,000 ft.

Kelley Lumber & Shingle Co.

(Tra. verse City, Mich. [

Plain and Quartered Oak
Juniper and Cypress Shingles

• "Oak will be Oak" this year. We have a million and a half feet of
White and Red Oak, plain' and quartered. All thicknesses and grades.
Sizes cut to order. Will hold stock subject to your orders for shipment.

Our No. 1 Heart Split Juniper and Cypress Shingles are smooth and
well made They will last a lifetime on a roof. Send for samples and
prices. Large stock in yard.

J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co.

56th to 58th Sts. and Woodland Ave.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET

For choice lots of hardwoods.
Walnut our specialty.
Inspection at Mill Points.

The Walnut Lumber Company

Indianapolis, Indiana

HARDWOOD RECORD

np i i r~* rz* A o nr*

1 1 1 fc, fc, A & 1

1

BOSTON NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA

James & Abbot Company

Lumber and Timber

No. J 65 MILK ST., BOSTON, MASS., and GULFPORT, MISS.

JONES HARDWOOD CO.

INCORPORATED

WANTS: Poplar, Plain Oak,
Quartered Oak and Cypress.

■ 147 MILK STREET
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Manufacturers please send slock lists and prices.

Holloway Lumber Company

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

In the marnet for all thicknesses of
OAK, ASH and CHESTNUT.

312 Arcade Building,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

WM. E. LITCHFIELD

MASON BUILDING, BOSTON, MASS.

Specialist in Hardwoods

Manufacturers are requested to supply lists of stock for sale

SCHOFIELD BROTHERS

WHOLESALE LUMBER

1019-20 Pennsylvania Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa.,

Want to hear from some one interested in the purchase of S. C. Tupelo
Gum, Can be cut to order.

Sales Agents: Long Pole Lumber Co., Case-Fowler Lumber Co.

Mills: CADI V DDATntDC Specialties:

Honaker, Va. dUDLL DKUlIlEiIO Quartered White
Birmington, Ala. ^^^zz^z^^z^^z^^^^zz^^ Oak, Poplar.

WHOLESALE LUMBER

Land Title Building = = Philadelphia, Pa.

Wistar, Underhill & Co.,

WHOLESALE

HARDWOOD LUMBER

816 Real Estate Trust Building,

PHILADELPHIA.

H.

H

. MAUS & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS

HARDWOOD and YELLOW PINE.

Write us if you wish to buy or sell.

INC.

420 Walrvvil

St., - - PHILADELPHIA, PA.

W. M. GILLESPIE LUMBER

HARDWOODS COMPANY Farmers Bank Bldg.
Oak a Specialty PITTSBURGH, PA,

ALBERT

HAAS LUMBER

CO.

BAND SAWED

OAK AND ASH

YELLOW POPLAR

ATLANTA

:: :: 1:

GEORGIA

JOHN L. ALCOCK & CO.

BUYERS OF BLACK WALNUT LOGS
BOARDS AND PLANKS

Baltimore, Md.

Inspection at point of
shipment. Spot cash.

THE BUFFALO MAPLE FLOORING CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE AND OAK FLOORING

BUFFALO, NEW YORK

The West Florida Hardwood Co.

Ash
Hickory

MlLl on Apalachicola River
MARYSVILLE, FLA.

Red and White Oak Red Gum

Yellow Cottonwood Tupelo Gum

LET US HAVE YOUR INQUIRIES =

BALTIMORE
M A R Y L A N

E 17 L7 DDI/^rr BUYI

d £.. Ji,. rrvlLJi expo

BUYER AND
RTER OP

Hardwoods, Poplar and Logs

I am always in the market for nice lots of dry and well manufactured
lumber, i inspect at point of shipment. Correspondence solicited.

Pennsylvania Door & Sash Co.

HARDWOOD DOORS
AND INTERIOR FINISH

NEW YORK

PITTSBURG

PHILADELPHIA

Wantcd-Dimcnsion Oak, Plain and Quartered>

White and Red. Send for specifications.

Indiana Quartered Oak Co.

7 Eevst 42nd Street, New York City

HARDWOOD RECORD

W. H. Dawkins Lumber Co.

Manufacturers of Band Sawed

Yellow Poplar

ASHLAND, KY.

PAEPCKE-LEIGHT LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM AIND OTHER HARDWOODS

Large stocks of well seasoned Lumber always carried at our yards and mills.
General Off ices: MO W. Chicago Ave., CHIC AGO. Mills: Cairo, III., Marked Tree, Ark.,Greenville, Miss., Arkansas City, Ark., Blytheville, Ark.

R. M. SMITH J H. P. SMITH

R. M. SMITH <& COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

WEST VIRGINIA HARDWOODS

PARKERSBURG. WEST VIRGINIA

WE CARRY IN STOCK FROM TEN TO FIFTEEN MILLION FEET OF ASH, BEECH, BASSWOOD, CHESTNUT, CHERRY,
MAPLE, PLAIN & QTD. OAK, POPLAR, WALNUT, &C. OUR PLANING
MILL FACILITIES ARE UNSURPASSED.
EASTERN OFFICE: Band Mill: Orndoff, Webster County, W. Va.

1425-6 LAND TITLE BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA Planing Mill; Heaters, W. Va.

Swann-Day Lumber Company

M ANUF A CTTJ R ERS OF

POPLAR AND OAK

PLANING MILL STOCK, BOX SHOOKS r/rxTTtTOirv

AND HARDWOOD DIMENSION CLAY CITY, KENTUCKY

HARDWOOD RECORD

D. G. COURTNEY

MANUFACTURER OF!

Yellow Poplar
Oak & Chestnut

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA

Our Timber Holdings are located exclusively in the finest sections of West] Virginia
growth. [Modern mills and perfect manufacture. Standard and uniform grades.

We" seek the trade of wood -working factories who want a dependable lumber supply
and fair treatment.

Just now we want to move 4/4 No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 Common Oak.^

BUY

CHERRY RIVER

HARDWOODS

BAND MILLS:

RICHWOOD, WEST VIRGINIA.

CAMDEN-ON-GAULEY, WEST VIRGINIA

HOLCOMB, WEST VIRGINIA.

SPECIALS :

4

-4

CHERRY

1 and 2s and No. 1 Common

CHERRY RIVER BOOM & LUMBER CO.
Scranton, Pennsylvania

IO

HARDWOOD RECORD

CHICAGO

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

PARK RICHMOND <& CO.

Wholesale

Hardwood Lumber

410 Monadnock Block

HARRISON 5165 V_^lllCclgO

Ryan & McParland

CHICAGO AND MEMPHIS

In the Market to buy Ash, Hickory, Poplar
and Oak Lumber; also Wagon Stock

In the Market to buy Hardwood Logs for
our Memphis Band Mill

Chicago Car Lumber Co.

504 Pullman Building
CHICAGO

Buyers of Round Lots

Poplar, Oak, Ash and Car and R. R.
Material

Hayden & Westcott Lumber Co.

IN MARKET FOR

POPLAR

25 M ft. 1J" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
40 M ft. 2" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
25 M ft. 2i" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
602M ft. 3"^ No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.

ROCK ELM
200 M ft. 5/4 No. 1 Common and better
500 M ft. 8/4 No. 1 Common and better

BLACK ASH !
50 M ft. each 4/4, 5 4 and 6/4 No. 1 common and better

OAK AND ASH
100 cars car oak-framing
25 cars white ash from 1" to 4" green or dry Is" and 2s

511 Railway Exchange,

Chicago

R. A. WELLS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Fine Quartered Oak a Specialty

234 LA SALLE STREET
Yards at Canal and 21st Sts. CHICAGO,

, ILL.

White Lumber Company

Dealers in Hardwood Lumber

ALL KINDS

Cherry Lumber a
Specialty

ALL GRADES

Laflin (a 22d Sts.
Chicago

John O'Brien Land & Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Of All Kinds

OFFICE AND YARDS :

873 to 881 So. Laflin Street

MILL : PHILIPP, MISS.

Chi

icago

F. Slimmer & Company

Hardwood
Lumber

Office and Yard :

65 W. Twenty-second St.

CHICAGO

HARDWOOD RECORD

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For thirty-three years Wilee's Hardwood Floor-
ing has been among the foremost on the market
and because it stands today "unequaled" is the
best evidence that its manufacturer has kept
ibreast of modern methods and the advanced de-
mands of the trade. To convince yourself of the
above statements, try our polished surface floor-
ing, tongued and grooved, hollow backed, with
matched ends and holes for blind nailing — you'll
find it reduces the expense "of laying and polishing.
Our Booklet tells all about Hardwood Flooring and
how to care for it — also prices— and is free.

The T. Wilce Company

22nd and Throop Sis. CHICAGO. ILL.

CHAS. DARLING & CO.

Southern
Hardwoods

22nd Street and Center Avenue - CHICAGO

Estabrook - Skeele

Lumber Company

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Oak, Ash, Gum, Cottonwood, Wagon
Stock and Other Hardwoods

In the market for round lots of Hardwood and
Wagon Stock. Write us before selling.

Fisher Building, CHICAGO

W. A. DAVIS

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

1612 Marquette BIdg., CHICAGO
BranchlOffices : PADUCAH. KY., and MEMPHIS. TENN.

CHAS. MILLER

MILLER BROS.

MILTON MILLER

H/\RD\A/OOD LUMBER

Main'Office: 208 WILLOUGHBY BLDG. 6 E. MADISON ST.
'Phone Central 1363 CHICAGO, ILL.

Yards: Loomis St. S.of 22nd St., Chicago, 111., Houston Miss., Macon, Mlsi

McCauley - Saunders Lumber Co*

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

BAND SAWED
LOUISIANA GULF COAST

RED CYPRESS

Products Exclusively

Ha&93o 1703 Fisher Bldg., CHICAGO, ILL.

The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Co.

Wholesale and Retail

Telephone
NORTH 223

HARDWOOD LUMBER

47 Dominick St.
CHICAGO

/\. \A/. W/YLIE. "0I FISHER BUILDING

1 : I CHICAGO - ILLINOIS

OAK

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

GUM CYPRESS

I ERNEST B. LOMBARD 1

Manufacturer and Wholesale

Northern cvrvd Southern
Hardwoods

Railway Exchange

CHICAGO

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Co.

1649-50 MARQUETTE BUILDING

Are now offering hone dry BIRCH. ROCK ELM. BLACK ASH. etc., Wis-
consin stock. Also PLAIN AND QUARTERED OAK, POPLAR, etc,
from our Memphis yard. We are constant buyers.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Not only the ONLY HARDWOOD PAPER,
but the BEST LUMBER PAPER published

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HARDWOOD RECORD

"ldeal"a Rock Maple Flooring

is the flooring that is manufactured expressly to supply
the demand for the best. It is made by modern ma-
chinery from carefully-selected stock and every pre-
caution is taken throughout our entire system to
make it fulfill in every particular its name— "IDEAL"

Rough or Finished Lumber — All Kinds

Send us Your Inquiries

The I. Stephenson Company

WELLS, MICHIGAN

*■»/■•■• "

Michigan Maple Flooring

Our model factory is equipped with the highest
class tools and appliances made for Flooring
production.

We produce our lumber from the best rock Ma-
ple area in Michigan and have 20 years' supply.

Our brand "Michigan" is a guaranty of qual-
ity. Perfect mill work and excellent grades
distinguish our Flooring and our prices are
reasonable.

WARD BROS., Big Rapids, Mich.

OAK FLOORING

Kiln Dried

Bored

Polished

HAP0W0OD LUMBER x>\

^\ER LUMBe

'&MFC.CO. '■

SARDIS .
MISS

Hollow
Backed

and

Bundled

^The HARDWOOD RECORD publishes a
series of bulletins, showing the annual hardwood re-
quirements of many thousands of wholesale consumers,
by kind, grade and thickness.

•I Indispensable to every lumber sales manager.

•J Specimen bulletin for the asking.

WE ARE OFFERING

TIMBER LAND 6% BONDS

Secured by first mortgage on Southern timber
lands at less than 50 per cent of their present
market value. Issued by large, well established,
responsible lumber companies. Full particu-
lars will be mailed on request.

CLMRK L. F»OOLE & CO.

SUCCESSORS TO

H. C. BARROLL ® CO., Bankers

First National Bank Building

CHICAGO

THE "FINEST" MAPLE FLOORING

W. D. YOUNG & CO.

BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

Producers from TREE to TRADE of the high-
est type of Michigan Forest Products. Large
stock of Maple Flooring and 15,000,000 feet
of Hardwoods — 1 to 4 inches thick — on hand.

Maple, Birch and Beech Lumber

FIRE INSURANCE

Specialists on Lumber and

Lumber Working

Plants

Lumber Underwriters

HOME OFFICE:

66 Broadway, New York

We have in stock

150,000 ft. 4-4 White Maple Cross piled with %%.-
inch dry crossers.

125,000 ft. 4-4 L,og run Birch red in. No thick
cut out.

Please favor us with your orders.

Bliss & Van Auken

Saginaw, W. S. Mich.

Published In the Interest of Hardwood Lumber, American Hardwood Forests, Wood Veneer Industry, Hardwood Flooring,
Hardwood Interior Finish, Wood Chemicals, Saw Mill and Woodworking Machinery.

Vol. XXIII.

CHICAGO. MARCH 25. 1907.

LIDR

No. 11.

KOTAl

Published on (he 10th and 25th of each month by

THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

Henry H. Gibson. President

FRANK W. TUTTLE, Sec-Treas.

OFFICES
Sixtn Floor Ellsworth Bldg., 355 Dearborn St.. Chicago, III., U.S.A.

Telephones: Harrison 4960 Automatic 5659

TERMS OF ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION

In the United States, Canada, Philippine Islands and Mexico . . $2.00

In all other countries in Universal Postal Union ..... 3.00
Subscriptions are payable in advance, and in default of written orders to the
Contrary are continued at our option.

The entire contents of this publication are covered by the general copy-
right, and articles must not be reprinted without special permission.
Entered at Chicago Postoffice as Second Class Matter.

Advertising copy must be received five days in advance of
Publication date. Advertising rates on application.

ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.

Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association.

This association will hold a special meeting at the Hotel
Pautlind, Grand Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday, April 17.

National Hardwood Lumber Association.

The tenth annual convention of this association will be
held on Thursday and Friday, May 23 and 24, 1907, at
Atlantic City, N. J.

National Lumber Manufacturers' Association.

This organization will hold its annual meeting on Tuesday
and Wednesday, May 28 and 29, at the Auditorium on the
Jamestown Exposition grounds, Norfolk, Va.

2?

General Market Conditions.

Strong values and insistent demand continue to be the features,
of the hardwood market situation, both North and South. Reports
of Wisconsin hardwood stocks just collected from the leading
producers of that state, show less than 17,500,000 feet of . 1 1 >
Inmber on hand; less than 3S, 000,000 feet of green lumber; and
less than 35,000,000 feet of logs— a total of less than 90,000,000
feet in sight for ruling business. This is 6,000,000 feet less than
last fall's report showed.

The recent statement issued by the Michigan operators shows
relatively light stock. It further develops that a comparatively
small portion of this' lumber is now owned by manufacturers, but
has been sold in advance to jobbers.

Tallies of northern hardwoods are gradually advancing. In the
southern hardwood producing sections the situation is very like
that in the North. Manufacturers have no dry lumber on hand
and their green stock is quite largely sold in advance. With the
renaissance of better weather conditions, manufacturing is pro-
gressing both North and South and every effort is being made to
supplement depleted stocks. The oak, poplar, Cottonwood and

gum markets are very strung, and the demand is much in excess,
of the possibility of supply.

Hardwood flooring manufacturing plants are still very busy;
there is apparently no cessation in the present demand, and every-
thing points to a continuation of active buying. Prices of all
grades of hardwood flooring are gradually advancing, with a
marked increase in the price of factory grades.

Tin- mahogany market is showing an increase in strength in the
East, West and South. Both European and home markets arc
pr< tty closely stripped of high-quality logs.

President Names Waterways Board.

In compliance with the request of the Hardwood Manufacturers'
Association and other commercial organizations of importance in the
Mississippi Valley, President Roosevelt has named a Waterways
Board, which includes nine men prominent in the government service.
The sole duty of this board will be to study the inland waterways of
the United States and report a comprehensive plan for their improve-
ment and control.

Theodore E. Burton, chairman of the Eivers and Harbors Com-
mittee of the last Congress, is chairman; others on the board are
Mr. Bankhead, congressman from Alabama; Gen. Mackenzie, chief
of engineers of the army; Mr. Newell, director of the United States
reclamation service; Mr. Pinehot, chief forester; Mr. Smith, com-
missioner of corporations, and Mr. McGee, the well-known anthro-
pologist and geologist.

In a letter which the president lias addressed to each of these
persons he states that he is influenced in creating the commission by
broad considerations of national policy; that the railroads are no
longer able to move crops and manufactured products rapidly
enough to secure the prompt transaction of the business of the
nation, and that there appears to be but one complete remedy — the
development of a complementary system of transportation by water.

The fulfillment of the work of this commission and its ultimate
completion by legislation means much to the lumber industry of the
country, and especially to the hardwood branch. The great hard-
wood field of the entire lower Mississippi yallej is tributary to the
\li sissippi river, and with a maintained channel of a reasonable
depth between New Orleans and Chicago a cheap and comparatively
speedy means of transportation would be afforded for not only lum-
ber but a vast variety of other manufactured products. European na-
tions, particularly Germany, have spent millions in developing water-
ways and streams, which has resulted in very low freight rales on
coarse products. This country has overlooked the vast importance

of such work, and appropriations for what little has been di have

I n niggardly. Instead of being inimical to the railroads this propo-
sition should be advantageous to them, and will doubtless
meet with their support and approval. Theodore shouts,
Stuyvesanl Fish and James J. Hill have expressed the opinios pub-
licly that were tha waterways of the country thoroughly developed
and not used merely as a "hammer for rates'' they would be bene-
ficial to the railroads, in. that the low-class tonnage would be rele-
gated to them, leaving the roads to handle manufactured
products. The output of the country has increased 1 10 per ce»t of
late, while railroad facilities for handling it have only been aug-
mented by 20 per cent.

Thus it will be seen i hat the improTement of the internal water-

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ways of this country to supplement railroad transportation is a ques-
tion of the greatest importance.

It is to be hoped that the new Waterways Board will propose plans
for river development that will be practical, and that eventually this
nation may gain this very necessary system of transportation.

Penalty of Forest Waste.

It is pleasing to be able to compliment a Chicago daily newspaper
on a .logical and forceful editorial on the subject of forestry. Here-
with is reproduced an article from the Chicago Inter Ocean, referring
to the recent situation in the valley of the upper Ohio ; the tre-
mendous loss of life and money is attributable largely to reckless
forest management. These deplorable and oft-recurring floods are a
constant reminder that something must be done and done quickly
to prevent further forest denudation. This condition is a strong
argument in favor of the policy of President Roosevelt as handled
through the Forest Service, for constantly adding to the country's
forest reserves, and protecting the sources of supply of our streams:

The present situation in the valley of the upper Ohio and its
affluents gives a striking demonstration of the costly tolly of
which the people of that part — and other parts of this country
have been guilty in their reckless exploitation of their forest
resources.

In western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio fifty lives have heen
lost in the sudden Hoods which have lately descended the rivers
from the tree stripped hills. In Pittsburg and its environs alone
the property loss, through direct destruction, stoppage of industry,
and curtailment of output, is conservatively estimated at $10,-
ooo.OOO.

When we remember that these Hoods also meau a great scouring
away of fertile soil, or its burial beneath barren sand and gravel,
and take into account the damage to scores of communities, it is
doubtful if live times $10,000,000 would fully measure the total
loss, much of it of a character that no human effort can make

good.

There is probably no part of the country where this sweeping

away of 11 growth, with its consequent unloosing of the floods.

has been more reckless and complete than in the area'for some
200 mib's around Pittsburg. Industrial circumstances tempted to
it. and the temptation was yielded to in spite of the many and
accumulating warnings that outraged nature has been giving to
ignorant man.

And the foolish waste that went on unchecked there, and of
which the price is now paying, is being repeated in other pans
of the country with equal or greater recklessness and speed. How
long shall we permit this process to go on'.' How Ion- before
we will take hold of this question with the broad grasp that its
vital importance deserves, and. while giving due respect to rights
of private property, insist that they shall be so used that the
results shall not be the creation of destructive and dangerous
conditions 1

There is yet time so to provide for the control and management
of the remnants of our forest inheritance that the use of those
forests for gain shall not be a devastation, and shall be a perma-
nent contribution to our prosperity. Their is no greater q 11 stion
of public policy before the American people today than the pro-
vision of adequate measures for the preservation of our forests
and the stopping of the increasing penalties of forest waste.

The Annual Meeting at Atlantic City.

For the first time in the history of hardwood association affairs,
the extreme East is to have a great gathering of hardwood men. At
Atlantic City, on Thursday and Friday, May 23 aid 24, will be
■held the tenth annual convention of the National Hardwood Lumber
Association. Representative hardwood men of Boston, Providence,
New Haven, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburg and other
points in the East, who are members of the National Association, are
enthusiastic over the proposed meeting and are arranging a most
elaborate entertainment for their guests.

Arrangements for a fare and a third round trip from all the terri-
tory represented by the association to Atlantic City have been made
on the certificate plan, and these tickets will permit users to stop off
at Washington and Philadelphia; a sufficient time limit is provided so
that side trips can be made to New York and the Jamestown Exposi-
tion.

The magnificent great steel pier at Atlantic City has been engaged
for the exclusive use of members of the association and guests for
two entire days. Hotel arrangements have been made at rates from
$3 to $4.50 a day, American plan, so that the cost of accommodations,
including meals,' will be only about the usual room rates in first
class hotels in large cities. It is especially desired that every mem-
ber of the association attending the convention be accompanied by
his wife or other ladies of his family, and the entertainment com-
mittee promises them a "good time" that will long be remembered.
Plans for the gathering are well advanced. A large fund has
already been secured for financing the undertaking, and it is espe-

cially desired that every one who proposes to attend the convention
will, at his earliest convenience, advise C. E. Lloyd, Jr., chairman of
the Committee of Arrangements, whose office is in the Land Title
Building, Philadelphia, stating also the number of ladies that will
accompany him.

The delights of Atlantic City in May need but little comment. At
any time of year it is one of the most charming of American resorts.
The hotels are exceptionally fine and have the reputation of catering
to their patrons in an eminently satisfactory manner. The rates
above named include the very best hotels of Atlantic City.

Members of the association are again particularly enjoined to
communicate with Mr. Lloyd at the earliest possible moment.

Congress and the Forest Service.

The week previous to the adjournment of Congress our national
legislators had their inning with the Forest Service. Prominent in
this attack were Senators Fulton of Oregon, Clark of Montana, Pat-
terson of Colorado, Tillman of South Carolina, and Heyburn of
Idaho. The defendants of the bureau were few and far between.
Congress seems to have gained the impression that the Forest Service
is being endowed with altogether too much authority, and that there
are certain possibilities of graft in connection with it in which
individual senators and congressmen can by no possible chance
secure a share.

Headed by Gifford Pinchot, the Forestry Division of the United
States Department of Agriculture is certainly coming into possession
of far more knowledge of practical applied forestry than have lum-
bermen themselves — as individuals or associations. While it is true
that the government propaganda is in an experimental stage, unde-
niably the bureau is doing considerable good work. Very likely it is
making some mistakes, but the agitation engendered by its literature
and operations is a good thing. I± is educating the public to the
fact, that there is extreme danger in sight from denudation of the
wooded areas of the I'nite.l Stales, nut ,,n\\ with regard to the actual
extinction of our forestry resources, but the ruination of the sources
of supply on which the water courses of the country depend, which
would doubtless induce radical and detrimental changes in climatic
conditions. There is no breath of suspicion attached to the sincerity
of purpose of the Chief of the. Forest Service, or to the conduct of
his department as a whole, aud so long as men of such integrity are
at the head of this service Uncle Sam can well afford to pay gener-
ously for a good deal of experimental work. It is one of the note-
worthy signs of the times that the American public is being awakened
to the importance of forest preservation and reforestation, and this
is largely due to the interest that President Roosevelt is taking in the
subject. The forestry question is not one of sentiment — it is a
sternly practical issue. No matter what the expense may be, let the
good work go on; it surely will be worth many times its cost.

The Wisconsin Conference.

The special spring meeting of the Wisconsin Hardwood Lumber-
men's Association, held at Grand Rapids, Wis., on March 19,
resolved itself largely into a discussion of the possibility and
extreme value of securing a universal hardwood inspection. The
sentiment of all members' present, as expressed in the addresses
delivered, was heartily in favor of this movement. A committee
representing the foremost men in the Wisconsin trade was
appointed to confer with the inspection committees of the National
Hardwood Lumber Association, the Hardwood Manufacturers'
Asso, iatum, and the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Associ-
ation to secure if possible concessions from all these dominant
factors in the hardwood trade, looking toward the unification of
ius| tioii rules.

Tli is subject of universal hardwood inspection is the most impor-
tant one that now confronts the industry of the country. Its
importance has been recognized not only by the leading associ-
ations, but by thousands of wholesale consumers of hardwoods,
a ml with even moderate concessions on the part of all, it can
surely be accomplished. Universal hardwood inspection is a
desideratum that should have the earnest, honest cooperation of
every man interested in any way in the hardwood industry.

HARDWOOD RECORD

15

Vert, Pertinent and Impertinent.

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What You Can Be.
l'on may uot be a millionaire,
You may not l>" a seer ;

Nor yet a notable success.

So far as things appear.
You may not wear fame's laurel crov.

you may be on the shell",
Bui if you would be sure of friends

Why, always be — yourself.
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Don't Boast.
The hen that cackles loudest

Doesn't lay the largest eggs ;
ill.' mule thai kicks the hardesl

Hasn't got the neatest legs :

Tile waves that toss the wildest

Are not of the deepest sea ;
The fruit that is the sweetest

Nut on the tallest tree;
The dog whose bark is fiercest

Doesn't always know the mosl :
And the man that is the bravest

Isn't always ou the beast.

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So, There!

The world is better nowadays

Than fifty years ago.
I know and there arc many ways

That give me cause to know.
Ay. though you pick a scon- of flaws

Since twoscore years and ten,
1 say 'tis better now — because

You were not in it then I
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As Many Do.

Satan does not ob-
jecl to men going to
church on Sunday it
they work lor him
the remainder of the
week.

His Excuse.

The man that is al-
ways turning over a
new leaf evidently
believes that one
good turn deserves
a aother.

Either.
. A man is either
taken aback by crit-
icism or else lie takes
affront.

A Boy's Definition.
The spinal column
is the long bony
tiling tiiat runs up
and down the back;
your head sits on one
end and you sit on
the other.

Easier and Pleas-
anter.

it is easier for
some men to make
[ove than it is for
them to make a liv-
ing.

Just So.

It 's just: as neces-
sary to know when
to forego an advan-
tage as it is to know
when to grasp an op-
portunity.

The Reason.
Some people pose
1 >ait lily saints
merely because they
are too -1 ingy to pay
for an oceasioi a
good time.

THEY DON'T WANT MUCH.

Retail Building Woods Man: We demand the business
consumers.

Hardwood Manufacturer: You don't know what you are talking about
enough to attend to with, your own business? Go on and peddle your papers !

the wholesale hardwood
Haven't you

True.
After a man has
made up his mind he
begins to ask advice.

Easier

It 's much easier to

break into a game
than it is to back
out again.

Deplorable State.
Our credit is in-
deed 1, a. 1 when we
feel that « e can in, I
trust ourselves.

Naturally.
The man with a
wooden lee naturally
has a lumbering ga ii .

Hard to Please.

The average man
doesn '1 know what
he wants until he
ca 11 't get it.

Always.
We always see the
worst of people when
we fail to get the
best of them.

Little Risk.
When a 111:111 ad-
mits that be doesn't
like grand opera or
doesn't understand
Browning it 's pretty
sale to go his bond.

The Winner.

Time Hies, I111I nut,
a- East as iy.

Unfortunately.
All musical cranks
are mil attached to
hand organs.

Difficult Job.

It 's about ali some

] pie (an .I keep

tv 1 eing dune.

I fare on my own sweet way.
Choose my time to work or play.
I don't care what others say.

Let 'em say.
As I please I'll run or walk.
Push right through or jump or balk
Don't care how the neighbors talk.

Let 'em talk.

"Declaration of Independence.

I do what I want to do :

.May he wrong and foolish, too.

I don't care for 'pish" and "pooh."

Let 'em pooh.
Though they think I'm mighty queer,
Though I hey nudge and wink and sneer,
What care 1 i.ii- frown or jeer?

Let 'em jeer.

Truckling isn't worth my while.
Furthermore, it's not my style.
11 me ways make people smile,

Let em smile.
What 1 like, that's what I'll
Hack my friends through thin and thick.
I 1 1 1 ilea's want to kick,

Let 'em kick.

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AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

Honey Locust.
Gleditsia triacan Ihos — I.inn.
The honey locust is found ou the western
slopes of the Allegheny mountains in Penn-
sylvania, westward through southern Ontario.
along the shores of Lake Erie; in the south-
ern part of Michigan, in eastern Nebraska
and Kansas and some portions of Indian ter-
ritory: in Georgia and Alabama, Mississippi
and Texas on the South, particu-
larly almig the Brazos river. These
locations are the natural habitat of
the tree, although it is found else-
where in cultivation, sometimes in
large stands, owing to the facility
with which it reproduces itself.

The tree is known as honey locust
in Vermont, New Hampshire, Mas-
sachusetts, Rhode Island, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Dela-
ware, District of Columbia, Vir-
ginia. West Virginia, North Caro-
lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Flor-
ida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisi-
ana, Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky,
Missouri, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana,
Kansas, Nebraska, Michigan, Iowa;
it is called black locust in Missis-
sippi, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas and
Nebraska ; sweet locust in South
Carolina, Louisiana, Kansas and
Nebraska; three-tnorned acacia in
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Lou-
isiana, Texas, Nebraska, Michigan
and- Ontario ; thorn locust in New
York", Indiana and Louisiana;
thorntree in New York, Indiana
and Louisiana; thorny locust in
New Jersey; locust in Nebraska;
honey tree in Rhode Island, New
Jersey and Iowa; honey shucks -in
Rhode Island, New Jersey. Virginia,
Florida and Iowa; thorny acacia in
Tennessee; honey-shucks locust in
Kentucky; piquant amourette in
Louisiana; confederate pintree in
Florida.

In height the honey locust ranges
from 75 to 140 feet ; in diameter its
trunk is from one to six feet, al-
though the latter size is rare. The
bark of the tree is grey and rough,
sometimes nearly three-fourths oi
an inch in thickness, and is divided
by long, deep fissures, making it
very ragged ; the surface has small
scales. Young- branches are reddish
brown in color and have wart-like
proturberances upon them. As the branch-
lets grow older, they produce spines two to
four inches and more in length; these spines
or thorns are stout and sharp, sometimes
three-forked; they are bright red when
young, but turn brown with age. Occasion-
ally they are absent on this species, but are
usually plentiful.

The flowers of honey locust are greenish-

FORTY-X1XTH PAPEK

whin-, and appear in June, when the leaves
have nearly matured. The stamiuate flow-
ers grow in short, hairy racemes two or more
inches long, while the pistillate ones form
in long, graceful, fewer-flowered racemes.

The fruit is a slender pod, twelve to eigh-
teen inches lung, dark brown in color, grow-
ing with other pods in a cluster. They are
reddish-brown, and flat; as they mature they

rXPICAL FOREST GROWTH HONEY LOCUST, INDIANA

curl up and dry in a queer, cork-screw shape
and fall from the tree late in autumn. They
contain oval seeds, separated by a sweet pulp
from which the honey locust tree derives its
name.

The leaves are eompound and alternate;
they grow from seven to eight inches long,
and are pinnate, having from ten to twenty-
six or more long slender leaflets, each taper-

ing tow-ards the apex and rounded at its
base. They are shiny and dark above, green-
ish-yellow beneath, very thin and glabrous.
They appear in late spring, after most of the
other trees are in full leaf.

The wood of the honey locust is heavy, hard,
strong and durable when in contact with the
soil, although this quality is a variable one —
depending largely upon the richness of soil
in which the tree was embedded,
rapidity of growth, and other in-
fluences which would tend to affect
its timber. Thus it is well adapted
for fence-posts, rails, etc., and is
valuable in making wagon hubs, and
for rough, general construction
work; it is very scarce in the mar-
kets, however. A cubic foot of
honey-locust timber weighs forty-
two pounds. The heartwood is
bright brown or reddish, and the
snpwood has a yellow tinge. The
annual layers are easily detected,
as are the coarse pores and medul-
lary rays. Its handsome appear-
ance should commend it as a cabinet
wood.

In general appearance this tree
is exceedingly large and handsome.
Its slender spreading branches,
though often pendulous, form a
broad, somewhat flat-topped head,
and its abundance of fine, grace-
fully undulating foliage adds great-
ly to its attractiveness. It is well
known and useful to the landscape
gardener, and is much used as an
ornamental and shade tree and for
hedges, under cultivation. In some
of our cities, notably Washington,
may be seen avenues planted with
honey locust, and it is an ideal tree,
as regards beauty, for this purpose.
It is now extensively planted
through the North, and strong
points in its favor are that it with-
stands the onslaughts of insects, is
not subject to any particular dis-
ease, and is hardy all through the
United States.

' ' Under cultivation the tree grows
rapidly, but when neglected, its
progress is indifferent as is the
• :ise with farm crops," says John
P. Brown in Practical Arboricul-
ture, in defending a tree which has
more enemies among farmers and
the general public than any other
in the country.

Often a dozen or more honey locusts are
found in one spot, where a number of ger-
minating seeds have been deposited. Under
these conditions it is essential that one tree
outstrip its neighbors and destroy them, in
order to continue its growth sufficiently to
become anything like a merchantable timber
tree. This process may require many years,

JOHN l_. AL.COCK

BAL.TIMORE, MO.

SUPPLEMENT TO

HARDWOOD RECORD

MARCH 25, 1907

ILLUSTRATING
BUILDERS OF LUMBER HISTORY.

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17

LEAF AND FRUIT OF HONEY LOCUST.

but ii is the usual habit of the honey loeust.

As a timber tree Gleditsia triacanthos
would doubtless surpass in value and utility
many of those now in general use, and as it
becomes more widely understood, and hence
appreciated, it will be set out in artificial
plantations with some of the other little-
known and undervalued trees which are to-
day almost unknown to the average lumber-
man, but which are destined to take the place
ot' the rapidly disappearing varieties.

S.mie of the railroads have tested the

honey locust for cross ties, found it satisfac-
tory and are now willing to accept its u I

tor that purpose. However, it is not often
offered as the farmer on whose lot it grows,
although disliking its presence there, finds so
many opportunities to use it to advantage
himself that lie is reluctant to sell it.

The Hardwood Eecord is indebteu to Will-
iam H. Freeman, secretary of the Indiana
State Hoard of Forestry, for the handsome
photograph from which the accompanying
tree illustration was made.

'Builders of Lumber History.

NUMBER XLI.

John Leighton Alcock.
I .s- < portrait yi'i>i>l< merit. )

The Hardwood Eecord is gratified at be-
ing able to present to its readers as supple-
ment to this issue the portrait of a man who,
though he has never made the slightest bid
for public recognition or reward, has loug
been quietly and earnestly working for the
g t of a certain phase of the hardwood in-
dustry— the export trade — and has been one
of the most important factors in placing it
upon the high plane which it now occupies.

.lohn L. Alcock of Baltimore, Md., was
born in Shropshire, England, in the year
b868. He came to America at the early age
of sixteen, being lured hither by the talcs
of wealth to be acquired on this side of the
water, told him by friends who visited his
home town. With three other boys about
his own age, he embarked on a steamer for
Halifax, Nova Scotia, in April, 1884. He
went first to Toronto, and from then' to the
Georgian bay district, where he obtained a
position with a large lumber concern. He
remained only a few months, however, ao1
being satisfied with conditions as he found
them in that part of 1 anada, and went south

to Baltimore, Md., which city has 1 a his

home ever since.

His first position was with John Spencer
& Co., one of the leading lumbermen of
.Maryland, under whom so many now promi-
nent and prosperous men obtained their early
tuition in the intricacies of the lumber busi
ness. Young Mr. Alcock exhibited such sin-

cerity and faithfulness in his work that his
advancement was rapid, and he became a val-
uable addition to the Spencer forces. Un
the death of the senior member the concern,
four years later, William Conway succeeded
to the business, and Mr. Alcock remained
with him until 1893, when he resigned in
order to establish the firm of Alcock & Ellis.
This arrangement expired by limitation with

the end of the year 1898, and since thai 1

.Mr. Alcock has been conducting his affairs
under the style of John L. Alcock & Co
His special line ot' hardwood products con
sists of oak wagon planks, black walnut,
hickory and poplar logs, and he conducts an
export trade exclusively, which he has broad-
ened out to a remarkable extent since its
inception.

His success in commercial affairs is a
marked refutation of the oft-quoted, pessi
mistic idea that mercenary motives and
questionable method a 1 1 ai cessarj to the at
tainment of position and influence in the
business world. Mr. Alcock is known
throughout the lumber fraternity from Bal
timore on the East to Arkansas on the West,
and from New Orleans to Canada, as well
us in the foreign markets, to be a man who
stands first and foremost for integrity in

business methods. Added to this he has the

reputation of being always willing to give
lavishly of his time and money toward the
furtherance of any measures which will tend
to the betterment of trade conditions. As
an instance Qi this characteristic, the work

which Mr. Alcock has done in connection
with the National Lumber Exporters' Asso-
ciation stands onl prominently. Not very
many years ago conditions in the export
trade were decidedly unsatisfactory, not only
to the vendors of American woods, but to the
importers of them as well. The business was
handled in a sort of hit or miss fashion which
kept it unimportant, not to say unprofitable.
With the formation of the National Lumber
Exporters' Association these conditions came

lo lie understood and combated, with the re
suit that the trade has been placed upon an
intelligent, fraternal basis which has been
productive of much good. In this evolution Mr.
\hock has played a prominent part, giving
evidence repeatedly of his disinterested will
ingness to endorse any measure, or labor to
any extent in the interest of good trade rela-
tions, and for the benefit of lumbermen gen-
erally.

The house of John L. Alcock & Co. is a
synonym at home and abroad for honest deal-
ing and high business standards. It has
alliances in all the principal markets of Eu-
rope, and caters to a large and high-class
clientage. One of its important contracts
was the furnishing of the timber and tie's
for the construction of London's "two-penny
tube," planned and executed by Charles T.
Xerkes.

Mr. Alcock is also president of the Cheat
River Lumber Company of Elkins, W. Vn.,
and is secretary and treasurer of the Bando
Oil Company, Eitchie county, the same state.
He is a member of the Baltimore Lumber
Kxchange, and has served actively as chair-
man of its managing and hardwood inspec-
tion committees. He is allied with the Na-
tional Wholesale Lumber healers' Associa-
tion and with the National Hardwood Lum-
ber Association.

Mr. Alcock is married and has two chil-
dren. During the winter he resides in Balti-
more, and a part of each summer is spent
on his farm at North Branch, where he is
free to indulge his fondness for agricultural
pursuits. He is a Hoo-Hoo, a Shriner and
a Knight Templar, and is interested in many
benevolent and philanthropic enterprises. He
is a communicant of the established Church
of England.

Eoddis Lumber & Veneer Company.

The Itoddis Lumber & Veneer Company, which
recently suffered a loss by lire of not only its
big veneer plant at Marshlield, Wis., but also of
iis sawmill at Park falls, has completed plans
for the rehabilitation of its big industries. It
at first contemplated erecting both the veneer
plant anil sawmill at Park falls, but ibis plan
would have thrown out of employment many
skilled ami veteran employees ai Marshlield, who
owned their own homes in thai town, and -Mr.
Itoddis has concluded to rebuild a large and
modern veneer plant at Marshlield, and also
en, t a small sawmill at this point so as to
convert into lumber such logs as arc not suitable
for veneer making. The company will also
Immediately rebuild its sawmill at Fark Falls
and continue lumber operations at that point.
Work on both plants will be rushed with dili-
gence, ,-11111 it is expected that they will be in
operation before midsummer.

18

HARDWOOD RECORD

Meeting Wisconsin HardWood Lumbermen's Ass'n.

A special spring meeting of the Wiscon-
sin Hardwood Lumbermen's Association
was held at Grand Eapids, Wis., on Tues-
day, March li». in the handsome club rooms
of the Elks, the use of which was tendered
President E. P. Arpin as a courtesy of the
order.

Xhe meeting was called to order at 10:30,
with President Arpin in the chair, and Sec-
retary A. E. Beebee at his desk. The min-
utes, of the September meeting at Milwau-
kee were read and approved.

Applications for membership were re-
eeived 'from the Steven & Jarvis Lumber
Company of Eau Claire, Stolle-Barndt Lum-
ber Company of Tripoli, and from the
Cooper .V Maxso'n Lumber Company of Mil-
waukee. All the applications were acted
upon favorably and the several houses were
elected to membership.

President Arpin addressed the conven-
tion, making the suggestion that it was a
very favorable time for all the members
present to get thoroughly acquainted with
each other ami talk over trade conditions,
and mi behalf of the Consolidated Water-
power Company of Grand Kapids invited the
members and their guests to visit the great
eleetrfcal plant of this company before leav-
ing the city. He then made the following
address:

President Arpin 's Address.

In accordance with our custom of recent years
io meet each spring and compare notes as to
output ot logs, amount of lumber on hand and
the outlook lor trade, your president and sere-
tary called this meeting for this time and place.

It is tin- tirst time the association has met in
the city of Grand Kapids. and it is with pleasure
that I welcome you here. Grand Rapids, with
its number of railroads, has become of late
quite a convention city, and I feel that you have
been aide to reach this point unite readily and
trust thai your visit here will be a pleasant
one. If you have the time to spare. I am sure
that you will be repaid by a visit to the Con-
solidated Water Power Company's plant here.
which is one of the Largest paper mills operated
by electricity in the United states. Xhe last six
months has' witnessed a continued and enlarged
di niand for Wisconsin hardwoods. This lias
been occasioned partly by the car shortage,
which lias prevented the lumber from the south
and west entering into the central states. The
low grade hardwoods were never in such demand
and the prices were never so high as at the
present time. The logging conditions in the
south last summer and fall were unfavorable,
owing io the wet weather.

The manufacturing interests have all been
very active and the call for lumber has been
constantly growing. All these conditions have
caused an increase in deinaud and prices for
hardwoods.

Added to this is the extra cost for logging
last winter, owing to the increase in wages and
the unfavorable conditions, aud we can readily
see why prices of hardwoods are now up mi
such a high level. The car shortage aud the
result of the agitation caused thereby, which
has crystallized in the demand for the reciprocal
demurrage law, is a subject of vital importance
to the lumber industry. The importance of this
problem is one that is now seriously considered
by all the industries of the United States, aud
none more so than the lumber industry. The
Lumbermen have always been classed as a con-
servative element, and were slow to make com-
plaints against the railways. This has been
evidenced by the fact that at the conventions
for rate regulations held a year ago last October,
the lumbermen were mostly defending the rail-
roads, and now we are quite surprised to find
most of them joining to urge that the railways
make a determined effort" to furnish motive
power and cars to take care of the business
offered to them.

Permanent prosperity requires a healthy
activity of commerce in all ways. While the

car shortage has apparently caused a high level
of prices, it will readily be seen that there is a
great waste at both ends of the line, which the
country must ultimately feel, provided this con-
dition'of affairs continues to exist. There is a
feeling among most of the business interests
that the railways are too indifferent to the
seriousness of the present situation. On the
other hand, the railway people feel that they
have been doing their very best, and that the
people do not appreciate their, efforts.

Tlie fact remains that there is a growing
feeling of antagonism between the shipping
interests and the railways, and it is to be hoped
that this will not continue to grow. Kate
regulation is now a fact as far as law can make
it so. and the railways ought to obey the spirit
of the law. This rate regulation was persist-
ently opposed by the railways. It is only of
recent date that one of the foremost railroad
men stated that rate regulation was a good
thing, and it ought to be improved by being
made- more stringent. This might mean that
there are other things which they have opposed
and which they know are really out of just ire
due the people. The very fact of the govern-
ment's inability to secure what is fair may

decide for government ownership most any ti

that the railroads make a persistent stand
against what the people know is right.

One of the important subjects for our associa-
tion to consider is the securing of a uniform rule
"i inspection and grades. There has been a grow
ing sentiment toward making changes to define
the grades more closely than heretofore, and to
furnish the manufacturer such a grade of Lum-
ber as he can use with the best economy. He
sometimes pays for a better grade of lumber
than he might use economically.

the growing scarcity of lumber suggests the
need to avoid all waste possible. Therefore
lumber should be trimmed to odd lengths, when
possible, instead of even lengths as heretofore.
A live association necessarily requires consider

E. 1'. ARPIN, PRESIDENT, GRAND RAPIDS.

able active work through its committees, and
tins,, committees usually are obliged to incur
considerable expense in traveling. Our associa-
tion dues now are so small that they do not
provide an adequate sum for these expenses by
our committees, and we should levy an assess-
ment to meet this need.

You have all read the detailed report of the
car -lake situation, so will not speak at any
length on this subject. Some of the railways
are placing steel car stakes on flat and gondola
cars and are sending them out to be loaded with
Lumber. Some of our associations have been
notified that these cars have been sent out to
them, but as yet we have not received any
report of their being used.

The value of association has become recog-
nized more and more as being great and it is to
be hoped that the Wisconsin Hardwood Lumber-
men's Association will continue to take the
active hand that it has in the past.

The secretary has been very faithful in his
work and has a report to make of the stocks
on hand. The committee on west bound coast
rates have received repeated assurances from
the railroads of their good intentions to put
reduced rates in effect. The matter now seems

to depend on the Harriman lines to decide as
the other lines promised to work for this rate.

II. A. Jones, general traffic manager of the
Southern Pacific, recently wrote that they hoped
that this matter would soon be brought up
before the Transcontinental Freight Bureau and
intimated that their line would favor the reduc-
tion. It is the delays and avoidances of put-
ting in effect simple justice like this rate matter
that cause even the conservative lumbermen to
question the sincerity of the railroad managers.

The railways tire at work trying to raise rates
by making a change in classification. Some
changes have been made and the railways
threaten a general rise in rates. The meeting
of the Lumber Manufacturers' Association will
lake place at Norfolk. Va., May 28. and a com-
mittee to attend, should be appointed.

Secretary A. E. Beebee' then read his

report as follows:

Secretary's Report.

Since lite annual meeting of this association
September last we have lost six firms from our
membership roll, caused by their selling out
their business aud other reasons. The names
of the firms withdrawn are :

T. D. Kellogg Lumber & Manufacturing Com-
pany. Antigo.

Little Wolf River Lumber Company. Manawa.

South Arm Lumber Company. Milwaukee.

Star Lumber Company, Upson.

C. Wuuderlich Lumber Company," Antigo.

Hells Lumber & Shingle Company, Eau Claire.

This reduces our membership to fifty-four
firms, not including the applications for mem
bership received and acted upon at the meeting
today.

I Hiring the last few mouths there has been a
large demand for copies of our grading rules
from lirms not members of this association, and
our supply of said books of grading rules is
nearly exhausted. We understand that the
national associations are contemplating revising
their rules, therefore hardly think it best to
have a new supply of the books of rules printed
till after we see what changes are made in the
national rules, but of course this is a matter
for this meeting to determine.

At the September, 1906, meeting at Milwaukee
a grading bureau committee was appointed, and
lie result of their labor will be seen in a report
from said committee which will be read at this

meeting.

A few weeks ago the secretary sent out
pamphlets to all members describing the credit
rating book of the National Lumber Manufac
liners' Association. Prom all we can ham
i hose who have subscribed for the credit rating
book are well pleased, and we wisli all members
of this association who are not subscribers to
look this matter up carefully.

tin March 1 the secretary sent out blanks tor
lumber statistics. Replies were received from
twenty-seven firms. A summary of said reports
is presented in connection with this report.

This report was accepted.

The Grading Bureau appointed at the

Milwaukee meeting in September reported

.is follows:

Grading Bureau Committee Report.

The grading bureau committee, appointed at
lite Milwaukee meeting in September, 1906, met
a i Marshtield, March S, with all members
present.

The situation was thoroughly canvassed as to
cost of establishing and maintaining a grading
bureau for inspection at the mills on the lines
of similar work as carried on by the Northern
Pine Association and the Northwestern Hemlock
Association. Also the probable financial support
that could be obtained at this time from the
manufacturers in this association, and it was
your committee's unanimous opinion that this
work could not be done at this time without
the financial burden of same falling too heavily
upon only a few members. To carry this work
forward "it would require a secretary-chief-in-
spector who could devote his entire time to the
work and possibly one additional inspector, at a
probable cost of $3,000 or more annually. From
the information we had before us, and estimates
made by the committee, a sufficient amount of
money could not be raised at this time to carry
the work to a successful conclusion.

We respectfully submit the above as our full
report and ask to be relieved from further
service on this committee.

F. H. Paudoe.

George H. Chapman.

George E. Foster.

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19

On motion the report was accepted and
the 1 ommittee dischai ged.

A letter was read from W. W. Koss, coun-
sel for the lumbermen in the Car Stake and
Equipment Complaint, reporting the status
of the hearing before the Interstate Com-
merce Commission for securing permanent
equipment of stakes for tlat and gondola

ears.

The president read a letter from Bruce
Odell, secretary of the Michigan Hardwood
Manufacturers' Association, asking that the
Wisconsin Hardwood Lumbermen's Associa-
tion appoint -i committee to meet the Grad-
ing Committee of the former organization
.it lis next meeting at Grand Rapids, Mich.,
on April 17, for the purpose of taking up
grading and agreeing upon a set of uniform
rules-. President Arpin suggested thai this
was of vita) importance and asked that the
association give serious consideration to
arranging such .1 conference.

On motion of A. B. Owen, the chair was
instructed to appoint a committee to take
up the matter of universal hardwood inspec-
tion not only with the Michigan Hardwood
Manufacturers' Association, but also with
the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association
of the United States and with the National
Hardwood Lumber Association. Mr. Owen's
motion was adopted, and the president ap-
pointed as this .ommittee: A. E. Owen, H.
C. Humphrey, George E. Foster and M. .1.
Quinlan.

A letter was read from George K. Smith,

- tare of the National Lumber Manufac

hirers' Association, calling attention to 1 I"
date of the approaching annual meeting of
that organization and requesting that dele-
gates I"- appointed from the Wisconsin asso
ciation to attend that meeting. Upon mo-
tion, the chair was authorized to appoint
these delegates, and named F. II. Pardoe,
M. .1. Quinlan and E. 3. SToung.

Secretary Beebee said that at the lasi
meeting of the association it was ordered
that the expenses of delegates and commit-
tees appointed on various work should !»'
paid by the association. He explained that
the revenue from dues was insufficient, to
meet this expense and he found it imp"
ble to pay bills of this- character. There-
upon, on motion of George H. Chapman, the
secretary was authorized to make a special
levy to pay such expenses of this sort as had
been incurred in the past, and to provide for
the expenses of the various committees and
delegates appointed at this meeting.

Secretary-Treasurer Beebee read his finan-
cial report as follows:

Treasurer's Report.

KECEIPTS.

Cash on hand September, 1906 $112.01

cash from sale of grading rules 2.50

Membership fees 2.00

Annual dues, 1907 275.00

Total $391 51

DISBURSEMENTS.

Stationery $ 15-92

Stamps 15.00

Cash in hunk 360 .10

Total $391.51

31 MMAKY OF STOCK REPORTS FROM TWENTY-SEV] \ I [RMS

Ash ...

Bassn I

Birch . .
Km ternut
Rock elm
Son elm
Maple
Red oak.
White oa

1 try lumber.

Mill run.

No :: C >\ Bel ti 1

.... 757,000

2,021,000

. . . 9,273,000

7.".. 000

. . 163.000

00 1.01 11 1

3,069,000

982,000

U-J7.

. , reel] lumber.
Mill run.
1. :: Com. .^ Better.

2,119,1

12,720 I

I" oU7.i

106,000

3,953,

3,297.000

3,570,

1,839,

si'.

Logs,

1,304.01

8,594,01

10,615,01

38,01

1 i '

3,617,01

4,034,01

1,323,01

,:i

Totals.

4,18

:;.:; 1 1,1

29,915,000
219,000

s.sTC.OOO

7. si:,.

10,673,000

4,144,000

654,

The president then called foi a genera]
discussion on any subjects that, might be of
interest to the association, and secured re-
sponse from Henry II. Gibson, editor of the
Hardwood Record, and 1,. E. Fuller, editor
of the Lumber World.

I'. 11. Pardoe called attention to the tint

that bassw I siding and coiling nave been

in strong demand recently, although a shorl
time ago they were slow of solo. He sng
gnsted that the eurrenf prices tor basswood
lumber as well as siding and ceiling were
lower than the prices that the value of the
wool and market demand justified.
Discussion on Universal Inspection.

President Arpin made a brief sj eh urg-

Grand totals I7.n;s. 37,719,000 !4,63 89,817,000

•A stork report gathered last September in which thirty-four firms reported Bhowed a grand

1. out 01 96,309, teei __

l.ui what would be willing to .In the same thing.
This association has a membership of about
sixty, of whom nine or ten concerns are jobbers
and. several of these manufacture from 0110 to
i\ million feet a year. But, notwithstanding

il. is fan, it our getting .ml will bring al 1

better cooperation ami better results are ob
lain..!, we arc perfectly willing to do so. Speak-
ing from a jobber's point 01 view the prime
object of an association is Inspection rules.
VVhai we want is universal Inspection. I want
a nil.' that if applied in Wisconsin will be
recognized in California. Texas, New York, or
am other old place. Tim great danger of so
many new associations is confusion as 10 grades
11..; all have anil will launch a new set ol
rule's — all good no doubt, 1. 111 loo many of them.
I am perfectly willing to admit Hon the manu-
facturer should say how his lumber should be
graded, but in doing so he should not lose sight
ol the fact that the consumer has some rights
which he is bound lo respect. There ..." two
^iil.s (.. every .juestion and there arc to this.
There could be nothing more annoying 10 a
purchaser than a multiplicity of rules. In pur-
chasing lumber it would be necessary to provide
oneself with a library of inspection rules and
make a study of tbcin iu order to do business
intelligent ly.

I think the present rules, especially of the
Naiional association, should he revised and
brought up lo date in order 10 conform to
present conditions. The manufacturers 01 the
north should formulaic a set: of rules covering
\mo, is they arc interested in and submit them
10 the two big national associations, then bring
all the pressure possible to bear on them to
have a joint inspection rules committee ap
pointed to settle on some universal inspection
ami hav the inspection books issued under the
joint authority of both associations and each
state association could adopt them. What the
jobbers want, as well as the consumers, is a
set ol fair rules that can he depended upon and
that will be a protection to them in the market.

All have ideas as to rules, but all cannot

I nor should they) expect to have their own
way entirely. Why not use the influence of this
association to bring about harmony on this great
question? Lei our efforts be to secure "uni-
versal inspect ion."

In response, T. II. Pardoe spoke as fol-
lows:

I am glad to hear Mr. Humphrey mention the

-1 of harmony- glad to have it brought up

in this meeting. 1 think that is what we want.
However, I do not agree with Mr. Humphrey
that there is no room for the manufacturers'
association. t was one of (he commit tee which
canvassed the situation some time ago and we
believed then that the lime was ripe for new

grading rules. We did not believe we 1 1

obtain these rubs in the way we wished thai
is. inspection at the mill under the supervision
of a competent chief inspector — withoui the
formation of a separate association. I think
the manufacturers should have something
,,, about how their lumber is to be graded.
There are many sides to this question and we

do not all see it alike, but so far as I have 1 11

able to ascertain there has been no disposition
on the part of the manufacturers to put the
jobbers out of business.

A. E. Owen, chairman of the Bureau of
Grades of the new Wisconsin association,
slated that it was the object of that organ-
ization to arrive at a uniform set of grad-
ing rules and that its prime object was to
attain 1.. a grading -. | em 1 bat should be
fair to all parties concerned, and to install
in an intelligent manner this system of
grading at points of production.

Messrs. Pardoe, Lusk, Humphrey, Owen,
Poster and Arpin all spoke at considerable
length on the subject, and at the conclusion

II appeared thai 1 lie pur] ose of the new

V E. BEEBEE, SECRETARY, MCMILLAN.

ing the importance of everj membei of the
Wisconsin association working to attain uni
form hardwoo I inspection in all parts of the

c it ry.

H. C. Humphrey, in referring to inspection

matters-, and especially to the recent organ-
ization of a strictly hardwood manufactur-
ers' association in Wisconsin, deprecated
the formation of more associations and the
multiplicity of inspection rules, and read the
following paper:

It is to be regretted thai a certain 1 ber

of the manufacturers think ii necessary to
organize a new association for Wisconsin, to be

ci ...posed entirely ol thos ocerns who confine

themselves exclusivelj to the manufacture of
lumber. I feel that there is not room enough
for two associations. tine should be able to
cover the field, and that one should be ibis
association, and if the manufacturers think

re could be accomplished by excluding the

lobbers, as far as the Jones I, umber Com] s

is concerned we are perfectly willing- to tep
down and out. While I have no authority for
saving- so. 1 don't think there is a jobber presenl

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HARDWOOD RECORD

association had been misunderstood, since it
is to be carried on in entire harmony with
the interests of both manufacturers and job-
bers. The chief reason given for the forma-
tion of the association was to organize an
inspection bureau and employ expert in-
spectors to render uniform the inspection at
shipping points. Hitherto, owing to the
lack of interest of the jobbing element in
the 'Wisconsin Hardwood Lumbermen's
Association, manufacturers have not been
able to get this system installed, and again
it was considered unfair to ask the jobbers
to participate in the expense attached to
this bureau. It was therefore decided that
the manufacturers should organize sepa-
rately and secure the education of the local
inspectors to a point that they may be as-
sured that their lumber is being well manu-
factured and assorted so that they are get-
ting the best possible results out of their
logs and lumber.

At the suggestion of II. C. Humphrey
• very member was asked to make sugges-
tions to the committee appointed on grad-
ing rules so that all obscure points and
present contradictory terminology and in-

consistencies in grades might be corrected.
The secretary was instructed to incorporate
this request in his next circular letter to
members.

The Hurting then adjourned.

Those in attendance were:

George H. Lusk, Nye, Lusk & Hudson Co.,
Thorp.

George E. Foster, Foster-Latimer Lumber Co.,
M, lln,.

Edward J. Young, Brittinghain & Young Co.,
Madison.

F. H. Pardoe, Fenwood Lumber Co. and In-
gram Lumber Co., Wausau.

It. T. Doud. Iioud Sons & Co., Winona. Minn.

A. E. Owen, John S. Owen Lumber Co., Owen.

A. E. Beebee, B. F. McMillan & Brother,
McMillan.

George H. Chapman, Northwestern Lumber
Co.. Stanley.

E. P. Arpin, Arpin Hardwood Lumber Co.,
Grand Rapids.

Edward Lynch, Grand Rapids.

II. II. Stolle, Stolle-Barndt Lumber Co.,
Tripoli.

Arthur Jarvis, Steven & Jarvis Lumber Co.,
Eau Claire.

Ted T. Jones, G. W. Jones Lumber Co.. Apple-
ton.

II. C. Humphrey, G. W. Jones Lumber Co.,
Appteton.

M. J. Quintan, Menominee Bay Shore Lumber
Co.. Soperton.

('. A.' Johnson, G. W. Jones Lumber Co.,
Marshfleld.

George M. Maxson, Cooper & Maxson Lumber
Co., Milwaukee.

\V. C. Howe, American Lumberman, Chicago.

L. E. Fuller, Lumber World, Chicago.

Henry 11 Gibson, Hardwood Record, Chicago.

HardWood Record JWai! Bag.

[In this department it is proposed to reply
to such inquiries as reach this office from the
Hardwood Record clientage as will be of enough
general interest to warrant publication. Every
patron of the paper >s invited to use this de-
partment to the fullest extent, and an attempt
will be made to answer queries pertaining to ali
matters of interest to the hardwood trade, in
a succinct and intelligent manner.]

Wants Rock Elm Logs.
Memphis, March 1G. — Editor Hardwood
Record: We have an inquiry from a German
customer asking for quotations on 5,000 feet of
rock elm 'logs, strictly clear, 15 in. and over in
diameter. 10 to 18 in. in length. If you can
refer us to some reliable firm who can make
quotations on this class of material will appre-
ciate it. Company.

This correspondent has been furnished a
list of leading hardwood operators in sections
producing the best quality of rock elm; any
"tiers interested may secure the writer's
name on application. — Editor.

Can you give us the name of any firms who are
consumers of short pieces of hickory, to whom
we could possibly effect a sale of this class of
goods ? .

We have supplied the writer of the above
letter with the names of several people who
are buyers of short length hickory and any
others in the market should write us —
Editor.

Utilization of Hardwood Edgings and Trim-
mings.
• Eau Claire, Wis., March 17. — Editor Hard-
wood Record: We are investigating the advisa-
bility of working up our hardwood edgings and
trimmings into dowels, map rods, flag sticks,
etc. Can you advise us the names of carload
buyers of this class of stuff? & Co.

The writer of the above letter is one of
tie- foremost Wisconsin hardwood operators
and anyone who would like to be placed in
communication with him should address this
office. — Editor.

Wants Market for Short Hickory.

ASBl RY Park, N. J., March 12. — Editor
Hardwood Record: We have a mill cutting

1 growth hickory for our own use. but as

the wood we use must be straight grained and
free from nil defects for at least 40 in. in
length, we find that a very large proportion of
tie1 wood is not available for our purpose, but
it would make very fine stock in shorter lengths.

Criticizes Eeinspsection Methods.

St. 1'ai i,. .Minn.. .Ian. 13, 1907. — Editor Hard-
wood Record: Referring to the editorial in the
Hardw Record entitled "Justice to Consum-
ers. " while we as consumers and buyers of a
considerable amount of hardwood lumber agree
to your proposition in a general way and think
a community of interests composed of buyers and
sellers would no doubt be a good thing, we are
of the opinion that a method of reinspecting dis-
puted cars can be followed which will be much
better than the method now in vogue. We take
it fur granted that a majority of consumers of
lumber, if. not all, are willing to pay for goods
of a fair and reasonable grade.

The present method of the National Inspection
Bureau, as we understand it, is to send one of
their inspectors to reinspect the lumber and lie
goes on and inspects it arbitrarily and secretly,
not allowing the purchaser of the lumber to
know anything about how he arrives at his con-
clusions. This leaves the purchaser of the lum-
ber almost invariably with a "bad taste in the
mouth" and he is certainly warranted in feeling
that he at least has not had a square deal on
the face of it.

There would seem to be two objects In view in
reinspecting a carload of lumber, namely, to
establish what is right and just on that partic-
ular carload of lumber between the buyer and
seller, and to show the purchaser of the lumber
what he should reasonably expect to receive.
This will tend to bring the ideas of the buyer
and seller onto a more common ground, which is
undoubtedly very desirable. While the National
Inspection Bureau follows this arbitrary and
secret course of procedure, the Pine Lumber

Manufacturers' Inspection Bureau will send a
man to the yard of purchaser of the lumber and
reinspect what has been thrown out as not up
to grade. This man desires the help of the man
who inspected the lumber in going over this
stock and holds himself ready to show him the
reason for his decisions. On the other hand, if
the grader for the purchaser is able to show him
defects which he has inadvertently overlooked
he will retract his decision, otherwise his de-
cision is final. We do not advocate the discus-
sion between the National inspector and the
buyer over every piece of lumber inspected as
they are grading the car, but we think the Na-
tional inspector should call the grade that he
makes a piece to the buyer's grader and if the
buyer's grader has any radical reasons for dif-
fering with him the- piece can be thrown out and
upon finishing the car the two graders can take
the matter up and run over the comparatively
small amount, as a usual thing, which is thrown
out. We admit that it will take a little patience
to do this, but the educative process involved
and the evident fairness of the proposition will
help to reconcile the purchaser to the fact that
he has had a fair deal, and if the shipper wants
to be fair he should have no objections to this
method of procedure. Co.

While the Inspection Bureau of not only
the National but all the other leading hard-
wood associations may reinspect lumber
"arbitrarily." which naturally it would do in
conformity with the specified rules, I doubt
if in any case it attempts to do so secretly.
On request, I believe that any traveling in-
spector of the National or Manufacturers'
Association would be perfectly willing to ex-
plain to a buyer his reasons for placing a

pi ■ of lumber in a specific grade. In the

greater number of cases where reinspection
is called for, the records show that the buyer
has been perfectly satisfied with the result.
The seller is usually the man who finds fault
with the outcome of reinspection. This comes
about quite naturally inasmuch as in a great
many cases the low-line boards and rejects
have been thrown out of the shipment, and
they inspect on a lower average than would
the entire lot of lumber. However, it is
doubtless true that improvements can be made
on the methods employed in reinspection, and
it certainly would seem fair that the buyer
should have something to say concerning the
machinery by which lumber that he has
bought on a specific set of rules is rein-
spected. — Editor.

Wants Market for Dogwood.

Agricultural College, Miss., March 20. —
Editor Hardwood Record: We have been re-
ferred to you by the Forestry Department at
Washington for information as to a market for
dogwood. We own some timberland on which
there is a quantity of this timber, the trees
ranging from 2 to 10 inches in diameter, and
would like to know if a market can be found
that it would pay us to cut and ship to. If you
can put me into communication with a firm
that uses the wood, or give me any other in-
formation, will greatly appreciate it. Kindly
advise to what lengths the wood should be cut. —
Co.

We have supplied this correspondent with
a list of several buyers of dogwood bolts,
and any others who would like to be put
into communication with him kindly advise
this office. — Editor.

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NeWs Miscellany.

A Model Fast End-Matching Machine.

As is well known, modern requirements de-
mand that all hardwood flooring shall be end

tongued and grooved, and as this 11 'fng is now

made in all lengths from 12 Inches to 16 feel
this process means the handling of a very much
larger number of pieces in the output of the
ordinary flooring factory. That treteran wood-
working and cooperage manufacturing house,
the E. & B. Holmes Machinery Company of
Iiuffalo, has for many years built a machine for
this purpose. In the advertising pages of this
issue of the Record the apparatus is Illustrated,
showing the machine "opened up." Since ibis
picture was made, however, many improvements

have I n mad!' in construction. The steel angle

bars are divided and are much heavier, the
chains are of larger size and are double in
number, the live rolls have been enlarged and
increased in number, and are carefully balanced
The top of the machine is decked with steel
with openings through which the mils project.
This machine is built in both right and left end
Frame as desired, and end-matches flooring from
% <■■ I1., inches in thickness, from 12 inches to
Hi feet in length. It can lie quickly changed
for different thicknesses, and is simple ami

isslble in every pail, line operator only is

required and the machine has a capacity of
from 15,000 feet upwards per day. depending
upon the size of the stock and the rate of the
feed. Probably mure hardwood flooring has been
end matched on this machine than mi all others

bined, and it is in use by many of the most

successful and progressive hardwood flooring
manufacturers of tin' country. The E. & B.
Holmes Machinery Company will he glad tu
supply full details concerning the machine, and
a list of users on application.

Change in Title of Wisconsin House.

'I'll.' well-known hardwood firm of Vollmar &
Below of Marshfield, Wis., has been incorporated
under the title of the Vollmar & Below Com-
pany. There will be no change in the manage-

nient or policy of tin ncern ; it has been

reorganized as a stock company to take care of
an increasing volume of business, which it is
thought can lie belter handled by a corporation
I ha n by a firm.

Held for Fraud.
A press dispatch from Charlotte, Mich., undei
date of March 15, alleges that Hiram 1'.
Webster, an Eaton Rapids [umber merchant and

a director of the Hillsdale Lumber Company,
has caused the arrest of I. ant K. Salisbury, a
brother of Waiter Salisbury; Frank I.. Masters,
a clothing merchant of Hillsdale, and Will
Wagner, cashier of the first National Bank <>f
Hillsdale, for obtaining money under false pre-
tenses in connection witli llie promotion of the
Hillsdale Lumber Company, a Louisiana timber
enterprise. It will be recalled that Lain K.
Salisbury is an ex-Grand Rapids attorney who
served time for his connection with the famous
water scandal in that city. After bis release he
went south and has had the reputation of mak-
ing considerable money in connection with tim-
ber deals. It is alleged thai Salisbury went to
Hillsdale last October and promoted the. Hills
daf Lumber Company, with a capitalization of
$75,000 ami himself as president. He repre
sented to have 25,000 acres of timber land in

northern Louisiana, having on it 100,000, '

feel of white oak and 30,000,000 feet of cypress.

It was asserted that: s.'lT.olio had 1 n paid for

the property and ^l'o.iiihi worth of stock was
sold to Hillsdale and Hudson people, and the
remainder to Webster and other Charlotte men.
The stockholders, becoming suspicious, sent oul
a timber expert who reports thai the company
has only 2.000.000 feet of oak and 30,000 feet
of cypress; that the parties from whom the land

was purchased had sold il for $12,500 and that
ii was once sold for about $1,000 and was worth
JUS! about thai sum.

Louisiana Red Cypress Company.
The Louisiana Ke.i Cypress Company is the
name of a new corporation which not only
succeeds the Cypress Selling Company, Ltd.. of
New Orleans, bul becomes the purchaser of the
output of i he larger portion of the mills pro-
ducing cypress lumber in Hie Hull' district. The

R. II. HOWNMAX. PRESIDENT,
officers and directors of the new c panj are

as follows :

II. II. I tow iiiiian. president

Frederic Wilbcrt, first vice president.

L. W. Gilbert, second vice president.

L. W. Price, Gus Drews, Geo. w Dodge,
frank It. Williams. Win. L. Burton, Edw. Han
son. John Deblieux, II M Cotton and I, Lee
Riggs\ directors.

ikaxki.IN GREENWOOD, MANAGER.

Franklin Greenw I. recently sales manage]

of the Selling Company, becomes general man
nger of the new corporation. It is organized to

do a wholesale business which contemplates tie

handling of approximately ." .000,000 feel "l

cypress and 25,1 ,000 feet of tupelo gum. The

company is capitalized al $l,t ,000. \ feature

of the capitalization is the fact thai ten per

cent of the sleek has I Il set aside for sule-

lion by employees of the company. The total
stock is already subscribed.

While the plans of the new company will
change the details "i operation somewhat, thej

will not alter the personnel "f the management

or selling fonc, Ti nly radical change con-

templated is due to the inability to secure cars
for transportation in sufficient number t.. handle
the business; the company is therefore planning
to utilize barges On the .Mississippi and Ohio
rivers to deliver its lumber to St. Louis. Cairo.
Evansville, Cincinnati. Pittsburg and other-
points. Many Of lb.- mills whose stock has been
purchased by the Louisiana Red Cypress Com
pany are admirably located for shipment of

lumber by river. it is antlcipt 1 thai a con

siderable reduction in freight cost will be made
by ibis method.

R. II. Downman, tie- president of the ,

pany, is too well known to require more than
casual comment, as he is the foremost cypress
operator of the country. Franklin Greenwood,
who becomes manager of the new- company, has
achieved a dislinei success as market manager
of tie' old company, has thoroughly mastered the
cypress s,.]|j„e situation, ami will doubtless add
new laurels to those already achieved in H i-
connection with the old company.

St. Louis as a Furniture Center.
St. Louis stands fourth among Hie cities ol
the United States in the value of its manu-
factured furniture, according lo the annual re-
port of the Mia. bants' Exchange of that city.
The thrice which surpass il in this particular an'
Chicago, New Sfork and Grand Rapids, in the
order named; however, in I lie quantity of fur-
niture pui .nit. by numbers of cars and pieces,
it is undoubtedly at ihe head of the entire list.
The year 1906 has been a banner year for
Si. Louis in ihe development of population and
property wealth, and the furniture intends have
profited accordingly. Healers and factories have

bad an exc linglj busy year, their total sales

aggregating nearly $35, I; of this im-

rai tec business probably $9,500,000 worth was
the out pui oi local manufacturers. Although
business has been materially hindered and dam
aged by the great car famine of the last -i\
iieciiihs. ii is estimated that it increased in vol
time over 1905 at least seven per cent.

The total number of furniture factories in St.
Louis is over fitly, three of which have been
established within tin- past year; new additions
and improvements to old factories have been
many and extensive. Several large new busi-
ness blocks have been constructed, and in this
connection the furniture trade has profited, since
there is a noticeably "rowing tendency among
business men to Improve and beautify their
offices. New schools, hospitals and churches
have likewise made a considerable demand upon
dealers, and several large stores have added a
complete furniture stock to their oilier depart-
ments. St. Louis prides itself upon the fact
that nowhere in the country can a liner assort-
ment and greater variety be found. It is very
evident that Hue recent world's exposition im-
proved Hie Lisle of the I I'll' tO SIlC'll ail CXtl'llt

(bat they ar <w demanding more artistic and

better goods.

Prices "f furniture have advan I el ( ten

per cent, or correspondingly with the advance
in lumber ami oiber requisite materials. Oak,

ti hi standby, is now being substituted by

Bnely finished birch and elm, although the most
beautiful specimens turned out an-, of course,
bird's-eye maple ami mahogany. Clrcassion wal-
iiin gives promise of becoming exceedingly popu
lar ; if is finished dull, a style which is also
growing in favor tor mahogany. However, onk.
gum, birch and poplar are still the most genet
ally used woods for furniture purposes.

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Wisconsin Lumberman in Politics.

Isaac Stephenson of Marinette, Wis., head of
several large lumber concerns, among them the
I. Stephenson Company of Wells, Mich., is a
candidate for the seat in the United States
senate made vacant by the recent resignation of

Senator S] ner. Mr. Stephenson lias long had

senatorial aspirations, but announces that he
will not be a candidate for reelection, ami
desires only to serve the unexpired portion of
Mr. Spooner's term in Congress. He was a
candidate for the honor eight years ago. but
was defeated by J. V. Qnarles. Two years ago
he attempted to succeed Mr. Qnarles but was
again defeated, this time by Mr. La Follette.

Mr. Stephenson's prospects for being elected
are excellent, since he will undoubtedly be sup-
ported by Senator Spooner. Senator La Follette
and Governor Davidson, and his campaign is
already well under way. It is now believed that
ile election will not occur before May. but the
matter has been submitted to the Attorney
General for his opinion. Lumbermen will be
pleased to sec Mr. Stephenson elected, and his
ability is such as to insure his tilling the office
with honor to himself and to the state.

Oak from Siberia.

A n.-w phase of the hardwood business is in
evidence in Portland, Ore., where the new Pacific
Coast Hardwood Manufacturing Company is
handling oak logs imported from Siberia. This
apparently expensive undertaking is made pos-
sible by the almost prohibitory rate ou hard
woods from points in eastern and middle west
states io the Pacific coast. The company lias
established the first hardwood mill of any con-
siderable size in the far West. It is operated on
a ten-hour shift, and has a daily capacity of
25,000 feel. It is on the waterfront and a
dock lain feet long has been constructed. A dry
kiln for 50,000 feet has been installed, and a
machine for cutting hardwood flooring. Panel
work and veneers will also be turned out.

The enterprise necessitated an initial outlay

if $100. and the mill is now equipped satis

faetorily for manufacturing hardw Is, which

.Hoe, i be handled properly in mills adapted par-
ticularly to Pacific coast woods. A stock of
1,-500,000 feet of Siberian oak is on hand, ami
this wood can lie laid down in Portland al a
cost actually less than eastern wood, so that it
is believed the plant can be operated to excel-
lent advantage. The Oregon Chair Company has
located in Portland with tie- intention of utiliz-
ing the proiliiei-of the new hardwood company in
the manufacture of furniture, and this new
enterprise will doubtless be the means of in. he
ing the establishment of other industries in that
section.

As the oak product of He Last is rapidly-
diminishing, it is doubtless a wise move to begin
to look toward outsi.l.. sources tor a supply,
eegardless of the influence of high freight rales
on hardwood products. The promoters of the
Pacific Coast Hardwood Manufacturing Company
allege that they can undersell eastern oak with
I heir Siberian product, due primarily to the fact
that water" transportation is always cheaper
I ban rail, other conditions being equal. The
shipment has gone to San Francisco, ami

orders are now on hand for 5 I The

outlook seems so bright for a flourishing busi-
ness thai 2,000,000 feet of oak have been
ordered from Siberia to arrive in the earlj

Annual Chicago Hardwood. Lumber
Exchange.

The annual meeting of the Chicago Hardwood
Lumber Exchange was held at the Great North
era hotel on March 5. The retiring presii
i heodore Fatbauer, delivered an address -in
which be referred to tire good accomplished dur-
ing the history of the association, and especially
during the past year, and urged continued
for the advancement of the organization.

Secretary Carl V. Kimball presented his re-
port, giving a resume of the exchange's affairs
for the past year, and stating that only four
resignations had been received, three of the firms
going out of business, while six new members
had been acquired.

The treasurer's report showed the receipts for
the year from all sources were $1,849.62, the
disbursements $1,660.23. leaving a balance on
hand of $180.39; $292.50 in unpaid dues is
forthcoming at present.

The result of the election of officers for the
ensuing year was as follows :

President. Jas. S. Trainer of the Trainer
Brothers Lumber Company.

Vice President, Milton Miller of Miller
Brothers.

Secretary, II. Usher of the Stoueman Zearing
Lumber ^Company.

Treasurer. J. L. Lane of J. L. Lane & Co.

Directors, Wm. C. Schreiber, O. O. Agler, .1
S. Hendrickson, Chas. Westcott, E. B. Lombard.
Wm. Hopkins, F. L. Brown.

J. S. TRAINER, PRESIDENT,

During the meeting a dinner was served in
the English room of the hotel, and a general
discussion of matters of importance to the local
fraternity was participated in. The meeting was
marked by harmony and a spirit of good fellow-
ship— the usual characteristics of a gathering
of Chicago hardwood lumbermen.

Miscellaneous Notes.

Tie: Globe-Wernicke Company of Chicago
has" consummate,! a deal for the purchase of
large tracts of timber land in the South,
which involved an expenditure or investment
of $2,000,000 and includes timber rights to
60,000 acres of land in northern Tennessee
and the purchase in fee simple of 3,000 acres
of coal ami timber lands in the same region.
It is estimated that the tract contains 600.-

, feet of fine timber. It is located

about twenty miles from the main line of the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad.

C. W. Hogg of Duluth has purchased a
tract of coal, iron, and timber land in Ten-
nessee containing 460,260 acres, valued at
half a million.

Schliman & Mitchell Company has been
incorporated .it Chicago with $50,000 stock to
manufacture picture frames and moldings. The
incorporators are Benjamin L. Schliman,
Charles Mitchell, and F. William Kraft.

The Cooperative Mill & Lumber Company
has been incorporated at Kockford. 111., with
a capital of $10,000 to manufacture lumber
products.

The American Box Veneer Company of
Thorsby, Ala., has been incorporated with a
capital of $20,000, of which $16,500 has been
paid in cash. The incorporators are W. A.
Porter. L. C. Bradley, T. S. Mason. M. E.
McNarrow, and J. Stiles. The object of the
company is to manufacture all kinds of im-
plements and materials in which wood forms
a part. The defunct Denison Lumber Com-
pany plant will be utilized by the new con-
cern.

The Kentucky Veneer Works has been in-
corporated at Louisville, with $100,000 capital,
by H. M. McCracken, F. I. Brown. M. E.
Freeman, W. Geiger, and F. C. McCracken.

The Mt. Vernon Pump & Lumber Company
has filed articles of incorporation at Mobile.
Ala.; capitalization, $25,000. The incorpora-
tors are J. C. Leppelman. A. P. Smith, and
R. B. Martin. A sawmill will be established
at Mt. Vernon.

The Rock City Lumber Company has been
incorporated at Nashville. Term.; capital.
$50,000. It will succeed to the business of the
McDonald Lumber Company. House furnish-
ing materials will be manufactured. The in-
i 'orators are J. B. McDonald, I. L. Pendle-
ton, J. T. Cbrisman. J. G. Dean, and C. W.
Dodson.

An express car loaded with hardwood lum-
ber was recently shipped from Lafayette, Ind..
to Pittsburg, Pa., consigned ' by the Henry
Taylor Lumber Company, which has the con-
tract for the interior finishing of the women's
art building in Pittsburg. The lumber was
for a rush order, and the American Express
Company arranged for a special car, which
was loaded by an extra force of men and at-
tached to a Big Four passenger train at noon
of March S, arriving at destination the fol-
lowing morning. The cost for this service
was approximately $500.

Galbraith <& Son of Sunman, Ind., on March
16 bought at auction one of the largest tracts
ol hardwood timber remaining in Indiana.
The property belonged to Mike O'Weiler and
is located mar Lawrenceville. The consider-
ation was $22,500. The timber will be man-
ufactured at Galbraith &: Son's band mill 'at
Sunman.

Matthew G. Norton, millionaire lumberman of
Winona, Minn., has settled ou the Winona Gen-
eral Hospital an endowment of $50,000.

Eight hundred woodworkers were granted an
increase of ten per cent in wages recently by
the Chicago Lumbermen's Association. The
employees thus benefitted are in flooring mills
and have been receiving from $2 to $3 per day.
The agreement also calls for the employment of
only union men.

The Cleveland Washboard Company has been
incorporated at Cleveland, Ohio, with a capital
■ a $25,000, by C. A. Niman, E. G. Hogg, Paul
Ilowland, II. O. Yoder and Davis Hawley.

The Walnut Lake Cypress Company has been
formed at Pine Bluff, Ark., with a capital of
$70,000. It will have an office there and operate
a lumber plant at Walnut Lake. The company
intends to begin work on the plant immediately.
Those interested are E. P. Ladd, Little Rock ;
C. S. Bacon, R. E. Schultz and W. B. Craft.

The Minnesota Forestry Association is anxious
to have Itasca park turned over to their control
as a forestry experimental station. In addition
to general forestry it is proposed to experiment
there with the wood of our quick growing trees,
Cottonwood, willow and soft maple, with a view-
to making them more durable and valuable.

The Black Springs Lumber Company has been
formed at Little Rock; it is capitalized at
$50,000, and the incorporators are W. B. Barton,
L. J. Witherspoon and I. D. Jones.

The St. Paul Hardwood Floor Company has
been incorporated in that city, the board of
directors being Joseph Happe, Hulda Happe and
James Manahan, and the capitalization $5,000.

Announcement is made from Philadelphia that

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all the electric car building companies which
have been for some time controlled by the J. G.
Brill Company interests have been consolidated
into a corporation to be known as the J. G.

Brill Company, capitalized at $10. The

new company has assumed all the obligations

"titracts of the old concern and taken over
from the Brill interests the entire capital stock
ol the American Car Company of St. Louis, the
G. C. Kuhlman On- Company of Cleveland and
the John Stephenson Company of Elizabeth,
N. J.

HardWood NeWs.

By HAEDWOOD RECORD

Chicago.

Frank F. Fish, secretary of the National Hard-

w I Lumber Association, has returned home

fi<im New York, where he went to be present at
the conference held by a committee from his
association and one from the New York Lumber
Trade Association, over inspection matters.

Lewis 1 luster, secretary of the Hardwood Man-
ufacturers' Association of the United States, is
back from an extended eastern trip.

.T. L. Strickland, manager for the Chicago-
Mississippi Laud & Lumber Company at Green-
ville. Miss., and Vicegerent Snark of Hoo-Hoo
for thai district, will hold a concatenation on
the 3"th of March. Mr. Strickland is making
elaborate preparations for the event, and will
doubtless carry it off with eclat.

An always welcome visitor to Chicago is Sam
Burkholder, the well known veteran hardwood
man of Crawfordsville, Ind. In addition to Mr.
Burkholder's enterprise at that place he has
recently secured two tine timber properties, one
at Cnrydon, Harrison county, Ind.. and one at
Shoals. Martin county. Ind.. where he is erect-
ing sawmills. These new enterprises will largely
increase his hardwood output for the coming
year.

N. A Gladding, sales manager of E. C. Atkins
& Co., Indianapolis, spent last week in Chicago.

Wagstaff — Lumber — Oshkosb made one of his
numerous trips to this market within the past
few days.

O. B. Law, the Detroit timber dealer, was in
town for several days last week, accompanied by
his wife.

The general office of the John O'Brien Land &
Lumber Company has been removed to Room
701, 113 Dearborn street. The company intends
to close out its yard at Laflin and Twenty-
second streets, and will probably dispose of its
retail business about May 1. The wholesale
business will be continued from the new down
town location with John O'Brien, Jr., son of
the late John O'Brien, who died three weeks
ago, at its head. The mill at Philipp, Miss..
will also be continued in operation to supply the
company's large trade.

Ira B. Bennett, president of the Hume-Bennett
Lumber Company of Sarigi ' 1. was in Chi-
cago last week en route to Muskegon. Mich., to
attend the annual meeting of his company. Mr.
Bennett reported that trade on the coast is in
good condition and that his company is well
prepared to take care of an active spring busi-
ness.

Much regret was occasioned in Chicago by
the death of George Shriver of the firm of
Shriver Bros., well-known wholesale lumber deal-
ers of Massillon. 0. Some months ago because
of poor health Mr. Shriver disposed of his in-
in the firm to his brother Charles and
went to Tasadena, Cal.. in hopes that the change
in climate would benefit him. He grew grad-
ually worse, however, and died March T>. Mr.
Shriver was 41 years old and unmarried. He
was very popular in the trade and highly
esteemed by all his business associates.

W. E. Barrett & Co.. Stock Exchange Build-
ing, this city, have removed their office to the
Heyworth Building. This concern is a well-
known dealer in hardwoods and Pacific coast
products.

II. I.. Stern, southern lumber buyer for the
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company, was a Chi-
cago visitor last week.

Special Correspondents.)

Boston.
William E. Litchfield has returned from a
to Washington, on his way home he made

a short stop in Philadelphia.

Metropolitan Lumber Exchange of Boston

: invitations to all interested in the lumber

business in the Metropolitan District to attend a

on which was held in the rooms of the

exchange, March 1:;. It is reported that 130

were served at luncheon between 1- and 2.

M. W. Hart has returned from a business
trip through the southern states.

T. and E. I;. Buck, manufacturers of chairs.
Princeton, Mass.. have recently purchased sev-
eral tracts of timber land.

I-'. P. Reynolds of the Boston Lumber Com-
pany has been making a trip through the South.

Charles S. Wentworth of C. s. Wentworth &
Co. has returned from a southern trip.

I1 Lin ey. representing Harry C. I'bilbrick of
Boston, has returned from a successful trip
ugh the South.

I.. Sweet of I.. Sweet & Co., Providence, K. L.
recently returned from a short outing at At-
lantic City.

The C. W. Leatherbee Lumber Company of
this city plans to largely increase its bush
Ii has recently increased its capital stock and
lew plans to discount all bills.

New York.

'. Elias of G. Ellas & Bro., Buffalo, is spend-
ing several days in town in the interest of
business, and reports general hardwood condi-
tions satisfactory. His company is carrying a
big stock of hardwoods at its Buffalo plant and
is enjoying a good trade.

E. M. Kenna. the California redwood spe-
cialist of »j<; Broadway, announces that the
Pacific Lumber Company, which he represi
will have its new planing mill and yard at
Oakland, Cal., and the new planing mill at
Scotia, Cal.. in operation within sixty days.
which will give added facilities for catering to
tern trade.

Ihe Lumbermen's Golf Association, which
was permanently organized last year as a result
Of the very enjoyable golf tournament held at
the Nassau Country Club in June, has made all
arrangements for this year's annual contest.
etary Henry Cape. 1 Madison Avenue. New
York, announced that the contests will be held
this year at the links of the Baltimore Country
Club. Baltimore, Md., June 12 and 13, at which
line- a large number of handsome' prizes are to
yed for. Any lumberman in this country
or Canada is not only privileged but cordially
invited to enter this contest, and 'applications
should he sent to Mr. Cape.

Chairman C. E. Lloyd. Jr.. of Philadelphia,
lead 01 the general commit! 1 entertainment

for tile annual oi lie- National Hardwood Lilln-

iatlon, at Atlantic city next May,

repents plans practically completed and a very

■ at program arrange,]. ,y fund of over

St. is already in hand, all of which was

subscribed by the leading inters, and

the various committees in charge of the differ-
ent features of the convention ha -iasti-

eally haled arrangements and a big time

cted.

annual meeting of tie Rice .V: LockwOOd

Lumber Company. Springfield, Mass, branch

office I Madison Avenue, Manhattan, was held

lary 27. at which tine- the following offi-

I for the ensuing year: 1

dent, Frank C. Rice: vice-president, William W.
Lockwood; treasurer. Walter F. Rice: secretary.
James W. Hubbard. The above with L. L.

of rjtica, n. v.. constitute the boat

due, tors.

A trunk line agreement has been entered into
among all the rail 1 I ring New York harbor

whereby the lighterage limits of the harbor have
le-en extended to include all points on New-
town Creek, which heretofore have only applied
as far as tie- second bridge. Hereafter nil 1-
on the creek will he lighteraged free.

Frank A. Lewis of 1 hi !'■

lany was united in marriage mi March 7 to
\li-~ Edith L. Raymond. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
are on a wedding trip south.

The Emerson Company of Baltimore, Md.,
manufacturer of the well-known Emerson dry
kiln, is installing two kilns 100 feet long for
. I 'oil & Sons, large piano manufacturing
firm of this city. It has also secured orders for
complete kilns for the J. R. Corbin Company.
1; ooklyn ; the Cabot Manufacturing Company.
Jersey City: and the Balfour & Cock Company,
tew- retail house just organized at the foot of
East Thirtieth Street.

Robert Patterson of the erson Lumber

Company, hardwood manufacturers of Philadel-
phia, was a recent visitor on This
my is just completing the construction of
an eight-mile flume at Hot Springs. N. I

i hardwood tract recently ac-
quired.

The Eckford Mill Company has been incor-
porated in the Greenpoint District of Brooklyn
with a capital of $25,000 i" do a general trim
and sash and door manufacturing business. The
directors are H. D. Eames, L. R. Wolf and
D. C. Cummings.

The many friends of Colonel W. A. Crombie
of W. M. Crombie & Co.. SI New Street. Man-
hattan, are extending their sympathy to him
in the loss of his wife, who died at their local
residence on March 7.

Fire wiped out the planing and moulding
mills of Charles Rothenbock. 199-217 Star
Street, Brooklyn, on March 12, entailing 0
of ST;..

A petition in bankruptcy has been filed
against the lumber export house of Cadenas &
. . lie |: ,1 Street. Manhattan, following
their recent financial embarrassment. This ac-
tion was taken by tie- attorneys of the ,
ors, who state that their clients prefer to
have the assets administered in bankruptcy
rather than through an assignee.

The foreign mahogany and cellar trade con-
tinues to show strength, although the prices
on cedar, which have been ruling the highest
ever known for a number of months, have
off about a cent. 1 ipts of mahogany

during February, with, the exception of African
loirs, were much' smaller than they were the
previous months, and in consequence stocks as
a general thing have been reduced. Good wood
is in demand and shipments of same are recom-
mended. The receipts of cedar during Feb!
were very heavy and for the first time for
many months stocks have begun to accumulate,
and for this reason shippers would do well not
■ I forward small wood but to confine ship-
ments to large logs, which continue in active
demand and will meet with prompt 38 Pi -

ent pi _.;tiy arc ruling

to twelve cents a foot, according

in nine to thirteen cents.

Philadelphia.
An elabor; veil luncheon in Griffith

Hall preceded the regular monthly

mil.- linen's Exchang
1
was a very fair attendam
was manifested by 1 - in all mat

coming befOI ion. This body put

itself on record
of a ■ he legislature of the

nnsylvania known as the "Two Cent Fare

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Bill." The association also resolved, that it is
tin consensus of opinion of this exchange that
tb. Thomas bill for the repeal of the mercantile
tax law be reported out of committee at the
earliest opportunity and passed by the House.
Wistar, Underhill & Co. reporl business mov-
ing along in excellent shape. They are glad to
herald a slight improvement in the ear move-
ment al the mill districts. This firm is in the
midst of an extensive deal concerning which
important news may 1"- expected shortly. II. W.
Wistar. an enthusiastic golfer, was one of the
expert players engaged in the recent games of
Hie Midwinter Golf Tournament at Pinehurst,
N. C, and though he was defeated by W. L.
Hurd Hi'' score, ."> to 4, was by no means 'me to
" ashamed of.

The J. W. Difenderfer Lumber Company, in
addition to an extensive output at its own mills
in Virginia, has recently acquired the entire
"input of another hardwood mill in southwestern

Virginia, which will run about In. 1,000 feet

a year. A. E. Magargal of this concern, who
has just returned from their mill district, re-
ports everything humming

Schofield Bros., an indefatigably busy linn.
report sunn' recent good connections. They have
increased their staff of salesmen by engaging a
Mr. Ashley to look alter tin: north New Jersey
and New York field, and .lames McNerney, for-
merly with Wiley, Ilarker & Camp, for the terri-
tories of Cumberland valley, Washington and
Baltimore.

R. W. Schofield, who is the general manager
of the Saltkeatchie Lumber Company near
I Imers, S. C, in which his firm is largely inter-
ested, recently returned from a ' visit to this
center. lie reports that ' the mill There will
shortly be in operation. J. H. Schofield is look-
ing up his firm's interests in the Pennsylvania
mill districts.

The Sterling Lumber Company. Philadelphia,
recently obtained a charter under Pennsylvania
laws, authorized capital $10,000. Incorporators
an' John IL Kendriek, Sr., Geo. II. Hassan and
I'. Wendell Hubbard, all of Philadelphia.

The following are the incorporators of the
Lycoming Planing Mill & Lumber Company.
Williamsport, Pa., which recently received its
charter under Pennsylvania laws: W. D. Miller,
George F. Kidman and II. A. Miller, all of
Williamsport. Capitalization, $25,000.

Wm. Queale of the Santee Liver Cypress Lum-
ber Company, Ferguson, S. C, was a recent
visitor to tb.' local trade, and C. E. Collins of
the Cherry River Loom & Lumber Company.
Si ranton, pa , was a recent caller upon the New
York lumbermen.

Frederick C. Righter of the Lighter Parry
Lumber Company has just returned from West
Virginia, where he has been examining stocks
that are being cut for his concern on contract,
and while there he made considerable purchases.
II.' reports the mill men there complaining of
the constant inclement weather and the car
service between there and Pittsburg.

R. M. Smith & Co. of Parkersburg, W. Va.,
have been obliged to look to sources outside of
i heir territory to meet increased demands made
upon them. They are about closing a deal in
Louisiana for 25,000 acres of timber land, com-
prising some excellent hardwoods. Benj. C
Ctirric, Jr., of ibis concern recently returned
from a trip to New York. He reports business
never better, the car service and the recent
Hoods the only disturbing elements.

Jacob Rettberg, formerly a carriage and wagon
builder of Camden. X. J., died on March 6 in his
sixty-fifth year, lie was an officer and member
of a number erf secret organizations.

An effort is being made to have the Atlantic
City, N. J., authorities use a wooden stave pipe
in the construction of a_42-iuch water main, to
extend across the five miles of meadow to the
pumping station, instead of a metal one. It is
argued that the wood pipe would resist better
the effects of the salt air and cost $173,000,

while the cost of the metal pipe would be
$300,000.

Some of the furniture factories are hunting
for hardwoods left on farm lands in Pennsyl-
vania. A representative of an Ohio furniture
house is said to have been making offers for
one hundred trees, if they are located within a
day's journey of a shipping point. The figures
given are $60 per thousand for walnut. $40 for
whitewood and $20 for oak; this for wood in
the log.

A jovial group composed of Thomas B. Ham-
mer and the eight Hoo-Hoo, John J. Rumbarger.
Frank T. Rumbarger, Daniel Adams, St. Geo.
Pond, Horace G. Hazard, B. C. Currie. Jr., Wm.
It. Gardy, all of Philadelphia, and a Mr. Brown
of Pittsburg, of A. M. Turner Lumber Company,
held a meeting in the parlor car "Virgilius" on
their return from Washington, D. C, on the
morning of March S, where they had attended
the convention of the National Wholesale Lum-
ber Healers' Association. The meeting was called
by Kx-Vicegerent Snark John J. Rumbarger for
ihe purpose of considering a special concatena-
tion for the' initiation of Thomas B. Hammer.
The gentleman was accordingly waited on by a
committee of eight, who requested him to stand
for ,the initiation. But Mr. Hammer, having
be.n up late the night before and obliged to
rise early that morning, decided he did not
possess ibe nerve to face the ordeal, so this
novel committee dissolved amiably to resume
later under more auspicious circumstances. On
motion of John J. Rumbarger the parlor car
group, insatiable for business, then organized
and held a special session, Thomas B. Hammer
acting as chairman, in which a committee ,,t
three was appointed to draft resolution, which
was unanimously adopted, that the banquet .-i
tin:' National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asm.
eiation. provided by the New Willard hotel at
the rate of nine dollars per plate, was a very
ordinary affair, and calling upon the nine mem-
bers present to refuse to attend the banquet next
year unless one more commensurate with price
be assured. Various minor topics were discussed
by this ambulatory group, after which it was
voted to give the porter of the parlor car ninety-
nine cents: then the meeting adjourned to meet
at tic Hotel Rudolf, Atlantic City, N. J., on
May 1'::, at 9 :09 p. m.

Baltimore.

There is a movement on' foot among the mem-
bers of the National Lumber Exporters' Asso
eiation here to organize a mutual marine insur-
ance company to carry especially the risks of
the hardwood exporters and, in fact, of till ship-
pers of lumber to foreign countries. The sug-
gestion found expression at the annual meeting
of the association in Norfolk and since then
some preliminary work has been done. A num-
ber of the local firms have been approached on
Hie siibjeet and the prevailing sentiment seems
I.. be favorable. One of the arguments used
in favor of the proposed company is that it
would be the means of cutting down the cost
of insurance materially.

Some active work is being done to arouse
interest among lumbermen here in the annual
tournament of the Lumbermen's Golf Associa-
tion, which will take place June 12 and 13 on
the links of the Baltimore Country Club and
will bring together representatives of the trade
from a number of cities. The East in particu-
lar will be strongly represented, and the tourna-
ment is expected to be the occasion for the
exercise of that hospitality for which Baltimore
is justly famous. The president of the associa-
tion is William D. Gill of this city.

Norman James, a prominent lumberman, is
receiving the condolences of numerous friends
on the death of his wife, Mrs. Margie Macgill
James, who passed away suddenly at her home
in Catonsville, a suburb Qf Baltimore, last Sat-
urday. She leaves two daughters and a son,
besides her husband, and w-as prominent in
church and charitable work. Mr. James is a

member of the N. W. James Lumber Company
of this city and is largely interested in the
Pigeon River Lumber Company, which is carry-
ing on a big hardwood development along the
Pigeon River in North Carolina.

E. L. Davidson of the Parkersburg Mill Com-
pany of Parkersburg, W. Va., has purchased a
555-acre tract of hardwood timber in Ritchie
County, West Virginia, for $37.50 an acre, and
will proceed to develop it.

The work of the R. E. Wood Lumber Com-
pany in starting the development of its Swayne
County timber holdings in North Carolina is
still retarded by the slowness of the Southern
railway. The railroad company is to construct a
branch road into the tract. The grading has
been almost completed, but no actual construc-
tion work on the track itself has been done.

Richard P. Baer. of the hardwood firm of
It. P. Baer & Co.. last week returned from a
ten days' trip into southwestern Virginia ami
North Carolina. He visited a number of the
mill men and studied tin' situation at different
points in detail. Everywhere he found a scarcity
of stocks and an active inquiry. The feeling
throughout the region visited by him was that
the present slate of business would keep up and
that values could be expected to hold their own.

F. A.- Kirhy, sales manager of the Cherry
Liver Boom & Lumber Company of Scranton.
Pa., was in town recently and called on a number
01 firms here. He stated that all the mills in
bis sod ion were low on stocks and could sell
much more lumber if they had it. He repre-
sented the whole situation as very strong.

J. II. Heald & Co. of Lynchburg. Va., have
just closed negotiations for the sale of the
timber on a tract of some 22. .".on acres of timber
land in Botetourt County in southwestern Vir-
ginia to persons in Pennsylvania, who will use
the timber for cross tics. The bark will be
taken by Ileald & Co., who bought the timber
years ago for that purpose and who are ex-
tensively interested in tanneries and manufac-
ture bark extract. The purchase price was
$150,000 and it is believed that the I'ennsyl
vania Railroad Company is behind the deal.

Pittsburg.

J. i:, ('list.'. Pittsburg manager of the
Interior Lumber Company, has gone to Cin-
cinnati on a business trip. He reports very
little damage done by the floods at the firm's
mills.

L. L. Satler looks for very much better car
shipments from this time forth. Poor car
service has for four months been the chief
drawback to the L. L. Satler Lumber Com-
pany doing a rushing business at its big
plant at Blackstone, Va., where it has nearly
doubled the output since it got possession of
the Blackstone properties last summer.

T. C. Tipper & Co. have opened a whole-
sale lumber office at 131 Farmers' Bank
building and will hustle for the trade in hard-
woods in Greater Pittsburg.

F. P. Avey of Tunkhannock, Pa., has de-
. i.l. .1 to abandon the lumber business in
which he has been engaged in that part of
the state for years and will devote all his
time to other business connections after
April 1.

Architect T. J. Schaub of Pittsburg has
prepared plans for a large brick factory at
Etna, a suburb of Allegheny, Pa., for the
American Box Company. The concern has a
large business in this district and badly needs
the new quarters.

The Cheat River Lumber Company is mak-
ing this a hummer in its sales of chestnut
lumber. This is one of the specialties of this
firm and at its plant at Burkeville, Va.. it is
prepared to compete with any firm of its
size in the state.

The Shaw Land & Timber Company will
soon have in operation at Ivor, W. Va., a big
saw and planing mill which will have a daily

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capacity of about 75,nuu f. ot. It is a large
producer of hardwood lumber.

Bemis & Vosburgh celebrated their first an-
niversary of being in the wholesale lumber
business in Pittsburg by banqueting all their
office and sales force at the home of W. W.
Vosburgh in Sewickley, Pa.. twelve miles
below Pittsburg 011 the Ohio river. The com-
pany's offices are in the Farmers' Bank
building.

C. B. Loveless and 1>. I,, llelman of War-
ren, O., have bought from E. W. West of
Eiallsboro, W. Ya.. 11,400 acres of timber land
near Durham. N. C. The tract is estim

to eui 4,000, ' feet of oak. 1,1 feet of

hickory, 15,000,000 feet of pine, and 2,000,000
feet of red gum timber. The oak and hick-
ory will be marketed in New York, but the
pine will all be shipped to Pittsburg, Cleve-
land, Youngstown and Warren, O., markets.
E. L>. Davidson of Parkersburg, W. Va., has
bought the Lemon-McGregor tract of 555
acres in Ritchie county. W. Va., for about
(40 per acre. It will be cut off at once.

The Advance Lumber Company of Cleve-
land, O., has opened a Pittsburg office at
2425 Farmers' Hank building. C. G. MeCo:
is in charge, and the firm will do a general
hardwood business. The Advance is an out-
growth of the old Kirk-Christy firm at Cleve-
land. O., where it still has its main offices
and is one of the biggest dealers in hardwood
in Ohio.

The Linehan Lumber Company, one of the
foremost hardwood concerns in Pennsylvania,
has been admitted to membership in the
1 11 lung Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso-
ciation. At the last meeting of the associa-
tion these officers were elected for the en-
suing year: President, Alex Willson of the
Willson Bros.' Lumber Company; vice pres-
ident, L. L. Satler of the L. L. Satler Lum-
ber company; secretary and treasurer, J. G.
Criste of the Interior Lumber Company.

The McHendry Lumber Company of Pied-
mont, W. Ya.. has been chartered with a cap-
ital of $25,000 by M. B. McHendry and other
West Virginia capitalists, who will shortly
develop an extensive tract of timber.

The Nicola Lumber Company is doing a
good hardwood business this month and re-
ports inquiry out on the roads as being first
class. President George W. Nicola has been
spending a month in the far South.

The big plant of the Pennsylvania Doer .V.
Sash Company in outer Second avenue was
burned ten days ago. The first fire was fol-
lowed by an explosion of gas which wrecked tie
remainder of the four story brick building
which housed the company's operations. The
building was worth about $50,000 and it is
estimated that the stock burned was worth
.$100,000. Con J. A. Cheyne is president and
S. W. Rockwell is vice president of the com-
pany. The plant will likely be rebuilt soon.
J. N. Woollett, general manager of the
American Lumber & Manufacturing Company,
is spending a few weeks in the South and
Southwest in search of new stocks of hard-
wood and with a view to thoroughly looking
over the hardwood situation in the Middle
West on his way home.

The McKees Rocks Planing .Mill Company
will shortly let the contract for a brick plan-
ing mill to be located near that town and
about five miles below Pittsburg on the Ohio
river.

I. r. Balsley of the Willson Bros.' lann
ber Company lias only good words to say of
the hardwood market. Stocks are so low
it keeps him out on the road much of the
time rounding up new supplies.

The Susquehanna Lumber Company of Nan-
ticoke, Pa., has taken over the stocks and
yards of the Harry Cornell Lumber Company
and has reorganized the company with a.
larger capital. The Susquehanna assistant

manager will be William E. Hon. formerly
in tiie emploj ei* 11 titer company.

The A. M. Turner Lumber Company will
move April 1 from (he Ferguson block in
Third avenue to the new twenty-story sky-
craper of the Union bank al Fourth avenue
and Wood street. The company will h;i\e
a large suite of offices, which will give it
greatly Increased facilities for transacting its
growing business.

Greater Pittsburg has once more been held
up temporarily bj :i lot of disgruntled poli-
ticians in Allegheny who have get a writ
of .nor from the Supreme court of the United

stales. Tiie Pennsylvania Supre :ourt di

clared the act annexing Allegheny to Pitts-
burg to be valid and the consolidation would
have been effective in a few days had not
this new political move been made. The lum-
ber interests of both cities are strongly de-
sirous of the union, for it will not only give
the greater city much more advertising pres-
tige but it will also result in free bridge
net other improvements of great benefit to
all lines of business.

The flood that visited Pittsburg March
13-15 was by far the worst in the historv
of the city, the water rising to a height of
36.2 feet, more than a foot higher than ever
before. Basements of buildings above Wood
street wen Hooded and damage to the ex-
leni of $10,000,000 was done in the citj
proper. Small steamboats plied up anil down
the main streets in the lower part of town.
Great damage was done to the lumber inter-
ests who had logs and lumber scattered along
the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers or far-
ther down on the Ohio river and its Wesl
Virginia tributaries, tor tie- ice gorges caused
a flood of backwater that swept away large
quantities of lumber which will never be re-
claimed.

Saginaw Valley.

The soft weather the last ten days has
melted what snow was on the ground in thi
lumbering portion of the state north of the
Saginaw river and loggers depending on snow
haul have been pretty effectually put out of
business. On the whole, however, a good
stock of logs has been secured. < if course,
this does not affect the larger firms that op-
erate tiie year through. It is estimated that
a. greater number of small operators have cut
logs during the winter than before in years,
due to the improved market and prices for
hardwood and the prospects for trade. The
conditions are eminently better than a year
ago.

The territory traversed by the Mackinaw
division of the Michigan Central railroad, ex-
ion, ling from the Saginaw river to the Straits
ol Mackinaw, has been for years and is today
the most prolific producer of lumber in the

1 Lumbering began away back in 1868

and has been continuously prosecuted to the

t day. There have been many changes

in firms, and the- pine timber 1ms pretty well
disappeared, but there is thirty years' supply
yet of the fines) hardw 1 timber in the coun-
try. During 1906 there was produced at the

mills on the line of this 1 1 13,775,928 feel

of hardwood lumber. 11 is estimated fully
as large a <juaniity will i" produced the cur-
leni year.

There was produi ed in the Lake 1 [uron
shore district mills last year 57. 6:1:;, bin feel
of hardwood lumber, and in the Saginaw
river district 56,000,000 feet, making a total

he eastern part of the state 157,469,388

feet.

The- stocks of manufactured lumber ari
light The territoi designated as the Mack-
inaw division not only supplies its own mills
witli logs but thos, :li Saginaw and Bay City

I,; will. Moie than 1 in loads of logs come

p, iii,. Sagii from the Mackinaw di

iris every twenty-four hours.

F. B. Chesbrough of Bay City, who is now

in Boston, and who recently purchased the

1"'1 lest of his brothers in the upper Mich-
igan timber and mill properties, lias indie. it,, I
a determination to purchase ami tit up for the
use of Bay City 1 pie a tine park on the

West side of tile I 1 \ . f Ullil flouting O. pai'k

tiie people are to vote tor on the east side

lie SayS lie is Willing to devote a portion of

his 111 j in "beautifying Hay City." His

in "i "vv , acres of timber land, most -

ly hardw 1.

There has not 1 ,, :l time , lining the win-
ter when ,-ars have been so scarce as at this
11. it,. Lumber shippers are particularly handi-
capped sitae orders have I n free and hun-
dreds oi carloads have 1 n l ked for which

ears ate not obtainable, It had been ex-
pected that by this dati cars would be more
available ami there is iniieh complaint re-
garding the situation.

Aimer Benjamin's small sawmill in Ed-
wards, Ogemaw county, has been destroyed
by tire. Involving a loss of $700. The mill is
being rebuilt.

The Human Lumber Company at Boman-

v-ille is cutting 20, feet of lumber a day. it

comes mil over the Gladwin branch of the
Michigan Central.

Alpena parties have contracted to erect .1
band and resaw mill at Tower for Keyes &
Warlioys of New York. Work will begin in
April and the mill will be ready for business
earlj in the fall. The owners have ,.,
timber to run the mill several years.

Tin Marl City mill in Gladwin county has

500, feet of hardwood logs on skids. The

mill will have a stock of nearly 1,000,000 feel.

The remains of the sawmill at Grace Har-
boi operated by the Grace Harbor Lumber
Company which was damaged by fire some

months ago have I sold to .lames Me-

( iregor of i 'heboygan.

The Hargrave sawmill. at Bay City began

sawing on March 19. The logs 1 ff the

Mackinaw division by rail.

The K land-Bigelow mill, which has been

operated uninterruptedly day and night the
last year, will shut down a week soon for re-
pa irs.

W. D. Young & Co. have been successful
this season and the plant is being operated
day and night with excellent results. Tin- de-
mand for its products is good. It puis out
s tun maple flooring.

Bliss tvi Van Auken received a train load
of line oak log- a lew .lavs ago. Oak is a
rather scarce commodity in this district. For-
ce 1 !■■ there was .1 large stock of red oak
in northern Michigan, but from 1869 to 1883
11 was stripped from the forests, converted
into square timber, and shipped to Buffalo
and Quebec. In ism' the output amounted to

7,853, iilhc feet and for fifteen years the

shipments from the Saginaw river ranged
f 10m 700,000 to 7,000,000 cubic feet each sea-
son. The last year only 87,000 cubic fei I went
out of the river.

Grand Rapids.
Cuss County still has some oak. The Phillips
Lumber Company of Pokagon recently shipped

thirty live cars of oak logs to I lie Alliens Lam
ber Company of Dowagiac. The company is also

cutting about 800, 1 feel of Inir.lu 1 timber

at H Pokagon mill.

Plans arc being made to reorganize the Linn
Manufactnring Company of Escanaba into a
icw corporation to be known as the I3scanaba
si Igh & Wagon I lompany ; capita! s 1 0

The Guelph Patent Cash Company ami the
I. Cornwell sawmill of Wolverine will re
operation soon, after a shutdown of some dura
lion..

Fire destroyed Joseph Kalchick's mill, two

mile- west of ( 1111. 111 I 1. .- _ with no

insurance.

11 -aw and hull mill of E. II. Koch ,v
■ in .1 11 mil' irmn M.ivliihl on Hie I'.ijardiuau

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River, was burned March 10. Loss $2,000, no
insurance. The plant was new, having been
built last June.

Messrs. Rowland and Edward Lowe of Grand
Rapids have returned from a trip to Jamaica
and the Bermudas.

Arthur Rushforth, a mahogany merchant of
Liverpool, England, has been in Grand Rapids
for several days. He estimates -that of the
African mahogany gotten out for export eighty
per cent of it goes to England, also that from
eighty to ninety per cent of this amount is
sold in America. Mr. Rushforth is interested
in a plan whereby the Liverpool auction sales

may be eliminated and the African wc 1 may

go direct from forest to factory- He predicts
that mahogany will advance and advance
sharply in consonance with the upward trend
of lumber prices.

The car situation in Michigan shows no
improvement and freight agents expect no
change for the better before May. A bill to
create a new state railway commission to have
general control of demurrage and other matters
pertaining to shippers and railroads, prepared
by Hal H. Smith, attorney for the Michigan
Manufacturers' Association, has been introduced
in the legislature. Two important points agreed
on are that the state commission shall have
power to fix demurrage penalties for failure
of the railroads to move cars a given numb' i
of miles per day, and another provides for a
more free interchange of traffic between the
steam and the electric lines.

An increase of from ten to fifteen per cent
in the price of buggies and carriages will be
announced soon by the manufacturers of the
state, who contend that this step is necessary
because of the increase in cost of material.

The Robbins Table Company of Owosso has
plans for adding a two-story brick building,
64x90 feet, to its plant this spring.

Five forestry bills have been introduced at
this session of the legislature, and in view of
the growing interest in the subject throughout
the state it seems likely that one or more
of them at least will become law. One bill
provides for a state farm forester whose chief
duty will lie in assisting farmers and others in
the better care of their wood lots. Anothei
bill provides for withdrawal from sale of ami
cultural college lands in Iosco and Alcona
Counties and the forming of a permanent fin-
est reserve comprising about 40.000 acres. The
state tax land bill proposes to stop the wanton
waste of money in the repeated sales of lands
delinquent for taxes, fixing a minimum price at
which bare lands may be sold at $5 per acre
The forest fire and game warden bill extends
the duties of the game warden to the protection
of forests, cut-over and waste lands from fires.
The forest inquiry commission bill provides for
the appointment by the governor of a commis-
sion of nine citizens to make a careful exami-
nation of the entire matter and report to the
next legislature.

E. C. Allen, vice president of the Gibbs, Hall
& Allen Company of Grand Rapids, is operating
his mill at South Allen siding, between Tustiu
and Leroy, and has a cut of 250,000 feet of
hardwood. This is one of the oldest mills on
the G. R. & I. road.

N. E. Staples, a lumberman of Cadillac, is
adjudicated bankrupt on his voluntary petition
and the matter is referred to Kirk E. Wicks of
this city, referee in bankruptcy. The schedule
filed with the petition showed debts amounting
to $11,463, with no assets above exemption.

The Harrison Wagon Works, one of the larg-
est concerns of Grand Rapids, has been com-
pelled for financial reasons to close down, and
the report of a committee of creditors is to
the effect that while all claims will be paid in
full the company is entirely without capital to
continue the business, its best asset being the
large quantity of seasoned lumber on hand.
There has been lack of harmony in the man-

agement and the plant has not been kept up
to date. The starting up of an automobile
factory as a side industry was also disastrous.
Ati inventory shows assets to be $497,200
against $446,228 of liabilities.

The Langeland Manufacturing Company of
Muskegon is building a lumber storage shed
with capacity for half a million feet.

The Michigan Door Company, capital $30,000,
is being organized to occcupy the plant of the
Lansing Veneered Door Company at Lansing.
II. H. Lamed is manager.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.
The Southeastern Car Service Association has
just made a ruling that after April 1 the time
allowed for the unloading of cars by consignees,
after they have been set and due notice of their
arrival made, will be reduced from seventy two
to forty-eight hours. The ruling comes as a
sequel to the investigations of the Interstate
Commerce Commission into the car service and
was inspired by the commission. Nearly all of
the roads in the south affiliate with the South-
eastern Car Service Association and will adopt
and rigidly enforce the new ruling after April 1.
The ruling will meet with strenuous objection
in some quarters but there is now no doubt but
that it will be enforced and the Southeastern
Car Service Association will be backed by the
Interstate Commerce Commission which believes
that the ruling will materially relieve the ear
service trouble.

W. B. Coon, a well-known lumberman of John-
son City, has just closed a deal with C. S.
Aldrich, S. B. Rhodes, W. A. Dick, J. B. Bum-
gartner, G. B. Greely and other Pittsburg capi-
talists for a large tract of fine hardwood timber
land in Hawkins county. Tennessee. The tract
is near Blair's Gap and the purchasers now have
representatives there making arrangements for
putting in several large sawmills and the de-
velopment of the property will be begun as
soon as possible. The timber consists largely of
oak. poplar and white pine.

W. It. White of Trigg & White, local timber
land dealers, has just returned from a trip to
Georgia and reports the consummation of a deal
for 30,000 acres of Georgia timber land. Mr.
White states that owing to the fact that some
details of the deal have not been closed he is
unable to make public the identity of the pur-
chasers but states that the deal will mean
immense lumber development in Georgia.

John W. Coles, a well-known lumberman of
Philadelphia and always a welcome visitor
among the local coterie of hardwood dealers,
was in the city last week and made numerous
purchases of hardwood stock.

Sam R. Sells of the Sells Lumber & Manu-
facturing Company was up from Johnson City
on business this week. Mr. Sells reports that
his company has just completed a large planing
mill at" Carnegie, one mile east of Johnson City,
which will soon be put into operation on a large
scale.

J. A. Wilkinson will start his new band mill
in this city on the Southern railway in a few
weeks. The new mill will be operated in con-
junction with his other lumber mills and will
have a daily capacity of 50,000 feet. He will at
once begin the erection of large and modern dry
kilns. The timber for the new* mill will be
brought to Bristol over the X. & W. and V. i;
S. W. from Mr. Wilkinson's southwest Virginia
timber land.

The organization of the H. M. Hoskins Lum-
ber Company was completed here last week.
This new company has already begun business
with headquarters in the First National Bank
building, and is headed by Horace M. Hoskins.
illy general sales manager for J. A. Wilkin-
son. Mr. Hoskins is a lumberman of ripe expe-
rience and mature judgment. He is well ac-
quainted with the domestic and foreign trade.
The new company will do a hardwood business
exclusively and has already purchased two

tracts of timber on the Norfolk & Western, in
Washington county, Virginia, which it will begin
developing as soon as mills can be erected. The
company's business will be largely foreign, and
European customers are now being supplied. An
application for a charter of incorporation in
Virginia will be made in a few days.

J. M. McRea, president of the Laurel Fork
Lumber Company of Mount Sterling. X. C, was
in the city last week. Mr. McRea reports that
bis company as well as other lumber concerns in
that section have recently suffered heavy losses
from floods, but otherwise business is good and
conditions are propitious.

A. Arnold, a Bristol lumberman, left this week
for Sarasota. Fla., where he goes to inspect
a large boundary of timber with a view of
taking up an option he holds.

Will Roller and J. X. Haws have returned
from South Carolina, where they have become
interested in the Cypress Lumber Company, a
concern recently organized in that state to do a
general lumber manufacturing business, with
a capital stock of $200,000.

J. A. Magargal, representing the J. W.
Iiifendifer Lumber Company of Philadelphia,
was buying hardwoods in Bristol this week. He
went from here to Damascus, Va., to look over
his company's extensive lumber interests in that
section and hurry forward orders.

Dwight D. Ilartlove of Baltimore, representing
W. ti. Price, was in the city last week.

J. A. Crocker, representing J. Gibson Mcllvain
& Co. of Philadelphia, was a visitor among local
lumbermen last week.

George E. Davis of George E. Davis & Co.
has returned from a trip to Philadelphia.

G. L. Wood, Asheville, N. ('.. general manager
of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company, is spending
some days here on important legal business.

Among the recent visitors in the city were :
Paul W. Fleck, Paul W. Fleck Lumber Company,
Philadelphia : William S. Whiting. Whiting
Manufacturing Company, Abingdon : C. H. Hett,
Kingsport Lumber Company. Johnson City,
Tenn. ; W. Dixon Smith, exporter, Parkersburg,
W. Va. ; J. A. Riley, manufacturer. Elk Park,
N. C. ; C. W. Decker, Philadelphia : Sam C.
Rambo. manufacturer, Johnson county. Tennes-
see ; W. W. Hurt, Abingdon : II. II. Ely. repre-
senting R. M. Smith Lumber Company. Parkers-
burg, W. Va. : F. O. Clapp, representing the
Atlantic Lumber Company, Boston.

Cincinnati.

Since William A. Bennett, who was recently
elected president of the Chamber of Commerce
on the Red ticket, has taken charge of affairs
things have changed materially in the business
chamber. Heretofore general business was con-
ducted by former presidents, but they lacked
ginger in their speeches and the members' at-
tention was given during the time that they
spoke, but soon after it was allowed to escape
their minds. It is different with Bennett ; he
insists that all members pay strict attention
to things that are said from the bench and.
more, asks the members to offer suggestions if
they will benefit the general trade interest.
Members seem to take more interest in things
Mr. Bennett says than any other president. He
has also shown his active spirit by inducing
many business men to join the organization.
In William A. Bennett and Thomas J. Moffett
Cincinnati has two very energetic business
men. Mr. Moffett is the chief promoter of the
new belt line system and gives much of his
attention to that project, while Mr. Bennett
devotes a great portion of his time to the
general interest of the Chamber of Commerce.

The second flood in 1907 has visited Cincin-
nati. Although the water did not go as high
as in January, it was high enough to do con-
siderable damage. Many of the lumber firms
situated in the West End have a small portion
of their yards in water, and one of two firms
were compelled to reach their offices with the

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aid of 11 skiff. The railroads are crippled and
some of them are not accepting any freight.

The flood, while it at present cripples trade and
causes much damage, will in due time benefit
the lumber industry. Many large business
houses that are now in the flood district have
signified the intention of moving to a higher
elevation, which will of course necessitate the
construction of new buildings, or at least will
require many alterations.

William E. Delaney, general superintendent,
and J. II. Keyes, vice president, of the Ken-
tucky Lumber Company, have- gone on a business
trip through southern territory.

J. E. Tuthlll of the Cypress Lumber Com-
pany is on a business trip to Harrisburg, I'm.,
where he will spend several days.

Word has been received by Thomas J. Mof-
fett of the Maley, Thompson & Moffett Lumber
Company that K. W. Hobbins will return from
his trip to Cuba the latter part of this month.
Mr. Bobbins left during the latter part of
February.

S. Tutbill, manager of the Cypress Lumber
Company, has returned from a business trip
through the South, where he visited Tennessee,
Louisiana and Alabama.

The Wiborg & Hanna Company is filling the
bottoms in the rear of its plant, which when
completed will add considerable space to the
present large lumber yard and will also protect
it from the backwaters.

B, F. Dulweber, who has been confined to his
home with a severe attack of grip, is reported
much improved.

St. Louis.

The Massengale Lumber Company has a good
deal of lumber in its yards and is in good
condition to take care of spring business. The
company's Mississippi mill is able to supply
further stock should it be required.

The Mosberger-OTteilly Lumber Company says
that it cannot get stock fast enough to take care
of orders — particularly ash, poplar and cypress.

A. J. Lang, treasurer of the St. Louis Lum-
bermen's Exchange, with his wife and two
children, has left for a mouth's pleasure trip
to San Antonio, Tex., via Galveston.

T. Moore of the Moore Company recently
made an extended southern trip to look over
the lumber situation and prospects. The com-
pany says the car shortage prevents it from
shipping out orders as rapidly as it would
like to.

The Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company re-
ports that the call for oak and ash is remark-
ably strong and that the demand from consum-
ers has increased markedly the past month.

H. M. Marshall, inspector for the Hardwood
Manufacturers' Association of the United States,
now has his office and home at 4944 Page boule-
vard, and expects to be joined by his family
very soon. They are now in Virginia.

Owen M. Bruner of Philadelphia, a well-
known wholesale hardwood man, was in the
city recently, calling upon the trade.

The American Hardwood Lumber Company
is augmenting its stock right along in order to
take care of its usual large spring business.

The Plummer Lumber Company states thai
the car trouble is lessening somewhat, and that
it considers the spring outlook excellent.

The Lothman Cypress Company expects the
arrival of several hundred more cars of cypress,
although 400 cars were unloaded at its yard
here during January and February. It reports
cypress lath in excellent request.

J. S. Garetson has recently been in Mexico
with his brother Frank, of San Diego' Cal,
They went to examine the property of the Es-
candldo Copper Company in the state of Sonora,
in which they are largely interested, and which
promises to be a profitable proposition.

The mill of the Chas. F. I.uehrmann Hard
wood Lumber Company at Marianna, Ark., has
started up again; it was closed for sonic line
on account of high water. The company's hick-

ory plant at Schrenk, Ark., on the Black River
1- also in operation again. The company ex-
pects to do an extra good business during the
coming year.

The lumbermen of St. Louis have long
wished to get together in the matter of office
l.icatic.ns. and at a recent meeting in the Mer-
cantile club, a committee was appointed to con-
fer with the manager of 1 he new Wright build-
in", at the corner of Eighth and Pine streets,
relative t" "colonizing" at that location. Their
work resulted in a further meeting March 11.
.11 which the proposition was carefully gone
over and it was practically decided to lease sev-
eral tloors, the following named concerns agree-
ing to take space: Grayson-McLeod Lumber
Company, W. T. Ferguson Lumber Company,
Berthold & Jennings Lumber Company. A. P.
Brewer Lumber Company, Hogg-Harris Lumber
Company, Arkansas Lumber Company, Long-Bell
Lumber Company, II. Wachsmuth Lumber Com-
pany, Ball-Goss Lumber Company, Van Cleve
Lumber Company, Geo. W. Miles Lumber Com-
pany, Alt'. Bennett Lumber Company, Monarch
Lumber Company, Antrim Lumber Company, W.
E. Grady, Dixie Lumber Company, Graham Lum-
ber t'oinpauy, Summitt Lumber Company, J.
G. Knebel Lumber Company, St. Louis Lumber-
man. The Lumbermen's building, as it may
hereafter be called, is a handsome, new office
st nut ure eighteen stories high, fireproof and in
an excellent location. It has an abundance of
light, heat, water, good elevator service and is
up to date in every respect.

George E. Hibbard of the Steele & Hibbard
Lumber Company, the well-known hardwood
house of this city, is just recovering from a
severe attack of the "grippe." which necessi-
tated his absence from his office for some days,
lie is now able to be down again, though the
disease left him in a weak condition.

Memphis.

There is some improvement reported in the
car situation at this point and throughout the
Memphis territory. Shippers are securing a
larger proportion of their requisitions than for
some weeks and cars are being moved out with
greater promptness when they are loaded. There
is. however, room for a great deal more im-
provement and the River and Hail Committee of
I he Lumbermen's Club, having the matter of
local conditions in hand, is hot losing any time
in bringing about even better conditions than
now obtain. The inability to secure timber at
the mills has been. a very serious factor for some
time and lumber manufacturers express much
satisfaction that there is some betterment in
this direction, even if it proves only temporary.
A number of the big plants here which have
been running only intermittently for the past
few weeks are beginning to run more regularly
and some of them are quite well supplied with
timber for the present.

The Lumbermen's Club at its last meeting
adopted resolutions on the question of free time
for unloading ships at New Orleans, protesting
that such action is having the effect of throwing
serious hardships on shippers and making them
assume responsibility for the shortcomings of
ocean carriers, and in many cases for those of
the rail lines themselves, and that this action
of the rail lin.s would have an adverse effect
on export traffic of the section. The question
will he referred, i" the Interstate Commerce
Commission for such action as it may deem
proper. It should he pointed out in this connection
that lie club is of the opinion that the cutting
down "f free time is the direct result of the
in, 1 that the Interstate Commerce Commission
has given a few lines a monopoly of the export
lumber and cotton business and therefore put
them in a position to behave arbitrarily through
a strict enforcement of the rate- law, making
equalizal ion impc ible, 1 1 is for tin-- reason
thai the matter is 10 be called to the attention
of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

At the suggestion oi the River and Kail Com
mittee the club lias adopted a form to he used
in making requisition for cars. This will be
printed in duplicate, one copy being held by the

shipper and tl tlnr forwarded to the railroads

in question. 11 will have a place for the number
of cars, for the car numbers, time applied for.
time furnished, time loaded, time moved out and

time landed at destination, thus making a

plete record. Lumbermen believe this will bring
about quicker action on the part of traffic
officials and they arc certain that it will supply
them with all the necessary data for intelligent

procedure in the evenl of any proc dings before

railroad officials or the Interstate C merce

Commission.

Messrs. Brown and Anderson have been cm-
ployed as attorneys by the Lumbermen's Club
and will advise the River and Bail Committee
as to the best method of procedure in opposing
the effectiveness of the recent advance on freight
rates from points in the southwest to Ohio and
Mississippi river crossings, amounting to 2 to ."•
cents per huudred. The committee has held a
number of meetings in connection with this
subject, but nothing definite has yet been doue.
The idea in the beginning was to cooperate with
the Lumber Exchange of St. Louis, but It is not
now certain that this will be done, as the im-
pression seems to be now that the St. Louis
organization does not object to the advance of ".
cents in hardwood rates but rather to the change
of classification on cypress, which puts the rates
on that lumber three cents higher than other
hardwoods from the southwest. That the mat-
ter will finally be carried to the Interstate Com-
merce Commission, however, is generally con-
ceded by lumber interests here.

The club has formally endorsed J. II. Mallory,
Commercial agent of the Illinois Central here,
for the position of general agent, with head
quarters in Memphis, as successor to the late;
Major W. L. Smith. It has communicated this
action to President J. T. Harahan of the Illinois
Central, but no definite reply has been given by
that official. Mr. Mallory is very popular
among lumber interests both here and through-
out the Mississippi valley and the club regards
him as an excellent man for the place.

The following new members have been re-
ceived into the club, making the total the largest
on record — 111 : Benjamin Emerson, Brinklcy
Car Manufacturing Company, Brinkley, Ark. ;
Chas. E. Hyde, Hyde Lumber Company, Mem-
phis, Tenn. ; B. E. Kile, Kile & Morgan Company.
Providence, K. I.; T. J. Stevens, Forrest City
Land & Lumber Company, Woodruff, Miss.
Harry Stimson, Stimsou Lumber Company,
Askew, Miss. ; W. P. Mcintosh, Stonemau Lum-
ber Company, Clarksdale, Miss. The club is
taking strong hold of the various problems con
fronting lumber interests not only in this city
but throughout the country and this is one of
the reasons for its rapid growth.

J. T. Harahan of the Illinois Central system,
who was in Memphis today, announces the pur-
chase of HIS acres of land in New South Mem-
phis with a river frontage of nearly 3,000 feet

for the site of terminal facilities to 1 :ected

for the purpose of taking care of the river
traffic. This plan has been in mind for some
months and the company has been quietly pick-
ing up the property for some time. The com-
pany will expend thereon, including the purchase
price, approximately si. 0110,01111. u will ji\
every possible encouragement to factories lee
locate on this tract by providing the e facilities
and it will make particular effort to bring aboul

tin' establishment of more lumber and c

plants, especially those that manufacture the
finished product. It contends that tin-re i
much raw material shipped away Crom Memphis
which cciulci be profitablj manufactured here
instead of being sent away ami then manufac
tureil and shipped back to this citj and other
points in the South. The Illinois Central, too,
has acquired more bind in East Memphis for its
belt line, the completion of which should mate-

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rially relieve the congestion which has recurred
here so often during the past few months.

The lumber mill of C. L. Willey in North
Memphis has begun operations and will have a
very large daily output as the management has
gut ten together a very big quantity of timber.
The veneer mill will be completed in a short
time and operation of this will begin as soon
as the machinery has been installed.

\V. C. Calhoun of Sheboygan. Mich., and C. W.
Talge of F.vansville. Ind.. two lumbermen who
have been traveling recently over Mis-
souri.* Tennessee and Arkansas inspecting
timber lands and mill sites, have announced their
intention of erecting two mills in northeast
Memphis and the purchase of 12 acres of land
for this purpose. The two mills will give em-
ployment to about 200 persons and will be
placed in operation as soon as they can be

completed.

The Ford- Johnson Chair Company at Helena.
Ark., is making preparations to considerably
enlarge its chair plant at that point. It is to
be one of the largest in the country and when
completed will give employment to about 800 to
I I persons.

The James A. McKim Company of Chicago
has been awarded the contract for constructing
the thirteen-story annex of the Peabody hotel
and remodeling the main structure, involving an
expenditure of $500,000. The hostelry, which is
to be operated under the same management as
the Gayoso, is to be completed in January. L908
On the completion of this work lumbermen will
find a decided increase in hotel facilities in this
city both for ordinary use and for the holding
of conventions.

The 50,000-foot band sawmill of the Chapman-
Dewey Lumber Company, which is being con-
structed at Marked 'Tree, Ark., is neariug coin
pletion and will soon he ready for operation.
This company has offices in tie' Randolph
Building, this city.

Rapid progress is reported on the double band
sawmill anil veneer plant of R. J. Darnell, Inc..
in South Memphis, and these should be in
operation in a short time.

Four of the six dry kilns of the Fordyce
Lumber Company at Fordyce, Ark., were de-
stroyed by Are a few nights ago, entailing a loss
of between $40,00" and $60,000. The insurance
is not stated. It required heroic efforts to save
the two remaining kilns and the lumber and
planing mills of the company.

I.. II. Lebus, H. A. Lebus and II. W. Flatau,
representing II. Lebus. wholesale export furniture
manufacturer, with headquarters in London,
England, have been in Memphis during the past
i . w days.

C. D. Ilendrickson, chairman of the River and
Hail Committee of the Lumbermen's Club, who
has been looking after interests of the F. S.
lb ndrickson Lumber Company in Indian Terri-
tory for some time, has returned to his offices
in the Randolph Building and is now at the helm
in the effort to solve the various traffic prob-
lems entrusted to his committee.

New Orleans.
' A good deal of interest was manifested in
the first annual meeting of the New Orleans
Lumber Exporters' Association which was
held here last week. This association has just
about perfected organization and the an-
nouncement that it would launch a campaign
to correct certain abuses which the lumber
exporters are forced to put up with attracted
considerable attention. These abuses, for
which the railroads are as a rule held re-,
sponsible, were 'generally discussed at the
meeting and arrangements were made to have
the railroad committee of the association take
up the several matters wit.it a view to having
certain very undesirable conditions remedied.
J. H. Hinton of Camp & Hinton was re-elected
president of the association. The other offi-
cers named were W. A. Powell, vice presi-

dent; L. Haymann. treasurer; T. O. Elmer,
secretary and traffic manager. Plans for in-
creasing the membership of the association
and for making the fight to improve the con-
ditions were discussed at length.

The first cargo of African mahogany ever
brought into the port of New Orleans arrived
here last week on the British steamship Os-
ceola. The logs are consigned to the C. C.
Mengel & Bro. Company of Louisville. Ky..
and the logs are said to be worth $250,000.
The arrival of the Osceola marks the begin-
ning of a regular service between Axim. a
port on the west coast of Africa, and New
Orleans. Mahogany shipments, valued at ap-
proximately $1,000,000 per annum, will now be
brought this way.

The Miles Lumber Company has been or-
ganized at Burnside, near Donaldsonville, La..
with an authorized capital of $650,000. It will
l.uy and sell timber land and will manufacture
and export lumber. The company will con-
duct extensive operations in this state.

The Red River Hardwood Lumber Company
of Monroe. La., has purchased from Leonard
Mathew of St. Louis 4.200 acres of hardwood
timber land in Avoyelles parish, this state,
and will build a mill to cut the timber. The
price paid was $9 per acre.

Andrew Currie has purchased a controlling
interest in the Queen City Furniture Com-
pany of Shreveport and will begin to develop
that company's property on an extensive plan.
The capital has already been increased from
$75,000 to $200,000. Mr. Currie owns 100.000
acres of timber land in Louisiana and Texas
and will use this for the manufacture of all
sorts of furniture.

J. C. Stokes is considering plans for a big
spoke and handle factory at Mansfield, La.

The Saline River Lumber Company, cap-
italized at $250,000, has been organized at
Shreveport, La., to deal in timber lands and
to manufacture, buy, sell and export lumber.
It is said to be backed by Shreveport busi-
ness men.

The North American Realty Company has
been organized at Winnfield, La., to buy and
sell timber lands and to manufacture from
lumber all kinds of" merchantable products.
Its authorized capitalization is $100,000 arid its
officers are M. M. Fisher, president; C. P.
Mathis and F. L. .Shaw, vice presidents; P.
C. Mosely, secretary; P. K. Abel, treasurer;
L. Siess, general manager.

F. S. Grey, a lumber manufacturer of To-
ronto, Canada, was in Jackson, Miss., several
days ago looking for a site for a large furni-
ture factory. It is understood that the plant
will be built in the suburbs on the line of
the Pearl River Valley Road and that Mr.
Grey will get his hardwoods from the timber
tracts along that road.

Negotiations have been practically closed by
the Smith interests of Brookhaven for the site
and property of the National Lumber Com-
pany at Jackson, Miss. This company's plant
was recently destroyed by fire, entailing a
loss of $125,000. The plant will be rebuilt at
an" early date.

The Hurricane Lumber Company of Perkins-
ton. Miss., has bought equipment for a 50,000-
foot-capacity sawmill and a logging road.
Fifty thousand dollars will be spent on the
improvements.

The Whitfield Planing Mill Company of Co-
lumbia. Miss., is one of the new enterprises
of that state. It will build, equip, and operate
planing mills and will buy and sell timber
and timber lands. Its capital is fixed at
$10,000. T. D. Whitfield, Ruford Larkin, B.
A. Williamson and others are the incorpora-
tors.

Louisville.

The river has been causing trouble again and
local lumberman have other things on hand

besides an active demand. Up on the I'oint
the mills are standing waiting for the flood to
subside, but the owners are feeling so good over
the fact that the river didn't quite go over
its banks this time that they are not finding
much fault with having to stop awhile. The
water is up in the mills and will of course do
some damage and cause expense in the way of
delays and cleaning up. but it is not serious and
mil linen expect to get in operation again very
soon.

At the exposition at the Armory lumber is
not a very prominent feature, but there are a
few nice displays. The C. C. Mengel & Bro.
Company has a splendid display of its mahog-
any products in which is a sample of that fine
curly mahogany log illustrated in the Record
not long ago, together with some African and
other Honduras mahogany.

The Mengel Box Company has on display a
big assortment of packages, both boxes and
pails, which gives some idea of the diversity
ui its product but not of the capacity of its
mammoth plant, which will turn out 30,000
boxes a day and a very large number of pails.

J. N. Struck & Bro. make a good showing in
a comparatively limited space with veneered
millwork and doors, and have included in their
display, of course, that red gum door of which
they make a feature.

i tccupying space with the Louisville Varnish
Company, the B. L. Hughes Company has a
nice display of doors, featuring the birch
veneered Korelock door.

Several of the local lumbermen are giving
quite a lot of time to helping 'carry out the
work of the exposition, and they express them-
selves as pleased with the result.

The \V. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company
says that the hardwood market could hardly be
better in the matter of demand. The company
is worried considerably by the car shortage,
for while it is now getting stuff to the railroads
at country points pretty lively, shipping is still
seriously delayed for want of cars.

Charlotte, N. C.

Fire I. dally destroyed the plant of the Salka-
batchle Lumber Company situated on the Hamp-
ton & Branchville Railroad near Hampton, S.
C, a few days ago. It was one of the largest
sawmills and lumber plants in the state and
was operated by Messrs. Woodward and Lee of
Augusta. Ga. The loss is estimated at $150,000
i,i $200,000.

A deed of trust has been given by the Craggy
Lumber Company and the Bee Tree Railway
Company to secure the loan of $87,000 which is
adjudged necessary to carry out the projects of
the first-named corporation that is now operat-
ing in western North Carolina. The railway
company is included in the transaction on the
ground that the success of the lumber company
means the success of the railway company.

The Kentenich Corporation of Big Stone Gap,
Va., capitalized at $10,000,000 a few weeks ago,
has begun work. The object of the corporation
is to deal in, develop and handle the products
of timber lands in Virginia and other states.
Charles Henry Davis of Massachusetts is presi-
dent ; J. F. Bullitt of Big Stone Gap, vice
president ; George L. Taylor, also of Big Stone
Gap, secretary, and Will W. Duffield of Pine-
ville. Ky., treasurer.

By mutual agreement the Standard Chair
Company, the Gates Chair Company and the
Thompson Chair Company, all of Thomasville.
N. C., have been merged into one corporation
wiib an authorized capital stock of $175,000.
Chas. F. Lambeth has been elected president
and Jas. F. Lambeth, vice president. The out-
put of the factory as it now stands is 1,500
chairs per day. The consolidation makes one
of the most complete establishments in the
entire south. It will produce chairs of all
grades.

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Minneapolis.

Investigation of r 1 1 ■ ■ so-c°alled lumber trust

has been undertaken by a commit) I the

Minnesota legislature. 11 baa beard si .1

plaints, but nothing to establish a point, any
more than that wholesalers object i" selling to
small consumers ami thai the retailers' associa
tlon keeps track of any such sales Cor the
Information of its members, J. E. Rhodes, sec
retary of the Northern Pine Manufacturers'
Association, and w. G. Mollis, secretary of the
Northwestern Lumbermen's Association, have

1 the principal witnesses. The committee is

pretty well convinced now that there is no such
thing as fixing prices by associations or bj
common agreement.

A. A. Rotzien of the Hawkins I. and & Lumber
Company, Minneapolis, is hack from a business
trip in northern Minnesota, where he was buy-
ing some stocks and contract in.,- for the cul of
some pine and hardwood mills for next year.

The Luce & Thompson Company has recently

1 n incorporated by George W. Luce and X. G.

Thompson, formerly with the Fulton & Libbey
Company, this city. They will do a general
commission business but will mainly act as
agents for the factory of Harris & Cole Bros.
>. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, manufacturers of turned
work.

A. P. Hein of the John Hein Lumber Com-
pany. Tony, Wis., was down last week Looking
after the hardwood and cooperage market. They

have been shipping hardw I pretty heavily of

late and could ship more if they could get cars.

C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, the local
wholesalers, says the country yard trade is
picking up and there is a lively call for floor-
ing, wagon stock and other Items of hardwood
usually carried by the yards. They are hand-
ling more southern stock this year than ever
before, because of the short an,] decreasing sup-
ply of northern oak.

O. K. Hobe of the llobe Lumber Company
has returned from a buying trip in Wisconsin,
where be was picking up some hardwood and
hemlock stocks to fill coming orders.

E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lum-
ber Company says their shipments of oak from
southern mills are coining along now as fast
as they are able to load cars. There is more
high water trouble for mills along the Missis-
sippi owing to the rise of the Ohio, which lias
swelled the river and is backing up into the
bayous ami tributaries on the lower river. The
railroads are in the market now for all the
oak ties and bridge timbers they can ship. For
tile most part they have been slow about order-
ing and are now in a great rush for shipments
of stuff they have just bought.

Wausau.

At the R. Connor Company's camp 9, near
Laona, three loads of hardwood were recently
hauled by one team scaling respectively 13,340,
15,730 and 16,340 feet.

The Eau Claire Box & Lumber Company's
plant in Eau Claire was recently destroyed by
fire, entailing a loss of $30, 000, partially cov-
ered by insurance. About 6,000,000 feet of
mixed lumber was saved. The owners, W. B,
Scholfield and C. E. Turner of Wausau, say they
will not rebuild.

The O. U. Ingram Lumber C pany of Eau

Claire has been organized with $500,

capital. The incorporators are O. II. Ingram,
C. T. Bundy, K. P. Wilcox and Hannah 1.
Johnson.

The Transfer Lumber Company of McMillan, a
hardwood jobbing concern, has filed articli
dissolution with the secretarj of state. B 1
.McMillan was president and A. E. Beebee, ecn
tiiry and treasurer.

The plant of the Colby Stave & Heading
Company has been moved from Colby to Park
Falls, so as 10 be neater raw material.

W. H. Hatten of -New London, at the head
of a well known hardwood tern, has an-
nounced his candidacy for United States senator

to slice 1 Senator John r. Spooiier. who re-
cently resigned. .Mr. Hatten's friends are en

lident ,,f ins election.

Tile Wausau Mississippi Timber Company is

one of the lately organized hardw 1 concerns.

The main stockholders are Chas. W'einleld. II.
II. Malison and II. E. Smith of Wausau and
their capital stock is $30,000. The company
owns I. linn acres of oak timber lands in Missis
sippr and holds options on several thousand
acres more which they contemplate buying.

11 is estimated that fully eighty-five per cent
of all the hardwood lumber in Wisconsin is
ow bed by jobbers.

The Crocker chair Company's mill in Anllgo
I .1- begun sawing out chair Stock and the daily
output for the next six months will lie 40,000

feel.

The Cooper-Hughes Lumber Company of
Nashotah is one of the latest concerns to enter

the hardwood held. The company lias a capital
slock of $25,000 and the stockholders are Win.
E. Cooper, Thos. .1. Hughes and Lee E. Utter.

'the Wilson-Weber Lumber Company of
Menomonie has increased its capital stock from
$50,000 to $150,000.

The Hardwood Land & Improvement Company
has been organized in Grand Rapids with a
.apital stock of $50,000. E. P. Arpin. 1 he presi-
dent, states that the purposes of the company
arc to cut the timber on hardwood lands in
northern Wisconsin and then induce colonization.

The l'arkinson-Marlin Lumber Company of
Madison recently purchased ttie lumber yards of
Hie Grand Rapids Lumber Company and one of
the West side Lumber Company, all located in
Grand Rapids.

A. II. Stange, head of the Stange Lumber
Company of Merrill, has donated $25,000 and a
church site to the Trinity Lutheran congregation
of that city.

Negotiations have been closed for the sale of
the Escanaba Woodenware Company's plants at
Escanaba and Crystal Falls to the Escanaba
Manufacturing Company, a corporation organ
izeii by St. Louis, Mo., capitalists. The deal
involves approximately $1,000,000. The Escanaba
plant is one of the largest of its kind in the
world and manufactures wooden butter dishes in
Immense quantities.

Fred Smith, E. Could and .1. Means of Merrill
recently disposed of several thousand aires of
hardwood lands in Texas to northern capitalists.

Tin- tolal cut of mixed hardwoods in the
Marinette mills for the past year amounted I"
20,913,000 feet, which was an increase over tin'
. 111 of former years.

'Tile pine mills of Wausau and the lower Wis-
consin river valley are gradually being turned
into hardwood mills, and this coming summer
will witness more hardwood cut in that region
than ever before. The Alexander Stewart Lum-
ber Company's mill in Wausau was built in
I si:: and has cut pine from that time until
now, hut this summer the cut will be largelj
hardwood.

The I'pham Manufacturing Company of Marsh-
field is plauniug to enlarge its furniture factory
in 1 lie spring by the addition of another story
and warehouse.

Ashland.

Tilings are :,i ;, standstill in this section.

owing to the big 11 Is in Hie Ohio and its

tributaries. Ashland Is high and dry, but ail of
the nulls between here and Catlettsburg were
obliged to close down. The damage io ma-

chinery will I,, heavy. No lumber was lost, but
there was a hard light to save it. as also the

timber, which was .specially hard to manage

on account <>l heavy drift. Itesides til" high
water, shippers are seriously handicapped by a
car shortage, on accounl of which many orders
have been delayed.

There is a brisk demand for poplar, one inch
ones and twos bringing *:,::, selects. $40; No. 1
common. s:;r, . No. 2 common, $24, f. 0. b. Ohio
river.

T. .N. Fannin of the Keyes Fannin Lumber
Company is at his home in this city, having
come down from the mills at llerndon. W. Va..
lor a few days, lie reports business excellent

with his c pany, with bright prospects for a

banner year.

The Clearfield Lumber Company will extend
its line of railroad Into the mountains from
Paragon, Ky.

Fin- saw and planing mill of the Ironton
Lumber Company, Ironton, 0., was destroyed bj
tire March 22. Loss on properly and lumber.
s Hi, iioii, insurance. $30,000. Ibis is the third
lime the plant has burned.

Cooper Brothers oi Fleming county. Ken
lucky, have sold a very large tract of timber
land to Richardson Brothers of Olympia, Bath
county, who have erected sawmills thereon.
They will saw 1 he limber into switch ties and
lumber.

At Shelby, Ky., on March 20, an explosion
occurred at the plant of Crescent Lumber Com-
pany in which Edward Thacker received in-
tones which will probably prove fatal. Two
other employes were painfully injured. The
cause of the explosion is unknown, lint it is
believed that the water in the boiler was allowed
10 get too low. The loss will reach $1,500.

Jacob l.eiciii, head of the Leieht Lumber
company, has returned from a visit of several
days to Louisville.

The offices of the w. II. Dawkius Lumber
Company have been handsomely papered and
are now second to none in point of beauty.

A man claiming to he Chas. W. Watkins "t
Memphis, Tenn., perpetrated a clever forgerj
upon the W. II. Hawkins Lumber Company, (in
the morning of March 13 he called at the office
of tlie company and asked for work, either as
inspector or on the rolls, claiming to lie a first
class lumberman. He was told to call again
in the afternoon for an answer, and did so, mil)
to be told there was no place for him. On the
morning of the 15th a check for $L'5 turned
up at the Citizens Lank .v Trust Company made
payable to Chas. W. Watkins and signed with
the stamp of the Hawkins Company, per "A. D.
B." (their bookkeeper's initials being "E. n.
B."). It was found to be a forgery and had
been presented at the bank by a prominent
merchant who claimed be had cashed the cheek
on the evening of the 14th for a man who
claimed to be a traveling salesman for the
Hawkins Company. The check was marked "for
expenses" and for additional proof the man pro

duced a letter supposed to have been written to

him by the company, signed also with the rubber
stamp. The whole story was so cleverly gotten
up that the check was cashed unhesitatingly.
'Jin: man made good bis escape, and is supposed
to have gone up the Norfolk & Western railroad.
He is described as about 30 or 35 years of age.
5 le.i s inches tall, dark curly hair and smooth
face. Mr Hawkins has no idea as to bow or

when be obtained possession of the company's
stamp, as it had apparently not been removed
from its case.

HardWood Market.

(By HAEDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Reporters.)

Chicago.

The local demand for all kinds ami grades of
hardwoods is eery active. Deliveries still eon
linne slow owing to the car shortage. By reason
of very strenuous effort the larger porti

1 1 go jobber .hi'. led in I eeplng stocks

in very good shape, but with the increased de-
mand it goes without saying that they will be
badly broken Inside of the next thirty days.
Oak ami poplar a in 1 pecially strong request,

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HARDWOOD RECORD

anil northern woods, notably birch and basswood,
are in better demand than ever in the past.

Boston.

There is no abatement in the strength of the
hardwood market. All dealers report a fair
inquiry and firm prices. Stocks in the hands of
retailers are not large. Consuming manufac-
turers have been buying in a fair way. although
many have very good sized stocks on hand or
bought "to arrive. Furniture manufacturers an'
busy. Considerable inconvenience is still caused
by the unsatisfactory way railroads are handling
freight. While the demand for hardwoods is
better in this market than it was a few weeks
ago. by far the bulk of the demand is coming
from points in New York and Pennsylvania.

A good demand for oak is found here and high
prices are obtainable. Plain oak, one inch, is
quoted at $55 to sf.'iT, with sales reported on this
basis. Thick stock is also wanted and is com-
manding correspondingly high prices. Stocks of
oak at mill points are said to be small. Besides
a good home demand there is quite a little
inquiry for oak for export. There is also a
demand for quartered oak for foreign markets.
and the home demand for it is of fair propor-
tions. A decided scarcity of ash is found.
Desirable offerings And a ready market at full
asking prices.

Birch is in very good request and the small
offerings of native chestnut find a satisfactory
market. Maple is firm and in demand. Cypress
at present is moving slowly here, but prices are
firmly maintained. Consumers have been satis-
fied to buy in lots large enough to supply imme-
diate wants, but few have anticipated then-
wants to any extent. Whitewood is very firm
under a good demand and small offerings of
dry stock.

New York.

Advancing prices and a firm demand for the
better grades of hardwoods continue to be the
salient features of the local market. The hard-
wood trade of the Metropolitan district is active
in all branches and prices are bullish all along
the line. The demand is increasing as spring
approaches and while buying has been active for
the past sixty days, there is a large volume of
wants still unsatisfied, which is keeping tho
wholesale and manufacturing trade guessing as
to how to supply the full wants of the spring
trade. The demand for plain oak, ash, birch,
beeeh, chestnut, poplar and maple is. free, par-
ticularly in the better grades. While there is a
greater supply of low grade hardwood, even that
is holding firm in price and in some items
advances are noted. The car shortage and gen-
erally unsatisfactory shipping conditions are
holding up deliveries to quite an extent, which,
together with the general shortage in dry lumber
of the better grades, is handicapping the normal
expression of the real volume of business which
is offering, hence it simply resolves itself into
to the ability tojDuy and the ability to ship as
against the question of price.

Philadelphia,

There is no material change in the condition
of the hardwood market at this time, and though
the severe weather during the fortnight has
affected somewhat the volume of business the
spring-like days ensuing have again started up
active buying. Opinions on the status of the
railroad service at the mill districts vary accord-
ing to .location,. and while some of optimistic
turn believe they can see a slight improvement,
others claim that not only has there been no
betterment noticeable but a considerable aggra-
vation, owing to the recent floods in some sec-
tions. It is true, in the Pennsylvania mill
centers, that a few more cars have been re-
ceived, but in the small logging territories goods
have been lying for months waiting for cars.
The eastern Pennsylvania furniture factories

keep among the busy concerns and are buying
freely. For the first time in years the mills
have continued active throughout the winter,
and at the present time they have orders on
hand to keep them going for months to come.
It is apprehended that a continuation of the
present favorable weather w-ill cause a rush for
material far above immediate supply.

All values have held firm, while the leading
woods, on account of the great scarcity, have
commanded exorbitant figures. Ash, basswood,
poplar and chestnut are hardest to obtain. Oak
of all kinds has been more plentiful, with fixed
prices, but the knowing ones predict a rise dur-
ing the next thirty to sixty days on account of
the great demand for this wood here and abroad.
Cherry, birch and maple drag a little, but maple

11 ing is in good call, with prices steady.

Gum is in demand with well sustained prices,
ami is regarded a valuable substitute for poplar
and basswood. if properly treated. Veneer and
cigar box lumber keep old standing.

Baltimore.

No changes of importance have taken place
in the lumber trade of this section during the
past two weeks. Stocks are still very much
in demand, while the ability of the mills to fur-
nish supplies is very limited. They have been
hampered more or less in their operations by
the bad weather and the condition of the roads,
while the car shortage would have interfered
with distribution even if no other impediment
had presented itself. As a result of the pre-
vailing state of affairs the lumber supplies in
the hands of producers are very low, while the
requirements of the trade have kept up, the
result being a rise in values. The tendency is
still upward and the range of prices may be
expected to remain stiff unless there should be
exceptionally heavy offerings in the near future,
which is not to be expected. Oak still heads
the list, the demand being urgent and the offer-
ings relatively small. All the indications point
to a continuance of the present advanced values,
the competition at points of production being
very keen.

Ash is almost as active and relatively as high
in price as oak, while all the other hardwoods
are likewise affected by the prevailing situation.
Complaints about the ear shortage continue, aud
protests to railroad companies are of frequent
occurrence. A marked improvement is being re-
ported in the export business. The demand
from foreign points is increasing, and the Euro-
pean buyers have evidently reached the con-
clusion, that the range of values here is based
upon substantial considerations and that no de-
cline is to be looked for in the immediate future.
Stocks on the other side of the Atlantic are
running low and the supplies from sources other
than the- United States are inadequate. This
country continues to be the chief source of
supply, and the consumers abroad have become
decidedly less exacting in their requirements.
They seem quite willing now to accept the
American inspection, and this has caused a
falling off in the number of complaints on the
score of insistence upon vexatious conditions.
Altogether the prospect is very encouraging.

Pittsburg.

Hardwood men are entering upon the spring
trade with smiling faces. Stocks are low and
mills are running day and night. Prices are
very satisfactory. In some lines, notably oak,
sound, wormy chestnut and the better grades
of poplar, the matter of price is at the seller's
option. Buyers must have the lumber to go
into factories or to complete contracts on
which they have posted heavy forfeits, and
it is not for them to say what it shall cost
if it is what they want and can be delivered
promptly. There are many small buyers in
the market who are just now very particular
as to the stock they get for factory use and

they are having their own troubles in getting
dealers who can supply them. Among these
may be mentioned the furniture factories,
many of which are running low on dry stock,
the coffin manufacturers, and the novelty
works. Local dealers report a brisk trade
with all these concerns and say that it is only
a scarcity of dry lumber that keeps them
from doing a much larger business.

In spite of firm conditions in the market
the hardwood list has not changed materially
in the last two weeks in Pittsburg except in
the points named above — namely, that for
certain woods sellers have the upper hand in
naming prices. There is no disposition on
the part of hardwood men to force prices up
to an exorbitant point, for they recognize
that this would be folly such as has often
been exemplified in the lumber business. But
they are contented to take advantage of sup-
ply and demand.

Saginaw Valley.

The local market is firm, with no material
fluctuations in price during the last two weeks.
Stocks in the hands of manufacturers and
dealers are comparatively small and the call
for lumber is fairly good. The difficulty in
obtaining cars has been a serious detriment
to the trade this winter, but general condi-
tions are nluch improved as compared with
last spring. There is an active demand for
ash, oak, and basswood. The low grades of
nearly all hardwood stocks are going into
the box factories. A number of mills, both in
the valley and on the lines of the railroads
north, are in operation, and when the car
famine loosens up there should be a fair
rno\ • ment.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

"Business was never better," is the answer
given by nearly all of the lumbermen to the
request for information as to trade conditions.
The mills are nearly all running and the weather
continues tine. Stock is moving rapidly and the
car supply, while not what it might be, is
fairly satisfactory.

The lumbermen all prophesy that this spring
and summer will see even better business than
1900. The output of lumber from this section
will be materially augmented by many new
mills and new operations. A vast amount of
timber land is changing hands aud this is
taken to foreshadow increased activity in manu-
facturing.

Cincinnati.

Tie- general hardwood situation throughout
this district and vicinity continues to show
strength. Prices are very steady with an up-
ward tendency on the better grades, while the
tower grades are holding their own nicely. Ash,
birch, chestnut aud oak are all selling well, aud
the supplies of well-manufactured stock in the
better grades are by no meaus plentiful. Offer-
ings of the lower grades are larger, but there is
no weakness noted in that line. The general
situation is most satisfactory, considering pre-
vailing conditions. The flood has hampered
business slightly, but this will allow lumbermen
to put some lumber in stock awaiting the rush
of spring which promises to be a record-breaker.
Poplar continues to be the best feature in the
market, with stock low. Prices are expected to
take another rise. A good demand is noted for
mahogany and prices are well sustained.

Chattanooga.

The market in this city is strong and every-
thing in the way of ary stocks of hardwood
finds a ready market. Oak is in active de-
mand with prices firm and chestnut is also in
good call. In fact, all kinds of hardwood in
shipping condition are sought for. Building is

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going 011 .-it a lively pace and the call for build-
in:; woods and interior finish is unprecedented.
Mills are all operating full time turning oul
stock as rapidly as possible to care for the
1 rade

Che car question is about the only difficulty

fronting the lumbermen of ibis section at the

present time. Tiny are not receiving a suffl
cienl supply of cars to ship loss to the mills
here or to convey the finished product to th"
consumer. Some or' the roads have furnished
coal cars with high sides, but the number of
these supplied lias been far from enough.

all indications the northern hardwood output

is going to be light, and prices will be firm all
along the line during the next year.

St. Louis.

The market in St. Louis is active, almost
anything in hardwood selling without the slight-
est effort. Prices are very strong with the
tendency still upward on most .lasses of stock.
Ash is probably the most sought after wood and
prices haye been advancing steadily of late.
Poplar is also in active demand, and dealers
who make something of a specialty of ii have
very light holdings and arc trying to get sup
plies, but are meeting with considerable difficulty
in this direction. Cottonwood and gum are in
good request with prices stroug. Quartered
white oak meets with general favor among buy-
ers and quartered red is in fair and steadily
Increasing demand. Plain oak has displayed
some improvement during the past two weeks
but is still rather quiet.

Louisville.

The hardwood market is in excellent shape.
The demand is urgent all around and with
advancing values manufacturers and dealers
have more business than they can take care of
as promptly as they would like. Country roads
are getting better and it is now possible to move
more stock in the country, but railway trans-
portation continues poor. Anybody can sell
almost anything in the hardwood line. The
t limbic is to deliver it promptly. Not only does
the factory trade continue in good shape but
there is an urgent demand for yard sto.k. espe-
cially poplar siding, which yard men are buying
now and waiting till the mill men can dry it.
Altogether the hardwood operations are now
considerably enlarged over what they were a
nib ago. The weather is pretty good gener-
ally and everybody is hustling, and still they
are behind the call for stock in practically .ill

Minneapolis.

The demand for dry hardwood for immediate
delivery is not strong from the factories, as most
Dl them have provided earlier in the year for
their wants until the new stock is dry for
shipment. There lias becu trouble in gettiug
ears, and in some cases factories have been put
oul li.\ delay in delivery of the slocks they had
purchased, but most of them have bought what
they need and are only picking up an occasional
car. Those that are taken care of are lucky, as
there is very little dry northern hardwood either
111 1 be hands of dealers or mills. Basswood now
seems to be practically cleared out, and birch is
the only article that can be had readily. It is
being picked over pretty well, and is stlffer in
price than it was. Southern hardwood is begin-
ning io come more freely, but consumers are
still behind on receipts of oak and elm from
that direction.

Country yard trade is more active. Wagon
slock is freely called fur, and the best of it is
getting scarce. Flooring is moving more than
usual into the smaller towns, and a good spring

1:1.1. in it seems to be .1. maple being us

usual the leader. Oak planking and timbers are

11 big demand for bridge construction, and there

considerable difficulty in supplying orders and

getting them shipped from the southern mills.

consumers of hardwood are all 1
ning 1.. figure on the nevi cut, and some of them
have contracted for it on a large scale. From

Rhinelander, Wis.
Stocks of dry hardwood are getting pretty*

low .1 1 lie mills, Bassw I. 1 k elm and ash

.lie ompletely oul ■'! Hi.- market; hard maple
1. almost as closely shipped out, ami there is
nothing left to sell bin soft elm and birch.
Soil elm has picked up in price and demand
lately, ami is bringing very fair pri.es now.
Birch is selling in Hie usual way. culls being
in the greatest demand for crating, box rnak
ing and for cheap sheathing, S'^s or dressed
and matched. A great deal of the No. 2 com
mon is also sold in these forms, which is a
good thing for the lumbermen as the furni-
ture factories have not been taking a great
deal of this grade of stock lately. They say
iha' the high price of expert labor makes it
impossible for them to cut up anything under
No. 1 common and handle it ai a profit The
best customers for No. 1 common and bettet
birch are the planing mills and sash and door
manufacturers, who have a steadily increasing
trade for birch for interior finish. It is only
about half the price of oak, and makes a very
good finishing wood, and can be stained to
represent mahogany. The big ear manufactur-
ers work in a good deal of red birch with their
mahogany, and only an expert .111 tell the
difference.

Even the stock of birch now on band is suf-
fering from the steady demand, and will all be
gone before new stock is ready to ship. Most
mills are shipped out even now. but all the
large jobbing firms have more or less of it on
hand. Stock thicker than inch is scarce ; there
seems to be no 1U inch at all. and 1 Vi inch
and 2 inch are pretty nearly out. The jobbers
have been busy during the past three months,
buying up for next season's trade, ami most of
them have all they are going 1,. need. Some
mills are still holding out. waiting to see if
they will not get a little higher price later on.
hut as a rule, the stocks are pretty well under
contract by this time.

All the firms here are enjoying a fair trade.
to the extent of their supply of lumber and
cars.

.Mr. and Mrs. C. 1'. Crosby expect to leave
here next week for a short trip to New 1 Irleans
and Havana, stopping off a day or so at Men
plus. It is purely a pleasure trip.

Liverpool.

We think we have at last arrived at the
boom which we have been talking about here for
the last five or six years. For the tirsl time
since the end of the Boer war we have a fair
rush of orders. We sincerely trust this is going
to last and that our anticipations are going
to be realized. Oak is in great demand and

we heard of one parcel realizing a very s I

price iiid 1. So good, in fact, that we will

not repeat it for fear shippers win be tempted
1.1 -hip all they can lay their hands on in the
in.pe that they. too. can gel ibis price. Holders
of ibis stock should obstinately refuse to ship
..11 consignment and wait for an order from

I their clients. Two mahogany .lies will

lake place shortly. Lower prices can

confidently expected. 1 ; 1 adi Ice to buyi

would he to after this sale buy fairly heavily.
Prices cannot so lower and might rise a frac-
tion during May and June. Hickory loss are
siill very slow- ami we cannot understand their
position. The only excuse to be found for I loir

really absurd cheapness at the mom is the

lack, of demand on Hie part ..I' a tew buyers

« in. apparent ly mut 1 com rol 1 1 arket. Ash

log . second grow 1 b, are in 1 :h demand. Ash

planks of good white coloi

and we think have now Been the top. Pop
: are still high in price and may go
higher.

32 HARDWOOD RECORD

AT COST

IS AN UNCOMMON TERM AS APPLIED TO INSURANCE

But this is the actual price of Indemnity against Fire Loss furnished by the

Manufacturing

Lumbermen's

Underwriters

THE STRONGEST INSURANCE ORGANIZATION
TO-DAY IN AMERICA

The saving is not on a _ Only well built plants

small portion of J with adequate protection

your insurance but on the y and at least

entire line. V five years timber

There are other advantages / supply are considered

equally interesting. ^ eligible.

FOR LIST OF MEMBERS AND FURTHER INFORMATION, ADDRESS

HARRY RANKIN 4 CO. Kansas City, Mo.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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No display except the headings can be ad-
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Remittances to accompany the order. No
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EMPLOYES WANTED.

AN EXPERIENCED MAN
Wanted to manage hemlock and hardwood
plant in Wisconsin which cuts twelve to fifteen
million annually. Must be capable of assuming
supervision of product from stump to the pile.
State age, experience, where employed for the
pasi three years, whether married or single,
salai'3 expected and references. Address

"II 7."i." rate HABDWOOD RECOBD.

WANTED.

Thoroughly competent hardwood inspector.
Must be familial' with hickory lumber.

Ml .NCI E WHEEL & JOBBING CO.,

Muneie, Ind.

RELIABLE MAN WANTED

Who is fully capable to take position of
Superintendent of Handle Factory making D
Shovel Handles and Hickory Axe Handles, Pick
Handles, etc. Must be sober, honest and reli-
able, and must have necessary executive ability.
Address "K. O. 52," care Hardwood Record.

WANTED.

Ambitious young men to act as agents for
our fine line of calipers, etc. For particulars
address E. G. SMITH CO., Columbia, Pa.

MANAGER WANTED

For plant 8,000,000 feet per annum Cypress
in ' South Carolina ; must be competent and
worthy as treasurer, office manager and handle
sales. Address

"D 39," care Hardwood Record.

LUMBER WANTED

YELLOW PINE CAR MATERIAL.

Long Leaf Car Sills, Switch Timbers and
Decking wanted, rough or dressed. Also Long
or Short Leaf Car Siding. 1x4 6"-9 or 18', also
16' kiln dried and worked to pattern. Quote
cash price f. o. b. mill.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., rittsburg, Pa.

WANTED.
1" dry log run Black Walnut ; 2", 2M", 2%"
and :;" green White and Red Oak; 1^x2-26"
. [ear i >ak or Hickory and 1 '■■" to i" White Ash.
McCLTJRE LUMBER CO., Detroit, Mich.

WANTED— DRY CYPRESS.

2x5" and wider, 8 or 10', lsts and L'nds,
selects or sound common.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

BASSWOOD WANTED.

A few carloads 4/4 and 8/4 Northern White
Basswood dressed two sides. Quote price de-
livered on New York rate of freight.
H. ,T. ROSEVELT,
66 Broad St., New York, N. Y.

YELLOW PINE POLE STOCK

Wanted — From reliable mills who under-
stand how to manufacture No. 1 Pole stock,
clear and straight grain quality, free from all
defects excepting sap.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

DRY SOFT YELLOW POPLAR.

All grades and thicknesses, rough or dressed,
wanted. Prompt cash. Willing to contract.
AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

WANTED— HARDWOOD LOGS.

200,000 ft. 28" and up White Oak logs.
200,000 ft. 12" and up Walnut logs.
50,000 ft. 12" and up Cherry logs.
C. L. WILLEY, 1235 S. Robey St., Chicago.

HICKORY AXLES WANTED.

100,000 ft. 4x5x6 No. 1 Hickory Axles. Can
be shipped green.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

ASH DIMENSION STOCK.

One inch stock wanted, In carloads, from
2% to 10" In width and from 10 to 48" In
length. Can use large quantities if properly
gotten out. Stock must be clear and free from
defects. Write us for list.

BELDING-HALL MFG. CO., Beldlng, Mich.

OAK.

We are In the market for plain sawed oak,
all grades and thicknesses.
P. G. DODGE & CO., 2116 Lumber St., Chicago.

OAK WANTED.

3 and 4 inch White Oak ; also Mixed Oak ;
also 12x12 Timbers and Piling of all kinds.
CONTINENTAL LUMBER CO.,
1213 Monadnock Bldg., Chicago. III.

TIMBER LANDS FOR SALE

MISSISSIPPI HARDWOOD TIMBER.

5,212 acres finest hardwood timber lands in
Mississippi. Will cu1 2,500' Oak and 1.500'
Ash. Hickory, Elm and Gum per acre. Soil al-
luvial, fine cotton land. Immediately on It. R.,
and within quarter of a mile of river. Write
fur full particulars. Price $18.50 per acre.
.1 R. Illl.l.ri:. r.s Randolph Hide.,

Memphis, Tenn.

CHOICE ARKANSAS PROPERTY.

Well equipped sawmill with plenty yard
room : ten houses for employees ; 44 town lots
and 5,000 acres, all under three miles of the
town of Success. Tram road to timber. Out-
put consists of small squares, all kinds wTagon
stock, hickory rims and car material ; long
timbers, bridge plank. It. R. ties, hickory axles.
JOE McCRAKEN, Success, Ark.

MACHINERY WANTED

AT ONCE.

If you are in need of machinery — new or
second hand — a few lines in this column will
place your wants before those who have such
goods for sale. For particulars address

Hardwood Record, Chicago, III.

LUMBER FOR SALE.

SOFT CORK WHITE PINE.

High grade Michigan stock for sale, all
thicknesses up to 4", bone dry, suitable for
making patterns and fine cabinet work.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

WALNUT AND CHERRY FOR SALE.

Walnut 5/4-16/4 common and lsts and 2nds ;
4/4 10" and up lsts and 2nds : 4/4 one Clear
Black Face. Cherry 4/4 all grades.

C. J. FRANK, Logansport, Ind.

MACHINERY FOR SALE

UP TO-DATE CIRCULAR SAWMILL,

Good tts new. for sale. Will exchange for
[umber, stumpage or land. For full deserip-
tion write

AMERICAN HARDWOOD LBR. CO.,
St. Louis, Mo., or New Orleans, La.

FOR SALE.

Second-hand circular saws, all sizes, 10" to
68" diameter, rip and cut off saws. Repaired
in first class condition. Cheap prices. How
manv and what sizes do you need?

BARC1 S saw WORKS, Muskegon, Mich.

SAW MILL AND STAVE MILL.

Machinery cheap. Write for list and prices.
E. E. HEMINGWAY, Mattoon, Wis.

WOODWORKING MACHINES.

2 Berlin "Invincible" No. 88 hardwood floor-
ing machines, practically new.

2 s. A. Woods No. 55. <; roll double planers,
27"xl0" and 30"xl0", 7,500 lb. power hoist

1 Buss single planer, 26"x8", about .".UOO lb.

1 Berlin 27"xG" double cabinet planer.
CHIC. WOODWORKING MACHINERY CO.,
40-42 W. Quincy St., Chicago. 111.

BAND MILL OUTFIT— BARGAIN.

We offer for sale the following machinery,
new and thoroughly rebuilt and refitted, good
as new, ready for immediate use:

1 Prescott S' left hand band mill No. Li, suit-
able for 12" saws.

1 Allis left hand three block carriage, 52"
opening, blocks and knees of oast iron, with
automatic offset. Knight duplex dogs.

1 8y2"x32' shotgun feed with sawyer's lever
center valve and carriage bracket.

1 new Wickes 6' to '■'■'- No. 1 two saw trim
mer.

in 10x24" gear driven live rolls and one
idle roll.

1 new Wickes 8 and 10"xG' steam nigger.

1 Covel automatic band saw sharpener.

1 Baldwin, Tuthill & Bolton roller or
stretcher.

1 filing clamp, 6 ft.

1 Smith swing cut uff saw (heavy).

1 new Wickes No. 3 single geared log haul
up rig, with foot wheel and two idlers.

300 feet l"x6" chain.

30 log chairs for same.

1 60" Williams & white six-saw double edger
with six inserted tooth saws, to have new-
press roll frame.

1 style B brazing clamp with legs.

1 new Wickes hand feed lap grinder.

1 Buckeye automatic engine 14]/2x24, 10'x
24" hand wheel.

1 Sturtevant upright engine 5x6 for electric
lighting.

1 75-light Westinghouse dynamo with rheo-
stat and base.

2 S5-horsepower Babcock & Wilcox water
tube boilers with stack, grates, etc.

J. A. BROWN & CO., INC.,

North Manchester, Ind.

RAILWAY EQUIPMENT

RAILS AND LOCOMOTIVES.

All inquiries for industrial railway equip-
ment listed before Record readers will find
ready response.

Hardwood Record, Chicago, 111.

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FACTS FROM PRACTICAL MEN.

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ket for articles on any and every feature of
the hardwood industry. It wants practical
statements of fact from practical men who
know how certain things can be done in the
best way. Literary quality not essential. Lib-
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Editor Hardwood Record.

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Advertisers' Directory

NORTHERN HARDWOODS.

Alcock, John L.. & Co 7

American Lumber & Mfg. Company. . 46
Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company..., 4^

Babcock Lumber Company 46

Barnaby, C. H 54

Beyer, Knox & i 'o 55

i: 36 & Van Auken 12

Boyne Cfty Lumber Company

Brownlee-Kelly Company 51

Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company.. 55

Cadillac Handle Company 3

Carter, Frank. Company 49

Cheat River Lumber Compauy 40

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co.... !>

Chicago Car Lumber Company 10

Chivvis, W. K 4-".

Cincinnati Hardwood Lbr. Company.. 53

Cobbs & Mitchell. Ine .'I

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Connor, R., Company 49

i i 'iit Li i ml ".'i- Company 512

Crosby & Beckley Company, The

Crosby, C- P 4S

Cummer, Diggins .^ Co 3

Darling, Cbas., & Co 11

Davis, John K. . Lumber Company.... 4"-

Davis, \Y. A 11

Dells Lumber & Shingle Company ....

Dennis Bros. 51

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company.... 50
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company... 54

Dixon & Dewey

Dublmeier Bros 53

D wight Lumber Company u

Klias, G., & Bio 55

Empire Lumber Company 55

Esta brook -Skeele Lumber Company... 11
Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 50

Fall, E. H

Eorinau Companyj Thomas G

Freiberg Lumber Company, The 53

Fullerton- Powell Hardwood Lumber

Company 5

General Lumber Company, The 35

Gillespie, W. M., Lumber Company. . 7

Goldie, J. S 00

Ilaak Lumber Company 35

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company .... 51
Hay den & Westcott Lumber Company 10

Holloway Lumber Company 7

lloyt, C. I., & Co 54

Indiana Quartered Oak Compauy 7

Ingram Lumber Company 4S

James & Abbot Company 7

Jenks, Robert U., Lumber Company.. 47

i't"'- g. W., Lumber Company 2

Jones Hardwood Company 7

Kumpt, Albert R 2

Kelley Lumber & Shingle Company... 0

Kueeland-Bigelow Company 43

Lesu & Matthews Lumber Company. . 11

Liuehau Lumber < lompany 40

Litchneld, William E 7

Lombard, E. 11 11

.Lung-Knight Lumber Company 54

MacBride, -Tlios., Lumber Company... 51
Maley, Thompson & Moffett Compauy 53

Male; & VVertz 54

Martin-Barrlss < 'ompauy 47

Masou-DoualdsoD Lumber Company. . . 4s

' Maus. 11. II , ȣ CO., tnC 7

McClure Lumber Company 51

Mel 1 vain. J. Gibson, *!t Co u

M i «iiu, Hugh. Liinjtoer Company.... 55

Miller, Anthony 55

Miller Bros 11

.Mitchell Bros. Compauy 3

Mowbray & Robinson 53

Murphy ..V Diggins 3

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company 50

Nicola Lumber Company, The 40

Northern Lumber Company 42

North Shore Lumber Company 5<v

North Vernon Lumber Company 2

V -i 1 h Western Lumber Company .... 49
O'Brien, John, Land & Lumber Co... 10

urn, Norval 35

Ferrine- Armstrong Company 54

Price, E. E 7

idina, L. W.. & Co 53

mono" Park & Co 10

1 ber Company -r. . . . ' 1

Rumba rger 1 .11 tnbei 1 omj any

Ryan & McParland 10

Salling-Hauson Company 7<v

Sawyer-Goodman Compauy 4S

Scatcherd & Son 55

Sehoneld Bros 7

Simmons Lumber Company 51

Skillman Lumber Company 50

Slimmer, F., & Co 10

Soble Bros 7

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 55

Stearns Company, The 52

Stephenson, The I., Company 12

Stewart, I. N-, & Bro ~>~>

Stewart-Roy Lumber Company 52

Stimson, J. V 54

Stone. T. B., Lumber Company 52

Sullivan, T.. & Co 55

Tegge Lumber Company

Turner, A. M., Lumber Company.... 46

Vollmar & Below Company 48

Wagstaff. W. J

Walnut Lumber Company, The. ..... . 6

Wells, It. A., Lumber Compauy 10

White Lumber Companj 1"

White. W. IL, Company "23

Whi tnier. Win., & Suns. I in' 6

Wiborg & Hanna Company 53

Willson Bros. Lumber Company 46

Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company. 51

Wistar, Underhill & Co 7

Wylie, A. W 11

"i eager, < trsoc E ' 00

1'oung, W D., \ Co 12

Young .v Cut singer 04

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS.

Advance Lumber Company 47

Alcoek, John L., & Co 7

American lldwd. Lumber Company... 44

American Lumber & Mfg. Company.. 40

Anderson-Tully Company, 4

Atlautie Lumber Company 1

Beck, E. E., Lumber Company 53

Beyer, Knox & Co 55

Brown. Geo. C, & Co 44

Brown. W. I-., a Smi-, Lumber Co... 2
Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company.. 55

Carrier Lumber & Mfg. Company 12

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co.... 'J

Chicago Car Lumber Company 1<j

Chivvis, W. R " 45

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co 33

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Courtney, D. G n

Crane, C, A Co .",2

Crescent Lumber Company 02

Crosby & Beckley Company, The

Cypress Lumber Company 52

Darling, Cbas., & Co 11

Davidsuu-Beiieitict Company 1

Davis, W. A 11

Dennis ..V- Smith Lumber Company... 50
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company... 54

Irixon & I >e\\ e\

Dublmeier Bros 53

Ellas, 1;,, & Bro •» 05

Empire Lumbei Company, Buffalo.... 55
Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Company. . . 1 1
Evans & Retting Lumber Compauy... 50

Fall, E. II

I aiiin-Koru Lumber Company 53

Freiberg Lumber Company, 'The. . . , 53
Fullertou-Powell Hardwood Lumber

Company 5

Garetson-Greasou Lumber Company . 45

' .;i' 0S0 Lumber Company 4

General Lumber Company, Tin'

Gillespie, W. M., Lumber Company.. 7

Has-., Albert, Lumber Company 7

Hackley-,PneXps-Bonnell Company .... 51

Hafner Manufacturing Company 45

Hay ward, M. A £1

Himmelberger -Harrison Lumber Co. . . 1

Hoyt, C. I.. & Co 54

Indiana Lumber Company 44

Indiana Quartered Oak Company 02

International Felloe Mfg. Company... 44

James & Abbot Compauy 7

Jenks, Robert H., Lumber Companj 17

Joues, G. W., Lumber Company 2

Jones Hard wooi! Company 7

Kampf , Albert R 2

Kentucky Lumber Company 53

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 56

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company.. 11

Linehau Lumber Company 46

Litchfield, William E 7

Lombard. E. B 11

Long-Knight Lumber Company 54

Love, Boyd & Cm 44

Luehrmann, Chas. I".. Hardwood Lum-
ber Company 45

Maley, Thompson & Moffett Company 03

Martin-Barriss Company 47

Massengale Lumber Company I"

Maus, H. H., &. Co.. Inc 7

MeCauley-Saunders Lumber Company. 11

Mi Clure Lumber Company 51

Mcllvain, J. Gibson. & Co '>

Mi Lean-Davis Lumber Company 2

McLean, Hugh. Lumber Company.... 55

Miller, Anthony 55

Miller Bros 11

Mosby, II. W.. .V Co -i

Nicola Lumber Company. The 4ii

O'Brien, John. Land A: Lumber Co, l"

Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company S

Phila. Veneer & Lumber Company . . 6

Plummer Lumber Company 45

Price, E. E 7

Radina, L. W., tv Co ":;

Ransom, J. B., ..V Co 44

Rhubesky, E. W 2

Richmond Park & Co 10

Bitter, w. M.. Lumber Companj 5

Rumbarger Lumber Company

Ryan & McParlaml 1"

Scatcherd & Son 55

Schofield Bros 7

Skillmau Lumber Company 50

Slimmer. 1\. & Co 1"

Smith, R. M., & Co S

Sondheimer, E., Companj . . 4

Southern Lumber Company 2

standard Hardwood Lumber Company 55

Stearns Company. The 52

Steele & Hibbard 45

Stewart. I. N., & Bro 55

Stimson, J. V 54

Stone. T. B., Lumber Company >2

Sullivan, T., & Co 55

Swann-Day Lumber Company 8

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company... 45

Three States Lumber Company 56

Turner, A. M., Lumber Company.. L6

Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Company 44

Walnut Lumber Company, The 6

Wells, r. A., Lumber Company 10

West Florida Hardwood Company.... 7
White Lumber Company 10

Whitmer. Win., & Sons. Inc 6

Wiborg & Hanna Company 53

Willson Bros. Lumber Company 16

Wood, R. E., Lumber Company 13

Wylie. A. W H

Yeager, Orson E »5

Young & Cutsinger 54

POPLAR.

Advance Lumber Compauy 17

Atlantic Lumber Companj 1

Brown, W. P., & Sons, Lumber Co... 2

I In it River Lumber Company 46

Courtney. D. (J 9

Crane. C, & Co 52

Davidson-Benedict Company l

Dawkins. W. n.. Lumber Company 8

Haas. Albert. Lumber Company 7

Hayden & Westcott Lumber Company 1"

Hayward, M. A 3]

Kentucky Lumber Company 53

Keys-Fannin Lumber Company :;i

Massengale Lumber Company 45

McLean-Davis Lumber Compauy... 2

Rhubesky. E. W -

Ritter, W. M., Lumber Company..

Smith. R. M., & Co S

Southern Lumber Company 2

Stewart-Roy Lumber Company 52

Swann-Day Lumber Company S

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company . . 45

Vansant. Kitchen & Co 56

Wood, R. E., Lumber Company 43

Yellow Poplar Lumber Company... 56

COTTONWOOD AND GUM.

Anderson-Tully Company 4

Farrin-Korn Lumber Company 53

Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co. . . 1

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 50

Luehrmann, C. F., Hardwood Lumber

Company 45

Mosby. H. W., & Co 4

Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company 8

Sondheimer, E., Company 4

Three States Lumber Company 5(3

CYPRESS.

Cypress Lumber Company. . .. 52

Hafner Manufacturing Company 15

Lothman Cypress Company 45

MeCanley-Sauuders Lumber Compauy. 11
Plummer Lumber Company 45

VENEERS.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works 43

Phila. Veneer & Lumber Company.... 6
Wisconsin Veneer Company 4'J

HARDWOOD FLOORING.

Advance Lumber Company 47

Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company. . . 4S

Bliss & Van Auken 12

Buffalo Maple Flooring Company. The 7

Carrier Lumber & Mfg. Company 12

CobbS & Mitchell, Inc 3

Cummer, Diggins A: Co 3

Dwight Lumber Compauy 6

Eastman, S. L., Flooring Company... 50

I'enu Bros. Company 4

Formau, Tbos., Company G

Haak Lumber Company 35

International Hardwood Company. . . . 52

Kerry & Hanson Flooring Company... 51

Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company

Nichols iV Cox Lumber Company 50

Pease Company, The 52

Stephenson, The I., Company 12

Ward Bros 12

Wilce. The T.. Company 11

Wisconsin Land tv- Lumber Company.. 51

Wood Mosaic Flooring Compauy 2

1 oung, W. D., & Co 12

SAW MILL MACHINERY.

Bartlett, A. I\, & Co : 41

Garland, M.. Company

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company. ?>G

Mershon, W. B., & Co 41

Phoenix Manufacturing Company 41)

WOODWORKING MACHINERY.

American Wood Working Machinery

Company 3S

Bartlett, A. F., & Co 11

Berlin Machine Works. The

C'ovel Manufacturing Company

Crown Iron Works

1 letiance Machine Works, The 35

Holmes, E. & B., Machinery Company :;!>

I [urley Machine Company

Matteson Manufacturing Company.... '■'•'■*

Nash, J. M

ober Manufacturing Company. The... 47

Smith. H. B., Machine Company

Woods, S. A., Machine Company 40

LOGGING MACHINERY.

Clyde Iron Works 37

Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company.. 41

Overpack, S. C 50

Russel Wheel & Foundry Company... 00

DRY KILNS AND BLOWERS.

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company. S6

Grand Rapids Veneer Works 4:;

Morton Dry Kiln Company 49

New York Blower Company 35

SAWS, KNIVES AND SUPPLIES.

Atkins. E. C, & Co 37

Champion Saw Company 'M <Sl :'.'*

Cuvel Manufacturing Company

( lown Iron Works

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 36

Hanchett Swage Works ■'■*'■

Hurley Machine Company

Marshall, Francis LI

Matteson Manufacturing Company.. 30

Shimer, S. J., ^ Sous K>

LUMBER INSURANCE.

Adirondack Fire Insurance Company.. 1
Lumber Insurance Company ot New

York 1

Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
pany, Boston ■ 1

Lumber Underwriters 12

Li nusTlvania Lumbermen's Mutual

Fire Insurance Company

Rankin, Harry. & Co 32

Toledo Fire &. Marine Insurance ■ Co. . .

MISCELLANEOUS.

Childs, S. P.. & Co 35

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 36

International Felloe Mfg. Company... 44

1 Lcey, James D., & Co 12

Lumbermen's Credit Association 31

Martin & Co |7

Pease Company, The 52

Pennsylvania Door & Sash Company..

Poole, Clark L., & Co 12

Sanders. Henry. Company 42

S. henck, C. A., & Co 2

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This Truck— The Gillette Truck— with its Roller Bearing Axle —
Unbreakable Malleable Iron Caster-Fork, Improved Stake Pockets
and general Superiority of Construction is the Lasiest Running
Truck made. Strongest where other trucks are weakest. Best
Truck to buy. Cheapest Truck to use. Invest money in these
trucks. Do not waste it on others.

GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING COMPANY

Grand Rapids, Michigan

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co.

GREENVILLE, MICHIGAN

SOLE MAM 1 4.CTURERS OF

THE CELEBRATED GORDON HOLLOW BLAST GRATE

("Arv Enormous Bla.cksmitK's Forge")

A X D

The Famous "Tower" Line of Edgers and Trimmers

THE TOWER 32-inch Edger. New Model, is the most perfect gang
edger made for small mills, rutting not to exceed 211,(11111 f.-.-t 111
ten hours. It is 32 inches wide in the clear between guidt 1
provided with two or three 14-inch saws and weighs 1660 pounds.

The TOWER EXTRA 36 and 42-inch Edgers are adapted for mills
cutting up to 30.000 feet in ten hours. They are respectively 36" and
42" wide in the clear between guides. They are fitted with two, three
or four 16" saws. Shipping weight: 36-inch edger, without front pres-
sure roll, 2,600 lbs.: with front pressure roll. 2,800 lbs.; 42-inch edger
(made only with front pressure roll) 3.200 lbs.

The TOWER EXTRA 48-inch Edger is 48" wide in the clear be-
tween guides, carries three or four 20" saws and weighs 4,600 lbs.

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co.

GR.EETSVILLE. MICHIGAN

The Lar£esl Manulaclurer ol Blast Orates. Edgers and Trimmers in the World.

C.Good saws, that do their
duty, plus.

C Cutting edge that comes
from best material skill=
fully manufactured.

CHAMPION SAW CO.

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

37

cost more than other Saus because tlieyare BETTER.
The First cost of a Saw does not count for much.
What you want is your Money's Worth. Isn't it better
to pay a fair price and get the best rather than a low
price and get poor goods? Try an ATKINS SAW.
They're better.

E. C. ATKINS &, CO., Inc.

The Silver Steel Saw People.
Home Office and Factory, Indianapolis.

Branches: Atlanta,

New York City,

Chicago,

Portland,

Memphis,

San Francisco,

Minneapolis,
Seattle,

New Orleans,
Toronto.

38

HARDWOOD RECORD

COLUMBIA

Three Drum Eight Roll Sander

THE PEER OF THEM ALL

Surpassing all others on account of improvements and conveniences not found on similar
machines. It is built 30 in., 36 in., 42 in., 4S in., 54 in., 60 in., 66 in., 72 in., 78 in. and 84
in. wide. Other sizes built to order. Did you get our Sander Pamphlet ? If not, write for it.

Prices on Application

AMERICAN
Wood Working Machinery Co.

NEW ORLEANS
Hennen Building

SALESROOMS :

CHICAGO

43 South Canal St.

NEW YORK
136 Liberty St.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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Holmes End Matching Machine

For Tongueing and]Grooving
the Ends of Flooring

This machine will work flooring From
I to i\ inches in thickness, from 12 to
1(5 feet in length with the aid of one
operatoi.at the rate of 15,000 fee< and
upwards per day. It is used by the
most successful and expert flooring
manufacturers <>l the country. Let
tis refer you to a list of users and full
description of machine.

E. 4 B. Holmes Machinery Company, Buffalo, N. Y,

Manufacturers of High-class Woodworking, Hame and Cooperage Machinery.

Improved
Automatic
Band Saw
Sharpener

All Machines Fully Guaranteed

c

»inches. Its construction is mechanically correct, simple and durable, and
does not possess any of the intricate complicated parts that confuse the oper-
ator. The head is adjustable so that straight wheels can be used with the same
results as concave.

«L

This represents just one type of machine. We make in addition a com-
plete line of modern tools for the care of saws.

For particulars address

Matteson Mfg. Co.

120-128 S. CLINTON STREET,

CHICAGO, ILLS.

KNIVES

Planer knives, veneer knives or any of the good machine

knives that you use are tempered best by skilled expeiience.

Know the truth and get your best machine knives from

CHAMPION SAW COMPANY,

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

No. 24 C Flooring Machine

EIGHT ROLLS. WORKS 8" OR 15" WIDE BY 6" THICK.

A MACHINE OF IDEAL CONSTRUCTION, PRODUCING POLISHED FLOORING AT UNUSUALLY FAST FEED.
RESULTS: QUANTITY INCREASED, QUALITY IMPROVED. SOME OF ITS FEATURES: WEDGE PLATEN,
VERTICAL ADJUSTMENT OF SIDE SPINDLES, BELT RELEASE, SIDE WING (LAMP BOXES

S. A. Woods Machine Company, Boston

CHICAGO

SPECIALISTS IN
FLOORERS. PLANERS, AND MOULDERS

SEATTLE

The Shinier
Cutter Head

Every Improvement that is worth the

having is found in the makeup of

The Shimer Cutter Heads.

I lie Solid Flange with its fixed circular bit seats in positive alignment insures a permanent make-ready in
maintaining sizes and shapes.

The Contour of the Cutters with the gauge system for filing to sharpen is a feature calculated to maintain
uniform patterns.

The Ready Expansibility of The Shimer Cutter Head, with its automatic stops and figures, by means of
which the tongue and groove thicknesses are kept in perfect register, is a feature vou will appreciate for the ease
by which you can expand or contract the Cutters for variations in thicknesses limited onlv to the capacity of the
Bits — all in plain sight and without guess-work.

The Interchangeable Idea is a factory system introduced by THE SHIMER CUTTER HEAD. Two or
more sets of Heads alike or Heads for various other purposes fitting the same machine interchange without alter-
ing guides or otherwise re-adjusting machine.

These features are exclusively The Shimer Cutter Head Features of the day, studied and applied for the sav-
ing of time — for the quick changing of machines — for their general completeness — and vet, The Shimer Cutter
Heads are the cheapest Cutter Heads in all the world.

SAMUEL J. SHIMER & SONS, Milton, Penn'a.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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Bartlett's No. "O" Hog, used with Hardwood Flooring Scrapers.

HOGS

We Build All Kinds
Tell Us What Kind You Need

A. F. BARTLETT & CO

Manufacturers ol

SAWMILL MACHINERY

960 South Tilden Street
Saginaw, Mich.

LIDGERW00D MACHINES

WILL STOCK YOUR MILL

SKJDDER.S
SNAKERS
YARDERS

LOADERS
PULL BOATS
CABLEWAYS

LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO. ^

96 Liberty St., New York.
NEW ORLEANS ATLANTA SEATTLE

MERSHON

BAND-RESAW SPECIALISTS

25 MODELS

ADAPTED TO

EVERY REQUIREMENT

Wm. B. Mershon & Co., Saginaw, Mich., U.S.A.

A machine hat declares saw mill dividends

^ An inexpensive little deviee

that saves a dollar a day and
k upwards.

<J .Stops one of the biggest
^» profit leaks at the mill. Pays
W for itself several times over

during a year.

<fl Isn't it worth investigating?

AUTOMATIC SWING SAW OAI '■'

FRANCIS MARSHALL, - - Grand Rapids, Mich.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

You can't go astray
when in the market

IF YOU WRITE THE

Northern Lumber
Company

RUSH CULVER, Pres.

BIRCH, MICHIGAN

C. We manufacture from our
own forests, the finest line of
Northern Hardwoods on the
market. C We have the woods,
the machinery, the experience,

•

enabling us to fill your orders
right.

PERFECT
INTERIOR COLUMNS

4P%

KT THEY ^m
CAN NOT !■
COME PB
k APADT AJkTI

Koll's Patent Lock Joint Columns are
best for all interior purposes because -
they are true in classic proportions and
can not open at the joints or come apart.

VENEERED AND SOLID
STAVE

They are made in all hardwoods. ■ We
have superior facilities for veneering.
Science, skill and quality make our ve-
neered columns in every way the best
made. r Our department for manufac-
turing interior column openings is
equipped with every requirement for
. doing high-class work and is in charge
of expert designers. * All our products
represent the highest finality of work-
manship and materials. • All our ship-
ments arc made with unfailing prompt-
ness. ' Write us to-day for complete
illustrated catalogue and prices.

HENRY SANDERS CO.

900 Elstox Ave., Chicago.

ESTABLISHED SINCI

TIMBER

WE OFFER TRACTS OF VIRGIN TIMBER IX LOUISI-
ANA, MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA, ALABAMA AND ALSO OX

PACIFIC COAST

We employ a larger force of expert timber cruisers than any other firm in the world. We have furnished
banks and trust companies with reports on timber tracts upon which millions of dollars of timber certifi-
cates or bonds have been issued. We furnish detailed estimates which enables the buyer to verify our reports
at very little expense and without loss of valuable time. Correspondence with bona fide investors solicited.

JAHES D. LACEY & CO.

\\l I .- I' I \i I \

WOOD BEAL,

VICTOR THRANE.

608 Hennen Bldg., NEW ORLEANS
1200 Old Colony Bldg., CHICAGO

LARGEST TIMBER DEALERS
IN THE WORLD

507 Lumber Exchange, SEATTLE
829 Chamber of Com., PORTLAND

HARDWOOD RECORD

43

The

KNEELAND BIGELOW CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF LUMBER

Annual Output:

20,000,000 ft. Hardwoods.
20,000,000 ft. Hemlock.

4,000,000 pes. Hardwood Lath.

9,000,000 pes. Hemlock Lath.

Mills Run the Year
Arovjr\d.

Bay City, Mich.

W. H. WHITE, Pres.

JAS. A. WHITE, Vice-Pres.

W. L. MARTIN, Secy.

THOS. WHITE, Treas.

W. H. WHITE COMPANY

BOYNE CITY, MICHIGAN

Manufacturers of Hardwood and Hemlock Lumber, Cedar Shingles,

White Rock Maple Flooring.

R. E. Wood Lumber Company

CL We own nearly a thousand million feet of virgin poplar, oak,
chestnut and other hardwood timber, and operate our own band mills
in West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina.
C Let us figure on your hardwood requirements.

GENERAL OFFICES:
CONTINENTAL BUILDING.

Baltimore, Maryland

Hardwoods Dried in a Week !

<flOur method can be attached to your old'Kiln.
<fllf it does not do all we claim after being" installed.
we will take it out without expense to you.

Dept. D.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

I'N^-VK^li V 1 L^ L^ nz,

HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

INDIANA LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers Lumber

DIMENSION STOCK A SPECIALTY.

Office and M£ils : Comer Oldham TVT A CT_TT7TT T *C TT7TVT1VT

Str«et and Cumberland River IN AOtl V ILL t, I E.iN IN .

GEO. C. BROWN & CO.

MAXTFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Tennessee Red Cedar Lumber a Specialty. Nashville, Tennessee

DRY HARDWOODS

150.000 ft. Tennessee Red Cedar Boards

20.000 " S 4 No. 1 Common Hickory
200.000 " 8 4 No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak

44.000 " 10 4 No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak
200.000 •' 4 4 Shipping Cull Quartered White Oak

10,000 " 6 4 Is and 2s Quartered Red Oak

80.000 " 8 4 No. 1 Common Quartered Red Oak
100.000 " 4 4 Is and 2s Plain Red Oak
300.000 "44 Shipping Cull Plai:

LOVE, BOYD & CO.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Bone Dry Stock JolHl B. RaRSOITI & CO. Nashville, Tenn.

QUARTERED

WHITE OAK.

20.000 ft

1 "

l's

and 2's

13,000 "

U"

"

., ..

79,800 "

1*"

"

•' • ••

3,000 "

2i"

"

" ■•

3 "

"

..

3,000

4 "

it ,.

20.000 "

1 "

No

1 common

43,500 "

H"

4.500 '•

U"

"

96.560 "

2 "

"

1 "

6,000 "

21"

0.030 ft
3,840 ■
6.180 "
8.070 "
4,040 "
2,880 "

2i" No. 1 Common

1
if

1 •'
2"''
3 '

PLAIN WHITE OAK.

13.000 ft.
2.000 "

38.875 "
5,780 "
4,800 "
1,250 "

1 '•
11"
11"
1*'

.' "
:: "

l's and 2's

No. 1 common

•■ 1

" 1
" 1

9,300 ft. 1J" No. 2 Common
- 100 " H" " 2
" 2 " "2

- : N"UT.

69.725 ft. 1 " l's and 2's

13.075 " 1J"

25,400 " U"

2 "

1 " No. 1 common

13,000 "

135.000 " .

24,1100 " 11

16.000 " 1*

14.500 " 2"

245.960 " 1

1
1
1
2 com. i -

QUARTERED RED OAK.

55.000 ft. 1 " l's and 2 s

26 400 " H"

2.000 " 2i"

129,900 " 1 "No. 1 common
21,960 " 2 " " 1

PLAIN RED OAK.

S0.0O0 ft. 1 " l's and 2's
40,000 '• 1 " No. 1 common

v 750 " 1}" " 1

4.500 " lj" " 1
" 2 " " 1

Send for our Stock List of POPLAR, ASH, HICKORY, CEDAR, Etc. Your inquiries will be appreciate

Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers
of all kinds of

HARDWOODS

BEVELED SIDING A SPECIALTY.
UNSURPASSED FACILITIES
FOR DELIVERING.

Knoxville
Tennessee

American Hardwood Lumber Co.

14,000,000 ft. Hardwood Lumber

YARDS AT BENTON. ARK . NEW ORLEANS, LA., ST. LOUIS, MO.,
DICKSON. TENN.

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For items of Hardwood Stock or Hardwood
Machinery, you will find it advantageous to
write our advertisers. Get in touch !

3/:0rl^//£-i/g

I NCORPORATED

MANUFACTURERS OF STANDARD SIZE

tinmfa.

WAGON FELLOES AND WAGON STOCK

Send your requirements and receive price.

COLUMBUS, MISS.

HARDWOOD RECORD

45

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•

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LU U lo

LARGEST

ALL HARDWOOD MARKETS

Wanted— Cypress, Ash and Cottonwood

Inspection at Point of Shipment When Quantity Justifies

Hafner Manufacturing Co.

CYPRESS, HARDWOODS

Mail orders receive our immediate
attention.

YARDS: FOOT OF DOCK STREET

LOTHMAN CYPRESS CO.

AIR DRIED

Louisiana Red Cypress

FOOT OF ANGELICA STREET

Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company

2 cars 5 8* 1st & 2d plain red

1 car 5 V common plain red oak

2 cars 1J" 10" and up plain redo; plank
1 car 3" 1st and 2d quartered red oak

1 car 5 8" 1st and 2d quartered red oak
_' < ars 5 8" 1st and .2d ash

2 cars 5 /8" common ash

2 cars lxln to 14** wide l^t and 2d ash

OFFERS FOLLOWING SPECIAL STOCKS:

£ car lJxlO to 14J" wide 1st and 2d ash

J car ljxio to Hi" wide 1st and 2d ash

1 car 1\1S" and up 1st and 2d ,

i car 1 ix 15" and up 1st and 2d ash

1 car |* 1st and I'd plain white oak

1 car y 1st and 2d and com. plain white oak

2 car- .", 8» Is! and 2d plain white oak
1 car 5 S* comn on plain '.vhite oak

Offices and Yards, Hall & Angelrodt Sts., St. Louis, Mo.

1 car 3/4* plain white oak

2 cars 5/8" 1st and 2d quartered white oak
1 car '■', 8* l-t and 2d quartered white oak

11* common quartered white oak
_' cars 1" common quartered white oak strips

3* 1st and 2d poplar
i car HxlS" and up 1st and 2d ash

Mills at Belzoni, Miss.

CHAS. F.

Carry a complete stock of Hardwood and are

constantly in the market to purchase

large blocks of stock for cash. Are

also the largest manufacturers of

the famous St. Francis

Basin Red Gum.

General Offices: 148 Carroll Street

Garetson-Greason Lbr, Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

SOUTHERN
HARDWOODS

Ash, Oak and Gum Lumber

Straight or mixed carload
shipments direct from
our own mills.

12 12- S3- 14 Times Building

ST. LOUIS

STEELE & HIBBARD

North Broadway and Dock Streets
Wholesale Manufacturers, Dealers and Shippers

ASH. CYPRESS. MAHOGANY. OAK. POPLAR. &c

Mills: Yazoo City. Miss.; McGregor, Ark.; England. Axk.;
Dermott Ark. O'Hara, La.; Dexter, Mo.

MASSENGALE LUMBER CO., ST. LOUIS

Manufacturers and dealers in

HARDWOODS

In the market to buy and sell OAK. POPLAR. ASH, CYPRESS
Large stock dry lumber alwayson band

Wanted— to Buy or Contract (or future Delivery

500.000 to 1. 000,000 ft. Poplar, all grades
500.000 to 1.000.000 ft. Cypress, all grades
500.000 to 1,000,000 ft. Ash. all grades

£££?££ PLUMMER LUMBER CO. missS

W. R. CHI WIS,

Lesperance Street and Iron
Mountain Railroad.

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

BLACK WALNUT LUMBER MY SPECIALTY. Always in the market to buy
Walnut and Cherry Lumber. Pay spot cash and take up at shipping
point when amounts justify.

46

HARDWOOD RECORD

1~> I HP HP C T~> I T !""> /^l

1— * 1 1 l^LSUKO

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF PENNSYLVANIA

,1

SXOC K LIST

The following list covers the hardwoods we now have on hand. Special
price f. o. b. cars mill for all one grade. We would be pleased to have
you favor us with your inquiries and orders.

4 4 Maple, No. I Common 2 Cars

5 4 r' " " 2 Cars

5'4 " " " and Better 59,000 Feet

6 4 " " " 1 Car

6 4 " Firsts and Seconds 2 Cars

84 " No. 2 Common 2,500 Feet

10/4 " Firsts and Seconds I Car

10 4 " No. 2 Common and Better 71,000 Feet

12 4 " No. 1 " 1, 500 Feet

12 4 " "2 " 1,000 Feet

4/4 Basswood, Log Run m. c. o I car

8/4 " " " " 1 car

DRY STOCK
Favorable Freight Rates to the East.

BABC0CK LUMBER CO., Ashtola, Pa.

The Nicola Lumber
Company

One million feet 4-4 Bay Poplar.
Can be shipped log run, or sold
on grade. Bone dry ; band
sawed. Send your inquiries.

A* M. Turner
Lumber Company

Everything in lumber. We buy hardwoods
as well as sell them. If you have anything
to offer, please submit same to us. : I

Willson Bros. Lumber Co*

MANUFACTURERS

WEST VIRGINIA
HARDWOODS

FARMERS BANK BLDG. :: PITTSBURG, PA.

Linehan Lumber Company

PERFECT

MAPLE FLOORING

SEND US YOUR INQUIRES

Hardwoods a Specialty

FOR SAIE

POPLAR

125,000' 4/4 Is and 2s
40,000" 4/4 No. 1 Com.
325,000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.
228,000' 4/4 No. 3 Com.
150,000' t '4 Mill Cull

CHESTNUT

200,000' 4 4 Sound Wormy
80,000' 5/4 Sound Wormy

100,000' 6 4 Sound Wormy
48,000' 8, 4 Sound Wormy

PLAIN OAK

60,000' 4/4 No. 1 Com.
18,000" 4/4 No. 8. Com.

QUARTERED OAK
2 cars 4/4 No. 1 Com.
1 car 4 4 No. 2 Com.

OAK TIMBERS SAWBD TO ORDER.
WRITE FOR PRICES.

CHEAT RIVER LUMBER COMPANY, Pittsburg, Penna.

DR.Y STOCK FOR
QUICK SHIPMENT

1 50M ft.
lOOMft.
350M ft.
450M ft.

40M ft.

50M ft.
300M ft.
300M ft.

1 x I 3 to 17" 1 si and 2nds Cottonwood.
1x13 to 17" No. 1 common Cottonwood.
1 x6 to 12" 1 si and 2nds Cottonwood.
1 x4 to 12" No. 1 common Cottonwood.
1x18 to 25" I si and 2nds Cottonwood.
4-4 1 si & 2nds plain Red and White Oak.
4-4 No. 1 com. plain Red and White Oak.
4-4 No. 1 com. quartered White Oak.

^« v- v-

American Lumber 4 Mfg. Co.

PITTSBURG. PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD 47

4~* I E^ "\ 7 IZ? ¥ A IV T f-^ 1

LLL. V LL AINU

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF NORTHERN OHIO

The Martin-Barriss Company

Importers a.nd 'Ma.rv\jfacturers

MAHOGANY

&nd Fine Hardwoods

The

Robert H. Jenks Lumber

Company

44 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, O.

OFFER. S:

5 Cars 4/4 1st and 2nd Poplar— 7" to 17"

4 Cars 4/4 1st and 2nd Poplar— IS" to 23"

3 Cars 4/4 Poplar Box Boards— 7" to 12"

10 Cars 4/4 No. 1 Common Poplar (Selects in )

10 Cars 4/4 No. 2 Common Poplar

3 Cars 4/4 No. 3 Common Poplar

2 Cars 5/4 No. 1 Common Poplar (Selects in)

8 Cars 8/4 No. 1 Common Poplar (Selects in)

10 Cars 4/4 1st and 2nd White Oak

15 Cars 4/4 1st and 2nd Red Oak

15 Cars 4/4 No. 1 Common Red Oak

10 Cars 4/4 No. 1 Common White Oak

10 Cars 4/4 No. 2 Common White Oak

20 Cars 4/4 Mill Cull Oak

3 Cars 4/4 Common and Better Chestnut

1 Car 6/4 Common and Better Chestnut

4 Cars 4/4 No. 1 Common Chestnut

5 Cars 5/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut

5 Cars 6/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut

10 Cars 4/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut

10 Cars 8/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut

HARDWOODS

Dry Stock is Scarce

Mill Shipments are Slow in Coming Forward

We therefore call attention to stock of upwards
of SIX MILLION FEET seasoned HARD-
WOODS we offer for quick shipment from
Cleveland. WANT TO CLEAN IT OUT.
Are you interested ?

The Advance Lumber
Company

1 3th Floor, Rockefeller Bldg., CLEVELAND, O.

Manufacturers and Dealers
In White Pine, Yellow Pine, Hemlock and Hardwoods

SYMBOLS FOR GRADE MARKS

Adopted by the Hardwood Manufacturers Association of United States
Q Panel and Wide No. 1

P\ Wide No. 2
p^ Box Boards

ZA Selects
\\^ No. 1 Common
Q2, No. 2 Common
\b No. 3 Common
M- No. 4 Common

jY FAS or Firsts and
^~ Seconds
C Saps

Every Manufacturer should stamp the grade on his Lumber.
Set of 10 Rubber Stamps, lH"xl'/" in size, Pad, Pint of Ink, and
Spreader, packed for shipment $3.50.
MARTIN & CO. LEWIS DOSTER, Sec'y

191 S. Clark St., CHICAGO, or 1535 First Nal. Bank lldg. CHICAGO

This cut shows the 44 inch No. 2

0BER LATHE

for turning Pick, Sledge, Hammer,
Hatchet and Double Bitted Axe
Handles, Whifiletrees, Yokes,
Spokes, Porch Spindles, Stair
Balusters, Table and Chair Legs,
Ball Bats, etc. We also manufac-
ture the No. 2 Lathes in 3 other
sizes, viz.: 3G in., 33 in., 22 in.

Simple, Strong,
Durable, Economical

.We also manufacture other
Lathes for making S|>nki-;,
Handles and Variety Work.
Sanders, Shapers, Boring and
Chucking Machines, etc., etc
Complete catalogue and price
list free.

THE 0BER MFG. CO., 28 Bell St., CHAGRIN FALLS, 0., U. S. A.

48

HARDWOOD RECORD

WISCONSIN

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

We are prepared to furnish mixed carloads

And solicit your inquiries and orders. At present we are
offering Red Birch in thicknesses, I" to 2t" common
and better, also Maple, Birch and one quarter sawed

RED OAK FLOORING

Basswood Ceiling and Siding and Finish, also Molding

Our hardwood flooring "A. H. L." Brand, is the
highest grade as to workmanship and quality.

ARPIN HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN

Saw Mill, Planing Mill and Yard at Atlanta, near Bruce, Wis. on "Soo" Line.

SAWYER GOODMAN CO.

We Manufacture at Marinette, Wisconsin

BASSWOOD, ELM, BIRCH, MA-
PLE and BLACK ASH LUMBER

White Pine Pattern Lumber
and Cedar Boat Lumber

C. P. CROSBY

RHINELANDER t : WISCONSIN

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Hard Maple a Specialty in all thicknesses from ) inch
to 4 inch. Finest Birch in Wisconsin. Soft Elm,
Red Oak, 35,000 leet 3 in. Birch, Red all in.

DIFFICULT AND MIXED ORDERS A SPECIALTY

Vollmar & Below Company

MARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN

Basswood, Birch

and Other Wisconsin Hardwoods

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU ARE IN THE MARKET FOR

Mason -Donaldson Lumber Co.

Rh.inela.nder, Wisconsin

WE HAVE TO OFFER

15 cars 2 in. No. 3 Hemlock Rough. 12 cars 1

5 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common & Better Hard Maple. 6 cars 1

3 cars H in. No. 1 Common & Better Hard Maple. 2 cars 1\
18 cars l" in. No. 2 Common & Better Soft Elm. 2 cars 1$

4 cars 1* in. No. 1 Common & Better Soft Elm. 3 cars 2

in. No. 1 Common Plain Birch,
in. Xo. 1 Common & Better Red Birch,
in. No. 1 Common & Better Red Birch,
in. No. 1 Common & Better Red Birch,
in. No. 1 Common & Better Red Birch.

John R. Davis Lumber Company

PHILLIPS, WISCONSIN
The Leading Manufacturers

Wisconsin Hardwoods

"SH AKELESS" HEMLOCK and WHITE CEDAR PRODUCTS

WE HAVE THE FINEST BLOCK OF

4-4 UNSELECTED BIRCH

ON THE MARKET

Write for our Price Lists
and Stock Sheets

Mixed Cars, Even Grades
Prompt Shipments

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We have
to offer
the

following
stock in
pile at
Ingram,
Wis.

WAUSAV, WIS.

400,000 ft, 1 In. No. 1 Com. & Better PI. Birch.
12.000 ft. 1% In. First & Second Plain Birch.
20,000 ft, 2 In. No. 2 Common Plain Birch.
24,000 ft. 1 in. First & Second Red Birch.
15,000 ft. 1 In. No. 1 Common Red Birch.

2,500 ft. 1% In. First & Second Red Birch.
11,460 ft. 1% In. First & Second Red Birch.

4,700 ft. 2 In. First & Second Red Birch.

2,144 ft. 1 In. Cnrlj Birch.

2.350 ft. 1>4, 1% and 2 In. Corly Birch.
22,000 ft. 1 In. End Dried White Birch.
42,000 ft. 1 in. No. 1 Com. & Better Soft Elm.
44,000 ft. 1 In. Select Pine.
67,000 ft. 1% In. No. 3 Shop & Better Pine.
19.000 ft. 1% In. Select Pine.
26,000 ft. \% in. No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 Shop
Pine.

Your

orders

and

inquiries

solicited

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WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

R. CONNOR CO.

WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS

Wisconsin
Hardwood

PINE AND HEM-
LOCK LUMBER

Mills at ...........

Au!mm<1ale,\Vis.,..n W . i I 1 Mar«hlU' I WIC

Stratford. Wis., onC.&N.W.R.R. I'lOl JIIIIHU| ITIS.

Frank Carter Co.

MANUFACTURER

Wisconsin Hardwood

SPECIALTY-HARD MAPLE

Mills: DURAND

SPRING VALLEY
GLEN FLORA
ELMWOOD
HILLSDALE

I General Offices :

MENOMONIE, WIS.

North Western Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OF BAND-SAWED

Wisconsin Hardwoods

CAREFUL GRADINGS — PROMPT SHIPMENTS

General Offices, EAU CLAIRE, WIS. Mills at STANLEY, WIS.

Wisconsin Veneer Co,

RHINELANDER, WIS.

Largest and best equipped Veneer
cutting plant in the country. High-
grade product from Birch, Maple,
Elm, Basswood, Ash and other na-
tive woods.

Veneers for Door Work a Specialty.

FRAMES

FOR HARDWOOD RECORD
SUPPLEMENTS

Complete with backing, but without the glass, made
from Flemish Oak, are to be had delivered by ex-
press, charges prepaid to any point east of the
Missouri river, at 50 cents each ; or at the Hard-
wood Record office, at 30 cents each. Prepay orders
with two-cent stamps or postal notes, addressed

Hardwood Record, 355 Dearborn Street, Chicago

you want a
foot band mill?

This is a first-class
machine and will
give the best of re-
sults. It is strong,
well made, and as
good as it looks.
Write us and we will
give you full particu-
lars.

Phoenix Mfg. Co.

Eau Claire, Wis.

The Morton Dry Kiln

MOIST AIR SYSTEM

Recording
Ther-
mometers.
Transfer
Cars.

Trucks.

Canvas

Doors.

HOW TO DRY LUMBER

As exemplified j^i our Catalog D. Free on application.

MORTON DRY KILN CO., Chicago, Ills.

5°

HARDWOOD

RECORD

M

I

IS

C H I

FOR HARD HAPL

Q A IN

FAMOl

E AND GREY ELM

SALLING, HANSON CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Michigan Hardwoods

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

J. S. GOLDIE.

Cadillac, :: Michigan.

SPECIAL PRICES on 500M pieces
li" to 3 ' Maple Squares 16" to 27" long
250M feet Maple cull
INQUIRIES SOLICITED FOR MICHIGAN LUMBER.

Evans & Retting Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

Hardwood
Lumber

RAILROAD TIMBERS, TIES AND SWITCH TIES
Michigan Trust Building Grand Rapids, Midi.

The North Shore Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS

Hardwood and Hemlock Lumber

Rail and water shipments

THOMPSON

MICHIGAN

S. L EASTMAN FLOORING CO.

SAGINAW BRAND

MAPLE FLOORING

SAGINAW, MICH.

BOYNE CITY LUMBER COMPANY

BOYNE CITY

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE and other HARDWOODS

LARGE CAPACITY PROMPT SHIPMENTS RAIL OR CARGO

WE ARE IN THE MARKET FOR No. 2 and No. 3 COMMON

GUM, COTTONWOOD and POPLAR

WRITE US WHAT YOU HAVE

Skillman Lumber Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Michigan Logging Wheels

nave made them & Tears, and know C C fiWBP ACK MANISTEE
how. Easy and cheap way of logging. O. V. U» LlkrAVn MICHIGAN

DENNIS & SMITH LUMBER CO.

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Office and Yards, FOURTH AND HOLDEN AVENUES,
DETROIT, MICH.

MILLS AT: Orndorii. W. Va., Healers W. Va.. and Parkersburg, W. Va.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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JS FOR RED BIRCH

G

AND

A

BASS

IN

FAMOl

WOOD

BIRCH

WE WANT YOUR ORDERS FOR

4-4 and 5-4 No. 1 Common

Birch

A No. 1 STOCK

Simmons Lumber Company

SIMMONS, MICHIGAN

IXL POLISHED

Rock Maple Flooring

Our slow method of air seasoning and kiln drying

IXL Hardwood Flooring has stood

the test for 20 years.

Please write forjprices and booklet

Wisconsin Land £ Lumber Co.

HERMANSV1LLE. MICHIGAN

Same Folks
New Na.me

The Brownlee=Kelly Company

DETROIT. MICH.

MAKERS OF MICHIGAN HARDWOOD LUMBER

Succeeding Brown lot* <£. Company

"Chief Brand"
Maple Flooring

Will commend itself to you and your trade on
its merits alone. 1 Comprises all the features
desirable in good flooring. 1 Made by the latest,
most approved machinery methods and best
skilled labor. ^ We believe we can make it to
your interest to handle our "Chief Brand" and
will appreciate your inquiries.

Kerry 4 Hanson Flooring Co.

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

DENNIS BROS.

GRAND RAPIDS, : : : MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD LUMBER (by water or rail)
"NATIONAL" MAPLE & BIRCH FLOORING

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN THE FOLLOWING:

120M feet 4 4 Log Run Birch
125M feet 6 4 Log Run Birch
2 Cars 8 4 Common and Better Birch

1 Car 1x4 Clear Birch

2 Cars 1x7 and Wider No. 1 Common Birch
140M feet 6 4 Log Run Beech

160M feet 4 4 Log Run Soft Elm

Hard Maple— All grades and thicknesses

Main Office :

205 209 Michigan

Trust

Company

Building

McCLURE LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Hardwoods

Main Offices.
Mills. :

DETROIT. MICH.
EUTAW. ALA.

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 cars I" 1st C 2nds t, Com. Qld. White Oak 10 cars 1" Log Run Brown Ash

2 cars 2' ■ , 3 and 4" While Ash 10 cars I" lo 4" Dry Hard Mapla

2 cars I" While Ash 10 cars l" Log Run Birch

1 car 1/2 and 2" No. I Com. Brown Ash 10 cars 1" Log Run Basswood

2 cars 2" Log Run Soil Elm 5 cars 6 4 and 8 4, Green Log Run Hickory.

4 cars 2, 3 and 4" 1st and 2nds and No. 1 Com. Green While Oak
500M feel 1" lo 2", l's aod 2's. selects and common, Dry Poplar:
2 cars 6 4 and 8 4, Log Run, Second Growth While Ash,

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

Hardwood Lumber

Main Office, Michigan Trust Company Building

GRAND RAPIDS : MICHIGAN

Thos. MacBride Lumber Company

HEADQUARTERS FOR

HARDWOODS

IN MICHIGAN

Michigan Trust Building, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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C^IINOirNiNA I 1

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

THE HOUSE OF STONE

The One of Good Grades
Poplar, Oak, Chestnut Cottonwood, Ash, Basswood and Gum

T. B. STOINE LUMBER CO.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

CYPRESS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturer of Hardwoods and Cypress

^lain and Quartered White and Red Oak. Yellow Poplar,
Yellow Pine, Walnut, etc. Mills in Tenn., Ala. and Va.

OFFICE AND YARDS. GEST AND DALTON AVE., CINCINNATI. OHIO.

You read this=

=others

will,

too.

They

would

read

your

ad.

Try it.

FRAMES,
SASH. DOORS,
BLINDS, MOULDINGS.
COLUMNS. OLASS,
STAIRWORK,
INTERIOR TRIM.

PAINTS,
BUILDERS' HARDWARE.
MANTELS. ETC.
LAROE CINCINNATI FAC-
TORIES MAKE PROMPT
SHIPMENTS POSSIBLE.

The Stewart=Roy Lumber Co.

CINCINNATI

Selling Agents

for

Product of

ROY

LUMBER

CO.

Will Buy

oXk, ash,

POPLAR,
CHESTNUT,
BASSWOOD

All Grades and
Thicknesses

The Stearns Company

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

HARDWOODS

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Cincinnati, 0.

C. CRANE & COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS

Poplar, Oak, Ash, Chestnut, Sycamore,
W. Va. Spruce, Pine and Elm

YEA-RLY CAPACITY 100,000,000 FEET

LONG BILL STUFF A SPECIALTY

Mills and Yards: CINCINNATI, OHIO

THE

CRESCENT LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of

Hardwood Lumber

MARIETTA, O.

OAK FLOORING

Thoroughly Kiln Dried.
Perfectly Manufactured.
We are located in the best Oak Timber section in the

United States; have new and modern machinery and

experienced operators.
Why should we not be able to furnish the best Oak

Flooring?
Write us and we will convince you that we can.

The INTERNATIONAL HARDWOOD COMPANY

Calletlsburg, Kentucky

HARDWOOD RECORD

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oirNt^iiNrNA i i

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

THE

MALEY, THOMPSON & MOFFETT CO.

Always in the Market for

BLACK WALNUT LOGS,
SELECTED WHITE OAK LOGS,
LUMBER OF ALL KINDS.

•

CINCINNATI, : : :

OHIO

POPLAR, OAK, ASH, CHESTNUT, BASS=
WOOD, BUCKEYE, CYPRESS, GUM

\\ VNTED B\

Kentucky Lumber Co.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

We will send man to receive slock at shipping point when quan-
tity justifies.
WE PAY CASH. WRITE US.

PLAIN OAK— BASS WOOD

Are what we want. All thicknesses and grades. Spot
cash. Send us list of your offerings with prices.

DUHLMEIER BROS.,

CINCINNATI, 0.

THE FREIBERG LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers ol

Tabasco Mahogany
Walnut, OaK

Poplar, McLean and Findlay Ars.
CINCINNATI. O.

"BUY GUM"

We art- in the market to buy
Dry Gum Lumber in any
quantity, from a single car
load to a million feet. Will
take all grades and thick-
nesses. We receive lumber
at shipping point, pay cash
and are liberal in inspection.

THE FARRIN-KORN

LUMBER COMPANY

General Office, Yards,

Planing Mills, Dry Kilns,

Cincinnati, Ohio
Purchasing Office,

Randolph Building,

Memphis, Tenn.

Cypress Red Gum Oak

Cash buyers for stock in our line.

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co.

GEST AND SUMMER STREETS

Wholesalers Mahogany, Thin Lumber, Veneers

Finely figured quarter sawed oak veneers a specialty.

IN THE MARKET FOR

OAK-ASH-POPLAR

ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

MOWBRAY & ROBINSON

Office!
1219 West Sixth Street

Yards:
Sixth Street, below Harriet

THE E. E. BECK LUMBER COMPANY

Cash Buyers

Poplar, Oak, Chestnut

And Other Southern Hardwoods
ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES. WE BUY MILL CUTS.

L. W. RADINA &, COMPANY

Correspondence Solicited with Buyers and Sellers of All Kinds of

Wanted for cash — desirable blocks of 1 inch to 4 inch Poplar, all grades,
Especially 1^-inch stock, for immediate shipment.

CLARK STREET AND DALTON AVENUE-

THE WIBORG & HANNA COMPANY

CINCINNATI. OHIO

PLAIN
AND

QUARTER
SAWED

White and Red Oak

J CHESTNUT
J POPLAR
J GUM AND
! CYPRESS

Flooring, Siding, Ceiling, Base, Case and Molding. Rough, Dressed and Re-sawed. Mixed Carloads.

54

HARDWOOD RECORD

$ INDIANA $

■WHERE THE BEST HARDWOODS GROW.

THE WOODS FOR
WHICH INDIANA
IS FAMOUS.

Quart Yd White Oak

Plain White Oak

Quartered Red Oak

Plain Red Oak

White Ash

Poplar

Black Walnut

Cherry

Sycamore

Red Gum

Hickory

Beech

Maple

Veneers of

Indiana Hardwoods

C. I. HOYT & CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Quartered and Plain "Oak, Poplar, Ash and Chestnut

Specialty in Difficult Orders in Wagon Stock. PEKIN, IND.

LONG-KNIGHT LUMBER CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS

Quarter Sawed White and Red Oak a Specialty

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

MALEY & WERTZ ~

Manufacturers, Wholesalers and Exporters of Hardwood Lumber

EVANSVILLE, IND.

PERRINE-ARMSTRONG CO.

Long Timber up to 60 feet — Hardwood Specialties

The largest Band Mill in Indiana. FORT WAYNE, IND.

J. V. STIMSON

All Kinds of Hardwood Lumber Manufactured

HUNTINGBURG, IND.

YOUNG & CUTSINGER

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Fine Figured Quartered Oak

. EVANSVILLE, IND.

CHARLES H. BARNABY

Manufacturer of Band Sawed Hardwoods

Quarter Sawed Indiana White Oak a Specialty GREENCASTLE, IND.

D'HEUR & SWAIN LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers

Our Specialty Quartered Oak and Sycamore

SEYMOUR, IND.

HARDWOOD RECORD

55

BUFFALO

THE GREAT WHOLESALE LUMBER CENTER OF THE EAST

Manufacturers and
Dealers in

Ash

White and Brown

Basswood
Birch

Red and White

Butternut

Cherry

Chestnut

Cottonwood

Cypress

Elm

Soft and Rock

Gum

Red and Tupelo

Hickory
Maple

Hard and Soft

Red Oak

Plain and Quartered

White Oak

Plain and Quartered

Black Walnut
White Wood

Poplar

HUGH McLEAN LUMBER COMPANY

Specialty: INDIANA WHITE OAK

940 ELK STREET

ANTHONY MILLER

HARDWOODS OF ALL KINDS

893 EAGLE STREET

SCATCHERD & SON

HARDWOODS ONLY

Yard, 1555 SENECA STREET Office, 886 ELLICOTT SQUARE

STANDARD HARDWOOD LUMBER CO,

OAK, ASH AND CHESTNUT

1075 CLINTON STREET

L N. STEWART & BROTHER

Specialties: CHERRY AND OAK

892 ELK STREET

T. SULLIVAN & COMPANY

Specialties: BROWN ASH, BIRCH, PACIFIC COAST FIR AND SPRUCE

50 ARTHUR STREET

ORSON E. YEAGER

Specialties: OAK, ASH AND POPLAR

932 ELK STREET

BEYER, KNOX & COMPANY

ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

Office and Yards, 69 LEROY AVENUE

BUFFALO HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

We want to buy for cash :

0*k, Ash and other Hardwoods, all grades and thicknesses.
Will receive and inspect stock at shipping point.
H. O. Box 312. MEMPHIS. TENN. 940 SENECA STREET

EMPIRE LUMBER COMPANY

Our specialties are PLAIN »nd QUARTERED OAK and ASH.

1142 SENECA STREET.

G. ELIAS & BROTHER

BUY AND CARRY LARGE QUANTITIES OF ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

955 TO 1015 ELK STREET

W T a MANUFACTURERS OLD-FASHIONED

v&nsaint, soft yellow

5-8 AND 4-4

IN WIDE STOCK.

SPECIALTY

Kitchen &

POPLAR

Ashland, Kentucky

Company

Three States Lumber Co.

OFFERS

300,000 ft. 5=4 Firsts and Seconds Cottonwood

Prompt Shipment Memphis, Tennessee

Lamb -Fish Lumber Co.

SUCCESSORS TO LAMB HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY, BACON-NOLAN-HARDWOOD COMPANY GUIRL-STOVER LUMBER COMPANY

Manufac-
turers

OAK, ASH, COTTONWOOD, GUM
AND CYPRESS

MAIN OFFICE: 720 MEMPHIS TRUST BUILDING. MEMPHIS. TENN.
m, n i If .a. \ Memphis, Tenn. r\ +% • i.i i Well Manufactured Stock

Three Band Mills £rncyMMiss "ur Specialties Good Grade.

( atover, M'ss. * I Prompt Shipments

YELLOW POPLAR

MANUFACTURERS

BAND SAWED
POPLAR
LUMBER

DRY

ALL GRADES

5-8, 4-4, 5-4,6-4, 8 4, 10-4, 12-4,16 4

Bevel Siding, Lath & Squares

SPECIALTY, WIDE STOCK

Coal Grove, Ohio, U. S. A.

COPYRIGHT, A. D. 190T, BY THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

MMwoM RecoM

c

Twelfth Year. I

Semi-monthly. I

CHICAGO, APRIL 10, 1907.

I Subscription $2.

i Single Copies. 10 Cents.

3

2,000,000 Feet

FOR SALE

ROSS LUMBER CO.

JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK

A MONEY MAKER

The Lumberman who Insvires with this Company.

PENNA. LUMBERMEN'S MUTUAL FIRE INS. CO.

943 Drexel Bldg., Philadelphia. Pa.

Rumbarger Lumber Company

Main Office: 808 Harrison Bldg., 15th and Market Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
New York Office: 8018 Metropolitan Bldg., 1 Madison Avenue. " Pittsburg Office: 701 Keystone Building.

40 Oars 4-4 Birch Log Run.
10 Cars 4-4 Quartered Red Oak, No. 1 Common.
10 Cars. 4-4 Chestnut, No. 2 Common.
10 Cars 4-4 Oak, No. 2 Common.
A stock of Southern White Pine, 1", \\", l\" and 2", mostly No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 1 barn.

We are operating a tract of timber land containing considerable Holly and Persimmon. We can ship W. Virginia pruce izea and board . either rough or
die-ssed, via any railroad.

66 TO 88

FROM <3<5 BROADUyAY to 88 U/ILLIAM STREET

Headquarters of Lumber Insurance will move on "May 1st. Growth of busi i nds large] quarters. Entire twelfth floor of the New Royal Insurance

Building will be taken by

LUMBER INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK, ADIRONDACK FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,

LUMBER INSURERS' GENERAL AGENCY, Underwriting Managers, (Present Addreos) 66 Broadway, New York.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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LU U lo V ILLU

MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF KENTUCKY

Dry siock vv. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co.

Louisville, h\ .

PLAIN RED
55,000' 1" 1st &
25,000" iy{~ 1st
49,000' 1%" let
57,000' 2" 1st &
18,000' 2%" let
18,000' 3" 1st &
131,000' 1" No. 1
84,000' 1%" No.
44,000' 1%" No.
47,000' 2" No. 1
8.000' 214" No.
15,000' 3" No. 1

OAK.

2nd.
& 2d.
& 2d.

2d.
& 2d.

2d.
Com.
1 Com.
1 Com.
Codj.
1 Com.
Com.

QUARTERED RED OAR.
19,000' 1" 1st & 2d.

All thicknesses in cull poplar, ash, chestnut.

14.000' 1V4" 1st * 2d.

5,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
15.000' 1" No. 1 Com.

7,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
13,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

PLAIN WHITE OAK.

80,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
28,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
12,000' IV," 1st & 2d.
42,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
23,800' 2Yi" 1st & 2d.
16.000' 3" 1st & 2d.
227,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
60,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
80,000' 1M>" No. 1 Com.

50.000' 2" No. 1 Com.
17,000' 2%~ No. 1 Com.
22,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

QUARTERED WHITE OAK.

50,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
28,000' 114" 1st & 2d.
45,000' ly." 1st & 2d.
49,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
19,000' 2W 1st & 2d.
IS.000' 1" No. 1 Com.
30,000' iyt" No. 1 Com.
40,000' lYa" No. 1 Com.
22,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
10,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

ASH.

9,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
65,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
16.000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
10.000' 2" 1st & 2d.

8,000' 2%" 1st & 2d.
14,000' 3" 1st & 2d.

6,000' 4" 1st & 2d.

4,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
1B.00O' 1V4" No. 1 Com.

8,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

POPLAR.
12.000' 1" 1st & 2d.

12.000'

11,000'

12,000'

10,000'

10,000'

50,000'

28,000'

10,000'

10,000'

15,000'

8.000'

6,000'

4,000'

3.000'

" 1st & 2d.

" 1st & 2d.

1st & 2d.

" 1st & 2d.

1st & 2d.

No. 1 Com.

" No. 1 Com.

* No. 1 Com.

No. 1 Com.

18" & up 1st & 2d.

18" & up 1st & 2d.

24" & up 1st & 2d.

IS" & up 1st & 2d.

24" & up 1st & 2d.

Your inquiries will be appreciated.

Prompt delivery guaranteed

Wood-Mosaic Flooring and Lumber Co.

ALL KINDS OF

Hardwood Lumber
and Sawn Veneers

NEW ALBANY, INDIANA

Ror-hester, N. Y. |
Louisville. Ky. -Factories.
New Albany, Ind. 1

Good Grades
Prompt Shipments
Inquiries Solicited

Albert R. Kampf

Manufacturer

Hardwood Lumber and Timber

Dimension Stock

Board of Trade BIdg., Louisville, Ky.

E. W. Rhubesky

Wholesale

Poplar, Rough and Dressed.

Oak, Chestnut and Other

Hardwoods

North Vernon

Lumber Co.

Band Sawed Plain and Quartered

Oak and Poplar.

North Vernon, lnd.. and

Louisville, Ky.

Southern Lumber Co.

Oak, Poplar and

Chestnut.
Louisville, Ky.

WE OFFER FOR IMMEDIATE
SHIPMENT

COTTONWOOD

15 Cars
1 inch 1st and 2nds

6 Cars
1 inch No. 1 Com.

BAND SAWN — BONE DRY
STRICTLY UP TO GRADE

G. W. JONES LUMBER CO.

APPLETON, WIS.

McLean -Davis Lumber Co.

Successors to

Hugh McLean Lumber Co., Highland Park, Ky.
Edward L. Davis Lumber Co., Louisville, Ky.
Berry - Davis Saw Mill Co., Louisville, Ky.

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Hardwood Lumber

Daily Capacity:
80,000 feet.

Sales Offices:
[Louisville, Ky.

All Lumbermen, Attention!

We do what you can't do.
We measure your stumpage correctly.
We make your maps correctly.
Bank references: Asheville, N. C.

L» A. oCnenCK v£ LO. North Carolina.

HARDWOOD RECORD

C A D I L,

I A i^9

L A w r

CELEBRATED FOR 11 1 0 11 STANDARD OF

QUALITY AND MILL WORK

—■*

t — Mitchell's Make-

CHOICE

WHITE BASSWOOD

ALL CLEAR
ALL WHITE
BONE DRY

End stuck in shed and just
what you want if you use
such stock. It is 1 inch thick
and we have one large car.

PLEASE SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES

Mitchell Brothers Company

CADILLAC, MICH.

The Cadillac Handle Co.

Band Sawn
Michigan Hardwoods

SPECIAL OFFERINGS:

5 Cars 4 4 Hard Maple. 1st and 2nds.
3 Cars 5 4 Hard Maple 1st and 2nds.

6 Cars 5 4 Hard Maple. No. 1 and 2 Common

1 Car 6 4 Hard Maple, 10 in. and wider, No. 1 Common and

Better.

2 Cars 4 4 Birch. No. 2 Common and Bettei .

MURPHY & DIGGINS

Offer all grades of the following special dry stock

MAPLE— 5/4, 6/4, 8/4, 10/4, 12,4, 14, 4, 16, 4
GRAY ELM— 4/4, 12/4
BASSWOOD— 4/4 .
BIRCH-*, 4, 6/4

Our own manufacture. Perfect Mill Work. Uniform Grades.

LET US FIGURE ON YOUR HARDWOOD WANTS.

Cummer, Diggins & Go.

^MANUFACTURERS-

"CUMMER" MAPLE
AND BEECH FLOORING

MICHIGAN HARDWOODS

Good assortment of dry stock on hand ready
for immediate shipment in Hard Maple, Beech,
Birch, Soft Elm and Cherry.

SEND US A LIST OF YOUR REQUIREMENTS.

DRY ST

Northern Michigan

Soft Gray Elm

What our old cork pine was to the regular
white pine — such is our Soft Cray Elm to
ordinary soft elm. Buyers who gladly discrim-
inate in favor of something better than the or-
dinary, will be interested. We have

2 cars 10-4 firsts and seconds.
4 cars 12-4 firsts and seconds.

Wide, choice stock, our own product, seasoned right,
bone dry.

WBITE US ABOUT IT.

COBBS&MITCHELL

(INCORPORATED)

CADILLAC. MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

aiifltf <k)

Cable Address: "Sonderco" Memphis.

Codes Used: Lumberman's Telecode and ABC 5th Edition

MANUFACTURERS

HARDWOOD, GUM, COTTONWOOD AND CYPRESS

Main Office: Tennessee Trust Building, Memphis, Tenn.

( M'f'ers the following specials:

10 Cars 1 1/4 inch Is and 2s Quartered Red Oak.
3 Cars 1 1/2 inch Is and 2s Quartered Red Oak.
10 Cars 114 inch Is and 2s Plain Red Oak.

10 Cars 1 1/4 inch No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak.
10 Cars 1 1 J A inch No. 1 Common Qrtd. White Qak.
16 Cars 1 inch No. 2 Common Qrtd. White and Red
Oak mostly strips.

Plain and Quarter Sawed White and Red Oak, Elm, Cottonwood, Poplar, Gum, White Ash and

Cypress. Direct shipments from our own Mills of Lumber from our own Timber our

Specialty. We manufacture and put in pile 300,000 ft. Hardwood every 24 hours

FENN BROS. COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Oak Flooring

Quartered lA/hite Hollow Backed

Quartered Red End Matched

FMaln \A/hlte Polished

Plain Red Bored

Offices arvd Pla.r\t :

Kansas and Mallory Ave., New South Memphis.

(Take South Memphis car to Mallory Ave.)

Anderson-Tully Company

OFFERS STOCK FOR SALE

Three cars 6/4x8 in. and up 1st & 2nd Cottonwood

One " 7/8x8 "

Two " 5/4x12 "

Two " 4/4 " " Plain Red Oak

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

QUM AIND OTHER HARDWOODS

Large stocks of well seasoned Lumber always carried at our yards and mills.
General Offices: HOW. Chicago Ave., CHICAGO. Mills: Cairo, III., Marked Tree, Ark.,Greenville, Miss., Arkansas City, Ark., Blytheville, Ark.

HARDWOOD RECORD

W.M.Ritter Lumber Co

COLUMBUS. OHIO

Saw and Ship 100,000,000 Feet Yearly

WEST VIRGINIA YELLOW POPLAR
NORTH CAROLINA CORK WHITE PINE

AND HARDWOOD

DRY KILNS AND PLANING MILLS. ALL OUR MILLS RUN THE YEAR ROUND.
SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES AND ORDERS.

FULLERTON-POWELL

Hardwood Lumber Co.

OFFERS THE FOLLOWING STOCK
FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

15 cars 1 in. 1st & 2nds Qtd. White Oak
20 cars 1 in. No. 1 Com. Qtd. White Oak
40 cars 1 in. 1st & 2nds Plain Red Oak
20 cars 1 in. 1st & 2nds Plain White Oak
2 cars 3 in. 1st & 2nds Plain White Oak

BRANCH OFFICES:

CHICAGO, 1104 Chamber of Commerce
MEMPHIS, TENN., 30S Tennessee Trust Bldg.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., 30S Lumber Exchange

10 cars 1 in. 1st & 2nds Red Gum, 10 to 16 ft.

3 cars 1 in. 1st & 2nds Red Gum, 12 ft.
10 cars 2 in. 1st & 2nds Sap Gum
10 cars 2 in. No. 1 Common Sap'Gum

5 cars 2 in. No. 2 Common Sap Gum

MAIN OFFICES

South 'Bend, Ind.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Thomas Forman Company

MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE

Maple and Oak
Flooring

New York Branch:

McGovern 4 Bowen. And Hardwood Lumber

29 Broadway

DETROIT.
MICHIGAN

The Crosby & Beckley Company
HARDWOODS

We are
In the Market for Choice Stock

WRITE US

No. 1 Madison Ave.,
New York, N. Y.

New Haven.
Connecticut.

JOHN T. DIXON

HARRY S. DEWEY

We are not Wizards in making new grades to fit a price.

No tricks in our methods of making shipments. The
straight grades are good enough for us.

If you will give us a trial order for POPLAR., OAK,
ASH, CHESTNUT or OAK, MAPLE and YELLOW
PINE FLOORJNG, we believe we can demonstrate our
ability to please you.

DIXON & DEWEY

716 and 716 A, Flatiron Building,

NEW YORK

WILLIAM WHITMER ®> SONS, Inc.

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET FOR STOCKS OF
WELL MANUFACTURED

HARDWOODS

BRANCHES:

NEW YORK, BOSTON, PITTSBURG

MAIN OFFICES:

GIRARD TRUST BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA

Phila.

Veneer 4 Lum

ber

Co.

817 N
PILED

)RTH FIFTH STREET, PH1LADEU

'MA, PA.

EE YARD

DN OUR KNOXVILLE. TENNESS

20,000 f

. 4 4

Is and 2s Plain White Oak

5,000

' 4 1 Clear Strips

54,000

' 4/4 No. 1 Common Plain White Oak

128,000

' 4 4

" 2

42,000

• s 4

" 9 " " " "

16,000

■ 6 4

" 1 Common and Better

11,000

' r, 4

' 1

20,000

' 8/4

" 1 "

21,000

' 4, 4

" 1 Common Quartered White Oak

67,000

' 4 4

„ 2 '"

5,000

' 6/4

,, 1 " and Better Quartered

While Oal

9,000

1 4/4

,, 1

Red "

Mdlvain's Lumber Notes

Give us an order for Plain or Quartered Red anil White
Oak. and we will show our ability to please you in lumber
quality and prices. We have two and a quarter million
feet in stock — 4/4 to 16 4, all grades. Some good dry
stock in Plain Red and White — 1 and 2. Common and
Cul.. Better investigate this offer.

Almost one million Shingles in Philadelphia yard — Juni-
per and Cypress, hand split, and Redwood, 16 inch,
sawed. Send for samples and prices. A splendid lot —
prices made to move the whole stock quickly

J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co.

56th to 58th Sts. and Woodland Ave.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

HT* I. -I T~T T~2 A Cr T*

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BOSTON NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA

Pennsylvania Door & Sash Co,

HARDWOOD DOORS
AND INTERIOR FINISH

NEW YORK

PITTSBURG

PHILADELPHIA

Wanted-Dimension Oak/lainandQuartered'

White and Red. Send for specifications.

Indiana Quartered Oak Co.

7 East 42nd Street. New York City

James & Abbot Company

Lumber and Timber

No. 165 MILK ST., BOSTON, MASS., and GULFPORT, MISS.

JONES HARDWOOD CO.

INCORPORATED

WANTS: Poplar, Plain Oak,
Quartered Oak and Cypress.

'147 MILK STREET
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Manufacturers please send slock lists and prices.

Holloway Lumber Company

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

In the market for all thicknesses of
OAK, ASH and CHESTNUT.

312 Arcade Building,
PHILADELPHIA, PA.

WM.

E.

LITCHFIELD

MASON BUILDING

BOSTON, MASS.

Specialist in

Hardwoods

Manufacturers are i

equested to

supply lists of stock for sale

SCHOFIELD BROTHERS

WHOLESALE LUMBER

1019-20 Pennsylvania Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa.,

Want to hear from some one interested in the purchase of S. C. Tupelo
Gum. Can be cut to order.

Sales Agents: Long Pole Lumber Co., Case-Fowler Lumber Co.

Mills: CADI V RDATIirDC Specialties:

Honaker, Va. 5UDLL DKUltlLKo Quartered White

Birmington, Ala. ■^^^^^^^^^^^^zz^^^^z Oak, Poplar.

WHOLESALE LUMBER
Land Title Building ■ - Philadelphia, Pa.

Wistar, Underhill & Co.,

===== WHOLESALE —

HARDWOOD LUMBER

816 Real Estate Trust Building, •# PHILADELPHIA.

H. H. MAUS & CO., inc.

MANUFACTURERS

HARDWOOD and YELLOW PINE.

Write us if you wish to buy or sell.
420 Walnut St.. . - PHILADELPHIA. PA.

W. M. GILLESPIE LUMBER

HARDWOODS COMPANY Farmers Bank Bldg.
Oak a Specialty PITTSBURGH, PA.

ALBERT

HAAS LUMBER

CO.

BAND SAWED

OAI

YELLOW POPLAR

ATLANTA

l: ;:

GEORGIA

JOHN L. ALCOCK & CO.

BUYERS OF BLACK WALNUT LOGS
BOARDS AND PLANKS

Inspection at point of
shipment. Spot cash.

Baltimore, Md.

THE BUFFALO MAPLE FLOORING CO.

K ANUFACTURERS OF

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE AND OAK FLOORING

BUFFALO, NEW YORK

The West Florida Hardwood Co.

Ash
Hickory

Mill on Apalachicola River
MARYSVILLE, FLA.

Red and White Oak Red Gum

Yellow Cottonwood Tupelo Gum

LET US HAVE YOUR INQUIRIES =

BALTIMORE f-1 rj" DDT /"* L7 BUYER AN
MARYLAND Ej. 'ill. I i\lv>tl EXPORTER O

Hardwoods, Poplar and Logs

I mh always in the market for nice lots of dry and well manufactured
lumber. I inspect at point of shipment. Correspondence solicited.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Swann-Day Lumber Company

M ANUFACTURBkl OP

POPLAR AND OAK

PLANING MILL STOCK, BOX SHOOKS
AND HARDWOOD DIMENSION

CLAY CITY, KENTUCKY

The Tegge Lumber Co.

MILWAUKEE
WISCONSIN

BUYERS OF
ALL KINDS OF

*

HARI

)WOOD LU]

ViBER

APRIL STOCK LIST

HARD MAPLE
1 in. 1,000,000 ft.
U in. 100,000 ft.
" in. 100,000 ft.

in. 50,000 ft.
50,000 ft.

li in.

3 in.

4 in.

BEECH

1 in. 100,000 ft.

BIRCH

500,000 ft.

100,000 ft.

100,000 ft.

50,000 ft.

1 in.
li in.

2 in.
2i in.

BASSWOOD
1 in. 300,000 ft.

GRAY ELM
1 in. 300,000 ft.
li in. 200,000 ft.
3 in. 260.000 ft.

Kelley Lumber & Shingle Co,

Traverse City, Mich.

Quartered Oak Flooring

|Manufactured for

HIGHEST GLASS of trade only.

Also Plain Oak, Maple and other Hardwood flooring.

The name D WIGHT on flooring is a guarantee of its

excellence.
D WIGHT SPECIAL pattern of thin flooring is the
only suitable thin flooring to lay. Write for Sample.

DWIGHT LUMBER. COMPANY

DETROIT, MICHIGAN

H. W. Mosby & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM

ASH, ELM

Large Stock on Hand

HELENA, ARKANSAS

R. M. SMITH

J H. P. SMITH

R. M. SMITH ®l COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

WEST VIRGINIA HARDWOODS

PARKERSBURG. WEST VIRGINIA

WE CARRY IN STOCK FROM TEN TO FIFTEEN MILLION FEET OF ASH, BEECH, BASSWOOD, CHESTNUT, CHERRY,
MAPLE, PLAIN & QTD. OAK, POPLAR, WALNUT, &C. OUR PLANING
MILL FACILITIES ARE UNSURPASSED.
EASTERN OFFICE: Band Mill: Orndoff, Webster County, W. Va.

1425-6 LAND TITLE BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA Planing Mill; Heaters, W. Va.

HARDWOOD RECORD

BUY

CHERRY RIVER

HARDWOODS

BAND MILLS:

RICHWOOD, WEST VIRGINIA.

CAMDEN-ON-GAULEY, WEST VIRGINIA

HOLCOMB, WEST VIRGINIA.

SPECIALS:

4-4 CHERRY

1 and 2s and No. 1 Common

CHERRY RIVER BOOM & LUMBER CO.

Scranton, Pennsylvania

D. G. COURTNEY

MANUFACTURER OF]

Yellow Poplar
Oak & Chestnut

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA

Our Timber Holdings are located exclusively in the finest sections of West Virginia
growth. Modern mills and perfect manufacture. Standard and uniform grades.

We seek the trade of wood-working factories who - want a dependable lumber supply
and fair treatment.

Just now we want to move 4/4 No. 1, No. 2 and No. -3 Common Oak.

IO

HARDWOOD RECORD

CHICAGO

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

Hayden & Westcott Lumber Co.

IN MARKET FOR

POPLAR

25 M ft. li" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
40 M ft. 2" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
25 M ft. 2i" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.
60 M ft. 3" No. 1 Common, standard widths and lengths.

ROCK ELM
200 M ft. 5 4 No. 1 Common and better
500 M ft. 8 '4 No. 1 Common and better

BLACK ASH
50 M ft. each 4 4. 5 4 and 6 4 No. 1 common and better

OAK AND ASH
100 cars car oak framing
25 cars white ash from 1" to 4" green or dry Is and 2s

511 Railway Exchange, - Chicago

PARK

RICHMOND <$>>

Wholesale

CO.

Hardwood Lumbei

•

410 Monadnock Block

PHONE
HARRISON 516;

Chicago

Ryan & McParland

CHICAGO AND MEMPHIS

In the Market to buy Ash, Hickory, Poplar
and Oak Lumber; also Wagon Stock

In the Market to buy Hardwood Logs for
our Memphis Band Mill

Chicago Car Lumber Co.

504 Pullman Building
CHICAGO

" Buyers of Round Lots

Poplar, Oak, Ash and Car and R. R.
Material

F. Slimmer & Company

Hardwood
Lumber

Office and Yard :

65 W. Twenty-second St.

CHICAGO

I R. A. WELLS LUMBER CO, |

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Fine Quartered Oak a Specialty

234 LA SALLE STREET
Yards at Canal and 2 1st Sts. CHICAGO,

, ILL.

White Lumber Company

Dealers in Hardwood Lumber

ALL KINDS

Cherry Lumber a
Specialty

ALL GRADES

Laflin <& 22d Sts.
Chicago

John O'Brien Land & Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Of All Kinds

OFFICE AND YARDS :

873 to 881 So. Laflin Street

MILL : PHILIPP, MISS.

Chicago

HARDWOOD RECORD

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REATEST HARDWOOD

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MARKET

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IN THE

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WORLD

I ERNEST B. LOMBARD 1

Manvifaciuror and Wholesale

Northern &.n.d Southern,
Hardwoods

Railway Exchange - CHICAGO

CHAS. DARLING & CO.

Southern
Hardwoods

22nd Street and Center Avenue - CHICAGO

A floor to adore

For thirty-three years Wilce's Hardwood Floor-
ing has been among1 the foremost on the market
and because it stands today "unequaled" is the
best evidence that its manufacturer has kept
abreast of modern methods and the advanced de-
mands of the trade. To convince yourself of the
above statements, try our polished surface floor-
ing, tongued and grooved, hollow backed, with
matched ends and holes for blind nailing — you'll
find it reduces the expense of laying and polishing.
I >ur Booklet tells all about Hardwood Flooring and
how to care for it— alio prices.— and is free.

The T. Wilce Company

22nd ar\d Throop Sts. CHICAGO, ILL.

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Co.

1649-50 MARQUETTE BUILDING

Are now offering hone drv HIRCH, ROCK ELM, BLACK ASH, etc Wis-
consin stock. Also PLAIN AND QUARTERED OAK, POPLAR, etc ,
from our Memphis yard. We are constant buyers.

W. A. DAVIS

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

1612 Marquette BMg., CHICAGO
Branch Offices : PADUCAH, KY., and MEMPHIS, TENN.

Estabrook - Skeele

Lumber Company

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Oak, Ash, Gum, Cottonwood, Wagon
Stock and Other Hardwoods

In the market for round lots of Hardwood and
Wagon Stock. Write us before selling.

Fisher Building, CHICAGO

CHAS. MILLER

MILLER BROS.

MILTON MILLEB

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Main Office: 208 WILLOUGHBY BLDG. 6 E. MADISON ST.
'Phone Central 1363 CHICAGO, ILL.

Yards: Loomis St. S.of 22nd St., Chicago, 111., Houston Miss., Macon, Miss

The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Co.

Wholesale and Retail

Telephone
NORTH 223

HARDWOOD LUMBER

47 Dominick St.
CHICAGO

McCauley - Saunders Lumber Co,

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

BAND SAWED
LOUISIANA GULF COAST

RED CYPRESS

Products Exclusively

SJ32T4930 *?03 Fisher Bidg., CHICAGO, ILL.

M. \A/. WYLFE "l01 fisher building

* * * CHICAGO ILLINOIS

OAK

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

GUM CYPRESS

HARDWOOD RECORD

Not only the ONLY HARDWOOD PAPER,
but the BEST LUMBER PAPER published

HARDWOOD RECORD

OAK FLOORING

Kiln Dried

Polished

/. HAPDWOOD LUMBER <s\

& MFC. CO.

SA RDIS
- MISS-

Hollow
Backed

and

Bundled

"Ideal" Rock Maple Flooring

is the flooring that is manufactured expressly to supply
the demand for the best. It is made by modern ma-
chinery from carefully-selected stock and even,' pre-
caution is taken throughout our entire system to
make it fulfill in every particular its name— "IDEAL.**

- — ■ ' Tm — ~*

Rough or Finished Lumber — All Kinds

Send us Your Inquiries

The I. Stephenson Company

WEWS, MICHIGAN

Michigan Maple Flooring

Our model factory is equipped with the highest
class tools and appliances made for Flooring
production.

We produce our lumber from the best rock Ma-
ple area in Michigan and have 20 years' supply.

Our brand "Michigan" is a guaranty of qual-
ity. Perfect mill work and excellent grades
distinguish our Flooring and our prices are
reasonable.

WARD BROS., Big Rapids, Mich.

^The HARDWOOD RECORD publishes a
series of bulletins, showing the annual hardwood re-
quirements of many thousands of wholesale consumers,
by kind, grade and thickness.

•J Indispensable to every lumber sales manager.

1^ Specimen bulletin for the asking.

We have in stock

150,000 ft. 4-4 White Maple Cross piled with 2'A-
inch dry crossers.

125,000 ft. 4-4 Log run Birch red in. No thick
cut out.

Please favor us with your orders.

Bliss & Van Auken

Saginaw, W. S. Mich.

WE ARE OFFERING

TIMBER LAND 6% BONDS

Secured by first mortgage on Southern timber
lands at less than 50 per cent of their present
market value. Issued by large, well established,
responsible lumber companies. Full particu-
lars will be mailed on request.

CL/\RK L. ROOLE & CO.

SUCCESSORS TO

H. C. BARROLL ® CO.. Bankers

First National Bank Building CHICAGO

THE "FINEST" MAPLE FLOORING

W. D. YOUNG & CO.

BAY CITY, MICHIGAN.

Producers from TREE to TRADE of the high-
est type of Michigan Forest Products. Large
stock of Maple Flooring and 15,000,000 feet
of Hardwoods — 1 to 4 inches thick — on hand.

Maple, Birch and Beech Lumber

FIRE INSURANCE

Specialists on Lumber and

Lumber Working

Plants

Lumber Underwriters

HOME OFFICE:

66 Broadway, New York

Cvj

MMwol RocoM

Published In the Interest of Hardwood Lumber, American Hardwood Forests. Wood Veneer Industry, Hardwood Flooring,
Hardwood Interior Finish, Wood Chemicals, Saw Mill and Woodworking Machinery.

Vol. XXIII.

CHICAGO. APRIL 10. 1907.

No. 12.

Published on the 10th and 25th of each month by

THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

Henry H. Gibson. President Frank W. Tuttle. Sec-TYeas.

OFFICES
Sixin Floor Ellsworth Bldg., 355 Dearborn St Chicago, III., U.S.A.

Telephones: Harrison 4960 Automatic 5659

TERMS OF ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION

In the United States, Canada, Philippine Islands and Mexico . . $2.00

In all other countries in Universal Postal Union ..... 3.00
Subscriptions are payable in advance, and in default of written orders to the
contrary are continued at our option.

The entire contents of this publication are covered by the genera! copy-
right, and articles must not be reprinted without special permission.
Entered at Chicago Postoffice as Second Class Matter.

Advertising copy must be received five days in advance of
Publication date. Advertising rates on application.

ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.

Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association.

This association will hold a special meeting at the Hotel
Pantlind, Grand Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday, April 17.

National Hardwood Lumber Association.

The tenth annual convention of this association will be
held on Thursday and Friday, May 23 and 24, 1907, at
Atlantic City, N. J.

National Lumber Manufacturers' Association.

This organization will hold its annual meeting on Tuesday
and Wednesday, May 28 and 29, at the Auditorium on the
Jamestown Exposition grounds, Norfolk, Va.

General Market Conditions.

Reports from nearly every hardwood consuming district of the
I'nited States ate indicative of healthy and active buying. While
oak and poplar remain strong features in the general demand, the
call for southern ash and hickory far exceeds possibilities of supply.
It is noticeable that both white and red quartered oak are in increas-
ing demand. There is a dearth of the better grades of poplar and
Cottonwood, with a tendency to increased values.

Of the northern woods common birch, which has been in ove]
supply for a long time, is showing material strength and nm uses
seem to have been developed for this wood which are taking large
quantities of it. In fact all grades of birch are doing much better
than in the past. There is a marked scarcity of basswood, which
has been bought up to the point of exhausting practically all the
dry stock. An increased inquiry for thick maple is noted, indicative
of a prospective shortage of this class of stock. It will be recalled
that two years ago thick maple was cut in excess of the demand,
but during the past year comparatively little has been sawed, and the
demand has now reached the limit of the thick stock on hand.

The call for mahogany is fully ti|> to production, and no concern
manufacturing this wood is accumulating any stock. Prices are
showing a little added strength, and conditions warrant the assump-
tion that they will be considerably higher in the near future.

All the hardwood flooring plants producing oak. maple and beech
flooring report an active demand, and sales are being readily made
on the recently advanced schedule of values.

The veneer business is good in volume but prices are still ranging
low on account of the numerous advance contracts that have been
made during the past year. Quite a number of plants are still sold
six months in advance, and a number of these institutions could have
obtained considerably more money for their output had they not
loaded down so heavily with orders.

There is an increased call for dimension stock, notably in oak and
hickory, from furniture and minor woodworking factories. The for-
eign demand for dogwood and persimmon billets seems to be increas-
ing and quite an export trade is being developed in these woods.

Weather conditions through the entire range of hardwood produc-
ing sections have been very good for the last fortnight, and the
output is manifestly increasing. At the same time if active manu-
facturing requirements continue at the present stage there is going
to be a good deal of hustling for dry lumber of all varieties before
next fall. It is practically certain that there will be no diminution
in values; on the contrary, quite a number of varieties and grades
of wood will show a considerable accretion in price within a short
time.

Three Matters of Importance.

The three subjects that appeal to the average lumberman as of
paramount importance at the present time are: the development
of the internal system of waterways of the country; the working
out of forestry problems and a practical system of reforestry;
and, of special interest to the hardwood element of the trade, the
unification of hardwood inspection rules and the promulgation of a
system for their practical application.

It has become a well -recognized fact that the commerce of the
I'nited States has outgrown the facilities of the railroads to prop-
erly and promptly transport its natural and manufacture,! products.

Then rtainly can be no immediate relief expected from railroad

sources for this congested condition of freight traffic; but if relief

si Id ever be volunteered from this quarter, it will come last to

what are known as coarse products — lumber, stone, Coal, etc. The
natural distribution of our remarkably fine watercourses is such
that they are admirably adapted for relieving the railroads from
carrying long distances the major portion of tin- coarse products.
provided a moderate appropriation for their improvement and main-
tenance is forthcoming. This movement should have the hearty and
unqualified support of every lumberman, as the project probably means
more to this industry than any other. When the lumber of the
entire lower Mississippi Valley can be delivered by barge or boat
to Chicago and to various ports along (he chain of Great Lakes,
it means more than the mere regulation of mil charges — it means
practical economy in tin; movement of bulk products.

Conservative lumbering in the remainder of the forest area of this
country is another subject that should hold the attention and insure
the cooperation of the hardwood lumber fraternity; and, further, the
rehabilitation of the forests which once protected the sources of our

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streams, notably those which rise in mountain regions, should be
given the earnest and undivided support of not only lumbermen, but
everyone who has the general interests of the country at heart. The
constantly recurring lessons in the floods arising from overflowed
streams, with their incident tremendous damage to life and prop-
erty, should warrant urging upon Congress the establishing of new
forest reserves, especially in the East.

A subject of more than passing interest, especially to the hardwood
industry, is the crying need of a universal base of hardwood inspec-
tion and the working out of a practical plan for its application. The
sentiment in favor of this movement is growing extremely strong
among manufacturers, jobbers and consumers of hardwood lumber.
They all recognize the permanent value of such propaganda and well
know that it would simplify the methods of conducting hardwood
affairs, and at the same time practically put an end to grade jug-
gling and other chicanery which prevails to a marked extent in
many a hardwood transaction. This movement will be certain of
fulfillment if the radicals in various association movements will, for
once, consent to eliminate their selfishness and work for the general
good of the industry. Altogether too much importance has hitherto
been placed on specific grade legislation. Inasmuch as value cannot
be injected into a grade, but price will be determined by the grade,
it is not a serious matter whether grades be "high"' or "low" by
five or ten per cent, as compared with some of the present standards.

There should be no selfishness in this matter on the part of any
manufacturer, jobber or consumer, but anything that approaches a
logical system of universal grading should be adopted as a national
and international standard for hardwood inspection, to be altered
from time to time, as necessity arises. Let all those interested in the
movement give what they must, and take what they can, but "get
together!" ■ •

The Veneer Industry.

In veneer production itself there is nothing new, but in its develop-
ment into an important American industry there are a good many
novel and noteworthy features. The pioneer veneer man, who
selected choice flitches from his finest logs and painstakingly sawed
them into veneers, had a comparatively simple proposition. He
could figure out cost with a good deal of accuracy, and in a moderate
way make some money out of his business.

With the advent of the slicing and rotary-cutting systems of
producing veneers there came not only new problems, but new
systems of estimating cost. One of the most alluring propositions
in the world is to make figures on the vast profits to be attained in
cutting veneers. A frequent but chimerical basis of figuring is that
1,000 feet of logs cut to 1/20 inch will produce 20,000 feet of
product. As a matter of fact, 1,000 feet of selected logs — the best
logs of the best trees in the forest — carefully handled and cut as
■ above noted, will show barely 10,000 feet of resultant product when
all waste is eliminated.

Veneer making in auy form shows waste — waste — waste, through
every process. No log ever makes more or better veneers than is
anticipated. On the contrary, defects show themselves in manufac-
ture that are entirely concealed in the log. Logs for veneer making
have to be very earefully handled, because they damage very easily
on the ends. If the bark is removed the sapwood is apt to be
injured, and if the bark is left on borers are likely to attack it, and
serious damage results. To produce good stock, machines must have
good-sized spindles and chucks, which cause a tremendous percentage
of waste in small logs, as the core is out of all proportion to their
size. Attempts to utilize core waste have not been very profitable
up to this time. Veneers must be handled piece by piece, very

carefully at that, and even then the broken and damaged stock

constitutes a large percentage of the whole.

In short, in veneer making there is loss in the log ; there is loss in

cutting; there is loss in the core; there is loss in the clipping;

there is loss in working to sizes; there is loss in breakage, splits,

etc. ; and there is loss in drying.

Numerous veneer plants have been put in commission in many

parts of the country during the last few years by people who are not

expert in veneer manufacture. They have been erected without
proper knowledge of the cost of veneer production, or of prices at
which it may profitably enter into consumption. While a few veteran
veneer makers, who have gained a knowledge of their business
through long and bitter experience, have succeeded in making a fair
profit, the majority of them, up to this time, are not conducting
remarkably lucrative institutions. This state of affairs is attribu-
table partly to the fact above mentioned — that a good many people
in veneer enterprises do not know how to make veneers — and partly to
the fact that often a faulty method of estimating cost is in force;
also many operators lack the knowledge of marketing their product
to advantage.

It is evident that the veneer business is an industry with a great
future, but before it is put upon a practical, profitable basis, there
must needs be further mutual education among producers. Cost
estimates must be overhauled, and in many instances doubled, before
the veneer maker will be able to start right. The progress along
this line which has already been started and developed by the
National Veneer & Panel Manufacturers' Association is doing a
great deal of good to the few, but until this fraternal education
has become general, and those interested conclude that their only
salvation is the acquisition oi all the knowledge available, just so
long will the general run of veneer plants be making assessments on
their stockholders to keep them running.

Scarcity of Labor.

Complaints still come from every lumber producing section of the
United States over the scarcity of common labor. Increased wages
render the labor supply no more plentiful. There is a dearth of
workmen in woods camps, sawmills and lumber yards. The old
steady-going type of laborer who started in with a concern as a
boy and stayed with it during his lifetime, has practically disap-
peared, and now the general element is made up of itinerants who
have no pride in their work and care little or nothing about hold-
ing down their "jobs." If by their own volition they quit, or are
drummed out of camp, they care not a rap, well knowing that they
can secure employment at the next operation.

This widespread scarcity of labor is true not only in lumber
operations but in nearly every line of industry. Everywhere the call
is in excess of the supply. Notwithstanding the great immigration
of the last few years, there is an insufficiency of unskilled laborers
in the country to meet requirements, and the demand for skilled and
trained workers is not being fully supplied. Without doubt the
farmers will find more difficulty in harvesting their crops during
the present year than for many years past. The railroads are not
now able to secure sufficient workmen for construction and main-
tenance of tracks. Building is being retarded in many cities by
lack of labor supply, and many manufacturing enterprises would
increase their output if they could have a guarantee of all the labor
they would need.

It is noteworthy that this labor scarcity is not confined to the
United States. Some of the European countries are having a like
experience, due mainly, it is thought, to the large immigration from
them for several years past. This is the situation in southern Italy,
from which the most extensive immigration has taken place, and
Spain is also beginning to feel the effect of loss of population upon
her industries. In several other foreign countries the supply of
labor, both skilled and unskilled, is not equal to the demand and
appears to be growing less, so that several of them are already
making plans for checking the outflow of population.

This paucity of labor will undoubtedly continue so long as the
present enormous industrial and commercial activity is maintained.
Say what you please, it is a healthy condition, despite the incon-
venience incidert to it, but without doubt the time will come when
an adjustment of labor supply and demand will be inevitable.

Annual National Association.

Every day shows added interest in the May annual meeting of the
National Hardwood Lumber Association at Atlantic City. It 's going
to be a great success.

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15

Vert, Pertinent and Impertinent.

A Matter of Habit.
An Eskimo sleeps in his bearskin,

In the coldest weather, I'm told ;
If I should sleep in my bare skin,
I'd catch a most terrible cold

Once More.

Lives of great men all remind 11s
That it pays to run a bluff

And, desiring fame to find us,
Advertising is the stuff.

— Kansas City TIMES.

Cough Medicine.
I bad a little husband
I never knew a worse

For better than his wile or lit''

11,' loved his little purse.
I did my best to wheedle him —

He saw my deep Intent,
And though he had a chronic cough

He never coughed a cent.
So I sought a little Lawyer

My husband's own close crony —
A ml divvied with the man of law

My lawful alimony.

— Reginald Weight Kaiiiwian.

His Own Fault.

r • Lazarus was a beggar,

Whom everybody despised

Hut lie might have been the Ki.li .Man,
Had he only advertised.

Striking an Average.
\\ rishes of millionaires and hungry tramps

Would average up ;is pretty nearly right ;
One envies t'other till that splendid food,
While t'other envies one that appetite.

Steickxand W. GlLLILAX.

HIS FORTUNE.

Grade Juggler — You're going to live to a ripe old age (if I have my way).

Right.
Every man has a right to his opinion,
but has he a right to bore everybody else
with it .'

True.
No civilized man ever regrets a pleasure
and no uncivilized man knows what a
pleaure is.

Rare Birds.
Opportunities are rare and those who
know when and how to seize them are still
rarer.

A Fact.
The man who has never been ashamed
of himself has nothing of which he might
be proud.

Compromises. An Old Proverb.

Bewail' of compromises; he who has Neither beg of him who lias been a

most of cunning gets the best of it. beggar nor serve him who has been a

servant.

What's the Use?
We sol, lom repenl of our sins until we
have to.

Good Reason.

The only reason some folks never go
broke is that they haven't enough to go

Deserves Credit.

The rising generation is greatly in- broke on.

debted to the inventor of the alarm clock. Little in Common.

Fishing. About the only connection promise and

Women who lish for compliments find performance can lay claim to is'that they

thorn most frequently in shallow water. both begin witli the same letter.

The Truth. Cleverness.

Trifling troubles talk; or, at griefs are Cleverness is serviceable for everything,

dumb. sufficient for nothing.

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Then and NoW.

THE SOLILOQUY OF /\IN IINDIAINM SAU//V\ILL IWfklS.

BY VAN B. PERRINE.

Out here in Indiana once the poplars grew so large

According to the settlers one would nearly till a barge.

The walnut trees grew big and tall — in tact, they were immense;

The farmers split them into rails to build a common fence,

Because there was no market-place for lumber close at hand,

And all they cared for anyhow, was just to clear the land.

The oaks they grew straight up so high the top you couldn't see,

In fact 'twas hidden in the clouds, so tall was every tree.

But now'days things are different, and every place you go

To buy a bunch of timber — trees — don't — grow — so!

If you believe the old men's yarns about the size of trees

A common basswood in those days would stop a mighty breeze;

And when you mention hickory, which now'days can't be found,

It seems that many years ago they covered all the ground.

Ash trees were large and lofty, reaching nearly out of sight —

At least a settler said they were, in telling me tonight.

The cherries in ye olden time reached such colossal size

They could be seen a mile away by ordinary eyes!

But now'days trees are different, and every place you go

To buy a bunch of timber- — trees— don't — grow — sol

If you believe the settlers' tales'about the sugar maple

Each one woujd give a cask of sap, if tapped in March or April.

The elms grew to a mighty size, their tops a=spreading out,

Which made the buckeyes under them look dwarfed enough, no doubt.

The beeches in those palmy days, though not so large and tall,

Stretched out their branches in a way to make a barn look small.

And when it came to sycamore and cottonwood, their size

Was such that if you looked them o'er, 'twould fairly strain your eyes.

But now'days trees are different, and every place you go

To buy a bunch of timber- -trees — don't — grow — so!

The honey=locust in those days— 'twas thus the settler spoke —

Was not shipped out to masquerade behind the name "red oak";

But now he sees that hackberry, a wood once so despised,

Is made into "ash" lumber and as such is highly prized.

The butternut in those days (tho* they say "white walnut" now)

Did not have worms or knots; but still you often wonder how

Your Uncle Sam could get the notion e'en in wildest dreams —

Of using wood from butternuts to trim his submarines!

Well, now'days all the trees are changed, as we with sorrow know,

And when we buy a bunch of them — they — don't — grow — so ! J j kf^^t .]

If you believe these settlers' tales of many years ago,

Whene'er you hauled your timber then, you had a lot of snow;

And you could tote all winter at a very little cost,

And bank upon the weather, and on old Jack Frost;

So as it didn't cost so much to get the timber in

There was a great big profit, as there really should have been

But now you have a lot of rain, and then a lot of sleet,

And have to figure mighty close to barely make ends meet!

There was some money in the trade those long, long years ago,

But figuring up now'days — it— don't — show — so!

You've heard old timers telling— it is certain that you must —
How in those days you could saw-mill and never fear you'd bust;
You didn't have to figure on your sawdust and your waste.
For everything came right your way soon as your mill was placed.
All that you had to do was just to cut the timber down;
It didn't cost you anything except to clear the ground.
There was a ready market — you could always find a place,
Nor had to pay trade papers great big prices for their "space."
But now'days things are different, as all of you must know,
And milling in the Hoosier state — is— getting — mighty — slow!

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AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

Coffeetree.

Gymnovl-a-iluft dioicus — Koch.

This tree is found in many parts of the
United States and ranges from the shores
of some of the New York lakes through
Pennsylvania, particularly Franklin county ;
through southern Ontario, along the Lake
Erie shore; through southern Michigan, coun-
ties of Clinton and Montcalm; through
Minnesota, eastern Nebraska, east-
ern Kansas, southwestern Arkansas,
the Indian Territory, and south-
ward between the Mississippi and
Allegheny Mountains as far as
southern Tennessee, being most pro-
fuse in the northeastern part and
around Nashville. The tree is
found in other states in limited
numbers, where it has been planted
from seeds and cultivated.

This species is known as coffee-
tree :n Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Virginia, West Virginia, North
Carolina, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Ontario,
Michigan and Iowa. It is called
coffeenut in Kentucky, Missouri,
Illinois, Indiana and Nebraska.
Coffeebean is applied to it in Illi-
nois, Kansas and Nebraska, and
coffeebean tree in Kentucky and
Arkansas. For some strange rea-
son it is occasionally known as
mahogany in New York. In differ-
ent sections of Tennessee it bears
the peculiar denominations virgilia,
nickertree and stumptree.

The genus Gymnocladus has two
species, one of which is native to
China, and the other grows in this
country in the localities above
named. Both of these are of the
Leguminosce family, which boasts
many handsome, graceful trees, but
these are bare-limbed and clumsy
specimens as compared with other
members. The pulp of the large,
heavy pod is utilized in China for
soap, while the pioneers of Ken-
tucky made a beverage from the
seeds which was supposed to re-
semble coffee. It is a matter of
conjecture how they succeeded in
grinding up the solid seeds, and it
is equally impossible to understand
how they could relish so bitter a
drink as the extract must have been.
The bark of this tree is grey, tinged slightly
with red; it is rough and heavy, and sepa-
rates into ridges with persistent scales.

The flowers are inconspicuous; they blos-
som in June, and form in regular, greenish-
white racemes, the staminate ones three to
four inches in length, the pistillate ten to
twelve inches long. They grow on stout
pedicels, the staminate ones being on one

FIFTIETH PAPER

tree and the pistillate on another.

The leaves are twice compound, the leaflets
broad and sharp-pointed; this peculiar double
compound character of the leaves is an ex-
cellent aid to establishing the identity of the
tree. The leaves contain forty to sixty ova]
leaflets and are one to three feet long, and
one to two feet wide; dark green in color
and smooth above, pale yellowish-green ami

TYPICAL COFFEETREE GROWTH, INDIANA,

pubescent below; slightly fringed along the
margins. In autumn they turn a handsome
yellow.

The fruit is a reddish-brown, curved
legume, about two inches wide, and from six
to ten inches long. It contains hard, gray
seeds half an inch in diameter. These pods
ripen in October, and often hang on the
tree all winter. At maturity they become so

heavy as to inflict a painful blow should
they strike a person upon the head in falling.
They are filled with a sweet, sticky pulp,
which is used when fresh and green to distill
a homeopathic remedy.

The wood is very heavy, but not exceed-
ingly hard; it is strong and coarse-grained,
and very durable when in contact with the
soil. In color the heartwood is a rich, light
brown tinged with red; the sap-
wood is considerably lighter, and is
plainly marked by the annual layers.
It is used now and then for cabinet
work, but is most valuable for
fence-posts, rails, etc.

In general appearance the coffee-
tree is narrow and round-topped,
with a tall trunk, and grows from
seventy to over a hundred feet in
height. It is remarkable for its
dead-looking frame, which in spring
remains dry and bare long after
other trees have taken on their
fresh growth of leaves. Often the
trunk is destitute of limbs for a
height of fifty feet or more.

The coffeetree thrives best in the
rich, moist soil of bottom lands. It
is occasionally cultivated for parks
and gardens in the United States,
and for the purpose of giving shade
along avenues in northern and cen-
tral Europe. It is one of the rarest
American forest trees, and although
its range is wide, it is nowhere very
common. In the Boston Public
Garden, not far from the Newberry
street path, is an excellent speci-
men, perfect and well-proportioned,
though only about fifty feet tall.
A famous old "coffeetree" near
Fort Jefferson, O., which was said
to be the largest of its kind in the
United States, was recently blown
down in a storm. Its trunk was
5 feet in diameter. In its maturity
the tree was photographed by rep-
resentatives of the Smithsonian In-
stitution, of Washington, and the
picture now forms an illustration
in one of the volumes published by
that institution. The old tree at-
tracted wide attention among bot-
anists, and many people visited it.
it has been a landmark since the
coming of the white man to that
region, and during the days of
trails through the forests from one
fort to another, had marked a divide in
the path from Greenville to Fort Black, the
present site of New Madison, and the old
Eaton Road.

Lounsberry says: " It is a pleasure to feel
that we know just what to expect from
trees — that they are not with every return
of the season presenting us with new fash-
ions. We may have noticed that the late,

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home at Ohio's capital city, which reflects
their good taste and hospitality. Outside
of this home Mr. Eitter seems to have no
interests save his business affairs.

FOLIAGE AND FRUIT OF THE COFFEETREE.

unfolding leaves of the Kentucky coffeetree
are pink, and that as they become accus-
tomed to the world they turn to a bronze-
green. In the autumn they again change to
bright, clear yellow. Nor is it only in one
particular year that these colors succeed each
other. At whatever time we return to the
tree, no matter how long afterwards, We
shall find it telling the same story. A spray
of its doubly-compound leaves readily adapts

itself to conventional designing. The curved
pods remain unopened on the boughs through-
out the winter, when the tree has a lament-
ably dead and stump-like look. ' '

The handsome photograph from which the
large illustration which accompanies this
article was made was furnished the Hard-
wood Becord by William H. Freeman, of
Indianapolis, secretary of the Indiana State
Board of Forestry.

Record Mail 'Bag.

[In this department it is proposed to reply
to such inquiries as reach this office from the
!3ardwood Record clientage as will be ot enough;
general Interest to warrant publication. Every
patron of the paper >s invited to use this de-
partment to the fullest extent, and an attempt
will be made to answer queries pertaining to all
matters of interest to the hardwood trade, in
a succinct and intelligent manner.l

Wants Alder, Whitewood or Cottonwood
Veneer.

London, Eng., March 13. — Editor Hardwood
Record : I am in need of veneer from alder,
whitewood or cottonwood. one-eighth inch thick.
Can you refer this inquiry to a manufacturer
or send me names and addresses of manufac-
turers? By doing so you will greatly oblige
Yours truly, W. B.

This inquirer has been supplied with the
addresses of a number of manufacturers of
the required items. Anyone wishing his ad-
dress, or able to supply the above, should
write this office. — Editor.

'Builders of Lumber History.

NUMBER XL1I.

William M. Ritter.
(See Portrait Supplement.)
The Hardwood Becord presents to its
readers with this issue a supplement por-
trait of William M. Bitter, of Columbus,
O., president of the W. M. Eitter Lumber
Company, who has made for himself the
foremost place in the hardwood industry of
the United States — a position which has
been attained within a remarkably short
time.

Mr. Bitter was born on a farm near
Hughesville, Pa., in 1864. His business train-
ing was limited until 1891, when 'he took up
on a small scale the manufacture of hardwood
• lumber in West Virginia in the vicinity of
the Pocahontas coal fields, along the line of
the Norfolk & Western railroad, then in
process of construction. Mr. Eitter was
quick to anticipate the opportunities that
lay in the development of timber properties
in" the mountain, districts of that section,
up to that time practically undeveloped.
With remarkable foresight he fully recog-
nized the great transportation facilities
that would be opened up on the completion
of this railroad system reaching the great
consuming regions of the East on the one
hand and the West on the other.

With only a nominal capital, but with
a well-defined and thoroughly-analyzed plan
of action, Mr. " Eitter entered the lum-
ber business near Bluefield, W. Va., as half-
owner of a small tract of poplar and oak
timber and a portable sawmill. The growth
of his business since that time is known
wherever American hardwoods are con-
sumed. While this growth has been phe-

nomenal in the history of lumber affairs,
it has been steady, and today Mr. Eitter is
the president of the largest hardwood manu-
facturing corporation in the country, and is
the owner of at least a dozen lumber manu-
facturing operations with timber holdings
behind them sufficient to keep his plants
running for a quarter of a century. In a
general way the Eitter timber holdings ap-
proximate 2,500,000,000 feet, with an annual
output of well toward 100,000,000 feet. The
operations extend over a considerable por-
tion of the finest hardwood timber areas of
West Virginia, eastern Tennessee and west-
ern North Carolina. The product consists
quite largely of poplar and oak, but inci-
dentally a considerable quantity of chest-'
nut, ash, cherry and minor hardwoods, white
pine, yellow pine, hemlock and cypress are
manufactured.

Primarily Mr. Eitter is a student of lum-
ber affairs and is not only distinguished in
the hardwood industry as an organizer, but
as one who has mastered and developed
every detail of the great business of which
he is the executive, and who understands
and enforces all the niceties of economical
production and scientific salesmanship. He
was one of the original movers in the or-
ganization of the Hardwood Manufacturers'
Association of the United States, and was
its first president. Mr. Eitter is almost as
well known among the lumber fraternity of
Europe as in the United States, and he main-
tains lumber yards in both London and
Liverpool for the distribution of his products
in Great Britain and on the continent.
Mr. Bitter and his wife have a beautiful

Who Wants Ironwood?

Caledonia, N. Y., March 23. — Editor Hard-
wood Record : I have about 200 cords of iron-
wood that has not been cut, running anywhere
from two inches up to ten inches. Can yott
inform me of the whereabouts of a party who-
Is in a position to use this? I can cut it any
lengths desired. Thanking you kindly, E. A. T.

The Hardwood Becord will be glad to sup-
ply above address to anyone in the market
for ironwood. — Editor.

Wants Electric Casings and Cappings.

Cincinnati, O., March 27. — Editor Hardwood-

B a> : We shall appreciate it if you will be

kind enough to send us a list of the names of
probable suppliers of rock elm logs and planks
and maple logs. We should also like to get into
communication with the manufacturers of elec-
tric casings and cappings. Thanking you in,
anticipation. Yours truly, & Co.

We have given the writer a few possible-
sources of supply of elm and maple, and any-
one interested in supplying casings and cap-
pings should address this office. — Editor.

Who Wants Oak Rosettes?

Jackson, Tenn., April 1. — Editor HARDWOOD-
Record. — We would like to get into communica-
tion with furniture manufacturers who use
wooden rosettes made out of oak.

Will furniture manufacturers who are buy-
ers of this class of material kindly send their
addresses to this office that they may be for-
warded to the inquirer? — Editor.

New Hardwood House at Rockford.
The Co-Operative Mill & Lumber Company is
a new stock organization at Rockford. 111., which
has engaged in the wholesale hardwood lumber
trade. The president and manager of this in-
stitution is W. C. King, who has had long ex-
perience in hardwood affairs, and who is well
known to the buying trade of this section of
the country- The Co-Operative Mill & Lumber
Company is in the market for a full line of
hardwoods and invites correspondence from both
northern and southern manufacturers. Mr.
King's past success as a hardwood buyer and
salesman, together with the ample financial
and business support which he has in this new
enterprise, should guarantee its success.

WILLIAM M. RITTER

OOL.UMQUS, O.

auP*LCM£NT TO

HARDWOOD RECORD

APRIL 10, 1907

ILLUSTRATING
BUILDERS OF LUMBER HISTORY.

HARDWOOD RECORD

19

NeWs Miscellany.

Meeting Executive Board Hardwood Manu-
facturers' Association.

On March 2M at the Seelhach Hotel, Louisville.
Ky.. was held a meeting of the Executive Board
of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of
the United States. Important matters were
brought up for discussion and decisive action
was taken on a number of them.

Secretary Lewis Doster presented a report
showing that a large number of subscriptions
have been received for the buyers' guide issued
by the association and detailing the progress of
the work of compiling the book. Mr. Doster
stated that letters had been received from vari-
ous retail associations which viewed unfavorably
the publication of this book and which had
passed resolutions against it. The president was
authorized to appoint a committee which should
confer with the protesting retailers on this sub-
ject. This committee was instructed to draw up
a set of resolutions to the effect that the Hard-
wood Manufacturers' Association neither had
nor has any idea of cutting out the retailer, but
is desirous of assisting him in buying lumber
from the shipper ; that the publication of this
book would be a benefit to all buyers of hard-
woods in that it contains the names of manu-
facturing consumers and will enable producers
to manufacture stock in accordant'., with the
needs of the producers ; that the policy of the
association will be to sell only to manufacturing
consumers who buy in carload lots.

The committee appointed by President Ran-
som to take care of this work consists of It. II.
Vansant, William Wilms and Secretary Doster.

After considerable discussion on grading rules
and the examination of printers' proofs of the
new rules. Secretary Doster was instructed to
get out the books of new grading rules as soon
as possible and to supply each member with two
copies. No action was taken at this meeting on
1 lie subject of changing the rules on mouldings,
as some difference of opinion seemed to exist in
regard to them.

The secretary's report showed the association's
affairs to be in the prosperous condition, which
is largely due to bis able regime ; an increase

of twenty-live members has I n recorded since

the annual' meeting in January. Also since that
meeting the association has become a member of
the National Rivers and Harbors Congress.

A committee was appointed to place before an
attorney an outline of the railroad legislation
which has been brought before the public up to
the present time and to obtain an opinion there-
on. John B. Ransom, W. A. Gilchrist and Lewis
hosier were entrusted with this mission.

The subject of admitting consumers to mem-
lieiship was brought up for consideration and it
was decided that this favor be extended only to
wholesale manufacturing consumers of hardwood
buying in carload lots.

The following committee was appointed to dis-
cuss witli manufacturers of hardwood flooring
the advisability of becoming identified 'with the
organization and to report later: W. A. Gil-
christ, John B. Ransom, It. M. Carrier, Howard
Rule, Lewis Doster.

Secretary Doster was requested to obtain ac-
curate weights of all hardwoods of different
Ihicknesses and under various conditions and
prepare for submission at the next meeting a
table of these weights. Green lumber, lumber
which has been drying from sixty to ninety days
and also that which has been in stock for four
to six months will be included in this list.

The secretary reported that a number of re-
quests for information had been received rela-
tive to inspectors and inspection work generally
and instructions at mills especially, and it was
decided to place this matter before all members
in as full a manner as possible by circular letter.

It was also reported by the secretary that

young men are being trained by the association
for inspectors, and it was decided to continue
this course and broaden the department, so that
all communications and requests can be promptly
attended to.

Mr. Doster was authorized, in view of the fact
that a number of new members had requested
it, to issue to all members now in good standing
and to new members a certificate of membership
in the association.

After a discussion on the advisability of mov-
ing the offices of the association to some point in
the South, it was decided not to make any
change tit the present time.

Delegates were appointed to represent the as-
sociation at the next annual meeting of the Na-
tional Lumber Manufacturers' Association to be
held at Norfolk, Va., May 28 and 29, as follows :

R. H. Vansant, Vansant, Kitchen & Co., Ash-
land, Ky.

John W. Love, Love, Boyd & Co., Nashville,
Tenn.

J. W. Oakford, Cherry River Boom & Lumber
Company, Scranton, Pa.

W.

pany,
W.

pany,
Wil

M. McCormick, Little River Lumber Corn-
Philadelphia.

A. Gilchrist, Three States Lumber Corn-
Memphis.

liam Wilms, Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Com-
pany. Chicago.

John B. Ransom, John B. Ransom & Co., Nash-
ville.

Alternate, Lewis Doster, secretary, Chicago.
R. M. Carrier invited those in attendance to
be his guests at luncheon at the l'endennis Club,
and all present accepted this invitation, at which
time the business before the board was continued.
After extending the thanks of the board to
Mr. Carrier for his courtesy, the meeting ad-
journed to reassemble at the call of the president.
Those present were : John B. Ransom, Nash-
ville, Tenn. ; W. A. Gilchrist, Memphis, Tenn. ;
D. P. Mann, Memphis, Tenn. ; J. H. Himmel-
berger, Morehouse, Mo. ; R. H. Vansant, Ashland,
Ky. ; R. M. Carrier, Sardis, Miss., and Lewis
Doster, secretary.

Establish Hardwood Plant at Bay City.

Twenty-three acres of land on the river front
at Bay City, Mich., have been purchased by the
Richardson Lumber Company of Alpena, on
which will be erected a mill of large capacity.
The mill will be operated continuously, giving
employment to 125 men at the outset, this num-
ber being increased from time to time to keep
pace with the demands of the business. The
mill will turn out Michigan hardwoods at the
rate of 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 feet a year.

The Richardson Lumber Company has a large
mill and extensive yards at Alpena and is Inter-
ested in operations elsewhere. It lias been en-
gaged in the manufacture of hardwoods for a
number of years and has established a wide
reputation for the excellence of its products.

1'. W. Gilchrist of Alpena, who n Is no further

introduction to the hardwood trade of the coun
try, is associated with this enterprise and Fred
L. Richardson is manager.

Grading Committee Appointed.
A. i:. l'.eehee, secretary of the Wisconsin Hard
wood Lumbermen's Association, is out with .a
circular announcing thai at tie- meeting of the
association held tit Grand Rapids on March 10 a
committee was appointed to meet with commit-
tees from the National Hardwood Lumber Assi.

elation, the Hardw 1 Manufacturers' Assocla

tion of the Dnlted States and the Michigan Hard
wood Manufacturers' Association, to consider the
subject of a uniform set of grading rules for
hardwood lumber, which consists of the follow-
ing : A. R. owen. Owen, Wis.: II. C. Humphrey,

Appleton, Wis.: George E. Foster. Mellen, AYis. :
M. J. Quinian, Sopcrton. Wis.

The association desires every member who
wishes changes or additions to the present grad-
ing rules to write lo some member of the above
committee explaining just what changes are de-

slred. Esi hilly the committee wish members

lo write them as to their opinion in regard to
culling odd lengths, such its 7. 0. 11 and 1". feet.

Meeting Cypress Manufacturers.

On April 2 I he Southern d'ypress Manufac-
turers' Association held a meeting in the com-
mittee rooms of the Hibernia Bank building.
New Orleans, La., President Wilbert in the
chair and Secretary Watson reporting.

Four new members were taken into the asso-
ciation, viz., Morley Cypress Company of Mor-
ley, La. ; Goodland Cypress Company of Chaca-
houla, La. : Hayes Cypress & Lumber Company
of Hayes, La.; Charenton Lumber Company of
Charenton, I. a. Heading of minutes of the last
meeting and the secretary's report were dis-
pensed with. Treasurer George W. Dodge ex-
plained that the].. «as a deficit in the treasury
owing to increased activity and expenses of
late, and that it might he necessary to increase
the dues in order lo carry them. This action
was deferred, however, until the annual meet-
ing of the organization, which will occur in
May, and a special assessment voted on Louis-
iana members.

A letter from Chairman Gerrans of Hie insur-
ance committee was read, retelling to a recent
attack upon lumber manufacturers published in a
Louisville insurance paper. On motion of R. H.
Downman the committee was authorized to
make proper reply to the charges, for publica-
tion in the lumber journals. A motion was
also carried requesting the secretary to corre-
spond with members and obtain their ideas upon
insuring with the lumbermen's mutual in pref-
erence to old line companies. Much discussion
of insurance matters followed, which brought
nut several disagreeable experiences members
have been having of late in this regard, among
others the contention made by insurance people
that lumber destroyed by tire should lie setteld
for on Hi.' basis of its actual cost of manufac-
ture and cost of stumpage, instead of upon mar-
ket schedules. Several members urged that, on
the contrary, the mutual companies were al-
ways ready to settle on a fair market valua-
tion. Undoubtedly the questions which have been
raised by the Louisiana Fire Prevention Bureau
will result in a change of tactics on the part of
lumbermen.

Chairman Downman reported for the railroad
and transportation committee that the ear situ-
ation has Improved somewhat.

The committee on grading rules and specifica-
tions preset 1 mo report, but will cover its

work fully at the annual meeting. Chairman
Bruce referred lo the good to i.e obtained from
meetings of mill foremen, tallymen and shippers,
and urged that tiny be supported.

After discussions on dressing lumber, market

iditions, price list forms and the transaction

of minor business. President Wilbert appointed
the following delegates to the meeting of the
National I. umber Manufacturers' Association at
the Jamestown Exposition, May 28-29, after
which the meeting adjourned: R. II. Downman,
S. M. I'.loss. K. l.ee ki^s. rapt. .1. Dlbert and
John Opdenwyer.

New Michigan Hardwood Company.

A new lumber firm, the Liken-Brown I'helps
Company of Grand Kapids, Mich., has recently

been formed, capitalized at $300, fully paid

in. This company will engage in Hie manufac-
ture of lumber ami cooperage in Ontonagon
county as so i the plan! is completed, prob-
ably early in the fall.

Those interested are Charles A. Phelps, presi-
dent, and William A. Phelps, eice president,

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both o£ Grand Rapids ; Guy S. Brown of Central
Lake, secretary and manager, and Charles W.
Liken of Sebewaing, treasurer. Messrs. Brown
and Liken will be the active members of the
organization and will personally supervise the
manufacturing operations. For tbe present the
main office will be in the Michigan Trust build-
ing, Grand Rapids.

The company has acquired a 12,000-acre tract
of land in Ontonagon county, comprising mixed
woods, a.nd has enough material to keep its
plant running for ten years with a force of
about 150 men, which it is expected to employ.

The building operations will provide for a
double band saw mill and a stave and heading
works. It is impossible to give the capacity of
the plants at this time, but the enterprise will
become one of the important industries of the
state.

State Forestry Association in Maine.

At a meeting held recently at Augusta, Me.,
the organization of a state forestry association
was effected. This step is the outcome of a
movement instituted some time ago by promi-
nent residents of the state, chief among whom
is Gordon E. Tower, professor of forestry at
the University of Maine, who did much of the
preliminary work necessary. The meeting was
attended by a large number of men interested
in forestry either in a scientific or business
way. and addresses of great value were made
on the subject of perpetuating the forests of
Maine. Officers for the ensuing year were
appointed as follows : Frank E. Boston, Gardi-
ner, president : Charles E. Oak, Bangor, vice
president ; E. E. Ring, Orono, secretary ; W. W.
Thomas, Portland, treasurer ; also seven di-
rectors. This is a step in the right direction
and will doubtless result in much good in per-
petuating the forests of the state and in ensur-
ing a source of supply to one of its greatest
industries.

Meeting of Executives N. H. L. A.

A meeting of the Board of Managers of the
National Hardwood Lumber Association -was
held at the organization's headquarters In "the
Rector building, Chicago, on Thursday. March
28. There were present W. H. Russe, president ;
O. O. Agler, vice president; F. F. Fish, secre-
tary ; G. J. Landeck, B. R. Thompson, E. F.
Dodge, J. M. Scatcherd, Edw. Buckley, G. I.
Jones, W. A. Bonsack, Earl Palmer, C. F. Sweet,
O. E. Yeager, G. E. Hibbard, directors ; Theo.
Fathauer, chairman of Inspection Bureau Com-
mittee, and J. M. Dickson.

The session was devoted largely to routine
inspection matters, and especially to the ap-
pointment of new salaried inspectors to take
the place of fee inspectors, whom the associa-
tion is very largely displacing. The secretary
was instructed to forward a resolution to the
Interstate Commerce Commission to appeal for
longer time for unloading lumber at points of
export. —

A communication was received from D. I'.
Clark, president of the Northwestern Hardwood
Lumber Manufacturers' Association, on behalf
of his organization, inviting the officers of the
National association to be guests at a banquet
at Minneapolis at some date in April, to suit
the convenience of those invited. The invitation
was accepted, the date to be fixed later.

Twenty new members were admitted to tbe
association. A communication was received
from tbe Wisconsin Hardwood Lumbermen's
Association asking for a conference on the sub
jeet of inspection looking to the amendment of
certain rules and the unification of them. The
matter was referred to the _ Inspection Rules
Committee.

The secretary was instructed to arrange suit-
able transportation facilities for western mem-
bers of the association attending the annual
meeting at Atlantic City, May 23 and 24.

Important Consolidation at Memphis.

A change which has excited a great deal of
interest in hardwood circles in Memphis is the
consolidation of two of the most prominent
concerns of the city — the I. M. Darnell & Son
Company and E. E. Taenzer & Co., Inc. — under
the style of the Darnell-Taenzer Lumber Com-
pany. The capital stock is placed at $500,000,
fully paid in. It was intended to have the con-

E. E. TAENZER. FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

OF THE NEW DARNELL-TAENZER

LUMBER COMPANY.

solidatioH effective April 1
delay, and operation now
date at which the charter
The new company takes
lands in Arkansas and
with stocks of ■ lumber at
where owned by the two
It will operate four mills.
circular and a planing mill

but there was some
is dependent on the
is issued.

over valuable timber
Mississippi, together
Memphis and else-
combining concerns,
two bands and one
and it will increase

WALTER S. DARNELL, TREASURER AND
GENERAL MANAGER DARNELL-TAEN-
ZER LUMBER COMPANY.

the capacity of these by tbe installation of con-
siderable new equipment. The Memphis plants
of the two old concerns adjoin each other and
their consolidation of stocks will be a simple
matter.

Officers of the Darnell-Taenzer Lumber Com-
pany are : I. M. Darnell, president of the old
1. M. Darnell & Son Company, president; E. E.
Taenzer. president and treasurer of E. E. Taen-
zer & Co.. Inc.. first vice president ; F. Zupke,
vice president and secretary of E. E. Taenzer
& Co.. second vice president ; W. S. Darnell,
secretary and treasurer of the I. M. Darnell &
Son Company, treasurer and general manager ;
and W. A. Dolph, assistant secretary and treas-
urer of the 1. M. Darnell & Son Company, secre-
tary. All are experienced lumbermen, well
known to tbe hardwood trade the country over.

With men of such business ability as these at
its head it is certain that the consolidated en-
terprise will meet with great success.

New Nashville Hardwood Company.

The Sylco Lumber Company is the name of a
new hardwood concern just organized by promi-
nent operators of Nashville, Tenn. The princi-
pals of the company are John B. Ransom of J. B.
Ransom & Co., president ; C. B. Benedict of the
Davidson-Benedict Company, vice president and
general manager; M. F. Greene of the same con-
cern, secretary, and John Burns, also of the
Davidson-Benedict Company, treasurer. Other
stockholders are John W. Love of Love, Boyd &
Co. and Walter Keith.

The company has acquired 30,000 acres of
virgin timber land in Polk county, southeastern
Tennessee, situated near the line of the Louis-
ville & Nashville railroad, and eighty-five miles
south of Knoxville. The timber consists of pop-
lar, white and red oak, white and yellow pine,
and is estimated to cut upwards of 2ii0.uihi.hihi
feet. Tbe company will establish a town, build
a double-band sawmill and install dry kilns and
planing mill where tbe L. & N. crosses the Cona-
sauga river. It will build a standard gauge rail-
road ten miles in length to penetrate the timber
properties. This railroad will be equipped with
locomotives and steam log loaders and skidders.
About half of the timber is white and yellow
pine and the remainder high-class hardwoods.
The property is said to constitute a very desira-
ble logging proposition, as it is not particularly
rough.

C. B. Benedict, the vice president, who is an
experienced operator, will have charge of the
building of the new town and plant, as well as
general charge of the operation. It is expected
that the plant will be in operation shortly after
midsummer.

The Reed City Veneer Works.

The Reed City Veneer Works is the name of a
new concern, capitalized at $40,000, fully paid in,
which has entered into business at Reed City,
Mich. Fred S. Torrey, for fifteen years secre-
tary-treasurer of the Grand Rapids Veneer
Works, is one of the principals, and associated
with him in the enterprise are Gerber Brothers,
the maple flooring manufacturers of Holland.
J. S. Goldie of Cadillac and Ward Brothers of
Big Rapids.

Four acres of land have been acquired for a
site, and the company is now erecting several
buildings which are being equipped with ma-
chinery and will be up to date in every respect.
Through close association with timber owners in
that section ample supplies of excellent quality
are assured, and the outlook for business is very
favorable. The plant will have a capacity of
2.500,000 feet of veneers annually, which will
consist of all kinds of panel and furniture
veneer, including mahogany and oak.

New Albany Made Headquarters.
There was a meeting of the stockholders of
the Wood-Mosaic Flooring Company at Buffalo.
N. Y., on March 23. This is a New York cor-
poration with a plant at New Albany, Ind., and
one at Rochester, N. Y. The mill and timber
property of the Hugh McLean Lumber Company
at Highland Park, Ky.. have been acquired by
the company which will make it a very large
producer of hardwood lumber. For this reason
it was deemed best to change the title of the
corporation to the Wood-Mosaic Flooring &
Lumber Company. A resolution was adopted
increasing the capital stock of the company
from $300,000 to $550,000 and it was decided
to establish the general offices of the company
at New Albany. The company will now extend
its lumber operations, which are already exten-
sive in the South, very materially. The com-
pany is the foremost producer of wood-mosaic
flooring in the country. W. A. McLean wilt
continue as general manager of the institution.

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Big Timber Purchase.
i in,, of Hi'- largest timber land sales in the
history ,>r Oregon has just been consummated
by Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., of Cadillac, who have
thus become large owners of tit-, spruce, hemlock
and cedar timber in the Siletz l'.iisin in I'olk and
Lincoln counties. By this proposition the bis;
Cadillac hardwood and hardwood flooring house
collates several hundred claims, and has consoli-
dated the holdings known as the Chapman tract,
formerly owned by Mitchell & McClure of Sagl
naw. Mich., and also the holdings of the Lane
County Lumber Company and of Henrj Hewitt
The purchase involves nearly 25,000 acres, and
was made at a stumpage price or from 50 cents
to II a thousand.

The cruising anil sale of this property was
made by J. 1'. I.aeey & Co., Hie big timber
operators of Chicago, New York and Portland,
and is but one of several transactions on the
• oast that have been consummated during the
past year by Victor Thrane, junior partner <>i
the Lacey house.

New Headquarters W. J. Cude Land &
Lumber Company.
The \V. .1. Cude Land & Lumber Company,

whi.h operates sawmills at Kimmins. Tenn.. ami
Cude. Miss., for the purpose of unifying the
handling of its business, has just opened a gen-
eral business and sales headquarters at Nash-
ville, where \V. J. Cude, president of the com-
pany, will spend a considerable portion of his
time. Temporary headquarters have been se-
eured in the First National Bank Building, but
within the next month the company will occupy
a handsome suite of offices, 1013-1014 in He'
new, palatial Stahlman Building. The company
is also installing a new lumber yard, where it
will group stoek, at Colesburg, near Dickson,
Tenn. A branch ottice will also be maintained
ai that place.

The \V. .1. Cude Land & Lumber Company has
i„.,oiiie mo- i i the important hardwood producing
bouses of the country, and its recent move will
enhance lis ability to serve the trade witli sat
Isfaction.

New Memphis Saw Mill Colony.
lb,' new sawmill and veneer plant of C. 1
Willey in North Memphis are now complete and
the former is in operation. It occupies a fifteen-
acre tract near the junction of Main street and
the New Raleigh road ear line and the Union
Belt Line. The veneer plant will commence
operations as soon as the machinery arrives and
is installed. This plant will cut till. ("JO feel "I

lumber a day and over 5, '.'"'i' feet of logs are

already on the premises.

The i:\ansville Veneer Company of Evansville.
Ind.. and the Frost Veneer Seating Company of
Sheboygan, Wis., will soon erect sawmills and

v,. c plants on land adjoining the Willey prop

erty. These new industries will employ at least

two hundred men. In this same neighbor! I

the E. Sondheimer company owns a twenty-acre
tract upon which it is reported they will build
saw- and planing mills and establish large lum-
ber yards.

Opening of Navigation.

The carrying charges on lumber, established

by the l. iimher carriers' Association at a r nt

meeting in Detroit, are reported to I"' generally
satisfactory to the trade, ami a good season's
business is anticipated. Owing to disasters and
migration to salt water, there are fewer carriers
engaged in tie' lumber traffic than usual, wind,
will doubtless result in keeping the remaining
fleets well occupied the entire season.

Tile opening rate on pine and dry leu
from the head of Lake Superior was made si: 50.
with 25 cents extra on hemlock cut less than
ninety days. Hardwood lumber rates were
made 75 cents higher than pine from Lake Su-
perior and 50 cents higher from short points.
Cedar ties were advanced from T to T'j cents

and cedar posis ii, ,ii i t lo -1 1 1 cents. Lumber
from Georgian Bay, Lake Huron and Lake
Michigan will pay \-'j cents more than last
year. No agreement was made with the Sea

ns Union and lasi year's wages will prevail

pending a new contract.

A $100,000 Hardwood Corporation.

The sterling Lumber & Cedar Company has

been organized at Monroe. Midi., with w. C.

Sterling as president and a capital stock »,f

s in, i. mill. A ileal involving Hie purchase of

4. nun acres ,,t timber land i ■ si. [gnace. Mich..

a sawmill, cam] I outfit, stores and dock.

and lake front privileges of the Michigan Cedar

Company, has recently i n closed by the c

pany. it is estimated that the property will

cut 25,000,000 feel of hardw Is, 30,000 cedar

poles. 250,000 tics. 250,000 po^ts and about l",.
nun cords of pulpwood. The land is situated on
Hie Carp River about fifteen miles north of
St. [gnace, along St. Martin l'-a.\ Operations
will he commenced immediately.

Advance Lumber Company.

A paragraph in the Pittsburg news section of
Hie last issue of the Hardwood Record an
nounceil that the Advance Lumber Company of
Cleveland, O., bad opened a I'il tsluirg office, and
vouchsafed other information regarding the com
pany which was somewhat lacking in accuracy
and value. As a matter of fact Hie Advance
Lumber Company of Cleveland has had a Pitts-
burg office ever since the company was organ
iy.ed. some live years ago. which has been in
charge of c. c. McCoy. The company's Pitts-
burg ottice lias been recently removed to 2425
Farmers' Bank building.

The Advance Lumber Company does a general
lumber business, hardwoods constituting a com-
paratively small part of what it distributes in
the Pittsburg territory. It is not an outgrowth
of the old Kirk-Christy firm, as stated in the
paragraph, but has a branch organization known
as the Kirk-Christy Company, which confines ils
attention to dealing in timber, timber lands, and
other properties. II. C. Christy has been the
general manager of both institutions since the
beginning. Aside from being a large factor in
the hardwood lumber business, the Advance
Lumber Company is a heavy producer of yellow
pine, with timber holdings and mills in Georgia
and Louisiana, and is also a large manufacturer
,,f while pine and hemlock from upper lake
ports, which it handles in cargo lots, with
stocks at Duluth, Bayfield and Ashland.

Miscellaneous Notes.

Eugene V. Knight, who has I n secretary and

general manager of the Indiana Panel & Veneer
Company at New Albany, has disposed of his In-
terests in the concern, being succeeded by C.
Bird The capital stock of the company has

1 n increased from .f::4,unu to $1'"'. and the

plan! will be remodeled and enlarged.

S. 1'. I.oomis of the Loomis & Hart Manufac-

turing Company, and F. W. Blair, both Chatta

nooga, T i.. 1 bermen, .ire incorporators oi

Hie new- ltnnihursi I. limber Company of Ram

hurst, Ha. They will build a plan! thet i

sisiiuu of p, , liable sawmills and planing mill.

The Southern Hardwood Manufacturing com
pain of Banks, Ark., has tiled articles of incot
poration ; capital stock, $10,000. A. A.. A. V.
and A. It. Smith are the incorporators.

The Rural Retreal Handle Company has I ii

Incorporated at Rural Retreat, Va. w. F. Cam
mon is president; w. s. i.indscy. vice president,
and S. M. Corbett, Jr., secretary and treasurer.

A full carload ,,f birds, -ye maple was shipped

recently from Me uince county, Michigan, to

London. England The demand for logs of Ibis
kind from foreign markets is large ,,! late, to be

used in the nianul'actiii special kinds of fur

nil ure and lor finishing materials, and prices are
on Hie increa >

The Kihhe Sbiiinan Lumber Company Of Sulli
van, 111., has purchased a large tract of hard

w 1 timber lands in southeastern Arkansas

There is a mill on the properly, which the com
pany has in operation culling the timber, and
another of large capacity will be erected shortly.
The company also has offices ai Harrisburg, Ark.,
and hereafter the headquarters will be located
at that city, with M. G. Kibhr. president of the
company, in charge. The property contains «.
rich growth of hickory and white oak of fine
quality.

A school of forestry will be established al I lie
Washington state College, commencing next fall.
The curse will cover two years and will be opei,
to all students who have completed the equiva
lent of two years- high school work. Forestry,
silviculture, forest measuration and valuation,

prelection, dendrology. < lomlc managements,

etc., will be taught by competenl ami thorough
instructors.

Averill & Mitchell, wholesale lumber dealers
of Christiansburg. Va.. will build a furniture la,
tory which will employ more than loll men.

The Sanders & Egbert Company of South Bend,
Ind.. which operates a big hardwood mill there,
recently added to its timber holdings a tract oi
line wooded land in (Hive township near the
Michigan slate line. The consideration was
*16,000.

II. 1'. Lucas, who reoonih acquired a con

trolling interest in the Escanaba W lenware

Company of Escanaba, Mich., announces a num-
ber of changes in the company's business to be
made at an early date. Plans are being made
I,, increase the business very materially. The
sawmill, which is of large capacity, will be op
dated both winter and summer, and operations

will I onduded in the woods throughout the

year.

.Maine lumbermen have asked the legislatun
lo enact a law providing for an open season for
killing beavers, bcause of the damage they do
lo standing timber. Trees from I wo to twelvl
inches in diameter, li is claimed, are often de-
stroyed by them.

HardWood NeWs.

(By HARDWOOD RECORD

Chicago.

.1. II. 1'. Smith of R. M. Smith .V; Co., Parkers-
burg, W. Va., was a recent visitor to the Chicago
market,

Gilbert Y. Tick f 'fickle. Bell & Co., Livet

pool, 'I the oldest houses in the mahogany

and American lumber trade ill that port, sailed
lor the United Slalcs on March 30 for a general
lour of the lumber producing sed ions of this
country and Canada. Mr. Tickle will be in Chi-
cago the latter pari of April.

The St. Louis Lumberman is issuing in pamph
id form a document that will he of more than
passing Interest to every manufacturer of lumber.

It is entitled "The Exact Cost of Lumber — a
Problem Solved." and was written by ihe late

Special Correspondents.)

Car] Wchlcrin. Copies of the pamphlel may he
obtained postpaid for 50 cents on application i"
ihe si. Louis Lumberman.

Th litor "f the Il.ua, w R wishes

know ledge an invitation ft i t be i. bi i

men's Exchange of Philadelphia to be present at
a dinner ai the Union League Club on Thursday,
\pnl 11, which will follow the twenty-first an-
nual meeting of ibis organizat ion

i: ipi is acknowledged of the thirtj I th

annual special issue of th,- Lumber Trades Journal

,,!' London. This number cnsisis of about I 10
pages primed ,,n coated paper, and contains il
lustrated articles pertaining to timber and lum-
ber topic from tcai'ly all p. world. Il

is a splendid es pie of Made paper enterprise,

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At the conference held a few days ago in New
York, between representatives of the Xational
Hardwood Lumber Association and the New York
I. umber Trade Association, a general discussion
of inspection matters prevailed. Prominent mem-
bers nt botb associations were in attendance, but
oo executive action was possible; the meeting
was simply ;i friendly conference on the subject
ii. 'I

Those Interested should not fail to remember
that Wednesday. April 17. is the date of the
meeting of the Michigan Hardwood Manufactur-
ers' Association, which will lie held at the Hotel
Pantlind in Grand Rapids. A review of market
conditions and a conference looking toward uni-
fication 'if grading rules between a committee
from the Wisconsin Hardwood Lumbermen's As-
sociation and one named by the Michigan organi-
zation will be features. The meeting is of such
importance that it should bring out every haul
wood producer -in the state.

The Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Company has
moved its offices from the second floor of the
Fisher Building in suite 218 in the new annex
of that structure. The company has here hand
somely appointed and ■ urnniodious quarters —
three large rooms mi the Dearborn street side
of the building.

M. A. Hays "1 New York and C. S. chase of
St Louis, representing the Southern railway,
were welcome callers at this office March 30.

.1. It. King, fur ilv of the King & Hartels

Lumber Company of Cleveland, was in Chicago

last week.

Orson ]■]. Y'eager, the well-known wholesale
hardwood man of Buffalo, called on the Record
March 28.

The John O'Brien Land & Lumber Company,
for many years located at Laflin and Twenty-
second stt ts, has moved its offices to ii."- Dear-
born street.

K. W. Black has returned from a sunt hem
trip. He slates that hardwood stocks in the
South, notably Tennessee, are small and that
buyers are bustling to get bold of stocks; prices
range high.

.1. 1.. Kendall was in Chicago within tin- past
few days, en route to the Pacific Cuast. Mi.
Kendall is president of the Kendall Lumber Com-
pany of Pittsburg, Pa., and Crellin, Md.

Ii. G. Courtney, a large hardwood operator of
Charleston, W. Ya., was a visitor to this market
last week.

William .1 Wagstaff ..f Oshkosh, wis., called
at the Record office April 5. He has recently
returned from a southern trip.

A. .1. Vincent, a hardwood manufacturer of
Vincent, Miss., was in Chicago to spend several
days last week.

Clinton Crane of the well-known Cincinnati
firm of c. Crane ..v Co. was in Chicago recently
fur a few days.

l'atk Richmond & Co. have moved their offices
from 41i> Monadnock Building to suite 926 in
the same structure, where they have larger and
mure convenient quarters. Park Richmond, head
of ilic concern, returned a few days ago from an
extended trip among southern manufacturing
points.

Richard Koeller, who represents the Paepcke
Leicbi Lumber Company at Hamburg. Germany,
was in Chicago a few days last month in con-
sultation with tin- heads of his concern at the
main offices here. Mr. Koeller left March 18
for Hie East on his way home.

Very commodious quarters at 1113 Fisher
Building are now occupied by the Flanner-Stegei
Land & Lumber Company, whose headquarters
are at ebb ago Heights, 111. G. C. Flanner,
president of the company, and E. Blaisdell, gen-
eral salesman, will be located at the Chicago
Offices. The season's cut of the company's saw-
mill at P.lackwell. Wis . has been sold. It rep-
res, tits a total nf nut less than 16,000,000 feet
■ ii basswood, maple, birch, elm and hemlock.
Purchases of stock have been made by the com-

pany, however, and it will conduct a wholesale
business in addition to its manufacturing opera-
tions.

Friends of E. 1'. Arpin, the well-known Grand
Rapids, Wis., lumberman, will regret to hear
that his eldest son, while on a hunting trip lasi
week, was accidentally shot and severely injured.
although it is probable that he will recover.

Boston.

The fondest hopes of the few lumber dealers
whii conceived the Metropolitan Lumber Ex-
change have been more than realized. Many
cars of lumber have been sold on the floor of
the exchange. Since the rooms were opened six
concerns have purchased a little ever 4,000,000
feet, line order for 150,000 feet at the average
price of $70 a thousand has been recorded.

C. II Balkam reports that he is shipping con-
siderable hardwood from mills in which he is
interested along the Canadian border.

William E. Litchfield left Boston early in the
week for a trip in the South and West.

The II 1. Gould Company has been incorpo-
rated In Worcester, Mass.. with a capital stock

of $25, i. for the purpose of dealing in lumber.

The incorporators are II. I. and II. E. Gould
and Walter W. Clark.

John I.. Young, South Lancaster, and E. 12.
Russell, Clinton, have purchased lumber sheds.
formerly the property of the Clinton Wall Trunk
Company, ami will start tin- manufacturing ol
carpetiiei's' supplies and builders' finish.

Charles s, VVentworth, who recently returned

from a trip through the whitew I district in

the South, siaies that offerings of dry lumber
there are very scarce. He states, however, thai
Hie .in this winter has been large and that as
soon lis the roads are in good condition this can
l.e brought out of the woods, when prices will
mm doubt be a little easier. For the next lew
weeks, however, it is very evident that high
prices will rule.

I I it- Palmer & Parker Company, Boston, has

I a Incorporated with a capital stuck ef $240,

lie incorporators are Irving s. Palmer,

Harrison Parker, William I. Pal r and frank

1 I. Saw yet.

E. I: Reynolds, president of the Boston Lum-
ber Company, lias returned from a sunt hern trip
covering about three weeks.

The mill nf Shaw & Itemby. Medford, Jle- .
was recently visited by tire

Fred Sterritt, president of the Metropolitan
Lumber Exchange and manager '1 'In- tittle
Lumber Company, lias returned from an outing
at his dairy farm in Yarmouth, N. S.

At the annual meeting of the New Hampshire
Lumbermen's Association, which was held at
Manchester, N. II.. late in March, Hie following
officers were elected: President, Warren Tripp,
Short Calls; vice president, John A. Walker.
Newmarket. I lire, lets : James I',. Tennanl.
Short falls: Samuel 1 1. Felker, Rochester
Frank B* Clark, Dover; Charles a. Bailey, Sun-
luuk ; Milton Heed. Exeter.

The planing mill owned and operated by Ira
i; Mersey. Cambridge, Mass.. has been destroyed
by lire, causing a loss estimated at about $40-
000 Shortly after the tire started it was
feared that the plant of the Seavens Piano
Action Company and the Tower Piano Company
would also he destroyed. Several large bus of
dry lumber were a total less

New York.

The William It. Cole Company, wholesale
dealers in staves and cooperage stuck. 1 4.'l Lib
'ii I street, Manhattan, are in the hands of a
receiver '» P. Willman has been appointed.
I In application was made by the Guaranty Trust
Company of New York on a judgment obtained
ii, November, 1906, for $1,874, mi which only
$50 was , ullected. Other judgments aggregating
$12,000 have been obtained against the company.

P. E. McLaurin, the prominent lumber dealer
ui' Havana, Cuba, was a recent visitor in the

city on a brief trip to the states in the interest
of business.

Sam E. Barr, Flatiron Building, is on a tour
of inspection to the hardwood operation of the
Mt. Airy Lumber Company, Mt. Airy, N. C, for
which he is selling agent, lie will also visit
the High Point, N. C, furniture district.

E. L. Hunter, Flatiron Building, local repre-
sentative of the Louisiana Red Cypress Com-
pany, New Orleans, La., reports the cypress sit-
uation strong. He has made many friends since
he located in the metropolitan district and the
business of his company in this section is flour-
ishing.

Superintendent of Public Works 1». C. Stevens
of Albany. N. Y., has decided that the statute
gives him no authority to close the Oswego canal
between May 15 and November lo. This is a
great blessing to lumber shippers and local buy-
ers, who, when the proposed closing was an-
nounced, immediately entered a strung protest
mi account of the serious handicap which such
closing would place on the lumber traffic through
ii "in western points.

The Newark Lumber Company of Newark.
X. .1.. has dispensed with the services of II. S.
. I 'linings, former manager.

Charles I), chase, 18 Broadway, attorney for
the Lumbermen's Credit Association, Chicago,
bas been appointed receiver for the Rubin (Iran
I'umpany. Incoroporated, manufacturers of sash.
doors and blinds, 1U-24 Eckford street, Brooklyn.
Mr. i Iran failed several months ago and a set-
tlement was made by the creditors taking stock
in the above corporation fur their claims in the
hope of working the concern out. Through gen-
eral dissatisfaction, however, these lattei pro
ceedings were necessary and it is announced
i hat the company's affairs will now be wound up.

Alier a ten days' strike of the teamsters of
the big lumber and moulding operation of Van-

derl k & Sons, Jersey City, N. J., the firm

caused a complete surrender of the strikers and
without any interruption to business

A. C. Dutton of the A. C. Dutton Lumber
Company, Springfield. Mass., with large manu-
facturing interests in Quebec and New Bruns-
wick, was a recent visitor in town in the inter-
est of business

The Enion Mill Company has been organized
in Brooklyn with a capital of $10,000 t.. conduct
a general lumber and milling business by A. c.

Brady, who has previously I n associated witli

the wholesale house of J. s. Barron & r». and
II. W. Peabody of Manhattan. Associated with
him in the company are W. I',. Eaton of Orange,
V .1 .. and C. I'.. Wanamaker of Brooklyn.

.!. C. Gahagan, head of the sash, door and
blind manufacturing firm of J. Gabagan's Sons,
Hoboken, N. J., died last week in the 62d year
of bis age.

.1. II. Dickinson, head of the logging depart
ment of the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Com-
pany, 120 Liberty street. Manhattan, is on a
lengthy trip to southern mill points en route to
the Bahama Islands, where he goes in the in-
terest of business.

Schedules in bankruptcy of the Sexsmith &
Hoosier Company, manufacturers nf interior fin-
ish and cabinet work, ."il4 Wist Forty-sixth
street, filed recently, show liabilities of $11,058
and assets. $3,550, consisting of proceeds of sale,
of fixtures by the receiver, $7110, and a claim in
litigation. $2,850. Among the creditors are T. A.

McKegney. $2, secured; Buchanan & Smock

Lumber Company, $724. and John W. Helley,
S7i'U.

Philadelphia.
The Lumbermen's Exchange called a special
meeting on March 2.".. President George E. Craig
in the chair, at which it was resolved that the
Lumbermen's Exchange of the city of Philadel-
phia is unqualifiedly opposed to the passage of
house bill No. 224 (known as the l'ahey-Mc-
N'ichol traction bill, which would enable the
city to enter into partnership agreement with

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the Rapid Transit Company, on the lines Indi-
cated by the Retail Merchants' Association), un-
less such hill is so amended as in retain to the
cities, boroughs or townships all the rights thai
now belong to them, so :is to safeguard the
Interests of the people in relation to their per-
manenl welfare. Resolved thai a copy of this
resolution be mailed to the Hon. Edwin s.
Stuart, governor of the state of Pennsylvania,
and to each member of the senate nnd bouse of
represental h es.

A special meeting was also called on the same
day by the Philadelphia Wholesale Lumber Deal-
ers' Association, President Roberl G. Kay in the
chair, when above resolutions of the Lumber-
men's Exchange were unanimously endorsed.

The regular monthly meeting of the Lumber-
men's Exchange was held on April 1, Presidenl
George 1'. Craig in the chair. The principal
feature before the body was the Domination of
directors, who with the officers will be elected
on April 11, when the annual meeting ami ban-
quet will he i). -hi ;ii the Union League. The
following names were placed as candidates for
•a term of three years : K ilia in E. Bennett of
Munger iV Bennett, William C. MacBride of
Haney-Whlte Company, Joseph P. Dun woody of
Jos. 1'. lniiia.ut.iy & Co., Herbert E. Weitzel of
V. Elmer Weitzel & Bro., Edmund Pennell and
Samuel 11. Shearer of Samuel II. Shearer & Son,
of whom I hi-ii' arc |o he elected, Frank M. Gil-
[ingham, al presenl ;i director, has resigned, and
Daniel Adams has been nominated to serve his
un expired time. John W. Coles was elected ;i
member of the exchange. Nothing furl her or
special importance came before the meeting.

The many friends of Almon P. wini. treas-
urer of ihf Charles Este Company, who went to
* 'alifornia a shorl time ago for his health, are
glad i" hear 1 h:t 1 he is mil eh benefited by his
.sojourn in dial sunny clime.

C. Boice, presidenl of the Boice Lumber Com-
pany, inc. has been spending ;i few days in
Philadelphia at the company's office, L430 Land
Title Bnilding.

P. l'. Southgate, surveyor general of the Na-
tional 1 lanlw I 1, 1111 1 her Association, < 'hicago,

has been in Philadelphia a lew weeks.

Earl Palmer, of the Ferguson & Palmer Com-
pany, Paducah, Ky. ; <>. 0. Agler of Upham &
Igler, Chicago; George D. Burgess pf Russe &
Burgess, Memphis, Tenn., ami Frank I". Fish,
secretary or the National Hardwood Lumber As-
sociation, Chicago, were recent visitors to the
local trade. Thej were entertained by John .1.
Rumbarger of the Rumbarger Lumber Company.

An ;iui »bile nip along the Wissahicken drive,

including slops at the famous road houses, were
amon^ the interesting features <>i the visit.

Samuel II. Shearer & Son reporl their hard-
wood business moving along in good shape and
the outlook for spring trading good. William
1'. Shearer, the junior member of the firm, re
centlj returned from a southern trip, where be
made contracts to handle (he outpul of several
mills in North Carolina, which will run from

:;. ,000 to 5,000,000 feet of hardwood, n« 1

now traveling through the Cumberland valley in
his linns Interests. The concern has opened
offices in Charleston, W. Va., and Ashevllle, N. C.

C. E. Lloyd, Jr.. vice presidenl of the Boice
Lumber company, inc.. is ;it the bead of the
syndicate which recently purchased c, 7 ' _. acres
-if -round in Fern Rock, on 1 he Reading rail
road, south of Oak Lane, for $200,000, which
lot will he Improved tor handsome residences.

The Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual I-' ire
Insurance Company reports everything movie
along in desired style. 'The volume of business
written so far this year makes an excellent
showing with that of any previous year, and
there is emphatic evidence of still further in-
crease of business.

Charles I'. Maule is fortunate in baving a
large stock of good hardwoods on hand a1 ihis
time, lie speaks in glowing terms of the out-
look for 1:1117. and reports business so far ahead

of last year. Mr. Maule is treasurer of the
Lumbermen's Exchange and is on.- ..1 the mosl
popular imn in the trade

Dennis Simmons Biggs, a prominent lumbei
man of Williamston, \. C died suddenly on
March 2] of hiccoughs while in Washington,
1> c lie w;is presidenl of ;I bank in Williams
ton ami of the Dennis Simmons Lumber Com-
pany. He w as 35 \ ears old

II B. Mitchell, age -M years, a salesman tor
William Whitmer & Sons, [nc, while suffering
from ill health committed sni(ide on March - 1
by Inhaling sas.

H is announced ihai Eben c. Webster of Ban
gor, Me,, wealthy Lumberman and son of Col.
Eben Webster, a wealthy timber land and mill
owner, was lost at sea on March 23, while on
his way from New Orleans to New York on the
steamship Comns.

The planing mill of the Bloom sburg Lumber &
Manufacturing Company of Bloomsburg, Pa., was
recently purchased by G. W. Rhodes of Herndon,
Pa., al receiver's sale for $75,000.

creditors filed a petition on March 28 to have
tin* Builders' Supply Company of Lansdale, Pa.,
adjudged an involuntary bankrupt. The cred-
itors and tiie amounts claimed are: Lewis
Thompson & Co., !s.':7.~> ; John I' Zane, $107.84,
and A c. Godshall & Co . $56.32.

The Five Mile Beach Lumber Company, Holly
Teach. \. .1.. is in Litigation. William T. Car
rison, a stockholder, has applied for a rule he
fore Vice chancellor Learning in Camden, N. .1..
10 show cause why an injunction should not
issue io restrain the officers of the Five Mile
Beach Lumber Company from winding up ihe
affairs of the company. Garrison asserts thai
Harry It. I tiles ami William C. Coles jointly
own ninety seven shares of the stock, Garrison
li fry -six shares, ami in all 1.".:: shares were is-
Sued. Garrison further claims that Coles ami
C. B Coles' Sons Lumber Company had keen
making contracts and sales to each other, ami
recently Warren Miller, an agent tor the Coleses,
began seiiine sinck of the company at Holly
Beach. Garrison maintains the company has

1 n doing a prosperous business and demands

an accounting of the company's affairs, and
until then the company he restrained from sell-
ing stuck ;it wholesale.

'1 in- iiimlie Lumber Company, hardwood deal-
er, is in Hie front rank of the busy concerns
Through the good judgment ami toresighl of the
president, W. Alfred llimlle, the company has

;i g I 3tOCk of select hardwoods on hand, ami

arrangements have been made ahead to keep the
yard supplied for months to come. W. Alfred
Ilindle of this concern has been confined to his
home for some time through illness, hut his
friend- are glad to hear thai he is now on the
mend.

.1 Randall Williams of J. Randall Williams &

Co. has been housebound for some time with ;i

severe cold. .1. Randall Williams. Jr., has beerj

spending several weeks in Asheville, X. C, and
vicinity, Looking up new connections. The firm
reports business moving along in proper shape.

The .1 G. Brill Company has just made an
extensive deal, which accentuates >iiii further
their unrivaled capacity for the business of car
building. «ni April i the Brill company acquired
the entire stock of the Wason Manufacturing
Company of Springfield, Mass. Tin- Wason com
pany is capitalized al $300,000 and the price
paid is $1,200,000. The company was then re
organized with .lames Rawle, Edward Brill and
Samuel M Curwen as directors representing the
.1 . G. Brill Company, and Henry Pearsdn and
iieiir\ s. Hyde of ihe old board. Henry Pearson
was circled president and general manager.
This is the hrst plant in the recently formed

I trill company, capitalized at $10, ,000, thai

manufacturers steam railroad cars. Tin- trans
fer of the Wason company to Brill marks the
retirement from husiness of George C. FIsk, who
has been an officer of the company for fifty
years and its president for thirty-sis years. The

capacity of the Wason company is placed at 150
steam railway and 125 electric cars annually.

The brass foundry connected with the J. (J.
Brill Company's works was completely destroyed
by fire on March i. The loss is placed at $10,-
i to $20,000.

Baltimore.
At a spechii meeting of the Baltimore mem
hers of the National Lumber Exporters' Asso-
ciation held here March 28 the new car service
charges put into effect by the Pennsylvania and
Baltimore & <>hio railroads al this port and the
i barges made at New Orleans Cor the use of car-*
came up for consideration and were made the
subject of action. The change went into effect
about the hrst of the year and the subject came
up for discussion at the annual meeting of the
National association in Norfolk, hist week's gath-
ering being a successive step in t he agitation.
According to the new rules enforced al New < >i
leans tin' first ten days are free and after that
time the railroads charge $3 per ear a day,
twenty days having heen allowed previous to
that ti With regard to the Baltimore charge

it was decided io communicate with officials of

the two roads in question and with the agents of
the steamship lines here, which has since been
done, with the result that a conference was ar
ranged for this week with c. s. Wight, manager
of frelghl traffic of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail
load; Robert Ramsay of the Johnston and Don
aid lines of steamers, and .1. C. Gorman of the
Atlantic Transport Line. The committee repre-
senting ihf association consists of John L. Al-
eock. presidenl ; Richard W. Price, II. I,. Bow
man and E. M. Terry. Relative to the New Or-
leans charge resolutions were adopted in which
ihe association protested against the measure
ami passed ii io the Interstate Commerce Com
mission for action. Copies of the resolutions
.nc io he forwarded to the officials of the respeel
ive railroads, together with a letter explana-
tory of ihe position taken by the association.

The proposition to appoint a chief Inspector,
to whom ail the other Inspectors shall he sub

ordinate nnd who shall have charge under Ihe

supervision of the inspection commits f the

inspection of lumber here, which came up a I
the quarterly meeting of ihe Baltimore Lumber
Exchange and was twice postponed, was hist
week put through in the form of a resolution
to amend ihe by-laws in accordance with the
proposed plan.

Notice was also given of a purpose to offer
this resolution as an amendment to the by-laws:

•■Thai tin' entire expenses for inspection and

handling of lumber he equally divided between
buyer and seller on all hardwoods." Another

resolution offered reads : "All charges tor in
sped ion and handling of all kinds of lumber
except hardwoods shall he equally divided he
i w eei i buyer and seller." At the present time
the buyer pays one-third and the seller the other
two-thirds. The new arrangement ;is to a chief
Inspector will go into effect as soon as that
official is appointed.

The Sheater heirs of Pottsvllle, Pa., have .sold

their ."..' acre trad of pine, hemlock and hard-
wood timber lying near tin- iioision river, south
east of Bristol, Va., to ihe Black Mountain Lum
her Company of Cumberland, Md., tor $25,000.
Tin- purchasers intend to establish mills nnd turn
ihe timber Into lumber. it is estimated thai

Ihe hind will J leld 20,000,000 I'eei

The Grafton Woodworking Company has heen
, bartered al < rrafton, W. \';i , with a capital
.lock of $100,000 io take over ihe R. W. Ken
nedy Company. 0. G. Augir & Co. and S. A.
Shackleford & Son, lumber and planing mill men
at Grafton. All the plants are to be merged.

Tlv1 headquarters of the Eastern Lumber Com
p:in\ of Athens, Pa., have heen moved to II lit -

tonsvllle, w. Va., and placed in charge of Charles
Lynford, a member of the firm, who will reside al
Elklns, lk' was until recently employed in the
Department of forestry at Washington.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

Pittsburg.
J. E. Mellvain & Co. have had a busy spring
I rade so far in ties. They have made some excel-
lent purchases in West Virginia and are having
no trouble in disposing of all the stock they- can
get for railroad use. Most of the ties arc de
livered in the Pittsburg district.

Tlie J. M. Hastings Lumber Company at its
plant at Jacksonville, W. Va., is hustling out
a fine lot of hardwood lumber, principally oak.
it has^niade some notable improvements in its
mills there ami has now one of the finest plants
in that region.

William Whitmer & Sons. Inc.. report slightly
better shipments on most railroads. Their
trade in spruce continues to be the predominant
feature of their business, although they are
getting some cheerful orders for other hardwoods
this month.

The L. L. Satler Lumber Company is making
things rustle down at its big Blackstone plant
in West Virginia. Its shipments during the
li-t three months have made new high records
in every line of lumber it supplies and its mills
are being pushed to the limit to get out stock
which has been sold on long contracts.

E. H. Stoner of the Flint, Erving & Stoner
Lumber Company, W. W. Vosburgh of Bends &
Vosburgh, W. P. Craig of William Whitmer &
Sons, Inc.. F. E. Wilson and A. J. Diebold con
stituted a Pittsburg committee which went
down to Philadelphia last week to confer with
General Superintendent Patterson of the Penn-
sylvania railroad with reference to getting some
relief in the matter of more cars on the West
Virginia lines. A favorable result from the
meeting is expected soon.

The Forest Lumber Company is doing a nice
business in hardwoods this month and is get-
ting very satisfactory prices. A. .1. Diebold of
this company lias just returned from quite an
extended sojourn in Alabama.

The Pittsburg Hardwood Door Company,
which was formed several months ago with the
l'aine Lumber Company, Ltd., as a nucleus, has
moved into its spacious quarters in the great
buildings of the Pittsburg Terminal Warehouse
& Transfer Company, on the South Side. It
will carry a stock of several hundred hardwood
veneer doors, most of them being birch and
cherry patterns.

The Lineban Lumber Company, which was
lately admitted to membership in the Pittsburg
Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, has
moved its offices to another part of the Farm-
ers' Bank building — rooms 2414-15 — where it
has a front suite, one of the most sightly in
the city. W. II. Ames, a well known Pittsburg
salesman, will be their hardwood floor sales-
man and they expect to push this branch of
their business hard. At their plant they are
now getting out a car of hardwood flooring a
day, and most of this finds a ready market in
the Pittsburg district.

The Henderson Lumber Company, formerly in
the People's Bank building, has taken a fine
suite of offices -m the new Commonwealth sky-
scraper in Fourth avenue. It is one of the
leading hardwood firms of this city and handles
perhaps more mine stock and timbers than any
other concern in Pittsburg.

Max Myers of the Cleveland office of the
Parsons-Cross Lumber Company was in Pitts-
burg recently calling on the trade. B. W. Cross
of the same company is back from a long trip
to West Virginia, where he went after hardwood
stocks.

I. F, Balsley. hardwood manager of the Will-
son Brotlicis' Lumber Company, has been in the
east for a week. His reports indicate that there
is a first cbiss market there for the better grades
of hardwood used for finish: and for manufactur-
ing furniture.

The Green & Higgins Lumber Company suf-
fered a loss ,,f $50,000 by the burning of their
big finishing mill at Liberty avenue and Thirty-

third street two weeks ago. It is supposed that
the fire started from spontaneous combustion.
A large amount of finished stock was destroyed.
The plant is likely to be rebuilt this spring.

The Riiskauff Lumber Company, which moved
a few months ago to the Lloyd building in the
East End, is well satisfied with its uptown
location and is doing a thriving trade with the
yards and planing mills of this city and its sub-
urbs. It reports hemlock sialic and high and
the hardwood market brisk.

The A. M. Turner Lumber Company is having
finished to its order a suite of offices in the new
Union Bank Skyscraper at Fourth avenue and
Wood street, which will be a delight to its visi-
tors. The company will not try to get settled
in its new quarters until May 1.

The Edward Hines Lumber Company has taken
a suite of offices on the seventh floor of the
Ferguson building. A. J. Munsall will be man-
ager of the company, which wholesales consider-
able hardwood as well as white and Norway
pine. It has been located in the Oakland dis-
trict previously.

The Colonial Lumber Company lias placed
some big contracts this month for hardwood to
be cut in Tennessee. This is for Pittsburg and
New York delivery and 1,500,000 feet of it is
already on sticks

II. W. Henninger of the Reliance Lumber Com-
pany reports much stiffer prices on oak. Four
and eight quarter stock in the best grades is up
from $1 to $2 over the price that prevailed a
month ago. Hardwood lumber in general is very
scarce. Mr. Henninger says, and there is no
possibility of prices breaking.

A novelty in a sawmill is to be built by the
Nicola Building Company for a company of
Pennsylvania capitalists near Sheffield, l'a. It
will be a reinforced concrete structure witli
60-fool spans. Fur a long time the owners de-
clined i" consider this method of construction,
for they thought that the spans could not be
made long enough. This has now been assured
and they will have a strictly fireproof mill.

J. R. Rosem of Kane. I'a.. has bonghl several
hundred acres of timber land in Madison county.
Tennessee, and will -arrange at once for cutting
it tci supply the Pittsburg district. Most of the
timber is hardwood.

C. B. Loveless of the Ilelman & Loveless Lum-
ber Company of Warren, Ohio, with William
Hatfield of that place, has gone to Durham.
N. C, to take charge of the company's opera-
tion on -'.4ii(i acres of timber land which it
recently purchased. The timber consists of
hickory, oak. pine and gum. It is estimated
that the tract will cut 4,000,000 feet of oak and
1,000,000 feet of hickory. It is on the line of
the Durham & South Carolina railroad and most
of the timber will be shipped to Norfolk and
New Yiu*k. David Ilelman, the head of the
company, is also president of the Ilelman Tim-
ber Company of Warren. Ohio, one of the best
known ship timber concerns in the country.

The Shamokin Wagon Works at Shamokin.
l'a.. were burned April 2. With the plant there
was destroyed a large planing mill, making the
total loss about $75,000.

The Cheat Itiver Lumber Company has just
bought 2,000,000 feet more of hardwood in
West Virginia and will begin cut ling it at once.
Oak is leading in its inquiry nowadays, but it
is also getting some good orders tor i bestnut
for furniture and fixtures.

The plant of the Interior Lumber Company at
Oneida, Tenn.. was burned ten days ago.
A large amount of moulding and bevel siding
was consumed. The company has nearly fin-
ished its cut at that point and is not likely to
rebuild the plant.

The Commonwealth Lumber Company of Al-
derson, W. Va., has bought about 5.000 acres

of hardw 1 timber near Glencoe. W. Va., and

will stall a big operation on the land at once.

Vicegerent Snark O. II. Eectanus of the A.
M. Turner Lumber Company, with his official
associates, scored a great triumph at the last Pitts-
burg concatenation, at which twenty-eight whole-
sale lumbermen were initiated into the mysteries
of Hon Ilocdom. The affair was pulled off at the
Hotel Henry and in addition to the imposing
off at the Hotel Henry and in addition to the
ceremonies that were a necessary part of the
evening's fun there was served an elaborate ban-
quet with a bit of high class vaudeville mixed
in. Several prominent Hoo-Hoos from eastern
eities were present. The entertainment commit-
tee included I. F. Balsley, C. W. Cantrell, O. .1.
Mann. W. C. Brown, J. W. Hodil. R. E. Cannon,
R. c. Wilinartb, .1. J. Linehau and II. M. Mel-
eliers.

Elk county, Pennsylvania is being overhauled
thoroughly in search of hardwood timber. Lot
after lot that was cleared ten years ago of all
that was supposed to be worth cutting is now-
being worked over again to good profit under
the present price regime. The old Birch Hollow
tract, abandoned years ago, is alive again with
small lumbermen whose portable mills are cut-
ting up second growth hardwood stumps, "down"
bigs and in fact everything that will make a
0-foot length. Thousands of feet of red and
white oak have been taken recently from the
clearings in Spring Creek township, another
part of the county which had been left years
ago for good. These operations are now yield-
ing quite as large a percentage of profit on the
investment as the original ones and are furnish-
ing the country dealers in that part of Penn-
sylvania with a large amount of marketable
hardwood.

Much difficulty is reported about getting cars
or any kind of service on the Kanawha & Michi-
gan railroad in West Virginia. For a week it
was under water much of the way and its ship-
pers suffered greatly on this account. Below
Wheeling the entire Ohio river valley is reported
to be devastated and new information regarding
losses by local firms is coming to hand nearly
every day.

Buffalo.

Tbe tire that stopped operations at the Buf-
falo .Maple Flooring Company's plant, which
burned out the factory next door, has kept the
machinery from running, but three matchers
have been started now and will not be stopped
while the factory is being rebuilt.

It is expected that the new club rooms of the
Lumber Exchange will be fitted up early next
month, when Buffalo lumbermen will have a
place to entertain their friends in the trade
who come in from other markets. With a res-
taurant on the floor above everything is very
convenient.

It was generous of the exchange to come for-
ward and take charge of the club problem when
there was a growing doubt as to the propriety
of carrying any more organizations in the name
of the city lumbermen. An effort will be made
to plan the membership so that all can join who
wish to.

The next concatenation of the Order of IIoo-
IIoo will take place on April Is. and a good
membership list is said to be in readiness.

J. F. Knox has gone to southeastern Missouri.
where the tract of hardwood timber owned by
Lever, Knox & Co. is being winked up by the
Pascola Lumber Company, which they organ-
ized lately, with F. A. Beyer, president, and
.!. F. Knox, secretary. Two mills are running.

A. W. Kreinheder is in Kentucky looking after
the timber tracts and sawmills of the Standard
Hardwood Lumber Company, which manufac-
tures a great part of the oak that the Buffalo
yard handles.

The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is
now running full force on making up veneer
work at the Montgomery factory, where a large
establishment has been set up. The demand for
the company's product is daily increasing.

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25

F. M. Sullivan lias returned from a snort trip
i" Atlantic < ity and will now look after the
hardwood trade of 1 Sullivan & c>. bj lake,
which was resumed last season with especially
good results.

11. s. Janes lias made a trip south tor the
Empire Lumber Company since taking charge
and moving the office down town. He will go
to Arkansas soon to look after that pari of thi
1 rade,

Angus Mil. ran. ior some weeks very dangei
ously ill. is now so much better thai bis rei

is considered certain. R. D. McLean lias 1 n

looking over some of bis Canadian work of late.

A. .Miller somehow manages to keep a yard
well stocked with hardwoods, while his sales are
always good. This means that lie is in close
touch with southern producing points.

r. \v. Vetter is filling up his yard as fast as
be can and establishing an unloading dock so
that the facilities for handling will be of the
very best.

Since Manager Hopkins returned from the Isle
of Pines .1. V Scatcherd has been able to look
outside matters again.

The lake trade of G. Elias & Bro. will he
argi again this seasou, as the lirm lias a large
amount of birch, as well as other hardw 1 lum-
ber, waiting to come down.

Some very good sales of cherry have been
made of late by I. N. .Stewart & Bro., hut II. A.

Stewart had I n south several weeks and made

g 1 the outgo, besides getting hold of both oak

and cherry for direct shipment to .New Yi rk
points.

Detroit.

It is now said that a box and shook manufac-
turing company front Wisconsin is trying in gel
a suitable location in Detroit. Tile Detroit
Board of Commerce and the hardwood whole-
sale interests are doing all in their power to
have the concern move t" Detroit.

A dispatch to a Detroit paper says that dur-
ing the pasl year twenty tour firms in Michigan
manufactured 13,775,928 feet of bardw 1 lum-
ber and 58,917,929 feet of hemlock.

An advance of 12% cents a thousand feet in
the carrying charges for the season between Lake
Michigan ports and Lake Erie and to St. Clair
and Detroit rivers was decided upon by the
board of managers of the Lumber Carriers' As.,,
elation at a meeting in the Hotel Normandle,
Detroit, this month. An advance of a quarter
of a cent Is made on cedar posts and an increase
of half a cent on cedar ties.

The Thomas Forman Lumber Company is
enjoying a steady growth in its business and
'sawing wood all the time," Mr. Forman says.

William Kelley of the P.rownlee-Kelley Lum-
ber Company has returned from his trip to Mex
ico and the southern states.

The lumbermen say the Increase in carrying
charges on the lakes will not amount to much,
as the vesselmen will take anything they can
get when the time comes to move the lumber,

Saginaw Valley.

The Richardson Lumber Company of Alpena
and R. W. Gilchrist have purchased the old
.MiFwan sawmill site on the river front at Baj

< ity and will erect ther 1 one of the largest

hardwood plants in the state for the manufac-
ture of il 'tag and Other bardwood lumber and

a plant to work up the refuse into wood alcohol
and other by-products. The company ha d
twenty-year supply of limber. Plans are now
being prepared for the plant, John Eales of
Alpena, an experienced millwright will superin-
tend the construct! >f the plant, the .M. Gar-
land Company will equip the plant with requl
site machinery : a band and band lesaw will be
the first machinery installed. The logs will
c to the mill by rail.

Another large lumber firm is figuring on lo-
cating a similar plant in Bay city.

The Saginaw Manufacturing Company, which
operates a large plant in the production of pul-

leys, washboards and oilier wood novelties, will
ereel an eighty-foot extension i" Its main build
Ing. The building will be uniform in width and
heigh! with the present structure and will be
modern in every way.

W. D. Young & Co. are running steadily ,|a\
and night and are negotiating for in, ire umber.

The plant will easily , ot 20, ,000 feet of

lumber the present year

s. I.. Eastman says that trade is g 1 in his

line. Maple ilooring is in much better form than
ii was a uar ago and there 1- 1 steady demand
lor 1 1 in, lily.

s 1; \i Gates has a 7,000,000 feel
which will be railed in his mill at 1 aj City this
spring.

Lumbermen are bitter over the shortage ol
ears. The average supply is one ear received I'm
every live wanted. Railroad nun stale thai il is

difficult io return empties because ai the term!

nalS they cannot move ibcm mi account of lack

of motive power. Delivery is practically as dis
couraging. it takes all the waj from six to ten
weeks to acne and deliver cars to their ilesiina
1 ion,

A charcoal iron plant is being agitated ai Baj
cily for the purpose of consuming the vast
quantities ot refuse hardwood limber into a mer-
chantable commodity.

More than fifty carloads of hardwood saw log
reach Baj City every twenty-four hours. It
requires that number to keep the mills in opera
lion.

The sawmill of John McCready at Turner
started sawing last week with the largest stock
"f logs il has bad in years.

C. A. I'.igelow of the Kneelaud-Bigelow Com
pany slales that he believes tile available Stock!
in the bands of niilltnen and dealers are consid
erably smaller than they were last year at this
lime. This company is an extensive operator.

The II. M. Loud's Sons Company at Au Sable
is lilting out its fleet of four boats for the sum-
nn 1 carrying trade. It lias one order for 2,000,
DUO feet of maple timber to go to Lake Erie.

Grand Kapids.

Grand Rapids has voted for a bond issue <•(
si .11110, niio io furnish protection to nianufac-
turing ami other interests from Hoods.

The senate has passed the 2-cent railroad fare
bill and it is regarded as very probable that the
house will pass the measure and that Governor
Warner will waste no time in signing it. This
is lb,- governor's pet measure and the roads mosl
directly affected will be the Pere Marquette. Ann
Arbor and the Big Four. The railroad commis
simi bill and the demurrage bill will now be
taken up.

Officials of the electric road operating between
this city. Muskegon and Grand Haven, with Chi-
1.111,1 connections via one of the lake lines, will
call the attention of the Interstate Commerce
Commission to the refusal of steam roads oper-
aling west of Chicago to pro rale on through
business. The claim set up will be that being

I common carrier the steam roads have no right
io discriminate against the electric road and
must handle freight on the basis of through
rales. The two interurban lines out of i Irand
Rapids are doing ,, large freight business.

The Stearns Sail & Lumber Company of Lud-
[ngton advanced the wages of iis men April 1.
The company is prepared for a large cut and for
an increased business in the stave mill and salt
block as well.

There is persistent talk at: Charlevoix thai the
Michigan Central will purchase the Detroit &
Cbarlevoll railroad, otherwise known as the
"Ward line," which is owned by 1 he Ward estate
and is used mostly in hauling logs lo Hie mills

II Deward. The estate lias a timber cut there
estimated to last ten to fifteen years.

The Manistee Navigation Company has started
its season's work of lifting deadheads" from
1 be Manistee river, just below Walton.

11. II I.. Wernicke of the Macey Company has

I n reelected president ,,l the Lakeside Club.

Mr. and Mrs. W. II. While of lloyne cily have
ret 1 null from their western trip.

The Harrison Wagon Works has resumed op-

is in all departments. The creditors' com-
mittee is still working Io straighten out Its
financial affairs.

John I'. Bible, the wagon manufacturer, is the
newly elected mayor ..1 Ionia.

John !' Curl, piano manufacturer, was re-
elected mayor of Grand Haven without opposi-
tion.

Cm' the first year since Hie spring of 1848 no
drive ot logs will pass down the Muskegon rivet
His season Only a few "deadheads" will be

brought down this y '. while formerly hundreds

of drivers were employed under direction of
Thomas Coughlin of Big Kapids. 'I he record of

logs handled by the Log Owners' Booming

pany sln.ws i he following decline of Hie drives in
Hie past six years; huh, 28,612,327 feci , 1902,
ls.|-J_'.';i"i : 1903, 16,371,612; 1904, 16,303,057;
1905, I7.::i 1,517 ; 1906, 7,602,132 feet.

Cleveland.

.1. I.. Lytic of Pittsburg was in I be city this
week calling on the hardwood trade

W. A COOl "I W. A. Tool & Son is in West
Virginia at the company's mill.

w. w. Reilley of Buffalo was a recent visitor
in ibis cily. calling upon bis many friends here.

Robert II. Jenks of the Robert n. .links Lum-
ber Company is in Memphis. Teun. W. A. Spen-
cer of this company is spending some time at
i heir mills in West Virginia, looking after hard-
wood.

w. P. Hilton, manager of the yellow pine de-
partment of the Advance Lumber Company, is
temporarily at Baskin, La., where the company
lias just started a new operation, consisting of
ball yellow pine and red and white oak. The
mill is starting off very satisfactorily and the
oak is reported to he of especially line quality.
This company is also putting in an extensive
plain at Cartersville, Ha., which will be in
operation about May 15. It is a peculiarly con-
structed mill, circular and band, with gang edger
and resaw. and it is expected will cut 100,000
feet per day of ten hours. At this point the
company will cut entirely dimension and has a
large kiln capacity to dry the entire product of

the mill, amounting to al I eight cars per day.

This plant is in charge of F. II. Enwrigbt.

Indianapolis.

It is probable that the new Indiana shippers'
bill will go into effect about April 15, when it
is expected that Governor Hanly will issue a
proclamation declaring the laws passed by the
last legislature to he in effect. The law, it is
believed, will afford immediate relief from the
car shortage Situation, although railroads insist
they an- delivering cars as quickly as possible.
Il is provided under the new law that shipments
must be moved at least fifty miles each twenty-
four hours, not including Sundays, holidays and
accidents Cars must be furnished without dls-
crimination ami the railroads an- subjected to
heavy lines tor violations.

I' I. Galbraitb .N Son of Sunman have com
pleted an extensive deal lor timber lands in
Decatur county. Ii includes the purchase ot
eighty-five acres ot land containing about 2,500
while oak. hick, in I maple lice. Xhe tract

is exi ted io in- i i ,,i oak lumber

alone.

Lumbermen along the Ohio river are just re-
covering from Hie second serious Hood in three
months, which has had a tender to prevent
ag Hie mills. Several yards and
mills were compelled to cease operations for

i weeks I ause i il 1 and had

a net- prepa red to n bus! oess than a

mi inn-. Among the sufferers was the firm

.v Conner, who own a veneer mill at
New Albany.

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HARDWOOD l.ECORD

Improvements under way or contemplated,
amounting to over $3,000,000. will be made in
Indianapolis tliis season. They include several
large office and bank buildings, all ot which
will be finished in hardwood. This unexpected
demand is calculated to still further increase the
hardwood shortage of the city.

Hardwood and furniture industries practically
compose the manufacturing business of Shelby
ville, a county seat of some 5,000 inhabitants
,,i- more about forty miles southeast of Indian-
apolis." There are now twelve large furniture
factories running to their full capacity, in addi-
tion to which there is a large hardwood lumber
coinp any and two or three other woodworking

cerns. Altogether they employ 1,300 men, or

more than a fourth of the city's population.

Several Terre Haute capitalists have organ-
ized the [ssaquena Land & Lumber Company,

,, i ated willi $100,000 capital stock. The

company will deal in Mississippi lands and will
;,ls lgage in tlie lumber business on an exten-
sive s.ale in the South. Those interested in the
new company are D. E. Regan, W. C. Hall. John
K Connelly, G. W. Sims, II. ,7. Baker, G. I..
Koad and David Ingle.

The name of the L. C. Thompson Manufac-
turing Company ot Indianapolis has been
changed to the Furnas Office & Hank Furniture
Company, of which .1. II. Furnas is president.
The company operated under its old name about
fifteen years.

Wickard & Bondurant have purchased Hie old
plant of the singer Sewing Machine Company ai
South Bend lor $200,000. It will lie converted
into apartment plants.

The factory of the Meyers I.awn Swing Com
pany at Goshen was destroyed by fire several
days ago with a loss amounting to about $6,000,
on Which there was about $1,500 insurance. II
is pi,, liable that the factory will be rebuill
immediately.

William Freeman, secretary of the State For-
estry Hoard, has begun the planting of 57,1

young trees on the state's reservation near Hen-
ryville. A camp with twelve men has been
established and the trees will be transplanted
from nurseries, located on the reservation. In-
cluded in the transplanting will be yellow pop-
lar, ash, elm. black locust, chestnut. Kentucky
coffee and maple trees. A large quantity of

s is that have been held in storage will also

be planted. Trees have already been planted on
::iiii acres and ii is expected to ultimately fur-
nish trees for replenishing the forests of the

stale.

The plant of the Vincenues Novelty Company
;n Vincennes was destroyed by fire about ten
days ago The loss reached about $75,000, which
included patterns valued at .$30,000 that were
in the 'plant, together with many important rec-
ords.

Within a short time the Emsing-Platt Lumber
Company will begin business at Lafayette with
a full line of hardwoods and other lumber. It
was organized several days ago and incorporated
by John Kmsing._ D. D. Jacobs, J. W. Skinner.
W. A. Earle ami K. M. Piatt, all of Lafayette
The capital stock of the company is $60,000.

In order to extend its business, the Shelby
Woodworking Company, organized at Shelbyville
some time ago, has just been incorporated. It
has a capitalization of $5,000 and the directors
are J. J. Riser, A. J. Clark, Henry Beynon and
J. F. Inman.

A new veneer house to be known as the
Hoosier Veneer Company will be located at La-
doga. The company has been organized with
SI :,.n(i0 capital and a factory will be built and
equipped with modern appliances. The first
board of directors is composed of Benjamin F.
Carman, R. F. Hicks, Nathan Hulett, George W.
ntterman and S. F. Kyle. -

I lie right of way of the Milwaukee road, which
will double its present capacity.

George C. Swallow, a well known lumberman.
lias been sued for $25,000 damages for having,
ii is alleged, ridden over a sixteen-year-old mes-
senger boy with his automobile. Mr. Swallow,
though having interests in different sections of
the country, resides in Milwaukee.

Owing to the heavy demand for lumber ship-
inenis the Milwaukee road is finding difficulty
in keeping such consignments moving in the
northern part of the state, as men are lacking
to make up crews for the many extra trains
which are said to be called for by shippers.

The Barker & Stewart Lumber Company ai
Wausau has completed improvements in its plain
costing approximately $20,00.0. The circular
saws have been replaced by a baud saw. a new
edger has been placed and a new carriage in-
stalled. The buildings have also undergone re-
modeling.

.Northern lumber mills are complaining of a
dearth of men and requests for laborers have
been placed with almost every employment office
in Milwaukee. All mills are said to be running
shorthanded. notwithstanding that wages are
higher than in former years. The recent warm
weather has reduced the depth of snow in the
most northern counties and it is expected that
hundreds of men will be placed in these locali-
ties ai once.

Asheville.

The local hardwood market remains firm, with
supply of good stock still low. There is an in-
creasing demand for the best grades of poplar,
and lumbermen say that the best prices for this
wood now prevail. There is also an increasing
demand for oak. The past month has been ideal
for the loggers and much standing timber has
been .ut. bill it is yel in Hie forest.

(if interest to lumbermen in Asheville and
western North Carolina is the recent option
taken by S. F. Chapman and J. S. Bailey on the
Belding lands in Graham, Clay and Cherokee
counties, embracing some 55,000 acres. If the
option is taken up and the purchase consum-
mated a New Jersey concern will cut the timber
and market the product, while Chapman ami
Bailey will retain the water rights that go with
the boundary. The ownership of this boundary
is necessary to clear the cause id' action thai
Bailey and f'hapman have against the Southern
Railway Company for the proposed destruction
of an alleged water power in western North Caro-
lina, which is valued at more than one million
dollars. The Southern seeks to build its Mary
ville line through the property of Mr. Bailey.
which will, it is contended, greatly interfere with
the water power. The Belding boundary was
necessary for the establishment of the Bailey
and Chapman claim. The Belding boundary is
a virgin, forest containing poplar, oak. walnut.
ash and hemlock. The owners have held out for
years for $12.50 per acre, but it is not believed
that they will secure this sum under the present
option. The deal, however, may amount to half
a million dollars. Lumbermen say that the boun-
dary will cut 10,000 feet of lumber per acre, ex-
elusive Of the hemlock.

Milwaukee.

The Steinmann Lumber Company has bought
a large tract adjoining its present yards along

Brisl^l, Va.-Tenn.

John T. Nagle ot, the W. M. Ritter Lumber
Company of Columi uy. Ohio, and others have
organized the LinvihL' River Lumber Company.
The company will havo> headquarters at Pineola.
N. C, where it controls a ciig tract of. timber
land formerly owned by th ; Linville Land &
Improvement Company. The new company will
operate the big band rill of the W. M. Ritter
Lumber Company at Pineola and is making prep-
arations to begin active work right away. A
railroad track several miles long is being built
into the timber land to get the logs out.

The Paxton-Lewis Lumher Company has just
been organized in Bristol by Fred K. Paxton,
formerly of the 0rdwa5 Manufacturing Com-

pany ; T. W. Lewis, Jr., of Charlottesville. Va..
and c. II. Brand of Staunton. Va. The company
will have headquarters in Bristol and do a
general manufacturing and wholesaling hard-
wood business. Mr. Paxton, who with Mr. Lewis
will be at the active head of the company, lias
had several years* experience and has lately been
connected with the Bristol Coffin & Casket Com-
pany in an important capacity. The company
owns a large block of timber land near Meadow
View, twenty-five miles from Bristol, and will
manufacture lumber from this timber on circular
mills.

.1. II. Bryan of the Bryan Lumber Company
has gone to Cranberry, N. ('., and Pee Dee, S.
('.. to inspect the mills of his company and
hurry forward orders.

The Tug River Lumber Company of this city
lias just purchased an additional tract of :'.iini>
acres of hardwood timber land in Scott county.
Virginia, near Horton's Summit, and will install
a big band mill at a very early date. The com-
pany at present operates circular mills in Scott
countj "" •' large scale. The new band mill will
have a daily capacity of about 50,000 feet. The
company bad a band mill in Scott county de-
stroyed by fire about a year ago.

The Black Mountain Lumber Company of Cum
berland, Md.. has just purchased a large boun-
dary of timber from the Schafer , heirs, in the
llolston mountains, four miles from Bluff City
and ten miles from Bristol, through John N.
Johnston. The property is estimated to contain
about 20,000,000 feet of merchantable hardwood
timber and the purchase price is said to have

I n $20, It is said that the deal will mean

the early organization of a new lumber concern
with headquarters in Bristol, as the purchasers
will develop the property without delay.

The Louisville & Nashville railway is believed
to be backing a railroad project which will mean
much to the lumbermen of eastern Tennessee
and western North Carolina. This is the pro
posed extension of tlie Tennessee & North Caro
Una railway, a small road now extending from
Newport. Tenn.. to Mount Sterling. N. ('.. in
the beart of a lumber region, to Canton, N. c.
and ultimately to Asheville. and to Knoxville
on tin- southern end. Surveyors are at work
near Canton, N. C, locating the line and it is
believed that the scheme will go through, as the
Louisville & Nashville lias been anxious for years
to get into Asheville.

J. M. McRae of Mount Sterling. N. ('.. bead
of the Laurel Fork Lumber Company, was in
t be city last week and reports that the lumber,
men in that section have lately suffered from
Hoods.

Fire for twenty miles east of Damascus has
done much damage to timber. James Faulkner,
Jr., of the Faulkner Lumber Company, who was
over from Damascus last week, told of the great
fire. The cold rain of last week did not ex-
tinguish the flames and so far the efforts to
check them have proven futile. The Laurel Lum-
ber Company, A. M. Turner Lumber Company.
.1. YV. Difendifer Lumber Company. Tennessee
Lumber & Manufacturing Company and others
are heavy owners of timber lands in that re-
gion.

The llassinger Lumber Company is preparing
to begin extensive operations at Azen. in the
White mountains, twenty miles from Abingdon.
The construction of the Virginia Carolina South-
ern, the road that is to extend from the Vir-
ginia Carolina railway terminus, at Taylor's
Valley, to Azen, has been completed and the
big mills will soon be put in operation. The
road is a standard gauge. The company owns
a 30,000-acre tract of some of the finest hard-
wood timber land In the south In the White
mountains near White top.

M. N. Offutt of the Tug River Lumber Com-
pany and H. M. Hoskins of the II. M. Iloskins
Lumber Company of this city are actively en-
gaged in arranging for the lumbermen's exhibit
at the Jamestown Ter-Centeunial Exposition at

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27

Jamestown this year. The exhibit of the lum-
bermen of this section will be separate from the
exhibits of the counties and nearly 1,000 square
feet in one of the buildings erected bj the Vir
ginia Mineral & Timber Exhibit Association has
been allotted for the ixhiliit.

J. A. Wilkinson will have his new band mill.
which is being erected at his big lumber plain
in Si. nib Bristol, ready in put in operation in a
few weeks. It will have a daily capacity "I
.-,11.111111 feet.

The Came-Wyman Lumber Company of this
city contemplates the construction of a hand
mill on iis timber lauds near Bluff City, on the
Virginia ..v Southwestern, twelve utiles from
Bristol, this spring or summer.

[rving Whaley id the Tug UiviT Lumber Cum
pany and Dr. Lindsay Bunting have returned
from a trip to Bermuda, Porto Rico, Cuba and
other islands in the West Indies, and report a
delightful trip.

John T. Dixon .,1 1 he John '1'. Dixon Lumber
Company of Klizahethton, ami Dixon & Dewey,
Flatiron building, New York, was in the city
last week en route home from a trip to the
Bast. The linn of Dixon & Dewey is being >lis-
solved by mutual consent and a receiver has
been appointed lor the dissolution proceedings.
Mr. Dewey, ii is understood, will be associated

with a his fir 1 :ern, having had considerable

experience in this business.

Through their traveling representatives, R,
M. Smith & Co. of Parkersburg, W. \"a .. are
buying considerable hardwood stock in this sec-
tion;

The Swannanoa Corporation has been organ-
ized with headquarters in Bristol by George 1..
Carter, president of the South & Western rail-
way, and others to deal in Virginia and Ken-
tucky timber lauds.

George II. Mell of Kane. Pa., was a recent
visitor in Bristol and spent several days looking

after his mill interests in eastern Tei ssec

and western .North Carolina.

Cincinnati.

Fire, originating in dimension mill No. I al
the Maley, Thompson & Moffett Lumber Com-
pany's operation at Eighth and Evans streets,
on April :'., destroyed thai plain and entailed a
loss estimated at from $75,000 to Moo. 000.
which is partly covered bj insurance. A consid-
erable hiss in logs and lumber is reported by the
company; also of machinery. The rough timber

was chiefly mahogany, cedar and rosew I

Thomas .1. Moffett, president "f the qoncern, was
mi the scene shortly after the alarm was sound-
ed, lie directed the removal of the office furni-
ture to a room at 1934 West Eighth street,
where the company will conduct business for a
time. .Mr. Moffett says: "We shall depend ou
our mill at Delhi to (ill orders for the present,
and much of the lumber which has nut beeu
touched by the tire will also he used. Should
we experience an unusual demand we shall call
ou our mill at Rockport, Ky.. to assisi. We
also operate a Large lumber yard at New fork
and carloads of dressed lumber will he shipped
here for local use. About 125 men will be
thrown out of work because of the lire, but we
shall rebuild as soon as we can adjust things
wilh the insurance companies. Our new plant
will occupy about twice the area of the old one
and will he built on modern lines. We expect
to have it in operation about June 1."

The Mueller Lumber Company of Maria Stein.
Ohio, was granted incorporation papers with a
capital stock of $6,000. The incorporators are
Peter Kuntz, Joseph J. Moeller, G. II. Moeller,
Louis Moeller and Anthony Schuerman.

The Receivers' & Shippers' Association of Cin-
cinnati, according to President Robert II. West,
will go before the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission at Washington in a short time to win
better freight rates to the South, for which it
has been lighting for years. "We will get to
work at once preparing papers and will apply

in the commission for a hearing within thirty

days." says President West "The facts of

long campaign in brief are these Over a quar-
ter of a century ago the railroads fixed tin- rates
in tin- South, and they are practically tin- same
now. These rates give eastern manufacturers
a tremendous advantage over those of Cincin-
nati, Chicago, si. Louis and this territory, in
1894 1 he Cincinnati shippers appealed in the
Interstate 1 ommerce Commission to remedy iliis
condition, 'the commission decided in our favor
and ordered that Cincinnati lie given certain
lowered rates. The railroads refused i,> obey
the order hi' the c niissi.,11 and took the ques-
tion in 1 he Supreme Court. That court held the
eiimniissii.il had no legal authority to lix or cor
rect rales. Then for years we campaigned 1"

secure legal authority for the i imission. Last

year we succeeded in this when the Hepburn
law was passed. 11 gave ihe commission power
in change unreasonable rates i" reasonable ones.
A few in. ,nihs ago we asked i he Southern rail
road al a conference lo grant us belter rales.

practically the same as the commission had
ordered years ago. We Informed them we did

not insist i,n lower rales We merely asked for
rates that would he fair in comparison with
llu.se in Ihe East. If they desired lii advance
ihe eastern rales. Instead of Lowering ours, the
effect would he the same Cincinnati shippers
would he then on a fair basis in competing with
ihe East for business in the Smith."

The Pierce Brothers' Furniture Company of
Lorain. Ohio, lias been incorporated wilh a
capital stock of $30,000 by A. .1. Pierce, E. I'..
Pierce and John W. Pierce

The Cincinnati Lumbermen's club held its
monthly meeting at ihe Business Men's Club
recently and received the report of Ihe Inspec-
tion Committee, which lias worked out a plan for
the revision of the iiispecti.ui rules for hard-
woods. 11 is planned in submit a revised set of
rules at the convention of the .National Hard
wood Lumber Association at Atlantic City. X. .1..
.May •-'." and ".4.

The Brooks Lumber Company of Pataskala,
Ohio, with a capital 1,1' $25,000, was incorpo-
rated by Henry Brooks, .1. 11. Brooks, Allien E.
Frankenberg, Emit A. Frankenberg and II. II.
Laird.

A. I'eiiiun. representing the Cincinnati Hard-
wood Lumber Company and the Ohio Veneer
Company, has returned from a successful trip
East and reports a brisk demand for lumber in
I hat territory.

The Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Company
will dose a deal involving the purchase of a
targe trad of fand in the northern part of Ten-
nessee wit bin a few days. Ihe tract contains
about I. son acres and ihe company will estab-
lish three large mills mi the property to cut
the timber tor the market. The land contains
targe quantities of high-class oak and poplar.
Lied Bosken, a member of ihe firm, will visit
Hie land to make arrangements for the erection
of the sawmills.

William E. Delaney, general manager of the
Kentucky Lumber Company, has gone south on
a business trip. He will be away from the local

offices for some daj s.

The receipts of lumber at this market have
improved over those of ihe month of February,
ii.siit cars being received and 5,133 ears shipped.
as compared with the same month last year of

0,545 receive. I ;inil 5,183 shipped. The car

shortage siill has a serious effect on the market.
Without any relief promised until, perhaps, the
belt line is built around Cincinnati.

Chattanooga.

Tlie ear shortage is a little easier in Chatta-
nooga and it is the opinion of most lumbermen
that the railroads arc using every effort to re-
lieve the situation, The greatest trouble seems
i., be to get oils and iioi in ihe congestion of
empty cars. As a general rule cars are moved
promptly after they are unloaded. It is be-

lieved ibai the rale law is largely responsible
for ibis situation. The Situation is worse mi
ihe Southern system than any other. The sit
nation lias been relieved a great deal on the
Alabama Great Southern road by the purchase
of a large number of cars.

Business is - I and Lumbermen have no com

plaint to make in this resped. Mills are .ill
busy.

Ihe llambui'si I. umber Company, recently in

corporated with $25,000 capital slock, i.. locate
a lumber plain at Ramhurst, Ga., will organize
in a lew days. '1 lie company lias purchased
machinery from ihe J. a. Fay & Egan Company
of Cincinnati, which will be shipped at once.
A she of several acres has been purchased and
a siding will be located in a few days.

The Mci.ean Lumber Company is building ;i
large dry kiln to its plain on Ihe Tennessee
river, which will have a capacity of 75,000 feel

The Acme Box Company has recently pur
chased a tract of land near ils plant for Ihe
sum of $3,500. This gives Ihe company a solid
block and it will make extensive improvements
al once, line of ihe largesl lumber yards in Hie
South will ue established. Trams and ways will
I reeled all over the yards.

There was never a belter demand for high
made poplar than now. Within Hie last two
months lumber has advanced at least $1, but
ihe demand increases in proportion, High grade
oak lumber comes wilh a close second in demand
and chestnut a third. The export business is

good, i.ui lumber n here are preparing to ship

in Pensacola, Savannah. Mobile and others ports
because of ihe fail thai Ihe New llrleans roads
have reduced the "free time" one-half. It is
the opinion of the shippers here that this scheme
will injure ihe New Orleans port very materially.

Great Britain is waking up to ihe fact thai
ihe advance is coming and consumers in thai
country are placing large orders, for poplar espe

dally.

M. .1. Voris. treasurer of Hie Williams-Voris
Lumber Company, was a recent visitor in the
city. His home is in Franklin, Ind.

Information has been received by I'. F. Fit k-
gibbons of the McLean Lumber Company that
Angus McLean, president of the concern, is Im-
proving in health. He has recently been very
ill al his home in Huffalo.

St. Louis.

The Teckemeyer & Wehlnger Lumber Com-
pany lost $1,500 Worth of slock by lire in ils
yards on March 1!4.

Edward II. Luehrmann, vice president of the
Charles F. I.iiebrmann Hardwood Lumber Com
pany. reports business excellent and orders com-
ing in al a lively rale. 'Ihe demand is- almost
equally active lor all kinds of hardwoods and
pries are generally firm. -Mr. Luehrmann
stales that some of the company's mills in the
southern producing districts are tied up on ac-
count of recent n is. ami should bad weather

tinne there will be little logging done. The

company has already been set back Ibr •

lour months on account ..f unfavorable weather.

Henry I'.oardman. George T. Meyer and John
i'. Vaughan are Interested in the National Ve-
neer Package Company, whicl nth filed

articles of incorporation with a capital stock
of $250,000. The company win manufacture

and handle veneer, boxes, barrels ami other
packages.

Wiih a well assorted stock of all lines of
hardwoods ihe Steele .v. Hlbbard Lumber Com
pany is in position in tin orders with greater
promptness than is usual at the present time.
L. M. I'.urgess. secretary of ihe company, re-
ports business active and prices stiff.

Theodore Plum r of the l'l ner Lumber

Company reports the hardwood situation gen-
erally satisfactory. Orders are booked with a

lair degr f frequency and at good prices.

A rather dark picture of logging conditions
in .he South is drawn by F c. Moore, presi

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dent of the F. C. Moore Lumber Company, who
recently returned from an extended southern
trip. Operations in eastern Arkansas, he says,
have been much retarded of late because of the
floods, and the water is very slow in disappear-
ing. It is impossible to get logging wagons into
the lowlands because of the mud. and there is
not enough water to allow the logs to I"'
dragged out by cattle. The lumber offereii is
frequently of poor quality, especially that put
out by the smaller mills, as mill owners have
been compelled to use up the timber on high
land near the mills because they could not gel
at the better timber in the swamps. It will
probably be sixty days before any quantity of
lumber is in condition to be marketed.

Receipts of lumber by rail during the first
twenty-live days of March were L1.093 cars, as
against 11,067 cars during the first twenty-five
■ lays of March last year. Receipts by river dur-
ing I lie first twenty-five days of March this year
were 84,000 feet, as against 272,000 feci dur-
ing the same period last year. Shipments by
rail during the first twenty live days of this
March were 7,360 cars, as against 6,724 cars
during the same period last year. There were
39,000 feet shipped by rivet- during the first
twenty-five days of March this year, as against

l>7, I feet during that period last year. This

shows an increase in rail receipts < >r 26 cars
during the first twenty-five days of March this
year anil a decrease in river receipts of 188,000
feet in comparison with last year; tin increase
.,i 636 cars in shipments by rail during the
first twenty-five days of this March in compar-
ison with the same period last year, but a de
crease of _'s,niiu feet in shipments by river.

Nashville.

General Manager M. F. Green of the Davld-
si.n-Itenedict Company, has just returned from
his southern home in Florida, where he and bis
family spent the winter months. Mr. Green is

also 01 f the principal stockholders of the

Kylco Lumber Company, which has large hold-
ings in Polk county, and he will leave soon to
superintend the erection of a big mill on that
property.

The W. J. Cude Land & Lumber Company is
operating extensively around Dickson, Tenn.,
where it has purchased large timber holdings
and also a ten-acre tract in the city for a lum-
ber plant site. On the latter a sawmill, planing
mill and dry kiln are being built. A St. Louis
concern is also erecting a mill there and two of
the local mills have consolidated and are putting
up a plant. Dickson will soon have half a
dozen lumber plants.

The spring building boom has started and the
local planing mills are exceedingly busy trying
to keep pace with the heavy demand for interior
finishing stuff.

A special from Hopkinsville, Ky., announces
that the Kentucky Stave Company has opened a
branch factory in that city. The plant will lie
running in a few days and will have a capacity
of 10,000 staves_a day.

Reports from Hickman county in the New
Ilope and Beaverdam sections tell of considerable
damage in those parts from forest fires. Timber
and fencing alike have been destroyed.

Harris & Cole Brothers' planing mill at Co-
lumbia, Tenn., some time since announced the
intention of quitting business at that point, but
the plant has recently enjoyed such prosperity
that a large force of men is still being w'orked
and lug orders are being filled.

Keith, Thomas & Co. have recently established
a sawmill at the head of Spring Creek in Put-
nam county and the mammoth plant of this
company has already sawed a million feet of
oak, poplar and walnut. Brotherton, on the
Southern, is the shipping "point for this big out-
put .

John T. Mitchell and Dr. I!. J. McGavock of
■ olumbia, Tenn., have bought from the Warren
heirs about 30,000 aires of timber and phos-

phate lands in Perry, Lewis and Humphreys

lies. The price is undisclosed, but is said

to be a good round one.

Wilson & Sharp are erecting a stave factory
on the Siler property in Tipton county, and the
firm is said to have acquired enough red and
white oak timber to cut for a number of years.

Liebermau, Loveman & O'Brien have added a
cross tie department to their already large in-
terests. For this purpose they are operating a
small saw mill near their main plant. Simon
Lieberman, senior member of this firm, has just
returned from a fishing trip of several weeks in
Florida waters. lie made St. Petersburg head-
quarters and enjoyed the trip keenly. lie re-
ports some good catches and narrates one ad-
venture with a shark that seized a mackerel he
had hooked and was reeling in. nearly capsized
the boat and finally broke his line.

The Joseph Scheffer Lumber Company lias re-
centlj completed additions to its planing mill

on the corner of Mill and Mom streets that

will enable the company to double its capaeitj
Henderson Baker, president of the company,
s s that they are expecting a big spline trade

it 'ge Eleazer, a lumberman of Dickson .nun

ty, has 1. 1, ugbt a large tract of timber land near
Lurns, Tenn., from I!. L. Hall. The purchase!
will immediately begin the work of cutting off
the timber.

John It. Ransom has just returned from a
fishing trip at Rock Ledge. Flu. He .nine back
with bis hand tied up in a sling and when aske I
what was the matter said a blue fish bit him
on the thumb. He swore the fish was a monster
and that while he was trying to get the hook out
nf the big fellow's mouth tin fish just chewed
and chewed and chewed. The party also caught
a large number of the gamey Spanish mackerel.

Hamilton Love of the firm of Love, Boyd &
Co. is still fishing in Florida, having moved up
the coast from Miami to Rock Ledge. He is
improving right along in health and hopes ere
long to bid rheumatism farewell.

Lynville, Tenn., is soon to have a large spoke
;iinl handle factory. Parties from Muncie, Ind .
have been looking over a site in the Tenn,
town and seem to mean business.

The Nashville Spoke & Handle Factory is re-
ported as being after a site for a branch fac-
tory at Lebanon, Tenn.

A special from Trenton, Tenn.. announces ex-
tensive improvements being made at the plant of
the Harlan Stave Mill Company there. New
fireproof brick boilers are being installed, shav-
ing rooms and other features. It is claimed the
output will be very considerably increased. A
large amount of timber is being collected, ready
for working up.

The Nashville Spoke & Handle Factory has
bought the handle factory of Levi Malugen at
Centreville, Tenn., and will take charge at once
with II." S. Bachelder as superintendent. The
new owners will run the factory at its fullest
capacity. A large quantity of hickory timber
is already cut and in easy reach of the factory.
Levi Malugen is the man who recently invented
a machine which he claims will revolutionize the
process of steam manufacturing, and it is said
he has been offered large sums for the patent
rights.

A special from Dothan, Ala., announces that
Frank Fowler, a prominent sawmill owner there.
has been arrested on the charge of murdering
bis' wife.

A special from Johnson City announces that
the veteran lumberman, James A. Martin, has
closed a deal whereby he becomes the owner of
5,000 acres of virgin hardwood timber in Hay-
wood and Swain counties, North Carolina. The
timber is mostly oak, poplar and chestnut, and it
is said some of the trees are twenty-one feet in
circumference.

The Illinois Central railroad is buying great
quantities of oak crossties in Tennessee and Ala-
bama. Recently thirteen steamers loaded with
crossties went down the Tennessee to Rockport,

III., with lumber consigned to the above rail-
road. In fact, these boats are making two round
trips a month, taking about 20,000 ties at each
load or a total of more than half a million ties.
The road is buying this timber all up and down
the river and there is a small army of men at
work cutting ties.

Henry Dickens of Hartsville. Tenn., who has
amassed a fine lot of walnut lumber, recently
refused l?102 per thousand for it.

A. E. Baird of Nashville and his associates
have post sold a big tract of timber in Mexico to
parties supposed to represent the Mexican rail-
road running from Durango to Mazatlan, a dis-
tance of 150 miles. The tract sold includes half
a million acres of hardwoods and pine.

Memphis.

The Bellgrade Lumber Company, which is
owned by members of the firm of Thompson 4i
Mm lure and Crenshaw & Cathey and which was
incorporated some time ago with a capital stock
of $100,000, has purchased a site of twenty
acres for the erection of its big band sawmill
and resaw live miles south of Belzoni, Miss.,
ilius giving room for large yards for the hand
ling of the output of the plant. The machinery
has already been purchased and is now being
shipped and work is to begin at once on the
construction of the plant. The yards and site
are so situated that they face the Yazoo &
Mississippi Valley road on one side and the
i'azoo river on the other, thus enjoying exeep-
tional transportation facilities for both the raw
material and the finished product. The com-
pany lias purchased 6,000 acres of timber lands
already and is negotiating for more. A railroad
nf standard gauge, nine miles long, will be con-
structed for handling the timber to the mill.
In addition to its own timber, however, the
company will buy logs from the rafts on the
river. Gum, oak and ash will be the principal
lumber handled. The mill will have a daily

capacity of 40.1 to 50,000 feet. Thompson

& Met 'lure will continue their yards in Mem-
phis and make a specialty of ash, as they have
done heretofore.

The semi-monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's
1 luh of Memphis was held April 0 at the
Hotel Gayoso with a fairly large attendance.
Live new applications for membership were re-
ported. The river and rail committee of the
club is holding regular weekly meetings and
Chairman Hendrickson is authority for the
statement that it will have something to an-
nounce soon •that will make mighty interesting
tending."

Max Sondheimer, president of the E. Sond-
heimer Company, with headquarters in Memphis,
has taken issue rather strongly with the Insur-
ance Field of Louisville, Ky.. on an editorial
article it published recently referring to the
moral hazard of hardwood lumber risks. Mr.
Sondheimer has written a letter to an insurance
agency in Memphis on the subject and this ap-
peared in the Insurance Field, with comments.
Mr. Sondheimer points out that cypress is not
classed by lumbermen as a hardwood and that
the writer in Insurance Field does the hardwood
trade serious injustice in making his specific
reference to cypress embrace the entire hard-
wood industry. In the second place he asserts
that the price of cypress or any other lumber
is not arbitrarily fixed by any association. He
declares that the laws of supply and demand
govern the price of lumber as well as that of
every other commodity, and that an arbitrary
price that did not take into consideration the
relations between supply and demand would not
last a day. He admits that manufacturers,
wholesalers, retailers and others who have asso-
ciations get together and exchange views as to
values and in some instances list prices, based
on these exchanges of opinion which are given
out by the associations, but he insists strongly
that the prices so named are not arbitrary. In
conclusion Mr. Sondheimer says : "The hard-

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wood men will take particular exception to tbe
statements in insurance Field thai 'insurance
has been written to cover the market price, but
(insurance) companies have discovered tbal the
market prii <• is one where ashes are more valu-
able than lumber.' If the writer of the article
will refer to ins insurance statistics be will
unearth the fad that there is no class ut' risks
the insurance companies accept thai lias cost
them less moncj tor losses than the hardwood
lumber industry. Therefore, instead of being
extra hazardous, as he intimates, it is really a
preferred risk, as his records will show. We
reel that it is due t" ns that i be attention of

the Hiiter of the article be railed t.> this I

ami that he i..- requested to make the proper
amends for his unfounded statements."

Two lumbermen of this city are rivals in the
election to be held by the business Men's Club
within the next few days. R. .1 . Darnell being
eandidate for president of that organization on
the "blue" ticket and \V. K. llarksdalo bring
his opponent on the "red'" ticket. Both have

I n president of the Lumbermen's Club of

Memphis. It is assured that a lumberman will
be at the lead of that great organization of
over 1,000 business nee: during the coming year.

II. E. Bacon, who was for some years con-
nected with the Bacon Nolan Hardwood Com-
pany and the Lamb llanlw 1 Lumber Company

and wliii. until a short time ago. was the general
manager of the consolidation of these compa-
nies and the (iuirl-.SIover Lumber Company,
known as the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company,
has left Memphis for Britisb Columbia, where hi-
ts to locate. He was one of the most
prominent lumbermen of this city and carried
with him the well wishes of the entire lumber
fraternity.

II. W. Flatau. representing II. Lebus, whole-
sale export furniture manufacturer of London,
England, who has been here for some time look-
ing for hardwoi d lumber, leaves this evening
for Nashville. He will sail for home the latter
part of this mouth.

\V. M. Hopkins of Theodore l-'athauer Com-
pany of Chicago was here this week.

lb- Lumbermen of .Memphis are now using a
pruned form in keeping track o£ the character
of service rendered by the railroads. It has been
officially adopted by the Lumbermen's Club and
is made out in duplicate, one copy being for-
warded to the railroad officials when requisition
for cars is made and the other being retained in
t ! nice of the shipper.

In addition to building a double band saw-
mill in Memphis, work on which is progressing
rapidly, interests connected with E. J. Darnell,
Inc.. are erecting a double baud mill at Leland,
Miss., where the style of the company is the
Darnell-Love Lumber Company. This company
has been operating one large baud mill at that
point and is simply adding another and will
put both under the same runt The Darnell-
Love 1. her Company is also building a rail-
road some distance out from Leland for the pur-
pose of facilitating the development of its tim-
ber lands. .Machinery for the new mill, which
will be of large capacity, is being delivered, and
work will be rushed to completion.

Tin- Dent Lumber Company, capitalized at

$50; has made application for a charter tor

the purpose of operating a circular sawmill near
Monroe, La., for the development of timber
on land owned by il. tilli.es and licadquu iters
will he maintained in Memphis. The officers
are: II. T. l-'ant. president of the Bankers'
I rust Company. Memphis, president; Jett Dent,
general manager, and W. II. Withers, of \V. II.
Withers & Co., cotton factors, secretary and
treasurer. The company, in addition to owning
considerable timber land, has options on more
in the same section, thus insuring continuous
operation for some years. The daily output will
be about 30,000 feet.

The Dexter Handle Company, of Dexter. Mo.,

has pin. based a site al Pine Bluff, Ark . for the

lidatlon of its two ban. lie factories in

Missouri. The daily output of the consolidated
plain will lie 2,400 ax ban. lie- an.l a large num-
ber "f neck yokes and single and double trees.
The company will consume considerable hard-
wood timber in the course of a year.

I he Memphis Furniture Company, which lost

the greater pari of its two warel ses by tire.

together with the stock contained therein, some
time ago, entailing a loss of $105,000, fully in-
sured, is making active preparations for rebuild-
ing these en a larger ami better scale. The
main pari of I In' plant was not damaged and
the company is running steadily both its main
uptown plant and the one in South Memphis.

There is s ■ delay, owing to the loss of so

mm li . 1 1 y stock, in tilling orders, but the com-
pany expects soon to be in position to take care
of all the business offered.

The plan! ..I the American tar & Foundry
Company, located at Einghamton, a suburb of
Memphis, has received au order for l.sou cars,
.".on lor the Illinois Central, .".'in for the Gulf
.v. Ship Island and Sun for the National Railway
of Mexico. The company is just completing an
order ..I ss.'i cars, ('.till of which go to the N'ew
Orleans .V Northeastern. The management
stales that the company has enough business on
its books just uow to keep the plant in opera-
tion until the end of the year.

The statistics committee of the Lumbermen's
(Tub. of which W. A. stark is chairman, has
submitted its report to that organization, cover-
ing the growth and volume of the lumber
business of litis city for the year 1906. Com
parisons are made with 1904, the last year in
which such a report was compiled. The essen-
tial details are incorporated in the following
tabulated statement :

Feet.
Lumber manufactured in Memphis. .103,463,000

increase over 1904 31,463,

Lumber manufactured by Memphis

firms outside ol Memphis 229,397,000

Increase over 1904 54,897, '

Lumber yarded in Memphis but

manufactured outside of .Memphis. 80,270,000

Increase over 1904 43,328,000

Lumber handled direct from mills
and yards outside of Memphis by
Memphis firms but not manufac

tured by them 135,648,000

Increase over 1904 34,946,00U

Total handled by Memphis Arms ... 548,77

Increase over 1904 165,084,

I ber exported by Memphis firms. 39,462,000

Logs received by rail at Memphis

and manufactured into lumber... 78,933,000
Logs received by river at .Memphis

and manufactured into lumber... 33,257,000
Logs and bots received by rail and
river at Memphis and manufac-
tured into cooperage slock L'o. 2i 11 1, nun

Logs received by river and rail at
Memphis and manufactured into
vehicle stock, turned work and

pump mils 12,600,

Lumber consumed bj retail yards. .100,000,000
Lumber consumed by factory trade. 60,624,000

II may be further pointed out that several
thousand persons ai mployed by local [umber

interests and that the annual sum paid out tor

labor by lumbermen of this city is approxi-
mately $3,000,000.

Weather conditions have shown considerable

improvement in this sect inn .luring the past
fortnight. The statement is mail.- on the au-
thority of some ol' the most prominent, mem-
bers of the trade lore thai the output in this
territory is now larger than it has been for
the pasl live months. This, however, has not
tended to bear the market because of the
knowledge that there is a very large demand
for lumber to be filled before tin- stock now- be-
ing produced will be available no use.

The car situation is very unsatisfactory.
There was temporary improvement noted a short
time ago and lumber Interests hoped this would
prove permanent. Lumbermen now. however,
are having considerable difficulty in securing
cars and their shipments are being delayed on
this account.

'I he river and rail committee of the Lumber-

men's club, which has 1 n wrestling for some

time with various phases of the traffic prob-
lem, has not yet made it- final report to the
• lull The committee is holding weekly meet-
1 ml is doing its best to reach a satisfactory
adjustment of the various matters submitted

In its rare.

The annual meeting of the International Slack

perage Stock Manufacturers' Association

was held ai the Hotel Gayoso this week, with
about 75 to 100 delegates in attendance from
all parts of the country. The scarcity of cars
and the general congestion of trallie was con-
sidered by the association, which expressed the
view that this is the most serious matter now
le lore the members of the industry represented
by the organization. Secretary C. J. DeLaney
reported a considerable increase, about 25 per
cent, in membership during the past six months,
bringing the iota! to 125, the largest ever ex-
pel irneed. Officers were to have been elected,
but this was postponed to an adjourned meet-
ing which will he held for this purpose in sixty
days. Emil Pott, of cape Girardeau, Mo.. Is
president of the association.

The entrance of Stuyvesant Fish, formerly
president of the Illinois Central, into the di-
rectorate of the Missouri Pacific system is ac-
cepted as indicating the early construction of
the line between Memphis and Marianna, Ark..

which has alrea.h 1 11 surveyed and cleared

and which has been graded for some distance.
The Missouri Pacific system is handling a rap-
idly increasing volume of business between Mem-
phis ami New iirleans. In addition to greatly
shortening the distance between .Memphis and
Marianna the new line will prove an important
factor in the development of the timber re-
sources of the section between Memphis and
Marianna. Predictions are heard that the line
will be completed before the end of the current
year.

Lee Wilson & Co., inc. who operate a large
mill at Wilson, Ark., have established local
offices in the Tennessee Trust building. Mr.
Wilson reports considerable activity at his plant
and says the lumber business is in very satis-
factory condition.

The l'aepcke I.eicht Lumber Company, of
Chicago, has established a distributing yard
at New South Memphis. The tract embraces
about 10 acres and has a capacity of storing

about 7.1 1 feet of lumber. There are two

tracks running into the yards, one for loading
an.l tl le 1 for unloading, thus greatly facili-
tating the handling of lumber.

The Southern Oak Lumber Company, of which
s. s. Ford is manager, has disposed of its yards
10 George C. Brown .V: Co., of Nashville. Tenn.
The latter firm is a new one for Memphis and
one which promises to make the newly acquired
yards among the best in the city.

tun- of the handsomest private offices occu-
pied by lumbermen of this city is that just com-
pleted by Russe & Burgess in North Memphis.
The office is a spacious one ami is finished in
hardwood.

.lames Cooper, of the Briggs .' Cooper 1 om
pany, Ltd., of Saginaw. Mich., spent some time
recently at the local office of his firm.

New Orleans.

Considerable interest is being manifested in
i.iik of a barge lumber line between New
Orleans ami points on tin- upper Mississippi
liver. Several prominent Louisiana lumbermen
are taking active interest in the suggestion, and
ii is regarded as probable that definite results
in the shape of a lumber barge line win accrue
Practically all of the big hardwood plants in
Louisiana are advantageously located when it
iiiines i,, water transportation, nearly ail of
litem being situate on the tributaries of thi

ipl. For this reason the hardwood men
just as much interested in the project as are
He cypress men and manufacturers of

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Advices from Alexandria, La., state that the
Red Biver Hardwood Lumber Compapy of Alex
andria has purchased 18 acres of land near
the right of way of the Rock Island railroad in
the suburbs of Alexandria. This site will be
used by the company for its big mill.

The Bayou Sara Lumber Company has in-
creased its capital from $8,000 to $60,000. At
a recent meeting of the directors the following
officers were elected : John F. Irvine, president ;
Joseph Birg, vice president; G. M. Lester, sec-
retary and treasurer.

The fcannon Lumber Company has been organ-
ized at De Ridder, La., to manufacture staves
and ties. The company is capitalized at $5,000.
The incorporators are : J. C. Cannon, J. M.
Hanchey and J. W. Terry.

The Bay Lumber Company has been organized
at Bay St. Louis, Miss., with au authorized capi-
tal of $100,000. John Ulysses, W. J. Gex, A. C.
Gex and others are the incorporators.

A new company which will engage in the
manufacture of spokes and similar products has
been organized at Bay Springs, Jasper county,
Miss. It is the Bay Springs Spoke & Manufac-
turing Company and has an authorized capital
of $20,000. These are the incorporators : L. L.
Denson, R. J. Burnett. J. O. Denson. T. E.
Cooper and others.

Insurance rates on lumber are attracting a
great deal of attention at the present time be-
cause of the manner in which the lumbermen are
contesting the advances the insurance companies
are attempting to make. For some time the
companies have been talking about increasing
rates and the announcement that such a step
was in contemplation brought a howl of protest
from the manufacturers of all kinds of lumber.
The controversy is as yet unsettled, with both
sides still on the firing line.

Morehead, Ky.

There is still quite a car famine here. S. M.
Bradley says he has over two hundred cars
ordered and several inspectors idle on account
of no cars. However, the situation is not as
bad as it has been.

The Clearfield Lumber Company has just re-
ceived an American log loader to be used on its
railroad. The directors of this company held
a meeting in this city this week. They also
looked over their property and inspected their
new band mill which is now Hearing completion.
The company will build a number of houses and
an up-to-date clubhouse here soon.

The S. B. Reese Lumber Company of Farmers
is running both mills steadily and will try and
run one mill nights to make room for more logs
should there be another log tide.

The Farmers Lumber Company of Farmers has
a nice lot of lumber on sticks and is running
steadily.

The Salt Lick Lumber Company, Salt Lick,
is getting a nice lot of lumber on sticks and has
enough logs to keep running most of the year.

S. M. Bradley says his fifteen mills are run-
ning steady with a good supply of logs, and he
looks forward to the largest year's business he
has ever had. He recently bought several nice
tracts of timber, which he is now working.

Louisville.

The Edward L. Davis Lumber Company says
that while the car shortage continues to inter-
fere with the movement of lumber considerably.
it has been making out very well and has by
strenuous efforts managed to get caught up with
shipments. The demand for oak and other hard-
woods continues excellent with the company and
it has all it can do to take care of trade.

The Norman Lumber Company reports a splen-
did demand for hardwood, but experiences con-
siderable difficulty both in moving stock over
country roads and with railway transportation.
The country roads are some better than they
were, but farmers are now turning to their own

work, and as a consequence there are not enough
teams available to move stock in the country as
rapidly as desired.

The W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company
says that it is still shipping out stock faster
than it is getting it into the yard here. Nat-
urally the management is worrying considerably
to see the yard so depleted when the company
has stock in the country if it could only be
moved.

The A. I'. Turner Lumber Company, which
makes a specialty of ties, car stock and vehicle
stock, is enlarging operations in the woods, al-
though not as rapidly as desired. A while back
it could not do more work because the weather
was against it and now that the weather is
favorable sufficient help cannot be obtained.
However, it is turning out a fair amount of
stock these days and making preparations To
further increase operations as soon as more help
is assured.

The Kentucky Hardwood Flooring Company
is very busy taking care of its heavy orders for
hardwood flooring. The company furnished
flooring for a number of the big up-town build-
ings just being completed and takes considerable
pride in the quality of the product as seen in
these, new buildings, among which are the Ather-
ton Building and the Stewart Dry Goods Com-
pany's new structure.

The Bell & Coggeshall Company now has its
new box factory building under roof and
i- about ready to put iu the machinery equip-
ment. The new plant is a two-story brick struc-
ture with concrete floor, and alongside of it
there is a dry kiln being erected of hollow con-
crete blocks.

The Peerless Veneer Mills Company has been
incorporated in Louisville to manufacture quar-
ter-sawed veneer, lumber, etc. The moving
spirit iu this concern is Marc O. Mundy, who
has been planning for a year or more to start a
new industry here, and has now started work
on the erection of their plant. The new plant
is located in the Parkland end of town adjacent
to the plant of the Kentucky Hardwood Flooring
i Yimpany.

C. M. Clark of the Swann-Day Lumber Com-
pany, Clay City, Ky., was among the recent vis-
itors in town.

Charlotte, N. C.

The plant of the W. H. Sikes Lumber Company
of Fayetteville, N. C, among the largest timber
and lumber operators in the T'pper Cape Fear
River valley, was entirely destroyed by fire a
few days ago. The loss will reach at least $40.-
000, which is only partially covered by insur-
ance.

Maj. .T. E. Alexander, referee in bankruptcy,
who has charge of the accounts of the B. M.
Andrews Furniture Company, which recently
failed for $140,000, says that there are 600 cred-
itors. The'assets of the company will not exceed
$20,000. The company operated in North and
South Carolina towns and was considered one
of the leading firms of its kind in the Carolinas.
Several stores were also located in Georgia, all
being included in the bankruptcy proceedings.

A number of hardwood concerns over in North
and South Carolina have entered suit against the
Southern Railway Company for judgment in
damages alleged to have been sustained because
of the failure of the railroa'd company to deliver
lumber in time to meet contracts. Considerable
loss has accrued to the lumber interest in this
section through the shortage of cars that has
prevailed during the past winter and spring
months. The situation is easing up now and
the railroads are preparing to meet the demands
of the lumber companies, as well as other in-
terests throughout this section, in the way of
furnishing more adequate and satisfactory serv-
ice.

Ashland.
The local mills are all busy, with a steady

demand for their output. Logs are plentiful,
and the supply will last several months.

There has been a car shortage that interfered
greatly with shipments, but the condition has
improved somewhat within the last few days.

Mr. Hall, of C. L. Munger Company, Phila-
delphia : W. A. Cool, of W. A. Cool & Sons.
Cleveland, O. : I. G. Ballard, of the Ohio River
Saw Mill Company, Louisville, and Mr. McNulty
of Stevens-Eaton Company, New York, were
among recent visitors to this market.

J. H. Kester, of the W. H. Dawkins Lumber
Company, has returned from a visit to his
parents in Parkersburg, W. Va.

Earl King, of the Keyes-Fannin Lumber Com-
pany, at Herndon, YV. Va., has returned to the
mountains after a few days visit here.

Timber operations on Gilbert creek, a tribu-
tary of upper Guyandotte river in Mingo county,
are now in full blast and hundreds of men are
engaged in the work. The recent rise in Guyan-
dotte brought out an immense lot of stuff from
there and gave the .workmen room in which to
place logs for the next rise. This is the creek
in which Jeff Grill, of Cabell county, is doing
so much work and Crane & Cole are also inter-
ested in that locality.

Many of the logs that came out of Guyan-
dotte river on the recent rise are reported
lodged in the bottoms which were overflowed,
and a great deal of labor will be required to
get many of them back into the stream.

The Ironton Lumber Company of Ironton, O..
in the fire of March 22 lost iis sawmill and all
i lie machinery, also the dry house. As the wind
was in a favorable direction the company was
able to save its lumber, and only what was in
the mill was destroyed. The loss is placed at
$25, with $20,000 insurance. Steps to re-
build the plant will lie taken immediately. A
modern fireproof building for the sawmill will
be erected. It has been decided that a planing
mill will not be constructed at present.

Minneapolis.

Building material men are considerably
alarmed over the serious prospect of a carpen-
ters' strike in Minneapolis. The union voted to
demand a raise from 40 to 45 cents an hour.
The builders at one time were ready to concede
12% cents, but the men refused this concession
and bung out. Then the contractors met and
agreed unanimously to stand pat on the present
basis of 40 cents. After the stiff position which
the men took a strike is considered very likely.

The Minnesota Lumber Company has been
incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000, to
do a wholesale business in all kinds of lumber,
with northern hardwoods as a specialty. C. M.
Rohne, formerly with the Jaynes Lumber Com-
pany and later with F. E. Reynolds & Co., Is
manager of the concern, which has formed con-
nections with some good hardwood mills. It
has ample financial backing from outside Minne-
apolis.

The Mercer-De Laittre Lumber Company,
which organized last fall to develop a tract of
timber in northern Michigan, has increased its
capital stock from $100,000 to $150,000. It is
now building a single band sawmill at Bass
Lake, in Ontonagon county, which will have a
capacity of 50,000 feet a day. It will turn out
both hemlock and hardwood lumber, and there
is about 100,000,000 feet of timber tributary to
the mill.

Hardwood men with mills or yards in Minne-
sota are interested in the reciprocal demurrage
law which has been passed and will take effect
on July 1. There is a good deal of specula-
tion as to how this law will operate. It re-
quires the railroads to pay shippers $1 a day
for each car when they fail to furnish cars
within a given time, two days at terminal points
and three days at local points, when they fail to
move loaded cars an average of sixty miles a
day, or when they fail to deliver cars in a
given time after reaching the railroad yard.

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The shippers are held for tbe same sum wheu
they fail to toad or unload cars within the limit.
The roads will Resist the law, ami Hit* shippers
will first have to bring suits for the collection
of the demurrage.

The St. Paul Hardwood Floor Company has
incorporated for the purpose of manufacturing
flooring, moulding, etc. The plant will be lo-
cated in St. Paul. Joseph Happe is president;
James Manahan, vice president, and llulda
Happe, secretary and treasurer.

Another new wholesale concern handling hard-
wood in this market is the Hasslen-Scharff Lum-
ber Company, organized by Robert W. Hasslen
and Edward W. Scharff. They are doing a gen-
eral lumber business, with offices in the Security
Hank Building.

P. W. Strickland of Rock Island, 111., manager
of the Rock Island Sash & Door Company, was
in Minneapolis the other day visiting their
branch office here and meeting old friends. For
several years Mr. Strickland was located here
as a member of the firm of Barnard & Strick-
land, hardwood wholesalers.

T. E. Youngblood is tbe new representative
of the Payson-Smith Lumber Company in south-
ern territory, succeeding \V. J. Walsh, who has
gone into other business. A. S. Bliss, office man-
ager of the company, says they are having a
fine run of business, especially in railroad stock,
oak ties and car material, and have really all
they can attend to. The shortage of cars is
making trouble all the time, and more floods
on the lower Mississippi are holding back ship-
ments from that section.

Toledo.

George B. Stlne of the Belcher Stine Lumber
Company has been in the city settling up the
business Of this concern preparatory to moving
1" s western city. This company owns ex-
tensive timber lands in Arkansas. The main
office has been located here for a number of
years, but after the firs! of May tbe headquar-
ters of Hie company will be in some other city.
It has not heen decided where the company will
locate.

The C. II. Schroeder Company, which has
manufactured lumber here for the last thirty
years, is putting In a large stock of lumber pre-
paratory to taking an active part In the local
trade. Years ago this company was very active
in marketing its products, but its attention grad-
ually centered in tbe manufacturing end and
for some time no attention has been paid to sell-
ing. Nearly all the output of this concern has
been disposed of in the South American market.

W. A. Savage of Paulding, Ohio, a member of
the Southern Lumber Company, died at his home
the latter part of March.

Articles of incorporation have been filed at
Columbus by the Maumee Cooperage & Lumber
Company with a capital stock of $15,000. The
incorporates are J. M. Bricker, F. Dalrymple,
II. C. Bricker, A. M. Richards and W. L. John-
son.

The Tucker Woodwork Company of Sidney
has been incorporated with a capital stock of
XI. "in. U00. The incorporators are J. B. Tucker,
I 1 1. Amos, L. M. Studevant, W. C. Herr and
I. H. Thedrick.

HardWood Market.

(By HARDWOOD RECORD Exclusive Market Reporters.)

Chicago.

There is no radical change in conditions In
this market over those of a fortnight ago. Some
jobbers contend that the demand is not quite so
active as it was a month ago, but most of them
are very busy. Tbe car shortage is still annoy-
ing many dealers, and it is just as difficult
today to get cars for shipping lumber out of
Wisconsin and Michigan as it is from the South.
There seems to be increased strength in the
local market in common birch, for which there
is increased demand. Oak, poplar, cottonwood
and basswood are all strong sellers. By stren-
uous effort the average Chicago jobber is keep-
ing pretty well supplied with stock, either at
bis local yards or at milling points where he
has it contracted.

The entire situation looks very rosy and pros-
pects for an excellent season's business are
good.

Boston.

The market for hardwoods continues to show
strength, and in many instances prices are even
firmer than they were two weeks ago. Consum-
ers who have been holding out of the market be-
lieving that prices could not remain at their
present high level have now found that there is
no hope of concessions in the immediate future
and, therefore, are beginning to place orders of
larger volume. At the same time there is no
tendency toward taking on supplies much beyond
immediate wants. Manufacturers of furniture
are fairly busy and have fair sized stocks in
their yards. The manufacturers of house finish
are busy and are in the market for supplies. The
export demand for hardwoods has not been large.
One of tbe largest exporters states that the high
prices now demanded have checked this business
to a large extent.

The feature of the market at present Is the
great strength which has developed of late in
whitewood. Dry stock ready for shipment is
in very small offering and as all buyers are
showing more interest prices are being advanced.

It is believed that a little later prices will be
slightly lower, as there is considerable white-
wood back in the woods ready to be brought out
when the roads are in proper condition. The
call for plain oak, one inch, ones and twos, is
moderate and prices are firmer. Quartered oak
is in moderate demand with prices steady.
White and brown ash continue in very good de-
mand. The call for cypress is of small volume.

New York.

The hardwood situation in the metropolitan
district and vicinity continues active. The trade
of the past thirty to sixty days is pronounced
the best ever realized by wholesale houses in
this section. It has been a period of the easiest
selling coupled with the highest range of prices,
and under such conditions it is needless to say
that the general feeling is most optimistic. Dry
stocks of good lumber continue scarce, which, of
course, explains the buoyant conditions In the
market to a certain degree, although the gen-
eral demand in all branches of consumption Is
of such volume as would provide a big traffic
even if stocks were more plentiful.

Poplar is in the lead with a big demand for
all grades, including culls. Plain oak Is In
excellent demand, especially for good, common
and culls ; quartered oak is somewhat easier,
but is ruling firm in price ; ship oak and heavy
bill stuff is in active call, with prices showing
an upward tendency all along the line. Chestnut
has eased off a little on ones and twos and com-
mon, but sound wormy is active. Log run birch
and select color birch are buoyant, with a good
demand and supplies only nominal. Prices are
ruling very strong. While the uses for ash are
naturally limited, supplies at shipping points
are so scarce, coupled with a general demand
In such lines as it is utilized, that prices on all
grades of ash, both white and brown, are on
the highest level ever reached. Maple Is enjoy-
ing its full share of the prosperity and thick
stock Is scarce. The usual grades seem In fair
supply, but the demands of the market are such

us to keep the general situation firm. Basswood

is in very g 1 shape and supplies nominal, with

a good demand.

The foreign mahogany and cedar market
showed a marked falling off in the receipts of
mahogany for the month of February as com-
pared with the month of January, with the re-
sult that stocks have been greatly reduced. The
demand is exceedingly brisk, which has resulted
In a continued buoyant price situation through-
out the general market. Receipts of cedar dur-
ing February were very heavy and have been
steadily increasing for several months, and
stocks have begun to accumulate in the local
district, which leads to the suggestion that
future shipments be confined only to large wood
of good quality. The general price situation in
connection with both woods continues strong,
although cedar has eased off about 1 cent a
foot in view of the heavy receipts.

Philadelphia.
A slight quietus noticeable in the wholesale
market during the fortnight is attributable no
doubt to the more or less precarious weather
conditions ; otherwise there is practically no
change in the status of the hardwood market.
The furniture factories of eastern Pennsylvania
continue on the rush, buying freely. The sash
and door mills are pushed to the limit, and
judging from the number of permits applied for,
for large structures and for large numbers of
dwelling houses, this industry will be kept on
the spur throughout the coming season. There
is a steady hum of veneer and cigar box fac-
tories and all other woodworking establishments.
A scarcity of dry stock, both at the mill districts
and in the consuming market, is noticeable and
is likely to continue for some months to come.
Values keep up, especially in the better grades.
Yards are fairly well stocked with the lower
grades and prices keep firm. Yardmen as a rule
are buying cautiously until the season opens ;
some, however, have placed orders ahead for
future delivery, but no one feels competent to
make calculations as to prospective prices. The
car service at the mill districts instead of im-
proving grows steadily worse. In some sections,
unless there is speedy relief, mills will have to
shut down for want of room to pile stock. It is
a fact that it is easier to sell than to deliver
the goods. A number of the leading jobbers
assert that they have an unprecedented pile of
orders, but not the least Idea as to when they
can be delivered. The hardwood values hold
relative positions of a fortnight ago. Chestnut,
basswood, ash and poplar are the top notchers,
but stocks are light, as they are difficult to ob-
tain in quantity. Oak is moving in fine style,
with well sustained prices. Gum holds old
status and is receiving many inquiries. Maple,
birch and cherry are moving slowly. Maple
tlooring is in demand with prices steady.

Baltimore.
The hardwood lumber trade situation here is
still encouraging, stocks being in urgent demand
and the mills working at full capacity. The
car shortage still renders distribution difficult.
Stocks at producing points are generally low.
the bad weather last winter having imposed an
extensive embargo upon manufacturing opera-
tions. Consumers are ready to offer very at-
tractive prices for lumber, but such tenders do
not always produce the stocks needed in de-
sired quantities, and as a result considerable
competition prevails, which keeps the range of
values high. So small are the available supplies
that exports of hardwoods, which often attain
large volume in March, have been very small
this year and the movement as yet leaves much
to be' desired. This, of course, applies chiefly
to oak, which wood loads all others In point of
inquiry. Ash and other lumber, however, are
also wanted In fur larger quantities than the
mills are able to turn out. While some of the
needs of the trade are apparently held in abey-

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ance, the conditions are most hopeful and deal-
ers as well as manufacturers are greatly en-
couraged over the outlook.

Pittsburg.

The hardwood market is fairly active and very
firm as to price. The volume of sales is not
increasing to any marked degree, but wholesalers
have about all the orders they can attend to in
the face, of continued car shortage and a scant
supply of dry stocks at the mills. Testimony
received on all sides indicates that the stocks at
the mills are much lower than is usual at this
season, and although the hardwood mills are
running a full turn now they are not making
any headway in this respect. The dry kilns are
being worked to their fullest capacity. Much of
the hardwood lumber, especially oak. is beiDg
sent out from the mills really unfit for shipment,
and the freights wholesalers have to pay eat up
most of their profits.

The local market for hardwoods, as for all
other kinds of lumber, is somewhat slow.
Building has not started off with the usual
spring rush and although many house building
projects are announced the number of large busi-
ness blocks and public buildings which are as-
sured for this spring is much smaller than was
looked for earlier in the year. High prices,
chiefly of labor, with the danger of strikes iu
some lines, have held back prospective builders
whose projects, had they gone ahead, would
have swelled the inquiry for lumber not a little.
The city of Pittsburg showed a loss of five per
cent in building operations in March as com-
pared with the corresponding month one year
ago, and in the Western Pennsylvania district
the record showed no perceptible gain.

Yardmen are slow buyers this spring. They
seem to hesitate in the belief that there may be
a slump in building operations in midsummer
which will seriously affect them. Most of them
are stocking up with great caution and are in-
clined rather to buy for immediate needs. Many
yards carried over fair stocks of lumber and are
only replenishing their stocks in lines that are
most needed. Outside the city there Is more
activity manifest for the coal and industrial
projects that are being pushed forward and make
a market for considerable lumber. Salesmen who
"do" the eastern cities and the big towns iu
Ohio, Indiana and Michigan report an increasing
trade in hardwoods and seem to think that pres-
ent prices may be raised again before hot
weather.

The price list on hardwoods is well sustained.
i)ak leads. In some lines it is almost impossi-
ble to get good dry oak and the seller has it all
his own way. Maple is selling well for flooring
and chestnut is in fair call.

Buffalo.

Some of the hardwood dealers speak of trade
as quiet, but they really have not much to
complain of and most of them agree that prices
are good and the demand is all that it could
be and enable them to keep stocks of any size
on hand. It is difficult to find material to re-
place depleted lines — almost impossible in case
of some of the popular woods.

Oak dealers do not consider the prospects
for securing stock so very bad, though there is
still high water to contend with iu the Ohio
valley and farther down. A new difficulty pre-
sents itself in the shape of a scarcity in pop-
lar. Nobody has a supply of it. Dealers who
do not handle much else say that they are
obliged to refuse" orders- for it and they do not
know when they are going to have any more.

The demand for birch has increased, but the
supply is large and will be much larger when
the lake fleet moves, for dealers here have large
lots of it bought for early shipment by that
route. There is an increased demand for elm
and basswood. The call for ash and chestnut
continues to exceed the supply. Prices are
Dg and promise to remain so.

Saginaw Valley,
riardwood is materially stronger all along the
line. A lot of beech No. 2 common and better
was sold one day last week at $10 and the same
day another lot was sold at $17, a marked ad-
vance on previous quotations for that grade.
Beech and birch culls are higher and are selling
at $13 and $14. There is a good demand for
maple and prices are well sustained at $24 for
Nos. 1 and 2 ; No. 1 common, $17 and $18 ; No.
2, $11 and $12. Basswood is in limited supply
at $25 and $2S for No. 2 common and better,
and elm at $22 and $29. Dry stocks of nearly
all kinds of lumber are exceedingly short and
while the mills are nearly all in operation there
is not enough lumber accumulating to keep along
with the trade. The output this year will hardly
exceed that of last. Portable mills have been
and are cutting small lots in fifty localities, and
this is hauled and shipped out about as fast as
cut.

Cleveland.
Manufacturers of hardwoods in this territory
are largely oversold on poplar and oak, as well
as basswood and chestnut. The demand is en-
tirely beyond the ability of the mills t.> supply.
Prices ate firm and indications are for a large
trade this spring and summer.

Indianapolis.
Spring business has opened up with a rush,
due to the excellent weather of the last week.
As a result hardwood dealers are finding them-
selves cramped for stock, owing I" the unex-
pected demand, but SO far there has been no
meat shortage. The majority of dealers have a
fair supply of all lines of hardwoods, with other
shipments on the way. Shipments are slow com-
ing in and practically all that have been re-
ceived during, the last two weeks were ordered
three months ago. There is a general belief that
when the shippers' bill goes into effect next
month shipments will come more promptly. The
greatest demand for hardwoods in Indianapolis
at present is from contractors who want them
for building purposes. Furniture factories are
taking their usual quota and carriage and vehicle
factories are buying practically all they can ob-
tain. There has been no increase in prices dur-
ing the last two weeks, but one is expected
within the "next three or four weeks.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

Lumbermen are gratified over conditions tii.it
now obtain. There is activity in every line of
tlie hardwood business. Indications are that
the output of stock from this section will be
very large this year. New mills are being start-
ed daily. Many timber land deals which will
mean immense additional development are being
made, and the prospects for the future are bright
indeed.

Lumbermen report a heavy demand for all
kinds and grades of stock. Shippers are expe-
riencing difficulty in getting cars and the short-
age is now more serious than it has been this
year, but not nearly so bad as it was during the
closing weeks of last year.

Cincinnati.
The arrival of spring has brought inquiries
and orders for hardwoods with a rush, and but
for the car shortage an even heavier business
could be transacted. The local market is re-
garded firmer than for some time. No price
changes have been made, but on several of the
more active woods an advance is expected to
take effect within a few weeks. Poplar is being
sought with great activity and the highest prices
are being paid for that item. The scarcity of
that stock, combined with the active demand, has
caused dealers to think seriously of raising
prices on it. It is more than likely that an ad-
vance will be made within the next fortnight.
Oak, quartered and plain white, is also in good
request. Cypress has been in good demand for

some time, and is easily keeping up with the
pace set by other woods. Chestnut, cherry and
hickory are a better sale now than ever before.
Stocks are limited and consumers are purchasing
eagerly. The second flood that reached Cincin-
nati this year held back the spring trade, and
now orders are piling up and causing lumbermen
to hustle in an effort to fill them. The spring
trade this season is far better than for years.

St. Louis.

Business in hardwoods during the month of
March was very satisfactory to local lumber-
men. Orders tame in unsolicited ami prices
are without exception firm. Stocks are univer-
sally low and dealers are kept on the alert to
rind supplies t<» meet current wants and to sup-
plement depleted lines. Weather and the car
situation have improved but slowly in producing
territory, and as the winter's log crop was very
short the prospects for a plentiful supply of
lumber are not very bright ; at least, the scar-
city of dry hardwood is not expected to be over-
come before midsummer and possibly not before
early fall. The supply of cars for the local
trade has been more plentiful during the past
tew weeks, but it is still very uncertain.

Ash is probably the strongest item on the
list ; it is in very short supply, and when it
tan be found brings record prices. Poplar is
also scarce in all grades and thicknesses and
there is an especial shortage in 1 and 1 >4 inch.
Cottonwood is wanted beyond the ability of
dealers to supply and is bringing fancy prices in
all grades. Conditions in the oak market have
improved materially of late. Both red and
white oak. plain sawed, are in good call, which
is .specially gratifying to holders of the stock,
as they have pretty good sized accumulations
on hand for which they are assured a market.
Quartered oak in both red and white is also in
good demand.

Nashville.
The past week was a busy one with the lumber
dealers of this vicinity and the tendency is
toward upward prices. Shipments are still a bit
-ted and business is still suffering some on
that account. Orders continue to pour in briskly
from all directions. The country mills, however,
are getting their output to the city now- and this
is enabling dealers to fill orders that had accu-
mulated. A good demand for quartered oak was
noticeable last week and prices held up well.
Usually this wood is not among the best sellers
in the market. Dry stock of poplar is still very
scarce. A still further advance was noted in
wide lumber. A considerable 011:101 ity of this
must useful and valuable wood has reached the
market recently, bttt it has been shipped out as
last as it arrived, tilling old orders. One local
firm states that it could sell 200 carloads of
poplar at Chicago quotations if the lumber was
only obtainable. Some ash is coming in from
the remote country regions now, the roads hav-
ing got in condition that admitted of hauling.
Most of it is sold before it gets here, however,
and is routed straight out to northern markets.
Some choice stock of chestnut reached the city
recently both by river and rail and it brought
good prices. Good hickory stock continues to be
scarce, and handle and implement men are
hustling for it. Staves are in good demand and
bringing good money. Local conditions in all
departments of the market are about as satisfac-
tory as the dealers could wish and the supply is
taking a pretty good care of the demand.

Memphis.
The demand continues good for everything on
the hardwood list and the market remains quite
firm. The spring trade has opened up quite as
well as expected and the trade is looking forward
to a demand that will take everything offered
readily at full values. The scarcity of dry stock
is still pronounced and, while there is some in-
crease in the amount of hardwood lumber being
put on the sticks now, it is realized that it will

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33

be some time before this will be available. In
the meantime there is a large prospective de-
mand I" be taken rare of and for this reason
both manufacturers and wholesalers are very
Arm in their ideas of value. Some are talking
o) i further advance, while practically everj
member of the Trade is of the opinion that there
i- no prospect of any recession from the current
level until there is some relief to the strained
relations between supply and demand. Cotton-
wood and ash are among (lie strongest item Eoi
sale here, both being limited as to offerings and
almost unprecedented as to the demand thereto]
Plain oak, too, sells readily in till grades and
i brie is not a dull feature on the list. Hum is
being taken in liberal quantities ami Hie out
look for this lumber is considered especially
bright by the majority of the trade here There
is even further improvement noted in the de-
mand for quarter-sawn red oak, which is now
taking its place along with the remaining Items
in point of both activity and strength.

New Orleans.
Hardwood is looking up in this territory. The
mills are cutting plenty of stork and the export
are improving. The interior demand is also
showing Improvement, though manufacturers are
still finding trouble in getting ears for their
stocks. Now that the grain movement is prar-
lically over, however, it is anticipated 'hat a

u I many more ears will be at hand and that

the result will be an improvement in conditions.

] here is some talk of increasing hardw I prices

as a result .if conditions existing here.

Louisville.

There is a decided note of improvement in
the hardwood market here. It is now possible
tor country mills to produce more lumber. Be
i ween rains, floods and other hindrances pro-
duction has been kept so low that it has been
a discouraging feature of the market both to
manufacturers and buyers. Now that the mills
are running well, the market is taking on fresh
life and lumbermen would be quite content were
it not for the transportation problem which
still troubles them.

Poplar continues t" bad the market and dry
stock is extremely scarce. However, the fact
that the mills are getting some fresh stoek on
sticks now is making everybody feel better and
i relieving the feeling that poplar is hard to
get at any price. Then' seems also to he a
remarkably good demand for chestnut, espe-
cially uppers, to take the place of oak, and for
all kinds of chestnut for that matter. Oak in
shipping condition is still strenuously sought,
both white and red. plain and quartered. Cot-
tonwood continues high, but the supply at tie
mills seems to be getting a little better, as is
also the supply of gum. though there is no stir
plus of either. Also some southern mills are
offering gum, and some fair sale- have been
recorded during the past tew days. Taken al-
together, the hardwood situation lias shown de-
cided improvement during the past fortnight.
That is, there has ben more stock changing
bands and the situation is getting right I.' en
courage more active trade.

Minneapolis.

Dealers unanimously report that they have all
tin' orders tiny are able to take care of. and
business is limited to some extent by the in-
ability to get cars for loading out lumber at

the branch line mill points. Dry hardw 1 is

a scarce article, and basswood is now practically

out of the market. Preparations are being le

to ship some of the new cut when half dry, to
till urgent orders. The price on the low grade
stock has stiffened, and a stronger price level
will govern on sales during the year.

Birch is no longer plentiful. The low grades
are cleaned up close, and stocks in upper grades
are broken up and disappearing fast. Par-
sighted dealers who carried a heavy line of

birch are realizing nicely. They saw that with

all other hardw Is scarce ami high, birch was

bound lo be in greater demand and to Improve
in price, flooring is active oow, with maple
and birch leading and oak losing favor because

■ •I He' limb price. 'J'be sash and .1 ta one

have i big line of business .hi hand and are iii
lie market for oak, maple, basswood ami birch.

Railroad demand is strong. There Is 8 ■- I

.all for oak ties and timbers, ami the ear build
• ■is are all bustling for material to till the flood
of orders for new box ears. The railroads have

t a sl.o\ in get their orders in and now

rushing delivery, although they know the con-
ditions well. Tlie car trouble is a gie.n band]
.ap and shipments from tin' south are arriving
\ei\ slowly. Country yards ar 'dering con-
siderable flooring ami wagon slock, and the
greatesl trouble dealers find with this class of

business is I., eel Hie ears lo ship in. Prices are
stiff on oak of all kinds and grades.

Toledo.
Spring has opened up an active market here
for all hardwoods. The car shortage is still

i rouble

.Inst about the time winter broke the horizon

I ai-ie el. mile,] with t lirea l died label troubles

and these with the small Stocks made the pros-
pects seem dark indeed. 'The strikes were set
ile.l within a week and now there is nothing in
ibe local situation to retard the biggest building
boom in the history of the city.

Strange as it may seem, even though the
month of February showed a marked tailing oil'
in building, due to the extensive building in Jan
nary, the sales of lumber shewed an increase of
I. ii per cent over the sales a year ago for the
saiee period. The same held true with March
^.. tar as the sales of lumber were concerned,
but this month also showed a big Increase in
building. The permits taken out in March to-
taled $350,000.

inie peculiar feature of the building which is
now going on is that over seventy-live per cent
of ii 13 small dwellings. This feature of the
local situation is pleasing to the lumbermen, for
ii is iii construction such as ibis thai the most
lumber is used. The increase in the cost of
building is about thirty-three and one-third per
cent, bin this fact has not in any way nil. 'iter,. I
with the progress of work.

There is a fair supply of all hardwoods in the
Toledo market and stocks, while not as complete
as they should be, will be adequate to the de-
mands, it is thought. Small shipments are com
ing in slowly and these with the slocks now on
band will probably tide ibe market over until the
boats begin to arrive from the northern mills.

Liverpool.
Several carloads of hardwoods have arrived ;it
this port during the last fortnight and have all
sold al good prices. Two or three carloads of
poplar boards came forward on new contracts
and have all been promptly cleared oil the quay.
If is somewhat unfortunate that shippers do not
see the folly of delivering their new contracts
wit b.eii fulfilling their old ones. The old
ash plank contracts are still undelivered ami ,\ .
are beginning to wonder if shippers will ever see
the discredit they are bringing ..n tbemschi n

this foolish policy. Everything in the hardw I

line is very firm just now with II xception

perhaps of hickory and birch, and these two
items are recovering. Second growth ash logs
an' in much demand, but here again Hie old
i rouble of shipping on consignment is in evi-
dence, .Shippers of this w I should insist

on higher prices. Forest grown w I, Imw

ever, we think, is just now rather overrated

in value and shippers should i I buyers on this

side if they want orders. Oak, both in the board,
plank and log, are in much demand and are com-
manding high prices. Coffin ami wagon planks
are absolutely unobtainable Two mahogany
sales ;ii' .lie shortly ami prices can I xpected

much on the same basis as the previous sales.
Judging from appearance of the sale yards a
Large quantity of good and valuable wood will
be offered. We think buyers will be well ad

vised to lay in a heavy stock al present prices,
as we feel confident thai the mar future will

sec higher prices. Hickory logs are firmer than
they were a few iM'i'le ago and shippers should
not hesitate to ship a few hundred logs. Buyers
will not look at this wood on contract owing to
tin- difficulty "f knowing what thej are buying,
but at the present moment there is no risk to be

alio bed to anyone shipping this w I en con

signment.

London.

ii eaiinot be said thai there is any greal
activity in the hardwood market, bui buyers
who have waited so patiently lor lower prices
are forced to purchase their requirements from
what little stock there is offering, the docks being
practically hare of stock.

In whitewood there is a g I demand for all

grades, but little or no stock offering, and if by
chance there could be any slight concession made
in the price there would be many buyers anxious
to place orders. With a dull market few are
tempted lo make contracts at present high inie

preferring to till their wants from any ■ i

offering.

There is a good demand for oak planks :: and
4 inches thick in export grade, but little call for
firsts and seconds, their place being supplied by
European oaks. Boards in till grades are in
good demand, but there is little stock here and
little offering. Quartered boards are in slightly
bet ter demand.

There is no great demand for walnut at Ibe
present time and several parcels which have
recently arrived have failed to find buyers, the
quality, however, being very poor for the grades.

In satin walnut the best call is for good No.

1 union hoards 1 inch thick, which realize

good prices, it may be menti 1 en passant

thai there is always a good demand here for thin
boards, one large manufacturer practically taking
all the thin boards that come to London.

The demand for ash planks continues good and
seems likely to remain so: logs, unless of prime
quality, being difficult to dispose of

Mahogany Is still higher in price, with a good
demand.

Birch logs and planks have I n plentiful

and low prices have prevailed, inn a substantia!
advance in price is hound to occur in the near
fut lire.

RORL/\R

Rough and Dressed

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

M. A. HAYWARD

1021 Saving and Trust Bldg., Columbus, O.

THE GENERAL LUMBER
COMPANY

Hardwoods

HEMLOCK
YELLOW PINE

COLUMBUS, OHIO

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AT COST

IS AN UNCOMMON TERM AS APPLIED TO INSURANCE

But this is the actual price of Indemnity against Fire Loss furnished by the

Manufacturing

Lumbermen's

Underwriters

THE STRONGEST INSURANCE ORGANIZATION
TO-DAY IN AMERICA

The saving is not on a _ Only well buill plants

small portion oi J with adequate protection

your insurance but on the y and at least

entire line. J live years timber

There are other advantages / supply are considered

equally interesting. ^> eligible.

FOR LIST OF MEMBERS AND FURTHER INFORMATION, ADDRESS

HARRY RANKIN 4 CO. Kansas City, Mo.

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Eight words of ordinary length make one line.

Heading counts as two lines.

No display except the headings can be ad-
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Remittances to accompany the order. No
extra charges for copies of paper containing
the advertisement.

EMPLOYES WANTED.

AN EXPERIENCED MAN
Wanted to manage hemlock and hardwood
plant in Wisconsin which cuts twelve to fifteen
million annually. Must be capable of assuming
supervision of product from stump to the pile.
State age, experience, where employed for the
past three years, whether married or single,
salary expected and references. Address

"H 734," care Hardwood Record.

EMPLOYMENT WANTED

A HUSTLING SALESMAN
With an established trade in the Mississippi
valley, seeks a new connection. Thoroughly
familiar with hardwood gradings. Address
"K. M.," care Hardwood Record.

LUMBER WANTED

CHERRY WANTED.

t t No. 2 common. Quote price f. 0. 1>.
cars Detroit Specify quantity that you are
in a position to ship.
II. W. HARDING LBR. CO., Detroit, Mich

HAED MAPLE LUMBER WANTED.

L' or :: cars of lsts and 2nds dry 2%".
The A. B. CHASE CO., Norwalk, Ohio.

WANTED.

Walnut logs 11" and up in diameter, Oak
logs 24" aud up and Hickory logs 14" and up —
all good quality. Address

II. V. HARTZELL, Greenville, Ohio.

WANTED.

QUARTERED RED OR WHITE oak.

1x4x11. it'.i;,. 1:1 & -it. ix:,'._.xn. n;1.. & i'.i.
1x3x14, 1x2)4x14 — for delivery at Mound City,
III.

QUARTERED OAK CHAIR BACKS.

2%x6" wide. 15 and IT" long, for delivery
ai Port Washington, Wis.

THE WISCONSIN CHAIR CO..

Port Washington, Wis.

YELLOW PINE CAR MATERIAL.

Long Leaf Car Sills, Switch Timbers and
Decking wanted, rough or dressed. Also Long
or Short Leaf Car Siding. 1x4 6"-9 or 18'. also
16' kiln dried and worked to pattern. Quote
cash price f. o. b. mill.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

WANTED.

1" dry log run Black Walnut: 2", 2Vi",2Vi"
and 3" green White and Red Oak ; 1%x2-26"
' clear Oak or Hickory and 1 V*" to 4" White Ash.
McCLURE LUMBER CO., Detroit, Mich.

WANTED— DRY CYPRESS.

2x5" and wider, 8 or 16', lsts and 2nds,
selects or sound common.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

BASSWOOD WANTED.

A few carloads 4/4 and 8/4 Northern White
Basswood dressed two sides. Quote price de-
livered on New York rate of freight.
H. J. ROSEVELT,
66 Broad St.. New York, N. Y.

YELLOW PINE POLE STOCK

Wanted — From reliable mills who under-
stand how to manufacture No. 1 Pole stock,
clear and straight grain quality, free from all
defects excepting sap.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO.. Pittsburg, Pa.

WANTED— HARDWOOD LOGS.

200,000 ft. 28" and up White Oak logs.
200,000 ft. 12" and up Walnut logs.
50,000 ft. 12" and up Cherry logs.
C. L. WILLEY. 1235 S. Robey St., Chicago.

DRY SOFT YELLOW POPLAR.

All grades and thicknesses, rough or dressed,
wanted. Prompt cash. Willing to contract.
AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO.. Pittsburg, Pa.

ASH DIMENSION STOCK.

One inch stock wanted. In carloads, from
2% to 10" In width and from 10 to 48" In
length. Can use large quantities If properly
gotten out. Stock must be clear and free from
defects. Write us for list.

BELDING-HALL MFG. CO., Belding, Mich.

OAK.

We are In the market for plain sawed oak,
ail grades and thicknesses.
P. G. DODGE & CO., 2116 Lumber St., Chicago.

OAK WANTED.

3 and 4 Inch White Oak ; also Mixed Oak ;
also 12x12 Timbers and Piling of all kinds.
CONTINENTAL LUMBER CO.,
1213 Monadnock Bldg., Chicago, III.

LUMBER FOR SALE.

FOR SALE— CUT TO ORDER.
300,000 feet of White Oak, all or part. Ad
dress "G. 30," care Hardwood Record.

SOFT CORK WHITE PINE.

nigh grade Michigan stock for sale, all
thicknesses up to 4", bone dry, suitable for
making patterns and fine cabinet work.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Ta.

FOR SALE.
25.000 ft. Com. & Better
most iy I (' and 16', green.

l car t 4 Cherry, dry.

16 I Poplar,

1 car 4 4 Quartered Oak, No. 2 Com.
i car x i Poplar, lsts & 2nds, wide stock.
6,000 11. lsts lc L'nds 1 t (.ml. oak. II" & up.
('. M. CRIM & SI IN. Sal, •in. hid.

TIMBER LANDS FOR SALE

FOR SALE.
in whole or subdivide, 1,500 acres of timber

land on the Mississippi riv.T. al I half way

between Burlington and Davenport. All heavy
timber. Good tiling for mill owner. For par
tlculars address the owner,

S. I'. PLUMB, Wapello, Iowa.

MISSISSIPPI HARDWOOD TIMBER.

5,212 acres finest hardwood timber lands in
Mississippi. Will cut 2.500' Oak and 1,500'
Ash, Hickory, Elm and Gum per acre. Soil al-
luvial, fine cotton land. Immediately on R. 1!..
and within quarter of a mile of river. Write
for full particulars. Price $18.50 per acre.
J. R. IIILLER, 58 Randolph Bldg.,

Memphis, Tenn.

MACHINERY WANTED

AT ONCE.

If you are In need of machinery — new or
second hand — a few lines in this column will
place your wants before those who have such
goods for sale. For particulars address

Hardwood' Record, Chicago, III.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

WANTED.
Manufacturer to figure on making vertical
etter files in Oak and Birch. Address

••A. 14," care Hardwood Hecord.

MACHINERY FOR SALE

UP-TO-DATE CIRCULAR SAWMILL,
Good as new, for sale. Will exchange for
lumber, stumpage or land. For full descrip-
tion write

AMERICAN HARDWOOD LBR. CO.,
St. Louis, Mo., or New Orleans, La.

FOR SALE.

Second-hand circular saws, all sizes, 10" to
68" diameter, rip and cut off saws. Repaired
in first class condition. Cheap prices. How
many and what sizes do you need?

BARCUS SAW WORKS, Muskegon, Mich.

SAW MILL AND STAVE MILL.

Machinery cheap. Write for list and prices.
E. E. HEMINGWAY, Mattoon, Wis.

BAND MILL OUTFIT— BARGAIN.

We offer for sale the following machinery,
new and thoroughly rebuilt and refitted, good
as new, ready for immediate use :

1 Prescott S' left hand band mill No. 3, suit-
able for 12" saws.

1 Allis left hand three block carriage, 52"
opening, blocks and knees of cast iron, with
automatic offset, Knight duplex dogs.

1 8V2"x32' shotgun feed with sawyer's lever
center valve and carriage bracket.

1 new Wickes 6' to 32' No. 1 two saw trim-
mer.

10 10x24" gear driven live rolls and one
idle roll.

1 new Wickes 8 and 10"x6' steam nigger.

1 Covel automatic band saw sharpener.

1 Baldwin, Tuthill & Bolton roller or
stretcher.

1 filing clamp, 6 ft.

1 Smith swing cut off saw (heavy).

1 new Wickes No. 3 single geared log haul
up rig, with foot wheel and two idlers.

300 feet l"x6" chain.

30 log chairs for same.

1 60" Williams & white six-saw double edger
with six inserted tooth saws, to have new
press roll frame.

1 style B brazing clamp with legs.

1 new Wickes hand feed lap grinder.

1 Buckeye automatic engine 14!/ox24, 10'x
24" band wheel.

1 Sturtevant upright engine 5x6 for electric
lighting.

1 75-Iight Westinghouse dynamo with rheo-
stat and base.

2 85-horsepower Babcock & Wilcox water
tube boilers with stack, grates, etc.

J. A. BROWN & CO., INC..

North Manchester, Ind.

RAILWAY EQUIPMENT

RAILS AND LOCOMOTIVES.

All inquiries for Industrial railway equip-
ment listed before Record readers will find
ready response.

Hardwood Record, Chicago, III.

MISCELLANEOUS

FACTS FROM PRACTICAL MEN.

The Hardwood Record Is always In the mar-
ket for articles on any and every feature of
the hardwood Industry. It wants practical
statements of fact from practical men who
know how certain things can be done In the
best way. Literary quality not essential. Lib-
eral pay for acceptable articles. Address

Editor Hardwood Record.

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skilled workmanship combine to
make a flooring that cannot be ex-
celled. You will be pleased with it.

HAAK LUMBER CO

HAAKWOOD, MICH.

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Manufacturers of Band
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Herndon, Wyoming Co., W. Va.

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

When you have anything to sett, or wish to
purchase anything in the way ot

HARDWOOD LUMBER

CROSS TIES OR PILING

Norval Osburn, Seaman, Ohio

Works

BUCYRVS. OHIO

ESPECIALLY

Adapted for Handling Shavings, Saw=
dust and Stringy Material of All Rinds

l-PIECE FAN WHEEL.

Get Catalogue
58=G

NOIOBSTRUCTIONS.

We Also Make Lumber Dryers.

New York Blower Company

Main Office :

25th Place and Stewart Avenue

CHICAGO

HARDWOOD RECORD

37

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co.

GREENVILLE. MICHIGAN

BO] I man i I \i it hl-'us OP

THE CELEBRATED GORDON HOLLOW BLAST GRATE

("An Enormous Blacksmith's Forge")

AND

The Famous "Tower" Line of Edgers and Trimmers

THE TOWER 32-incli Edger, Neu Model, is the mosl perfect gang
edger made for small mills, cutting not to exceed 20,000 feet in
ten hours. It is 32 inches \\id<- m the clear between guides, is
provided with two or three 14-inch saws and weighs 1660 pounds.

The TOWER EXTRA 36 and 42-inch Edgers an- adapted for mills
cutting up to 30.000 feet in feu hours. They are respectively 36" and
42" wide in ill.' clear between guides. They are fitted with two, three
or four 16" saws. Shipping weight: 36-inch edger, without front pres-
sure roll, 2.600 lbs: with front pressure roll, 2.800 lbs ; 42-inch edger
(made only with front pressure roll) 3.200 lbs.

The TOWER EXTRA 48-inch Edger is 48" wide in the clear be-
tween guidrs. carries three or lour jo" saws and weighs 4,600 lbs.

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate To.

GREENVILLE, MICHIGAN

The Largest Manufacturer ol Blast Grates, Edgers and Trimmers in the World.

^ Hanchett - Hanchett - Hanchett 4L

Hanchett
Saw Swage

Every one made Perfect

The Swage with a Name

•I A poor Swage Kuins a Good Saw, and
for that reason the manufacturers of the

HANCHETT ADJUSTABLE SWAGE

employ only the Best Mechanics and use
only the Rest Material in their construction.

It Pays Us
to make
The Best

Send for

Catalog

No. 10

It tells you all

about them

It Pays You

to use

The Best

MANUFACTURED BY

Hanchett Swage Works

Big Rapids, Michigan

KfcBBBgCBBESgEnmg

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This Truck— The Gillette Truck— with its Roller Bearing Axle-
Unbreakable Malleable Iron Caster-Fork, Improved Stake Pockets
and general Superiority of Construction is the Easiest Running
Truck made. Strongest where other trucks are weakest. Best
Truck to buy. Cheapest Truck to use. Invest money m these
trucks. Do not waste it on others. ■

GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING COMPANY

Grand Rapids, Michigan I UJ

CGood saws, that do their
duty, plus.

C Cutting edge that comes
from best material skill-
fully manufactured.

CHAMPION SAW CO.

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

38

HARDWOOD RECORD

Improved
Automatic
Band Saw
Sharpener

^T This machine excels all others for single cutting Band Saws from 8 to 14
^•inches. Its construction is mechanically correct, simple and durable, and
does not possess any of the intricate complicated parts that confuse the oper-
ator. The head is adjustable so that straight wheels can be used with the same
results as concave.

<L

This represents just one type of machine. We make in addition a com-
plete line of modern tools for the care of saws.

For particulars address

Matteson Mfg. Co.

All Machines Fully Guaranteed

120-128 S. CLINTON STREET,

CHICAGO, ILLS.

THE NEW 1907
CATALOG

is ready, ask for
one. It describes
the most com-
plete line of fil-
ing room ma-
chinery manu-
factured, includ-
ing our New No.
99 Automatic
Sharpener, a s
shown by cut,

also our New No. 109 Stretcher with

automatic Re-toother.

Covel Manufacturing Co.
Chicago, U. S. A.

KNIVES

Planer knives, veneer knives or any of the good machine

knives that you use are tempered best by skilled expeiience.

Know the truth and get your best machine knives from

CHAMPION SAW COMPANY

BEAVER FALLS, PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

39

Sl™°{ The Profit Builder

N0.105-A, EXTRA HEAVY 12-INCH MOULDER

T HAS been our purpose duriug the last half century to develop
^k a line of wood working machines containing the best work-
iV manship and material that American skill and wisdom can
afford. This fact we are proud to say is well established in
the minds of our many patrons. We have, however, now
exceeded ourselves by the development of a remarkable Moulder, the
excellence of which is due to our obtaining written suggestions from more
than a thousand operators throughout America. This machine stands alone
as being the composite idea of the thinking operators of this country. One
year's test of its work has convinced us that it is impossible for you to
compete successfully against the Smith Moulder with any other machine.
Can't we send you prices and literature?

Branches :

New Y orK, Chicago,

Boston, Atlanta

H. B. SMITH MACHINE CO,

SMITHVILLE, N. J.. U. S. A.

Branches:

New YorR, Chicago,

Boston, Atlanta

40

HARDWOOD RECORD

GARLAND

Special Hardwood 74t. Band Mill

There are
many good
features about
this mill that
we will be
glad to tell
about.
Write for
catalogue and
descriptive
circulars .

Simplicity,

Capacity,

Economy on

Saws.

We

manufacture

a full line

of Sawmill

and

Conveying

Machinery.

A few hardwood sawmill

Kneeland-Bigelow Co Bay City, Mich.

Kneeland-Buell Co Bay City, Mich.

W. D. Young & Co. . . Bay City, Mich.

E. C. Hargrave Bay City, Mich.

Bliss & Van Auken Saginaw, Mich.

Sailing, Hanson & Co Grayling, Mich.

Johannesburg Mfg. Co Johannesburg, Mich.

Michelson & Hanson Co Lewiston, Mich.

machinery installations :

Harbor Spiings Lumber Co Harbor Springs, Mich

W. H. White Co Boyne City, Mich

Mud Lake Lumber Co Raber, Mich

Engel Lumber Co Englewood, La

Hardgrove Lumber Co Hardgrove, Mich

Churchill Lumber Co Alpena, Mich

War-ramaw Land & Lumber Co Wilmington, N. C

Embury-Martin Lumber Co Cheboygan, Mich

The M. Garland Co,

BAY CITY. MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

41

Silver

ATKINS 85 SAWS

cost more than other Saws, because they are BETTER.
The First cost of a Saw does not count for much.
What you want is your Money's Worth. Isn't it better
to pay a fair price and get the best rather than a low
price and get poor goods? Try an ATKINS SAW.
They're better.'

E. C. ATKINS & CO., Inc

The Silver Steel Saw People.
Home Office and Factory, Indianapolis.

Branches : Atlanta,

New York City,

Chicago,

Portland,

Memphis,

San Francisco,

Minneapolis,
Seattle,

New Orleans,
Toronto.

POWER and SPEED are strong points with the

McGIFFERT Log Loader

Its heavy steel construction and great power »
were designed for constant strain and big lifts.
Its ability to stop and switch its own ears
increases its speed in loading.
It can skid logs out 1000 feet each side
of track. *'.'

Ask ;(or booklet

CLYDE IRON WORKS, Duluth, Minn.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

INCORPORATED

MANUFACTURERS OF STANDARD SIZE

WAGON FELLOES AND WAGON STOCK

Send your requirements and receive price. COLUMBUS, MISS.

PERFECT
INTERIOR COLUMNS

4P%

CAN NOT M
COME PB

L AP1DT .4*10

Koll's Patent Lock Joint Columns are
best for all interior purposes because
they are true in classic proportions and
can not open at the joints or come.apart.

VENEERED AND SOLID
STAVE

They are made in all hardwoods. r We
have superior facilities for veneering.
Science, skill and quality make our ve-
neered columns in every way the best
made. * Our department for manufac-
turing interior column openings is
equipped with every requirement for
doing high-class work and is in charge
of expert designers. *' All our products
represent the highest quality of work-
manship and materials. % All our ship-
ments are made with unfailing prompi-
ness. 1 Write us to-day for complete
illustrated catalogue and prices.

HENRY SANDERS CO.

900 Elston Ave., Chicago.

H . FALL

EXPORTER
. . . OF . . .

WALNUT, POPLAR

■=^=^^= AND ^=^=

BIRDSEYE MAPLE LOGS

Cash paid for Black Walnut Logs at point of shipment. If you have
any walnut logs to offer, write me.

I have some Sycamore, Red Oak, Ash and other hardwood logs which
I am prepared to saw to order. Correspondence solicited.

Can also supply Black Walnut lumber, sawed to any specification
required.

PORT CLINTON

OHIO

FRAMES

FOR HARDWOOD RECORD
SUPPLEMENTS

Complete with backing, but without the glass, made
from Flemish Oak, are to be had delivered by ex-
press, charges prepaid to any point east of the
Missouri river, at 50 cents each ; or at the Hard-
wood Record office, at 30 cents each. Prepay orders
with two-cent stamps or postal notes, addressed

Hardwood Record, 355 Dearborn Street, Chicago

R.E. Wood Lumber Company

d. We own nearly a thousand million feet of virgin poplar, oak,
chestnut and other hardwood timber, and operate our own band mills
in West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina,
d. Let us figure on your hardwood requirements.

GENERAL OFFICES:
CONTINENTAL BUILDING.

Baltimore, Maryland

HARDWOOD RECORD

43

It's Worth While

Let us tell you
.•iliciut our

VARIABLE FEED RIP-SAWING MACHINE.

Variable Feed

Rip=Sawing

Machine

Nothing equal to it
for making dimension
stock and for general
use in furniture and
other wood -working
factories. It's just
as good as it look^.

£. & B HOLMES
MACHINERY CO.

Buffalo, N. Y.

ESTABLISHED SINCE 1880

TIMBER

WE OFFER TRACTS OF VIRGIN TIMBER IN LOUISI-
ANA, MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA, ALABAMA AND ALSO ON

PACIFIC COAST

We employ a larger force of expert timber cruisers than any other firm in the world. We have furnished
banks and trust companies with reports on timber tracts upon which millions of dollars of timber certifi-
cates or bonds have been issued. We furnish detailed estimates which enables the buyer to verify our reports
at very little expense and without loss of valuable time. Correspondence with bona fide investors solicited.

JAHES D. LACEY & CO.

J \ \1 ES D. LACEY,

WOOD BEAL,

VICTOR TIIH am:.

608 Hennen Bldg., NEW ORLEANS
1200 Old Colony Bldg., CHICAGO

LARGEST TIMBER DEALERS
IN THE WORLD

507 Lumber Exchange, SEATTLE
829 Chamber of Com., PORTLAND

44

HARDWOOD RECORD

Skidders

Snakers

">■ t.octo-'«1'

Lidgerwood Machines
Will Stock Your Mill

Lidgerwood Skidders

Lidgerwood Snakers

Lidgerwood Yarders

Lidgerwood Readers

Lidgerwood Pull Boats

Lidgerwood Cableways

LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO.

NEW YORK
ATLANTA
S E ATT L E
NEW ORLEANS

fi- (.,0C«.«O0»

Loaders

Cableways

HARDWOOD RECORD

45

In Choosing
Cutter Heads

Price is but a Figure

st

If you buy a CHEAP HEAD, you buy often.

If you buy a GOOD HEAD, it serves as a Permanent Fixture to your Machine.

The Shinier Cutter Head is designed for a purpose which has for its object the direct saving of l*bor and material.
Its construction agrees with the special class of work it is to perform. It is first made to suit the machine — it is
next made t < > suit the work. Every detail is carefully formed to give a free cut — to hold a uniform shape— to be
durable. These features establish a permanent make-ready, which demonstrates that this "Best of All Cutter
Heads" makes a safe and profitable investment.

In the construction of these tools every improvement is carefully developed, adopted, and given to the public at
the mere cost of production. That is why they have grown to be popular. Their merit has earned for them a
place as permanent in the mills as the hand saw or the wood chisel in the hands of the carpenter. To study them
means to appreciate them. Every user of a matcher or moulder should try them thirty days and determine for
himself whether or not he can longer afford to be without them. Address

Samuel J. Shimer & Sons, Milton, Penn.

/jfSfBLt

NEW AUTOMATIC

KNIFE GRINDER

FOR KNIVES UP TO 30" OR 42" LONG

j

jc?

Grinds the knife with absolute accuracy and will do it day in and day out year in
and w in <nit. Our newest time and labor saving devices used.

Some of its Sterling Qualities

Patent Dust Proof Bed, Patent Parallel Gauges, Automatic Feed, Duplicating Device,
Patent Pump, Improved Water System, Patent Boxes Cut
Gears and Bronze Bearings

FOR FURTHER DETAILSASK THE MAKERS

S. A. WOODS M/

VCHINE CO., . . BOSTON

PACIFIC COAST OFFICE, 617 LUMBER EXCHANGE, SEATTLE SPECIALISTS IN

WESTERN OFFICE, 811 RAILWAY EXCHANGE, CHICAGO Planers, Moulders, Floorers, Automatic Knife Qrinders

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LARGEST

ALL HARDWOOD MARKETS

American Hardwood Lumber Co.

14,000,000 ft. Hardwood Lumber

YARDS AT BENTON, ARK., NEW ORLEANS, LA., ST. LOUIS, MO.,
DIUKSON, TENN.

WO /"* L_T I\/^\/'TC Lesperance Street and Iron
• rv. l^lHV VlO, Mountain Railroad.

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

BLACK WALNUT LUMBER MY SPECIALTY. Always in the market to buy
Walnut and Cherry Lumber. Pay spot cash and take up at shipping
point when amounts justify.

Wanted-to Buy or Contract for future Delivery

500,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Poplar, all grades
500,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Cypress, all grades
500,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Ash, all grades

TOUon PLUMMER LUMBER CO. E

MISSOURI

MASSENGALE LUMBER CO., ST. LOUIS

Manufacturers and dealers la

HARDWOODS

In the market to buy and sell OAK, POPLAR, ASH, CYPRESS

Lar^e stock dry lumber always on hand

STEELE & HIBBARD

North Bro&dway and Dock Streets
Wholesale Manufacturers, Dealers and Shippers

ASH. CYPRESS. MAHOGANY. OAK. POPLAR. &c

Mills: Yazoo City, Miss.; McGregor, Ark.; England Ark.;
Dermott Ark. O'Hara, La.; Dexter, Mo.

<l

For items of Hardwood Stock or Hardwood
Machinery, you will find it advantageous to
write our advertisers. Get in touch !

Garetson-Greason Lbt\ Co*

MANUFACTURERS OF

SOUTHERN
HARDWOODS

Ash, Oak and Gum Lumber

Straight or mixed carload
shipments direct from
our own mills.

1212-13-14 Times Building

ST. LOUIS

Wanted-Cypress, Ash and Cottonwood

Inspection, at Point of Shipment When Quantity Justifies

Hafner Manufacturing Co.

CYPRESS, HARDWOODS

Mail orders receive our immediate
attention.

YARDS: FOOT OF DOCK STREET

LOTHMAN CYPRESS CO.

AIR DRIED

Louisiana Red Cypress

FOOT OK ANGELICA STREET

CHAS. F. LI

Carry a complete stock of Hardwood and are

constantly in the market to purchase

large blocks of stock for cash. Are

also the largest manufacturers of

the famous St. Francis

Basin Red Gum.

General Offices : 148 Carroll Street

Hardwood Board Rules

FOP HARDWOOD LUMBERMEN

Best Goods, Prompt Shipment

Send your orders to the HARDWOOD RECORD, 365 Dearborn Street

48

HARDWOOD RECORD

W. H. Dawkins Lumber Co.

Manufacturers of Band Sawed

Yellow Poplar

ASHLAND, KY.

INDIANA LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers Lumber

DIMENSION STOCK A SPECIALTY.

Office and Mills : CornerOldham TVTACUT7TT T C *TrT7XTlVr

Street and Cumberland River IN AOIl V ILLC, 1 EJ.NJN.

GEO. C. BROWN & CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Tennessee Red Cedar Lumber a Specialty. Nashville, Tennessee

DRY HARDWOODS

150,000 ft. Tennessee Red Cedar Boards (Aromatic)
150,000 ft. 4-4 Is and 2s Plain Red Oak.

50,000 ft. 5-4 Is and 2s Plain Red Oak.
200,000 ft. 8-4 No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak.

44.00(1 ft. 10-4 No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak.

80,000 ft. 8-4 No. 1 Common Quartered Red Oak.
300,000 ft. 4-4 Shipping Cull Plain Oak.
Also fair stock of Poplar and Hickory.

LOVE, BOYD & CO.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Why lose good money
By poor kiln drying?

By our new method, we dry hard-
wood lumber so that it is absolutely
free from swelling or shrinking.

We do this in half the time of any
kiln sold and can apply our system
to your present kiln.

After installing the apparatus, if it
does not do all we claim, we will
take it out free of expense to you.

You can't lose in a trial.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works

Dept. D

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Vestal Lumber & Mfg, Co*

Manufacturers and Wholesalers
of all kinds of

HARDWOODS

BEVELED SIDING A SPECIALTY.
UNSURPASSED FACILITIES
FOR DELIVERING.

Knoxville
Tennessee

The Morton Dry Kiln

MOIST AIR SYSTEM

Recording
Ther-
mometers.
Transfer
Cars.

Trucks.

Canvas

Doors.

HOW TO DRY LUMBER.

As exemplified in our Catalog D. Free on application.

MORTON DRY KILN CO., Chicago, Ills.

HARDWOODRECORD 49

\

J. B. RANSOM, President. A. B. RANSOM, Secy, and Treas.

JOHN B. RANSOM & COMPANY

NASHVILLE, TENN.

We arc confident that our Stork and Price List that is issued every month will be
a valuable aid to careful buyers in placing their orders for mixed cars of

HARDWOODS

RED CEDAR POSTS, POPLAR, GUM OR BASSWOOD SIDING, FINISH,
etc., or shipped in connection with Hardwood Flooring.

WRITE US TO-DAY CAN WE PLACE YOUR

AND MENTION THIS PAPER NAME ON 01 I: HAILING LIST?

J. B. Ransom, Pres. A. B. Ransom, Secy. R. J. Wilson, Treas.

NASHVILLE HARDWOOD FLOORING CO.

m an D fa err re us o v

UAHKKI I'KICI "\ " A f^ /\T^ TVT T^ 1 J A TVTT^" We especially invite in-

CARROTS. Leestha, ilVV/l\.ll CKiHl U SffSSfftSbS 2d

ear lot orders shipped ,,,,,,.,. Hardwoods \n

promptly. OAK AND BEECH FLOORING '

"The Product de Luxe"

DELIVERED ANYWHERE NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

J. B. RANSOM. Pres. A. B. RANSOM. V. Pres. W. A. RANSOM. Sec ar>d Mgr. C. R. RANSOM. Treas.

GAYOSO LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber and Wagon Stock

MEMPHIS. TENNESSEE

W.J. CUDE, Pres .1 B. RANSOM, Vice Pres. A. B. RANSOM, Sec'y.

W. J. Cude Land 4 Lumber Company

1013-1014 Stahlman Building
NASHVILLE

MAMKA(THiKH> < U

Poplar, Oak, Chestnut and Gum Lumber

Mills and Yards at Kimmlns. Tenn., Colesburg, Tciui.. and Cude, Miss.

5°

HARDWOOD RECORD

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I-* 1 I i^t>ui<o

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF PENNSYLVANIA

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Willson Bros. Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS

WEST VIRGINIA
HARDWOODS

FARMERS BANK BLDG. k PITTSBURG, PA.

STOCK LIST

The following list covers the hardwoods we now have on hand. Special
price f. o. b. cars mill for all one grade. We would be pleased to have
you favor us with your inquiries and orders.

4 4 Maple, No. I Common 2 Cars

54 " " '• 2 Cars

5 4 " " " and Better 59,000 Feet

6 4 " " " t 1 Car

6 4 " Firsts and Seconds 2 Cars

8 4 " No. 2 Common 2,500 Feet

10 4 " Firsts and Seconds I Car

10 4 " No. 2 Common and Better 71,000 Feet

12 4 " No. I " 1 ,500 Feet

12 4 " "2 " 1,000 Feet

4/4 Basswood, Log Run m. c. o 1 car

8 '4 " " " ** I car

DRY STOCK

Favorable Freight Rates to the East.

BABC0CK LUMBER CO., Ashtola, Pa.

The Nicola Lumber
Company

One million feet 4-4 Bay Poplar.
Can be shipped log run, or sold
on grade. Bone dry ; band
sawed. Send your inquiries.

COTTONWOOD WANTED

We want to buy one to five million feet of
log run cottonwood. We will send our in-
spector to take the stock up at the mill and
pay cash for it as shipped.

ASH WANTED

300M feet 6-4, 8-4, 14-4 and 16-4 No. 1
Common and 1st and 2nds for immediate
shipment, or to be cut and shipped when dry.

American Lumber $ Mfg. Co.

PITTSBURG. PA.

Oak Flooring

Maple Flooring

Best that Care and Skill can Produce

Can Ship Oak Flooring in Mixed Cars with other

HARDWOODS

Right Grades Right Prices Prompt Shipments

LINEHAN LUMBER CO.

2423 Farmers Bank Bldg., PITTSBURG, PA.

A. M. Turner
Lumber Company

Everything in lumber. We buy hardwoods
as well as sell them. If you have anything
to offer, please submit same to us. : t

Hardwoods a Specialty

FOR SALE

POPLAR

125,000' 4 4 Is and 2s
40,000' 4/4 No. 1 Com.
325,000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.
228,000' 4/4 No. 3 Com.
150,000'-* '4 Mill Cull

CHESTNUT

200,000' 4 4 Sound Wormy
80,000' 5/4 Sound Wormy

100,000' fi 4 Sound Wormy
48,000' 8 4 Sound Wormy

PLAIN OAK
60.000' 4 4 No. 1 Com.
IS.OOO' 4/4 No. 2 Com.

QUARTERED "AK
2 cars 4 4 No. 1 Com.
1 car 4 4 No. 2 Com.

OAK TIMBERS SAWED TO ORDER.
WRITE FOR PRICES.

CHEAT RIVER LUMBER COMPANY, Pittsburg, Pcnna.

HARDWOOD RECORD

CLE V ELAND

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF NORTHERN OHIO

The

Robert H. Jenks Lumber

Company

44 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, O.

OFFERS:

5 Cars 4/4 1st and 2nd Poplar— 7" to 17"
4 Cars 4/4 1st and 2nd Poplar— 18" to 23"
3 Cars 4/4 Poplar Box Boards— 7" to 12"

10 Cars 4/4 No. 1 Common Poplar (Selects in )

10 Cars 4/4 No. 2 Common Poplar
3 Cars 4/4 No. 3 Common Poplar

2 Cars 5/4 No. 1 Common Poplar (Selects in)
8 Cars 8/4 No. 1 Common Poplar (Selects in)

10 Cars 4/4 1st and 2nd White Oak
15 Cars 4/4 1st and 2nd Red Oak
15 Cars 4/4 No. 1 Common Red Oak
10 Cars 4/4 No. 1 Common White Oak
10 Cars 4/4 No. 2 Common White Oak
20 Cars 4/4 Mill Cull Oak

3 Cars 4/4 Common and Better Chestnut
1 Car 6/4 Common and Better Chestnut

4 Cars 4/4 No. 1 Common Chestnut

5 Cars 5/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut
5 Cars 6/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut

10 Cars 4/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut
10 Cars 8/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut

SYMBOLS FOR GRADE MARKS

Adopted by the Hardwood Manufacturers Association of United States
Q Panel and Wide No. 1

A Wide No. 2
[""} Box Boards

Z-A Selects

(I No. I Common

{2^ No. 2 Common

\b No. 3 Common

(4 No. 4 Common

yf FAS or Firsts and
^~ Seconds
Q. Saps

Every Manufacturer should stamp the grade on his Lumber.
Set of 10 Rubber Stamps, lH"xl\i" In size. Pad, Pint of Ink, and
Spreader, packed for shipment $3.50.

7VY/\RTIIN & CO. LEWIS DOSTER, Scc'y

191 S. Clark St.. CHICAGO, or 1535 First Nat. Bank lldg. CHICAGO

The Martin-Barriss Company

Importers a.nd iMa.rv\ifacturers

MAHOGANY

a.nd Fine Hcxrdwoods

HARDWOODS

Dry Stock is Scarce

Mill Shipments are Slow in Coming Forward

We therefore call attention to stock of upwards
of SIX MILLION FEET seasoned HARD-
WOODS we offer for quick shipment from
Cleveland. WANT TO CLEAN IT OUT.
Are you interested ?

The Advance Lumber
Company

1 3th Floor, Rockefeller Bldg., CLEVELAND, O.

Manufacturers and Dealers
In White Pine, Yellow Pine, Hemlock and Hardwoods

This cut shows the 44 inch No. 2

0BER LATHE

for turning Pick, Sledge, Hammer,
Hatchet and Double Bitted Axe
Handles, Whiifletrees, Yokes,
Spokes, Porch Spindles, Stair
Balusters, Table and Chair Legs,
Ball Bats, etc. We also manufac-
ture the No. 2 Lathes in 3 other
sizes, viz.: 36 in., 33 in., 22 in.

Simple, Strong,
Durable, Economical

We also manufacture other
Lathes for making Spokes,
Handles and Variety Work.
Sanders, Shapers, Boring and
Chucking Machines, etc., etc
Complete catalogue and price
list free.

THE 0BER MFG. CO., 28 Bell St., CHAGRIN FALLS, 0., U. S. A.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

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W I^OCJfN^irN |

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

John R. Davis Lumber Company

PHILLIPS, WISCONSIN
The Leading Manufacturers

Wisconsin Hardwoods

"SHAKELESS" HEMLOCK and WHITE CEDAR PRODUCTS

WE HAVE THE FINEST BLOCK OF

4-4 UNSELECTED BIRCH

ON THE MARKET

Write for our Price Lists
and Stock Sheets

Mixed Cars, Even Grades
Prompt Shipments

We have
to offer
the

following
stock in

file at
ngram,
Wis.

^jfasm&G&ti&L

WAUSAU, WIS.

400.000 ft. 1 In. No. 1 Com. & Better PI. Birch.

12,000 ft. lY* In. First & Second Plain Birch.

20,000 ft. 2 In. No. 2 Common Plain Birch.

24.0110 ft. 1 In. First & Second Red Birch.

15,000 ft. 1 In. No. 1 Common Red Birch.

2.500 ft. 114 In. First & Second Red Birch.

11.490 ft. 1% In. First & Second Red Birch.

4,700 ft. 2 In. First & Second Red Birch.

2.144 ft. 1 In. Curl j Birch.

2,350 ft. 1%, 1% and 2 In. Curly Birch.

22.000 ft. 1 In. End Dried White Birch.

42,000 ft. 1 In. No. 1 Com. & Better Soft Elm.

44.000 ft. 1 In. Select Pine.

57.000 ft. 1% In. No. 3 Shop & Better Pine.

19.000 ft. 1% In. Select Pine.

26.000 ft. 1% In. No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 Shop
Pine.

Vour

orders

and

Inquiries

solicited

We are prepared to furnish mixed carloads

And solicit your inquiries and orders. At present we are
offering Red Birch in thicknesses, I" to 2£" common
and better, also Maple, Birch and one quarter sawed

red o/\k: flooring

Basswood Ceiling and Siding and Finish, 'also Molding

Our hardwood flooring "A. H. L." Brand, is the
highest grade as to workmanship and quality.

ARPIN HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
Saw Mill, Planing Mill and Yard at Atlanta, near Bruce, Wis. on "Soo" Line.

SAWYER GOODMAN CO.

We Manufacture at Marinette, Wisconsin

BASSWOOD, ELM, BIRCH, MA-
PLE and BLACK ASH LUMBER

White Pine Pattern Lumber
and Cedar Boat Lumber

C. P. CROSBY

RH1NELANDER : : WISCONSIN

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Hard Maple a Specialty in all thicknesses from 1 inch
to 4 inch. Finest Birch in Wisconsin. Soft tlm,
Red Oak, 35,000 feet 3 in. Birch, Red all in. .

DIFFICULT AND MIXED ORDERS A SPECIALTY

Vollmar & Below Company

MARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN

Basswood, Birch

and Other Wisconsin Hardwoods

LET US KNOW WHAT YOU ARE IN THE MARKET FOR

Mason -Donaldson Lumber Co.

RKinelander, Wisconsin

WE HAVE TO OFFER

15 cars 2 in. No. 3 Hemlock Rough.
5 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common & Better Hard Maple.

3 cars 1^_ in. No. 1 Common & Better Hard Maple.
18 cars 1 in. No. 2 Common & Better Soft Elm.

4 cars 1£ in. No. 1 Common & Better Soft Elm.

12 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common Plain Birch.
6 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common & Better Red Birch.
2 cars 1J in. No. 1 Common & Better Red Birch.

2 cars lh in. No. 1 Common & Better Red Birch.

3 cars 2 in. No. 1 Common & Better Red Birch.

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WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

Wisconsin Veneer Co.

RHINELANDER, WIS.

Largest and best equipped Veneer
cutting plant in the country. High-
grade product from Birch, Maple,
Elm, Basswood, Ash and other na-
tive woods.

Veneers for Door Work a Specialty.

R. CONNOR CO.

WHOLESALE MANVFACTITRERS

Wisconsin
Hardwood

PINE AND HEM-
LOCK LUMBER

Mills at

Aubumdl

Stratford. Wis., on C.i- N.W.R.R.

Marshfield, Wis.

North Western Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OF BAND-SAWED

Wisconsin Hardwoods

CAREFUL GRADINGS — PROMPT SHIPMENTS

General Olficcs. EAU CLAIRE, WIS. Mills al STANLEY, WIS.

Frank Carter Co.

MANUFACTURER

Wisconsin Hardwood

SPECIALTY-HARD MAPLE

Mills: DURAND

SPRING VALLEY
GLEN FLORA
ELMWOOD
HILLSDALE

General Offices :

MENOMONIE, WIS.

you want a
foot band mill?

This is a first-class
machine and will
give the best of re-
sults. It is strong,
well made, and as
good as it looks.
Write us and we will
give you full particu-
lars.

Phoenix Mfg. Co.

Eau Claire, Wis.

The Nash Automatic
Sander

FOR ALL ROUND STOCK WORK

A wonderful labor-saving machine.

Pays for itself in a short

time. For particulars

address

JM M«r-U 842-848 Thirtieth St.
. JY1. l>aSll MILWAUKEE, WIS.

Broom,

Hoe, Rake,

Fork and

Shovel

Handles,

Chair Stock,

Dowel Rods,

Curtain

Poles,

Shade

Rollers,

WhipStocks,

Canes,

Veneered

Columns,

Ten Pins, &c.

54

HARDWOOD RECORD

MICHIGAN

FAMOUS FOR HARD MAPLE AND GREY ELM

W. H. WHITE, Pres.

JAS. A, WHITE, Vice-Pres.

W. L. MARTIN, Secy.

THOS. WHITE, Treas.

W. H. WHITE COMPANY

BOYNE CITY, MICHIGAN

Manufacturers of Hardwood and Hemlock Lumber, Cedar Shingles,

White Rock Maple Flooring.

BOYNE CITY LUMBER COMPANY

BOYNE CITY

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE and other HARDWOODS

LARGE CAPACITY ' PROMPT SHIPMENTS RAJL OR CARGO

J. S. GOLDIE.

Cadillac. :: Michigan.

SPECIAL PRICES on 600M pieces
If to 3' Maple Squares 16" to 27" long
250M feet Maple cull
INQUIKIES SOLICITED FOE MICHIGAN LUMBER.

r

L. EASTMAN FLOORING CO.

■AG1NAW BRAND

MAPLE FLOORING

V

l^*1^

SAGINAW, MICH.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

A JOURNAL OF PRACTICAL INFORMATION

to every Manufacturer, Merchant and
Consumer of Hardwoods.

You can't go astray
when in the market

IF YOU WRITE THE

Northern Lumber
Company

RUSH CULVER, Pres.

BIRCH, MICHIGAN

C We manufacture from our
own forests, the finest line of
Northern Hardwoods on the
market. C. We have the woods,
the machinery, the experience,
enabling us to fill your orders
right.

The KNEELAND BIGELOW CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF LUMBER

Annual Output:

20,000,000 ft. Hardwoods.
20,000,000 ft. Hemlock.

4,000,000 pes. Hardwood Lath.

9,000,000 pes. Hemlock Lath.

Mills R-\in the Yee.r
Arourvd.

Bay City, Mich.

HARDWOOD RECORD

55

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C H I

FOR RED BIRCH

a

AND

A

BASS

N

FAUOl

WOOD

DBININIS BROS.

GRAND RAPIDS, : : : MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD LUMBER (by water or rail)

"NATIONAL" MAPLE & BIRCH FLOORING

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN THE FOLLOWING:

120M feet 4 4 Log Run Birch
125M feet 6 4 Log Run Birch
2 Cars 8 4 Common and Better Birch

1 Car 1x4 Clear Birch

2 Cars 1x7 and Wider No. 1 Common Birch
140M feet 6 4 Log Run Beech

150M feet 4 4 Log Run Soft Elm

Hard Maple— All grades and thicknesses

Main Office :

205 209 Michigan

Trust

Company

Building

Evans & Retting Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

Hardwood
Lumber

RAILROAD TIMBERS, TIES AND SWITCH TIES

Michigan Trust Building Grand Rapids, Mich.

DENNIS & SMITH LUMBER CO.

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

Office and Yards, FOURTH AND HOLDEN AVENUES.
DETROIT, MICH.

MILLS AT: Orndorll, W. Va., Healers W. Va., and Parkersburg. W. Va.

"Chief Brand"
Maple Flooring

Will commend itself to you and your trade on
its merits alone. <[ Comprises all the features
desirable in pood flooring. J Made by the latest,
most approved machinery methods and best
skilled labor. T We believe we can make it to
your interest to handle our "Chief Brand" and
will appreciate your inquiries.

Kerry 4 Hanson Flooring Co.

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

IXL POLISHED

Rock Maple Flooring

Our slow method of air seasoning and kiln drying

IXL Hardwood Flooring has stood

the test for 20 years.

Please write Tor^prices and booklet

Wisconsin Land fi Lumber Co.

HERMANSV1LLE. MICHIGAN

SALLING, HANSON CO.

MANUFACTURERS OK

Michigan Hardwoods

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

flackley-Phelps-Bonnell Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

Hardwood Lumber

Main Oilier, Michigan Trull Company Buildinf

GRAND RAPIDS : . . . MICHIGAN

56

HARDWOOD RECORD

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C^IrNC^irNirNA 1 I

THE, GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

C. CRANE & COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS

Poplar, Oak, Ash, Chestnut, Sycamore,
W. Va. Spruce, Pine and Elm

YEARLY CAPACITY 100,000,000 FEET

LONG BILL STUFF A SPECIALTY

Mills and Yards: CINCINNATI, OHIO

THE HOUSE OF STONE

The One of Good Grades
Poplar, Oak, Chestnut Cottonwood, Ash, Basswood and Gum

T. B. STOINE LUMBER CO.

• CINCINNATI, OHIO

CYPRESS LUMBER CO.

Manufacturer of Hardwoods and Cypress

*"lain and Quartered White and Red Oak, Yellow Poplar,
Yellow Pine, Walnut, etc. Mills in Tenn., Ala. and Va.

OFFICE AND YARDS. GEST AND DALT0N AVE., CINCINNATI, OHIO.

You read this==others
will, too. They would
read your ad. Try it.

FRAMES.
SASB. DOORS,
BLINDS. MOULDINGS.
COLUMNS. GLASS.
STAIRW0RK.
INTERIOR TRIM.

PAINTS.
BUILDERS' HARDWARE.
MANTELS. ETC.
LARGE CINCINNATI FAC-
TORIES MAKE PROMPT
SHIPMENTS POSSIBLE.

The Stewart=Roy Lumber Co.

CINCINNATI

Selling Agents

for

Product of

ROY

LUMBER

CO.

mM

Will Buy

OAK, ASH,

POPLAR,

CHESTNUT,

BASSWOOD

All Grades and
Thicknesses

THE

CRESCENT LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of

H Hardwood Lumber

MARIETTA, O.

The Stearns Company

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

HARDWOODS

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Cincinnati, 0.

OAK FLOORING

Thoroughly Kiln Dried.
Perfectly Manufactured.
We are located in the best Oak Timber section in the

United States; have new and modern machinery and

experienced operators.
Why should we not be able to furnish the best Oak

Flooring?
Write us and we will convince you that we can.

The INTERNATIONAL HARDWOOD COMPANY

Catlettsburg, Kentucky

HARDWOOD RECORD

57

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C/IlNC/irN IN A 1 1

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

THE WIBORG & HANNA COMPANY

CINCINNATI, OHIO

! PLAIN
! AND
! QUARTER
! SAWED

White and Red Oak

' CHESTNUT
< POPLAR
J GUM AND
! CYPRESS

Flooring, Siding, Ceiling, Base, Case and Molding. Rough, Dressed and Re-sawed. Mixed Carloads.

THE

MALEY,

THOMPSON & MOFFETT CO.

Always in the Market for

BLACK WALNUT LOGS,

SELECTED WHITE OAK LOGS,

LUMBER OF ALL KINDS.

CINCINNATI,

• • •

• • •

OHIO

L. W. RADINA & COMPANY

Correspondence Solicited with Buyers and Sellers of All Kinds of

Wanted for cash — desirable blocks of 1 inch to 4 inch Poplar, all grades,
Especially lj^-inch stock, for immediate shipment.

CLARK STREET AND DALTON AVENUE-

PLAIN OAK—BASSWOOD

Are what we want. All thicknesses and grades. Spot
cash. Send us list of your offerings with prices.

DUHLMEIER BROS., CINCINNATI, 0.

IF YOU HAVE IT TO SELL WRITE US

POPLAR

ROUGH AND DRESSED

WILL TAKE ANY QUANTITY FROM A CARLOAD 1" TEN

MILLION FEET. WILL RECEIVE AT SHIPPING

POINT WHEN QUANTITY JUSTIFIES

KENTUCKY LUMBER. COMPANY

CINCINNATI, OHIO

IN THE MARKET FOR

OAK-ASH-POPLAR

ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

MOWBRAY & ROBINSON

Office:
1219 West Sixth Street

Yards:
Sixth Street, below Harriet

THE FREIBERG LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers ot

Tabasco Mahogany
Walnut, OaK

Poplar, McLean and Findlay Ars.
CINCINNATI, O.

"BUY GUM"

We Bra in the market to buy
Dry Hum Lumber in any
quantity, from a single oar
load to a million feet. Will
take all grades and thick-
nesses. We receive lumber
at shipping point, pay cash
and are liberal in inspection.

THE FARRIN-KORN

LUMBER COMPANY

General Office, Yards,

Planing Mills. Dry Kilns,

Ciii.innati.Ohio
Purchasing office.

Randolph Building,

Memphis, Tenn.

Cypress Red Gum Oak

Cash buyers for stock in our line.

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co.

<.] i l\D SUMMER STREETS

Wholesalers Mahogany, Thin Lumber, Veneers

Finely figured quarter sawed oak veneers a specialty.

THE E. E. BECK LUMBER COMPANY

Cash Buyers

Poplar, Oak, Chestnut

And Other Southern Hardwoods
ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES. WE BUY MILL CUTS.

58

HARDWOOD RECORD

INDIANA

WHERE THE BEST HARDWOODS GROW

D'Heur 4 Swain Lumber
Company

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS

OUR SPECIALTY

Quartered Oak and Sycamore

SEYMOUR, IND.

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET

For choice lots of hardwoods.
Walnut our specialty.
Inspection at Mill Points.

The Walnut Lumber Company

Indianapolis, Indiana

April Stock: List

25,000 ft. 1 in. No. 2 Common Walnut
50,000 " 2 " Common and Better Plain White Oak
50,000 " 6=4 " " " " Red
50,000 " 5-4 ' , "

100,000 " 4=4
15,000 " 6=4 and 8-4 Cherry Culls

100,000 " 4=4 No. 2 Common and Better Red Gum
10,000 " 8-4 No. 1 Common Ash
10,000 " 4=4 1st and 2d Ash

Long=Knight Lumber Co.

INDIANAPOLIS, INI).

C. I. Hoyt 4 Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Quartered and Plain Oak. Poplar,
Ash and Chestnut

Offer a few cars 4 4 and 6 4 Plain Oak to move quick

PEKIN. INDIANA

Three Mills in Indiana

FORT WAYNE INDIANAPOLIS LAFAYETTE

Biggest Band Mill in the State
Long Timbers up to Sixty Feet '

HARDWOOD SPECIALTIES
Everything from Toothpicks to Timbers

Perrine=Armstrong Co.

FORT WAYNE

INDIANA

Maley 4 Wertz

MANUFACTURERS, WHOLESALERS AND

EXPORTERS OF

HARDWOOD
LUMBER

EVANSVILLE, INDIANA

J. V. Slimson

ALL KINDS OF

HARDWOOD LUMBER

-MANUFACTURED

HUNTINGBURG, IND.

Young 4 Cutsinger

MANUFACTURERS AMI WHOLESALERS

OUR SPECIALTY

Fine Figured Quartered Oak

E V A N S V I L L E, I N D I A N A

HARDWOOD RECORD

59

BUFFALO

THE GRE.AT WHOLESALE LUMBER CENTER OF THE EAST

Manufacturers and
Dealers in

Ash

White and Brown

Basswood
Birch

Red and White

Butternut

Cherry

Chestnut

Cottonwood

Cypress

Elm

Soft and Rock

Gum

Red and Tupelo

Hickory
Maple

Hard and Soft

Red Oak

Plain and Quartered

White Oak

Plain and Quartered

Black Walnut
White Wood

Poplar

G. ELIAS & BROTHER

BUY AND CARRY LARGE QUANTITIES OF ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

^^^^^^__^^^^_^^__ 955 TO 1015 ELK STREET

HUGH McLEAN LUMBER COMPANY

Specialty: INDIANA WHITE OAK

940 ELK STREET

ANTHONY MILLER

HARDWOODS OF ALL KINDS

893 EAGLE STREET

SCATCHERD & SON

HARDWOODS ONLY

Yard, 1555 SENECA STREET Office, 886 ELLICOTT SQUARE

STANDARD HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

OAK, ASH AND CHESTNUT

1075 CLINTON STREET

L N. STEWART & BROTHER

Specialties: CHERRY AND OAK

892 ELK STREET

T. SULLIVAN & COMPANY

Specialties: BROWN ASH, BIRCH, PACIFIC COAST FIR AND SPRUCE

50 ARTHUR STREET

ORSON E. YEAGER

Specialties: OAK, ASH AND POPLAR

932 ELK STREET

BEYER, KNOX & COMPANY

ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

Office and Yards, 69 LEROY AVENUE

BUFFALO HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

We want to buy for cash :

Oak, Ash and other Hardwoods, all grades and thicknesses.
Will receive and inspect stock at shipping point.
P. O. Box 312, MEMPHIS. TENN. 940 SENECA STREET

EMPIRE LUMBER COMPANY

Our specialties are PLAIN »nd QUARTERED OAK and ASH.

1142 SKNECA STREET.

'V T MANUFACTURERS OLD-FASHIONED

VSUlSSLllt, SOFT YELLOW

POPLAR

Kitchen &

5-8 AND 4-4

IN WIDE STOCK.

SPECIALTY

Ashland, Kentucky

Company

Three States Lumber Co.

OFFERS

1 00,000 feet 5-4 Firsts and Seconds Cottonwood
1 00,000 feet 1 3." to 1 7" Box Boards Cottonwood

Prompt Shipment Memphis, Tennessee

Lamb -Fish Lumber Co.

SUCCESSORS TO LAMB HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY, BACON-NOLAN-HARDWOOD COMPANY GUIRL-STOVER LUMBER COMPANY

Manufac-
turers

OAK, ASH, COTTONWOOD, GUM
AND CYPRESS

MAIN OFFICE: 720 MEMPHIS TRUST BUILDING. MEMPHIS. TENN.

Memphis, Term. ft C * ll* i Well Manufactured Stock

_._ — _ m«.«i \ Memphis, lenn. ft O * \a' \ "ell manuti

Three Band Mills j SSSSfir 0ur Specialties j %?m™Tp

pments

YELLOW POPLAR

MANUFACTURERS

BAND SAWED
POPLAR
LUMBER

ALL GRADES
II D V 58: *'*- 5'4'6"4 8 4' ,0"4 12-*.16-*

UriT Bevel Siding, Lath & Squares

SPECIALTY, WIDE STOCK

Coal Grove, Ohio, U, S. A.

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