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Twelfth Year. I . 'jl,
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CHICAGO, APRIL 25, 1907.

I Subscription (2.
iSinile Copies, 10 Cent*.

ROSS LUMBER COMPANY

The Cherry People

ANYTHING IN CHERRY?

Write Us.

JAMESTOWN, N. Y.

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

(Plain and Quartered.) Straight or Mixed Cars.

DRESSED POPLAR ANY YOU GET what you buy from

™ »^7 ,nL, , ™r» .,./^V^ us. ASK FOR OUR DELIVERED

WAY YOU WANT IT. prices, any railroad point.

THE ATLANTIC LUMBER CO.

2 Kilby St., BOSTON

Would like to talk to you about their large stock of
Plain and Quartered

\A/HITE OAK

TENNESSEE RED CEDAR. THIN POPLAR AND POPLAR SIDING

ASK US WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU.

LUMBER

INSURANCE

COMPANY

OF NEW YORK

Cmpilal and Sui--
plum, $300,000

IX our new offices at 84 William Street, we are better than e\-er equipped
to handle insurance on lumber and woodworking risks.
Write an inquiry to the underwriting managers, who will prompth- tell

you our rates and what lines can be taken.

Lumber Insurers' General Agency, nV w"y o l\

ADIRONDACK

FIRE

INSURANCE

COMPANY

Capital and Sur-
plus, $300,000

ADVERTISERS' CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY FOLLOWS WANT AND FOR SALE ADVERTISING SECTION.

HARDWOOD RECORD

I /^ 1 T T C^ X/ T 1 I r~?

LOUI^V ILrL^li

MANUFACTURING AND DISTKIBHTING CENTER OF KENTUCKY

Wood-Mosaic Flooring and Lumber Co.

ALL KINDS OF

Hardwood Lumber
and Sawn Veneers

NEW ALBANY, INDIANA

Rochester, N. Y. J
Louisville, Ky. -Factories.
New Albany, Iiirl. I

Good Grades
Prompt Shipments
Ini]uiries Solicited

McLean -Davis Lumber Co.

Successors to

Hugh McLean Lumber Co., Highland Park, Ky.
ICdward 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 w. P. BrowH & SoHS Lumber Co.

Louisville, Ky.

PLAIN BED OAK,
65,000' 1" 1st & 2nd.
25,000' 1V4" I8t & 2a.
49,000' m' let * 2d.
67,000' 2" 1st & 2a.
18,000' 2%- let & 2a.
16,000' 3" Ist & 2d.
131,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
84,000' H4" No. 1 Com.
44,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
47,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
8,000' 2%" No. 1 Com.
16,000' 3' No. 1 Com.

QUARTKSED RED OAS.
10,000' 1" 1st & 2d.

14,000' Hi" 1st & 2a.

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" Ist & 2d.
12,000' IMi" 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' 1%" 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.

50,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
28,000' m" Ist & 2a.
45,000' 1%" 1st & 2a.
49,000' 2" 1st & 2a.
19,000' 2W 1st & 2a.
18,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
30,000' IVi" 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" Ist & 2d.
65,000' IV," 1st & 2a.
16.000' I%" 1st & 2a.
10.000' 2" 1st & 2d.

8,000' 2%" 1st & 2d.
14.000' 3" 1st & 2d.

6,000' 4" Ist & 2a.

4.0O0' ly," No. 1 Com.
16,000' !%'• No. 1 Com.

8.000' 2" No. 1 Com.

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

All thicknesses in cult poplar, asli, cliestnut.

Your inquiries will be appreciated.

12,000' 114" Ist & 2d.
11,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
12,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
10.000' 2H" 1st & 2a.
10.000' 3" 1st & 26.
50.000' 1" No. 1 Com.
28,000' IH" No. 1 Com.
10,000' IMi" No. 1 Com.
10.000' 2" No. 1 Com.
15,000' 1" 18" & up 1st & 2(1.

8,000' 2" 18" & up 1st A 2d.

6,000' 2" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

4.000' !%" 18- & up 1st & 2d.

3.000' 1%" 24" & up 1st & 2d.

Prompt delivery guaranteed

50 CARS. ONE INCH

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e. W. Jon

les Lti

[mber Co.

APPLETON, WIS.

Albert R. Kamp!

Mamifactiirer

Hardwood Lumber and Timber

Dimension .Stock

Board 0! Trade BIdg., Louisville, Ky.

E. W. Rhubesky

Wholesale

Poplar. Rough and Dressed.

Oak, Chestnut and Other

Hardwoods

North Vernon
Lumber Co.

Band Sawed Plain nn.I Oiiartered

Oak and Poplar.

North Vernon, Ind . and

Louisville, Ky

Southern Lumber Co.

Oak. Poplar and

Chestnut.
Louisville, Ky.

AH Lumbermen, Attention!

We do what you can't do.
We measure j-our stumpage correctly.
We make your maps correctly.
Bank references: Asheville, N. C.

L. A. OCnenCk ^ LO. No'AirCar°o'l!na.

HARDWOOD RECORD

CADILLAC

CELEBRATED FOR HIGH STANDARD OF QUALITY AND MILL WORK

■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 OFFEMNGS:

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.

MURPHY & DIQQINS

Offer all grades of the followiog 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 & Co.

:IVIANUFACTURERS=

"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 Cray Elm to

ordinary soft elm. Buyers who gladly discrim-
inate in favor of something Ijetter than the or-
dinar_v, 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.

WKITE US ABOUT IT.

COBBS&HncnELL

( INCORPORATED)

CADILLAC. MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTON>VOOD

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., Blylheville , Ark.

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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.

Offers the following specials:

50 Cars 1 inch No. 1 Common Cottonwood 10 Cars I 1,4 inch Is and 2s Cypress

50 Cars I 1/4 inch No. I Common Cottonwood 10 Cars 2 inch Is and 2s Cypress

SO Cars I inch No. 2 Common Cottonwood 10 Cars I 1/4 inch No. I Common Ash

50 Cars 1 14 inch No. 2 Common Cottonwood 10 Cars I 1/2 inch No. 1 Common Ash

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

C?uiai-te>re«cl \A/hit@ HoIIo^a/ BetcU^&d

Quartered Rod End JWettcti&d

l=»laJn \A/hite Polished

Plain Red Bored

Offices a.rkd PlBLnt :

Kansas and Mallory Ave., New South Memphis.

(Take South Memphis car (o Mallory Ave.)

Anderson-TuIIy 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

MEMPMIS, TEININESSEE

HARDWOOD RECORD

FULLERTON'POWELL

Hardwood Lumber Co.

OFFERS THE FOLLOWING STOCK
FOR IMMEDLA.TE SHIPMENT

15 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Quartered White Oak
20 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak
10 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Plain Red Oak

2 cars 1^ in. Plain Red Oak Step Plank

1 car Ij in. Plain Oak Step Plank

4 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Plain Red Oak, 12 in. and
wider

BRANCH OFFICES:

CHICAGO, 1104 Chamber of Commerce
MEMPHIS, TEItM.,30S Tennessee Trust BIdg.
MIMMEAPOLIS, MIMM., SOS Lumber Exchange

10 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Red Gum, 10 to 16 ft.

7 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Red Gum, 12 ft.

8 cars 2 in. 1st and 2nds Sap Gum

8 cars 2 in. No. 1 Common Sap Gum
5 cars 2 in. No. 2 Common Sap Gum
20 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Cottonwood,'6 in. and wider
4 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common Cottonwood

MAIN OFFICES

South "Bend, Ind.

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.

W. M. Hitter Lumber Co.

COLUMBUS, OHIO

Saw and Ship 100,000,000 Feet Yearly

HARDIWOOD RECORD

Phila.

Veneer 4 Lum

Co.

817 N

PILED

JRTH FIFTH

STREET. FHILADELI

>HW

. PA.

YARD

ON OUR KNOXVILLE. TENNESb

20,000 ft. 4/4 Is and 2.s Plain

White Oali

5,000

" 4/4 Clear Strips

54,000

" 4/4 No. 1 Common

Plain White Oak

128,000

" 4/4

" 2 "

42,000

" 8/4

" 2

16,000

"6/4

" 1 Common

and Better

11,000

" 5/4

' 1

" "

20,000

•8/4

" 1

. a

21,000

" 4/4

" 1 Common

Quartered White Oak

67,000

'4/4

„ 2

5,000

• 6/4

„ 1

and Better Quartered

White Oak

9.000

"4/4

„ 1

■d "

Mdlvain's Lumber Notes

We have 4,000,000 feet Chestnut — some of it 12 to 15

months' old — all grades and thicknesses.
2.250.000 feet Poplar— 5/8 to 16/4. all grades.
500.000 feet choice Gulf Cypress. We can make prompt
shipments. Send in your inquiries.

Did you say White Pine? We're fixed to give you satis-
factory grades and prices. Ask for anything you want,
special or regular, and see how well we can satisfy your
demands. More than a million feet in various grades from
Uppers and Selects to Culls.

J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co.

56th to 58th Sts. and Woodland Ave

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

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

THOMAS FORMAN CO.

DETROIT, MICH.

MANLF-VCTUREUS OF HIGH GRADE

Maple and Oak Flooring

We desire to move promptly a large quantity of

13-16xU" Clear Quarter Sawed White Oak Flooring.
13-16xU" Clear Plain Sawed White Oak Flooring.
13-16xU" Clear Plain Sawed Red Oak Flooring.
13-16xli" Clear Maple Flooring.

Please write us for special delivered prices on the above lots.

APRIL STOCK LIST

HARD MAPLE

1 in.
U In.
liin.

3 in.

4 in.

,000,000 ft.
100,000 ft.
100,000 ft.

50.000 ft.

50,000 ft

BEECH

100,000 ft.

BIRCH

1 in. 500,000 ft.

100,000 ft.

50,000 ft.

li in.
2 in.
2} in.

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.

TroLverse City, Mich.

R.E. Wood Lumber Company

^ Manufacturers of Yellow Poplar, Oak, Chestnut, Hemlock
and White Pine.

^\ We own our own stumpage and operate our own mills.
^ Correspondence solicited and inquiries promptly answered.

GENERAL OFFICES:
CONTINENTAL BUILDING.

Baltimore, Maryland

HARDWOOD RECORD

nr* i-i r~7 rr? A ^ TP

lilt fcAdl

BOSTON NEWYORK PHILADt-LFHlA 11

The West Florida Hardwood Co.

Ash
Hickory

Mm. ON Apalachicola River
MARYSVILLE, FLA.

Red and WUte Oak Red Gum

Yellow Cottonwood Tupelo Gum

LET US HAVE YOUR INQUIRIES =

B A LTIMO
M AR YL A

NO E. E. PRICE

BUYER AND
EXPORTER OP

Hardwoods, Poplar and Logs

I am always ic the market for nice lots of dry and well manufactured
lumber. I inspect at point of shipment. Correspondence Bolicited.

Pennsylvania Door & Sash Co.

HARDWOOD DOORS
AND INTERIOR FINISH

NEW YORK

PITTSBURG

PHILADELPHIA

WantCd-DimenSiOn nak Plam and Quartered.

White and Red. Send for specifications.

IndiaLiiaL QvidLrtered Oatk Co.

7 EaLSt 42nd Street. New York City

James & Abbot Company

Lumber and Timber

No. J 65 MILK ST., BOSTON, MASS., and GULFPORT, MISS.

JONES HARDWOOD CO.

INCOB.PO HATED

WANTS: Poplar, Plain Oak,
Quartered Oalt 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

WE are long on 8/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut. Send us your in-
quiries. Let us quote you on Plain or Quartered WKlte and
Red Oak. Look us up.

SCHOFIELD BROTHERS

PENNA. BUILDING

LUMBER

PHILADELPHIA

Sales Agents: Long Pole Lumber Co., Case-Fowler Lumber Co.

Honaker.'Va. aUBLIi BROTHERS QuaftCT'ed White
Birmington, Ala. — Oak, Poplar.

WHOLESALE LUMBER

Land Title Building " . Philadelphia, Pa.

WISTAR, UNDERHILL & CO.

PHILADELPHIA

WHOLESALE HARDWOOD LUMBER

MICHIGAN WHITE PINE
TENNESSEE WHITE PINE

HEMLOCK HARDWOODS
ALABAMA PINE

H. H. MAUS & CO., INC.

MANUFACTURERS

HARDWOOD and YELLOW PINE.

Write us it 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

OAK AND ASH

YELLOW POPLAR

ATLANTA - - - - GEORGIA

JOHN L. ALCOCK & CO.

BUYERS OF BLACK WALNUT LOGS
BOARDS AND PLANKS

sSfpClft" sp^cash: Baltimore, Md.

THE BUFFALO MAPLE FLOORING GO.

MANUFACTURCRS OF

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE AND OAK FLOORING

BUFFALO, NEW YORK

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 : Omdoff, Webster County, W. Va.

EASTERN OFFICE:
1425-6 LAND TITLE BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA

Planing Mill; Heaters, W. Va.

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

R W. Mosby & Co.

MANUFACTUEERS OP

COTTONWOOD

GUM

ASH, ELM

Large Stock on Hand

HELENA, ARKANSAS

W. H. Dawkins Lumber Co.

Manufacturers of Band Sawed

Yellow Poplar

ASHLAND, KY,

SWANN-DAY LUMBER COMPANY

CLAY CITY, KENTUCKY
OFFER

POPLAR

Bevel Siding. Drop Siding, as well as Wide Poplar

Always a Large Stock on Hand Prices are Yours for the Asking

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.

Cherry River Boom and

Lumber Co.

SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA

SPECIALS:

4 '4 While Oak. No. 1 Common
4/4 Cherry, U and 2s

4/4 Cherry, No. I Common
4 4 Maple, l9 and 29

4/4 Maple, No. 1 Common

BAND MILLS:

RICHWOOD, WEST VIB61NIA

CAMDEN-ON-GAULEY, WEST VIRGINIA

HOLCOMB. WEST VIRGINIA

DAILY CAPACITY, • • 500.000 FEET

"THE BEST LUMBER"

HARDWOOD RECORD

C H I c A a o

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

Chicago Car Lumber Co.

PULLMAN BUILDING

CHICAGO

WE ARE IN THE MARKET FOR

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. 6/4 No. 1 Common and better
500 M ft. 8/4 No. 1 Common and better

BLACK ASH
60 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

In the Market

To Buy

Ash, Hickory, Poplar and Oak Lumber.
Also Wagon Stock.

W anted == Hardwood Logs for Our Memphis Mill

RYAN & McPARLAND

CHICAGO....MEMPHIS

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

F. Slimmer ^ Company

Hardwood
Lumber

OflSce and Yard :

65 W. Twenty-second St,

CHICAGO

PARK RICHMOND ®,

CO.

Wholesale

Hardwood Lumbei

410 Monadnock Block

PHONE r^Ui/^orr/^

HARRISON 5165 V_^illCagO

[Ir. a. wells lumber CO, I

Manufacturers of AU Kinds of

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Fine Quartered Oak a Specialty

234 LA SALLE STREET
Yards at Canal and 2Jst Sts. CHICAGO,

I, ILL.

White Lumber Company

Dealers in Hardivood Lumber

ALL KINDS

Cherry Lumber a
SpeciaLlty

ALL GRADBS

Laflin (& 22d Sts.
Chicago

HARDWOOD RECORD

C H I C A Q

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

McCauley- Saunders Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

BAND SAWED
LOUISIANA GULF COAST

RED CYPRESS

Products Exclusively

S::,Tsr493o ^703 Fisher BIdg., CHICAGO, ILL.

CHAS. DARLING & CO.

Southern
Hardwoods

22nd Street and Center Avenue - CHICAGO

ERNEST B. LOMBARD I

ManufoLCturer and Wholesale

Northern ak.nd Southern
Hard^voods

Railwa.y Exchange - CHICAGO

WANT

TO BUY

4 K E D OAK
ALL

AND 4/4 SAP GUM.
G R. A DES

WYLIE,

1101 FISHER BVILDING
CHICAGO, ILLS.

Lesh- & Matthews Lumber Co.

1649-50 MARQUETTE BUII.D1NG

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.

R. A. HC

FIRST r

POPLAR

>OTON LUMBER CO.

NATIONAL BANK BUILDING

AND CHESTNUT

THAT'S ALL

W. A. DAVIS

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

i6i2 Marquette Bldg., CHICAGO
Branch Offices : PADUCAH, KY., and MEMPHIS, TENN.

CO=OPERATIVE MILL ^ LUMBER CO., (inc.)

ROCKFORD, ILLS.
Want Poplar, Oak, Gum, Hickory, Btrcb and Maple

SEND STOCK LIST AND PRICES.

CHAS. MIIXEB

AilLLER BROS.

UILTON UILLBB

H/\RD\A/OOD LUTVIBER

Main'Office: 208 WILLOUGHBY BLDG. 6 E. MADISON ST.
'Plione Central 1363 CHICAGO, ILL.

Yards: Loomis St. S.of 22nd St., Chicago, III., Houston Miss., Macon. Miss,

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

The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Co.

Wholesale and Retail

Telephone
NORTH 223

HARDWOOD LUMBER

47 Domlnicfc St.
CHICAGO

HARDWOOD RECORD

Not only the ONLY HARDWOOD PAPER,
but the BEST LUMBER PAPER published

HARDWOOD RECORD

"Michigan Maple Flooring

Our model factory is equipped with the hig-hest
class tools and appliances made for Flooring
production.

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Vol. XXIV.

CHICAGO. APRIL 25. 1907.

No. 1.

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

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ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.

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 gromids, Norfolk, Va.

Editorial Announcement.

On May 1 the offices of the Hardwood Record will be moved a step
skyward, to the seventh floor of the Ellsworth Building, 355 Dear-
born St., the modern, fire-proof structure in which they have been
located for the past twenty-eight months. The greater portion of
this floor has been leased for a term of years, where hereafter The
Barrel and Box and Bock Products, now located at Louisville, Ky.,
will be published jointly with the Hardwood Eecord. This combina-
,. tion, which will be known as The Trade Press Alliance, has been
Qsnder negotiation for some time, and plans have now been consum-
?iinated whereby the three publications, putting out five issues monthly,
^yill all be under one general management. This arrangement is by
C^io means a consolidation of the financial affairs of the three papers,
qBS the business of each one will be conducted separately; but, owing
Qlo joint interests of the publishers, it has been decided that considera-

LIBRy

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botan

iile economy m cost can be effected and that the scope of all the
papers can be much widened and their character improved by this
plan.

The Barrel and Box is in its twelfth year, and is the foremost
publication of its kind in the country; it is devoted to boxes, shocks,
cooperage, staves, heading, hoops, head liners, woodenware, baskets and
wood specialties. Hereafter it will be printed on the 15th of the
month.

EocK Products is a semi-monthly publication with two distinct
editions. The issue of the 5th of the month is known as its "stone
edition" and is devoted to stone and products manufactured there-
from. The issue of the 20th is devoted to manufactured rock
products. This paper is four years old and has become the leading
exponents of the interests it represents in the United States.

The Hardwood Record will continue to be published on the 10th
and 25th of each month.

In addition to . the publication headquarters at Chicago, branch
offices will be maintained at New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, St.
Louis, Memphis, Louisville and Barre, Vt. Readers of any of the
papers will always be welcome callers at the Chicago office or at any
of the others.

It is intended that this new arrangement shall in no wise affect the
policy or personnel of the several publications, but such a community
of interests should prove of mutual advantage.

General Market Conditions.

There are no new features in the hardwood trade. The demand
continues very strong, and stocks are bought well up to green
lumber. Ash and hickory are well nigh out of the market, and
there are insistent calls from all sources for more of these woods.
Oak is in good call, but there is a large quantity being manufactured
and the general trade is being fairly well supplied. Quartered
white oak is doing about the same as during the past year, while
the demand for red is increasing, with a corresponding accretion in
value. Poplar, cottonwood and gum in all grades are in excellent
demand. The good end of these three woods is being marketed as
fast as it is fit for shipment, and box people are making insistent
calls for the coarse end of every variety of hardwoods.

In the north country stocks are well sold up. The average
manufacturer has sold a goodly portion of his proposed season's cut.
Rock elm and black ash are practically out of the market, and
values are strengthening in birch and basswood. Thick maple, which
was in oversupply a year ago, is now short, and the demand exceeds
the supply.

The hardwood flooring trade remains strong, and the factories are
all busy. The capacity of veneer and panel plants is tested to the
utmost, and some are running extra hours to keep up with demand.

The call for mahogany seems to increase in quantity every month,
and there is a gradual accretion in price. The call for cherry and
black walnut is normal, but the limited quantity of these woods
seems to be consumed about as fast as they are manufactured into
lumber.

Possibilities of Universal Hardwood Inspection.

The working out of plans lookiug toward unification of all sys-
tems of hardwood inspection and of a method of application in all
parts of th'% United States, is a good deal more of a problem than

HARDWOOD RECORD

it appears on the surface. This subject has been approached in many
different ways for more than a decade, and thus far all etTorts have
proven futile. In the specific text of rules governing hardwood in-
spection there is a wide difference not only in various parts of the
country but in the same sections.

Every one who has the interests of the hardwood lumber business
truly at heart has now come to recognize the permanent and valuable
results that would accrue if there were one basis for hardwood
inspection. This sentiment has been one of gradual growth, and it
has now crystallized into an almost universal determination that it
shall be accomplished. Active in this agitation is the president
of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, who less than eight
months ago, while doubtless believing in the value of the work,
deprecated any attempt to abrogate the well-known and historical
' ' Butf alo agreement ' ' of his association, which provided that no
change in National rules should be made until December, 1908. Join-
ing with him in this movement is the chairman of the Inspection
Bules Committee of the same association, who up to within a short
time ago has been strenuous in using his influence against the sus-
pension of the alleged agreement governing a set of rules that are
now confessedly archaic.

The first genuine and wholesale expression of public opinion on
this subject manifested itself at the annual meeting of the Hard-
wood Manufacturers' Association of the United States, held at Mem-
phis last January, when this desideratum was advocated by the presi-
dents of both the national hardwood associations. Since that time
conferences between inspection committees and meetings of several
state and national organizations have been held, and while nothing
has as yet been definitely accomplished, the spirit of conciliation and
compromise from all sources is abroad in the land, and there is a
possibility that this just work may soon become an accomplished

fact.

With regard to the difiBeulty of accomplishing universal hardwood
inspection, it must be recalled that ten years ago the jobbing
trade of Chicago, recognizing the chaotic condition of inspection
affairs covering lumber reaching this market, decided that they
needed a general overhauling, and that there was necessity for na-
tional rather than numerous trade-center systems of inspection ; and
through their influence the National Hardwood Lumber Association
was organized. It was hoped that the power gained by cementing
together even a few markets in a mutual agreement on inspection,
would induce all other sections of the country to follow, and thst
the rules might thus be made universal. This association put forth a
set of rules to cover wholesale purchases of lumber — transactions
between manufacturers ar.d jobbers. The movement was then strong-
ly dominated by the jobbing element. This association has suc-
ceeded in standardizing and generalizing its system of inspection
to a considerable degree, but it has thus far signally failed to make
it even approximately universal.

Some five years ago a large element of the National Hardwood
Lumber Association resigned from it and formed a second and
purely manufacturers ' organization, known as the Hardwood Manu-
facturers ' Association of the United States. Since that time both
bodies have flourished, but their systems of inspection have always
varied to a considerable extent. The method thus far employed by
the national element has called for grading from the back or poorer
face of the board, and in measurement has given the odd three-
fourths inch and more to the seller, and less than three-fourths inch to
the buyer. On the other hand the manufacturers have insisted that
inasmuch as the greater portion of hardwood lumber in its finished
state shows only ore face, both sides of a piece of lumber should
be taken into, consideration in determining the grade, which prac-
tically calls for inspection on the face or good side of the board.
This association has also pursued the give-and-take half inch meas-
urement irt determining the quantity.

While these two sets of rules will show a difference in value on
a thousand feet of lumber of from $1.50 to $3.00 under strict inter-
pretation their general application as regulated by supply and de-
mand and by custom will not show any vast difference in net results.

It should be recalled that normally all men are selfish. It there-
fore happens that every manufacturer of lumber naturally seeks to

dispose of the lowest possible quality of a given grade at the highest
possible price. On the contrary the jobber and wholesale consumer
strenuously seek to secure the highest possible quality of a given
grade at the lowest possible price. Here, thus far, has been the
parting of the ways. The Hardwood Manufacturers' Association
is entirely made up of manufacturers of lumber. The Michigan
Hardwood Manufacturers' Association is also exclusively a manu-
facturers ' organization. In Wisconsin there are two hardwood asso-
ciations, one composed of manufacturers only and the other of manu-
facturers and jobbers. The Indiana association is also made up of
both elements. The New York Lumber Trade Association, which
makes some pretense of having a hardwood inspection system, is
largely dominated by the jobbing element, as are the various other
lumber exchanges in the great trade centers of the country.

It is a singular fact that the lumber business is the only manu-
facturing enterprise in which the manufacturer does not regulate
to the last degree the grading of his own product. This comes
about from the necessity that he make qualities suitable to the re-
quirements of the consuming trade. Up to this time hardwood in-
spection usages have been quite largely dictated by jobbers, because
they took the initial steps in the formation of the parent organiza-
tion and the local exchanges. Today, however, it is asserted that
the majority of members of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso-
ciation are either jobbers and manufacturers, or manufacturers ex-
clusively. This being the case, it should not be a difficult matter
for the hardwood lumber manufacturing element of the country, as
represented by all the various lumber exchanges and associations, tc
get together on a uniform system of hardwood inspection, and
promulgate it by very preponderance of numbers.

It has become an axiom that value cannot be legislated into a
grade; if the grade is high a high price will follow; if the grade is
low, a low price will obtain. Up to this time, through local asso-
ciation pride, and through each association having had its own way
about inspection matters, there has been altogether too much stress
laid upon what should constitute a specific grade of lumber. It really
does not make much difference what the grade is so long as it suits
the trade for which it is intended.

There is no doubt of the integrity of purpose of the president of
the National Hardwood Lumber Association in attempting to perfeci.
and make universal a logical system of hardwood inspection. In this
movement he .should have the endorsement and assistance of every
hardwood manufacturer, merchant and consumer in the land. The
Hardwood Record bids him Godspeed in his mission, and if he suc-
ceeds, as it is hoped he will, the hardwood trade of this country will
owe him more than it does any other man who has ever attempted to
better its conditions.

The Michigan Meeting.

The meeting of the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa-
tion, held at Grand Eapids April 17, was marked by the first logical
action that has thus far transpired looking toward actual results in
the establishment of universal hardwood inspection. This associn-
tion appointed a committee to treat with other associations on the
subject of a uniform set of grading rules, and beyond that, gave
this committee full power to act in the premises.

From time immemorial associations have appointed committees
to treat with other associations, but never before has an association
"got down to brass tacks" and delegated a coterie of members to
act in its behalf.

Much may be expected from the impetus the hardwood manufac-
turers of Michigan are giving to the overhauling of inspection sys-
tems. They are being ably seconded in their efforts by Wisconsin
producers, who are equally anxious for up-to-date methods.

If the other associations of the country will follow this
example, universal hardwood inspection will soon be in sight.
There are not years enough left in this century for a general body
of association members, meeting at odd times in various parts of
the United States, to get together on this proposition, but competent
committees representing these bodies can do it, and do it to the
satisfaction of all, within a week.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Pert, Pertinent and Impertinent,

sweetest of Words.

If, of all words of tongue or pen

The saddest are, "It might have been,"

Thank heaven language still affords

The choice of many other words :

And sweetest far of all I reck

Are simply these : "Inclosed find check."

Ah, with what joy your bosom tills

When 'mongst the letters and the bills

You spy a quick acknowledgment

Of car of lumber that you"ve sent

But hardly dared so soon expect

To find these words : "Inclosed find check !"

Let poets prate of passioned verse,

Let theologians still asperse

The love of gold — but as for me,

I'm armed — accoutred instantly

Kor rosy cheeks and Clicquot sec.

When people write ; "Inclosed find check."

HARDWOOD INSPECTION RULES CONGRESS.

The spirt of concession that now obtains is the onJy way to Unify hardwood inspection.

The Reason.

Most of the good things in life come to
those who wait on themselves.

Preferable.
Even the dignified man wo.uld rather
bend than go broke.

Far Easier.

It is easier to say that j'ou do just as
you please than it is to do it.

Just So.

A man seldom tries to belittle another
man unless he feels that he is superior to
himself.

Quite Often.

A full hand is very often accompanied
by an empty heart.

Even He.

Strange as it may seem, even a lazy man
kicks if compelled to do nothing.

The Real Difficulty.

It is not so difficult to know oneself as
it is to confess to the knowledge.

Expensive.

Castles in the air cost a great deal to
keep lip.

Great but Rare.
Truly great is the man who has become
so without making any of the noise him-
self.

True.
It is a good thing not to be a "good
thing."

What Follows.
A man often says "How do you do?"
and then proceeds to do you.

Just a Little.
A word to the wise may be sufficient —
but a little depends on the word.

Troublesome.

After wealth has bought its way into so-
ciety it has to be constantly showing its
admission ticket.

Honor and Honesty.

"Honor is finer than honesty. A man
may be honest, and yet grasping and small;
but the man who has a delicate sense of
honor adds to integrity the grace of unsel-
fishness."

Dispicable.

The fellow whom pride or cowardice or
lai;iness drives into a corner and who does
nothing but sit there and growl is dispic-
able; even the chronic kicker is preferable
to him.

Good Advice.

Never sign a document until you have
read it, nor drink wine — till you have
seen it.

HARDWOOD RECORD

AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

Pignut.
Hicorla glabra. — Britton.
The pignut has an exceedingly extensive
range of growth, being found from the
southern sections of Maine and Ontario
southward to the Indian river district of
Florida, westward through lower Michigan
to parts of Nebraska, Indian Territory,
Eastern Kansas and Eastern Texas.

The tree is known as pignut in
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut, Bhode Is-
land, New York, New Jersey, Penn-
sylvania, Delaware, West Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Lou-
isiana, Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky,
Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Wiscon-
sin, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Min-
nesota, Ohio and Ontario; it is
called bitternut in Arkansas, Ill-
inois, Iowa and Wisconsin; black
hickory in Mississippi, Louisiana,
Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana and
Iowa; broom hickory in Missouri;
brown hickory in Delaware, Mis-
sissippi, Texas, Tennessee and
Minnesota; hard-shell in West Vir-
ginia; red hickory in Delaware;
switch-bud hickory in Alabama;
white hickory in New Hampshire
and Iowa.

The bark of the pignut is light
grey; it is coarse and rough, but
very 'close, and is not given to scal-
ing off or becoming shaggy, as do
other species of this family.

The leaves are alternate and
compound; they grow from eight
to twelve inches in length, and
consist of from five to nine sessile
leaflets, wedge-shaped and pointed
at the apex, the lower pair smaller
than the others; they are dark,
greenish -yellow, smooth on top,
and glabrous at maturity.

The staminate flowers grow in
axillary, catkins four to seven
inches long, and are usually in
groups of three; the pistillate form
in terminal spikes containing from
two to five flowers; their color is
greenish-yellow. The time of bloom

is April.

The fruit is an oblong nut, witli
smooth thin shell; the kernel is
small and usually bitter. This nut
is contained in a globose husk, red-
dish brown, hairy, thick or thin, which is
divided in four sections, opening partially
to disclose the nut, which matures in Octo-
ber and November.

The wood is of slow growth, brown, tough,
elastic, hard and heavy; the heartwood is
variable in color, while the thick sapwood
is nearlv white. It is very close-grained,
and is difficult to distinguish from that of

FlFXy-FIRST PAPEK

siiell-bark hickory. In the making of tool
handles, agricultural implements, etc., it is
liighly valued and almost indispensable. A
cubic foot of seasoned wood weighs fifty-
six pounds.

In general appearance the pignut is a
stately tree, tall and slender, growing to a
height of from fifty to more than a hun-
dred feet, witn narrow, round head, and

TYPICAL PIGNUT GROWTH, INDIANA.

liendulous, irregular branches. The trunk is
usually from two to four feet in diameter,
and is often forked. The tree thrives best
upon hillsides and along dry ridges, and
reaches its maximum development in the
basin of the lower Ohio river. It ranges
southward farther than do the other hick-
ories, extending down into Florida; and
grows farther to the southwest than does

any other variety except the pecan. It is
most common in Missouri and Arkansas;
the latter State is the home of all the
twelve known species of the hickory fam-
ily. These trees are distinctly North Amer-
ican, and none are now native to any other
section of the world. There is one Mex-
ican species, and the remaining eleven are
confined to that portion of the United
States which lies east of the Rock-
ies. Scientists have shown that
many members of this family once
inhabited parts of Europe and
Greenland, as well as the western
part of this continent, but that
they were all destroyed during a
certain geological era, and the only
traces of them remaining today are
in rocks belonging to the Tertiary
period.

So valuable and ornamental a
tree as the pignut is unfortunate
in being known commonly by so
insignificant a name; one botanist
has named this species porcina,
hence pignut, because the nuts were
a favorite food for pigs, which
were often turned into the woods
to graze in the old days, and be-
cause they are distasteful to most
persons, while those of the shag-
bark are eagerly sought.

The hickories possess as high
physical qualities as any group of
American trees; their wood is ex-
ceedingly valuable, so much so that
it is almost impossible to find sat-
isfactory substitutes for it in cer-
tain lines, while for fuel it is unex-
celled in heat-giving and bright-
ness of flame. Even the nut is
commercially valuable. When the
trees are cut and manufactured
into lumber, the buyer rarely at-
tempts to distinguish the particular
variety, merely asking whether he
is purchasing virgin or second
growth. Second growth is pecu-
liarly well adapted to the manu-
facture of light vehicles. The
spokes of carriage wheels, the bent
rims, axles and bolsters, running
gear, poles, shafts, foundation
frame-work, etc., are made of the
wood whenever possible. Ash and
maple have often been substituted
for inferior-grade work, but a very
little rough handling or usage will
show the deception.

Rogers says: "With wood equal to the
best in its genus, exceptional merits as a
shade and ornamental tree, and promise of
developing orchard varieties that will rival
the shagbarks as nut trees (experiments are
now in progress looking toward the im-
provement of the fruit, by grafting), the
pignut seems to be one of the 'coming

WALTER D. YOUNC3

BAY CIXV, MICH.

SUPPL£M£NT TO

HAKDWOOD KEOORD

APRIL 25, 1907

rLLUSTRATING
BUILDERS OF LUMBER HISTORY

HARDWOOD RECORD

LEAF AND FRUIT OF PIGNUT.

trees' in the Eastern States. It is to be
hoped that the popular name will be aban-
doned and the more suitable one 'smooth
hickory' substituted. This is the literal
translation of its scientific name."

The photograph of pignut, from whi<;h the
halftone accompanying this article was made,
is from the collection of AVilliam H. Free-
man, secretary of the Indiana State Board
of Forestry.

'Builders of Lumber History.

NUMBER XLIII.

Walter Dickson Young.
(See Portrait Supplement.)

Walter Dickson Young was born in Al-
bany, N. Y., Sept. 25, 1855. His father
was George Young, of Stewarton, Scotland;
his mother was a resident of Albany. The
boy attended the academy there until the
family's removal to Bay City, more than
thirty years ago, and he received his entire
business training in the latter city.

His first employment was as clerk in the
Bay City Bank. He next entered the coal
and ice business as a member of the firm of
Young Brothers; and in 18S7 organized and
managed the Michigan Log Towing Com-
pany, which was engaged in towing logs
from Georgian Bay to the Saginaw river.
Mr. Young acted in this capacity for five
years.

In 1892 he entered the hardwood lumber
and maple flooring business, establishing
the house of W. D. Young & Co., of which
he is the sole owner at the present time,
and it is to the affairs of this concern that
he devotes most of his energy and atten-
tion, although largely interested in several
other important enterprises. Among these
is the Young Brothers ' Building Company,
of which he is secretary; the Colonial
Building Company, of Bay City, w-hieh he
serves in like capacity; he is a director of
the Bay City Bank and of the Colonial
Trust & Savings Bank of Chicago; and is
vice president of the German-American
Sugar Company of Bay City, one of the
largest producers of beet sugar in the state
of Michigan.

Mr. Young has a double band saw mill
and an immense flooring plant at West Bay
City. He does a general hardwood manu-
facturing and wholesale business, but makes
a decided specialty of maple flooring, and
is recognized as one of the most important

factors in the maple flooring trade of the
United States, as well as in the foreign
markets; his company exports a large
quantity each year. Only recently the plant
was improved and made up-to-date in every
particular; it is equipped with the latest
and best machinery to be had. The Young
factory has long been noted for the excel-
lence of its product, and it is one of Mr.
Young's characteristics that he never does
anything by halves.

Mr. Young has been twice married — the
first time to Miss Florence Blanchett, of
Detroit, who died in 1887; the second to
Miss Elizabeth Ambrose, daughter of
George H. Ambrose, one of Chicago 's
pioneer lumbermen. He has four children,
Fanny May, Walter Dickson, Jr., Florence
Ambrose and Francis Little.

Although exceedingly domestic in his
tastes, and caring little for politics, Mr.
Young is very popular in a social way — as
he is also with business associates. He is
a member of the Bay City Club and of the
Union League Club qf Chicago.

It is a pleasure for the Hakdwood Eecoed
to add the portrait of Mr. Young to its gal-
lery of Builders of Lumber History, to
which his enterprise, sagacity and success
in lumber operations in Michigan fairly
entith,' him.

Record Mail Bag.

fin this department it is proposed to reply
to such inquiries as reach this oflQce from the
IIaudwood Kecobo 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 tu answer queries pertaining to all
matters of interest to the hardwood trade, in
a succinct and intelligent manner]

interested me. Was pleased to note the refer-
ence you made to the coffee tree in one of our
Boston parks, known as the Fens, Enclosed you
will find a leaf of this tree, and also one from
a red maple and balm of Gilead. My life has
been spent in association with the trees. For
years I have been trying to form a collection
of the leaves of forest trees, but have difficulty
in preserving them any length of time. Would
be pleased to have you advise me of some for-
mula to preserve them.

Am sending you under separate cover a rem-
nant of a tree that is very hard, and would like
to have you classify it. This tree was located
in north latitude 45 degrees, west longitude 53
degrees, on an ocean mountain known as the
Grand Bank. It is not known how many trees
there are to the acre in this ocean forest, as no
cruiser has ever returned to make his report,
but it has stood a mute witness to the dying
wail of many a whole ship's crew. In walking
through this forest one would find the whitened
bones of thousands of men who went down to
the sea in ships. When I first came into pos-
session of this tree, some dozen years ago, it
was about two feet high, but continual knocking
around has broken off its trunk and branches so
that today it would not break any records in
using a Doyle scale. C. B. Rogers.

I am unable to identify the little piece of
wood or coral that the writer sends. Ee-
f erring to the subject of the preservation of
leaves in their natural form, I have never
been able to accomplish this result satisfac-
torily. My method of preserving an accurate
record of leaf forms is to put freshly plucked
leaves in an ordinary photographic printing
frame between a piece of plain glass, to
hold them flat and firm, and a sheet of
sensitized paper — thus employing the leaf as
a negative. This process will make an ab-
solutely accurate leaf print, which can then
be toned in the usual way, making a more
permanent and satisfactory record than any
other I know of. — Editor.

Thanks The Record.
ASBUBY I'ABK, N. J., April 0, — Editor Haed-
wooD Record : We want to thank you very
much for the help you have given us concerning
the short pieces of hickory. In view of the in-
formation we have gained we think we can cut
our wood to much better advantage in the
future, — Yours very truly, Caxx & Taylor,

■Wants Market for Hickory.
Bcr-al Hall, N. C, April 13. — Editor Haed-
wooD Record : We notice an article on page 20
of the March issue of the Record, containing a
question you have been asked before, but the
same interests us. We expect to be in the
hickory business and want to get a market for
dimension stock, short lengths, second growth
hickory. You will please give this place in the
next issue of your paper and oblige. We enclose
$2 check for the Record. Company.

The above letter is self-explanatory and
persons interested in securing this stock may
have the address of the writer on application
to this ofiice. — Editor.

Asks for Information.
Chelsea, Mass., April 13. — Editor Hardwood
Record ; The subject of "American Forest
Trees" as published in the Record has greatly

Wants Second-Haiid. Kails.

Derm.a, Miss.^ April 17. — Editor Hardwood
Kecoed : Will you please give me the name of
parties who handle second-hand rails for tram
roads? I want to buy or lease one and a half
miles for immediate use. & Co.

Anyone interested in this inquiry can have
the writer's address by applying to this of-
fice. — Editor.

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Ameiican Forest Trees.

West Chester, Pa., April 20.— Editor Hard-
wood Recoiid: Eeferi'ing to the articles under
the title American Forest Trees, published in
your paper, will you kindly advise us when these
articles will be printed in book form? We should
like to get a copy.— Yours truly, Hoopes Bugs.
& Darlington, Inc.

There are upwards of 300 varieties of com-

mercial forest trees growing in the United
States. Of this number the Hardwood
Record has published articles covering only
about sixty. It is our intention to eventu-
ally edit this series of articles and put them
into book form. The first volume will prob-
ably be issued some time during 1908.—
Editor.

The Care of the Glue Tot.

The glue pot has more to do with the suc-
cess of the factory than the average wood-
worker supposes. Some of the important
points of this branch of the industry are too
often neglected. The methods of heating
glue for veneering and other work in many
shops and mills would surprise the average
artisan in the woodworking line. In some
cases the glue pot is any old kind of ket-
tle or pot that happens to be available. One
sometimes sees glue pots in operation on
masses of coal, coke and charcoal, the glue
coming in direct contact with the interior of
the kettle, resulting in its piling up, baking
and gritting into a mass as illustrated at
a, Fig. 1, which is a sectional sketch of
the glue pot with partly burned and clogged
glue adhering to the sides of the metal uten-
sil. This is a most imperfect way to dis-
solve it and it is invariably burned.

Some of the utensils employed for work-
ing the melted glue are not kept, in proper
order. In many instances the melting pots
have the appearance of not having been
cleaned for ages. In one mill, where much
veneering work was in process, the writer
noticed that glue melting apparatus was
quite submerged, together with burned and
clogged matter, refuse and slime. The lids
of the pots failed to close, due to hardened
masses of glutinous matter on the hinges.

No effort seems to be made in some estab-
lishments to care for the gluemaking outfit,
although tlie power plant may boast a pol-
ished engine, a clean floor, machinery in per-
fect running order, with shafting and belts
in good condition. In these same factories
may be found a careless boy or two making
glue in crude utensils, rendered unsuitable
because of neglect, and even the floor be-
smeared with the gummy stuff. Just why
this department shouhl be so often over-
looked, it is difficult to understand. How-
ever, some of the woodworking plants have in-
stalled very desirable systems of glue-pre-
paring apparatus and invested considerable
money in them. Often old apparatus which
is defective in some particular point is
changed at slight expense into a suitable
device. For example in Fig. 2 is shown one
of the single pots altered so that there is a
boiler inside, thus preventing the glue from
coming into direct contact with the metal
that is next to the fire. There is no chance
for the glue to get burned in the inner kettle,
providing that the proper amount of water is
kept in the exterior kettle at all times. A
melting pot of this description can be used
to good advantage in dissolving common glue.

The brushes and the mode of applying
them are worthy of special note.

There are instances of using crude brushes
made of a rag tied on a stick, and instances
in which worn and broken brushes are utilized,
but the majority of users of glue depend
upon common bristle brushes. The camel's
hair brush cannot be used long before the
fine strands become clogged and torn. The
stubby bristle brush will not do, and the user
of glue finally hits upon the common hog-
bristle brush of the character exhibited in
Fig. 3. Of course he often seeks to alter the
original condition of the brush and sometimes
ruins it this way. In one shop a glue worker
had his brushes bridled with wire as at b.
This shut off just that much action of the
bristles. In other places, while the glueman
did not put his brushes "on the bum" by
Ijinding up the bristles with wire, he went at
the work in such a way that he ruined his
brushes early in the game, besides doing de-
fective work in the meantime. Some glue-

the work, without jamming the bristles as in
the previous case.

Many brushes are put out of working order
prematurely because of their use in grooves
of work to be joined, as at e. Fig. 6. Wide
and full brushes are often squeezed into nar-
row grooves. The best way is to have an
assortment of glue brushes, and in this as-
sortment there sliould be some small ones, the
bristle combination of which should just fit
the width of the grooves of the work in hand.
Tliis will prevent tearing and wearing the
bristles on the grooves. Then the brush is
often worn down unevenly by constantly drag-
ging it over the work at an angle, as shown in
Fig. 7. While the inner side of the brush
slides over the surface, the outer drags irregu-
larly as at f, and the result is that the un-
equal pressure makes the brush crooked in a
short time. Much depends upon the manner
of holding the brush.

Of course all manner of schemes for heat-
ing the pots are invented by ingenious glue-
makers in the shops. In one the resourceful
glueman introduced a complete Bunsen burner
device. He got gas from the main by run-
ning a rubber tube from a jet to the gas
pipe, as shown in the diagram. Then he
rigged up a little fan blower motor, attached
a tube and secured an air blast therefrom,
'inen the air and the gas were combined in
the Bunsen burner at g and intense heat was
obtained from the flame.

Fig. 9 shows another kind of glue pot.
The object of this contrivance is to enclose

^gi

men apply the glue to the work by grasping
the brush as in Fig. 4, exerting more than
necessary pressure in the direction of the
arrow e, thereby reducing the bristles to a
flattened condition. Many glue brushes are
prematurely ruined by this method. A better
way to operate is exhibited in Fig. -5. The
brush handle is grasped with the forefinger,
the thumb on the stem as shown. The fore-
finger d is not brought down hard upon the
brush head. This gives opportunity for a
clean sweeping of the brush to and fro on

the heating chamber. Coke, charcoal or other
fuel is employed and ignited just beneath the
pot, which is constructed with an inner boiler
for the glue.

There are many different kinds of glue
melting and working devices in use in wood-
working mills. The large veneer and fur-
niture factories have special glue rooms, care-
fully fitted up, where all ghiing is done, for
this department of any shop of importance
is worthy the best appliances and the atten-
tion of an expert.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Meeting Michigan HardWood Manufacturers' Ass'n.

There was a rousing iiieetiug of the Michi-
gan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association,
lield at Grand Rapids, Mich., Ajiril 17.
Although the association was only organized
in July last, this is the fourth meeting that it
has held. The attendance at every meeting
seems to be growing larger and is indicative
of the interest that is being manifested in
the association. Already the organization has
systematised plans for gaining an accurate
knowledge of stocks of lumber and logs on
hand, both sold and unsold, and many details
that put every hardwood manufacturer in
Michigan in possession of facts essential to a
thorough knowledge of the conditions of the
business in the state. This information is
collated by the association 's secretary at fre-
quent intervals and distributed to every mem-
ber. It is safe to say that there is no body
of lumbermen in the country who are bet-

WILLIAJI H. WHITE. PRESIDENT.

ter posted on facts of such essential interest
in assisting just values for their product as
the members of this organization.

Beyond the information collated and dis-
seminated as above noted, the association has
formulated a set of inspection rules and
endorsed them, which it hopes to make the
standard of the entire country on northern
hardwoods. The membership has grown to
about seventy in number, and represents
about eighty-five per cent of the total hard-
wood output of Michigan. The initial meet-
ing of the organization was held at Ottawa
Beach on July 13 and 14 last. The second
meeting was called at Mackinaw Aug. 8. The
third took place at Traverse City on Oct. 31.

The Grand Rapids meeting was called in
the auditorium of the Hotel Pantlind at 10
A. M., with President William H. White in
the chair, and Secretary Bruce Odell at his
desk. President White after calling the meet-
ing to order, delivered the following address:

President White's Address.

Gentlemen : This is the fourth meeting of
the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa-

tion and while our association has not made

ver.v miicli stir or excitement, we feel that its

woi-ii has been very effective.

The last statistics which our secretary sent

out were gotten up in splendid shape. They

reached nearly every manufacturer and I think

had their effect.

The work of this meeting today, as I look at

it, is to consider fullj' the rules that have been
drafted by the different committees and if found
to be satisfactory, adopt the same and put them
into effect in say thirty or sixty days. T'his
would give our committee a chance to confer
witli the committee of the National Hardwood
Lumber Association, as I understand it is the
wish tif the National Association that our Grad-
ing Committee meet their Grading Committee
and go over the rules question. If their com-
mittee approves of the rules which our com-
mittees agree on, and agrees to recommend
their adoption at their annual meeting to be
held at Atlantic City in May, on maple, beech,
birch, ash, elm and basswood, so that these prod-
ucts could be shipped on one set of rules known
to the trade, I feel that we would have accom-
plished a great deal. We want a set of rules
that cannot be manipulated and in order to
have such a set of rules we will have to con-
sider the board from both sides.

I am very desirous of seeing the defects in
boards placed according to the amount of feet
in each board, instead of according to the width
and length. I am also very desirous of seeing
a tmifurm inspection — I mean one set of inspec-
tion rules. Every member here should give
this rules question serious thought because when
it is decided upon now it should be left so for
some time.

The marketing committee has a very impor-
tant task to perform, and I hope they have
given their work sufllcient thought to enable
them to slate to this meeting the market con-
ditions as they are today, and the chance for
maintaining the present prices for our stock or
of advancing prices in the near future. We
also want to discuss fully the amount of stock
on hand, compared witti last year, and the
amount of stock sold and unsold at the present
time- We want to look Into it carefully and
outline a policy for this association to pursue,
taking into account the amount of money it
will re(iuire to run it successfully, and make
provision for raising the amount today or when
it will be needed. I-'or the best interests of this
association it is going to require lots of atten-
tion and work in the future. Your secretary
deserves a great deal of credit for what he has
accomplished in the short time he has had to
do it. Taking into consideration his own busi-
ness interests I cannot see how he can continue
this work and do either himself or the associa-
tion justice after the close of our year, which
will be in July, unless he or some one else gives
the work their full time and attention.

Every member of this association should have
a list "of stock on hand every month : namely,
each kind of hardwood lumber, as well as the
thickness, also the market conditions and the
price at which lumber is selling at the central
points, so that every manufacturer will be
posted on the true condition of the market and
know whether the supply of material is increas-
ing or decreasing the demand. Products in
which members are interested should be consid-
ered even if not controlled by the association,
such as bark, seats and other forest products,
and whatever information the secretary may
have in his possession should go out to the
members and he should keep in touch with
them. If a member is not sure on any point on
which he thinks the association might give in-
formation, it is his duty to write the secretary
and try to find out the true facts as they stand.
We are all busy men, perhaps too busy to give
this association work the time it needs. Every-
body is willing to do what they can, but this
is an important work and a work that is going
to have its results if properly looked after.

The matter is now in your hands and I hope
we will have a good meeting.

At the request of the chair Secretary Odell
read a synopsis of the minutes of the last
meeting, which was approved.

Chas. A. Bigelow, chairman of the grading
committee, stated that a conference had been
held between his committee and the grading
rules committee of the National Hardwood
Lumber Association in Chicago some time
ago, and that they had received courteous
treatment at the hands of the National repre-

sentatives and that a report of this conference
would be furnished later.

President White invited W. H. Russe,
president of the National Hardwood Lumber
Association, to address the meeting on the
subject of the National Association's joining
the Michigan Association, or the Michigan 's
joining the National. Mr. Russe responded
as follows :

W. H. Russe 's Speech.

Ml. President and Michigan Millionaires : I
think the request of your president is very em-
barrassing when he asks if Michigan shall adopt
the National rules or the National adopt the
Michigan rides. At Puft'alo we made an agree-
ment not to change the rules for three years,
but I, for one, feel there are some changes
which should be made. You will all bear in
mind in making rules, when we hear from all
sections of the countr.y, that Michigan will not
get just what it wants, that Wisconsin will not
get just what it wants, and Indiana will not
get what it wants, because we do not all think
alike, and that is true on any legislation on any
subject. .\ny legislation you might carry out

W, W. MITCHELL. VICE PRESIDENT.

here in your organization will not meet the ap-
proval of all your members. You must get to-
gether for the general good. I was present at
(Jttawa Beach when you were organizing this
association. I am glad you have made such
progress. Association work is a good thing. It
is a good thing if you don't go any farther than
to know each other, for then you have accom-
plished good work.

The market has been on our side of the fence
for two years and I would like to see it con-
tinue for five years longer. Whether it will or
not I can not say. Hi Memphis just at present
we are getting good prices. A man comes into
an office and we add a cotiple of dollars and
another man comes in and we add a couple
more. Conditions have been such that stocks
have been kept at a minimum. The demand has
been greater than the supply and while these
conditions exist you are going to get good prices
for your lumber.

Getting back to the rules, the National has
always stood for and worked for uniform inspec-
tion,' and by that we mean we hope some day
to have one set of inspection rules governing the
country. I believe the time is ripe now to get
together on the proposition. The markets are
with us for any changes. We are all manufac-
turing lower classes of material. I have alwa.vs
held our prices naturally will follow the quality
of the goods we ship and if w'e make them too
low we can not get as much money, but we
should have universal inspection. They ought
not to be Michigan rules, Wisconsin rules, or
National rules, but we ought to have only one
set of rules. In fact, the very existence of dif-
ferent rules has brought into effect the National
association. Originally we had a great many
exchanges and systems of inspection. C'jicago,

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St. Louis, Buffalo, New York and other cities
had rules. Wlien we made quotations on lum-
ber tliey aslied us, "Wliat rules are you going
to measure it liyV" Then we got together and
n.ade a set of rules.

We have made wonderful progress. The suc-
cess of the National association proves that de-
spite the fact that this year there has been
more agitation in manufacturing centers in re-
gard to changes in the rules the association
has made a large increase in membership and
the inspection force has measured more lumber
than ever before. The National association
never has been in better condition than it is to-
day. Still we have not attained the idea we
started out for — universal inspection. I be-
lieve that with conservative action, and every
man giving the other man credit for being hon-
est in what he says, while we may not agree
with you. bv giving and taking we can get to-
gether and make a set of rules that will suit all
of us. With the different interests at stake this
will be the best thing that can be done.

I am not familiar with your northern woods.
I do not know just what changes you feel
should be made, but I know there are a few
changes we of the south want and fee! we
should have. On the other hand, I do not be-
lieve iu rescinding the Buffalo agreement — tak-
ing it out and throwing it overboard. I believe
we can suspend the Buffalo agreement and make
the changes uecessary for the changed condi-
tions and let the Buffalo agreement go right
along until it has expired.

I am glad your association has invited the
inspection committee not only of our associa-
tion but also of the Indiana and Wisconsin as-
sociations, because I believe these committees

BRUCE ODEI^L, SECRETARY.

have given inspection rules so much thought
that they can go over the entire list far better
than a general convention. Naturally when you
go in a general convention the different sections
handle different woods and it is hard to reach
an agreement. For instance, I would not give
any consideration as to what changes Michigan
needs, because I would not be in a position to
give them any advice. I do give thought to
the woods we handle personally. Your chair-
man would not consider the woods you do not
handle. There will come in differences of opin-
ion again, but if we simply will wipe out senti-
ment and merely bear in mind that we are
there not only for our own good but for the
general good, and whenever you help the gen-
eral good you will find you are helping your-
selves, you will remove the obstacles and you
are bound to put money in your pocket when
you help the general good of the lumber busi-
ness.

1 feel that the movement here has been a
wise one and I hope that when the committees
get together one won't insist on having a cer-
tain speck removed, but by giving and taking
they will be able to get together and when they
get there we will be satisfied and then let the
matter rest under the Buffalo agreement until
it has expired. The National Association has
always had that one idea in view ; that is,
universal inspection. You must bear in mind
that with a membership of more than six hun-
dred we have differences of opinion. We have
differences of opinion in our club at Memphis,
in which we have 116 members, but we try to
get the best of the ideas advanced adopted. I
find 1 am not infallible in my views and other
people find out the same thing.

Let us meet with a determination to get to-
gether. If you conflict you will never get to-
gether. Some of our members have felt that
they do not get what they are entitled to.- If
you will bear this in mind there is no reason
under the sun why we should not get together,
and I believe we will.

General Discussion on Inspection.

The chair next invited Frank F. Fish, sec-
retary of the National Association, to speak.
Mr. Fish stated that his time was given
very largely to carrying out detail work and
that he was not a practical lumberman and
was not competent to pass an opinion on in-
spection rules. He urged attendance at the
forthcoming annual meeting at Atlantic City
and hoped that every Michigan manufacturer
would be present to further the interests of
that section of the country.

President White then gave Theodore Fath-
auer, chairman of the Inspection Eules Com-
mittee of the National Association, an op-
portunity to speak. Mr. Fathauer said:

The question of inspection always seems to
be a prominent one in a meeting of lumbermen.
When first the subject was broached, ten or
eleven years ago, the National Hardwood Lum-
ber Association took great pains to enlist the
support and cooperation of hardwood lumber-
men. At that time they extended a general in-
vitation to attend a meeting held in Chicago.
Michigan was approached by personal efforts
and Mr. White was among the first to attend
the meeting. He is as conversant with the im-
portance of the achievement as any of us. The
dealers and manufacturers of hardwood lumber
should and must get together. In a measure
the dealer reflects the necessities of the con-
sumer. Manufacturers, on the other hand, know
what a log will produce and it would be the
height of folly were they to adopt inspection
rules which would not be practicable in the
manufacture of hardwood lumber. You who
have followed the work of the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association know that Michigan
through its representative sawmill men has
been represented on this committee. The in-
spection rules necessarily must represent the
custom of the trade, and the inspection rule
through its grades must take care of the entire
product of the log. You gentlemen can answer
the question far better than anyone else whether
or not the National rules would take care of
the entire product of the log with the exception
of slabs, sawdust and edgings.

Personally I have always felt that to change
the rules every time you have a meeting is a
grave mistake. Not only are universal inspec-
tion rules desirable but uniform application of
the rules. You cannot change the rules and ex-
pect the inspectors to apply them as well as if
your inspectors had opportunity to apply them
lor a year or two.

We will fight for the rescinding of the Buffalo
agreement if for no other reason than to show
we acted in all sincerity. This is the position
taken by the Chicago Hardwood Lumber Ex-
change. We will send a strong representation to
.\tlantic City for this purpose.

I might say, however, that we will have op-
position and if you gentlemen are interested,
which you are — at least I think you are — it
devolves upon you to attend the meeting in
person. Proxies are not accepted. Whichever
way you vote, for or against, goes and you must
be there to voice your sentiments. The National
Hardwood Lumber Association for at least ten
years has endeavored to have its rules adopted
in the eastern markets and about a month ago
it was successful. I simply mention this tact
to show you with what diligence the work is
carried on. Also I wish to state to you that it
any radical movement is on foot to change the
rules for grading lumber you will lose the sup-
port whicli we now have and frustrate the
efforts of ten years.

Carroll F. Sweet, a director of the Na-
tional Association, spoke in substance as fol-
lows :

The subject of inspection rules your commit-
tee is very much more capable of handling with
the committee of the National and other asso-
ciations than it is possible to do here, and far
better results can be secured through committee
action. One point that is essential is to have
a large attendance at the .Atlantic City meet-
ing. Last year Grand Rapids sent a big delega-
tion to Memphis, which I got up, and I have
been requested to repeat the program this year.

Y'our secretary has had bouquets thrown at him,
so I think he can stand a little criticism. I
called Mr. Odell up on the 'phone and he said
be did not see auy use in going. Now I want
to tell vou one thing — anything we don't get
doesn't do us any good. Anyone who is dead
doesn't get any good out. of life.

Mr. Sweet further said that he was the
excursion manager of the Grand Eapids mem-
bers of the National Association and pro-
posed to charter a special car to take the
local lumbermen to the Atlantic City meeting
of the National Association, and invited all
members of the Michigan Association who
could make it convenient to join the party
to go with them.

Mr. Russe then cordially seconded the in-
vitation given by Mr. Sweet.

The chair invited Geo. H. Chapman, a dele-
gate from the 'Wisconsin Hardwood Manu-
facturers' Association, to address the con-
vention. Mr. Chapman spoke as follows:

I would like to touch upon one question
which has been brought up, largely because of
the remarks I made at the Traverse City meet-
ing and because there has been some misunder-
standing in regal d to the position which has

CHAS. A. BIGELOW, CHAIRMAN GRADING
COMMITTEE.

been talten by the manufacturers of Wisconsin,
especially those who have taken an active part
in the "formation of our new association. A
good many of the wholesalers and others have
given it to me pretty hard because they think
we want to make it as hard as possible for
wholesalers to do business. There is no such
intention. We do not want to do anything that
would be detrimental to the business of our
Iriends and we want them to understand that
the formation of this new association is for the
purpose of taking up questions that our friends
are not interested in. We intend to maintain
both associations over there. There are ques-
tions which both can handle. There are ques-
tions that either one or the other could not
handle. We recognize that their branch of the
business is necessary to us. We will not under
any circumstances take any action that will be
detrimental to their affairs and those in other
lines of the hardwood lumber business.

We have given this question of grading a
great deal of thought. Mr. Fathauer said that
the rules should be so written that they would
cover the entire product of the log. This in-
cludes the low grade stock which is being sold
for scoots, crating and other purposes. If the
logging is closely done and the sawing properly
done some provision should be made for this low
grade product. For this reason we are advocat-
ing a grade which will take care of it. We
think it should have a better name, however.

We are heartily in favor of uniform rules.
We do not care who gets the credit for them.
We are willing to keep up the flght until we
get what we want. So far as continually chang-
ing the rules is concerned I do not favor too

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much o£ that, but it seems to us that the great
trouble with the hardwood lumber business has
been and is today because we are working on
antiquated plans. The first hardwood rules
ever written were written in Wisconsin. They
were used as the foundation of the National
rules. They were written fifteen or eighteen
years ago in a great deal of haste. We all of
us know that conditions in the lumber business
have changed within the last ten or twenty years.
I do not know of a single set of rules that have
not been changed materially within the last ten
years. Shop common and pine rules are as
radically different from w'hat we had years ago
as is possible. Changes were made in order to
give sash and door factories what they wanted
and then put on an adequate price. The rules
were changed probably fifteen years ago. X'o
make these changes there were conferences be-
tween the bureau of grades and the sash and
door concerns tributary to the Mississippi river
territory.

I don't see what objection there can be to
making changes in the rules provided they are
needed. I don't see that anything can be
gained by changing gradually. Hardwood lum-
ber as graded out is not as a rule satisfactory
to the users of lumber. In a great many case.s
it is necessary to make special grades. I
think all of you can recognize where that comes
in. I think the basis — that is, the ground work
of the present National rules — is not right. We
do not think they cover the wants of the users
of hardwood lumber. We don't care what it
does to the manufacturer, because you can make
a grade and put the price on it. but there may
be a hardship on the user because he may not
be able to use our grade. You are not going to
change the real value of your lumber by chang-
ing the grade. We feel conditions are such that
a radical change can be made. There are only
slight differences which would enable us to give
a man who is cutting up good lumber something
that can be used to advantage.

On invitation Chas. H. Barnaby, president
of the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen 's As-
sociation, spoke as follows:

I came here to represent Indiana in the joint
conference on rules and am greatly pleased to
find the Michigan association in session. We
had a conference several years ago and we went
to Chicago and tried to get changes but did not
get anything. The next year we went to St.
Louis, fought good and hard and got what we
wanted. If we are going to get anything now
we must fight for it. We have met four times,
our Indiana committee, and suggested such
changes as we think are right. We are going
to Atlantic City in a body and are going to
fight hard to have the Buffalo agreement sus-
pended and have adopted such rules as we can
have recognized by the National inspection com-
mittee.

Now. gentlemen, the chairman of the inspec-
tion committee cannot change these rules. It
is the majority of the entire convention that
will change them. If you want them changed
you must go down there and fight for it. Now'
you speak about the manipulator. He will
manipulate some way if he is a smooth citizen
regardless of rules. Why, there is a fellow in
our town who makes good money by manipulat-
ing and he will keep on just as long as he can
do that. I hope Michigan will send a strong
delegation and fight for the suspension of the
BuflTalo resolution.

W. C. Hull of Traverse ('ity responded to
Mr. Chapman's address as follows:

I do not know that I have anything to say
until the discussion of the rules comes up. I
was quite interested in the remarks of the gen-
tleman in regard to grades. The gentleman who
spoke at length says one cut of the log is not
provided for. He advocates another grade and
doesn't seem to like the name scoots. A No. 3
now is a very poor board. They only require
25 per cent sound cuttings and" a board that
will cut less than 25 per cent sound certainly
Is not entitled to a much better name. Should
we change the name to No. 4 the result would
be that one-half of the boards which the inspec-
tors now put into No. 3 will go into No. 4.

On motion of D. H. Day a vote of thanks
■U'as given to visiting members of other hard-
■wood associations for their attendance.

The Hart Cedar & Lumber Company of
Hart was admitted to membership, where-
upon the grading committee and the dele-
gates from the National, the Wisconsin and
Indiana associations went into session, as

well as the Market Conditions Committee;
recess was then taken until 2:30 p. m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.

Secretary Odell submitted the following
statement as a report of the Market Condi-
tions Committee:
Report of Market Conditions Committee.

From the stock reports of January 1, 1907,
and such other information as your committee
is able to obtain, stocks of all kinds of northern
hardwoods are very light, probably lighter than
at any time in several years. In the opin-
ion of your committee the following prices can
lie obtained for northern hardwoods over rail
or by vessels :

BIBCH.

4, 4 red ?40

First and No. 1 No. 2 No. 3

second, common, common. Com.

4/4 $29 $21 $15 $13

5/4 and 6/4. 31 23 15 13

8/4 33 25 17

30/4 37 27 17

12/4 40 30 20

ie/4 45 35 25

MAPLE.

4/4 $25 $20 $15 $13

5/4 26 21 15 13

6/4 27 22 15 13

8/4 28 23 16

10/4 30 24 17

12/4 32 26 18

16/4 35 28 19

No. 3
common. Log run.

Ash $15 $30

Basswood 16 26

Keech 13 16

Soft elm lo 26

Rock elm 15 25

Bruce Odell^
A. W. Newark,
W. L. Martin,
W. N. Kellev,
S. G. McClellan,
W. C. Hull.

R. Hanson said that the prices recom-
mended by the committee were already being
secured in most cases and gave a very op-
timistic ■view of trade conditions. The senti-
ments expressed were confirmed by both
W. W. Mitchell and F. A. Diggins. On mo-
tion the report was accepted and adopted,
and the meeting adjourned until 8 p. m.

EVENING SESSION.

Chas. A. Bigelow, chairman of the grading
committee, submitted the following report:

Report of Grading Conunittee.

Your committee submits the following modi-
fications and changes in the rules of inspection
of the National Hardwood Lumber Association,
as its report, which, if incorporated in their
rules, will, we earnestly believe, result to the
advantage of all concerned. We ask that a
committee be appointed by you to meet the
inspection rules committee of the National Hard-
wood Lumber .\ssociation in Chicago, prior to
the meeting of that association in Atlantic City
the latter part of May. as we believe the pres-
ent time most opportune in which to further
our efforts for a uniform inspection of hard-
wood lumber.

No. 1. Reference paragraph 2, general in-
structions : Both sides of the board shall be
taken into consideration by the inspector, ex-
cept as otherwise stated.

No. 2. Reference paragraph 3, general in-
structions : Instead of the words "and square
ends" use the words "all ragged and bad ends"
shall be trimmed off. Tapering lumber in stand-
ard grades to be measured one-third the length
of the piece from the narrow end.

No. 3. Reference paragraph 4, general in-
structions : In the measurement of lumber in
miscellaneous widths, all fractions one-half foot
or over, as shown by the board rule, shall be
added to the next higher figure, and all frac-
tions under one-half foot shall be dropped.

No. 4. New paragraph, general instructions :
All lumber grading firsts on the best side of the
piece and No. 1 common on the reverse side
shall be classed as seconds, and admitted into
the grades of firsts and seconds.

No. 5. Standard lengths : Fifteen per cent
of odd lengths to be admitted and measured and
classed as such : 25 per cent of 8 and 10 foot
to be admitted in the grade of firsts and sec-
onds, not exceeding 10 per cent under 10 feet.

No. 6. Standard thicknesses of lumber are
% inch, 1/2 inch, % inch, % inch, 1 inch, I14
inch, 114 inch, 2 inch, 2% inch, 3 inch, 3Vj
inch, 4 inch, 4 li, inch, 5 inch, 5 14 inch and 6
inch.

No. 7. Stain that will surface off in dressing
to any standard thickness shall not be consid-
ered a defect.

No. 8. All lumber less than 1 inch in thick-
ness shall be measured and counted the same
as lumber 1 inch thick when sold as such.

No. 9. Wane : Wane on edge of inch board
not exceeding one-half Inch in width on face
side of the piece, running not to exceed one-
third in length, shall not be considered a de-
fect. Inch and a quarter and thicker lumber
will admit a proportionate amount of wane.

No. 10. No. 1 common : Width, 3 inches and
wider ; lengths, 6 feet and longer. This grade
is a cutting up grade, and must work two-thirds
clear face cutting in not exceeding three pieces.

No. 11. No. 2 common : Width, 3 inches
and wider ; lengths, 4 feet and longe'r. This
grade is a cutting up grade and must work 50
per cent clear face, cutting in not exceeding four
pieces.

No. 12. No. 2 common in soft elm shall con-
form to the general rules of all No. 2 common,
except that the rules shall read "sound cutting"
instead of "clear face cutting."

Your committee recommends further that
copies of this report be furnished the secre-
taries of the Wisconsin Hardwood Manufac-
tures' Association, the Indiana Hardwood Lum-
bermen's Association ; and again we ask that a
special committee be appointed to confer with
members of the associations previously named.
Respectfully,

Charles A. Bigelow,

F. A. DiGGINSj

Henry Ballou,
D. H. Day,
R. J. Clark.

On motion of F. A. Diggins the report
as read was approved.

R. Hanson then addressed the association
as follows:

I make a motion that the committee
which had in charge the making of the
specifications submitted be continued ; that it be
instructed to attend the National convention
which meets at Atlantic City in the near future
for the purpose of having these inspection rules
adopted. It is a well recognized fact that in
order to make these inspection rules of any ben-
efit to us it will be necessary for us to have
them recognized by the National association. X
do not mean by that to say we should join the
National association, but in dealing with people
in diflferent cities we become international, in a
sense, and for that reason want rules recognized
by the general trade as the standard inspection
rules. We would have hard bumping to inaugu-
rate our system in our part of the country.
I do not mean to say that we cannot enforce
our inspection rules in a measure, but it will be
a great deal better to have them adopted by the
National association. I cannot see that we
would gain anything by joining the National
association, but I know we will profit materially
by having them recognized as the standard of
inspection, or In other words that our inspec-
tion rules agree with theirs. We are an associ-
ation that does not come in contact with the
other manufacturers' associations. We deal in
lumber in which they do not deal. They should
recognize our inspection as the standard inspec-
tion. I would recommend instructing this com-
mittee to attend the National association con-
ference and. if possible, having it secure the
incorpotation of our inspection in their rules.

By having an organized association and taking
a positive stand and adopting certain rules and
regulations by which we want our lumber in-
spected they will listen to us and modify their
inspection of that grade of lumber to harmonize
with ours. Indications are they want us to he
part of their body, but this I do not favor, be-
cause our interests are not common to that
extent. If we were taken in as a body in that
association they would have to supply us the
same inspectors as are used in that body, and
that I believe we can accomplish with a great
deal more readiness than to attempt to fill the
same positions they have to fill.

Let us stand outside of the association and
hold the same relative position to their organi-
zation as the states hold to one another in the
federal government. I am right, I believe. We
should proceed along the line I have stated and
appoint a committee with full power to act. I
think we should send a committee down there
with power to make reasonable concessions. If
we do not give them that power then I do not
think there is any use to send a committee.

Secretary Fish was asked to name a con-
venient time for the proposed conference with
the Grading Rules Committee of his associa-
tion, and suggested May 9.

HARDWOOD RECORD

F. A. Diggins interposed an objection, stat-
ing that he understood that the National
committee was to meet with the Indiana Hard-
wood Lumbermen's Association's committee
on May 8, and stated that he would like to
have the committees of all the associations
meet together at one time.

This suggestion was accepted by Mr. Fish,

whereupon Mr. Hanson offered the following

resolution, which was adopted:

Be it moved tbat the president and the mem-
bers of the Grading Committee of the Michigan
Hardwood Manufacturers' Association meet with
the grading committees of the other hardwood
associations in Chicago on May 8, or at any
other time that would be agreeable to all, and
attend the annual meeting of the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association at Atlantic City on
May 23 and 24, and that they have full author-
ity to act in the matter of devising satisfactory
and uniform inspection rules to govern the grad-
ing of northern hardwoods.

This committee consists of C. A. Bigelow,
D. H. Day, F. A. Diggins, Henry Ballou,
R. J. Clark and President White.

Secretary Odell read a financial statement
of the condition of the association's affairs,
showing that the total receipts up to this time
had been $1,18.5 and disbursements $1,106.77,
leaving a balance of only $78.23 on hand. He
stated that the organization would require
some additional funds to pay existing in-
debtedness and carry on the work, and re-
ferred to the provisions of the constitution
relating to dues, which provides that an as-
sessment on shipments not in excess of 2 cents
per thousand feet might be made. The secre-
tary introduced the following resolution,
which prevailed :

Resolved, That the secretary be instructed to
levy an assessment of 2 cents a thousand feet
on all shipments of hardwood lumber shipped
from January 1, 1907, the same to be paid quar-
terly, each member to render a .statement
promptly on blanks to be sent out by the secre-
tary, which are to show the amounts of the
different kinds of hardwood lumber shipped be-
tween the dates of January 1, 1907, and March
31, 1907, that being the first quarter of the
year.

C. R. Duggan asked the secretary if it
would be possible to compile a statement
showing stocks on hand at more frequent in-
tervals. In reply the secretary stated that he
had encountered extreme difficulty in getting
these reports as often as he had and did not
think it would be possible to secure stock re-
port statements from members oftener than
quarterly, !;nd doubted if it would be possible
to secure (hem oftener than semi-annually.

The secretary was instructed to issue a cir-
cular letter to all members noting the invi-
tation to be present at the annual meeting of
the National Hardwood Lumber Association
at Atlantic City, and urging that all attend.

On motion it was decided to •hold the first

annual meeting of the Michigan association
at Cadillac some time in July, the date to be
fixed by the president and secretary.

The meeting then adjourned.

The attendance was as follows:

Henry Ballou, Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., Cadillac.
Charles A. Bigelow, The Kneeland-Bigelow Co.,
Bay City.

C. H. Barnaby, Greencastle, Ind.
Frank Chickering, Grand Kapids.

E. C. Groesbeck, Stearns Salt & Lumber Co.,
Ludington.

George H. Chapman, Northwestern Lumber
Co., Stanley, Wis.

W. T. Christine, American Lumberman, Chi-
cago.

If. J. Clark, Peninsula Bark & Lumber Co.,
Sault Ste. Marie.

C. E. Duggan, Tindle & Jackson, Pellston.

F. A. Diggins, Murphy & Diggins, Cadillac.
H. E. Davies, Ilackley-Phelps-Bonnell Co.,

Grand Kapids.

H. I'. Dutton, Worcester Lumber Co., Ltd.,
Cliassell,

C. E. Davis, Perkins Lumber Co., Grand Rap-
ids.

D. II. Day, Glen Haven.

G. B. Dunton, Thos. MacBrlde Lumber Co.,
Buckle.v.

Theodore Fathauer, Theodore Fathauer Co.,
Chicago.

Frank F. Fish, National Hardwood Lumber
Association, Chicago.

M. J. Fox, G. von Platen, Boyne City.

L. E. Fuller, Lumber World, Chicago.

Henry H. Gibson, Hardwood Record, Chicago.

William F. Gustine, A. F. Anderson, Cadillac.

Bruce Green, Williams Bros. Co., Cadillac.

W. C. Hull, The Oval Wood Dish Co., Tra-
verse City.

H. S. Hull, The Oval Wood Dish Co., Tra-
verse City.

E. S. Harris. Dalton Lumber Co., New Dalton.
I!. Hanson, Sailing, Hanson & Co., Grayling.
W. W. Johnson, Johnson & Crowl, Petoskey.
Paul Johnson, North Shore Lumber Co.,

Thompson.

E. L. Klise. A. B. Klise Lumber Co., Sturgeon
Bay.

A. B. Klise. A. B. Klise Lumber Co., Sturgeon
Bay.

W. N. Kelley, Kelley Lumber & Shingle Co.,
Traverse City.

J. M. Longnecker, Oval Wood Dish Co., Tra-
verse City.

S. 0. McClellan, Earle Lumber Co.. Simmons.

R. E. Morris, Lumber Mutual Insurance Co.,
Ypsilanti.

W. W. Alitchell, Mitchell Bros. Co.. Cadillac.

W. Ij. Martin, Embury-Martin Lumber Co.,
Cheboygan.

A. W. Newark. Cadillac Handle Co., Cadillac.

.lohn F. Ott, John F. Ott Lumber Co., Tra-
verse City.

Bruce Odell, Cummer, Diggins & Co., Cadillac.

A. R. Owen, John S. Owen Lumber Co., Owen
Wis.

R. G. Peters, R. G. Peters Salt & Lumber Co.,
Manistee.

W. P. Porter, East Jordan Lumber Co.. East
Jordan.

M. .T. Quinlan. Menominee Bay Shore Lumber
Co.. Soperton. Wis.

W. H. Russe, Russe & Burgess. Memphis, Tenn.

C. F. Sweet, Merchants' Lumber Co., Strongs.

J. Sullivan, Cedar.

L. L. Skillman, Skillman Lumber Co., Grand
Rapids.

R. W. Smith, Louis Sands Salt & Lumber Co.,
Manistee.

W. Tillotson. inspector National Hardwood
Lumber Association, Grand Rapids.

George S. Wilkinson. Van Keulen & Wilkinson
Lumber Co.. Grand Ranids.

W. IT. White, W. II. White Co., Bovue City,
.Mich.

George F. Williams. Williams Bros. Co.. Cadil-
lac.

II. Widdicomb. Jr.. Halladay Lumber Co.,
Grand Rapids.

John S. Weidman, J. S. Weidman, Weidman.

NeWs Miscellanp.

Inspection Conference at Minneapolis.

.Si.x ofhcers of the National Hardwood Lumber
Association headed by President W. H. Russe on
April 19 visited Minneapolis for the purpose of
getting in touch with the hardwood wholesalers
of the Twin Cities and ealisting enough of them
as members of the National Association to justify
locating a National inspector there. A meeting
of the Northwesteru Hardwood Lumbermen's
Association was called by President D. F. Clark
for the purx^ose of talkiug things over with the

visitors. It was held at the Commercial Club
and was followed by a dinner, at which Mayor
J. C. Hayues welcomed the guests to Minne-
apolis.

It was the sense of the meeting that the local
hardwood men should Join forces with the Na-
tional Association, whose inspection rules they
have long been using, and that they should en-
deavor to use all honorable means to have a
imiversal inspection system adopted for the
whole country. Seven new members were re-

cefved into the National Association and three
others promised to join if their colleagues were
willing.

President Clark called the meeting to order
and stated its object, going on record himself
in favor of hearty support of the National As-
sociation and of securing a local National in-
spector. W. C. Bailey said that as northern
hardwoods were being cut out it was more neces-
sary to have an inspector for the Twin Cities to
give good service on southern stock.

W. H. Russe explained the National inspec-
tion service and said the association desired to
locate inspectors wherever needed. The service
is maintained as near uniform as possible, and is
giving very general satisfaction. The buyer will
like it better even if not always suited, because
he will know what he is going to get. Mr. Clark
explained that, while at Buffalo two years ago
a resolution was adopted not to change the
grading rules for three years, there is some talk
now of change and it will come up at the an-
nual meeting May 23 and 24.

F. F. Fish, secretary of the association, said
tlmt beginning five years ago with three in-
spectors, they now had twenty-one. They are
paid lfl,200 to $2,100 a year, and are under

U. F. CLARK. PRESIDENT NORTHWEST-
ERN HARDWOOD LUMBERMEN'S
ASSOCIATION.

bond. If on a reinspection there is a difference
of more than four per cent the association mails
a check to the buyer or seller, as the case may
be, and takes it out of the inspector's bond.
There are now 580 members : there are only six
in the Twin Cities and there .should be twenty.
O. O. Agler said that National inspection had
gained the confidence of buyers now so that
they were satisfied to take it in nearly all cases
without question.

A. E. Peterson of St. Paul thought the owner
or buyer should be allowed to have a man on the
pile with the inspector. Mr. Fish said that nine
times out of ten this man would try to influence
the inspector. Theodore Fathauer of Chicago,
chairman of the grading rules committee, said
that in Micltigan no man thought of going on
the pile, and the inspectors would be *'very im-
polite" to a man who tried it. Michigan shipped
400,000,000 feet under National inspection, he
stated, and as a buyer he had such con-
fidence in it that he never reinspected.
W. C. Stanton of St. Paul wanted to
know whether parties not members of the
association could call for a reinspection. The
reply was that they could if the lumber had been
sold subject to National inspection. J. V. Stim-
son of Huntingburg. Ind., said he had formerly
paid little attention to anything but the social

HARDWOOD RECORD

side of the association, but now he was fully
reliant on National inspection, and in the few
cases that were reinspected for him the results
were perfectly satisfactory. C. H. Barnaby of
Indianapolis, president of the Indiana Associa-
tion, spoke briefly and said he had learned some
things from the discussion. F. H. Lewis of
Minneapolis aslced whether a National inspector
for the Twin Cities would instruct the local in-
spectors. Mr. Fish said he would be directed
to do so.

Dinner was then served in one of the small
club dining rooms. D. F. Clark presided. After
dinner Mayor Haynes was introduced and ex-
tended the visitors welcome to the city, speaking
at some length. Messrs. Russe, Stimson, Fath-
auer, Agler and Barnaby all responded briefly
anil spoke in complimentary terms of the Twin
Cities and of their meeting with the local hard-
wood men.

Those present included the following :

W. H. Russe, Memphis, president N. H. L. A.

F. F. Fish, Chicago, secretary N. H. L. A.

0. O. Agler, Chicago, first vice president N.
H. L. A.

Theo. Fathauer, Chicago, chairman rules com-
mittee, N. H. L. A.

Charles H. Barnaby, Indianapolis.
.1. V. Stimson, Huntingburg, Ind.

D. F. Clark, C. F. Osborne, Grant Osborne and
H. E. Walker, Osborne & Clark, Minneapolis.

A. H. Barnard, Minneapolis.

W. H. Sill, P. R. Hamilton, Minneapolis Lum^
ber Company, Minneapolis.

A. E. Peterson, Peterson-Moore Lumber Com-
pany, St. Paul.

S. H. Davis, Henry Levine, S. II. Davis Lum-
ber Company, Minneapolis.

R. H. Grinsted, Pacific Timber Company, Min-
neapolis.

F. H. Lewis, Minneapolis.

1. P. Lennan, I. P. Lennan & Co., Minneapolis.

E. Payson Smith, A. S. Bliss, Payson Smith
Lumber Company, Minneapolis.

W. C. Stanton, George De Long, Stanton-De
Long Lumber Company, St. Paul.

G. W. Everts, C. A. Mayo, G. W. Everts Lum-
ber Company, Minneapolis.

H. M. Haisted, Ilalsted & Booraem, Minneapo
lis.

T. D. Jones, G. W. Jones Lumber Company,
Appleton. Wis.

W. C. Bailey, Minneapolis.

E. H. Ilobe, Ilobe Lumber Company, Minne-
apolis.

A. A. Rotzien, W. C. Meader, Hawkins Lumbeir
& Manufacturing Company, Minneapolis.

F. W. Buswell, Buswell Lumber & Manufac-
turing Company, Minneapolis.

N. C. Bennett, N. C. Bennett Lumber Com-
pany, Minneapolis.

T. T. Bartelme, Minneapolis.

J. F. Hayden, secretary Northwestern Hard-
■wood Lumbermen's Association, Minneapolis.

Piatt B. Walker, Minneapolis.

Mayor J. C. Haynes, Minneapolis.

Indianapolis Machinery House.

The patrons of the II.\rdw(iod Record are
introduced in the advertising pages of this issue
to the veteran sawmill and special machinery
manufacturing house — the Sinker-Davis Com-
pany of Indianapolis. This concern was founded
in LSril by Edward T. Sinker and operated under
various firm names until 1871, when the firm
of Sinker, Davis & Co. was incorporated, and
in 1S8S reincorporated under the style of the
Sinker-Davis Company. Perhaps the company
is best known through its line of "Hoosier"
sawmill machinery, and its specialty in this line
is its "Gold Dust" band sawmills, in 7 and 8
foot sizes, and its new "Hoosier" 6-foot band
sawmill. It also makes a full line of circular
sawmills, gang edgers, lumber trimmers, engines
and boilers.

One of the company's famous machines, which
is illustrated in its ad. is the "Hoosier" self-

feed rip saw. This machine is of special In-
terest to manufacturers of furniture, flooring
and cut-up material, and is one of the best types
of feed-in and feed-out rip saws that has ever
been made. Its value is attested by the numbers
of these machines that already have been sold,
and its popularity seems to be general with the
trade.

The officers of the Sinker-Davis Company are
J. H. Hooker, president ; H. R. Bliss, secretary
and treasurer, and John N. Steely, superintend-
ent. These gentlemen are all very popular with
the hardwood lumber manufacturing and remanu-
facturing trade, with whom they particularly
come in contact.

The plant of the Sinker-Davis Company is
very close to the downtown district of Indian-
apolis. It consists of a machine shop and foun-
dry, a millwright shop and pattern storage house,
and is located at the intersection of Kentucky
avenue and Missouri street and the Union Rail-
way tracks, and the structures run through to
West street. The shops are fitted with the most
modern types of iron and steel working tools
and the employees of the house have been
brought up with it and are skilled machinists.

The machinery of the Sinker-Davis Company
is pretty well scattered over the entire United
States, but particularly through the South and
Southwest, and has achieved a splendid reputa-
tion wherever it has been sold.

Indian Territory Hardwoods.

O. M. Eruner, president o£ the Owen M.
Bruner Company, wholesale lumber dealer of
Philadelphia, has recently returned from a trip
to Indian Territory. Mr. Bruner supplies the
Record with the accompanying picture of an

A FINE COTTONWOOD LOG CUT IN
INDIAN TERRITORY.

Indian Territory Cottonwood log scaling 1,500
feet, cut by Burgoyne Brothers of Hugo. Mr.
Bruner makes a very alluring report of the hard-
woods he finds in that district, and thinks that
that region will become an eventful source of
supply for a considerable quantity.

Annual National Hardwood Lumber
A.ssociation.

The eastern members of the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association, represented by a com-
mittee of arrangements consisting of C. E. Lloyd,
K. A. Beckley and B. C. Currie, are out with a
handsome little booklet containing valuable sug-
gestions and requisite information for members
and others who contemplate attending the annual
meeting, which will be held at Atlantic City, May
T.', and 24.

Members and guests attending the convention
will be entertained by the eastern contingent,
which hospitably invites all hardwood lumber
manufacturers and wholesale hardwood dealers
to be present, and announces that special ar-
rangements have been made for ladies, so that
it is hoped a large number will attend. The com-
mittee recommends that visitors arrive as early
as Wednesday evening, if possible, that everyone
may be on hand promptly the opening day of
the convention.

The headquarters and meetings will be on the
Steel Pier, admission to which will be insured
by showing the badge or button to the business
meetings ; at other times by ticket. A repre-
sentative of the committee will be at the entrance
to the Pier during the entire convention, to give
information, tickets, etc., and to register all mem-
bers and guests. It is urged that ail register
promptly, as soon as located at any hotel ; all
tickets for meetings, smoker, ladies' entertain-
ment, etc., will be presented at the time of regis-
tration.

Special railroad rates have been secured for
this convention, on the certificate plan ; the
method of procedure is to purchase a straight
ticket to Atlantic City, over the route by which
one intends to return home, and get with it a
certificate from the agent which will entitle one
to one-third fare returning ; the tickets will be
on sale from the 19th to the 27th of May. For
members wishing to stop at Philadelphia, New
York, New England points, or the Jamestown
Exposition on their return, stop-over privileges at
Philadelphia have been arranged for, the side-
trips to be taken from there. Whatever route Is
decided upon, it should be borne in mind that
tickets must be routed the same both going and
coming, in order to insure securing the low rate.

Atlantic City is noted tor its fine hotels, and
the committee has selected eight of the very
best for recommendation to prospective visitors ;
they are the Chalfoute, the Dennis, Haddon Hall,
the Marlborough-Blenheim, the Rudolph, the St.
Charles, the Strand and the Traymore. In writ-
ing for accommodations, which should be engaged
in advance, mention the National Hardwood
Lumber Association.

The following programme of events has been
decided upon :

Wednesday, 22d : Committees will meet In the
evening, time and place to be determined upon
by their chairmen.

Thursday, 23d : Morning and afternoon ses-
sions of convention on the Steel Pier. Regular
business and speeches on important and Interest-
ing subjects will be heard.

Thursday evening : Smoker and entertainment
will be tendered the members and guests at the
Rudolph Grotto, at 8 P. M. Lunch and "other
good things" will be served. Entertainment for
the ladies will be furnished on the Pier at 8
P. M. Music, special attractions, and a "cake
walk."

Friday, 24th : Morning and afternoon sessions
on Pier. Morning excursion for the ladles along
the bay and sound to Somers Point. In the even-
ing there will be entertainment for all on the
Pier, with music and a basketball contest.

Building Operations for March.

Building operations for March, as given in the
report of the American Contractor of Chicago,
while showing a gratifying and widely distributed
building activity and a gain in thirty-one of the
principal states of the United States as compared
with the corresponding month of 1906, indicate
a loss in twenty-one cities. This aggregate loss
amounts to only three per cent, however. The
greatest decrease reported is in the Manhattan
and Bronx districts of New York, while Brooklyn
shows an increase. Chicago shows a gain of
thirty-three per cent. The total for March,
1906, was $56,072,037. as compared with $54,-
222,077 for March, 1907.

New Chicago Hardwood House.

The R. A. Hooton Lumber Company is the
name of a new and desirable addition to the
wholesale hardwood fraternity of Chicago. The
company is under the management of R. A.
Hooton. and has opened headquarters at 1052
First National Bank building. It will specialize
in poplar and chestnut. Mr. Hooton has had
long experience in the lumber trade, both in the
retail and jobbing business, and made his head-
quarters for many years at Danville, 111. He
will be heartily welcomed by the wholesale con-
tingent of Chicago.

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Lost, Strayed or Stolen?

A further instance of slow delivei'y by rail-
roads, which has of late become a serious
menace to trade, has just come to hand, and
as It is even more remarkable than any of the
tales of woe yet told by lumbermen, It is worthy
of repetition.

A carload of lumber — the Southern Pacific
railway's No. 17228 — arrived at Maiden, Mass.,
April 9, which has evidently been a wanderer
over the face of the earth for nine years. It
has been offered to one firm after another, but
has been unable to find a home up to date, al-
though it is now being temporarily sheltered by
hospitable yard hands in Maiden. In identically
the same box car in which it was first loaded,
in 1898 at Bangor, X. Y., the lumber rests unmo-
lested, with the original seal unbroken. It now
bears the name of the Sw'eezey Lumber Company
of Maiden, but that concern disclaims all knowl-
edge of the shipment, and of course refuses to
accept it, basing their contention that the car
Is not for them on the ground that they were
not in business nine years ago, and the bill of
lading shows that it was consigned September
12, 1898. The following day it put in an appear-
ance at Rouse Point, N. Y., bearing a tag ad-
dressed to the J. A. Shepard Lumber Company —
which no one there knew, or had ever heard of.
So once more it started on its weary way. On
October 5 of that year it appeared in Burling-
ton, Vt., but nobody wanted it, so it "went right
In and turned around and went right out again."
From that day to this it has traveled hither and
thither — nobody knows where — until its sudden
appearance in Maiden.

The value of a load of lumber of the size and
quality contained in the mysterious car would
have about doubled its value in nine years, in
addition to the fact that it would have become
thoroughly seasoned. At the same time the use
of it for so long a time would doubtless run up
a pretty bill with the railroad companies, so it
is a question whether the original consignee,
should he ever step in and claim his own, would
have a diamond mine or a gold brick on his
hands.

Important Decision,

The supreme court of Virginia, sitting at
Richmond, handed down on April 6 an impor-
tant decision in the case of J. A. Wilkinson of
Bristol vs. Norfolk & Western Railway Com-
pany and Old Dominion Steamship Company,
deciding a hitherto unadjudicated point and
establishing a Judicial precedent of incalculable
benefit to shippers not only in Virginia but all
over the country.

Mr. Wilkinson shipped a considerable amount
of high class hardwood lumber to New York
over the Norfolk & Western and Old Dominion
lines. The lumber was delayed and when it
reached New York the prices had dropped so
that Mr. Wilkinson sustained a heavy loss. He
brought suit in the law and chancery court at
Norfolk against the Norfolk & Western and Old
Dominion Steamship Company for damages. The
companies would neither disclose upon which line
the delay occurred and on a well established
principle of law which they have hitherto plead
successfully called upon the plaintiff to prove
his case and show which one of them had
caused the delay. This he could not do, as he
was without proof, and the power of discovering
this did not He with him. He won the case in
the lower court, being the first time that a
state court had repudiated the doctrine that a
defendant cannot generally be made to disclose
facts to his own detriment. The case then
attracted the attention of shippers everywhere.
The defendants appealed to the supreme court
and the decision afiirming the judgment of the
.-•ourt below was rendered by Judge Cardwell
April 6. and in commenting on the case he used
these words : "It would be a denial of justice,
as it seems to us, if the law wirhheld from ship-

pers, in such a case as this, the right of recov-
ery, where from the nature of the case he Is
powerless to trace the negligence to the particu-
lar carrier concerned, and where, perhaps, by
agreement between them, or collusion, each de-
clines to introduce evidence to establish Its own
freedom from negligence, because the establish-
ment of this freedom from negligence of the
one would place the fault on the other."

The court further held that where a plaintiff
establishes by evidence that there was a delay,
this Is a prima facie case against the initial
carrier and it must show itself free from negli-
gence.

The holding of the appellate tribunal is a
very important one to shippers everywhere and
will be cited in other states in analogous cases
as a precedent upon this point which has here-
tofore been without the light of judicial con-
struction.

A Big White Ash.
W. T. Schnaufer of the Crescent Lumber Com-
pany, Marietta, O., supplied the photograph
from which the halftone reproduced herewith
was made. This white ash tree, which was 5
feet in diameter two and one-half feet from the
ground, is a specimen of the timber growth on
the Crescent Lumber Company's new timber
holdings in West Virginia. The company pur-

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A BIG WEST VIRGINIA 'WHITE ASH.

chased a few months ago 8.000 acres of timber
land In Clay county. West Virginia, the prepon-
derance of growth on the property being poplar,
oak and chestnut. The company is already
planning to commence active milling operations.
Incidentally, the Crescent Lumber Company is
engaged in moving its otEces from Harmer street
in Marietta to the First National Bank build-
ing, in which it has secured a handsome suite
on the fifth floor, consisting of five rooms.

The Fischer Lumber Company.

The I-'lscher Lumber Company has been Incor-
porated at Kewanee, 111., to manufacture lumber
and wholesale it from Its sawmill, to be located
about twelve miles from Sikeston, Mo. The
company will be thoroughly organized in the
immediate future, and will first establish a large
mill on property which it owns on the main line
of the Frisco railroad, about a hundred miles
south of St. Louis. Upon the land owned by
this company cypress, oak, gum, ash, sycamore
and other hardwoods grow in abundance. The
demand Is such that the company already has
offers for all the lumber it can make. A switch
from the Frisco line will be Installed to facili-
tate shipping. The Incorporators of the new
company are John Fischer, W. E. Gould and
F. H. Davis of Kewanee.

Maple Sugar Production.

When the early spring days come on, followed
by the usual cold nights, the sap begins to flow
In trees, and the maple sugar season Is "on."
In olden times the farmers made thousands of

"spiles'* of willow, mountain ash, alder or other
wood with a pithy center. TTiese spiles were
sticks about six inches In length, cut and shaped
so one end could be driven Into a hole made in
the tree, while the other end was cut so as to
form an open spout. The farmers and their
help worked at odd times all winter forming
these tools and burning out the pith with hot
irons. Then when the weather Indicated a run
of sap men would go through the woods and
tap the selected trees a few feet from the
ground. A hole an inch or more In diameter
was bored to receive the spile, and a bucket
placed to receive the drippings. Ancient as is
this method of tapping, some farmers still em-
ploy It, although now there are galvanized iron
spouts on the market which fit into the tree at
one end and into a covered pail at the other.

Every night and morning sleds drawn by
heavy draft horses and containing large tubs
or tanks pass around among the trees : the driv-
ers take the pails and pour their accumulated
contents into the tubs, which are returned to
the boiling cabin. After gathering up the sap
in the morning, the teams are usually kept busy
hauling wood for the fires, which must be ke^t
at a steady heat day and night during the whole
process of making the sugar.

For many years farmers boiled the maple
sap in the open air, in kettles supported on
rocks : later they adopted a cabin made of rough
logs, or merely a sort of shed with bark thatch.
At the present time throughout the maple for-
ests in New England may be found well equipped
sugar houses, containing huge kettles set in
brick, over open furnaces or fireplaces, and con-
nected by a conveyor pipe running across them.
The sap is poured into a huge vat, also in the
circuit, and the conveyor Is provided with
valves which permit Its distribution into all or
part of the kettles, as desired. Benches and
tables are provided for the comfort of occu-
pants, and the fires under the kettles keep the
abode warm and pleasant. An expert sugar
maker Is usually in charge of each boiling
house, and never leaves it until the end of the
season. Each vessel has to be carefully and
continually watched: If the maker does not stir
the boiling sap enough, or correctly, or if he
stirs it too much, the result will be disastrous
in that the sugar will be burned or otherwise
ruined. It takes a trained and practiced eye to
recognize the precise moment when the boiling
mass should be run off into moulds and hardened
for the sugar market, for if syrup be too thin
It will not command a good price, and if too
thick the unnecessary loss will be considerable.
When the expert decides that the liquid is
"right" — which he does by testing large spoon-
fuls of it In pans of snow till the right consis-
tency appears — he draws It off Into moulds, each
of which holds just the amount to make the
proper sized cake of sugar, or into tin cans
with corks and screw tops to hold the liquid
form.

It is a well known fact that many manufac-
turers make their actual maple product go
twice as far as do others, by purchasing large
quantities of brown sugar and boiling it up
with the sap — thus often using only one-third
or even less of the genuine product. Of course,
their output Is very materially increased in this
way, but the experienced buyer can detect the
fraud, and they cannot command nearly so high
a price for their goods as do manufacturers
who put out "the real thing." The new pure
food law should tend to curtail this practice to
a great extent, as it will now be necessary for
makers to label their product so that the exact
percentage of adulterating material contained
therein may be seen by a glance at the wrapper
or can : it should also prevent retail buyers hav-
ing to pay a fancy price for adulterated map'e.
which the expert wholesale buyer has obtained
at Its real value from the manufacturer.

The maple sugar and syrup industry is much

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more extensive than is commonly l^nowc. Ver-
mont produces the largest quantity — nearly
5,000.000 pounds a year. New Yorlc comes next,
with an output of about 4,000,000 pounds. Penn-
sylvania makes about 1,500,000 pounds; Michi-
gan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and West
Virginia come next, in the order given, each
producing several hundred thousand pounds.
For the year 1903 the maple sugar and syrup
product of this country aggregated a market
value of ?2,636,774.

Removal Lumber Insurance Companies.

sis years ago the organization of an insur-
ance association to be devoted exclusively to the
purpose of insuring lumber and woodworking
risks, was commenced in a very modest way at
66 Broadway, New York. The idea took very
rapidly with the lumber trade, with the result

THE NEW ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDING,

NEW YORK. HOME OF LUMBER

INSURANCE COMPANIES.

that an unprecedented support was accorded the
new organization and very rapid growth ensued.

From this small beginning there were subse-
quently organized three stock insurance com-
panies, two of them under the New York state
laws and one under the laws of the state of
Ohio. These are the Lumber Insurance Com-
pany, capital and surplus $300,000 ; the Adiron-
dack Fire Insurance Company, capital and sur-
plus $300,000 ; and the Toledo Fire & Marine
Insurance Company, capital $100,000.

These companies are under the management
of the Lumber Insurers' General Agency.
Through the support of the lumber trade
throughout the United States and Canada the
companies have developed to such an extent that
they now have aggregate assets in excess of
$1,000,000, and stand responsible to the lumber

trade for over $20,000,000 insurance liability on
lumber and woodworking risks.

During this period of development the com-
panies have extended their ofSce space until a
large part of the twelfth floor of the Manhattan
Life building at 66 Broadway has been taken
for their offices. Over a year ago, however, it
appeared that the companies would unquestion-
ably outgrow the available space in the Man-
hattan Life building, and it being considered
desirable to locate in the insurance district, a
floor in the Royal Insurance building, then in
process of construction, was leased. The new
Royal Insurance building has now been com-
pleted and it is worthy of mention that having
been constructed by one of the greatest Are in-
surance companies in the world, it is quite
natural that every feature of construction look-
ing toward Are prevention has been Installed in
the building. It is a flne modern fireproof build-
ing, sixteen stories high. The twelfth floor has
been finished with special reference to the re-
quirements of the Lumber Insurance Company of
New York and the Adirondack Fire Insurance
Company, and these companies will take posses-
sion of their new quarters April 20. It is quite
fitting that these two specializing companies,
organized on a financial basis on a par with
many of the general insurance companies, should
have for their permanent home the finest lum-
ber insurance office in the world.

With 5,000 feet of floor space, private offices
for all oflicers and heads of departments, large,
light rooms for clerical work and stenography,
the new quarters of the lumber insurance com-
panies have been laid out with a view to per-
manency and to accommodating a business which
will ultimately attain very large proportions.

America has been foremost in the movement
for specializing insurance, and it is a credit to
the lumber trade that no single trade or indus-
try supports insurance companies of its own
equal in size and strength to those maintained by
the lumber trade.

Utilization of Electric Power.

Everyone has heard about the utilization of
the vast electric power now being developed
thiMuyh the aid of Niagara Falls, and that the
street car system and nearly all other immediate
users of power at Buffalo employ this wonderful
force. Among others who have recently installed
electric power for driving their plant is the E. &
I!. Holmes Machinery Company, the demand for
its line of tools having outgrown the steam
power formerly employed. The company has in-
stalled a full equipment of electric motors and
April 8 turned on the new power to run its plant.
The company figures that this new equipment
will enable it to increase its facilities to such
an extent that in future it will be able to make
even more prompt delivery than formerly. In
this issue of the Record the E. & B. Holmes
Machinery Company advertises one of its best
known appliances, its gang ripping and straight-
ening machine, which is of especial interest to
hardwood users.

Removal of Page Lumber Company.

The R. G. Page Lumber Company of South
Bend, Ind., manufacturer and wholesaler of all
varieties of hardwoods and of dimension stock,
has moved its main offices and extensive yards
to Ashland, Ky. RoUo G. Page, head of the
house, will move to the new location, as will
also C. E. Wilson, traffic manager. This move
was considered necessary on account of the
company's big timber interests in Kentucky and
West Virginia and in view of the fact that for
more than a year it has been operating yards
and office at Ashland. It is thought that the
entire business can be handled with greater dis-
patch and advantage from a point in close
proximity to these interests.

Mr. Page located in South Bend about eight
years ago, and was a member of the firm of

Martin & Page. A little over two years ago
the firm dissolved and Mr. Page operated under
the name of the R. G. Page Lumber Company.
Yards were maintained on South Main street
and offices in the American Trust building. The
former will be closed out, but a sales office In
charge of John Martin will be continued in the
same location.

An Endorsement.

A concern which is constantly receiving the
most flattering testimonials from well known
lumbermen regarding the excellence and utility
of its product is the Gordon Hollow Blast Grate
Company of Greenville, Mich. Recently the J.
B. Galloway Company of Clarendon, Ark., In-
stalled a set of their grates, which they have
thoroughly tested, and unhesitatingly say la
especially well adapted to burning all sorta of
refuse, thus saving their wood, and effecting a
saving of from $1,000 to $1,500 a year ; they
also find that it is an easy matter to keep ample
steam with "any old thing in the shape of fuel"
and explain that their two boilers run five
engines, the capacity of the boilers being just
equal to that of the engines, without any sur-
plus whatever. To say that they are highly
pleased with their investment in the Gordon
grate is to put it mildly, and they unhesitatingly
recommend it.

Removal of Headquarters.

The American Woodworking Machinery Com-
pany, whose general offices have been at 136 Lib-
erty street, New York, for several years, has
removed to a permanent location at 596 Lyell
avenue, Rochester, N. Y. The company's new
and principal manufacturing plant recently com-
pleted at Rochester is the largest woodworking
machinery plant in the world, and covers ten
acres. The company operates six other Important
factories.

Atkins Sa'ws for Alaska.

E. C. Atkins & Co., the Silver Steel saw peo-
ple, have just secured a very interesting order
through their Seattle branch. This consists of
the complete saw equipment for five sawmills
which will be constructed and placed at diCfer-
ent points along the line of the Alaska Pacific
Railway & Terminal Company, in southeastern
Alaska. The saws were shipped from Seattle
on the steamer Yucatan and will be taken into
the country over snow and ice. Many large
trestles will be necessary in the building of the
road and piles and pile drivers will be used
extensively. Piers are now in the course of
construction at Cataila and other points. The
road opens valuable territory from the Marten
islands through the Copper river country to the
Yukon river, a distance of 500 miles.

Miscellaneous Notes.

The Ford Lumber & Manufacturing Company
of Ford, Ky., filed suit recently against the L. iS:
N. railroad for nearly $12,000 as damages. When
the first tide in the Kentucky river came last
fall the run of logs was one of the largest In the
history of the river. At that time the railroad
company was building a new bridge across the
river at Ford. The false work supporting the
bridge caught the floating logs and caused an
immense jam of nearly 100,000 logs. The lumber
company alleges that its booms were crowded
out of the river by this jam and that it lost
thousands of logs in consequence.

The Swarthmore Lumber Company of Parsons,
W. Va., has purchased the interests of J. Scott
Bell, including three tracts and a lumber plant
on the Dry Fork railroad, in Tucker county, for
$162,831. The purchasing company, which was
formed last February, will operate the plant on
an extensive scale. Summerfield Baldwin, a
prominent capitalist of Baltimore, is at the head
of the company.

The exceedingly high prices of standing timber
at the present time have induced farmers and
land owners to sell their holdings, and little
mills have been busy this season cutting on

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small lots ot trees throughout the north country.
This has been quite a feature of the lumber in-
dustry in the vicinity of Saginaw, Mich., where
a great number of small mills were in operation
on farms and wood lots.

The Standard Parlor Frame Company of Chi-
cago has filed an amendment to its charter in-
creasing its capital stock from $9,000 to $26,000.

Leonard L.. Shertzer has recently engaged
in business at Mobile, Ala., where he will
market a fine line of hardwoods which are
manufactured at his mill at Merrill. Miss.

The Timpson Handle Company ot Timpson.
Texas., has been incorporated with $10,000
capital stock to manufacture handles and
wagon timbers. The company started opera-
tions March 1 in a new and thoroughly
equipped factory. H. H. Fory is manager.

The Boice-Grogan Lumber Company, whose
plant at Lexington, Ky., was destroyed by
flre recently, plans the erection of a new saw-
mill and veneer factory on which will be ex-
pended $30,000. The plant will have a daily
capacity of 20,000 feet.

Fire destroyed the plant of the W. E. Will-
lams Company, large manufacturers of maple
flooring at Traverse City, Mich., recently.
The loss is estimated at $60,000. with $29,000

insurance. The property destroyed included
the manufacturing plant proper, a consider-
able amount of valuable ^machinery, four dry
kilns, and large quantities of maple lumber.
It is announced that the plant wmU be rebuilt
and will be ready for operation in about three
months.

The Peabody Lumber Company of Colum-
bia City. Ind.. has bought of Henry Smith a
232-acre farm in De Kalb county, paying for
it $18,200. The land is heavily wooded with
black walnut.

The United Walnut Company of Ft. Smith
is shipping two car loads of walnut logs a
day tor export to Germany, where they are
made up into furniture. Black w.ilnut is
more highly prized abroad for this purpose
than in the United States, especially the wood
which shows a curly grain; only about one
stump in two hundred supplies this variety,
however.

The Southwestern Lumber Company ot Lake
Charles. La., lately purchased 32,000 acres of
fine hardwood timber land in Calcasieu and
Avoyelles parishes, the consideration being
something over $300,000. The property is said
to contain some of the finest hardwood timber
in that section of the country.

Hardwood NeWs.

(By HARDWOOD BECOBD Special Corrsspondents.)

Chicago.
W. E. Douglass of the Crosby & Beckley
Company, Columbus, 0., was an agreeable
caller at the Record office on the 24th inst.

O. B, Law. who has been engaged in the
sale of timber lands for several years at
Detroit, Mich., and is one of the well known
and successful operators in this line, has con-
cluded to widen his opportunities by a re-
moval to Chicago, and has opened an otBce at
85 Dearborn Street. Mr. LaWa specialty is
handling going yellow' pine and hardwood
operations.

L. P. Arthur ot the .\rthur Hardwood Floor-
ing Company of Memphis, well known pro-
ducers of oak flooring, has been spending the
last ten days in Chicago, organizing plans for
the distribution of his product in this market.

Paul Johnson of the North Shore Lumber
Company, of Thompson, and S. G. MeClellan
of the Earle Lumber Company of Simmons.
Mich., two Northern Peninsula operators, were
welcome callers at the RECoitD office this week.
Both these gentlemen are specialists in birch
production and are much pleased over the
advancing prices this variety of lumber is
commanding.

Charles H. Barnaby, the hardwood lumber-
man of Greencastle and president of the Indi-
ana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, was
a Chicago visitor last week.

W. H. Russe. president of the National
Hardwood Lumber Association, spent some
time at the association's headquarters in this
city last week.

R. J. Clark of the Peninsula Bark & Lumber
Company, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., was in
town last week. He reports that the largest
part of his hardwood and hemlock stock on
hand has been sold.

Among recent Chicago visitors from Wis-
consin were A. R. Owen of Owen, George H.
Chapman of Stanley, and M. J. Quinlan of
Soperton.

Theo. Schneider, northern purchasing agent
for the Brunswick-Balke^Coliender Company,
."pent several days in Chicago last week.

Joel B. Ettinger, manager of the Chicago
branch of the S. A. Woods Machine Company,
spent several days in Michigan last week, and
met with his usual success in making sales
of the high-class machines manufactured by
his house.

Charles F. Braftcit. vice-president of the
Simonds Manufacturing Company and man-
ager of its Chicago saw factory, is absent on
a southern trip for business and pleasure.

George Greer, purchasing agent for the
Joyce-Watliins Company of Chicago, is south
on a buying trip.

Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwood
Manufacturers' Association of the United
States, has just issued a revised edition of the
inspection rules of his association, wliicli for
the first time includes the new rules of the
Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa-
tion covei'ing northern hardwoods. These
books are supplied free on application to the
association headquarters— First National Bank
Building. Chicago.

Jerome G. Leavitt. vice-president of the
Leavitt Lumber Company, returned last week
from an extended southern trip.

The Record is in receipt of a letter from
John H. Lank, secretary of the Lumbermen's
Excliange of Philadelphia, announcing that a
vote of thanks was extended to the Hardwood
Record for copies of the paper furnished the
Exchange during the past year.

Ryan & McParland have removed their yards
from the corner of Blue Island Avenue and
Robey Street, where they have been located
ever since they started in business, to Twenty-
second and Laflin Streets, the site of the John
O'Brien Land & Lumber Company's old yard.

The John O'Brien Land & Lumber Company
is now nicely situated in commodious ofllces
at 185 Dearborn Street.

Owing to the illness of his brother. Ben W.
Davis, who superintends operation of the
John R. Davis Lumber Company at Phillips,
Wis.. John R. Davis of this city has been
spending most of his time at Phillips per-
sonally overseeing work at the big plant.

Irvine McCauley of the MeCauley-Saunders
Lumber Company. Fisher Building, this city,
has left for a fortnight's visit to the cypress
mills of Louisiana.

Clarence Boyle, an expert hardwood lumber-
man who has long been connected with tlie
trade of this city, has recently resigned his
position with the Chicago Car Lumber Com-
pany and has obtained an interest in the
Heath-Witbeck Company of the Willoughby
Building. As vice-president and manager of
the company Mr. Boyle will have sufficient

opportunity to display his energy and ability.
His connection with the concern is thought
especially advantageous at this time owing
to the prolonged illness of Mr. Wolfe, secre-
tary of the company, and to the inability of
Mr. Heath, president, to give his attention
to the details of business because of his long
absences from the eity. Mr. Wolfe is steadily
improving in health, and although he is able
to be out. he is not yet strong enough to
supei-intend the sales department, which is his
special duty.

The steamer Louis Pahlow and consort
Delta, belonging to the Edward Hines Lumber
Company of Chicago, were driven ashore at
Clay Banks, near Sturgeon Bay, Wi.s., April
15, during a snowstorm. An alarm was sent
to the life-saving station at the latter place,
and the crew went out overland tor the wreck.
They succeeded in saving the entire crew
without loss of life, although the steamer is
totally wrecked. The Delta escaped serious
injury.

A new concern in Chicago is the Chicago
Wood Turning Company, recently incorporated
with $10,000 capital stock.

Secretary Fish of the National Hardwood
Lumber Association is figuring on arranging for
a special train to run from Chicago to Atlantic
City over the Pennsylvania lines, to carry
those who wish to attend the annual meeting
May 23 and 24. The plan is to have visitors
from northern Indiana, 'W'isconsin and Michi-
gan join with the local contingent and go to
the eastern meeting in a body. On the basis
of the plans now contemplated the special
train will leave Chicago at noon. May 23.

John N. Penrod, the black walnut king of
Kansas City, was a Chicago visitor on
April 23.

Oscar H. Babcock of E. V. Babcock & Co..
Pittsburg, was in Chicago last Tuesday.

John N. Bonnell, treasurer of the Hackley-
Phelps-Bonnell Company of Grand Rapids.
Mich., spent last Tuesday in the city on his
way home from a Pacific coast trip that has oc-
cupied several months. Dm-ing his absence Mi".
Bonnell has cruised a good many thousand
acres of timber in Oregon, and is figuring
on timber deals of considerable magnitude in
that state.

Lewis Doster, secretary of the Hardwooil
Manufacturers' Association of the United
States, is in the South on association work.

Upham & Agler, the well known Chicago
jobbing house, of the American Trust Build-
ing, has practically concluded purchases of
its season's stock. Between its northern and
southern lumber holdings the company has
secured an aggregate of nearly 40,000,000 feet,
which puts it in a very enviable position in
the market.

F. E. Creelmun, who was recently defend-
ant in a suit in which he was charged with
assisting in the wrecking of the Bank of
America, has been declared by the jury not
guilty. The president. vice-president and
cashier of the bank were declared guilty, and
the first two will receive a penitentiary sen-
tence, while the cashier will escape with a
fine.

Boston.

Boston wholesalers state that several large
consumers of hardwoods are carrying such
small stocks that their • purchasing agents
have visited Boston personally which, in sev-
eral instances, is unusual. Among the buyers
were those from the Heywood Bros, and John
A. Dunn Sons. Gardiner. The purchasing
agent for the latter concern stopped in Boston
en route for New York.

The hardwood division of the Metropolitan
Exchange of Boston held its meeting in the
rooms of the exchange, Tuesday, April 23.

Frederick B. Cole, treasurer of the National
Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, vis-
ited Boston last week.

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Charles W. Leatherbee of the C. W. Leather-
bee Lumber Company, Boston, has returned
from a southern trip.

The firm of H. A. Grimwood & Co. ot
Providence, met with a fire recently, wliich
destroyed their stocli of sash, doors and
blinds. Messrs. Grimwood, senior and junior,
liave been in the West buying to replace this
stock.

The plant of the Greenwich Sash & Blind
Company, Greenwich, Conn., which was re-
cently destroyed by fire, will be rebuilt.

F. W. Henry has been appointed manager
of the Pittsfield branch of the Blakeslee
Lumber Company of Albany. This company
has recently decided to open a brancli in
Pittsfield.

New York.

The Wayne Lumber Company, wholesaler in
hardwoods at Manhattan, has removed to more
commodious quarters in the Importers and
Traders' Building, 24-2G Stone street, city, where
it has much better facilities for taking care of
its increasing business.

J. W. Hussey, well known hardwood lumber
and log exporter, who for years has been located
at 1 Broadway, Manhattan, has removed to 59
Pearl street.

The forthcoming second annual golf tourna-
ment to be held by the Lumbermen's Golf Asso-
ciation at the Baltimore Country Club, June 12
and 13, is going to be a fine affair, and Secretary
Henry Cape of 1 Madison avenue. New York,
urgently requests all lumbermen throughout the
country who are enthusiasts of this sport to
enter the contest this year by sending in their
applications to him. W. D. Gill, the prominent
Baltimore lumberman, is president of the asso-
ciation and has been made a committee of one
for the entire arrangements for the approaching
contest. A large number of handsome prizes will
he played for and handicaps arranged on such a
basis as will give every one an excellent oppor-
uuuty of winning.

Prancis E. Southard, well known lumljerman
of this city, on April committed suicide at bis
residence in the Ehinelander Apartment. Ho
has been in ill health for several years.

Brooklyn is the banner borough of Greater
New York in the matter of building activities for
this year. For the first three months ot 1007
.the gain over 1906 was about $4,500,000.

Hamilton V. Meeks, head of the Gardner &
Meeks Company, Weehawkeu, N. .L, accompanied
by his wife and daughter, arrived on April 10
after an extended European trip.

Hugh McLean of the Hugh McLean Lumber
Company, Buffalo, X. Y.. has been spending sev-
eral days in town during the fortnight in the
interest of business and visiting with his local
representative, C. B. Cox.

F. J. Cronin, eastern representative ot the
Y'ellow Poplar Lumber Company of Coal Grove,
O., has been in town on one of his regular sell-
ing trips. He reports the jjoplar market as very
active, with prices stiff.

Gilbert H. Shepard, cypress wholesaler of 29
Broadway, announces his removal to the Bruns-
wick Building, Twenty-sixth street and Fifth
avenue,

John Bossert, Louis Bossert & Son, big Brook-
lyn house, has just returned from a pleasure trip
to the popular Florida winter resorts,

J, C. Turner of the J. C. Turner Cypress Lum-
ber Company, 1123 Broadway, has just returned
from an extended tour of the south in the inter-
est of business.

Thomas A. Murphey of the Murphey-Hardy
Lumber Company, Newark. N. J., arrived in port
last week after a two months' Mediterranean
tour, accompanied by Mrs. Murphey.

S. F. Alinter. hardwoods, 1 Broadway, is main-
taining a branch wholesale hardwood distributing
yard at Asheville, N. C, which is a convenience
greatly appreciated by his customers.

The New Jersey State Senate passed a new

railroad demurrage bill on April 11, providing
that when owners or consignees of freight re-
fuse to accept the same and pay charges the
railroads may after three days impose a charge
of not more than §1 per day for detention of
each car or for the use of the track occupied.
Sunday is not included in the demurrage limita-
lions and the companies are allowed one hour a
day for the moving ot cars for train operation
purposes. The railroads are also to have the
right of lien of property where demurrage
charges are not paid, although in disputes the
property may be removed by the filing of a bond.

The regular annual meeting of the New York
Lumber Trade Association was held at the asso-
ciation rooms. IS Broadway, on April 10 and was
largely attended. The Hoban & Curtis Lumber
Company, 1 Madison avenue, was elected to mem-
bership, and the membership of the Hull Lum-
ber Company was transferred to G. H. Perley &
Co. New committees were appointed by the
president and were confirmed by the board of
trustees. A fitting resolution of condolence was
I>assed concerning the death of the late Russell
Johnson of Johnson Bros.. Brooklyn, who was for
many years a respected member of the organiza-
tion and of the board of trustees. A committee
was also appointed to nominate officers for elec-
tion at the annual meeting in October next.

John Woyka of John Woyka & Co., Limited,
extensive mahogany timber and veneer mer-
chants, Glasgow, Scotland, arrived in New York
last week to visit the principal manufacturing
points in the United States and Canada, buying
poplar, walnut and oak.

Philadelphia.

The auutuil meeting of the Lumbermen's Ex-
change was held on April 11. The attendance
was large and the usual zest was manifested
in all the i)roceedings. Edwin B. Malone of
Watson Malone & Sons was elected chairman of
the meeting and John H. Lank secretary. Busi-
ness reports were read by the different commit-
tees, after which the secretary, John H. Lank,
read an exhaustive history of the association
during the two decades of its existence. A
most interesting report of the year's doings then
followed by George F. Craig, the retiring presi-
dent. The officers elected for the coming year
are William L. Rice of T. B. Rice & Sons Com-
pany, president ; Frederick S. Underbill ot Wis-
tar. Underbill & Co., vice president ; Charles P.
Maule, treasurer, and John H. Lank, secretary.

The annual banquet of the Lumbermen's Ex-
change, an exceptionally brilliant affair, was
held at the Union League on April 11, with 139
guests present. The banquet was followed by
an address by the ex-president, George F. Craig,
who then introduced William L, Rice, the new
president, who responded with an interesting
talk, interspersed with humorous anecdotes. Mar-
tin G. Brumbaugh, superintendent of public
schools, was orator of the evening. His address
was particularly Interesting, as he had spent
his youth in a lumber camp and was thus able
to discourse eloquently on the secrets of the lum-
ber trade. Justin Peters, manager of the Penn-
sylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire Insurance
Company, followed with an interesting and in-
structive speech. E. F. Perry, secretary of the
Xatioual Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associa-
tion, spoke next, after whom Frederick S. Under-
hill, the newiy elected vice president, wound up
with a humorous address.

A synopsis of the history of the I^umbermen's
Exchange taken from the interesting report of
the secretary, John H. Lank, shows the first
meeting to have been held on Feb. 13, 1886,
and a charter was granted under the present
style on April IT, 1886. Laws were adopted
May 20, 1880. These were revised in 1888,
1898 and 1906.

The first election of oflicers was on May 27,
1886, and resulted as follows: For president,
William M. Lloyd ; first vice president, Charles

W. Henry ; second vice president, Charles M.
Betts ; treasurer, Edwin H. Coane. The total
number of members at this time was 49 ; since
then 193 have been added, but 106 have with-
drawn, leaving the present membership 136, the
largest in its history. Of the original members,
27 are still associated with the exchange, 25
as active and 2 as honorary members.

John W. Coles has recently been on a stock
bunt in the South, where he made some con- /
nections for North Carolina pine, also contracted
for some good hardwoods in Bristol, Tenn. He
is receiving considerable of his goods by water
and is expecting some barges of lumber from
North Carolina in a few days.

Wistar, Underbill & Co., always in the front
row of hustlers, have no fault to find with
trade conditions. R. W. Nixon of this firm is on
a selling trip in New York City and H. E. Bates
has just returned from New York state, bringing
in a good bunch of orders. This firm recently
made a deal to handle the entire output of the
Pigeon River Lumber Company near Newport,
Cocke county, Tenn., which will run about 25,-
000,000 feet of poplar, oak, chestnut, spruce
and hemlock per annum.

Among the recent visitors to the city are
George A. Mitchell of White, Gratwick & Mitch-
ell, Incorporated, of North Tonawanda, N. Y.,
and George B. Breon and John Coleman ot
Williamsport, Pa.

The many friends of George Nass of George
Nass & Son will be sorry to learn that he is
confined to his home with typhoid fever. A
speedy recovery is hoped for.

E. B. Hayman of W. H. Fritz & Co. has been
confined to his home for some time, it is re-
ported, threatened with typhoid fever. As he is
possessed of a strong constitution it is hoped
that he will throw off the trouble.

li. M. Smith & Co. do not seem inclined to
push for orders. They are confining themselves
mainly to clearing up back orders as fast as
railroad facilities will allow. Their mills are
actively preparing stock. B. C. Currie, Jr.,
Philadelphia manager ot this concern, reports
things moving along a little quietly at this
time ; he is watching developments as the spring
opens.

A large quantity of timber was recently de-
stroyed by forest fires near Pottsville, Pa., and
through the lower section of Schuylkill county.
The loss will be heavy.

Fire in the plant of the Keystone Cabinet
Works' at Chester, Pa., on April 13, caused a
loss estimated at $15,000.

A report comes from Reading, Pa., that the
480 acres of timber land owned by A. Thal-
heimer. which is being cut at the rate of 30,000
feet daily, will be converted into cigar boxes.

Two hundred acres of timber land were re-
cently destroyed by fire on the Nescopec Moun-
tain near Bloomsburg, Pa.

The Sbamokin Wagon Works, an adjoining
planing mill and some dwellings at Sbamokin,
Pa., were recently destroyed by fire, causing a
loss estimated at $75,000.

Fire destroyed the woodwork manufactory of
William Russell of this city on April 17, com-
pletely gutting the plant ; the loss is placed at
$20,000,

The Bruce-Bock Lumber Company was incor-
porated under Pennsylvania laws on April 11
with authorized capital $10,000. Principal office
Conway, Pa. Incorporators are C. R. Bruce,
II. J. Bock of Conway, Pa., J. A. Davis, W. A.
Reader of Baden, Pa., and J. A. McNutt of
Freedom, Pa.

Owen M. Bruner of Owen M. Bruner Com-
pany, a very busy concern, has no complaint to
make in the way of business complications. The
company has engaged J. A. Finley as salesman to
look after the Metropolitan and Baltimore terri-
tory. Mr. Finley was formerly with Henson &
Pearson. He will handle specially maple floor-
ing and yellow pine timber. Mr. Bruner and'

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Mr. Flnley have recently returned from an ex-
tended tour in the South and Northwest, visit-
ing their various connections and familiarizing
themselves with stocks and conditions. Mr.
Bruner reports the mills all active and that he
is looking forward to good summer trading.

The Paul W. Fleck Lumber Company has re-
moved its office from 704 Real Estate Trust
building to 322 North American building.

The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Com-
pany recently issued a notice that on account of
the proposed elevating of its road through the
upper section of the city the freight yards at
Huntingdon and Broad streets, and Tenth and
Berks, will be abandoned on June 1. They have
since announced that it is probable a yard will
be opened at Seventeenth street and Indiana
avenue. At the railroad company's office they
assert that it has not been decided as yet as to
whether the same privileges at the old yards will
be allowed at the new one ; but nothing definite
can be ascertained for a week or two.

The National Hardwood Lumber Association
is looking forward to a big time at its tenth
annual convention to be held at Atlantic City,
N. J., on May 23 and 24. The committees have
■been hard at it under the able leadership of
C. E. Lloyd, Jr.. and B. C. Currie. Jr., of the
committee of arrangements which has issued a
neat booklet containing programme, excellent
views of Atlantic City scenery, board walk,
hotels, etc., together with full information as to
railroad tickets, hours of departure from New
York and Philadelphia, rates per day at all the
leading hotels, etc., supplemented with a con-
cise history of the National Hardwood Lumber
Association.

Baltimore.

In compliance with action taken at the last
annual meeting of the National Lumber Export-
ers' Association in Norfolk, Secretary E. M.
Terry has sent to members the draft of a letter
which they are asked to use as a model in com-
municating with their correspondents abroad
relative to the shipping of lumber on consign-
ment. The letter asks that members request
their European representatives to desist, and
use their best efforts to influence others to de-
sist from soliciting consignments from mills and
wholesale merchants in this country ; also that
they stop the promiscuous circulation in the
United States of brokers' circulars. It was the
opinion of those present that sending out this
letter as a copy for exporters to follow in com-
municating with foreign brokers would be more
effective as a means of combatting the practice
of shipping on consignment than any other that
might be attempted. A meeting of the special
committee on Liverpool measurement is to be
held on April 26 in the rooms of Secretary
Terry. The committee includes George D. Bur-
gess of Russe & Burgess, Memphis, Tenn. ; Har-
vey M. Dixon of the Dixon Lumber Company,
Norfolk, Va., and George M. Spiegle of George
M. Spiegle & Co. of Philadelphia.

Michael S. Baer of the hardwood firm of Rich-
ard P. Baer ,& Co., in the Keyset building, this
city, is away on a trip to the mill operated by
the firm at Mobile, Ala. He will return by way
of Cincinnati and other cities, paying close at-
tention to the business situation in each place
visited. The mill at Mobile is now running full
time, and lumber is being turned out to the
limit of its capacity, there being orders in hand
for all the stocks that can be obtained.

William M. Burgan is at Eddy Lake, S. C,
looking after the operations of the Eddy Lake
Cypress Company, in which he is largely inter-
ested. He may also stop in North Carolina,
where he has extensive interests in connection
with the Pigeon River Lumber Company. In
consideration of his services rendered to the
Retail Lumber Dealers' Association Mr. Burgan
has been presented with a handsome mahogany
desk and office chair. Mr. Burgan, though a

wholesaler, took a deep interest in the work of
bringing the retailers together and largely
through his efforts the organization was ef-
fected.

William B. Tllghman, one of the most exten-
sive lumber and sawmill operators in Maryland
and head of the William B. Tllghman Company
of Salisbury, Md., died there on April 13, after
an illness of several years. He had been
active in business until his last sickness, but
continued to take a great interest in the affairs
of the company, which conducts a sawmill at
Salisbury and operates other enterprises. Mr.
Tilghman was twice married and leaves seven
children, William B., Jr., being the only son.
The deceased organized the Salisbury National
bank and otherwise worked hard to build up the
town.

On April 14 fire in the chair factory of James
McDonough & Co., 744-746 East Lombard street,
this city, caused a loss of $15,000, and for a
time placed the National Casket Company's big
plant, just across the street. In danger. The
loss is fully covered by insurance.

PittsTsurg.

The Pittsburg Hardwood Door Company, which
was organized three months ago from the busi-
ness of the Paine Lumber Company, Ltd., and
A. G. Breitwiser & Co., is carrying a stock of
10,000 hardwood veneer doors in its quarters in
the big Terminal warehouse on the South Side.
The company occupies seven floors, 20x155 feet
each, and in addition to its stock of doors has a
large stock of rails, balusters, molding, etc.

The Clay-Schoppe Lumber Company is in its
new offices at 1015 House building, where it has
much better quarters than in its former loca-
tion. The W. E. Terhune Lumber Company has
moved to the ninth floor of the same building
and J. E. Mcllvain & Co. occupy a handsome
suite of offices alongside of the Terhune quarters.
J. W. Selvey of Grafton, W. Va., and J. T.
Caveney of the same place are at the head of
a company which has purchased 2,000 acres of
timber land in Randolph, Barbour, Preston and
Tucker counties. West Virginia. A big sawmill
will be established at once.

George W. Nicola, president of the Nicola
Lumber Company, has bought one of the finest
sites in the Schenley Farms allotment in the
Oakland district and will erect on it a $20,000
residence.

The Crescent Lumber Company has moved
from the Whitfield building in the East End to
the fifth floor of the Machesney building in
Fourth avenue below Wood street. Its president
is R. A. Wolf, and W. A. Kessler is secretary
and treasurer.

The Flint, Erving & Stoner Lumber Company
reports business active. The company now has
over 10,000,000 feet of lumber on sticks and
can't get enough cars ot permit of loading as
fast as it is cut.

The A. M. Turner Lumber Company will move
into its big suite of offices in the 20-story Union
Bank building May 1. Mr. Turner has just re-
turned from an extended trip through the
South.

The Kendall Lumber Company has sold nearly
all its hemlock bark and at much better figure
than was realized last year. The Ohiopyle Com-
pany, in which the Kendalls are largely inter-
ested, is cutting a fine lot of oak, and the Out-
crop, Pa., mill near by Is making 35,000 feet of
hardwood lumber every day. J. L. Kendall Is
still in Roseburg, Ore., where he is picking up
some more choice timber land in preparation for
the big operation which the Kendalls will start
there in the fall.

At last the Carter timber lands on West Hick-
ory creek near Tionesta, Pa., will be brought
close to market by reason of a new railroad for
which surveys are now being made. This will
run up West Hickory creek, near the mouth of
which a big sawmill will be built. There are

about 15,000,000 feet of lumber on the tract,
which will require fully two years to cut off.
Oak, birch, chestnut and hemlock predominate.

The Stewarton Lumber Company has been or-
ganized by Otto and August Stickel of Mills Run,
Pa., and J. A. Guiler of Connellsville, Pa. It
will develop a large tract of hardwood and hem-
lock near Stewarton, Pa.

The Linehan Lumber Company is pushing out
"strong" in the hardwood floor business in which
it took a hand only recently. J. J. Linehan
has been south again and finds stocks of hard-
woods only fair in most places.

The Herman H. Hettler Lumber Company is
having a rushing trade in hardwoods at its Pitts-
burg office. Manager C. W. Cantrell got hold of
some mighty nice business while on a recent trip
to Cleveland and only wishes that everything in
lumber was as good as hardwoods at present.

The Interior Lumber Company, whose plant
at Oneida, Tenn., was burned recently, will open
a sorting and distributing yard there and an-
other in Georgia and will make a specialty of
rough lumber for a time. J. G. Criste will be
Pittsburg manager as formerly and President
J. R. Edgett will look after the buying in the
south.

The Nicola Building Company has received a
contract from the Pennsylvania Lumber Com-
pany for the erection of a reinforced concrete
sawmill near Kane, Pa., in Warren county. It
will cost $50,000 when complete and will have
spans on the sides of 60 feet. This will be the
first mill of its kind in Pennsylvania and is caus-
ing no little interest locally.

The Pittsburg-Kanawha Lumber Company of
Buckhannon, Pa., has been incorporated with a
capital of $10,000. Its incorporators are :
Charles Campbell, H. B. Cooper, C. W. Heavner,
H. W. Jackson and J. M. N. Downes, prominent
capitalists of Buckhannon.

I. F. Balsley of the Willson Bros. Lumber
Company, who is looking after the Pittsburg end
of the finances for the National Hardwood Lum-
ber Association's convention to be held in At-
lantic City May 23 and 24, is enthusiastic over
the outlook. He believes there will be a large
attendance from this end of the state and says
that many subjects of great interest to hardwood
men are going to be fully and fairly discussed.

Wholesalers in northern Ohio are devoting
much time this month to getting out piling for
use at the Lake Erie docks at Collinwood, O.,
where are located the big shops and yards of the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Com-
pany. Most of the stock is used by this com-
pany in improvements, although the government
has been a liberal buyer also.

The Cheat River Lumber Company has bought
700,000 feet of gum, and is selling it off rap-
idly for boxing.

The American Lumber & Manufacturing Com-
pany is pushing its hardwood department for
all that it will stand. President W. D. Johnston
is anxious that this shall be the best hardwood
year in the American's history and General Man-
ager J. N. Woollett is enthusiastically aiding him
in iM-inging about this desired result. Charles
Cruikshank of the hardwood force is touring
New England ; Samuel Dunseith is looking after
business in Canada ; A. T. Ash Is buying stock in
West Virginia ; T. C. Clark is selling hardwood
out west ; W. T. Robertson has been perma-
nently stationed to look after southwestern hard-
wood purchases in Arkansas.

Buffalo.

Buffalo lumbermen are anxious to get their
new clubrooms in the Chamber of Commerce
ready for occupation, as the move will solve
the problem of a permanent home for them.
The new building was formally opened April 18,
but it will be some weeks before the lumbermen's
clubrooms will be finished.

There is some improvement in the car situa-
tion locally, but the complaints of shortage in

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this time of the year, but manufacturers are
encouraged over the more favorable conditions
recently experienced.

There is some improvement noted in the car
situation. There are more cars available for
lumber interests and this means larger ship-
ments out of this city as well as increased
receipts of both timber and lumber from
interior points. Lumber firms engaged in
manufacturing are better supplied with timber
now, taken as a whole, than they have been
for some months.

New Orleans.

The sensation caused here last week by the
announcement that a receiver had been ap-
pointed for the big lumber exporting firm
known as the "W. A. Powell Lumber Com-
pany, Ltd., had hardly subsided when William
A. Powell, head of the company, was arrested
and charged with embezzling a large amount
of staves and lumber belonging to two New
Orleans banks. The first charge of embezzle-
ment was preferred by the German-American
National Bank, which charged that Powell
had embezzled 22,000 pieces of French claret
staves intended for export and on wiiich the
bank had advanced something over $1,000.
The value of the staves was set at $1.S25.
The Hibernia Bank & Trust Company then
preferred charges against Powell, alleging that
he had embezzled 400.000 feet of lumber, valued
at $12,000, on which this bank had also
advanced money. It was alleged in both
instances that the bank had paid the money
advanced on the staves and lumber to Powell
expecting to secure the receipts and bills of
lading when the lumber was delivered on ship-
board. These bills of lading were never
received and the charges were consequently
preferred. Powell was arraigned in one of the
Inferior criminal courts and his bond was
fixed at $10,000 on the two charges. The
Whitney-Central National Bank. Canal-Louis-
iana Bank & Trust Company and the Cosmo-
politan Bank & Trust Company are also said
to have been victimized by Powell. His oper-
ations in this particular line, it is stated,
represent between $200,000 and $300,000.

The receiver for the Powell Lumber Com-
pany was appointed on the application of
Stahl & Son. lumbermen of Rotterdam, who
alleged that the company's affairs were being
mismanaged. It was set forth in their peti-
tion that the company's liabilities would
exceed $450,000, while its assets were less
than $350,000. In accoi-dance with the repre-
senta,tions of the petitioners Judge E. D.
Saunders in the United States Circuit Coirrt
named the Coramercial-Germania Savings
Bank & Trust Company as the receiver. This
institution is now in charge of the affairs of
the company. Several interventions have since
been filed in the suits.

A good deal of interest is being manifested
in the vigorous campaign which lumber ex-
porters of this territory are making to secure
better car service from the railroad com-
panies. Several conferences of exporters have
taken place recently and briefs have been
prepared setting forth cases where the rail-
roads are charged with having made discrimi-
nations against certain shippers. The lum-
bermen will ask the railroad officials to
remedy certain conditions and if nothing is
done the matter will be taken to the Inter-
state Commerce Commission. The statement
that some of the lumber exporters are forced
to pay a bribe of from $2 to $5 per car to
secure a supply has created something of a
sensation. It is said by a number of lum-
bermen that bribing the officials is the only
way to secure cars from some of the raijroad
companies.

The largest timber deal that has been con-
summated this year in the Calcasieu district
was closed the other day at Lake Charles

when 32.000 acres of hardwood timber belong-
ing to the Orange Land Company and J. B.
Watkins wore transferred to the Southwestern
Lumber Company of New Jersey, which was
represented by Pi-esident Sam Parks of the
Industrial Lumber Company. The price paid
was $271,580. The tract lies adjacent to the
proposed route of the Louisiana extension of
the Santa Fe railroad, several stockholders of
which are identified with the Southwestern
Lumber Company. This concern has made
several other big purchases in this vicinity
and will erect a big hardwood mill there.

The Sabine River Lumber Company, a new
hardwood company, has been formally organ-
ized at Lake Charles with an authorized
capital of $200,000. All of the stockholders
in the company are Illinois people, and all
but one reside in Illinois. The exception is
W. Scott Matthews, president of the Matthews
Hardwood Lumber Company of Ouachit<a
parish, who moved to Louisiana from Illinois
several years ago. Mr. Matthews is the head
of the new concern. The others on the Board
of Directors with Mr. Matthews are: W. K.
Murphy, Pinckneyville, 111.; C. B. Cole,
Chester. 111.; Judge George W. Wall, DuQuoin.
111.; John B. Jackson. Anna, 111.

The Caddo-Rapides Lumber Company, one
of the leading enterprises in the hardwood
section of Louisiana, has increased its capital
stock from $12,000 to $100,000. The following
are the stockholders: Hugh Corry, J. E. Thir-
sell, W. D. Luny, A. L. Ducate, G. W. Bolton.
J. W. Bolton, A. W. Looney, J. W. Alex-
ander, Hugh Corry, Jr., James Corry, John R.
Hunter, all of Alexandria, La.; C. H. Teal.
Earl Roberts and J. W. Duncan of Colfax.
La.; T. C. Bush of Fairmount. La.; F. W.
Offenhauser of Texarkana, and T. H. Garrett
of St. Louis.

The Bay Springs Spoke & Manufacturing
Company has filed a charter in Mississippi.
It is domiciled at Bay Springs, Jasper county,
and has an authorized capital of $25,000. The
incorporators are; L. L. Denson, W. J. Shoe-
maker and others.

land, Ky., was In Louisville a few days ago
looking after the shipping out of some lumber
his firm has here.

Louisville.

The car situation here is better, and it is
now not only possible to get cars, but lumber is
moving quite freely. How it happened, what
caused it, or how long it will last, are questions
unknown, as all are too busy to ask questions
and are only hoping it will last long enough to
let them get their order books cleared up a
little.

The W. P. Brown & Sous Lumber Company
has a different story to tell now from that of a
month ago. At that time stock was moving out
of its yard here so much more rapidly than it
was coming in as to give cause for worr.v. Now,
however, they have it coming in pretty lively
and it is keeping all hands busy to take care
of it.

Edward L. Davis reports busy times and says
there is nothing to find fault with now but the
price of oak timber. All hardwoods are in good
demand and his company has its hands full tak-
ing care of trade and getting fresh timber sup-
plies.

E. M. Overstreet of the Southern Lumber
Compan.v says that just a few more days of
nice weather will put them on the sunny side
of the street with their hardwood business.
They have about 3,000,000 feet down at their
mills which they are now moving out. Cars
are more plentiful and Mr. Overstreet has been
booking some more nice business lately, and says
that both demand and prices are good.

The Louisville Point Lumber Company's mill
and all the other mills on the point are busy
these days and have more business than they
can take care of. It is simply a question of get-
ting the logs and sawing them into lumber, as
the market practically takes care of Itself.

Chas. Kitchen of Vansant, iKtchen & Co., Ash-

Charlotte, N. C.

Lumbermen of this section are gratified over
the action of the legislature which recently
closed on matters relating especially to their
business. The Corporation Commission was
given wider jurisdiction over complaints coming
from lumber shippers in all parts of the state,
asking for influence in their behalf against dis-
crimination in freight rates. The lack of trans-
portation facilities was given due consideration
and the commission was given power to demand
the railroads to build spur tracks and double
tracks to accommodate their patrons.

The plant of Ashbury & Finger of this city
was totally destroyed by fire a few days ago,
the loss aggregating .1;22,000. About 300,000
feet of well-seasoned lumber, including several
lots of mahogany, bird's-eye maple, cherry and
other hardwoods, was a complete loss. The shop
will be rebuilt at an early date.

The Trenton Buggy & Manufacturing Com-
pany of Trenton, N. C, has been organized with
$150,000 authorized capital. The company will
begin operations with a small capital, but expect
to do a lively business. R. L. May, T. D. War-
ren and others are the incorporators.

H. C. Clark and others are the incorporators
(pf a new Safe & Table Company, recently or-
ganized to operate at Statesville, N. C, with a
capital of $50,000. Kitchen safes and furniture
will be turned out.

High Point manufacturers have decided to
have an exhibit at the Jamestown Exposition.
There are about sixty hardwood manufactories
at High Point and no city in the state has a
more progressive set of business men behind
the industry. A large sum has already been
donated to make the exhibition attractive.

The Bell Lumber Company of Mt. Olive, N. C,
suffered the loss of their establishment a few
days ago. It was a small plant, the loss
amounting to about $3,000.

The ofllcials of the Waynesville Wood Manu-
facturing Company of Waynesville, N. C, are
considering the advisability of turning out hard-
wood mantels only. The company has been
manufacturing table tops, legs and other prod-
ucts for some time, but the demand for mantels
of the class it is making is so great that other
work will probably be excluded.

The Camp Lumber Company in Dlnwlddie
county has sold to the Butterworth Lumber
Company a large tract of hardwood, the price
paid being $50,000. The tract contains about
15.000 acres.

The Ingleside Lumber Company has been
granted a charter, with principal office at Ra-
leigh. It is capitalized at $35,000 and will
manufacture hardwood products. J. D. Bou-
sball, W. H. Pace and others are the incorpo-
rators.

The largest cargo of lumber ever sent from
this state went out this week from Wilmington,
the cargo being consigned to New York. It was
shipped from the wharves of the Cape Fear
Lumber Company and the total amount was
more than 1,000,000 feet.

A tract containing some of the finest hard-
wood in the state, lying in Graham, Clay and
Cherokee counties and comprising 55.000 acres,
has been optioned by M. E. Cozad and others to
Bailey & Chapman, who operate particularly in
the western section of the state. The property
is known as the Belding timber tract and is
one of the largest and most valuable pieces of
timber land in the entire state. The considera-
tion is said to have been $625,000.

Minneapolis.

Trouble in the building trades, which was
threatened here for a couple of weeks, has
been averted. The carpenters struck fcr an
increase in wages, and were about to call the

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other trades out on a sympathetic strike, but
the Retail Merchants' Association brought
about conferences which finally led to builders
and carpenters appointing committees with
power to act. They settled on a compromise
basis of 421^ cents an hour. Sash and door
factories and flooring: men were not buyers
during the trouble, as there was danger of
their being left with a lot of repudiated con-
tracts on hand.

The Hobe Lumber Company has engaged
Charles C. Covel. formerly of Pittsburg, as
sales manager. Mr. Covel is experienced par-
ticularly in the hardwood line, and will em-
phasize that branch of the business of the
company more in the future. The company
also handles a line of pine and hemlock.

P. H. Hammer of the Red Birch Lumber
Company, Catawba. Wis., was a business vis-
itor in Minneapolis the other day, inquiring
into the spring situation as to supply and
demand.

F. W. Buswell of the F. W. Buswell Lum-
ber Company is back from a visit to the
company's mill and logging camp in northern
Wisconsin. He says that because of the deep
snow and abundance of thawing weather the
log product was lower than was figured on.
High cost of labor and provisions also con-
tributed to the greater expense of logging.
He also reports a great deal of trouble in
getting cars to fill orders.

W. H. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber
Company is braving the Jibes of his friends
who take a lively interest in the Sill chicken
farm. Mr. Sill has been devoting considerable
thought and attention to an incubator, which
he loaded with 350 eggs, and when the said
incubator came oft the nest the other day with
only two chickens the childish glee of Mr.
Sill's friends knew no bounds. They put him
on the entertainment committee for the doings
of April 19, with especial injunctions to fur-
nish the chicken for the table. Mr. Sill is not
at all discouraged, as la.st year he only drew
one chicken out of the incubator and thinks
a 100 per cent increase is certainly encourag-
ing.

John Hein, Jr., of the John Hein Company,
Tony. Wis., brought his young son down a few
days ago for an operation in a Minneapolis
hospital. At last reports the lad was doing
very well.

A. A. Rotzien, with the Hawkins Lumber &
Land Company, hardwood and hemlock manu-
facturers, is back from a short business trip
into northern Minnesota.

Toledo.

The railroad situation remains about the
same, but the chances are that relief will be
felt in a short time, since the Interstate Com-
merce Commission is conducting an investi-
gation of the car shortage situation in Toledo
on complaint of the Toledo Produce Exchange.
It seems that the members of the Produce
Exchange are of the opinion that the local
gi-ain market has been badly discriminated
against in favor of the other markets. Act-
ing on this basis. President Fred Mayer of
the Produce Exchange filed formal complaint
with the Interstate Commerce Commission at
Washington. As a result of his communica-
tion. Special Agent Ralph M. McKenzie was
sent to Toledo to make a thorough investiga-
tion. The natural and probably the correct
inference is that the car shortage in other
lines is being probed, and it now looks as
though everybody interested in shipping may
expect some relief in the very near future.
In fact, it may be stated that the past few
days have shown a decided improvement in
the car situation.

Kenneth McLeod, president of the Cache
Lumber Company, returned from St. Louis
recently, where he went to arrange the de-
tails for the purchase of 25,000 acres of terri-
tory, including a large mill, in northeastern

Arkansas. The Cache Lumber Company
already controls a large lumber tract in that
section. The company has also received a
proposition to purchase 12,000 additional acres
lying to the north of its present holdings,
and the matter will be brought before the
board of directors at its next meeting.

The Brooke Lumber Company, capital of
$25,000. was recently organized at Pataskala.
The company takes in the ' Henry Brooke
Lumber Company, the planing mill of E.
Frankenberg & Bro., and the business of
W. S. Hanna. The new company will engage
in the wholesale and retail lumber business.
Henry Brooke was elected president; A.
Frankenberg. vice-president; H. H. Baird,
secretary; Emil Frankenberg, treasurer.

Twenty-three local lumbermen were indicted
by the Lucas County grand Jury, charged with
conspiracy in restraint of trade and violation
of the Valentine antitrust law. Some sixty
plumbers and nine brick manufacturers are
also included in the list. The lumbermen are
Justly indignant over the action and are re-
solved to fight the case hard.

Indianapolis.

The Showers Bros.' Company, operating a
large furniture factory at Bloomington, Ind.,
i.s preparing to build a large veneer plant to
be run in connection with its present factory.
It will cost approximately $50,000 and will be
ready for occupancy within a few months.

Within the last few days the Brown, Mar-
tin & Phillips Lumber Company has Ijeen
organized at Salem to deal in a full line of
lumber, including hardwoods. The capital
stock is $15,000 and the directors are S. D.
Brown. F. A. Martin and H. H. Phillips, men
well known in the Indiana lumber trade.

There is a ray of hope for the solution of
the car shortage proposition by the announce-
ment that railroads centering in Indiana will
probably appoint car distributers, to assure
the just distribution of cars in compliance
with the Indiana shippers' law. These dis-
tributers, it is understood, will liave control
of the distribution of all cars on the various
lines and will have a large corps of clerks
under them. The Pennsylvania railroad is the
first company to make such an appointment.
The Walnut Lumber Company of this city
has a number of good sized orders on hand
and is expecting a phenomenal business this
season. While some difficulty is being ex-
perienced in getting new stock, the officers
of the company were far-seeing enough to
order early in the season, and as a conse-
quence orders are being cared for witli little
delay. Some improvements have recently been
made at the company's plant.

Win Runyan and Wallace Caswell have
formed a partnership and will establish a
furniture and cabinet works at Huntington, in
the northern part of the state. The men were
formerly in charge of the Syracuse Grille
Company's plant at North Manchester and
have had several years' experience in the
business.

The Mcllvaine Lumber Company has been
incorporated at Vincennes with ,a capital stock
of $40,000. John A. Cox, Joseph L. Ebner,
William B. Robinson, William H. Davenport.
Heathcote R. Mcllvaine, Frank E. Sheldon
and Mason J. Niblack have been elected
directors.

The Paoli Spoke Company will manufacture
spokes, wooden handles, and sell a line of
hardwood lumber at Paoli, according to arti-
cles of incorporation filed last week. With a
capitalization of $15,000 the company expects
to carry on an extensive business. Among
those interested in the new venture are
Ernest Stout, Oscar Ellis and Ellen M. Stout.
Due to prospective building contracts
amounting to nearly $4,000,000 during the sea-
son, all local dealers are paying special

attention to the hardwood branch of the trade.
From lack of a local organization of dealers
there is sharp competition for business, al-
though there cannot be any great price cutting
due to market conditions.

An effort will be made to ascertain what
lands are best suited for the growth of tim-
bers used for manufacturing purposes, and the
relative strength of each kind of timber, by
Will H. Freeman, secretary of the Indiana
Board of Forestry. The tests, which will be
started this summer and will likely be con-
tinued for several years, will be started in
several counties of Indiana. Mr. Freeman
believes that sooner or later forestry will be
driven to the cheap lowlands of the state and
that the tests will show timber grown on
waste lands to be as good for manufacturing
purposes as that grown on the best ground.
Samples of wood will be obtained from various
regions selected for tests, and will be shipped
to the government experiment station at Pur-
due University. Timber will be tested when
both green and cured, undei" similar conditions,
eitlier in sun or kiln. Both physical and
chemical analysis of soil will be made, as well
as a study of insect pests that infest woods.
The three kinds of timbers to be used in
tests will be oak, hickory and ash, and the
timber for experiments will be procured in the
hilly lands and bottom lands of different sec-
tions of Indiana. In addition to tests of tim-
bers used for manufacturing, similar tests
will be made with the twenty best Indiana
timbers.

Ashland.

There has been a big output of logs, mostly
oak and poplar, from both the Big Sandy and
Guyandotte rivers the past few days. The
timber is reported as being of the best qual-
ity, and is bringing fancy prices.

A tragedy that resulted in the death of
Virgil Fannin, a nineteen-year-old boy, oc-
curred at Normal, Ky., and Marion McPeak.
timber guard for the Nigh Lumber Company
of fronton, is held under $500 bond charged
with the boy's death. Young Fannin and a
companion were detected by McPeak stealing
chain dogs from the company's property boat.
When they saw McPeak they started to run
and he. armed with a shotgun, started in pur-
suit. Fannin carried some chain dogs in his
hand, but! dropped them, McPeak says, and
pulled a revolver. McPeak immediately fired,
the heavy charge entering the boy's back and
neck. The coroner's Jury rendered a verdict
of killing in self-defense, but McPeak was
bound over by the grand Jury under a $500
bond.

T. N. Fannin of the Keyes-Fannin Lumber
Company has returned from a month's stay in
Arizona, where lie has large copper interests.

Chas. Kitchen. Jr., of Leon, son of Chas.
Kitchen of Vansant, Kitchen & Co., is very
low with typhoid fever in a hospital in Louis-
ville. His father and two sisters are at his
bedside. The young man was taken sick at
the winter home of the family at Eaugallie,
Fla.

Barboursville, W. Va.. at the mouth of
Guyandotte rlAcr, is soon to have a new
furniture factory. It will be quite an exten-
sive affair, employing a large number of men.

The Ironton Tool Handle Manufacturing
Company has been formed in Ironton, Ohio,
for the manufacture of all kinds of tool
handles. The incorporators are; F. J. Ginn,
D. C. Davies, T. J. Gilbert, F. E. Deidrick
and F. J. McConnell. The capital stock is
$15,000. They will operate the Deidrick plant
in South Ironton.

W. L. Watson is here from Mahan, W. Va.,
for a brief visit to his family.

B. B. Fannin of Paintsville, Ky., a success-
ful lumber and tie dealer, is in Louisville
looking after a big lumber deal.

The main offices of the Page Lumber Com-

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pany have been removed to this city from
South Bend, Ind. R. G. Page, head of the big
fnterprise, and C. E. Wilson of the traffic
department, witli their families, are already
here. The company has a large lumber yard

here and extensive interests throughout north-
eastern Kentucky and West Virginia, and in
order to handle the business to better advan-
tage it wa.s thought best to have the main
office in proximity to its large timber lands.

Hardwood Market.

(By HABDWOOD BECOBD Exclusive market Beporters.)

Chicago.

There seem.s to be a slight slackening in
local sales to the consuming trade. It is con-
sidered on all sides that this is only tempo-
rary, and is occasioned very likely by what
seems a pretty high scale of lumber values
which buyers now have to pay for their stock.
Many figure that already top-notch prices
have been reached, and that by delaying pur-
chases they will not have to pay any more
money and may possibly buy at slightly lower
prices.

There are some varieties of hardwoods that
are in such short supply at sources of pro-
duction as to make them remarkably good
sellers when a buyer succeeds in locating any
of the stock. For example, dry basswood, of
which Chicago is 'the largest consuming mar-
ket in the countrj-, is practically exhausted.
Very few manufacturers or jobbers have any
to offer. The result is that the price on this
wood has advanced from $6 to $8 in the last
eight months. Some sales of firsts and sec-
onds are reported in this market as high as
$40. Birch is undeniably doing better, but
there is still a considerable quantity of this
wood unsold. Thick maple is in good call
locally, and what little there is will surely
command more money. Rock elm and black
ash are practically out of the market. Nearly
all the southern woods are in fair demand.
There are many more inquiries for high grade
poplar than there is stock. Cottonwood and
gum are also doing exceedingly well, while
the demand for oak still keeps in excess of
.supply, and the call for the coarse end of all
hardwoods for crating and box material re-
mains active and prices have materially ad-
vanced. Last fall $9 to $10 was a high price
for miscellaneous No. 3 hardwoods, and today
manufacturers located along the upper lakes
sell culls as high as $12. and in many eases
are asking more. The local situation is en-
tirely healthy, with every prospect for a
strong season's demand.

Boston.

The market for hardwoods in Boston has
developed quite a degree of activity of late.
Prices are firmer in nearly all instances, but
this does not appear to have checked the
inquiry. While the demand was fairly active
during March, it is much better this month.
Wholesalers find it difficult to get dry stock.
Advices from some of the largest mills in the
country indicate that their stocks are small.
The reports of the better conditions have
evidently reached mill points, as asking prices
are higher on nearly every lot offered. The
furniture manufacturers are very busy. Their
stocks are moderate only and many buyers
are "hungry for lumber," as one dealer puts
it. Several out of town buyers who have
seldom, if ever, called upon the trade in
Boston for supplies have been here lately.

A fair demand for plain oak is reported in
this market. Values are high, but all dealers
are not getting outside prices. Quartered oak
shows considerable activity and prices are
tending upward. Offerings are small and
dealers find it difficult to place new business
at satisfactory prices. A moderate demand
for plain oak for export is reported. Walnut
is in very small offering, with the demand of
larger proportion than for five years. Offer-

ings of wliite ash are of very small volume.
Brown ash is scarce and firm. The call for
cypress is not of large volume, but there is
enough business to keep prices steady. White-
wood is very firmly held. Dealers have small
stocks to offer and yards are not heavily sup-
plied. All advices from mill points indicate
that values will continue firm for some time.
Maple is well held with the demand for floor-
ing moderate.

New York.

The situation in the hardwood trade in the
Metropolitan District continues active with prices
bullish throughout the entire list. The market is
in the hands of the seller in view of the marl<ed
shortage at producing and wholesale sources,
especially in the better grades of hardwoods.
There seems to be less hardwood available at
mill points than there was three months ago, not-
withstanding the spring log tides. The poplar
Situation is particularly acute and all grades are
readily salable. Ash and birch are similarly
situated. In chestnut, sound wormy has first
call, ones and twos common having eased off
slightly in demand. Inch maple seems fairly
plentiful, but thick stock is scarce and in good
call. Beech and gum are more than holding
their own, and the oak situation is almost en-
tirely in the hands of the seller. The situation
is exceptionally good all along the line with the
exception of the dirth of supplies.

The wholesale mahogany trade in the local
market is firm and active. The arrivals of logs
from foreign ports during the month of March
were far less than in either January or Feb
ruary. and a large part of such arrivals, together
with a large portion of the logs on hand a month
previous, has been .sold, leaving the market
almost bare of wood iu first hands. This, together
with the fact that consumption continues
normally active, makes early shipments of good
wood necessary. Prices are still ruling from G
to 12 cents per foot with the average close to
9 cents, the higher prices being selling values
for laguDa. Santiago and the choice stock.

In foreign cedar there were more ports repre-
sented in the arrivals in March and more logs
were received than in any month for many
years. Notwithstanding these heavy arrivals
stocks have only been added to in comparatively
small amounts, and prices have eased off about
one cent a foot owing to the heavy receipts. The
large increase in shipments is explained by the
railroad development in Cuba, which has neces-
sitated the extensive cutting of timber and con-
sequently heavy shipments. It is authoritatively
announced that such cutting is about completed,
with a result that the market will undoubtedly
resume a normal basis in the next thirty to sixty
days. Prices on cedar rule firm at from 8 to 12
cents a foot, according to quality, with the aver-
age about lOyu cents. *

Philadelphia.

Conditions in the lumber market for the last
fortnight have been rather perplexing. A quietus
is felt generally along the line. Opinions in
trade circles as to the probable cause vary.
Some are inclined ot think the backward spring
has much to do with it. It is conceded by all.
however, that there has been entirely too much
contention as regards the doings of the large
public corporations both in the newspapers and
legislative bodies, creating a want of confidence.

and in consequence a holding off ot investors.
One thing is sure, money is tight at this time,
and the bulk of operation work depends on
loans, as do also all large public enterprises.
It is possible that the opinion expressed by the
more conservative trade element that the slump
is only temporary, and that conditions will
right themselves as soon as the weather settles,
is the correct one. The eastern furniture fac-
tories, interior finish works, sash and door mills,
and veneer and cigar box makers, are all af-
fected more or less by this wavering feeling as
to future business, for although things are
humming right along, aud they have a fair stock
on hand, they prefer to wait for developments
before buying ahead. Yardmen feel the de-
pression also. Some of the hustling firms, how-
ever, in the face of all this disquietude, seem
to have all the business they can handle and
make no complaint whatever. Permits for large
structures are being applied for right along, as
also for operation work for rows of dwellings.
Among the hardwoods, ash, chestnut and
basswood hold front rank in values but are still
very scarce. Poplar has retreated somewhat as
to volume of sales and in some quarters is super-
seded by cypress, the latter being so much
cheaper. Oak is somewhat uncertain. It was
thought this wood would advance in price ; in-
stead there is a downward tendency in values,
which may be only temporary, however. Cherry
and maple hold old status : maple flooring keeps
steady and in good demand ; gum remains firm.

Baltimore.

There is no change of consequence to be re-
ported in the hardwood Inisiness of this section.
Stocks are in strong demand and prices are
firm. All the dealers report that they have
numerous inquiries and that they are unable to
till orders for want of supplies. The mills
are being operated to the limit of their capacity
and their output is taken up as fast as it can
he made ready for the market at figures that
tend to stimulate operations. Kspecially is this
true with respect to oak, which wood is being
called for in large quantities not only to meet
the needs of the domestic market, but also to
fill orders for foreign consumption. European
buyers are at present disposed to meet the terms
of shippers and they also manifest a tendency
to aid the American exporters in their efforts
the stop the practice of shipping on consignment.
The situation abroad is very much improved and
an excellent feeling now prevails. Poplar is also
called for in large quantities, though some ex-
porters allege that manufacturers are forward-
ing stocks at lower figures than they can be
bought for in the domestic market, and that
this expedient is employed for the purpose of
preventing a break in the market here. How-
ever that may be, the fact remains that poplar
is in strong request and that stocks are sold in
large quantities. The trade is evidently pre-
pared to take all the lumber which the mills
can turn out and the supplies in the hands of
local dealers at the present time are lower than
they have been for many months. Other hard-
woods are in equally good shape and there is
every prospect that the prevailing state of af-
fairs will continue.

Pittsburg.

The call for hardwood lumber continues very
active. There is an increased call for ash and
hickory which are used largely by the imple-
ment and carriage and wagon manufacturers.
Straight grained white ash, dry enough for use,
is a much prized article in the market just now
and is bringing the wholesaler's price. There is
little of it in stock for the country mills of
western Pennsylvania and Ohio have not been
able to deliver their usual quota of dry lumber
owing to the extremely unfavorable weather and
resultant bad roads preventing them from get-
ting logs into mill. Most of the West Virginia

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ash is sold under contract and it Is very hard
to pick up any in that state. Practically the
same may be said o£ hiclsory. Every car o£
hickory that is heard o£ is snapped up almost
before it is o£E the saw. Basswood is in better
demand and some good orders have been placed
latel.v. Several dealers have had good inquiries
for elm lately, most of them coming from the
hub men of eastern Ohio. There is a better in-
quiry for maple — both flooring and two-inch
planking. Oak finish and timbers are still among
the best sellers on the local list, the bulk of
the orders coming from out of the city. Dealers
are finding it hard to get ties, especially white
oak and switch ties. Although there is less
river work being done this year than last and
a few of the railroads are cutting down their
outlay for improvements, heavy timbers and
piling are making a good showing on the order
books and are bringing satisfactory prices. Con-
siderable beech has been sold through this mar-
ket lately for piling. Sound wormy chestnut
holds a front place in the inquiries and is being
sold at slightly higher figures than two months
ago.

The local trade is somewhat dull. Building is
"coming up" a little in Pittsburg, but does not
show the activity that was expected. Architects
and owners are very slow in awarding contracts
and the yard men are accordingly tardy in get-
ting their stocks out to contractors, which makes
them timid about giving large orders. House
building bids fair to be good after the weather
opens up, but so far operations are greatly de-
layed. The market shows no weakness in prices
and in general the outlook for higher prices is
better than March 1. Reports from the mill
owners everywhere indicate that they are work-
ing hard to keep up with orders and the present
cut of logs is already spoken for in most cases.

Buffalo.

There is special report just now from some
of the hardwood dealers of activity in maple,
which is bringing satisfactory prices. It is go-
ing so fast that a new supply will be needed
soon.

Another wood that is much wanted is chest-
nut, though dealers find It harder every season
to get supplies of it. If they find a lot of it
they take it these days without much reference
to anything but the price, for it will always
sell.

The oak supply is unsteady, though there
seems to be enough at present for all needs. A
few dealers found for some time that they could
not get rid of their plain red oak, but they can
sell it all now and more if they had it. Quar-
tered is now scarcer than plain. Prices are
considerably higher than last year.

Every possible effort is being made to keep
up the stock of birch, for it is always needed
and If there is plenty of it there will always
be at least one good wood that will answer for
almost anything. It is in fair supply now and
there will be a good lot brought down by lake,
when lumber tralBc starts, which will probably
be early in May.

It now looks as though there would be a bet-
ter sale of elm and basswood than there was,
as these woods have been laid aside for some
years on account of the high mill prices.

Basswood culls are firm at $18 and elm culls
at $13 and $14. Maple firsts and seconds are
strong at $24 and Nos. 1 and 2 range from
$12 to $18.

Ashevllle.

The hardwood market in western North Caro-
lina remains firm. There is a slight slump no-
ticeable in prices for the best grades of oak,
which is attributed to the vast quantities of
this wood which are now coming out of Arkan-
sas and Mississippi. Prices for best grades of
poplar remain at the top notch. Chestnut is
stiff, with the demand greater during the past
few weeks and prices better than for many
months past. Great quantities of inferior chest-
nut are going to the tannic acid plants in this
section, while the commercial chestnut Is in good
demand. Recently a representative of the Na-
tional Casket Company was in this section. This
concern, which uses 20,000,000 feet of chestnut
annually, has purchased its year's supply from
the West Virginia forests, but owing to the
inability of loggers to get the wood to railway
stations and also the car shortage, it has been
forced to buy stock elsewhere. The car shortage
in western North Carolina is no longer a menace
to the trade and the hardwood men are in high
spirits. Lumbermen are being quite liberally
supplied with empties and only at times is there
anything like a shortage. This condition, how-
ever, has only prevailed during the past several
weeks, and dealers are taking advantage of the
situation.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

Tlie past fortnight has seen little or no
change in hardwood conditions. The mills
ai'e nearly all in operation and the conditions
in the rural districts are more propitious to
the manufacturer than they have been at any
time this year.

The car supply Is not as good as it should
be — indeed, many shippers report that they
are still handicapped by inability to get cars.
In many instances gondolas are being boxed
up and used for box cars.

The weather has been fair for the past few
days, though the month as a whole lias seen
much rain, to the detriment of business.

Saginaw Valley.

Local conditions are more satisfactory than
they have been in some years. The market
has developed much strength during the year
and prices have increased all along the line.
There has been a good trade and dry stocks
of most kinds of wood are scarce. Basswood,
oak and ash are particularly strong. Maple
is doing materially better and elm and birch
are stronger. Beech has also advanced. Some
large lots of the latter No. 2 common have
sold •within ten days at $16 and $17. Beech
and maple culls are bringing $12 and $14.

Cincinnati.

The volume of business transacted during
the last fortnight showed an increase com-
pared with the two weeks previous, and this
is largely attributable to the railroads fur-
nishing better shipment facilities. The car
shortage that has hampered business for sev-
eral months has to a certain extent been
relieved and many of the orders that had been
on file for weeks have been filled. The lumber
yards at present fully bear out the strain
they stood in the last few months, being
almost stripped of the most desired lumber
such as poplar and oak. A good demand
continues for tliese woods. Oak is holding its
own and the same might be said of cypress,
gum. hickory and mahogany. The furniture
dealers have been doing a better business
this season than for some time, and this
has caused the market on mahogany and
other woods used for its manufacture to take
on a decidedly firm tone. The spring trade
has been fairly well supplied, but still large
orders for immediate delivery are coming in.
The market as it looks at present will be
held at the same tone for some time to come.

Chattanooga.

The demand for lumber in this section is
much greater than the supply. Dry stocks
are snapped up promptly at good prices.
Poplar is perhaps as scarce as it has ever
been in this vicinity. Chestnut is in great
demand and oak is still strong. ■

The export trade is active. Expressed in

the words of one of the local lumbermen, this
is a sellers' market.

The car situation Is a little easier than it
has been for some time and lumber is being
shipped out of the city and logs into the city
at a fair satisfactory rate.

St. Iiouis.

The market in hardwoods in St. Louis con-
tinues active, and a record business would be
transacted were It possible to obtain ample
supplies to meet the inquiries which are ur-
gent for all classes of hardwood. Some of
the dealers here report that the demand for
certain items of stock, especially those in
which tliere have been advances recently, is
not quite as active as it was in March. A
like statement is made regarding some of the
higher class woods, which prior to the be-
ginning of March sold without effort. How-
ever, the general volume of buying seems to
keep lumbermen busy and to absorb practi-
cally everything in desirable stock quickly.

Price advances on several items are confi-
dently expected before the month is out. The in-
creased cost and difficulty of getting out pop-
lar, ash and cottonwood make them very
strong items and they will never be as cheap
as they have been in the past under any
reverse. Oak continues firm, with prices
strong on all classes of stock. Gum is show-
ing steady improvement and is selling readily
at satisfactory prices.

Nashville.

The local market continues stiff and firm,
with an upward tendency. The feature during
the past few days has been the advance in
quartered oak. There has been a tendency
recently to use more of this wood than per-
liaps any other, unless it be poplar. Poplar
will bring today in this market almost any-
thing a dealer chooses to ask for it. The de-
mand for plain oak has not been so noticeable
during the past week or so, but it is not
dragging. No one seems to have large stocks
of It on hand, and for that reason it is not
inoving so briskly. The recent and incessant
spring rains liave served to retard logging and
sawmill operations in the country. The roads
are still impassable in many places, and this
has produced a shortage in the amount of
timber that should be coming to this market
in the spring.

Memphis.

There is very little change to report in
hardwood conditions. There Is no decrease in
the demand while there is very little If any
Increase in the amount of dry lumber avail-
able for immediate use. Buyers are having
difficulty in covering their requirements and
they are quite willing to pay full prices for
whatever is offered. On the other hand, hold-
ers, while realizing that there is some increase
in the quantity of lumber going on sticks,
understand that there is nothing that points
toward even a moderate stock of dry lumber
for some time and they are therefore indis-
posed to make concessions on what they have
on hand. Thus firmness characterizes every
item on the list.

Ash is perhaps the strongest feature, the
demand for this being so large that it cannot
be properly taken care of. Even the firms
which make a specialty of handling this wood
are having a very hard time getting all they
need for their customers. Plain oak is firm
in all grades and the same is true of quarter-
sawed stock. The scarcity of low grade gum
and cottonwood Is a feature which continues,
while the demand for both is exceptionally
large, owing to the activity in box making
circles. Tlie higher grades of these woods,
however, are finding ready sale around top
prices of the year. There are only moderate
offerings of cypress and poplar and everything

HARDWOOD RECORD

placed on sale is taken at full value and with
little loss of time. It is ttie consensus of
opinion that general market conditions, aside
from the scarcity of dry stock, were never
more favorable at this season of the year.

New Orleans.

The market here is not altogether satis-
factory and the general condition of the trade
shows the effects of the small European
demand for lumber. Exports have dwindled

MrJohnW.Woyka

Managing Director of

John Woyka & Co.

Limited

Mahogany, Timber
and Veneer Merchants

Glasgow,

Scotland

is presently on a tour through the bard-
wood centers of the States and Canada,
purchasing Hardwood Lumber.

Mr. Woyka is also selling African
Mahog&ny in the log and will be pleased
to meet or correspond with interested
parties, especially those whose manufac-
tured goods are of interest to Cabinet-
makers and Ship Builders.

Address and probable dates as follows :

Auditorium Annex, Chicago
May J St to 3rd

Frontenac Hotel, Quebec
May Uthto 12th

Murray Hill Hotel, New York
May I4th to I8th

THE GENERAL LUMBER
COMPANY

Hardwoods

HEMLOCK
YELLOW PINE

COLUMBUS, OHIO

POPLAR

Rough and Dressed

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

M. A. HAYWARD

1021 Saving and Trust Bldg., Columbus, O.

away to little or nothing, while the interior
demand is said to be less active than a fort-
night ago. The mills are still cutting a good
deal of lumber, but have been hampered in
their logging opei-ations during the last two
or three days by the heavy rain and hail
storms which were general over the state.
Prices are fair.

Louisville.

The Louisville h.irdwood market is in excellent
sliaijo. There is not only more stock being cut,
but better time is being made getting it to the
railroads and, best of all, there seems to be a
deckled improvement in the car situation. It
puts the millmen in good humor and makes addi-
tions to their order books, and of course it
makes the buyers feel better, for while they
still have to do a little shopping around, they
can now generally get what they want any time
they are ready to pay the price. There is, and
always will be, more or less dickering about
prices. On poplar it is not much trouble to get
full list, especially for dry stock, but oak prices
are always something of a bone of contention.

In addition to the good factory trade (or
hardwoods, and a splendid call for car stock,
the mills report quite a local call for struc-
tural material, bill stuff, framing and siding,
and at many of the country mills quite a nice
retail trade is being done in building material,
especially where planers and resaws have been
put in so as to enable the mill to turn out bevel
siding. Gum is getting to be quite a factor in this
trade, and there is also quite a call for resawed
coramun gum for box and crating purposes. For
that matter there is a good call for everything
on the hardwood list, which, together with the
fact that receipts are now more plentiful, gives
the trade a lively air.

Charlotte, N. C.

Local hardwood dealers declare that the price
of goods at present is all that could be expected.
There has been no material change in quota-
tions for some months, but lower prices are be-
lieved to be not far off. The fact that the con-
gested freight traffic has kept much lumber from
being brought in is one reason assigned for the
good prices that prevail. The car shortage is
being rapidly relieved and lumbermen are getting
better service than they have been able to secure
in many months. With improvement in weather
conditions and in the supply of cars, the hard-
wood men of this city do not conceal the fact
that they believe lower prices will prevail. Pop-
lar is bringing the best price of any wood just
at present. Tills is due primarily to the fact
that it is becoming so scarce.

Minneapolis.

The chief interest in the market is now
centered on contracts for the new cut. which
are being taken at a pretty lively rate. There
is very little dry stock left except birch, which
is also running low. and the low grade stuff is
well cleaned out. Mills which can get cars to
do any business at all are shipping green
stock, especially in basswood, which is active
in demand and with no dry lumber to be had.
The factory trade is not heavy, but with con-
ditions as they are it is hard enough to satisfy
dealers. Conditions are bright for the summer
in the twin cities, as the carpenters' strike
started two weeks ago has been settled and
the men are all back at work.

The yard trade is good, most of it coming
in mixed car orders. The supply of southern
stock is a little better than it has been this
spring, but delivery is still slow and uncer-
tain, and the volume of business is not wliat
it would be if there was a free supply. In
this as well as in northern stock it is not so
much a question of orders as getting the stock
and shipping.

Toledo.

Firm prices and a fair demand for the better
grades of hardwood are the features of the
local market. Ash, chestnut and oak are sell-
ing well and there is not much ot an over-
supply of any of these items. Poplar is also
a prominent feature in the market and higher
prices are expected.

Indianapolis,

In all parts of Indiana the hardwood market
is especially active at the present time. Stocks
are arriving slowly, although there seems to
be sufficient supplies on hand to fill orders
with some degree of promptness. The heavy
building and manufacturing demands are
causing a steady demand, but as yet prices
have not been raised. The shortage is prob-
ably more acute in southern than in central
and northern Indiana, but conditions in the
southern portion of the state are improving.

Liverpool.

The mahogany sales last week were without
incident and prices ruled much on the last
sales low level. The turn ot the quarter gives
an admirable opportunity of viewing the future
position of this market.

A prominent shipper is authority for the
statement that there is no more wood of any
consequence coming from the west coast and
that much higher prices will be seen at the
next sale. Of course, a statement like this
must be taken with reserve, as it is to this
shipper's interest to make a bullish report. On
the other hand, however, several things point
to higher prices. First, the high price of pop-
lar, which can be so easily faked by cabinet-
makers. Second, the cabinetmaking business
which has been so depressed here for so long,
shows signs ot improvement. And lastly, there
seems to be a growing tendency toward a better
class of wood being used by consumers. Not so
much imitating is being indulged in, as buyers
now prefer the genuine article. Having thus
weighed up the situation. It would seem wise
for buyers to cover their requirements for some
months to come, as the next sale will probably
show higher prices.

Other hardwoods are much in demand. Hick-
ory and first growth ash logs (of large size)
are wanted, and can safely be shipped in large
quantities. Second growth ash. on the other
hand, should not be shipped except on order, as
there is a large stock here.

Oak planks and boards are good stock and are
finding a ready sale. Oak logs are firm and pop-
lar logs are increasing in strength, both follow-
ing the recent rise in the price of the lumber.
Large maple logs are badly wanted, but shippers
should be careful only to ship logs suitable for
this market — anything under 22 inches in diam-
eter at small end is absolutely useless here.
Ash planks are still as before, but birch, both
logs and planks, are firmer and will probably be
higher.

London.

As is usual just before the Easter holidays,
there is no great amount of business passing,
although the arrivals have been larger during
the past fortnight, but being goods ordered on
firm contract these are going into direct con-
sumption.

In whitewood there is a good demand for all
grades at top prices, but the cull grade is arriv-
ing freely.

Plain oak boards are still in good request and
are sold immediately on arrival at fair prices ;
planks are also wanted. There seems to be
more activity in quartered boards, which have
been difficult to sell for some time past. Planks
are in good demand.

Satin walnut arrivals are small, but what
does arrive is sold at good prices. There Is an
increasing demand for good, medium and prime
grades of walnut at full prices.

38 HARDWOODRECORD

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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 oi J with adequate protectioo

your insurance but on the V/ and at least

entire line. j five years timber

There are other advantages f supply are considered

equally interesting. ^ eligible.

FOR LIST OF MEMBERS AND FURTHER INFORMATION, ADDRESS

HARRY RANKIN 4 CO. Kansas City, No.

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the advertisement.

EMPLOYES WANTED.

WANTED.

Young man abuiii 'JO ynars old. high school
education, with good hahits. who has had about
a year's experience at measuring and grading
hardwood lumber. A good opportunity for a
man who is willing to work and will be loyal.
(■- J. KKAXK. Logansport, Ind.

"" WANTED.

A head sawyer and tiler t<i saw quartered
oak for our veneer mil!. (lood position for
the right party. None other than thoroughly
experienced men in this line of work need ap
ply. MARTIN CUTSIXCEK & SONS CO..

Koachdale, Ind.

WANTED.

A live, hustling buyer and shipper of hard-
wood lumber in the south. Must ho familiar
with grading and be in touch with good mill-s.
Will give salary and commission to right man.
Address

"LrMBER." care Jacob Ilnltzman.
:U0 Laud Title P.ldg., riiiiadeiphia. I'a.

EMPLOYMENT WANTED

OFFICE POSITION WANTED.

Experienced man '.\o years of ay,e. Experi-
enced in lumber business. Expert bookkeeper
and shorthand writer. Now in Arkansas.
AVant position by .Tune 1 at $1^0 per week with
good firm. Address

"A 205." care Hardwood Record.

LUMBER WANTED

HICKORY AXLES WANTED.

L'o.o(H) feet 4x.".xr, and otlier sizes, dry or
pai'tlv di'v. Xo. 1 llii-liorv Axles.

BROOKVILLE ME"G. CO., Biooliville. Pa.

WANTED.

4-4" and 6-4" Sound Woj-m.v C'liestnnt.

4-4 Basswood and Buclie.ve.
4-4 Soutli'^rn Wliite I'ine.
Address Lumber Department.
NATIONAL I'ASICI'yr CO., Iloh

il;eu. N. ,T.

HABD MAPLE LUMBER WANTED.

2 or 3 cars ot Ists and 2nds drv 2V>".
The A. B. CHASE CO., Norwalli, Ohio.

WANTED.

Walnut logs 11" and U|) in diameter, Oali
logs 24" and up and Hiclcory logs 14" and up —
all good quality. Address

IL V. HARTZELI., Greenville, Obio.

1
1x3
111.

WANTED.

QU.\RTEnED RED OK WHITE 0.\K.

x4xll, 10J~.. 1!) & 20. lx3V-.xll. 16ii & 19,
xl4, lx2Uil4 — tor delivery at Mound City,

Qf.iETEREn Oak chair racks.
;io to G" wide, 15 and 17" long, for delivery
Port Wasliington, Wis.

THE WISCONSIN CHAIR CO..

I'ort Washington. Wis.

WANTED— DRY CYPRESS.

2x5" and wider, 8 or 16', Ists and 2nds,
selects or sound common.

AMER. LBK. & Mi'G. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

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' Isiin dried and worked to pattern. Quote
cash price f. o. b. mill.

AMEIt. LBK. & MEG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

WANTED.

1" dry log run Blacli Walnut; 2", 2i4", 2%"
and 3" green White and Red Oak; 11/2x2-26"
clear Oak or Hickory and IV'" to 4" White Ash.
McCLURE LUMBER CO., Detroit, Mich.

BASSWOOD WANTED.

A few carloads 4/4 and S/4 Northern White
Fasswood 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 I'oie stock,
clear and straight grain quality, free from ail
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.

Ail 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.

BELDINGIIALL MFG. CO., Belding, 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.

LUMBER FOR SALE.

FOR SALE.

One car 8. 4 common and iietter Hickory,
good widths and lengths in shipping condition.
W. A. NOBLE UMBER CO., Altoona, Pa.

HICKORY AXLES FOE SALE.

Five cars 4x."i -'i' No. 1 Hickory Axles ready
for shipment.

W. A. NOBLE LBR. CO., .Mtoona, Pa.

FOR SALE.

7."iii M feet Hemlock boards 4"-12" (can be
worked if desired I.

125 M feet 4,4 White Pine log run.
50 M feet 5/4 White Pine log run.
125 M feet 4 4 Chestnut sound wormy.
100 M feet 6 8 and 8/4 Chestnut log run.

75 M feet 4 4 Poplar log run.
This stock is near Bristol. Tennessee. Pre-
fer selling entire lot to one purchaser.
EMIL GUENTHEI!. 302 Pennsylvania Rld.a..
Whol. I.br. Dealer, Philadelphia, Pa.

SOFT^OEK 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.

OAK FOR SALE.

We offer to the trade the following items of
band-sawed, equalized Oak, eight months and
longer on sticks ;

White Oak.
123,000 feet 5/4 common plain.
5,000 feet 6, 4 common plain.
24.0011 feet 8/4 firsts and seconds plain.
22.00t» feet .s/4 common plain.

3,600 feet 12/4 firsts and seconds plain.
14,000 feet 16/4 firsts and seconds plain.
24,000 feet 4/4 firsts and seconds quar-

tered.

35,000 feet

20,000 feet
tered.

18,000 feet
tered strips.

24,000 feet

8,000 feet
tered.

27,000 feet
tered,

6.000 feet

190.000 feet

103,000 feet

23.1100 feet

33.1100 feet

240.000 feet

47,000 feet

14,000 feet

tered strips.

40.000 feet
Ified.

15,000 feet

12.000 feet

4/4 common quartered.
4/4 common and better

quar-

5/4 firsts and seconds quar-

5/4 common quartered oak.
6/4 firsts and seconds quar-

8/4 firsts and seconds quar-

8/4 common quartered.
Red Oak.

5/4 firsts and seconds plain.

5/4 common plain.

6/4 firsts and seconds plain.

6 '4 common plain.

S 4 firsts and seconds plain.

4/4 common quartered.

4/4 common and better quar-

6/4 firsts and seconds quar-

6/4 common quartered.

6-1 — 12" and wider firsts and
cconds niain Red and \\'hite Oak.
CIIAS. F. LUEHRMANN HDWD. I.. CO..

St. Louis. Mo.

TIMBER LANDS FOR SALE

FOR SALE.

Timber laud and mill pnipertv in Vermont.
About r.0.oOo.ooo feet standing "timber, about
40 per cent of which is hardwood, hulk being
Kirch, balance Spruce and Hemlock. 2.500.000
feet manufactured lumber. aOO.OOO feet logs.
This is a running business and can be bought
at an attractive figure.

V. J. SNOW CO., Greenfield, Mass.

FOR SALE.

SOO acres of bardwiiud timber, five miles
from the Chesapeake & Ohio Kailroad in Green-
brier county. West Virginia. Timber only
$12.50 per acre. Estimated to cut 7.500 feet
per acre, fine qualitv.

EMOKV H. SMITH, Newburg, W. Va.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

IVtAPLE FLOORING MILL

For sale. Located in Michigan and now in ac-
tive operation. This plant is modern in every
respect and making money. Will sell or take
stock in new company. Owners have large in-
terests elsewhere demanding personal attention.
Address . -MAPLK FLOORING."

rarp IlAiitiwooD Record.

MACHINERY FOR SALE

FOR SALE.

One complete 7-foot Band mill, together with
filing machinery, shotgun feed, boilers and en-
gine : all in good repair. Will sell on good
terms, or exchange for lumber. Price, $2,500.
.\lso one locomotive and logging cars. Address
D. G. COTTiTXKV. Charleston, W. Va.
FOR SALE.

Second-hand circular saws, all sizes, 10" to
68" diameter, rip and cut oft saws. Repaired
in first class condition. Cheap prices. How
manv and what sizes do tou need?

P..\R<'Tii^ SA W WORKS. Muskegon. Mich.

SAW MliiL AND STAVE MILL.

Machinerv clieap. Write for list and prices.
E. E. HE.MINGWAY, Mattoon, Wis.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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NORTHERN HARDWOODS.

Alcock, John L.. & Co 7

American Lumber & Mfg. Company.. 50
Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company.... 52

Bnbcock Lumber Company 50

Beyer. Knux & Co 59

Bliss & Van Auken 12

Boyuc City Lumber Company 54

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

Chirvls. \\. II 49

Cincinnati Hardwood Lbr. Company.. 56

Cobbs & Mitcbell. Inc 3

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Connor, R. , Company 53

Co-Op Mill and Lbr. Co 11

Crescent Lumber Company 50

Crosby & Beckley Company, The

Crosby, C. P 52

Cunimer, Digging & Co 3

Darling, Chas., & Co 11

Davis, John R., Lumber Company 52

Davis, W. A U

Dennis Bros 5?-,

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company... 55
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company... 58

Dixon & Dewey

DuLlmcier Eros 57

Dwight Lumber Company 8

Earle Lumber Company 54

Elias, G., & Bro 59

Empire Lumber Company 59

Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Company... 11
Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 55

Fall. E. H

Forn^an Company, Thomas 6

Freiberg Lumber Company, The 57

Fullertoii-rowell Hardwood Lumber

','ompariy 5

General Lumber Company, The 37

Gillespie. W. M.. Lumber Company.. 7

Goldie, J. S 54

Haak Lumber Company 41

Hackley-rhelps-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 Hardwoud Company 7

Kampf , Albert R 2

Kelley Lumber & Shingle Company. . 6

Kneeland-Bigelow Company 4s

Lesb & Matthews Lumber Company.. 11

Linehan Lumber Company 50

Litchfield, William E \\\\ 7

Lombard. E. B H

Long-Knight Lumber Company 58

Maley, Thompson & Mofifett Company 57

Martin-Barriss Company 51

Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company... 52

Maus, H. H., & Co., Inc 7

Mcllvain. J. Gibson. & Co 6

McLean. Hugh. Lumber Company 59

Miller, Anthony 59

Miller Bros H

Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Mowbray & Robinson 57

Murphy & Digging 3

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company 55

Nicola Lumber Company, The 50

Northern Lumber Company 54

North Shore Lumber Company 54

North Vernon Lumber Company 2

North Western Lumber Company 53

O'Brien, John, Land & Lumber Co. . . 10

Osburn. Norval 41

Perriue-Aimstrong 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 Company 55

Sawyer-Goodman Company 52

Scatcherd & Son 59

Schofield Bros 7

Slimmer, F., & Co 10

Soble Bros 7

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 59

-Stearns Company, The 56

Stephenson, The I., Company 32

Stewart. I. N., & Bro 59

Stewart-Roy Lumber Company 50

Stimson, J. V 58

Stone, T. B., Lumber Company 50

Sullivan, T., & Co 59

Tegge Lumber Company

Turner. A. M., Lumber Company 50

Vollmar & Below Company 52

Walnut Lumber Company, The 58

Wells, R. A.. Lumber Company 10

While Luml)er Company 10

White. W. H.. Company 54

Whitmer. Wm., & Sons, Inc 6

Wiborg & Ilanna Company 57

Wilison Bros. Lumber Company 50

Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company. 55

Wistar. Underbill & Co 7

Wylie, A. W 11

Yeager, Orson E 59

Young, W. D., & Co 12

Young & Cutsinger 58

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS.

Advance Lumber Company 51

Alcock. John L.. & Co 7

American Ildwd. Lumber Company... 49
American Lumber & Mfg. Company.. 50

Anderson-Tully Company 4

Atlantic Lumber Company 1

Beyer, Knox & Co 59

Brown, Geo. C, & Co 4S

Brown. W. P.. & Sons, Lumber Co... 2
Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company.. 59

Carrier Lumber & Mfg. Company 12

Cherry River Boom t& Lumber Co 9

Chicago Car Lumber Company 10

Chivvis. W. R 49

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co 50

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11

Co-op. Mill & Lumber Company 11

Courtney, D. G 9

Crane. C, & Co 56

Crescent Lumber Company 56

Crosby & Beckley Co., The

Cude, W. J.. Land & Lbr. Company..

Cypress Lumber Company 56

Darling. Chas., & Co H

Davidson-Benedict Company 1

Davis, W. A H

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company... 55
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company... 58

Dixon & Dewey

Duhlmeler Bros 57

Ellas. G.. & Bro 59

Empire Lumber Company, Buffalo.... 59
Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Company... 11
Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 55

Fan. E. H

Farrin-Korn Lumber Company 57

Freiberg Lumber Company, The 57

Fuller ton-Powell Hardwood Lumber

Company 5

Garetson-Greason Lumber Company. . 49

Gayoso Lumber Company

General Lumber Company, The 37

Gillespie, W. M.. Lumber Company.. 7

Haas, Albert. Lumber Company 7

Hacklcy-Plielps-Bonnell Company .... 55

Hay ward, M. A 37

HImmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co... 1
Hooton, R. A., Lulnber Company.... 11

Hoyt. C. I., & Co 58

Indiana Lumber Company 48

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

Kentucky Lumber Company 67

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 60

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company.. 11

Linehan Lumber Company 50

Litchfield. William E 7

Ix>mbard, E. B 11

Long-Knight Lumber Company 58

Love, Boyd & Co 48

LuehrmanTi, Chas. F., Hardwood Lum-
ber Company 49

Maley, Thompson & MofTett Company 57

Martin-Barriss Company 51

Massengale Lumber Company 49

Maus, H. H., & Co., Inc 7

McCauley-Saunders Lumber Company. 11

Mcllvain, J. Gibson. & Co 6

McLean-Davis Lumber Company 2

McLean, Hugh, Lumber Company. ... 69

Miller, Anthony 59

Miller Eros 11

Mosby. H. W.. & Co 8

Nicola Lumber Company, The 50

O'Brien, John. Land & Lumber Co... 10

Paepcke-Lelcht Lumber Company 4

Phila. Veneer & Lumber Company.... 6

Plummer Lumber Company 49

Price, E. E 7

Radina, L. W., & Co 57

Ransom. J. B.. & Co

Rhubesky, E. W 2

Richmond Park & Co 10

Ritter, W. M., Lumber Company 5

Rumbarger Lumber Company

Ryan & McParland 10

Scatcherd & Son 59

Schofield Bros 7

Slimmer, F., & Co 10

Smith, R. M., & Co 8

Sondheimer, E., Company 4

Southern Lumber Company 2

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 59

Stearns Company, The 56

Steele & Hibbard 49

Stewart, I. N., & Bro 59

Stimson, J. V 58

Stone, T. B.. Lumber Company 56

Sullivan. T.. & Co 59

Swann-Day Lumber Company 8

Three States Lumber Company 60

Turner, A. M.. Lumber Company 50

Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Company 49

Walnut Lumber Company, The 58

Wells, R. A.. Lumber Company 10

West Florida Hardwood Company 7

White Lumber Company 10

Whitmer. Wm., & Sons, Inc 6

Wiborg iS: Hanna Company 57

Wilison Bros. Lumber Company 50

Wood, R. E.. Lumber Company 6

Wylie, A. W H

Yeager, Orson E 59

Young tSi Cutsinger 58

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

Cude. W. J., Land & Lbr. Company..

Davidson-Benedict Company 1

Dawkins, W. H., Lumber Company.. 8

Haas, Albert, Lumber Company 7

Hayden & Westcott Lumber Company 10

Hay ward. M. A 37

Hooton. R. A., Lumber Company 11

Kentucky Lumber Company 57

•KeyesFanniu Lumber Company 41

Massengale Lumber Company 49

McLean-Davis Lumber Company 2

Rhubesky. E. W 2

Ritter, W. M., Lumber Company 5

Smith. R. M., & Co S

Southern Lumber Company 2

Stewart-Roy Lumber Company... 56

Swann-Day i^umber Company 8

Vansant. Kitchen & Co 60

Wood, k. E., Lumber Company 6

Yellow Poplar Lumber Company 60

COTTONWOOD AND GUM.

Anderson-Tully Company 4

T^arrin-Korn Lrmber Company 57

Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co. . . 1

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 60

Luehrmann, C. P., Hardwood Lumber

Company 49

Mosby. H. W., & Co 8

Paepcke-Lelcht Lumber Company 4

Sondheimer, E., Company 4

Three States Lumber Company 60

CYPRESS.

Cypress Lumber Company 56

Plummer Lumber Company 49

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 & Van Auken 12

Buffalo Maple Flooring Company, The 7

Carrier Lumber & 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 41

International Hardwood Company.... 56
Kerry & Hanson Flooring Company... 55

Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Nashville Hardwonil Flooring Company

Nichols & Cos Lumber Company 65

Stephenson, The I., Company 12

Ward Bros 12

Wilce, The T., Company 58

Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company.. 55

Wood Mosaic Flouring Company 2

Young, W. D., & Co 12

SAW MILL MACHINERY.

Garland, M. , Company

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company. 42

Mershon. W. B.. & Co 45

Phoenix Manufacturing Company 53

WOODWORKING MACHINERY.

American Wo^xl Working Machinery

Company 47

Berlin Machine Works, The

Covel Manufacturing Company

Crown Iron Works

Defiance Machine Works, The 42

Holmes, E. & B., Machinery Company 45

Matteson Manufacturing Company 41

Ober Manufacturing Company, The... 51

Sinker-Davis Company 46

Smith, H. B., Machine Company

Woods, S. A., Machine Company 46

LOGGING MACHINERY.

Clyde Iron Works 44

Lidgerwood Manufacturing Company. 45

Overpack, S. C -^^

Russel Wheel & Foundry Company... 48

DRY KILNS AND BLOWERS.

Gordon Hullnw Blast Grate Company. 42

Grand Rapids Veneer Works 48

Morton Dry Kiln Oimpany 53

New York Blower Company 42

SAWS, KNIVES AND SUPPLIES.

Atkins, E. C, & Co 44

Covel Manufacturing Company

Crown Iron Works

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 42

Hanchett Swage Works 43

Marshall, Francis 41

Matteson Manufacturing Company 41

LUMBER INSURANCE.

Adirondack Fire Insurance Company..
Lumber Insurance Company of New

York I

Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Com-

Iiany, Boston 1

Lumber Underwriters 12

Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual

Fire Insurance Company

Rankin, Harry, & Co 3S

MISCEXLANEOU&.

Chllds, S. D., & Co 41

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 42

International Felloe Mfg. Company.., 49

Lacey. James D.. & Co 43

Lumbermen's Credit Association 41

Martin & Co 51

Pennsylvania Door & Sash Company.. 7

Poole. Clark L., & Co 12

Schenck, C. A., & Co 2

HARDWOOD RECORD

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

When you have anything to Hell, or wish to
purt;huse anything in the way of

HARDWOOD LUMBER

CROSS 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.

COUNTERFEIT CHECKS

are frequent
except where
our

Two Piece
Geometrical
Barter Coin

Is in w^e, then
Imitation isn't
possihie.
Sample IC you
ask lor It.

S. D. CHILDS
4 CO.

Chicago

We also make
Time Checks,
Stencils and
Log ilammers.

Send Us Your Orders

We Have on Hand Ready for
Shipment a Nice Stock of

2'/4 Clear Maple
Flooring

ALSO OTHER SIZES AND GRADES

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.

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
ihe 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 Coileciion Department
is also operated and the same is open to you.

WRITE FOR TERMS.

Lumbermen's Credit Association

Established 1878

1405 Greal Northern Building, CHICAGO

18 Broadway. : NEW YORK CITY

MENTION THIS PAPER

A machine that declares saw mill dividends

ftjr-cife- :-^it. .fc.-.i,^ .|jx

AUTOMATIC SWING SAW flAUGE.

^ An inexpensive little device

that sai'es 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.

^ Isn't it worth investigating?

FRANCIS MARSHALL, - - Grand Rapids, Mich.

Improved
Automatic
Band Saw
Sharpener

All Machines Fully Guaranteed

CThis 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.

This represents just one type of machine. Wo 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.

HARDWOOD RECORD

"DEFIANCE" WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY

COMPLETE EQUIPMENTS OF

HIGH GRADE TOOLS

^ FOR MAKING ^

Hubs, Spokes, Wheels, Singl.: Trees, Hoops,

Wagons, Carriages, Handles, Bobbins, Spools,
Rims, Shalts, Poles, Insulator Pins and

Neck-Yokes, Oval Wood Dishes.

INVENTED AND BUILT BY

The DEFIANCE MACHINE WORKS

DEFIANCE, OHIO.
NO. 1 AUTOMATIC HUB LATHE. Send for 500 Page Catalogue

32 " AUTOMATIC SPOKE LATHE.

Works

BUCYRUS, OHIO

ESPECIALLY

Adapted for Handling Shavings, Saw°
dust and Stringy Material of All Kinds

i-piECE FAN WHEEL. "** Catalogue ^q obstructions.

58=G

We Also Make Lumber Dryers.

New York Blower Company

Main Office :

25tb Place and Stewart Avenue
CHICAGO

Do you lack steam ?

We can help you.

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co.

GREENVILLE, MICHIGAN

MANUFACTUHERS OF

THE CELEBRATED GORDON HOLLOW BLAST GRATE

("Arv Ervormovis Bla^cksmUh's Forge")

AND THE ECiU.\LI.Y

Famous "Tower" Line of Edgers and Trimmers

CO-MrUISlXG

Forty Different Sizes and Styles

Forming by far the largest and most complete line of edgers and
trimmers on tlie market.

We make a specialty of the "TOWER" 32" EDGEH, NEW
MODEL (.see cut), which is especially designed for mills cutting
not to exceed 20,000 feet in ten hours, and wliich makes a small
mill A LARGE MILL IN MINIATURE.

We Lead; Others Follow.

This Truck— The Gillette Truck— with its Roller Bearing Axle —
Unbreakable Malleable Iron Caster-Fork, Improved Stake Pockets
and general Superioritv of Construction is the Easiest Running
Truck niaile. Strongest where other trucks are weakest. Best
Truck to buy. Cheapest Truck to use. Invest money in these
trucks. Do nut waste it on others.

GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING COMPANY

Grand Rapids, Michigan

HARDWOOD RECORD

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 wor.d. 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.

JAMES D. LACEY, WOOD BEAL, VICTOR THRANE.

608 Hennen BIdg., NEW ORLEANS
1200 Old Colony Bldg., CHICAGO

LARGEST TIMBER DEALERS
IN THE WORLD

507 Lumber Exchange, SEATTLE
829 Chamber of Com., PORTLAND

Veneered Columns and SKafts

We have unequaleci facilities for perfect Veneering in
all kinds of hani woods. Our Veneering on Columns
and Shafts for Bar Fixtures, Dining Room Tables
and all kinds of Furniture will not warp, split, come
off or lose its color.

Our stock of Veneers represents the choicest cuttings
from the finest logs. Each piece is handled with the
greatest care. The strips are clipped, worked to size and
finished by the most skilled and painstaking workmen.

You cannot get more durable or more beautiful Ve-
neering than is done in our factory.

THEY

CAN NOT

COME

APART

KoH's Patent Lock Joint Colvimns

Are made in all hard woods. Veneered or Solid Stave.
Tfiey are perfect architecturally and can not come apart.

We make a hobby of executing all orders with unfail-
ing promptness.

Write today for our beautiful illustrated catalog. It's

free.

HENRY SANDERS COMPANY

900 Elston Avenue, Chica.go

^ Manchett - Hanchett ■ Hanchett ^

Hanchett
Saw Sw^age

Every one made Perfect

The Sivage 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

MANU'^ACTURED BY

Hanchett Swage Works

Big Rapids, Michigan

^ Hanchett - Hanchett - Hanchett ^

HARD^VOOD 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, Chicago,

New York City, Portland,

Memphis,

San Francisco,

Minneapolis,
Seattle,

New Orleans,
Toronto.

HARDWOOD RECORD

A Gang Ripping Macliine That Rips Straight

IMPROVED VARIABLE FEED GANG RIPPING AND STRAIGHTENING MACHINE

The IdeaLl Ma.chine for Flooring Ma.n\ifa.cturers,
Furniture Fa-ctories, Dimension Stock Producers, etc.

LET us TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT

E. 4 B. Holmes

Machinery Co.,%'

BUFFALO.
Y.

Catalogs of our full lines of Wood Working,
Cooperatie ami Ilanie Machinery for the asking

LIDGERWOOD MACHINES

WILL STOCK YOUR MILL

SKIDDERS
SNAKERS
YARDERS

LOADERS
PULL BOATS
CABLEWAYS

LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO, .M

96 Liberty St., New York.
NEW ORLEANS ATLANTA SEATTLE

'«, — - I- — ^^>

Standard
54 Inch
Band
Re-Saw

MERSHON

BAND-RESAW SPECIALISTS

25 MODELS

ADAPTED TO
EVERY REQUIREMENT

Wm. B. Mcrshon & Co., Saginaw, Mich.. D.S.A.

HARDWOOD RECORD

No. 24 C FLOORING MACHINE

A heavy, powerful, eight roll matcher particularly suited to producing, in quantity, Hard=
wood Flooring of High Finish. SPECIAL PATENTED Appliances and Attachments. Write us
and we'll tell you how we can double your output and improve the quality. ::::::

S. A. Woods Machine Co., Boston

CHICAGO

SPECIALISTS IN
FLOORERS, PLANERS AND MOULDERS

SEATTLE

THE "HOOSIER"
SELF-FEED
RIP SAW

The cut shows a front view of our Hoosier Self
Feed Rip Sawing Machine; it has a square raising
table, easily operated by a crank in front of the
machine and is always firmly locked, at any point,
thus preventing any jarring or falling down and
doing away with all clamp bolts and screws. The
machine has our patent feeding device, with two
feed shafts, one in front of the saw with a thin star
feed wheel and one in the rear with a corrugated
roll, the advantage of which can be readily seen.

This machine will rip stock 6 inches thick and
by using the saw on the outer end of the mandril
will take in stock 17i inches between guide and
saw. It can be used with a gang of saws by the
use of spacing collars on the mandril. It has no
equal in the rapid production of slats, cleats and
dimension material of all kinds. Price S175.00.

We also build the machine with a movable
saw, at a slightly higher price.

Write for Full Description.

Sinker-Davis Co.

Manufacturers of

SAW MILL MACHINERY

Indianapolis, Ind.

HARDWOOD RECORD

The KNEELAND BIGELOW CO.

MANUrACTURER.S 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 Yea.r
Arovind.

Bay City. Mich.

INDIANA LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers Lumber

DIMENSION STOCK A SPECIALTY.

Office and Mills: Corner Oldham TVT A CXJX/TT T t? T'CXTKT

Street and Cumberland River IN Aatl V ILLt, 1 ClNiN.

GEO. C. BROWN & CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Tennessee Red Cedar l,umber a Specialty.

Nash\-ille. Tennessee

DRY HARDWOODS

1.50,000 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,

44,000 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.

RUSSEL WHEEL AND FOUNDRY CO.

WE BUILD

Lo^^ing Cars

AND

Logging Machinery

Your Correspondence Solicited

DETROIT. MICHIGAN

.\LLOW US TO POINT OUT

THE ADVANTAGES OF

OUR EQUIPMENT

Wf-

TELL US YOUR WANTS
AND GET OUR PRICES

Hardwoods Dried in a Week !

Dept. D.

^Our method can be attached to .your old Kiln.
^If it does not do all we claim after being installed,
we will take it out without expense to you.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works

Grand Rapids, Mich.

HARDWOOD RECORD

c* nn

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OF

1 /'^ f T T ^

^ 1

Lr O LJ 1 ^

LARGEST

ALL HARDWOOD MARKETS

CHAS. I LDEHRMAi 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

Garetson=Greason Lumber Co.

J2J2-J3-I4 Times Building
ST. LOUIS

MANUFACTURERS

Shipments of Plain and Quartered Oak, Ash, Cypress and Gum
Lumber direct from our own mills in straight or mixed carloads.

STEELE & HIBBARD LUMBER CO.

North BrosLtlway and Dock Streets
Wholesale Manufacturers, Dealers and Shippers

ASH, CYPRESS. MAHOGANY. OAK, POPLAR, &c

Mills: Yazoo City. Miss.; McGregor, Arlj.; England, Arlt.;
Dermott, Ark. O'Hara, La.; De.xter. 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

Wantcd-to Boy or Contract (or future Delivery

500,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Poplar, all grades
600,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Cypress, all grades
500,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Ash, all grades

SsteTt^^'J PLUMMER LUMBER CO. ITs^g^M

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.

Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Co.

Manufacturers and Wliolesalers
of all kinds of

HARDWOODS

BEVELED SIDING A SPECIALTY.
UNSURPASSED FACILITIES
FOR DELIVERING.

Knoxvillc
Tennessee

American Hardwood Lumber Co*

14,000,000 ft. Hardwood Lumber

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

TVSu?" "Want and For Sale" Columns

others are Securing Results
Why Not You?

Hardwood Record

;ORPORATED

MANUFACTURERS OF STANDARD SIZE

WAGON FELLOES AND WAGON STOCK

Send your requirements and receive price. COLUJVloUb, JVII0&.

HARDWOOD RECORD

D I nn T* c: T~> f T i~y i'^m

1^11 l^UUrcvJ

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 tubmit same to ui. t t

Willson Bros* Lumber Co*

MANUFACTURERS

WEST VIRGINIA
HARDWOODS

FARMERS BANK BLDG. k PITTSBURG, PA.

sxock: list

The following list covers the hardwoods we now have on hand. Special
price f. 0. b. cars mill for all one ^ade. We would be pleased to have
you favor us with your inquiries and orders.

4 4 Maple, No. I Common 2 Cars

S/4 '' " " 2 Cars

5/4 " " " 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 1 Car

10 4 " No. 2 Common and Better 7 1, 000 Feet

12 4 " No. 1 " 1,500 Feet

12/4 " "2 " 1,000 Feet

4/4 Bassweod, Log Runm.c. o 1 car

8/4 " 1 car

DRY STOCK

Favorable Freight Rates to the East.

BABCOCK LUMBER CO.. Ashtola, Pa.

FOR SALE

POPLAB

128,000' 4/4 lsand2s
40,000' 4/4 No. 1 Com.
325,000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.
228,000' 4/4 No, 3 Com.
150,000'4/4Mill 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 OAI

60,000' 4/4 No, i Com.
18,000' 4/4 No. 2 Com.

QUABTEHED OAI
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, Pcnna.

American Lumber ^ Mfg. Co.

PITTSBURG, PA.

Hardwoods a Specialty

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.

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.

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.

HARDWOOD RECORD

CLEVELAND

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 Ojmmon 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

The Martin-Barriss Company

Importers SLnd iMsLnufacturers

MAHOGANY

&nd Fine H&rdw^ood

SYMBOLS FOR GRADE MARKS

Adopted by the Hardwood Manufacturers Association of United States

Q Panel and Wide No. 1

ZA Selects

/\ Wide No. 2

Ql^ No. 1 Common

B Box Boards

Q2^ No. 2 Common

/f FAS or Firsts and
^" Seconds
^ Saps

(3^ No. 3 Common
(^ No. 4 Common

Every Manufacturer should stamp the grade on his Lumber.
Set of 10 Rubber Stamps, V4"xll{" in size, Pad, Pint of Ink. and
Spreader, packed for shipment $3.50.

AT/\RTIN <fe CO. LEWIS DOSTER. Sec'y

191 S. Clark St., CHICAGO, or

1535 First Nal. Bank lldg. CHICAGO

HARDWOODS

Dry Stock is Scarce

Mill Shipments are Slow in Coming Forward

We therefore call attention to stock of upwcircis
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

This cut shows the 44 inch No. 2

OBER LATHE

fortuming Pick, Sledge, Hammer,
Hatchet and Double Bitted Axe
Handles, WhiiHetrees, Yokes,
Spokes, Porch Spindles, Stair
Balusters, Table and Chair Legs,
BaO 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 OBER MFG. CO., 28 Bell St., CHAGRIN FALLS, 0., U. S. A.

HARDWOOD RECORD

WISCONSIN

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

WRITE US FOR QUOTATIONS ON THE FOLLOWING:

RED BIRCH

f 300,000 ft. 1 in. No. 1 Common and Better

! 150,000 ft. 11 in. No. 1 Common and Better

^1 125,000 ft. U in. No. 1 Common and Better

(^ 100,000 ft. 2 in. No. 1 Common and Better

PLAIN BIRCH. 100,000 ft. 1 in. 1st and 2nd Clear.

HEMLOCK. 200,000 ft. 2 in. No. 3 Hemlock. 100,000 ft. 2x6 and wider No. 3 Hemlock.

Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company

Inquiries answered promptly and
orders tilled without delay.

RHINELANDER., WIS.

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.

WAUSAU, WIS.

20,000 ft. 2 in. No. 2 Common Plain Birch.
1 24,000 ft. 1 in. First and Second Red Bircli.
\ 11,460 ft. H in. Fir.st and Second Ited Birch.
4,700 ft. 2 in. First and Second Red Birch.
2,144 ft. 1 in. Curlv Birch.
2,350 ft. IJ, U and 2 inch Curlv Birch.
22,000 ft. 1 in. End Dried White Birch.
144,000 ft. 1 in. Select Pine,
f 57,000 ft. U in. No. 3 Shop and Better Pine.

19.000 ft. li in. Select Pine.
v,26,000 ft. U in. No. 1, No. 2 and No 3 Shop.

Write us for prices on hemlock.

Your

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 2i" common
and better, also Maple, Birch and one quarter sawed

RED o/\k: rlooriing

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 s 8 WISCONSIN

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

I want to sell birch, in No. 1 common & better. I have
4-4, 5-4, 8-4, and 12-4, good dry stock. Mixed cars easily
filled.

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

HARDIWOOD RECORD

NVI S C O N S I N

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

Frank Carter Co.

MANUFACTURER

Wisconsin Hardwood

SPECIALTY-HARD MAPLE

MiUs: 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.

North Western Lumber Company

MANUFACTURERS OP BAND-SAWED

Wisconsin Hardwoods

CAREFUL GRADINGS — PROMPT SHIPMENTS

General Offices. EAU CLAIRE. WIS. Mills at STANLEY, WIS.

R. CONNOR CO.

^V HOLES ALE MANUFACTURERS

Wisconsin
Hardwood

PINE AND HEM-
LOCK LUMBER

Mills at

Aiiburii<iale.Wis.,on W. C. R.R.

Slratford. Wis.,on C. & N.W.R.R.

Marshfjeld, 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 wc will
give you full particu-
lars.

Phoenix Mfg. Co.

Eau Claire, Wis.

Michigan Logging Wheels

standard
for a
Quarter
Century

Cheap and easy logg"inK.
Write for circular & prices.

S. C. OVERPACK

MANISTEE,
MICH.

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.

HARDWOOD

RECORD

I C H I

IS FOR HARD MAPL

Q A N

FAMOt

C AND GRCY E.LM

The North Shore Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS

Hardwood and Hemlock Lumber

Rail and water shipments

THOMPSON

MICHIGAN

BIRCH

WE WANT YOUR ORDERS FOR

4/4 AND 5/4 COMMON AND BETTER

A No. I STOCK

The

Earle Lumber Company

SIMMONS, MICHIGAN

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.

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,
enabhng us to fill your orders
right.

BOYNE CITY LUMBER COMPANY

BOYNE CITY

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE and other HARDWOODS

LARGE CAPACITY PROMPT SHIPMENTS RAIL OR CARGO

J. S. GOLDIE,

Cadillac. ;: Michigan.

Low Price on five cars 2J" Clear
Maple Squares, 17" to 27" long.

Correspondence Solicited on Michigan
Lumber, especially White Maple.

S. L. EASTMAN FLOORING CO.

■AQINAW BHAND

MAPLE FLOORING

SAGINAW, MICH.

You read this=

-others

will,

too.

They would

read

your

ad.

Try it.

HARDWOOD RECORD

I C H I

JS FOR RED BIRCH

AND

BASS

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 pood 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

DENISIS BROS

GRAND RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD LUMBER (by water or rail)
"NATIONAL" MAPLE & BIRCH FLOORING

SPECIAL BARGAINS IN THE FOLLOWINQ:

120M feet 4 4 Log Run Birch
12SM 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 Miciiigaa

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: OrDdorfl. W. Va., Healers W. Va.. and Parkersburg, W. Va.

HackleyPhelpsBonnell Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

Hardwood Lumber

Main Office, Michigan Truit Company Building

GRAND RAPIDS : . . . MICBIGAN

OUR SLOW METHOD 2;i^'£.?-g?^Sg

I X L POLISHED

ROCK MAPLE FLOORING

Enables us to offer you an excellent and superior product —
One which has; stood the test 20 years.

WRITE TODAY FOR PRICES AND BOOKLET

Wisconsin Land ^ Lumber Co.

Hermansville, Michigan

SALLiNQ, HANSON CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Michigan Hardwoods

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

/'^ I 1X_T i'^ ¥ IN^T 1N.T A ^TT* 1

oirNOirsrNA 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 HOUSB OF STOINE

The One ot Good Grades
Poplar, Oak, Chestnut Cottonwood, Ash, Basswood and Qum

T. B. STOINE LUMBER CO.

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 . .

CRESCENT LUMBER CO.

Manufactdeers op

% Hardwood Lumber

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 Temi., Ala. and Va.

OFFICE AND YARDS. GEST AND DALTON AVE., CINCINNATI, OHIO.

For items of Hardwood Stock or Hardwood
Machinery, you will find it advantageous to
write our advertisers. Get in touch 1

OAK FLOORING

Thoroughly Kiln Dried.
Perfectly Manufactured.
We are located in the best Oak Timber section in the

United States; have new and modem 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, Kentuclty

HARDWOOD RECORD

i"^ I 1VT /"^ ¥ IX T IX T A T^ ¥

oirNc^irsrNAT i |

THE, GATtWAY OF THE SOUTH

IN THE MARKET FOR

OAK-ASH-POPLAR

ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

MOWBRAY & ROBINSON

Office!
f219 ^est 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 l>i-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.

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 ot

Tabasco Mahogany
Walnut, OaK

Poplar, McLean and Findlay Ats.

CINCINNATI. O.

"BUY GUM"

We ore 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 thlcl£-
nesses. We receive lumber
at shipping point, pay cash
and are Jiberal in inspection.

THE FARRIN-KORN

LUMBER COMPANY

General Office, Tarda,

Planing MiUb, Dry Kilns,

Cincinnati, Ohio
Furchasing Office.

Randolph Building,

Memphis, Tenn.

Cypr«s9 Red Gum Oak

WANTED

POPLAR and GUM

SEND LIST OF DRY STOCK. WILL CONTR.-^CT FOR
MILL CTTS.

KENTUCKY LUMBER COMPANY

CINCINN.'^TI, OHIO

Hardwood Board Rules

FOP HARDWOOD LUMBERMEN

Best Goods, Prompt Shipment

Send your orders to the HARDWOOD RECORD, 355 Dearborn Street

HARDWOOD RECORD

INDIANA

WHERE THE BEST HARDWOODS GROW

J, V. Stimson

ALL KLNDS OF

HARDWOOD LUMBER

MANUFACTURED

HUNTINGBURG, IND.

D'Heur 4 Swain Lumber
Company

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS

OUR SPECIALTY

Quartered Oak and Sycamore

SEYMOUR, IND.

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 Ouni

10,000 " 4»4 1st and 2nd Plain Red Oak

10,000 " 4-4 1st and 2nd Ash

Long:=Knight Lumber Co.

INUL\NAPOLI8. INU.

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 Timbtrs

Perrine=Armstrong Co.

-Uirr WAYNE

INDIANA

Young 4 Cutsinger

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS

OUH SPECIALTY

Fine Figured Quartered Oak

E VA N S Y I L L E, INDIANA

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET

For choice lots of hardwoods.
Wahuit our specialty.
Inspection at Mill Points.

The Walnut Lumber Company

Indianapolis, Indiana

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

A floor to adore

For thirty-three years Wilce's Hardwood Floor-
ing has heen among the foremost on the market
and because it stands today "unequaled" is the
I 'est evidence that its manufacturer has kept
ahreast of modern methods and the advanced de-
mands of the trade. To convince yourself of the
above .statements, try our poHshed surface floor-
ing, totigued and grooved, hollow backed, with
matche<l ends and holes for blind nailing — you'll
hnd it reduces the expense of laying and poli.shing.
Our Booklet teih ail about H a rdzvood Flooring ayfd
hinv tu care Joy it— a/so prices — and is/ree.

The T. Wilce Company

22nd and Throop Sts. CHICAGO. ILL.

HARDWOOD RECORD

BUFFALO

THE GREAT WHOLESALE L U M B E, R 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

Bard and Soft

Red Oak

Plain and Quartered

White Oak

Plain and Quartered

Black Walnut
White Wood

Poplar

EMPIRE LUMBER COMPANY

Our specialties are PLAIN »nd QUARTERED OAK and ASH.

1142 SENECA STREET.

G. ELIAS & BROTHER

BXJY AND CARRY LARGE QUANTITIES OF ALI> KINDS OF HARDWOODS

95,'j TO 1015 ELK STREET

HUGH McLEAN LUMBER COMPANY

Specialty: INDIANA WHITE OAK

940 ELK STREiJT

ANTHONY MILLER

HARDWOODS OP 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

Specialtiei: 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,

5-8 AND 4-4

IN WIDE STOCK.

SPECIALTY

Kitchen £1

MANUFACTURERS OLD-FASHIONED

SOFT YELLOW
POPLAR

Ashland* Kentucky

Company

Three States Lumber Co.

OFFERS

1 00,000 feet 5-4 Fir^s 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

MaLnufa.c-
furers

OAK, ASH, COTTONWOOD, GUM
AND CYPRESS

MAIN OFFICE: 720 MEMPHIS TRUST BVILDING, MEMPHIS. TENN.

<-., Tk « ««•«« i Memphis, Tenrv. i\ €> * 1^* ( Well MsLnufa

Three Band Mills j 1.'^--:^!^^!'' 0"^ Specialties { ^-^ «i^tpr

Memphis, Tenrv. g\ £» i_lA* [ Well Ma.nufactured Stock

es
ipments

YELLOW POPLilR

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 Crove, Ohio, U, S. A.

HoMwoM RocoM

Twelfth Year. *
Semi-monthly, f

^ CHICAGO. MAY 10, 1907.

(Subscription $2
(Single"

Copies, 10 Cents.

ROSS LUMBER COMPANY

The Cherry People

ANYTHING IN CHERRY?

Write Us.

JAMESTOWN, N. Y.

ferfy tnatjutactared and treated tot
pri accordance with methods iev
Venty-five years' experience. ||

HIMfMEL

Throw Away Your Money

BY STICKING TO OLD LINE COMPANIES

PENNA. LUMBERMEN'S MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.

943 Drexel Building. PhilatdelpKiaL. Pa.

Rumbarger Lumber Company

Main Office: 808 Harrison Bldg., IStli and Market Sts., Pliiladelphia, Pa.
New York Office: 8018 Metropolitan Bldg., 1 Madison Avenue. Pittsburg Office: 701 Keystone Building

40 Cars 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, I", IJ", 1|" and 2", mostly No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 barn.

We are operating a tract of timber land containing considerable HoUy and Persimmon. We can ship W. Virginia spruce sizes and boards, either rough or
dressed, via any railroad.

Lumber I n s u r a n c e C o m p a n y of New York
Adirondack Fire Insurance Company
Toledo Fire 4 Marine Insurance Company

Combined Assets Over $1.000.000

Specialists in Lumber Insurance

FOR LINES AND RATES ADDRESS

Lumber Insurers' General Agency,

84-88 Williams St.,
New York City

ADVERTISERS' CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY FOLLOWS WANT AND FOR SALE ADVERTISING SECTION.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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JUCJUI^VlLrLIV

HANUFACTDRING AND DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF KENTUCKY

Dry Stock w. P. BrowR & SoHS Lumber Co.

Louisville, Ky.

PLAIN BED OAK.
65,000' 1" 1st & 2nd.
25.000' IVt" 1st & 2a.
49,000' Hi" Ut & 24.
57.000' 2" 1st & 2d.
18,000' 2%" 1st & 2d.
18,000' 3" l8t & 2d.
131,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
84,000' 114" No. 1 Com.
44,000' Hi" No. 1 Com.
47.000' 2" No. 1 Com.
8.000' 2W No. 1 Com.
15,000' 3- No. 1 Com.

QITARIEBED RED OAK.
lO.OOO' 1' 1st & 2d.

14,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.

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

7,000' H4" No. 1 Com.
13,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

PLAIN WHITE OAK,

80,000' 1" let & 2d.
28,000' 114" 1st & 2d.
12,000' IH" Ist & 2d.
42,000' 2" let & 2d.
23,800' 214- 1st & 2d.
16,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
227,000' 1- No. 1 Com.
60,000' 114" No. 1 Com.
80.000' ly,' No. 1 Com.

50,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
17,000' 2^4" No. 1 Com.
22,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

QUAKTEEED WHITE OAK.

50.000' 1" 1st & 2d.
28,000' 1>4" 1st & 2d.
45,000' IMi" 1st & 2d.
49,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
19,000' 2%" 1st & 2d.
18.000' 1" No. 1 Com.
30.000' IVi" No. 1 Com.
40,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
22,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
10,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

ASH.

0,000' 1" iBt & 2d.
65.000' m" l8t & 2d.
16,000' 1%" 1st & 2d.
10,000' 2- 1st & 2d.

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

6.000' 4" l3t & 2d.

4.000' IVt' No. 1 Com.
16.000' IMi" No. 1 Com.

8.000' 2" No. 1 Com.

POPLAB.
12,000' 1" lat & 2d.

All thicknesses In cull poplar, ash, chestnut.

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" Ist & 2d.
50,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
28,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
10,000' IVi" 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' 1%" 24" & up Ist & 2d.

Prompt delivery guaranteed

Wood-Mosaic Flooring and Lumber Co.

ALL KINDS OF

Hardwood Lumber
and Sawn Veneers

NEW ALBANY, INDIANA

Rochester, N. Y. )
Louisville, Ky. r Factories.
New Albany, Ind. )

Good Grades
Prompt Shipments
Inquiries Solicited

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.

50 CARS. ONE INCH

LOG

RUN

grade:

G. W. Jon

les Lii

imber Co.

APPLETON, WIS.

Albert R. Kampf

Manufacturer

Hardwood L,uml)er and Timber

Dimension Stock

Board ol 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, Ind.. and

Louisville, Ky.

Southern Lumber Co.

Oak, Poplar and

Chestnut.
I^ouisville, Ky.

All Lumbermen, Attention!

We do what you can't do.
We measure your stumpag:e correctly.
We make your maps correctly.
Bank references: Asheville, N. C.

C. A. Schenck ^ Co. XlX'l^^^.

HARDWOOD RECORD

ATED FOR

UIGB .

1 L

STANDARD OF

QUALITY

AND MILL

CELEBS

WORK

■Mitchell's Make— ^

CHOICE

WHITE BASSWOOD

ALL CLEAR
ALL WHITE
BONE DR.Y

End stuck in shed and just
what you want if you use
sucli stocli. 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 OFFER^INGS:

5 Cars 4 4 Hard Maple, 1st and 2nds.
3 Cars 5 4 Hard Maple 1st and 2nds.

6 Cars 5 4 Hani Mai)le, 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.

MURPHY & DIQQINS

Offtr all grades of the following special dry stock

MAPLE— 5/4. 6/4, 8, 4, 10/4, 12/4, 14/4, 16/4
CRAY ELM-4/4, 12/4
BASSWOOD— 4/4.
BIRCH-4/4, 6/4

Our own manufacture. Perfect Mill Work. Uniform Grades.
LET US nOURE 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

2 cars 10-4 firsts and seconds.
4 cars 12-4 firsts and seconds.

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

VTBITE US ABOUT IT.

COBBS&HirGHELL

(INCORPORATED)

CAPILUG. MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONNVOOD

GUM AIND OTHBR 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., Blylheville, Ark.

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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.

Offers the following specials:

50 Cars I inch No. 1 Common Cottonwood 10 Cars I 1/4 inch Is and 2s Cypress

50 Cars I 1/4 inch No. 1 Common Cottonwood 10 Cars 2 inch Is and 2s Cypress

50 Cars 1 inch No. 2 Common Cottonwood 10 Cars 1 1 /4 inch No. I Common Ash

50 Cars 1 1/4 inch No. 2 Common Cottonwood 10 Cars 1 1/2 inch No. 1 Common Ash

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.

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, TEININESSEE

FENN BROS. COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Oak Flooring

Quarterod \A/hi!t^ HoIIoia/ BacRe^d

Quartei-ed Rod End /Watched

F»lain lA/hit» Polished

F»laJn Re>d Bored

Offices si-rvd PlSLrvt :

Kansas and Mallory Ave., New South Memphis.

(Take Soulb Memphis car (o Mallory Ave.)

HARDWOOD RECORD

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.

W.M.Ritter Lumber Co.

COLUMBUS. OHIO

Saw and Ship 100,000,000 Feet Yearly

FULLERTON-POWELL

Hardwood Lumber Co.

OFFERS THE FOLLOWING STOCK
FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

15 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Quartered White Oak 10 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Red Gum, 10 to IG ft.

20 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak 7 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Red Gum, 12 ft.

10 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Plain Red Oak S cars 2 in. 1st and 2nds Sap Gum

2 cars IJ in. Plain Red Oak Step Plank 8 cars 2 in. No. 1 Common Sap Gum

1 car 1\ in. Plain Oak Step Plank 5 cars 2 in. No. 2 Common Sap Gum

4 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Plain Red Oak, 12 in. and 20 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Cottonwood, 6 in. and wider
wider -1 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common Cottonwood

BRANCH OFFICES:

/ (Quotations \ MAIN OFFICES

OHIOAGO, 1104 Chamber of Commerce | cheerfully I

MEMPHIS, TEMH.,305 Tennessee Trust BIdg. \ t ij / . C/^fl/A *f\^TIi1 T tl H

mmMEAP0US.MmH.,30B Lumber E^oHanuo \ f"™^'^^'^ / k3 OlZf/? 1^6710, ITIU,

HARDWOOD RECORD

WILLIAM WHITMER. (Si> SONS, Inc.

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET FOR STOCKS OF
WELL MANUFACTURED

HARDWOODS

BRANCHES:
NEW YORK, BOSTON, PITTSBURG

MAIN OFFICES:
GIRARD TRUST BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA

THOMAS FORMAN CO.

DETROIT, MICH.

MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH GRADE

Maple and Oak Flooring

We desire to move promptly a large quantity of

13-16x1 i" Clear Quarter Sawed White Oak Flooring.
13-16xli" Clear Plain Sawed White Oak Flooring.
13-16xli" Clear Plain Sawed Red Oak Flooring.
13-16xl|" Clear Maple Flooring.

Please w-rite us for special delivered prices on the above lots.

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 j'ou.

DIXON & DEWEY

716 and 716 A, Flatiron Building,

NEW YORK

Phila. Veneer 4 Lumber Co.

817 NORTH FIFTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

PILED ON OUR KNOXVILI.E. TENNESSEE YARD

1 car 4.4 Is and ?.s Plain Wliite Oak

6 cars 4'4 No. 1 Common Plain Wliite Oak
18 cars 4/4 No. 2 Common Plain White Oak

2 cars 8/4 No. 1 Common and Bt-tl. r Wlutn ():ik
1 car 6, 4 Common and Hi-tttr Wliiti- Oak

1 car 5, '4 Common and Bt-ttpr White Oak
i car 8 4 Common and Better White Oak

2 cars 4/4 No. 1 Common (Quartered White Oak
J car 4/4 Is and 2s Quaitereil White Oak

i car 4 4 No. 1 Common and Better Qnartered Red Oak

We also manufacture Sawed and Sliced Quartered Oak Veneers.
Can make prompt shipments.

McUvain's Lumber Notes

We have 4,000,000 feet Chestnut— some of it 12 to 15

months' old — all grades and thicknesses.
2.250.000 feet Poplar— 5/8 to 16/4, all grades.
500.000 feet choice Gulf Cypress. We can make prompt
shipments. Send in your inquiries.

Did you say White Pine? We're fixed to give you satis-
factory grades and prices. Ask for anything you waut,
special or regular, and see how well we can satisfy your
demands. More than a million feet in various grades from
Uppers and Selects to Culls.

J. Gibson McIIvain & Co.

56th (o 58th Sts. and Woodland Ave

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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lllfc tiA^l

BOSTON NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA 1

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.

MnJ- ON Apai.achicola River
MARYSVILLE, FLA.

Ash Red and White Oak Red Gum

Hickory Yellow Cottonwood Tupelo Gum

= LET US HAVE YOUR INQUIRIES =

BALTIMORE
M A R Y L A

N^o E. E. PRICE L^

U YE R AND
XPORTER OF

Hardwoods, Poplar and Logs

I am always in the market for nice lots of dry and %veil manufactured
lumber. I inspect at point of shipment. Correspondence solicited.

Pennsylvania Door & Sash Co.

HARDWOOD DOORS
AND INTERIOR FINISH

NEW YORK

PITTSBURG

PHILADELPHIA

Wantcd-Dimension Oak,Sj£SS

White and Red. Send for specifications.

IndieLiiaL Q\ia.rtered OaLk Co.

7 Eevst 42nd Street, New York City

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 marSet 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

VV/E are long on S, 4 Sound Wormy Chestnut. Send us your in-
*• quiries. Let us quote you on Plain or Quartered Whvlte and
Red Oak. Look us up.

SCHOFIELD BROTHERS

PENNA. BUILDING

LUMBER

PHILADELPHIA

Sales Agents: Long Pole Lumber Co., Case-Fowler Lumber Co.

Mills:

Honaker. Va.

Birmington, Ala.

SOBLE BROTHERS Q^t^i^^Lne

3=i::zzrnr^^^:z:irrz^:z^^ Oak, Poplar.
WHOLESALE LUMBER
Land Title Building = ■ Philadelphia. Pa.

WISTAR. UNDERBILL & CO.

PHILADELPHIA

WHOLESALE HARDWOOD LUMBER

MICHIGAN WHITE PINE
TENNESSEE WHITE PINE

HEMLOCK HARDWOODS
ALABAMA PINE

. MAUS & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS

HARDWOOD and YELLOW PINE.

Write us if you wish to buy or sell.

INC.

420 Walnut

St., . - PHILADELPHIA. PA.

W. M, GILLESPIE LUMBER

HARDWOODS COMPANY Farmers Bank BIdg.
Oak a Specialty PITTSBURQH, PA.

ALBERT HAAS LUMBER CO.

BAND SAWED

OAK AND ASH

YELLOW POPLAR

ATLANTA ... - GEORGIA

HARDWOOD RECORD

SWANN-DAY LUMBER COMPANY

CLAY CITY. KENTUCKY
OFFER

POPLAR

Bevel Siding. Drop Siding, as vv^ell as Wide Poplar

Always a Large Stock on Hand Prices are Yours for the Asking

MAY STOCK LIST

HARD MAPLE
1 in. 1.000,000 ft.
U in. 100,000 ft.
- ■ ■ 100.000 ft.

50.000 ft.

50,000 ft

li in

3 in

4 in

1 in.

1 in.
H in.

2 in.
2i in.

BEECH

100,000 ft.
BIRCH

500,000 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.

TraLverse City, Mich.

The Tegge Lumber Co.

MILWAUKEE
WI SCONSIN

BUYERS OF
ALL KINDS OF

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

DWIGHT LUMBER. COMPANY

DETR-CIT. MICHIGAN

R 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 (^ 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

PlaninK Mill; Heaters, W. Va.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Cherry River Boom and

Lumber Co.

SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA

SPECIALS:

4 4 While Oak, No. 1 CommoD
4/4 Cherry, Is and 2s

4 4 Cherry. No. 1 CommoD
4,4 Maple, Is and 2s

4/4 Maple, No. 1 Common

BAND MILLS:

RICHWOOD, WEST VIRGINIA

CAMDEN-ON-GAULEY, WEST VIRGINIA

HOLCOMB. WEST VIRGINIA

DAILY CAPACITY, ■ ■ 500,000 FEET

"THE BEST LUMBER"

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.

HARDWOOD RECORD

CHICAGO

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

In the Market

To Buy

Ash, Hickory, Poplar and Oak Lumber.
Also Wagon Stock.

W anted =^ Hardwood Logs for Our Memphis Mill

RYAN & McPARLAND

CHICAGO....MEMPHIS

Chicagfo Car Lumber Co.

PULLMAN BUILDING

CHICAGO

WE ARE IN THE MARKET FOR

Poplar, Oak, Ash and Car and R. R.
Material

Hayden & Westcott Lumber Co.

IN MARKET FOR

POPLAR

25 M ft. 3/4" Is and 2s, standard widths and lengths
30 M ft. 1-1 4" Is and 2s. stamlard widths and lengths
30 M ft. 1-1 2" Is and 2s. siaiiihud widths and lengths
30 M ft. each 2-1/2 and 4" standard widths and lengths

ROCK ELM
200 M ft. 5 4 No. 1 Common and better
SCO M ft. 8/4 Mo. 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 23

511 Railway Exchange,

Chicago

White Lumber Company

Dealers in Hardwood Lumber

ALL KINDS

Cherry Lumber a
Speciatlty

ALL GRADES

Laflin <a 22d Sts.
Chicago

John O'Brien

Land & Lumber

Co.

MANUFACTfRERS AND DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Of AU Kinds

OFFICE AND YARDS : ^^^ ^

873 to 881 So. Laflin Street 1 K 1 r a ft r»

MIL,. : PHiLiPP, MISS. ^^ n 1 c a g O

F. Slimmer S* Company

Hardwood
Lumber

Office and Yard :

65 W. Twenty-second St.

CHICAGO

PARK RICHMOND (& CO.

Wholesale

Hardwood Lumber

410 Monadnock Block

HARRISON 5165 V-UlCagO

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. I

HARDWOOD RECORD

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

McCauIey- Saunders Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

BAND SAWED
LOUISIANA GULF COAST

RED CYPRESS

Products Exclusively

5::rrr493o J 703 Fisher Bldg., CHICAGO, ILL.

CHAS. DARLING & CO.

Southern
Hardwoods

22nd Street and Center Avenue - CHICAGO

Heath Witbeck Co.

CHICAGO

HALLEY, ARK.

THEBES, ILL.

McEWEN. TENN.

WE OFEER FOR. QUICK SHIPMENT:

4 cars IJ-in. 1 and 2 Quartered Red Oak, Dry.
3 cars U-in. No. 1 Common Red Gum, Dry.
100,000 ft. 1-in. No. 2 Common Plain Oak, 1 Year Old.
\\'rite us for delivered quotations.

NUMBER- 6 MADISON STREET

The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Co.

Wholesale and Retail

Telephone
NORTH 223

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.

WANT

BUY

4/'

* R.

ED OAK
ALL

AND 4/4 SAP GUM.
G K A DES

WYLIE.

HOI

FISHER BVILDING
CHICAGO. ILLS.

R. A. HOOTON LUMBER CO.

FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING

POPLAR, OAK, CHESTNUT

PRICES AR.E YOURS FOR. THE ASKING.

J ERNEST B. LOMBARD ■

Manufacturer arvd WHolesale

Northern a.rvd Southern.
Hardwoods

RailwaLy Exchange ^ CHICAGO

W. A. DAVIS

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

i6i2 Marquette Bldg., CHICAGO
Branch Offices : PADUCAH. KY., and MEMPHIS. TENN.

CHAS. MILLEH

yniLLER BROS.

UILTON UIIXEB

HARD\A/OOD LUAIBER

MalnOffice: 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.

HARDWOOD RECORD

"Ideal" sSRocK Maple Flooring

is the flooring that is manufactured expressly to supply
the demand for the beft. 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

"m/i* « • "

Michigan Maple Flooring

Ourmodel 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 vpork and excellent grades
distinguish our Flooring and our prices are
reasonable.

WARD BROS., Big Rapids, Mich.

OAK FLOORING

KilD Dried

/;^ HABDWOOD LUMBER ^y

Polished

^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.

fl 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

FIRE INSURANCE

Specialists on Lumber and

Lumber Working

Plants

Lumber Underwriters

HOME OFFICE:

66 Broadway, New York

Just to Remind You

That we arc manufacturers of the celebrated

Wolverine Brand
Maple Flooring

** There is none better."

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CHICAGO. May 10. 1907.

No. 2!'^'^*^icm

Published on the 10th and 25th of each month by ' ^

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ASSOCIATION MEETINGS.

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 it.s amiual meeting on Tuesday
and Wednesday, May 28 and 29, at the Auditorium on the
Jamestown Exposition grounds, Norfolk, Va.

General Market Conditions.

Eeportu from the chief lumber cousiimiiig centers of the United
States, as reflected in the market reports in this issue of the Hard-
wood Eecord, indicate that there is a slight diminution in demand
for hardwoods in nearly all parts of the country. It is not of euougli
importance to warrant shading prices in the least and they are still
very firm on all varieties of woods. This condition is no exception
in the great consuming district of Chicago. Weather conditions
prevailing in the South are again very bad. There has been a
continuous fall of rain for more than a week, and a large portion
of the southern hardwood producing section is afloat. This militates
against active log supply, and it is estimated that the average saw-
mill is at least thirty days behind the output of a year ago, which
was small enough.

There seems to be no disposition on the part of either manufac-
turers or jobbers to worry in the least over trade slackening a bit,
and they feel as though they would like to have an opportunity to
catch up with business a little and get the order books fairly well
cleaned up, w'hich they have been unable to do for a long time.

In the Chicago district the furniture trade constitutes a large per-
centage of hardwood buyers and manufacturers have not had as
large a trade as they expected, hence are holding off on placing
lumber orders. This is one feature that contributes to the lessening
of the local trade. The situation is the same in Grand Eapids and
Roekford, other large furniture manufacturing centers. In the
wagon trade several associations are advising their members to sus-

pend buying, in hopes that the market will be broken and that they
will soon succeed in placing orders for less money.

As a general proposition the hardwood situation is very strong and
will remain so, even if buying falls off to a considerable extent, as
stocks in every producing section are remarkably short and there
seems no likelihood of an accumulation of a normal amount for
months to come. Buyers can bank on the prophecy of the Hardwood ,
Record that general hardwood values will not be less than they are
at the present time for a good while. . '.

Northern hardwoods are in just about as short supply as, are
southern, and there is very little dry stock of anji variety offered.
Basswood, thick maple, black ash and rock elm are exceptionally
short. There seems to be an increased call for mahogany, and (he
trade in cherry and black walnut is even better than usual. The
veneer people are as busy as ever and many orders have to be re-
turned because of inability to execute them. This is true of sawn,
sliced and rotary-cut stock, as well as of panels and other built-up
stock.

Flooring manufacturers are all remarkably busy, and these insti-
tutions are up against considerably increasing values of rough lum-
ber without a compensating increase in the price of their flooring
product. Those engaged in this line of production who are not
stumpage owners are having their margins whittled down to an un-
satisfactory basis. A marked example of this condition is oak floor-
ing, which does not command a price commensurate with the high
price of oak limiber.

Timber Supply of the United States.

The United States as a whole consumes each year between three
and four times as much wood as all its forests can produce in the
same inten'al. The average acre of forest in this country grows
about ten cubic feet annually instead of the thirty or more which
it should in order to keep pace with the drain upon it. Since the
year 1880 more than 700,000,000,000 feet of timber have been cut
for hunber alone, including SO. 000,000, 000 feet of coniferous timber
more than was estimated to be standing in the entire eoiuitry by
the census of 1880.

The Forest Service, which has just issued a circular dealing
W'ith the timber supply and with stumpage estimates as furnished by
important authorities, is sponsor for the startling statements made
in the above paragraph. A study of the document will lead to the
usual conclusion that forest products of the United States are being
consumed far too lavishly, and that the inevitable result will be a
timber famine unless the government lays a heavy hand upon such
depredations.

With regard to hardwoods, the amount of stumpage is very in-
definitely known, and is determinable only with difficulty, owing to
the scattered and uneven stands. It was estimated at some 435,-
000,000,000 feet in 1880 and at about 300,000,000,000 in 1900;
although as late as 190.5 other than government authorities placed it
at 400,000,000,000. Whatever it may be, that which is fit for the
saw is rapidly decreasing. In 1900 the hardwood cut was 8,634,000,-
000 feet; in 1904, 6,781,000,000 feet. The present annual cut of
hardwoods is estimated at about 5,000,000,000 and consists of ap-
proximately forty-three per cent oak, twelve per cent poplar, nine
per cent nmple and lesser amounts of numerous other timbers in
this class.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Lest it be assumed that the rapid depletion of forest resources is
siif5ScieTitly accounted for by the increase in population, it should
be, noted that statistics show the increase in population since 1880
to be half the increase in lumber cut during the same period. At
present but one-fifth the total forest area of the United States is
embraced in National Bcserves, the rest remaining in private hands.
The average age of trees felled for lumber this season is not less
than one hundred and fifty years, so that it is obvious the stumpage
owner must wait at least a hundred years for his land to produce
another such crop, but Americans are too strongly addicted to the
get-rich-quick habit to have patience with such investments, so that
the nation and the states individually must look toward the pro-
tection of coming generations and future industries.

Railroads and the Freight Problem.

One of the most pleasing signs of the times is the fact that the
leaders in thought and management of railroad affairs are at last
falling into line, and now seem to be willing to cooperate with the
public in correcting transportation abuses.

A notable exhibition of this spirit was manifested by Melville E.
Ingalls, chairman of the Big Four System 's board of directors, in
a speech made before the Pittsburg Traffic Club, in which he de-
clared that President Roosevelt is about the only and probably the
best friend the railroads have. He emphasized the fact that they
might as well quit fighting and submit to regulation, and said, ' ' Any
man who is not prepared to manage his railroad as a public institu-
tion in accordance with the law should resign and seek some other
business." More than three hundred prominent railroad men and
a large gathering of manufacturers and shippers listened to Mr.
Ingall's speech. This sort of spirit on the part of even a few as
prominent in railroad affairs as is Mr. Ingalls will very soon bring
about more satisfactory and certainly much more amicable relations
between the railroads and the shipping public.

Another striking evidence of this spirit of conciliation, and one
that promises to be a foremost movement in the history of trans-
portation, is the recent organization by Secretary W. G. Hollis of
a car service department for the Northwestern Lumliermen 's Associa-
tion. At a conference between members of this organization and the
railroads the former agreed to submit to the association all its
claims and complaints against the roads, which the new department
will investigate, passing over to the railroads at interest only such
claims as it deems worthy. The railroads on their part agree that
such cases, with attached evidence, shall be accepted in good faith
as the basis of adjudication. This agreement has been entered into
by all the roads centering at Minneapolis and St. Paul.

The Hardwood Buying Situation.

The struggle between jobbers and manutacturers nt hardwood
lumber goes on. The jobbers are making strenuous attempts to
buy round lots of desirable stock at a price that will leave them a
margin of profit, but manufacturers, even down to the owner of the
small ground mill, are very independent.

A feature of lumber trading that is jiarticularly in evidence at
this time is the unwillingness of manufacturers in the South and
Southwest to sell lumber on the basis of the rules of the National
Hardwood Lumber Association. Prominent St. Louis hardwood men
state to the Eecokd that the best grades of half-dry and green stock
they can secure today from manufacturers are fully 10 per cent
below National standards and that when the depreciation of re-
handling and seasoning is taken into account the grades stand fully
'20 per cent lower.

As a matter of fact, in the purchase of round lots and mill stocks
it has come about that trades are consummated on the basis of a
mutual agreement on joint inspection. If the buyer's inspector can
' ' keep house ' ' with the seller 's inspector, the shipments are made.
On the contrary, if there is a disagreement between them the trade
is off. After making one of these trades a buyer is entirely at sea
as to whether he will get the stock or not. This same condition
concerning the jiurchase of southern and southwestern stocks is

reported by jobbers at Chicago, Memphis and Cincinnati, and
doubtless prevails to a considerable extent over the entire south
country.

In Michigan and Wisconsin these conditions obtain to a very lim-
ited extent, as the greater portion of lumber sold in those sections is
shipped strictly on National As.sociation grades, or their exact equiv-
alent — those of the Wisconsin Hardwood Lumbermen 's Association.
This divergence in conditions in the North and South is perhaps ex-
plainable from the fact that the grading rules of the Hardwood Man-
ufacturers ' Association are a good deal in evidence in the latter sec-
tion, and manufacturers have learned that these grades are satis-
factory to a considerable portion of the consuming trade. There
never has been any quantity of northern lumber sold under the rules
of the Manufacturers' Association. These varying conditions are
a further argument for the unification of all hardwood inspection
rules, so that they may be made universal throughout the country.

The Time for Cutting Hickory.

As is known to the trade at large, hickory stumpage, throughout
its entire range of growth in the United States, is becoming ex-
tremely scarce. Hickory is a wood tor which thus far there has
not been found a satisfactory substitute. Its rapid diminution is
an absolute menace to the very important industry of vehicle pro-
duction, and the situation is looked upon with concern by everyone
interested in this great branch of American commerce.

The Hardwood Eecoed is in receipt of a communication from a
prominent wheel manufacturing concern of central Ohio, which sug-
gests that it would be a good idea to ask all manufacturers of hard-
wood lumber to make it a rule to saw hickory only betweeii Sep-
tember 1 and January 15. This is the best and only logical time
for the felling and sawing of this valuable timber. The writer
contends that well toward twenty per cent of the hickory now pro-
duced in the country is going to waste on account of its being sawed
too late in the spring, when the atmosphere causes checking and dis-
coloration of the wood.

The above is certainly a pertinent piece of advice, for too great
care cannot be taken in order to make the modicum of hickory
stumpage remaining last as long as possible.

States' Increasing Interest in Forestry.

It is encouraging to see that legislators of several states are wak-
ing up to the woeful forest conditions prevailing within their
boundaries, and are passing laws that will contribute materially to
the advancement of the interests of forestry. At least nine states
are now endeavoring to make the most of their timber resources and
are availing themselves of the information furnished by the Forest
Service, which has been gained by the national government through
years of experiment and investigation.

These states are New York, New Hampshire, Maryland, Wisconsin,
Missouri, California, Kentucky, Ehode Island, Delaware and to a
ccmsiderable extent Pennsylvania, Indiana and Michigan. Maine has
discovered that its chief forestry problem is the protection of cut-
over lands from fire, and a law has been enacted with the result that
the fire damage in 1906 was only about $21,000, which is less than
one-third of what it has been in former years. This state is under-
taking the utilization of the national Forest Service plans. The
states of Delaware, Kentucky and Rhode Island are of late interest-
ing themselves in forestry, and the Kentucky legislature has recently
provided for a forestry commissioner and made a small appropria-
tion for the study of the work.

Outside of its timber reserves the government can accomplish little
for individual states in forestry work save giving them the benefit
of its exhaustive experiments covering the protection of existing
forests and the regrowing of abandoned lands and depleted forest
areas to timber. The individual states must do other work very
largely for themselves, but such legislation can be passed as will make
it possible and even profitable for both states and individuals to
engage in forestry pursuits on varying scales.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Pert, Pertinent and Impertinent.

The man who wins in the fight for fame,

Who wins in the war tor gold.
The welliin rings with his lauded name

Wherever his deeds are told.
Not mine to jeer when I hear him hailed ;

I'm proud of his heart so stout —
i;\it what of the fellow who tried and failed.

The fellow that's "down and out" '.'

Down and Out.

Shall naught be said for the man who tried

The goal of his hopes to gain ;
Who faced the battle with patient pride

And fought though the fight was vain :
Whose spirit in one weak moment quailed,

Who fell at the last redoubt?
Ah. man.v a hero heart has failed —

So here's to the "down and out" !

'i'he man who wins, oh, honor him well.

And give him the praise that's due,
I!ut don't forget the other who (ell

Ere ever his dreams came true ;
Ves, honor the man whose will prevailed.

Who baffled despair and doubt —
lUit give one thought to the man who failed,

Tht' fellow that's "down and out" !

— Denis A. McCarthy.

WELCOME TO THE BOARD WALK !

Scene at Atlantic City: Tenth Annual Meeting National Hardwood Lumber Association, May 23 and 24, 1907.

•What's the Use?
Doubtless early to bed

And early to rise
Will do very well

For sicli folks and guys :
But it makes a man miss

All the fun till he dies
And joins other stiffs

Who have gone to the skies,
tio to bed when you like,

And lie at your ease —
You'll die, just the same,

1)1 some Latin disease !

Bare.

Hail to the graduating girl I
She's sweeter far than some :

For she's allowed to use no slang
And chew no chewing gum.

Canceled.

If you lend money here and there
To friends both far and wide.

When you pay nature's last great debt
They'll all be glad you've died.

— Houston Post.

No Pass.

The editor

Sat in a train
And murmured in

A tone of pain :
"Of all sad words

In times like these,
The very worst

Are 'tickets, please !' "

■Virtue.

"Virtue is not known by its exemption
from trial, but by its victory in trial."

A Bad Bep.

Many a man has been ruined by acci-
dentally getting a reputation for being a
good fellove and trying to live up to it.

Life.

The life of every man is a diary in
which he means to write one story, but in-
variably writes a far different one.

To Be Old.

Drink from when

You start to walk.
Chew from when

You start to talk.

Eat whatever

Strikes you right.
Frolic and

Stay out all night.

Be one of

The careless throng.
Wine and woman.

Rout and song.

These hundred-

Y'ear-old duffers say
That they all

Spent life that-a-way.

— HonsTOx Post.

The Little Hindoo.

Here's to the little Hindoo,
Who does all that he kin do ;

Away off there with naught to wear.
He makes his little skin do.

HARDWOOD RECORD

AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

Pin Oak.
Quercus palustris. — Mueuch.

Pin oak ranges from certain sections of
Masaschusetts, notably the Connecticut river
valley, and near Amherst, westward as far
as tlie southeastern part of Missouri; on the
south it is found along the lower Potomac
liver in Virginia, through Kentucky, north-
ern Arkansas and southeastern Indian Ter-
ritory.

Ir is known by the above name in
the states of Massachusetts, Connec-
ticut, Ehode Island, New York,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia,
Mai-yland, Arkansas, Missouri, Il-
linois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Kansas;
in Arkansas and Kansas it is called
swamp Spanish oak; in Ehode Is-
land and Illinois it is often known as
water oak; in Pennsylvania, Ohio
and Kansas as swamp oak; in Ar-
kansas as water Spanish oak.

The term pin oak is one of the
names which are used interchange-
ably for so many species of the
genus Quercus, but the subject of
this sketch, (Quercus palustris, is the
only variety to which it rightly be-
longs. The name palustyis, which is
the Latin for swampy, has been
given to the tree because of the fact
that its preferred habitat is the bor-
ders of swamps and river bottoms
where the soil is deep, rich, and
moist; while the term' "pin" is ap-
plied to it because of the appear-
ance of the tiny twigs set in its
trunk and limbs, which are so crowd-
ed together that they never develop
into anything larger. Pin oak
reaches its maximum development
and is most abundant along the rich
bottom lands of the lower Ohio and
tributary streams, while in New
England it is much less plentiful,
and is of small size.

The bark of a mature tree is dark
gray or brownish-green; it is rough,
being full of small furrows, ami
frequently cracks open and shows
the reddish inner layer of bark; on
small branches and young trunks, it
is smoother, lighter, and more lus-
trous.

The staminate flowers grow in
hairy aments two to three inches
long; the pistillate on short pedun-
cles, and have bright red stigmas.

The fruit of pin oak is a small acorn which
grows either sessile or on a very short stem;
sometimes in clusters, and sometimes singly.
In shape the acorns are nearly hemispherical,
and measure about a half inch in diameter;
they are enclosed only at the base, in a thin,
saucer-shaped cup, dark brown, and scaly.

The leaves are three to five inches long;
tlicy are simple, and alternate. They are

FIFTT-SECOXD PAPER

liroad, and have from five to nine lobes which
.■ire toothed, and bristle-tipped on the ends.
The sinuses are broad and rounded, and ex-
tend well toward the midrib, which is stout,
and from which the veins branch off con-
spicuously. In color the leaves are bright
green above and lighter below when young,
becoming thin, tirm and darker green at ma-
turity; late in autumn they turn a rich, deep

attained an average height of thirty feet,
although they were planted only about twen-
ty-five years ago. They now measure about
twelve inches in diameter, but when planted
were only an inch and a half. Frequently the
]iin oak, though tapering and symmetrical in
form when young, becomes irregular and un-
couth when old. The branches are pendulous
and are a ijrominent distinguishing mark of
the species.

Pin oak is often cultivated as an
ornamental tree in the eastern part
of the United States and in some
countries of Europe. In the city of
Washington one may see a fine ave-
nue of pin oaks on the way from the
capitol to the navy yard, which,
though very young, are already ex-
cellent shade trees. In Flushing,
Long Island, the pin oak is a favor-
ite ornamental and shade tree, and
many are the handsome specimens to
be seen there.

The wood of this tree is heavy,
hard, strong, coarse-grained, and
tuugh. The heartwood is light
brown and the sapwood nearly
white ; the medullary rays are nu-
merous and plainly marked. The
wootl is apt to cheek and warp badly
in seasoning, but is used extensively
for shingles, clapboards, cooperage,
interior finish and construction. A
cubic foot of seasoned wood weighs
about forty-three pounds.

Oak-apples are the round excres-
cences formed on the limbs by gall-
flies and their eggs. They seem par-
ticularly fond of this species and
specimens are often seen which are
literally covered "with them; the
worms which live inside seem to
flourish particularly well on the food
they imbibe from pin oak.

The photograph from which the
accomj)anying illustration was made
is among the collection of William
H. l''reeman, secretary of the Indi-
ana State Board of Forestry.

TYI'ICAL FOltEST GROWTH TIN OAK, IXDI AXA.

scarlet. They are coated below with pubes-
cense, and have large tufts of pale hairs in
the axils of the veins.

Pin oak reaches a height of from seventy
or eighty feet ordinarily, although in thick
forests it sometimes becomes 120 feet high.
In Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, there is an
avenue of handsome pin oaks which are re-
markable for their symmetry, and which have

Yate Wood.

Hecent tests of the hardwoods of
western Australia have revealed
the extraordinary properties of yate.
Its average tensile strength is 24,000
pounds to the square inch, equaling
that of cast iron. Many specimens
are much stronger, and one was
tested which showed a resistance of seventeen
and one-half tons to the square inch, which is
equal to the tensile strength of wrought iron.
The sawn timber of yate is probably the
strongest in the world. The tree grows to a
maximum height of one hundred feet, and
occasional specimens have been found which
had a diameter of two and a half or even
three feet.

JOHN WHEATLEY l_OVl

N ASM VI 1_1_E, TEN M.

SUPPLEMENT TO

HARDWOOD RECORD

MAY 10, 1907

ILLUSTRATING
BUILDERS OF LUMBER HISTO)

HARDWOOD RECORD

'Builders of Lumber History.

John Wheatley Love.

(See Portrait ISiipitlcincnt.)
The city of Nashville, Tenii., numbers
;iniong its industries some of the most im-
portant in the country today. The greatest
lit these is its hardwood lumber trade, which
is of such magnitude as to make the city
one of the foremost hardwood markets in the
United States. Its location in the heart of
the timber district of Tennessee, upon the
Cumberland river, which taps the magnificent
forests of that state and contiguous terri-
tory, makes it naturally a great operating
;nid distributing point for lumber products,
hut in addition to this the prowess, public
spirit and energy of its lumbermen-citizens
liave largely contributed to making Nashville
tlie important factor it now is in the lumber
business.

Notable among these ' ' captains of iudus-
try" is John Wheatley Love, whose portrait
his many associates and admirers in the
trade will be glad to receive at the hands of
the Hardwood Eecord.

Mr. Love was born in Nashville, April 30,
1866, of Virginia and Kentucky ancestry,
being a lineal descendant of Col. James Love,
of Revolutionary fame. He was reared in
that city and received his education iu the
public schools there. His first acquaintance
with the lumber business came when he en-
tered the employ of his kinsman, Theodore
Plummer, who then operated at Nashville un-
der the style of Sutherland & Co. This first
position was a very humble one — that of
otKce boy.

In 1886 Mr. Plummer organized the Nash-
ville Lumber Company, and gave young Love
a position with the new house under another
prominent Nashville man, M. F. Greene, of
the Davidson-Benedict Company, who was
then associated with this concern, as general
bookkeeper. Shortly after making this
change Mr. Love entered the office of the
Edgefield & Nashville Manufacturing Com-
pajiy, manufacturers of lumber and furni-
ture, as bookkeeper, but was obliged to give
up his work in 1888 on account of failing
health, which necessitated a change of cli-
n;ate. A year's sojourn in San Diego, Cal.,
proved of great benefit to him, and in 1889
he returned to act as manager for the Edge-
field & Nashville concern.

In 1890 Mr. Love decided to enter the
lumber trade on his own account, and ac-
cordingly organized the firm of J. W. Love
& Co., to do a general lumber jobbing busi-
ness. His next step was to buy out the Sootts-
ville Lumber Company, located at Scotts-
\illc, Ky., a concern which manufactured
large quantities of oak and poplar, and op-
erated several small mills. These interests
demanded that he move to Scottsville, where
he lived for five years, or until 1895, return-
ing at that time to Nashville, which he made
headquarters for the management of the

operations and the job-

NUMBEB XLIV.

Scottsville district
bing business.

In 1899 the house of Love, Boyd & Co. was
organized, with J. W. Love, his brother, Ham-
ilton Love, and John W. Boyd as principals;
some years later James D. Read was ad-
mitted to membership in the firm; all four
gentlemen are still connected with it, acting
as general manager, sales manager, timber
expert, and sawmill superintendent, respect-
ively. The company maintains a general of-
fice at Nashville, but operates largely in
Kentuck.y, having yards at Scottsville, Ky.,
Westmoreland, Hartsville, Bon Aqua and

LEAF AXD FKUIT OF TIN OAK.

Nashville, and producing about 100,000 feet
of hardwood lumber every day. This output
consists of poplar, oak, chestnut, hickory,
ash, sycamore and red cedar, with quartered
oak the specialty. The main yards are lo-
cated at Scottsville, where the company car-
ries from .5,000,000 to 10,000,000 feet of
lumber in stock at all times, and a like quan-
tity distributed among the various mill yards.
Mr. Love is president of the Nashville Tie
& Cedar Company, large handlers of red ce-
dar poles, posts, piling and railroad ties. As-
sociated with him in this enterprise are the
other members of the firm of Love, Boyd
& Co., John B. Ransom & Co., and Walter
Keith ; the two first-named concerns handle
out about 3,000 cars annually. Mr. Love is
also president and principal owner of the
Green River Coal & Coke Company of Island,
Ky., which concern produces seven to eight
hundred tons of coal daily; he is interested
in other lumber enterprises, but the indus-

tries above named require most of his atten-
tion and energy.

A concern entirely outside the lumber field,
of which Mr. Love is president, is the Mark-
land Company, Limited, of Markland, Cape
Forchu, Nova Scotia, which owns some very
valuable property in that section, which it in-
tends to develop into a seaside resort that
will be second to none. A handsome hotel
or ' ' Summer Home ' ' will be maintained, and
the company operates a safe line of steam-
ers between Yarmouth and Markland; many
other advantages are offered for building cot-
tages on the property. The promoters in-
tend to beautify the laud until, with its nat-
ural scenery, it shall be the garden spot of
Nova Scotia.

Mr. Love was married in 1891 to Miss
W^ade of Kentucky; they have three chil-
dren — Jack, Eleanor and Mary Hamilton. He
is exceedingly domestic in his tastes, and to
quote his own words, "can be found at home
most of the time," when business does not
absolutely demand his attention.

On meeting Mr. Love one is impressed with
his bright and pleasing personality, and on
better acquaintance invariably finds him to
be the embodiment of energy and integrity.
These characteristics have justly brought him
to the high position he now occupies in the
affairs of his native city, and in the confi-
dence of his fellow lumbermen the country

The Hoo-Hoo Annual.

Cliaiimau .Terome 11. Sheip of Philadelphia,
exofflcio head o£ the various committees of east-
ern Hoo-Hoo, having in charge the reception and
entertainment ot the order at Atlantic City in
September next, has notllied all committees to
start active work in the matter o£ arrangements
for the annual, which will occur Sept. 9, 10
and 11. The time intervening between the Phil-
adelphia meeting in February, at which these
committees were appointed, has been spent by
Mr. Sheip and the various committee members
in formulating general plans so that all arrange-
ments can start off right foot. Mr. Sheip has
just concluded a week's visit at Atlantic City
and reports with much pleasure that he has
secured the use of the Steel Pier at that famous
watering resort for $150. This is a big
concession. The Bureau of Publicity & In-
formation will also furnish Mr. Sheip with
5,000 booklets descriptive of Atlantic City
— its various hotels and places of inter-
est — which he will immediately distrib-
ute among the members of each Hoo-Hoo
jurisdiction. Of course, Atlantic City requires
no formal introduction in any section of the
country, as its fame is world-wide and the an-
nual will afford them an opportunity to spend a
week or two at this popular resort.

In the next thirty days the Committee on Ac-
commodations and Entertainment will meet and
pass on the Steel Pier proposition, but it prac-
tically goes without saying that the convention
will be held there. The finance and the other
general committees will proceed with their work
at once in order that plans may be pretty well
matured before the summer vacation time.

Chairman Sheip will hold another big concate-
nation in Philadelphia about the middle of May.
The enthusiasm of the eastern members of the
order for the success of the forthcoming annual
is active and it is hoped that in view of the
opportunities afforded for a good time through
both the meeting and the resort at which it will
be held there will be a large attendance of mem-
bers of the order from all sections of the coun-
try.

HARDWOOD RECORD

How Things HaVe Changed.

By VAN B. PERRINE

Out here in Indiana, sa> some thirty years ago,
When you had cut your logs all up, to Chicago p'raps you'd go,
And there you'd sell your lumber to a jobber on the spot,
Who'd clean you up — buy everything^ — ^no matter what you'd got!
He didn't care about the wood, or how the boards were made;
He had the money every time — the cash, spot down, he paid.
Of course, they had inspection rules to measure lumber by,
You read them up, you read them down; you'd try and try and try
To figure out how you were "done"^ — the more that you reflected
The plainer the solution seemed — 'twas "how it was inspected."

Next time you'd send your lumber East, most any place that way,
But soon you'd get a kick, in which commission men would say
That yard men found it graded low, but that, without a doubt,
They'd sent a bigger payment if you'd left the common out.
Next car you'd send the same old place, encouraged by such talk.
And mark the feet on every board, real plain, with nice, white chalk.
*Twas cherry lumber, clear and wide, that is, 'twas clear of knots.
But in New York they'd cull it down just for a few gum spots.
You'd ponder long on what was sent, and why it was rejected,
The sole idea your thinking brought^'twas "how it was inspected."

Next, to old Philadelphia, to Quakers good and square,
You'd send your lumber — but alas, they had inspectors there!
The man -who put his rule across your boards, so clear and wide.
Could always find a knot or two, when turned the other side;
And then a little split, you know, would sometimes longer get;
However perfect stuff you sent, they'd find a flaw, you bet.
No matter where you shipped your boards — to this town or to that —
Though measured by a Quaker man, who wore a broad=brimmed hat,
Or by a Yankee, long and lean! Of course, there's no reflection
Meant on any town or rules — 'twas "diff'rence in inspection."

INSPICCTION A'l I)K8TINATION.

INSPECTION AS SHIPPED.

Next time, you shipped to Boston town, where Yankees are so smart.

But didn't find it paid you more than any other mart,

iTho' let me say right here and now, for fear I might forget,

That Boston is a d good place to send your lumber yet.)

You shipped your product here and there, and shifted all around,^
In hopes that finally, perhaps, some market could be found
Where rules were not in use that made your meagre profit flit
By grading down a board each time for tiny knot or split;
Where worm hole merel> visible was worse than "standard knot,"
And boards that showed a little stain would "soon begin to rot."

Of course, all this I'm talking of was many years ago—

The mill man was an "easy mark," and also somewhat "slow."

Of the last attribute, 1 grant, sometimes he's still accused.

But for his "easy" traits, I'm sure he's rarely now abused.

He used to book some special bills, so mighty hard to get,

That if compelled to fill them out, he'd been a-sawing yet.

They called for lumber wide and long, the sawing quite correct.

And ended with the usual phrase — "Stock free from all defect."

For this, of course, was years ago, before the man reflected.

But now he turns them down, >ou know — he's seen a few inspected.

Of late, things have been changed a lot-— associations made —
The mill man and the dealer, too, can sell on National grade,
And ship his lumber anywhere, to North or South or West,
The question's not locality, but where the price is best.
'Tis so in case he sends it East, as every place, you know-
In old New York or down in Maine -the National grades will go.
They only want (heir money's worth — they know what grades will be>
Inspection hasn't changed so much, as any one can see,
Now, read the next line very slow, and say it with inflection.
The National grade that goes to-day's old Indiana inspection!

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Hardwood Record Mail 'Bag.

[ In this department it is proposed to reply
to such inquiries as reacli tliis otfice from the
HAKDWfMH) liEcoKD clientage as will bo of enough
general interest to warrant publication. Kvery
patron of the paper is invited to use this de-
pai'tment 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.]

Infonnation Atout Hotels.

GnAND Rapids, Mich., April 19. — Editor Haed-
wu(iD Record : Will you suggest to me the name
of a desirable hotel at Atlantic City to patronize
during the annual meeting of the National
Hai'dwood Lumber Association? I shall be ac-
companied by my wife. .

Jly wife and myself have spent a part of
each summer at Atlantic City for many years,
and have lived at many of the leading hotels.
In my opinion the Hotel Strand, located at
the end of Pennsylvania avenue, and within
one block of the Steel Pier, where the con-
vention will be held, is the best hotel for the
money in Atlantic City. It is a modern struc-
ture, the table is bountifully supplied with
well-cooked food, and the service is faultless.
The rooms, though not large, are well-fur-
nislied and immaculately clean. The rates in
tlii.s hotel for one person are from $3 to $4
per day; double rooms, $6 to $8 per day;
rooms with bath, $2 a day extra. These rates
include both rooms and meals. There is no
bar connected with this hostelry and hence
ladies are not subjected to any possible of-
fense by reason of this usual hotel append-
age. — Editor.

P. ti. There is a very good ' ' coaling sta-
tion" within a square of the Strand. I know
tlie distance because when before dinner my
wife goes to her room to primp, with the ob-
servation that she will be back in ten min-
utes, I am always able to meet her in the
ladies' parlor on time. I know I can walk a
liloek and return in six minutes, and I don 't
spend all the time walking. I '11 show you the
place, but if you can 't find me, ask Clem
Lloyd.

P. P. S. Another good feature about the
Hotel Strand is H. L. Fairbairn, its manager.
He is the easiest boniface in Atlantic City to
coax money away from, and any man who
goes to Atlantic City and don't have to get a
check cashed before he gets away is a freak.
— Editor.

Piling Wagon Stock.

Shenandoah, 1a., Hay 3. — Editor IIaiidwuuu
ItKCOHD : There has been some question in the
minds of some of our yard men as to the better
way of piling green wagon stock, wagon axles
in particular — some insisting that it is best to
pile the axles all one way, with thin crossbars
between ; others insisting that they can be piled
crosswise on each other with equally good re-
sults. Our method of piling Is to pile them
crosswise, but to elevate the outside axles about
a quarter of an inch at each end, so that the
weight of the pile is carried on the extreme
corners at all times and there is a complete
circulation of air around the axles except at
the ends where they cross the elevated ones.
I'lease give us some information through the
medium of your publication relative to your

opinion of the matter. We would also like to
know where we can dispose of short hlcliory
squares, as In our work we are able to furnish
(luilp a lot of 2-Inch stuff in squares up to 6
feci in length. ■ Company.

It is essential that wagon stock be made
ready for use with a minimum of checking,
and hence it must be seasoned slowly. There
i,s no particular choice in the way axles are
piled, between being cross-piled and put up
cm stickers. However, it is almost essential
to paint the ends of axles with heavy red
ochre or some equally good material, and that
the piles are carefully roofed and the sides
( nclosed to protect them from the sun, at the
same time leaving suflScient air space for ven-
tilation. Again, it is best to have the stock
piled well off the ground, with plenty of
air underneath the piles. If a manufacturer
has an operation for which he has a timber
supply sufficient to last a number of years,
the cheapest way to provide for seasoning the
stock is to build sheds for the purpose.

A¥e have supplied above correspondent with
names of a few hickory buyers, and any oth-
ers who can use the above described mate-
rial should 'send in their names. — Editou.

center of the chief stand of this wood is in
northern West Virginia. Of course, locust
never grows in a pure stand, but is always
intermingled with the oaks, chestnut, poplar,
etc. Anyone interested in the above inquiry,
or able to furnish the required stock, may
have the address of the writer on application
to til is office. — Editor.

Wants Glued-Up Stock and Dowels.

Wa.shini'.ton. X. .1.. May '\. — Editor H.\rd-
wouD Record : Please give us information of
lirms who make a specialty of making glued-up
stock, as we wish to get into correspondence
with them. & Co.

London, England, April 20. — Editor Hard-
wood Record : We have Inquiries for consider-
able quantities of built-up panel (3-ply) stock
in various woods, also for white birch, maple
and beech dowels, both for London and Liver-
pool, and we should feel much obliged it you
could put us into communication with likel.v
suppliers of such. If you print our inquiry In
your "mail bag" do not mention our name, but
kindly refer any inquirers to us. Yours truly,

COJIPANY.

We have supplied the above correspondents
with the names of several reliable houses
manufacturing both panel stock and dowels.
Any others wishing to communicate with
them may have the addresses on application
to this office. — Editor.

Wants to Buy Locust.

Helena, Mont., Ajpril 29. — Editor Hardwood
Record : Can you advise me of a location
where locust wood abounds in such quantity as
to admit of the purchase of 1,500 to 5,000 cords
at reasonable figures? Company.

The original center of growth of black
locust was in southern Ohio, but today, the

Wants Ash Oars.

AXTWERT, UEi.GirM. April 18. — Editor Hard-
wood Record : We should be thankful to you
If you could give us the address of some firms
making boat oars out of a.sh. & Co.

The writer has been supplied with a list of
ash oar manufacturers, but any further ad-
dresses sent in will be forwarded. — Editor.

The Financial Aspect of Forest
Management.

Dr. C. A. Sehenck of Biltmore, N. C, has
recently issued an interesting booklet on
Forest Management. Used in a limited sense
this terra deals with forest working plans
only, or the determination and regulation of
the sustained yield of timberlands. The
author believes that American forest man-
agement should be considered along broader
lines. It should determine upon the ways
and means by which the desire of the owner
relative to the use of his forest (for revenue,
timber supply, shelter, pasture, ornament,
water protection, game preserves) can best
be accomplished. In the majority of cases
the owner desires to draw from the forest
the largest possible revenue. As a conse-
quence American forest management will
have to deal usually with the various means
by which given forestal investments can be
developed in a manner producing the highest
dividends in the long run.

The rapidity of development depends upon
the owner's finauciaJ ability to make desir-
able moves at proper times.

In many instances development is possi-
ble only with the help of money borrowed

by the owner. Borrowed money frequently
proves a curse to the owner of forests after
the lapse of a few years. His policy of de-
velopment is handcuffed by the necessity of
meeting the indebtedness, year in and year
out, irrespective of market and labor con-
ditions. Forestry, in such oases, must be
destructive. It must pay the bonds as they
mature out of the substance of the forest.

Dr. Sehenck has covered the many phases
of the subject of forest management in his
usual masterly and comprehensive manner;
and, because of his thoroughly practical
demonstrations of the theories which he pro-
nuilgates, has come to be regarded as the
Solon of forestry affairs in this country.
Parts of two chapters— those on Financial
Considerations and Forestal Investments-
are herewith presented:

FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS.

Three kinds of increment compose the latent
siross revenue obtained from any wood which Is
left to itself or which is placed under forestal
care : , ,

1. The quantity increment, depending solely
on the amount of wood fibre formed.

2. Tlie quality Increment, depending solely on
the difference of price shown in the same year

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by logs of ditEerent diameters, per unit o£ con-
tents.

3. The price increment, depending solely on
the difference o£ value which the same log will
exhibit in different years. This latter increment
is influenced by increase of population and
wealth, cheapened facilities of transportation,
exhaustion of the virgin woods and declining
purchasing power of gold.

As an illustration of price increment, the fol-
lowing figures may be of interest :

Wholesale I'rices of Yellow Poplar, 4/4 Lumber,

at Biltmorc, N. C.

Qualitv. In 180U. In 1907.

I?as • .$21.00 ?:43.00 to $52.00

Saps 16.00 33.00

(^1 12.00 28.00

c' 2 6.50 10.00

The expense of production, with modern mills
and improved transportation, is as high in 1907
as it was in 1S96, viz. : $0 per 1.000 feet b.
m. Assuming that certain trees have turned
out 2."i per cent of fas, 25 per cent saps, 25 per
cent L'. 1 and 25 per cent C. 2. the stumpage
values in such trees was per J, 000 feet b. m.,

in 1896 ? 300

in 1007 ^2.00

and has increased, consequently, at the rate of
.'iO per cent (simple interest, equalling 14 per
cent of compound interest) per annum.

The increase in the value of many other for-
est products has been similarly phenomenal ;
and the question arises ; Why is the owner of
forests unwise enough to reduce this stumpage
as long as the rise continues to be pheno.menal —
in excess of any dividend deri\ able from other
investments? The answer frequently lies in
three svords : poverty, impatience, ignorance.

The enormous increase of gold production
during the last twenty years promises to con-
tinue and to become more phenomenal. The
director of the United States Mint reports (in
1904, p. 41) that the rise of wages does not act
as an automatic check to gold production, and
that the tendency of the expense of gold pro-
duction continues to be downward. The effect
of increasing gold supplies on commodity prices,
wages, land values, mortgages, bonds, etc., is
easily perceived. The owner of bonds and mort-
gage's sinks to a lower level of revenue, whilst
the owner of forests and farms remains (at
least) equally wealthy.

The question will be asked, naturally : Does it
pav to strive towards the establishment of an
■■ideal forest" . . ■ towards the establish-
ment of an impossibility ■; European foresters
are iipt to answer the question by an emphatic
■■Yes." The American forester might consider,
before answering, four points :

(1) The great variety of conditions existing in
the various sections of the various states from
which the financial prospects of conservative
forestry depend.

(2) The fact that conservatism in the forest
cannot lie expected, in the long run, to be as
remunerative in this country as it is abroad
unless the forest is rendered as safe as the
German forests from fire, taxes and whimsical
legislation.

(3) The fact that an ideal forest represents
a large investment yielding a small fate of sur-
plus revenue.

(4) The possibility that a forest now consid-
ered ■■ideal" as to rotation, composition, species,
roads and so on, is apt to be considered deficient
when the lapse of years has caused a change of
the economical conditions surrounding the for-

As long as our country develops by leaps and
bounds, as long as the immediate future of our
forests is dark, as long as other investments seem
safer, simpler, better than forestal investments,
the time has not arrived to strive toward ■'ideal
forests."

The American forester can consider the forest
only as '■so much money invested." That forest
is ideal which can be expected to yield, for a
long time and perhaps forever, a safe, steady
and" high dividend on every dollar invested. In
such a forest the various items of value (as
trees, soil, roads, sawmills) appear as proper
shares of the aggregate value.

The following may serve as an illustration :

Per acre.

Value of stumpage $ 7.75, or 77 M; per cent

Value of soil 1.00, or 10 percent

Value of roads 50, or 5 per cent

Value of sawmills 75, or 71/0 per cent

Total investment .... $10.00, or 100 per cent

The form of the ideal revenue depends on the
owner's wish. The owner may or may not prefer
an annual revenue of 40 cents per acre, obtained
without decreasing the value of the stumpage,
to a revenue of $2, exhausting the forest in a
dozen years. The owner alone can decide
whether a dividend is safe enough, steady
enough and high enough ; his decision is based,
naturally, on a comparison between forest reve-

nue and revenues obtainable from other invest-
ments. J.-, ^ 1.

The investor stakes his money on that enter-
prise in which he has the greatest confidence ;
and it is usual that the farmer puts his money
in farms- the miner in mines: the railroad man
in railroad stock ; and the lumberman in for-

The American lumberman is apt to consider
investments in forestry (be it destructive or con-
servative) as ideal investments ; outsiders are
not prone to share this view.

As long as this country abounds in merchant-
able woods, the lumberman has an easy chance,
after exhausting the stumpage on a given tract
completely, to shift his capital to another tract,
purchasing the stumpage thereon out of the
moneys obtained by his operations conducted on
the preceding tract. Usually he prefers, for
obvious reasons, the purchase of timbfr to the
purchase of the forest in fee simple. Under
such conditions, the lumberman cannot be inter-
ested in the production of a second growth, nor
in operations merely withdrawing trees working
at a small rate of revenue.

The owners of the fee simple— farmers, towns-
folk aliens — do not command any knowledge of
forest investments; having paid the taxes on
the land for a number of years without any re-
turns they embrace readily the first chance at
obtaining ''big returns." These big returns usu-
ally exceed the price by far at which the land
was bought. Nevertheless, and .iust as usually,
such ■■big returns" are a mere pittance.

The I'-orest Service of the United States has
before it an enormous task ; the task of proving
to the owners of woodlands, who are ignorant
of present and of prospective value of timber,
the advisability of conservative lumbering.

Unfortunately, there do not exist anywhere
associations of forest owners through which the
members might be enlightened.

FOKESTAL INVKSTMENTS.

In the United States, no private actlvtty hav-
inf the forest for its object (id est. any forestry
in a broad sense), is conceivable which does not
mean to result in good financial returns. Fores-
try is business, and in business there is no room
for sentiment. That forestry must be considered
best which pays best. .

Compared with other investments in realties
(e g, farms, mines, houses), forest invest-
ments show several undesirable features. They
are difficult to control ; they fail continuously to
vield annual cash dividends : they are endan-
gered bv fires and cannot be insured against de-
struction ; their products are not as absolutely
Indispensable to mankind as farm products,
mine products or the shelter of a house : subdi-
vision, joint ownership, sale in fee are difficult
to arrange ; mortgages or bonds on forests are
hard to secure, and theft of timber is hard to
prevent. , „ .

There are. on the other hand, many factors
speaking in favor of forest investments : Nota-
bly the phenomenal increase in the value of
timber brought about by an increase in popula-
tion and continuous prosperity ; the certamty
of wood production, year in and year out, with
which tires only can Interfere ; the strong possi-
bility of more extended use of wood products in
the manufacture of paper, packages, yarns, alco-
hol, sugar and food stuffs ; the tact that the for-
est stores its own products away, free of charge,
until it mav please the owner to place them
on the market ; the rapid advance in the value
of soil, etc. „ ^ , .

According to the location of the forest and in
a higher degree, according to species of trees
and age of trees, the disadvantages connected
with forest investments vary from case to case
Thev seem to weigh heavily on a second growth
which yields no dividend whatever, is seriously
endangered hv fire, contains assets of prospec-
tive value only and offers no chance at extraordi-
nary results. There exist in the United States
enormous areas covered with second growth for-
ests • What sense can there be, consequently, in
investments tending to produce still more second

^' It is obvious that (he chances of first growth
to be remunerative are, generally speaking, very
good. This first growth does not increase in
volume, the death rate of timber offsetting the
birth rate ; its increase in value, however, is
certain : heavy logs are getting scarce, and they
alone furnish lumber commanding the highest
price : the degree to which the trees are utilized
without waste increases from year to year ; the
difficulties of transportation are declining con-
tinuously. Is it to be wondered at. then, that
many investors— and notably all lumbermen-
are 'eager to invest in first growth whilst ut-
terly unwilling to stake their money on second

^"^Tlie^ question might be asked: Why are the
owners reluctant to practice "conservative lum-
bering," a modus of logging which tends to se-
cure the maximum smu total formed of net
present returns and pn.specUve values lef t '; To
take an illustration from the South: Why does
the owner insist on cutting every pine making
a log of over inches at the small end .' Why

does he refuse to leave all trees having a diam-
eter under 20 inches and yielding over seven per
cent of latent annual interest? , .

The explanation lies in the following points :
1 No seer can actually foretell the latei*
annual interest which trees of various diameters
will yield in the immediate and in the more dis-
tant "future. The forest dividend consists largely
of price increment ; the price increment of big
trees is (veneer business!) particularly good.
There is little financial advantage in the utili-
zation of big trees (if they are sound), as long
as an annual price increment of ten per cent
and more can be counted upon. A big tree hav-
ing a stumpage value of 5il2 per 1,000 feet b. m
is not mature per sc. The fine poplars, oaks and
chestnuts of the Southland must be considered
immature, since their value is absolutely sure
to increase at an annual rate of over ten per
cent. ....

The assumption of the principle is wrong, it
seems that conservative lumbering should leave
the smaller trees and remove the big trees ; or
that maturity can be determined by diameter

The owner of woodlands (and the forester)
can only venture a forecast, guessing at the
future condition of the lumber market ; big trees

have to say the least — the same chance with

small trees to be money makers. And it is nat-
ural that the owner is inclined to either remove
or to leave ull of his trees.

'' Let us suppose that the owner leaves in
the course of lumbering all trees having under
18 inches diameter representing a stumpage of
1 500 feet per acre. The reduction of the cut by
1500 feet per acre has increased the logging
expense per 1,000 feet of stumpage removed—
•m increase which can he considered only as a
new investment added to the value of 1,500 feet
per acre left.

For a number of years to come the small
trees are non-removable, since it cannot pay in
the near future to remove a handful of inferior
lumber from an acre of ground. In the mean-
time, the property must be watched and taxes
must be paid.

The owner leaving small trees embarks in a
new venture which cannot be countermanded nor
altered, for years to come, without serious loss ;
and which is subject to more serious dangers
than the old venture. .

Small trees form, prior to the removal of tne
big trees mixed with them, a tangible, mer-
chantable asset. After the removal of the big
trees, however, thev can be considered only as
an intangible asset, an asset of merely prospec-
tive value, an asset impossible to realize on.

3 After lumbering, small trees left are much
more endangered by fire, windfall, insects, fungi
than liefore lumbering. Where fires cannot be
controlled at a reasonable expense, conservative
lumbering is. under almost any circumstances,
absolutely absurd. , ,^ ■

4 The soil on which small trees are left — in
order to grow into better dimensions and in
order to act as seed trees for a third growth —
cannot be used for pasture without interference
with the object at stake.

5. Conditions may arise, before a second
growth of small trees becomes merchantable, ren-
dering the soil occupied by them valuable for
farming purposes. In that case the small trees
must he removed without any benefits accruing
to the owner from such removal.

I! The taxes on land completely stripped are
lower than the taxes on land conservatively lum-
bered. When a long number of years is required
to convert a second growth left into a mer-
chantable stand, the taxes annually paid -'ad
lalui-cm" and increasing at a compound ratio,
form a countercharge against the slowly in-
creasing value of the second growth ditticult to
countenance. . . ., ^

Considering these various points, the financier
cannot be called unwise when he prefers invest-
ments in first growth forest to those possible in
second growth. .^ ■, cj. ^ j •

Many a man in the United States and in
Canada has made a fortune by clever invest-
ments in first growth, whilst no one, prac-
tically has had a chance to show dividends ob-
tained from second growth forest ( exceptions :
farm wood lots : second growth pine in ^ ir-
gin la ) . , , J

' Under what conditions, it may be asked, can
or does conservative lumbering pay in primeval
w'oods? ^ , . . ^„^

The conditions are those under which any
business proves to be remunerative . . . be
it a liverv business, a hotel, a railroad or a
music store : that business alone can be remu-
nerative in which the parts composing the busi-
ness investments are at hand in proper propor- ■
tions ■ that business alone can he remunerative
which is established in an economically proper
site ■ that business alone can be remunerative
whicli is safe from overtaxation and — by insur-
ance or otlierwise — safe from accidental destruc-
tion of its assets.

Properly arranged within, properly arranged
without ■ 'properly insured against accidents a
business must be remunerative. Applying this
logic to conservative lumbering as a business it

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is safe to state that it must be remunerative
wliere its components are properly Ijalanced and
wliere an economic site is obtainable for its
conduct.

The components of a business investment in
conservative forestry are partly derived from
nature (natural gifts, natural powers) and
partly made by man. The natural components
are usually at hand in primeval forests — which
does not mean to say that they are at hand in
proper amounts. The components made by man
are added to those made by nature and consist,
above all, in investments permanently employed
for forest utilization.

In the case of well-stocked virgin woods, the
aggregate final investment is likely to be lower
than the original purchase price of the forest,
when the virgin forest contains a surplus of
mature timber exceeding in value the expense
required for the establishment of the essential
artificial components.

In the American forests, after the usual lum-
bering operations, very little is left of the nat-
ural components ; as a conser|uence, relatively
heavy additional investments are required (as a
rule without a chance of deriving immediate
revenue) in order to make the aggregate, in time
to come, a permanent source of revenue.

The conclusion is simple : Unless the owner,
before he begins to operate primeval woods, de-
cides to embark in conservative forestry, the
chances are slim that he will ever embark in it.

In German working plans the necessity of
ascertaining the most opportune amount of capi-
tal to be invested in forestr.v is invariably over-
looked. The explahation lies in the following:

1. The value of the growing timber and of the
soil comprises, say, ninety-five per cent of the
investment.

2. The means of transportation are already at
hand, developed at a time at which financial con-
siderations were not made in forestry.

The "period of installation" should cover as
many years as are required to obtain the proper
total and the proper composition of the forestal
investment.

It is unfortunate that the period of installa-
tion in conservative forestry must comprise a
number of years ; whilst other investments can
be fully installed in the course of a few weeks
or a few months. Whosoever has traveled in
recent years through Germany with an eye to
the forest cannot be in doubt that every state
and every county offers innumerable sites at
which conservative forestry can be conducted as
a remunerative business. Indeed, economic sites
are at hand in Germany wheresoever the trees
do not happen to occupy farming soil. Such was
not the case in Germany two hundred years ago :
and such is not the case in Russia, Canada and
the United States today. Economic sites are those
where stumpage values range high ; where natural
reproduction is easy ; where the danger of fires is
small : where the land is unfit for agriculture ;
where forest taxes are low. These conditions
prevail, particularly, in the pineries of the
coastal plains and in the hardwood forests of
the higher Appalachian region.

It must be clearly understood that these con-
ditions did not — or did not all — prevail some
twenty years ago; further, that the absence of
such conditions in the West annn 1907 does not
render conservative forestry in the West for all
times impossible. It is unfortunate, indeed, that
the majority of these conditions ari.s(es only at a
very late hour, to-wit, invariably after the gen-
eral disappearance of the primeval woods. No
man in the United States has had, so far. suffi-
cient confidence in conservative lumbering to
postpone the tapping of his primeval woods until
the "economic site" for conservative lumbering
bad locally arisen.

The man who does will never live to regret
his confidence.

NetOs Miscellany.

Pending Mercantile Tax Bill in Pennsylvania

.\bout two mouths ago twenty-tour of the
representative mercantile bodies of Philadelphia
met in the Lumbermen's Exchange rooms and
inaugurated a movement looking to the abolish-
ment of the mercantile license tax, which they
consider an objectionable one for several reasons.
An allied association was accordingly formed b.v
the various committees, with W. C. MacBride of
Ilaney-White Company as chairman and Robert
G. Kay. secretary, since which meetings have
been held at various periods, which have been
well attended by representatives of every trade
organization in the city, and the result of which
has been submitted to the committee of ways
and means in Harrisburg, impressing upon this
committee the universal opinion of the mercan-
tile bodies in Philadelphia and throughout the
state that the bill is a most obnoxious one, and
for these reasons : It requires every business
man to make public his private affairs ; it
returns to the state a too small proportion of
the amount collected : and it was instituted at
a time when the state needed the money, which
condition does not now exist. The bill has
passed a second reading before the House, and it
is believed will pass the third ; it will then go
before the Senate, where it is surmised it will
meet with some opposition.

A well attended meeting of the Allied associa-
tion was held in the rooms of the Lumbermen's
Exchange on April ."iO. at 1 :30 p. m., William C.
MacBride in the chair and Robert G. Kay, acting
secretary. It was unanimously agreed to send
representatives to appear before the senate com-
mittee having charge of this bill, and that the
chairman and secretary be authorized, in event
of the bill passing the House, to make arrange-
ments for a day to be set aside when the repre-
sentatives of this allied association could appear
and be heard on this matter.

that the cost of furniture production is greatly
increased. Not only Is this true of the lumber,
however, but of other supplies entering into fur-
niture manufacture — iron, copper, varnish, tur-
pentine, glass and glue. Oak, walnut and ma-
hogany have increased from thirty to forty per
cent, according to kind and quality, and manu-
facturers, with a few exceptions, are without
stocks on hand. Thus it is that with the in-
creased prices necessarily demanded for the fur-
niture itself, retail dealers are going very slow-
on purchases, with the result that many smaller
manufacturers will be obliged to close down
their factories for lack of orders, and this in
turn will mean that nearly 3,00U workmen will
be thrown out of employment.

New Oklahoma Hardwood House.

Announcement is made of the formation of the
.Turden-Akin Lumber Company of Muskogee,
Okla., with general offices in suite .j, Colo-
rado building.- The company is composed of
R. L. Jurden, recently with the I'enrod Walnut
& Veneer Company of Kansas City, and Benja-
min Akin, late with the K & P Lumber Com-
pany of Cincinnati. The company will manu-
facture and deal exclusively in hardwoods, mak-
ing a specialty of oak, ash and Cottonwood. It
controls considerable stumpage and a number of
mills, and announces that it will be able to give
customers prompt shipments and honest grades.

Belgian Furniture Business,

The most important industry in Belgium is
the manufacture of furniture as carried on at
Malines, writes Consul Atwell from Ghent, but
its future seems to be dubious owing to the
fact that large quantities of American lumber
are imported annually for use in this business
and prices are now reaching such a high altitude

The Grading Bules Conference,

According to plans announced in the last issue
of the RecokDj a protracted conference between
the inspection committees of the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association, the Indiana Hardwood
Lumbermen's Association, the Michigan Hard-
wood Manufacturers' Association and the Wis-
consin Hardwood Manufacturers' Association
took place in the rooms of the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association this week. The ses-
sions are still in progress as the Hardwood
Record goes to press. However, it is under-
stood that before adjournment on Wednesday
evening an agreement was reached which con-
templated recommending for adoption at the
annual meeting of the National association. May
23 and 24, rules lUnt w-ill take into consideration

both sides of a piece of lumber in its inspection ;
the injection of a new grade between firsts and
seconds and No. 1 common, to be known as
selects ; a give-and-take system of measurement
on the half-inch basis, and the admission of 15
per cent of odd lengths in all grades. The only
matter remaining unsettled for Thursday morn-
ing's session was speciflcations covering the
poorer side of Nos. 1 and 2 common. It is re-
garded as certain that the representatives of the
various associations will come to an amicable
agreement and will go to Atlantic City fully
pledged to attempt to secure the adoption of
these recommendations.

Representing the National Hardwood Lumber
Association at the conference are Theodore
Fathauer of Chicago, H. C. Humphrey of Apple-
ton. Wis., and D. F, Clark of Minneapolis. Rep-
resenting Michigan are C. A. Bigelow of Bay
City, F. A. Diggins of Cadillac, D. H, Day of
Glen Haven and R. J. Clark of Sault Ste. Marie.
Representing the Wisconsin manufacturers arc
M. J. Quinlan of Soperton, A. R. Owen of Owen,
G. E. Foster of Mellen, B. W. Davis of Phillips,
F. H. Pardee of Wausau, B. F. McMillan of Mc-
Millan, E. J. Young of Madison, J. T. Barber of
Eau Claire and Daniel Arpin of Grand Rapids.
Representing the Indiana association are C. H.
Barnaby of Greencastle and J. M. Pritchard of
Indianapolis, respectively president and secre-
tary of the organization.

Program N. H. L. A. Meeting at Atlantic
City.

Secretary Fish of the National Hardwood
Lumber .Association has made public a most
interesting program which will be carried out at
the forthcoming annual meeting of his organiza
tion at Atlantic City, May 23 and 24. It is as
follows :

THUIISD.IY, MAY 23.

11 a. m. — Reception of members and guests in
convention hall at Steel Pier.

12 noon — Opening session. Address of w-elcome
by ^layor Stoy of Atlantic City. Reports of
officers.

1 p. m. — Intermission for luncheon.

'J :3(} p. m. — Reports of standing committees by
respective chairmen. Address on ".Associate
Obligations." by Earl Palmer: on "A School
of Inspection." b.v B. C. Currie, .Tr. ; on
"Cherry Inspection," by W. L. Sikes.

.S p. m. — Smoker and entertainment for members
at Rudolph Grotto.

.S p. m. — Entertainment for ladies at Steel Pier.

FRIDAY, iJtAY 24.

it a. m. — Members will reassemble.

10 a. m. — Call to order : report of committee on
officers' reports : address on "The Wholesaler ;
Why He Is Necessary," by Robert W. Higbie :
on "Forestry." William L. Hall : on "Rivers
and Harbors," Jolin A. Fox ; introduction of
new business.

1 p. m. — Intermission for luncheon.

2 :30 p. m. — Unfinished business.

4 ;30 p. m. — Election of officers and directors.

5 :30 p. m. — Adjcuirnment.

*> p. m. — Meeting board of directors.

.S p. m. — Entertainment on Steel Pier for all.

Meeting National Lumber Manufacturers'
Association.
It should not be forgotten that the annual
meeting of the National Lumber Manufacturers'
Association will be held in the .Auditorium of
the .Jamestow-n Exposition grounds near Norfolk.
Va., on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 2S and
20. The hotel headquarters of the delegates
will be the Hotel Chamberlin, at Fortress Mon-
roe, from which point they will be transported
to the exposition grounds by steamer. Delegates
to this convention from the Hardwood Manu-
facturers' Association of the United States are
H. II. Vansant, Ashland, Ky. : John W. Love.
Xashville. Tenn. : W. M. McCormick, Phila-
delphia, Pa. : .1. W. Oakford, Scranton, Pa. ;

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Wm. Wilms, Chicago, 111. ; W. A. Giltbi-ist, Mem-
phis, Tenn. ; John B. Ransom, Nashville. Tenn.,
and Lewis Doster, secretary, Chicago, 111.

Those from the Wisconsin Hardwood Lum-
bermen's Association are F. H. Pardoe, Wausau,
Wis. ; Edw. J. Young, Madison, Wis. ; M. J.
Quinlan, Soperton, Wis. ; Geo. E. Foster, Mellen,
Wis., and A. E. Beebee, secretary, McMillan,
Wis.

All the other manufacturing lumber associa-
tions of the country affiliated with this organiza-
tion will be represented by delegates.

Building Operations for April.

isuikiing statistics from fifty-four leading cit-
ies throughout the country, officially reported to
fhe American Contractor, Chicago, and tabu-
lated show a gradual increase as the season
progresses over similar reports for the same
month in 1906, showing a widely distributed
building activity for April. In the aggregate
the gain, as compared with April, 190G, is
a trifle over 5 per cent. Twenty-six cities show
gains ranging from 6 to 199 per cent, and
twenty-eight show a loss varying from 2 to 77
per cent.

.\pril. .Vpril. I'er I'or

1SK)7. lUOU. <'ent cent

Cit.v — cost. cost. i.'alii. loss.

.\tlanta $ 395.306 .$ nOU.OT" ... :!0

BaltitQOrc 846,544 795.000 II

Bu-mingh:im 126.29G 173,200 ... 27

Bridgeport 302,910 152,300 00

Buffalo 1,086,700 l,42fl,30.-i ... 23

Chicago 5,336.950 12,139,875 ... .16

Chattauooga 05,835 103,37.". ... 7

Davenport 60,430 30.2on 12<l

Dallas 379,410 456, »so ... 16

Denver 520,995 486,07.'j 7

Detroit 1,271.400 1.438,10 1 ... 11

Dullitb 376.493 313,507 20

EvansTille 82,515 128,49ii ... :i5

rail River 61,000 286,09.". ... 77

Grand Rapids 160,664 210,077 ... 22

Harrishurg 376,515 261,7oii 44

Hartford 343,700 386.88.". ... U

ludianapolis 677,710 852,664 ... 20

Kansas Cily 1,129,995 1,424,7411 ... 20

Louisville 445.220 328.790 ys

Los Angeles 1,451.632 2,002,351 ... 27

Milwaukee 1,463.195 l,003,6(rr 46

Minneapolis 1,147.960 893.0911 2S

Memphis 482,030 451.,S39

Mobile 173,270 121,3511 42

Nashville 1.82,979 255,070 28

New HaviMi 354,935 478,219 ... 25

Newark 1,280,933 783,402 63

New Orleans 327.361 442.896 ... 26

Manhattan 12.647.223 13,275.445 ... 4

Brooklyn 9,594.513 4,828,079 9S

Bronx 2,797,420 3.157.195 ... 11

New York £5,039,158 21,260,719 17

Omaha 413,375 373,3.".5 10

Philadelphia 6,893.500 4,071.885 69

Patcrson 223.493 128.008 74

Pittsburg 1,386,142 4,226.I.S.-1 ... 67

Pueblo 17,560 20.942 ... 34

Portland 1.645.450 .550.8112 199

Rochester 786,045 657.046 19

St. Jjseph 109,280 112, OO.'. ... 2

St. Louis 2,560.447 4.450.713 ... 42

St. Paul 623.110 726,603 ... 14

San Antonio 130:693 73.845 7S

.San Francisco .... 8,615,042

Scrauton 222,110 172.575 28

.Seattle 741,999 1,074,322 ... 31

Spokane 554,380 476.043 16

South Bend 87.395 59,240 47

Syraonse 606,633 437,685 52

Toledo 339,224 388.433 ... 12

Tacoma 462,385 312,533 48

Washington 1,0IX),9SS 1,881,198 ... 4

Worcestei- 476,613 316.804 50

Wilkesbarve 270,395 411,943 ... 34

Winnipeg 1,125,250 2.072,41X1 ... 45

Total $75,947,209 $72,401,224 5

Tennessee has just been torn away to permit
the erection of a part of a modern mill plant,
which will house the business of the T. M.
Michaels Lumber & Manufacturing Company.
This firm has been using the old mill as one of
three until it was decided that its great age
made it no longer safe.

It was built by George Harris, a mill man,
also known as the author of the humorous book
"Sutt Lovingood." .lohn Craig used it for some
time, and it was long known as "Craig's saw-
mill." Later it was taken over by S. T. Atkin,
a pioneer lumber dealer and manufacturer, who
occupied it for several years. During the flood
of 1867 — a well remembered epoch to those who
lived along the Tennessee river — the old mill was
partially carried away by the tide, as was also
one of the planing machines which it contained.
It was later removed further from the river
bank and became the nucleus of the present
Michael plant, several buildings having been
placed around it, so that the original structure
could not be seen by the passer-by.

During the long and honorable history of this
old mill, great masses of woodwork have been
turned out for all sorts of building purposes —
from rough boarding and shingles to mantels
and doors. The old structure is being torn down
to make room for another more modern depart-
ment.

Filer Hardwood Lumber Company.

The Filer Hardwood Lumber Company, a
concern capitalized at $1,000,000, was organized
April IS at Detroit, Mich. The company has
acquired title to 80,000 acres of timber land in
Arkansas, consisting of ash, cypress, pine, hick-
ory and other varieties, the oak greatly predomi-
nating. This tract is said to be one of the Quest
hardwood propositions remaining in that section,
and the cruiser's estimate shows nearly 800,-
000,000 feet of standing timber. The incorpor.
ators are : Frank Filer, James E. Danaher, B.
A. Scott and F. F. Tillotson of Detroit ; Edward
L. Ueel and F. W. Clements of Springfield, Mo.,
and Sidney Tremble of the banking house of
Devitt, Tremble & Co., Chicago.

Cincinnati and to Cleveland, from 10 to 12
cents ; to Pittsburg and to Buffalo, from 12'/2
to 15 cents ; to Philadelphia, from 18 to 23
cents ; to Baltimore, from 17 to 22 cents : to
New York, from 20 to 25 cents ; to Boston, from
22 to 27 cents.

Important Timber Deal.

K. M. Smith & Co., the prominent hardwood
lumber manufacturers of Parkersburg, W. Va.,
ou April 23 completed negotiations with the
Indiana Realty Company of Indianapolis where-
by they come into possession of 20,000 acres of
timber land in Louisiana. The purchase price
was $330,000, and it is estimated that there are
about 100,000,000 feet of hardwood upon the
tract. E. M. Smith & Co. intend to clear about
1,000 acres every year, and will commence opera-
tions at once.

Old Knoxville Landmark Gone.

One of the first structures built in the city
of Knoxville and the first sawmill built in

Advance in Bates on Eastbound Freight.

It has been authoritatively stated by promi-
nent railroad men that on and after June 1.
1907, a new schedule of rates on freight going
from or through Chicago to eastern points will
be put into eft'ect, which will mean an advance
of. from ten to thirty per cent on lumber ship-
ments. Commodity rates on lumber and other
forest products have been eliminated and the
rates of Class 6 have been substituted. An ad-
vance of 1 cent in the freight rate on hardwood
lumber means that the transportation charge
will be augmented by from 40 to 60 cents, while
an increase of 5 cents a hundred is equivalent
to a difference of from $2 to $3. These ad-
vances are based on minimum weights of 4,000
pounds and maximum 6,000 pounds to the thou-
sand feet, and under this prospective classifica-
tion all forest products will be listed and
charges assessed on the basis of Class 6 rates,
with the exception of valuble cabinet woods, no
distinction being made on various kinds of
lumber.

The rate from Chicago to Toledo and to De-
troit will be advanced from 9 to 10 cents ; to

New North Caiolina Enterprise.

One of the largest real estate deals made
recently in the state was consummated at
Wilkesboro, N. C, this week, the Giant Lumber
Company, a nev/ly organized concern, purchasing
from T. E. Findley over 10,000 acres of fine
timber lands. This property contains white
pine, oak, poplar and chestnut of flue physics,
and lies at the foot and in the coves of the
Blue Ridge mountains on the Reddles river.

The lumber company is preparing to construct
a flume from the railroad at North Wilkesboro
up the river through the land. It will cost over
.fSO.noo. When the lumber is sawed at the mill
it will be floated to the railroad in this flume,
a distance of eighteen miles. At least $30,000
additional, and probably a much larger sum,
will be put in sawmills, planing mills, box
factories, etc., whicli the company will estab-
lish. Within a few weeks the company expects
to expend on the work more than $150,000. It
will bring a large number of northerners to the
section to engage in logging, cutting, fluming,
manufacturing and selling the timber on this
property.

The Giant Lumber Company Is composed of J.
M. 'Barnhardt and W. J. Palmer of Lenoir, N.
C. ; F. G. Harper of Peterson and E. P. Wharton
of Greensboro, all men of prominence and wealth.
The company will conduct a lumber, timber and
sawmill business. Mr. Barnhardt is one of the
pioneer lumbermen of the state and has been
very successful in the business. The personnel
of the company is altogether capable of making
the enterprise one of the leading concerns in
North Carolina. The capital stock is placed at
$125,000.

N, W. L. D. A. Committees.

Among other committees which President
Hastings of the National Wholesale Lumber
Dealers' Association has appointed is a hard-
wood inspection committee, of which J. V. Stim-
son of Huutingburg, Ind., is chairman, and the
other members are : J. L. Lytle, Pittsburg ; J. B.
Stark, Memphis : R. F. Kreinhedcr, Buffalo ; W.
M. Weston, Boston, and H. P. Wiborg, Cin-
cinnati. F. R. Babcock, who has served the
railroad and transportation committee as chair-
man so admirably during the past year, has
been reappointed to that office. M. P. Wheeler
of Endeavor, Pa., becomes chairman of the
forestry committee, with R. C. Lippincott as
chairman of the advisory committee to the
-Vmerican Forestry Association.

Embarrassment of Cincinnati Company.

W. A. Bennett has been appointed receiver of
the Pease Company of Cincinnati and announces
that the financial embarrassment of the Standard
Millwork Company has produced this similar
condition with the Pease Company. The cred-
itors of the Standard Millwork Company have
agreed upon a plan by which that business Is
to be continued under the supervision of a
creditor's committee. In order to protect the
interests of all creditors alike, the common pleas
court of Hamilton county has appointed Mr.
Bennett receiver of the assets of the Pease
Company, with authority to carry on the busi-
ness as a going concern pending a sale of the
property. The appointment was made on appli-
cation of C. H. I'ease, president and large stock-
holder of the company. An inventory is now in
preparation and the receiver states that he will
soon be able to make a correct statement of the
assets and liabilities.

In the light of present information Mr. Ben-
nett feels .iustlfled in making the statement that
the claims against the Pease Company will be

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paid in full and that a balance will be left to
go to the stockholders. Creditors are requested
to file their claims, duly verified, with the
receiver on or before June 28.

Change in Prominent Hardwood House.

That veteran and sterling hardwood lumber
concern, the Heath, Witbeck Company, has been
changed in its personnel by the addition of

EDWARD HEATH, CHICAGO.

Clarence Boyle, who has acquired an interest in
the company, and brought about some official
changes. C. H. Wolfe has resigned as secretary
and the officers of the company are now as
follows : Edward Heath, president and treas-
urer ; Clarence Boyle, vice president and pur-
chasing agent: C. H. Wolfe, assistant treasurer
and sales manager ; C. F. HoUe, secretary. The
general offices will be continued at Room 408-9,

C. H. WOLFE, CHICAGO.

WlUoughby building, corner of Michigan and
East Madison street, and the general assembling
yards of the company have all been consolidated
at Thebes, HI., where it carries a stock of about
15,000,000 feet. The company's specialties are
oak, gum, ash and cypress. It maintains a dry
kiln at its Thebes plant and is in a position to
ship either air or kiln dried stock, but from the
fact that it operates no planing mill guarantees

to make the shipments with the "picks all in."
Its specialty is mixed carloads for direct and
prompt shipment to the trade.

In the change of affairs of the Heath, Witbeck
Company noted, this concern takes over the stock
and business of the Evansville Lumber Company
formerly located at Evansville, Ky., and discon-
tinues entirely the Chicago yard. The indi-
viduals associated with the Heath, Witbeck
Company are almost too well known to need

CLARENCE BOYLE, CHICAGO.

recurring mention. Edward Heath has been in
the hardwood trade in Chicago for well toward
twenty years, and associated with him during
nearly all this period has been C. H. Wolfe.
Clarence Bgyle has for years been a well-known
figure in Chicago hardwood circles and Mr. Holle,
the most recent ally of this concern, was
brought up in the lumber business in Colorado,
but has served tour years' apprenticeship with

C. F. HOLLE, CHICAGO.

the Heath-Witbeck Company at its various dis-
tributing yards.

The company in addition to its large domestic
trade has an excellent foreign business and Mr.
Heath spends a part of each year in Europe.
It is his intention to sail for Liverpool about
January 1 and he will spend the greater portion
of the summer in adding to the foreign clients of
his house.

Largest Order for Boilers.

The largest order for water tube boilers ever
let by the United States government was
awarded during the closing hours of Congress to
the Atlas Engine Works of Indianapolis. It
was for the boiler equipment of the new central
power plant located in Garfield Park at Wash-
ington, which when completed is to furnish heat,
light and power for the Capitol and surrounding
buildings— the new Senate and House office build-
ings, and the Congressional Library. The pur-
chase includes sixteen high-pressure Atlas water
tube boilers of approximately 600 H. P. each
They will be erected in groups of two and will
be equipped with Roney stokers and Foster
super-heaters, necessary because of the excep-
tionally high degree superheat called for in the
special turbines to be used. Deliveries will com-
mence on August 1 and it is expected the plant
will be ready for operation by the first of the
next year. J, G. White & Co. of New York
were the government's consulting engineers on
this work.

Miscellaneous Notes.

The Bay City Colonial Porch Column Company
of Bay City, Mich., will erect a large plant there.

The Chippewa Falls Chair Company of Chip-
pewa Falls, Wis., has been formed by George
Ganser and others and will erect a new factory.

A. L. Davison of Beaver, Mo., proposes to
establish a large spoke factory at Rolla, Mo.

The Oklahoma City Desk Manufacturing Com-
pany has been incorporated at Oklahoma City,
Okla., with a capital stock of $250,000 by Alvln

0. Bowers and others.

A new furniture factory with a capital of
$25,000 has been incorporated at Allegan, Mich.,
by Fred I. Chichester and others. It is to be
known as the Allegan Furniture Company.

The Twentieth Century Casket Company of
Findlay, O., is planning to enlarge its plant.
John D. Renshler is manager.

The Cream City Casket Company of Milwau-
kee, Wis., has been incorporated by Joseph J.
Rademacher and others with a capital stock of
.?35.000.

Fire destroyed the planing mill of the Swann-
Day Lumber Company at Jackson. Ky., recently.

The Buchanan-Brewster Furniture Manufac-
turing Company of Kansas City, Mo., has been
incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000.

1. J. Buchanan is one of the incorporators.

The Smith & Nixon Piano factory at Louis-
ville, Ky., was destroyed by fire a few days ago.

The Sioux City Casket Company is erecting a
large plant at Sioux City, Iowa.

George A. Myers and others have incorporated
the Aurora Mantel Manufacturing Company at
Aurora, III., with a capital of $25,000.

G. M. Easier of Bloomfleld, 111., will erect a
factory at Jonesboro, Ark., for the purpose of
manufacturing hubs. The plant will cost about
$25,000.

The Paoli Spoke Company of Paoli, Ind., has
been incorporated with a capital of $25,000.
Ernest Stout is one of the incorporators.

The Boyertown Burial Casket Company of
Boyertown, Pa., will erect a new factory to cost
$180,000.

The Commercial Vehicle Manufacturing Com-
pany of Springfield, 111., has been incorporated
with a capital stock of $60,000 by Harry Good-
man and others.

One of the finest exhibits shown at the James-
town Exposition is that of the Virginia Mineral
& Timber Association, which was organized at
Roanoke on November 24, 1906, for the purpose
of exploiting the resources of Virginia and to
show the progression of her mineral and timber
operations. The railroad companies, the mine
owners and the timber producers joined their
efforts with those of Governor Swanson, and the
cooperation and liberal responses which have
been forthcoming have been productive of the
splendid exhibit which is now being shown.

Four carloads of maple logs were recently
shipped to Glasgow, Scotland, from Nashville,

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Micli. They will be used for rolls in large wall
paper manufacturing institutions. The design
for the paper is engraved on the maple cylinder
and the process of reproduction is similar to that
of ordinary printing.

A new and handsome imported wood, which
bids fair to be very popular tor fine cabinet
work, is the Tasmanian myrtle. It is of a rich
pinkish color, hard and close grained.

The Ked River section of Texas is shipping
considerable walnut timber to the Liverpool mar-
ket. A large quantity of the wood, purchased
from farmers iu the neighborhood, w;is shipped
from Annona last month. The Zeiglcr Saw Mill
Company of Richmond, Tex., recently shipped a
fine lot of ash timber to the Houston market.

The Lansing Veneer Company has purchased
over two carloads of black walnut from farmers
in the vicinity of Chelsea. Mich., which are be-
ing delivered to the Michigan Central for ship-
ment.

The Grand Rapids-Oregon Timber Company has
been formed at Grand Rapids, Mich., for the
purpose of dealing in timber lands. It is capi-
talized at ?S0,000. The stockholders, all of
Grand Rapids, are as follows : A. G. Dickinson,
F. I. Nichols, W. E. Cox, C. H. Walker, J. H.
Walker, J. R. Taylor, J. II. Haak, C. A. Coye,
Adrian Otte, Edward Ansorge. F. II. Nichols,
P. H. Travis, C. L. Grinnell, L. T. Wilmarth,
W. E. Gill and B. B. Luten.

Consul-General Richard Guenther of Frank-
fort, Germany, reports that near Algiers, Mo-
rocco, there is a large plantation of soap trees,
from which several thousand tons of berries are
gathered annually. This fruit is used for making
an extract which may be destined to be of great
service for domestic purposes, since it will clean
linen, silk and colored embroideries much better
than ordinary soap.

The Southwestern Lumber Company, a New
Jersey concern, has purchased 32,000 acres of
hardwood timber land in Calcasieu parish, Louis-
iana, for the sum of $271,580. The land was
the property of the Orange Land Company and
J. B. Watson.

The Virginia Timber Company has commenced
operation near Kilbourne. 111. A sawmill plant
and other necessary machinery for the manufac-
ture of hardwood lumber will be installed and
a mile of railroad track built. The company
owns 1,000 acres of timber land .along the San-
gamoif river.

The Henry Quellmalz Lumber and Manufactur-
ing Company has been formed at St. Louis, Mo.,
to manufacture and deal in wagons, woodwork,
etc., and to establish sawmills ; the capital stock
is $100,000.

The St. Louis Woodwork Manufacturing Com-
pany has been organized at St. Louis with a
capital of $10,000. The incorporators are E. P.,
E. R. and C. A. Maule.

The Pennsylvania railroad will expend in the
neighborhood of $4,000,000 for wooden cross-
ties this year.

The Straus sawmill, near Coleman, Wis., was
destroyed by fire recently, entailing a total loss
of $5,000.

The Chicago Tie and Timljer Preserviug Com-
pany has been incorporated in that city by E. E.
Gray, C. P. Tallmadge and E. Murray. It will
deal in and treat railroad ties and timber and
is capitalized at $00,000.

Nineteen girls employed in the clothes pin
department of the Oval Wood Dish Company's
plant at Traverse City, Mich., went on a strike
week before last, which necessitated shutting
down that branch of the big concern. They de-
manded a "raise" of 10 cents a day, but were
refused, although they were offered their old
positions back again at the same wages. The
girls refused to take them, however, and were
replaced by new employees.

Another buried forest has just been brought to
light near Peterborough, England. Oak trees,
which have been buried for perhaps two thousand

years, have been discovered at a depth of seven
feet. The wood is extremely hard, as is usually
the case with these buried timbers, and can
only be worked by machinery, as it turns the
edge of an ax.

The H. M. Hoskins Lumber Company of Bris-
tol, Va., which was incorporated April 4 with a
capital stock of $25,000, elected H. M. Hoskins
president, C. A. Reyburn vice-president and gen-
oral manager and F. W. Kelly secretary. The
company will erect a band sawmill of a capacity
of 25.000 feet per day and three circular saw-
mills, each of a capacity of 10,000 to 12.000 feet.
C. C. Hagemeyer of Butler, Ky., H. L. Mlckle
of Highlands, Hall Hagemeyer of Covington and
Lurancy Mickle of Highlands have incorporated
the H. L. Jlickle Lumber Company at Covington,
Ky., capitalized at $50,000.

TTie Alabama Black Locust Pin Company has
been organized at I'ort Payne, Ala., with E.
Cochran as president and J. G. Bohling as secre-
tary and treasurer. A factory has been built
and the concern is now manufacturing locust and
oak insulator pins and oak brackets.

The Nelson Lumber Company has been incor-
porated at Johnson City, Tenn., with a capital
of $50,000 by J. A. Summers, Guy L. Smith,
L. W. Missimer and others.

The Sunflower Lumber Company will establish
a sawmill at Sunflower, Ala., with a daily ca-
pacity of 20,000 feet to develop 4,000 acres of
pine and hardwood timber lands. They propose
to add a kiln and planer. C. L. Flora, formerly
of Tiffiu. O., is general manager.

The Genessee, New York, valley is a natural
black walnut belt, but the great demand for
trees for the German export trade is causing
them to be rapidly cut down. They are used
abroad for veneers, and are given a very high
polish in the construction of fine furniture. For
large black walnut trees as much as $100 has
been paid, although the price of average trees is
about $35.

The Sabino Lumber Company of Lake
Charles. La., has been formed with a capital
stock of $200,000 to saw hardwood from 16,000
acres of land recently acquired from the re-
ceiver of the Chicago-Texas Land & Lumber
Company. This land lies in the Sabine bot-
toms in the western part of the parish. With
the purchase was included a hardwood mill at
Merryville. on an extension of the Santa Fe.
The company will improve this mill and make
a specialty of quarter-sawed oak.

The Cadillac Veneer Company of Cadillac,
Mich., is now running twelve hours a day
three days in the week, and still cannot keep
up to its orders for panels. At present eighty
men are on the pay roll.

The veneer factory of Mulholland & Co. at
Sundridge. Ontario, was totally destroyed by
nre recently. The plant was valued at $16,000
and only a small portion of the loss was
covered by insurance.

The Chandlei-ville Hardwood Lumber Com-
pany of Chandlerville, 111., has decided to
move its offlces to Springfield, where it will
have quarters in the Booth Building. A large
tract of timber near Havana will be pur-
chased and the mill moved to that point as
soon as the supply of timber near its present
site is exhausted. E. A. Williams is president
of the company.

The Seamans-Kent Company of Meaford,
Ontario, is establishing <a woodworking plant
which will make sash and doors, blinds, hard-
wood flooring, etc. It will cost in the neigh-
borhood of $100,000 and will employ 100 men.
The Underwood Veneer Company, of Wau-
.sau. Wis., cut 1.250.000 feet of hardwood logs
during the last winter, in addition to the
large supplies which it purchased from others.
This will insure keeping the plant busy during
the coming summer.

The principals of the Paddock Lumber Com-
pany of Pana, 111., have returned from a trip

to Arkansas, where they purchased about
9,000 acres of fine timber land which contains
about 10,000,000 feet of hardwood and 60,000,000
of yellow pine. They will develop the prop-
erty at once, it is understood.

F. W. Teal and Felix Teal, formerly of
Owosso, Mich., but late of Baltimore, have
returned to the former place and will enter
into the manufacture of veneer. They are
experienced in this line, having been with the
Estey Manufacturing Company before its de-
struction by fire a year ago.

Of the total area of Ireland, about 1.5 per
cent is wooded. The latest return shows
301,132 acres of forests, of which 44,227 are
larch, 31,281 fir, 16.201 spruce, 3,230 pine, 22.-
536 oak, 7,521 ash, 9.533 beech, 2,756 elm,
2,613 sycamore, and 161,244 "mixed."

The name of the Kenova-Portsmouth Rim
& Spoke Company of Kenova, W. Va., manu-
facturer of ciuarter-sawed oak veneer, thin
lumber and hickory spokes, has been changed
to the Three States Manufacturing Company.
There is no change in the institution other
than in name. John T. Breece continues as
president, G. E. Breece as vice-president.
J. W. Breece as secretary, and W. W. Breece
as treasurer and manager.

Judge A. M. Post, the referee appointed by
the Nebraska Supreme Court to take testi-
mony on the alleged lumber trust in that
state, made a report recently, finding that
the Nebraska Lumber Dealers' Association, as
now maintained, is not contrary to any of
the state laws relating to trusts. The judge
made a thorough investigation, covering sev-
eral months' time, and if the Supreme Court
supports the referee the suits will of neces-
sity be dismissed.

City Forester Boddy, recently appointed to
that position by the city of Cleveland. O..
has commenced the planting of trees along
the streets. A large shipment was received
last week and planting started on both the
East and West sides. The public square
will be beautified by the addition of several
handsome specimens.

A correspondent in Bellingham, Wash.,
writes that the foreign trade shows an in-
crease of 105.000.000 feet of lumber over the
exports of 1905. The heaviest buyers were
Australia and China. The former imported
110,000.000 feet and the latter but little less.
Australia increased its importations by 47,-
000,000 feet, Siberia by 5,000,000 feet. Japan's
receipts, however, show a loss of 2.900.000
feet, and it appears that trade with that
country has passed from the hands of Pacific
coast lumbermen. Japan has invaded Man-
ohurian forests, from which it evidently in-
tends to supply its needs and those of China.
The loss of Chinese trade would be deplorable,
for it has been constantly increasing. Hawaii,
Alaska and the Philippines substantially in-
creased their imports, and the outlook for
their business continues excellent.

One of the new and progressive lumber
concerns of Wisconsin is the Blodgett-Booth
Lumber Company of Marshfield. manufacturers
and wholesalers of hardwood and hemlock.
The company was incorporated in November
last and is made up of C. E. Blodgett. presi-
dent, N. E. Blodgett and George D. Booth,
secretary and treasurer.

J. W. Romine has recently engaged in the
wholesale hardwood lumber business at
Parkersburg, W. Va., with oflices in the Citi-
zens' National Bank Building.

The Bayspring Spoke & Manufacturing
Company has been incorporated with $20,000
capital stock to engage in the manufacture
of spokes and other articles of hardwood at
Bayspring. Miss.

Tlie Forestry Commission of the province of
Quebec has planted nine million forest trees
along the Ottawa river. i

HARDWOOD RECORD

Hardwood NeWs.

(.By HABSWOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents.)

Chicago.

D. S. Hutchinson, sales manager of the Nash-
ville Ilai'dwood Flooring Company, has just
returned to Nashville from an extended sales
trip as far as the chief cities of the Pacific
coast, where he had an exceptionally good busi-
ness for the Acorn Brand of flooring.

R It. Babcock of Pittsburg, chairman of the
railroad and transportation committee of the
National Wholesale Lumber Dealers" Association,
suggests that there will likely be some advances
made by railroads on lumber rates in the near
future, and that it is advisable for every lum-
berman to protect his interests as far as possible.
He therefore thinks it would be wise in making
sales or naming prices to endorse with a rubber
stamp all such documents with the notation,
"All quotations made and orders accepted are
based on present freight rates." This notation,
he contends, will properly safeguard lumbermen's
interests and provide for proper distribution of
an increased cost of transportation. Tlie sug-
gestion of Mr, Babcock seems an eminently
wise one.

W. M. Piatt, formerly associated with W. E.
Barrett & Co., has gone into the wholesale and
commission lumber business on his own account.
His office is Room 02S, Stock Exchange, Chicago.
Mr. I'iatt is a gentleman whose business methods
have always been clean-cut : he has had con-
siderable experience in the lumber business and
his man.y friends wish him the greatest possible
success in Ills new undertaking.

The H-\RDW00D Record had a call a few days
ago from E. A. Armstrong, the well-known hard-
wood salesman of Kokomo, Ind.

A. F. Anderson, the hardwood operator of
Cadillac, Mich., dropped into the Hardwood
Record office last week on his way home from an
extended Pacific coast trip. Mr. .\nderson has
been engaged for some time in rounding out a
large timber purchase in Oregon, and has now
secured about 10,000 acres. He has three or
four years' more cut of hardwoods in the
Cadillac district, after which he expects to
remove to the coast and enter lumber operations
there. On his recent trip Mr. Anderson was
accompanied by his family.

W. A. Gilchrist of the Three States Lumber
Company of Memphis was registered at the
Annex May 8.

Among the Chicago visitors within the last
few days were C. A. Gilbert and Arthur Boutell
of tlie Saginaw Manufacturing Company' of
Saginaw, Mich., the foremost makers of wood
split pulleys.

A^'. A. McLean of the Wood Mosaic Flooring
& Lumber Company, New Albany, Ind., was in
town Wednesday.

Pliss & Van -\uken of Saginaw, the well-known
producers of the Wolverine Brand of maple floor-
ing, have sent monthly calendars out as an
.advertising medium for several years. This
season they portray the Teddy bears in various
exploits, and make unique and attractive adver-
tising mediums.

A few days ago the ILvrdwood Record had
the pleasure of a call from John W. Woyka of
John W. Woyka & Co. of Glasgow, Scotland, who
is making an extended trip throughout the
I'nited States and Canada, not only making
direct purchases of lumber for his Scottish trade,
which includes many varieties of hard and soft
woods, but has also purchased high-class veneers
extensively. Mr. Woyka also is marketing in
this country maliogany logs and lumber and
incidentally is introducing to the jobbing trade a
three-ply veneer made of alder wood which his
house produces in Russia. The wood has the
.general appearance of basswood, but is almost as
dense and strong as birch. This three-ply stock
is cemented together with waterproof material
and is an excellent piece of laminated work. It
is particularly well suited to drawer backs and
bottoms, mirror backs, etc. The surprising fea-
ture about the material is that it can he laid
<iown in this country, in spite of an import

duty of 25 per cent, at slightly above .$20 a
thousand feet, in 3-16 thicknesses. ' This is the
fifth trip to this country that has been made
by a member of Mr. Woyka's concern. Mr.
Woyka reached New York on April 15, and since
that time has visited Baltimore, Cincinnati,
Columbus, Louisville, Indianapolis and Chicago.
He will continue his tour to Ottawa, Montreal
and Quebec, and will sail for home within the
month from New York.

A pleasant caller from "the other side" on
April 27 was Ralph Shirley, a director of the
Timber Trades Journal of London.

Two new inspectors have been appointed for
the Chicago market by the officials of the Na-
tional Hardwood Lumber Association, making
three resident inspectors for this city. They are
F. R. Burk of Lexington, Ky., who formerly cov-
ered eastern Tennessee inspection for the associa-
tion, and George Kelley, a well-known inspector
and lumberman of Chicago.

The Henry Sanders Company of this city, a
large manufacturer of built-up columns, recently
increased its capital stock from ,$25,000 to $75,-
000. This concern enjoys a wide trade in its
line which is the direct result of its expert
manner of manufacture.

Victor Thrane of the well-known house of
J. D. Lacey & Co., timber brokers at Chicago, New
Orleans and Portland, Ore., has recently been east
on business connected with the purchase of large
Oregon properties by W. W. Mitchell, Cadillac,
Mich. Mr. Thrane discussed in an interesting
manner the coming timber shortage of the coun-
try and said that at the present rate of cutting
based upon the standing timber now left in the
country only about a quarter of a century w'ould
elapse before something would have to be found
to take the place of wood, unless the government
enforces a vigorous reforestation policy.

Frederic Wilbert, president of the Southern
Cypress Manufacturers' Association, has called
a meeting for all members for May 15 and 16.
at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, the first
session to be called at 10 :30 a. m. A large
number of important matters will be under con-
sideration, and all members are strongly urged
to attend the meeting, although in case of neces-
sary absence proxies may represent them, but
no member may vote more than two proxies.
Changes in grading rules will come up. and it
is essential that there be a full attendance.

A meeting of the executive board of the Hard-
wood Manufacturers' Association of the United
States will be held at the Grand Hotel, Cincin-
nati, on Saturday, May 11. It is expected that
the meeting will be attended by every member of
the board.

The Hardwood Record acknowledges receipt
of an invitation to be present at the forthcoming
Atlantic City meeting of the National Hardwood
Lumber Association, May 23 and 24, at the
hands of W. H. Russe, president.

The Recced Is in receipt of a very handsomely
printed and illustrated booklet from T. G. Wiu-
nett, general freight and passenger agent of the
Detroit & Mackinac railway, whose headquarters
are at Bay Cit.v, Mich. The book describes and
pictures the scenery along the line of the Turtle
Route, and gives a large amount of information
that would appeal to everyone interested in gun
or rod. Copies of this handsome book may be
obtained on application to Mr. Winnett.

.\pparently owing to the fact that some of the
lumber mutual insurance companies have removed
their headquarters from GQ Broadway there has
been a rumor that the location of the Lumber
Underwriters' offices has been changed. Such is
not the case ; they have not moved from GO
Broadway, where they have been located for
more than eight years, but on the contrary have
recently renewed their lease and enlarged their

oflSces because of increased business. The man-
agement of this company remains with E. F,
Perry, attorney in fact : Lewis Dill, Robt, C,
Lippincott and Robt. W. Iligbie continuing as
executive committee.

Milton Miller of Miller Brothers is spending
some time at their mills in Macon, Miss,

John AI. Dawson has joined the force of
Schultz Bros. & Cowen. He left the city this
week for a trip through the South on the com-
pany's business.

Park, Richmond & Co. have moved their offices
from 410 Monadnock building to 926 in the same
building.

A, W. Wylie, wholesale dealer whose offices
are iu the Fisher building, reports that business
is very good with him. Mr. Wylie makes a
specialty of oak, gum and yellow pine. He
says that dry stock is hard to get just now.

F. S. Hendrickson of the Hendrickson Lumber
Company, whose offices are in the Masonic
Temple, states that business is in splendid
shape, though the rains in the South make log-
ging difficult.

James C. Cowen leaves the early part of next
week for a trip through Virginia, where the
Schultz Bros. & Cowen mills are located. He
will take in the Atlantic City convention on hie
way home.

John Schoen of the Columbia Hardwood Lum-
ber Company states that business has eased off
some this month. Speaking of the railroad
situation, Mr. Schoen said that switching charges
have been advanced. A short time ago they
paid twent.v cents per ton and are now com-
pelled to pay sixty cents for the same work.
Situated as their yards are on the north side
of the city and on a railroad it sometimes takes
longer to switch a ear after it has reached
Chicago than it does to get It from the mills.

R. A. Hooton, one of the latest wholesalers
to enter this market, states that he now has
his business in shape to handle hardwoods.
All the buying will be at the home office. The
yellow pine end of the business will be handled
by the Interior Lumber Company of St. Louis,
Mo. The office of this allied company is located
at 1208 Wright building. The officers of the
company are : R. A. Hooton, Chicago, president :
J. F. Oldham, St. Louis, vice president and
general manager, and L. D. Walker, St. Louis,
secretary and treasurer.

Fred Jeffries of the Chicago Car Lumber Com-
pany in tlie Pt^llman building said that business
was good. The car situation is considerably
better than it has been, he says; especially this
is true of the shipments from the Coast. This
company has just secured a tract of 51,000
acres of high quality timber in Louisiana and
will erect a mill at Forest. At present the lines
of the tract are being surveyed and the details
of the mill have not as yet been decided. The
timber on the property consists of oak, ash and
gum. W. B. Peckman will be manager of the
plant. They will commence building the railroad
very soon.

A. H. Ruth. Chicago manager of the G. W.
Tones Lumber Company of Appleton. Wis., has
just returned from a trip through the North.
He visited the company's mills and stated that
they were very busy at all the plants. Those
in the South have difficulty in getting logs,
though they have not been obliged to shut down
for want of material.

J. N. Woodbury, manager of E. B. Lombard in
the Railway Exchange building, states that
business is keeping up in excellent shape. He
has several large contracts on hand.

Boston.

Several of the hardwood lumbermen of Bos-
ton are planning to attend the annual conven-
tion of the National Hardwood Lumber Asso-
ciation, which will be held at Atlantic City,
N. J., May 1'3 and 24. John M. 'ft'oods will
be accompanied on this trip by Mrs. "Woods.

The New Hampshire Lumbermen's Associa-
tion held a meeting in Manchester late in

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April. The prominent guest o£ the association
was Lucius Tuttle of tlie Boston & Maine Rail-
road. President Tuttle gave a very interesting
talk. Among the new members elected were:
M. W. Hart. hardwood dealer. Boston;
Nathaniel P. Beman, Chelsea, Mass.; C. M.
Howlett, Cambridge. Mass.; C. J. Sargent,
Wilmington, Mass.; C. J. Kennedy, "Worcester,
Mass., find Charles C. Batchelder, Boston,
treasurer of the Boston Dumber Company. In
addition to the above several New Hampshire
lumber dealers were admitted to membership.

Mr. Mead of Mead & Speer, Pittsburg, Pa.,
spent several days in Boston recently.

The Connecticut River Lumber Company,
whose large sawmill at Mt. Tom, Mass., was
destroyed by fire recently, will rebuild the
structure shortly. Until this is completed the
company will get out all its orders at the
Holyoke mill.

The Atlantic Lumber Company, dealers in
hardwoods and North Carolina pine, have re-
moved from 2 Kilby street to the Mason
Building.

The woodworking plant of John B. Moran,
Valley Falls, R. I., has been destroyed by
fire, entailing a loss of about $30,000.

A large lumber deal in which Massachusetts
interests are prominent has just been consum-
mated in Quebec. The sale of timber lands
comprised in all about ninety square miles
and the buyers have an option on about fifty-
five additional square miles. The purchasers
are said to be A. C. Button & Co. and John
Fenderson & Co., both of Springfield, Mass.

The Steep Falls Lumber Company has been
incorporated in Portland with a capital stock
of $10,000. The promoters are William M.
Tucker. Roscow S. Emery and Thomas J.
Brackett.

New York.

Insignificant labor troubles have broken out
in various sections of the metropolitan district
during the past fortnight among lumber handlers
and teamsters and the employees of several firms
have been called out, but in every instance of
such proceedings the firm immediately replaced
their men and have the situation well in hand,
and to date there has been no serious inter-
ruption of business. It is not believed that the
trouble will grow or exceed the present limits
and therefore little is feared in the way of any
disturbance to business generally in that par-
ticular.

C. E. Lloyd, Jr., of Philadelphia, chairman of
the entertainment committee for the reception
of the National Hardwood Lumber Association,
was a visitor in town last week rounding up
some final details. While here he called atten-
tion to the fact that the Monticellor hotel of
Atlantic City has been issuing an announcement
to the effect that it is headquarters for the
National convention, which he absolutely denies,
and which denial he wishes to make public with
the further announcement that the hotel In
question has no authority nor has any hotel the
authority to make such a claim. Mr. Lloyd was
also disappointed over the railroads failing to
comply with their original promise for reduced
rates on the certificate plan. He hopes, how-
ever, that the railroad ofl5cials may be shown
the error of their ways and that privileges as
promised will be accorded.

The proposed advance in freight rates of five
cents from Central Freight Association territory
to eastern states, effective June 1, has not
created a great deal of stir In local lumber
circles, as the proposed advance will be of direct
benefit to shippers from the eastern wholesale
markets, giving them a distinct advantage over
western shippers and to that extent is a benefit
to the Buffalo, Tonawanda and other eastern
wholesale markets as against western competi-
tion.

The new tariffs just issued by the Canadian
rail lines in conjunction with the Williams Line,

water route, from Albany to the Metropolitan
District place lumber tonnage on the weight
basis of so much per hundred pounds as against
the measurement basis of so much per thousand
feet as heretofore. This same action was taken
by the New York Central from Adirondack points
last year, and now that the Canadian lines have
followed suit the entire northern traffic is now
on the weight basis. The schedule of rates
issued accompanying the new weight basis has
again been slightly advanced, but as a general
proposition the new weight rates will about
equal the old measurement rates. It will be
more difficult to adjust differences under the
new arrangement and the possibility of error in
weights, etc., will be increased rather than
diminished by reason of the new arrangement,
but shippers are hoping that the general opera-
tion of the new schedule will not work to any
material disadvantage.

The Parker-Bothner Milling Company has been
incorporated in this city with a capital of $30.-
000 to manufacture mouldings and woodwork.
The incorporators are E. C. and K. W. Parker
of Brooklyn and W. Bothner of New York.

Sales Manager F. A. Kirby of the Cherry River
Boom and Lumber Company, Scranton, Pa., was
a recent visitor in town In the interest of
business, which he reported of very satisfactory
volume. The West Virginia mills of the com-
pany are putting out close to 10,000,000 feet of
spruce and hardwoods per month, all of which
is being freely absorbed by the large trade
enjoyed by the company. Business in the Middle
West Mr. Kirby reports exceptionally active.
After spending a few days in this vicinity he
left for the Middle West to consult with the
selling representatives of the company in that
territory. The hew local sales office at 18 Broad-
way is doing an excellent business.

LaBau & Baker, well known cypress whole-
salers of Jersey City, N. J., who handle the
output 6f the LoBisiana Cypress Lumber Com-
pany and several other Louisiana mills, totaling
75,000,000 feet annually, have removed to fine
new quarters at 909 Lincoln Trust building,
Jersey City, where they have much better facili-
ties for handling their increasing business.

Chester F. Korn of the Farrin-Korn Lumber
Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, was a recent visitor
in town In the interest of business. Mr. Korn
spoke optimistically In regard to the western
hardwood market and the general business situa-
tion.

Owing to constantly increasing work in the
activities of the National Wholesale Lumber
Dealers' Association, the headquarters at CG
Broadway have just been extended by the addi-
tion of another room which will be devoted
to general usefulness.

John P. McEwan, well known wholesaler, 140
East 42d street, has incorporated his business
under the style of the John P. McEwan Lumber
Company with a capital of $200,000. The
Incorporators are : John P. McEwan and L. H.
Strouse of New York City and C. B. Folsom
of Upper Montclair.

At a meeting of the creditors of McBride &
Co., manufacturers of parquet flooring at 1932
Park avenue, who failed recently, held oa May 1,
sixteen claims were filed and Thomas B. Lan-
caster was elected trustee.

One thousand carpenters went on strike at
Paterson, N. J., on May 1, and building opera-
tions there are at a standstill. Tliey have been
getting $3.50 a day and now want fifty cents
an hour for a working day of eight hours.

The planing mill of Gerham F. Smith, 001-605
West 29th street, was destroyed by fire on April
22, entailing a loss of $30,000.

There was a meeting of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Eastern States Retail Lumber Deal-
ers' Association in the rooms of the New York
Lumber Trade Association on May 3, with Presi-
dent Richard S. White of Brooklyn in the chair.
Numerous matters of importance were discussed
and it was voted to hold a special meeting of

the association at Atlantic City May 23, at 12
o'clock, in the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel,
which will be during the sessions of the Na-
tional Hardwood Lumber Association.

The foreign mahogany and cedar trade in (In-
New York market continues strong and pri'->s
very firm. Receipts of mahogany during ilie
month of April were far below the average, sum '
countries not being represented at all in tli-'
month's receipts. This fact, together wilh a
very fair demand, has kept all available s orks
absorbed and there are but small holdings in
hand. In cedar the receipts of Cuban stock wi r.
heavy during April, which together with the it
ceipts from other ports considerably Incrfasnl
stoclcs in first hands, but the demand of the mar
ket is such that arrivals keep sufficiently alj-
sorbed to maintain prices on a good level. The
range of prices at this writing run from 7 to 12
cents per foot on mahogany, according to qualit.v.
with an average of about 10 cents. Cedar valu-'--
range from 8 to 12 cents, with an average clos'
to 11.

Philadelphia.

The Lumbermen's Exchange held its first meet-
ing under the newly elected officers on May 2.
with President W. L. Rice in the chair. It was
preceded by a luncheon In Griffith Hall. The
attendance was unusually large, which was of
course very gratifying to the new president.
It was moved and adopted at this meeting that
the Lumbermen's Exchange of Philadelphia en-
dorse the wharf owners' bill now before the
legislature. The Hindle Lumber Company and
Paul W. Fleck Lumber Company were elected
members to the exchange. Committees were
appointed for the year and a great deal of busi-
ness of a private nature was disposed of at this
meeting.

Sheip & Vandegrift have increased their
capacity from 10,000 to 15,000 cigar boxes a
day. They have also installed several new
Whitney planers and one of Falls Machine Com-
pany's automatic jointers. Their mills are
working full force and the outlook for future
trading Is very good. They report prices on
cigar boxes as stiff, with trend upward, on
account of the scarcity and high price of cigar-
box lumber.

The Cooling Carriage Company of Wilmington,
Del., obtained a charter under Delaware laws on
April 30, capitalized at $100,000. The incor-
porators are : Severson B. Cooling, Charles E.
Dubell and George T. Brown, Wilmington.

The Philadelphia Hardwood Lumber Company
reports business, except for handicap of inade-
quate railroad service, moving smoothly, that
good orders are coming in right along and that
they are in the market for good hardwoods.

Jos. P. Dunwoody & Co. are complacent over
satisfactory conditions. They have engaged P.
M. Nevin, who was formerly with the Cypress
Selling Corporation as salesman, to look after
the eastern Pennsylvania district. Jos. P. Dun-
woody, senior member of this firm, is traveling
through southwestern Virginia and eastern Ten-
nessee, looking for stocks. He reports that the
mill of the Norva Land and Lumber Company
near Walleston, Va., in which they are inter-
ested, has started, and by May 15 will be run-
ning full force, with lots of orders on hand.
S. Y. Warner of the Dunwoody firm states that
they are making a specialty of tupelo and
poplar.

The Philadelphia Veneer and Lumber Com- ,
pany. Inc.. reports busy in all departments, their
mills working day and night. Francis Goodhue,
Jr., of this concern states that they are cutting
60,000 feet of cedar and 25,000 feet of oak
daily, besides the sawed veneer, and over 64,000"
feet per day of cigar-box lumber. By the last
tides they received a large quantity of poplar
and oak logs. The company is operating on two
tracts of timber, one in Tennessee and one In
Kentucky, where it has ten circular mills run-
ning, besides the band mill at Kuoxville.

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The J. W. Ditenderfer Lunibei' Company is as
ever among the busiest. A. E. Magargal of this
concern reports many inquiries being made and
orders coming in rapidly. They have a fair
stock on hand, but, as usual, no ears in sight.

.7. H. and K. W. Schofleid of Schoflekl Bros.,
with their salesman, Jos. Lance, Jr., are looking
after their interests in South Carolina.

The Rumbarger Lumber Company is benefitting
by the reaction in trading and is looking for-
ward to a good summer business. Frank T.
Rumbarger was in Baltimore, Md., recently,
where he closed a contract for the output of a
South Carolina hardwood mill.

O. II. Rectanus, secretary of the A. M. Turner
Lumber Company of I'ittsburg, Pa., called on
John J. Rumbarger recently, in connection with
the Hoo-I-Ioo annual.

Wm. Bond of DuBois & Bond Bros, DuBois,
Pa. ; Bond, Md., and Thomas, W. Va., was
an interesting visitor to the local trade recently.
He called on John J. Rumbarger of the Rum-
barger Lumber Company, and also looked up his
old schoolmate Robert Whitmer, with whom he
attended Lafayette College.

The Kirby & Hawkins Company are much
pleased with the future business outlook. They
are large handlers of ties and report the rail-
roads preparing (or steady work throughout the
coming season.

W. M. McCormlck reports business moving in
easy grooves. Tlie mills are all working steadily,
but orders are taken only for what stock they
may have ready for delivery.

Horace G. Hazard & Co. have no serious
complaints to make, have good share of orders.
They are now receiving most of their goods by
.water, which arrangement suits them better than
the delinquent car service.

The Philadelphia Textile Machinery Company
la a busy concern. It has just issued a book
copiously illustrated, called Veneer Dryers, which
will be mailed to any veneer concern or other
parties interested in the subject on request. T.
W. Howlett, manager for twenty-two years of
the St. Louis Basket and Box Company and
now representative of the Philadelphia Textile
Machinery Company, is traveling through all the
veneer making districts in the United States and
will call upon any veneer house so desiring to
exploit the merits of the dryer, which machine
he considers has no superior.

The Union City Chair Company of Union City,
Pa., was visited by a disastrous fire on April 28.
The loss, including several houses, is estimated
at $300,000.

Ephraim E. Bertolet, a carriage builder in
Pottstown, Pa., died recently of cerebral apop-
lexy. He was sixty-four years of age.

The firm of W. S. Haller & Co., cigar-box
manufacturer, was declared a voluntary bank-
rupt on April 24. Liabilities are given at
$2,823. .13 and assets. $1,500.

The ground and buildings of the old Lybrand
and McDowell Stove Works at liast Girard
avenue and Aramingo street were purchased at
auction on April 30 by Wilson H. Lear, the
extensive lumber dealer. The price paid was
$74,500, which is regarded very low, as the
property is assessed at $100,000. The plant
covers an area of D5S feet on Girard avenue, 2G4
feet on Fletcher street and 300 feet on Aramingo
street.

The Twentieth Century Lumber Company was
incorporated under Pennsylvania laws April 20.
capitalized at $10,000. The incorporators are
W. S. Snyder and G. il. Whitney of Harrisburg,
Pa., and David Wiener, Carlisle, Pa.

The planing mill and lumber yard of J. A.
Hoilinger of Chambersburg, Pa., were destroyed
by fire on May 1. The loss is estimated at
$100,000. Insurance, $40,000.

William T. Hoffman, deputy county treasurer,
and L. O. Lambert, both of Somerset, Pa.,
recently purchased the Gastelger timber tract
near Ligonier on the Pittsburg, Westmoreland

& Somerset Railroad. The tract is said to con-
tain 1,000 acres and will cut some 8,000,000
feet of lumber. There is a mill on the tract,
which the purchasers will operate to its full
capacity.

It is announced that the state of Pennsyl-
vania will this year take over 26,000 acres of
land at the headwaters of Eishing Creek, which
will be converted into a forest reserve. The
land lies in Columbia, Sullivan and Lycoming
counties and will be purchased from the Pente-
cost Lumber Company.

A fire along the Standard Oil Company's
pipeline at Plowville, Berks County, Pennsyl-
vania, spread over fifty acres of land, destroying
considerable valuable timber belonging to Gideon
Delcomp and others.

The Hoo-Hoo Annual is becoming the all-
consuming topic of conversation among
lumbermen throughout the country. The
various committees appointed some months
ago have worked faithfully, plans have
been formulated and other necessary work
brought so near consummation that it will be
easy sailing during the summer to carry out all
arrangements comfortably and satisfactorily.
Chairman Jerome H. Sheip of Philadelphia, aided
by the various committees, is neglecting no
opportunity to render this annual a star of the
first magnitude in the galaxy of Hoo-Hoo. He
recently spent a week at Atlantic City arranging
for rates at the best hotels. It is a settled
matter that the fine steel pier at this famous
summer resort will be secured for the Hoo-Hoo
headquarters. Five thousand booklets will be
issued by the middle of May and distributed in
all Hoo-Hoo centers, containing any information
desired concerning matters pertaining to the
annual, including a program of the daily doings
and entertainments arranged for guests.

Baltimore.

The National Lumber Exporters' Association
and the various committees of that body are
working energetically to bring about the elimina-
tion of some of the abuses that have troubled
the export trade for a long time. One of the
questions agitated is the so-called Liverpool
measurement. The special committee named to
bring about a change met at the office of E. M.
Terry, secretary, on April 23, and adopted a
plan of campaign. It was decided to draft a
circular letter to members and newspapers' and
talk to representative exporters and buyers,
pointing out the injustice of the Liverpool
measurement and explaining that under the
system every cargo of lumber is subject to a
dockage of from two to ten per cent for alleged
faults. It is also urged in the letter that
members write to buyers and brokers, informing
them that it is impossible to do business in
Liverpool under the present system aud that the
exporters are prepared to sell hiniber only on
the basis of a measurement of the actual con-
tents, no allowance for defects of any kind
to be made. Secretary Terry was directed to
draft another letter to the National Hardwood
Lumber Association, the Plardwood Manufac-
turers' Association, the National Wholesale Lum-
ber Dealers' Association and the New Orleans
Lumber Exporters' Association urging that, they
co-operate with the National Lumber Exporters'
.\ssociation in this matter. It was further
decided to send letters to the Timber I'rades
Federation of Liverpool and the hardwood sec-
tion of the Timber Trades Federation of London
on the subject.

The claims committee of the National Lumber
E.'iporters' Association also had a session ten
days ago and disposed of various matters that
had accumulated since the previous meeting.
The difficulty which this committee encounters
is to be found in the numerous loopholes left
by careless consignees, and which enable the
transportation companies to get out of paying
claims for damage or shortage. Often the
receiver of a shipment will neglect to file a

claim or give proper notice of a shortage, and
this is taken advantage of to reject claims.
With the idea of overcoming the difficulty the
committee has had sent to members of the
association a letter covering this difficulty. In
order to correct these drawbacks and secure a
basis for future claims, the committee had
formulated recommendations and it suggested
that shippers notify their consignees of these
recommendations and endeavor to have them
adopted wherever necessary.

Secretary Terry of the National association
has lately received advices from England which
justify the expectation that an agreement upon
.'I new form of contract satisfactory to both the
exporters and the brokers and buyers on the
other side of the Atlantic will shortly be
reached. When the question first came up the
exporters drafted a form of contract which was
rejected by the brokers and buyers as not
acceptable to them. The latter then drew up
one that met their views but which the ex-
porters did not find it possible to accept.
Another draft was submitted, and this has been
.somewhat amended. With a few additional
changes it may meet the wishes of both sides,
and will then be adopted.

An accident which cost a dozen lives a few
days ago will be a matter of much concern to
the lumber export business of this city, inas-
much as it means an indefinite delay in the
completion of facilities for the unloading of
lumber and logs that would greatly facilitate
the trade. This accident was the collapse of the
new pier, known as No. 8, being erected at
Locust Point by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
The work had progressed so far that the finish-
ing touches were being put on, when the great
weight of sand, concrete and the superstructure
of steel — the latter being some 2,000 tons —
caused the piles to bulge and let down the whole
pier. A large number of men were caught in
the wreckage and twelve have since been miss-
ing. The pier was designed to relieve the
freight congestion at Locust Point and the
lumber exporters had the promise of the railroad
that they would get room for the prompt un-
loading on it of the lumber and logs reaching
here for shipment abroad. This meant that
such consignments would have been put aboard
steamers without delay, as the intention was to
divert the Liverpool and Glasgow vessels to the
pier. The latter was one of the largest in the
United States, two stories in height and rested
on about 10,000 piles, sixty feet long. What
caused the piles to shift has not yet been
ascertained.

Work on the Swayne county (N. C.) mill of
the R. E. Wood Lumber Company of this city
has been resumed, and the plant may be put in
operation this summer.

Pittsburg.

Tlie Nicola Lumber Company has been hav-
ing its full share of hardwood trade all the
spring. It is covering the Pennsylvania and
Ohio field very thoroughly this year and is
making some fine contracts with large manu-
facturers and for building lumber.

A new company, promoted by J. T. Caveney
and J. W. Selvey of Grafton, W. Va., has
bought 2,000 acres of timber land in Randolph.
Barbour, Preston and Tucker counties. West
Virginia. A large sawmill will be erected at
once.

H. E. Clark and Kreger & Bradley of Abing-
don, W. Va., have bought 7,300 acres of tim-
ber land in Johnston county. Tennessee, for
about $60,000. They will erect a large band
sawmill and market most of tire product in
Pennsylvania and Ohio.

The Linehan Lumber Company made a very
fortunate hit when it arranged to take over
the entire output of the International Hard-
wood Company of Catlettsburg, Ky. This con-
cern makes a specialty of fine oak flooring,
and Linehan Bros, are getting orders for the

HARDWOOD RECORD

stock which keeps them hustling. Hardwood
stocks in general are reported by the Line-
hans to be scarce, and the demand outside of
the city is fully up to expectations.

Two hardwood men of prominence who re-
cently paid Pittsburg- wholesalers friendly
calls were J. P. Shirk of the Garrett Lumber
Company of Maryland and L. J. Pischel of the
Farmers' Lumber Company of Kentucky. Both
men have been taking some good Pittsburg
business this spring and say that hardwood
stocks in their respective states are down
pretty close to the saw.

The Willson Bros. Lumber Company an-
nounces a fine call for sound wormy chestnut.
Most of this is coming from West Virginia,
where the company placed some big orders
under contract last year. I. F. Balsley of tills
company is working hard to raise a good per-
centage of the cash required at the National
Hardwood Lumber Association's annual at
Atlantic City, May 23 and 2-1, and predicts a
large attendance from Pittsburg.

R. C. Patterson, hardwood man for the Wil-
liam H. Schuette Company, says that oak,
hickory and ash are all in splendid demand.
The latter two woods are going to the imple-
ment people in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan
in large quantities. The Schuette company is
getting most of its hardwood from West Vir-
ginia and Kentucky and reports a tendency
among mill owners there to submit lists of
broken stocks of late at a little better prices
than formerly. Straight stocks, however, are
as firm as ever. .

The Kendall Lumber Company has resumed
operations in full at its plant at Crellin, Md.,
where its mill was shut down for four weeks
for repairs.

Manager G. W. Cantrell of the Herman H.
Hettler Lumber Company has been stirring up
the Cleveland trade this week. His work at
the Pittsburg office shows up mighty well
on the company's books, for it makes an aver-
age of 1,500,000 feet a month.

W. P. Craig of the firm of William Whit-
mer & Sons, Inc., has been taking a long
trip through the South.

The Edgewood Improvement Company of
Charleston, W. Va., has been chartered with
a capital of $25,000 for the purpose of dealing
in lumber and building material. Its in-
corporators are: John A. Thayer. H. L.
Wehrle, A. S. Guthrie, Steele A. Hawkins and
• Henry Fry, all of Charleston.

General Manager J. N. Woollett of the
American Lumber and Manufacturing Com-
pany is off again on a two weeks' selling tour,
which is likely from his reports to result in
some mighty fine hardwood orders being
placed.

J. E. Mellvain & Co. are making some very
nice advances in the tie business as well as
in securing orders for bridge and river tim-
bers. They note a scarcity of stocks in West
Virginia, where they get most of their lum
ber. "and see no reason for a belief that prices
will be any lower for a year at least.

The C. P. Caughey Lumber Company has
recently taken an order for 190,000 feet of oak
timber to be used in a liig coal shaft at
Uniontown. Pa. This is one of several -similar
orders which this company has secured this
spring, and it is busy cutting the oak at its
five mills in western Pennsylvania. It also
reports a fine demand for railroad ties, SxSxS,
and for bridge timbers.

The big plant of J. Hollinger of Chambers-
burg, Pa., was burned May 1. The plant em-
ployed seventy-five men, and every building
was destroyed. The total loss is estimated
at about $100,000 and insurance at $40,000.

Some splendid oak timber has been cut the
past month in the vicinity of Washington,
Pa., for ship building concerns. One of the
best logs that has come to the notice of Pitts-
burg lumbermen was shipped last week and

measured 43 feet long. It squared 20 inches
at one end and 19 at the other.

The planing mill and lumber yards of E. R.
Dowler at Braddock, Pa., burned last week.
It is estimated that his loss will be $80,000.
The plant was an old one and employed a
large force of men.

The Crescent Lumber Company is now in
its new quarters in the Machesney skyscraper
and has much larger offices than in its old
place in the Whitfield building. East End,
Telephone companies have contributed largely
to the business of this concern lately in the
way of good orders for poles and they have
also received some good business from tiie
new traction lines that are being built in
western Pennsylvania. The officers note a
slight falling off in the call for piling.

H. F. Domhoff of the Cheat River Lumber
Company came back from a trip through
West Virginia and Kentucky last week. He
bought 500.000 feet of chestnut and other
hardwood lumber while there and is market-
ing it rapidly in the Pittsburg field.

The Reitz & Martin Lumber Company of
Parkersburg, "\V. Va., has been organized with
a capital of $24,000. It will have a large plant
at Kermit, Mingo county, W. Va. The in-
corporators are: T. G. Reitz, T, G. Martin,
Ralph B. Martin, G. L. Dudley and W. D.
Camden of Parkersburg.

The McDowell & Torrence Lumber Company
of Xenia. C, has been incorporated with a
capital of $18,000. Those interested are: T.
D. Torrence. A. M. Patterson, D. McD. Pat-
terson, W. C. Conan and T. B. Clark.

An interesting example of how well the tim-
ber bridges have stood the strain of years is
seen in the razing of the old Union bridge
at the intersection of the Ohio and Allegheny
rivers in Pittsburg, which has been ordered
down by the government engineers to make
navigation better on the three Pittsburg
rivers. The bridge is thirty-five years old,
but the timbers are coming out of it with
hardly a wormhole visible and very little rot
except where the nails and bolts were in-
serted. Engineers who have examined the
structure say that it was good for at least
ten years more and maintain that a timber
bridge of this sort is much more durable than
the new style steel structures, which are
liable to rust out rapidly.

The Parkersburg Tie and Timber Company
has been formed to take over 3,700 acres of
timber land in Clay county. Kentucky. The
timber is twelve miles back from the Ken-
tucky river and to bring it down to a point
where it can he rafted down to the Ohio river
a narrow-gauge railroad has been built and
equipped with a twelve-ton engine. Over
20,000 logs are already cut. The members of
the company are: John W. Dudley, Jr.,
Lysander Dudley, G. W. Carney and G. W.
Brown of Ritchie county. W. G. Stout, who
was for years in the employ of the Standard
Oil Company in that territory, has been en-
gaged as general superintendent of the
operation.

Buffalo.

Vicegerent Snark Blumenstein will hold a
Hoo-Hoo concatenation May 11. The attend-
ance at the last meeting, April IS, gives
promise of a very large turnout next time.

There is still much complaint of car shortage
• in the West and South, although the situa-
tion is easier here. Shortage has not been the
real difficulty here — it was easier to get the
car than it was to get it to destination after
it was loaded.

H. S. Janes, manager of the Empire Lumber
Company, toured through the South very ex-
tensively on his late visit there. He looked up
the Arkansas mills and then went to the Gulf
states, returning through Georgia and North
r'arolina.

J. N. Scatcherd has returned from his late
visit to his Memphis mills, where he found
conditions much improved, though it would
be very pleasant if oak logs were more
plentiful than they are.

T. Sullivan & Co. are now getting some cars
of Washington fir and hope that the long em-
bargo is raised for good, though it is not
likely that the movement will be very active
right away. The lumber sells well.

Beyer, Knox & Co, again hear that there is
going to be grade crossing work on their
street this year, but will not worry till they
are notified to move. Business is too good to
be dropped for side issues.

F. W. Vetter is filling up his yard with
good hardwood lumber and will go to North
Carolina as soon as he can be spared. His
son, George Vetter. is still in North Carolina
buying oak and other hardwoods for him.

A. Miller is off on a trip to Pennsylvania
and will no doubt return with a further addi-
tion to his hardwood stock, which is moving
out fast enougli to keep the office force busy.
A. J. Ellas is still the watchdog of the Buf-
falo river improvement project and does not
mean to give it up till the work is done. He
lately helped block a scheme to build station-
ary bridges on the river.

Angus McLean has so far recovered from
his late severe illness that he has gone to the
sanitarium at St. Catherines, beyond Niagara
Falls, to complete his convalescence.

O. E. Yeager keeps his Buffalo yard very
full of lumber and is constantly receiving more
from southern points, especially oak. poplar
and chestnut from his headquarters in
Kentucky.

M. M. Wall, as president of the Manufac-
turers' Club, took charge of a meeting of that
body on May 2, assembled to listen to an
address of W. T. Stead, the London journalist
and diplomat.

The cherry stock of 1. N. Miller & Bro. goes
out in bunches at times and is always the
very best stock to handle, for it is never
thrust aside when a fine material is wanted.
A. W. Kreinheder came back from the mills
of the Standard Hardwood Lumber Company
in Kentucky and Tennessee very well pleased
with the lot of oak, poplar and chestnut that
he got started this way.

Detroit.

An important move which was interesting
to the car manufacturers and hardwood men
of Detroit was told in a dispatch from St.
Louis last week to the effect that W. J. Mc-
Bride, fir-st vice-president of the American
Car & Foundry Company, had resigned and
accepted the position of general manager and
president of the Haskell -Barker Car Company
of Michigan City, Ind., at the princely salary
of $50,000 per year. Mr. McBride was
originally a Detroit man. He began at the
bottom with the old Peninsular Car Company
of Detroit and is now at the height of his
career, though only 46 years old.

After winning a lawsuit against W. E. D.
Stokes in three New York courts, one being
in the highest court in the state, and getting
judgments that now amount to $89,000, the
Vinton Company of Detroit was called on early
this week to fight before Supreme Court Jus-
tice Thomas in New York Stokes' efforts to
get a new trial of the case. The Vinton Com-
pany did the hardwood interior finish a few
years ago in Stokes' large Ansonia apartment
house in New York, over which the trouble arose.

The Detroit Board of Review, composed of a
committee of aldermen and the three city
assessors, have made several startling boosts
in the valuation of the local lumber com-
panies. The Detroit Lumber Company's as-
sessment was raised from ,$123,000 to $150,000,
It was planned at first to fix the assessment of

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the McClui-e Lumber Company at $160,000, but a
representative of that concern appeared before
the board and declared that nearly all the prop-
L'l'ty enumerated in the valuation was located
in the South, and so the matter was referred
to the corporation counsel for investigation.
The assessment of the C. W. Restrick Lumber
Company was apportioned at $100,000, although
the company kicks on this figure, saying that
is about $.30,000 too high.

Arthur N. Perry, a well-known wholesale
and retail lumber dealer of Detroit, has filed
a petitio!! of bankruptcy in the United States
district court. He gave his assets as $1,814.85
and his liabilities as $12,259.18.

The Austin Automobile Company of Grand
Rapids will remove to Detroit at an early
date. They employ about 200 men. Detroit
hardwood dealers like to see these companies
coming, as that means larger demand for
hardwood in the manufacture of auto bodies.

Tliomas Merrill of Saginaw, w'ho has just
completed his ninety-second year, has been
connected with the lumber industry over fifty
years. He was fonnerly associated with ex-
Senator Thomas Palmer of Detroit for many
years.

Saginaw Valley.

Il.trdwood lumbermen in the valley are taking;
every possible opportunity to strengthen their
position in the matter of obtaining stock for the
future. The KneelandBigelow-Buell interests
have a stock of hardwood sufflclent to stock their
two mills at 23,000,000 feet a year for flfteeu
years if they do not buy another stick, and they
are picking up every tree they can get an option
on. They are stocking the Bliss & Van Auken
mill with 10,000,000 feet annually for ten years,
and the latter firm also has some timber of its
own. The Wylie & Buell Company is furnishing
a large quantity of hardwood logs for J. T.
Wylie & Co. and one or two other firms.

A deal is now being negotiated which will
bring the timber from 30,000 acres of land to
Bay City to be manufactured. W. D. Young &
Co. and people with whom they are associated
control 200,000,000 feet of hardwood timber
which comes to Bay City ; S. G. M. Gates is cut-
ting 7,000,000 feet annually at his mill anil
owns the timber which it cuts. The .Johan-
nesburg Manufacturing Company, Sailing, Han-
son & Co. and the Michaelson & Hanson Com-
pany have very large holdings of hardwood, and
the Stephens Lumber Company is cutting mixed
timber which embraces considerable hardwood.
At Au Sable the H. M. Loud's Sons Company not
only owns a large quantity of hardwood timber
tributary to the plant, but also a number of
thousands of acres in Presque Isle county as
yet unprofaned by the axe and saw.

The White Brothers plants at Boyno City have
thousands of acres of hardwood timber liehind
them, as have the Gilchrist and Churchill com-
panies at Alpena. The Richardson Lumber Com-
pany, which is erecting a hardwood plant at Bay
City, has a twenty-year stock for the new mill,
located in Montmorency county, and the Lewis-
ton branch of the Mackinaw division of the
Michigan Central is to be extended twelve miles
to reach the Richardson timber ; it will be cut
and hauled by rail to Bay City. There are also
numberless smaller tracts of timber available
and which will be gradually picked up, though
the larger tracts are now in comparatively few
hands. Stumpage is appreciating and some hold-
ers have put prices out of sight. Lumbermen
regard $4.50 and $3.50 as about the stumpage
prices that will enable cutting, hauling to the
mill by rail and manufacturing at a profit at
existing prices for the manufactured product,
but some stumpage owners are asking as high
as $8.

The Ottawa Hardwood Company which has
operated a sawmill plant, cutting about 5,000,000
feet annually the last few years, has been suc-
ceeded by Gardner & Richards, who have ac-

quired the property and will operate the mill.
It has a stock 'of over 4,000,000 feet for the
season.

Wages paid men in the woods continue high,
as all of the large manufacturers who operate
jilauts the year through run about the same
number of camps in summer as in winter, and
ihc small mills and the portable mills in opera-
tion give employment to a large number of men
in the aggregate.

The H. M. Loud's Sons Company shipped a
large cargo of hardwood limber last week to
Port Arthur, Ont., on contract to furnish timber
for harbor purposes for the Canadian govern-
ment. The company shipped a cargo of maple
to Lake Erie ports. This company has some
heavy contracts for timber to fill during the
year.

The maple flooring business is in excellent
condition, both as regards prices and volume of
business. The S. L. Eastman Flooring Company
has made extensive improvements to its plant
and reports a good trade. The Strable plant at
Saginaw is already full of orders, and the Bliss
& Van Anken and the W. D. Young & Co. plants
ai-e running day and night. The new Richardson
plant at Bay City will give the valley five large
plants, and still another is being projected at
Bay City.

.1. E. Wright has taken a contract to cut
l.(JOO,(IO0 feet of hardwood lumber at Ocqueoc
Lake lor the Embury-Martin Lumber Company
(if Cheboygan.

The Cook, Curtis & Miller hardwood plant at
(Jrand Marais will ship its cut by lake this sea-
son.

I). B. I'inkerton has his hardwood plant at
Onaway ready to begin operations and has
enough logs to stock the plant for the season.

The Metz Manufacturing Company's sawmill
at Metz after being thoroughly overhauled and
receiving a new boiler and steam feed has re-
sumed operations.

At West Branch the P.atchclor Timber' Com-
pany is installing a finely equipped heading
plant to be operated in connection with its saw-
mill plant. Brick kilns will be erected in con-
nection and the entire plant is equipped wllh
electric lighting.

Scarcity of cars is the only serious obstacle
that confronts the hardwood operators, but it is
a serious problem. It is almost impossible to
got box cars at all. Where ten are wanted the
shipper is thankful to get one. It is a source of
no little vexation that lumber cannot be shipped
after being sold, and when loaded the delay in
gc'tling it forward is exceedingly exasperating.

Grand Baplds.

M. F. Butters of Ludington was in the city
May 5.

C. A. Phelps. "W. A. Phelps and J. H. Bon-
ncll of the Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company;
Clay H. HoUister. Edward Lowe, Dudley E.
Waters. H. S. Jordan and T. F. Garratt of the
Michigan Chair Company, and W. A. Gunn of
the Gunn Furniture Company are included in
the list of stockholders in the National Bank
of Commerce, recently organized in Detroit.

A belt line steam road, connecting all the
roads entering Grand Rapids, will be con-
structed this year, which it is expected will be
of great advantage to shippers and at the same
time will open up excellent factory sites just
outside the city. The Grand Rapids-Muskegon
Power Company will stretch one of its big
feeder wires around this loop, supported on
steel towers 100 feet high, to supply the new
industries with power.

L. L. Skillman, B. D. Hazard and C. S.
Travis, a committee of creditors appointed to
straighten out the affairs of A. L. Utter of
Grandville. have secured a bill of sale of the
lumber yard and other property, which will be
disposed of to the advantage of creditors.

John E. Barnes, until recently president of
the Spencer-Barnes Furniture Company, Ben-

ton Harbor, has organized a new company
there, known as the John E. Barnes Furni-
ture Company, and will manufacture dining-
room furniture and specialties. Mr. Barnes
has an interest in a large tract of southern
timber and has options also on some scatter-
ing pieces in the southwestern part of
Michigan.

The Northern Michigan Press Association
met recently at Traverse City and forestry
matters, including the state's policy in deal-
ing with its lands, were discussed. Perry F.
Powers of Cadillac, former auditor gener£Ll,
favored a continuance of the present policy
rather than turning over the lands to the
Forestry Commission. He said that the turn-
ing over of lands to the commission would in-
jure the value of adjoining property for years,
or until the crop of trees had been grown. The
association evinced its interest in forestry,
however, by asking E. L. Sprague, a news-
paper man of Traverse City, to prepare an
article on growing locust trees for ties and
posts, with cuts showing the growth of such
trees in one, five, ten and sixteen years.

In discussing the above objection to re-
forestation Charles W. Garfield, president of
the State Forestry Commission, said: "It is
unworthy of consideration as an argument. In
any plan of timber growing on a large scale
somebody will be injured for a time. This is
true in the development of a street or a drain
or .T. thousand other public utilities. The state
must look out for all its people in adopting
its land and forest policy. The question of
growing timber enough for its woodworking
industries is alone of tremendous importance."

Cleveland.

F. M. Kinderman of Columbus, O., repre-
senting the Collins Lumber Company, of Elk-
hurst, W. Va., called on the hardwood trade
here last week.

John D. Mershon of Mershon, Schuette,
I'arker & Co., Saginaw, Mich., was a caller
among the dealers here this week.

James Miller of Pittsburg, representing Wm.
Whitmer & Sons, Inc., called on the trade this
week.

W. D. Steinmetz of Bergholz, O., an exten-
si\-e hardwood manufacturer, was a visitor in
this market recently. He reports business
good and the outlook very promising.

W. P. Hilton of the Advance Lumber Com-
pany has just returned from a two months'
absence at their mill at Baskin, La. He re-
ports they are cutting a very fine lot of oak.
This stock will find a ready market in New
Orleans territory.

W. A. Cool of W. A. Cool & Son is at their
mills in West Virginia looking after securing
car.s for shipments of stock.

White oak has been moving freely of late.
I'oplar continues firm and dry stock is exceed-
ingly scarce. Jobbers fight shy of taking orders
for this stock unless they know where they
can put their hands on it. Large quantities
of beech and maple are being shipped into this
market, and iu some cases this stock is being
substituted for other hardwoods which consum-
ers have not been able to buy owing to the
scarcity of dry stock. A cargo of hardwood
recently arrived from Michigan, being the first
stock to come in by boat this season.

Indianapolis.

The Turner, Day & Woolworth Haudle Com-
pany is preparing to build a large plant at
Bluffton. Bids have been asked and work will
be started within a short time with a probability
that tlie new factory will be occupied early in
the Fall.

G. II. Palmer of Sheridan suffered a loss of
considerable lumber stored in a barn. Boys and
cigarettes were responsible for the burning of
the building.

The Advance Veneer & Lumber Company at

HARDWOOD RECORD

.MassiU-linsetts avenue and Arlams sti-eet, is en-
.ioyinK 111!' largest business in its liistoi'.v. in
I he veneer plant unusual business is reiiniring
111,' r.iree to put in mueli iivertinie, while in the
yarils (here is a steady demiuul for hardwoods
lor building and manutacturing piiipnses. Th •
eoMipany lias a praetieally new plani in lirighl-
wood, one of the city's largest suburbs.

.T. D. Tennant and J. E. Orant o( Sidney, O.,
have iiiirchased the manufacturing plant at La-
p,,rle ..wned by William E. Crichton. Fanning
mills, lawn furniture, chairs, step ladders and
Ihe like have been manufactured in the factory
for several years and it is one of the leading
industries in I.aporte.

It has been announced that the recenlly or-
ganized Jlcllvalue Lumber Company of Vin-
cennes will take over the lumber yard and plan-
ing mills of D. It. Mcllvaine in that city. The
company has a capital stock of $-tO,OnO and ex-
pects to make considerable improvement in (he
old plant and extend the business.

The Indiana Realty Company of this cily bas
sold to K. M. Smith & Co.. hardwood lumber
manufacturers of I'arkersburg. W. A"ii., extensive
lioliliugs of hardwood timber lands in Franklin
parish, Louisiana. There are about 2(1.000 acres
ill the tract and it is understood the price paid
was If:i.j0,000, the local company clearing about
$.-,(1,(1(1(1 on the deal. J. H. P. Smith, senior
member of the West Virginia firm who came to
Indianapolis to consummate the deal, said lie
li,.Ueved the tract would net 100,000,000 feet of
hardwood Uimber and that it would be deareil
at the rate of about 1,000 acres a year. As soon
as clearcMl Ihe ground will be used for growing
collon, which will produce, according lo an esti-
mate, about .$.jO worth of cotton to the acre per
yi-ar. W. B. Cooley is president of the Indiana
itealty Company, which was organized about
three' months ago for the purpose of investing
In southern timber lands.

I'urdne University at Lafayette will inaugu-
rale a course in forestry, beginning with the
fall semester. Students will have the advanlage
of hardwood experiments to be conducted at the
institution under the auspices of the State Hoard
of Forestry and the course will be designed lo
meet the needs of farmers, lumbermi'n and manu
facturers who handle lumber in large quantities.
A timely word of warning relative to the rap-
idly disappearing supply of hardwood lumber in
Indiana has been issued by the State Board
of Forestry to the farmers of the state. The
board advocates the planting of forestry lots
on each farm to be given the same attention as
other crops. While the supply of timber fo^
manufacturing purposes would ultimately be in-
lueased from this plant, farmers are urged lo
plant trees especially for use on their farms to
meet their own demands for fence posts, tele-
phone poles and building purposes as well as to
furnish lumber yards in their respective locali-
ties with timber. From one-tenth to one-eighth
of the whole farm should be given over to the
exclusive growing of timber, according to the
board. From an investigation made in different
parts of the state it is found that farmers, with
few exceptions, take little interest in forestry on
the theory that when the present supply of tim-
ber is exhau.sted something will be found to take
its place. This, the board says, will never be
possible.

Milwaukee.

chair and furniture center of Wisconsin. In
nearly all instances the leading chair factories
own tlielr own sawmills, in wliich tlii'y get out
Iheir rough stock.

.Tulius G. Ingram, tlie well known iiiiUioimirc
liiiiilicriniin of Eau Claire, Wis,, has offered
,f4ii,iiii(l to Ihe trustees of the Congregational
Cliiirili of the I'ilgrims, Washington, II. C.
with which to erect an institutional church, (o
lie a memorial to Jlr. Ingram's son, who diiMl
about a year ago.

The Long-Bell Lumber Company of I.iidingto'i.
La., has bought the entire southern interests of
Isaac Stephenson, .Jr.. for .i;3„")00,000.

As the result of a 'conference between repre-
scntalives of the Milwaukee, the Xorth-Western
and the Wisconsin Central roads and members
of the legislative committee of Ihe ilerchants'
& Manufacturers' Association, the rate on lum-
bci- shipped from the South lo Milwaukee has
been reduced so as to he in conformity with
that shipped from the north to Chicago. The
new tariff became effective May 7. This rate
puts Milwaukee manufacturers using southern
lumber in a position to compete with Chicago
manufacturers in the same line.

The Milwaukee road is turning oul twenty-
eight complete freight cars a day iu i(s shops at
West Milwaukee. It expects to add at least
,S,000 freight cars to its rolling slock this year.
Heavy wooden beams for the body work of these
cars is being discarded, steel being sulntil iited.
owing to the scarcity of lumber of a high cpiality
demanded in car construclion. The company is
also building a large number of mail and ex-
press cars. It is not putting out any passenger
coaches at this time, though it has beiu build
iug many sleepers.

The Milwaukee market continues steady,
though business on the whole is light. Prices
remain firm. The outlook is considered highly
favorable by local dealers.

lain City is preparing to install mills and begin
cutting on a big tract of limber which it
recently purchased iu .lohnsou county. Tennessee.
M. X. iiffiitt of the Tyg Kiver Lumber Coin
jiaiiy lias gone on a business trip iu \'irginia.

Milwaukee has been a furniture manufactur-
ing city since as early as ISoo, when the Arm
of A. Meinecke & Son was established, which
still continues in business, though in another
line. The first chair manufactory was started
in 18oT, among the first concerns in this line
being the Milwaukee Chair Company and the
Mayliew Manufacturing Company, which sti'.I
exist. The city's output last year was more
than it;?.,riOO,OllO. In recent years it has been
distanced by Sheboygan, which has become the

Bristol, 'Va.-Tenn.

The first I-Ioo-IIoo concatenation of Ihe year
was held here May 3. The attendance of lum-
bermen from all over this section was large and
twenty-four kittens were initiated inli, the
mysteries of Iloo-IIoo. Vicegerents Irving
Whaley of Tennessee and T. W. Fugati' of
Virginia conducted the ceremonial session. The
guests repaired to Hotel Tip Top. where a
sumptuous banquet was served. C. D. Clark of
.\bingdon acted as toastmaster and toasts were
responded to by W. A. Ilassinger. .1. .\. Wilkin-
son. A. D. Reynolds. .Tr.. and others.

C. II. Smith, .Tr., of Nashville, Teun., was in
the city last week buying hardwood.

.Tohn T. Xagle and O. C. Ilathway. managers
of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company's eastern
Tennessee and western North Carolina opera-
tions, were iu the city last week. ilr. Nagle
heads the Linville River Lumber Company, the
new concern that is preparing to begin cutting
near I'ineola, X. C, on a large scale. The com-
pany is building a railroad to its timber lands
near Saginaw and will use the big band mill of
the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company near that
place.

Natlian Bradley and D. D. Anderson of the
Itradley Lumber Company of Elizabethton, Teun.,
were in the city last week.

1'. V. Widener, manager of .T. A. Wilkinson's
Hluefield. W. Va., ofBce, came to the ity last
week and will spend several days at Mr. Wil-
kinson's offices in this city.

Chas. A. Baker, manager of the T. \\'. Tliay<'r
Lumber Company, at Damascus. A'a.. was in the
city on business last week.

The II. M. Hoskins Lumber Company of this
city has received articles of incorporatiim under
the laws of Virginia, with a capital stock of
.t;2.3,000.

A. M. Scutt of the .T. Walter Wright Lumber
t^ompany of Mountain City. Tenn.. was in l!rist,,l
last week.

'i'he T. K. Cailand Lumber Company of Mouu-

Cincitmati.

AVilliam A. Bennett, president of the Cham-
ber of Commerce of Cincinnati, has been ap-
jiointed receiver "with honds of $25, Otto for the
Pease Company. This action wa.s taken upon
the petition of C. H. Pease, president of the
Pease Company, dealers in sash, doors, build-
ing: material and general millwork, with plant
located at Avondale. a suburb of Cincinnati.
The company is capitalized at $50,000 and bas
assets of over $30,000, with liabilities of .f200.-
OOO. President Pease avers iu his petition
that he is, in addition to being a heavy stock-
holder and the president of the company, a
creditor in the sum of $90,000 as security on
the company's paper for money liorrowed with
which to meet current obligations in conduct-
ing the business. He is not. he says, secured,
and while the concern is perfectly solvent, he
asks the court to take the business in charge
and conduct it through, not sacrificing to
jiressui-e of creditors, as there are others than
hi» and some are pressing for collection.
Lengtb.v and expensive litigation with forced
sales, he says, would sacrifice the business,
while if free will is preserved and time given
in which to wind up or straighten out the
affairs of the company, all creditors will be
Itaid in full and there will be a substantial
balance for distribution among stockholders.
The Receivers and Shippers' Association re-
cently made public a reply to the statement
of Vice-President Murphy of the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad, in which he called atten-
tion to the necessity for an increase in freight
charges in order to keep pace with increased
cost of materials and labor used by trans-
portation companies. The statement is a very
warm one and took up more than 2.000 words.
A conference of shippers will be held in the
association I'ooms to arrange to bring the
case of the Southern's rates before the Inter-
state Commerce Commission.

Cliester F. Korn of the Farrin-Korn Lumber
Company has gone to New York to meet M.
R. Farrin and wife, who are returning from
a pleasure trip to the Orient. He will also
look after business affairs while in the East.
'J'he Dornstreet Lumber Company of Toledo,
()., has been incorporated with a capital sto"'.\
of $20,000 by C. P. Brigham, William M. Ha.n-
ilton, F. M. Dotson, G. McKay and J. M.
■Weaver.

E. M. Schantz of North Fairmount is adding
another one of his patented dimension ma-
chines to his mills. The new dry kilns are
now in full operation.

Frank F. Fish, secretar.v of the National
Hardwood Lumber Association, was in town
recentl.v to look after the affairs of the
oi-ganization.

The Wiborg-Hanna Company has added ad-
ditional land to its yards at North Fairmount
liy filling' up the bottoms in the rear of the
plant. The yards have been increased sev-
eral hundred feet. The company has been
doing a better business this season than ever
before and was pressed for .a bigger yard
accommodation.

The Cincinnati lumbermen are figuring on
sending a large delegation to the National
Hardwood Lumber Association's con\'ention, to
be held at Atlantic City the middle of May.
A special car will probably be chartered and
several of the married men are contemplating
taking their wives with them and spending
se\'eral days on the seashore after the
convention.

William E. Delaney, general manager of
the local offices of the Kentucky Lumber
Company, lias gone South on a business trip.

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visiting tlie comijany's three mills. During
his trip he will complete a deal that involves
several thousand feet of lumber. During liis
absence R. MeCracken assumes charge of
affairs in this cit>'.

The large stock of veneers stored by the
iVlaley, Thompson & Moffett Company, which
were i)artl>- destroyed b>- the recent fire, were
put on the "bargain" counter and sold at
low prices. The veneers were burnt on the
ends, but not sufficiently to keep furniture
manufacturers from using them.

L. H. Gage of the Gage-Possell Lumber
Company has returned from a successful busi-
ness trip through the South. Mr. Gage stated
that the car shortage still hampers trading in
the South, but aside from that business is
brisk.

W. Quick and L. D. Halstead, of Richey.
Halstead & Quick, have returned from
business trips.

At the annual election of the Cincinnati Lum-
bermen's Club, held May G, Thomas J. Moffett
of the Maley. Thomp.son & Moffett Company was
again elected president ; George Littlcford, first
vice president; J. W. Darling, second vice presi-
dent ; B. Bramlage, treasurer, and E. J. Thomas,
secretary. President Moffett stated that the
ilnli has had one of the most successful years of
its career, also each individual himlier dealer re-
ports that business has been very brisk. He also
said that he looks for a record breaker this year.
The C. & O. road was selected as the route to
the annual convention in Atlantic City, May 23
and 24. The plans of the I'ark Commission were
unanimously and enthusiasticall.v indorsed, and
the club will use its best efforts to further the
scheme.

The Parlor Table Manufacturers' Associa-
tion of the United States, makers of parlor
furniture, met at the Sinton hotel and dis-
cussed a new tariff sheet. Indications are
that an advance will be made in flnislied goods
because of the higher prices of wood and
other materials.

Work of cutting down the walnut timber on
the old Todhunter farm, recently purchased
by D. F. Frazee of Lexington, Ky., will be
superintended by L. L. Vandegrift of this
city. The lumber is the finest in Fayette
county, it is said, and will be sent to Cin-
cinnati to be sawed and sold for furniture use.
The receipts of lumber during the month of
April exceeded those of the past few months,
amounting to 7,561 cars as compared with
6.S75 the same month last year, The ship-
ments for the month also show an increase,
amounting to 5, -157, against 5,39S last year.
Besides showing an increase in business these
figures show that railroad accommodations
have been materially better than for some
time.

The two large sawmills of the Cincinnati
Hardwood Lumber Company at Huntsville.
Tenn., will be in operation within the next
ten days. A complete new line of machiner.v
has been purchased and the company expects
to do business on an increased scale. The
first cut will be shipped directly to Cincinnati.
William A. Bennett, president of the Cin-
cinnati Chamber of Commerce, hopes to have
General Kuroki. the Japanese warrior, speak
before the members of the Chamber of Com-
merce. Business men are anxious to induce
him to visit the Queen City.

St. Iiouis.

The O'Reilly Lumber Company has recently
been incorporated with a capilal stock of .$r)0,-
000. It is the successor of tlie Mosberger-
O'Reilly Lumber Company, and will maintain
heartrjuarters and yards at llie same location,
Jlain and Chambers streel«. It assumes all
liabilities of the latter concern and will collect
all iiutshindinij indebtedness. A general whole-
sale liMi-dwood business will be carried on. and
a gijod stock of lumber will be maintained at

southern points as well as in St. Louis. The
personnel of the force will be practically the
same, with Richard ,1. O'Reilly at its head,

George B. Osgood, representing the I'aepcke-
I.eicbt Lumber Company of Chicas;o, was a
recent visitor to this market.

l-'rank F. Fish and F. P. Southgate. secretary
and chief inspector of the National Hardwood
Lumber Association, made a business trip to
St. Louis a fortniKbt ago.

G. II. Barnes has been succeeded by the G. H.
Barnes Hardwood Lumber Company, with a
capital stock of $45,000, G. II. Barnes, M. D.
Barnes and M. H. Stiles are the incorporat<irs.
This new arrangement contemplates no change
in business procedure as formerly conducted, but
is calculated to facilitate handling the steady
and increasing growth of the wliolesale hard-
wood business which Mr. Barnes lias been carry-
ing on. The company's yard at Main and War-
ren streets was formerly occupied by the Knenij;
Lumber Company, and is well situated for the
quick handling of stock, Well-as.sorted stocks
of lumber will be kept on hand.

Two n-ell-known machinery men, N. A. Glad-
ding of Indianapolis and S. V. Kgan of Cincin-
nati, were visitors to their companies' St. Louis
branch houses recently.

Jacob Mosberger of the dissolved Mosberger-
O'Reiily Lumber Company has entered the hard-
wood business on his own account, with yards
at 653 Morin avenue, under the name of the
Jlosherger Limiber (Company. This extensive
property is owned by Mr. Mosberger and is well
supplied with transportation facilities. TTpon it
are situated a stable for sixteen horses, a bouse
for the teamster in charge, ample sheds, and a
handsome office building. A large and varied
stock of hardwoods will be kept on hand, and a
competent force of salesmen and buyers main-
tained. Mr. Mosberjier has been identified with
the lumber business for twent.v-six years, and is
thoroughly familiar with all Its details. He is
a strong factor in the hardwood trade of this
market.

G. H. Barnes has luu-cbased a liandsome large
brick residence at n\imber D43'J Berlin avenue,
which he will occupy in the near future.

A, R. Stevens of Stevens & Lyons, Uecatur,
III., was a recent St. Louis visitor. Ills house
is well known in the local wholesale hardwood
trade as a handler uf white and red oak, birch
and cypress.

The Massengale Limiber Company has been
getting in a great deal of stock by river of late
and reports its mill in Mississippi r\nuiiug
steadily.

The Ilafner Manufacturing Company has
greatly increased its cypress holdings, and
reports car service from the South much better
of late.

The J. P. Harnett Lumber Company has
moved its headi|uarters to Pine Bluff, Ark.,
where it will wholesale a fine line of hardwoods
manufactured at a large up-to-date sawmill re-
cently established at Langford. The company is
composed of progressive business men ami lias
built up a large trade in its line.

Nashville,

The lumber firm of John B. Ransom & Co.
purchased at auction this week at Baxter, Tenn.,
the lumber left by the late Chalmers Vestal, of
the Caney Fork Lumber Company. There were
imly two bidders, the other being the American
Lumber Company. The property disposed of at
llie sale consisted of some 600,000 feet of oak
and beech and if went "dirt cheap." Chalmers
"Vestal, it will be remembered, was recently found
dead at his home at Baxter and his bookkeeper
was later arrested charged wilh the murder.

C. B. Benedict will shortly sever bis connec-
liun with the Davidson-Benedict Company in
order to go to east Tennessee to take charge of
a big tract of timber in Pike county owned by
llie newl.v organized S.vico Lumber Company.
The company has recently bought a large tract.

embracing several thousand acres, in this sec-
tion and will shortly erect two band saw mills
and a planing mill, A logging road ten miles
in length will be built to connect with the
Knoxville division of the Louisville & Nashville
railroad. Both C. P.. Benedict and C. H. Bene-
dict have disposed of their stock in the David-
son-Benedict Company. Several other stockhold-
ers have become interested in the Sylco com-
pany and .John W. Love and John B. Ransom
have also taken some of the stock.

II. S. Hutchinson, tlie popular manager of tlie
Xasliville Hardwood Flooring Company, has re-
'iirned from a three months' trip through the
iVcst and Northwest. He first visited points
In Colorado, then dropped down to Texas and
from there on out to the coast, taking in Los
.\ngeles and 'Frisco. He returned through the
northern route by Minneapolis and Chicago.
Mr. Hutchinson's trip was plienomenally siic-
ci'ssful. lie got orders most everywhere he went
and listed many new customers. He states that
Tennessee hardwoods arc thoroughly established
in the West and quile popular there. He de-
scribes the lumber situation at 'Frisco as most
excellent, saying that the lumber and planing
mill people there survived the recent gr.-at dis-
aster in great shape.

A special from Humboldt, Tenn., announces
the destruction of the large heading mill there
of the Humboldt Hoop & Heading Company. C.
H. Feri-eil was the principal stockholder. There
was no insurance.

A special from Decatur, Ala., announces that
Arantz Bros, have Just completed a large band
band saw mill at Red Iliil, in Lawrence county.
Several thousand feet of hardwood lumber :n\:
bein.g sawed daily.

Among the visitors to the city this wei'k were:
K. E. Taenzer, first vice president of the Darnell-
Taenzer Lumber Company, and R. J. Wiggs,
secretar.v and treasurer of R. J. Darnell, Inc.,
both of Memphis.

Several big deals are recorded recently as
having been transacted at Waynesboro, Tenn..
and in that vicinity. T. S. Hassell of Clifton,
Tenn.. who recently purchased from the Decatur
Land Company of New Decatur, Ala., some 17, 0011
acres of timber lands in Wa.vne county, has sold
to R. A. Haggard of Waynesboro a one half
interest in these lands. Messrs. Hassell and
Haggard have sold 200,000 cross ties to the
Holcomb-IIayes Company of Cincinnati for $00,-
000 delivered on tlie Tennessee river. The tract
from whicli these cross ties are being cut is
said 111 lie rich in poplar, hickory, chestnut and
pine.

Thomas Wells, a well known agent at Tulla-
homa, Tenn., has closed a deal whereby the
Greenfield-Talbot-Finney-Battle Company of Nash-
ville and Tullahoma purcliases a tract of 2,0(H1
acres of timber lands in Grundy county near
Altamont. The price is said to be a most sub-
stantial one. Mr. Wells is said to have some
11.000 additional acres he will shortly place on
the market.

.1. H. Baskette, former general manager of the
I'rewitt-Spurr Manufacturing Company of Nasli-
ville and Murfreesboro, which concern is the
only red cedar factory in the world, has tendered
his resignation as a member of the city council
of Nashville. He removes from here to Helena,
Ark., soon, where he will establish a big wooden-
ware factory.

What is said to be the largest cross tie camp
in the world is being established at Guntersville
on the Tennessee river in Alabama, just across
the Tennessee line. The ties are being collected
at this point for the Big Four railroad, which
has a contract with Chattanooga parties for
,'1,000,000 lies. The ties will be floated down
the Tennessee river lo llie Ohio lo the point of
deliver.v.

I'he Chattanooga Slave & Cooperage Company
lias been granted a charter by Secretary of State
Jolin \V. Morton. The capital stock is ,$10,000
and tbc incorporators are V. J. Blow, H. F,

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Smith, D. G. Hart, S. G. Holland and Leroy
McGregor.

A project is on foot in Nashville to secure a
new railroad running from Nashville to Ilunls-
ville, Ala. The promoters want the citizens of
Nashville to siibscril)e for .$7o.noO worth of
stocli in the road and Nashville lumbermen have
subscribed as follows : Love, Boyd & Co., ,'[;2,00 ;
John B. Ransom & Co., ¥250 ; Nashville Hard-
wood Flooring Company, .f 100 ; Standard Lum-
ber & Bos Company, .$100 ; W. .7. Wallace, $100 ;
J. H. Baird, $100 ; A. E. Baird, $100 ; E. & N.
Manufacturing Company, $250 ; A. L. Hayes &
Co., $200.

The American Pencil Company has about com-
pleted arrangements to erect a large pencil fac-
tory at Murfreesboro, Tenn. Murfreesboro is
probably the largest red cedar market in the
world. There is considerable growth of this
very valuable timber remaining in this section,
and in addition practically all the fences in the
county are built of red cedar rails. The pencil
companies are now buying these rail fences and
putting up other kinds of fences for the farmers
in order to get the cedar.

J. H. McCall and Gray Sanders of Hunting-
don, Tenn., are erecting a saw mill at West
Port, near Hiintingdon.

Work has begun on the new saw and stave
factory that is being built by the C. C. Mengel
& Bro. Company of Louisville, at Hickman, Ky.

The W. J. Cude Land & Lumber Company has
moved its ofhccs into the new Stahlman sky-
scraper.

A. E. Baird has .lust returned from a business
trip to Texas and Mexico.

V. J. Blow, president of the Hiram Blow Stave
Company, is back from a business trip through
Mississippi and Louisiana.

Nashville has nearly a score of woodworking
plants and they are all running overtime in
order to try and keep pace with the heavy de-
mand for building material. In spite of the
large number of suburban lots into which tracts
around the city are being subdivided, numerous
houses are springing up on them and it is these
that are keeping the plants busy. Some of the
larger plants are turning out contracts for hand-
some structures in many parts of the country.
The box factories here are also doing a record
business and many of them have been forced
to go into distant territory to get all the gum
and other varieties they use in their business.

Memphis.

Lumbermen in this city and throughout this
section are much interested in the outcome of
the case of the E. Sondheimer Company against
the Illinois Central and Yazoo & Mississippi Val-
ley Railroad companies, hearing on which was
begun In the federal court recently before lion.
Judson C. Clements, a member of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. The plaintiff alleges dis-
crimination in favor of Memphis and against
Cairo, III., in the matter of rates on lumber, the
allegation being made that Cairo does not enjoy
the reconsignment privileges which have lieen
given to Memphis. Mr. Clements had to leave
Memphis for other hearings before the conclu-
sion of this case and will resume the hearing in
a short time. J. ,T. Bruner, traffic manager for
the E. Sondheimer Company, and members of
that firm have appeared and given testimony,
while a number of railroad men have been exam-
ined for the defense. Lumber interests of Mem-
phis will take a hand when the hearing is re-
sumed, the Lumbermen's Club being represented
by its regular counsel. In addition to Ibis,
however, there is a movement among local
wholesale handlers of hardwood lumber, who
would be aftected more than other interests by
an adverse decision, to employ associate counsel,
though no definite statement is obtainable at
this time. Reconsignment privileges have played
an important part in the development of the
Memphis market, especially in the building up
of this center as a distrilniting and yarding

point, and the Lumbermen's Club will do every-
thing it can to prevent an un£avoral)le decision
in this case. There is no opposition on the part
of Memphis lumbermen to the granting of re-
consignment privileges to Cairo liy the defendant
roads, but there is a very strong protest against
taking away from Memphis the privileges now
enjoyed. Moreover, the plaintiff company does
not care how the equalization of rates is ef-
fected, whether through the abrogation of the
privileges given Memphis or through the grant-
ing of similar ones at Cairo. There is a sug-
gestion that the reconsignment privilege is not
exactly legal and that the commission may so
hold, but local lumlier interests are encouraged
over the fact that the commission has ruled that
while it is anxious to remove this practice wher-
ever po.ssible it will not do so unless the letter
of the law demands it in cases where large busi-
ness interests would be affected by such a rul-
ing. Cotton and grain interests would be as se-
riously affected as the lumbermen if the com-
mission should declare the reconsignment prac-
tice illegal.

The Rust Land & Lumber Company, a corpo-
ration affiliated with the Three States Lumber
Company and the W. E. Smith Lumber Com-
pany, is building a mill at Merrouge, La., to
cut cypress timber at that point. The plant
is a circular one and will have only a moderate
capacity. It will be ready for operation within
the next thirty days.

The Three States Lumber Company is making
good progress on its planing mill at Burdett.
Ark., and with favorable weather conditions will
have this in readiness for operation within the
next fifty to sixty days. The big band mill of
tlie same company at Burdett, Ark., is being op-
crated both day and night in order that con-
siderable accumulated timber may be cut up
before it has sustained any damage.

The Bellgrade Lumber Company, the corpora-
tion recently launched by Thompson & McClure
and Crenshaw & Catliey, reports through A. N.
Thompson, vice president, that ninety-flve per
cent of the machinery has been shipped to Bel-
zoni, Miss., where it recently acquired a large
site, and that actual construction of the plant
is under way. Mr. Thompson estimates that the
mill will be ready for operation within about
sixty days.

The conference held here April 22 between
the river and rail committee of the Lumbermen's
Club and higli officials of the railroads operating
in Memphis territory did not accompli.sh any-
thing deflnlle, but the feeling among Ijoth lum-
bermen and the railroad interests after adjourn-
ment was that much good would result from the
interchange of views. Various subjects were
discussed from the standpoint of both the rail-
road men and the committee representing the
lumber interests of this city.

John W. McClure, secretary of the Lumber-
men's Club, who, with President George X). Bur-
gess, participated in the conference, gave out a
statement afterward in which he declared it lo
he his conviction that the railroad men did not
know any more about the causes of congestion
than the lumbermen themselves. He further
said the object of tlic conference was lo prevent
a recurrence of conditions recently experienced
and that one of the remedies suggested l>y I lie
railroad men was "less hostility on the part "f
the people and their representatives in llu! va
rious legislatures."

The car situation now shows marlced iiu-
provemcnt. For a time after the congestion first
began to disappear it was almost impossible t >
secure box cars for lumber shipments. In fact
lumbermen had to use flat cars and everything
elese they could get placed on their sidings.
Now they are obtaining a better supi>I.v of box
cars than for some time, thus relieving to some
extent the rather serious complaints from buyers
regarding the use of flat cars and the damage
to lumber thereon while in transit. The cotton
movement is running much lighter and this of

itself is in some measure responsible for the bet-
ter ear situation.

Heavy rains are reported for the entire Mem-
phis hardwood lumber producing area, and this
has interfered with both logging and milliiTg
operations, thus restricting the output of hard-
wood lumber below the recent average. Condi-
tions surrounding production had begun to get
rather favorable, but it is intimated that it may
take some days, even with fair weather, to get
production back up to the average reached prior
to the previous fortnight.

There will be- a very large delegation of lum-
bermen from the Memphis club at the annual of
the National Hardwood Lumber Association at
Atlantic City, May 23-24. At the last meeting
a committee was appointed to look after trans-
portation arrangements, of which James E. Stark
is chairman. The Memphis delegation will wear
the same button which was worn during tlie
Memphis convention last year, bearing the em-
blem of the association and the word Memph's
in addition thereto.

The publicity committee of the club, of which
George C. Ehemann is chairman, is now making
arrangements to secure a permanent gold lapr'l
button to he worn exclusively by members of the
Lumbermen's Club at home and abroad. The
idea is to advertise the city and give every mem-
ber of the organization some insignia of mem-
bership. The button is described by Mr. Ehe-
mann as an axe sunk into a stump. The initials
'"L. C." will be written across the axe and tlie
word "Memphis" will appear below. The mem-
bership of the club is now at the highest point
in the history of the organization, four new
members having been received at the last meet-
ing : W. C. Barneth. Ileth, Ark. ; Philip A. Ryan,
C. B. Willey and Frank B. O'Leary, all of Mem-
phis.

The announcement of the Southern railway
that it will aliandon the proposed extension of
the Delta Southern, wliieh was intended to con-
nect Mempliis and Jackson. Miss., is regretted
by lumber interests of this section because it
was felt that this road would be an important
factor in the development of timber resources in
tlie section between Memphis and Jackson. The
Moljile & Ohio has declared its intention of
abandoning the construction of the branch linr^s
for tlic inirpose of developing the virgin forests
Iribntary to the road. Officials of llie Pine Bluff
North & South railroad, which plans to build a
line from Memphis to Shreveport, La., announc
that the contract has already been awarded for
the building of a 4i;-miie secthm from Pine Bluff
to Lonoke. Ark., where connection will be made
into Jlemphis over the Rock Island. On the
completion of this, which will reijuire about six
months, work will begin on tlie line from Pine
Bluff south to Shreveport. The Memphis divi-
sion will be the last constructed. The road is
backed altogether by Pine Bluff capitalists and
it is lieing built for the purpose of competing
with the St. Louis Soutliwestern (Cotton Belt I
and the St. Louis, Iron Mo\nitain & Southern,
which now handle all the traffic from Pine HlulT
and the surrounding territory.

Hugh McLean of the Hugh .McLean Lumlpcr
Coiupnny, which operates a large liand mill in
tills city, has Ijciui here during llie past few
days looking after interests of the firm. His
lii'adciuarters arc at Buffalo.

H(n-ace F. Taylor, another Buffalo lumberman,
member of the firm of Taylor & Crate, has been
circulating among local lumber interests during
the past few days.

The Robert.son-Fo<ishe l.iunber Company will
make application within the next few- days for
a charier with a capital stock of $:5.000. The
company will engage in the manufacture jind
wholesale handling of hardwood lumber and
will have offices and yards at North Second
street and the Illinois Central railroad. The
officers of the company will he : F. B. Robert-
son, president; S. B. .\nderson, vice president;

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W. B. Morgan, trensuvev, and Geuige W. Fooslie,
secretary. Jlr. Kobci-tson is well known to the
hardwoiid Uimber trade, having lieen for some
years a member of the Goodlander liobertson
LnmlicTr Company. Mr. Anderson Is president of
I lie .\nders()n-Tully Company and W. B. Morgan
is seeretarytreasurcr of the same corporation.
Mr. Kooslie has been for some years represen-
lalive of the leading lumber papers of the
I'liited States. The eompany will begin busi-
ness .Tunt^ 1 .

New Orleans.
Two liundred boxmaliers employed in the
plants of the Central Manufaeturing & I.umber
Company and S. T. Alcus & Co. went out May 1
because their demands for a nine-hour day and
recognition of the union had been refused. Sixty-
live of these men were employed in the plant
of the first named company, while the remain-
ing I?..-, worked fur Aleus & Co. Trouble had
been brewing in these plants for some time, and
the walk-out was not altogether unexpected.
Tliere are fourteen of these box factories in the
city, but so far as is known no others have
as yet been affected by the strike. The New
Orleans Box Factory, on which demands had
been served, conceded what the men asked, with
the result that there was no strike in its fac-
tory. About .jiio boxmakers are employed in the
fourteen factories here. Two hundred of these
nre now on a strike, and it is expected that
iitliers will go out. The proprietors of the fac-
tories declare that they will stand pat and hold
out against the demand for recognition of the
union to the very last.

A full statement of the liabililies and assets
of the W. A. Powell Lumber Company. Ltd., has
been tiled in the United States Circuit Court
here in accordance with an order issued by
.Tudge rarlange. The liabilities are given as
if494,(i4."i.02 and the assets are $;i8.3.tl4!).42.
showing a deficiency of .flii.s.niiri.liO. The .state-
ment of deficiency is supplemented by the fol-
lowing table: Apparent detlciency, .flOS.no.i.ilO :
\V. A. Powell. .$61,420.24: doubtful accimnts.
,1!.H4.flo4.7S : stock not turned over to receivers.
,$1,0110: estimated total deficiency. .|206..'i70.02.
Heavy rains throughout Louisiana recently
liave interfered seriously with the operations of
hmibermen and comparatively little has been
done by luirdwood men in the interior. Tlie
rains have been general and the precipitation
in the last two weeks has been exceedingly
heavy. Logging operations in a great many
instances have been suspended. The weather is
fair again, however, and it is anticipated that
the lumbermen in the interior will sboitly lie
able to get back to cutting stock.

The Evart Lumber Company, which operates
a big mill in Calcasieu Parish, has just been
incorporated. Its capital stock has been fixed
at $T."i.iioO and the following are its officers :
.lames II. Simpson of Detroit. Mich., president :
W. E. Hooper, Chicago, vice-president: Ira T.
Sayre, Flushing, Mich., secretary and treasurer.
Advices here state that I. R. and .T. W. Adams
have purchased the interests of .1. M. Nugent
in llie Smith & Adams Lnmbei' Company of
'I'nril. in Catahoula Parish. The same persons
liave piu-cbased Mr. Xugent's interests in a liig
planing n'ill at Georgetown, in Grant Parisli.

K. Chaniplain. a well known Mississippi
"lierator. has bouglil a big site on Fort Bayou,
in (he rear of ocean Springs, and will erect
(hereon a big box factory. He expects to estab-
lish a big plant and very soon put it in opera-
tion.

Chailotte, N. C.

The .1. Kaudall Williams Company of Phila-
delphia has about completed its splendid plant
at Salisbury, and within a few days it will be
running at full force. It will turn out lumber
Utv shipment to foreign as well as domestic
ports, and when contemplated additions are
made will be one of the most complete plants
in the entire South. A large force has been

employed and when operations are well under
way both equipment and help will be largely
increased. Mr. Williams is expected from Phila-
delphia to take charge of the work temporarily.
An effort will be made to obtain an injunction
against .T. Middleby, Jr.. to restrain the sale
of 23.000 acres of fine hardwood timljer lands
near Itutherfordton. which is valued at several
milliou dollars. .Mr. Middleby sold the property
about six montlis ago to Governor Swanson of
Virginia and his brother, W. G. Swanson, who,
with I>. A. Ritchie, D. E. Cogbill, C. J. Argyle
and W. L. Clements, have organized the Broad
River Lumber Company. He now alleges failure
to pay interest and other breaches of contract
in consequence of which he has advertised the
lands for sale on May 18. The Broad River
Company, acting through Governor Swanson, has
for this reason agreed to ask for an injunction.
Tile lands In question extend through four coun-
ties and are the most valuable lumber and
mineral lands in North Carolina. They were
purchased for $l.jn.()00. .$10,000 being paid in
casii and a mortgage being given for the re-
mainder. When the first note for $15,000 fell
due in February it was paid, but no interest was
Included. The company answered Mr. Middleby
when he made complaint at first that they wovild
pay no interest until a re-estimate of the
lumber on the lands was made, alleging a short-
age in the first estimate of 100,000,000 feet,
asking that this allowance be made in favor
of them. This led to the foreclosure proceedings.
Manimolh operations are in progress between
Waynesville and Clyde. X. C. where the Waynes-
vllle Transportation Company is constructing a
twelve-mile flume which will serve seven saw-
mills. S. Montgomery Smith, who Is at the
head of the enterprise, means to make North
Waynesville an important manufacturing center
of the state. His company is building a large
planing mill, through which some (50,000 feet of
lumber will pass daily. The flume will serve a
section producing lo0.O(f:i,UO0 feet of lumber
and 200.0110 cords of cord and acid wood. Mr.
Smith owns a tr.act at the head of the flume
which contains 2r).000.000 feet of hemlock,
spruce and balsam and 12,000.000 feet of hard-
wood. The big sawmill which will be operated
is the first "gang" sawmill ever built in this
section of the state. Great things are held In
view by the company, and with the capital
behind It anil the erticient men who are pushing
it, tile Waynesville sectlim will doubtless become
one of the most important hardwood centers in
the lumbering district of North Carolina.

The plant of the J. W. Watts Lumber Com-
pany at Stony Point, N. C. was damaged by
fire a few days ago. A large amount of fine
lundier was destroyed in addition to machinery
and equipment. The loss is estimated at ,$2,000.
.T. W. Crowell of Lexington, N. C, has estab-
lished a new hardwood business in Salisbury.
The> capital stock of his company at the begin-
ning of business is named at $30,000 with privi-
lege of increase.

The plant of the Kings Mountain Lumber
Company, manufacturers of sash, doors and
blinds and woodwork of every description. Is
nearing completion. The officers of the company
are : W. A. Ridenhour, president : T. C. Mauney.
secretary, and H. F. Petter.son, general manager.
A carload of new machinery will be installeil in
the new factory.

The plant of Asbury & Finger of this city
recently destroyed by fire will he completed at
an early date. Already work has commenced,
and within a few weeks the plant will be in
operation. The loss the firm sustained amounted
to aljont $22,000, large quantities of fine hard-
wood being burned as well as the entire ma-
chinery equipment.

C. W. Jones, formerly of this city, has decided
to operate a hardwood plant In New Mexico.
He recently made purchases of timber in that
state and expects to begin operating a plant
within a few weeks. He reports fine qualities

of hardwood, and exceedingly liigh prices in
tlie West.

The High Point Planing Mills Company has
been charteied with a capital of $2.'i,000. M. B.
Smith and others are the incorporators.

President Hotchkiss of the Dare Lumber Com-
pany of Binghamton, N. Y.. has announced
that he will soon begin the erection of mills at
Elizabeth City, N. C. The company owns 1(>7,000
acres of fine timber lands lying between Croatan
sound and the Alligator river in Dare county.
This property has been in litigation for a num-
ber of years, which has held back the building
of the mills which have long been contemplated.
These encumbrances have been cleared away
and plans are about matured for the erection of
mills for the development of the property. The
daily output of the mills will be 150.000 feet.
.\hout 300 hands will be employed. U. Gilpin
Smith is now in the North buying machinery
for the new mills. Active work is expected to
begin within a few days.

Kramer Bros. & Co.'s establishment at Eliza-
beth City, the oldest plant in that section of
tlie state, is being extensively improved. These
additions are being made with the hope of being
able to handle the large orders which are being
hooked daily from all over the country. This
large concern shipped the first load of dressed
lumber from the eastern part of the state to
rhiladelphia. This was the beginning of a repu-
tation which lias constantly broadened since the
establishment of the business and wliich was
never more evident than just at present.

A certificate has been issued by the secretary
of state for the dissolution of the Waccamaw
Land and Lumber (Company of Wilmington.
This is one of the largest lumber companies in
(he state, being capitalized at $1,000,000 and
backed by prominent .Micliigan hardwood men.
The company owns about 200, 000 acres of timber
land in Columbus and Brunswick counties. The
gi-antiug of tlu^ privilege of dissolution does not
mean that the company is going out of busi-
ness, however. The Waccamaw Lumber Com-
pany, backed by practically the same capital,
will own and operate the establishment here-
after. Extensive improvements are looked for.
The Tyrrell Manufacturing Company will soon
begin operating Its new circular sawmill on the
Scuppernong i-iver near Columbia. X. C. Tiie
lilant will manufacture all kinds of lumber, the
daily output lieiug about 30,000 feet, which will
he increased as logging and shipping facilities
are improved. B, F. Duncan is the principal
spirit in the movement.

The McEwen Lumber Company of .\zalea, N.
('., Is installing an up-to-date planing mill, a
much-needed addition to its large plant. The
company expects to begin operating within sixty
days, manufacturing hardwoods. W. B. JlcEwen
is president : I'. R. Moale, vice-president ; Her-
man Meader. treasurer, and A. H. Cobb, secre-
tary.

The Whiteville Lnmher Company has filed an
amendment to its charier increasing its capital
stock to $250,000. The plant is situated at
(joldsboro. X. C.

The Hope River Lumber Company lias been
chartered at Durham, N. C, with a capital of
$50,000.

The Cochrane Show Case Company of Cliar-
lotte recently filled an order for Secretary Pruner
of the State Agricultural Department for cases
to be used at the Jamestown Exposition to
<iintaiu North Carolina exhibits. This is one of
tlie leading hardwood factories of this part of
tlie state.

The Dixon Luiulier and Veneer Company of
Rose Hill. X'. C, has been chartered with a
capital of ,$100,000 : William J. Hall and others,
stockholders.

The Linville Lumlier Company of Pineola. X.
('., which has been operated for a number of
years by John T. Xagle and others has recently
consolidated with a number of hardwood con-
cerns operating in the vicinity of Bristol, Tenn.,

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nnd a movement has been started to do a general
wliolesale and maunfacturing business.

Altapass. X. ('.. will be tbe scene of operations
of tbe Tipp City Lumber Company of Bristol,
wbicb lias recently establisbed itself on the
South & Western railroad near Spruce Fine,
X. ('.

The Xoell-Anderson Company of Danville, Va.,
manufacturer of office furniture, tables and
desks, has begun the construction of a new
factory which will be completed in a couple of
months. The addition was necessary on account
of increased business, and represents an expendi-
ture of aliout .$2.", 11(10. The concern is preparing
to manufacture betweeu two and three million
feet of hogshead staves per year fur consumers
in and around Danville.

Louisville.

r. ]>. l.anbitm. fnrmi'riy of Lelianun. Ky.. and
others have organized the Lanham Lumber Com-
pany, to manufacture parquetry flooring. The
company is equipping a plant at 12th and
Magnolia streets. ' Down-town offices have been
established in the Columbia building. Mr. Lan-
ham has already had some experience in this
work at Lebanon, where be developed quite a
business in pariiuetry tlo<»riug, shii^ping to the
eastern trade. The new venture simply means
going into the same business on a larger scale.

A. E. Xorman reports that his company is
putting in two or three new mills down in its
Kentucky timber territory which will increase
manufacturing facilities considerably. Speaking
of the liardwood situation generall.v, he says
that it has improved materially in point of
supply. The company now gets stock more
freel.v over country roads and is also getting a
better supply of railway cars, so that tlie out-
look for a busy summer is rosy.

The A. P. Turner Lumber Company is making
better progress in tbe woods now than for some
weeks, but not enough to be entirely satisfac-
tory. It hopes to continue improving the work
in the woods and expects pretty busy times all
summer.

Albert R. Kampf says there is larger demand
for hardwoods than can be cared for, and while
he keeps booking orders from time to time to
cover his accumulations, he has to turn away
considerably more orders than he is able to
accept because he hasn't the stock with W'hich
to fill them. He thinks the situation in oak is
pretty strong and it is only a matter of time
until oak prices go up. In fact, he is a firm
believer in all hardwood prices being firmly fixed
and inclining upwards.

Minneapolis.

The local consumption of liardwoud promises
to he fully up to last year. Building opera-
tions are under way with assurance that they
will not be interrupted. The carpenters com-
promised their demand on the contractors for
an increase in wages, the strike was called
oft and all the building trades are ciuiet and
satisfied. The building permits for April
reached a total estimated cost of $1,147,960.
compared with $893,090 for April last year.
St. Paul's were valued at $623,119. The sash
and door factories have a big line of special
work calling for oak, birch, maple and bass-
wood, and while not buying heavily now they
will be in the market right along. The fur-
niture factories have been having rather a
liglit business.

Notices have been sent to the trade of the
new table of estimated weights adopted hy tiie
Northwestern Hardwood Lumbermen's Asso-
ciation, which makes a nimiber of increases
on account of the tendency to ship so much
nardwood dry or half dry. The new table of
standard weights per thousand feet, which
means some increase in price, reads thus:

Pounds.

Birch 4.000

Hard maple 4,000

Soft maiile 3,500

Rock elm ; 4.00(1

Soft elm '. 3.000

Brown ash 3,250

White oak 4,000

Red oak 3,800

Butternut 2,500

Bas.swood 2.400

Basswood ceiling. % in 1,500

Ba-sswood siding and ceiling. -Ki in 800

-Oak flooring. 13-16 2,100

Maple ftooring, 13-16 2.100

Birch flooring, 13-16 2.inii

In this connection it is of interest to Minne-
sotLL producers of luirdwood that lumber rates
within tlie state have been reduced by the
legislature about 10 per cent and that a law
has been passed giving the state railroad com-
mission jurisdiction over the question of rail-
road track scales. An inspector will be de-
tailed to test the scales and also to check up
on the present careless methods of weighing.

John E. Glover, the New Richmond, Wis.,
lumberman, was in the twin cities last week
looking up the hemlock and hardwood situa-
tion. He has sawed about 7.000,000 feet of
hardwood for the summer and fall trade, now
in pile, most of it birch. He expects to cut
about 20.000.000 feet of hemlock during the
season.

E. Pa.vson Smith of the Payson Smith Lum-
ber Company has been away on a sliort trip
to Milwaukee and Chicago. He reports their
business good and enough now on the books
to give them a good volume of shipments for
three montlis. George S. Agnew, who has
been in the South looking after shipments of
oak for them, will be home this week.

Tlie Transfer Warehouse Lumber Company,
a new concern which expects to asseml>le lum-
ber and look after mixed ear business, w'ith
shipping facilities at Minnesota Transfer, has
been organized witli $50,000 capital stock by
C. W. Dewey. A. J. Si^e and C. T. Dewey, all
of Minneapolis.

W. O. Barndt of tlie W. O. Barndt Lumber
Company is back from a business trip in Wis-
consin territory looking after the condition of
stoclc.

Ashland, Ky.

F. G. Kberhart of Misbawaka, Ind., a member
of the Page Lumber Compan.v, has returned
from a business trip through West Virginia in
his company's interests.

E. C. .Means and C. M. Crawford of tbe
Yellow Poplar Lumber Company are among the
incorporators of the Kiissell Fork Railroad Com-
pany. The road will lie a standard gauge and
will run through Dickinson and Buchanan coun-
ties, Virginia, to the Kentucky border, and will
promote tlie development of the rich timber
and mineral lands in that section. This
begins tbe railroad development in the brakes
of Big Sandy, in which the people of this sec-
tion are interested, and foreshadows the devel-
opment of great riches in that portion of the
rich Big Sandy country.

O. F. L. Beckette and wife are in Caliluruia.
where they will s]iend several weeks in travel
after taking in the Shriners' meeting at Los
Angeles.

W. 11. Dawkius has returned from a trip
east, where he looked after business interests
and visited his daugliter, Miss Hazel, who is
attending Fairmont College, Washington. D. C.

.lohn Hartman. head sawyer for tbe Dimen-
sion Lumber Company at Xorth Catlettsburg.
was friglitfnU'y mangled by one of the rapidly
revolving saws, a few days ago. and was thought
to be fatally wounded, but tbe attending physi-
cians say there is a slight chance for his life.
He fell on fop of the saw, which severed every
rib in the left side from the backbone and
cut the end off of one lung. So great was the
wound that the liver protruded, while ills lungs
could be seen moving. Hartman recently came

from Cincinnati, where he worked for C. Crane
& Co. lie has a wife and four cliildreu.

Ironton, (Jhio. lias Inst one of its best-informed
and nidst prominent luinlii'rmen in tlie death oi
.Tames W. Pierce, president and manager of the
Pierce Lumber Company, who died at his home
of pneumonia after a week's illness. He is
survived by his wife and a young son. Mrs.
pierce was made executrix of her husband's
estate and will carry on his business without
any change.

Giles Wright has purchased of C. C. C'hirk a
fine tract of poplar on Rockcastle, in Martin
County, Kentucky. There are 3,(100 trees ttf tlie
finest quality and extra large. Mr. Wright lias
just made a business trip through Michigan.
He reports business brisk, witli all the orders
be can comfortably handle. Iievelopment of the
vast and unexcelled timber along the lines of
the Deepwater Railroad in Raleigli and Wyo-
ming counties. West ^'irgiuia, is being pnslieil
with unusual vigor at a number of points along
the route. Capitalists seeing the possibilities of
this region are attracted to it almost daily.

■Wausau, Wis.

The Cisco Lake Lumber Company of Wausau
has been organized with a caiiital stock of
$200,000. The incorporators are Walter Alex-
ander, Cyrus C. Yawkey and Benjamin Ileine-
mann. The firm has lately purchased lands in
(jogebic County, Michigan, on wbicb tliere is
100,000,000 feet of hardwood and beiiilock,
whicli will be shipped by rail to Wausau iind
manufactured.

The I'pbam Manufacturing Coniiiany of Marsli-
field recently paid ^'inrcnt Milkowski. an em-
ployee, .f3.200 for the loss of both feet while
in the company's employ. It was a volnutiuy
act.

The lumber barge Arcadia, whicli recently
left Manistee, Mich., for Two Rivers. Wis.. Inadeil
with a cargo of hardwood, was lost willi lier
crew.

The Wheeler-Timlin Lumber Compauy of Wau-
sau, a liardwood concern, has increased its capi-
tal stock from .^lo.ooo to .$23,000.

W. D. Connor, head of the R. Connor Com
pany of Marshtield, and lieutenant governor. li:i>^
been acting governor during Governor Davidson's
recent absence from the state.

The Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company of
Marsbfieid, which is rebuilding its plant de-
stroyed by fire last winter, w'iil have a roller
drier with a cafjacity for drying 120,000 feet of
thin veneer every ten hours.

Tbe lOngllsb Manufacturing Company of Mer-
rill is adding machinery to its plant which will
greatly increase its capacity. It is engaged
largely in the manufacture of paint pails and
has one order which will take five years to fill.

C'. P. (^rosby, a lihinelander hardwood man,
and family are visiting in the Sonrli and in
Cuba.

A carload of birch lumber containing 20,22'.
feet was recently shipped out of Hundy to tbe
Lesh-Matthews Lumber Company of Chicago.
This is one of the largest amounts of that grade
of lumber ever put on a car in northern Wis-
consin.

The hub factory recently built by businesn
men of Athens has been put in operation. The
concern has 100,000 feet of timber on hand,
sufficient to turn out 14,500 sets of hubs.

The I'ayne Lumber Company of Oshkosli is
enlarging its sawmill plant at a cost of ,$100, Odd.
which will make it one of the largest in the
world.

What is claimed to be the largest tree in Wis-
consin is (m the farm of Matthew JIallon near
Reedshurg. It is an elm and it requires a string
thirty feet long to reach around the trunk. It
is about eighty feet high and tbe body holds
its si/.i' remarkably well for about forty feel,
when several large branches are thrown out.
making a symmetrical an<I beautiful specimen.

Tbe (-1. W. Jones Lumber Company of Apple

HARDWOOD RECORt)

lull ri'i-piiily inade a sale of rtUd.mm JVet of roi-k
('III' iihink .11 its plant in rraiulmi which will
Im- ciil iiil" in;itiTial I'nr Ihi- I!<'ll T.-lMphone
Conipatiy.

riuirh's Fish of Kli-ho and (.'hai'Ics U. .lohuson
(if (Jrand Ilapids. :\Iifh.. will Imild a mill iind
f-niipera^'i' plant in Elclio.

As a sii initio of the diltit-nll y himlHM- liruis
li:iv(' in kci'pinjj laborers may l»i* ciletl the fol
lowing; : The W. H. Ivi>j;;i'rs LnmUer Company
nf XashviUe, Wis., recently found \ii»on Iool<ing
over its books that during: one month there was
ail enrollment of over (iOO names, and yet never
nt one time did they employ over lUO men. The
company owns 7.000 acres of hardwood lands
in Langlade County.

Here is an instanee showin^i how hanUvcod
lands are advancing in Wisconsin : A. W. IJreit-
enstein of Stockton three years ago purchased a
tract for which he paid .1:1,700. A few days ago
lie sold it to Charles Gehoreck of the same town
for .$:^.oo(i.

Isaac Stepheuson, Jr.. will return to Mari-
nette to live. He recently disposed of hi.s tim-
lier holdings in the South to the Long-Beil Com-
pany for $:i.ooo.ooo.

The Kaukauna Lumber & Manufacturing
(Nmipany of Kaukauna has purchased and sawed
into Uintlter some black walnut trees which grew
from seed planted over fifty years ago. They
had attained a growth of from eight to ten
inches in diameter and were cut down to make
room for building purposes.

'I'he I'aine Lumber ("ompany of Oshkosh. hav-

ing placed the highest hid t'lr
of logs on the Keshemi Indian
Shawano, will be awarded the <

was .^.'I'JIllKKI.

17. Hint, (Hid fee!
■eservation near
niracl. Its bid

Toledo.

Kolbnving the annonncmcnt of an investiga-
tion of local railroad conditions by Special Agent
Mackenzie of the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion they seemed for a time to be somewhat im
proved. This, however, did not last long accord-
ing to most dealers, and while western shipments
are some better there is room for much improve-
ment. It is understood semi-officially that when
the grand jury convenes in June the government
will enter into the investigation from the grand
jury standpoint.

There has not been very much change in tho
situation caused by the indictment of the lumber
dealers last month for violation of the Valentine
anti-trust law. All of them have givt-n bond for
appearance and it is expected that their case
will come up the latter part of the month. ThJ
defendants have indicated no line of defense, but
it is hinted strongly that they will open up a
few surprises before the end is reached.

The hardwood lumber plant of C. A. Hunt &
Co. at Bancroft, near I't. Huron, was destroyc'd
by fire last week. The loss was total, as there
was no insurance. The owners announce they
will rebui'.d the plant.

Thomas A. Buckley of Fostoria. a well known
lumber bnyei-, died suddenly at Upper Sandusky
last week.

Hardwood Market.

(By HABDWOOD BECOBD

Chicago.

While many local wholesalers claim that they
are as busy as ever, others admit that trade
is slackening a little. It is certain that there
is no particular buoyancy in the market, and.
wliile prices remain firm, sales are being urged
in a good many instances. The furniture man-
ufar-turing trade, which furni.shes a consider-
able element of the local demand, is not par-
ticularly active : in fact it is not up to expecta-
tions, while stocks in the yards of factories are
ciunparatively light ; buyers are hesitating aliout
placing many orders for advance shipments.
The entire woodworking industry still remains
active, and there is a good demand from this
class of trade for oak, birch and some of the
other woods. Local flooring people are busy
and are still strong buyers of maple and oak
when they are offered at reasonable terms. On
the whole, the situation may be regarded as
healthy, and m.any of the dealers are glad to
see an evidence of slackening demand so that
they can catch up with their business.

Exclusive market Reporters.)

ing, with prices tending toward a higher
rather than a lower level. Whitewood has
developed a great deal of strength during
the past two months. No shipper is willing to
make concessions, and where prompt delivery
is wanted values are very firm. Cypress is
well held, but demand is not of large volume
,iust now. Black walnut is in good demand;
prices are strong.

Boston.

The market for hardwoods is very firm, but
trading is less active than it was. Nearly all
dealers did a good business during March and
April, but this month so far has produced
small orders. A leading dealer gives as a
reason for this that sellers notified the re-
tailers that prices were advancing and ad-
vised them to place orders previous to the
mark-up with the result that the majority of
buyers have unusually large stocks or are pro-
tected by orders placed. Some buyers believe
present high prices cannot continue and that
holding out of the market will result in the
market becoming easier.

Consumers of hardwoods are busy. Fur-
niture manufacturers are doing a good
business.

Export inquiry is not large, and until there
is a material decline small orders only will
be received from abroad. Plain oak is firmly
h< Id and ciuartered oak is strong. White and
brown ash are in comparatively small offer-

New York.

The hardwood trade in New York city proper
has eased off slightly of late in certain lines.
but the volume of buying in the outlying sec-
tions seems strong. Trade as a whole is not
abnormally large, but supplies are small, and
taking all branches of the trade into considera-
tion there is a fair consumption, particularly
among manufacturers of furniture, pianos, trim,
mouldings, etc., with oak, ash and poplar in the
most active call. There is an exceedingly brisk
trade in low-grade rough stuff and rough car
and ship lumber and specialties of that natm-e,
hut as a matter of fact there has not been as
good a demand for this class of material for
many years as there is at the present time, and
the mills and wholesale houses in a position to
furnish this class of material are reaping a
profitable trade. Hardwoods in the better grades
are by no means plentiful, although in certain
directions there seems to be a slight increase in
supplies. In some sections the supply of cars
is a little more plentiful, hut as a whole the
situation seems to -row pretty generally worse,
and large handlers of stock are urging buyers to
place orders for their summer W'ants at once in
order to get shipments when wanted, as it is
generally believed that delayed purchases will
prevent buyers from securing their supplies as
the season progresses.

The price situation continues strong, biit while
hardwood values as a whole are today on a
higher level than was ever known before the
margin of profit is by no means commensurate
with what it appears to the average manufac-
turer. It is true that the manufacturer who
holds timber purchased years ago is reaping good

profits, bill the iiperatots who linve gotten into
the game in recent years ;ind luive purchased
tlieir tiiiibi-r holdings at recent prices and have
jn-^taHed up-to-date plants must of necessity
realize tlu'se high prices in order to receive
;iny profitable returns. Of course, this increased
operation will eventually increase supplies, but
any material rasing off in values will result in
a suspension of newer operations in many sec-
tions.

As a whole, the general outlook for the bal-
ance of the spring and summer trade is very
fair and there is every indication that values
will be maintained for some months to come,
and especially so if the supplies do noi nuite-
riallv increase.

Philadelphia.

The good efl'ert of the spring-like weather,
which has put in a tardy appearance, is very
perceptible in the lumber business and a reaction
is felt all along the line. It is unfortunate,
however, that a strike is on in building circles,
which naturally will call a halt to free buying
among those who handle building material. The
trouble is a complicated one and concerns
neither the question of wages nor hours, but has
grown out of a dispute as to whose work it is
to set the cut stone in the body of a building.
For years the granite cutter has been doing this,
but now the stone-mason, who does the lighter
work, insists that the heavier stone should be
set by him. and as the stone-masons' association
is allied with that of the bricklayers, the latter
naturally back the first named in the stand it
has taken. It is understood that the brick-
layers, however, are not unanimously in favor
of this move, and the master bricklayers tried to
force a settling of the dispute upon the brick-
layers by notifying them that all building would
stop short on the evening of ^lay '2 unless the
three organizations came to satisfactory terms.
This warning has been ignored and the strike is
now on. It is believed, however, that pressure
will he brought to bear upon the stone masons
and that they will yield.

The various woodworking industries are luisy.
wMth no perceptible sign of abatement. Hard-
wood dealers are anticipating a good season and
many houses claim they have any number of
good orders coming in. but are unable to get the
goods on account of the railroad service and
the unfavorable weather conditions at the mill
districts. Among the hardwoods, chestnut, ash
and basswood keep the top notchers, but con-
tinue scarce. Oak is apparently regaining old
status, but opinions do not all coincide, it
seems, on poplar. Some say it is not so stiff
as heretofore, while others contend it is showing
up strong. Quartered white oak is looking up.
and gum holds steady. Maple flooring keeps in
good call. The cedar and veneer market is
active, but the high grades are scarce, with
prices up. On account of this scarcity and high
price of cedar and veneer, some dealers have
made a trial of African and Brazilian mahogany
as a substitute, hut it did not work, so some
of the cigar-box makers are using veneered
instead. Yard stocks of hardwood are normal,
but seasoned material is scarce, both here and
at the mills.

Baltimore.

The hardwood trade of this section is holding
up remarkably well. Stocks continue to be in
good demand and the mills are unable to supply
lumber fast enough. Values are firmly main-
tained, and dealers admit that they are getting
the highest prices ever paid for stocks : an
excellent feeling prevails in the trade and no
uneasiness is felt over the outlook. Manufac-
turers as well as dealers reason that as the
railroads cannot now handle all the freight that
is offered, because of the scarcity of rolling
stock, they must continue to make large addi-
tions to the equipment, whether they w^aut to or
not. it is the general belief that the demand

HARDWOOD RECORD

for stocks must continue brisk because o£ tlie
extraordinary requirements of the large con-
sumers which cannot be deferred but must be
met without delay. And this oiiinion appears
to be .iustiflerl by the existing state ot affairs,
which has all the manifestalions of a big boom.
Oak commands m.)s-t attiaitive values and
the inquiries are alwa.v.s ahead of the output of
the mills, which latter have contracts enough to
keep them going for months to come. Sliipments
are m.ade at record-breaking figures and the ten-
dency of stumpage values is steadily upward.
The demand for foreign points is said to be not
(piite so urgent as it was some time ago, but
the situation there is eminently satisfactory.
What is eciually important, the terms are such
as to leave the exporters a good profit, liecause
the consignees have ceased to insist upon vexa-
tious requirements which tend to cut down the
gains. Ash is not far behind oak, being eagerly
sought, bringing very acceptable prices and hold-
ing its own in every particular. Chestnut, wal-
nut, beech and all the other hardwoods dealt in
are finding ready takers and there is so far no
indication of a decline in the movement. The
favorable weather serves to increase the output
of the mills, hut an inspection ot the yards here
shows that stocks have been materially reduced
during the past months, and that large quanti-
ties of lumber will be needed to bring the selec-
tion up to what it was before the heavy with-
drawals. Business is being done abroad on a
more satisfactory basis and exporters are hene-
lited accordingly.

Pittsburg.

Pittsburg hardwood men for months have
held the center of the .stage. It is not so with
dealers in other woods by a long way. Busi-
ness is moving along at a very fair pace in
all lines, but it goes by leaps and jumps in
the hardwood trade, and there is not a dealer
in the city who is not ahead of the game so
far as orders are concerned. His greatest
trouble is to get lumber enough to fill his
orders and cars to ship out the stock. Of late
the latter complaint has been a very serious
one. especially on the short line branches in
West Virginia, where the scarcity of cars is
perhaps more pronounced than one month
ago.

Everything in hardwood is selling well.
Stocl<s at the country mills are piclced over
till they are down to the minimum. Dry
lumber is at a premium almost anywhere in
the Pittsburg district.

Under this strain of demand prices are re-
marlcably firm in all lines. Oak is leading the
race. Pittsburg has never had a better mar-
ket for oak lumber of almost every variety
than this spring. From the finest grades of
finishing stock to the heavy timbers and pil-
ing wanted for river and railroad improve-
ments there is a steady inquiry for every-
thing in oak and the quotations named by
local wholesalers are not objected to, as a
rule. Chestnut is strongest in market this
month. There is an excellent inquiry for
sound wormy, and mill culls are being worked
oft at good prices. Piano and casket manu-
facturers are taking more chestnut this spring
than ever before and this makes a very good
demand for the better grades. Several firms
report a splendid call for ash and hickory,
which are wanted chiefly by the factories of
Ohio and Michigan. The trade throughout the
Kast is good and some big orders have been
placed there lately.

There seems to be oak enough to meet most
demands and the balance between quartered
and plain is better than it used to be. Prices
are strong, and .some dealers say that they
ought to be higher.

One thing that is not very reassuring to the
eastern dealer is the fact that so much hard-
wood lumber sells right from the mills into
other markets. It is now out of the question
to bring such woods as gum and cottonwood
here, as there is a better trade in them
further south and west.

There is a big demand for poplar, with only
a light supply and that pretty badly dis-
tributed. While some of the dealers are man-
aging to get a, fair supply of it, others are
reporting so little ot it that they have to turn
most ot their orders down.

The opening ot tlie late trade will soon add
materially to the birch, black ash, elm, maple
and basswood supply, all ot which will find a
ready sale. The demand for elm is improving,
as it is wanted so badly in place of ash, and
maple is going into the same trade. Bass-
wood grows in demand as poplar becomes
harder to find.

shortage that held back trade for some time is
now practically cleared up and cars can be
secured with short notice. The only thing that
now bothers lumber dealers is the shortage
ot stock on poplar grades. That item ot wood
has never been in greater activity than now
and dealers are contemplating augmenting the
price. Poplar firsts and seconds are eagerly
sought and dealers are securing fancy prices:
however, a general rise in the price has not
been posted. Oak, white and plain, are two
more that are receiving their portion of re-
quests, and next to poplar are the best seller
in this market. Hemlock and cypress are
still selling well, but not like oak and poplar.
Hickory, spruce, birch and mahogany are
keeping up with the pace set iiy them some
weeks ago and prices obtained are generally
on a steady basis. Dealers now look for heavy
orders ,all through the year 19117.

Buffalo.

Business in hardwood is unanimously re-
ported active, with prospects for a busy
season. There is in general enough stock of
the various hardwoods to meet the demand,
though it is no longer possible for the con-
sumer to choose just the sort that he used to
prefer.

Saginaw Valley.

Hardwood plants are in operation throughout
this territory and u number of them have been
running all winter, yet there is no accumulation
ot dry stock. The market is in much better form
than it was a year ago, both as to volume and
price. A quantity ot No. 1 common basswood
at ,?43 a thousand was shijiped out to I'ennsyl-
vania last week, and there is an inquiry for dry
stock on every hand. Beech and birch are do-
ing very well. A lot of beech, birch and bass-
wood culls are being worked up into boxes.
Prices for all kinds of hardwood are now firm
and everything that appeals to the eye of the
dealer is being taken. Maple flooring has ad-
vanced on the factory grades and the market all
through is strong,

Indianapolis.

Within the last ten days the car situation has
shown considerable improvement throughout
Indiana. Cars ot the fast freight lines have ap-
peared in larger numbers during that time than
at any other period within the last five or six
months. This does not mean that there is an
ample supply of cars for every line of traffic, but
the roliet is noticeable. An advance in grain
rates has checked the demand tor cars from that
source and it is believed that the shortage will
be greatly relieved until grain begins to move in
the fall. Lumber has been coming into Indian-
apolis in large quantities the last ten days, and
hardwood men are getting a fairly satisfactory
.supply to meet the unusually heavy demand.
There has been no increase in hardwood prices,
nor is any contemplated, it is understood, in
the immediate future. The demand for all lines
of hardwood is brisk, with a fairly good supply.

Bristol, Va,-Temi.

The past fortnight has seen no appreciable
change in market conditions in this section.
Despite the fact that stock is moving rapidUv
and there is a steady demand for all grades and
kinds, it is beginning to accumulate on the yards
which have been pretty generally depleted for the
past few weeks.

The car supply is not what it sliould be and
many lumbermen in remote sections report that
they' are handicapped by their inability to get
their wants in this line supplied.

Local exporters report the foreign markets
very satisfactory. There has been a large amount
of stock from this section exported this year
and shippers are unanimously satisfied with
conditions abroad at the present time.

St. Louis.

The demand for hardwoods is still excellent,
but the majority of dealers report the market
less active than it was a month ago. Buyer.<i
evidently think that the improved car service
and the past few weeks of good weather in
soutliern milling and logging territory will bring
up a large amount of stock, which operators
have not been able to move during the winter
months. However, the cut for the season was
light, owing to the heavy rains and tlie scarcity
ot cars.

Poplar, cottonwood and ash are still in great
demand with the jobbing and consuming trade
at the prevailing high prices for all sorts of
grades in these woods. Oak is not so active ot
late as it was a short time ago. although the
demand for quartered white is still excellent.
Gum is coming into the market rapidly, and
with the increased supply there seems to be no
diminution in the call, business in this line
being better than ever before.

Nashville.

Nashville lumbermen have at last reached the
stage where they are making promises about the
time they will deliver shipments, so marked has
been the recent improvement in the car shortage
situation. Until right recently the question
of getting a car for a shipment figured very ma-
terially in the price paid. Many northern and
eastern dealers who came South here offered
big increases in quotations it they could only
get the promise ot a car at once in which to
forward their stuff. Poplar continues to lead all
the other hardwoods in this market. Dealers
who have any are still able to get most any-
thing they have the nerve to ask for all kinds
of stock. Quartered oak showed a slight ad-
vance this past week, although the market has
been pretty steady in this variety owing to the
liberal supply on hand. There is plenty of
plain oak but it is selling well. A good deal of
ash has been reaching this market recently,
although a slight advance is noticed. Gum
shows an advance, owing to the heavy inroads
the box men have been making. First class oak
staves are now bringing the highest price ever
known here. The demand for staves this season
exceeds that of any previous year. In some
quarters staves are worth more than lumber
and many ot the saw mills are putting in stave
cutting facilities.

Cincinnati.

The demand for all grades of hardwood
lumber in this market is excellent. The car

Memphis.

The demand for hardwood lumber is perhaps
not quite so active as previously. 'There is no
evidence of weakness in the market and there is
still a very satisfactory volume of business do-
ing, but it is evident that buyers are not quite
so strenuous as they were. They have secured
large quantities ot lumber during the past several
months and, with improved car service, this is
now being delivered to them. Thus they are in

HARDWOOD RECORD

a waiting attitude pending further d(.'velopments
liefore they become active buyers again.

There is scarcely as much strength in the
higher grades of gum as there has been recently.
The offerings of this have shown considerable
increase and some holders are offering to sell
at lower prices than recently current, which has
created the impression among buyers that prices
DTiay go lower on this class of lumber. The
lower grades are firmly held because there is
such an excellent demand for these for use in
box and crating factories, riain oak, quartered
oak, ash, poplar and cypress are just as firm as
heretofore. There is no surplus of any of these
woods and holders are rather independent. The
recent increase in the amount of hardwood lum-
ber placed on sticks may have had some influ-
ence in making buyers hold back somewhat, but
the decrease now in evidence, resulting from
the unfavorable weather conditions told of in
the general letter from Memphis, may have the
effect of renewing the demand somewhat in in-
stances where it is beginning to lag. General
conditions continue quite wholesome and the
trade is confident of the immediate future of the
market.

Charlotte, N. C.

Hardwood market conditions locally are satis-
factory. The good prices that have prevailed
for six months continue with little evidence of
early reduction. All grades of lumber are de-
manding stiff prices. The past few weeks have
brought much Improvement in the car situatiou
and the prospects are that before many more
weeks lumbermen will not be troubled at all iu
this direction. High-grade hardwood is some-
what scarce on the local market, and prices have
advanced. Poplar and chestnut are in demand
over the state. Weather conditions were favor-
able to work during the month of April, many
important timber deals have been made, new
companies are chartered almost daily and alto
gether the outlook here is exceedingly gratifying
to the hardwood manufacturer.

Louisville.

There are hustling times in the Louisville
hardwood market. The improvement in the car
situation continues, and as a result the receipts
in the yards here and the shipments from
<-ountry points have been much more liberal.
Operations in the woods are also more active.
There does not seem to be any trouble about
the demand, except that here and there a pros-
pective buyer will wrangle over prices, but these
things are always with us and do not alter the
fact that prosperit.v continues to smile on the
hardwood trade in this community and every
<!lass of hardwood ju-oducts finds a ready
market.

There is in addition to the regular factory
trade an increasing call for structural material
as the spring building season advances, and this
call in the aggregate absorbs a large quantity
of hardwood and incidentally assists the mill
men materially in cleaning up their cut. Poplar
bevel siding continues scarce and in demand, as
is the case with all poplar lumber. Aside from
poplar, which is distinctly in the lead, the woods
seem to be pretty well bunched as far as demand
is concerned, and naturally with the continued
improved conditions of transportation there is a
decided increase in the amount of business being
done.

POPLAR

Rough and Dressed

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

M. A. HAYWARD

1021 Saving and Trust Bldg., Columbus, O.

Minneapolis.

The country trade is the main feature now
with Twin City wholesalers. They could do
a bigger volume of business it they had the
stock, but the offerings of dry lumber are
decidedly restricted. Some oak is being
shipped green and, with the exception of one
or two small lots of red oak, there is no dry
northern oak stock to be had. Low grade
lumber is all very scarce and high in price,
.and basswood is especially sought after. Box
manufacturers are buying the new cut and
will soon have it cleaned up at prices $5 or $6
a thousand higher than last year. The mixed
car trade is good and calls for wagon stock,
which is very scarce, with liberal amounts
of flooring.

Factories seem pretty well stocked up for
the present and are not buying much, but
are looking ahead and contracting to quite an
extent for the new cut, at prices which show-
confidence in the market. The talk of re-
trenchment in business has not affected the
factories as much as it has .some wholesalers,
who are disposed to clean up and not take
on much more stock until summer comes and
they know more about the outlook. Prices
are stiff now on everything, and birch, about
the only northern hardwood in fair supply, is
running low and getting stronger on the mar-
ket, though the new cut can be had on con-
tract very reasonably. Southern stock is not
very freely offered and is held high. Dry ash
is out of the market, and new offerings are
pretty well contracted by large consumers.

Rhinelander, Wis.

Backward spring weather has delayed the
placing of a good many orders, and complaints
are being made that trade is rather dull. Trav-
eling men report finding factories pretty well
filled up. There are certain items, however, that
customers are short of, as was the case last
year. Cars are quite plentiful, but for eastern
shipments nothing but gondolas or flats are pro-
vided, a*d in the case of hardwood flooring, or
firsts and seconds of any kind, dealers dislike to
load open cars. One advantage in loading open
cars is that one can get on a good big load.
C. P. Crosby of this city last week shipped a
car from Whitcomb. Wis., to Sheboygan loaded
with 30,D32 feet of 2-inch birch plank. This
is the biggest carload of lumber on record yet,
considering the fact that dry birch weighs 4,00U
pounds, so that the car must have weighed over
120,000 pounds. Buyers of basswood are re-
signed to the prevailing prices and are placing
orders for the new cut without a kick. Those
who cannot afford to use basswood will have to
substitute some other wood, for there is no
likelihood that it will ever become plentiful or
cheap again.

Birch is selling well and covering a wide
range of country. Probably the birch trade
never before approached in volume what it is
today. Many manufacturers of furniture and
wood goods are using it in place of some wood
that has grown too scarce or too high for them,
but the bulk of it goes into house finishing,
w-here it is largely supplanting oak. A good
deal of birch leaves here for New York state
points, and Ohio and Indiana are buying it to
a large extent also.

Soft elm is in better demand than at any time
for several years and is commanding good prices,
but still they are not as much as the wood is
worth,

Toledo.

Good demand, firm prices and no surplus stock
seem to fairly toll the condition of the hardwood
market in Toledo, The strongest feature of the
market is poplar. This wood is very scarce and
very high. Every foot is snapped up eagerly as
fast as it is received and box men and manu-
facturers are complaining constantly of being

imable to get stock. The maple market, particu-
larly in the flooring line, has been fairly quiet
up to a week ago, but since that time it has
taken a brace and now is moving along In prett.v
good shape. There is a strong demand for plain
oak with prices inclining upward. Quartered
oak is also fairly active and may take a jump
at any time. Ash is holding well with demand
fair ; straight-grained is not to be found in any
tjuantity. Hickory is being readily sold.

Ashland, Ky.

The car shortage is easier in this section and
not so much ditficulty is met in making prompt
shipments. There was never a better demand
for high grade poplar, and in fact all kinds and
grades of lumber find ready sale as soon as they
leave the saws ; in consequence of which there
is very little accumulation in the yards. All
mills are busy and lumbermen have no complaint
from an.v qinirter.

Liverpool.

Two mahogany sales were held recently and
higher prices were the rule. The advance,
though small, was ciuite distinct and there is
no hesitation in saying that much higher prices
can be looked forward to. Mahogany on this
side is, without the smallest shadow of doubt,
coming into fashion again. All the cabinet
makers state that it will be used more than
ever during the next year or so. This must
mean that the increased deinand will bring
increased prices. It certainly seems a sound
deduction to buy freely at the comparatively
low price prevailing today.

Poplar and ash are still firm and stocks are
very low. Oak remains in similar position.
Hickory is better and is really wanted. Some-
thing like a famine in this wood would take
place if one or two of the big buyers started
buying, as they no doubt shortly will have
to do. Satin walnut and walnut boards are
not so good as they should be, considering the
high price of poplar. Ash logs are not so
strong, the import having been very heavy.
These should be kept back a bit. The price
asked, too, does not meet with buyers' ideas,
which are only low.

London.

Business certainly seems to be improving and
Intyers are making more inquiries for stocks,
which in many instances seem to be coming
forward quite freely.

Thick oak planks for car construction and
house building purposes are still scarce. Most
of the arrivals are being sold on the open mar-
ket and are realizing top prices. It is not
always safe to send thick planks here for the
open market, but at the present moment buyers
are afraid that by the time they receive goods
ordered prices may not be quite so high.

Plain boards, 1", IM," and 1%", seem to be
arriving quite freely, but the market is in
position to deal with these stocks for some time
to come.

Quartered boards and planks are coming into
better demand and there is no great stock here.

Walnut is very difficult of sale, the demands
being for other woods for furniture making.
There is a fair stock of all except prime grade
thin boards, which are in request. Logs fit for
veneers would sell well. The demand for satin
walnut is mostly for No. 1 common, which is in
good supply ; Is and 2s have got too high in
price for the class of small makers who manu-
facture this wood into furniture, and therefore
the demand is restricted to one or two large
buyers who take constant supplies which do not
come on the market. Whitewood shows a con-
tinued scarcity and stocks are practically ex-
hausted and arrivals realize good prices.

Ash planks have a good sale, but logs are
neglected.

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The saving is not on a _ Only well built plants

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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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No display except the headings can be ad-
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Remittances to accompany the order. No
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EMPLOYES WANTED.

WANTED.

Young man al^oiit 2U years old, high school
education, with good habits, who has had about
a year's experience at measuring and grading
hardwood lumber. A good opportunity for a
man who is willing to work and will be loyal.
C. .7. FRANK, Logansport, Ind.

WANTED.

A head sawyer and filer to saw quartered
oaii for our veneer mill. Good position for
the right party. None other than thoroughly
experienced men in this line of worli need ap-
ply. MARTIN CUTSINGER & SONS CO..

Roachdale, Ind.

EMPLOYMENT WANTED

OFFICE POSITION WANTED.
Experienced man 35 years of age. Experi-
enced in lumber business. Expert bookkeeper
and shorthand writer. Now in Arkansas.
Want position by June 1 at $20 per week with
good firm. Address

"A 205." care Hardwood Record.

LUMBER WANTED

WANTED— WHITE OAK STRIPS.

One car of clear, bone dry Quartered White
Oak Strips, 4 to SV^" wide.

S. D. SMITH, Fort Wayni\ Ind.

WANTED— SHORT HICKORY SQUARES

In carload lots: .Ml White Grade: IV.x
11/2x26" iUKi 14" to 42". In Red and White:
iy2Xl%x26" and 30" to 42"; also l%xl?4x
6C". Address

VAN DEVENTER MFG. CO.. LTD.,
302 Cora Bldg., New Orleans, La.

WANTED— CAR STOCK.

Inspectfd and cash at mill.

.1. GUTIIRIDGE.
934 Monaduoek Bldg.. Chicago, 111.

WANTED.

5 cars each 4/4. 5/4. C, 4 and S '4" Sound
Wormy Chestnut. Quote f. o. b. Cincinnati.
DUHLMEIER BROTHERS. Cincinnati. O.

WANTED.

Walnut logs 11" and up in diameter. Oak
logs 24" and up and Hickory logs 14" and up —
all good quality. Address

H. V. HARTZELL, Greenville, Ohio.

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.

AMBR. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

WANTED.

QUARTERED RED OR WHITE OAK.

1x4x11, 16%, 19 & 20. IxSMixll, ley^ & 19,
1x3x14, 1x2^x14 — for delivery at Mound City,
111.

QUARTERED OAK CHAIR BACKS.

-'■• to 6" wide, 15 and 17" long, for delivery
at I'ort Washington, Wis.

THE WISCONSIN CHAIR CO.,

Port Washington. Wis.

WANTED.
4-4" and 6-4" Sound Wormy Chestnut.
4-4 Basswood and Buckeye.
4-4 Southern White I'ine.
Address Lumber Department,
NATIONAL CASKET CO., Hoboken, -N. J.

BASSWOOD WANTED.

A few carloads 4/4 and 8/4 Northern White
Passwood dressed two sides. Quote price de-
livered on New York rate of freight.
H. .1. ROSEVELT,
66 Broad St., New York, N. Y.

WANTED— DRY CYPRESS.

2x5" and wider, 8 or 16', Ists and 2nds,
selects or sound common.

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.

.411 grades and thicknesses, rough or dressed,
wanted. Prompt cash. Willing to contract.
AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Fa.

OAK.

We are In the market tor 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.. Chlraeo. Til.

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.

LUMBER FOR SALE.

YOU ARE OFFERED

the following bone dry stock for immediate
shipment :

1 car 3", 4" and 5" Birch Strips.

3 cars 3" No. 2 and No. 3 Oak.

1 car 1" No. 2 and No. 3 Oak.
5 cars 1" Log Run Maple.

2 cars 3" firsts and seconds Maple.
1 car 5" and 6" Bass Siding.

G. W. JONES LBR. CO., Appleton, Wis.

SOFT CORK WHITE PINE.

High grade Michigan stock for sale, all
thicknesses up to 4", bone dry, suitable tor
making patterns and fine cabinet work.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

FOR sale"

10 cars 1" 1st and 2nds Plain Red Oak.
2 cars 1V>" Plain Red Oak, Step Plank.

4 cars 1" 1st and 2nds Plain Red Oak, 12"
and wider.

2 cars 1" 1st and 2nds Qtd. Red Oak, 10"
and wider.

5 cars lli" No. 1 Common Plain White Oak.

1 car 1" No. 1 Common Qtd. White Oak.

2 cars 2" 1st and 2nds Qtd. White Oak.

2 cars 2" No. 1 Common Qtd. White Oak.

3 cars 1V>" 1st and 2nds Qtd. White Oak.

2 ears Hi" No. 1 Common Qtd. White Oak.
10 cars 1" 1st and 2nds Red Gum, 10' to 16'.

7 cars 1" 1st and 2nds Red Gum, 12'.

8 cars 2" 1st and 2nds Sap Gum.
8 cars 2" No. 1 Common Sap Gum.
1 car 2" No. 2 Common Sap Gum.

IS cars 1" 1st and 2nds Cottonwood, 6" and
wider.

3 cars 1" No. 1 Common Cottonwood.
FULLBRTON-POWBLL HARDWOOD LBR.

CO.. South Bend. Ind.

TIMBER LANDS FOR SALE

FOR SALE.

800 acres of hardwood timber, five' miles
from the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad in Green-
brier county, West Virginia. Timber only
*12.50 per acre. Estimated to cut 7.500 feet
per acre, fine quality.

EMORY H. SMITH, Newburg, W. Va.

MACHINERY FOR SALE

FOE SALE.

Power 12-inch Hand Jointer. Practically
new. Will sell cheap.

SHEIP & VANDEGRIFT. INC..
814 N. Lawrence St., Philadelphia, Pa.

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, 111.

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— MANAGER.

The advertiser, a large corporation, contem-
plates starting a first-class Box and Veneer
plant in the South, and desires to as-sociate
with a first-class, practical man to take full
local charge. Man must have had successful
experience in similar work, be of unquestioned
character, and be able to invest from ten to
twenty-five thousand dollars in the business.
The business will require a capital of one
hundred to one hundred and fifty thousand dol-
lars. The advertiser has ample capital to
finance it, but desires investment indicated on
part of manager for business reasons, which
will be apparent to the right man. Give in
confidence full information in replying. Ad-
dress "E. W. C," care Hardwood Record.

A SAWMILL OPERATOR

With at least 25 to 50 M capital can obtain
timber from an Eastern Tennessee hardwood
tract 6.000 acres and stumpage b.ised per thou-
sand feet, pay when dry and shipped. Write
for further particulars. A good chance for
good timber and will warrant investigation.
Address "D.," care Hardwood Record.

MAPLE FLOORING MILL

care Hardwood Record.

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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 tact from practical men who
know how certain things can be done In the
best way. Literary quality not essential. Lib-
eral pay tor acceptable articles. Address

Editor Hardwood Recced.

HARDWOOD RECORD

jidVertisers' T>trectori;

NORTHERN HARDWOODS.

7 Phila. Veneer & Lumber Company.

50
10

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 59 Mans. H. H.. & Co.. Inc . ^ wlseonsin Vereer Comoanv 53

Stearns Company, The 56 .McCauley-Saunders Lumber Company. 11 Wisconsin \ eneer company »J

Alcook John L., & Co 7 Stephenson, The L. Company 12 McIIvain. J. Gibson, & Co 6 wARnwnnn TTOORTNR

ISan Lumber & Mfg. Company.. 50 s.ewart. L N.. & Bro 59 McI^an-DavIs Lumber Company. 2 HARDWOOD FLOORING.

Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company.... 52 stewart-Eoy Lumber Company 5b McLean, Hugh, Lumber Company.... 69 ^^^^^^^ j^^^^^^ Company 51

Babcock Lumber Company 50 stlmson, J. V 58 Mjller, Anthony Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company... 52

Beyer, Knoi; & Co 59 .stone, T. B., Lumber Company 50 Miller Bros. 11 g,,^^ ^ Van Auken 12

Bliss & Van Auken 12 Sullivan. T., & Co 69 Mosby, H. W.. & Co

Boyne City Lumber Company 54 Tegge Lumber Company S Nicola Lumber Company The. . ...

Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company.. 59 Turner. A. M., Lumber Company 50 O'Brien, .Tohn, Land & Lumber Co ^ ^ ^^ ^ _

Cadillac Handle Company 3 Vollmar & Below Company 52 Paepcke-Lelcht Lumber Company 4 c„„^„ nigglns

Carter Frank. Company 53 Walnut Lumber Company, The -oS Phila. Veneer & Lumber Company.... 6 ^^ j_^_^,^^^ ,

Cheat River Lumber Company 50 Wells, R. A.. Lumber Company 10 Plummer Lumber Company 49 . _

Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co.... 9 White Lumber Company 10 Price, E E .. 7

Chicago Car Lumber Company 10 White, W. H.. Company 64 Radina, L W., & Oo u,

Chivvis W R •*" Whitmer, Wm., & Sons, Inc 6 Ransom, J. B., & Co 4S

Cincinnati Hardwood Lbr, Company.. 56 Wiborg & Hanna Company 57 Rhubesky E. W. 2

Cobbs & Mitchell Inc 3 Willson Bros. Lumber Company. 50 Richmond Park & Co 10

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11 Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company. 53 Ritter. W. M.. Lumber Company 5 Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Connor R Company 53 Wistar, Underbill & Co 7 Rumbarger Lumber Company 1 Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company 4S

Co-op 'Mili'& Lumber Company 46 Wylle. A. W 11 Ryan & McParland

Crescent Lumber Company 56 Yeager. Orson E. 59 Scatcherd & Son

Crosby & Beckley Co.. The 6 Young, W. D.. & Co 12 Schofleld Bros

Crosby, C. P 52 Young & Cutsinger 58 Slimmer^ F.^ & Co

Cummer, Diggins & Co

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

Smith. R. M.. & Co.

Buffalo Maple Flooring Company, The 7

Carrier Lumber & Mfg. Company 12

Cobbs & Mitchell. Inc 3

& Co 3

Company 8

Eastman, S, L., Flooring Company... 54

Fenn Bros. Company 4

Forman. Tbos., Company 6

Haak Lumber Company 37

International Hardwood Company.... 54

Kerry & Hanson Flooring Company... 55

Nichols & Cox Lumber Company 65

5^ Stephenson. The I.. Company 12

■^ Ward Bros 12

1? Wilce, The T., Company 58

Wisconsin Lar^d & Lumber Company.. 66

Darling, Chas., & Co 11

Davis, John R., Lumber Company 52

Davis, W. A 31

Dennis Bros

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company.
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company.

Dixon & Dewey

Duhlmeier Bros,

.Southern Lumber Company 2

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 59
Advance Lumber Company 51 Stearns Comnany, The 66

Sondheimer. E., Company 4 wood Mosaic Flooring Company 2

Young, W, D., & Co 12

SAW MILL MACHINERY,

Company.

55 Alcock, John L.. & Co 7 Steele & Hibbard 49

58 American Hdwd. Lumber Company... 49 Stewart, I. N., & Bro 69 Garland, M.,

6 American Lumber & Mfg. Company.. 50 Stimson. J. V 68 Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company. 3.S

_ 67 Anderson-Tully Company 4 Stone, T. B., Lumber Company 56 Mershon, W. B., & Co

Dwicht lumber Company 8 Atlantic Lumber Company Sullivan. T., & Co 59 Phoenix Manufacturing Company 53

Farle Lumber Company 54 Beyer, Knox & Co 69 Swann-Day Lumber Company 8

Ellas G & Bro 59 Brown, Geo. C. & Co 46 Three States Lumber Company 60 WOODWORKING MACHINERY.

Empire Lumber Company!. 59 Brown, W. P., & Sons. Lumber Co, . . 2 Turner, A, M.. Lumber Company 50

Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Company
Evans & Retting Lumber Compan)
Fall. E. H

11 Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company.. 59 Vesta! Lumber & Mfg. Company 49 American Wood Working Machinery

55 Carrier Lumber & Mfg. Company 12 Walnut Lumber Company. The 68 Company

51 Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co 9 Wells. R. A., Lumber Company 10 Berlin Machine Works, The.

Forir'an Company, Thomas 6 Chicago Car Lumber Company 10 West Florida Hardwood Company

Covel Manufacturing Company.

Freiberg Lumber Company, The 57 Chivvis, W. R

FuUerton-rowell Hardwood Lumber Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co.

49 White Lumber Company 10 Crown Iron Works.

56 Whitmer, Wm., & Sons, Inc..

6 Defiance Machine Works, The.

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39

Company

5 Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11 Wiborg & Hanna Company 57 Holmes, E. & B., Machinery Company 39

GeneS^Lumber Company,' The. 56 Co-Op. Mill and Lumber Comiiany 46 Willson Bros. Lumber Company 50 Matteson Manufacturing Company 47

nllesnie W M Lumber Company.. 7 Courtney, D. G 9 Wood, R. E.. Lumber Company 47 Nash, J. M -'3

"'iJ./ J o' ' ■ 54 Crane, C, & Co 66 Wylie, A. W 11 Olier Manufacturing Company, The...

Goldie J. S 54 Crane,

Haak Lumber' Company 37 Crescent Lumber Company 56 Yeager. Orson E 59 Suiker-Davia Company

Hackley-rbelps-Bonnell Company 55 Crosby & Beckley Company, The 6

Hayden & Westcctt Lumber Company 10 Cude, W. J., Land & Lbr. Company.. 48

HoUoway Lumber Company 7 Cypress Lumber Company 56

Hoyt C. I., & Co 58 Darling. Chas., & Co 11

Indiana Quartered Oak Company 7 Davidsoc-Beuedlct Company

Young & Cutsinger 58 Smith, H. B., Machine Company 41

Woods. S. A., Machine Company 44

POPLAR.

Advance Lumber Company 51

LOGGING MACHINERY.

Lumber Company 52. Davis. W. A 11 .^tlantic Lumber Comp.any

Ingram

James & Abbot Company

Jenks, Robert H., Lumber Company

Dennis & Smith Lumber Company... 53 Brown. W. P.. & Sons. Lumber Co..

51 D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company... 58 Cheat River Lumber Company 50 overpack.

Clyde Iron Works 42

Lidgerwood Mauufacturing Company. 4:',

D. G.

Jones Hardwood Company

Kampf, Albert R

Kelley Lumber & Shiugle Company

Russel Wheel & Foundry Company . .
DRY KILNS AND BLOWERS.

.Tones. G. W.. Lumber Company 2 Dixon & Dewey '-;«"t'.e5%

7 Duhlmeier Bros 5j Crane, C, & Co

2 Ellas G. & Bro 59 C'ude, W. J.. Land & Lbr. Company.

8 Empire Lumber Company, Buffalo 59 Davidson-Benedict Company

Kneeland Bi"eiow^ Company ..."...... 47 Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Company... 11 Dawkins. W. H.. Lumber Company.. 57 Gordon Hollow Blast C^ate Compan, . ^,s

^esh & Mat'thews Lumber Company . . 11 Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 65 Haas. Albert. Lumber Company 7 Grand Rapids Veneer Works 48

Lesh & Matthcns i^umoer i.ompa , i, Hayden & Westcott Lumber Company 10 Morton Dry Kiln Company 3,

Ut:m:mwml°T .::'.:'.:: ? F^rmkorn- Lumber •company....... 57 Hayward, M. A 37 New York Blower Company 3.

llmbard F B "....:.:.:.... H Freiberg Lumber Company, The 57 Hooton, R. A., Lumber Company.... 11

Knight' Lumber' Company 58 PuUerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber Kentucky Lumber Company ,'i7

Long-]

SAWS, KNIVES AND SUPPLIES.

Keyes-Fannin Lumber Company.

Mafey, Thompson & Moffett Company 58 C°"//°^ --'-^j,-'-^-^^^ ^l Massengale Lumber Company. 49 Atkins, E. C, & Co.

Martln-Barriss Company ■--•■•;"■" ^f/*'°°L^Xr Company '^"P^"'^- ^S McLean Davis Lumber Company 2 Covel Manufacturing Company.

Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company... 52 Ga.voso Lumber company..... -ta ,, w o rvown Iriin Works

Mans H. H., & Co., Inc 7 General Lumber Company, The 56 Rhubesky, E W 2 tro^^n Hon works..

Mcllvain, J. Gibson, & Co 6 Gillespie, W. M., Lumber Company.. 7 ' "

Ritter, ^iv, M., Lumber Company 5 Gillette Roller Bearing Company.

McLean, Hugh, Lumber Company. .

Haas. Albert. Lumber Company.....'.' 7 Smith. R. M., & Co S Hanchett Swage Works.

42
3.S
3S
37
3S

Southern Lumber Company 2 Marshall. Francis

Stewart-Roy Lumber Company 56 Matteson Manufacturing Company.

COTTONWOOD AND GUM.

Miller, Anthony 59 Uackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company 55

ATillpr' Bros 11 Hayward, M. A 33

Mitchell Br'os: Company 3 Heath. Wbitbeck & Co ^.... U Swann-Day i^umber Company

Mowbray & Robinson 57 Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co. . . 1 Vansant Kitchen & Co

Mu7phy & Dlgglns 3 Hooton. R. A., Lumber Company.... 11 Wood. R E., Lumber Company 4,

mchols & Cox Lumber Company 55 Hoyt, C. L, & Co 68 bellow Poplar Lumber Company 60

Nicola Lumber Company, The 50 Indiana Lumber Company 48

Northern Lumber Company 54 Indiana Quartered Oak Company .__ <

North Shore Lumber Company International Felloe Mfg. Company.. 49

North Vernon Lumber Company 2 James & Abbot Company 7

North Western Lumber Company 53 Jenks, Robert H.. Lumber Company.. 51

O'Brien. John. Land & Lumber Co... 10 Jones, G. W., Lumber Company 2

Osburii,' Norval 37 Jones Hardwood Company 7

Perrinc-.\i'mstrong Company 68 Kampf. Albert R 2

Price E E "! Kentucky Lumber Company 07

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 60

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company.. 11

Linehan Lumber Company 50

7
E. B 11

Long-Knight Lumber Company 58

Love. Boyd & Co 46

Luehrmann, Chas. F., Hardwood Lum-
ber Company 49

Maley, Thompson & Jloffett Company 56

LUMBER INSURANCE,

.\dirondack Fire Insurance C.>mpany..

Lumber Insurance Company of New
York

Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Com-
pany, Boston

Kadina, L. W.. & Co 57

Richmond Park & Co W

Ross Lumber Company 1 ^.^^ ,„,„„^„ E.

Rumbarger Lumber Company i j^^j;,,^^ v n

Ryan & McParland 10 r„„„V.„;,

Sailing-Hanson Company 55

Sawyer-Goodman Company 62

Scatcherd & .Son 59

Schofleld Bros.

.\nderson-Tully Company 4

Fan-in-Korn Lrmber Company 57 Lumber Underwriters

Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co... 1 Pennsylvania Lumbermen's

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company CO

Luehrmann, C. F., Hardwood Lumber

Company 49

Mosby, H. W., & Co 8

Paepcke-Lelcht Lumber Company 4

Sondheimer. E., Company

Mutual

Fire Insurance Company 1

Rai.kiii. Harry. & Co 34

MISCELLANEOUS.

* Oiilds. S. D., & Co.

Slimmer, F., & Co 10 Martln-Barriss Company 51

Soble Bros 7 Massengale Lumber Company 49

Three States Lumber Company 60 (jjnette Roller Bearing Company .37

International Felloe Mfg. Company.. 49

CYPRESS. Lacey. James D.. & Co 46

Lumbermen's Credit Association .'17

Cypress Lumber Company 56 jjartin & Co 51

Plummer Lumber Company 49 penr.syiyania Door & Sash Company.. 7

Poole, Clark L.. & Co 12

Sanders. Henry, Company 4i:

Grand Itapids Veneer Works 47 Schenck. C. A.. & Co 2

VENEERS.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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

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.

Send Us Your Orders

We Have on Hand Ready foh
Shipment a Nice Stock of

2'4 Clear Maple
Flooring

.\LSO OTHER SIZES AND GRADES

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.

COUNTERFEIT CHECKS |

are frequent
except where
our

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Two Piece
Geometrical
Barter Coio

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is in uie, then i
Imitation isn't /
possible. /
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ask tor It. f

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Chicago V

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We also make *
Time Checks,
Stencils and
Log Hammers.

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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 AssociatioD

Established 1878

1405 Great Norlhern Building, CBICA09

18 BrMdw.y. NEW YOHK CITY

MENTION THIS PAPER

This Truck — The Gillette Truck — with its Roller Bearing Axle
Unbreakable Malleable Iron Caster-Fork, Improved Stake Pockets
and t^eneral 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 in these
trucks. Do not waste it on others.

GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING COMPANY

Grand Rapids, Michigan ■ UJ

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.

FRAMES

FOR

HARDWOOD RECORD
SUPPLEMENTS

Complete with backing, but without the glass, made
from Flemish Oak, are lo 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 St.eet, Chicago

HARDWOOD RECORD

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 MARKET IS DEMANDING, more and more LUM-
BER OF STANDARD LENGTHS, WITH SQUARE ENDS

As well as straight and parallel edges. The straight and par-
allel edges you can obtain with a "Tower" Edger, while

THE "TOWER"

ONE-MAN 2-SAW TRIMIVIER

will give you the standard lengths and 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 Trim-
mer he never has to go beyond the end of the board.
Especially 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 lumber to the best advantage from the end of
the board than from the end of the machine.

In all of these trimmers there are two feeds, which may be instant-
ly started, stopped or changed, without stopping the saws.
liSoth are controlled by the same lever, which is lo-
cated in the most convenient possible position.

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co.

GREENVILLE, MICHIGAN

The LareesI Hanufaclurers of Grales, Edgers and Trimmers in the World.

^ Manchett - Hanchett ■ Hanchett ^

Hanchett
Saw Swage

Every one made Perfect

The Swage with a Name

^ A poor Swage Ktiins 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 tor

Catalog

No. 10

It tells you all

about them

It Pays You

to use

The Best

MANU^^ACTURED BY

Hanchett Swage Works

Big Rapids, Michigan

^ Hanchett -Hanchett- Hanchett <^

HARDWOOD RECORD

"DEFIANCE" WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY

COMPLETE EQUIPMENTS OF

HIGH GRADE TOOLS

^ FOR MAKING ^
Hubs, Spokes, Wheels, Single Trees, Hoops,

Wagons, Carriages,

Rims, Shalts, Poles,

Neck-Yokes,

Handles, Bobbins, Spools,

Insulator Pms and

Oval Wood Dishes.

TBIPLE HOOP AND TBUNK SLAT PLANEB.

INVENTED AND BUILT BY

The DEFIANCE MACHINE WORKS

DEFIANCE, OHIO.
Send for 500 Page Catalogue :

HAMMER AND HATCHET HANDLE LATH

Holmes No. 46 Variable Feed Planer

Feed can instantly be
changed from 20 to 100
feet per minute. Will do
the finest and smoothest
work on hardwoods. Planes
from 1-16 to 8 inches in
thickness and 24 inches in
width. Let us tell you all
about it.

£. ^ B.
Holmes
Machinery
Company

Buffalo, N. Y.

Works

BUCYRVS, 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

Mair\ Office :

25th Place and Stewart Avenue

CHICAGO

HARDWOOD RECORD

GARLAND

Special Hardwood 74U 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.

manufacture

a full line

of Sawmill

and

Conveying

Machinery.

A fe^v hardwood saLwmill maLchirvery installaLtiorvs ;

Kneeland-Bigelow Co Bay City, Mich.

Kneeland-Buell Co Bay City, Midi.

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 Limiber 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

SMITH of

SMITHVILLE

I The Profit Builder

NO.105-A, EXTRft HEAVY t2-INCH MOULDER

T HAS been our purpose during the last half century to develop
»| a line of wood working machines containing the best work-
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 i

Branches :

New York, Chicago.

Boston, Atlanta

H. B. SMITH MACHINE CO.

SMITHVILLE, N. J., U. S. A.

HARDWOOD RECORD

"GIFFERT

LOG LOADER

will be in full operation al the

JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION

This is your chance to combine business with

pleasure. Go and enjoy yourself and at the

same time see what a really wonderful

machine the McGIFFERT is. Watch it

switch and spot its own cars, skid its

own logs, and especially load those logs

faster, easier and cheaper than you've

ever seen it done before. We'll have

a good man in charge to proi'f what

you've only read before.

Seeing is believing, you know.

so go if you possibly can.

CLYDE IRON WORKS

Duluth. Minnesota

U'K%-

-CJ.3.

Silver

ATKINS S SAWS

cost more than other Saws, because they are BETTER.
Tlie 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, Chicago, Memphis, Minneapolis,

New York City, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle,

New Orleans,
Toronto.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Lidgerwood
Combination Hardwood Logger

(Patented)

EspeciaUy Designed to Log the Hardwood Flats Bordering on the Mississippi River. A Machine that Can
*^ ' be Used Twelve Months in the year.

RIGGED AS A CABI-EWAY SKIDDER-

To be used in sloughs, sivampyplaces and during the^uet season, especially where
,he timber runs ligh-to the acre per thousand feet, or where the timber is thick and
small with lots of underbrush.

Lidgerwood Manufacturing Co

96 Liberty Street,
New York

New Orleans Representatives:
Woodward, Wight & Co.

Empire Building,
Atlanta, Ga.

HARD.^VOOD RECORD

THE "HOOSIER"

SELF-FEED
RIP SAW

The cut shows a front view of our Hoosier Self
Feed Rip Sawing Machine; it has a square raising
table, easily operated by a crank in front of the
machine and is always firnily locked, at any point,
thus preventing any jarring or falling down and
doing away with all clamp bolts and screws. The
machine has our patent feeding device, with two
teed shafts, one in front of the saw with a thin star
feed wheel and one in the rear with a corrugated
roll, the advantage of which can be readily seen.

We also build the machine with a movable
saw, at a slightly higher price.

Write for Full Description,

The Sinker-Davis Co.

Manufacturers of

SAW MILL MACHINERY

Indianapolis, Ind.

No. 24 C FLOORING MACHINE

A heavy, powerful, eight roll matcher particularly suited to producing, in quantity', Hard=
wood Flooring of High Finish. SPECIAL PATENTED Appliances and Attachments. Write us
and we'll tell you how we can double your output and improve the quality. ::::::

S. A. Woods Machine Co., Boston

CHICAGO

SPECIALISTS IN
FLOORERS, PLANERS AND MOULDERS

SEATTLE

HARDWOOD RECORD

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ROLL'S PATENT LOCK JOINT COLUMNS

I_IERK are four of them in the new Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern Railroad depot in Chicago. They are mahogany,
36 inches in diameter. Note their proportions. They are ab-
solutely perfect. We make veneered or solid stave columns in
all hard woods and for every conceivable
use. They are beautiful, durable, true in
classic proportions and cannot come apart.

CAN NOT ^1
COME US

k. APAPT .Jfii0

Write today for our illustrated
catalog. It will interest you.

Henry Sanders Company

900 ELSTON AVENUE,

CHICAGO

GEO. C. BROWN & CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber

Tennessee Red Cedar Lumber a Specialty. Nashville, Tennessee

CO=OPERATIVE MILL 4 LUMBER CO.. (inc.)

ROCKFORD, ILLS.
Want Poplar, Oak, Gum, Hickory, Blrcb and Maple

SEND STOCK LIST AND PRICES.

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.

44,000 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.

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 otlier firm in tlie wor^d. We have furnished
banks and trust companies with reports on timber tracts upon wliieh 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.\MES D. LACEY.

WOOD BEAL.

VICTOR THRANE.

608 Hennen BIdg., NEW ORLEANS
1200 Old Colony BIdg., CHICAGO

LARGEST TIMBER DEALERS
IN THE WORLD

507 Lumber Exchange, SEATTLE
829 Chamber of Com., PORTLAND

HARDWOOD RECORD

Hardwoods Dried in a Week !

^Our method can be attached to your old Kiln.
^If 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.

The KNEELAND BIGELO W 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. Hemloek Lath.

Mills R.\jn the Yea.r
Around.

Bay City. Mich,

R.E. Wood Lumber Company

^ Manufacturers of Yellow Poplar, Oak, Chestnut, Hemlock
and White Pine.

^ We own our own stumpage and operate our own mills.
^\ Correspondence solicited and inquiries promptly answered.

GENERAL OFFICES:
CONTINENTAL BUILDING.

Baltimore, Maryland

Improved
Automatic
Band Saw
Sharpener

^ This machine excels all others for sinple cuttiDg 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.

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.

HARDWOOD RECORD

W. J. CUDE. Pres.

J. B. RANSOM, Vice-Pres.

A. B. RANSOM, Sec'y.

W. J. Cude Land 4 Lumber Company

1013-1014 Stahlman Building
NASHVILLE

MANUFACTURERS OF

Poplar, Oak, Chestnut and Gum Lumber

Mills and Yards at Kimmins, Tenn., Colesburg, Tenn., and Cude, Miss.

J. B. RANSOM, President.

A. B. RANSOM, Secy, and Treas.

JOHN B. RANSOM & COMPANY

Oak, Ash, Poplar,
Hickory, Gum, Syca-
more, Walnut, Cherry,
Elm, Cedar Posts.

NASHVILLE, TENN,

Hardwoods

Poplar, Gum^ and Lynn
Siding. Turned Pop-
lar Columns. Dressed
Stock, etc.

Lninbcr of all kinds is being cut every flay at our city and country For material difficult to secure, write us, Wi^ can supply you, if any-

inills and with stock constantly coming in from many other points, wi- one can. Write for specimen copy of our monthly Stock and Price

are iiUfly to have supplies nieetintr yoiu" want^. List, Can we place your name on our niailint; INt ?

J. B. Ransom, Pres.

A. B. Ransom, Secy.

R. J. Wilson, Treas.

NASHVILLE HARDWOOD FLOORING CO.

-M A N U FA C TURK R S O F

MARKET PRICE ON
CAR LOTS. Less than
car lot orders shipped

promptly.

"ACORN BRAND

OAK AND BEECH FLOORING

We especially invite in-
quiries for Flooring, Oak
and Poplar lumber and
other Hardwoods in

nuxeo cars.

'The Product de Luxe*

DELIVERED ANYWHERE

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

J. B. RANSOM, Pres.

A. B. RANSOM. V. Pies. W. A. RANSOM, Seo. arvd Mgr. C. R., RANSOM, Treas.

GAYOSO LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber and Wagon Stock

MEMPHIS. TENNESSEE

HARDWOOD RECORD

ST. LOUIS

LARGEST OF ALU HARDWOOD MARKETS

Vestal Lumber & Mfg^Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers
of all kinds ot

HARDWOODS

BEVELED SIDING A SPECIALTY.
UNSURPASSED FACILITIES
FOR DELIVERING.

Knoxville
Tennessee

Garetson=Greason Lumber Co.

J2t2-J3-I4 Times Building
ST. LOUIS

MANUFACTURERS

-Shipments of Pliio and Quartered Oak, Ash, Cypress and Gum
Lumber direct from our own mills in straight or mixed carloads.

STEELE & HIBBARD LUMBER CO.

NortK BrodLdway and Dock Streets
Wholesale Manufacturers, Dealers and Shippers

ASH, CYPRESS, MAHOGANY, OAK, POPLAR, 6,c

Mills: Yazoo City. Miss.; McGreKor. Ark.; England, Ark. ;
Dermott. Arl;. O'Hara, La.; Dexter, Mo.

Wanted-to Buy or Contract for future Delivery

SOO.OOO to 1.000,000 ft. Poplar, all grades
SOO.OOO to 1,000,000 ft. Cypress, all grades
500,000 to 1,000,000 ft. Ash, all grades

Fn^teTt'^'n' PLUMMER LUMBER CO. ITs^Sfel!

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 always on hand

CHAS. I

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.

rry an Ad it
in Our

Want and For Sale" Columns

others are Securing Results
Why Not You?

Hardwood Record

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MANUFACTURERS OF STANDARD SIZE

WAGON FELLOES AND WAGON STOCK

Send your requirements and receive price. COLUJVlljUb, JVllob.

HARDWOOD RECORD

F^ I 'T^ T* c r^ f T r> 4'^

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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.

OAK FLOORING

PLAIN AND QUARTERED
RED AND WHITE

Ample stock, insuring quick service.

Mixed cars with hardwoods or worked poplar.

Can't we have your inquiries?

Linehan Lumber Co.

•2423 Farmer's Bank Bldg.

PITTSBURG, PENN.

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. s •

Hardwoods a Specialty

FOR SALE

POPLAR

12S.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. 3Com.
150,000'4/4 Mill Cull

CHESTNUT

300,000' 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. \ Com.
18,000' 4/'4 No. P. 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.

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 JHaple, No. 1 Common 2 Cars

54 " " " 2 Cars

S4 " " '• 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

104 " No. 2 Common and Better 71,000 Feet

12 4 " No. I " 1 ,500 Feet

12 4 " "2 " l.OOOFeet

4/4 Bassweod. Log Run m. c. o I car

8,4 " " " " I car

DRY STOCK
Favorable Freight Rates to the East.

BABCOCK LUMBER CO., Ashtola, Pa.

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 4 Mfg. Co.

PITTSBURG. PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

t^ ¥ xr:! ^ 7 r^ i A ivt f^

OLLJ^V L^Lr/VrNU

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

A
B

Panel and Wide No. I

Wide No. 2

Box Boards

FAS or Firsts and

Seconds
Saps

L.\ Selects
(^ No. 1 Common
\2^ No. 2 Common
rS No. 3 Common
\A No. 4 Common

Every Manufacturer should stamp the grade on his Lumber.
Set of 10 Rubber Stamps, \V\"yAM" in size. Pad, Pint of Ink, and
Spreader, packed for shipment $3.50.

7VV/\RXIIN & CO. LEWIS DOSTER, Sec'y

191 S. Clark Si., CHICAGO, or 1535 First Nal. Bank lld£. CHICAGO

H . FALL

EXPORTER
. . . OF . . .

WALNUT , POPLAR

=^^^=^^^ AND =:===

BIRDSEYE MAPLE LOGS

Cash paid for Black Walnut Log3 at point oE shipment. If you have
any walnut lo^s to offer, write me.

I have some Sycamore, Red OaU. Ash and other hardwood logs which
I am prepared lo 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 iMaLiwifacturers

MAHOGANY

a^nd F i n e ' H a.r d wo o ds

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

Hardwood Board Rules

FOR HARDWOOD LUMBERMEN

Best Goods, Prompt Shipment

Send your orders to the HARDWOOD RECORD, 355 Dearborn Street

HARDWOOD RECORD

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w i^oorsi^irN

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

C. p. CROSBY

RHINELANDER : : WISCONSIN

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

I wart to sell biich, in No. J common & belter. I have
4-4, 5-4, 8-4, and 12-4, good ary stock. Mixed Cirs easily
filled.

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

WR.ITE US FOR QUOTATIONS ON THE FOLLOWING:

RED BIRCH

f 300,000 ft. 1 in. No. 1 Common and Better

' 150,000 ft. H in. No. 1 Common and Better

'1 125,000 ft. U in. No. 1 Common and Better

I 100,000 ft. 2 in. No. 1 Common and Better

PLAIN BIF^CH. 100,000 ft. 1 in. 1st and 2nd Clear.

HEMLOCK. 200,000 ft. 2 in. No. 3 Hemlock. 100,000 ft. 2x6 and wider No. 3 Hemlock.

Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company

Inquiries answered promptl> and
orders filled without delay.

RHINELANDER, WIS.

John R. Davis Lumber Company

PHILLIPS, WISCONSIN
The Leading Manufacturers

Wisconsin Hardwoods

"SHAKELESS" HEMLOCK and WHITE CEDAR PRODUCTS

■WK H.WIC THK FINEST IILOCC OF

4-4 UNSELECTED BIRCH

ON THE M.^RKET

Write for our Price Lists
and Stock Shcett

Mixed Cars, Even Grades
Prompt Shipments

We have
to offer
the

following
stock in
pile at
Ingram,
Wis.

r^m mmoM

WAUSAV. WIS.

20,000 ft. 2 in. No. 2 Common Plain Bircli.

L 24,000 ft. 1 in. First and Second Red Bircli.

\ll,460 ft. IJ in. First and Second Red Birch.

4,700 ft. 2 in. First and Second Red Birch. I Vour

2,144 ft. 1 in. Curly Birch. \ orders

2,350 ft. IJ. U and 2 inch Curlv Birch. > and

122.000 ft. 1 in. End Dried White Birch. i Inquiries

1 44.000 ft. 1 in. Select Pine. I solicited

7.000 ft. U in. No. 3 Shop and Better Pine. I

lii.uoo ft. 1* in. Select Pine. 1

^20,000 ft. li in. No. 1. No. 2 and No 3 Shop. /

Write us for prices on hemlock.

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: f^looring

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 V ard at Atlanta, near Bruce, Wis. on "Soo" Line,

SAWYER GOODMAN CO.

MARINETTE, WIS.

Mixed Cars of Hardwood, Bass-
wood, White Pine and Hemlock,
Cedar Shingles and Posts.

We make a specialty of White Pine Beveled Siding and
White Pine Finish and Shop and Pattern Lumber

HARDWOOD RECORD 53

"V1L ^ W O ^'"^ ^'■^ l^T O 1 T^ T

w i&c^orN^irsi

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

R. CONNOR CO.

WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS

Wisconsin
Hardwood

PINE AND HEM-
LOCK LUMBER

Auburndale.Wis..onW.C. K.R. M^irChFipid WlC

itratfoi<i.Wis.,onC.&N.W.R.R. I'lQI 3111 ICIU, HIS.

Wisconsin Veneer Co<

RHINELANDER, WIS.

Largest and best equipped Veneer
cutting plant in the country. High-
grade product from Birch, Maple,
Htm, 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.

Frank Carter Co.

MANUFACTURER

Wisconsin Hardwood

SPECIALTY-HARD MAPLE

MiUs: DURAND

SPRING VALLEY
GLEN FLORA
ELMWOOD
HILLSDALE

General Offices :

MENOMONIE, WIS.

Do you want a
7=!oot band mill?

This is a first-cUss
machine and will
give the best of re-
sults. It is strong,
well madCf and as
good as it looks.
Write us and wc 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

I M M„oU 842=848 Thirtieth St.
J. iYl. l>aSn MILWAUKEE, WIS.

Broom,

Hoe, Rake,

Fork and

Shovel

Handles,

Chair Stock,

Dowel Rods,

Curtain

Poles,

Shade

Rollers,

WhipStocks,

Canes,

Veneered

Columns,

Ten Pins, &c.

HARDWOOD RECORD

M I C H I Q A N

FAMOUS FOR HARD MAPLE AND GRE,Y E, L M

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,
enabhng us to fill your orders
right.

J. S. GOLDIE.

Cadillac, :: Michigan.

Low Price on five cars 2f" Clear

Maple Squares, 17" to 27" long.

Correspondence Solicited on Michigan

Lumber, especially White Maple.

BOYNE CITY LUMBER COMPANY

BOYNE CITY

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE and other HARDWOODS

LARGE CAPACITY

PROMPT SHIPMENTS

RAIL OR CARGO

S. L. EASTMAN FLOORING CO.

SAQINAW BRAND

MAPLE FLOORING

SAGINAW, MICH.

You read this==others
will, too. They would
read your ad. Try it.

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.

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

BIRCH

WE WANT YOUR ORDERS FOR

4/4 AND 5 4 COMMON AND BETTER

A No. I STOCK

The

Earle Lumber Company

SIMMONS, MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

C H I

FOR RED BIRCH

AND

BASS

F AMOl

WOOD

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.

SAILING, HANSON CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Michigan Hardwoods

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

"Chief Brand"
Maple Flooring

Will commend ilselt to you and your trade on
its merits Lilone. ■[ Comprises ail the features
desirable in Kood flooring. ^ Madeby 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

DENNIS BROS.

GliAXU KAPIUS, MICHIGAX
Manufacturers of

National Maple

AND

Birch Flooring

and all kinds of Micliieau liaidwood lumber

WRITE FOR SPECIAL PRICES

ON 80m feet S 4 TAMARACK AND

20.M FEET 4 4 TAMARACK.

MAIN OFFICE :

205-209 MICHIGAN TRUST

BUILDING.

Evans & Retting Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

Hardwood
Lumber

RAILROAD TIMBERS, TIES AND SWITCH TIES

Michigan Trust Building Grand Rapids, Mich.

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

Hardwood Lumber

Main Olfice, Michigaa Truil Campanr Building

GRAND RAPIDS : . . . MICHIGAN

OUR SLOW METHOD «',*>£,?-s??lJIg

I X L POLISHED

ROCK MAPLE FLOORING

Enables us to offer you an e.xcellent and superior piuducl —
One which has stood the test 20 years.

WRITE TODAY FOR PRICES AND BOOKLET

Wisconsin Land ^ Lumber Co.

Hermansville, Michigan

56 HARDWOOD RECORD

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wIINCIININA 1 1

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

The Stearns Company

MANUFACTURERS OP

Northern and Southern

HARDWOODS

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Cincinnati, 0.

Cash buyers for stock in our line.

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co.

GKST AND SUMMER STREETS

Wholesalers Mahogany, Thin Lumber, Veneers

Finely tigiired quarter sawed oak veneers- a specialty.

THE HOUSE OF STOINE

The One of Good Grades
Poplar, Oak, Chestnut Cottonwood, Ash, Basswood and Gum

T. B. STOINE UUiVlBER CO.

CINCINNATI. OHIO

The Stewart=Roy Lumber Co.

Selling Agents
for
Product of

ROY

LUMBER

CO.

CINCINNATI

V,ocs

Will Buy

OAK, ASH,

POPLAR,

CHESTNUT,

BASSWOOD

All Grades and
Thicknesses

CYPRESS LUMBER CO,

Manufacturer of Hardwoods and Cypress

S'lain and Quartered White and Red Oak, Yellow Poplar,
Yellow Pine, Walnut, etc. Mills in Teun., Ala. and Va.

OFriCE AND YARDS. GEST AND DALTON AVE.. CINCINNATI, OHIO»

THE GENERAL LUMBER COMPANY

HARDWOODS

HEMLOCK YELLOW PINE

COLUMBUS, 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

CRESCENT LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers of

Hardwood Lumber

MARIETTA. O.

THE

MALEY, THOMPSON & MOFFETT CO.

Always in the Market for

BLACK WALNUT LOGS,
SELECTED WHITE OAK LOGS,
LUMBER OF ALL KINDS.

CINCINNATI,

OHIO

HARDWOOD RECORD

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c^irNOirNiNA 1 I

THE. GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

WANTED

POPLAR and GUM

SEND LIST OF DRY STOCK. WILL CONTRACT FOR
MILL CUTS.

KENTUCKY LUMBER. COMPANY

CINCINNATI, OHIO

«<

BUY GUM"

We are in the market to buy-
Dry Qiim Lumber in any
quantity, from a single car
load to a million feet. Will
take all grades and thick-
nesses. VVe receive lumber
at shipping point, pay cash
and are liberal in im^pection.

THE FARRIN.KORN

LUMBER COMPANY

General Office, Yards.

Planing MiUa, Dry Kilns,

Cincinnati, Ohio
Purchasing Office,

Randolph Building.

Memphis, Tenn.

Cypress Red Gum Oak

THE FREIBERG LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers ol

Tabasco Mahogany-
Walnut, Oak

Poplar, McLean and Findlay Ats.

CINCINNATI, O.

IN THE MARKET FOR

OAK-ASH-POPLAR

ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

MOWBRAY & ROBINSON

Offices
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 IJ^-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.

THE WIBORG & HANNA COMPANY

CINCINNATI, OHIO

PLAIN
AND

QUARTER
SAWED

CHESTNUT !

POPLAR !

GUM AND J

CYPRESS !

Fiooring, Siding, Ceiling, Base, Case and Molding. Rough, Dressed and Re-sawed. Mixed Carloads.

W. H. Dawkins Lumber Co.

Manufacturers of Band Sawed

Yellow Poplar

ASHLAND, KY.

HARDWOOD RECORD

J ¥

N O I

ERE THE, BEST 1

A ^ T A

ANA

iARDWOODS GROW

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.

FOIIT WAYNE

INDIANA

J. V. Stimson

ALL KINDS OF

HARDWOOD LUMBER

MANUFACTORED

HUNTINGBURG, IND.

C. I. Hoyt 4 Co.

MANUFACTURERS OP

Quartered and Plain Oak^ Poplar^
Ash and Chestnut

Offer a few cars 4 4 and 6 4 Plain Oak to move quick
PEKIN, INDIANA

Young 4 Cutsinger

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS

OUR SPECIALTY

Fine Figured Quartered Oak

E VA N S V I L L E, INDIANA

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

Alay Stock: List

12,000 f(. 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 " 4=4 1st and 2nd Plalh Red Oak

10,000 " 4=4 1st and 2nd Ash
100,000 " 5=4 to 2 in. Shop and Better Cypress

Long=Knight Lumber Co.

INDIANAPOLIS. IND.

A floor to adore

For thirty-three years Wilce's Hardwood Floor-
int,' has hecn among the foremost on the market
ant] Ik.'( aiise it stands today "unequaled" is the
ttfsl evidence that its manufacturer has kept
abreast of modern methods and the advanced de-
iniuids ot the trade. To convince yourself of the
aliove statements, try our polished surface floor-
inj,'. tonuued and Erooved, hollow backed, with
niaiched ends and holes for blind nailing — you'll
htul it reduces the expense of laying and polishing.
Our Bookld (eUs alt about Hardwood Fiooritiff and
//(■?(/ to ill) I' for it — aho prices—and isfrrc.

The T. Wilce Company

22nd and Throop Sts. CHICAGO, ILL,

HARDWOOD RECORD

BUFFALO

THE GREAT WHOLESALE LUNrBE,R CENTER OF THE EAST

Manufacturers and
Dealers m

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 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

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

Specialtie*: OAK, ASH AND POPLAR

932 ELK STREET

BEYER, KNOX & COMPANY

ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

office and Yards, 69 LEROY AVENUE

W T A MANUFACTURERS OLD-FASHIONED

Vsinssinty soft yellow

POPLAR

Kitchen cw

5-8 AND 4-4

IN WIDE STOCK.

SPECIALTY

Ashland* Kentucky

Company

Three States Lumber Co.

• OFFERS

1 00,000 feet 5-4 Fir^s 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

MaLnufa.c-
turers

OAK, ASH, COTTONWOOD, GUM
AND CYPRESS

MAIN OFFICE: 720 MEMPHIS TRUST BUILDING. MEMPHIS. TENN.
_.- _. « ««.«« i Memphis, Tervn. /\ rs • 1j* ( Well MsLnufactureJ Stock

Three Band Mills ch^-cy m^ Our Specialties Good Grades

* *■* ^^ «*••»•*• » »asw I siover. M'ss. "^ ( Prompt Shipments

YELLOW POPLAR

iWANUFACTURERS

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 Crove, Ohio, U, S. A.

floMwoi RooJM

Twelfth Year. I
SemlTDonthly. f

•^ CHICAGO. MAY 25, 1907.

f Subscription C2
ISIngle " "

Copies, 10 Cents.

ROSS LUMBER COMPANY

The Cherry People

ANYTHING IN CHERRY?

Write Us.

JAMESTOWN, N. Y.

ufactnred and treated forev
tccjSrdaoce with methods devel<i
|iwentj'-gve years' experience, >|

HIMMEII

"A GOOD THING"

The Policy Holders say so and they ought to know. ' Perhaps the CASH DIVIDEND of 35% they

now receive has something to do with it.
Don't guess. Get in touch with —

The Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance Company

141 MILK STREET.

OF BOSTON. MASS.

The Davidson-Benedict Company

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
Everything in

Southern Hardwoods

POPLAR, CHESTNUT, ASH, OAK

(PUinand Quartered.) Straight or Mixed Cars.

DRESSED POPLAR ANY YOU GET WHAT YOU BUY FROM
ZTf-,, .Z.,, ^r^J^,-^ US. ASK FOR OUR DELIVERED

WAY YOU WANT IT. prices, any railroad point.

THE ATLANTIC LUMBER CO.

2 Kilby St., BOSTONS

Would like to talk to you about their large stock of
Plain and Quartered

\A/HITE OAK

TENNESSEE RED CEDAR. THIN POPLAR AND POPLAR SIDING

ASK US WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU.

Lu m b e r I n s u ra n c e C m p a n y of New York
Adirondack Fire Insurance Company
Toledo Fire ^ Marine Insurance Company

Combined Assets Over $1.000,000

Specialists in Lumber Insurance

FOR LINES AND R.\TES ADDRESS

Lumber Insurers' General Agency,

84-88 Williams St.,
New Yorl< City

ADVERTISERS' CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY FOLLOWS WANT AND FOR SALE ADVERTISING SECTION.

HARDWOOD RECORD

I #^^ iTic^x/ii I rr

LUUI&VIL^L^Lj!*

" ■ MANUFACTURING AND DISTKIBUTINO CENTER OF KENTUCKY

Dry Stock w. P. BrowR & SoRS Lumber Co.

PLAIN RED OAK.
85,000' 1" l8t & 2na.
25.000' Hi" 1st & 2d.
•49,000' I%- l«t 4 2d.
67.000' 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' IV," No. 1 Com.
47,000' 2" No. 1 Coni.
8.000' 2W' No. 1 Com.
18,000' 3' No. 1 Com.

QUAETXHED RED OAK.
ID.OOO' 1" Ist & 2d.

14,000' 1%" Ist & 2d.

5.000' 2" l8t & 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 & 2a.
28,000' IVi" Ist & 2d.
12,000' 1%" Ist & 2d.
42,000' 2" Ist & 2d.
23,800' 2W" 1st & 2d.
18,000' 3" Ist & 2d,
227,000' 1" No, 1 Com.
00,000' IVi" No, 1 Com.
80.000' 1V4" No. 1 Com.

50.000' 2- No. I Com.
17.000' 2%" No. 1 Com.
22,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

QUARTERED WHITE OAK.

60.000' 1" 1st & 2d.
28,000' 1 14" 1st & 2d.
45,000' IVi" l8t & 2d.
49,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
19,000' 2%" Ist & 2d.
18,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
30,000' IVi" 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%- Ist & 2d.
16.000' 1%- 1st & 2d.
10.000' 2" Ist & 2d.

8.000' 2%" 1st & 2d.
14,000' 3" Ist & 2d.

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

4.000' H4" No. 1 Com.
16,000' 114- No. 1 Com.

8,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

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

• 1

^©••^•nJsviUcKy.

12.000'

IVt" Ist A 2d.

11.000'

IV," 1st & 2d.

12,000'

2" 1st A 2d.

10,000'

2V," 1st A 2d.

10,000'

3" 1st A 2d.

80,000'

1" No. 1 Com.

28,000"

IVi" No. 1 Com.

10,000'

IV," No. 1 Com.

10,000'

2- No. 1 Com.

15,000'

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

8,000'

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

6,000'

2" 24" & up Ist & 2d.

4,000'

IH" 18' A up 1st A 2d.

3.000'

IV," 24" A up Ist 4 2d.

All thlckaesses in cull poplar, ash, chestnut.

Your Inquiries will be appreciated.

Prompt delivery guaranteed

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 Capadty:
80,000 feet.

Sales Offices:
Louisville, Ky.

Wood-Mosaic Flooring and Lumber Co.

ALL KINDS OF

Hardwood Lumber
and Sawn Veneers

NEW ALBANY, INDIANA

Rochester, N. Y. i
Louisville. Ky. J- Factories.
New Albany, Ind. )

Good Grades
Prompt Shipments
Inquiries Solicited

OAK AND GUM SALE

150M
oOOiM

2oo:\i

20M
50M
lOOM
•iOM
.50M

feet 4-4 in,
feet 4-4 in.
feet 4-4 in.
feet 5-4 in
feet 6-4 in
feet 4-4 in,
feet 5-4 in
feet 4-4 in
feet 4-4 in

Gum Box Boards, 13 ft. to 17 ft.

1 st and 2nd Sap Gum. .

No. 1 com. vSap Gum.

No. 1 com. and better Sap Gum.

No. 1 com. and better Red Gum.

No. 1 com. Rod Gum.

1st and 2nd White Oak.

No. 1 com. White Oak.

Are you READY to place your con-
tract tor H.\RDWOODS, Northern
and Southern, summer and fall delivery?

G. W. JONES LUMBER CO.

APPLETON, WIS.

MI LLS — Wisconsin
Arkansas

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 ^ LO. Nonh CardltnsL

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

J I

HARDWOOD RECORD

CADILLAC

CELEBRATED FOR BlOa STANDARD OF QUALITY AND HILL WORK

■Mitchell's Make— ^

DRY vSTOCK LIvST OF

Michigan Hardwoods

Cadillac, Mich., May, igoy

4/4 Birch, No. 2 Common and Better
4/4 Cherry, No. 2 Common and Better
4/4 Cherry, No. .3 Common
4/4 Hard Maple, Lst and 2nds
10/4 Hard Maple, 1st and 2nds
4/4 Red Oak, No. 2 Common and Better
4/4 No. 3 Common Maple and Beech

13M feet

oM
20M

3M
40M
60M

MAPLE SPECIALTIES

We can furnish limited quantities of inch l.sts and
2nds or Clear Maple lumber selected to widths or
lengths or both. The lumber is our own manufac-
ture and air seasoned.

PLEASE SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES

Mitchell Brothers Co.

CADILLAC, MICH.

The Cadillac Handle Co.

CADILLAC. MICHIGAN

Band Sawn
Michigan Hardwoods

We solicit Inquiries for :

4/4 Hard Maple, 1st and 2nds, 10% or less No. 1 Common in it.

Cut 12 months
5/4 Maple 1st and 2nds
5/4 Maple No. 1 and 2 Common
6/4 Maple 10 in. and over wide, 1st and 2nd with small per cent

No. 1 Common

MURPHY & DIQQINS

Offer all grades of the following special dry stock

MAPLE— 6/4, 6/4, 8/4, 10/4, 12/4, 14/4, 18/4
ORAY ELM— 4/4, 12/4
BASSWOOD— 4/4:
BIRCH-4/4, e/4

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

Cummer, Digglns & 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 STOCK

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 12-4 firsts and seconds.

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

This stock runs 10 in. and wider, and 50% or

more 19 inches and wider.

WRITE US ABOUT IT.

COBBS&MITCnElL

(INCORPOfZATED)

CADILLAC. MICHIGAN

ttARbWOOi) feECOfefi

(i\mv ^

Cable Address: "Sonderco" Memphis.

Codes Used: Lumberman's Telecode and ABC 5th Edition

MANUFACTURERS

HARDWOOD, QUM, COTTONWOOD AND CYPRESS

Main Office: Tennessee Trust Building, Memphis, Tenn.

Offers the following specials :

10 cars 11 in. No. 1 Com. Quailered White Oal<.
10 cars 1 in. No. 2 Com. Quartered White Oak.
10 cars I } in. Is and 2s Quartered Red Oak.
10 cars 1 h in. Is and 2s Quartered Red Oak.

10 cars i in. No. I Common Plain Red Oak.
10 cars 1 J in. Is and 2s Plain Red Oak.
10 cars 1 in. No. I Common Plain White Oak.
10 cars li in. No. I Common Plain White Oak.

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

Quai-t^r^d \A/I-iite> Hollov(\/ BacR^d

Quiai-tei-eci Red End TWatched

F»Ieiin \A/hite F»oUsh»cl

Plain Red Bored

Offices a.r\d Plai.rvt :

Kansas and Mallory Ave., New South Memphis.

(Take South Memphis car to Mallory Ave.)

Goodlander Robertson
Lumber Co.

Hardwood Lumber

Memphis, jTennessee

IF IT'S HARD TO GET, WRITE US

PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUm AIND OTHER HARDWOODS

Large stocks of well scatoned Lumber always carried at our yards and mills.

General Offices: MOV. Chicago Ave., CHICAGO. Mills: Cairo, 111., Marked Tree, Ark., Greenville, Miss., Arkansas City, Ark., Blytheville, Ark.

HARDWOOD RECORD

FULLERTON-POWELL

Hardwood Lumber Co.

OFFERS THE FOLLOWING STOCK
FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

10 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Plain Red Oak
2 cars U in. Plain Red Oak Step Plank

4 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Plain Red Oak, 12 in. and

wider
2 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Quartered Red Oak, 10 in.

5 cars 1 \ in. No. 1 Common Plain White Oak

1 car 1 in. No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak

2 cars 2 in. 1st and 2nds Quartered White Oak

2 cars 2 in. No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak

BRANCH OFFICES:

CHICAGO, 1104 Chamber of Commerce
MEMPHIS. TeMM.,30S Tennessee Trust BIdg.
MIMHEAPOLIS. MIHH., 30S Lumber Exchange

3 cars U in. 1st and 2nds Quartered White Oak

2 cars \h in. No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak
10 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Red Gum, 10 to 16 ft.

7 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Red Gum, 12 ft.
S cars 2 in. 1st and 2nds Sap Gum
S cars 2 in. No. 1 Common Sap Gum
1 car 2 in. No. 2 Common Sap Gum
IS cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Cottonwood, 6 in. and wider

3 cars 1 in. No. 1 Conmion Cottonwood

MAIN OFFICES

South 'Bend, Ind.

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.

W.M.Ritter Lumber Co.

COLUMBUS. OHIO

Saw and Ship 100,000,000 Feet Yearly

HARDWOOD RECORD

R.E. Wood Lumber Company

41^ Manufacturers of Yellow Poplar, Oak, Chestnut, Hemlock
and White Pine.

^ We own our own stumpage and operate our own mills.
^\ Correspondence solicited and inquiries promptly answered.

GENERAL OFFICES:
CONTINENTAL BUILDING.

Baltimore, Maryland

Phila. Veneer ^ Lumber Co.

817 NORTH FIFFH STREET. PHILADELPHIA, PA.

PILED ON OUR KNOXVILLE. TENNESSEE Y.A.RD

1 car 4/4 l.s and ?s Plain White Oak

6 cars 4/4 No. 1 Common Plain White Oak
18 oars 4/4 No. 2 Common Plain White Oak

2 cars 8/4 No. 1 Common and Better White Oak
1 car 6/4 Common ai.d Better White Oak

1 car 5/4 Common -ind Better White Oalv
i car 8 4 Common and Better White Oak

2 cars 4 4 No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak
^ car 4/4 Is and 2s Quartered White Oak

1 car 4/4 No. 1 Common and Better Quartered Red Oak

We also manufacture Sawed and Sliced Quartered Oak Veneers.
Can make prompt shipments.

Mcllvain's Lumber Notes

We have 200.000 feel 4-4 (■hoiee dry Guif Cypress, p-aiJy
to ship. Mostly select and shop jrrades. What do yoii
want to-day ?

(.)ak— Red and Whit*— Phun and Qiiartcicd— 3.000.000
leet in stock. Iwo millions ot this oak of all kinds is dry
stock. Balance is part dry. Thicknesses. 3 to Ginclies. All
grades. Bill sizes cut to order. .Send in your retiuisilions.

White Pine — Dry — a miliion feet — from Uppers and Se-
lects to Barn Boards and Fencing. We can give you
anything you want in this lumber. Grades and prices
satisfactory. Prompt and careful attention given to all
inquiries and orders.

J. Gibson Mcllvain & Co.

56th (o SSth Sts. and W oodland Ave.

PHILADELPHIA. PA.

WILLIAM WHITMER (Si> SONS, Inc.

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET FOR STOCKS OF
WELL MANUFACTURED

HARDWOODS

BRANCHES:

NEW YORK, BOSTON, PITTSBURG

MAIN OFFICES:
GIRARD TRUST BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA

THOMAS FORMAN CO.

DETROIT, MICH.

M.\NUFACTURERS OF HIGH GR.\DE

Maple and Oak Flooring

We desire to move promptly a large quantity of

13-16.\1A" Clear Quarter Sawed White Oak Flooring.
13-16x1 i" Clear Plain Sawed White Oak Flooring.
13-]6.\U" Clear Plain Sawed Red Oak Flooring.
13-16xli" Clear Maple Flooring.

Please write us for special delivered prices on the above lots.

MAY STOCK LIST

HARD MAPLE
1 in. 1,000.000 ft.
l}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.

1 in.
li in.

2 in.
2J in.

100.000 ft.

50,000 ft.

BASS WOOD
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 City, Mich.

HARDWOOD RECORD

T^ 1.-1 ■"^ r^ A c> nr*

lilt tA&l

BOSTON NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA

W, M. GILLESPIE LUMBER

HARDWOODS COMPAN I Farmers Bank Bldg.
Oak a Speciilty PITTSBURGH, PA.

ALBERT HAAS LUMBER CO.

BAND SAWED

OAK AND ASH

YELLOW POPLAR

ATLANTA - - - - 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. .

MANUFACTURERS OF

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE AND OAK FLOORING

BUFFALO, NEW YORK

The West Florida Hardwood Co.

MlLi. ON Apalachicola River
MARYSVILLE, FLA.

Ash Red and White Oak Red Gum

Hickory Yellow Cottonwood Tupelo Gum

LET US HAVE YOUR INQUIRIES =

BALTIMORE
M AR Y L A

KE T? 17 DDTr'ir BUYER AND
ND H,. [_,. ri\lV>lli EXPORTER OF

Hardwoods, Poplar and Logs

I am always in the market for nice lots of dry and well maaufaclured
lumber. X Inspect at point of shipment. Correspondence solicited.

Pennsylvania Door & Sash Co.

HARDWOOD DOORS
AND INTERIOR FINISH

NEW YORK

PITTSBURG

PHILADELPHIA

WantCd-DimenSiOn n^k Pla-n and Quartered.

White and Red. Send for specifications.

IndiaLiiaL Qxia-rtered Oa^k 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. 147 MILK STREET

Quartered Oak and Cypress. BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Manufacturers please send slock lists and prices.

HoUoway Lumber Company

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

In the marlcet 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

VY/E are long on 8/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut. Send us your in-
*» quiries. Let us quote you on plain or Quarteied White and
Red Oak. Look us up.

SCHOFIELD BROTHERS

PENNA. BUILDING

LUMBER

PHILADELPHIA

Sales Agents: Long Pole Lumber Co., Case-Fowler Lunaber Co.

SOBLE BROTHERS Qimne'redHviite
=:^:z3::^i^i:;:;:zi:iz:^^z^^^ Oak, Poplar.

MiUs:

Honaker, Va.

Birmington, Ala.

WHOLESALE LUMBER

Land Title Building = = Philadelphia, Pa.

WISTAR, UNDERHILL & CO

PHILADELPHIA

WHOLESALE HARDWOOD LUMBER

MICHIGAN WHITE PINE
TENNESSEE WHITE PINE

HEMLOCK HARDWOODS
ALABAMA PINE

. MAUS & CO.,

MANUFACTURERS

HARDWOOD and YELLOW PINE.

Write us it you wish to buy or sell.

INC.

420 Walnut St.. - PHILADELPHIA. PA.

HARDWOOD RECORD

■a/li^e\

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(Tis ^7, c€^3C<ce. t>'Cc£- -t e^-ii J- f^ >«. e;

( M OAHNELL. PREST.

e. E. TAENZER, 1ST VICE- Pn EST

(Cyit:-/t-€^t'C *5c;^<Z^ *;&r

as^

(^ ?y^^.:i~€-£-c

F C DUPKr. 2nd Vice-P*>EST-
W S DARNELL. 1reaS' & GeN MCR.

t'^e^.i

G-^j^ ^^-C -t^x^cJ-C -^ri^t^ CL^.t^^.'l.

R. M. SMITH

J H. P. SMITH

R. M. SMITH m 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.

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

DETR.OIT, MICHIGAN

H. W. Mosby & Co.

MANUFACTURERS OP

COTTONWOOD

GUM
ASH, ELM

Large Stock on Hand

HELENA, ARKANSAS

SWANN-DAY LUMBER COMPANY

CLAY CITY, KENTUCKY

OFFER

POPLAR

Bevel Siding. Drop Siding, as well as Wide Poplar

Always a Large Stock on Hand Prices are Yours for the Asking

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.

Cherry River Boom and

Lumber Co.

SCRANTON, PENNSY LVA N I A

SPECIALS:
4/4 While Oak. No. 1 Common
4/4 Cherry, Is and 2s

4/4 Cherry. No. 1 Common
4 4 Maple, Is and 2s

4/4 Maple, No. 1 Common

BAND MILLS:

RICHWOOD. WEST VIR6IMA

CAMDEN-ON-OAULEY, WEST VIRGINIA

HOLCOMB. WEST VIRGINIA

DAILY CAPACITY. - - 500,000 FEET

"THE BEST LUMBER"

HARDWOOD RECORD

C H I c A a o

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

PARK RICHMOND (&

CO.

Wholesale

Hardwood Lumbei

■

926 Monadnock Block

HARRISON 5165 V^illCagO

In the Market

To Buy

Ash, Hickory, Poplar and Oak Lumber.
Also Wagon Stock.

Wanted^ Hardwood Logs for Our Memphis Mill

RYAN & McPARLAND

CHICAGO....MEMPHIS

Chicago Car Lumber Co.

PULLMAN BUILDING

CHICAGO

WE ARE IN THE MARKET FOR

Poplar, Oak, Ash and Car and R. R.
Material

Hayden & Westcott Lumber Co.

IN MARKET FOR

POPLAR

25 M ft. 3 4" Is and 2s, staiidanl wiiltlis aTirl lengths
30 M It. 1-1,4" Is and 2s, standard widths and length.s
30 M tt. 1-1/2" Is and 2s. standard widths and lengths
30 M ft. each 2-1/2 and 4" standard widths and letigths

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. I

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 p:inds

Cherry Lumber a
SpeciaLtty

ALL GRADES

Laftin ®. 22d Sts.
Chicago

John

O'Brien Land & Lumber

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IX

Hardwood Lumber

Of All Kinds

Co.

OFFICE AND YARDS : ^.^ ^

873 to 88 1 So. Laflin Street 1 K i /- a rr r»

MILL PHiLipp MISS ^^ n 1 c a g o

F. Slimmer ^ Company

Hardwood
Lumber

Office and Yard :

65 W. Twenty-second St.

CHICAGO

HARDWOOD RECORD

CHICAGO

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

CHAS. DARLING & CO.

Southern
Hardwoods

22nd Street and Center Avenue - CHICAGO

CHAS. MILLER

yVVlLLER BROS.

MILTON MILLEB

H/\RD\A/OOD LUAIBER

Main'Offlce: 20S WILLOUGHBY BLDG. 6 E. MADISON ST.
'Phone Central 1363 CHICAGO, ILL.

Yards: Loomis St. S.of 22nd St.. Chicago, 111., Houston Miss., Macon. Misa

W. A. DAVIS

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

i6i2 Marquette Bldg., CHICAGO
• Branch Offices : PADUCAH. KY., and MEMPHIS, TENN.

I ERNEST B. LOMBARD "

Manvifa-cturer ar\d Wholesale

Northern a.nd Southern.
Hardwoods

Railwa.y Exchange - CHICAGO

Heath Wit beck Co.

CHICAGO

HALLEY, ARK. THEBES. ILL. McEWEN, TENN.

WE OFFER FOR. QUICK SHIPMENT:

1 car 1 inch No. 1 Common and Better Soft Elm.
1 car I inch No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak.
1 car I inch No. 1 Common Plain White Oak.
4 cars 6-4 inch 1st and 2nds Quarter Sawed Red Oak.
Write ns for delivered quotations.

NUMBER. 6 MADISON STREET

Estabrook-Skeele

Lumber Company

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Oak, Ash, Gum, Cottonwood, Wagon
Stock and Otlier Hardwoods

In the market for round lots of Hardwood and
Wagon Stock. Write us before selling.

Fisher Building, CHICAGO

R. A. HOOTON

LUMBER CO.

FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING |

POPLAR. OAK

. CHESTNUT

PRICES ARE YOURS

FOR THE ASKING.

WANT

TO BUY 1

4 R. E D OAK
ALL

AND 4/4 SAP GUM.
G R. A DE S

WYLIE.

1101 FISHER BUILDING
CHICAGO. ILLS.

McCauley- Saunders Lumber Co*

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

BAND SAWED DpTi (^VPRTh^^

LOUISIANA GULF COAST •IvJ-'-L-' V-i X r JXJJiOkJ

Products Exclusively

5i:rir'493o 1703 Fisher Bldg., CHICAGO, ILL.

The Columbia Hardwood Lumber Co.

Wholesale and Retail

Telephone
NORTH 223

HARDWOOD LUMBER

47 Dominick St.
CHICAGO

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Co.

1649-50 MARQUETTE BUII,D1NG

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

HARDWOOD RECORD

Just to Remind You

That we are manufacturers of the celebrated

Wolverine Brand
Maple Flooring

"There Is none better."

Bored, polished, end and edge matched, lays with every
joint even. Largest sales in the history of maple
flooring. May we have your order ?

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Vol. XXIV.

CHICAGO. May 25. 1907.

No. 3.

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General Market Conditions.

There were no particularly new features in the hardwood situation
during the last fortnight. While prices are being well maintained,
there is a slackening of demand in nearly all the trade centers. It is
thought that speculative building is over for some time, and the
business of the furniture manufacturers is not as active as it has
been. These two causes are primarily responsible for a slight let-up
in the insistent demand for many varieties of woods.

Oak and poplar, especially wide stock, are still in active call, with
the good end of Cottonwood a close second. The demand for nearly
,^ll kinds of hardwoods used in boxes and crates is still heavy, as
is the call for ash, hickory and all varieties of wagon material.
Maple, beech and birch are in fair demand.

Current market conditions are entirely satisfactory owing to the
fact that there is a manifest shortage in practically every hard-
wood producing section of the country. The southern and south-
western districts, owing to bad weather conditions, are fully sixty
days behind a year ago, and the average stocks north show very
light assortments at milling points. The season's cut among north-
ern producers is already entirely sold.

This apparent settling up and levelling of prices is going to be a
good thing for the trade. It will not only give it time to catch up
with business but for thorough adjustment of prices on a basis of
relative values. On the whole, the situation is decidedly favorable
and the season will undeniably be a very satisfactory one.

Flooring factories report a good volume of trade with their plants
all busy. There seems to be an increasing demand for veneers and
panels, and the many plants producing this line have their facilities
fully occupied. There is a heavy call for mahogany and there seems
to be an increasing home demand for walnut and cherry, owing to
the immense development in the use of these woods in electrical ap-
pliances.

The call for dimension stock of nearly every variety is far in
excess of tlie capacity of manufacturers to supply. At least ten
times as much of this material as is now produced could be sold.

The Lesson and Its Warning.

^LIBRARY
N8W YOR

Luckily, perhaps, the business man, in common with all humanity,
is prone to forget his past troubles, but surely the wise lumbermaii '*^'^^'''
will profit by the car shortage experiences he has encountered at
regular intervals during the last few years, especially during the
fail and winter of 1906. There is every evidence that there will
be a manifest shortage in hardwood lumber of all varieties during
the remainder of 1907, and there is equally good evidence that the
extremely severe ear famine of last season will be eclipsed during
the coming fall. Railroad companies cannot begin to keep up their
freight equipment. Old cars which are about worn out, and those
already being abandoned, are in excess of the number they are able
to buy and build at the present time.

There will surely be less cars to carry lumber and kindred products
next fall than there were last. The sensible buyer of lumber should
not fail to anticipate his wants and attempt to .secure his lumber
supplies for the coming season at a very early date. It requires no
element of prophecy to see that the men who expect to fill lumber
requirements from a distance after September 1 are going to get
their cars at rare intervals for some months following that date.
Right now, and perhaps for a month or two to come, cars can be
secured in limited numbers. If lumber can be found today, now is
the time to buy it and get it shipped.

Annual National Hardwood Lumber Association.

As the Hakdwood Record goes to press the annual meeting of the
National Hardwood Lumber Association at Atlantic City is about
to close. A telegraphic abstract of the proceedings will De found in
the news columns of this issue, but rather than delay the publication
it has been deemed wise to defer the detailed report of this meeting
until the issue of June 10, at which time a complete account will be
published, including the portraits of many distinguished members
of the organization.

Business Honor and Commercial Failures.

A review- of the commercial failures that occurred in the L^nited
States and Canada last year shows that ten per cent of them were
directly traceable to fraudulent intent on the part of the persons,
tirms or corporations involved. Directly due to fraud there were
938 failures, involving losses of more than $21,000,000. Such are
Bradsfr^i't's figures for 1906, drawn from the great total of 10,624
failures and an aggregate loss of $137,000,000. The ten other general
causes for failure, any one of which may have had the elements
of dishonesty involved, bring home to the reader a realization of
how widespread is the crime of crookedness in present time busi-
ness methods.

In spite of these facts it should be remembered that the last
fifteen years have witnessed great improvement in the systems of
the business Vforld and in the conduct of commercial pursuits of
all kinds. Bookkeeping long ago became an exact science; the
economies of admiuistration are no longer left to guesswork or re-
garded as a matter of chance; fixed charges, ratio of depreciation,
etc., may now be anticipated with almost absolute certainty. The
modern business man, who is entitled to that name, has ceased to
guess at cost. He knows it. The one chance element above all

14 HARDWOODRECORD

others — the one the business man is perforce still obliged to esti- prime cause of disastrous failures. It is these conditions which point

mate — is crookedness. These records of failures for one year are significantly to the fact that merely lack of capital furnished nearly

something to set students of men and affairs to thinking. The pos- one-third of the failures of the year. The disposition of so many

sible assets represented in last year's failures, which involved $137,- men in business to resort to crooked schemes naturally makes hard-

000,000, were $68,000,000. In the light of these figures it is not ships for any concern which, liowever honestly struggling, often

to be wondered at that "honesty is the best policy" has come to finds itself pushed for capital. It is plain that inexperience and

be regarded as a platitude rather than a worthy axiom. even sharp competition as threatening factors in business are in the

Noting the eleven ascribed causes for failures in America and con- minority, both as to numbers and aggregate possibility of loss. Only

sidering only those which have brought loss to innocent investors a little more than five per cent of the year 's failures are due to

and creditors, students of business methods may make their own de- these causes. Against the average loss from these two causes of

ductions as to the possible degree of criminality involved. The $2,762 we have the average from all failures standing at $6,510.

compilation is as follows: A. further analysis will show that of all firms failing ninety-one and

a half per cent had an alleged capital of $5,000 and under; six

I-MTED STATES. p^^. ^^^^ ^^^^ ^ capital of between $5,000 and $20,000, and only

Causes op Failures. failures. Assets. Liabilities. one and seven-tenths per cent employed capital of between $20,000

Incompetence 2,091 $9,743,680 .$19,057,908 and $50,000.

Inexperience 457 1,520,516 2,760,234 n jg perhaps something of which to be proud that of the 1,401,085

Lack of capital 3,370 19,577,813 39,342,384 . ,. ■ i i I j ^- • • i • i u •

Unwise credits 244 1,381.690 2.652,590 individuals, firms and corporations m recognized commercial busi-

Failures of others 190 7,068,226 11,196,193 ness in the United States only 9,385 "proved their inability or in-

Ne^ecT^*""^" "06 955947 l,'855;4sl disposition to pay their debts ' ' in 1906, in the language of Brad-
Competition 101 253.662 537,470 street's. At the same time it cannot be disputed that among the

Speciflc conditions 1,623 11,674.844 22,923.002 hundreds of thousands of surviving business enterprises there are

Speculation 70 1,166,633 4,5(6,(34 °

pj,au(j 938 9,389,192 20,574,560 possibly uncounted thousands which are "making good through

keener manipulations of crooked methods.
CANADA.

In view of the foregoing analysis of commercial failures can one

iTe^erieTcV ............... ■ '*1 2oo!233 '527^620 be at all positive that " honesty is the best (and accepted) policy "

Lack of capital 626 2,266,775 5.080.214 in the modern business world?

FriTu^esTf" itle'rs •:::;::::;:: II lllitt lllill Happily it may be stated that this record does not apply specif-

Extravagance 9 52,175 29,285 ically to the lumber industry. The small record of business failures

Neglect 41 Jo'U?^ """ii'?!!,'. during 1906 makes an enviable showing for this great commercial

Competition 9 12,213 27,420 ? ,^ . , . „ , ,.,,,. „, .

Specific conditions 168 392,766 934,261 pursuit. However, this analysis of general results m all lines of busi-

Speculation 7 26.600 77,254 ^ess is well worth study by every lumberman that it may prove a

Fraud 108 182.760 620,334 .^ ^ , • ■ 1 ^i. 4.u 4. i i j

guide-stone and a warning against the causes that have produced so

Granting that in almost any of these specific causes for failures many failures in other lines.

this element of crookedness may have entered, it will be seen that

the fraud and speculation have been- especially costly, while failures ^^^ QuestiOD of Continued Prosperity.
attributable to competition and inexperience are particularly light;

, . , . . . , , „ 1 ■ .»! i li • 1 ! 1 i.1 1 rinancial experts are discussing the question, ' ' Is prosperity

and the inference is thereiore plain that "irregular ' methods are ^ " ^ _, . ,.

, , .■,...■.■ ■ . waning?" and they are unable to agree. Jacob H. Schift predicts
much more dangerous to creditors than is even mcompentence. ^ ■' ° t, , ■■ , ,
. 1 . J! ii ii -1, i J I,- t, 1. , . „ an era of great suffering among the poor. August Belmont told the
An analysis of. the attributed causes which are most suggestive ot " .....
,. , , ,,,.,. „ ., , , ., . ... capitalists and workmgmen at Mr. Carnegie s industrial peace con-
dishonest methods m business failures makes a striking showing in ^ , , , , . . , , . , ^

TT .1 1 c^ 1 • i- 1 T i.1 ■ 1 1,1 ference that we are about to have a halt in industry, which, he

averages for the United States m particular. In this double „ , , , ,, ,, , . ,, ^ t Vr.,,

, . ,, ^ Li .L T ^ ii 1- 1 -i-i- ii • • alleged, may not be altogether undesirable. James J. Hill, often

analysis the assets are subtracted from the liabilities, thus arriving , „ , . . r , , . , , , , -,. , , „

accused of being a pessimist, denies that he has predicted a collapse

at the net average loss: „ . -, , , ^ ,, . , x, •„ ^ , , . m. 1

Net losses Aveiage n(?t "^ industry, but thinks there will be a slackening. The general

Xo. of ivom all loss from yjg^ jjjat trade has been going ahead too fast prevails, and that it

Causes of Failures. tailures. tailures. each cause. . . , ^, .

„ „„, .„ .^, . „„„ „. ^., w'lU have to slow down to give capital a chance to catch up: Chair-
Incompetence 2,091 $9,914,228 $4,741 j. .., tt •. j cf ^ 0! , r, t- 1 f •

Inexperience 457 1,240,718 2,715 man Gary of the United States Steel Corporation and many foreign

Lacit of capital 3,370 19,764,571 5.865 observers have the same view.

Unwise credits 244 1,270,900 5,209 t, :, ^^. ^, ^ • t 1 .c • i ■ .ir i- i t

Failures of others 190 4,127,967 21,668 Based on the theory of periodical financial crises the time has not

Extravagance 95 387,605 4,080 yet arrived for a great industrial depression. Such disasters over-
Competition ■ ■. ■. ■. ■. '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 101 283;S08 2;810 ^°°^ ^^^ country in 1819, in 1837, in 1857, in 1873 and in 1893.

Speciflc conditions 1,623 11,250,158 6,932 The average interval between them was twenty years. Hitherto the

Speculation 70 3,410,101 47,716 shortest has been sixteen years— that between 1857 and 1873, and the

1' land 938 ll,18o,192 11,925

effects of the Civil War furnished ample explanation of the ex-

lu proportionate net loss it will be seen that speculation, failures ception. On the basis of financial history a long, severe crisis cannot
of others, and fraud are the three greatest agencies. In "failures naturally be expected until some time between 1909 and 1913. A
of others" professional men, farmers, stock brokers, real estate mild reaction from prevailing prosperity midway between two great
dealers, bucket shops, old bankruptcies in process of court settle- panics has usually prevailed. One occurred in 1884, and a correspond-
ment, etc., have not been considered by Bradstreet's in any way. ing break in the present period of prosperity came in 1903. There-
in like manner mere failures to succeed, which have not involved fore, according to precedent, "good times" ought to last for some
loss to others, have no place in these statistics. Here, then, is the years longer.

clue to the enormous average of $47,716 for the seventy concerns Prosperity in the United States is largely dependent upon the

which went down through speculation, and of $21,668 for each of the yield of the crops. The Baring panic of 1890 would have brought

190 failures through failures of others. In each of these cases the the calamitous times of 1893 two years earlier if the disaster had not

stock broker, the race track, the real estate dealer and the bucket been stayed by the magnificent harvests of 1891. Of vast impor-

shop pointed the way to that form of crookedness which leaves dis- tance, therefore, in estimating the commercial prospects of the near

tinctly ' ' fraudulent ' ' failures in inconsiderable quantity. future are the crop prospects. At the present time this outlook is

Beyond question these figures point to one form of crookedness or decidedly encouraging. The winter wheat acreage is greater than

another, on the part of those directly or indirectly concerned, as the ever and fine crops are anticipated.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Pert, Pertinent and Impertinent.

I dreamed that I dwelt in the Isle of Cracked
Ice
In the midst of a lake of champagne;
Where bloomed the mint julep in meadows
green
Amid showers of lithia rain.
I reclined on a divan of lager beer foam

With a pillow of froth at my head.
While the spray from a fountain of spark ■
ling gin fizz
Descended like dew on my bed.
From faraway mountains of crystalline ice.
A zephyr, refreshing and cool,

Reminiscences of Atlantic City.

Came wafting the incense of sweet muscatel

That sparkled in many a pool;
My senses were soothed by the soft, purling
song

Of a brooklet of pousse cafe.
That rippled along over pebbles of snow.

To a river of absinthe frappe.
Then, lulled by the music of tinkling glass.

From the schooners that danced on the
deep,
I dreamily sipped a high ball or two

And languidly floated to sleep.

And then I awoke in a bed full of rocks,

With a bolster as hard as a brick;
A wrench in my neck, a rack in my head

And a stomach detestably sick.
With sand in my eyes and grit in my throat

Where the taste of last evening still clung.
And felt a bath towel stuffed into my mouth

Which I afterwards found was my tongue;
And I groped for the thread of the evening
before

In a mystified maze of a brain
Until a great light burst upon me at last

"I'm off of the wagon again!"

Why?

Few liquors im-
prove with age — they
don't get a chance.

Conversely.
Don't judge a
woman 's brain by

the size of her hat
or her pompadour!

JUST A SUGGESTION.

Sad, but True.

Most men appreci-
ate the nonsense of a
pretty woman far
more than they do
the good sense of a .
homely one.

Stay Up.
"Early to bed and
early to rise — and
you'll meet no prom-
inent people," says
Frank Daniels

Impossible.

It is safe to say
that the French artist
who claims to have
painted President
Eoosevelt "in a rest-
ful pose" has never
been at the White
House.

The Loafer.

If a man is a loaf-
er he has little to
live for.

Every Time.

Find fault with
your employes and it
will make them
faultier.

To Women.

Though we scorn and

flout 'em,
We can live with but

not without 'era!

In view of the ever-recurring inundation of the timber area of the lower Mississippi
Valley and the consequent interruption of logging enterprises, the Hardwood Record sub-
mits this drawing as illustrative of a possible way to carry on woods worli the yeeu- through.

Capacity.

Some pint bottles
can hold more than a
peck o' trouble!

Making the Best of
It.

Many women who
appear to be content-
ed are merely re-
signed.

Waiting.
Now that the won-
derful Spanish heir
has really arrived, we
may soon expect a
cablegram that he
has said "Goo! "

Ciuming.
A man often wins
out by asking man}-
questions and an-
swering nime.

Suspicious.
Lots of men are
suspicious of others
because they know
themselves so well.

The Pace.

The faster a man
travels the harder it
is for him to pay as
he goes.

Surely the Worst.

The worst failure
of all is not to try.

Logical.

Some of us expect
to find rest in heav-
en because we feel
sleepy in church.

Elusive.

The slipperiest
thing in the world is
the nian who never
says no.

Later Advices.

But Winter wouldn't stay put out—
The stubborn, tough old chap.

He ousted Summer, and resumed
His seat in Spring's soft lap.

Springless Poetry.

If you should send a poem
To the editors on Spring,

Send evidence to show 'em
The existence of the thing.

Helps Some.
Little spots of powder,

Little dabs of paint.
Make a thing look pretty

When it really ain't.

HARDWOOD RECORD

AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

Chinquapin Oak.

Qucicus uciimiiKila — Sai-g.
This tree has a range of growth from north-
ern New York, along Lake Champlai° =>"'^
the Hudson river westward through southern
Ontario, and southward into parts of Ne-
braska and Kansas; on its eastern boundary
it extends as far south as the JJistriot of Co-
hnnbia and along the upper Potomac; the
growth west of the Allegheny moun-
tains reaches into central Alabama
and Mississippi, through Arkansas
and the northern portion of Louisi-
ana to the eastern part of Indian
Territory and parts of Texas even
to the canyons of the Guadaloupe
mountains, in the extreme western
part of that state.

It is known as the chinquapin oiik
in Massachusetts, Ehode Islaml.
Pennsylvania, Delaware, North Caro-
lina, South Carolina, Alabama, Ar-
kansas, Mississippi, Texas, Missouri.
Indiana, Nebraska and Kansas; it
is called chestnut oak in Connecticut.
Delaware, Alabama, North Carolina,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Ohio,
Illinois, Michigan, Kansas and Ne-
braska; pin oak in Kansas and Ar-
kansas; yellow oak in Illinois, Kan-
sas, Nebraska and Michigan; scrub
jak in New York; dwarf chestnut
aak in Massachusetts, North Cani-
Jina and Tenessee; shrub oak in Ne-
braska; white oak in Tennessee;
rock oak in Arkansas; and yellow
chestnut oak in several of tliese lo-
calities.

This variety should not be con-
fused with Qiwrcus primis, or the
true chestnut oak, although it is
commonly known in so many sections
of the country by the latter name;
the names yellow oak, pin oak and
scrub oak are likewise applied to
many varieties, so that the only way
to accurately designate members of
this great family is to employ their
botanical name. However, this spe
cies should always be known as tlie
chinquapin oak, which is a distinct-
ive term, and not applied to any
other variety; it is so designated m
Indiana, where the tree reaches its
maximum development.

The bark of this tree is light gray
and is broken into thin flakes, sil-
very-white, sometimes slightly tinted
with brown; rarely becomes half an incli
thick. The branclilets are marked with pale
lentieels.

The leaves of the chinquapin oak are from
five to seven inches long, simple and alter-
nate; they have a taper-pointed apex and
blunt, wedge-shaped or pointed base; are
sharply serrate. When unfolding they show
a bright bronze-green above, tinged with pur-

FIFTT-TUIKD PAPER.

pie and are covered underneath with light
silvery ilow n ; at maturity they become thick
and firm, showing greenish-yellow on the
upper surface and silvery-white below, the
pubescence remaining. The midrib is conspic-
uous and the veins extending outward to the
]ioints of the teeth are well-defined. In
autumn the leaves turn orange and scarlet
and are very sluiwy. The leaves are narrow.

TYI'ICAL KOUKST GltdWTlI ClIINQUAl'IX n.\K. INIlIAXA

liarilly two inches wide, and more nesirly re-
semble those of the chestnut than do any
other oak leaves. In their broadest forms
they are also similar to those of the true
chestnut oak, although the difference in the
quality and color of the bark, and of the
leaves en masse, would prevent either tree
from being mistaken for the other. They are
crowded at the ends of the branches and hang

in such a manner as to show their under sur-
faces with every touch of breeze. This char-
acteristic gives the chinquapin oak a peculiar
effect of constantly shifting color whicli is
one of its most attractive features and which
puts the observer in mind of the trembling
aspen, although the shading and coloring of
the oak is nuich more striking.
The staminate-flowers grow in catkins from
three to four inches long, having a
light yellow calyx; the pistillate are
sessile, or grow in short spikes, cov-
ered with thick white tomentum, and
have bright red stigmas. In speak-
ing of these flowers, Lounsljerry
says: "Those that have paid little
or no attention to the trees, except-
ing perhaps to regard them as af-
fording a gracious and wholesome
shade, are invariably surprised when
tlieir interest in them is quickened,
to see how exquisite are many of
tlie blossoms with which they are
hung in the spring. Then it is a
revelation that the long yellow clus-
ters, looking like bits of string,
wliich dangle from this great oak
are in reality its staminate flowers.
In this way many of them grow
.snugly together. The pistillate blos-
soms are congregated in more com-
pact clusters and, as in many mo-
noecious trees, they are located near
the tips of the lower boughs. From
the topmost branches the staminate
ones sway. That their respective po-
sitions are such is another illustra-
tion of Nature's theory that noth-
ing is insignificant. When the
lu-eezes bend the tree-tops the pollen
is shaken out, and its natural fall is
then downward upon the pistillate
ones wdiich eagerly arrest its flight. "
The fruit of this tree is a small,
sessile acorn ; its cup is broad,
round and thin, with close scales;
the nut is light brown, and is alxmt
one-third hidden bj^ the cup ; it is
sweet and sometimes edible.

The wood of chinquapin oak is
lieavy, exceedingly hard, strong and
close-grained; it is very durable, and
is largely used in cooperage, for
wheels, railway ties, fencing, etc.
The sapwood is thin and light-col-
ored ; the heartwood much darker.

In general appearance this tree is
tall and straight, with narrow head,
reaching a height of from forty to 160
feet. It is rare and comparatively local
through the Atlantic states, being usually
found on limestone soil. In the Mississippi
basin, along stony ridges and dry hills, and
the rocky banks of rivers, it is very abundant,
as it is also in the rich bottom-lauds. It
reaches its finest development along the lower
Wabash river and its tributaries, in the south-

MAURICE M. WAI

BURRAI_0, N. Y.

SUPPLEMENT TO

HARDWOOD KKOORD

MAY 25, 1907

ILLUSTRATING

BUILDERS OF LUMBER HISTORY^

HARDWOOD RECORD

LEAF AND FKUIT OF CIII.NyUAl'lN <.)AK.

ern parts of Illinois and Indiana. The ehin-
<|iuipin oak is a magnificent tree, its hardy
uprightness and beautiful, ever-shifting foli-
age making it an ornament to any landscape.

The large halftone accompanying this
sketch was made from a picture loaned by
William H. Freeman, secretary of the Indiana
State Board of Forestry.

'Builders of Lumber History.

NUMBEB XLV.

Maurice Martin Wall.
I .Sec portrait sttpplcment.)

The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company of
Buifalo, N. Y., occupies a position among the
wholesale hardwood contingent of the United
States which is second to none — not in point
of enormity of its plant, size of output, etc.,
but as to its exalted' reputation for correct
business methods and general high character--,
in commercial transactions. In the building
up of this enviable record, Maurice M. Wall,
secretary and treasurer of the company, has
been most instrumental.

Mr. Wall was born at Avon, N. Y., in 1864,
and is of Irish descent. He received his
early education in the common schools, and
with only this equipment, supplemented by
his own intelligence and what knowledge he
acquired through reading and observation, he
entered the business world at the early age of
eighteen, becoming a bookkeeper for a lumber
concern in his native town. In addition to
his work in the office, the young man was re-
quired to spend about half his time in the
lumber yard, giving attention to receipts and
outgoing shipments of lumber. This gave
him excellent training in the line "which he
elected to follow as his life work. Mr. Wall
remained with the firm for about three years,
or until the business was sold out, when the
owner removed to Painted Post, taking his
employee with him. Two years later, in 1887,
he was taken into the new firm as a partner,
and it was then called Stanton, Crandall & Co.

When native timber began to grow scarce
in that locality, which had previously been of
considerable importance as a lumber manufac-
turing center, attention was directed toward
Buffalo, which was fast becoming a great
market. The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Com-
pany was a small concern which had suffered
financial reverses, and which was at that time

ill charge of two eastern banks who were anx-
ious to unload, its affairs upon a competent
manager. Mr. Wall was offered the position
and took hold of the business with a vim and
ability which soon brought it to the front
rank of the city's industries. In a year he
and his brother, James B., purchased the busi-
ness and operated it as a firm until March,
1S98, when it was incorporated and organized
with James B. Wall as president, Thomas H.
Wall vice president, and M. M. Wall secre-
tary and treasurer, w-hich are the offices still
occupied by the three brothers.

The old institution made a specialty of
cherry before Mr. Wall took hold of it, and
he continued along the same line, although
adding some other varieties of hardwoods to
the stocks carried. However, his policy has
always been to confine efforts to a few lines,
believing that such concentration is better
business and brings better results. Today the
company's specialty is oak in all its varieties,
and it has a sawmill located in Woodruff
county, Arkansas, which is in the center of a
fine oak district; it also has a yard in Mem-
phis, where it carries a large stock of all
kinds of southern hardwoods. The principal
yard is at Buffalo, through which many mill-
ion feet of lumber coming from the South are
handled; also stock from Michigan, Wiscon-

sin, Pennsylvania, Canada and other points
from which hardwoods are obtained.

The company has just established a new and
separate department in the shape of a large
plant. in that city for manufacturing glued-up
veneer stock. The factory is equipped with
the most modern machinery and appliances
known for getting out this class of work, and
jjlaces the company in position to furnish
goods of superior quality with promptness.
The principal output is veneered tops, fronts
and panels of all woods. The company is par-
ticularly well equipped for furnishing quar-
tered oak, mahogany, figured birch and other
fancy woods, cut to length, jointed and taped
to required widths, ready for the glue room.
The quality of glued-up veneered stock that
this house is now making puts it in the mar-
ket as one of the large buyers of rotary cut,
sawn and sliced veneers, wormy chestnut and
other hardwood lumber.

In addition to his chief interest — the Buf-
falo Hardwood Lumber Company — Mr. Wall
is prominently identified with several other
business enterprises, among them the Buffalo
Desk & Table Company, of which he is secre-
tary and treasurer; the Cutting Furniture
Company, which he serves in like capacity;
the Eureka Hardwood Lumber Company, of
which he is president; he is also a director of
the Buffalo Maple Flooring Company and sec-
retary and treasurer of the Plus & Minus
Desk Company.

Mr. Wall is prominent in the social as W"ell
as the business life of the city and is presi-
dent of the Manufacturers' Club of Buffalo,
which has a membership of over five hundred
men — all leading spirits in pushing their city
forward to its rightful place in the industrial
^\orld. He has been very prominent in the
affairs of the National Hardwood Lumber As-
sociation and was the first inspector general
of that organization. For two years he spent
a large portion of his time in organizing the
Inspection Bureau and it was largely through
his influence that salaried inspectors were
placed in charge of inspection and reinspec-
tion affairs of the association.

Personally Mr. Wall is the embodiment of
good nature; he makes friends easily and
holds them for all time; his sincerity and up-
rightness and other sterling qualities give him
universal popularity. He is married and has
three daughters. It is with no ordinary de-
gree of pleasure that the Hardwood Record
takes this opportunity to pay its respects tii
a man so distinguished both at home and
abroad.

Hickory Wheels for J\Iotor Trucks,

Since the introduction of heavy motor ve-
hicles for the transportation of freight,
there has been considerable activity in the
manufacture of wheels for these carriers.
The hickory wheel for motor wagons is not
built like the ordinary wheel. It has to be
designed for the special service to which it
is put. The wheel must be small in diameter,
and quite powerfully constructed, as is

known. Different woods are used for dif-
ferent parts of the modern motor wheel by
some manufacturers, while others employ a
single wood for all parts. In the English-
made wheel ash is used for the felloes, elm
for the hub and oak for the rim. The
French wheels, on the other hand, are made
entirely of locust, and a good wheel results.
Manufacturers in this country use quite a

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■wide variety of timbers, but find that hick-
ory serves as well or better than any other.
Hence, while we find model motor vehicle
wheels exhibited as samples in all of the
shops which are composed of various woods,
when it comes down to utility strictly hick-
ory predominates. This article refers briefly
to the manufacture of the hickory wheel for
heavy transportation vehicles which are now
propelled by steam, gasoline, gas or elec-
trical power.

The selection of the wood is made from
that part of the tree below the branches, so
as to avoid knots and make sure of even
grain. This valuable portion of the tree is
then barked and the hickory butts are made.
These butts are usually about thirty inches
long, this size being convenient for working.
They are out down to a size about the shape
shown in Fig. 1; then comes the riving
process, which calls for the insertion and
driving of wood or iron splitting wedges.
This work is done before the stock passes
to the manufacturers of the wheels in some
cases, while in others the stock is obtained
in the butts, which are halved, quartered
and split to the sizes required for wheel
spokes. Or if hubs are to be made, the
pieces are reduced only to the size required
for that part of the work. For felloes, still
another size is needed.

After the splitting operation is finished,
the sticks have to be thoroughly aired be-
fore anything is done with them. They are
piled in the open air for seasoning. After
a complete exposure in this way, the pieces
are piled in a heating chamber, where hot,
dry air is admitted. A summer-heat ex-
posure of thirty or more days in a chamber
like that shown in Fig. 2 thoroughly dries
the stock. The dryer illustrated is built
with brick sides and back. The top, bottom
and door are of sheet metal, coated with
concrete. One of the splits is shown in
Fig. 3.

The turning process, to get the spokes to
the form shown in Fig. 4, follows. The
lathe is called into service for this work.

Machine model turning is employed in
some shops, while in others the modeling is
accomplished by hand. The rough sawed
and split hickory stick is quickly rounded
off into proper shape in the hands of the
experienced turner. Then comes the opera-
tion of buffing, which is done by various
methods. The sheet metal pattern of boxed
belt buffer is now used to considerable ex-
tent. This consists of a belt running in a
casing, as in Fig. 6. The operator simply
holds the stick to be treated on the mov-
ing surface of the speeding belt. The re-
volving belt, with the usual distribution of
adamas powder, will fill the pores of the
wood quite thoroughly. This powdered,
flint-like stuff gives the wood a smooth
finish.

Further seasoning is required, however,
and once more the sticks go to the drying
chamber, after which the fine work is put
in on the spokes. The mortiser shapes the

keystone base and throats out the neck.
He trues up the ends and puts on the shoul-
der, as in Fig. 5. He must shape the bulky
spoke so that it will look trim in the wheel,
and at the same time possess the necessary
strength. It will not do to shave down too
closely to make the spokes look well at the
expense of strength, since they are not for
the light wheels of speedy automobiles, but
for the slower, heavier, freight-loaded ma-
chines. Revolving discs are used to make
the ends true, and insure a uniform fit.

The manufacture of hubs and felloes forms
almost another story, so important are the
details of their construction. The work of
setting up the wheel begins at the hub, be-
cause it is necessary that the adjustments

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be absolutely exact in every part, although
the dies may have stamped out everything
in an apparently uniform manner. There
are machine-made wheels for heavy automo-
biles in which the setting-up work is done
on the'plan of putting it through with speed

and cheapness. But the best firms do the
adjusting through trained men who fit each
identical part in place with care and judg-
ment. Slight turning off is done here and
there, while in other places a little building
up is done in order to get a perfect com-
bination of fit and balance. Nothing is left
to chance. Each part of each wheel is han-
dled and carefully adjusted by an expert.
The spokes are perfectly fitted into the hub
of the motor wheel. Numbered spokes are
used and pressure is applied to force each
into the place created for it. A hub thus
fitted is shown in Fig. 7. A band of iron is
then applied to hold the spokes in place
while the setting bolts are put through and
fastened.

Another delicate piece of work is the fit-
ting of the felloes to the tongues of the
spokes. It must be done with great care
and accuracy and in a manner to avoid
any future looseness. The parts are forced
together to avoid play. After the felloes
are on, the whole wheel has to be trued.
A skilled workman is given charge of this,
and when he gets the rim right, the metal
tire is placed, as in Fig. 8, being first ex-
panded by heat, and in this condition
slipped over the rim. When cooling, the rim
of course contracts, and a proper fit results.
In Fig. 9 is shown an end view of the fin-
ished wheel, and in Fig. 10 a side view.

The usual varnishing and striping puts the
wheel in order for the market. The interiors
of the hubs are usually fitted in other shops,
where the metal sleeves are adjusted, the
ball-bearing devices introduced, or the hub
keyed or set-screwed direct to the shaft,
which is arranged to revolve in journals of
its own below the bodv of the vehicle.

Modern HardWood and Cement
Combinations.

All workers in hardwoods have noticed the
increased demand for unique styles of deco-
ration for the interior of houses. The so-
called art iwuveau decoration is becoming
very popular, and the illustrations will give
an idea of the character of some of this class
of work. The list of hardwoods selected in-
cludes nearly all in the category. The deco-
ration devices include panels, grilles, arches,
cornices, and all kinds of household furnish-
ings; and the scope of the work is exceed-
ingly wide.

On a recent visit to a well-known manufac-
turer the writer saw samples of hardwood
decorative material which had been purposely
charred for the sake of giving the desired
burned effect; also some pieces coated with
emery and others decorated with serial rows
of tacks. Oddity and originality are con-
stantlj' sought. Some of the panels are out-
lined with floral decorations; there are roses
and lilies and painted figures of Indians and
of animals; there are imitations of checker
boards and patterns that seem suitable for
the dime museum only. Yet these oddities

are constantly called for and sell at good
prices, so that manufacturers will continue to
make them while the demand lasts.

Many varieties of interior and exterior dec-
orations and fixtures are made along the lines
stated to be used in connection with concrete,
for there is a cement age at hand, as is well
known. Cement block buildings are going up
all over the world in considerable numbers.
Ingenious men combine woodwork for inside
and outside ornamentation with cement
blocks. The design shown in Fig. 1 is a
demonstration of this idea. The wood bracket
lines the interior surface of the concrete wall
and ceiling at intervals; on top of the cement
layer is wood again.

Furthermore, there are combinations in-
cluding metal, as in Fig. 2. Cement is placed
in the tier shown, while the hardwood is next
to it, below. Then the iron brace is placed
in position. The object is to show the crude
concrete and the finished wood and iron
within the room. Just as the advent of fin-
ished hardwood beams became an important
factor in interior building some years ago.

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the combination of rough cement and smooth
finished surfaces of hardwood form a feature
at present. Some of the patterns are exceed-
ingly rich, the fine finish of the wood serving
to make the design very pleasing to the eye.
At the same time the presence of metal, con-
crete or brick work increases the strength.

One is surprised at the numerous patterns
in hardwood, cement, stone aud metal which
may be found in modern building designs.
In Fig. 3 is shown another type in which
hardwood is employed. The black represents

roon coloring matter. The cement in the
crevices between the stones, combined with
panels of finished hardwood, made an unusu-
ally handsome window for the interior of a
library or music room.

Manufacturers and designers of this line of
work say they are receiving liberal orders to
create novelties in the finishing of artwork
for studios, arbors, dens, etc. In the latter
much hardwood grille work is used ; and the
prevailing style calls for a half door, so that
the swinging blind is now very popular.

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a zig-zag form of hardwood which is set into
the masonry at the time of building, just as
plain cement bricks are used. The hardwood
bricks, so to speak, are stained to the tint
required. In the selection of the material
for making this line of work, thoroughly dried
stock is used, so as to avoid its warping,
shrinking or expanding. A design in the
form shown in Fig. 4 is what the workman
called a ' ' blind window. ' ' Instead of glass
in the frame there are panels of hardwood.
The effect is unique. The frame supporting
the wood panels is of ash and around this
were cemented cobblestones. They were im-
pregnated with green and other colors, just
enough to make an attractive contrast with
the cement which had been treated with ma-

Considerable work like that shown in Fig. 5
is also used. The spaces between the short
posts are filled with concrete. In Fig. 6,
rubble stones are used in the panels. They
can be found on the beaches in various colors
and are carefully assorted before being placed.
When the cement dries and hardens the stones
become fast.

Cement work is usually done by concrete
w-orkers, although some of the hardwood arti-
sans do it themselves. The wooden portion
of the combination shown in Fig. 7 is repre-
sented by the jiieces forming the squares. At
the upper left-hand corner of each square a
wood block is fitted in. The other portions
of the squares are packed with small stones
imbedded in cement. The entire frame is
fitted into a brick wall.

Firewood Consumption in France.

France, particularly the citj' of Paris,
consumes immense quantities of timber
every year for fuel. Eegardless of modern
heating methods, the Parisians still cling
to the use of wood for cooking and heating.
Coal is very scarce and high in price, and
not of the best quality; moreover the
French people have an eye to the beauti-
ful, and are loth to give up the glo-sying
log in the fireplace, which appeals to them
as much more cheerful and attractive than
the radiator or register.

However, consumption has decreased ma-

terially during the last twenty-five years, as
statistics show; the average annual burn-
ing for the first four years of the present
century for heating purposes alone was
nearly 9,000,000 cubic feet, which required
the stumpage on nearly 125,000 acres of
woodland. The trees cut range in age from
24 to 25 years, and extensive forests in sev-
eral parts of France are reserved to meet
this drain. Some of the provinces are fa-
mous for their picturesque beauty, of which
the great forests of beech, oak, chestnut
and elm form the most attractive feature.

The trees are never allowed to reach a very
great age, however, for they are felled as
soon as large enough for good fuel. In the
autumn the superintendents go through the
sections selected for the winter's operations
and mark the available trees. Cutting be-
gins in December. The woodsmen build
rough huts, which they occupy during the
season. As the trees are cut down they
are sawed into logs perhaps five feet long
and piled on carts, wrhich take them to the
nearest stream, where they are built up into
great cross-wise piles to await the arrival
of bu3'ers, who usually come in October,
after the wood has lain in the heat and sun-
shine all summer.

A firewood fair is held at Chateau Chinon
the first Monday in each November, each
buyer sending his axmen to brand his spe-
cial mark on every log which he has pur-
chased, that he may identify them when
they arrive at destination after their long
journe3' down stream. The water courses are
usually swollen by the fall rains, although
if not, water is turned into them from ponds
and reservoirs which are maintained for
this purpose. One of these ponds, at Set-
tons, can, if necessary, release about 700,-
000,000 cubic feet of water into the river
Cure. When such an operation takes place,
the banks are lined with men who see that
the logs start oif with a clean sweep. The
logs on the Cure are stopped at Clamency
by a dam, and then it is that men, women
and children commence work on them, hand-
ing them from the water, identifying them
by the owners' marks previously placed
upon them, and sorting them out for the
rivermen to form into huge rafts, which
are then sent forward again, to Paris. Many
of these rafts contain 7,000 to 8,000 cubic
feet of lumber. Under good conditions,
they reach Paris, more than 150 miles away,
in about twelve days.

Pine from the shores of the Bay of Bis-
cay also reaches that city by water, since
railroad transportation is much too expen-
sive for the purpose. This lumber, however,
is loaded upon small vessels, which slowly
make their way along the coast to the
mouth of the Seine, and thence up that
stream to Paris.

The bakers and restaurant keepers con-
sume enormous amounts of wood since they
will not, as a rule, employ coal. It is esti-
mated that they use 10,500,000 cubic feet of
pine alone. The public officers of the gov-
ernment consume immense quantities also;
the Department of .Justice uses approxi-
mately 2,000 cubic feet every winter; the
Department of Instruction 6,000, of the In-
terior 5,200, of War 10,000, of Finance 10,-
000. The government's supply is piled in
great yards along the shores of the river
Seine. Sawing is done there for both pub-
lic and private consumers of the wood, the
government doing its own in the courtyards
of the public offices each summer, to insure
a ready winter supply.

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Annual National HardWood Lumber

Association,

The tenth annual convention of the Na-
tional Hardwood Lumber Association opened
under the most favorable auspices on Thurs-
day, May 23. at Atlantic City, N. J. The
weather was bright and clear, though crisp
for the season; nearly 300 delegates were
present, representing nearly all the hai'dwood
manufacturing and consuming sections of the
United States; and the steel pier proved an
ideal place for holding such a gathering.

On Thui'sday at 11 a. m. a reception for
members and guests was held in the con-
vention hall at the Pier, and at noon the first
session was opened with an address of wel-
come by Mayor Stoy of Atlantic City. Fol-
lowing it the officers presented reports for
the past year, which were comprehensive and
showed the association to be flourishing in
every department. The secretary reported
that the membership is now nearly 600, and
that the finances are in good shape.

W. II. KUSSB, RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT.

During the day reports of standing commit-
tees were heard, and several exceedingly in-
teresting addresses were given. Earl Palmer
spoke on "Association Obligations" ; B. C.
Currie, Jr., on "A School of Inspection";
Eobt. W. Higbie on "The Wholesaler; Why
He is Necessary," and John A. Fox on
"Rivers and Harbors."

The Inspection Rules Committee in their
report recommended the suspensio!i of the
now famous "Buffalo agreement" and a modi-
fied set of inspection rules. Action on this
report was deferred until Friday's session.
Considerable friendly "electioneering" went
on among members, the most favored can-
didates for the oflSce of president being
Maurice M. Wall of BufEalo and W. H. Russe
of Memphis, now holding that office.

In the evening a smoker and entertainment
for members was held at the Rudolph Grotto,
while the many ladies who accompanied dele-
gates were agreeably entertained on the Steel
Pier. The work of the Committee on Arrange-
ments was admirably systematized and the
minutest details for the welfare and amuse-
ment of guests carried out.

SECOND DAY'S SESSION.

The convention reconvened on Friday morning,
and nearly the entire session was occupied by
Interesting and earnest discussion of inspection
matters. By resolution the "Buffalo agreement"

providing that no cliange in inspection rules be
made until December, 1908, was suspended. The
Inspection Rules Committee presented numerous
amendments to the rules as they now stand, and
recommended their adoption, to take effect Dec.
1 next. At the afternoon meeting the report of
the committee was adopted after three hours'
discussion, and the presentation of many argu-
ments for and against it. Its adoption was se-
cured by a ratio of ninety-three to forty-five
votes.

By resolution provision was made for taking
up the subject of the establishment of an inspec-
tion school, as suggested in a valuable paper
presented by B. C. Currie, Jr., the preceding day.

John M. Woods presented a resolution con-
demning the daily press for its false allegations
that the National Hardwood Lumber and other
associations were fostering a lumber trust ; he
stated concisely the prime objects of his associa-
tion, and that its aim was the establishment of

O. O.

AGLER, RE-ELECTED FIRST VICE
PRESIDENT.

uniform hardwood inspection ; that it formu-
lated no price agreements and did not attempt to
curtail the lumber supply.

A resolution was adopted endorsing the survey
of the proposed Appalachian forest reserves and
urging congressional appropriations for their
establishment ; also for support in the timber
census work.

A vote of thanks was tendered the Inspection
Rules Committee for the strenuous work accom-
plished, and for the painstaking services it has
rendered the association. Another expression of
appreciation was extended to the Entortiiinment
Committee, which so generously and capably pro-
vided for the entertainment of delegates and vis-
itors.

M. M. Wall spoke in behalf of the Yale school
for practical lumbering, setting forth its line of
work and accomplishments, and asked for con-
tributions. John J. Rumbarger urged members
to attend the coming big Hoo-Hoo convention,
and promised them a royal good time.

Some minor business was transacted, after
which the election of officers was held, resulting
in the following choice :

President, W. H. Russe, Memphis, Tenn.
First 'N'ice President, O. O. Agler, Chicago.
Second Vice President, C. E. Lloyd, Jr., Phila-
delphia.

Third Vice President, Sam E. Barr, New York.

Treasurer, Claude Maley, Evansville, Ind.

New Directors, Theo. Fathauer, Chicago ; Geo.
W. Stoneman, De Vails Bluff, Ark. ; F. A. Dig-
gins, Cadillac, Mich. ; G. J. Landeck, Milwaukee,
Wis. ; J. II. I". Smith, Parkersburg, W. Va.

The next annual meeting will be held at Mil-
waukee, Wis.

Tree Planting in Illinois.

During :t recent field season an extensive
study of Illinois forest plantations was carried
on by the forest service. This work covered
nearly two-thirds of the state, or in all ap-
proximately 50,000 square miles. The region
considered was principally north of a line
drawn through the central part of the state.
South of this the prairie gives way to natural
forest land, and though much of it is cleared,
there has been little tree planting. The re-
sults of the study are equally applicable to the
soutliern part of the state, however, as well
as to pai'ts of Indiana, Missouri and Iowa.

All variations of soil occur in Illinois from
deep black prairie loam to pure sand and
these clianges are frequent and often abrupt.
On the whole botii climate and soil conditions
are favorable to tree growth, as is well illus-
trated by the fact that there are over a hun-
dred native tree species in the state and a
number of foreign species which have been
introduced are thriving. European larch is
adapted to the well-drained prairie soils and
in such situations grows well. It will produce
posts and poles in a short time if closely
spaced; it is intolerant of many other species,
liowever, and will not endure mixing with trees
which grow as fast or faster than it does. A
plantation set with larch, catalpa and white
ash showed at the end of twenty-two years,
but fourteen per cent of survi"^ng larch, al-
though seventy-one per cent of the aslr trees
survived and fifty-two of catalpa. Silver ma-
ple has been more extensively planted in
Illinois tiian any other species, although its
rapid growth is about the only point in its
favor. It is a quick-growing shelter-belt tree
and good for fuel. Ash usually does well on up-
land prairie soil, thougli moister situations are
preferable. It is also principally used as a
shelter-belt tree, close planted, the necessary
thinnings furnishnig good poles for farm use.
The Osage orange grows well everywhere ex-
cept in the extreme northern part, and will
succeed where neither catalpa nor larch thrive.
Burr oak will readily adapt itself to the prairie
soils throughout the state, but its rate of
growtli is slow, and there is no particular in-
ducement to plant it on agricultural land un-
less for wind-breaks or ornament.

Black locust was planted extensively in the
early days, and for a time it thrived; the bor-
ers appeared, however, and most of the plan-
tations were cut. The durability of posts
made of this wood is well understood in Illi-
nois, where they sell for a high price. It is
not uncommon to find posts sound after twenty
years' use, while they have been known to last
for fortj". Black locust should be planted on
sandy soil, such as occurs along the Mississippi
and Illinois rivers. Its growth is rapid, and
if the situation be right and proper treatment
given, post size will be reached before the
damage from borers is serious. The tree is as
hardy as Osage orange, and will not winter-
kill; when forest planting on poor land is con-
templated this species should be considered.
Cottonwood thrives throughout the state, and
makes a good shelter-belt. It is planted large-
ly in towns because of its rapid growth, but
its habits are not such as should recommend
it for a street tree. Sugar maple is one of
the finest shade and ornamental species; it
grows slowly but reaches great size, presents
a fine appearance, and lives to an old age.
It is probably the most popular tree in Illinois
where these points have to be considered. The
white elm is also desirable as protection and
for ornament; it flourishes, as do also hem-
lock, arbor vitae and bald cypress, slippery
elm, sycamore and white birch.

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NeWs Miscellany.

Meeting Executive Board Hardwood Man-
ufacturers' Association.

A meetinfr of tlip cxi'ciuivf board of the Hard-
wood Maniifacturei-s' Association of the I'nited
States was lield at tlie Grand Hotel, Cincinnati.
Saturdaj'. May 11. Present at the meeting
were : J. B. Ransom, president : W. M. Ritter.
K. M. Carrier, C. M. Crawford. Clinton Crane.
R. IT. Vansant. Frank F. Fee and Secretary
Lewis Dostcr.

Page proofs of the new bool; covering grad-
ing rules, with the changes authorized at the
last annual meeting, were submitted. The sec-
retary supplied information covering the changes
in the matter of lengths and uniformity of
wording. On motion it was decided that the
revised proofs should be submitted to the com-
mittee before tinal approval.

The secretary made a report covering the loca-
tion and work of the inspectors since the last
meeting, which report was carefully gone over
and approved. It was decided that a permanent
inspector should be located in Philadelphia to
take care of the work in the eastern section of
the country. This decision was reached after
the secretary had explained that all sections of
the country were covered by traveling inspec-
tors, but those who did the work in the East
had their headquarters in the central West.
The location of an inspector at Philadelphia
was decided upon to enable the association to
give prompt service to members located in Atlan-
tic coast cities.

Tlie secretary suggested the publication of a
new report on market conditions and changes in
values on wide poplar, poplar saps, wide cotton-
wood and ash. A reduction was recommended
on No. 3 common white oak and on Xo. 2 com-
mon red oak. The secretary was instructed to
issue a new list within the next few weeks, if
conditions warranted

The report ot the secretary showed that the
hardwood buyers' guide authorized at the last
annual meeting would be received from the
printers in from two to three weeks. He sub-
mitted specimen pages showing final corrections,
which were approved.

A telegram was received from A. F. Specht.
secretary of the Lumber Manufacturers' Joint
Committee of Seattle. Wash., asking the associa-
tion to join the lumber associations of the
Pacific Northwest in filing a complaint before
the Interstate Commerce Commission to deter-
mine the reasonableness of the proposed advance
in the lumber tarift from Chicago to points in
the trunk line territory, effective .Tune 1 next,
and in a Federal Court injunction to stay the
proposed changes until the reasonableness of
the tariff was legally determined : and to bear
the proportionate expense with the other asso-
ciations.

Owing to the fact that the territory involved
was not covered by the association, the execu-
tive Ixiard did not deem it wise to join in the
movement, although expressing entire sympathy
with it.

A letter from T. Jas. Fernly, secTretary of the
Affiliated Presidents & Secretaries' Association,
was read, asking that the president and secre-
tary of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa-
tion join that organization to assist in further-
ing the advancement of a one-cent postage
propaganda throughout the United States. This
letter was referred to the president and secre-
tary for action.

A further portion of the secretary's report
showed that the membership of the association
during the first lour months ot its fiscal year
showed an increase of twenty-nine manufactur-
ing members, and that he had received many
applications for membership under the consum-
ers' list, as authorized at the last annual meet-
ing, and that he was making arrangements to

take care of that division of the organization.

On invitation ot President Ransom, the mem-
bers of the board adjourned for lunch as his
guests, at which time representatives of the city
of Nashville were introduced and urged that the
secretary's office be moved to that city.

The secretary reported that reservations had
been made for some of the delegates and others
had arranged for their own accommodations at
the Norfolk meeting of the National Lumber
Manufacturers' Association. He advised that
S. B. Anderson had been substituted for W. A.
Gilchrist as Memphis delegate.

Resolutions were adopted authorizing the as-
sistance in the work of unifying methods of
measurement both in this country and in for-
eign markets in harmony with the work of the
New Orleans Lumber Exporters' Association and
the National Lumber Exporters' Association.

The secretary was authorized to notify the
National Association of Box Manufacturers that
the association was entirely in sympathy with
it in the movement to work with the Census
Bureau of the government for the purpose of
obtaining statistics as to the annual timber
supply.

After careful consideration it was decided to
move the association's headquarters to Nashville
at such time as the secretary could arrange to
do so.

The Exploiter of Memphis.

Tliere are newspaper correspondents and news-
paper correspondents. There are some men who
write for the press that have "a nose for news. "
and there are others who fail to recognize news
value in very important happenings. There are
some correspondents who depend on rewriting
the usually somewhat unreliable information of
the daily press for technical trade journals, and
others who go and dig out the facts accurately

GEORGE W. FOOSHE, MEMPHIS, TENN.

and state them succinctly for the papers they
represent. There are some correspondents who
impress the public with the get-up-and-get quali-
ties of the city they represent, while other
writers leave the impression that their town is
more dead than alive.

Probably as thoroughly alive a correspondent
as there is in the country is George W. Fooshe
of Memphis, whose portrait adorns this page.
Mr. Fooshe represents not only the Record, but
many other trade newspapers throughout the
country. If one is in Boston he finds Memphis
exploited : if in New York, there arc columns

about Memphis in the leading commercial news-
paper ; the trade press is pregnant with infor-
mation supplied by George W. Fooshe. Perhaps
his chief value as a newspaper correspondent
lies not only in his accuracy of statement hut
in his ability to know what to keep out of a
newspaper. He never forwards scandal or hard-
luck stories ; his news is always clean, forceful
and convincing.

Mr. Fooshe represents the leading lumber
papers, as well as the cotton trade press of the
country at Memphis. lie has recently become
allied with the new Robertson-Fooshe Lumber
Company of that city, and while he will take
no active part in this enterprise at present, he
will come in closer touch with the hardwood
trade and be able to cover the news of the lum-
ber interests of Memphis with still greater ac-
curacy.

The city ot Memphis owes Mr. Fooshe more
than a debt of gratitude lor the splendid work
he has accomplished for years in exploiting the
business interests of that energetic and great
commercial center, and if the business public ot
.Memphis did its entire duty by him it would
acknowledge his services in a substantial way.

A Novel Sawmill.

A novelty in the sawmill line ma.v be seen
at Oshkosh, Wis., on the property ot Buck-
staft-Edwards Company; it is an electric saw-
mill, the second of the kind to be put in op-
ei-ation in that city. The other is used by the
Oshkosh Logging Tool Company, and both
mills have been proven successful. The former
company is a manufacturer of caskets, chairs,
etc., and during the two weeks or more that
the mill has been operated, it has "eaten up"
a good-sized pile of hardwood logs, and has
fulfilled expectations in its rapid disposal of
timber, and in its ease of operation. Many
outside millmen have visited the plant, as it is
unique to see a mill running in which not a
particle of steam power is employed, and
where the familiar sounds of the ordinary saw-
mill are missing.

The birch, maple and elm used by the Buok-
staff-Edwards Company are brought from the
northern part of the state by rail, unloaded
from the switch track in the mill yard and
piled up to a height ot perhaps twenty feet
by t'ne aid of electric power applied through a
windlass. A car holding three or four logs is
pulled up the slip, which is graded at about
forty-five degrees, to a platform. The power
for the car comes from an electric winch.
From the platform the logs are rolled oft to an-
other platform next the carriage, on which.
one at a time they are carried back and forth
past the big band saw. which takes oft a
plank or long slab at every trip. The rolls and
the conveyor, as well as the slasher and other
mechanical appliances about the mill are run
l>y a 75-horsepower electric motor. Eight men
are required to operate the plant. Its capa-
city is 15.000 feet of lumber daily. The power
is generated in the boiler engine room of tile
factory, whei'e a steam engine runs the neces-
sary dynamo. At the mill no attention is re-
(;uired by the motor except to start and stop
it. Two men handle the logs on the slip, two
I'ide the carriage, one acts as head sawyer,
one takes the boards away from the saw. one
runs the slasher and one takes the boards
from the conveyor. The outfit cost about
$7,000. and is expected to effect considerable
economy to the users.

New Memphis Hardwood House.

There has just been organized at Memphis,
Tenu.. the Neal-Dolph Lumber Company, with
a paid-up capital of $75,000. The principals of
this new house are : W. H. Neal. formerly of
Greenville, Miss., now residing at Memphis,
president and treasurer ; J. T. Strickland.
Greenville, Miss., vice-president and manager
Greenville plant : Wm. A. Dolpb of Memphis,

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general manager and secretary. The company's
offices are located in the Randolph building.
The corporation takes over the sawmill plant
formerly owned by the Planters Lumber Com-
pany at Greenville. Miss., and at an early date

WILLIAM A. DOLPH, NEAL-DOLPH LUMBER
COMPANY, MEMPHIS, TENN.

will commence the manufacture of hardwood
lumber at that point. This mil! is a modern
single band hardwood mill, and an ample sup-
ply of logs for it is assured. The company will
also be large buyers of hardwood lumber in
the open market. Mr. Neal of this company
was formerly president of the Planters Lumber
Company. J. T. Strickland has been local man-
ager and sawmill operator for the Chicago-
Mississippi Land & Lumber Company the past
year, and formerly was associated with the
Planters Lumber Company. \V. A. Dolph for

Collins Company Purchase.

The Collins Company, wholesaler of lumber
at Pennsboro, W. Va., has just purchased from
the Decker Lumber Company a large tract of
Virginia Umber near Sturgisson, between Mor-
gantown and Kingwood. The tract comprises
from 2,500 to 3.000 acres o£ virgin timber
and is one of the finest in the state. The trans-
action includes several miles of railroad, two
sawmills, a hotel, store, and other property.
Although the exact amount of money involved
has not been announced, report places it at at
least $100,000. The company has taken posses-
sion of operations, with E. M. Bonner as general
manager and Frank Smith as superintendent.
The sales department will be conducted through
the general offices of the Collins Company at
Pennsboro, W. Va. Creed Collins, C. W. Sprinkle
and E. M. Bonner are the principals of this
well-known hardwood house.

J. L. STRICKLAND. XEAL-DOLPII LUMBER
COMl'ANY, GREENVILLE, MISS.

the past seventeen years has been associated
with I. M. Darnell & Son Company in a confi-
dential capacity, and has had a very wide expe-
rience in hardwood affairs. All the members of
the house are particularly popular in both the
producing and consuming ends of the market,
and the success of the new enterprise is assured
in advance.

Peruvian Hardwoods.

A recent report of the development of various
industries in Peru states that that country
contains a large amount of valuable hardwoods.
Many years ago the government, looking toward
the development of its rich lands along the
Amazon river, maintained several steamers which
plied between Para and Iquitos, and which
brought down lumber to a planing mill which
was established in the latter city. The plan
was not successful, however, until 1894, when
business generally became better, and it was
placed on a paying basis. It is at present man-
aged remarkably well, considering its size and
the kind of machinery in use. The operator has
a ten-year contract with the government at £13
per month rental, and in return is given charge
of the mill ; he assumes all liabilities and
receives all profits. This contract will expire in
inOS. The machinery is very ancient, and con-
sists of two vertical saws, one band saw, tw^o
circular saws and an eighty horsepower engine.
The mill when pushed to the utmost can turn
out 1,800 feet of lumber a day, but the usual
output is about 900 feet. It is run less than
half the time, because of poor labor and the
difficulty in obtaining it, as well as the primitive
methods used in logging. The desirable timber
within easy access of Iquitos has been cut and
the remaining timbers must be floated down the
river. Laborers will work at lumbering only
during the dry season, and then cut a very
meager supply of trees growing near the water's
edge : when the river rises the logs are allowed
to float down the stream.

The best grades of Peruvian lumber are very
heavy and will not float, so immense rafts are
made from the poorer kinds, and used for car-
rying the better stock down to the mill. No
fine work is turned out, owing to the fact that
there are only limited facilities and that the
demand for rough and dimension stock is in
excess of supply, so that the entire output is
sold at prices which would average about $180
per thousand feet. United States money. The
greater part of the timber is a kind of cedar,
which is not at all durable, and which splits
badly ; it is not even desirable for the shooks
and rough boxes into which it is made as casing
for the rubber output of that section.

It is a peculiar fact that the United States,
with its rapidly decreasing supply of timber,
furnishes to the countries of the Amazon valley
many thousand feet of lumber annually, although
the latter is remarkably rich in virgin forests.
It is the opinion of Consul Eberhardt of Iquitos
that there is now no industry in Peru where
better profits could be made than on a modern
hardwood saw mill in charge of a practical
lumberman, providefl the problem of securing
labor could be solved satisfactorily. The river
for 400 miles above Iquitos is navigable the year
round for vessels drawing fourteen feet of water,
so that it would seem possible lo bring some
of the handsome Peruvian hardwoods into the
inited States from the Amazon countries.

Annual National Lumber Manufacturers'
Association.
On Tuesday, May 28, at 11 a. m., the fifth an-
nual convention of the National Lumber Manu-
facturers' Association will be called to order in
the Auditorium on the .lamestown Exposition
Grounds at Norfolk, Va. Following is the pro-
gramme wbicli will be presented :

First Day's Session.
Roll call of delegates from affiliated associa-
tions.

Enrollment of visiting manufacturers.
Address of welcome by Harry St. George
Tucker, president of Exposition.
President's address, William Irvine.
Secretary's report, George K. Smith.
Treasurer's report, J. A. Freeman.
Appointment of committee on credentials.
Paper, "The Growing Need of Accurate Knowl-
edge as to the Standing Timber in the United
States Available for the Slanufacture of Lum*
her," J. B. White, Kansas City, Mo.

Paper, "The Lumber Cut of the United States
in 1900," R, S. Kellogg, Forest Service, Wash-
ington, D. C.

Paper, "Yale Forest School," Henry S, Graves,
director, New Haven, Conn.

Paper, "Adjustment of Lumber Fire Losses,"
James M. Hamill. Columbus, O.
■~ Appointment of committees.
Cargo conference at 8 p. m.

Second Day's Skssiox.
Report of Committee on Credentials.
Reports of standing committees — Transporta-
tion, C. I. Millard, chairman.

Report of Committee on Credit Indemnity,
Drew Musser, chairman.

Report of Committee on Endowment of Chair
of Applied Forestry and Practical Lumbering
in Tale Forest School, F. £. Weyerhaeuser,
chairman.

Report of new committees appointed.

New business.

Election of officers.

Appointment of standing committees.

Adjournment of convention.

Meeting of the Board of Governors.

New East-Bound Freight Rates.
The proportion of the new schedule of lumber
freight rates from Chicago east, on tonnage
originating in the Pacific Northwest and West,
has been definitely determined upon by freight
officials. The Hardwood Record is indebted to
R. L. Clark, general western freight agent of the
L. S. & M. S. railway, tor the following table
showing the present and the new rates :

Chicago to — Present rate. New rate.

Toledo 9 cents 9 cents

Detroit 9 cents 9 cents

Cleveland 10 cents 10 cents

Pittsburg 12V> cents 15 cents

Buffalo 12% cents 15 cents

Cincinnati 10 cents 10 cents

I'biladelphia 18 cents 23 cents

Baltimore 17 cents 22 cents

New Y'ork 20 cents 25 cents

Boston 22 cents 27 cents

A Doubtful Remedy.

In an oak log which was sawed up at Webb's
Sawmill at Greenfield, Ind., a walnut peg, a foot
long and one inch in diameter, was found,
where it had been driven into the heart of the
log about seventy-five years ago. At the end of
the peg was wound a long coil of dark brown,
silky hair, and after investigation a peculiar
legend was unfolded which, in these days of
easy divorces, is quite interesting.

It seems that one of the customs of pioneer
times, when a man and his wife could not get
along happily together, was to cut a lock of hair
from the head of each and wind around a
walnut pin, which was then driven Into a hole
bored in some thrifty oak tree. Tradition does
not state whether the remedy was always effec-
tive or not.

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New Self-Feed Eip Saw.

The well-known machinery manufacturing
house of Cliagrin Falls. Ohio — the Ober Manu-
facturing Company — has put out a new type of
self-feed rip saw for ripping boards and plank
and preparing squares for lathes and other work
that is usually
done on saws of
this class. The
machine is very
rigid and is en-
tirely of iron
and steel, except
the table, which
is made of strips
of quartersawn
hardwood which
are glued and
dowelled togeth-
er. The table is
hinged at one
end. The saw is
covered in such
a manner as to
fully protect the
operator against
injury from sliv-
ers or pieces
which may fly
from the saw.
This saw guard
is raised and
lowered when
ripping plank of
different thick-
nesses by means
of a hand wheel
and crank. The
guide is hinged
to a hand lever
within easy
reach of the
operator. A scale
provides for va-
rying widths of
stock which it is
desired to cut.
The machine rips

up to 12 inches iu width. The entire machine
is an admirable specimen of the product of the
Ober Manufacturing Company and while it is
illustrated herewith, a complete description and
price can be obtained from the manufacturers.

Iron Company, and a director in the United
States Leather Company. In 1902 Mr. Good-
year and his associates commenced accumu-
lating longleaf yellow pine in Louisiana and
MissLssippi, and their holdings in those states
now aggregate fiOO.OOO acres. An extensive

Frank Henry Goodyear.

On May 13, at the family home in Buffalo,
N. T., occurred the death of Frank H. Good-
year, caused by an attack of Bright's disease.
Kot only was Mr. Goodyear a man of fine
character and one of the first citizens of
Buffalo, but he was one of the most promin-
ent factors in lumber and railroad circles in
the country.

Mr. Goodyear was born at Groton, N. T..
March 17, 1849. He took up his residence
at Buffalo in 1871. and although he began
operations on a small scale, they have multi-
plied and grown to mammoth proportions.
He early commenced to purchase hemlock
and hardwood timber land in northwestern
Pennsylvania, and organized one corporation
after another, until he controlled directly or
indirectly nearly all the available timber in
that section. In 1887, with his brother,
Charles W., Mi\ Goodyear organized the firm
of F. H. & C. W. Goodyear, which in 1902
was made the Goodyear Lumber Company.
Their holdings In Pennsylvania produce an
annual output of more than 200,000,000 feet of
hemlock and a large quantity of hardwoods.

Aside from directing lumber interests Mr.
Goodyear was the promoter of the Buffalo &
Susquehanna railroad and was interested in
several minor ones; was president of the Buf-
falo & Susquehanna Coal & Coke Company,
vice president of the Buffalo & Susquehanna
and modern plant is being constructed at

NEW SELF-FEED RIP SAW MANUFACTURED
BY OBER MFG. CO., CHAGRIN FALLS, O.

Bogalusa, La., which will cost $2,500,000. The
enterprise is called the Great Southern Lum-
ber Company; Mr. Goodyear was its president.
The funeral was held on Wednesday, May
15, at the family home in Buffalo. The ofiices
of the many Goodyear interests were closed
during the day; the trains on his railroads
ceased running, and work was suspended at
the lumber camps, saw mills and iron plant
during the hour of the funeral. Interment
w-as at Forest Lawn.

Stephenson Captures Toga.

Lumbermen are mucli pleased over the se-
lection of Isaac Stephenson, Marinette, Wis.,
to succeed John C. Spooner in the L'nited
St.ates senate, thus ending the deadlock which
began nearly five weeks ago. Mr. Stephen-
son's victory is due to some extent to another
prominent Wisconsin lumberman. Lieutenant
Governor R. Connor, of Marshfteld, who
turned to Mr. Stephenson the votes of two
assemblymen who had been counted upon to
support an opposing candidate. Wlien this
change of front took place the opposition
moved to make his nomination unanimous.

Mr. Stephenson is an intimate friend of
Senator La Follette, who has Deen his warm
supporter during the campaign, which has
been made on a platform which is exceeding-
ly progressive, not to say radical. It has
declared for thorough revision of tariff sched-
ules, reducing duties where possible without
reducing the wages of labor; giving Inter-
state Commerce Commission power to regu-
late rates and service and to ascertain the
true value of railway property, the cost of
operation and the amount paid therefor:

legislation compelling the adoption of the best
known safety appliances and strict regulation
as to operation of trains; strengthening the
Sherman anti-trust law and imposing neces-
sary penalties for control of corporations;
constitutional amendment for election of
United States senators by popular vote; fed-
eral tax on incomes and inheritances; an
effective child-labor law; legislation prohibit-
ing sale of public lands containing coal, oil,
or gas. would lease them; opposition to ship
subsidy and all forms of government bounty.
Mr. Stephenson is reputed to be the wealth-
iest man in Wisconsin, and has made his for-
tune through prudent investments in timber
lands. He is interested in several large lum-
ber operations in Wisconsin and in the I.
Stephenson Company of Wells, Mich., an im-
mense proposition. He is seventy-eight years
old; from 1S66 to- 1SG8 he was a member of
the Wisconsin legislature and from 1883 to
1889 a member of Congress.

Increase in Memphis Lumber Companies.

It has become almost an axiom in Memphis
that it is a cold week that does not see the
organization of one or more new hardwood lum-
ber concerns. There are well toward one hun-
dred hardwood houses of various caliber in
that city at the present time.

The IIAKDWOOD Record does not want to be-
tray any unwise advance information, but from
a memorandum card picked up by a representa-
live in the foyer of the Gayoso Hotel a few
days ago. it is probable that official announce-
ment will soon be made of still another new
corporation. The card reads :

THREE OWL LUMBER COMPANY,

Dealers in

Quartered Cocoanut in the Round

and

Airy Persiflage.

Specialties : Cocoanut Fur and Milk.

C. M. Kellogg, Pres. ; Geo. C. Ehemann, V.-Pres. ;

H. L. Stern, Secy. & Treas.

The present ostensible occupation of the offi-
cers of the Three Owl Lumber Company must
needs be explained for the enlightenment of those
unfortunate enough not to be acquainted with
them. Mr. Kellogg is the active man in the
hardwood house of Barksdale & Kellogg ; Mr.
Ehemann is the junior partner of Bennett &
Witte, while Mr. Stern makes a bluff as south-
ern buyer for the Brunswick-Balke-Collender
Company of Chicago. The out-of-work head-
quarters of the bunch is the Gayoso.

New Hardwood Eules for London.

It is proposed by the hardwood section of the
Timber Trades Federation of the United King-
dom to substitute a set of new rules governing
hardwoods for those made effective in July, 1902.
The proposal contemplates the measurement of
lumber by the American board rule in accord-
ance with the present rules of the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association : all lumber should be
tallied face measure, and all fractions of ?i of
a foot or more counted to the next higher figure ;
all fractions less than % of a foot to be counted
back to the next lower figure. Standard lengths
are specified as 6, S, 10, 12, 14 and 16 feet,
except as otherwise specified, and all lengths
such as 9, 11 and 13 feet are to be measured
back to the next even length, except in walnut,
which shall be measured odd and even feet ;
no allowance to be made for defects : the width
of tapering boards to be made at the narrow
end.

In view of the prevailing tendency toward the
modification of hardwood rules and measure-
ment, the H.VRDwooD Record has its suspicions
lliat the Timber Trades Federation of the United
Kingdom will have difficulty in buying American
hardwoods on the basis of the proposed meas-
ure.

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Changes in Grading Hules.

At a meeting of the SouUiern Cypress Manu-
facturers' Association, held in New Orleans
May 16 changes were made in the grading
rules as given below. The revised rules are
now being printed and copies will be sent to
all members as soon as possible.

In the fifth paragraph, under the head of
"General Instructions." the word "shall" is
changed to "should" in the clause "liut the re-
verse side should, in no case, etc."

Under the head of "Standard Defects" sea-
son checks are now described as follows: "Or-
dinary season checics. meaning such as occur
in lumber properly covered, shall not be con-
sidered a defect in any grade."

Add to standard lengths of mouldings "not
exceeding five per cent of eight feet."

Under the head of "Standard Thicknesses"
"all lumber shipped in the rough shall be of
sufBcient thickness to S2S to standard thick-
ness as follows:"

After the worked thicknesses of ceiling add
the thicknesses of panel stock, as follows;

Inch. Inch.

3-8 panel stock S2S shall be 7-33
1-2 panel stock S2S shall be 5-16
5-8 panel stock S2S shall be 7-16
3-4 panel stock S2S shall be 9-16

The thickness of flat pickets is changed to
3-4 inch.

In the grade of first and second clear briglit
sap is not a defect in pieces 13 inches and
wider.

In the grade of selects 4-inch stock is made
a standard thickness.

In the grade of shop both No. 1 and No. 2
4-inch stock is made a standard thickness and
the words "cuts and rips" are changed in all
instances to "cuttings and rippings."

In the grade of selected common tank the
words "wane edge" are eliminated.

In the grade of No. 2 common the wording
is changed to read "This grade may be either
random or specified widths 3 -inch and wider,
1-inch and thicker, etc."

The grade of "C" finisli now reads as fol-
lows: "All widths in this grade shall admit
small sound knots, stained sap, pin worms and
other defects, except shake; but none that will
prevent the use of same in its full width and
length as a paint grade."

"D" (or selected common) finish is changed
so that 12-inch stock will be furnished and the
closing words "for common finishing purposes"
are changed to read "as a common paint
grade."

In "C" siding the waste of 12-inch length is
changed to ten per cent of the length.

The grade of "A" flooring and ceiling is
changed to read as follows: "May have bright
sap on one edge one-fourth of its width, oth-
erwise must be clear."

In the grade of "C" flooring and ceiling the
words "ten per cent of the length" are inserted
in lieu of "twelve inches in length" both as
regards waste and end split.

Miscellaneous Notes.

It has recently been reported through vari-
ous channels that the Seaman. Kent Company,
Ltd.. a large manufacturer of kiln-dried hard-
wood flooring and sheeting, with factory at
Meaford. Ontario, and offices at 160 Bay street.
Toronto, would build a sash, door and blind
factory. The company announces that it has
no such intention, but that it will erect a large
flooring plant at the head of the Lakes in the
near future.

The first large raft of logs to be brought
down the Arkansas river by the United Wal-
nut Company passed Fort Smith recently and
were watched by crowds as they passed the
wharf. Three of them were several hundred
feet long and were the largest hardwood rafts
that have floated down the Arkansas river for

many years. Each contained many hundred
logs which were being brought downstream
from the large timber possessions of the com-
pany in the Canadian valley and other up-
river points.

Charles R. Little, for sixteen years superin-
tendent of the Merrill & Ring sawmill at West
Duluth, Minn., committed suicide May 14, at
the home of his parents, with wliom he re-
sided, by firing a bullet through his brain.
Failing health is said to be the cause of his
act. Mr. Little was 48 years old and had been
in the lumber business at Saginaw and Duluth
since a boy.

An authority writing from Santo Domingo in
regard to cedar suitable for the manufacture
of pencils says that there are considerable
quantities of the timber tliere, but no success-
ful exploration has been made except by a Vir-
ginia lumber company which owns several
tracts of land yielding cedar, and has done a
good deal in getting out the cedar and other
-woods.

The Fort Lumber Company ot Little Rock,
Ark., has filed a certificate with the secretary
of state showing a change in name; it is now
known as the Brinkley Hardwood Manufactur-
ing Company.

An interesting dispatch from Tresbein. O.,
states that an old tramp wandered through
that village recently planting nut trees, so
that the youth of the land in years to come
will not be deprived of shellbarks and walnuts.
Not many years ago there was hardly a farm
in the East that did not have at least one
walnut tree, and all the streams had hundreds
of shellbark hickories along their banks. The
demand for black walnut and hickory for man-
ufacturing have made these varieties so scarce
that it will not be long before the joy of gath-
ering tlie nuts will be lost to the children, so
that during the last three years the old tramp
has been engaged in his work of planting. He
seeks out-of-the-way spots, so that the trees
will have a chance to grow unmolested and
untrampled. The rocky sides of hills and the
edges of creeks ai'e preferred, and he hopes
that when he h^s become but a memory, chil-
dren of other generations will thank him for
his foresight and kindness.

Efforts are being made to form a combine
of German top manufacturers, including those
in other woodworking lines also, to regtilate
selling conditions, prices and other matters
pertaining to that line of trade.

The Kaukauna (Wis.) Lumber Company has
purchased some black walnut logs of William
Tuttle which were grown on his father's farm
near that town from seed planted by his
mother over fifty years ago. They had reached
a diameter of from eight to ten inches and
were converted into valuable lumber; such
wood is now high in price and easily stands
stcond to rosewood and mahogany.

The Bird & Wells Lumber Company ot Wau-
saukee. Wis., has purchased another tract of
standing timber in Forest county, having
closed a deal with C. A. Hutchins of Beloit for
a section of land heavily timbered with hem-
lock and hardwoods.

A dispatch from Stockholm. Sweden, says
that Hernosand was the scene of a riot on the
13th inst. as a result of the strike of several
hundred laborers in. the Sando sawmills.
Twenty nonunionists and a sheriff were seri-
ously hurt. The owner of the mills. Dr.
Kemphe, who is one of the most prominent
men in this line of business in Sweden, had
imported laborers, and this was the cause ot
the clash. Order was finally restored by the
Westernorrland regiment.

The Diamond Match Company has purchased
a. large tract of limber land in California from
the Sierra Lumber Company, for $1,000,000,
which will be paid in four quarterly install-
ments during 190S.

Two sawmills are being installed in Ran-
dolph county. West Virginia, by the Roaring
Creek Lumber Company, a new concern wliose
principals are all of Clearfield, Fa.

The Tyrell Manufacturing Company of Co-
lumbus, S. C, will soon complete and put into
operation its new circular sawmill on the Scup-
pernong ri\'er. All varieties of lumber will be
manufactured and the daily capacity will be
from 20,000 to 30,000 feet.

About 20,000 acres of timber land in Thomas
county. Georgia, have been purchased by the
J. L. Phillips Company of Thomasville, tlie
consideration being about $127,000. A mill and
tram road will be built, and the capacity of
the mill when in active operation will be 50,0'00
feet. The company recently increased its
capital stock from $500,000 to $1,000,000.

According to official returns the capital stock
of lumber companies organized in Mississippi
from Oct. 1. 1905, to April 15, 1907, aggregated
$3,800,000. The total increase in capital stock
of railroads, banks, land companies, etc.. is
given as $39,638,500.

Reports from Scranton, Miss., say that the
loading of steamships direct from the sawmills
of Moss Point is causing a rapid increase in
the maritime commerce of that port. Cargoes
of 3,400,000 feet of square timber, 2,000,000 feet
of hewn lumber and 1,500.000 superficial feet
of timber have been loaded within the last
few days by the L. N. Dantzler Lumber Com-
pany, consigned to European markets.

Barges are being loaded at Morgan City, La.,
sawmills to carry cross-ties to Galveston. The
scarcity of railroad cars has forced mills to
secure water transportation.

Fire at I.,incoln. N. H., last week very nearly
wiped that town out of existence. It is prac-
tically owned by J. E. Henry & Sons, known
as New Hampshire's lumber kings, who have
suffered great losses; 120 men, women and chil-
dren were left homeless.

J. Beecher has started a sawmill at Lake-
wood. Wash. The output will be about 100.000
feet of cedar per day. There is said to be suf-
ficient timber in that vicinity to keep a mill
running for years, the settlers selling the
cedar as they clear the land.

There is a great shortage of stovewood and
hardwood for building in Oakland and San
Francisco. The hard winter has made the
mountain roads practically impassable and the
railroads have been so loaded with freight that
they have neglected or refused to haul cord-
wood when the cars could be loaded with any
other material. San Francisco and vicinity
have drained the state of hundreds of able-
bodied woodchoppers who find they can get
more money doing lighter work in the metropo-
lis than they can in the woods.

Charles M. White, a veteran lumberman of
Old Town, Me., died May 14. He operated
along the Penobscot for many years.

John E. Wilcombe. a lumber merchant of
Hammond. La., filed a petition in bankruptcy
in the United States District Court May 14.
He gives his liabilities as $1,298.57 with no
assets.

Charles V. Higgins ot Paris. Ky., has sold
his interest in the lumber yards and manufac-
turing plants of the Paris Manufacturing Com-
pany to William P. Ardery and Ossian Ed-
wards and will locate in Florida.

The large sawmill of Rose & Fisher at
Bethel. O., was destroyed by fire on the 15th
inst. The loss was only partially covered by
insurance.

The Case-Fowler Lumber Company, which
operates a hardwood mill at North Birming-
ham. Ala., and has valuable timber lands on
the Tombigbee river, has disposed of its hold-
ings to the Hugh McLean Lumber Company of
Buffalo, a large hardwood manufacturer.

The Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company is carry-

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ing on considerable experiments in northern
Michigan, with a view to bringing about tlie
leforestation of the pine barrens of that sec-
tion Ijy raising tlie trees from seed. An at-
tempt is also being made to grow soutliern
Cottonwood on northern Mieliigan lands. It is
believed this timber would be ideal for pulp-
wood, of which commodity the Cleveland Cliffs
Iron Company is a heavy consumer. A consid-
erable quantity of Cottonwood cuttings will be
planted on lowlands in the vicinity of Coal-
wood. All these experiments are in charge of
expert foresters. The company's holdings com-
prise nearly 1,500.000 acres, and much of the
land is covered with hardwood, which the
company uses in the manufacture of charcoal
to supply its various furnace plants.

The Elmira Interior Hardwood Company, a
new concern at Elmira. N. Y. , has been in-
corporated with a capital stock of $100,000.

A new company witli a capital of $10,000 has
been incorporated at Ripley, Tippah county,
Virginia, by J. W. Paulk. William Ruff and
I. M. Paulk. It is to be known as the Missis-
sippi Sawmill Company.

The Crosby- Bonds Lumber Company of
Bookhaven, Lincoln county. Virginia, has been
incorporated with a capital stock of $30,000.
W. P. Bond? Jr.. L. O. Crosby and others are
the incorporators.

R. C. Oliver, A. C. Jones and others have in-
corporated the Hurricane Creek Lumber Com-
pany at Columbia, Marion county, Virginia,
with a capital of $50,000.

The Cisco Lumber Company, recently organ-
ized in Wausau, Wis., by Wausau capitalists,
has closed a deal for the purchase of a large
tract of timber land in Gogebic county, Mich.,

in the vicinity of Cisco Lake, whereon is over
100,000,000 feet of standing timber. While it is
not definitely stated, the probabilities are that
this timber will be hauled to Wausau and
sawed there.

The Richwood Lumber Company of Hatties-
burg. Perry county, Virginia, has been incor-
porated with a capital stock of $25,000 by A.
E. Causey, O. B. Perry and others.

A new stock concern, under the name of the
Harris Lumber Company, has recently been or-
ganized at Junction City, Ark., with a capital
stock of $6,000. divided into sixty shares of
$100 each. The general business of the com-
pany is the manufacturing, buying and selling
of lumber and the buying and selling of land
and timber.

The Ohio Handle and Manufacturing Com-
pany of Jonesboro, Ark., has been organized
with a capital stock of $25,000 for the purpose
of manufacturing handles, etc. The company
will erect a frame building 60x100 feet. All
necessary machinery has been purchased and
the plant will be installed and ready for op-
eration by June 1. N. Hetherington has been
elected president and E. S. Hetherington sec-
retary.

The Beaumont Iron Works Company of
Beaumont, Tex., has begun building a large
logging car factory, which will be developed
into a general car factory. It is planned to
install a carwheel foundry later.

The Hilton Lumber Company of New Ha-
ven, Conn., has filed a certificate of incorpora-
tion in the office of the secretary of state. The
capital stock is $20,000 and the incorporators
are C. H. Hilton, J. W. Palmatier, William
Aufort and E. C. Sloan.

Hardwood NeWs.

(B7 HABOWOOD BECOBD Special Corraspondents.)

Chicago.

In\'itations have been received in this city
for the marriage of Stephanie Suzanne Bens-
dorf and Rudolph Sondheimer, which will
occur at the Hotel Gayoso in Memphis on the
evening of Tuesday, June 11.

Registered at Chicago hotels May 16 were
John Catheart of New York, A. F. Anderson
of Cadillac and C. B. Dudley of Grand Rapids,
Mich.

Harry P. Coe of the Coe Manufacturing
Company, well-known manufacturers of veneer
machinery at Painesville, O., was in town
May 16.

James Cowen of Schultz Brothers & Cowen.
left town on May 15 for a trip through the
hardwood producing sections of the South-
east. Before returning home he will attend
the annual meeting of the National Hardwood
Lumber Association at Atlantic City.

L. L. Harris of Harris & Cole Brothers, Inc..
Cedar Falls. la., was a Chicago visitor May 15.

Secretary Doster has had another lemon
handed him; the Hardwood Manufacturers'
Association has decided to remove its head-
quarters to Nashville. These constant changes
of the official headquai-ters of this organiza-
tion are getting to be a very serious matter
for the young bachelor secretary. Just about
the time he gets properly introduced into so-
ciety and has a girl lined up to the courting
stage, he is steered off to some far distant
spot on the niap. The fair and marriageable
femininity at Nashville is liereby notified that
Doster is not only an eligible but a very sus-
ceptible bachelor, and if they want him it's
wise to get busy early.

The forces of J. D. Lacey & Co.. leading
timber dealers, are reassembling at the Chi-
cago office, 1200 Old Colony building. Mr.
Lacey and a corps of clerks have already ar-
rived, but Victor Thrane is now in the East

and Wood Beale is at the New Orleans office.
Botli will be in town soon.

The Morton Dry Kiln Company of this city
has just issued a handsome little catalogue
profusely illustrated, setting forth the many
advantages of its product and an explanation
of its method of seasoning lumber, which is
universally conceded to be among the very
best.

Gilbert Y. Tickle of Tickle, Bell & Co., 5
St. Albans Rd., Liverpool, has been making
an extended trip through the chief lumber
markets of the United States, and dropped
into the REcoiiti office May 14. Mr. Tickle is
a prominent factor in the mahogany trade of
the United Kingdom, and also a large buyer
of American hardwoods. He will .sail for liome
the middle of June.

G. von Platen, the well known lumber manu-
facturer of Boyne City, was a recent caller
at the Recokd office. Mr. von Platen was en
route home after an eight months' trip to
the Pacific Coast.

Wagstaff-Lumber-Oshkosh is back from an
extended southern trip which included the in-
spection of timijer properties with a view to
purchasing, and a little vacation sojourn at
French Lick.

The Record acknowledges receiirt of a very
elaborate and attractive "ad" from the In-
terior Hardwood Company of Indianapolis,
which consists of a wall hanger displaying to
excellent advantage types of the floors which
they make a specialty.

W. F. Biederman. superintendent of the Na-
tional Lumber Manufacturers' Credit Corpora-
tion, with executive office in the Victoria
building, St. Louis, is out with his seventh
credit rating book, dated April, 1907. It con-
tains the usual classified list with capital and
pay ratings, of all manufacturers, wholesale
and retail dealers in lumber, and factories

which buy lumber in carload lots. It is an-
nounced that the utmost care has been taken
to make the new list as complete and accurate
as possible. The information on which the
capital and rating are based has been obtained
from sources deemed reliable, and conserva-
tism consistent with the facts in each case,
has been exercised. Corrections, business
changes, new firms, failures, etc., are taken
care of by weekly correction sheets, and a
trade report is issued each week which is a
source of further important information to
members. The book is published semi-annu-
ally and is of great value to lumbermen in
their commercial transactions.

John N. Penrod of the Penrod Walnut Cor-
poration, Kansas Citj', Mo., was a recent Chi-
cago visitor.

The American Wood Working Machinery
Company lias removed its general offices to
Rochester, N. Y., where all remittances and
correspondence regal-ding collections and ac-
counts should be directed in future. For prices
or information regarding machinery, the near-
est salesrooms should be addressed; they are
at Cedar and West streets, New York; Hen-
nen building. New Orleans; Fisher building,
Chicago, and 591 Lyell avenue. Rochester.

The IlAKDWooD Record acknowledges re-
ceipt from the Lidgerw,ood Manufacturing
Company, New York, of a set of six fine
photographs illustrating Lidgerwood logging
systems, contained in a handsome frame 21x
2S inches in size.

J. J. Linehan of the Linehan Lumber Com-
pany, Pittsburg, was in town on May 11.

The Michigan Maple Company of Grand
Rapids has removed its offices from the Mich-
igan Trust building to 414 Houseman block,
that city.

R. J. Clark, president of the Peninsula
Bark and Lumber Company of Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich., was a welcome caller at this
office on May 11.

The Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber
Company of South Bend, Ind., announces that
Wm. P. Schmuhl, for the last twelve years
buyer and inspector for the Ford & Johnson
Company of Michigan City, Ind., has resigned
his position witli the latter concern and ac-
cepted one with the former, to take effect
July 1.

The American Central Lumber Company,
formerly of Anderson, Ind.. has moved its
office from that city to Central City. W. Va.
The company manufactures and wholesales
oak and hickory wagon stock in the rough
and lias about twenty mills in various parts
of the country in opei'ation. It is under the
management of G. A. Lambert.

The Rotary File and Machine Company,
Inc., 5S9 Kent avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y.. is
out with a neat little booklet about its band
saw machines, sharpeners, setters, blades,
guides and brazers, which gives in concise
form considerable information about its tools,
and a number of useful pointers for hard-
wood manufacturers.

E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc., of Indianapolis,
whose Chicago branch at 38 S. Canal street
was recently destroyed by fire, are noted for
their ability to get to the front and surmount
all sorts of obstacles with the utmost dis-
patch. Another instance of this is shown
in the following communication, dated May
11: "We write to announce the fact that
we have opened new headquarters in Chicago
at 75-77 Market street, and while we are not
doing business at the same old stand, still
we are doing business right along, and lots
of it."

J. W. Embree, vice president of the Ritten-
house & Embree Company, has returned home
from a week's trip to the company's mill at
Warren, Ark.

William Wilms of the Paepcke-Leicht Lum-

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ber Company is making an extended southern
trip; he will visit Cairo, Memphis and other
mill points at which his concern has interests.
Fred W. Blaclt of the Fred W. Blaclt Lum-
ber Company has gone to Memphis on busi-
ness for his house; from there he will visit
other Tennessee and Mississippi points.

Boston.

The Heywood Bros. & Wakefield Company
of Gardiner, Mass.. is contemplating the erec-
tion of an addition to its plant at Gardiner.
The addition will be 440x75 feet and will be
four stories and basement. Another build-
ing will be erected for the office.

Collier & Keyworth, manufacturers of go-
carts, Gardiner, Mass., will build another
story on their plant.

C. F. Schurster, who for over twenty years
has been connected with the Connecticut Val-
ley Lumber Company, has resigned and will
give his entire time to the affairs of the Green
Mountain Lumber Company,

The Hilton Lumber Company has been in-
corporated in New Haven, Conn., with a cap-
ital of $20,000. The incorporators are C. H.
Hilton, J. W. Palmatier, William Aufort, E.
C. Sloan. Mr. Hilton has recently returned
from Bellevue, Fla., where the mills of the
company will be located. He secured an
option on a large tract of land there con-
taining oak, baywood and other hardwoods.

The cofiln manufacturing plant of -Miller
& Burnham, Hartford, Conn., was recently
destroyed by fire, causing a loss of about
$10,000.

Lawrence & Wiggin are making ciuite a
specialty of mahogany veneers. Fred W.
Kirch, formerly of New York, who has been
in the veneer business for several years, has
been engaged as salesman in this department.
He is showing some fine samples of mahogany
veneers.

William E. Litchfield, who has been visit-
ing his mill in Indiana, has returned.

Among the southern visitors to this market
recently have been: M. F. Amorous of At-
lanta, Ga.. and J. J. McDonald, Savannah, Ga.

A leading dealer in hardwoods states that a
few years ago it was customary for him when
opening his morning mail to first look for
orders, then checks and finally shipments.
Conditions have changed. Now he looks for
shipments, checks and orders.

Mr. Bacon of the Davenport-Peters Com-
pany, says whitewood is still held at high
prices. Manufacturers are able to mdrket
their product as fast as they have it in ship-
ping condition. Dealers here are buying only
what they need and are not anticipating
wants.

The New England lumbermen will hold their
seventh annual outing at Narragansett Bay,
June S. The train leaves South Station. Bos-
ton, at 10:45 a. m. for Providence, where con-
nections will be made with the steamer War-
wick. Dinner will be served at Fields Point,
after which the party will proceed to Pru-
dence Park. Howard C. Morse of Blacker &
Shepard, is one of the leaders in this outing.
It is hoped tliat the lumbermen will turn out
in large numbers.

Fred S. Morse of the F, S. Morse Lumber
Company, Springfield, has recently returned
from a trip South.

Elmer L. Gibbs, president of the- O. M.
Bearse & Son Company. Chelsea, Mass., has
returned from a western trip, with a very
satisfactory volume of orders. It is reported
that he took one order for 1,000,000 feet of
mahogany,

K. W. Hobart of Hobart & Co.. Boston, re-
turned from a southern trip recently.

J. M. W. Hall, president of the Machias
Lumber Company, returned last week from
a trip to Maine.

New York.

Labor troubles are infesting certain sec-
tions of the metropolitan lumber district,
which, while they have not as yet assumed
momentous proportions, are, nevertheless,
causing considerable speculation as to what
the future will bring forth. In every case
where trouble has arisen the places of the
strikers have been immediately filled by strike
breakers and nonunion help, and there has
been absolutely no interference with the con-
duct of business on the part of the dealers
affected. The New York Lumber Trade Asso-
ciation has the situation well in hand and
is preparing to cope witli trouble of any pro-
portions should occasion require, and tlie fact
of its absolute preparation in tills respect bids
fair to prevent general spreading of the
trouble. As a matter of fact, the trouble
is not due to any dissatisfaction on the part
of the men, but is caused by the activity of
walking delegates.

As the time approaches for the lumbermen's
golf tournament, which will be held at the
Baltimore Country Club, Baltimore, Md., June
12 and 13, everything is reported to be pro-
gressing finely and a large number of entries
have already been received. The tournament
will be held under the auspices of tlie Lum-
bermen's Golf Association, of which Wm. D.
Gill of Baltimore is president, and Henry
Cape, 1 Madison avenue, New York, secre-
tary. Arrangements for the comfort and en-
tertainment of the contestants at Baltimore
are in charge of Mr. Gill. Any lumberman or
anyone engaged in any of the allied lines of
the lumber business is not only eligible but
cordially invited to enter tlie contest.

The official report of the National Whole-
sale Lumber Dealers' Association's last an-
nual convention has just been issued in its
usual attractive style, containing handsome
illustrations of the officials for the current
year, a full list of committees, etc., together
with the annual proceedings.

The Lumber Underwriters of 66 Broadway
recently enlarged and renovated their quar-
ters at that address and now have a very
handsome suite of offices. They have just
Issued a very handsome calendar, containing
a beautiful reproduction of a famous forest
fire scene. Accompanying the calendar is a
booldet giving some interesting and valuable
pointers as to their system of insurance, the
character of their policy, financial resources,
etc.. which they will be very glad to mail
to any one interested on application.

The executive committee of the National
Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association will
hold its first regular meeting of the year at
the headquarters, 66 Broadway, on May 22.
at which time reports will be received cover-
ing the work thus far this year and plans
will be discussed for future operations.

Mrs. Lewis Dill, wife of I^W'is Dill, the
distinguished Baltimore lumberman, sailed
from this port on May 7 for a summer stay
in Europe, and will be joined by Mr. Dill
a little later.

The regular annual meeting of the stock-
holders of the Cross. Austin & Ireland Lum-
ber Company, big Brooklyn house, was held
at the company's offices on May S, at which
time officers and directors were elected. The
oflicers are: President, Jas. Sherlock Davis;
vice president, J. S. Carvalho; secretary,
Bruce W. Belmore; treasurer, Charles L.
Adams, Jr., and assistant secretary and treas-
urer, Wm. Dubocq. The Board of Directors
of last year was re-elected. The retirement
of N, Irving Lyon because of ill health was
announced. Bruce W. Belmore, the new secre-
tary, has been associated with the company
for a number of years. The gigantic improve-
ments which have been under way at the

company's premises during the past year or
more are Hearing completion, at which time
the premises will represent one of the biggest
and most up-to-date operations of its kind in
the country.

The wholesale lumber business of John Mc-
Clave of 1 Madison avenue has been incor-
porated under the name of the McClave Lum-
ber Company, with a capital of $150,000. The
incorporators are S. W. McClave and John
McClave of New York.

The local branch office of the Lumbermen's
Credit Association of Chicago, publishers of
the Red Book, has been removed from 18
Broadway to 116 Nassau street, where Man-
ager Charles D. Chase is enjoying larger quar-
ters for the conduct of their business.

John R. Glover of W. R. Adams & Co.,
Van Brunt and Bowne streets, Brooklyn, is
on a business trip to Buffalo and Tonawanda
markets.

G. Wetherhorn, local representative of
Wetherhorn & Fischer, manufacturers of
cypress sash, doors, blinds, mouldings, etc.,
of Charleston, S. C, has removed from 150
Nassau street to 146 Broadway, where he has
increased facilities. The plant of the com-
pany at Charleston has undergone some im-
provements and additions which will increase
the daily output forty per cent.

Philadelphia.

Chas. F. Felin & Co. report their mills and
factory working to full capacity, orders coming
in right along,

Eli B. Hallowell & Co. have been busy for
the last few months, and have no fault to
find with conditions. Their hardwood depart-
ment is doing nicely. They have a man in
West Virginia looking up these woods. Their
business is extending so rapidly that a good
man for Pittsburg and one for New York
territory is to be considered. Eli B. Hallo-
well of this firm and wife, are sojourning in
Wernersvillo, Pa.

Soble Bros, report trade in excellent con-
dition. Frank D. Folsom of this concern has
been called home on account of the serious ill-
ness of his son. John J. Soble is at the mills
in Honaker, Va., looking after their interests
there. H. P. Minard, superintendent of the
Okeeta Planing Mills Company, in which the
Soble Bros, are largely interested, spent a few
days at the home office in Philadelphia re-
cently.

J. R. Williams, 909 Land Title Building, re-
cently returned from a Canadian trip. He is
very busy and reports his liardwood depart-
ment in good shape. He has just made con-
nection with the largest mill work concern in
the northwest.

The Righter-Parry Lumber Company is
reaping good results from its hardwood de-
partment. Frederick C. Righter recently re-
turned from a selling trip through the Pitts-
burg territory with a good bunch of orders.
Charles K. Parry is making a tour of North
and South Carolina and Georgia, visiting the
mills and making some desirable connections.

The Codling Lumber Company, wholesaler
of lumber at Twenty-second and Bellevue
streets. Tioga, is moving its offices into the
Land Title building.

M. F. Amorous, president of tlie LTnion-
Pinopolis Lumber Company. Atlanta, Ga., re-
cently visited the local trade.

The Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual Fire
Insurance Company reports business at the
present time the best in the history of the
company. In the past their banner year
showed a total of about $1,000,000 insurance;
for 1907, so far, the company has written up
insurance amounting to over $800,000; this
prosperity is imdoubtedly due to the conscien-
tious and careful policy of its manager.

James Ruth of Sinking Spring, Pa., a well

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known lumber dealer, and first station agent
of this place, died on May 3, in his seventy-
sixth year.

C. E. Lloyd, Jr.. of the Boice Lumber Com-
pany, Inc., reports business active and is more
than pleased with results to date. Mr. Lloyd
has been malting- an extensive tour among
mills, their own and others, and reports con-
ditions eminently satisfactory — no weakening
at any point in values. This company has
purchased considerable hardwood of late, and
with the output from their mills, will be pre-
pared to meet most any demand for months
to come.

A forest fire that has been burning in Presi-
dent and Pine Grove townships since May 12.
was recently checked, after the timber loss
had reached the sum ot $75,000.

The Holloway Lumber Company reports
business moving along nicely and the car
service a little improved, so that it is able
to get out some of the back orders.

Miller & Miller, a prosperous firm, have ex-
tended their business considerably during the
past year. They have mills at Branchville
and Bowman, S. C, and are arranging for
the building of a railroad to connect with
their mills. They also expect shortly to open
a branch office in this vicinity. They report
their hardwood department doing well. Frank
B. Miller has recently returned from an ex-
tended tour in South Carolina and Georgia,
where he has been looking up longleaf pine,
in which wood they also deal extensively.

J. N. Holloway & Co. are receiving a good-
ly share ot orders. They feel that a new im-
petus has been given to trading, in conse-
quence of the more seasonable weather.

H. H. Maus & Co., Inc., report the best
year's business they have ever had. Their
mill is working without interruption, orders
coming in right along, notwithstanding they
have not been able as yet to close out all the
back orders. The company has engaged F.
W. Strahorn to look after the pole end of the
business. Mr. Strahorn. who is well known,
having been in this business on his own ac-
count for some years, is thoroughly familiar
with the line.

The J. W. Ditenderfer Lumber Company
will shortly remove to 1314 North American
Building.

J. Randall Williams & Co. are preparing tor
prospective good summer trading. J. Randall
Williams. Jr., of this firm, is on a buying
trip in South Carolina. When last heard from,
he was fast developing into an expert in the
piscatorial line. It comes from good author-
ity that his record for one afternoon's catch
was twenty-three trout.

Baltimore.

A meeting of Baltimore members of the
National Hardwood Lumber Association was
called prior to the annual meeting of that
organization to discuss the advisability of
urging the amendment of the National grad-
ing rules and whether the Buffalo resolution
of 1905 should not be rescinded with a view-
to securing as close an approach to unanim-
ity throughout the United States as pos-
sible. All the Baltimore members were pres-
ent with two exceptions, and the action taken
was unanimous. After an extended discus-
sion of the subject under consideration, the
following resolution was adopted:

"Resolved, 1st. That it is the sense of the
Baltimore members of the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association that the association
in convention at Atlantic City, N. J.. May 23
and 24, 1907, should take such action as is
necessary to rescind the Buffalo resolution of
1905, whereby it was agreed to make no
change in the grade rules of the National
Hardwood Lumber Association for a period
of three years; and that this association
should make such alteration and changes in

its grade rules as will as nearly as possible
promote and bring about a common and uni-
versal system of inspection of hardwood lum-
ber throughout the entire country.

"2nd. That the chairman shall appoint a
committee ot three members whose duty it
shall be to present to the convention of the
National Hardwood Lumber Association
through the proper channel this resolution
and the further action of the Baltimore mem-
bers here assembled."

The following resolution was adopted on
motion of M. S. Baer:

"Resolved. That the committee of Balti-
more members are empowered and instructed
to meet with the committee on inspection of
the National Hardwood Lumber Association,
and discuss with them fully the proposed
changes to be offered in the association in-
spection rules, with a view to determining
their action in behalf of the Baltimore mem-
bers and to lay before the committee the de-
sirability of the following changes:

"1st. That there should be a proper divi-
sion in the grade of shipping Culls Hard-
wood, conforming nearly to the present sys-
tem of division into No. 2 Commons and No.
3 Commons of the Hardwood Manufacturers'
Association of the United States.

"2nd. That for the inspection ot poplar
lumber there should be established an addi-
tional grade of "stained" saps, making a
place for this class of stock under a head to
itself.

"3rd. That the rules governing the mea-
surement of hardwood lumber should be so
changed as to cause measurement to be made
as follows:

"In widths, fractions on the one-half foot
are t3 be given alternately to the buyer and
seller; the fractions below the one-half foot
to be dropped, and all fractions above the one-
half foot to be counted to the next higher
figures on the board rule.

"In lengths, standard to be four to sixteen
feet, counting the 'odd' as well as the 'even'
feet."

This matter, for which the meeting had
been especially called, having been disposed
of, the cost of inspecting hardwood lumber
at Baltimore was taken up. The Baltimore
Lumber Exchange having adopted the na-
tional rules. M. S. Baer offered the follow-
ing resolution, which was adopted:

"Resolved, That the committee of three
members appointed by the chairman of this
meeting shall be further empowered and re-
quested to take up with the Inspection
Bureau of the National Hardwood Lumber
Association at some suitable time in the near
future the subject of co-operation between
the National Hardwood Lumber Association
and the Lumber Exchange of Baltimore, with
a view to having the association grant proper
license to the chief inspector of the Lumber
Exchange of Baltimore, permitting him to
issue the National Hardwood Lumber Asso-
ciation inspection certificate on lumber in-
spected under his supervision, and allowing
the Lumber Exchange charges to apply."

This, it was contended, would relieve the
association of the fixed expense of the
salaried inspectors in this city.

Richard W. Price presided over the delib-
erations. The committee named to bring the
matter before the Atlantic City convention
was: R. B. Wood, Richard P. Baer and
Richard W. Price.

Articles of incorporation were filed re-
cently by the John C. Scherer. Jr.. Manufac-
turing Company, which is organized to manu-
facture and deal in office furniture, bar fix-
tures and other similar products, and has an
authorized capital stock of $60,000. The in-
corporators named are John C. Scherer, Jr..
Harry R. Ruse. Thomas T. Tongue, Frank H.

Longfellow and Daniel MacLea. Mr. Scherer
is widely known in the sash, door and blind
trade. Mr. MacLea is a member of the
Eisenhauer & MacLea Company, dealers in
hardwoods on West Falls avenue, and enjoys
an excellent reputation. The company will
doubtless conduct operations on a large scale.
Hardwood men here are considerably exer-
cised over the action of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad in serving notice of an increase
in the freight rates of one cent per 100
pounds. The increase became effective on
May 1. At the same time the minimum
weight of cars was increased from 30,000 to
34,000 pounds. In other words, where a lum-
ber shipper had formerly to pay for 30,000
pounds when he loaded a car, he will now
havp to pay on 4.000 pounds more, so that
the increase in rates is really much more
than the one cent advance indicates. Ar-
rangements are under way to make some sort
of representation on the subject to the rail-
road company, the advance being considered
out of proportion to that on other commod-
ities.

Among the visiting lumbermen here last
week was C. E. Lloyd, vice-president of the
Boyce Lumber Company of Philadelphia. Mr.
Lloyd had been on a southern trip, and was
enroute for home. He said that the hard-
wood business continued in excellent shape,
with prices strong and the demand active
with the possible exception of common oak.
which, he thought, had eased off somewhat,
though the general situation was not affected
thereby. He looked for a prosperous busi-
ness during the balance of the year.

A concatenation of local Hoo-Hoo has been
called by Vicegerent Snark Maurice W. Wiley
for the first week in June, when it is ex-
pected that a number of applicants for ad-
mission will be on hand.

B. C. Currie of the R. M. Smith Lumber
Company of Parkersburg, W. Va., was in
town last week and expressed himself as
highly gratified over the way trade keeps up.
The Norva Land and Lumber Company of
which Robert MacLean, a well-known ex-
porter of hardwoods with offices in the Stew-
art building, this city, is general manager
and president, is erecting a planing mill in
Norfolk County, Va.. along the Dismal Swamp
Canal, with Walliston, Va., as the postofBce
station. The company has some 23,000 acres
of land there, containing large quantities of
hardwoods, cypress and much gum. The lat-
ter is being worked up into staves, a stave
mill and sawmill having been on the place
when it was purchased. A resaw is also
being put up, and the facilities of the com-
pany will be greatly enlarged when the im-
provements are complete. The planing mill
will be in running order about the middle of
June.

The Danzer Lumber Company of Hagers-
town, Md., is making extensive improvements
at its yards on South Potomac street, which
cover an area of five acres and are being
connected with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
by means of a switch 550 feet long. This will
permit cars to be shunted direct to the yards
without extra handling. A smoke stack 80
feet high is being built, and dry kilns are
under construction, together with exhausts to
convey shavings and sawdust to the boilers.
Every facility for handling lumber, heavy
timber and logs is to be provided. The im-
provements will be completed some time in
July.

Mary L. Evans, president; Eugene Murray,
vice-president, and William B. Murra.v. sec-
retary-treasurer, all of W'ashington, D. C.
have incorporated the Convertible Furniture
Manufacturing Company of Alexandria. Va..
with a capital stock of $50,000. and will erect
a factory there.

HARDWOOD RECORD

R. P. Baer of R. P. Baer & Co. recently
returned from a trip South, in the course of
which he visited a large number of mills.

The Herbertson Lumber Company has been
incorporated at Richmond. Va., with William
Herbertson. Sr., as president; M. L. Herbert-
son as vice-president. R. H. Herbertson as
secretary, and R. K. Herbertson as treasurer.
The three first-mentioned are of Pittsburg,
and R. K. Herbertson is of Burkeville, Va.
The capital stock of the company is fixed at
$100,000.

Pittsburg.

The Willson Brothers Lumber Company re-
ports an excellent demand for hardwoods of
all kinds and says that the call for oak and
sound wormy chestnut is one of the most
promising features of the Pittsburg market
for two years. This firm has fortified itself
with large stocks and is supplying the trade
throughout the East in a way that few
other concerns are able to do.

The A. M. Turner Lumber Company is now
quartered in one of the finest suites of offices
in the city, in the Union Bank building. They
have nearly double the space which they had
in their old quarters in the Ferguson build-
ing, but the room has been badly needed for
a long time. In poplar. Cottonwood and bass-
wood the Turner Company is doing a big
business.

A number of investors from Clearfield. Pa.,
have bought 1.000 acres of hardwood timber
land on the Coal & Coke railroad in Randolph
county. West Virginia, for about $20,000. It
is estimated that the tract will cut 5.000,000
feet, most of which will be marketed through
the agency of W. W. Dempsey of Johnstown,
Pa.; several portable mills will be installed
at once.

The L. L. Satler Lumber Company is get-
ting out a fine lot of hardwood at its big
plant at Blackstone, Va. A large part of this
is oak and the firm finds a good market for
this lumber. both on the eastern coast and in
the Pittsburg district. Mr. Satler was one
of the Chamber of Commerce excursionists
who toured West Virginia on a business trip
last week.

The big plant of J. A. HoUinger at Cham-
bersburg. Pa., was burned a few days ago.
with a total loss of $100,000. About $40,000
of this was covered by insurance. The fire
started in the engine room of the sawmill
and burned practically the entire plant of
the company.

The Cotton Belt Timber and Manufactur-
ing Company has been incorporated in Ohio
by a number of capitalists of Norwalk. Its
capital is $100,000, and the members of the
company are Fred H. Fox. F. C. l&iUer, B. N.
Chikls. John Laylin and H. A. Gallup.

J. E. Mcllvain & Co. are having a very good
call for railroad ties. They report most of
the West Virginia mills fairly busy and they
are putting on new men at the mills where
they have lumber under contract.

The big planing mill of Dimond & Borland
at Oil City, Pa., was damaged by fire to the
extent of $50,000 on May 8. The firm carried
about $7,000 insurance.

West Virginia Hoo-Hoo held a very suc-
cessful meeting at Weston. May 2. Nearly
thirty were initiated and over two hundred
members of the order were present at the
services. Among the prominent speakers were
H. K. Stover of Elkins, I. N. Butler of Pick-
ens, James H. Chapman of Sutton. John L.
Altizer of Baltimore and E. S. Boggess of
Clarksburg.

The Babcock Lumber and Boom Company
has been incorporated at Davis. Tucker
county, West Virginia, with a capital of $500,-
OOO. The stock is all held by the Babcock
lumber interests, which have their headquar-
ters in Pittsburg.

The Valley Bend Lumber Company, of Shaf-
fer's Run. Randolph county, W. Va., lost its
big mill last week by fire. Wilson Brothers
of Toronto were the chief owners and will
likely rebuild the plant.

The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
set out more than 500,000 trees as a prelimi-
nary to its immense project of starting enough
oak forests to supply it with tie timber in
the future. At its new nursery at Hollidays-
burg, Pa.. 135 pounds of seed will be planted
this year. The work is being conducted by
E. A. Sterling, formerly of the United States
Bureau of Forestry.

The Lycoming Lumber Company is a new
concern chartered by Wm. CoUum, S. V.
Brown and F. C. Zercher. It will operate
near Greensburg. Pa.

Pittsburg wholesalers are greatly concerned
at the increase of 20 to .10 per cent in freight
rates whicli will go into effect June 1 on all
the roads of the Central Freight and Trunk
Association. Hitherto the rate on lumber
from Chicago to New York has been 20 cents
per hundred pounds. The increase will cause
a sharp advance in the price of some hard-
woods that are being shipped in large quanti-
ties to the Middle West and it is expected
that oak will suffer worse in this respect.

Three new lumber companies were char-
tered last week in western Pennsylvania. The
Newell Brothers Lumber Company of Pitts-
burg is backed by J. A., W. A. and H. T.
Newell. H. A. Miller, A. C. Leslie of Pitts-
burg and W. E. McMillan of Wilkinsburg, Pa.
The capital is $100,000, of which over $40,000
has been paid in, The Fort Pitt Lumber
Company of Pittsburg has a capital of $12,-
500 and is promoted by H. L.. Austin, George
McGinnis. R. J. Hadley and T. S. Dickey of
Pittsburg and C. M. Konkle of New Ken-
sington, Pa. The other company mentioned
is the Stewarten Lumber Company of Con-
nellsvillc. Pa., capital $6,000. The incorpor-
ators are August Stickle. Jr.. and Otto Stickle
of Mill Run. Pa., and John A. Guyler of Con-
nellsville.

Lloyd. Chalfant & Peyton have bought the
planing mill of Rowand & Company at Shinn-
ston. near Morgantown, W. Va.. for about
$15,000. The price includes several acres of
real estate.

The Crescent Lumber Company is now lo-
cated in its new quarters in the Machesney
Building, and is doing an excellent business
in white oak. cypress and hardwoods. Much
of its trade is in lots of from 20 to 50 cars,
and a good portion of its lumber goes nortli
to the lake towns.

W. E. Terhune of the W. E. Terhune Lum-
ber Company has been looking up the West
Virginia situation the past week. He finds
the hardwood business in general mucli bet-
ter than the yellow pine trade.

The J. W. Pierce Lumber Company of Iron-
ton, O., has been shut down by the order of
the Pierce estate. It is expefcted that ar-
rangements will soon be made witli the Ad-
vance Lumber Company of Cleveland by
which the plant can be operated again.

The Sommer & Henry Lumber and Manu-
facturing Company has taken over the plant
of Charles Ike at Canton. Ohio, and will
manufacture hardwood lumber on a large
scale. It has also secured several tracts of
timber which will be good feeders for the big
planing mill. The new officers of the com-
pany are: President, David S. Sommer; vice
president and treasurer, U. R. Henry; secre-
tary. Edward L. Smith; directors. J. M. Cozan
and Anna Sommer.

The Pittsburg Pit Post Company is doing a
fine business in the Pittsburg field in all
kinds of mine timber. Its posts are selling
for half a cent higher than a year ago and it
also has a good demand for mine car stock.

Tlie Maley, Thompson & Moffatt Lumber

Company of Cincinnati has bought from D. F.

Frazee tibout 500 acres of walnut timber near
Lexington. Ky., for $15,000. The firm will cut
ttff the timber at once and market most of it
in Cincinnati.

The Warren Handle Company is one of the
busiest concerns in eastern Ohio. Last week
it shipped another order of 200 dozen pick
handles tc* the Panama Canal, this being one
of several consignments which it has lately
sold to the United States government. The
company also has the entire handle business
of the Carnegie Steel Company and the Re-
public Iron and Steel Company.

The Twentieth Century Lumber Company,
capital $10,000, has been incorporated by
David Weiner, W. S. Snyder and G. M. Whit-
ney of Harri.sburg and Carlisle, Pa.

Timber lands in the neighborhood of Oil
City, Pa., got a bad scorching last week by
forest fire. Nearly the entire townships of
President and Pine Grove were swept over,
badly damaging an area of about ten square
miles.

The Western Lumber Company of Weston.
W. Va.. has increased its capital to $75,000,
its president, John T. Dixon of Memphis,
Tenn., having taken a large part of this last
issue.

Tlie Baltimore & Oliio Railroad Company is
negotiating with the Kendall Lumber Com-
pany for the purchase of the latter's line
from Confluence. Pa., to Mountain Park, a
distance of about twenty miles. This is a
narrow gauge road, but if the B. & O. gets
it. it will be made into a broad gauge for ex-
cursion purposes. The Kendalls built it sev-
eral years ago to furnish an outlet for their
timber operations in that district.

The Wellman Lumber Company has been
incorporated at Glen Jean. Fayette County.
Pa,, with a capital of $5,000. The members
of the company are O. F. McCoy, L. D. Mar-
shall. H. E. Wilson, J. R. Gunning and C. W.
Osenten.

Robert Felty of Connellsville. Pa., has
bought from the Collins Lumber Company of
Pennsboro. W. Va., a tract of hardwood lum-
ber which it is estimated will cut 20,000,000
feet, besides some 4,000,000 pit posts. The
deal includes all the machinery, tram road,
logging engines, cars and other equipment
of the Deckers Valley Lumber Company of
Morgantown. W. Va.. in which Mr. Felty is
a large stockholder.

The Webster-Keasey Lumber Company is a
new wliolesale concern at 803 Bessemer build-
ing. It will have its own mills, and will
handle poles, ties and piling on a large scale.
Webster Keasey, president of the company,
has been in the lumber business in the Pitts-
burg district for seventeen years. George
A. Cypher. Jr., of Butler, Pa., is secretary
and treasurer of the concern, and J. O. Har-
rison, who has been associated with Mr,
Keasey for a long time, will be general man-
ager.

The Red Lick Lumber Company of Marlin-
ton, W. Va.. has been formed with a capital
of $10,000. The incorporators are M. C. Wat-
kins of Gassaway, W. Va., A. D. Williams
and N. C. McNeil of Marlinton and John
Peters of Ronceverte.

The Furnace Run Saw Mill & Lumber
Company of Pittsburg has started a branch
office at Cincinnati, with William Hunter,
manager. The company is practically cut out
at Johnston City. Tenn.. and will handle
hardwood direct from its Cincinnati office.

The Pittsburg Hardwood Floor Company re-
ports much the best business in its history.
Its city trade is picking up rapidly and of
late it has been doing a fine business in the
big industrial towns of western Pennsyh'ania
and eastern Ohio.

The Kendall Lumber Company sold 200
cars of lumber and ties in two days last

HARDWOOD RECORD

week. Throughout the hardwood list it notes
a very flrm feehng as to prices and Secretary
J. H. Hendei-son says that both oak and
chestnut are going up slowly. The com-
pany's mill at Crellin, Md., is now cutting
100.000 feet a day.

General Manager J. N. Woollett of the
American Lumber and Manufacturing Com-
pany recently took an order for 1.000.000 feet
of oak to be exported from Mississippi and
Arkansas for car lumber. He also bought
5.000,000 feet of Cottonwood to be cut in
Texas and Indian Territory, a large part of
which will be brought up the Mississippi for
distribution in the central West.

BuiTalo.

The Hoo-Hoo Concatenation held by Vice-
gerent F. J. Blumenstein May 11 was the
principal event of the month. The attend-
ance was large and a class of ten kittens was
admitted to membership as follows: Edwin
S. Lott of Chestnut * Slaght: William F.
Stuhlmiller of the Stuhlmiller Mantel Works;
Oris M. Moyer of the American Seating Com-
pany; Jacob F. Hirschmiller of Palen &
Burns; Arthur T. Wilcox, with G. Elias &
Bro. : Frank M. Betts of the Eastern Lumber
Company. Tonawanda; Sylvester B. Bond of
the Hugh McLean Lumber Company; James
H. Walsh, with F. W. Vetter; Frank W. Mc-
Gregor of the Standard Hardwood Lumber
Company and James L. Stewart, inspector
for the National Hardwood Lumber Associa-
tion.

A. Miller keeps two or three good hustling
buyers in the oak and other hardwood dis-
tricts .south, looking after stock and so is
easily able to carry a full stock in yard, in
spite of active sales.

The Buffalo yard of Scatcherd cS: Son still
depends on hardwoods, mainly from Penn-
sylvania, as the cut of the Memphis mills is
all needed to meet tlie general eastern and
foreign demand.

Beyer, Knox & Co. find that their new mill
headquarters at Pascola, Mo., is to be a
fortunate venture, as they are selling too
much oak and other southwestern hardwoods
not to have a special supply somewhere.

T. Sullivan & Co, are now for the first
time lately able to put some Washington fir
into stock here. A lot of 2^ -inch, a size
always hard to get, is going , into pile Just
now.

G. Elias & Bro. are getting in lumber liber-
ally by lake and as they handle all sorts of
lumber it is quite in their line to get a cargo
from Lake Ontario, as they did a few days
ago.

Members of the Standard Hardwood Lum-
ber Company have organized the Bison City
Table Company, with $50,000 paid up capital.
, R. F. Kreinheder is president, A. W. Krein-
heder, vice president; O. W. Kreinheder,
treasurer and manager, and Charles Benfold.
secretary. The factory is already in full
operation.

F. W. Vetter is still adding to his yard
stock since going into business on his own
account. He now carries a full assortment
of general hardwood sorts and is enjoying all
his former trade.

The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has
two barges coming down from the upper
lakes with hardwood stock, all of which will
be needed to keep up the yard stock, as
everything is moving fast.

Manager Janes of the Empire Lumber Com-
pany is back from a long trip through the
South and Southwest, stirring up his mill and
shipping forces. He is able to report plenty
of cars, which is exceptionally favorable.

Oak, ash and poplar are being added to the
yard stock of O. E. Teager from his Ken-
tucky headquarters. Cars in that direction

are not as plenty as they ought to be, but
are made to answer.

I. N. Stewart & Bro. are moving an in-
creased amount of cherry and are always
able to show an increased stock of oak in
yard, which comes from cherry territory and
sells along with it nicely.

The Hugh McLean Lumber Company still
finds the Memphis district a rain center, but
is able to get stock enough from its various
mills to meet all demands.

Detroit.

Joseph H. Berry, the genius behind the
greatest varnish manufactory in the world,
died in Detroit, May 22. He had been ill
only seven weeks. He was 68 years of age.

Mr. Berry was chairman of Berry Brothers.
Ltd., of Detroit, large varnish manufacturers.
He was also president of the Dwight Lumber
Compan.v. large handlers of hardwood; presi-
dent of the Detroit Heating and Lighting
Company and the Berry Car Wheel Foundry
Company at Buffalo, N. Y. He was interested
in the press steel, barrel, lumber and picture
frame trades, in iron furnaces in the northern
peninsula, in the sugar business, in real
estate, was a promoter of the new $2,500,000
belt line in Detroit, which is now in progress
of construction.

William C. Brownlee of the Brownlee cSt
Kelly Lumber Company, hardwood whole-
salers of Detroit, is spending a week at the
company's mill in northern Georgia. The
company has just received a large cargo of
basswood.

There is now a very serious strike at the
Detroit plant of the American Car and Foun-
dry Company among the forces in the steel
di partmcnt. Police are necessary to keep
Older.

A new warehouse is being erected for the
Detroit Lumber Company.

The $2,500,000 new Cleveland "D. & C."
boat which was to have gone into commis-
sion this month was burned at her dock at
the foot of Orleans street last week. A large
amount of beautiful interior hardwood finish
was destroyed at a big loss to the Detroit
Shipbuilding Company.

There is a big strike among the shipbuild-
ers of the American Shipbuilding Company
at the Great Lakes branch at Ecorse. Out-
side workmen are being imported.

The spring shipments by boat to Detroit
are very liglit owing to the fact that the
spring stock is not entirely dry, and fall stock
has been pretty well cleaned up. Basswood
is reported very scarce. Every wholesaler is
busy, there being no let up in building here.

Sagina'w Valley.

The Superior Iron and Chemical Company
has been organized at Detroit with a capital-
ization of $7,500,000. Joseph H. Berry of
Berry Bros.. Detroit, is said to hold $6,000.-
000 of the stock. This company has charcoal
and iron plants at Ashland. Manistique, New-
berry. Chocolay. Elk Rapids, and Boyne City.
All of these plants manufacture charcoal
from hardwood and charcoal iron from the
charcoal. They also manufacture chemicals
from the wood by-products. Efforts are being
made to secure a large plant of that character
at Bay City. There is one chemical plant in
operation which manufactures wood alcohol
and other by-products, the plant being oper-
ated by the Dupont Powder Company of Phil-
adelphia. The alcohol from the wood is con-
verted into use in the manufacture of gun-
powder. There is no location in the world so
advantageous for the location of a plant of
this character as Bay City. Eight E,awmills.
nearly all of which are operated the year
through, are engaged in the manufacture of
hardwood lumber ar^l there is thus a vast

accumulation of hardwood refuse available.
Moreover, tributary to Bay City are immense
forests of the best hardwood timber in the
world, and it has rail and water transporta-
tion for the raw material and the manufac-
tured product.

S. L. Eastman has purchased the interest
of Ross & Wentworth of Bay City in 10,000,-
000 feet of standing timber in Ogemaw
County. A spur track will be extended into
it by the Detroit & Mackinac railroad and the
timber will be taken off. A portable band
mill will be put up on the ground to manu-
facture the timber. A large portion of the
timber is beech, maple and birch. The lum-
ber will be handled by Mr. Eastman in his
business, the maple going into flooring.
Beech lumber of good quality is being put
into flooring here and it gives satisfaction as
it finishes nicety. This timber has advanced
to $18 for No. 1 common, and there is a
good call for it.

The Saginaw Manufacturing Company,
which puts out washboards, wood split pulleys
and other hardwood novelties, is enlarging its
plant materially to permit of the expansion
of its business. The concern is doing a pros-
perous business. The Palmerton Wooden-
ware Company and the Bousfleld Wooden
"Works Company are two of the largest estab-
lishments of their kind in the United States.
They use a number of million feet of bass-
wood and also large quantities of other hard-
woods every month. Over at Ithaca. Mich.,
is a plant operated by Armour & Co.. which
produces butter tubs and other novelties. All
of these institutions are doing a fine business
and are operated with full crews.

A. McKay is erecting a portable mill on the
French Siding, near West Branch, with which
he will cut up 1,000,000 feet of logs.

The Batchelor Timber Company at West
Branch has erected a heading mill and other
improvements. The mill is cutting about
60.000 feet of hardwood lumber daily.

The new Strable Flooring plant at Saginaw
is having a fine run of business considering
the short time it has been in operation. The
company is booking orders ahead and the
oflacials feel well satisfied with conditions.

At Whitestone Point, near AuGres on Sag-
inaw Bay, Samuel Umphrey is operating a
small sawmill which is cutting 12,000 feet
a day. Up in that section a number of small
mills are in operation.

Good progress is being made on the new-
mill of Keyes & Warboys at Tower, and it
will soon be rftady for business.

The Pinkerton sawmill, near Onaway, is
ready for business and has an ample stock of
logs.

The Krieeland-Bigelow Company's mill is
running day and night and cutting some fine
stock. The maple goes to S. L. Eastman.
Mr. Bigelow says that practically their entire
cut for the season has been sold.

Bay City parties are negotiating for a large
body of hardwood timber north of the city
to come here to be manufactured.

Grand Bapids.

Among the new Michigan corporations are
the following: Cisco Lake Lumber Company,
Wausau. Wis.. and Ontonagon, $200,000;
Southland Lumber Company, Grand Rapids,
$20,000.

The Baines-Mosier Cabinet Company of
Allegan has increased its capital stock from
$4,000 to $13,000.

Louis D. Rich has resigned his position as
cashier of the R. G. Peters Salt and Lumber
Company, Manistee, taking effect June 1,
and will give his entire attention to his lum-
ber interests in the South.

Officers of the newly formed Portage Lake
Lumber Company of Hancock are: President,

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James J. Byers; vice-president. James W.
Cleaves; secretary and treasurer. William J.
McKenna. A mill has been built at West
Hancock and will be operated this summer.

The Grand Trunk railroad has expended
three-quarters o£ a million dollars on the
erection of a new depot and freight house
and is extending its tracks into the downtown
district of Grand Rapids. Business men are
arranging for a celebration in connection
with the opening of the new station June 15.
The Wilson Manufacturing Company of
Port Huron, manufacturer of saws, is the
only concern of that city to make an exhibit
at the Jamestown Ter-centennial. The Wil-
son company started operations at South
Park five years ago with five men. The force
has been increased to 125 men and the out-
put added to tenfold.

All Michigan railroads have made a change
in classification of railroad ties which ma-
terially increases the shipping rates to points
within the state. Every road needs the ties
originating along its own line and is averse
to moving the same. Some roads refuse to
move ties to outside points, which is indica-
tive of the scarcity of timber.

The Grand River boat line is carrying large
cargoes of freight, including furniture and
manufactured products, and the directors of
the new transportation line, who include
some of the leading business men and manu-
facturers of the city, state that proper sup-
port of the venture will assure the ultimate
operation of an independent boat line to Chi-
cago, whereby traffic arrangements with lake
lines to and from the East may be made and
the eastern freight rates reduced. The rates
to western jsoints are from 5 to 10 per cent
below the tariffs over the electric or steam
lines.

More than 2.000 trees and shrubs were set
out this spring on the school grounds at Iron-
wood, by direction of the board of education.
The Superior Manufacturing Company of
Muskegon has closed a contract with the
board of education of New York city for
$14,700 worth of opera chairs and school
seats.

The Muskegon factory of the Brunswick-
Balke-Collender Company has recently begun
the manufacture of cues, and 100 men are
employed in this department. When the bil-
liard table department is in operation, which
will be in about four months, 250 men will
be added to the force.

Cleveland.
J^-H. Benedict of Detroit, representing the
Duncan Bay Manufacturing Company, stopped
off here a few days on his way to Cincin-
nati, where he will buy machinery for their
sawmill at Cheboygan.

The Sawmill Company of Chase City, Va.,
was incorporated recently with $20,000 capital
stock. W. P. Porter of East Jordan. Mich.,
president; Harry Sherman of CoUingwood,
O.. vice president; C. H. Foote of this city,
treasurer, and A. M. Foote of this city, secre-
tary. The four officers, together with Burt
Pero. comprise the Board of Directors. The
company will manufacture hardwoods and
North Carolina pine. The main office will be
at Cleveland.

The car situation in Kentucky and West
Virginia is easing up somewhat. Manufac-
turers and dealers report shipments going
forward more satisfactorily than for some
time.

R. H. Vansant of Ashland, Ky., was a caller
among the hardwood trade here last week.

W. L. McManus. who is a large manufac-
turer of hardwoods at Petoskey, Mich., called
on the trade here May 18.

W. A. Cool of W. A. Cool & Son returned
recently from the Chamber of Commerce trip

into Indiana. He reports a fine trip and trade
conditions good. Mr. Cool left May 19 for
the firm's West Virginia mill.

Trade conditions continue good. The bet-
ter grades of poplar and oak are moving
rapidly. Dealers having dry stock to offer
report ready sale. Most manufacturers in
this territory state they are well filled up
with orders.

Indianapolis.

The will of Charles Zabel. formerly con-
nected with the Cabinet Makers' Union, one
of the large manufacturing concerns of the
city, has been offered for probate in a local
court. His widow is left a life interest in
all personal and real estate, amounting to
about $20,000.

An increase in capital stock from $36,000
to $60,000 has been announced by the South
Bend Healy Box Company of South Bend.
A. M. Russell is president and Frank B.
Clayton, secretary.

Changes necessary to make the plant a
standard fire ri.sk are being made by the
Greer-Wilkinson Lumber Company of this
city at its hardwood mill in Maugham. La.
Among the improvements is a 20,000-gallon
water tank which supplies 6-inch water mains
laid completely around the plant. New ma-
chinery is being installed and the company
believes it will have one of the finest hard-
wood mills in the country when improvements
are completed. The company is also installing
a retail yard in connection with its wholesale
plant in Cairo, 111.

A company has been organized at New
Albany to manufacture veneer. It will have
a capital stock of $100,000. The plant will
be located on a part of the De Pauw glass
factory tract, and will be complete in every
respect. Those interested in the company
are N. T. De Pauw. W'. A. McLean. C. W.
Inman, E. V. Knight. Conrad Fleischer.
Thomas McCuUoch and Basil Doerhoefer.
This will make the third veneer plant in Ne-w
Albany.

An increase in capital stock has been made
by the Hoftie Planing Mill of Muncie. accord-
ing to its secretary. Irvin L. Morrison. The
increase is from $15,000 to $20,000. the addi-
tional stock to be used in extending the com-
pany's business.

One of the newest lumber concerns in
southern Indiana is the George D. Seitz Lum-
ber Company at Haubstadt. which is just
entering the field where hardwoods are most
plentiful. Articles of incorporation were filed
last month, showing a capitalization of $15.-
000 and stating that directors had been elect-
ed as follows: George D. Seitz, Grover M.
Cleveland. John F. Ringer. Amy G. Tenbarge
and Sophia F. Riftert.

Balke & Krauss of this city have pur-
chased some old buildings and ground on
West Market street. The buildings are be-
ing razed to make way tor additional switch-
ing facilities, the city council having granted
permission for the laying of the tracks.

An important change in Indiana manufac-
turing circles was noted last week when
the Barcus Manufacturing Company of Wa-
bash purchased the abandoned plant of the
American School Furniture Company in that
city for less than $25,000. The Barcus Com-
pany ■will move from its present quarters and
with a large addition built to the school
furniture plant, will manufacture wagon
stock, automobile bodies and operate a foun-
dry.

Miss Marie Jungclaus, daughter of W. P.
Jungclaus. a well-known local lumberman,
was married one night last week to Samuel
L. Pattison of Memphis. Tenn. The couple,
after a wedding trip, will make their home
in Memphis.

Frank E. Patrick. Henry Kasperlain and
Cora Patrick have organized the Seymour
Chair Company at Seymour, and will manu-
facture all grades and designs of chairs.
They have $15,000 capital stock and have in-
corporated.

Auburn is fast becoming one of the Vjest
■nardwood markets in the state, due to the
constantly increasing business of manufac-
turing carriages, buggies, wagons and auto-
mobiles. The city now ranks third in Indi-
ana in the vehicle industry and is only
rivaled by South Bend and Indianapolis. In
South Bend one-third of the vehicles made
in Indiana are turned out.

The Capitol Lumber Company is enjoying
such an extensive business that it has been
obliged to open a fourth yard in this city.
The new yard is located on English avenue
in a fast-growing part of the city, where
there is a great demand for all grades of
lumber.

The M. R. Gardner Company of Wabash has
been incorporated aod will .soon begin manu-
facturing furniture and other cabinet work
in that city. Its capital stock is $25,000. in-
vested by Delia B.. Rolland and Morland Gard-
ner, who are also named as the directors of
the new concern. Wabash is becoming one of
the greatest furniture manufacturing centers
in Indiana.

Steps for the permanent organization of an
association representing the various shippers'
organizations in Indiana will be taken at a
meeting to be held in the Board of Trade
building in this city on the evening of May 27.
With all shipping interests of Indiana com-
bined, it is believed that considerable influ-
ence can be exercised in bettering shipping
conditions and pushing desirable legislation.
At the same time every effort will be made to
keep existing laws on the subject intact. A
meeting was held some time ago. when the
organization was put on a temporary basis
with John W. McCardle as temporary presi-
dent and J. V. Zartman as temporary secre-
tary. A committee is drafting by-laws and
constitution which will be offered at the com-
ing meeting.

Extensive planting is being conducted at the
reservation of the State Forestry Board near
Henryville. and includes the following: white
oak and hickory on eight acres of clay upland:
red oak, burr pak and large shellbark hickory
on seven acres of bottom land. 600 feet ele-
vation; American chestnut, on five acres of
upland clay at 700 feet elevation; black walnut
and American chestnut on three acres of up-
land porous clay at 700 feet elevation; Amer-
ican chestnut on three acres of upland clay
at 570 feet elevation and mixed oaks and hick-
ory on five acres of upland clay at 620 feet
elevation.

Ashe-rtUe, N. C.

There has been little change in the hard-
wood situation in western North CaroUna
during the past thirty days. Prices still re-
main firm with a demand equal to if not
greater than the supply. The hardwood men
are able to fill orders with some promptness,
as the railroads are giving better service than
for months past. With a dry season in the
mountains a good supply of hardwood will be
cut and made ready for shipment.

A number of important deals in timber
lands are pending in this section, but as yet
none of importance have been consummated.
Should some of the deals now pending go
through several large tracts of splendid tim-
ber will be opened up.

The ten-mile Hume from the mountains In
Jackson county to Dillsboro is rapidly near-
ing completion. Less than three miles of it
remain to be constructed. The flume will be
put in operation by midsummer, when large

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boundaries of timber land will be opened and
transportation of lumber and logs to railroad
points made possible.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.
The Smoky Mountain Land and Lumber
Company of Monroe cou!ity. Tennessee, last
week sold to the Babcook Limiber Company
of the same county a tract of approximately
43.000 acres of timber land, lying in the east-
ern part of Monroe county. The considera-
tion is said to liave exceeded $300,000. The
land is said to be well wooded and easily
accessible. It is understood that the pur-
-chasers will develop the property as soon as
]iossible.

Irving Whaley. vicegerent of the Concate-
nated Order of Hoo-Hop for east Tennessee
snd well known in local lumber circles, has
resigned his position with the Tug River
Lumber Company in this city, and gone to
CJiles county. Virginia, where he has pur-
chased an interest in the East River Lumber
Company and will have charge of the com-
pany's mills at Tamiosh.

F. G. GrifBn. European representative of
J. A. Wilkinson of this city, was a visitor in
Bristol last week as the guest of Mr. Wil-
liinson. Mr. Griffin has been with Mr. Wil-
kinson, with headquarters at London, for the
past three j'ears. He has gone to Mobile,
-\la., and other southern points to look after
lumber interests.

H. M. Hoskins of the H. M. Hoskins Lum-
"Ijer Company, has become interested with C.
M. Ryburn. also of this city, in the Little
Creek Lumber Company, in Pulaski county,
Virginia. This compan.v, of which Mr. Hos-
]\ins i.-i vice president, has leased eight miles
■of railroad in Pulaski county, leading to a
;0.000-acre tract of timber land which it owns
and is preparing for extensive development.
The company will install a big band mill at
i^nce.

The H. M. Hoskins Lumber Company is en-
gaged in initting in circular mills on its tim-
ber property eight miles north of Bristol.

Among the visitors on the local market last
week were James Faulkner. Faulkner Lumber
Company, Damascus, Va.; R. G. Rogers. Ten-
nessee Lumber and Manufacturing Company,
Sutherland, Tenn.; T. H. Carrier, Adventure
lyumber Company. Butler, Tenn.; Paul W.
Fleck. Paul W. Fleck Lumber Company.
Philadelphia: J. H. Smith. J. J. and A. H.
Jones. Philadelphia, and C, T. Aust. New
Vork.

The Tug River Lumber Company of this
<ity is erecting a big hand mill at Horton's
Summitt. Scott county. Virginia, and has
purchased an additiOTial 3.00U-acre tract of
larul in that county.

O. C. Armitage and others of Greeneville,
Tenn.. are preparing to erect a big furniture
manufacturing plant at that place.

J. W. Stiles of the Kingsport Lumber Com-
pany was here from Johnson City last week.
Mr. Stiles' company is operating a band mill
and a circular mill at Caretta. McDowell
county. West Virginia, and is receiving about
a million and a half feet of lumber per motnh
from this operation.

J. H. Bryan of the Bryan Lumber Com-
pany has returned from a business trip to
North and South Carolina. He visited his
company's mills in these states while away.
L. C. Capps. formerly with the J. Walter
Wright Lumber Company of Mountain City,
Tenn,, has come to Bristol to enter the busi-
ness with a local concern.

George E. Davis & Co. of this city has
purchased a tract of timber land in Virginia
and is getting ready for extensive operation.
The plant of the Empire Chair Company
at Elizabethton. Tenn.. was destro.ved by fire
May I'll, entailing a loss of $75,000 and throw-
ing lL'5 men out of employment. The plant

was insured for $i'5,000. It is understood that
it will be reouilt, though General Manager
E. M. Carrier is absent from Elizabethton.
It was erected two years ago.

Cincinnati.

The Wiborg & Hanna Company of North
Fairmouth has donated to the Improvement
Association of that suburb a considerable
amount of lumber to be used in protecting
the ti-ees just planted. There were 550 of
them and a large quantity of lumber will be
needed to make the necessary protection.
The Improvement Association is working un-
tiringly to push the viaduct at Hopple street.
When this is completed it will be a great
convenience for the suburb and will also serve
well the big lumber industry located there.

"It seems that prosperity was never so
universal as at the present time," said
Thomas J. Moftett, the re-elected president
Of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club, "The
demand for lumber throughout the United
States is unusually heavy, and England,
France, Germany, Australia, South America
and other countries are also enjoying an ex-
traordinary business, which may be taken to
indicate that general trade conditions are
splendid. And the prospect is for a con-
tinuance of the prosperous situation. The
demand has been so heavy that stocks are
very low and, although a vast amount of lum-
ber is being produced, it is taken up so rap-
idly that there is no opportunity to accumu-
late stocks. Prices have an upward tendency.
Conditions in the East are fine, and the South
and West likewise are busy, absorbing rapid-
ly the lumber that is produced. Cincinnati is
the biggest hardwood lumber center in the
world and naturally gets her share of the
large business that is now being transacted."
James Albert Green recently spoke before
the Carriage Makers' Club on Panama, and
was complimented by the various local pa-
pers for his efforts, both in a literary way
and in his illustrations. The annual outing
of the club will be held June 15, and will
consist of a steamboat ride to New Richmond,
luncheon to be served on board.

The Bell Belting and Supply Company of
Cincinnati, was incorporated lately with a
capital stock of $25,000 by Oliver G. Bailey,
James G, Fenwick. Michael Roehrer, Thomas
J. Bell and Abner Thorp, Jr.

John McGrath of the Eberhard CaiTiage
and Buggy Supply Company, who has been
located in this territory for many years, has
been transferred to Cleveland, where he and
his family will make their future home.

At the meeting of the Furniture Exchange,
held last week. Colonel Henry LTcthman pre-
sided, owing to the indisposition of President
William J. Sextro, who is mourning the loss
of his father, the late Joseph G. Sextro.
pioneer fui-niture manufacturer and promoter
of the first furniture exposition ever held in
America. Eulogies on the life of the late
member. Joseph G. Sextro, were pronounced
by many of his associates. The committee
on outing reported that Highland Grove had
been secured for Saturday. June S. The regu-
lar baseball game between manufacturers and
supply men will be held in the morning, and
in the afternoon the dealers and manufac-
turers will meet. Bowling prizes will also be
off€ red.

The Jacoby Lumber Company of Dayton,
O.. is the name of a new company incorpo-
rated with a capital stock of $50,000. The
incorporators are Peter Kuntz. Peter Kuntz,
Jr., John A. Payne, Dennis Dwyer, Hugh E.
Wall and John Kuntz.

B. F. Dulweber of John Dulweber & Co. is
much improved after having undergone a sur-
gical opei-ation. Mr. Dulweber has suffered
from stomach trouble for some time and it is

hoped he will now be entirely tree from this

annoyance.

George Littleford of the Littleford Lumber
Company is rapidly recuperating from an at-
tack of typhoid fever. He is still confined to
his home, but expects to be out again within
a few days.

William E. Delaney, general manager of
the Kentucky Lumber Company, has re-
turned from a successful business trip in the
South. He stayed in Cincinnati only a few
days and then left for Burnside, Ky., where
the company runs a large sawmill. He ex-
pects to return to the Queen City in a week.

George Ehemann of Bennett & Witte will
be married next month to Miss Lillie E. Mor-
ris of Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Ehemann has
charge of the Memphis office of the company,
and is very popular in the trade.

St. Louis.

The Moore Company has moved its offices
to suite 1717 in the new Lumbermen's Build-
ing.

The regular monthly meeting of the Board
of Directors of the St. Louis Lumber Ex-
change was held on May 10. Only routine
business was transacted.

Among recent visitors to this market were
the Hon. Gifford Pinchot, United States For-
ester, and R. S. Kellogg, also of the Forest
Ser\-ice.

Clarence Boyle of the Heath-Witbeck Com-
pany, Chicago, is making a trip to the com-
pany's mills in Arkansas, and stopped off in
this city for a short time.

J. C. Magness, of J. L. Phillips & Co.,
Thomasville, Ga., was a recent St, Louis vis-
itor. Mr. Magness' concern is a great factor
in the car and railroad equipment business,
and handles the cut of a number of saw mills
in all parts of the country, representing an
output of about 10.000,000 feet per month.

A number of prominent lumber and ma-
chinery men have been in St. Louis within
the past two weeks; among them R. M. Mer-
rill and H. G. Buckner, in charge of Missis-
sippi and Alabama interests of the Interna-
tional Hardwood Lumber Company of this
city; Samuel Disston of Henry Disston's Sons,
Philadelphia; J. W. Thompson of the J. W.
Thompson Lumber Company, Memphis; A. R.
Vinnedge of the A. R. Vinnedge Lumber Com-
pany, Chicago.

Building operations for April compare un-
favorably with those of the same month last
year, possibly owing to the fact that the lat-
ter was the banner month in number of per-
mits issued in the history of this city. The
totals for the two were $4,459,715 and $2,-
560,447.

The Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company
has secured the services of G. M. Bailey, who
resigned his position as inspector with the
St. Louis Lumber Exchange.

The Chas. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lum-
ber Company is making more or less of a spe-
cialty of red gum, which they are pushing to
the front as much as possible; their yards are
well stocked, and they report that they are in
a position to take care of a good trade.

Nashville.

The Board of Trade and the lumber inter-
ests of Nashville are much pleased with the
success of the special committee which went
to Cincinnati and secured for this city the
headquarters of the Hardwood Manufacturers*
Association of the United States. It was
jiointed out that Nashville is the natural and
actual center of hardwood activity. While
other hardwood sections has been cut out, the
territory tributary to Nashville is Just being
developed, especially North Alabama, North
Georgia, etc.

Lewis Doster. the genial secretary of the
association, will come to Nash\ille the early

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part of June ana will take offices in the new
Stahlman skyscraper, Nashville's largest and
handsomest building.

Several of the most prominent lumber firms
in this city have manifested a keen interest
in the trial of two men in the criminal
court of Davidson county on the charge of
committing acts of vandalism on Cumberland
river, consisting of the theft of rope with
which rafts were tied and the cutting loose of
rafts, causing lumbermen much damage and
loss. For years Nashville lumbermen have
been held up by a gang of river pirates who
charged them with catching lumber that had
"broken loose." for bankage. etc.. and they
have found it cheaper to pay than to refuse.
Catching the offenders, however, has been the
difficult part. Recently they got the "dead
wood" on one defendant, J. D. Miller, and
several of the local companies combined in a
prosecution, chief among them being John B.
Ransom & Co.. Lieberman. Loveman &
O'Brien. Davidson-Benedict Company. Prewitt,
Spurr Manufacturing Company and the South-
ern Lumber and Box Company. Miller re-
ceived a sentence of three years in the peni-
tentiary and three sentences of three months
each on the county road. Miller and his ac-
complice were charged with having cut loose
five rafts containing some 1.800 valuable logs.

Walter E. Knox, general manager of the
Nashville Terminal Company, announces that
he has secured for Nashville another big lum-
ber concern, one that will handle 1.000 cars
of lumber annually. The plant is now nego-
tiating for a site on the lines of the terminal
company and the matter will be closed up in
a few days. A specialty will be made of han-
dling hardwood. The company will have
plenty of capital back of it.

The properties of the Powell Lumber and
Mining Company at Crossville, Tenn.. have
been sold to H. M. Alexander of the Coleman
Lumber and Mining Company with headquar-
ters at Williamsport. Pa. The purchase price
was $77,000. The purchasing company now
owns about 12.000 acres of timber land in
Cumberland county and estimates the timber
on it at about 60.000.000 feet. Quite a boom
is reported in the lumber business at Cross-
ville.

The Journey & McCombs Slat Factory, de-
stroyed by fire recently, is again in operation.
The new factory is much larger than its pred-
ecessor.

The Davidson-Benedict Company has decided
to move its plant at Cedar Hill. Tenn.. on the
Washington estate, to a point near Monterey,
where the company also has large undevel-
oped holdings.

J. H. Baskette. former general manager of
the Prewitt-Spurr Manufacturing Company, is
winding up his Nashville interests preparatory
to his depai-ture to take charge of a big wood-
enware factory at Helena. Ark.

Lieberman. Loveman & O'Brien have re-
cently added a cross-tie department to their
business and are cutting a good supply of
them at their Nashville mill. Love. Boyd cS:
Co. continue to do a big business in this line.
This firm is probably the pioneer in that busi-
ness in Nashville. They have recently sold to
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
several hundred thousand ties at this point.

Much activity is reported in the counties
bordering on the Tennessee river in this state.
In Wayne, Hardin. Perry and Decatur a num-
ber of important land and timber sales are
reported and St. Louis and Chicago tie con-
cerns have made heavy purchases in that sec-
tion.

The Jones & Woodfolk Lumber Company
is a new concern organized at Lexington,
Tenn., by Chicago. Louisville and Lexington
capital. Will J. Jones of Chicago was made
president; J. A. Woodfolk of Louisville, vice

president, and Thomas E. Graper of Lexington
general manager.

A big timber deal is reported from Sparta,
Tenn., on the McMinnville branch of the N. C.
& St. 1j. The consideration for the timber
properties in the Second and Tenth districts
of White county is said to be $45,000. The
property was bought from J. W. McClure,
agent for the Eastland heirs, by J. T. Ander-
son. O. H. Anderson. John M. Welch. J. A.
Wilson and J. R. Tubb.

W. B. Bynum and Guy Alexander of Glea-
son, Tenn.. have purchased a large tract of
oak timber in northern Alabama and will erect
two or three stave mills there in the near
future.

Memphis.

Recent heavy rains throughout this terri-
tory have further interfered with logging and
milling operations. There is a pronounced
scarcity of timber and this is proving a se-
rious handicap. The past five days have been
clear, but the ground is so wet that very lit-
tle progress is being made in the woods and
it may be some days before much can be
accomplished in getting out timber. Most of
tlie smaller mills are out of business altogether,
while some of the larger have been forced to
suspend operations for the time being.

The Darnell-Love Lumber Company has filed
application for an amendment to its charter
to increase the capital stock from $25,000 to
$250,000. R. J. Darnell. A. M. Love. R. J.
Wiggs and other officials signed the applica-
tion. The company was established five years
ago at Leland. Miss. It has been operating a
big band mill at that place and is now in-
stalling another one there. This, together
with large purchases of timber lands and the
building of a standard guage railroad, is the
reason for the increase in capitalization. The
Darnell-Love Lumber Company is affiliated
with R. J. Darnell. Inc., Mr. Darnell being
president of both corporations.

R. J. Darnell. Inc.. is now completing its
new double band sawmill and veneer plant in
South Memphis. The new machinery will soon
be ready for operation. The management ex-
pects to have everything running by July 1.

The Crittenden Railway Company, which be-
gan some months ago the building of a stand-
ard gauge railroad from Earl to Heth. Ark.,
has completed the main line as well as the
branch to Parkin. Ark., where the Lansing
Wheelbarrow Company has extensive milling
interests, and everything is now in readiness
for the operation of trains. The road fur-
nislies a connecting link between the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific at Heth and the St.
Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern at Earl, thus
giving lumber interests at the terminals and
at intermediate points the use of both roads
without having to depend altogether on a sin-
gle line. F. E. Stonebraker. general manager
for the Lansing Wheelbarrow Company in the
South, is president and general manager of
this road.

A number of gentlemen prominently inter-
ested in the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company
were in Memphis a few days ago, including
Col. LaFayette Lamb, president of that cor-
poration, who makes his headquarters at Clin-
ton. Iowa, and J. M. Studebaker of the
Studebaker Wagon Company, South Bend,
Ind. Col. Lamb came down on his houseboat
and with him were a number of friends. It
is understood that while Mr. Studebaker was
here he looked over the field very carefully
and picked up a good lot of wagon stock.

There was a called meeting of the Lumber-
men's Club at the Hotel Gayoso. May 11, at
which the report of the River and Rail Com-
mittee, covering the conference recently held
here between that committee and high ofB-
cials of the railroads entering this city, was

formally presented. The report was read by
A. L. Foster, one of the members of the com-
mittee and himself an old railroad man. It
stated that the committee had considered
means of preventing a recurrence of the un-
favorable conditions which have recently pre-
vailed rather than present relief, the feel-
ing of the members being that relief would
come through a reduction in the volume of
traffic. It further stated that, in the opinion
of the committee, the railroads were doing-
all they could, not only for immediate relief,
but for the prevention of a recurrence of the
trouble. The report contained a lengthy quo-
tation from a prominent railroad official, to-
the effect that the railroads were in the trans-
portation business; that their revenue was de-
rived from handling this business and that,
since this was the case, they were doing a.U
they could to solve the problems confronting-
shippers; that the railroads had submitted the
various features of the traffic problem to the-
most experienced committee of railroad men
obtainable; that the recommendations of this
committee would be submitted to the Ameri-
can Railway Association, which would not
adopt them unless they were practical, and
that the main question right now is "What
can shippers do to help the railroads?"

The report states that statistics were cited,
showing that a large percentage of equipment
is being held at important junction points be-
cause the delivering lines are unable to effect
immediate delivery, receivers being unable to
find storage room or being slow in unloading
cars after delivery has been effected; that
thousands of cars are being held at the va-
rious seaports, awaiting the convenience of
ocean carriers; that many of the railroads of
the smaller class have found it cheaper to
borrow cars than to build them, with the re-
sult that the stronger lines connecting with
the weaker systems have, against their most
earnest protest, been deprived of a large por-
tion of their equipment. In this connection
the committee expresses the belief that the
raising of the per diem rate from 25 to 50
cents per car will have the effect of making
it cheaper for the weaker lines to build their
cars than to borrow them and points out that
Ihey have already placed orders for enough
equipment to materially relieve the situation.
At this meeting two important papers on
phases of the transportation problem were
heard. One was prepared by C. D. Hendrick-
son and read by Secretary John W. McCIure.
In this the writer made a plea for justice on
the part of the public, the legislatures and
shippers toward those railroads which are
striving honestly to improve the disastrous
conditions of the past and to prevent their re-
currence in the future. The other was from El-
liott Lang, formerly secretary of the National
Lumber Exporters' Association and now con-
nected with R. J. Darnell, Inc. The main
feature of his paper was the necessity for
relying on the national laws for the correc-
tion of transportation evils, his contention
being that the states, which are trying to
correct evils by legislation, have no power to
enforce their enactments where interstate
commerce is concerned.

Much interest has been lent to the 14-foot
channel from the lakes to the gulf by the
presence in this city a few days ago of the
Inland Waterw.ays Commission, of which
Congressman Burton is cliairman. This offi-
cial delivered an address in which he ex-
pressed the belief that the plan was feasible,
but in which he further declared that, be-
fore it was realized, it would be necessary to
create additional public interest therein.

It is announced in the press dispatches
from Washington that President Roosevelt
has accepted an invitation to come down
with the commission on its trip to Memphis

next fall. He is in sympathy with the move-
ment, and it is believed he will incorporate
important recommendations in regard there-
to in a future message to Congress.

Lumbermen here generally concede that, if
there is to be complete relief from the traffic
conditions which recur ever>' year during the
period of heaviest freiglit movement, it will
oome through the impro\-ement of the water-
ways and tlie liundling of tlie heavier and
more bulky traffic thereon. For this reason
they are taking deep interest in the move-
ment.

C. C. Lataner of Montpelier. O.. has be-
come interested in the General I.umljcr Com-
pany, which has offices in llie Randolph
building, this city. It is understood that he
has become equally interested with Messrs.
Bailey and Bookmiller. the other two stock-
holders therein.

The Ostermann Miinufacturing Company is
about ready to begin the operation of the
branch plant in this city which is to manu-
facture car stock to be used in the plant of
the company at West Pullman, 111. E. H.
Ward is to be manager of the local interests
of the company.

H. Katz, of the American Land. Stave and
Timber Company, with offices in the Tennes-
see Trust building, lias sailed for Europe,
where he will spend some time looking after
the interests of his firm. Fred B. Zupke.
one of the vice presidents of the Darnell-
Taenzer Lumber Company, Is also another
of tile local lumber contingent who recently
left for Europe.

The consolidation of the offices and office
forces of the two concerns which recently
combined in the Darnell-Taenzer I-umben"
Company has not yet been completed and it
will require some time before it will be ef-
fected. Enlargement of the offices of the
old I. M. Darnell & Son Company was neces-
sary and this work is not yet finished. Tlie
company, however, liopes to have everything
in readiness soon for operation from a single
office.

J. W. Thompson, president of the J. W.
Thompson Lumber Company, left here some
days ago for St. Louis, Chicago and New
York. From the latter point he will go to
Atlantic City to attend the annual meeting
of the National Hardwood Lumber Associa-
tion. The company is in receipt of advices
from the manager of its Berclair (Miss.)
mill to the effect that the recent rains will
enable the floating out of 500,000 feet of
cypress. As a consequence the company is
now making preparations for resuming op-
erations there.

The Kimball- Lacy Lumber Company of Ar-
kansas City is authority for the statement
that it is getting out a large quantity of
Cottonwood timber on this rise in the Ar-
kansas river, its float being estimated at
about 1,000.000 feet.

George H. Foote, local manager for the
Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber Com-
pany, with headquarters in the Tennessee
Trust building, has recently returned from
St. Louis and other points north.

W. H. Greble of the Three States Lumber
Company is another local lumberman who
has recently made an extended trip to north-
ern and western markets.

The Robertson-Fooshe Lumber Company
has filed appUcation for a charter with a
capital stock of $50,000. It will be ready for
business June 1. Yards and offices will be
at North Second street and the Illinois Cen-
tral road. F. B. Robertson is president; S.
B. Anderson, vice president; George W.
Fooshe. secretary, and C. J. Tully. treasurer.
Privilege of manufacturing and of handling
hardwood lumber at wholesale is conferred
by the charter.

The Marked Tree Lumber Company, with

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a capital stock of $750,000, the Chicago Mill
and Lumber Company, witli capital stock of
$25,000, and the Paepcke-Leicht Lumber
Company, with capital stock of $25,000, have
complied with the new corporation laws of
Arkansas by Hling their articles of incorpora-
tion. A. C. Liinge is named as state agent
for all three companies and the principal
places of business as jiesignated are Marked
Tree and Blytheville. Two of these com-
panies have local offices in Memphis,

New Orleans.

The New Orleans Lumber Exporters' Asso-
ciation has joined hands with the Public Belt
Railroad Commission in an effort to have the
Board of Port Commissioners of New Or-
leans construct at some place along the river
front of this city, a big wharf which will be
used exclusively for handling of export lum-
ber. This matter was broached by J. H. Hin-
ton, president of the Exporters' Association
at a recent meeting of the Belt Commission
and has attracted considerable attention
here. At present the lumber exporting indus-
tory gets comparatively little consideration
along the New Orleans wharves with the re-
sult that this port does not export anywhere
near the. amount of lumber it should handle.
The agitation over this question, however,
will in all probability result in a change that
will divert to and through New Orleans sixty
per cent of the southern lumber manufactured
for foreign shipment. The matter will at
once be taken up witli the dock board and
an effort will be made to have that board
build a $200,000 wharf to be devoted entirely
to lumber shipments. It is understood that
the members of the board are in favor of
building such a structure and will do so just
as soon as they can get the necessary funds.

W. A. Powell, former head of the W. A.
Powell Lumber Company, a. big exporting
firm which is now in the hands of a receiver,
was in one of the inferior criminal courts
here last week on the charge of embezzling
cargoes of lumber and staves valued at some-
thing over $12,000. The flrst charge was
preferred by the German^American National
Bank and the second by the Hibernia Bank
and Trust Company, both of which institu-
tions alleged that they had advanced money
on shipments and had never received the bills
of lading. In the case of the German-Ameri-
can National it was alleged that a shipment
of French claret staves had been embezzled,
while the Hibernia Bank charged that Pow-
ell had embezzled a cargo of lumber valued
at something over $10,000. The accused was
committed to the Criminal District Court
under bond of $10,000. He will be tried there
on the two charges of embezzlement. In its
recent report to the United States Circuit
Court. the Commercial-Germania Savings
Bank and Trust Company, receiver for Pow-
ell's Company, estimated that the firm's lia-
bilities would exceed the assets by $200,000
or more.

The Wright -Blodgett Company, Ltd., of
Saginaw. Mich., has just transferred to the
Gulf Lumber Company of Louisiana an 80,000
acre tract of land in 'Vernon, Rapides and
Calcasieu parishes, this state, the considera-
tion being $4,197,454, of which amount some-
thing over $1,000,000 was paid in cash.

The Lecompte Lumber Company has been
succeeded by the Oberlin Lumber Company,
whicli has an authorized capitalization of
$50,000. The officers are: G. W. Gainnie.
president; N. C. Waggoner, vice-president
and general manager; K. M. Gainnie. secre-
tary and treasurer.

Advices from Mississippi state that the
lumber exporters of Gulfport have been having
all kinds of trouble with their shipments of
late as a result of the heavy rains which have

caused washouts all along the lines of the
railroads leading into the Mississippi lumber
exporting center. The Gulf & Ship Island
one of the principal lumber hauling roads
was tied up practically all of last week by
the several washouts. From last Tuesday
to last Sunday it was unable to move a train
and It was not known when the service
would be straightened out. The Mobile
Jackson & Kansas City also suffered from
washouts, but the freshets along its lin,. were
not quite as serious as those which tiod-up
the G. & S. I. ^

Though the interior demand on hardwoods
continues good, the foreign market is not as
steady as it has been and exports from this
section have fallen off. The end of the crop
season is enabling lumbermen to handle their
interior business in better shape, however
and they are keeping that trade in good con-
dition. Not a great deal of difficulty is being
experienced in getting cars at present and a
large amount of the output of the Louisiana
hardwood mills is going into the interior and
is being handled very well.

Minneapolis.

The Minnesota metropolis will contend
for the honor of entertaining the National
Hardwood Lumber Association in 1908. The
proposition was put forward May 20 at the
monthly meeting of the Northwestern Hard-
wood Lumbermen's Association, and was re-
ceived with unanimous favor. A. E. Peter-
son of St. Paul was the propounder of the
idea, and that is enough to show that the
Twin Cities are better friends than they used
to be. D. F. Clark and A. H. Barnard, who
are the only Twin City men to attend the
Atlantic City gathering, will present the in-
vitation.

The meeting of May 20 was of special in-
terest in the discussion of grades. D. F.
Clark, who is a member of the Grading Rules
Committee of the National Association, ex-
plained the changes in rules which the com-
mittee decided to submit to the Atlantic City
gathering, and they were freely discussed.
Frank H. Long, one of the official inspectors
of the National Hardwood Lumber Associa-
tion, was present and took part in the dis-
cussion. Mr. Long is looking over the ground
here, and if there is work enough to keep
him busy, expects to locate permanently in
Minneapolis.

Complaints against the overcharges of the
Minnesota Transfer officials were taken up by
the state railroad and warehouse commission
at a public hearing May 21. It frequently
happens that lumbermen send word as to the
disposition of a car, that the transfer com-
pany employees disregard the order and set
the car out on the team track, and then hold
the shipper for switching charges for their
own mistake. Complaints of this kind have
been so numerous that the state commission
set a time to take them up and notified the
complainants. Several hardwood men ap-
peared in the hearing.

C. F. Osborne of Osborne & Clark, the
Minneapolis wholesalers, has been on a trip
in lUinois looking over their retail yards at
Erie and other points.

Loren H. Pope of St. Louis, representing
the Charles F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lum-
ber Company, was here a few days ago call-
ing on line yard buyers and factory managers
with an attractive line of hardwoods to offer.

W. H. Sill of the Minneapolis Lumber Com-
pany says they are having no trouble to dis-
pose of the new cut on long contracts to be
filled during the fall and winter. They have
a good supply of logs and will have a fine line
at the mill of the Ruby Lumber Company,
Ruby. Wis.

F. M. Bartelme of the F. M. Bartelme Lum-

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ber Company says he has all the business on
hand that he can take care of during the
next month, and has foun,d a ready market
for everything on his stock sheets.

Toledo.

In order to prevent a long drawn out fight
and to protect members of National Associa-
tions from being harassed by any evidence
that might be given, the Toledo lumber deal-
ers, recently indicted for violation of the Val-
entine ,inti-trust law. entered their pleas of
guilty and are now awaiting sentence.

No intimation is given of what the sentence
may be and it lies with the judge to fine
them any amount between $50 and $1,000 or
sentetice them fronn six months to one year
in the workhouse, or both. This action on
the part of the lumbermen caused no little
surprise as it was commonly supposed that a
long and bitter fight would ensue. Attorney
Barton Smith represented the lumbermen. In
addressing the court he said that he feared
that the indicted men as members of the
Credit Bureau might be found technically
guilty of violating the Valentine law. He said
that neither he nor they felt that they were
morally guilty or guilty in the spirit of the
law itself, but that there was likelihood that
they could be found guilty on a technicality.
For this reason he said he did not care to
plunge his clients into a long and hard fight
and that he would therefore enter pleas of
guilty and ask the mercy of the court in pass-
ing sentence.

As a result of all this disturbance business
has ''gone to the bad." There is nothing
doing compared with what should be doing at
this time of the year, and with the weather
against builders prospects are for a very poor
season. Record cold weather has been the rule
during May, and this has had its effect on
prospective builders. But the big drawback is
the idea of narrow-sighted persons that since
these lumbermen have been indicted the price
of lumber is to be cut in two and that because
of the indictment of the brick men and the
plumbers other supplies will soon be given
away for the asking. Many who are planning
to build simply as an investment have de-
ferred in hope of lower prices

Another fact that is bothering lumbermen
at this time is the announcement of the rail-
roads that there is to be an increase in freight
rates. This is particularly Important in this
section because the oflicial announcement has
already been made from Michigan points. The
new ruling is the change in classification. This
means a raise from five per cent to ten per
cent in the rates. The railroads announce
through their agents here that the raise is to
enable them to increase their re\'enue, which
they will have to do in order to meet their in-
crease in wages and "the increased cost of ma-
terials with which to keep up their roads
Lumbermen are going to fight the action of
the roads. They will probably enter a pro-
test with the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion alleging that the new rate is unfair and
unreasonable and not warranted. Just what
the exact move will be cannot be stated as
nothing can be done until the rate becomes
effective and the roads try to operate under it.
The sawmill and planing mill owned by
Jacob A. Petty at Sycamore, O.. was wrecked
by the explosion of the boiler a few days ago,
and Charles Ludwig, an employee, was fatally
hurt.

Sampson Bice, vice president of the West
Side Lumber Company of Dayton, Ohio, died
last week, aged 70 years, as the result of an
operation.

The Baney Washing Machine factory is
moving into the Burger Foundry building at
Delphos, Ohio.
The Dorr Street Lumber Company of To-

ledo. Ohio, has been incorporated for $20,00r
by C. G. Brigham. W. M. Hamilton and others
Mr. Brigham is president and general man
ager. Mr. Hamilton is secretary-treasurer.

The Bowers & Conke Lumber Company of
Massillon, Ohio, have dissolved partnership.

At the annua! meeting of the West Wood
Turning Company at Fremont. O., last week,
a six per cent dividend was declared. E. B.
Smith, president; A. E. Culbert. vice presi-
dent; C. C. Bowlus. secretary-treasurer and
general manager, were all re-elected. It was
practically decided to erect an addition to the
plant, costing in the neighborhood of $4,000.

The majority of the creditors having at last
consented to accept 30 cents on the dollar, the
bankruptcy case of Bruner & Sons, owners of
the stave factory at Tiffin, is in a fair way to
be settled. W. K. Noble of Fort Wayne has
deposited in a Tiffin bank the sum of $21,200 to
secure the proportional payments, and as soon
as the settlement is confirmed by the district
court at Cleveland the old firm will begin op-
erations on a new basis.

Wauseon is to have a new handle factory
and sawmill. The plant will be built and oper-
ated by J. M. Cleveland and others of Indi-
anapolis. It will be located near the junction
of. the Wabash railroad and the Detroit, To-
ledo and Iron road.

Ohaxlotte, N. C.

Fire, which originated in one of the dry
kilns of the Goldsboro Lumber Company at
Dover a few days ago destroyed three of the
company's kilns and 110.000 feet of lumber,
entailing a heavy loss.

The Clarkton Planing Mill Company of
Clarkton has been incorporated with a cap-
ital stock of $25,000. O. L. Clark is the prin-
cipal stockholder.

The New Hope Lumber Company, recently
incorporated, will erect a two-story building,
costing $12,000. It will have an average daily-
capacity of 25,000 feet of pine, oak, gum and
hickory.

The Moss Planing Mill at Washington, N.
C, has been chartered with a capitalization
of $125,000. B. G. Moss, H. N. Blount and
W. T. Condon are the incorporators.

The Avant Woodworking Company of
Charlotte is beginning business, with W. A.
Avant, manager, and C. A. Eastman, de-
signer. Chairs and tables will be manufac-
tured.

A mass meeting of the North Carolina
Case Workers' Association, composed of fur-
niture manufacturers, was held a few days
ago at Greensboro, N. C. The matters dis-
cussed and acted upon are said to have been
relative to the demoralized condition of the
furniture market, although the sessions were
executive, for which reason no more details
of the convention are available. It is known,
however, that for some months the manufac-
turers of the state were concerned about the
condition of the market.

The Hardwood Novelty Company of Dur-
ham, to manufacture hardwood novelties,
bank furniture and fixtures of all kinds, has
been organized with an authorized capital
stock of $100,000. Eight prominent citizens
of Durham are behind the movement.

The Swansboro Lumber Company of
Swansboro has been chartered and will be-
gin business within a few days with a capi-
tal stock of $250,000. T. H. Pritchard is the
principal holder of stock.

The Newton-Purdle Lumber Company of
Elizabethton has been organized with a cap-
ital of $40,000 by F. A. Addington and others.

The Red Lyon Lumber Company of Bur-
gaw is chartered with a capital of $100,000,
most of which is held by W. F. Baughman
of Pennsylvania.

The Carolina Flumes Company is a new
industry just starting business at Franklin.

It has a capital of $40,000 and will operate
flumes for timber.

The Sprucement Lumber Company of
Waynesville has been authorized by the sec-
retary of state to operate with a stock of
$30,000.

The Globe Mantel . and Cabinet Company
has established at High Point, N. C, and
is beginning a thriving business. The com-
pany occupies the plant of the High Point
Hardwood Company, which has moved to
the Standard Furniture Company's old fac-
tory. This last named company has erected
a new plant which it now occupies.

■Wausau, Wis.

The Bird & Wells Lumber Company of
Wausaukee has purchased of C. A. Hutchins
a large tract of timber land contiguous to
other timber the company is cutting in For-
est county. The timber, which is largely
birch and maple, will be hauled by rail to
the company's mill in Wausaukee.

The north section of the Escanaba Manu-
facturing Company's plant at Escanaba was
destroyed by fire recently, entailing a loss
of $75,000, covered by insurance. The fire
was caused by an overheated dry kiln. The
company will rebuild on a larger scale.

The Stange-EUis Lumber Company, incor-
porated last fall, has commenced the work of
erecting its plant in Grand Rapids. The main
factory building will be 96x100 feet in dimen-
sions, and the power house 56x66 feet, the
latter to enclose a 400 horse power engine.
A sawmill will also be erected. The com-
pany will manufacture sash, doors, interior
hardwood finish, fixtures, etc.

In Milwaukee recently the Newbold Land
and Lumber Company was organized and in-
corporated with a capital stock of $9,000. The
oflicers are L. Peshong, president; J. D. Da
Boule, vice president; Henry Wubker, secre-
tary; Carl Krueger, treasurer. The general
office of the company will be located in
Rhinelander, and a sawmill will be operated
on Wm. Doyle lake in Oneida county. The
present holdings of the company are about
1.000 acres of good hardwood lands, with
options on about as much more.

An addition to the veneer mill and installa-
tion of more power are improvements being
made by the Morgan Company of Oshkosh. The
cost will be about $15,000. The addition to
the veneer mill will add 20.000 square feet of
floor space. It will be of brick and steel
construction, three stories high.

Two sawmills, operated entirely by elec-
tricity, have been built in Oshkosh, one by
the Oshkosh Logging Tool Company and the
other by the Buckstaff-Edwards Company.
The latter mill was built recently and has been
an object of much curiosity among lumber-
men. It has a capacity of cutting 15.000 feet
daily. The company manufactures chairs,
furniture, caskets, etc. Only eight men are
required to operate the mill.

Two measures have been brought into the
assembly chamber of the Wisconsin legisla-
ture which will engage the attention of lum-
bermen generally. One was a set of resolu-
tions, unanimously passed, memorializing con-
gress to remove the tariff on lumber. The
other is a resolution adopted providing for an
investigation of the operations of alleged lum-
ber and cement trusts in Wisconsin. The
foi'mer resolution comes from a lumber state,
and one which is overwhelmingly republican.
It therefore, in a measure, places W^isconsin
republicans in the position of demanding the
removal of the tariff on one of their chief
products. Both of these measures have re-
ceived prominence because of the high prices
charged in the state for building materials.
There is a very strong feeling among farmers
that building materials are costing too much

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and that the lime has come when there should
be a cheapening of those articles. It was this
feeling which led to the adoption in the as-
sembly of the resolutions mentioned. It is
believed that this feeling also will secure the
adoption in the senate of the lumber and
< i-niHnt investigation resolution.

Ashland, Ky.

Most of the timber that recently came out
of Guyandotte and Big Sandy rivers is rafted
and the river bank on both sides from Iron-
ton, O.. to Huntington is crowded with logs,
most of which are of superior quality. Nearly
all the mills in this section have enough logs
to keep them sawing until the first of next
year; usually these mills have to shut down
at least tliree months in the year, but, owing
to the unprecedented runs of timber, will
saw steadily.

Jeff Tacket and James Sowards of Pike-
ville are associated in the construction of the
railway and other big undertakings for the
Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, at Jane,
near the breaks of the Big Sandy.

The Acton Piano Company has had a repre-
sentative looking over ground with a view to
locating the company's works in this sec-
tion. Catlettsburg will probably be selected
as the site for the factory.

W. T. Hubbard of Toledo. O., was a recent
visitor in the Ashland markets. He bought a
big bill of lumber from the Giles-Wright Com-
pany.

W. A. Cool of Cleveland and W. W. Reilly
of Buffalo, N. T., were here recently.

There is prospect of two large sawmills be-
ing erected at Kenova, W. Va.

The R. G. Page Lumber Company has re-
cently bought a tract of timber land contain-
ing several thousand acres, in the Big Sandy
valley, near Paintsville. The tract will yield
20.000,000 feet of extra fine poplar, oak and
walnut lumber. A narrow gauge road and a
big band mill will be built at once.

John W. Kitchen has gone to Asheville, N.
C, on business for Vansant. Kitcher & Co.
R. H. Vansant and son Harold have been
spending a few days in Elliott county, visit-
ing relatives.

W. H. Dawkins of the W. H. Dawkins Lum-
ber Company is in Parkersburg and W. E.
Berger of the same firm is in Logan, W. Va.

The spoke works of the Breece Manufac-
turing Company at Garrison, Ky., were to-
tally destroyed by fire at a loss of $5,000.
Ground is being cleared to rebuild at once.

Mr. Evan Walker, a prominent lumberman
of Pikeville. and Miss Josephine Francis of
the same city were recently married in Pike-
ville, and left for a visit to the groom's home
in Philadelphia.

Fire of unknown origin destroyed the plant
of the Pike Lumber Company near Pikeville,
Ky., on May 20. The loss will be several thou-
sand dollars.

On account of the rapid increase in busi-
ness, the Fearon Lumber Company of Iron-
ton has been obliged to put on a night crew
at its mill.

The main ofHces of the W. R. Vansant
Lumber Company will "be removed from this
city to Rush, Carter county, Kentucky, near
to where the company is opening up a large
tract of virgin forest. Mr. Vansant will re-
move his family to the scene of his new
operations, as will also James Hayes.

Morehead, Ky.

The Clearfield Lumber Company has re-
ceived a new Climax engine to be used in
hauling logs. It now has two engines and
one log loader on its new railroad.

S. M. Bradley has commenced work on

another large boundary of timber, princi-
pally oak, and is experiencing great difficulty
in getting men and teams.

There is really no improvement in the car
situation here. It is still diflicult to get cars,

W. J. Rice of Jackson, Miss., is here to at-
tend the hearing of the case of the Winton
Lumber and Manufacturing Company, bank-
rupts, at Mt. Sterling, Ky., on May 23. Sev-

eral attorneys here and at Ashland are in-
terested in this case.

We notice a very singular thing in freight
rates at Ashland. The C. & O. charge 2 cents
more per hundred on all freight out of Ash-
land than other roads charge to same point.'
This goes to show the C. & O. does not want
business, and it is needless to say they are
not getting the business from Ashland.

Hardwood Market.

(By HABD-WOOD SECOBD Exclusive Market Beporters.)
Chicago.

In the Chicago district trade in hardwoods
is only fair. There is no particular snap in
the market and in some instances lumber is
being urged upon buyers. Of course, a good
call remains for oak, ash and all varieties of
wagon stock, wide poplar and Cottonwood.
There is a fair demand for maple and bass-
wood. Undeniably, the furniture people are
disappointed in the volume of current sales,
and this constitutes a large element of the
local buying trade. A lessening demand is
being felt by the jobbers. Owing to the short-
age of stock at sources of supply, prices are
being well maintained and the volume of trade
as it is, is above normal.

Boston.

The market for hardwoods is firm. Whole-
salers continue to complain of a great delay
in shipments from mill points, although the
trouble from this .source is not as bad as it
was. The demand is moderately active. One
of the leading wholesalers says he prefers to
get notice of shipments having been made
at present rather than new orders, although
the latter are welcome. Some of the interior
finish mills have been handicapped by a labor
strike and as a result have not been large
buyers. Furniture manufacturers are busy
and are in the market for fair sized lots from
week to week. A good demand for vi?neer of
all kinds is reported. It is stated that since
the marked advance in lumber took place
more veneer has been used than previously.
The yards in this vicinity are carrying fair
sized stocks of hardwoods, and owing to the
extremely high prices they are buying in
moderate way only.

Plain oak is in moderate call. It is reported
that some sales have been made at lower
figures than this, but where this has been
so, it is found that the lumber does not come
from the best sections of the country. Quar-
tered oak is very firm with a fair call. One
inch stock is held at $S5 to $S7. Considerably
more interest is reported in black walnut
than for several months. Offerings of this
are not large and prices are very firmly held.
Many believe that walnut is coming back
into favor as wood for furniture. The call
for maple flooring is moderate only. White-
wood continues very firm with offerings of de-
sirable dry stock small. Many of the southern
mills have very little dry lumber on hand. It
is reported that they have two customers for
every lot ready for shipment. Cypress is in
quiet call with prices well maintained.

Ne-w York.

The current volume of trade in hardwoods
in the metropolitan district continues good in
pretty much all branches. Notwithstanding
the high prices which have prevailed for some
months, the yard dealers, with a full apprecia-
tion of the situation at mill points in the
matter of supplies, have laid in good stocks,
and a majority of the yards are today in pos-
session of some very choice assortments of

stock and are all looking to a good volume
of summer and fall business. For this reason
the demand in the wholesale market from
the yard dealers has eased oft considerably
of late except perhaps in choice or fancy car
loads, for which there seems to be a specially
good call. Also for glue-up table and furni-
ture stock. This latter character of business
is constantly increasing and is a very profit-
able line of business for those wholesale houses
handling it where they have proper facilities
for supplying the wants in this line. Not-
withstanding this easing off in the demand
among the yards, the furniture, cabinet mak-
ers and in fact the general manufacturing
trade, both in the city and surrounding terri-
tory, are very active and are supplying a
good volume of buying orders to the whole-
sale trade.

Stocks of good lumber continue to be scarce,
although there are some slight increases in
offerings in certain lines due undoubtedly to
the fact that the season is approaching when
the new cut begins to be available for market.
There is, however, no easing off in the mat-
ter of prices, which continue very stiff and
high all along the line. It has really been
remarkable the prices which have obtained
this year for good hardwood lumber and which
have seemed to have no effect on the volume
of demand, and it has indeed been a rich
harvest for those houses who had foresight
enough to lay in a good stock before the rise.

Plain oak, ash, birch, chestnut and poplar
seem to be mostly in call in the lumber line,
with oak ship timber and heavy coarse hard-
woods for construction work likewise moving
freely in those channels. Beech is also in
large call for boarding and planking and tem-
porary construction work, and the trade
therein is developing greatly as each season
arrives. The whole hardwood situation in this
section of the country is certainly on a very
sound basis and the general opinion of the
trade is that there will be a good and firm
market for the balance of the year.

Philadelphia.

Although general activity is noticeable in
hardwood circles, some members of the trade
still report a slight dullness. This is at-
tributed mainly to the belief that there is
likely to be a drop in values, consequently
some diffidence is felt in buying certain
woods. The better posted dealers and con-
sumers, however, realize that the bad weather
recently experienced in southern producing
sections will prevent accumulation of stock,
which condition must keep values up, hence
they do not hesitate to transact business on
the prevailing schedule of prices. Fair sup-
plies of logs have come in at mill districts,
and a good deal of lumber is being turned
out, but it is sold way ahead.

Although reports show that the western
furniture manufacturers are slacking up, there
has been no indication so far of a let-up in
the activity of the factories in eastern Penn-
sylvania. The sash and door men continue
prosperous, and are rushing things. Indoor

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finishing works keep up a hum, and rail and
trolley building promise steady consumption
of material during the summer months. Build-
ing will be extensive, now that the strike
among the bricklayers, stonemasons and gran-
ite cutters has been called off. The veneer
and cigar box men work day and night, and
the box factories keep fairly busy. The rail-
road service is reported but slightly better;
whatever improvement there is has been spas-
modic, and not to be relied upon for any
length of time.

Among the hardwoods, ash, poplar, chestnut
and basswood lead, but are scarce. Oak is
more plentiful and values hold steady. Gum
keeps firm. Quartered white oak holds its
own, cherry is moving fairly well and maple,
both lumber and flooring, receives a good call.
Dry stocks of all hardwoods are scarce, and
there is no prospect of impro\'ement in this
direction for some time to come. Veneer and
cigar box lumber values are high and very
scarce.

Baltimore.

Such changes as have taken place in the
hardwood situation here are of no moment.
With the exception of the common grades of
oak, which, according to the statements of
some dealers and manufacturers, have eased
off slightly, the whole range of prices is firm,
and the demand promises to remain sufficient-
ly active all the summer to keep the price
list strong. Stocks are in brisk demand. Ap-
parently the requirements of the trade are
as large as ever. If some of the big corpo-
rations ha\'e deferred, for a time, improve-
ments that would have called for the use of
great quantities of lumber such improvements
cannot be long postponed for the reason that
the facilities to be supplied are urgently
needed. This holds good especially of the
railroads, which show a disposition to hold
tack improvements, but their equipment is
undeniably far behind the demands of traflic
and some provision must be made before
long.

The export business is sufficiently brisk to
call for liberal shipments, and the movement
is large enough to hold out the prospect of
a complete acceptance of the conditions
which American shippers insist upon espe-
cially with regard to inspection and measure-
ment. Stocks abroad are low enough to en-
courage purchases and no inifavorable factors
have developed. Oak, ash and walnut are in
good request on the other side and the for-
wardings are large accordingly, while poplar
also retains its activity, though the returns
are said by some shippers to be lower on
this wood relatively than are realized in the
domestic market. The destruction of the new
B. & O. pier here will be felt as a serious
inconvenience by the exporters, especially
as months must elapse before the work of
rebuilding is well under way. The availa-
bility of the improvement which was badly
needed, has been deferred by the collapse for
perhaps a year. Stocks in the hands of local
dealers are relatively low at the present time
and all the hardwoods are in good shape.

Pittsburg.

There has been little change in the hard-
wood situation in Pittsburg since May 1.
Hardwood wholesalers say that It is hard to
get dry stock fast enough to meet demands.

The building situation in greater Pittsburg
is the most unhappy feature of the market at
present. In spite of the fact that there are
no strikes of consequence on hand, building
lags and the local yards are accordingly buy-
ing very little lumber. This affects the hard-
wood men less than wholesalers of hemlock
and the pines, but they are beginning to feel
it a little. Their trade is held up very well
thus far by the inquiries from manufacturers

in the eastern and central states and also by
the increased demand of late from the rail-
roads and big industrial concerns. These
latter are beginning to place orders that were
held up indefinitely early in the spring when
the railroad investigations were at their
height. It is quite possible now that this
business will come forward right along and
help very materially to relieve the usual
summer dullness.

Oak is by far the best seller. The rapidity
with which good oak lumber is being
snatched up is shown by the fact that most
of the hardwood wholesalers are sending out
their buyers to pick up choice tracts of oak
timber whenever they can find them. Many
such purchases have been made lately and at
a uniform advance over prices that were
paid six or eight months ago. A few firms
are buying very extensively in the Southwest
and have worked up a splendid market in
Cottonwood and southern oak for export
trade. A large amount of this lumber is also
being shipped up the Mississippi for delivery
in the big manufacturing centers of the
middle west.

Chestnut is another wood that has a very
strong hold on local buyers at present. Pi'ices
range little higher than a month ago and the
stocks are being picked over so carefully that
even mill culls are in good demand. The
minor hardwoods are selling well all through
Ohio. Indiana and Michigan, as well as in
the seaboard cities of the Atlantic Coast
where Pittsburg firms have a very strong
footing in the wholesale market.

Buffalo.

If there is any cliange in the hardwood
lumber situation here it is in the line of bet-
ter business, but as that was good enough
all along there is not much need of close cal-
culation along that line. There is not quite
as much complaint of stock shortage as there
was. though poplar is not coming in any
faster than it is going out and there seems to
be no hope of a full assortment again of
either chestnut or ash. Dealers are getting
fugitive lots of all these woods, but nobody
is able to furnish a wood that will meet all
demands.

It looks now as though the three scarce
woods would before long take the position
in the trade that sycamore has already taken.
It is so hard to get that the consumer does
not ask for it to any extent and when a
dealer gets a lot of it he finds that it sells
very slowly. Poplar, chestnut and ash are
quite easily grown, however, and when this
country wakes up to the necessity of culti-
vating timber they will return to general use.
There is plenty of plain-sawed oak at pres-
ent, some of the yards receiving liberal
amounts of it and all finding that an assort-
ment is quite possible. Some dealers report
that birch is a trifle dull of late, .though it is
pretty generally doing well. It has been a
great help to the oak situation.

Maple is coming forward as a much-needed
wood, especially as it can be so easily used
in place of ash. With maple, Washington
fir and yellow pine to substitute for ash the
gap is pretty well filled as a rule.

Dealers find that there is more call for
basswood and elm and are looking for it with
some success, but they are not pushing gum
or Cottonwood in this market. If they have
any at their southwestern mills they find
a better market for them there than to ship
them here.

Sagiuaw Valley.

greatly facilitate the movement of lumber
products. The market is' in good form.
There isn't much dry lumber available in the
market and prices are firm. Lumber that can
be converted into box material is in active
demands. Dry stock moves off rapidly and
some firms are disposing of green lumber as
it comes from the saw. Trade, in fact, all
round is healthy, with indications that it
will hold out strong during the year.

Indianapolis.

There has been considerable betterment in
the car situation during the last fortnight.
With lighter grain movement and the long-
shoremen's strike in New York, which is de-
laying export trade, more cars are available
for lumber trafflc. Railroads operating in the
state are also receiving an unusual amount of
new equipment and the effect is noticeable.
Without doubt the car situation is better than
it has been in a long time and shippers have
little complaint to make.

Building is increasing. In April building
fell off more than $120,000 as compared with
April, 1906.

The demand for all grades of hardwood is
brisk with a specially heavy demand for all
kinds of oak. Building activity is exception-
ally heavy and the supply of hardwoods will
probably be less plentiful from now on. All
factories that use hardwoods are crowded with
orders, the output only depending upon ship-
ping and warehouse facilities.

Bristol, Va.-Tenn.

"The lumber business in this section is in
fine shape." said M. N. Offutt, of the Tug
River Lumber Company and Boice, Burns &
Offutt, to the Hardwood Record representa-
tive. "The mills are nearly all running regu-
larly. The car supply is ample and the de-
mand for stock in excess of the supply. Prices
are good, and while some do not appear to
be appreciative of present conditions, I am
eminently satisfied."

The yards are pretty well filled, despite the
fact that lumber has been moving rapidly
during the past fortnight. The car supply
is much better and the lumbermen all report
that they are having no trouble in this re-
spect at present.

Cincinnati.

The demand for all grades of hardwood
lumber in this market has, if anythin:?,
showed improvement over that of the previ-
ous two weeks. This fact is emphasized by
the increase in the price of both poplar and
gum. The advance in poplar has been con-
templated for some time, but gum was not
expected to take a jump. Both woods have
advanced from $1 to $2 per thousand feet,
but despite this fact the demand has not let
up any. Both items find ready sale at the
increased prices, and consumers are willing
to pay the price asked if they can secure
immediate shipment. The car situation has
eased up, and dealers are doing a larger busi-
ness. Tlie demand for oak, both white and
quartered, is at its best and while the values
have not advanced, dealers are securing top
prices quoted for it. Building material of all
kinds is in active request. Large improve-
ments are being made in the suburbs, and
the construction of cottages along the river
banks for summer residences. Cypress and
mahogany are being rapidly absorbed and
prices are generally firm. The market has
had a firm tone for some time and from
present indications Will continue on that
basis throughout the year.

The car shortage is believed to be prac-
tically a thing of the past. Shippers do not
complain and freight agents say they are
getting cars right along now. This will

St. Louis.

Buyers of hardwoods continue to put off
purchases except for stock that they need for

HARDWOOD RECORD

immediate use, evidently still hugging the de-
lusion that the price schedule will shortly be
lowered. This will not take place, and fur-
thermore, it is not only possible but probable
that consumers who wait very much longer
before getting in their supplies will be serious-
ly hampered by the usual fall car shortage
when it comes time for delivery. All concerns
are making strong efforts to replenish their
:i-ard stocks during this temporary lull in de-
mand, but although the car supply has im-
proved, the few weeks of pleasant weather ex-
perienced a month or more ago were not the
forenmners of a good logging season, as they
appeared to be, and were followed by ex-
tremely heavy rains, which still continue,
making the woods and all low land almost
impassable. In fact, many mills in Missouri
and Arkansas, as well as in parts of Louis-
iana and Mississippi, have suspended opera-
• ions. Even those large plants which are well
equipped with logging roads have suffered
from continued interruptions to work caused
by floods and washouts. The general situation
does not show any radical change over that
uf a fortnight ago.

Nashville.

A general advance in prices was noted in
the local lumber market last week. Poplar
and ash were advanced, following a slight low-
ering in prices on dry stocks the week previ-
ous. Poplar continues to be a top-notcher in
price and this wood along with ash is getting
deai-er all the time. Many of the local lum-
bermen, however, are making good money on
poplar, as a large amount of it cut in this
vicinity is owned or controlled by Nashville
concerns. A slightly increased demand is
noted for plain and quartered oak. An upward
tendency is noted in walnut, beech and chest-
nut. These woods have experienced advances
from time to time during the past winter and
early spring. The river has had a good tide
on for some time and many logs have reached
the market. The mills are all working full
blast and on every hand there are indications
of prosperity. The supply of railroad ties and
poles is reported short owing to the fact that
the farmers are busy getting their crops
itlanted and have not had time to cut pbles
and ties. Top prices are being paid here for
these items.

Memphis.

The hardwood situation here continues
quite healthy. The demand readily absorbs
all the dry stock available for immediate
shipment and there is therefore no pressure
to sell. In some instances it is reported that
prices are being shaded on the high grade
gum, but there is nothing to indicate any
special weakness in that item. Low grade
gum is in excellent request and full prices
are being paid therefor. Ash. cottonwood,
poplar, cypress and all grades and descrip-
tions of oak are in excellent request and
prices are about as high as they have been
at any time this season. Buyers are perhaps
not quite as persistent as they were a short
time ago, owing to the arrival of delayed
shipments, but there is no difficulty in dis-
posing of well-sawed, well-handled lumber at
satisfactory values. The export situation is

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Rough and Dressed

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

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1021 Saving and Trust Bldg., Columbus, O.

hardly as healthy. Several exporters state
that they are in receipt of advices indicat-
ing the presence of considerable consigned
stock on the other side, which is interfering
somewhat with firm offers. The recent in-
terference with production, growing out of
the unfavorable logging and milling condi-
tions, will, it is believed, result in a well
maintained market for some time because
assuring the continuance of the recent
strained relations between supply and de-
mand. The car situation is quite satisfac-
tory.

Minneapolis.

Conditions are rather quiet all along the
line at present. The dealers are devoting
most of their energies to taking care of old
orders, and cleaning up their business before
starting in with the new year's cut. This
line of activity will probably prevail until per-
haps the end of June. Manufacturers in some
lines claim they are doing a lighter business
than last year, and conditions just at this
time in the Northwest seem to warrant their
statements. They are picking up dry hard-
wood when it is offered, however, and not
haggling about the price, though they are slow
to eonti-act ahead for new stock at present
prices. The sash and door factories are keep-
ing well stocked on birch, oak and maple, as
the building movement is heavy and calls for
large quantities of hardwood finish.

The railroad demand has fallen oft, and pur-
chasing agents are sending out stories about
retrenchment. They look a good deal like
attempts to bear the market, however. The
retail yards are not active in the market for
any kind of lumber just now, and the outside
demand for hardwoods is rather slow\ There
is plenty, however, considering the low state
of dry hardwood lumber, and the orders that
dribble in are enough to pick the yards clean
by .luly 1. Birch is running low and other
northern woods are practically out of the
market unless shipped green. Southern stock
is coming more freely now, and about all the
oak being received in the northwest is coming
from southern mills. They are reporting a
better car situation, but their stocks as a rule
are very limited and likely to be closed out
earlier than usual.

Toledo.

The demand is generally fair and as a
consequence there is no marked difference in
prices in the local hardwood market. There
seems to be more effort to force buying than
for some time, due largely to the failure of the
building boom that was anticipated earlier in
the season.

The car situation is only fair. For the last
two or three weeks things have been going
along smoothly but this does not seem to be
lasting. If a change comes and the demand
grows unexpectedly as it should there is liable
to be a big cry for material and prices may
respond.

Poplar is about the only wood that ha,s
shown any material change during the week.
The better grades are stiffer than ever but
the lower grades are being offered to local
consumers at off prices. The prices are still
high enough, but they are some weaker than
they have been for several weeks. Delivery,
however, is not guaranteed.

Liverpool.

Chaloner's wood circular for May announces
that arrivals from North American ports dur-
ing April have been considerably less than
the corresponding month last year. There
have been no arrivals of oak logs the past
month, but deliveries have been fair; prices
remain unchanged; stocks are very light. The
consumption of elm has been nominal and

the stock is still sufflcient. Ash has been
coming in in quantities which have kept the
stock large enough. Walnut logs of prime
quality and good size are in request, and for
desirable shipments full prices would be ob-
tained; boards and planks of this wood are
in steady call at fair prices, according to
quality and specification. There is a moder-
ate demand for seasoned satin walnut boards
of good quality, but logs are not wanted.
Whitewood logs of good dimensions are bring-
ing good prices, as are also boards and planks.
Of birch logs there has been a fair import,
and consumption has been good the past
month: the stock is heavy and prices are
still steady and unchanged; planks have been
moderately imported and deliveries fair. Prime
quality hickory logs sell at good prices. The
market in African mahogany is in a very
strong position, the demand being exceeding-
ly active, and full values rule for medium to
large logs in sound or fairly sound condition.
Stocks are light and shipments will be well
received. This is practically true of Cuban,
Mexican and Central American mahogany
also. Stocks in all varieties of this wood are
much depleted.

London.

There is a fair amount of business doing,
but it may be fairly said that it is of a
forced nature. During the past fortnight
close upon 400 carloads of lumber have ar-
rived per the steamers from New Orleans
and Newport News. These vessels have
mostly oak lumber of various grades. Another
steamer is shortly due from New Orleans
and carries about 350 cars of lumber.

Now, whilst it must be admitted that quite
one- third of these cars have arrived under
firm contracts the balance of say 500 cai-s
have to be sold, and on a market that is
exceedingly dull owing to the slack state of
the cabinet and building trades here. Buyers
are taking this opportunity whilst these
stocks are being forced upon the markets to
point out that there is an end at last to the
high prices that have been ruling for some
time. Be that as it may, why this quantity
of lumber has been slumped upon the market
so suddenly is a puzzle. Either prices are
falling in the states and shippers are only too
glad to ship goods against drafts, chancing
the prices that these goods will realize
when sold, after the heavy dock charges have
accrued upon them; or this is the direct re-
sult of the recent visit to the states of a rep-
resentative of one of the firms of brokers
here who sell on commission and urge ship-
pers to send them lumber on consignment,
a practice which has been so often strongly
written against in this paper, and can only
mean a great loss to parties concerned, as
the London market cannot absorb this quan-
tity foi" some months.

Plain oak, there is a good demand for
"dry" parcels of which the market is in need,
but most of the parcels recently arrived do
not fulfill this requirement. Quartered oak
is in slightly better demand for boards and
planks, and the demand for moulding strips
of this wood is much greater than the supply.

In satin walnut there is still a good de-
mand for No. 1 common, but prime grades
are neglected. In walnut, the arrivals have
been light, but sufficient for the demand,
and supplies certainly seem to be regulated
according to the market requirements.

All grades of whitewood are in good re-
quest at fair prices, and unless heavy con-
signments are made, prices bid fair to be
maintained all the summer.

Several large parcels of poor ash logs have
arrived recently which are difficult to sell.

Some very fine parcels of hickory logs have
recently been seen on the quay, which have
changed hands at good prices.

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EMPLOYES WANTED.

FOREMAN WANTED

In machine room on piano cases and havo
charge of about oO men. Good proposition to
married men willing to locate in small town
near Chicago. Address

"X. T. Z.," care Hardwood Recokd.

MANAGER WANTED

In chair factory at Gardner, Mass. Man to

run 12 dry bilus, who has had experience in

the handling of hardwood dimension lumber for

drying. State wages and e.Yporience. Address

"E 25," care Hakdwood Record.

WANTED— HARDWOOD INSPECTOR.

Wanted — A young man not over 25 years, ex-
perienced at measuring and grading Hardwood
lumber, especially Poplar and Oak. A good
position to a good, reliable man.

C. J. FRANK, Logansport, Ind.

LUMBER WANTED

WANTED.

300.000 ft. 4/4" to 8/4" guartered Oak, all
grades.

100,000 ft. 4/4" to 8/4" Walnut, all grades.
Also Oak and Walnut logs.
THE FREIBERG LBR. CO., Cincinnati. O.

SMALL DIMENSION HICKORY

In sizes of from li-V'xlJi" — 36" to 2"x2i4"
— 39", tough, good wood, white or red. Send
for specifications.

L. T. LA BAR. Hackettstown, N. J.

WANTED— SHORT HICKORY SQUARES

In carload lots: AH White Grade: li/'X
l%x26" and 14" to 42". In Red and White:
l%xiyox26" and 30" to 42"; also l%xl%x
66". Address

VAN DEVENTER MFG. CO.. LTD.,
302 Cora Bldg., New Orleans, La.

WANTED— CAH STOCK.

Inspected and cash at mill.

J. GUTHRIDGE.
934 Monadnock Bldg., Chicago, 111.

WANTED.

5 cars each 4/4, 5/4. 6/4 and 8/4" Sound
Wormy Chestnut. Quote f. o. b. Cincinnati.
DUHLMEIER BROTHERS. Cincinnati, O.

WANTED.

Walnut logs 11" and up in diameter. Oak
logs 24" and up and Hickory logs 14" and up —
all good quality. Address

H. V. HARTZELL, Greenville, Ohio.

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
detects excepting sap.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg. Pa.

WANTED.

QUARTERED RED OR WHITE OAK.

1x4x11, ley,, 19 & 20, lx3i/>xll, 161/, & 19,
1x3x14, 1x214x14 — for delivery at Mound City,

QDARTERED OAK CHAIR BACKS.

IV1 to 6" wide, 15 and 17" long, for delivery
at Port Washington, Wis.

THE WISCONSIN CHAIR CO..

Port Washington. Wis.

WANTED.

4/4" Chestnut, all grades.
4/4" Log Run Buckeye.
4/4" Stained Sap Poplar.
Address Lumber Department,

NATIONAL CASKET Co.,
Hoboken, N. J.

BASSWOOD WANTED.

A few carloads 4/4 and S/4 Northern White
Passwood dressed two sides. Quote price de-
livered on New York rate of freight.
H. J. ROSEVELT,
66 Broad St., New York, N. Y.

WANTED— DRY CYPRESS.

2x5" and wider, 8 or 16', Ists and 2nds,
selects or sound common.

AMER. LBR. k 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 son YELLOW POPLAR.

All grades and thicknesses, rough or dressed,
wanted. Prompt cash. Willing to contract.
AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO.. Pittsburg, Pa.

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. HI.

YELLOW PINE CAR MATERIAL.

AMER. LBR. & MFG. CO., Pittsburg, Pa.

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.

TIMBER LANDS FOR SALE

FOR SALE.

Timber lands in fee simple, 2..j00 acres. S. E.
Missouri on St. Francis river. Good railroad
transportation. Finest grade Oak. Gum, Tu-
pelo, Cypress and Hickory. Money maker to
work or hold : l.ooo acres more may be secured.
R. F01iE.M4.N, St. Francis, Ark.

FOR SALE.

A new saw mill in operation cu'ting 30 to
35 M ft. of hardwood lumber per day — with an
abundance of choice Oak and Poplar logs and
timber on hand, and with a supply of hardwooil
timber to draw from that will last for years
and can be bousht at right prices. Address
"Box K 'i." care Hardwood Record.

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 Buch
goods for sale. For particui.irs address

Hardwood Record, Chicago, III.

RAILWAY EQUIPMENT

RAILS AND LOCOMOTIVES.

All Inquiries for industrial railway equip-
ment listed before Record readers will find
ready response.

Hardwood Record, Chicago, III.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

WANTED.

To contract with some experienced sawmill
man, with complete band-mill outfit, to saw
from ten to fifteen million feet Poplar and
Oak timber.

R. G. PAGE LUMBER COMPANY.

Ashland, Ky.

A SAWMILL OPERATOR

With at least 25 to 00 M capital can obtain
timber from an Eastern Tennessee hardwood
tract 6,000 acres and stumpage based per thou-
sand feet, pay when dry and shipped. Write
for further particulars. A good chance for
good timber and will warrant investigation.
Address "D.," care Hardwood Record.

MAPLE FLOORING MILL

care Hardwood Record.

WANTED— MANAGER.

The advertiser, a large corporation, contem-
plates starting a first-class Box and Veneer
plant in the South, and desires to associate
with a first-class, practical man to take full
local charge. Man must have nad successful
experience in similar work, be of unquestioned
character, and be able to Invest from ten to
twenty-five thou-saud dollars in the lousiness.
The business will require a capital of one
hundred to one hundred and fifty thousand dol-
lars. The advertiser has ample capital to
finance it. but desires investment Indicated on
part of manager for business reasons, which
will be apparent to the right man. Give In
confidence full information in replying. Ad-
dress "E. W. C," care Hardwood Record.

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. Addresi

Editor Hardwood Record.

TRY A

CLASSIFIED

LINER

IN THIS SECTION

RESULTS WILL

HARDWOOD RECORD

Advertisers' Directori; [

NOHTHERN HARDWOODS.

Alcock. John L., & Co 7

American Lnmber & Mfg. Company.. 50

Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company 52

Babcock Lumber Company 50

Beyer. Knox & Co 59

Bliss & Van Auken ,,,, 12

HARDWOOD FLOORING.

Stearns Company. The 56 McCauley-Saunders Lumber Company. 11

Stephenson, The L, Company 12 Mcllyain. J. Gibson, & Co 6

59 McLean-Davls Lumber Company ] 2 Advance Lumber Company 51

Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company... 52
Bliss & Van Auken 12

Sullivan. T.. & Co "" """ '

Boyne City Lumber Company . ' ' ' ' 54 I.^^^" ^"™''" Company 8 Nc-al-DoIph Lumber Co 12

Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company.'! ™ ?.".™'''"' - --. ^'"^^" Company 50 Nicola Lumber Company, The

Stewart, I. N., & Bro.

Stewart-Roy Lumber Company 56 McLean, Hugh, Lumber Company 69

Stlmson, J. V 58 Miller, Anthony "59

Stone, T. B., Lumber Company 50 Miller Bros 11

59 Mosby, H. W., & Co.

Cadillac Handle Company.... 3 Volhnar & Below Company 52 O Brien, John, Land & Lumber Co. .. „ „,..6.. ...-uaue. v^mpany .

Carter, Frank, Company [.53 w^',""' ^T , T"""/' ''''' ^^ PaepckeLeicht Lnmber Company 4 Eastman, S. L., Flooring Company:::

Cheat River Lumber Company 50 w! 1 ' ?' C '^'""''" Conpany 10 Pbila. Veneer & Lnmber Company.... 6 Penn Bros. Company.. ... 4

Buffalo Maple Flooring Company, The 7

Carrier Lumber & Mfg. Company 12

Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc 3

Cummer, Diggins & Co : 3

Dwight Lumber Company.

flummer Lumber Company 49 Forman, Thos., Company 6

P'''<^f' E. E 7 Haak Lumber Company ::::::: 37

Radina, L. W., & Co 57 liilernational Hardwood Company •>

Ransom. J. B., & Co 48 Kei-ry & Hanson Flooring Company... 5B

jau iiarawood Lbr. Company 56 win„„ o V .T — J, r.. v o „ *° i^tf.ij a nauson riooring company... 55

& Mitchell Inc Pany.. Ob Willson Bros. Lumber Company 50 Richmond Park & Co 10 Mitchell Bros. Company. . . 3

Cherry River Boom & Luiiberco: : : ! "9 whiJe w^h" ^""P""'' 2°

Chicago Car Lumber Company 10 wh Lr w '^T^'"' ' ; '•»

Chivvis, W R Z W"'*™"' Wm., & Sons, Inc 6

Cincinnati Hardwood" LbrV Company' ' '- ~-'^'^ - ^''°"'' Company 57

Cobbs & Mitchell Inc i wr ■ • "^ - '" ■■ —f.'-j o

Columbia Hardwood Lum'b'er'comnanv 11 ^ Ks^nsin Land & Lumber Company. 55 R"ter, W. M., Lumber Company 5 Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company 48

Connor, R., Company . m ^i^,'"' .^°*"''"" ^^° ^ Rumbarger Lumber Company 1 Nichols & Cox Lumber Company. .... 65

Stephenson, The I., Company 12

Ward Bros 12

Wilce, The T., Company 58

Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company.. 55

Company 53

' o-i.ji mm anil Lbr. Co 411

Crescent Lumber Company 56

Crosby & Beckley Co.i The

Crosby, C. P

Cummer, Diggins & Co. . :

Darling, Chas., & Co. . .

Davis, John R., Lumber (iJm'pa'ny:"

Davis, w. A '

Dennis Bros

Dennis & Smith 'L'u'm'b'er'company"
1) Heur & Swain Lumber Company

Dixon & Dewey

Dublmeier Bros

Dwight Lumber Company

Earle Lumber Company

Ellas, G., & Bro " .

Empire Lumber Company

Ev'atTRetH" ^•="''" Company::. 11
fIh E H ^^ """^ Company... 55

Forman Company, 'ihoinas

Freiberg Lumber Company, The

clrCny^™^!' . .'^.-.'^"-a Lumb;;

'ieiieral Lumber Compaiiv "-riie

gS'j.I.'':.^':"':^^':-^-^--

Haak Lumber Company

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company'

Hayden & Westcctt Lumber Company

Heath. Witbeck Co ■

Holloway Lumber
Hoyt, C. I., & Co.

Wylie, A. W 11 Ryan & McParland 10

Yeager, Orson B 59 Scatcherd & Son 59

Young, W. D., & Co 12 Scbofleld Bros 7

Young & Cutslnger.

SOUTHERN HARDWOODS.

Advance Lumber Company 51

Alcock. John L. , & Co 7

American Hdwd. Lumber Company... 49
American Lumber & Mfg. Company.. 50

.\nder.son-Tiilly Company 4,s

.\tlantic Lumber Company

Beyer, Knox & Co 59

Brown, W. P., & Sons. Lumber Co.
Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company
Carrier Lumber & Mfg. Company...
Cherry River Boom & Lumber Co

Slimmer, P.. & Co

Smith, R. M.. & Co _

Sondheimer, E., Company [ 4

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 59

Stearns Company, The S6

Steele & Hibbard 49

Stewart, I. N., & Bro ::::.."59

Stlmson, J,

Stone, T. B., Lumber Company 56

Sullivan, T., & Co 59

Swann-Day Lumber Company 8

59 Three States Lumber Company eo

2 Turner, A. M.. Lumber Company 50

59 Vestal Lumber & Mfg. Company 49

12 Walnut Lumber Company, The 58

„_.... 9 Wells, R. .4.. Lumber Company 10

Chicago Car Lumber Company 10 West Florida Hardwood Company 7

Chivvis. W. R ' 49 White Lumber Company 10

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co r,e ^l'""^'": ^"^ * Sons, Inc 6

Columbia Hardwood Lumber Company 11 "

Wood Mosaic Flooring Company 2

Young, W. D., & Co 12

SAW MILL MACHINERY.

Garland, M., Compan.v 40

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company. 38

Mersbon. W. B.. & Co

Phoenix Manufacturing Company 53

WOODWORKING MACHINEHY.

American Wood Working Machinery

Company 45

Berlin Machine Works, The

Covel Manufacturing Company .38

Crown Iron Works 3S

-ompany 7

Cn-on, Mill & Lumber t^ouipany 49

Courtney. D. G 9

Crane. C. & Co 55

Crescent Lumber Company 56

Crosby & Beckley Company. The 6

Code, W. J., Land & Lbr. Company , . 4S

Cypress Lumber Company 56

Darling, Chas., & Co 11

Damell-Taenzer Lumber Co S Advance Lumber Company 51

Wlborg & Hanna Company 57 Defiance Machine Works, The .39

Wlllson Bros. Lumber Company 50 Holmes, E. & B., Machinery Company 39

M'ood, R. E.. Lumber Company 47 Matteson Manufacturing Company.... 47

Wylie, A. W n

Yeager, Orson E 59

Young & Cutsinger 53

POPLAR.

Indiana Quartered Oak'company 7 S'"''^- '^- ^

Ingram Lumber Company ,, Dennis

James & Abbot Company 7

Jenks, Robert H., Lumber Com'pany" 51
Jones, G. W., Lumber Company 2

Jones Hardwood Company -

Kelley Lumber & shingle Com'pauy:: S
Ivneelaud-Bigelow Company ' 47

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Company" n
Linehan Lumber Company.. i.n

Litchfield, William E "

Lombard, E. B .

Davidson-Benedict Company

& Smith Lumber Company... 55
D'Heur & Swain Lumber Company... 58

Dixon & Dewey 6

Dublmeier Bros 57

Ellas, G., & Bro ..,, 59

Empire Lumber Company, Buffalo.... 59
Estabrook-Skeele Lumber Company... 11
Evans & Retting Lumber Company... 55

Fall, E. H ,r,i

Farrin-Korn Lumber Company 57

Freiberg Lumber Company, The 57

Atlantic Lumber Company

Brown, W. P.. & Sons, Lumber Co,.. 2

Cheat River Lumber Company SO

Courtney, D. G ". 9

Crane, C. & Co _[ 56

Cude, W. J., Land & Lbr. Company.. 48

Davidson-Benedict Company '. . .

Dawkins. W. II.. Lumber Company.. Zu

Haas, Albert, Lumber Company 7 ^.. ^^^, ^^ ^.„.^ ^^^

Hayden & Westcott Lumber Company 10 Grand Rapids Veneer Works .. r."!".'! . 48

Nash, J. M 53

tlber Manufacturing Company, The...

Sinker-Davis Company 44

Smith, H. B., Machine Company 41

Woods, S. A., Machine Company 44

LOGGING MACHINEEY,

Clyde Iron Works 42

Lldgerwood Manufacturing Company. 43

Overpack, S. C

Russel Wheel & Foundry Company . . .

DRY KILNS AND BLOWERS.

Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company.

Long-Knight Lumber"com'n'anv H Eull^'ton-Powell Hardwood Lumber

M-ilm. 'in,. .. ,. .. ^ ' ^!* Comnanv

Company 5

Maley, 'i-hoiniison

Martin-Barriss Companv """'' «? liaretson-Greason Lumber Company.. 49

Mason-Donaldson Lumber 'com'pan;" ' 62 ''°'° '*"°"'" '^""P""^ "8

nn„n Company .->6 Garetson-Greason Lumber Comp,

Mans, H. H., & Co., Inc

McIIvain, J. Gibson, & Co «

McLean, Hugh, Lumber Company:!:: 59

Miller, Anthony .... ta

Miller Bros °°

Mitchell Bros. Company I

Mowbray & Robinson... K7

Murphy & Digging t,

Nichols & Cox Lumber 'com'pany::::: 55
Nicola Lumber Company, The

Gi-neral Lumber C impaiiy. The 56

Gillespie, W. M., Lumber Company.. 7

(Joodlander-Robertson Co 4

Haas, Albert, Lumber Company 7

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Company 55

Hay ward, M. A 33

Ileatli-Witlieck Co 11

HImmelberger-Harrison Lumber Co. . . 1
Hooton, R. A., Lumber Company.... 11

Hoyt, C. I., & Co ' 58

Indiana Quartered Oak Company 7

M„,.*i, TO . V -—ijau, 54 International Felloe Mfg. Company.. 49

Woith- Western Lumber Company 53 James & Abbot Company 7

n.hni-!,'"' ^"'"'■,^'""5 & Lumber Co... 10 Jenks, Robert H., Lumber Company., 51

Osburn. Norval 3^ jones, G. W., Lumber Company ..... 2

±"errine-Armstrong Company 58 Jones Hardwood Company 7

Price, E. E ^ Kentucky Lumber Company 67

Radina, L. W., & Co 57 Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 60

Richmond Park & Co !!!: 10 ^^^ * Matthews Lumber Company.. 11

Ross Lumber Company ::::: j Linehan Lumber Company 50

Hayward, M. A

Hooton, R. A., Lumber Company.... 11

Kentucky Lumber Company 57

Keyes-Fanuin Lumber Company 37

Massengale Lumber Company 49

McLean-Davis Lumber Company 2

Ritter, W. M., Lumber Company 5

Smith, R. M., & Co s

Stewart-Roy Lumber Company 56

Swann-Day i^nmber Company 8

Vansant, Kitchen & Co 60

Wood, R. E., Lumber Company 47

Yellow Poplar Lumber Company 60

COTTONWOOD AND GUM.

Morton Dry Kiln Company..
New York Blower Company.

37
30

Northern Lumber Company.. ^

North Shore Lumber Company

Rumbarger Lumber Company 1

Ryan & McParland lo

Sailing-Hanson Company 55

Sawyer-Goodman Company 52

Sea tcherd & Son fig

Schofield Eros 7

Slimmer, F., & Co 10

Soble Bros 7

Litchfield. William E 7

Lombard. E. B n

Long-Knight Lumber Company 58

Love. Boyd & Co 46

Luehrmann, Chas. F., Hardwood Lum-
ber Company 49

M:iley. Thompson iV :\!u.lTett Company 56

Martin-Barriss Company 51

Massengale Lumber Company. ....... 49

Amlcrsnu-Tiilly r<inip;iii.v 4s

l^arriu-Korn Lr.raber Company 57

Himmclberger-Harrison Lumber Co... 1

Lamb-Fisli Lumber Company 60

Luehrmann, C. F., Hardwood Lumber

Company 49

Mosby. H. W.. & Co .' 8

Paepcke-Lelcht Lumber Company 4

Sondheimer, E.. Company 4

Tliree States Lumber Company 60

CYPRESS.

Cypress Lumber Company 56

■Pl^mmer Lumber C-^t^piny: :::!!:::: 49 ll^T J^s "lei ^". .'"T"^!

Standard Hardwood Lumber Company 59 Mans. H. H.. & Co.. Inc

VENEERS.

Grand Rapids Veneer Worlcs 47

Phila. Veneer & Lumber Company.... 6
Wisconsin Veneer Company 53

SAWS, KNIVES AND SUPPLIES.

Atkins, E. P.. & Co 42

Covel Manufacturing Company. 3S

Crown Iron Works ^ 38

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 37

Hanchett Swage Works 3S

^Marshall, Francis

Matteson Manufacturing Company.... 47

LUMBER INSURANCE.

AiliruiiiUick 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 34

MISCELLANEOUS.

Cbilds. S. D., & Co 37

Gillette Roller Bearing Company 37

49
46

Lumbermen's Credit Association 37

Martin & Co 51

Pennsylvania Door & Sash Company.. 7

Poole, Clark L.. & Co 12

Siuuiers' Co.. Ilenrv 4:!

Schenck. C. A.. & Co :.'

HARDWOOD RECORD

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.

Send Us Your Orders

We Have on Hand Ready for

Shipment a Nice Stock of

254 Clear Maple
Flooring

ALSO OTHER SIZES AND GRADES

Our fine timber, modern plant and
skilled workmansliip combine to
make a flooring that cannot be ex-
celled. You will be pleased with it.

HAAK LUMBER CO.

HAAKWOOD, MICH.

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

COUNTERFEIT CHECKS

are frequent
ex'.-ept where
our

Two Piece
Geometrical
Barter Coin

1b in u«e. then
imitation isn't
possible.
Sample if you
ask tor it. I

S. D. CHILDS
« CO.

Chicago

We also make
Time Checks,
StencHs and
Log Hammers.

Save Your Money

By Using the

RED BOOK

Published Semi-Aimually
in January and July

It contains a carefully prepared list of the
buyers of lumber in car lots, both among
tlie 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 booU as the au-
thority on the lines it covers.

A well organized Colleciion Department
is also operated and the same is open to you.

WRITE FOR TERMS.

LumbermeD's Credit Association

Established 1878

I40S Great Northern Building, CBICAGO

116 Nassau Street. NEW YOHK CITY

MENTION THIS PAPER

IMPROVED AUTOMATIC BAND SAW SHARPENER

THE EXPERIENCED, SAW FILER QUICKLY REALIZES WHY THE

Matteson Sharpeners

ARE THE BEST.

Every machine guaranteed. We make a complete line of modern tools for the care of saws.
It will pay you to get in touch with us.

MATTESON MFG. CO.

120-128 SO. CLINTON ST.,
CHICAGO, ILLS.

A machine that declares saw mill dividends

uto-Matic swing saw gaugi

^ An inexpensive little device

that saves a dollar a day and

upwards.

^ Stops one of the biggrest

profit leaks at the mill. Pays

for itself several times over

during: a year.

fl Isn't it worth investigating?

FRANCIS MARSHALL, - - Grand Rapids, Mich.

HARDWOOD RECORD

"DEFIANCE" WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY

COMPLETE EQUIPMENTS OF

HIGH GRADE TOOLS

^ FOR MAKING ^
Hubs, Spokes, Wheels, Single Trees, Hoops,

Wagons, Carriages,

Rims, Shafts, Poles,

Neck-Yokes,

Handles, Bobbins, Spools,

Insulator Pins and

Oval Wood Dishes.

AUTOMATIC LAST TURNING LATHE.

INVENTED AND BUILT BY

The DEFIANCE MACHINE WORKS

DEFIANCE, OHIO.
Send Jor 500 Page Catalogue

NO. 4 POWER-FEED BAND RIP SAW.'

THE MARKET IS DEMANDING, more and more LUM-
BER OF STANDARD LENGTHS, WITH SQUARE ENDS

As well as straight and parallel edges. The straight and par-
allel edges you can obtain with a "Tower" Edger, while

THE "TOWER"

ONE-MAN 2-SAW TRIMMER

will give you the standard lengths and scjuare 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 Trim-
mer he never has to go beyond the end of the board.
Especially 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 lumber to the best advantage from the end of
the board than from the end of the machine.

In all of these trimmers there are two feeds, which may be instant-
ly started, stopped or changed, without stopping tlie saws.
Both are controlled by the same lever, which is lo-
cated in the most convenient possible position.

The Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co.

GREENVILLE, MICHIGAN

The Largest Manufacturers of Grates. Edgers and Trimmers in the World.

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 bu.v. Cheapest Truck to use. Invest money in these
trucks. Do not waste it on others.

GILLETTE ROLLER BEARING COMPANY

Grand Rapids, Michigan ■ UJ

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

Main Office :

25tb Place and Stewart Avenue

CHICAGO

HARDWOOD RECORD

ROLL'S PATENT LOCK JOINT COLUMNS

These four 36-inch mahogany, perfectly-built columns are in
the new L. S. & M. S. Railroad Depot in Chicago. We can
make for you just as perfect and beautiful columns of any size
and for any conceivable purpose, either veneered or solid stave in
any kind of wood. Write to-day for our free illustrated catalog.

TMEV

CAN NOT

COME

APART

'"1

We make a specialty of dry-kilning lum-
ber. Switch tracks make our new mod-
ern dry kilns convenient to all Chicago
and vicinity. Let us quote you prices.

Henry Sanders

900 ELSTON AVENUE,

Company

- CHICAGO

Hanchett
Saw Swage

Every one made Perfect

The Swage with a Name

^ A poor Swag-e 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 BY

Hanchett Swage Works

Big Rapids. Michigan

^ Hanchett - Hanchett - Hanchett ^

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 wor^d. 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.

JAMES D. L.VCEY.

WOOD BEAL,

VICTOR THRANE.

608 Hennen BIdg., NEW ORLEANS
1200 Old Colony BIdg., CHICAGO

LARGEST TIMBER DEALERS
IN THE WORLD

507 Lumber Exchange, SEATTLE
829 Chamber of Com., PORTLAND

HARDWOOD RECORD

This is your chance to combine business with
pleasure. Go and enjoy yourself and at the
same time see what a really wonderful
machine the McGIFFERT is. Watch it
switch and spot its own cars, skid its
own logs, and especially load those logs
faster, easier and cheaper than you've
ever seen it done before. We'll have
a good man in charge Xopiovc what
you've only read before.
Seeing is believing, you know,
so go if you possibly can.

CLYDE IRON WORKS

Duluth. Minnesota

ATKINS m 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 \'our 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.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Holmes' No. 46 Variable Feed Planer

£. ^ B.
Holmes
Machinery
Company

Buffalo. N. Y.

New
Standard
54 Inch
Band
Rc-Saw

MERSHON

BAND-RESAW SPECIALISTS

25 MODELS

ADAPTED TO
EVERY REQUIREMENT

Wm. B. Mershon & Co., Saginaw, Mich.. U.S.A.

LIDGERWOOD MACHINES

WILL STOCK YOUR MILL

SKIDDER.S
SNAKERS
YARDERS

LOADERS
PULL BOATS
CABLEWAYS

LIDGERWOOD MFG. CO.

96 Liberty St., New York.

Logging Machinery Branc.i Houses: ATLANTA, GA.. SEATTLE, WASH,
Agency: Woodward, Wight & Co., New Orleans, La.

HARDWOOD RECORD

No. 107 INSIDE MOULDER

A Machine of Great Range and Capacity. Has every Necessary and Convenient Adjustment

for producing Mouldings, Finish and Flooring. Quick Changes.

Further Details from the Makers.

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

THE "HOOSIER"

SELF-FEED
RIP SAW

We also build the machine with a movable
saw, at a slightly higher price.

Write for Full Description.

The Sinker-Davis Co.

Manufacturers of

SAW MILL MACHINERY

Indianapolis, Ind.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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Hardwoods Dried in a Week !

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^Our method can be attached to your old Kiln.
^If it does not do all we claim after being installed,
we will take it out without expense to you.

Grand Rapids Veneer Works

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. Hemloek Lath.

Mills Rvjn tKe Yea.r
Around.

Bay City, Mich.

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

iVIEiVIPHIS, TEININESSEE

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. S-4 No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak.

44,000 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 Slipping Cull Plain Oak.
Also fair stock of Poplar and Hickory.

LOVE, BOYD & CO.

NASHVILLE, TENN.

RUSSEL WHEEL AND FOUNDRY CO.

WE BUILD

Lo^^ing Cars

AND

Logging Machinery

Your Correspondence Solicited

DETROIT, MICHIGAN

ALLOW US TO POINT OUT

THE ADVANTAGES OF

OUR EQUIPMENT

Wf-

TELL US YOUR WANTS
AND GET OUR PRICES

HARDWOOD RECORD

ST. LOUIS

LARGEST OF ALL HAKDWOOD MAKK£,TS

Wanted-to Byy or Contract for future Delivery

600,000 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

fns^Ttfon PLUMMER LUMBER CO. ^^- ^°^'^

MISSOURI

STEELE & HIBBARD LUMBER CO.

North BroaLdway and Dock Streets
Wholesale Manufacturers, Dealers and Shippers

ASH, CYPRESS. MAHOGANY, OAK. POPLAR. «,c

Mills: YaEOO City. Miss.; McGregor, Ark.; England, ArW.;
Dermott, Ark. O'Hara, La.; De.xter, Mo.

Vestal Lumber & Mfg^Co.

Manufacturers and Wholesalers
of all kinds of

HARDWOODS

BEVELED SIDING A SPECIALTY.
UNSURPASSED FACILITIES
FOR DELIVERING.

Knoxville
Tennessee

Garetson=Greason Lumber Co.

1212-13- 14 Times Building
ST. LOUIS

MANUFACTURERS

Shipments of Pliia and Quartered Oak, Ash, Cypress and Gum
Lumber direct from our own milli in straight or mixed cjrloads.

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

W. R. CHIVVIS,

Lesperance Street and Iron
Mountain Railroad.

WHOLESALE HARDWOODS

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

American Hardwood Lumber Co.

14,000,000 ft. Hardwood Lumber

YARDS AT BENTON, ARK., NEW ORLEANS, LA., ST. LOUIS, MO,,
DICKSON, TENX.

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

COOPERATIVE MILL 4 LUMBER CO., mc.)

ROCKFOBD, ILLS.
Want Poplar, Oak, Gum, Hickory, Birch and Maple

SEND STOCK LIST AND PRICES.

^AW^'

INCORPORATED

MANUFACTURERS OF STANDARD SIZE

WAGON FELLOES AND WAGON STOCK

Send your requirements and receive price. COLUMtJUo, iVlioO.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF PENNSYLVANIA

stock: lisx

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, 1 Common 2 Cars

5 4 '' " " 2 Cars

54 " " " 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 I Car

10 4 " No. 2 Common and Better 71,000 Feet

12 4 " No. I " 1,500 Feet

12/4 " "2 " l,OOOFeet

4/4 Bassweod, Log Run m. c. o 1 car

8/4 " I car

DRV STOCK
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.

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 4 Mfg. Co.

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 t

OAK FLOORING

PLAIN AND QUARTERED
RED AND WHITE

Ample stock, hisurinK quick service.

Mixed car.s with liardwoods or worked poplar.

Can't we have your inquirie.s?

Linehan Lumber Co.

242.3 Farmer's Bank Bids

PITTSBURG. PENN.

Willson Bros. Lumber Co*

MANDFACTURERS

WEST VIRGINIA
HARDWOODS

FARMERS BANK BLDG. :: PITTSBURG, PA.

Hardwoods a Specialty

FOR SALE

POPLAR

125,000' 4 '4 Isand 2s
40,000' 4/4 No. 1 Com.
3'25,000' 4/4 No. 2 Cora.
228,000' 4/4 No. 3 Com.
160,000'4/4 Mill Cull

CHESTNUT

200,000' 4 4 Sound Wormy
80,000' ,=1, 4 Sound Worm v

100,000' fi/4 Sound Wormy
48,000' 8 '4 Sound Wormy

PL.MN OAK

60,000' 4 4 No. J. Com.
18,000' 4, 4 No. B 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

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HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTtR 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

The Martin-Barriss Company

Importers a.nd iMa.rvufacturers

MAHOGANY

a^nd Fine Ha,rdwood

SYMBOLS FOR GRADE MARKS

Adopted by the Hardwood Manufacturers .Association of United States
Q Panel and Wide No. 1 l\ Selects

A Wide No. 2
HS Box Boards

(^ No. 1 Common

(^ No. 2 Common

(3 No. 3 Common

M- No. 4 Common

yf FAS or Firsts and
^" Seconds
^ Saps

Every Manufacturer should stamp the grade on his Lumber.
Set of 10 Rubber Stamps, VA"y.\Vi' in size, Pad, Pint of Ink, and
Spreader, packed for shipment S3. 50.

;V\/\RTIIN & CO. LEWIS DOSTER, Sec'y

191 S. Clark Si.. CHICAGO, or 1535 First Nal. Bank lldg. CUICAGO

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

THIS (AT SHOWS

The No. 11 Ober Lathe

For turning -A-xe, Adze, Pick, Sledge, Hammer and Hatchet Handles, Spokes,Whiffletrees,
Gun Stocks Shoe Lasts, etc., etc. It is very simple, strong and durable, requires but very
little power and is very easily and quickly changed from one kind of work to another.

We ahso manufacture other Lathes for making Spokes. Handles and X'ariety Work,
Sanders, Shapers, Boring and Chucking Machines, etc., etc.

f'ompk'te catalogue and price list free.

The O ber Manufacturing Co.

28 BELL STREET, CHAGRIN FALLS, OHIO, U. S. k.

52 HARDWOOD RECORD

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W l^t^OfN^lIN

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, 1" to 2\" 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 quahty.

ARPIN HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

GRAND RAPIDS. WISCONSIN
SawMill, Planing Mill and Yard at Atlanta, near Bruce, Wis. on "Soo" Line.

SAWYER GOODMAN CO.

MARINETTE, WIS. '

Mixed Cars of Hardwood, Bass-
wood, White Pine and Hemlock,
Gedar Shingles and Posts.

We make a specialty of White Pine Beveled Siding and
White Pine Finish and Shop and Pattern Lumber

C, p. CROSBY

RHINELANDER s : WISCONSIN

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber

I want to sell birch, in No. J common & better. I have
4-4, 5-4, 8-4, and J2-4, good cry stock. Mixed cars easily
filled.

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

WRITE US FOR. QUOTATIONS ON THE FOLLOWING:

RED BIRCH

( 300,000 ft. 1 in. No. 1 Common and Better

; 150,000 ft. \\ in. No. 1 Common and Better

"\ 125,000 ft. \\ in. No. 1 Common and Better

1 100,000 ft. 2 in. No. 1 Common and Better

PLAIN BH^CH. 100,000 ft. 1 in. 1st and 2nd Clear.

HEMLOCK. 200,000 ft. 2 in. No. 3 Hemlock. 100,000 ft. 2x6 and wider No. 3 Hemlock.

Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company

Inquiries answered promptly and \> U I VI IT f AMI^IPO \Jl/ f €

orders tilled without delay.' r\.VWVS K^ij t\.\r% U 1^1^,, TT U.

DEAL WITH AN OLD, RELIABLE FIRM

WHEN IX NEED OF

WISCONSIN HARDWOODS

"Shakeless" Hemlock and AVhite Cedar Products.

Orders for Grain Doors, Box Shocks and other
Special Bills promptl.y executed.

Standard Grades, Good :\lill Work^audQuick De-
li\-eries Guaranteed.

JOHN R. DAVIS LUMBER COMPANY

PHILLIPS, WISCONSIN

WAVSAU, WIS.

We have
to offer
the

following
stock in
pile at
Ingram,
Wis.

20,000 ft. 2"in. No. 2 Common I'hiiii Birch.
[ 24.000 ft. 1 in. First and Second Red Bircli.
\ 11,460 ft. li in. First and Second Ki-d Bircli.

4,700 ft. 2 in. First and Second Red Birch.

2,144 ft. 1 in. Curlv Birch.

2,350 ft. U. li and 2 inch Curly Birch.
122,000 ft. 1 in. End Dried White Birch.
144,000 ft. 1 in. Select Pine,
r 67.000 ft. 1* in. No. 3 Shop and Better Pine.

19.000 ft. li in. Select Pine.
^26,000 ft. li in. No. 1. No. 2 and No 3 Shop.

Write us for prices on hemlock.

Your

orders

and

Inquiries

solicited

HARDWOOD RECORD

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WHE,RE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW

Michigan Logging Wheels

Have madethem 2'* yeai-s. and know o p H \7 IT D P A P IT -'^lAMSTKK
how. Easy aiid (■heap way of lo^gmp. O. V/. U V E/Iir/i^Ii MICHIGAN

FRANK CARTER CO.

MANUFACTURER

Hardwood Lumber

Specialty Wisconsin Oak

HAVE KO LI.O WINO SEASONED STOCK TO OFFER

250M feet 1 inch Millrun Red Oak

75M feet. 1 inch Logrun Butternut

riOM feet 2 inch Logrun Rock Elm

3011 feet 1 inch Millrnn Ash
lOOM feel 1 inch No. 3 Common Birch.

40M feet 2 in. antl 3 in. Com. White Oak.

Write for Prices on
Stock for Future Delivery

MENOMo'nVe, WISCONSIN

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.

WHOLES A T. E MANUFACTURERS

Wisconsin
Hardwood

PINE AND HEM-
I,OCK LUMBER

MiUs at

Auburndale.Wis-.on W. C. R.R.

Stratford. Wis., on C.&. "J. W.K.li.

Marshfieid, 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.

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 wc will
give you full particu-
lars.

Phoenix Mfg. Co.

Eau Claire, Wis.

The Morton Dry Kiln

IVIOIST AIR SYSTEM

Recording
Ther-
mometers.
Transfer
Cars.

Trucks.

Canvas

Doors.

HOW TO DRY LUMBER.

.\s exemphlK.l ni uiir Catalog D. Free on application.

MORTON DRY KILN CO., Chicago, Ills.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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iVi IC/lliCjAfN

FAMOUS FOR HARD MAPLE AND GRE.Y ELM

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,
enabhng us to fill your orders
right.

BIRCH

WE WANT YOUR ORDERS FOR

4/4 AND 5/4 COMMON AND BETTER

A No. 1 STOCK

The Earle Lumber Company

SIMMONS, MICHIGAN

J. S. GOLDIE.

Cadillac, ;: Michigan.

Low Price on five cars 2f" Clear

Maple Squares, 17" to 27" long.

Corresporvdence Solicited orv Michigarv

Lumber, especially White Maple.

BOYNE CITY LUMBER COMPANY

BOYNE CITY

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE and other HARDWOODS

L.^RGE CAPACITY PROMPT SHIPMENTS RAII, OR CARGO

W. H. WHITE, Pres.

JAS. A WHITE, Vice-Pres.

W. I,. MARTIN, Secy.

THOS. WHITE, Treas.

W. H, WHITE COMPANY

BOYNE CITY. MICHIGAN

Manufacturers of Hardwood and HemlocK Lumber, Cedar Shingles,

White F^ocK Maple Flooring.

The North Shore Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS

Hardwood and Hemlock Lumber

Rail and water shipments

THOMPSON

MICHIGAN

S. L. EASTMAN FLOORING CO.

■AQINAW ailANO

MAPLE FLOORING

SAGINAW, MICH.

You read this=

=others

will,

too.

They

would

read

your

ad.

Try it.

HARDWOOD RECORD

MICHIGAN

FAMOUS FOR RED BIRCH AND BASSWOOD

Evans & Retting Lumber Co«

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers

Hardwood
Lumber

RAILROAD TIMPERS, TIES AND SWITCH TIES

Michigan Trust Building Grand Rapids, Mich.

DENNIS & SMITH LUMBER CO.

Wholesale Hardwood Lumlier

Office and Yards, FOURTH AND HOLDEN AVENUES.
DETROIT, MICH.

MILLS AT: Orndorfl. 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. 5 Comprises all the features
desirable in good flooring. U Made by the latest,
most approved machinery methods and best
skilled labor. 1 We believe we can make it ro
your interest to handle our "Chief Brand" and
will appreciate your inquiries.

Kerry 4 Hanson Flooring Co.

GRAYLING. MICHIGAN

DENNIS BROS.

GKAXD KAPIDS, MICHIGAN

Manufacturers of

National Maple

AND

Birch Flooring

and all kinds of Michigan hardwood lumber

WRITE FOR SPECIAL PRICES

"S SOm feet 8 4 TAMARACK AND

20m feet 4 4 TAMARACK.

MAIN OFFICE :

205-209 MICHIGAN TRUST

BUILDING.

OUR SLOW METHOD --'£«-— ,sg

I X L POLISHED

ROCK MAPLE FLOORING

Enables us to offer you an excellent and superior product —
One which has stood the test 20 years.

WRITE TODAY FOR PRICES AND BOOKLET

Wisconsin Land ^ Lumber Co.

Hermansville, Michigan

SALLINQ, HANSON CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Michigan Hardwoods

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

Hackley-PhelpsBonnell Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

Hardwood Lumber

Main Office, Micfiigaa Trust Company Building

GRAND RAPIDS : . . . MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

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C/irsoirNiNA 1 1

THE, GATtWAY 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

MALEY, THOMPSON & MOFFETT CO.

Always in the Market for

BLACK WALNUT LOGS.
SELECTED WHITE OAK LOGS.
LUMBER OF ALL KINDS.

CINCINNATI,

OHIO

THE GENERAL LUIWBER COMPANY

HARDWOODS

HEMLOCK YELLOW PINE COLUMBUS, OHIO

Cash buyers for stock in our line.

Cincinnati Hardwood Lumber Co.

GEST AND SVMMFR STREETS -

Wholesalers Mahogany, Thin Lumber, Veneers

Fintfly flgur<d iiuarter sawed oak veneer;; a specialtv.

THE HOUSB OF STOINE

The One of Good Grades
Poplar, Oak, Chestnut Cottonwoodt Ash, Basswood and Gum

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. OEST AND DALTON AVE., CINCINNATI, OHIO.

The Stearns Company

iLVNUFACTURERS OP

Northern and Southern

HARDWOODS

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Cincinnati, 0.

CRESCENT LUMBER CO.

MANnFACTUEER3 OF

Hardwood Lumber

MARIETTA. O.

The Stewart=Roy Lumber Co.

Selling Agents

for

Product of

ROY

LUMBER

CO.

CINCINNATI

^°S>^

Will Buy

OAK, ASH,

POPLAR,

CHESTNUT,

BASSWOOD

All Grades and
Thicknesses

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wifNC/irNrNA 1 1

THE, GATEWAY OF THE SOUTH

IN THE MARKET FOR

OAK-ASH-POPLAR

ALL GRADES AND THICKNESSES

MOWBRAY & ROBINSON

Office:
I2J9 West Sixth Street

Yards:
Sixth Street, below Harriet

PLAIN OAK—BASSWOOD

Are what we want. All thicknesses and grades. Spot
cash. Send us list of your oflFerings with prices.

DUHLMEIER BROS., CINCINNATI, 0.

"BUY GUM"

We are in the market to buy
Dry Gum Lumber in any
quantity, from a single car
load to a niUiioh feet. Will
take all grades and thick-
nesses. We receive lumber
at shipping point, pay cash
and are liberal in in.-pection.

THE FAI^RIN.KORN

LUMBER COMPANY

General Office. Tarde,
Planing Mills. Dry Kilns,

Cincinnati, Ohio
Purchasing Office,

Randolph Building,

Uemphis.TeDD.

Cypress Red Gum Oak

WANTED

POPLAR and GUM

SEND LIST OF DRY STOCK. WILL CONTRACT FOR
MILL CUTS.

KENTUCKY LUMBER COMPANY

CINCINNATI, OHIO

THE FREIBERG LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers ol

Tabasco Mahogany
Walnut, OaR

Poplar, McLean and Findlay Ats.

CINCINNATI. O.

L. W. RADINA 6l 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 IJ^-inch stock, for immediate shipment.

CLARK STREET AND DALTON AVENUE -

W. H. Dawkins Lumber Co.

Manufacturers of Band Sawed

Yellow Poplar

ASHLAND, KY.

THE WIBORG & HANNA COMPANY

CINCINNATI. OHIO

PLAIN
AND

QUARTER
SAWED

White and Red Oak

CHESTNUT S

POPLAR !

GUM AND J

CYPRESS {

Flooring, Siding, Ceiling, Base, Case and Molding. Rough, Dressed and Re-sawed. Mixed Carloads.

HARDiWOOD RECORD

INDIANA

WHERE THE, BEST HAKDWOOOS GROW

A^ay Stock: List

12,000 ft
50,000 "
50,000 "
50,000 "

100,000 "
15,000 "

100,000 "
10,000 "
10,000 "

100,000 "

Long=

1 in. No. 2 Common Walnut
2 " Common and Better Plain White Oak
6=4 " " " " Red

5=4 " << i. » .. ..

4=4 ** " t« «( a a

6=4 and 8=4 Cherry Culls

4=4 No. 2 Common and Better Red Qum

4=4 1st and 2nd Plain Red Oak

4=4 Isf and 2nd Ash

5=4 to 2 in. Shop and Better Cypress

Knight Lumber Co.

INDIANAPOLIS. INI).

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

INDMNA

J. V. Stimson

ALL KINDS OF

HARDWOOD LUMBER

MANUFACTURED

HUNTINGBURG, IND.

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

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

Young 4 Cutsinger

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS

OUR SPECIALTY

Fine Figured Quartered Oak

EVANSVILLE, INDIANA

A floor to adore

For thirty-three years Wilce's Hardwood Floor-
iiiK 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-
uKinils of the trade. To convince yourself of the
:i ttovf statements, try our poUshed surface floor-
ing', tuiit:ut'd and grooved, hollow backed, with
malclierl ends and holes for blind nailing — you'll
find it reduces the expense of laying and polishing.
Our Booklet tells all about Hardivood Flooring and
how to caif for it — also prices— and is/rei;

The T. Wilce Company

22i\d and Throop Sts. CHICAGO. ILL.

HARDWOOD RECORD

BUFFALO

THE GREAT WHOLESALE L U M B E, R CENTER OF THE EAST

Manufacturers and
Dealers in

Ash

White and Brown

Basswood
Birch

Ked 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

BEYER, KNOX & COMPANY

ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

Office and Yards. 69 I,EROY AVENCB

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

S93 EAGLE STREET

SCATCHERD & SON

HARDWOODS ONLY

Yard, 1555 SENECA STREET Office. 886 ELLICOTT SQCARK

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

Specialtiei: OAK, ASH AND POPLAR

932 ELK STREET

W T ^ A MANUFACTURERS OLD-FASHIONED

VSinSSinty soft yellow

5-8 AND 4-4

IN WIDE STOCK.

SPECIALTY

Kitchen &

POPLAR

Ashland, Kentucky

Company

Three States Lumber Co.

OFFERS

1 00,000 feet 5-4 Fir^s 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

Ma.nufa.c-
turers

OAK, ASH, COTTONWOOD, GUM
AND CYPRESS

MAIN OFFICE: 720 MEMPHIS TR.UST BUILDING. MEMPHIS. TENN.
ag.. •« « ««•«« ( Memphis. Tenn. t\ t> * Ia* 1 Well Manufactured Stock

Three Band Mills chancy miss. uur Specialties Good crudes

* *•* *'*' »**•••*• * »"*« ( Stover, M'ss. '^ ( Prompt Shipments

YELLOW POPlilR

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, Latli & Squares

SPECIALTY, WIOE STOCK

Coal Crove, Ohio, U, S. A.

floMwol RocoM

Twelfth Year. I
Soml-xnonthly. \

CHICAGO, JUNE 10, 1907.

/Subscription C2.
(Single Copies, 10 Cents.

ROSS LUMBER COMPANY

The Cherry People

ANYTHING IN CHERRY?

Write Us.

JAMESTOWN, N. Y.

;o«T business is the prodactt

^.^^^.^

properly tnanufacttrred and tfeated for every
use, in accordance with methods developed
^^^enty-five years' experience. 1^^^^

Throw Away Your Money

BY STICKING TO OLD LINE COMPANIES

PENNA. LUMBERMEN'S MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.

943 Drexel Bxjilding, PhilaLdelpKiaL. Pa.

Rumbarger Lumber Company

Main Office: 808 Harrison Bldg., 15th and Market Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
New York Office: 8018 Metropolitan Bldg., I Madison Avenue. Pittsburg Office: 701 Keystone Building

40 Cars 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", H", H" and 2", mostly No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 barn.

We are operatins a tract of timber land containing considerable Holly and Persimmon. We can ship W. Virginia spruce sizes and boards, either rough or
dressed, via any railroad.

PRESIDENT

G. A. MITCHELL

\ irF.-I'KKSlDEXT

\V. H. tJRATWICK

TRKASIHKK

cry WHiTK

SECRETAKV

R. H. McKELVEY

LUMBER INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK

CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $!»00.000

ADIRONDACK FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $300,000

84-88 WilliaLin St.

NEW YORK

ADVERTISERS' CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY FOLLOWS WANT AND FOR SALE ADVERTISING SECTION.

2 HARDWOOD RECORD

f /^ ITIC^X/II I f~M

LCJUl^V IL^L^LJf

MANUFACTURING AND DISTKIBUTING CENTER OF KENTUCKY

Dry Stock W. P. BFOWII & SOHS LUmbCr CO.L«nisvillc,Ky.

PLAIN BED OAS.
66,000' 1" 1st & 2nd.
25,000' 1^4" Ist & 2d.
49,000' 1%' Ut & 2d.
67,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
18,000' 2V4" Ist & 2d.
18,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
131,000' 1- No. 1 Com.
84,000' 114- No. 1 Com.
44,000' 1%- No. 1 Com.
47,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
8.000' 2W' No. 1 Com.
15.000' 3" No. 1 Com.

QVABTESED RED OAK.
> 19,000' 1' 1st & 2d.

14,000' IW' 1st A 24.

5,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
15.000' 1" No. 1 Com.

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

PLAIN WHITE OAS.

80,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
28,000' IVi" 1st & 2d.
12,000' IVi" 1st & 2d.
42,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
23,800' 2%- 1st & 2d.
18,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
227.000' 1- No. 1 Com.
60,000' IVi" No. 1 Com.
80,000' IW No. 1 Com.

50,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
17.000' 2^4" No. 1 Com.
22,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

QUARTERED WHITE OAK,

60,000' 1" 1st & 2d.
28,000' 114" 1st & 2d.
45,000' 1%" Ist & 2d.
49,000' 2' 1st & 2d.
19,000' 2%" 1st & 2d.
18,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
30,000' 1V4" No. 1 Com.
40,000' 1%" No. 1 Com.
22,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
10,000' 3" No. 1 Com.

ASH.

9,0(30' 1" 1st & 2d.

65,0UO' IVt" Ist & 2d.

16.000' 1%" Ist & 2d.

10.000' 2" 1st & 2d.

8,000' 2%" 1st & 2d.

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

6,000' 4" lat & 2d.

4.000' Hi* No. 1 Com.

16.000' Hi' No. 1 Com.

8,000' 2" No. 1 Com.

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

All thicknesses in cull poplar, ash, chestnut.

Your inquiries will be appreciated.

12,000' IVt" 1st & 2d.
II.OOO' 1%" 1st & 2d.
12,000' 2" 1st & 2d.
10,000" 2%" Ist & 2d.
10,000' 3" 1st & 2d.
60,000' 1" No. 1 Com.
28,000' H4" No. 1 Com.
10,000' IVi" No. 1 Com.
10,000' 2" No. 1 Com.
15,000' 1" 18" & up 1st & 2d,

8,000' 2" 18' & up 1st & 2d.

8.000' 2" 24" & up Ist & 2d.

4,000' 1%" 18" & up 1st & 2d.

3.000' 1%" 24" & up l3t & 2d.

Prompt delivery guaranteed

SWANN-DAY LUMBER COMPANY

CLAY CITY, KENTUCKY
OFFER

POPLAR

Bevel Siding, Drop Siding, as well as Wide Poplar

Always a Large Stock on Hand Prices are Yours for the Asking

500,000 F^EEX

GUM

1st enrtdi Uriels

G. \M. JONBS
COA\RANY

MIIJ.S

^ .\rkansas

"Wiscon.sia

APPLIiTOX, 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.

W, H Neal. Prest, Treas. I, L- SinckUnd. vi

.-Prest. W. A. Dolph, Secy

V Gen. Mur.

NEAL =

DOLPH

LUMBER

CO.

Manufacturers Hardwood Lumber

RANDOLPH BUILDING

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE |

WILL TAKE

CARE OF YOU

HARDWOOD RECORD

Not only the ONLY HARDWOOD PAPER,
but the BEST LUMBER PAPER published

HARDWOOD RECORD

CADILLAC

CELEBRATED FOR HIGH STANDARD OF QUALITY AND MILL WORK

■Mitchell's Make— n

DRY STOCK LIST OF

Michigan Hardwoods

Cadillac, 3/ich., 3fay, igoy

-1/4 Birch, No. 2 Common and Better
4/4 Clierry, No. 2 Common and Better
4/4 Cherry, No. 3 Common
4/4 Hard Maple, 1st and 2nds
10/4 Hard Maple, 1st and 2nds
4/4 Red Oak, No. 2 Common and Better
4/4 No. 3 Common Maple and Beech

13M feet

5M
20M

3M
40M
60M

MAPLE SPECIALTIES

We can furnish limited quantities of inch Ists and
2nds or Clear Maple lumber selected to widtlis or
lengths or both. The lumber is our own manvifac-
ture and air seasoned.

PLEASE SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES

Mitchell Brothers Co.

CADILLAC, MICH.

The Cadillac Handle Co.

CADILLAC. MICHIGAN

Band Sawn

Michigan Hardwoods

We solicit Inquiries for :

4/4 Hard Maple, 1st and 2nds, W% or less No. 1 Common in it.

Cut 12 months
5/4 Maple 1st and 2nds
5/4 Maple No. 1 and 2 Common
6/4 Maple 10 in. and over wide, 1st and 2nd with small per cent

No. 1 Common

MURPHY & DIQQINS

Offer all grades of the foUowiog 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 .
BIKCB-l/4, 6/4

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

Cummer, Diggins & Go.

==IHANUFACTURERS:==

'<CUMMER" MAPLE
AND BEECH FLOORING

MICHIGAN HARDWOODS

Good assortment oi 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 STOCK

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 12-4 firsts and seconds.

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

This stock runs 10 in. and wider, and 50% or

more 19 inches and wider.

WRITE US ABOUT IT.

COBBS&HITGnELL

(INCORPORATED)

CADILLAC. MICHICAN^'W

HARDWOOD RECORD

FENN BROS. COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Oak Flooring

Qiaarte»r&c* \a/hlte> HoIIo'va/ Backed

Quartered Red End WVatched

Plain \A/hite F»oHshed

Plain Red Bored

Offices a.rvd Pla.nt :

Kansas and Mallory Ave., New South Memphis.

(Take Soulh Memphis car lo Mallory Ave.)

Goodlander Robertson
Lumber Co.

Hardwood Lumber

Memphis, Tennessee

IF IT'S HARD TO GET. WRITE US

I. M. DARNELL, PREST.

E. E. TAENZER, VICE-PRCST.

F. C. OUPKE, 2ND VICE-PREST.

W. S. DARNELL, TREAS -GEN. MGR.

DARNELL-TAENZER LUMRER CO.

/RED GUM\

/white oak >

' SAP GUM
1 RED OAK, ASH
\ CYPRESS I
\ POPLAR /

MEMPHIS, TENN.

MANUFACTURERS AND DTALERS IN HIGH-GRADE

HARDWOOD LUMRER

BAND SAWN THIN STOCK A SPECIALTY

, CONSOLIDATED

i\m^ %

Cable Address: "Sonderco" IVleinphis.

Codes Used: Lumberman's Telecode and A B C Sth Edition

MANUFACTURERS

HARDWOOD, GUM, COTTONWOOD AND CYPRESS

Main Office: Tennessee Trust Building, Memphis, Tenn.

Offers the following specials:

10 Cars I in. No. 1 Common Ash.
10 Cars I \ in. No. 1 Common Ash.
10 Cars lA in. No. 1 Common Ash.
10 Cars 2 in. No. 1 Common Ash.
10 Cars I in. Shop Cypress.

10 Cars I in. Pecky Cypress.

10 Cars 2 in. Pecky Cypress.

10 Cars 2 in. Dimension Cypress.

20 Cars 1 in. No. I Common Cottonwood.

20 Cars 1 in. No. 2 Common Cottonwood.

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.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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.

W.M.Ritter Lumber Co.

COLUMBUS, OHIO

Saw and Ship 100,000,000 Feet Yearly

FULLERTON-POWELL

Hardwood Lumber Co.

D OFFERS THE FOLLOWING STOCK fp

FOR IMMEDL^TE SHIPMENT L=

10 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Plain Red OakJ 3 cars li in. 1st and 2nds Uuartered White Oak

2 cars li in. Plain Red Oak Step Plank 2 cars IJ in. No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak

4 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Plain Red Oak, 12 in. and 10 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Red Gum, 10 to 16 ft.

wider 7 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Red Gum, 12 ft.

2 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Quartered Red Oak, 10 in. S cars 2 in. 1st and 2nds Sap Gum

.5 cars \\ in. No. 1 Common Plain White Oak 8 cars 2 in. No. 1 Common Sap Gum

1 car 1 in. No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak 1 car 2 in. No. 2 Common Sap Gum

2 cars 2 in. 1st and 2nds Quartered White Oak 18 cars 1 in. 1st and 2nds Cottonwood, 6 in. and wider
2 cars 2 in. No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak 3 cars 1 in. No. 1 Common Cottonwood

BRANCH OFFICES:

miMMEAPOUS. MINM., 30S Lumber Exchangm

MAIN OFFICES

CHICAGO, 1104 Chamber of Commerce tiiccriuuv

MEMPHIS,TEMM.,30S Tennessee Trust BIdg. \ r i J / i^Ollff^ ^H^ftl/I T TiH

«— «=«,.. -—,«=..._.... r_„..-— \ furnished / KJOUm JJCnU, 2/fU.

HARDWOOD RECORD

PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM AIND OTHER HARDWOODS

Large stocks of well seasoned Lumber always carried at 0'<r yards and mills.
General Offices: 14G W. Chicago Ave., CHICAGO. Mills: Cairo, 111., Marked Tree, Ark., Greenville, Miss., Arkansas City, Ark., Blytheville, Ark.

THOMAS FORMAN CO,

DETROIT, MICH.

MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH GRADE

Maple and Oak Flooring

We desire to move promptly a large quantity of

13-16xH" Clear Quarter Sawed White Oak Flooring.
13-16xli" Clear Plain Sawed White Oak Flooring.
13-16xU" Clear Plain Sawed Red Oak Flooring.
13-16xU" Clear Maple Flooring.

Please write us for special delivered prices on the above lots.

MAY 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

BEECH
1 in. 100,000 ft.
BIRCH

1 in. 500,000 ft.
li in. 100,000 ft.

2 in. 100,000 ft.
2J 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.

Tra. verse City, Mich.

WILLIAM WHITMER. (Si, SONS, Inc.

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET FOR STOCKS OF
WELL MANUFACTURED

HARDWOODS

BRANCHES:
NEW YORK, BOSTON, PITTSBURG

MAIN OFFICES:
GIRARD TRUST BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA

R.E. Wood Lumber Company

^ Manufacturers of Yellow Poplar, Oak, Chestnut, Hemlock
and White Pine.

^\ We own our own stumpage and operate our own mills.
^ Correspondence solicited and inquiries promptly answered.

GENERAL OFFICES:
CONTINENTAL BUILDING.

Baltimore, Maryland

HARDWOOD RECORD

THE EAST

BOSTON

NEW YORK

PHILADELPHIA

WISTAR, UNDERBILL & CO.

PHILADELPHIA

WHOLESALE HARDWOOD LUMBER

MtCHIGAN WHITE PINE
TENNESSEE WHITE PINE

HEMLOCK HARDWOODS
ALABAMA PINE

H. H. MAUS & CO., INC.

MANUFACTURERS

HARDWOOD and YELLOW PINE.

Write us it you wish to buy or sell.

420 Walnut St..

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

W. M. GILLESPIE LUMBER

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

ALBERT HAAS LUMBER CO.

BAND SAWED

OAK AND ASH

YELLOW POPLAR

ATLANTA - - - . 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.

MANUFACTURCRS OF

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE AND OAK FLOORING

BUFFALO, NEW YORK

The West Florida Hardwood Co.

MnJL ON Apalachicola River
MARYSVILLE, FLA.

Ash
Hickory

Red Gum
Tupelo Gum

LET US HAVE YOUR INQUIRIES ==

Red and White Oak
Yellow Cottonwood

BALTIMORE
MARYLAND

E. E. PRICE

BUYER AND
EXPORTER OF

Hardwoods, Poplar and Logs

I am always in the market for nice lots of dry and well manufactured
lumber. L inspect at point of shipment. Correspondence Bolicited.

Pennsylvania Door & Sash Co,

HARDWOOD DOORS
AND INTERIOR FINISH

NEW YORK

PITTSBURG

PHILADELPHIA

WantCd-DimCnSlOn n^k Plam and Quartered.

White and Red. Send for specifications.

IndiaLiiaL Q\iak.rtered Oa-k Co.

7 Ea.sf 42nd Street. New York City

James & Abbot Company

Lumber and Timber

No. J65 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 requested to supply lists of stock for sale

VT/E are long on 8/4 Sound Wormy Chestnut. Send us vour in-
** quiries. Let us quote jou on Plairv or Quartered White and
Red Oak. Look us up.

SCHOFIELD BROTHERS

PENNA. BUILDING L V M B E R PHILADELPHIA

Sales Agents: Long Pole Lumber Co., Case-Fowler Lumber Co,

HonS va SOBLE BROTHERS

Birmington. Ala. ^^z=:zrz::::::^:i:^:^^^:^zr=

Specialties:

Quartered White

Oak, Poplar.

WHOLESALE LUMBER
Land Title Building = ■ Philadelphia, Pa.

HARDWOOD RECORD

MILLS:

NEW ALBANY, IND.

^HIGHLAND PARK) LOUISVILLE

DR. C. E. RIDER, President

W. A. McLean, v. p. & Cen'l. Mgr.

ANGUS McLEAN, Sec'y-Treas.

WOOD MOSAIC FLOORING
AND LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Choice Indiana Wliite Dale

A GOOD STOCK. PROMPT SHIPMENTS,

Personal supervision from timber purchase to delivery of your kind of Stock

NEW ALBANY, IND.

mmmk^

C. C. Wen^el & Bro. Co.

m^^am

Louisville, Ky.

MAHOGANY

WE IMPORT THE LOGS FROM OUR OWN CAMPS,
AND MANUFACTURE THEM INTO

%~ '■^::-^

Lumber and Veneers

... ' - V .

Diiuenslon Stock a Specialty

BRANCHES:
BELIZE, BrHish Honduras. SAN PEDRO SULA, Spanish Honduras. AXIM, Gold Coast, Africa.

Photograph of Mahogany Tree.

at Mengel's Suwinsu Camp, on j

the We.st Coast of Africa, i^

HARDWOOD RECORD

Cherry River Boom and

Lumber Co.

SCRANTON, PENNSY LVA N I A

WEST VIRGINIA HARDWOODS

AND SPRUCE

THE BEST LUMBER

3 Band Mills s'&S^M'"

D. G. COURTNEY

MANUFACTURER OFj

Yellow^ Poplar
Oak 61 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.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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

Quartered Oak Flooring

Manufactured for

HIGHEST CLASS of trade only.

Also Plain Oak, Maple and other Hardwood flooring.

The name DWtGHT 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

R. M. SMITH

The Tegge Lumber Co.

MILWAUKEE
WI SCONSIN

BUYERS OF
ALL KINDS OF

HARDWOOD LUMBER

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Mcllvain's Lumber Notes

CEDAR, CYPRESS AND REDWOOD SHINGLES

430.000 No. 1 Cedar and Cypress Shingle.? — Hand made —
Heart Split — 5 x 20 — 6 x 20 — 7 x 24. Finest you ever saw.

470,000 No. 1 — 16 inch — Sawed — Redwood Shingles.
Send for samples and prices. Want to move them quickly.

Oak — Red and White — Plain and Quartered — 3,000,000
feet in stock. Two million feet of tliis oak of all kinds is dry
stock. Balance is part dry. Thicknesses, f to 6 incites. All
grades. Bill sizes cut to order. Send in your requisitions.

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56th to 58th Sts. and Woodland Ave.
City Offices, 1420 Chestnut St.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

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R. M. SMITH (BL COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

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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

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HOLMES'
"CLIPPER
CUT-OFF SAW

>99

This machine is de-
signed to tnm the ends
of maple flooring and
for cutting off stock in
box and furniture fac-
tories. It is the most
rapid and accurate ma-
chine for the purpose
now on the market
and is extremely sim-
ple and durable. The
saw carriage is brought
forward by a foot
lever and returned by
an equalized extension
spring on the foot
ever. The saw is com-
pletely covered, thus
making it perfectly safe
to operate. The slot-
ted frame carrying the
braced slide rods can
be bolted either to
posts or to the wall,
and it is vertically ad-
justable.

The automatic belt
binder is placed direct-
ly above the saw ar-
bor on adjustable post
hangers and the belt
passmg over both pul-
leys is kept uniformly
tight at ail times. If
desired, a regular coun-
tershaft with T. & L.
pulleys can be furn-
ished instead of the
automatic binder.

The machine for
trimming maple floor-
ing will cut up to
5 in. wide, and the
machine for box
and furniture fac-
tories will cut up
to 1 2 in. wide.

LET US TELL YOU MORE ABOUT IT.

E. 6i B. Holmes
Machinery Company

BUFFALO, NEW YORK

General Electric Company

Flexible
Power

INDUCTION MOTOR

111 all sawmill work the power re-
quired varies with the kind of timber
handled and according to' its condition
wlien passing through the mill. In a
day's work heavy logs follow on the
heels of smaller ones, partially seasoned
timber is mixed with green and the
work is constantly changing.

These conditions can be met only
with a motor of ample over-load capa-
city and the simplest possible construc-
tion — qualities which are featured in the
General Electric Inductioi} Motors for
sawmill work. Upon demand these
motors will supply 200 per cent to 300
per cent of their normal output.

One Man Said:—

"The 100 h. p. {GE) Induction Motor
dri\'ing our 9-foot sawmill shows abso-
lutely no drop in speed no matter what
load the sawyer puts on it, and can
hum thro' a 30 in. birch at as good a
clip as it can thro' a poplar log."

He h\a.s more to solv in booklet 4470-H.
Send for it.

1347

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OAK FLOORING

Kiln Dried

Bored

Polished

MAPPWOOD LUMBER (yN

& MFC. CO.
5ARDIS

MISS.

Hollow

Bundled

"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.

Just to Remind You

That we are manufacturers of the celebrated

Wolverine Brand
Maple Flooring

" There is uone better."

Bored, polished, end and edge matched, lays with every
joint even. Largest sales in the history of maple
flooring. May we have your order ?

BLISS & VAN AUKEN

SAGINAW W. S., MICH.

WE ARE OFFERING

TIMBER LAND 6% BONDS

CLARK L. F»OOLE & CO.

SUCCESSORS TO

H. C. BARROLL (Si CO., Bankers

First National Bank Building CHICAGO

"Ideal" a Rock Maple Flooring

is the flooring that is manufactured expressly to supply
the demand for the best. It is made bj' 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

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WELLS, MICHIGAN

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by kind, grade and thickness.

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Producers from TREE to TRADE of the high-
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of Hardwoods — 1 to 4 inches thick — on hand.

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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 WoodworHlng Machinery. J

Vol. XXIV.

CHICAGO. JUNE 10. 1907.

No. 4.

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

THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

HENRY H. GIBSON. EJ.cor. EDGAR H. DEFEBAUGH, Manager.

7th Floor, Ellsworth Bidg., 355 Dearborn St., Chicago, III., U.S.A.
Telephone Harrison 4960

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VENEER MEETING.

Senii-annual meeting of the National Veneer and Panel
Manufacturers' Association, Auditorium Annex, Chicago,
Thursday and Friday, June 20 and 21. first session 10
o'clock a. m.

General Market Conditions.

The liiirihvood tratlc the cuiintry over is not particularly active,
as will be noted by market reports from all the chief consuming
couters, in this issu'^ of the Hardwood Becord. Happily stocks
of dry lumber are sold up closely in every producing section, and
therefore it happens that with the diminishing insistence for
hardwood lumber, there is no shading of values save in rare
exceptions. Tliese seem to be in firsts and seconds and sap gum,
which within the last few days have been offered at considerably
less than past quotations, and West Virginia oak is being quoted
at from $1 to -$2 off in the eastern markets.

In the great area of hardwood production in the Southwest,

prevailing weather conditions are still very bad. There has been

an endless flood of rain and the mills have not yet been able to

run more than half the time on account of inability to secure logs.

There is a little accumulation of stock in some rare cases, but

generally speaking every foot of reasonably dry lumber is being

shipped out as fast as cars can be secured. In the North basswood

and black ash are practically out of the market and the stocks of

maple and birch are pretty low. Poplar today stands at the very

head of the list in demand, and with short stocks and heavy call,

prices are fending upwards rather than otherwise. Cottonwood

and oak are reasonably close seconds in demand.

^ In the news columns will be found an analysis of building opera-

— tions for May which is a surprise, as they show a slight gain in

y^he aggregate over that month a year ago. Some cities seem to

—ibe booming in this respect, while others show a tremendous falling

jl^off. It is thought that local conditions govern these marked

Dehanges.

The furniture trade the country over is not up to expectations;
neither is the interior trim business, hardwood door making, agri-
cultural implement and wagon trade. All these usually large
buyers are holding off on purchases, having the very prevalent
idea that they will be able to buy hardwoods at lower prices later
in the season.

Veneer and panel makers still seem to have all the business they
can carry, but prices remain unsatisfactory and comparatively few
plants are making any considerable amount of money. The hard-
wood flooring people with their accumulation of orders and a fair
current demand are having all they can do. Apparently a vast
quantity of hardwood flooring is going into old buildings to replace
worn-out yellow pine and other softwood floors. The demand for
the rest of the season looks very promising. The call for
mahogany, cherry and walnut seems to be growing, as the furniture
and electric trades are increasing their use of these woods.

On the whole, the hardwood situation shows marked strength by
reason of the paucity of present and prospective stocks, and it can
scarcely be predicted that there will be any diminution of conse-
quence in prices during 1907.

A School of Inspection.

Perhaps the most notable paper presented at tlie Atlantic City
meeting of the National Hardwood Lumber Association was the one
suggesting a school of inspection for training young men, especially
amateurs, into a correct knowledge of the way in which hardwood
lumber should be graded 'to accord with standard rules.

In the past, associations and individuals have selected inspectors
who have been educated in a hit-or-miss sort of way and their inter-
]iretation of rules has varied in accordance with the environment
under which they worked. It has been a rare thing for two in-
spectors to get anywhere near each other when it came to matters
of reinspection, and the result has been equally unsatisfactory to
lioth seller and buyer. Old-time inspectors who have been edu-
cated to do the work in a certain way are very loath to amend
their ideas of grades, even when a printed page of specific rules is
before them. It is the boast of more than one that he has not
I'hanged his grading methods for a quarter of a century, but does
the same under National or Manufacturers' rules that he did before
either were promulgated. This has been the serious difficulty en-
countered by association managers of grading systems.

The plan of taking young men, preferably common school gradu-
ates, who are desirous of fitting themselves for employment that
will pay a very handsome salary is admirable. It is proposed to
establish several of these schools throughout the United States, so as
to cover experience with all varieties of timber, and by transferring
classes from one point to another, let each individual gain a com-
]irehensive knowledge of all hardwoods and thus enable him to
inspect lumber of every kind, no matter where he finds it. It has
been suggested that the Biltmore estate in North Carolina would be
one admirable location for one school, on account of the great
variety of woods encountered there. It is suggested that a second
school might be established at Cadillac, Mich., as this point offers
fine residence facilities and hardwoods are manufactured there under
the best possible conditions; moreover, it is a point at which all

HARDWOOD RECORD

varieties of northern woods are encountered. A third school should
be maintained in Memphis, for like reasons.

It may be said that the essential, professed value of inspection is
to estaljlish the \Yorth of lumber. Up to this time an inspection cer-
tificate simply recites the sizes and grades. While this is absolutely
essential, it fails iu a marked degree to set forth all the facts in
the case that go to make up the value of lumber. These students
should be taught Ijeyond actual measurement and the nomination of
a grade, to be able to analyze the physics of the wood which they
inspect. On the certificate of inspection should be stated the quality
of the wood itself; in the case of oak, whether it is soft and work-
able, or tough and stringy. Students should be taught to take into
consideration the sawing of the lumber as well as the seasoning.
These two features tend to determine value, iu a marked degree. In
fact, if young men are to be scientifically trained in the inspection
of lumber, they should be started at the tree and have a course
through the woods, sawmill and lumber yard, previous to undertak-
ing actual grading per sc. It is to be hoped that the committee
having this matter in charge will carry out this scheme of education
in inspection to its logical conclusion, and that there may be per-
manent schools maintained under competent tutelage, until the neces-
sary thousands of lumber inspectors become fully competent to carry
on this work scientifically and intelligently.

Atlantic City Meeting.

The recent meeting of the iSIational Hardwood Lumber Association
held at Atlantic City, the full proceedings of which appear in this
issue of the H-uidwood Record, was marked by very important legis-
lation. The so-called Buffalo agreement, a resolution providing that
no change be made iu inspection rules until December, 1908, was
suspended, and many modifications were made in the grading rules,
to take effect December next. These rules were the result of the
most exhaustive and careful deliberation on the part of the Inspection
Rules Committee in conference with delegates from the hardwood
associations of Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana, and while the stand-
ard of quality is lowered in many instances, it was deemed wise to
thus amend the rules to conform with current trade practices cover-
ing the inspection of hardwood lumber. The grade of firsts and
seconds remains practically unchanged, save that the minimum widths
admitted are narrower. New grades of selects and finish lumber are
incorporated between firsts and seconds and No. 1 common. These
changes were not made without long and patient consideration by the
delegates and serious debate on the subject. The majority in favor
of the amendments was more than two to one. The new rules corre-
spond closely to those of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association
in that resultant grade products from the application of either set
will be practically the same.

In spite of jiast fiascos in reaching a joint agreement with the
Manufacturers' Association on the subject of grades, it is now cer-
tainly up to this association to again make overtures toward having
the wording of the various rules for hardwood grades of both asso-
ciations synonymous and for the eventual establishment of a joint
bureau of insjiection which shall be competent, impartial, intelligent
and unhampered by any political influence from either body.

This is the insistent and crying demand of the hardwood trade
at large in all its divisions — manufacturers, jobbers and consumers
alike. Tlie slight breaches today can easily be bridged over. Let
conciliation and compromise go on until the desideratum is obtained.

Annual Statistics of Forest Products.

The great value of accurate statistics as a factor in assisting to
regulate production to the best advantage and to estimate prospective
values should be more carefully considered by progressive lumber
manufacturers. Information of this character, when accurate and
complete, reflects tlie true situation unerringly. It is therefore
highly essential that these statistics be made public at the earliest
possible moment, otherwise much of their value is lost. The United
States government has for years made itself responsible for crop
statistics, and last year with the cooperation of the National Lum-

ber Manufacturers ' Association undertook the work of collating
statistics covering forest products. The average lumber manufac-
turer supported the movement heartily, but still the work did not
possess the value it should have done, owing to the indifference of
the few who failed to supply individual reports, thus rendering the
figures incomplete. The Forest Service has now entered into
cooperation with the Bureau of the Census, which has a large force
of trained statisticians, and if it can secure the cooperation to
which it is entitled, the lumber-manufacturing public will be doing
itself a great service in assisting to this end. The bureau announces
that state totals will be published as soon as any individual state
report is complete. It is to be hoped that every hardwood manu-
facturer will take the little time necessary to supply the information
asked for.

The Veneer Meeting.

Agreeable to the announcement at the liead of the editorial
columns of this issue of the Record, the National Veneer & Panel
Manufacturers' Association will hold its semi-annual meeting at the
Auditorium Annex in Chicago on June 120 and 21. Tlie first session
will be called at 10 a. m. The meeting promises to be very interest-
ing, as a carefully prepared report by the grading committee on the
proposed amendment of rules on all kinds of woods will be pre-
sented. A series of papers will be read by experienced operators on
topics of particular interest to the trade.

It is designed to make this a good old-fashioned ' ' experience
meeting," in which every problem pertaining to the trade will be
thoroughly threshed out. In view of the present rather unsatis-
factory condition of the veneer industry it is anticipated that the
meeting will call out a larger number of veneer manufacturers than
has ever before been present.

Government's Forest Reserve Policy.

A meeting to be known as the Public Lands Convention has been
called at Denver June 18, 19 and 20. This meeting is the result of
crystallized effort that is being made to discourage the forest re-
serve policy of President Roosevelt and the United States govern-
ment. This policy is keeping many lumber, mining an-d coal com-
])anies from appropriating as much of the timber and mineral lands
of the public domain as they would like. There has been a steady
attempt for months past to array cattlemen and lumbermen against
the forest reserve plan, on the plea that it cuts them out of timber
and grazing rights and locks up the public land from "legitimate"
use.

The fallacy of this reasoning is specious and apparent. This
country has wasted billions of dollars iu its senseless depredation
of the forest, and the time has arrived for scientific conservation.
There is nothing in the law governing forest reserves that prevents
any land suitable for agricultural purposes from being taken over
by legitimate settlers, and it is hoped that hereafter lumbermen,
mining men and cattlemen alike will be obliged to pay for the lands,
timber and minerals which they utilize for their own profit.

Tlie government 's theory of forest reserves is a simple one. It
proposes to do merely what the Gernmn and other European nations
have done for generations. The forestry plan provides for cutting
a reasonable quantity of mature or hyper-mature timber, under such
systems as will preserve the young and immature trees. The system
will promote and assist in the redevelopment of forest area and
provide against the future needs of the nation. Lumbering methods,
especially in the mountainous districts, have been extravagant to
the verge of criminality; but a small portion of the timber has
been converted into lumber and the remainder has been wantonly
burned. Lumbermen, by their careless methods, have not only
burned the unfelled timber, but also the humus or top stratum of
decomposed vegetation, which is not only indispensable to the re-
growth of a forest, but also has resulted in the washing away of
every mountain side thus depredated, so that no vegetation of any
sort can be reproduced. By a wise system of lumbering on con-
servative lines, it is possible to have both lumber and forests, and in
a nutshell this is what the forestry policy is meant to accomplish.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Pert, Pertinent and Impertinent.

I'ou may iliiiib to tlie top of the tree,

But youi- perch will not help you a bit.
If you fall you will very soon see

There is no way of dodging a hit.
For the world lies in wait with a briek

Or a stone twisted up in a sock.
If it isn't a knock it's a kick;

If it isn't a kick it's a knock.

Take Your Choice.

If you're down you'll be feeling a boot

To your person with vigor applied ;
If you're up you'll hear the loud hoot

And the jab will get into your hide.
You may think you are skillful and quick.

But you'd far better brace for the shock.
If it isn't a knock it's a kick:

II it isn't a kick it's a knock.

It's a kick for the fellows who lose ;

It's a knock for the others who win.
You may do just whatever you choose,

Hut you'll need a good thickness of skin.
I can tell you which one I will pick ;

I'll succeed and then let the w-orld mock.
If it isn't a knock it's a kick :

If it isn't a kick it's a knock.

Sure Enough.
T h (' teacher h a il
grown eloquent pic-
turing the glories of
Heaven, and finally
asked, ' ' What kind
of boys g o t <i
Heaven?" A lively
little four-year-old
flourished his fist.
"You may answer,''
said the teacher.
''Dead ones!" shout-
ed the little fellow at
the top of Ills lungs.

REQUIESCAT IN PACEM.

A Child's Definition.

"A lie is an aboni-
ination in the sight
of the Lord, but an
ever-present help in
time of trouble! "

A Difference.

A man will stand

for a wife 's going

through his fortuue

• — liut not his pockets.

Usually.

A howling swell —
t li e side-show
' ' barker. ' '

Wait in 'Vain.

Men wlio spend all
their lives in looking-
for a real opening
are pretty sure not to
find it till they strike
a hole in the ground.

Falls Down.

A fellow never ful-
ly realizes the limita-
tions of his vocabu-
lary until he tries to
describe a woman's
<lress.

7r^.A//<r/h'o^/.

Easy.
Many a failure in
business is making
money writing advice
to young men.

As Many Do.

To get back one's
youth one has only to
repeat one's follies.

Too Many Yet.

After all there are
but few people in the
world that we can
help with safety

Big ■Winnings, Too.
A erackerjack at
skin games — the
beauty doctor!

Mostly Otherwise.
Early to bed and
early to rise makes a
man healthy, wealthy
— or otherwise.

■Variable.
In some men am-
bition is a veritable
■'brain storm"; in
others it is an inter-
mittent fever.

One 'Way.
A man who can in-
duce the world to
take him at his own
valuation is sure to
lie successful.

The solitary grave beside tlie sad sea waves.

Two of a Kind.

IJou 't be too hard
on the nagging wom-
an; she's not a bit
more disagreeable
than the bragging
man !

/ Wonder.

1 wonder if the robin that has found himself 1 wonder if the lioness is never satisfied

a mate With any den her tawny lord is able to pro-
Sits down as soon as she is his to gravely vide?

meditate? I wonder if she secretly, as soon as she is
I wonder if the lady bird upon some other limb mated.

Has charms that .set him yearning, since she I!egins to think she might have done much jjy .^-^^ whose name she has to bear, is ne'er a

cannot be for him? better had she waited? little bored?

I wonder if 'tis only man that, being loved, is

prone
To think some other lovelier than she who is

bis own?
I wonder if the woman lives who, knowing she's

adored

HARDWOOD RECORD

AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

White Cedar.
Chamaecyparis sphaeroklea — Spach.
Clutmaecypuris thyoides — Britt.

The white eedar frequents cold swamps
often inundated during several months of
the year, its range of growth commencing
with southern Maine on the north and ex-
tending southward along the coast to north-
ern Florida; westward to the Pearl Ki%-er
valley in Mississippi; it is comparatively
rare east of Boston and west of
Mobile Bay.

The botanical term applied to
this species — thyoides — is from two
Greek words, meaning "resem-
blance ' ' and ' ' arbor vitae, ' ' to
which the tree is sometimes
likened. It is called white cedar
in Massachusetts, Ehode Island,
New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Delaware, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Florida, Alabama
and Mississippi; in Delaware it
is known as swamp cedar and
post cedar, while in Alabama,
North Carolina and Virginia it is
popularly called juniper.

The leaves of white cedar are
closely appressed or spreading at
the apex; on the back they are
glandular or punctate; in color
dull greenish-blue, becoming brown
during the winter in northern
climes; they die down during the
second season, and are afterward
persistent for many years. While
the leaves of this tree resemble
those of arbor vitae, their gen-
eral effect is more brownish, the
latter being much greener, and
the leaf spray is less broad and
flat than that of arbor vitae, as
well as less heavy and coarse.

The staminate flowers are com-
posed of five or six pairs of
stamens, which are dark brown
below the middle and nearly black
toward the apex; they are very
abundant. TTie pistillate flowers
are subglobose, and have ovate
spreading light-colored scales and
black ovules; they are greenish
and much fewer in number than
the staminate flowers. The tree
blooms in April.

The fruit is a tiny, woody,
spherical cone, often not more
than a quarter of an inch in
diameter ; its few scales open at a
wide angle with the axis of the cone. The
fruit grows sessile on a short, leafy branch,
and is light green, covered with a glaucous
bloom when matured, then becoming bluish-
purple and exceedingly glaucous, eventually
turning dai'k brown. One or two seeds grow
under each fertile scale of the cone, about
an eighth of an inch in length, and winged.

The wood of white eedar is soft, light,

FIFTT-FOUKTH PAPEB.

weak, brittle, close-grained, and slightly
fragrant. It is very durable in contact with
the soil, and is easily worked. The heart-
wood is a pinkish or darker brown ; the sap-
wood thin and much lighter colored; the
annual layers are very distinct. The wood
of white cedar is used in boat and canoe
building, for shingles, fencing, cooperage,
woodenware and railroad ties; it is also f re-

in open fan-shaped sprays; their reddish, thin
bark separates into small feathery scales.
White cedar is an important ornamental
evergreen tree, and is cultivated widely;
however, it will not grow far from coast land.
The illustration accompanying this article
was made in one of the clumps of jvmiper,
popularly known as ' ' greens ' ' in the North
Carolina timber holdings of the John L.
Eoper Lumber Company of Nor-
folk, Va. This company is the
J largest holder in the world of this

•\ valuable stumpage.

V Tlie swamp water in which

juniper grows is locally regarded
as very healthful, and many bar-
rels of it are shipped to outlying
sections, where it is drunk for its
alleged medicinal qualities.

riCAL FOREST GUOWTH WHITE CED.\R, NORTH
CAROLINA.

quently employed for interior trim in dwell-
ings. The weight of a cubic foot of sea-
soned wood is about twenty-three pounds.

The wliite cedar grows from seventy to
eighty feet high, with a tall trunk usually
about two to three feet in diameter. Its
slender, horizontal branches form a narrow,
spire-like head and give it a generally grace-
ful appearance, with its branchlets disposed

Varieties of Cedar.

The original true cedar, the
species to which the name properly
belongs, is the eedar of Lebanon,
which seems to have been im-
ported into England more than
two hundred and fifty years ago.
Its introduction into that country
has been attributed to John Eve-
lyn, from the fact that he wrote
of raising it ' ' from the seeds and
berries. ' ' Tiiis very fact, how-
ever, would tend to show that such
an idea is erroneous, and that the
growth was doubtless one of the
junipers, and not the true Leb-
anon wood. The many foreign
"cedars" include the Cape, the
Japan, and Queensland, and nu-
merous varieties of cypress and
juniper.

England still contains many fine
specimens of this famous tree, one
of which is in the garden of the
old palace at Enfield. It was
planted at the time of tlie Great
Plague, in 1665, and measures
eighteen feet in girth. The most
noted cedars were the four planted
in 1683, in the famous physic-gar-
den at Chelsea, belonging to the
Society of Apothecaries. They
were eventually cut or broken
down, the last disappearing in
1904. The society had a beautiful
chair made from one of the large
branches. The wood of Lebanon
cedar is wonderful in its time-re-
sisting qualities. Egyptian boats made of it,
which were recently found buried near the
banks of the Nile and which, according to
excellent authorities, must be between four
and five thousand years old, were in a good
state of preservation. The desert sand had
covered them completely, which of course
served as a protection to them and consider-
ably prolonged tiieir existence.

EUIHU A. BECKLEY

NEW HAVEN, CONN.

SUPPLEMENT TO

HA.KDWOOD REOORD

JUNE 10, 1907

ILLUSTRATINO
BUILDERS OF LUMBER HIST

HARDWOOD RECORD

'Builders of Lumber History.

Elihu A. Beckley.

iScc portrait siippleviciit.)
Elihu A. Beckley, whose portrait the
Hardwood Eecoed is proud to present as
supplement to this issue, was born at Orange,
Conn., May 20, 1845, of parents descended
from some of the earliest English settlers
of that state. He attended various public
and private schools in New Haven, and
finished his education with a complete busi-
ness college course.

Mr. Beckley made his entry into the lumber
business at the early age of twenty, when he
was taken into the employ of his older
brother, the late William A. Beckley, who
had started a retail lumber yard in New
Haven about 1860. After a year or two the
younger man was admitted to partnership,
and this arrangement continued until 1889 ;

NUMBEB XLTI.

also his excellent judgment in selecting the
younger men associated with him in the
management of his vast business enterprises.
The Crosby & Beckley Company still main-
tains its head office at New Haven, and has
a western office and distributing yard at
Columbus, O., with a New York branch at
No. 1 Madison avenue. Its officers are E. A.
Beckley, presideiit; W. E. Douglass, vice
president; R. L. Walkley, treasurer, and O.
E. Beckley, secretary. The company also
operates several sawmills in West Virginia,
cutting poplar, oak, chestnut and other hard-
woods; it is a large owner of timber proper-
ties in that state, and conducts a hardwood
yard at Evansville, Ind., doing a general
wholesale business. Affiliated with the same
interests the Douglass & Walkley Company
owns stumpage and operates a band mill at
Drew, Miss., with W. E. Douglass as presi-
dent; also the Holly Lumber Company, of
which E. L. Walkley is president, owns

FOLIAGE AND FRUIT OP WHITE CEDAR.

by constant and conscientious attention to
his duties, and by dint of energy and am-
bition, he helped develop the business from
a very small beginning to one of the largest
in its line in Connecticut.

Feeling eventually that there was a
broader field in the wholesale line and hav-
ing in the meantime formed an intimate
friendship with the late F. E. Crosby of
Eome, O., a pioneer in the hardwood lumber
business, Mr. Beckley decided to accept an
offer from Mr. Crosby to become his partner
and handle the selling end of his trade in
the East. Such an arrangement was effected
and The Crosb}' & Beckley Company was
incorporated, with its principal office at New
Haven under the management of Mr. Beck-
ley. Since the death of Mr. Crosby, which
occurred in 1893, Mr. Beckley has been the
head of tliis great company, and the business
has grown and flourished to such an extent
that it stands today among the most prom-
inent hardwood concerns of the United States.
This prosperity indicates not only the ability
of its prime mover as an executive and his
remarkable grasp on commercial affairs, but

large timber boundaries and a band saw
mill at Pickens, W. Va., both companies
operating their own logging railroads with
complete up to date equipment.

Mr. Beckley is interested and active in
association affairs, and is at present a mem-
ber of the Board of Arbitration of the
National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Asso-
ciation and a loyal supporter of the National
Hardwood Lumber Association. He has
never been particularly active in politics,
but has always been a staunch Eepubliean.
He is a member of the Chamber of Com-
merce of New Haven, of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, the Congregational
Church, and is also identified with several
clubs of the quieter sort.

In 1866 Mr. Beckley was married to Eliza-
beth J. Bartlett of Dorset, Vt. ; they have
three sons and one daughter. Mr. Beckley is
a man of quiet tastes and domestic habits,
finding his greatest enjoyment and recreation
in his home, which is a beautiful structure on
one of New Haven's fine avenues, and in
the society of his little family and a circle
of close friends.

Hardwood Carpets.

Hardwood carpets differ from hardwood
floors in that the floor has rafters, flooring
boards, joints and finishes to be considered.
The hardwood floor is permanent, while the
carpet is not a fixture; it is not a part of
the building, but is separate from it and
can be moved from place to place, unless the
joints are of such nature that the sections
are too large for practicable transportation.
The hardwood floor is used in all countries,
whereas the hardwood carpet is not very
conspicuous except in certain lands. This
sort of carpet may be seen in daily service
very often in tropical countries, where con-
ditions are such that fabrics are not sani-
tary. Hardwood mats and carpets prevail
to considerable extent in Cuba, the Philip-
pines and China. Probably the most crude
type of covering is obtained by the use of
blocks or cubes cut out for purposes of lay-
ing, like bricks. Often these blocks are
stained. Then they are inlaid and dove-
tailed and frequently set with ornaments or
engraved, until one wonders what one is
walking upon.

The accompanying cuts show some of the
processes of manufacturing hardwood floor
coverings. The first work involved consists
in preparing the stock. Some of the car-
pets are made by intersecting small pieces
of wood, shaped to fit neatly and uniformly.
Others are constructed by forming parallel
sections of different kinds of pieces. Cubes
and oblongs are worked in, and angles de-
scribed; ovals and circles are not over-
looked, nor is engraving and work in which
pieces of colored glass and sea shell are
employed for purposes of ornamentation, or
to set off some showy figure. Birds, horses,
fish and even the human figure are often

outlined by the- use of differently finished
or colored pieces of wood.

Figure 1 shows one of the bolts in readi-
ness for trimming down to the prescribed
size of block or pad for carpets. The block
is turned if for round work, and sawed if
for flat work. This gives the block the
form shown in Fig. 2; the cross as in Pig. 3;
the hollowed block as in Fig. 4; the open
disk as in Fig. 5, or the long block as in
Fig. 6. Any manner of style may be chosen
and the original blocks reduced accordingly.
Often there is a great amount of handwork
necessary to get them into shape for adjust-
ing in a certain design. Usually very small
pieces are made and fitted, one at a time,
into the design, where they are cemented or
glued.

There are carpets which are constructed
with split hardwood stock on the order
shown in Fig. 9. The operation involves the
stripping of a number of pieces of wood.
These pieces are made about one-quarter of
an inch in thickness and about one inch in
width. The weaving process is simple. The
pieces are properly arranged and the ' ' fill-
ing" strips are alternately laid into the
' ' warp ' ' strips, so that the combination re-
sults as pictured in the diagram. Some-
times very much smaller pieces are employed
and the design works out as in Fig. 8. In
Fig. 9 are shown various shapes of the small
pieces of carpet stock, used in making up
combination designs. Fig. 10 shows an-
other cluster. One may find all kinds of
figures and shapes.

The work of inlaying, matching and fit-
ting falls to nimble fingered persons, who
often create the design as they work. Oth-
ers work according to a given pattern. The

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finished woods are of various species, there-
fore make an agreeable contrast when the
pieces of one kind are matched in with
pieces of another. Whitewood is often com-
bined with the darkest of stock; black wal-
nut and whitewood go together in some pat-
terns; in others the object is to have very
little contrast. Often the shading is so
slight that it barely defines the intersec-
tions. In Fig. 11 is exhibited one of the
popular floor covers manufactured with these
varying pieces of hardwood, interlaid as
described.

The base for one of these built-up carpets
must of course be substantial, as the pieces
depend xipon it for support.

A flexible base is often wanted, in which
case heavy canvas or oil cloth is used. Again
sheet metal is employed to advantage. Often
the flooring is constructed direct on the

original base, in which case the covering
can not be removed without tearing it into
pieces. Cement and glue are used for hold-
ing the parts together. The matching and
putting up of a design like that in Fig. 11
is very laborious and tedious. There are
many small pieces of wood and each piece
must be picked up separately and adjusted
before the adjoining one can be placed in
position. All this requires . time and pa-
tience. Weeks are often devoted to the
ijianufaeture of one carpet of sufficient size
to cover the floor of an ordinary apartment.
Some of the hardwood carpets are made
with the body of the surface of a certain
color, as in Fig. 12, in which case the pieces
may be of good size, and the operation of
setting is thus much simplified. A number of
other designs are shown in illustrations
13 to 16.

Hardwood Record J\Iail Bag.

[In this department it is proposed to reply
to such inquiries as reach this nlfice from the
HARDWftoD Heooud clientage as will be of enough
general interest to warrant publication. Every
patron of the paper is invited to use this de-
partment t(i the fullest extent, and an attempt
will be made tu answer queries pertaining to all
matters of interest to the hardwood trade, in
a succinct and intelligent manner.]

Criticizes Hardwood Inspection.
Gkand ItAriii.s. Micji.. .lune :■.. — Kditur Hard-
wood Record : A point occurs to us that we
would like to lay before you, and which we be-
lieve should find space in the pages of the
Recobd, presented in the manner of which we
know you are so very capable. It is this : From
past experience, and especially during the last

cnuiili- vf years, if we were asked to cite the one
■bone of contention" in the lumber trade it is
that attention enough is not paid to the rules
Koverning the scaling of lumber. We refer now
In the National Hardwood Lumber Association's
rules of inspection. We firmly believe that a
great deal (if time and trouble and useless corre-
spondence might be saved if this rule were more
closely adhered to in the sale of lumber. For
instance, the writer a short time ago placed an
order for a certain grade of lumber. Upon re-
ceipt of the car he found five distinct grades in
the one car and all purporting to be in accord-
ance with the order placed. This, you see, natur-
ally necessitates delay and additional corre-
spondence that is not always of the pleasantest

nature. We tliiuk a word from the Hardwood.
UKCtiiut along these lines would have a very
sahilary eflfect in promoting a closer observance
of the National rules in each instance of inspec-
tion. Trusting these remarks may appeal to
you, and with best wishes for the Hahdwood
Record, we beg to remain. Yours very truly,
BissELL, Carpet Sweeper Company,

J. II. Shanahan. Supt.

Tlie criticisms noted by the superintendent
of the Bissell Carpet Sweeper Company have
been repeatedly discussed in the Hardwood
Record and it is this very desideratum that
the hardwood associations are now so ener-
getically trying to work out. It is sincerely
to be hoped that before the year is over
corps of inspectors who are competent, ac-
curate and impartial will have the hamlling
of lumber, and that complaints of careless
inspection will finally be at an end. — Editor.

Who Wants Oak Spokes?
The Blackstone Handshaved Handle Com-
pany of Blackstone, Va., manufacturer of
handmade and turned hickory handles of all
kinds, has added a spoke department to its
business and would like the name and ad-
dress of some concern that is in the market
for oak sjiukcs.

Good Advice.

I'u.sEMiTE, Kv., May :'.(i. — Editor IIardwuod
Record : For good sound information in a nut-
shell you have the only lumber journal in Amer-
ica today. While I have only been a subscriber
for two or three years, I have been a constant
reader for more than ten years. Would like to
see both associations get together and formulate
one set of inspection rules. A. E. M.

More Good Advice.

New YiiKK, .May :',!. — Editor Hardwood Rec-
ord : The man, men or newspaper that will
succeed in securing uniform inspection of hard-
wood lumber throughout the United States will
have conferred the greatest good to the indus-
try. This most desirable end can be accom-
plished by compromise between the two hardwood
lumber associations, and I verily believe that
Clinton Crane and W. A. Bennett, both of Cin-
cinnati, hold the key to the situation. They
are both as stubborn as mules and are not dis-
posed to concede a point to each other, but they
should have the good of the trade at heart and
get together. They are good friends and
should belong to the same association. It makes
very little diflFerence how the grade of lumber is
defined in the rules for grading, because prices
will be made according to those grades anyhow,
hut it would prevent an enormous amount of
friction and consequent loss if only one court for
arbitration of inspection differences existed. Let
the Hardwood Record advocate conciliatlou and
compromise between the two associations so
that uniform inspection may come in the life-
time of the present lot of lumber dealers, manu-
facturers and users. & Co.

A Friendly Ciiticistn.

Rhinei.andkr. Wis.. May 29. — Editor Hard-
wood Record : I have no criticisms to make of
your paper, but as to suggestions of matters of
interest, like to see correspondents iaject news
of real value into what they write — not news of
how Tom, Hick or Harry, or Fred's wife has
been in Chicago or (.'aire, but real news, sales
of lumber, prices for which it is selling, etc.
While like every other man, I occasionally like
to see m.v name in the paper, yet, as with other
men, I don't care ver.v much for personal items
about some other fellow, hut prefer to get the

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market inices at wliicli that other fellow is sell-
ing, conditions of markets as to trade, etc. I
think that is a good point to emphasize, and
not a lot of personal items cut out of some local
paper. I also think wood chemical plants are
going to cut quite a figure in our business, and
that the matter is worth elaborating.

& Co.

I wisli to tliank you for your frank letter
of criticism. Jly view.s are entirely in liar-
mony with your own on this subject, but I
think you will concede that the Hardwood
Record contains less of the matter which
you deprecate than any lumber trade paper
you ever saw. Again, I believe our news
covers a wider rauge and is more complete
in its character than that furnished by any
other periodical of similar nature. In other
words, I believe we are running a paper that
jjretty nearly suits your ideas of what a
lumber newspaper should be. My reason for
not publishing more matter on the subject of
wood chemicals is the fact that I have seen
wood alcohol go to 19 cents a gallon, which
meant ruin for everyone engaged in the
business. Today these people are making
just a fair profit owing to the iniquitous
legislation passed by Congress last winter,
in the denatured alcohol bill. I therefore did
not think it wise to encourage new plants on
account of the present and prospective pau-
city of demand for these products. I think
attempting to educate people up to the finer
manipulation of their product and the manu-
facture of dimension stock promises surer
returns than the manufacture of pyroligne-
(Uis acid and its products. — Editor.

the specimen you sent the stain has pene-
trated clear beyond that point. — Editor.

Discoloration From Stickers.

I'lTTSmRc;. May l(i. — IDditnr II.\hi>W(iod Kec-
oiiii : We are expressing to you a piece of hard
maple for your examination and wish to call
your attention to the conversation we had re-
cently relative to the discoloration you will find
in the sample we are sending. Our customer has
rejected a (luantity out of a car, claiming that
tliis discoloration in the wood is the first stage
nf decay, (lur Judgment is quite to the con-
trary; we claim that it is merely the calico
color which is a peculiarity of maple, and wliich
iu no way affects the strength or durability of
the wood. We would like very much to have
your opinion on this subject foi- guidance in fu-
ture, and also for adjustment of this complaint.

LU-MBEU CO^[I■.lXY.

Referring to the specimen of hard maple
which you send — this piece of wood is un-
deniably discolored by the stickers, and if
such discoloration was general in the ship-
ment, in justice tlie stock should have been
graded down. In all probability this lumber
^^as stuck on old stickers which had com-
menced to materially decay. There is just
as much danger of discoloring lumber by
the use of stickers in this condition as in
the use of green ones. In fact any stickers
cutside of red gum and sycamore, after they
ha^•e been used two or three times, are more
likely to stain lumber than green ones. Man-
ufacturers generally seem to think that if a
sticker is old it can be used with safety in
green lumber, but such is not the case. As
a general principle of inspection, stain which
will not dress off is a defect. In the case of

Keeping Busy.

>I.\RQi-ETTK, Micii., May 31. — Editor IIakd-
woOD REconii : In our territory here, along the
south shore of Lake Superior, the hardwood in-
dustry up to the present time has been almost
exclusively in the hands of Providence and re-
lated solely to the year by year laying on of
those thin rings of wood under the bark oif our
hardwood trees : but the business of converting
these trees into material tor news in the Record
has begun, and the men so far engaged in the
business have found upon opening up these
frees that the work of I'rovldencc as above men-
tioned has been exceedingly well done, and are
greatly pleased thereat. Both i|uality and quan-
tity are found satisfactory and more new saw-
mill enterprises are being initiated each year ;
this district will ere long fill an important place
in the hardwood markets for all varieties of tim-
licr native here. .T. il. Lo.xgyeak.

Hickory Dimension Stock Market,
Cincinnati, tl.. May 2',). — Kditor Hardwood
Record: Can you consistently put us on the
track of someone wanting small pieces of fine-
grade thoroughly seasoned hickory, say from t!
inches long up to 1 foot long, and from 1 inch to
about IV2 inches in diameter? A good deal of the
timber is all white. There are a thousand things
in this world that could be made from it and
are made, if we knew where to get into com-
munication with the parties. & Co.

There are doubtless many consumers who
would like to get hold of this stock, and the
address of the correspondent may be had
on application to this office. — Editor.

Wants Market for Gum.

Beloit, Wis., May is.— Kditor IIaruwood
Record : Our company has begun work on its
new mill in Missouri, and will manufacture lath
and shingles and saw southern hardwoods. We
will have a good deal of short ends, say 24 inches
long, from gum, and would be obliged if you will
tell us of a market for them. We could saw
them to any required length or thickness. I'lease
enter our subscription to the Hardwood Record.
Lumber Company.

Anyone in the market for gum dimension,
as above offere<l, would do well to write for
this correspondent 's address. — Editor.

Wants Oak for Sleigh Runners.

riTTSRURO, I'A., May 17. — Editor Hardwood
Record : We are in the market for some straight-
grained white oak to be used for sleigh runners.
This stock is to be 2%x3% inches, 7 feet. Will
you be good enough to advise us the names of
any parties you may know who are likely to
furnish this stock'; & Co.

The writer has been furnished a few ad-
dresses, but others who would like to com-
municate with him may do so through this
otfice. — Editor.

Persimmon Waste.

New Orleans, I, a.. May 'Ml — i;ditor Uard-
wnoD Record: We should be obliged if you
could, through the medium of your valued jour-
nal, assist us to find a market for our persimmon
waste. We manufacture shuttle blocks out of
this timber and have a considerable quantity of
waste that is not large enough to make our
smallest size shuttle block, but out of which we
could cut pieces suitable for small tool and knife
handles, etc. Persimmon wood is very desirable
for the above purposes as it wears smooth and
acquires in use a natural polish, and we tliink it
could be employed to advantage for these han-

dles, or for any trade requiring similar qualities
in wood, such as toy making, small turnery, etc.
Company.

The above will doubtless prove a valuable
suggestion to someone, and the name of the
correspondent will be furnished on applica-
tion to this oflSce. — Editor.

Unfair Claims,

Grand Rapids, Mich.. May 29. — Editor Hard-
wood Record : I consider the Hardwood Record
a good paper, but without calling any names I
wish all lumbermen would reject the business of
men and firms who kick on grades and shortage,
so as to get a deduction, and then make a profit
without being found out, and could buy only
from firms shipping them their inspection. One
firm bought on Manufacturers" inspection, called
for a reinspection, sent a good man from Chi-
cago. Then he said he was going to turn them
down. This on two cars of poplar. I wasn't in
the deal but know who was. Such men ought to
be shown up and in my opinion an article on
such work, well gotten up, would open their
eyes.

The H.^RDWOOD Record, in common wij;h
otlier reputable newspapers, is always willing
to show up irregular jaractices wherever found
in the lumber business, but you must recall
that there is sucli a thing as very uncom-
fortable libel suits which are expensive in
the defense whether judgment is given
against you or not, and this part of the
newspaper game we have to fight shj' of at
all times. The Hardwood Record stands
ready at an)- and all times to show up ir-
regular practices when lumbermen like the
writer present evidence of such transactions
that constitutes proof. We cannot under-
take to print mere hearsay evidence. Give
us facts substantiated, and we are not only
willing but anxious to ju'int them. — Editor.

Drying Hickory Dimension.

Nkw iiRLEANS. La.. June 3. — Editor Hard-
wood ItKcoRD : I'erhaps some of your read-
ers who are experienced in the liandling of
hickory can inform us in what way we can
avoid the excessive warping of this wood
when sawing up into small dimension. "We
are working on some orders for 1x1x44 inches
to be used for golf shafts. "We have the tim-
ber and the means for manufacturing same
properly but have very great ditnculty with
the seasoning. "We find that a very large pro-
portion of the pieces warp and therefore be-
come useless for turning into the shafts. Our
present method is to cut the suitable part of
the log into 1 inch boards of slightly over the
required length and then rip same on a sin-
gle rip saw bench into 1 inch wide pieces. "We
do this when the boards are green. Then the
1 inch squares are piled up crosswise to sea-
son. They usually begin to warp in a day or
two and get worse as time goes on, making
the percentage of wasted pieces so large as
to make the Ijusiness unprofitable. We find
that the best timljer warps most; that is,
the young, heavy, small trees, white practi-
cally all through. The makers of shafts want
just this sort of timber to make a good
"steely" shaft, and if we could keep them
straight, they would be just the thing. Trust-
ing that some of your readers may be able to
give us the benefit of their experience. Very
truly yours & Co.

Will not some of our readers who have
mauufactured these hickory squares send us
the benefit of their experience, and give some
advice on the subject of seasoning, that we
may communicate it to the above corre-
spondent ? — Editor.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Accidents to Boilers.

Both serious and minor accidents to boilers
are happening every day. Many of them
could be avoided. A certain steam plant
was installed as illustrated in the first draw-
ing, with three boilers, one of which even-
tually exploded. The boilers had been fired
up and the water gauges indicated that the
proper amount of water was in each. Un-
fortunately some one who tested the boilers
the day before had carelessly left the stop-

neers and firemen. Manufacturers of up-to-
date fire grates for boilers would be sur-
prised if they were to count up the make-
shift grates which are in use in really im-
portant positions. Old car rails are some-
times utilized for grate bars. The plan is
shown in Fig. 3. The rails are cut to proper
length and placed side by side on the fire-
brick walls, the engineer priding himself on
liaviug .a pretty good thing.

cocks closed. This of course was a most
dangerous thing to do. The workmen should
have looked over the apparatus before they
left the plant, and certainly the fireman
should have examined the cocks before he
fired up. But he had fired many times before
without testing the gauges, and took it for
granted that all was well, as usual. The
water was retained in the gauges, and no
water was in the middle boiler, which heated
up good and hot. The steam valves of the
main line, over the boilers, although closed,
leaked badly. The result was that steam en-
tered the middle boiler, and the pressure
therefore registered correctly and once more
the fireman was deceived.

This illustrates how easily conditions may
fool a man who is not nnusually alert. Some
of the best firemen and engineers get caught
this way occasionally. They are often rushed
in the early morning to get up steam so
that the works can start full blast by seven
o'clock. In the darkness and hurry it takes
a very conscientious man to examine into all
the little details. In the above ease the re-
sults were very disastrous. Suddenly the
steam shot out of the door and ash-pit of the
middle furnace. An examination afterwards
revealed tlie burst plate just over the firebox
of the middle boiler, marked A, Fig. 1. Some
one had blown out the boiler, closing the
valves on the water gauges, also the blow
off, and had not refilled the boiler, in his
haste or carelessness. The fireman was also
to blame for not trying the gauges. The
accident caused several days' delay in opera-
tions and the broken plate was substituted
with a new one as shown in Fig. 2.

One does not have to tramp about the
country much to find evidence of many reck-
less proceedings on the part of steam engi-

Iron rails stolen from a road are cheaper
than modern grate bars any time. But the
engineer forgets the losses. He overlooks
the fact that the draft is hindered, that the
rails iu their warped condition are letting
good fuel sift through only partly burned.
Such rigs are money-losers to a firm and a
detriment to the work.

In one case a mill lost considerable money
for a long period, due to the condition of the

lever, and a chain extended from this down
to a point near the level of the ground,
where it could be operated. But the fire-
man was not able to get the proper draft.
Weeks and weeks went by; the stack smoked
and the fuel in the furnaces failed to burn
thoroughly; great difficulty was experienced
in getting up and maintaining steam.
Finally it was decided to go to the trouble
of examining the damper. Long ladders were
obtained and adjusted against the chimney.
An opening was made through the bricks, and
the damper, which was originally adjusted
evenly, as in Fig. 4, was found to be dropped
down, as in Fig. 5, due to the breaking of
the bearing at B. This bearing had grad-
ually worn down, and, lacking lubrication of
any kind, soon filed itself through and off.
Hence the damper was supported solely by
the remaining end C. This damper was re-
moved and a new one put in, after which
the draft was perfect.

At another place an explosion was caused
by corroded plates, some of which were as
badly corroded as represented at D, Fig. 6.
In another instance the corrosion worked
itself deeply into the hole near the head of a
plate bolt, also cutting into the bolt, as at
E, resulting in weakening the plate and allow-
ing it to break.

Instances of this kind are numerous. Many
such troubles occur in country plants, how-
ever. City plants are better kept and more
up-to-date. More experienced engineers are
employed in them as a rule; a new man
usually strikes out for the country. Nev-
ertheless, one may find some first-claas
establishments in the rural districts. Many a
little hillside mill is operated by as neatly

':r.

damper in the chimney. For months it bad
been giving trouble. It was operated on a
steel shaft bearing which was fitted in iron
journals set into the wall-work of the stack.
The shaft was fitted with the proper crank

equipped engine and boiler rooms as one
would care to see; while, on the other hand,
this department of some great metropolitan
works will occasionally be thoroughly littered
up and extremely unhandy.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Complete Official Report of the Tenth Annual Convention

Rational Hardt/uood Lumber A^'sociatton

Held at Atlantic City, May 23 and 24, 1907.

OFFICERS I907-a

I'KESIDENT, W. H. RUSSK."

. . . Mcniphi.s. Tenn.

FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT. O. O. AGI.ER

Chicago.

SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT. C. E. LLOVD. Jr. . .

Pliiladelpliia.

THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT. SAM E. BARR

New York.

TRE.\SURER. CLAUDE MALEY

. . . Evansville. Ind.

SECRETARY. FRANK F. FISH

Cliiiiiml

MEW TH-RECTOTiS

THEODORE FATHAUER Cliicago.

GEO. W. STONEMAN De ValLs Bluff, Ark.

F. A. DIGGINS Carlillac, Mich.

G. J. LANDECK Milwaukee. Wis.

.1. H. P. SMITH . l';Mkersl>urg, W. Va.

Tlio tfiitli annual i-onventidu of tlie Xa-
tioinil Hartlwood Lumber Association, held at
Atlantic City, N. J., May 23 and L'4, ivas
marked not only by a large but by a repre-
sentative attendance of members of the
organization from every part of the United
States. The weather was clear and while the
air was tinged with chill, con-
ditions were such as to con-
tribute to the comfort ami
pleasure of the assembled hosts.
The occasion was further mark-
ed 1-iy the presence of many
ladies, the wives and relatives
of delegates. The meeting it-
self was held in the great ball
room of the magnificent Steel
Pier, which proved an ideal
place for a convention.

Every detail of the arrange-
ments for the entertainment of
guests was systematically ai
delightfully handled by the
eastern hosts, of which com-
mittee C, E. Lloyd, Jr., of
Philadelphia, was chairman ;
E. A. Beclsley of Xew Haven,
trea.surer; and B. C. Currie,
.Jr., of Philadelphia, secretary.
Other than these, this eomtnit-
tee consisted of John J. Eum-
barger and J. P. Punwoody of
Philadelphia; John L. Alcork
;'.ml R. E. Wood of Baltimore ;
I. F. Balsley of Pittsburg; IT.
M. Dickson of Norfolk; Sam
E. Barr, H. S. Dewey and E.
S. Foster of New York; N. 11.
Walcott of Providence; and
Gardner I. .Tones and John il.
Woods of Boston. In the di'-
tails of the work they were
most ably assisted by Ed. M.
Bechtel of Philadelphia. The
entertainment features in-
eluded a smoker and vaudeville
performance of unusual excellence at the
Grotto of the big Rudolph ITotel on Thurs-
day, during which a delightful hinch was
served. This feature of the program was
under the personal charge of Messrs. Lloyd
and Currie. and the vaudeville entertainment
itself was handled by Wm. D. Hall of the
Theatrical Exchange and Booking Agency of

I'hilailclphia. The lady visitors were delight-
fully taken care of both in a cake-walk affair
at the Steel Pier on Thursday evening and
with a trolley ride in special cars to all
points of interest in Atlantic City and vicin-
ity on Friday.

The ]ii-o linys of the convoTition liave

W. H. R-USSE, MEMPHIS. RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT

gone down to history as somewhat radical in
character, but the prevalence of common sense
in the deliberations has rarely if ever been
equaled at any gathering of the sort.

Primarily, a resolution adopted at the
eighth annual meeting of the association held
at Buffalo in 1S0.5, providing that the grading
rules then authorized shonlil not lie changed

before Dei-endicr, I9ll,S, was rescimlei.l ; a new
set of rules made after the most diligent
stndy and conference between the Inspection
Rules Committee of the association and dele-
gates representing the hardwood associations
of Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana, was
approveil, whitdi rules go into effect on Dec.
1 next. In a general way
these new rules conform to
current custom in the sale and
grading of Iiardwood lumber,
and provide for an inspection
that somewhat lowers old
standarils of grades. The rules
still adhere to inspection from
the poorer side of the piece in
the higher grades; they pro-
vide that tapering lumber shall
lie measured one-third of the
length of the piece from the
narrow end ; anil minimum
widths mentioned in any grade
must be of the full width
named: in random width lum-
ber, fractions over one-half
foot are counted up to the next
higher figure; fractions less
than one-half foot to the next
lower figure; and fractions ex-
actly on the half foot are
divided equally between buyer
and seller. In the grade of
Xo. T ( ommon the rules pro-
viile that heart must not show-
more than half the length of
the piece in the aggregate:
and in Xo. 2 Common not niore
than three-fourths the length of
the jiiec(\ In standard lengths
now run in even and odd foot
lengths from i to 16 feet but
not over fifteen per cent of
odd lengths are admitted.
Eight-foot lengths are the
shortest admitted to firsts and
seconds, and not more than
twentj' per cent under 12 feet are admitted,
and not to exceed ten per cent of 8 and 9
feet. Stain that wdll surface off in dressing
is not considered a defect. A moderate
amount of wane is admitted without being
considered a defect. A new grading of clear
face cutting is authorized, which provides for
one clear face and a sound back. The old

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grade of merchantable is entirely eliminated.
A grade of finish is authorized, which with
the other grades named is described in detail
in the report of the Inspection Rules Com-
mittee wliich is incorporated in the proceed-
ings. Tlie rules further provide for the
splitting <if Xii. .'5 Common when desired into
two grades.

o. o. .\r;i-E.;, ciiicvf:!). keki.kcted first
virp; I'ltESiDEXT.

J''urthcrniorp, the report of the secretary
showed that the association has passed be-
yond the si.x hundred mark in membership,
and that the financial condition of the or-
ganization is excellent. Reports from other
officers were indicative of growing harmony
between the association and all others in the
hardwood line, imduding various local asso-
ciations and exchanges in different parts of
the country. The organization exhibited its
confidence in the conduct of its afiairs dur-
ing the last year by rei^lecting its i)resideut
and first and second vice presidents, and by
reappointing its secretary for another year.
The latter was the recipient of many encomi-
ums on the good work he has performed.

Features of the meeting were the forestry
report by if. >l. Wall; a paper on Associate
Obligations by ex-President Palmer; an ad-
dress covering suggestions for a school of
inspection by B. ('. Currie, Jr.; forceful re-
marks on the necessity of the wholesaler by
Robt. W. Higbie, and a strong speech urging
the association's influence looking toward
proposed improvements of the great water-
way's of the county by John A. Fox.

Without question this tenth annual meet-
ing of the National Hardwood Lumber As-
sociation was the most important and valu-
able to the lumlior trade at large that has
ever been held by it. The complete official
report of the jiroeeediugs follows herewith.

Tlie convent inn was called to order by I'l-osi-
dent W. II. Uusse at 12 o'clock JI.

Mr. I.loyd — Ladies and Gentlemen : It is very
seldom that we have an opportunity to include
the ladies in our opening address ; the commit-
tee will state that they are especially pleased
to he able to do so. On behalf of Ihc eastern
members of the association, we have invited you
to come to Atlantic City, and we are very much
pleased indeed to note the number who have
accepted. We are looklnp for iniite a mimher
more this afternoon.

1 won't attempt to make any opening ad-
dress, but will simply introduce the next speaker,
a man who is so well known he hardly needs
an introduction, as this is the attractive point
practically of the whole United States where
the people of the country come when they want
lo have a good tune. I am sure he will tell
you that you can not only take care of business,
but have a little pleasure as well. I have the
pleasure of introducing the Hon. Franklin P.
Sloy, mayor of Atlantic City. [Applause.]
Address of Welcome.

.Mr. I'resldent. ladies and members of the asso-
lialuin: It is a pleasure, I assure you, to come
here this morning ' to greet people coming as
vim do from nil parts of the United States.
The introduction by your member here is very
nattering. 1 assure you. not only for myself, but
Uiv the entire city. We hope that during your
stay with us yi>u" will Hnd it to be true — that
it is a place of entertainment, and that abso-
lutely. We have no manufacturing interests in
.Vtlaiilic City. Therefore, we apply our whole
lime to the guests of our city — in making them
ccimfortable. I am glad this moruing that I
have the opportunity of bidding you welcome
to our city, and with it, I want to say we al-
ways extend the freedom of the city. Therefore,
yoii must be assured during your stay with us
that yon have tlie freedom of the city and all
enurti'sies that can be extended to yon as a
bodv. This is not only meant for your institu-

c. E. Li.oYii. .IK. i'iiii..viii;i,riiiA. i;e

EI.EI.'TED SECOND \1CE I'HESIUENT.

tion lint each of you individually. I'crhaps yon
will not return, all of you. immediately, but
may lind it necessary to stay a day or two.
not by reason of any oversight of yours hut',
then, there are times when yon might ri'inain a
little longer by reason of having the i»/,one of
the sea so close to you. And we certainly will
recognize that badge and have the Department
of rublic Safety notiticd that you are here and
the badge goes. [ AjJiilause. ]

Now. Mr. I'resident. I must reiterate what
I have said, referring to tnir humble way of
bidding you welcome to .Vtlantic City. \A'e know-
that your meeting liere is for tlie benefit of
your institution and fiu' the benefit of the United
Slates, and without the great industry you ari-
interested in some of our homes, perhaps, would
not be decorated as finel.v as they are ; some
of our i^assenger coaches, some of our furniture,
etc.. would not be, perhaps, of such quality if
it were not for those who are looking after the
interests of this institution. Therefore, we feel
honored in having such an institution visit At-
lantic City. We trust that when you are look-
ing over the ground in years to come you will
not: forget the little stay ,vou will have had in
Atlantic City and the courtesies that have been
extended.

I thank you for the kind invitation. Mr.
President, to come before this assemblage, and
I trust that youi- stay with us will be one of
pleasure. [Applause. 1

I'resident liusse — ,7olin M. Woods of Boston
will e.\press the pleasure of the members here
in receiving so Jiiudly a welcome. Mr. Woods
does not need any introduction to the members.
I .\i)plause. ]

Mr. President, honored mayor and friends :
I thank you, Mr. Mayor, (or the kindly and
cordial greeting you have given this association.
It is the first time we have ever visited a place
where the people do not work. [Laughter.]
This is a place of pleasure, and it is the most
natural and logical thing that we should come
here because of that fact, Mr. Mayor. If you
were as well acquainted with lumbermen as I
am you would know they would eventually bring
up at a place where there is no work — the Celes-
tial City. As a representative of the effete East,
I am glad to say that we are descendants of
men who were engaged in this business two
hundred and fifty years ago.

We have come here lor business, to transact
the business of this association. The lumber
business is the fourth largest in the United
States. It touches every part and the whole
of our life. We are glad to come here this
spring, and I assure you that you will be proud
that this convention has been in your city. It
is made up of gentlemen, of the highest type
of business men. an honor to the country and
to their industry.

It is not my business to make a long speech,
but I want to thank you, Mr. Mayor, for your
kind words, and I assure you that if it is
possible to make a little reduction in the price
of board we may stay a day or two longer.
[Laughter.] But I think we will give you little
trouble and you will never be sorry this conven-
tion visited your good city. I thank yon. [Ap-
plause.]

President Russe — Gentlemen : we will call
.the meeting to order for general business. We
had a gavel but it is not here. It is on the
way. I understand.

Mr. Barr — Are there any stenographic reports
being talcen of this meeting besides that by our
otficial stenographer'.' I would move tliat no
reports be taken by the trade journals, and that
the only report be that made by our utiicial
stenographer.

This motion was duly seconded and carried.

President Russe — The papers will please be
governed accordingly.

President's Address.

tlentlemen and members of the Natiuujil Hard-
wood Lumber Association : I consider it a great
honor to preside over this, the tenth annual
meeting of our association and wish to con-
gratulate you on tite satisfactory business you
have all "had since our meeting in Memphis.
This imiu'o\ement has not been confined to any
one section or any one wood hut our entire
membership has enjoyed the prosperity. I am
not surprised at the large attendance, for the

SAM E, liARU. NEW YORK. THIRD VICE
PRESIDENT.

interest sliown at the meetings heretofore has
proven that our work is not only one of great
important e. but that it is on the right lines
and we are benefiting not only our membership
but the trade at large.

Ex-president Palmer, in his annual report at
Memphis, recommended the change of our Itead-
ouarters from Indianapolis to some large bard-
wood center. Immediately after the adjourn-
ment of the annual meeting, the Board of Man-
agers considered this recommendation and re-

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moved the association's offices to Chicago. The
change was beneficial, enabling oui* secretary
to come in close contact with om- membei'shlp,
and was also of great benefit to our members
who do business in Chicago.

After being elected and assuming charge of
the duties imposed by you, the executive com-
mittee dccideil that their main object during
the year wmild be the improvement of the in-
spectiim department : that we would not give
our attention to securing new members but would
try and give tlie members we had better and
greater facilities — providing more inspectors,
and doing all we could to see that the applica-
tion of the rules was more uniform. Following
out this i)lan we relieved the surveyor general
of part of his duties, and put the entire office
and correspondence in charge of our secretary,
leaving the surveyor general with nothing to do
but to see and instruct his deputies as to the
proper application of the rules and to make re-
inspection when necessary.

(tur reasons for desiring this change were :
First. We found that our inspectors in the dif-
ferent markets were not making a uniform ap-
pliratiiin of the rules and felt that when we
could get the inspection of a shipment within
the 4 " per cent clause, whether made by the
deputy in Memphis. Xew York, (^'hicago, or any
other market. <uir work, as far as the applica-
tion was concerned, would be practically solved,
lor the buyer would then know just what he
would receive when the goods were measured
by a National A.ssociation deputy and certificate
issued.

Second. That we were not giving prompt serv-
ice to re-inspections.

The records will show that the change was
not only a good but a necessary one.

As already stated, we have made no special
effort to increase our membership. The change
in luindling our inspection department, and in
giving prompt service naturally brought in new
members, and I am pleased to inform you that
we have enrolled 169 new members during the
year.

As you all know, the organization of our
association was brought about by the fact that
every market had its own inspection rules, and
the "object was to get the different markets to-
gether and adopt one rule and make it possible
for the different markets to know what they
were buying and selling. As I understand it.
this association still has this, for its main ob-
ject and if it stands for anything it stands for.
and is committed to bring about, one inspection
rule and luiifnrm application of same.

At the liuffalo meeting a resolution was
adopted not to change our rules for three years,
the rules taking effect Dec. 1. 1 1)0.5, .so that
the time the i-utes would remain in effect would
be until Iiee. 1. IttO.S. At that time we all felt
that this was a wise move. We did not antici-
pate the changes that would develop, whicli

FUAXK F. FISH. CIIICAIjO. REAPPOINTED
SECRETARY.

have been ni^)re marked than has ever been
known in the history of the lumber interests.
Timber lands and stumpage have increased in
such a marked degree that manufacturers have
been obliged to saw and manufacture logs that
formerly were left to decay in the woods. The
scarcity and high price of some one wood would
cause manufacturers to try a cheaper article
which they would substitute and find that it
would give satisfaction, thus bringing into gen-
ei*al demand lumber to which very little atl;eu-

tion was given when the rules were made, on
account of its limited use and cheapness. Our
rules of today do not conform altogether with
custom and the entire output of tlie log is not
provided for. There has been for the past year
a persistent and vigorous agitation for what
are considered necessary changes in the rules
from the producing centers of Indiana, Michigan.
Wisconsin and the South. Your E-vecutive Com-
mittee, feeling that an earnest effort would
and should be made to suspend the Ruffalo
agreement at this meeting, instructed tlie
secretary to send out a letter to the
membersliip to this effect, and asked them
to send their views to Chairman Fath-
auer of the rules committee of any changes
they thought necessary. This was done for the
reason that lieretofore the inspection committee
has attempted to do this work, just prior to.
and at. the annual meeting, and was unable to
five attention 10 and to hear all who wished to
be heard on the subject. The inspection com-
mittie has nut only taken into consideration
all views from members who have given the
matter enough tluutght to express themselves
but liave also heard committees from other asso
ciatiiins and has its report ready to hand in
at tills meeting. I can assure you that the
changes offered have had more consideration
and tliought tliau any ever presented. I recom-
mend that the liuffalo agreement be suspended
and that the changes in the rules be adopted,
lefore leaving the subject I would also recom-
mend that the measurement be made on the hair
inch, viz., fi. eVj, 7, TVo-inch, etc.. and do away
with the give and take proposition tliat is the

W. A. BENNETT, CINCINNATI, DIRECTOR.

lause of so many cars falling one or two hun-
ilred feet .-.hort. and that we also allow a per-
lentage of odd feet in length. In shipping
lumber there is often six inches or one foot at
the end of the board that is valueless, and I
ran see no reason why two feet should be cut
ott simply because the custom was established
when we' had mtire timber land in the country
tluin wc knew what to do with. Lumber is too
valuable to continue this w'aste.

The inability of the railroads, for the past
eight months, to handle with promptness busi-
ness offered them has Interfered with the ship-
ments to such an extent that all of you have
sustained more or less serious loss. Railroad
officials frankly admit that the traffic of the
country has increased beyond their facilities to
such an extent that they are unable to promise
auv definite relief. This has brought into prom-
inence the subject of improving our existing
waterways. I consider it one of the vital ques-
tions of this day — we not only need trans-
])ortation. but we want transportation at a
minimum and not a maximum cost. Our water-
ways should be made navigable and kept so, and
when they are tu"re will be no such thing as
car shortage for, by relieving the railroads of
the vast amount of bulk product, they will be
able to keep up with the general development
of our country. We have invited John A. Fox,
special director of the National River and Har-
bor Congress, to speak on this subject tomor-
row, and I can assure you his address will be
entertaining and instructive.

I take this opportunity to thank the Board
of Managers and their committees for their
hearty and loyal support. TTie year has been
a very successful one for the association, and
before' closing I wish to place the credit where

it largely belongs, to our efficient secretary,
Frank F. Fish.

W. H. RussE, President.
The address was received with applause.
Secretary Fish then read his report, as fol-
lows :

Secretary's Report.

Mr. President and gentlemen : In submitting
this, my second annual report. I am gratitied

.lOlIN N. SC.VrCHERD, BUFFALO, DIRECTOR.

at being able to do so in a spirit of confidence
not possessed bv me upon the former occasion.
The as...oriaie vear closing with this meeting has
been profitable to the association and prolihc
in experience to the secretary. Each day has
developed new situations demanding the exer-
<ise of judgment and discretion in order that the
interests of the association might be fully pro-
tected In this school of experience I have
"•ithered a fund of information relative to asso-
ciate mctliods of operation and development not
possessed by me on taking charge of the office.
I trust tliat this training has not been secured
at an unduly high cost to this association, and
beg to assure this membership that it will he
used to the extent of my ability for the fur-
ther lietterment and development of the asso-
ciation. , , ,

In the preparation of my report I have been
pla<-ed at some disadvantage by the knowledge
hat it would follow the address of our able
president, which will leave little or nothing of
''cnerai interest for the secretary to communi-
cate to this membership aside from details
connected with his official duties. I trust, how-
ever that even those details may contain some-
thing worthy of consideration on the part 01
the members' present. .. , ij ;„

Shortly after the annual meeting lield m
Memphis last May, and in pursuance of the de-
cision reached by the Board of Managers at
that meeting the executive offices of the asso-
ciation were removed from Indianapolis, Ind.
It is mv belief that the change in location has
been distinctly advantageous to the interests of
he association, as it has enabled a much lai;ger
percentage of the membership to come in duect
contac with the actual workings of the asso-
ciation than would have been possible had the
ofhce been maintained in its former location.
The best assurance that the change has not in
a'; d?gre"e' worked adversely to the interests
of the association, rests m the tact that it has
occasioned no unfavorable comment "« bile on
?he other hand, in its present location the office
has been of much convenience to members who
ale had occasion to visit Chicago. It has been
mVbel ef ?hat the office belongs to the members
ot thi^^ association and I have therefore en-
deavored to extend to members a hospitable le-

""■""new departure in the work of the pa^t jear
was the holding of a semiannual mating of
the membership, which occurred m Cincinnati
on ofto^ei 2.5 aid 26. and brought out a credit-
able attendance. AS a full report of this ineet-
11'' was published in the various trade .lour-
n ,1s t is not desirable to enter into any de-
tails pertaining thereto. It may, however be
m-ope. to place some emphasis upon the adverse
,ction taken at that meeting with regard to
; he admission to membership in this association
of Hi ms or individuals not actually engaged
in the lumber trade. This action demonstra.ed
beyond any question that it is practically the

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uniiuiratms desire nf the membership that the
;issociati<m ever shall he an association (if lum-
hermen. for lumhermen and hy lumbermen.

As the year prngrcssed and an enormously in-
creased demand was noted from all sections of
the country for the inspection of this association
to he applied hy its inspectors, it became ap-
parent to tliose who had the work in cliarge
that a chanfie was necessary in the methods
in voijiie for haniJIinK the inspectors in the held
in oi"der tu inci-ease the efficiency of tlie de-

i;i<\VAl;i

'KLKV. MAMSTKK. MU'll.
IUKKCTOR.

parlmenl in which lliey were employed and
that tlic members of the association might re-
ceive reasonably pmmpt service.

nwing to the fact that the chief inspector was
necessarily absent from the office of the asso-
ciation much of the time in the prosecution
of his duties pertaining: to re-inspe<-tirm and
supervising the work nf inspectors, delays of a
serious nature were likely to occur iu the trans-
mission of directions from that office to the in
spectors at work in Ihe various sections of thi'
country. To obviate these delays and to place
the work on a tiioting of greatest efficiency.
Ihe IJiiard of .M:niagers. at a meeting held on
June 14 and 1o. unanimously decided to place
Ihe secretary in cliarge of the work of inspec-
tion so far as the assignment of employment
to the different inspectors was concerned. 'With-
out a desire to appropriate any personal credit.
it is (uily proper for uie to state that this new
arrangement lias produted results of the most
sa I isfactory nal ure. A check is now kept on
all salaried inspectors employed by the asso-
ciation whereby it is possible to determine from
the records in the secretary's office just where
and for whom each inspector is at work at all
limes, and what work he has assigned to him
several days in advance. As a result of this
system inspectors are no longer idle while mem-
bers are waiting for service. Chaotic cimdi-
tions have been replaced by system and effi-
cien'*y in service is ii-ade to keep step with the
'levcIoi)ment of the association.

Much *tf my lime during the past year has
I bus It-'cn <levi>t(fi to bettering the conditions
under wbicli the actual work of inspection is
conducted. I believe, however, that efforts put
fnrtli in this direction have been of a ijrotitablc
nature to the association, as the increase in
the demands for national inspection shown by
the i-eport vf the chairman of tlie Inspection
Bureau Committee will amply demonstrate.

II has a ISO been part of the work of the
secretary to invcstiL'ale and settle a number
of claims arising from re-inspedinn. 1 have
made it a point to handle these claims promptly
and if thev were of a nature to justify pay-
ment by this association such payment has been
made willioiit any unnecessary delay. i >n the
other band, if ii" liability rested against the
association, the claimanls liave been promptly
notified tliat their claims were denied.

The establishment of a system of thorough-
ness ciuipled with pruiupt action in the affairs
of the inspection department cannot fail to
commend itself to all members who are brought
into contact with I bat feature of the work of
the association. U is not my purpuse to claim
that perfection in detail has' been attained, for
such is not the fact. Put a reasonable degree
of progress has b^en made in the proper direc-
tions which justifies the belief that still belter
conditions will nrovail in the near future. In
the selection of new insnectors extreme care
has been taken to admit <n]Iy those of umpies-

tiiined integrity and greatest ability, and every
practical lumberman will appreciate the diffi-
culty of establishing and maintaining a corps
of i'nspei-tors of such a quality in the markets.

There have been instances during the past
year wherein association members have not
hesitated to prevail upon inspectors of this
association to leave its service and enter into
their employment. Such action, while possibly
not irregular even from an associate stand-
point, is at times very embarrassing to the
service. The only suggestion I can offer to
insure the retention of inspectors in our serv-
ice when it is to the interest of the association
to so retain them, is to increase the compensa-
tion to a degree that will prohibit their em-
ployment hy individuals. I offer this sugges-
tion under "the belief that the strength of this
association is sufficient fn enable it to command
tile services of an inspector against the com-
petition of any individual.

While much of my time has thus been occu-
Itied in the discharge of duties newly assigned to
the (iffice of the secretary. I have not been un-
mindful of the necessity existing for a con-
liniied increase in membership, and although the
important increase of the previous year has
not been equalled during the year just ended.
1 trust the following figures will he approved
by the membership.

Since May. lf*(i(». HJM new firms have been
added to the membership roll. During the same
period a number of firms who have been identi-
lied with the work have retired from business
or sold out and we have dropped several names
as delinquent. Details are as follows :

<;ai:i>m:u i. .inNi:s. nosTOX. dikectou.

.Membership May, liUir. oO:^

Applications received since 177

Applications rejected sine-' S

Total accepted 169

67li
Hesignation and withdrawals by reason

of going out of business. . . '. .").s

Dropped as delinquent L'U

78
Association membership May 23. 1007.. oU4

The manner in which a majority of our mem-,
bers have remitted dues and inspection fees
has supplied the treasury with sutficient funds
to discharge all indcbledness promptly. Details
()f receipts and disbursements from my office are
as follows :

ItKCEIPTS.

P^rom membership dues .fll 5.175.00

From inspection fees 2S. 148.95

From inspection rules G91.17

From cash deposits 450.00

$44,465.12

DISRUUSEMICXTS.

Tieiuitted treasurer !};44. 279.81

Cash anri checks on liand 185.31

.H4.4G5.12

Uesults obtained from the publication in
pamphlet form of the proceedings of the meet-
ing prompted the executive committee to sim-
ilar action on the Memphis convention. Sev-
eral thousand copies were distributed among
the membership and others interested in the
association work.

A revised edition of the official hand-hook
was issued in November. lOOr,. and lias been

of assistance iu acipiainting the trade at large
with the methods of the Inspection tJureau,
and as a considerable percentage of the delay
in inspection work can be traced to the fact
that all of our members are not familiar with
the system, it is perhaps proper that I urge a
careful study on the part of members of this
hand-book.

At our ninth annual meeting, held last year
at Memphis, the committee, appointed hy the
president, on officers' reports recommended that
the emblem in use on the association letter-
heads and all printed matter coming from the
executive office he adopted hy our members for
use on their business stationery.

.\bout twenty-five per cent of our members
have adopted this suggestion and employ the
cut on their checks as well as stationery. I
have a supply of the electrotypes of this design
on hand and should he pleased if the balance
of the members would adopt it.

luiring this year the exe<-utive committee have
held eight meetings, and <m four occasions the
full Hoard of Directors have been called in con-
ference as follows ;

Mav 4. iriOG.

.Tune 14 and 15. 190G.

Julv 10 and 17. 19n0.

October 25 and 20. 1900.

November 22. 1906.

January 11. 1907.

February 27, 1907.

March 28. 1907.

.\ll of these meetings except two were held
in the executive offices in Chicago, the excep-
tions being Board of Managers' meeting of May
4. 19n0, which was held at Memphis, and Board
of Managers' meeting of .lanuary 11, 1007. held
in Indianapolis, on which occasion we were the
guests of the Indiana Hardwood Dumbermeu's
Association at their annual meeting.

Before entering the service of this asso<'iation
my occupation was such as to bring me into
close touch with many lines of business and
also with the men in charge and I became more
or less acquainted with the methods by which
such lines of business were conducted. I may
therefore be qualified to a certain extent to ex-
press expert opinion regarding business methods
and business men. It is a source of much satis-
faction to me to have this opportunity to tes-
tify to Ihe high quality of ability and the unself-
ish devotion shown by those gentlemen who
have bad in charge the destiny of this associa-
tion during my brief connection therewith. If
I possessed any doubts as to the ultimate at-
tainment of the objects toward which the efforts
of this membership have been directed, such
doubts have long since been dissipated by the
sincerity and enthusiasm which I have seen
brought into the work by these members.

If this enthusiasm were contagious and if
all itiembers of this association shfuild become
inoculatf'd therewith, enormous gains would
be immediately shown in the affairs of the
association. 1 would not be understood, how-

W. A. BONSACK, ST. LOUIS, DIUKCTOR.

ever, as implying that this membership is lack-
ing in interest in associate aft'airs. because the
attendanie at this meeting is a sufficient con-
tradiction of any such implication. It is my
belief that the National Hardwood Lumber Asso-
ciation is not only growing stronger numeri-
cally hut that the" sentiment of unity is also
increasing in the membership, which cannot
fail to add materially to the strength of the
association.

HARDWOOD RECORD

That natiniial iuspectiun is firmly established
throuKh<'<iT the country cannot he successfully
denied. TInM-e is no hardwtMjd market in this
country thai does not recognize it as the basis
for yradinji hardrt'ood hnnher. Therefore, so
far as it is proper fur an employee to congratu-
late his emphiyer. I desire to express that senti-
ment tv tliis membership for the quality of the
organizatinn which has been developed by their
efforts, for the position which it occupies in the
trade today and tor the smcess which has at-
tended upon its endeavors to improve conditions
imder which that trade is conducted. Tlie future
progress of the association will depend, in large
measure, upon the efficiency of its officers and the
enthusiastic Uiyalty of its members. If the
experience of the past year is a criterion there
is every reason to look forward to large accom-
plishments in the near future.

Respectfully submitted,

Fi{.\NK F. Fish. Secretary.

The report was received with applause.

J. \V. Thompson moved that the address of
the president and the report of the -secretary be
referred tn a (-(mimitlee to consider the recom-
mendations contained therein, which was duly
seconded and carried.

The chair appointed as such committee :
Samuel K. Parr of New York, D. F. Clark of
Minneapolis and George ^A^ Stoneman of Devalls
Bluff. Ark.

President liusse^I hope the committee will
get to work as soon as they get the reports so
they will be al)Ie to make their reports not later
than tomiirrow morning at the opening session.

Treasurer (iraham read his report, as follows*

Treasurer's Report.

Kec'd San Francisco fund $ 1,045.00

-lune 27,. llMMl. .T. B. I'helan, Chn. Re-
lief c*c Bed rross Com 1.045.00

RECEIPTS.

Cash deposit fund, O. E. Yeager. treas.$ 1,800.41

Nineteen inspectors 475.00

Interest to January S 34.14

Total $2,309.55

Surplus transf. to gen. fund. ..$559.55

Kefiiud to IT inspf. it.is. . . ..425.00 984.55

Balance $1,325.00

General fund. O. E. Yeager, treas. . . .$ 520.47

Dues. 607 members 15.175.nii

Inspec. and reinspec. fees 27.903.04

Inspection rules 091.17

Surplus and int. from deposit fund.. 559.55

Total $44,000.83

EARL PALMER, FADUCAH, KV., DIRECTOR.

DISBURSEMENTS.

President's office $35.60

Secretary's salary $3,000.00

Rent 1.008.00

Office and trav. exp 4.762.19— 9,370.19

Treas. bond, printing and stationery. 29.75

Inspectors' salaries 23.526-95

Expense 5,354.84 — 28.881.79

Reinspection 3,927.72

Directors attending meetings 339.55

I'rinting 1.525.71

Error remittance II. C. Corn Lbr. Co.. 15.86

Refund deposit at-count 25.00

Refund deposit acci. (Talbertt. 4. 85 29.85

Total $42,156.12

Balance $ 2,753.71

Respectfully submitted,
J. W.\TT Graham, Treasurer.

I'resident Russe — I think that shows we are
still alive — and we don't owe anything. We
have paid our debts and still we have money.

The program shows at this time an intermis-
sion for lunch. I believe, however, if there are
no objections, that we ought to get in one or
I wo more reports so that we will be sure to get
through tomorrow. Of course, if it is the sense
of the meeting, we