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LARGEST VENEER PLANT IN

C. L. WIILEY

MANnFACrnRER <

Mahogany, Veneer

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Office, Factory and Yards: 1225 Robcy St.

Chicago

THIS PRESCRIPTION WILL BE PROPERLY FILLCD BV

HIIV\1V\ELBERQER = HARRISON LUMBER CO.

MOREHOUSE. MO.

The Davidson-Benedict Company

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

Southern Hardwoods

POPLAR, CHESTNUT, ASH, OAK

(Plain and Quartered.) Straight or Hiied Cars.

TMjcccTin unPI AR AMV YOU GET WHAT YOU BUY FROM

DRESSED POPLAK Ar>) y ^ ^g^ ^^^ ou^ delivered
WAY YOU WANT IT. prices, any railroad point.

THE ATLANTIC LUMBER CO.

2 KUby St., BOSTON

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

\A/HITE OAK

TENNESSEE RED CEDAR. TBIN POPLAR AND POPLAR SIDINO

ASK US WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU.

Poplar

and

Hardwoods

BRANCH OFFICES:

Philadelphia, Land Title Bldg.

New York, No. I Madison Ave.

Hemlock

land!'

Spruce

BAND MILLS:!

Richwood, Camden-on-Gauley,

; riolcomb, W. Va.[

\ A Very Substantial Cash Saving for Every Policy-Holder

The stock companies epecializing in lumber insurance are —

Lumber Insurance Co. of New York Adirondack Fjre Insurance Go. Toledo Fire ana Marine Insurance Co.

84 William St.. New Vork, 84 William St.. New York Sandusk,. Ohio

COMBINED ASSETS OVER. Sl.OOO.OOO'

For particulars address ..Headquarters for Lumber Insurance" Lumber Insurers Genera. A.ency. Underwri.in, >U.a.ers, 84 Win.am.St., New Sork

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HARDWOOD RECORD

Ash

Bass

Beech

Birch

Cherry

Chestnut

J. GIBSON McILVAIN & COMPANY

1420 Chestnut Street, PhilaLdelphiaL, Pbl.

■"rhe Spring clean-up shows that we have a much larger
^ stock of HARDWOODS in our Philadelphia distributing
yards than we desire to carry ; in order to alleviate this
condition, we have decided to name the lowest possible sell-
ing price and we assure you that this is LOW, when the
condition and grade of this stock is taken into consideration.
If you are in the market now for present or future require-
ments, it will mean money in your pocket to take advant-
age of this extraordinary offer. Let us have your inquiries
and see for yourselves.

MclLVAIN'S LUMBER NEWS for April is ready for mailing; if you are not on the

list, now is a good time to send us j^our name and address.

Spruce

Redwood

Poplar

Mahogany

Hemlock

CLOSE PRICES

ON THE FOLLOWING:

13 M li"No. 1 common and better

Basswood.

17 M IJ" Ists and 2nds Basswood.

20 M 2" No. 1 and 2 common Bass-

wood.

20 M 1x4-1x5 No. 1 and 2 Birch

strips.

150 M 1" No. 1 common Birch.

30 i\I 2i" Ists and 2nds and No. 1

common Rock Elm, 14' and 16' .

75 M 2" Sound common D.

. W. Jonas Lumber Co.

tppletoit, Wis.

Goodlander Robertson
Lumber Co-

Hardwood Lumber

Memphis, Tennessee
IF IT'S HARD TO GET, WRITE US

THOMAS FORMAN CO,

DETROIT, MICH.

UANUFACTURERS OF HIQB GRADE

Maple and Oak Flooring

We desire to move promptly a large quantity of

13-16.xli'' Clear Quarter Sawed White Oak Flooring.
13-16xli" Clear Plain Sawed White Oak Flooring.
13-16xli" Clear Plain Sawed Red Oiik Flooring.
13-16x1 j" Clear Maple Flooring.

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

HARDWOOD RECORD

CADILLAC

CELEBRATED FOR HIGH STANDARD OF QUALITY AND MILL WORK

Michigan Trees

and

Mitchells Products

Under this title we have made a booklet
to show by illustrations the principal
varieties of trees in our forests, to des-
cribe the character and uses [of the dif-
ferent woods, and to explain our prod-
ucts and the form in which they are
offered to the trade. We want to send
you a free copy of the book and also our
dry stock list of Michigan hardwoods.

Please Write Us

Mitchell Brothers Company

Cadillac, Mich.

CHERRIES?

NOT CHERRIES

BUT

CHERRY LUMBER

.\N Unusually Fine Stock of

4/4 No. 2 Common and Better 30 M

5/4)

6/4 \ No. 2 Common and Better 45 M

8/4 j

4/4 No. 3 Common 30 M

THIS STOCK IS OF OUR OWN MANUFACTURE

THOROUGHLY AIR -DRIED AND READY FOR

IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES

Also have a Good Assortment of Hard Maple, Beech,
Birch and Soft Elm.

GUMMER-DIGGINS CO.

Ihe Cadillac Handle Co.

CADILLAC. MICHIGAN

\A/e- Offer F~oi- Sale

3 cars 4-4 Soft Elm, No. 2 Com. and Better. Dry.

I car 6-4 Bce(h, No. 3 Com. Dry.

7,000 ft. 4-4 Birds Eye Maple, guaranteed 75% Ists

and 2nds.
5 cars 4-4 x 6-incli Maple, No. 3.

MURPHY & DIQQINS

Offer all grades of the following special dry stock

MAPLE— 5/4, 6/4, 8/4. 10/4, 12/4, 14, 4, l«/4
GRAY ELM— 4/4, 12/4
BASSWOOD-4/4
BIBCH— »/4, e/4

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

MICHIGAN MAPLE

DRY HARD MAPLE

750.000 feet 4/4 Firsts and Seconds
1,500.000 feet 4/4 No. I and 2 Common

This lumber was manufactured
during the fore part of 1907 and is
now thoroughly seasoned.

It is a superior lot, good widths,
and the lengths run from 60% to
70% 14 and 16 feet.
^ A more definite description, with
prices, will be furnished upon
request.

COBBS&MITCtlELL

C INCORPORATED)

CADILLAC, MICHIGAN, Wr

HARDWOOD RECORD

"WS^.?" MAPLE FLOORING ule-rr'„;".u»

rv.CJ V_> 1^. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^mmm^^^^^^^^^^^ from stump to finish is tin-

WORKMANSHIP UNEXCELLED . t::irZ^"ZZT^-

GRADING UNIFORM and RIGHT are located where the tim

i PRICES WORTH YOUR. CONSIDERATION ber grows.

WRITE US FCR.:PRICES AND OUR PLAN FOR. SUPPLYING CARLOADS AND LESS DELIVERED

W. H. WHITE CO. MAJESTIC building DETROIT, MICH.

W. H. Dawkins Lumber Co.

Manufacturers of Band Sawed

Yellow Poplar

We also handle HEMLOCK, OAK and CHESTNUT. ASHLAND. KY.

PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

COTTONWOOD

GUM AIND OTHER HARDWOODS

L&rge stock* of well seasoned Lumber always carried at 0'<r yards and mills.
GcncMl Offices: MOW. Chicago Ave., CHICAGO. Mills: Cairo, 111., Marked Tree, Ark., Greenville, Miss., Arkansas City, Ark., Blythevillc, Ark.

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

HARDWOODRECORD S

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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
Philadelphia Office, 1402 Und Title & Trust BIdg., Philadelphia, Pa.

little river
lumber co.

clearTield

LUMBER CO., Inc.

peart. nields 4
Mccormick co.

Specialists in tlie Production of

Poplar, Oak, Chestnut, Hemlock
and North Carolina Pine

Address Sales Offices:

218 GIrard Bldq
PHILADELPHIA

W. M. McCORMICK

The KNEELAND BIGELOW CO

MANUFACTURERS OF LUMBER

Annual Output:

20,000,000 ft. Hardwoods. Mills R-vin the Tee.r

20,000,000 ft. Hemlock.
4,000,000 pes. Hardwood Lath.
9,000,000 pes. Hemloek Lath.

Arourvd.

Bay City, Mich.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Co.

Fisher, La.

MANUFACrnRERS OF

OAK AND GUM

We make a specialty of Bridge and Car Material. Can

ship mixed cars of Pine and Hardwood — Manufac=

tured exclusively by our own mills.

H. C. CREITH & CO.

Hardwood Lumber

Can quote special prices on

300,000 feet 4-4 Furniture Oak.
100,000 feet 6-4 Sound Wormv Chestnut.
50,000 feet 4-4 Log Run Birch.

919 Columbus Savings and Trust Co. Building
COLUMBUS, OHIO.

CASE -FOWLER CO.

CHATTANOOGA, TENN.

HARD WOOD

YELLOW PINE LUMBER

ALBERT HAAS LUMBER CO.

BAND SAWED

OAK AND RED GUM

POPLAR AND YELLOW PINE

ATLANTA . - - - GEORGIA

NEAL = DOLPH LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers Hardwood Lumber

RANDOLPH BUILDINQ MEMPHIS, TRNNESSEE

WE WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU

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 tlie world. We have furnished
banks and trust companies with reports on timber tracts upon which millions of dollars of timber certifi-
cates or bonds have l^een 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 Bldg., NEW ORLEANS
1200 Old Colony Bldg., CHICAGO

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

HARDWOOD RECORD

Timber Holdings

of the Estate of
David Ward

FOR SALE

as a Whole or in

Parcels on
Favorable Terms

This tract of timber lands, comprisinK approximately 70,000
acres, being the Michigan timber holdings of the late David
Ward, contains the largest area, embracing timber of the best
quality and greatest variety, of any timber tract in Michigan.
The stand embraces the finest quality of Maple, Rock Elm,
Gray Elm, Basswood and Hemlock Timber, with a consider-
able quantity of White Pine, Birch, Beech, Cedar, Cherry and
Black Ash.

The entire tract is traversed by standard railroad line, with
water transportation connection at East Jordan.

For detailed information including
maps, terms, etc., apply to Trus=
tees of David Ward Estate, Or=
chard Lake, Michigan.

D. G. COURTNEY

MANUFACTURER OF

Car and
Railroad
Timbers

Yellow Poplar

Oak, Chestnut 6w

Basswood

Oak

Coop-
erage

CHARLESTON.

WEST VIRGINIA

Modem mills and perfect manufacture.

We make a specialty of getting out high grade Soft West Virginia Panel Poplar and are in position to ship either straight or
mixed cars of lumber. We also get out a Sound Wormy grade of Chestnut, suitable for veneer purposes. We will load cars to
Ewit the requirements of our customers. We seek the trade of wood-working factories who want a dependable lumber supply and
fair treatment.

Write us for prices on Chestnut, all grades.

HARDWOOD RECORD

C. C. MENGEL a BRO. CO. ^^^-

LOUISV/ILLE, KY.

Mahogany Lumber and Veneers

MLn!,-t-I, Yucatan. M.'

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 White Oak

A GOOD STOCK. PROMPT SHIPMENTS,

Personal supervision from timber purchase to delivery of your kind of Stock
NEW ALBANY, IND.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Louisiana Central Lumber Co.

Clarks, La.

MANUFACTURERS OF

OAK, GUM and HICKORY

Stock cut to order. We make a specialty of
Bridge and Car Material. Manufactured stocks
by our own mills. Write us for prices.

Quartered Oak Flooring

Manufactured for

HIGHEST GIASS of trade only.

Also Plain Oak, Maple and other Hardwood flooring-.

The name O WIGHT on flooring is a guarantee of its

excellence.
DWIGHT SPECIAL pattern of thin flooring is the
only suitable thin flooring to lay. Write for Sample.

DWIGHT LUMBER. COMPANY

DETR.OIT, MICHIGAN'

Experience teaches that you can get best
values by deaUng direct with the manu-
facturer. Ask us for prices on any part '
of ten million feet of dry Tennessee Red
Cedar, Hickorj-, Quartered and Plain Red
and White Oak, Chestnut, Poplar and Ash

We are keen to sell

Love, Boyd & Co,

NASHVILLE, TENN.

HOAD & BEERS COMPANY

Engineers, Manufacturers' Agents and Sole Owners of

THE "ROCHESTER" DRY KILN

Absolutely guaranteed to dry lumber as quick, and bring the lumber
out in better shape than any other kiln.

IN A CLASS BY ITSELF

The system can be applied to old as well as new kilns at small expense

and be installed by your own mechanics.

NO BIG ROYALTY. BUT BIG ECONOMY in operation.

Write for particulars.

229 Granite Bldg., Rochester, N. Y.

Motor Drive
Pays

A Motor lor taf h Mac,

A surprising amount of money
has been saved in factories where
the General Electric Company's
motor drive has supplanted the
old drive.

Many factory managers agree
on this; others are beginning to
reahze it.

Some of the things that have been
done are described in an attractive
booklet No. 4572-H. It was pre-
pared especially for wood-workers
and may be had for the asking.

Geneml Electric Company

Principal Office: Schenectady, N. Y.

Chicago Office, Monadnock Building,
Sa.les Offices in all Large Cities.

HARDWOOD RECORD

PHILADELPHIA

THE HARDWOOD CENTtR OF THE EAST

WILLIAM WHITMER. ®> SONS, Inc.

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET FOR STOCKS OF
WELL MANUFACTURED

HARDWOODS

BRANCHES:

NEW YORK, BOSTON, PITTSBURG

WM. A. REED, HoTiALE LUMBER

HARDWOODS. CYPRESS AND OTHER WOODS

1115 Stephen Girard Bldg. PHILADELPHIA. PA.

PAUL W. FLECK LUMBER COMPANY
1^ro"o\T..".\'r. HARDWOODS

POPLAR, WHITE PINE, HEMLOCK

BRISTOL, TENN.-VA.
BRANCH OFFICE, 322 323 North American Building, PHILADELPHIA PA.

TOMB LUMBER COMPANY

Real Estate Trust Building, Phlla-delpKla.

100 ft 8-4 Sound Wormy Chestnut HOOO ft. w 1 and 4 Red Oak

m ft. 4-4 Sound Wormy CbeBtnut

1 Com. and Better

,tnut 172000 ft. 4-4 No. 8 Com. Kedc

ft. 4-1 Log Run Red Oak
OAK CVT TO ORDER

SOBLE^

BROTHERS

WHOLESALE LUMBER ||

MiUs:

Specialties:

Honaker. Va., Okeeta, Va

Quartered White Oak, Poplar.

Lana Title. Bldg., F-hiilade-lphia, F»a. |

E. L. EDWARDS

Dayton, Ohio — .Main Office

Walnut Plain and Poplar

Cherry Quartered Oak Chestnut

GEST AND DALTON AVE.
CINCINNATI, O.

YOUR CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

MAIN OFnCES:
GIRARD TRUST BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA

R1GHTER=PARRY LUMBER CO.

Write us for prices on plain and quartered Oal<, Cypress, Red Qum, Sap

Gum, Hickory, Ash, Poplar, Chestnut, Maple, Birch, Beech,

Basswood and Cottonwood.

LAND TITLE BLDG..

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

KIRBY & HAWKINS COMPANY
Everything in Hardwoods

PHILADELPHIA

JOMIN W. COLES

WHOLESALE Yellow Pin.

HARDWOODS - -

Real Estate Trust Bulldlr\g PKIla.delphle

Hemlock
White Pine
Spruce

H. H. MAUS & CO., INC.

M.\NUF.\CTURER3

HARDWOOD and YELLOW PINE.

Write us if you wish to buy or sell.
420 Walnut St., ■ - - PHILADELPHIA, PA.

PAYSON SMITH LUMBER COMPANY

Minneapolis, Minn.

WHOLESALE SOUTHERN LUMBER

Mills in Alabama — Tennessee — .Mississippi — Arkansas

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

HARDWOOD RECORD

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' ■ LEADING MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS

R.E. Wood Lumber Company

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

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

GENERAL OFFICES:
CONTINENTAL BUILDING.

Baltimore, Maryland

THE CROSBY (^ BECKLEY CO.

McLHufacturers and Wholesalers

Oak, Poplar, Ash, Maple
Chestnut, Gum, Bass

ASSOCIATE COMPANIES:
The Holly Lumber Co., Pickens, W. Va.
The Douglass & Walkley Co., Drew, Miss.

Head Office: NEW HAVEN. CONN.

DISTRIBUTINO YARDS:
Columbus, Ohio,
Evansville, Ind.

Western Office: COLUMBUS. OHIO

White Oak Timbers

Special Bills in any Size Cut to Order
Chestnut — F»oplar — Red Oak.

A Good Supply of Dry Lumber in Stock

WRITE FOR PRICES

Thomas F. Smouse

Cumberland, A\d.

OWEN BEARSE & SON CO.

OUR SPECIALTY

MAHOGANY LUMBER

33 Broad Street Boston, Mass.

Wantcd-Dogwood and Persimmon

.Sfiul tor .Specifications

Indiana Qvjartered Oak Co.

7 E 42nd Street, New York City

JOHN L. ALCOCK & CO.

BUYERS OF BLACK WALNUT LOGS
BOARDS AND PLANKS

Baltimore, Md.

89 STATE STREET

H. D. WIGGIN 'i<^iro%ntl

Whitewood, Oak, Chestnut, Elm, Basswood
Maple and Birch.

SEND ME YOUR LIST OF OFFERINGS FOR SPOT CASH

WM. E. LITCHFIELD

MASON BUILDING, BOSTON, MASS.

Specialist in Hardwoods

Mannfacturers are requested to supply lists of stock for sale

GOU\/ERINEUR E, S;V\ITH

No. 17 BATTERY PLACE, NEW YORK

Southern and PennsylvoLnia. Ha^rdwoods — Oe^k,
Ash. Chestnut. I»Ia.ple and Birch

BRANCH OFFICEl No. BS BROAD ST., BOSTON

HARDWOOD RECORD

"NONE-LIKE-IT"
"ARTHUR BRAND"

MEMPHIS-MADE

'IT'S A LITTLE BETTER'

ARTHUR HARDWOOD FLOORING CO.

MEMPHIS. TENN.

ALL-LIKE-IT

"Michigan" Maple Flooring

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

We produce car lumber from the best rock Ma-
ple area in Michig-an and have 20 years' supply.

Our brand "Michigan" is a guaranty of qual-
ity. Perfect mill work and excellent grades
distinguish our Flooring and our prices are
reasonable.

WARD BROS., Big Rapids, Mich.

OAK

Kiln Dried ,

FLOORING

HaIIaw

(^ hAPDWOOO LUMBER <,\ nUliUW

Bored ^

>^&MFC.CO. '^

^X Backed

Polished

^^^f^^

Bundled

300,000 FEET

4/4 Is a.rvd 2s

PLAIN OAK

Ready for Immediate Shipment,
("ail "Kiln Dry" it if wanted.

THE M. B. FARRIN LUMBER CO.

CINCINNATI

'Wear's RocK Mapl e Flooring

Is the flooring that is manufactured expressly to supply
the demand for the best. It is made by modern ma-
chinery from carefully-selected stock and every pre-
caution is taken throughout our entire system to
make it fulfill in every particular its name— "IDEAL."

Rough or Finished Lumber — All Kinds

Send us Your Inquiries

The I. Stephenson Company

WELLS, MICHIGAN

Successful Business Men

owe their prosperity largely to the fact that they
keep in close touch with every phase of their busi-
ness. We make it part of our business to systematize
book-keeping methods so as to save labor and time
and place you in easy touch with the conditions of
any department. We solicit correspondence and will
be pleased to give any information desired about
our service. :■::•:.• ::::::

The International Audit Co.

411 Merchants Loan & Trust Bldg., CHICAGO.

A floor to adore

For thirty-three years Wilce'.s Hardwood Floor-
mil: has been among the foremost on the market
iri'l l)ecau.se it stands today "unequaled" is the
■ st evidence that its manufacturer has kept
:iiireast of modern methods and the advanced de-
mands of the trade. To convince yourself of the
above statements, try our polished surface flopr-
ing. tongued and grooved, hollow backed, with
matched ends and holes for blind nailing— you'll
find it reduces the expense of laying and polishing.
Our Bnnklrl tells all about Hardwood Flooring and
lura.' to carc/or it— also prices— and is free.

The T. Wilce Company

22nd ai\d Throop Sts. CHICAGO. ILL.

LUMBERMEN

Give us some ol your

Fire Insurance

Our Rates Will Save You Money

Lumber Underwriters

66 Broadway, New York

(Only Olllce)

Published In the Interest of Ha-Tdwood Lumber, America.n Ha.rdwood Forests, Wood Veneer Industry. Ha.rdwood Flooring, NEV
HaLrdvrood Interior Flrtish, Wood ClAefnicai.Is. Sa.>v Mill a^nd Wood\vorklng Mai.cKirvery. BOT

Vol. XXVI.

CHICAGO. APRIL 25. 1908.

No. 1.

Published on the 10th and 25th o[ each month hy

THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

HENRY H. GIBSON. Ed.ior. EDGAR H. DEFEBAUGH. M.n.gtr.

7th Floor, Ellsworth Bldg.. 355 Dearborn St.. Chicago, 111., U.S.A.

Telephone Harrison 4960

REPRESENTATIVES

Philadelphw ... Jacob Hollzmm, 916 Rolhschlld Buildioe

TERMS OF ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION
In the United States, Canada, Philippine Island, and Mexico $2.00

In all other countries in Universal Postal Union 3.00

Subscriptions are payable in advance, and in default of written orders to the
contrary are continued at our option.

Entered as second class matter May 26, 1902, at the Postoflice at Chicago.
111. under act of March 3, 1879.

Coming Association Meetings.

HANDLE MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION.
The Handle Manufacturers' Association of America will
hold its regular semiannual meeting at the Gait House,
Louisville, Ky., Wednesday, May 20.

SOUTHERN CYPRESS MANUFACTURERS'
ASSOCIATION.
The fourth annual meeting of this organization will con-
vene at New Greunewald Hotel, New Orleans, Wednesday
and Thursday, May 20 and 21, at 10:00 a. m.

NATIONAL HARDWOOD LUMBER ASSOCIATION.

The annual meeting of the National Hardwood Lumbei
Association will be held at Milwaukee, Thursday and Friday,
June 11 and 12.

NATIONAL LUMBER MANUFACTURERS'
ASSOCIATION.

On Jiine 16, 17 and 18 the National Lumber Manufac-
turers' Association will convene for its annual meeting at
Minneapolis, Minn.

General Market Conditions.

^ While general hardwood conditions are not exatftly featureless
C.thoy approach that point. Handtoiiiouth buying prevails in all
"""quarters, save that certain large and financially strong jobbers,
2^figuring that hardwood lumber is better property than money, are
T)uying very heavily. They are practically speculating on the
^market, believing that with coflfparatively short stocks lumber
^[Will command much higher prftfes before the year is over. There

is a renaissance of railroad buying in some quarters, although it
has not yet reached the West to any extent. On the whole, the
country over, the market may be considered a little stronger, and
there is a little increase in the volume of sales. However, whole-
sale consumers are still chary and are generally buying only for
immediate requirements.

The hardwood flooring trade remains in very fair shape, the
aggregate of repair orders taken in combination with the office
and public building work going on, seeming to keep this branch
of the industry fairly well occupied.

Veneers and panels are showing only a moderate demand, and
prices are ranging lower than they should. The same may be
said of the handle industry, and there is apparently less than half
the normal demand.

The foreign woods business is suffering with the domestic
product and although the call is only moderate, prices are fairly
well maintained.

As to domestic woods, the air is full of rumors of cut prices,
but traced to their source it is found that few of the large
operators are making any concessions. What cutting is being
done, is by small manufacturers and jobbers of little financial
worth, who have been obliged to make sales in order to meet
current obligations.

On the whole the market is in very fair shape and thirty days'
normal trade will greatly enhance values. The average manu-
facturer looks on the situation from an optimistic viewpoint,
believing his stock of lumber in pile is a mighty good asset, and
lir ]iroposi's to keep it until he can secure his price.

• The Maple Flooring Situation.

As compared with the trade of a year ago the maple flooring busi-
ness cannot be counted brisk, although all the manufacturers of the
better class have been able to operate on two-thirds to full time thus
far during the year. Orders are becoming more plentiful and un-
doubtedly production will be considerably increased in the near
future. The use of maple flooring is steadily broadening, and the
product is constantly gaining friends. It is undeniably one of the
best materials for the purpose on the market, and its ability to re-
sist wear and rough usage is increasing its popularity for all pur-
poses, particularly for public and ofiice buildings, stores, warehouses
and factories.

The manufacture of maple flooring has reached a point of per-
fection where it may be called a science, and about the only argu-
ment that can be used against the material is that, through bad
handling and neglect after floors are laid, it often becomes grimy,
a condition w^hich materially injures its appearance. If users of it
could be persuaded into an avoidance of the mop and slop-bucket
in cleaning the floors, and would substitute therefor any of the ap-
proved floor finishes, or even so simple a compound as equal parts of
turpentine, sweet oil and vinegar, thoroughly mixed, applying with
cheesecloth rags, a^ter the floor is swept, they would have a sur-
face that would be clean, light and beautiful in appearance for many
years. Manufacturers are certainly doing their part to make a very
desirable flooring, but up to this time very few users have given the
material just treatment after it has been laid.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Increased Use of Fireproof Bailding Material.

In spite of the growing popularity and consequent remarkable
increase in the use of cement, steel, brick and stone as building
materials, they are not yet so generally employed that the time when
forests will not be called upon to supply the great bulk of it can be
foreseen.

Building operations in forty-nine of the principal cities of the
United States for the year 1907 show that fifty-nine per cent were
of wooden construction. "While these figures represent the building
indtistry of the country to a certain extent it must be remembered
that had they included small cities, villages and suburbs, the per-
centage of buildings of wooden construction would have been much
greater.

Had the remaining forty-one per cent of the total number been
built entirely of brick, stone or concrete, the figures presented would
be much more valuable. However, vast quantities of wood, even in
the so-called fireproof buildings, are used in the construction work,
for floors and for inside finish, although today metal is very popular
for the latter.

In comparative statistics New York shows the smallest percentage
of wooden buildings constructed during the year, while Boston shows
the greatest increase of any of the cities in the total cost of building
operations. The rapidly increasing price of lumber, and the use of
fireproof systems should eventually hold down the drain upon the
forests materially, but so far they do not appear to have decreased
the lumber demand, notwithstanding the vast quantities employed.

Contracts.

There are a lot of people in this world who make contracts and
have not the last compunction about signing their name or giving
a specific order and then breaking their word! Fortunately, there
are few lumber concerns of this character. Nevertheless,
owing to the reduction in volume of business, many houses have
lately had to ask a suspension of contract. The fellow who

.ight he

'Cancel our order," — notwithstanding
had taken his business had probably
ade provision to take care of it during

the fact that the man wh
purchased the timber and
the early months of 1908.

If a contract is worth anything it should bind both parties. .\s
a general rule, lumber and woodworking lines have been free
from scalawags who deliberately refuse to live up to their side
of contracts; and it behooves all of us in this year 1908 to be con-
siderate of the other fellow and endeavor to help him along if pos-
sible, by not forcing material on him, or insisting upon his living
strictly up to the letter of his contract. However, it would seem
that there is no excuse for peremptory cancellation, but every
reason for suspending or stringing a contract along so that the
man who manufactures the goods will not suffer too seriously, or
the man who is buying be embarrassed by having to increase his
stock when he is not in a position to pay for it.

The old golden rule applies in this case: "Do unto the other
fellow as you would he should do unto you"; but don't reverse
the rule! Contracts should be contracts, or else let's eliminate
them all from the lumber trade.

Distribution of Hardwood Purchases.

The following very interesting table is compiled from the bul-
letins of lumber requirements that have been issued by the Haed-
wooD Record during the past two years, and it shows the number
of buyers of the various kinds of hardwoods in the several states
listed. The items from which it is compiled are nearly 8,000 in
number. It is not presumed by any means that this list is com-
plete, as it is being added to fortnightly; but it makes a very in-
teresting study for hardwood lumbermen, in that it shows where
the bulk of the stock is distributed, for the inquiries which elic-
ited the information were distributed indiscriminately to all parts
of the United States and Canada. Note the wonderful popularity
of oak, maple, poplar, birch and basswood, and the large number
of buyers of dimension stock and veneers and panels; also observe
where the greatest distribution lies — Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wis-
consin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York.

Number of buyers

of each

kind of wood.

■='

1
1

Alabama

4
9

1
1

i
11
4

110

'i
11
11

2
1
5
S

6
6

2
10

6
6

78
4
52

2
2

1
2
60

9
25

25
15

2
2
10

2
4
10

62
20
15

13
7

16
1

14
4

66
7

7
2
3

6
3

'2
4

'7
'?

li
'5

16
15

'i
'3

26
32

it
4

10
47

8
8

'2
9

5
16

49
13

1
2
5

%
1

27
5
3

1
5

2
15

31
36

29
34

9
'3

50
49

4
25

6
4

1
5

1
19
23

■4

1?
4
4

1^
7

31
2

3
6

40
20

2
6
25
32
5

'2
"1

1
9

8
9
9

69
59

15
2

'9
9
26
%

18
2

10
59

2
2
4

13
4

'2
54

12
22

121
90
27

24
4
10
21

5
46
9

'II
109

4
101
2
2
15
-10

5
75

1
2

13
11
•

5
1
2
4
13
7
4

'4
11

'4
2

1
2

10
2
16
1
5
15
38
39
4
2
24
9

27
89

■7
22
2
4
14

■3

6
9
4

■5

1
'2

■2

1
5

10
si

51
14

8
10
2
7
9

22
2
2
4
54
12
43

■2

6
6

3
5

'2
32

California

Connecticut

Delaware

District of Col

Georgia

Idaho

7
7

Indiana

ientuckv.-.

.ouisiana

Maryland

Michigan

Minnesota.

9
10
45

New'^Hamp'sliire; '.

New Jersey

New York

North Carolina.. .

Oklahoma. ..:!!! -

47
17
32

'ennsvlvania. . ..

Khode Island

outh Carolina...

Sr."-;.v;:::

'2
7

Utah

Vermont

Vireinia

lis-;:

Totals

517

152

412

317

310

629

1158

132

589

526

*The slips on bulletins show both

white ash and black ash.
•Shows both red and white birch.

'Shows gray elm, rock elm and

1 gum and tupelo plain and quartered.

'Shows kinds of wood and sizes.
'Shows kinds of wood, thicknesses
and sizes.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Pert, Pertinent and Impertinent.

Ity

temptation."-
When up-to-date my Julia goes.
Now, now, how continently flows
The liquefaction ot her clothes.

well concealed each sinuous curve,

To Julia, 1908.
s lead young men to fall from grace. Suggestive figures In women tend to destroy pur-
doubt the new fashion will seem a little strange, but it is the only way to put an end to
President Elizabeth White of the Dressmakers' Protective Association.

She doesn't pad, she doesn't lace ; But chastely now my Julia goes.

No bulge or dip in any place ;
Of curvature not any trace.

Full modest her apparelling.

The gown, tight-fitting, serpentine

Clad in her new colonial clothes.
From which no provocation flows

No more in wanton garb she trips.
Provoking men to moral slips.
But seemly are her bust and hips.

Till men. In gazing at them, fell
Beneath their necromantic spell.
And tumbled headlong into hell.

And when my Julia now I see.
Compressed and straight as she cai
Oh. how the new style taketh me

At the Seashore.

Little Uirl— Wh
do tlie waves dancf
Mamma?

Mother — Hush
dear: they eanno
play bridge.

Affinity Tester.

What people seem
to need most nowa-
days is an invention
by means of which
they can always tell
positively whe t h e r
it 's their hearts
they've lost or only
their heads.

A Questionable
Adage.

"The way of the
transgressor is hard,"
they say; then how
comes it that many a
bank president lives
luxuriously in j a "
nowadays, surround-
ed with rare exotic
flowers and nourished
on imported wine?

More Funerals Than
Deaths, Perhaps.
Kecent statistics as
to mortality among
grandmothers of of-
fice boys would indi-
cate -that popular in-
terest in baseball is
waning.

Danger!

Another Version.

You can drive
boy to college, but [New York

you cannot make him Baltimore seek
think.

ew set of hardw

another; Philadelphia

Requires Distinction.

Rich uncles may al-
ways count on hav-
ing babies named for
them, but few are
distinguished enough
to have pedigreed
dogs called after

Would Chance It.

Father — This
thrashing is going to
liurt me worse than
it will you, Bobbie!

Bobbie— Then let's
change places.

The Real Tiling.

A queen never
knows what honor is
until she learns that
a seedsman in some
republic has named a
turnip or potato after
her.

Dr. Holmes' Philos-
ophy.

At the first real lie
that works from the
heart a wife should
be tenderly chloro-
formed into a better
world.

Always Succeeds.

Tlie man who never
adopts high stand-
ards is the only one
who never fails.

No Escape.

The

ange; and Cincinnati wants to return to National A.s.sociation Rules of I90S.]

Too Ma.ny Cooks Spoil the Broth.

>f trouble
ivith the man who
■ides a hobby is that
le won 't let you get
nit of his way.

Transformation.

Star (before the footlights)— I must have
the gold tonight, me lord, tonight, or ere to-
morrow's sun shall rise thy castle shall be
but a charred and smoking ruin !

Star (behind the scenes) — Say, pard, loan
me a two-spot. Want to get m' laundry out
,0 ' hock before we leave town. — Puck.

Overstep.

Everyone admires a liberal man, and one
who is frank of speech, and self-confident.
But how many men, in their zeal to manifest
these three qualities overlook the boundaries
between liberality and prodigality; between
speech that is frank and speech that is blat-
ant; between self-confidence and egotism!

Cards Were Out.

"Ah come within a ace ob marrjdn' dat
niggah once! "

' ' Yo don 't say ! ' '

"Yais. If he'd had another ace, he'd ha'
won a jack-pot, an' if he'd won dat jack-
pot he'd had money 'nough to git married
on ! ' '—Puck.

HARDWOOD RECORD

AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

Balsam Fir.

Ahies l)alsamea — Linn.
Abies halsamea, or the "Christmas tree,"
is found through a -wide range of growth,
extending from the Great Bear Lake region
and Hudson Bay on the north through Labra-
dor and Newfoundland; south to Pennsyl-
vania and down along the higher mountains
to Virginia ; it is found also in Michigan and
Minnesota, and to some extent in
Ohio and Nebraska.

The tree is called balsam fir in
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island, New York,
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, "Wis-
consin, Michigan, Minnesota, Ne-
braska, Ohio and Ontario; it is
known as balsam in Vermont, New
Hampshire and New York; as Can-
ada balsam in North Carolina; as
balm of Gilead in several states,
notably Delaware, New York and
Pennsylvania; as blister pine and
fir pine in West Virginia; as firtree
in Vermont; as single spruce in
New Brunswick and the Hudson
Bay district; as silver pine in parts
of the same region; as sapin in
Quebec; to the New York Indians
the tree was known as clxo-'kolc-tung

a word which translated means

' ' blisters. ' '

Balsam fir has several varieties
distinguished in cultivation. In
shape it is broad at the base, with
pointed crown, forming a symmetri-
cal pyramid, and though a small
tree— only from fifty to seventy feet
tall and from one to two feet in
diameter — presents a majestic and
picturesque figure in the forest. It
is most frequently met with in the
damp woods and mountain swamps
from Minnesota to Maine, and is
particularly prolific in the latter
state, where thousands of young
trees are cut every year and shipped
to the large markets where they are
sold as Christmas trees. Hans
Christian Andersen, in his exquisite
tale of "Der Tannenbaum," re-
lates the sad adventures which be-
fell one of these "little wander-
ers. ' '

The bark of balsam fir is brown,
thin, smooth and shows numerous
white horizontal markings of a
blister-like nature, which secrete an abund-
ance of resinous matter valuable as the
"Canada balsam" of commerce, which is
much used in mounting microscopic speci-
mens and as a curative agent. Young trees
produce a great abundance of the balsam,
and wounding them serves to increase the
flow. Air laden with the aromatic odors of
this fir is very beneficial to certain forms of
disease, and many an invalid is relieved of

SEVENTY-THIRD PAPER.

distressing symptoms by a vacation in the
balsam woods of Maine, New Hampshire or
North Carolina. Asheville is situated on a
plateau which is surrounded by the Balsam
Eange of the Alleghanies, and the pure, dry
air filtered through countless fir trees has
proven better than all the drugs in the world
to many a victim of phthisis and similar af-
fections, especially when breathed constantly

ends, and with broad, closely-overlapping
scales; it has peculiar purplish color when
young, but turns brown with age.

The balsam is a popular tree with every
camping party in the northern woods, and
the women industriously gather its leaves and
tiny twigs for sweet-scented pillows, while
hunters make their couches from its fragrant
boughs.

The wood of balsam fir is coarse-
grained, but of compact structure;
the heartwood is brownish white,
the sapwood considerably lighter.
It is soft, light, not very durable,
and easily spUt. A cubic foot
weighs approximately twenty-three

The tree is cut when of good size
and marketed with pine or spruce
lumber. It resembles spruce in
structural qualities and appearance,
but may be distinguished from that
tree and other conifers by the fact
that it has no resin-ducts, although
the blisters upon the bark contain
the clear liquid balsam ; however, its
wood is freer from sticky deposits
than would naturally be thought
from that fact. It mingles with
tamarack, black ash, arbor vitse and
other trees of the forest, seldom
being found in a pure stand of any
extent.

Balsam lumber has never been
manufactured to any extent until
very recently, but of late large quan-
tities of it have been employed in
box making and in the paper pulp
industry, especially in the North.

The tree picture accompanying
this article forms an illustration in
Eogers' "The Tree Book."

TYPICAL FOREST GROWTH BALSAM FIR.

day and night from a tent in th-e woods.

The leaves of the balsam fir are dark green
and lustrous above, paler below; on top they
show a decided groove, with corresponding
ridge beneath ; they are evergreen and needle.;
shaped, like the other members of the conifer
family, but are very blunt at the ends.

The staminate flowers are yellowish, the
pistillate purple. The fruit is an erect cone
two to four inches in length, blunt at the

Wood Shrinkage.

Intoiesting experiments on the
sliiiiikat;r nf wood due to the loss of
moisture have recently been com-
jdeted by the Forest Service through
its timber testing station at Yale
university. These experiments show
that green wood does not shrink at
all in drying until the amount of
moisture in it has been reduced to
about one-third of the dry weight
of the wood. From this point
on to the absolutely dry condition,
the shrinkage in the area of cross-
section of the wood is directly pro-
portional to the amount of mois-
ture removed.

The shrinkage of wood in a direction paral-
lel to the grain is very small; so small in
comparison with the shrinkage at right angles
to the grain, that in computing the total
slirinkage in volume, the longitudinal slirink-
age rnay be neglected entirely.

The v'olu;netric shrinkage varies with dif-
ferent woods, being about twenty-six per
cent of the dry volume for the species of

CHARLES D. GAXEIS

[A.RDWOOD RECORD

APRIL 25, 190B.

HARDWOOD RECORD

TANGENTIAL SECTION OF BALSAM FIR.

eucalyptus, known as blue gum, and only
about seven per cent for red cedar. For
hickory, the shnnkage has been shown to be
approximately twenty per cent of the dry
volume, and for longleaf pine about fifteen
per cent.

In the usual air-dry condition, from twelve
to fifteen per cent of moisture still remains in'
the wood, so that the shrinkage from the
green condition to the air-dry condition is
only a trifle over half of that from the
green to the absolutely dry state.

'Builders of Lumber History.

Charles D. Gates.

{See Portrait Supplcnunt.)

The Hardwood Eecoed presents as supple-
ment to this issue the portrait of a man who
though not well known to the general lumber
trade in the usual sense of that term, is never-
theless a power in the special line of lumber
operation.s which he has elected to follow —
the manufacture of hickory handles.

Charles D. Gates of Louisville, Ky., was
born in Hadlyme, Conn., on the twenty-first
day of August, 1855, and comes of good old
' ' blue-blooded ' ' New England stock. His
father is F. E. Gates, a direct descendant of
the famous Gates family of BevolutioBary
times. His mother is a member of the illus-
trious Hungerford family, whose genealogy
is recorded in the Knights of England — truly
an ancestral line to be proud of. ilr. Gates'
father, grandfather and great-grandfather
were all prosperous farmers residing in the
Connecticut valley.

The boy attended the school of the district
in which he lived until the age of fifteen,
when he was sent to Hartford graded schools
for a time. From there he went to a prepara-
tory school at Wolverhampton, Mass., and
later to the Williston Seminary at East
Hampton, Mass. After finishing his studies
there he became a "Yankee school-teacher,"
and took charge of the principal gradea'
school at Moodus, Conn. The work proved
too confining, and finding that his strength
was being overtaxed, Mr. Gates went to sea
as a hand before the mast for one season.
On his return he continued the outdoor life
as a farmer for another year.

His first venture in the commercial world,
and the one which decided his career, was
made in 1877, when he entered the service of
the Turner, Day & Woohvorth Handle Com-
pany, Inc., of Louisville, Ky., as yardmaster.
Mr. Gates has continued in their service ever
since, and in the thirty best years of his life
which he has devoted to their interests, has

LWl.

filled the positions of shipping clerk, foreman,
superintendent, secretary, general manager
and president, which latter oiSce h*" now
holds.

The Turner, Day & Woohvorth handle
Company, Inc., is one of the great iiidustries
of Louisville ; its head office is located there,
and branches are maintained at 116 Broad
street, New York City, and the Flood build-
ing, San Francisco. The concern has an an-
nual output valued at about $1,.500,000, and
carries on hand at all times an average stock
of hickory handles worth $400,000. It main-
tains in all thirty-two branch factories, widely
scattered, and all in charge of men who are
experts in their line. The most important of
these are located at Nashville, Tenn., Hunt-
ington, W. Va., Memphis, Tenn., Paragould,
Ark., Cairo, 111., Bowling Green, Ky., and
Decatur, Ala.

The company believes its facilities for ob-
taining a large and well selected stock of
hickory timber, and for its manufacture into
the handles used by woodsmen, farmers, me-
chanics, miners, railroad contractors and the
army and navy are unexcelled. In addition
to supplying a large domestic trade, the
' ' Turner-Day ' ' people do an enormous export
business, supplying probably about 75 per
cent of all the handles that are shipped to
England. Germany, Australia and other for-
eign markets. In fact, their product goes to
all corners of the globe— to the Indian of the
far East, the Eskimo of the North and the
African negro of the southern hemisphere.

The large interests of which Mr. Gates is
the head require his close and constant atten-
tion, and he has indeed given of himself un-
stintingly for many years, becoming familiar
with their every detail, and leaving no stone
unturned to forward the advancement of the
business, so that he may look back upon his
eiforts with the utmost satisfaction, knowing
that he has increased the operations and

prestige of the Turner, Day & Woohvorth
Handle Company, until it is today the lar-
gest concern of its kind in the world.

Like all forceful men, Mr. Gates is in de-
mand from outside enterprises which seek the
benefit of his ex]5erience and cooperation, but
he has never consented to hold any salaried
office; in politics he is a staunch republican.
He is vice-president of the Louisville Park
Commissioners and a director of the Board of
Trade; belongs to the Filson Club and the
Louisville Commercial Club and takes a lively
interest in philanthropic and church affairs,
being president of the Presbyterian Alliance
of Louis^-ille and an elder of the Presbyterian
church; in the past he has filled the ofices of
chairman of the state executive committee of
the Young Men 's Christian Association and
president of the Presbyterian Orphan 's
Home.

ilr. Gates is a thorough believer in associ-
ation work, and is one of the most active
members of the new Handle Manufacturers '
Association of America and was president of
the Hickory Handle Manufacturers' Associa-
tion for four years. In commercial affairs
he is possessed of keen penetration, the power
of making a quick decision, and firmness in
maintaining his position once it is taken —
essential attributes in a man who would dic-
tate the policy of a great corporation. He
maintains an attitude of open fearlessness
and absolute frankness in business relations,
so much so that he cannot forgive or con-
done the lack of these traits in a competitor.

Perhaps the recent words of an intimate
a.ssociate of Charles* D. Gates best sum up
his dominant characteristics : ' ' When ht
goes after anything he usually gets it, and
when he gets anything good he is always
willing to share it "

A Profitable Expenditure.

Some people are always looking for outside
Investments. They put money into things of
which they know nothing. They entrust it to
entire strangers, who may or may not l>e honest
and capable. Sometimes they receive dividends.
Oftener they do not.

While they are playing the other fellow's game
on the one hand, on the other their own business
is perhaps sutfering from lack of capital or
oSEering excellent opportunities that are unim-
proved. As a rule there is no safer or more
profitable Investment for one's money than In
one's own business. Frequently there is a chance
to add greatly to the profits by making a small
outlay in additional or improved machinery or
appliances. For Instance, in some cases mills
are hauling off their sawdust or burning it In the
open air and using slabs and edgings to run
their plant, notwithstanding there is a good
local market for firewood. Again, it not Infre-
quently happens that mills do not cut more than
ninety per cent as much lumber as they should
because the steam pressure sometimes gets down.

In any case the Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Is
a big dividend earner and, in fact, some users
report that it pays for itself every month ! The
manufacturers, the Gordon Hollow Blast Grate
Company of Greenville, Mich., will ship an outfit
subject to thirty days' trial, and will stand the
freight both out and back in the event of rejec-
tion, — certainly a proposition worth looking into.

The Virginia Timber Company of Springfield.
111., has elected A. F. Hemphill secretary, and
has taken new offices in the i-vrik building.

HARDWOOD RECORD

T. R. CLENDI

Special Meeting Hickory Division Handle
Manufacturers' Association.

A special meeting of the Hickory Division of tlie Handle Manu
facturers ' Association of America was held at the Hotel Sinton,
Cincinnati, April 15, following the general conference of hickory
producers in all lines held at the sanio yilar. tin (.r.^ceding day,

a report of which appears ilsi-whnr in tin- i-- I' tlie Record.

The meeting was marke.l liy i^xtifinc . ,i rn.^t n. -- in.l frankness
on the part of all present, wliidi did miii.Ii <•< rvt:il,l tsii confidence
and mutual understanding among the manufacturers.

The meeting came to order with President T. R. Clendinen, of
Atchison, Kan., in the chair, and Secretary Henry H. Gibson, of
Chicago. i-.-.,,.llii- Til.- f..ll.i« ini; urre present:

li. w-rks, Sequatchie, Tenn.
11- 1 .. , Norwalk, O.
Hllo Co.. New Albany. Ind.
Handle Mfg. Co., Frankfort, 1

.■i: Wn.

ilworth Handle Co., Lo

,'.'

' • '"■ '''\\. hison. Kan.

- li 'hts. 111.

--, 111.

>\ keville. T€

■ -.-. Ohio.

uiii° e

./. .'■s;"i,:!nis. Mo.

o.. l'..t.'aii, Okla.

The entire morning was consumed by discussion of the condi-
tions surrounding the handle manufacturing trade at the present
time. The facts presented were involved in a series of plain,
unvarnished and unmistakably truthful statements pertaining to
the situation in the industry, as evidenced by the business of
practically every member present.

It was shown that the jobbers, railroads and other large con-
sumers of handles are placing orders at the present time for only
actual requirements; that they are not buying a dollar's worth
of goods unless they were placed in advance of sale; that on the
Pacific coast the jobbers have established a clearing house and are
exchanging small lots of handles among themselves rather than
place orders with the manufacturers for quantity shipments. It
was further shown that buyers that have heretofore bought
handles in carload or larger quantities are now making purchases
in 1. c. 1. lots; it was demonstrated beyond peradventure that a
good deal of price cutting — notably among small producers— ob-
tains; that a good many off-grade handles are being produced
which are being branded higher; that the total quantity of pur-
chasing demand today aggregates less than 40 per cent of that
of a year ago, and that price cutting when it had prevailed had
not stimulated the trade one io ta I It was further shown that
the majority of factories are running on short time — only from
one to four days a week; furthermore, that the cost of handle

production during the last few months has not decreased as com-
pared with the cost last year; no diminution in the price of rough
hickory stock was shown, and the only diminution in cost seems
111 li. a slight one in common labor, which is more than over-
li:il,iii..il li\ tlie overhead cost and management of the various
...ih. 111^, I'a.ts were also presented to show that through the
diiininsliiiii; i|uantity of hiekorj' stumpage it is impossible to prog-
nosticate that the "cost of handle manufacture will ever be any
less than if is at the present time.

The foregoing plain statements of fact were brought out by the
reading of a letter from an Arkansas handle company, addressed
to the secretary, which follows:

Replying to yours of the 4th in which the meeting was
changed to Cincinnati Instead of St. Louis on the 15th.

We thought at the time th- v\iit. r \v..ul.l \» able to get
awav to attend this meetiii-- i- ii i- > i y important, but

find at this time that it will i ■ m.-i iiii|"i-siiile.

For the benefit of the ni.'iiii.i-, "ill -w r you below what
th.i .•.>nditi.>us are in this I.Hiiin nihl in Hie southwest.

ri.'~ I ..I I. iln- laru'.' w la. I. sal.' houses only order

'w i':'', '^ ','.. 'i.l.."a'~ 7.'. 1,'i'i..',' !iv |.,'.'i|,i,. are still willing

mills "ai ■a a i i > a a a few men, and

are pavin. -ary. Our com-
pany is I i I ~ i .!.■ our plant Is
dosed (i..ui. 11,1 we find that the
price of lii- i, : i :i: : ^ II- .l">\ii. as most of the
tin.ber within i.a. h a. .1 by large Interests ana
tbev will not .sell an . I I.eir price. The only dif-
ferenoi' in the co^i a in,. ..■ is the small item of day

labor, which is v.-ia 1 : una' that nil members of the

ass.niaii.in will r. a 1 1 ' Mi.ii n ,.,-.< just as much to make

iiaian.'- la.w a^ ii .li.l -i\ i.a iiia^ aj.. an.i that it is very

Chas. D. Gates of Louisville stated that the members of the
association were suffering from severe competition in the buying
field on rough sawn handles from Canadian operators. He
stated that handles in this form were exported to Canada without
the imposition of an import duty, and cited one case in which
even rough turned handles had been exported from the United
States to Canada without the exaction of any duty, while as a
matter of fact import duty of 25 per cent — the same as applies to
finished handles — should have been imposed. He therefore moved:

"That this association take immediate steps to place before the
proper Canadian authorities such information as will lead to the
imposition of a suitable import duty on sawn handles entering the
Dominion."

Mr. Gates further moved:

"That a committee of three be appointed to take this matter up
with the proper authorities."

The motion was promptly seconded and carried and the chair

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appointed as such committee Messrs. Gates, Sherman and Scott.

At 12:30 the meeting adjourned until 2 p. m.

On reassembling the matter of grades was carefully discussed.
As is well known, for several years the members of this association
and its predecessor — the Hickory Handle Manufacturers' Asso-
ciation — have presumed to grade handles according to the standard
grades as adopted on September 10, 1904. It was shown by
samples exhibited at the Cincinnati meeting that a great many
handles are going upon the market which are far below grade both
in quality of timber and color, and manufacture, but which are
being branded with a higher grade. It was further shown that
the grading rules in force are not well known and recognized by
the trade at large. Mr. Scott moved in this relation:

"That a committee of three be appointed to draft a system of
grading and establish a set of standard rules which shall be the
rules of grading employed by every member of the association."

In support of this motion Mr. Gates contended that these rules
should be given wide publicity, and that the trade should be
thoroughly informed of what constitutes just and honest grades,
as compared with the off grades that are being put upon the
markets in quantities. He averred that the effect of such a pro-
ceeding would be to give character and dignity to the association
and its methods, and would tend to discredit the fraudulent grades
being shipped at present.

The motion was seconded and promptly carried, and the chair
appointed as a committee to formulate the proposed grades, which
will be presented at the Louisville meeting, May 20, Messrs. C. H.
Jones, F. W. Peters and C. H. Amos.

On motion the secretary was instructed to canvass the entire
hickory trade and ascertain so far as possible the conditions sur-
rounding the manufacture of hickory handles and present the
facts at the forthcoming Louisville meeting. The information to
be requested from each concern it was decided should be held
confidential in the secretary's files, and only presented by him to
the association in aggregate form. The data he will solicit will be;

(1) How much time are you running?

(2) What is your average daily production?

(3) .In what 'section of the country are you marketing your
product ?

(4) What prices are you getting?

(.5) How much finished stock have you on hand?

(6) How many unfilled orders (amount of stock involved) have
you on hand?

(7) How much raw material and stock in process of manu-
facture?

A general discussion then prevailed on the future of the asso-
ciation and several large producers stated specifically that_ it is
impossible to produce handles and make a living profit if sold at
less than the present uniform list — 75 per cent off. They stated
frankly that unless a renaissance of good sense prevailed among
the handle manufacturing trade at large they would be compelled
not only to protect their trade with prices as low as the lowest —
or lower still if necessary — on standard grade handles, but also
would be forced to put upon the market off grade stock to meet
the competition of irregular and unfair producers.

It was shown that producers of other hickory products, notably
wagon and carriage material, were receiving a very fair profit on
their lines of business; that they were showing nearly twice the
value of hickory that was attained in handle production; on
motion it was therefore resolved:

"That the present price list with its discount of 75 per cent
is as low as handles can be produced at a living profit, and it is
the sense of the association that prices should not be made below
this quotation."

A proposition was then presented as to the wisdom of employing
a competent ageut of the association who shall be an experienced
handle man, to conduct the affairs of the organization and advise
on methods of production, grading, sales and every other feature
that would tend to the betterment of the organization, and it
was moved:

"That there be presented at the next meeting of the asso-
ciation the question of securing the services of a practical, com-
petent and honorable man to attend to the interests of the asso-
ciation, and that every member be assessed pro rata on his monthly
sales to cover the cost of such expense."

This motion prevailed and was followed by a second motion:

"That the chair be instructed to appoint a committee on the
employment of such a man, pending the approval of the asso-
ciation at the forthcoming Louisville meeting."

The motion was carried and the following committee named:
Messrs. .Sherman, Gregory, Gates and Hartwell.

It was urged that every member should use diligent efforts to
secure the attendance of every hickory handle manufacturer of
his acquaintance at the next meeting to be held at LouisvUle,
Wednesdav, May 20, probably at the Gait House, at which time
the handle manufacturers wiil be the guests of the Turner, Day
& Woohvorth Handle Company and the I. F. Force Handle Company.

On motion a special committee of three on attendance was
appointed bv the chair, as follows: Messrs. Gibson, Gates and
Hartwell.

J^ational Hickory jinnuah

The annual meeting of the National Hick-
ory Association was held at the Sinton Hotel,
Cincinnati, Ohio, April 14. This meeting was
by far the largest and most interesting con-
ference ever held under the auspices of this
or any other like association, indicating that
the importance of the subject and the work
of the association since it was launched has
aroused public sentiment to the point that not
only has the association been able to interest
the government and secure its assistance in
carrying out the objects of the organization,
but that those engaged in any business which
involves the manufacture or consumption of
hickory are alive to the situation and under-
stand that in order that their present inter-
ests may be protected great activity must be
exercised and that there must be an eco-
nomical use of the remaining supply of
hickory to prevent its entire destruction.

Secretary F. A. Curtis of Chicago made a
report covering in a general way the work
of the association so far, the objects for
which it exists and what it has accomplished.
This report indicated that practical measures
had been taken to economize in the supply
and that other organized bodies, such as the
National Wagon Manufacturers' Association
and the National Hardwood Lumber Asso-
ciation, jointly with representatives of the

Forest Service, have appointed committees who
conferred on the matter of grading hickory
vehicle products, such as hickory axles, hick-
ory eveners, singletrees, neckyokes, bolsters,
reaches, etc., with the idea in mind of using
all the material that could possibly be used
rather than of excluding all that could pos-
sibly be excluded; that a standard of grades
had been evolved which it is calculated will
govern the production and consumption of
these hickory products for all time to come,
and, while these grades have not been finally
approved by the associations, there is' no
doubt but they will be within the very near
future. This illustration of the kind of work
which is being done indicates one practical
way in which the material can be economized
and in which the waste of hickory can be
stopped. The secretary's report also indi-
cated that the Forest Service at Washington
had taken up the commercial study of hickory
and that at much expense and effort on their
_part hickory has been secured from various
parts of the country, cut under the direction
of Forest Service men after studying the
conditions under which the hickory was
grown, and samples from the various parts
of the country-have been gotten together and
tested, to the end that information is at hand
indicating the relative strengths of the vari-

ous kinds of hickory and the adaptability of
the various species for different purposes,
such as bending strength, etc., which informa-
tion is now available to any and all, including
those who are engaged in the bending of
hickory and who, if they desire, may make
practical application of the information at
hand. The secretary's report indicated that
such work as that outlined above was only
part of a very great amount of effort that
has been exerted by the association through
its officers and members.

Treasurer W. A. Snyder of Piqua, O., then
submitted his report covering the finances of
the association, after which the president
appointed a committee consisting of Joseph
Ashcroft of Poplar Bluff, Mo., and O. B.
Bannister of Muncie, Ind., as auditors. This
committee later submitted a report approving
the treasurer 's report, which action was con-
firmed by the meeting.

O. B. Bannister of Muncie, Ind., chairman
of the Executive Committee, then made a re-
port reviewing the importance of the plea of
the association and the advantages to be
gained by future work if financially sup-
ported by those interested, to the small extent
of the annual membership fee, it being under-
stood that this is a day of associations and
conventions and that it is the policy of the

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National Hickory Association to hold general
meetings not oftener than once a year; the
principal work of individual members is to
lend their financial aid and the officers and
committees do the actual work. It was indi-
cated that when a sufficient number of mem-
bers had been added the officers would recom-
mend the employment of a permanent, paid
secretary. As a result of the effort in this
direction a number of those present, who
were not already members, signed applica-
tions for membership.

President J. W. Herron, Jr., made a report
for the officers of the association and touched
on points in connection with the work of the
government and the possibilities of influenc-
ing our lawmakers in framing and passing
measures looking to the protection of the
remaining standing hickory timber, deploring
the failure on the part of Congress at its last
session to pass the law making available the
forestry reserve in the Appalachian Eange,
and indicating the desirability of renewing

as during the past year, with the exception
of J. D. Dort in the place of H. C. Staver,
deceased, to represent the Carriage Manu-
facturers' Association; J. M. Lack of the
Lack Singletree Company, Padueah, to repre-
sent the syigletree and neckyoke people, and
P. C. Scott of the Keller & Tamm Manu-
facturing Company, St. Louis, to represent
the handle manufacturers.

The officers were elected as follows: John
W. Herron, president; E. W. McCullough,
vice president; W. A. Snyder, treasurer; F.
A. Curtis, secretary; O. B. Bannister, chair-
man Executive Committee.

The advisability of having a paid secretary
to devote his time to the furtherance of the
work of the organization was discussed and
it was thought desirable to do so as soon
as finances would permit. A motion was
made that the matter of having a paid secre-
tary be referred to a committee of three,
to be appointed by the president; this com-
mittee to confer with the officers before mak-

iienting the manufacturers of carriage and
wagon shafts and poles.

Bemarks were made by Harry J). Harth'v
nf Windsor, Ont., formerly connected with
the Forest Service and now practically en-
ijaged in the production of hickory vehicle
stock; also, by M. E. Campbell of Tulla-
homa. Tonn., and W. H. Braddon of London,
Ont.

The meeting wa.s tlien thrown open to rc-
i-eive suggestions, comments or remarks, and
an interesting discussion of points bearing
on the subject followed, after which a motion
was passed instructing the president to ap-
point a committee to nominate officers and
committees for the ensuing year.

The committee appointed consisted of O.
B. Bannister, Muncie, Ind.; W. A. Snyder,
Piqua, O., and B. F. Von Behren, Evansville,
Ind.

They recommended the following: That
the same officers and (•(.mmittees be plected

ICAGO, SECRETARY.

agitation that would result in the measure
being revived and approved.

The president then called upon members
of the Advisory Committee for comments and
suggestions as to possible new and additional
measures which could be taken to advance the
interests of the association. Those respond-
ing were: Geo. Terrell, representing the
National Wagon Makers ' Association ; C. D.
Fischer of Wapakoneta. O.. rppresoiitinj; tlu-
western carriage wheel maniifartiir.'is ; |i. K.
Allen, Wilmette, 111., repri'srntiut; tlip castiTu
wheel manufacturers; B. F. Vou Bchreu,
Evansville, Ind., representing the bent hick-
ory felloe manufacturers; D. P. Cooper,
Struthers, O., representing the manufacturers
of buggy gear woods; F. W. Peters, New
Albany, Ind., representing the manufacturers
of hammer, axe and pick handles; Peter Lesh
of Memphis, Tenn., representing the manu-
facturers of hickory carriage and wagon
spokes; W. A. Snyder of Piqua, O., repre-

ing any final selection. The motion was car-
ried and the committee appointed consisted
of O. B. Bannister, chairman; B. F. Von
Behren and W. A. Snyder.

A resolution was offered by H. H. Gibson,
representing the manufacturers of handles,
as follows:

' ' Whereas, it is the sense of the National
Hickory Association that a census of the
-;tanding timber of the country is not only
desirable but essential to the future welfare
nf the woodworking industries of the nation,

"Therefore, be it resolved, that an appeal
\'p made to the Senate and House of Eepre-
-iiitatives of the United States for an appro-
luiatiun to make a census of the standing
timber of all varieties in the country to be
made in connection with the forthcoming

The resolution was adopted.
The meeting then adjourned to meet at the
call of the Executive Committee.

Among those present were the following:

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F. W. Peters, I. F. Force Handle Company,
New Albany, Ind.

A. P. Steele. Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing
Company, Sardis, Miss.

G. A. Lambert, American Central Lumber Com-
pany, Anderson, Ind.

H. O. Burkart, J. Burkart & Son, Caldwell,
Ohio.

J. Burkart, J. Burkart & Son, Caldwell, Ohio.

B. F. Von Behren, Von Behren Manufacturing
Company, Evansville, Ind.

The Mitchell Wheel Company, Miamishurg,
Ohio.

W. A. Snyder, Pioneer Pole & Shaft Company,
Piqua, Ohio.

E. L. Oillett, L. A. Gillett & Sons, Boston,
Mass.

A. T. Oillett. Gillett Bros., Memphis, Tenn.

A. J. Gillett, Gillett Bros., Memphis. Tenn.

K. H. Guthrie, Royer Wheel Company. Cincin-
nati, Ohio.

G. A. Trinler, American Handle Company.
Jonesboro, Ark.

W. E. Small. W. E. Small Spoke Manufactur-
ing Company. Corinth, Miss.

0. B. Bannister, Muncie Wheel Company. Mun-
cie, Ind.

J. L. Dann. Campbell & Dann Manufacturing
Company. Tullahoma, Tenn.

R. L. Shoyer. Campbell. Mo.

Peter Lesh, Weis & Lesh Manufacturing Com-
pany, Memphis. Tenn.

Joseph Ashcroft. Bimel-Ashcroft Manufactur-
1ns Company, Poplar Bluff, Mo.

T. J. Gregory, T. J. Gregory Handle Works,
Cookeyille, Tenn.

W. H. Braddon, Columbia Handle Company,
London. Ont.

Henry C. Rudman. Southern Wheel Stock Com-
pany, Ironton. Ohio.

W. W. Merriman, Vehicle Woodstock Company,
Chicago.

J. W. Herron, .Tr., Royer Wheel Company, Cin-
cinnati, Ohio.

H. E. Sheets, Sheets Manufacturing Company,
Eotkins. Ohio.

Arthur Ryan, Crane & MacMahon, Inc., Rich-
mond. Va.

L. A. Bruner. Paoli Spoke Company. Paoli, Ind.

E. K. Cunningham. Cunningham Manufactur-
ing Company. Fostoria, Ohio.

G. W. Sallie. Sallie & Rone. Rison, Ark., and
Sallie & Brown. Kingsland, Ark.

W. L. BYwell. Meridian. Miss.

W. C. Howe. American Lumberman, Chicago.

Henry H. Gilisou, Hardwood Record, Chicago.

S. M. Skeon. Empire Bending Works, Lancas-
ter. Pa.

Frank L. May, May Bending Works, Loudon-
ville, Ohio.

W. M. Hamilton. Pioneer Pole & Shaft Com-
pany, Muncie. Ind.

M. E. Leming. La Crosse Wagon Stock Manu-
facturing Compauy, Cape Girardeau, Mo.

D. P. Cooper, J. A. & D. P. Cooper Company,
Struthcrs. Ohio.

A. E. Mahannah. Mahannah Lumber Company,
Memphis, Tenn.

J. H. Keyes, Standard Wheel Company, Terre
Haute. Ind.

George C. Hore, F. W. Hore & Son, Ltd., Ham-
ilton. Ont.

Hugh Ford, Pioneer Pole & Shaft Company,
Akron, Ohio.

Carl n. Fischer, Wapakoneta Wheel Company.
Wapakoneta. Ohio.

L. A. Heston. McCrillis Handle Company, Nor-
walk. Ohio.

Charles Duee. American Lumberman, Chicago.

F. N*. Hara, Canada Wheel Works, Merritton.
Ont.

George A. Dobbie, Victoria Wheel Works, Gait.
Ont.

J. Hunsucker. Conover. N. C.

C. F. Colyille, Metropolis Bending Company,
Metropolis, III.

J. C. Scobee, Scobee-Williams Spoke Company,
Winchester, Ky.

A. R. Palmer, Pioneer Pole & Shaft Company,

J. M. Skinner, J. M. Skinner Bending Com-
pany, Toledo, Ohio.

H. D. Hartley, Windsor Turned Goods Com-
pany, Windsor, Ont.

A. R. Friedmann, Pioneer Pole & Shaft Com-
pany, Piqua, Ohio.

F. B. Anderson, J. M. Skinner Bending Com-
pany, Toledo, Ohio.

C. T. Stearns, Stearns Bros., Pontiac, Mich.

E. F. Stearns. Stearns Bros., Pontiac. Mich.

E. S. Mills, Muncie Wheel & Jobbing Company,
Muncie. Ind.

W. L. Clark, Muncie Wheel & Jobbing Com-
pany, Muncie, Ind.

M. R. Campbell, Tullahoma, Tenn.

C. K. Elliott, Henderson Lumber Company,
Henderson. Ky.. and Poole. Ark.

John Siog. Corydon Hub Factory, Palmyra, Ind.

'^.eorge McMastor, Mutual Wheel Co., Mollne,

J. F. Haurv, J. F. Haury Bending Works, Er-
hart, Ohio.

.1. Frank Hutcheson, Spokesman, Cincinnati,
Ohio.

W. H. Braddon, Columbia Handle & Lumber
Company, London, Ont.

C. M. Clark, Swann-Day Lumber Company,
Clay Cit.v, Ky.

J. J. Wiesner, Bookwalter Wheel Company,
Miamisburg, Ohio.

A. L. Johnson. Weis & Lesh Company, Mun-
cie. Ind.

H. Rogge, Zwick-Greenwald Wheel Company,
Dayton. Ohio.

Louis H. Rogge, Zwick-Greenwald Wheel Com-
pany, Dayton, Ohio.

H. Hegner, Arkansas Bending Company, Stutt-
gart, Ark.

F. M. Falk, Jonesboro Bending Company, Jones-
boro, Ark.

C. A. Timlar, American Handle Company,
Jonesboro, Ark.

E. J. Skinner, Skinner-Russell Company, Louis-
yille, Ky.

T. A. White, St. Marys Wheel & Spoke Com-
pany, St. Marys. Ohio.

J. H. Leippe, J. A. Leippe's Sons. Reading. Pa.

F. X. Hara. Canada Wheel Works, Merritton,

Ont.

F. A. Curtis, Vehicle Woodstock Company, Chi-
cago,

C. C. Hore, F. W. Hore & Son, Ltd., Hamil-

J E. Buscher. Louisyille Spoke & Bending
Company, Louisyille, Ky.

T. B. Clark, Manchester Manufacturing Com-
pany, Manchester, Tenn.

W. H. Frechtling, Frechtling & Horner, Shel-
byyille, Ind.

William Lebzelter, Philip Lebzelter & Son, Lan-
caster, Pa.

B. G. Lynch, Jonesboro Bending Company,
Jonesboro, Ark.

Mr. Kelsey, Detroit Bent Goods Company, De-
troit, Mich.

Mr. Thompson, Kelley-Maus & Co., Chicago.

Mr. Treadway, John Ernsdorff Iron Company,
Dubuque. Iowa.

Mr. Kneecamp, Beck & Corbitt Iron Company,
St. Louis, Mo.

Mr. Davis, Shadbolt & Boyd Iron Company,
Milwaukee, Wis.

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patron of the paper Is Invited to use this de-
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will be made to answer queries pertaining to all
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Is This a Reflection on Perrlne as a Lum-
■bennan?

PKi.N'Ciifux. Ind.. April 10. — Editor Hardwood
Record : We notice in your March 25 issue an
item from the Indianapolis News, to the effect
that we have purchased a tract of land in Cali-
fornia on which there are said to be 3.000,000
ftet of cedar. Will say that this tract is in
British Columbia, about two and one-half hours'
ride with a horse and buggy from the center of
Vancouver. We expect to run an electric line
out into the timber and haul the logs in to the
bay in this way.

Want to say that the poem our friend Perrine
had published in this number, entitled "Who
Would Be a Camel?" is surely worth the price
of your paper for one year. Have had more
laughs over that thing than over anything I ever
took up. He surely ought to have those pub-
lished in book form. He would make more money

Wants Dredge and Ship Timbers.

Fort Wayxe, Ind., April 11. — Editor Hard-
wood Record : We are particularly anxious to
be put in touch with some firms that use dredge
and ship timbers, and will appreciate It If you
will make a request for these in the "Hardwood
Record" Mail Bag. LtMBER Company.

Any reader of the Record interested in
the above inquiry will be cheerfully supplied
the address of the correspondent on applica-
tion to this office. — Editor.

III.

H. J. Wildermuth. Lamb-Fish Lumber Com-
iny, Charleston, Miss.
J. H. McCormick, Chatfteld, Ohio.

The Consignment Evil.

New Orleans, April 13. — Editor H.irdwood
Record : The consignment evil seems to be get-
ting worse from day to day, in spite of all the
endeavors of sensible shippers to stop this prac-
tice, and in spite of all the protestations from
shippers on this side that they do not ship on
consigncient. I give you herewith an extract
from a letter from our foreign house, which
speaks for itself, and I wish you would publish
It, that it may have as wide publicity as pos.
sible.

"Of course we expect that you have not bought
this stock, for we did not telegraph you an order
for It, and only said that could possibly sell this
quantity. From our letters you will have seen

in the mcintime that we did not take this
order, first of all, because you wanted $1 more
and the buyer would not pay this : in fact, this
buyer sa.vs he will not even uphold his last
offer, for he claims this special stock is arriving

at now by almost every steamer and he

can buy these consignments at cheaper prices
than he has to pay on firm orders. Of course,
he is perfectly right in this and from his
standpoint it is certainly the best he could do,
not to close any firm order if these consign-
ments continue, for there is no doubt that he
can buy such consignments at any old price he
wants to pay, for anybody will be glad to turn
the stock loose at cost price or less, to avoid
the storing of same. The fact that we could
not get this order through at our price on
account of these consignments proves the fool-
ishness of the American shippers, who consign

.lust that stock which is badly wanted at

and for which the buyers would have had to
pay the regular price or any price that the
shipper would ask, if there was no stock for

sale. — ■ has made a contract with the

government, he is bound to furnish, he can
only get the stock in America, and would finally
have to pay whatever price the seller wants
for it. Now, these fools of shippers over there
go ahead and consign this stock, and let them-
selves be slaughtered by this man, who this
year is the only buyer for this special stock,
as he is the one who got the government con-
tract and nobody else. Instead of waiting
quietly until his want becomes so urgent that
he must pay a good price, they give their lum-
ber for nothing. Of course, under such circum-
stances you understand that we cannot touch
this order now." Lumber Company.

Trouble in Kiln Drying Gum.

Pittsburg, Pa., April 9. — Editor Hardwood
Record : We have a customer who is very anx-
ious indeed to use red gum for the purpose of
making mouldings and store fixtures. He has a
car of red gum now in kilns, but apparently does
not know how to properly kiln dry it, for it is so
badly warped at the present time it does not
look as if he would be able to use any of it.
In the interest of encouraging trade we write to
ask if you have any data on this subject, as he
would like very much indeed to know a method
of properly kiln drying red gum, and any infor-
mation will be highly appreciated. —

Company.

Specifically, the writer knows very little
about kiln-drying. However, thoroughly atr-
dried gum lumber, when dried in a good
kiln, can be seasoned without serious warping
or checking. About two-thirds of the kilns
that are in use to-day are of little account,

HARDWOOD RECORD

and it is easy to spoil good lumber in them.
There should be no attempt to kiln dry red
gum unless it has been on sticks for at least
a year, and two years is a good deal better.
The Singer Manufacturing Company, the
largest users of red gum in the United States,
are giving their wood four years' time before
putting it into their kilns. They use it ex-
elusively as cores for their sewing machine
tops. If you will buy gum of some good con-
cern and explain to them that you want thor-
oughly air-dried stock, you won 't have any
trouble in kiln-drying it without warping. —
Editor.

Criticises Cartoon.

Philadelphia, April 15. — Editor Hakdwood
Recoed : TS'e noticed in your last issue a cartoon
showing a fat donkey with an eastern man hang-
ing on to his tail. Please be kind enough to
reverse this cartoon in the next issue, and havs
a thin donkey with a big load of lumber — 1905
inspection — that he cannot quite pull, with the
empty dry kilns in the East and the hags of
money waiting for him, it the West can straight-
en up its inspection so as to meet eastern re-
quirements. We merely give you this as a sug-
gestion, since we would like to see the thing
reversed. Ccmpany.

Correct Weighing of Cars an Important
Subject.

The Hardwood Eecord is in receipt of
attached correspondence covering an impor-
tant subject which, while not new by any
means, is always worthy the attention and
investigation of lumbermen. Shall be glad
to hear any further views upon it, and to
know if any definite action is taken. Doubt-
less our correspondent, Chas. S. Wentworth
& Co., the well-known Boston hardwood house,
would like to enter into communication with
other large shippers upon this point, with a
view to filing a formal complaint and having
the hearing suggested by Commissioner
Prouty. — Editor.

Boston, April 10. — Editor Hajidwood Recokd :
We have been having a good deal of controversy
the last few years with various railroads in
regard to the matter of weights. We have found
it to be the general custom to weigh cars with-
out uncoupling them, and in many instances they

hav

'Pl't

iind

schedule of estimated weights must prevail. Has
there been any ruling as yet by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, in regard to the matter
of weighing? It seems to be the practice among
a good many of the roads to weigh cars without
uncoupling and while in motion. Of course this
is not a fair way to do. Individually, It is quite
impossible to bring about a reform. The simplest
way out of it would be to have a ruling from
the commission, if the matter is within its juris-
diction — and it seems to the writer it is, owing
to the fact that weight plays an important part
in making up charges. Regretting to be obliged
to trouble you again in regard to this matter and
hoping for an early and favorable reply, Chables
S. Wentwohth & Co."

■•Charles S. Wentworth & Co., Boston, Mass. :
Replying to your letter of May 4, regarding the
weighing of cars while in motion, this commis-
sion has not made any ruling in regard to this
matter inasmuch as it does not have jurisdiction
over the physical operation of a railroad. We
could, however, investigate and msike an order if
it was found that this method of weighing re-
sulted in the imposition of a higher charge than
would otherwise be made if the cars were
weighed uncoupled and stationary. We can of
course make no investigation of this matter ex-
cept upon the filing of a formal complaint and
a full hearing o£ all parties. — C. A. Pboutt,
Commissioner."

This being a matter in which all lumbermen
are vitally interested, the writer has taken it
upon himself to address you on this subject, be-
lieving that you can do a great deal of good in
effecting a much-needed reform through the col-
umns of your valued paper. — C. S. Wentworth

& Co.

Identifying Oak Timber.

Wichita, Kan., April 15. — Editor Hardwood
Recokd: We have today sent you by express,
charges prepaid, a piece of hardwood lumber
which we are doubtful about classifying; Mr.
Kelso of the Western Planing Mills has sug-
gested that we refer the matter to you. We
want to know if this piece belongs to the white
oak family — that is, it not white oak is it post,
bur or pin oak. or does it belong to the red oak
family? . We have some 6,000 ties which we
have purchased, and we pay ten cents more for
white oak or oak ol that family than we do for
red. Inasmuch as you are disinterested we
thought you could give us a good, unbiased
opinion on this stock. The sample sent is typ-
ical of the timber in question, and we will gladly
pay any expense you may incur in deciding. —
Railroad Company.

L'ht cannot be ob-
tained in this manner. To the shipper of lumber
this is a particularly important matter, for he
sells his commodity by the thousand feet, or
pieces, whereas he must pay freight by the hun-
dred pounds. The greatest error in weight in
our experience was one of 18,700 pounds, then
one o£ 10,200, and so on down to a few hundred
pounds. We think that shippers of lumber ought
to stand together in this matter and urge the
railroads into according true and reliable weights,
which can only be obtained by weighing cars in
a true and reliable manner, i. e., motionless and
uncoupled. We took the matter up with the
Interstate Commerce Commission about a year
ago and the following is a copy of our letter of
May 4, 1907, to Hon. Charles A. Prouty, com-
missioner, and his reply under date of May 9 :

"Dear Sir : Through your kind efforts the
N. T., N. H. & H. R. R. Co. and the B. & M. R. R.
Co. have both been brought into line, so that of
late there has not been any trouble in regard to
the matter of weighing, none in fact since
you kindly intervened in the matter. Some of
the roads have recently 'sprung a new one,'
which is to the effect that the weight must stand
'as obtained,' or, if the weight Is not used, their

It is impossible to accurately botanize a
small piece of wood. To do this properly
one must needs not only have a specimen of
the wood, showing both heart and sap, but
should have also a section of the bark, spe-
cimen of foliage and, if possible, the acorn
or whatever the seed pod growth may be.
However, there is enough bark attached to this
specimen to demonstrate, with the aid of
the wood, that it is certainly not white oak
(Qiiercus alba). Nevertheless, I am equally
certain that commercially it would be regard-
ed and marketed as belonging to the southern
white oak family. It may be post, bur, pin,
cow, overcup, chestnut or forked- leaf ' ' white ' '
oak. AU these varieties are admitted to the
family commercially. The specimen is a
good one and will satisfactorily fulfill re-
quirements for tie purposes. — Editor.

Referring to a New York Embarrassment.

New York, April 15. — Editor H.iedwood
Record : I wish to call your attention to the
direct cause of my present trouble. The situ-
ation is simply this : I was pressed by several
banks in Virginia, who held my acceptances for
quite a large amount, drawn In favor of D. E.
Cogbill of Boydton, Ta., and discounted by him.
These acceptances were in the form of advances
which were to he covered by shipments of lum-
ber before they came due. This Cogbill did not
do. and when he got in trouble the banks took
action against me, and at a time when the
financial panic was on. This seriously em-
barrassed me, especially as I had many local
losses aggregating many thousands of dollars. I
wish to state, however, that my creditors, with
the exception of above parties, have treated me
very fairly, and I practically arranged with all
of them for an extension such as would give
me relief and would mean that I would ulti-
mately pay out. These banks practically agreed
to the same proposition, but at the last
refused to do so unless I gave them
security, which I would not to the detriment of
my other creditors, the result of which forced
the action. I shall continue the commission
business under the name Minter Lumber Com-
pany, at 25 West Forty-second street. I can-
not yet say what action I will take to further
protect my interests and those of my creditors. —
S. F. Minter.

The Veneer and Panel Trade.

[Under this caption the Record will hereafter
undertake to publish items of interest to manu-
laeturers of thin lumber, veneers and panels, and
solicits from veneer manufacturers and users
statements of market conditions, inquiries or
news of individuals, new factories, casualties,
ftc. pertaining to this line, which may come to
their notice.]

THINK IT OVEE.

What does it profit a man if he tries to
gain the whole world and loses his veneer
plant?

For two years past thin lumber and
panel manufacturers have been trying to place
themselves in the independent position of con-
trolling their own business. Up to that time
they formed a free-for-all contribution so-
ciety for the benefit of manufacturers of
furniture and other buyers of their product.
Because J. Pierpont Morgan and the Bapti.st
Standard Oil Company concluded to have a
little panic and stop big business for a time,
orders got scarce in the thin lumber and

panel trade, and some of our good old praying
brethren who had been adding to their wealth
by getting a fair price for their manufactured
material thought that the world had just
about come to an end; they knew somebody
was taking their trade and were just bound
to get business — they had forgotten the other
fellow was running only half the time. They
had the question of overhead expenses and
other things facing them and thought it was
better to go out and buy in some trade rather
than be satisfied to stand a little loss be-
cause the plant was shut down half the
time.

Now, what have they gained by this?
They 've just demoralized the several branches
of the thin lumber trade ! Of course, they
got an order or two, but a canvass of the
situation in the various lines will show that
all are in practically the same condition —
manufacturing forty to sixty per cent of the

HARDWOOD RECORD

normal amount of stock and selling it ten or
fifteen per cent cheaper than they should,
besides causing men in and out of the as-
sociation to point their fingers at these good
old praying members for doing something
they knew right down in their hearts they
shouldn 't do.

Every industry, starting with Judge Gary
and the steel corporations, has endeavored
to get together and talk it over and try to
realize that there, is just so much business,
with capacity for twice as much as there is
to be had; and most manufacturers have
had the good sense to sit down and look out
the window and figure out the future, but
have not gone out to buy trade. Sad to
say, the same does not hold good with some
of our friends in the veneer trade. The fact
is that if they were a little younger we
would feel like taking them over the knee
and using a skillet or a piece of heavy thin
lumber on them!

Of course, if these people want to follow
out the old Bible quotation and lose their
factories, let 'em go ahead; but in the end
it will be seen that a lot of other people in
the thin lumber business had sense enough to
take care of the assets they tad accumulated
and not throw them away just in order to
run their old veneer plants!

INVESTIGATE.

In these days when trade is dull it is so
easy to be guided by the buyer that some
of our strong-necked friends have been led
into the grievous error of swallowing all
the confidential talks of the buyers. They
have been satisfied that what is said was the
truth — that "John Smith had cut the price
of quartered veneer," and that the lumber
manufacturers were cutting the price, too;
but he lied.

Now, what's the use of being a lobstet?
Be a man or a mouse or a long-tailed rat,
but don't go to town and walk into the
furniture manufacturer's plant, and 'fess up
that you haven't got an order to your name
— that the plant has shut down and no tell-
ing when it *ill start up again — and you
have a note to pay nest month, and must
have an order at any old price to get the
money to take it up, etc., etc.

Now, what can you erpect? Do you sup-
pose these purchasing agents are hired just
to look pretty and wear red neckties, or
are they there to buy stock just as cheap as
they can get it? Why should a manufacturer
in fairly good circumetanees, with plenty of
good timber within easy reach, and a well-
equipped plant, lose his head just because
trade is dull with him? If he would com-
pare notes with other manufacturers in any
line of trade, in any part of the country,
he would find that the volume of business is
not over fifty per cent what it was this time
last year. That being the case, why not
be satisfied with the fifty per cent from
regular customers, and not go around with
head bowed down, or knuckle to a buyer in
order to force him to take something at

cost or less? It's a long, hard pull to get
prices up where they belong and if you are
responsible for helping break these prices at
this time it may take you until 1920 to get
them back again.

Therefore, when you are looking for trade
and find Mr. Buyer has something awfully
good offered him, let him buy it from the
manufacturer who wants him to take body,
soul and breeches at cost or less — or make
him show you, but don't let him put his
finger over the date on the bill in hand!

Investigate — don't imagine that prices have
been demoralized when you make your own
quotation.

Large Veneer Plant Changes Hands.
The Blair Veneer C:ompauy of North Troy,
Vt., purchased at public auction, April 9, the
entire property of the Veneer Box & Panel
Company of Greenville, Me., consisting of a
two-story mill, 350x100 feet, completely fitted
with new machinery and appliances through-
out; also a twelve-room boarding house and
large scow on Moosehead Lake, with 700-
000 feet of logs.

This property is situated on the south shore
of Moosehead Lake, in a fine hardwood ter-
ritory, mostly birch. The mill was built new
in 1906, fitted with the latest and most up-to-
date machinery, and operated for the manu-
facture of veneer panels and box shooks for
one year, when it was closed, and finally went
into the hands of a trustee.

This is the largest and best equipped ve-
neer mill in New England, and it is the
intention of the new owners, who are experi-
enced veneer men, and who have similar mills
at North Troy and Montgomery, Vt., to start
this plant in the near future for the manu-
facture of built-up stock and boxes as be-
fore. The present management will insure
a successful operation of the business.

Notwithstanding the very unsettled state
of the financial conditions of the country
the Blair Veneer Company has been running
its mills full time all winter and spring, and
expects to run the old plant continually, as
well as start up the new one just purchased.

News Notes.

Lay & Valcon are building a veneer manu-
facturing plant at Portsmouth, Va., which
is rapily nearing completion. The company
will commence operations with the manufac-
ture of butter-trays, berry-baskets and vege-
table-crates; later it expects to produce finer
material, such as mahogany and walnut ve-
neers for the furniture trade.

The National Veneer Products Company,
with plant at East Mishawaka, Ind., will in
future manufacture its " Indestructo " trunks
in newer, larger quarters. There is a good
demand for these veneer trunks, which, though
light, are very strong and attractive in ap-
pearance.

W. A. Beitner of Traverse City, Mich., is
anxious to remove his plant to a southern
location. The Chamber of Commerce of Beau-
mont, Tex., is trying to induce Mr. Beitner
to remove to that city. The Michigan plant
employs about two hundred people, and turns

out chair stock, plates, butter-dishes and
other similar products.

The Eadford Veneer Works at Radford,
Va,. have resumed operations, and are opti-
mistic as to future trade.

The Standard Table Company has been or-
ganized at Avoca, la., and has bought the
plant of the Jamestown Veneer Door Com-
pany at that point. The company will at
once begin the manufacture of dining-room
furniture. J. H. Erew is president.

The Birchwood veneer plant, Birchwood,
Wis., has resumed operations, as has the saw-
mill connected with it. Superintendent White
says the concern will employ fifty to sixty
men the rest of the year.

The Diamond Match Company's veneering
plant at Chico, C'al., has commenced opera-
tions. Orange slats are being manufactured,
but only a few employees will be engaged
until after the directors' annual meeting in
May.

Burdis Anderson, secretary and treasurer
of the Great Lakes Veneer Company, manu-
facturer of rotary cut veneers and thin lum-
ber at Munising, Mich., has been in New
York recently, attending a hearing before
the Official Classification Committee, as a rep-
resentative of the National Veneer and Panel
Manufacturers' Association, of which he is
president. Mr. Anderson hopes he has been
successful in securing satisfactory adjustment
of some railroad matters which have been
pending between this committee and his asso-
ciation for some time.

The Burnsville Veneer Mills, Burnsville,
W. Va., which were destroyed by fire a
month ago, are being rebuilt at fast as pos-
sible, and it is expected that they will be
ready for operation again in sixty days. D.
H. Gowing, president and manager of the
concern, will remain in Burnsville until the
mill is completed. The plant will be larger
than the old one; the mill proper will be
96x120 feet, three stories; cutting room,
24x96, one story; machinery room, 32x96,
one story; boiler room, 42x28; engine room,
20x30. The sawmill was the only part of the
old plant that was not burned. Mr. Gowing
also has a plant at Syracuse, N. Y., where
he has his main office.

The Inter-State Veneer Company is a new
concern at Richmond, Va., which manufactures
inside trim for cars, houses, etc.

B. W. Lord of the Chicago Veneer Com-
pany, Burnside, Ky., attended the hearing
given members of the Veneer and Panel
Manufacturers' Association, by the Otficial
Classification Committee, in New York re-
cently. His company reports business im-
proving, and that it is' receiving a number
of good orders. About 2,000,000 feet of
choice logs have been gotten in of late, and
the mill is running fuU time.

The Edgar Veneer & Box Company, Edgar,
Wis., has been incorporated with a capital
stock of $15,000. The incorporators are: A.
W. Puchner, M. N. Schill and Peter Pesteen.
A plant will be erected by the company at
Edgar this summer.

HARDWOOD RECORD

The Utilization of HardWoods.

This is not a temperance article, but sim-
ply a record of what an observer saw in the
bar fixture department of the Bruuswick-
Balke-CoUender Company's Chicago plant,
which is one of the very few factories of the
kind in that city.

Before starting to make the rounds the
writer was warned that he need not expect to
see the bar fixture department at its busiest.
' ' The prohibition agitation that is having
its innings over a large section of the coun-
try just now, combined with the money scare,
naturally has seriouslv affected this depart-
ment of the business In the South the trade
has suffered a grie\ lus lih n in 1 siloon men

ABTICLE III.

The Manufacture of Bar Fixtures.

One of these designs, for example, shows
a most artistic back bar, with caryatids di-
viding its three mirrors. These beautiful fe-
male figures, as well as other parts of this
bar, are hand carved. The caryatids are par-
tially nude and would probably be well
"smashed" by persons of the Carrie Nation
type when on the warpath, although they are
grace itself and wonderful examples of the
wood carver's art. The end pillars have
capitals decorated with women's heads, sur-
rounded by rococo ornamentation. These
pillars are square and the design appears on
three sides. There are other elaborate carv-
ings on the bar, but enough has been told

are oak, which is the favorite, mahogany
finished curly birch, and genuine mahogany.
As an evidence of the unwaning popularity of
oak, all the stock styles produced in the
plant are offered in oak veneer, and several
in that wood alone; both the plain and quar-
ter-sawed varieties can be had. Bar tops
are always made of solid hardwood in this
factory, the reason being obvious. They are
often of solid mahogany. The veneers in
these bar fixtures are of five-ply construction.
For the body of the bar poplar is employed.
This wood may also be utilized for the bind-
ing veneers.

Bars vary in length from twelve to thirty

ARTISTIC STYLE OF BAU WITH CARYATID DKCORATION.

everywhere are proceeding cautiously," said
the superintendent.

Whatever a lumberman 's standpoint on the

liquor question may

said to be

vorable" in a great many cases— he knows
that the saloon man is a good customer for
hardwoods. Nowadays there is considerable
rivalry among saloon men with regard to
the beauty of the furnishings in their places
of business. They know that a handsome in-
terior attracts trade, imparting an air of
decency and respectability to the premises
and thus, by refiected light, to the proprietor
himself. Consequently the large amount of
special, made-to-order work turned out in the
bar fixture line is not surprising, nor is the
richness of design to be observed in many
finished and unfinished orders in a high-class
factory.

to give some idea of this imposing design.

Another handsome stock bar, which has
long been popular with the wealthier class
of saloon men, has massive round columns,
shown in one of the illustrations. It pre-
sents a peculiarly imposing appearance and
is often demanded in mahogany veneer. This
is one of the most expensive stock bars on
the market.

Lions' heads, in various sizes and always
artistically carved, are prominent features of
many back bars. In one design there are no
liss than tliirteen of these heads, with elec-
tric' lifjlit lixturcs protruding from the jaws,
the whole forming parts of three arches over-
hanging as many mirrors. The veneers em-
ployed often exhibit fancy grain and the
acme of fine finish.

The veneers ordinarily used for bar fixtures

feet, while back bars, from floor to top of
mirror frame, run from nine feet six inches
to nearly fourteen feet; thus a good supply
of wood is used in each.

There are numerous stock styles of back
bars, bottle cases, front and wine room par-
titions, summer doors, bar screens, window
screens, display cases, wall cases, coolers,
lunch counters, tables, chairs and all the great
variety of objects fashioned of wood or iron
that come under the general term bar fixtures.
Oak and birch are the hardwoods most in evi-
dence, though front and wine room partitions
are sometimes furnished in real mahogany.

One of the most interesting sections of a
factory of this kind is the wood carving de-
partment. Many hand carvers were at work,
and the carving machines were fully manned.
By observing the operations of the skilled ar-

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[■OriLAU AND SERVICEABLE BAR.

tisans who direct the movements of these
near human machines it may be seen how it
is ]>ossible to embellish great surfaces of
hardwood with wonderful designs in a com-
paratively short time, and produce a work of
art in the process.

One of the handsomest bars to be seen any-
where in the United States, it is said, is in the
New Brevoort House, Chicago. The entire
furnishings of this bar are the production of
the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company. The
room forms a sort of rotunda, with an arched
roof of art glass, through which subdued light
filters, supplemented by electric fixtures of
handsome design. The bar is circular, with
counter of fine mahogany, but the panels and
columns, which in other bars form the sup-
port of the counter, are in this case replaced

West Virginia News Notes.

At points along the Western Maryland rail-
road in West Virginia as much as 145,000,000
feet of lumber is in piles. This abundance is
due to the i-ecent financial flurry, in a way, and
many owners are hard up-in consequence. The
timber market in West Virginia is not as good
by any means as it might be, and diflferent per-
sons ascribe the conditions which exist to various
causes. Some say that the dealers have created
too high prices, and others claim that the prices
which prevail are due to natural consequences :
it is well known that timber is getting scarcer
every year. In the lower end of the state the
lumber supply is greater even than that along
the Western Maryland and Baltimore & Ohio
railroads, and a more liberal market would re-
lieve the business situation greatly. Demand
will surely arise ere long, but there is no promise
of a reduction in price. According to lumber-
men there is expected to be no particular reduc-
tion In timber, notwithstanding the absence of
demand for lumber at this time.

by art glass. Tliis feature probably remains
unnoticed by a large number of the patrons
of the bnfifet, as this part of the glass work
is not illuminated by either artificial or natu-
ral light. The hand-rail is formed by a com-
plete circle of transparent imitation cut
glass which is lighted up from within by a
series of incandescent lamps attached to the
brass rings that divide the rail into sections.
The back bar is also circular and occupies
the center of the room, counter and back bar
thus forming concentric parts. The latter is
largely of marble and brass, with several
tiers of marble shelves. Up through the cen-
ter shoots a great vase of cut glass, and this
too is brilliantly illuminated from within.
The center of the large dome is directly above
the center of the vase. The dome forms a

NeWs Miscellany.

Fire which originated in the plant of the
Kentucky Coal & Lumber Company at Open
Fork, Nicholas county. W. Va., destroyed almost
the entire town on April 10. The plant was a
total wreck and was insured for about $7,000,
which will cover only about half the loss.

.1. W. Romine Lumber Company, Parkersburg,
which has been in business a little over a year,
is enjoying an excellent trade, and Mr. Roihine
anticipates a good summer business. The com-
pany has well apopinted oflBces in the Central
Bank building, where the trade is always made
welcome.

The Hemlock Lumber Company. Charleston,
W. Va., will begin operating its new plant just
south of town about June 1. This mill is now
under construction and when completed will be
one of the most modern plants of its kind in the
state. New machinery of latest type will be
installed, and a hundred men will be employed.
It will manufacture flooring, siding and mould-
ings.

The nazelwood Lumber Company is a new con-

sort of hemisphere and around its sides, di-
rectly above the space in which the customers
stand, are smaller glass hemispheres. The
mosaic flooring beneath these smaller domes
corresponds quite minutely with them in de-
sign. The sides of the room are mainly of
mahogany, but in one place there is a magnif-
icent large art glass window representing a
female figure, and brightly illuminated from
without. Two cosy corners finished in ma-
hogany form recesses in the wall, thus pre-
venting a set appearance in the design. The
furniture is mahogany, and the chairs are
heavily upholstered in leather. While the
art glass plays a most important part in the
general decorative scheme, the large amount
of mahogany employed ' ' sets it off " with
just the proper richness and tone.

cein at Ilazelwood, capitalized at $300,000. It
will do a general wholesale and manufacturing
business and has timberland that it is estimated
will take twenty-flve years to clear up.

The C. L. Rilter Lumber Company of Avoca
is enjoying an excellent business. Manager Ger-
hardt says sales for the month of March exceeded
those of last year for the corresponding month,
and present Indications point to the same condi-
tions for April. The Ritter company has been
located at Avoca for years and has about two
months' sawing yet on this tract of land. It
has extensive holdings in Kentucky and an
option on 30,000 acres in close proximity to
its present mill.

W. H. Bailey & Co. of Grafton was estab-
lished in 1898 and is a manufacturer, wholesaler
and exporter of West Virginia hardwoods. The
mills of this company are located at Walkers-
ville. They make a specialty of dimension stock
and can supply the trade upon short notice for
almost anything in this line. Business is excep-
' tionally good with them.

HARDWOOD RECORD

The Biggs-Wilson Company has been incorpo-
rated under the laws of West Virginia and will
do a general wholesale lumber business and buy
and sell timberlands. The office of the company
is located in the Frederick building, Huntington.
G. N. Biggs is president and treasurer : Joe L.
Wilson, vice president and general manager ;
S. G. Biggs, secretary ; these, together with
S. M. Trimmer, constitute the board of directors.
Mr. Biggs is well known to the trade and has
been in the business for many years, having
been connected with the most prominent lumber-
men in the state. With such men as these at
the head of the company it will have unbounded
success. _^_^_^^

of all kind:
ing timber.

Ohio News Items.
The Domestic Lumber Company of Columbus,
although only a few months old, is booking
some fine orders, and indications at this time are
that they will have all the business they can
care for in the very near future. Mr. Taylor,
president of the company, said : "We are get-
ting a good fair volume of business and cannot
see why the carlot lumber trade will not reach
sixty-five per cent of last year during this sea-
son. As matters now stand we feel that all the
people need to have done to them is to have
their confidence in values restored, when they
will buy for their full needs and anticipate to a
certain extent. Unquestionably there are quite
a number of items in the lumber catalog today
which are worth more than money in the bank.
Up to now it has been hard to get buyers to
understand the real situation. Did they realize
the scarcity of stocks in the field they would
not hesitate to load up on present basis of values,
as by so doing they would make the biggest rate
of interest they ever did in their lives. Good
luck to all lumbermen."

In a recent Interview Albert Brlgardner of
Columbus, who has extensive holdings in the
forests of West Virginia and Kentucky, and
who is well qualified to speak of the situation
from the standpoint of an owner and operator,
said: "In my opinion it will not be a matter
of more than tweuty-five years until the timber-
land of the South will be cut almost clean.
This section of the country is now supplying
probably one-half of the United States with
timber, but at the rate it is being cut there is
little probability that it will last longer than a
quarter of a century. There arc thousands of
acres of timberland, but there is a remarkable
demand for all that is cut. Our two mills In
this district turn out more than 800,000 feet of
lumber in a month each, and oftentimes It runs
as high as a million feet. We have demand for
almost all of it each month. Corporations and
firms are entering the huge forests on all
sides and building railroads over high gorges,
overcoming the greatest difficulties to get this
lumber out to where it can be shipped to various
parts of the country. The timber in these dis-
tricts Is secured ouly at an enormous expense and
it does not pay a man to try to cut a few hun-
dred acres. The great expense entailed to get at
lumber and the cost of operation Is a great
factor in the high price of lumber today. The
timber In our possession consists mostly of oak
and poplar, but we have everything from walnut
to pine. Oak and poplar are holding their prices
while pine seems to be declining. There was a
time when one could have purchased an acre of
valuable timberland In this district for $G or $7.
It Is a great deal higher than that now, I can
assure you, and it Is going higher. The land,
however, once rid of timber, is practically value-
less as a farm. It sells cheaply and often goes
for .'f2 an acre nowadays, the owner reserving
Uie mineral rights."

The Cleveland-Oconee Lumber Company, which
was recently Incorporated under the laws of the
slate of Ohio, for $100,000, with $75,000 paid in.
Is having a very satisfactory business. The gen-
eral offices of the company are at 233 The Ar-
cade, Cleveland, with mills at Oconee, Ga. It

; and wholesales hardwood lumber
and has about 2.400 acres of stand-
The mill is newly equipped with all
modern machinery steam niggers, Fay-Egan
band mill, etc. There is a standard gauge rail-
road of twenty-five miles with cars and engine.
The timber is very large and said to be of the
finest quality in the South, and is one of the
most desirable tracts in the state of Georgia,
and very accessible for export trade as well as
domestic. The officers of the company are :
President, George E. Meier ; vice president. Will
Mace : secretary. Xeal M.itr : treasurer, M. Pow-
ell. The company was ..ii:anized by Mr. Meier,
who is also pr.si.Jtnc an.l manager of the Inter-
state Lumber Cumpany "i Cleveland.

Owen McNally of the McXally Lumber Com-
pany, manufacturers and wholesalers at Os-
wego, X. y., was in West Virginia and other
EOUtheastern states this month placing orders
lor three million feet of basswood.

Suggestions for Careful Consideration.
A quotation, from a report of the United
States Forest Service, issued In September, 1007,
is as follows:

•We have apparently about a fifteen years"
supply of hardwood lumber now ready to cut.
Of tne four great hardwood regions the Ohio
Valley states have been already almost com-
pletely turned Into agricultural states, and the
lake states and the lower Mississippi Valley are
rapidly following their example.

■'In the Appalachian mountains we have ex-
tensive hardwood lands, which have been culled
and greatly damaged by fire. These are prac-
tically all in private hands, and while they con-
tain a large amount of inferior, young timber,
they are receiving little or no protection, and
even such young timber as exists Is making
but slight growth. Even if these cutovcr lands
be rightly managed they cannot greatly Increase
their yield of merchantable timber Inside of
thirty to forty years.

"The Inevitable conclusion Is that there are
lean years close ahead In the use of hardwooC
timber. There Is sure to be a gap between the
supply which exists and the supply which will .
have to be provided, llow large that gap
will be depends upon how soon and how effec-
tively wc begin to make provision for the future
supply. The present Indications are that in
spite of the best we can do there will be a
shortage of hardwoods running through at least
fifteen years. How acute that shortage may
become and how serious a check It will put upon
the Industries concerned cannot now be fore-
told. That It will strike at the very foundation
of some of the country's most Important Indus-
tries is unquestionable. This much Is true be-
yond doubt— that we are dangerously near a
hardwood famine and have made no provision
against It."

Why cannot the hardwood operator assist the
government In establishing a system whereby
conditions which we believe are of vital Interest
to the consumer as well as the producer may be
kept normal? Although January, February and
March each showed an Increase In business over
the preceding month since December — compared
with last year — there is a decided decrease in
the amount of business in the aggregate, which
will hardly be overcome during the next nine
months, for the reason that former business con-
ditions will not become markedly apparent much
before the end of the year, if at all. It Is fig-
ured that only about 60 per cent of the business
secured last year will be realized the present
year.

Now, since this condition exists, there should
be no more lumber produced tlian that amcunt.
A large production means a series of low values
and a slower movement of material. The costs
of manufacturing have not been lowered suffi-
ciently to meet such conditions without a tre-
mendous loss to sawmill operators. The rivef
mills are In a peculiar position : they are forced

to saw all their logs which came out with the
winter tides and were felled in the woods last
year. These mills will continue sawing, but
they are not logging, and are running on high-
priced timber purchased last year when there
was a scarcity of logs. The interior and moun-
tain mills ate only running on logs they hav.-
cut in the woods to save them from worms and
rot. This condition is more prevalent in th.'
Mississippi Valley section than in any other
portion of the country. It seems a hardship to
the mountaiu or Interior mills to shut down
while the river mills are running, but as river
men are not logging this year, and will no doubt
be forced to carry over certain stocks for next
spring, the mountain mills will be doing busi-
ness while the river mills are awaiting their log
tides the following season.

This condition has existed In the past, and is a
fair one to follow on the "turn-about" principle
— while one section is running the other should
not necessarily follow suit, and vice versa. Lnm-
l>er cut now. If held too long on sticks, will go
to waste, owing to the climatic conditions ; there*
by the opportunity of marketing the cut will be
lost.

Forest methods are natural ones, and the wis*
course, based on past experience and a knowl-
edge of present conditions, would be to cut down
trees only when they are needed. By such
methods our forests would be preserved, our
needs of consumption would be better regulated
and the Industry as a whole more up to date and
provided with fresh stocks. Lewis Dosteb.

Annual Southern Cypress Manufacturers'
Association.
The fourth annua! meeting of the Southern
Cypress Manufacturers' Association will be held
at the New Grunewald Hotel, New Orleans, on
Wednesday, May 20. at 10 A. M., and will con-
tinue during that day and the next. It will be
the first meeting held by this organization for
some time and a large number of important mat-
ters will come up for consideration. President
Frederick Wllbert and Secretary George E. Wat-
son urge that there be a full attendance, and
believe that In view of the present dull times
no business engagements should be considered
of sufficient Importance to keep those Interested
In cypress manufacture away from the confer-
ence. Details and program of the meeting will
be announced later.

Handle Trade Notes.

The Ferguson & Wheeler Land. Lumber &
Handle Company of Poplar Bluff, Mo., has been
incorporated by William Ferguson. George P.
Wheeler and William S. Welsh. It Is capital-
ized at $300,000.

The El Dorado Hardwood & Manufacturing
Company of El Dorado, Ark., has Increased Its
capital stock from $10,000 to $25,000. C. S.
Jackson, president of the company, is an active
member of the Handle Manufacturers' Associa-
tion.

The Marmaduke Handle Company of Marma-
duke. Ark., has filed articles of Incorporation
with the secretary of state. The company Is
capitalized at $1,500 and the incorporators are
Jacob Glasscock, W. E. Tallcy and A. E. Bendol.

Dispatches from Shreveport, La., say that
another factory for that city may be secured
within the next few days in the Hugo Handle
Company of Poteau, Okla., and that a repre-
sentative of that concern recently visited Shreve-
port for the purpose of acquiring a site.

Indiana Still in the Bing.
The Smith & Randall Lumber Company of Fort
Wayne has Just shipped three carloads of the
largest timbers that have been sctn from Fort
Wayne In a single order for many years. The
shipment was made to Point St Charles, Canad.i,
and the lumber was for the Canadian government,
to be used for locks In the construction of the
large canals now building there.

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The plauks were oak, twelve inches thick,
twenty-four inches wide and thirty feet in
length. There were thiry-two of them, and to
fill the order required thirty-two trees, each fouc
and a half feet in diameter at the stump and
nearly two and a half feet in diameter at the
top, each tree producing but one of the big
timbers.

The singular thing about it is that nearly all
of these trees grew within four miles of Fort
Wayne, and none of them came from a distance
greater than six miles from the courthouse.
This shows that despite the heavy demands upon
the timber supply in this region, there is still
some big timber to be found in the vicinity of
Fort Wayne.

Hardwood Tim'beT Deal.

The Crocker Chair Company of Sheboygan,
Wis., has purchased from D. F. Sanborn & Co.
of Ashland, Wig., 6,103 acres of hardwood lands
in Houghton and Baraga counties for §86,-
569.56. The lands are adjacent to Sidnaw and
the timber will be cut at that place and then
shipped to Sheboygan to be worked Into the
finished product.

The Crocker Chair Company has a large plant
at Sheboygan, and is on the lookout for more
hardwood lands farther north.

New Heavy Hardwood Moulder.

That veteran and high-class woodworking ma-
chinery house, the H. B. Smith Machine Com-
pany of Smithville, N. J., has just turned out
a new and improved type of heavy moulder. It
is known as Xo. 133, a heavy 7 inch moulding
machine, and is especially adapted for working
hardwoods, and Is shown in the accompanying
lialftone engravings. It is called the "Singer
Moulder" because it was especially designed for
an important concern of that name, and large
numbers of them are in use working up the
materials for hardwood sewing machine cases.
The machine is strictly up-to-date in all re-
spects and as compared with other moulders is
more convenient to set up and adjust, is much
more strongly driven and has a very powerful
and positive feed. It may be described as fol-
lows :

The frame Is cast whole, and Is 28% inches
wide by 8 feet long, which gives ample room
for long and wide belts. The design is of strong-
est possible form and admits of easy access to
the inside vertical head ; and It also supports
the table close to the under head.

The table is extra heavy, adjustably gibbed to
the frame and adjusts up and down by a single
screw which rests on ball bearings and is ad-
justed by a winch from the front. For deep
work it will drop as low as 9 'A inches, or by
removing the outside head-stock, as low as ISV-i
inches. When the table is adjusted to position
It is then clamped firmly to the frame by two
clamp-bolts, one bolt through the outside sup-

port to upper head and the other near the
under head.

The cutter-spindles are all made of high car-
bon steel, carefully turned and ground to fit
the bearings. They are 1% inches in the bear-
ings, and the upper and under spindles are 1%
inches where the heads go, while the side spindles
are 1 H Inches for the heads. The under spindle,
like top mandrel, is provided with three bear-
ings and the head is remevable without disturb-
ing the spindle.

The bearings to the upper and lower cutter-
spindles are of our patent clamp self-oiling style
which can be adjusted to the one thousandth
part of an inch, and they are thoroughly com-
pensating. The upper spindle is provided with
an outside bearing 4V> inches long, and the other
two bearings are 6i/. inches long each. The out-
side bearing to the under spindle is readily re-
movable so as to take off the under head. The
vertical spindles have self-oiling compensating
cap-bearings and are also provided with step-
bearings, the pull of the belts being against the
boxes. The countershaft bearings are compen-
sating and self-lubricating.

The head-stocks of the upper and under heads
have longitudinal adjustment, and the vertical
heads or spindles have vertical, lateral and angu-
lar adjustments. The angular adjustment to the
outside head is 17 degrees and to the inside head
S degrees, and these angles are not disturbed
when adjusted laterally or vertically. The inside
vertical head-stock is attached to the table and,
with the outside head, goes up and down with it.
The feed mechanism is composed of two upper
feed rolls, one 4 inches and the other 2% Inches
diameter and one 4-inch roll in the table, all
driven and expansively geared so as to drive in
any position of the table. The two upper rolls
are given pressure by a combination of two Inter-
vening springs, all placed within the framing.
The feed shafts are IH Inches with substantial
bearings and both upper rolls are driven by a
downward pressure of the gears, thereby increas-
ing the power of the feed. There are two rates
of feed, 25 and 44 feet a minute, which are
started and stopped by a lever in front. This
lever actuates a friction clutch and the motion
from the clutch-shaft is communicated to the
train of feed gears by a very fine hardened steel
automobile roller bearing chain running on milled
sprockets, hence the feeds are very powerful and
positive. The feeding mechanism as a whole has
a screw adjustment to regulate the draw to the
fence side of the machine. By raising a lever to
a vertical position it lifts the feed rolls so that
the stock can be withdrawn.

The under head, besides having a horizontal ad-
justment and being removable from the spindle,
has an adjustment to regulate the amount of
cut, and the end of the bed after the head has
an adjustment to fit the cut as well as being
raised and lowered with the head. Therefore, it
Is right for any cut when once set for the cutters

in use. The end of the table swings down for
access to the cutters.

The cutter-heads furnished with the machine
are all four-slotted, lipped and made from high
carbon hammered steel, and all are of the same
cutting circle, 5 l-b inches, thus allowing aa inter-
change of cutters on the different heads.

The pressure bars and chip-breakers are of
latest design and all readily removable for quick
access to the cutter-heads. The chip-breaker to
the upper head is adjustable to and from the
cut and is weighted. There is a pressure foot
immediately after the upper cutter, and another
over the under-cutter, and these can be connected
by a board or reverse moulding so as to make the
pressure continuous. These pressure feet are ad-
justed by hand wheels.

The spring posts are held solidly by our im-
proved cast steel clamps which do not bruise the
post, hold more firmly and are easily repaired in
case of wear.

Each four-side machine is furnished with one
four-slotted steel head to each spindle, each head
having cutter-head bolts and a pair of plain
knives ; a chip-breaker to the outside vertical
head, one cap head, and wrenches and guide
shown in the foreground of cut.

For top head belting 14 feet 2 inches long by

4 inches wide is required : bottom head, 18 feet 2
inches long by 3 inches wide ; inside head, 15 feet

5 inches long by 3 inches wide ; outside head, 14
feet long by 3 inches wide ; and for feed 13 feet
long by 2% inches wide.

The machine weighs 2,550 pounds, and requires
a floor space of 9 feet by 5 feet 8 inches ; tight
ind loose pulleys 12 Inches by 6 inches ; the speed
of the countershaft is 900 revolutions per minute,
and the machine requires eight to nine horse-
power.

The H. B. Smith Machine Company operates a
large branch establishment in Chicago, at 10 and
12 Xorth Canal street, under the management of
Thomas K. Martin. Mr. Martin will be pleased
to exhibit the new type of moulder to anyone in-
terested in high-class tools of special value in
handling hardwoods.

:AR view II. B. SMITH MACHINE COMPANY'S NEW HEAVY SEVEN-
INCH MOULDER.
[For Fbont View op This Machine See Page 51.]

Annual of FMladelpliia Exchange.

The Lumbermen's Exchange of Philadelphia
held its twenty-second annual meeting in the
Crozer Building on April 9. The attendance
was unusually large and representative and in-
cluded all the prominent Philadelphia lumber-
men and not a few out-of-town guests.

The usual custom of electing a temporary
chairman for this occasion was waived, and on
motion of George F. Craig the retiring presi-
dent, William L. Rice, was elected chairman,
an honor which was much appreciated by Mr.
Rice. The retiring president then read his an-
nual address, which was followed by the annual
i-eport of John H. Lank, secretary of the ex-
change. These showed the affairs of the or-
ganization to be In very satisfactory shape and
reflected great credit on the officers. After the
reading of the various reports of the commit-
tees the election of new oflicers, directors and
auditors was In order.

George F. Craig nominated Frederick S. Un-
derhill of Wistar. Underhill & Co. for president.
Edward B. Malone nominated Herbert P. Rob-
inson of Miller. Robinson & Co. for vice-presi-
dent, and Frederick S. Underhill proposed that
Charles P. Maule. who has been the popular
treasurer of the exchange for a number of years,
should continue in office, a move to which, as
might be expected, there was no opposition.
That the genial and affable John H. Lank should
again be elected secretary by the directors was
a foregone conclusion, as never has the ex-
change been better served in this capacity than
by this same John H. Lank. On motion the
nominations for the various offices were closed,
and the names of the officers, who were elected
without a dissenting voice, recorded by the sec-
retary.

A vote of thanks was unanimously voted to

HARDWOOD RECORD

the lumber trade journals, which have kindly
supplied the exchange files with copies lor the
year ; also thanks were extended to J. E. Chal-
lenger of the Philadelphia Car Service Associa-
tion for the valuable information furnished the
oxchange. Frederick S. rnderhill and William
O. MacBride, by authority, extended the thanks
of the Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association,
also of the Philadelphia Retail Lumbermen's
Association, to the exchange for use of rooms
during the past year. In resolution the exchange
expressed its gratification at the timely call is-
sued by President Roosevelt for a conference to
be held in Washington, D. C. in May, of the
governors of the several states, and representa-
tives appointed by them, to study the problems
relating to the conservation of our natural re-
sources of minerals, timber, water supply, etc.
The tellers in charge of the vote for directors
of the exchange not having completed compiling
the vote, the intermediate time was filled in
with calls upon officers-elect for extemporaneous
speeches, which were well received, after which
the meeting was adjourned. The new directors
are Herbert E. Weitzel, Owen M. Bruner and
Daniel Adams. The faithful trio, Henry C.

ried

F. S. UNDERBILL, THE NEW PRESIDENT
OF THE EXCHANGE.

Riley, Samuel B. Vroomau and Franklin Smed-
ley, who composed the auditing committee last
year, were again elected to continue under the
present administration.

At 7 o'clock in the evening the twenty-first
annual banquet of the exchange was held in the
banquet hall of the Union League Building. The
tables, at which nearly one hundred and fifty
members and gue.'^ts were seated, were decorated
with spring blossoms and artistically strewn
here and there with pieces of bark and small
branches of trees ; the latter were enthusias-
tically waved during the dinner to accentuate
the various witty remarks of the speakers.

The booklet beside each plate, containing the
names of the members of the exchange and the
menu, of a character to tempt the most epicu-
rean palate, was an attractive piece of art. The
covers were made of the fiber of a remarkable
tree which grows on certain Pacific islands,
which is skillfully manipulated by the natives,
making a delicate and pliable wood-like mate-
rial. These were fancifully colored with native
vegetable dyes and ornamented with an emerald
green lizard and gilt lettering. On the first
inner page was a strong quotation from Car-
lyle: ■'Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man,
but for one who can stand prosperity, there
are a hundred that will sl.ind adversity." These
books were presented by the lumbermen's insur-
ance companies.

The entertainments of the evening
and of a most enjoyable character. William L.
Rice, conspicuous as retiring president, and
toastmaster of the evening, called on Frederick
S. Underbill, the newly elected president, for a
speech. After the most vociferous applause and
a violent outburst into the popular inspiring
song, "He's a jolly good fellow," Mr. Underbill
took courage and began his address to his brother
lumbermen. From start to finish so fitting were
his words, so ingeniously wrought into his
speech were graceful references to the noble
vocation of lumbermen, that the appreciation of
his hearers could not be restrained, and a search
for offerings ended in the abstracting of flowers
from vases on the tables, potted plants from
the floor, bundles of wood and small decorative
trees, to lay humbly at his feet.

G. A. Howes of the Entertainment Committee
exercised his famous quartette, and the inimit-
able Edwin -H. Coane, who had lately left a sick-
bed, sang his "Jersey Sam," a side-splitting re-
production of an old man, who compared the
present to the good old times of fifty years ago.

James Edward Cattel, secretary of the Atlan-
tic Deep Waterways Association, was another
most acceptable speaker. H. Stanley Bristol of
the United States forestry service, Washington,
D. C, elucidated the object of this service and
urged the necessity of the cooperation of lum-
bermen and other business men for its further
extension. Herbert P. Robinson, the newly elect-
ed vice-president, and other men of note, deliv-
ered eloquently their word of commendation for
the organization whose birthday they were as-
sembled to celebrate. Francis Spencer Edmonds,
a young man of growing distinction, expressed in
his all too short address his views on the sub-
ject of panics, during which he brought for-
ward some interesting statistics. It was regret-
ted that Senator Philander C. Knox, presidential
candidate, and Edwin S. Stewart, governor of
I'ennsylvania, could not be present, but letters
from them pleaded prearranged and unavoidable
duties.

As tb^ midnicrht Imnr drew near, with a so-
;;,. vi:^- .! '.. li,' "Auld Lang Syne"
; h _ 111 'I 1 ' '- ■ II! I 1 .1: \\ont down on a ban-
,,i, I \\h!.h \>;i~ :iiiiri:i ii. ■ 'll.v one Of the most
successful ever recorded in the history of the
exchange. To the committee on entertainment,
composed of Herbert P. Robinson. William H.
Smedley, George A. Howes, Fisher Dalrymple
and William T. Betts, be all praise.

St. Louis Lumbermen's Club Meeting.

The entertainment committee of the Lumber-
men's Club of St. Louis provided a Dutch lunch-
eon for the monthly meeting that was held at
the Mercantile Club, Tuesday evening, April 14.
W. A. Bonsack, first vice president of the club,
presided in the absence of President J. A. Free-
man.

After the meeting was called to order, Mr.
Bonsack introduced Dr. Herman von Schreuck,
the well-known authority on forestry, who spoke
on the subject, "The Conservation of Forests."
The doctor spoke extemporaneously and very
rapidly and fluently, and was listened to with
close attention. A resolution of thanks was
given him for his interesting talk.

At the conclusion of Dr. von Schrenck's ad-
dress the minutes of the March meeting were
read and approved.

The secretary, Mr. Kessler, read the statement
of W. W. Dings, treasurer of the club, which
showed that the receipts of the club since the
organization had been $1,125 and the disburse-
ments $619.10, leaving $505.90 in the treasury
at present.

The membership committee reported the fol-
lowing applications and they were unanimously
elected to membership : Frank G. Hanley, Henry
Boeckler, G. H. Barnes and I. N. McCrcery.

The committee on public affairs reported as
follows: "Your committee on public affairs, to
whom was referred a paper Introduced by Mr.

Seidel, representing a bill known as H. R. 10457,
introduced in the House of Representatives on
December 19, 1907, by Hon. Frank D. Currier
of New Hampshire, and then referred by that
honorable body to the committee on agriculture,
beg to report that they have considered same
and recommend that the Lumbermen's Club of
St. Louis indorse same and, in case of accept-
ance, the secretary notify Mr. Currier of the
House of Representatives as well as the House
committee on agriculture."

This bill referred to the establishment of a
forest reserve in the Appalachian mountains and
White mountains. The report was adopted and
it was resolved that every lumberman in St.
Louis send an individual letter to the Missouri
congressmen to indorse the bill, and that the
secretary prepare a general form letter to send
to the members of the club so that they could
send in uniform letters.

Lloyd G. Harris then read a motion which
W. W. Dings had prepared. It was as follows :

"The National Hardwood Lumber Association
will meet in annual convention June 11 to 14
at Milwaukee. At that time there should be
presented to the association an invitation from
the lumbermen of this city to hold the next
annual meeting in St. Louis. The Lumbermen's
Exchange at the last regular meeting appointed
a committee to present to this club the matter
of formally inviting the national association to
this city in 1909. It is suggested that a com-
mittee of three be appointed by the chair to at-
■ tend the Milwaukee meeting and invite the na-
tional association, as above set forth ; also, that
this committee shall endeavor to secure an in-
vitation from the Business Men's League and
the mayor of our city. The national association
Is one of the strongest organizations in the
United States, and it should be deemed an honor
to entertain its members. We should go before
them with statistics relating to St. Louis and
give our reasons for believing that St. Louis is
the best convention city in the United States.
I therefore move you that a committee be ap-
pointed at once, as the time for action is
limited."

The motion was carried.

Miscellaneous Notes.

The Cherry River Boom & Lumber Company
has resumed operations at its Richwood, W. Va.,
mill, and General Manager Armstrong says that
all mills in that district have resumed. This
means that there are now about fifteen hundred
men employed out of more than three thousand
that have been idle for several months but who
win all be busy again soon.

A syndicate of Oregon lumbermen, headed by
Dr. W. J. Pettlt of Portland, has just returned
from Panama, where they made an extensive In-
vestigation of hardwood timber prospects along
the canal and secured a large tract. They also
cruised Colombia forests and find many varieties
of hardwood In that country. They will not
commence logging operations for some time to
come.

The Nile Lumber Company is a new concern
at Friendship, O., capitalized at $11,000.

Fire In the lumber yards and dry kilns of the
Camden Lumber Company at Camden, Ark., re-
cently caused damage of about $25,000.

W. R'. Futch of Opalousa, La., and Charles Mc-
Donald of New Orleans have organized the Beau-
mont Hardwood Lumber Company at Beaumont,
Tex. The company is capitalized at $75,000.

J. II. Sloan has secured a contract to furnish
railroad ties for the Santa Fe and Is cutting
them from his timberland in Apache Canon,
in New Mexico. They are then put through a
preserving process at Albuquerque.

Samuel Bridges of Dickinson county, Michigan,
has contracted to furnish the Chicago & North-
western with 75,000 railroad ties in the next two
years.

HARDWOOD RECORD

The Chihuahua Lumber & Manufacturing Com-
pany, which has a plant at Chihuahua, Mexico,
will soon build a band sawmill at San Juanito.
The company already has two mills in that sec-
tion and employs, about 250 men. The band mill
is to fill the demand for lumber which will come
with increasing mining operations this fall and
winter.

Meyers & St. John of Indianapolis recently sold
16,000 acres of southern timber land to an east-
ern syndicate for $240,000. The firm operates a
large hardwood mill in Louisiana and cotton
plantations in that state and Mississippi.

The woodworking establishment of the Buckley
Lumber Company at Abingdon, Va., suffered a
loss of about $6,000 by fire early in the month.

A. F. Bard, connected with the Laguna del
Carmen Company, an American mahogany con-
cern in the state of Campeche. Mexico, states
that an average of 3,000 mahogany logs is being
shipped out of that district every month to Bos-
ton, New York and Europe. This company owns
an immense amount of mahogany stumpage and
is capitalized at $6,000,000.

The Pioneer Pole &. Shaft Company at Muncie,
Ind., has resumed operations with a full force
of men and expects to keep running all sum-
mer.

The Colorado, Columbus & Mexican railroad
will extend its line from Columbus, N. M.. to
Durango, Mex. George M. Duncan, representing
the Carter Lumber Company of Houston, Tex.,
secured the contract for supplying lumber mate-
rial.

The Hastings Table Company of Hastings,
Mich., will double the size of its factory this
spring.

The Long Beach Sash & Door Company of
Long Beach, Cal., repoi'ts more business during
the first ten days of March than during the
entire month of February and says that building
conditions in Los Angeles and vicinity are im-
proving right along.

News from the City of Mexico tells of the de-
struction by fire of the property of the J. M.
Carr Furniture Company and the large lumher
yard of Fernandez Martinez at Monterey, Mexico.
The loss aggregates $400,000, with no insurance.

The number of ties purchased by the steam
and electrical roads of the country during 1906
was 102,834,040. The demand of the steam roads

amounted to seventy-five per cent of the total.

The New York Central and the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company have contracted with a Mexi-
can concern which owns a large tract of hard-
wood timber iu the state of Campeche for ties
made of zapote. It is claimed that this wood
is almost indestructible and that it will last half
a century under the most trying conditions.

The Girard Lumber Company of Dunbar, Wis.,
has purchased 2,000 acres of hardwood timber
land in Forest county.

A large part of the town of Open Fork, W. Va..
was destroyed by fire April 11. The blaze started
in the plant of the Kentucky Coal & Lumber
Company, which was destroyed together with
fourteen two-story houses.

The Grimwood hardwood plant at Owensville,
Ind., has closed down temporarily.

The Milwaukee-Falls-Evansville Chair Com-
pany, capitalized at $100,000, will start build-
ing at Evansville, Ind., within a very short time,
and will be in operation probably by July 1.

Samuel E. Smith has been appointed receiver
for Ernest E. Price, hardwood dealer located at
1406 Continental Trust building, Baltimore. Mr.
Price's liabilities are scheduled at about $54,000,
with assets of approximately $18,000.

The heirs of William Helwig, who died re-
cently at St. Louis, and who had a lumber yard
at Broadway and Barton streets, are puzzled over
his will and have no idea of what his estate
consists, although they know he was wealthy.
He sold out his lumber business some time ago,
and made a trip to Germany. What has become
of his money they cannot tell. They believe it
may be buried, however, inasmuch as his grand-
father, who was equally eccentric, hid his for-
tune under ten feet of ground, and it was only
accidentally discovered.

H. H. Haines of Easton, Pa. ; George H. Mut-
ton of East Bangor and J. J. Himmel of Acker-
manville have just purchased a large tract of
timberland on the Blue Ridge. They will have it
manufactured into railroad ties and poles.

John W. Corbett, a prominent business man of
Mountainair, N. M., believes that hardwood will
grow in that state, and is following his annual
custom of promoting tree planting by giving
away saplings to anyone who will agree to nour-
ish them. This year he offers 500 young elms.
The trees planted in former years are thrifty.

Hardwood J>JeWs.

(By HARDWOOD RECORD Special Correspondents.)

Chicago.

Announcement has been received here that the
Warren Ross Lumber Company of Jamestown,
N. Y., has succeeded and purchased the business
of the Ross Lumber Company at that point. Tha
company will maintain a complete stock of for-
eign and domestic hardwoods at Jamestown and
also at mill points for direct shipment. "High
grades at fair values" will be its policy.

Burdis Anderson of the Great Lakes Veneer
Company, Munising, Mich., was a Chicago visitor
recently, en route home from New York, whither
he had been in the interests of the National
Veneer and Panel Manufacturers' Association, of
■which he is president.

W. E. Douglass of the Crosby & Beckley Com-
pany, Columbus. O., called upon Chicago friends
April 14 and 15.

A twostory frame building in the yards of the
T. Wilce Company, West Twenty-second and
Throop streets, was partly destroyed by fire early
on the morning of April 16. The loss was about
$1,000. For a time it looked as though the
flames might sweep through the entire lumber
yard, but they were fortunately checked befOMj
this happened.

W. H. Russe of Russe & Burgess, Memphis,
president of the National Hardwood Lumber As-
sociation, spent Sunday, April 12, in Chicago
In conference with Frank F. Fish, secretary of
the association. Mr. Russe was on his way
home from a trip to Great Britain and th»

Continent, where he has been for the last three
months. He has again taken up association
work vigorously and is already making plans
for the June convention, which will be held in
Milwaukee. Mr. Russe had a very rough passage
in crossing the Atlantic ; the storm retarded the
steamer so it had to put into Halifax for coal,
making a record breaking trip — on the wrong
side of the record — of thirteen days between
Liverpool and New York ! Mr. Russe reports
lumber conditions abroad as being a good deal
worse than they are on this side. He states
that the consignment evil has again reasserted
itself, and that the docks are full of undesirable
and unsaleable lumber.

The H.VRDWOOD Recokd is in receipt of largo
special editions of "Timber and Woodworking
Machinery" and the "Timber Trades Journal,"
two well-known lumber publications of Great
Britain. Both numbers are handsomely illus-
trated and give elaborate writeups of prominent
lumber concerns abroad.

At the annual meeting of the Philadelphia
Lumbermen's Exchange, held April 9, a vote of
thanks was extended to the Hardwood Record
for the issues supplied it during the year ending
March 31, 1908.

The National Lumber Manufacturers' Credit
Corporation of St. Louis, W. T. Biederman,
superintendent, forwards the Record Its April,
1908, edition of the Credit Hating Book. The

current number is the ninth volume which has
been issued by the corporation, and shows a
great amount of work. Each number is better
than the last, and promises a valuable addition
to any lumberman's library.

F. M. Shaw of the Rib Lake Lumber Com-
pany, Rib Lake, Wis., was a Chicago visitor
a few days ago. Mr. Shaw says his company
has large holdings in hardwood and hemlock
in Wisconsin ; it is operating in birch, elm, ash
and maple, and is fortunate in having some dry
stock on hand.

N. A. Gladding of E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc.,
Indianapolis, was in the city April 9 and 10,
visiting the company's Chicago office.

Dan Arpin of the Arpin Hardwood Lumber
Company, Grand Rapids, Wis., was in Chicago
within the past few days, accompanied by his
wife.

C. Fred Yegge of the Chicago Mill & Lumber
Company has recently made a tour of the Ar-
kansas and Mississippi mills.

Horace Wildberg of the Wildberg Box Com-
pany, Cincinnati, was in the city on business
the other day, and incidentally remarked that
he would buy 1,000,000 feet of shortleaf yellow
pine for box purposes — six to twelve feet.

Charles Linder, secretary of the John H.
Kaiser Lumber Company, Eau Claire, Wis., was
in town the past week and reports that his mill
is busy on hardwoods and hemlock. The com-
pany is one of the largest box manufacturers in
Wisconsin.

R. A. Johnson of the Mereen-Johnson Com-
pany of Minneapolis, has been out on the
Pacific coast with C. A. Smith of the C. A.
Smith Lumber Company, looking over timber
purchases.

M. A. Hayward, the popular wholesaler of
Columbus, O., was a welcome visitor at the
Record office April 23.

Edward Hines, the foremost Chicago lumber-
man, was obliged to submit to a severe operation
a few days ago. Mr. Hines is at present in the
Presbyterian hospital, and reports from his bed-
side are favorable to his prompt recovery.

Boston.

William E. Litchfield has recently returned
from a business and pleasure trip through the
South and West. He states that the mills that
he came in contact with had small stocks only
of hardwood lumber and that it is his opinion
that what lumber there is in the West is held
largely in dealers' hands.

Frank W. Lawrence of Lawrence & Wiggin,
Boston, reports business as only moderately ac-
tive. He states that furniture and piano man-
ufacturers are not large buyers of mahogany at
present, as they are not as busy as usual at this
season of the year. Mr. Lawrence is very enthu-
siastic over the Lumbermen's Golf Association
meeting that will be held near Boston this sea-
son. He is secretary of this association, and
Frank Witherbee of the H. M. Bickford Com-
pany, Boston, is president.

The following comprised a recent shipment
from Boston to South America : 1,343,616 feet
of white pine, 50,050 feet of oak, 25,618 feet of
ash and 14,797 feet of poplar.

Omer Schoffner of Nashville, Tenn., was a
recent visitor in the Boston market. Mr. Schoff-
ner is a large handler of hardwood.

The Wendall F. Brown Company of Boston
has been incorporated in Kittery, Me., with a
capital stock of $300,000.

Chelsea. Mass., the home of several large lum-
her concerns, has been visited by a bad fire that
caused a loss of $10,000,000 and destroyed over
a thousand dwellings, as well as churches,
schools, stores and factories. Lumber dealers es-
caped this great conflagration. The George D.
Emery Company, large mahogany importers and
dealers, offered a part of their property to the
telephone company, whose head(iuarters were de-
stroyed. The company erected fifteen public pay
stations on this property. The Pope and Cottle
Lumber Company, whose yard Is in Chelsea, has

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secured a piece of land in the burned district and
erected a temporary office with the view o( bet-
ter being able to serve the demands of the
builders who have already started to put up
temporary quarters for business houses.

Among the lumber dealers of Boston who con-
tributed about $2,500 to the relief work in Chel-
sea were the Shepard & Morse Lumber Company,
H, M. Bickford Company, Davenport, Peters &
Co., William E. Litchfield, Owen Bearse & Son
Company, H. D. Wiggin, Jones Hardwood Com-
pany and Lawrence & Wiggin.

E. V. Babcock of Pittsfield, Pa., was in Bos-
ton on business recently.

New York.

A petition in bankruptcy has been filed against
Isidor L. Cohen, trading under the style of the
Mott Haven Lumber Company, Manhattan, by
creditors with claims agregating ?13,500. F. B,
Van Duzen and L. D. Driggs have been appointed
receivers with bonds at $10,000. Mr. Cohen
suffered reverses in October last, since which
time the business has been conducted under a
trusteeship.

Johan Faber, the large lead pencil manufac-
turer of Germany, is constructing a big pencil
factory at Irvington, X. J., which will be ready
for operation June 1. Richard Best is local rep-
resentative for Mr. Faber and maintains head-
quarters at 03 Diiane street. New York.

President James Sherlock Davis of the New
York Lumber Trade Association was guest and
speaker at the annual meeting of the Phila-
delphia Lumber E.\change In that city April 9.
President liichard S. White of the Eastern States
Retail Lumber Dealers" Association, and head
of the ,Tohn C. Orr Company, Brooklyn, was
also a prominent attendant.

The Kilpatrlck Lumber Company, West Fifty-
seventh street, Manhattan, has Increased Its cap-
ital from $2,500 to $10,000.

Clifford A. Bockoven, Bockoven Bros. Com-
pany, Newark, N. J., died April 3 after a long
Illness. He had been associated with the Newark
lumber trade through the operations of Henry
H. Munday for many years, and with his brother
bought out the business in 1906. The firm an-
nounces that there will be no change in the
conduct of the business, which will be continued
as heretofore.

James C. Place has severed his connection
with George M. Grant & Co., wholesale hard-
woo.is, 74 Cortlandt street, Manhattan, to repre-
sent the well-known Philadelphia wholesale house
of Schofield Brothers, whose Interests he will look
after In the Metropolitan district and vicinity.
Mr. Place has boon associated with the local
hardwood trade for the past eighteen years.
Schofield Brothers have large facilities in all
lines of hardwood, white and yellow pine, and
already enjoy a large eastern trade.

The regular semiannual meeting of the New
York Lumber Trade Association was held at the
association rooms, 18 Broadway, April 8, at
which time several transfers of membership were
acted upon and a nominating committee ap-
pointed to report at the annual election In Oc-
tober. There was a large attendance and much
Interest shown In the general affairs of the
association, but for the most part only routine
business was transacted. Resignations of several
members, by reason of retirement from business,
were also accepted.

James H. Plttlnger of Watson & PIttinger,
Carroll street and Gowanus canal, Brooklyn, has
Just returned from a pleasure trip South and
West via New Orleans, during which he visited
his nephews, James E. and W. A. Stark, promi-
nent Memphis lumbermen.

Clayton P. Chew has resigned his position
as joint manager of the New York office of the
Goodyear Lumber Company, 45 Broadway, and
has engaged in the wholesale lumber trade on
bis own account, with headquarters at Morris-
town, N. J. E. V. Randall, who has been asso-
ciated with Mr. Chew In the management of
the Goodyear office, will continue at the head

of things at 45 Broadway, and will be assisted
in the selling department by J. L. Billington
and H. D. Dunlevie.

Frank D. Langstroth has severed his connec-
tion with Robert R. Sizer & Co., 17 William
street, and has engaged in the wholesale trade
on his own account, with headquarters at 68
Broad street, Manhattan.

Stone & Hershey, prominent Newark whole-
sale house, has just moved into fine new head-
quarters at 776 Broad street from 800 Broad
street, where they have larger and better facili-
ties for handling their growing business.

John Bossert of Louis Bossert & Son, Brook-
"lyn, has just returned from a three weeks' pleas-
ure trip to the Florida resorts.

Captain A. P. Bigelow of A. P. Bigelow & Co.,
West Fifty-fourth street, Manhattan, is con-
valescing from a severe attack of pneumonia,
a result which Is very gratifying to bis many
friends in the trade.

M. S. Tremaine of the Montgomery Bros. Com-
pany, Buffalo, arrived April 6 after a month's
pleasure trip abroad.

The big veneer operation of I. L Cole & Son,
foot of East Eighth street, Manhattan, was bad-
ly damaged by water on April 7, resulting from
a fire in adjoining premises. The loss Is fully
covered by insurance.

W. B. Mershon of Saginaw, Mich., was a re-
cent visitor in town in the interest of business
and pleasure. It had been some time since Mr.
Mershon was in New York, and his many friends
were glad to meet him again.

C. H. Bond of E. W. liathbun & Co., Oswego,
N. Y., was here for a day en route home after a
vacation at PInehurst, N. C.

George E. W. Luebrmann of the Charles F.
Luchrmann Hardwood Lumber Company, St.
I.ouls, Mo., has been spending several days here
in the interest of the domestic and e.\port trade.

Judge W. A. Cromble of W. M. Cromble & Co.,
SI New street, arrived April 14 after a six
weeks' pleasure trip abroad.

The Goshen Sash & Door Company, large
manufacturers of Goshen, Ind., are arranging
to ftpen a sales office in Brooklyn in the interest
of an active eastern campaign.

R. F. Kreinboder of the Standard Hardwood
Lumber Company, Buffalo, was a recent visitor
In the Interest of business. His company Is as
usual In possession of a choice assortment of
hardwoods for the eastern trade. Business Is re-
ported as very fair with them.

The Lumber Sales Corporation has removed
from 95 Liberty street to the new Hudson Termi-
nal building, where it will be In better shape to
lake care of its business.

The sash, door and blind firm of Levin k
Kronenbcrg, Brooklyn, has been Incorporated as
Levin, Kronenberg & Co., with a capital of
$50,000. The Incorporators are J. Levin, H.
Kronenberg and A. Fink.

A petition In bankruptcy has been filed against
S. F. Mlnter, wholesale hardwoods, 1 Broadway,
by attorneys for the Elm City Lumber Com-
I>any, a creditor for $745, and the court has ap-
pointed Charles L. Cohn receiver, with bond at
.<2,000. It Is stated that the liabilities are
$40,000 and the assets $5,000.

Edward HInes and C. F. Welhe of the Edward
Hlnes Lumber Company, Chicago, were promi-
nent visitors during the fortnight.

George J. Kennedy, wholesale hardwoods. 1090
Elllcott Square, Buffalo. N. Y., has opened a
New York office at 1 Madison Avenue. Mr. Ken-
nedy win continue his Buffalo office and divide
his time between the two cities.

L. C. Blades, vice president of the Forman-
Blades Lumber Company, Elizabeth City, N. C.
and J. V. Blades, secretary and treasurer of the
J. B. Blades Lumber Company, Newberne, N. C,
sailed on the 18tb for Italy for a three months'
tour of Europe!

FMladelphia.
Soble- Brothers are not arguing over trade sit-
uation, but are complacently meeting conditions

as they arise. Harry I. Soble is spending some
time in Honaker, Va., looking after mill interests
of the firm. John J. Soble has just returned
from a two weeks' trip through New York state
and reports some little improvement all along
the line.

The Codling-McEwen Lumber Company reports
March trade very encouraging, but that of April
somewhat Irregular : however, they are not hope-
less of an early improvement in business.

Miller & Miller are not grumbling, as they
have been fortunate enough to secure some de-
sirable orders. They regard the outlook fair.

Horace G. Hazard & Co. state that so far April
has not equaled previous month ; think so many
rainy days may have had some effect upon trad-
ing. However, they work industriously and reap
their reward in a goodly share of what business
there is. They do not anticipate any decided
revival of trading until the political sky shines

John W. Coles Is pushing his hardwood depart-
ment and has no fault to find therewith. He
reports trading generally a little slow, but be-
llaves that to the hustler come the orders, and
takes little lime to Indulge In pessimistic con-
jectures.

Ualf.nenny & Hamilton report business In fairly
good shape. They look for gradual Improve-
ment right along. Benjamin C. Currle, Jr., of
this house is making a short business trip to
New York and part of New Jersey.

H. H. Maus & Co., Inc., are satisfied they are
getting their share of trading In the lumber line,
but report slow buying of ties, etc., by railroads.
However, they are sanguine that the near future
will see a fair restitution of business.

Emil Guenther has been spending some time
In eastern Tennessee looking up the general stock
situation there.

On the morning of April 10 Are visited the
lumber yard of Shelp & Vandegrlft, Inc., and
that of the I'hlladclphla Veneer & Lumber Com-
pan.v, in which the first-named concern is largely
Interested. At one time it seemed that the en-
tire plants would be destroyed, as the seasoned
state of the lumber rendered It extremely com-
bustible, but the losers arc pleased to state that
the first estimate of a $70,000 loss has been re-
duced to $30,000 to $40,000. They arc fully
insured, and the disaster will not prevent them
from filling all orders as heretofore.

A fire which started on April 14 from a burn-
ing pile of trash in the garden of R. C. Pervls
destroyed about 100 acres of valuable timber
land near Mlddleford, Del., owned by R. C.
Pervls, George Boyce and George Stewart of Mld-
dleford.

Standing timber worth thousands of dollars
was recently destroyed near MlllvlUe, N. J., by
forest fires. Among the heaviest losers are Ga.
brlel Glann, John Mason, Lilburn Hess, Eugene
Goodwin. John Cambron and Harrison Shaw, all
of this place.

It Is announced that the last two drives of
logs in the West Branch, one from Kettle Creek
and one from Pine Creek, the two amounting to
about 30,000,000 feet, are now afloat and will
be safely within the Willamsport boom within a
few days. Then this famous boom will be fii>
mantled, only enough of It being left to barb :
about 2,000.000 feet of logs, which will be drlv^
In next spring.

Justice H. W. Bardwill of Montrose has pla. • '
In bis office a desk built of white oak that f
fifty-three years lay at the bottom of the Si
quehanna River, underneath the piers of th
bridge. The trees were cut on his father's farm
over fifty years ago and used for cribbing for the
foundation of the piers. Notwithstanding If
long bath the wood looks new and fresh as
though but recently cut in the forest.

It was recently announced In Allentown, P.i .
that the largest transfer of land ever made nt
a private sale In this state took place when
O. C. Dorncy, trustee for the collateral heir
of the estate of the late C. A. Dorney, recent i.

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sold to Col. H. C. Trexler between 9,000 and
10,000 acres of timber land located at Hickory
Run, Luzerne county. The consideration was
$20,000.

On April 13 a petition was filed to have the
Phoenix Woodworking Company of Phoenixrllle.
Pa., adjudged an involuntary bankrupt. The
petitioning creditors are Justice P. Taylor &
Co., $1.439.10 ; F. W. Unkel Lumber Company,
$396.86, and William Whitmer & Sons, Inc.,
$329.10.

The American Timber & Lumber Company of
Philadelphia obtained a charter on April 8,
under Delaware state laws : capitalization, $125,-
000. Incorporators are John T. Flournoy, New-
ark, N. J. : C. F. Thomas, Wilmington, Del., and
Leon P. Thomas. Philadelphia. The personnel
of the company is not generally known to local
trade.

Among tbe recent visitors to the local trade
were E. E. Wheeler, Wheeler Lumber Company,
Glady, W. Va. : F. W. Lawrence, Boston. Mass. ;
E. H. Stouer and Harry C. Bemis of Pittsburg,
Pa. ; Joseph C. Campbell, Marion, Va. : H. K.
Eutsler, St. Paul, Va. ; W. W. Dempsey, Johns-
town, Pa. ; Robert G. Patterson, Hot Springs,
X. C. : W. W. Welch, New York City ; H. L.
Graham, president Stuart Lumber Company,
Brinson, Ga. ; W. T. Latham, Buckhannon, W.
Va., and C. L. Strauss of Jackson Lumber Com-
pany, Lockhart, Ala.

It Is stated that John Coleman of Wllliams-
port. Pa., is enlarging his plant to permit the
manufacture of 2,.')00,000 feet of match blocks
a year, the output requiring 3.500,000 feet of
lumber. The extension Is being erected to sup-
ply a contract for match blocks, 1,000,000 feet
of which will be exported to Liverpool, England :
the remainder will be shipped to Barberton, O.

Baltiinore.

The managing committee of the Baltimore
Lumber Exchange had before it at the monthly
meeting on April 6 the report of the special
committee named in connection with the recent
inspection conference. In order to determine
upon a future course of procedure the members
of the committee met In the office of Price &
Heald on April 13. It was agreed to notify
J. D. Crary, secretary of the New York Lumber
Trade Association, who acted as secretary of
the New York conference, in response to his
letter Inquiring what the Baltimore hardwood
men were disposed to do and to Indicate who
was going to the Chicago conference, that in the
opinion of the committee here it might be well
to ascertain whether or not the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association's committee was still
willing to keep up the negotiations In view of
the action taken at Philadelphia, and whether
the prospects of an agreement were reasonably
good. While the Baltlmoreans are willing to
work with the representatives of other cities and
will go to Chicago if it Is deemed necessary,
they prefer to lay the ultimatum before the
National Hardwood Association at the annual
meeting In Milwaukee unless the committee
evinces an Inclination to meet the eastern rep-
. rcsentatives.

The failure of the East Coast Lumber Com-
pany and of B. E. CogblU, its president, is re-
ported from Boydton, Va., receivers having been
appointed on April 11. Those for the corporation
as such arc John A. Lamb and P. H. C. Cabell,
those for Mr. Cogblli Individually are H. S.
Fulton and Henry R. Miller. They are bonded
In the sum of $50,000 each. Mr. Cogblli has
been operating in Mecklenburg county and other
places in that part of the state for a number of
years and was regarded as wealthy. He also
attained much political prominence, having been
county treasurer. The failure has also carried
down the Bank of Mecklenburg, the cashier,
E. W. Overby, having, according to his own con-
fession, allowed Mr. CogblU to overdraw his
accounts to the extent of more than $100,000.
This, It appears, was done without the knowledge
of the president and directors, the cashier say-

ing that it was an act of kindness and that he
did not benefit in any way. An investigation by
the board of directors of the affairs of the bank
discloses a shortage of over $125,000. Overby
has been released on $50,000 bail. It is thought
that the depositors of the bank will get from 50
to 75 cents on the dollar. Receivers have been
appointed for the institution also.

Advices received here from abroad are of a
decidedly discouraging nature and constitute an
impressive warnlug against the shipping of stocks
on consignment. In a letter to a Baltimore firm
of exporters specific instances are given of the
heavy losses sustained by such shippers. Thus
a lot. of oak planks from two to three inches
thick was sold at Liverpool for about $21 per
thousand feet, while another lot brought about
$23.50. This, as the recipient of the letter ex-
pressed it. Is less than the oak is worth standing
in the woods in the tree, and must prove ruinous
to anyone who incurs such losses. The prices
mentioned were ex quay, which means that the
cost of transportation and of putting on dock
and the interest charges must come out of the
amount realized.

G. W. Eisenhauer and Daniel MacLea, who
compose the Eisenhauer-MacLea Company of this
city, dealers in hardwoods, have sold their stock
in the J. S. Coleman Lumber Company, which
operates a sawmill In the Asheville, N. C. sec-
tion. The purchaser was A. F. Sprinkles of
Asheville. Governor Smith of New York has
also disposed of his shares. Messrs. Eisenhauer
and MacLea now have no lumber Interests out-
side of the company here. The former has been
at Asheville for several weeks and it was dur-
ing his stay there that the deal was consum-
mated. He has been taking a rest from business
cares and has found his sojourn in the North
Carolina mountains very beneficial.

John H. Burrell of the Liverpool firm of John
H. Burrell & Co. stopped In Baltimore for several
days on his journey over a large part of the
United States and called on various firms here.
He gave a rather discouraging report of the
situation abroad, saying that conditions were
worse than they had been for years. Prices, he
declared, were demoralized, and the large stocks
at different points served to prevent recovery.
Mr. Burrell laid much stress upon the bad ef-
fects of shipping luml>er on consignment. From
here Mr. Burrell went to Norfolk and thence to
Knoxville, Bristol and Memphis. Tenn. His
itinerary after that included Mobile, Ala., and
.New Orleans. It is his first visit to the United
States in twenty-five years.

S. S. Mann of Mann & Parker, West Falls
avenue, Baltimore. Is back from Robblns Neck,
S. C. where his firm erected a mill, which has
just been put In operation. For the present the
plant win not be run to the limit of its ca-
pacity.

R. P. Baer of R. P. Baer & Co., Keyser build-
ing, is back at his office after several weeks
spent In western North Carolina, where he called
on a number of the mlllmen and noted trade con-
ditions generall}'. He found many of the plants
shut down, stocks of lumber as a rule light, the
market far from buoyaut and prices depressed.

Pittsburg.

The Flint, Erving & Stoner Company is hav-
ing a good run In the spruce trade, this wood
leading In their sales this month. The com-
pany's operations at Dunlevie, W. Va., are going
ahead rapidly and It will increase the cut as the
market demand.?.

The Jones & Laughlln Steel Company has con-
tracted with the McClure Timber Company for
the building of fifty barges to be used in its
coal trade on the Monongahela and Ohio rivers.
The boats are being built in lower Allegheny,
and a large amount of timber Is used In their
construction.

J. L. Lytle, president of the J. L. Lytle Lum-
ber Company, feels fine since his return from a
short trip to Virginia. While there he made
some new hardwood connections, which will put

the concern in even better shape to supply the
market with poplar.

The personnel of the Meed & Spear Company
has been changed by C. L. Snodgrass withdraw-
ing to take a position with the Forest Lumber
Company of Pittsburg. Mr. Snodgrass had been
in the employ of the Meed & Spear Company
about eight years and is well known throughout
this district. As vice-president the Meed &
Spear Company has secured L. C. Thompson of
the Auburn Lumber Company of Auburn, N. Y.,
who is one of the best-posted hardwood men in
the state. He will bring to the company strong
acquaintance and exceptionally good knowledge
of hardwood conditions in the East.

H. H. Haines, vice-president of the North
Hampton Traction Company of eastern Penn-
sylvania, with other capitalists has bought
about 1,000 acres of wood land on the south
side of the Blue Ridge, this being the largest
tract in that part of the state. The buyers will
at once cut the timber for railroad ties and
telegraph and telephone poles.

The Clay-Shoppe Lumber Company is getting
along nicely with its new operation in southern
Pennsylvania near the Maryland line, and by
May 1 will have at least four portable mills
working there. Vice-president McGibbeny ot
the company is making a hurried trip through
the East and is lining up some nice trade.

W. P. Craig, manager of the local oV4ce of
Wm. Whitmer & Sons of Philadelphia, spent
a .few days last week in Richmond and vicin-
ity and found conditions there but little
better than in Pittsburg. The company's re-
ports show that the spruce trade was quite
active this month, especially in box lumber.

H. T. Newell, president of the Newell Bros.
Lumber Company, reports that its mill in West
Virginia is running steadily. It has an accumu-
lation of dry stock there for special orders and
finds this an advantage in landing good busi-
ness.

Manager S. A. Seaman of the C. P. Caughey
Lumber Company reports business a little better
than In March. . The local yards are doing a
hand-to-mouth business in buying. Manufactur-
ing business is more promising, but due to
the coal strike there Is little inquiry for mine
stock.

The Acorn Lumber Company Is feeling good
over an order tor nearly 100,000 feet, mostly
hardwood, which it took for delivery along the
lake. President H. F. Domboff has been quite
successful in building up lake trade, as well as
getting into the manufacturing towns of central
and southern Ohio.

The Central Pennsylvania Lumber Company,
.whose mill near Wiliiamsport is said to be the
largest and best equipped plant in Pennsylvania,
has elected oflicers as follows : President, Frank
W. Simmons ; first vice-president, C. B. Farr ;
second vice-president, B. G. Brownell ; secretary,
A. W. Mallenson, and treasurer, Rosser Thomas.

In Pittsburg lumber circles the death of Rob-
ert Jenkins, Jr., president of the Vigilant Lum-
ber Company, is deeply regretted. Mr. Jenkins
died at his residence April 2, after having been
111 about six months. He was a well-known
Pittsburg lumber and coal dealer, having for-
merly been a member of the coal firm of T. M.
Jenkins & Co. In 1900 he was largely instru-
mental in organizing the West Virginia Lumber
Company, from which he withdrew in May of
1907 along with Charles J. Cappler and George
E. Bartlett, two former members of the Vigilant
Lumber Company.

The L. L. Satler and Interior Lumber Com-
panies are now nicely quartered in the new
Keenan skyscraper at Liberty avenue and Sev-
enth street.

The Cosmopolitan Coal and Coke Company,
which lately bought 11,000 acres of coal land
In Braxton and Gilmer counties. West Virginia,
Is letting contracts for 100 or more houses and
100 coke ovens. Its investments for these Im-
provements will be at least $100,000.

The Cheat River Lumber Company has been
thrown Into bankruptcy by a petition filed by

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Bemis & Vosburgh and other Pittsburg firms.
The action was rather unexpected in this city
as the Cheat River was supposed to be in fair
shape. Up to one year ago the company dis-
counted its bills and had a good business.
Through the efforts of its president, W. H.
Herbertson, the Cheat River plant at Lynch-
burg, Va., was at about that time taken by Mr.
Herbertson's brothers, M. H., M. L. and R. L.
Herbertson, who gave in exchange for it their
stocli in the Cheat River. Since then the Lynch-
burg operation has been conducted under the
name of the Herbertson Ijumber Company, and
is said to be a good buyer. W. H. Herbertson
left Pittsburg the last of March and has nut
been seen in this part of the country since.

Buffalo.

F. A. Beyer, who is just back from his oak
mills at Pascola, Mo., finds that his company has
been active there and the returns are good. He
will have a yard here before long.

H. S. Janes has been looking closely to the
mills of the Empire Lumber Company of late,
both in Arkansas and North Carolina. He is
running them slonly but with good results.

The burning of the mills of the Bathurst
Lumber Company in New Brunswick has cut
out the active business of the company for a
season, but the mill will be rebuilt and it la
thought that the delay will be an actual benefit
to the owners. One lumberman says it is worth
.?2 a thousand to the company. The fire occurred
on the 14th, involving a loss of $50,000. Man-
ager Preisch and Vice-President Carrier are
back from the scene of the fire.

R. F. Kreinheder of the Standard Hardwood
Lumber Company was a delegate to the republi-
can state convention and President Wendt of
the company was made a presidential elector at
the convention. Trade with the concern Is
fair.

A. Miller made a trip east in the interest of
business lately and Is active in putting in stock
as it goes out. Basswood Is a pretty good
seller and his yard has always been well sup-
plied with It.

Manager Wright of the Memphis Interests of
ScatcLerd & Son paid a long visit to the home
office and his old home lately and will get busy
at the mills there as soon as he returns.

F. W. Vetter sticks to his plan, formed when
he went in for himself, of keeping a stock just
large enough to cover the hardwood trade gen-
erally. Sales have been fair and the sources
of supply are always open.

The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company is
making more of a specialty of gum than ever,
finding that it can be sold in the Kast as it
could not in times past. It is low-priced and an
all-round wood and should go.

Hugh McLean is back on the road again after
quite a general waiting for the demand to re-
turn, and .\ngus McLean is most of the time
in Canada looking after the mills of the McLean
interest down the St. Lawrence.

L N. Stewart has returned to business aftCi
a pretty bad winter fighting the grip. He re-
ports that there is a fair demand for his special-
ties, such as cherry, oak and walnut, with a
good stock of it all In sight.

A. J. Ellas Is taking a prominent part in th»
union passenger station meetings, having fur-
nished the map that seems to be the basis of a
plan most favored by the business men of the
city.

The yard of Beyer, Knox & Co. is still pretty
well beset by grade crossing operations, but so
far nothing has been done towards a new site,
as business goes on as usual in spite of draw-
backs of that sort.

O. E. Yeager has worked hard on the National
Inspection rules and has drawn up a set that
should go far toward settling the differences In
that line. Business has been very fair with
him.

The car trade with Canada is good at the
yard of T. Sullivan & Co., as elm, basswood

and black ash are coming in from there ; also
some Washington spruce that goes direct to
destination, the yard stock of it being good.

Detroit.

Detroit hardwood men realize now that busi-
ness this year will not be anywhere near what
it was a year ago. Trade has been dull for
the past three or four months, and although
indications now are that conditions will improve,
lumbermen are far from satisfied. Prices have
been cut some, but with building operations
taking on renev,ed life, the dealers look for
better things.

Thomas Forman of the Thomas Forman Com-
pany says that, while trade is by no means
booming, he looks on the situation optimistically.

The wholesale lumber dealers of Detroit have
effected a settlement of their long-standing diflJ-
culties with the Longshoremen's Union, and
boats will be unloaded without hindrance this
year. H. L. Wilton and C. W. Kotcher repre-
sented the dealers in the negotiations with the
union.

There are 225,000 feet of hardwood flooring in
the new 18-story Ford building, which is hearing
completion.

Lowrie & Robinson have bought the Delray
yards of the Restrict Lumber Company for
if 3 00.000. The property comprises fourteen
acres and is on the bank of the River Rouge.
The power plant, planing mill, dry kilns, etc..
on the premises are included. The property
has been used as a lumber yard since 1885,
when the Delta Lumber Company established
a wholesale business there. C. W. Restrick
bought It six years ago.

"Trade is rather quiet In hardwoods," said
Mr. Brownlee of Brownlee & Kelly, "but I look
for It to improve."

The increasing popularity of hardwood floors
in residences has caused local agents of fire
Insurance companies to issue a warning to
householders relative to polishing floors. The
Insurance men say that many fires have been
caused in this city lately by carelessly leaving
about oil-soaked rags used In polishing floors.

Bay City and Saginaw.

The

lufacturlng business is livening up a
little. The new mill of Ibe Richardson Lumber
Company at Bay City started operations April
20 and will be operated during the season. Mon-
day, April 27, the Kneeland-Rlgelow Company
will begin sawing day and night, and a con-
siderable portion of the cut has already been
contracted for, 6,000,000 feet of maple going to
one flooring concern. The Knceland. Buell &
Blgelow Company mill also starts April 27, and
will run ten hours a day.

The single band mill of W. D. Young & Co.
has been running several weeks, and now an-
other band saw outfit is to be added, the mill
having been designed as a double band mill at
the outset. The flooring department of this
big plant has started operations also. Last
week the firm sliippnd n number of carloads of
their famous ninyO.- iiM.Tin- to Europe, where a
good portion . i ih.ii .iiii,.iii will be marketed.
When the ulil mill uln.h i.urned last September
was In opcralion lliis iirm shipped seventy-five
per cent of its flooring output to Europe, and
with the connections the company has abroad
a fine market Is provided for its product. The
plant now is one of the most modern in the
United States.

Bliss & Van Auken are getting logs by rail
from the North and their plant Is being oper-
ated steadily. The output may not be quite
as large this year as last, owing to general busi-
ness conditions.

Maple flooring manufacturers note an in-
creased movement in that commodity. Opera-
tions have been carried along under check dur-
ing the winter, but of late orders are coming
in and plants are getting busy. The Eastman
Flooring Company has made some large pur-

chases of stock to convert into flooring. The
winter was quiet in this industry, but trade is
picking up and there is more inquiry for stock.

The Strable Manufacturing Company is doing
a fair business, and Bliss & Van Auken are
always busy. Up at Grayling the Kerry-Hanson
Flooring Company, a plant in operation only two
years, is doing some business.

The stringency of the times has checked
stumpage investments for the time being. Last
year the Ward estate figured to put 77.000
acres of heavily timbered land on the market,
containing several hundred million feet of tim-
ber, but after selling off a small portion, it is
understood the property has been taken off the
market for the present. Some 8.000,000 feet of
hardwood logs put in by the Ward estate last
winter will be railed to W. D. Young & Co. to
be manufactured.

Southern Michigan men and A. T. Bound of
Brimley, at the mouth of Kaiska river, are ne-
gotiating for a lumber plant at that place. The
plan contemplates a sawmill and planing mill
and woodenware factory. There is ample timber
available for a long run.

Despite the depression in Industrial lines.
there has been a good deal of hardwood timber
put in during the winter in eastern Michigan
between the Saginaw river and the Straits of
Mackinac. The lumber firms at Alpena have se-
cured very nearly if not quite the normal stock,
about 25.000.000 feet. In the Saginaw valley about
.".0,000.000 feet of hardwood logs will be con-
verted Into lumber. At Onaway, Gardner. Peter-
man & Co. will have about 5.000.000 feet, and
the Lobdeli & Churchill Manufacturing Company
over 12.000.000 feet. At Au Sable the H. M.
Loud's Sons Company will handle about C-
000,000 feet. This firm lumbers during the sum-
mer to some extent. Gardner & Richards at
East Tawas will have a stock of 2,000.000 feet.
The Mlchaelson & Hanson Lumber Company at
I.ewlston, about 10,000,000 feet, and the Sailing-
Hanson Company at Grayling, about the same
amount. McTlver & Hughes at Onaway will
have 3,000,000 feet of hardwood logs to manu-
facture.

Grand Baplds.

Governor Warner has named James B. Angelf
of the state university, Charles B. Blair of
Grand Rapids and Chase Osborn of the Soo as
delegates to the national conference for conserv-
ing national resources, to be held In Washing-
ton next month. Mr. Blair Is secretary of the
committee of inquiry into forestry condition*
of the state.

J. S. Stearns recently purchased a touring
oar In Grand Rapids, making the trip to his
home at Ludington in the new machine. It Is
Liiiliii^i 11 : 1-1 :ir. though It is reported scv-
eriil - I - - ; purcha.scd this spring.

11 I I Illness of the Cabinetmakers"

r(ini]iiii> iiiiiiini.iriiirers of mahogany library
and dining room furniture, located at Kent and
Newberry streets, have been sold to W. C. Grob-
hiser of Sturgls. Mich. The factory will con-
tinue operations for the present under the man-
agement of J. G. Robinson, who was manager,
for the Cabinetmakers' Company.

The Luce Furniture Company of Grand Rap-
ids has a large contract to make tables, desks
and sideboards for government army posts.

Ed Allen's mill, located on the G. R. & I. rail-
road between Tustin and Leroy, completed its
season's cut last week, and also has probably
made its last run. Sir. Allen is a member of
the lumber firm of Gibbs, Hall & Allen of Grand
Rapids.

Herman Allen Is removing his shingle and
sawmill from Dlghlon to Cadillac, and It wilt
be in operation by June 1, employing flfteen
men. It is located on the north shore of Lake
Cadillac.

W. D. Y'oung & Co.'s new flooring plant at
Bay City turned out Its flrst flooring April 17.
The plant when In full operation will employ
400 hands.

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Charles Whybrew and Isaac Parker, both of
Escanaba, hare taken the contract from H. W.
Reade, receiver for the Escanaba Woodenware
Company, for loading about 1.500,000 feet of
hardwood logs and a large quantity of pulpwood,
shingle timber and ties, all of which was cut
in the company's camps near Watersmeet this
winter.

Saginaw has followed the action of Grand
Kapids in purchasing 10,000 elm trees, to be set
out by school children of the city on Arbor Day.
May 1. Saginaw bought its trees in Wisconsin,
while Grand Rapids imported its trees from
France.

The town of Gwinn on the Swanzey range is
to be built this year by the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron
Company of Ontonagon. The company has al-
ready erected forty-eight double houses and has
purchased sites for a hospital, hotel and bank,
while lots are secured for churches, high school,
railway station and business blocks. No intoxi-
cating liquors will be allowed to be sold in the
city.

Joseph Jeanott, who built some of Muskegon's
largest sawmills, is dead at his home in that
city, aged 75 years.

The John F. Corl piano factories, now located
at Jackson and Grand Haven, are being con-
solidated at Battle Creek. Manufacturing opera-
tions will begin in the new location in May.

Beginning April 23 the Story & Clark Piano
Company of Grand Haven resumed a ten-hour
schedule at the factory, on account of a fast
increasing business.

The plant of the Ludington Woodenware Com-
pany will resume operations in a few days. The
company has 2.500.000 feet of timber in the
yards, cut in Mason county, and has timber
enough in Kalkaska and Grand Traverse coun-
ties to keep the plant busy lor four years more,
lipsides having nearly 15,000,000 feet on Drum-
mond Island, Pins, wooden bowls, butter
moulds, butter dishes and mop handles are
turned out.

Cleveland.

Constant complaint is made by lumber deal-
ers in Cleveland against the practice of railroads
in furnishing erroneous rates, which are later
corrected, to the detriment of the dealer. A
dealer sends to a railroad in another state for
quotations on a bill of goods. The railroad re-
plies that it has not schedules of its tariffs on
hand, but is willing to quote rates upon request.
Subsequently it informs the dealer that the rate
is, perhaps, 26 cents to a certain point. When
the lumber is shipped it is found that the rate
is in reality 29 cents, and the dealer is out
that much. He puts in his claim to the com-
pany, and it dallies along for months, even
years, so complaint Is next to useless. E. L.
French of W. A. Cool & Co., Cleveland, says
that this sort of thing is the bane of the deal-
er's existence and that Cleveland firms have
hundreds of these claims which have not been
settled. He suggests that the Interstate Com-
merce Commission be appealed to to take steps
to overcome this difficulty. Numerous threats
are being made here to have a joint suit to
bring the matter to a head. It is felt, however,
that some Joint movement by lumber interests
the country over might result in more effective
work.

W. A. Cool spent some days in West Virginia
during the past week visiting the big mills at
Mahan and vicinity.

W. H. Gillispie of the G. G. Stitzinger Lum-
ber Company of New Castle, Fa., was a caller
upon local lumber dealers during the week.

W. H. Sowers of the Sowers-Leach Lumber
Company of Columbus was in Cleveland on busi-
ness and called upon a number of his friends
here.

Several big lumber companies in the "flats,"
where most of the yards are located, will be af-
fected by the decision of the fire department
that the city's rule that lumber piles must be

back thirty-flve feet from the lot Hue must be
enforced. In a case in which one company was
involved a few days ago the fire chief directed
the moving of a long pile of lumber because it
was too near the lot line and endangered a
neighboring house in case of fire.

W. H. Hilton of the Advance Lumber Com-
pany, with offices in the Rockefeller Building,
will start into business on his own account on
June 1. Mr. Hilton has been in Cleveland for
a number of years and latterly has had charge
of the hardwood flooring department of the Ad-
vance company.

F. T. Peitsch of the Advance Lumber Company
was kept from his desk several days the past
week by sickness.

O. H. Taylor of the Crescent Lumber Com-
pany of Marietta. O., formerly with the Hard-
wood Manufacturers' Association, was a visitor
in Cleveland a few days ago. He reports the
company's mills in West Virginia as operating
full time.

The city forestry department is making val-
iant efforts to reforest Cleveland, formerly
known as the Forest City, but depleted of ver-
dure on account of gas and smoke. The ban,
however, has been placed on the willow, the
poplar, the ash and the soft maple. Permits
will not be granted for the planting of these
trees because of their tendency to attract in-
sect pests. An ordinance recently passed by
the city empowers the city forester to pass on
all trees to be planted.

Robert Jenks spent some days recently in
northern Michigan and the Georgian Bay dis-
trict looking up the lumber situation.

Columbus.

W. H. Putnam, president and general manager
of the General Lumber Company, returned re-
cently from a trip to the property of the com-
pany located along the Big Sandy in Kentucky.
The company has two large mills at Ashland.
Ky., and is operating a large timber camp on
property in Lawrence, Johnson and Martin coun-
ties. It is estimated that the three tracts con-
tain 15,000,000 feet of timber. The mills are
being placed in first class condition preparatory
to starting operations as soon as market con-
ditions will warrant such action. The founda-
tions have been repaired and the machinery is
being overhauled. The company will install at
least one new boiler and possibly two.

While conditions in the hardwood market in
this section are not as bright as was anticipated
some time ago, still Improvement is noted in
many directions, and the demand from manufac-
turiiig establishments is increasing. This is true
especially of factories making agricultural im-
plements and vehicles. The starting of the
Barney-Smith car works at Dayton is expected
to help the market generally.

Kenneth McLeod, president of the American
Hardwood Company, left last week for the prop-
erty of the company at Sedgwick, Ark. He will
look after the opening of active development
■work on the large tract which has been taken
over by the corporation. Ralph Westfall, gen-
eral counsel for the company, and W. H. Harris,
assistant secretary, left later to take up the
work of collecting abstracts.

W. M. Ritter, president of the W. M. Ritter
Lumber Company of Columbus, is preparing to
take his annual trip abroad. He will sail from
New York some time in May. to be absent for
about three months.. He is now fully recovered
from the operation he underwent at a local hos-
pital. While abroad he will visit the branches of
the company at London and Liverpool. The
company keeps some of its mills in the various
southern states in operation all the time. Its
policy is to keep its stocks low, and following
that plan the mills are operated only when sales
are made. J. W. Mayhew, sales manager of the
company, in discussing the situation, said: "I
find better market conditions, judging from In-
quiries which have been received by our com-
pany recently. The market is still In a de-

pressed state, but we look for improvement
soon."

The organization of the East Side Lumber
Company, with a capital stock of $50,000, has
been completed by the election of N. J. Fountain,
a local real estate dealer, president ; E. R.
Clarridge. secretary, and E. A. Prentiss, treas-
urer. Mr. Clarridge was formerly secretary of
the Buttles Avenue Lumber Company. The
active management will devolve upon Messrs.
Clarridge and Prentiss. The recent purchases of
stocks have been shipped to the new location of
the company at the intersection of Main street
and the Norfolk & Western tracks. A large
tract has been leased from the railroad at that
place. It is expected to have the mill and other
machinery moved in about a month.

W. V. Smith, president of the Clear Creek
Coal & Lumber Company of Columbus, left last
week for Isoline, Tenn.. to formally take over
the 6,300-acre tract recently purchased in Cum-
berland county. Tennessee. The deal was closed
at Baltimore. Md.. by W. F. Felton. representing
the company. The active -work of development
will start at once.

Indianapolis.

The Paoli Cabinet Company is erecting a new
brick factory building at Paoli which it expects
to occupy soon.

Julius Pinneil is reported to be some better.
He has been seriously ill at Daytona, Fla., for
some time, and his condition is still quite grave.

Several local business men have organized
the Federal Timber Company with $200,000 cap-
ital and have arranged for the purchase of
thirteen sections of timber land in British Co-
lumbia jnst north of Vancouver.

The O. Grimwood Company of Owensville, who
have a large hardwood plant and yard, have
a refractory mule that has caused the death of
one employee and the serious injury of three
others within the last few weeks.

A. von Spreckleson of this city has been
awarded the contract for erecting the new
Y. W. C. A. building, his bid being $80,200. It
is understood he will soon let contracts for the
hardwood finish and fickirs.

F. M. Bachman of the F. M. Bachman Com-
pany has been elected a director of the Citizens'
Gas Company, succeeding E. H. Eldridge. presi-
dent of the E. H. Eldridge Lumber Company,
who recently resigned.

The Dilks Lumber Company of Richmond lost
their offices a few days ago when the Colonial
office building, in which they were located, was
burned.

Will H. Freeman, secretary of the Indiana
Board of Forestry, is having 40,000 poplar trees,
.■iO.OOO ash trees and 42,000 walnut trees planted
on the state forest reservation near Henryville.

The Indiana Manufacturers & Shippers' Asso-
ciation states that it will ask the coming legis-
lature to make provision for reciprocal demur-
rage, provide for a satisfactory method of re-
funding overcharges by railroad companies, and
will oppose the establishing of a public utilities
commission, which would virtually supplant the
Indiana Railroad Commission.

Manufacturers in about sixty cities and towns
on the Big Four railroad are being affected by
the failure of the Big Four and Southern Indi-
ana railroads to reach an agreement on the divi-
sion of joint freight rates on coal.

The Roach-Brown Manufacturing Company has
been organized at Cumberland, a small town ten
miles east of here, and will manufacture furni-
ture.

Ground for a baseball park has been pur-
chased by E. C. Atkins & Co. for the use of their
baseball team, which has made an enviable rec-
ord during the last two or three years. The
park will be opened Decoration Day.

D. R. Trippett. representing the S. C. Major
Lumber Company of Memphis, Tenn., is making
a business trip through the southern part of the
state and reports that he finds conditions are
improving throughout the country.

HARDIWOOD RECORD

Milwaukee.

The sixth strange fire that the Milwaukee
Chair Company has experienced, recently occurred
at its plant. The blaze was discovered in time
and was extinguished before much damage was
done. Deputy Fire Marshal End is still work-
ing on the case, but as yet no clue has been ob-
tained to the perpetrator of the fires.

The Wisconsin Railway Commission recently
dismissed the complaint of J. Hanowitz, alleging
excessive rates and inadequate service on the
Mattoon railroad, a short logging line running
from Aniwa, Wis., into the lumbering country of
Shawano county. A distance tariff schedule
was recommended by the commission, however.

C H. Shuttleworth, traveling salesman for B.
A Kipp & Co., furniture manufacturers of Mil-
waukee, was recently killed in a railway accident
at Slater, Mo. Mr. Shuttleworth was well known
in Milwaukee and was a prominent Elk and a
member of the Travelers' Protective Association.
Saw mills ate to be erected on the Indian
reservations in Wisconsin by the United States
government in accordance with the act of Con-
gress authorizing the cutting of timber he
manufacture and the sale of lumber and the
preservation of the forests on certain lands
given over to the Indian reservations in the
state E. A. Barnifl of Green Bay, Wis., a
member of the United States Forest Service has
recently been looking over the territory of the
Menominee reservation and selecting sites for the
new mills that are soon to be built there. Three
or four large mills are to be erected, the largest
at the Norway dam on the reservation, and it
is said that there is already timber enough cut to
kppn the mills busy iov over a >cJii.
possible, the work in the sawmills wiU be done
by Indians and no Indian will be allowed to
enter any partnership with any one other than
an Indian. The products of the mills will be
sold to the highest bidders.

The Wisconsin Chair Company at Boyd, Wis.,
has purchased a large plant at Evansville, Ind.,
to be supplementary to the large industry at
Boyd. About 200 men will be engaged in the
manufacture of chairs at the new location.

It is reported that a large lumber industry Is
to be established at the mouth of the Kaiskla
river at Brlmley in Chippewa county. Wisconsin.
As proposed, a saw mill with a dally capacity of
60,000 feet, a planing mill, a tie mill and later
the establishment of a woodenware factory, will
comprise the big plant. There is a remarkable
timber supply in the vicinity, enough to run
such a plant for years to come. Operations will
be started this coming summer, according to re-
ports.

Due to increasing business, the Green Bay
Show Case Company at Green Bay, Wis., has
begun the erection of a large addition to Us
present plant. The addition will be of brick and
will serve as a varnish establishment for the
company. The firm expects to soon double the
pnesent capacity of the plant.

The Crocker Chair Company of Sheboygan,
Wis., has purchased of the G. F. Sanborn Com-
pany of Ashland, Wis., 6,108 acres of hardwood
timber lands in Houghton and Baraga counties,
Michigan, for the sum of $86,560. The lands are
In the vicinity of Sidnaw, Mich., and the tlmlwr
will be sawed at the mills there and will then
be shipped to the plant of the company at She-
boygan for the manufacture of fine furniture.

An unusual supply of logs is piled at the yards
of the Two Rivers Woodenware Company at Two
Rivers, Wis., some six million feet of logs, and
the company has Indications of a prosperous
season. The recent report that there was a
strike among the pall turners of the establish-
ment was unfounded and the matter, which was
only a slight difference owing to slight reduc-
tions in wages, has been satisfactorily settled.

The Blue Grass Lumber Company of Milwaukee
has Increased its capital stock from $1,000 to
$15,000.

Cincinnati.
The Clifton Stair Building Company of 214
West McMillan street, with a capital stock of
$5,000, was Incorporated last week by Rudolph
Keitmann, W. H. Hurn, F. Henry Hurlander,
Adolph O. Heinrich and Gerritt J. Fredericks.
The incorporation was made in order to enlarge
the plant.

E. L. Edwards of Dayton was in town during
the last fortnight, visiting his plant, located
in the West End, of which J. E. TuthlU is gen-
eral manager.

J. S. Walker of the J. S. Walker Lumber Com-
pany of O'Keeffe. W. Va., spent a few days here
inquiring into trade conditions.

"Jess" Thompson of the J. W. Thompson Lum-
ber Company of Memphis stopped off here while
en route further south to attend to some busi-
ness with a local concern.

H. K. Bllnu of the William H. Perry Lumber
Company has found a quiet little place In the
country and has gone there to rest for a month
or so. His address for the time being Is held
a secret, as he wishes to be entirely free from
business details. Even his office associates do
not know where he has gone. E. L. Wolfe of
the company has returned from Xashville, Tenn.,
where he went some weeks ago to attend to a
large shipment of white oak. W. E. Johns of
the concern, who assumes active charge in the
absence of Mr. Blinn, says that business is In-
creasing every week. "The demand for the
lower grades has been in active request for some
weeks and an increase in prices would not sur-
prise me in the least," he said.

T. B. Stone, president of the T. B. Stone
Lumber Company, left last week for a business
trip through the South.

The Cincinnati Furniture Exchange held Its
regular monthly meeting at Ahlbrands Cafe last
week, and in the absence of Secretary Ernest
Schneider, who is at the Christ Hospital recov-
ering from an operation, his assistant, E. Kep-
ler, acted as secretary. Communications were
read from the Receivers' and Shippers' Associa-
tion and the Chicago Furniture Manufacturers'
Association, asking that the Exchange send rep-
resentatives to meetings. A. G. Stelnman was
elected delegate to the Receivers' and Shippers'
Association and President Deltz to the Chicago
Furniture Manufacturers' Association. The an-
nual outing of the exchange will probably be
held at Highland Grove, as the entertainment
committee seems most favorably Impressed with
that resort. The furniture trade is now about
sUty per cent of what it was last year, and the
local concerns are running about forty hours
a week. Improvement is generally looked for
in every line of trade.

.\lfred Mannon, a manufacturer and dealer In
lumber of Scottown, Ohio, last week admitted
he Is bankrupt through a petition filed In the
district court. He owes $1,205.03, while his
assets amount only to $1,018.

J. Overstreet of the Southern Lumber Com-
pany was a visitor in town during the last fort-
night looking over the hardwood situation here.
Thomas J. Moffett, president of the Maley,
Thompson & Moffett Company, says the situation
is growing better each week, and he finds a
noticeable change In the demand for walnut, with
prices firm. The company Is shipping a great
deal of that wood across the water, along with
several other hardwoods. The veneer business,
he says. Is not as good as It was several weeks
ocr. During the last Uood the concern floated

a great many logs to within a short distance of
its mill on West Eighth street, which will keep
the mill busy for some weeks. All other nrllla
of the company are running full time.

L. B. Banning has returned from a business
trip east. During his absence A. E. Hart as-
sumed charge. He states that the past week's
business has not been very good. "Last month
we had a very good trade, but this month we
are not quite so busy," he says.

The Cincinnati Carriage Makers' Club broke

all records in initiating fifteen new members at
the meeting held at the Grand Hotel. The occa-
sion for the meeting was the dinner served
to Otto Armleder, the new president, and the
other new otflcers. Arrangements were also
made for the annual June outing.

Incorporation papers were taken out at Co-
lumbus for the Ahr & Rost Company last week,
with a capital stock of $25,000. The Incorpora-
tors are John Ahr, George J. Rost, Sanford
Brown, Fred J. Wesselman and David P. Shorr.
The concern operates a carriage and woodworking
plant in Gest street.

J. E. TuthlU, geneiral manager for E. L. Ed-
wards, has returned from a business trip east.
He reports the situation here as showing gradual
improvement, and he looks for a decided change
in the cypress situation within a short time.

J. W. Darling of the J. W. Darling Lumber
Company, located in the Union Trust building,
will leave this week for a trip to the yards
of the company at Joppa, 111., to inspect stock.
R. L. Gilbert of the company is out on a business
trip through the North. He will be absent from
the local offices for a week or more.

L. H. Gage of the Gage & Possell Lumber
Company, located In the Bell block, has returned
from a business trip through Mississippi, where,
he said, conditions were rather quiet. He thinks
that Improvement in the cypress situation will
eventuate within a very short time.

H. H. Fields of the B. R. Spatswood Lumber
Company of Lexington, Ky., was In town recently
looking into the hardwood situation. The trade
In the Blue Grass region Is showing gradual im-
provement, and within a short time he thinks
the general volume of business will show a neat
increase.

W. L. Pease of the Galloway-Pease Company
of Johnson City, Tenn., was In town recently
transacting business and taking a general look
Into conditions.

J. Watt Graham of the Graham Lumber Com-
pany reports a little change in the situation,
an increase of the amount of transactions.

F. W. Mowbray of Mowbray & Robinson, is
on a busip^ss trip to Chicago, from which city
he proceeds through the South.

C. M. Clarke of the Swann-Day Lumber Com-
pany of Clay City, Ky., was In town last week
and visited Rlchey, Halsted & Quick, as well as a
number of other downtown merchants.

"There has been a decided change In the situ-
ation during the last fortnight in the various
grades of building lumber," said Melvln R. Short
of the Dwlght-lllnckley Lumber Company, "and
I think, now that the weather has opened up,
that the volume of business will continue to show
improvement."

The Lumbermen's Club, at a special meeting
held at the Business Men's Club recently, adopted
resolutions advising the National Hardwood Lum-
ber Association to discontinue the present In-
spection rules and readopt those In use in 1905.
At the annual convention of the National asso-
ciation, to be held In Milwaukee In June, the
local dealers will vote for the adoption of the
1905 rules. A letter was read from the Pitts-
burg Chamber of Commerce asking the club to
do all In Its power with the congressman from
its district for the appropriation of the $5,000,-
000 for the Ohio river Improvement.

The Acme Veneer. Company has applied for a
building permit for two additional stories on
their factory at the corner of Eighth and Har-
riet streets, to cost about $6,000.

M. B. Farrln, president of the Farrln-Korn
Lumber Company, has submitted plans to Build-
ing Inspector Kuhlman for a brick and stone
factory of two stories, with flats on the second
floor, at the corner of Clifton and Spring Grove
avenues, to cost about $15,000.

Several creditors brought Involuntary bank-
ruptcy proceedings against the John Stengel Com-
pany of Dayton last week, and later Stengel him-
self filed a petition admitting his bankruptcy.
He places his liabilities at $64,000 and assets at
$60,000, in real estate, but this Is heavily mort-

HARDWOOD RECORD

Orders are coming in pretty well, says Cliarles
Proetz of the Thomas & Proetz Lumber Com-
pany. They are not large ones, but they are
satisfactory ones, for at this time few large
orders are received by any firm.

Cypress conditions are somewhat better, E. W.
Blumer, sales manager of the I^othman Cypress
Company, reports. He believes business will
soon be in good shape. Prices, while not satis-
factory, will no doubt become better as the de-
mand increases.

W. Arthur Waide, secretary of the General
Sash and Door Association of Chicago, was a
recent visitor. He has been on a little selling

U. J. Schwartz has become identified with the
G. H. Barnes Lumber Company. He was formerly
with the F. H. Smith Lumber Company.

Charles Grote has associated himself with the
John F. Scobee Lumber Company. He was for-
merly with M. J. Heller in the railroad timber
business.

W. R. Chivvis, who makes a specialty of wal-
nut, but who sells all kinds of hardwoods, says
business is quiet. He sent some walnut to
Europe a short time ago and has ordered and
will ship some more in the near future.

Trade conditions, both wholesale and retail,
are reported quiet by the Wilson-Reheis-Rolfe
Lumber Company. Inquiries are plentiful but
orders are few, although there is a likelihood
soon of business picking up.

The sawmill of the Henry Quellmalz Lumber &
Manufacturing Company at Brookings, Ark., and
also their St. Louis factory are being operated
fuU time.

The Fish, Mo., sawmill and the Kilgore, Ark.,
sawmill of the Garetson-Greason Lumber Com-
pany are now being operated on full time. In-
quiries for car oak are coming in and the de-
mand seems to be good.

The Milne Lumber Company state they have
fair demand for good stock, principally for bridge
plank.

Leopold Methudy, whose specialty is export
trade, states that the situation at present on
the other side is large stocks of low grade stuff,
principally oak, both lumber and logs, shipped
on consignment. There is considerable more
stock at seaboard to go forward when accommo-
dation for the freight can be secured. Low
grade poplar is plentiful, but high grade is
scarce ; the demand, however, is quiet.

W. A. Bonsack of the Bonsack Lumber Com-
pany, says that conditions remain practically un-
changed. While every now and then local con-
cerns secure considerable business and so for the
time being regard matters in a cheerful light,
the improvement is not maintained and has not
become general. In regard to grading, Mr. Bon-
sack says he does not think it makes any ma-
terial difference whether it is high or low ; the
main thing in this is that it be stable and rec-
ognized.

F. H. Smith of the F. H. Smith Lumber Com-
pany says he is disposed to regard lowering
grades as a mistake, since it renders the market
unsteady. As matters stand prices are now
being readjusted on the basis of the present
grading.

The Verdin Lumber Company state that with
them the call Is mainly for cypress for the plan-
ing mill. Last month when Mr. Verdin was in
the South he found only six out of thirty mills
running, but looks for most of the southern mills
to start up within a month, as many of them
are now soliciting orders.

The American Hardwood Lumber Company
believes that contractors have considerable busi-
ness on hand, but are holding it back expecting
to employ help at lower wages. Stocks are not
heavy at many southern mills, and the big yards
have held off from stocking up so that a sudden
revival in demand would probably bring about
a marked shortage in first hands.

The Krebs Lumber Company report the chief
call for quartered oak and clear sap gum, which

gaged. The creditors are all of Dayton. Thomas
J. Callahan of Dayton was appointed receiver
at $25,000 bond.

A. P. Steel of the Carrier Lumber & Manu-
facturing Company of Sardls, Miss., was in town
during the last fortnight drumming up trade
among local concerns.

Walter Quick of Richey, Halsted & Quick Is
on a business tour through the Hoosier state.
S. W. Richey of the concern reports business
pretty good, considering everything, and says
he looks for improvement in all grades of lumber
soon.

J. H. Britton of the Britton Lumber Company
of Linkwood, Fla., was here a few days recently.
He is making a tour of the South to get a line
on the hardwood situation.

S. P. Stanbery of the Chicago Lumber & Coal
Company, with offices in the Mercantile Library
building, sees a favorable change in the situation
during the last week or so.

Further examinations in the bankruptcy case
of the United States Timber Company have been
made in Referee Greve's office. George R. Berry,
who managed the sale of the company's stock.
was on the witness stand and told In detail of
the measure taken for floating the stock and
getting the company going. Berry said that
23 per cent commission was paid for the sale
of the preferred stock, which was disposed of
at first for 40 cents on the dollar and later for
80 cents, until finally it reached par, where some
sales were made. All the preferred stock was
paid for with the exception of $1,000, according
to Berry, which v.as given to John Hawks for
acting as vice president. His services consisted,
according to Berry, in attending two board meet-
ings and advising with the managers once. The
company's common stock was given away as a
bonus to buyers and solicitors. An answer was
also filed in the district court by Trustee Robert
D. Y. Carroll to the intervening petition of the
Cumberland Lumber Company. The latter sold
a carload of lumber to the bankrupt on the lat-
ter's representation that it was in sound financial
condition, and it now seeks to recover the lumber
which is still on hand. It is charge* that the
financial statement was false and fraudulent.
All of this is denied in the answer.

"We have been doing a much better business
in both poplar and quartered oak during the
past fortnight," says Ralph McCracken of the
Kentucky Lumber Company. Mr. McCracken is
of the opinion that the hardwood trade will
stow a much better tone from now on.

James Meyers, president and manager of the
Enterprise Lumber Company, with whom he is
indebted to a large extent, was in town recently
in an effort to straighten out matters with Re-
ceiver W. H. Stewart. Just what agreement
was reached the parties concerned refuse to di-
vulge.

A report was filed last week by Receiver W. R.
Thrall of the E. M. Schantz Lumber Company,
bankrupt. The property which came into the
hands of Thrall consisted of lumber, merchandise
and machinery, but no money or cash was re-
ceived by him and he was unable to collect any
of the accounts. He turned all over to the trus-
tee, who was subsequently selected. Receiver
Thrall was allowed $75 for his service. The
sale of the concern has been set for April 27
by order of the court.

Evansville.

Richard Jenks of the Conrey & Birely Table
Company, Shelbyville, Ind., was in the city last
week. Mr. Jenks is a widely known and popu-
lar lumberman and is always welcomed by the
trade.

Bedna Young of Young & Cutslnger spent a week
in central Indiana territory looking up old
friends and incidentally attending to some busi-
ness. Last week Mr. Y'oung was at the firm's
Jasper plant looking after affairs there.

Word has just been received by J. C. Keller,
manager of the traffic department of the Evans-
ville Manufacturers' Association, that at an

early date walnut, butternut and cherry lumber
and logs, which at present are 3 cents above the
common lumber rate, will be reduced to the
common lumber basis from Evansville to all
points on the Illinois Central railroad in Illi-
nois. The association has been agitating this
reduction for some time.

N. R. Dennett and C. E. Holden of Port
Washington. Wis., two of the organizers of the
new dining-room chair factory that is to be
established in the old Neptune Launch Com-
pany's plant on the lower river front, arrived
in Evansville last week to make arrangements
for the installation of machinery, the first con-
signment of which is to arrive in about two
weeks. The firm hopes to get the plant in
operation by July 1. The new company will
be known as the Milwaukee FallsEvansville
Chair Company and will manufacture nothing
but high-grade dining-room chairs.

May Bros., the well-known and popular hard-
wood firm of this city, announce their inten-
tion of moving to Memphis, Tenn., where they
will be in the center of the hardwood manufac-
turing district. They will leave here at once
and will open up an office in Memphis and be
ready for business In a very short time. Their
local office will be closed just as soon as their
yard interests are disposed of. The firm is com-
posed of Frank and Ralph May, who were for-
merly connected with May, Thompson & Thayer,
now Thompson, Thayer & McCowen, of this
city. They operate a large plant at Dumas,
Ark.

The Maley Athletes defeated the Green River
Cubs in a hotly contested game here April 19 to
the tune of 6 to 5. The feature of the game was
the pitching of J. W. Bertrand for the Maleys.
The Maley Athletes represent the office and
working force of the Henry Maley Lumber Com-
pany.

The Hercules Buggy Company is operating its
body manufacturing plant day and night, being
unable to take care of the demand for carriage
bodies on its regular schedule.

St. Louis.

The Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis sent
the following letter to Maj. William Warner,
ITnited States senator from Missouri, a few days
ago : "Dear Sir — At a special meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Lumbermen's Ex-
change of St. Louis, held April 14, a motion was
made and unanimously carried that this Board
of Directors, representing one of the most in-
fluential associations in Missouri, does hereby
enter its earnest protest against the passage of
the Hepburn amendment to the Sherman anti-
trust bill, feeling that It would be detrimental
to the business interests of the country. Lloyd
G. Harris, President ; A. J. Bush, Secretary."

Harley Miller has gone back to the firm where
he first acquired a knowledge of the lumber busi-
ness, the Thomas & Proetz Lumber Company.
Until his present connection he was secretary of
the John F. Scobee Lumber Company.

W. E. Keown. president of the International
Hardwood Company, says conditions look better
just now for a good spring trade than they have
for a long time. Orders are coming in more
plentifully. Prices, however, are not satisfac-
tory. Mr. Keown has just made a southern trip.

Fred Gerber, a well known insurance man and
politician and father of Fred Gerber, vice presi-
dent of the Fidel-Ganahl Lumber Company, died
a few days ago.

Louis Eppler, formerly with the Mossberger
Lumber Company, has formed a connection with
the Lyon Cypress Company of Garyville, La., and
will represent them in this territory.

The Tower Grove Planing Mill Company Is
now known as the Darr & Sons Planing Mill
Company.

Theodore Plummer, president of the Plummer
Lumber Company, is not feeling as much like
going fishing as he did a short time ago, for
business Is looking better and he has booked
more orders during the past few weeks than for
several weeks previous.

HARDWOOD RECORD

is being substituted to some extent for cotton-
wood. No. 1 common poplar is in better demand.

Steele & Hibbard say that prices lield up well
through November and December, but eased oSf
about $3 a thousand in March. He thinlis the
market will soon become firmer, though there is
a good deal of cheap lumber being offered and a
disposition on the part of buyers to shop around
for snaps. However, bargain counter stuff will
soon become scarce. The company's trade runs
to quartered oalt, poplar and ash.

The Krog Lumber Company reports best in-
quiry for quartered red and white oak, which
is wanted by furniture manufacturers, and
cypress. The Druhe Hardwood Lumber Company
and the Massengale Lumber Company also re-
port a good demand for the latter wood.

The Proctor. Ark., sawmill of the Waldstein
Lumber Company started up early in the month.
The plant will cut mo-ily white oak, but some
other woods will also lie cut.

An involumary ii.tili.n in bankruptcy has
been filed .nsaiust Ant.ni Hooker, trading as the
Boeker Lumber & Land Company.

Nashville.

Nashville lumbermen are responding nobly to
the enterprise recently launched here of building
a handsome ten-story hotel In order to enable
the city to better handle conventions and tour-
ists. John W. Love of Love, Boyd & Co. Is sec-
retary of the Hermitage Hotel Company, capi-
talized at $300,000, and it is proposed to erect
a $700,000 structure on High street near Church.
(Jen. G. P. Thurston of the Prewltt-Spurr Manu-
facturing Company has contributed $5,000 to the
liotel, subscribing for that amount of stork ;
John B. Ransom of John B. Ransom & Co., $1'.-
500 : Love. Boyd & Co. : $1,000 ; W. J. Wallace
of Wallace & Norvell, $500 ; Bascom Montgomery
of the Montgomery Furniture Company, $300-.
W. J. Cude of the Cude Land & Lumber Com-
pany. $500; Montgomery & Co., furniture.
S500 : Standard Lumber & Box Company, $.")00 ;
I'rewitt-Spurr Manufacturing Company, $200 ;
T. H. Dunlap. $200; Lewis Doster, secretary
Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, $100, and
A. L. Hayes, stave dealer. $100.

Lewis Doster, In speaking of the advnntage.s
a city well equipped with hotels has over one
that is not, has the following to say : "Unless
Cincinnati had been well equipped to handle the
recent conventions of lumbermen that city would
not have been selected as the meeting-place.
And If Nashville were equipped to handle such
conventions It Is not only possible but It Is
very probable that these two conventions, which
were in Cincinnati at the same time, would
have come here at different times, as well as
many others. I can say almost positively that
the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association will
hold its convention in Nashville as soon as this
city Is prepared to take care of this convention."

"Strong efforts are being made to secure a
reduction In the tariff on lumber," says A. S.
Lowery of Cedar Uaplds, Mich., a recent visitor
to this city. "This Is being done in order to
allow the Canadian lumber dealers to enter the
American field. If the tariff Is lowered it will
no doubt reduce present prices in America, occa-
sioned by the scarcity of the product. Canadian
lumber, with the tariff reduced, can be Im-
ported and sold at as low prices as home dealers
can cut it, on account of the low wages paid
labor in that country. Lumber Is getting very
scarce in the United States, and it is estimated
there Is enough in Canada to supply the United
States for several hundred years. Some Canadi-
an timber is now finding its way into this
country, but the high tariff makes It unprofitable
to Import much of It."

A spetlal from New Brockton, Ala., announces
the destruction of two dry kilns and the plan-
ing mill of the Boyd Lumber Company near that
point. The loss Is estimated at $100,000. By
heroic work the stock shed, containing 2.000,000
feet of lumber, was saved. Convicts who were
quartered in a stockade nearby worked valiantly

to arrest the progress of the flames. The prop-
erty will be rebuilt. This was the second largest
plant in southern Alabama.

The Hill Truck Company has made application
to change its charter, Increasing the capital
stock from $25,000 to $50,000, to be used in
extending the business.

The Clear Creek Coal Company of Crossville,
Tenn., which has large timber interests as well
as mineral rights, has sold out to Ohio capital-
ists. The purchasers propose to operate several
large saw and stave mills. W. V. Smith of
Columbus will be president of the new com-
pany and Andy Elmore, an experienced lumber-
man of Crossville. will have chiirge of the tim-
ber cutting and manufacture. The tract em-
prises 16.200 acres and the purchase price was
was $162,000.

E. R. Freeman of Nashville, acting for Florida
parties, has just closed a deal whereby he sells
a large tract of timber land in Hale, Perry and
Bibb counties to F. L. Richardson of Michigan
and E. F. Allison of Alabama. The tract is said
to be the largest one in the Birmingham district
not owned already by manufacturers. It com-
prices 16,200 acres and the purchase price was
$200,000.

The Grecnfield-Talbot-Flnney-Battlc Company,
which has a big furniture store In Nashville.
Tullahoma and Sewanee, has just placed an
order for a large amount of new machinery.
This company Is one of the few that has con-
tinued to run full time during the late financial
troubles.

The McEwen Planing Mills of McEwen, Tenn..
a short distance west of Nashville, which were
destroyed by fire a few months ago, will be re-
built. New and modern machinery will be In-
stalled and the mills will be made even larger
llian before. A stave plant will also be run In
connection with the mills. Electric meters will
furnish the power for the plant, and it Is ex-
pected they will also give day power to the town
of McEwen.

Sawmills which shut down some months ago
In and around UartsvlUe have resumed opera-
tions, and the long line of wagons which used
to pour Into the town from the surrounding
country are again In evidence. This Is one of
the chief lumber markets of Tennessee's smaller
towns and several carloads of lumber are shipped
out dally.

The Nashville Board of Trade Is trying to
secure the removal of the Florence Wagon Works
from Florence, Ala., to Nashville, and. looking
to that end, has appointed a committee to take
up the project. The company, it is stated,
wanted $100,000 In stock subscriptions in Nash-
ville. John D. Fletcher of this city proposes to
furnish a site for the plant, twenty acres, to
go In at $40,000, and Is willing to take stock In
payment therefor.

Although no decided Improvement Is reported
in the Southeast In freight traffic matters, many
of the freight traffic officials are incllnc>d to take
an optimistic view of conditions and predict
better things In the near future. One local rail-
road man facetiously says of the situation :
"Time was when cars were scarce and we had
all the business we could handle, and sometimes
more than we could attend to ; then we were
rather lax about soliciting business ; but now
when one of the solicitors bears about a carload
shipment everybody from the president down Is
sent after It."

W. V. Davidson, M. F. Greene and J. N. Hicks,
all of the Davidson-Benedict Company, have re-
turned from a pleasant sojourn In Florida,
where each has a cottage and an orange grove.

Memphis.
W. H. Russe, president of the National Hard-
wood Lumber Association and a member of the
firm of Russe & Burgess, who has Just returned
from an extended European trip, reports that
the hardwood situation abroad Is practically
demoralized. He attributes this condition In
part to the business depression prevailing over

F.urope, but also believes the indiscriminate cou-
slgnment of American hardwood lumber by those
unfamiliar with foreign conditions is largely
responsible.

Mr. Russe believes that there are two pos-
sible solutions of the consignment problem. One
is that the foreign brokerage firms stop making
advances against lumber consigned to them.
He points out that there, is not a lumberman
who sends his lumber abroad on consignment
who is not actuated by the motive of securing
every cent of ready cash that the foreign bro-
kerage firm will allow him to draw against his
stock the moment it is under proper bill of lad-
ing. He loses sight of other considerations In
the contemplation of the money he will be able
to realize immediately, forgetting even that the
charges which accrue against such shipments
abroad will, in nine cases out of ten, absorb the
remainder of the value of his stock over and
above what he has drawn against. Mr. Russe
thinks foreign brokerage firms are largely re-
sponsible for the continuance of the consignment
evil through their solicitation of consignments
and declares that they have It In their power to
put an end to It forever by simply shutting off
drafts against shipments the minute the lumber
is ready to go forward from this country.

The other suggestion is that lumbermen in-
stead of consigning lumber to foreign countries
out of their own reach and certainly out from
under their own control ship It to brokers In
the larger centers In the United States, where
they can at least look after It. if necessary, at
comparatively small expense. He expresses the
belief that this plan would realize from 10 to
20 per cent more than shipping to foreign bro-
kerage firms.

Mr. Russe states that the foreign markets
for hardwood lumber are so depressed that lum-
ber cannot be bought or manufactured In the
United States and sold abroad at as good prices
as can be obtained In the United States. He
says the present level Is practically prohibitive
for every regular exporter and he does not hold
out hope of any Immediate Improvement In
conditions abroad.

Official announcement Is made that the big
plant of the American Car & Foundry Company
at BInghamton, a suburb of Memphis, will be
placed In operation again May 1 with a force
of between 750 and 1.000 employes. The big
car works closed down some months ago be-
I ause of the financial depression. It has been
well supplied with orders all the while and
will soon be running at full capacity with favor-
able conditions. The management denies stren-
uously that there Is any truth In the statement
that the suspension of the local and other plants
was the result of threatened embarrassment
growing out of the failure of the Knickerbocker
Trust Company. The resumption of operations
by this plant has been looked forward to with
Interest by lumbermen here, as It Is one of the
largest woodworking plants In this city or sec-
tion.

It Is encouraging to note In the same connection
that the Louisville & Nashville and Nashville.
Chattanooga & St. Louis have Increased the
number of men at their machine shops in Ten-
nessee and Alabama and that the Queen &
Crescent has not only refused to suspend opera-
tions at Its plant at Gadsden, Ala., but has
announced Its Intention of Increasing materially
the capacity of Its shops there. The St. Louis,
Iron Mountain & Southern has begun work on
a small scale at Its machine shops at Little
Rock and the Rock Island-Frisco system has
reinstated all the men discharged from its shops
at Argenta, Ark., some weeks ago.

Production of hardwood lumber Is being In-
creased In this territory. Weather conditions
during the past few days have been somewhat
unfavorable and have interfered to some extent,
but most of the mills which have been ready
for operation have kept busy. Hale & Kelser,
with headquarters In Memphis, have put their
big mill as Osceola, Ark., In operation again

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after an extended shutdown. The Sawyer &
Austin Lumber Company, Pine Bluff, Ark., has
announced its intention of resuming within the
next few days at full capacity. The Bellgrade
Lumber Company, Memphis and Belzona, Miss.,
has had some trouble with its machinery re-
cently, but is preparing to resume without delay.
The J. W. Thompson Lumber Company an-
nounces that it will start its hardwood mill at
Berclalr, Miss., within a short time. The big
new double band mill of R. ,T. Darnell, Inc., is
in steady operation here, and the Darnell-Love
Lumber Company is running its plant at Leland.
Miss. The management, however, has stopped
work on the second band mill being installed at
the latter point. The Anderson-Tully Company
is operating only one of its mills at Ticksburg ;
its box factory at that point, only recently eom^
plcted, is shut down for the present. It is run-
ning both of its big box plants here, however,
and the Morgan-West Box Company, closely
identified with the Anderson-Tully Company, is
running its plant at Madison, Ark., wltli a
fairly full force. The Brasfleld-Thompson
Lumber Company is running steadily at Bras-
field, Ark., the town formerly known as Biscoe.
The Kyle Lumber Company at Gadsden, Ala.,
has resumed with a full force and with a large
supply of hardwood timber. But even with the
resumption of additional mills the output in the
Memphis territory is still considerably short of
normal and manufacturers declare their inten-
tion of sustaining proper relations between pro-
duction and consumption to the end that there
may not be an accumulation of hardwood lumber
sufiicient to cause further depression in prices.
The committee representing the railroads en-
tering Memphis and having in charge the mat-
ter of readjustment of rates to compensate for
the withdrawal of rcconsigning privilege advises
the special committee- of the Lumbermen's Club
that It has held a meeting, but that, owing to
the absence of one railroad official. It cannot
make known the result of this conference until
It has heard from the absent one. It is putting
it rather mildly to state that the lumbermen of
Memphis are becoming somewhat impatient over
the delay of the railroads. It has been nearly
two months since the reconslgnlng privileges
were withdrawn and, Instead of having secured
an adjustment, lumbermen of this city are con-
fronted with the probability of an advance in
freight rates on lumber shipments from points
south of Memphis, notably on at least two lines,
amounting to from one to two cents per hun-
dred pounds. They regard this as a complicat-
ing factor and are bringing pressure upon the
railroads to settle the old problem before new
ones arise.

The property of the bankrupt Tuthlll & Pattl-
son Manufacturing Company, Sheffield, Ala.,
which a year ago failed for about $1,000,000,
with all Its allied corporations considered, has
just been sold by Trustee Herbert Jackson.
The purchaser was Charles McKee of Little
Kock, and he paid only $7,200 for the lumber
mill and veneer plant, valued at about $50,000,
and only $830 for a boat which was appraised
at $3,000. A barge passed into his ownership
for $200. The failure of this firm had a Mem-
phis end to it. officials of the Memphis Savings
Bank stating that the flotation of bogus paper
by brokers representing this concern was directly
responsible for the necessity of suspending It.
The loan, it will be recalled, was made through
Tuthlll & Parsons, "bankers and brokers," who
had been connected with the Tuthlll & Pattison
Manufacturing Company.

The Illinois Central has established through
freight and passenger service into Birmingham
from St. Louis. Chicago. Memphis, New Orleans
and other larger centers In connection with the
Hayleyvllle extension from Corinth, Miss., and
the tracks of the Northern Alabama and the
Frisco system. At the same time a number of
promotions have followed the Inauguration of
this new service. Chief among these Is the

of E. F. Stovall, one of the local
freight agents of the road, to the position of
general agent of southern lines, with head-
quarters at Birmingham. The Illinois Central
has established large yards at Thomas, Ala.,
and has erected big machine shops there. It is
expected that the yards, in connection with the
car plant, blacksmith shop, roundhouse and
other appurtenances, will give employment to
between 300 and 400 persons.

The Oasis Lumber & Timber Company, which
recently joined the Memphis lumber colony and
which has its headquarters in the Randolph
building, is erecting a mill at Louisville. Miss.,
for the development of its timber holdings in
that section. The plant will have a capacity of
about 20.000 feet a day.

John W. McClure, secretary-treasurer of the
Lumbermen's Club and secretary of the Bell-
grade Lumber Company, has been receiving the
condolences of his many friends here during the
past few days over the death of his brother,
Eugene A. McClure. which occurred a few days
ago at Riverside. Col., where he had gone in
search of health. The deceased was connected
with E. E. Taenzer & Co. and other lumber
firms here until he was forced to give up busi-
ness in this section and seek a more healthful
climate. His remains reached Memphis April
18 and burial was from the residence of his
brother.

A. C. McComb, Oshkosh, Wis., has purchased
from Max Fleischer of the Max Fleischer Stave
Company, Memphis, the entire holdings of the
corporations in Desha county, Arkansas,
amounting to more than 11,000 acres of timber
lands. The tract lies on the Memphis, Helena
& Louisiana and Iron Mountain lines of the
Jlissouri Pacific system and is estimated to con-
lain fully 100,000,000 feet of hardwood timber.
The terms have not been made public. Mr.
McComb Is heavily interested in timber lands
in both Arkansas and Florida and considers
investments in this class of property the most
promising of anything within his knowledge.

Three new members were received into the
Lumbermen's Club at Its last meeting, bringing
the membership to the highest mark In the his-
tory of the organization. They were : S. S.
I'arks of the Pioneer Pole & Shaft Company,
J. R. Thurman of the Blanton-Tburman Lumber
Company, and E. C. Latanner of the General
Lumber Company.

At the same meeting suitable resolutions were
adopted respecting the recent death of Ike
Watts, a member of the old lumber firm of
Watts & SchaelTer and for several years sec-
retary of the Lumbermen's Club, of which he
was a charter member. He was forced to retire
from active connection with the lumber busi-
ness some years ago and the club, out of ap-
preciation for the splendid services rendered by
him as secretary, voted him an honorary mem-
ber for life.

The railroads entering Memphis have agreed
to call a conference within the next thirty days
for the purpose of discussing the granting to
Memphis of the stopover privileges enjoyed by
other gateways. The Frisco system has already,
acting alone, granted the privilege asked by the
commercial organizations and arrangements are
now being made for a conference between offi-
cials of the lines east and west of the Mis-
sissippi, at which action will be taken on the
proposition.

George D. Burgess of Russe & Burgess left
tills evening for New Orleans, Vicksburg and
other points south on a business trip.

Jack Monroe of Lyon. Monroe & Co.. Liver-
pool brokers, left some days ago for Kansas
City and other points In the West. Mr. Monroe
spent about two or three weeks among the lum-
bermen of Memphis. He is not at all favor-
ably impressed with foreign conditions as affect-
ing lumber, declaring that there is so much con-
signed stock as to make it extremely difficult to
operate advantageously.

R. J. Wiggs of R. J. Darnell, Inc., has re-
turned from a business trip to eastern points
ior his firm.

Every lumberman of Memphis is working hard
for the election of A. L. Foster to the first vice-
presidency of the Business Men's Club. He is
opposed by George R. James, head of one of
the largest wagon manufacturing companies in
this city, but the lumbermen believe they are
sufficiently strong to land the honors for their
candidate. The Lumbermen's Club decided to
hold its regular semi-monthly meeting, which
falls on the day of election, April 25, at the
home of the B. M. C. in order that every mem-
ber of that organization might be there to work
for Mr. Foster. The election of Mr. Foster will
be the order of the day, taking precedence over
every other question.

New Orleans.

Plans for a 4.000-foot wharf of the most mod-
ern type that will be especially constructed and
equipped for handling export lumber shipments
have been formally approved by the Board of
Commissioners of the port of New Orleans, and
it is expected that within a short time the com-
mission will be ready to go ahead with the
work. The announcement that these plans had
been approved attracted much attention among
lumber exporters of this section and they are
anxiously awaiting the completion of the struc-
ture that is to give them the facilities they
have so long required. J. H. Hinton's testi-
mony before the Legislative Port Investigation
Commission several days ago is believed to have
been responsible for the action of the Port Com-
mission in having plans prepared. Mr. Hinton
showed that the lumber exports from New
Orleans were much smaller than they would be
if the proper facilities were placed here. The
Dock Board took up the matter and the plans
have been drawn and approved.

Much interest is being manifested in the ses-
sion of the Interstate Commerce Commission
that will be held here April 27 and 28. Several
matters In which lumbermen are vitally con-
cerned will be aired at this sitting and the
developments will in all probability prove par-
ticularly interesting. It is probable that the
lumber exporters' complaint against the cutting
down of free time in f. 'o. b. lumber cars for
export business will be considered.

On application of George L. C. Lhote the
Commercial-Germania Trust and Savings Bank
has been appointed receiver for the Lhote Lum-
ber Manufacturing Company, a well-known con-
cern of this city. This company formerly did
a big business and exported a good deal of
lumber and products of it. It is said to be
unable to meet its obligations, however, and
the receiver has been named at the request of
Mr. Lhote. who says he is a creditor in the sum
of $44,327.31, and on the company's paper for
$33,000 of past due obligations.

Plans for a big furniture factory that will he
established in St. Bernard parish, just below
New Orleans, and which will manufacture fur-
niture of hardwoods imported from Central
America, are being discussed. The names of
the promoters of the company have not been
made public, but it is understood that an option
has been obtained on a very desirable site.

A new $50,000 corporation that will engage
in a general lumber export business has been
organized here by J. H. Hinton and associates
and will immediately begin business. Articles
of incorporation have been filed and the organ-
ization is authorized to do a general business
in lumber and timber, handling It on commis-
sion and otherwise. Mr. Hinton, head of the
Camp & Hinton Company of Lumberton, Miss.,
said today that tlie company would do only an
export business. H. L. White, A. S. Hinton and
J. W. Hinton are the other Incorporators.

Adam & Steinhrugge, a well-known export
lumber firm that has been doing business here
tor many years, has dissolved and the business

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Is now being conaucted by Phil 1. Adam, who
win continue to operate It. C. D. Stelnbrugge
has returned to his home in Germany, where he
will engage in importing lumber from the
United States.

Approximately $00,000 loss resulted from the
big fire which recently destroyed the plant of
the New Orleans Chair Company at Algiers,
just across the river from New Orleans. The
company's stoclc was well covered by insurance.
It is not making arrangements to re-establish its
business.

Advices from Jackson, Miss., state that the
case of the State of Mississippi vs. the Grenada
Lumber Company et al., the celebrated Louisi-
ana-Mississippi retail lumber dealers' case, has
been formally submitted to the Supreme Court
of that state. A lengthy brief submitted by
Attorney L. E. Brown of Yazoo City and Mayes
& Longstreet of Jackson sets forth the case o(
the lumbermen, who deny emphatically that their
organization is a trust. Chancellor Lyell has
already decided that the association is a trust
and appeal from this decision has been made
to the Supreme Court. A decision is expected
within the next week.

E. Stringer Boggess, a widely known hard-
wood lumberman of Clarksburg, W. Va., was a
recent visitor at New Orleans.

Merchants and professional men of Grand
Cane, La., have organized the Grand Cane Lum-
ber Manufacturing Company and are Just about
to begin operations at a big plant that has been
established at Grand Cane. The company is
devoting itself to the manufacture of interior
woodwork.

Norfolk.

Harvey M. Dickson, the well-known and popu-
lar hardwood lumberman of this city, at the head
of the H. M. Dickson Lumber Company, has been
appointed president of the Industrial Commission
of Norfulk, recently organized among the most
progressive Inisincss men of the city. Mr. Dick-
son is active in matters of this kind In both
the direct and Indirect interests of the trade.
He is chairman of the Transportation Com m ittee
of the National Exporters' Association, and re-
cently rendered efficient service In relieving a con-
gestion of stock shipped to this port for ex-
port.

David L. Wing of the Department of Justice,
Bureau of Commerce and I,;ili<i. If i- ii innnd to
Washington, leaving two a>-i >i;i n i!i city
to examine the books of tLi- \ : ■ i i iiine

concerns and to secure theriiiiin :n.i n: |. rices
obtained on certain stock. This iiif.>rm;ition it
Is proposed to tabulate in pamphlet form and
to be Issued within two months from date. Al-
though they cover only North Carolina pine In
their investigations, the result of their work
should prove of Interest to the trade at large,
and it seems probable that It will completely
relieve the public mind of the suspicion that ex-
tortionate or unreasonable profits are being ob-
tained. The local hardwood firms are much in.
terested in the matter.

A recent visitor to the city was Grover D.
Smith, wholesaler, from Montclalr, N. J. Mr.
Smith deals in white pine, spruce, cypress and
maple flooring.

P. S. Adklns of F. D. Adklns & Co., Salisbury,
Md., was In the city April 17.

The Allegheny, a British steamship, sailed
from this port April 10 with an unusually valu-
able cargo, the major portion of which consisted
of hardwoods. She Is bound for Liverpool.

Mr. Courtney, vice-president and general man-
ager of the Alexander Bros. Railway & Manufac-
turing Company, New Brunswick, Canada, is now
making his regular yearly trip to the city. The
lumber Interests of the Ale.\ander Bros, company

Last week the Richmond Cedar Works shipped
to the American Lumber Company of Baltimore
part of a cargo, amounting to about 100,000 feet,
of gum. It Is not known at what price this par-

ticular lot was sold, but the indications are that
the trade in gum. both rough and flooring, is
holding up well. The Butters Lumber Company
of Boardman, N. C, makes a specialty of gum
flooring and reports trade as fair. Gum is com-
ing to be quite a favorite in this section and
dealers find a good market for It.

Freight rates for vessel shipments to and
from this port as well as North Carolina points
have suffered a decline, and the hardwood men
are taking advantage of low rates to sell stock.
Some shipments have been made from lower
sound points to Baltimore and Norfolk at as low
a rate as ?2 per thousand, although $2.25 would
probably be a fairer average.

Quite a large quantity of oak and other hard-
woods went to swell the cargo of the Brlt'sh
steamship Allegheny, which sailed on the 8th
instant with an unusually valuable load, which
fact can be accepted as Indicating that the ex-
port trade is holding its own steadily, even
though there be fluctuations in the volume of
business received.

An interesting Concatenation of Hoo-Hoo was
held a few days ago at Sumter, S. C, with a
large number of members present and eleven
"kittens" to be carried through the mysteries of
the order. An all around good time was had at
the meeting, which lasted two days, a big ban-
quet being one of the features.

The burned plant of Bewberry Bros. & Cowell
at Dunn, N. C, has been replaced by a fine new
chair factory, which is now In full operation.

Charlotte.

.\raong the new concerns organized during the
past tv.o weeks was the Chair Manufacturing
Company of North Wilkesboro, N. C, which has
a capital stock of $100,000. J. D. Smith and
others are the incorporators.

High Point, N. C, is the home of a new con-
cern which will make chests, cabinets and other
products of cedar. The name of the concern Is
the Cedar Safe Company and R. C. Maxwell Is
Its prime promoter.

The plant of the Klncald Veneering Works of
Salisbury, N. C, was destroyed by flre a few
days ago, entailing a loss of about $10,000.

In a hearing before Special Master W. C.
Irwin at Salisbury, N. C, a compromise has been
reached in the case of the Barber Buggy Com-
pany, which practically means that the affairs
of this concern will be wound up by the referee.
It was agreed that the company Is a partner-
ship, that the members compose a partnership,
and the insolvency and acts of bankruptcy com-
plained of In the petition were agreed upon. All
assets are to be delivered over to the referee.
It will be recalled this company closed down
some months ago, and since there has been an
Interesting contest among parties Interested as
to the exact nature of the concern. It is not
likely it will be reorganized.

Mount Airy furniture factories are going back
to the ten-hour day after running on the eight-
hour plan for a number of months. This Is
following advice of the North Carolina Case-
workers' Association. Business at Mount Airy,
High Point and other furniture centers of the
slate Is picking up noticeably.

Receiver Lewellyn has been authorized to sell
the bankrupt plant of the Carolina Casket Com-
pany of Elkta, N. C.

Directors of the Sanford Buggy Company of
Sanford, N. C, recently met and decided to In-
crease the company's capitalization. This Is a
thriving enterprise and is doing a good busl-

Fire at C. M. Betts & Co.'s lumber plant near
(^hester. S. C, recently, resulted In a loss of
about $20,000, mostly covered by insurance. The
sawmill and planing mill near the burned kilns
were saved by heroic efforts ot the flre flghters.

The record In the famous case of appeal of
Collin & McDonald against the New York "Rub-
ber King," C. "R. Flint, has been filed In the
United States court at Ashevllle, and the case
will u'l nil I" tl,e circuit court of appeals. Coffin
,v MI 1,1' been granted a verdict of

> - Thousands of acres of land In

\- ' : lollna counties are Involved

ii .11 & McDonald allege that Flint

ec.iifr:u led with them for millions of feet of lum-
ber several years ago, and later refused to per-
form his part ot the contract, thereby causing
them heavy loss on expensive dams and outfit
they had provided to fill the large order.

Minneapolis.

E. Payson Smith of the Payson Smith Lumber
Company has returned from an extended trip in
the hardwood districts of upper Michigan and
of northern Wisconsin, along Lake Superior. He
found the cut greatly reduced everywhere ; all
the large producers whom he saw had curtailed
their log cut and the product of their mills about
one-half as compared with last season. Owing
to this, Mr. Smith expects to see prices higher
in a few months. Business Is rather quiet, but
prices are holding up well. There are not many
buyers in southern hardwood territory, but the
wholesalers who are handling the stock are get-
ting more money for it on a good many items.

The railroads, Mr. Smith says, are going
straight against the general trend of business
in buying their own supplies. Several of them
have been canceling orders for lumber placed
last January, although they really need the
stuff. Apparently they are trying to cut down
expenses so as to make a better showing for
the fiscal year, and are allowing their equip-
ment to run down. Mr. Smith is going south
in a few days. They have secured a new engine
and boiler for the mill at Hough, Mo., and In-
creased Its capacity, but the mill is down now
on account of high water, as all the mills In
that section are at present, and it Is not likely
that they will be running for three or four
weeks yet.

D. F. Clark of Osborne & Clark Is at Hot
Springs. Ark., resting and taking the baths, so
as to build up from a serious attack of the grip.
He left nearly two weeks ago for the South and
has been down In Texas, also in Arkansas, look-
ing up the hardwood proposition In that terri-
tory. C. F. Osborne of the same firm Is back
from a visit to their retail yards at Barron and
Ladysmlth, Wis.

George S. Agnew, who went Into the hard-
wood and yellow pine trade on his own account
recently after five years with the Payson Smith
Lumber Company as a salesman, reports that
he has been enjoying a very satisfactory trade
at the start, and In spite of the dull season he
has no complaint to make.

The ilire.iors ef (he Forbes-Everts Lumber
11 II ', mill elected E. H. Brough-

I iiitlon. Mr. Broughton

i 1 iiioiis sales office, which

In 1,1 I iiL_ limber Exchange, and Is

market Int: Uieir while and red oak lumber and
ties from the plant at Van Buren, Mo., acquired
by this new concern last fall. The company has
bought another tract of timber adjoining that
purchased last fall with the mill, and now has
an ample supply of good oak timber for a num-
ber of years ahead. G. W. Everts of the com-
pany has returned from a business trip Into Wis-
consin.

S. H. Davis of the S. H. Davis Lumber Com-
pany, Minneapolis, presented a $5,000 organ to
the Lowry Hill Congregational church ot this
city as a memorial to his wife, Agnes Cornelia
Davis, who died lasU fall. The organ was In
use for the Easter services, and a dedicatory
recital will be given later.

Albert La Bergc, a hardwood and hemlock
dealer of Stctsonvllle, Wis., was a business vis-
itor In Minneapolis last week.

A. S. Bliss, representing the R. Connor Com-
pany of Marshflcld, Wis., was a business vis-
itor in Minneapolis this week, looking up his
friends among the factory consumers of hard-
wood.

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Cadillac.

Flooring Is moving a little better than last
month and hardwood orders are coming in a
little faster than heretofore. Hemlock is a little
off and is not moving rapidly. From recent sta-
tistics gathered in Michigan we find there will
be at least 30,000,000 feet less hemlock cut than
originally intended and a slight increase in the
hardwood cut to offset this.

W. L. Martin of the W. H. White Company
and P. Collyer. national inspector, Boyne City,
were in Cadillac a few days ago.

John K. Davis and P. T. Demares of the John
R. Davis Lumber Company, Phillips, Wis., were
in Cadillac this weeli inspecting the steam log
loader of the Cummer-Diggins Company.

The Cummer-Diggins Company has located in
the Mitchell Brothers Building, North Mitchell
street, during the remodeling of its office build-
ing, which will be one of the most complete
office buildings in this city when finished six
months hence.

J. C. Knox, secretary of the Michigan Hard-
wood Manufacturers' Association, has moved his
office temporarily to the Cadillac State Bank
Building. It is expected his office will be lo-
cated in the new Cummer-Diggins building when
completed.

Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Mitchell and sister, Miss
Yost, are sightseeing in California and are ex-
pected home about May 1.

The followers of Izaak Walton in this vicinity
are of the opinion that the trout season, which
opened April 15, is about fifteen days too early.
May 1, according to sportsmen, being about the
proper date. However, a number of good catches
have been recorded, one a six-pound rainbow
trout caught by J. M. Kelly on Pine River, near
Hoxievilie. Monroe Qornwell of this city re-
ceived a rainbow trout caught in Pine River yes-
terday that weighed when dressed 9% pounds.

A. W. Newark of the Cadillac Handle Com-
pany and H. H. Cummer of the Cummer Manu-
facturing Company left today for a two weeks'
trip in Texas.

Wausau.

The Rib Falls Lumber Company, which oper-
ated mills during the winter at Rib Falls and
Berlin, Just finished a large cut. The mills
were stocked with an excellent grade of hard-
wood logs.

The Weidema'n-Linden Company of Marinette
has lately added new machinery to its plant to
be better enabled to fill some large orders on
its books. A specialty will be made of kitchen
cabinets this season.

The Paul Seymour mill in the town of Wau-
sau has finished a very successful season's run.
The mill cut on an average of 22,000 feet per
day and the logs received were mostly black
ash. The mill was stocked by the Wheeler-
Timlin Lumber Company of Wausau.

The Quaw Lumber Company of Edgar cut
4,000,000 feet of timber during the winter,
mostly hardwood.

The Griffith mill in the town of Bergen.
Marathon county, has started sawing a cut of
hardwood and will run steadily till September.

Human Bros., who operate west of Marathon
City, cut 2,000,000 feet of hardwood during the
season just closed. The Sellin mill in the town
of Berlin, Marathon county, cut a like amount.

Flirth & Thompson, a Wausau concern build-
ing a mill at Cornucopia, is pushing the work
with vigor to have the plant in running order
by May 1. It will have a capacity of 50,000
feet daily. The company owns a large tract
of timber land adjacent to the mill.

At a meeting of the directors of the Merrill
Woodenware Company, Merrill, held recently.
the resignation of R. E. Wallace as general
manager was accepted, to take effect May 1.
The board appointed George Emerich of that
city as his successor. The reason Mr. Wallace

leaves the firm is to accept a position with the
Pioneer Cooperage Company of Pioneer, La., a
larger concern.

J. E. Collins of Sheboygan, representing the
Crocker Chair Company of that city has closed
a deal at Houghton, Mich., whereby the Crocker
Company becomes owner of an immense tract
of timber land. The purchase was made from
G. F. Sanborn of Ashland and includes 6,103
acres in Houghton and Baraga counties, the
price paid being $86,500. The timber is adja-
cent to Sidnow, and the timber will be cut in
the mills at that place. The lumber will then
be shipped to Sheboygan and worked into fin-
ished product by the Crocker Company. The
company is looking for more hardwood lands
in that section.

A woodenware factory will be established in
La Crosse by J. Jung of Milwaukee. He has
made a two years' contract with the Vought
Berger Company of La Crosse to furnish it with
all the lumber to be used in the manufacture
of telephones, switchboards and kindred sup-
plies made by that company. The new factory
will employ twenty experts and will open
May 15.

The large chair factory erected in Boyd last
summer by the Wisconsin Chair Company of
Port Washington is being moved to Evansville,
Ind., where the company has purchased other
factory buildings and will employ 200 men.
This will be run supplementary to the com-
pany's other business in Wisconsin. The com-
pany gives as a reason for moving that it is
necessary to get where there is oak timber, as
there is no more demand for elm chairs. A
bonus was given by the citizens of Boyd to
secure the location of this factory and the com-
pany offers to either return the bonus or locate
some other woodworking Industry in the im-
mense buildings being vacated.

A. C. McComb of Oshkosh has purchased of
the Max Fleischer Stave Company of Memphis,
Tenn.. ail of that company's timber land hold-
ings in Desha county, Arkansas, amounting to
11.000 acres. This tract lies on the Memphis
& Helena and Iron Mountain railroads and con-
tains 100.000,000 feet of timber, mostly white
and red oak and hickory, with some ash and
cypress. Mr. McComb is among the most ex-
tensive timber land holders in the South. He
has 75.000 acres of timber, most of which Is in
Arkansas and Florida. He also has eonsiderable
timber in Wisconsin and Michigan and believes
that the present money stringency affords good
opportunity for the timber investor.

The Beswick-Daley Company of Marinette will
start manufacturing soon. The company has
erected a large and modern factory building
near Poplar Point, built of brick and concrete.
It will be operated by electric motors. The
company will cut its own timber at its mill
located near the factory and manufacture it
into columns, tank staves and other articles.

The English Manufacturing Company of An-
tigo is at present having a very successful sea-
sou and has $30,000 worth of bolts on hand.
The working force consists of sixty-five men,
with a monthly payroll of .$2,500.

The Wausau Lumber Company has by its
president, W. H. Bissell. and secretary. W. W.
Gamble, filed an amendment to its articles of
incorporation, increasing the stock from $25,000
to $100,000. The company operates at Edgar
and Rib Falls.

Louisville.

Harry Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills
spent several days in Chicago the early part
of the month. Colonel Kline says business is
improving but its volume is still only about 50
per cent of last year's.

Secretary McCracken of the Kentucky Veneer
Works spent a few days in Chicago within the
week.

C. R. Mengel, president of the C. C. Mengel &
Brother Company, is still absent in Europe.

The W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company

reports considerable activity in business com-
pared with other months this year. They look
forward with anticipation to a fair increase
during the latter part of the year.

Ed Shippen of the Louisville Point Lumber
Company spent the past two weeks in the moun-
tains of Kentucky purchasing logs from the new
plant recently purchased at Ford, Ky. The
company has provided for a good run at this
mill, which is of the single band type, and has
also opened an office in Cincinnati. Secretary
Gates of this company reports a fair volume of
business and that clients at Louisville will en-
able them to take care of a large volume of
business during 190S.

Barry Norman of E. B. Norman & Co., Inc.,
has the new box shook plant completed and has
made considerable progress in building up trade
for it. The company also does a wholesale
hardwood lumber business and is far from being
discouraged in the amount of orders being
booked.

A. E. Norman reports some business at hand.
but will gladly welcome increased volume at this
time.

Edward L. Davis of the Edward L. Davis
Lumber Company has been seriously ill for some
time, but has arranged to have his business
running along about as usual.

Little Bock.

Several new institutions have either been
granted charters to enter the state from the
outside or been incorporated within the state
during the past two weeks. Among these is the
Ferguson & Wheeler Land, Lumber & Handle
Company, incorporated under the laws of Mis-
souri. The company states that it has $100,000
employed in the state. H. W. Lasater of Com-
ing is state agent and Corning is chosen as the
headquarters in Arkansas. *

The McCoy-Isbell Lumber Company, a concern
at Horatio. Ark., has filed a dissolution notice
with the secretary of state, showing the com-
pany has quit business.

The Grafton Stave & Heading Company of
Grafton, III., has filed its articles of incorpora-
tion with the secretary of state and been
granted the right here. The company gives its
assets at $35,000, with equal liabilities, and has
$10,000 invested in the state. N. A. Grosbeam
of Biggers is named as state agent.

The Bender Wagon Company, one of the old-
est concerns of Its kind in the state, located at
Texarkana, has been granted a receiver on peti-
tion, A. B. De Loach of Texarkana being named.
The assets of the concern are placed at $35,000,
with liabilities placed at $20,000.

The big Hale & Keiser mill at Osceola has
again opened for operations after having been
shut down for several months. The reopening
of the plant was a welcome event in Osceola.

The dry kilns of the Camden Mill Company at
Camden were recently visited by a very destruc-
tive fire, the loss being estimated at $25,000.
The origin of the fire is supposed to have been
a passing locomotive. Fortunately the rest of
the plant was untouched. Manager Webb, with
Ills customary fiicrsy. is ,-|onriiv.r away the
debris, to be ri'iil.H''! "iHi ii'« nuiiTial.

The St. Mar>- W I-k-i. ■ ...iip:niv at Pres-

cott is another uf tlir lar:;.r , ninri ns that has
recently resumed operations after a lengthy shut-
down. The plant had closed down with the dull
season.

G. F. Weiss, manager for the Brinkley Spoke
Company, reports a rather encouraging business
at his establishment. The Brinkley concern is
one of the most complete of its kind in the
state and has a capacity of about 10.000 spokes
daily, under their recent improvements.

L. N. Lanier & Co. of Howard county have
purchased extensive site properties at Ashdown.
where they will erect a stave factory to be ready
for operation by fail.

A series of important suits are now being
heard in the Federal Circuit Court here to deter-
mine the possession of large tracts of timber

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land along the Frisco between Hoxie and Mem-
phis. The lands were originally granted to the
St. Louis & Memphis Railway Company and
are located in Desha, Drew and Chicot counties.
The parties to the suits are W. S. Bryan vs.
Bliss-Cook Oak Company, W. S. Bryan vs.
Edward S. Layman, M. G. Rider vs. Bliss-Cook
Oak Company, S. S. Moser vs. Edward S. Lay-
man, and W. S. Bryan vs. William Bagnell.

Representatives o£ J. B. York and son Robert,
millionaire lumbermen of Pine Bluff, have pur-
chased the plant ot the Anne.sdale Lumber &
Manufacturing Company at Memphis, the consid-
eration being $33,800. The Yorks held a heavy
claim against the lumber concern.

Fort Smith is making a strenuous effort to
close up the slock subscriptions necessary to
secure the Southwestern Chair Factory, a con-
cern incorporated last fall and which seemed
fairly established when the financial flurry struck
the town. It \\;is ii.m .■ssury t.. raise $75,000
in stock. aiMl i\j- ^tiiimoij.v liron-ht subscrip-
tions to a slaial^tilL ,\1 t sl(i. is yet to be

raised. Thf plant iit.ip'i-pd is a v.iy extensive
one employing over a hundred men.

The strike trouble at the Alley Heading Fac-
tory at Paragould has been smoothed over and
the white men are returning to work. The
trouble arose over a demand for higher wages
by the white crew, which the company met by
employing negroes. Serious trouble was prom-
ised, but everything seems now in a fair way
to a satisfactory adjustment.

Col. E. W. Frost, one of the lumber kings of
southern Arkansas and northern Louisiana, has
sold his magniflcont home at Texarkana and will
hereafter reside in St. Louis.

A. C. Morhstadt, one of the founders ot the
hub factory at Paragould, Is now manager for
the spoke factory at Marianna.

J. E. Slack of Delight, who is associated
with the Grayson-McLeoU Lumber Company, re-
ports that his company owns 8,000 acres ad-
joining the recently developed diamond fields in
Pike county. It need hardly be added that this
part of their holdings has been taken off the
market so far as an offer to sell Is concerned.

J. L. Starrett spent some time here this week
in the interest of the Nebraska Bridge & Supply
Compan.v.

Col. J. W. Irwin, for many years manager
of the Capital Hotel in this city, the leading
hostelry of the state for a long time, has re-
cently turned his attention to the development
ot extensive hardwood Interests In the northern
part of the state.

Ashland.

Mr. Saulsberry. of the Wright-Salisbury Lum-
ber Company, who has been looking after their
timber on Uock Castle Creek, states that they
are receiving some of the finest poplar logs
that ever floated In the Ohio river. The recent
tides brought the logs out of Rock Castle.

S. B. Reese of the S. B. Reese Lumber Com-
pany, Farmers, K.T., is making an extensive busi-
ness trip through the East and expects to be
away at least two months.

Mr. Searcy, of the Whisler & Scarry I.timlicr

Company, Ironton, Ohio, was a business caller
here en route to Farmers, Ky. Mr. Searcy has
lumber interests at Farmers and is also a mem-
ber of the American Boomage Company there.

R. G. Page, secretary of the Licking River
Lumber Company, with general offices in this
cit.v, just returned from several days' visit to
the Company's large band sawmill and planing
mill at Farmers. Prior to last week the mill
had been closed about thirty days for the pur-
pose of making changes and improvements. The
concern has a mill capacity of about 45.0U0 feet
daily. N. Goodman, vice-president of the com-
pany, and manager at Farmers, reports a large
supply of fine poplar and oak logs on hand for
this season's run.

J. H. Koester ot this city has accepted a
position with the Hardwood Lumber Company
and will buy for the concern. Mr. Koester
will spend most ot his time traveling through
West Virginia and Kentucky. The Hardwood
Lumber Company reports receiving some very
desirable orders at good prices.

The log jam of 100,000 logs In the Guyan
river near Huntington, W. Va., will soon be
cleaned up and rafted. Most ot them belong to
Cincinnati firms.

W. E. Berger of the W. H. Dawkins Lumber
Company is in St. Louis this week attending to
business for the company. Mr. Berger will visit
several other cities, calling on the lumber trade
before returning to this city.

W. A. Cool ot W. A. Cool & Son, Cleveland,
Ohio, called on the lumber dealers here this
week, looking after the interests of his company.
Mr. Cool expects to make several cities in West
Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio before his re-
turn to Cleveland. He reports business Im-
proving and saj-s they are receiving some very
desirable orders in bill oak.

I'robably one of the largest timber fleets in
the Ohio river this season was towed past here
one day this week by the steamer Enquirer, en
route to Louisville, K.v. It was the property
of the Norman I>umber Company ot that city.
This fleet consisted principally of fine poplar
from Big Sandy territory, which will make
exceptionally fine lumber. The Norman Lum-
ber Company Is fortunate in being the owner ot
such a flne lot ot poplar logs.

William Eckman ot the R. G. Page Lumber
Company ot this city Is making a business trip
calling on *he lumber trade in several cities in
Wisconsin and in Chicago. Upon his return be
will visit South Bend, Ind., Richmond, Ind., and
.several Ohio cities.

L. D. Cooper ot Plkeviile was a business vis-
itor in this city and Catlettsburg. Mr. Cooper is
one ot the largest stave dealers up Big Sandy.

J. II. P. Smith, president ot the Hardwood
Lumber Company, has returned from his busi-
ness trip through Ohio and reports some very
good orders for poplar and oak. Although prices
are shady and customers are a little more spar-
ing ot their orders, Mr. Smith believes that a
general renewing ot trade is at hand.

W. R. Vansant, who operates a sawmill at
Rush. Ky., was a business visitor In the city

Hardwood Market.

(By HABDWOOD BEOOBD Exclnsive Market Beporteri.)

Chicago.
The Chicago hardwood market is practically
featureless. The aggregate ot trade is consid-
erable, but It is ot the hand-to-mouth variety.
Some jobbers are even trading among tiiemselves
to take care ot their wagon-load trade rather
than buy any large quantity of stock. On the
contrary, there are other large and well financed
Institutions which are buying mill stocks right
and left. On the whole, local trade shows a
slight Improvement, but nothing remarkable.

The market for hardwood lumber Is not active
and very little Improvement can be reported over
conditions that have existed tor several months.
The consumers are passing through quiet times,
and In few Instances only have they taken ad-
vantage of the easier tune to values to replen-
ish their stocks. Buyers have considered it to
their advantage to restrict their purchases to
actual wants for some time. This means that
when business does start up the demand will
be brisk and quick delivery will be wanted. It
Is difficult to predict the future course ot values.

as reports are very conflicting. Some buyers
feel the bottom has been reached, but do not
believe they will be higher right away. Others
are of the opinion that there will still be much
lower quotations named. Furniture manufactur-
ers are not very busy, according to salesmen
visiting this trade. The demand for stock from
manufacturers of interior house finish is quiet.
The market fcr quartered oak is still rather
dull. One inch, ones and twos, continues to be
quoted at ,$80 to $83. The best stock cannot
be had at less than $82. but at this figure the
demand cannot be termed active. Plain oak is
in quiet call and offerings are large. Prices
of one Inch, ones and twos, range from $49 to
$51. There is a fair call for ash. Offerings ot
the latter are yet large and prices are held with
a fair degree of firmness. Brown, one inch, is
quoted at $55 to $57. Maple is not very active
at present and prices are a little soft. Interest
in whltewood is limited. Buyers state they
are able to get along by placing small orders
only, and many say they look for lower prices.
North Carolina pine is in moderate call only.
Cypress continues in a very unsatisfactory con-
dition. Large mills are still cutting prices,
one against the other. While such conditions
exist dealers find it very hard work to interest
buyers. The latter do not feel like anticipat-
ing their wants in a quiet market, especially
while the mills are engaged in a price-cutting
conflict. Veneers ot all kinds are in rather
quiet demand. Mahogany veneers are not as
lirm as they were.

New York.

There has been some improvement noted in
the local hardwood situation during the past
fortnight, although consumption does not yet
compare with that ot a year ago. There is little
tendency to push matters or to crowd the market
and prices are holding up well, especially on the
better grades of stock. Some quotations have
been shown which rule $3 or $4 off on certain
items, but a study ot the character ot the ship-
per in these instances usually shows that these
prices are based not on strict grades but on a
belief that one thing can be sold and another
shipped. Ot course, this Is a tendency which is
apt to arise under conditions like the present,
but cutting prices and selling one thing and
shipping another can be done only once, and such
quotations do not reveal actual market condi-
tions. When It comes to the market conditions
governing well-manufactured and graded hard-
woods of the better grades prices are ruling ex-
ceptionally firm, notwithstanding rumors to the
contrary through manipulations above referred
to.

Ash is strong In price, and the demand Is suf-
ficient to preclude any shading of prices. Plain
and quartered oak are firmer than they were a
month ago, and good, well-manufactured stock
Is bringing good prices where wanted. Chestnut
lias been ridiculously quoted on some sharp ma-
nipulation, but when It comes to the standard
grades prices are holding very firm. Birch is a
little sluggish and there is ample stock for all
wants. Maple and basswood are also a little
slow, but there Is some stock moving. The gen-
eral yard trade Is not buying freely as yet, hav-
ing carried over considerable stock from the win-
ter, but there is quite some Improvement noted
in actlrlty in the furniture and some other con-
suming lines, which is expected to Increase as th€
season advances. But as a whole, while there
Is not a large trade looked for between spring
and summer. It Is believed that prices and gen-
eral market conditions will hold up well In view
of the volume ot supplies available for those sea-
sons.

PhUadelphia.

During the month ot March there was great
encouragement as to a resumption ot actlvit.v In
the hardwood business, but it is evident from
reports nj the trading during the last fortnight
that buying is done only with great caution.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Especially Is this noticeable in the large cities.
The yardmen in all the smaller towns in New
York State, New Jersey and the eastern district
of Pennsylvania have been obliged to readjust
their stock and fill in vacant corners, as orders
now cover only actual requirements.

The building work already started, and that
for which plans are being arranged, insure con-
siderable activity in the mill work and flooring
factories. Work in the furniture manufactories
In this and other eastern localities lags some-
what on account of the slow movement of the
retailers' stock, the result of so many mechanics
being thrown out of work. The boxmakers re-
port business far below normal, while cigar-box
manufacturers speak of a slight change for the
better. The hardwood stocks both at mill dis-
tricts and in consumers' hands are not over
heavy, and at this season the usual freshets at
mill centers will retard considerably the work
at the mills.

Values remain practically unchanged ; quar-
tered oak holds firm, but is extremely scarce :
No. 1 and 2 poplar keeps steady, the lower
grades are somewhat off, and ash has been
losing reputation, but taking the hardwoods as
a whole the situation is far more satisfactory
than that of the soft woods. Collections are
noticeably slow and unsatisfactory. It Is the
general opinion that the present seasonable
weather will give a new impetus to building
work, a very important factor as regards a
pronouncement upon the market for trading
during the next few months, but nothing really
decisive can be hoped for until after the presi-
dential nominations and election.

Baltimore,

The hardwood trade has been without any
marked changes during the past two weeks. Busi-
ness is still reported quiet, with the offerings
liberal enough and a somewhat larger inquiry,
but with the actual movement much the same.
Spring has proved a distinct disappointment, and
the expectations entertained earlier In the year
have fallen far short of realization. The range
of prices is still decidedly lower than the level
that obtained last year, and this, notwithstanding
the fact that stocks seem to be by no means
e.xcessive. As far as can be learned supplies at
most of the mills are small and many of the
plants are still shut down : those in operation
usually have some special reason for activity.
At the prevailing quotations lumber ought to
prove attractive, and yet buyers are not disposed
to place orders beyond immediate needs. It is
the opinion of most hardwood men now that no
extraordinary activity Is to be looked for until
after the election, and that while a moderate
amount of business may develop. It will not be
difficult to meet the wants of the buyers.

Foplar is In much the same condition as the
other divisions of the hardwood trade, the de-
mand having declined in the last few weeks.
Values are not as strong as they were, and the
absence of a brisk foreign movement is felt more
than ever. Stocks seem to be going forward to
Liverpool and other transatlantic points in con-
siderable volume, but the business is not profit-
able, the large accumulations abroad and the
pressure to sell at home having forced prices
down to a low notch. Quiet also prevails In
the other divisions of the export business, the
accumulations of oak operating against this wood.
Not a few of the exporters have stopped ship-
ping because of the unsatisfactory conditions,
and the entire trade leaves much to be desired.

Buflfalo.

The lumber trade Is still unsteady and re-
ports have to be averaged from wide differences
of opinion. One dealer reports that there is
nothing doing and Is afraid that things will
be worse before they are better, a second is
doing very well and a third has sold a lot of
stock at good prices. Again the same dealer
win find he Is doing well or otherwise and will
suddenly strike the opposite side of the trade.

Buying is still uncertain, but a fair consump-
tion is going on that has to be met somehow,
and as there is not demand enough to keep
everybody busy the trade goes In streaks. It
will keep on in this way till there is a more
genuine revival of ail sorts of business.

The city building reports here and elsewhere
in the country are very favorable, as compared
with other business, and there is going to be a
pretty good consumption of lumber in this di-
rection this year.

As to the various hardwoods there is improve-
ment, though, small, in plain oak. Elm and
basswood continue to be better property than
they were, basswood no doubt coming in to
take the place of poplar, which is not any more
plentiful. Quartered oak is as strong as ever
and black ash moves, but white ash is quiet
and chestnut and birch do not improve. The
plan is still to keep stocks down to a good
working size and to run sawmills enough to
make sure of plenty of stock that is in demand
and not let the mill force scatter, so that when
the demand is large again there will be stock

to meet it.

Bay City and Sagina-w.

Hardwood stocks are light as to dry material,
and there is an increased movement. In fact,
manufacturers and dealers state that trade is
picking up, some good lets having been disposed
of in the last ten days. There will be many
small lots cut at interior mills this season.
The market is steady. Ash, oak and basswood
are firm. Maple is also quite firm, but if con-
cessions are made they will be confined to maple,
owing to the proportionately large stocks of that
timber. Orders for flooring are coming In, and
some European shipments have been made. The
domestic trade Is also showing symptoms of
material Improvement.

Cleveland.

A steady improvement In conditions In the
lumber industry has been noted during the last
two weeks In Cleveland, and a nui<h more op-
timistic feeling prevails. Win: ih. . I. ■11:111.1
does not compare at all favi it

year, still most of the lumtun 1 1

that a sufficient volume of bn-in - aM k.'

Itself apparent to make up for the last few
months.

roplar still holds the top rung of the ladder,
the demand being quite heavy, with the supply
light. Quartered oak Is also In strong demand,
with no fluctuation In price noted. Plain oak
has failed to show much activity, much of the
stock offered In this market being of poor qual-
ity, although there Is plenty of good oak pro-
curable If a search Is made.

Dealers in maple flooring expect a good sea-
son In view of the activity In residence build-
ing.

Most of the factories and mills using hard-
woods in quantities are operating In Cleveland:
some, however, on short time schedules. A
fair season is looked for. Inquiries indicate
that mill stocks are getting low and that pur-
chases will have to be made soon if many
concerns are to be kept moving. Little price
cutting has been noted here and less is looked
for now that the revival is making Itself ap-
parent. A decided Improvement has been noted
in the way buyers bargain for trade, and the
close of a month or two ago Is being replaced by
a more liberal attitude.

Cincinnati,

During the month of April transactions In
hardwoods showed improvement over those of
March, and the sixty-five per cent of normal
trade predicted for spring has been about ful-
filled.

The demand for the lower grades of poplar
has shown a decided Increase over the previous
month, and there Is some talk current of a pos-
sible increase in prices, owing to the apparent
scarcity of that wood. The better grades of

poplar, which have been in demand for many
weeks, still keep up, and sales are being made
at firm prices. The furniture trade is gradually
getting into the market, and this element are
frequent inquirers tor walnut, oak, cherry, ma-
hogany and chestnut. The recent meeting of the
hickory association here and the talk of the
shortage in that wood led lumbermen to hold
their stocks more tightly, and naturally they are
not willing to dispose of it, unless they secure
what is in their minds — a good price. All in
all, the hardwood situation is at its best so far
this year, and lumber dealers in general are al-
most certaiu o£ improvement in all grades.

Columbus.

While the improvement in the hardwood mar-
ket in central Ohio during the last fortnight
has been slight, it is nevertheless certain. One
of the best features is the fact that stocks in
the hands of manufacturers are now at a low
point, and if they continue operations pur-
chases of lumber will be necessary. Prices are
stationary. Poplar is the wood on the mar-
ket and quotations are unchanged.

Firsts and seconds are held at $53 f. o. b.
Ohio river.

There is a good demand for oaks of all kinds.
Inquiries have been fairly numerous for ash,
hickory, chestnut and other hardwoods. Manu-
facturers as well as jobbers predict a better
market soon. Collections are improving In al-
most every quarter. Mills are being repaired
for operation in the near future.

Indianapolis.

Hardwood prices are remaining quite steady,
with a good demand in practically all lines. The
demand is heaviest for quartered oak, and these
prices will undoubtedly take an upward course
before long. However, business is not yet up to
the average of this time last year.

Southern Indiana mills are complaining of an
Inability to get logs, and one or two mills have
been compelled to shut down for a short time.
This is due to the numerous floods along the
Ohio river. In this vicinity, where the river
is not depended upon for transportation, logs
are coming in to meet demands.

The unusual number of large buildings being
erected here, or contemplated, is making a nice
demand for hardwood finish and floors. At least
half a dozen skyscrapers or large public build-
ings are under way or the contracts have been
let for them.

Milwaukee.

Although there is little change In the Mil-
waukee hardwood situation, the leading lines of
lumber are holding their own and dealers are
receiving Inquiries that denote improvement in
trade a little later. There have been more
building permits Issued this spring in Milwau-
kee and about the state than for a number of
seasons, and the effect is already evident to the
hardwood men In the city. All of the dealers
are well stocked preparatory to resumption of
activity.

Maple Is holding up well and there is consid-
erable demand for flooring. Cypress Is said to
he a little weak, but a change Is expected as
the demand Increases. Basswood is keeping up
well and the supply is limited, while the same
may be said of hickory. The price of quarter-
sawed oak Is unchanged at present, but the indi-
cations are that prices are to rise. Ash Is
maintaining Its own and there Is considerable
demand for this lumber, there being no signs of
weakening in the market.

Evansville.
The market In this section has shown some
signs of Improvement in the last two weeks. In-
quiries are numerous, and while the volume of
business does not compare with that of last year,
manufacturers are optimistic and believe that
business will continue to Improve until It reaches

HARDWOOD RECORD

its former magnitude. Several of the local mills
have been shut down a part of the past two
weeks making repairs, as logs have become scarce
and they are getting things in readiness for the
time when logs become more plentiful. How-
ever, most of the mills are running on an eight-
hour schedule.

St. Louis.
While the volume of business In hardwood
continues to increase it has not shown the steady
Increase that it should have done. Still it is
decidedly better than It was a couple of weeks
ago. Prices, however, have not advanced. They
continue just about the same that they have
been for some time. Most of the demand for
hardwood comes from the planing mills. The
furniture factories are not ordering as they have
as a rule quite a supply of stock on hand. Box
factories are not ordering as freely as last year.
Some calls for oak have been received from car
shops, as their stocks are running low. Poplar
Is in pretty good demand. Hickory is also In
considerable request. There Is quite an active
demand also for red and white quartered oak.
This item is scarce. Plain oak is quiet. In fact
is in least demand. Gum Is also quiet, except
for wagon box boards and box material. Ash
is also slow.

Nashville.

Poplar continues to be the leader in the local
market, and is being readily sold In all grades.
Quartered oak is also finding ready purchasers,
but plain oak is still dragging. Quite an
Improvement has been noted in ash within the
past few weeks. Plenty of inquiries continue
to reach this market, but the number of sales
does not approximate that of the aforesaid In-
quiries. Many of the inquiries are said to be
merely "feelers" from those wishing to pick up
cheap stock ; a further reason for a disparity
between the Inquiries and actual sales lies In
the fact that lumbermen are holding on to their
stuff and refusing to sacrifice It : In fact, they
are not selling it unless the price realized is
fairly remunerative.

The outlook is regarded as encouraging, how-
ever, due to the rapid increase In building oper-
ations and to favorable crop reports. The busi-
ness of April thus far, as a matter of fact,
shows a decided Increase over a corresponding
period in March'. March was known to have
been a great improvement over February, and
it is believed and figured, therefore, that busi-
ness is rapidly assuming a normal condition
again.

Memphis.

Lumber Interests here generally report some
Improvement in demand for hardwood lumt>er,
but they all admit that the call is somewhat
Irregular and spasmodic and that buyers are
Indisposed to operate be.vond their more imme-
diate requirements. The number of Inquiries
is Increasing all the while, and this fact Is
taken as basis for the belief that there Is more
activity ahead. A number of prominent local
lumbermen during the past few days have ex-
pressed the view that with Improving business
conditions, as reflected In the steel and Iron
industry and other lines of activity, there is cer-
tain to he Increased demand for hardwood lum-
ber. They have likewise expressed the idea that
there may possibly be some further holding back
on the part of buyers uutll the nominating con-
ventions have been held. After that they de-
clare themselves to be of the opinion that
there will be a return to something approxi-
mating normal conditions as regards hardwood
lumber. Prices are about as erratic as the de-
mand. There is some shading In progress on
plain oak, cypress and ash, but the remainder
of the list appears to be in fairly stationary
position. Production Is being Increased, but, as
has been the case for some months, lumber Inter-
ests are doing their best to prevent an accumu-
lation of hardwood lumber through overproduc-

tion, and they have been decidedly successful
thus far in this effort. Export demand is rather
slow. Occasional orders from that source for
special classes of stock are received, but the gen-
eral call from that quarter is most limited.
Some of the largest exporters here hold the view
that no radical Improvement in the export situa-
tion may he reasonably expected until the con-
signed stock now at foreign ports has been dis-
posed of. Quarter sawn oak is even scarcer
than heretofore, and those who own any of it
.nre able to name their own terms thereon. The
offerings locally are the smallest they have been
for years, and, owing to this scarcity, the de-
mand appears to be even larger than it really
is. Plain oak is In slightly better request, but
prices have suffered to some e-vtent. as already
indicated. Offerings are fairly liberal, but there
is no burdensome surplus. Ash Is moving fairly
well In all thicknesses of the higher grades, but
the lower grades are not much wanted and are
moving slowly. Prices on high grade ash have
suffered somewhat, but the loss in the better
grades has not been as large as In the lower.
There are plentiful offerings of cypress, and sales
are made at concessions from recent prices.
Gum In the lower grades Is better property than
in the higher, judging by the greater demand
for the former than for the latter. The box
factories and a number of miscellaneous sources
are taking considerable quantities of the lower
grades. Cottonwood continues slow In box-
l)oards and firsts and .seconds, both wide and
narrow. The offerings are rather liberal, too.
The lower grades, however, are offering In only
a moderate way, and most of the stock avall-
•able is finding ready purchasers. This Is and
has been for quite a while one of the best sellers
In this market, and prices have been remarkably
well maintained when the weakness In other
directions Is considered. Poplar Is moving In
only a moderate way, but so far as local dealers
are concerned prices are well raalnlalned.

New Orleans.
Conditions have changed very little here dur-
ing the Inst fortnight. The export demand
continues light .and prices which shippers are
getting are far from being satisfactory. The
interior demand on hardwoods continues to hold
up fairly well, but conditions are still somewhat
discouraging. No marked change is looked for
for some time.

Norfolk.

The general tone of the market here Is about
as last detailed. If any change is noticeable
It Is a slight decrease. April exports, so far
during the month, have not been as large as
those of March, and exports are now forming
the greatest portion of the trade here.

The weather throughout this section, as well
as in North Carolina, has been balmy the past
two weeks and favorable for both good logging
and easy milling. Most of the mills operating
are running on full time, and If orders are
scarce lumber Is being piled or kiln dried and
assorted in anticipation of business which la
bound to come. It Is believed, in the near futuro
Irecause of the resumption of spring building
operations and a general stimulation of buy-
ing.

Charlotte.

Despite the effects the panic has had on the
lumber business of this state, the fact that new
lumber concerns are organized and chartered
every few days points to an abiding confidence
among capitalists In the early resumption of
more favorable business conditions. During the
past two weeks business has shown considerable
Improvement. Inquiries are coming in more
freely and manufactories are turning out more
goods. With labor easily obtainable and with
the regular spring revival in business It Is the
opinion of lumbermen that soon a much better
business will be done.

Charlotte Is enjoying a season of unprece-

dented building activity, there being under con-
templation or In course of construction new
buildings to the value of $750,000. and as a re-
sult local manufacturers are busy filling orders
for building materials. Numerous plants that
had to close down several months ago are re-
suming operations now.

However, although prices are better than for
some months and general conditions show signs
of improvement, it is hardly likely that normal
business conditions will he restored for some
weeks, and probably some months, to come.

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San Francisco.

Since the dullness of last fall, caused by the
financial crisis all over the United States, San
Francisco business has been slowly but steadily
improving. Business is today very good, al-
though of course it is not as active as it was a
year ago, when abnormal conditions existed
on account of the enormous activity in rebuild-
ing the city.

The heaviest demand is for oals (principally
quarter-sawed). Most of the large office and
store buildings here call for this wood. Some
are being ordered in jenisero and a few hotels
have been completely finished in interior trim
with red birch. In all this kind of worlc ve-
neers are naturally cut with large figure, and it
has been the tendency of architects to reducv
as much as possible the width and thiclcness
of trim, finding it convenient, satisfactory and
quite attractive to use a great deal of finish
about one-half inch thiclj.

Mahogany is another wood which has had a
great deal of attention : in fact, more so than
before the fire of April, 1906. Some of our
most handsome buildings are finished in this
wood, and, although the eastern lumber is used
principally, the west coast mahogany Is being
more extensively used every day, as It seems
to show figure almost without exception.

The interior trade, which is supplied from
San Francisco, has also been fairly active and
all the dealers are receiving their share of
the business from the interior towns, which
have generally been supplied from local yards.
There seems to be considerable inquiry among
some of our manufacturers for cigar box lum-
ber or Spanish cedar, and also for the imita-
tion which is made from Pacific coast woods.

Minneapolis.

There Is a good demand reported from some
of the factories, but trade Is siill running to
small orders, and the tendency of consumers of
hardwood is to buy only for present needs.
These are somewhat less than usual owing to
the fact that considerable worii is late this
season. Contractors did not put in foundations
last fall to such an extent as usual, owing to
the financial condition and the fear for the fu-
ture. Accordingly there are few buildings com-
ing along this early to the point where they
call for finish. Some local concerns have large
contracts closed, but will not need to fill them
before fall, and being confident that the hard-
wood market will not get any stronger after
the new spring cut Is In shipping condition, they
will not buy till along In the summer to cover
these jobs. There is no contracting or buying
ahead reported.

Oak Is holding up fairly well, northern stocks
being about exhausted and southern offerings not
heavy. Plain oak is selling here at $4j and
$46. There is no strength yet in birch, though
It Is selling about as well as any wood on the
list. It is quotable here at $18 for common and
J28 for first and second clear. There Is a fair
call for upper grades of basswood, but culls are
about out of the market, and little call for them
also. Country demand Is quiet, running mostly
to wagon stock. Flooring is rather slow also.
The outlook for building is not as heavy as last
year, but Is nevertheless good. It should bring
a better hardwood situation by next fall, but
northern hardwood Is not going to be a drug
on this market if reports as to curtailed con-
sumption are all true.

LitUe Bock.

The lumber market continues sluggish. As
one well-known buyer here expressed It, "there
is simply nothing doing." This buyer reports
that he has recently made an extensive round
of the manufacturing centers and finds every-
thing exceedingly dull. This dullness, of course,
reacts on the market for raw material. A car
of lumber which at this date last 5'ear would
have brought $400 was bought for $240.

Still there is the regular round of work among

many of the mills, and it Is Interesting to note
that the hardwood mills are not as much affected
as the others.

Ashland.

Market conditions are gradually improving,
which is very encouraging to lumber manufac-
turers and dealers in this section, and C'ey are
confident this is a sure indication that business
is reinstating Itself in such a manner that is
sure to demand more lumber.

There is no trouble in disposing of quartered
rak and poplar at good prices. The demand
f<ir plain oak continues to increase. Building
operations are picking up somewhat, causing a
demand for the output of the planing mills and
retail yards in hemlock, pine, poplar, oak, etc..
which promises to increase during the next few
months.

Dependence

Jobbers seeking absolutely dependable
columns are sure of satisfaction in our
Solid Bored Colonial Columns. They
will please your trade and can be sold
to them with the guarantee they will
not check, crack or warp.

London.

The market for lumber here seems to get worse
instead of better ; the manufacturing trades are
very slack indeed and this has had Its effect on
prices, especially as consignments have been
heavy, and most of these consignment parcels
are going into store, as agents find that buyers
have heavy stocks and will not make an offer
of any sort. There are of course a few orders
being given to shippers, but these are only on
special lines.

There Is very little demand for whltewood.
and agents have had to drop their prices to sell
even prime stocks that might be held here or
only recently arrived.

Oak boards, one inch and under, have arrived
in large quantities, being mostly No. 1 or No. 2
common grade ; these are difiicnit of sale and
are being stored.

There Is a little better demand for walnut,
especially prime grades and good, medium boards
and planks. Satin walnut should on no account
be shipped. Stocks are large and prices are low.

John N. Penrod of the American Walnut Com-
pany, Kansas City, has returned after a trip on
the continent. lie reports that he finds busi-
ness as bad generally as It is here.

I. U. Williams and Mr. Raschenburg of the
Ferd Brenner Lumber Company, Norfolk, Va..
visited some of the principal buyers of lumber
here recently.

LiverpooL

The mahogany sales this coming week are ex-
pected to bring slightly higher prices owing
mainly to a slackening of the import from the
West Coast. The wood offered is of a prime
description and contains a fair proportion of
panel and board logs. Complaints are still being
heard In numerous directions about the state
of trade, though the general opinion prevails
that business Is going to be better. The volume
of trade has certainly been better in March than
it was in February, but that, of course, is only
what can be expected in the ordinary course of
events. The prevailing opinion is that prices will
have to be lower before we see much Improve-
ment in demand. Already in many directions
there arc signs of a falling market and if ship-
pers want to realize anything approaching pres-
ent values they should ship at once.

nickory Is still In active demand and good
prices are being obtained for prime parcels. In-
ferior wood of course never is wanted and when
poor prices have been paid recently for wood
at this port shippers may rest assured that there
was something wrong with the quality. High
prices have been obtained without any difficulty
for good wood and It is a known fact that many
buyers at this port have not anything approach-
ing the quantity they will need to cover their
requirements. Large ash logs are in quiet de-
mand and shipments in moderation would receive
support. Small second growth wood is still very
flat. Oak and poplar are much as when last
reported, with a weaker tendency, while birch
Is firmer and fresh wood will be soon picked up.
It should be said that buyers are rather nervous
of handling this wood, fearing that the import
is going to be heavy.

Dealers in Columns
are satisfied only when
theyget a Column that
will meet all require-
ments and one that
takes readily with the
trade. Such an article
is our Sohd Bored Co-
lonial Cohimn. This
Column is equally
serviceable in all cli-
mates and weather,
Xorth, South, East
and West ; sleet, snow,
rain, sun, heat, cold
and dampness. There
are no joints to open
lip in either the shaft
or trimmings.

These statements
are facts which are
proven when we sell
our Solid Bored Colo-
nial Columns with
the absolute guaran-
tee against cracking,
checking and warp-
ing.

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JidVertisers* Directory

NORTHERN HAXDW30D8.

Vetter. Frank W 67 Kelley, Maus & Co.

Wagstaff, W. J "■ '" " "

11 Walnut Lumber Company. The ,

■36 Weidman. J. S

|2 Wheeler-Timlin Lumber Co

61 White, W. H., Company

56 Whitmer. Wm.. & Sons, Inc. .. .

58 Wiggin, H. D

' " Willson Bros. Lumber Company

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company.

Alcock. John L.. A Co

American Lumber & Mfg. Company

.\nderson, A. F

Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company

Babcock Lumber Company

Baer, C. S

Bearse, Owen & Son Co • t jlt ^ r.

Beyer Knox 4 Co 67 Wisconsm Land & Lumber Co

Boyne City Lumber Company 62 Wistar, Underhill & Co

BrigES A Cooper. Ltd 63 Yeager, Orson E 6<

Bruckman Lumber Co 57 t>/m»t tt>

Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Co 67 ropi.AB.

CadiUac Handle Company 3 Atlantic Luniber Company 1

Caughey. C. P.. LumW Co; 56 Cameron, ID &. son Co o

Chefi-y River Biomi Lumber Co.... 1 ^our'ney, D. G ,

Cobbs A MltcheU, Inc 3 Cude, W. J.. Land A Lumber Co.. . .

PoIpV Tohn W . . 10 Cypress Lumber Co a-

Creith H C ACo 6 Davidson-Benedict Company 1

Crosby A Beckley Co., The! ■.:::;■.:. 11 Dawklns W. H.. Lumber Company . j

cummer, Diggins A Co 3 l^^'j^^l;^^^^, ^--- - '\

DeUs Lumber A Shingle Co 58 Hayward M. A 4;

Dennis Bros. . . ... •■••■■■■ • 6^ Kentucky Lumber Company 6:

D'HeuT A Swain Lumber Company . 66 ohio River Lumber Co 5;

Dodge. P. G . Lumber Co 64 p ^ jj Lun,ber Co 6.

Dregge, Chas Lumber Co. 62 j^^j ^ „ Lumber Company ... .

Dwight Lumber Company 9 Smouse, Thos. F 1. ,^,^^ ^ „

EUas. G.. A Bro 67 Spangler, Frank Co 54 Neal-Dolph Lurnber Company.

Eatabrook-Skeele Lumber Co 64 Swann-Day Lumber Company 4 Nicola Lumber Company, The

64 Great Lakes Veneer Co 59

Kentucky Lumber Company 65 Hoffman Bros. Co 54

Kirby A Hawkins Lumber Co 10 Holden. H. S. Veneer Co 59

Krebs Lumber Co 55 Louisville Veneer Mills 59

Markley A MiUer.

Langstalf-Orm Mfg. Co..':...". 56 Mfi-'S^ • ^v!?; * ^™- ^'

Lesh A Matthews Lumber Company. 64 W"?,,^' u'^ rVv V RVskoi rA

Licking River Lumber Co 64 raducah.Box A Basket Co.

Litchfield. WiUiam E

Little River Lumber Co

Loevenhart & Co

Long-Knight Lumber Company . .

Louisiana Central Lumber Co

Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Co. .
Love, Boyd A Co

Park Falls Mfg. Co 58

Phila. Veneer A Lumber Company . 58

St. Louis Basket A Box Co 59

Underwood Veneer Co 59

Willey, C. L 1

HAEDWOOD FLOOBING,

Arpin Hardwood Lumber Company. 61

Arthur Hardwood Flooring Co 12

Major S. C. Lumber Co 54 Bruckman Lumber Co

Malev, Thompson A Moffett Co 65 Buffalo Maple Flooring Co., The

Marion Lumber Co.. 65 Carrier Lumber A Mfg. Company. . .

Matthew.s E. D., Lumber Co 64 Cobbs A MitcheU. Inc

Maus. H. H.. A Co.. Inc. 10 Cummer, Diggins A Co

McCauley-Saunders Lumber Co 64 ^^^^^^ g^^g

gy Dwight Lumber Company

57 Eastman, S. L., Flooring Company.

ain, J. Gibson A Co.
McLean. Hugh, Lumber Company.
Mead A Speer Co.

Mengel, C. C, A Bro. Co.

Miller, Anthony.

Forman, Thos.. Company.

Montgomery

Farrin. M. B. Lumber Co 12

Forman Company, Thomas 2

Frank. C.J 66

Freiberg Lumber Company, The 65

General Lumber Co 54

Gibbs, Hall A Allen Co 62 Alcock, John L.. A Co

Gillespie-Reynolds Lumber Co 64 American Hardwood Lumber Co.

Goldie, J. S • . 62 American Lumber A Mfg. Company

Vansant. Kitchen A Co

Walker. J. .S. Lumber Co

Wood, R. E.. Lumber Company. .

Yellow Poplar Lumber Company.

SOUTHEHN HABDWOODB.

Greer - Wilkinson Lumber Co.

68 (;l,i„ Ri

Paducah Box A Basket Co

Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company .

Pardee A Curtin Lumber Co

Pesrt. Nields A McCormick Co. . . .

Perry, W. H.. Lumber Co

Phila. Veneer A Lumber Company.
Powel! Lumber Company

arrtwo.ifif limber Co ^R Kerry A Hanson Flooring Company. 63

ardwood Lumber Co. 58 ^i^^^^^^^ Planing Mill C6 ... 62

Mitchell Bros. Company 3

Nashville Hardwood Flooring Co. . .

Nichols A Cox Lumber Company. . . 63

Robbins Lumber Co 61

Stephenson, The I., Company 12

Ward Bros 12

White, W. H., Company 4

- ~ " 12

Hackley-Phelps-BonneU Co 63 Atlantic Lumber Company.

Anderson-Tully Company : 60 Pratt. Worthington Co.

Ransom, J. B.. A Co.

Wood Mosaic Flooring Company.
SAW HILI. hacehteby.
Garland, M., Company

Henderson Lumber Co

Hoffman Bros. Co

Hoyt, C. I.. A Co

Indiana Quartered Oak Company

Ingram Lumber Company

Jones, G. W. Lumber Company .

Kelley, Maus A Co

Kirbv A Hawkins Lumber Co. . .

Kneeland-Bigelow Company

Lesh A Matthews Lumber Company . 64 rameron

Litchfield, WiUiam E 11 cart J M

Long-Knight Lumber Company 66 Canler Lumber

Maisey .s uion Case-Fowler Lumber Co,

Maley, Thompson A Moffett Co 65 Caughey, C. P., Lumber Co 56

Maus. H. H. A Co.. Inc 10 Cherry River Boom A Lumber Co .. . 1

McCormlck-Hay Lumber Co 62 Clearfield Lumber Co. (Inc.) 5

Mcllvain, J. Gibson A Co 2 Coles, John W 10

McLean Hugh. Lumber Company. . 67 Courtney, D. G 7

McMillan W. E., A Co 57 Crelth, H. C, A Co 6

Mead A Speer Co 57 Crosby A Beckley Company The. . . 11

Miller, Anthony 67 Cude, W. J., Land A Lumber Co. . .

Mitchell Bros. Company 3 Cypre-ss Lumbe;

Reed w'm.' A."." '.'.'... 10 General Electric Co.

S4 Baflev "^w" H " A 'co 55 Rrg'hter-Parfy Lumber Co. ........ 10 Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Co. ... . 52

66 Bavou'Land A Lumb4f Co' 65 Killer, C, L. Lumber (^o 55 Mersh9n. W. B., A Co 53

„ It^nettHardwi^oTLSmb^rCo::::: m Ritter. W. M.. Lumber Company. . . 5 Phoenix Manufacturing Company. .. 52

Ri Bennett A Witte 65 Robertson-Fooshe Lumber Co 60 Slnker-Davis Co 49

9 Beyer Knox A Co 67 Romiiic. J. W., Lumber Co 55 WOODWORKING MACHKHET.

-■, Brenner Fcrd.. Lumber Co 54 Roy Lumber Co 55 Berlin Machine Works, The

6* Briggs A Cooper Co., Ltd 63 Scatcherd A Son 67 Cadillac Machine Co 52

10 Brown. Geo. C., A Co 62 Samuel H. Shearer A Son Crescent Machine Co., The 50

Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Co 67 Sicklesteel Lumber Co 62 Crown Iron Works 50

A Son Co 54 SUmmer. F., A Co 64 Defiance Machine Works, The 49

LumberCo 56 Smith, A. B. Lumber Co 58 Fav. J A., A Egan

ser AMfg Compatiy ' 12 Smith. Gouveneur E 11 Klfne. Lewis T. .

Lumber Co '^^" ■ ■ fi Smith. Payson Lumber Co 10 Mershon, W. B. 4 <

_. .B.ACo ~

Smouse, thos. F 11 Nash, J. M

Southern Hardwood Lumber Co 60 Sinker-Davis Company 49

Spangler, Frank Co 54 Smith, H. B., Machine Company 51

Standard Hardwood Lumber Co. .. . 67 Woods, S. A., Machine Company ... 51

Stevens A Jarvis Lumber Co 61 looomo MAmrvFRT-

Stewart. I. N., A Bro 67 LOOOnJO KACHQfERT.

Stimson. J. V 66 Bodley Wagon Co.

Stone. T. B., Lumber Company 65 Clyde Iron Works..

SulUvan. T., A Co.
Sun Lumber Co.

Nicola Lumber Company. The.

North Shcre Lumber Company 62 ei Dorado Hardwood A Mfg.'

Tavlor-Brown Timber Co.
Thompson. J. W.. Lumber Co..
Three States Lumber Company.

EUas. O.. A Bro.
Estabrook-Skeel'j Lumber Co. . .

Farber. G. A

Farrin- Korn Lumber Company.

^^^^^^^::.y.:::::::v. 'I B«?^St.S^'&pany: 6^ !?[^??^^;?^"^---- 1 ^^r~ * :'°""^'^^°^

DRY KIUIB AND BL0WES8.

T„r«h T ..,.,i,or Or. " ifi GordoH HoUow Blast Grate Co

«4 ^rner'-rMt.Lum-ber- Company.- .•: 5? S^!? * J1--

64 VettT. Frank W

60 Widk... ,1 .< , l.iin.h.r Co

65 Walnut Lumber Company, The.
12 Whilmtr, Wm., A Sons., Inc. . .

Faust Bros. Lumber Co 56 Williams, c. H

Fleck, Paul W. Lumber Co 10 WlUev. C. L

Florence Pump A Lumber Company

Frank. C. J

Freiberg Lumber Company. The. . ..

Garetson-Greason Lumber Company. 54 Wood Mosaic Fl'g. 4 Lbr. Co.

Gayoso Lumber Company ™^""'' " ^ i..mwr„mn»,

General Lumber Co

Gilchrist. Fordney Co _ _

GiUesple-Reynolds Co 64 Anderson-TuUy Company

Goodlander-Robertson Co 2 Bennett A Witte 65

Grcer-Wilklnson LumberCo 66 Farrln-Korn Lumber Company 65

■ - - 6 Gilchrist. Fordney Co

63 Hlmmelberger-Harrlson Lumber Co. 1

Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 68

Perrine-Armstrong Company. . .

PoweU-Lumber Co

Reed. Wm. A 10 Farrin. M. B. Lumber Co

Rib Lake Lumber Co i....... t3-„„ r >,„>/-.„

Rlghter-Parry Lumber Co

Roy Lumber Co

Saulng-Hansion Company

Bawyer-Goodman Company. . . .

Bcatche rd A Son

Shearer' Samuel H.. A Son

Sicklesteel Lumber Company . .

summer. F. A Co

Smith, Gouverneur E

Smith, Payson Lumber Co

Soble Bros

Standard Hardwood Lumber Co 67 Haas. Albert Lumber Company. . .

Stephenson, The I., Company 12 Hackley-Phelps-BonneU Company

■ * ' " "■ Hajrward, M. A

Phila. TextUe Mchy. Co 50

SAWS, KNIVES AND SUPPLIES.

Atkins, E. C. A Co 53

Crown Iron Works

Michigan Saw Co 53

LUMBER nreUBAKCE.

Willson Bros. Lumber Company 57

Wood Lumber Co 55 Adirondack Fire Insurance Co

Lee Wilson A Co. 60 Lumber Insurance Company of New

Wood Mosaic Fl'g. 4 Lbr. Co 8 York

Wood. R. E., Lumber Company.

Yeager. Orson E

COTTONWOOD AND OUM

Lumber Underwriters 12

Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Mutual

Fire Insurance Company

Rankin. Harry. A Co 44

MISCELLANZOTrB.

Stevens 4 iarvis Lumber Co,

Stewart. I. N., 4 Bro 67

Stimson. J. V 66

Stone. T. B.. Lumber Company. .

SuUlran. T.. ACo

Tegge Lumber Co

Tomb Lumber Co

Turner. A. M., Lumber Company

I!.- _

Hlmmelberger-Harrlson Lumber Co.

65 Hoyt. C. I.. A Co

Hyde Lumber Company^

Bayou Land A Lumber Co 65

Chdds, 8. D.. A Co 42

General Electric Co 9

Hoad A Beers 9

International Audit Co 12

Lacey, James D., A Co 6

Lumbermen's Credit.

Paepcke-Leicht Lumber Company

1 Three States Lumber Company,
66 VENEEB8.

60 CadlUac Veneer Company 58 Memphis Column Co 43

11 Chicago Veneer Co 59 Schenck, C. A.. A Co 56

■ ^ Gorham Bros. Co 58 TuUer Hotel 42

65 Goshen Veneer Co 59 Ward, David. Estate of 7

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HARDWOOD RECORD

WanMaMWale

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EMPLOYEES WANTED

SALESMAN WANTED.

HAEDWOOD SALESMAN.

High-class salesman for middle west and
east by one of the largest manufacturing
houses in the country. State age. experience
and what vou can do with good support. Ad-
dress "W..'' care Hakdwood Record.

EMPLOYMENT WANTED

HIGH-CLASS MAN
Wants position as buyer and Inspector In
South or southern manager for northern con-
cern. Best Chicago and Memphis references.
Address

"BOX 232." care II.\nDwooD Record.

LUMBER WANTED

ELM AND COTTONWOOD STAVES

Wanted. %" thicli x 4" wide, with %" Joint.
Also heading, %" thick x 17 Vi" and 20%",
beveled.

JAMES KENNEDY & CO.. LTD.,

Cincinnati, O.

CLEAS BED GUM SQUAKES WANTED.

All red. 2"x2"x27" and 28", and 2V4"x2Vi",
and 2y."x2^"x26"4".

JAMES KKNNEDY & CO.. LTD.,

Cincinnati, 0.

WHITE ASH OAES WANTED.

Wanted — Large lot of White Ash Oars. F
further particulars address

G. ELIAS & BRO.,

Buiralo, N. T.

WANTED— HAEDWOOD LOGS.

OAK WANTED.

3 and 4 Inch White Oak; also Mixed Oak;
also 12x12 Timbers and Piling ot ail kinds.
CONTINENTAL LL'MBER CO.,
1213 Monadnotk BlUg., Chicago, 111.

LUMBER FOR SALE

100,000 feet extra good lot of dry cypress,
■om 4/4 to 8/4 thick.

E. DUNSTAN, Winona, Miss.

FOR SALE.

2,000,000 feet dry gum.
500,000 feet dry 1" white oak No. 2 and
No. 3 common.

1,000,000 feet 2" white oak common bridge
plank, also timbers.
Write for prices.

BLUFF CITY LUMBER CO.,

Pine Bins, Ark.

WALNUT AND HARDWOOD LUMBER.

specialty. Also walnut

E. H. FALL. Port Clinton, O.

FOE SALE BY BEECHER & BAEE,
POTTSVIT.T.F., PA.

WHITE PINE.

4/4 Shaky Clear 28,100 ft.

4/4 .\o. 2 Cuts 77,100 ft.

4/4 No. 3 Barn, 10" 43,000 ft.

4/4 Box, Edge 200,000 ft.

4/4 Box, 6" 30,000 ft.

4/4 Box, 8" 30,000 ft.

4/4 Box. 10" 134,000 ft

4/4 Box, 13" and up 49,900 ft.

4 4 No. 2 Box 2.-..770 ft.

4/4 Scoots 58,900 ft.

5/4 No. 2 Cuts 32,000ft.

-1 4 No. 3 Cuts 28,000 ft.

8/4 No. 3 CuU 23,000 ft.

FOPLAB.

5/8 No. 2 Common 51,000 ft.

4/4 No. 2 Common 326,800 ft.

4/4 No. 2 Common, 4" 23.400 ft.

4/4 No. 3 Common 233,150 ft.

CHESTKUT.

4/4 No. 2 Common.'. 964,000 ft.

4/4 No. 3 Common 780.000 ft.

5/4 No. 2 Common 02,175 ft.

0/4 No. 2 Common 44,300 ft.

8/4 No. 2 Common 66,150 ft.

OAK.

4/4 Qtd. Is and 23 23,600 ft

4 4 Qtd. No. 2 Common and

4/4 I'l. No. 2 Common 732.000 ft.

4/4 Plain Is and 2s 182,000 ft

4/4 I'laln No. 1 Common 39.000 ft

4/4 Plain No. 3 Common 405.000 ft.

4/4 Plain No. 1 Common White 55.600 ft.

4/4 Hardwood Scoots 209,550 ft

UAPLE.

4/4 No. 2 Common 104,500 ft

4/4 No. 3 Common 22,000 ft

8TANDABD HEMLOCK.

li 8—12 to 16' 119.400ft.

1x10—12 to 16' 67,500 ft

2x 4 — 20' 72.000 ft.

2x12—20' 40,040 ft

NO. 2 HEMLOCK.

li B_10 to 16' 2S3,n00 ft.

Ix 8 — 10 to 10' 291.1100 ft.

1x10—10 to 16' 3.-i7.n00ft.

1x12—10 to 16' 7-S.O(iO ft.

4/4 Scoots 365,000 ft.

LATH.

4 ft Chestnut 482,350 pes.

4 ft Hemlock 521,250 pes.

4 ft. White Pine :',;!0.(;on pes.

4 ft. Poplar r.;ir,,;i,-,o jh-s.

TIMBER LANDS FOR SALE

HICKORY TIMBER LAND.

l.noo acro>j lin.^sf ili.-liorT tract in Missis-
sippi. Some White Oak. Eight miles from
station in Madison county. Mississippi. Good
road to station. Lies In a body. Will sell for
$10 per acre. A. H. CAUTHEN.

Canton, Miss.

FOE SALE.

100,000-acre tract, 850,000,000 feet Best
In South. Yellow pine and hardwood.

AARON GRAHAM, Chrlstlansburg, Va.

TIMBEE LANDS.

I own some good timber land for sale, and
want more from owners. Want some large
tracts, stumpage only.

AARON GRAHAM, Chrlstlansburg. Va.

RAILWAY EQUIPMENT

LOCOMOTIVES FOR SALE.
Narrow or standard gauge from 7 tens to 70
3ns ; over 165 locomotives of varions types at

SOUTHERN IRON & EQUIPMENT CO.,

Atlanta, fia.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

FOR SALE.

Woodworking plant In western Wisconsin on
W. C. R. R., with 15 acres of ground, build-
ings rebuilt in 1907. 40,000 sq. ft. floor space.
Two 120 h. p. tubular boilers, with Dutch
ovens and stack. A quick buyer will get a
bargain. For detailed Information address
E. J. BARRETT, Sheboygan, Wis.

WANT TO CONTEACT
The cut of our new band mill, sawing prin-
cipally Oak and Poplar — 2 million ft. of choice
hardwood logs now at mill. Address

THE KENTFOKY SAW MILL CO..

Hays. Breathitt County. Ky.

MISCELLANEOUS

FUEL WOOD WANTED.

We are in the market at nil times for fuel
hardwood In lengths of 24". 30" and 36". Must
be dry. ALWAUT BROS. COAL CO.,

1G5 W. Webster Ave., Chicago, 111.

Locations

Saw Mills
Furniture Plants
Handle Factories

Dimension and Wagon .Material

Timber Lands on Lines of the

Illinois Central

AND

Yazoo & Mississippi
Valley Railroads

For Full Inforiiuition .-Vcldrc-JS

J, C. Clair,

Industrial Commissioner

1 Park Row,

Chicago

HARDWOOD RECORD

Who Buys Hardwoods?

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?

NEW JERSEY. CAMDEN: New York Shipbuilding Company ; address purchas-
ing agent: 150,000 feet, all thicknesses, principally firsts and seconds white
anh : 100,000 feet principally 1", IVt". IV-" flrats and seconds basswood :
."lO.ooo f^et all thlcknot'SfS llrsts and second^ cherrv ; l.l.UOO feet 1" and
1 i/j" firsts and seconds chestnut : :ir.,000 feet firsts and seconds elm ; 1 50.000
feet iill thicknesses firsts and seconds and some fine common mahogany :
1SO,000 feet all thicknesses firsts and seconds plain white oak: 200.000
feet all thicknesses principally' firsts and seconds quartered while oak:
.''lO.OlX) feel all thicknesses principally firsts and seconds sycamore : 50,(|00
feet 1" and 1 M:" firsts and seconds poplar: some hickory "and locust. Di-
mension stock : Teakwood, 500,000 feet all sizes, in logs and flitches.

SPECIMEN INDEX CARD

SOUTH DAKOTA

Key

Ash

Hickory

Basswood

Mahogany

Beech

Maple

Birch

Oak

Butternut

Walnut

Cherry

Poplar

Chestnut

Miscellaneous including |

Cottonwood

Dogwood, 1-

oily. Locust.

Cypress

Persimmon

Sycamore.

Elm

Dimension

stock

Gum

Veneers and panel stock

SPECIMEN STATE GUIDE CARD

The Hardwood Record
Supplies free of charge to
its lumber advertisers a
bulletin service showing
the annual requirements
of lumber, dimension
stock, veneers and panels
of wholesale consumers of
those materials through-
out the United States and
Canada. Specifically, the
items of the bulletins re-
cite:

Name of state and town

Name of concern

Name of buyer

Line manufactured

Kinds, grades and thick-
nesses of lumber

Kinds and sizes of dimen-
sion stock

Kinds and thicknesses of
veneers

Kinds, thicknesses and
sizes of panels

The paragraphs are cut
from the bulletins and
pasted on patent cards,
the numbered tabs cor-
responding to the kinds
of lumber not used are
removed, and the cards
are filed in alphabetical
order by towns between
state guide cards. No
house not in good com-
mercial repute is listed.
The card index thus
formed, which requires
but about an hour's work
by a clerk once a week,
forms a complete and

quick reference roster of the hardwood requirements of the country, and is an invaluable adjunct
to the sales department of every manufacturer and jobber. This service is free to all advertis-
ers, save the cards, the cost of which is nominal. The Record system is now used by more
than 150 manufacturers and jobbers. Let us put you next to a good thing.

HARDWOOD RECORD. Chicago

HARDWOOD RECORD

A HARDWOOD SURFACER

No. 156 Special Hardwood Surfaccr.

In surfacing hardwoods for cabinet and fine
interior work, j'ou need a planer that will give
your stock a surface perfectly smooth and free
from knife marks. You don't want an ordinary
machine, you want the best you can find.

Take a Fay & Egan No. 156 Cabinet Smooth-
ing Planer, with its table raising and lowering on
wedges, with its Patent Sectional Clamp Bear-
ings, and you can rest assured of satisfactory
results.

Write for Descriptive Circular, also Samples
Work it Does, and You'll be Surprised.

J. A. FAY a EGAN CO.

414-434 W. Front Street.

CINCINNATI,

OHIO.

"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 J175.00.

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

Write for Full Description.

The Sinker-Davis Co,

Manufacturers of

SAW MILL MACHINERY

Indianapolis, Ind.

HARDWOOD RECORD

No. 0. Copying Lathe

For turning Axe Handles and other

irregular shapes.
.Most perfect Machine on the Market.

"DEFIANCE"

WOOD-WORKING
MACHINERY

FOR AUKINQ

Hubs, Spokes, Wheels, Wagons, Carriages, Rims
Shafts, Poles, Neck -Yokes. Single-Trees,
Hoops, Handles of all Kinds, Spools, Bobbins,
Insulator Pins and Oval Wood Dishes.

INVENTED AND BUILT

The Defiance MacKine Works
DefiaLAce, Ohio

Automatic Long Handle Lathe

D Handle Stems and Pike ^oles,
Curtain Poles and similar work.
Will turn 8000 Broom Handles in

If you wfant to reach the wholesale consumers of hardwood lumber throughout the United States, a
Hardwood Record advertisement will do it for you.

If you want to reach the hardwood manufacturers of the United States, a HARDWOOD RECORD
advertisement will do it for you.

The Hardwood Record represents high-class, special, class circulation, with a minimum
of waste circulation.

Ask any HARDWOOD RECORD advertiser for experience on results.

An Open Letter to the Lumber Trade

Detroit, Mich., April 16, '08.

GENTLEMEN

In times like the present when it is difficult
to make money, is not the question of saving it
of even greater than usual interest?

Russel Logging Machinery reduces cost of
operating when in commission; it requires NO
feed when out of commission.

May we tell you more?

Russel Wheel & Foundry Co., Detroit, Mich,

HARDWOOD RECORD

CRESCENT WOOD
WORKING MACHINERY

Will Help \ou Earn More Money.

Built to stand the strain of the most severe planing mill and cabinet
shop service. Has four changes of feed and will do rapid surfacing or
cabinet smoothing. Send for Catalog describing Planers, Band
Saws, Jointers, Saw^ Tables, Swing Saws, Shapers, Disk Grinders.

THE CRESCENT MACHINE COMPANY

21 Columbia St. LEETOXI.\, OHIO, V. S A.

LIDGERWOOD LOGGERS

WILL STOCK YOUR MILL

SKIDDERS
SNAKERS
YARDERS

LOADERS
PULL BOATS
CABLEWAYS

LIDGERWOOD MFG, CO.

96 Liberty St., New York.

Logging Machinery Branch Houses: ATI. ASIA. G\., SIIATTI.II, WASH.
Agency; Woodward, Wight &. Co.,Lld.,.Ne» Urleans, La.

VENEER DRYER

Proctor System" Automatic Girt
Conveyor Type

^0 ROLLS TO JAM.

NO APRONS TO ADJUST.

Dries quarter inch better than Roller Dryer.
Dries fortieth inch better than .\pron Dryer.
SEND FOR NEW CATALOG AND LOT OF REFERENCES.
AH good points in other Dryers embraced
All troublesome features In other Dryers eliminated.

THE PHILADELPHIA TEXTILE
MACHINE.RY CO.

HciLrvcock £i Somerset Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.

HARDWOOD RECORD

SMITH of

SMITHVILLE

I New Profit Builder) | ^"^ Jv?,,g ^ |

No. IJ3-A. SEVEN INCH. FOl R SIDE HARDWOOD MOULDER

jjARDWOOD manufacturers are constantly demanding machine tools of a more
sturdy character. Many attempts have been made by machine builders to meet
this need, resulting in added complications, with ver\' slight improvements.
We have, however, developed a moulding sticker of the 7-inch type that is both sturdy
and simple, a machine that contains all of the elements of a very heavy large size
moulder, yet it is only a seven-inch machine. \\'rite us today for a special circular.

Branches:

NEW YORK, CHICAGO

and ATLANTA

B. Smith Machine C

S/V\|-rH\/ILLE. P»J. J.. IJ. S. M.

Branches:

NEW YORK, CHICAGO

and ATLANTA

No. 107

Inside
Moulder

Built to work J 2 or
J 5 inches wide by
6 inches thick.
Foot or Five Heads.

^niV\F OF IT^ nilAI ITIF^ • Patent side wing, self-oiling, self-adjusting clamp boxes; patent belt -releasing device
oUlTlC yjr I I O VfUrtLI I lEo . fgj. matchers, vertical adjustment of side spindles from above frame while machine is
running ; patent pin setting guide adjustable across bed of machine at intervals of one inch. Ample provision for projection of knives
to permit of making deepest cuts and means for quickly adjusting bars and other parts to conform to the work of a planer and
matcher. A combined Moulder, Planer and Matcher with the advantages of both machines.

Specialists in Floorers, Planers and Moulders

S. A. WOODS MACHINE CO., BOSTON

CHICAGO
811 Railway Exchange

JACKSONVILLE

JHREVEPORT

SEATTLE
Lumber Exchange

HARDWOOD RECORD

The WHITE
Saw Swages

AR.E BEST

Our Catalogue "B"
fully describes and
ILLUSTRATES
them all. W'e will
be pleased to send
you one.

PHOENIX MFG. CO.

EAU CLAIRE, WIS.

Kline's Eight-Block Excelsior Machines

1st. To Install on Capacity Basis
and. To Operate on Labor Basis
3rd. To Operate on Wood Basis

Catalog tells reason why. Mailed on request.

Manufactured by LEWIS T. KLINE, Aipena, Mich.

The Market is Demanding^

more and more,

Lumber of Standard Lengths, with Square Ends,

as well as straight and paratlel edges.

The "Tower" One=Man 2=Saw Trimmer

In all other trimmers the manner of shifting the saws is such|that
every time the position of the saws is changed the operator has to go
clear to the end of the machine.

In the "TOWER" one-man 2-saw Trimmer he never has to go
beyond the end of the board.

Especially with short boards, this means a great saving 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 be.st advantage from the end of the
board than from the end of the machine.

In all of the.sc trimmers there are two feeds, which may be instantlv
started, stopped or changed, without .stopping the saws. Both are con-
trolled by the same lever, which is located in the most convenient
[lossible position.

The Gordon
Hollow Blast Grate Co.

Greenville, - . . . Michigan

ne targest manufacturer of Grates, Edgers and

Trimmers in t/ie world.

BUTTING SAW

Jor

Flooring Fa.ctories

For cutting out defects and making square and
smooth ends for cnd=matching machines. Used by
the largest producers. W rite for particulars and prices.

Manvifactvjrod by

Ca^dilldi.c Machine Co.

CADILLAC, MICH.

HARDWOOD RECORD

FINEST

EARTH

IT MEANS MONEY TO YOU.

I ATKINS
,^ ALWAYS
}

AHEAD

BETTER LUMBER AND MORE OF IT

ATKINS Sl« saws

THE STURDY- TRUSTY— QUALITY LINE OF THE WORLD

E. C. ATKINS & CO., inc.

Canadian Factory

HAMILTON. ONTARIO

THE SILVER STEEL SAW PEOPLE
BRANCHES:

Home Offic« and Factory

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

ATLANTA CHICAGO MEMPHIS MINNEAPOLIS

NEW ORLEANS NEW YORK PORTLAND, ORE. SAN FRANCiSCO SEATTLE

MERSHON

BAND-RESAW SPECIALISTS

25 MODELS

ADAPTED TO
EVERY REQUIREMENT

Wm. B. Mershon & Co., Saginaw, Mich.. U.S.A.

Michigan Logging Wheels

Wc Manufacture Z^'Z^^ Circular Saws

Also Dealers in

Saw Swages and

General Saw

Mill Supplies

Write for
our new Catalog
and Discounts

Michigan Saw Co. 'S^ Saginaw, Mich.

W. H. PRESSER & SONS, Proprietors

HARDWOOD RECORD

DO NOT SEND US ANY ORDERS FOR
DRY GOODS

WHAT WE HANDLE IS

DRY HARDWOODS

FOR DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN MARKETS

The Ferd. Brenner Lumber Co.

NORFOLK, VIRGINIA

The General Lumber Co.

. c t u r e rs

Yellow Pine, White Pine
Hemlock and Hardwoods

COLUMBUS, OHIO

Hoffman Bros. Company

FORT WAYNE. INDIANA

And Branch MiMs

QUARTERED OAK. POPLAR

And Other Hardwood Lumber

Mahogany, Quartered Oak and Other Veneers

Slice Cut and Sawn

ESTABLISHED 1883

THE CYPRESS LUMBER CO.

APALACHICOLA, FLA.

MAMi A(Tri;i:K.s ok

CYPRESS

ASH

COTTONWOOD

LUMBER

POPLAR

SWEET GUM

\ ELLOW PINE

I8-in Cypress Shingles, Cypress Tanks. Flooring,
Ceiling," Siding, Moulding and Interior Finish.

MILLS AND OFFICE:
Apalachicola, Fla.

BOSTON OFFICE:
88 Broad Street

THE BUFFALO MBPLE FLOORING CO.

MICHIGAN ROCK MtPlE AND M FUORING

American Hardwood Lumber Co.

ST. LOUIS, MO.
14,000,000 ft. Hardwood Lumber

YJROS »T BENTOH. ARK.- HEW ORLEANS. U.- ST. LOUIS. MO.- DICKSON. TENII.

S. C. MAJOR LUMBER COMPANY

WHOLESALE

SoutHern Hardvi/oods

MEMPHIS, TENN.

THE J. D. CAMERON &. SON COMPANY

CYPRESS, BAY POPLAR and other HARDWOOD LUMBER

PLANING MILL FACILITIES

mills: mobile, ala.

The Frank Spangler Co.

lOLEDO

OHIO

POPLAR, OAK, GUM and ASH

OUR SPECIALTIES

CYPRESS, BAY POPLAR
and YELLOW PINE

Shipments Direct from Mills

Write for Prices

Garetson-Greason Lumber Co.

loot I0J5 Times Building
ST. LOUIS

Manufacturers of and De

ASH, OAK, GUM AND CYPRESS

LUMBER

SPECIAL STOCK CUT TO ORDER

HARDWOOD RECORD

WEST VIRGINIA

LEADING HARDWOOD PRODUCERS

THE WOOD LUMBER CO,

"■«trj,7;"- HARDWOOD LUMBER

Oak, Paplar, Chastnut and Basswood Our SpaeUltlaa. We Selloll
Your Inqulrlaa and Orders.

HUNTINGTON, W. V o. .

TAYLOR=BROWN TIMBER COMPANY

HLNTINQTON, W. VA.

LUMBER, TIMBERS AND TIES

C. H. WILLIAMS

HAZELWOOD, W. VA.

Manufacturer o(

Would be pleased to have
your inquiries.

ROMINE

LUMBER

CO.

MANUFACTURERS
WHOLESALE LUMBER

Rooms 46^8^0 Citizeas Bank Build

PR. PARKERSBLRQ

W. VA.

C. L. RITTER LUMBER CO.

AVOCA, W. VA.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Hardwood Lumber and
Dimension Stock

Telegraph )

FrS; """^'^ CLAY, VV. VA.

KR.EBS LUMBER COM PA NY

MANUrACTOUIS AND WHOLESALEIS CLAIBSBURC, W. VA.

Have for sale at all timt's desirable stocks

of all kinds of West Virrinia Hardwoods.

SPECIALLY: Stund Wormy Cheslnnl — Common tod Seller Cbeiliul —

Common end Seller Oak and Common Oak.

FURNITURE AND CRATING LUMBER

THE OHIO RIVER LUMBER CO.

POPLAR AND HARDWOODS

BOUGH AND DRESSED

^^■J^di^^a^alty. I RONTON. OHIO

THE ROY LUMBER CO.

NICHOLASVILLE, KY.

Poplar :: Oalc :: Chestnut

High Grade, Well Manufactured Stock.

J. S. Walker Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

West Virginia Hardwoods

O'Keeffe, W. Va.

We offer for sale the followinR:
200 M ft. 4/4" Us and 2s Plain Oak.
300 M ft. 4/4» No. 1 Common Plain Oak.

150 M ft. 4/4' No. 2 Common Plain Oak. „ „ . „,

100 M ft. 4/4' No. 1 Common, Saps and Selects Poplar (50% S&S)
150 M ft. 4/4' S. W. Chestnut.
50 M ft. 6/4' S. W. Chestnut.
75 M ft. 4. 6/4" Common and Better Chestnut.
6 M ft. 4/4' LoE Run Ash.

6 M ft. 6/4' Log Run A.sh. ^ , ^ ^ ^

This stock is band sawed, drv, good widths and lengths. Send us

THE SLN LUMBER COMPANY

MANUF.\CTURERS OF

Rough and Dressed Lumber

WESTON WEST VIRQIMA

\A/. H. B /^ I L E V & CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS

West Virginia Hardwood Lumber

Oak Dimension Stock a Specialty QRAFTON. W. VA

PARDEE & CURTIN
LUMBER CO.

CLARKSBURG, W. VA.

MAOufacturen of

West Virginia Hardwoods

S6 HARDWOOD RECORD

r^ 1 T* HP C? TZ> ¥ T 1"^ ^'^ ll

F^II IStSLJrcCi

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF PENNSYLVANIA 1

HENDERSON LUMBER CO.

Commonwealth Bldg.
PITTSBURG, PA.

HARD\A/OODS

MINE LUMBER
a Specialty.

For Sale Now
800,000 ft. 4 and 8-4 Oak

For Shipment on Grade

4 and 6-4 S.W. Chestnut

4-4 Log Run Ash

STOCK LIST

9 cars 4/4 White Pine Box Boards 3 cars 2x6-10 Hemlock

2 " 2x4-12 Hemlock 3 " 2x6-12

6 " 2x4-14 " 5 " 2x6-14

6 " 2x4-20 " 2 " lxl2-10SlS"

BABCOCK LUMBER COMPANY

ASHTOLA. PA.

rOR SALE

250,000 ft. 4/4, 5/4, 6/4 and 8/4 Log Run, mill culls

out, maple.
300,000 ft. 4/4, 5/4, 6/4 and 8/4 Log run, mill culls

out, birch.
160,000 ft. 4/4, 5/4, 6/4 and 8/4 Log run, mill culls

out, beech.
200,000 ft. 4/4, No. 1 common plain white and red oak.
300,000 ft. 4/4, No. 2 common plain white and red oak.
400,000 ft. 4/4, 5/4, 6/4 and S/4 sound wormy chestnut.
100,000 ft. 1x18" and up Panel and No. 1, Cottonwood.
150,000 ft. Lxl3" to 17" box boards, Cottonwood.
60,000 ft. 1x8" to 12" box boards, Cottonwood.
110,000 ft. 1x13" to 17" Ists and 2nds, Cottonwood.
140,000 ft. 1x13" to 17", No. 1 Common, Cottonwood.
170,000 ft. 1x6" to 12" 1st and 2nds, Cottonwood,
240,000 ft. l.\4" to 12", No. 1 Common, Cottonwood.
260,000 ft. 1x4" and up. No. 2 Common, Cottonwood.

American Lumber & Mfg. Co.

Pittsburg. Pa..

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.

C. A. Schenck ^ Co, CftfSi

C. P. CAUGHEY LUMBER CO.

Publication BIdtf., PITTSBURG, PA.

Oak and Yellow Pine Bills Cut to Order.

50.\I 4-4 Maple, L. R. M. C. O. 50M 4-6-8 and 12-4—1 and 2

200M 8-4 '' " " " " " Plain Sawed White Oak.

I 50M 8-4 Mill Cull Hardwoods. lOOM 8-4 6" and up 2d growth

30M 8-4 Oak Mill Culls. White Pine.

50M 4-4 S. W. Chestnut. 200.M 2" Yellow Pine, 6" to 12-.

Hickory Wagon Stock.

Mine L\jmber,' Ties and Ralls.

Yellow Pine Hea.ding and Staves.

PROMPT SHIPMENTS. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

FAUST BROS. LUMBER CO.

PADUCAH, KY.

Poplar and Oak

We want to move at once

1 car 1 inch 1st and 2nds Quartei

1 car 1 inch Los Run Beech.

2 cars 1 inch Mill CuU Poplar.

Please write us for delivered

J. M. CARD LUMBER COMPANY

CHATTANOOGA, TENN.

Manufacturers, Wholesalers, Exporters

OAK— POPLAR— ASH— GUM— DIMENSION STOCK AND

OTHER HARDWOOD LUMBER

LANGSTAFF-ORM MFG. CO,

Long White Oak Timbers up to 55 Feet
Oak, Gum and Hickory Yard Stock

PADUCAH. KENTVCKY

HARDWOODRECORD 57

r^ I nr* t* ^ t^ i t i-^ ^'^

1 F*lllSL3lJRCi| 1

HARDWOOD DISTRIBUTING CENTER OF PENNSYLVANIA '

THE NICOLA
LUMBER CO.

Hardwoods, Hemlock, Pine, Cottonwood and

Gum. All Grades for Quick Shipment.

Kindly send in your inquiries.

w. E. McMillan co.

NCORPORAII

Manufacturers— Exporters-
Wholesalers

Yellow Pine and Hardwoods

Cincinnati, Ohio

Willson Bros. Lumber Co.

MANUFACTURERS

WEST VIRGINIA
HARDWOODS

FARMERS BANK BLDG. b PITTSBURG, PA.

Mead & Speer Company

PITTSBURG, PA.

Oak, Poplar and Hardwoods
Car Stock and R. R. Timbers

^....^ ( JENNINGS. W. VA.
nii.L3 ^ CATLETTSBURG, KY.

A. M. Turner Lumber Co.

UNIOIN BANK BUILDING

PITTSBURGH, PA.

QUARTERED OAK

YELLOW PINE

And Everything in Lumber

Bruckman Lumber Co.
Allegheny, Pa.

Largest and best assorted stock
of Dry Hardwoods in Western
Pennsylvania.

Maple and Oak Flooring a Specialty

BoDLEY Wagon Company '^^'^sm^

(ESTABUSHED 1832)

Thl3 cart is conceded
the lightest running ci
the marlcet

LOO WAGON

COTTON WAOONS, CANE WAGONS, TURPENTINE WAGONS LOG WAGONS, CANE

CARTS FOR OXEN ANp_MllLES._BAQASSE CARTS, LIGHT CARTS^ LOG

LUMBER BUGGV

HARDWOOD RECORD

VENEER:

MANUFACTVRERS

1 LEADING

OF THE U. S. 1

BUILT-UP PANELS

We can furnish you 2, 3, or 5-Ply Panels in Quartered Oak, Mahogany, Plain Oak, Ash, E\^'
Birch, Maple or Basswood, and guarantee same in every respect. We use high-grade Glue in our
work, and our Veneers are thoroughly dry and our Machinery up-to-date.

We manufacture high-class Panels for Commode and Dresser tops. Commode and Dresser
end Panels, Drawer bottoms, glass backs, case backs, foot and head board panels for beds, etc.

If you wish to buy Panels that are Right and Will Stay Right, give us a chance
to figure with you and submit samples and prices.

THE CORHAM BROS. CO

MT. PLEASANT, MICH.

FOR FURNITURE
MANUFACTURERS

We do not claim to be lower in
price, but we do claim our PANELS
are cheaper in the long run as they

Do you see the point

make you happy

The Cadillac Veneer Company

MANUFACTURERS OF

TWO, THREE AND FIVE PLY

PANELS

AND ROTARY CUT STOCK

Cadillac

Michigan

WRITE FOR PRICES

PARK

FALLS MANUFACTURING

Pej-k Fo.IIs, Wis.

CO.

Manufact

urers of Rotary Cut Veneer and Thin Lumber, from
Basswood, Elm and Maple Logs.
Writo Us for Prices

Birch,

Paducah Box Si Basket Co.

VENEERS

Red Qum Yellow Poplar Cross Banding Center Stock

Dells Lumber and Shingle (o.

ELau Claire, Wisconsin

Birch » Rock Elm » Basswood

Your Correspondence and Business Solicited

Write us today

Phila. Veneer £ Lumber Co.

OFFICE 817 NOBTH FIFTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA. PA.

MILLS ENOXVIlie. TENft.

4-4, 6-4 and 8-4 Chestnut. All grades.

4-4 Plain Oak. All grades.

4-4 Bass. Sell log run. M. C. O.

Sliced and Sawed Quartered Oak Veneers.

Can make prompt shipments, having two railroads in our yard.

THE F» OVA/ ELL LU /W B E R CO.

'"z^'-VaS''" X I Al Be F?S 10 to 70
OAK, YELLOW PINE, DOUGLAS FIR

A Full Line of Hardwood Lumber
COLVMBUS. OHIO

Montgomery Hardwood Lumber Co.

Crawfordsville, Ind.

OUR specialties:
Indiana Quartered and Plain Oak. also Hickory.

C S. BAER

Hardwood Lumber

Manufacturer and Deal(

WABASH. INDIANA

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

A. B. SMITH LUMBER CO.

PADUCAH. KY.

Manufacturers of Southern Hardwoods

HARDWOOD RECORD

VENEER

MANUFACTURERS

LEADING

OF THE U. S.

ST. LOUIS BASKET 4 BOX CO.
Panels, Backing, Bottoms

One, Two, Three and Five Ply. Any thickness.
Crossbanding, Core Stock and Veneer Wrapping
We can give you the sen.-ice you are looking for.

IT ?m TO ENQUIRE. WE ARE FROM MISSOURI AND CAN SHOW YOU
ST. LOUIS. MISSOURI

GOSHEN VENEER COMPANY

MA.NUFACTURERS OF

Flat Panels, Tops

AND

Cross Banding

GOSHEN INDIANA

POPLAR LOGS

About two million feet
piled in our yard. The

FINEST LOT

in existence todav

Chicago Veneer Co.

INCORPORATED

Burnside :: Kentucky

BIRD'S EYE MAPLE

Our Specialty

3,000,000 Feet — For 1908 3,000,000 Feet

At Reasonable Prices

MADE AND DRIED RIGHT AND WHITE

Samples Furnished on Application

MAHOGANY QUARTER SAWED OAK FIGURED WOODS

Let Us Quote You Prices

HENRY S. HOLDEN VENEER CO.

STATION A. . - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Underwood Veneer Co.

WAUSAU, WIS.

VENEERS PANELS

We are the pioneers in the manufacture of Veneers and Built-
up Wood anci the largest producers of Native Wood Veneers
in the State.

Owing to oiu- long experience our grade is of the highest
quality.

Three and five ply Panels a specialty.

Send us your specifications.

Mahogany

A carload of inch No. 2 Common,
Mexican. Thoroughly dry— good
lengths good figure— and a low
price. Write

Markley (& Miller

CHICAGO

Great Lakes Veneer Co.

ROTARY CUT

VENEERS

AND THIN LUMBER

MUNISINQ

MICHIGAN

The Louisville Veneer Mills

MANUF.\CTURER3 OF

VENEERS

THIN LUMBER

PANEL STOCK

LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY

HARDWOOD RECORD

MEMPHIS

LARGEST HARDWOOD MANUFACTURING CENTER IN THE WORLD

Florence Pump & Lumber Co.

(Incorporated)

. . , • ^a^ Saw Mills:

Memphis, Tenn. ^^'"j^^l'^xI":

STFACrrRERS >

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Colonial Columns, Veranda Columns, Balusters, Spiodles, Siding,
Flooring, Ceiling, Mouldings, Trim, Finish, etc. All Kiniis
Rough and Dressed Lumber. Send us your orders for Bay
Poplar: 1,000,000 feet bone dry and ready for market in all
thicknesses and grades.

LEE WILSON & CO,

Wholesale Hardwood Lumber.
MEMPHIS, TENN.

We have in stack ready for shipment:
Cottonwood. 4/4 & 5/4. All Grades.
Gum, 4/4 to 8/4. All Grades.
Oak. Plain Red & White. 4/4 to 16/4. All Grades.
Oak, Quartered Red & White. 4/4 to S/4, All Grades.
Sjcamore, Plain Sawn. 4/4 to 6/4, Log Run.
ilaple. 4/4 & 8/4. Log Run
Tupelo Gum. 4/4, Log Run.
Ash. 4/4 to 16/4. All Grades.
Poplar. 4/4 to 8/4. All Grades.
Ehn. 4/4 to 12/4. Lor Run.
Walnut. 4/4, All Grades.

1/4, All

he factory trade especially,
your wants; we answer all inquiries promptly.
Mills: \Mlson, Ark.; Armorel, Ark.; Marked Tree Ark

J. W. Thompson Lumber Co.

Manufacturers and dealers in

Southern. Hardwoods
ate:a\f»his, teinin.

We have following Hardwoods in various thicknesses and
grades ready for shipment— December 1st stock list:

Ash 750,000 ft. PI. White Oak . 300,000 ft.

Qtd. White Oak . 100,000 ft. " Red Oak . . 000,000 ft.

" Red Oak . 150,000 ft. Cypress .... 500,000 ft.

Bennett Hardwood Lumber

Company ^ Memphis, Tenn.

WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF

GUM

In thicknesses of 3-S", 1-2" 5-S", 3-4".

EXPORT AND DOMESTIC

Band-Sawed Hardwoods, Oak. .\sh. Cot-
toiuvood Poplar. Tupelo anil Red Gum
SPECIALTY: THIN OAK ar\d GVM

G. A. FARBER xrS^^^i^n,

MEMPHIS. TENN.

ROBERTSON-FOOSHE LUMBER COMPANY

Manufacturers and dealers in high grade HARD WOOD LUMBER.

We malie a specialty of mixed cars, rough or surfaced.

Olfice and Yards: N. SECOND ST. & I. C. R. R., MEMPHIS, TENN.

HYDE LUMBER COMPANY

Wholesale dealers in Oak, Ash, Cvpress, Gum, Cottonwood

and Elm. Main office. South Bend, Ind. Office and

Yards, North Memphis.

A1E/V\F>HIS - - XEININ.

SOUTHERN HARDWOOD LUMBER CO. (Inc.)

625-26 Memphis Trust BIdg.,

Memphis, Tenn.

Specialty: Thin Plain and Quartered Oak and Gum

ANDERSON

M E M P H I

STOCK LIST, J
COTTONWOOD.

up. Ists 4 2ds

xfi-&'

Ists & 2ds
6,'..lMiO-4 4'xS-toll)". IStScS:2ds
fiH.iMiD' 4 4'xS'tol2'. lsts<S:2ds
sa.OOO' 4/4"xl2' Ists & 2ds

72.000' 4/4".vl3' to 17'. Ists & 2ds
46.000' 4/4"x 1 8' i up. 1 sts & 2ds
36.000' 5/4'x6'(& up. Ists & 2ds
34,000' 5/4'x8'tol2'. Ists & 2ds
43,000' 5/4"xl2'. Ists & 2ds

62,000' 5/4'xl3' .tup. lsts&2ds
41,000' 4/4'x8' to 12'. Wagon

Box Boards
110,000' 4 '4"xl3' & up. Wagon

Box Boards
85,000' 4/4''x 13' & up. No. 1 Com.
60,000' 4/4'xlO' 4 up. No. 1 Com.
63,000' 4/4'x4' & up. No 1 Com.

ELM.
15.000' 6/4' Log Run
20,000' 8/4' Log Run

QUM.
44,000' l/2» ists <t 2ds.

-TULLY CO .

S . TENN.

I ARCH 10, 1908

76,000' 4/4' Ists & 2ds. Sap

13" to 15'
46.000' 4/4' Ists & 2ds. Sap

16' to 21'
65,000' 4/4' Ists & 2ds. Sap

22'&up
42,000' 4/4' Wagon Box Boards

13' to 20'
60,000'4/4' No.l Com., Red 4'& up
82,000' 4/4' No. 1 Com.,Sap 4' & up
"" 4/4»No.2Com.,Sap3'<t up

MAPLE.
22,000" 5/4' Log Run
65,000' 8/4' Log Run

PLAIN RED OAK.
31.420' 3/8' Ists & 2ds. 6' & up
65.000' 1/2' Ists & 2ds. — "
87,000' 4/4' Ists & 2ds.
12,000' 5/4' IstsA 2ds.
15,000' 6/4' Ists & 2ds.
47.000' 4/4' No. 1 Tom.,
29.000' = 1' \-n , cnn-.

6'& up
65.000' 3/8' Ists * 2ds.

6'&up
50,000' 5/8' Ists * 2ds.

6'& up
45,000' 3/4' Ists & 2ds.

6'& up
62,000' 4/4' Ists 4 2ds.

6' & up
15,000' 6/4' ists * 2ds.

6'& up
45,000' 3/8' Ists 4 2ds.

6" 4 up
40.000' 1/2* Ists 4 2ds.

6' 4 up
80,000' 5/8' ists 4 2ds.

6' 4 up
35,000' 3/4' Ists 4 2ds.

6' 4 up
98,000' 4/4' Ists 4 2ds.

185,

6' 4 up
6' 4 up
6' 4 up

76.(

'& up

, 3' 4

40,0UU •>, » 1^15 cv: ^<ls. 6' 4 up
35.000' 1/2" Ists 4 2ds. 6' 4 up
79.000' 4/4' Ists 4 2ds. 6' 4 up
12,000' 5/4' Ists 4 2ds. 6' 4 up
15,000' 6/4' Ists 4 2ds. 6' 4 up
47,000' 4/4' No. 1 Com., 4' 4 up

9,000' 5/4" No. 1 Com., 4' 4 up

4,000' 6/4" No. 1 Com., 4' 4 up
76,000' 4/4" No. 2 Com., 3' 4 up
Red 4 White

QUARTERED WHITE OAK.
18,000' 4/4' Ists 4 2ds. 6" 4 up
12,000' 4/4' No. 1 Com., 4' 4 up

OAK COFFIN BOARDS.
15,000'4/4'xl2'4up

SYCAMORE.
17,519' 5/4' lsts4 2ds

6,060' 6/4' ists 4 2ds

1.350' 4/4'lsts4 2ds

HARDWOOD RECORD 6i

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1 1

VV 1 <3 ^^ V^ IN *:^ 1 IN 1 1

WHERE THE FINEST NORTHERN HARDWOODS GROW " " '1

IMPORTANT

We want to move the following QUICK:

200 M 2" Dry No. 2 and Better Rock Elm
60 M 1" Dry No. 2 and Better Basswood
12 M IJ" Dry (Choice) No. 1 Com. and Better Basswood
75 M 5/4, 6/4, 8/4 No. 2 and Better Birch
100 M 1" Dry No. 3 Birch
WE HAVE OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST. PLEASE
SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES

Steven £k Jarvis Lumber Co.

Eau Claire. Wisconsin

Wc Want to Move the Following:

50 M feet 1 inch No. 1 Com. and Is and 2s Ash.
100 M feet 1 mch Is and 2s Plain Birch.
50 M feet \\ inch Is and 2s Plain Birch.

50 M feet U inch Is and 2s Plam Birch
100 M feet 2 inch No. 1 Com. and Is and 2s Rock Elm.
1 car 2 inch Is and 2s Red Birch.

1 car 3 inch No, 1 Com. and Is and 2s Unselected Birch.
Our prices are right. Let us hear from you.

Wheeler=Timlin Lumber Co.

Mill at Kennan, Wis. WAUSAU, WIS.

"ROBBINS''
Rock Maple Flooring

When you buy Clear from us you get all
the white the lumber will produce, as we
do not make a grade of Clear White
Let us send you samples and prices

ROBBINS LUMBER COMPANY

RHIINELAINDER, \A/IS.

Wagstaf f - Lumber - Oshkosh

1 inch Hard Maple on Grade.
If inch Hard Maple Log Run.
1 inch Birch on Grade,
li inch Birch on Grade.
1^ inch Birch on Grade.

Dry Wisconsin Stock on Sticks.

If you are in the market please write.

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 oak: rlooriing

Basswood Ceiling and Siding and Finish, also Molding

ARPIN HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN
SawMill, PUuing Mill and Yard at AUanta, near Bruce, Wis. on "Soo" Line.

RIB LAKE LUMBER CO.

HAVE A L.ARGE STOCK OF

DRY BIRCH— ASH— ELM
MAPLE KMy BASSWOOD

Write Us a Letter

Rib Lake

Wisconsin

thorouehly
seasoned
stock ready

30.000 ft. :
2,500 ft. :
40,000 ft. :
22,000 ft. :
46,000 ft. :

100,000 ft. :

,300,000 ft. :

50,000 ft. :

1100,000 ft. :

45,000 ft. :

WAUSAU. WIS.

a. No. 2 Common Plain Birch.
. First and Second Red Birch.
. First and Second Red Birch
. No. 1 Common Red Birch.
. End Dried White Birch.
a.No. 1 Com. & Bet. Plain Birch.l
. No. 1 Com. A Bet. Plain Birch.
. No. 1 Com. & Bet.Plain Birch.
. No. 3 Common Plain Birch.
. No. 3 Common Maple.
. No. 2 Com. A Bet. Soft Maple.
. No. 2 Com. & Bet. Red Oak.
. No. 1 Common Basswood.
. No. 1 Common & Better Bass.

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

I C H I

S FOR HARD MAPL

Q A N

FAMOV

E AND GRE.Y CLM

The North Shore Lumber Co.

THOMPSON. MICHIGAN

MANUFACTURERS

Michigan Hardwoods

HEMLOCK AND CEDAR. PRODUCTS

Selected end-piled White Maple and Red Birch our specialty.
Rail and Water Shipments.

McCormick-Hay Lumber Co.
Hardihood Lumber

Little Rock, Ark.

Office:

Saginaw, W. S.

S. L. EASTMAN FLOORING CO.

■ACINAW BIIANO

MAPLE FLOORING

A. F. ANDERSON.

CADILLAC
MICHIGAN

Specialist in winter sawed, end-piled, under shed, clear

White Hard Maple

4/4 to 8/4 in thickness.

Good Stock. All Michigan Hardwoods.

MAPLE FLOORING

KILN DRIED
BORED
POLISHED

A sample car for
comparison will
convince you
that our product
is right.

HOLLOW

BACKED and
BUNDLED

The Manistee Planing Mill Co.

MaLAistee, Mich.

Mak.r\ufak.otvirers

J. S. GOLDIE.

Cadillac. :: Michisan.

^u'"\. M '; Vnd Hemlock.

Correspondciuc ^nlicited Especially on

White Maple.

EXCELLENT DRY STOCK

MICHIGAN HARDWOODS

THE CHARLES DREGGE LUMBER CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

GIBBS, HALL & ALLEN CO.

611 and 612 Murray Building
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

8/4 No. 2 Common and Better Beech
4/4 No. 2 Common and Better Birch
4/4 No. 2 Common and Better Basswood
4/4 No. 2 Common and Better Soft Elm
4/4 No. 2 Common and Better Maple
4/4 Ists and 2nds Maple
4/4 to S/4 White Maple on grades
Thick Birch and Maple on grades

DRY PROMPT SHIPMENT

MICHIQAN ROCK MAPLEl T YTl^mm

BIRCH, BEECH AND BASSWOOD l^ViTIOlL/I\

Sales Dept. W. H. White Co , Majestic Bldg , DETROIT, AlICH.

Geo.

Brown & Co. 1

NASHVILLE. TENN. |

MoLi\ufa.cturers e
Shippers of

.rid

HAR-DWOODS

Branch

Offic

and Yards: Memphis, Tenn.

Sicklesteel Lumber Co.

Wholesale Hardwoods

DETROIT, .MICHIGAN

Dimension chaur and furniture stock. Special dimension bills

cut to order. Oak bill stuff and large timbers in

Oak furnished promptly.

WRITE us TODAY

HARDiWOOD RECORD

MICHIGAN

FAMOUS FOR RED BIRCH AND B A S S W O O D

OUR SLOW METHOD £i*'£,?rS??}S!

I X L POLISHED

ROCK MAPLE FLOORING

Enables us to offer you an excellent and superior product —

One whicb has stood the test 20 years.

WRITE TODAY FOR PRICES AND BOOKLET

Wisconsin Land ^ Lumber Co.

Hermansville, Michigan

J. S. WEIDMAN

MANUFACTURER OF

Hemlock and Hardwoods

WEIDMAN, MICHIGAN

BRIGOS « COOPER CO. LTD,

NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN HARDWOODS
OUR SPECIALTIES

ELM ASH BIRCH

OAIv BEECH GUM

MAPLE POPLAR BASSWOOD

COTTONWOOD

SAGINAW. MICBIGAN

MEMPHIS. TENNESSEE

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Co.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Northern and Southern

Hardwood Lumber

Haio Office. Hichijan Truit Company BuiUinf
GBAND BAPIDS : . . . MICHIGAN

"Chief Brand"
Maple and Beech Flooring

in f , I and 13-16 and 1 1-16 inch Maple
in all standard widths and grades, will
commend itself to you and your trade
on its merits alone

WRITE US, WE CAN INTEREST YOU

Kerry & Hanson Flooring Co.

GRAYLING. MICHIGAN

DENNIS BROS.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
207 MICHIGAN TRUST BLDG.

Lumber and Hardwood Flooring

Our NATIONAL Hardwood Flooring in Maple, Birch and
Beech is the best that modem machinery can produce.

Write us for price? on RED BIRCH, WHITE MAPLE and
every kind of Michigan Hardwood Lumber.

SALLINQ, HANSON CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

Michigan Hardwoods

GRAYLING, MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

CHICAGO

THE GREATEST HARDWOOD MARKET IN THE WORLD

Estabrook - Skeele

Lumber Company

Oak, Ash, Gum, Cotfonivood, Wagon
Stock and Other Hardwoods

In the market for round lots of Hardwood and
Wagon Stock. Write us before selling.

Fisher Building. CHICAGO

P. G. DODGE LUMBER CO.

CHICAGO

WE WANT TO MOVE

100,000 feet 5-4 Common and Better Red Oak

100,000 " 6-4 "

50,000 ' 4-4 Sap Poplar.

MILLS AND YAR.DS IN TENNESSEE

McCauIey - Saunders Lumber Q).

BAND SAWED
LOUISIANA GULF COAST

RED CYPRESS

Products Exclusively

Harruon 4930

J 703 Fisher BIdg., CHICAGO, ILL.

F. Slimmer &* Company

Hardwood
Lumber

OfiBce and Yard :

65 W. Twenty-second St.

CHICAGO

KELLEY,

MAUS & CO.

Have

DRY

a especiaUy fine lot of

HICICORY

which they desire to move quickly.
SPECIAL PRIOES

50,000 feet IJ inch Ists and 2nds.
30,000 feet 2 inch Ists and 2nds.
20,000 feet 3 inch Ists and 2nds.

YARDS AND OFFICES:

ASHLAND AVENUE AND 24th STREET

Lesh & Matthews Lumber Co.

1649-50 M.\RQIETTK BUILDING
Art now olltring bone dry BIRCH. ROCK ELM. BLACK ASH. etc., Wis-
consin ntock. Also PLAIN AND (JfARTERED OAK, POPLAR, etc.,
from oar Memphis yard. We are constant buyers.

THE GILLESPIE-REYNOLDS COMPANY

Lumber and Seward Streets

All kind£ of Northern Hardwoods. Send ns your

inquiries.

The Pratt -Worthington Co.

CROFTON, KENTUCKY

MAXCFACTTRER-S OF

SAWED FELLOES AND HOUNDS

Send us your 1908 Want Ll-st.

E. D. MATTHEWS LUMBER CO., CAIRO, ILL.

MANUFACTURERS SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

Lumber Cut to Order for Future Delivery

Inquiries Answertd Promptly.

LICKING RIVER LUMBER CO.

.MANUF.\t.TUUi:i!.S

FOR SALE ASHLAND KY B»n<> Sawed Lumber

190,000 ft. 2' Poplar •"—•*"" » nAK TlMRFR«i

600.000 ft. 2' Plain White Oak UftRlinOLlia

27,000 ft. Oak waeoii reaclii^ Rough or Dressed

LOEVENHART & CO.

No-shvlllo. Te>r>r>.

POPLAR, ASH, OAK, CHESTNUT

M.T l',< QlOTi; vol:

Straight or mixed cars. We arc not brokers.

HARDWOOD RECORD 65

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1 CIINwUNrNAll 1

THtGATtWAYOFTHESOUTH

The Wm. M. Perry Lumber Co.

HARDWOOD MANUFACTURERS

Oak, Chestnut, Poplar, Ash, Hickory, Etc.

THE K. AND P. LUMBER CO.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

Buys and Sells: W'alnut, Oak, Poplar, Chestnut

WANTED

POPLAR and GUM

SEND LIST OF DRY STOCK. WILL CONTRACT FOR
MILL CUTS.

KENTUCKY LUMBER COMPANY

CINCINNATI, OHIO

THE

MALEY, THOMPSON & MOFFEH CO.

Alw»yi in th« M»tfcet for

BLACK WALNUT LOGS.
SELECTED WHITE OAK LOGS.
LUMBER OF ALL KINDS.

CiNCINNATI, :

OHIO

THE FREIBERG LUMBER CO.

Tabasco Mahogany
Walnut. OaK

PopUr, McLean and Findlay Ats.
CINCINNATI. O.

MARION LUMBER. COMPANY

A^ARIOIN, IN. C

OAk, CHESTNUT. POPLAR SQUARES

DIMENSION LUMBER SAWED TO ORDER

BENNETT & WITTE

Manufacturers of Lumber

Oak— Ash—Elm— Gum— Cypress
and Cottonwood

Branch

MEMPHIS, TENN.

Main OHice

CINCINNATI. O.

We bave a stock and sUp Straight Grades

Domestic and Export

S T ON E

LUMBER CO.

CINCINNATI, OHIO

BUYS AND SELLS ALL KINDS AND GRADES OF

HARDWOODS

MOWBRAY & ROBINSON

SPECIALISTS IN

OAK-ASH-POPLAR

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET FOR
ROUND LOTS OR MILL CUTS

CINaNNATI

"BUY GUM

The Bayou Land 4 Lumber Co.

CINCINNATI. OHIO

Ha.rdwood Lumber arvd

Timber L&.nds

HARDWOOD RECORD

N D I

ERE THE. BEST 1

ANA 1

lARDWOODS CROW

APRIL STOCK LIST

75,000 ft. I in. C. & B. Plain Red Oak
50,000 ft. 5=4 C. & B. Plain Red Oak
60,000 ft. 6=4 C. & B. Plain Red Oak
100,000 ft. 2 in. C. & B. Plain Red & White Oak

Long=Knight Lumber Co.

INDIANAPOLIS. IND.

APRIL STOCK SHEET

J. V. STIMSON, tluntingburg. Ind.

J. V. STIMSON & CO., Owensboro, Ky.

Plain White Oak, 5/8 to 12/4 thick

" Red " 4/4 to 8/4 "
Qtd. White " 3/8 to 8/4 "
" Red '■ 4/4 to 8/4 _"

Red Gum, 4/4 thick, all grades.

Elm, Hickory, Ash, Cherry, Poplar, Maple and Cottonwood,
bone'dry. Write us any time.

D'Heur ^ Swain Lumber
Company

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS

OUR SPECIALTY

Quartered Oak and Sycamore

SF.YMOUR, IND.

C. I. Hoyt & Co.

April Stock SKeet

PEKI N
INDIANA

1 car 4-4 1 and 2 Plain Red Oak.

3 cars 4-4 mill cull Oak

1 car 4-4 Poplar, panel and Xo 1, IS to 23 inches

1 car 4-4 Poplar, panel and Xo. 1, 24 and up

3 cars 8-4 Poplar, Xo. 2 common and better

1 car 4-4 Poplar, Box Boards, 13 and up

1 car 4-4 Chestnut, No. 1 common and better

2 cars 4-4 Log Run Ash

1 car Oak dimension stock UxU, 16-28-30 and 32
THIS STOCK IN GOOD SHIPPING CONDITION. WSITE US

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, ------ INDIAN;*

GREER-WILKINSON LUMBER GO.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND.

DRV .STOCK, APRIL 1st.

3S.00O It. 4/4, Quarlertd while oak
760.000 ft. 4/4. Plain
520.000 ft. 4/4, •■ red

.iO.OOO ft. 5/4.

36.000 ft. 6/4, ••

1.200.000 ft. 4/4. Sap gum

340.000 ft. 4/4. Red "

38.000 ft. 5/4, •• ■•

All Band=sawn, Four to Eight Months Old.

LOQANSPORT, IND.

ALWAYS IN THE MARKET

For choice lo's of hardwoods.
Wahiut our specialty.
Inspection at Mill Points.

The Walnut Lumber Company

Indianapolis, Indiana

HARDWOOD RECORD

BUFFALO

THE GREAT WHOLESALE LUMBER CENTER OF THE EAST

Manufacturers and
Dealers in

Ash

White and Brown

Basswood
Birch

|K. .1 :,nd White

Butternut

Cherry

Chestnut

Cottonwood

Cypress

Elm

Soft and Rook

Gum

li.-.l and Tupnlo

Hickory
Maple

n.ir.l and Soft

Red Oak

Plain and Quarry

White Oak

Plain and Quart, r.'.l

Black Walnut
White Wood

Poplar

BEYER, KNOX & COMPANY

ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

Office and Y«rd8. 69 I^HROY AVHNUB

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. TENK. 940 SENECA STREET.

FRANK W. VETTER

Dealer in all kinds of HARDWOOD LUMBER.

1142 SENECA STREET

G. ELIAS & BROTHER

BUY AND CARRY LARGE QUANTITIES OF ALL KINDS OF HARDWOODS

9&6 TO 1015 ELK STREET

HUGH McLEAN LUMBER COMPANY

■OurSrecialty:' QUARTERED WHITE OAK

940 ELK STREET

ANTHONY MILLER

HARDWOODS OF ALL KINDS

(M BAGLB STRBBT

SCATCHERD & SON

HARDWOODS ONLY

Yard. 1655 SENECA STREET Office, 8Se ELUCOTT SQCARB

STANDARD HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.

OAK, ASH AND CHESTNUT

1076 CLINTON STREET

L N. STEWART & BROTHER

Specialtiet: CHERRY AND OAK

tK BLK STREET

SULLIVAN & COMPANY

Specialties: BROWN ASH, BIRCH, PACIFIC COAST FIR AND SPRUCE

80 ARTHUR STREET

ORSON E. YEAGER

Specialtiet: OAK, ASH AND POPLAR

9a2 ELK STREET

WT A MANUFACTURERS OLD-FASHIONED

Vsinssinty soft yellow

POPLAR

Kitchen o^

5-8 AND 4-4

IN WIDE STOCK

SPECIALTY

Ashland* Kentucky

Company

Lamb -Fish Lumber Co.

8DCCESSORS TO LAMB HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY, BACON-NOLAN HARDWOOD COMPANY GUIRL-STOVER LUMBER COUPANY

Ma>.nufa.c-
turers

OAK, ASH. COTTONWOOD, GUM
AND CYPRESS

MAIN OFFICE: 720 MEMPHIS TR.VST BUILDING, MEMPHIS. TENN.

j_- ,« . mm*** ( Memphis. Tenn. /I O • 1^* ( Well MaLtiufa

Three Band MiUs j l^::;^:^^^- Our Specialties j «o°^«|-tp%

F^-v«- C\ «««.r<k1^ C^l-h««-^ •'^/-k .<-k. «-k -^ .r-k Send us Your Orders for Mixed!
or V2U1CK OnipmentS cars in an Thicknesses

Oak. Ash. Cottonwood. Gum. Cypress.

Cottonwood ak.nd Gum Bevel Siding.

Car Timber and Bridge Plankirvg

Three States Lumber Co.

GE.NE.RAL OFFICES Tennessee trust building. ME.MPHIS. TENN.

YELLOW POPLAR

MANUFACTURERS

BAND SAWED
POPLAR
LUMBER

ALL GRADES

n n V 5-8, #-♦, 5-4,6-4, 8 4, 10 4. 12-4,16-4

UnT Bevel Siding, Lath & Squares

SPECIALTY, WIDE STOCK

Coal Grove, Ohio, U, S. A.

LUMBER CO.

CHICAGO, MAY 10. 1908.

LARGEST VENEER PLANT IN THE WORLD

C. L. WILLEY

Mahogany, Veneer

HARDWOOD LUMBER

Office, factory and Yards: 1225 Robey St.,

BAND MILLS /TelephoneN i'^V^i^r^A^

AlEMPHIS, TENN. Uanal 930^ t_<alCagO

For Mr ?Tca.ru^(At^(^'tM^,<f
Date 0^^%^ No. ^7.

THIS PRESCRIPTION WILL BE PROPERLY FILLI?D BY

HIMMELBERGER = HARRISON LUMBER CO.

MOREHOUSE. MO.

Guard Against Disaster

PENNSYLVANIA LUMBERMEN'S MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.

Drexel Building
.F»HiL/\DELF»HIA, F»A.

Poplar

and

Hardwoods

BRANCH OFFICES:

Philadelphia, Land Title BIdg.

New York, No. I Madison Ave.

Hemlock

and

Spruce

BANJD MILLS:'

Richwood, Camden-on-Gauley,

; riolcomb, W. Va.

A Very Substantial Cash Saving for Every folicy-Holder

'The stock companies specializing in lumber insurance are —

Lumber Insurance Co. of New York Adirondack Fire Insurance Co. Toledo Fire ana Marine Insurance Co.

84 William St., New York

William St., New York

Sandusky, OJiio

COMBINED ASSETS OVER SI.OOO.OOO;

Forparliculars address "Headquarters forJLumber Insurance" Lumber Insurers General Agency, Underwriting Managers, 84 William St.,

11 fflll II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II II IIad^^^^^ classified .directory .follows ^reading ..matter..

HARDWOOD RECORD

Ash

Bass

Beech

Birch

Cherrv

Chestnut

J. GIBSON McILVAIN & COMPANY

1420 Chestnut Street, PhilaLdelphiaL, Pa^.

T'he Spring clean-up shows that we have a much larger
^ stock of HARDWOODS in our Philadelphia distributing
3^ards than we desire to carry; in order to alleviate this
condition, we have decided to name the lowest possible sell-
ing price and we assure you that this is LOW, when the
condition and grade of this stock is taken into consideration.
If you are in the market now for present or future require-
ments, it will mean money in your pocket to take advant- •
age of this extraordinary offer. Let us have your inquiries
and see for ^-ourselves.

McILVAIN'S LUMBER NEWS for April is ready for mailing; if you are not on the

list, now is a siood time to send us your name and address.

spruce

Redwood

Poplar

Mahogany

Hemlock

CLOSE PRICES

ON THE FOLLOWING:

13 M U"No. 1 common and better
Basswood.

17 M 1|" Ists and 2nds Basswood.

20 M 2" No. 1 and 2 common Bass-
wood.

20 M 1x4-1x5 No. 1 and 2 Birch

strips.
150 M 1" No. 1 common Birch.

30 M 2i" Ists and 2nds and No. 1
common Rock Elm, 14' and 16' .

75 M 2" Sound common D.

G. W.Jones Lumber Co.

Applelon, Wis. 1

W. D. YOUNG & CO.

MANUFACTURERS

FINEST

MAPLE

FLOORING

KILN DRIED, HOLLOW BACKED
MATCHED OR JOINTED
POLISHED AND BUNDLED

Hard Maple, Beech and Birch Lumber

BAY CITY :: MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

r^ A r^ Iff \ r^

C/ALIILLAO

CELEBRATED FOR HIGB STANDARD OF QUALITY AND HILL WORK

Michigan Trees

and

Mitchells Products

Under this title we have made a booklet
to show by illustrations the principal
varieties of trees in our forests, to des-
cribe the character and uses of the dif-
ferent woods, and to explain our prod-
ucts and the form in which they are
offered to the trade. We want to send
you a free copy of the book and also our
dry stock list of Michigan hardwoods.

Please Write Us

Mitchell Brothers Company

Cadillac, Mich.

CHERRIES?

NOT CHERRIES

BUT

CHERRY LUMBER

.\N Undsuali.y Fine Stock of

4/4 No. 2 Common and Better 30 M

S/4]

6/4 \ No. 2 Common and Better 45 M

8/4 J

4/4 No. 3 Common 30 M

THIS STOCK IS OF OUR OWN MANUFACTURE

THOROUGHLY AIR- DRIED AND READY FOR

IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT

SEND US YOUR INQUIRIES

Also have a Good Assortment of Hard Maple, Beech,
Birch and Soft Elm.

GUMMER-DI66INS GO,

Ihe Cadillac Handle Co.

CADILLAC. MICHIGAN

\M& Offer F=-or Sale

3 cars 4-4 Soft Elm, No. 2 Com. and Better. Dry.

1 car 6-4 Beech, No. 3 Com. Dry.

7,000 ft. 4-4 Birds Eye Maple, guaranteed 75% Ists

and 2nds.
5 cars 4-4 x 6-inch Maple, No. 3.

MURPHY & DIQQINS

Offer all grades of the foUowiog special dry stock

MAPLE-5/4, 6/4, 8/4. 10/4, 12/4, 14, 4, l«/4
GRAY ELM— 4/4, 12/4
BASSWOOD-4/4
BIRCH— 1/4, 6/4

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

MICHIGAN MAPLE

DRY HARD MAPLE

750,000 feet 4/4 Firsfs and Seconds
1,500,000 feet 4 4 No. 1 and 2 Common

This lumber was manufactured
during the fore part of 1907 and is
now thoroughly seasoned.

It is a superior lot, good widths,
and the lengths run from 60% to
70% 14 and 16 feet.

A more definite description, with
prices, will be furnished upon
request.

C0B6S&HITGtl[LL

( INCORPORATED)

fm' CADILLAC, MICHIGAN

HARDWOOD RECORD

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

"^"'JE" MAPLE FLOORING 2^:XZ^

rvU V_> 1^. ^^^^i^mmm^^^^^m^^^^^m^^^^^^^^m *™"^ stump to finish is un-

WORKMANSHIP UNEXCELLED ' r^a^TiSf rn?^!?:;:

GRADINGIUNIFORM and RIGHT are located where the tim

PRICES WORTH YOUR. CONSIDERATION ber grows

WRITE VS FOR- PRICES AND OUR PLAN FOR SUPPLYING CARLOADS AND LESS DELIVERED

W. H. WHITE CO. HWEsnc buiding DETROIT, MICH.

W. H. Dawkins Lumber Co.

Manufacturers of Band Sawed

Yellow Poplar

We also handle HEMLOCK, OAK and CHESTNUT. ASHLAND. KY.

PAEPCKE-LEICHT LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OP

COTTONWOOD

GUM AIND OTHER HARDWOODS

Large stocks of well seasoned Lumber always carried at o-<r yards and mills.
Gchcm! Offices: MOW. Chicago Ave., CHICAGO. Milk: Cairo, III,, Marked Tree, Ark.,GreenvUle, Miss., Arkansas City, Ark., Blythevillc, Ark.

HARDWOOD RECORD

THE CROSBY ^ BECKLEY CO.

Maktiufactxirers and Wholesalers

Oak» Poplar, Ash, Maple
Chestnut, Gum, Bass

ASSOCIATE COMPANIES: DISTRIBUTING YARDS:

The Holly Lumber Co., Pickens, W. Va. Columbus, Ohio,

The Douglass & Walkley Co., Drew, Miss. Evansville, Ind.

Head Office: NEW HAVEN, CONN. Western Office; COLUMBUS, OHIO

The KNEELAND BIGELOW CO.

MANUFACTUR-ER.S OF LUMBER

Annual Output:

20,000,000 ft. Hardwoods. Mills R^vm the Yeo.r

20,000,000 ft. Hemlock. Arovir>d R^V Cltfvr Mtr'll

4,000,000 pes. Hardwood Lath. ''"'""''• Day Wliy, l^llCIl.

9,000,000 pes. Hemlock Lath.

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
Philadelphia Office, 1402 Land Title & Trust Bldg., Philadelphia, Pa.

HARDWOOD RECORD

THOMAS FORMAN CO,

DETROIT, MICH.

MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH GRADE

Maple and Oak Flooring

We desire to] move promptly a large quantity of
13-16xU" Clear Quarter Sawed White Oak Flooring.
13-16xli" Clear Plain Sawed White Oak Flooring.
13-16xU" Clear Plain Sawed Red Oak Flooring.
13-16x1 j" Qear Maple Flooring.

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

Goodlander Robertson
Lumber Co-

Hardwood Lumber

Memphis, Tennessee
IF IT'S HARD TO GET. WRITE US

The Tegge Lumber Co.

MILWAUKEE
WI SCONSIN

BUYERS OF
ALL KINDS OF

HARDWOOD LUMBER

ALBERT HAAS LUMBER CO.

BAND SAWED

OAK AND RED GUM

POPLAR AND YELLOW FIXE

ATLANTA - . - . GEORGIA

.H. Neal.Prtst. Treas. J.L.

NEAL = DOLPH LUMBER CO.

Manufacturers Hardwood Lumber
RANDOLPH BUILDINQ MEAIPHIS, TRNNESSEE

WE WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU

D. G. COURTNEY

MANUFACTURER OF

Car and
Railroad
Timbers

Yellow Poplar

Oak, Chestnut ^

Bassw^ood

Oak

Coop-
erage

CHARLESTON,

WEST VIRGINIA

Modem mills and perfect manufacture.

We make a specialty of getting out high grade Soft West Virginia Panel Poplar and are in position to ship either straight or
mixed cars of lumber. We also get out a Sound Wormy grade of Chestnut, suitable for veneer purposes. We will load cars to
suit the requirements of our customers. We seek the trade of wood-working factories who want a dependable lumber supply and
fair treatment.

Write us for prices on Chestnut, all grades.

HARDWOOD RECORD

J. B. RANSOM, President.

A. B. RANSOM, Secy.

JOHN B. RANSOM & COMPANY

Oak, Ash, Poplar,
Hickory, Gum, Syca-
more, Walnut, Cherrj',
Elm, Cedar Posts.

are likely to have supplies meeting your '

NASHVILLE. TENN.

Hardwoods

Poplar, Gum, and Lynn
Siding. Turned Pop-
lar Columns. Dressed
Stock, etc.

List. Can we place your name on our mailing list ?

J. B. Ransom, Pres.

McEwiiN- Ransom. Secy

R. r. Wilson-, Treas.

NASHVILLE HARDWOOD FLOORING CO,

M ANDFACTURERS OF

M.\RKET 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
mixed cars.

'The Product dc Luxe'

Delivered Anyivhere

NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE

J. B. RANSOM, Pres. A. B. RANSOM. V. Pres. W. A. RANSOM. Sec. arvd Mgr. C. R.. RANSOM, Treas.

GAYOSO LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN

Hardwood Lumber and Wagon Stock

MEMPHIS. TENNESSEE

I ft. 4/4
I ft. 4/4
ft. 4/4
I ft. 5/4
I ft. 5/4
I ft. 6/4
I ft. 6/4

POPLAR

and 2s
; Saps and Selects.
No. 1 Common.
No. 2 Common.
IS-inch and up Is and 2s & Panel.

1 Common.
; Common.
: Saps and Selects.
18-inch & up Is & 2.s & Panel.
-12 inch BoxBds.
50,000 ft. 13-to-17-inch Bo.x Bds.
CHESTNUT
150,000 ft. 4/4 Is and 2s.
50,000 ft. 4/4 No. 1 Common.
50,000 ft. 4/4 S. W. and Cull.
10.000 ft. 5/4 S. W. and Cull.
14,000 ft. 5/4 No. 1 Common.
15.000 ft. 6/4 S. W. and Cull.
35.000 ft. 6/4 No. 1 Common.
8,000 ft. 8/4 S. W. and Cull.

10.000 ft. S/4 No. 1 Common.

12,000 ft. 4/4 No. 1 and No. 2 Common Eln
ASH, ELM AND CYPRESS

21,000 ft. 4/4 Loe Run Tupelo.

15.000 ft. 8/4 C. & B. Elm.

12,000 ft. 8/4 C. & B. Ash.

12,000 ft. 4/4 No. 1 and No. 2 Com. Ash.

49,000 ft. 4/4 Log Run Cypress.
PLAIN OAK
100.000 ft. 4/4 is and 2s WTiite.

50.000 ft. 4/4 Is and 2s Red.
300,000 ft. 4/4 No. 1 Common White.
300.000 ft. 4/4 No. 1 Common Red.
460,000 ft. 4/4 No. 2 Common R. & W.

30,000 ft. 5/4 No. 1 Common R. & W.

25,000 ft. 5/4 No. 2 Common R. & W.

40.000 ft. 6/4 Is and 2s R. & W.

4.-,, 000 ft. 6 4 No. 1 Common R. & W.

.-,1) (ion fi r, t Xii. 2 Common R. ct W.

l:; '• ^ I ' .,nrt 2s R. & W.

1' - 1 \ . 1 Common R. & VV.

1.^ : ^ 1 \ , 2 Common R. it W.

2.5, mm :i. t 1 ~MUiid Wormy.
GUM

50.000 ft. 4/4 Is and 2s Sap.
120.000 ft. 4/4 No. 1 Common Sap.
100.000 ft. 4/4 No. 2 Common Sap.

12,000 ft. 4/4 No. 1 Common Red.

50,000 ft. 6/4 Is and 2s Sap.

25,000 ft. 6/4 No. 1 Common Sap.

12,000 ft. 6,/4 No. 1 Common Red.

40,000 ft. 6/4 No. 2 Common Sap.

50,000 ft. 8 to 12-inch Bo.k Bds.

20,000 ft. 13 to 17-inch Box Bds.

25.000 ft. 18-inch and up Is & 2s & Panel.
This lumber is on sticks at our.yards, and can
be loaded promptly on receipt of orders. .AH in-
quiries answered promptly.

HARDWOOD RECORD

MILLS:

NEW ALBANY, IND.

(HIGHLAND PARK) LOUISVILLE

DR. C. E. RIDER, President

W. A. McLEAN, V.P. & Cen'l. Mgr.

ANCUS McLEAN, Sec'y-Treas.

WOOD MOSAIC FLOORING
AND LUMBER COMPANY

MANUFACTURERS OF

Choice Indiana White Oak

A GOOD STOCK. PROMPT SHIPMENTS,

Personal supervision from timber purchase to delivery of your kind of Stock
NEW ALBANY, IND.

C. C. MENGEL ^ BRO. CO. ^^^-

LOUISVILLE, KY.

Mahogany Lumber and Veneers

Lii iilin,' a M.ihogany Log at Mengel's Honduras Works

HARDWOOD RECORD

Experience teaches that you can get best
vakies by deaUng direct^ with the manu-
facturer. Ask us for prices on any part
of ten milhon feet of dry Tennessee Red
Cedar, Hickory, Quartered and Plain Red
and White Oak, Chestnut, Poplar and Ash

We are keen to sell

Love, Boyd & Co,

NASHVILLE, TENN.

Louisiana Central Lumber Co.

Clarks, La.

MANUFACTURERS OF

OAK, QUM and HICKORY

.Stock cut to order. We make a specialty of
Bridge and Car Material. Manufactured stocks
by our own mills. Write us for prices.

Quartered Oak Flooring

Manufactured for

HIGHEST CLASS of trade only.

Also Plain Oak, Maple and other Hardwood flooring.

The name D WIGHT on flooring is a guarantee of its

excellence.
DWIGHT SPECIAL pattern of thin flooring is the
only suitable thin flooring to lay. Write for Sample.

DWIGHT LUMBER. COMPANY

DETR.OIT, MICHIGAN!

E. L. EDWARDS

Dayton, Ohio — Main Office

Walnut Plain and Poplar

Cherry Quartered Oak Chestnut

GEST AND DALTON AVE.
CINCINNATI. O.

YOUR CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED

General Electric Company

Individual Drive
gives a motor
for every machine

■H ■^■-

;j--^g^-j A-_

It allows any machine to
run independent of all
other machines.

It guarantees convenience
It insures reliability

No power is easier to apply
than electricity.
No method of application is
easier than with General Elec-
tric motors and controllers.

Principal Office: Schenectady, N. Y.

Chicago Office, Monadnock Building.
SaLles Offices in all Large Cities.

HARDWOOD RECORD

PHILADELPHIA

THE HARDWOOD CE,NTE,R OF THE, EAST

LITTLE RIVER
LUMBER CO.

CLEARFIELD
LUMBER CO., Inc.

PEART, MELDS 4
McCORMICK CO.

Specialists in the Production of

Poplar, Oak, Chestnut, Hemlock
and North Carolina Pine

Address Sales Offices:

W. M. McCORMICK

218 Girard BIdg
PHILADELPHIA

Special April List

50,000 feet 4/4 Is and 2s Poplar 18" to 40".
25,000 feet 4/4 Is and 2s Poplar 7" to 17".
60,000 feet 4/4 No. 1 Common Poplar.
70,000 feet 4/4 No. 2 Common Poplar.
24,000 feet 4/4 Is and 2s Plain White Oak
26,000 feet 4/4 Is and 2s Quartered White Oak.
32,000 feet 4/4 No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak.
100,000 feet 4/4 Sound Wormy and Cull Chestnut.

WISTAR, UNDERHILL & CO.

Real Estate Trust Building, PHILADELPHIA

Headquarters for

POPLAR SQUARES

OAK. POPLAR. CHESTNUT AND BASSWOOD

==^^^^ " You can get it jroni Shearer" -:

SAM'LH. SHEARER & SON

Crozer Building

Philadelphia

TOMB LUMBER COMPANY

Real Estate Trust Building, PKiIai.delphlaL

roo ft. 8^ Sound Wormy Chestnut UOOO ft. It 1 and 8 Red Oak

»0 ft. 4-4 Sound Wormy Cbeslnut :l»0«0 ft. *-« No. 1 Cora. Ked C

JOO ft. 1-1 Com. and Better Chestnut 172010 ft. 1^1 No. 8 Com. Ked C

80000 ft. 1-1 Log Run Red Oak

OAK CVT TO ORDER

H. H. MAUS & CO., INC.

M.\NUF.A.CTURERS

HARDWOOD and YELLOW PINE.

Write us if you wish to bu.v or sell.
420 Walriut St., . . - PHILADELPHIA, PA.

WM. A. REED, wmTemTe LUMBER

HARDWOODS. CYPRESS AND OTHER WOODS

Ills Stephen Girard Bldg. PHILADELPHIA, PA.

RIGHTER=PARRY LUMBER CO.

Write us for price; on plain and quartered Oak, C\prcss, Red Qum, Sap

Gum, Hickory, Ash, Poplar, Chestnut, Maple, Birch, Beech,

Basswood and Cottonwood.

LAND TITLE BLDG.,

PHILADELPHIA, PA.

PAUL W. FLECK LUMBER COMPANY

POPLAR, WHITE PINE. HEMLOCK

BRISTCTL, TENN -VA.
BRANCH OFFICE, 322 323 North American Building. PHILADELPHIA PA.

KIRBY & HAWKINS COMPANY
Everything in Hardwoods

PHILADELPHIA

PAYSON SMITH LUMBER COMPANY

Minnea.poIls, Minn.

WHOLESALE SOUTHERN LUMBER

Mills in Alabama — Tennessee — Mississippi — Arkansas

Hemlock
White Pin
Spruce

Real Est&te T

JOHIN W. COLES

WHOLESALE

HARDWOODS

BviildlrAg PKII&delphti

bellow Pine
North Car-
olina Pine

HARDWOOD RECORD

THE EAST

LEADING MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS

SOBLE

BROTHERS 1

WHOLESALE LUMBER |

MUls:

Specialties:

Honaker, Va., Okeeta, V

a. Quartered White Oak, Poplar.

INo. I yV\adison

Mvo., INevA/ York City

JOHN L. ALCOCK & CO.

BUYERS OF BLACK WALNUT LOGS
BOARDS AND PLANKS

Baltimore, Md.

WEBSTER LUMBER CO.

.MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS
l)F AUIRONDACK

BIRCH BEECH MAPLE
CHEERY AND HEMLOCK

Dimension Stock and Hardwood Timbers

Mills and Office: Newton Falls, N. Y.

R.E. Wood Lumber Company

^ Manufacturers of Yellow Poplar, Oak, Chestnut, Hemloclc
and While Pine.

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

GENERAL OFFICES:
CONTINENTAL BUILDING.

Baltimore, Maryland

White Oak Timbers

Special Bills in any Size Cut to Order
Chestnut — F»oplar — Red Oak

A Good Supply of Dry Lumber in Stock

WRITE FOR PRICES

Thomas F. Smouse

Cumtoe-rlanci, JWd.

No. 17 BATTERY PLACE, HEW YORK

Southern and Pei\i\sylva.nia. HaLrdwoods — OsLk,
Ash. Chestnut, Magpie and Birch

BRANCH OFFICE: No. 88 BROAD ST., BOSTON

OWEN BEARSE & SON CO.

OUR SPECIALTY

MAHOGANY LUMBER

33 Broad Street Boston, Mass.

H. D. WIGGIN l^o^^foVIiYls"

Whitewood, Oak, Chestnut, Elm, Basswood
Maple and Birch.

SEND ME YOUR LIST OF OFFERINGS FOR SPOT CASH

Wantcd-Dogwood and Persimmon

Send for Specifirations

Indiana Q\iartered Oak Co.

7 E. 42nd Street, New Yorl< City

THE BUFFALO MAPLE FLOORING CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF

MICHIGAN ROCK MAPLE AND OAK FLOORING

BUFFALO. NEW YORK

WM. E. LITCHFIELD

MASON BUILDING, BOSTON, MASS.

Specialist in Hardwoods

Manufacturers are requested to supply lists of stock for sale

HARDWOOD RECORD

ideal"SSRock Maple Flooring

is the flooring that is manufactured expressly to supply
the demand for the best. It is made by modern ma-
chinery from carefully-selected stock and every pre-
caution is taken throughout our entire system to
make it fulfill in every particular its name— "IDEAL-"'

Rough or Finished Lumber — All Kinds

Send us Your Inquiries

The I. Stephenson Company

WEI.LS, MICHIGAN

LUMBERMEN

Give us some of your

Fire Insurance

Our Rates Will Save You Money

Lumber Underwriters

66 Broadway, New York

(Only Office)

" N OX E -LI KE-I T"

"ARTHUR BRAND"

MEMPHIS-MADE

"IT'S A LITTLE BETTER"

ARTHUR HARDWOOD FLOORING CO.

MEMPHIS, TENN.

"ALL-LIKE-IT."

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
distinguisli our Flooring and our prices are
reasonable.

WARD BROS., Big Rapids, Mich.

OAK FLOORING

Kiln Dried /. hapdwood lumbit^ Hollow

Backed

SDll

Bundled

Bored
Polished

*^&MFC.CO. ''
- SARDIS

300,

,000 FEET

4/4 Is a-rvd 2s

PLAIN OAK

Ready for Immediate Shipment.

Can

"Kiln Dry" it if wanted.

THEM.

B. FARRIN LUMBER CO.

CINCINNATI

A floor to adore

For thirty-three years Wilce's Hardwood Floor-
„^ ins; has been among the foremost on the market
*V^ i'"J because it stands today "unequaled" is the
S/ i' -^t evidence that its manufacturer has kept
■^itireast of modern methods and the advanced de-
mands of the trade. To convince yourself of the
,,j ,L I K)ve statements, try our poUshed surface fioor-
''•Si^ iiii;. tongued and grooved, hollow backed, with
» matched ends and holes for blind nailing — you'll
find it reduces the expense of laying and polishing.
Our Booklet tells all about Hardwood Flooring and

e/or:

and nfn

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22i\d and Throop Sts. CHICAGO. ILL.

Successful Business Men

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Published In the Interest of HaLrdwood Lumber, America.n HsLrdwood Forests, Wood Verveer Industry. H&rdwood Flooring,
Hai.rdwood Interior Flrtlsh, Wood CKefnlca.ls, Sa.w Mill &nd Woodworking MsLChlrtery.

Vol. XXVI.

CHICAGO. MAY 10, 1908.

No. 2.

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

THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

HENRY H. GIBSON. Ed[tor. EDGAR H DEFEBAUGH. Monaaer.

7th Floor, Ellsworth Bldg., 355 Dearborn St., Chicago, 111., U.S.A.

Telephone Harrison 4960

REPRESENTATIVES

Philadelphia Jacob Hollzman, 916 Rothschild Buildins

Cenlral Territory

TERMS OF ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION

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In all other countries in Universal Postal Union 3.00

Subscriptions are payable in advance, and in default of written orders lo the

Entered as second class matter May 26. 1902. at the Postoffice at Chicago.
Ill , under act of March 3. 1879.

Coming Association Meetings.

HANDLE MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION.
The Handle Manufacturers' Association of America will
hold its regular semi-annual meeting at the Louisville Hotel,
Louisville, Ky., Wednesday, May 20.

SOUTHERN CYPRESS MANUFACTURERS'
ASSOCIATION.
The fourth annual meeting of this organization will con-
vene at New Grunewald Hotel, New Orleans, Wednesday
and Thursday, May 20 and 21, at 10:00 a. m.

NATIONAL VENEER & PANEL MANUFACTURERS'
ASSOCIATION.

The National Veneer & Panel Manufacturers' Association
will meet at the Ponchartrain Hotel, Detroit, Mich., June 9.

NATIONAL HARDWOOD LUMBER ASSOCIATION.

The annual meeting of the National Hardwood Lumber
Association will be held at Milwaukee, Thursday and Friday,
June 11 and 12.

NATIONAL LUMBER MANUFACTURERS'
ASSOCIATION.
On June 16, 17 and 18 the National Lumber Manufac-
turers' Association will convene for its annual meeting at
Minneapolis, Minn.

- General Market Conditions.

y The very bad weather conditions that have prevailed tbrough-

" out most sections of the country during the past fortnight have
[^ not contributed to the welfare of the hardwood lumber business.
The average operator, manufacturer or jobber, reports that as
;• compared with a year ago business is averaging only about 50

per cent. Nevertheless hardwood men are taking a very philo-
sophical view of the situation and allege that they do not expect
the strenuous booming times of a year ago, but are going to try
to be satisfied with conditions as they are.

Perhaps the opinion of Judge E. H. Gary, formerly of Chicago,
and now chairman of the board of directors of the United States
Steel Corporation, the largest business organization ever formed in
history — reflects the concensus of general opinion. Mr. Gary is a
thorough optimist concerning the financial and industrial future.
He believes that conditions in the business world are already
normal, with a few scattering exceptions, and that these weak
places will be straightened out by natural causes very soon. He
does not expect a boom, nor does he anticipate so active and
prosperous a year as 1906 or the first eight months of 1907, but
he does believe that the business interests of the country are
rapidly settling down into healthy, wholesome conditions; that
prices will be maintained and wages continued; that the demands
for all products both of the soil and of the factories will afford
a reasonable profit to all concerned in their production.

To all appearances the strong financial institutions are mov-
ing but a very moderate quantity of lumber. Buyers are holding
off for snap trades, and in a good many cases are buying stock
at considerably less than they have been able to for years. How-
ever, the source of these cut prices is usually the weaker financial
institutions, or people who seem obliged to realize on their lumber
The strong, large operators are holding their prices firm and con-
sequently are getting but a modicum of the going business. They
seem to feel that a good stock of lumber is a better asset than
money, and that with the renaissance of demand which is surely
in sight they will be able to dispose of the stock at prices that
will represent a fair profit.

The good end of poplar is still commanding practically as
much money as it did a year ago. The same may be said of
quartered oak. Plain oak is undeniably being sold at $3 less
than top notch prices, and gum is also suffering with the general
decline. Of the northern woods birch is being hit harder than
anything else, while maple stands up at least within a dollar of
the prices of last year.

In hardwood flooring the oak product appears to be com-
manding a fair volume of business at good prices, but unfortu-
nately during the last fortnight there seems to have been an over-
anxiety to dispose of the maple product — and prices are being
slaughtered to some extent. As a matter of fact, the current
values of maple flooring are less than the cost of the lumber with
manufacturing expenses added. There is to be an early meeting
of the Maple Flooring Association and very likely an agreement
will be made at that time which will put prices back on a logical
level.

The majority of veneer manufacturers seem to be running
only about half the time and prices being received for this product
are far from satisfactory.

Export conditions in hardwood are a long way from what
they should be; in fact, the domestic business is in far better
shape than the foreign trade,
volume of trade

Black walnut has declined both in
price, and the situation seems to be

HARDWOOD RECORD

decidedly discouraging to the average exporter. From the fact
that there is little demand for high priced furniture both the
mahogany lumber and veneer trade is comparatively dull, but
what business is being received is being handled at a fair margin
of profit.

In spite of this comparatively slow sales period the average
operator is optimistic and is a strong believer that there will be
a renewal of active buying immediately following the election.

Curtailment.

The hardwood lumber manufacturers of the country are exer-
cising a lot of good common sense in cutting down their lumber
output to correspond with current conditions of supply and demand.
In spite of the legends of demoralized values that are going the
rounds, as a matter of fact hardwood values are in very fair shape.
The chaotic situation in yellow pine and hemlock prices as com-
pared with the hardwood schedule, reflects no little credit on the
policy that has prevailed in the hardwood manufacturing trade, in
the restriction of output to such an extent that values have not
been very seriously affected. It
is doubtful if the aggregate
hardwood output is reaching
more than 50 per cent of that of
a year ago, and it is equally
manifest that even a month 's
normal demand would clean up
every foot of surplus stock there
is in first hands.

The hardwood manufacturers
of the country should be con-
gratulated on their conservatism
and good sense in handling their
end of this important crisis. Of
course those river niLUs which
Jiad logs cut and floated down,
have been and are still obliged
to put their crop into lumber.
This statement is also true of
the Mississippi delta country,
where quite a quantity of gum
and other perishable logs were
felled and had to be manufac-
tured into lumber in order to
preserve them. Otherwise cur-
tailment has been widely prac-
ticed throughout the South, while
in the great hardwood producing
sections of Michigan and Wis-
consin every effort has been
made to reduce output; even new
inill.s ready for starting have
been left idle. Also in the hard-
wood sections of Indiana and
Ohio there has been a marked
curtailment.

Such conservatism will surely receive its just recompense just
as soon as demand gets back to normal. In the meantime let this
good and far-sighted policy continue, remembering that because
some one in another part of the country starts up a mill, it may
be because he is obliged to and should not be made an occasion
for others diffcrontly situated to follow suit. Manufacturers who
have no logical reason for starting up their plants ought to hold
out .just as long as they can; such uniformity of action and co-
operation can have but one result, and that the desideratum for
which all are anxious, whether they do their share to promote it
or 'not — the maintenance of a general and just standard of hard-
wood values.

and the Inland Waterways Commission May 13, 11 and 15, at
Washington, promises to be an event which will make history Ini
the United States, and illustrates the President's well-known po~i
tion in the matter of conserving the natural resources.

In calling this conference, Mr. Roosevelt sums up the gravity
of the situation in his usual concise and pertinent way: "Th.-
matters to be considered are not confined to anj' region or groui'
of states but are of vital concern to the nation as a whole, an. I
to all the people. They include the use and conservation of tli.-
mineral resources, the resources of the land, and the resources ..t
the water in every part of our territory. . . . Facts which 1
cannot gainsay force me to believe that the conservation of om
natural resources is the most weighty question now before tin
people of the United States. If this is so, the proposed contv
ence, which is the first of its kind, will be among the most iniji
tant gatherings in our history in its effect upon the welfare .i
our people."

If there are

The Axeman

(Sec Supplement Drnwino hy Thomas J. NiehoU.)

The swinging axes wake the forest cries,

The echoes through the woodland xoildly spread;
And fallen leaves, from oiit their dank, brown bed.

Send pungent odors to the autumn skies.

And, as he drinks great draughts of morning air,
And as he notes the flying chips so white.
The axeman, swaying, feels that might is right

And thanks the gods that living is so fair.

No narrow walls to limit what he sees;

No ivkite-faced weaklings to accost each day;

But goodly stretches of great forest trees

And sun-browned woodmen, eager for the fray.

For him Pan's melodies are daily played

By gleaming axes in the sylvan glade.

L.iVRA R.MTZ LAW.

An Historical Event.

The great conference of state governors, scientists and business
men engaged in all lines, which will meet with President Roosevelt

itizens to whom the announcement
of this gathering is a matter ii
iudiffcrenee, or of astonishmmi
that there should be felt th.
need of such a great gathem^
of executive heads and scienti-
of the nation to confer upon lii
vast number of problems in
volved in such consideration —
they are not those who hav.'
rightly interpreted the signs .
the times for themselves,
those who have read and diy. -
ed the repeated warnings of >•
dents of economics, scientists :i
competent writers. It is n-
only illiterate and unintelligini
citizens who belong to this ini
thinking and improvident class,
but unfortunately many of i>in
]>roniinent business men .in.i
even many high 'Up in natidii.i
affairs have been blind to con.
tions as they exist.

It is strange that the men -
cupying the two most authorit.i
tive oflices within the gift of tli.
people should take positious s..
diametrically opposite on these
great questions of public policy.
In striking contrast are Presi-
ilent Roosevelt's words — "It is
obvious that the prosperity which
we now enjoy rests directly updn
those resources; it is equally ob-
vious that the vigor and success
which we desire and foresee for
this nation in the future nnist
have this as its ultimate material basis,"— and the harangue ..f
Speaker Cannon at a recent gathering, when he made his posili."
plain by declaring that all this talk about the national resoui.
was "bosh;" that he had always had coal enough to keep In

warm and a roof over his head. "To H with the natural i,

sources!" he shouted.

In addition to the governors, members of the Inland Water-
ways Commission, and other officials, nearly three score business
men's clubs and bodies of national scope and prominence will
be represented at the unique conference, including associations
dealing with agriculture, engineering, forestry, mining, watcrwri^-
improvement, geologj-, irrigation, pulp and paper trade, advan.
ment of science, law, medicine, chemistry, electricity, railroad n
and in fact almost all branches of the great industries which lKl^
made this country what it is, and what — if President Roosev. It
be given his way — it will continue to be.

CUTTING THE KERF

tARDWOOD RKCORD

MAY 10, 1908.

ILLUSTRATIN

HARDWOOD RECORD

Pert, Pertinent and Impertinent.

There are millions of positions in the busy

world today.
Each a drudge to him who holds it, but to him

who doesn't, play ;
Every farmer's broken-hearted that in youth he

missed his call,
While the same unhappy farmer is the envy of

all.

rtals that Is cruel,

The Other Fellow's Job.
Whereso'er you find a human you will find the

case the same ;
You may seek among the worst of men or seek

among the best.
And you'll find that every person is precisely

like the rest.
Each believes that his real calling is along some

other line
Than the one at which he's working — take, for

instance, yours and mine ;

From the meanest
leader of the n

There's a universal craving for "the other fel-
low's job."

Any task you care to mention seems a vastly
better lot

Than the one especii
pen to have got

There's but one sure way
heartache and her sob :

"Keep too busy at your own, to want the other
fellow's job." — SUCCESS.

to the

something that you hap-
smother Envy's

Not So Bad.

"Weren't you sur-
prised to hear that
Prude had married a
divorced woman?"

"Oh, yes; but then
she'd only been di-
vorced a few days."

The Consultation.

Can Find a Way.

It is a good deal
harder to find time to
do the things we
don't want to do
than the things we
do want to do.

Tourists Beware.

The Strand pub-
lishes the following
ad of a Chicago
pickle manufacturer:
"During the year
1905, 126,000 visitors
passed through our
plant. ' '

Newly Kich.

"Did you know
that Spender went
through the hundred
thousand he had left
h i m, inside of a
year?"

"Yes; he contract-
ed a bad case of
nervous prosperity."

A New Definition.

A pessimist is one
who does not expect
to get what he wants
and expects to be dis-
appointed in it if he

Should Give Thanks.

It is more blessed
to give ten dollars
than to receive ten
days.

Too Late.

Success often
means to get what
others want, but
what you no longer
have any appetite
for.

. Experience.

A wise man once
said that "Tomor-
row never comes. ' '
He no doubt lent an
umbrella at some
period of his life.

Broke Even.

Hubby — You
ought to know how
to use money better.

Wifey — Perhaps I
could learn if I had
a little more practice.

AH Alike.
I know the ways
of women; they won't
when thou wilt, and
when thou won 't
they are passionately
fond. — Terence.

Must Be a Thorough-
bred.

Money makes the
mare go, but it makes
her cut up, too, un-
less she is used to it.

Dr. BUI Russe— He's a goner, ain't he, doc?

Dr. Munyon Palmer— Where there's life there's hope.

No Use.

As j-ou have made
your bed, why lie
about it?

Reminiscences of Home.

Guide: Old Pompeii was a pretty live
town once upon a time!

Chicago Tourist : Say, what date was it
the lid went on?

These Trusts.

An exchange has developed the biggest
trust on earth. It is the trade newspaper.
It trusts everybody, gets cussed for trusting,
mistrusted for cussing, and if it busts for
trusting gets cussed for busting! So there
you are.

The Shoe Fitted.
A trolley-car collided with a milk-cart and
gallons of milk splashed into the street. A
crowd gathered; a small man had to stand
on tiptoe and keep dodging about to see past
a fat lady in front of him. ' ' Goodness ! ' '
he finally exclaimed, ' ' what an awful waste ! ' '
The fat lady faced about and glared at him
darkly. ' ' Mind your own business, ' ' she
snapped. — Everybody 's.

■Which?
There seems to be an epidemic of alien-
American engagements just now, and many
a happy couple is busy getting ready for the
honeymoon — or harvest-moon !

Ckmld Sympathize.

No.

Bridget: Pwhat are ye wearin
of crape around yer hat fer, Mike?

Mike: Sure an' Dim wearin' it
first husband, madam ! ' '

that band

HARDWOOD RECORD

AMERICAN FOREST TREES.

Yellow Birch.
Jietula lutea. — Miehx.
The range of growth of yellow birch is
from Newfoundland and along the northern
shores of the gulf of St. Lawrence to the
Eainy river; it extends southward into
Minnesota and down to eastern Tennessee;

UOWTH YELLOW BIRCH.

( ast again in its southern range to North
Carolina and Delaware, covering the states
embraced within the boundaries named.

The name yellow birch is most commonly
applied to this species, and as such it is
known in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Conneaticut, Khode Island,

SEVE.NTV-FOURTH PAPER.

Xew York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North
CaroUna, South Carolina, Illinois, Michigan,
Jlinnesota, North Dakota and Ontario; how-
ever, in Vermont, Rhode Island, Pennsyl-
vania, Michigan and Minnesota it is known
as gray birch; swamp birch is the term some-
times used in Minnesota, and silver birch in
New Hampshire; the Canadian French name
for the tree is merisier, or merisier rouge as
it is known in Quebec.

The yellow biich is not ordinarily a large
tree, and in its southern range sometimes
attains only the dimensions of a shrub. Occa-
sionally it reaches a height of 100 feet under
favorable circumstances, with a trunk three
or four feet through. It thrives best in rich,
moist uplands and reaches its highest de-
velopment in the North, particularly in the
region of the Great Lakes.

The tree when growing alone forms a
broad, round top with slender, drooping
branches, but when in the forest mingled
with beech, maple, ash and elm, is of more
compact appearance. The distinguishing
feature of the tree is its wonderful bark.
Says Mathews: "There are few trees which,
like the yellow birch may boast of bark with
a texture like satin and a sheen Uke silver.
Those horizontal marks which characterize
the Bcttila family are sprinkled over its deli-
cate, silvery covering; notice the way the
thin bark is curled and frizzled away from
the trunk; it ornaments the latter with a
thousand shining edges, which catch and hold
the scattered, flickering sunlight of the woods
so that the tree is distinctly separated from
its stalwart, duU-hued, rough-seamed neigh-
bors. Indeed, the yellow birch possesses a
certain unmistakable femininity of character
nliich is suggestive of some tattered and dis-
lifvcled woodland nymph."

It is from the bark that the name yellow
birch is derived — lutea meaning yellow and
applying to the inner layer — this tint will
identify the tree from others of its family,
although the outer bark is graj-ish.

The leaves of the tree are three to four
inches long, sharply serrate and pointed, the
veins conspicuous and hairy beneath. In
lolor they are a dull, dark green, with yel-
lowish-green lining; in autumn they turn a
delicate yellow.

The flowers of yellow birch appear in
April, before the leaves; the staminate ones
form in catkins three to four inches long,
of a yellowish color, while the pistillate are
reddish green and hairy, in catkins only little
over half an inch in length.

The fruit is a stout green cone about an
inch long, with narrow tapering scales; the
seeds beneath are tiny and winged.

Yellow birch is a very desirable ornamental
tree, but for some reason is seldom planted.
The heartwood is light reddish-brown, the
sapwood nearly white; it is very close
grained, with compact structure. The wood
is heavy, strong and hard; it is tough, but

is not durable when exposed to the weather.
It takes a high polish, and with its beautifu!
grain it seems a pity it is used mostly for
numberless small articles, for mallets, frames
of sledges, etc. A cubic foot of seasoned yel-
low birch timber weighs forty pounds. It is
a beautiful and little appreciated wood for
interior use, and one of the best all-around
timber trees; in fact, it is almost indispen-
sable to certain woodworking industries, and

'i'ANGEN

W BIUCH.

no satisfaclMiv ^i.l.iiul.Il i,,.^^ Ij.cn found for
it in the manufacture of a number of small
articles. For instance, nearly every spool
used in this country is made of this wood, or
the paper birch; and quantities are shipped
to England in the form of bars. Yellow
birch holds its shape well after being seas-
oned, works easily, and yet is not easily
dented; it also presents a clean, smooth sur-
face when turned, qualities which are neces-
sary in work of this nature. For shoe pegs
and shanks it is much used, and also for
toothpicks, which consume a much larger
amount of lumber than would be supposed at
first thought. Dowel and novelty mills em-
ploy the wood extensively, as do bobbin and
shuttle manufacturers; for cart hubs it is
also popular. Yellow birch takes a fine
polish, and makes a handsome hardwood floor,
or excellent interior finish — so it will be seen
that the uses of the tree are legion, and wide-
Iv diversified.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Red Tone. Yellow Tod

BIRCH •TRANSFORMED" BY A NEW PROCESS.

Unfortunately the tree is comparatively
short lived; the heart is often inferior and is
used only in the cheaper grade of turned
novelties. Most of the stands near railroads
have been cut out, so that what remains is
difficult of access. In the case of this species,
as well as so many others, the decreasing sup-
ply is being felt and conservatism in its
use and substitution wherever possible must
be praetii-eil if the industries i.lependent upon

it are to continue without inconvenience.
The tree illustration accompanying this
article and the tangential section of birch,
are from Hough 's Handbook of the Trees and
American Woods; the other two illustra-
tions were made from handsome specimens
of yellow birch which had first been put
through the wonderful "transforming" proc-
ess now practiced by the Publishers' Paper
Company of New York.

Exports to Africa and the Orient,

American manufacturers are thinking more
of export trade than ever before; some are
beginning to reach out to secure it; many
are expending large sums of money in ex-
periments upon it; and manufacturers in all
lines are regarding this subject with ever
increasing interest. Yet any conservative
business man who understands the manufac-
ture and marketing of his product in its
minutest details, and understands the domes-
tic trade most thoroughly should hesitate
considerably before undertaking to dispose of
it outside the home market. Selling goods
in other parts of the world usually involves
higher freight rates, different language, cus-
toms tariff, different commercial methods,
better packing, and with the lumber trade at
least, exceedingly long credits must be cheer-
fully extended.

American manufacturers in all lines, owing
to the fact that their goods enter into strong
competition with those from other countries,
must of necessity put forth as much or more
effort in getting trade abroad as they do at
home; if they really wish to be successful
they must needs use every means and every
abroad that they do in the United

States, possibly more. Because they have not
always done this, many a lumber manufac-
turer has stumbled over some or all of the
points mentioned, and has abandoned the ex-
port trade in disgust, if not with serious
financial loss. The United States consuls
in various parts of the world often encourage
the importation of lumber from this country,
where the manufacturer is able to meet the
very exacting demands and peculiarities of
the local trade.

A recent rejjort from Smyrna says that the
houses of Asia Minor are generally built of
stone with a frame work of wood, which
would seem to preclude all opportunity for
introducing lumber products there, but on
the contrary there is a great consumption of
such fittings as door and window frames,
-blinds, staircase parts and balconies, all of
which are manufactured from imported lum-
ber. The variety used is a kind of pine im-
ported from Eoumania, which is light, knotty
and seldom seasoned, so that it invariably
proves unsatisfactory. Several years ago an
attempt was made to import doors and blinds
ready-made from Norway, but the experiment
(lid not prove a success, chiefly because the

goods did not conform in size and style with
the requirements of local demand, and also
because little effort was made to push the
articles into popular favor. The consul at
Smyrna reports that there is undoubtedly an
opportunity there for the sale of fittings.
The very fact that the home-made product
IS so unsatisfactory on account of the poor
I'li'l'i- iis.^^l, would make it easier for im-
|"'ii.'l iiriirles to secure a foothold, if han-
dled energetically enough. Several condi-
tions must, however, be considered by the
American manufacturer of lumber products
who desires to start a trade in Asia Minor.
If he is not willing to devote the same atten-
tion and perseverance to it that he does at
home, and to study intelUgently the needs
of the market with a determination to event-
ually meet them satisfactorily, it would be
better for him to never take the matter up,
as failure through carelessness would only
tend to retard the importation of articles
which are bound to meet with eventual sue-
There is said to be at the present time a
growing field for the exporting of the
cheaper grades of American lumber into Mo-
rocco. In the accessible districts of that
country there is a total lack of timber, while
building is going on at a rapid rate, particu-
larly in Tangier, and much European timber
is used. Several shipments of American lum-
ber were sent to Tangier during the past few
years, and in all but one instance were ap-
parently most satisfactory as regards price,
quality, etc., so that the consul beUeves there
is no reason why American lumber exporters
should not be able to compete satisfactorily
with European dealers, and feels confident
that they would soon be in a position to sup-
ply the greater part of all lumber used there.
The demand for the better grades of hard-
wood is still small, but considerable hard-
wood flooring is imported; however, the lack
of direct transportation- faciUties between
this country and Morocco should receive close
attention from prospective exporters; but
with that one feature surmounted their suc-
cess would be assured. Former lumber ship-
ments have been sent over in foreign sailing
vessels visiting our ports, which were utilized
by lumbermen on their return trips; Tangier,
being at the very entrance to the Mediter-
ranean and but two and one-half hours from
the port of Gibraltar, is very accessible.
Spanish is the principal business language in
the coast towns, although EngUsh is largely
used and understood. One excellent point in
favor of the trade is that business in Mo-
rocco is usually carried on on a credit basis
of from only sixty to ninety days, so that
long time would not be required. Also most
firms can give excellent European references.
Several dealers in Capetown, South Africa,
prefer to buy the American lumber which
they order, through their London or New
York agents. One reason is that the agent is
able to make better arrangements regarding
freight rates, being where the chartering of
vessels naturally takes place. Another reason

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is tliat sueh ageuts, having liad experience in
exporting to South Africa, are able to give
proper instructions as to loading, and are
thus responsible for the state in which lum-
lier arrives at destination; thus it is not so
ilifficult to get just reimbursements in this
way as when buying direct from the shipper.
It is stated by concerns in Capetown that
they have tried getting their lumber from
companies in America, but almost without
exception it has resulted to the disadvantage
of all concerned. Our grading methods are
so different that the difficulty in ordering
direct from the lumber company which is not
acquainted with the South African trade, is
to make it perfectly plain just what is re-
quired, according to the methods used there,
in the year 1906 British South Africa im-
ported logs and lumber other than teak, to
the amount of 7,159,277 cubic feet, of which
1,808,185 cubic feet, valued at $433,158,
came from the United States.

The island of Formosa, near the mainland
of China, imports considerable American
lumber for use in harbor and railroad work.
At present it comes by way of Japan, and
girders measuring 25 to 30 feet in length
by 1% feet square are in special demantl.
They are used in bridge and trestle work, in
railway construction and repairs, and for
piles in the extensive harbor improvements
which are now in progress in the ports of
Takao and Kelung; this construction work
has been in progress for several years and
will be carried on probably four years more
before completed. One of the large importers
recently stated that his contract for supply-
ing such material ranged in amounts from
*5,000 to $25,000 gold, from time to time.
The freight rate on lumber from Japan to
Kelung is $1.60 per 40 cubic feet. At pres-
ent this dealer pays 55 cents gold per cubic
foot for lumber of the above dimensions.

Consul Charles C. Eberhardt of Equitos,
Peru, wrote about a year ago that at that
time there seemed no industry in Peru where
such profits could be made on comparatively
.small investments, as in a planing mill run
by practical lumbermen along up-to-date
lines; however, the consul invariably gives
the advice in reply to the many inquiries re-
ceived from lumbermen in the United States
regarding conditions in Peru — that no north-
erner should ever think of investing his
money in tropical South America, without
first having received a full report of local
conditions from a source known to be abso-
lutely capable and reliable — or better still,
without making a thorough personal investi-
gation.

Referring to a certain mill in that part of
the Amazon valley, which has been unusually
successful, the consul says that the machinery
used was not in the beginning by any means
first-class, although it has been lately much
improved. While there are in all five mills
(if different sizes situated at various points
along the Amazon within a few hours of
Iquitos, this is the only one which is depend-
able in a business way, the others running

only at irregular intervals, chiefly because of
inability at times to secure skilled labor to
operate the machinery, or unskilled for fell-
ing trees. This plant, with planing mill,
storage shed, tracks, dry kiln, etc., covers
about three and a half acres. The buildings
are made of rough native timber, covered
with roofing and siding of corrugated iron.
The machinery in the mill proper includes
two vertical saws, two circular saws, one
band-saw, winches, a 28-horsepower engine*
and other necessities of such an establish-
ment, all of German or French manufacture,
while in the planing mill, jointer, planer,
band-saw, circular saw, a 60-horsepower en-
gine — in fact, almost everything that goes
to make up a first-class outfit, has come from
the United States, and the work is in charge
of an American machinist with an American
assistant. The dimensions of the sawmill
are approximately 100 by 200 feet, the plan-
ing mill 40 by 115 feet, and the storing shed"
40 by 80 feet. The property has cost the
owner approximately $250,000 United States
currency, including 2,000 acres of timberland

and improvements to date; a good share of
each year 's profits has been immediately re-
invested, and though always earning a fair
percentage on his investment, the owner
states he has lost heavily at times through
lack of knowledge of how sueh a business
should be conducted ; that he has paid dearly
for his experience, but that after having spent
about $55,000 on improvements the past year,
he feels he is now in a position to reap big
profits, having cleared something like $19,000
during that time, exclusive of the expense
referred to. Other mills may in future com-
pete successfully, but owing to his experience
this manufacturer has practically a monopoly
at this time. His mill has a capacity of
about 6,000 feet per day, and as the demand
is always in excess of supply he finds a ready
market for all the lumber he can make. Logs
are transported to the mill by water entirely,
so that only timber near streams is cut at
present. The mill also does a general job-
bing business and persons needing lumber
often raft their own logs to it, to be cut to
required di

The Utilization of HardWoods.

ARTICLE IV.

The Manufacture of Organs.

The pipe organ is often called ' ' the mon- this country, but few of any prominence eom-
arch of musical instruments, " because it has mereially or artistically, and the makers
in it the possibilities of a whole orchestra. worthy of the n.tme number only about a half
It is a beautiful instrument when well played, dozen.

HANDSOME KEY DESK KIMBAI
but, unfortunately, good organists a»e rare,

IPE ORGAN IN KESIDE.N

Organs vary greatly in size, the largest of
ovi'iBg to the poor pay and small demand gigantic dimensions and requiring a large
for really fine performances. However, many quantity of wood in the construction. The
of these instruments are produced and there big organ installed in Festival Hall, at the
are a large number of organ builders in St. Louis World's Fair, was of truly mam-

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moth proportions — larger than any other in
America, and possibly in the entire world,
though one in Sidney, Australia, may be its
equal. A large instrument in the Shadyside
Presbyterian Church, Pittsburg, measures
about sixty feet in length and thirty feet
from the floor, on which it rests, to the top
of the tallest pipe, its depth being propor-
tional. On the other hand, a small pipe
organ may be less than ten feet high, some-
thing like six feet, wide and four feet deep.
Excellent material is always employed. The

this ease particularly so, because of its sub-
dued tone; the dull finish is very popular.
In many private houses the pipe organ, es-
pecially the automatic variety, frequently
holds the place of honor among the house-
hold accessories, and considerable magnifi-
cence in the way of carving is often shown,
as in the handsomest organs for churches and
halls.

The Pittsburg instrument mentioned above
is an example of elaborate and costly carv-
ing. There are no less than twenty-eight

magnificence that is attained in private
houses. The sides and top resemble a mantel
of intricate decoration, while the legs are
sculptured in the form of cherubs.

At the foot of the key-desk of the pipe
organ, directly beneath the organist 's bench,
are the pedals or pedal keys, which the un-
initiated might think have a function similar
to the piano pedal, but which in reality are
keys to pipes that form the general bass of
the organ. The long keys are equivalent to
the white keys of the piano or organ key-

exterior cabinet work on an organ is an inch
or an inch and a quarter thick throughout,
while pillars, cornices and mouldings may
attain a depth of four inches or more. There
is a great deal of solid material in the cabinet
work, but a poplar base, veneered with the
conventional hardwoods, is the regulation
thing for many parts. The veneers and solid
pieces may be of oak, walnut or mahogany,
or of other wood when the popular white
and gold is the decorative scheme. Oak is,
of course, a favored timber always, and in

columns in the casework, and each one has
an elaborate capital. Some of the cornices
and columns are heavily carved their entire
length. A handsome arch surmounts the key-
desk, as the organist 's place is called, carved
eagles crown two of the pillars, while a num-
ber of medallions containing ecclesiastical de-
signs and the paneling everywhere in evi-
dence make what even this slight description
will show to be an organ of decided archi-
tectural beauty. A key-desk in a home in
Chicago may be cited as a sample of the

board and are made of maple, oak, or some-
times, as in the older instruments, with maple
top and base of some other wood. The short,
"black keys" may be real black ebony, an
ebonized wood, or walnut.

Some of the pipes are of wood and some
of metal, depending on the quality of tone
desired. Wooden pipes are of various kinds.
There is considerable spruce used, its reso-
nant quality making it invaluable for some
purposes. The so-called soundboard is never
of spruce, but of birch or maple, a fact

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■nhieli will seem rather odd to people who
know that the sounding-boards of pianos,
violins, guitars, mandolins, harps, etc., are
made of that wood. The explanation is that
the soundboard of a pipe organ is not really
a sonnding or resonant board at all, but sim-
ply the superstructure upon which all the
pipes are placed. Birch or maple may be
chosen because of their strength, as the sound-
board bears the brunt of the weight of the
pipes. The soundboard is so named because
it contains grooves that carry the wind to the
pipes from the windchest, providing the
proper valve is opened.

The windchest in any organ is a large-sized
affair, and is of birch or maple like the
soundboard. The windchest in an organ of
medium size recently examined was sixteen
feet high, twelve feet across the front and
six feet from front to back, with a thick-
ness of about one inch, so that this one por-
tion of an organ alone consumes considerable
hardwood. The bellows is also usualiy of
hardwood.

Valves, when not of metal, are usually of
some soft timber. The wood used for stops
is immaterial, but in exceptionally fine in-
struments the value of the stop as a part of
the decorative scheme is recognized, and
carved or pearl-inlaid teak or boxwood and
other ornamental woods may be employed.
The black keys in the several keyboards or
"manuals" are ebony. Much more of this
wood is used than in pianos, for the number
of manuals ranges from one to five or more.
The reed organ is no longer as popular as
formerly. In farmers' homes, where it once
held an undisputed position, it is being super-
seded by the piano, as the farmer grows pros-
perous and better informed as to "city
ways ' ' ; while in the small church it is yield-
ing place to the pipe organ. There may still
be perhaps one organ manufactured to every
five pianos, but certainly the proportion is
not any greater.

It is a mistake to suppose that reed organs
are cheaply constructed. While this may be
said of some, the average organ is well made
— must be so, in order to compete at all with
the piano, which is so rapidly displacing it.
Eeed organs are seen in handsome cases
of mahogany, walnut or oak, and there is
a good deal of solid work about the finer
instruments, on account of the cases con-
taining so many small pieces that it would
be more expensive to veneer than to put in
solid. The cheaper ones are solid oak, walnut
of the less expensive grades, or walnut finish,
probably on a poplar base. Gum is much
used for cases by some makers. The variety
utilized takes on a reddish-brown finish and
has a grain' similar to that of mahogany.
The late W. W. KimbaU of the piano house
of that name, had great faith in gum as a
timber for reed organ eases, and ordered a
large part of the interior decorating in Kim-
ball Hall, the company's Chicago office build-
ing, done in this wood. His faith is shared
by Curtis N. Kimball, now president of the
concern, who showed the writer about the

oflSces and spoke highly of its use in some of
their organs.

The interior mechanism of the reed organ
is mostly of poplar and pine. The sound-
board is of spruce. It is above the reeds and
contains air-cavities that have much to do
with the tone quality of various notes. Bel-
lows are generally of poplar, several ply, to
give strength and prevent warping. The
action of the reed organ is very simple and
amounts to little more than this: When a
stop is drawn and a key depressed a valve is
opened, and wind passing through causes
the reed to vibrate. Wood action parts are
of poplar or pine, or botU.

American reed organs are of three kinds
as to exterior appearance: The kind gener-
ally found in the home of the farmer or pious
workingman is known as the ' ' parlor ' ' organ.
It is distinguished by a cabinet top, which
has nothing whatever to do with the tone, but
js fitted out with shelves for music, lamps,
vases, etc., and a "French beveled plate

glass mirror, ' ' to aid in the purposes of the
toUet, thus combining utOity with artistic (?)
merit. Eeed organs in general, and these
in particular, are elaborately carved, but ex-
cept in the best instruments hand work is not
usual. The chapel organ is the kind used
in churches, and its chief outward differ-
ence, as compared with the parlor variety, is
the lack of the cabinet top. The third style
is the piano case organ, which is practically
identical in appearance with the piano and
may have as many octaves. There is usually
more carving than the piano case shows, and
mahogany and rosewood finishes are com-
mon.

Eeed organs are almost entirely of wood.
The chief metal part is the reeds themselves,
which are of brass. The reed organ of
Great Britain and the continent of Europe
is known as the harmonium, and differs from
the American type mainly jn the direction
of the wind current.

Charles Klauber.

'BilVs Coup d'Etat.

Last fall when Bill Badcr was night watch-
man at the Ducktown lumber mill, and car-
ried on his vocation mth a lantern, he showed
that he had inherited some presence of mind
from his ancestors.

yard to say unpleasant things to said thun-
der; also to see that it didn't vibrate some
of the property and shake it down. But be-
fore he had .iourneyed very far several bolts
of lightning and plenty of rain landed on the
estate. One bolt hit the dry kiln, in which
was stored some hardwood flooring, interior
finish enough to fit out an Orthodox church
and a carload of oak planks.

This surprised Bill a good deal, and for a
minute he was undecided whether to call for
the fire department or the tinners: If the

BILL BADER GOING TO THE FIRE.

It was one midnight early in September.
Bill was feeding his countenance from a bas-
ket of victuals his second wife had put up,
and was using the engine room as a buffet.
While he was busy masticating a thunder
storm came up from the horizon and made a
dreadful din and commotion, souring the
cream as he was about to pour it into his
coffee.

This naturally made him feel mean and,
picking up his lantern, he went out into the

stuff was burning it should be the former;
if the roof of the kiln were leaking and spoil-
ing the seasoned material, the latter. As he

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stood there in the down-pouring dampness
he saw that the bolt had become an incendi-
ary, and without debating longer wandered
off to the 'phone.

"Please give me the fire department, an-
gel," said he.

' ' Line busy ! ' ' was the answer.

Hanging up the receiver, he was about to
write out his resignation when an idea struck
him. Hastily running to the filing room,
he procured a nail and a hammer. Armed
thus he continued his journey to the main
buOding standing contiguous to the dry kiln.
He procured a ladder, scrambled up the
rounds to the roof, and by the illumination of
the ever-increasing blaze in the kiln, punched
holes in the tin gutter on the side nearest
the conflagration. The heat was not at all
pleasant; in fact, it was so humid and close
up there that Bill had to retire across the
tin roof to the far side of the structure sev-
eral times to catch his inhale' and exhale so
that he could continue his service.

Having punched holes in the gutter at in-
tervals of two inches along the entire length,
he sat down in the rain to watch the result of
his plan. Naturally it proved a crackerjaok,
for where each hole was made the rain-water
that was by ' this time ■ pouring off the roof
ran and formed a sort of waterfall from top

to bottom of the main building, thus making
a barrier which the conflagration had to con-
flagrate before doing any further damage.

As Bill sat there, confident that he would
win out, the vice-president and yard foreman
came upon the scene. They were about out
of oxygen, having run all the way from their
residences at sight of the blaze. With what
breath they could command they asked Bill

what in he was doing with a hammer at

such a time and found fault with him vocifer-
ously.

' ' Wait before using unpleasant language to
me," observed Bill, good naturedly, ."and
note what I have accomplished! With this
hammer I have knocked the incendiary light-
ning bolt in the head! "

He explained what he had done to the gut-
ter and its magical effect upon the flames.
Having done this he was about to ask for
an increase in salary, when the yard foreman
told him that lie would be rewarded the fol-
lowing day with the ofiice of teamster, at an
increase of $2 per month. Bill thanked the
foreman heartily, accepted the tempting offer
on the spot, and coming- down off the roof — -
for the fire had almost spent itself — trium-
phantly went home to change his wet clothes.
G. D. Janes.

Imitations of HardWoods.

Probably no people are more wide awake
to the rapidly depleting lumber supply than
are the manufacturers of furniture, and they
are preparing themselves as fast as they can
to meet the exigencies of the future by per-
fecting to a high degree methods of imitat-
ing oak, walnut and the other expensive and
rapidly disappearing hardwoods which are
so popular for high-class furniture work.
Kot only do they practice economy by the use
of imitations wherever possible, but they em-
ploy veneer to a great extent, thus not only
actually improving the quality and stability
of their manufactured articles, but effecting
a marvelous saving in the use of expensive
woods.

During the last few years the great in-
crease in the price of hardwoods, which has
become necessary on account of their grow-
ing scarcity, has created a strong demand for
satisfactory substitutes which can be used in
manufacturing imitations. The two kinds
most often successfully imitated are mahog-
any and quartered oak in the golden and
darker finishes, but comparatively little de-
ception is attempted by manufacturers, and
they market the goods for exactly what they
are, or under some special trade name which
they have coined.

For imitating mahogany, cherry was
formerly used almost entirely, but of course
that wood itself is now one of the scarce
ones, and its consequent increased price has
led manufacturers to seek a material which
lends itself more readily to the stain, shows
the grain, and holds the gloss. Birch best
fulfills these requirements, although in some

parts of furniture maple, beech and gum are
used as substitutes for mahogany. Even in
the better grades of furniture, birch is often
used for posts and frames — panels, tops and
other parts being of mahogany veneer. It
is indeed a pity that birch finds its chief
function in furniture work and even inside
finish, as a substitute for mahogany, for its
beautiful grain, color, and the high finish
which it will take, eminently fit it for a high
place of its own in work of this character.
In making imitation quartered oak many
woods can be used, as the original grain is
first covered with a filler, and then the quar-
tering is imprinted in dark ink by the use
of actual quartered oak prepared by a special
process. Birch, maple and poplar are much
used for this purpose and after finishing
and polishing, it sometimes takes an expert
to detect the difference between the real and
the spurious.

There are certain woods used in fine furni-
ture construction which are exceedingly ex-
pensive owing to the difiSculty of obtaining
pieces with a good grain, of sufficient size
for working. Such a wood, for instan.-'c, is
the Circassian walnut, which comes from the
Ural mountains, and which is so popular at
present. It makes handsome veneers for
table-tops, beds and dressers, and forms one
of the most costly furniture "novelties" on
the market today. The core or backing is
sometimes made of American walnut in the
natural finish, and again of red gum, or satin
walnut, as it is called by the English trade,
which has a texture very similar to Circas-
sian walnut, wliile its grain is also very much
like it.

Department of Forestry at Pennsylvania
State College.

The profession of forestry is rapidly becom-
ing a dignifled and important one. The United
States Forest Service, the large railroads, mu-
nicipalities, and even Individuals with extensive
interests are employing foresters every day, so
that the demand is now greater than the sup-
ply.

A course in forestry is one of several given
by the School of Agriculture and Experiment
Station of the Pennsylvania State College, lo-
cated in Centre county, Pennsylvania. At pres-
ent twenty-four men have classified for the four-
year course in forestry. Throughout the entire
time special attention is given to a practical
study of the work.

From three to five hours a week are spent by
students in the field, studying the characteristics
of trees, collecting seeds, in planting and general
nursery practice, scaling logs and lumber, study-
ing growth and natural production, estimating
timber, making field maps and plans for forest
management, etc. During the senior year at
least four weeks are spent in large lumber camps
in some of the principal forest regions. Fre-
quent excursions are made to nearby mills, wood-
working establishments and large nurseries, and
to sections in which active forestry operations
are being carried on by the government, the rail-
roads or individuals.

Students of other institutions and special stu-
dents having the required qualifications are ad-
mitted to such courses as their preparation war-
rants, credit being given for work done else-
where, which is permitted to apply on the re-
quired course at the Pennsylvania' school.

The presence of a large variety of forest trees
on the campus, and native timber in consider-
able quantities near the college gives a splendid
opportiiiiitv r.. -^tniVnts for becoming acquainted
with 111- , !m' I. 1. : -!irs of trccs and their re-
producii' It I. I ji , ih. One of the largest of
the Stan i ■ ■ i n-.:\ations is within four miles
of the ecliim.' an.t the State nursery is within
eighteen miles, while there are several small
shingle and sawmills very close by, with large
factories at Williamsport and other points along
the Susquehanna river. A small forest nursery
was established early in 1907, and it now shows
several thousand seedlings which will be trans-
planted this spring.

The forestry department in Pennsylvania State
College is well equipped with all the necessary
paraphernalia for pursuing such a course. It
has fine classrooms and oflices, valuable speci-
mens and forest instruments, and a library of
over 150 volumes pertaining specifically to the
work.

A New Hardwood.

The DIeckmann Hardwood Company of San
Francisco, Cal., forwards the Hardwood Record
a handsome specimen of jenisero, the beautiful
Australian hardwood which it is now im-
porting in lavze quautities. The company re- _
ports tliiu il- ci, iii;iii,i for this wood on the
Coast i-; iMi, i-iit: lapicily, and that it has all
the faLiliii \^ I'l -l.i|.|iiiig large amounts of well-
dried stuck ou shuii notice and for cutting thin
veneers.

The wood takes a very beautiful finish and its
general appearance may perhaps be best imagined
by describing it as having the rich color of
"golden" oak, with the grain of Laguna ma-
hogany. The larger the piece, the more attrac-
tive the general appearance of the wood. Jeni-
sero is being extensively used where a handsome
material is required, minus the cost of the very
choicest varieties. The Dieckmann Hardwood
Company is enthusiastic over it and claims many
ooellent points in its favor, viz., that it is ex-
tremely durable, is hard yet easily worked, has
a fine, smooth texture, takes a high polish, glues
perfectly, does not dent or mar, and grows hard-
er with age.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Of Interest to the Handle Trade,

[Under (he above heading the Hardwood
Record will undeitake to publish items of inter-
est to manufacturers of handles in every issue,
and will be glad to have readers of the paper
contribute comments on market conditions,
queries, or news pertaining to this trade, which
may come under the observation from time to
time.l

The Semi-Annual.

The HauOle Manufacturers' Association
of America will hold its regular semi-annual
meeting at the Louisville Hotel, Louisville,
Ky., on Wednesday, May 20, at which time
the entire association will be the guests of
the Turner, Day & Woolworth HaD'He Com-
pany of that city and the I. F.
Force Handle Company of New
Albany, Ind. Both of these con-
cerns are prominent members of
the Hickory Division, but their
generous invitation is extended
not only to members of that
branch of the association but to
all connected with the maple and
ash and oak departments as well.
They request that all who con-
template attending the meeting
notify the secretary as far. in ad-
vance of May 20 as possible, that
they may know how many to
prepare accommodations for.

An interesting program has
been prepared which includes
papers on "A Brief History of
the Handle Business ' ' by Charles
D. Gates; "The Niceties of Han-
dle Manufacture" by C. L. Hart-
well; "My Experience With
Saws" by T. R. King; "The
Low Grade Problem in the Small
Factory ' ' by F. W. Peters — and
others, covering different and
varied phases of the handle busi-
ness, by men of long experience
in the trade.

Hickory Division.
The importance of the coming
meeting can scarcely be over-
estimated. To the Hickory Divi-
sion of the association it is a
necessary and important one, for
there is no denying that prices
on hickory handles have become
somewhat demoralized within the
past couple of mouths. As usual it
is principall}' the smaller manu-
facturers who are causing the
trouble, or at least those who ar

other manufacturers in so doing; on the
contrary the moment they do withdraw their
support of a just schedule of values, the
result cannot but be disastrous to the small-
er dealer, for not only will he cease to
make money on his product but in the ma-
jority of cases he will actually be unable
to continue business for any great length
of time, while the larger manufacturer
naturally will feel his losses much less
keenly and can hold out indefinitely.

Thus it will be seen that the coming
meeting has to deal with very important
questions now before the trade, and that it

Two Kinds of Handles

^ivrtilliinu has Iwo haiidkx — nnc bji which it may be borne; an-
i,j which ilcniuwl.—EPICTETVS.

HERE are innumerable cups on the table of
life. Some are gilded and beautiful. Some
Lcintain bitter mixtures. Others are sweet to
the taste. Every man must take such of the
cups as are given him. What happens? The
most beautiful cup often becomes bitter. The
most bitter cup often grows sweet. See how this is!

\ ou can take the morning by the handle of a frown and
the whole day will frown on you. Take the stormiest
day with a smile and it will grow pleasant.

Take your work by the handle of reluctance and it will
grow intolerable; you, the same man, take the same work
by the handle of willingness and it becomes easy. Try it!
Take your pleasure by the handle of self=indulgence and
the pleasure is spoiled ; take it by the handle of generosity,
share it, and it will last.

Take wealth by one handle and it loads you with cares;
take It b\ the oihcr handle and see what will happen.

Take >ciur busincNS as a means of getting a living and
it becomes \ uigar drudgery ; take it as a means of social
service and it will be a noble religion.

Take marriage by the handle of your self-will and it
turns out a failure: take It by the handle of love and you
will be more happy every day.

Handle men with distrust and you will never get on
with them ; handle them by good w ill and the same men
will be your friends.

Take your.self by the handle of egotism and you waste
your power. Use the handle of modesty and the world is
with you.

Take pain by the handle of fear and you will always
have something to suffer. Take pain by the handle of
courage and nothing can hurt you.

Take sorrow with self-pity «ind you will become too
lonely to live. Take it by the handle of your sympathy
and your .sorrow shall be translated into new power to help
all others who suffer.

Take the world by the handle of doubt and the day
grows dark. Take it as God's world and the sun atid stars
will always be shining.

Take death with dread and you lessen the tide of life.
Take death with hope and life broadens into an infinite
meaning.— CHARLES F. DOLE.

not edu-
cated up to a proper realization of the cost
of this product and its consequent value.
There are those in the trade, possibly even
in the association, who cannot or will not
understand that the large manufacturers
are not their enemies, but on the other
hand are their very bulwarks. They will
hold up the value of their product to the
Inst degree, which insures protection to

is a matter of more than passing intorost.
Every hickory handle manufacturer who
can possibly arrange his affairs to attend
should do so without fail, and a large num-
ber have already signified their intention
of so doing.

Broom and Mop Handles.

To the Majilo Division of the association

the matter is an equally important one,

but not for exactly the same reasons. This

department bid fair at one time to be as
thrifty and to accomplish as much for its
members as has the Hickory Division, but
for sundry reasons it has not been thor-
oughly organized up to date, and it would
seem that if these people are ever to -get to-
gether they should do so very promptly.
While the officers of the general association
have done and shall continue to do all in
their power to aid the broom handle cause,
yet they cannot but feel that unless there is
strong cooperation and interest on the part
of manufacturers at the forthcoming semi-
annual meeting in Louisville, they will be
pardoned for feeling just a
little bit discouraged in this re-
gard. On account of personal
reasons H. B. Alexander, the
head of this division, resigned
office some weeks ago and at
Louisville a new head will be
chosen, so that it is to be sin-
cerely hoped a good representa-
tive number of broom and mop
handle people will be on hand to
place some one in charge of their
association affairs who will be
able to devote considerable time
and attention to getting them
into logical shape, in which he is
promised the active support and
cooperation of the officers.

Perhaps the following letter
from the president of a well-
known broom and mop handle
concern best illustrates the pres-
ent situation in this division:
"Replying to your notice of the
Louisville meeting and what you
have to say about the Broom
Handle Division, will say that we
have been very much interested
in the association, and have done
our best to get it to go. Have
attended all the meetings — even
went to Cleveland, because of not
receiving notice of postponement
in time. This meeting at Cleve-
land being called off gave our di-
vision a pretty black eye, as all of
the broom handle manufacturers
in our section seemed ready to at-
tend; but I am afraid they have
now rather lost faith, .for which
^^^^^^ I am very sorry, as I know great
work could be accomplished if we
could get together. As it is now I am afraid
we will have to start all over again with the
work. Have noticed the progress the Hickory
division is making and wish them all kinds
of success, for they are accomplishing re-
sults that could not be obtained in any other
way. ' '

In view of the above facts, it behooves
the Maple and Minor Woods Division to go
to Louisville in full force and "get busy."

HARDWOOD RECORD

There are certainly enough men in this
branch of the trade to put through a good
flourishing organization and now is the time
to do it.

Plow Handle Department.

With regard to the oak department it
would seem that plow handle manufactur-
ers, having previously had an organization
and knowing the benefits of it, would be
anxious to get together again. One manu-
facturer in this particular line, who is a
member of the association, writes that he
has had considerable correspondence with a
number of them and that recently a few.
met and talked the question over. They
maj- decide to come into the association if
they may do so as a distinct branch, and it
is to be hoped that they will attend the
Louisville meeting and take some action in
this direction at that time.

Manufacturers of Ash Handles.

C. \V. Sp.'irv, \ ir,.-|,ivsi.l.-nt of the Ash
and Oak Dh immm. win.-, that the depart-
ment will natui.illy jurluilo only the manu-
facturers of uutiuished ash stock, inasmuch
as the finishers already have a distinct or-
ganization of their own along slightly dif-
ferent lines than that contemplated by the
general handle association. This branch of
the trade has long been in need of an asso-
ciation, and in fact it was a few people
engaged in making the unfinished product
who were the real originators of the present
Hickory Handle Manufacturers' Associa-
tion of America. However, the majority of
them are very difficult to get in, seeming to
think that such a proposition will hurt their
trade instead of helping it. How they can

possibly have such an idea is a matter of
conjecture, and certainly not one of prece-
dent, as the history of all association work
would naturally lead to the opposite deduc-
tion. The officers sinrnrlv Impr tli:it manu-
facturers of unfinishi'.l :inIi IkhhIIi'S will
make this regular si'iiii ;iiiiiii;ii iiMMting an
occasion for getting together and evolving
some plan for the betterment of their
branch of the industry.

The Smith-Kizer Manufacturing Company
of Eural Hall, N. C, reports that it will
close its plant about the last of May, and
probablj' not open up again until Septem-
ber. The company does only a small busi-
ness in the handle line but writes that it
will make an effort to get the manufactur-
ers in South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama
interested in the work of the new associa-
tion for the benefit of all.

"William Charlesworth Handle Company of
Fayetteville, Ark., write that they have run
their factory most of the winter and have
at present a well-assorted stock of handles
in a clean, dry warehouse. The factory is
not running now and will not to any ex-
tent until conditions change for the better.
Mr. Charlesworth does not believe that
trade will be very lively for the next month
or so, nor that low prices will get much
business. He feels that he cannot make
handles any cheaper than the present asso-
ciation quotations, and prefers to let his
factory stand idle rather than to . barely
break even, or run at an actual loss. How-
ever, he is optimistic and believes that han-
dles will sell readilj- and at good profit be-
fore long.

Hardwood Record Mail 'Bag.

will be made to answer queries pertaining to all
matters of interest to the b.irdwood trade, in
a succinct and intelligi?nt manner.]

Wants Hickory.

The Hardwood Eecord is in receipt of a
communication from a large and well-known
manufacturing house inquiring for a source
of supply for 2 V^ -inch firsts and seconds
hickory for which it is in the market. Any-
one wishing to be put into communication
with this correspondent will be furnished
the address on application. — Editok.

BER Company.

Anyone interested in the above inquiry will
be furnished the name of our correspondent
upon application to this office. — Editor.

Amend Honorable, and a Correction.

Phinceton, Ind., April 23. — Editor Hardwood

Wants Crating Stock.

Parkersburg, W. Va., April 24. — Editor
:ardwood Record : Can you supply us with a

llEccfRD : We

you intimate

a lumberman,

Be a Camel '.''

did not mean

rine as a lumberi

of the best there

the stated number of feet of timber purchased

in British Columbia. You have it 3,000,000 —

we meant to say 300.000,000 feet. — A. B.

XiCKEY & Son.

notice in your issue o£ even date
;ve cast a reflection on Perrine as
referring to bis poem "Who Would
In reply will say we certainly
to cast any reflections on Mr. Per-

also want to correct

A Famous Walnut Log,

The mammoth walnut log represented in
this illustration was exhibited at the World's
Fair, held in Chicago in 1893. It is now
over fifteen years since this tree was cut, and
the walnuts left standing in the country are
but dwarfed and stunted trees in comparison;

today it hardly seems possible that such a
tree ever grew. However, there are doubt-
less many lumbermen and others who saw this
log while it was on exhibition, and who will
be able to recognize it from the picture. The
log was 16 feet long, and 77 inches widest

diameter at one end. The opposite diameter
was not so great by 6 inches, which made the
mean diameter of the log 74, and if it had
been hewn for export it would have made a
fair measurement of 75 inches from wane to
wane.

There is no scale card or log book that
will give the contents of such a log, as the
diameters are never carried over 50 inches,
but Doyle 's formula for finding the contents
of logs in inch boards would make it as fol-
lows: Diam., 74 inches — 4 inches for slab=:
70 inches, divided by 4^17%, squared=:
3061.4x16, the length of the log=4,900 feet,
or the contents of the log.

This is an exaggeration, and though carried
out by the figures and rule, is disproved by
practice. It is true that small logs, when
measured by Doyle-Scribner rule on an aver-
age gain in sawing, and the smaller the log,
the greater the gain; while on the other
hand, large logs, or those over 30 inches
in diameter, lose in sawing, and the larger,
the greater the loss. It is reasonable to say,
however, if this log had been sawed on a
thin band saw, it would have produced about
4,000 feet of inch boards.

The task of securing a suitable log for
the World's Fair was undertaken by J. H.
Rudrow, one of the pioneer walnut men in
the west. The tree first selected for this
purpose stood on Mormon creek, in Bates
county, Missouri, on land belonging to J.
W. Harrelson, who lived at Belton, in Cass
county, Missouri, but the task was given up
by its promoters eventually. This tree, how-
ever, was a more perfect specimen than the
log represented in the picture, although it
would not have shown so large a diameter;
the trunk was taller and better proportioned,
being straight as an arrow, 42 feet to the
first large limb. The original idea was to
exhibit it in an upright position, as it stood
ill the forest, cutting off the top, or great
limbs sup])orting the crown, of course, but
leaving the long stubs of the limbs, branch-
ing out from the trunk. The tree was
grubbed down, the side or spur roots being
uncovered and cut off at a distance of six
or eight feet on all sides from the body or
base of the tree, the idea being that these
would answer for braces, in holding it safely
in an upright position, without the use of
unsightly guys, or stays from the top, and
at the same time add to the attractiveness
and novelty of the exhibit. But these in-
creased the weight of the log and made it
unwieldy, and much more difficult to handle,
and notwithstanding the fact that two trac-
tion engines, several teams, and a set of
house trucks were installed in this undertak-
ing, it proved a failure. The project was
so expensive that it was abandoned after
dragging the huge log for over a mile at an
expense of $150. The roots and prongs or
stubs of the great Umbs were then cut off
close to the body of the tree, which was
sawed into four logs, hauled to Adrian, Mo.,
and hewn and shipped for export timber.
In spite of failure at first ilr. Eudrow was

HARDWOOD RECORD

again, if the extreme of stability is required,

the cogs are made individually, which is a

more practicable manner of producing wooden

ring. The flanges are constructed in the

persistent, knowing of another tree that was
more favorably situated across the line in
Kansas. It stood on land belonging to a
Leavenworth county farmer, P. W. Gower
by name, on a creek which emptied into the
Kaw river about twenty-five miles southwest
of Kansas City. Mr. Eudrow now deter-
mined to make a second attempt, which re-
sulted in securing the tree represented in
the picture. The matter was brought to the
attention of J. H. Verbeck, of Grant City,
Mo., and S. F. Prouty, of Des Moines, la.,
who were the most widely-known and expe-
rienced walnut men in the country. They
considered it practical and gave it their able
and earnest assistance, so that in due time

the log was delivered to the Union Pacific
railroad at the little town of Linwood, and
there loaded on a ear, to be soon landed in
a conspicuous place in the wonderful dis-
play of American woods at the great exposi-
tion, as a product and the property of the
Sunflower state.

After the Fair was over, the log was sold
to a prominent exporter, and is said to have
been made into souvenirs of the Fair, in the
form of three-inch cubes, or paper weights,
with artistic lettering. This log was pro-
nounced by the highest authority the largest
16-foot walnut log in the world, and it was
without any visible defect.

J. V. Hamilton.

Hardwood for Motor Vehicles.

The introduction of modern motor vehicles
was followed by an increased demand for sev-
eral articles, such as rubber for tires, wood
for various parts and various metals for the
mechanism of the machines.

When motor cars first came out practic-
ally all the mechanical portions were con-
structed of iron or other metal. Then there
came the framework gears, with rawhide
cogs, to create a soft running motion and
freedom from friction and liability to break-
age existing in the common cast iron cog.
In order to attain lightness and a certain
character of motion, so-called wooden gears
were constructed. In practice the wooden
gear is generally strengthened by the use of
side flanges; one might suppose that a wholly
wooden gear is used, but the wooden portion
is limited to the cogging. It 'is desirable
that the cogs be of very firm wood. In fact.

some of the hardest and closest-grained spe-
cies are used.

The nature of the design for a cog gear is
ex-hibited in Fig. 1. The blank form is cut
out from the chosen piece of timber. The
marking center is aligned from A to B by
means of -the triangle. The center of the
point of each cog is fixed and defined with
a scratch line. The lines serve as guides for
the cutting of the blanks to cog form. A
metal flange is clamped on each side of the
wooden disk. This flange provides the bore
for the hub and therefore the wheel may be
geared, set-screwed or keyed on the shaft.

The cogs are cut in various ways. In some
shops the cutting is begun with hand saws,
followed up by truing with common band
chisels. In other shops the chisel is em-
ployed from the start and the cogs are made
by a system of chipping and gouging. Then

HAKOWOOD ^^^2.

Lur-,c-,A6F aox

orainary way, but instead of using a wooden
center a metal center is employed as in Fig.
2. This metal center is provided with the
necessary series of openings to receive the

HARDWOOD RECORD

wooden cogs, -nhicli are made long enough to
allow a driving end. The driving end is thus
inserted into the slot of the cylinder.

After all the cogs are in place, truing down
is done on a lathe and the cogs are filed and
cut to form. One of the ordinary wood blanks
in process of marking with triangle and
square is shown in Fig. 3. The defining line
is marked C to D.

Some of the wooden cogs are made to dove-
tail into the metal or the wood rim as in Fig.
4. This is not so reliable as the former
method, but answers all purposes for light
■work. There is also the pin system of mak-
ing cogs, shown in Fig. 5. The rim of the
wheel is bored to receive the wooden pin as
shown. This style of gearing is employed
only in remote cases in which there are light
mechanical parts to operate.

Hardwood is not in demand merely for the
use of wooden gearing in motor vehicles, but
extends to the other parts of the machine.
The guards for the wheels were made from
thin sheet metal for a number of years. The
weight of the metal, however, was a handi-
cap, and the japan wore off, leaving rusty
surfaces. In the event of the car getting
into an accident, the sheet metal edges acted
like knives and often caused serious injuries.
Hence leather guards, paper pulp guards and
all sorts were devised. Finally hardwood
guards were constructed as in Fig. 6 and fit-
ted with metal brackets for attachment to the
sides of the vehicles. They became general,
and are of course made from wood which
can be bent readily. Bending is accomplished
by steam devices in which the moisture is
forced into the fiber by pressure, followed
by compressing the wood to shape on wooden
models.

There are parts of the automobile where
lightness has been secured, and at the same
time security, by adopting wooden nuts and
shafts as in Fig. 7. Usually the English
standard thread is cut on the nut and shaft.
Such threads are blocky and strong. Of
course small bolts and nuts cannot be made
like this, but where a large bolt is needed,
some saving in weight can be obtained by the
application of a lighter wooden threaded shaft
and nut. The threads are easily cut on a
turning lathe. Hardwood spokes for wheels
are becoming more and more common. For
some years only metal wheels were thought
to be suitable for motor cars, but when mo-
tors for carrying express came out the wooden
spoke and rim, rubber-tired wheels commenced
to appear, and proved to be light and strong.
Consequently they were applied to passenger
motors and touring cars of all kinds. Fig. 9
shows one of the spokes made in the usual
way. Fig. 8 shows method of laying off a
strip with the try-square. The defining lines
extend from E to F.

A number of the small parts of modern
motor vehicles are fitted with wooden con-
trivances. Fig. 10 shows a block to which a
stud and pin are fastened by means of four
bolts. By this system the backing is of
wood, effecting a saving of weight over what

it would be if the block were of iron. There
are also hardwood shells for the backs and
sides of cars, as in Fig. 11. In fact, very

many parts of recently designed automobiles
are constructed of hardwood. Luggage boxes
are made on the plan shown in Fig. 12.

NeWs Miscellant;.

Monthly Meeting of the Grand Rapids Lum-
bermen's Association.

Grand Rapids, Mich., has a strong commercial
organization known as the Grand Rapids Lum-
bermen's Association. It is made up of prac-
tically every legitimate wholesaler in that city.
From the fact that this furniture center is a
leading hardwood market the hardwood element
predominates lu the organization. It holds reg-
ular monthly meetings and brings under discus-
sion all features of the trade and any measures
that will contribute to the betterment of local
market conditions.

The officers of the association for the current
year are L. L. Skillman of the Skillman Lumber
Company, president ; I. Preston Rice of the Rice
Veneer & Lumber Company, secretary, and N. J.
G. Van Keulen of the Van Keulen & Wilkinson
L.imber Company, treasurer.

On the evening of April 28 the association
held its regular monthly meeting and served a
dinner at the Livingston hotel. About twenty-
five members were present and as guests, Theo-
dore Fathauer of the Theo. Fathauer Company,
Chicago ; Frank F. Fish, secretary of the Na-

I.. L SKILLMAN, PRESIDENT.

Ilnrdwood Lumber As

spei-ti.in -x-i.ii, !.,-> - in Hi- \;niM,ial Hard-
wood l.iia!i..r Assn. Kill. in was tlieu entered into.

I'lesident Skillman read a communication from
the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club enclosing a
resolution recently adopted by that organiza-
tion, recommending that the National association
revert to its 1905 inspection system, and depre-
cating the enforcement of the rules adopted at
the last annual meeting at Atlantic City. The
Grand Rapids association was invited to express
an opinion on this matter and to join Cincinnati
in its protest against the enforcement of the new
rules.

Secretary Fish explained in detail the slight
differences between the new and old rules and
said that the new system was a matter of joint
agreement between the manufacturing and job-

bing elements of the association and that he
was a thorough believer in it as being manifestly
fair to all elements of the trade.

The editor of the Recohd, on invitation from

cated any agitation on inspec-
il stated that the present rules
rif the best judgment of the best
lb the National association and
that he believed due deference should accordingly
be paid to this opinion, to the end that uniform
inspection might prevail and a universal stand-
ard be promulgated.

On motion a committee was appointed to
analyze carefully inspection results with mill
run northern lumber under both the old and new
rules, and to make a report at the next monthly
meeting of tbe association, when a recommenda-

N. J. G. VAN KEULEN, TREASURER.

tion will be made either for or against the new
rules, to be presented to the National association
at its forthcoming meeting in Milwaukee in June.

HARDWOOD RECORD

The discussion prevailing at the meeting
hrought out very forcefully the fact that com-
paratively few jobbers are thoroughly posted on
titlier the old or the new rules ; that there is
considerable prejudice against the latter — of a
legendary nature, owing to the fact that they
have not been thoroughly dissected ; and there is
a feeling that they lower the standard of inspec-
tion materially. Some reports from buyers were
presented alleging that grades were actually
lowered to the extent of from $3 to $5 a thou-
sand, which of course is far from being the
fact. Other reports were made indicative of
the absolute certainty that with northern woods
I he new rules do not lower the grades to an ex-
tent of more than 25 cents a thousand, which
is liliely much more in accord with the facts
than the unintelligent opinions offered by sun-
dry buyers.

The Grand Rapids Lumbermen's Association
is taliing a very commendable stand in the mat-
ter, and very likely after the rules are thor-
oughly tried out by its committee will be able to
present to the National association at Milwau-
kee an intelligent opinion, with recommenda-
tions tor any needed changes, that will bear con-
siderable weight.

Annual Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club.

Every concern represented on the membership
list 'of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club was
prisent at the regular annual meeting and elec-
tion held the evening of May 4 at the Business
Men's Club. At 6 :30 an- elaborate dinner was

tion in increasing freight rates in the Central
Traffic Association district, and specifically the
proposed advance of 2 cents on lumber. The
resolutions recite that this is a grave injustice
at this time of depressed markets, and that lum-
ber rates are already excessive.

The club also indorsed the "birds' home park"
plan of Councilman Bob O'Brien. It was de-

Kr.SIDKNT.

s( rved, after which I'lcidont T .7 MolTctt called
the meeting to order.

.Mr. Moffctt reviewed briefly the work accom-
I'lished by the club during the .vear and thanked
I lie members for their cooperation. lie was fol-
l.iwed by Treasurer B. F. Bramlage and Secre-
lary E. J. Thoman, who presented satisfactory
reports. Chester F. Korn, chairman of the Com-
mittee on Law and Insurance, reviewed matters
which had come under its jurisdiction, and svas
followed by W. A. Bennett, chairman of the
Itiver and Kail Committee, with a brief resume
of alTairs pertaining to shipping rates, rights,
etc. (leorge Littleford, chairman of the Inspec-
tion Committee, announced that his committee
and the club had already gone on record as
being in favor of a return to 1905 rules, and
that they would so declare at the meeting of
the National Uardwood Lumber Association at
Milwaukee. J. Watt Graham, chairman of the
Membership Committee presented seven new ap-
plications for membership.

A resolution was passed condemning the pros-
pective action of the Central Traffic Associa-

THO.MAS .7. MOFFETT. UETIUING PRESI-
IiF.NT.

dared that $30,000,000 worth of luml>er is de-
stroyed in the United States each year by worms
and insects, which pests are destroyed by the
birds.

.7. W. Darling. F. W. Mowbray and C. U. Pease
were appointed a committee to arrange for at-
tending the convention of the National Hardwood
lumber Association to be held in Milwaukee in
.lune. The local club strongly recommends the
II adoption of the 1005 ruling system, and they
will use their power to have it again placed in
Older.

i:icctlon of ofTiiers resulted in a tie, and the

I.. \V. RADINA, TREASCREU.

winner was decided through a straw vote. For
two weeks only two tickets were In the field,
but about an hour previous to the casting of the
ballots the third ticket sprung up before the
members. The following were the successful
candidates : B. F. Dulweber, president ; George
Littleford, first vice president ; C. F. Shlels,

second vice president ; L. W. Radina, treasurer,
and W. S. Sterett. secretary.

President Thomas J. MofEett, in a short speech,
surrendered the gavel to Mr. Dulweber, after
which he was given a rousing vote of thanks
for past good service. Jlr. Dulweber stated after
the election that he would, as soon as possible,
announce his standing committees for the year,
perhaps at the next meeting of the club in June.
■Will Fight Increased Freight Bates.
The Illinois Manufacturers' Association,
through its president, Frederick W. Upham,
one of Chicago's prominent lumbermen and act-
ive politicians, has called a great conference of
sbipiMK tn mert at the Auditorium Annex, Fri-
ll:! \ i' i.sist by organized action the
I ,10 per cent in freight rates'
; -' east from Chicago. It Is
.1 i.iu roads will follow the foot-
si rps ..1 till- liuis who are leading the flght for a
•boost." claiming that the cost of transportation
has soared high of late. Traffic managers of
the western lines have held conferences lately,
going over the situation and discussing possible
ways and means of making the desired increase
without calling down upon their heads the wrath
of the railroad commissioners of Missouri, Ohio
and Minnesota, which have been prone to ham-
mer down the rates.

The roads will have a rough path to travel
before they make the proposed changes, and
President Upham and his conference will throw
as many rocks in their path as possible. Not
only will they have determined opposition to
conquer, but It would seem that they already
have their hands full in resisting the efforts of
state commissions to keep their charges down to
a reasonable basis.

Following is the call President Upham issued
to the president of every leading industrial, mer-
cantile and shipping organization In what is
known as official classification territory, also
to associations In the middle west :

"At a time when all signs point to a complete
restoration of business activity and confidence
and in the very face of Improving conditions, the
carriers in official classification territory have
announced their Intention to advance freight
rates 10 per cent.

"Tl>elr traffic officials and vice-presidents in
charge of traffic appear to be impregnable to the
protests of the shippers. They seem to lose
sight of the fact that the carrier. Is dependent
upon the shipper as much as the shipper is de-
pendent upon the carrier.

"The only way to resist the proposed advance
is for shippers to organize, and a conference
has, therefore, been called under the auspices
of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association, to be
held at the Auditorium Annex, Chicago, Friday,
.May 15, at 10 a. m. Your association Is ear-
nestly requested to be represented by one or more
shippers. It is exceedingly important that every
shipping Interest in .official classification terri-
tory be represented.

"Please wire the Illinois Manufacturers' As-
sociation, American Trust Building, Chicago,
promptly the names of those who will be present
for your association."

"The present conflict is not the first time
that the Illinois Manufacturers' Association has
lieen at variance with the railroads in official
classification territory," said an official of the
association recently.

"Three or four years ago, when these same
roads undertook to advance the rate 20 per cent
under the guise of a proposed uniform bill of
lading, the Illinois Manufacturers' Association
organized the territory under the banner of the
American Shippers' Association and took the
case to the Interstate Commerce Commission.
The carriers then asked for a conference.

"It one stops to think he realizes that nearly
every article of commerce passes through this
process of taxation before It reaches the con-
sumer. It seems then in advancing rates 10 per
cent each article used is advanced something
like 10 per cent five times."

HARDWOOD RECORD

Prosperous Sawmill Machinery House.

In common with other lines of trade the aver-
age sawmill machinery institution is running on
short hours, owing to slackened demand for its
product. However, there is one prominent house
of this kind which is enjoying such business
activity that it has run its big plant for months
past without any diminution of hours or number
of employes — the JX. Garland Company of Bay
City, Mich.

Siuce last fall this company has equipped more
than a half dozen new sawmills. Views of tnree
of these plants arc presented on this page. The
new model double band sawmill of the Richard-
son Lumber Company at Bay City presents as
high a type of construction for a hardwood plant
as any in the country. It is doing most excel-
lent work and its owners are highly pleased with
the complete equipment of Garland machinery

has

lleil.

Qodel

The second plant
proof construction in connection with the big
modern flooring factory of W. D. Young & Co.
at Bay City. This plant has been installed as a
single band Garland equipment and has made
the almost phenomenal record on Michigan hard-
woods — cutting almost entirely inch stock — of
68,000 feet in two ten-hour shifts per day. W.
D. Young & Co. have placed orders with the M.
Garland Company for a second band mill to be
added to this present equipment, to be installed
under the same roof within sixty days. A more
detailed description of the sawmill and flooring
factory of this concern will appear in an early
issue of the Record.

The third mill pictured herewith is that of the

Forest Lumber Company, of Tower, Mich., which
is said to be one of the model single band plants

Garland Company are specialists in
machinery and have built
Hills, notably in the state of
famous for its- accurate and
■u of lumber. In addition
of machinery product the company

of the CO

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economi. ;

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are also

speciali

automatic transfer ma-

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chinery, and have many original and practical
devices for the handling of everything from logs
to mill waste at a minimum of cost. Their as-
sorting devices are recognized as standards the
world over, and they also make many appliances
for the handling of pulpwood and waste in con-
nection wiih iiul|i and II ipfi- mills. Another line
of prn.l n I i- liic aiaiin::,' liar of equipment for
wooil (In nil 111 iil.im- III '.vliii li they are the chief

An Improved Hardwood Floorer.

From time to time inquiry is made tor some-
thing above the ordinary in the line of hardwood
floorers. As a successful result of effort along
this line there is herewith illustrated a new
and improved type of machine, which, though
it has only been on the market a short time,
has proven a wonder to flooring manufacturers
because of its excellent work, ease of adjustment
and rapid feed.

The machine will work material 5 and 10
inches wide and S inches thick. Its frame is
solidly built, open style, heavily ribbed and
girded throughout. The feed is the main feat-
ure of construction. It consists of four double-
geared, down-driven rolls. The two upper in-
feeding rolls are carried on a pair of side hous-
ings and are raised and lowered simultaneously
by hand, as shown in illustration. This ar-
rangement insures perfect alignment. The out-
feeding rolls are driven from the in-feeding end
ol the machine by chain and sprockets. The cut
shows the spring pressure to the upper in-feed-
ing rolls, which does away with the old system
of cumbersome weights and levers.

The matcher spindles are adjustable across
the machine and may be drawn clear to the side
out of the way for surfacing the full width of
the cylinders. The latter are solid crucible
steel forgings, four-sided and slotted. Upper
cylinder bearings are rigidly yoked together and
raise and lower on large square-threaded screws,
mounted on ball bearings. The lower cylinder
is adjustable for alignmfiit. and with bar after
cut draws out at side i>i' iiiai liin- I'm- conveni-
ence in setting and shai i" nin- ili. knives.

The machine is eqiiipiMMl with imlent roller

HARDWOOD RECORD

MACHINE.

hold-do

ifh iusuifs a porfectly fitting-
tongue and groove. The use of stud gears has
been eliminated and all bearings are self-oiling.
For further Information regarding this machine
address the manufacturers, J. A. Fay & Egan
Company, West Front street. Cincinnati, Ohio.

Building Operations for April.

Official building reports from forty-seven lead-
ing cities of the country, for the month of April.
liiOS, received and tabulated by The American
Contractor, Chicago, show a marked falling off
in the value of building permits issued as com-
pared with the corresponding month of last
year. Yet, notwithstanding the loss, which
amounts to nearly one-third, the operations re-
ported are still large when contrasted with those
of only a few years ago. Several things com-
bine to reduce building operations at present —
the enormous amount of construction work done
within recent years, which has largely supplied
the demand for buildings : the unsettled condi-
lions incident to the recent currency stringency,
and the approach of the presidential election.
Only eleven cities show a gain. Most notable
among these is Chicago, where the permits ag-
gregated $0,130,850, a gain of 14 per cent.
April

Hoo-Hoo at Chicago.

annual concatenation of Hoo-Hoo will be

(Jhicairo the week commencing Septem-

*'hi<airn lumbermen have adopted "Greater

■ i" as tliPir slogan, and have gone to work

eutinlaiument scheme with the vim and

arty coiiperation for which they are famous,

111 the determination to make the gathering not

mailer of a day or two. but tn innntrurate a

al live Lumbermen's Week n' ■' •' •■-- '

Chicago has never enterti i.re,

representatives of ;;ii.er

ill ilip world the fi. ' t be-

the

11 ider. In accordance with the

^1 they will leave no stone un-

tiii: good fellowship and mutual

und'Tsianiiinj: lielween all branches of the trade,
and will make it their pleasurable duty to bring
all the "old timers" and as many newcomers in
the industry as possible into the fold.

The names appearing on the following list of
committees appointed for the management of the
scheme are a guarantee that nothing will be left
undone to make the week of September 7 not only
an enjoyable one to all visitors, but a memorable
one in lumber affairs.

Executive Comihttee.

Edgar II. Defebaugh, Chairman.

Irvine McCauley.

H. E. Miller.

C. L. Cross.

L. E. Fuller.

Officers of Geneiul Comiiittee.

Edgar H. Defebaugh, Chairman.

Irvine McCauley, Vice Chairman.

H. E. >Iiller, Secretary.

C. L. Cross, Treasurer.

Genebal CoiniiTTEE.

Curt M. Treat.
Edgar H. Defebaugh.
A. C. Benson.
C. II. Stevens.

E. H. Dalbey
II. E. Miller.
J. L. Lane.
C. L. Cross.

F. A. X. Klapproth.
T. M. McGill.
Chas. H. Ryan, Jr.
M. B. McNulty.

J. L. Strong.

E. R. Coolcdgc.
J. L. Barchard.
Boiling A. Johnson.
J. Oppenheimer.

V. F. Jlashek.
W. H. Matthias.
L. E. Fuller.

F. L. Johnson. Jr.
John D. IVase.
Irvine McCauley.
W. C. Howe.

E. W. Ilogle.
James II. West.

HO.NOKABI COMMIITEE.

A. F.

Upham, Chair- W. W. Ratbborne.

J. G. Goodwiilic.
ones. W. S. Keith.

W. True.
W. Embree.
I. K. Plerpont.

Edw. W. Houghton
E. W. Brooks.
J. D. Ross.
Perley Lowe.
C. A. Paltzer.
Francis Biedler.
M. F. Rlttenhouse.
Edw. Hines.
Jacob Mortenson.
W. T. Joyce.
W. E. Kelley.
Thos. R. Lyon.
Herman Paepcke.
Phillip Raber.
Ed. E. Ayer.
John J. Scbillo.

Harvey Wilce.
W. F. Wood.
C. H. Worcester.
C. A. Goodyear.

FiN-AXCE

C. L. Cross, Chairman.

Wm. Templeton.

F. Gustorf.

Harvey Ilayden.

J. A. Nourse.

Geo. H. Holt.

Jas. Schultz.

Frank B. Stone.

W. S. Adams.

J. L. Barchard.

Chas. C. Bishop.

J. L. Buchner.

Edw. W. Buettner.

Wm. Clancy.

Wm. Wilm.<i.

B. M. Wllziu.

A. H. Until.

H. M. Gardiner.

Geo. Gilbert.

J. C. Cowen.

H. Seek.
E. A. Clarke.
Geo. H. Koss.
K. S. Huddleston.
E. H. Defebaugh.
A. E. Bingham.
W. M. Pond.
Jas. P. Soper.
Arthur Gourley.
W. O. Goodman.

A. W. Bryant.
H. H. Hettler.
John McLaren.

J. Piatt Underwood.
. Jas. D. Lacey.

B. M. Frees.-
Edwin S. Hartwell.
E. L. Roberts.

Committee.

. E. E. Cooledge.

Henry Sondhelmer.

W. O. King.

E. F. Dodge.
H. B. Munger.
W. A. Radford.
J. Alexander.
W. F. Brannum.
W. E. Barrett
P. J. Folev.

F. E. Bowles.
II. L. Adams.
II. A. Aronson.
J. D. Attley.
II. S. Bailey.

S. L. B. Barham.
J. D. Bolton.
E. L. Barrel I.
J. G. Campazzie.
L. W. Campbell.

E. E. Hooper.

E. L. Johnson, Jr.

C. O. Kimball.
T. B. Lehon.
T. M. McGiH.
V. F. Mashek.
Jas. Maloney.

J. Oppenheimer.
G. J. Pope.

D. C. Prescott.
A. R. Vinncdge.
L. Wiuchet.
Murdoch Macleod.
A. C. Bensen.

J. H. West.

R. W. Crowell.
J. N. Doerr.
W. A. Eager.
M. L. Elsemore.
F. F. Fish.
F. E. Gould.
C. J. Braffltt.
Fred D. Jones.
Grant Coey.
C. F. Wiehe.
F. J. Heidler.
C. C. Skeele.
W. E. Stalnaker.
J. E. Defebaugh.

J. C. Ahrens.

L. E. Fuller.
Curt. M. Treat.

RAILBOAD COSfJIITTEE.

W. H. Ellis, Chairman. F. L. Baker.

Geo. Greene.
J. A. Wentz.
K. Cortis.

D. W. O'Connor.
M. A. Paterson.
F. J. Pike.

C. H. Ryan, Jr.
C. H. Stevens.
Frank Cass.

E. R. Lange.

i. H. Daugherty.

Geo. W. Backer.
C. J. Brasor.
J. M. Coleman.
W. J. Edwards.
F. B. Emery.
C. K. Forgey.
Thos. Hanford.
E. D. Casey.
Theo. Fathauer.
C. W. Culver.

D. S. Pate, Chairman.
Gen. W. R. Bobbins.
R. H. McElwee.
Chas. F. Spaulding.
W. J. Carney.
Homer Chandler.
Frank W. Howes.
Geo. Bent.
G. H. Reeves.
W. S. GoodwlUie.
H. B. Leavltt.
C. H. Limbach.

B. F. Masters.
Jas. Miksak.
J. X. Kind.
Victor Thrane.

C. H. Wolfe.
C. F. Yegge.
C. J. True.
J. A. Ganger.

Receptiox Committee.

G. H. Deeves.

F. J. Pike.

G. W. Hotchkiss.
J. W. Anderson.

E. D. Bartholomew.
A. J. Cheney.
J. W. Davis.

F. F. Fish.
F. F. Gould.
J. F. Halpin.
Q. Y. Hamilton.

G. A. Fo

II. Stevens.

E. H. Ball.

Hiram McCullough.

O. O. Alger.

J. M. Attley.

Jacob Fink.

E. F. Simonds.

Co.nxatexation Committee.
Dalbey, Chair- Irvine McCauley.

C. H. Stevens.
R. L. Andres.
J. D. Pease.
J. L. Strong.
E. W. Hogle.

PCBLICITY PBOGBAU COMMITTEE.

Boiling Arthur John- F. E. Bartleme.

son. Chairman. J. A.- Braun.
I-. L. Barth. Leonard Bronson.
Chas. A. Marsh. W. C. Howe.
H. II. Gibson. Douglas Malloch.
W. Wylle. W. T. Christine.
D. B. Fox.

man.
E. H. Miller.
W. C. Howe.
Tom Moore.
W. H. Matthias.

M. M. Marsh.

Ne'w California Corporation.

The Southern California Eucalyptus Forest
Company, which has just been incorporated with
a capitalization of $1,000,000, will maintain its
head office in El Cajon ; the directors are E. C.
Smith, C. E. Race and J. W. Puterbaugh. The
company will at first devote Itself mainly to the
manufacture of lumber and oil from the euca-
lyptus timber upon which it will operate and to
the planting of extensive areas with new growth,
half of which will be the Australian blue gum
and the remainder Australian "mahogany," an-
other variety of tlie eucalyptus family.

The company has taken over the McDonald
grove at El CaJon, one of the finest on this con-
tinent, as well as a number of other tracts in
southern California. As soon as possible an
area of about GOO acres will be planted, with
an average of 600 trees to the acre. In addition
to the matured timber purchased the company
is negotiating for several large nursery tracts
in various stages of growth. Many of the
trees will cut 1,500 feet of merchantable lum-
ber, which will be sawed Into many articles for
which hardwood is used — interior finish and
fioors. tool bandies, wagon and carriage wood-
work. Insulator pins and other things "that re-
quire a strength equal to second-growth hickory,
the grain of maple and the polish of mahogany.'
savs an enthusiastic member of the company.
Many of the trees will be sold for wharf piling,

HARDWOOD RECORD

as the eucalyptus seems to be proof asainst the
ravages of marine pests : the oil distilled from
the leaves will be used for the manufacture of
listerine and other medicinal preparations.

The eucalyptus forests of southern California
promise to become a source of wealth to that
state in the near future, inasmuch as new woods
which can be rapidly reproduced and which are
adaptable for many purposes are now beins
eagerly sought, owing to the growing scarcity
of many of ovir well-known timbers.

The Southern California Eucalyptus Forest
Company believes that the only question which
it will have to solve is its ability to supply
the demand for its timber, which has been most
favorably reported on by forestry experts. The
company will be managed by experienced busi-
ness men, aided by competent foresters, and it
expects to branch out continually, the plan now
being to establi-sh a factory in San Diego as soon
as conditions warrant.

Important Meeting of National Hardwood
Lumber Association Interests.

On May 14 there will be an iraprirtant meeting

held in Chicago, comprising the v, ini. i--ts

of the National Hardwood Lumi i \ n.

including the Inspection Rules ' i:! ■ •i,.-

Executive Committee and the sii.mi: .nniiiii-f
having in charge the grievances 01' the lastern
jobbing element in the matter of inspection rules.
This last named committee consists of Earl
Palmer of Paducah, Ky. ; F. A. Diggins. Cadillac,
Mich. ; Theodore Fathauer, Chicago, and Gardner
I. Jones of Boston.

It is said that at this conference the entire
inspection system of the association will be
thoroughly threshed out and plans promulgated
affecting any necessary changes that may be ad-
visable, to make the current rules satisfactory
to the majorivy of the trade the countr}" over.
It is believed that every member of the various
committees and the executives of the association
will be present at this conference, which un-
doubtedly will be the most important special
meeting ever held by the organization.

Gorge in Guyan River.

A correspondent of the Recobd was in Hunt-
ington, W. Va., at the time of the rise in the
Ohio river and its tributaries the first of this
month, and the accompanying photographs were
made at that point, one of them from the bridge.
The river under the bridge was twenty-five feet
deep, and packed with logs clear to the bottom,
forming a tremendous gorge against the piers,
and with the water backed up heavily behind it.
The Guyandotte was on a rampage the like of
which had never been known, and the Ohio passed
the fifty-foot mark considerably. In spite of the
big stage in the Ohio, the •■Quyan" was very
swift at the mouth, and all efforts to hold the

bc>om proved futile. It eventually gave way.
and between twenty and thirty thousand logs
were swept down into the Ohio, entailing great
expense to mauy of the large manufacturers.

The Big Sandy was also very swift and high,
and allowed an enormous number of logs to be
carried down. Tow-boats were put out after them
and managed to get some into harbor. Numerous
small creeks rose so that travel was rendered
almost impossible in the country districts. Alto-
gether the loggers and residents along these
streams passed through an extremely e.xciting
time.

Veneer Notes.

The Buena Vista Veneer Company of Des Arc,
Ark., recently increased its amount of capital
stock from $10,000 to $75,000.

The Bolted Basket Company has been incor-
porated at Boyne City, Mich., with a capital of
¥12,000. The company is the originator of a
special process by means of which a very light,
strong basket or hamper adapted to the use of
laundries, bakers, etc., may be made. It has a
fully equipped planing mill, in which regular
trade will be continued until the basket business
absorbs the entire product. The basket plant
is 00 by 72 feet square, three stories high, and
has a brick engine house with 150-horsepower
Corliss engine. G. M. Kerry is general manager
of the company.

A. Slater Reed has recently purchased the in-
terest of his partner, C. Buckets, in the Lake-
side Veneering Mills of Kissimmee, Via., and is
now sole owner of the plant. Mr. Reed will
make a number of improvements and largely in-
crease the output.

The New Albany Veneering Company of New
Albany, Ind., has just finished one of the most
up-to-date and extensive veneer plants in the
country. The main building is 80 by 285 feet,
two stories high. The plant also includes a
boiler and engine rooms and dry kilns. The
capacity of the kiln is 25,000 feet per day,
and the plant is equipped throughout with mod-
ern machinery for the manufacture of veneered
or built-up stock. The officers of the New Al-
bany Veneering Company are : C. W. Inman,
president ; W. A. McLean, vice-president ; E. V.
Knight, secretary-treasurer and general manager.
The finest type of work is turned out by this
plant, and experienced, expert labor employed.

On June 6, 1908, A. W. Williamson, trustee,
will offer for sale at public auction the plant
of the Metal Bound Package Company, bankrupt,
of Mound City, 111., comprising about six acres
of ground, mill and factory buildings, offices, etc.
The equipment consists of a band sawmill, with
steam feed, log trip, nigger, gang edger, two
large Coe rotary veneer machines with clippers,
drag saw, patent metal binding machinery,
power and machine shop, together with a flrst-
class box and patent trunk slat factory. The

plant is located on the Ohio river, the Illinois
Central and Big Four railways ; there is a good
log harbor at that point and other advantages
to the conduct of such an operation.

Removal of Main Office.

Owing to continued increase in business, the
Ferd. Brenner Lumber Company, large whole-
salers at Norfolk, Va., has removed its main
office from that city to rooms in the First Na-
tional Bank building, Cincinnati. The company
will maintain a branch office at Norfolk, and
also continue its branches at Salisbury, N. C,
and Decatur, Ala. In addition, it has lately
opened a fourth at New Orleans.

The Ferd. Brenner Lumber Company is a
large dealer in hardwoods, cypress, gum and
mahogany, and in addition to its excellent con-
nections in this country has agents in Dusseldorf
and Hamburg, Paris and London, through whom
it does a large export business.

New Incorporations.

J. T. Flournoy of Newark, N. J. ; L. P.
Thomas of Philadelphia, and C. F. Thomas of
Wilmington, Del., have incorporated the Amer-
ican Timber & Lumber Company.

The Hollywood Lumber & Coal Company is a
new concern at Wheeling, W. Va.

The Dempse.v-Hamner Furniture Company of
Detroit has filed articles of incorporation ; capi-
tal, $750,000.

The Dolphin Desk Company of Grand Rapids,
Mich., capitalized at $20,000, has been formed
by M. H. Dolphin, M. D. Morris, P. Schertz and
G. E. Ellis.

The William H. Barkhorn Company is a new
timber concern at Newark, N. J. ; capitalized at
¥100,000.

The Beaumont Hardwood & Lumber Company
of Beaumont, Tex., capitalized at $75,000, has
been organized by W. R. Futch of Opelousas, La.,
and Charles McDonald of New Orleans.

A new Toronto house, capitalized at $200,000,
is the Vending Cabinet Company.

The Chicago Dimension Lumber Company,
capitalized at $10,000, has been incorporated at
Chicago by Francis U. Dickinson and others.

The Wills-Rosser Lumber Company of Pitts-
burg, Pa., is a new concern in that city and is
capitalized at $25,000.

M. E. Travis of Walton, N. X., and associates
have organized the Walton Lumber Company at
that li-ini ^.qH:i!, ?2n,000.

J. w !: . ' 11 i;. Holt and James Duryea

have i. ! \ 1 1110 Sash & Door Company

Lowe ilros. Lumber Company is a new concern
at Mishawauka, Ind. ; capitalized at $35,000.

Levin, Kroenberg & Co. of Brooklyn, N. T.,
will manufacture moulding, trim, doors, etc., at
No. IfiOl Pitkin avenue: capital. .$.iO.O0n.

LOOKING FROM THE C. & O. BRIDGE AT HUNTINGTON.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Late Nashville News.

Nashville lumbermen are admittedly disap-
pointed with spring trade thus far, and do not
hesitate to state that it has not come up to
their expectations. The market for April was
better than for March, but at that was not
equal to an average month of 1907. Lumber-
men, however, are not attempting to disguise
the situation, and are about ready to resign
themselves to the belief that no marked im-
provement will be noted until next fall.

Poplar continues to be a leader, and the
dealers have had little trouble in preventing the
prices in this wood from showing the decline
that is noted in the case of some of the other
hardwoods. Few of the big concerns are run-
ning up to normal and the buying is in small
quantities, purchasers getting what they need
and no more, frequently less. Inquiries are
plentiful, hut the absence of the usual stream
of buyers, in this market is not any longer the
subject of comment. Most of the plants are
able to get enough business to keep things going
on reduced time, and as a matter of fact are
not looking for any big business. Quartered
oak is holding its own in a satisfactory manner,
as are also hickory and chestnut. Ash is off a
bit in quotations.

Nashville lumbermen are grieved over the
death of the mother of one of the most popular
and one of the most prominent of the lumber
dealers of this place, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Love,
mother of John W. Love of Love, Boyd & Co.
She died Thursday night at the home of her son-
in-law, J. W. Boyd, in East Nashville, and was
72 years of age. Heart disease was the cause.
Mrs. Love was a member of one of Tennessee's
most prominent families, a beautiful Christian
character, a dutiful wife and a fond mother.
She is survived by her three sons, John W.,
Hamilton and James R. Love, the two former
local lumbermen, and by three daughters, Mrs.
Frank Swope of Carthage, Tenn., Mrs. Walter
Pierce of Hendersonville, Tenn., and Mrs. J. W.
Boyd of Na.shville. Only one of the children
were at any distance at the time of Mrs. Love's
death, Hamilton being in a hospital in Balti-
more, where he was being treated for rheuma-
tism. He was summoned to Nashville, however,
and was able to make the trip.

A damage suit fnr .^'-•■"•'i' ' - - ' — ■ ,^iit

in the local ciiouit . m

& O'Brien against _a

and St. Louis railw::;. - .sh-

ville railroad and the L.iiiisvillr uii.l Nashville
Terminal Company. The lumber company claims
that sparks from a passing engine that belonged
to one of the three defendant companies set
fire to its big planing mill and to some lumber
stocks in the summer of 190G. A great fire
ensued in which several million feet of choice
stacked lumber was consumed, and also a big
planing mill. The rails of the three defendant
companies run close by the yard of the lumber
company.

11.

Lumliir (uijiiiany ivill pr.sitle over the exercises.
A big banquet follows the exercises.

Dull times in the lumber business have not
affected one branch of the lumber Industry, and
that is the cross tic feature. The railroads
in this section are buying ties at a lively rate
and dealers are also making large shipments to
other points for railroads more remote to this
section.

Advices from Wartburg, Tenn., announce that
lumber conditions look good in that immediate
section. Practically all of the mills which had
been shut down there have resumed operation
and things look decidedly busy.

Some 110,000 feet of lumber belonging to
Sadler, Crabtree & Co. of Jackson county, Ten-

nessee, and recently unloaded in Nashville for
sale, has been attached by hill in chancery
court filed by W. T. Hardison & Co. The lum-
ber was attached to satisfy a freight bill of
?1,155.S4, the complainant company running a
tow boat line.

News from Saginaw Valley.

There is more activity in lumber production
than there was. Four mills are in commission
that only recently started, and are cutting out
stock. The Gates mill was the last to start.
It will cut about 6,500,000 feet.

The old Flood mill, originally the Drake mill
at Bay City, burned last week. The loss was
estimated at ?15,000. The mill has been idle
over a year. It was built in 1S62 and changed
hands a number of times.

J. E. Swackhamer. who has been employed
by the Richardson Lumber Company at Bay City
the past year, where the company has erected
a new mill, has been appointed superintendent
of the new mill. The plant Is putting out
55,000 feet a day.

C. A. Bigelow went to Petoskey this week to
attend a meeting of the Hardwood Dealers'
Association.

James Cooper says be does not think the
lumber business will be active very soon. He Is
doubtful if there is any boom for a year or two
and believes this year will be rather slow. He
says the demand for lumber Is not anything
near what it should be, while conditions are
anything but satisfactory.

The Kneeland-Blgelow plant is running day
and night and the Detroit mill Is being operated
ten hours daily.

The Detroit and Mackinac Is hauling a large
quantity of logs into Alpena. One trainload of
sixty cars went in there recently.

Alex Mlchaelson is building a mill in Roscom-
mon county which will be connected with the
outside world by a branch of the Grand Rapids
& Indiana running in from Cadillac. A town
is scheduled in connection with the enterprise.

S. L. Eastman Flooring Company recently
contracted for 6,000,000 feet of maple to be
cut. The prices are approximately what the
same stock sold at last year.

Some fine logs have been hauled from the
North to the Bliss & Van Auken mill. The mill
stock comes down from Otsego and Cheboygan
counties.

The Cook, Curtis & Miller hardwood sawmill
at Grand Marals has put on a night shift and
is being operated day and night.

• It is figured that the present volume of busi-
ness is 40 per cent less than last year.

YuiU Brothers have Just started a log','ing
camp six niiU's north of Vaiid. rl.ilt.

The Haul. : ■ ■ - ,|uit opera-

tions somi its flooring

mill at Ila it is said,

will again . i! i here is con-

siderable timber availuLk'.

The Sailing-Hanson Company of Grayling Is
reported to have about closed a deal for a
chunk of timber from the Ward estate, adjacent
to some of its own timber. It was expected that
a large quantity of the Ward lands were to be
put on the market, but this is denied.

Some manufacturers state there is little it
any life in the hardwood industry at the mo-
ment and others see a little more favorable
outlook. On the river there Is considerable
doing, with all the sawmills and flooring mills
in operation. Log run quotations for maple are
$17 to $10: l..i,li i, h.1.1 at $16 and $17 and
elm brings s- ■] • ' i riiore is some inquiry

for birch. 1 sis and $20. Bass-

wood is lii hut the trade will

take all tli.i - i <f-^3 and $25. Red

oak is worth .?.;ii ,iiul .$:;:>. stocks are not ex-
cessively large.

Miscellaneous Notes.

Bennett & Sons' lumber mill at Freesoil, Mich.,
has commenced operations after a recent shut-
down. They have nearly 2,000,000 feet of logs
in the river at that point.

The plant of the Cunningham & Kitchen Lum-
ber Company at Tinsman, Ark., was completely
destroyed by fire April 24. J. E. Ritchie, a
prominent farmer^ and millman. was also a loser
in that a new sawmill outfit which he had re-
cently purchased was stored in one of the com-
pany's sheds.

The work of planting trees in western Canada
is being taken up vigorously by the Southern
Pacific this spring, and many thousand young
saplings will be set out along its right of way
in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

The Blackstone Lumber Company has been
incorporated at Marshfield, Tt, with a capital of
$20,000.

The hardwood mill of the Sawyer & Austin
Lumber Company at Pine Bluff, Ark., one of the
largest in the Southwest, resumed operations
this week after a suspension of four months.
The plant employs between 400 and 500 persons.
Other hardwood plants are resuming in the
South and Southwest, although the demand for
hardwood lumber is not nearly up to the average
lor this time of year.

The Consolidated Lumber Company has been
organized at Farkersburg, W. Ta., to deal In
timber and operate sawmills in the Green river
district of Kentucky. It is capitalized at $200,-
000, and the incorporators are L. Dudley, J. M.
Dore,' G. W. Carney, G. C. Enoch, F. P. Moats,
all of Parkersburg.

The Monongahela Tie & Lumber Company has
been organized at Brownsville, Pa., and is capi-
talized at $50,000. E. D. Gribble is president.
The company owns several hundred acres of
valuable timber land In West Virginia and its
plant is now ready for operation.

The Stondall Lumber Company of Madison,
Wis., has Increased its capital stock from $120,-
000 to $400,000.

The Crocker Chair Company of Sheboygan,
Wis., has purchased from V. F. Sanborn & Co.
of Ashland, Wis., 6,103 acres of hardwood tim-
ber land In Houghton and Bariga counties, Michi-
gan. The timber will he cut in the mills at
Sidnaw and shipped to Sheboygan to be re-
manufactured. The Crocker Chair Company Is
on the lookout for still further purchases of
northern timber land.

Frank G. Carpenter, a correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune, writes from Kampala, Uganda,
Africa, that an Englishman of his acquaintance
has a large concession of woodland running
along the Nile, Just below where that great river
flows out of Lake Victoria. He says the tract
embraces about 150 square miles, and is so situ-
ated that the timber could be thrown In the
rfver and floated down to Khartom were It not
for certain falls of the Nile. As it is, the chief
market will probably be British East Africa and
other countries reached by the Uganda railway.
The forests on the land are magnificent and the
correspondent alleges that many mahogany trees
are ISO feet high and four or five feet in diam-
eter, perfectly straight, and running up to a
great distance without branching. One of the
other hardwoods resembles teak, and some va-
rieties will almost turn the blade of an ax. The
owner expects to do a great deal with the wood,
because it resists the attacks of white ants and
is therefore valuable for railway ties. He now
has orders for 300,000 ties, with three varieties
of wood from which to supply them. In addi-
tion to the timber trees, the concession contains
about 2,000,000 rubber trees. The plan now^ is to
cut the underbrush and map out the forest so
that each part can he easily cared for. About
90O men are already at work, and double that
number will be employed very shortly. Villages
will be built on the tracks and the laborers
trained for the work at hand.

The Sawyer-Goodman Company of Marinette,
Wis., Is busy sawing on railroad tics for the

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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. The ties are
loaded on ears direct for the new Pacifle coast
extension of that line.

The Boone Lumber Company has filed»articles
of incorporation. The principal oSBce will be at
Ford, K.v. The company is capitalized at $20,-
000, and the incorporators are E. S. Shippen and
H. J. Gates of Louisville, W. F. Fielder of Iron
Mount, Ky., and George J. Ballard of Winches-

The Galax Furniture & Lumber Company of
Eadford, Va., which was burned last fall, has
lieen rebuilt on a larger scale, and is now Tun-
ing with 200 employes on the payroll.

Fire practically destroyed the plant of the
John A. Bunn Chair Company of St. Paul on
April 30. The loss is about ?5'0,000.

The Hardwood Manufacturing Company of
Minneapolis, Minn., will be obliged to pay $2,500
to Mabel Abell, who lost three fingers as a result
cf an accident which occurred recently in the
company's plant.

A new incorporation at Columbus, O., is the
Scranton Road Lumber Company, capitalized at
$25,000.

The plant and business of the Cabinetmakers'
Company of Grand Rapids, Mich., manufacturers
of library and dining room furniture, has been
sold to W. C. Grcbhiser of Sturgis, Mich. The
factory will continue under the present manager.

The Richmond Cedar Works of Richmond, Va.,
has started up on full time and will probably
so continue hereafter.

The S. Knechtel Wood Turning Company, Ltd.,
of Southampton, Ont., has been incorporated
with a capital of $40,000.

H. C. Seymour of Philadelphia and D. N. Far-
riugton of New York have gone to San Domingo
in the interests of manufacturing concerns of
both cities to inspect a tract of 100,000 acres of
land, which is alleged to be covered with fine

virgin growth of mahogany, cedar and satinwood.

The state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, has an abun-
dant supply of mesquite wood, which is now be-
ing used to considerable extent for the manu-
facture of furniture. While Mexico imposes an
export duty on unmanufactured wood, there is
no tax on that which can be classed as manu-
factured, states Consul Clarence A. Miller of
Matamoras, Mexico.

Steam has been turned on for the first time
through the 35,000 feet, or over six miles, of
pipe in the Diamond Match Company's veneering
plant at Chlco, Cal., and the test was found so
satisfactory that next week logs will be shipped
to Chico for testing the machinery, and it is
probable that orange slats and matchwood will
be the first products.

Rev. A. A. Turner has patented a preparation
designed to take the place of veneer in many
instances, and a company capitalized at $25,000
has been organized at Elkhart, Ind., to promote
the invention. Several of the ingredients of
cement are contained in it, it is said, and the
material can be stained to any wood finish. It
is said to have great possibilities as a building
material.

The Yawkey-Bissell Lumber Company Is a new
company at Wausau, Wis., with a capital stock
of $681,000.

R. S. Monroe, a timber broker of Fairmont,
W. Va., has sold the property of the Birch River
Boom & Lumber Company at Glendon, Braxton
county, to George H. Austin and others, who
will form a company to be known as the Glendon
Boom & Lumber Company.

The Xuevo Mahogany Company of Hartford,
Conn., has filed articles of incorporation. It Is
capitalized at $50,000 and proposes to acquire
timberlands in Mexico and manufacture lumber.
The incorporators are A. I. Jacobs, C, F. Wood
and L. E. Stoner, all of Hartford.

Hardwood J^eWs.

(By HARDWOOD RECOBD Special Correspondents.)

Chicago.

Walter Winchester, a prominent Grand Rapids
Mich., lumberman, was in Chicago the past
week. Mr. Winchester is interested in exten-
sive lumber operations in Wisconsin.

Fred W. Black, president of the Fred W.
Black Lumber Company, is paying a visit to his
veneer mill at Xashville.

Walter L. DeWitt, formerly with the Kelley
Lumber and Shingle Company of Traverse City,
Mich., has taken the position of sales manager
with the Estabrook-Skeeie Lumber Company of
this city.

W. E. Barrett of W. E. Barrett & Co. has re-
turned from a recent trip to British Columbia.

A. K. Owen of the John S. Owen Lumber Com-
pany of Owen, Wis., was a visitor to this mar-
ket early in the week.

C. F. Liebke of the Hardwood Mill and Lum-
ber Company, St. Louis, was in town a few
days ago In the interests of business.

The IIAKDWOOD Recoed regrets to learn of the
recent death of Mrs. George F. Williams, wife
of the head of Williams Brothers Company of
Cadillac and Manton, Mich., which occurred re-
cently at Manton.

John C. Spry, the well-known timber owner
and dealer, has removed his offices from the
Chamber of Commerce to handsome quarters in
the Corn Exchange Bank building, corner of La
Salle and Adams streets.

W. W. Dings, secretary of the Garetson-
Greascn Lumber Company, St. Louis, was a wel-
come caller on the Chicago trade last week.

Edward Germain was in the city last week en
route to St. Louis, where he held a conference
with George Boyd, his associate In large southern
yellow pine enterprises.

Both W. B. and E. C. Mershon of Saginaw
were Chicago visitors a few days ago. E. C.
Mershon is just back from an extended Pacific
coast trip, where he booked a large number of
orders for both sawmill and planing mill re-
saws.- He says there Is no evidence of a slowing
down of trade in the Mershon plant. They have
not shortened their time nor reduced output in
the least since the 'panic," and now have orders
enough in advance to keep them running for a
good while to come.

W. W. Mitchell of Cadillac, Mich., accompanied
by his wife, spent several days in Chicago last
week. Mr. Mitchell and his family have spent
the past three months on the Pacific Coast and
were en route home. He expresses himself as
having had a very delightful winter.

C. H. Holden, representing the Pardee & Curtin
Lumber Company, the big West Virginia hard-
wood manufacturing house, with office headquar-
ters at Clarksburg, was in Chicago a few days
last week and secured some very handsome
orders.

J. C. West, secretary and general manager of
the Midland Lumber Company, Parkersburg, W.
\a.. visited this market May 2. Mr. West en-
joys a very good trade in this territory.

According to the report of the Bureau of Sta-
tistics of the Department of Commerce and La-
bor lumber exports to Germany in the nine
months ending with March, 190S, show a marked
decline as compared with the same period of
the previous year. The export trade with Ger-
many for the nine months ending with March
amounted to $1,476,644, while the corresponding
exports of the latter period total only $1,290,-
840.

A. F. .4.nderson of Cadillac, Mich., accompanied
by his partner In the Wexford Lumber Company,

Joseph Campbell, has left for an extended trip
to the Pacific Coast, where both have consider-
able timber interests.

L. P. Groffnian of the St. Louis Basket & Box
Company, St. Louis, Mo., was a caller at the
Record office on May 1.

Max L. Pease oi the Galloway-Pease Company,
Johnson City. Tenn., was calling on friends in
the Chicago market May 5 and 6.

E. B. Nettleton. formerly of Marysville, Fla.,
but now eng.iged in the manufacture of refrigera-
tors at Kansas City. Mo., was in the city May 6.
The R. E. Wood Lumber Company of Balti-
more started up its new band sawmill at its
plant near the mouth of Eagle Creek, Tennessee,
at Bushnell, on April 24. It is one of the finest
poplar, oak and chestnut timber properties in the
United States and will add new laurels to the
fine quality of lumber product turned out by the
Wood concerns. The company is sending out as a
souvenir of its first day's sawing an envelope of
poplar sawdust. If the lumber comes out as fine
as the dust — as it undoubtedly n-ill — it will sure-
Ij be a "crackerjack" lot of material.

R. H. Mader, who for a long time has been a
general sales representative of W. B. Mershon &
Co. of Saginaw. Mich., has been appointed Pacific
coast agent for the Mershon resaws, and in fu-
ture will be located at 617 Lumber Exchange,
Seattle.

The wholesale lumber house of Soble Brothers,
formerly located In the Land Title building,
I'biladelpbia, has moved its headquarters to No.
1 Madison avenue, New York city. The office
will be in charge of John J. Soble, who will be
assisted by Charles Soble. Harry I. Soble of this
firm has removed to Honaker, Va., where he will
maintain a branch office and take charge of the
interests of the firm in that vicinity. Soble
Brothers have made a distinct success of the
jobbing lumber business since they entered the
trade in Philadelphia a few years ago, and their
removal to New York will very likely contribute'
to the