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HARDWOOD RECORD October 20. lOlB.

J. GIBSON McILVAIN & COMPANY

CROZER BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

Manufacturers of Lumber

OVER 100 YEARS

SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS

Small and Large Inquiries Solicited

THE

The Ford Joke Is Possible Only Because the Ford Car Is Cheap ^trn»xA»y

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I Ik- ,>aiuc i> liuc <tl gum lunihcr — il lia> been kicklmI aiul cu>sl'(I <. .y

il only lic-oause its producers ;illu\ve(l it to be called a cliea[) wood. Tliey
rcliiseil t<i jml ciioii-^li inniicy in it to hrini; "iit its true merit liavc let il tie kiicnvii
IS .1 "necessary evil" — a side issue to the end that it has never commanded resjiect.

A New Era in Gum

i> heiiii;' (IcNcldped 1)\' ii>. W c lia\c
a(lf)|)tc(l (il'M as our MAI X TROD-
L'C'i". We have studied ii and know il.
Knowin.!.;- it we have had the faith to put
a .^odd deal of money into its correct manti-
facturint;' an<l handliniy;.

Today our stock represents more real
beauty, more adajMability, more i^enuine
merit than any otlier American liardwood.

If you have any prejudice against gum, see
some of ours. It really lia^i a lil'iiiDit ,Ii,-ir;irlfr

THE

Kraetzer- Cured Lumber Co.

.. „ ^ ..,. . ^, ^ ., MOORHEAD, MISS.

Handling Gum "With Gloves On

AH Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

October 20, I'Jiri

HARDWOOD RECORD

Michigan Hardwoods
Cadillac Quality

Nature has been generous in supplying
Cadillac an abundant supply of superior timber
and we are supplementing her work with the
best methods of manufacture.

This has made Cadillac Quality famous.

Good timber, lumber well manufactured and
seasoned, grades that are reliable and not
blended to meet price competition, punctual
service; — these are the elements of Cadillac
Quality.

We sell direct to responsible dealers and
manufacturers.

Cobbs & Mitchell

INCORPORATED

Sales Department, Cadillac, Michigan

DRY 5-4 CADILLAC
GRAY ELM

WE HAVE THREE CARLOADS
OF CHOICE 5/4 CADILLAC GRAY
ELM WHICH RUNS FROM 80 TO
90 PER CENT TWELVE INCHES
AND WIDER AND LARGELY 14
INCHES AND WIDER. IF YOU
CAN USE IT, MAY WE QUOTE
PRICES FOR PROMPT SHIP-
MENT?

MITCHELL BROTHERS GO.

CADILLAC, MICH.

SALES DEPARTMENT

lra i MIM ! !U' l iy! l {^' l }ii? l &^IK ^'iii«t' I LUj i lvj l LU j!iyj|i^^

Quart 'd Figured Gum

Has become irremovabiy cstal)li.';he(l as one of
America's few genuine caliinct woods. Have you
made your plans to realize on its jjreat future.''

Its adaptable beauty of figure and color; its easy working
qualities; its low cost of finishing; its reasonable price —
strictly its own merits — have compelled its worldwide recog-

nition as

America's Finest Cabinet Wood

Progressive manufacturers of furniture, interior trim, etc.,
can no longer afford to leave Figured Gum out of their
calculations.

Manufacturers using Figured Gum can be assured of
constant supply of choice figured veneers for many years to
come. No danger of shortage thru inability to import logs
or heavy consumption for special purposes for other than
cabinet work, which applies to certain other woods.

Why not learn of the thorough adaptability of Figured
Gum by actual use?

SAMPLES ON REQUEST

The Louisville Veneer Mills

Afakcrs of Good Tetieers and Panels
for More than a Quarter of a Century

Louisville, Ky.

All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

HARDWOOD RECORD

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J. RAYNER

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LUDINCTON

Hardwood Specialists

5,000,000 feet

4-4 to 8-4

BEECH

A complete stock of thoroughly
dry Beech in all grades

We specialize in Kiln Dried Stock

CTh

TEARNS

SALT G' LUMBER CO.

LuDlNGTON.MlCH.

Rope and Twist Work

in \ai"i(>u> >lyle> and wmxl.
made lf> detail or send n>
your turning's and we will
r o pe or t w i s I tft s n i t

upon r«^cetpi nf nkvtchcM f*r llluHLraii'
V**wr iiuiiiiritM nrr miUritrtJ

The F. A. Requarth Company

Monument Ave. and Sears St., Dayton^ O.

A floor fio adore

For llilrly-thr«« ypam Wllrc'ii Hardwood FkMr-

Ink hn** hti'H ntTu>i((» th*- for<*ino«t on thr markH

uii.t ■ • ■ '•■■■■, . ,1. ,f |> lb*

I I..r krpl

ill.T. . ., . u.l-.;,Ii.fil (fe.

Ml ■!,■ lr;iil'. lo luiiVlh''' ytHir«lf»)f th«

. • ' .i.nii'rils. Iry our iKillnhcilHit (.,.•■ tloor-
1 *-. ■'. rui-rl and proovrd. hollow !iit*v,..l. with
n)iti<-tir>l i-niN und IiuI'-h fur Mind nAllint;*-you'll
llMd II rcdurcn tli<-cx|ioiiHF of layliiK and iioUihlnc.

• iwr H't'tktet teiu aU about durtttcuua l^ivuting

• nil /luic (u uart tor <(— «i«g prlcu—ond U t'»*-

The T. Wilce Company

22nd and Throop Sta. CHICAGO, ILL.

Claims backed by a guar-
antee neces>arily assureyouol llie

Real Indiana Oak

WlK-n \(iii wanl to Ituy llial class of
stock. The oak iot^s cut al our
La I'liric. Ind., mill conic from (hi
<l.'itc and nowhere else.

( )ur Marniaduke. Ark., jtlant turn-^
iiut a fine line of Oak. .\sli and Cypres-

Consider what il means U) you vvlien
our cooperarfe ])lanis lake all llic poorer
stock and you get only the cream.

Tr\! out Ihal slalenient

Vail Cooperage Co.

Ft. SVavne. Indiana

Salt Lick Lumber Co.

SALT LICK . . . KENTUCKY

MANUFACTURERS OF

^^ Oak Flooring

Complete stock of ^/g" and 13/16" in all
standard widths

All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

Oi'lobcr 2"., 101").

HARDWOOD RECORD

LOUISVILLB

THE HARDWOOD GATEWAY^ OF THE SOUTH

W. P. Brown & Sons
Lumber Company

ift I's Quote Vuu Special Pricew for Immediate
Ivery t)n the Following stock:
No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak. 10" and up,

.W.OOn ft.
No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak. 213.000 feet.
No. •! Common Quartered White Oak, 20.000 feet.
No. 1 Common Quartered Red Gum. 50.000 feet.
No. 1 <_'ommon Quartered Red tlurn. 43.000 feet.
Sap (Jum. 18" and up Panel. .'iLOOO feet.
Is and 2.1 Plain White Oiik, 110.(100 feet.
No. 1 Common Plain White Oak. 8.1.000 feet,
and thicker Is and 2s Plain Red Oak, 122.000 feet.
and thicker No. 1 Com. Plain Reil Oak. 22S.(HI0 ft.
anil thicker Is and 2» Poplar. ."iO.OOO feet.
Is anil 2s Hiekorv. .S7.000 feet.
No. 2 Common Walnut. 19.000 feet.

J,
Del
4-4

4-4

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(i-4

4-4

4 4

4-4

.".-4

4-4

We have a full stock In every item in Hardwoods \

and Yellow Pine. We can quote on mixed or straight ;

ears. The location of our mills and yards Insures |

prompt shipment and the best of service. ,|

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMtiimiiitiniiiiiiniiiiiiiiiir

Norman Lumber Company

We specialize in the manufacture of

Poplar Dimension Stock

Our plant is equipped to furnish cuttings of
any dimensions for the factory trade. Let
us figure your bill. Minimize your labor ex-
pense by buying material cut to size.

"Save the Freight on the Waste"

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W. R. Willett Lumber
Company

Sales Ai^ent I'arkland Sawmill Company,
Louisville, Ky.

We offer tlio following^ items of hardwood lumber
of our own manufacture now on sticks at our Louis-
ville mill. The stock was manufactured from care-
fully selected logs, possessing the texture desired by
discriminating consumers:
1 car 6-4 Is and 2s Ash.

1 car 6-4 No. ] Common Ash.

2 cars 10-4 Common and Better Ash.

1 car 12-4 Is and 2s Poplar.

2 cars 4-4 No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak.

2 cars 4-4 No. 2 Common Plain Red Oak.

3 cars 8-4 Is and 2s Plain Red Oak.

1 car 8-4 No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak.

2 cars 4-4 Is and 2s Quartered White Oak.
2 cars r.-4 Is and 2s Quartered White Oak.

1 car A-4 No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak.

2 cars 5-4 No. 1 Common Quartered White Oak.

1 car 4-4 2W! to 5" Clear Quartered White Oak Strips.

Wood Mosaic Compa7ty

(Sales Office: New Albany, Iiid,)

We can make attractive prices on Ihd" following well
manufactured stock:

" No. 1 Common and Better Hickory, 100.000 feet.

Vi" Common and Better Hickory. I car.

" Common and Better Hickory. 2 cars.

-4 Is and 2s Plain Red Oak. l."»0.000 feet.

-4 No. 1 Common Walnut. TiO.OOO feet.

-4 No. 2 Common Walnut. TiO.OOO feel.

%" No. 2 Common Walnut, .^O.OOO feet.

li" No. 2 Common AV'alnul. 5(1,000 feet.
4 l.K and 2s Poplar, r.0.000 feet.

-4 Is and 28 Poplar. 50,000 feet.
8-4 1.S and 2s Poplar. TjO-OOO feet.
ri-8 Is and 2s Poplar. 12" and up, 15,000 feet.
4-4 Is and 2s Poplar. 18" and up. 15,000 feet.

Cet acquainted with our Famous Indiana and Ken-
tucky QUARTERED WHITE OAK.

Edward L. Davis
Lumber Company

Kentucky and Indiana Oak, Ash, Walnut

are famous for color and texture. The care-
ful buyer selects not merely "lumber," but
stock that will do credit to the job. In our
own sawmill at Louisville we cut up the finest
logs produced in this section — and the con-
sumer gets the benefit. Ask us for prices on
what you need.

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C. C Mengel & Bro.
Company

We operate our own Mahogany Logging
Camps in Africa, British Honduras and Mex-
ico, and are specialists in the production of
Mahogany Lumber, Veneers and Dimension
Stock. We carry a large stock of Plain and
Figured Veneers, and can submit samples to
suit any requirement.

If It's in Mahogany, We Have It

All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

HARDWOOD RECORD

Octubvr 25, 1015.

It's a Long Jump

FROM

Your Wife's New Suit

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Oak Lumber

At the same time lliere is a clearly, defined lesson in ihc way
the ladies are flocking to those soft brown shades that are so
pleasing and restful tu the eye.

When you say "Oak" and "Brown" in the same breath you
don't have to cook up any excuse for the combination. Oak nat-
urally stands for these soft, comfortable, restful brown interiors.

It is not necessary that one have unusual discernment to
appreciate that a color which the housewife favors is going to have
a lot to do with the furniture she buys.

We have then the condition of the vogue of the brown
tones: — Oak is not only at its very best so finished, but is superbly
ahead of all competitors in those shades.

Hence, there seems no possible outcome other than that oak
will have all of the call this winter. Indeed it has clearly shown
its increasing popularity already.

The wise furniture man will prepare to meet this condition
by concentrating his attention on new designs in oak.

For any information on this subject address

Any Manufacturer on the Succeeding Page

Oak Information Bureau, 707 Ellsworth Building, Chicago

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All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

October 25, lyio

HARDWOOD RECORD

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The following manuiacturers have made a study of oak production. In sending
them your requirements you will be insuring yourself the best in stock and service.

ALABAMA
H. H. Hltt Lumber Company, Decatur. (See
page.)

• Cromwell Hardwood I.umlicr Company, Mont-
gomery. ARKANSAS

• Kentark Land & 'J'iitilior *_'«^tnpany, Allport.
Thane Lumber Company. Arkansas City.
Bliss-Cook Oak Company, Ulissvllle. (See page

■IG.)

I'aepcke Lelcht Lbr. Co., lilythevllle and Helena.
(See page — .)

I'enro<l-Jnrden & McC»wcn, Brasfield and Helena.
(See page 00.)

Crittenden Lumber Company, Crittenden.

• I'Ve-Crayton Hardwood Lumber Co., Dermott.
.T. n. Konner & Sons, lletb. (See page 46.)
Little Kock I^umher & Manufacturing Company,

Little Kock. (See page 10.)

• Miller Lumber Company, Marianna. (See page
43.)

• Saline River Hardwood Company, Pine Bluff.
Muirbead Lumber Company, Weldon.

ILLINOIS
H. B. Blanks Lumber Company, Cairo.
Thomas McFarland Lumber Company, Cairo.

DeniiotL Land ik Lumber Company, Chicago.

• Utley-Holloway Lumber Company, Great North-
ern Bldg., Chicago.

INDIANA

S. Burkholder Lumber Co., Crawfordsvllle. (See
page 51.)

F. M. Cutsinger, Evansville. (See page - — .)

• Maley & \\ ertz, I-Wansville.

John A. Reltz & Sons, BransTllle.

• Bedna Vouns Lumlier Compan}', CJreensburg.
Chis. 11. Barnnby, Crccncastle. (See page — .)
.1. V. Stimson, Iluntlngburg. (See page (iO.)
Long-Knight Lumber Company, Indianapolis. (See

page 11.)
Coppes Bros. & Zook, Nappanee.
Wood-Mosaic Company, New Albany. (See page

North Vernon Lumber Company, North Vernon.
C. & W. Kramer Company, Itichmond.

• Swnin-Roach Lumber Company, Seymour.

• Fullerton-l'owell Hardwood Lumber Company,
South Bend. port Wayne.

« Hoffman Brothers i:ompany. (See page 12.)
Perrine..'\rmstrong Company.

KENTUCKY

• Arlington Lumber Company, Arlington.
Wrigbt-Kltehen Lumber Company, Ashland.
Cliarfleld Lumber Company, Inc., Clearlleld.
Day Lumber & Coal Company, Jackson. (See

page 48.) LanigTillr.

W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company,
page 5.)

Churchill-Milton Lumber Company. (Sec page

Norman Lumber Company. (See page 5.)
Lexini^on

• Kentucky Lumber Company.

E. R; Spotswood & Sons. (See page 41.)
Turkey Foot Lumber Compauy, Ice.
LOUISIANA

• The Ferd Brenner Lumber Company, Alexandria.
Boeuf River Ld. & Lbr. Company, Log town

The Hyde Lumber Company, Lake Providence.
Thistle'thwaite Lumber Company, Ltd., Washing-
ton. '
MASSACHUSETTS
The Atlantic Lumber Company. Boston.
nage 34.)

MICHIGAN

Thomas Forman Company. Detroit.

MISSISSIPPI

Alexander Bros., Belzoni. (See page 10.)
Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, Charleston.

page 47.)

(See

• Manufacturers of Oak Dimension Stock.

Thz darabilil]}, slrenglh, standing abilitv
all comers for all iimz. ll is more firm

• D. 11. Hall Lumber Company, Now Albany.
Paepcke Leicht Lumber Company, Greenville.
(Sje page — .)

• Tallahatchie Lumber Company, Phlllpp.
Carrier Lumber & Manufa< tiiringCompany, Sardls.

MISSOURI
Tschudy Lumber Company, Kansas City.
Galloway-Pease Company, Poplar Bluff. (See

page 4.S. )

Baker-Matthews Manufacturing Co., Slkeston.

(See page 46.)

• Garetson-Greason Lumber Company, St. I..ouls.
Thos. E. Powe Lumber Company, St. Louis.

NORTH CAROLINA
Ashevllle Lumber Company, Ashevllle.

• Carr Lumber Company, Plsgah Forest.

OHIO

Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, Coal Grove.
W. M. Hitter Lumber Company, Columbus.
Barr-IIoladay Lumber Company, Greenfleld.

rincliuiatl.
Bayou Land & Lumber Company.
C- Crane & Co. (See page 4S.)
The John Dulwebcr Company.
Hay Lumber Company.

Mowbray & Kobtnson Company. (See page 12.)
The New Kiver Lumber Cointianv.

PENNSYLVANIA
J. M. Murdock & Co., Johnstown.
Aberdeen Lumber Company, Pittsburgh. (See
page 38.)

Babcock Lumber Company, Pittsburgh.

TENNESSEE

• J. M. Card Lumber Company. Chattanooga.
Williams Lumber Company, rayettevllle. (See

page 41.)

• Bedna Young Lumber Company, Jackson.
Kimball & Kopcke, Knoxvllle.

J. M. Logan Lumber Company, Knoxvllle.
Vestal Lumber & Manufacturing Co., Knoxvllle.
(See page 10.)
JJttle River Lumber Company, Townsend.

Mennphia
.\nderson-Tully Company. (See page 10.)
Geo. C. Brown & Co. (Sec page 12.)
K. J. Uainell, Inc.
May Bros.
Memphis liand Mill Company.

• Nickey & Sons Company, Inc.

Paepcke Leicht Lumber Company. (See page — .)
Penrod-Jurdon & McCowen. (See page 60.)
Russe & Murgess, Inc.

E. Sondheiiner Company. (See page 44.)
VandeuUoom-Stimson Lumber Company.

• Welsh Lumber Company.
J. W. Wheeler & Co.

Nashville
Davidson Hicks & Greene Company.
Farrls Hardwood Lumber Company. (See page
.34.)

• Love, Boyd & Co.

• John B. Ransom & Co.

VIRGINIA

• U. S. Spruce Lumber Company, Marlon.
Boice Lumber Company, Inc., Richmond.

WEST VIRGINIA

• Lewis Lumber Company, Albright.

The McClellan-West Lumber Company, Bluefield.
(See page — .)
The .\lton Lumber Company, Buckhannon.

• West Virginia Timber Company, Charleston.

• Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company, Clarksburg.
Maryland Lumber Company, Denmar.

C. L. Ritter Lumber Company, Huntington.
Rockcastle Lumber Company, Huntington,
(ilay Lumber Company, Middle Fork.
The Parkersburg Mill Company, Parkersburg.

• The Meadow River Lumber Company, Rainelle.

• Warn Lumber Corporation, Raywood.

• American Column & Lumber Co., St. Albans.

WISCONSIN

G. W. Jones Lumber Company, Appleton.

and beauty of oal( are proof against
ly intrenched today than ever before.

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All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

HARDWOOD RECORD

Uclulwr 2.%. 11)15.

P BAY CITY. MICH. |

THK LARGKST PRODI CINC CENTER OF MICHICwVN HARDWOOD

LOWER PENINSULA HARD MAPLE

When You Think This, Think Bay City

BOO Si

4/4

No. 2 Common A Belter Hard U*ple

MOM

4 4

No. 3 Cemmon H«rd M»ple

lOOM

4 '4

No. 2 Cemmen A Brtler Soft Uapl*

lOOM

4 4

Birch. Mill Run

JOOM

4/4

Baseweed, L. R.

llOM

4 '4

let * 3ad Baeewaed

TfiM

4/4

No. 1 Commcin BaaMwead

BOM

4/4

No. 2 Common Baitewoad

40M

B 4

let A 2nd Baaswood

•OM

S/4

No. 1 Common Baaeweod

SOM

6/4

Ne. 8 Common Baeewaed

125M

ft 4

No. 2 Common A Better Beech

leuM

8 4

No. S Common Beech

Richardson Lumber Company

100,000 ru 4/4 No. 1 Common and No. 2 Common

Birch.
100.000 ft. 4/4 No. 8 Common Birch.
::il.ci00 ft. Ixe to ll7 lal and 2ndB Hard Mapla.
150.000 ft. 4/4 No. 3 Common Hard Maple.
TSO.OUO ft. 6/4 No. 3 Common Hard Maple.
60.000 ru 0/4 No. 3 Common Hard Maple.
7.'>.000 ft. S 4 No. 2 Common and Better Beech.
600,000 ft 0/4 No. 2 Common and Better Beech.
2.'.0.U00 ft. 5/4 No. 2 Common and Belter Beach.
400,000 ft. 5/4 No. 3 Common Beech.
loO.OOO ft. 6/4 No. 3 Common Beech.
20.000 ft. 0/4 No. 1 Common Elm.
20,000 ft. 6/4 No. 2 Common Elm.
00,000 ft. ,V4 No. 2 Common Bngawood.
100.000 ft. 5/4 No. 3 Common Baaewood.
IB.OOO ft. 8/4 No. 1 Common Bnaawood.

The Kneeland-Bigelow Company

HARD MAPLE

l«/4 li A 2e. »" and up 124.800 ft.

1« 4 Ne. 1 Com 84.7(10 ft.

18 4 No. 2 C. A B.. 4 to f wide 9.000 ft.

12/4 IB A Se. «- and up 203 8(in ft.

12'4 No. 1 Com 2fl.nn0 ft.

10/4 li A 2e. 8" and up 183.2CI0 ft.

8/4 la A 2a 8" and up 180.2O0 ft.

g/4 No 1 Com.. »" and up 8.2iiO fu

8 4 heart culle 72.0liO ft.

• /4 la A 2a 8' and up 288.000 ft.

i/4 la A 2a. 8" and up 188.800 ft.

f/4 BIrd'a Bra 920 ft.

4/4 Blrde Ere ., 1!I! I*-

4/4 While •I5J2!*-

4/4 la A 2a. 8" and up 850.000 ft.

4/4 Heart culla S'?** "•

4/4 Plank trim 87,000 ft

BIRCH

t/4 Na. » C. A B ;.»0 ft

i'4 Na. 8 Cam .S-"S2 I,*-

4/4 Ne. 1 Com ,il'^i^

4/4 Na. 2 a A B 1*2 S^"'*-

4/4 Ni % Cora. 2» "^ ''-

4/4 Na. » Cam »8.6oO ft

W. D. Young

BEECH

8/4 Ne. 2 C. A B 8S.088 ft

8 4 Na. 8 Com 88.800 ft

6/4 Na. 2 C. A B 408.000 ft

6/4 No. 3 Com 81008ft

4/4 Na. 1 C. A B 68.008 ft

4/4 No. 2 A 8 Cam 868.008 ft

4/4 No. 8 Cam 67.008 ft

BASSWOOD

4/4 Ne. J C. A B 448.008 ft.

4/4 Na. 8 Com 80.000 ft.

ELM

4/4 Full cut 28.888 ft

ASH

4/4 run cut 18.888 ft

CHERRY

4/4 Full cut 1.888 ft.

OAK

4/4 Full cut 8.888 ft.

& Company

Let the following manufacturers know youi needs:

KNEELAND-BIGELOW CO. W. D. YOUNG & CO.

RICHARDSON LUMBER CO.

All Three of U. Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

October :!5, li>15.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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LEAUING MANUFACTUKE.RS AND JOBBERS 1

WM. WHITMER CBi. SONS

INrOItrOKATED

Manufacturers and Whole- "'f Anybody Can,
saiers of Ail Kinds of I We c.n"

HARDWOODS

West Virginia Spruce and Hemlock
Long and Short Leaf Pine Virginia Framing

Franklin Bank Bldg.

PHILADELPHIA

PAUMER «Sf PARKER CO.

TEAK MAHOGANY kbony

ENGLISH OAK l#c lU C C D C IJOMESTIC

CIRCASSIAN WALUl VEIMEERS HARDWOODS

103 Medford Street, Charlestown Dist.

BOSTON, MASS.

WISTAR, UNDERHILL & NIXON

REAL ESTATE TRUST BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

QUARTERED WHITE OAK

NICE FLAKY STUFF

SAVE TOUR MONET BT USING THE

RED BOOK

Published Semi-annually
in February and August

It contains a carefully prepared list of the buyers of lum-
ber in car lots, both among the dealers and manufacturers.

The book indicates their financial standing and manner
of meeting obligations. Covers the United State*, Alberta,
Manitoba and Saikjttchewan. The trade recognizes this
book as the authority on tue line it covers.

A. well ercanlzsd Collection Department la also oper-
ated and the aanie la open to you. Wrlt« for tAirma.

Lumbermen's Credit Assn.,

•0» 8o. Drarbom St. i/,_»j._ t-i.^. Cn... ** John Hu

CHICAUO Mention TMt Paper y^-^y VORK CITT

EstablUheil
1878

Willson Bros. Lumber Co.

Matnifcittitrcrs

West Virginia Hardwoods
and North Carolina Pine

,, ,, 1 PORTERWOOD, WE

Mills at y JACKSONVILLE, N.
J CONWAY, S. C.

WEST VA.

Main Office: PITTSBURGH, PA,

WM. E. LITCHFIELD

MASON BUILDING, BOSTON, MASS.

Specialist in Hardwoods

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Vestal Lumber & Manufacturing Co.

KNOXVILLE, TEiNNESSEE
Phi in Oiik M;miii:utiircrs Quartcrcd \\ liitc Oak

SOFT TEXTURED STOCK

Black Walnut Touu'Sscl' Red (\'dar Poplar

HAND MILLS ON L. & N. AND SOUTHERN RAILROADS AT VESTAL. A SUBURB OF KNOXVILLE

Alexander Brothers

Oct. lit, 1915 I I. II. ii,i/..i,i BELZONI, MISS.

K \.**. N". 1 Com, No. '.; Com. No. '^ Com.
Qrtd. Whit.- Onk —

%.. l.r.'Mi ?:.:■ "M 2.000 |2.''..oo

1 ..4.'..'" • 411,000 30.00 4.000 »20.00

m..24' 17.0IH) 37.00 22.800 20.00

14.. 22.' 47 000 37.00 H.OOO 21.00

Hi o 37.00

2 ..30,10U -0 38.00 8.000 22.00

3 . . 8.000 "I 45.00

1 ..60.000 i -. JO 20.00 2 to 4 S N D Strips

1U..1B.0OO 4:;.iM> 2 to 4 S N D Strlp>

Qrtd. Red Oak —

% ' '"" ■• ' '^"O 23.00 2,000 15.00

1 '» 30.00 32,000 18.00

11. '1 ,12.00 14,000 20.00

IH "J 32.00 15.S00 20.00

1 ..li.uoo ;;s.uu ;;u.uoo 18.00 2 to 4 S N D strips

IK- -12.000 40.00 0,000 20.00 2 to 4 S N D Strips

Fas. No. 1 Com. No. 2 Com.

1 P. W. Oak 24.000 I4G.00 2.000 t2.'i.00 ll.oon JIIOO

1 P. R. Oak S..'iO0 2.V0O 14.0il(l 11.00

H4 P. R, Oak 1.000 4S.00 3.000 27.00 ll.OUO 11(10

IVt P- R. Oak 000 48.00 2.000 27.00

Cottonwood —

1 25.000 25.00 40.000 17.00 18.000 13.00

1 Box 9 to 12 15.000 20.00

1 18 Up Pan & 1 . . 3.500 40.00

IH Tupelo 30.001 18.00 0.000 15.00

2 Tupelo 45.000 20..',0 20,000 Ki.OO ■

1 Plain Red Gum. 70,000 24.00 l.l.OOO 14.00

m Plain Red Gum. 11. 200 25.00 14.000 15.00 11.000 11.00

IM Plain Red Gum. 47.000 27.00 51,000 15 00

1 Sap Gum 20.800 10.00 40.000 12.O0

1 •• 9 to 12 Bx.. 23.800 18.00 0.380 22.00

1 ■■ 13 to 17 Bx.. 39.000 22.00 ,

1 Sap Gum. 18 & up 0.000 24.00

114 Sap Gum 28.000 10.00 4S.000 18.50 5.000 lO.OO

IVi Sap Gum 5.500 Ifl.OO 16.000 13,50 2,500 10,00

2 Sap Gum 1,300 18.00 11.000 14.00

IH Elm C.IOO 20.00 in.OOO 14.00 2.500 7.00

3 Elm 2.500 29.00 3.000 18.00

1 Qrtd. Red Gum. .4.5,000 45.00 l,'i,000 2,5.00 Mottled flffure

1 Qrtd. Red Gum. 10.000 32 00 50.000 21.00

114 Qrtd. Red Gum. 25.000 .'IS 00 8.000 22.00

IVi Qrtd. Red Gum. .32.000 33.00 27.000 22.00

2 Qrtd. Red Gum.. 80.000 34.00 0.000 2.S.00

3 Qrtd. Red Gum 1.500 25.00

STAND.VRD WEIGHTS GUARANTEED

A^> are prepnred to re-snxv. mnke beveled hhiI Hliip lap nlillni;.
,\Nn surfnrini: lumlier for r\port and dnmp«.tic hhipmrntH.

COTTONWOOD

OAK

PLAIN AND QUARTERED RED AND WHITE

RED AND SAP GUM

High Grades Band Saivn Lumber

We Make a Specialty of Thin Stock

COTTONWOOD
AND GUM VENEERS

THREE-PLY GUM PANELS
BOX SHOOKS — EGG CASES

Write Us for Prices

Anderson Tully Company

MEMPHIS, nm.

Little Rock., Ark., Has the Pick of Arkansas Hardwoods

ITS geographical location is such that it is virtually in the center of the best hardwood timber in the
Southland. Its railroad facilities give it the call on any of this timber at any time. We have
planned our band mill operations to make the most of this natural advantage, so you have not only
the finest selection of logs for your exact wants, but have in our mill the opportunity of getting just
that kind of lumber that you can work best.

LITTLE ROCK LUMBER & MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Little Rock, Arkansas

D. S. WATROUS, Sec'y-Treas., Mgr.

All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

October 25, 1915.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Are You Interested in Walnut?

If so, write to the American Walnut Association,

1404 Starks Building, Louisville, Ky., for a copy of our new booklet about

walnut. It is of interest to liunhernien, consumers and all others who would like to know
more about "the aristocrat of American hardwoods," which is forging to the front in
every line where a high-class material is required. In the meantime, if you are in the
market for walnut logs, lumber or veneers, address any of the concerns whose stock is
listed below.

FRANK PURCELL
Kansas City, Missouri

PRIME WALNUT LOGS FOR EXPORT

Figured Walnut Logs
Figured Walnut Butts

SANDERS & EGBERT COMPANY

LONG-KNIGHT LUMBER COMPANY
Indianapolis, Indiana

18.000-ft. 1-ln. 1st and 2nds.

i20,000-ft. 1x10 and up No. 1 common.

Cl),0()0-ft. 1x4 and up No. 1 common.

40.000-ft. 1x4 and up No. 2 common.

8.000-ft. .1/4 No. 2 common.

8.000-ft. 6/4 No. 1 common.

5.000-ft. 6/4 No. 1 and No. 2 common.

lO.OOO-ft. 2-ln. No. 2 common.

SO.OOO-ft. 2-ln. No. 2 C. & B. green.

EAST ST. LOUIS WALNUT COMPANY
East St. Louis, Illinois

1st and 2nds.

3/8-in 40.000-rt

1/2-in 100,000-ft.

5/8-ln 140,000-n.

3/4-ln 50.000-ft.

4/4-ln 50.000-ft.

5/4-in 20.000-tt.

6/4-ln

12/4-in 12.000-ft.

16/4-in 4.000-ft.

No. 1 Common.

3/8-ln 50,000-ft.

1/2-ln 30.000-ft.

3/4-ln 140.00n-ft.

4/4-in l-.I.OOO-ft.

5/4-ln .'lO.OOO-ft.

S/4-ln ]2,n00-ft.

16/4-ln 1,000-ft.

PENROD WALNUT & VENEER COMPANY
Kansas City, Missouri

1st and 2nds.

5/8-ln 20,000-ft.

3/4-In 43.000-ft.

4/4-in 65,000-ft.

5/4-ln 15,nn0-f t.

6/4-ln 19,000-tt.

10/4-in 2.000-ft.

12/4-ln 4,600-ft.

Kraetzer Cured Lumber In Stock Ready for Shipment.

Three Million Feet of Figured Walnut Butt Veneers and Two
Million Feet of Figured Walnut Log Veneers Rotary Cut and
Sliced Stock.

We Furnish Plain Walnut Veneers any Thickness, cut to size.

PICKREL WALNUT COMPANY

No. 1 Common.

5/8-ln 40.000-ft.

3/4-in .50,000-ft.

4/4-ln 300,000-ft.

5/4-in 30.00n-tt.

6/4-in 14,000-ft.

S/4-in 3,000-ft.

10/4-in 3,000-ft.

St. Louis, Missouri

1st and 2nds.

3/4-ln 25,000-ft.

4/4-in 32,000-ft.

5/4-in 8.000-ft.

«/4-in 12,000-ft.

No. 1 Common.

3/4-in . 40.000-ft.

4/4-ln. .. ; 52,000-ft.

5/4-in 12.000-ft.

e/4-in 14.000-ft.

8/4-in 8.000-£t.

Any Quantity, Any Thickness, No. 2 Common.
Rohanized Dry Lumber Always In Stock.

VENEERS
Any Quantity, both in Long Wood and Butts.

Goshen, Indiana

l/2-ln.
5/8-ln.
3/4-ln.

1-ln.
I'A-ln.
l!4-ln.

2-ln.

No. 1 Common.

18.000-ft.
11,000-ft.

1.200-ft.
40,000-ft.
24.n00-ft.

2.500-ft.

5,000-ft.

No. 2 Common.

1/2-In.
!5/S-ln.
3/4-ln.

I'A-ln.
1-ln.

m-tn.

2-ln.

Sap

3.000-ft.
6.500-ft.
7,1500-ft.
4,500-ft.
25.000-ft.
1,000-ft.
1,000-ft.

No. 3 Common.
3/4-ln 10,500-ft.

1st and 2nds.

3/8-ln 400-ft.

1/2-ln 36,000-ft.

5/8-ln 47,000-ft.

3/4-ln 56.000-ft.

1-ln 9,200-ft.

1x7 to 9-ln. wide

Clear Shorts 9,000-ft.

IxlO-ln. and up

Clear Shorts 13.300-ft.

I'/J-ln 7.500-ft.

2xl0-ln. and up 2.500-ft.

2%-ln 4,000-ft.

1-ln. Clear Face 42,000-ft.

H. A. McCOWEN & CO.
Louisville, Kentucky

1st and 2nds.

4/4-ln 22fl,000-ft.

5/4-ln 50.000-ft.

6/4-ln in.OOO-ft.

8/4-ln 8.000-ft.

10/4-ln 5.000-ft.

12/4-in 15,000-ft.

16/4-ln 7,000-ft.

No. 1 Common.

4/4-ln 200,000-ft.

5/4-ln lOO.Ono-f t.

6/4-ln 40,000-ft.

8/4-ln 30.000-ft.

10/4-ln 10,000-ft.

12/4-ln 10,000-ft.

16/4-ln 4,000-ft.

AH Thicknesses In No. 2 Common.

THEODOR FRANCKE ERBEN, G.m.b.H.
Cincinnati, Ohio

1st and 2nds.

3/8-ln 24,500-ft.

1/2-in 160,000-ft.

5/8-ln 169,000-f t.

3/4-ln 126,000-tt.

4/4-ln 10,000-ft.

5/4-in 6.000-ft.

6/4-in 2,000-ft.

8/4-in e,000-ft.

4/4-in. Selects 11,000-ft.

4/4-ln. to 8/4-in.

Moulding Strips.. 19,000-tt.

3/8.
1/2-
5/8-
3/4-
4/4-
5/4-
6/4-
8/4-

5/8-
4/4-
5/4-
8/4-

No. 1 Common.

■in 38.000-ft.

■In e4,000-ft.

in 20,000-ft.

In 40,000-ft.

in 80.000-ft.

in 13,000-ft.

in 34,000-ft.

in 30,000-ft.

No. 2 Common.

in 7,000-ft.

In 22,000-ft.

in 15,000-ft.

in 25,000-ft.

GEORGE W. HARTZELL
Piqua, Ohio

1st and 2nds.

3/4-ln lS,O0O-ft.

4/4-ln 95.UOO-ft.

5/4-ln eS.OOO-ft.

6/4-in 27,000-ft.

8/4-ln 11,000-ft.

No. 1 Common.

3/4-ln 5,000-ft.

4/4-in 55.000-ft.

5/4-ln 3.5.000-ft.

6/4-ln 22,000-ft.

8/4-In 32.000-ft.

No. 2 Common.

3/4-in 3.000-tt.

4/4-in 20.000-ft.

5/4-in 17.000-f t.

6/4-in 15.000-ft.

8'4-in V5.000-ft.

5/8-in. Clear Face.. 60.nn0-ft.

4/4-in. Clear Face.. 20,000-ft.

4/4-in. Selects 15,000-ft.

Clear Squares.
15,000 pes. H4xl 14x18" to 24"
25,000 pes. 2x2x12" to 42"

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HARDWOOD KKCOKD

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The kind ot timber that enables us to
maintain our policy of

Honest Inspection
Intelligent Selection

r,l HIT
Eatabllahril 1807 Inr«rpontl«d 1904

Hoffman Bros. Company, Fort Wayne, Ind.

Dimension Hardwoods

Cut to Your Order
Save Time Save Labor Save Waste

We lolicit your iuquliies for
Chair Posts and Rockers band sawed
to pattern. Table Legs. Table Tops.
Seat Stock, or anything in special
cut Chair or Furniture Dimension.

THE POWELL MYERS LUMBER CO.
South Bend. Indiana

The Mowbray & Robinson Company
irdv

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MANUFACTURERS Hardwood Lumbcr

nnti

MADE

Oak Flooring

Purveyors of Floors for Fastidious People

Miiin office, yards and warehouse

CINCINNATI, O.

QUICKSAND.
Factory

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|0 'T^^'^ of Contents C^

COVER PICTURE— The Pere Marquette River.
REVIEV*/ AND OUTLOOK:

Gener.Tl M.irket Condition! 13

The Cover Picture 13

Northern Manufacturers Have Reason to be Encouragad 14

Te»ted by Storm 14

Stocks are Actually Low In Some Woods IS

Rated Too Low 15

En'jilsh Criticism ot Consignment Shipments 15

SPECIAL ARTICLES;

Indiana Wood -Using Industries 16-18

The Lumbermen's Round Table 19

Sawmill Shop Talk 20

Ideal Sawmill Construction 20

Phases of Employment Contracts 21

To Make Use of Hardwood Ashes 21

An Idea for Association Work 28

To Test Northern Woods 22

Facts and Fr.->uds of Witch Hazel 23

Interest I no Traffic Developments 24-25

Conditions Better In Memphis Section 26

Refining Lumber on the Load;ng Dock 27

THE MAIL BAG 28

CUBS A.MD ASSOCIATIONS:

Michigan Manufacturers Meet 26

Miscellaneous 20

WITH THE TRADE 20-31

PERTINENT INFORMATION 31-34

HARDWOOD NEWS 34-44

HARDWOOD MARKET 44-40

HARDWOODS FOR SALE 52-63

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS 51

8UBSCKIPTI0M T£BM8: Id th> UDlIrd t<Iite> snil Ita poueuloDa. •sd lisada.
f2.oo tha jrar; Id forelr' rouolrlf^. Sl.on extra poatace.

Id coDfomiltj wltb tb« ntlps of the poatofDcc departmeot, iat>«(Tlptloas sra
pajabls Id adTsocc. aod lo default of wrltt^B orders to ttie cootrarj, sra coDUoaa4
at oar optloD.

iDitmrtloDB for rcnawal. diic«Dtlnaanoe, or ohsBca of addraia. abofild t>a soat
ODa wF»k brfors tha dat« thej sra to go Into effect. Botb old aod Dew sddrsasas
ntiat t>« siTao.

tlotb display aod claaslfled advertlslDC rales forolabed opos appllrattoa. AdTsr-
tlalof rop; renat h* rar^lTod Ova daja Id arWaoce of publtratlon dat.-a

RotcrM aa aec*Bd-claaa mattrr Wav 26. 1002, at tbe postofflcs st Cblcaro. III.,
nndar act of Msreb 8. 1878.

If You Have Ever Seen a Sawmill
Community

^'|>u will admit that our little town shown here has
cliarnctcr and jjcrsdiiality. That is tlie keynote of our whole
organization — the inaintenanct.- and production of a business, and a
commodity of distinction, wjiich throuKh greater care and closer
("UfMTvli^lon !»iiow up lo I'D Jitft n little lilt bettor tlinn the IipMt lo Iw found clw?where.

It roally Is pnwlble for Uf to phow you evon without your seeing a bnaril of our
Htock. Just where wo have wivod money for woodworkers In your lino ihroush
Incrennod values by "ivaate" fiavlnir.

.( .h.lhir .-11, .? /;,.

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th/ i.s inirth (I luii-ccnt sinmj).

GEORGE C. BROWN & COMPANY, Memphis, Tenn.

A Sawmill Community with .i PorponalUy

All Three of Us Wil

Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

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Published in the Interest of the American Hardwood Forests, the Products thereof, and Logging, Saw

Mill and Woodworking Machinery, on the lOth and 25lh of each Month, by

THE HARDWOOD COMPANY

Edgar H. Defebaugh, President
Edwin W. Meeker, Managing Editor
Hu Maxwell, Technical Editor

Entire Seventh Floor Ellsworth Building
537 So. Dearborn Street, CHICAGO
Telephones: Harrison 8086-8087-8088

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Vol. XLI.

CHICAGO. OCTOBER 25, 1915

No. 1

^ C g^'^^M ^ ' yi'!'^"W'i^ B!A!).M:;^:^i»TO;^^

Review and Outlook

General Market Conditions

SOME INTERESTING FIGURES ty|iii-al of all northern hardwood
operations came to light during the jia.st week at a meeting of
northern manufacturers. Details of these figures will be found else-
-where in this issue. Briefly, they show that there has been a reduction
in cut of northern hardwoods, jiarticularly of Michigan stocks, of
practically twenty-five per cent as compared to last year, and that since
the first of July there has been an excess of shipments over cut of all
grades of hardwoods of about .34,000,000 feet in lower Michigan alone.
AVith the low-grade situation in bad sTiape all summer, the last two
weeks have seen a marked development in the demand for poorer >^toeks
in all of the Michigan hardwoods, and this is certainly equally true
of similar woods on the other side of the lake, with the result that
there has been a general increase that should average about one dollar a
thousand in going prices. Manufacturers in that territory attribute
the strengthened valuations to the bettering of the tie market and the
influence of excellent conditions in the box manufacturing industry.

A close survey of the furniture factories, at least those within a
radius of 500 to fiOO miles of Chicago, reveals the fact that almost
all of them are working now on full union time schedule. It is quite
likely that in a good many cases the full quota of men is not em-
ployed, but at the same time forces are gradually being augmented
because of a much better call for all classes of furniture. A specially
pleasing part of this development is the increase in demand for fur-
niture taking high-priced woods such as mahogany, and those in which
expensive woods are used in the form of veneers. This has brought a
much healthier tone in the veneer and fancy wood situation. A real
impetus in piano sales has had its effect especially in the higher
priced woods so that those handling quartered oak, mahogany, highly
figured gum, American walnut and other similar raw materials are
congratulating themselves on the jjresent situation and the immediate
outlook.

At the same time the call for goods in the moderately priced lines is
continuing to show improvement even over the fairly satisfactory
situation that has prevailed right along. Following the last furniture
shows, which did not in themselves offer much encouragement in the
matter of actual sales, there has developed a very good demand which
is showing a consistent, continued character. Furniture dealers evi-
dently have found that they could not get along with the depleted line
of stocks which they had been carrying, and have been compelled to
put in their orders for early delivery.

Cold statistics show that building records have been broken in a
good many large centers thus far, the month of September especially
being excellent. It cannot be said that the total building is in excess

of records heretofore established, but the last figures certainly show
up materially better than figures for corresponding periods of recent
months. In fact, were these statistics not available the true condi-
tion of affairs would be indicated by a remarkable shortage of certain
grades of flooring, particularly in the northern woods. It is stated
that on certain grades an over-call of from 150 to 200 per cent above
available stocks is a matter of immediate fact, and that in all grades
the call for hardwood flooring is excellent.

Hardwood Record notes in another editorial an instance which,
while in itself of . no great moment, is particularly encouraging to
handlers of southern stock. There has been a persistent rumor in the
last few weeks that stocks of gum were nowhere near what they
were supposed to have been, and the instance referred to in which a
furniture manufacturer asks for immediate shipment on a car of sap
gum without breathing one word of price or other specifications, cer-
tainly shows that these rumors are based on fact. The true state of
affaii-s is always revealed most pertinently by instances of this char-
acter, and there have been a great many of them in the last few
months which the trade is entirely justified in accepting as indicative
of change of front on the buyer 's part. For instance, a large northern
manufacturer told recently of having offered a certain line of stock
at a price that was two dollars over what he had been receiving up
to then. His knowledge of stock conditions and of the trade demand
convinced him that the lumber was worth more than he had been
getting. The figures did not seem to startle the purchasing agent,
who, however, asked for a few hours of grace in which to consider
the proposition. The order was placed by telephone the same
afternoon.

The northern manufacturers are already getting substantial benefit
from the better tone in the yellow pine markets as hemlock has expe-
rienced a certain impetus that is going to carry it to a point several
dollars over the low markets that have held all summer. Northern
manufacturers are to be congratulated on their aggressive efforts
to take advantage of all the ground they gain, through their pending
educational campaign tending to familiarize architects and builders
with the uses of hemlock for certain purposes.

The Cover Picture

THE GLORY OF THE LUGGING YEARS has departed from the
scene represented in the cover picture of this issue of Hardwood
Record; but another glory has taken its place. The stream which
comes into view with such strength and vigor is the Pere Marquette
river that flows from the farms and forests of Michigan and pours
into Lake Michigan at Ludington. It is not one of the large rivers

HARDWOOD RECORD

Oclobrr 25, 191S.

'iintry and il» i ,;"nc to imineniic dislancos; but

those who know it bent iind nro nrqunintod with it« quiet bcuuly, con-
aider it one of the fioeat iitrvAnis to he found nnywhore. Tlic pnrt of it
prescntt>d in tho picture looks as if the hand of man had novor been
there, unless a close i ii is nindc. In that case a few

stranded ta«lo(pi may I ; lyinR close boncnth the shore.

That (fives n hint of iUiolhor chapter in tho river's history, a
chapter which has now drawn near its close. This was once a lum-
berman's river, as nearly all Michigan streams were, but it is no
longer in that claB.<i. The landlookcr, the lumberjack, and the boom
and splash dam builders have gone, never to return. Tho forests
which once sent dotvn their logs by tens of thousands on tho spring
floods have nearly all passed away, and farms now occupy the favorite
tracts in tho former wilderness. The few logs which yet go down
are mere stragglers bringing up the rear of a great industry which
made that region famous years ago. The calkbooted log rider who
waa onco a master of ceremonies has gone from the scenes of his
former activities.

This stream has long enjoyed the reputation of being the most
beautiful stream in Michigan. That is laying claim to a great deal,
for Michigan has many rivers of rare beauty. The sportsman and tho
fislicrman find it interesting. The game laws have extended their pro-
tection over it, and though it flows through .1 densely populated
region, in some parts of its course at least, there are still good angling
in its waters and shooting on its shores; but the f;iriiiers, for tho
sako of orchards and berry patches, watch with jealous care the
huntsman and angler who follow the sylvan banks of the Pcro Mar-
quette.

Tho Nimrods and Izaak Waltons, with fowling pieces and fishing
poles, must ever be on the lookout for the "no trespassing" notices,
and must guide their steps accordingly, or take chances on running
against obstacles in the shape of farmers at the edges of their fields
ready to enforce the edict, "hitherto shalt thou come but no farther."
It is not so open and free as it once was when tho white pine's
needles whistled in the wind and the woodsman's ax had not cut
the covering that separated ground and sky.

Northern Manufacturers Have Reason to Be
Encouraged

WUILE REPORTS WERE NOT YET IN at the time this issue
went to press covering hardwood operations in Wisconsin and
the majority of the mills in upper Michigan, the statistics offered at
the meeting of lower Michigan manufacturers at Detroit last Thurs-
day show a condition that is well within the control of the Michigan
operators, and which is giving continually increasing evidence tliat
that element of the hardwood manufacturing trade is going to reap
the reward of its sane, consistent policy of tlie last year.

The Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association compiled
statistics of the estimated cut and actual shipments for a certain
period, but on account of the unusual state of affairs as prevailing
during the past twelve months, the report was made more frequently
than ordinarily. Thus the figures as compiled up to the first of
October show the actual cut to that date for the first nine months
of this year. Naturally reports prior to that date were for estimated
cut, but a close comparison of the two develops tho fact that the
cut for 1915 at Michigan mills in the lower peninsula will aggregate
only 360,000,000 feet, which offers a very favorable comparison with
the cut of 470,000,000 feet of hardwoods in the same territory by
the same mills during 1914.

The October first report shows that there is on hand but 194,000,000
feet of No. 2 and better hardwoods as compared to 211,000,000 feet
in 1914, and that since the first of July the stock at the mills has
decreased by 34,000,000 feet, which means that the Michigan manu-
facturers sold and shipped just 34,000,000 feet of hardwoods over
the amount produced. Of this quantity 23,000,000 feet is maple, and
of the 23,000,000 feet 19,000,000 is No. 2 and better.

Owing mainly to the indisposition on the part of the railroads to
purchase any quantities of ties. No. 3 hardwoods have shown a slow
and cheap market up to a recent date. About two weeks ago the
market for No. 3 hardwoods began to stiffen with a large call for

ties from Michigan railroads and steadily increasing box orders, with
the result that during thin period the market for No. 3 hardwoods
has risen one dollar a thousand.

Tho most instructive lesson from those figures is the proof which
they give that it is not necessary to combine to maintain sane action
among himlx'r manufacturers. The only thing neccHxary is to edu-
cate manufacturers to the necessity of their taking individual action
for tho good of their own industries. The reduction in cut is tlie
direct result of previous reports of the market conditions committee
of the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, which merely
established the actual condition of affairs and allowed the manu-
facturers to make their own deductions as to a wiN<> policy for tho
future.

Tested by Storm

A "

r\ su

MKilITY BLACK EYE was adniinisterod to one branch of the
Iffltitute propaganda in tho .South during the recent atoroi
which swept with almost unprecedented violence across three or four
states. In some localities the wind exceeded a velocity of one hun-
dred miles an hour, and towns and cities lay directly in its path
and caught tlio full force of its attack. Southern Mississippi, the
whole coast of Louisiana, and all of Texas bordering on the Gulf of
Mexico, felt the impact of the storm of wind and rain.

The first Ics.son learned from the visitation was that the wooden
shingle stood the test and that most substitutes like slate, iron, paper,
felt, and tho whole lino of patented and unpatented roofing prepara-
tions, were found wanting. It is true that the test was unusually
severe, but the real value of roofs is proved by the severities which
they are able to stand. The old-fashioned wooden shingle, fastened
on with the old-fashioned nail, held its place while roofs of far more
expensive material were whipped off by the hurricane. The largest
damage reported from the storm-swept districts was due to rain which
poured into unroofed houses. There was no way to protect furniture,
libraries, and other contents from the heavy rain. Damage was
greatest in tho largo towns where building ordinances forbid the
use of wooden shingles. In the suburbs and in the country the roofs
of wood held fast.

The object lesson was a severe one but it has not been in vain.
It demonstrated in a manner easily understood, that the agitation and
legislation against shingles have been ill-advised and have done a
great injustice to tho best roofing material within reach of the ordi-
nary builder. People had taken for granted that tho outcry against
shingles was based on reason; but the storm brought out facts in
their true light, and the advocates of roofing substitutes will have
many hard questions to answer when they again push their products.

Tho attack against shingles in cities has been based on fire danger;
but tlio failure of substitutes to stand the storm in New Orleans has,
according to the press of that city, caused more loss in three days
than has ever been caused by fire. The old-time school debating
societies used to discuss the question whether fire or water causes
greater loss. As far as New Orleans is concerned, the decision has
been rendered in favor of water, through the aid and instrumentality
of substitute roofing materials.

So far as fire danger increased by the use of wooden shingles is
concerned, measures have been devised whereby that can be largely
overcome. Wood may be made fireproof. Treatment by paints and
chemicals is now within reach of those who wish to take advantage
of it; and still cheaper processes are being tried out and are doubt-
less soon to be perfected. The fire argument as urged against shingles
is losing most of its force since science has largely succeeded in mas-
tering that danger.

In the southern districts visited by the late storm the leading
shingle wood is cypress. That excellent wood has roofed southern
homes ever since the red man 's wigwam gave place to the white
man's abode. It has covered the hovel and the mansion house of the
wealthiest plantation; and the cypress shingle has never failed to do
its duty and to afford the protection demanded of it. It has been
called the ' ' wood everlasting, ' ' and the name is not undeserved. The
latest test which it stood in the teeth of a hundred-mile hurricane
has amply sustained its past reputation, and has proved again that

October 25, 1915.

HARDWOOD RECORD

wood in its proper place is superior to most substitutes which are
seeking to crowd it out.

The western red cedar, the California redwood, the northern white
cedar, and white pine, not to mention other widely known shingle
woods, stand as high in their respective regions as cypress stands in
the South, and the unreasonable attacks upon wooden roofs may be
expected to show a decided weakening from now on. The hurricane
was a big blow, and it administered a hard blow to the unfair cam-
paign against wooden shingles.

Stocks Are Actually Low in Some Woods

POSSIBLY THE FOLLOWING BRIEF but significant communi-
cation addressed to a prominent sawmill firm in Chicago, which
operates mills in the South, is not a regular occurrence even with
this firm, and possibly this communication is not typical of the cor-
respondence of all other hardwood operators, but it does give an
indication of a condition that cannot justly be overlooked. The letter,
dated September 22, 1915, was addressed directly from a furniture
manufacturing institution to the above referred to firm, wliich is
not in a position to command this company's business, regardless
of conditions. In fact, it has not sold to this particular buyer for
quite a number of months. The consumer writes:

"Gentlemen: Please rush one car 4/4 No. 1 common sap gum."
If this lumber company had the call on tliis business at all times
there probably would not be any significance in the above letter,
but considering the fact that the two firms are not linked with any
bonds of sentiment or any unusual personal friendship, the entire
absence of requests for prices or other conditions really shows that
the tendency is toward a seller's market.

Those pessimists who cannot see very much light in the sky surely
will be given some measure of hope from the fact that large buyers,
whose purchases are made in an intelligent manner, are so anxious
to get their stock that they do not stop for price quotations, simply
specifying that shipment shall arrive as expeditiously as possible.

Rated Too Low

UNDEEESTIMATION OF OUR FOREST RESOURCES has been
common in the past. Now and then evidence of this comes
prominently to the front. A recent instance is seen in the case of
black walnut. It was generally supposed that the reason \\hy the
annual cut of this beautiful wood had fallen below fifty million feet
was its scarcity. Many persons believed that walnut was so nearly
exhausted that it could no longer be had in larger quantities. The
sudden revival of demand has disproved this. Walnut has poured
into the market during the past year. No one yet knows how much
has come out of the woods in the last twelve months; but doubtless
the cut has been three or four times as great as last year. If this
timber had not been in the woods it could not have been brought
out on demand.

Walnut has not been the only wood whose quantity has been under-
estimated. Some ten or fifteen jears ago the government threw a
scare into the public by sending out maps of the principal forested
regions of the United States, with legends indicating that the timber
in one area would be gone in from ten to fifteen years, that in an-
other district might last twenty years, and in some other region the
end would come a little sooner or somewhat later; but the summary
indicated that the timber famine was right upon us.

Well, the time is about up and the famine has not pinched yet.
It was simply an underestimate of the country 's forest resources.
It was not done intentionally, and the motive in spreading the alarm
was patriotic; but it was done on too little information. There was
much more timber in the country than the estimators supposed. They
guessed with good intentions but the guess was wild.

It bore results in two directions, one of which was certainly not
intended. The alarm over the approaching timber shortage keened
the interest of the public in the matter, brought support to the
Forest Service and caused it to expand to a greater degree than ever
before. That result was good. The misinformation concerning the
supplies happened to accomplish desirable results by giving the
■country a strong bureau of forestry. But there were other results

also. There can be no question that the same defective information
had much to do in giving the country free trade in lumber. Some
may think it was a good thing, but others do not think so.

The free trade propagandist seized upon the government's figures
which foretold a famine in home timber supplies, and used these as
texts for free trade sermons, urging that since our timber was so
nearly used up we should admit foreign lumber duty free to relieve
the drain upon our own. The argument seemed reasonable to those
who did not know that we stiU have plenty of timber; and the tariff
was taken off. This discussion is not meant to be a plea for or against
protective tariff on lumber, but simply as another proof of the well
known proverb that

"FuU many a shaft at random sent
Finds mark the archer little meant."

There is danger in estimates which are too low as well as in those
too high. "Make it low and be on the safe side" is not always a
sane policy to follow. The government has published another volumi-
nous and almost interminable set of estimates of timber, of later date
than the maps above referred to. These later estimates were the
work of the Bureau of Corporations, showing the standing timber of
the United States. Though the whole work was never completed, and
the portions which were finished are very hard to summarize or un-
derstand, yet as nearly as their meaning can be squeezed out, the
figures show that at the present rate of cutting, there is enough mer-
chantable timber in the United States to furnish lumber for between
seventy and eighty years. This estimate may be and probably is pretty
wide of the mark; but it is evident that there is still a lot of timber
in this country and that it is well worth taking care of by means of a
protective tariff wherever its market is liable to be injured by the
admission of foreign forest products.

English Criticism of Consignment Shipments

EVIDENTLY AMERICAN SHIPPERS of lumber are not the only
ones laying themselves open to criticism in the matter of shipping
large quantities of stock of different varieties to English markets on
consignment.

The Canada Lumhcrman recently received a letter from Liveipool
from a man in touch with the situation abroad. He very opeidy crit-
icized Canadian shippers of yellow pine for the error of judgment in
shipping to England, on consignment, large quantities of pine lumber
which even in normal times are unsalable, but at present cannot be
sold at all or at any rate not within a substantial margin of what the
shippers need even to get their money back. These goods are landed
in England on the war rate of freight to which must be added marine
and war risk insurance, canal tolls, storage charges payable in cash
with five per cent interest from date of arrival. In the case of the
item mentioned in the communication the shipper has standing to the
debit of these goods the considerable sum of ten pounds or about
fifty dollars based on the "standard" unit, which he has conceded
for the privilege of transferring his goods from his stock in Canada
to the storage grounds in Manchester.

Records do not indicate that immediately succeeding the big fires
that have made their mark in history in this country, such as the San
Francisco disaster, the Baltimore fire, and others, lumbermen imme-
diately loaded up all the stock they could get their hands on and
rushed it headlong onto the markets regardless of its kind, grade or
adaptability. There is no more logic in shipping goods unintelligently
consigned to the English market than there would have been to have
loaded up the entire yard stock onto freiglit ears to be rushed into
San Francisco when the fire was over.

While a good deal of the stock would be taken care of were there
an actual paucity of lumber in England, regardless of whether it
exactly fitted requirements or not, the incontrovertible fact remains
that there is, according to all indications, plenty of the usual runs of
lumber for the purposes demanding it. Much as some of the manu-
facturers on this side would like to see a few more empty piling
foundations in their own yards, it hardly seems good business or even
common sense to pay a premium for the sake of having their own
stock laid out at some English port without a buyer, merely for the
chance of getting it off of their yards.

iirt.-.t.,r •.•:.. r.nri.

ironllnurd from

Fourtcvu tiiocips uf anh at. > vnriou« paria uf tliu I'liitod

Statnt, nearly ovory fialc linvini; uiio nr more. InJiunu in tlie home
nf at lenst three, nliite ( FnuriitH* amcritxina t , Mark (Frnrinut nigra),
unJ bluK (FrasiKtu quadraiiifulala). The latter Jh liltio iiiicd in the
state, but InJinnn farlorie» re|Mirt the use of nearly JS,000,000 feet
uf white am! blark null a year. More than fivesixthii was re|M>rt4)<l
as white a«h, which is th€> rommcr<-ial nsinic for both the true while
iish, cut mostly in the central slali>!<, :iiiil );re«>n a.sli ( FrasiiittK Uinreo-
lalat which is the |>rincipul source uf tiNh hinilM'r in tlio southern
statw. The sawmills of the st4ite nr<> oreililed with a 1913 output of
nsh IuuiImt of 15,517,000 feel, but species are not separately shown.
The wooU is very strong, stiflT, hard, anil moderately heavy. The
iH'owth is (generally rapid uud the rin);s are wide and distinct, gino);
a coarse and unattractive fij;ure to the lumber. Accidental formw
i>f growtli produce curly ash which occasionally displays a very at-
tractive fi);ure; and sometimes large burls are sawed into artistic
veneor which furniture makers value highly. The production of ash
lumber in the I'nited .St.itcs in 1913 was L'07,S1G,II0(I feet. Many
million fei>t of ash go to factories direct from the forest, and do
not pass through sawmills. In that respect it is like hickory. It is
rut in bolts and billets in the forest without passing through the
sawmill stage. This kind of utilization is indicated by the wood's
extensive use in the state for handles as shown bv the table below.

TABI.K lU— CO.SSf.MrTlOX <)K WHITK A.SH
VlUftnllty uaoil Av. cn«t Total coiit (Srown

Handlirs . . . .
Vehicles nnd
htcle pnrta
Purnllur*! . . .
Airri^iiIMiml

annually.
Keot b. m. 'M

per
I. (KM) ri.

f.o.b.
fuctury.

In in<l.
Kot't b. m.

(Jrowii
nut nf Inil.
Keet b. m.

8.803,600

2.4M.I00

842.455

Im-

740,000

■ tloii. .. .-I.'II.T.'MI
I harneKK '.'UO.UUO
- hllnda
r.ll mill

50.60 I30.T4 f>T2,46o 7.300.300 1.473,000

j. - -rl Mini

kilcli^-u cunliiftB.
Planing mill iMlrtr
Boxoa and criitt-ff
CbaliY and chair

atock

M u a I c a I Inatru*

menlii

L a u n il r y appli-
ances

Machine conatruc-

tlon

Woodonware and

ni.veltlea

I'..u.-1a

ship antl boat

I'lllldlnR

Elfvato|.a

Miarellaneoua ....

U5.000

'<1,700

7S,tM>*>
M.UW)

.".0.000

.-■0.000

30.000

.lO.OOO

43,000
15,000

8.000

5,000

810,000

10.38
5.07

4.08
•.'.42
l..'»5

.34

.30
.10

.03

5.43

30.311
27.1»

411.4.-!
44.4:1

L>fl.34
45.57
12.00

33,00

50.00

20.00

4.3.30

28.34
35.00

40.00
30.00
27.80

117.00.'!
22.1103

.•111.573
13.1(83
3.00(1

2,307

3.553

COO

1.750

2,500

1.000

1,273
323

320

150

22.S20

1.1.1fl.00<l
022,433

400,000

55,750

100,00(1

28,000

l,327..-iUl>
220,000

230,000
304,0011
100,000

7.3,000

81,700
.30.000
50.000

30,000
23.000
30,000
30,000

23.000

,000
,000

8,000

750,666

5.000
OO.Oon

Total

.14.850.503 100.00 $33.10 $401,820 10,830,303 4.023,2(1(1

.Viitomohllc bndl(^

liats, baseball

Baskets

Bottoms, store fixtures

Box shnnks

Bugg.v boards

('nrpct swccp(^r boxes

I'oollns rooms

Cars, passenger

Filing cabinets

.Vutoinobile bodv frames
AutoinoMlt' bodies
Aut^innit'lb- engliic blocks
-Vutoniolill.' running boards
Autoinolillt' se.Tt frames
.\utomoi)ile seat bottoms
Ball bats. Juvenile
Bat.s, baseball
Bent rims, vehicle wheels
Blackboards, children's
Bodies, juvenile automobile
Bows, automobile
Bows, buggy tof)
Bows, wagon top
Buggy frames
Buggy gears
Cabinets, music
Canvas slnt< tr..niMr^»
Car parts
Car repalr-

—16—

ISES OF BLACK ASH

I'oldlng beds

I 'ire doors

Interior finish

Kitchen cabinets

I'iano tops

.Sewing tables

Shelves, store fixtures

Table slides

Vehicle seats

Washing machine rubbers

lisrs OF wniTE ash

Car repairs, electric

Cars, passengers

('hlna closets

Clothes racks

Delivery truck foot boards

liellvcry truck stakes

Iioors. car

Elevator gates

Flour mill machinery

dear parts

Grain cradles

Ilames

Handles

Handles, children's walkers

Uantlles. fork

Handles, hoe

Handles, shovel

Handles, "D" shovel

HuUers. clover

Keys, piano

tsatir of Dclobrr JOi

M ' - 11 frai

M. • > ■!,»

o.ii ^ i.iiL'cb''

I' ' dliiii utachlup >

I'l .•»

!•■ >

I'' -^ II loot Ituarda

I'll > Indniltl .'- 11 frnini-a

I(. :■■ frame* \ i.n».

Itl \

Id iig ninrhlne \ i.

ill..! \\..„ .. «

Itmln, lioriirl WIndnilllH

lt<illeni, towel

Hannwocii)
Three liasswoods occur in the Americnii forext, the eummon or
northern spivies (THiti anirriciniii), nnd dinvny busKwood (Tili<i pu-
hrHccnn) and white bnsswood (Tilui htt,ro\thiilUi) of southern range.
The wood of ono bo much resembles another that no attempt is mnd<;
to separate the species in the lumber yard. It would be very diOicull
to do so, and no practical purpose would be served. The wood is
white, soft, light, nnd without figure. However, it is odorless, taste-
less, and stainless nnd therefore in demiind by manuf.ietiirers of
kitchen furniture and shipping containers intended to hold food. These
are the use for which the largest (piaiitities of basswood are de-
manded in the state. Indiana's factories use over twico as much
basswood annually as its gawmills cut into lumber, tlio factories de-
manding 12,.S5'J,003 feet and the sawmills cutting 5,615,000 feet in
1913. Table 17 indicates that over 60 per cent of the state's bass-
wood lumber cut was used by factories in the state.

TABI^E 17 — CONSUMPTION OF BASSWOOD.

(juantily uaed Av. coal Total coat Orown C^own

annually. per f.o.b. In Ind. out <f Ind.

Feet b. m. vi 1.000 ft. factory. Feet b. m. Feet b, m.
InduMtry.

Jti-frlKerntora nnd

kitchen cublnela. ,1,38.-.00n 20.34 $20.27 $ SS,037 400,000 2.023 OOO

Hoxea iind erulcM. 2,0117, 33K 1«.;12 II1.4S 34,300 474,S3K I,<123,00o

Furniture 1,833.147 14.20 2S.:il 31,8112 S2fl,20O l,01l(l.lt47

Handlea 1170,000 7.50 20.23 1U,74H 77(i.(Mlil 200,000

FramcB and muld-

Init, picture .... .870,000 0.77 27.211 23,740 40.000 S30,000

M u a I c a I Inatru-

ments i;77.0no 3.27 41. 3S 28,130 102,000 375,000

AKrIcullural Im-

plemenla 3,30,000 4.2S 33..33 18,450 173.000 373,000

PlanlnK mill pdet.^. 311,000 2.42 22,00 7,04S 2Srt,(IOO 2.">,00O

Woodenware u n d

noveltlea 300,000 2.83 27.07 S..100 300.000

Vehlclea nnd ve-
hicle parta 211.700 1.03 22.07 4.073 7.'!.7fto 138,000

Saab, doora. blinda
and Kcncral mill-
work 108,000 1.31 23.112 4,333 42.0Oii 120,000

Plumbera" wood-
work 100,000 .7.S IS.Od 1. 800 100,000

ScwInK machlnea.. UO.OOU .47 35.00 2,100 <l(i,000

1.. a u n d r y appll-

ancea 50,000 .30 28.0" 1 ,40(i 30,000

Cbalra and chair

atock 37,338 .20 10.34 722 37,338

ClKar hoxea 25,000 .111 (lO.llil 1,0,30 25 000

FIxturea 20.000 .13 23.0(1 4«0 20,000

I'aakela and cotllna 17,000 .13 211.12 403 17 000

Dowela 13,000 .12 30.(10 4.30 1.3,000

Car cunatructlon. . 10,480 .0.S 27.07 200 5.480 5,000

I>alrymen'a. poul-
terers* and api-
arists' auppllea.. 1,000 .01 22.00 22 1,000

Mlacellaneoua .... 1.137.000 8.83 10.00 18,870 125,000 1,012,00<>

Tolal 12.8.32,003 100.00 $24,73 $318,127 3,768,718 9,005, 28i

rsKs OF n.\sswooD

.Marni tills, lops Cars, motor

.\larm tills, liottoms Cnties, band Instrument

Automatic howling alley bottoms ('ases. book

Backing for enameled work 1,'oses, clock

Backs. bulTet.s Cases, iiiriiet

Backs, btiri-juis Cases, drum

Backs, i-hilfoniers Cas'->, medicine

Backs, ehifrf>rot>es Cas--.;. sample

Backs, dressers Cases, wall

Backs, kitchen cabinets Case work

Backs, wardrobes Celling, car hood

Backs, w.'isbstands China closet. Interior

Baskets Cornice

Baskets, grape Crates

Bedsteads, hidden work Crating

Beehives Cupboards

Boards, pastry Desks, ninil wagons

Boxes, berry Drawer bottoms, kitchen cabinets

Boxes, cigai- Drums

Boxes, packing Egg cases

BrcadlKiards, kitrben rabin.t Excelsior

Bucket bottom> Filing cabinet, tops and shelves

Bucket covers Finish, exterior

Buggy repairs Finish. Interior

Canopy frames, surrey Fixtures

Cars, freight Flooring

Octohcr

lOlo.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Frames, buggy cushion

Frames, picture

Frames, store fixture

Fruit driers

Furniture, (lining room

Grilles

Handles

Handles, chisel

Handles, file

Horse rockers, ciiiidren's

Hullers, clover

Interior frames, store tixtures

Inti-rior work, office desks

Keys, piano

Kitchen eahlnets. Interior work

Locomotive woodwork

Molding, casket

.Molding, piano ease

.Molding, picture

.\ovclty furniture

( )rgaus

I'anr)rama, religious

riano cases

I'iano fronts

Seat frames, ciiair

Seats, chair

Separators, threshing machine

Serving tables, hidden work

Sewing machines

Shelving, kitchen cabinet

Showcases, inside work

Sideboards, Interior work

Siding

Slats, bed

Stands, typewriter

Step ladder steps

Swings, porch

Tables

Table tops, kitchen cabinet

Tops, kitchen table

Tops, piano

Trunk boxes

Tub bottoms

Tvibs, waslilng miu'ldne

Wagon dashes

Wagons

Water closet tank backs

Weather boarding

Window rollers

•» Hiuill

There arc .several birches which furnish lumbei-, but most of the
jiroduct comes from two, viz.: Sweet birch (lictula lenla) and yellov,'
birch (Bctxda lulca). Paper birch (Betula papyrifcra) is cut Iar<rely
in New Kngland but is used chiefly for novelties, toothpicks, shoe
pegs, and spools. Eiver birch (BeHtla nigra) is sonietiines cut into
lumber, but it is of poor color and lacks figure. The birch seen in
fine furniture and finish is cut from the sweet and yellow species.
Sweet, yellow, ))aper, and river birch all occur in the state, but none
of them in laif;e amounts. Birch is one of the finest cabinet woods of
the country, and its consumption lias greatly increased in recent
years. It is often finished to resemble mahogany. The wood is of a
rich brown or reddish color, often finely figured. The value of the
wood for the manufacture of boxes and crating is sliown by the fact
that makers of boxes and crates are the largest purchasers of birch
lumber in the state. The price paid for it indicates that low grades
are purchased. Other industries reporting this wood jiay jjrices which
indicate better grades. The small lot listed under miscellaneous was
carpet sweeper material, and at $200 per thousand feet was iloubtlcss
curly liircli which has a very attractive figure.

4,075.000 4S.07 513.02

Quantity used
annually.
Feet b. m. %
Industry.

Itoxes and crates

Vehicles and ve
hide parts

Furniture

Planing mill prdcts.

Sash, doors, blinds
and general niill-
work

Plumbers' w o o d-
worlc

Chairs and chair
stock

Frames and mold-
ing, picture ....

Fixtures

Refrigerators and

■ kitchen cabinets

Musical Instru-
ments

Pulleys and con-
veyors 10.000

Sewing machines.. 0.000

Car construction.. 2.204

Miscellaneous .... .^00

T.\BLE 18— CONSUMPTION- OF BIRCH

Grown
In Ind.
'eet b. in.

Av. coat Total cost

per f.o.b.

3,000 ft. factory.

Grown
out of Ind.
Feet b. m.

I,r.20,.'i00
'.(01,27!l
S80.12t)

.■■j70,(l(ill
522,000

iss.ri2.s

112.000
103,000

!)i..5no

70,000

13.04
II. .SI)
9.11

.-I.ST
1.'.I4

1.13
l.UU

44.98
27.01
41.47

.■!0.41
.•i2.4li

40.40
30.07

30.61

43.10

l.S.OO

50.00

34.03

200.00

$ 70,223

68,385
2fl,.53S
30,743

20,733

10,943

3.S30

3.204
3.713

2.801

3,280

ISO
300

100

23,000 4,0.30,000

500
38,000
37,000

30,000

3,UO0

1,520.000
923.279
S2!l,12o

370,000
472,000

18S,52S

112.000
100,000

91,500

70,000

10,000

3.000

2.204

500

Total 9.724.031100.00 ?20.C4 $259,072 176.500 9.348,131

USES OF

Keds

Benches

Cabinet work

('abinets, kitchen

Cases, carpet sweeper

Chair bottoms

Chair rockers

Closet scats

Closet tanks

Cores, piano case

Conveyors, feed grinder

Couches

Crating

Davenport ends

Doors, cbifforobcs

Doors, wardrobes

Drawer bottoms, kitchen cabinet

Dressers

Dressing tables, exterior work

End rails, chifforobes

Bincn
End rails, wardrobes
Fixtures, bank
Fixtures, store
Frames, picture
Interior finish
Molding, piano case
Molding, picture
Organs
Pianos

PostoflBce table tops
Rockers, chair
Seats, water closet
Sewing machine cabinet worl;
Stair work
Stools

Tables, dining
Tables, library
Tanks, water closet
Tops, postoflice furniture
Washstands

White Elm
Four elms, possibly five, are sawed into lumber in the United
States, but in statistics of output the lumber of all is listed at the

mill yard as if cut from a single species. Botanists clearly distinguish
tlie several elms as white or gray (Vlmxui americana), cork or rock
(Ulmiis racemosa), red or slippery (Ulmus pnhcxccn.s). wing elm
(Ulmu.i alaia), and cedar elm (Vlmus crassifolia) . The sawmill cut of
all elm lumber in fhe United States totaled 214,532,000 feet in 1913,
of which Indiana produced 20,624,000 feet, and ranked third among
the states. Those above it were Wisconsin and Michigan. It is not
known what part of the country's outi)ut of elm lumber is white elm
and what belongs to other species, but there is no question that much
more than half is cut from the former. It is most abundant aud most
widely distributed of all. Its range extends from Newfoundland to
Saskatchewan in Canada, and thence southward to Florida and Texas.
It is found in every state east of the Kocky Mountains. The wood has
little figure, and is of monotonous color, but is susceptible of finish
which adds much to its appearance. It is tough, moderately strong,
and when cut thin it may be bent with ease. An example of this is
seen in the coiled elm hoops which fill an important place in the
cooperage industry. The wood splits with difKculty and that quality-
places white elm along with cork elm in fa\or as hub stock in wagon
factories.

More than half the white elm reported in Indiana was consumed
in box factories. It possesses jiroperties which give it special value as
crate stock, one of which is the facility with which it maj' be bent to
make crates of circular or oval form. The accompanyiug table shows
the use of white elm in fifteen industries in the state, and the price
paid for it by each.

T.VBLE 19— CONSU.MPTIO.V OF WHJTI'; KL.M

Quantity used

annually. ]>er

Feet b. m. ';i 1.000 ft.
In<lustry.

Boxes and crates.. 5,04.3,000 .34.87 .$10.03

Vehicles and ve-
hicle parts 1.07.">.000 11.60 27.20

Musical instru-
ments 813,000 8.80 31.73

Chairs and eh.ilr

stock 039.080 7.17 22.60

Refrigerators a n d

kitchen cabinets 430.400 4.73 24.91

Furniture 345,300 3.70 20.S9

Agricultural im-
plements 200,000 2.17

Laundry appli-
ances 130,000 1.03

Planing mill pdcts. 129.000 1.40

Fixtures 100.000 1.09

Dowels 2.3.000 .27

Sash, doors, blinds
and general mill-
work 20,000 .22

VN'oodenware and

novelties 10,000 .11

Car construction . . 8,000 .00

Gates and fencing 5,000 .05

Miscellaneous .... 172,000 1.87

Av. cost Total cost
I'.o.b.
factory.

.5 S0.S81

29,240

25,875

14,938

10,870
7,217

5,200

4,000

2,590

2,000

740

000

l.SO

270

130

2,395

Grown

In Ind.

Feet b. m.

2.900,000

5.30.000

300.000

345,022

412.000
201,500

20.00

20.07
20.08
20.00
29.00

30.00

18.00
33.73
30.00
1.5.09

Grown
ou: of Ind.
Feet b. m.

2,085,000

5-25.000

425,000

313,464

24,400
144,000

200,000

130.000

129.000

100.000

3.000

20.000

10.000
s.ono

3.000
122.000

Total

9.194.086 100.00 $20.37 $187,346 5,408,121

USES OF WHITE EL5I

.\pple boxes

.Vutomobile bodies

-Vutomobile body frame work

-Vutomobile body seat frames

.Vutomobile bows

-Vutomobile construction

.Vutomobile running boards

-Vutomobile seat frames

Baskets

Basket handles

Bent chairs

Bent hammock spreaders

Boxes

Box sbooks

Brush backs

Brush blocks

Buggy bows

Buggy cushion frames

Buggy hubs

t'autles, saddletree '

Chairs

Chair seats

Costumers

Crating

Crating, automoliile

Crating; buggy

Crating, carriage

Crating, wagon

Cupboards

Davenport frames

Dowels

Egg cases

Egg crates

Electric car repairs

Frame work, antomobii

Hav racks

Hubs

Kitchen cabinets

Kitchen cabinet partitions

Kitchen cabinet shelves

Librar.y tables

Office furniture

Organs

Paper roll plugs

Pews, backs

Pews, ends

Piano backs

Posts, kitchen cabinet

Pulleys, packing strips

Pump buckets

Refrigerators

Rods, chair

Rods, go-cart

Sheathing

Silo rims

Tables

Trunk slats

Wagon bows

Wagon cleats

Wagon repairing

Washing machines

Washing machine dashers

50,000
3,786,864

liodii's

Hemlock

Hemlock occurs in the central part of the state, but it is scarce

aud sawmills do not report cutting hemlock lumber every year. Most

of the supply probably comes from Michigan, Wisconsin and West

Virginia and perhaps some from Pennsylvania. The wood is coarse

HARDWOOD Ki:COKD

OrtolH-r 20, lUlQ.

tlO.DH
13.V«

IMS.-j:...

7.4in.01S

r.o2,uu>

in 42
23 00

n.o-n
o.:.jo

3fl7.1M)<i

,. . . 210.0(10

18.80
21.00

2.0I-.-

HJ.T72
■lll.ooo

20.33
22.00

sn.-.
OC"

<2.r.oo

30,000

18.00

20,000

flO.&S

»i:

r2.;uG

8,810,200

and withniit p)«>n<in'; flt^rc, but it it •Irong bdiI Mn'icMblc. I'l'n
wti. -, Four bcmlock» nro nntivc in the riiitcj

Sta' ilile for lumber. Two ixrur in the fiir Wi-nt,

two ID the North »u.l K«»t, one of «bii-h i« found only nmoni;
tlie Appalnrhian mountainii. The prioripnl neittorn hrmlurli in mnltini;
iU «pii«ar«ACo in market* east of the Miiwisiiippi river, but nppnrently
none is yet u«rd in Indiana. In Indiana the factories pny prnctirally
the same price for hemlock as for cht*!itnul, tupelo and Hycnmore, and
hero the lnrg< -■ .-omes from pinning milln which make interior

and exterior -li. Niiii' indubtrict report this wood, us in

shown in the accui

TAl lil.iV ■•r IIKMI.OCK

: (irown Uruwti

In Inil. out t.r Ind.
1.'. r.-. t b in. Keel b. ni,

Pld 1*1 84.31

liov "IB a.'o

AerU'u.LuTAl I m ■

plf*mrnt4 307,000 4.18

Furr.l!urf 240,000 2.72

KfTi . n il

kr .-la. 142.7*2 1.62

Car n.. 40.000 .52

M>' ' uc-

II ,. 42.(100 .48

Pal' .•k< 30.000 .34

SmmI.. », ...inda

anU cvnvrai mill-
work 23

Total !>,!>lu,Juu 100.00 I10.&8

rSES or IIEMLOCE

1 TV I'lnskii, foundry

machine Kloorlnj;

Uofrlgcrnfnrs
Uol.-t, r.>, purtu^ic derrick Sldlnc house

t'rlUng Shelves, bouk case

Coolers Shelves, chlnn closet

Coollnc rooms Shelves, cuplionrd

«"nitlng Shelves, wardrobe

Finish

Silver Maple

Silver maple is a name not used by lumbermen who call the wood
soft maple, but the two terms are not entirely synonymous. Silver
maple is the botanical name applied to a single species (Acer saccha-
rinum), and soft maple includes two species, silver maple and red
maple (Acer rubrum). Silver and red maple are found in practicilly
tlie same territory, embracing a million square miles or more lyiiij;
in the eastern half of the United States and southern Canada. The
wood of tho soft maples is soft only in comparison with that of
sugar maple. All maple wood is hard when compared with bas.s-
wood, yellow poplar, buckeye, and the white pines. Furniture makers
are tho largest users of soft maple in Indiana, Its whiteness and
clean appearance are its chief recommendations. Its strength is
below that of sugar maple, but it is strong enough for most purposes.
Makers of boxM and crates are second largest users in the state. It
is reported by fifteen industries in amounts set forth '.n detail in
the following table:

TABLE 21 — CONSUMPTION OF SILVER MAPLE

Quantity used Av. cost Total coal Grown Grown

annually. per f.o.b. In Ind. out of Ind.

Feet b. m. 9i 1,000 ft. factory. Feet b. m. Feet b. m.

FumKure'T'. 3.217,000 43.26 I2.-..24 » 81,210 1,407,000 1,7.')0,000

Boxes and crates. 1,140,000 10.04 16.01 18,03S 77!i,U0U 365,000

.vjcrlcuitural 1 m -

plementa 020,000 7.31 20.73 13,000 305,000 155,000

Musical Instru-
ments 383,000 5.39 20.85 10,282 333,000 60,000

Sash, doors, blinds
and general mill-
work 369,000 5.19 27,02 0,972 19,000 350,000

Vehicle and ve-
hicle parts 344.260 4.84 25.78 8,874 224,030 110,630

Pulleys and con-
veyors 300,000 4.22 25.00 7,500 1. '50,000 l.'iO,000

PlanInK mill pilcts. 272,000 3.83 33.55 0,125 122,000 150.000

Playground equip-
ment 7 150,000 2.11 24.00 3.600 l.'.O.OOO

Saddles and hamesa ILj.OOO 1.02 31.09 ^.57.'. ll.-p.ooo

Handles 110,000 1.55 21.45 2.360 60,000 50,000

Chairs and chair

stock 100.000 141 21.50 2.150 75.000 • 23,000

Refrigerators and

kitchen cabinets 42,000 ..'.» 27.14 1,140 42,000

Frames and mold-
ing, picture 13.000 .21 23.67 335 1,''>,000

Dalrym'-n's, poul-
terers' and api-
arists' supplies.. 1,000 .01 23.00 23 1,000

Miscellaneous .W.OOO .42 'i'.OO 7.'Kl 30.000

Total 7,108,260 100.00 $24.44 $173,751 3,808,030 3,200,630

Bars, saddletree

Baskets

Bull wheels, oil well

Cnntles, saddletree

L'SES OF <IIL%-ER MAPI.E

Chairs

Chair frames
Chisel handles
Couch frames

liovi'DiMirls Lniileii' desk*

im.ii.L.' tilt, I. 1. .!>.'■ l':.tMii<'on. bank flilurrs

1 • f,' I storv a&ture*

1' ilT..iiltr i !ie«

I' Ir I

|> „■ table l'i..i." uu".»es

I ."^ •• uiiiK, bniik fl>tur<-s

I . '- ',. L . liii.-. hlnre rixlurcM

I 'Ids lulls ">|i betls

I .1*

I „ . - ;.^ "•

I rniiiiK, Krnln Hr|iarntoni iiler

liiiiTlur case work, ht-droom furnl ' 'r

lure I , . luB Inl'le

Interior case work, dinlns room '"l' "oi,i...ri«, dlulUK lal'lc

furniture \\'nrdr»ibe fronts

KKcheo cabinet shelves W.kkI parts, iiinchiner]:

Kilclicn tables WoihI pulley rims

IlLACK Wai,si;t
Indiana has probably produced as much black walnut as any other
state, though exact figures 8honing the production do not exist.
The l)est of the walnut hud been cut before Btatintics were regularly
colN'cted. Many early farms in Indiana were fenced with walnut
rails wholly or in part. The wood is durable, and thouHands of
those rails survived until the time of the Civil war, and were then
manufactured into gunstocks. It is better suited for that purpose
than any other wood of this country. Thirty or forty years ago,
when walnut furniture was at tho height of fashion, this state sup-
plied large quantities of tho best grades. In recent years this wood
has become scarce, but is still demanded and is cut in nearly thirty
states. In 1913 Indiana led with 10,10'1,000 feet, Ohio was second,
Missouri third, and Tennessee fourth, and the total output was 40,-
565,000 feet. It is the highest priced native lumber of the country,
but the price has not increased in recent years. It was not as high
in 1911 as in 1899. The dark color of tho hcartwood gives the tree
its name, Tho sapwood is nearly white. The wood of old trunks
is more valuable than of young, because they contain proportionately
more heart, and it is also of deeper color. Black walnut is not gen-
erally highly figured, but burls, crotches, and tho junctions of large
roots with the trunk yield fine figures which may be cut into exquisite
veneers. Though Indiana produces more walnut than its factories
use, nearly three-fourths of the demand is met by importations from
outside the state. Much black walnut is cut which never passes
through sawmills. It is exported as logs or is cut into veneer in this
country. Factories in the United States report the annual use of less
than i;4,000,000 feet. The accompanying table shows that sewing
machine makers consume nearly nine-tenths of the black walnut going
to Indiana factories,

IMMK 22— CONSUMPTION OF BL.VCK WALNUT

Quantity used Av. cost Total cost Grown Grown

annually. per f.o.b. In Ind. out of Ind,

Feet b. m. % 1,000 ft. factory. Feet b. m. Feet b. m.
Industry.

.Sewing machines.. 4,016,815 88.78 $73.03 $363,500 772,815 4,144,000

Furniture 332,000 B.OO 81.33 27,000 257,000 75.000

.Musical Instru-
ments 140.300 2.,'>3 115.66 16,225 70,300 01,000

Planlne mill pdcts. .S7,UUU 1.57 62.00 4,610 83,000 4,000

Hand I. -8 23,000 .45 40.00 1,000 25,000 ....

I'r.imeH and mold-

Ing, picture 10,000 .18 110.00 1,100 5,000 .VOOO

Sash, doors, blinds
and general mill-
work 10,000 .18 77.50 775 10,000 ....

Fixtures 6,000 .11 80.00 480 6,000 ....

Patterns and nasks 3,000 .00 70.00 350 6,000

Vehicles and ve-
hicle parts 3,000 ,05 06.00 106 3.000

Car crjnstructlnn . 1,000 .02 66.00 55 1.000

Woodenware a n d

novelties 1,000 .02 60.00 60 .... 1,000

Bachlne construc-
tion .300 .01 60.00 25 600

Miscellaneous 600 .01 200.00 100 .... 500

Total 5,538,116 100.00 $76.02 $415,475 1,243,016 4,204,500

USES OF BLACK WALVUT

Automobile bodies I''urniture, bedroom

Book cases l'°urDiturc, office

Cabinet making Interior mlHwork

Cabinets, filing Orgiins

Cabinets, music Parquetry

Carving, furniture I'Innos

Cheval mirrors I'l.ino benches

ChilTonlers I'lano cases

Chiltorobes Piano legs

Closet scats I'lano moldings

Commodes I'lano pillars

Desk, ladies I'iano stools

Dressers Piano trimmincs

Exterior mlllwork Porch furniture

Finish Sewing machines

Fixtures, store Soinnoes

Flooring Tables, library

t lour mill machinery Wardrobes

Flour mill trimmings Wood mosnir

October 25, 1915.

i ;«A:>g<iisTO:«ais:Ki:wyjas^it:>i^i>s;»;^^

The Lumbermen s Round Table

The Long Log Proposition

Long lumb<!r, the delight, though not always the necessity, of the
consumer, cannot he made without long logs: that seems to be fairly
clear. Henco the problem of the sawmill man who is buying his
logs in the open market is how to get people who own timber to
cut the logs long. Thro\igh middle western and central southern
territory, lumber manufacturers complain generally of the difficulty
of getting a high enough percentage of 14 and 16-foot logs, which
they need in order to "sweeten" the stocks which they are putting
on their yards and offering for sale.

At that, however, experience in a good many cases has demonstrated
that the concern which makes a definite effort to get more long logs
can do so. One sawmill man who had given his log buyer special
instructions along this line found that he was getting about 10 per
cent more long logs than he had received before, and without paying
any more money for them.

As a general proposition, however, one must admit that there is little
incentive to the log man to cut his trees into long sections, especially
if the trees happen to taper rapidly. Measuring the log at the smaller
end gives him the worst of the deal on the footage proposition, and to
avoid this he is naturally inclined to cut the logs as short as possible,
10 or 12 feet, rather than 14 or 16. To offset this, the log buyer
ought to be willing to pay a sufficient premium for long logs to make
up for this loss of footage; but the objection there is that the maxi
mum price for long logs would soon become the regular price for logs
of all kinds. The sawmill man has had too many experiences along
this line to be anxious to establish a iHecedent in favor of higher
prices.

Besides, the proposition is somewhat complicated in territories where
veneer manufacturers are competing for the logs by the fact that
the latter are not particularly anxious for long ones. They would
just as soon have lOfooters as not, as a general rule, and hence the
timberman, realizing that he has a market for his logs, long or short,
is hardly likely to go out of his way to make them long.

Another practical angle on the subject is that the long log is less
likely to be a clear log. That is, if the limbs grow low, the owner
of the tree is certainly going to make his log short enough not to
show the marks, especially as he can't see any increased value in
the long log to make up for the loss of grade or the loss of footage,
either. Not all sawmill men are clamorous for long logs, though
some of them point out that in sawing tapering logs of this type,
there is bound to be a greater loss in squaring up and edging, and
that the resuITs, as far as footage and grade arc concerned, are
better with the short fellows.

In broken country, where modern logging equipment is not avail-
able for handling logs, the tendency is of course to cut them as short
as practicable, so as to make it easier to load and haul them. But
this consideration in most cases is not of so much effect as the fea-
tures to which attention has already been called.

Briefly, the sawmill man who wants long logs — a lot more than
he is getting now — must be prepared to pay something of a premium
for them, in order to induce their production; otherwise he can
hardly hope to see the log men hastening to improve conditions in this
respect without getting a quid pro quid.

From the Consumer's Standpoint

Consumers are a bunch of tough guys.

Ask any lumber salesman; confirm his statements by the remarks of
any lumber manufacturer.

Consumers want the lowest jirices in the market, and won't consider
anything but the quotation.

And yet —

The writer was recently in a furniture factory where the head
of the business admitted that he was paying $3 a thousand more
for plain oak than he could get it for from other sources. But he
pronounced himself perfectly satisfied with the deal, because he
believed that he was getting better lumber.

He went into the factory and pointed to finished goods made of
that material. They had looks and class; they had finished well;
the oak, even the plain stock, had enough character to it to attract
favorable attention.

"Lumber," said this consumer, "is the foundation of the job.
You can't take scrubby, trashy lumber and get a high-grade table
or ease. You have got to have the best material to get the best
results in the form of furniture. I know that a great many furniture
maunfaeturors try to eat their cake and have it, too, by the simple
process of buying the cheapest lumber to be had; but I know from
experience that it pays to bnj- high-class lumber. We are perfectly
satisfied to pay above the market price for this stock, because we
are convinced that it has value in keeping with the price. And the
way our customers approve the goods we are shipping them is just
another proof that we are operating along the right lines."

Did you ever hear a lumber buyer talk like that? Mo? Well,
maybe you haven't been using the quality argument as much as the
price quotation line of talk.

Opportunities in Custom Work
riiG concei'n which has a lot of expensive machinery in its i)lant
naturally wants to keep that equipment operating as much as pos-
sible. When business is quiet, its own requirements probably do not
furnish a sufficient volume of work to keep the plant going regularly.
The obvious answer to the question of how to get good results under
such conditions is to do the same sort of work for people on the
outside.

Custom planing is a regular proposition, and so is custom kiln-
drying. Those with planers and kilns have seen the opportunities
for profit in performing special service for others and this applies
likewise to anybody else who has special facilities of any kind. A
panel manufacturer recently ran across a dimension stock man who
was anxious to have some jointing done. This was easy money
for the former, and it saved the latter a lot of trouble, besides
enabling him to cinch an order that could not have been handled
other'Aise.

Business of this sort is mutually advantageous and profitable.
It enables the customer to get necessary work done in a convenient
and economical way, and it gives the operator of the equipment a
chance to keep his machinery going, and to make a profit on its
use. Look around your plant and see if you have any out-of-the-
ordinary equipment the use of which would be of benefit to some-
body else in your town; and then, if you're not so busy as you'd like
to be, sell them your services in that particular connection.

Kilns in Wholesale Yards

Although practically all consumers of any consequence have their
own dry-kilns, this fact does not necessarily mean that drying fa-
cilities are not needed by the manufacturer or wholesaler of lumber.
On the other hand, it sometimes emphasizes the advantage of having
kilns, because the buyer is in a position to appreciate it.

This was suggested recently by the report that a big wholesaler
in an automobile factory center is planning to put in kilns in order
to supplement those of his customers in that town, including some
of the leading builders of motor car bodies. The latter have consid-
erable kiln capacity, but often this proves to be insufficient; and
to be able to get lumber already dry, and ready to go into the
factory instead of the kiln, is quite an advantage.

The up-to-date manufacturer who is using hardwoods has as a
fixed policy the plan of taking his lumber from the car and putting
it into the kiln, saving investment and handling expenses. Hence he
doesn 't like to yard any more stock than he has to, and as a matter
of fact often has very little room in which to carry excess supplies
of lumber. Hence, from this standpoint, also, the services of the
wholesaler who will provide kiln space for his stock, and will hold
it until he needs it, delivered at his factory door, is providing a
feature which is well worth while.

—19—

Sawmil] Shop Talk

■))

Iliiit li:i\c<

liir iili^'n-

'I'lii" beet

' rote for II

■■vcn whrro thia lins been

<l partly by tlio BvavoniDi;

];. ■■
U-.

mcut auii at
cure for foui

gTOund rc«t of the mill |K>«tit. >
uaol n MtUinc will occur, but tli.- .^
of timber and ]>artJy by decay uf the |H>st riida next to Uio concrete.
Unli>M n concrete foundation extrndu n-vorsil fj-ot iibovo tlio (ground,
wood in contact with it in likely to ilcciiy — in fact, sonic contend
that it 1^ ' > hen in cuntuut with the );ruund.

A gtXKl - or two of tar or n8|ili:ilt paper

between the i>«»t ends and Uic concrete foinulatiuii. The ends of the
]>ost should be painted with tar or asphalt ]>aint, then the paper
applied and then on the outside of this another coat of ]inint applied
to insure its waterproofing qualities. With these precautions taken
there i<bould be lilUo trouble from decaying post ends, and the set-
tling incident to shrinkage and the timber ilrying out to any extent
hap[>cns only once, after which n careful rcadjus-ting and aligning
of the machinery equipment ought to make it stiind (irmly.
Fire Brick in Boiler Furnaces

It is doubtful if enough attention is ever given to the selection an<l
use of fire brick for lining boiler furnaces, because one seldom sees u
sawmill boiler furnace which conforms to the ideal in furnace
linings.

The heat in a boiler furnace isn 't much compared to the high
temperature and hard service that fire briok must stand up to in
some other lines of work, and it should not be diflicult to get fire
brick of a quality necessary to stand the heat fairly well. As far
as possible only such bricks should lie used as are smooth and evenly
formed, with the comers well filled out and comparatively sharp.
Broken and rounded corners arc bad in fire bricks for they mean a
heavy daubing with clay mortar, which too often cracks and drops
out after a little firing, leaving a rough wall. The truer the fire
bricks are, the neater and snnallcr can be made the mortar joints,
and these things contribute largely to the ideal furnace lining.

Where the furnace requirements are very severe in other lines of
industry', specifications for laying fire bricks call for a mortar joint
not more than one-eighth of an inch thick and sometimes on the flat
or horizontal joint it is reduced lower than this. Sometimes the fire
brick is merely dipped into a thin clay mortar and then hammered into
position instead of having a mortar bcl put up on the previous brick
with a trowel.

The average brick layer has a habit of making mortar joints from
three-eighths to three-fourths of an inch thick, and this is about
the worst habit he could have when it comes to laying bricks in a
boiler furnace, for thase thick joints cause settling down of the wall
and the mortar cracks and drops out, making a ragged inner wall
that often develops air leaks.

The best idea is to get fire bricks true to form with smooth
sharp comers, then insist that no mortar joint shall be thicker than
one-eighth of an inch. You may have to stand over the average
bricklayer with a club to get this, but in this direction lies success.
Once you can get fire bricks properly laid with very thin joints and
the mortar made of a good clay, the work will stand much longer and
give better service than if laid haphazard with thick mortar joints
and a lot of pieces and patches in the wall.

Power Waste in Conveyors

The average sa>Tmill man is a most profligate power user .mi
power waster. One of the most prolific sources of waste is in the
construction and operation of waste conveyors. Sometimes one finds
a sawmill where more power is consumed in the net work of conveyors
used for handling sawdust, slabs and trash than is required to drive
the actual producing machinery of the sawmill. At times there is a
useless nimiber of such conveyors and at other times they are unneces-
sarily burdensome in their power requirements. We have reached
the period in sawmill economy where a scientific study should be made
of conveyors, their cost, power requirements and the service ren-

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drri'il. liuhi'li'l Ml tlir hliiiiilil Ih' r\>'iythiiig from the luiiMyuis that
bring tlie liign iiit<i Mi" iiiillH to the Miialleiil Hawdunl rarrier.

Kor example, it is well known that in handling dry lo^iN much
lesa power is required to pull them into the mill on a good truck
timn to bring them up on tlie xlip and bull chain u«cd for unnking
logs out of n log pond. Moreover, Uicro is a chanco to roduco the
power load materially by tlic proper selection and mnintenaneo of
trucks and hoisting gear.

On the conveyors ured in the mill for handling Haw<luiit and chips
from tlie hog, and trash of various kinds, there ore some which do
not hnmlle enough material to justify the investment in equipment
and the power consumed. There are others which are unnecessarily
extravagant in using power. Eventually the point will be reached
where that expensive slab conveyor will be a thing of the past. The
slabs m-ill be worked up until nil that is left of them will bo con-
sumed in the boiler furnace.

All around us there is a chance for power economy and greater
manufacturing efliciency by a careful study of conveyors, with a view
to reducing them to a sensible minimum in both the cost of original
equipment and the power required for operation.

Log Washing or Saw Filing?

Some sawmill men find it a sort of toss-up proposition whether
they should do log washing or more saw filing. Where logs come out
of the water they naturally have some of the dirt and grit washed
from them and the wat<?r on the surface softens what remains so
that as a rule saws will stand up longer and do good work without
filing.

Knowledge of this fact has led to the use of water on logs handled
dry from the ground. Different methods of spr-iying or washing are
followed. Some use a spray on the log deck, but the common practice
consists of turning a stream of water on logs as they come up the
slips just before going into the mill. In either ease the washing
or wetting of logs calls for quite a lot of water, and this in turn
requires the operation of pumps as well as the installation of the
equipment. It makes it easier on the saws, but the question is,
docs it cost more than it saves f

Various answers are given to this question. Some profess that it
is cheaper and more satisfactory generally to cut the logs dry and
do more filing. Otliers take the position that everything possible
should be done to clean and soften the bark of logs to make saws
stand up longer and do better work. Still others consider it a sort
of toss-up proposition. Perhaps local conditions aro a factor and
often the question of satisfaction hinges largely on personal pref-
erence.

Ideal Sawmill Construction

There seems to be a jarring note in what we have been inclined
to accept as the ideal in sawmill construction. It is almost a joke
on some of the sawmill men who have built what they thought were
the ideal mills, using concrete and steel, and later have had occasion
to join in exploiting lumber and timber for structural purposes. A
mill man of wide experience recently said that he knew of a neighbor-
ing concern, operating a iniJI of all concrete and steel construction,
which had lost several of its best men because of the unusual noise
resulting from the operations of the mill.

A sawmill or other woodworking plant is something of a noise
maker at its best, but in the case of steel construction on concrete
foundations, that noise becomes more pronounced and shrill. The
millman telling the story said the mill was built on a concrete base,
but on this they jiut wooden beams, joists, floors and wooden posts
above. This seems to have proven a better form of construction
than the steel frame because the wood softens the noise and the
concrete furnishes the firm foundation.

Concrete for foundation work is really the most important item in
mill and factory construction. This is where concrete is at its best —
when in the ground to furnish foundation.

October 25, 1915.

In both lumber producing and lumber using industries, ;is well as
in other lines of business, there is an increasing tendency on the part
of highly trained emjiloyes to demand some definite form of employ-
ment contract, especially securing themselves against discharge for
a stated period. And, on the other hand, an employer frequently
finds it advantageous to bind a valued employe for a certain time.

A contract of employment presents many interesting, as well as
important, legal aspects which should be mutually understood.

The terms of an engagement having been agreed upon, the question
■arises: Must the contract be reduced to writing? Yes, unless the
term of employment is to end within one year from the making of
the contract, or unless the hiring is for an indefinite period. In
nearly every state there is in force a law which declares, in effect,
that no suit shall be brought upon any oral agi'eement that is not
to be performed within the space of one year from the making thereof,
and this statute has been frequently applied by the courts to em-
ployment contracts.

Laws of the state governing employment become a part of every
agreement for hiring, regardless of whether they are mentioned in the
contract or not, or arc even known to the parties; and any provision
•of the contract is void if it violates an express statute. Examples
on this point are afforded by statutes which forbid Sunday labor
or limit the hours employes may work.

An important principle go\erning employment contracts, as well
as agreements in general, is that neither party to a written contract
will be permitted to contradict its terms by showing an oral agree-
ment at variance with its express conditions. But verbal agree-
ments may be shown on points as to which the writing is silent.

To be enforceable, the contract must be definite in its terms. Thus
contracts have been held to be invalid where they failed to show
what position the employe was to fill or what salary he should
receive. The agreement need not specify the duration of the con-
tract, but if it does not it will be terminable at the will of either
party.

The question frequently arises whether a company is bound by a
contract of employment made by one of its representatives. The
answer is made by the law to turn upon the question whether the
representative had implied or express authority to make the contract.
The manager of a manufacturing company is clearly vested with
implied power to bind the company by any reasonable contract of
employment, in the absence of express limitation upon his authority.

In the absence of agreement to the contrary, an employe's right
to salary for the full contract period is not defeated by his em-
ployer's retirement from business, through dissolution of the firm,
insolvency or sale of the business. But, of course, if the employe
continues in the service of the successor to the business, waiver of
further claim against the old firm may be inferred.

Unless the contract is to run for a fixed time, an employe may
quit whenever he chooses, with or without reason, and the employer
ha^ the reciprocal right of discharging him at any time without
assigning any reason. So the West Virginia supreme court of appeals
decided that employment at a monthly or annual salary, if no definite
period is otherwise stated, is presumed to be a hiring at will, which
either party may terminate at his pleasure. EmplojTiient at a speci-
fied rate per year is not an engagement for a year, but merely at
will.

As lately declared by the New Jersey and New York supreme courts,
an employment contract for a definite period may be continued for a
like period by acts indicative of intent to that effect.

"Where right is reserved to discharge an employe on certain notice,
the employer is liable for salary accruing during that period on
summarily dismissing the employe.

A manufacturing company, in engaging the services of any person
who applies for a responsible position is entitltd to assume that he
possesses sufficient qualifications to fill that position efficiently, and
would clearly be entitled to discharge him for incompetency after-
wards discovered. In other words, an employe impliedly warrant?

that he is reasonably competent to discharge the duties of a position
which he accepts.

Any disloyal or insubordinate act will, of course, justify a dis-
charge. It has even been held by the United States circuit court of
appeals that the employer need not await commission of an unfaith-
ful act; that any conduct evidencing an unfaithful disposition is
sufficient. But rudeness provoked by the employer will not excuse
a discharge.

As a general rule, the damages recoverable against an employer
for unjustified dismissal of an employe before expiration of the
period of hiring is the amount of wages or salary which the latter
would have earned under the contract during the unexpired period,
less what he earned elsewhere after his discharge, or could have
earned in the same line of work had he used ordinary diligence to
secure a new position. An employe, although wrongfully dismissed,
cannot remain unnecessarily idle and recover full salary as the meas-
ure of his damages. He is entitled, however, to allowance for any
reasonable expense incurred in securing new employment. And he is
not required to avail himself of an opportunity to obtain another
and less remunerative line of employment.

If the employe breaks his part of the contract by quitting before
the end of the term, without justification, he is liable for damages
sustained by the employer in consequence, and the latter is entitled
to retain sufficient funds due the employe as salary to cover the
amount of such damages.

To Make Use of Hardwood Ashes

The manufacturers of hemlock and hardwoods in Wisconsin and
upper Michigan through the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Man-
ufacturers' Association have under consideration a plan, looking to-
ward the conservation of a product which has heretofore been a
waste.

It is planned to have established in this state a plant or plants
for the transformation of hardwood ashes into fertilizer. Hardwood
ashes are rich in potash, which is one of the recognized forms of
fertilizer. An investigation is now being made of the feasibility of
having a central plant, located at some convenient place, to which
hardwood ashes can be transported in carload lots and transformed
by a chemical process into commercial potash.

The suggestion has been made that the cost of freight on the ashes
may be too great to make that plan feasible. That is one of the
matters to be investigated. If it is proved that such is the case, unit
plants on flat tars may be provided. These plants will be taken to
the various places where hardwood ashes are available and the first
process of reduction performed there. Then the crude form of potash
may be transported to a central plant for re&ning to be placed on
the market.

The use of potash for fertilizing purposes is said to be accepted
more and more generally. In the eastern states, where much attention
is given to the subject, potash is very popular. In Wisconsin and
Michigan potash is becoming more generally used and it is planned
to have these states supply their own fertilizer, as far as possible.

Until the breaking out of the European war much potash was im-
ported from Germany. That supply is now very much curtailed and
the market for the product is becoming more extensive. It is now
planned to take advantage of Germany's handicap and to develop
in Wisconsin and upper Michigan a new industry which is clearly
one of conservation, not only of waste product but of the soil itself.

A paragrapher who has evidently caught some glimmer of the
shingle boosting movement says the young lads will hope that
the Buy-a-Bundle-of-Shingles movement does not grow popular with
the school teachers.

Railroad ties are now showing up bigger in the export trade
than a year ago, and some other lumber items are showing signs of
life in the export as well as the domestic trade.

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An Idea for Association Work

A aplendia ...... ; - — ...; »ork in bardwood nmiiufnctui

iDg eirvlos U beini; put forward now in tlio RouUiwcKtorn rountry
by tho yellow pii.. ' turcm. T' .•oiitiiincil in n propo-

aition to have an i of mill r i.-volop lM>tti<r iiictliodg

and a higher or.lif uf clVuMoncy in luiiihir iii;imifiirtiirin('. Good
results can he obtained by tho riuht effort nl^ln^; thin line. There ia
more room, however, for effective work on tho snine idon by ii )^ttini;
togctlicr of mnnagera of hardwood niillB, tho men in aetuni active
charge of their operations. The yellow pine people hove bigger
plants with n greater efficiency and have already progressed in manu-
facturing efllciency farther thnn the hardwood mill people. Still
another and stronger roa.ton that the opi>ortunity is greater for good
work among the hardwood niillmen is fouml in the greater variety
in the hardwood work, not only different local conditionH, but
there is involved tlio preparing of a groat lino of special dimen-
sion stock and getting out hardwood in the best shape for certain
specific uses in further manufacturing.

The owners of the mills, who meet in various organizations of
hardwood manufacturers, take some notice of this subject, but there
is room for a great work along this line which should lio iiarlieipatcd
in by the men who are actually in charge of the work.

Whether the idea would justify an entirely new organization or
series of organizations is a question open for debate. There have
been so many different organizations in the lunilx;r and woodworking
fraternity that sometimes it looks like the in.lustry will become
clogged or heavily bunlcned with organization. This might be taken
up by a national association of and by the different district associa-
tions of hardwood manufacturers. Instead of entirely new organiza-
tions, there might be incorporated into those already existing a sort
of bureau of technical research, and enlist the co-operation of the
mill managers in the development of manufacturing methods for the
greatest possible efBcioncy and for the best utilization of hardwood
jiroducts.

Some associations today are examples of what can be accomplished
along the lines of improving manufacturing methods. The Xational
Brick Manufacturers' Association, which has been in existence more
than a quarter of a century, is an example of both organization
growth and manufacturing development around this very idea.

Thirty years ago there was a feeling in the brick trade that some
improvement could be made in manufacturing methods. Various
plans had been suggested and new machines were offc.ed to facilitate
the work. A meeting was called at Cincinnati to discuss the technical
phases and see what could be developed in the way of improved
manufacture. Out of this effort there has developed not only a
great national association but the American Ceramic Society, which is
today one of the greatest technical institutes of the world. More-
over, the clay working industry was converted from a crude hand
craft into a highly specialized scientific industry involving the use
of some of the finest machinery and mechanical devices to be found.

Something of the same kind can be accomplished in the hardwood
manufacturing industry. The question is whether or not it will be
practical to arouse enough interest in the idea to set to work and
keep working an active organization or bureau that will develop
the many possibilities for improvement.

It would hardly be possible to give in detail in a short article the
many lines of activity which might be engaged in to advantage, but
they would include not only logging and general milling methods, but
would branch out to include a study of a great line of dimension
stock work, hardwood distillation, and the cutting, conversion and use
of hardwoods for every purpose for which they are available. "We
are in splendid shape to undertake such work at the present time
because some work of the same nature is being done by the Forest
Service which is ready to co-operate.

■What the trade needs, and what it will have to get if this work is
to be carried on persistently, is some central bureau. The different
communities of hardwood manufacturers may have varying interests,

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ual Hardwood Lumber Anao-

ciation, could handle tho matter.

To Test Northern Woods

Kfforla to make more general uao of Wiaconain and upper Michi-
(^an IiimlH'r are being put forth along niuny linea. The Norihern
lli'tnliick ami Hiirdwouil .MiinufncturerH* Association ia couperiiting
»ilh till" Forest I'roductM Liilmrnlory in determining vnrioua qualities
of hemlock. ThoFo are days when fireproof construction is a watch-
word in building. Tho use of stone, brick, cement and steel ia popu-
lar. It is generally supposed that wood is not a fireproof material.
Tests made by the Forest Products Laboratory have shown aomo
interesting results. Materials supposed to be highly inflammable
have been proved to be even more satisfactory in tireproof conslriic-
lion thiin the more dense a;id inflammable substances.

Testa have shown that wood covered with certain fire|iroofing resists
heat and flames better than steel. To make such a test a l>eam
supported on both ends and carrying u heavy load in the middle has
been subjected to fire. Light steel beams were found to "buckle"
and give way more quickly than lumber properly fireproofod. The
reason is said to lie that wood is a poor conductor of heat and when
properly covered to prevent early ignition it resists beat even better
than metal.

An interesting test is soon to be made at Madison, in which north-
ern manufacturers are particularly interested. There is on the campus
a small onerooni house built of cement and supposed to be fireproof.
It is tho practice to equip this small building with interior trim of
wood and to lay a wooden floor and provide wooden furniture and
then set it afire. Records are kept of the length of time it requires
for tho wooden portion to be destroyed. Such tests have been made
of various kinds of woods, such as yellow pine, Douglas fir and
the like. It is now planned to trim the building with birch and to
lay a maple floor and see how long a time is required to reduce those
woods.

The tensile strength of hemlock is also to be determined according
to two bases, the classification of the a.=sociation and the classifica-
tion of the national forestry reserve. Beams of a certain size are
to be supported on each end and weighted down in the middle until
they break. The weight required to break the beam is to be recorded
and the percentage as compared with other woods is to be computed.
It is said that hemlock has never had a uniform grading along the
lino suggested. Various building codes show different figures, ac-
cording to the estimate of the engineer preparing it. The oflieial tests
to be made at Madison, it is believed will permit of more accurate
standardization.

Filers for mills and resaws where considerable cottonwood is cut feel
that this is not the easiest wood in the world to file for. One operator
says that he believes many mills are wrong in trying to get good
results by using 19-gauge saws. He believes that 18-gauge bl&des
will stand up to the work, and do better work longer than 19-gauge,
and that they will prove cheaper. His experience leads him to be-
lieve that teeth spaced l','i inches with plenty of hook, a full round
throat and about % of an inch deep will prove in most cases better
than any other combination.

Depreciation is a factor that is as uncertain and as variable as
overhead cost. The selling value of a machine is seriously im-
paired the minute it has been used and becomes second-hand, though
it ma}- give just as good service as ever for a number of years. An-
other factor that some fail to take into account is that the coming
of a new and improved machine may lessen the value of the old,
even though it does as much work as it ever did.

You can handle sawdust with a blower, but in some instances
it is more economically handled with belts and other mechanical

conveyors.

October 25, 1915.

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^11 Facts and Frauds of Witch Hazel

There are people now and there have been for two hundred years
who would stake their salvation on the eiEcaey of witch hazel. The
hold which this harmless tree has on the imagination is one of the
wonders of human folly. It illustrates the power of superstition, the
fascination of idol worship in its civilized form.

John Carver, who traveled through the Lake states 156 years ago,
and when the only white people there wore a few traders and sol-
diers, spoke of witch hazel as the embodiment of superstition. The
"witch" part of the name, according to Carver, means exactly what
it says. It was the witchcraft tree, so called because of its supposed
supernatural and uncanny powers. The bark was supposed to cure
everything from measles to insanity. The forked branch, when
twisted in the fingers, was reputed to point with unerring accuracy
to buried treasure, pirates' gold, silver ledges and streams of under-
ground water. That superstition might have been excused a century
ago, but it holds yet. It is more common than might be supposed. To
this day you may find the mountaineers of western Pennsylvania,
West Virginia, Kentucky, and North Carolina creeping carefully
about the ravines with the forked stick trying to locate "hidden
treasure." They have no very fixed idea concerning the nature of
the treasure, but most of them think it is Indian money, or is coin
buried "during the old war" — meaning the Eevolutionary war.
The Field Museum in Chicago has among its exhibits one of these
witch wands.

Failures Explai.ved

Failure to locate whatever the searcher may be looking for is
never admitted by the believer in the hazel fork. The failure to find
is always explained by saying that the digging did not go deep
enough, though in the right direction. The forked stick, they say,
cannot tell how deep the treasure is; and as there is a limit to the
depth which the excavator is able to reach, it is a convenient loop-
hole for the escape of the hazel prophet when his predictions are not
verified.

Various sorts of extract of witch hazel are reputed to be valuable
as medicine. Drug stores sell the bark and other preparations.
Chemists have not succeeded in finding anything in it of medicinal
value, except tannin, which is common to practically all kinds of
trees, but richer in some than in others. The astringency of tannin
is sometimes beneficial. " I'ond 's Extract," which has long been a
(vell-known medicine, is understood to contain witch hazel. There are
"creams," "salves," and "ointments" in profusion, made partly
of witch hazel, according to the claims on the bottles and jars. Some
of these are doubtless beneficial in certain ailments, but so far as
witch hazel is concerned, it is probable that extracts of willow bark
or hemlock bark would do as well. This is particularly true in those
instances, which perhaps are not rare, in which the preparations have
not a particle of witch hazel in them.

A Michigan Example

In a recent issue of the Mining Gazette, Houghton, Mich„ an
account was given of a movement to establish a witch hazel extract
factory near that town. According to the announcement in the
paper, it was not necessary to look for a supply of witch hazel,
because the factory did not expect to use any. It calculated that it
could make its "hazel extract" from sweet birch (Betula lenta), the
common birch which makes such good furniture.

There is nothing unusual about this, except the frankness and
honesty of the statement. Without specifying any particular ex-
tract, it may be stated as a general guess that most witch hazel
preparations have about the same amount of hazel in them as this
proposed factory 's will have. It is not necessary to blame or con-
demn them, for why should any extract maker go to the trouble and
■expense of ransacking the whole country for the scarce witch hazel
bush when something else, just as good, is handy and cheap? Other
extract factories do not do it. Take oil of wintergreen, for example.
That is supposed to be made of the tiny wintergreen or teaberry
jjlant {Gaultheria recumbens), but it is not. It comes from sweet

birch — the same sweet birch which it is reported will be used for
the hazel extract up in the Michigan copper country. Great is the
resourcefulness of birch. With equal facility it can be made to
produce witch hazel extract, oil of wintergreen, or root beer.

W^iTCH Hazel's Identity

There is nothing mysterious or supernatural about witch hazel. It
is interesting but not weird. It is the little first cousin of red gum;
but it has remained a dwarf while red gum is a giant. Botanists
call it Uamamelis virginiana, a name which, if translated, adds
nothing to our knowledge of the tree except that it grows in Vir-
ginia. That state, however, is a very small corner of its range which
covers a million square miles, and embraces all the states east of
Wisconsin, Nebraska and Texas. It is called a tree, but it is nearly
always a shrub from five to fifteen feet high, except among the
mountains between Pennsylvania and Georgia, where it attains a
maximum height of forty feet and a diameter of eighteen inches.
It is there sawed for lumber, and in the state of Kew York alone
the annual use is reported to exceed 50,000 feet. The wood is con-
verted into canes, umbrella handles, whipstock, and other articles.

Perhaps most people who know this tree are aware of its peculiar
blossoming habits. If not, it would seem strange to find the fruit
coming before the bloom. The nuts develop during the summer and
early fall, and after they have reached full size and are ready to
fall, the blossoms suddenly burst forth and clothe the branches in
yellow. Each blossom consists of four streamers an inch or so long,
which twist and squirm like worms. Often the leaves have fallen
before the flowers appear.

The flowers are for next year's crop of nuts. A whole year is
required for the nuts to ripen, and they are of no use, as far as
man is concerned, when they are ripe. The nut is the size of a
small bean and is decorated with a face resembling a monkey's.
Some people have supposed this to be the witch's face which gave
the tree its name.

The flower gives the bush one of its names, "winter bloom," and
the nut's habit gives another, "snapping hazel." Nature nearly
always provides a way for the disposal of seeds, otherwise trees
and plants could not perpetuate themselves. Birds carry some,
others float on water; squirrels bury a share and forget them and
they grow; some seeds, like the ash's, maple's, and cottonwood, sail
on the wind; others are transported by becoming entangled in the
hair or wool of animals. But witch hazel 's way is diflterent. It
shoots its seeds, like a bullet from a gun. The case or pod in which
the seed grows is the gun. The cold weather of autumn contracts it,
and the nut is shot forth with considerable noise and with sufficient
force to carry it from ten to forty feet.

The common hazel, which produces the filberts of commerce, is not
in the same tree family as witch hazel.

Some machine operators are fond of saying that they can't get as
good knives now as in the good old days. Better knives were never
made than can be had today from any number of houses which spare
no pains to make as nearly perfect knives as experience and im-
proved methods can produce. The change in knives has been for the
better, the changes in some men for the worse; there is where the
trouble lies.

Greasy waste is the bugbear of insurance inspectors. A small piece
of waste lying around will cause one of them to almost have a fit.
A young man had been all over a plant, and had failed to find a single
thing to which he could take exception, and upon a visit to the filing
room he saw a bunch of waste lying upon the brazing bench. He
called attention to the enormity of the offense against the proper
conduct of the mill in allowing the waste to lie around loose in that
manner, and it was with a good deal of satisfaction that the filer
showed him that the offending waste was a piece used with water only
to make some experiments in tempering a braze on the band saws.

A vigoroug pro'
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turcr nt lluntingburi;, Ind. Tho coni|ilaint ik nKiimnt tlif SutithorD
Koilroad foinpany. tlio C. r. 0. & SI. I,. Knilwny Conipiiiiy nml
wrcDtccn other milrondii. Mr. Stiniwii auortB tlint on ninny Hliip-
moots of lumber and other formt |irodurt8 to pointH in Illinois, Wis-
eoDsin and Michigan ho has boon charged Uie Roiiio rates as obtain
from tJie other t"- • ;Mne<l, ulthounh traflle from these points

pass through Iliin' lie him ii>ke<l the comiiiii'gion to stop the

diseriminntion anil uwurd him reparation in tho sum of $1,482.42.

With the return of the members of Uie luterstute Commerce Commis-
sion opinions are beginning to come down ugnin. l)uring the past two
weeks, however, there wore only two opinions in lumber cases, but ono
of these is of importance to Uic hardwood industry. It is tho case of
E. P. Ladd & Co. versus the Gould & Southwestern Railway Co. et al.
Tho commission found that tlie rates on lumber from Furth, Ark., arc
unreasonable and unjustly prejudicial to the extent that they exceed
the rates on lunil>cr eontcmpnrnneously in effect from Oould, Ark.
Reparation was awarded.

Commissioner Daniels, who h role tin- opinion, Fays in part:
The complnlnnnts horoin nro E. P. LndJ and C S. Bncon, co-pnrtncrs,
ensaged in inunufncturlng cyprcKs, oak, an<l kuhi lumber, under the Arm
name of E. P. Ladil & Co.. at Furtli. .\rlc. Tlicy allege that the defendants'
rates on lumber from Furth to Interstate dostlnallons are unroa.sonable and
unduly prejudicial lo the extent of 2 cents per 100 pounds. Furth Is on
the line of the Gould Southwestern Hallway, 1.1 miles west of Gould, .\rk..
the Junction between that road and the line of the f-t. Louis, Iron Mountain
& Southern Railway Company. The Gould Southwestern extends from
Gould through Furth to Star City, a distance of IS miles. From Furth the
rates on all kinds of lumber to all Interstate points are 2 cents per 100
pounds higher than from Gould, and it Is the complainants' contention that
the rates from Furth should not exceed the rates contemporaneously appli-
cable from Gould. Reparation of 2 cents per 100 pounds Is asked on ship-
ments made since January 1, 1913.

The construction of the Gould Southwestern began in 1907, and the road
was completed in that year to Champion, about 6 miles from Gould. Later
it was extended through Furth to Star City, its present terminus. In 1909
the rate on lumber from Furth to C.ilro. 111., which may be taken as a
typical destination, was 4 cents per 100 pounds higher than from Gould.
In June, 1911, by an agreement between the complainants and the Gould
Southwestern, the rates from Furth on pine, cypress, and hardwood lumber
were made 2 cents per 100 pounds higher than from Gould, and out of the
rates so made the Gould Southwestern received a division from the Iron
Mountain of 5 cents on hardwood and G cents on pine and cypress. The
Gould Southwestern was a party to the original proceedings in the Tap Line
case, but was dismissed as a part.v to that proceeding as of August 28, 1012.
under order of the Commission i-ntercd October 13, 191.3. In May, 1912,
after the decision in the Tap Line case, the Joint through rates from Furth
were canceled, leaving to apply the combination of the local rates to and
from Gould, which had the ciTi'ct of increasing the rates from Furth .3 cents
on hardwood and 4 cents on pine and cypress. On September 27, 1912, the
defendants, being under the mistaken opinion, as they state, that they were
required so to do by the proceedings and orders in the Tap Line case,
published rates from all points on the Gould Southwestern on the same
basis as from Gould. Effective January 1. 1913, they published the rates
here complained of, which arc 2 cents per 100 pounds higher than the
Gould rate. These, they claim, are merely a restoration of rates reduced
under a misapprehension as to the requirements of the commission. Thi-
rates from Gould to Cairo during this period have been 13 cents per 100
pounds on hardwood and 16 cents on pine and cypress. The present rates
from Furth to Cairo are therefore 10 cents on hardwood and 18 cents on
pine and cypress.

This 13-cent rate on hardwood was blanketed in .\rkansas from Just north
of Little Rock south to the Arkansas-Louisiana state line, and the lOcent
rate on pine and cypress was similarly applied as a blanket rate from the
Arkansas river south to the Gulf of Mexico and east to the Mississippi river.
Gould and Furth are near the northern boundary of these blanketed terri-
tories, and consequently nearer Cairo and other northern consuming and
jobbing markets than most of the other stations within the groups. It Is
the contention of the complainants that the rates from Furth should not be
higher than from points on many other short-line connections of the Iron
Mountain like the Gould Southwestern in the same general territory as
Furth, or higher than from main and branch line points in these groups on
the Iron Mountain much farther distant from points of destination than
Furth.

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I I. ti. .1. '. ,..! ...I tr..,i M..<ir,ti,iii iiiii t),i i.hiiikrt rule

ipN iiicn-
'MlN nmiie

' •'(iiin> In till' •uulliMrst •liiiiiiir lu the (SoulJ

II which riili-K on lumber arc lilishrr liy from 1

t N than from till' Junction polntn. The coinplaluantu

from polntn uii which the Junrllonpulnt rale* are

i,l.|.li, 1 I r Ihi' ndJUHtmenl In caneii where the

Junctliiii p<'i on llii-iie connrctlona U the allritrd

t-OllllK'tlt|l'll t■l.^^■.rl ..iii|..- .■■. > » IllC.

The di'fenncN of the ri-npondents of the Incrcaied rates effective alocc
January 1, 1913, from Furth are :

(1) The haul Involv.-d Is a two-lln'- haul.

(21 T!i. 2 '"■nT .-irV'ltmrv .-.v; r ttip Infi'-tl-m or blanket rutr wai* nureiHl l»»
li. ■ ■■ lb.

■'cratc succcHnfiilly iindrr
•I 111 cannot afford to Hbrink

Ita I, \ • Unu at in ■ nl to puy lb'- < ^"ijid SouthweHtcrn a dlvlalon

out of r rati- from I'urth.

(4) I iirliltnirv Is no exception to the general rule In vogue OB

the Iron .M.niUiatii. which contends that xlmllar arbltrarles exist unlcM com-
petition with another trunk line prevents.

(.'>) The rate Is not unreasonable pir nr nor unjustly discriminatory.

As regards the argument that a twollne haul la Involved, eihlblti of the
complainants show that the total shipments of yellow pine from the blank-
eted territory for alternative months of 1912 amounted to .30.299 cars; that
of these, 10,880 Involved a two-line haul, 3,808 a three-line haul. 1,075 a
four-line haul, and 31 a five-line haul ; that the situation with regard to
cypress Is similar, as the cypress blanket Ij coincident with the yellow pine
blanket; that out of 11,418 cars of hardwoods, l..''i37 Involved a twollne
haul and 349 a three-line haul, not counting tap. line movements. From thin
it would Fcem that the excuse for tbr. arbitrary over the Junction rate \i>
Gould, that In this case a two-line haul was Involved, and that the carrierx
therefore should have a higher rate, is not valid.

The second defense falls because not determinative of the Justice, reason-
ableness, and nondiscriminatory character of the rate. The Willamette
Valley case. S. P. Co. v. I. C. C, 219 U. S.. 433.

The third defense falls because it is not shown what the fair value of the
Gould Southwestern is beyond the fact that It represents an Investment of
about $200,000. It Is true that financially it has not been successful.

The fourth defense falls because it does not appear that a uniform prac-
tice has been In vogue whereby the Iron Mountain Invariably exacts, or han
exacted, an arbitrary over the Junction rate where the competition of an-
other trunk line Is absent, and invariably accords the Junction rate to points
on a short connecting line where competition with another trunk line carrier
Is present. Instances have been found in the record of this case and In the
tariffs on file with this commission, first, where the tap line connects with
the Iron Mountain, Its single maln-IInc connection, and the Junction-point
rate on hardwoods applies from all points on the tap line; second, where the
tap line connects with the Iron Mountain, its single main-line connection..
:ind an arbitrary is added to the Junction-point rate; third, where the Iron
Mountain competes with one or more trunk lines for the business of the tap
line and the Junction-point rate applies from all points on the short line ;
.ind. fourth, where the Iron Mountain competes with one or more trunk lines
for the business of the tap line and an arbitrary Is nevertheless added to the
Junction-point rate. In the first category the Grlffln, Magnolia & Western
railway, whose sole outlet Is via the Iron Mountain at Grlffln, carried the
Junction-point blanket rates on hardwoods from all points on its line during
the period from September 27, 1912, until February 23, 191!>, excepting the
Interval when combination rates applied on account of the commission's rul-
ing In the Tap Line case, nupra ; as an instance of the second category, the
Gould Southwestern is Itself typical ; to the third category belongs the
Warren & Ouachita Valley Railway, for whose business the Iron Mountain,
and Rock Island compete, and from all points on the tap line the Junction-
point rate of 13 cents on hardwoods was applicable from September 27, 1912,
until February 23, 191.'i, excepting the Interval when combination rates
applied on account of the commission's ruling In the Tap Line case, tupra;
of the fourth category, the Warren. Johnsvllle & Saline River Railway Is an
Instance, for whose business the Iron Mountain competes with the Rock
Island. From points on this tap line, both before and after the decisions
in the Tap Line cases, an arbitrary was charged in addition to the Junction-
point rate.

The fifth defense falls for the reason that the territory in which the Gould
Southwestern Is located Is one in which blanket rates as a rule prevail.
The carriers making effective such a blanket rate cannot be heard to say
that It is applicable In general hut not applicable from points on a short-
line common carrier, such as the Gould Southwestern. If this territory is
t<>l>e blanketed, and the blanket rate Is to be applied without discrimination,
the Iron Mountain must expect to apply thi- blanket rate from points oi»
short-line common carriers connecting with the Iron Mountain. The Iron
Mountain has chosen to adopt a blanket system of making rates In this
region, and under such a system distance and hauls over more than one line
are of course in a great measure disregarded. We arc of the opinion and
find that the defendants' rates on lumber from Furth to interstate destina-
tions reached by the Iron Mountain are, and since January 1, 1913, have
been unreasonable and unduly prejudicial to Forth to the extent that they-

October 27i, 1915.

HARDWOOD RECORD

exceed the rates on the same commodity from Gould to tbe same destina-
tions.

It appears also clearly from the record that the complainants have paid
and borne the charges and have been damaged on shipments of lumber from
I>'urth since January 1, 191.'!, to the extent that the rates per 100 pounds
were in excess of the rates paid from the junction point Gould to interstate
destinations reached by the Iron Mountain. Complainants should prepare a
statement showing as to each shipment on which reparation is claimed the
date of movement, point of origin, poiut of destination, rate, weight, car
number and initials, rate charged, and the amount of reparation due under
our finding herein, which statement should be forwarded to defendants for
verificatioM. Upon receipt of a statement so prepared by complainants and
verified by defendants we will consider issuing an order awarding reparation.

The other decision made during the past two Tveeks is that in the
case of the Foster Lumber Company versus the Clatskanie Transporta-
tion Company, in which the company 's complaint of unjust rates was
denied.

J. V. Stimson, Huntington, Ind., versus Erie R. R., claims just rate
from Roland, 111., on logs is eleven cents; carriers are collecting twelve
and a half cents.

Torrey Cedar Company, Cliutonville, Wis., versus Chicago & North-
western, excessive charges on Wifconsin-Minnesota and on Wisconsin-
North Dakota business claimed.

Rates on gum, oak and cypress between Charleston, Mi.'s., and Chi-
cago are attacked in a complaint filed by the Lamb-Fish Lumber Com-
pany against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad. Charges of
nineteen cents are beng collected on gura and twenty-one cents on oak.
The lumber company claims that this rale should be seventeen and
sixteen cents, respectively. All applications for the refund of the
alleged overcharge have been declined by the defendant.

Other complaints filed during the past two weeks are: Diamond
Lumber Company, Green Bay, Wis., versus C, M. & St. P. ; unjust
rates. Reparation of $1,058.14 asked.

Hearings have been assigned as follows:

.\t Rhinelander, Wis., November S, Examiner Fleming : Lumber from
Wisconsin points.

At Milwaukee, November 11, Kxaiuincr Fleming: J. S. Sterns Lumber
Company versus C. & N. W.

At Washington, November 22, oral argument, I. & S. 4G4, lumber rates
Helena, Ark., and other points to Omaha, Des Moines and other points.
No. 5537 — Anderson-TuUy Lumber Company versus A. & V. No. 742.) —
Dallas Cooperage and Woodenware Company versus G., C. & S. F. Novem-
ber 23, Storm Lake Tub and Tank Factory versus Indiana Harbor Belt
Railway. Snow Lumber Company versus R. C. & S. November 24, Hard-
wood I'ackage Co. versus New River, Holsten & Western. November 26,
oral argument, Trexler Lumber Company versus P., B. & W. .\merlcan
Woods Corporation versus So. Ry. Northern Lumber Company versus So.
Ry. Forest Lumber Company versus Morgantown and Kingwood R. R.
November 27. Union Lumber Company versus G., C. & S. F.

.•Vt Louisville, November 24, Examiner Fleming : Kentucky-Indiana Hard-
wood Company versus So. Ky. in Miss.

At Portland, Ore., December 2, Examiner Pugh : West Coast Lumber
Jlanufacturers' Association versus S. P. & S.

At Pittsburgh, December 0, Examiner La Roe : United Lumber Company
versus B. & O.

^l y^^TO;!5BMm!J^^w^imM>^^imiVJ^;^>^^^^

Conditions Better in Memphis Section

Reports from the south indicate a striking evidence of a change
for the better in the hardwood situation in Memphis and surround-
ing territory. Demand has been steadily increasing for some
time and shipments have likewise materially grown larger. But it
is only within the past thirty days that any appreciable change in
prices has taken place. It is recognized that these are still somewhat
below normal, but it is reported that they have advanced generally
from $1 to $2 per thousand on practically all items and on most
grades. Furthermore, while there is room for still further develop-
ment along this line, the position of both the manufacturer and the
wholesaler is more independent because of the absence of burdensome
stocks, the easiness of money which facilitates financing and the
greater interest shown by buyers. For a long while owners of lumber
had to do all the hustling, while buyers stood back and took advantage
of the low rates at which they were able to get lumber thrown at
them in this way. Now they are finding that there are very few bar-
gains and that it is necessary for them to cast about to find what they
need. Their wants, too, have become considerably larger with the
general improvement in practically all lines so that the seller is no
longer necessarily on the defensive.

Shipments of lumber now are larger from Memphis and the Mem-
phis territory than at any time since the outbreak of the war in
Europe. Some firms report more activity than for some time prior
to the beginning of hostilities in Europe, while practically everybody
concedes rather marked increase in deliveries. Manufacturing opera-
tions continue to expand, but they are not running ahead of shipments,
which is only another way of saying that stocks are not accumulating.
These became much broken during the cessation of milling operations
within the first seven or eight months of the European war and there
are some items which are still quite scarce, thus putting the seller
instead of the buyer in the controlling position.

The improvement noted is confined largely to domestic business.
Export demand is, as has been the case for some time, confined largely
to the specialties used in the manufacture of war supplies. These
include walnut, gum and ash, with an occasional sprinkling of cotton-
wood. There is no general European demand and none is anticipated
until the large quantities of southern hardwoods consigned abroad

have been so reduced that business is again possible on a profitable
basis.

In domestic channels the most fruitful source of demand is from
furniture and vehicle manufacturers and from the makers of boxes
and bos shooks. Interior trim and flooring are also moving more
freely and there is also a fairly active call from miscellaneous sources.
The one big disappointment has been the attitude of railroad interests,
which are buying very few supplies in the making of which southern
hardwoods are used and which are doing everything in their power,
especially in the lower Mississippi valley states, through efforts to
apply higher rates, to make the life of the average manufacturer of
lumber anything but comfortable, if not actually miserable. A good
demand is reported for plain and quartered oak in the higher grades
and prices have recently advanced somewhat. The lower grades, how-
ever, are rather slow as to movement and are participating but little
in the advance enjoyed by firsts and seconds. Gum is gaining ground
not only in volume of business but also in prices. This applies to both
red and sap and to the lower as well as to the higher grades. Some
items are notably scarce. In fact, it is said on good authority that
not a single carload of 8/4 red gum in No. 1 common can be found in
the entire Memphis market. The box factories are large users of No.
1, No. 2 and No. 3 common gum and are absorbing most of the offer-
ings. Ash is in excellent request and a sharp advance is noted in 6/4
and thicker. It cost one buyer $2 per thousand to delay buying six
cars of thick ash from last Friday until Monday. There is a reason-
ably active demand for cypress. Cottonwood in the higher grades is
in only moderate request, but there is a ready call for the lower
grades used in box manufacture.

Lumber interests here are feeling more cheerful. They believe the
long-awaited revival in business is at hand and they are making their
plans accordingly. There is no boom. None is claimed, but it is
conceded that both the situation and outlook have substantially
changed for the better within the past three or four weeks.

Many people confuse the term "efficiency" with the word "effec-
tiveness, ' ' and while there is a current usage in which the two terms
overlap, yet the difference is easily capable of detection.

Uclubrr SS, 1013

Alichigan Manufacturers IVlect

-T

The quarterly meclini; of Uip MieliiKnii llnrilwuoti Mauufneturera'

•i.T Oil Till • I 1 t.ibcr

II wliirli \% lit in

Uk* «*lltlfv MUMlllH-miltp.

Secretary J. (.'. Knox »ai>i in lii« rr|>ort tlint tlio cnxh Imliinci* on
hand October i>, liUS, wnii $l.::i:ui.'> in the (•■•iieriil funil iind <'l,li|0.11
in the foreat flro fund. Anion); other thint^K lio Niid, ' ' We niiidc the
statement in our report of April £6, 1015, that the K*^ncral busincM
of the country wan nlowly pirkini; up. Wo Htill ImMiuvo this to l>e n
fact, and every evidence fihonx tlint hiniUT. which in iiUout the Inst

• • time bnck at com-
I inuuiis iind ^liKhtly

lowur lijjuri'^ lur tiie low jjratic.'^. ' '

The report of the treasurer fjivin;; an iteniirx>d account of above
resultii was accejited after being read by Mr. Knox.

Chief Warden J. L. Morford rejiorted on forest fire work for the
last three montlis. Mr. Morford said the season opened on April
10 and that various di.stricts had been grailually closed up, as it
was apparent that extra ranger work was not needed. Mr. Morford
said the danger is over for the year 191.').

The figures read showed a total of 274 fires which burned over
1,407 acres, with an aggregate loss of $.").120.27, as compared to an
aggregate lo.-<s for the same jicriod in 1914 of $11,793, while of this
total loss only $100 was for standing timber.

Chairman W. C. Hull of the market conditions committee then
read his report, as follows:

Report of Market Conditions Committee

It hn.« bc'n ni.i.iir.iit |.« all thai tiil^ var w.Miiii i,,- a (laiiKcrou.s one
for mnniifacturiTs of hnrdwood bdJ for this ri'a.soa iiartlcular attention
bag been paid to the matter of production, and .vou have been asked to '
give thrif dllTLTcnt ostlmates — one In .Inniiary. one lu .\prll and one In
October. The .\prll estimate was consldurably lower than the one in
Januar.v. but the last one. which gives th<! arlual cut to October first and
an estimate for the bnlnncc of the year, shows thai tlie .laiiuary estimate
of .'UiO.OOO.OOO feet will be very close to the actual out. The actual cut
for 1U14 «os 470.000.000 feet and this represents an unusually heavy
curtailment, and Its wisdom Is made manifest when we come to com-
pare present stocks with those of a year nco. We have on hand of
No. 2 C and II I!»4.l)00.000 against lIll.OOO.OOO a year ago, but wc have
on band unsold "O.OOO.OOO against "G.OOO.OOd. There Is ample evidence,
however, that the demand Is much better than a year ago. You all know
you arc receiving more Inquiries and the records show that for the past
three months the volume of sales Is more than three times that of the
corresponding three months of last year. .Mso as compared to July 1,
present stocks have decreased :i4.000.000 feet. :;:!.000,000 feet of which
Is maple, which means tliat we actually sold ami shipped that much more
laml>er thon we produced, with practically all of the mills running
steadily, 1».000,000 of the maple referred lo above was No. 2 C and B.
The reported sales, however, show that many of our members have made
concessions In price and arc receiving on an average from one lo two
dollars per thousand feet less than a year ago on many of the grades.
Firsts and seconds arc being sold at from two to three dollars less than
list prices and No. 1 common at as low as five dollars off list. Many
members, however, are receiving full list prices and a few sales are re-
ported at higher than list. In this connection, it Is well to state that
certain members of the committee have knowledge of sales made by a few
members at low prices that have not been reported to the secretary. The
only chance that this association has to be of value to Its members is Its
opportunity to put tieforc them all the existing conditions under which
they ore doing business. No one is obligated to get the list prices, but
everyone has a moral obligation to report all sales. There is absolutely
no other accurate way to determine true market conditions, and it is a
distressing commentary on the loyalty of some of our members to say
that this committee must gum shoe around the trade for price sale
information. .\ny member sacrlflcing stock does himself and the associa-
tion less Injury by frankly acknowledging the transaction than he docs
by covering it up. Any meml>cr who persistently covers up such tran.s-
actions may Justly be suspected of trying to take advantage of other
members, who are not only trying to get a fair price for their goods,
but who also, when necessity constrains them to a sacriiice, make a
report of It to the association, thereby putting all members in position to
know the real conditions. Secrecy will ultimately reflect more injury
upon the author than upon bis associates whom he has misled by bis
silence.

No. 3 common has been slow sale and at unsatisfactory prices for most

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of Uie year. Kluel. ' . UOU,0«>0 ■gnlnit TT.OOO.UUO a jroiir aco.

Itrr II,, i„n i.iit,,rliii have l>een making heavier pur

cb ('. It. II. I* ngnln In the iiiiirkel f<ir lien. Tlil» lian

• Iti - . ^ ct and within the pant t»i' «■.!.. ii,u n,,,, im. i., .u

•tllTrni,! !:•■ dollar per tbuu>and.

IIKMUK-K

Our • 'of prtHluctlon verlUen the uiie mmle in Jnti-

uary, » o.ouo, ni> nKnlnut an actual count of I'lio.oou.ouo

(or Ian) .\i.ii I hand Is 1NI,UUO,000, as ngnln't l.'iri.oiHi.iMiit one

year auo > the low prlcei of yellow pine, liemloek pricea

\ux\ ' II, having di'riliied only .'o reno to Kl.iHi on the

ni' 11.00 on tile cull lUi cargo trade to wbnbMlem,

wit ■' •■-•I- T '•-■iit Hliarp advance

111 "k price* tu laBt

yeiir iilldlng operatlunn

are sbuwing a general gain.

The great Impruveinent In lumber trade condition* Kenrraily and the
already appareut though slight Improvement In the hardwmid situation
should encourage lis to stand firm for a little while yet, when we will
begin to fell the nwnnl for the fortitude with which we bnve withstood
this |)ast period of depression.

llerinnn Kunnert raised the question of providing regular sales
bulletins to the luemlMTS. C'hairnian Hull of the inarket ronditions
committee in replying to this question said that this is extremely
desirable, but has not been carried out on uccount of the absence of
support by the membership, who are with difliculty persuaded to give
information as to sales. After n discussion it was moveil that the
market conditions committee adjourn to consider the question and
return with a recommendation. On ro-convcning it vvus recom-
mended by the committee that the sales statistics be gathered and
sent out by the secretary every week to all members who expres.sed
themselves as being willing to give regular reports, the reports to
cover shipping points, prices at shipping jioints, the rate if delivered
price is quoted, grades, thickness, quantity and quality, whether jiur-
chaser is consumer or dealer and whether shiiuneut is made by rail or
water, and also any specific description as covering the qualifications
of that stock. It was provided that this work is to be carried on as
long as it is deemed advisable. The recommendation was accepted
and will be put into effect immediately.

It was moved by C. A. Bigelow that the association ajipropriate
$1,000 a year for the next five years to assist in financing the trade
extension work now being carried on by the National Lumber Manu-
facturers' Association.

Mr. Bigelow moved that a regular assessment of two cents per
1,000 feet of hardwoods shipped from October, 1914, to October,
1915, be levied, and that in addition there be levied an assessment of
one cent per 1,000 feet of hemlock manufactured from January, 1915,
to January, 1916, this assessment not to be levied until next January.
The motion was carried.

R. B. Goodman, president of the Northern Hemlock & Hardwood
Manufacturers' As.sociation, referred to the excellent results already
showing from work being carried on by the National Lumber Manu-
facturers' Association's trade extension department. From this he
led up to the question of further broadening the indiridual markets
for specific woods, referring in particular to efforts recently put into
effect on hemlock by the organization of which he is president. He
urged that the Michigan manufacturers co-operate with the Wisconsin
territory to the end that this plan may be made more effective for all.
It was moved that a committee be sent to attend the meeting of his
association at Milwaukee on October 26.

It was moved that the association go on record as favoring the
election of C. A. Goodman of the Sawyer-Goodman Company, Mari-
nette, Wis., to the presidency of the National Hardwood Lumber As-
sociation at its annual meeting next June. Mr. Goodman's qualifica-
tions for this position are recognized by everybody who is at all
familiar with the northern trade. It was further suggested that as
Wisconsin has never held the presidency, it would be fitting that that
state be given the honor.

The meeting then adjourned, and all those attending enjoyed a
very jileasant luncheon, wliich was served in the convention room.

October 25, 1915.

Refining Lumber on the Loading Dock

The possibility of turning cents into dollars by following the course
suggested in the caiition above, seems to have been considered a
rather formidable [irocedure by certain manufacturers. Hardwood
Recokd has gotten the opinions of certain people who have practised
this economy for a good many years and are in a position to know
what they are talking about.

To begin with, all that is necessary is an ordinary swing cut-off saw
aiul an ordinary rip saw. The rip saw should be of the self-feed
type and the power can be either steam or electricity. In one ease in
question one of the most successful manufacturers using this method
uses steam as it is very convenient to get steam to the loading dock
engine which runs the saw. At another mill electric motors are used,
but both methods are equally satisfactory. Where steam is used direct
from the sawmill boilers to the little engine on the loading dock, it
makes a rig which mo.st any negro can handle without danger of
injury to the appliances.

Where motors are used, a 20 H. P. is used for the rip saw and a
5 H. P. for the swing saw. These motors may be either direct con-
nected or belted to a line sliaft.

It seems to be the opinion of the trade that a belt direct from
the motor to the rip saw is best, and also that when motor driven
the swing saw should set on a base on the upper frame of the saw,
and the mandrel then belted directly from the motor. There seems
to be no question that the self-feed adjustment on the rip saw pro-
iluces altogether satisfactory results.

In the ca.se of the electrically-driven ai)i)lianees, it is very desirable
that there be an over-load relay, which in itself costs only $15 and
absolutely eliminates the possibility of burning out the motor through
ths choking down of the saw. The relay is an instrument which shuts
off the current whenever the saw is suddenly choked, and the cost of
many a burned out fuse will be saved, and also the cost of repairing
burned out motors, which item itself frequently runs to from $50 to
$100. In short, the ap-
]iliance makes the motor 'g^'
fool proof.

The Possibility of Sav-
ing Money

So much for the outfit.
As to the advantage of
using the method of re-
fining lumber it is prob-
ably most clearly put by
simply quoting a letter
which was received on
this subject from one ef
the most successful saw-
mill operators in the
South:

It is not practical to
properly manufacture lum-
ber to a fine point in the
sawmill (or the following
reasons : A man has not
the time to study the
boards ; the Iioards are con-
stantly on the move and
must pass on ; a man is not
in a position to see the en-
tiro board, for in putting it
through the edger or trim-
mer he is standing at one
end of the boards and being
up level with his hips, he
could not see worm holes
and other defects at the
middle or farther end. It
is practically impossible to
hold strictly first-class in-
spectors in the mill or on
the .slip, as they will take a

position in a lumber yard as soon as they can get one. Lumber changes in
appearance while drying and often needs worl! done on it that the same
inspector would not have done while the l>oard was green.

The inspector who ships the lumber is usually counted as a finished
Inspector, and he can talic all the time necessary to examine the lumber.
Lumber should not be counted as manufactured until the shipping inspector
has finished with it. A sawmill man will watch other lealis very closely,
but often pays little attention to what his shipping inspectors are doing
in the way of shipping the lumber which he has been trying to produce as
cheaply as possible. The shipping inspector is the last man to get a chance
at the lumber, and he is either making his employer money by getting out
of the stock its full grade, or he is losing him money by not trying to work
the stock up right for grade.

Sometimes customers object to stock whicli has been remanufactured,
claiming that the sawmill man should not have trimmed it up. This is
simply because they do not understand why it is that lumber cannot be
properly manufactured when green. Kemanufactured lumber always shows
either a cut olT end or a bright edge where it has been ripped and the
customer sometimes says the mill man has gone into lower grades and worked
his stock up. This Is not the case. Take plain red oak, for instance ; there
are always more or less split ends caused in drying, that have to be cut off.
There arc, in all kinds of lumber, boards which liave a little bark on the
edge, which should be ripped off; or it may be a little bunch of worm holes
or other small blemishes. Eliminating this helps the stock and makes it
better for the customer.

Timber is going up in price all the time and it is the man who gets down
to fine points from now on who is going to be able to stay in the game.

The preponderance of plain walnut logs leads us to the conclu-
sion that too great care cannot be given to the matter of carefully
manufacturing the veneer, and too diligent attention to the details
of cutting and trimming with the idea of matching properly so that
the very best figures can be gotten out of the stock, making it pos-
sible to build up high-class panels that will go into the most elegant
products rather than mediocre panels that will go into the more mod-
erate priced and less select woods. This is merely another one of
those points where dollars lie dormant to be unearthed by the man-
ufacturer who gives attention to details.

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I The Mail Bag

B 946 — Wants Basswood Veneers
Leominster, Mass.. October 11.— Editor Uakdhood Kecoud ; We are
Bomewhat bothered In finding a satisfactory source of supply for rotary cut
basswood from % to A Inches, cut to dimension. Can you furnish us with
the names of any parUes, preferably In New England, who can turn out this
stock, and one equipped with modern plate driers so as to produce a first
quality rotary cut veneer? We build our own panels and want to buy only
the underwood.

We would appreciate any InformaUon you might be in a position to

hand us. ""■

The address of above correspondent will be supplied upon applica-
tion to Hardwood Eecord.— Editor.

B 947— Have Oak Rippings to Offer
Saginaw, Mich.. October 12.— Editor IIaudwood Kecord : In the manu-
facture of our quarter-sawed oak furniture we accumulate quite a large
qnantity of rippings from the edge of boards measuring all the way from
% inch square to % Inch square and ranging In length from 18 inches to
about 5 feet.

We believe there are a great many manufacturers who could use this stock
to good advanUge for spindles and other purposes, but we do not personally
know who these parties are.

We are under the impression, however, that you may be able to put us in
touch with Interested parties to the mutual advantage of each. In the
event that you can do so it wlil be very much appreciated.

Any concerns in the market for such stock may have the name of this
concern by writing this oflSee. — ^Editor.

B 948 — In the Market for Dogwood
Lodl, O., October 16. — Editor Hardwood Kecord : We have a customer
who has asked us to supply him with one-quarter cord well seasoned dog-
wood, 3-foot lengths, diameter ranging from 4 inches to 8 inches. We would
appreciate it very much If you could put us in touch with some party who

could supply this, delivery to be immediately. •

Possible sources of supply have been given this inquirer. His ad-
dress will be forwarded to those interested. — ^Editor.

B 949— In the Market for White Oak Ties
Syracuse, N. Y.. Oct. i;0, 1015. — Editor IIahdwihpi) Hm-oiid: Wc have

Just received an inquiry regarding the purchase of between 500,000 to

800,000 white oak ties.

Will you be kind enough to send us a list of some of the largpst dealem

and producers of white oak tics in various parts of the country? We would

like to have thi.s information just as soon as possible, as there la urgent

demand for these ties at the earliest possible date.

Anyone interested in this inquiry can have the necessary informa-
tion by addressing H.\kdwood Repord. — Edithr.

B 950— Wants White or Red Oak Bending Stock
San Francisco, Cal., October 19. — Editor Uahdwood Ueiokd : We wish
to get in touch with reliable mills that can supply us with white or red
oak for bendlug purposes, also long oak 20' to 48' long. Can you give us

a list and oblige? .

Those having this stock will be placed in communication wifli this
concern upon request. — Editor.

B 951 — Some Bargains in Dimension Items
Chicago, III., October 2'.i. — Editor Hardwood Kecobd : We are enclosing
a list of dimension stock, and will tbnnk you for any names of manufac-
turers who are users of this grade of stock :

Tops. 628 pieces 21.x42 flvc-ply quartered oak; drawer fronts, 809 pieces
l(!%x3C three-ply quartered oak; gum backs, 4.6.'!1 pieces 26Hx37 three-
ply; dimension stock, quartered oak; 231 pieces 2V!ix2'/43t31, 07 pieces
2'/i.\2Mix34. 220 pieces 2 '.A x2 ^4 X32. 231 pieces 1 ',',xl V4x24, 4,039 pieces
H4xlV4x20, 1,160 pieces l%xH4x36, l,4.iO pieces H4xl'4i42, 420 pieces
l»ixl?iix22, 1,080 pieces l%xl%x20, 8..^62 pieces l%xl%x32, 47 pieces
l%xl%i44, 4,290 pieces l%xl%x33, 760 pieces l%xl%x36. 5,535 pieces
l%xl%x28, 0,950 pieces l%xl%x30, 535 pieces l?ixl%x35, 640 pieces
I%i2x36, 085 pieces 2x2x33, 350 pieces 2x2x36, 315 pieces 2x2x32, 280
pieces 2x2x28, 485 pieces 2x2x30, 480 pieces 2x2x24 ; sap gum dowels,
average 48 Inches long, %", %", former 100, latter 50 to a bundle, and
have a very large quantity of each size on hand.

Anyone in the market for above stock will be placed in touch with

this manufacturer upon request. — Editor.

Reference to "Mail Bag" Must Be Accompanied by Stamped
Envelope to Receive Reply.

October 25, 1915.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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Clubs and Associations

National Veneer & Panel Men Announce Date of Meeting

The annual meeting of the National Veneer & I*anel Manufaeturers* As
sociation will be beld at the Auditorium hotel, Chicago, on Tuesday and
Wednesday, December 14-10. A special meeting of the association was
held on Tuesday, September 7, and plans were made for taking care of
veneer and panel Interests at the investigation of re-classiflcatlon, which
is to be held by the Interstate Commerce Commission on December 15.
There will be the usual meaty talks and papers which are ordinarily pre-
sented at the annual meetings.

Semi-Annual Meeting Cypress Association to Be Held in Florida

The semi-annual lucetiug of the .Southern Cypress .Manufacturers' .Vsso-
elation will be held at the Hotel Mason, Jacksonville, Fla., on Wednesday,
November 17. In issuing the call for a meeting President Frederick Wil-
liert says :

"It is very apparent that a turning point has been reached in general
trade conditions and that business improvement is Imminent. It Is also
apparent tliat the work this association has been doing In the past several
years is beginning to show greater results than ever before. For these
and other reasons our meeting at Jacksonville will be more important than
any meeting thus far held, and the various problems to bo submitted at
that meeting should receive the earnest consideration not of a few mem-
bers only, but of all members."

Trade Extension Workers Are Decidedly Alive

Every day brings evidence of activities of those in charge of the trade
extension department of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Associa-
tion. The latest of these Is a little booklet being sent out for the pur-
pose of distribution among employes of lumbermen all over the country.
The booklet, on its cover, reveals the contents with the following, "Why
you should specify and in.sist on liaving goods shipped in wooden boxes,"
with the suggestion that it be distributed in pay envelopes so that the
general idea of increasing the markets for lumber through this means will
be spread. The plan should certainly work out well.

Traffic Association Ready to Fight for Its Contentions

The Southern Hardwood Traffic Association will shortly be ready to
submit answers to the questions recently propounded by the Interstate
Commerce Commission involving reclassiilcation of lumber and lumber
products. The association nas, through a number of committees, represent-
ing practically every branch of the hardwood industry, and its board of
managers, been working on this subject for several weeks and when the
answers are Anally submitted they will reflect the practically unanimous
sentiment of tlie hardwood trade in this territory on the Issues raised. A
meeting of the board of managers was held in Memphis October 18, follow-
ing which the announcement was made by J. II. Townshend, secretary,
that but one more meeting would be necessary. He Is leaving this week
for Washington and on his return there will be one more meeting at which
the finishing touches will be given.

The association is strongly In favor of an .-Vmerlcan merchant marine.
.Vt the meeting October IS a motion that a small committee be appointed to
co-operate with the larger committee named by the United States Chamber
of Commerce, in the presentation of this subject to Congress, was unani-
mously passed. This body some time ago took a referendum vote on the
subject of an American merchant marine and found nearly all business
organizations in the country to be in favor thereof and it is expected that
the latter will appoint conmiitees. Just as the Southern Hardwood Traffic
Association has decided to do, to assist in bringing this subject to the at-
tention of Congress in a manner that will give results. Mr. Townshend
said that the members of the association were very much in favor of a
merchant marine because they needed better ocean-carrying facilities and
more equitable rates than now obtainable, and that this organization would
lend every aid in its power toward the realization thereof.

The railroads have aunounced that new tariffs will be issued about
December 1 providing lor higher rates on shipments of lumber and forest
products from pornts in Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee into Central
Freight Association territory. Increase in rates from southern points to
Ohio river crossings were recently allowed by the Interstate Commerce Com-
mission in I. & S. 520 and the new tariffs will provide that this increase to
Ohio river crossings shall apply to points included in Central Freight Asso-
ciation territory. The former advance did not very greatly affect southern
manufacturers and shippers, but it Is pointed out that, as a very large
percentage of lumber shipped from the lower Mississippi valley goes Into
Central Freight Association territory, the advance in the through rates will
be a very serious blow to the lumber industry in the South. This advance,
if allowed, will be heaviest on gum and the fear is expressed that it will be
necessary for some of the big manufacturers of gum lumber to close down
their plants and cease cutting this lumber. It is also stated that, since no
tree under twenty-six inches in diameter can be profitably converted into
lumber and sold on the basis of the higher freight rates proposed, the
advance will seriously interfere with the clearing and subsequent cultivation
of cut-over lands. The lumbermen recently pledged their support to the
Business Men's Club which Is seeking the opening up of such lands, but it
is emphasized that inability to profitably manufacture small trees into lum-

ber will very greatly add to the expense Incident to clearing these lands if
it does not make It wholly Impossible.

Until the new tariffs are actually filed with the commission no action can
be taken by the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association. It Is known, how-
ever, that the proposed advances will be strenuously opposed and that the
biggest guns that can be brought into action by the lumbermen will be
unlimbered before the contest is over. The railroads have paid no atten-
tion whatever to the contentions of the representatives of the lumber
industry, although the latter have opened their books to them, and have
likewise ignored the agreement effected at the "harmony" conference in
Memphis last April to enter into Joint conferences with the representatives
of the lumber industry east and west of the Mississippi for the purpose of
discussing differences with a view to adjustment. It is therefore regarded
as practically certain that the forthcoming contest will be so vigorous as to
make some of those In the past, regarded at the time as quite vital, pale into
complete insignificance.

Vehicle and Implement Men to Hold Convention

The convention and exhibition of the Trl-State Vehicle and Implement
Dealers' Association will be held In Cincinnati this week, beginning Monday,
October 25, and continuing all week at Music Hall where the exhibition
will be held. There will be a number of trade talks by local and out-of-town
men and the usual reports of officers and committees and election of officers.
Nearly fifteen hundred delegates are expected from the three states, Ohio,
Indiana and Kentucky.

Philadelphia Exchange Meeting

The monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's Exchange was held October 14
in the Crozer building. After the meeting waiting motor cars rushed the
seventy-five present from the center of the city to the Whltemarsh Valley
Country Club, Just beyond Chestnut Hill, a delightful run of twelve
miles from the starting point. Out at the club dinner was served and
everybody had a big time. At the business meeting, which preceded the
social function, it was unanimously decided that it would be a mistake to
reduce the number necessary to a quorum to fifteen members. This had been
proposed in an amendment to the by-laws at the June meeting, laid over for
action in September and again delayed in September until the October
meeting. President Chcsnut appointed W. T. Betts, William C. MacBrlde,
V. L. Luckenback, John E. Lloyd and Robert G. Kay a committee to take up
the tariff commission subject with a special committee appointed by the
Chamber of Commerce of the United States. The board of directors sub-
scribed $100 to the lumber extension movement of the National Lumber
Manufacturers* Association.

I With the Trade

Hardwood Exporters to Have Own Ships

Representatives of eleven big lumber exporting firms, aggregating $5,-
000,000 capital, have organized a company in Memphis to charter steam-
ships to carry .southern hardwoods from gulf ports to the principal ports
of Europe. It has a capital stock of $100,000, fully subscribed, and will
operate under the name of the Lumber Exporters' Line. Organization has
been perfected on a permanent basis and, while It Is the Intention of the
new company to charter vessels for the present, it is planned in the end
for it to own and operate ships. Inability of southern hardwood export-
ers to transport lumber profitably to the European market since the out-
break of the world war is responsible for this method of protecting their
trade in Europe. Ocean rates long ago reached a prohibitory point and
even at these excessively high rates there is almost no freight room avail-
able. It is proposed to begin operations at once and it is announced that
the first chartered vessel will sail early in December and that, after that
time, sailings will be made regularly two or three times a month. Options
have already been secured on several steamships and it is anticipated that
these will be exercised in the immediate future. Mobile and Gulfport will
be the home ports, both being in easy reach of the southern hardwood
territory. Chartered ships will be sent regularly to London, Liverpool and
Genoa in the beginning and later these vessels may call at other ports.

It is planned to utilize sixty per cent of the space on each ship for the
transportation of lumber, the remaining forty per cent to be used for the
transportation of heavier products. The lumber firms which are among
the owners of the Lumber Exporters' Line will have first call on space
on these chartered ships, but, when the members themselves do not require
all that is available, the remainder will be offered to other southern hard-
wood manufacturers. Exporters believe that the company will score an
Immediate financial success and that the launching of this enterprise wiil
result in very substantial benefit to the southern hardwood trade. It is
estimated that the demand from Europe now is about fifty per cent of
normal, but there are very few ships to make it possible even to supply this
demand. It Is believed that ocean rates will be high for a long time after
the war in Europe is over because of the enormous demand that will pre-
vail for southern hardwoods for the rehabilitation of cities in Europe
destroyed during the war. Geo. D. Burgess, president of the National
Lumber Exporters' .Association, is authority for this view and is one of
the principal owners of the Lumber Exporters' Line. As soon as the
company begins operating, southern lumber exporters will not only have

HARDWOOD RECORD

October 2n, lOIft.

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paoy. All': :"•■>>' mxl K. J. I>nrni-ll,

porelura atv lliur> I'lj.^lo I'f <iiilf|H>ri, Ml«» : W
ilrni iinii gnicral innnniiiT <>l ll»' 'Iiilf A Slil|

Ibr lunil«»r with wblch to Oil onlrm from Eur"|)o luH tbcy will alu h«»»

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T. Slcwiirl. vici- |irf»l-

lolnliil Killlniad : II. \V.

Sunmirrvlllr. of i:iiir|Hirl and Mobile, of llunl.T limn & I'o., «nil .\. I..

Slaplcii. vicf prrnlilcnt of the lUdk of Mobile.

j\ 't tiij 10 ilr«w up the coinpiiny'B charter nnd

IQ n i)t to orKniil'iill'in. Ah urnin hh thU com-

mUl,^ , , ..:;.. Ilier meetlnis will be called, prolmlily lit

MrmphU. for puttlos the planH of the cum|iiin.v Into nrtlve opemtlon.

Erskine Williams with the W. A. Stark
Lumber Company

Kmklnp Wllltnniii. until threv .venm ni:ii witli
the \V. A. Stnrk Lumber Coinimny. Meniphli..
Tcnn.. and iilnce that time with the t.jimb'I''lKli
Lumber «"oinpnny of I'licrliiiton, Mlwi., biiit r"
turned to bli former connection. Mr. WlllliiinM
lia< IxH-n servlnj; In the position of usslKtiint sales
manaKer for the Ijimb h'lnh company, and before
Bolug with It had charRC of the W. A. Stark
company's olllce as assistant of sales. In his
new position he will look after the office end of
the buslDOKji and superintend sales, nMhouKb lie
possibly will be assisted by Mr. Stark, who, whlli-
he spends most of his time at the mill, will <>i'
caslonally Ket In 'some of the olUce work.

Mr. Williams advises that the W. A. Stark
Lumber Company has a line lot of oak on Its
yards at Winona, Ark., and also a line line of elm.
ash and gum nnd that the mill Is running right
along.

The company's new offices In Memphis are lo-
cated on the eleventh floor of the Bank of Com-
merce and Trust t'ompany building.

Mrs. Josephine L. Goodyear

Mrs. Josephine L. (loculyenr, widow of the lute
Frank 11. tJoodycar, founder of the Goodyear
Lumber Company, Buffalo, N. Y., died suddenly In
Buffalo, October 19. Mrs. Goodyear was about to
start on a trip to New York and was taken siek
In the stntinn and died siinrllv nftirwHnl.

Mrt. D, F. Diggini

(III I'M.-iix II i..i.>i I'l Ml. Iirlon r. Illgglllii, widow of the late Helm
K. IHKki Ml « few yioro ago wan a powiT In the bard

wood li> I iiiil at her home In Cadillac Mrs. IMgglns

bad Ihimi in III benlib lur iHiine lime, having Ihh-u away from the city prar-

llcally all su ler. 8he n-n-nil) rnnrned from <ilen Kprlngs. \. V., where

■ he went to take treatment.

New Veneer Concern for Louisville

The I'urklanil Veni-.r Mills, re.ently liirorpiiriit.d iil I^iiil»\llle, Ky
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Cadillac Table Company Will Enlarge Plant
It is announced at Cadillac. Mich., that the St. .lohns Table Coinpiini
of that city will construct an additional buildlni; to its plant, wlilcli will
be 100 feet square and three or four stories high. The St. .Tohns Table
Company Is the largest single manufacturer of tables In the world.

Kentucky Veneer Works Handle Magnolia for Cross Banding

There is .shown i.n this page two cuts illuslnitinc the lle.\ll,lllty of llni^
nolla cross banding as manufactured by the Kentucky Veneer Works of
Louisville, Ky. K. C. McCracken, who does the selling for the Kintueky
Veneer Works, is very enthusiastic over the excellent quality of the mag-
nolia which he is turning out. The specimens shown herewith arc but
average In their width and length and certainly give every evidence of
being well qnallfied for the purpose In mind.

1. Iiai* leamil the veneer plant formerly owni^l and
i Veneer & Siiwinlll Company. The rarkland Haw
inrted up llie sHunilll of the Amlerxin < ••nipany

Car of MahoRany Comes ThrouRh from
Cuba Intact

The llrat curloail of maliognny ever loaded In u
foreign country nnd shipped Into the I'nlted
.'^tati-s without reloailing on board sbl|i arrived
111 lirand Itiiplds. Mich., on (tetoU-r \4. It was
shiiipeil by till- l-'elger Kobldns Company of lln
vana, I'uba, and contained 10,.'iilO feet of iiinhog
any. The shipment went through In nineteen
daya.

The Kclger-Robblns Company has shipped thrts'
quarters of a million feet of mahogany luiiilM'r
Into Grand Itaplds from Its Ilnviinn operations
since starting up a couple ol years ago. This
new shipment Is es|ieclally matched and went to
the .Tolin II. Itaab Chair Company of (jrand Unp-
Ids.

I'lie relger-Kribliliis plant in Havana Is located
within a block of the ferry terntlnal and has a
line large boom bay In the Havana harbor. It Is
located and equl|i|ied to do ft large bustnesH.

Conditions in Havana nnd Cuba as a result of
the war have been such that the company lias
been able to buy up practically the entire avail
able supply of mahogany logs on the Island.

Mr. Robblns has been In Cuba for the past
twelve years and Is an exjiert on mahogany. The
eoinpany's mill has been running since .September
'2, 1014. Otis A. I'elger of Grand Ilaplds. piesl-
ilent of the Felger Lumber * Tlnilier Company. Is
:ilso president nf the I'llijir Hoblilns Company.

Charles B. Coles

Charles U. Coles, president of the C. H. Coles & Sons Company. CntndeU.
N. J., died at his residence. :i:!l Chester avenue, Mooreslown. N. .1., on
October 0. at the age of seventy-nine years. From 1804 to 1S7<> he was a
partner In the firm of Doughten & Coles, lumber dealers and manufacturers
of packing boxes, near the Knlghn's avenue ferry, Camden. In 1870 he
started 111 business for himself on Front street below Kalglin avenue, this
location still lieing a portion of the property now occupied by the C. B.
Coles & Sons Company. The deceased is survived by two sons. William »,'.
and Henry B. Coles, who have been associated with the llnu headed by
their falher since Its Ineorporallnn In |S!i4. Mr. Coles was a (iloneer In
the temiienince cause, and during his adult life was a faithful worker fof'
the abolition of the liquor Irafflc. In I860 Mr. Coles married Miss Mary

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.\1 AiiNUI.IA IS WF.I.L ADAPTED FOU CKOSS-BANDING. STOCK MADK HV KK.NTI'CKV VENFER WORKS. LOVISVILLE, KY.

October 10, 1915.

HARDWOOD RECORD

M. Colson, of Mullita Jlill. N . J< The early part of their married lite wns
spent In Camden, but In'llSSfi'thoy removed to Moorestown.

George G., Brown & Co. Purchase Timber
A tract of 2,.t(>0 acrps of. tinibiT in .\rkansas containing the famous
St. Francis Basin oali, guBl, ash, liicliory, etc., has l)een purchased by
tJeorge C. Brown & Co., 6f Memphis, Tenn., and Proctor, Ark. The Brown
company already owns cbnside:.'al)le holdings of hardwood stumpage in
Arlcansas, all of it being of tlio St. Francis Basis quality.

Disastrous Fire at Chicago Flooring Plant

The plant of the Chicago JIapIo and Oak Flooring Company, located at
Ashland avenue and Twenty-second street, was badly damaged by fire on
Friday, October 15. The flames started in the dry kilns and destroyed
the entire battery of seven, the mill buildings and lumber stored in the
yard. It was said by officers of the company that the loss will aiiproxi
mate $100,000, which Is fnlly covered by insurance.

Will Use Statistics for Cheap Building

It. ,S. Kellogg, secretary of the National Luml»er Manufatttiirers' Associa-
tion, recently issued a booklet describing in detail plans for the necessary
material and lalmr for tlie construction of a garage at a cost considerably
below the cost of ready-built houses of the .same type. He is now making
use of this information by personally addressing respective automobile
owners explaining tliat lie and his association have no axe to grind other
than to tell the Irutli aliout tlie possiliiliti<'s of right building.

A Maryland Walnut Tree

A record — a "hardwood record" — was made by the walnut tree shown
in the accompanying illustrations. Tliat is to say, it was, until it was
felled recently, the largest and tinest specimen of figured walnut left
standing in the state of Mai*yland — possibly in tlie whole country. it
measured Ave feet six inches in
diameter, contained more than
seven thousand feet (lioard meas-
ure), was perfectly sound and
figured in every foot.

Walnut buyers have had this
tree in view for years, but it was
not for sale, :ind came into tlie
market only recently. It wns the
largest of three great walnut trees
on an estate situated on the "Nortli
Point" shore of the Patapsco river.
about eighteen miles east of Haiti
more. The other two trees measiii-t'd
1,035 and 800 feet respectively.

The spot is beautiful and historic,
being the scene of the "Battle oi'
North Point." The Colonial man
sion, 130 years old, was the head-
quarters of Gen. Ross while the
British were landing for the in-
vasion of Baltiiuore. In the ensuing iiattle Gen. Ilofs was killed. I'lir
house is now used as a club-house and the club members greatly regret the
loss of the chief attraction of their grounds, this giant walnut, wbiih
they wore fond of pointing out to visitors for its size and anli(piity.

Walnut trees of this class have become a rarity, and the enthusiasm of
the log-raan. as he noted the perfections of this piece of timber, may be
imagined. Size, soundness, color and figure to a superlative degree were
here, .\lthough lightning had struck the tree, it did almost no damage :
the growth was even, symnietrical and ckan. There is cur! throughout
but there are no gnarls or abnormalities. Such a piece of wood was a
prize and the company .securing it regard themselves as partimlariy foi*-

tunale.
tion hi

The veneers into which if will b(
of immenso beauty and value.

uiMimfacI iii'f<l will «itlunit tpic

\;OTi>i»cwawiTOOTWOii^^

Pertinent Information

THE IIEAIXJT AKTiUtS OF GENER.M. UOSS AT THE "B.VTTI.E (ir
NORTH POINT" IN MARYLAND

Strength of Treated Timbers

Tlie Forest Service recently completed tests carried out for tlie purpose
of determining whether timlier is weakened by preservative treatment, and
the result was announced in Bulletin 2.SG, published Sept. 27, 1915. The
tiiiiliers used were soMthern yellow pine and Douglas fir, and lieams of large
size were employed. Some of the deductions arrived at were as follows:

Timber may lie very materially weakened by preservative processes.

Creosote in itself does not appear to weaken timber.

A preservative process whidi will seriously injure one timber ni:iy have
little effect or no effect on the strength of another.

.\ comiiarison of the effect of a preservative process on tlie strengtli oT
dilTerent species should not be made, unless it is th(> common or Ih'sI
adapted process for all the species compared.

The same treatiuent given to a timber of a particular species may have a
ilifferent effect upon different pieces of that species, depending upon the
fcu-m of the timlier used, its size, and its condition at the time of treat-
ment.

New Railroad Inspection Rules Will Be Hardship for Logging

Roads

Tlie Interstate Commi.-rce Coniiuission is considering the adoption of
rigid and widely affected ruli's and regulations for instruction and inspec-
tion of steam locomotives and tenders, which rules when adopted will
apply to all locomotives operated liy common carriers that are engaged in
liandling interstate commeree. While it would not appear that there Is

very much likelihood of this rule
alTecting lumbermen in their log-
ging operations, a close study of the
situation reveals the fact there will
probably be innumerable instances
wliere the rules for new Inspection
iniglit b" unpopular.

I!. S. Kellogg, secretary of the
National Lumber Manufacturers'
.Vssociation, points out an instance
of a .southern manufacturer whose
tram road operates on less than a
•hundred feet of main line of the
Georgia, Southern & Florida's main
line tracks in common with the line
of the logging road. For this rea-
son the rules applying to emnmoii
carriers have been applied for in-
specting the logging locomotives,
wliich fact has become very burden-
.si.me to the operator.

■^^s^.-.

Valuable Bulletin on Cypress

Till- Department of Agriculture has luildished Bulletin 272 on "Tlie
.siouthern Cypress." It was written by Wilbur H. Mattoon, forest examiner.
The pamphlet contains seventy-four pages and deals with all phases of the
well known southern timber tree, including an account of its geographical
range, the available quantity, annual cut, properties and uses of the wood,
markets, and prices. Special consideration is given to the life history of
the cypress, from the planting and sprouting of the seed to the maturity
of the tree. The rate of growth is shown, and suitable and unsuitable
soils and situations are described. The ciuunion lielief that cypress thrives

TWO VIEWS llF THE BIGGEST WAI.NI'T TREE REi'nKDED AS CI'T IN MARI'LAND. TAKEN FRO.M IIEVOI.ITIO.NARV BATTLE GRiUND

HARDWOOD RECORD

lOlB.

only Id aaramio la ibowo to bv rrrjuroua, tbouiili tlir bmC roniinrrrlnl
• lani1> Bro fniiti'l In «iirti pllimtlona. WlicD c)|irc»a l> plaiilnl uu dry
sro\r. a« wb«D It ocrupliw awanipa, and It

will

Ti"' uii- 111] 1,. 1,11 1 . r^oDa iDlormliil In rypn-aa tlmhiT nml

luml>rr, and ii. I of the (Jovoronipnt ITIntluii Kfflrr, Wnalilnc

toll II r . at {■ a copy.

Where Wood Has Not Been Misplaced

Tlio llurfttu of Navisallnu. I><'parlmi-nt »t (."mniuirn'. WimlilnKtoD, re-
porta that thorc worr :ntl aalllui:. utoam ami nnrlKKcd »oi>iicIh with a coin-
"f 4tl.l'70 tona hullt In the I'nlt.Hl Suitos and ufflrlnlly
t: thr thrw niontha cndrd 8<"ploiiibt-r ;10. lUI.'i, an nKiiln»t
-■ "'• '- the mnno period In 19M. The vi'kscIh hiilll dur-

IDC '■ 'I (hnt lit Atlantic and Kulf polntx there were

!••< ' riiiled a« agnlnut hut Ihlrleeu nielnl veKseln, nt

I'orto Mico one wuuden vesacl and no metal vcshcIh and on the riiclllc
coaat leTentyone wooden vpiutcia ond only one melnl. Hawaii allowed one
nr» vciwel hull! of wn»>d and none of metal, while the (ireat I^keH turned
out thirty live new wouden vesacia and alx melal oiien. The western
riveni put on thirty four wooden veaacia as opilnst seven metal voasels.
A comparison of the total, however, reveals the fact that while wood Is
unqueatlonably the popular construction for sulllni; vessels and for the
smaller boats of different kinds, the larger craft nre mainly built of stirl,
at least the bulls arc, as the 2S0 wooden vessels built had a tonnage of
i0,848 tona, while the twenty-seven steel vessels had a tonnage of 2.1,428
tona.

Question of Saw Dust Waste

The accompanying Illustration comes wllh a circular Issued by \Vm. B.
Mershon & Co., SagiDaw, Mich., manufacturers of bond sawing machinery.
The Mershon com-

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Chi

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pany writes that

a good deal has ■" '~ ^ ; j.«!«m>«tAo

l>een said about
conscrvat Ion,
economy and kin-
dred topics, but
that It occurs to
It that the circu-
lar from which the
III u St r a t lo n Is

taken shows one e^'*"^'"a *"'«'"

very prevalent
waste of material, and brings lo the attention one very important example
of waste on the part of the woodworker, where he Is rlppins molding
strips, sash stock, flooring strips, turning squares or handle stock of
any description, or manipulating lumber in any \vny that reipilrcs the
use of a saw.

The compony's ejtplanullon of the chart follows:

Figure it out for yourselves. Lay out a scale In inches similiar to the
above cut ; under it lay out any stock dimensions vou are ripping on a
circular saw. and allow V," for sawkerf. Below "this, show the same
dimensions, ripped on a band ripsaw, but allow onlv A" for sawdust
pen count up the number of pieces yielded, and figuie the average gain
m nroduct on the average width of your lumber.

How much in dollars per day docs an Increase of 5 per cent in product
represent In your plant?

To put it another way. how much does a saving of an eighth of an Inch
In sawkerf represent? The band will save you ono-eighlh as compared
w-lth a circular; >-^" is 1 per cent of a foot. Thus the faster your band
rips, the more it will save, and the faster your circular rips, the more
It will waste. If the latter rips 200 feet per minute. It wastes 2-foot
board measure per minute.

English Paving Block News

A recent consular report from England gives the present status of pav-
ing block material In that country, and It appears that American woods
are practically excluded by the rulings under which the material is bought.
The report says that many woods have been tried for pavement In the
I'nited Kingdom.

.larroh from India was Introduced, but proved unsatisfactory, wearing
and breaking off at the corners and edges and producing a very rutty pave-
ment. Red gum from the United States likewise gave poor service. The
use of oak was discontinued some twelve years ago on the ground of ex-
pense. Longbaf pine from the United States was also tried, hut it did
not wear evenly and produced a rough pavement. Canadian white spruce
was laid on the north side of Trafalgar Square In London twelve years
ago with an eight-pound treatment of creosote per cubic foot and Is still
in excellent c^inditlon.

Without exception, the wood-block pavement laid In rJreat Britain now
is Swedish and Russian redwood (Pinus Hiihestrin). The spcclllcations
issued by the municipal engineers throughout the country admit this wood
and no other, the one exception being the speclficallon for the borough of
Westminster. London, which iidmits sprme, red pine and Douglas flr.

Statement of Ownership and Management

Agreeable to the act of Congress of .August 24. I'.UL'. requiring publishers
of periodicals to flle with the postmaster-general and the postmaster In
the office at which such publication Is entered, a sworn statement setting
forth the names and postofflce addresses of editors and managing editor,
publisher, business manager and owners, and In addition the stockholders,
if the publication is owned by a corporation, and also the names of known
bondholders, mortgagees or other secu-lty holders, and that such sworn

I I I I I ■ I ' I I I , I , I , I , I , I , I rr

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K'j.jsfH (x** .i.v « ,f±,i^ i'i*i>t,i\' «»/»»■■ *»i>»j.9»A*eiiJj»)»,V'»^.i

aiairmrni ahnll be publl>be<l In »uch newapnpor or other publication, the
following alalPUient la hrrewlth printed .

lUmiwiMii) Kccoiii) la publlabid wiiil tnonthly al C'hICMo, III.

The iininefl and pnninitlee a4idre«>,.o of the edltnra are aa follows;

Editors : K. II in iirvi-t, Chlcmso,

K. W. .Meeker. .'1:1; 111.

K. W, Meeker. .\liiiuii.-iiu- i..iiiiir, i iiicii;;... In

llu .Maxwell, T.ibnlenl l-Mllor. II2T Aal.iiry avenue, Kvanalon, III.

rublUher : The llnrdwiHid Cumpany. .'i.l* South lH>ari>orn atreel.
cago. 111.

Ownera ; The Hardwood Company, fi'M South Ilearborn alrent. Chlcafo.
III.; K. II. iK-fehaugli, ti'M South Diarliorn ain-et, Chlcaso, III,; RaUte
II. II. (iUiMin. .i;i7 .Soeth Henrborn »tri-<-l. t'lilrago. III.

Thi're are no known bondholdera, Tiiorlgiig>-e> and other wcurlly holdera
holding any bonda. morlgagea or other aeciirltlea of Ihia c<impany.

I!. II. I)i:i'i:iiAi OH, Kdltor.

Sworn In nnd auliscrlbed before me this Iwenty-aevenlh day of September,
ll'ir.. .1 S. I'KwiMiTiiN-. Notary rubllc.

Walnut Booklet Out

Members of tin- A riciin Walnut Assoi-lntion. wlileb hna ita beadguartera

at 11(11 Slarks building. Louisville. Ky.. have had so mony calla from lead
Ing consumiTa. archllecis and others who are Inleresteil In "the aristocrat <if
American hardwoods" that It was decldi'd some time ago to puIiIIhIi u
booklet giving the principal facts of Interest about the wood as an answer
to all of the questions which might be asked.

The booklet has recently come from the press, and la attractive In all
respects. It gives the history of the rejuvenation of the now popular wood,
tells of Its characteristics, supply, etc.. describes Its use in promlni'Ut build
Ings, lists the names of leading furnllure manufacturers who are using It,
and presents Illustrations of the wood In the form of lumber, built up

pant-ls and In (in
Ished work. In
brief, it tella the
things which the
interesled inquirer
would naturally
want to know
about the wood.

The association
lins found an un
usually keen In-
terest on the part
of architects In
walnut, nnd It appears that the manufacturers of interior finish will
be kept increasingly busy from now on making up walnut trim, as ofllce
buildings, hotels and other pretentious structures will consume a large
amount of walnut in the immediate future. Casket manufacturers, who
have always been partial to walnut, nre finding that it Is In Increased
demand also, and will feature the wood more hereafter than they have ever
done before.

Minnesota's State Forest Service
The fourth annual n-iinrt of the .Mluuesotu Stale Korest Service has been
published In a bound volume of 99 pages. The report was compiled by Wil-
liam T. Cox. state forester, and covers the Industries dependent largely upon
the wooded lands, \rtiether such Industries are the property of the state or
of companies and citizens. Timber Is not the only resource recognized,
though it is an im|iortaut one. .\ttcntlon is given to camps and recreation,
the protection of flsh. birds, and fur bearing animals, and the conservation
of the waters of the region by caring for the vegetation which has a ten.
dency to make the How steady and adequate.

Minnesota Is naturally one of the flncst recreation regions of the whole
country in summer, lliough the severity of the winter climate closes the
region pretty effectually against pleasure seekers at that season. The lakes
constitute the leading feature of the scenery. They exist by thousands.
The source of the Mississippi river Is In Lake Itasca, and the state has set
aside there a park of thlrt.v-flve square miles, and Is building a highway
to make It accessible to the public, and other improvements nre being c.'irrled
out for the enjoymr»nt of tourists an<l campers.

The waters of Minnesota swarm wllh fish, and steps have been taken
to stock lakes and streams with better kinds, wherever there Is room for
iniprovenunt along th.it line. Portions of the state may be Justly classed
as the flsherman's paradise.

Game animals and those which nre valuable chiefly for their fur arc in
no danger of becoming extinct in Minnesota, for measures have been taken
to protect them against destructive methods of hunting and trapping. The
elk will probably get a foothold in that region again, and the beaver, deer,
and bear are to be found in the less civilized parts, .\nlmnls which produce
fur are being domesticated. They are grown in pons and the sale of their
skins is becoming profitable. There are men who follow the raising of fur
animals as a iiuslness. The cold winter climate Is favorable.

.V constant campaign against forest fires is carried on In Minnesota, and
the most approved methods of combating that danger are In force. The first
aeroplane fire pntrol in the world was established In that state. Tlie re-
gion has had some disastrous fires in the past, and every approved method
Is being used to prevent similar visitations in the future. The ground Is
given the best practical protection against erosion In order that the land's
fertility may be preserved, the flow of water In the rivers be maintained,
and the beds of streams and lakes may be prevented from silting up. For-

October 25, 1915.

HARDWOOD RECORD

tunately, much of the surface of the state is flat and erosion is not so active
as It would be in a mountainous region.

The state abounds in both hardwoods and softwoods. Because Minne-
sota now leads all other states in the production of white pine lumber, the
belief prevails that white pine is al)Out the only timber tree grown there.
That is erroneous. Very 'large areas of excellent hardwoods exist. Taper
birch, sugar maple, basswood, and trees of the poplar group, like aspen
and balm of Glle.id, iire produced In large amounts in .Minnesota.

Franklin H. Smith Reports on Australasia

Regarding the worl< of Franklin M. Smith, commercial agent of the I''or
est Service, in his navels and investigations through the far East and
Australasia, the Forest Service has tlie following to say :

For many months I'"ranl<lln IT. Smilh. a commercial .".gent of the Bureau
01 Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Itepartment of Commerce, has been
traveling in the far Kasl and .Australa^Jia. conducting a thoroughgoing
investigation into the markets there for the products of .American forest>.
In his report on Cliina, which lias just come from the |jress, he reviews
in detail ii:e lunibei- situation in the great oriental Itepublic. Mr. Smitli
Is optimistic with rcspei't to China, believing that the future will witness
a largely increased use of .Vmerican woods. "The population," he says, "is
slowly shaking olV tlio old order of existence and turning toward the new —
toward greater agricultural and industrial activit.v — absorbing new ideas —
and adoDting modern methods. With Increasing development along many
lines and with the extension of the railroads, with their civilizing and
tr.ade-creating effects, there must of necessit.v come a larger, wider call for
lumber. The United States with its durable, easily worked and compara-
tively cheap timber will, with i>riiier precautions, control this trade."

Yet, notwithstanding the conlidence here expressed and the fact that tin-
United States already gets about lialf of the Chinese business, Mr. Smith
sounds a note of admonition. He points out the desirability of a standard
list price, advises closer adherence to grades, touches on tlie possibility
that new competitive sources of supply may come up, and emphasizes the
need of direct representation in the Chinese field and of a campaign of edu-
cation to acquaint prospective purchasers with the superior qualities of
American woods.

Mr. Smith's new booklet is entitled "China and Indo-China Markets for
American Lumber" and is No. 104 in the Special Agents' Series. The
practical, pertinent intorniation contained in it includes many tables of
import and export statistics and a careful examination of the situation in
each of the principal markets, .\ttention is given to railroad demands tor
timber, the market for boxes, barrels, and shooks, and practically all other
aspects of the trade that are of Interest to .American manufacturers. Five
cents is the price of this publication, obtainable from the Superintendent
of Documents, \\'asbington, D. C.

The Billboard Big Outlet for Lumber

Accounts from New Orleans state that the recent hurricane destroyed a
good many billboards in that city and other coast towns, which will have
to be reconstructed in the near future. Here Is an opportunity for the
advocates of new energy in the lumber business to show that they are able
to have every last one of these billboards constructed of wood rather
than of wood frames with cheap metal of some kind stretched over the
surface.

Lumber Tariff Reinstatement Policy

It is rumored at Washington, I). C, that there is a pAssibility of the
lumber tariff being put back on the books. There is every evidence that
there will be a keen fight on to this end when Congress again convenes.
It is natural to expect that those senators and congressmen from lumber
producing states will be especially interested in the reinstatement of the
lumber tariff, particularly when it is so very apparent from an unpreju-
diced study of conditions that protection of this sort is an absolute
necessity.

A Successful Reforestation Effort

The Canada Lumbci-man in a recent issue contains an account of the
reforestation policy of the Laurentide Company, Ltd., of Grand Mere.
Que, The report says, "To a considerable extent the lands planted were
previously cleared for cultivation, but found upon trial to be unsuitable
tor agricultural purposes. About 401) acres have already been planted to
trees, mostly Norway spruce with some Scotch white and red pine. The
oldest of these plantations was made in 1913, and all have been success-
ful. The only failure has been in fall planted red pine. The Scotch pine
has made good growth, and tne white pine has started well. With the
Norway spruce there has been less than five per cent loss and they have
begun to grow nicely. These plantations are guarded by fire lines and
roads, and a special ranger is kept on duty continuously from snow to
snow."

Italy Places Gigantic Lumber Order

Details of the big order for .\merican lumber recently placed by the
Italian government have been spread pretty much all over the country.
The order calls for .50,500,000 feet to be split up between boards, timbers
and ties as follows : 29,000,000 feet of boards, 15,500.000 feet of timbers
and 6,500,000 feet of cross ties. The order is mainly for yellow pine.

Loblolly Pine Bulletin

The geological survey of North Carolina, co-operating with the United
States government, has published a bulletin of 176 pages descriptive of the
loblolly pine (Pinus IwduJ as it grows in North Carolina. The bulletin is
worth careful reading by all persons interested in this pine. Much more
attention is given to the growth and care of the tree than to the manufac-
ture and use of the lumber, and the report is of more service to the owner
of loblolly land than to the manufacturer of the wood. The bulletin was
written by W. W. Ashe.

Baltimore Exports for September

The report of exports from this city for September shows some unusual
trade developments or the lack of them. In the first place, shipments of

logs are altogether wanting, foreign buyers evidently having use only for
manufactured lumber and being too busy on other things to do any sawing
themselves. In the next place it proves that as against September of last
year there was a heavy increase in the exports of oak lumber, in spite of
reports about congestion on the other side, and that while poplar did not
figure in the statement for September, 1914, at all. not less than 90,000 feet
was sent abroad last month. Very gratifying gains in the forwardings of
short leaf pine and spruce are disclosed, and it is seen that a big busi-
ness in staves was done, the value of these shipments greatly exceeding
those of any other month in years. Just why staves should have attracted
so much attention is not known, the war evidently having given rise to uses
not previously developed. Altogether, the exhibit, while again emphasizing
the fact that September is a rather quiet month in the export trade, also
strengthens the evidence that since the first shock of the war the export
liusiness has made fairly steady headway, the value of the exports last
month exceeding those of a year ago by $36,000, and, in fact, almost
doubling them. This is a greater relative gain than for any previous month
during the war iieriod, and suggests that the retarding effect of the great
conflict is being gradually overcome. The ccmparative statement is as
follows :

September, 1915. September, 1914.

Quantity. Value. Quantity. Value.

Lumber, i.ak (feet) S.")0,000 ,$31,017 .'{13,000 .^il^.^iOO

Lumber, white pine (feet) .... 20,000 1,050 25,000 700

Luml)er, short leaf pine (feet). .'iO.OOO 995

LumbiT, poplar (feet) 90,000 2,980

Lumber, spruce (feet) 132,000 3,960 S6.000 3,154

Lumber, all others (feet) 133,000 6,422 84,000 4,185

Shooks, all others 1,340 1,340

Staves 394,820 22,440 4.142 625

Lumber, all others 230 757

Doors, sash and blinds 590 151

Furniture 165 18.100

Trimmings 317

.\ll other manufactures of

wood 7,564 4,278

.$79,570
Substituting Mahogany for Walnut

.$43,459

The British arms makers are substituting mahogany tor walnut for
rifie stocks, where sufficient walnut cannot be had. There is not much dif-
ference between the two woods in cost by the time they are delivered in
Fngland. Walnut Is preferred to all others, but it has become necessary in
some instances to seek for substitutes.

Oak Gaining Favor

The r.,ondon Timber in speaking of the hardwood market there says
there are indications that oak is obtaining more favor now in the furniture
world tlian has been shown toward it for several years, and some are pre-
dicting that the next favorite among the furniture woods is to be oak.
If this guess is right, it will probably also mean the use of more oak in
planing mill work for interior trim.

Alaska's Timber Resources

The railroad now under construction in .Alaska from Seward to Fair-
banks will open large tracts of timber for cutting. It is estimated that
20,000,000 acres of good forest are found in Alaska, and four times
that area of scattered timber. Sawmills are preparing to follow the rail-
road builders into the country and in a few years tlie output of that
region will hold an important place in the country's lumber cut. The
principal wood is spruce, but there are fairly large quantities of others,
including paper birch.

Successful Grape Shipments in Sawdust

The shipment of California table grapes in redwood sawdust has proved
a success, but is somewhat expensive. A keg that contains thirty-five
pounds of grapes costs ninety cents for the container and the contents.
The freight and refrigeration to Chicago costs seventy-one cents. The
grapes sell for $2.50. This leaves eighty-nine cents for commission and
profit. It is cheaper than shipping in cork waste iroiii Spain, but the
margin of profit is not very high, considering the investment and the
ordinary uncertainties of the trade.

Looking Toward America

-\ late issue of the London Timber .\cu:s says that the development of
the American trade will need to be carefully watched. Many English firms,
who formerly took no interest in transatlantic wood, are turning their
attention to this source of supply, as it is quite possible that contingencies
may arise next year rendering the North Sea route more difficult, while
allowing the .Atlantic business to be carried on as before. Canadian sales
are still hampered by the freights, which, of course, are much higher than
from the Baltic, but if Swedish sellers put up their prices to too high a
level, encouragement will be given to the exporters there and in the United
States, and greater efforts will be made to increase the output.

Looks Like Meanness

The most shining example of meanness Drought to public view for some
time is contained in an article recently published in London Timber. An old.
wooden-legged man who ekes out a precarious living by selling matches was
recently fined sixty-two cents as punishment for allowing his wooden leg
to stick out and obstruct a highway when he sat down to rest.

HARDWOOD RECORD

ll»l.^

FARRIS HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.
SOUTHERN HARDWOODS

NASHVILLB. TCNN.

arence Boyle, Inc., Chicago

WHOLESALE LUMBER

Alwayt m the market for OAK, GLM arxd POPLAR

For the Eastern Trade

111 llu'si" iliiys i>l rush .siiipnicnts service means niuch.
\Vc can ship any of the fcillowiiiK items from our
BufTalo yards 3 or 4 days after receipt of order:

Brown and While A»h. Basswood. BcccH.
Birch, Cherry. Cheitnut, Gum, Hard and Soft
Maple. Plain and Quartered Red and White
Oak and Poplar.

/'urthcr tlv*t riitlifinn truitttt rriillit
'ntfrrxt rtinlfrn hui/'fs

The Atlantic Lumber Co.

7C Kilby St., Boston, Mass.

Birch for "Varmint Tongs"
The I'ncrEPtlc manufaiiiiri-rs ..f hircli in ibv N<irili li:iv.' coiniill.ii jintty
mmiilotP lists of uses to which this wood Is put, but thorr- Is one use
which dws not yet n|>|>(':ir to hiivc found lis iilaci' In nny piilillslicd lists.
Thiit article Is commonly kno\Yn as "Varmint lonas." The recent report
piilillshcd by the .Minnesota Forestry Board prints a picture and descrip-
tion ot the birch tongs for catching "varmints." such as foxes, wild cats
and other animals with dangerous claws and teeth. In the northern
country the fur Industry Is becomlni; domesticated. They raise their
fur-bearlUK animals In pens Instead of irapplni; them In the woods. It
Is necessnrv to transfer the Rrowlnp cuhs. and even the full grown speci-
mens, (mm pen to pen. and It Is In this work that the birch tongs come
Into pla.v. They are hewed from two birch billets, live feet long. The
i;rlp|ilnB Jaws are sha|>ed Ilk.- :i collar. Just large enough to fit around
a wild cat's neck. When the brule Is thus picked up for trn.isfiT he can
l>e held at such a distance that he cannot strike or bite the band of
his benefoctor. and though there may be some lively spitting and spa4-
tlng, the furious wild cat or the more submissive fox Is safely lifted from
one iK-n to the other In spite of himself, and Is none the worse for his
experience. Wood Is used for the longs In preference to metal because
the Inhtrumencs must be largi- and If of metal they would be too heavy.
Ilesldes. the animal often makes a vicious snap at the longs before caught,
and conta ■! wllh metal would break bis leeth, but wood does not In-
jure him.

■Plenty of Variety

Tliere were l.s.rni special-use permits In fore- un ih.- national forests
on .Tune .W last, according to figures Just complied by the U. S. Forest
Servile to show thi? various uses to which the public Is putting the gov-
ernment land Involved. The list Includes 50 apiaries. 2 brick yards, 31
canneries. :;!> c-emeterles. churches. 1 cranberry marsh, S2 flsh hatcheries,
1 golf links. 4:t hotels. 1 astronomical observatory, 10 fox and rabbit
ranches, l.o.s.", residences, 74 resorts and club bouses, 3 sanitariums, TiOO
saw mills. Hi:; .-^ehools. slaughter houses, 57 stores, 10 municipal water-
sheds, and M''2 wali-r power site.i. with many other uses. Fees collected
on 7.805 of the.se |H-rmlts contributed a total of J175.840.40 to the gen-
eral forest revenues, b-.it 10.447 of the permits were Issued without charge.

A New Pencil Wood

A new candidate for favor as a penell wood claims attention from
British F;ast Africa, according to a ricfut arrouni In the London Tlm-
hci- TniilrK Jnuniiil. It Is luniiicrut iiromii, and the name Indicates
that it is closely related to the southern red cedar of the I'nited States,
which is the wood so largely emplo.ved In the manufacture of lead pencils.
The .\frican wood which Is now attracting attention Is not the same
as the cedar of (merman East .Vfrlca. which was formerly used In Ger-
iiian.v for pencils. It comes from a region lying under the Equator, and
thus far has been marketed in a small way only, though it has been tested

by pencil mnkerii uhu pronounce 11 nullnblr , fop nrnl Krii(V- ,iM>nellii, nnil
Inferior only to the nsl cedar of VIriilnIn' liid TenneoiM'. The ,\frlciin
woo<l In uld |o exlal In Urge ipinn(ltle«. and a unpply' for a long llin>' U
KiinnKiii'i-)! Tlir i|unll(v of Ihr wiNid varh-n wljli- xofl niid nltuailon, aa
inliElit l>e •'i|>rcled Tlini lioldii Irin' of ib<' noinhern red odiir, ■■ U
W4*ll known by ihoNi< who Itari' b<s*n IniereHMil In ilir |H*r^(;i| hlnf biiMlneaii.

EnElish Broyrn ° Oak

The l^ondon TInilirr \< iri, hu\- ibai ilii' fiuni'ua KlHtlUh brown oak
.- ixtreinely iirarre and Miliiabb'. nnil no' Hi>nil<V. 'for It dmn not exlut on
the ('oullni'iit. blink' n Klrlitl) lOtigll"!! piodui^. ||nd 4nor>' or leui conllni'd
to tb'- Midland and eastern eouiilleH. liV Nnriqaraploiiiihjri' II nccurN In
the Welbeek and KoeklnKbain waiod*. ii| ^li't)rord«blre . ni Wobiirn and
Aniplblll, parllrularly tbi' lalter. whlb' In lli-rtfordalflri' nplendld ex
ami'te* an' found at .Xxhrldgc I'nrk. Uriiuir 'ink" may be nald lo occur
aiiorndlcally. and are rharHclertxed liy rbex liinDir being of a pleaunl
foxy-brnwn i-iilor. reinnrknldy bard Jiiid eloifi- griiliiiil and fiiucepllble of
n rich poliiih. Tor |iaiii'lliig and furiiltiire making II la highly prl/ed.
and In Ami'rba II Is uni'd In Ihe ornaini'niai|iin of rullinan ram, nhib'
the nuiKnlllcini dlnlnKroom In the Whiii' llou«'. al WaHblnglon. la en
lirely paneled ullh ICngllsh brown onk. . SlVang!-- av II iiiav appear, yet
the llnesl brown oak trees have been senf'lo .America, wluT"' lln'y are
cut i'lther Into veneers or wainscot or UKe<l for the best elass of fiirnliure.
The price of brown i ak Is roin|>uratlvely high, bflng fully four times that
iif the l»"Ht of Ihe ordinary wood. For a alngle Iree at Welbeek $"50
was paid, while In Ihe famous Hoekiiighani forest, or wbnl remains of it,
¥l'i)5 was accepted for a clean, but by no means big, specimen, but higher
prices than either uf these have been obtained both al Aniplhlll ami
.\shrblge.

Sawmill Directory of the United States

Ttie governiie III 1^ pr' lurlrii: an nlbi lal dlni H'ry nf tin' HawmlllH of the
United States. Mills for Imlli bai-ilwoods and soflwnods are Ineliided.
The work being done in co operallon by the Forest Service and Ihe Bureau
of Foreign and I>omesllc Commerce.

This accurate knowledge of the places from which lumber may be ob-
tained Is oni' result of Ihe closer government supervision of forests, as the
same service that protects Ihe trees gathers the facts Ihal will aid far
torles and dealers.

The history of this branch of American Industry is a record of shifting
production from extreme Northeast to the nnrtbern part of the ci'ntral
section of the country, to the South and Wi'sl, and the directory of
sawmills shows the proportions of the total output now derived from each
of Ihese sections.

This publication, with its detailed Information. olTers almost a glimpse
of Ihe mills In operation, for the returns compiled tell of the kinds of
wood each produces, the capacity of Ihe plant In board feet per day,
and per cent />f output In boards, timbers, or framing. They indicate
mills producing laths, shook.s. ties, or shingles, and record the largest
size a mill can furnish, laigesl size It can dress, largest it can kiln dry.
the least thickness It can re.snw, and Its specialties.

.V rapid survey of the field of production Is afforded by a map of the
T'nlted Slates presenting In grajdilc form the yield of lumber in 1012
by States and kinds of wood. II shows large amounts from such States
as Louisiana. Washington. On i;on. Michigan. North Carolina. Wisconsin.
Virginia. West Virginia. Mlssl>'sl|)pl. .\rkansas, Pennsylvania. Minnesota,
and others, with smaller amounts ilown to the less productive States.
Ttiere are also tables giving similar data for Ihe various species, and a
list of associations with the addresses of their olllcers and Ihe kinds of
wood the members produce. Kail and waler routes to the Individual mills
are Indicated in Ihe returns from their owners that are published.

The book, which Is Miscellaneous Series No. 27 of the publlcallons of
the Bureau of Foreign and Ilomesllc Cominerc^'. may be obtained from
the Superintendent of Documents, Government rrlnling (Ifilce, Washing
tun. n. C, at 25 cents a copy.

America's Restraining Influence
The London 7'iMilio- of Sipienihir is. In ^ni.iking of timber prices,
liarllcularly in regard to sliliumnls fnmi Sweden, says that attempts to

advance prices rai>idly which have I n made by certain sellers have not

met with any success, and II Is now generally conceded that the right
course was taken ; the competlllon from .\merlca has been the reslralning
feature, and If the Swedish shljipers had been loo grasping they would
have thrown more of the trade Into the bands of their competitors on the
other side of tb" Allnnllc.

H ardwood l^ews ISlotes

=■< MISCELLANEOUS >■=

i'tie .Mai en I liiii'u 'Mill l.uiiil'ei I iiiji|ijiii\ ti.i.' u.'.'ii im 111 i.ijtal' il al .Maroli,
C.i.. With a caidtal ^toik of !!;25.O0O.

The Wolf Itlvi-r Lumber (.'oinpai).\. .^iillgo. Wis., has suffered a- loss
by Are.

The Moiiogran Il.irdwiod Company :il Mi>ntgoincr.v, ,Ma.. has gone out

of business.

All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

October 2o, 1915.

HARDWOOD RECORD

The HUDDLESTON-MARSH LUMBER COMPANY

desire to announce tliat the firm name lias been changed to

Huddleston-Marsh Mahogany Company

and that they are now

Importing Mahogany Logs and manufacturing same into Lumber

and Veneer

with nianufacturiiiL;- and wholesale offices at

33 West 42d Street, New York

and distributing yards and general offices at

2254-2266 Lumber Street, Chicago

desire to announce that the firm name has been changed to
Fancy Woods, Veneers and Glued-Up Stock

Mills and Yards: Long Island City, New York

The Deal Buggy Company, Jonesvillo, Mich., is reported as liquidating.

It is stated that the Willson Manufacturing Company, Appleton, Wis.,
manufacturer of meat blociis, will move to Menominee, Mich.

Among .Alabama concerns which have recently gone out of business are :
Morgan & Brown, .\cton; J. M. Weeks, Beaverton ; J. W. McNeil & Bro.,
Luvcrne and the Mechlin Lumber Company, Mt. Vernon, and in Arkansas
the French Lumber Company at Crawfordsville and Lansing; T. S. Holt,
Ogamaw, and W. H. Wolfe, Vanndalc. have discontinued business.

The Southern Manufacturing Company, Birmingham. Ala., manufacturer
of coffins and furniture, has been succeeded by the Birmingham Manufac-
turing Company.

The National Woodeuware Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., is a volun-
tary bankrupt, and the W. H. Mclntyre Company, Auburn, Ind., auto-
mobile makers, has also gone into bankruptcy.

The Pee Dee River Veneer Company has been incorporated at Drake, S. C.

At Memphis, Tenn., the Walnut Log & Lumber Company has been
incorporated.

At Michigan City, Ind., the Engleton-Boyd-Bryson Company has been
incorporated with a capital of $150,000, by Samuel F. Engleton, Ralph
Boyd and Wm. F. Bryson.

The Caledonia Box & Manufacturing Company has been incorporated at
Winnipeg, Man.

At Hamilton, O., the Huss Furniture Manufacturing Company has been
incorporated.

W. S. Raef Company recently began a wholesale and e.'sport lumber and
cooperage stock business at Little Rock, .\rk.

With $1,000 capital stock the Elm City Woodworking Company has been
incorporated at Brooklyn, N. Y.

The Sklar & Cohen Woodworking Company has been incorporated at
Brooklyn, N. Y. with $10,000 capital.

The Frank C. Rawson Company has been organized at Winchendon,
Mass., to manufacture woodenware. The company is capitalized at $5,000.

.\t Boston, Mass., the Victor Swanson Company has been incorporated
with $10,000 capital.

The National Wood Preserving Lumber Company has been incorporated
at Elkton, Md., with $150,000 capital.

< CHICAGO >•

R. B. Goodman and O. T. Swan, respectively president and secretary of
the Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers' A.ssociation, passed
through Chicago twice last week going to and returning from Detroit

where they attended the meeting of the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers'
Association.

H. M. Stack of the Stack Lumber Company, Masonville, Mich., was in
Chicago last week on his way to Detroit and Cleveland. Mr. Stack says
things are picking up in mighty good shape with the Stack Lumber Com-
pany, and that the new mill is now shut down while a new carriage is
being installed in the band mill.

C. T. Mitchell of Cadillac, Mich., of the Mitchell Brothers Company and
Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., was in Chicago Friday and Saturday of last week
in attendance at the meeting of the flooring association.

Arthur Jarvis of the Steven & Jarvis Lumber Company, Eau Claire, Wis.,
spent a couple of days with the Chicago trade a week ago.

W. T. Thompson of the W. T. Thompson Veneer Company, Edinburgh,
Ind., was in the city a couple of days last week on business in sight.

The Commonwealth Timber Securities Company, 1515 Corn E-\change
Bank building, makes forma! announcement of its recent incorporation,
which was reported by Hardwood Recohd some time ago. The principals
of the company are E. J. Young of Madison, Wis., Grant T. Stephenson of
Milwaukee, and Frank R. Barns of Chicago. Mr. Barns has charge of the
Chicago office. The Commonwealth Timber Securities Company will engage
in the purchase and sale of timberlands and in the sale of securities cover-
ing timberlands.

The work of the Northern Forest Protective Association, with headquar-
ters at Munising, Mich., is reviewed in pamphlet form giving in addition
the proceedings of the fourth annual meeting. Thos. B. Wyman is secretary
and forester.

=-< NEW YORK y-

The Huddlesten-Marsh Mahogany Company, which is the new style for
the Hudd'.eston-Marsh Lumber Company, xUolian Hall, West 42d street, is
showing visitors a sample of veneer cut from an especially fine figured
Mexican mahogany log which recently came into Its possession in the
usual course of business. Mr. Huddleston is particularly proud of the
specimen, which is really one of the finest evei; seen hereabouts.

The plant and equipment of the James McBride Company, whose failure
w'as mentioned in these columns in our last issue, have been taken over by
the M. R. Flooring Company, Mowbray & Robinson interests of Cincinnati,
who will continue its operation. M. E. Cummings, who has been associated
with the Cincinnati people for many years, will be in charge of affairs at
this end. The sale was held October 11.

The "Knot Golfers" held their last tournament of the season at Wykag!.

All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

HARDWOOD RECORD

Uotolirr 25, r.>l.*..

Having: stood the rigiJ
test of time and been pro-
nounccil ideal.

Perkins

Vegetable

Glue

now gains still further dis
tinction by being pro-
nounced by United States
District Court "meritori-
ous and valuable, :»nd a
distinct advance in the art."

The Perkins patents were
swecpingly sustained in a
broad decision by the
court.

The Perkins Glue Com-
pany is llic only company
that has made of vege-
table glue a perfect prod-
uct.

J. M. S. BuUding

Competition Stimulates Quality

-V buyers market invariably results in quality com-
petition in manufactured g^oods — for obvious reasons.
Ouality competition without added quality to back it is disastrous —
requiring more ripid j;;unrantec of goods it means tliat the man not
able to improve his product here and tlicrc to ap|)roac!i perfection is
merely betting with himself on whether he will or will not have to
make good on stork which, to pet the order, lie guaranteed.

Perkins Vegetable Veneer Glue

In All Panel Work

allows you to make any reasonable guarantee with impunity. It does away
entirely with blistered work, and can be shipped to any climate without fear
— thus vastly increasinc tlic sales field.

Perkins Vegetable Glue

is guaranteed to be uniinrni, rcciiiircs n^) hot, ol)noxious glue rooiii, will not
sour, costs 20 per cent less than hide glue.

Use Perkint Glue and make your guarantee safe for you

PERKINS GLUE COMPANY
SOUTH BEND, IND.

Originators and Patentees

New Eochelle, October 10. After play the boys stayed over for dinner and
held the regular meeting, at which It was voted to continue the organization
next season with a larger membership. Mr. Cape was again chosen to lead
the club, which is one for the promotion of good fellowship among the mem-
bers of the trade. The first season was so successful that the vote to con-
tinue was unanimous. It promises to be :i fixture in the trade.

-■<, BUFFALO >=

The chestnut outing of the Buffalo Lumber Exchange on October 14,
denominated by the committee as an "Attack on Chestnut Ridge." resulted
in a most enjoyable time for the forty-five or fifty who attended. It was
a gloomy day overhead and rain fell most of the morning, so the automobiles
did not sUrt until two hours later than expected. Chestnuts were few.
but there was an abundance of food, including some of the best beefsteak
obtainable anywhere. In most liberal portions. The hardwood lumbermen
who got up the sumptuous repast and served it in regulation chefs' uni-
forms were F. M. Sullivan. C. N. Perrln, Kugene Nostrand and E. .T.
Sturm They as well as the other members of the entertainment com-
mittee A E Davenport. Peter Yeager and T. H. Wall, arc well deserving
the hearty vote of thanks and three cheers the assembled lumbermen gave
them. Much of the credit is due. too. to President W. P. Betts of the
exchange, who saw that everybody was having a good time.

The subject of politics is the prevailing one in lumber circles and will
be for the next two weeks, due largely to the tact that two lumbermen.
\rthur W Kreinheder and Knowlton Mixer, are running for councllmen.
They are making speeches somewhere every day and both seem to have
an excellent chance of being elected.

The H T Kerr Lumber Company has been shipping lumber to Detroit
lately, the cargoes of the steamer Edward Buckley usually being sold before
they arc unloaded.

Taylor A Crate find their southern operations very promising, whether
it Is sawing out white oak lumber or gathering corn and cotton in the Sun-
llower district of Mississippi. They have lately been cutUng out some

excellent oak. . , , , t • . ■

The Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company has been fairly busy lately
with a general line of lumber selling. Ash and maple lead and prices are

much better.

Blakeslce Perrln & Darling are moving oak. maple and cypress. The
cypress demand is picking up and the market is firmer than a few weeks

""oavenport & Ridley sUte that trade was quite satisfactory in September.
Maple, ash and oak are doing the best this month and plain oak prices arc
ji little stlffcr.

R. D. McLean of the McLean Mahogany & Cedar Company has been mak-
ing a short business trip to Canada, after returning from thi- West. The
mahogany trade Is r.ither quiet nt present.

The Yeager Lumber Compauy has had a satisfactory trade In ash re-
cently, with a fair demand for maple. General trade Is said to be about
the same as a month ago.

T. Sullivan & Co. have had a good demand for brown ash during the
past few weeks and there Is a better call for fir. In which stocks at present
are not large In this section.

E. J. Stiirm of .Miller. Sturm & Miller has returned from a three weeks'
selling trip. lie states that there is a fair Improvement in the demand
for maple and ash.

The Hugh McLean Lumber Company reports good plain ook rather scarce,
with a stiffening In pricr.

•< PHILADELPHIA >

Two of tile finest and most complete and niodornly equipped municipal
steamship piers in the United States were turned over to the city of
Philadelplila on Octol)cr 16. Lumbermen were well represented at the
transfer of the new structures, which arc located at the foot of Queen and
Christian streets, along the Delaware river front. The piers are designed
for the use of the largest vessels sailing from Philadelphia. There are
railroad connecllons direct from the piers to the belt line railroad, through
which public bell-line any of the trunk lines entering the city can be reached.
Double railroiid tracks run down the middle of each pier in sunken pits, to
facilitate the handling of freight from cars to pier dfck. The cost of the
piers complete was approximately S1.S.>0,000.

J. Edwards Smith .Jr. of Franklin .\. Smith & Sons Company, wholesale
lumber dealers. Land Title building, is sharing congratulations with Mrs.
Smith on the birth, October 11, of .1. Edwards Smith .Ird.

n. S. Dewey has returned to this city as an eostern sales agent for the
Virginia & Rainy Lake Company of Virginia, Minn. He will also handle
fir stock from the Everett, Wash., plant of the Weyerhaeuser Lumber Com-
pany, In addition to a Michigan maple flooring with which be has been iden-
tified in the past.

Cross Brothers, wholesale lumber dealers, have opened an office In room
704 Crozer building. 1420 Chestnut street.

Sterner & Lafferty have started In the wholesale lumber business In the
Widener building. .Tunlper and Chestnut street. W. J. Sterner of Asbury
Park. N. .1., is president ; L. N. Lafferty. vice-president and manager; and
.1. W. Sterner, son of the head of the company, secretary and treasurer.
.Mr. Lafferty Is widely known in the local trade, having been employed for
many years by the Gill Lumber Company and S. H. Shearer 4 Son.

All Three of U. Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

October 25, 1915.

HARDWOOD RECORD

^ This battery of automatic, electrically driven veneer saws, operated under ideal conditions, is conceded the model B

J plant of today g

I Importers and Manufacturers ■

I Mahogany and Cabinet Woods — Sawed and Sliced |

I Quartered INDIA NA White Oak, Red Oak, Figured Red Gum, American Walnut, Etc. B

I Rotary Cut Stock in Poplar and Gum for Cross B

1 Banding, Back Panels, Drawer Bottoms and Panels ■

I The Evansville Veneer Companv I

■ EVANSVILLE, INDIANA ^ •^ ■

iililllllii

■iiii

J. W. TurnliuU, head of the J. W. TurnbuII Lumber Company. Stock
Exchange building, Is on a trip to the Pacific coast. Important announce-
ments as to new mill connections are expected when he returns.

Owen M. Bruner, head of the Owen M. Bruner Company, has purchased
a motor car and is using it for business daily. Mr. Bruner was seized with
a sudden illness while at Asbury Park last summer. He has not progressed
as rapidly as he expected and on the advice of his physician is spending
most of his time in the open air. Hence the motor car tor calling on the
trade.

The annual tournament and meeting of the Philadelphia Lumbermen's
Golf Club was held October 20 at the Huntingdon Valley Country Club.

=-< BOSTON >=

:< PITTSBURGH >-.

The J. W. Cottrell Lumber Company, which has a big hardwood operation
in Virginia, has been handicapped somewhat the past two weeks by the lack
of men and teams there, due to the enormous apple harvest. It has been very
hard to get any help in the woods as everybody was engaged in marketing
apples.

F. A. Seaman has bought the mill and lumber of the Federal Lumber
Company, which is liquidating because of the death of its principal stock-
holder. The plant is located on the Bald Eagle railroad near Tyrone, Pa.

The American Lumber & Manufacturing Company notes a gradual improve-
ment in business but does not expect anything approaching a boom until
after the first of the year. Manufacturing plants are buying considerable
more lumber than a few weeks ago.

The Allegheny Lumber Company is very optimistic about the immediate
future of the lumber business. Manufacturers are putting in much larger
orders than in the summer and are likely to be heavy buyers next year.

The Acorn Lumber Company, according te H. W. Henninger, finds business
a little better in other districts than in the immediate Pittsburgh section.
President H. P. Domhoff of this company made a trip through the East last
week.

Joseph Collingwood has moved his basket factory from West Farmington,
O., to Warren, O., and is fitting up one of the best plants on the Western
Reserve. He will manufacture bushel, half-bushel and peck baskets.

The A. & D. Lumber Company, of which W. A. Kessler, formerly of the
Crescent Lumber Company is manager, is nicely located now in the Hartje
building. Mr. Kessler's specialty has always been poles and ties.

The McNitt-Huyett Lumber Company has bought a large tract of virgin
timber in Blair county. Pa., and will put in a plant at once to cut off the
hardwood into keg staves and other materials. The operation will require
about five years.

The Jones Hardwood Company, one of the leading local concerns spe-
cializing in birch, has recently opened a New York office in the Hudson ■
Terminal building in charge of Harry Snowden, a well-known hardwood
man in the metropolis.

A number of lumber consuming industries are included in the recently
organized enterprises of New England, the principal firms being : The
Black Rock Manufacturing Company, Bridgeport, Conn., capital $100,000.
for the manufacture of tools, machines, etc. ; Frank C. Rawson Company.
Inc., Winchendon, Mass., capital $5,000. to manufacture woodenware and
specialties ; Mission Supply House of America, Boston, Mass., capital
$25,000, to manufacture school and mission furniture and supplies ; F. H.
Newton Company, Boston, capital $40,000, and H. E. Eiims Compay at
Boston, capital $50,000, both to manufacture and deal in sash, doors, build-
ing finsh, etc. ; The Sherburne Manufacturing Company at Portland, Me..
to manufacture lumber locally, capital $10,000 ; John T. Scully Company at
Boston, capital $15,000, and The Pendleton Company of Augusta, Me.,
capital $200,000, both to engage In heavy construction and building.

L. L. Larouche, builder and contractor of Pittsfield, Mass., has filed a
petition in bankruptcy, scheduling liabilities of $99,947, which includes
several lumber creditors for considerable amounts.

=-< BALTIMORE >=

The ocean freight rates are still climbing, and the Baltimore shippers
find themselves confronted by the difficulty of having the rates hold long
enough to make arrangements with the foreign buyers for shipments. By
the time shipper gets the buyer up to the point of saying that he will take
a lot of lumber at a certain price the rate has been put up, and the shipper
finds himself in the position of having to withhold the shipment or forward
it at a loss to himself. Within the last few weeks the rate to Liverpool
has been advanced not less than three times. During the week which in-
cluded the last few days of September to the second of October the rate on
oak planks from Baltimore has advanced from 58 to 60 cents. In the week
from October 2 to 8 it was raised two cents more, and on October 8 an-
other advance of one cent was made, putting it up to 63 cents. With such
frequent changes, of course, the shipper cannot calculate, and must keep out
of the trade until the rate conditions get down to a more stable basis. The
Gulf port shippers are even worse off, the steamship lines refusing to quote
from New Orleans at all, while the rate from Galveston is not less than $1
per 100 pounds. These figures are on oak planks, hut all the other rates
have been affected accordingly. They explain why the shippers of lumber

All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

HARDWOOD R i: C O R D

(IClol'ir •-■.•, llPlir

FOR SALE

One Million Feet

Oak

One Year Dry

1" Plain and Quartered

Red and White

BAND SAWN, cut from large Louisiana
timber— eO'c and better 14' and 16'

Exceptionally High Grade

Aberdeen Lumber Company

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Stack Lumber Co.

MASONVILLE, MICHIGAN

We are Manufacturing

50,000 Balsam and
Hemlock Lath Daily

Now have five to ten cars
in shipping condition

nrc so iirjiint In llirlr ilonlri* th«I the sovpriiiiii-nl nffnril noiiip ri-llcf. It
iimr be -nl-l tlinj Ih^ nilviinr<"< r.nll>- mciin llcilp to III'- npnrl.ro nine* lb*

■ r. and II !• in<r. llrlll.U

ricaii Klilpa nvn ■ rnli-n

I'Mhi I., n I" ..|.i. •[ iiii'. rtiiintry. and II l» biiojjium r iiKily Ibal
Icm Moiiltl dijuy more i-<)ullalilr ralrit braldoa.

illor, Ibc old nrm

I'livlng Juki (ilniTd

, •■ ■ Thin nrm,

OOP of 1 1 ' vi'llow nnd

wbllp pi! . 1 (lif kihtUI

rcaiioDii Hindi iirompn'd llu- adillilon ol Hiorka of hardwuodii, li. U. t'roud-
fool, who In In clintBc of tlif yard, alalrd lo tho IIauixvimid Kkcouk rrprr-
arniallvv lliat nunii-roun lalla wcrf nlwnyn boliiK rpcolTcd for hardwooda
from cunlomiTti of ilii' firm who boiii:hl other wooda, and tbia KUKK''a«'<l that
bardKouila mlijht In- Imndlid lo n<lvnnini:i' na a convonli'ncf In ihear cua-
tomi'ra. Mr. rroudfocii nlso »nw iin cici-ilrnt o|i|)orlunll.v to hullil up a
prolltahlc trnih' iHTitofori' ncK'Icctod. He api'nt jiiira In lhi> hardwood
rfcloiiH of Wi'hl VIrcliilii, hiivliit! coiiif lo Ilnltlniori' from lluckhnunoii, nnd
la therefore well qtmlllled to take hold of the enterprlae. The (Irm will
carry alocka of oak. aab, cbeatnul, poplar, and rv<'n maple. At drat tbc
bualneaa will lip carried on lo a anmll way, but the conDdent belief la enter-
talni'd that the trade can be rapidly expanded. A rearranK<'nient of the
atocka In the yard baa been made of Into, belnR about completed, which will
admit of much more room for plllni; and fncllitale Ihe hnndllni; of the
stocks, thus lesaenlnR Ihe cost nnd InsurlnK prompt delivery. .Mr. I'roud-
foot expreiiHes pronounced FntlafMcllon wllh the results of Ihe present year
80 far. lie states Ihiit the firm has run ahead of lOH. nnd that wllh reaped
to proflts also Ihe business has he^n sntlsfaclory. He lakes an opilniisilc
view of Ihe future, and predicts Important gains.

ConKralulallona are being showered upon Norman James, prealdent of
the N. W. Jnmes Lumber Company, which. In addition lo soft wooda, also
handles llnlshed hardwoods, on his engagement to Miss Isabella L. IlnKner,
who has been social secretary ot the White House for years, harini,- been
BClectcd for this position under Kooscvelt, and being the flrsi woman to
fill such a post. Mr. James succeeded his brother, the laic Nathaniel \V.
James, lo the presidency of the company, hut was largely Interested in the
lumber trade before that lime. He also has extensive llnanclul and higb
social connections, and is held in the highest esteem. Miss llagner is a
sister of the late Justice Hagner of Ihe supreme court of the Ulslrlct of
Columbia, and the family has been prominent In Washington socially (or a
long time. The wedding is to take place some time in November.

Lloyd Davis Volk, a salesman for the Wlllson Lumber Company of ritta-
burgb, who makes bis headquarters at Cumberland, .Md.. was married at tbe
latter city October 16 to Miss Irma Mc.Vusland Ireland of Cumberland.
After a wedding tour Mr. and Mrs. Volk will lake up Ibelr residence In
Cumberland.

Erni'st K. Price, a well-known hardwood exporter of this city, who wai
formerly engaged in business on his own account, but who now represents
the Rock Castle Lumber Company nnd the C. L. Hitter Lumber Company of
lluutlngton. W. Va., in their export departments, surprised his friends on
October 20 by being married to Miss Marie L. Sherman, a telephone operator
at the Hotel Stafford, where Mr. Trice frequently stopped.

Among the visiting hardwood men in the city during Ihe last week wag
E. G. Cafllsch of the Cafllsch Lumber Company of tlnmbleton, W. Va. Mr.
CaiUsch stated that his company will have cut out its supply of timber In
a few months and will then bare to seek some other location.

=-< COLUMBUS >=

James K. Uucklngham of the Uucklnsliam & Ilair Company, Mllford, 0.,
was injured in an automobile accident near Indian View, on Ihe outskirts of
I'incinntttl. recently. L. B. Stump, n druggist in the miichinc wllh him,
was killed. Hucklnghnm's automobile plunged over a (Ifty-foot embank-
ment. He was hurled from the car, striking his head on a rock. When
be regained his senses he attempted to release Stump from under tbe car,
but was too weak from his injuries. It was about three hours before a
liassing autoist beard his cries for help and went to bis assistance.

Tbe Steel Bros. Lumber Company has been Incorporated with a cap-
ital of $-10,000 to deal in lumber. The incorporators arc Orlando Wilcox,
Charles McCuskey. L. II. Adams. E. G. Gensemer and T. A. Murphy.

Through a recent reorganization of the I'cytonn Lumber Company of
Hunlinglon. W. Va., with which Thomas S. Sharpnack of Delaware has
been connected for some years, Mr. Sharpnack becomes treasurer and sales
manager of the company and wl\l have bis headquarters at Huntington.
Mr. Sharpnack for some years has traveled for the company, and be and
his wife have made Delaware their home.

Fire caused a loss of approximately $20,000 at the plant of C. C. Dun-
lap, lumber yard and sawmill at Delawafc, O., recently. The Arc had
gained considerable headway before It was discovered.

The nu.ss Furniture Company of Hamilton has been incorporated with
a capital of $100,000 to manufacture furniture of all kinds. Tbe company
has taken over the business of Huss Bros, of Cincinnati and moved tbe
plant to Hamilton. Charles W. Huss Is president and William C. Huss
secretary and treasurer.

R. W. Horton of the W. M. RItter Lumber Company reports a slight
increase in the demand for hardwoods. Retailers are buying belter be-
cause of the rather nctive building trade. Some buying Is done by fac-

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tories, especially those making vehicles, implements and furniture. Prices
are firm at the levels which have prevailed for some time. Prospects for
tile future are growins brighter.

J. A. Ford of the Imperial Lumber Company reports a better run of
orders, with prices showing more strength. Shipments have been interfered
with because of the growing car shortage.

John R. Gobey & Co. are having a nice trade in hardwoods, which are
showing more strength as business conditions improve.

=•< CINCINNATI >.-

William C. Lambert was recently appointiMl receiver tor Wm. F. Galle &
Co.. hardwood lumber concern, which went upon the financial rocks fol-
lowing a suit filed by the widow of a former backer of the concern. Im-
mediately after that litigation was started, creditors of the hardwooil
company began to press with the result that an application for receiver
was instituted by the petitioning creditors. Mr. Lambert's bond was fixed
at $5,000. The bankruptcy is an involuntary one.

A direct benefit has been derived by Cincinnati lumbermen and car build-
ers as a result of the huge orders recently signed by the Pullman Car
Company to begin immediate work on 10,000 cars for the Uussian gov-
ernment. ,\ hurry call was received In this city for skilled labor in car
construction and quile a tew local builders left at once for Pullman, 111.
Also, considerable yellow pine was moved in this market as a result of the
order.

In attempting to prevent a collision between his automobile and a
street car several days ago, Henry .T. Pfeister, a hardwood lumber dealer of
Winton I'lace, suffered a fractured arm. Mr. Pfeister is well known in
the Cincinnati luml)er world.

The W. H. Fell Liiinbcr Company of Lexington, Ky.. recently announced
in the local market that It had completed one of the largest timber deals
in the state of Kentucky by purchasing 41.000 oak trees along Shelby creek,
in Pike and Letcher counties, at a figure approximately .$75,000.

The C, N. O. & T. P. Itailroad has Joined hands with the lumbermen and
State Forestry Commission of the Blue Grass state in an attempt to pre-
vent the start and spread of forest fires which in the fall months have
become so prevalent in that state. It is expected that thousands of dollars'
worth of trees will thus be saved.

A recent West Virginia incorporation of interest to Cincinnati lumber
and mining men is the Pontiac Mining Company of .Toplin, Mo., capitalized
at $150,000, for minerals and timber, with the following gentlemen as in
corporators : Charles Shewey, Luc Talman Shcwey, James C. Bunting,
J. Otis Rader and K. L. Henderson, all of Charleston, W. Va.. and known
to the Cincinnati lumber district.

Nearly a hundred per cent gain in building operations was the result
of the big building boom which inaugurated itself in Cincinnati during
September, according to the monthl.v report of building operations recentl.v
issued. Ninety per cent is Cincinnati's gain over last September and an
increase of 43 per cent over January, 1915, is another gratifying feature
of the report. The report in general shows a healthy increase throughout
the country and is indeed gratifying to the lumbennen.

At Akron, O., the Blackstone Building Compan.v recently organized
with capital at ?25,000 with M., Patience J., P. F., and A. ^F. O'Ncil and
Grace I. Tritt as incorporators.

The West's Loose Floor Company recently was incorporated at Hop-
kinsville, Ky., for $10,000, with Hugh and James West and John P. Prowse
as incorporators.

At Pineville, Ky., with a capitalization of $10,000, the Harpis Creek Lum-
ber Company recently was formed, T. J. .\sher, George W. Hengst and W. J.
Stone, all well known in Cincinnati, as incorporators.

A Louisville incorporation of interest to the Cincinnati trade is the Park-
land Veneer Mills, at .$10,000, George L. and Elizabeth Kannapell and Mark
Beauchamp comprising the company.

Cincinnati lumbermen are looking forward to a little more activity in
ship timbers now that operations in shipbuilding line are commencing
to pick up along the great lakes. The recent announcement that Harry
Coulby, president and general manager of the Pittsburgh Steamship Com-
pany, has closed contracts for two big freighters of 12,000-ton capacity,
at a cost of about $875,000. was received here with general satisfaction. The
keel of one of the big steamers will be laid in the Lorain yards of the
American Shipbuilding Company and the other will be built at the Ecorse
yard of the Groat Lakes Engineering Works. The ships must be completed
and ready for active service on the great lakes by the opening of navigation
in the spring of 1916.

At Steubenvllle, O., The S. R. Elliott Furniture Company incorporated
for $15,000, with S. R. Elliott. Janet D. Elliott, S. R. Stark, J. C. Ault
and A. S. Buckingham comprising the firm.

At a recent meeting of the stockholders of the proposed automobile speed-
way which is being projected for Cincinnati, those present agreed to take
enough additional stock to make the pro,iect an assured fact and it is
expected that from now on operations will be rushed through the winter
so that the wooden track will be ready for a big June meeting. While the
project was yet in its infanc}', a wooden track was decided upon, it being
ascertained after an exhaustive study of other courses that the lumber
track was in many and vital respects superior to the brick paving or any
other. The total amount of stock now subscribed totals $350,000, and these
stockholders have pledged themselves to take up an additional $100,000 if
it is found to be actually needed before a racing meeting can be given.

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Far sighted owners of timber
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times, incident to the European
wars, and prepare themselves for
the day when the demand for tim-
ber IS suddenly thrust upon them.
It IS certain to come at no distant
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cultivate a closer acquaintance with
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Remember, we not only report
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iimklni; of iiiii< md nt iin-M'iK for rlmn to coTpr

""■ »liorl<ik'<' wi .1, ,,,,- ,,„. i.n.i thin Ih mnklni: i'iii|>loymcDt for

Ix-lidlng ciiiKi'riiK Huii;;)- nuil wnu-i.n IhikIiuss Ih ri'|»irinl ijulli' ilull.

Thr lliniili ('nliiiiiti ('iiiii|inii.v n>|>urlii lt« fnriciry riiiinlni; nl full time but
only partial rnpnclijr. Tin- ortliTii for ruluiniiii linvi- bi'on llitbt for •omc tlnjp.

Major \V. II. Torlor ban bwii cbourn mi piilillrlty iiiao for the Toledo
fomiiiprce Club'* publicity depiirtmeot. Uc «vlll biivc charge of the club'*
wwkly bulli'liii.

Tbv liulUlliiK bUHlneaii In Toledo during Keptrmlier Hhowed a gain of
ninety-five per o'nl over the prevluUH yciir. Total pirmlta for the month
umounteO to J7(Jl,Uls, an cnmpnred wllh $;tO(l,:t.'.S In September, 1014.
Krom Jnnuiiry I to tiotolM-r I ImiII<IIiik operallona Knlm-d eleven per cent.
K'or the nionih of .Sepieiuber Toledo t.uisirlpi>ed nil other Ohio clllea with
the exception of Dayton, wbleh Hhowed a .'1111 per cent gain.

The Toledo KhlpbulldliiK t'onipuny Ih Io build two mure Ktalpii. They are
to be constructed for the .Smith Shipping Company, New York, and will be
dupllcuIeK of the two HhlpH which It recently contracted to build. The
company also ban a Iblrly day optlim to build two more venHelH for the
Smith Shipping Company. .MalerlnlH are now being ordered for the con-
Htructlou of the four shlpH cuntracled for. The building of theKC ahlpa will
keep a thounaiid men employed throughout tbc fall and winter.

< INDIANAPOLIS >

O. D. Ilaskett, pre^ll|l nt oi ihi- 1 1. 1 1. lli.hkcit Luiiiliir Company, baK been
elected president of the (irenter IndluiiapidlH InduHtrlal AHHoclatlon.

James M. .lobnson. for thirty-three years associated with the Colburn-
Jone.s Lumber Company and the lialke Krauss Lumber Company, hardwood
concerns, died nt bl.-* home In this city a few days ago at the age of sixty-
three, lie Is survived by bis widow, three sons and one daughter.

The twenty-second annual convention of the National Vehicle and Imple-
ment Association was held here October 1!0 to 22, Inclusive. There were a
number of hardwood lumbermen In nttentlance, some of whom took an
active part In providing tbc entertainment features. Nelson A. Uladdlng of
E. C. Atkins Si Co. was a member of the Indianapolis entertainment com-

— ml t tee.

=■< EVANSVILLE >=

Charles W. Talge, president of the I^vnnsvllle Veneer Company. In com-
pany with his wife has gone to Colorado and after spending several weeks
there they will go to San Kranclsco and the coast, where they will spend the
winter. Returning to Indiana In the spring. Mr. and Mrs. Talge will locate
In Indianapolis. Mr. Talge will make frequent trips to EvansTlUc to look
after his large Interests here.

The plant of the Hercules Buggy Company here Is now running about
seventy-flve per cent normal, and the management Is very optimistic over
the future business outlook. Trade Is opening up in the South, ns cotton
is moving better than it has at any time since the Kuropcan war started.

L. r. Worland, representing the Indiana Lumbermen's .Mutual Insurance
Company, with headquarters at Indianapolis, was here a few days ago and
called on n large number of lumbermen. Mr. Worland Is a brother of
George O. Worland. manager of the Evansvllie Veneer Company.

Obrccht Bros., manufacturers of hames at Tell City. Ind.. operating one
of the largest Industries in that city, announced a few days ago that they
will build a large addition to their plant, the work on the structure to start
at once. When the addition Is completed the factory building of the firm
will cover nearly a holf block. The business of the company Is rapidly
growing.

Plant No. 1 of the Chalrmakers' Union, a large chair factory nt Tell City,
Ind.. after being closed down for several months, resumed operations a few
days ago and Is now running full time in all departments.

James riatt. large lumber manufacturer, and his son I'rank are new
members of the Evansvllie Lumbermen's Club, their names having been
enrolled at the last meeting. The next meeting of the club will be held at
the Lottie hotel on November 9.

Thomas Hanley, for many years connected with the old firm of Young &
Cutslnger In this city, but who Is now manager of the Bedna Young Lumber
Company at Jackson, Tenn., was here on business a fgw days ago. In
speaking of trade conditions In his section, Mr. Hanley said : "Things bare
been getting better down our way for the past few weeks, although trade
was rather sluggish during the summer months. There Is a feeling that
the depression which e-\isted so long has passed away and that business Is
going to move rigbl along. The mills arc getting all the logs they want and
at reasonable prices. In fact logs arc now cheaper than they have been
for some time past."

Davis & Hippie, hardwood lumber manufacturers, have removed their
business to Lake Village, Ark., where they recently purchased a large tract
of timber. The company Is managed by A. O. Davis, who for the post year
or two has been one of the most active members of tbe Evansvllie Lumber-
men's Club.

The contract for tbc new ?550.000 hotel to be erected on the site of the
St. George hotel at the corner of Upper First and Locust streets, this city,
was let a few days ago to the Caldwell-Marshall Company at Columbus,
Ind., and Indianapolis. Work on wrecking the St. George botcl will start
about Novemljr-r 1.

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October 25, 1915.

HARDWOOD RECORD

A few days aijo tho Indiana Tie Company hero received orders from
tiortliern railroads for 3,750 carloads of railroad ties. Robert Williums,
manager of the company, says he is expecting other large orders for ties in
a short time. The largo orders now on hand mean that the Indiana Tie
Company will be forced to operate its plant here and the one at Joppa. 111.,
on full time for the next six months. Mr. Williams says that the railroads
are lieginning a campaign of improvement and that this is a good business
«ign.

The marriage of Miss Mary Lee Morehead. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. .T. D.
Morehead, and Dudley Clayton Noggle occurred a few days ago. Mr. Noggle
is connected with the sales department of the Hercules Buggy Company and
is well known among the lumber manufacturers.

Announcement has been made of the approaching wedding of Miss An-
toinette lleyns and Albert Waltz, the wedding to take place the latter part
•of November. The brldeelect is the youngest daughter of William Heyns,
president of the Evansville Dimension Company.

.Tohn C. Keller, tralhc manager of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club,
recently announced that he is still working with officials of the Louisville &
Nashville for the extension of the time limit on log rates on the Louisville
■& Nashville railroad. This question has been hanging fire for over a year.
and Mr. Keller is anxious to have it settled. Several large manufacturers
here arc vitally interested in the question.

(ieorge O. Worland, manager of the Evansville Veneer Company, says
business prospects all over the country look good to him and that the tall
and winter will bring in a large volume of trade. He finds the demand for
votary cut veneer in plain oak quite heavy at this time.

Henry Beckman, well-known planing mill owner and lumber dealer at
Ferdinand, Ind., was a business visitor in Evansville a few days ago. lie
reported business conditions in his territory improving.

=•< MEMPHIS >-

The cotton market has continued to ailvance during the past two or
three weeks and there has also been a most marked improvement in prices
for cotton seed. IMiddling cotton is selling at about 121/1 here and prices
range from 12 to 12'/. throughout" the entire southern hardwood territory.
Seed is bringing sufficiently high prices to add about $2(1 per bale to the
price of cotton so that every bale of middling is worth about $80. Ketcr-
•once is made to this condition here because of the bearing upon the pros-
perity and therefore upon the purchasing power of the people of the Soutli.
It is impossible to imagine the contrast in conditions now as against those
obtaining at this time la.-,t year. As a result of the increased buying power
there is a large business being done by distributors of furniture, automo-
biles, vehicles and almost every product in which hardwood lumber is used.
Thus, while this prosperity of the southern people affects tho hardwood
lumber only indirectly, it is an influence which is regarded as of vast im-
portance. The West and Northwest have been exceedingly prosperous ever
since the war in Europe broke out as a result of the big prices obtained for
iirain. The New England states and other parts of the East liave enjoyed
unusual business in war supplies of every kind and this section has also
been benefited by the war. The South was the lone part of the country
•which suffered severely from the depression incident to tlie war, losing
lieavily on both Its cotton and its lumber. Indications, however, "are that
the .Soutli is about to join the band of the prosperous in other parts of the
•country and as a result the outlook for business in every line is considered
vastly better.

Very heavy rains have fallen in this section during the past few days and
these have interfered to some extent with logging operations. Owing to
the extreme efforts recently put forth, however, to get out an adequate supply
of timber, the mills have plenty of logs on their yards and. provided the
weather becomes favorable again shortly, there will be practically no inter-
ruption to manufacturing operations. The tendency is still toward increased
output of southern hardwoods as a result of the improvement in demand for
hardwood lumber as well as in prices, full details of which are given else-
where in this issue of Hardwood Record. Timber cutting and hauling are
in striking contrast with the inactivity which prevailed at this time last
season when most of the mills were closed down and w-hen a great deal more
anxiety was manifested in converting logs on hand into lumber than in get-
ting out new stock. It is recognized that a great deal of timber will be
required to run the mills this winter as there is every prospect of a good
business and unusual efforts will be put forth toward getting out logs as
soon as weather conditions are such as to again make this course possible.

C. D. Hendrickson of the C. D. Ilendrickson Lumber Company is authority
for the statement that shipments of lumber on the part of himself and
others in Arkansas are quite large. The Hendrickson Lumber Company has
its mill at Democrat, Ark., and, although the plant is not particularly
large, this Arm shipped fifteen cars of lumber during the past week. This
is far and away above the average. Mr. Hendrickson says that demand is
Increasing and that the position of the seller is much more independent than
heretofore because of this better demand and because of the withdrawal of
so much lumber from the bargain counter. He also says that prices have
advanced during the past two or three weeks and that indications point to
a still farther rise. In fact, he believes that the turn of the tide has come
and that the lumber people will enjoy much more prosperous conditions
during the coming year than they had during the twelve months ending
August 31.

It is announced that the Hetzler Manufacturing Company, which lost
its heading mill at Clarksdale, Miss., by Are a short time ago. will rebuild
at Memphis. This firm has plants at Brinkley, Hope and Little Rock but

J. K. WILLIAMS

A. T. WILUAMS

Williams Lumber Co.

(MANUFACTURERS)

WHOLESALE
HARDWOOD

LUMBER

Band Mill Planing Mill Dry Kiln

Fayetteville, Tenn.

We manufacture PLAIN and QUAR-
TERED OAK, ASH. CHESTNUT and
other HARDWOODS

Our Specialty is Quartered White Oak

We Manufacture Dimension
Stock— Hickory a Specialty

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The following values.
All Kentucky Stock Should Attract You

2 cars 4/4 No. 1 Common

Plain White Oak
5 cars 5/4 No. 3 Common

Plain Red Oak
2 cars 5/4 Sound Wormy Oak
10 cars 4/4 Sound Wormy Oak
5 cars 4/4 Common & Better

Chestnut
5 cars 4/4 Sound Wormy

Chestnut
1 car 5/4 No. 3 Common &

Better Poplar

4 cars 8/4 Log Run Hard
Maple

2 cars 8/4 No. 1 Common &

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3 cars C/4 Log Run Beech
15 cars 4/4 No. 3 Common Oak
15 cars 4/4 No. 2 Common

Plain Red Oak

3 cars 4/4 No. 2 Common

Plain White Oak

50 cars 4/4 No. 1 Common

Plain Red Oak

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I LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY |

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J. S. Firw. Tuacaloosa, Al«., bim |>urcliiisi>d n trnct cf tiinbrr nt Cotton-
dale, All., and will Bhortly bcRin the procllon of a liawmlll nt that point.

The IIIIdoIh CcntrnI Symcm hna placed an order for 1.000 tons of stoci to
be used In the construction of lis big car repair sheds at Xonconnah, Just
below New South Memphis, where the terminals of that road arc located. It
is proposed to bccln work thereon very sbortl.v. The Illinois Central has
spent a vast sum of moDoy on these terminals during the past twelve to
eighteen months.

The Nashville, Chattanooga * St. I.ouls Itallwa.v has placed an order for
material to be used In the construction of ."lOO freight cars and 20 cabooses.
This material will be assembled at the company's own shops at Nashville
where the cars will be turned out.

J. H. Overstreet has purchased the stock of the old veneer company at
New .\ui;usta. Miss., and Is planning to rebuild the mill which was
destroyed by flre a short time ago. The new plant will have a capacity of
00,000 feet of veneers per day. Arrangements have been perfected for an
ample supply of material.

Walter Myers has begun operating a new mill at New .Vugusta, Miss.,
which has a capacity of about 20,000 feet per da.v.

Enthusiastic comment Is heard here regarding the Improvement In the
demand for red gum. This material appcors to have established for Itself
a very firm place among manufacturers of furniture. Interior trim and
various other cabinet articles. Demand is constantly broadening and prices
are showing some improvement as a result. A statement was Issued a
short time ago by the Gum Lumber Manufacturers' Association showing a
pretty full stock of red gum in the hands of its members. A well-known
lumberman, however, said recently that the greater portion of this stock was
In the hands of three or four big Arms and that there was no pressure what-
ever to sell. In fact, his analysis of the statement Indicated Ihat gum lumber
occupied a particularly strong position, especially since there is so little
of this material in the hands of the small millmen. who frequently unsettle
prices through the necessity on their part of making a rapid turn over of
their output It Is quite evident, too, that gum Is Increasing 'n popularity
with architects and contractors and that those Idenllded with the building
industry are taking Incrfnsid quantltlrs of this material.

^-< NASHVILLE >--

There are no signs of dull times at the plants of ,Tobn B. Ransom & Co.
This company has an Immense contract for walnut for the Hrltish govern-
ment, said to be about Jl.000.000, and is working more men in its plants
than ever before. 11. .\. McCowan & Co. are also sharing in this war busi-
ness on walnut, and have their plant operating full lime.

The Capital City Planing Mills, which have been closed down for some
time, have resumed on account of Improved business.

Thomas LeSueur of John B. Ransom & Co. has returned from a trip to
the North, where he found everybody bu.s.v, and general signs of returning
prosperity.

The Dungannon Lumber Company, Dungannon. Tenn., has resumed opera-
tion. The company reports stocks of "..''pOO.fiOO feet of logs on Its yards.

The R. C. Duff Lumber Company has purchased a large tract of tlmberland
near Kingsport, Tenn., and will install a band mill and build a railroad to
develop the propertj*.

The Bollnger Milling and Manufacturing Company will install a sawmill
at Its plant at Klondike, Tenn., with daily capacity of 5,000 feet.

W. II. Weller, secretary of the Hardwood Manufacturers' .Association of
the United States, was a recent visitor to Nashville. He reported pro-
nounced improvement in the hardnor.il trnde.

=-< LOUISVILLE >

W. A. Watts, president of the Holly Ridge Lumber Company, is an
enthusiastic member of the Louisville Transportation Club. This organiza-
tion is composed of many of the leading shippers and railroad men of
Louisville and brings prominent speakers to the city at intervals.

I.oeal hardwood men report that a better demand for No. '.; common oak
has been In evldeiire of late, this being an Improvement worth noting. In
view of the fact that this grade lias been In slow call for some lime. Tba
price is below what It should be. but with the stimulation in the demand
better figures should now be realized.

With the proNpicl of reduced proilucllon. especially In the South, after a
short tltiii', on aeeount of bad weather for logging, lending maniifacturera
are nf the upliilon that the general state of the market shoulil be more
favorable, ns storks of many Items are very likely to be found short.

Three se|)»rate tralllc bureau projects arc being agitated In Louisville at
liresent. and out of the present discussion It Is certain lliut some arrange-
ment win be made to take care of the needs of the hardwood men. The
Hardwood Club Is working on a |>roposltlon to form a separate bureau; the
Commercial Club plans a general bureau to serve all of the shippers, and
the Board of Trade will extend the scope of Its present trnnsportatlOD
committee so ns to make It effective as a tralllc bureau. No final plan has
been acted upon along any of these lines as yet.

Louisville lumbermen have received word of advances on through rates
from the South to Ohio river crossings, effective Deccmlier 4, os shown In
Supplement 7 to Illnton's tariff, I. C. C. 05. The advance amounts to 1
cent. The prosjiect Is that a vigorous protest against the advance will be
sent to Ihe Interstate Commerce Commission, and that an opportunity to
present arguments against It will be sought.

Although the leading walnut manufacturers have withdrawn their log
bujers from the Held, and do not plan to purchase logs at pri'sent prices
except to apply on speclOc orders, some concerns are taking a "sporting
chance" and are loading up on walnut timber at war prices. If the demand
for material such as gunstocks. etc., does not materialize, and this Is con-
ceded to be a matter of speculotlon, those who have piled up walnut logs Id
quantity on the present basis as to price are likely to find themselves with
the proverbial white elephant on their hands.

Anderson Bros., Corydon, Ind.. who will start a circular sawmill near
there shortly, have liei ii In Louisville recently for the purpose of purchasing
equipment for their plani. which will be run by steam. The concern will
make oak. ash and walnut principally.

The Kentucky Indiana Hardwood Company filed a complaint recently with
the Interstate Commerce Commission, alleging overcharges by the Southern
Railway and others on speclllc shipments of lumber. The complaint will
be heard in Louisville November 114 by Kxaminer l'*lemlng.

T. M. Brown will be In the Kast shortly, having planned a trip to Boston,
New York and other markets In that territory. Mr. Brown Is flndlng the
demand for lumber somewhat better. The W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber
Company is making a good deal of yellow' pine at Its Ka.vetle, Ala., mill, and
the present Hurry In pine Is moving a lot of stock from that point.

The champion hard-luck story can be told by W. A. Bottom, Son & Co.,
of Lawrenceburg. Ky.. who owned the old mill of the Tyrone Lumber Com-
pany on the Kentucky river. The plant had not been In operation for some
time, and the owners had arranged to sell the sawmill equipment for ?lu,000
for Installation In Arkansas. .lust before the time for shipment the mill
burned down. The Insurance companies will not write plants that are
not In operation, and hence Bottom & Son have a net loss of $1.^,000 to
llgurc.

Bryant & Burton. Columbia. Ky., are planning to purchn.sc a sawmill for
operation In connection with their new |)lanlng mill at that point.

Much Interest has been shown In the retirement from the lumber business
of T. J. Asher & Sons, who have been running a bandmlll at Wasloto, Ky.,
for a long while. The concern has many coal mining interests, however, and
will devote Itself to them. The lumber at the Wasloto yard, consisting of
1.. '•00. 000 feet of poplar and oak. was sold to the Rice Lumber Company,
I'inevllle. Ky.. and the Pope & Cawood Lumber Compan.v, Harlan, Ky., oper-
ated by the same interests. Some of the equipment was taken over by the
Rice company. The Wasloto mill Is to be dismantled.

The C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company of Louisville Is known principally
through its m.Thoffnnv o|»r:itlon'j However, it has succeeded In developing

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a numhor of profitable side-lines of its organization in the tropics. For some
time it has been bringing in chicle, used in making chewing gum, and now
it has started to import coffee from Central America. The coffee business
has been started very promisingly, and a good demand has already been
stirred up in this territory.

=-< ARKANSAS >•=

The hai'dwood mills at Dermott, Ark., are preparing to run on a day
and nigbt schedule in the near tuture, or as soon as the raw stock can be
placed un the yards. These mills are now operating on a ten-hour schedule.
The increase in rime and force is occasioned by the large orders recently
received for wagon stock for probable use by the warring nations of Europe.

Davis & Hippie, lumber manufacturers of Evansville, Ind., have removed
their ollice efjuipment and mill to Lake Village, Ark., where a large tract
of timberland was recently purchased. A. O. Davis will manage the new
plant, and a large force of men will be employed at the mill and in get-
ting the timber from the forests.

After being idle for more than a year the big band mill of the Chapman
& Dewey Lumber Company at Marked Tree resumed operations again last
week. The box factory, the Pierce hardwood mill, the Turner handle fac-
tory and the Grismore-Hizman stave mill at Marked Tree are now running
on full schedules.

Clem lOndicott of Shirley, Ark., has been in Guion, Ark., for several days
buying walnut timber for export. He is buying the timber in the trees,
having it cut and hauled to the mills at Guion, where it is manufactured
according to specifications for shipping. lie has succeeded in getting a large
quantity of choice walnut timber, for which a good price was paid.

The Arkadelphia Milling Company of Arkadelphla has recently installed
a new stave manufacturing machine. Tliis was made necessary by reason
of the unusually good demand which that company has enjoyed of late. The
timber owners and farmers of the adjoining country have also prolited by
the demand and are reaping good returns for white and red oak bolts.

Another timber sale from the Ozark National I<'orest in the Hasting Creek
country near Mountain View, Ark., will soon be advertised by the Forest
Service. The sale will comprise 500,000 feet of white oak.

According to Mack's labor agency of this city the demand for men to
work in lumber mills, especially hardwood mills, has increased materially
during the past thirty days. The agency also predicts even a greater
demand.

Speice Brothers of Pocahontas, Ark., are considering a proposition to
remove their plant to Jonesboro, Ark., and last week spent some time look-
ing over possible sites for location. A committee of men representing the
Jonesboro Business Men's League has had the matter up with the owners
of the plant, and has made a proposition upon which some action will be
taken in a few days. Speice Brothers manufacture slack barrel hoops.

The Fislier Vehicle Woodstock and Lumber Company of lOrin, Ark., has
submitted a proposition to the Little Itock Chamber of Commerce whereby the
company will remove its plant to Little Rock and employ at least thirty or
forty- men from the start, if the Chamber of Commerce will bear the actual ex-
pense of moving the plant here, which will amount to some .?2,500. The
board of governors of the Chamber has the proposition under advisement,
and will announce some action in a short time. The Factoria Land Com-
pany has agreed to donate suitable site in the Factoria Addition.

The plant of the Tyronza Lumber Company, Earie, Ark., was burned on
October 12. A high wind was blowing, and within an hour about a million
and a half feet of lumber, mostly white oak, was destroyed. In using dyna-
mite to prevent further spreading of the flames a spark was thrown
upon the residence of G. W. Donahoe, three blocks away, which, together
with outbuildings and barn, was burned. At one time it appeared that the
entire town might be destined. The fire is supposed to have originated from
sparks falling from a logging engine.

The H. D. Williams Cooperage Company was placed in the hands of Mr.
Dinsmore, as receiver for the Searcy chancery court, at Marshall, Ark., sev-
eral days ago. Later a petition in bankruptcy was filed in the United States
district court, and Mr. Dinsmore was continued as receiver. His bond as
trustee was fixed at $'25,000 and he will continue to operate the plant as he
has dont> since Iteing appointed receiviu-.

=-< MILWAUKEE >-=

The Pulley Grip Company of Milwaukee, organized to manufacture an
industrial chemical preparation to minimize belt slipping, has been incorpo-
rated with a capital stock of $2,500 by Robert B. Henning, H. H. Piltz and
E. A. Boettchcr. Headquarters have been opened at 1005 Pabst building.

A sale of considerable interest to wholesalers and jobbers took place
recently, when the business of the Oscar A. Anderson Lumber Company,
well-known concern of .Tefferson, Wis., w^as sold to the N. J. Braun Lumber
Company, which recently disposed of its yards at Eeodsburgh, LaValle and
Cazenovia. N. J. Braun will be in charge at Jefferson.

The Western Lumber Company, a IMinnesota corporation with a capital
stock of $.S0,000 and interests of $50,000 in Wisconsin, has filed a statement
to transact business in this state.

The B. Heineman Lumber Company, of Wausau, has closed its mill after
a successful season, in which 20,000,000 feet of hardwood and hemlock were
cut. The Mohr Lumber Company of Wausau has resumed operations at its
sawmill and expects to cut about 6,000,000 feet of hardwood and hemlock
during the season.

It is reported that some of the northern Wisconsin lumber concerns will

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iiy <if WiiuMiii, \Vi«.. for KUpiilylni: ll"' oimpaiiy wlili trn rnrtuniU of

aiy iliirlim tti)' ni'imoii'i run. Mr. Krnft will ilo inont of Ihp loKgtiii;

..n iri.' Illtnii llui' III (III' vIrliiKy of Mliicii'i)iii' nnil lif U iion ei'KliiK liU

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llliii' ll< n iniiniry.

• iltii \\ l'rli-ili> of (hf \V. K. I'rli'ntloy I.iiinlx'r roiiiimny, wcllkuown
wIkiIi'kkIi' (-niiiirii of Mllwniikit', bcllcvm (lint ilir r'li-iil lUirclmiH' of
rj.diMi.iNHi frci or iiioro of Houllicrii iiliie for llu- nllli-* !■> ii .Vi'W York
rxiHtrl4<r Im one of tlii* innin roimoiiti for tlir pn-Ncnt Ikmuo Iu tlir* lumber
1>ui>liii'i>«. Ill' niiyii Hint liiillrcolly <l>' I'Ik <li'nl will ImTc ii kihmI rffi'd ou
Ihp liiiiilicr trnilr In all llni'H (inil tlinl hliiri' thi- '<iir|iluii In (bf Soulb lia>
Ikk'H ri'iliirnl nnrtbcrn luiubrr linn bcconin olroniK-r. Ili" Ik>IIi'Vi'» tlint after
tlio Kuropi'iin wnr rlonoH Ibpri- will Ix' ii Htronu ili'ninnil. i-»|>i'i'liilly from
Knitlnnil, for inori' hewn tlmbfr, Inrlmlini: ro-k ilui mihI « hltr plni'. um'<I Iu
Ihp iibl|>yar<lH of (ho Ilrltlsli IhIph.

-< BRISTOL >.=

Tlio Boon Kork I.iijiiLcr i'oiii|i:iiiy. nniitly rirKiinlz'')! bv Wllllnni 8.
Whlllni;, linn Iukuii Hip ponntrurtlon of n lmn<l iiilM iipiir .MonlPiuma, N. C,
iiikI uIho h IwpIvp mill' line of rnllroiiil poiiiiprtlni: lit .Monii'iuiim with the
Soiilhrrn. SupiTlnti'nili'nt J. .M. I.iiry of thp poiiipnny, wim hprp thU wppk
ami sl.ili's tliat work is proKri'siiliiK iilri'ly.

The K. ('. IiiifT l.iiinbi'r Company Is KoInc fnrwnril with tbp i-nnNtruptlon
of lis bnnil mill npar KlngK|iort, In tills poiinty anil will linvp thi' mill ready
for oppratinn pnrly In Ilpppmbpr. Thp pompnny hns pIonpiI It* Imnil mill
at IIiiIDpIiI, Vn. It Is bulldlni; n slxtppn nillp llnp of railroad at KInRaport,
ponnpctlnp with thp Cnrollnn, I'llnphflplil & Ohio Kallronil.

Thp It. E. Wood Lumbpr Company tins wppk ri'sumi'd opprntloos <if Its
liand mill at Rarhart's. south of Krlsiol. Thp mill had bc«'n Idip for nearly
a year. It Is wpll stoikpd wllb loRs and will bp kppt busy ilurloi; thp
rpnialndpr of Hip wintpr.

Sornp of thp larKPst mills In this spctlon oontluup runnliiK to thpir
papaclty and pxpppt to kppp busy durlnR thp pntirp wlntpr. Yard otocks In
this Kpptlon nrp now lipiivlpr than for soinp timp past, due to thp fart that
shipinpnts liavp on thp wholp Iippu probalily Ipks than half of the total
volume of stopk cut.

Supprlntpndpnt Frank .Murphy of Hip T.ovpbidy Lumber Company. Jaiippr.
Va., was hprp thlK wppk. Thp company Is opprntlnc a band mill at .Tasppr
and will soon Install a circular mill to bp opprntpd In conjiinpllon with Hie
band mill.

Ellis II. Wilkln.son of this rity has taken oninplptp charge of the new-
mills of tbp Kingsport Lumber Company at KIngsport, Tenn.

Thp Paxlon Lumbpr Company of this city has openeil a branch sales
office III rhllailolphla.

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-< CHICAGO >.^

A fpnturp of the continued In.provpinpnt In the local dpniand Is the
pvldpnpp ihnt furnituri' and piano fact->rlpH, and others using higb-grade
lines of woods, are KPtlIng In a better share of orders. This Is best shown
In the Increasing purchases of hlghpr-gindp cnbinpt woods. Thp general
situation hprp In tbp city Is on a contlniipd up-grndp with the most likely
pvldenpe in the bpst clns.sps of lumbpr. Therp Is still a great deal of price-
cutting, or rather a continued dcprpsslon of iirlces, as Ihcrp Is a notable
absence of hystprlcal pdorts to go thp ctbpi- man one better In order to
secure the order. The situation still leaves a great dpal to be desired, but
Is continuing to show a healthier front.

< PHILADELPHIA >■

Tlie local market has continued to lm|jrove during the past two weeks.
ISullding work Is keeping up in largp volump. Gpneral business has kppt in
line witli this improvement and this naturally is soon reflpcted In thp lum-
ber trade. If the coming winter happens to be an open one It Is predicted
liy leading men of Hip local trade that more ihan the average amount of
lumber will be used In this city. As prices have been comparatively low
some of thp city yards have awakpnpd to thp rpalization that they will surely
go up and have placed orders for future deliveries at favorable quotAtlons.
Already many mills have stiffenpd tbpir prices and tbey will surely ascend
all along the line. Thp hardwood markPt has been steady with an increasing
demand all along tbp line. Special gains have been reported In plain oak.
fpiartered fink, low-grade chestnut, basswood, ash, maple, gum and poplar,
lieeeb and birch are in great shape, while spruce is stronger than for years.
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is increasing in volume ami price. wbHo cvpross and cedar sliingies are
hotli in steady call. Summed up from all angles, tlio situation is extremily
pleasing, witli better things in view for tlie fniuie.

--<, BUFFALO >•

The hardwood trade is on the iuerea.sc and an advance in price has
occurred in the better grades of lumber. Certain woods are showing the
same bullc of the bu.ving as for some weeks past and there is not much trouble
in disposing of lumber at a fair price. Many industries are now biisier than
tliey have been for a long time and it seems probable that trade will bo on a
fairly large scale for some time. The yards are now pretty will supplied
with a good assortment of stoclv.

Plain oak in the better grades is bringing a better i)rice anci tiie demand
is fair, though in common grades stock is quite plentiful. Maple and ash are
in greatest demand at the different yards. Most yards report an increased
Inisiness in them during the past month. Cypress is holding up well in
price and volume of business. Not much cill Is heard for poplar at present.
Mahogany and quartered oak are (luiei.

=-< PITTSBURGH >-=

The lumber business is "perking" up. It couldn't help it n-ally with pay-
rolls in greater Pittsburgh running over $1.()()U.000 per day and bank
clearings over $9,000,000 per day. All through the district steel operations
are going on at practically full capacity. Nfw plants and additions are be-
ing built wliich are calling for a large amount of lumber. The requisitions
for next year will bo far larger than they were last January. The coal and
coke business is improving steadily and from this source there is also con
siderable trade forthcoming. Yard trade is also slightly improved the
past week or two owing to the fine weather. Prices on hardwoods are grad-
ually getting higher and stocks at the iidlls are not too heavy.

=-< BOSTON y-

The hardwood situation continues favorable both as to demand and vaUu's.
It is expected that it will take its usual course in assuming greater activity
following the noticeable improvement in all other kinds of lumber in this
district. Construction and building lumber has rapidly passed through the
stages of difficulty in placing orders, buying to anticipate an upward mar-
ket, and reached a generally higher level in prices. The building reports
show only one September which exceeded this year in value of new construc-
tion, the increasing activity in manufacturing of nearly every kind and the
fact that hardwood producing has been on a conservative scale are all factors
which are maintaining steady values in the face of a relatively moderate call
for stock, and the same influences underlie the whole situation to tlie extent
that in practically every item on the list the demand would speedily exceed
The supply upon a resumption of buying in volume. Many in the trade
predict this condition with its corresponding effect on values.

=< BALTIMORE >•-

The hardwood situation shows still further evidence of improvement in
some directions, even though in others conditions are much the same as
they have been. Further progress appears to have been made in the way of
a better demand from the railroads, furniture factories and various other
consumers, and the movement has attained proportions that cause the
raillmen to consider increasing their production. Prices are about the same
as they have been, though there is some gain in firmness. The backwardness
about placing orders appears to be giving place slowly to the growing re-
(luirements of the trade. With all other lines showing marked gains, it
was to he expected that hardwoods would also reflect the improvement in
course of time. This has been slower in coming than had been supposed,
but there seems to be no doubt about the reality of the recovery. The rail-
roads are far more receptive to offers than they were, and the car building
shops, of course, also place orders with much greater freedom, while the
furniture factories see encouraging prospects for their business. Manufac-
turers of the cheaper grades of furniture in the South are reported to he
very busy at this time, and they are taking up hardwoods in impressive
quantities. Other consumers are likewise in the market, and it looks as
though the entire domestic business had been influenced for the better.

Exports present a less favorable aspect. Congestion continues to prevail
at some of the large centers of the hardwood trade abroad, notably at Lon-
don. Liverpool and Glasgow, with the ocean freight rates uncertain and the
range of prices under marked pressure. While it must be admitted that
considerable quantities of the hardwoods left on the market do not exactly
meet the requirements of the foreign consumers, it is also to be said that
with the offerings limited and the demand free, these stocks would com-
mand takers quickly enough, and it is only because the assortments are so
large that the buyers become captious and insist upon naming their own
terms and conditions. No decided improvement is to be looked for until a
curtailment of forwardings has resulted in a reduction of the foreign holdings
to reasonable proportions.

=-< COLUMBUS >-

The hardwood trade in Columbus and central Ohio territory has been
fairly active during the past fortnight. The pleasant weather which has
prevailed has favored building operations and consequently dealers are in
the market. The tone of the trade is good and lumbermen generally believe
that the worst of the depression is over.

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Brown & Hackney

INCORPORATED

Makei-s of

St. Francis Basin
Hardwoods

SALES OFFICE:
BANK OF COMMERCE & TRUST BUILDING

MEMPHIS, TENN.

MILI^ AT MOUNDS, ARK.

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Memphis b.xiois Tennessee

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ul OflSr*.

HBTU. AKK.

•rill. I.. I f. „ii>f. . . .:_ ,. ; ,1 : In I Ik' market

fur HI I of llirlr kIihIiii. II(<|H>rlii nliaw llinl ilriiliTu' nlockii nrr

raihrr ■'•at lliry ar<- li<it Inrllnrd lo nrrumulmp i>U|i|ill<-ii but nrr

liujrini; (rum liniiU lo iiiniilh, n» It wiTi-. lt<'<-nuKF of tbr iiiiKrlnlnty nf the
fiitun-. Ilir)' nn' lonth lo Inrronitc morkii at ilil* llmr. Iluyliik' ■•>' fiictorlfa
Hlinwn a hIIbIU liicri-aw. Tliln la (••pi-rlnlly Inn- of ninri'mii inakliiK vi'lilcica
nnd riirnlliirc. Sonic buying U aUo tii>liii; ilunc by aiiloniolilli' ruiKprnii.

Sblpmi'nlH an- comlnir out iiromplly, ••xoi'inlnu wbcn- rnr Nhorlngi- la
k'ronlhk'. On Hip Cbiiuiprnkr & Ohio Iborr U a innrkci] iib>>rlai:<' and Homr
di-lay I" ociniiliinMl. Olbir rondx ar<> iil»o fi-a-llni; tbr rX|ianN|i>n In frrlubl
bUKlni ««. .\illl Nliicka an- only fiilr and tbrri- la no dlapoalllun lo arruinu-
lalc >ii>rka on tlic part of mill uwuith.

rrlci-K arc ralhor Bti'ady at tbc IpvpIi which have prpvallc-il for aomp lime.
CultlnK I" not nn friqupnt an fornu-rly. The prlcp lint In nwilnlalnpd In ino«t
pla«'H and In "cn'nil Inotanci'ii advancpH bavp bppn rpcordi'd. tjuarlprp<!
oak IH firm nn<l llii- rolump of bUHlnpiiH la conKldiTablp. I'lain oak U aUo
KtronRpr. pBpcclally (IralH and BPcondii. which have advanced $1 at Ihc Ohio
river. ChpNinut In In Kood di'mnnd nnd thp aamp In true of baHawood. Aah
Is quiet, roplnr IB fairly strong but stocka arc IncreaKlng. other hard-
wood* are unchange<l.

-•< CINCINNATI >:

A big Improvement In the dimnnd from the Hash and door manufacturer!,
due lo Ihe cemrnl revival of liuildlni; oiierntlonH. ban had a marked effect
upon tile hnrdwiiiid market In Clnelnnall durlni: Ibe pn»l few weekH. The
activity on Ihe part of the consumlnK factories constitutes the nic»st encour-
iiBlnc feature of Ihe Hltiintlon. Althoucb the buyInK movement Is much
stronRer. there still Is evident an incllnnllon to hold olT In await eventuali-
ties and not take onythInK for Branted owing to the Reneral uncertainly as
t'l the business situation at large.

The woodworklnR plants are beginning to carry much larger slocks than
I bey did during the summer months. The backward movement which waa
vo noticeable a few weeks back among the furniture people has almost en-
tirely disappeared and now reports arc being received of an encouraging
nature and the manufacturer no longer Is complaining of a great overstock.
The furnllure trade now Is fully up to the usual late October standard and
k-ives every promise of continuing upon this basis for some time. This has
resulted in a ste.irty increase In the demand for oak. while Ihe call for the
better grades of walnut for the higher-priced furniture continues active aa
usual.

Blind plants, flooring concerns and box manufacturers report a looklng-up
liusiness and arc ordering In greatly increased volume. The vehicle ond
itnplemcnt manufacturers are going along with increased forces in many
i|uarters. with enough business before them to insure continuance of this
activity for some weeks to come. Their call for hickory and ash is especially
good. The auto trade is insistent in its demand for the better grades of
hardwoods for body flnlshing on the line cars and for wheel construction,
especially spokes.

Gum Is showing a better call. Six weeks ago gum took a little flyer In
anticipation of better freight rates, then slumped back into its accustomed
rut. but recently has managed lo extricate Itself and now is moving in good
volume. Oak. plain nnd tiuartend, along with walnut.. Is receiving its
usual brisk call from the furniture manufacturers. Walnut for export, how-
ever, has suff'Ted a serious relapse, at least that is Ihe general opinion in the
Cincinnati district. Ash seems to be recovering considerable of Its former
strength, although the demand for this lumber cannot be said to be very
encouraging at the present time. I'oplar has shown but little change within
the past fortnight, the market for this lumber being quite spotty and prices
seemingly with little or no basis. There seems lo be a determined effort to
move this lumber for almost whatever is bid, those holding a fair supply
on hand apparently being quite anxious to get rid of it without much regard
for the prevailing quotations.

Local mills are being rushed almost to the extreme to meet the renewed
demand from the builders for all kinds of Interior finish, doors, sash, blinds,
etc. The planing mills are beginning, however, to feel the spirit of the
times and in many quarters report a slow but gradual Increase in the
demand. Summed up all together, however, the Increased business reported
from all branches of the trade Indicates that this fall's total of business
done will be far in excess of the amount done in IftH.

Prices on the whole are not showing much gain, although quotations In
L-eneral In tbe millworklng trade did not suffer to the extent other branches
'<{ the lumber business did during the dull period.

=■< TOLEDO >-=

While there Is no great Improvement to be noticed In the hardwood trade
penerally there Is a betterment which has given added impetus to business
nnd encouragement to dealers. Prices are not very strong but the tendency
is toward strength rather than weakness. There has recently been a good
demand from automobile factories which arc running heavily. Elm, maple
and ash are In demand for this purpose. The furniture factories are not
running particularly strong and the railroad demand, while better than It
was. Is by no moans satisfactory. Local dealers are pretty well stocked up,
having bought rather heavily while prices were low, and they are not in-
clined to indulge in speculative buying at this time. The building trades
have been good hardwood users this season and building here continues

extremely aetive.

All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

October 25, 1915.

HARDWOOD RECORD

PROOF THAT OUR CLAIM OF REALLY EXCEPTIONAL GUM LOGS IS BASED ON FACT ■

TUKT COME FROM THE MILL

•JUST AN AVERAGE LOT OF BOARDS AS

LAMB-FISH LUMBER CO. '^tTL^Hfr^X^"

THE LARGEST HARDWOOD MILL IN THE WORLD, ANNUAL CAPACITY, 40,000,000

If you go to t hi' I'anarna-I'ucific Kxposition do nr.t
fall to see our moving picture exhibit iti the Mlssia-
slppl State Building. 3.200 ft, of film In three reels

Codes Used-

CABLK AI>l»Ki->S — "I.AMB"
-Universal. Hardwood. Western Union, A. B. C, 5th Edition. Okay

STOCK LIST No. 9, OCTOBER 1st, 1915

1st & 2iul ({111. nliUe Oak, 0" & Up

1st & ;;iiU <ild. While Oak, 10" & Uu. . .
No. 1 torn. (ltd. « liite Oak, 4" & Up..

No. i t'oiii. (jul. M liite Oak

Clr. tjld. Wli. Oak Strips, i to »'/•"

C'lr. (JId, Mil. Oak Strips, 4 to 4'/-"

Clr. (Hd. \Vh. Oak Strips, r> to o'/-"

No. 1 Com. Qld. \\ li. Oak Strips, SM: to

svi"

No. 1 Com. (ttd. \\h. Oak StTlps, 4 to
5V::"

1st & 2nd ri. White Oak, (!" & Up

No. 1 Coin. rl. White Oak, 4" & Up

No. 3 CoMi. rl. W hite Oak

No. 3 Com. VI. White Oak

Ist K 3nd ri. Keil Oak, (i" & Up

l9t St 2nd I'l. Ked Oak, 12-14" & Up...

No. 1 Com. rl. Ked Oak, 4" & Up

No. 2 Com. rl. Ked Oak, 3" & Up

No. 3 Common Oak, 3" & Up

Onk Core Stiuk. 3"& Up

1st & 2nd Ked (Jam, 6" & Up

No. 1 Com. Ked Gum, 4" « Up

1st & 2nd (ltd. Ked Gum, 5" di Up

1st & 2nd Sap Gum, 6" * Up

1st & 2nd Sap Gum, 13" Jt ITp (stained)

1st & 2nd Sap Gum, 18" & Uii

No. 1 Com. Sap Gum, 4" & Up

No. 2 C'om. Sap Gum, 3" & Up

No. 3 Common Gum, 3" & Up

Clear Sap Cum Strips, 2M; to 5V4"

Clear Sap Gum Strips, 2V^ to SV-"
Stained

No. 2 Common .4sh, 3" St Up

No. 3 & No. 4 Common Ash, 3" & Up. .

No. 1 Shop Cypress

Pecky Cypress

No. 1 & No. 2 Com. C.vpress

Log Run Elm, 30-50-20%

No. 2 Com. Elm

No. 1 Com. Elm

Com. & Btr. Tupelo

1st & 2nd Cottonwood:

3/»"
G4,U0U

3(i,0UU
8,UU0

1/2"

«2,0()0

5H,(I0U

!I4,000

4,0U0

.-) 8
83,0110
24,UUO
li4,0U0
14,0UU

3 4
IIIU.OUO
22,000

(i:.ooii

12.000

!65,000

83,000
5,00(1

40,000
1,000

3(i5,000
129,000

63,000
4,000

3,000
27,000
2«,00O

(i.OOO

2.000
27,000
23,000

4/4"
3(i2,000

uu,iioo

l.Vi.ODO
7.>.M(I0

ii.m)'i

20.000
27,000

133,000

34,000

3(i,00O

20,000

3.000

3/4"
30,000

0,000
32,000

2.0110

4"
11,000

:,ooo

8/4"
20,000

10/4"

l«/4"

34,000

55,000

534.000
83,000

(i.OOO
89,000

27,000

349,000

344,000
443,000

193.000
309,000
313,000
200,000
97,000

33,000
13,000

36,000

4,066

29,6o6

7,000
3,000

9,000

3.000

89,000
239,000

107,000
52,000
3,000
6,000 21,000

123,000
326,000

93,000
253,000

i:>.oiM>

T.oon

ici.ooo

137.0(10

8211,000

16.000

19,000
27,000
34,000
35.000
149,000
18.000
4li.000
31,1100
12.000
31,000
8,000

49,000
42,000
22.000
13,000

8,000
10,666

3,000

8,666

1.38.000
12,000

00,000

14,000

8.000
3.000

Especial attention is directed to ITEM of OAK CORE STOCK, a grade put up for Core in built-up stock. We have the very best
facilities for kiln-drying and surfacing. Bridge plank, crossing plank, car stock, switch and cross ties specialized in. AH orders given

most careful attention. Writo u« i« you see any items of interest.

REDGUH

CABmrmoo

(7meric</s '7ii;--f

Ci^Bmi Woo

THE BIG COVERED SHEDS WHERE THE BEST OF THE GUM FOR CABINET WORK IS CAREFULLY PROTECTED.

All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

HARDWOOD Ki:COKD

urt.iiifr 2A, liii:-

< INDIANAPOLIS >=

WE WANT WALNUT

If you have Black Walnut Logs 14" and larger In diameter and
8' or longer in length, write us (or prices and particulars.
We are in the market now for two millicn feet.
PICKREL WALNUT CO., 402S CUra Avenue, ST. LOUIS

CINCINNATI

Hardwood Manufacturers and Jobbers

DAY LUMBER & COAL CO.
i Manufacturers YELLOW POPLAR and WHITE OAK

tiK.\KK.*l. KFPK I-: — .l.\(KSO.S. KY.

OHIO VENEER COMPANY
^^ Manufacturers & Importers FOREIGN VENEERS

■.■il'.'|-:il <(IIKI(\IS \\ I.M K

C. CRANE & COMPANY

Manufacturers of Hardwood Lumber, Oak &. Poplar especially

Our liM.ilioii tiKiUfx |<i><.<.i)ilc iiiiii I, ili-li\iT> xi iiii> I liiiii: in tinilMTH
and hiiril\\ imhI IuimImt

BAND SAWED WISCONSIN KARDWOOIS

Dry Stock For Prompt Shipment

UIRCII

TOM 4/4 No. 1 cum. A bet. ylaln
lUll.M 4/4 No. 1 cum. A bet. r*d
S.M 6/4 1st and 2nd rti
lOM 6/4 No. 1 commoii red
6M 6/4 No. 1 comm»a plala
3M 0/4 Isl and 2nd r>aln
13.\1 a/4 1st anil 2nd red
4M 8/4 1st and 2nd rlaln
4M 8/4 1st and 2nd red
UOrK ELM
60M 8/4 No. 2 com. and batter
lATLE
common and better
Our 1914 rut of nell aasortrd II.AKIlWOOnS AND IIE.MLOCK wUI
soon br In ■hlp|>Lntr condllloD.
Sen/i ut your inquiries

ARPIN HARDWOOD LUMBER COMPANY

IIA.ISWOOO

20M

4/4

Ne. A common

SUM

1x4

No. 2 and 3 common

16M

5.4

No. 1 com. an<i

better

2AM

5 4

No. I common

lUM

5/4

No. 2 common

2<)U

5 4

No. 3 common

IStl

8/4

1st and 2nd

16M

8/4

No. 1 cemmon

16M

8.4

Ne 3 cemmon
WHITE OAK

lOM

8/4

No. 1 and No.

2 com.
HART

40M 8/4

No. 2

Grand Rapids, Wis.

Saw mills ant) planlnr nilll at Atlanti

ATLANTA, WIS.
, WlBconsln.

The Tegge Lumber Ce.

High Grade

Northern and Southern

Hardwoods and Mahogany

Specialties

OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

'I :.
Wrvlia UK

a lltll<
rillunv

i I I iliiliii: llic iH'tlvlty M k'niix'd two or tlirm-
'l\. Willi nil uimnril li-ii<ti'ii<-v, nnil tlii-
iiilwiHiils fur inaniirnrturliii: |iiir|>n'<'i' ■>'<■

I I'll iil.ili .nliH-ka, ri-nrltiK n slllT nilvniin' In tlip iirnr

' imiK nH uviT ti
mil iililli' mill ImimIii'

liiirtlw 1 mil rior IIIIII Mil' v«'iii'i>r fiirlorlfM iii

fur llii'lr priHliii'l. nut only In tin- <
Wiliint IH nllll i.lrnnu with |irl

■; 1' •' I iiikI linn' l» a fiilr il iinil for IIh' v«rloii» vnrlrll<-< of oak. Tin

..III! lor till- iiiM fiw «i-i'k- fir ilo' linnlwooi! irmlr- Is viry cnroiirnuInK

till tliiTf Is n vast

.;m, whirl) rail for

II I'i'MifiK 11 Im'IUt drmaiHl

nirni Kinlt'K, Imt In thr Kouth.

<s at top iioli'h. IIihI KOI" I" In hrtiiT

=^ EVANSWILLE >.=

III. ri liii'^ I n a xliaily Iniiiroviiiiiiit In Irnih' iliirlnk' thr pnat thirty

ihiyK anil ninHt of lhi> lnri:<' nillln In Honihi'rn Inillann I'onllniip to oporati- on
lull tlnii'. Ilotli orihTK ami lni|iili-1i-H have Inrn-aiwil nnil tliiTP Is a frcllni:
on tliv part of thi' inniiufiutiirtTH that Ihi' rhnnci' In himlni'ss has comt> to
Htny. I'rIcc'K arc huhllni; linn, r»|MTlnlly on tln'.hi-Ht urnili'S of hnrdwooil.
Crop ionillilons nr<' onconraitlnir Ih.' corn crop In Bouihcrn Inillnnn ami
sonlhirn IlllnolK Ik expected to lie one of the largest in many yearn. ThiTe
Is a Koiid deniiind for hotli i|narteri>il while and -plain oak ami ijiiltc a Kood
deal l« hehiK sold. Walnut hnn been Ktroni; ever Blnce the war In KurojH'
started. iJiiin Is in liptler demand than It hnii heen. Kurnituro factories a«
well 08 plow, liui;i;.v. wngon. desk, chair and other woo<l consiiniInK fac-
lorlcH are now runnini: on better lime than thi'y have for gome lime paHt
and the outlook Is more encouniKlni: than II has iH'en at any time alnce the
llrst oX the year. .Vsh and hickory are inovlne alone bi'tler than they were,
but the demand for poplar Is not so kooiI. Handle faclorles alonK lireeii and
Darren rivers In Kenliicky are bclni; opiraled on i;ood time and consuinlni:
a Kood ileal of hickory ami ash. Slack barrel cooperate manufacturers are
still liusy makini: barrels for apple Krowers, The a|i|iie crop in Houlhern
Indiana this year is the iarnest II has been In many .vearH past. Itetaii
lumber dealers and planlni: inlll owners are opilniisllc over the trade out-
look and say Ihey are enJoyhiB a line fall business. In fact trade Is better
than It was this lime last year or ihe year lieforc. I'ianlng mlllH ore run
nini; full time.

=■< NASHVILLE >-=

I.uiiilior Urius in this iiiarkel report ini.rkeil iiiiprovcuieDt In the tone of
liaiihvood trade, lliisini'ss Is of Increasing volume, and there Is a tendency
to firmer prices. Inquiries are nuuierons, and while orders are conservative,
much smaller liian In ordinary times, the volume Is sufflcieiit to make thi-
total very satisfactory. On ncconnt of tlie curtallinent of producllon hard-
wood men look for values to harden materially when business Kets liack to
noriiial, as tin re are no inrse stocks. Tliere is a (lood demand for oak, ash,
iiickory and nlliei- hardwoods. The activity in walnut continues, this belni;
the blKcest feature of business tbronchout tills territory on account of the
export demand. Strong prices are beliip paid for walnut, and Immense sup-
plies are liein',- inoveil in middle nnd east Tennesse".

=-< LOUISVILLE >=

Much bettor conditions ore prevailing in the hardwood trade, accordlni!
lo lumbermen in this market. The demand Is better in evi'ry respect, In-
iiniries and orders beind more numerous, and consumers piacini; orders for
delivery later in the season. The sllnallon is olivloiisiy stronger, ond many
buyers are endeavorinB to protect thcnuielves from a possible Khortace of
material later on by "buying while the buying Is good" ; that Is, while prices
arc favorable and the supply Is adeiiuatc. The chances of a shortoge of
many items are good. Inasmuch as stocks of specialties ore not large now,
and the ciosini.' down of many mills, with the arrival of Ihe winter season,
will reduce operations lo such a point that with demand developing as It hnj
li .'I'U doing, the iil.vlous result will lie a marked scarcity. Values ore stiff-
ening already, even for staples, rialn oak, which has been dragging, espe-
cially In the lower grades. Is pickin;; np some, and Is expected to show
strength from now on. I'rlces are unsatisfactory, but are Improving. Ash
conlluues to sell well. I'oplar Is In active demand, dimension Inniber
also being a good seller. Iliglierprlced woods like inahcgany and quartered
oak have not been moving In i|iiiinlil.v, but business prospects in this direc-
tion are better. Veneer and panel concerns report Improved business and
good prospects.

=•< MILWAUKEE >=

Husincss In the hardwoml mirki t i~ lii.liiing up well and lumbermen be-
lieve that the year's trade will show a sntisfacloiy total. While buying
from consumers, as a rule. Is cinfiiieil mainly to I heir current needs, general
business Is so much better tlinl lie ibniand fioiii this source Is decidedly
:iiore active. Stocks at most plants have been light all the season and it Is
now neces.sary that the factories place larger orders It they wish to handle
the Increased business.

Tlie local sash and door and general Interior woodwork manufacturing
'incerns are buying steadily and inmi' gond orders are being received from

All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

< Iclohl-l- 25, 11)10.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Uiis source. Bircli and maple arc in particularly good request and stocks
iu these lines arf,* getting ratlier light in some instances, so light in fact
that predictions are lieing made that higher prices may l)e expected iater in
the season. In the southern woods there is a hrisk demand from the sash
and door and interior linish concerns for plain red oalc and quarter-sawed
white. Tile furniture factoj'ies seem to be meeting witli a better business
and are using a little more stock. The farm implement manufacturing con-
eerus in Milwaukee and at various points about Wisconsin are buying a
little, if for no other reason than to keep up their stocks to the required
point. Milwaukee has several thriving piano factories and these concerns
are now buying stock a little more freely.

Ketailers about Wisconsin arc placing some orders as usual, although the
buying from this source is not quite so active as wholesalers might wish fiu'.
There seems to be cnnsiderablo building going on in the smaller cities and
V'wns about Wisconsin and liopes are entertained that the average dealer
will find a little later tiiat he will have to order more freely to replenish
his stocks. Of course, the general inclination is to place enough orders for
stock to till out the present year's business, with the probaldlily that buying
will he resumed a little more freely after the first of the year.

The building record in Milwaukee for the first nine months of the year
showed a substantial gain and Building Inspector W. 1). Harper is con-
fident that the year's record will lie considerably higher than that of the
past year. During Seiitember the city's record of .fL'.iKil.D^is placed Milwau-
kee si.xth in the list of American cities. The increase over the record of
SeptiMnber, li>14, was 1 l.l jier cent. Operations thus far In October have
showed much activity.

=■< BRISTOL >.=

The luinl>er business in this section is still dull but there seems to be
considerable optimism among lumbermen, especially the manufacturers,
who are going ahead with operations. Few of the larger mills have
suspended operation and indications are that the majority of them will
continue busy throughout the winter, running as regularly as weather
conditions and the log supply will admit. It is reported that some of the
large ndlls that Iiave been iillc are soon to resume. Several of them have
taken atlvantag*' nf the dullness in the trade to stock the ndlls heavil.v

Willi legs.

=-< GLASGOW >.=

Sinco last r».in'rt llic timhcr trade of fa;ist:M\v aiul ilic \\'>>.l ut" Scutlainl
has improved to a considerable extent, and the quantity of goods seilinj;
is on a larger scale than has been the case for some time back. This fact
is most gratifying because the lull which has been experienced has con
linucd for some time. Buyers all along have been averse to buying any
more than for Immediate requirements, but Just now they are displaying a
tendency to purchase for future requirements. Of course, prices have
always been the dominating factor, and In no case have they declined, but
rather advanced, aiid that in siuuc instances very appreciably. Buyers
have not lor a long time been speculatively inclined, considering it too risky,
but now they ar_' finding this to 'le to tlieir disadvantage. I'rices for
all classes of. stuff vary from day to day, and all selling is taking place
subject to confirmation. The demand for all classes of lumber lias not
been up to the average, except spruce whieli has been In great demand.
I luring the past three months many vessels have arrived from Canada
with cargoes of spruce. The bulk of this wood has been stored In tlie
various yards until ])rices asked for could be gotten, and already largo
lines are reported to have passed into second hands. The storage grounds
around the docks just now arc •"full up." and new accommodation has had
l(» be opened. Prices obtained for spruce have never been heard of l)efore :
iu fact, they have almost doubled what they were in' normal times. The
boxmakers just now arc the real consumers of spruce, as they have large
orders on hand, and will be busy for some time to come. However, the
M' inand for spruce is perhaps due to the fact that in view of the restricti'd
-iipply from Russia there may be a scarcity in packing case material, and
this will have a very material effect on prices. A common impression is
That prices have not reach-d their high water mark yet. Shipments have
arrived here from Archangel, but although few, they are welcomed by
buyers who contracted for supplies which they will not receive this side of
the war at any rate.

IShipbuiUling inquiries are as scarce as ever. All the yards are engaged
on government work. The furniture trade is fairly well employed, although
most of the activity^ is in government work. Values of furniture musT
have advanced very much of late^ judging from the prices being obtain<'d
for low-grade oak. poplar and gum.

The trade in Pacific coast goods has been a large item for some time
back, and it would seem that alniost any price could be obtained for this
class of lumber. However, space from the Pacific is at a premium, and it
is very difficult to arrange, as space may be secured, but the vessel after-
wards commandeered when it arrives in port.

Shipments of hardwoods from Baltimore and Newport News have not
been of tiie same dimensions for some time past. These shipments have
comprised largely oak scantling and oak planks — a noticeable absence is
in oak boards. Very few carloads have been imported, with the result that
stored stocks are being used up. Import cost at present prohibits the
cimsignmenis of oak boards meantime. Silver pine or West Virginia spruce
which formed a large item in previous shipments is now hardly seen, and
it is understood that supplies are becoming rather scarce.

OUNDNESS

Read]) Resources $925,845

URPLUS

and Reinsurance Reserve. . . 856,634

A VINCS

Returned to Subscribers .... 546,757

ERVICE
60-day Inspections; Monthly Fire Bulletins.

These are some of the vital features
upon ■which the management of the

Lumbermen's Underwriting
Alliance

bases its plea to the LUMBERMEN FOR
A SHARE OF THEIR Insurance Lines.
Tliese safeguards are the result of TEN
YEARS of successful underwriting.

$155,000.00

in CASH DIVIDENDS went into the treas-
uries of ALLIANCE Policyholders in 1914.
Owners of protected plants, with five or
more years' timber supply, are invited to
become identified with us.

U. S. EPPERSON & COMPANY

Attorney and Manager, KANSAS CITY

Over

One Million Dollars

in savings has been returned its members by the

Manufacturing
Lumbermen's Underwriters

and there remains to the credit of members over

Nine Hundred Thousand
Dollars

The membership, which is constantly increasing,

is now composed of nearly four hundred and fifty of
the best saw mill plants in the country. Insurance in
force exceeds thirty-five million and nearly three
million dollars has been paid in losses. If you have
a first-class plant adequately protected and are inter-
ested in low cost fire insurance, correct policy forins,
an inspection service which may save you from a dis-
astrous fire, with the certainty of a prompt and
equitable adjustment in case loss does occur, aiid
wish a list of members and annual statement we will
be glad to hear from you.

Rankin-Benedict Underwriting Co.

HARRT B. CI.ARK

W*at«rB R«pr«9entative

Portland. Ore.

Attorney in Fact

KANSAS CITY, MO.

All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

50 HARDWOOUKECORD

O.'loIxT M. 101S.

Advertisers' Directort;

NORTHERN HARDWOODS. KrerticrCurrd Lumber Co :' V«ll Coopcmeo Compuny * Kintman, H. K. rioorlnf Co M

I^mbPl.h Lumber Compuny... T <7 V«ii«i Luml^rr * M.nuficturlne Krrry * IUdmd noorlois To «

A rpio Hardwood Lumber Co 4S Co '-'O , „_ ,

MllNr Lumbor Company «.l MltHiell Bro.. Company 3

Bamaby. Charlea 11 T „,k. ,^.„,„ , „,„k., r„ 7 Whitmcr. Wm., 4 Sona 9 x„ri|,«.i-»lcrn Coopirntjv k Lum-

Boyre. Inc., narenc* larpokel^lcht Lumber Co. .. . 7 willl.m. Lnmbrr Company 7-41 ^..^ , „ .„y... Jg

Buffalo nartlwood Lumber Co... j« rVnrod-Jurdrn A McCowen. . . . 7(0 „„ ,,„.,.. ,.„„„,..r cmp.ny. . «„,,,.. k., n

1-robst Lumber Company M ^,.,„, ^.^j^,,,,, 4 m.oo » Salt Lick I.umber Compan, . . . . . 4

Pnhha A Mlirhell Ibc 3 Stinrci Sail t I.uml>rr ( ompany 4

Cobb. » Mitchell. Inc moI-Kndol Lumber Company 42 y^„ ,,„„be, Co.. Inc 69 Kt.ph-n-an. I. Co.. Tru.tee.. . . . {8

Bait Jordan I.umber Co M Sondbclmer E Company 7-44 Strnbic Lumber & Salt Company. BS

Hl...G..*Bro S9 Stim.on. J.'v.' 7*0 VENEERS AND PANELS. wilce T Company. Tbt 4

Hattrn Lumber Company 56 S.lmaon Veneer and Lumber Co.. 45 Abn.pre Vencor A Seating Co. .. . 57 ,.„„„^ „..,,._ 4 i.o »

Hoffman Bro*. Company 7 12 Illrda Kve Venerr Company

Kneel.nd.Bl,elow Co.. The 8 SOUTHERN HARDWOODS. Buckeye Veneer Company WOODWORKING MACHINERY.

Eaat St. Loula Walnut Co 11

Utchtleld. William E 9 .\bordpon Lumber Company (.38 |jy,n,TllIe Veneer Company 37 Cadillac Machine Company M

Mcllraln. J. Glbaon. 4 Co ^ Tn"ZZ^Z°r' r,^^'^^^ '.'.'.'.'.' 'Vw nelenn Veneer Company M Oerlacb. The I-eter. Company. .. . 41

.VJcI.ean, Hugh. Lumber Co 59 Archer Lumber Company 43 Hoffman Hr..., Company 7-1/ Mcrahon. \V. B.. 4 Co M

Miller. Anihony 59 .„_„,,. 1 „_h., p„r„_,„_ 754 Uuilillcstou .Marsh MnhoKUiiy Co. . 35

Mitchell Itroa. Co 3 Atlantic Lumber Company 7-34 •• I'hoenlx Manutacturinf Co 54

■ . . „ ,.. ' 1' ' UJ -11 Kentucky Veneer Works

Mowbray 4 Bobln.on Co -12 nnker-Mntthewa Mfc. Co 7 40 Knoxvllle Veneer Company 57

....... „ ... Bellgrnde Lumber Company 44 VENEER MACHINERY

ComTanr"* '"^''"'^' * "'■ 23 BlIsH-Cook Oak Company 746 Ix,n^-KnUht Lumber Company. 7-11 Merrltt MnuufacturloK Company. .. 55

company -3 R„nner. J. H.. ft Sona 7 40 Loulavtlle Veneer Ullla 3

Palmer * Parker Co 9 Boyle. Inc.. Clarence 9 utonKel, C. C, ft Bro. Co 5 LOGGING MACHINERY.

Rice T-ake Lumber Co 5S Brown. C.oa C ft Co 712 Mi,wa,.'kre Basket Company 57

Richardson Lumber ComoauT 8 Brnwn ft Hnrknoy. Inc 45 Mississippi Veneer ft Lumber Com- Baldwin Locomotive Worka

Brown. W. P., ft Sons Lbr. Co. . . . 5

suck Lumber Company 3S Ruffnlo rinrdwood Lumber Co 59 Lldgerwood Mfg. Company 86

Standard Hardwood Lumber Co. . 59 Burkholiler. P.. Lumber Company. 7-51 Northwestern Cooperage & Lbr.

Steama Salt 4 Lumber Company. 4 Busklrk-RutledRe Lumber Co. . . Company 28 DRY KILNS AND BLOWERS

Stephenaon. I.. Co.. Truatee..... 5S ^,„ „,„ . . „ , Ohio Veneer Company 48

Samson. J. V 7.6O ChurchlllMllton Lumber Co 7 " Grand Rapids Veneer Work.

Strable Lumber 4 Salt Company. 58 Colfax Hardwood Lumber Co 5fl Palmer 4 Parker Company 9

SulllTan. T.. 4 Co 59 Crane. C. 4 Co 7 48 Penrod Walnut 4 Veneer Co II Phlla. Textile Mchy. Company »

Te«e Lumber Co 48 ^ntslnper. F. M 7 PIckrcI Wnlnnt Company 11-48 stgnj^rd Dry Kiln Company.... 55

Davis Kdw L I umhpr Co S nflTn^r, J 4

Von Plii'tenTLbe^'company;;;; 5s Pay Lumber ft'coal Company'. '. '7-48 Roddls Veneer and Lumber Co. . . 57 LUMBER INSURANCE.

nnmn Lumber Co 48 Sanders ft EKbert Company 11 p.-trnl \fannf.rturer.- Mut. Ina.

Wlllson Bros. Lumber Company.. 9 „ Standard Veneer Company ^^ Central Manufacturer. Mut In..

Wl.tar. Underbill 4 Nixon 9 Ellas. G.. 4 Bro 69 gtimson Veneer 4 Lumber Co. .. . 45 ^"""^'"^

Wood-Mosaic Company a ^^^^^ Hardwood Lumber Co. . . . 7-34 St. Louis Basket ft Box Co 39 Kppenwn. U. 8.. 4 C* 49

TeaiEer Lumber Company, Inc 59 Francke. Theodor. Erben Gmb. U. 11 Tomahawk Box and Veneer Co. . Indiana Lumbermen'. Mut I«a.

Tounc, W. D.. 4 Co 8 Company

Galloway-Pease Company 7 48 vCaetJen. Geo. L., 4 Co 57 , ^ . „ ^ ^.. .m

^l„py ^ j^ Lumbermen'a Underwrltlni Alll-

^ Hlmraelberger-Harrlson Lbr. Co.. Williamson Veneer Company.".'.. 39 ■""* "

Hltt, U. H.. Lumber Company... 7 ■svisconsin SeatlnR Company 57 Lumber Mutual Fire In.urmnc«

PoweU-Myer. Lumber Co 12 Holly KIdge Lumber Ci 5 Wisconsin Veneer Company Company

Uuddlcston Marsh Mahogany Co.. 35 wood-Mosalc Company 5

See Uat of M&nufacturara an

pas* 7

Lumbermen'. Mut. Ina. Co...

RED GUM.

Kraetzer-Cured Lumber Co 2 mahOQANY, WALNUT. ETC. Manufacturing Lumbermen. D-

Lamb-Klsh Lumber Company. . . 7 47 „,„,,,,,. . dirwrlters 48

, .^ „ . . , . ,; <n Davis, Edw. L., Lumber Co 5

POPLAR. Uberty Hardwood Lumber Co 4U Pennsylvania Lumbermen'. Mat.

Litchfield, William E 9 East St. Louis Walnut Co 11 Fire Ina. Company

» .1 .TV ., ^ , .„ Little Rock Lumber 4 Mfg. C«...7-10 Evansvllle Veneer Company 37 „ .. „ j, . „ j _,.. r- m.

Anderaon-Tully Company 7 10 .".?., .. ^_ . - ,i Rankln-Benedlct Cnderwritlof Co. 4S

AOantlc Lumber Company 734 Lo°8-Knlght Lumber Company. ,-11 p„„^^,_ Theodor. Erben Omb. H. 11

Day Lumber 4 Coal Company.. 7 4S ^.<^^lell»n-West Lumber Co 7 jjartzell. Geo. W 11 TIMBER LANDS.

Mcllvaln. J. Gibson, ft Co z Huddleston-Mnr.sh .Mahogany Co.. 35

McLean. Hugh, Lumber Co 59 „ , . . , ., _ , ,, Campbell, L. E., Lumber Comp««y 40

Miller. Anthony 59 Long-Knight Lumber Company. . .7-11 ^ f • >~ '

Miller Lumber Company 743 McCowen, H. A.. 4 Co 11 Lacey, Jame. D., 4 Co

.. _, , ^ „ Mowbray 4 Robinson Company. .7-12 Mcngel, C. C, 4 Bro. Co 6

Aberdeen Lumber Company 7-38

Anrtermon-Tully Company 710 Norman Lumber Company 5 Otis Manufacturing Co TIMBER ESTIMATORS.

Archer Lumber Company 43 „ _.,. .^.«

■^^ Paepcke Lelcht Lumber Co 7 Palmer 4 Parker Co 9 Lauderburn. D. E **

Baker Matth a Mf C 7 46 Penrod-Jurden 4 McCowen 7 60 Penrod Wnlnut 4 Veneer Co.... U

Bellgrade Lumber Comprn; :::::. 'u l°'Tl-^^''T o""'" ^^ is rickrel Wnlnut Company 11-48 MISCELLANEOUS.

BUaa-Cook oak Company.. j.^^ ^-'o'''' dumber Company 56 Purcell. Frank 11

Bonner. J. H.. 4 Sons 7-46 RlelKadel Lumber Company 42 Rayner, J 4 American Rule ft Mfg. Company.. 61

Brown. Geo. C. 4 Co.. 7-12 Roddls Lumber and Veneer Co. . 57 ganders 4 Egbert Company 11 Child.. S. D.. 4 Co 61

Brown ft Hackney, Inc 45„,. ,,..,.^_ .

Brown. W. P.. ft Sons Lbr. Co. . . 5 t'^Vj' I'"™"" Company 4 ^. ^ j Gerlach. The Peter. Company. ... 81

Sondhelmer, E.. Company 44

Colfax Hardwood Lumber Co 5c ^Potswood. E. R. 4 Son 7.41 HARDWOOD FLOORING. Lumbermen'. Credit Am» »

„, „ o ^ ,. ^ ^'"''"^ """"""^ J^""^" ^°- • 5? Bllaa-Cook Oak Company 7.49 Perkln. Glu. Company 3«

Hlmmelhereer-R.rrl.on Lbr. C». . Stlmson Veneer and Lumber Co.. 45

HoUy Eldge Lumber Co 5 Sullivan. T., ft Co 59 Cobb. A Mitchell, Inc 3 Hequarth, F. A., 4 Co 4

October

HARDWOOD RECORD

CLASSIFIED
ADVERTISEMENTS

Advertisements will he Inserted In tble sec-
tion ut tilt* following rates;

For one Insertion 20c a line

For two Insertions 35c a line

For three insertions 50c a line

Forfour insertions 60c a line

Eight words of ordinary l*»ngth make one Iin*.
IlfudliiB counts as two lines.
No dls|>l]iy except the headings can be ad-
mitted.

Remlttftnces to accompany the order. No
extra charges ft»r copies uf paper containing
tb« udvertlsement.

LUMBER FOR SALE

r> cars 4/i No. 1 \'om. IMain White Oak.
1' cars 4/4 Ists & 2nds I'laln Wlilte Oak.
1 car 7/4 No. 1 Com. Plain Itcd & Wbitc Oak.
S. DURKIIOr-mcn LUMBKU fO.', Crawfords
vlllo, Ind.

LOGS WANTED

WANTED— BLACK WALNUT LOGS

We pay cash for Black Walnut Logs 10" and up
la diameter. Inspection at shipping point.

MALEY & WEUTZ,
Evansvllle. Ind.

WANTED— BLACK WALNUT LOGS.

500 cart good black walnut logs, 12" and up
(n diameter, 6 ft. and up long. Will inspect at
shipping point and pay cash.

GEO. W. HARTZELL. Plqua. Ohio.

DIMENSION STOCK WANTED [

WANTED— DIMENSION OAK

Plain and Quartered. Write us for specifica-
tions and prices. INDIANA QUARTERED O.^K
CO., 52 Vanderbilt Are.. New York, N. Y.

DIMENSION STOCK FOR SALE

FOR SALE— ASH DIMENSION

1 carload. 2,000 pieces 2x2-2G".
10,000 pieces 2V'2x2yj-25".
.\11 stocl: under shed four months dry.
GALLOWAY-KENNEDY CO., Clarendon, Ark.

TIMBER LANDS FOR SALE

10 TO 20 MILLION

As desired. Hemlock and Hardwood, Price County,
Wisconsin. Address LAND COMMISSIONER, Soo
Line, Minneapolis, Minn.

TIMBER 85 TIMBERLANDS FOR SALE

."0,000 acres VirHiiii.-i hardwoods, 80% Oak. E.\-
cellent opportunity for quick purchaser. Esti-
mated to contain .'{OO.OOO.OOO feet. Address,
•ENGINEER," 701 Union Bldg., Charleston, W.
Va.

OAK, POPLAR, ASH

and all other hardwoods. In all grades and thick-
nesses, can be readily soH It advertised in the
Wanted and For Sale section of Hardwood Rec-
ord. It you ha^e a large stock you want to
sell try a few lines in this department and
see what a lot of inquiries they will bring you.

TIMBER LANDS WANTED

THOROUGHLY RESPONSIBLE PUR-
CHASER

With ample means will pay cash for tracts (2,000
acres and up) of vlrRin pine, cypress, and iiard-
wood tlmberlands owned in fee — in the southern
and southeastern states.

We are not brokers, commission men or factors,
but actual buyers, and all propositions submitted
will be regarded In confidence.

We solicit correspondence only with owners or
their legally authorized representatives. -Address
"BOX 90," care II.\rdwood Record.

Swage your CHISEL and SOLID TOOTH
CIRCULAR, your BAND, GANG and CYL-
INDER SAWS with the

"SIMPLEX"

The only 8 In 1 K'->\\or Die Swage made.
WKITE I'OK PRICES.

The Peter Gerlach Company,

CLEVELAND, SIXTH CITY

Secure Better Prices

at less selling cost by reaching

more customers. Hardwood

Record puts you before them

All Twice a Month

ASK US ABOUT IT

COUNTERFEIT CHECKS

ar« freqaeot
«zcepl where
our

Two Piece

Oeometrical
Barter Coin

It In nse, then

imitation Isn't

poBsible.

Bampie If you

uk for It.

S 0. C6ILDS
< CO.

Chicago
We aiBO make
Tim* OhaokK.
StenollBand
Lor Hamxizion

GIBSON

TALLY BOOK

*^~— *^^i

<>lUSON
TALLY BO

This three-throw tally ticket cover is made
from aluminum, and accommodates four tally
tickets — 4ix&'i inches in size.

Folds compactly to less than one-fourth inch
in thickness and fits side or inside coat pocket.

GiTes large area of four tickets for compli-
cated tallies, or straight grade can be made
on one page.

Accommodates any form of tally ticket desired.

Special, patented, triplicate tally tickets supplied,
printed on waterproof paper with carbon backs. Tallies
made on these tickets are unalterable. Their use en-
ables the inspector to retain triplicate, and forward
original and duplicate. Duplicate designed to be
attached to invoice.

These tally books arc perfection for durabilityi
covenicnce, accuracy, and for systematizing the inspec-
tion and measurement of lumber

Patent applied for on covers. Copyrichted, 1910.
Triplicate Tally Tickets natentcd.

^'M

PRICE LIST

Aluminum Tally Covers, each - - $ 1.00

Aluminum Tally Covers, per dozen - - 10.00

Patented triplicate Tally Tickets (stock form)

per 1,000 10.00
Singlesheel manila (stock form) Tally Tickets,

per 1,000 4.00
Specimen forms of Tally Tickets mailed on applica-
tion. Covers sold on approval to responsible concerns.

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HARDWOOD RECORD

llplabvr 33, 1015.

HARDWOOD FOR SALE

.LMBF.R
ASH

ro%l. * l»TR. *'i. NO. S «•. B 4 la » 4" HOKK-

i\N iii:i •TiiKliK i"ii\ir »SY I'.. I W..M,. III. I

NX < « II. 4 I

IIKI.I. Ill

", rnn. IRlh.. I
ih.. I vr. dry.

tCICC I^OKe. ^^ IB.

W. n VOI-NT, S r-o.. T!a>

CEDAR

SHOP & BTR.. whit.. 4 4": < OM. &' I I.K.. 4 4 .
BOX I.BK.. 4 4". I. STEPHENSO.V CO. TRUS-
TEES, W.Us. .Mich.

I.OO KIN. Tcnn. rf<l. 4 '4". 4" & up wd., 1 yr.
dry. VESTAL. I.BI: .v .\lFi; CO., Knoxvllle. Tcnn.

CHERRY

KG. S C. r./4". 4" & up. 2 >T. dr>-. G.
BRC INC.. Buffalo. N. T.

I <

i;i N .V NO. .1 < . 1 1 .1 A ».i. I I., ii; 11. "
VU.NS SALT « M'MIIKK •'11. »'

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II

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.NO. I I
XO. t I N"

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Nil I A M . .

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No. I « * U. 4 4 1.1 I" 4,1.
Ind. .1... k NO. S «-. * K. 4 4 ■ ■"■

dr»-. N.. V .. -■ k \ .VII. ' • ■ 'M-

r.vsv. I

FAS A N" ' ""'• 14 & 10' Ig.. .1 nio«

,lry, 1.11 . il>I> l.rMIIER CO.. IIIK

'noI 3 C. 4.'4, ovor 3 mo«. dry. H. H HITT
I-t'MBER CO. Pf-oalur. AIn

BASSWOOD

Ml. I ,v III K II I .V I
AH.S.VI'Ei; \ K.NEKK A .SK.Xll.M. <". nil
wood. Win.

FAS 4/4". to 12" wd.. ran. iKIhs.: F.\S 4 I
12" & wdr.. ran. Iglhii ; NO. I V. 4 4". U" ".I .
ran. lglh«: NO. I C. 4 4". 4" wd,. ran. iKlhii: NO.
I C. 4 4". ■" & wdr,. ran. Iplhs; NO. I <". * B.
.-.'4 & tl 4". ran. wdllis.. ran. iKtliK ■■i»UH.< .v
MITCHEI.I.. INC.. Cadillac. Mlili.

NO. I V. •', 4-. 4" & up wd.. :;
ELIAS & BBO.. BulTalo. N, Y.

NO. 2 * UTK. 4 4". ran. wdlhn, ID' .v up Ik,
winur iiawii. s nu.9. dry, HATTE.N I.C-MHEH
I'OMI'ANV, .New London. Win,

FAS. NO. I C, NO. 2 C. * NO. 3 f. 4 4 ■. ran.
wdth».. ran, iKlh., MlTCHEl.l. BHO.S. CO.MI'ANY.
Cadlllin. Mich,

NO. 2 C. 4 4". 1 yr. dry: I.OO Rl'N C!'4". 1 yr.
dry. MOWBRAY & ROBINSON CO.MPANY. Cln-
I'lnnatl. O. . „ » „

NO. 2 V. * B. 4 4-. 4- & wdr,; NO. 2 C. * B.
4'4- 4 .<: «" ml.; NO. 3 V. 4 4". 4' & wdr. I.
.■JTEl'HE.NSON 'O, TlilSTEE.-s. W.lls. Mich.

FAS. NO. 1 C. & NO. 2 C. 4 4". ran. wdlhB..
ran. iBlln. .X mo5. dry. STRABI.E I.CMBER &
SALT CO.MPANY, SaKlnaw. Mich.

NO 1 V. A B., 4 4". X iniis. dry, .No. Ind. slock.
VAIL COOPERAGE i. 'Ml A-NV. Fort Wayne. Ind.

BEECH

NO. 2 C. * B.. ."• S-. J yr. dry: NO. 3 C. 4/4". S
mos. dry. EAST JORDAN Lf.MBER CO.MPANy.
Ea«t Jordan. Mich.

NO. 1 V. II 4". 4" & up wd.. 1 yr. do'. G. ELI AS
& BRC. I.NC-.. BulTalo. N. Y.

FAS 4 '4". «" & wdr.. S to 10'. 10 mo». dry.
STEARNS SALT & LUMBER CO.. Ludlngton.

NO. 2 0.* B., 4/4. .-.4 & 0/4". W. D. YOUNG
& CO.. Bnv city. Mich.

LOG RIN * NO. 3 C. 4/4. over 3 moB. dry. H.
H HITT LIMBER CO., Dccalur, Ala.

BIRCH

NO. 2 & BTR. 4 4", 4" i up, 15 mog. dry,
AHN.VPEE VE.NEER A: SEATl.NG CO.. Birch-
wood, Wis,

XO. 2 C. * B. 4 '4", moB. dry; NO. 3 C. 4'4".
S mos. dry, EAST JORDAN Ll'MBER COM-
PANY. E;i»t Jordan. MICh.

NO. 2 * B. unsel. 4 4" & up, ran. wdths.. IN
mos. dry. IIATTE.N LU.MBER COMPANY. New
London, Wis.

FAS 4 4". ran. wdths., ran. Icths, MITCHELL
BROS, COMPANY, Cadillac. Mich,

NO. 1 * BTR.. red. 4 '4-, .■." & up, S lo IC. r.0%
14 & in\ nv, wd, S", S mos, dry: NO. I & BTR.,
red, 3-4", ."." & up, .s to IB'. IHIT' 14 & I«'. av. wd.

^/4 . .§ « up. ^ « up, t't\t *-* ct m , - . -. - ,

mos, dry; NO. 1 ft BTR., unscl., 4", .I" & up, .s t.
Ifi', TiOrr 14 & 11". av. wd, S". S mos. dry: 1 ft 2
F.*CK. 4 4". 4" wd.. to 10', S mos. dry. RICE
I..\KE UMBER CO.. Rice Lake. Wis.
NO. 2 C. ft B. 4-4", "■ •" — ■■— "
City. Mich.

CHESTNUT

I.Oli Kl s

1 M M 1 •: u .

COTTONWOOD

i'.ii\ i;ii~ . i _-....■

I ^ - . lo II. ..I. .11 > , NO. J

• AIIEUIIEK.N I.I .M

Pa,

l.<)<, m N II. ;i ,v liii wd.. 40", Ik., all wld.
I'l. .•. nil.-., dry, LITTLE ROCK I.BK, « .MPC, CO..
Mill.. Iti.<'k, Ark

I .\S 4 4 * .■. 4", nil. r, ilry; NO. I <'.

ft NO. 2 C 4 4 to r. 1 -, 1 yr, .liv, K,

.SONIHIEI.MEK CO,. .\1 1,11

F.\S 4 4". Ii.".'r 14 <w ... .K .; m..» dri . |-.\S
.■.4. .•..•••; 14 & 111' Ik.. :i mos. dry. NO. I '<■. 4 4"
& ,-. 4". r..-i',, 14 & Itr, :i ni.is .lr>. l.lHKltTV
IIAUnWiloU 1,1'MIIEK CO., HlK Cri-..k, T.-x.

FAS. I.OU RIN, No. 1 r., NO. 2 f. ft NO. .1 C.
1 4. iivnr 3 moK. ilry. H. H. HITT I.I'.M tIEIt I'd,.
1 .. . ;.nH, Ahi.

CYPRESS

MIOI'. I 1 ■. 1" ,u.„. ,!!: . I ,V> s i ; ^ .,. .

AliKI;lil.;ii.\ I.I .M HEP. i.JMi'A.W. Plllsl.urKli. Pa.

SHOP. 4 4". 1 >r, dry, LA.MH-KISII LCMBEK
.1 i.Ml'.V.NV, rliarl. st.iii. Miss

.NO. I < . 4 4". run, iBtliB,. I yr. dry. E. SONU-
iKI.MKlt I'll,. .Memphis. Tinn.

I,0(; KI'.N, yellow. 4 4 to 8.4", 2 to mos. dry,
N... Ark. .«tock. VAIL COOPERAGE COMPA.NV.
Korl Wavn... Inii,

SHOP ft BTR., 4,4". 4" & up. 8 to Id', b. s. at
AlHbama mill, li mos. dry. UI'KKALO HARIJ-
WOOD LUMBER CO., BuRalo, .N. Y.

ELM

NO. 3 ft BTR. 4, 4". 4" & up, 4 mos. dry.
AHNAPEE VENEER & SEATING CO.. Blrch-
woo.l. Wis,

1-.\S, NO. 1 C. ft NO. i C, uniy. 4 4". ran.
wdths., ran, Igths. COBBS & MITCHELL, INC.,
Cadillac. .Mich.

F.4S, soft, S/4", 6" & up wd., 2 yrs. dry. G,
ELI AS & URO., INC, BulTalo, .N. Y.

NO. 2 ft BTR., soft. 4/4" & up. rnn. wdlhs
extra wl.le stock, IS mos, dry, HATTEN LU.M
BKH I'llMP.VNV, New London. Wis,

I.OO KIN 4 4", I yr, dry. LA MB- FISH LU.M.
BER CO.MPA.NV, Charleston. MIsk.

NO. 1 <'. ft it,, Kray. ,1/4", ran, wdths,. av. wd..
ran. iRIhs: FAS, NO. 1 C, NO. 2 C. ft NO. 3 0.
4 4". ran, wdths.. ran, iKths. MITCHELL
BROTHERS CO.MPANV, Cadillac, Mich.

LOG RUN 4/4". ran. Igths., 1 yr. dry. E. SOND-
HEI.MEK CO.. Memphis. Tenn.

NO. 2 C. soft. <I 4". ran. wdlhs., ran. Igths..
1 yr. dry; NO. 2 C. ft B. 4/4", ran, wdths.. ran.
lir'hK.. 1 yr. iliv, STRABLE LU.MBER & SALT
CO,. Saginaw, Mich.

-NO. 'i (. ft l»., soft. 4/4 to 12/4", 4 lo 8 mos.
ilry. N.i Ind, stock, VAIL COOPERAGE CO.M-
I'.XNV, Fort Wayne. Ind.

LOG RUN 4 4". r.'i" & 0/4". GEO. C. BROW.N
&■ CO.. M.ni-hls. Tenn.

I.Oli KIN. NO. 2 C. ft NO. .1 r. 4 4. over 3 mos.
dry, II, II. HlT'c LUMBER CO., Decatur, Ala.

I.IMi Kl N. .soft, s I REI.I.c.KAME LUMBEK
CO., .Memphis. T. ■

ROCK ELM

NO. 2 & BTK. s 1. I, A- tip. i.-hi . I.-, nioj*. ijry.
AHNAPKK VKNI:KR & SEATING CO.. Blrch-
\Vfto«i, W'l.H.

NO. 2 ft B. .'t/4". ran. wdtliB., 1 yr, dry. "Gen-
uine." HATTEN LUMBER COMPANY. New
I.onilon, WIb.

GUM

BOX BOS. 4'4", IS to 17" wd. POWELL-
MYERS LUMBER COMPANY. .South Bend. Ind.

BOX BBS.. 4 4. IS" to 17". 12 to 16'. BELL-
GRADE LU.MBER CO.. Memphis. Tenn.

GUM— SAP

NO. 2 C. ft B. .-| .K. .'1 4 to fl'4". KRAETZER-
CURED LUMREK CO.MPANY. Cincinnati. O.

NO. 2 C. S/S", ,-,/.s" & 4/4". 1 yr. dry; NO. » C.
■; 4". I yr. dry. LAMB-PISH LUMBER COM-
r,>^'v, chnrleston. Miss,

COM. ft BTR. 4/4". ran, wdths,. ran. Igths.. F,
lo S mo..<. dry. LOUISVILLE VENEER MILLS.
Louisville. Kv.

COM. ft BTR. 4 4". POWELL-MYERS LU.M-
BER CO.. -South Bend. Ind.

X<». 2 C. 4 4 t'. C 4'. ran. Igths., 1 yr. dry. E.
SONDHEIMER CO.. Memphis, Tcnn.

FAS ft NO. I r. -•'4". .'jji/r 14 & 18'. .-. mos. dry.
LIBERTY HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.. Big Creek.
Tex.

FAS ft NO. I «'. 4 4". NO. I «'. ft H. 4 4". 4"

., .: 1.. !.;■ .; ■.. - i nn r ii.n iiaku-

IV . . . , , ,,nd 0/4.

■ l: . S mos,

.,.,.. NO.

11 II. II ni:l(

I \ ~ I l:l I

I \^ .\ M».

GUM— PLAIN RED

.r, 2'*- I.. .1

1' IIROW.N A I 1.1.. Mc

C, ;i 4 lo S/4 HKLLGIIAUI':

all
III-

1 1.. II 4".
XNV, I'll,.
. s 1- t

III-

NO. I
.1 II 1 ISII

i.i.i. . 1-..^ t.r

lis, (1 to
11 MILI.JI,

NO. I I . A I

KICIi I.I M

I As :t s. I

I . ;t s, 1 1', ;( I '■

I.I MHIOle CiiMP.V
( (>,M. ft BTR. 4 1

H III..S. .Irv. Loi
Louisville. Ky,

F'AS .•.4. «/4 * 8/4-. 0- & up ».l., .-14)% 14 ft

nr Ig., h. s , 8 to 12 iu<.> .!.> i'i:nrou. jur-

IIE.N A- .M.i'OWE.N. M. ■

t'OM. ft BTK. 4 4", I MYERS L.UM-

IIEH iiiMP.\.NV. S.iiilh I

F.\s ft NO. I <■. .'. N t., .SI IS. I yr.

drc. K SiiNlillElMER I'O.. .nn,

NO. I f. ft NO. 2 C. 4 4. ov. , > H. H.

HI'ir I.I .MHKK <<i,. Iliiiilur, .M..

NO. I 1. ft B. 4 4 t.. 8 4. BELLGRADE LUM-
BER CO . .M.iiii.lil", T. nn,

F-l> I 4" kl .. I ... I . i.t...i i:i-:ii I' ititiiWN A.

GUM— QUARTERED RED

N<». I <■. ft 11. .1/4 to 12/4-. KRAET/.ER-
CI'REI) l.U.MHER COMPANY. Cinclnnall. < I,

COM. ft BTR. r. 4". 1 yr, dry, LAMB-FISH

LUMHElt 1 li.MPANY, Chnrl. ston, Mli-s

C'O.M. ft BTK. 4 4". ran, wdths., ran Igths,, lo

12 m..s. <lrv. ..<l.l. Iiils.. highly fig. LOUISVILLE

VE.NEEK -MILLS. Louisville. Ky.

NO. I ('. ft B. 4 4 to 8/4. BELLGRADE LVM-

BEH <''!. Miiiit.hl... Tenn.

<0>l. A BTR. I 4". Kraetzercur. .1 GEO. C.

BRiiW.N .V ... M. Tiu.lil~. T.iin.

GUM— QUARTERED BLACK

NO. 2 «'. ft B. 4 4". KUAETZER- CURED
Ll'.MHEl! COMl'X.SY. i In. Iiiiiall. II

NO. I C. ft B. 4 4 HEl.l.GRADE LU.MBER
CO.. Memphis. T.nn

HEMLOCK

-MKK< II. A- NO. ;t 1 4 . 4" ik vvdr. I. STK-

i-il i-\-^. iv . -I . '11:1 STKt'^ \v..n- \(i. t.

HICKORY

I'AS ■- 4 •. :i 111. ,8. dry. F. .M. (1 TSINGER.
Evan.Bvlllr, Ind.

LOG RUN (14 * 8 '4. over 3 mos. dry. H. H.
HITT LU.MBKI: '•.. , ri...if.ir, .Ma.

MAHOGANY

FAS. (Igur.-d African, 4'4 to 8 4. « lo 18", 8 to
18'. II mos. drv: NO. 1, figured African. 4 '4 to g'4,
4 to 18". II to 18'. C. mos. drv; F.%S. plain Honduras.
1 '2 to Kl 4. <i to IS". 8 lo 18', <I mos. drv: F'AS,
figured .M.xliali. I 2 to Hi 4. 4 lo 18", to 18'. (I
mos. drv; SHORTS, 1 2 l.i 12/4. 4 to 18". 2 to 8'. O
mos. drv; MOl'LBING. 4 4 to 8 4. 2'4 ft wdr.. 11 to
18'. (1 mos. drv. H UDDLESTON-M ARSH MA-
HOGANY CO.. Long Island City. N. V.

MAPLE

1 .\S 4 4". ran. w.ltli».. s to Id', rim stock:
<'LK., white. 4/4", ran. wdths., ran, Igths., end
stuck. COBBS A MITCHELL. INC.. Cadillac,
.Mich.

NO. 2 C. ft B.. soft. 4/4". fi mos. drv; NO. I
C. ft B.. qtd., 4/4". n mos. drv EAST JORDAN
LU.MBER COMPANY. East Jordan, Mich,

F'AS. soft, s 4". 0" & up wd.. 2 yr». dry. G.
BLIAS & BRO.. INC.. BufTalo. N. Y.

XO. 2 ft B., hard. 4/4" & up. ran. wdths,, 20
mos. dry; NO, 2 ft B., soft. 4/4", ran. wdths. »
mos. dry. HATTEN LUMBER COMPANY. New
London. Wis.

FAS, hard, 4 '4", 12" & wdr., 8 to ]«', 1 yr. dry:
Nl>. I <•., hard. 4 4".. 7 to II". G to !«'. 1 yr. dry:
NO. 1 C. hard. 4 4" 12" & wdr. to In'. S mos.
dry. STEARNS SALT & LUMBER COMPANY.
Ludlngton. Mich.

NO. 3 4 4". I. .STEPHENSON CO. TRUSTEES,
Wells. Mich.

NO. 1 C. hard, 12/4", ran. wdths.. ran. Igths..
1 yr. dO': NO. 2 C. ft B., soft. 4/4". ran. wdths..
ran. Igths.. full prod. log. I yr. dry. STRABLE
LUMBER & SALT COMPANY, Saginaw, Mich.

F'AS, hard. S/4. I2'4 A- 10 4". C" & wdr., 18 mos.
dry; F'AS, soft. 8/4". fl" & wdr.. IS mos. dry.
YEAGER LUMBER COMPANY, INC., BufTalo,
N. T.

FAS, hard, 4/4 to 10/4". 8" & wdr.: FAS. hard.
4/4". c. drd. W. D. YOUNG & CO., Bay City,
Mich.

LOG Rl'N. .1/4-. GEO- C. BROWN & CO..
Memlihls Tt-nn

All Three of Us Will Be BeneBted if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

Octohor

1915.

HARDWOOD RECORD

HARDWOOD FOR SALE

MAPLE — BIRD'S EYE

l*"AS 4/4", ran. wdlhs.. ran. leths., end stuck.
I'OBBS & M:tCHEI^L. inc., Cadilluf, Mich.

FAS 4/4 to ,s/+",' ti" & wiir.. S to lU'. S mos. diT.
e. did. STBAK.NS .«.\I,T & LUMBER COMPANY,
Ludington. .Midi.

OAK— PLAIN RED

NO. i * It'i'K. 1,4". 4" .\; upi. !.'•. ino.s. dry.
AHKAPKIO Vi';.\iCl-;il & .SKATiNli CO., Birch-
wood. Wis.

FAS 4/4". 1 yr. dry. ABERDEEN LUMBER
CCJMPANY, I'lttsburgli, Pa.

NO. I C. .•!/4". S mos. dry. F. .M. CUTSINGER,
Evansvillc. Inci.

FAS & NO. I C. 4/4"; STEP PI-K. .^/4". HOFF-
MAN BROTHERS COMPANY. Port Wayne. Ind.

NO. 1 ('. & B. 3/4 & 4/4. BELLGRADE LUM-
BER CO.. Memphis. Tcnn.

NO. 1 * 2 r. 4/4" & .-14": COM. & BTR. .S/4".
GEO. C. BROWN a CO.. Memphis. Tenn.

FAS S/4 to 6/4"; NO. 1 C. ."j/S, :!/4 to G/4": NO.
2 C. ri/s & 4/4". KRAETZER-CUREU LUMBER
COMPANY, cinoinnall. O.

NO. 1 <:. m NO. 2 C. 4/4". 1 yr. dry. LAMB-
F1.SH LUMBER COMPANY, Charleston, Miss.

FAS 4/4 & r,/4. (i" & up wd.. 50% Ig.. <i mos.
dry; NO. 1 C. 4/4 & .'■./4". 4" & up wd., -.0% Ig.,
li mos. dry. LITTLE ROCK LUMBER & .MFG.
CO., Little Rock. Ark.

COM. & BTR. 4/4 & 8/4". ran. wdths.. ran.
Iglhs.. 2 yrs dry. LOUISVILLE VENEER MILLS,
Louisville. Ky.

<OM. * BTK. 4/4. IS mos. dry. THE POWELL-
MVEIiS LUMBER CO., South Bend, Ind.

NO. I C. & IS. 4/4 to .S/4". 8 to 2(1 mos. dry. No.
Ind. stoek. VAIL COOPERAGE COMPANY, Fort
Wavne, Ind.

NO. 1 « BTR. 4/4 to 8/4". 12 mos. dry. VESTAL
LUMBER & MFG. COMPANY. Knoxvllle. Tenn.

F.AS S/4. 1(1/4 & 12,4". (;■ & wilr., IS mos. dry.
YEAGER LUMBER COMPANY, INC., BulTalo,
IM. Y.

F.VS 4/4", r, mos. dry;NO. 1 C. .3/4", 8 mos. dry;
NO. 2 C. 4/4", S mos. dry. STIMSON VENEER &
LUMBER CO.. Memiihls. Tenn.

F.\S 4 4". 4->r',. 14 & Ui' ig.. 1 yr. dry; NO. 1 C.
4 4". 4."./; 14 it li;' Ig.. mos. dry. LIBERTY
HARDWOOD LUMBER CO.. Big Creek. Tex.

F'.AS & NO. 1 C. 4 '4"; F.4S 4/4". 0" & up. 10 to
16', S mos. dry; NO. 1 C. 4/4", 4" & up, (i to 1(>'.
s mos. dry. BUFFALO HARDWOOD LT'MBER
CO., Buffalo. N. Y,

OAK— PLAIN WHITE

FAS 3/S". mos. dry. F. M. CUTSINGER,
Evansville. Ind.

FAS 3/4 to C/4"; NO. 1 C. .VS. 3/4 to 6/4", NO.
■: C. 4/4 & 5/4". KRAETZER-CURED LUMBER
COMPANY', Cincinnati. O.

NO. I C. 3/S to .-i/S". I vr. dry. LAMB-FISH
LUMBER COMPANY. Charleston. Miss.

F'AS 4/4, r, A & S'4". II" & up wd.. 40% Ig.. 4
mos. dry. LITTLE ROCK LUMBER & MFG. CO..
Little Rock. Ark.

COM. & BTR. 4/4 to 8/4", ran. wdths.. ran.
Igths., 2 yr.s. dry. LOUISVILLE VENEER MILLS,
Louisville. Kv.

FAS 4/4". ti- & ui) wd. : NO. 1 C. & NO. 2 C.
4/4". 4" & up wd. PENROD. JURDBN & Mc-
COWEN, Memphis. Tenn.

NO. 1 C. & B. 4/4 to S/4". 8 to 20 mos. dry. No.
Ind. stock. VAIL COOPERAGE COMP.\NY. Fort
Wavne. Ind.

NO. I & BTR. 4/4 to S'4". 1 yr. dry. VESTAL
LUMBER & MFG. COMP.^NY. Knoxville. Tenn.

NO. 1 C. 4 4". 4 mos. dry; NO. 2 C. 4/4". 8 mos.
dry. STIMSO.N VENEER & LUMBER CO., Mem-
phis, Tenn.

FAS 4/4". 43% 14 & IG' Ig., 7 mos. dry: NO. I
C. 4/4", 4.'iK; 14 & II!' lEC.. •"' mos. drv, LIBERTY
HARDWOOD LUMBER CO., Bis Ci.ek. Tex.

OAK— QUARTERED RED

NO. 1 C. S/4". mos. dry. F. M. CUTSINGER.
Evansville, Ind.

STRIPS. 4/4", ■2V- to 3'.i". HOFFMAN BROTH-
ERS COMPANY. Fort Wayne. Ind.

NO. 1 & 2 C. 4/4 & 5/4". KRAETZER-CURED
LUMBER COMPANY. Cincinnati, O.

COM. * BTR. 4/4". ran. wdths.. ran. Igths..
to 8 mos. dry. LOUISVILLE VENEER MILLS.
Louisville. Kv.

COM. & BTR. 4 4". 2 yrs. dry. MOWBR.4.Y &
ROBINSON COMPANY. Cincinnati. O.

NO. 1 C. 4/4". mos. dry. .STIMSON VENEER
& Ll'MBFR CO.. Memphis. Tenn.

NO. 1 & 2 C. 4 4". GEO. C. BROWN & CO..
Memphis. Tenn.

OAK— QUARTERED WHITE

CI.R. 4/4", 3-3 i,b". ,30%, Ig.. IJ mos. drv. LITTLE
ROI'K LUMBER & MFG. CO.. Little Rock. Ark.

COM. & BTR. 3/8 & 4/4", ran. wdths., ran,
Iglhs.. li to S m.)s. dry. LOUISVILLE VENEER
MILLS. Louisville. Ky.

NO. 1 C. n/4". I yr. dry. MOWBRAY & ROBIN-
SON COMPANY. Cincinnati, O.

F'AS 4/4", 0" & up wd., 40%, 14 to IC Ig.. 8 to 12
mos. dry; NO. I 1'. 4/4", 4" & up wd., 40% 14 to
Itr Ig., 8 to 12 mos. dry. PENROD- JURDEN &
McCOWEN, Memphis, Tenn.

NO. 1 « BTR. 4/4 to 8'4". VESTAL LUMBER
& .MFG. CO.MPA.VY. Knoxvllle, Tenn.

F.\S 4 4 & 3/4". 4 mos. drv; I.%S 1/2", S mos.
dry; NO. 1 C. 4 4". mos. dry. STIMSON VE-
NEER 4i LUMBER CO.. Memphis. Tenn.

NO. 1 C. & B. 4 4 to 8/4. BELLGRADE LU.M-
BER CO.. .M.niplils. Tenn.

PINE

<'Oi\l, .sound knotted, wime. ,s/4". .s" su'r Hi'
EAST JORDAN LUMBER COMPANY, East Jor-
dan, Mich.

NO. 1. white. 4/4". K" wd.. 10 to !(!' Ig. I. STE-
PHENSON CO. TRUS'l'EES. Wells, Mich.

POPLAR

FAS 12/4", I yr. dry, sap no defect, P M.
CUTSINGER. Evansville. Ind.

COM. & BTR. 3/S-4/4". .ran, wdths., ran. Igths,.
10 mos, drv. LOUISVILLE VENEER MILLS.
L<iUlsvllle. Ky.

COM. qtd., 4/4", I yr, dry; .3/4", 2 yrs. drv.
MOWBRAY' & ROBINSON COMPANY. Cincin-
nati. O.

F.4S 4/4". 14" & up, ,30%, 14 & 10', 8 mos. dry:
SKL. 4 '4". .30% 14 & UV Ig.. 8 mos. dry; NO. I
C. 4/4 H .3/4", 50%, 14 & IC, 8 mos, dry; BEVEI.
SIDING. No. 1. Sel. & No. J C. 4. 3 & ti" wd., 50%,
14 & IB'. S mos. dry. NORMAN LUMBER COM-
I'ANY. INC. loulsville. Kv.

NO. I & BTR. 58 &• S'4", VESTAL LUMBER &
MFG. COMPA.W, Kti,,xviII.-. Tenn,

SPRUCE

:MEKCH. 4/4". 4" wd. I. STEPH E.NSO.N CO,
IRUSTEES. Wells. Mich.

SYCAMORE

N. 2 C. « B. 4 1"

LIHERTV IIAItDW
Tex,

I t .V 11;' Ig,. 8 mos. drv.
1,1 ,\1HER CO,. Big Creek,

WALNUT

NO. 1 C. 4/4", n mos. dry, F. M. CUTSINGER.
Evansville. Ind.

COM. & BTR. 4/4", ran. wdths,, ran. Igths.. (1 to
8 mos. dry. LOUISVILLE VENEER MILLS. Louis-
ville. Ky.

NO. 1 C. 4/4". 4" & up. 1; to 10'. S to 12 mos,
dry, PENROD-JURDEN & McCOWEN. Mem-
phis. Tenn.

FAS S./.S. S,'4 to S/4"; F,*S 1 '2 to 3/,S", 10" &
up wd.; F.*S 4/4". li 7' & S/!)'; NO. 1 C 1/2. 3/S,
:'./4 to 8/4"; NO. 2 C. 4 '4 to 10/4", PENROD
WALNUT & VENEER COMPANY. Kansas Citv.
M.>.

NO. 2 C. * B.. 4 4 & 3/4". (i mos. dry. No. Ind.
Stock. VAIL COOPER.AGE COMPANY. Fort
Wayne. Ind,

MISCELLANEOUS

NO. 4 C. 4'4", ran, wdth,. ran. Igths. MITCH-
ELL BROTHERS COMPANY. Cadillac. Mich.

M*PLE LATH. No, 1. 1/2". Hi wd.. 4' ig
1, STEPHEXSMX .-. ,, TRUSTEES, Wells. Mich,

DIMENSION LUMBER

O.IK. 2x2x30. POWELL-MYERS LUMBER
COMPANY. South Bend. Ind,

QTD. & PI^. RED & WHITE OAK. 3/4 & 4/4".
4" & up wd. HOFFMAN BROTHERS COMP.\NY.
Fort Wayne, Ind,

FLOORING

RED & WHITE OAK. 1."! 10x2". select: 13/lfi
xl%": BEECH. 13 1CX2U- dr.: 13/16x2% se-
lect; 13/16x2% Ictv. T. WILCE COMPANY,

Chicago, III,

VENEERS-
ASH

FACE

FAS ;; 4",

drv. F. M.

F,\S 7'S";
BROTHERS

COM. &
KRAETZER
cinnati. O.

NO. 1 C
LAMB-FISH
Miss.

F.4S 4,'4.
1 C. 4/4, 3/4

S mos. drv; NO, 1 C. C,'S". mos.
CUTSIXGEI;, Evansville, Ind.
STRIPS. 4 4", 4 to 3%", HOFFMAN
COMP.^NY', Fort Wavne. Ind,

hth. 4/4 & 5/4"; NO. 2 c. 4/4"'.

CURED LUMBER COMPANY. Cin-

3/8. 1/2. 5/8. 3/4 to 8/4", 1 yr. dry.
LUMBER COMPANY. Charleston.

i/4 & 6/4"". 40'r<, ig.. 5 mos, drv: NO.
& fi/4", 4" & up. 40% Ig,. 5 mos, dry:

LOG RUN up to 1/8" inc. 12" & up. 3 to 8"
BIRD'S EY'E VENEER COMPANY. Escanaba.
A.irh,

BIRCH

LOG RCN up to I/S" inc. 12" & up. 5 to 8'
DOOR STOCK. 1/8". cut to dimension desired.
BIRD'S EYE VENEER COMPANY, Escanaba,
.Mich,

1/20 to 1'4. 6 to 3I>"'. 4 to 8". rtv,. 1 vr. drv
HUDDT BSTON-MARSH M.\HOGANY CO.. Chi-
cago. 111.

GUM

OTD. FIG.. nnv tlucl.-ness. LOUISVILLE

A'ENEER MILLS, Louisville. Ky,

tiEL. RED, I/IO" \, IS", ti to 30. 48 to !)i;
k. drd.. pi. & tig.; INSEL. 1/lB ^ 1/S", « to 3«'
48 to 1)6, k. drd,, pi, & rtg, STIMSO.X VENEER
& LUMBER COMI'ANV. Memphis Tenn

MAHOGANY

Any thickness, l.ol ■ ls\'I i.i.k VENEER MII^LS
Louisville, Kv.

1/28 to 1/16. 10 to 30", U to 16". sld., 1 yr. dry
1/20 to 1/4. 6 to 18". to 20". swd 1 vr drv"
HUDDLESTON-MARSH MAHOGA.NY CO ChL

cago. Ill,

MAPLE

B-E Y E. 1 /'28", 1 li " \- u p \v (I . . r» to s ' l g. . in
sheet, also cut to dimension as tlosired BIRD'S
EYE VENEER COMPANY. Escanaba, Mich

PLAIN OAK

. .w*"^"..'''''"*^'*' '■'"'■ '■'" '" 'limension desired.
I.OO RIN up to 1,8" inc., 12" and up. 5 to 8'
BIRDS EYE VENEER CO.MPANY. Escanaba.
.Mich.

Any thickness. LOUISVILLE VENEER MILLS
Louisville. Kv.

1/20 to 1/8"'. to 30", 4 to 8", rtry., 1 yr dry
HUDDLESTON-.MARSH .MAHOGANY CO Chi-
cago, II!,

OAK— QUARTERED

Any thickness, LOUISVILLE VENEER MILLS
Louisville. Kv.

l,/30. 1/28, 1/24, 1,,/-20, 1/16". sld, KNOXVILLE
VE.NEER COMPA.VV, Knoxvill,-, Tenn

WALNUT

.\ny thickness, LOUISVILLE VENEER MILLS
Louisville. Kv.

SI.l). * RTY. KNOXVILLE VENEER COM-
P.\NY, Knoxville, "Fenn.

1/24. li to 18". « to 12". sld., 1 yr. dry. HUDD-
LESTON-.MARSH MAHOGANY CO., Chicago. Ill

VENEERS— CROSSBANDING

AND BACKING

BIRCH

I/2S"-, 12" & up. 3 to 8". BIRD'S EYE VENEER
COMPANY, Escanaba, Mich,

GUM

)UISVILL

MAPLE

". to s'. BIRl
Ilia, .Miih.

POPLAR

Any thickness. LOUISVILLE VENEER MILLS
Louisville. Ky.

1/28". 12" & up, 3 to s'. BIRD'S EYE VENEER
l-OMPANY, Escanaba, .Miih. M^-vi^-r-K

Any thickness. LOUISVILLE VENEER MILLS.
Louisville. Ky.

PANELS AND TOPS
BIRCH

_ .•! ply l,/4" & 5/lG". 3 & 3 ply 3/S", 3 ply l/4x30x
i2. sel. pi. red. 2 sides. WISCONSIN SEATING
COMPANY. New London. Wis

■^Aif ^\". ■S'J'Z' '* 'o •'"■'■■■ ^8 to 84". HUDDLES-
TON-MARSH MAHOGA.XY CO.. Chicago. Ill

ELM

'.i ply 1/4". WISCONSIN SEATING COMPANY
New London, Wis.

GUM

QTD. FIG., any thickness, LOUISVILLE VE-
NEER COMPANY. Louisville. Kv

r^Aif S''.MiK'- ^** 'n •'"'"■ -•* <" S4"". HUDDLES-
TON-M.\RSH MAHOGAXV CO,. Chicago 111

MAHOGANY

Any thickness. LOUISVILLE VENEER MILLS
Louisville. Kv.

3 ply 14'". WLSCONSIN SEATING COMPANY
New London. Wis.

OAK

.\ny thickness. LOUISVILLE VENEER MILLS
Louisville. Ky.

..-?J;^.,? P"' '-'■'" ^ 5/16". 3 & 3 ply 3/8": PL.
UHITE. 2 sides 3 ply 3/S"xl7.x62: QTD., 3 ply

14" WISCONSIN SEATING COMPANY, New
London. Wis.

1/4 to 3/8". IS to 36". 48 to S4". HUDDLESTON-
MARSH MAHOGANY CO,. Chicago 111

MAPLE

3 ply 1/4x24 and .30x60. WISCONSIN SEATING
COMPANY, New London. Wis,

PINE— YELLOW

1/4 to 3/8", 18 to 36", 4.S to S4", HUDDLESTON-
JIARSH .MAHOGANY fO_. Chicago. Ill,

WALNUT

Any thickness, LOUISVILLE VENEER MILLS
Loulsville. Ky,

,, Vr'* -.',", ^, *"", '* '" ■'""■ ■*» to S4"-. HUDDLESTON-
MARSH MAHOGANY CO.. Chicago. 111. '^'"■^'^

All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

H A K D W O O D K I-: C O K D

OeluUer 2.'.. r.u:

OR over t w e nt >' >' e a r s

E. C. MKRSHON
lia^ hccn rccoj^iiizcil as the aulln»rity
on all matters pertaining' to the savvin}^ «»!'
wood with a Hand Kcsaw. I'lirchasi-rs of Mcrslion

I'.,-ini! Rc>.,i\vv Ikh ■• till- 1jiiii("iI . •! In\ i\ iniiiMii i-

Wm. B. Mershon & Company

Saginaw, Michigan

Broom Handle

CHUCKING AND BORING MACHINE

It rounds end of handle and bores small tiolc in other end
automatically at same time. Capacity, 45,000 handles in ten
hours. .\ll the operator has to do is to keep the handles fed lo
the machine. Used by the largest producers. Write for de-
tails and price.

CADILLAC MACHINE CO.

Makers of Handle Makers Tools. CADILLAC, MICHIGAN

Phoenix

6 ft. Pony
Band Mill

Will cut 30,000
feet of 1" lumber
in 10 hours and
cut it good. ,

Nearly 200
of t h e • e
mills tawing
wood in the
U. S. A.

PRETTY GOOD
RECOMMENDA-
TION. ISN'T IT?

MODERATE PRICE

PHOENIX MFG. CO.

EAU CLAIRE

WISCONSIN

If you want 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.

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Ask any HARDWOOD RECORD advertiser for experience on results.

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October 25, 1915.

HARDWOOD RECORD

Our interlocking cngirn- (ininis used on overhcri
uii main cable over 30%.

Wrife for Particulars

LIDGERWOOD MFG. COMPANY

NEW ORLEANS, I,A.
Woodward Wiglit & Co.. Ltd

96 Uberty St., NEW YORK

SE.\TTI,E, WASH.

l.iilgerwood Mfff. Company

you knew

What our Bulletin Service
was doing for your com-
petitor in

the lumber business

you'd not only want the
service yourself, but you'd
have it. Let us tell you
about it.

Hardwood Record

Chicago

Look Out for Winter!

DON'T let freezing temperature catch you again with
the same troublesome old heating apparatus in
your dry kiln ! Even if you're not ready for a
complete new drying plant, let us figure with you now
on installing

The Standard Heating System

in your present dry kiln. This system is self -draining. It doesn't need
special attention, no matter bow cold tbe weather gets. All expansion
pipes are horizontal. There is no drop at either end of tbe system to
pocicet the condensation and stir up trouble. Write for an estimate. Ad-
dress : The Standard Dry Kiln Co., 1559 McCarty St., Indianapolis, Ind.

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MAlftCCO.

STANDARD ■VEHEEH MACHlNEHYc

I \ VOCW.VOKt\

^•im^A

VENEER

LATHES DRIERS RE-DRIER

CLIPPERS CRATE HEAD HOOP

AND BASKET MACHINERY

MERRITT MFG. CO.

LOCKPORT, N. Y.

All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

HARDWOOD R i: C O k D

Dry Stock for Sale

.% rur> Itl — .10- I Irar llri MUnl Duk

'.' ran> :!i; — 30~ I Irar l>r> M hllr Oak

I rar -:<; — .10" l'lr:r llrt Kril Oilk.

.i rar> t\t — IU~ (Irar |ir> Mlxril Oak.

I rar '.'x; — ID- < Irur llr< U hllr Oak.

1 car ^xt — lir rlrur llr. K.mI link.

I rar IS.ll'Si — IV • Iriir i>r> MItril Oiik.

I rnr I'^ali'^i — 1»~ (Irar llry Mlxnl (Ink.

t rar 111 — IR- (Irar l>r> MUril link.

I rar III — .111' ( Irnr llr> MIxral llak

I rar l\l — il t :>1 (Irar llr> Oak.

I rar I'lXi — lu- (Irar llr> Oak

1 rar i',\i'i — l!l < Irur llrt Ihik.

■ rar« -Jxl — ;«l ( Irar l>r.> « liilr \«li.

I rar »x:l — 30" (Irar l>r> \t lilir \-\\.

1 rnr I'S.sl'H. — 1»" (Irar l>r> Mlillr .\«li.

? rarM Hx^^-SO" Clrar l>r> liiiiit Niitiarrii.
*-3 rar S'.^xi*.^ — ;*(»' ("Ir ir llr> (^iini >i|iiari>«.
'^ rar :ix:i— ^iu" (*lrar Ilr> ((tini SiiiiurrH.

I rar ix:; — 30" ( irar I>rv (;iini Sinuirrt..

We can cm in .win imiir
anything in Dimension stock
promptly. Send us your inquiries

THE PROBST LUMBER COMPANY

Cincinnati, Ohio

COLFAX

Hardwood Lumber

Company

MANUFACTURERS OF
BAND SAWN

Oak Ash Cypress
Ginu

COLFAX, LOUISIANA

GR:\NII I-.\KISU

; . O r A T E D ON I, . H . * N . re,

Rotary Veneers

Cottonwood, Gum
Other Arkansas Hardwoods

\\ c have had many years'
experience in the proper manu-
facture and liaiidliiijj of tliis stock and
;irc sure of onrsclvcs and onr product.

Helena Veneer Co.

Helena Arkansas

!"iiiiing2

Birch and Maple

is our hobby

I'.iit we carry at all titnes a cf)mp]ete stock of
ASH — \ 4. 5/4 and 8 4.

BASSWOOD-

^4. Winter Sawn.

BIRCH 4 4. 5/4, 8/4. 10/4 & 12/4.

ROCK ELM— 5 '4 & 8/4.

SOFT ELM— ^/4, 5/4, 6/4 & 8/4.

HARD MAPLE^/4, 6/4, 8/4, 10/4 & 12/4.

SOFT MAPLE— +/4 only.

WIS. OAK— 4/4, 5/4, 6/4 & 8/4.

ALL GR.\DES. THOROUGHLY SE.^SONED AND

All Band Sawn
Write us for delivered prices on your requirements.

11' M 'I nimn-ltirt tut U'mils jjitt: lit .\ twf Linnluit.

Hatten Lumber Company

NEW LONDON, WISCONSIN

All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

October 25, 3915.

HARDWOOD RECORD

VENEERS AND PANELS

Ahnapee Veneer & Seating Co.

HOME OFTICE, FACTORY AND VENEER MILL, ALGOMA, WIS.
VENEER AND SAWMILL, BIRCHWOOD, WIS.

We manufacture at our Blrchwood plant single ply veneers
oi all native northern woods and deliver stock that Is in
shape to glue.

From our Algoma factory, where we have specialized for
twenty years, we produce panels of all sizes, flat or bent to
shape. In all woods, notakly In Mahogany and Quarter-Sawed Oak.

We make no two-ply stock, and do not employ sliced cut
quartered oak. Our quartered oak panels are all from sawed
veneer.

Every pound of glue we use Is guaranteed hide stock. W«
do not use retainers. Our gluing forms are put under pow-
erful screws and left until the glue has thoroughly set.

If you seek a guaranteed product that is the best, based on
results accomplished by most painstaking attention and study
of every detail, combined with the use of the best stock and
an up-to-date equipment, our product will appeal to you.

If you are a "price buyer" we probably cannot Interest you.

Geo.L.Waetjen & Co.

MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN

I >nr l.'if^i- sti K'k 1 il

PANELS AND VENEERS

al all tiiUL-N a>>iircs the con-
sumer of immediate shi]:)ments

If It's Veneer or Veneered We've Got It

Write fur Our Monthly Stock List

Sliced Quartered Oak

Figured Gum American Walnut

Cut to Dimension, Jointed and Taped,
Ready to Lay ROTARY CUT

CHESTNUT ASH POPLAR
PINE OAK WALNUT

Knoxville Veneer Co.

p. B. RAYMOND, General Manager, Knoxville, Tenn.

Roddis Lumber & Veneer Co.

Marshfield, Wis.

VENEERED PANELS
DESK TOPS TABLE TOPS

FLUSH VENEERED DOORS
WAINSCOTING BENT WORK

SAW MILLS AT PARK FALLS, WIS

For Sale

ply ■/•'

Good 1 and 2 Sides

W'l

Pane's.
Tanels.
I'atiels.
I'anels.

21x60

24x72

'Ml

I8xT2

30x6a

U&S

30x72

•15
336

I'iliiels.
I'antl^.
Panels.

J!x72
36x60

24.\81

ply 5/16" Good 1 and 2 Sides

24x4S

405

21x72

Panels.
Panels.

24x60

100

30x72

ply H'

Good 1 and 2 Sides

I'T)

Panels

36x72

30.\72

24x72

Panels

36x60

5 ply

%■■ Gfod 2 Si*?s

PareU.

36x72

SEI.KCT RKl) BIRCH

(NOT CIRLY)
3 ply V," Good 2 Sides

Panels 30x72

COJ

3 rly

Panels.

J.>HJN MAPLE

>4" Good 1 Side

24x60

30x60

FIGURED

JI.\H«<i.\NY 3

l>I.Y

Pane's,
Panels,

Vi in.. 24xrO. T.otKl
% in.. 24x72. Cond 2

1 Siile
Sirtes

BASSWOOD

25
25
25

3 ply Good 1 Side

Panels. 5-16 iu

I'anels. 5-16 in

Pane's. Vt in

24x60
39x60
33x72

PLAIN

RED OAK

3 ply

',i"

Good 1 Side

20x72

24x72

24x60

I*;Lnfls.

30x72

,? "'7

■4"

Good 2 Sides

I'aiifU.

24x72

i ply 5
I'ands,

/16'

Good 2 Sides

30x60

36x60

2.'i

Panels,

21x60

a ply

Good 2 Sides

21x72

195

r'an< Is

24x60

3 ply

Good 1 Side

LAIN

. WHITE 0.\K

Good 1 Side

3('x72

■'6

30.X60

I'ancK

24.xi2

50
11

rune's,
i'iiiiets.

%■■

Gcod 2 Sides

30x60
36x72

PiUie's.

Good 2 Sides

17.\62

QTD. SAWN WHITE O.VK

97 Panils. ',4 in.. 30x72. C.ood 1 Side

«JTD. SLICED WHITE OAIi

550 Panels. 'A in.. 24x72. Good 1 Side
25 Panels. V4 in.. 24x60, (jood 2 Sides

Wisconsin Seating Co.

New London, Wisconsin

THE

STANDARD VENEER CO.

Manufacturers

Rotary Cut Birch Veneers
HOULTON, ME.

-MILL AND STORE AT STOCKHOLM.

ME.-

BIRCH VENEERS

ABE TITE PRODUCT OF

HIGH GRADE LOGS. FIRST-CLASS EQUTPMENT AND

OVER TEN YEARS' EXPERIENCE

MILWAUKEE BASKET COMPANY, South Milwaukee, Wis.

All Three of Us Will Be Benefitea if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

HARDWOOD RECORD

Ootobor 20, 101&.

MICHIGAN

FAMOUS FOR HrtRD MAF>. i: AND GREY ELM

"Ideal

Steel
Burn-
ished

Rock Maple Flooring

M the flooring that i* manufactured ezpreaily te (upply tk* demand ior tho beit. Il it
mad« by modam machinery from carefutly-telecled (lock and arary precaution it taUen
Ibroughout our entire ayatem to make il fulBII in eTery particular 'ta name — "IDEA1-"

ROUGH OR FINISHED LUMBER— ALL KINDS

Send U$ Yow Inquiries

I. Stephenson Co., Trustees

WELLS, MICHIGAN

199

"Chief Brand'
Maple and Beech Flooring

in i, i and 13-16 and I 1-16 inch Maple
in all standard widttis and grades, will
commend itself to you and your trade
on its merits alone

WRITE US. WE CAN I.NTEREST YOU

Kerry & Hanson Flooring Co.

GRAYLING. MICHIGAN

We are members of the Maple Floorinfc ManafoctiirrTs' Aflnoolntinn

East Jordan Lumber Co.

EAST JORDAN, MICHIGAN

High Grade Maple

3 5M 12/4 No. 1 Common and Better

25M 8/4 No. 1 Common and Better

35M 6/4 No. 1 Common and Better

60M 4/4 No. 1 Common and Better

50M 5/4 Quarter Sawed Hard Maple

Strictly Lower Peninsula ■ stock.
Write for prices.

FULL THICKNESS BAMD SAWN QUICK SHIPy.ENT

BIRCH

4-4 and thicker, No. 1 Common and Better
also 4-4-5 and 6-4 Red Birch

We have on hand a complete stock (winter sawn)
Red, Plain and Unselected Birch, Basswood, Soft
and Rock Elm and Hardwood Lath.

LET US QUOTE YOU PRICES

Rice Lake Lumber Co., Rice Lake, Wis.

VON PLATEN LUMBER COMPANY

Iron Mountain, Mich.

Hnve following ttock at Boyn»
City, car or cargo thipmenti:

ISO M ft. 4/4 Nn. 2 Com. * Better

Red Oak
250 M fl. 4/4 No. 2 Com. & Better
Beech
76 M fl. B/4 No. 2 and No. S

Beech
14 M ft. I-4/4 No. 2 Com. & Bet-
tor Maplo
12 M ft. 10/4 No. 2 Com. & Bet-
ter Maple

500 M ft. 12/4 No. 8 Com. Mapla

500 M fl. 4/4 No. S Com. Maple

67 M ft. B/4 Lotr Run Baaswood

34 M ft. ri/4 No. 2, a- and 4"

fltrlps, Bacswoofl
12 M ft. B/4 n- Btirl wider No. 2

Com. Baaswood
24 M ft. 6/4 No. 3 Com. Baaa-

wood
12 M ft. 4/4 No. 3 Com. Baaa-
wood.

Strable Lumber & Salt Co.

Manufacturers of

Hardwood Lumber

AND

Maple Flooring

SAGINAW, MICHIGAN

WE WANT TO MOVE:

60,000 ft. 8/4 No. 2 and

belter Soft Maple.

150.000 ft. 4/4 No. 2 and

better Soft Maple.

75,000 ft. 0/4 No. 2 Com-
mon Soft Elm.

76.000 ft. «/4 No. 3 Com-
mon Soft Elm.

30.000 ft. 4/4 No. 2 Com-
mon Soft Elm.
100.000 ft. 4/4 No. 1 Com-
mon Basflwood.

37.000 ft. 4/4 No. 2 Com-
mon Basswood.

S. L. EASTMAN FLOORING CO.

SAGINAW BRAND

MAPLE FLOORING

SAGINAW. MICH.

MORE THAN 2,000 LUMBERMEN

HI.- (iMir<K ti..- >,•■>•. t.it'H'.i. 'i" ...... lii.ok v.ilh Its (l!-i[ :j'..at.«j

or trlpHcaie tally ilcki-ts. If you haven't Been It, lei ue
Bcnd you one with specimen tickets on approval. They
finlvo ynur BhortiiK*^ arui Inspection troubles

HARDWOOD RECORD

CHICAGO

All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

October 2r., 1013. HARDWOODRECORD 50

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'""WKKKM

BUFFALO

The Foremost Hardwood Market of the East

I ANTHONY MILLER |

IhardwoodsI

|OF ALL KINDSl

I 893 Eagle Street |

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HARDWOODS

I I OAK, ASH and I

Specialty - Brown Ash || CHESTNUT |

No. 2 ARTHUR STREET | | 1075 Clinton Street |

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The above firms carry large and well assorted stocks of all kinds
and grades of Hardwoods, and have every facility for filling and
shipping orders promptly. They will be pleased to have your inquiries.

All Three of Us Will Be BenelUed if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

BOTH NORTHERN ana
SOUTHERN OAK

HARDWOOD LUMBER and
ROTARY VENEER*

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VKUI-IIIS. TENS

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MILMI'IIIS. TrVN

Entire Line of Well Manufactured

HARDWOOD LUMBER

from Ys' thick up

IN DRY STOCK
including

OAK AND RED GUM

PLAIN AND QUARTER SAWN

WALNUT
HICKORY
ELM

POPLAR

ASH

MAPLE

ABC AND WESTERN UNION CODE

Tells all iIr re is to know about every
commercial idnst tree of America.

American
Forest Trees

(WRITTKN IK THE LUMHI:KMAN'S LANGUAGE)

Completely illustrated with
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(Price S6 Prepaid >

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Walnut & Veneer Go.

Penrod-Jurden
& McCowen

\Manufacturers

MANUFACTURERS AND EXPORTERS

HARDWOOD

LUMBER

mm m

and

WALNUT LUMBER M VENERS

Rotary Cut Veneers

General Offices

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

Mills at

KANSAS:CITY, MO.

Memphis, Tenn. Helena, Ark. Bradsfield, Ark.

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J. GIBSON McILVAIN & COMPANY

CROZER BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

Manufacturers of Lumber

OVER 100 YEARS

SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS

Small and Large Inquiries Solicited

' ■^■- M ;i li' itrany in ill :i i

MEXICAN, HONDURAS, TABASCO AND LACUNA

Mahogany Lumber (exclusively)

If interested in atractive prices on high grade stock, we would be pleased to make quotations

Otis Manufacturing Company

New Orleans, Louisiana

All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

November 10, 1915.

HARDWOOD RECORD

MICHIGAN

FAMOUS rOR. HARD MAPLE AND GRET ELM

Michigan Hardwoods
Cadillac Quality

Nature has been generous in supplying
Cadillac an abundant supply of superior timber
and we are supplementing her work with the
best methods of manufacture.

This has made Cadillac Quality famous.

Good timber, lumber well manufactured and
seasoned, grades that are reliable and not
blended to meet price competition, punctual
service; — these are the elements of Cadillac
Quality.

We sell direct to responsible dealers and
manufacturers.

Cobbs & Mitchell

INCOHfORATED

Sales Department, Cadillac, Michigan

DRY 5-4 CADILLAC
GRAY ELM

MITCHELL BROTHERS GO.

CADILLAC, MICH.

SALES DEPARTMENT

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PANELS

Guaranteed Stock in

PLAIN RED and WHITE OAK

BIRCH

SELECTED and UNSELECTED

RED GUM

WHITE ASH

QUAR-^^tRED OAK

and MAHOGANY

PROMPT DELIVERIES

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PLAIN RED OAK

MISSISSIPPI VENEER & LUMBER CO.

SELECTED RED GUM

Neenah, Wisconsin

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All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

HARDWOOD RECORD

Norembcr 10, lOlb.

Little Rock., Ark., Has the Pick of Arkansas Hardwoods

LITTLE ROCK LUMBER & MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Little Rock, Arkansas

D. S. WATROUS. Sec'y-Treas., Mgr.

COTTONWOOD

OAK

PLAIN AND QUARTERED RED AND WHITE

RED AND SAP GUM

High CTades Band Sawn Lumber

We Make a Specialty of Thin Stock

COTTONWOOD
AND GUM VENEERS

THREE-PLY GUM PANELS
BOX SHOOKS — EGG CASES

Write Us for Prices

Anderson -Tully Company

MEMPHIS, TENN.

Salt Lick Lumber Co.

SALT LICK

KENTUCKY

MANUPACTURHRS OF

^^ Oak Flooring

Complete stock of %" and 13/16" in all
•tandtu-d widths

Willson Bros. Lumber Co.

Manufacturers

West Virginia Hardwoods
and North Carolina Pine

. . ,, 1 I'ORTERWOOD. WEST VA.

Mills at ^JACKSONVILLE. N. C.
J CO.NWAY. S. C.

Main Office: PITTSBURGH. PA.

Vestal Lumber & Manufacturing Co.

Plain Oak

KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE^ ^ ^^^, . ^ ,

M.iiuiiacturcrs Qitartered White Oak

SOFT TEXTURED STOCK

Black Walnut

Tennessee Red Cedar Poplar

BAND MILLS ON L. & N. AND SOUTHERN RAILROADS AT VESTAL, A SUBURB OF KNOXVILLE

All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if You Mention HARDWOOD RECORD

November 10, 1915.

HARDWOOD RECORD

COLFAX

Hardwood Lumber

Company

INC.

MANUFACTURERS OF
BAND SAWN

Oak Ash Cypress
Gum

COLFAX, LOUISIANA

GRAND .PARISH

LOCATED ON L, . , R. & N. CO.

Alexander Brothers

3
1

ly*
1

.40,000

.35,060

.20,848

8,000

9,000

Nov. 1, 1915

Fas

1 Qrtd W. Oak
114 Qrtd. W. Oak
1% Qrtd. W. Oak
1% Qrtd. W. Oak
Qrtd. W. Oak
2 to 4 Strips SND.80,000
2 to 4 Strips SND. 4,000
Qrtd. Red Oak.. 4,000
Qrtd. Red Oak.. 10,400
IV2 Qrtd. Red Oak.. 24,000
1 Strips 2 to 4 SND.15.000
1 Pin. W. & R. Oak.24,000

1 Ash 10,500

3 Ash 19,000

F. O. B. Belzoni

BELZONI, MISS.

No. I Com.

58,000 $30.00

No. 2 Com.

40.000 $20.00

(67.00

68.00 62,000 36.00

68.00 7,500 37.00

68.00 12,000 37.00

75.00 7,000 45.00

42.00 45,000 20.00

44.00 3,000 32.00

45.00 0,500 25.00

50.00 32,800 30.00

54.00 55,000 32.00

40.00 30,000 18.00

45.00 11,000 22.00

42.00 20,000 22.00

56.00 11.000 34.00

3 Pin. & Qrtd. Ex. Wagon Oak, Com. and ijetter. Prices and Grades
on application, 30,000 ft.

1 Cottonwood ....40,000 24.00

1 12 & up 5,000 28.00

1 9 tD 12 Bx 8,000 30.00

1 13 to 17 8,000 39.00

1 18 up Pan. & No. 1 5,500 45.00

7.00 10,000 5.00

13.00 3,500 10.00

17.00 15,000 14.00

15,000

10,280

2,000

2,500
27,000
18,000

50,666
20,700

21.00
21.00
21.00

15.00
20.00
20.00

12".66
12.00

Cottonwood ....40,000

12 & up 5,000

9 tD 12 Bx 8,000

13 to 17 8,000

18 up Pan. & No. 1 5,500

Tupelo 30,000

Tupelo 15,000

Tupelo 5,000

1 18 up Pan. &

No. 1 20,000

1 13 to 17 Bx 15,000

1V4 35,000

2 56,000

1 Qrtd. Red Gum.. 8.000

1!4 Qrtd. Red Gum

1 Mottled Qrtd. R.

Gum 15,000

1 Pin. Red Gum.. 40,000
t'/i Pin. Red Gum.. 18,000

1 Sap Gum 30,000

1% Sap Gum 29,000

7/4 Sap Gum 20,000

40,000 17.00 20,000 13.00

18 & Up. Pan. &

Fas 17,000

Fas

22.00
24.00
18.00
20.00
28,00

42,00

24.00
25.00
16.00
17.00
18.00

11,000
20,000
50,000
10,000

6.000
35,000

42,666
28.000

14.00
15.00
18.00
20.00

24.00
15.00

13,66
13.50

4.000
4,000

10.00
10.00

12,000 11.00

37,000
18,000

10.60
11.00

12 in. average

24.00

Select No. 1 Sliop No. 2 Sliop
1 Cyp. Tank. 18,000 $36.00 50,000 $32.00 30,000 $18.00 30,000 $15.00

iVi Cyp. Tank. 25,000 38.00 15,000 32.00

Present Freight Rntes

Pliiladelptila ...33 Kansas City 22-24

Evansville 16 Buffalo 28%

New Orleans 10 Chicago .21V4&19%

Toronto 32 Boston 37

Cincinnati 18^

St.

Louis 15%

Louisville 15

New York 35

Cairo 14

Milwaukee 24%

CAN SURFACE AND RESAW IF WANTED

WM. WHITMER C^ SONS

INCORPORATED

Manufacturers and Whole-
salers of All Kinds of

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Wo C«n"

HARDWOODS

West Virginia Spruce and Hemlock
Long and Short Leaf Pine Virginia Framing

Franklin Bank Bldg. PHILADELPHIA

Dimension Hardwoods

Cut to Your Order
Save Time Save Labor Save Waste

We solicit your inquiries for
Chair Posts and Rockers band sawed
to pattern. Table Legs, Table Tops,
Seat Stock, or anything in special
cut Chair or Furniture Dimension.

THE POWELL MYERS LUMBER CO.

South Bend, Indiana

LU^INCTON

Hardwood Specialists

5,000,000 feet

4-4 to 8-4

BEECH

A complete stock of thoroughly
dry Beech in all grades

We specialize in Kiln Dried Stock

TEARNS

SALT &• LUMBER CO.

CTPte O

LudingtokMich

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NoT»ml.iT 10. 10 IB.

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Oak Lumber

At the same time there is a clearly defined lesson in the way
the ladies are fiocking to those soft brown shades that are so
pleasing and restful to the eye.

When you say "Oak" and "Brown" in the same breath you
don't have to cook up any excuse for the combination. Oak nat-
urally stands for these soft, comfortable, restful brown interiors.

It is not necessary that one have unusual discernment to
appreciate that a color which the housewife favors is going to have
a lot to do with the furniture she buys.

We have then the condition of the vogue of the brown
tones: — Oak is not only at its very best so finished, but is superbly
ahead of all competitors in those shades.

Hence, there seems no possible outcome other than that oak
will have all of the call this winter. Indeed it has clearly sliown
its increasing popularity already.

The wise furniture man will prepare to meet this condition
by concentrating his attention on new designs in nak.

For any information on this subject adc]ress

Any Manufacturer on the Succeeding Page

Oak Information Bureau, 707 Ellsworth Building, Chicago

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HARDWOOD RECORD

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The following manufacturers have made a study of oak production. In sending
them your requirements you will be insuring yourself the best in stock and service.

ALABAMA

H. H. Hitt Lumber Company, Decatur. (See
page 37.)

• Cromwell Hardwood Lumber Company, Mont-
g.mery. ARKANSAS

• Kentark Land & Timber Company, Allport.
Thane Lumber Company, .\rkansas City.
Bliss-Coolc Oak Company, BlissTille. (See page

48.)

I'aepcke Lelcht Lbr. C»., Blythevllle and Helena.
(See page 47.)

Penrod-Jitrden & McC»wen, Brasfield and Helena.
(See page GO.)

Crittenden Lumber Company, Crittenden.

• Fee-Cravton Hardwood Lumber Co.. Dermott.
J. H. Bonner & Sons, Hetb. (See page 48.)
Little Rock I,umber & Manufacturing Company,

Little Rock. (See page 4.)

• Miller Lumber Company, Marlanna.
Mulrhead Lumber Company, Weldon.

ILLINOIS

H. B. Blanks Lumber Company, Calr».
Thomas McFarland Lumber Company, Cairo.
Uermott Land & Lumber Company, Chicago.

• Utley-HoUoway Lumber Company, Great North-
ern Bldg., Chicago.

INDIANA

S. Burkholder Lumber Co., Crawfordsville. (See
cage 54.)

V. M. Cutslnger, Evan.svlllc. (See page 41.)

• Maley & Wertz, Kvansville.

John A. Reltz & Sons, ETansrllle.

• Bedna Youne Lumber Company, Oreensburg.
Chas. II. Barnaby, Greencastle. (See page 41.)
.T. V. Stlnison, Huntingburg. (See page CO.)
Long-Knigbt Lumber Company, Indianapolis.
Coppes Bros. & Zook, Nappauee.
Wood-Mosaic Company, New Albany.

North Vernon Lumber Company, North Vemoa.
C. & W. Kramer Company, Richmond.

• Swaln-Roach Lumber Company, Seymour.

• Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber Company,
South Bend. port Wayne.

• Hoffman Brothers Company. (See page 12.)
Perrine-Aroistrong Company.

KENTUCKY

• Arlington Lumtrer Company, -Arlington.
Wright-KltcheB Lumber Company, Ashland.
Clearfield Lumber Company, Inc., Clearfield.
Day Lumber & Coal Company, Jackson. (See

page 43.)

LonlsTlllo.
W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company.
Churchill-Milton Lumber Company.
Norman Lumber Company.

LcxinfftoK

• Kentuckv Lumber Company.

E. R. Spo'tswood & Sons. (See page 42.)
Turkey Foot Lumber Company, Iec.

LOUISIANA

• The Ferd Brenner Lumber Company, Alexandria.
Boeut RiTer Ld. & Lbr. Company, Log tow*
The Hyde Lumber Company, Lake Providence.
Thlstlethwaite Lumber Company, Ltd., Washlne-

ton.

MASSACHUSETTS
The .\tlantic Lumber Company, Boston.

MICHIGAN

Thomas Forman Company, Detroit.

MISSISSIPPI

Alexander Bros., Belzoni. (See page 5.)
Lamb-ilsh Lumber Company, Charleston.

page 49.)

(See

• Manufacturers of Oak Dimension Stock.

Thi darabilil]), strength, standing ability
all comers for all timz. It is more firm

• D. H. Hall Lumber Company, New Albany.
Paepcke Lcicht Lumber Company, Greenville.

(See page 47.)

• Tallahatchie Lumber Company, Philipp.
Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Sardis.

MISSOURI

Long-Bell Lumber Company., Hdwd. Dept., Kan-
sas City, Mo.

Tscbudy Lumber Company, Kansas City.

Galloway-Pcase Company, Poplar Bluff. (See
page 38.)

Kaker-Matthews Manufacturing Co., Slkeston.
(See page 48.)

• Garetson-Ureason Lumber Company, St. Louis.
Thos. B. Powe Lumber Company, St. Louis.

NORTH CAROLINA
Asheville Lumber Company, Ashevllle.

• Carr Lumber Company, Pisgah Forest.

OHIO

Yellow Poplar Lumber Company, Coal Grove.
W. M. Hitter Lumber Company, Columbus.
Barr-Holaday Lumber Company, Greenfield.

Cincinnati,
Bayou Laud & Lumtwr Company.
C. Crane & Co. (See page 43.)
The John Dulwcber Company.
Hay Lumber Company.

Mowbray & Robinson Company. (See page 12.)
The New River Lumber Company.

PENNSYLVANIA

J. M. Murdock & Co., Johnstown. •
.-Vberdeen Lumber Company, Pittsburgh.
Babcock Lumber Company, Pittsburgh.

TENNESSEE

• J. M. Card Lumber Company, Chattanooga.
Williams Lumber Company, Fayetteville.

• Bedna Young Lumber Company, Jackson.
Kimball & liopcke, Ivnoxvllle.

J. M. Logan Lumber Company, KnoxTiUe.
Vestal Lumber & Manufacturing Co., KnoxvlUe.
(See page 4.)
IJttle Kiver Lumber Company, Townsend.

Memphis
Anderson-Tuily Company. (See page 4.)
Geo. C. Brown & Co. (See page 12.)
R. J. Darnell, Inc.
May Bros.
Memphis Band Mill Company.

• Nickev & Sons Company, Inc.
Paepcke-Leieht Lumber Company. (See page 47.)
Penrod-Jurden & McCowen. (See page 60.)
Russe & Kuri:ess, inc.

E. Sondheimer Company.
VandeuBoom-Stimsou Lumber Company.

• Welsh Lumber Company.
J. W. Wheeler & Co.

Nashville
Davidson Hicks & Greene Company.
Farris Hardwood Lumber Company. (See page
50.)

• Love, Boyd & Co.

• John B. Ransom & Co.

VIRGINIA

• V. S. Spruce Lumber Company, Marlon.
Boice Lumber Company, Inc., Richmond.

WEST VIRGINIA

• Lewis Lumber Company, Albright.

The McClellan-West Lumber Company, Bluefleld.
(See page 42.)
The Alton Lumber Company, Buckhannon.

• West Virginia Timber Company, Charleston.

• Pardee & Curtin Lumber Company, Clarksburg.
Maryland Lumber Company, Denmar.

C. L. Hitter Lumber Company, Huntington.
Rockcastle Lumber Company, Huntington.
Clay Lumber Company, Middle Fork.
The Parkersburg Mill Company, Parkersburg.

• The Meadow River Lumber Company, Rainelle.

• Warn Lumber Corporation, Raywood.

• American Column & Lumber Co., St. Albans.

WISCONSIN

G. W. Jones Lumber Company, Appleton.

and beauty of oak are proof against
intrenched today than ever before.

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November 10. lllin.

PBAYCITY-MICH.^

THE LARGKST PRODI CING CENTER OF MICIIIC;AN HARDWOOD

LOWER PENINSULA HARD MAPLE

When You Think This, Think Bay City

DOOM 4/4 No. 2 Common 4 Better Hard Maple

tOOM 4 4 No. S Cemmon Hard Maple

lOOM 4/4 No. 2 Cemman A Better Soft Uapl*

lOOM 4 4 Birch. Mill Kun

200M 4 4 Baaiwaed. U R.

IIOM 4 4 111 A 2ad Baiewoad

70M 4/4 No. 1 Common BaiKwaod

40M 6 4 Ut A 2nd BalKWOod

flOM B 4 No. 8 Common Baaawood

125M B 4 No. 2 Common A Better Beech

16uM 4 No. 8 Common Beech

Richardson Lumber Company

100,000 ri. 4/4 No. 1 Common and No. 2 Common

Birch.
100.000 tt. 4/4 No. 8 Common Birch.
I'O.iioo ft. liA to li7 III and 2ndB Hard Maple.
ISO.OOO ft. 4/4 .S'o. 8 Common Hard Maple.
7BU.OU0 ft. B/4 No. 8 Common Hard Maple.
60.000 ft. 6/4 No. 3 Common Hard Maple.
75.000 ft. S 4 No. 2 Common and Better Beech.
600.000 tu 6/4 No. 2 Common and Better Beech.
2SU.U00 ft 5/4 No. 2 Common and Better Baecb.
400.000 ft. 6/4 No. 8 Common Beach.
100.000 ft. 0/4 No. 8 Common Beech.
20.000 ft. 6/4 No. 1 Common Elm.
20.000 ft. 0/4 No. 2 Common Elm.
60.000 ft. ri/4 No. 2 Common Bnmwood.
100.000 ft. 5/4 No. 3 Common Baaawood.
16,000 ft. 6/4 No. 1 Common Baaawood.

The Kneeland-Bigelow Company

HARD MAPLE

ie/4 la A aa. f and up 124.80* ft.

1*4 No. 1 Com 34.700 ft.

1« 4 No. 2 C. A B.. 4 to 7" wide 9.000 ft.

12/4 la A 2«. «" and up 208 800 ft.

12'4 No. 1 Com 28.000 ft.

10,4 la A 2a. 8' and up 163.200 ft.

8/4 la A 2a 8" and up 180.200 f I.

8'4 No. 1 Com.. 8* and up 8.2110 ft.

8 4 heart culla 72.000 ft.

• 4 la A 2a. 8' and up 286.000 ft.

8/4 la A 2a. 8" and UP 166.800 ft.

i/4 BIrda Eye »20 ft.

4/4 BIrda Ejre 480ft.

4/4 White 87.600 ft.

4/4 la A 2a. 8' aad UP 660.000 ft.

4/4 H.arl culla 61.200 ft.

4/4 Plank trim 37.000 ft.

BIRCH

i/4 N». J C. A ■ ;.200 ft.

('4 No. 3 Com 3.000 ft.

4'4 No. 1 Com 32.006 ft.

4/4 Na. 2 C A B "2 ??"'»•

4/4 Ni t Com. 23.000 ft.

4/4 Na. » Cam. 83.600 ft.

W. D. Young

BEECH

6/4 Na. 1 C. A B

6/4 Na. 3 Com

3/4 Na. a C. A B...

6/4 No. 3 Com

4/4 Na. 1 C. A B

4/4 Na. 2 A 3 Cam..

4/4 No. 3 Cam

BASSWOOD

4/4 Na. 2 C. A B.
4/4 Na. 3 Com. . .

. SS.Ot* ft.
. 63 400 ft.
40».»00 ft.
, 31 006 ft.
. 8S.0»4 ft.
.868.00* ft.
. 67.000 ft.

.446.00* ft.
. 30,000 ft.

ELM

4/4 Full cut 26.*0* ft.

4/4 Full cut
4/4 Full cut

ASH

CHERRY

OAK

4/4 Full cut

& Company

13.*** rt.

1.6** ft.
*.*•* ft.

Let the following manufacturers know youj needs:

KNEELAND-BIGELOW CO. W. D. YOUNG & CO.

RICHARDSON LUMBER CO.

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November 10, 1915.

HARDWOOD RECORD

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Here Are Your
Walnut Legs

Possibly they could be used for other purposes,
as the stock is of very good quality, practically
dry, straight grained, mild wood, clear of knots
and other serious defects.

This stock has some pieces with sap on the
edges but this does not injure same for purpose
intended, as sap is not white.

We offer for (|uick shipment and at very low prices, so as to
move before stormv weather arrives:

Pieces Dimensions Lengths

18,000 . . 21/2 " sq. 34

23,000 . . 21/4 " sq. 34

14,000 . . 21/2x1 J^ 26

31,000 . . 2 xiy2 26

10,000 . . 11/2x11/2 26

22,000 . . 21/2 " sq. 24

19,000 . . 21/4 " sq. 24

34,000 . . 2% " sq. 22

225,000 . . 214" sq. 22,20,18,16,14"

Also we have for immediate shipment 600,000 ft. of 4/4 walnut
lumber, 6 to 14 ft. long.

This stock will grade equal to No. 1 Common and is practically
clear of knots and small defects found in lumber cut from parts of
the log near the heart center.

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General Market Conditions 13

Cover Picture 13

A Standard Price List 14

Home and Foreign Market* 14

A Prote»t Filed 1J

American Trade Helped by Interest of Foreign Buyers 1ft

Law and Lake Boats IS

SPECIAL ARTICLES:

Indiana's Wood- Using Industries 16-19

The Charter Oak Was A White Oak 19

Intereiting Traffic Developments 20

Pertinent Legal Findings 21

Lumbermen's Round Table 22

The Export Situation 23

Cutting Dimension at the Sawmill 23

Conditions In Casehardened Wood 24-2«

CLUBS AND ASSOCIATIONS:

Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers' Meeting 27-29

Miscellaneous 30-32

THE MAIL BAG 30

WITH THE TRADE 32

PERTINENT INFORMATION 33.35

HARDWOOD NEWS 35-44

HARDWOOD MARKET 44-50

HARDWOODS FOR SALE 52-53

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS 54

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Review and Outlook

General Market Conditions

AfeU IBERMAN OF CONSKRVATIVE TENDENCIES and
judgment which is usuiilly considered as worth sometliing,
predicted a few days ago that witliin ninety days the level of general
prices in lumber will have reached as high a point as has ever been
touched. This statement was made without any evidence of excite-
ment and seemingly without any consideration of a possibility of
this condition not developing.

In looking over the situation in the hardwood field about the only
item that appears to be in a condition that is not really good is
a line of low-grade northern hardwoods, which piled up considerably
on account of the inactivity of the railroads. It is confidently ex-
pected that the almost normal return to the purchasing field by the
transportation lines will take care of all of the surplus of northern
hardwood stock that would ordinarily go into ties and probably cut
down the available amount even beyond the present over-production.

In practically all other standard items the expansion of trade has
more than balanced supply and demand, and at the rate the con-
suming factories are disposing of their goods and using up what
stocks they have accumulated, an incline in price will make itself
• known inside of a few weeks.

It is generally reported from Grand Rapids that the furniture
people in that high-priced town are working about twenty-two hours
a day. In Sheboygan, with its high state of efficiency in manufac-
ture, they are working practically to the limit of production on
moderate priced lines. All of the sections turning out furniture,
pianos and in fact every line of woodwork in hardwoods is going on
a normal basis as far as production is concerned.

The active situation has resulted in a good many millions of feet
of hardwood lumber going into consumption, but there is still room
for improvement in the actual call as there has been more lumber
purchased and delivered in the last few months than is realized. The
wise buyers have bought in here and there in small lots as they
have gotten the right price, and as a consequence have piled up a
good deal of lumber on their yards. However, there is no doubt in
the world but that the present state of activity is going to clean up
this in a short time.

All reports from the southern pine section are increasingly cheer-
ful. Pine has been influenced by unusual conditions more than most
of the other woods as it has gone into a good many big orders for
domestic consumption, and has also bfeen exported to a very large
degree. As a result there has been a material cutting down of mill
stocks in yellow pine. Other competitive woods, such as hemlock,
have not enjoyed this out-of-the-ordinary assistance, but even though

the call has not come direct to hemlock, that wood will indirectly
profit from any improvement in the yellow pine situation. In fact,
it has been reported that some of the good effect of the great activity
in southern pine is already showing. The biggest buyers of pine
have been the railroads and car companies who are planning big
things in the way of car construction, making over roadbeds, requir-
ing a good deal of timber for ties and bridge work, and in short,
a general program of improvement and addition to stocks and
equipment.

The yard trade as a general thing is buying in fair quantities,
but has not opened up its demand to the extent that it might in
the next month or so.

There is absolutely nothing perceptible in the lumber situation at
this date to indicate anything but a rapid return, both in demand
and price, to a level bordering normal. This movement has already
set in and seems to continue practically without interruption. It is
a cheering fact that without a doubt improvement in business is due
more to a general improvement in the domestic situation than it is
to the effect of the abnormal export trade. In other words, with
but a normal trade with various foreign countries and the domestic
situation in the shape that it now appears to be in, it can confi-
dently be expected that good times wOl continue.

The Cover Picture

No ONE NEEDS TO BE TOLD that the twin trees constituting
the leading feature of the cover picture illustrating this issue
of Hakdwood Record are of second growth; that is, they came on
after the older trees had been removed. They stand about six miles
from Alpena, Mich., on a tract of land formerly occupied by white
pine but which is now first class pasture. The photograph was furn-
ished by the Derry Lumber Company, Detroit, Mich.

The twins trees are paper birch. That is the tree which formerly
furnished the bark of which Indians and white traders made the
canoes that played so important a part in the pioneer history of this
region. Trunks larger and smoother than those in the picture were
selected by the canoe maker; and the bark was peeled in sections five
or six feet long, and these were sewed together with bark or roots
to make the skin of the canoe. That was stretched over a light frame
of proper size and shape, and the holes and seams were made water
tight by means of pitch from pines and wax from balm of Gilead
buds. Thus the canoe was made.

It has passed out of use as a business proposition, but summer re-
sorts still have a few birch bark canoes to rent to tourists, and
occasionally an Indian is at hand to demonstrate the mystery of that
kind of navigation, for a consideration.

HARDWOOD RECORD

November 10, lOt.l.

Many novelties ore made of bir> i 'li a» vigitiu); rardn, invi-

tatiouii, piu tray.H, berry biirkptH, niid wlinliiot!'. Tlio picbalil iipponr-
uocc of tbc trunkii in the picture inJicHteti that they have been Nkinned
by some souvenir hunter, and the nickly look of the brnnrhes bcspeiik
appronchini; decline and death. The outer bnrk of the paper birch
may be removed witliuut killing; the tree Imt if the trunk i» peeled
down to the wood, death follows in a year or two. Msuiy fine paper
birches in the vicinity of cnnips and townn are fnlnlly llayed by Hum-
mer visitors and other thought lei^s persons who are not iui|)re88ed by
the fact that a tree rinpiires many years to attain moderate size,
but n vandal can kill it in ten minutes of thoughtlessness.

The commercial value of paper birch is due to it.t suitableness for
spools. These are made in, New Kngland by millions, but the industry
is yet small in the Lake States in spite of the fact that ]>a|ier birch
is abundant there. Doubtless the spool makers will draw upon that
source of supply in the future. It is the Ix'st spool wood obtainable,
because of its white color, the ease with which it may be cut with lino
tools, and its ability to hold its shape after it leaves the lathe.

The twin trees stand on the upturned root of a white pine whose
trunk was bucked for sawlops forty years ago when lumbering was
at its height in that part of Michigan. Although the trees occupy the
top of the log, their roots |iass down its side and penetrate the
ground. The seeds of paper birch are equi[)pcd with wings which
carry them long distances through the air, and if they fall on suit-
able ground tliey grow. The seeds which produced the twins evidently
found soil on the top of the pine log and germinated there. That habit
of beginning life on top of a log or some other object is not
prominent with paper birch, but is strongly characteristic of yellow
birch, the seedlings of which prefer the top of a rotten stump, log, or
moss-covered boulder, and the roots make a quick journey downward
until they strike soil.

The surrival of the pine root during forty years speaks well of its
powers of resisting decay. If the testimony were not explicit that it
is white pine, it might be suspected of being Norway pine which lasts
much longer in exposed situations than white pine, due to the greater
quantity of resin in it. In old cuttings the white pine stumps are
often nearly gone, while those of Norway pine are still sound. Prob-
ably one pine in four, averaged for the whole original Michigan piner-
ies was Norway pine. The tree form of the latter is quite different
from that of the white pine, and so far as trees are shown in the
picture, no Norway pine seems to be among them. All trees visible
in the picture are likely second growth.

A Standard Price List

IT IS OFTEN EA!?1KK TO !?KE WUAT IS NEEDED than to
.' point out a way to attain it. An example of that is seen in a
recent report upon American opportunities to sell lumber in China
and other parts of the Orient, by I^anklin H. Smith, who went there
as a government agent to investigate that matter. Among other needs
pointed out, mention is made of the help that would come from a
standard price list of lumber. Chinese and other people of the eastern
countries are constituted somewhat like other human beings, and
when they begin to plan the purchase of lumber in America to be
shipped across the Pacific, they would like to have some way of
figuring cost before the trade is finally consummated. That is
natural.

If they were buying steel, cement, cotton, or wheat they could con-
sult market quotations and determine about what the proposed pur-
chase would cost; but they cannot often do that with lumber.

The paternal and benign supervision over lumbermen which certain
departments of the government have seen fit to take unto themselves
has stood in the way of a free discussion of lumber prices by the
men who produce and handle lumber. Such discussion has been con-
strued as "in restraint of trade," and lumbermen who talk prices
have been threatened with fine and imprisonment. Consequently,
there is no such thing as a standard price of lumber, so far as
announcement by any sort of authority is concerned.

When an intelligent government agent got among prospective
buyers in a foreign country it did not take him long to see that the
absence of such standard prices was hindering trade, nnd he so

reported, and the government gave his re|K>rt to trade papers for
publication.

What is going to bo done about it? The need hiiH been pointed
out by n government agent who was sent all the way to China to
leuru what couM have U-en learned a great deal nearer home; but
the |)oint now is, will the government still stand in the way and pre-
vent liimberini'ii from doing the very thing which its agent has
ileclared «(iuld greatly help trade t Or, if the men who make and
sell the luiiilM'r are not to be permitted to fix a t-landard price for its
sale, will the government, by means of it« departments, bureaus, and
branches, do anything in that direction t If not, tlio agitation of the
<|uestion will go round a circle and end where it began.

When the Kcderal Trade Commission was created and sent forth,
some people ho|ied that it possessed the power and had the purpose
to handle propositions exactly like that called up by Mr. Smith's
reference to the dcf-irabilily of a standard price list for lumber;
but a good many months have gone by ami some hundreds of speeches
have been made between the Pacific coast and the Atlantic shore,
and everything is still dark and doubtful concerning what the com-
mission's scope of activities shall be along that line. Nobody appears
to know, and nolxidy seems to be able to find out. Tliis substan-
tiates the statwnent vyilh which this article opens, that "it is often
easier to see what is nbeded than to point out a way to attain it."

Home and Foreign Markets

T3TAL EXI'OHTS OF LU.MUEH for August last, which figures
are the latest to be had, were valued at six million dollars in
round numbers. The annual output of lumber in the United States is
worth about .$600,000,000 at the mill. That is the showing for 1912
which is the latest year for which values are given in tho government
reports. Value as well as output vary from year to year, but the sum
quoted may be taken as an average. Exports of lumber vary also,
but if the shipment abroad for last August is an average, it becomes
interesting as a basis for comparing the homo and foreign markets for
lumber. The August exports were probably less on account of the war
than they would have been had peace prevailed ; yet by taking tho fig-
ures as they stand, it appears that about one-eighth of the lumber is
exported.

This statement is based on value, not feet. Since tho better grades
only are exported, and that product is more valuable, foot for foot,
than that consumed at home, it follows that somewhat less than ono-
eighth of the total feet of lumber is exported. The ratio is slightly
modified also by the fact that some of the exports are further manu-
factured, as in the case of furniture and shocks; but there are not
enough of these to change the total greatly.

The home nmrket is still worth a great deal more than the foreign-
in the lumber trade. In that respect it is quite different from the
cotton business. There the growers depend on tlic foreign market
for their returns. If for any reason they cannot cxfiort cotton, they
quickly find themselves in a bad situation. The lumberman suffers
also if the foreign trade is interrupted, but he still has seven-eighths
of the market open, with a chance of improving it by a campaign
for trade extension at home.

That campaign is now being vigorously carried on in our midst.
The department of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association
recently organized for that purpose, and under the immediate manage-
ment of E. A. Sterling, is working in the home field with the particu-
lar purpose in view of finding more ways in which lumber can be sold
in the United States. At the same time, the government, at its own
expense, has sent agents abroad to find chances for extending the sales
of American lumber in foreign countries. R. E. Simmons has been
at work in South America and Franklin H. Smith in eastern Asia and
Oceania. The government's original plan was to send an agent to
Europe also, but the war began about that time and no agent was
assigned to the European field.

The work being done at home and abroad to increase the demand
for forest products should bear fruit soon. This work is being done at
an opportune time. The war has broken up former trade arrange-
ments and a general realinement is coming. Some of the former
business rivals of American lumbermen in foreign countries have too

November 10, 191E

HARDWOOD RECORD

many other things on hand now to pay much attention to lumber, and
this is the time when the hot iron should be struck by exporters of
the United States. If our foreign lumber business cannot be extended
now and in tlie period imiTie,diatel3' following the close of the war, there
will be little prospect of ever extending it.

It has often been said that there is a tide in the affairs of men which,
if taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. The signs of the times
indicate that such a tide is approaching the American lumber business.
It has long been expected, and limibermen seem to be ready to take it
at the flood.

A Protest Filed

OVKRWHELMING DEFEAT SEALED THE FATE of New
York 's proposed new constitution which met its Waterloo in
the election on November 2. It went down under a majority of
nearly four hundred thousand votes. It is evident that the people
of the state rejected the constitution because they did not like it,
and the dislike must have been strong and general to produce an
adverse majority so large. Many features were unpopular, but the
one of most interest to lumbermen and foresters was that which pro-
vided for enclosing the vast areas of public state timberland within
a Chinese wall, as it were, and let the trees stand, fall, and decay
without being put to any use. The state forests were to bo locked up.
They were never to be touched. Though the standing timber might
be worth millions of dollars, and fully mature, the constitution for-
bade all use of it.

That attitude seems to have been taken by the politicians who
framed the constitution because they feared that gangs of other
politicians might some time in the future get hold of the timber-
land and exploit it. To head off such a possibility, the sale and use
of the timber were forbidden forever. Hardwood Kecord voiced at
the time its disapproval of any such dog-in-the-manger policy. It is
a satisfaction to note that the voters of New York reached a similar
conclusion, and killed the proposed constitution. There were, of
course, many other issues involved, and the timber problem was not
the sole or even the leading matter to be considered; but there is no
question that it had its part in rolling up an adverse majority of
hundreds of thousands. .

American Trade Helped by the Interest of For-
eign Buyers

AMONG THE MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICAN PRODUCTS
available for use in various foreign markets are two classes
which could profit by consideration of certain measures of activity in
commercial circles in this country. One class comprises those Amer-
ican manufacturers who do not give sufficient thought to the possibil-
ities of developing foreign trade either because their methods are
notable for a certain inertness or because they do not feel they can
afford to bother with export business. The other class covers those
who feel that all they have to do is sit back and wait for the flood
of orders to come in from foreign countries.

As to the first class mentioned, considering of course that it is
possible for them to export their commodities, the constantly increas-
ing number of agents, representatives and members of foreign firms
who are covering this country with a view to establishing agencies
abroad for handling American business argues that the opportunity
for handling foreign business on a real business basis is imminent
and that if they can profitably ship abroad there are dozens of oppor-
tunities for making the right connections with reliable individuals
who have taken the trouble to come to this country to investigate
sources of supply in person.

As to the second class, their belief may be partially justified by
the presence of these foreign business men. There are some twenty
nations represented by men of prominence in the business world in
foreign countries but in order to take the fullest possible advantage
■of the opportunity afforded, it is necessary to go even further and
make an analysis of trade conditions and requirements of purchasers
in markets which it is contemplated to cultivate.

All things considered the chances for developing our commercial
relations with markets in other parts of the world are much greater

today than they have ever been and the opportunity presented to
American business men by the advances of foreign importing firms
is of such significance it cannot be over-estimated. The course of
events over which we have had no control and for which we can take
no credit will result in a saving to American exporters of many
years' hard work in certain directions necessary to establish the per-
sonal contact immediately with those foreign agents. This oppor-
tunity should be fully utilized not only to realize on the immediate
advantage offered to American exporters by the present receptive
mood of foreign buyers, but in order that the initial advantage may
I)lace us that nuich further ahead in the general play for widening
foreign markets in the future. In other words we should not merely
take off this the cream of the trade and let the future possibilities
take care of themselves, but we should make, this merely a stepping
stone to a permanent relationship and commercial development for
future years that will not be altered by the outcome of the European
trouble.

Law and Lake Boats

THE SEAMAN'S LAW WENT INTO EFFECT on November 4.
This measure is frequently referred to as the Lafollette law be-
cause its author and finisher was Senator Lafolette of Wisconsin. The
newspapers announced that only one boat in twenty on the Great
Lakes was able to conform to the terms and comply with the regula-
tions of the law. Seeing that such would probably be the case, those
in authority on the lakes were directed to be lenient with the owners
of vessels who had made an honest effort to obey the law.

When the lake traffic is found to be in a fair way to suffer extinc-
tion or very great damage because of the new regulation which Con-
gress enacted, it brings the matter close home to the people of the
Middle West. So long as the blow fell on ocean shipping only, the
effect was not directly apparent in the interior of the country; but
when lake business is hit, the result comes straight home.

The seaman's law was placed on the books on the strength of the
claim of its sponsors that it would benefit the American sailors and
make conditions easier for them. It has not yet been tried under
actual working tests, and a little time should be allowed to give it a
chance to show good results; but up to the present time every indica-
tion points to harm instead of good. Some of the best American
ships were driven from the seas, even before the time for the law
to go into effect. Owners of ships did not believe they could do busi-
ness at a profit under the new law, and they sold their vessels and
retired, while the purchasers took the vessels to foreign waters.

It is difficult to figure out how the American sailors have been bene-
fited by a law which drives vessels from American commerce, and fills
the place, if it is filled at all, by vesels manned by Chinese, Japanese,
Greeks, Italians, Scandinavians and other foreigners. The American
sailor has been struck a blow which has put him out of business, and
it has been done by a law which was enacted under the solemn prom-
ise that it was to benefit him.

The business man who depends on water-borne traffic is as badly
hit as the sailor or shipowner is. A large part of the lake traffic
consists of lumber, and if the Lafollette law breaks up traffic on the
lakes as quickly and completely as it has done it on the Pacific ocean
between our ports and foreign lands, the conditions will become
serious for those who ship and receive lumber by the lake routes.
Foreseeing this^ the federal authorities will be lenient in enforcing
the law, if newspaper reports are correct.

It is a pity that a little more ' ' foreseeing ' ' could not have been
possible before the unworkable law was placed on the books; and some
of this uncalled-for and unnecessary trouble might have been averted.
It is another ease where "weak men, clothed with a little brief
authority, play such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the
angels weep. ' '

Weight in the stationary parts of a machine is always a good
thing, though, of course, proper distribution adds much to its value.
Weight in the running parts is rarely permissible unless it adds to
the strength; and its proper distribution is of the utmost import-
ance.

Novomtwr 10, 10ir>.

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wQ«2?^

Indiana s Wood Using Industries <J^

( oiid'iiiKtJ from uimte of Octobir i;."i

Wt.STKK.S VF.I.UIW I'lNE

Thp nnme indioatos tlio raii(;c of western yellow pine. It grows
more or lcs» in all sUitos west of the Hocky Mountains and ext4'n<ls
eastnnrd into South Dakota, Wyoniinj:, Nebraska, and western Texa.i.
It grows northward in the British possessions and southward into
Mexico. Its range ciceeds 2,000,000 square miles. It is known in
the trade ns western pine, Tvestcrn soft pine. New Mexico or Mexican
white pine, and California white pine. It is one of the softest and
lightest of the yellow pine.s. Western yellow pine is well established
in most of the large markets of tJie country. For many purposes it
ia a satisfactory substitute for white pine. It is about fourteen
pounds per cubic foot lighter than longlcaf pine._ No table is neces-
sary to show the use of western yellow pine in Indiana, since the
total quantity — 2,950,000 feet — is token by the manufacturers of
sash, doors, blinds, and general millwork at an average cost of
(39.90. The wood is used for doors, door frames, millwork, sash,
window fratnes.

Black Ash

This tree is easily distinguished from white ash by the softer and
scaly bark, and by its very much darker brown heartwood. It is one
of the slimmest of the ashes, in proportion to height ; and trunks are
generally very straight. Few boles exceed a diameter of two feet.
The wood is rather soft, moderately heavy, and quite pliant and
tongh if cut in thin strips. It is called hoop ash and basket ash,
and sometimes cane ash, because of the ease with which it may be
split along the rings of annual growth and made into those products.
It thrives farther north than any other of the fourteen species of
ash found in America. It ranges from Newfoundland to Lake Win-
nipeg and south in the Mississippi valley to Arkansas. The wood is
Qsually distinguished from white ash by factories for the purpose
of assigning each to the uses which it best fits. Most of that used
in Indiana is cut within the state's borders. The largest demand
comes from vehicle manufacturers, and the next largest from handle
makers. Apportionment among other industries is shown in the
table which follows:

TABLE 23 — CONSUMPTION OF BLACK ASH

Industry.

Vehicles and

hide parts

Handles ....

F
vc-

Quantlty used

annually,
eet b. m. %

992.700 34.02
550.000 19.18
445.600 15.54

320.000 11.10

200,000 0.97

175.500 0.12

68,148 2.03

31.000 1.08

25.000 .87

7.800 .27

61.984 2.10

Av. cost

per
1,000 ft.

$41.81
23.30
80.81

29.88

32.75
39.90
56.29

30.10
13.00
22.82
15.91

Total cost

f.o.b.

factory.

$ 41., 500
12,850
13,730

9,500

0,5.50
7.002
3.273

935
325
178
986

Grown

In Ind.

Feet b. m,

432. .-00
550.000
195.000

270.000

100.000
70,500
23,042

31.000

25,000

7,800

61.984

Grown
out of Ind.
Feel b. m.

560.000

250.000

50.000

100.000

Rcfrlfrer.itors and

kitchen cabinets

Agricultural 1 m -

PlanlnfT mill pdcts.
Car construction...
Chairs and chair

stock

Boxes and crates.
Fixtures

10.5.000
35,100

Miscellaneous

Total

2.867.732

100.00 $33.79

Mahog.\nv

96.880

1,707.020

1.100,100

Except a limited growth of small trees in southern Florida, ma-
hogany does not occur in the United States; but it is so widely used
here and has been in use so long that it is a staple article of com-
merce. It is not practicable to discuss here the various mahoganies
or woods which commonly pass under that name. Suffice it that
there are many, some native of tropical America, others of West
Africa, and still others from India and the Philippines. Botanists
hold that so far as known, the true mahogany is found in America
only; but that does not imply that some of the others do not pro-
duce mahogany-like woods of the highest grades. It would not
be diflficult to list a dozen woods which sell in the lumber markets as
mahogany, and the resemblance between some of them is very close.
The botanical name of true mahogany is (SuHeienia mahagoni).
The wood weighs slightly more than white oak. It is moderately
strong. After being seasoned it shrinks and swells scarcely at all,
seldom checks or warps and for cabinet work or house finish it has
no superior. The color is dark reddish, annual rings are vagne or

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not visible at rill iind ligiires oi'cur in great variety. It has been in
use in the I'liitcd States nearly or quilo L'OO yeiirs, and it is remark-
able that thi' retail price has not changed much in that time. Amer-
ican niahdgany comes from the West Indies, Mexico, and Central and
South America. Seventeen industries in Indiana convert mahogany
into finished products. Furniture makers demand nearly half, and
the builders of cars stand second. In the table which follows, the
amounts of mahogany used in Imliana are shown for different in-
dustries.

Quantity

Uhi-d

Av. cost

Total cost

Grown Grown

annua

ly.

per

fob.

In Ind. out of Ind.

Feet b. m.

1,000 ft.

factory.

Feet b. m. Feel b. m.

Industry.

Furnlturo

1.220.894

47.49

$124.34

$152,548

1.226.894

Car construction..

54I.04U

20.94

1.59.08

80.557

641.049

Musical 1 n St r u -

230.200
12S.O00

8.01
4.95

145.10
140.13

.1.1.415
18.705

2.10.200

PlanJnR mill ndrts.

128.000

Sash. (loor.M. blinds

and Renernl mill-

work

97,000

3.76

112.71

10.033

97.000

Chairs and chair

slock

75,000

2.90

ICO.OO

7.500

76.000

Sowing machines.

01,878

2.40

119.00

7.307

61.878

Caskets and coffins

57,000

2.21

119.82

O.SSfl

67.000

53,0011
28,000

2.05
1.08

80.47
84.11

4.205
2.355

BS.OOO

Patterns and nasks

28,000

Vehicles and ve-

hicle parts

27,000

1.05

125.10

3.380

27,000

Handles

20,000

60.00

1.200

20,000

Plumbers' wood-

iS.OOO

..58

140.00

2.100

15.000

Ship and boat

building

10,000

.39

150.00

1,600

10.000

Frames nn.l mold-

ing, picture

7,000

.27

140.00

980

7.000

Woodenware and

O.OOO

.23

08.33

410

6.000

Miscellaneous

600

.02

200.00

100

60O

Tnlnl

2,583.521

100.00

$131.06

$340,145

2.683.621

•SKS Ol

■ MAIIOC

VNV

.\ctions, pliino pla.vcr

Autmoblle iKtdlos

Back posts, chairs

Bases, buIT<'t

Bases, cliln:i cabinet

Bases, extension tabic

Bases, servlnp table

Bedsteads, exterk»r work

Benches, piano

Boat flnlsh

Buffets

Cabinets

Cabinets, china

Cabinets, music

Cabinets, plionopriiph record

Carving, furniture

Cases, piano

Caskets

Chairs

Cheval mirrors

Chiffoniers, exterior work

Columns, library furniture

Columns, piirlor furniture

Commodes, cxlerlor work

Decking, launch

Decklnp, motor boat

Desks, students

Dinlnis; room furniture

Doors, car

Finish

Finish, boat

Finish, deck

Finish, launch

Fixtures, bank

Fixtures, saloon

Fixtures. store

Flooring

Folding beds, exterior work

Frames, bedroom furniture

Frames, buffet

Frames, casket

Frames, chair

Frames, china cabinet

Frames, extension table

Frames, picture

Frames, serving table

Frames, settee

Frames, upholstered chair

Furniture, dentist's

Furniture, physician's

Hall mirrors

llanclles. handsaw

interior finish, passenger cars

Intirliir trim

I.r';ivt's, extension table

I.ejrs, piano

Let's, table

Miil.llng, bedroom furniture

.Miildin).'. casket

Moldlne, piano

Music shelves, piano

Organs

Panels, desk

Panels, piano case

Parquetry

Patterns

Players, piano

Itlms, library furniture

Kims, parlor furniture

Uockers, chair

Sash, car

Seats, water closet

Sewing machines, cabinet work

Shelves, library furniture

Shelves, parlor furniture

Showcases

Sides, piano case

Stair work

Standards, 1-edroom furniture

Stan(lards, casket

Stools, piano

Tables, extension

Tables, hall

Tables, library

Tables, parlor

Tables, servlnp

Tanks, water closet

Tops, buffet

"Tops, china cabinet

Tops, library furniture

Tops, extension table

Tops, parlor furniture

Tops, serving table

Tops, table

Tre.Tds. stair

Wind shield boards, automobile

Wood carpet

Wood mosaic

Slipper V Elm

The range of slippery elm covers the eastern half of the United
States, extending westward to North Dakota, Nebraska and Texas.
It has never ranked high as a timber tree, because the wood is less
stable in quality than white elm and also because the trees are no-
where abundant. Thick stands are practically unknovrn. Trees

November 10, 1915.

HARDWOOD RECORD

usually occur singly and far apart. An unfailing means of dis-
tinguishing this species from other elms is always at hand if access
to the inner layer of bark can be had. It is soft and mucUagiuous.
The layer may be a quarter o^ an inch thick, but is usually thinner.
It is the only elm that may be easily split. Early Indiana farmers
used slippery elm for rails. The heartwood is red, for which reiison
the tree is sometimes known as red elm. Its use is reported by only
three industries in the state and the makers of boxes and crates
are clearly entitled to first place, as is shown by the accompanying
table. The price is low. Nearly four-fifths of the output is credited
to the forests of Indiana, the rest being brought from other regions.
Following are the uses of this wood: Bent hammock spreaders,
boxes, crates, dowels, hand trucks, kitchen cabinets.

TABLE 2.-) — CONSUMPTION OF SLIPPERT ELM

Quantity used Av. cost Total cost Grown Grown

.innually. per f.o.b. in Ind. out of Ind.

Feet b. m. % 1.000 ft. factory. Feet b. m. Feet b. m.
Industry.

Boxes :\nd crates. 2,086.237 04.24 $15.97 .$ 33.313 l.C24,800 401.437
Woodenware and

novelties 105,000 4.74 24.76 2,600 105,000

Refrigerators and

kitchen cabinets 22,500 1.02 20.00 450 22,500

Total 2,213,737 100.00 $16.43 $36,303 1,752.300 401.437

Cotton Gum
Cotton gum is known as tupelo or tupelo gum at the sawmills and
in the lumber yard and factory. The name cotton gum is applied to
the tree because in the spring the leaves arc whitish and look as if
sprinkled with cotton. It is essentially a swamp tree, a companion
of cypress. Its range lies in the low country from Virginia to
Texas, but it ascends the Mississippi valley to southern Missouri and
Illinois. Two other gums, likewise known as tupelo in the lumber
yard, are water gum (Nyssa hiflora) and black gum which is dis-
cussed elsewhere in this report. Water gum grows only in the At-
lantic and Gulf states, but black gum grows throughout much of
the eastern half of the country, including Indiana. Tupelo or cot-
ton gum is sometimes called bay poplar, and some persons formerly
supposed it to be a variety of yellow poplar; but it is not a near
relative of that tree. The cut of tupelo lumber in 1913 was 120,-
420,000 feet, 59 per cent of which was produced in Louisiana.
North Carolina ranks second in production, Alabama third, Florida
fourth. A considerable quantity reaches veneer mills in the form
of logs. The wood possesses no valuable figure. Its uses in Indiana
are shown by the following table.

TABLE 20— CONSUMPTION OF COTTON GUM

Quantity used Av. cost Total cost Grown Grown

annually. per f.o.b. In Ind. out of Ind.

Feet b. m. % 1.000 ft. factory. Feet b. m. Feet b. m.
Industry.

Boxes and crates. 1.250.000 70.22 $15.10 $ 18,874 1,250.000

Sewing machines. 200,000 11.24 40.00 8.000 200.000

Frames and mold-
ing, picture 190.000 10.67 24.47 4.650 190.000

Furniture 64.000 3.00 20.60 1.312 64.000

Planing mill pdcts. 60,000 3.37 19.17 1,150 60.000

Cigar boxes 15.000 .84 46.00 090 15,000

Car construction.. 1.000 .00 40.00 40 1.000

Total

1,780,000

. . . 1,780.000 100.00 $19.50 $ 34,716
USES OF COTTON GDM

Cabinet work Furniture crating

Car lining Interior finish

Casket crating Quart basket.s

Cigar boxes Room molding

Electric wire molding Sewing machines
Furniture

Cork or Eock Elm

The name rock elm, which is applied to this wood, is in recognition

of its hardness. Cork elm is more commonly used by botanists, tliough

lumbermen occasionally speak of it in that way. The thin ridges

and frills of bark on the small branches and twigs explain the

origin of the name. The species ranges from Quebec to Missouri,

and southward to middle Tennessee. It is most plentiful in the

northern states, where it is associated with white and slippery elm.

The term rock elm does not always mean this tree. It may apply

to tough specimens of any of the elms, such as stand on thin soil

and are of slow growth. Experienced lumbermen do not always agree

on a line separating rock elm from others. The use of the term cork

elm leaves no doubt as to what species is meant, unless there might

occasionally be some conflict with wing elm (Ulrmis alata) along the

course of the lower Ohio river and southward where the ranges of

the two species overlap. Cork elm is a substitute for hickory for

some purposes, but is much inferior to hickory for others. Nine-

tenths of the demand in Indiana comes from vehicle manufacturers.

It is excellent hub material, and is satisfactory as rims for bicycles.
Its apportionment among the wood-using industries of the state is
shown in the accompanying table. Statistics of lumber production
do not separate this elm from others, though mills usually under-
take to do so. Cork elm is used for cantles, saddle trees, hubs, pit-
man rods, agricultural implements, sifter handles and grist mills.

TABLE 27 — CONSUMPTION OF CORK ELM

Quantity used Av. cost Total cost Grown Grown
annually. per f.o.b. in Ind. out of Ind.
Feet b. m. % 1,000 ft. factory. Pect b. m. Feet b. m.
Industry.
Vehicles and ve-
hicle parts 1.490,000 97.20 $36.43 $ .''.4.274 458.000 1.032,000

Saddles and har-
ness 20,000 1.30 18.00 300 20,000

Handles 15,000 .98 50.00 7.'>0 15,000

Agricultural i m -

plements 8,000 .52 90.00 720 8,000

Total 1,533,000 100.00 $36.60 $66,104 493,000 1,040,000

Sycamore
Sycamore grows in nearly every part of the state, but it is not
and never was of first importance as a source of lumber. Trunks
attain enormous sizes, but the largest are usually hollow . and are
valueless as saw timber. Mills prefer sycamore logs three feet or
less in diameter. The wood is usually very difiScult to split. Eound
bolts, cut from logs, have been popular as meat blocks in butcher
shops since the first settlement of the state. Arkansas, Missouri,
Tennessee and Indiana in the order named were the principal syca-
more producing states in 1913, and the total cut in the United
States was 30,804,000 feet. Manufacturers of plug tobacco often
prefer sycamore for boxes. It is popular for sewing machine tables,
also for parts of furniture, and for woodenware. "When quarter-
sawed, the wood displays a novel and attractive figure. Eiver
banks and land subject to occasional overflow constitute its favorite
habitat. It is chiefly a waste land tree, and might become important
imder forestry methods. Manufacturers of boxes and crates in
Indiana take more than one-third of the sycamore reported by fac-
tories, whUe chair makers are the second largest users. Though
the tree grows in all parts of the state, it is worthy of note that
not one foot of native sycamore finds its way to Indiana factories;
yet the state is a large producer of the lumber from this species.

TABLE 28— CONSUMPTION OF SYCAMORE

Quantity used Av. cost Total cost Grown Grown

annually. per f.o.b. in Ind. out of Ind.

Feet b. m. % 1.000 ft. factory. Feet b. m. Feet b. m.
Industry.
Boxes and crates. 515,000 35.78 $15.16 $ 7.805 265,000 250,000

Chairs and chair

stock 296,344 20.59 19.51 5.781 105.000 191,344

Furniture 169,000 11.74 30.15 5,095 159,000 10,000

Refrigerators and

kitchen cabinets 140.000 9.73 18.21 2,550 140,000

Sash, doors, blinds
and general mill-
work 17,000 1.18 35.88 610 7,000 10.000

Planing mill pdcts. 15,000 1.04 28.40 426 14.000 1,000

Musical i n s t r u-

ments 13,100 .91 27.79 364 13,100

"Vehicles and ve-
hicle parts 5.000 .35 25.00 125 5,000

Saddles and har-
ness 3,500 .24 22.00 77 3,600

Miscellaneous '. . . . 265,343 18.44 20.80 5.525 261,343 4,000

Total 1,439.287 100.00 $19.70 $ 28,358 969,448 469,844

USES OF STCAMORE

Backs, piano Inside finish

Baskets Kitchen cabinet shelves

Boards, game Packages, fruit

Box shooks Partitions, kitchen cabinet

Cases, carpet sweeper Plugs, paper roll

Chairs ' Saddletrees

Cheese supports Sheathing

Cores, bank fixtures Side rails, bed

Cores, store fixtures Slats, fruit package ■

Crating Stave baskets

Flooring Step bars, vehicle bodies

Furniture, bedroom Tables

Furniture, case goods Tops, kitchen table

Heading, (ruit package

Spruce

Spruce is not native of Indiana but more than a million feet a

year find uses there. It is a wood of light color and light weight, is

wholly without figure aside from vague annual rings, and it possesses

several desirable qualities. It is probable that the spruce used in the

state was largely red spruce (Ficea ruhens) from West Virginia,

but factories may have secured small quantities of white spruce

{Ficea canadensis) from the Lake states. The latter grows in the

Lake states and eastward to Maine, while red spruce is found in

the southern Appaladiians and north to New England and Canada.

Two western spruces are in the market, and one is shown by this

report to have appeared in Indiana factories. This is Sitka spvuce

HARDWOOD RECORD

Novrmlicr Id. lUiri

: ..tfi /i.inii) which iproviH iiloiin thi> I'nrifli- i-oiml friiin Oiili
. Ill .\lii>kii, unci IK Uip liirt;<''*l »n«l iiiori- iiiiimrUut. Knj{l«'-
iiiHiiii ii|iriiiT {I'icea c-M.;rlm<iiiin) in I'liirlly n Uix-ky iiioiintnin nin'i-ipH.
Tho wooiU uf nil nri< very tiinillnr, with tlio i'xi-<-|.tion i)f Silkii Hpnu'o.
KollowiitK nro Uip mhow of rod Hprupo: hiM-omolivo oiilm. ■■(loliiit;
ruuinit, Inunch t>neino Iwnringn, iiioulmtorK. luolilinf;, rofriuoriitorn,
pinno Kfliindiiii; iKuirdit nml luitimlinK l>onr>l ribx, wiiidiiiillN. Sitkii
sipriico in iimhI for niillwork luid \»ml l)iiildiri|;. Tho tiililo whioh
folloKx shows whnt iiidiistrii's iii.-iko liirK<'sl iloiimiid upon thi) onstiTii
iiprorp.

TABI.E 29 — tX)NBlI»IPTION OP «PUUrE

gtitntliy unrcl Av. con Tninl com Crown

tinnUAlly.
Kcrl b. ni. %

(jri»wn
IHT f.ii.l). In Ind. out of Intl.

l.OOO ft. fuciory. Pi'ot b. m. Feet b. m.

and

inrm

Ml.;-

.. 5

I r u -

inrllt*

ll37.1tOS Kl.Stl »34.ll7

115,000 U.ST 40. To

Airrlcullural I m •

pipmrnll SO.OOO 4,33 40.00

Datryincn'B. p«iul-
trriTB* nnti npl-
arlalii' nuppllpii. 2T.T0.'. 241 ■.•T.'J"

Saah. tloora. MlniU
nn<l gcncml mill-
work I'O.OOtl 1.T3 4<l."<>

Oar conilnictlon . . 3,000 .20 S.'i.00

t 32.r.20
ft.STO
2.000

-r.n

ll3T.n»K

it&.ooo

.10.000
2T.71I.'.

l'n,t)Mii
3,IJU0

Tol«l 1,1,%3,708 100.00 $36.01 ( 41,nill 1,153,703

Norway Pink
Formerly this wood was marketed as white pine in niixtiiro with
lunilxT of that species, and in government statistics of sawmill out-
put it is still listed with white pine. There is a disposition anions;
factories and yards to separate the two woods, and Indiana fac-
tories report the use of nearly a million feet of Korw.iy i)ine a year,
which is less than one-twentieth of the amount of white pine used
in tho state. Norway pine in the region of its growth is often called
red pine, a name referring to the re<ldish color of the liark. Through-
out its range it is associated with white pine; that is from New-
foundland to Minnesota, and .southward to .southern Pennsylvania,
northeastern Ohio and central Michigan. The average size of the
trees is smaller than white pine, and the trunks are not quite .so
straight. For many purposes it is the equal of white pine, and is
superior in a few; but it is not so soft, and the grain is coarser,
while the reddish color lowers its value in some industries. The
strength of the wood is indicated by the Indiana industries which
use it as indicated by the table below:

TABLE 30 — CON.SL'MPTION OF NORWAY I'lNK

Quantity used Av. cost Total cost (irown Grown

annually. per f.o.b. In Ind. out of Ind.

Feet b. m. % 1,000 ft. f.ictory. Feet b. m. Feet b. m.
Industry.

Car conilrucllon. . 023.000 64.10 $28.02 »1T.830 023.000
Agricultural 1 m -

plements 137.720 14.17 21.00 2.802

Elevators 114.250 11.75 25.03 2,860

Machine construc-
tion 90,000 9.26 ,12.00 2.880 ....

Patterns and

(tasks 5,000 ..M 15.00 75

Tanks and silos.. 2,000 .21 .30.00 60

137.T20
114.2.'.0

iio.onn

5.1100
2.000

Total

Bins

Car reiiBlr"
Cars. frelEht
Cars, pnsscnpcr
Cuplio.Trds
Derricks
Hull'Ts. clover
Foundry flasks

9T1.970 100.00 $2T.S6 $ 26..597

t;.SES OF NORWAY ri.NE

I.*Bs, portable derricks

Locomotive cabs, repairs

Masl.s, portable derricks

Posts, freight elevator

Tanks

Ttireslilng machines

Tool boxes, seeding mnchine

Red Cedar

Two kinds of red cedar are reported by Indiana factories, the east-
ern and the western. They are wholly distinct in genera, species,
range and character of wood, and are here separately considered.
The eastern red cedar {Junipcrus virginiana) occurs in most if not
.nil state-s east of tho Rocky Mountains, and clo.sely relatcii species
extend to the Pacific coast. This is the principal lead pencil cedar,
and of it most cedar chests are made. It supplies posts for thous-
ands of miles of fence, and has many other uses. It occurs in prob-
ably every county of Indiana, and is a shapely, conical tree which
is very apt to grow along fences, or on lines where fences formerly
stood. It is found on thin, stony land as well as where soil is good.
Growth is slow but the tree lives a long time. It is a favorite orna-
ment for farmhouse yards and rural roadways. Farmers frequently
call it sarin, others know it as juniper. Though it is found all over
the state, Indiana factories used only 100 feet of native-grown cedar
and nearly 700,000 feet from elsewhere. The quantity reported in

the folliiuing liiblp for furniture was probably iiioHtly used in tho
ninniifacturiiig of clothes chest". This wood is iiR»>d for cIicnIs, can-
koln, clothfH closets, farm gatps, telephone lino Imixcs, wooden min-
nowa for fish bait.

TAlll.K 31- ••ONhTMI'TlO.V OF HKI) i-KDAll

Qunhtlty tiMrd Av. roffi Totnl i-t>»t tlrtiwn (irown

annually. pi-r f.o.b. In Ind. out of Ind.

Krct b. in. % 1,000 ft factory. Foct b, m. Fsrt b. m.

InfluMirv

I'm It 1 1 111 •

oin.tHio 00.26 $.in.2T $ 3n.4,',o

I 'IK AO.OnO 7.34 30 (M) 1.5INI

vna 11,300 1.00 51.15 fiTh
I 1. d

11. .>, .111.1. .. 5.00O .T3 OO.On 300
Mui-hlne ronstrui--

iliin in<i .01 3fl.(Hi S

Total

100

015.0041

Ml, (ion

II .'IIHI

081 .SOO

•IS1,400 lOO.INI f .'ill Ml $ 38.831
Bl-ACK ('.I'M

In government statistics of lumber output, black gum is included
with tupelo. The tree has a wide range and is found from .Maine
to Floriila and west to Tcxna. It grows in all parts of Indiana, and
of the t57.'),000 feet annually used by factories in tho state, only
"i0,O00 feet came from outside regions. Kxcept willow, it is the
cheapest wood reported. It is extremely jdain, without attractive
figure or contrast of colors. Though only moderately hard, it is
tough, with fibers so int<>rlacod that splitting is nearly impossible
unless the wood be solidly frozen. One of its largtMft uses is as
wagon hubs. Its freedom from checks during tho process of season-
ing and its resistance to tendency to split afterwards, give it high
value as material for > large hubs. Its lack of adoquato hardness
is its principal drawback because spoke tenons arc liable to wear tho
hub mortises and enlarge them sufficiently to loosen the spokes. Rail
s])litters in the days of worm fences made more mauls of black gum
than of any other wood, and many arc still made of it. Five indus
trios employ the wood in amounts shown in the following table:

TAHLE .12— COX.«rMPTION OF BI.AfK f.fM
Quantity URcd

Industry.

Boxes and crates.

.Saddles and har-
ness

Furniture

Vehicles and ve-
hicle parts

Miscellaneous .?..

annually.
Feet b. m. %

Av. cost Total cost

per
1,000 ft.

f.o.b.
factory.

Grown
in Ind.

Grown
out of Ind.

0.50,000 00.30 $14.34 $ 0.32

Feet b. m. Feet b. m.
000.000 50,000

S.OOO
5,000

2.000
10.000

1.18
.74

.30
1.48

14.00
37.00

2.5.00
22. 50

112
185

8.000
5,00(1

2.000
10.000

Total

Roxcs

Hox sliooks

Itoxes. trunk

Crating

Doors, music cnhlnet

075,000 100.00 $14.60 $ 0,894 025.000 50,

USES OP BI-ACK nCM

Hcadlpg. fruit package

Paper roll plugs

Stereot.vpe boxes

Tops, niuslc cabinet

Tops, phonograph record cnMnel

Wagons, repairing
Saddle trees

I>oors, phonograph record cabinet
Drawer bottoms

Western White Pine

The principal commercial range of western white pine lies in
Idaho and Montana, It is often called Idaho white pine, and one
of its names is silver pine. It enters the Mississippi valley m.ar-
kets in large amounts, in direct competition with nortliern «hit<-
pine. The average cost of the latt«r at the Indiana factories is
$28.40, and of the western wood $48.69, the difference per thou.sand
feet being more than $20; but the comparison is hardly fair, because
the grades used are not the same. The tree grows with fair rapidity,
and under the i)rotcction given it on government land, and on most
of the large tracts privately owned, it promises to remain a valuable
resource. The wood is a satisfactory substitute for the white pine
of the North, in almost every situation. The largest trees are six
feet or more in diameter and 200 feet high, but the average size
is about the same as that of white pine in the Lake states. The
amount shipped to Indiana is absorbed by two industries, as follows:
554,1,^3 feet at an average cost of $48.fi4 by the manufacturers of
sash, doors, blinds and general millwork, and 20,000 feet costing an
average price of $50 by the manufacturers of planing mill products.

Cherry

Several species of cherry are found in this country, but only
one, the black or wild cherry, is important as a source of lumber.
It grows in all parts of Indiana, but not in large amounts, neither
are trees generally of large size. The tree's range extends from
Nova Scotia to North Dakota, and south to Texas and Florida. It
is one of America's finest cabinet woods. Its color gives it value,
and it finishes with a peculiar luster shown by no other known
wood. It is dense, hard, heavy and strong. The forest-grown tree

Novcmbor 10, 101,"

HARDWOOD RECORD

develops a trunk long and free of knots, but the open groiiml tree
is covered with limbs nearly to the base and is of little value for
lumber. Eleven Indiana industries report the use of the wood,
handles demanding more than any other single industry. A very
large part of this product is used for saw handles. Cherry is a
finishing and trimming wood, as an examination of the accompany-
ing table indicates. In view of its scarcity it could not be employed
in large quantities for any purpose; yet its average cost in this
state is surprisingly low, being less than $40.

TABLE 33 — CONSUMPTION OP CHERRV

Quantity u.sed Av. cost Total cost Grown Grown

annually. per f,o,b. in Ind. out of Ind,

Feet b. m. % 1,000 ft. factory. Feet b. m. Feet b. m.
Industry.

Handles l.W.OOO 30.31 $40.00 .$ 0.000 150,000

Planing mill pdtcs. 20.000 5.80 89.48 2.01.-1 in.OOO 10,000
Patterns and flasks 20,000 5.2.5 69.23 1,800 .1,000 21,000
Sash, doors, blinds
and general mill-
work 20,000 5.23 65.38 1.700 26,000

Plumbers' wood-
work 13,000 3.03 39.00 585 15,000

Vehicles and ve-
hicle parts 13.000 3.03 36.67 550 15,000

Car construction.. 13,932 2.82 73.64 1.026 13.932

Musical 1 n s t r II-

ments 10,000 2.02 40.00 400 10,000

Woodenware and

novelties 5,000 1. 01 30.00 1.50 5,000

Fixtures 3,000 .61 90.00 270 3,000

Furniture 2.000 .40 77.50 155 1,000 l,iioil

Miscellaneous 200,000 40.41 2.5.00 5.000 50,000 150.000

Total

494.932 100.00 ?39.70 $ 19,651 102,932

332,000

i;SE.S OP CHERKY

Backing, electrotype

Backing, engraver's work

Bodies, automobile

Cars, passenger

Doors, car

Finish, interior

Fixtures, lighting

Fixtures, store

Flooring

Flooring, parquetry

Handles, handsaw

Interior finish, cars

Machine construction, flour null

Molding, piano
Mountings, electrotype
Mountings, engraver s
Parquetry
Patterns
Racks, hat
Sash, electric cars
Sash, Pullnian coaches
Seats, water closet
Show cases
Tanks, water closet
Wood mosaic

Loblolly Pine

Much more loblolly pine is used in Indiana than the tables in
this bulletin show, because it is usually marketed under the com-
mercial name "shortleaf pine," which has been discussed previously.
One industry reported a quantity of yellow pine from Texas at so
low a price that made it appear to be loblolly and therefore that
quantity is so shown here.

Loblolly is the most rapid grower of all the southern yellow pines.
Its range lies in the south Atlantic and Gulf states from New Jer-
sey to Texas. It extends inland a few hundred miles in places,
reaching eastern West Virginia, southern Tennessee, Arkansas, and
Oklahoma. In the subdivision of the yellow pines, it is classed with
the shortleaf group, but its needles are longer than those of the
common shortleaf pine (Pinjts ecJiinata). In yards and factories
loblolly lumber is not easily distinguished from shortleaf, though it
is usually of more rapid growth in the sapwood of large trees. Lob-
lolly pine is prone to spread rapidly into vacant spaces, particularly
if the ground is plowed or has been abandoned after long cultivation.
This is the pine which has taken possession of so many abandoned
plantations in tide water, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina,
where saw timber is produced in forty or fifty years. The box in-
dustry in Indiana used all of the loblolly pine reported — 400,000 feet
- — at an average cost of $15, and no table is therefore necessary.

Black Willow
Black willow (Salix nigra) is the only willow reported by factories
in Indiana. Black willow is one of the largest and most common of
the score of willows in the United States. Trunks have been known
to attain diameters exceeding four feet. The range extends from
Nova Scotia to Florida and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The
■wood is light in weight, tough, moderately strong, and extremely
plain in appearance. Indiana uses 400,000 feet a year, none of
which is state grown. The wood is the cheapest on the list of In-
diana's factory woods, its cost being only $10 a thousand feet.
This is because the entire amount is used by excelsior manufacturers
who purchase bolts at $5 per cord. The only industry table in this
bulletin listing willow is the miscellaneous table in which the manu-
facture of excelsior from several woods is included.

Sugar Pine

This is a fiue western tree of the white pine group. The principal
supply comes from California and the rest from Oregon. It is the
largest pine of the United States. The wood of sugar pine is a
little lighter in weight than northern white pine, likewise slightly
weaker. Its grain is coarse and straight, and in appearance the
wood when dressed ready for use is similar to northern white pine.
The large, clean trunks produce a high percentage of first-grade
lumber which is finding markets in many states east of the Rocky
Mountains, even Michigan, the home of white pine, using more than
2,000,000 feet of sugar pine a year, and Ohio twice as much. Only
the finest grades reach eastern markets, and the average price paid
in Indiana is $70.40. Manufacturers of sash, doors, blinds, and
general millwork used 200,000 feet, costing $68 per thousand feet,
while 50,000 feet w-ere used in making musical instruments, and
piano keys and cost $80 per thousand feet.
Western Eed Cedar

This is a Pacific coast species. It ranges from Alaska to Cali-
fornia, and extends eastward to Montana and Idaho. It is the largest
cedar of the United States. Trunks six feet in diameter are not
unusual and some are much larger. The tree is at its best in the
moist climate of the northern coast where rainfall is heavy and the
summer heat is not excessive. Except in size, the tree bears much
resemblance to the northern white cedar, or arborvitas, of the Lake
states and farther east, but the western tree's wood is red. A com-
mon name for it is shingle cedar. More shingles are made of it
than of any other wood of this country. The shingles are shipped
to every important market of the T''nited States. The wood is dur-
able.

If western red cedar shingles sold iu Indiana were taken into
consideration, the total of this wood used in the state would appear
much greater. Two hundred and forty thousand feet and at $28
per thousand feet were made into planing mill products, and 5,000
feet at $21 into sash, doors, blinds, and general millwork. Frames
for doors and windows probably constitute the largest demand upon
it. It is liked particularly for window and door sills which are
exposed to the ■neather and for siding. It is not only handsome in
appearance, but lasts a long time. It is light and is not strong. The
average price in the state is low, considering the long haul from
tlie Pacific coast.

(To be continued)

The Charter Oak Was a White Oak

There has long been somewhat of a dispute regarding the species
of oak which sheltered Connecticut's charter at a very critical period
of our Colonial history. The tree was old and hollow on that memor-
able night of October 31, 1687, but it stood until blown dotni by
a furious storm in 1854.

There are a number of oak trees in New England which are
reputed to be direct dest^endants from the Charter Oak, but curiously
enough some of them are red oaks and some white oaks. In Put-
nam park in Connecticut is a white oak which to all appearances is
not over twenty-five or thirty years old but it is labeled a ' ' chip of
the old block" and claimed to be from a Charter Oak acorn. Prob-
ably the wood of no other tree has been so eagerly sought after as
that of the Charter Oak and, if rumor is to be credited, there is enough
so-called Charter Oak material to make half a dozen sturdy oaks as
large as the original. It is evident that there has been a bit of
faking somewhere.

It has been pretty generally agreed that the Charter Oak was a
white oak, but it appears that no one realized that the matter could
be definitely settled by an examination of an authentic piece of the
wood. Such specimens have been preserved in the State Library
Building at Hartford, and a recent inspection of them by a wood
technologist showed that there was no longer any reason to question
that the Charter Oak was a true white oak (Quercus alba). The feat-
ures distinguishing the two groups of oaks are so distinct and reliable
that to the careful observer with a good hand lens no cause for un-
certainty exists. (See Hardwood Record, Dec. 25, 1914, Page 23).

\'..v ..M>)»-r 111 t'H.'i.

While the mill ot the I < -
grintlini; klowlr, a number of ImjKirtnnt mnltorn wen- IiiiikIIimI .hiriiiK
the Inat two weeks, A nimiber of opiniuim wore hnmleJ down nml
a Inri^ number of assicninents of benrinc* were mnde. Among the
Inltor were ii nuniU-r of vi-ry important lumlwr cam!*. There wnit a
Kiircily of fourth (lection or other order* nnd no brii'fn were filed in
lunO

A was rendered iit the mstter of lumber fr<mi MiehiKiin

points <1- """l 8- ^•o- Ol**''. !lriiotod intercjit thro\i(jh-

out tbe country. rro|>o»od if u lumber from WitM-oiiHin

points to Michigan ]K>inU> and from Miehignn |H)intN to point.t without
tbo state found not to be justified except to Toleilo, Ohio, and [raints
taking the same rates. Respomlents were rc<|uired to onncol the
schedules under suspension, but permii'sion was given to eMtublish to
Toledo the rates approved in the report.

The conclusions of Chairman McChord, who wrote the opinion, lire
a» follows:

ItcapoDdcnlN will Iw required lo cancel nil tho schedules under suspension
but tliejr may estnbMsb upon statutory notice tho follon-InK rates :

1. From I.udlnsioD nnd MnnUtco to Toledo, rates not In excess of those
In effect from bay shore points.

•2. From Cadillac nnd points tnklne the sniuo rates, to Toledo nnd points
laklne tbi' Mime rntes prior lo Ibe s'lspvnslon. U ci'nts per 100 pounds,
nnd rnles to llirso di'.^tlontlons from points north of Ciidlllac on Iho Grand
Itaplds A Indlnna may be Increased proportlonntely. but the relallonsbip
I'listlng b<tween such points and Cadillac prior lo the suspension must
be prcserred.

3. From Saginaw valley points to Toledo and points Inking the same
rates prior to the suspension. 8 cents per 100 pounds. .\s rates from
points north of the Saginaw valley points are based on nrbltraries over
Hay City, we shall expect the respondents. If they establish the rates
from Saclnaw valley |>olnts herein approved, to mnlntnln the same rela-
tionship between the Saglnnw valley points nod points north thereof that
has heretofore existed.

4. From Cheboygan nnd points taking same rnles. from Alpenn and
points taking same rates, the re.ipondents may establish to Toledo, only,
the Increased rates proposed In Detroit & .Maeklnnc ICnllwny I. C. C. :!94.
supplement 2, here under suspension.

30 I. C. C.

To nnd from other points to and from which Inorensed rates are
publlsheO In the schedules under susp(^>nslon. the respondents will he
expected to restore rates not In excess of those authorized by our decision
In the Five Per Cent case, supra.

A decision favoring the contention of the Himmelbcrger-Harrison
Lumber Company of Crfpe Girardeau, Mo., was liandod down in its
case .igain.st the Frisco Lines. The commission found that the pro-
portional rate of 7 cents per 100 pounds charged for the transporta-
tion of lumber and lumber products in carloails from Morehouse, Mo.,
to Thebes, III., destined to points in Central Freight Association,
trunk line and other territories, was unreasonable to the extent that
it exceeded 5.5 cents per 100 pounds, jirescriljcd as a reasonable max-
imum proportional rate for the future.

In the case of C. C. Mcngcl & Bro. Company against the Baltimore
& Ohio, with regard to the rate on Spanish cedar logs from Louisville
to Philadelphia, the commission ruled that a rate to exceed twenty-
three cents was unreasonable. The Mengel com|>any had complained
of the application of a twenty-eight cent mte.

Two complaints by the Foster Lumlxr t miipiniy of Kansas City

were dismissed in recent decisions. Each case was brought against

the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe railroad and alleged improper assess-
ment of demurrage.

The Louisville i Nashville lost another reconsiguinent case when
the commission banded down its decision in the case brought by the
American Lumber and Manufacturing Company. The reconsignments
that had been denied cars of lumber shipped by the American Lumber
and Manufacturing Company, shoulil have l)een allowed the commis-
sion found.

.Maley ft Wertit of Kvnnsville, Ind., won their i.~i ibe

l.oui*villr 4 \:ii.li\ille ill the liintler of charges on e.-ilMiii sliipinenta
of oak nnd piipliir logs from New Kinpire, Ky., to Kvnnsville. The
commiMlon found that the charges collected were unrenwmnble and
awarded reparation.

The rale i Imru'cd on rMrlo^mr. uI iii^;s I..Ihih-m itoiKf mil .mhI I niiiii
City, Ohio, was sustained in nn opinion in tho case of Uic Union H<mi|i
nnd Lumlx-r Company versus the Big Four.

The Ya/.oo Sl Mississippi Valley Kiiilmail was onlered to pay
reparation to the Ouirk Coo|)erage nnd Lumljer Company, for mis-
routing a car of ash staves shipped from Boyle, Miu., lo Ash
Grove, Mo.

The Clark Uuiilortli JliimJlc ( i.inpany of Cairo liiilnl to estnlilisli

its allegations of unreasonable rates on certain shipments mnde over
tho Mobile & Ohio railroad.

Hearings have lieen assigned .as follows:

November Irt. f'lnclnnnll. Kxninlner Morton: W. K. IleyHi>r Lumber
Company versus St. Ixiuls & Southwestern llailnmil.

November -'i;. Illrr.ilngham, Kxnmlner Worthlngton ; Lumber and Kxport
Company v. .Vlaimnm, Tennessee & New Orleans; .Icfferson Lumber Com-
pany v. Mobile i. Ohio.

XoveudH-r -2. .St. l.ouls, ICxnmlner Waters ; I. & S. 000 Hoops for Chaffee.
Mo.

Nov. 24. St. Ixiuls, ICxainlner Waters : .Tiillus 8lidell Ltimber Company v.
Missouri I'nciflc.

November 24. Meridian. Miss.. Kxamlner Worthlngton: Meed" Lumber
Company v. .Mabnmn Central (two eases).

November 20. Xiw Orleans. Kxamlner Worthlngton: American Creosote
Works V. Illinois t'entrnl. I. urns K. Moore Stave Compony v. Morgan's
Louisiana & Texas Knllroad and Steamship Company.

November 20. Memphis. lOxumlner Graham ; .T. V. Stimson r.nmber c'om-
]).iny V. Chicago. ICock Island & rncinc. Carrier Lumber and Manufac-
turing Company v. Illluols Central. Tallahatchie I..umbcr Company v.
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley.

November ."O. .Mexandrla. I.n.. Kxamlner Worthlngton : Ferd Ilrenner
Lumber Com|iany v. Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Itallroad and Steamship
Company.

November '■'•<), Memphis, Kxamlner tirahom : 1. & S. 701. Ilulltup wooil
from Memi>his.

December <i. Beauninnt. Kxamlner Worthlngton : Luther & Moore Lumber
Company v. Texarkana 4: Ft. Smith.

December T, Chicago. Kxamlner J. Ldgnr Smith ; Uagdud Lumber Com-
pany V. Louisville & Nashville (two coses).

The casie of the Bedna Young Lumber Company v. the Illinois Cen-
tral, assigned for .Faekson. Teiiii., December 1, was cancelled.

Reparation has In'on alloweil liy the commission in the following
Itiint^er cases:

IL B. Walte Lumber Coin|ian.v virsus the Cbloagu. ttock Island &
Pacific; R. C. M-Nult Hardwood Company v. Southern Hallway ; .St. Johns
Lumber Company v. Oregon Short Line ; Babcock Lumber Company v.
Norfolk Southern; Kentucky Lumber Company v. Vnzoo & Mississippi
Valley; Westminster Mill Comiinny v. Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy ;
Prcndergast Company v. Louisville i Nashville; W. .1. Foyo v. Fernwood
& Gulf; Twin City Hardwooil Lumber Company v. Great Northern;
Oulf Lumber Company v. Ijike Chorlcs & Northern ; .\rgenta Shingle
Creosotlng Compony v. SI. Louis. Iron Mountain & Southern ; Fullerton
Powell Ilnrdwinid Lumber CompiU; . ' ntral Itnllway of .\rkaosas ;

Many a woodworking in.stitutc might advertise itself quite ex-
tensively by making a display of as much as is practical of its prod-
uct in show windows, and at the same time add to the attractiveness
of the factorv itself.

The cost of tying up a single bundle of flooring is very in-
significant, but in the mills where enormous quantities of floor-
ing and ceiling are put up, the co.st of tying is quite an important
item, no matter whether twine or wire is used. Incidentally it may
be remarked that there is a disposition to use much more wire
than formerly.

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November 10, 19115.

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Pertinent Legal Findings

Querien on questions arisinp on any points ininlring the law as it is applied to lumterinfj and allied industries toillhe given proper
rt attention through this department if submitted to Hardwood Record. There xoill le no charge for such service, but HhBOWooD
JKD reserves the right to publish questions and answers without designating names or location of inquiries unless specifically requested
tlo do so.

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not do do so

Extent of "Sawmill" Liens

A law in force in Georgia provides tliat "all persons furnishing
sawmills with timber, logs, provisions, or any other thing necessary
to carry on tho work of sawmills shall have liens on said mills and
their products. ' ' Applying this statute, under the well settled rule
that statutes purporting to give liens must be strictly interpreted, the
Georgia court of appeals decided in the recent case of Joseph Hull
& Co. vs. Anderson Lumber Company, 86 Southeastern Eeporter, 257,
that no lien is allowed on any property by the law excepting ' ' sawmills
and their products." The court holds that mules used in carrying on
a sawmill business cannot be regarded as a part of the mills under
the lien law. The opinion says: "The word 'sawmill' does not include
any detached personalty, such as vehicles, draft animals, etc."

Responsibility for Injury to Driver

A lumber company which faUed to equip a two-w'heelcd lumber
truck with a brake is liable for injury to the driver, resulting from
the truck swinging around as he was driving it down an incline, due
to heaviness of the load and fractiousness of the team furnished him.
The case falls within the Oregon statute which requires employers
to adopt proper measures for the safety of their employes. (Oregon
supreme court, Davis vs. Carlton Lumber Company, 151 Pacific Re-
porter, 650.) In another suit against the same company, defendant
was held liable for injury to another driver who was struck by an
overhead mono-rail transfer while driving along a dock and while his
attention was diverted. Liability in this case was predicated on
maintenance of the overhead obstruction too close to -the roadway
and failure to equip the wagon with a brake and the harness of the
horses with breeching. (151 Pacific Eeporter, 652.)

Demurrage Under Water Shipment

Two points which are apt to arise under almost any charter of a
vessel to transport lumber were involved in the case of Wallace vs.
Cargo of 292,000 feet of pine boards, 224 Federal Eeporter, 994,
passed upon by United States District Court in New York.

The charter provided a fixed amount as compensation for carrying
the cargo and also $30 per day for ' ' detention ' ' of the vessel. After
unloading was completed, bill for "water freight" was presented to
the consignee, who subsequently issued a check for the amount, with
an indorsement on the back, "in fuU for all freight." The court
holds that, although ordinarily charges for both hire and demurrage
would be presumed to be included by the term "freight," a receipt
for ' ' freight ' ' charges does not prevent subsequent claim for demur-
rage, when, as in this case, the circumstances indicate an intention
of the parties to draw a distinction.

Speaking of the time for unloading before demurrage accrued, the
court said:

The parties having made a definite charter, and having left out o£ consid-
eration any rules prevailing in the harbor of New York (the destination),
and each party standing strictly upon the charter, it must be assumed that,
if the vessel was ready for discharge at 1 o'clock p. m. upon the day after
her arrival and reporting, the time would begin at that hour on November
11, and the testimony Indicates that delivery did begin at that time.
The language of the charter party is that lay days are to commence from
the time the vessel is ready to discharge cargo, and that cargo is to be
received at the rate of 35 M per day in New Yorls. Under the laws gov-
erning the interpretation of contracts, as well as the statutory regulation
of conduct, the absence of any exception or provision for work caused by
necessity would lead us to assume that the statute of the state, treating
Sunday as a day not to be devoted to work, would be considered implied,
even in a contract as strict as the one in question. Therefore the first
Sunday, or the Sunday within the lay days, must be excluded. The time
lost upon a rainy day would, however, come within a period which was
being estimated from the rate of discharge at the rate of "35 M per day."
The fraction left by dividing 292,391 feet by "35 M" is substantially near
enough to SVo to give the consignee at the charter rate of discharge until
the evening of Friday, November 20. Detention for which demurrage is to
be given is to be measured by time, rather than working days ; hence the
libelant is entitled to collect from Friday evening until Monday evening, or
three days.

Federal Taxes Against Lumber Companies

An incorporated lumber manufacturing company, in making a return
of its assets under the federal corporation tax law, was entitled to de-
duct from its gross receipts, as capital assets, the market value of
the standing timber from which was manufactured the lumber sold
during the year for which the return was made, computed as of the
time the tax law took effect, although the timber was bought several
years before and had since been carried on the company's books at
its actual cost. The company was also entitled to deduct the proceeds
of lands sold during the year up to the value of the lands at the time
the law took effect. (United States district court, western district
of Michigan; Mitchell Brothers Company vs. Doyle; 225 Federal
Eeporter, 437.)

In this suit plaintiff was permitted to recover taxes paid under
protest. Plaintiff claimed that its standing timber and other prop-
erty were capital assets, and that the portion. of the proceeds derived
from cutting, manufacturing and selling such timber, measured by the
actual stumpage value, did not constitute income, and therefore
should be deducted. Tho commissioner of internal revenue conceded
the right to deduct the original cost of the timber, but denied the
right to make any deduction on account of increase in value. The
Attorney General denied the right to make any deduction, contending
that all the proceeds of the manufactured lumber were taxable. As
above indicated, the court took a still different view, which com-
mends itself as being fair, by holding that the taxable proceeds should
be computed by deducting the market value of the timber from
which the lumber was cut as of the time when the tax law took
effect.

Liability for Delaying Lumber

Even though a contract to sell and deliver lumber at a distant
point makes time for delivery a special consideration, the seller
\vill be excused for delay in delivery if the buyer's order was ac-
cepted on an express understanding that "all agreements are con-
tingent upon strikes, accidents, delays or carriers and other delays
beyond our control." (Massachusetts supreme judicial court, Durden-
Coleman Lumber Company vs. William H. Wood Lumber Company,
109 Northeastern Eeporter, 648.) In this case plaintiff's delay in
delivery was excused on the ground that it had taken every reason-
able precaution to expedite delivery, but that stormy weather pre-
vented prompt hauling of logs to some of the mills and loading
of the lumber, and that further delay was occasioned by failure of
a railroad company to promptly provide cars.

It is further decided that even if plaintiff had inexcusably delayed
delivery of the lumber, defendant could not have offset against
the price damages based upon loss sustained on account of the delay
by a third party to whom the lumber was resold by defendant, in the
absence of any showing that defendant had paid the amount of such
damages or been sued on account of them.

Extension of Time for Cutting Timber

Since it is the policy of the law to avoid forfeiture of contract
rights unless plainly required by existing circumstances, the North
Carolina supreme court decides that under a sale of standing timber
with privilege in the buyer to remove the same within a period of
ten years, subject to an option in him to an extension of the time
from year to year for five more years, on notice and payment of $25
annually, where the time was duly extended for four years, the seller
could not forfeit the right to the fifth year extension because there
was a delay of four days in paying the last $25, especially where
notice was given at the end of the ten years that the option for the
five years would be exercised and the full $125 was then tendered,
it being at that time refused on the ground that the option could be
exercised from year to year only. (Bangert vs. John L. Eoper Lum-
ber Company, 86 Southeastern Eeporter, 516.)

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The humhcrmans Round Table

Can the Price Be Too High?

A hardwood lunil>or roccntiv rc|iortcd, in a riitlicr ag

grieved tone, Khst be ^ ^■<-'. a unique cxpcrionre. His bosi had

"called" him for selliBK a carload of lumber at a price which ho, the
bo«s, coniidercd too high.

"This is cood businras if it will stick," said the head of the con-
cern to • in, "but the trouble iit that you invite cancelation
e^-ery t. .kc an or.lor for n price that is out of lino with
the markrt lu any con^ \tcnt. lii);ht now quotntionn are ad-
vancing, and we are y io; but if some other saleiiinnn were
to como aloni; and offer the same stock at a lower price, but one that
we would have been glad to sell at, the buyer would probably take it,
and likewise tell us not to ship. It's good business to get profitable
prices for lumber, but it 's dangerous to got nioro than the stock is
worth."

Those who hoard the salesman's story agreed with him that after
the experiences of most lumbonnon during the past few years, the at-
titude of the boss was really remarkable. On tho other hand, there
is certainly some logic in his contention that the be-'t wny to protect
an order is to givo the customer good value.

Availability of Logs

Many trees which won' ton far t'roni the railroad, or were con-
sidered unavailable for other reasons ii few years ago, are now being
marketed and bandied at a profit to the owner of the timber or the
lumber manufacturer.

It is not necessarily because transportation conditions are any
bett«r, though of course improvement in this respect makes it fre-
quently possible to reach timber that could not be handled before,
but it is because market values of timber have risen in the mean-
time that it becomes practicable to undertake a difficult logging
operation.

Logs worth $15 per thousand will obviously stand less handling
expense than those that are worth $30. The timber buyer who speedily
"passed up" the timber when it was cheap — and cheap because it
was plentiful in more accessible regions — now studies tho situation
carefully before he abandons the stuff as not worth the cost of moving
to the mill or railroad.

An old-time lumberman told recently of a trip he had made into
eastern Kentucky ten or twelve years ago after poplar, only to find
that the timber he wanted to look at was too far from tho railroad,
and would cost too much to move. The same timber is now being
"snaked out" by means of an overhead conveyor, and hauled with
almost as much expense as would originally have been required. The
answer is that poplar is worth a good deal more now than it was then,
and consequently can absorb much more expense in handling than
could possibly have boon done when the tract was first cruised.

Contracting for Lumber Deliveries

As has been pointed out heretofore in connection with contracts
for lumber, the desirability of the contract depends altogether upon
market conditions; and, in fact, the validity of the contract, as a
practical working proposition, depends on that factor, for the most
part.

A year ago lumber consumers as a rule refused to contract, because
they saw that values had been hit by the war and that it would
probably be more profitable to buy a car at a time in order to get
low prices. Now, with quotations steadily ascending, many lumber
buyers would gladly make contracts with manufacturers covering their
requirements during the next twelve months.

The chances are that a contract entered into now by a lumberman
would hold good, and that he would be permitted to ship every foot
called for in the docimient, because the probabilities favor a strong
if not rising market during most of 1916. But what would happen
to the contract if the market happened to decline t

Some consumers, it is true, would take the lumber and pocket what-
ever loss was involved. A good many others would take just as little
as necessary, and would buy where the buying was good. On this
basis it looks as if the buyer who contracts for his lumber is playing

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„ 'hoadS'I'Wiu taiU■^<' if tlic morokt ((ona up, he i«

I>rutoct«d, and if it goaa down ho can forget oil about hii runlracl.

A„ . .,. I tiiure ore consumer* who would observe tho letter of

their ' and take tho lumber; but they arc hardly to b»

rcuariii'.i u- r. i'tinrntative. Tho liimWrman who is thinking ulwut din-
posing of hi.t next year's ouput by contract ought to figure on
probable ailMiincH in values, and at Uio fanio time ought to protect
himself by -ipecifying qiiantilies and fihijijiing dates in hia ajfree-
ment.

The Circular MUl

^Vhilo band-sawn lumber is standard, and has many advantages
with which everybody is familiar, largely in connection with uni-
formity and reduction of wnsto in saw kerf, lots of circular mills arc
still running out in Uic country, and lots of consumers arc using
lumber made in such mills.

Wholesalers who handle circular stock believe that there :iro ad-
vantages in it, not only to themselves, but to buyers. One hard-
wood man who moves several million foot n year, most of which
is manufactured at circular mills, pointed out recently that measure-
ments are usually more liberal in connection with lumber of that
kind, and that allowances are more often made for waste in cut-
ting and trimming than is necessary in connection with band-sawn
stock.

"Xo matter how well made a board may be," ho went on, "the
chances .arc that when it gets to tho mill or factory, a couple of inches
at each end must be trimmed oiT to got a clean, sound surface, and
to take care of weather stains, checks, cracks, etc. If the board
was accurately cut and measured in the first place, this means net
loss to the consumer. On the other hand, the circular mill man does
not trim his boards to length carefully, and gives tho benefit of
extra inches to the consumer. This permits the latter to do all the
trimming necessary without actually suffering a net shrinkage in
usable stock"

The wholesale yard which is handling circular-sawn lumber is
doubtless able to find other talking-points in favor of this kind
of stock; and this very fact suggests that it is a good plan not to
combine both sorts, which would create a hybrid condition, but
handle either one sort or tho other exclusively, so that it will run
uniform as to character.

Suggestions from Employes

A leading woodworker recently published a booklet on "Safety
First," in which not only were suggestions given for accident pre-
vention, but the co-operation of employes was invited along other
lines. One of the features was that employes endeavor to make sug-
gestions to the company for betterments in every direction, and
that cash awards would be made for those which proved usable.
■The idea is so good that it might well be taken up by lumber manu-
facturers and those in allied lines. The announcement of the con-
cern referred to was as follows:

"All our employes are invited to be on the lookout for anything
concerning tho welfare of this company and its employes, and are
requested to make suggestions whenever they have anything to offer.

"Cash awards will be paid to workmen and all other employes in
all departments of the business who send in suggestions of value
to the company.

"We invite suggestions relating to the improvement of our goods
or materials, or methods of making or handling same, the stopping
of leaks, waste or damage of any kind, for the improvement of our
service or for the welfare of our employes.

"Every employe should keep this offer in mind and not hesitate
to express himself on anything done or that might be done to bring
about an improvement in connection with this business.

"Write out your suggestions briefly, sign your name, address en-
velope to superintendent, and hand same to timekeeper.

"All communications will be treated as confidential, and per-
sonal interviews will be granted upon request of any who wish to
make their suggestions in person."

November 10, 1915.

The Export Situation

The unsatisfactory state of the export trade is strikingly sliown
in a statement sent out in the last week to the members of the
National Lumber Exporters' Association by Secretary J. McD. Price,
■of Baltimore. This statement is made up of quotations from some
of the British trade journals and reports from Frank Tiffany, for-
eign representative of the organization, with headquarters at Liver-
pool. It sets forth impressively the difficulties with which the ex-
porters as well as the buyers on the other side have to contend. The
buyers have had thrust upon them grave hardships because of con-
ditions for which they are not in the least responsible and which
they have no power to remedy. Because the British government
has taken possession of most of the motor trucks and other vehicular
facilities of the United Kingdom, it is almost impossible at times
to have goods removed from vessels to yards or other places of
storage. The arrivals are consequently piled up on the docks. But
this entails heavy penalties from the Mersey Docks and Harbor
Board at Liverpool, and makes it wellnigh impossible to do business.
The existing state of affairs is severely criticised by the Britisli trade
journals, but so far without result.

Importers and merchants in Liverpool are suffering seriously from the
shortage o( traction from the docks.

The Mersey Docks and Harbor Board inflicted fines amounting to eighty
thousand pound.s during one week recently on firms who had failed to clear
goods from the quay within seventy-two hours of the last package being
landed, as is required by the regulations.

One wharf alone is blocked by 40,000 bales of wool, which have been lying
there seven weeks, and incurring fines all the time.

How heavily this sort of thing weighs on individual firms may be gathered
from the fact that two houses alone have had to pay fines of one thousand
pounds each recently.

The scarcity of carts and motor-lorries, which have been commandeered by
the government in large numbers, is largely responsible for this congestion,
hut the virtual closing of the east coast ports and the restricted use of
Plymouth and Southampton are also factors in the situation.

Nor is the position eased by the fact that naval and military authorities
are to all intents and purposes administering the ports, and ordering ships
due to discharge at Liverpool to discharge at Birkenhead. This, as may be
imagined, leads occasionally to a chaotic condition of affairs.

In addition to this Mr. Tiffany writes:

At various times I have placed before you what I believed to be the salient
issues, but this morning I am in receipt of a letter from some importers,
who are located at an outport, and for their supplies are dependent upon
the coastwise service. The letter referred to gives a most striking sidelight
as to the situation in Liverpool. It reads :

We are now shipping to Glasgow rather than to Liverpool : Liverpool
is hopeless : Penalty rent starts immediately the goods are landed.
Cartage agents are full, railroads full up, coastwise boats have more
than they can take ; every place cons^ested.

The Mersey Docks and Harbor Board are blood-suckers ; we had to
store in Liverpool three carloads (although we wanted them coastwise
very badly) because they were put on penalty rent as soon as dis-
charged. In addition I hear there is a similar block with the Belfast boats.

The position in Liverpool, Mr. Price says, is very acute and al-
though the Mersey Docks and Harbor Board put goods on penalty,
it is not always possible for the owners to be able to cart the lum-
ber away as labor is so scarce, but apart from this the cost of
storing involves at least an initial outlay of three-pence per cubic
foot on the c. i. f. value, so that in itself is a serious toll on con-
signment parcels, and for which the consignors alone are responsible;
they must either pay or it must come off the value; in either case
they stand the loss.

Mr. Tiffany quotes a letter to the Journal of Commerce as follows:

Surely it is time that a strong protest be proclaimed against the very high-
handed policy of the dock board in demanding the extraordinary and cruelly
oppressive charges under cover of "penalty rent" on the large blocks of
merchandise arriving in the port during many months back.

The sums demanded are extortionate to the last degree, and there does
not seem to be any common sense in punishing so severely the importers,
who are quite helpless in the circumstances. It may be that an abatement
is given as an act of grace, but meantime importers are out very huge sums,
the use of which the dock board has for nothing, and this when money is so
very dear.

I know that it is impossible to find carters and the necessary help to re-
move the goods from the quay, and the dock board is quite aware of this,
yet the public seems to quietly submit to the high-handed demands for
penalty rent, and it is quite time it was put to a stop.

Warehouse accommodation is taxed to the utmost and railroad facilities

arc much curtailed, yet in the face of all this the helpless importer is penal-
ized while the board knows perfectly well that the delays in removing from
the docks are beyond the control of the importer.

There is much more of the same purport, all showing impressively
how ofBcial callousness and ilisregard of circumstances have worked
to impose the heaviest handicaps upon business. In addition, as
stated from time to time, the American exporters of lumber face
the problem of being unable to get tonnage at all or having to pay
practically prohibitive ocean freight rates. The formation by some
of the Memphis and other shippers of a company to inaugurate an
ocean freight service is an attempt to escape from the position of
complete dependence upon the steam,ship companies and to provide
more adequate shipping facilities. How serious this situation is
was illustrated in Baltimore last week by a visit of the representative
of some English steamship people, who had an unlimited commission
to contract for the construction of steamers with American yards, the
British builders being too busy with government work. He found
it impossible to place contracts, however, the American yards having
all the work they could handle. He also made an effort to purchase
some of the German ships interned at different American ports,
but was informed that thev were not for sale.

Exports of Forest Products

The exports of forest products from the United States for August
of this year, and figures by which comparisons may be made
with exports for August of last year, are given below:

-Vug. 1914. Aug. 1915.

Round logs $ 83,151 $ 119,640

Square logs 305,982 318,211

Lumber 2,452,429 3,372,733

Railroad ties 237,671 232,153

Shingles 2,716 8,023

Box shooks 70,792 141,678

Barrel shooks 104,131 199,241

Staves 157,480 381,703

Heading 14,394 21,989

Sash, doors, blinds 85,798 34,999

Furniture 250,818 233,674

Empty barrels 114.127 31,134

Incubators 5,293 6,579

Honsefurnishings 27,600 29,421

Woodenware 17,418 61,732

Pulp 22,806 61,363

All other 445,094 833,313

Total .$4,397,700 $6,067,586

Cutting Dimension at the Sawmill

There is a chance for the ambitious machine man who has the
right knack as well as the proper training to develop himself into
a business man by getting in line with the present disposition to
manufacture dimension stock at the mills. It is surprising what
headway the making of such stock has gained. One planing mill,
for example, has quite a job making certain patented hot -house sash.
This stock is made from cypress, and it would be natural to pre-
sume that rough cypress lumber is bought in random widths and
lengths and thicknesses to correspond to the needs and is then ripped
and worked at the mills. This is not the case. The cypress is
ripped and cut to specific dimensions at the sawmills where the lum-
ber is made. It is a fine idea, too, because it facilitates drying, en-
ables the sawmill to work up its material to better advantage, get
clear stock in small dimensions, trim out the defects and leave the
waste at the mill instead of paying freight on it. It is an idea that
is being carried into the regular sash and door work, as well as many
furniture factories, and it is bound to be enlarged right along.
Eventually there will be connected with almost every saw and planing
mill something in the way of dimension stock equipment. An ideal
plan for operating them is to make them separate institutions and
put them on a profit-sharing basis. It furnishes a good opportunity
for the machine man who has an ambition and a knack for handling
the detaOs of this kind of business, to get into the game and go
into a partnership business with some sawmill man, and thus be-
come a man of business as well as a machine operator.

—23—

■^7

Conditions in Casehardened Wood ^

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I-

ON.

H.-tirn Inrrh IiiiiiIht

rci;uliitin|; kiln

■ 1^.. llic |ilirnnniciion

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aii'liiii; of tlir nnturo nn<l

>t. An rniwlmriloning in

■- resulting from ini-

While developing ii nieUic.
green from thr mw in the Kor<
«t the I" "^ liberator >.

of eniu ' ■>t\H'i\ to nn

for invi-j.ti^;itiiiii, li.ilui(; {•■
eauao of tlii" <li'f<vi. vma ;
one of ' and hiuki

proper - _ resoarrli ■

of some scrt'ice not onW in iiolving the larch
problem, but also to the solution of drying
problems in general. In an att4<mpt to de-
termine thr conditions rxistiu); in r;i^ili:ird-
cned wood, u »oric» of s|n'eifti' ox|i<'riiiu'iits
were jHTformcd at the Forest Products Lab-
oratory, whose results, together with inisccl-
laiicou<i investigations ami observations made
TThilc studying problems of kiln drying var-
ious species of wood, brought facts to light
which make necessary certain modifications
of the popular conception of the nature and
cause of cosohardening in wood. As we often
receive samples of wood in some one of the
various stages of casehardening, accompanied
by inquiries concerning the nature, cause, and
prevention of the defect, from people who
dry or manufacture lumber, we shall first de-
fine the term casehardening by discussing the
manifestations which should render its pres-
ence strikingly obvious to the operator.

Visible MANirrsTAXioNs of Casehardeni.no

A tendency to cascharden invariably results
from too rapid surface drying. This condi-
tion may or may not be evidenced by the

appearance of surface checks during the first part of the drying
process. If this tendency pcrsist.o to the end of the drying period,
its presence may Ix? indicated still more conclusively by the forma-
tion of interior checks commonly termeil honeycombing or hollow-
homing.

If surface checking and honeycombing occur during the drying
process, resawed material may not cup on the saw. Under similar
conditions boards mav \ye surfaced on one side with no resultant warp-

ing.
iririiiMl

PLATE

I. SUKFACB CHEPKED A.\I>
HONEYCOXIBED OAK.
1— Surface checked durliig nlrdrylng ; 2 —
Hnnc.vcombi'd during alrdrylng : .'! — Honey-,
combed during kiln-drying.

Ii'rmed e:i i, when

:ig are sir < us that

I iiie Hliigi' ul the seasoning. I'lutc I shows

II, Mg.

Certain siiecies, such oa cyprcn and western rod cedar, usually
show cnwhardening not by surface checks or honeycombing, but by
rcfuning free triinsfiision of the moisture from the center of the
wood through casehardened surface. This bottled up condition
of the water within the wood probably ac-
companies, to a certain degree, caschnrdon-
ing in all species although it« presence is
usually moro marked in certain woods.

When casehardened lumljer is thoroughly
dried without checking and honeycombing,
it cups on the saw when resawed and warps
more or less when surfaced on one side. Pinto
II illustrates these conditions. It is .i mat-
tor of common knowledge that casehardened
wiiod is very hard as compared to properly
.'^e.'isoncd stock. This explains why knife and
S.HV trouble is often experienced in working
casehardened material. As the average kiln-
dried hardwood luml>er is more or less case-
hardened, the popular prejudice against kiln-
dried stock is readily accounted for. Cer-
tain of the more progressive operators are
adopting better kilns and methods of drying
so that in the future we may expect this dis-
crimination to diminish.

Whether casehardening results in surface
checking and lioneyconibing or in warjiing oni
the resaw and planer, the loss of material is
usually great. Aside from the actual loss of
stock, perhaps the next greatest defect of ca.se-
hardened lumber is its unreliable action after it is manufactured
and in onlor to jirevent the occurrence of these defects it is neces-
sary that the causing factors be known.

Manifest Conditions Existing in Casehardened Wood
Some of the conditions existing in casehardened wood are obvious^
and have been acknowledged and successfully avoided in properly
ojierated kilns. The conditions manifest tliemselves simply and for-
cibly either by surface checking and honeycombing, or by cupping

n.ATE II.

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ri.ATE III.

SECTIONS OF OAK SHOWING nEVKKSAL OF"
STRESSES niRING DRYING.

November 10. lOlS.

HARDWOOD RECORD

on the resaw. It is quite generally understood that wood does not
commence to shrink until it has dried to the fiber saturation point
which corresponds to a moisture content of about 25 to 30 per cent
of the dry wood weight. Some species as eucalyptus globulus and
willow oak commence to shrink almost as soon as they begin to dry,
liowever. The cell walls of tlio conifers and hardwoods become satu-
rated when the moisture contents reach 25 and .30 per cent respec-
tively of the dry wood weight so that tlie moisture removed above
these points must be ' ' free water ' ' from tlie cell cavities. In view
of these facts the reason why no shrinkage can occur during the
period of "free water" removal is evident. As has been previously
stated, the tendency to caseharden invariably results from too rapid
surface drying. If the humidity and circulation of the air sur-
rounding the lumber are such that the moisture is evaporated from
the surface more rapidly than it naturally transfuses from the center,
the surface fibers dry to the fiber saturation point first and there-
fore, tend to shrink, unsuccessfully attempting to compress the center
fibers which are still
above the fiber satu-
ration point. In or-
der to bring com-
pression stresses to
bear on the moist in-
ner fibers, simulta-
neous tension stress-
es must occur in the
shrinking surface fi-
bers. If this sur-
face tension becomes
great enough and
the wood is not plas-
tic the outer cells
are torn apart, form-
i n g the surface
checks already men-
tioned. In case the
surface tension is
not relieved by sur-
face checking at this
stage of the drying
process, the surface
fibers are not per-
mitted to shrink nor-
mally, with the re-
sult that the ulti-
mate shrinkage of
the surface of the
wood is less than nor-
mal. Another way of

expressing this fact is that the surface of the wood "sets" in an
expanded condition. As the inner fibers dry past the fiber -saturation
point, they in turn tend to shrink. They, therefore, tend to pull
away from the "set" surface fibers, exactly reversing the conditions
of stress in the wood. At this stage in the process of seasoning, the
center fibers are in tension thereby forcing the surface fibers to under-
go compression. This explains why so many surface checks close up
as the drying progresses. If the internal tension stresses become great
enough, the inner fibers tear themselves away from the outer fibers,
forming the oval-shaped interior checks already referred to as honey-
combing or hoUowhorning. These checks, of course, relieve both the
internal tension stresses and the external compression stresses to a
greater or less degree. With this in mind, it is quite clear that sur-
face checked and honeycombed wood may not necessarily be badly
casehardened when dry. It is equally evident, however, that case-
hardening was the direct cause of these defects. In many instances
the stresses are not entirely relieved by surface checking and honey-
combing, allowing a part or all of stresses to persist to the close of the
seasoning period. If material in this condition is resawed, it always
cups on the saw, the freshly cut sides being concave. No loss is expe-
rienced, however, if the boards are not resawed or surfaced.

PLATE IV. SECTIONS OF WESTERN LARCH SHOWING THE EFFECT OF THE METHOD OF
DRYING ON THE SHRINK.\GE. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT IN EACH GROUP THE SECTIONS ARE
KILN-DRIED. OVEN-DRIED AND GREEN. THE ILLUSTRATION FURNISHES A PLAIN PIC-
TURE OF THE RESULTS ATTAINED BY THE METHODS OF HANDLING THE WOOD.

It is a fact that if a partially dried board is resawed just after
the outside has begun to shrink and is in tension, the inside being
still above the fiber-saturation point and in compression, the halves
will be convex toward the saw. At first glance this would appear
to indicate the reverse of casehardening. If the halves are allowed
to continue drying, however, they rapidly straighten out flat and
finally cup to an excessive degree concave on the resawed surfaces.
Plate III illustrates this reversal of stresses during the drying. It
follows necessarily that the amount of cupping of resawed stock
depends to a marked extent on the amount and distribution of
moisture in the material at the time it is resawed. Casehard-
ening or cupping after resawing, which is due to unequal moisture
distribution, and that partially or altogether disappears if the stock
is allowed to come to normal moisture equilibrium, we shall call
"temporary casehardening" due to moisture conditions. The cup-
ping on the saw which occurs when thoroughly kUn-dried (uniform
moisture distribution) stock is resawed, let us term "permanent

caseharden-
ing ' ' caused by a
difference in the con-
dition of stress.

The object here is
1 distinguish b e-
tween the ' ' tempo-
rary" and "perma-
nent" forms of case-
hardening.

So far we have
dealt only with those
phases of the sub-
ject which are more
or less manifest. Let
us turn now to a
discussion of the un-
derlying causes of
the various condi-
tions which exist in
casehardened wood
in the light of facts
brought forward dur-
ing the recent ex-
periments to deter-
mine the cause of
the casehardening of
western larch, and
see some of the re-
sults brought about
by the experiments
performed.

Some Experiments and Their Results
A very simple experiment was performed to determine the effect
of the method of drying on the shrinkage of wood. Three adja-
cent sections were cut from several green western larch boards.
One was placed in water to retain the green dimension, the second
was dried slowly in the dry kiln, and finally oven dried, and the
third was dried very rapidly in the oven. Plates IV and V show
the results of this test. Without exception the sections dried slowly
in the warm, moist kiln air shrank much more than those dried
rapidly in the hot, dry oven air. The general conclusion arrived at
was that the faster wood is dried the less it shrinks and vice versa.

Sections were cut from several permanently casehardened larch
boards. Quite severe inward cupping occurred on the resaw. When
these resawed sections were placed in the drying oven, the prongs
first curved outward quite unexpectedly to a very noticeable degree.
Close observation showed that this outward cupping reached a maxi-
mum in a very short time, after which the prongs commenced to
bend inward quite slowly, eventually curving inward slightly more than
the original amount. Similarly, if one placed these sections in water
the prongs curved inward at first but finally cupped outward again
so that the ultimate amount of cupping was slightly reduced from

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Conclusions

PI. ATI: V. SKtriiiNS UK Wi:STi:i(N I.AItClI SIKIWINC TIIK KKKKCT of Tin: MICTIIOD Of
DUYI.Vi; ON THE SlIHI.NKA<ii:. I-HOM TOl' TO IIOTTOM IN KlTIIKIt nitOL'T TIIK .SKCTIONS
AUK KII.N PKIKK. OVKN IHtlKK, ANIJ (JItKEN.

It develops tlieri'
fore, tbat casohard-

ening is a condition resulting from n difference in stress within ^hc
wood. The factor giving rise to these unei|iinl stresse." is n difference
in shrinkage of the outer and inner wooil cell!-. .lust why the center
of a casehardened l>oard shrinks more than the outside involves two
distinct factors, one a "plasticity" effci-t. the other, the intUience of
the drying method on the shrinksige of the outer :nid inner cells.

In the ca.«e of a board not resawcd, the rapidly ilried outer filjers
either do not shrink as much normally or are not permitted to shrink
while the inside of the board is still above the fiber-saturation point.
When the center fillers begin to shrink slowly their "plasticity"
materially decreases the ultimate difference in stress l)etween the
outer and inner fil>ers. The outer surfaces are said to "set" in
an expanded condition, hence the term "ca.sehardening. " This "set"
or expanded condition of the outer shell of wood is the resultant of
the combined factors of rapid drying rate and plasticity of the hot
surface wood which accommodates itself to the still moist center
fibers which have not shrunken as yet. One factor aids the other
in producing the "set" condition of the surface.

Now, if a board is resawed while hot and moist inside and dry
and "set" outside, the inside slowly dried fibers shrink normally
and hence much more than the outer surfaces. The cupping in this
case is readily accounted for. Consider that this board is left to
come to moisture equilibrium before resawing. As befrre, the outer
rapidly dried fibers shrink less than the slowly dried center fibers
because of the different drying rates and the effect of the inner
fibers, which have not begun to shrink as yet, in frustrating the
natural tendency of the outside plastic fibers to shrink. When the
inner fibers do commence to shrink, however, the expanded outer
shell tends to prevent them from doing so, or in other words, the
"set" outer fibers are no longer ]ilastic, so the stresses are reversed.
Under these conditions the inner fibers must "set" in a more ex-
panded condition than if the board were at once resawed, in which
case the moist, plastic, inner fibers were not kept from shrinking
by the "set" outer shell. In the light of these facts it is evident
why the resultant difference in stress is greater when a board in
which the moisture distribution is unequal is resawed while moist
and hot, than when allowed to come to moisture equilibrium and then
resawed.

The degree of casehardening of the different species of wood under
similar drying conditions depends undoubtedly on the ability of the
outer and inner fibers to accommodate themselves to the different
stresses created by the unequal shrinkages of the outer and inner
fibers. Some of the hardwoods, especially oak, fail to accommodate
themselves to these stresses which are very great, and become surface
checked and honeycombed as a result. The fibers of other species
are not ruptured by the stresses, which are comparatively small. In
such cases no checking or honeycombing may occur although the
difference in stress may persist to a marked degree.

These different stresses, which remain after the moisture has

reiichcd equilibrium,
lire the rnuM of
' ' |>iTninnenl c a se •
li:irdi>ning. " The
• liffcrenre of moll-
turo content l>otwe<'n
the outer and inner
portion* is fre<|uent-
ly called canchnrden-
Ing but is only a
Irniporiiry factor,
here denignnted U
' ' ti-uipornry i- a it o •
hardening. "

Thus at least four
distinct factors un-
derlie tiie conditions
which exist in case-
hardened wood. The
first is une((ual mois-
t u r e distribution,
bringing into play the different stresses an<l resulting "setting"
of the outer surface, accompanied by surface checking, followed by
reversed stresses and internal tension, attended by honeycombing.
This condition is more or less temporary. We shall give second place
to the unequal shrinkage of the inner and outer fibers caused by the
surface drying more rapidly than the center. This is clearly u [ler-
m.inent effect. Third in importance is the slight apparently perma-
nent difference in hygroscopicity between the outer and inner fibers.
Let us place the difference in sensitiveness to moi-'in'- ■•Imiiu"'" Ix-
tween the outer and- inner fibers fourth and last.

National Efficiency Productive

We have had the loss of power in friction figured out for us on
]>retty fine, hair splitting lines, and have had demonstrations of the
wasted energfy in a machine running empty, but have yet hardly
touched the subject of the personal energy and motions wasted in
handing machinery, and the material worked on the machines. We
know that the secret of capacity in a sawmill is to keep the saw-
in the log as continuously as possible. Here is where we frequently
have one of the plainest cases of wasted motion and energy.

.\ sawyer of the rambunctious kind will run his carriage back from
two to four feet farther than is necessary, bring it to a sudden stop,
and perhaps jerk it back a time