HARDWOOD RECORD 



of ■northern pine." Pine made up over nine- 

 tenths of the lumber produced in Minnesota, 

 one-third of that produced in Wisconsin, and 

 less than two-flfths of the total cut of Mich- 

 igan. 



Along with this great decrease in pine, there 

 have been relati%-ely as heavy decreases in the 

 valuable hardwoods, oak, elm and ash. Little 

 more than one-fifth as much oak was cut in the 

 lake states last year, for instance, as in 1899, 

 while the cut of elm and ash was but half 

 of that of eight years earlier. As is always 

 the case, the decreasing supplies of the more 

 valuable woods have caused those once con- 

 sidered of little or no value to be drawn upon 

 heavily. This has been particularly true with 

 hemlock, so that now more hemlock than pine 

 lumber is manufa. tin .d in W i~ci.nsin, and twice 

 as much hemlock :i~ |iiri. . m in Michigan. 

 There have bei-ii li.:i\y iiiM.:i~rs in the us.' of 

 maple, birch aud Lrcli «iil]in the past few 

 years, but the maximum cut of these species 

 is probably near at hand ; taking all of the 

 hardwoods together, there has been no little 

 falling o£E since 1899. 



Oak Flooring Association. 



The National Oak Flooring Manufacturers' 

 Association is sounding its war cry and is already 

 getting excellent results, although organized only 

 a few months ago. Its motto appears on all its 

 envelopes in large letters : "Oak Flooring for 

 Heavy Duty and Hard Service Beats All Other 

 Woods !" This scheme constitutes excellent ad- 

 vertising for the product, .ind it is from this 

 sort of uniform and persistent "plugging" that 

 the association expects to secure excellent re- 

 sults. 



After the summer vacation period, about the 

 first of September, a meeting will be called and 

 the regular work of the association taken up 

 with renewed vigor : among other measures a 

 campaign of education among the architects of 

 the country is conlpmplated. Oak flooring is a 

 worthy product and if advertised in a worthy 

 manner should moet with even greater popular- 

 ity than it has had up to the present time. 



Government Operating on Wisconsin Hard- 

 woods. 



A new departure has been inaugurated by 

 the government In the timber operations on 

 Menomonle Indian reservation, Shawano county, 

 Wisconsin. By an act passed two years ago, 

 through the efforts of Senator LaFolletto, the 

 cutting of "dead and down" timber on the 

 reservation was authorized, portable mills to 

 be used. Several million feet of elm, basswood, 

 birch, maple, pine and hemlock were cut. The 

 government is now erecting an $80,000 mill at 

 Norway, which will cut Into lumber 25.000,000 

 feet of the 40,000,000 feet already logged. The 

 mill will be operated upder the direction of the 

 forestry department, and after the timber in- 

 jured in the great wind storm a few years ago 

 Is cut, the matured timber will be picked out 

 carefully and the logging is expected to continue 

 Indeflnitely. One of the finest bunches of stand- 

 ing hardwood left in the country is within the 

 reservation, and is bisected by the Wisconsin 

 and Northern railroad, which is being built 

 north to Crandon. 



Building Operations for June. 



Official building reports from some fifty lead- 

 ing cities of the country for the month of June, 

 received by the American Contractor, Chicago, 

 show quite distinctly that building operations 

 are Improving, the loss as compared with .Tune, 

 1007. being only l.T per cent. Substantially 

 the same cities reported a loss of .tT per cent 

 tor March, 33 for April and 19 for May of the 

 present year as compared with >he correspond- 

 ing months of last year. New York shows a 

 loss of only 13 per cent, a gain of 3.1 per cent 



in Manhattan being offset by losses in Brooklyn 

 and the Bronx. Takiug into account the cir- 

 cumstance that the presidential election occurs 

 during the present year, the gradual decrease 

 of total losses from 37 per cent in March to 15 

 per cent in June is decidedly encouraging. The 

 decrease in the price of structural steel seems to 

 be producing an effect, notably in Manhattan, 

 while the loss in Chicago is but trifling. 



June, June, 



1908, 1907, Per cent 



City. cost. cost. gain. loss. 



Baltimore $ 858,631 $ 634,897 35 



Blrminsham . . . 553.895 236,690 57 



Bridgeport 113.454 436.572 . . 74 



Buffalo 600.000 670,000 . . 11 



Chicago 0..''>01,223 7,043.850 . . 6 



Clevelaiul 692.562 1,231,598 . . 43 



Cincinnati S96.123 851,512 5 



Columbus 507.383 377,820 34 



Dallas 129,860 420,795 . . 0!) 



Denver 1,. 140,105 1,333,570 



Des Moines 68.475 61,173 11 



Detroit 1.335.150 1,576,700 . . 15 



Duluth .-SOI. 743 246,737 22 



Granil Rapids.. . 200,519 153.997 32 



Harttor.l 213.185 271,505 .. 20 



Indianapolis ... 494.731 1.100,514 .. 55 



Los Angeles ... 7.37.856 1.516,516 .. 50 



Louisville 198.178 428,008 . . 53 



Manchester 95.360 128,200 . . 26 



Milwaukee 1.246.442 765.187 62 



Minneapolis . . . .877,020 l,002,025i. . . 12 



Memphis 354.855 605,741 .. 41 



Mobile 45,802 69,150 . . 34 



New Haven ... 145.165 335,150 .. 59 



Newark 731,208 ■ 1,062,120 .. 25 



New Orleans... 415,1.39 612,438 .. 32 



New York 20,499,027 23,645,290 .. 13 



.Manhattan 10.182,713 11,932,380 35 



Brooklyn .... 2,665,210 9,744.530 .. 72 



Bronx 1.651,102 1,968,380 .. 16 



Omaha 450,160 432,790 4 



Philadelphia ... 3,017,045 3,186,410 .. 5 



Paterson 126,231 93,938 34 



IMtlsburs 938,149 1,781,800 .. 47 



I'ortland, Ore... 841,065 805,250 .. 3 



Heading 86,500 158,550 . . 46 



Rochester 483,953 538,920 . . 9 



St. Paul 807,542 562,792 43 



St. Louis 1,942,736 2,013,500 .. 36 



San Antonio . . . 186,320 220.930 . . 17 



.San Francisco . . 2,351,216 3,500.643 . . 32 



Seattle 1.280,033 1,249,203 . . 2 



Spokane 504,203 1,090.243 . . 53 



South Bend .... 64.733 111,062 41 



S.vracuse 305.905 235.925 19 



•Salt Lake City 194,900 1,138.000 .. 82 



Toledo 186,260 409.160 .. ,54 



Wllkes-Barre .. 136,310 127,445 7 



Worcester 313,770 255,683 22 



Total $54,472,130 $64,825,001 .. 15 



•Salt Lake City Issued two permits tor $300,000 

 each, June. 1907. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 

 A. Ilerzog and J. B. Cabell, under the name 

 Cabell & Ilerzog. will conduct a forwarding 

 agency and foreign freight brokerage business 

 at New Orleans as successors to the late L. Iler- 

 zog. They will give close attention to the 

 handling of all shipments consigned to their 

 care, and will secure the lowest possible ocean 

 rates ; will also write marine insurance. A. 

 Ilerzog is the son of the late L. Herzog, and 

 aside from his association with his father in 

 this line of business has had a number of years' 

 experience in the steamship business. Mr. Ca- 



bell has been engaged in both railroad and steam- 

 ship work and was the first secretary and traffic 

 manager of the National Lumber Exporters' 

 Association. 



Peter Elting of the Starr Lumber Company, 

 Weston, Wis., states that the company sawed 

 about 5,000,000 feet of hardwood this year. 



C. M. Edick, formerly of Benton Harbor, 

 Mich., is now running a large veneer and fruit 

 package plant at Troy, Ala. The fruit crop in 

 the South is large this year, so that the de- 

 mand for packages is excellent. 



The state of New York has purchased from 

 the Eagle Nest Country Club a large tract of 

 land at the head of Blue Mountain Lake. The 

 land lies at the foot and side of Blue Mountain, 

 extending to the shore of the lake. The tract 

 has escaped forest fires and is covered with a 

 fine growth of hardwood. 



A recent issue of the Timber News of Lon- 

 don says that certain large estates under well- 

 trained foresters are getting efxcellent results in 

 forestry. At a recent sitting of the royal com- 

 mission now engaged in the question of affores- 

 tation the forester to Lord Lovat gave some val- 

 uable particulars concerning the woods under 

 his charge. It appears that the estates include 

 some 8,300 acres of planted woodlands and 

 about 1,500 acres wooded by natural growth, 

 and that from seventy to 100 acres of land are 

 planted annually. The witness mentioned that 

 he had planted about 500 acres of land not 

 worth more than 1 shilling an acre for agri- 

 cultural purposes, but which, he estimates, will 

 acquire the value of £90 an acre as woodlands 

 in seventy years' time. That is a satisfactory 

 prospect for the owner, and the opinion ex- 

 pressed should encourage other landlords in the 

 pursuit of forestry. Another important point 

 is that Lord Lovafs woods find employment 

 for fifty men. representing a wages sheet of 

 £1.500 a year, aud that the timber merchant 

 who buys the wood pays about £2,000 a year 

 in wages in respect of the same timber. If the 

 cultivation of trees were generally practiced in 

 suitable places throughout the country there 

 would be a large opening for labor, bringing 

 numbers of men back to the land and materially 

 reducing the ranks of the unemployed. 



The forestry department of the Pennsylvania 

 railroad has just completed its spring forestry 

 planting, setting out 025,000 trees. These make 

 2,425,000 which the road has set out up to the 

 present time. 



The Buckeye Lumber Company has its new 

 plant at Augusta, Ala., operating in full force. 

 They are cutting spokes, felloes, etc., and are 

 prepared to cut all kinds of lumber, especially 

 hardwoods. 



Yuill Brothers have started up their sawmill 

 at Logan, Mich., which has been idle since last 

 winter. It has been extensively repaired. 



John Watkins of Battle Creek has just con- 

 tracted to saw 1,500,000 feet of hardwood lum- 

 ber for the Advance Thresher Company. 



Hardwood JVeWs. 



(By HABDWOOD BECOBD Special Correspondents.) 



The sunnucr vacation season is on, ami from 

 most of the large lumber offices In the city 

 familiar figures are missing. The heat, combined 

 with the rather dull business season, is causing 

 lumbermen to devote an unusual amount of time 

 to fishing, golfing and the like, or to take extra 

 long vacations. 



The Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation announces that several of Its officers will 

 soon return from protracted absences, and that 

 It will probably hold its annual meeting the lat- 



announced within a few days. 



The Furniture Journal, published by the 

 Trade Periodical Company, 355 Dearborn street, 

 this city, celebrates the opening of the midsuui- 

 mer furniture-buying season by issuing a ma^ 

 niflcent number of 258 pages. The issue is do!i< 

 on fine enameled stock and is replete with beau- 

 tiful halftone illustration, considerable color 

 work, and literary contests rarely seeu in a 

 similar publication. It is one of the handsomest 

 specimens of trade publications that has ever 

 been issued, and reflects distinct credit on its 

 publishers. 



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