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but are both particularly strong. Nearly 

 'all of the stock coming in has been sold 

 before its arrival, and prices remain as 

 they have been. Gum and cottonwood 

 have lost none of their popularity and are 

 stronger than has ever before been known. 

 They are wanted in unlimited quantities 

 at the very highest of prices, and the 

 chances are that the demand will not be 

 satisfied for some months to come. Al- 

 most this same condition prevails with 

 reference to every other wood handled in 

 St. Louis, and the future is particularly 

 roseate. 



lumber, but that it may serve as a private 

 forest and game preserve. The bureau" 

 will put a party in the field this summer to 

 make a plan for handling the tract. The 

 problems of keeping out fire and improv- 

 ing the natural reproduction must be 

 solved; and it may be necessary to restock 

 part of the land by planting or seeding. 



DTJN'S INTERNATIONAL. 



In recognition of what was believed to 

 be a well-defined need. Dun's Review has 

 begun the publication of a. monthly inter- 

 national edition. The weekly edition will 

 not be interrupted nor curtailed in any 

 way, since its valuable records of failures 

 and prices and its reviews of conditions 

 from week to week in industry, commerce 

 and finance owe much to their continuity. 

 The statistical tables prepared for the 

 weekly edition represent the result of 

 many years of careful compilation, and 

 are widely quoted as authoritative in their 

 respective subjects. Such of these as are 

 of interest abroad will be reproduced in 

 this edition, but otherwise the two will be 

 entirely distinct as regards subject matter 

 and editorial policy. 



The International Edition, as its name 

 in^.plies, will be a journal of international 

 trade, and will aim to be of practical serv- 

 ice to all who are interested in that im- 

 portant branch of the world's activities. 

 ■U'hile the present number indicates in a 

 general way the scope of the paper, it is 

 proper to state that the plans of the 

 editors contemplate the addition of several 

 new departments should the good-will of 

 the public waiTant such enlargement. 

 Since the paper is published in the interest 

 of both e-xporters and importers, regard- 

 less of nationality, some of the depart- 

 ments are intended primarily for those 

 who manufacture and sell and others for 

 those who buy. Thus, the reviews of 

 business conditions in leading buying mar- 

 kets, the abstracts of tariffs and customs 

 regulations, etc., are designed especially for 

 the information of exporters, while the 

 reviews of industries and prices, news of 

 staple and manufactured products and the 

 like, are for the benefit of importers. 



SAW MILLS ALL IN LlftUIDATION 



A curious thing about the lumber pro- 

 ducing industry, and one that is most 

 rarely talked about, is that every lumber 

 manufacturer of the country is practically 

 in liquidation. No matter how impreg- 

 nably solvent the concern may be, no mat- 

 ter what its resources or how much timber 

 it may own or control, the end of it all in 

 every case is a matter of approximately 

 computable time. There is no other in- 

 du.stry the raw material pertaining to 

 which is so Inexorably, so infallibly subject 

 to extinction — whose operations are so re- 

 morselessly limited — as can be said of 

 wood products. The iron and steel indus- 

 tries may be limited by a possibility of 

 the future exhaustion of iron ore, but the 

 contingency is so remote as to excite little 

 thought and less comment. The products 

 of the soil — those commodities that grow 

 primarily out of the gi-ound — are, of course, 

 entirely free from any conceivable limita- 

 tion as to time. There are other prod- 

 ucts, dug like ore, out of the ground, that 

 excite no such apprehension of final ex- 

 tinction as pertains to wood. There is 

 only one avenue of escape from a final 

 wood famine or the consequences of the 

 present regime, and that inheres in the 

 possibilities of scientific forestry methods. 

 The extent to wliirli this means iif escape 



might be made operative by individuals is 

 doubtless much greater than any likeli- 

 hood in the premises. The difficulties in- 

 separable from moderate and small hold- 

 ings of timlier in th(>ir i-elatious to such 

 forestry methods are too well understood 

 to require explanation — adequate relief, if 

 any, consequently, must come through pub- 

 lic, not private, action. — New Orleans Lum- 

 lier Trade Journal. 



REORGANIZATION OF A BIG COM- 

 PANY. 



The Greenbrier River Lumber Company 

 of jMarlinton, W. Va., and New York City 

 has sold its entire holdings in Pocahontas 

 County, West Virginia, including 150,000 

 acres of timber and their big band mill at 

 JIarlinton. John T. McGraw, a large 

 stockholder in the Greenbrier Company, 

 retains his interests, the balance going to 

 Hoffman Bros, of Wheeling, W. Va.. who 

 are identified with the tanning industry. 

 Large improvements will be made for the 

 development of the property. The timb<?r 

 consists of spruce, hemlock and hardwoods. 



JOHN LOVE'S SIDE LINE. 



We are in receipt of a neat little book- 

 let setting forth the beauties of "Mark- 

 land" on the southern coast of Nova Scotia 

 as a summer resort. I had always had an 

 idea that Nova Scotia was away up North 

 somewhere and was surprised to find that 

 Markland is only about as far North as 

 Boston. It is apparently au ideal place for 

 spending the summer months. John W. 

 Love of Nashville is interested in the de- 

 velopment of JIarkland and willHie pleased 

 til furnish any fiu-ther information. 



U^M ^|_| ^ ^ t OT" Pevfection attained at last. The result of many years of 

 Y I H t D Ca d I piaclloal experience with Hollow Blast Grates. 



FORESTRY IN NEW MEXICO. 



William L. Hall, chief of the Division of 

 Forest Extension of the Bureau of For- 

 estry, has just returned from a trip to New 

 Mexico, where he made a preliminary ex- 

 amination of 200,000 acres of cut-over tim- 

 ber land owned by William H. Bartlett of 

 Chicago. The land lies on the east slope 

 of the Rocky Mountains in New Mexico 

 about 50 miles southwest of Trinidad, and 

 touches the Colorado line. The land once 

 liore a good growth of yellow pine, but the 

 timber has been or soon will be nearly all 

 cut. Mr. Bartlett wants to grow timber 

 on it again, not only for the production of 



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