THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



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goods to deliver to get the ordei-s that are 

 plentiful. The furniture manufacturers 

 here coniplain. The stave and spoke 

 manufacturers, of wliom there are about 

 a score in Memphis, send up a similar 

 cry to the lunilpermeu. The principal de- 

 maud seems to be for quartered white 

 oak. first and second ash and plain red 

 oalv. Cottonwood and gum are also in 

 good demand. 



saws. It was a splendid exhibition of the 

 sawyer's art. Pettit and his mate got to 

 worli with a wonderful swing of rapidity 

 and ease and sent their ATKINS saw 

 through the twenty-four-incli red pine log 

 in the surprising time of o2 ;!-.j seconds." 



BUFFALO. 



Quartered oak is selling readily at top 

 prices. Dry stock is scarce in both com- 

 mon and firsts and seconds. Plain oak, 

 both white and red, is a little off in price, 

 and the demand for same is not what it 

 has been. There is considerable dry plain 

 oak in sight. There are large stocks of 

 ash on hand South and West, which are 

 being offered at considerably less money 

 than heretofore. Ash lumber has not been 

 moving like oak during the past year, and 

 this. I take it, is the principal reason for 

 the accumulation of stock and reduction in 

 price. I think ash will be still lower in 

 price. 



Basswood and cherry are scarce and 

 hard to get hold of and are in ready de- 

 mand at top prices. 



Well manufactured maple of good color 

 and width is in good demand in all thick- 

 nesses and is not very plentiful. 



A NOTABLE SAWING EVENT. 



The following notice, clipped from the 

 Southland Daily News, published at In- 

 vercargiil, New Zealand, is an interesting 

 account of some sawing contests in which 

 the world famous Atkins saws played an 

 important event. As usual, the prize win- 

 ners of the championship contests used 

 Atkins saws, thus again demonstrating 

 the fact that "Atkins is Always Ahead." 



"The Axemen's Carnival, which was 

 held at Invercargill, New Zealand, on 

 April 30, 1903, was a notable event, there 

 being sawing and chopping contests, bicy- 

 cle and foot races, as well as other ath- 

 letic sports indulged in. 



"The gathering of axemen and sawyers 

 was perhaps as fine as has been seen any- 

 where, comprising the leading men in both 

 lines from Australia. Tasmania and the 

 provinces of New Zealand. Intense inter- 

 est centered in Thomas I'ettit. the world's 

 champion, who competed with great suc- 

 cess in the sawing events, annexing the 

 cliampion single-handed, and with H. 

 Mitchell, the champion double. He saws 

 with beautiful action and immense force, 

 and the ATKINS saw used by him simply 

 plowed its way through the blocks. Con- 

 sidering that Pettit has had very little 

 training for the matches his performance 

 must stamp him as undoubtedly the fore- 

 most man of tlie first rank of sawyers. 



"Another distinguished competitor was 

 Herb Mitchell, ex-champion of New Zea- 

 land, who is well and popularly known all 

 over the islaud. 



"For the championship single-handed 

 sawing contest, E. C. Atkins & Co.. the 

 well-known saw manufa(fturers of Indian- 

 apolis, Ind., U. S. A., through their Aus- 

 tralian representative, Jlr. C. Cullen, do- 

 nated if.jO. The first prize, .$25, and cham- 

 pionship gold medal was won by Thomas 

 Pettit: S. Fisher took second prize. .$].o. 

 and Edward Tobin tiiird prize, .$10. Both 

 Pettit and Fisher used .VTKI.NS saws. 

 Pettifs time was 1 minute 4S 'J-.5 seconds. 



"In the doulile-handod sawing contest 

 Thomas Pettit and H. Mitchell won the 

 first prize of ?'25, two gold medals and two 



BURFORD LUMBER COMPANY IN 

 TROUBLE. 



From Chattanooga. Tenn.. reports come 

 of the financial embarrassment of the 

 Burford I.umlior Compan.v, brought about 

 l)y a suit tiled against them by Henderson, 

 Baker & Co. of Nashville. When this ac- 

 tion was taken, Mr. J. T. Burford, presi- 

 dent of the company, notified his various 

 creditors an<l reijuested a meeting, which 

 v,as arranged. The liabilities of the firm 

 were then scheduled and found to amount 

 to about .'(;40,0()0. The management claims 

 assets to the amount of .f20,(M10. The 

 largest creditor is understood to be one 

 of the Chattanooga banks. Four-fifths of 

 the liabilities, it is said, are due the bank 

 and individual members of the firm, the 

 bi\lance owing to outside parties. The 

 liank is secured to a limited extent. The 

 management of the firm have been re- 

 garded as good business men and there 

 are some who hold the opinion that the 

 present embarrassment will ultimatel.v be 

 adjusted to the satisfaction of all con- 

 ceined. 



A later report is to the effect that credit- 

 ors have accepted settlement on the basis 

 of I'i per cent. 



TO -WIPE OUT AN OLD EVIL. 



For years the St. Louis pe<jple have been 

 atHicted with a freight discrimination, 

 kuown as tlu' Bridge arbitrary, which has 

 acted as a hardship against those who 

 receive or ship freight. This arbitrary, 

 so far as lumber is concerned, amounts to 

 one and one-half cents a hundred pounds 

 on freight originating in St. Louis, but 

 does not affect through business. There 

 is universal local complaint at this prac- 

 tice, and strenuous efforts are being made 

 to have it abolished. Other cities are not 

 thus afflicted, and it is a serious detriment 

 to those doing business in this city. All 

 of the local commercial orgiinizations have 

 taken up the matter and the following is 

 a resolution adopted at a recent meeting 

 Ol the Lumbermen's Exchange of St. 

 Louis: 



Whereas, There is pending in the pres- 

 ent city council and house of delegates a 

 certain bill kuown as the T(>rminal Kail- 

 way Bill, by which the Terminal Kailway 

 Association of St. Louis seeks certain 

 I'ights and privileges from the city of 

 St. Louis, all of which are of great value 

 to it and whi<li will give the said Terminal 

 U.'^.ilway Association a practical monopoly 

 of the terminal facilities of "the city of St. 

 Louis; 



Whereas, The Terminal Railway Asso- 

 ciation of Railroads entering into the city 

 of St. Louis and which has for years sub- 

 jected the business interests of St. Louis 

 to arbitrary and fixed charges called Ter- 

 minal charges, or better kuown as bridge 

 toll and switching charges, all of which 



have prove<l a burden upon the business 

 of tlie city, and 



Whereas, .\11 efforts of the business in- 

 terests of (he cit.v toward having these 

 cliarges and tolls removed or reduced 

 have been resisted by both the Terminal 

 .Vssociation and the railroads composing 

 it, and since now seems to be the oppor- 

 tunity long sought for to compel these rail- 

 roads and the Terminal Assoiiation Xo 

 consider these business interests and the 

 fulure of oiu' city. and. together with s\ich 

 other considerations and safeguards as are 

 d( (>med necessary, to renu)ye what is 

 known as the bridge arbitrary and reduce 

 their switching charges to conform with 

 like charges for like services in other 

 cities and to conform to the switching 

 rcguhitions as prescribed by our city ordi- 

 nances, now, therefore. 



Resolved b.v the Lumbermen's Exchange 

 of St. Louis that we respectfully ask our 

 cit.v conni-il and house of delegates, before 

 gr;niting .-iny further rights .-uid privileges 

 to the Terminal Kail\v,iy .\ssociation, that 

 they have these charges adjusted to the 

 satisfaction of our business interests. 



THE "MORTON" KILN. 



\\'e present elsewhere in this issue the 

 advertisement of the A. H. Andrews Com- 

 p.iii.v. 17-)-17(> Wabash avenue, this city, 

 calling attention to the Morton Patent 

 Moist Air Dr.v Kiln. Most everyl)o<ly that 

 has to do with kiln drying is acciuainted 

 with the name "Morton." but it is only 

 within the past two years that they have 

 had the merits of the system so forcibly 

 jiresented to them. Within that time the 

 business management has undergone a 

 change and the new blood infused into it 

 has succeeded in arousing considerable in- 

 terest with the liuying public and ineident- 

 all.v giving competition something to think 

 al:out. 



The proper exploitation of a product, 

 however, is only supplemental^ work. 

 The article itself is bound to be all right, 

 and if years of experience, the spending 

 of time and mone.v in its perfection, and 

 above all, if the principle is correct, which 

 is attested to by many of the largest con- 

 sumers of lumber in the countr.v, then they 

 are entitled to the reward which they are 

 now getting. 



Among the exclusive users of the Morton 

 kiln may be mentioned the Brunswick- 

 Balke-Collender Company, Canadian Pa- 

 cifi<- Railroad, Lake Shore & Michigan 

 Scuthern Railroad. C., B. & Q. Railroad, 

 The Skaiulia Furniture Company and the 

 Pullman Company. The latter named, it is 

 said, after years of experience with other 

 makes of kilns, purposes to abandon all 

 other methods and adhere strictly to the 

 Morton moist air system. 



To those who are interested it is sug- 

 gested that they procure detailed state- 

 ment of the system or a personal call from 

 a representative of the company. 



The Chicago Hardwood Lumber Ex- 

 change lias made three several attempts to 

 hold its monthly luncheon for Jime, but 

 each time has been forced to postpone it 

 on account of the waiters' strike. 



