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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The Mail Bag 



Any reader of HARDWOOD RECO.iD desiring to communicate 

 with any of the inquirers listed in this section can have the addresses 

 on written request to the IVIail Bag Department, HARDWOOD 

 RECORD, 537 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, and referring to the 

 number at the head of each letter and enclosing a self-addressed 

 stamped envelope. 



B 383 — Poplar Moldings Wanted 

 London, E. C, Jan. 8. — Editor Habdwood Record : We would be pleased 

 to have you advise us of anyone you know of who will make poplar elec- 

 tric casings. Anybody making poplar moldings would be satisfactory, and 

 we would be able to tell them exactly how to make them so as to save 

 not only wood but a lot of labor. 



The above inquirer has been supplied with a brief list of manu- 

 factuTers of poplar mouldings. — Editok. 



B 384 — Seeks Poplar and Cottonwood 

 Houston, Tex., Jan. 13. — Editor Habdwood Record ; We are in the mar- 

 ket for Cottonwood and poplar in different sizes — also panel stock. 



Works. 



The foregoing correspondent has been given the names of various 

 facturers of popular moldings. — Editor. 



B 385 — Wants Market for Excelsior 

 Pulaski, Va.. Jan. 14. — Editor Hardwood Record : Would you kindly 

 give me some buyers of excelsior and an idea of the best woods to use 

 lor this purpose? 



Thanking you in advance for any information you may be able to 

 give, I am. 



The above party has been advised that the principal buyers of 

 excelsior are manufacturers and -wholesale merchants who do a lot 

 of packing, such as dishes, bottles, hardware, lamps, furniture and 

 smaU articles generally. A little excelsior is used by upholsterers. 



The excelsior makers of North Carolina use white pine, yellow 

 pine and yellow poplar. Most soft, stringy woods answer, such as 

 spruce. The markets for excelsior are generally in nearby towns 

 and cities, as it is not usually shipped far. — Editor. 

 B 386 — Has Hardwood Ashes to Offer 



Halifax. Mova Scotia, Jan. 13. — Editor Hardwood Record : I would 

 feel much obliged if you would give me the names of dealers of hardwood 

 ashes in any part of the United States. 



The writer of the above letter has been informed that the buyers 

 of wood ashes in this country are mostly manufacturers of fertili- 

 zers, although the pearl ash and potash people buy some. He was 

 further told that he could probably obtain the addresses of firms 

 in this business from trade and city directories in districts where 

 he wished to do business. — Editor. 



B 387— Attention Oak Manufacturers 



San Francisco, Cal., Jan. 15. — Editor Hardwood Record : We are inter- 

 ested in getting figures from eastern mills on a quantity of a million feet 

 oak lumber, plain and quarter-sawed, and would appreciate your putting 

 us in touch with some mills that will be able to quote us. ■ 



Hoping that our little request will merit your prompt attention, we are, 



Company. 



The above concern is a prominent wholesaler in San Francisco 

 and has been supplied with a list of manufacturers of the lumber 

 for which it is in the market.^EDiTOR. 



B 388 — Wants Beech Drawer Sides 



Salem, Ind., Jan. 20. — Editor Hardwood Record : We have been re- 

 quested by you in the past to fill out list showing stock we wanted, 

 which we have not done as we have been able to supply our requirements 

 without this. However, we see quite a number of furniture people are 

 using beech drawer sides and we presume they are buying these already 

 worked to their special sizes. 



If you know of anyone who is manufacturing beech drawer sides, we 

 will be glad to have you put us in touch with them. 



The above correspondent has been supplied with a list of con- 

 cerns likely to be in position to supply this stock. — Editor. 



B 389 — Denial of Authenticity 

 Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 20. — Editor Hardwood Record : Referring to 

 article In your issue of January 10th of the Habdwood Record, which 



you state is an interview by a Hardwood Record representative, would 

 state I have never been interviewed by one of your representatives, nor 

 have I given anyone permission to publish such an article and the state- 

 ments made as coming from me direct are without foundation. More- 

 over, such statement would most certainly injure Russe & Burgess, Inc., 

 and myself with foreign brokers, and I request that you print in your 

 next issue an article stating the matter given you by your representative 

 was not received by him from me, and that I had nothing to do with it 

 whatever. Yours truly. G. A. FabbeBj 



Sec'y, Russe & Burgess, Inc. 



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Lake States Forest Fire Conference 



Delegates to the second annual meeting of the Lake States Forest 

 Fire Conference, held at Lansing, Mich., Jan. 21 and 22. declared for 

 separation of the state fire warden's departments from politics, efficient 

 forest patrol,, and co-operation between- state and private fire associa- 

 tions. The conference was made a permanent organization and the fol- 

 lowing officers elected : President, Filbert Roth, head of the forestry 

 department of the University of Michigan ; vice-president, F. B. Moody, 

 state forester, Madison, Wis. ; secretary-treasurer, F. B. Wyman, secre- 

 tary Northern Forest Protective Association, Munising, Mich. 



The legislative committee recommended absolute divorce of the game 

 and forestry departments ; that the work of forest protection and admin- 

 istration be placed in the hands of a competent and non-partisan board ; 

 the appointment by board or commission of an expert and competent 

 forester together with necessary assistants who shall have charge of and 

 have supervision ovei" all forest administration and protection ; general 

 forest and fire laws along lines of the present Minnesota law : a law to 

 embrace a well considered forest land policy ; a new tax law with annual 

 laud tax based on soil values, and timber tax based on value of timber 

 at the time it is removed from the land : the appropriation of sufficient 

 funds to enable state forester to enforce to the full all existing forest 

 and fire laws and such others as may be passed. 



It was contended, especially in Michigan, that the Are protection with 

 game protection is a poor mixture and inefficient for the reason that 

 residents of the timberlands are generally antagonistic to game wardens 

 and do not co-operate with them. 



The conference adopted resolutions asking and urging the lake states 

 and the province of Ontario to provide larger appropriations for fire 

 protection ; to form new associations for fire fighting ; to co-operate with 

 all forest fire fighting organizations ; to oppose any transfer of forest 

 reserves to states by the United States government, as the fire fighting 

 efficiency was greater under the federal government's supervision ; to 

 urge and advocate the development of institutions turning out trained 

 men ; states to reserve non-agricultural lands. 



One of the most interesting papers read was that by William T. Cox, 

 state forester of Minnesota, on "Minnesota's Progress Cnder Her New 

 Forest Service Law." The Minnesota law is said to be the most perfect 

 in the Lake States. E. J. Zaritz of Guelph, Ontario, gave a resume of 

 Ontario's fire fighting experiences. The revenues from the government's 

 timber average about $1,500,000 a year, and she has large areas of virgin 

 "white pine to protect. Weakness in the system, however, was shown by 

 Mr. Zaritz to be due to lack of facilities for communication. 



Subjects of papers were as follows : "Fire Fighting in the Pacific 

 Northwest," Prof. P. S. Lovejoy, formerly of the U. S. Forest Service, 

 but now of the Michigan University : "Methods of Preventing Railroad 

 Fires Used by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company," 

 J. F. Lovejoy, Milwaukee, Wis. : "How the Railway Fire Situation is 

 Being Handled in Canada," Clyde Leavitt, Inspector for Railroads, Ottawa, 

 Canada ; "Prevention of Railroad Fires in New York State," William G. 

 Howard, assistant superintendent forests, Albany, N. Y. ; "A Discussion 

 of National Forest Service Work in Michigan," William B. Piper, East 

 Tawas, United States supervisor ; "Influence of Fires Upon Settlement of 

 Lands," J. H. McGillivray, Oscoda, Mich. ; "State Co-operation Under 

 the Weeks Law," J. Girvin Peters, United States Forest Service, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. ; "Railroad Fire Situation in Michigan," W. R. Oates, game 

 warden, Michigan ; "Patrol and Fire Prevention," Charles F. Hickok, 

 chief warden of the Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, Gay- 

 lord, Mich. 



The conference was well attended by many Michigan officials, represen- 

 tatives from associations, organizations and governments of Minnesota, 

 Wisconsin, Ohio, New York and Ontario. 



Better telephone service was urged as well as the construction of 

 wooden watch towers, firebreaks, burning of brush under warden's super- 

 vision, and co-operation with railroads. 



Meeting of Wood Preservers 

 The annual meeting of the American Wood Preservers' Association was 

 held in Chicago, Jan. 21, 22 and 23, and, as usual at the meetings of this 

 association, a number of excellent papers were presented. The longest 

 was by W. F. Goltra and went somewhat fully into the history of wood 

 preservation in the old world as well as in the new. The treatment of 



