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HARDWOOD RECORD 



In the book will also bo found double page, 

 colored maps, which are placed before each state 

 tor ready reference, and an index of railroads 

 appears at the beginning of each state, and 

 shows the roads operated in each respective 

 state. 



Building Operations for October 



Building statistics from some fifty cities 

 throughout the country compiled by the Am<-'r- 

 icdn Contractor, Chicago, show a gain for Octo- 

 ber of 8% per cent, as compared with October, 

 1911. Reports for the past ten months show a 

 gain of 4^ per cent in the same cities, as com- 

 pared with the same months of the past year. 

 Taking political disturbances into consideration, 

 the showing is more than satisfactory. For the 

 month of October over fifty per cent gain is 

 shown in the following named cities : Akron, 67 

 per cent ; Atlanta, 530 ; Baltimore, 89 ; Buffalo, 

 76 ; Des Moines, 117 : Detroit, 67 : Evansville. 

 83 ; Ft. Wayne. 61 : Manchester, 436 ; Memphis, 

 97 ; Minneapolis, oo ; Norfolk, 247 ; Paterson, 

 56 ; Philadelphia, 55 ; Shreveport, 77 ; Wilkes- 

 Barre. 64. Twelve cities scored a gain of over 

 25 per cent for the past ten months, as com- 

 pared with the si»me period of the past year. 

 Particulars will be found in the following 

 table : I 



October. October, 



1912. 1011. Per Cent. 



City. Cost. Cost. Gain Loss 



Akron $ 480,843 I 293.43G 67 



Atlanta 2,115,267 3.33,403 330 



Baltimore 1.019,554 6.39.02S 89 



Buffalo 1,616,000 916,000 76 



Chicago 8,743,600 S.785,700 



Cincinnati 798,625 2,024,970 .. 09 



Columbus 341,983 421,578 . . 18 



Denver 450.510 432,300 4 



Des Moines 255.809 112,860 117 



Detroit 2.544,005 1,522,649 67 



I'ulutb 178,783 237,553 . . 24 



Evansville 229,925 125,041 83 



Fort Wayne 193.415 119.750 61 



Grand Knpiils 218,092 403,933 .. 46 



Harrisburg 51,175 112,650 .. 54 



Hartford 608,505 471,705 20 



Kansas City 893,335 726.348 22 



Los Angeles 2,677.780 1,821,727 46 



Manchester 5.3S,7S0 100,485 436 



Memphis 7.30,891 379.786 97 



Milwaukee 1,106.300 1,073.732 11 



Minneapolis l,in,.3.'^0 718,815 55 .. 



Nashville .' 65,518 73,632 .. 11 



Newark 773,748 724,766 6 



New Haven 309,465 289,080 .37 



New Orleans 187.632 142.357 31 



Norfolk 348,513 100,213 247 



Manhattan 3,221,485 6.338,.3.'i3 . . 49 



Brookl.vn 3,370,847 2, 741, .530 23 



Bronx 2,400,189 1,508,173 63 



New York 9,001.521 10,588,038 .. 14 



Oakland 8,36,100 621,907 34 



Omaha 225,365 363,480 . . 37 



Paterson 159,487 102,219 56 



Philadelphia 3,644,225 2,346,130 55 



PittsliuigL 787,999 2,136,670 62 



Portland 1,068,780 1,690,980 .. 37 



Boehester 913,121 1.104,773 .. 17 



St. Paul 834,991 571,482 46 



Salt Lake City... 209,476 173,700 20 . , 



San Francisco 1,722,860 1,235,802 37 



Scranton 126,210 171.400 .. 26 



Shrevepoct 149,054 84,434 77 



Spokane 146,730 185,025 . . 20 



Wilkes-Barre .... 281.104 171,252 64 



Worcester 741.500 547,532 35 



Total $40,720,019 $45,721,324 S% 



Mahogany in Canada 



The use of mahogany in Canada is on the in- 

 crease, and now amounts to about three million 

 feet a year. The imports of this wood into 

 Canada have risen slowly but steadily for many 

 years. It is employed principally for furniture 

 of the best class and for bank and office fixtures. 



The wood comes from Central America, West 

 Indies and from western Africa. It costs more 

 than any wood growing in the United States and 

 is employed only in high-grade work. An in- 

 creasing quantity of mahogany is used yearly in 

 Canada by the manufacturers of sleeping cars. 



Change of Headquarters 



The George Webster Lumber Company, with 

 sawmills at Malone. N. Y., and at various points 

 in Vermont, has moved its general and sales 

 office from Swanton, Vt., to 21 Besse place, 

 Springfield, Mass., and in addition to handling 

 the output of its northern mills, will take on 

 I he merchandising of white and red oak, chest- 

 nut, poplar and gum. The company also has a 

 New York branch sales office at 25 West Forty- 

 second street, which handles the New York City 

 and New York state trade, while the Springfield 

 office handles the New England business. 



A Public Spirited Citizen 



At the last session of the legislature of Mich- 

 igan a bill was passed creating a commission 

 to secure a site for a permanent encampment 

 tor the National Guard of that state. R. Han- 

 son of the Sailing-Hanson Company, Grayling, 



R. HANSON, GRAYLING, MICH. 



Mich., an unusually public spirited citizen of 

 that state, as well as one of its foremost lumber 

 operators, has offered to donate to the state 

 tor the purpose of a great public park and game 

 preserve, and for the location for a permanent 

 encampment for the National Guard, 75,000 

 acres of land contiguous to the town of Gray- 

 ling, and three miles north of the present forest 

 preserve of the state, which contains 36,000 

 acres. 



The land offered by Mr. Hanson is varied in 

 topography and includes a beautiful lake, hills 

 and valleys jiartially wooded and partially open 

 country, abounding in game. The state military 

 board has just inspected the tract and, while 

 Mr, Hanson's offer has not yet been formally 

 accepted by the state, it undoubtedly will be 

 as no conditions are imposed in the tender. 



Booklet on Birch 



The Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Man- 

 ufacturers' Association, of Wausau, Wis., has 

 issued a booklet in which the many fine qualities 

 of .yellow birch as a finishing wood are shown. 

 The two species of birch employed in this coun- 

 try for flooring, furniture and finish are yellow 

 birch {Betula lutea), and sweet birch (Betula 

 lenta). The former reaches its best size and 

 character in the lake states, and is justly classed 

 as one of the most artistic, reliable, and versa- 



tile of the hardwoods of this country. The ad- 

 mirable wood has lost nothing by the manner 

 in which the booklet presents it to the public 

 in a series of pictures and drawings showing 

 how it may be used to best advantage. A 

 sample of the wood, showing both light and 

 dark finish, accompanies the booklet, which was 

 prepared by R. S. Kellogg, secretary of the asso- 

 ciation. The booklet is being mailed to archi- 

 tects and Ijuilders throughout the country, and 

 should prove a good advertising medium for 

 the exploitation of birch. 



Forest Planting by New York School 



The New York State College of Forestry at 

 Syracuse University has undertaken this year 

 to furnish illustrated lectures on practical for- 

 estry in all the high schools of the state, and 

 the State Conservation Commission has arranged 

 to provide a thousand or more seedling trees to 

 each high school that will plant them in a 

 woodlot. It is proposed that the schools shall 

 secure a vacant hillside or other piece of waste 

 land and plant and maintain a bit of forest 

 land. A million and a half seedling trees are 

 now coming on in the state nurseries. 



New River Route 



Admission of railroads that they are crowded 

 with business and that the car shortage now 

 existing may continue to increase as the years 

 advance, has caused the formation of a new 

 ,$3,000,000 corporation in Pittsburgh which has 

 for its object the operation of large freight and 

 passenger boats between Pittsburgh and New 

 Orleans. In order to take care of the immense 

 freight traffic that will result from the opera- 

 tion of through Pittsburgh-New Orleans boats 

 the new company, which has just applied for a 

 charter, has had plans drawn for two 300-foot 

 steel bottom boats, which it will place in the 

 southern trade as soon as completed. 



There has been more or less trouble in past 

 years In Pittsburgh-New Orleans waterways 

 transportation because of the tact that several 

 transfers of freight had to be made — at Cincin- 

 nati and Memphis-. All transferring of freight 

 from one line to another will be done away with 

 hereafter. 



The first Pittsburgh-New Orleans boat will 

 leave the Pittsburgh harbor early in December. 

 Hundreds of tons of freight are assured the 

 first boat. 



From the South, where vast lumber interests 

 are located, inquiries concerning reservations for 

 space tor large lumber shipments into the Pitts- 

 burgh market are being received. 



This new river transportation company will 

 place at the disposal of lumber shippers, and 

 all other large interests, barges and lighters, 

 which may be loaded at local shipping points, 

 and then they will be picked up on trips, either 

 south going or north bound. By this method 

 the lumber shipper is guaranteed a speedy means 

 of transportation, at a greatly reduced freight 

 rate, and on a basis of time that will beat the 

 rail shipment to the same destination. 



A battery of boats has been secured for the 

 starting of this service, and the fleet will be 

 greatly increased within the coming six months. 

 In addition to the boats of high power, one 

 hundred barges and lighters are to be placed In 

 service. These, in turn, are to be at the dis- 

 posal of lumber shippers who have large ac- 

 counts and selling agencies in the upper part 

 of the Ohio, Allesheny and Monongahela val- 

 leys. These barges and lighters w-ill be towed 

 upon their arrival at Pittsburgh to the various 

 yards without any additional cost to the buyer 

 or shipper. 



With the improvement of the Ohio and Mis- 

 sissippi rivers assured, the transportation of 

 lumber and other freight by water is bound to 

 grow by leaps and bounds. 



English View of American Lumber Trade 



The London Timber Trade Journal of October 

 19, in reviewing the crop situation In the United 



