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red and white oak and red gum, this including the tlmberland recently 

 purchased from the old Port Barre Lumber Company. 



The mill will soon be erected, and it is expected will be ready for 

 operation in about ninety days, with a daily capacity of 60,000 feet. 



Harvard Forestry School Bulletin 



The official register of the Harvard University School of Forestry 

 has just been issued from that institution. The register contains 

 notices of the arrangements whereby pupils may gain access to the 

 Harvard School of Forestry. It reviews the Harvard curriculum which 

 covers two years and is designed to give the student a thorough course 

 in technical forestry. Membership in the school of forestry is open to 

 graduates of colleges or scientific schools. The curriculum includes 

 various subjects covered in the usual course of forestry and Inter- 

 mixed with it are excursions on the part of the students to various 

 woodlands adjacent to Cambridge. The school has been donated several 

 tracts of timber, on one of which it runs a sawmill and maintains a 

 lumber yard, the students camping at the operations. 



Purchases Large Tract of Timber 



The holdings of the Wayne Land & Lumber Company and the property 

 of tie Williamsville-Greenville & St. Louis Railroad, lying in Wayne 

 county. Mo., have been purchased by a syndicate of Canadian lumbermen. 

 Eighty-six thousand acres of iron ore land and hardwood tlmberland go 

 with the deal. 



The new company is composed of James W. Sanderson of Vancouver, 

 John and Donald McLean of Winnipeg ; E. N. Mayland, Winnipeg ; H. W. 

 Laird, Regina ; Robert Slowe, Montreal ; L. F. Woodman. Toronto ; Thomas 

 Rogers, Mexico, Mo., and D. W. Adams, Prince Albert, Alberta. 



The holding company will be organized at Montreal, which will own 

 the Wayne Land & Luml>er Company and the Williamsville r.iilroad. The 

 company will be backed with sufficient means to operate the two proper- 

 ties, and it will also have the power to dispose of them if such a course 

 seems best. 



The property lies east of the Iron Mountain Railroad in Wayne county, 

 and the road extends from Williamsville through Greenville to Cascade, 

 Mo. The property has been developed at times by the Holliday-Klotz 

 Lumber Company, and later by R. A. Long of Kansas City. Several 

 productive mines are open on the property, and for a time ore was 

 shipped to furnaces in St. Louis. In 1910, Mr. Long sold to C. W. Hayes 

 and James Cowan, both of whom now retire from interest in the property. 



It is said that the new company liquidated all obligations of the two 

 concerns and acquired the property for less than $200,000. 



The Passing of a Veteran 



George Farnsworth, retired president of the Oconto Company and the 

 Bay de Noquet Company of Oconto, Wis., and Chicago, and Nahma. Mich., 

 respectively, passed away at his home in Chicago on Jan. 26, 1913. Mr. 

 Farnsworth was one of the pioneers in the white pine industry, and oper- 

 ating in this line and later going somewhat into the production of hard- 

 wood and hemlock, he became one of the strongest and most widely 

 recognized of the old school of northern lumbermen. While essentially a 

 white pine operator, the deceased, through his interest in the Oconto 

 Company, was generally known throughout the northern hardwood manu- 

 facturing sections. 



Mr. Farnsworth was born May 22, 1825, at Fairfax, Vt. He was 

 descended from Anglo-Saxon and Scottish parentage, and in addition to 

 receiving a tribute of courage and foresightedness, he also received as a 

 heritage from his father the lumberman's instinct. The father of the 

 late deceased was at one time occupied in rafting timber from Lake Cham- 

 plain to the Montreal and Quebec markets. 



George Farnsworth was at an early age forced into the world to make 

 his own way. He started his commercial life in a village store at Bur- 

 lington, Vt. At the age of fifteen he came west, and after considerable 

 knocking about he again secured employment in a small store. Event- 

 ually he landed at Racine, Wis., and found employment in a lumber yard. 

 In the course of time he was taken into the office. At the age of nine- 

 teen he bought the yard and went into partnership with Horatio Munroe. 

 His partner retired at the end of the first year, which was profitable, and 

 Mr. Farnsworth then went into the sawmill business at Muskegon, Mich. 

 The succeeding years were marked by investments in timberlands and 

 gradual advancement in his manufacturing interests. In 1858 he bought 

 a half interest in a mill at Oconto, Wis. The company was later in- 

 corporated as the Oconto Company, with Mr. Farnsworth as its first pres- 

 ident. He held this office until 1886 when he retired from active business 

 life. 



The Bay de Noquet Company was a subsequent enterprise, of which 

 Mr. Farnsworth held the titular office of president. 



The deceased lived at 1421 Astor street, Chicago. He leaves a wife, 

 one son and three daughters. His son, George J. Farnsworth, is now 

 president of the Oconto Company. 

 Enstructions for Selecting, Laying and Caring for Hardwood Floors 



Cobbs & Mitchell, Inc., and the Mitchell Brothers Company of Cadillac, 

 Mich., have jointly issued a booklet entitled "Modern Hardwood Floors, 

 and How to Get Them." The book is in pamphlet form and gives instruc- 

 tions for selecting, laying, finishing, caring for and re-finishing hardwood 

 floors. The contents tell of the proper under floors and the proper selec- 

 tion of the top layer; also gives Instructions as to the condition of the 

 flooring before it is laid, and tells just how to lay the top floor. There 



are also paragraphs on the use of fillers and stains which go Into the 

 finishing process in detail, telling how to finish with oil. varnish and 

 wax. and giving the advantages and disadvantages of the three methods 

 and of a combination method. Under the section covering the care of 

 hardwood floors, proper methods of caring for floors finished with oil and 

 varnish are given, as also are suggestions as to care of floors finished with 

 wax. Minute instructions as to repairing and reflnishing fine hardwood 

 floors are included in the pamphlet. 



The book is well Illustrated with cuts showing the different methods 

 of laying floors, giving suggestions as to designs, the proper type of nails 

 to be used, and the right way to lay flooring around objects such as 

 registers, in order to make a workmanlike job. In short, the pamphlet 

 contains all Information that would be of practical benefit to the user 

 of hardwood flooring, and Is to be had for twenty-five cents from eltber 

 of the above companies. 



Late Glasgow Market Beport 



The hardwood market of this section is decidedly healthy. The prevail- 

 ing conditions are now about normal and prospects of a continuation of 

 favorable conditions are encouraging. Imports are still on a meagre 

 scale — compri.'^ing spruce deals from Halifax and Portland. These have 

 l>een easily disposed of without recourse to storing, and unusually high 

 prices have been paid. The quality of some of the parcels of spruce has 

 been so poor that they are unfit for box making. Birch planks have 

 also been imported and no difficulty was experienced in selling them, 

 owing to the bareness of the market. A few contracts for birch planks 

 have been made this week and some difficulty may be found in complet- 

 ing delivery as reports from the other side say that there is likely to 

 be a shortage. 



The various Quebec shippers are now due on their annual visit but it 

 is feared that contracting will be no easy matter. With the high f. o. b. 

 prices and present freights the position of merchants is most difficult. 

 Some of the larger merchants have still a quantity of last year's import 

 on hand and no immediate prospect of selling. The advanced freight 

 rates have not yet been felt as regards American hardwoods but this is' 

 due to the fact that these rates arranged by yearly contract operate as 

 from Jan. 1, so that shipments after that date and only now due will 

 naturally be much higher. In the case of pitch pine quotations have 

 been lower than for some time and of course this naturally leads one 

 to believe that freights are on the decline. It is quite natural to expect 

 that slight fluctuations will take place from time to time but not to any 

 great extent for some time yet. Many parcels of pitch pine are being 

 transhipped just now from the Continent to the various ports in the 

 East coast and many other parcels in prospect with the result that these 

 markets are kept well supplied. Transhipment freights meantime, how- 

 ever, are difficult to obtain owing to the Board of Trade regulations de- 

 barring deckloads. 



The S. S. "Kassanga" arrived last week from New Orleans with the 

 usual varied cargo consisting of mahogany, ash and hickory logs and gum. 

 oak and pitch pine lumber. Several parcels of pitch pine logs came in 

 under deck and are reported to have been sold at good figures. 



The S. S. "Indrani" and S. S. "Kastalia" have arrived from Newport 

 News and Baltimore respectively with unusually small cargoes of hard- 

 woods, comprised largely of oak planks, chiefly on contract for tlie rail- 

 way companies and wagon builders. The quality of the planks is well 

 over the average and there should be very few rejects. Plain oak boards 

 are becoming scarce and higher prices are in command. 



At present the docks are in a great state of congestion owing to the 

 carters' strike. Goods cannot be removed from the quay with the result 

 that each succeeding steamer adds to the congestion. Both sides are ad- 

 hering firmly to the attitudes they have adopted and the chances of au 

 early settlement are still remote. The curtailment of transport facilities 

 is having a serious effect on all trades and many places will require to 

 close down for want of material. 



Big Car Order by Pennsylvania Koad 



Bids have been requested by the Pennsylvania Railroad System for the 

 construction of 12,300 freight cars, at an aggregate cost of about $16,000.- 

 000. Ten thousand of these cars will be additions to present equipment, 

 and the remainder will represent displacements. Of the latter, however. 

 all will be about 40,000 pounds greater in capacity than the cars which 

 they displace. The whole of the new order will represent an increase In 

 total capacity of the road's freight car service of about 546,000 tons. 



The cars are distributed over the Penn.sylvania System as follows: For 

 the lines east of Pittsburgh : 5,000 steel gondola cars, 1,300 wooden side 

 gondola cars, 1,000 refrigerator cars. For the lines west of Pittsburgh : 

 3,000 steel gondola cars, 1,000 wooden side gondola cars, 500 refrigerator 

 cars, 500 box cars. 



The new orders will be in addition to orders placed during 1912. 



Publicity for Government's Trust Investigation 

 The Bureau of Corporations of the Department of Commerce and Labor 

 -has issued complete statistics and data covering the findings of the in- 

 vestigation to determine the existence or non-existence of a lumber trust. 

 According to one part of the report dealing with timber and standing 

 timber, there Is a grand total of 2,826.000.000,000 feet In continental 

 United States. Including Alaska. Of this 2.196.000,000,000 feet is privately 

 owned. In the Pacific coast region there are 1,013,000,000,000 feet of 

 standing timber, and in the southern pine region 634,000,000,000 feet. 



