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HARDWOOD RECORD 



I'hiladelphia, 124; Toledo, ]00; Topeka, 242: 



Trenton, 2D0 ; Washington, 23. From every 

 slandpolnt tbe outlook is mos-t promising. 



Keb., Feb., Per Per 



1006. 1905. cent cent 



City — Cost. Cost. gain. loss. 



Atlanta $301,549 $130,858 130 



Baltimore 52.'),000 1,030,000 .. 49 



KirmingUam . . . 131,452 33.GG0 290 . . 



Bridgeport 142,300 (il.OuO 133 



Buffalo 472,075 243,137 94 .. 



Chicago 4,507,200 3,472,700 29 



Cleveland 452,470 143.t!10 215 



Chattanooga ... 143,500 42.470 233 



Cincinnati 559,105 6S1,70.T .. 17 



Columbus 218,735 81.033 1C>7 



Davenport .... 25.350 93, (■>.")(» . . 72 



Dallas 142.752 73,183 95 



Denver 458,770 313,170 40 



DCS Molues 34,500 17,650 95 .. 



Detroit 369,700 220.350 07 . . 



Duluth 32,570 112,046 . . 70 



Evansvillc 84,933 20,793 308 . . 



Grand Rapids.. 54,288 58,555 .. 7 



Harrisburg .... 100,730 24,993 300 .. 



Hartford 823,070 29.025 2735 .. 



Indianapolis ... 312.087 328,620 .. 5 



,lcrsey City 170,810 33,996 402 .. 



Kansas Citv 464,235 390,155 18 



KnoxvlUe ." 91.530 66,280 38 



Louisville 684,705 101,551 574 



I.os Angeles 1,082,875 848,765 27 .. 



Manchester .... 18,240 2,250 701 .. 



Milwaukee 337,582 278.326 21 .. 



.Minneapolis . . . 798.835 484,563 G4 . . 



.Memijhis 300,862 290,740 3 .. 



Mobile 31,914 34,955 .. 8 



Nashville 129,367 101,678 27 



Newark 561,000 245,102 128 



.\ew Orleans... 437.515 147,405 196 .. 



New York 17,280.350 11.117,201 55 .. 



Manhattan . . 8,419,150 5,599,750 50 . . 



Alteration ... 3,107,904 644,710 .. .. 



Brooklyn .... 4,071,801 2.666,301 52 .. 



Bronx 1,549,820 2,139,650 . . 27 



Alteration ... 131,675 66,790 .. .. 



Omaha 147,030 37,675 290 .. 



Philadelphia ... 3,003,720 1,362,425 124 



Paterson 73.985 189,550 .. 60 



Pittsburg 347,281 389.317 . . 10 



Heading 161,725 106.500 51 



San Antonio... 77,635 37,970 104 .. 



St. .Toseph 31.335 13.740 128 .. 



St. Louis 1.636.263 1,275.122 28 



St. Paul 140,103 320,721 .. 56 



San Francisco. . 1,712.440 1,750,795 .. 2 



Scranton 96.850 60,596 59 .. 



Seattle 321,848 459,500 .. 29 



Spokane 322.776 186,813 72 



South Bend.... 42,900 12,950 250 



Syracuse 103.623 81.310 27 .. 



Toledo 201,010 100,453 100 



Topeka 42,770 12.493 242 . . 



Terre Haute . . 37,037 12,740 190 . . 



Oleoma 127.835 156.334 18 



Trenton 106.293 26.935 290 



Washington . . . 910,155 738.509 23 . . 



Wllminu'ton. Del. 155.590 7.469 1983 . . 



Worcester 33,995 45.933 .. 22 



Wilkesbarre . . . 33,460 48,800 . . 31 



National Lumber Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion. 



The fourth annual meeting of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association will be held 

 at the Jefferson hotel, St. Louis, May 8 and 9. 

 Seventy-four delegates will be appointed to at- 

 tend this meeting, representing the following 

 organizations : 



Georgia Interstate Sawmill Association, 6. 



North Carolina Pine Association, 5. 



Yellow Pine Manufacturers' Association, 18. 



Northern Pine .Manufacturers' Association, 11. 



Hardwood .Manufacturers' Association of the 

 United States, 6. 



Pacific Coast Manufacturers' Association, 10. 



Southern Cypress Selling Company, 4. 



Northwestern Hemlock Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, 3. 



Southwestern Washington Lumber Manufac- 

 turers' Association, S. 



Wisconsin Hardwood Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, 3. 



Southern Cypress Manufacturers' Association, 5. 



Late London Market Letter. 

 The high prices asked fur all hardwoods at 

 the moment tend to restrict operations. Buyers 

 are not at all eager to make contracts for for- 

 ward deliveries, but are paying good prices for 

 their requirements from stocks, which in some 

 respects are reduced to a very low state. If 

 shippers in the present state of the market will 

 only send goods on firm orders, prices stand a 



much li.tni iliance of getting In a line with 

 those In America, but it Is a fact that a good 

 many lines are to be picked upon this side at 

 about the free on board values in the States. 



The demand for prime and medium plaiu uak 

 Is good, and parcels arriving are eagerly sought 

 for at good prices. Cull grades in boards are 

 difhcult to sell and the market is fully stocked. 



Export quality In 3 and 4 inch planks Is scarce, 

 and good prices are being paid tor forwanl 

 deliveries, but at present there seems very little 

 disposition on the part of buyers to speculate. 

 (Juartered oak. for which there has been no call 

 for some nioutlis past. Is now being Inquired for. 

 Whitewood boards in all qualities are In good 

 demand and the increase in prices Is having the 

 effect of clearing stocks here. Planks nrv in 

 better demand but stocks are ampli'. 



Satin walnut is firm and arrivals arc lii;lit. 



Cull and medium walnut are scarce and full 

 prices are realized for parcels arriving. 



Historic Oaks for Cars. 



Two handsome dining cars for the Uurlington 

 route have recently been constructed, resenjbling 

 in appearance the popular Vienna rooms of line 

 restaurants. On a plate rail around each car 

 are displayed sleins and specimens of rare china. 

 At the ends of both are private dining rooms. 

 The oak which furnished the material for these 

 beautiful cars was recently cut, with twenty- 

 seven of its fellows, from the forest of Buck- 

 ingham park in England. Its age is not known, 

 but It was undoubtedly an ancient tree even in 

 Cromwell's time. The oak was nearly eiglit feel 

 in diameter. In making it into lumber a gate 

 hook was found near the center, driven there 

 perhaps se\en or eight hundred years ago. A 

 slug bullet, such as were used in the first match- 

 locks, was also found. 



Not long ago a semifossilized grove of oaks, 

 which are thought to have been buried over 

 2,000 years, was discovered at Y'axley. Most of 

 the trees are iu a perfect state of preservation, 

 but are so petrified that they turn the edge of 

 an ax.e. Eighty of the immense trees have been 

 excavated, and a hundred more will soon be 

 uncovered. Makers ot antique furniture are buy- 

 ing quantities of the oak, and William Waldorf 

 Astor has purchased a large number of the 

 trees, which will be cut Into thin sheets and 

 used to cover the walls of llever castle. 



Extensive Timber Purchase. 



The Donaldson Lumber Company of Charles- 

 ton, W. Va., has recently purchased between 

 10,000 and 11,000 acres of timber land In Green- 

 brier county. West Virginia, on Laurel and 

 Anthony's creek. W. li. liush and others of 

 Washington. I'a., were the former owners and 

 had held the tract about two years. The price 

 paid by the Donaldson Lumber Company Is 

 understood to be $160,000. The company Intends 

 to utilize the timber and Is putting In a new 

 band mill with eight-foot band saw, in order to 

 begin operations at once. The property contains 

 approximately 58,000,000 feet of white and 

 chestnut oak, 8.000,000 feet of chestnut. 3.0110.- 

 000 feet of po|)lar, 12.000,000 feel of hemlock 

 and o.KlMi.OOO feet of other marketable timber. 



New Orleans Lumber Exporters' Assn, 



The first regular meeting ot the New Orleans 

 Lumber Exporters' Association will be held on 

 Monday, March 12, at 4 p. m.. In the commit 

 tec room ot the Illberula Bauk building. At this 

 meeting a board of directors will be elected, 

 committees will be appointed, and discussion on 

 the future work of the association will take 

 place. 



New Ford Brenner Lumber Company 

 Enterprise. 



The Fcril llienncr Lumber Company of .Mem 



phis, Tenn., is about to begin operations near 



Salisbury, \. C, ami has named the suburban 



site ficlinont. Fifteen acres have been taken 



tor a period ot ten years, with an opileu nn 



more land given with the promise to Influence 

 minor industries to follow. The company will 

 erect two mills, to cost $20,000. A surveyor is 

 at work on the grounds, and A. L. Van Nuys 

 will superintend the completion of the plant. 

 He says the company will doubtless be able to 

 furnish all the furniture factories in the state 

 with all the hardwood they require. 



Removal Offices Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association. 



The H.iiinwouD RiiCoitD is in receipt of a 

 notice from Lewis Doster, secretary ot the Hard 

 wood Manufacturers' Association of the Inited 

 States, stating that the oflices ot that organlza 

 tiiin have been removed from tbe llarrisuri 

 building, Columbus, C, to suite 1535 First Na 

 t tonal Bank building. Chicago, where all mail 

 should henceforth be sent. Anyone desirim; 

 information about grading rules, price-lists, etc.. 

 is invited to communicate with the secretary, 

 wlio will cheerfully answer all inciuiries. 



The Northern Lumber Company. 



'I'he sawmill of the Northern Lumber Coiupaii.\ 

 ill llirch, Mich., will be in operation by .Manli 

 13. and n-iii have a capacity of about 8ii,i"iii 

 feet of hardwood. The plant is fitted with lion 

 horse-power boilers, and the steam teed is 

 through a twelve-inch pipe. The company's . 

 largo pile of saw logs contains over O.ooo.oiio 

 feet of soft and hard woods — pine, hemlock, ash. 

 elm. maple, basswocd and spruce, and is beiny 

 added to at the rate of 150,000 feet a day by 

 lugs hauled from different camris. When stock 

 is all in, it is thought tliat the pile will contain 

 12,000,000 feet of merchantable timber. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



Robert Loudon of Newgarden, O., has pur 

 chased a tract of white oak timber near Han 

 overton. ■ 



Dayton, N. Y'., is soon to have a new industry 

 in the shape ot a stave factory which will em- 

 ploy fifty men. 



The Union Cottonwood Lumber Company, Ltd., 

 has been incorporated at Shreveport. La., with a 

 capital stock of $5,000. 



William Garrett of Canandaigua, N. V., is 

 sawing walnut logs and shipping the lumber I" 

 tiermany, to he used for veneering. 



Hoopo, Brother & Darlington of Brooksviile, 

 Fla., are about to establish a hardwood mill to 

 manufacture buggy rims, spokes, etc. ; 



Fire damaged the Jamestown (N. Y.) Coopcra- , 

 tive Cabinet Cnmpanys plant to the extent ot i 

 several thousand dollars on March 1. 



Peter Bccher of Corunna. Ind., has purchased 

 the stock of William Zonker. a hardwood denier 

 at that place, and will eonlinue the business. 



The Columbus Handle & Tool Company ipf 

 Columbus. Ind., has secured a site at Madismi. 

 Ind., where it will construct a large factory. 



The firm of W. J. Bu<'kingbam & Son Inis liei'ii 

 organized at Mathiston. Md.. witli a capital nf 

 $10,000. It will erei-l a liandle factory there. i 



Henry Hustln ot Elsie. Mich., has latelj- 

 shipped five carloads of baseball bat timlicr ready 

 for the lathe and expects to ship as nniny more ' 

 larloads. 



The Sanders & Egbert Company of South 

 Ilcnd., Ind., recently received two loads of wal 

 nut logs from the vicinity ot Granger, whl<'ii 

 \v('Vi* of excellent sp(cilieations. 



Tile Rowan Lumber Company ot Mt. Sli'rlliii; 

 Ky., lias rccentlj' puri-hased 10,000 acres nf tiiii 

 her land In Floyd and I'ike couutles. It will 

 build a mill tor manufacturing staves. 



The Benton County Casket Factory ot Benton 

 villc. Ark., will move to Fort Worth, Tex. II i' 

 said that the Inability of the management to gi>l 

 satisfactory freight rates Is the cause of the 

 I'hangc. 



A stave mill at lilrininghnm, .Mich., (he prop- < 

 city of A. Mark of Detroit, was destroyed by 

 tire Feb. 20, causing a loss of $1,0110. The mill 

 Itself was old and not very valuable, but was 



