March 10, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Company 



The Home of the "Peerless " Standard Brand Products 



WesterD Office: 

 S16 I.umb;r Exchange, Minneapolis, Ulnn. 



GLADSTONE, MICHIGAN 



Mills at Gladstone and Escanaba, Michigan 



Manufacturers of the following "Peerless" Standard Brand Products: Hardwood Flooring, Staves, 

 Hoops, Heading and Veneers, Hemlock Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Posts, Poles and Ties,' 

 and Hemlock Tan Bark 



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"Peerless" Rock Maple, Beech & Birch Flooring 



have a standard of their own. are ruaranteed 

 and are said bjr dealers to hold trade. We 

 ship It In straight or mixed cars— Car or Cargo. 



TRY IT THE 

 NEXT TIME 



Uemiert of Maple Flooring lianulacturers' Aaaodation. {MrbeD writing mention the Hardwood Recsrd.) 



B 1103 — Enlarges Business 

 Boston, Mass., Feb. 20. — Editor H.iRiiwooD Record : I have read the 

 news on page 45 of the February 10 issue and thanli you for remembering 

 me. In addition to carrying on the hardwood lumber business, along the 

 lines as formerly, am also interested in a mill at Irasburg, Vt., at which 

 we are cutting the lumber on .SOO acres owned by Dr. and Mrs. Even W. 

 Gaynor of Boston, comprising largely birch and maple. Towne Brothers, 

 who are associated with me. are running a new stationary mill, and we 

 intend to have the coming months a large block of well manufactured stock, 

 a large per cent of 14 and 16 foot lengths, something unusual for mills to 

 cut down in this region. We solicit orders for beech and birch, but have 

 already sold the output of maple. H. F. Hunter. 



B 1104 — Seeks Red Beech 

 Memphis, Tenn.. March 5. — Editor H.\rdwood Record : Can you inform 

 us who handles and manufactures northern red beech? We are in the 

 market for some and do not know who is cutting it. 



Clubs and Associations 



Chicago Lumbermen Will Hear Army Man 



Major P. B. Malone, United States Army, will be the speaker at the joint 

 meeting and luncheon of the Lumbermen's Association of Chicago on Tues- 

 da.v, March 13. Major Malone's subject, "The Flag of Our Country and 

 I'reparcilness," will be handled for the purpose of showing the work of 

 military training camps in the central department, and of the importance 

 of this work to the country. 



Northern Logging Conference 



The Northern Wisconsin Loggers' Association, one of the newest organi- 

 zations among lumbermen, met at Eau Claire, Wis., on Tuesday, February 

 27. Thirty members attended. 



A uniform system of accounting was recommended by committee report. 

 This does not contemplate a change in present accounting systems so much 

 as it does the provision of a basis for reporting boarding costs for com- 

 parative purposes. It was pointed out that the operators are losing consid- 



erable money through free meals to transients and unproductive labor. It 

 was informally decided that to check this waste a charge of twenty-five 

 cents at camps and fifty cents at headquarters camps or in town would be 

 made. 



One member reported on a special form of contract blank drawn up in 

 perforated pads, which after signed by employe and representative of the 

 employer, provides for employment at a certain wage for a period of three 

 months. If a man does not work for that length of time, the wage will be 

 a certain amount less, usually five dollars per month. The use of this con- 

 tract blank has had a very helpful effect. 



Northern Log Rates Suspended 



The Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' Association has se- 

 cured from the Michigan Railroad Commission a suspension of a proposed 

 increase in rates on logs between stations on the lines of the Duluth, South 

 Shore & Atlantic and the Mineral Range railroads. These increases were 

 from ten to fifteen per cent, and applied not only to logs, but also to bolts, 

 posts and piling. A date for hearing is to be set soon. 



Evansville Firms Protest Car Scarcity 

 John C. Keller, traflic commissioner of the Evansville Chamber of Com- 

 merce, and traffic manager of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club, has been 

 instrumental in instituting a protest to the American Railway Association 

 and Interstate Commerce Commission, asking that immediate steps be 

 taken to assist Evansville. The situation there is very threatening, as the 

 scarcity of cars promises to tie up quite a number of manufacturing plants. 

 Evansville did not profit by the rtturn of cars west to the original lines, 

 as there were so many intervening cities also needing cars that the rolling 

 stock sent on did not, in most cases, go very far. Hence, the commission 

 has been petitioned for more effective means for helping Evansville. It 

 seems now that some help will result. 



Ther 



Important Action Planned at Traffic Meeting 



e was a meeting of the governing board of the Southern 



Hardwood 



Traflic Association at Memphis, March 6, at which it was decided that this 

 organization should continue its present vigorous efforts toward securing 

 relief from the shortage of cars, and the embargoes which are restricting 

 the movement of lumber and forest products. Appeals have been directed 

 to the Interstate Commerce Commission, to the United States Chamber of 

 Commerce, and to the carriers themselves, and there will be no cessation of 

 effort until some relief is forthcoming. Present traffic conditions were 

 characterized as deplorable on the part of those present. 



It was also decided that J. H. Townshend, secretary manager of the 

 association, should attend the annual of the National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' As.-i.ciation at Pittsburgh. March 21-22. It was explained that the 

 latter has made arrangements to have present representatives of the rail- 



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