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autumn and corn-husking parties later on. 



Popcorn, parched corn — what a long list 

 of good times and good things to eat we 

 Americans get from corn anyhow! Then 

 apple roastings by bonfires outdoors or 

 open fires within, and trips to the cellar 

 after sweet cider, that delight of men and 

 women, boys and girls. Right up to 

 Thanlisgiving day there are all sorts of 

 good times and a variety of beautiful 

 things throughout the country. 



The city folks will make plea that a 

 school draws the children and business 

 the grown-ups back to town with the first 

 long evenings and the earliest signs of 

 frost. But there are Saturdays, Sundays 

 and late afternoons, when the full joy 

 and beauty of an autumn ramble could 

 and should be enjoyed. 



AMERICAN WALNUT COMPANY. 



A new deal in the trade is announced 

 in the formation of the American Walnut 

 Company, with headquarters in the Rail- 

 way Exchange Building. Chicago. t\'e are 

 in receipt of a circular letter to the trade 

 concerning the proposition, which is ex- 

 planatory in detail, as follows: 

 To the Trade and Dealers in Walnut I>um- 

 ber and Logs: 



We take pleasure in announcing to the 

 ti-ade that we have entered into a long- 

 time contract with the Ivesh, Prouty & 

 Abbott Company of East Chicago, Ind.; 

 the East St. Louis Walnut Company of 

 East St. Louis. 111.; the K. & P. Lumber 

 Company of Cincinnati. Ohio, and the Pen- 

 rod Walnut Corporation of Kansas City, 

 Mo., for the exclusive sale of their walnut. 



These firms produced about 70 per cent 

 nf all the band-sawed walnut lumber man- 

 ufactured in the United States last year. 

 We have also made other arrangements 

 with smaller concerns by which we will 

 have the exclusive sale of about 80 per 

 cent of all the walnut lumber produced 

 by commercial concerns in the United 

 States. 



These arrangements will enable us to 

 have large stocks of lumber from which 

 assortments of all grades and thicknesses 

 can be readily obtained for the trade. We 

 propose to establish and maintain a uni- 

 form grade of lumber from all the plants, 

 so that the trade dealing with us may be 

 assured that they will get the kind of 

 lumber sold and of as nearly a uniform 

 grading as it is possible to secure. 



The officers of this company have long 

 lieen connected with the walnut business 

 and have been made fully to realize the 

 disastrous and demoralizing effects caused 

 by the dumping upon the foreign market 

 of large consignments of lumber, without 

 reference to the demands of the trade. By 

 the arrangements we have entered into 

 with the various concerns we hope to be 

 able to greatly restrict, if not remove, 

 this disturbing and demoralizing practice. 



We guarantee to the trade fair and hon- 

 orable treat:nent and ask the hearty co- 

 operation of all dealers in our efforts to 

 systematize the business. 



We have opened our offices at 1305 Rail- 

 way Exchange building, Chicago, 111., at 

 which place we will be in shape to re- 

 ceive orders on and after October 25, 1904. 

 We will be pleased to have you place with 

 us orders for such walnut lumber as you 

 may need in your trade, and we wish to 



assure you that all our customers will 

 receive exactly the same treatment. 



Hoping that we may have your liberal 

 patronage and enthusiastic support in our 

 efforts to improve and protect the trade, 

 we remain. 



Yours truly, 



AMERICAN WALNUT COMPANY. 

 By J. N. Penrod, Pres. 



Max Kosse, Secy. 



AN IMPORTANT CHANGE. 



The following notice, which is being 

 mailed to the trade, sets forth an impor- 

 tant change in the personnel of the man- 

 agement and ownership in a large con- 

 cern in a terse yet complete manner. 



The undersigned having disposed of and 

 sold all their stock holdings in the Cnicot 

 Lumber Company to Messrs. A. T. Bliss 

 and A. F. Cook, and having no further 

 financial interest in the company, have re- 

 signed as officers and directors in the 

 company. We bespeak your continued 

 good will and patronage to the company 

 as heretofore. 



Yours truly, 



E. G. LESZYNSKY, 

 GEO. H. MARTIN. 

 Chicago, October 24, 1904. 



Relative to the move, it was learned 

 from Mr. Leszynsky that the disposal of 

 his interests was brought about by the 

 decision of the board of directors, of 

 which he was one, that the best interests 

 of the company could best be served in 

 removing their main office from Chicago 

 to nearer base of operations, and his per- 

 sonal business being such that he could 

 not advisedly follow the flag. He is still 

 interested with Mr. Bliss and Mr. Cook 

 in timber properties in Arkansas and the 

 west coast, and that part of the business 

 will go on uninterruptedly. 



By this change in ownership the Chicot 

 Lumber Company will be officered as fol- 

 lows: 



A. T. Bliss, president. 



John M. Cameron, vice-president. 



A. F. Cook, secretary and treasurer. 



Mr. Cook will also be general manager 

 of the business, whose headquarters will 

 be at Little Rock, Ark. Howard Coles, 

 formerly of the Empire Lumber Company 

 at Empire, Ark., will be superintendent at 

 the plant at Blissville, Ark. 



MAKING PROGRESS. 



St. Louis, Oct. 12, 1904. 

 Hardwood Record, Chicago, III. 



Gentlemen: We are sending you by ex- 

 press to-day, charges prepaid, a copy of the 

 October edition of the Credit Rating Book. 

 States which appeared in the April edition 

 have been thoroughly revised, and new 

 states which have been added in this issue 

 are thoroughly complete, listing all car- 

 load buyers of lumber. We have omitted 

 the names of small local and custom mill 

 operators, as they are often misleading to 

 the wholesalers using the book as a 

 buyers' guide. 



Our book now contains twenty-three 

 slates as follows: Colorado, Delaware, Dis- 



trict of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana. Indian 

 Territory, Iowa, Kansas. Kentucky, Mary- 

 land, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ne- 

 braska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, 

 Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, 

 Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin. 



We are working on new states which 

 will be issued as soon as each one is com- 

 plete, in single state form until the April 

 edition, 1905. 



Our work is progressing rapidly, and by 

 April next we hope "to have nearly all of 

 the states in our book. 



Thanking you for past favors, we re- 

 main. Yours very truly, 

 THE NATIONAL LUMBER MFRS. ASSN., 



W. F. Biederman, 

 Superintendent Credit Rating Department. 



CHANGE OF NAME. 



Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 17, 1904. 

 The Hardwood Record. Chicago, 111. 



This is to inform you that this day our 

 charter has been amended, changing our 

 name from S. A. Williams Company to 

 Williams & Voris Lumber Company, with 

 same interests and officers of former com- 

 pany, and the new company will continue 

 under same management. Yours truly," 

 WILLIAMS & VORIS LUMBER 

 COMPANY. 

 S. A. Williams, President. 

 M. J. Voris, Franklin, Ind., Treasurer. 



YELLOW PINE AS A FURNITURE 

 WOOD. 



The manufacturers of yellow pine have 

 been at considerable trouble and expense 

 to show us at St. Louis what can be done 

 with yellow pine in the construction of 

 furniture, as well as for interior finish. 

 The pieces which they offer are successful 

 in point of design and construction, but 

 stains and finishes have been invoked to 

 rob the fine wood which grows so abun- 

 dantly in the South of all its natural char- 

 acteristics. The same things might just 

 as well be made of gum, or oak. or cypress, 

 or river elm, or any other wood, and would 

 look quite the same. All of which only 

 confirms what we have previously said: 

 Yellow pine is so much better adapted to 

 other purposes, and there is so much other 

 lumber which is suited to furniture mak- 

 ing, and to little else, that the yellow pine 

 producers are wasting their ammunition in 

 trying to introduce their product as a fur- 

 niture wood. Out on the Pacific Coast they 

 are using fir and other of the woods akin 

 to white pine, which are not accounted 

 cabinet woods in the making of furniture. 

 But this is not because the woods are 

 best suited to the purpose, but because it 

 is about all that- is to be found, and the 

 rates of freight on both furniture and lum- 

 ber are such that low-priced furniture, by 

 Jorce of necessity, is made from the na- 

 tive woods. When there is nothing so 

 good as yellow pine for furniture-mak- 

 ing in sight, it will come into use, and not 

 until then. — Furniture .Toumal. 



