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THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



PIERCE LUMBER CO* 



Manufacturers and 

 l^holesale Dealers in 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



^r* We will saw Red and White Oak 



exclusively for the next year 



OFFICE and MILLS, OLYPHANT. tRK. 



THE 



CritteMm Litier Co. 



MANUFACTURERS 



Oak, Ash, 

 Cypress 

 and Gum 



MILLS: 

 BARLE, ARK. 



OFFICE : 

 236-337 SclmlUr Bulldins- 



MEMPHIS, TENN. 



MISSISSIPPI VALLEY 

 LUMBER CO.. 



UAIN OFFICB8, 



LINCOLN TRUST BLDO.. SAINT LOUIS. 



RRANCHES: 



Cairo. III., Carutheravllle. Mo. 

 and Memphis, Teon.' 



Cash buyers of Cypress, Cottonwood, Qum and 

 Oak and solicit Inquiries from the con- 

 suming trade for the .following: 



CYPRESS: 



750,000 feet 1 inch Ists and 2nds 

 200,000 " IH Inch Ists and 2ndB. 

 25.000 •• IH and 2 Inch Ists and 2 nds. 

 850,000 " 1 and IX Inch selec;. 

 175,000 •■ 1'/, Inch select. 

 90,000 " 2 inch select. 

 1,610,000 " 1, IM, IH and 2 Inch shop. 



COTTONWOOD: 



2.000,000 feet 1-inch, log run or on grade. 



GUM: 



2,600,000 feet 1-lnch No. 2 and shipping cull. 

 500,000 " 1 and IX inch furniture common. 

 390,000 " 1, IJi and IH Inch sapclear. 



OAK: 



650,000 feet 1, I'/J and 2 Inch Red and White 

 plain and quarter sawed Ists and 2nds. No. 1 

 and No. 2 common. 



will have to let it go as it is. It you 

 want some good stock, good prices and 

 good grade, John will lurnish it to you. 

 AT EVANSVILLE. 



I am getting mixed up a good deal. I 

 am leaving Evansville out altogether, and 

 that is practically, or pretty near, the 

 only place in the country where they have 

 large stock in quartered-sawed oak, in 

 Evansville and vicinity. I saw Claude 

 Maley, and was mighty glad to see him. 

 Claude has a good stock of somewhere be- 

 tween five and six millions of famous In- 

 diana quartered oak, which is listed for 

 sale in this issue of the Record. The firm 

 of Maley & Sons is one of the greatest 

 factors in the production of hardwood lum- 

 ber in the United States, and we ara 

 proud of their patronage. 



I went over to May, Thompson & 

 Thayer, and found Ralph getting ready to 

 be married that night and, of course, could 

 talk no business with them for the day. 

 I went down and talked the matter over 

 with Frank the next morning, secured his 

 contract, and their stock of five or six 

 million feet of high-grade quartered oak 

 will be found listed elsewhere in this 

 issue. I didn't see anything of Ralph, 

 but as he called up the oflBce, I know that 

 he lived through it all right. Frank tele- 

 phoned him that three furniture men, a 

 life insurance man, and two undertakers 

 had been inquiring for him. Ralph said 

 he had no need of the undertakers and 

 he would have something to say to the 

 furniture men and the life insurance man 

 later. 



The young lady in the case was named 

 Miss Hornbrook, and we congratulate her 

 on having corralled a good young man. 

 Ralph is a shrewd and forceful fellow, 

 destined to make his mark in the world. 



We wish the young couple every happi- 

 ness and prosperity. 



FORGING AHEAD. 



The Lumber Insurance Company of New 

 York, the last company organized to spe- 

 cialize in the insurance of the lumber 

 trade, has within the past few weeks 

 added three more states to the territory 

 it has entered since its incorporation last 

 June. The new licenses were issued by 

 Massachusetts, where Frederick J. Caul- 

 kins is state agent, with offices in the 

 Broad Exchange building, Boston; by 

 West Virginia, where Alfred Paull repre- 

 sents the company at Wheeling, and by 

 Tennessee, in which state the business 

 is in the hands of D. A. Fisher of Mem- 

 phis. 



The company was last summer ad- 

 mitted to the states of Ohio and Missouri, 

 and the addition of these three makes a 

 total of five states entered in the first 

 five monlis after its incorporation in New 

 York. A record of this kind gives good 

 promise of the future growth of this 

 young company. Present indications are 

 that the tendency of the insurance busi- 



ness is very soon to be decidedly in the 

 direction of specialization, and lumber 

 dealers and woodworkers may consider 

 themselves particularly fortunate in hav- 

 ing such good service placed at their dis- 

 posal so early in the movement, which 

 must soon become general. 



INCREASING THEIR CAPACITY TO 



ACCOMMODATE GROWING 



BUSINESS. 



Among the orders recently received by 

 the Gordon Hollow Blast Grate Company, 

 the well-known manufacturer of blast 

 grates, edgers and trimmers, of Green- 

 ville, Mich., was one from the Dennis Bros. 

 Salt & Lumber Company, for their two 

 mills at or near Tustin, Mich., for two log 

 haul-ups, two trimmers, two heavy edgers 

 and two 10-saw slab slashers. 



As stated in a recent issue, the Gordon 

 Hollow Blast Grate Company's business Is 

 growing so rapidly that it has been com- 

 pelled to increase the size of its buildings 

 and put in additional machinery, and this 

 at a time when most manufacturers and 

 dealers were complaining that business 

 was dull. This is accounted for by the fact 

 that it is manufacturing a line that is ex- 

 ceptionally psactical, and that sells at 

 popular prices. 



PATENT INFRINGEMENT SUITS. 



To keep a great manufacturing concern 

 constantly in advance of all competitors, 

 requires the co-operation of the brightest 

 and best minds, protected by the patent 

 laws of every country. 



The great J. A. Fay & Egan Co. of Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio, takes out nearly one hun- 

 dred valuable patents every year, many of 

 which mark such distinct advances in 

 woodworking machinery: that competitors 

 are continually infringing in their desire 

 to imitate their salient points. For the 

 l)rotection of their own interests, as well . 

 as those of the public, who may other- 

 wise be led to purchase inferior machines, 

 particularly band, rip, scroll and resaws, 

 Sanders, dovetailers, the J. A. Fay & Egan 

 Co. announce that a number of suits will 

 shortly be begun against such infringers. 



We are in receipt of a very handsome 

 publication issued by Cobbs & Mitchell of 

 Cadillac, Mich., extolling their "electric" 

 hardwood flooring. It is fully illustrative, 

 showing operations from the tree to the 

 manufactured article, and besides contains 

 very useful information in reference to its 

 manufacture and use. 



The Penrod Walnut Corporation's lum- 

 ber mill at Kansas City, Mo., was des- 

 troyed by fire on December 1. The loss is 

 stated to be between $15,000 and $25,000. 

 The lumber in stock was untouched. 



Fire destroyed the plant of the A. B. 

 Parr Lumber Company at Clarksburg, 

 W. Va., on December 1, the loss footing 



about $100,000. 



