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writer, and which would avoid any possibility 

 of error In the grade designated. This sug- 

 gestion was also indorsed by the association. 



The newly coined word "Fas" saves two words 

 in telegraphing and will soon become as fa- 

 miliar as any other grade term. The IIahd- 

 wooD Record heartily commends both the sug- 

 gestion of the author, and the approval of the 

 Manufacturers' Association of the word and of 

 the symbol. 



A New Pittsburg House. 



A, new hardwood house at Pittsburg. Pa., is 

 the Reliance Lumber Company, of which H. W. 

 Henninger is president. 



Mr. Henninger conies of a family of lumber- 

 men. To quote Russell Sage, the lumber "mi- 

 crobes are firmly planted in his cranium." His 

 brother, John Henninger. who died ten years 

 ago, was for many years an officer of the 

 American Lumber & Manufacturing Company. 

 Another brother. Fred W.. is now Treasurer 

 of the A. M. Turner* Company. Mr. Henninger 

 himself started in the lumber business in 1893 

 as an office man for the American Lumber 

 & Manufacturing Company, where he stayed two 

 years. He then became connected with the 

 Ruskauff Lumber Company as salesman, and 



n. W. II1:n.\IXGI:R, of Pittsburg. 



for the past three years was Its secretary. 

 There are few lumbermen in greater Pittsburg 

 who have a more attractive presence, a larger 

 circle of friends, or a shrewder knowledge of 

 the lumber business than Mr. Henninger. On 

 Jan. 1 he announced the formation of tbi' 

 Reliance Lumber Company, which is now estab- 

 lished In the Ferguson block in Fourth avenue, 

 one of the most central locations in the city. 

 He has engaged as salesman A. W. Smenner. 

 formerly of the JI. IS. Farrin Lumber Company 

 of Cincinnati. The Reliance Lumber Company 

 win do a wholesale business exclusively. It 

 will handle the general trade of the city and 

 supply retail dealers in all points In western 

 Pennsylvania. The company will deal in nor- 

 way, yellow plue and llr timber, white pine and 

 hardwoods. It is also arranging to handle the 

 output of at least one big oak mill in West 

 Virginia. Tlie company is starting out with 

 an excellent showing and bids fair soon to 

 become an active factor in the local trade. 



New Hardwood Enterprise. 



Paul Johnson, a well known hardwood oper- 

 ator, who has conducted several sawmill enter- 

 prises In the vicinity of Cadillac. Mich., for a 

 number of years, has purchased In fee simple 

 S.OOO acres ot hardwood lands near Manlstique 

 and has purchased the hardwooil timber from 



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of maple, birch, elm, basswood, with a sprinkling 

 of white pine and hemlock. He has also pur- 

 chased the sawmill at Thompson, Mich., and 

 has entirely rebuilt it into a complete modern 

 band and circular plant. Mr. Johnson also 

 has a logging road extending from his timber 

 through Thompson to Manistique, Mich., and 

 the latter point will constitute his chief ship- 

 ping point by water. Very shortly Mr. Johnson 

 will reorganize his purchases into a stock com- 

 pany, of which he will be the chief owner. 

 The entire operation will be running by April 

 1. and promises to be a source of hardwood 

 supply for many years to come. 



Introduce Yourself. 



It has grown to be a habit on the part of 

 the Haedwood Record clientage that when ad- 

 vertisers in the publication were addressed with 

 Inquiries for lumber that the fact that the 

 advertisement was seen in the H.iRUWoou Rec- 

 ord was stated. It is needless to remind old 

 readers of the Hardwood Record that they are 

 doing the paper, the advertisers and themselves 

 a favor when they make this notation in their 

 correspondence. Today the- Haiupwood Recokd 

 is reaching many hundreds of new readers, and 

 to them it is that the publisher would make 

 the suggestion that when writing to advertisers 

 relative to lumber and machinery advertised 

 within its columns they do the publishers 

 and the advertiser the courtesy ot mentioiiiug 

 the fact that the advertisement was seen In the 

 lolumns ot this paper. 



New Sawyers' Book. 



E. C. Atkins & Company of Indianapolis have 

 just issued a new copy of their saw and saw 

 tool catalogue sawyers' hand book, which com- 

 prises 220 pages, and Is much larger In size 

 and In many ways greatly improved over ail 

 previous issues. The book contains much in 

 I'ormation of value on the care of saws, and 

 will be appreciated by all sawmill men. It 

 will be scot free by the publishers for the ask- 

 ing. 



Territorial Hardwood. 

 In the hardwood trade at large little Is 

 known concerning the hardwood area of Okla- 

 homa and the Indian Territory, although It Is 

 well known that considerable hardwoods exist 

 along the river bottom lands <if those terrl- 

 torle.*^. Considerable cotlonwond and red oak 

 stands In the Indian Territory tributary to the 

 Iron Mountain Railroad, which Is said to be 

 equal In quality and dnrablliiy to any hard- 

 woods that grow In the southern sections of 

 the country. It Is understood that cottonwood 

 predominates and that there Is not a very large 

 quantity ot good oak timber. This section also 

 has the pecan, which It is claimed by local 

 ojierators to be as good as hickory, hut very 

 few users have yet been able to agree on this 

 proposition. When the pecan Is green it re- 

 sembles the hickory, but on close inspection a 

 differences can he readily detected. When the 

 wood Is dry it is much lighter In weight and 

 darker In color. 



Change in Indiana Hardwood House. 

 'the lirm of .Martin & I'age, whicli has been 

 operating a retail hardwood and planing mill 

 business, as well as a wholesale hardwood lum- 

 ber business at South Bend, has been dissolved. 

 In the past tbe.se two lines of business have 

 been kept separate. The wholesale hardwood 

 fnd ot the business has been absorbed by R. 

 G. Page and in future will be conducted under 

 the name of the It. G. Page Lumber Company. 

 The retail and planing mill end of the business 

 has fallen to J. li. Martin, who will continue to 

 operate It under the name ot the Martin Lum- 

 ber l'oin|)nny. The otHce ot the new R. G. 

 I'age Lumber Company Is located at room 10. 



American Trust building, and its yards are at 

 1715-1723 South Main street and along the 

 line of the T. H. & L. R. R. at South Bend. 

 The company will make a specialty ot Indiana 

 hardwoods, but will also carry a stocK of hard- 

 woods growing in the North and in the South. 



Death of H. B. Lewis. 



A sad event that has cast a gloom over the 

 entire northern Micliigan liardwood country is 

 the deatli of H. B. Lewis, who died of pneu- 

 monia on Saturday. Feb. -1, at Ypsiianti. Micb. 

 Mr. Lewis was for many years the successful 

 r.ianager of the Elk Rapids Iron Company of 

 Klk Rapids. Mich. He left this position two 

 .years ago to accept the management of an im- 

 portant lumber and stock-raising business jn 

 Cuba, but on account of the tropical climate he 

 was obliged to resign this position and returned 

 to Michigan, where he engaged with the big 

 hardwood manufacturing house of William H. 

 While & Co. of Boyne City. Mich. Arrange- 

 nicMs were completed whereby he was to take 



11. I!. LF.WIS. 



till' management of the Michigan Maple Com- 

 pMiiy. under the presidency of Henry W. Cary. 

 It was intended that his appointment would be 

 confirmed at the annual meeting of this com- 

 pany which was held at Grand Rapids on 

 I''eb. 7. Mr. I^ewls leaves a widow. 



Mr. I^wis' death has cast a gloom over Boyne 

 City, where he was very much respected and 

 loved. His brother lumbermen have flooded 

 the family with telegrams of condolence and 

 masses ot flowers as a slight expression of their 

 sincere regret, and a large number ot them 

 attended the funeral on Feb. 7 at Ypsiianti. 



Mr. Lewis was a man very highly regarded. He 

 had splendid business abilities, was an excel- 

 lent parliamentarian, and made friends wherever 

 he went. He had a capacity for securlug an 

 audience with the strongest piniple in the land, 

 and at the same time was the friend of the 

 lowly. It is with extreiue regret that the 

 Hardwood Ui;cord Is obliged to chronicle the 

 taking off ot this progressive hardwood lumber- 

 man in the very 'prinie of life, and It extends 

 to Mrs. Lewis its I rifcli sympathy. 



