HARDWOOD RECORD 



superior excellence, and that because of their 

 merit the trade has reached its present magni- 

 tude. 



Less than twenty years ago the factory em- 

 ployed about 130 men. and opened its first 

 branch house at Memphis. Tenn. A short time 

 afterward another branch was started in Chat- 

 tanooga, which later was removed to Atlanta. 

 Then in rapid succession branches were estab- 

 lished at Minneapolis, Minn.. Portland, Ore., 

 New York City, Chicago, Toronto, Ont., Seattle. 

 Wash., and last, but not least, San Francisco 

 falls into line. The branch at San Frapcisco 

 was opened January 1 and was necessitated be- 

 cause of the firm's increased business on the 

 coast which could not be accommodated to ad- 

 vantage from Portland and Seattle. 



To take care of their rapidly increasing trade 

 the hrm is constantly expanding their manufac- 

 turing facilities and several new buildings have 

 lately been equipped and put into operation. 

 About twelve hundred men are now employed 

 at the factories and seventy salesmen are kept 

 constantly on the road disposing of the enor- 

 mous product of saws and tools whose trade- 

 mark "Atkins Always Ahead" aptly describes 

 their position in the minds of appreciative 

 users. 



Building Conditions For January. 



Secretary Lewis Doster of the Hardworio 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United States 

 has compiled a table showing a remarkable in- 

 crease in building in the principal cities of the 

 United States for January compared with the 

 corresponding month a year ago. 



In twenty-seven of the leading cities permits 

 were taken out for the construction of 5,187 

 buildings, involving a total cost of $24,964,651. 

 against 4.317 buildings, involving a total cost of 

 $13,575,418, for the same month a year ago. 

 an increase of 870 buildings and $11,389,233. 

 or 83 per cent. The figures in detail are as 

 follows : 



1905. • 1904. P.C. 



No. Cost. No. Cost. Gain. 



New York 2S3 9.111.300 129 2.282.850 299 



Brookl.TU 538 S. 473.270 502 2.047.147 69 



Chicago 345 1.847,700 279 2.1.50,870 'W 



San Francisco.. 216 2,235.967 175 1.078,541 107 



Los Angeles 670 1,131,581 516 875,744 29 



Philadelphia ... 326 1,004.805 306 813,445 23 



.St. Lonis 273 999.884 265 848.335 17 



Pittsburg 169 605.823 79 199,184 204 



Washington .... 202 496,465 140 270.857 83 



Louisville 94 463.080 74 46.878 887 



Seattle 518 425.950 532 234.322 SI 



Indianapolis 107 402.843 GO 64,015 528 



Kansas Citv 152 320.250 ]90 264.000 21 



Cleveland 135 266.805 68 92.275 189 



Milwaukee 109 236.763 81 151.905 69 



Detroit 160 246.000 107 184.400 33 



Buffalo 112 239.293 105 307.809 •22 



Atlanta 189 223.715 216 539.716 '60 



New Orleans 212.195 ... 119.072 78 



.Spokane 96 205.270 96 213.860 '4 



Memphis 201.668 ... 149.005 35 



Minneapolis 138 163.510 114 188.040*1:5 



Tacoma 119 110.414 92 116.553*5 



St. Paul 65 105.050 50. 68.675 53 



Allegheny 25 48.9<X) 12 19.800 139 



Cincinnati 126 140.480 100 154.535 '10 



Onaahii 20 27.690 29 83.585 •67 



Totals 5.187 24.964,651 4,317 13,575,418 83 



New St. Louis Concern. 



A new lumber concern has opened an office Id 

 St. Louis under the name of the George E. Wat- 

 son Lumber Company. It will handle yellow 

 pine and cypress. 



George E. Watson, the head of the company, 

 has an extensive acquaintance, having served as 

 secretary of the Lumbermen's Exchange df St. 

 Louis, secretary of the St. Louis Hardwood & 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Exchange and assistant 

 secretary of the house of Hoo-Hoo. He is at 

 the present time secretary of the Yellow Piners. 

 which is the St. Louis organization of yellow 

 pine wholesalers. As secretary of the St. Louis 

 Hardwood and Lumber Manufacturers' Exchange 

 Mr. Watson had charge of the St. Louis inspec- 

 tion force. 



Mr. Watson has had an extensive experience 

 in the lumber trade and should make a success 

 in his new venture. In ISO! he entered the em- 

 ploy of his father, who was at that time a 

 wholesaler of hardwoods and cypress. Prior to 



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this, however, he was affiliated with a large 

 hardwood sawmill at Helena, Ark. 



All Ad 'Writer of Repute. 



The Hardwood Record is indebted to E. D. 

 Oalloway, president of the Galloway-Pease Com- 

 pany of Johnson City, Tenn.. for a copy of a 

 curious and unique hand bill, which is tran- 

 scribed below. 



All professional ad writers should peruse this 

 document with care and then go and hide their 

 heads in shame for the very paucity of ideas 

 about the writing of advertisements which they 

 possess. Stoke Etter certainly has the entire 

 professional bunch beaten by a city block. 



Lumber Underwriters' Annual. 



The annual meeting of the board of the Lum- 

 ber Underwriters was held in the offices of Mc- 

 Kelvey & Mattocks. 66 Broadway. Thursday, 

 Feb. 9. The following were present : Fred- 

 erick W. Cole of New York, Lewis Dill of Balti- 

 more. W. C. Laidlaw of Toronto. Ont.. H. Shum- 

 way Lee of Buffalo. Robert C. Lippincott of Phil- 

 adelphia. John Jay McKelvey of New York, Fred- 

 erick W. Mattocks of New Y'ork. Eugene F. Perry 

 of New York. C. H, Prescott. Jr.. of ClcvelandL, 

 Frank C. Rice of Springfield. Mass.. Horace F. 

 Taylor of Buffalo. M. S. Tremaine of Buffalo, 

 and Pendennis White of Buffalo. 



Administrator's Sale 



=OF= 



Valuable Mill Machinery 



Here are Incomparable Bargains and the Finest Business Opportunity That Ever Came This Way. 



On Saturday, September 24, 1904. 



Beginning at 10 o'clock a. m., at Vioia, Tenn.. I will sell at public sale, as property of the 

 estate of J. R. West. Dec'd., the finest milling plant, best and most complete equipped a;;- 

 gregation of lumber manufacturing machinery to be found anywhere in Tennessee, out- 

 side the larger cities. This plant is located in the heart of old Cumberland's renowned 

 timber belt, from whose superb forests it has quartered oak, now clothed in fadeless 

 varnish, that glitters a thing of art and beauty in the gilded palace cars of an English 

 Railroad Co.. over whose tempered track of swerveless steel guides the swiftest mo\ ing 

 trains in the world. 



Large Boiler. Engine. Sawmill complete. Steam Drv Kiln, with all appliances and ti.vtures. Kesaws, Phnniii;; Mills 

 Moulding Machines, Failing Headers. Turning Lathes, and Universal Woodworking Machines. Every machine is com- 

 plete and in position to convert the standing tree into the finished product ready for the carpenter's scribe and hammer 

 Tliis machinery has fashioned and constructed the entire woodwork from the massive base to the frescoed cresr of 

 some^of the most creditable hooiPS in the country and cities of Middle Tennessee, Selected with unerring aim of a con- 

 summative master, after years of practical experience, travel and intelligent observation and placed with amazing conve- 

 nience into faultless juxtaposition by his matchless skill, where it uow remains a mute, yet impregnable witness, of his 

 marvelous ingenuity. But he, too. was fashioned by a master, and "ere his years of usefulness were over, was summoned 

 to meet his Maker and leave this, the brilliant consummation of bis life's dream and ambition, and the fruit of his years 

 of toil, to be confiscated by the stem na and ate of the law and go a sacrifice beneath the ruthless hammer nf the auctioneer 

 Will also sell one Gaar Scott Traction Engine, IG-horee power, good as new, a special model after the suffgestions of the 

 same mechanical prodigy; One Water Wagon, with Tank. Hand Pump and Hose»ttacbed; One Portable Saw Mill; Twu 

 Log Wagons and loggers equipment; One Barrel each of Machine Oil and Axle Grease; a lot of Lumber in the rough, pop- 

 lar, oak and gum. A lot of lumber finished, such as Flooring. Ceiling, Siding. Moulding, Ready made Dtwrs, Sash and 

 Scopes. One Gaar Scott Clover HuUer. out of repair. 



>TERMS OF SAI_E< 



On twelve months time, interest bearing notes with two approved sureties will he 

 required of purchaser and lien retained on property until paid for. 



Will sell each machine or aggregation seperate, then Traction Engine, Water Wagon 

 and Portable Saw Mill together and the Stationary Milling .Machinery as a whole and 

 settle according to best and most remunerative bids. 



Come and look this magnificient machinery over and listen to its own silent but 

 eloquent appeal to your judgment and leave a bid, if unable to attend the sale. Further 

 information cheerfully given on application to the undersigned. 



STOKE ETTER, 



Administrator. 



