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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Main Brothers' veneer factory at Rdscoe, III., 

 will soon be moved to OaktowB. 



R. S, Bacon of Mobile, Ala., J. A. Underwood 

 of Wausau, Wis., and A. W. Underwood of Chi- 

 cago have organized the Bacon-Underwood 

 Veneer Company, with a capital stock of $40.- 

 000. The office of the company is at Mobile. 



Another Industry has been secured for Kala- 

 mazoo in the shape of an establishment for 

 the manufacture of cigar boxes. The name of 

 the company has not been given, the parties 

 Interested stating that any announcement of 

 their removal would create trouble in the town 

 where they are now located. 



The sawmill of the Wabash Lumber Company, 

 just erected in Grayville. 111., began operating 

 the last week in January. The mill has a ca- 

 pacity of about 8,000 feet a day and only oak 

 timber is sawn, car and wagon stock being cut 

 from the logs. The company will have about 

 fifteen employes. 



It is reported that a crew of surveyors, sup- 

 posed to be in the employ of the Soo, is run- 

 ning a line from the west toward DuJuth. 

 Minn. The crew is now working from Lathrop 



In Cass county to Floodwood. expecting to 

 toucl at Mississippi landing, and it is said the 

 line Is being run through a fine territory. It 

 contains hardwood and the soil is very fertile. 

 The opinion of people in the territory that is 

 being traversed is that the road is to be a 

 connection for the Soo between I>uluth and 

 the company's new western extensions. 



A called meeting of the Business Men's Asso- 

 ciation of Norfolk, Va., last week at the court- 

 house heard a proposition from the members 

 of a western Arm for the establishment there 

 of a cooperage plant, to manufacture kegs, bar- 

 rels and headings. The timber used in the 

 making of this class of goods is abundant in 

 this section and if property owners and man- 

 ufacturers can come to a satisfactorv agree- 

 ment as to price, the factory will be estab- 

 lished. 



George W. Campbell, manager of the Roddis 

 Lumber & Veneer Company at Park Falls, Wis., 

 says It now has about 300 men at work in 

 the woods and that it will continue its camps 

 regardless of the deep snow, which is causing 

 considerable trouble. 



Spirit of the Trade Press. 



Eeciprocity in Lumber — Let not the title 

 inspire false hopes in the hearts of any 

 lumbermen who niay long for the realizat.irn 

 of such a condition, for it may be far dis- 

 tant. This much may be said, however, lurat 

 the day is drawing nearer, and sooi'er or 

 later reciprocal trade relations will exist be- 

 tween Canada and the United States in re- 

 spect to lumber. These remarks are prompt- 

 ed by recent rumors, emanating from chan- 

 r.el." which suggest reliability, that negotia- 

 tions are under way which may result in tlie 

 1 bolition of tl;e present American duty or. 

 Canadian lumber. — Canada Lumberman. 



The state of Pennsylvania makes more 

 than one-half of all the iron used in this 

 country, and yet its output of iron ore is 

 less than two per cent of the whole. Ohio 

 is the next largest iron-making state, and 

 its output of iion ore is only one-half as 

 great as Penn.sylvania 's. These states have 

 abundance of cheap fuel, and they haul the 

 ore to the fuel. Fuel and iron ore are found 

 in close proximity to each other only in the 

 states of Alabama and Tennessee. The cot- 

 ton mills and the woodworking plants have 

 been and are yet moving to the raw mate- 

 rial in the southern states. With the nat- 

 ural advantage of fueJ and ore close together, 

 it. is only a question of time, brains and 

 energy when the South will lead in the iron 

 industry. — Southern Lumberman. 



An important move at the recent conven- 

 tion of the hardwood manufacturers of the 

 United States was the serious consideration 

 of adopting .i uniform grade symbol, to be 

 stenciled on every board, to defeat the pos- 

 sibility of dishonest middlemen imposing 

 upon consumers by mixing grades. While 

 buyers of hardwoods in the furniture trade 

 are as a rule experienced to a degree to 

 minimize the importance of such a move to 

 them, at the same time action of this kind 

 will prevent numberless cases of imposition 

 which are caused by some relaxing of vigi- 



lance or a too great dependence on the recti- 

 tude of the lumber people. — Furniture Trade 

 Beview. 



Work on the Chippewa reservations under 

 the provisions of the Morris bill have proved 

 that the tops and slashings left from logging 

 can be burned at an average cost of only 

 twenty-five cents per thousand of timber 

 logged. If that holds good in all cases the 

 average logger will not object to doing it 

 as strenuously as he has in the past. — Missis- 

 sippi Valley Lumberman. 



The complications surrounding the hard- 

 wood situation may seem formidable, but with 

 the advent -of a united front upon the part 

 of interested operators, they will vanish like 

 the dew before the rising sun. It must come 

 to that. — Lumber Trade ■Journal, New Or- 

 leans. 



There is no exaggeration in the claim 

 that the trade journal provides the cheapest 

 and most effective means of introducing 

 many articles of merit. Everyday experience 

 proves the accuracy of the assertion. 'But 

 it docs not mean that the average merchant 

 who is well stocked is going to buy at once 

 because he has seen an advertisement that 

 has interested him, nor that he will do more, 

 31 a first step, if he needs goods of the class 



advertised, than send in the usual enquiry 

 for samples, or further information, which, 

 if found satisfactory, will justify his giving 

 an order for a new article. 



The wisdom of keeping an advertisement 

 before the trade is more than obvious. Goods 

 that are already well known are kept to 

 the front in this way, and some of the most 

 liberal advertisers in trade journals are manu- 

 facturers who have nothing new to sell, but 

 who appreciate the importance of competi- 

 tion, and who will not permit competition 

 ' to obscure, by their own neglect of adver- 

 tising, the merits of the goods they offer. 

 — Lawrence Irwell in Trade Press List. 



Trade journals have so clearly demonstrat- 

 ed their value in so many ways that no 

 business man or manufacturer whose trade 

 is of sufficient importance to entitle him to 

 be classed as such would willingly conduct 

 his business without the aid of one or more 

 papers devoted to his particular industry. 



It is no credit to any man to say that 

 he is too busy to read his trade paper, but, 

 on the contrary, is reflection on his business 

 sagacity, and when he has properly systema- 

 tized his affairs he will realize that it is as 

 important to set apart a time for such read- 

 ing as it is the many other things that enter 

 into the routine of his business. — ^National 

 Coopers' Journal. 



The vast majority of people don't want 

 a thing till they see some one else have it; 

 but from this it is not safe to assume that 

 the indiscriminate giving away of free, 

 samples is good advertising, for as a rule 

 those who get a thing for nothing do not 

 caie enough about it to give it even a fair 

 trial. — The Wood-Worker. 



The union in San Francisco allows mills 

 outside the city to dress but one side of a 

 piece of flooring, consequently any mill th;it 

 wants to smooth up the back before cutting 

 the tongue and groove must find a market 

 outside San Francisco. Some queer things 

 happen in a free country. — West Coast Lum- 

 berman. 



Purchases a Large Tract. 



The Wright-Hlodpett Lumber Company, of Lake 

 Charles, La., has purchased an immense tract 

 of timber from the Pickering l.nmIxT Company, 

 paving approximately $1,7.^)0.imi(1. This is the 

 largest land and timber transa<-tion recordi'd in 

 Louisiana. 



Hardwood Market. 



(By HABBWOOD KECOBD Exclusive Market Beporters.) 



Chicago. 



While the weather lias been detrimental to 

 business in Chicago, as elsewhere, local whole- 

 salers say that inquiries are brisk. Plain oak 

 and birch are easily the leaders. Prices on these 

 items are liolding tirm, and it would be no 

 surprise it quotations materially increased In 

 a short time. 



Maple is holding its own at advanced prices. 

 Basswood Is picking up and a big improve- 

 ment is looked for in the near future. 



Quartered red oak is much sought lor and 

 is strong in price. 



New York. 

 Snow, then, ice, then a little more snow — and 

 mort' ice and snow, and a steady depressed tem- 

 perature, really tells the tale of hardwood lum- 

 ber conditions in the metropolitan district dur- 

 ing the past fortnight. Outside of the snow and 

 ice, which has blocked up all the hardwood yards 

 in the district, has been the serious handicap of 

 making such deliveries as are called for, owing 

 to the fact that the streets are In a very bad 

 condition and trucking seriously handicapped. 

 Then, again, while some of the yards report 

 business as absolutely at a standstill owing to 



