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of the Colima company will be oak lumber of 

 the different varieties. These have been proved 

 by laboratory tests in Mexico and the United 

 States to be first-class material. The company 

 expects also to produce a large number of rail- 

 way ties. More machinery is expected from 

 the United States for the forest work. 



The Pacific Timber Company has completed 

 three miles of railroad for logging, the equip- 

 ment for which will be one locomotive and 

 fifteen cars of American make. Twelve miles 

 of flume have been completed. A railroad for 

 taking lumber from the lower end of the flume 

 to the coast, eleven miles, is being constructed. 



New Hardwood Enterprise 



Charles K. Parry & Co., of Philadelphia, Pa., 

 state that they are largely interested in a 

 new concern known as the Carolina Spruce 

 Company, which is developing a large tract 

 of timber land, said to be one of two of the 

 very finest tracts in Yancey county. North 

 Carolina. This tract comprises about 7,000 

 acres of poplar, chestnut, basswood, cherry and 

 spruce. Railroad connection is nearly com- 

 pleted. The company will erect an eight-feet 

 band mill just as soon as the railroad is far 



CHARLES K. I'ARRY, CHARLES K. PARRY & 

 CO., PHILADELPHIA. 



enough advanced to handle freight, and it 

 expects to be in full operation in about six 

 months. Charles K. Parry has devoted most 

 of his time during the summer to superintend- 

 ing the work of the company. He returned 

 recently from the company's yellow pine mill 

 at Selma, N. C, and said the output, while not 

 exceeding 5,000,000 feet this year, will be in- 

 creased to over 7,000,000 in 1912. This mill 

 is cutting poplar and oak. Pinebloom mill is 

 manufacturing flooring strictly, turning out an 

 average of 30.000 feet daily. 



Michigan Retail Association Files Answer 



The officers and directors of the Michigan 

 Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, the Scout 

 Publishing Company and the Lumber Secre- 

 taries' Bureau of Information have filed in the 

 federal court at Detroit their answer to the 

 government charge that they are acting in vio- 

 lation of the Sherman anti-trust law. The 

 answer is a general denial of the government 

 charges, and also contains an attack on mail 

 order houses and wholesalers, manufacturers and 

 jobbers selling directly to the trade. While ad- 

 mitting that in the past there were agreements 

 among members not to purchase of manufactur- 

 ers, wholesalers or jobbers selling directly to the 

 trade, and contending that there was nothing 



unlawful in such agreements, the lumbermen 

 assert that these agreements were long ago 

 abandoned. This language is then used in the 

 answer : 



"These defendants aver that the maintenance 

 of such methods of distribution does not partake 

 ot the nature of restraint of competition and of 

 trade and commerce, but on the contrary tends 

 to facilitate the same. They further say that 

 any efforts to destroy such methods of distribu- 

 tion, either by great combinations of capital or 

 b;- injunction, would inevitably destroy compe- 

 titiou. restrain trade and commerce, and build 

 up great monopolies and great concentration of 

 wealth. 



"These defendants further say that the so- 

 called mail order houses, and some wholesale 

 dealers who are operating with them, are seek- 

 ing to destroy the method of distribution by pro- 

 ducers and through retail merchants and to sub- 

 stitute themselves as such distributors. To this 

 end the mail order houses are seeking the aid 

 of the employes of the postoffice department of 

 the United States and are sending circular 

 letters and advertising matter to rural free de- 

 livery carriers to induce them to act as sale 

 agents of such mail order houses." 



A sample letter sent to rural free delivery 

 carriers by Sears, Roebuck & Co., Chicago, in 

 which the good will of the carrier is asked, is 

 included in the answer. 



Methods were adopted in the past which the 

 defendants admit should not have been adopted. 

 These included an attempt to collect penalty 

 from wholesalers who were selling to consumers. 

 Referring to mail order houses the defendants 

 declai-e that they often represent themselves as 

 producers and manufacturers, although they are 

 not. Mail order houses are nondescript and 

 have no place in any classification of the trade. 

 The defendants deny that they are now and 

 ever have been engaged in any unlawful con- 

 spiracy, unduly and unreasonably to restrain 

 trade in the lumber products business between 

 the various states and territories. They deny 

 the existence of conspiracy and claim the right 

 of a demurrer. 



Co-operative yards and unions are attacked by 

 the defendants. The defense asserts that mem- 

 bers of these associations band together and 

 buy direct from wholesalers, manufacturers and 

 jobbers with the intent of driving out and de- 

 " stroying retail lumber dealers in their vicinity. 

 Admission is made that information is ob- 

 tained in cases where wholesalers, manufactur- 

 ers or jobbers sell direct to the trade, and 

 thereby jeopardize the trade of the retailer, but 

 it is denied that an attempt is made to coerce 

 or intimidate or restrain any member of the 

 Michigan Retail Lumber Dealers' Association 

 from exercising his own best judgment after 

 receiving information. 



Denial is made on behalf of the Scout Pub- 

 lishing Company and the Lumber Secretaries' 

 Bureau of Information that they have combined 

 to carry out any conspiracy or that the associa- 

 tion has agreed to furnish the Scout names of 

 wholesalers, etc., selling to retailers. 



October Cut in Shipments of 'Wisconsin 

 :iouses 

 Secretary Kellogg of the Northern Hemlock & 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, issues a 

 statement showing the cut and shipments of 

 fifty-three lumber manufacturers connected with 

 his association for October, 1911, as compared 

 with cut and shipments of the same concerns dur- 

 ing the same month of 1910. The hardwood cut 

 of October, 1911. was 9,782,000 feet, as com- 

 pared with 10,558.000 feet during the corre- 

 sponding period of last year. During October 

 of this year 18.231,000 feet were shipped, against 

 16.428,000 feet during October, 1910. Wiscon- 

 sin's largest hardwood output is of birch : the 

 second largest maple, and the third, basswood, 

 although it also produces a considerable quantity 

 of gray elm and black ash. 



Eiltmore Forest School 



Dr. Schenck's Biltmore Forest School is now 

 installed at Darmstadt, Germany, in its winter 

 headquarters, with an unusually large class ot 

 students. The last leaflet issued by the school 

 recites a history of its movements since it left 

 Marshfleld, Ore., on Sept. 16. where it was 

 encamped with the C. A. Smith Timber Com- 

 pany. 



Dr. Schenck will return to the United States 

 early in the spring, and after enrolling new 

 students will make the school's first camp in 

 New York state's forest reserve in the Adiron- 

 dacks : will then make a brief stop in the North 

 Carolina pine district, probably near Ayden, N. 

 C. ; then will go into summer encampment for 

 a while at Sunburst Village near Canton, N. C. 

 in the hardwood region ; after which probably 

 the school will spend a few weeks in one of 

 the districts embraced by the government's new 

 Appalachian park in eastern Tennessee. It will 

 then encamp near Cadillac. Mich., for a month, 

 and again move to the Pacific coast for several 

 months before again departing for the winter in 

 Germany. 



The wonderful allurements, to say nothing of 

 the educational advantages of a course in the 



DR. C. A. SCllE-NCI';. DIRECTOR BILTMORE 

 FOREST SCHOOL. 



Biltmore Forest School, make every mature lum- 

 berman jealous of the tact that he is not a boy 

 again, that he might be able to become a student 

 of this foremost school of forestry and practical 

 lumbering. 



Three New Types of Band Kesaws 



The famous specialists in band resaw con- 

 struction. W. B. Mershon & Co.. Saginaw. Mich., 

 have added to their already big line three brand- 

 new types of resawing machinery. One is a new 

 model of the twin resaw. which is a marked 

 improvement over the earlier and original ma- 

 chine put out by this company, and is designed 

 for use in box plants, as it saws lumber into 

 three pieces at one process. 



The second machine is a now hopper horizontal 

 band resaw for box makers, automatically resaw- 

 ing short sections of box material into thin 

 stock. 



The third machine is designed for direct attach- 

 ment to the end of a two- or four-side planing 

 machine, in which two-inch stock is dressed two 

 sides or dressed two sides and ship-lapped or 

 tongued and grooved, and then resawed. 



All of these machines are built on the usual 

 Mershon standard of quality, efficiency and fine 

 adjustment, and will constitute a substantial 

 addition to this concern's famous line of resaw- 

 ing machinery. 



