HARDWOOD RECORD 



39 



Till' capital invested dtiiing 1909 was $227.- 

 i:!4. 0(1(1. a fc'aiu of $68,148,000. or fofty-three 

 |H'i- cent, over $1,")8.!)86.000 in 1904., 



The value of products was $239,886,000 in 

 T.iOO and .$177,711.-1.(1(10 in 1904, an increase of 

 .'!;ti2,091.000. or thirl.v-tive per cent. The aver- 

 age per establishmcut was approximately $76,000 

 in 1909. and $09,000 in 1904. 



The Dudley Lumber Company 



The Dudle.v I.umlier Compan.v has tiled ar- 

 ticles of incorporation here. This firm has 

 been in existence at Memphis for a number 

 of years and has done quite a satisfactory 

 business. It has. however, been simply the 

 southern end of the Dudley Lumber Company 

 of (irand Itapids, Mich., and has heretofore 

 had no separate existence. It becomes a sepa- 

 rate incorporation, however, under the present 

 action, its capital stock being placed at $50,000. 

 H. J. Dudley of Grand Hapids is president, 

 L. DeWest Murrell is vice-president, and Charles 

 B. Dudley is secretary and treasurer. The lat- 

 ter will be in active charge of the operations 

 as has been the case heretofore. Jlr. Murrell 

 is in charge of the selling end of the business. 

 He has had a wide experience in this line, 

 having been connected for some time with the 

 Steele & Ilibbard Lumber Compauy of St. Louis 

 jiud the S. C. Major Lumber Company of Mem- 

 phis. 



The firm will continue selling hardwood lum- 

 ber at wholesale and will make a specialty of 

 wide ash. A band mill is being erected at 

 Neuhardt, Ark., which will have a daily ca- 

 pacity of about 30,000 feet, and in addition to 

 this mill of its own, the company will take 

 the output of several other mills in this terri- 

 lor.v. 



Building Operations for November 



liuilding statistics from forty-four representa- 

 tive building centers throughout the cotmtry as 



repotted to and compiled by The American Con- 

 tractor. Chicago, show a loss of 4^ per cent 



for the month of November as compared with 



November, 1910, whereas the past eleven months 



^how a loss of 2g per cent as compared with 

 the same months of the past year. Particulars 

 will be found in the following tables : 



November. November, 



1911. 1910. Per Cent 



City. Cost. Cost. Gn. Lss. 



.\t;ant;i $ 418.508 $ ii34.(il3 .. 22 



Baltimore (i54.:iS3 420.9.SO 55 



BirmlnghEm 791.806 211.269 274 



Buffalo 606.000 847.000 . . 28 



Cedar Hapids 20S.nO() 207.000 1 



Chattanooga 48.880 67..S34 . . 27 



Chicago 7.174.000 8.282.700 13 



Cincinnati .i.nl.nao 489.380 13 



Cliveland l.((71.2.-)0 1.151.022 .. 6 



Colnmbus 241.979 306..500 .. 21 



Dallas (i93.S73 212.075 225 



Denver 421.300 4(13.635 4 



Detroit 1.376.675 ].474.8S5 .. 



Grand Rapids 231,023 126.635 .82 



Hartford 307,044 215, .595 70 



Indianapolis 247.970 546.642 . . .54 



Kansas City 645,767 1.483.4(35 .. 55 



Lof. Angiles ]. 797. 2.33 2.228.663 .. 19 



.Manchester 115.197 84.6.50 36 



Memphis 499.411 475.315 5 



Milwaukee 994.2(37 ,8.53.765 16 



Minneapolis 659, .540 785.f(05 15 



Newark 89S.964 696.525 29 



New Haven 504.245 489.670 3 



.Alanhattan 9.487.175 3.331,066 166 



Brooklvn 2.799.899 2.,533.100 10 



Bronx 2,186.203 10.736,565 .. 79 



New York 14.473.279 16.820.731 .. 13 



Oakland 721.8.33 639,346 9 



Oklahoma City 85,120 346,820 .. 75 



Omaha .307.817 401.960 ,. 23 



Paterson 119.024 154.095 . . 22 



Pittsburg 6,39,148 1,011.896 .. .36 



Portland. Ore 2.012.985 1.119.205 79 



Rochester 608.633 499.090 21 



St. Paul 780.630 764. 108 2 



St. Louis 1.611,662 1.3(16.623 23 



Salt Lake City (366.400 209.900 217 



.San Francisco 1.617.890 992.258 6.3 



Scranton los,i75 142.231 .. 23 



Spokane 167.263 180,745 . . 7 



Tacoma 122.697 1.57.425 . . 22 



Toledo 197.915 .382,900 .. 48 



Wilkes Barre 76.986 164.145 .. 53 



Worcester 250.792 258.195 .. 2 



Total $45,788,380 .$48,146,609 4 4-5 



Double Equalizing Machine 



The accompanying illustraiiou represents the 

 new No. 6 Improved Double Equalizing Machine, 

 manufactured by the Defiance Machine Works 

 of Deliance. Ohio. It is designed lor reducing 

 spokes, handles and other blanks to exact lengths 

 and prepare them for the turning lathe. The 

 .saws can be quickly adjusted to cut from 7-inch 

 to IS-inch long and as heavy as 55-inch thick. 

 The saws are 16-inch diameter and fitted to a 

 heavy ground steel spindle and are locked in 

 position by a friction binder which prevents 

 marring the shaft and enables the saws to be 

 quickly set for different lengths of work. They 

 arc surrounded with safety guards to protect the 

 operator and are adjustable on the frame of the 

 machine with the saws. The saw arbor bear- 

 ings are fitted with genuine babbitt metal, are 

 extra long and self-lubricating. 



The swinging carriage which supports the ma- 

 terial to be equalized is hinged at the bottom of 

 the frame upon a steel shaft extending the full 

 width of the frame, making a substantial hinge 

 joint entirel.y free from lateral motion, over- 

 coming the liability of cramping the material 

 between the saws. It is provided with a quick 

 adjustment for different lengths of work. 



Anyone desiring further information regard- 

 ing this improved dotiiile equalizing machine is 

 invited to write the Deliance Machine Works. 

 Defiance. Ohio. 



DEFIANCE NO. IJirKdVED DOUBLE 

 EQUALIZE li 



Tight and Slack Cooperage Stock 



The Department of Commerce and Labor has 

 just issued a preliminary statement of the out- 

 put of tight cooperage stock In the United 

 States during 1907. 1908. 1909 and 1910. The 

 number of establishments reporting in 1909 as 

 engaged in the manufacture of either tight bar- 

 rel staves or heading, or both, was 41S. as 

 against 533 in 1909. the exceptionally large 

 number for 1909 being due to the fact that 

 complete canvass was made by special agents, 

 while for other years reports w^ere secured by 

 correspondence and some small mills failed to 

 report. 



The total annual producticn in the United 

 States of tight barrel staves of all classes has 

 not varied materially during the past four years, 

 the report advises. It was largest in 1907. 

 when the output was 385.232.000 pieces, and 

 smallest in 190S. when a production of 345.280.- 

 000 pieces was recorded, the totals for 1909 and 

 1910 falling between t^hese limits. 



Although tight cooperage stock was manufac- 

 tured ill twenty-seven different states during 

 1910, the industry is practically confined to the 

 hardwood region — the chief source of its raw 

 material. In 1910 eighty-seven per cent of the 

 total stave production was reported from Arkan- 

 sas, Kentucky. Louisiana. Mississippi. Tennes- 

 see, West Virginia and Alabama, while 79.3 per 

 cent of the heading output was produced in 

 Arkan.sas, Tennessee. Kentucky. Mississippi. 

 Louisiana and Missouri. 



Unlike tight cooperage stock, which requires 

 for its raw material the highest grade of tim- 



ber, cbicrty iiak. slack cooperage stock is made 

 from nearly every kind of wood utilized as lum- 

 ber material in the United States, twenty-four 

 spc^cies contributing to the output in 1910. 

 Since 1906. when elm was used in largest quan- 

 tity as slack barrel stave material, more of this 

 class of stock has been cut from red gum than 

 from any other kind of wood. The production 

 (jf red-gum staves in 1910. while somewhat 

 smaller than the output in the preceding year, 

 nevertheless exceeded that of 1908 and was sub- 

 .stantially larger than the output of 1907. 



The number of establishments reporting as 

 engaged during 1910 in the manufacture of 

 slack cooperage stock in the United States was 

 1.298. as compared with 1.506 in 1909. The 

 reported production of slack barrel staves dur- 

 ing 1910 was 38.9 per cent less than the output 

 in 1909. 



In the manufacture of hoops, elm still led all 

 other kinds of wood by a wide margin, supply- 

 ing 95.7 per cent of the total in 1910. 



Lumber Newspapers Consolidate 



BoUini: .\rtluir .Tobnscui and some associates 

 iiave purchased the Lumber Keview of Kansas 

 City and the Lumber World of Chicago, and 

 shortly after January 1 the two publications 

 will be consolidated into one, and published at 

 (.'hicago under the title of the Lumber World 

 Kc view. Mr. Johnson has had long experience 

 in the lumber newspaper field with the Ameri- 

 can Lumberman and other publications, has a 

 large following in the industry, and should meet 

 with a big measure of success in his new indi- 

 vidual effort. 



It is understood that L. E. Fuller, editor of 

 the Lumber World, will be associated with the 

 new paper, and that B. F". Cobb, former owner 

 of the Lumber Review, will retire from the lum- 

 ber newspaper business. 



The offices of the Lumber World Review will 

 be in the new Heisen building. Dearborn and 

 Hni risen streets. 



Miscellaneous Notes 



Chas. W. Kui'bl rec'iilly entered the lumber 

 trade at Detroit. Mich. 



Halfpenny & Hamilton, rhiladelphia. Pa., have 

 been succeeded by John Halfpenny. 



The Lawrence Land & Lumber Company of 

 Alvon, W. Va., has gone out of business. 



The Merrill Handle Works has recently begun 

 the manufacture of handles at Merrill, Wis. 



Briggs Bros. & Williams have recently begun 

 the manufacture of wagon stoclj at Oak Grove, 

 La. 



The Otsego Chair Company of Otsego, Mich., 

 has been succeeded by the Cadillac Chair Com- 

 pany. 



The Lalor Wagon Company of Chicago Heights, 

 111., has increased its capital stock from $20,000 

 to $30,000. 



The Union Cypress Company of Melbourne. 

 Fla.. has been incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $25,000. 



The Wasmuth-Endicott Company recently be- 

 gan the manufacture of kitchen cabinets at An- 

 drews, Ind. 



The Cotton Belt Gin Lumber Compan.v, Lufkin. 

 Tex., has heen incorporated with a capital stock 

 of $10,000. 



The Mills Lumber Company, New York City, 

 N. Y.. has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of $25,000. 



The Atlanta Furniture Company. Atlanta, Ga., 

 has been incorporated with an authorized capital 

 stock of $50,000. 



The Wood Veneer Company, Tacoma. Wash., 

 has been incorporated with an authorized capital 

 stock of $50,000. 



The J. E. Donahue Lumber Company of South 

 Bend, Ind., has increased its capital stock from 

 $10,000 to $15,000. 



The G. E. it H. J. Habich Company, Boston, 

 Mass.. has recently been incorporated to manu- 

 facture automobiles. 



