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lucrative and capable of practically unlimited 

 expansion as to quantities. 



Thanking you and awaiting the results of the 

 publicity you have given the matter. 



I. Herz. 



B 148 — Wants to Market Ebony 

 Vicksburg, Miss., Dec. 14. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record : Please give me the names and ad- 

 dresses of manufacturing consumers using ebony 

 in the log. I can put a good deal of this wood 

 on the market if the price would justify. 



The writer of the above letter has been 

 given the names of several concerns which 

 utilize ebony in their line of production, and 

 any others that would like to negotiate for a 

 source of supply can have the writer's 'ad- 

 dress by addressing Hardwood Record and 

 referring to B 148. — Editor. 



B 149 — Seeks Quartered White Ash 



Boston. Mass., Deo. 16. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record : Will you kindly send us the addresses 

 of parties that you can recommend who can sup- 

 ply me with 4/4 quartered white ash? 



Company. 



The above letter is from a foremost Boston 

 jobber. He has been supplied with a list of 

 several competent concerns that may be able 

 to supply the lumber he seeks. Any others 

 interested in the inquiry can have the address 

 by advising and referring to B 149. — Editor. 



B 150 — Seeks New Site 



Piqua, O., Dec. 10. — Editor Hardwood Rec- 

 ord : We are seeking a new location for one of 

 our plants. If you know of a good site where 

 four to five million feet of maple and birch could 

 be procured annually for a period of years, suit- 

 able for broom handle manufacture, we would be 

 glad to consider it. • 



; Mandfacturi.n'g Company. 



The above letter is from a leading agri- 

 cultural tool handle and wood specialty 

 manufacturing house. Anyone interested in 

 opening negotiations with it for a location 

 of a broom handle and wood specialty manu- 

 facturing plant can have the address on re- 

 quest by referring to B 150. — Editor. 



B 151 — Investigating Chestnut Tree Blight 



Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 12. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record : The Chestnut Tree Blight Commission 

 is collecting all the available information con- 

 cerning the market and utilization of chestnut in 

 this state. I would like to know if you can sup- 

 ply up-to-date lists of the manufacturers and 

 users of chestnut, also if you have any miscel- 

 laneous information in your file, which may be 

 of value to me. If so, please quote prices for 

 furnisliing the various lists, etc. 



Samuel B. Detwiler, Executive Officer. 



Mr. Detweiler has been advised that Hard- 

 wood Eecord has a very comprehensive lisl: 

 of users of chestnut and of manufacturers of 

 chestnut, and that it is at the disposal of hi.-; 

 commission for the purpose he names, at the 

 cost of transcribing from our informatioji 

 service cards. — Editor. 



B 152 — Approves Record's Argument on 

 Handling of Kicks. 



New York, Dec. 15. — Editor Hardwood Rec- 

 ord : Your issue of Nov. 25, page 33, con- 

 tains an article on the handling of kicks, which 

 should be emblazoned, especially with those deal- 

 ers who never admit they can err. Everyone 



Iniows mislakcs will creep in, even with the. best 

 of organizations, but it seems to take a very 

 liigli grade of moral courage to admit it. Kindly 

 send us six copies of this issue at once, and 

 oblige. .liMENis & Co. 



B 153 — An Inquiry From Egypt 

 New York, Dec. 15. — Editor Hardwood Rec- 

 ord : I can't resist sending you the enclosed 

 envelope, which carried an inquiry for red gum, 

 in response to one of our advertisements run in 

 your publication over two months ago, I really 

 didn't know that your circulation extended over 

 (he globe as this would indicate. 



Hamilton H. Salmon & Co. 



The envelope is inscribed with the addres.s 

 of Mohamed Clieliata Ataya, Alexandrie, 

 Eg3'pte. — Editor. 



B 154 — The Steel Car Stories 

 COLU.MBUS. O., Dec. 12. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record : Will you kindly send me reprints of 

 I he several articles that have appeared in Hard- 

 wood Record on the sub.iect of "Steel vs. 

 Wooden Railroad Cars." We would like to 

 bring to the notice of the congressman from 

 this district the deficiencies of steel equipment 

 as you have presented them, so that he may 

 properly understand the situation when the bills 

 referred to ip one of your articles, now i)ODding 

 in Congress, are again brought up for considera- 

 tion. Fortunately, we believe, we are in posi- 

 tion to do some effective work in this direction, 

 for the reason that Congressman E. L. Taylor 

 of this district, knows perhaps better than any 

 other member both sides of the question. 



David C. Meehan. 

 The writer of the above letter has been 

 supplied with the reprints he asks for. In 

 this connection it is suggested that Hardwood 

 Record will supply, without cost, reprints of 

 the various articles on the subject of steel 

 oars that have appeared in its columns during 

 the last few months to those who wish to 

 forward them to their members of Congress, 

 together with a letter advocating the defeat 

 of the pending steel ear bills. — Editor. 



B 155 — Inspection Report National Hard- 

 wood Lumber Association 



Hardwood Record is in receipt of the 

 November inspection statement of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association, which 

 shows that during last month the salaried 

 inspectors of the association inspected 6,- 

 621,033 feet, and the fee inspectors 6,049,364 

 feet, a total of 12,670,397 feet. 



The report is accompanied by the attached 

 letter to the membership: 



Chicago, III.. Dec. 15. 1911. 



The enclosed statement of inspections for 

 November is very gratifying, inasmuch as the 

 amount of lumber inspected is greater by 5.000,- 

 000 feet than for November 1909 and 2,000,000 

 feet greater than for November, 1910. The 

 total for this month, 12,670,397 feet, has never 

 been exceeded in any month prior to this year, 

 and now only by September and Octolier im- 

 mediately preceding it. In other words, we 

 have broken our previous high record in each 

 of the last three months. 



The combined inspections for September, Oc- 

 tober and November, 1911, amount to 40,797,602 

 feet and we submit that these figures speak 

 eloquently of the healthy growth of our associa- 

 tion, and evident increase in the demand for 

 our official inspection. The work of our in- 

 spection bureau shows a net profit to the asso- 

 ciation of $129.16 for the month. 



Since our last letter was issued, we have 

 received, twenty-seven applications for member- 

 ship, making a total of ninety-four since our 

 annual meeting. 



A meeting of the board of managers has been 

 called for Jan. 17 at Chicago. Members who 

 have any matters that should be considered at 

 this meeting will please file them with the sec- 

 retary, or some member of the board, prior to 

 that date. 



Wishing you a happy holiday time and a full 

 measure of prosperity for the new year, we are 

 F. A. Diggins, President. 



Frank F. Fish, Secretary.Treasurer. 



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l^ews Miscellany 



Annual Meeting Memphis Lumbermen's 

 Club 



Frank B. Robertson of the Anderson-Tully 

 Company will serve as president of the Lum- 

 bermen's Club of Memphis, for 1912, having 

 been elected at the annual meeting held at the 

 Business Men's Club Dec. 16. The other offi- 

 cers and directors elected, together with the 

 tickets on which they ran, are given herewith : 



First Vice-President, Charles B. Dudley of 

 the Dudley Lumber Company, blue. 



Second Vice-President, Philip A. Ryan of 

 Philip A. Ryan Lumber Compan.y, red. 



Secretary and Treasdrer, R. T. Cooper of the 

 Memphis Saw Mill Company, candidate on both 

 tickets. 



Directors tor two years : J. D. Allen, Jr. 

 of the Darnell-Taenzer Lumber Company, red : 

 S. M. Nickey of the Green River Lumber Com- 

 pany, red : and C. W. Holmes of the J. A. 

 Holmes Lumber Company, blue. 



Frank B. Robertson declared that he appre- 

 ciated very highly the honor which had been 

 conferred upon him and expressed his gratitude 

 to the nominating committee on the blue ticket, 

 which had made bis candidacy a possibility, and 

 the many members of the club who had voted 

 for him and made his election an accomplished 

 fact. He disclaimed any particular ability as an 



orator but told the members that he had the 

 best interests of the club at heart and that he 

 intended to do everything in his power to make 

 his administration successful. He asked that 

 the other officers and the directors assist him in 

 every way possible and also pleaded with the 

 gentlemen who are to be named on the standing 

 committees to co-operate vigorously. 



John W. Dickson, affectionately known to 

 nearly all the members of the trade here as 

 "Old John," showed himself an exceptionally 

 good loser when he declared that there was no 

 ill feeling on his part and that he had it in his 

 heart to do everything in his power for the 

 welfare of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis. 

 He expressed some surprise that Mr. Robertson 

 had shown such remarkable running ability and 

 congratulated the latter on this fact. He was 

 also very generous in his expression of appre- 

 ciation of his nomination by the committee on 

 the red ticket and of the splendid work which 

 the latter had done in his behalf. He only re- 

 gretted that the committee had not been re- 

 warded with results more satisfactory to them. 



C. B. Dudley expressed his appreciation of 

 the honor conferred upon him and assured the 

 members of the club that he was ready to do 

 everything that devolved upon him in his ca- 

 pacity as first vice-president. He showed his 



