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wood. Oak in both quartered and plain-sawed, and in both red and 

 white, remains about stationary. It was e.xpeeted that these changes 

 wouid involve a largely increased call for tupelo gum, but up to date 

 this is not manifest. 



Owing to the number of these changes, it will require essentially 

 a reprinting of the entire Bulletin Information Service, and hence it 

 may be February 1 before the complete information is placed in the 

 hands of advertising clients. 



It has been deemed advisable at this time to deliver to its veneer 

 and panel advertisers, a separate roster showing the annual require- 

 ments of veneers and panels by the wholesale manufacturing wade, 

 and while this information in a general way will still be continued 

 in the lumber information service, it will also go out separately to 

 veneer advertising patrons. 



It is doubtful if Hardwood Eecokd advertisers realize the time 

 and cost involved in keeping this service up to the very minute, but 

 this publication has undertaken to do this work and do it justly, and 

 therefore it will be slighted in no particular. Clients can depend on 

 a continuation of the service in its best possible form, since without 

 constant and alert attention in keeping it up-to-date, it is practically 

 valueless. 



The Foremost Forest Conservationist 



If "our distinguished f eUow-citizen, " J. Pierpont Morgan, suc- 

 ceeds in a continuance of his present campaign in substituting steel 

 and concrete to the extinction of wood in general building con- 

 struction, railroad cars, bridges, automobile bodies, furniture and 

 for an infinity of other purposes, his name will probably go down in 

 American history as the foremost American forest conservationist. 



The forest conservation sharps of the country should take heed 

 and properly recognize the magnificent work that Mr. Morgan and 

 his pals are accomplishing toward the retention and preservation 

 of American forests. It is suggested that the "real and proper 

 thing" to do just now is to raise a substantial fund by popular 

 subscription among lumbermen and secure the services of an emin- 

 ent sculptor to chisel a marble statute of this friend of the forest, 

 and give it a proper setting at Washington — preferably on the front 

 steps of the capitdl. 



Inroads of Competitive Materials 



Every dav brings new evidence of the incursion of substitute 

 materials in lieu of wood. Hardwood Record does not want to be 

 considered as an obstructionist to progress in any particular, and it 

 wishes to declare frankly that in any case where any substitute 

 material for wood is proving superior to lumber, it will cease any 

 warfare against the substitution, but will honestly assist the manu- 

 facturers of these materials to their further use. The wheels of 

 progress cannot be hampered, but when the steel trust and the cement 

 trust foist their products onto manufacturers and the public for uses 

 where wood is demonstrably the superior, this publication will fight 

 the inroads of these materials to the best of its ability. 



Unfortunately, the public is pretty easily deceived by means of 

 specious exploitation. It has been deceived in the value of steel for 

 both passenger and freight car construction. It has been deceived in 

 the value of Bteel for automobile body construction. It is being 

 deceived in the value of steel for furniture, office fixtures, doors, 

 interior finish and for many other purposes. 



Wood has its weaknesses— so has steel, but they lie in different 

 directions. Wood when exposed to atmospheric conditions, and 

 notably to alternate dryness and dampness, will decay. In contra- 

 distinction, steel will rust, will corrode, will crystalize and will dis- 

 integrate. The open hearth steel, rich in carbon, now so cheaply pro- 

 duced will not stand the test of steel made under older and better 

 methods of manufacture, and for many purposes is frailty itself. 

 The buncomie that has been put forth in the advocacy of steel for 

 many uses in substituting wood is both specious and untruthful. 



The public gets confused between the terms "fireproof," "fire 

 resisting" and "non-inflammable." Steel is not inllammablo, while 

 disintegrated wood is. Thin sheets of steel are not fire-resisting, 

 while wood properly placed in a building is. Steel of itself is not 

 fireproof, neither is wood. A thin sheet-steel filing cabinet will not 



resist fire or heat as well as a well-constructed wooden cabinet. A 

 wooden automobile body will withstand the ravages of time for years 

 after the steel body is a mass of rust. Steel, reinforced concrete 

 structures are stUl experimental, but every engineer knows that the 

 reinforcement rusts and disintegrates very quickly. The permanency 

 of this type of construction is entirely unknown, but it surely is 

 experimental. Such is not the case with well-constructed wooden 

 buildings. 



At an early date Hardwood Eecord will publish a series of illus- 

 trated articles showing the frailty and weaknesses of steel furniture, 

 doors, and interior finish as compared with wood construction, and 

 a similar series involving the comparatively worthless character of 

 metal automobile bodies as compared with wooden ones. 



Remarkable Piece of Timber 



John C. Spry, the well-known timber oijorator in the Corn Exchange 

 Bank building, Chicago, has recently had a cruise made of a tract 

 of 569 acres of oak timber that he owns in Saline county, Arkansas. 

 The report shows the diameter of the trees at stump line; the number 

 of trees of each diameter; the scale per tree and the total scale of 

 the white oak and red oak timber. The analysis follows: 



Dia. 

 14" 

 16" 

 18" 



i;o" 



iii" 

 ■26" 

 2S" 

 ;)0" 

 32" 

 34" 

 36" 

 3.S" 

 40" 

 42" 

 44" 

 46" 

 48" 

 oO" 

 52" 

 54" 

 56" 



Trees. 



202 



547 



69S 



380 



360 



671 



443 



586 



551 



584 



412 



294 



2.30 



144 



53 



87 



3 



109 



20 



12 



19 



10 



I OAK 



Ft. per Tree. 

 83 



1.35 



205 



275 



401 



462 



058 



792 



940 

 1.083 

 1.238 

 1,400 

 1.970 

 2.350 

 2,585 

 2,734 

 2,884 

 2,149 

 3,380 

 3,535 

 3,715 

 4,085 



Total. 



10,766 



73,845 



143.090 



104,500 



144,360 



310,002 



291,494 



464,112 



517,940 



632.472 



510,056 



411,600 



453,100 



338,400 



137,005 



237,858 



8,652 



234,241 



67,600 



42,540 



70,585 



40,850 



1,171,893 



In addition to the oak on the tract, it contains 1,744,139 feet of 



gum, 681,000 feet of hickory, 60,000 feet of elm, 100,000 feet of 



ash, a total of 9,038,100 feet on the 569 acres, or nearly 16,000 feet 



to the acre. 



In density of stumpage growth, this little tract of timber has the 

 heaviest stand that has ever been encountered in any hardwood grow- 

 ing district, so far as the editor of Hardwood Record knows. The 

 cruisers report that the qiinlity of the timber is very superior. 



Architectural Exhibition 



Architecture of the world is promised in drawings and models at 

 the second annual Architecture and Engineering Exhibition to bo 

 held at the Seventy-first Regiment Armory, Park avenue and Thitty 

 fourth street. New York City, from March 25 to 30. Models will 

 be shown of buildings in Japan, China, Africa and India, and lead- 

 ing architects have been invited to contribute models of prominent 

 buildings contemplated or in course of construction in this country. 



Comprehensive exhibits of building supjilies and materials will also 

 be made, particular attention being devoted to the fire waste and its 

 reduction. 



