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The Mail Bag 



B 205 — Wants to Sell Hardwood Output 



Vila.s, b'la., ilur. tj. — Kdilur IlAiiUwuuD Rec- 

 ord : Please enter our name on your subscription 

 list, rendering us invoice, and we will remit. 



Can you put us in communication with a buyer 

 who will take our monthly cut o£ 300,000 £ect of 

 Cottonwood and gum to be paid for monthly as 

 cut? Stock is available for shipment either hy 

 rail or coastwise by water in small schooner 

 cargoes. 



It' the purchase of this stock interests any 

 Hardwood Eecord readers, they can have the 

 address by -writing this paper and referring 

 to B 205. — Editor. 



B 206 — Wants to Eeacli Manufacturers of 

 Tupelo 



New York, Mar. i',. lOditor Hakdwood Record: 

 Will you kindly send me a list of manufacturers 

 of tupelo or bay poplar? We are having a good 

 man.v inquiries for this w"Ood and want to get iu 

 communication with some good manufacturers. 



and Imijerlinenl'" is the best ,Aet, .nud to add a 

 yellow journal page would not catch any. Think 

 your i)reseut publication is about the thing, the 

 issue of February H.j being a hummer. This is 

 one man's oDiuiun. A. .1. Gahdinei:. 



B 210 — Seeking Wood Mantels 



York, ra.. Mar. 2. — Editor Hakdwood KECoiiH ; 

 I am considering the advisability of putting in 

 a line of wood mautels to handle in connection 

 with my hardwood flooring trade. Can you give 

 me the addresses of manufacturers of mantels'.' 



Would also like to have more information on 

 the subject of artificial lumber made of sawdust 

 and chloride of magnesium recently discussed 

 in Hardwood Record. I believe there would lie 

 a good market for flooring tile of this material. 

 If there is any place in which it can be purchased 

 in this country, please advise. 



The foregoing is from a leading New York 

 wholesale house, which has been supplied with 

 a dozen or more addresses of leading manu- 

 facturers of tupelo gum. Any others inter- 

 ested can have tlie address by writing this 

 paper and referring to B 20G, — Editor. 



B 207 — Seeks Infonnation About Shuttle 



Blocks 

 Dickson, Tenn., Mar. IJ. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record : Can you furnish us with any informa- 

 tion concerning shuttle blocks cut from dogwood 

 in dimension sizes? We would like to know who 

 handles this stock to the factories which make 

 shuttles for the cotton manufacturing corpora- 

 tions. We are satisfied there is a market for this 

 stock beyond the amount produced, but we 

 would like to know where the market Is and 

 who are the buyers, in order to get a line on it. 



We would also like a list of the brokers on this 

 side of the Atlantic who handle this stock for the 

 Industry in Great Britain. 



Company. 



The foregoing matter is from a Tennessee 

 producer of dogwood. He has been supplied 

 with the rather meager list of buyers of dog- 

 wood and persimmon, which is contained in 

 this publication's information service. Any- 

 one interested in this source of supply can 

 have the address by writing this paper and 

 referring to B 207.— Editor. 



B 208 — In the Market for Beech, Birch and 

 Maple 



Cortland, N. Y.. Mar. G. — Editor Hat.dwood 

 Record : Please send me Hardwood Record for 

 one year. I am in the market for about ten car- 

 loads of hardw-ood lumber, beech, birch, hard 

 maple or soft maple. Would like to buy of a 

 mill that could surface lumber on two sides. 



The writer of the above letter has been 

 supplied with a list of the names and ad- 

 dresses of a half dozen leading wood mantel 

 manufacturers of the country, and has been 

 advised that a further investigation is being 

 made covering the German process of making 

 artificial lumber and tiling produced from 

 sawdust and chloride of magnesium, and when 

 further information is received, it will be 

 communicated to him.' Mantel manufacturers 

 desiring the address of the writer, who is a 

 leading factor iu fine hardwood floors, can 

 have it upon application and referring to 

 B 2in.— Editor. 



B 211 — Seeks Reliable Source of Supply for 

 Poplar and Ash 



Worcester, Mass., Mar. 5. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record : We would esteem it a great favor and 

 courtesy if you would communicate to us the 

 names and addresses of a few reliable manufac- 

 turers of ash and poplar. We have been ex- 

 periencing some trouble of late in securing the 

 grade of lumber we buy, and it is rather per- 

 plexing at times to be able to judge of a concern 

 fairly, and be enabled to place our orders in the 

 confidence that the lumber shipped will be what 

 we purchase. 



The foregoing letter is from a wood spe- 

 cialty manufacturing house, and the writer 

 has been supplied with sources of local supply 

 of the woods he names. Any others interested 

 in the inquiry can have the address by writing 

 this office and referring to B 208. — Editor. 



B 209 — Likes Hardwood Record 



Chattanooga, Tenn., Mar. 4. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record : A good many lumbermeu do not read 

 their trade journals thoroughly enough, largely 

 owing to a lack of time. Your "Pert, Pertinent 



(!ame" was read with interest, and I can hardly 

 describe my admiration for the heroic manner In 

 which you have handled these false pretenses. 

 It' that article could be placed in the hands of 

 every man contemplating a fireproof building 

 lor any purpose, it would certainly make him 

 think seriously over his plans. It would also 

 oblige the substitute fellows to set up more 

 definite facts than they have heretofore sub- 

 mitted to prospective buyers. I regard it as one 

 of the most comprehensive articles I have ever 

 seen on any subject, and it seems to me it ought 

 to do a world of good. 



I'lease quote me on oui' thousand reprints of 

 this article. 



Again thanking you for your broad interests in 

 honest protectiveness in building and building 

 materials. Havid C. Meejian'. 



B 214 — 111 the Market for Machinery and 

 Lumber 



Unadilla, N. Y., Mar. ti. — Editor H.\RDW0nD 

 Record : We are in the market for the following 

 items of mill machinery, devices and lumber, and 

 thought that you would be in position, through 

 your advertising customers, to advise us proper 

 means and where to obtain them. 



(1) A whistle or similar signal for start and 

 finish of work hours. Our power is electricity. 

 Have no steam. 



(2) A nailing machine. Our work is nailing 

 two %" boards together and clinching the nails 

 to make doors 16x22" for our silo fronts. 



(3) A machine to corrugate iron on a circle, 

 or in other words, to make the corrugation from 

 the center up to a circle 28' in diameter, or 14' 

 from the center to the edge. Same to be used for 

 circular silo I'oofs. Or, we would buy the gal- 

 vanized iron corrugated in this manner. 



(4) A self-feed rip-saw. 

 A patent and name plate for our silo. 

 The following lumber : 



500,000 feet 2x0 and S" yellow pine ; 



250,000 feet 2x,5, C and 8" cypress ; 



500,000 feet 1x8, 10 and 12" cypress. 

 Lengths to be from 10 to 20 feet. Grade strictly 

 sound on both sides of the piece. No rot, shake 

 or knots large enough to weaken the piece. The 

 8/4 we prefer D2S and M, and the 4/4 D2S. 

 Kindly quote delivered Unadilla, N. Y., and Des 

 Moines. Iowa. 



We are enclosing a stamped envelope for reply, 

 and if you can place us in touch with parties 

 able to furnish any of the above, same would be 

 doing them as well as ourselves a favor, and 

 would be greatly appreciated. 



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The foregoing letter is from a leading 

 manufacturing house, and it has been sup- 

 plied with a list of concerns which Hardwood 

 Record is led to believe 'will make shipments 

 of only uniform and straight grades of the 

 woods named in the order. — Editor. 



B 212 — Wants Specimen Artificial Lumber 



Eastwood, N. J., Mar. 1. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record : We have read the article in your 

 paper February 25 regarding artificial lumber 

 made from sawdust. Will you kindly advise us 

 wnere we can get a sample of this material? 

 Century Sanitary Manufacturing Company. 

 The address of the German house mimu- 

 facturing hmiber composed of sifted sawdust 

 and chloride of magnesium has been supplied 

 to the above inquirer. — Editor. 



B 213 — Approves "Wood Substitute Game" 

 Articles 



Columbus, O., Mar. 11. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record : I enclose herewith express money order 

 for two dollars for extra copies of issue March 10, 

 which kindly forward to me. 



It would be commonplace to say that your 

 article of March 10 on "The Wood Substitute 



The writers of the above letter have been 

 advised that Hardwood Record can not give 

 tliem any information on the subject of a 

 whistle, the machinery for corrugating iron 

 they require, or a name plate, but they have 

 been given the addresses of manufacturers of 

 nailing machines, self-feed rip-saws, and com- 

 petent manufacturers of yellow pine and cy- 

 press they require. 



Any others interested in the inquiry can 

 have the address by referring to B 214. — 

 Editor. 



B 215 — Seeks Composite Wood and Paper 



Owensboro, Ky., Mar. 11. — Editor Hakdwood 

 Record : We are writing for information re- 

 garding the composite of wood and paper that 

 is made up in large panels for use in the manu- 

 facture of delivery wagons and seats. We have 

 had samples submitted to us at different times, 

 but have lost track of them, and we are in the 

 market for something of that kind. 



Company. 



The writer of the above letter is a manu- 

 facturer of carriage Woodstock, and has been 

 advised that we are not familiar with the 

 material to which he refers. Any reader" hav- 



