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HARDWOOD RECORD 



MAHOGANY 



Regarding a big shipment of high-grade, selected 

 logs we are just receiving, our Liverpool brokers say: 



"Our own feeling with regard to this purchase is that 

 it is one of the finest ranges of logs we have ever sent 

 to the United States; they are mostly Grand Bassam 

 with a few Lagos and Benin." 



Their judgment ought to be convincing, as they 

 can't afford to make such statements without entire 

 justification — it would not be safe. 



This stock will be ready for your inspection, as 

 veneer, in a few days. 



We .-^re also getting in a splendid lot of Circassian 

 and a big shipment of White Oak that we can vouch 

 for, as we selected it all ourselves. 



Early Inquiry Wil] Give Best Selection 



Fred W. Black Lumber Company 



Chicago, 111. 



Take Dtuflai Park "L" to 40th Ave. and walk one block south 



Knowledge 



Essential 



To Comparison 



To the uninformed a few gnarled, stunted trees, 

 feathered to the ground may appear as a magnificent 

 forest. The uninformed have no standard for com- 

 parison. 



Have you? 



Are you familiar with forest growth in redwood, 

 sugar pine, western pine, fir, spruce, cedar, with the 

 white pine of the north, the longleaf and shortleaf 

 pines of the south, with the hardwood forests of 

 all sections? 



Possessing this knowledge you are qualified to 

 compare values. Not possessing it you need the 

 service of someone who is informed to serve as 

 your agent whether you contemplate buying or 

 selling. 



We, learned in the great school of practical 

 work, have studied the business for thirty-five 

 years and are studying harder than ever today. 



Our corps of timber experts is at your service. 



James D. Lacey & Co. 



Timber Land Factors 



Chicago, 111., 1750 McCormick Building 



Portland, Ore., 1104 Spalding Building 



Seattle, Wash., 1009 White Building 



the changes required to fit it for the new uses. The Coca Coca building, 

 just across Concord street from the present place, has been under favora- 

 ble consideration. OflSces there will be just opposite No. 5 dock on Pratt 

 street, one of the lumber wharves, with others only a short distance away, 

 and ar? most conveniently situated. 



Daniel MacLea of the Ei.senhauer-MacLea Company, ou South Central 

 avenue .has gone on a vacation with his family to Ocean Grove, X. J. 

 His partner, G. W. Eisenhauer, is making trips to and from Blue Ridge 

 Summit, in the Blue Ridge mountains, never being away from the office 

 more than a day or two at a time. 



Robert .'McLean, a hardwood exporter, whose affairs were placed in 

 the hands of receivers several months ago, and who later went to Scot- 

 land to attend the funeral of his wife who had died rother suddenly, and 

 to look after various other personal malter.s, is back and has started to 

 take up once more the interrupted threads of business. The unsatis- 

 factory character of the foreign situation is causing him to go slow, but 

 by fall he expects to have made some definite connections. 



John K. Warfield. Paul M. Wineow and Perry TVarfield have incor- 

 porated the JIutual Lumber Company at Cumberland, Md.. with a capital 

 stock of .>i;23.000. 



The annual shipments of West Virginia spruce to South .\merican coun- 

 tries by the American Export Company of New York, through the McCall- 

 Dinnin,:; Company, ship brokers of this city, have begun. The first cargo 

 to go out started last week on the Norwegian hark Killeena. which cleared 

 with 30,422 pieces, or 630,522 feet, valued at $19.S40. Other much 

 larger cargoes will follow, all going to the River I'late. in which a con- 

 siderable market has been developed for the wood. The Italian ship Buenos 

 Ayres is now hci-e to load, and will be followed by the Italinn ship 

 Ascencione. 



Frank .V. Parker of Mann & Parker. Inc., was on a selling trip to 

 New York and other territory in that section recently. He states that 

 the offerings I»4ive become more lihernl. with consequent reluctance on the 

 part of buyers fo place orders, and some shading in prices. 



F. W. Morehead of the Boice Lumber Company of Richmond. Va.. was a 

 visitor here two weeks ago, being on his way back from a northern trip, 

 which he said had not been altogether satisfactory, inasmuch as he ex- 

 perienced the same holding back and increased competition by reason of 

 larger offerings, reported by other hardwood men. 



The I'nited States Leather Company of Parkersburg. W. Va . has con- 

 cluded the largest timber deal ever in'gotiated in that section. It includes 

 if). 000 acres in Ilighlaml. Path and Augusia counties. Virginia, and Pen- 

 dleton county. West 'N'irginin. and in^-olves a consideration of not less than 

 .«350,000. 



=■< TOLEDO >= 



The Keasy Pulley Company, after .some business difflcultifs during which 

 time the jjlant was <-losed down, has been reorganized by T. D. Keasy. 

 The plant is now running full time with as many oiders as <an well be 

 taken care of. The concern has orders enough ahead to keep the plant 

 busy for some time to come, 



T,ie Gilbert planing mill at Smlthvlllc, O.. was struck by lightning last 

 week and in the fire which followed the mill and lumber yards were com- 

 pletely destroyed. 



The Big I'our Hardwood Company has leased its piano case factory to 

 the E. W. llurd Company of Detroit. The new concern has been in posses- 

 sion for about a month. It has plenty of orders and is running as heavll.v 

 as conditiuns will permit. The scarcity of labor has been a great drawback 

 iind has d( terrcd the running at capacity which would be advisable if men 

 f(^iild ho secured. 



The Buckeye Furniture Company of Toledo has leased the new Hat- 

 tersley block cut Monroe street, to be used in connection with the present 

 lilant as a furniture warehouse and factory. The new structure will give 

 the concern 20,000 square feet of floor space. 



■< INDIANAPOLIS > 



Till- Seii;ilia Lumber & Coal Company t»f Sedalia. Ind.. has W(-q dissolved. 



r.uililin'.' permits in the city last month amounted to .$1.120. .",00 as com- 

 pared with .S1,2S0.512 in July, 1912. 



Ed. W. (lark, who represents E. C. Atkins & Co. in New York, an(? 

 Miss Bernice McCord were married at the home of the brid.'s jiarents i» 

 this city on July 31. They will reside in New York. 



The Republic Construction Company has received an order from the 

 Isthmian Canal Commission for 131. -400 square feet of creosoted wood 

 lilocks to be used for floors in the government shops at Panama. 



.\ wholesale and retail hmiber business will he conducted at Knox b.v 

 the newly organized Long-Thompson Lumber Company, whlcn has been 

 incorjjorated with an authorized capitalization of .'Sl.'J.tMMi. Those Inter- 

 ested in tlie company are J. W. Long. B. 11. Thnmpsnn and i;, M. Long. 



The Showalter Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of automobile 

 bodies, recently lost its plant by fire with a loss of .«l2.00ii. i,artially cov- 

 ered by insurance. 



^■< MEMPHIS >= 



P J. Walsh, representing the Kuntz Company, manufacturer of cabinets. 

 with lieadquarlers at Chaffee, Mo., was a visitor here recently, lie said 



thai it was siu-prlslng to what extent the increased usr .if gum luul I'ut 



