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at the same time to hold but light stocks,' the period of financial stress 

 which is expected may be tided over without any serious trouble. As 

 far as the coming autumn and winter are concerned prospects appear 

 bright ; spot prices are established, and importers are making satisfactory 

 profits, while the shortage of supplies and the improbability of any forcing 

 off of balances should ensure settled conditions in the home market, 

 at any rate until the 1914 shipments begin to come in. Each importer 

 will know that his competitors cannot have obtained any cheap bargains 

 enabling the 'cutting' of prices, and consequently will feel a confidence 

 almost amounting to a certainty in fair prices being realized for all his 

 purchases." 



Wins an Original Bet 



An illustration of American hustle in manufacturing and railrnading 

 was illustrated recently. Oscar E. Jacobs, president of the American 

 Veneer & Specialty Company. Newport. Ark., and Lou L. Campbell, the 

 company's attorney, took a motor boat trip up White river twenty-flve 

 miles above Newport, on Sunday. July 20, and stopped at a logging camp. 

 While walking through the woods they were looking at some particularly 

 fine trees. Campbell asked how many years before the trees would be 

 made into furniture. Jaifobs replied that he could put those trees into 

 finished furniture stock and have them in a city 200 miles away in one 

 week. Campbell, with a professional conception of the slow process of 

 the law, ottered to wager one hundred dollars it could not be done, which 

 was promptly accepted. 



Arrangements w"ere made to have the particular trees cut on Monday 

 and put on the river bank. The company's boat was ordered to the place 

 and the logs were delivered at the company's plant at 2 :30, Tuesday : 

 were in the boiling vats at six o'clock, cut into furniture veneer on 

 Wednesday and put into the dry kilns. On Thursday the stock was 

 loaded hone dry into a car which left Newport via St. L. I. M. & S. fast 

 freight Friday morning at four o'clock and was reported in St. Louis 

 Saturday noon, July 26. 



From growing red gum trees in pr.ictically a wilderness to finished 

 veneer ready for furniture manufacture in a metropolis in less than one 

 week is moving faster than a Jloxican revolution and a creditable exploit 

 of what American industry can do. 



Valuable Trade Publication 



The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce at Washington has 

 issued two reports which should prove valuable to business men in this 

 country who are interested in trade with foreign countries. One report 

 shows the foreign trade of every country of the world during 1911, com- 

 pared with the trade of 1910. This valuable publication shows the princi- 

 pal articles and their value entering into the trade of each country and 

 the itemization of the imports from and exports to the United States. 

 The statistics were prepared by American consular oJHcers, and supple- 

 mented by other official data. In addition to trade statistics, the grain 

 crops and" mineral output of the i^rincipal countries are given, thus pre- 

 senting in compact form the principal features upon which the commerce 

 and industries of the foreign countries depend. The volume should prove 

 highly valuable for reference purposes, having been revised and brought 

 up to date so far as statistics were available. Copies of the book may 

 lie obtained free from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, I). 

 C, for thirty-five cents each. 



The other report is more restricted in its scope, but should prove par- 

 ticularly valuable to lumbermen who are seeking trade with the western 

 coast of South America. 



The main part of the bulletin is a series of tables giving the freight 

 rates on over SOO articles from inland points in the United States to in- 

 land points in Ecuador, Peru, and Chile. Freight rates per 100 pounds, 

 in carload and less than carload lots, are given to New York from 

 Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, ludianapolis. Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, 

 Pittsburgh, Boston, Providence, and Hartford : ocean freight rates per 

 100 pounds and per cubic foot from New York to Guayaquil, Callao, Mol- 

 lendo. Antofagasta. and Valparaiso, via the Straits of Magellan and via 

 Panama : and freight rates per 100 pounds inland from Guayaquil to 

 Quito. Callao to Lima. Mollcndo to Arequipa. and Valparaiso to Santiago. 



Lighterage, transfer, and other charges at the port of New York and 

 at South American ports are shown, together wtih the cost of marine 

 insurance, and data are also given as to consular fees and regulations and 

 steamship requirements. Comparative tables give the competitive rates 

 from European ports and from New York to South America. 



The Bureau of Documents sells this bulletin for ten cents. 



Dynamite for Stopping Forest Fires 



An unusually interesting demonstration of the value of dynamite in 

 stopping a forest fire was made by the Dupont Powder Company at a sum- 

 mer meeting of the Eastern Foresters' Association on the College Forest 

 of the New York State College of Forestry at Wanakena, N. 1'. For many 

 .years it has been a problem how to stop, in an ettective and rapid way, 

 the ground fires which have done so much damage in the Adirondacks. 

 Over large areas in the Adirondacks and Catskills the mineral soil is 

 covered, often several feet deep, with a duff or peat which will often 

 hold a smouldering fire for many weeks and sometimes months. A sharp 

 fire was set by the students of the State Ranger School and in front of 

 this advancing Qre was placed a string of dynamite cartridges, which as 

 the fire reached the line were exploded and the fire was halted as effec- 

 tively as if it had reached a stream of water. The dynamite threw up 

 vast quantities of loo«e soil, having a ditch several feet dccji. .\ fire 



smouldering in heavy soil would be stopped absolutely by such a ditch 

 and the loose material thrown up could be used to advantage as a smother 

 for any fire that might be left burning on the ground over which the 

 surface fire had passed. This demonstration proved that at a cost of 

 from $10.00 to $15.00 a ditch could be formed that would stop an 

 ordinary sub-surface fire and that placing the dynamite would not take 

 more than twenty minutes to half an hour. Without the use of some 

 explosive it might take several men several days to check the fire by 

 the construction of such a ditch. 



American Lumber in Greece 



A recent consular report states that southern yellow pine is obtaining 

 some foothold in Greece, where its principal use is in making boxes for 

 exporting Zanta currants, and other fruits, as well as seed oils. The 

 v,'ood is shipped to Greece by way of Germany, there appearing to be no 

 direct shipment of lumber from the United States to that country. It 

 comes in competition with lumber from Austria, Sweden, and Turkey and 

 fetches a higher price in Greece than the woods of other countries. The 

 mountains and valleys of Greece grow little good timber, though the 

 forested area is stated to contain 1,200,400 acres. Much of it is scrub 

 growth. 



Turkey Is Selling Land 



The late war in the Balkans drew so heavily upon Turkey's resources 

 that the sultan has oifered valuable lands for sale for the purpose of 

 raising money. Large tracts of forests in Asia Minor are on the mar- 

 ket, and a deal is under wa.v, and probably has been closed by this time, 

 with an Italian syndicate for their purchase. Millions of acres of farm 

 l}inds have also been offered for sale to the highest bidder. Contrary 

 to general belief, forests of great value exist in the remote parts of 

 Asiatic Turkey. The timber has never been marketed because the roads 

 through the regions where the best forests are found, are so rough, nar- 

 row, and steep that lumber cannot be transported over them. 

 Forest Trees Suffering from Forest Insects 



A number of reports have come to the entomologist of the College of 

 Forestry at Syracuse of the dying of the native hickory in different parts 

 of the state. In most cases this is due to the hickory bark beetle, which 

 is a very small boring insect, living between the inner bark and the sap 

 wood of the hickory. This beetle makes a burrow in which it lays its 

 eggs and from this burrow, smaller burrows are made in all directions by 

 the young larvae. The hickory tree, from a commercial standpoint, la 

 doomed in New York state, unless very active work is done to prevent 

 the spread of the insect. This can be done only by cutting the infested 

 tree down and disposing of it in such a way as to kill all of the insects 

 under the bark. This may be done by buruing, by soaking the logs in 

 water or by barking the trunk and burning the limbs and bark. The 

 College of Forestry at Syracuse will be glad to have the work of insects 

 in forest trees reported to it and it is ready at all times to determine 

 the species and give suggestions as to combating It. Small bottle in 

 mailing case will he sent upon request. 



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Hardwood News Notes 



--<, MISCELLANEOUS y 



J. M. English & Co. of Asheville, N. C, have removed to Yellow 

 Creek, N. C. 



The Lawton Basket Company of Lawton, Mich., has increased its capital 

 stock to $30,000. 



The Baldwin Piano Company of Cincinnati, O., has increased its capital 

 stock to $,500,000. 



The Prendergast Company of Mariou. lud., has opened a branch office 

 at Bridgeport, Ala. 



The K. D. Cabinet Company has been incorporated at Kichmond. Ind., 

 with $30,000 capital. 



The Nowland Furniture Company has been incorporated at Dover. Del., 

 with $100,000 capital. 



The EvansvlUe Coffin Company of Evansville, Ind., has increased its 

 capital stock to $50,000. 



The Alabama Hardwood Company has been incorporated at New York 

 City with $5,000 capital stock. 



The Nantahala Land and Lumber Company has been incorporated at 

 Welch, W. Va., with $4,000 capital. 



The J. R. Webber Moulding Company of St. Louis, Mo., has sustained 

 a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. 



The Stadler-Eobertson Furniture Company has been incorporated at 

 Decatur, Ala., with $30,000 capital. 



The Racine Lumber & Manufacturing Company of Racine. Wis., has 

 opened a buying office at Monroe. La. 



The Memphis. Siding and Lumber Company has Iwcn incorporated at 

 Memphis. Tenn.. with $10,000 capital. 



The Detroit Trust Company has been appointed receiver of the Mich- 

 igan Buggy Company. Kal.imazoo. Mich. 



