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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Triangle Brand 



White Oak Flooring 



Perfectly dried and worked 



Made from our own timber from 



one boundary, insuring uniform 



color and texture; manufactured 



at our newly installed hardwood 



flooring plant. 



Our Specialty: Quarter-sawed White Oak Flooring 

 Thicknesses: 's" and 13/16" Standard Widths 

 QUICK SHIPMENTS GUARANTEED 



YELLOW POPLAR LUMBER CO., Coal Qrove, Ohio 



Kentucky Lumber Company 



MANUFACTURERS 



POPLAR, PLAIN AND QUAR- 

 TERED OAK, RED AND SAP 

 GUM, ASH, CHESTNUT, BASS- 

 WOOD, HEMLOCK, WHITE PINE 



Mills at 



Bumside, Ky. Williamsburg, K} . 



Isola, Miss. 



Sales Office 

 Cincinnati, O. 



WANT E D 



All Kinds of High-Grade 



HARDWOODS 



S. E. SLAYMAKER & CO. 



Representlne Fifth Avenue Buildins, 



WEST VIRGINIA SPRUCE LUMBER CO., "^""^ wtu/ VrtDIf 

 Ca88. West Virginia. IXIiW lUIU^ 



AT HALF PRICE 



STEAM SKIDDER 



AND LOADER COMBINED 



Clyde Modern Equipment. Used 

 about sixty days. Operations dis- 

 continued. No further use for it 



For Particulars Write 



GOGEBIC LUMBER CO. 



GRAND RAPIDS, IMICH. 



pany attended llie convention o£ the Knights Templar at Denver last 

 week. 



Thomas Forman of the Thomas Forman Company says that while his 

 factory is busy now he expects increased business in September. Mr. 

 Forman said that the company's mill at Heidelberg, Ky., is now turning 

 out 155.000 feet a day of maple and oak and that labor conditions are 

 now very satisfactory. He is very optimistic regarding the hardwood 

 market during the next few months. 



Dodge Brothers, manufacturers of automobile parts, announced that 

 they will about the first of the year begin manufacturing automobiles 

 on a large scale and that they will erect large buildings. This announce- 

 ment was of especial interest to Detroit hardwood dealers because it 

 means the enlarging of the hardwood market. Dodge Brothers will un- 

 doubtedly become large buyers of hardwoods. 



The Grigg-Hanna Company, the Yeomans Diver Company and the 

 Kuehl-Butcher Lumber Company, all box manufacturers, report fair busi- 

 ness. 



■< GRAND RAPIDS >■ 



.Tas. F. McSweyn, president and manager of the Memphis Band Mill 

 Company, Memphis, Tenn., is spending a few days at his old home here 

 on business and pleasure, and his son, George McSweyn, will be here this 

 week on a short visit. Otis A. Felger of this city is secretary and treas- 

 urer of the company, which is operating its southern mill night and day, 

 cutting a million feet a month. The timber manufactured is largely 

 oak, the white oak being quarter sawed and the red sawed plain. 



A. I.. Dennis of the A. L. Dennis Salt and Lumber Company and the 

 Dennis Canadian Company is speuding a few days at Dighton, Slich., 

 where the two mills are now cutting hardwood, maple, beech and birch. 

 The Dennis Canadian Company is operating with three band mill and 

 rcsaw at Whitney, Ont., and is cutting mostly birch. 



W. It. Smith, manager of the Stearns Company, who is on an extended 

 vacation trip to the Pacific coast, accompanied by Mrs. Smith, is expected 

 bonic' about Sept. 1 and will then take an eastern trip. His work here 

 is being looked after by .\rthur M. Manning. 



Zeno II. Nelson of Jackson & Tindle will return in a few days from 

 Canada, where the company is putting in a mill. 



Douglas Sinclair of the Valley City Lumber Company, Ltd., has 

 returned from near Munlsing, where the company is cutting hardwood. 



Fred I. Nichols of the Nichols & Cox Lumber Company and G. von 

 riaten, who has extensive mill Interests at Iron Mountain, are enjoy- 

 ing trips abroad this summer. ^ 



Fred A. Diggins of Cadillac is in Chicago for medical treatment. 



Grand Uapids contractors have been awarded the job of erecting 

 an office building for the Hanchett Swage Works at Big Itaplds. The 

 structure will be 411x42 feet, two stories and brick, steel and reinforced 

 concrete will be used. 



Thomas B. Wyman of Munlsing, secretary-forester of the Northern 

 Forest Protective Association, In a report covering the period from 

 .lune 15 to .\ug. 1, says there have been twenty fires, affecting approxi- 

 mately 11.000 acres, largely slash lands. The railroads caused seven of 

 these fires and Mr. Wyman states that nearly all operating locomotives 

 are devoid of efficient spark arresters. 



The Hardwood Market 



< CHICAGO >. 



Nothing figures in the local market prominently except the continued 

 increase in the number of inquiries, which does not necessarily mean that 

 at present the increase in orders is marked, as the buying trade is evi- 

 dently continuing upon the same policy which It has been following for 

 several months, that is, buying for immediate wants. The increase in 

 inquiry is taken to mean an Indication that stocks at consumers factories 

 are in a low condition. Hence this interest is considered an encouraging 

 feature to fall trade, regarding which the majority of local hardwood men 

 predict marked activit.v. 



No particularly notable recessions In market values are evident locally, 

 but on the other hand prices are continuing to remain in a fairly firm 

 condition, although not of as high a level as prevailed before the quiet 

 tone began. Taken altogether, considering both the buyers and the sellers 

 of hardwood products in the Chicago market, a conservative tone prevails. 

 l>oth factors seeming to prefer playing a waiting game to assuming any 

 kind of a panicky state of mind. 



=■< NEW YORK y- 



The hardwood market in New York shows a little better tone and some 

 improvomcnt in demand. While there has been no very great Increase in 

 vnlumo, the renewed activity which is promised with the passing of the 

 torrid seasron seems very likely to materialize. It will not require a 

 boom to ^ive the market some real color, and the buylnp; of the past two 

 moiilhs has been of such character as to assure a steady tlnw of trade 

 at good prices when business opnns in the fall. There have been no 



