The Hardwood Record 



VOL. XIV. 



SATURDAY, APRIL 19. 1902. 



No. i 



The Hardwood Record. 



PUBLISHED 



EVERY OTHER SATURDAY 



BY 



C. V. KIMBALL, 



134 MONROE STREET, - CHICAGO, ILL. 



SNTERED AT CHICAGO POST OFFICE AS 

 SECOND-CLASS MATTER. 



TERMS OF subscription: 



U. S,, Canada and Mexico $1.00 per year. 



Foreign Countries 2.00 per year. 



ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. 



The cost of advertising in the Wanted and For Sale 

 -columns will be found at the head of that department. 



ADVERTISING INDEX ON PAGE 25. 



Contributions on subjects of interest 

 to lumbermen are invited from any 

 person. Subscribers and otfiers arc re- 

 quested to notify us of changes in per- 

 sonnel or organizations of hardwood 

 lumber firms. We desire especially to 

 receive particulars of installation of 

 new plants, transfers of property and 

 timber holdings and experiments in 

 new methods of manufacturing or the 

 utilization of by-products. New publi- 

 cations of interest to the trade, including 

 catalogues, stock lists and circulars will 

 receive attention if sent to this office. 

 Our columns are also available for 

 criticism and comment on any article 

 published or for news of any sort con- 

 cerning the hardwood trade. 



Our readers 'will confer a favor when 

 writing to advertisers if they will state 

 that they saw the advertisement in the 

 Hardwood Record. This is little 

 trouble and costs nothing, but it helps 

 us and is information wanted by the 

 advertiser. 



A CHANGE IN SIZE. 



With this issue tlie Uet-ord is, as you 

 see, enlarged to about twice its former size, 

 and we trust tlie change will meet with the 

 approval of our readers and advertisers. 

 We were forced to make the change by the 

 demands of a growing business. We had 

 to get in line. 



We don't know that our readers will ap- 

 preciate the point, but a newspaper of an 

 unusual size is handicappetl in a business 

 way, as is an luvusual width of flooring, 

 ceiling or siding. For convenience in read- 

 ing most people prefer the magazine size, in 

 which the Record was formerly printed, 

 to the "blanket sheet," but all the other 

 papers in our line are published in the 

 blanket sheet stze, and the large advertis- 

 ers have their cuts made to correspond. 

 The result has been tliat we have failed to 

 secure a large and profitable line of busi- 

 ness for the reason that our pages were too 

 small. For that and other reasons the 

 change was made. 



But if the old style Hardwood Record 

 was small iu size it wasn't small in any- 

 thing else. If its iiolicy wa.s not broad 

 gauge and liberal it was because the man- 

 agement couldn't make it so. That was 

 the intention and the Hardwood Record 

 worked faithfully and earnestly to advance 

 the interests of the hardwood trade. If 

 mistakes were made they were honest 

 mistakes— mistakes of the head and not of 

 the heart. We have not been in the busi- 

 ness for i*iilanthropic purposes entirely. 

 The ends we sought were selfish ends, but 

 we have sought them in what we believed 

 to be broad and liberal ways. We sought 

 to establish a basis for permanent pros- 

 perity by deserving the good-will and re- 

 spect of the hardwood trade by being sin- 

 cere and straightforward. 



The only asset a newspaper has that is 

 of much value is the good-will of its 

 readers, and we have recognized from 

 the beginning that the only way to gain 

 and retain that good-will, among as intel- 

 ligent a class of people as the readers of 

 the Record constitute, was to deal with 

 them fairly. We do not claim to be better 

 than the average— it is a business proposi- 

 tion. 



And we can look back over the six and 

 a half years of our existence and say that 

 we are satisfied. We believe there is not 

 a lumber paper published which stands 

 higher iu the lumber trade than the Record 

 does, or which wields a stronger influ- 



ence. Upon such a fouudati(Ui much may, 

 by diligence, be built. 



So much for the past of the Record. Tn 

 that past there are no weak spots; nothing 

 for whicli we need apologize or feel 

 ashamed; no man whom we have done an 

 intentional wrong; and our past is a pledge 

 fur our future. We found things iu llie 

 hardwood trade which seemed to us vi- 

 cious and unfair, and have done what we 

 could to improve them; but we criticized 

 conditions and not individuals. 



The future, we believe, holds much that 

 is good for all the people of this country. 

 The United States iis entering upon a pe- 

 riod of indu.strial and commercial prosper- 

 ity, which will, we believe, be unexampled 

 Ml the history of the world. This country 

 li.ns advantages in its natural resources, 

 ill the superior intelligence, energy and ed- 

 ucation of its people, and in its form of 

 government— the best yet devised by man 

 w liich must bring a golden harvest. 



The hardwood lumber trade is in excel- 

 lent condition to secure its full share of 

 the promised prosperity. The business is 

 getting into strong and capable hands, 

 solid business metliod® are being intro- 

 duced and the trade is being organized in 

 such a way as to conserve the limited 

 amount of stumpage so that it may bring 

 full value in the form of lumber. 



In fostering and promoting tliat pros- 

 perity to the best of its ability the Recor<d 

 lielieves it sees in the future a field of use- 

 I'ulne.ss which it hopes to cultivate with 

 pleasure and profit. There has been such 

 a change in tlie hardwood lumber trade 

 since the Record was started that it may 

 almost be said that it is a new business. 

 There is a new order of things and the 

 Record has tried, and will continue to try, 

 to keep pace witli the progress made. 



The editorial department will be main- 

 tained as strong, as candid, as fair 

 and as independent as heretofore, and 

 with increasing business we will be en- 

 abled to better our news service and make 

 the Hardwood Record .sufficient to the re- 

 quirements of all hardwood lumbermen. 



To our friends (and if there is a hard- 

 \\ood lumberman who is our enemy we 

 don't know it) who have stood by us in the 

 past, we extend thanks. Their snpport 

 and approval have been an inspiration 

 and we shall endeavor to so conduct the 

 Record as to merit a continuance of their 

 good-will. 



The size of the Record is changed, but 

 its spirit and intentions remain the same, 



