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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 10, 19'J 



Offering 



Thoroughly Kiln Dried 

 Lumber and an Efficient 

 Kiln Drying Service 



A thoroughly modern kiln equipment at 

 Owensboro enables us to make prompt ship- 

 ment on our own stock, thoroughly kiln dried 

 and also to offer kiln drying service of proven 

 efficiency for handling either green or dry 

 lumber. We offer quick shipment, either 

 domestic or export, straight or mixed cars, 

 all N. H. L. A. grades in our soft texture 

 oak ideal for good furniture. We also have 

 splendid walnut, a fine stock of poplar, chest- 

 nut, gum, hickory, maple, elm, Cottonwood, 

 beech and quartered sycamore. Thus prac- 

 tically every line of woodworking is offered 

 a thoroughly reliable source of entirely de- 

 pendable material. 



Try STIMSON at Owensboro 

 the next time 



J. V. Stimson 8C Co. 



OWENSBORO, KY. I 



walmir." says V. H. Petins of tbe Peters Millwork & Lumber Company, 

 'but during the past few months we have been compelleil to order repeat- 

 ?tll.v. The tendency seems to be gaining strength rapitUy." 



.Vnother angle of the hardwood situation that is becoming more pro- 



Thomas Forman Company 



DETROIT, MICHIGAN 



Lumber and Interior Finish 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 



FOREMAN'S FAMOUS FLOORIfJO 



OAK AND MAPLE 



Iff S[>eri'ilizr iti l^ess tliiiti Cur'oiifl Shifitneiits 



The Tegge Lumber Co. 



High Grade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 



null need 

 ipparent 

 view, 



"Gum, 

 saiiiis in 

 Company 



in this district is the falling off in demand for oak. without 

 reason, at least from the consnminj; manufactvirer's point of 



cypress, walnut and a dozen other materials are showing decided 

 strength." says O. G. Trebing of the Trehing Manufacturing 

 which does an extensive wood turning and millwork business, 

 ■but oak is steadily becoming less popular." 



It iD'glit be added that the same report comes from a lialf dozen other 

 similar sources, t\m\ is confirmed by leading wholesalers. 



EVANSVILLE 



ihc Hercules Corporation, large buggj' manufacturers uf Evansville, 

 Ini!.. announced through Charles G. Tall.)ott, secretary and treasurer, a 

 few days ago that the company would discontinue the manufacture of 

 aiUouKtbiles that was begun recently. He said the company decided that 

 now was not the time to iiegin this line of business. The company made 

 several tine models, but did not obtain patents on any of them. 



Daniel Wertz of the Maley & Wertz Lumber C^unpany has returned 

 from a business trip to Indianapolis and the central part of the State. 

 Ill- said business conditions in that section are steadily getting better and 

 arc. in fart, a great deal better than they were a year ago. 



Act ording to Theodore K. Rechtin. local lumber retailer, the demand for 

 sap gum t<i Ite used for interior tinishing is increasing. A great many 

 homes bfini^ built in this sci-tion, he I't'pin'ts, will have gum tinish on the 

 insidf. 



TORONTO 



.lubn II. Itooth. tbe vt'tcran lumber king, crlcbraud his ninety-fifth 

 birthday at his home in Ottawa on April 5. He was born at Waterloo in 

 Quebec, and went to Ottawa at the age of thirty. He has resided at the 

 capital continuously for fi." years. Mr. Booth is in excellent health still 

 d4*si)itc bis ;;rcat age. On his KTith birthday he drove to his mills, made 

 his usual inspections and received the congratulations of members of the 

 ottice and mill staffs. 



The Canada Wood Specialty Company. laniited, of 4>rillia. <*nt.. has 

 purchased the stock of unsold lumber and logs from the Standard Chemical 

 Company at Longford Mills, Ont.. anti has taken a lease of the mills for 

 the present season. The stock consists of about two million feet of dr.v 

 birch, maple, elm. ash and basswood lumber and about two million feet of 

 hard and softwood logs. A. F. Cooper will continue to act as superin- 

 ti'iident for the new company. 



Harry Hardy. Woodbine avenue, Toront<i. has opened a lumber business 

 in T(»ronlo. He was for several years a nienil)er of the sales staff of the 

 I"nion Lunilier Company. Toronto, and leaves that firm to engage in busi- 

 n4'ss tor himself, 



^■on<■cssiou^ <pu carrying c-harges by Canadian railroads generally are 

 foreshadowed in recent reductions. A supplement just issued setting 

 forth a reduction in the arbitrary rates on lumber from stations along the 

 Temiskaming and Northern Ontario railway to points in Ontario. The 

 rate from Uno I'ark is reduced SVj cents per 100 pounds; Cobalt. 3 cents. 

 and Cochrane. 7 cents. The rate from New Liskeard to Toronto on lumber 

 is decreased from 25 cents per 100 pounds to 22 cents: fnun Cochrane to 

 Toronto from :!.S cents to 26 cents, and other northern points in like pro- 

 portion. There has also been a lessening in rates on wood commodities 

 on the <'ana(lian National railway from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia 

 to .Mniitn-al and terminals. The former rate, for instance, from Caledonia. 

 N. S.. to Mnntreal. was Sll cents per 100 pounds; it is now .tfiV-i- 



Tlie Double Diamond Lumber Company. Ltd.. has been granted a charter 

 with a capital stock of $100,000 and head office at Mettagami Heights, 

 in the distri<-t of Temiskaming. Ont. Among the incorporators are Eugene 

 r.razenu and A. Wallingford. both of the township of Mountjoy. The com- 

 pany is empowered to carry on a general lumbering and logging busi- 

 ness. 



f"hn T. .lames, of Bridgburg. Ont., has sold bis planinji mill nnd lumber 

 ■1 at Crystal Beach to J. Bussel Carrick. late nf ButTalo. N. Y.. who 

 III- I;ik4'n jjossession. 



1! C. Howard & Co.. Ltd.. Sherbrooke. Que., have been inc(»rporated 

 and will take over the firm of B. C. Howard & Co., manufacturing and 

 marketing wood products. The capital stock is $500,000. B.'c. Howard 

 and ('. B, Howard of SherI)rooke are two of the incorporators. 



As a protest against the adjustment of the company's differences with 

 tin- Hutario <Jovernnient in connection with the recent investigation, James 

 A, Mathieu. M. L, A., vice-president and general manager of the Shevliu- 

 Clai-ke Lumber Company, Furt Francis, has resigned. ^Ir. Mathieu declares 

 thai the Ontario Government has extorted a Iari.'e sum of money for 

 tind)er. which was not due it, f<ir political purposes. 



The mill of the Dennis Canadian Coni|>any at Whitney, Out., has started 

 opi>rati<ms for the season and the company will cut about six million feet. 

 piin.'ipally hardwoods'. While the sawing of the Dennis Canadian Com- 

 jiaiiy will be completed this fall, it will take another year fo clean up 

 wb;it stock ihey have in the yard, so that it is not likely that the ccun- 



