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HARDWOOD RECORD 



place, and wp liave lop'^ed the same from him 

 for a poriod oi five years, dating trom April 11. 

 IHIO. The Ilorton automatic liasket making 

 machines, five of which we have installed at 

 Sodus, are provitig verv successful. 



The Feukkal Crate & Basket Company. 



This error is going to cost us several hun- 

 dred dollars, there being about ten thousand 

 stockholders in the old defunct Mergenthaler- 

 Horton Basket Machine Company, and I have 

 repeatedly told (hem that we did not have 

 sufficient funds on hand at the present time to 

 operate the Paducali plant. I am now receiving 

 a large mail from the stockholders, bringing me 

 to task for having given out what appears to 

 be untruthful information. If letters regarding 

 this matter continue to come in at the rate 

 they have for the past few days, I will be 

 obliged to send ,a special circular letter to the 

 entire list, which will take $200 for postage 

 stamps, to say nothing of stationery and labor. 



As a favor, I trust that in your next issue 

 you will state the facts in the case. 



We hope to resume operations at the Paducah 

 plant the latter part of this winter. It is 

 going to take quite a large capital to success- 

 fully operate the Paducah plant. However, I 

 am of the opinion that the reqtiired capital 

 will be forthcoming in the very near future. — 

 Melbourne J. Parkhurst. 



Report from National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association 



The National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 tion has issued to its members the following 

 report, which certainly reflects cretlit on the 

 activity of the organization and the success 

 that it is attaining. — Editor. 



Chicago, January 15, 1911. 

 We are enclosing herewith our regular monthly 

 statement- showing the amount of lumber in- 

 spected by our licensed men during the month 

 of December to have been S. 059. 609 feet. 



You will recall in our last letter we predicted 

 a falling off for this, and the two or three 

 following months, on account of the closing 

 of navigation on the Great. Lakes. 



However, the inspections for this month 

 exceed those of the corresponding month of 

 last year by 1.205.000 feet, and the amount 

 inspected by our salaried men in the large mar- 

 kets exceeds that of any other month in the 

 history of the association, save alone that of 

 April, 1010, which was only slightly in excess 

 of this month. 



If the consuming markets of the country give 

 our inspection department more work in "dull 

 December" tliau in any other of the last eight 

 months of the year, it would appear that our 

 members and patrons are not only en.)oying a 

 good business, but are showing their apprecia- 

 tion of our efforts to improve the efficiency and 

 accuracy of our inspection bureau, the service 

 of which lias always been maintained at a high 

 standard, and constitutes the only service wor- 

 th.v of the name in this country. 



The work of the bureau for December cost 

 the association $260.87 above its earnings. 



Now that we have started on another year, 

 we have thought best to give you a statement of 

 the past year s work by months, which, accord- 

 ing to our books, is as follows : 



Feet. 



.Tanuary 7,, '120,39? 



February 7,405.0.32 



March 0.50,'!,012 



April 12,343.602 



May 0,415.701 



•Tune 0.048.011 



July 0,795,742 



.\ugust li),226.191 



September 1 1.1.S2.8.3S 



( Ictolier 10.147.094 



November 10.509.081 



December 8,959,600 



Total for 1010 115,948,111 



This statement is absolutely accurate, and 

 will be supported by affidavits if its correctness 

 is ever publicly questioned. 



It should denionstcate beyond question that 

 all the claims Ihat iiave been made in the past 

 for our association ,ire true, because it is a 

 well known fael that only a small percentage 

 of the stock marketed under our i-ules of meas- 

 urement and grading is otlicially inspected, and 

 it naturally follows that if our official inspec- 

 tion aggi'egating the enormous amount of 115,- 

 948,111 feet was ad<led lo the amount sold under 

 our rules, bul not officially graded, the result 

 would show that billions of feet of hardwood 

 lumber had been handled by the trade subject 

 to inspection under tlie rules of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association. 



Since the Louisville convention 91 desirable 

 applications for membership have been re- 

 -ceived. and our membership is now considerably 

 in excess of seven hundred. 



We are entering the new year with the lar- 

 gest membership the association has ever had. 



We are employing the largest number of in- 

 spectors ever required by the inspection bureau, 

 and reasonable expense is spared in securing the 

 services of the highest grade of men obtainable. 



We are inspecting more lumber month by 

 month than in any preceding .year during the 

 existence of the association, and are giving 

 more prompt and more valuable service than 

 ever before. 



We believe that we en.ioy to a higher degree 

 than ever l»efore the confidence and respect of 

 the entire hardwood trade, because the efforts 

 of our officers, past and present, have always 

 been to secure for our members and patrons a 

 service that should become more and more 

 valuable to them, and in this respect, the asso- 

 ciation has made good. 



It is the purpose of the present administration 

 to continue in this effort to improve the service 

 wherever it is possible to do so. and to proceed 

 in the same dignified manner that has charac- 

 terized this association in the past, believing 

 that honorable men in the trade, whose support 

 we solicit, will be more impressed and better 

 satisfied with actual results substained by facts, 

 than with mere claims supported only by extrav- 

 agant statements. 



We wish you a most prosperous new year. 

 Sincerely yours. 



Feed A. Diggiss, President. 

 F. F. Fish, Secretary. 



Salaried Inspecioks. 



Feet 

 Inspected. 



Frank R. Buck, Chicago, III 180,860 



John J. Lorden, Chicago, III 255,700 



J. J. Shepard. Chicago. Ill 368.766 



F. P. Southgate, Chicago, 111 146,200 



A. E. Metter. St. Louis. Mo 270.543 



W. E. Robinson. St. Louis. Mo 553.200 



W. T. North. Memphis, Tenn 206.727 



Geo. C. Teetes. Memphis. Tenn 182,398 



A. B. Raker. New Orleans. La 120.215 



C. E. McSmith. New Orleans, La 158.304 



.T. I... Benson. .Alexandria. La 460.507 



D. E. Buchanan. Cincinnati. 252.821 



W. C. Lasswell. Cincinnati. 84.050 



Jos. Waltman. Louisville. Kv 239.220 



Jos. Patterson. New York City 286.105 



J. L. Stewart. Buffalo. N. Y 254.525 



C. C. Ferguson. Buffalo. N. Y 208.427 



J. J. Miller. Buffalo. N. Y 265.424 



H. F. Thompson, Philadelphia, Pa... 276,310 



J. I. Weeks, Pittsburg, Pa 248,414 



II. W. Bowler. Boston. Mass 360.145 



A. O. Langeluttig. Baltimore. Md 155.701 



Thomas A. Hall. Detroit. Mich 318,048 



Fd. Borgeson. Minneapolis. Minn 268.171 



II. A. Hoover, chief inspector 141,291 



Total 6,322,291 



Fee Inspectors. 



R. W. Child, Mobile, Ala 168,882 



J. E. Byrns. Escanaba. Mich 16.128 



Chas. Christiausou, Manistee, Mich,,.. 772,250 



P. Collier, Boyne City, Mich 51,610 



J. S. Coman. Menominee. Mich 187.63!) 



W. M. Clemens. Thompson, Mich.... 350.408 



J. M. Cillett. Traverse Citv, Mich 76.200 



Grant Harrison, Petoskey. Mich 20.564 



Peterson & I,oveIl. Manistee. Mich 318.221 



Scott & Rieckhoff, Ludington. Mich.... 57,658 



Walter Tillitson. Grand Rapids. Mich.. 454.004 



C. M. Sands. Chattanooga. Tenn 71.788 



J. H. (ierlach. Norfolk. Va 67,500 



E. T. Robinson, Richmond, Va 14,800 



Total 2,637,318 



Grand total 8,959,000 



Seeks Dark Streaked Persimmon Heartwood 



Uocin:s'rER. N. Y.. Jan. 10. — l^ditor IlARDWfton 

 Record : About a year ago we wrote you with 

 regard to persimmon. You referred us to peo- 

 ple who cut some of this wood. Only one party 

 handled it in a way to be useful to us. Others 

 all wanted to cut up persimmon and sell the 

 lumber straight. We would have been obliged 

 to throw away all the whitewood, which is 

 what really has a market value with most 

 people. 



We want to know some man who is cutting 

 persimmon stock for handle work, shuttle manu- 

 facturers, golf stick heads, etc. One man wrote 

 us that he was doing this and was throwing his 

 dark streaked heartwood into the wood pile. 

 This was just the man we wanted. We want 

 to get that heartwood which is being thrown 

 .away. We cannot afford to buy the whole thing 

 for the sake of the heartwood, but we should be 

 able to use what is now a waste with these per- 

 simmon dimension men. 



Can you direct us to anybody who is cuting 

 persimmon wood for the handle market? The 

 lumbermen who can cut persimmon will not be 

 likely to interest us, but only a man who is 

 cutting for the handle market. 



Apologizing for troubling you again on the 

 subject and hoping to find what we are looking 

 for, and at the same time give some man an 

 outlet for what is now offal, we beg to remain, 



• CO.MPANV. 



The above letter is from a large manufac- 

 turing house and the subject involved should 

 be of interest to nearly all persimmon pro- 

 ducers. The portion of persimmon that is 

 used for handles, shuttle blocks, golf head 

 sticks, etc., is the clear white portion. The 

 heart of the persimmon is streaked with black 

 and generally finds its way to the burner. The 

 above writer has a use for this character of 

 wood and is willing to pay a reasonable price 

 tor it. Anyone who is interested in supplying 

 persimmon heartwood can have this address 

 on application to Hardw^ood Record, and 

 more than likely can develop a trade that will 

 be profitable and satisfactory. — Editor. 



Seeks Black Walnut 



Onawav, Mich., Jan. 14. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record : We are in the market for quick de- 

 livery for one carload of 2-inch American black 

 walnut for the manufacture of bent automobile 

 steering wheel rims. We require clear, straight- 

 grained stock, running in lengths of 6, 12 or 

 IS feet. The stock must be either dead green or 

 air-dried not over six months in the yard. Stock 

 dried longer than this will not answer our 

 purpose. We use this stock for the manufac- 

 ture of bent automobile steering-wheel rims, and 

 any stock that is not in multiples of 6 feet cuts 

 heavil.v to waste. Of course, if it is impossible 

 to secure a carload of the proper lengths, we 

 could use 6, 8, 10 and 12-foot lengths ; but it 

 must grade throughout firsts and seconds. Would 

 you please advise where we would bo most likely 

 to secure this stock? 



Manufacturing Co. 



Tlie writer of the above letter is a leading 

 manufacturing institution and it has been 

 supplied with a list of several leading black 

 walnut manufacturers in the country. Any 

 others wishing to get in touch with it can 

 have the address on application. — Editor. 



Boxwood Working and Health 



An important decision affecting the shuttle 

 trade has just been handed down by a British 

 court. The action originally commenced in the 

 Blackburn county court, and was brought by 

 James Wrench, a shuttle maker, against his 

 former employers, R. Baguley & Co., shuttle 

 manufacturers of Blackburn, claiming damages 

 for injuries alleged to have been sustained 

 through poison, said to have been caused by the 

 use of .\tricau boxwood. The plaintifl: had be- 

 b.ind him in the case the Amalgamated Society 

 of Shuttle Makers, and the defendants had the 

 support of the Master Shuttle JIanufacturers' 

 .Association. The plaintiff's contention was that 

 in the process of shuttle making dust was set 

 up. and that this dust -n-as injurious to health. 

 'I'he defendants, on the other hand, claimed that 

 lliere was no possible danger from the use of the 

 wood. The case had, on the application of the 

 defendants, been removed from the county court 

 by certiorari to the high court. The point at 

 issue has aroused considerable interest in scien- 

 tillc circles. It is stated that the Masters' Asso- 

 ciation has had the boxwood thoroughly analyzed 

 by the professor of pharma-ology at Cambridge, 

 who reported that it had no deleterious effects 

 upon the men working it. 



