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HARDWOOD RECORD 



W. C. Unllcj-, Minneapolis. 



C. L. Osborne, G. S. Osborne and H. A. Walk 

 er, Osborne & Clark, Minneapolis. 



R n. Lewis. F. II. Lewis Lumber Co.. Mlune- 

 apolls. 



.\. E. Peterson, A. K. I'ctcrson Lumber Com- 

 pany, Minneapolis. 



\V. II. Sill, ;*Ilnneapolls Lumber Company. 

 Minneapolis. 



r. It. Hamilton, Minneapolis Lumber Company. 

 Minneapolis. 



I. I'. Lennan, I. P. Lennan & Co., Minneapolis. 



X. C. Bennett, N. C. Bennett Lumber Compa- 

 ii\' Mli)ntMipolls. 



K. Paysi>n Smith. Payson Smith Lumber Com- 

 pany, Mlnnfni)olis. 



A. S. liliss, Payson Smith Lumber Company, 

 Minneapolis. 



W. C. Meader, Hawkins Land & Lumber Com- 

 pany, Minneapolis. 



F. M. Itnrtelme, Minneapolis. 



II. M. Ilalsted, Ilalsted & Booraem, Minneapo- 

 lis. 



Charles Oliver, Minneapolis. 



1". Peterson, with \V. C. Halliy. Minneapolis. 



L. .7. Lloyd, with V. M. Bartelme, Minneapo- 

 lis. 



J. F. llayden, secretary, Minneapolis. 



The Handle Association. 



Interest in the now Handle Manufacturers' 

 .\ssociation of America continues to grow, 

 as evidenced by the numerous iuquirics and 

 applications for membership which are being 

 received by the secretary, Henry H. Gibson, 

 from day to day. The several vice-piesi- 

 dents, representing the hickory, ash, and, 

 maple and minor woods divisions, have taken 

 up the work vigorously, as have the committees, 

 and it is only a question of time when tliey 

 will be able to accomplish a great deal of 

 good for the trade. Their efforts in tlie waj' 

 of preparing statistics, market reports, etc., 

 will be greatly furthered if handle manu- 

 facturers, i)articularly members of the asso- 

 ciation, will but respond frankly and freely 

 to any requests for information they may 

 receive from the secretary — which will be 

 held in strict confidence at all times. If 

 they will cooperate in this way the commit- 

 tees will doubtless have some interesting re- 

 ports to make by the time of the next meet- 

 ing. 



There should be no hesitancy on the part 

 of those who style themselves "only small 

 manufacturers" about coming into the asso- 

 ciation. In fact, it is these very people who 

 are hardest to line up, because they are scat- 

 tered, are not in touch with the large mar- 

 kets to any extent, hence are willing to take 

 most any price they are offered for their 

 goods lest somebody undersell them — and 

 who thus do more to demoralize the trade — 

 unintentionally and unwittingly, of course, 

 than any others. This association should in 

 no wise be considered an alliance of the 

 ' ' big bugs ■ ' in the trade, as indeed the larger 

 manufacturers cannot possibly be as great 

 gainers from the alliance as the smaller ones. 

 They usually have their whole business sys- 

 tematized in a manner that insures them 

 more profit; they know exactly what they can 

 afford to sell handles for, and in the major- 

 ity of cases stick to first quotations. If the 

 small manufacturers will but enter into this 

 educational campaign they cannot fail to bo 

 benefited by it, as this has been the history 

 of association work in every branch of the 

 lumber trade. 



-Vnother argument against joining, which 

 is urged by some manufacturers, is that they 

 make handles for their own use exclusively. 

 Even so, they may still find great value in 

 the organization, inasmuch as one of its 



]iri!ue objects is to teach manufacturers the 

 acttial cost of production, so that whether 

 they sell merely the handle or the completed 

 tool, they will learn to ask a price at least 

 appro.ximately near its actual value. One of 

 these tool concerns recently wrote stating 

 that they have all the timber and facilities 

 for manufacturing handles for other trade 

 than their own, and that if manufacturers 

 would but make prices on all classes of han- 

 dles ' ' within the line of common sense ' ' 

 they would be only too glad to join with 

 them. 



The handle association has a big field for 

 effort, and a vast amount of work to do. 



Handle Notes. 



The P.lackstone llMiidshavcd Handle Company 

 of Blackslone, ^'a.. ni(_'mbors of the new associa- 

 tion, suffered the loss of their entire plant by 

 flre the morning of Iiccoinber 3. It Is probable 

 that the factory will be rebuilt In the near 

 future. 



I'aul T. Cberlton, manufacturers' agent tor 

 hickory and ash handles at G2 Ueade street. 

 New York, has made an assignment to Chas. A. 

 Ilauck. The business was started thirty years 

 ago by his father, T. T. Cheriton, who died In 

 Jvme of this year. 



The handle factory of the D. B. Kelly Com- 

 pany at Lucas, Mich., near Cadillac, was de- 

 stroyed by lire recently. It was well insured. 

 About thirty men were cniploye<l. Tlic plant 

 will be rebuilt at once on the old site, as Mr. 

 Kelly owns timber within easy hauling distance 

 of Lucas, and has side tracks and other acces- 

 sories conveniently located there. The factory 

 had recently been repaired, preparatory to start- 

 ing in on the winter run, and it is a matter of 

 great inconvenience that the flre should occur 

 just at this busy season. 



Fire in the storeroom of tlie PIqua Handle 

 Company at Thompsonvllie, Mich., entailed a 

 loss of aljout $5,000. The burned building was 

 a recent addition to the plant, and stood alwut 

 twenty feet from the main factory, which was a 

 fortunate circumstance and undoubtedly the only 

 thing that prevented destruction of the rest of 

 tlie plant. 



A handle plant has been started by G. W. 

 Pittraan and associates, said to be Indiana 

 handle manufacturers, at Denison. Texas. For 

 a time the plant will make only bandies, but 

 later it is planned to add machinery for the 

 manufacture of butter tubs, baskets and boxes. 

 The factory will turn out 4,000 handles a day, 

 largely ash. 



Floating SaW Mills. 



Tor more tlian twenty-five years floating 

 sawmills of various types have been em- 

 ployed in various parts of the United States. 

 Thoy have been mostly in evidence on the 

 streams of the south, but one notable ex- 



Tenn. It is called "The Clipper," and is 

 equipped to do sawing, planing and light 

 towing. J. M. Baker, master of the steamer, 

 writes the Eecokd as follows: 



"Concerning our Fawmill boat, we will say 



FI.dATI.NC SAWMILL OWNED 

 CLIFTON, TENN. 



BY liAKKl: BIIOS. OF 



am]>lc was built and oiicratc.l on Puget Sound that its hull is 133 feet long, 25 feet wide 



sonic years ago. and 3i.j feet deep. It draws 24 inches of 



Pictured herewith is the type of steamboat water. It is a stern-wheeler, with engines 



sawmill owned l)y Baker Brothers, of Clifton. 914 by 42 inches, and has one steel boiler. 



