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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 10, 1919 



The Mail Bag 



B 1206— Cut Oval Pieces 



Philadelphia, Pa., December 23. — Editou Haiuiwood Record : We are 

 In the market for a supply of cut oval pieces of 5/4 and 6/4 oak 6" wide 

 or over. These can be made from the cuttings of oak. 



Can you send us the names of any planing mills nearby that can fur- 

 nish these oval pieces and can also make up cleated cutting and chopping 

 boards to order, from heavy maple? 



We are always in the market for oval, round and oblong boards which 

 can be made from mill cuttings of hardwood, cut on band saw, sanded 

 finish. 



It has been claimed that the finest cherry timber ever cut in this 

 country grew in tlie western part of New York. Most of it was cut 

 before any railroads liad been built into that region. 



WE MANUFACTURE bandsawed, plain and quarter sawed 



WHITE and RED OAK and YELLOW POPUR 



We make a specialty of Oak and Hickory Imple- 

 ment, Wagon and Vehicle Stock in the rough 

 Your Inquiries Solicited 



ARLINGTON LUMBER CO., Arlington, Kentucky 



Still Better Service 



TO YOU IS OUR 

 MOTTO FOR 1919 



Hardwoods Especially 



Wistar, Underhill & Nixon 



PHILADELPHIA. PENNSYLVANIA 



Manufacturers of CYPRESS and GUM 



LIGNUM VITAE fBOXWOOD 



WE HANDLE ALL TROPICAL HARDWOODS 



EBONY 

 RO SEWOOD COCO SOLO 



C. H. FEABSON 



29 Broadway New York City 





Clubs and Associations 



Wood Preservers to Meet 



The fifteenth annual meeting of the American Wood Preservers' As- 

 sociation will be held at Hotel Statler, St. Louis, on January 28 and 29. 

 A program has been prepared which will provide for discussion of 

 various problems brought to the front by the war and which have a 

 direct bearing upon the wood preserving business. 



Lumber Committee Meeting 



President Horace F. Taylor has called a meeting of the executive com- 

 mittee and board of trustees of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 .\ssociation to be held at the association offices, 66 Broadway, New York 

 City, on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 14 and 15, 1919. This Is 

 the usual midwinter meeting of the trustees. It will fix the time and 

 place of the association's annual meeting. 



Appalachian Logging Congress 



On the publishing date of this issue of Hardwood Record the annual 

 meeting of the Appalachian Logging Congress was opened at the Phoenix 

 hotel, Lexington, Ky. This meeting has become quite a famous event in 

 southern logging circles and is always well attended and productive of 

 good results. Edwin A. Gaskill Is president, being In charge of log work 

 of the Turkey Foot Lumber Company, Cressmont, Ky. The meeting prom- 

 ises this year to be unusually successful. 



Among the speakers will be John R^ine of the Meadow River Lumber 

 Company, Rainelle, W. Va. ; Henry F. Holt, logging engineer at Asheville, 

 N. C. ; William Latham, John F. Shea, C. L. Babcock, Vice-president 

 Geisteiger, Dr. Stanley L. Krebs. The delegates will be Invited by Presi- 

 dent Gaskill to visit the Turkey Foot operations. 



There will be a strong representation of the KnoxviUe Lumbermen's 

 Club, who will endeavor to secure the April meeting of the logging con- 

 gress for KnoxvUIe. Knoxville now is equipped with first-class hotel 

 accommodations and is well qualified to entertain the organization. 



Jurisdiction of Interstate Commerce Commission 



The following resolution, proposed by the representatives of the Na- 

 tional Lumber Manufacturers' Association, was adopted by the industrial 

 advisory council endorsing the Cummins Bill : 



In order to prevent unnecessary disarrangement of existing freight 

 rate adjustments between competing shippers and to facilitate the early 

 return of the railroads to private operation with such safeguards as the 

 public and the railroads may require, the Interstate Comnicrce Commis- 

 sion should have the same jurisdiction over freight rates, classifications, 

 rules and procedure now administered by the railroad administration 

 as it heretofore exercised over the railroads when under private opera- 

 tion. Therefore this council endorses the Cummins bill now before Con- 

 gress, which would give to the Interstate Commerce Commission, such 

 jurisdiction. 



No Longer Need Export Licenses 



Licenses are no longer required on export shipments of the following 

 kinds of logs, lumber, timber and woods, according to a ruling which has 

 just reached Memphis by the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association from 

 the War Trade Board at Washington : 



Ash, birch, chestnut, fir timber, mahogany, oak, quebracho, spruce, 

 veneer and plywoods of all kinds, walnut and yellow pine measuring 

 12x12" and larger and twenty-five feet or longer. 



The association, in announcing this ruling, calls particular attention 

 to the fact that shippers' export declarations, in quadruplicate, are still 

 necessary and that they must be secured before shipments of lumber or 

 other forest products are attempted to foreign countries. 



This ruling, eliminating the necessity of securing export licenses, became 

 effective January 4. , 



War & Reconstruction 



1860-70 



And Its Relation to 

 the PEACE PERIOD 



Write for particulars 



BROOKMIRE ECONOMIC SERVICE 



56 PINE STREET, NEW YORK 



With the Trade 



Mahogany and the Airplane Investigation 



The Mahogany Manufacturers' & Importers' .Association. J. C. Wickllffe 

 of the C. C. Mengel & Brothers Company, Louisville; C. R. Mengel of that 

 company, and the mahogany trade as a whole, were given a clean record 

 in a story sent from Washington on January 6 which went into the details 

 of the arrangement by which Mr. WlcklitFe drew a salary of $4,000 a year 

 from the government as a mahogany expert and at the same time received 

 $350 a month from the company to which he belonged. 



The investigation showed that Mr. Wickliffe was drawing a salary of 

 $6,000 a year from the Mengel company as secretary at the time the 

 government requested his services as an expert, and asked him to leave 

 Louisville and go to Washington on a salary of $4,000. That would entail 

 a clear loss of $2,000 a year on salary, to say nothing of the Increased 

 expense of living in Washington. To meet that, and to enable Mr. Wickllffe 

 to give his services to the government, the Mengel company offered to 



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