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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 10, 191!i 



Our Prices Are Based on Intel- 

 ligent Figfuring of Fair Values 



iFair values for any commodity are the best guarantee 

 of quality. In hardwood lumber fair values are possible 

 only vv^hen costs are intelligently established and shipments 

 are made absolutely according to official grading. 



All of our customers can thus be assured that the price 

 they pay us is an intelligent representation of v^hat the 

 lumber is vv^orth at the time of purchase. We are able to 

 sell at actual cost plus a fair profit because a systematic 

 study enables us to knovs' what that cost is for each grade, 

 and we never ship except exactly as the grader specifies. This is a sound basis for maintaining 

 satisfactory business relations over a long p ^riod. ^ | __.J 



Clean Dealing Is Our Business Policy 



Aberdeen Lumber Company . 



Manufacturers and IVholesalers 

 PittsburgK, Pennsylvania 



Five Mills: Ten Million Feet on Sticks, Oak, Gum, Cypress, Cottonwood, Sycamore, Elm. 



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GODFREY CONVEYORS | 



Will handle your logs by Power | 

 Durable — Simple — Economical | 



Investigate! Immediate Deliveries % 



John F. Godfrey, Depl. 4, Elkhart, Ind. | 



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Timber Rafting in the Past 



The London Timber Trades Journal contains the following historical note 



concerning rafting timber on the sea : 



There appears to be growing interest in the use of made-up rafts of 

 timber for transport, but the idea is not a new one. A cotrespondent in 

 a shipping contemporary writes : "Respecting the transport of timber. 

 I>.T constructing a float in the form of a ship's hull, it may interest your 

 readers to know that in the early days of the nineteenth century Wood 

 Hrothers, shipbuilders. Port Glasgow, the builders of the Comet, used a 

 similar method of bringing timber from Canada, the float being barque 

 rigged and sailing over." Today, too. the idea of using overseas timber 

 rafts is not solely confined to the Baltic trade, for we hear that a firm of 

 T<ondon agents are interested in a raft of steel framing, which has already 

 iieen loaded with pitprops for conveyance from across the Atlantic to this 

 country as soon as opportunity presents itself. 



Project of a Channel Tunnel Revived 



The project of a railway tunnel under the Strait of Dover, connecting 

 England and France, was revived immediately upon the signing of the 

 armistice. The plan was formed long ago, but the building of the tunnel 

 was opposed in England through fear that the country might be invaded 

 through the tunnel in time of war. The understanding between France 

 and England is now so friendly that one no longer fears the other. With 

 the completion of the tunnel trains will run from London to Paris in six 

 hours. 



Hardwood 'News Notes 



-■< MISCELLANEOUS >= 



The folluwinj; recent incurporations are noted : The Perrine Saw Mill 

 Company, Montclair, N. J. ; The VaUlosta Casket Company, Valdosta, Ga. ; 



the T. J. Woodward Lumber Company, capital ?100,000, Asheville, N. C. ; 

 the Little Rock Casket Company, Little Rock, Ark. 



At New Haven, Conn., the David H. Clark Company has been reincor- 

 porated with a capital of $2,000. 



The capital stock of the Central Lumber Company, Jackson, Miss., has 

 been increased from $30,000 to .tJlOO.OOO. 



The death is announced of John F. Dinkel of the Dinkel & Jewell Com- 

 pany, Tarrytown, N. Y. 



The Norfolk Hardwood Lumber Company has been incorporated at Nor- 

 folk. Va., with a capital of $50,000. 



The Central Hardwood Company has recently beffun a wholesaling 

 hardwood lumber business at Meridian, Miss. 



-< CHICAGO >• 



The annual convention of the Xorthern Hemlock and Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association will be held at the Pflster hotel, Milwaukee, on 

 Thursday and Friday, January 30 and 31. The annual meeting of the 

 Northern White Cedar Shingle Manufacturers' Association will be held 

 at the same time and place. 



The regular scheduled mid-winter meeting of the Michigan Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association is dated tor Wednesday, January 29, to be 

 held at the Statier hotel, Detroit. The regular program will be carried out. 



Friday. January 31. is the date for the second annual meeting of the 

 Southern Alluvial Land Association, which is to be held at the Chisca hotel, 

 Memphis, Tenn. An interesting program is promised. 



L. L. Thomas, director and treasurer of the Negros-Philippine Lumber 

 Company. San Francisco, Cal.. and with offices at Cadiz, the island of 

 Negros, P. I., passed through the city this week on his way East. Mr. 

 Thomas is very optimistic over the future of ■ woods coming from the 

 Philippine Islands, and says that the markets are rapidly expanding. 

 He seemed to be very well satisfied with the situation in general. 



I. A. Minnick, president of the National Dry Kiln Company of Indian- 

 apolis, was in town for a few days of this week having been In Chicago 

 on a business trip. Mr. Minnick is confident that developments indicate 

 a strong future for the dry kiln business. 



O. E. Ellis of the Hoosier Panel Company. New Albany, Ind.. was in 

 the city for several days of this week on business in connection with his 

 company. 



W. W. Brown wlio. as noted elsewhere in this issue, has started a 



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