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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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ICZIE 



RED GUM y 



lOOM' 4/4 No. 1 Com. 



PLAIN 



12M' 8/4 FAS 



PLAIN 



3M' 8/4 No. 1 Com. 



PLAIN 



lOOM' 4/4 No. 1 Com. 



QUARTERED 



15M' 8/4 FAS 



QUARTERED 



8M' 8/4 No. 1 Com. 



QUARTERED 



JVe have the above amounts on 

 hand in dry stock, manufactured 

 on our own band mills, and can 

 make 



PROMPT SHIPMENT 



MILLER LUMBER CO. 



MARIANNA, ARK. 



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an eastern trip. Mr. Gill said that things appeared to be going along 

 splendidly, and that his experience indicates a delinite tendency towards 

 increased hardwood movements. 



Mr. and Mrs. Sam A. Thompson of Memphis were in the city two days 

 last week. Mr. Thompson is manager of the lumber department of the 

 Anderson-TuUy Company there. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson were just com- 

 pleting a circuit of a two weeks' trip which took them to important 

 eastern markets, and after spending two days in Chicago left for home. 

 Mr. Thompson says that while his volume of sales is not up to normal, 

 he is very well satisfied with the results of his trip and judges that the 

 near future will show considerably increased call for hardwood. 



Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thompson of Memphis also took in some of the sights 

 of Chicago last week. Mr. Thompson is president of the Thompson-Katz 

 Lumber Company and was taking Mrs. Thompson with him on an east- 

 ern trip, having come up from Memphis to Chicago as a stopping point 

 on the eastern route. 



B. P. WhedoD of W. D. Young & Co., Bay aty, Mich., spent several 

 days in the city on business. 



=< CANADIAN > 



W. C. Irvin, general manager of the Irvin Lumber Company, Toronto, 

 has been elected chairman of the Lumbermen's Credit Bureau of Toronto, 

 of which he was one of the organizers. It has been decided that a seat on 

 the bureau after April 1 will in addition to the regular fees cost each 

 Incumbent $100. 



President W. Gerard Power, St. Pacome, P. Q. ; Alexander MacLaunn 

 of Montreal and D. Champous of Restigouche, P. Q., have been nominated 

 as delegates from the Canadian Lumbermen's Association to the annual 

 meeting of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, which 

 will be held in Philadelphia next month. 



E. P. Foster has been appointed manager of the operations of the Holt 

 Timber Company, Bolger Bridge, Ont. He succeeds Geo. W. Taylor, who 

 has gone to Florida to take charge of some large enterprises with which 

 Mr. Holt is associated. 



W. W. Schupner of New York, representing the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, recently spent a few days in Montreal, 

 St. John and other cities. 



P. L. Canfield, for several years with the K. B. Butler Lumber Company, 

 Woodstock, Ont.', has embarked in the wholesale line and opened an office 

 in that city. 



J. M. Donovan, Toronto, who recently returned from an extensive trip 



to the Pacific coast, is entering upon the wholesale business and is spe- 

 I'ializing in southern hardwoods. 



A. C. Manbert, president of the Canadian General Lumber Company, 

 Toronto, who has been appointed by the lumbermen of Ontario to visit 

 Great Britain in the interests of wider markets and to conduct an exten- 

 sive publicity campaign on behalf of the wood products of the province, 

 sails next week for the old country. His work will be undertaken under 

 the auspices of the Ontario government, but his salary will be paid by the 

 sawmill men who have joined in this cooperative move. Mr. Manbert is a 

 former resident of Buffalo and previous to coming to Toronto eleven years 

 ago was a member of the firm of Graves, Manbert, George & Co. He is 

 president of the Lumbermen's Section of the Toronto Board of Trade and 

 one of the directors of the Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, Inc., 

 Toronto. 



At the eleventh annual meeting of the Canadian Lumbermen's Associa- 

 tion, which was held in St. John, N. B., W. Gerard Power, St. Pacome, 

 P. Q., was reelected president for the coming year. Twenty-one new 

 directors were appointed, seven of whom will retire annually for the next 

 three vears. One of those selected was A. E. Clark, Toronto, who is a 

 director of the National Hardwood Lumber Association and also chair- 

 man of the Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, Toronto. The present 

 membership of the association is 128, being an increase of 31 over last 

 year. The next annual will be held in Quebec city. The association is 

 calling upon the Provincial and Federal governments to conduct a national 

 survey of the standing forest wealth of Canada, showing the various kinds 

 of timber, quality, location and accessibility, together with the available 

 means of transportating same to the nearest market. 



An important step which is being undertaken in Canada is the estab- 

 lishment of a statistical service by the Canadian Lumbermen's Association. 

 Heretofore any shipments regarding the cut, sales, stocks on hand, etc., 

 so far as lumber is concerned have been largely guess work. In future all 

 leading manufacturers will supply on printed forms to Frank Hawkins, 

 secretary of the Canadian Lumbermen's Association. Ottawa, monthly 

 reports of their cuts, sales, shipments, stocks on hand, etc., from which 

 aggregate statments will be compiled for the use of the members. 



The eastern spruce manufacturers who formed an association in Mon- 

 treal last November with Sir Wm. Price of Quebec as chairman and Angus 

 McLean of Bathurst, N. B., as vice-chairman have decided to Join forces 

 with the Canadian Lumbermen's Association and will form a section of 

 that body to be known as the eastern spruce section. It is expected that 

 the white pine men of Ontario will organize in the near future and form 

 another section. 



