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HARDWOOD RECORD 



March 10, 1919 



^ For Greatest Range of Uses ^ 



and 



Easiest Handling 



buy the 



Hoosier Self Feed Rip Saw. This machine has earned thousands 

 of dollars for owners in the manufacture of dimension lumber, crating, 

 etc., because its entirely novel design, resulting in surprising ease of 

 operation and adaptability, makes possible a profit where a loss is 

 often expected in this work. The 



Hoosier Self-Feed Rip Saw 



has a positive and powerful feed which handles the heaviest material 

 as readily as the lightest. 



The table, raised and lowered with the crank in front of the ma- 

 chine, is always level — always securely locked. 



The Hoosier rips anything up to 6 inches thick and 17 inches wide. 



It feeds 35, 75, 100 or 150 feet a minute. 



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ifactured 



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exclusively by 



The SINKER -DAVIS COMPANY 



INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 



River and will cut timber on 21,000 acres in that section which has been 

 purchased from the Garden River Timber Company. 



Stevens-Hepner Company, Ltd.. Port Elgin, Ont., manufacturer of 

 brushes and brooms, have recently increased its capital stock from $50,000 

 to $500,000. 



The Pacific Bos Lumber Company. Vancouver, B. C. has just completed 

 a pail plant which is the only one of its kind in the four western provinces 

 and has a capacity of 1,000 pails a day. It has also completed a mill 

 which cuts 60.000 feet a day and three drykilns supplying lumber for its 

 box factory. 



E. C Parsons, late of Vancouver, B. C. where he was engaged with the 

 Pacific Lumbermen's Inspection Bureau has joined the staff of the Canadian 

 Western Lumber Company at its Toronto office as associate manager. 



The Canadian railway companies have advised shippers that their in- 

 struction regarding credits, which was to have gone into effect on March 

 1. would not be enforced until at least June 1, 



The Canadian Railway War Board, composed of representatives of the 

 various railways, working in the interests of the railways, decree that 

 credits could no longer be advanced to shippers, and that after March 1 

 they would have to pay cash for their shipments, or otherwise place a 

 bond with a company, satisfactory to the railway company, to secure 

 several days* credit. 



The action of the railway companies in not enforcing the order is due to 

 the protests that have been made by numerous associations and individuals. 



PITTSBURGH 



The Greenwood Lumber Company has been organized at Clearfield, Pa., 

 and has bought a tract of timber near that place which will cut about 

 3.000,000 feet of lumber, largely hardwood. 



The Pittsburgh Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association last week elected 

 these officers for the ensuing year : President, E. S. Dunn, Allegheny 

 Lumber Company ; secretary and treasurer, J. G. Criste. Interior Lumber 

 Company ; vice-president. J. H. Henderson. Henderson Lumber Company ; 

 and directors, Fred R. Babcock. Babcock Lumber Company : William H. 

 Schuette, William Schuette & Co. ; J. A. Cheyne. Penn Door & Sash Com- 

 pany ; E. H. Stoner, West Penn Lumber Company, and Alex Willson, Willson 

 Brothers Lumber Company, 



E. V. Babcock of the Babcock I^umber Company attended the conference 

 of governors and mayors which President Wilson called at Washington 

 last week. 



The Carnegie Steel Company is arranging to spend $1,000,000 more for 

 improving its plants at Farrell, Pa,, and will be in the market for con- 

 siderable hardwood on this account. 



The Peffer Lumber & Supply Company is a new concern at Punxsutaw- 

 ney. l*a., organized with the following incorporators : George Peffer, 

 E. F, Boss and N. L. Boss. 



W. M. Rodgers of the West Penn Railways Company and J. M. Curry of 

 Connellsville. Pa., have bought 3000 acres of timber near Cumberland, 

 Md. A large part of it is oak and the entire tract will produce about 

 8,000,000 feet of lumber. 



Governor William C. Sproul has approved the purchase by the State 

 Forestry Commission of 20,392 acres of land in Union, Lycoming and 

 Clinton counties at price of $2.40 per acre for forestry purposes. 



BALTIMORE 



A decided improvement is being noted here in building activity, the total 

 declared value of the structures for the erection of which permits were 

 issued during the month being not less than $605,474, which is a great 

 increase over the same month of last year. Preparations are being made 

 by contractors and builders everywhere to take up construction work. 

 and from present indications the activity this year will be limited only by 

 the volume of labor available. Meanwhile the real estate men are taking 

 advantage of the scarcity of dwellings that exists here to buy up all the 

 property they can get and holding it at higher prices. Owners who tried 

 unsuccessfully for years to dispose of their holdings suddenly find them- 

 selves in a position not only to get purchasers but also to realize prices 

 which they never expected to secure, and the values have gone up at least 

 fifty per cent. Of course, such an increase in value, taken together with 

 recessions in the cost of materials that have already taken place, will 

 stimulate building as it has not been encouraged for a long time, and in a 

 comparatively short while a decline may be expected. The annexa- 

 tion of a large area of the rural districts to the city, bringing into the 

 municipal limits a territory of about ninety square miles, will be taken 

 advantage of to start developments. A thinning out of the population, 

 owing to the suspension of war work, may also be looked for. 



The prospects in the way of building and the consequent expansion in 

 the demand for lumber were made the subject of an informal discussion 

 at the recent quarterly meeting of the Lumber Exchange. A decidedly 

 hopeful feeling was shown among the membership with regard to the pros- 

 pects for lumber, and it was freely predicted that a period of prosperity 

 was ahead. The exchange decided to co-operate with the board of trade 

 in a movement designed to bring factories and other establishments to 

 Baltimore, and it was resolved to make a contribution commensurate with 

 the importance of the exchange tD the fund. 



W. S. Smith, manager of the Johnson City Lumber Company of Johnson 



