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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Garrett Lnml) of the LambFlsh Lumber Company, Charleston, Miss., was 

 a recent visitor to Chicago. 



W. C. Calhoun, seneral mnnagor of the Frost Veneer Seating Company, 

 Sheboygan. Wis., spent a couple of days In Chicago last ncek. 



A. R. Clas of the Falls Machine Company, Sheboygan, Wis., spent sev- 

 eral days of last week In the city on business connected with the automo- 

 bile show. 



Frank I'urcell, the walnut man of Kansas City, Mo., was In attendance 

 at the recent exporters' meeting held at the Sherman House, this city. 



Floyd Day.of the Day Lumber and Coal Company, Clay City, Ky., spent 

 a few days of last week In the city on business. 



Frank Fee of the Fce-Crayton Hardwood Lumber Company was In town 

 for a few days recently. 



C. L. Fau.st, president of the Faust Brothers Lumber Company of Padu- 

 cah, Ky., was In Chicago for several days of last week. He was accom- 

 panied by Mrs. Faust. While In the city Mr. Faust conferred with his Chi- 

 cago representative. .7. F. Mingea. 



A. R. Week of the .lohn Week Lumber Company, Stevens Point, Wis., 

 spent a few days of last week In Chicago on business. 



IS. S. Kellogg of Wausau, Wis., secretary of the Northern Hemlock and 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, was In Chicago Wednesday and 

 Thursday of last week in the interests of his association work. 



Birch Veneers. Also Elm, Maple and Basswood 



WK :«.\M IVt'TlRE FINE ROT.VRY CUT 



STOLLE LUMBER & VENEER CO. Tripoli, Wis. 



LET US QUOTE YOU 



JAMES & ABBOT COMPANY 

 Lumber and Timber 



No. 165 Milk St., BOSTON, MASS. 



THE QUALITY OF YOUR 



VENEERS 



Your profits depend largely on econom- 

 ical production, and uniformly cut veneers 

 lessen the cost of production. 



Our employes are experienced, our 

 machinery modern, and we use the best 

 selected logs in Mahogany, Circassian 

 Walnut and Quartered Oak. 



Therefore, we will furnish you with ab- 

 solutely uniform and bone dry sliced or 

 sawed veneers that your men can handle 

 with a minimum outlay of time and labor. 



This Means Money in Your Pocket 



We will welcome you to our plant 

 (which is so modern it's worth coming to 

 see) or we will send a representative with 

 samples, on request. 



Fred W. Black Lumber Co. 



2245 S. Crawford Ave. 



Chicago, 111. 



J. C. Knox of Cadillac, Mich., secretary of the Michigan Hardwood Man- 

 utacturoi's' Association, attended the meeting of the board of governors of 

 the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association lield in Chicago recently. 



J. T. Phillips, general manager of the Diamond Lumber Company of 

 Green Bay, Wis., was in the city for a few days of last week. 



K. Bartholomew of John B. Ransom & Co., Nashville, Tcnn., spent a 

 few days in Chicago recently on business. 



.John D. Mershon of the John D. Mcrshon Lumber Company of Saginaw, 

 Mich., spent a few days recently with the local trade. 



The bulletin dated February 3 issued by the Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association of the United States is quite an unusual publication of the 

 kind. The design on the front page is particularly striking, being sup- 

 posed to illustrate graphically the Uardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 as between the producer and the consumer of hardwoods. The association 

 is represented as the keystone in the arch formed by the producers on the 

 one side and tlie consumers on the other. The whole bulletin is very well 

 gotten up and really deserves close attention. 



M. L. Pease of the Galloway-Pease Cotnnany of Poplar Bluff, Mo., spent 

 a few days last week with the Chicago trade. 



l'. J. Roys of the Fullerton-Powcll Hardwood Lumber Company of South 

 Hend, Ind., was in Chicago on I'riday and Saturday of last week. 



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The new mill plant of the Santa Clara Lumber Company, 2 Rector 

 street, is fast nearing the point where actual production will be under 

 way. The reorganizing of the company's manufactory will put the entire 

 plant in practically one big operation. The new branch was formerly 

 owned by the Norwood Manufacturing Company at Tupper Lake. Hard- 

 wood flooring and finish will be manufactured in addition to soft woods. 



John W. Love, who with Hamilton Love are the only partners in Love, 

 Boyd & Co., as a result of the withdrawal of J. W. Boyd, will continue 

 headquarters in this city. He says the business will be continued as 

 heretofore, e.'ccepting perhaps they may do less manufacturing. 



The Morgan Millwork Company has moved its local headquarters to 

 ij East Thirty-ninth street, the Craftsmen's building. Five floors of the 

 building are taken up by an exhibition of building materials and the 

 .Morgan company is showing some flne samples of its product, which In- 

 cludes doors, moulding and interior finish. 



F. J. Cronin, representing the Meadow River Lumber Company, Ralnelle, 

 W. Va., was a New York visitor during (he fortnight. He reports an 

 Improved inquiry for hardwood lumber and flooring and looks for a good 

 year. 



Fire on January 30 caused heavy damage to the plant and building of 

 the Walker Piano Company at East Sixty-third street. 



A big crowd and a good time are assured at the forthcoming dinner of 

 I he local trade. The date is February 19, at the New Biltmore, near 

 Grand Central Terminal. 



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The hardwood situation in this market at the opening of the present 

 month seems to be one of anticipation rather than any marked change 

 in the volume moving. Many of the large dealers seem to have an under- 

 lying confidence in the current year. The dullness which has become 

 commonplace at this season is still with us. but its influence on prices 

 is noticed only in certain items. There is no question that the hardwood 

 market here is affected, especially in woods heretofore used more or less 

 in finish, by the uncertainty of what is to be done in Pacific coast 

 finish lumber via the canal. Items in the local press and trade news 

 indicate that there are possibilities of supplies of suitable lumber in 

 large quantities and low prices, to take the place of some of the hard- 

 woods. Perhaps the weakening of poplar and gum might be attributed 

 in part to these prospects. A slight falling off in plain oak is probably 

 caused by pressure of some of the smaller mills who can make this 

 stock to move some of it as it might be said that the weakening has 

 not been so noted in the extra manufactured or what may be called 

 "big mill" stock. Along the same line quartered oak is stronger than 

 it has been. The call for this wood comes in all thicknesses instead of 

 a few, especially in those under 1 inch. Quartered oak strips and flooring 

 seem in poor supply here, and there is call for them. Ash in general 

 is strong, with brown ash still leading the southern. While there is not 

 much beech used here the value is emphatically increasing, while maple 

 and birch do not seem to have any noticeable changes. Sycamore is 

 another wood which does not move in large volume, but has had tor 

 some time a constant tendency to high piices here. There is standing 

 inquiry for walnut, but prices are hard to compare in general ; if It is 

 wanted very much, any price may be quoted on the higher grades, while 

 tlie common and lower grades are about as they have been. Cherry la 

 scarce in low grades, while common and upper grades are in good supply 

 at about the recently prevailing prices. 



The annual meeting of the Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 .\ssociation was held in Boston January 21 at Young's Hotel. The ofiBcers 

 liected were William E. Litchfield president. Charles S. Wentworth. vice- 

 president. E. C. Hammond, secretary and treasurer. Geo. H. Ellis of 

 the Massachusetts legislative committee on railroads delivered an ad- 

 dress, which in general received the accord of the meeting that action 

 relating to our railroads should be constructive and carefully considered 

 if we want to avoid a serious situation. This association voted to ap- 

 point a committee to draw up and submit the necessary charter and 



