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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Walnut for Export 



A lot of splendid assorted American Walnut 

 logs, squared up and ready for export, are 

 shown in the above photograph, which illus- 

 trates a section of our exporting yard at Kan- 

 sas City. 



All work, from the selecting of the trees in 

 the woods to the final loading, is done by men 

 trained in our employ and is under our close 

 personal supervision. 



Hence we can guarantee satisfaction in both 

 export and domestic shipments. 



FRANK PU RCELL 



Kansas City, Mo. U. S. A. 



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, III. 



Volney (i. Udinptt, au old and wollknown lumberman, and father of 

 Kllli'm E. Bennett of Mungar & Bennett, Camden, N. J., died on March 

 14. In his seventy-seventh year. 



.\ report has come that the head, arms and body ot William Balliet, a 

 wealthy lumberman of Williamsport, Pa., were found along the I,aclca- 

 wannn liailroad, at Shlckshinny. The county authorites are convinced 

 that Balliet was robbed, murdered and thrown upon the track, for further 

 mutilation. A gold watch and chain, ?200 in cash and other valuables 

 which are known to have been in his possession, are missing. 



.T. II, Sykes. formerly Philadelphia representative of W. .\. Wilson & 

 Sons. Wheeling, W. Va., has formed the J. II. Sykes Lumber Company, 

 .ind will handle the Wilson product in this territory. 



.< BOSTON y- 



Following the withdrawal from the Larivee l,umljiT Company of Cyril 

 .T. Larivee, as noted in a recent issue, this firm has changed its name to 

 the B. L. Tim Lumber Company. Its yard will remain at .TIB .\lhany 

 St.. Boston, with B. L. Tim president and S. Ilirsch, treasurer. 



The old firm of M. F. Ashley & Co. of Attleboro has dissolved partner- 

 ship, and Edward G. .\shley will continue under the old style as pro- 

 prietor. 



The Wm. Keller Construction Company has been incorporated at West 

 Newton, Mass., with capital stock of $50,000, and will operate a large 

 planing mill in that town. 



John B. Bugbee of the hardwood bouse of the Holt & Bugbee Company 

 is now able to be at the office a few hours each day after a prolonged ill- 

 ness during the winter. 



T. A. Foley of Paris, III., called on the trade of Boston during the 

 present week. 



-•< BALTIMORE >-= 



Richard P. Baer, of Richard P. Baer A: <_'o., the well-known hardwood 

 firm in the tower of the Maryland Casualty building, is back from a trip 

 of several weeks down South. He went from Baltimore to Asheville, 

 where he looked after details in the branch ofiice, and continued to 

 Mobile, near which city the firm operates a mill, and thence to New 

 Orleans. He found business in the main quiet, with the demand holding 

 off to a pronounced degree, but with the feeling as to the future rather 

 encouraging. M. S. Baer, of the same firm, has gone on a trip to the 

 Middle West. He will stop among other places at Columbus, O., where 

 the firm maintains a branch office with B. C. Williamson in charge. It 

 is also Mr. Baer's intention to visit a number of other cities in that 

 territory, seeing for himself just how the hardwoods are moving. 



A. Frank Parker of Mann & Parker, Inc., Continental building, spent a 

 day at the home office this week, but was off again for Pennsylvania and 

 adjacent territory, and is not expected to return for a month or more. He 

 reported while here that a considerable portion of the northern territory 

 was slow about taking up lumber, and that New York in particular was 

 decidedly quiet. 



Among the visiting lumbermen here during the last ten days or two 

 weeks were J. Rappe Myers, Jr., of the Ellis & Myers Lumber Company, 

 Salem, Va.; J. H. Mackleduff of the Case- Fowler Lumber Company, Macon, 

 Ua.: F. E. Schofleld of Schofleld Bros., Philadelphia, and G. C. .\dams, 

 of the Duquesne Lumber Company, Pittsburgh, Pa. All reported that the 

 hardwood trade had been rather quiet of late, with prices in the main 

 easy, and much trouble experienced on account of deep snow and other 

 obstacles. 



Unusual activity in the placing of bark contracts in West Virginia and 

 Pennsylvania, in the neighborhood of Cumberland, which attracted 

 attention of late, has been followed by the report that the Chicago packing 

 firm of Swift & Co. has acquired tanneries in that secHon and will tan 

 the hides produced by it. 



The schooner Benjamin F. Poole, a four-master, which sailed from 

 Wilmington. N. C, for Baltimore, January 20, with railroad ties has been 

 given up for lost. She carried a crew of eight men besides the captain. 

 Nothing has been heard from her since she left Wilmington. 



That the lumber trade in so far as Baltimore is concerned, is very good 

 with excellent prospects, at least in so far as quantity is concerned, 

 appears plainly from the report of the building Inspector for February, 

 which shows that the month ran about 160 per cent ahead of the corre- 

 sponding period of 1913. The total for the first two months of the 

 present year was not less than $2,610,77-1, with $1,,581.855 for Febru- 

 ary alone. Only the most active months of 191.3 equalled or approached 

 this record, a continuance of which will put 1914 far ahead of any year 

 with the single exception of the first year after the great fire, when con- 

 struction work was unusually active. 



The steamship Quernmore, of the Johnston line, which arrived ten days 

 ago from Liverpool, brought nearly 200 mahogany logs from Africa. Prac- 

 tically the entire shipment was destined to points West, a large number 

 going to St. Louis. 



-■<, COLUMBUS >- 



Papers have been filed with the secretary of state Increasing the 

 capital stock of the H. G. Coffman Lumber Company of Washington 

 C. H., O., from $75,000 to $100,000. 



The Ervin-Finley Mill and Lumber Company of Hamilton has been 



