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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Stock List which we wish to move 

 at this time is as follows: 



12 cars 1" Ists & 2nds Clear Unsel. Birch 



4 cars 1" No. 1 Common Clear Unsel. Birch 

 2 cars 10 4 & 12 4 No. 1 & Better Birch 



5 cars 1" Ists & 2nds Clear Basswood 

 2 cars 1" No. 1 Common Clear Basswood 



10 cars 1" No. 2 & Better Hard Maple 



This is dry stock, carefully manufactured, 

 and we are in a position to make prompt 

 sliijiiiient of any mixed grades or cars. 



Oelhafen Lumber Company 



TOMAHAWK. WISCONSIN 



in the conduct of their business. Mr. Burgess is hopeful of the passage 

 of the lilU which has the hearty endorsement of the Southern Hardwood 

 Traffic Bureau. 



John G. Lockhart Lumber Co. 



Sheboygan, Wisconsin 



We have the following DRY stock and will make special in- 

 ducement to move in February and March: 



40,000' .1/4" No. 3 Soft Elm. 



20,000' 5/4" No. 3 Rock Elm. 

 100,000' 5/4" No, 3 Birch. 



50,000' 5/4" No. 3 Maple. 

 100,000' 8/4" No. 2 and 3 Hemlock 

 Can resaw above items. 



40,000' 5/4" No. 2 & Bet. Roclc Elm 

 100,000' 8/4" No. 2 and Bet. Rock 



Elm 

 30,000' 12/4" No. 2 & Bet. Rock Elm 



75.000' 4/4" No. 1 and Bet. Bass 

 1.50,000' 5/4" No. 2 and Bet. Maple 

 200,000' 8/4" No. 2 and Bet. Maple 

 100,000' 12/4" No. 2 and Bet. Maple 

 200,000' 5/4" No. 1 and Bet. Birch 

 50,000' 5/4" No. 2 Com. Birch 

 30,000' 8/4" No. 1 and Bet. Birch 

 40,000' 10/4" No. 1 and Bet. Birch 

 20.000' 12/4" No. 1 and Bet. Birch 

 Birch is unselected Red all in. 



ABOVE STOCK CAN BE ASSORTED AS TO GRADES. CAN SAW 



OUT ON CONTRACT WEI^I^ BOXED MAPLE TIMBERS 



AND PLANK. 



AH Wood Finishers 



should use our NATURAL RUBBING 

 OIL, "ZERO" BRAND, "Direct from Well 

 to Consumer." 



Zero Brand Reg. U. S. Pat. Offlce. 



STILES BROS. 



Parltersburg, West Va. 



Producers of Pure Natural West Virginia Lubricating Oil 



SA\IP1.,E ON APPLICATION 



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Till' .tnnouncement of lb"- dcnlh -ot llcnry II. iiibson. editor of 

 II.MtDwooD Record, was received with keen i^orrow by local merobers of 

 the trade. Mr. Gll)son had many acquaintances among the local hard- 

 wood men, by whom he was highly esteemed, .ind who had wide regard for 

 his eminent knowledge in regard to the hardwood industry In the United 

 .States. 



Several matters of Interest came up at the last weekly meeting of the 

 Xashville Lumbermen's Club. President Henderson I!aker was authorized 

 to appoint a man to represent the club with the Nashville Boosters who 

 will make a tour of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and west Tennessee 

 on a special train next month. G. A. Washington of tlie transportation 

 committee reported that the proposed advance of one to tliree cents In 

 freight rates on lumber from points in Kentucky to Nashville and beyond 

 had been suspended by the Interstate Commerce Commission until July 30, 

 pending investigation of the equity of the Increase. Complaint was made 

 by the Tennessee Oak Flooring Company and Hunt, Washington & Smith 

 of this city against the increase. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission has refused to suspend the in- 

 crease of one to two cents per 100 pounds on the rate on crossties shipped 

 from points in Tennessee and Kentucky, on complaint of the Nashville 

 Tie Company and others. It is claimed that the refusal was due to the 

 failure of the complaint being made ten days before the rate went into 

 effect, though the complainants alleged that they were not notified of 

 the increase until a few days before it became operative. Complainants 

 allege that the increase will do a great damage to a large crosstle busi- 

 ness developed by them. 



McEwen Ransom of the Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company reports 

 a fair demand for flooring, though no unusually large contracts are 

 being made, 



R, S. Maddo.x, new state forester of Tennessee, announces important 

 plans for reclaiming forests in Tennessee, and promises to take all steps 

 that will be permitted by the authority and resources of his depart- 

 ment. 



M. F. Greene of the Davidson, Hicks & Greene Company has returned 

 from an extended stay at his winter home in Florida, 



W. A. Passmore, formerly of McMinnville, Tenn., who has established 

 a lumber business at New Market, Ala., was here, and reported that 

 business is in good shape in his territory, and that his firm is accumu- 

 lating a good stock of hardwoods. 



The purchasing and distributing yards of ,T. Gibson Mcllvain & Co., of 

 Philadelphia, will be closed. Polk C. Curtis, who has managed the local 

 branch, will open retail yards at the same place, and will also handle 

 a wholesale and commission business in hardwoods. 



Building activities at Nashville for the month of March showed material 

 increase. The record of the city building department shows permits for 

 improvements to cost .$229,980 last month, compared with $186,554 the 

 same month last year. 



Heavy rains last week gave the highest tide of the season on Cumber- 

 laud river, and local firms are expecting to receive 6,000,000 or 8,000,000 

 feet of hardwood timber from the upper river section, which will be 

 lloated to market. 



Commissioner Meyer of the Interstate Commerce Commission came to 

 Nashville to hear testimony in the reciprocal switching case in which 

 the city is complainant. Several prominent manufacturers in the hard- 

 wood lumber line were witnesses. A former terminal employe testified 

 that the cost of switching cars from one line to the other was about .'3] 

 cents, whereas a charge of from $2 to $30 is made. The trouble is witli 

 the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, which refuses to have reciprocal 

 switching relations with the Tennessee Central except on a basis that 

 is practically prohibitive on competitive business. 



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Members of the Louisville trade received with deep regret news of the 

 death of Henry H, Gibson, editor and manager of Hardwood Record, 

 who was personally known and warmly regarded by practically all of 

 the lumbermen here. -Appropriate resolutions were adopted by the Louis- 

 ville Hardwood Club at its meeting March 31. 



The Churchill-Milton Lumber Company, which is operating a yard in 

 New Albany, Ind., across the river from Louisville, has taken over the 

 lumber stocks in the New Albany yard of the Edward L. Davis Lumber 

 Company, whicli is to discontinue operations on that side of the river. 



Ned Booker, president of the Booker Box Company, is being congratu- 

 lated by reason of the advent of a baby boy at his home. The stork 

 arrived .March 31. Mrs. Booker and the baby are getting along nicely. 

 The youngster will be called S. E. Booker, Jr., and promises to develop 

 into either a lumberman or box manufacturer. 



The Brunswick Creosoting Company is being organized in Louisville 

 with $150,000 capital stock, and will put in a creosoting plant at Bruns- 

 wick, Ga. Yellow pine railroad ties will be treated there and shipped by 

 water to the eastern markets. A site has been secured, and work on the 

 l>lant will begin in the immediate future. Frank S. Cooken, a well- 



