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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 25, I'JIS 



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B-l 167— Wants Locust 

 "New York, N. Y., January S. — Ktlltor IlAimwooD Record : Where can 

 I locate G/4 log run locust? We want to buy as much of this stock as 

 we can get hold of, from 1 car up to 15 cars, and It can be shipped green. 

 It can be any width from :i" up and any length from IS" or longer up to 

 10'. It must be put through a mill after it arrives, as the stock is cut 



up Into small cuttings 12" and up long. . 



B-l 168— Ash Pike Poles 

 Wisconsin, .Tanuary 9. — Editor Hardwciod Recohd : We are large buyers 

 of 8 and 12 foot ash pike poles and would be pleased to have you furnish 

 us with the names and nrlciressps of manufacturers. . 



B-1169 — Quarter-sawed Red Oak Backs 



Oshkosh, Wis., January 15. — Editor H.4rdwood Kkcord: We are in the 

 market for a car of backs quarter-sawed red oak, plump %" thick. If 

 you can furnish these sizes please let us know and it part of or .ill of 

 them have to be cut, please give us this information when you could fur- 

 nish them and at what price: 4,000 pieces 4x20; 15,000 pieces 4x16; 

 2,000 pieces 6x22 ; 800 pieces 6x24 ; 1,500 pieces 5x22 ; 500 pieces 4x22 ; 

 2,000 pieces 2x20; 2,000 pieces 5x16. . 



B 1170— White Ash and Oak Wanted 



San Francisco, Ca!., January 10. — Editor Hardwood Record: We en- 

 close you memorandum of FAS quartered white oak and F.\S white cane 

 ash that we are in the market for. We thought possibly you could be of 

 service to us as well as to your friends by putting us in touch with the 

 parties who have this stock now on hand, as we arc in Immediate need of 

 same. If it will facilitate matters any, we wish you would have these 

 parties quote us direct from the respective mills. 



D.ivis Hardwood Company, 



Bay and Mason Streets. 



Tlic stock list referred to above, giving description of material 

 desired, can be secured by communicating direct with the inquirer. 

 — Kmtor. 



Clubs and Associations 



Hemlock and Hardwood Meeting 

 Plans arc nearly completed for the annual meetings of the Northern 

 Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' .\ssociation and the White Cedar 

 Shingle Association at the Hotel Pfister. The dates for the former meet- 

 ing are January 31 and February 1, while the shingle association will 

 meet at 3 :30 on the afternoon of January 31. Although Secretary O. T. 

 Swan has not yet received acceptances from all the men requested to 

 speak, it is certain that many new and vital subjects incident to the war 

 will be discussed in addition to the presentation of the annual reports 

 by the association officers and the chairmen of the several bureaus. 

 Charles Keith, Kansas City, of the Southern Fine Association, will speak 



on "The Relationship of the Lumber Industry to Government Service," 

 and B. J. Packer, of the Wisconsin state department of agriculture of 

 Madison, Wis., will present an illustrated moving picture lecture on 

 "Grazing Cattle and Sheep on Cutover Lands." R. B. Goodman of Good- 

 num. Wis., vice-president of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, will talk of work connected with the national, and of the relation 

 district lumber associations bear to the national body. Terms of Sale, 

 Thrift Stamp Campaigns In Logging Camiis and Mills, Hemlock and Other 

 Grades and Mill Inspections, will be other topics to come up for general 

 discussion, besides the subjects to be launched In the reports of the bureau 

 managers. One of the most important addresses will be by a member of 

 the state railroad rate commission who will tell of the effect of the gov- 

 ernment's control of railways on the lumber industry, hearing especially 

 on claims, rates and routings. 



Dr. Hermann von Schrenck of St. Louis will be the only speaker at the 

 White Cedar Shingle Association meeting. He will discuss from a tech- 

 nical and practical standpoint a number of exhaustive tests he has con- 

 ducted on various kinds of roofing, and he will also present the subject of 

 sap specifications. President Lingle of Westboro has named a nominating 

 committee of the hemlock association which is as follows : J. T. Philips, 

 Green Bay ; M. J. Quinlan, Soperton ; and M'. P. McCullough, Schofleld. 

 The board of directors will meet at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of Febru- 

 ary 1. 



Knoxville Lumbermen Organize After Several Years of Trying 

 to Get Together 



.Vfter several years of trying to get together the hardwood lumber trade 

 at Knoxville, Tenn., has at last organized a club called The Knoxville 

 Lumbermen's Club. The unprecedented conditions in the hardwood busi- 

 ness for the past several months have made all the members realize that 

 a spirit of co-operation must exist in fact if the local trade is to succeed 

 in 1918. The first object and real purpose of the club is to assist in 

 supplying the government \vith timbers and lumber that the Knoxville 

 section produces. 



The club has had two meetings, and the following members were elected 

 officers for the year : President, E. M. Vestal, Vestal Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company ; secretary and treasurer, H. C. Kopcke of Kimball & 

 Kopcke. Meetings will be held every other Saturday and business trans- 

 acted during luncheon. 



.Announcement has just been made from Knoxville that local firms have 

 been asked to furnish the government with 500,000 feet of oak lumber 

 during the n'ext two or three months. E. M. Vestal, president of the 

 local club, has just returned from Washington where he conferred with 

 government officials regarding this order. Members of the club are en- 

 thusiastic over the prospect of filling this large government business and 

 prophesy that the lumber will be gotten out In record time. The club 

 embodies in its membership ov< ry hardwood firm in the city. 



Southwestern Hardwood Men Will Speed War Production 



For the purpose of discussing mill operation methods with a view of 

 speeding up the production of ship timbers, the directors of the Southern 

 Hardwood M^ufacturers' Club held a special meeting in Beaumont, Tex., 

 on Wednesday, January 9. It went on record as strongly favoring the 

 routing of war supplies through Gulf ports. The car shortage was dis- 

 cussed at great length, and all present seemed to feel that cars will be 

 more plentiful when the effect of government regulation has had time to 

 be felt. 



E. M. VESTAL, PRESIDENT 



OF KNOXVILLE, TENN., LUMBERMEN'S 



CLUB 



H. C. KOPCKE, SECRETARY-TREASURER 



OF KNOXVILLE, TENN., LUMBERMEN'S 



CLUB 



THE LATE HARRISON PARKER 



OF PALMER & PARKER, 



BOSTON 



