May 10, 1915. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



31 



For the first four montUs of 1915 the total building permits issued in 

 these G" cities reach a total of SlOl, 056.400. compared with $203,674,619 for 

 the corresponding period -of 1!)14. a doc n^ase of 6 per cent. A detailed 

 statement follows : 



April, 1915. 



Akron $ 381.305 



Albany 285,745 



Atlanta 446,337 



Baltimore 388,213 



Birmingham 169,701 



BrI.lgepor* 1,493.413 



Buffalo 1,190.000 



44,»n5 



G.S20.70O 



1.317.4S-, 



3.076. 38.1 



406.555 



492.175 



210.260 



22.5 223 



4,2fi8.'460 



340.178 



132. .501 



238.520 



298.394 



9.5,375 



582,602 



776,511 



1,126.170 



195.900 



Los Angeles 1.591,390 



Louisville 282,400 



Manchester 909.520 



Memphis 438.355 



Milwaukee . . 1.173.693 



Minneapolis ... 1.951,035 



Nashville 70,078 



Newark 549,840 



New Haven 465.320 



New Orleans 339,571 



New York Citv 18.064.958 



Manhattan 6,020.467 



Bronx 3,057,143 



Brooklyn .5.284.0.50 



Chattanooga 



Chicago 



Cincinnati . , . 

 Clevelan<t . . . 

 Columbus . . . 



Dallas 



Dayton 



Des Moines . 



Detroit 



Duluth 



East Orange 

 Fort Wayne . 

 Grand Rapids 

 Harrisburg . . 



Hartford 



Indianapolis 

 Kansas City . 

 Lincoln 



Queens 



Richmond . . 

 Oklahoma .... 



Omaha 



Paterson 



Peoria 



Philadelphia 

 Pittsburgh . . . 

 Richmond .... 

 Rochester .... 

 .Salt Lake City. 

 San Antonio . . 

 St. Joseph .... 



St. Louis 



St. Paul 



Schenectady . . 



Scranton 



■ Seattle 



Shreveport ... 



Siou.x City 



Spokane 



Springfield, 111. 



Syracuse 



Toledo 



Topeka 



Troy 



Utica, N. T 



Washington . . 

 Wilkes-Barre . 



Total .... 



!.412,905 

 389.787 

 46.865 

 389.420 

 124.426 

 3l7.riii5 



.■!.440,'.Miii 

 :i74.L'«:l 

 370.114 



1.159.257 

 252 8.52 

 "95! .500 

 130.320 

 986.719 

 829.914 

 101.748 

 118.952 

 837.105 

 63.817 

 201.670 

 127,775 

 11.5.115 

 271.474 

 959.042 

 108.875 

 on. 745 

 573.305 



1.029.020 

 119.740 



April. 1914. 

 $ 659.030 



1.156.595 

 .565,879 

 635.215 

 318.144 

 210,905 



1,280.000 

 219.400 



9,465,800 

 964,423 



2,594.115 

 683.555 

 .565.335 

 421.300 

 181.178 



3,013,725 

 440,491 

 541.272 

 388.5.50 

 132.134 

 292.175 

 453.843 



1,037.466 

 736.605 

 172.540 



1.898.301 

 447.870 

 113.421 

 420,085 



1,343..502 



1,912,200 

 258,.5n5 

 754.142 

 249.4S5 

 204.5S7 

 15.267.K09 



5.440.403 



1.938.742 



.5.230,120 



2.422.248 

 230. 236 

 3.5.825 

 .593.035 

 293.458 

 202.6.50 



3.075.905 



1.158.225 

 557.131 



1,156.109 



321.200 



204.. 540 



74.820 



1.734.412 



1.204,7.59 

 184.453 

 157.383 



1.227.930 



160.668 



317.837 



214.010 



79.015 



483,780 



772.144 



69.875 



37.330 



277.005 



851.. 300 



86,194 



— Per cent — 

 Gain. Loss 



37 



18 



24 

 42 



120 

 28 



53 

 13 



702 

 4 



66 



18 



58 

 1 



69 

 31 



21 

 39 

 47 



40 

 IS 

 50 



39 



67 

 25 



13 



73 



34 



57 



16 

 33 



21 

 53 



43 

 31 

 45 

 24 

 32 

 60 

 36 

 40 



24 

 56 

 63 

 107 

 21 

 39 



.v64.652.631 .«65.531.427 . . 1 



The Search for Wood Preservatives 



In a recent bulletin on "Tests of Wood Preservatives," issued by the 

 Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., the complaint is made 

 somewhat wearily that "'by-products for wliieh no use could be found 

 have often taken their last stand as possible preservatives of wood." 

 Samples of all sorts of stuff have been sent to the laboratory with the 

 suggestion that they be tried out to determine if they might not be 

 valuable as preservatives. Skimmed milk is a favorite suggestion. The 

 refuse from tanneries is another. The waste liquor from pulp plants 

 appeals to some who fancy that it may possess mysterious properties for 

 preserving wood from decay. The fact that fumes from smelters will 

 kill trees by settling on their leaves and plugging the pores through 

 which the tree breathes, suggests to some people that the same sub- 

 stance may preserve wood from decay ; and the laboratory occasionally 

 receives bottles of condensed fumes from which to make tests. Some 

 of these substances could not possibl.v possess preservative properties of 

 value : but the laboratory has proceeded patiently to test everything that 

 has the remotest promise. A complete list of all substances tried or sug- 

 gested would look like the pharmacopoeia of a Chinese apothecary. 



Comparison of March Exports for Two Years 



The following figures which have .iust been published afford means fi>r 

 comparing certain exports for JIarch, 101,5. with those for the same montli 

 last year : 



1014 



Cotton .$4.1.360.47.5 



Mineral oils • 11.4.50,031 



Meat and dairy products 10,274,173 



Breadstuffs 8,060.403 



Cottonseed oil 1,877,024 



Cattle, hogs, and sheep 88,670 



mi. 5 



$ 53.524.279 



10.546,412 



28,274.194 



59.661,053 



2,131,546 



22,276 



?154,159,760 



Total $75,110,77 



Shooks and Packing Cases Wanted 

 The Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commercp at Washington an- 

 nounces that an American consular officer in England reports that a firm 



in his district desires to communicate with American manufacturers and 

 exporters of shooks and packing cases. A copy of the specifications taay 

 be examined at the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and its 

 branch offices. It is stated that the firm usually buys about 50,000 shooks 

 and packing cases at a time. Quotations should be made c. i. f. destina- 

 tion. In making Inquiries, the index number 16,499 should be mentioned. 



Hardwood ^ews ^otes 



=-< MISCELLANEOUS >•= 



The West Virginia Flooring and Trim Company has been incorporated 

 at New York, N. Y. 



The Maryland-Carolina Lumber and Timber Company is a new incorpora- 

 tion at Winton, N. C. 



A new wholesale hardwood concern at McKeesport, Pa., is the C. F. 

 Dahlstrom Lumber Company. 



Tlie Kichmond Strip Company is a newly incorporated concern at Rich- 

 mond, Va. 



The High Point Casket Company at High Point, N. C, lost its factory by 

 tire on Saturday, April 24. 



.\t Greenville, Tenn., the Consolidated Chair Corporation has suffered a 

 loss by Are. 



The Enterprise Screen Company has been incorporated at Milam. Tex., 

 with $5,000 capital. 



At Cincinnati, O., the firm of I51ackl>urn & Holser is reported to have 

 gone out of business. 



L. S. Smith has been appointed receiver for the Tri-State Lumber Com- 

 pany of fnlontown. Pa. 



r. D. Phillips has been appointed receiver for the Thomasville Variety 

 Woi-ks. Thomasville. Ga. 



.Vt Nashville, Tenn.. the John Anderson Company recently began the 

 wholesale lumber business. 



At Boston, Mass., the Massachusetts Plumbers' Woodwork Company was 

 incorporated a short time ago. 



The -Advance Lumber Company, Cleveland, O., has decreased its capital 

 stock from $500,000 to $5,000. 



The I>esk Cabinette Company has been incorporated at Newborn, \. C, 

 it.s capitalization '.leing .<25.000. 



The Campbell & Cameron Company's planing mill and box factory located 

 at Ashland, Wis., was sold recently. 



The Standard Planing Mill Company has been incorporated at .\shland, 

 Ky.. with a capital stock of $20,000. 



It is reported that the Sheldon Fixture Company at Sheldon, Ark., is offer- 

 in.!,' to settle at forty cents on the dollar. 



The Chicago Mill & Box Company has been incorporated at St. Bernard, 

 Cincinnati. O. The capital stock is $250,000. 



At Norfolk, Va., the Poplar Lumber Corporation has filed a bankruptcy 

 petition in the United States bankruptcy court. 



The .\merican Hardwood Lumber Company is opening a wholesale and 

 retail hardwood lumber yard at Los .\ngeles. Cal. 



The Vincennes Gate Company, an incorporati>d concern, has started busi- 

 ness at Vincennes. Ind. The compan.v has a capital stock of $25,000. 



At Paw Paw. Mich., the Paw Paw Basket Company has suffered a fire 

 loss, reported to be $5,000. This has, however, not been substantiated. 



At Rochester, N. Y.. the Empire Seating Company, an incorporated insti- 

 tution, has started busines-s with an authorized capital stock of $25. 000, 



The Texas Hardwood Company is the style of a recently incorporated 

 Houston, Tex., concern. The company will do a wholesale lumber husi- 

 i;ess. 



.-V. B. Sowles, sixty-six .years old, a prominent lumljer manufacturer of 

 i'aducah, Ky., died on April 25 from pneumonia. He is survived by his 

 widow and four children. 



The Indiana Quartered Oak Company of New York announces that since 

 .\pril 16 its offices have been located in the Vanderbilt Concourse, opposite 

 the Grand Central Terminal. 



The Boone Ford Lumijer Company has started business at Asheville, 

 N. C. with a capita! stock of $50,000. W. S. Whiting, A. C. Barnard and 

 1). E. ilerrick of Asheville are the incorporators. 



X new planing mill has been erected by the Cecil Lumber Company which 

 will operate in the neighborhood of Wheeling, W. ^'a. Work was started 

 the latter part of April on the new structure. 



It is reported from Hastings, Minn., that a casket factory is in process 

 of construction at that point. Ground was broken the end of April for the 

 liuilding, which will cost from $15,000 to $20,000. 



C. H. Pearson, 49 Broadway, New Y'ork, N. Y'., announces that on March 

 1 the corporation C. H. Pearson Company was dissolved and that C. H. 

 Pearson will continue the business of importing in all kinds of domestic 

 and foreign hardwoods. 



The Johnson City Lumber & Manufacturing Company has recently been 

 organized at Johnson City, Tenn. Foundation work for the building w'as 

 started a few days later. The plant will manufacture vehicle materials, 

 textile mill loom supplies, special bent woodwork, etc. 



