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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Building Operations for May 

 Mit\ |irt'>t>iits tiiioiliiT i-4tin)iarMtl\ •-!> fnvoniMr showing tii I hi- };i'''iit 

 bulldluK loduiilr}'. Uullillnc pormlli' uiti' Iksiu'iI In 71 litios during tbi' 

 uionlli for constriK-tInn work nKKrcKntlnK "vvr JTii.ciihi.ihicp. This cxocodK 

 the total for April, wlili'h wns $0-1. (!.":;. 11.11. As conipnri'd with tlio corre- 

 spundlni: ninnths of U)14, iHith .\pril and .May ran almost nvck and neck. 

 Thi-ri' was in .\prll a di-rrcnse of one prr cent; In Ma.v of two per cent. 

 Hut durhiK llio first three months of the .vear there was a much inore 

 marked slirlnkaRe ns compared with the first quarter of 1014. New 

 York makes a helter showhiK In Ma.v than It made In .\prll, Its Mn.v finlns 

 amountin): to fiO per eent. riilengo also. In spite of Its labor complica- 

 tions, makes the quite tid.v comparative gain of 14 per cent. 



The olUelal building permits Issued b.v the 71 cities during May, ns 

 r<Ki>lved by the American I'ontraetor. Chicago, total $70, 27:1,. '>:(;), as com- 

 pared with $72,il.")7,l!00 for .May. 1!»14. Of these 71 cities 21! make gains, 

 the more notable Instances <if activity Including, In addition to New York 

 and Chicago, the following: Cleveland, a gain of i:t4 per cent; Denver, 

 99 IHT cent: llarrlsburg, 152 ; Lincoln, 224: Hartford, lil : New Orleans. 

 46; Oklahoma, 49: St. Joseph. 76: Sioux City, 59: and Wilkcs-Barrc, 177. 

 For the flrst Ave months of the year the total building permits Is- 

 sued In 6.') clUcs apgreKnte $270,807,492, as compared with $296,:i57,220 tor 

 the corresponding pcrlM of 1914, a decrease of 9 per cent. In detail the 

 figures are as follows : 



Per Cent 

 Mav. lOl.'i May. 1K14 Gain Loss 



Akron . ...$ .■148.110 $ .'iftB.fl.'iO 18 



Albany 40IJ..'i8cl .'.n'.l..'.(l.'i . . 29 



Atlanta .S:i7.934 7:f2.2!>ll . . .14 



Baltimore ... Iil:;..1,'17 1.0.SL',2»0 41 



Birmingham . ]!)L'.7.').'i 28S.!lft8 . . 33 



Buffalo 1.2L'2.noo l.IiM.nod 9 



Cedar Rapids IS], ("10 321.0110 . . 41 



Chaltanoosa 4."i.038 82,4110 45 



Chlr.-igo 7.n02.!>oO • 0.!lUl.l.-pll 14 



Cincinnati 1.102.42.1 1.181.71.'; 7 



Cleveland 5.151.009 2.201.820 134 



Columbus 911.785 841.01111 8 



Dallas 278..S35 .'.40.100 48 



Dayton 313.nr.2 43.''..«71 28 



Denver 434.270 218.030 99 



Detroit 2,290.990 3,038,925 .. 24 



Duluth 294.148 340,305 .. IS 



East Orange 82.353 103.722 .. 50 



Evan.''vllle 143..'i92 108.180 .. 15 



Fort Wavne 157.875 3.13.375 .. 55 



Grand Ranlds 379.990 304.7.19 25 



HarrlsbuFE 320.025 129,175 152 



Hartford 091.000 4r)0,1.19 01 



Indianapolis 493.9.30 1.547.787 25 



Kaniias City 880.215 1,177.915 25 



Lincoln 288.185 88.932 224 



Little Rock 74,992 117.235 36 



Los Angeles 1.168.983 1.478.703 . . 21 



Louisville 295,150 459.830 .. 36 



Memphis 228.490 304.095 .. 25 



Milwaukee 1,188,700 1.743.C.07 . . 31 



Minneapolis 1.765.200 3.180,085 .. 44 



Nashville 129.525 203.402 30 



Newark 981.745 809.288 21 



New Haven 318.740 .307.200 4 



New Orleans 297.081 204.587 40 



New York City 25.001.353 16.037.423 60 



Manhattan 14.378,327 8,656.9.19 66 



Bronx 4.7.30.333 1.519.258 211 



Brooklyn 3.045.429 3.852.523 . . 5 



Queens 2.059.404 2.283,7.30 .. 10 



Richmond 187.800 324.947 42 



Oklahoma 41.935 28.1IS2 49 



Omaha 889.385 1.140.853 .. 22 



Paterson 123.882 173.471 .. 28 



Peoria 231.280 272.015 .. 15 



Philadelphia 2.808.840 0.204.040 . . 54 



Pittsburgh 937.449 1.. 192.209 .. 41 



Portland 432.065 043.880 . . 33 



Richmond 396.300 370.034 7 



Rochester 1.001.455 1, .343.781 .. 25 



Salt Lake City 279.791 300.914 .. 7 



San Francisco 947.115 1.781.148 47 



St. Joseph 155.840 88.407 76 



St. Louis 937.070 1.496.603 .. 37 



St. Paul 1.309.656 1.. 102.094 13 



Schenectady 114.825 202.117 56 



Scranton 141.9.33 104.101 .30 



Seattle 353.820 809.405 .. 66 



Shreveport 61.677 100.800 .. 42 



Sioux City 312.9.10 190.583 .19 



Spokane 1.30.471 10.3.542 20 



SpringHeld. Ill 80.323 108.375 .. 20 



Syracuse 257.261 318.005 . . 19 



Tacoma 49.998 187. .391 73 



Toledo 5.13,1.15 792.159 30 



Topeka 42,935 33.291 29 



Troy 35,002 30.185 2 



Ctica. N. Y 158.705 184.795 14 



Washington 992.007 1,054.404 .. 6 



■Wllkes-Barrc 149.644 5.3.978 177 



Worcester 350.860 645.251 .. 44 



Total $70,273,533 $72,057,060 .. 2 



Commission Denies Petition 

 On June 10, at \Vashington, IJ. ('., the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion denied the application of St. Louis & San Francisco R. R. to estab- 

 lish, without observing the long and short haul law, forest products 

 rates from Kennett, Mo., via St. Louis, Kennett & Southeastern R. R., 

 Piggott, Ark., Butler County R. R.. Poplar Hluff. Mo., and St. Louis & 

 San Francisco R. R. and its connections, to Thebes. 111.. St. Louis, eastern 

 cities and interior points, and from Poplar Bluff and Linstead, Mo., via 

 Butler County R. R., Piggott, Ark,, St. Louis, Kennett & Southeastern 

 R. R., Kennett, Mo., and St. Louis & San Francisco R. R. and its con- 

 nections, to the same destinations. 



Wisconsin Forestry Law Muddled 



It IS ri'iMirii'd from .Madison. Wis., that the .Slate forestry law, of 

 which so much has been heard In the legislature of that State, Ktlll 

 remains undefined. The bill to cnati' n lonservatlon commission which 

 shall have charge of the forestry ri'serve and also take charge of the 

 work of the llsli and game departineiil. the fish loninilsslon and the state 

 park board, will become n law, but it Is not likely that any diiliilte 

 forestry policy will be formulated by this legislature, but Instead the 

 nev\- forestry commission, after it Is created, together with the state land 

 department, will be allowed to finally decide on the forc'stry policy and 

 also the methods which shall he used for the carrying out of the supreme 

 court decision on the forest reserve question. It has been Bald all 

 along that the forestry policy nilglit be determined In this way, and 

 there seems to be a desire on the part of the legislature not to enact 

 any legislation which sliall In any wily have any bearing on this ques- 

 tion be.vond the law for the creation of the new conservation commiHgion. 



Arkansas National Forest Sales 



.\rkaiisas liiis two .National I'^rests within Its borders, and consider- 

 able quantities of timber have been disposed of recently. The cut for 

 May was a total of 392,000 feet, amounting to $1,480.10. The total cut 

 for the current fiscal year Is 0,9C."i,00(i feet, amounting to $1S,.'!1C.|5. 

 Eight sales were made in May, aggregating 742,000 feet, amounting to 

 $1,700.50. the total sale* for the fiscal year being 19..i:!7,r,00 feet, aggre- 

 gating $00,477.10. The large sale, made to the Buschow-BlackwcU Lum- 

 l>er Company, of l*age, Okla.. has lieen cancelled. The contract was for 

 a total of 2,500,000 feet, at $0,000, but only 48:{,000 feet had been cut. 



Supervisor Kiefer has closed a sale of :i,228,000 feet with the Mount 

 Olive Stave Company, of Katesville, of which l,:i,'tri,0(K) feet Is on Coon 

 Creek watershed In Stone and Cleburne counties, and 1,893,000 feet on 

 Bothersome creek. In Stone county. The company lias until June HO, 1917, 

 to remove the timl>er. 



The Largest Lignum Vitae Log 



Tile largest lignum vltie log of which there seems to be available 

 record was recently landed at San Francisco from the port of Corlnto, 

 Nicaragua. It was thlrty-si.\ Inches in diameter, nine feet long, and 

 weighed 4,260 pounds. The usual size of lignum vltic logs reaching 

 market is twelve inches or less In diameter and tliree or four feet long. 

 Trees in the forests north of Pananin have been reported up to six feet 

 in diameter, but it is not known tliat any of that size have ever gone 

 to market. The wood is very hard and heavy, and one-fourth of Its 

 weight is gum that may be extracted from the wood. The two chief uses 

 of lignum vitae are bowling balls and bearings for machinery gudgeons. 

 It is particularly valuable as iwarings for steamboat wheels, where It Is 

 always wet. The rosin in the wood preserves it under such circumstances 

 from softening and undue wear. 



Reparation Ordered 



The Interstate Commerce Commission, in a recent ruling, directed the 

 St. Louis & San Francisco and the BIythevllle, Leacbville & .\rkansas 

 Southern railroads to pay to the Chapman & Dewey Lumber Company 

 $l,.37G.s:i. with interest from October 1. 1912, as reparation for over- 

 charges on shipments of gum lumber in carloads from Sliaw, Ark., over 

 an interstate route to Marked Tree, Ark. 



In another suit tlie commission directs tiie Louisville & Nashville road 

 to pay the Berry Lumber & Stave Company $08.'!. 94. with interest from 

 March 13, 1913, on account of overcharges for the shipment of logs from 

 Searlcs and Brookwood, Ala., to Chattanooga, Tenn. This order also 

 directs the Mobile & Ohio and Alabama Great Southern roads to pay to 

 the Berry company $9.93, with interest from June 1, 1913. as reparation 

 on a shipment of logs from Brent. -Ma., to Chattanooga. 



Wood Exports for April 



The government report on exports for wood for April shows that logs 

 and other round timbers to the value of $80,260 were exported in April, 

 1913, as against $320,426 in .\pril, 1914. The total of hewn and sawed 

 timbers this year aggregated a valuation of $311,172, against $1,313,.368 

 In April, 1914. 



The total value of all boai-ds, planks, deals, etc., sent out during April 

 this year was $2,126,071, as against $3,039,038, making a total export of 

 wood and manufactures of wood worth $4,519,810, ns against $9,348,420 

 in April, 1914. 



These figures, while of course showing a marked decrease from exports 

 of last year, do not indicate sueli a startling falling off ns might be 

 expected. 



Tariff Supplements Suspended 

 On June 9 an order was issued liy the Interstate Commerce Commission, 

 at Washington, D. C, suspending certain tarilT supplements of the Chi- 

 cago & Eastern Illinois Railroad from June 10 until October 8. These 

 supplements named increased rates on cooperage and lumber from Thebes, 

 111., and other points to St. Claire, Mich., and other points taking the 

 same rate. The proposed rate was 18.4 cents per hundred, the present 

 is 15.8 cents. 



