HARDWOOD RECORD 



23 



Hardwood Prices at Boston. 

 The Record's Boston market man advises 

 that the, volume of business has been steadily 

 increasing and there are not many woodworking 

 concerns in Boston and vicinity that have fewer 

 orders than will keep them busy until summer. 

 The retail yard trade in hardwoods is gaining 

 slowly but surely and the conditions point to 

 a satisfactory amount of business for the season 

 if prices are not disturbed dining the next two 

 months. Quartered white oak is in growing 

 demand at $711 to $S0 for inch standard grade 

 ones and twos. Plain oak is finding numerous 

 purchasers at $49.50 to $31 for inch ones and 

 twos. Oak is moving more freely than at any 

 time for some months. Cherry is bringing 

 from $90 to $100 for inch ones and twos, with 

 thick stock at $120. Elm inch ones and twos 

 approximate $40. White ash. of which demand 

 and supply is light, is quoted at $48 for inch 

 ones and twos. Inch brown ash is in espe- 

 cially strong demand as compared with the 

 supply. Whitewood shows some improvement 

 and quotations range between $47 and $49.50. 

 the majority of the sales being made at $48.50 

 for inch ones and twos. Clear bright saps are 

 in short supply and $39 to $40 is asked for 

 same. Rough maple boards continue to sell at 

 $33. the demand being fair. 



Hardwoods of Georgia. 



A writer in the Atlanta Constitution alleges 

 that upon the 1.000 miles of rivers and their 

 branches in southern Georgia there is a source 

 of wealth available by either water or rail 

 transportation .of fully 8.000,000.000 feet of a 

 wide variety of valuable hardwoods. 



An examination of the woods of Georgia 

 shows a greater variety of woods for southern 

 Georgia than for the entire remainder of the 

 state. White oak, the Spanish or southern red 

 oak, hickory, poplar, gum, beech, magnolia. 

 bay, birch, maple, cypress, cottonwood are among 

 the list, all of commercial value. Differing from 

 the yellow pine, many of the hardwoods are 

 quick growers. This splendid source of wealth, 

 available for a greater variety of manufactured 

 products than any other raw material in the 

 South, a class of products for which there is a 

 constant and world-wide demand, a foreign de- 

 mand steadily increasing, has been utilized in 

 the past but little, except for firewood. The 

 Interior of Georgia, of the South, has utilized 

 the hardwoods, and is utilizing them, in a vast 

 variety of manufactures. 



Atlanta, Barnesville, Cartersville, Rome and 

 many other cities of north Georgia have a great 

 variety of factories. The northern supply of 



b.ardw Is is rapidly being exhausted. This 



practically new source of supply, so admirably 

 situated for the cheap assemblage of raw ma- 

 t, rial and distribution of the finished product. 

 cannot fail to attract much capital to the south- 

 ern section of the state. 



Much of the land upon which these hard- 

 woods grow is admirably suited to agriculture 

 when the timber is exhausted. 



Armour's Big Tiib Factory. 



The Ithaca Butter Tub Factory, owned by 

 the Armour Company of Chicago and one of 

 the largest factories of its kind in the world, 

 is of the greatest financial importance to the 

 town of Ithaca, Mich. The buildings cover 

 about three acres of ground and there are twelve 

 acres piled high with stock, enough to keep the 

 big factory running two years, with enough 

 timber in sight to last ten years more. Large 

 quantities of timber are shipped from as far 

 north as Cadillac, besides what is secured from 

 the country around Ithaca. The company em- 

 ploys 123 men, and the number is being con- 

 stantly increased. 



Owing to extensive improvements being made 

 for increasing the capacity of the plant, the 

 factory did hot run steadily the first year. At 

 present the company is installing another 150- 



frorsepower Corliss engine and another large 

 boiler preparatory to adding more machines. 

 When in operation the factory is a busy one, 

 as can be imagined from the output of 2,500 

 tubs and pails a day. There are five lathes 

 running and preparations are being made to 

 put in more. In the sawing room there are 

 five stave saws and a heading saw, besides the 

 large bolting saw. This part of the factory 

 will also be enlarged very shortly. In addition 

 to the hardwood product, all Armour's fancy 

 ware will probably be made at Ithaca after 

 this year. 



R. S. Wallace of Chicago, general manager 

 of the plant, who has brought the factory to 

 its present very successful state, is an ener- 

 getic and progressive young man. Mr. Wallace 

 has been with the Armour Company sixteen 

 years and has worked his way up from shoving 

 a truck to his present enviable position. 



Symbols for Grade Marks. 

 The symbols for grade marks authorized by 

 (he Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 United States at its Nashville meeting early in 

 the year have been designed by Lewis Doster. 

 secretary of the association, and are illustrated 

 herewith. 



Panel and wide No. 1 



Wide No. '-' 



o 



A 



rH Box Boards 



Tr Fas or Firsts and Seconds 



*"^ Saps 



/\ Selects 



fj No. 1 Common 



CZ No. 2 Common 



(5 No. 3 Common 



(4. No. 4 Common 



It is intended that every member of the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' Association of the United 

 States in the future will mark his several grades 

 of lumber with these symbols, and in addition 

 thereto will also brand his lumber with an 

 individual trade-mark agreed upon between him- 

 self and the association. 



Route to the Buffalo Convention. 



It has been decided by Secretary Vinnedge 

 of the National Hardwood Lumber Association 

 and by the officers of the Chicago Hardwood 

 Exchange to utilize the Michigan Central rail- 

 road in attending the meeting of the associa- 

 tion to be held at Buffalo May 18 and 19. 



The Chicago contingent, accompanied by mem- 

 bers of the association from Wisconsin and 

 Minnesota and delegates from the Wisconsin 

 Hardwood Lumbermen's Association, will leave 

 from the Twelfth street station, via the Michi- 

 gan Central's New York special, at I :30 p. m. on 

 .May 17. arriving at Buffalo at 7 :45 a. m., 

 eastern time. The party will 1"' supplied with 

 a special sleeper to be attached to this train. 

 which will make a suitable stop at Falls View 

 Station at 6:30 a. m.. to give the tourists a 

 view of the great cat. 



It is expected that the western Michigan 

 delegates to the convention will leave Grand 

 Rapids over the Michigan Central at 5:30 p. 

 m., May 17. and have their sleeper attached 

 to the New York special at Jackson, which car- 

 ries the Chicago and western contingent. 



It is fully expected that the visitors to the 

 meeting from northern Illinois. Wisconsin. Min- 

 nesota and western Michigan will number enough 



to completely fill two and possibly three sleepers. 

 Local or out of town visitors to the conven- 

 tion who intend Joining this excursion party 

 out of Chicago can secure tickets and sleeper 



reservations bj applying t ■ addressing A. R. 



Vinnedge, secretary, 134 Monroe street, Chicago. 



The Tools Made at Defiance. 



The Defiance Machine Works. Defiance, O., 

 is a company which lots achieved not only a 

 national but an international reputation for 

 the character of its woodworking tools. Ma- 

 chines made by this concern approximate in 

 quality of production, nlcetj <>t adjustment and 

 accuracy of work any iron-working tools pro- 

 duced in the country. 



The line of production made by the Defiance 

 Machine Works, which is one of the largest made 

 by any concern in the country, comprises a 

 complete set of machinery for equipping plants 

 for the making of hubs, spokes, wheels, wagons, 

 carriages, rims, shafts, poles, neck yokes, sin- 

 gletrees, barrel hoops, handles of all kinds, 

 bobbins and oval wood dishes. 



AUTOMATIC DOUBLE EQUALIZING 

 CHINE. 



MA- 



The accompanying engraving illustrates the 

 Defiance Machine Works' No. 3 automatic double 

 equalizing machine, especially designed for saw- 

 ing off at one operation both ends of a spoke, 

 handle, neck yoke, singletree blanks and other 

 similar work where exact lengths are required, 

 and preparing stock for the turning lathe. 

 This machine has a very large capacity and 

 does about four times as much work as the ordi- 

 nary type of equalizing machine. It cuts lengths 

 varying from ten inches to forty-eight inches 

 and carries twelve-inch saws, fitted to heavy 

 steel spindles running in self-lubricating bear- 

 ings. The machine is fitted with a friction feed 

 which is so contracted that the machine can be 

 started or stopped at the will of the operator 

 while the saws are in motion. It is a machine 

 of simple and substantial construction and can 

 be successfully operated by a boy. The material 

 to be operated upon is simply placed upon the 

 feeding brackets and is fed to the saws by the 

 feed chain and automatically discharged. 



A Band Resaw for Hardwood Mills. 

 In the advertisement of W. B. Mershon .>> 1 a 

 expert manufacturers of band ri ad rip 



saws, band edgers and pony band mills, of 

 Saginaw. Mich., in this issue of the Haudwood 

 Recoiu' is Illustrated their new standard 

 inch machine, which is especially desirable for 

 use in hardwood saw mills, for resawlng planks 

 and Bitches with economy of saw kerf, with 

 results. This machine will also 

 rough unedged flitches and should in 



the caj I of the ordint mill by a 



handsome percentage. It is a pery powerful 

 :,,;,, I, in with saw mill set works, and pn 



enthusiastic over its efficient 

 wo rk. The machine is equally valuable for 

 medium to heavy sawing of drj .ianing 



mill work This is ..1 



o£ band resawlng machinery produced by W. B 

 Mershon & Co., from whom further dotal 

 be 1 " mcernlng the various types manufac- 

 tured by them. 



