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brightest and sweetest girls that ever was. 

 If he appreciates all these facts and is duly 

 impressed thereby all may yet be well be- 

 tween us. The Hardwood Record wishes 

 the young couple prosperity. 



I am slower than molasses in January, 

 but eventually I publish the news. Some- 



times it is a little late. I remember once I 

 gave a notice of a friend 'a wedding as soon 

 as I heard of it, and it was such a good 

 notice that his wife sent her boy, the five- 

 year-old issue of the marriage, around after 

 some extra copies of the paper. 



Charles D. Strode. 



HardWood Record JMail 'Bag. 



[In this department it is proposed to reply 

 to such inquiries as reach this office from the 

 Habdwood Recokd clientage as will be of enough 

 general interest to warrant publication. Every 

 patron of the paper is invited to use this de- 

 partment to the fullest extent, and an attempt 

 will be made to answer queries pertaining to all 

 matters of interest to the hardwood trade, in 

 a succinct and intelligent manner.l 



Blanks for Stock Keeping Records. 



( anion. Miss.. May 4. — Editor HABDW 



Record: We have just opened a sawmill ami 

 would like a sample of some printed forms thai 

 are used by mill men in keeping stocks of lumber. 

 We wish forms of such a character thai we can 

 tell daily the amount of ea< liar kiud of 



lumber thai we have on hand. Would III 

 have information on the subject oi other forms 



Incident to I kkeeplng, thai are peculiar to this 



business, and would be pleased to have you send 

 us samples of them and oblige C. 1 I 



One of the v iry important features o\ 

 bucci - ■ ' ing a hardwood lui 



operation is the keeping of ac 



ports of stoi ks on I I, a ■ pell as a earei ul 



and well organized system of estimating 

 from standing the timber until the timi 

 lumber is hind, d on i ars. Tl ditor of the 



Hardwood Eecorb would be very much grati- 

 fied if some of its readers would supply it 

 with specimens of the blank forms in use 

 by them, showing an analysis of their meth- 

 ods, which it will have reproduced and sup- 

 ply to the above correspondent, and oi 

 who frequently apply for this sort of in- 

 formation. 



Some years ago the plan I personally em- 

 ployed, which was fairly satisfactory, con- 

 sisted in having a comparatively accurate 

 made of my yard and numbering each 

 pile in the yard. This diagram w 

 in white lines on a blackboard, and each 

 space bore the corresponding number with 

 the pile in the yard. In each one 

 of these spaces, underneath the number, 

 inserted a small brass hook, and on the the 

 hooks were hung ordinary manila tags carry- 

 ing the kind, grade and ts of lach 

 pile. \- shipments were made from the 

 the quantity was deducted. These tags 

 i wed when necessity arose. I 



NeWs Miscellany. 



The Buffalo Convention. 

 The following is the program oi the eighth 



annual rent ion of the N'al lonal Hard 



Lumber Ass tlon, to be beld In Buffalo, N. Y.. 



Maj is and 19 : 



CHUBSDAl , MAI 18 



9:30 a m Receptlo lembers and guests 



in convention hall. 



in 30 a 'ii i ipi Ding ion 

 n :00 a. m. — Reports of officers. 



Address li\ tin- president Karl I'aimer. 

 Report of secretary, A. R. Vinnedge. 



W. S. Darnell. 

 Report of surveyor general. M. M. Wall, 

 intermission for luncheon. 

 •-' p. in. Reports of comml 



inspection bureau committee, -i W. Thomp- 



son, chairman. 

 Rules committee, Theo. Fathauer, chairman. 



IKII.AY, MAY 19. 



9:30 a. in. -Members will reassemble. 

 a m Meeting .ailed to order. 

 i Consideration 01 md com- 



mit!- 

 Introduction .>r new business. 

 intermission tor luncheon. 



2 m Mi mbers will 



ession, 

 ■ p in Election of officers and five dlrec- 



years. 



5 mi p. in Adjournment. 



30 p. in. Meeting of board of managers. 

 A banquel will be tendi ers of 



tbi convention by the Buffalo lumbermen at 

 7 : :;u p. in. Frldaj evening, al the Iroquois hotel. 



rely by E. C. Atkins & Company, lie 

 leading makers of saws, saw- tools and machine 

 knives of Indianapolis, Ind. This circular saw 

 upon the market to fulfill a demand tor 

 a saw that would cut a sufficiently smooth joinl 

 avoid the necessity of planing or 

 jointing. It is alleged by the makers that u 



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e.C.ATKINS&C0. iHOPls 

 PATN0V. 15. 1904 



at Canastota. N. Y. The stockholders are A. 

 J. \varner. P. T. Weaver. J. B. Weaver, B. Car- 

 man and Stephen Weaver. The company pro- 

 poses to manufacture a line of cabinets re- 

 cently invented by Stephen Weaver and Bert 

 Carman for holding phonographic records. 



Five immense logs have been shipped to the 

 Lewis & Clark Exposition at Portland, Ore., from 

 Jackson county, to be used in the decoration 

 of the forestry building. These logs, which are 

 sugar pine, yellow pine, black oak, cedar and 

 madrona. will be made into veneers ; the hearts 

 will be polished and used as pillars. 



The manufacture of hardwood is an entirely 

 new industry in Mexico. The first attempt 

 along this line is to be undertaken by the Cerro 

 Mojarra Plantation Company in the state of 

 a. Dr. George A. Yawter, general man- 

 ager of the company, has just completed the 

 shipment of a carload of sawmill machinery 

 from Memphis. The company controls a timber 

 tract containing about 27.000 acres, mostly 

 valley land, much of which is covered with 

 hardwoods. W. T. Peter, formerly engaged in 

 the hardwood lumber business in Jackson, Tenn., 

 will have charge of I he lumber interests of the 

 -in. 



McKAM PATENT SAW TOOTH. 



will do equally good work in cross-cutting, rip- 



i inhering. 



I lii- style of saw will prove very desirable 



for use in planing mills, furniture molding and 



picture-frame factories and pattern sliops, as 



ii is alleged that the character of the work 



by it is so smooth that a glued joint can 



le without sanding. 



New Frill in Saw Teeth. 



..villi Is illustrated the McKam patent 

 toothed circular saw which Is manufactured n- 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



A tract of timber lands containing about 



ii. a. r.s in the vicinity of nta Bena, Miss., 



was recently purchased by the Enoch Manufac- 

 turing i | of Pittsburg, Pa. The prop- 

 erty contains oak. ash. gum and cypress. Prep- 

 ill be made at once for the develop- 

 ment of the tract. 



A new organization known as the Phono- 

 graphic Record C pany was recently formed 



April Building Operations. 

 Building operations throughout the United 

 States have been very satisfactory so far this 

 year, and no doubt will so continue to the end 

 of 1905. It is fair to presume that the record 

 of 1904 will lie passed, although it will require 

 an immense amount of building to reach the 

 aggregate of last year. The American Contrac- 

 tor o1 ' liicago has collated from official reports 

 the building statistics of April, and while a 

 i" show a slight falling off the greater 

 number show t'r.un a slight to a remarkable in- 

 crease over the figures of a year ago. Among 

 those cities which passed the million dollar Hue 

 last month are Cincinnati, Detroit. Milwaukee 

 and Minneapolis, whii. Rochester and Kansas 

 i .M. well up to this figure 



April, April, Per Per 



1906 1904, Cent Cent 



' i c.st. Gain. Loss. 



Atlanta, Ga 255,129 243.068 5 



Pa t.'s 575 193,575 34 



V ■> 662, 156 782.789 15- 



C i" 56,875 4s..->!m 17 



Cambridge, Moss. ... 255,250 237,000 8 



l 004,285 689, 110 40 



Columbus, Ohio 689,730 127.050 62 



Davenport, Iowa .... 138,080 55.360 150 



Dallas. Texas 171,991 149,052 18 



7,298,200 1,287,250 79 



Denver. Colo 560,050 362,125 55 



Des Moines, Is 122.491 105,300 16 



Detroit, Mich 1,007,600 690,600 46 



Duluth. Minn 117,253 103,710 13 



Evansvllle, Iml 76.587 ::«>. :;T' < ill 



Grand Rapids. Mich. 360,872 Ills:.:, ISO 



Harrlsburg, Pa. 191 s+o 189,520 1 



Hartford, C :i.-.s...7:: 255,110 4o 



Indianapolis, Iml. .. 553.628 388.081 13 



Kansas i in Kan.... 110,000 85,200 29 



Kansas CitJ Mo.... 992.865 814,150 22 



Kii.'wllle. Tenn 105,790 113,980 7 



l ii .ill... Kv 517,868 253,188 l"e 



Lowell, Mass 54,400 56.950 4 



ii i ■ ■ ■ V II. . . 53,105 o::.772 17 



Milwaukee. \\ i - ... 1,011,467 1,385,833 .... 27 



Minnenpolis. .Minn... 1,572,625 898,005 7.". 



Hi Tenn 194,136 124,192 56 



New Haven, Conn... 155.205 237.288 34 



i. \ .1 824,935 1,429.674 . ... 12 



New Orleans, La 239,055 234,569 



New York — 



Manhattan 11,667,507 8,698,030 ::1 



Alterations . 1,437.942 ' 828,280 



Brooklyn .... 6.260.695 6,368.021 2 



i: mi 3,601,935 2,076.465 7:1 



Alterations 81.370 87,950 



Omaha 314. 2,15 151,170 108 



Peoria, 111 223.983 136.320 n4 



Philadelphl i, Pa . 3 310 740 3 186 69E 5 



Paterson. N. .r 128,669 99.401 20 



Pittsburg Pa 2,192,'793 i 573 716 39 



St. Joseph, Mo 97.630 7S.012 25 



Rochester, N. Y 942,662 764.112 23 



St. Paul, Minn (i!2.n4>i 441,080 ir, 



San Antonio, Tex.... 37.535 7.256 117 



Scrantoi Pa 174.575 <".7.."."i i:,n 



South Bend, Ind 191,285 98,690 94 



Spoki 767,265 104,515 47 



Topeka, Kan 116.750 60.278 '.'1 



T..I.-.1 i . 306,902 201,208 .".2 



Terre Haute, Ind ... 121. 1st 64.096 so 



\\ as -mil 2.1 17.870 874.854 1 15 



w.,1',, -i. i Mast 306,818 247.665 24 



Winnipeg, Man 1.686,600 1.191,860 37 



