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price, on c. i. f. terms (insurance and freight 

 charges only), or at price f. o. b. their mill, 

 and refuse indiscriminately any other over- 

 tures, such as a certain per cent advance 

 against bill of lading, which, unfortunately in 

 too many instances, represents the 100 per 

 cent before the transaction is ended. While 

 the advices as to the goods to be consigned 

 may be more or less in line with the present 

 market requirements, the results too often 

 prove disastrous, and the profits, if any, will 

 by no means equal in most cases what might 

 be realized by selling at home, on a market 

 which Is generally conceded by our member- 

 ship to be unusually active in practically all 

 standard hardwoods. 



We encourage export shipping at agreed 

 prices, as above, as it tends to uphold values 

 in the markets of this country, but we cer- 

 tainly discourage shipping on ex-quay terms, 

 or any other arrangement wherein you are not 

 fully advised as to what the lumber will net 

 you f. o. b. your mill before it goes forward. 

 Lewis Dostek, Secretary. 



Hoo-Hoo Annual. 



The fourteenth annual of the Concatenated 

 Order of Hoo-Hoo, held at Portland from Sept. 

 8 to 11, is now a matter of history. It was one 

 of the greatest, if not the greatest, annual ever 

 held by the order, and while the attendance was 

 conspicuous by the absence of many of the old 

 wheel-horses of the organization, still there were 

 enough of the old-timers present to leaven the 

 entire crowd with the spirit of true Hoo-Hoo. 

 The contingent of Portland and the entire Pa- 

 cific coast proved great hosts. The concatena- 

 tion held on the evening of Sept. 9 capped the 

 climax in the matter of Initiates, there being 

 the largest number ever introduced to the pleas- 

 ures of the gardens to the right and to the left 

 since the organization of Hoo-Hoo. The In- 

 itiates numbi'ri'd approximately 200. 



The Osirlan Cloister, the advanced order of 

 Hoo-Hoo, met in annual assembly on Friday, 

 Sept. 8, about sixty members being present. The 

 business session occupied the morning, and in 

 the evening initiation ceremonies took place, at 

 which thirty candidates were admitted. 



The result of the Osirlan Cloister election was 

 as follows : 



High Priest of Osiris, W. M. Stephenson, 

 St. Paul. Minn. 



High Priest of l'tah, A. D. McLeod, Cincin- 

 nati, O. 



High Priest of Ra, It. A. Brandon, Eldorado, 

 Ark. 



High Priest of Isis, R. W. English, Denver, 

 Colo. 



High Priest of Shu, C. D. Rourkc, Urbana, 111. 



High Priest of Thoth, J. H. Baird, Nashville. 

 Tenn. 



High Priest of Hathor, John Oxenford, In- 

 dianapolis, In-!. 



High Priest of Sed, N. H. Falk, Areata, Cal. 



High Priest of Anubis, J. B. Nalty, Brook- 

 haven, Miss. 



The convention of Hoo-Hoo In a business 

 sense pursued its regular routine, convening as 

 usual at nine minutes past nine, on the morning 

 of Saturday, Sept. 9. In the last issue of the 

 Hahdwoou Recokd appeared the report of 

 Scrlvenoter Baird, giving the general history of 

 the progress of the order during the past year. 

 No attempt will be made to cover In detail the 

 voluminous proceedings of the meeting, or to 

 recount the many pleasures attending the trans- 

 continental trip or the entertainment accorded 

 the visitors at Portland, as the matter has al- 

 ready appeared In several of the lumber trade 

 papers, and our columns are too crowded for a 

 repetition. 



The result of the election of Hoo-Hoo officers 

 was as follows : 



Snark of the Universe — Robert David Inman, 

 Portland, Ore. 



Senior Hoo-Hoo — Arthur Clark Ramsey, St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



Junior Hoo-Hoo — George Vernon Denny, Sa- 

 vannah, Ga. 



Bojuin — Benjamin Franklin Cobb, Chicago, 111. 



Scrlvenoter — James Hades Baird, Nashville, 

 Tenn. 



Jabberwock — Edwin Stringer Boggess, Clarks- 

 burg, W. Va. 



Custocatian — Farley Pecky Price, Little Rock, 

 Ark. 



Areanoper — Donald Hemlock Ferguson, Lon- 

 don, Ont. 



Gurdon — Ephraim Clark Evans, Seattle, Wash. 



The Peytona Lumber Company. 

 J. H. Burns and E. K. Mahan, respectively 

 president and secretary of the J. H. Burns & 

 Brother Company of Mansfield, O., have re- 

 cently effected the organization in West Vir- 

 ginia of the Peytona Lumber Company. The 

 capital stock of the new company is $80,000, 

 fully paid in. J. H. Burns is president and 

 E. K. Mahan, secretary. The company will 

 be allied with the J. H. Burns & Brother 

 Company of Mansfield, where its main office 

 will bo located. It owns 10,000 acres of hard- 

 wood timber land in West Virginia, which it 

 recently purchased for $300,000, and which it 

 is estimated will produce from 40,000,000 to 

 50.000,000 feet of lumber. The company has 

 already commenced operations, having pur- 

 chased two locomotives and nine miles of 

 steel for railroad construction. 



A Message from Haakwood. 

 That enterprising hardwood and maple floor- 

 ing manufacturing house, the Haak Lumber 

 Company, at Haakwood, Mich., has published 

 for distribution to its clientage a little pam- 

 phlet, entitled "The Way We Make Hardwood 

 Flooring." The text consists of a succinct 

 and forceful description of the superior meth- 

 ods employed In the production of the Haak- 

 wood brand of flooring, and Is very convinc- 

 ing. A perusal of the pamphlet, which can be 

 had on application, is well worth the time of 

 everyone interested In the sale or use of 

 hardwood flooring. 



New Red Book. 

 The Lumbermen's Credit Association, 77 Jack- 

 son boulevard, Chicago, has recently delivered 

 to its clients the summer edition of Its rating 

 book. This is a most complete and accurate edi- 

 tion, covering the names and rating of everyone 

 Interested In the lumber business. The book Is 

 carefully revised and brought down to date. It 

 contains many more names than any previous 

 edition. It Is undeniably true that a large 

 amount of money and labor has been put Into 

 the revised edition of this work, and the pub- 

 lishers aver that it will be found as reliable as 

 It Is possible to make a publication of this kind. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



The Owen Delaney Stave & Lumber Com- 

 pany of Henderson Mound, New Madrid coun- 

 ty. Mo., has been having some trouble recently 

 with rioting employees, occasioned by the 

 employment of negroes to replace incompetent 

 whites In their lumber yards. 



Citizens of Portsmouth, O.. are engaged in 

 raising a subsidy fund to induce the Wait- 

 Fuller Cabinet Company to erect a $50,000 

 manufacturing plant at that place. 



W. C. Rocker has removed from Greens- 

 boro to Milledgeville, Ga., and will establish 

 a handle factory sixteen miles from the latter 

 place. 



According to newspaper comment, there is 

 a scandal In connection with the Indiana 

 auditor of state's office, and David E. Sher- 

 rlck, auditor, has been removed from office 

 by the governor. It Is alleged that the auditor 

 Is indebted to the state In the approximate 



sum of $145,000, and that J. H. Murry & Co., 

 hardwood lumber dealers of Indianapolis, are 

 concerned in this loan to the amount of about 

 $50,000. 



John H. Talge, the well known head of the 

 Talge Mahogany Company of Indianapolis, is 

 Democratic nominee for councilman from the 

 Eighth ward of that city. 



A walnut tree four feet in diameter was 

 felled by J. S. Washburn lately, near Ver- 

 sailles, Mo. The logs from this tree made up 

 a part of six carloads that were shipped to 

 the East St. Louis Walnut Company. 



The Peabody Brothers Company received at 

 their mill at Lafontaine, Ind., a few days ago 

 the product of two huge trees. One was an 

 oak that made four logs scaling 1,471, 1,141. 

 972 and 910 feet, a total of 4,494 feet. The 

 other was an elm, making two logs scaling 

 1,694 and 1,452 feet, a total of 3,146 feet. 



Borden Brothers & Co.'s stave factory, near 

 Manassas, Va., was destroyed by fire Sept. 6, 

 with a loss of about $4,000. 



A charter has been issued to the Darlington 

 Spoke & Handle Company of Darlington, S. C. 

 The incorporators are J. R. Daniel and D. T. 

 McKeithan. 



Jas. W. and F. 1'. Gurney, of the late 

 Gurney Manufacturing Company of Roan 

 Mountain and Chattanooga, Tenn., who re- 

 cently wound up their enterprises at those 

 points, are now engaged in the manufactur- 

 ing of wood billets at Johnson City. 



The miners of the northern peninsula of 

 Michigan are alarmed over the growing scar- 

 city of timber in the vicinity of the mines, 

 and are already casting about for a source of 

 supply lor mine props. 



Articles of incorporation were filed Sept. 6 

 for the Union Handle Company of Chickasaw. 

 O., by W. J. Davis, J. C. Dalk, F. P. Coate, 

 W. E. Coate, S. H. Barker and Benj. Barker. 



The Wisconsin Barrel Company of Superior, 

 Wis., is erecting a brick and steel addition to 

 its plant in order to increase its facilities. 



The Rustic Hickory Factory has resumed 

 operations at La Porte, Ind. The company 

 manufactures rustic furniture and employs 

 about forty men. 



The Pioneer Pole & Shall Company of Mun- 

 cie, Ind.. owing to scarcity of hickory timber 

 supply, has moved its plant to Mississippi. 



Harry A. Miller, a lumberman of Williams- 

 port, Pa,, has disposed of his lumber busi- 

 ness at that point, and has acquired a half 

 Interest in the capital stock of $550,000 of the 

 Montreal River Lumber Company, near Ash- 

 land, Wis. The company owns 12,000 acres 

 of hardwood timber lands in Michigan and 

 Wisconsin. It is estimated that they will cut 



.>". , i. Mr. Millci w ill become man - 



ager of the company's new enterprise. This 

 concern was formerly a large producer of 

 high-class white pine lumber, with mills lo- 

 cated at Gile, Wis. New mills will now be 

 erected at convenient points. Mr. Miller will 

 reside at Ashland. 



The Anstell Improvement Company has re- 

 moved from Anstell, Ga., to Hattiesburg, Miss., 

 and will erect a new plant to cost $100,000. 

 It will engage in the manufacture of sash, 

 doors, screens, axe handles, etc., and expects 

 to employ between 400 and 500 men. 



The National Mill & Lumber Company of 

 Los Angeles, Cal., is reported to be doing 

 an immense business in hardwood flooring 

 and interior finish locally, and is shipping 

 all over southern California and Into Ari- 

 zona. This business was established three 

 years ago, and was incorporated a year and a 

 half ago with H. E. Hart, president; J. Beris, 

 vice president, and Frank P. Auten, secretary 

 and treasurer. 



A prominent Los Angeles, Cal., concern Is 

 the Los Anseles Cabinet & Store Fixture 

 Company, of which F. O. Enger is manager. 

 The company manufactures and deals in all 



