December 25, 1915 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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month tsvo years ago, the increase is less than 50 per cent, instead of 

 75. But the size of that gain indicates strongly that the present business 

 is above normal and no doubt includes a lot of deferred plans, the execu- 

 tion of which is now made possible by the ease of the money market. .V 

 careful study of the tabulation below reveals the large gains made by most 

 of the cities. Only 15 of the 70 make unfavorable comparisons. 



.\notber most gratifying circumstance is that the very large gains 

 made duri»g November have swung the comparison for the year to date 

 over on the right side. The total for eleven months this year is $639,204,- 

 144, as compared with .$605,864,119 for the corresponding period last year 

 an increase of 5 per cent. The detailed statement follows : 



Akron 



Albany 



Atlanta 



Baltimore . . . 

 Birmingham 



Boston 



Buffalo 



Cedar Rapids 

 Chattanooga 



Nov.. 191.1 

 $ .130,10.1 

 588,305 

 284,047 

 fi90.478 

 121,904 

 3,035.573 

 788,000 

 119.000 

 .53.532 



Chicago 10.801. GOO 



Cincinnati 

 Cleveland . . . . 

 Columbus . . . . 



Dallas 



Dayton 



Denver 



Dea Molr.es . . 



Detroit 



Duluth 



East Orange . . 

 Ft. Wayne . . . 

 Grand Itapids 

 Harrlsburg . . . 



Hertford 



Indianapolis . . 

 ICansas City . . 



Lincoln 



Los .Angeles . 

 Louisville . . . . 

 Manchester . . . 



Memphis 



Milwaukee . . . 

 Minneapolis . . 



Nashville 



Newark 



New Haven . . 

 New Orleans 



790.005 



2,434.715 



347.35CI 



269,4!'8 



131.075 



312.085 



125,070 



3,482,680 



204,371 



89,018 



103,525 



3,'in,325 



84,375 



707,709 



438.823 



724.115 



180.705 



1.000,239 



240, 0.10 



111.898 



101.485 



1.123.925 



1,539.225 



108,005 



041,385 



906,080 



150,551 



New York City 14,241.740 



4.001.215 

 3.355,038 

 4.282.570 

 1,7G0..S,S9 

 242.522 

 455.400 



99,765 

 050.075 

 149.5S5 

 197,575 

 2,408.005 

 003.312 

 210,595 

 27.5 251 

 817'.254 



04,819 

 782.943 

 619.701 

 150.705 

 127,340 



00.425 

 322.104 

 79S..8in 



55.083 

 194.297 



77.300 



4G,4V5 

 147.145 

 008,324 



75,465 

 535.755 



09,050 



70,735 

 151, C35 

 594,925 



4S..535 

 354,839 



Total .$00,129,378 



Manhattan 



Bronx 



Brooklyn 



Boroui^h of Queens 



Richmond 



Oakland 



Oklahoma 



OniAha 



Paterson 



Peoria 



Philadelphia 



Pittsburgh 



Portland 



Richmond 



Rochester 



f:t. Joseph 



St. Louis *. . . . 



St. Paul 



Salt Lake City 



San .\ntonio 



Schenectady 



Scranron 



Seattle 



Shreveport 



Sioux City 



South Bend 



Spokane 



Springfleld, 111 



Syracuse 



Tacoma 



Toledo 



Topeka 



Troy 



Utica, N. T 



"Washington 



"Wilke.'5-B.-irrc 



"Worcester 



Nov.. 1914 



$ 179 395 



301.578 



232.104 



274,980 



76,710 



1.360.778 



498.000 



250,000 



28,258 



6.513,150 



386,210 



2,153,645 



377,385 



133,850 



53,625 

 134,410 



!'3,302 



1.103,580 



189,510 



79,605 

 100,975 

 171,425 



34,000 

 399,385 

 265.190 

 341.220 



39.475 

 785.310 

 151,000 



87.065 

 133.275 

 043,888 

 703,615 



33,055 

 373,627 

 315.755 



09,032 



5.403.093 



2.058.244 



448.013 



1,617,445 



1,148.586 



131,405 



281.709 



1,509.915 



133,583 



46,961 

 005,200 

 1,240.530 

 777.368 

 453,830 

 130,038 

 397,830 



30,410 

 050.029 

 710.097 

 171.800 

 210.575 



70.385 



88,852 

 229,015 



77,764 



84.477 



16.275 



5.5.700 



55,100 

 235,365 

 270,655 

 270,676 



35,105 



37,4,50 



96.300 

 419,544 



76,493 

 424,124 



,$34,342,475 



Gain 

 198 



95 



23 

 15] 



59 

 122 



58 



89 



67 



135 



13 



16 i 



144 



132 



34 



215 



S 



12 



02 



90 



148 



77 



05 



112 



373 



27 



02 



28 



44 



74 



119 



223 



72 



200 



125 



103 



123 



049 



105 



52 



84 



62 



391 



218 



111 



105 



78 



20 



202 



248 



130 

 375 



107 

 158 



94 

 98 

 89 

 57 

 42 



Lo: 



53 



14 



9 



39 



20 



36 



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Georgia College of Forestry 



Alfred .\kerman. acting dean of the Georgia College of Forestry, an- 

 nounces the inauguration of that course in Shamrock Forest, a tract of 

 920 acres in Greene county, Georgia. A tract of 320 acres in Towns 

 county has been secured for a summer camping site, the timber lying 

 about 2,500 feet above sea-level, on a shoulder of Brasstown Bald. A 

 winter campins site has been offered on a large tract of long-leaf pinn in 

 Liberty, Tattnall and Berrien counties. 



The plan is to spend part of the junior year on the Towns county tract 

 and part of the senior year on the South Georgia tract. This will familiar- 

 ize the students with all of the important timber trees of the eastern 

 United States except spruce, and it will afford an opportunity for practice 

 in surveying and cruising. 



The Georgia school is the first to adopt Dr. Schenck's old plan of having 

 each student mounted, thus increasing the range of territory available for 

 study. It will also accustom the prospective forester with the conditions 

 under which he will work If he passes through the apprenticeship of the 

 ranger. 



The plan calls for two foresters to give the forestal courses and lectures 

 and examiners in the other subjects. The course is divided into six terms 

 of five months each and will cover a period of three years. There are 

 two vacations a year of one month each. The first term will begin the 



(Patented) 



A PRACTICAL ROSSER THAT WORKS 



By entirely removing gritty matter it saves saws, cuts filing room costs, 

 makes better lumber and saves power. 



MADE B^ 



J. A. WEBER CO,, 1456 Oakwood St., Toledo, O. 



One Large User Writes: 



Gentlemen : We are certaln- 

 Iv pleased to recommend your 

 U '^ser. First, a great saving 

 ' ■ saw: second, saving in 

 nling room: third, better 

 grade of lumber. From the 

 spot the gravel "is struck, we 

 only got bad lumber and used 

 excessive power. Since our 

 logs mostly come to us by 

 rail we get the benefit of the 

 grit and gravel from these 

 cars. We could not do with- 

 out this improvement, and 

 wish to say it's a great sav- 

 ing of time and labor, and 

 can heartily recommend same 

 to any saw mill owner. 



STRUTHERS COOPERAGE 

 CO.. Romeo. Mich. 



first Thursday in July and end the first Wednesday in December. The 

 second term will begin the first Thursday in January and ends the first 

 Wednesday in June. 



Opens New Bids for Philippine Concession 



The "War Department, Bureau of Insular Affairs, Washington, D. C, 

 states under date of December 17 that on October 1 the Bureau of 

 Forestry, Manila, linvited bids for a long-term exclusive concession cover- 

 ing the so-called Regay Gulf or Mt. Labe tract, lying to the north and 

 northeast of the headwaters of Regay Gulf, in the provinces of Tayabas 

 and Ambos Camarines, As no satisfactory bids were received, the Bureau 

 of Forestry will receive and open and act upon at any time any suitable 

 application for this valuable concession. The Bureau of Insular Affairs, 

 Washington, is prepared to furnish to those interested full information 

 regarding this tract. 



The Terms Are Reversed 



Ships usually carry cargoes, but it is outside the natural course of 

 events when a cargo carries a ship. That happened to the schooner 

 "William T. Lewis" last September near Berehaven, England. It was 

 loaded with Douglas fir, and was shot full of holes by a German submarine 

 in an effort to sink it, but it was buoyed up by its cargo and refused 

 to sink. It was finally towed to port and saved. 



Pontoons for Flying Boats 



The manufacture of pontoons for flying boats is becoming a specialized 

 department of woodworking. Two sheets of veneer, each one-eighth of 

 an inch thick, are glued face to face, with cheesecloth between them, and 

 this forms the material of which the flying boats are made. Experiments 

 have shown that a sheet of mahogany and a sheet of Spanish cedar are 

 about the best that can be used. 



World's Record Claimed. 



The big plant of the Great Sojtbern Lumber Company at TJogalusa, 



La., claims to have recently set a world's record in the matter of a single 



day's cut. In twenty-two consecutive hours the total lumber output was 



1,006,000 feet. That will probably stand until some other candidate 



^^ claims first place. 



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Hardwood ISfews ISlotes 



=-< MISCELLANEOUS >•= 



The Toledo Bending Company of Toledo, O., has been reorganized. 



The Unionport Woodworking Company was recently organized at New 

 York City. 



The Rockford Cabinet Company of Rockford, 111., suffered a loss by 

 fire recently. 



The Kimberly Woodworking Company has been incorporated at New 

 Haven. Conn. 



The .\uto Car Company of Ardmore, Pa., has increased its capital stock 

 to ?2, 000,000. 



The Quaint .\rt Furniture Company, Syracuse, N. T., has become a 

 voluntary bankrupt. 



The Bell Manufacturing Company of West Monroe, La., has become a 

 voluntary bankrupt. 



The Diamond Lumber Company has started a wholesale hardwood lum- 

 ber business at Wilmington, Del. 



V. M. Doud has been appointed receiver for the Interior Finish Manu- 

 facturing Company of Tacoma, Wash. 



The Hinton "Veneer & Lumber Company has been incorporated with 

 ?10.000 capital at McComb City, Miss, 



The Spencer & Barnes Company, Benton Harbor, Mich., was adjudged 

 a bankrupt on December 15 by Judge Sessions in the United States district 

 court. No schedule of assets and liabilities was filed, the case being 

 referred to Referee-in-bankruptcy Banyan. 



