March 25, 191G 



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The NorthwesternCooperage & Lumber Company 



The Home of the "Peerless " Standard Brand Products 



GLADSTONE, MICHIGAN MIU* at Gladstone and Escanaba. HIchlKan 



Western OIBce: 

 516 Lumber Exchange, Minneapelia, Minn. 



Manufacturers of the following "Peerless" Standard Brand Products: Hardwood Flooring, Staves, 

 Hoops, Heading and Veneers, Hemlock Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Posts, Poles and Ties, 

 and Hemlock Tan Bark 



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The Mail Bag 



B 999— Wants One-Eighth-Inch Cut Oak Veneer 



Bedford, O., March IS. — Editor Hardwood Record : Will you please 

 advLse us of manufacturers of one-eighth inch cut quartered oak veneer 

 suitable for office chair rims? . 



Sources of supply have been given this concern. Those interested 

 will be supplied with the necessary address on application.^EoiTOR. 



B 1000 — Wants Market for Variety of Cutting Waste 



Astoria, N. Y., March 14. — Editor Hardwood Record : We have some 

 2" wide to about 2-0 long, all the way to about 10" wide and 4, 6, S, and 

 10-0 long, mostly 1" thick oak, sap gum, red gum, bay poplar, very little 

 maple or birch, very little IH" oak, all kiln-dried, which we would like 

 to find a market for. The strips are trimmings o£E the boards ; for instance. 

 If a board is 12-0 long and 13 10" wide on one end and 1%" on the other 

 end, we trim off the %" and it may run 1".\1" to about 4 or 5 feet, and 

 then taper down to very little. We also have been getting some 2" white 

 pine pieces as well as trimmings from the boards, some 1^4" maple or 

 birch pieces, some cypress pieces, 1", lAi" and ly™". The cypress is only 

 air-dried. . 



Prospective purchasers will be placed in touch with above on 

 request. — Editor. 



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Clubs and Associations 



Chicago Association After Car Shortage Correction 



A. Fletcher Marsh, chairman of the traffic committee of the Lumbermen's 

 Association of Chicago, is always giving evidence of his energy and the live 

 way he has of going after things. The increasing menace of the ear short- 

 age has been especially serious for Chicago operators. In order to assist 

 in remedying the difficulty, Mr. Marsh has gotten out a circular to member.s 

 of the association in which he reminds them that Chicago, as the largest 



railway and lumber center in the country, is under a special obligation In 

 the matter of proper handling of cars to alleviate the shortage condition. 

 In the circular Mr. Marsh says : 



"Place orders early ; have filling for every car ordered ; anticipate your 

 wants; load cars promptly — it will bring the next empty sooner; load cars 

 to the limit — not over ten per cent above the capacity ; avoid reconsigning 

 delays ; unload promptly — somebody needs the empty, and remember that 

 cars are built for transportation and not for storage." 



He admonishes members to let customers of Chicago lumbermen know 

 that they will appreciate orders for maximum cars where possible, and not 

 for minimum loads ; that they will be glad to load in open cars when 

 possible, and will expect prompt unloading even on company material. 



Mr. Marsh calls attention to what w»as done toward heavier loading in 

 1912 when one of the members increased his average loading from the 

 country's average of 48,000 pounds to about 60,000 pounds, or about 

 twenty-live per cent. 



Lumbermen and the Chamber of Commerce 



Secretary Culkins of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce recently gath- 

 ered an expression of views on the organization preparatory to the three- 

 day membership campaign in which the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Ex- 

 change took an important part. The views of three prominent lumber- 

 men especially were used as arguments with prospective members. B. F. 

 Dulweber of the Dulweber Lumber Company, said : "There is scarcely a 

 department in the Chamber of Commerce that I have not used to some 

 extent and which has not been of material assistance to me. I have 

 found the guidance and advice of the traffic department a great help. 

 Similar bureaus in other cities are not nearly so efficient and cost more. 

 All the departments of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce are 

 efficient." 



Walter J. Eckman, president of the exchange, said : "Many complex 

 traffic matters, such as rates, operation, equal switching charges, have 

 been solved for us by the bureau. This department now is indispensable, 

 and the only fault I find with the chamber is that it should have a larger 

 membership so that its influences will be greater." 



Chester F. Korn, president of the Korn-Conkling Company, dropped his 

 membership several years ago. but found it to his advantage to join again 

 when the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Exchange was organized. "I have 

 visited chambers of commerce all over the world and now realize that 

 there is not another organization anywhere possessing the equipment that 

 we have here in Cincinnati for rendering practical service to members," 

 he said. 



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