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The Mail Bag 



Any reader of HARDWOOD RECORD desiring to communicate 

 with any of the Inquirers listed In this section can have the ad- 

 dresses on written request to the Mall Bag Department, HARD- 

 WOOD RECORD, 537 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, and referring 

 to the number at the head of each letter and enclosing a self- 

 addressed stamped envolepe. 



B 807 — Wants to Get in Touch with Mauufactureis of Figured 

 Gum Dressers and Chiffoniers 



Louisville, Ky., October 19. — Editor Haudwood Recokd : One of our 

 customers has written us for information as to a source of supply for 

 chairs and dressing tables constructed of figured gum. Can you obtain 

 this information for us? . 



This inquirer has been given a short list of manufacturers in 

 that particular line. Others interested can have the necessary 

 information by addressing Hakdwood Eecord office. — Editor. 

 B 808 — Wants Name of Parties Using Beech 



Lexington, Ky., October 14. — Editor Hakdwood Record; Can you give 

 us the names of manufacturers of wooden clolhespins, which we under- 

 stand are made of beech? We are interested in getting in touch with 

 parties using b'eech. . 



The information requested has been supplied to the above cor- 

 respondent. Those interested may have the address by writing 



l^AKDWOOD KECORD. EDITOR. 



B 809 — Wants to Sell Birdseye Maple Logs in Michigan 



Muskegon. Mich., October 14. — Editor Hardwood Record : Can you 

 furnish us with a list of users or probable buyers of birdseye maple logs 

 contiguous to this territory? Sliipments of these logs would be made 

 from the upper peninsula on the Soo rate of freight. Your prompt atten- 

 tion will be greatly appreciated. . 



This company has been given a list of manufacturers in this 

 particular line. Others interested should address this office. — 

 Editor. 



B 810— Wants to Get in Touch with Northern and Southern Hard- 

 wood Mills Interested in Special Dimension Stock 



Chicago, III., October IG. — Editor Hardwood Record : Can you give 

 us the names of a number of hardwood mills, both in the North and in 

 the South, which would be interested in getting out dimension stock in 

 small sizes? We are particularly interested in getting in touch with 

 some up-to-date mills that are anxious to utilize as much of their present 

 waste material as they possibly can. . 



The concern writing this letter is in a position to put the dimen- 

 sion stock business on a really profitable basis. Any mills in a posi- 

 tion to consider the manufacture of special dimension stock for the 

 utilization of small w.aste would find it to their financial advantage 

 to communicate, through this office, with the above inquirer. — 

 Editor. 



B 811 — Wants to Buy Basswood Logs on Eastern Freight 

 New York, N. T., October 16. — Editor Hardwood Record: We would 

 like to get in touch with some mill from which we could obtain some 

 basswood logs. We can use a number of cars of this stock. Would 

 like to get them from a point on a low rate of freight to New York City. 

 Do you know of any manufacturer from whom we could obtain these logs? 



Interested parties can have the necessary information by address- 

 ing H.^RDWOOD Record. — Editor. 



B 812— Wants Oak Truck Poles 

 New York, N. Y.. October 15. — Editor Hardwood Record : Will you 

 be so kind as to give me the names of a few reliable mills who can 

 get out white oak truck poles? Can use oak and ash poles in the same car. 



A short list of manufacturers of the stock referred to has been 

 given the inquirer. Anyone interested can have the address upon 

 application to Hardwood Record office. — Editor. 



B 813 — Wants Quotations on Odorless Veneers for Packing 

 Chicago, 111., October 13. — Editor Hardwood Record : We are inter- 

 ested In securing maple or other odorless woods for use in packing some 

 of our products. Same Is cut In sheets lS"xl2", one-twentieth of an inch 

 thlclc. Will you please advise If you can give us the names of any con- 

 cerns who make a specialty of this class of veneer? 



Tho concern inquiring is one of the biggest packing companies in 

 Chicago. Hardwood Record has given the names of a few com- 



panies who might be in a position to quote on this line of stock. 

 Others interested should address this office. — Editor. 



B 81-t — Wants Dimension and Furniture Parts 

 Bloomington, Ind., October 14.— Editor Hardwood Record: We will 

 be pleased to have you mall us, if you have such, the names and addresses 

 of concerns who are manufacturing and selling wood dimension and furni- 

 ture parts. By this we mean all the wood parts that go to make up 

 ordinary furniture. Any Information that you can furnish along this 



line will be greatly appreciated. 



Interested parties should write this office. — Editor. 



B 815— Wants Market for Birch, Beech and Maple Dimension 



Stock 



Thomson, N. Y., October 12.— Editor Hardwood Record: We make a 

 specialty of manufacturing and curing the better grades of birch lumber, 

 and especially in extra thicknesses, lengths and widths. This birch is mar- 

 keted under the title of Sagamore birch and Is enjoying a splendid 

 reputation. 



Could you put us in touch with parties in the eastern states who arc 

 in the market for birch, beech and maple dimension stock? We manu- 

 factured about 1,000,000 feet of dimension stock last year and seek new 

 business to further work up our waste. . 



Those interested will be furnished with the address of our cor- 

 respondent, upon application to this office. — Editor. 



B 816 — Pass It Along 



Hardwood Record has believed for some time that the one cause 

 which, above all others, is keeping American business in a depressed 

 condition is the flaring and glaring accounts given of war which 

 leaders of the daily press are forced to consume in large doses 

 before and after practically every meal during every day of the week 

 and month. Believing that if this war news were kept on less 

 prominent pages than the very front of the paper, and believing that 

 with sufficient pressure the leading dailies -could be brought to make 

 this change in policy in spite of the fact that the war news is of 

 tremendous news value, Habdwood Record has started a little end- 

 less chain in order to work up this desired pressure. 



There were sent out from this office a considerable number of 

 letters to prominent business men, enclosing a copy of our letter to 

 leading Chicago dailies, and suggesting that each address three 

 friends asking each to write the papers he reads and to in turn 

 write three friends making the same double request. In this way 

 an endless chain of correspondence would be started, which, if car- 

 ried on as we hope it will be, would ultimately have a tremendous 

 scope. 



These letters were issued just a few days before press dav and 

 the following are the three first replies received: 



Asheviile, N. C, October 19.— Editor Hardwood Record: We are in 

 receipt of your favor of October 17 enclosing us a copy of a letter ad- 

 dressed to the leading dailies of Chicago by yourself. 



We are of the opinion that your suggestion Is a very good one and have 

 acted upon It by sending a copy of your enclosure to our daily papers 

 and a letter to three of our customers. It is possible, and I hope it will 

 prove profitable to divert the minds of business men from war -to business 

 We, ourselves, can see no reason why business should not be good here 

 in the United States with a ready market at the highest market prices 

 for all of our farm products, outside of cotton, together with a market 

 for all of our manufactured goods in Europe and South America. 



We think a little talk on business worth more than all of the war news 

 the daily papers are able to publish. 



ASHEVILLE LdMBER COMPANY, 



By W. N. Cooper, President. 



Muskegon, Mich., October 19. — Editor Hardwood Record : I have your 

 letter of the 17th Inclosing copy of a letter you have written to 200 

 lumbermen, and I want to compliment you on the stand you have taken, 

 and have immediately sent copies of your letters on to our two local 

 newspapers and three of my business acquaintances, in different lines. 



Let us hope that the waves which you have started by dropping this 

 little petal Into the sea of bu.siness depression will expand until they 

 cover the whole United States. 



Here is wishing you more power. F. C. Morse, 



Secretary Brown-Morse Company. 



Wausau, Wis., October 20. — Editor Hardwood Record : Your letter 

 of October 15 was received a few days ago. I have just dictated letters 

 to the Milwaukee Sentinel and the Chicago Record Herald, which chance 

 to be the dailies I take, and I trust that my contribution will help along 

 the movement you have started. 



With many thanks for the suggestion. R. s. Krllooo, 



Secretary Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufacturers' Association. 



