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The Mail Bag 



B 853 — English Firm Wants to Buy Plywood 



Liverpool, England. .laniiary 25. — Editor H.»rdwood Recohd : We 

 understand that pl.vwood is now being exported from the States into 

 English markets and we shall be glad to know if you can supply us 

 with the names of firms who engage in this trade. 



This correspondent has been advised of a few probable sources of 

 supply. Others interested should write Hardwood Record. — Editor. 



B 854 — In the Market for Birch and Hickory 



Cauiden. N. J., February 3. — Editor Hakdwood REcono : Will you 

 please put us on your list for 16/4 and lS/4 hard birch, I's and 2'3 

 preferred, also hickory in all thicknesses plank, sawn flitch and billets. 

 sawn and split. We are always in the market for either dry stock or to 

 be cut. If yon know of anyone having such stock now. we are In the 

 market. Can inspect at shipping point and pay cash, if necessary, on 

 presentation of bill of tailing. — ■ 



The writer of this letter is a firm tiiat is widely known in the 

 lumber business. Mills desiring to connect with this class of trade 

 can have the name on application to H.\rdwood Record offices. — 

 Editor. 



B 855 — Wants 3-Ply Veneer for Shipping Boxes 



Saginaw, Mich., January 29. — Editor Hardwood Kfcoud : We are 

 endeavoring to locate concerns that manufacture 3-ply veneer stock 

 for the manufacture of shipping boxes. Will be glad to have a list of 

 names of any concerns you know of that are making a business of 

 supplying box factories with built-up veneer. . 



Interested concerns can have the name of this inquirer by writing 

 Hardwood Record. — Editor. 



B 856— Wants to Buy Wood Ashes 

 Chicago, 111., January 11. — Editor Hardwood Record: We are in 

 the market for thirty-five carloads of wood ashes and will be glad to 

 hear from anyone in position to furnish this material. 



Hardwood Record will be glad to give sawmill concerns or others 

 who have any accumulation of wood ashes the name of this in- 

 quirer. — Editor. 



B 857 — Wants Market for Ash 



Aurora, Ind., January 26. — Editor Hardwood Record : In sawing a 

 lot of 3" and 3',^" dry ash lumber Into sections for sawed felloes wi; 

 hav'c an offal that should not go under the boiler. Somebody wants 

 them. The timber is of excellent quality, bone dry, and a good deal 

 of it is all white. The largest pieces are 30" in length and it is possible 

 to cut all of it that length. In cutting out this stock we have a semi- 

 circular piece that will njeasure 4 to Inches wide at the center, 

 tapering to a point at the ends. The thickness of this plank Is 3" 

 or 3'/4" and can cut out a square 15" long and 3" or SMs" square. If 

 made shorter could get a wider plank than this. We can get out a 

 carload of this stock in two months. Would appreciate information 

 as to possible users. . 



Hakdwood Record has given this concern a suggestion, and any- 

 body who is in position to definitely figure on such a proposition 

 can have the name of the company u]ion application. — Editor. 



B 858 — In the Market for Oak and Birch Squares 

 Chicago, ill., January 2ti. — Editor IlAitowoou Heiokd : Can you put 

 us in touch with some hardwofni mills or any hardwood manufacturers 

 who can furnish us large quantities of 1" and IV^" oak and birch 

 squares? Just at present we want these squares 28" and 66" long. 



Hardwood manufacturers wlio are interested in utilizing their wastf 

 to the best advantage can have the name of this inquirer upoii 

 application to this office. — Editor. 



B 859— Wants to Purchase Teak 



Chicago. III., February 2. — Editor Hardwood Record: We would be 

 pleased to know if you could advise us where we can purchase teak 

 wood. Any Information you can furnish regarding same will be greatly 

 appreciated. . 



Chicago concerns or others within shipping distance can have the 

 name of this company upon writing Hardwood Record. — Editor. 



B 860 — Wants to Buy Ash 



Boston, Mass.. February 3. — Editor Hardwood I!ecord : We are in 

 the market for several cars of quarter-sawn white ash cut to the follow- 

 ing dimensions, to be used for skis. This must be clear stock : 1 4/S"x4" 

 — 6' 6", 7' 6", 8' long. Do you know of anyone who can get these out? 



Anyone wlio can manufacture this stock to advantage will find 

 this a satisfactory market. — Editor. 



B 861 — In the Market for Ash Dimension 



San 1-Vanoisco. Cal.. January 20. -Editor Hardwood Record: We are 

 in the market tor from 600 to l.OOii feet 2".\24" ash. This stock must be 

 dear or Is and 2's. and must be reasonably dry. Could you put us on 

 the track of a concern that could furnish this stock for us? 



Interested parties should write Hakdwood Record. — Editor. 

 B 862 — A Correction 



The last issue of Hardwood Record published an account of change 

 in the personnel of the Pacific Lumber Company in which WUliam 

 D. Mershon and John D. Mershon are interested. William D. Mer- 

 shon sent the following letter as a correction of a misstatement 

 occurring in the former account: 



Some time the latter part of December I sent you, under the head 

 "News Item," a statement to the eCEect that I had sold ray interest in 

 a contract with the radfic Lumber Company to my brother, John D. 

 Mershon, and with ?10,000 of the proceeds I intended to keep right on 

 with my business at this address. Your representatives frequently 

 solicit news items from nie, and I of course expected that you would 

 give publicity to this Item as I sent it to you. Instead of this you 

 published a news item regarding the John D. Mershon Company which 

 leads some of my friends to believe that I have retired from the lumber 

 business, and I am put to some inconvenience to straighten the matter 

 out. Of course. I understand that it is your privilege to publish what 

 news you choose and decline whatever other news you choose, but 1 am 

 wondering if I am entitled to some explanation or correction from you. 

 I never worked for the John D. Mershon Lumber Company in any capac- 

 ity whatever. I worked with them, or through thom, on a fifteen-year 

 selling contract with the Pacific Lumber Company, which contract be- 

 longed to John D. Mershon and me as individuals in equal shares, and 

 it was only this asset that I disposed of. Wm. D. Mershon. 



Clubs and Associations 



Chicago Club to Give Final Entertainment 



The recent decision of the Lumbermen's Club of Chicago to amalga- 

 mate with the Lumbermen's Association with headquarters in the new 

 Lumbermen's building shortly to be opened, and which will mean closing 

 up the affairs of the club and surrendering the lease for the present 

 quarters on March 1, will mean the end of a series of highly entertaining 

 functions that have been gotten up by the entertainment committee 

 during the club's existence. 



In order that the members may carry with them a last Impression 

 of the club's social policy, the entertainment committee has decided 

 to spread Itself In the last function of the kind which will be held 

 Saturday evening. February 20, at the club rooms. It has issued an 

 attractive invitation, and according to vague rumors as to what will 

 occur, the affair is going to be one which will retain in the hearts of the 

 lumbernun club members a fond remembrance of the many pleasant days 

 which have been spent in the club rooms. 



The entertainment committee consists of W. A. Eager, chairman : E. A. 

 Lang, E. H. Defebaugh, I. C. Marggraf, H. F. Arnemann, F. R. Gadd, 

 Oco. C. King, F. L. Johnson, J. W. McCnrdy and G. H. Holloway. 



Aims of the Forest Products Federation 



The executive committee of the Forest Products Federation, by its 

 secretary, has issued a call for a massmeeting at La Salle hotel, Chicago, 

 February 24 and 25. The purposes of the meeting are set forth In the 

 following call : 



The Forest Products Federation came into being in Chicago December 

 17, 1914, at a preliminary meeting of lumbermen called by the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association. It was decided to hold a mass 

 meeting of the entire lumber industry in Chicago on February 24-25, 

 which will be representative of all lumber associations and allied Interests. 

 An executive committee of five was appointed to arrange for the meeting 

 and direct the affairs of the organization. Its chairman is R. H. Down- 

 man of New Orleans, president of the National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association; while the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association Is 

 represented by Its president, Gordon C. Edwards of Ottawa ; the South- 

 western Lumbermen's Association by its secretary, J. R. Moorehead, 

 Kansas City, Mo., and the general retail and wholesale Interests by L. W. 

 Crow, retiring president of the I.,nmberroen's Association of Chicago, and 

 Julius Scldel of St. I>ouls. Further representation of man.v Interests Is 

 found In the membership of the standing committees and in the speakers for 

 the massmeeting. 



