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and approved and an interesting Talk on asso- 

 ciation work was given by Mr. Doster. A num- 

 ber of new members were added to the associa- 

 tion. 



The report of the committee on 1"- specifica- 

 tions was then read and adopted, with the reso- 

 lution that it be immediately referred back to 

 the operators in the state of Arkansas for their 

 further consideration. These grading specifica- 

 tions arc being worked tip by neighboring states 

 in conjunction witli each other for the purpose 

 of establishing a uniform basis for the purchase 

 grading and scaling of logs. 



A general discussion was indulged in by the 

 members and manufacturers present regarding 

 conditions in different localities, the question of 

 log supply, amount of lumber on band and the 

 state of tie' markel at present and its relative 

 condition in the future. The consensus of opin- 

 i OB seemed to be that values on practically al! 

 items of gum up to the grade of firsts and 

 seconds red would increase. 



A resolution thanking Dr. Von Schrenck for 

 his able address ami the Commercial Club for 

 the use of its rooms for the day was passed 

 unanimously. 



'lie- time and place for the next meeting of 

 Missouri manufacturers was not decided. Due 

 notice will be sent of the date to all manufac- 

 turers in the state. 



There were present the following: 



William 1*. Anderson, Gideon Anderson Lum- 

 ber & Manufacturing Company, Gideon. 

 I.. W. Heagy, Bell City. 



A. N. Darnell, Cape Girardeau. 



Howard Kule. Himmelberger-Harrison Lumber 

 » lompany, .Morehouse 



\V. II. Harrison, Himmelberger-Harrison Lum- 

 ber Company, Morehouse. 



Charles L. Harrison. Himmelberger-Harrison 

 Lumber Company. Morehouse. 



Thomas W. Fry. C. F. Luehrmann Ilardw 1 



Lumber Company, St. Louis. 



M. E. Leming, Cape Girardeau. 



II. r. Peironult, Cap.' Girardeau. 



.1. s. X. Farquhar. Riverside Lumber Com- 

 pany, Caruthersville. 



I.. .1. Marshall, Riverside Lumber Company, 

 Cape Girardeau. 



R. \v. Barrick, William G. Five Manufactur- 

 ing Company. St. Louis. 



Hugh Steel, Steel Hardwood & Lumber Com- 

 pany. Bismarck. 



Hermann Bohle, Cape Girardeau. 



Theodore Ochs, I nion Lumber Company. Cape 

 Girardeau 



Hy. L. Caldwell. Jackson. 



Robert U. Fl. •tcher, Fletcher & Mills Bros 

 Bernie. 



II. A. Danforth, II. A. Dauforlli Lumber Com 

 pany, Charleston. 



M. D. Meisner, Altenburg. 



u. A McFarland, J. I'. Lasswell Lumber Com- 

 pany, Campbell. 



I.. B. Blackswood, architect, Cape . Girardeau. 



Scott Moore, the Moore Company. St. Louis. 



Henry Bengel, Jackson. 



Tom Moore, the Moore Company. St. Louis. 



\Y. A. Moore, Moore & Stahr, Cape Girar- 

 deau. 



Joe D. Wilson. Wilson Bros. Realty Company, 

 Cape Girardeau. 



Oscar Fuller. Hunter & Fuller. New Madrid. 



John II. Friant. Himmelberger-Harrison Lum- 

 ber Company, Morehouse. 



<;. I.. Roper, Senoth. 



G. F. Hunt. Bismarck. 



Felix A. Tetrequin. St. Genevieve Lumber 

 Company, St. Genevieve. 



James I.. Byrd, Charleston. 



C. T. Graham, Riverside Lumber Company 

 Hayti. 



G. I'.. Gale, Miners' Lumber Company, Flat 

 River. 



G. V. Whiten,!. Miners' Lumber Company. 

 Lcadwood. 



G. •W. Bright. Kirby Lumber Company. St. 

 Louis. 



B. A. Loud, New Madrid. 



C. A. Vandort. Phillips Lumber & Fuel Com 

 pany. Cape- Girardeau. 



A. W. Johanning, Jobanning Lumber Com 

 pany, St. Louis. 



Elmer Scull, Miners' Lumhei Company, El- 

 x ins. 



H. T. Moreau. Moreau Lumber Company, St. 

 Genevieve. 



Lewis Hosier, secretary Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association, Chicago. 



Lawrence H. liodibaugh. Indiana Lumber 

 Company, Cape Girardeau. 



I.. F. Kelch. Eaglette. 



The Hayden & Wesico'.t Lumber Company. 



i in January 1 next there will be added to 

 the ranks of the Chicago lumber concerns the 

 Hayden & Westcott Lumber Company, composed 

 >f Harvey S. Hayden. lor many years engaged 

 in the hardwood business in Chicago, and 

 Charles Westcott, who for twelve years has 

 l» en lumber buyer lor the International Har- 

 vester Company and its predecessor, the McCor- 

 mick Harvesting Machine Company. Steps were 

 taken for the organization of the company early 

 in September, when it was expected thai oper 

 ations would begin by October 1, but out of 

 courtesy to the International company Mr. 

 Westcott did not wish to sever his connection 

 with that institution until his successor had 

 been appointed. 



i if Harvey s. Hayden, senior member of the 

 new company, little need lie said by way of in- 

 troduction, lie is well and favorably known to 

 the trade the country over. For twenty-five years 

 he has been identified with the Chicago hardwood 

 trade, operating during that time under the firm 

 names of Hayden Bros, and tic Hayden Bros. 

 Lumber Company at Twenty-second and Johnson 

 streets. Two years ago Mr. Hayden established 

 a wholesale hardwood business on his own ac- 

 count, and he has been so successful in this 

 venture that he felt it necessary to effect an 

 affiliation with a lumberman of experience to 

 assist him in caring for bis rapidly increasing 

 business. 



Nor is the name of Charles Westcotl unfa- 

 miliar to lumbermen. Since boyhood he has 

 been in the employ of the International llarves- 

 f r Company. Upon the consolidation of five 

 of the huge companies manufacturing harvest- 

 ing machinery in August. 1902, be was made 

 purchasing agent for the allied interest- Later 

 other concerns wen- merged into the great com- 

 pany, and for several years Mr. Westcott lias 

 been head buyer of lumber for the nine Insti- 

 tutions associated under the name of the inter- 

 national Harvester Company, as well as for the 

 various railroad and other interests controlled 

 by that corporation. In this capacity his pur- 

 chases have aggregated an average of 150.000,- 

 000 feet of lumber a year, about $3,500,000 in 

 money value. The fact that at no time during 

 Mr. Westcott's service^as purchasing agent for 

 the International Company has any of the 

 plants of that great corporation been inconven- 

 iei d for want of lumber to continue its op- 

 erations has earned for him the reputation of 

 being one of the best posted men in the country 

 on Lumber conditions. 



With Harvey S. Hayden and Charles West- 

 cott at its helm it is patent that the Hayden & 

 Westcott I. umber Company will meet with most 

 unlooked-for success from its very inception. 



Handling Record Lumber Bulletins. 



As is well known to advertisers in the Hard- 

 wooi, Recobd Ibis publication issues with fre- 

 quency sundry bulletins containing information 

 about hardwood lumber and the building indus- 

 tries, one part of this bulletin service com- 

 prises in serial form a list of wholesale con 

 seniors of hardwood lumber together with the 

 kind of goods manufactured, the name of the 

 buyers, and their annual requirements by kind. 

 grade and thickness. 



Recently the Hardwood Recobd suggested a 

 method of handling these reports separately and 

 advantageously by means of a card index sys- 



Charles W. Fish, the able sales manager 



of the llackley-I'beips I'.onnell Company of 

 Grand Rapids. Mich., is practicing a method of 

 handling these reports which the Hardwood 

 Record must confess is superior to the one here- 

 tofore suggested. His plan is substantially as 

 follows; He utilizes plain cards on which he 

 pastes the slips containing the information and 

 tibs I bem in a card index drawer by name in 

 alphabetical order. In other drawers he uses 

 cards, between guide cards, naming the various 

 lands of woods manufactured and handled by 



his company. On these cards are noted the 

 names and addresses of every concern using the 

 variety of wood in question. When specific in- 

 formation as to grade nad thickness is wanted, 

 or information concerning other kinds of woods 

 usi d by the sane house, reference is had to 

 the alphabetically arranged set of cards as 

 noted. 



Thus, if Mr. Fish has a quantity of birch 

 lumber he wishes to market he can Immediately 

 refer to the set of cards, comprising the birch 

 users ami forward them his stock list or what 

 ever correspondence on the subject he chooses. 



Many lumber advertisers in the Hardwood 

 Record are employing this system to their mani- 

 fest advantage. line advertiser reports that 

 through this agency he has marketed over 7. nun, 

 000 feet of lumber in the last ninety days. By 

 the majority of advertisers and wholesalers this 

 information service is conceded to be the most 

 valuable advertising adjunct that has ever been 

 furnished and advertisers are highly pleased 

 with it. especially so since it is supplied entirely 

 without charge. 



Car Stake Equipment Meeting. 

 A meeting of tic car stake equipment commit- 

 tee, til which both the railroad and lumber 

 interests were represented by a full attendance, 

 was held at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York City, 

 October 1'.'. Tic meeting was called to review 

 the general progress made in the case to date 

 and t" urge upon the eastern roads the neces- 

 sity of prompt action in the proposed equipment 

 of sixty cars as a test. Walter W. Ross, conn 

 sel for the lumbermen, reviewed the controversy 

 to date, and a lengthy discussion followed on 

 tic merits of the Harvey stake and the advis- 

 ability of the eastern roads adopting it since 

 they had leu yet acpted any flat car device. 

 Tic outcome of tic meeting was that tic Boston 



.V Maine agreed t |uip twenty cars as trial 



and the southern roads twenty more among 

 them. _ 



The Flint, Eiving & Stoner Lumber Co. 



The Flint. Erving vV Stoner interests have 



I, .en consolidated under the nan f tie- Flint. 



Erving & Stoner Lumber Company. The prop- 

 erties included in the deal are tic 9,000-acre 

 tract ,,r timber, mostly hardwood, at Dunlevie. 

 W. Va.. which the old company secured last 

 spring along with the town of Dunlevie and all 

 ilc railroad and machinery at that place, also 

 a large amount of hardwood and hemlock tim- 

 ber in northern Pennsylvania and several mills 

 in that section. New railroads have been built 

 through the Dunlevie tract and it is now in 

 line tunning order. The new company represents 

 over $750,000 worth of property. Its officers 

 and directors are : President, J. B. Flint of 

 Pittsburg; vice president. I. II. I'rotbers of 

 Punxsutawney ; secretary : F. II. Stoner of 

 I'uuxsutawney ; treasurer. R. II.-«F.i'ving of Pitts- 

 burg : directors. J. It. Flint. I. II. Brothers. F, 

 II. sinner. R. II. Erving. I. C. Mingert of 

 Punxsutawney and Grant Thompson and Horace 

 SImpkins of Clea rfield, I'a. 



Death of Thomas Munroe. 

 The II.utnwooD Riicouti chronicles with regret 

 the death of Thomas Munroe of the Thayer 

 Lumber Company. Muskegon. Mich., who died 

 Wednesday morning, Oct. 17. Although not a 

 deab-r in hardwoods, Mr. Munroe was such a 

 commanding figure in bis own branch of the 

 business and so universally known among all 

 classes of lumbermen, that his death will be 

 widely lamented and felt. He was one of the 

 most prominent men in the social and business 

 life of his city and had devoted a considerable 

 portion of his lime and wealth to the betterment 

 of conditions among the working classes. The 

 funeral was al tended hy men prominent in state 

 affairs, by members of the various Masonic and 

 other bodies with which he was affiliated, and 

 by well-known lumbermen. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



Tic Pierce Tie ,V: Lumber Company has been 

 incorporated at Mayfield, Tenn.. with a capital 

 stock of SU4ii. 



E. F. Fowell of Vicksburg, Miss., has pur- 

 chased 7S4 acres of hardwood timber land, and 

 will at once erect a sawmill to cut out the 

 stock. 



T-fie Veneered Door Company of Athens. O., 



