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Published In the Interest of Hardwood Lumber. American Hardwood Forests, Wood Veneer Industry, Hardwood Flooring, 

 Hardwood Interior Finish, Wood Chemicals, Saw Mill and WoodworKlng Machinery. 



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Vol. XXIII. 



CHICAGO. NOVEMBER 25. 1906. 



No. 3. 



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Published on the 10th and 25th of each month by 



THE HARDWOOD COMPANY 



Henry H. Gibson, President 



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HARDWOOD ASSOCIATION MEETINGS. 



National Veneer 4 Panel Manufacturers' Assn. 



The annual meeting of this association will be held at the 

 Auditorium hotel, Chicago, at 10 a. m., Tuesday, Dec. 11. 



Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Association. 



This association will hold an important meeting at the 

 Hotel Pantlind, Grand Rapids, on Wednesday, Dec. 19. 



General Market Conditions. 



The hardwood trade throughout the United States and abroad is 

 still running in full tide. Prices on nearly every variety of hardwood 

 lumber show a rising tendency and the demand is generally in excess 

 of the supply. 



The car situation is the most serious ever known iu the history of 

 American railroading, and a great many shippers are able to secure 

 cars to deliver but a small portion of their sales. In some localities 

 the car situation is Jodsening up a bit, but on the whole it is in very 

 bad shape and probably will remain so for fully a month longer. 



While all varieties of plain oak are in strong demand, poplar seems 

 to be in leading call. A good many advance purchases of this wood 

 have been made during the last fortnight. There is very little manu- 

 factured poplar in first hands and it is apparent that notwithstanding 

 the great effort that has been made to secure a stock of logs the 

 greatest possible output will be far below the demands of the trade. 

 Northern hardwoods are doing very well. 



The heavy rainfall of the last fortnight throughout the oak, gum 

 and Cottonwood producing sections of the South means a delay of 

 log supply for fully a month. This feature of the situation looks to 

 still higher values for those standard southern products. 



The shortage of the mahogany supply is stimulating purchases and 

 the demand, notably from the furniture trade, is excellent. 



There has I n an unusual call for black locust during the last few 



months, cither in the form of logs, bolts or flitches, for the production 

 ■ 'I' telegraph and telephone pins. 



The hardwood flooring plants, both in oak and maple, all remain 

 very busy, with plenty of orders in sight to keep them running for 

 months to come. Veneer manufacturers are enjoying an unusually 

 good, trade. 



On the Subject of Knockers. 



There is a legend in the Cincinnati Business .Men's Club which 

 reads : 



A "knocker" is one who condemns the 

 bad things ynii approve. 



I reckon that possibly 1 may be a knocker, for the president of 

 the National Hardwood Lumber Association at the recent Cincinnati 

 meeting took occasion to say, "When you consider . . . that 

 practically the entire lumber press has done all it could to bring 

 about dissension ami discord, you will realize two things, that the 

 National Hardwood Lumber Association is making good, and that 

 lumbermen will not be dictated to or take advice from men who 

 have no practical knowledge of our business, and who in order to 

 get something in their papers that a busy man will read attempt to 

 array lumbermen against lumbermen for revenue only." 



lie amended this utterance later by specifying the Hardwood 

 Record and two of its contemporaries us Being "practically the 



entire lumber press, " referred to in his previous 8) eh. Of course, 



I personally consider the Hardwood Record about one-half the entire 

 lumber press, but it was very decent of I he president to place his 

 estimate as high as he did. 



M it had 1 ii Bill Eusse, personally, uh,. made this ridiculous 



attack upon the Hardwood Record, it would not have been worth 

 commenting on, but through the forbearance of God, the grace of 

 Earl Palmer, and some political measures, the history of which Bill 

 would not care to see in print, he is at the head of an association 



of 54] hardvt I lumbermen, of whom 358 have paid their 1906 dues. 



1 number among the members of the National Association many of 

 the best friends a man ever possessed. Very largely they constitute 

 the square, upright, honest, intelligent .-mil progressive element, of the 

 organization. They approve of the editorial policy of the Hardwood 

 Record. I know this positively, because I have their approval in 

 black and white over their signatures. 



If preaching commercial advancement and business integrity in 

 the hardwood industry constitutes an effort to luing about "dissen- 

 sion and discord" and to "array lumbermen against lumbermen," 

 let us have dissension and discord until the man who systematically 

 ships nine hundred feet for a thousand or who sells one grade of 

 lumber and delivers an inferior one becomes such a despised member 

 of the hardwood fraternity as to have no standing among his fellows. 

 Let us have honest lumbermen arrayed against dishonest lumbermen 

 until the scandals surrounding irregular sales and inspection practices 

 are forever ended. 



In spite of President Russc 's aversion to taking advice from me, on 

 the assumption that I have "no practical knowledge" of his business, 

 1 shall be obliged to say to him that it is my honest belief that I 

 can go with him into any hardwood forest In America and tell with 



