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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Arrangement to Sell Veneer Output. 



The Veneer Marketing Company of the Rail- 

 way Exchange building, Chicago, organized last 

 May to dispose of the output of the Asheville 

 Veneer Company of Biltmore, N. C. the Holley- 

 Matthews Manufacturing Company of Sikeston, 

 Mo., and the White Veneer Company of Boyne 

 City, Mich., has created such a market for its 

 product that the mills it represents will be 

 kept busy during the next twelve months. This 

 grouping of the selling ends of various distinct 

 concerns under an altogether independent enter- 

 prise, incorporated for the purpose, is new in 

 the veneer industry, although not unknown in 

 other lines of business. It gives a wide variety 

 of product from which to satisfy the needs 

 of the trade and has distinct advantages in the 

 disposition of stock. 



The Veneer Marketing Company deals in all 

 kinds of veneers, sawn, sliced and rotary cut. 

 Besides selling the product direct from the mill 

 it has a warehouse on Michigan street on the 

 north side of the city. 



B. Williams Cypress Company, on the steamer 

 Suwanee, to the mills along the picturesque 

 Teche. The banquet will be attended by the 

 heads of all the departments of the company 

 and each mill will be represented by one or 

 more persons. Following the dinner will be an 

 informal talk on topics of interest to both the 

 manufacturing and selling branches of the busi- 

 ness. 



The Cypress Selling Company has been giving 

 most efficient service to its trade during the 

 past year, yet Manager Franklin Greenwood 

 says : "We want to give the buyers of cypress 

 50 per cent better service next year than we 

 have this." Already prospects look bright for 

 a continuance of prosperity, as the company 

 has orders on file for shipment after the first 

 of January for nearly 25 per cent of its output 

 for next year. 



The Henry Sanders Company. 

 The Henry Sanders Company is now installed 

 in its new factory at Elston and Webster ave- 

 nues, Chicago, which was finished some months 

 ago. The buildings cover considerable ground 

 and are equipped with every facility for the con- 

 struction of columns. It has a splendid reputa- 



Copartnership Dissolved. 



Announcement Is made that the copartnership 

 heretofore existing between J. F. Holloway and 

 J. N. Holloway of Philadelphia, trading as the 

 Holloway Lumber Company, was dissolved on 

 December 10 by mutual consent. J. F. Holloway 

 will continue the business of the Holloway Lum- 

 ber Company under the same style as heretofore, 

 assuming all the obligations of the firm and 

 collecting the outstanding indebtedness. 



J. N. Holloway will continue in the lumber 



NEW FACTOR* HENRY SANDERS CO., CHICAGO. 



tion for the quality of its output, having made 

 some of the most expensive work done in col- 

 umns in this country. In building up its work 

 the company uses the Koll system of lot-king, a 

 device patented some years ago by Ernst Koll, 

 which has been found to give the .best results 

 from its scientific and simple CQnstruction. Mr. 

 Koll superintends the building of the columns 

 and is a specialist in the making of high-class 

 work. Under his supervision some of the most 

 striking work in this line in Chicago has been 

 done, notably the columns In the La Salle Street 

 Station and those in the interior of the home of 

 the Union League Club. 



For Cypress Selling Co.'s Salesmen. 



The Cypress Selling Company, Ltd., with 

 headquarters at New Orleans, La., is planning 

 an unusually enjoyable time for its salesmen's 

 annual educational trip this year. This com- 

 pany, represents a large majority of the gulf 

 mills in the Southern Cypress Manufacturers' 

 Association and this year has been one of the 

 most successful in its history, sales during re- 

 cent weeks ranging from 12,000,000 to 13.000.000 

 feet and even higher, and the company takes 

 this method of showing its appreciation of the 

 earnest work of its selling force, which has 

 contributed largely to this record. 



Between thirty-five and forty of the company's 

 salesmen will attend the festivities, which will b3 

 held early in January and consist of an elaborate 

 banquet at the St. Charhss hotel, New Orleans, 

 a tour of the thirty odd mills of the company 

 and a three days' trip, as the guests of the F. 



business under the style of J. X. Holloway & 

 Co. at 417 Crozer building, Philadelphia. 



Both of the above gentlemen are well known 

 in the lumber trade of Philadelphia and the 

 East, where for a number of years they have 

 enjoyed a. wide acquaintance and a well merited 

 reputation as progressive business men. The 

 Hardwood Record extends its best wishes to 

 both for a successful business under the new 

 conditions. 



Railroad Spike Test. 



The Forest Service has completed a series of 

 tests to determine the holding power of different 

 forms of railroad spikes. The tests were made 

 on ordinary commercial ties of loblolly pine, 

 oak, chestnut and other woods. The spikes used 

 were of four kinds : common driven spikes, a 

 driven spike which has about the same form as 

 the common spike with a lengthwise channel on 

 the side away from the rail ; screw spikes of the 

 American type; and screw spikes similar to 

 those in use on European railroads, and differ- 

 ing from the American spike mainly in the man- 

 ner of finishing the thread under the head. The 

 common and the channeled spikes were driven 

 into the ties in the usual manner to a depth of 

 five inches. A hole of the same diameter as 

 the spike at the base of the thread was bored 

 for the screw spikes, which were then screwed 

 down to the same depth as the driven spikes, 

 'the ties were then placed in the testing ma- 

 chine and the force required to pull each spike 

 was recorded. The average force required to 

 pull common spikes varies from 7,000 pounds 

 in white oak to 3,600 pounds in loblolly pine, 



and 3,000 pounds in chestnut. The holding 

 power of the channeled spike is somewhat 

 greater. The two forms of screw spike have 

 about the same holding power, ranging from 

 13,000 pounds in white oak to 9,400 pounds in 

 chestnut and 7,700 pounds in loblolly pine. 

 There is a marked difference between the be- 

 havior of driven and screwed spikes in knots 

 and in clear wood. Knots are brittle and lack 

 elasticity, so driven spikes do not hold as well 

 in them as In clear wood. On the other hand, 

 screw spikes tend to pull out the whole knot 

 which they penetrate. This increases the resis- 

 tance so much that the increase of holding power 

 of screw spikes in knots is considerably above 

 that for clear wood. 



Annual and "Home Coming" of Indiana 

 Association. 



The Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Associa- 

 tion is making preparations for its annual meet- 

 ing on January 11, 1907. Besides routine busi- 

 ness, important topics will be discussed. An 

 interesting feature of the occasion will be the 

 "Home Coming" banquet tendered to former 

 lumbermen of the state by the association. Fol- 

 lowing is the announcement and invitation ex- 

 tended to the members and the trade : 



By order of the board of managers we an- 

 nounce that the eighth annual .meeting of the 

 Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association will 

 be held at the Grand hotel, Indianapolis, Friday, 

 January 11, 1907. The convention will be 

 called at 2 p. m. 



"In addition to the regular order of business, 

 matters of special importance will be brought 

 before the convention for discussion — trade con- 

 ditions, the car stake and equipment complaint, 

 forestry, inspection rules, etc. 



"A special feature of the meeting will be a 

 'Home Coming' of the Indiana boys who are 

 now engaged in the lumber business elsewhere, 

 who will be our guests at a banquet at 7 :30 p. 

 m. We will also have with us as guests many 

 other prominent lumbermen and friends. Every 

 preparation is being made to make this an en- 

 joyable and interesting occasion. 



For Ex-Hoosier Lumbermen. 



"You are cordially invited to come home Janu- 

 ary 11, 1907, and attend the eighth annual 

 meeting of the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's 

 Association to be held at the Grand hotel, In- 

 dianapolis. You are also to be our guest at the 

 banquet to be given during the evening. 



"This meeting is to be a 'home coming' of all 

 Indiana boys now engaged in the lumber busi- 

 ness elsewhere. If you do not attend our meet- 

 ing will not be a complete success ; therefore, 

 by all means arrange your plans to attend this 

 meeting. While many things of importance will 

 come up for discussion, we wish to make the 

 main feature of the meeting an old-fashioned 

 'home coming.' 



"Remember we will not take 'no' for an an- 

 swer. 



"C. H. Barnabt, President. 

 "J. M. Pritchard, Secretary." 



Durability of Cypress. 

 Cypress grows in an extremely slow manner 

 and its wood is notoriously durable. It resists 

 the action of the weather in a totally different 

 manner from all other woods, and seems to be 

 wholly uninfluenced by immersion ip water for 

 a long period of years. It has many curious 

 chemical properties which hold its fibers and 

 other constituents together so indissolubly that 

 the common changes which break down the tis- 

 sue of ordinary woods leave the cypress unin- 

 jured. Instances are known where the wood 

 of the cypress tree has endured for more than 

 1,000 years, leaving it still in a solid condition, 

 subject only to the attrition of the elements, 

 such as the gradual wearing away one sees in 

 exposed rocks. In the lower valley of the Mis- 

 sissippi a species of cypress is extremely abun- 



