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It was developed that there would be a 

 fairly good supply of poplar to meet the de- 

 mand in the immediate future, and that if the 

 purchaser could not secure stock from one firm, 

 he would very likely get what he wanted from 

 another member. 



The sentiment relative to the oak situation 

 was that oak is very strong at present, and 

 there is all probability of a decided strengthen- 

 ing in price as the season advances. 



Hardwood Manufacturers' Bulletin 



Bulletin No. 144 -issued by the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United States 

 contains a brief excerpt from a report of Bruce 

 Odell, chairman of the committee on market 

 conditions of the Michigan Hardwood Mauu- 

 I'acturers' Association, dealing with the question 

 of prices in hardwood. The report deplores the 

 tendency on the part of the public to judge the 

 general market price of lumber by the prices 

 on some particular items, failing to understand 

 that a large percentage of the general cut is 

 being marketed at an actual loss, and that but 

 n small percentage must carry this loss in order 



I'ike and Lonsdale car line. The company also 

 has a full equipped Clark band mill equipment, 

 wliich it is operating on two thousand acres of 

 hardwood timber land, which it recently pur- 

 chased, and beside this has the output of several 

 other mills under contract. 



Mapbet & Shea Lumber Company is incor- 

 porated under the laws of Tennessee with an 

 authorized capital of .$75,000, of which $38,000 

 is paid in. The company is made up of Ed. 

 Mapbet, president and manager ; James T. Shea, 

 vice-president, and John F. Shea, treasurer ; E. 

 J. Clarke, secretary ; and C. E. Brooks and A. J. 

 Mapbet, who are also directors. 



Ed. Mapbet and the Shea brothers are too 

 well known in the lumber trade to require any 

 further introduction. 



Mr. Clarke is a native of Pennsylvania and 

 a man of long experience in the lumber indus- 

 try. He was tor many years with James B. 

 Weed & Co., and came to the east Tennessee 

 country with the Shea brothers when they were 

 doing the logging for the Little River Lumber 

 Company. He has been an employe of either 

 one or both of these institutions ever since. 



the oBBce of Secretary Fish and of assistant 

 secretary H. J. Fuller have a splendid view of 

 Lake Michigan. 



On entering there is a large reception hall, 

 well furnished, beyond which is a roomy, light 

 stenographers' room. Opening from the recep- 

 tion hall is the office of Chief Inspector II. A. 

 Hoover of the association, while to the left is 

 the large directors' room, splendidly furnished 

 in quartered oak. The private offices of the 

 secretary and assistant secretary are arranged 

 alongside of the stenographers' quarters in the 

 front of the building. 



The new quarters afford much better facilities 

 for handling the increasing work of the associa- 

 tion, and Secretary Fish issues a cordial invita- 

 tion to the trade to inspect his new home. 



Meeting Philadelphia Wholesalers 



The Philadelphia Wholesale Lumlicr Dealers' 

 Association held a meeting preceded by a dinner 

 at the Union League, April IS. Horace A. 

 Reeves, Jr., president, was in the chair. 



S. P. Bowers Company. J. Wistar Evans and 



ED MAPHET, PRESIDENT MAPHET & SHEA 

 LUMBER COMPANY, KNOXVILLE, TENN. 



to show a reasonably fair profit on the gross in- 

 vestment. 



Another article headed "Substitution to be 

 Confronted." gives quite a little attention to 

 the wood substitute game. Specific arguments 

 are enumerated against the steel automobile 

 body as compared to wooden bodies ; metal trim 

 as compared with wooden interior finish, and 

 steel cars as compared to wooden cars. 



From a communication in the bulletin from a 

 Mississippi manufacturer, it is manifest that the 

 situation in that country is strong so far as 

 prices are concerned. The communication cites 

 gratifying strength in No. 1. 2 and 3 gum. The 

 winter and spring cut is but one-fourth of nor- 

 mal, and with no gains in production made by 

 gum manufacturers for four or five years, stocks 

 at mills, yards and factories are lower than ever. 

 Thus far the trade this year, according to the 

 letter, has been supplied by the 1911 cut. and 

 as soon as the demand falls on the winter and 

 spring cut the effect will be felt. 



Maphet & Shea Lumber Company 



In the last issue of ILvedwood Recohd a brief 

 announcement was made of the Maphet & Shea 

 Lumber Company, manufacturer and wholesaler 

 at Knoxville, Tenn. This institution has estab- 

 lished an office at 703-70.5 Henson building. 

 Knoxville, and conducts a yard at Middlebrook 



JAMES T. SHEA, VICE-PRESIDENT MAPHET 

 & SHEA LUMBER COMPANY, KNOX- 

 VILLE, TENN. 



Mr. Clarke will dispatch the duties of general 

 bookkeeper as well as that of secretary of the 

 company. 



Mr. Brooks and A. J. Maphet are well known 

 inspectors, and both have been associated with 

 Ed. Maphet in the lumber business for some 

 years. 



The peculiar feature of the makeup of the 

 Maphet & Shea Lumber Company is that every 

 officer, director and stockholder, first saw the 

 light of day north of the Mason & Dixon line, 

 and everyone of them is a worker. The well- 

 known Shea brothers are natives of Pennsyl- 

 vania, while the Maphets were born and reared 

 at Madison, Ohio. On this page is shown a 

 counterfeit presentment of the principals of the 

 Maphet & Shea Lumber Company. 



New Ofllces National Hardwood Lumber 

 Association 



Secretary Fish of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association is well settled in his splen- 

 did new suite of offices on the eighteenth floor 

 of the McCormick building. Chicago, having 

 moved from the old offices in the Rector building 

 about the first of the month. The new quarters 

 comprise a suite of six rooms, providing ample 

 accomodations for the various officers associ- 

 ated with Mr. Fish, also commodious directors' 

 room and anteroom. The stenographers' office. 



JOHN F. SHEA, TREASURER MAPHET & 

 SHEA LUMBER COMPANY, KNOX- 

 VILLE, TENN. 



Kramer & Co. were elected members of the 

 association. 



A feature of the evening was a talk by Owen 

 M. Bruner, who has just returned from a de- 

 lightful trip to the Panama canal and surround- 

 ing country, on the great work going on there 

 and the facilitation commercially to the business 

 man generally which its completion will mean. 

 As is always the case, a word from a visitor to 

 this spot to which the eye of the country is so 

 eagerly turned, was received with the usual 

 avidity. 



A Recent Eeorganization 



Several months ago the E. C. Bradley Lum- 

 ber Company was incorporated at Cincinnati, 

 O., E. C. Bradley being president. L. R. Harvey, 

 secretary, and D. G. Wilson, treasurer. This 

 concern is closely affiliated with Wm. Whitmer 

 & Sons of Philadelphia, and was formed for the 

 purpose of handling the product of the Whitmer 

 mills in West Virginia and North Carolina as 

 well as doing a general wholesale business. 



This close connection with such a well-known 

 house as Wm. Whitmer & Sons gave the E. C. 

 Bradley Lumber Company a steady and ade- 

 quate source of supply for such hardwoods as 

 ash. oak, poplar and chestnut and for spruce. 

 This company is operating three large large mills 

 in West Virginia and one at Crestmont, N. C. 



