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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Change in Missouri Concern 



At a recent meetiug of the stockholders of 

 the HoUey-Matthews Manufacturing Company 

 and the Holley-Eaker Lumber Company a deal 

 was consummated which resulted in the con- 

 solidation of the two companies. An affidavit 

 of the dissolution of the Holley-Baker Lumber 

 Company has been filed with the secretary of 

 state of Missouri. The style of the reorganized 

 corporation will be the Baker-Matthews Manufac- 

 turing Company with main offices at Sikeston. 

 Mo. The only change in the personnel of the 

 company is the retirement of IT. G. Holley who 

 disposed of his holdings in the Holley-Baker 

 Lumber Company and the IIolley-Matthews 

 Manufacturing Company. 



The stockholders and ofBcers of the Baker- 

 Matthews Manufacturing Company are C. D. 

 Matthews. Jr.. president ; H. W. Baker. Sr.. 

 vice-president : W. H. Barnes, secretary : H. W. 

 Baker. Jr., treasurer and G. M. Cahoon, vice- 

 president. 



The company has remodeled its entire plant 

 and increased the capacity to take care of its 

 rapidly growing business. It operates a band 

 mill and box factory and is extensively engaged 

 in the manufacture of box shooks and egg cases. 

 The plant at Sikeston has a capacity of 1.500 

 cars per annum. W. H. Barnes is manager of 

 the box shook and egg case end of the business. 

 The wholesale lumber business of the Holley- 

 Baker Lumber Company will be continued by 

 the new concern. A distributing yard is main- 

 tained at Thebes. 111., where a well assorted 

 stock of southern hardwoods is carried. The 

 company also has under contract the output and 

 is financing the operation of two band mills 

 in southern Arkansas. At the several yards of 

 this concern a stock aggregating from 4.500,000 

 to 5.000,000 feet of hardwoods is on sticks. 

 W. H. Baker, Jr., is general manager of the 

 lumber department. 



The stockholders of the Holley-Baker Lumber 

 Company and the IIolley-Matthews Manufac- 

 turing Company were practically the same, and 

 (he interests of the two concerns being so 

 closely allied that in order to handle the in- ■ 

 creasing business of both companies more sat- 

 isfactorily, the consolidation was effected. As a 

 result of the combined organization, a much bet- 

 ter cfiuipment is insured, and the Baker-Matthews 

 Manufacturing Company will be better enabled 

 to take care of its extensive trade in the lumber 

 and box business. 



Impostor Caught 



In the last issue of II.^rdwiiod Record there 

 appeared an account of a clever impostor who 

 under the assumed name of W. H. Carter, presi- 

 dent of the VV. H. Carter Lumber Company of 

 Alabama, passed worthless checks on several 

 Baltimore lumbermen and men prominent in the 

 lumber business elsewhere. It is gratifying to 

 note that this gentleman has been arrested at 

 Kvansville. Ind.. where he is accused of forging 

 a bill of lading for two carloads of grain on a 

 firm in that city. This is the method the so- 

 called Mr. Carter employed in accomplishing his 

 ends, and that his method was very successful 

 is proved by the various attempts he has made 

 to separate hard-headed lumbermen fnun their 

 well earned dollars. 

 A New Thought in Association Worls 

 Secretary Lewis Ijoster of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United States 

 has iust instituted a new idea looking toward 

 the advancement of the association interests 

 and the s\ipplying of an accurate and authentic 

 source of information as to prevailing market 

 conditions of various woods in various centers. 

 This will be embodied in his statement of 

 market conditions which will be issued each 

 month from the Cincinnati offices of this asso- 

 ciation. The figures will reflect values as pre- 

 vailing during the month preceding the issuance 

 of the report. The first report has been sent 

 to all members of the association but it is 



intended that subsequent reports will he avail- 

 able onl.v to those members who answer the 

 request for information as to market prices is- 

 sued by the secretary. The first edition of this 

 valuable booklet is not as complete as it is 

 hoped future editions will be, as a great many 

 members did not repl.v. 



In addition to summarizing market values, 

 the book contains a list of freight rates to vari- 

 ous consuming centers based on Cincinnati and 

 Cairo. The standard grading and dressing rules, 

 and the sales code of the Hardwood Manufac- 

 turer's .Association as revised and adopted to 

 date govern all prices shown in the statement. 

 Tn figuring delivered prices, the bulletin says 

 that weights should be used as shown under 

 each class of material, and that when the cents 

 in delivered prices are twelve and one-half cents 

 or under they should be dropped to the lower 

 iiuarter. When they are over, they should 

 he raised to the next quarter. The in- 

 structions further state that cents have 

 been eliminated on the high and low 

 prices, which causes the average column to 

 :ippear in error in some instances: that con- 

 ditions as shown in the bulletin are based on 

 actual sales during the month as reported by 

 the membership, and that basing points — namely, 

 Cincinnati. Cairo and New Orleans — are used only 

 as imaginary markets and to refiect the values 

 as received for different stocks : that members 

 have reported in some instances the amounts 

 obtained in their natural markets, and have 

 then deducted the freight back to their starting 

 point. The statement is furnished for the pur- 

 pose of showing the members of the association 

 the high, low and average prices actually obtained 

 in sales to the consuming trade, the general 

 trend of values and an analysis of the market 

 for the preceding month. In arriving at the 

 amount shown in the analysis column great 

 care and study was given to inch stock as 

 a basis only. The high and low conditions were 

 eliminated, as they wevo no doubt due in some 

 instances to abnormal sit\iations. which do not 

 always reflect true markets as a whole. Ship- 

 ments of oak, ash and hickory when sent through 

 either the Cairo or Cincinnati gateway to Chi- 

 cago and adjacent territory should not show 

 any variation as to value on account of these 

 taking the same freight rates. When sent 

 to points East an average freight differential 

 of eight cents should be deducted from Cairo 

 basic value. 



The bulletin contains reports on every con- 

 (civable species and grade of wood as manu- 

 factuied b.v members of the association. The 

 following table covering buckeye shows the way 

 it is gotten up. 



CLASS NO. 3 



BUCKEYE 



Weight per M. Feet. 2.000 Lbs. 



F. O. B. Cincinuiti 

 Basis 



c'oiuinon 



11 "16" and wider 



IIV*" 

 1%" 



1 "14" and wider 



l'/*"l 



1%" 



2 



.No. 



$40.00 



17.00 



|1 "13" and wider 



II '4 "I 

 Common 11 '^ "I " 



12 "I 



The value of this information, if properly 

 supported, is self-apparent, and should appeal to 

 manufacturers of these various stocks of hard- 

 wood Uinilier. 



Fine New Catalogue 

 H.viiUwooD Recokd is in receipt from the L. 

 & I. .T. White Company, Buffalo, N. Y.. of a 

 handsoniv- sixty page catalogue covering its lino 



of production in edge tools, machine knives and 

 coopers and turpentine tools. 



The L. & I. J. White Company was established 

 in 1S37, and this year celebrates its seventy- 

 fifth successful year of progress in the produc- 

 tion of a line of tools and knives for which it 

 is celebrated in the trade from one end of the 

 (Ountry to the otlier. 



The -atalogue just issued Is a very hand- 

 somely illustrated volume, and includes in its 

 pages descriirtions of every tool and knife em- 

 ployed in the cooperage and turpentine business, 

 as well as machine knives for stave manufac- 

 ture, veneer plants. leather cutting, etc.. etc. It 

 is a catalo.gue which should be in the hands of 

 every buyer of coopers' tools and machine knives, 

 and a copy can Ije had on applying by mail to 

 the company at BuITalo. 



Change of Management 



On July 1 C. T. Tuxford. f.u-merly manager 

 of the Escanaba Veneer Company of Escanaba, 

 Mich., severed liis connection with that concern 

 after having sold out his interest, and is now in 

 business for himself. Mr. Tuxford has been 

 succeeded by H. N. McEwen, who has been asso- 

 ciated with the Escanaba plant for a long time. 



This concern is a specialist in bird's-eye maple, 

 in fact cutting nothing but that stock, in the 

 manufacture of which it has a wide reputation. 

 The concern buys its logs, but selects logs which 

 will be particularly adapted to maintaining the 

 company's reputation for a fine line of stock in 

 I>ird's-eye veneer. 



New Pittsburgh Yard 



One of the notable chang.?s in the retail lum- 

 licr situation in rittsburgb is the launching of 

 the Crown Lumber Company on the south side. 

 This is really a continuation of the old A. G. 

 Breitwieser Lumber Company which has been 

 doing business under the name of Breitwieser, in 

 one form or another, for about twenty years. 

 The new company has taken over the large yard 

 and warehouses at the foot of South Eighteenth 

 street, and will put in a complete stock of rough 

 and dressed lumber at once. It is already cater- 

 ing to an established trade which moves twenty 

 to thirty thousand feet per day and is equipped 

 to take care of more than that whenever busi- 

 ness should warrant it. 



The change is brought about by the with- 

 drawal of A. G. Breitwieser and W. H. Williams, 

 president and vice-president, respectively, of the 

 old concern. The new management consists of 

 r. J. Keeling, president, and A. P. L. Turner, 

 treasurer and general manager. Jlr. Keeling 

 was with the old company and stands well flnau- 

 cially. Mr. Turner has been active in the lum- 

 ber trade In and around Pittsburgh for a num- 

 brr of years with the Whitmer interests, the 

 W. P. Craig Lumber Company and the American 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company. For some 

 years he spent most of his time traveling ex- 

 tensively among the mills of the South and 

 Northwest as buyer for the Whltmers. He is 

 also well acquainted with the wholesale and 

 retail trade. 



Recent Publications 



One of the most u.seful iiublicatious of recent 

 date is booked on the identification of the 

 economic woods of the United States by S. J. 

 Record, assistant professor of forest products, 

 Yale universit.v. This book Is published by John 

 Wiley & Sons of New York and sells for .$1.50. 

 It includes a discussion of the structural and 

 physical properties of wood, and goes into de- 

 tails as to various features such as bark, primary 

 wood, secondary wood, wood fibers, rays, growth 

 rings, heart-wood and sap-wood, grain and tex- 

 ture, density and weight, shrinkage, warping and 

 checking, and many other details of wood struc- 

 ture, the knowledge of which should be possessed 

 by every progressive lumberman. In addition a 

 key to thi' economic woods of the United States 

 is furnished. 



Henry Sobui Graves, chief forester of the 



