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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Canadiaia Importation of Mahogany 



The enormous increase in building operations 

 throughout Canada has resulted in an increase 

 in imports into the Dominion of products which 

 fifteen or twenty years ago had hardly obtained 

 commercial status. 



Mahogany is one article of import which half 

 a century ago was practically unknown in the 

 Dominion. The chief reason for this is that 

 during the early stages of development of 

 Canadian towns, various public buildings and 

 the homes were erected on a somewhat cheap 

 scale. Mahogany had always been considered a 

 luxurv, but its use has become increasingly evi- 

 dent and now most of the large banking and 

 commercial offices are finished and furnished with 

 this wood. 



Canadian firms are rapidly getting into the 

 constmction of railway cars, and while the 

 Dominion contains a vast wooded area, none of 

 the tree species represented are suitable for high- 

 grade cabinet and interior finish work. Ma- 

 hogany here has come into considerable prom- 

 inence. Automobile factories opening up during 

 the last five years in the Dominion, have also 

 taken a considerable quantity of mahogany. 



Perhaps the most important contributing fac- 

 tor is seen in the rapidly growing per capita 

 wealth of the Canadians. They are able to pay 

 for lu:£uries and don't hesitate to do so. Ma- 

 hogany furniture is very common in Canadian 

 homes. 



Canada imported during the fiscal year ending 

 March 31, 1912, a total of 2,696,555 feet of 

 mahogany valued at $314,409. The balk of this 

 came from the United States free of duty. There 

 are also considerable imports of mahogany veneer 

 which has the same classification as oak. rose- 

 wood, cedar and walnut veneer. These woods 

 pay seven and one-half per cent ad valorem under 

 the present tariff. The imports of veneer of these 

 species during the same period were valued at 

 §251,522. All of the latter came from the 

 United States. 



Oak Veneer Men Organize 



Quartered oak manufacturers held an informal 

 dinner at the Dennison hotel at Indianapolis a 

 lew weeks ago and steps were there taken looking 

 toward the formation of an association of quar- 

 tered oak interests. Sixty per cent of all of 

 the quartered oak manufacturers of the United 

 States were present, aggregating representatives 

 of some twenty-five concerns. The meeting went 

 so far as to appoint a special committee with 

 instructions to draw up a draft of the proposed 

 organization. 



It is believed that this question will be ratified 

 by a future meeting of the same concerns, which 

 will be held within a few weeks. 



There has not been any formal organization 

 of quartered oak veneer concerns, although these 

 manufacturers have been in the habit of meeting 

 two or three times a year for Informal business 

 discussions. The benefit of these informal gath- 

 erings has been so apparent that the sentiment 

 in favor of a permanent organization has been 

 given serious consideration of late. 



The discussion of stock conditions at the din- 

 ner brought out the fact that stocks on hand 

 have not increased since the month of February, 

 and that at this time last year the manufac- 

 turers had four times as much unsold stock 

 on their hands as at present. It was the 

 consensus of opinion that there were enough 

 orders booked to keep the mills going for three 

 months ahead without additional orders. Steady 

 prices were also reported. 



New Kansas City Concern 



The Pelican Lumber Company has recently 



gone Into the lumber business in Kansas City, 



Mo. 



This concern owns 10,000 acres of stumpage 



running principally to cypress and red gum, 



with a considerable per cent of yellow pine. 



The timber is in Morehouse Parish, La., close 



to 'the Arkansas line. It contains an estimated 

 stand of 100,000,000 feet, some of it riinnins 

 as high as 50,000 feet per acre. The company 

 also has on this tract an up-to-date sawmill 

 equipped with various appurtenances necessary 

 for lumber manufacture. It is expected that 

 the mill will begin operations by Sept. 15. 



The personnel of the new concern consists 

 of H. H. Hutchinson, president. J. A. Hilliard. 

 vice-president, and B. B. Davenport, secretary 

 and treasurer. All these men have been prom- 

 inently and successfully Identified with the lum- 

 ber business in various capacities for years. 



A High-Class Catalogue 



The Hauchett Swage Works, Big Rapids 

 Mich., has just issued catalogue No. 4 telling of 

 its high-grade line of automatic filing room 

 machinery, saw fitting tools and knife grinders. 

 This concern has made a reputation for the 

 manufacture of this line of products, and its 

 goods are found all over the lumber manufac- 

 turing sections of the country. 



The catalogue is of an unusually attractive de- 

 sign, the company having spared no expense in 

 getting it up. It contains a complete descrip- 



St. Louis Lumhermen to Complain 



.\ bill of complaint will shortly be filed with 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission at the in- 

 stigation of several prominent lumbermen of 

 St. Louis. The complaint has to do with the 

 Central Commerce Association lines, the Cotton 

 Belt, the Iron Mountain. Frisco and the Vicks- 

 burg, Shreveport and Pacific lines. The subject 

 of complaint is alleged unjust and discriminat- 

 ing rates, as recently advanced, from Ohio and 

 Mississippi river crossings to Canadian points. 

 These rates will become effective Sept. 1, and 

 the complaint asks for the maintenance of the 

 old rates. 



Apparently the lumbermen have a strong 

 point in the fact that the proposed advanced 

 rates will exceed the sixth class rate now in 

 effect. Official classification has designated the 

 latter as the maximum rate that can be charged. 

 From published announcements by the roads In 

 question, it is said that the advance will range 

 from one to seven cents a hundred. The rea- 

 sons submitted by the roads for the Increase is 

 ihat Canadian lines are asking the excess arbi- 

 trary out of the rate from Ohio and Mississippi 

 river crossings. 



ATTRACTIVE CATALOGUE COVER 



tion of the various machines offered for sale 

 by the Hanchett works, each illustrated with 

 the highest type of cut, showing in detail its 

 mechanism. In addition suggestions for order- 

 ing the various articles are enclosed, and also 

 a telegraphic code particularly adapted to the 

 Hanchett line. A. feature of the catalogue is 

 a suggestion that through its extensive sales 

 force the Hanchett company can place sawmill 

 men in touch with high-class filers and other 

 employes of filing rooms. 



Altogether the book is of merit and should 

 be in use by every saw filer in the country. 



Supreme Court Favors Shippers 



The Alpena Shippers' Association has won a 

 protracted legal contest against the Detroit 

 and Mackinac Railroad Companies, the United 

 States Supreme court having handed down a 

 decision favoring the shippers. Specifically th» 

 decision of Associate Justice Day of the court 

 denies the application of the carriers for a writ 

 of error and appeal from its bond for $10,000. 



A similar decision was rendered by the Su- 

 preme court of Michigan from which judgment 

 was appealed. The decision of the Michigan 



