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

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



Vol. XXIV. 



CHICAGO. APRIL 25. 1907. 



No. 1. 



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



THE HARDWOOD COMPANY 



Henry H. Gibson. President 



OFFICES 



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Telephone Harrison 4960 



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ASSOCIATION MEETINGS. 



National Hardwood Lumber Association. 



The tenth annual convention of this association will be 

 held on Thursday and Friday, May 23 and 24, 1907, at 

 Atlantic City, N. J. 



National Lumber Manufacturers' Association. 



This organization will hold its annual meeting on Tuesday 

 and Wednesday, May 28 and 29, at the Auditorium on the 

 Jamestown Exposition gromids, Norfolk, Va. 



Editorial Announcement. 



On May 1 the offices of the Hardwood Record will be moved a step 

 skyward, to the seventh floor of the Ellsworth Building, 355 Dear- 

 born St., the modern, fire-proof structure in which they have been 

 located for the past twenty-eight months. The greater portion of 

 this floor has been leased for a term of years, where hereafter The 

 Barrel and Box and Bock Products, now located at Louisville, Ky., 

 will be published jointly with the Hardwood Eecord. This combina- 

 ,. tion, which will be known as The Trade Press Alliance, has been 

 Qsnder negotiation for some time, and plans have now been consum- 

 ?iinated whereby the three publications, putting out five issues monthly, 

 ^yill all be under one general management. This arrangement is by 

 C^io means a consolidation of the financial affairs of the three papers, 

 qBS the business of each one will be conducted separately; but, owing 

 Qlo joint interests of the publishers, it has been decided that considera- 



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iile economy m cost can be effected and that the scope of all the 

 papers can be much widened and their character improved by this 

 plan. 



The Barrel and Box is in its twelfth year, and is the foremost 

 publication of its kind in the country; it is devoted to boxes, shocks, 

 cooperage, staves, heading, hoops, head liners, woodenware, baskets and 

 wood specialties. Hereafter it will be printed on the 15th of the 

 month. 



EocK Products is a semi-monthly publication with two distinct 

 editions. The issue of the 5th of the month is known as its "stone 

 edition" and is devoted to stone and products manufactured there- 

 from. The issue of the 20th is devoted to manufactured rock 

 products. This paper is four years old and has become the leading 

 exponents of the interests it represents in the United States. 



The Hardwood Record will continue to be published on the 10th 

 and 25th of each month. 



In addition to . the publication headquarters at Chicago, branch 

 offices will be maintained at New York, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, St. 

 Louis, Memphis, Louisville and Barre, Vt. Readers of any of the 

 papers will always be welcome callers at the Chicago office or at any 

 of the others. 



It is intended that this new arrangement shall in no wise affect the 

 policy or personnel of the several publications, but such a community 

 of interests should prove of mutual advantage. 



General Market Conditions. 



There are no new features in the hardwood trade. The demand 

 continues very strong, and stocks are bought well up to green 

 lumber. Ash and hickory are well nigh out of the market, and 

 there are insistent calls from all sources for more of these woods. 

 Oak is in good call, but there is a large quantity being manufactured 

 and the general trade is being fairly well supplied. Quartered 

 white oak is doing about the same as during the past year, while 

 the demand for red is increasing, with a corresponding accretion in 

 value. Poplar, cottonwood and gum in all grades are in excellent 

 demand. The good end of these three woods is being marketed as 

 fast as it is fit for shipment, and box people are making insistent 

 calls for the coarse end of every variety of hardwoods. 



In the north country stocks are well sold up. The average 

 manufacturer has sold a goodly portion of his proposed season's cut. 

 Rock elm and black ash are practically out of the market, and 

 values are strengthening in birch and basswood. Thick maple, which 

 was in oversupply a year ago, is now short, and the demand exceeds 

 the supply. 



The hardwood flooring trade remains strong, and the factories are 

 all busy. The capacity of veneer and panel plants is tested to the 

 utmost, and some are running extra hours to keep up with demand. 



The call for mahogany seems to increase in quantity every month, 

 and there is a gradual accretion in price. The call for cherry and 

 black walnut is normal, but the limited quantity of these woods 

 seems to be consumed about as fast as they are manufactured into 

 lumber. 



Possibilities of Universal Hardwood Inspection. 



The working out of plans lookiug toward unification of all sys- 

 tems of hardwood inspection and of a method of application in all 

 parts of th'% United States, is a good deal more of a problem than 



