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general manager and secretary. The company's 

 offices are located in the Randolph building. 

 The corporation takes over the sawmill plant 

 formerly owned by the Planters Lumber Com- 

 pany at Greenville. Miss., and at an early date 



WILLIAM A. DOLPH, NEAL-DOLPH LUMBER 

 COMPANY, MEMPHIS, TENN. 



will commence the manufacture of hardwood 

 lumber at that point. This mil! is a modern 

 single band hardwood mill, and an ample sup- 

 ply of logs for it is assured. The company will 

 also be large buyers of hardwood lumber in 

 the open market. Mr. Neal of this company 

 was formerly president of the Planters Lumber 

 Company. J. T. Strickland has been local man- 

 ager and sawmill operator for the Chicago- 

 Mississippi Land & Lumber Company the past 

 year, and formerly was associated with the 

 Planters Lumber Company. \V. A. Dolph for 



Collins Company Purchase. 



The Collins Company, wholesaler of lumber 

 at Pennsboro, W. Va., has just purchased from 

 the Decker Lumber Company a large tract of 

 Virginia Umber near Sturgisson, between Mor- 

 gantown and Kingwood. The tract comprises 

 from 2,500 to 3.000 acres o£ virgin timber 

 and is one of the finest in the state. The trans- 

 action includes several miles of railroad, two 

 sawmills, a hotel, store, and other property. 

 Although the exact amount of money involved 

 has not been announced, report places it at at 

 least $100,000. The company has taken posses- 

 sion of operations, with E. M. Bonner as general 

 manager and Frank Smith as superintendent. 

 The sales department will be conducted through 

 the general offices of the Collins Company at 

 Pennsboro, W. Va. Creed Collins, C. W. Sprinkle 

 and E. M. Bonner are the principals of this 

 well-known hardwood house. 



J. L. STRICKLAND. XEAL-DOLPII LUMBER 

 COMl'ANY, GREENVILLE, MISS. 



the past seventeen years has been associated 

 with I. M. Darnell & Son Company in a confi- 

 dential capacity, and has had a very wide expe- 

 rience in hardwood affairs. All the members of 

 the house are particularly popular in both the 

 producing and consuming ends of the market, 

 and the success of the new enterprise is assured 

 in advance. 



Peruvian Hardwoods. 



A recent report of the development of various 

 industries in Peru states that that country 

 contains a large amount of valuable hardwoods. 

 Many years ago the government, looking toward 

 the development of its rich lands along the 

 Amazon river, maintained several steamers which 

 plied between Para and Iquitos, and which 

 brought down lumber to a planing mill which 

 was established in the latter city. The plan 

 was not successful, however, until 1894, when 

 business generally became better, and it was 

 placed on a paying basis. It is at present man- 

 aged remarkably well, considering its size and 

 the kind of machinery in use. The operator has 

 a ten-year contract with the government at £13 

 per month rental, and in return is given charge 

 of the mill ; he assumes all liabilities and 

 receives all profits. This contract will expire in 

 inOS. The machinery is very ancient, and con- 

 sists of two vertical saws, one band saw, tw^o 

 circular saws and an eighty horsepower engine. 

 The mill when pushed to the utmost can turn 

 out 1,800 feet of lumber a day, but the usual 

 output is about 900 feet. It is run less than 

 half the time, because of poor labor and the 

 difficulty in obtaining it, as well as the primitive 

 methods used in logging. The desirable timber 

 within easy access of Iquitos has been cut and 

 the remaining timbers must be floated down the 

 river. Laborers will work at lumbering only 

 during the dry season, and then cut a very 

 meager supply of trees growing near the water's 

 edge : when the river rises the logs are allowed 

 to float down the stream. 



The best grades of Peruvian lumber are very 

 heavy and will not float, so immense rafts are 

 made from the poorer kinds, and used for car- 

 rying the better stock down to the mill. No 

 fine work is turned out, owing to the fact that 

 there are only limited facilities and that the 

 demand for rough and dimension stock is in 

 excess of supply, so that the entire output is 

 sold at prices which would average about $180 

 per thousand feet. United States money. The 

 greater part of the timber is a kind of cedar, 

 which is not at all durable, and which splits 

 badly ; it is not even desirable for the shooks 

 and rough boxes into which it is made as casing 

 for the rubber output of that section. 



It is a peculiar fact that the United States, 

 with its rapidly decreasing supply of timber, 

 furnishes to the countries of the Amazon valley 

 many thousand feet of lumber annually, although 

 the latter is remarkably rich in virgin forests. 

 It is the opinion of Consul Eberhardt of Iquitos 

 that there is now no industry in Peru where 

 better profits could be made than on a modern 

 hardwood saw mill in charge of a practical 

 lumberman, providefl the problem of securing 

 labor could be solved satisfactorily. The river 

 for 400 miles above Iquitos is navigable the year 

 round for vessels drawing fourteen feet of water, 

 so that it would seem possible lo bring some 

 of the handsome Peruvian hardwoods into the 

 inited States from the Amazon countries. 



Annual National Lumber Manufacturers' 

 Association. 

 On Tuesday, May 28, at 11 a. m., the fifth an- 

 nual convention of the National Lumber Manu- 

 facturers' Association will be called to order in 

 the Auditorium on the .lamestown Exposition 

 Grounds at Norfolk, Va. Following is the pro- 

 gramme wbicli will be presented : 



First Day's Session. 

 Roll call of delegates from affiliated associa- 

 tions. 



Enrollment of visiting manufacturers. 

 Address of welcome by Harry St. George 

 Tucker, president of Exposition. 

 President's address, William Irvine. 

 Secretary's report, George K. Smith. 

 Treasurer's report, J. A. Freeman. 

 Appointment of committee on credentials. 

 Paper, "The Growing Need of Accurate Knowl- 

 edge as to the Standing Timber in the United 

 States Available for the Slanufacture of Lum* 

 her," J. B. White, Kansas City, Mo. 



Paper, "The Lumber Cut of the United States 

 in 1900," R, S. Kellogg, Forest Service, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. 



Paper, "Yale Forest School," Henry S, Graves, 

 director, New Haven, Conn. 



Paper, "Adjustment of Lumber Fire Losses," 

 James M. Hamill. Columbus, O. 

 ■~ Appointment of committees. 

 Cargo conference at 8 p. m. 



Second Day's Skssiox. 

 Report of Committee on Credentials. 

 Reports of standing committees — Transporta- 

 tion, C. I. Millard, chairman. 



Report of Committee on Credit Indemnity, 

 Drew Musser, chairman. 



Report of Committee on Endowment of Chair 

 of Applied Forestry and Practical Lumbering 

 in Tale Forest School, F. £. Weyerhaeuser, 

 chairman. 



Report of new committees appointed. 



New business. 



Election of officers. 



Appointment of standing committees. 



Adjournment of convention. 



Meeting of the Board of Governors. 



New East-Bound Freight Rates. 

 The proportion of the new schedule of lumber 

 freight rates from Chicago east, on tonnage 

 originating in the Pacific Northwest and West, 

 has been definitely determined upon by freight 

 officials. The Hardwood Record is indebted to 

 R. L. Clark, general western freight agent of the 

 L. S. & M. S. railway, tor the following table 

 showing the present and the new rates : 



Chicago to — Present rate. New rate. 



Toledo 9 cents 9 cents 



Detroit 9 cents 9 cents 



Cleveland 10 cents 10 cents 



Pittsburg 12V> cents 15 cents 



Buffalo 12% cents 15 cents 



Cincinnati 10 cents 10 cents 



I'biladelphia 18 cents 23 cents 



Baltimore 17 cents 22 cents 



New Y'ork 20 cents 25 cents 



Boston 22 cents 27 cents 



A Doubtful Remedy. 



In an oak log which was sawed up at Webb's 

 Sawmill at Greenfield, Ind., a walnut peg, a foot 

 long and one inch in diameter, was found, 

 where it had been driven into the heart of the 

 log about seventy-five years ago. At the end of 

 the peg was wound a long coil of dark brown, 

 silky hair, and after investigation a peculiar 

 legend was unfolded which, in these days of 

 easy divorces, is quite interesting. 



It seems that one of the customs of pioneer 

 times, when a man and his wife could not get 

 along happily together, was to cut a lock of hair 

 from the head of each and wind around a 

 walnut pin, which was then driven Into a hole 

 bored in some thrifty oak tree. Tradition does 

 not state whether the remedy was always effec- 

 tive or not. 



