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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Changes in Grading Hules. 



At a meeting of the SouUiern Cypress Manu- 

 facturers' Association, held in New Orleans 

 May 16 changes were made in the grading 

 rules as given below. The revised rules are 

 now being printed and copies will be sent to 

 all members as soon as possible. 



In the fifth paragraph, under the head of 

 "General Instructions." the word "shall" is 

 changed to "should" in the clause "liut the re- 

 verse side should, in no case, etc." 



Under the head of "Standard Defects" sea- 

 son checks are now described as follows: "Or- 

 dinary season checics. meaning such as occur 

 in lumber properly covered, shall not be con- 

 sidered a defect in any grade." 



Add to standard lengths of mouldings "not 

 exceeding five per cent of eight feet." 



Under the head of "Standard Thicknesses" 

 "all lumber shipped in the rough shall be of 

 sufBcient thickness to S2S to standard thick- 

 ness as follows:" 



After the worked thicknesses of ceiling add 

 the thicknesses of panel stock, as follows; 



Inch. Inch. 



3-8 panel stock S2S shall be 7-33 

 1-2 panel stock S2S shall be 5-16 

 5-8 panel stock S2S shall be 7-16 

 3-4 panel stock S2S shall be 9-16 



The thickness of flat pickets is changed to 

 3-4 inch. 



In the grade of first and second clear briglit 

 sap is not a defect in pieces 13 inches and 

 wider. 



In the grade of selects 4-inch stock is made 

 a standard thickness. 



In the grade of shop both No. 1 and No. 2 

 4-inch stock is made a standard thickness and 

 the words "cuts and rips" are changed in all 

 instances to "cuttings and rippings." 



In the grade of selected common tank the 

 words "wane edge" are eliminated. 



In the grade of No. 2 common the wording 

 is changed to read "This grade may be either 

 random or specified widths 3 -inch and wider, 

 1-inch and thicker, etc." 



The grade of "C" finisli now reads as fol- 

 lows: "All widths in this grade shall admit 

 small sound knots, stained sap, pin worms and 

 other defects, except shake; but none that will 

 prevent the use of same in its full width and 

 length as a paint grade." 



"D" (or selected common) finish is changed 

 so that 12-inch stock will be furnished and the 

 closing words "for common finishing purposes" 

 are changed to read "as a common paint 

 grade." 



In "C" siding the waste of 12-inch length is 

 changed to ten per cent of the length. 



The grade of "A" flooring and ceiling is 

 changed to read as follows: "May have bright 

 sap on one edge one-fourth of its width, oth- 

 erwise must be clear." 



In the grade of "C" flooring and ceiling the 

 words "ten per cent of the length" are inserted 

 in lieu of "twelve inches in length" both as 

 regards waste and end split. 



Miscellaneous Notes. 



It has recently been reported through vari- 

 ous channels that the Seaman. Kent Company, 

 Ltd.. a large manufacturer of kiln-dried hard- 

 wood flooring and sheeting, with factory at 

 Meaford. Ontario, and offices at 160 Bay street. 

 Toronto, would build a sash, door and blind 

 factory. The company announces that it has 

 no such intention, but that it will erect a large 

 flooring plant at the head of the Lakes in the 

 near future. 



The first large raft of logs to be brought 

 down the Arkansas river by the United Wal- 

 nut Company passed Fort Smith recently and 

 were watched by crowds as they passed the 

 wharf. Three of them were several hundred 

 feet long and were the largest hardwood rafts 

 that have floated down the Arkansas river for 



many years. Each contained many hundred 

 logs which were being brought downstream 

 from the large timber possessions of the com- 

 pany in the Canadian valley and other up- 

 river points. 



Charles R. Little, for sixteen years superin- 

 tendent of the Merrill & Ring sawmill at West 

 Duluth, Minn., committed suicide May 14, at 

 the home of his parents, with wliom he re- 

 sided, by firing a bullet through his brain. 

 Failing health is said to be the cause of his 

 act. Mr. Little was 48 years old and had been 

 in the lumber business at Saginaw and Duluth 

 since a boy. 



An authority writing from Santo Domingo in 

 regard to cedar suitable for the manufacture 

 of pencils says that there are considerable 

 quantities of the timber tliere, but no success- 

 ful exploration has been made except by a Vir- 

 ginia lumber company which owns several 

 tracts of land yielding cedar, and has done a 

 good deal in getting out the cedar and other 

 -woods. 



The Fort Lumber Company ot Little Rock, 

 Ark., has filed a certificate with the secretary 

 of state showing a change in name; it is now 

 known as the Brinkley Hardwood Manufactur- 

 ing Company. 



An interesting dispatch from Tresbein. O., 

 states that an old tramp wandered through 

 that village recently planting nut trees, so 

 that the youth of the land in years to come 

 will not be deprived of shellbarks and walnuts. 

 Not many years ago there was hardly a farm 

 in the East that did not have at least one 

 walnut tree, and all the streams had hundreds 

 of shellbark hickories along their banks. The 

 demand for black walnut and hickory for man- 

 ufacturing have made these varieties so scarce 

 that it will not be long before the joy of gath- 

 ering tlie nuts will be lost to the children, so 

 that during the last three years the old tramp 

 has been engaged in his work of planting. He 

 seeks out-of-the-way spots, so that the trees 

 will have a chance to grow unmolested and 

 untrampled. The rocky sides of hills and the 

 edges of creeks ai'e preferred, and he hopes 

 that when he h^s become but a memory, chil- 

 dren of other generations will thank him for 

 his foresight and kindness. 



Efforts are being made to form a combine 

 of German top manufacturers, including those 

 in other woodworking lines also, to regtilate 

 selling conditions, prices and other matters 

 pertaining to that line of trade. 



The Kaukauna (Wis.) Lumber Company has 

 purchased some black walnut logs of William 

 Tuttle which were grown on his father's farm 

 near that town from seed planted by his 

 mother over fifty years ago. They had reached 

 a diameter of from eight to ten inches and 

 were converted into valuable lumber; such 

 wood is now high in price and easily stands 

 stcond to rosewood and mahogany. 



The Bird & Wells Lumber Company ot Wau- 

 saukee. Wis., has purchased another tract of 

 standing timber in Forest county, having 

 closed a deal with C. A. Hutchins of Beloit for 

 a section of land heavily timbered with hem- 

 lock and hardwoods. 



A dispatch from Stockholm. Sweden, says 

 that Hernosand was the scene of a riot on the 

 13th inst. as a result of the strike of several 

 hundred laborers in. the Sando sawmills. 

 Twenty nonunionists and a sheriff were seri- 

 ously hurt. The owner of the mills. Dr. 

 Kemphe, who is one of the most prominent 

 men in this line of business in Sweden, had 

 imported laborers, and this was the cause ot 

 the clash. Order was finally restored by the 

 Westernorrland regiment. 



The Diamond Match Company has purchased 

 a. large tract of limber land in California from 

 the Sierra Lumber Company, for $1,000,000, 

 which will be paid in four quarterly install- 

 ments during 190S. 



Two sawmills are being installed in Ran- 

 dolph county. West Virginia, by the Roaring 

 Creek Lumber Company, a new concern wliose 

 principals are all of Clearfield, Fa. 



The Tyrell Manufacturing Company of Co- 

 lumbus, S. C, will soon complete and put into 

 operation its new circular sawmill on the Scup- 

 pernong ri\'er. All varieties of lumber will be 

 manufactured and the daily capacity will be 

 from 20,000 to 30,000 feet. 



About 20,000 acres of timber land in Thomas 

 county. Georgia, have been purchased by the 

 J. L. Phillips Company of Thomasville, tlie 

 consideration being about $127,000. A mill and 

 tram road will be built, and the capacity of 

 the mill when in active operation will be 50,0'00 

 feet. The company recently increased its 

 capital stock from $500,000 to $1,000,000. 



According to official returns the capital stock 

 of lumber companies organized in Mississippi 

 from Oct. 1. 1905, to April 15, 1907, aggregated 

 $3,800,000. The total increase in capital stock 

 of railroads, banks, land companies, etc.. is 

 given as $39,638,500. 



Reports from Scranton, Miss., say that the 

 loading of steamships direct from the sawmills 

 of Moss Point is causing a rapid increase in 

 the maritime commerce of that port. Cargoes 

 of 3,400,000 feet of square timber, 2,000,000 feet 

 of hewn lumber and 1,500.000 superficial feet 

 of timber have been loaded within the last 

 few days by the L. N. Dantzler Lumber Com- 

 pany, consigned to European markets. 



Barges are being loaded at Morgan City, La., 

 sawmills to carry cross-ties to Galveston. The 

 scarcity of railroad cars has forced mills to 

 secure water transportation. 



Fire at I.,incoln. N. H., last week very nearly 

 wiped that town out of existence. It is prac- 

 tically owned by J. E. Henry & Sons, known 

 as New Hampshire's lumber kings, who have 

 suffered great losses; 120 men, women and chil- 

 dren were left homeless. 



J. Beecher has started a sawmill at Lake- 

 wood. Wash. The output will be about 100.000 

 feet of cedar per day. There is said to be suf- 

 ficient timber in that vicinity to keep a mill 

 running for years, the settlers selling the 

 cedar as they clear the land. 



There is a great shortage of stovewood and 

 hardwood for building in Oakland and San 

 Francisco. The hard winter has made the 

 mountain roads practically impassable and the 

 railroads have been so loaded with freight that 

 they have neglected or refused to haul cord- 

 wood when the cars could be loaded with any 

 other material. San Francisco and vicinity 

 have drained the state of hundreds of able- 

 bodied woodchoppers who find they can get 

 more money doing lighter work in the metropo- 

 lis than they can in the woods. 



Charles M. White, a veteran lumberman of 

 Old Town, Me., died May 14. He operated 

 along the Penobscot for many years. 



John E. Wilcombe. a lumber merchant of 

 Hammond. La., filed a petition in bankruptcy 

 in the United States District Court May 14. 

 He gives his liabilities as $1,298.57 with no 

 assets. 



Charles V. Higgins ot Paris. Ky., has sold 

 his interest in the lumber yards and manufac- 

 turing plants of the Paris Manufacturing Com- 

 pany to William P. Ardery and Ossian Ed- 

 wards and will locate in Florida. 



The large sawmill of Rose & Fisher at 

 Bethel. O., was destroyed by fire on the 15th 

 inst. The loss was only partially covered by 

 insurance. 



The Case-Fowler Lumber Company, which 

 operates a hardwood mill at North Birming- 

 ham. Ala., and has valuable timber lands on 

 the Tombigbee river, has disposed of its hold- 

 ings to the Hugh McLean Lumber Company of 

 Buffalo, a large hardwood manufacturer. 



The Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company is carry- 



