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hemlock stumpage in his city does not ex- 

 pect to cut any more hemlock into lumber 

 but to sell the logs to paper manufacturers 

 at $14 a thousand in the log, right at the 

 railway station without paying any freight 

 whatever. That is what he can do and he 

 proposes to do it. Today the people who are 

 doing the most to push up the prices of 

 hemlock in that state are the paper manu- 

 facturers. Of course the lumberman is do- 

 ing all he can, but there are other things 

 that assist. The demand foj: hemlock for 

 the paper industry is enormous. There is 

 a little branch road passing my office and 

 I see every day trainloads of hemlock wood, 

 logs and bolts, as they call them, going 

 past. There are three or four paper plants 

 within about thirty miles of our city lo- 

 cated on the Wisconsin river. If I should 

 tell you how much hemlock those three or 

 four plants chew up in a year it would as- 

 tonish you. The demand for lumber is enor- 

 mous, and the price for logs, especially 

 veneer logs, is bound to increase year by 

 year. This is something we cannot possibly 

 avoid. 



Mr. B. Anderson: There is one point in 

 connection with logs that strikes me, and 

 that is that the lumber associations have 

 gotten together and got prices up to a point 

 where they can afford to pay more for hard- 

 wood logs today than the veneer manufac- 

 turer can afford to paj' for them. Of course 

 the veneer man wants select logs. The 

 lumberman that owns the stumpage figures 

 immediately what he can get for his lum- 

 ber. The fact is that if he allows them to 

 be selected it degrades his lumber and hurts 

 his price. You offer him any price for his 

 logs and he says he can aft'ord to put logs 

 into lumber for more money than that. 1 

 know exactly what some friends of mine 

 have gotten for bireh and maple the past 

 year and they could not afford to sell them 

 to me for what I could afford to pay at the 

 present time, although veneer prices are 

 better than they were, I am happy to say. 

 I know several buyers of veneers whom I 

 always quote rock prices every year, but 

 I cannot get the orders, and they pay about 

 two-thirds what I am willing to sell for. 

 I do not know who sells them, but somebody 

 does. 



Mr. Wilson: The wood pulp manufacturers 

 in our state not only use hemlock but hard- 

 wood, and they buy up various tracts of 

 very thrifty nice timber, but small, which it 

 seems to me is almost murderous. I re- 

 cently went through a tract which was sold 

 to pulp manufacturers and which in fifteen 

 years would have been large timber and of 

 some benefit, but it was simply cut down 

 in a shameful way. 



Mr. Kline: Another thing that has struck 

 me as unjust is shipping out of this country 

 unmanufactured logs to foreign buyers. It 

 is a business of itself, of course, but at the 

 same time while we figure on conserving 

 our forest we are furnishing timber to 

 make lumber for countries to whom we owe 



nothing. The stave business is another 

 proposition; some of the materials shipped 

 out of this country would make some of the 

 finest veneers in the world. Some of the 

 veneer manufacturers who buy flitches are 

 paying high prices^ while the stuff is be- 

 ing shipped out as staves. Again, the porch 

 column business; hundreds of thousands of 

 poplar trees are being cut down annually for 

 porch columns. There should be a law to 

 restrict cutting. Just think of the large 

 number of trees that are annually cut down 

 for telephones and electric lines, which I 

 suppose should be left. However, that is 

 a wide subject. 



After some further discussion along these 

 lines it was decided that the convention ad- 

 journ to meet ne.Kt in Chicago on the sec- 

 ond Tuesday in December. 



The Attendance. 



There were present: 



P. B. Raymond, Adams & Eaymond, Indianap- 

 olis. 



M, W. Perry, Ahnapee Veneer & Seating Com- 

 pany, Algoma, Wis. 



S. B. Anderson, Anderson-Tully Company, 

 Memphis. 



E. F. Sawyer, Cadillac Veneer Company, Cad- 

 illac, Mich. 



S. G. Boyd, Charles C. Boyd & Co., Cincin- 

 nati, O. 



E. W. Benjamin, Cadillac Veneer Company. 

 Cadillac, Micb. 



B. W. Lord, Chicago Veneer Company, Burn- 

 side, Ky. 



C. P. Crandall, Crandall Panel Company. 

 Brocton, N. Y. 



M. C. Dow, Goshen Veneer Company, Gosheu, 

 Ind. 



Jud. West, Ward-Kent Company, Greenville, 

 Tenn. 



Burdis Anderson, Great Lakes Veneer Com- 

 pany, Munising, Mich. 



H. C. Hossafous, Dayton, O. 



H. M. McCracken, Kentucky Veneer Works 

 Louisville, Ky. 



L. V. Phillips, Linwood Manufacturing Com 

 pany, Linwood, N. C. 



D. E. Kline, Louisville Veneer Mills, Louis 

 ville, Ky. 



P. A. Richardson, Michigan Veneer Company 

 Alpena, Mich. 



N. M. Wilson, Pearl City Veneer Company 

 Jamestown, N. Y. 



W. S. Walker, Portsmouth Veneer & Panel 

 Company, Portsmouth, O. 



W. H. Roddis. Roddis Lumber & Veneer Com- 

 pany. Marshlield, Wis. 



L. P. Groffman, St. Louis Basket & Box Com- 

 pany, St. Louis. 



J. A. Underwood, Underwood Veneer Com- 

 pany, Wausau, Wis. 



W. W. Branch, W. W. Branch Veneer Com- 

 pany, Charleston, W. Va. 



G. B. Peterson, Falconer Veneer Company, 

 Jamestown, N. Y. 



E. H. Defebaugh, The Barrel and Box, Chi- 

 cago. 



Henry H. Gibson, EIaedwood Record, Chicago. 



W. M. Schwartz. Philadelphia Textile Machin- 

 ery Company, Philadelphia. 



Thomas W. Howlett, Philadelphia Textile Ma- 

 chinery Company, Philadelphia. 



H. M. Merritt, Merritt Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Lockport, N. Y. 



M. C. Moore. Packages, Milwaukee, Wis. 



F. H. Smith, Lumber World, Chicago. 

 Samuel B. Wadley, Nashville, Tenn. 



A. E. Gordon, Hardwood Record, Chicago. 



Hardwood Record J\Iail Bag. 



[In this department it is proposed to reply 

 to such inquiries as reach this oflBce from the 

 Hardwood Rkcord clientage as will be of enough 

 general interest to warrant publication. Every 

 patron of the paper is invited to use this de- 

 partment to the fullest extent, and an attempt 

 will be made to answer queries pertaining to all 

 matters of interest to the hardwood trade, in 

 a succinct and intelligent manner.] 



Who Wants Pecan Wood? 



Cincinnati, O., June 12. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record : If you are in a position to do so, will 

 you kindly advise the names of users of pecan? 

 If you have not this information, can you advise 

 where w'e might be able to find it and oblige? — 



COMPANI. 



The writer has been referred to the 

 H.«DW0OD Kecokd bulletin service for scat- 

 tering customers, but anyone who cares to 

 be put in direct communication with him 

 should write this office. — Editor. 



had considerable experience in regard to same, 

 will say that first of all. all pieces must be 

 ripped absolutely to dimension, otherwise they 

 will not pile, so that each piece will bind, and 

 be absolutely immovable. They must bind all 

 the way through the pile, each and every piece, 

 and should be protected from the weather, of 

 course, particularly the ends, which should be 

 painted with raw linseed oil. covering tops of 

 piles and binding same down with heavy wire, 

 to keep the top piers from springing up. When 

 about four months in the pile they should be 

 taken down and replied, care being taken to 

 place the short side down. — H. H. Folckemer. 



Cedar Squares. 



Covington, Va., June 11. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record ; Please advise if you are in position to 

 give us any information in regard to cedar 

 squares as to quotations and the trade that they 

 are used in. This stock is usually sawed 4x4, 

 5x5, Gx6, 8x8, 10x10 and runs from 8 to 16 feet. 

 Thanking you in advance for an early reply, 

 Lumber Company. 



We have supplied the writer with the 

 name of a large handler of this stock, who 

 can doubtless give him some valuable in- 

 formation, but if any others wish his ad- 

 dress it will be supplied on application. — 

 Editor. 



Drying Hickory Dimension. 



Sprinofield, O., June 14. — Editor Habdwood 

 Record : In reading your valuable magazine I 

 notice that one of your readers asks for Infor- 

 mation for drying hickory dimension. Having 



Valuable Tree Books. 



Newark, O.. June 14. — Editor Hardwood 

 Record : Please send me a sample copy of your 

 publication, and kindly tell me If there are any 

 books giving definite information regarding the 

 various finish woods, their good and bad quali- 

 ties, purposes for which they are best adapted, 

 etc.. and other useful information. I am taking 

 up the study of hardwood building and car 

 tinish materials. — C. U. C. 



The H-4RDW0OD E-ECOKD has for more than 

 two 3'ears been running a series of articles 

 under the general heading American Forest 

 Trees, which covers the information desired 

 by this correspondent. They will be con- 

 tinued indetinitely, and owing to the many 

 requests that are received for the series, 

 will eventually be published in book form. 

 Amoug the books along this line already on 

 the market Julia E. Eogers' "The Tree 

 Book," Alice Lounsberry's "A Guide to the 

 Trees," Stone's "The Timbers of Com- 

 merce," and Snow's "The Principal Species 

 of Wood" may be mentioned as of special 

 merit and value. If, however, one cares to 

 invest in something that is more elaborate 

 and comprehensive, Komeyn B. Hough's 



