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befoi'e firemen arrived. When hose was attached 

 to hydrants in the yard no water was to be had. 

 By the time two engines arrived there was little 

 hope for the plant, and one of them soon refused 

 to work. Several houses and other buildings in 

 the neighborhood were set ablaze, but all but 

 one were saved by a bucket brigade. With the 

 wind in any other direction, an extensive disas- 

 ter would have been inevitable. 



The loss of the excelsior wood is particularly 

 unfortunate just now. The company is con- 

 structing a modern fireproof, stone, cement and 

 steel building at its veneer plant on Kleventh 

 street and intended to move the old excelsior 

 plant therein this fall. The capacity of the 

 plant was to have been doubled. The machinery 

 in the old plant was to have been remodeled 

 and used in the new plant. It is impossible to 

 replace the wood. Of course, excelsior wood can 

 be purchased, but it will be green, will have to 

 be peeled and stand for many months before 

 being fit to use. Some of the burned wood had 

 been In the yard two and three years. Kiln 

 dried wood is used considerably, but is not so 

 good as the air dried. 



The members of the company are H. II. Ray- 

 burn. W. II. Campbell and Frank A. Richard- 

 son. 



New Wood Preservative. 



Recent experiments in IJelgium made with a 

 new coal tar extract, known a^ "injectol." have 

 given satisfactory results, f'onrerning them Vice 

 Consul J. A. Van Hee of (Jhent writes that they 

 were principally devoted to the treatment of 

 wooden poles and blocks used in street paving. 

 The pro<luct is a liquid, of a dark brown color, 

 very thin and of regular density. Its degree of 

 viscosity changes very little with atmospheric 

 variations. One of the principal advantages is 

 its penetration into certain woods without any 

 pressure. For the antiseptic treatment of com 

 pact woods, using the apparatus similar to the 

 "Breant" system, the time necessary for the 

 pressure and soaking into of a given (juantity of 

 injectol is considerably less than for any other 

 antiseptic liquid, including creosote. As regards 

 its antiseptic qualities, the following experi- 

 ments and results obtained therefrom speak for 

 themselves : 



It has been found that where creosoted poles 

 in the ground have only resisted decay for a 

 few months, those treated with injectol remained 

 nnat tacked after three years. Similar experi- 

 ments were also made with railway sleepers ; 

 the latter* were treated with different antisep- 

 tics. Some were soaked in a mixture of coal 

 creosote, creosote and chloride of zinc, and two 

 were treated with injectol. After having been 

 ieft for a period of two years in a steeping vat 

 composed of liquid manure and other miscellane- 

 ous decomposing substances it was found that 

 the two treated with injectol were still in good 

 condition while the others were almost com 

 pletely destroyed. Similar results were obtained 

 with wooden blocks for street paving. Other 

 experiments are now being carried on and the 

 results obtained will soon be made public. 



Building Operations for June. 



Official building reports from some fifty of the 

 leading cities of the country, received by the 

 American Contractor. Chicago, and tabulated, 

 show in the aggregate value of building permits 

 granted in .Tune. 1907, as compared with those 

 for the corresponding month of last year, very 

 nearly equal, the losses slightly predciminating. 

 Some cities show astonishing gains and others 

 equally remarkable losses. This is largely due 

 to the issuance of large single permits during 

 June, 1006. For the most part the construction 

 business of the country is moving forward in a 

 satisfactory manner, the total reported loss be- 

 ing a very small fraction of 1 per cent. When 

 the immense amount of building done last year 

 is taken into ai-count. this must be regarded as 



indicating that our present large operations are 

 quite normal and may well be expected to con- 

 tinue, since the freely predicted reaction has not 

 materialized. 



June. June, Per Per 



1907, 1906. cent cent 



f'ity — eoBt. cost. gain. loss. 



Atlanta .$ 410.147 $ 675.217 . . 37 



Birmingham 2.'?6.69n l,S4..3fl5 68 . . 



Rridpcport 4.'?6..''.72 247. .S76 76 .. 



PuflPalo 676.000 ].032.01.''> .. 34 



Cliicaso 7,043. S.50 6.401. .500 9 .. 



Cleveland 1,231. SOS 1,476.703 .. 16 



Clmttanooga 22r>.7.50 71.S90 214 .. 



Davenport 112.247 R4.000 33 .. 



•Dallas 420.70.5 631.777 .. 33 



Denver 1.. 3.33, .570 1.246.907 7 .. 



Detroit 1.524. R(X1 063. SOO 58 .. 



'•Duluth 247.7.37 4<W.9.55 39 



Kvansville 152,457 07.0S0 57 .. 



(irand Rapids 153.007 244.063 . . 36 



Ilarrisbui-K 2S1,260 109.105 41 



Hartford 271.505 209.02.5 



Indianapolis 1.0.54.051 469.017 124 .. 



IKansas City 771.820 1.4.53.140 .. 46 



Loiitsville 428. OOS :i6.5.0fiO 17 



I.OS Aneeles 1.516.516 2..371,620 .. 36 



Milwaukee 764.937 1.445.325 . . 47 



Minneanolis 1,002.025 fiSfi.fliS 45 . . 



Memplils 605.741 .596.044 2 .. 



-ftMohile 6*).0.50 268.6ii5 73 



Nashville 32fl..52i» 239.647 ,37 



New Haven 213.610 .3.55. 150 .. 30 



Newark 1.062.126 1.185.0.50 10 



New Orleans 612.4.38 616.1.50 .. .. 



Manhattan ll,n.32..3SO 15,676.050 .. 23 



Brooklyn 9.744,5.30 7.439.110 .31 .. 



Bronx 1,912..380 2.908.733 .. 34 



New York 23.589.200 26.023.893 . . 9 



Omaha 4.3fi..3.-0 .360.625 18 . . 



Philadelphia 3.1.86.410 3.484.060 11 



Pittsburg 1,7.81.094 1.603.209 11 ., 



Puehlo 21.010 22,781 7 



St. Josenh 2.38.080 152.565 .56 



St. Louis 2.015.510 3.010.668 .. 33 



St. Paul 56'?. 702 800.661 20 



Scranton 202.070 207, .375 . . 35 



Spokane 1.000.245 201.095 442 



South Bend 120.480 148,250 .. 15 



.•^yraonse .304,705 4.51.245 . . 34 



Salt Lake City 1.1.37.9.50 14S.2'>0 667 .. 



Toneka 2.36.495 88.334 167 .. 



Toledo 408.470 4.5O.085 . . 



Terre Haute 141.428 80.640 75 



Taoon^a 544. .520 266.310 104 



Wnshinsrton 1.207.052 1.1.38.647 13 



Worcester 15.3.323 285.905 . . 11 



Wilkesharrp 127.44-5 263. .55:1 . . 51 



Winnipeg 1.063.665 1.436.450 .. 25 



Total $64,958,010 $65,083,510 . . 1/5 



'Dallas issued one permit June. 1906. for .$3.50,000. 

 ••Dnluth, $275,000. 

 ^Kansas City, $500,000. 

 ttMobile. $236,810. 



Slack Cooperage Stock. 



The director of the census announces the 

 following preliminary report on the manufac- 

 ture of .slack cooperage stock in the T^nited 

 States for the year ending December ^^1, lOOti. 

 Statistics concerning the production and con- 

 sump' ion of lumber and timber products have 

 heretofore been collected in connection with the 

 decennial and quinquennial censuses of manu* 

 facturos. To sati,sfy the urgent demand for 

 more frequent information relating to these im- 

 portant products, the Forest Service collected 

 statistics pertaining to them for 100."}. and for 

 purposes of comparison the totals for slack 

 cooperage stock are presented below. In order 

 to avoid duplication of work, however, and in- 

 s'lre uniformity of results, the preparation of 

 the annual statistics has been committed to 

 the Bureau of the Census, which has worked in 

 cooperation with the Forest Service. The fig- 

 ures cover the production of 712 "mills in lOOG 

 and ;i.'jO in 1905 : 



— Staves— Thousands — 



Kind of Wood — 19(i6. 1905. 



Kim 248.118 217.098 



Pine 187.584 .58.401 



Red ffum 142.9.52 SI. 181 



Maple 90.642 36..391 



Beech 8O.0.52 22.281 



Oak 70.869 32.272 



Cliestnut 60.674 (1) 



Bireh 62.7.M (H 



Ash 47.003 37.457 



Spruce 31.605 d) 



Cottonwood 21.912 ili 



Hemlock 12.453 (1) 



All other 21.845 212.U12 



Total 1.097.063 097,693 



(1) Included in all other. 



A Convincing Sermonette. 



The Darnell-Taenzer Lumber Company has is- 

 sued a little printed card on which it outlines 

 its business policy. The company does not claim 

 that the sermonette is a new one, but it is per- 

 tinent and convincing for all that : 



DON*T BE A KNOCKER. 



If there is any chance to boom business, 

 boom it. Don't pull a long face and look 

 as though you had a sour stomach. Hold 

 up your head, smile and look for better 

 things. Hide your little hammer and try 

 to speak well of others, no matter how 

 small you may really know yourself to be. 

 When a stranger drops in, .lolly him. Tell 

 him this is the greatest town on earth — 

 and it is. Don't discourage him by speak- 

 ing ill of your neighbors. Lead him to 

 believe he has at last struck a place where 

 white people live. Don't knock. 



Help yourself along by becoming popular. 

 and push your friends with you. It's dead 

 easy. Be a good fellow and soon you'll 

 have a procession of followers. No man 

 ever helped himself by knocking other peo- 

 ple down in character and business. No 

 man ever got rich liy trying to make others 

 believe he was the only man in town, or 

 the only man in town who knew anything. 

 You can't climb the ladder of success by 

 treading on others' corns. Keep ofC the 

 corns and don't knock. 



You're not the only. There are others, 

 and they have brains and know something 

 as well as you. There's no end of fun 

 minding your own business. It makes other 

 people like you. Nobody gets stuck on a 

 knocker. Don't be one. or two. 



Wooden Houses in the Levant. 

 Reports from Smyrna state that several in- 

 quiries have been made througli Asiatic Turkey 

 of late in regard to the possibilities of import- 

 ing wooden houses. The United States consul 

 at that city writes that over thirty years ago 

 a wooden chapel was imported from the United 

 States. It was erected on an elevation by the 

 sea. and in spite of the severe exposure it was 

 subjected to was in such good condition fiv>? 

 years ago that it was taken apart and carried 

 into the interior and erected once more as a 

 chapel on a site near Ephesus. If the trans- 

 portation charges from America to this port 

 could bo reduced to a minimum a good business 

 ( ould be gradually started in wooden houses for 

 the suburbs, for the reason that stone houses, 

 ns now built in the suburban villages, are some- 

 what costly, owing to the fact that, with the ex- 

 ception of the stone and the tiles, every other 

 material has to be imported. On the other 

 hand, there is such a uniformity in the style of 

 country residences here that the pleasant varied 

 characteristic of American homes would appeal 

 to the people's taste and facilitate the introduc- 

 tion of wooden houses. The only ob.iection to 

 them would be perhaps the greater risk of tire 

 as compared with stone houses. But this could 

 be obviated by impregnating or painting the 

 wood with some incombustible substance. The 

 consul wishes to call the attention of American 

 manufacturers of such houses to this market 

 and get them interested in its possibilities, and 

 would therefore recommend that manufacturers 

 in that line address their catalogues and prices 

 to the consulate, as well as any other informa- 

 tion which would enable him to furnish correct 

 data to interested parties. 



— Heading — Thousand sets — — Hoops — Thousands— 



1906. 1005. 1006. 1905. 



.30.421 10.298 302.628 175,466 



.38.485 10.810 740 



16.518 17.660 2(m 



0.297 2.70S 2.320 1,855 



14.072 403 



52.660 5.179 6.670 4,758 



202 2.617 2.00'> 



2.948 111 2.466 1.400 



2..831 4.025 12.515 (2) 



1.026 ll> 50 



9.112 1.-608 



617 (1) 



24.S09 49.737 900 



203.088 104.042 330.892 183.479 



(2) Included in maple. 



