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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Hardwood Record J\Iatl Bag. 



I In this department it Is proposed to reply 

 to such inquiries as reach this office from the 

 Hasdwood Recokd 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.] 



every IIoo-Hoo will get to the front promptly, 

 even though it be only for the regulation ninety- 

 nine cents. 



Birch in Nova Scotia. 



The following letter from J[. W. Teufel, 

 manager of the Davison Lumljer Company, of 

 Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, is self-explanatory, 

 and imparts considerable information cnii- 

 eerning the timber resources of Nova Scotia. 

 Mr. Teufel is carrying on a great spruce 

 operation at Bridgewater, and the lumber 

 product is going extensively into export to 

 Great Britain. The many Chicago friends of 

 Mr. Teufel will recall him as having been 

 with the John O'Brieu Land & Lumber Com- 

 jany and subsequently as Pittsburg manager 

 for the John M. Hastings Lumber Company: 



Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, April 16. — Editor 

 Hardwood Record : Noting your article on the 

 value of birch in your issue of the 10th, desire 

 to state we fully concur in your opinion, and 

 while no doubt the timber it getting ciuite 

 scarce in Pennsylvania and the .\diroudacks. 

 desire to state that there is a large quantity of 

 valuable birch timber in Nova Scotia and that 

 a large portion of same runs to the red variety. 



There is an abundance of birch, beech and 

 maple and a small amount of red oak in Nova 

 Scotia ; in fact, the hardwoods and hemlock 

 here are still in their virgin state, very little 

 ever having been cut by reason of the fact 

 that heretofore all operators were obliged to 

 drive their logs to the mills, but with modem 

 methods of operation, namely logging railroads. 

 which our company now have adopted, we can 

 handle hardwoods and hemlock to good advan- 

 tage. 



The manufactured product naturally would 

 find its way readily to the Atlantic coast states 

 of the United States ; furthermore the English 

 market takes a large quantity of log run birch 

 deals, but in our opinion our hardwood stock 

 should be manufactured and shipped to the 

 United States. 



Large bodies of hardwood lands can be secured 

 in the province at very favorable rates in the 

 interests of buyers for either operation or in- 

 vestment. 



We take the liberty of mentioning these facts 

 tor the reason that the province of Nova Scotia 

 has been standing in the background, hence its 

 wonderful advantages in the way of supplying 

 spruce, pine, hemlock and hardwoods is gener- 

 ally unknown in the United States. — Davison 

 Lumber Companv, Ltd., M. W. Teufel, Mana- 

 ger. 



McMahon of Syracuse. 



In the last issue of the Hardwood Eecord 

 was printed the letterhead of John O. Mc- 

 Mahon, ' ' attorney and counselor at law, ' ' 

 32 Eversou Bldg., Syracuse, N. Y., which was 

 extremely rich reading for lumbermen, com- 

 ing from a man who confessed in the letter 

 below it that he vpas entirely without prac- 

 tical experience in the lumber business. 



Love, Boyd & Co. of Nashville, Tenn., have 

 sent the H.vrdwood Eecord another communi- 

 cation from this versatile lawyer-lumberman 

 as follows: 



Syracuse, N. T., April 25, 1906. 



Dear Sirs : — I have calls for the lumber 

 products described in your ad. Some of them 



are from wholesale dealers and some from con- 

 sumers, as designated. Can you respond to any 

 of them ; if so, how fully, and at what price 

 f. o. b. city of consumer — New York City ? What 

 else have you got in lumber products that would 

 be bargains to my customers? State prices 

 f. o. b. New York. Do you offer these bargains 

 to wholesale or retail dealers or to builders and 

 consumers? I can sell to either as you direct. 

 Also please state whether my charge of five per 

 cent commission against the seller on lumber 

 sold by or ordered through me will be satis- 

 factory to you. Very truly yours, 



J. O. McMahox. 



P. S. — I buy and sell lumber products both 

 between wholesaler and dealer and between re- 

 tailer and builder : wholesale prices will not be 

 divulged to builders, therefore state whether 

 your prices are for dealers or builders. 



There is one good thing about McMahon — 

 he doesn't have to spend any money buying 

 nerve tonic. — Editor. 



A Trip of Business and Pleasure. 



iiu invitation of 1!. B. Wood, president of 

 the R. E. Wood Lumber Company. Baltimore, 

 Jld.. a party of his business associates and 

 friends joined him at Washington. D. C, on the 

 evening of Friday. April 20. They were ushered 

 into a private car attached to the special South- 

 western Limited of the .Soutliern Railwa.v and 

 started for the Sapphire country. In this sec- 

 tion of South Carolina, North Carolina and east 

 Tennessee, the U. E. Wood Lumber Company has 

 timber holdings aggregating 125.000 acres. 



The trip was planned to give Mr. Wood's 

 associates in his timber and lumber enterprises 

 an opportunity to see something of the magni- 

 ficent timber owned by the corporation in the 

 southern Appalachian country, as well as to 

 give the ladles in the party an opportunity to 

 revel in the sunshine and natural beauties of 

 Asheville and the Toxaway country. 



The part.v reached Asheville on Saturday af- 

 ternoon, and after dining at the Battery Park 

 Hotel were given a carriage drive about Ashe- 

 ville, and through the maguificent Biltmore 

 estate of George W. Vanderbilt. Mr. Wood 

 aud his guests returned to the hotel in time 

 for dinner, and Sunday was spent in driving and 

 church-going. (.)n Sunday evening the party left 

 for the Sapphire country to make its head- 

 quarters at Toxaway Inn. Lake Toxaway, N. C. 

 Several days were spent in sightseeing in the 

 beautiful Sapphire country and in viewing the 

 timber of that section. A half-tone illustration 

 printed in this issue of the Hardwood Record 

 sliows Mr. Wood and his guests during the 

 drive through the Biltmore estate. 



The party consisted of : R. E. Wood and sis- 

 ter, Baltimore, Md. ; A. P. Perley and wife, Wil- 

 liamsport, Pa. : P. B. Shaw and daughter, Wil- 

 liamsport, Pa. ; H. S. Mosser and daughter, Wil- 

 liamsport, Pa. ; A. T. Page and wife, Williams- 

 port, Pa. ; O. F. Hershey and wife, Baltimore, 

 Md. ; W. L. Taylor, Welch, West Va. ; G. L. 

 Wood and wife. Asheville, N. C. ; Henry H. Gib- 

 son, Editor Hardwood Record, Chicago. 



Hoo-Hoo's Well Doing. 



Occasionally a member of the Black Cat Order 

 is proud of being identified with that organiza- 

 tion. On hearing of the terrible disaster in 

 San Francisco the order promptly wired ?2,000 

 from its imminent distress fund to Vicegerent 

 Trover of that city, to assist members who are 

 in trouble. 



This sum wipes out the distress fund of the 

 order and more, and every loyal Hoo-Hoo should 

 see that his mite is sent to Scrivenoter Balrd at 

 once, so that the organization may be in a posi- 

 tion to assist in the next emergency. In place 

 of having on hand $2,000 the order should have 

 Jflo.ooo in Its distress fund. It is hoped that 



Big West Virginia Beal. 



The Flint. Erving & Stoner Company has 

 bought from E. V. Dunlevie of Dunlevie, W. Va., 

 a tract of 10.000 acres of timber in Pocahontas 

 county, West Virginia, for a price approximating 

 $1,000,000. Tlie deal is the largest West Vir- 

 ginia purchase made for months, and gives to 

 the company the finest tract of spruce and 

 hardwood in the mountain state. It is estimated 

 that the tract will cut 200,000,000 feet of lum- 

 ber, spruce and hardwood. The tract is com- 

 pact and is well located, its seven miles of 

 railroad and the seven miles more which will 

 be built, controlling a large amount of adjoin- 

 ing timber land. 



The property is on the Chesapeake & Ohio 

 railroad and the Green Briar river. Included in 

 the purchase are seven miles of railroad and 

 the entire town of Dunlevie, containing two large 

 boarding houses, 26 houses, a store, offices, post- 

 office, two mills, blacksmith and repair shops, 

 oil, boiler and machine shops and an up-to-date 

 electric light plant, which supplies light to 

 the entire town. The best machinery is found 

 in the plant, including a band mill and a 

 Stearns resaw with a total capacity of 100,000 

 feet of lumber a day. boilers with a capacity of 

 450 horsepower, gang edger, trimmers, slashers 

 and dozens of live rolls. The company has al- 

 ready taken possession and will shortly operate 

 the mills day and night. 



The operation will be carried on by a new- 

 West Virginia corporation, to be called the Flint, 

 Erving & Stoner Lumber Company. This con- 

 cern already has 60.000 cords of round pulp wood 

 sold to the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Com- 

 pany, and 60.000 cords of slab pulp wood, which 

 is taken from the refuse as it is on the way from 

 the carrier to the burner, contracted with the 

 same company. It will market most of the lum- 

 ber in the East, but a large part of it, especially 

 the hardwood, will be sold in the Pittsburg dis- 

 trict, where the Flint, Erving & Stoner Interests 

 are among the largest distributors of staple 

 lumber. This operation, which will last ten 

 .years, will give the company 20,000,000 feet 

 of lumber annually, which, w-ith its other opera- 

 tions in the South, and in northern Pennsyl- 

 vania will give it a total of 50,000,000 feet of 

 lumber a year. 



The officers of the Flint, Erving & Stoner 

 Lumber Company are : President, J. B. Flint, 

 who negotiated this purchase : vice-president and 

 general manager, A. W. Eckhart, who was for 

 many years manager of the enormous operations 

 of the Weyerhaeuser lumber interests in Wis- 

 consin : secretary, E. H. Stoner : treasurer, E. H'. 

 Erving. 



The General Lumber Company. 



The General Lumber Company is the name of 

 a new Memphis hardsvood house at 3S0 Randolph 

 building, whose officers are W. J. Richardson, 

 president ; E. E. BookmiUer, vice president and 

 manager, and P. H. Ravesies, secretary and 

 treasurer. The concern is capitalized at $10,000 

 to do a general wholesale hardwood lumber busi- 

 ness, which capital is all paid in and will be 

 increased as the growth of the enterprise war- 

 rants. 



Mr. Ravesies was formerly connected with the 

 Sullivan Lumber Company of Memphis, while 

 Mr. BookmiUer has also had considerable expe- 

 rience in the lumber business In that market. 



William H. Lloyd and other local capitalists 

 have organized the Pine Apple Spoke & Handle 

 Company, which will erect a factory at Pine 

 Apple, Ala., to manufacture spokes, handles and 

 other articles of hardwood. The concern is cap- 

 italized at $1,500. The seat of operations is only 

 a short distance from the Alabama river, and 

 the output will be shipped via Mobile to mar- 

 ket. Tlie interests controlling this enterprise 

 are planning the establishment of other institu- 

 tions of the same kind. 



