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other very important point, namely, that the 

 normal capacity of the plants now in operation 

 greatly exceeds the normal demand. Very truly 

 yours, 'flAiiD Bros. 



Solid Fret Woods Wanted. 



London, England, June 23, 1906. — Editor 

 Hardwood Record : We should be obliged to 

 you for names of reliable shippers of solid fret 

 woods. We want stock 3/16 inch thick after 

 planing, and 12 to 18 inches wide, 3 to 4 feet 

 long, in walnut, maple, oak. sycamore, birch, 

 satin walnut, etc. Of course these woods would 

 have to be prime and show as little sap as pos- 

 sible. Also want the names of some people who 

 will cut Cottonwood box shooks. Thanking you 



in advance. Very truly yours 



& Co. 



Clients of the H.\rdwood Eecord who can 

 furnish the above material, and w-ho would 

 like to enter into correspondence with the 

 writer, kindly send their addresses to this 

 office. — Editor. 



Wants Thick Gum and Oak. 



Shreveport, La., July 7. — Editor Habdwood 

 Record : We would appreciate very much if you 



can put us into communication with some one 

 who now has on hand 3-inch yard dry Xo. 1 and 

 Xo. 2 common gum. We are also in the market 

 for some 2-inch Xo. 1 and Xo. 2 common oak. 

 Manuf-icturing Cojipany. 



If any of the readers of the Hardwood 

 K'ECOKD have either of these items for sale 

 and would like the address of a prospective 

 customer they can secure it by writing to this 

 office. — Editor. 



Wants Pins and Cross Arms. 

 The Hardwood Eecord is in receipt of the 

 foHowing letter from an eastern electrical 

 supply liouse and will gladly communicate the 

 names of makers of the material nanie<l to 

 this concern on application. — Editor. 



Philadelphia, July 6. — Editor Hardwood 

 Uecqrd : We would appreciate it very much if 

 you would furnish us with a list of people who 

 inanufactui-e and can make reasonable deliveries 

 on locust pins, oak pins and yellow pine cross 

 arms. Electric Company. 



NeWs Miscellany, 



Concerning Black Walnut. 



Walnut operators have for years been per- 

 sistently scouring the country for that wood, 

 until at the present time it has been followed 

 westward almost to its limit of growth. Many 

 of the western streams have along their banks, 

 or have had in the past, abundant supplies of 

 the timber. Even the narrow canyons of the 

 Canadian, the Cimarron and other rivers in sec- 

 tions as remote as Oklahoma and Texas, con- 

 tain considerable quantities of good-sized trees 

 of excellent quality, which may have been planted 

 by the Indians years ago. A block of walnut 

 was recently purchased in that country a large 

 per cent of which was from twenty to thirty 

 inches in diameter at the top end, which had been 

 lifted almost perpendicularly from a deep can- 

 yon with ropes and capstan. The walls and 

 slopes of these canyons are often from fifty to 

 I.tO feet or more in height, and the top branches 

 of the trees project but little if any above the 

 level surface of the surrounding country. It is 

 not the rule, however, to encounter such difficul- 

 ties in logging in the .Southwest, but on the 

 contrary, hauling is usually good, with no mud 

 or steep pulling after the uplands are reached. 



The foregoing Interesting information regard- 

 ing walnut was furnished by J. V. Hamilton 

 of Fort Scott, Kan., who is a lumberman of a 

 good deal of experience in this line. Mr. Ham- 

 ilton was buyer for the Hoffman Lumber Com- 

 pany of Fort Wayne at one time, which concern 

 had one of the finest walnut baud mills west of 

 (he Mississippi. He was later in business with 

 i;ustavious Tiedman of Xew York, whose brother 

 was a large timber merchant of St. I'etershurg, 

 Russia. To him most of the consignments were 

 made. The prices realized were then more sat- 

 isfactory than returns from the more extensive 

 markets of Hamburg and London, but the great 

 objection to the Ilussian market is the early 

 freezing of the seas, which prevents freight 

 from going into the ports for several months in 

 the year. Mr. Hamilton later drifted into the 

 mahogany business aud was with the C. C. 

 Mengel & Brother Company in Spanish Honduras 

 for a time. On his return to the States he 

 reentered the walnut business at Fort Scott, in 

 which vicinity there are considerable quantities 

 of walnut. 



New Type End Matciier. 



.\. J. Schiudlor of 441 14:! West Twenty-first 

 street. Chicago, has lately perfected a new type 

 of end matcher machine which is being warmly 

 welcomed by manufacturers of flooring. The 



new niacbinc luatrlies face upward instead of 

 downward, thereby very materially reducing the 

 cost and labor of the work. Mr. Schindler 

 claims for his new machine that it wiM save 

 larting and handling, thus reducing the expense 

 aI)out 20 per cent. One machine does the but- 

 ling and matching which otherwise required two 

 macliines to do. 



Tedinically speaking, the new combined end 

 m.Ucher sorts, butts and end matches flooring 

 nr siding frr>m three-eighths to one and one- 

 q\mrter inches or more in thickness, and from 

 one to five inches in width. Being a combined 

 mai'hine, it will butt without matching, or 

 match wilhout butting; or it will sort, butt and 



COMRIXED END MATCHER BUILT BY A. J. 

 SCHINDLER, CHICAGO. 



match. The capacity of the machine is eighty 

 feet per minute, sorting, butting and end match- 

 ing, 



Mr. Schindler has been in the manufacturing 

 business for twenty-five years. About eight 

 years ago he invented a combined end matcher 

 which lias had a wide success among flooring 

 manufacturers. This machine matched face 

 downward. Several months ago the inventor 

 sought to improve this machine, with the result 

 that it has been adopted by the largest flooring 

 manufacturers in the country. 



.\mong the concerns using the Schindler ma- 

 chine are : South Side Lumber Company, Chi- 

 cago ; Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company ; 

 .\rthur Hardwood Flooring Company, Memphis : 

 Laugstaff-Orm Manufacturing Company, Padu- 

 cah. Ky. : Farrin-Korn Lumber Company. Cin- 

 cinnati ; Woodcock Bros.. Edwards, N. Y. 



Practical Accounting. 



Increased detail is a natural result of present 

 day business concentration : yet nothing is more 

 trying on the man of affairs than tlte exercise 



of proper care and supervision of these details. 

 Happily, as in most problems, current condi- 

 tions have developed a means of relief both 

 for employer and employee in the form of 

 thoroughly organized auditing or accounting 

 companies duly licensed under rigid state laws. 



Bnsiness men are rapidly learning tlie privi- 

 lege of consulting those who have made a study 

 of business methodizing. Aside from this fea- 

 ture there is no longer question as to the value 

 and necessity of having books of account and 

 general bnsiness affairs regularly audited by a 

 responsible company whose certificate is a 

 guarantee of the actual condition of the insti- 

 tution examined. Such a comprehensive, re- 

 liable and concise statement furnishes a val- 

 uable kind of insurance to the small copartner- 

 ship or corporation as well as to the larger one. 



Too great emphasis cannot be laid upon the 

 importance of a system of accounting which 

 safeguards personal and corporate interests. 

 The Standard Audit Company, with offices in the 

 Marquette building, Chicago, affords a practical 

 illustration of what can be done in this field of 

 work. This company devises practical plans for 

 the reorganization or reconstruction of enter- 

 prises : furnishes practical corporate plans for 

 raising working capital for existing concerns or 

 projected enterprises ; provides efficient systems 

 for perpetuating any individual business or part- 

 nership. It prepares statements showing actual 

 earnings and complete assets and liabilities, in- 

 vestigates irregularities in accounting or the 

 handling of funds. This company also takes 

 charge of accounts for trustees, receivers, ex- 

 ecutors, guardians, etc. 



Comparison of Hardwood Values. 



The following outline of prices (i. o. b. 

 Ohio river points) was taken from the price 

 lists, 1902 to 1906 inclusive, of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association of the United 

 States: 



Inch Plain White Oak. 



1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 



Is and 2s J34.00 SST.W $40.00 $45.00 lf47.00 



Xo. 1 Common 24.00 26.00 2S.00 31.00 31.00 



Xo. 2 Common 15.00 15.00 18.00 19.00 19.00 



Inch Quartered White Oak. 



Is and 2s 58.00 64.00 75.00 70.00 T-i.'Hi 



Xo. 1 Commou 38.00 42.00 50.00 45.00 45.00 



Xo. 2 Common 28.00 28.(X) 25.00 25.00 



Inch Ash. 



Is and 2s 36.00 38.00 40.00 40.00 43.00 



Xo. 1 Common 28.00 24.U0 27.00 27.50 29.50 



Xo. 2 Common 13.00 15.W 18.00 LS.OO 



Inch Poplar. 



Is and .2s 37.00 45.00 54.00 43.00 47.00 



Xo. 1 Common 26.00 30.00 34.00 29.00 :5U.llO 



Xo. 2 Common 20.00 22.00 24.00 20.00 20.50 



Boxboards. 8-12" 34.00 37.00 45.00 36.00 42.00 



noxhoards, 13-17"... 40.00 45.00 54.00 47.00 53.00 

 Inch Chestnut. 



Is aud 2s :J5.00 42.50 42.50 40.(Xl 47.00 



No. 1 Common 25.00 27.00 28.00 28.0" :-i4.0<l 



.Sound Wormy 12.00 14.00 15.00 18.00 17.0O 



Inch Cottonwood. 



Is and 2s 26.00 30.00 26.00 31.00 



Xo. 1 Common 22.00 24.00 22.00 22.00 



Xo. 2 Common 16.00 16.00 14.50 18.00 



Boxboards, 8-12" 29.00 34.00 33.00 39.00 



Boxboards, 13-17" 33.00 40.00 SS.flo 43.00 



Inch Cum. 



Is and 2s 27.00 27.00 28.00 :; i.nO 



No. 1 Commou 14.50 16.00 15.00 16.00 



No. 2 Common ll.<» 12.50 11.00 13.(Xi 



Boxboards. S-12" 19.00 20.00 20.0O 23.(Hl 



Boxboards. 13-17" 24.00 27.00 22.00 2S.0O 



Meeting of Wheel Makers. 



For several years wheel manufacturers have 

 been much exercised over the steadily decreasing 

 supply of hickory suitable for the manufacture 

 of their product, and for which there seems to be 

 no substitute. Various wheel manufacturers 

 have had considerable correspondence with the 

 United States Forestry Bureau in an endeavor to 

 secure some information showing the length of 

 time necessary to grow hickory trees to a com- 

 mercial size, the kind of soil best adapted for 



