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HARDWOOD RECORD 



and September, 1909. On firsts and seconds inch plain oak it 

 reports an average price in Texas of $38.25; in Louisiana, $34; 

 in Alabama, $32.60; in Mississippi, $37.11; in Arkansas, $"36.39; 

 in Missouri, $38.0.5; in Tennessee, $35.74; in Kentucky, $39.55; in 

 North Carolina, $36.18; in Virginia. $36.39; in West Virginia, 

 .$39.66; in Ohio, $38.93. 



As a matter of fact, the price that should have been quoted on 

 inch plain oak during this period is approximately $43 a thou- 

 sand, f. 0. b. Ohio river points, with prices correspondingly less 

 as the freight from the various states named varies. 



The report quotes an average value of quartered white oak at 

 $63.75 in Alabama; $65.78 in Mississippi; $68.38 in Arkansas; $68 

 in Missouri; $64.59 in Tennessee; $69.33' in Kentucky; $69.13 in 

 West Virginia, and $69.08 in Ohio. A just quotation, based on 

 actual sales, should have been $75, f. o. b. Ohio river points, with 

 prices correspondingly lower in accordance with differences in 

 freight. 



On firsts and seconds poplar, the report puts the mill value in 

 Alabama at $40.80; in Mississippi, $46; in Tennessee, $46.18; in 

 Kentucky, $47.54 ; in South 

 Carolina, $37.50; in North Caro- 

 lina, $48.10; in Virginia, 

 $47.25 ; in West Virginia, 

 $47.47, and in Ohio, $46.60. A 

 just estimate of the average 

 value on this grade would have 

 been $55, f. o. b. Ohio river 

 points, with prices relatively 

 less to comply with varying 

 freight rates. 



Other items of both hard- 

 woo d and softwood .stocks 

 quoted in the list are equally 

 out of line. They have been 

 prepared by amateurs in the 

 Forest Service, from informa- 

 tion that is either inaccurate or 

 from sources that are not reli 

 able. As before noted in the 

 Record, the scheme of the 

 Forest Service in putting out 

 this price list is uncalled for, 

 is a menace to hardwood values 

 and a general nuisance to the 

 trade. The sooner it is .sup- 

 pressed, the better for the lum- 

 ber trade of the country, and 

 more credit will then redound 



to the Forest Service for the good work it is actually doing in 

 other lines. 



GOSPEL 



The Man who says he hasn't 



time to read his trade 



newspaper stands 



about as much 



chance of 



success 



as a 



Terrier with Tallow Legs 



chasing an asbestos 



cat through h 1 



These three issues will aggregate 9,000 copies of '3,000 daily. 

 Two thousand copies each day will be mailed under a Cincinnati 

 postoffice three-cent permit to a selected list of leading hardwood 

 manufacturers, and 1,000 copies will be delivered at the Sinton 

 Hotel, headquarters of the meeting, at six o'clock each evening. 

 Any surplus numbers not taken up by distribution at this time 

 will be mailed under three-cent postage stamps to the chief 

 wholesale hardwood consuming houses of the country. 



A limited amount of space has been set aside for advertisers and 

 the unique character of the publication and its special high-class 

 circulation should make it particularly valuable for the exploita- 

 tion of every variety of logging, sawmill, planing mill and hard- 

 wood flooring machinery for jobbers seeking sources of hardwood 

 supply and for general hardwood exploitation. 



The advertising rates for three issues of the Cincinnati dailies 

 will be supplied on application. 



H.iRDWooD Record is not prone to put out special issues of the 

 publication, unless the importance of events warrant, and if it did 

 not believe that this special issue would insure good advertising 



returns it would not solicit 

 cooperation in this enterprise. 

 The special issues put out at 

 the Detroit annual of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Asso- 

 ciation in .Tune, 1909, which 

 were carried two days and 

 were of less than one-half the 

 size and circulation of the pro- 

 posed Cincinnati issues, have 

 demonstrated to advertisers the 

 value of this character of ex- 

 ploitation. 



It is estimated that the cost 

 of putting out a publication of 

 this sort, with the high cost 

 of special mechanical facilities, 

 drawings and engravings, and 

 the added expense involved 

 in establishing editorial offices 

 with a full corps of editors 

 and proofreaders at Cincinnati, 

 will not nearly be met by ad- 

 vertising returns, but the pub- 

 lishers feel that the issuing of 

 these special numbers is of 

 value to the hardwood trade 

 at large, and beyond that the 

 venture will prove a valuable 

 advertisement for Hardwood Record, and therefore they expect to 

 absorb a largo portion of the cost themselves. 



An Important Announcement 



On February 1, 2 and 3, on the occasion of the eighth annual 

 meeting of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 United States, Hardwood Record will issue at Cincinnati a fifty- 

 two page daily paper, covering full details of this meeting, with a 

 list of attendants, caricatures of prominent members of the asso- 

 ciation, besides a good deal of general hardwood information. The 

 publication will be issued in the usual faultless typographical 

 form, but will be entirely distinct from regular Hardwood Record 

 publication. 



This meeting promises to be the most important gathering of 

 hardwood manufacturers, merchants and wholesale consumers ever 

 held in the United States, and indications point to an attendance 

 of fully one thousand. Tli(> business and cTitertainment program 

 already arranged for insure features that the hardwood lumber- 

 man, whether lie In- manufacturer, jolil;ei- or consumer, cannot 

 afford to miss. 



Annual of the Veneer Association 



.\s announced at the head of these columns the National Veneer 

 and Panel Manufacturers' Associ.ation will hold its annual meet- 

 ing at the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, on Tuesday and Wednesday, 

 December 14 and 15. Efforts are being made to have this one. of 

 the most helpful and interesting meetings the organization has 

 ever held, and' an excellent program has been planned. It is par- 

 ticularly urgent that the veneer trade turn out to this meeting to 

 a man, not only because it is the annual gathering, but because a 

 great many important subjects will be brought up for discussion 

 and plans for the forthcoming year mapped out and the experience 

 and ideas of the entire trade are needed for the best interests of 

 the industry. The year 1910 bids fair to be a prosperous one, and 

 the veneer men will receive much benefit by getting together and 

 threshing out their problems. 



Besides the regular sessions of the organization the various 

 clubs will get together as follows: The Panel Club will meet 

 Monday at 10:00 A. M.; the Rotary Club Tuesday at 2:00 P. M.; 



