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fiom Campbell, Mo., where he concluaed this 

 Important deal. 



Important Lumber Purchasing Deal 



The Ilai-dwood Lumber Compan.v of Cincinnati, 

 of which J. n. r. Smith is president and W. E. 

 Heyser vice-president and treasurer, has just 

 closed a deal which will be of interest to many 

 lumbermen. This house has made a contract 

 whereby it becomes the lumber purchasing de- 

 partment for the General Motors Compan.v, which 

 includes the Buick Motor Company of Flint. 

 Mich., the Cadillac Company at Detroit, and 

 several other large automobile concerns. Here- 

 after all lumber for automobile body construc- 

 tion and other purposes will be purchased and 

 handled through the Hardwood Lumber Company, 

 although the stock will be billed to the several 

 concerns and settled for b.v them. 



Few realize the quantity of lumber used in 

 the construction of automobiles. The Buick 

 Motor Company of Flint will use in its body 

 factory alone this year over ten million feet. 

 This is exclusive of the lumber employed for 

 crating and construction purposes. It is esti- 

 mated that this concern will use at least twenty 

 million feet in 1910, but it is difficult to tell 

 how much the aggregate will be for the com- 

 bined General Motors Company. This institu- 

 tion is now breaking ground at Detroit for a new 

 two and a half million dollar plant. It is not 

 yet decided whether a woodworking or metal 

 plant will be installed for bodies. This all de- 

 pends on the price it will be obliged to pay 

 for lumber to be used in automobile bodies. The 

 Buick company has already installed at Flint a 

 large steel press to be used in forming steel 

 sheets into bodies. However, as long as the 

 automobile companies can get lumber within 

 reasonable prices they will continue to make 

 wooden bodies. 



The deal for the purchase of lumber by the 

 automobile people through the Hardwood Lumber 

 Company was brought about by the reason that 

 the automobile companies never have had a special 

 organization for the purpose of handling lumber, 

 and they found considerable difficulty in han- 

 dling it through their regular purchasing depart- 

 ments owing to the fact that they had no expe- 

 rienced lumbermen in these departments. 



As Messrs. Smith and Heyser have made a 

 specialty of this class of stock for several .years, 

 they decided to make this alliance with them. 

 Therefore their entire lumber department was 

 moved on December 1 to the offices of the Hard- 

 wood Lumber Company at Cincinnati, O., which 

 will make this company among the largest dis- 

 tributers of hardwood in the United States. 



It is generally known that the General Motors 

 Company controls the automobile situation today, 

 and this arrangement will be of much benefit 

 to the manufacturers of the class of lumber 

 entering into automobile construction, as they 

 can keep in very close touch with the automobile 

 body situation through the Hardwood Lumber 

 Company. 



A New Booklet 



The Dodge Manufacturing Company of Misha- 

 waka, Ind., has just issued a booklet entitled 

 "Dividends and Drives." It is illustrated 

 throughout with halftones and on the whole is 

 neatly and artistically gotten up. 



The booklet sets forth plans showing how the 

 Dodge idea can be applied to any company's 

 drives, thus increasing its profits. The Dodge 

 company has made a long and careful study of 

 power transmission equipment, and the various 

 illustrations contained in the booklet show appli- 

 cations of many appliances of the Dodge line of 

 "everything for the mechanical transmission of 

 power" in a few of the hundreds of plants where 

 their use has meant power saved and equipment 

 efficiency Increased. 



The booklet will be mailed on request to any 

 one Interested, by addressing the Dodge Manu- 

 facturing Company at Mishawaka, Ind. 



Cincinnati Sales Headquarters of Swann- 

 Day Lumber Company 

 The Swann-Day Lumber Company of Clay City, 

 Ky., has removed its general sales office to suite 

 IOO0-IOO6 Second National Bank building. Ninth 

 and Main streets, Cincinnati, O. The telephone 

 number is Canal 2777. As is well known, the 

 Swann-Day Lumber Company is an important 

 factor in the manufacture ot poplar, oak and 

 hemlock at Clay City. Ky.. where it has large 



FLOYD DAY, PRESIDENT AND TREASURER 

 SWANN-DAY LUMBER COMPANY, 



sawmills, dry kilns, planing mills, etc., and ex- 

 tensive timber holdings. The president and treas- 

 urer of the company is Floyd Day of Winchester, 

 Ky. ; the vice-president and general manager of 

 the institution is John C. M. Day, who resides 

 at Clay City : the secretary is E. S. Jouett of 

 Winchester, Ky. In addition to its Clay City 

 mills the company has plants at Jackson and 

 Beattyville. Kj-. 



Cabinet Wood in France 



Consul James E. Dunning, in response to an 

 inquiry by an American dealer In cabinet wood, 

 and especially bird's-eye maple, reports as fol- 

 lows : 



"Havre is the most important lumber and 

 timber market in France, there being a par- 

 ticularly large trade in pitch pine, oak, black 

 walnut, red gam, poplar, ash, hickory, bird's- 

 eye maple and ordinary maple. A certain quan- 

 tity of dogwood is also imported for the purpose 

 of making shuttles, for which it is admirably 

 adapted. There arc no importations of locast, 

 cherry or beech. The following are the ruling 

 prices lor wood in Havre at the middle of 

 October : 



"Bird's-eye maple, $44.39 to $48.25 ; plain 

 maple, $20.26; ash, $13.50 to $15.44; hickory, 

 $14.47 ; black walnut, $34.74 to $48.25, all per 

 metric ton (2.204 pounds) ; satinwood, $17.37 

 to $18.33, and oak, $17.37 to $26.05, both per 

 cubic meter (1.3079 cubic yards), in boards; 

 dogwood, $15.05 to $15.44 lor logs and per 

 cubic meter ; poplar, $9.65, all per cubic meter 

 (1.3079 cubic yards)." 



C. M. CLARK, SALES MANAGER SWANN-DAY 

 LUMBER COMPANY, CINCINNATI. 



C. M. Clark, the general sales manager, will 

 have charge ol the Cincinnati offices. Mr. Clark 

 is one of the best known and most popular sales- 

 men in the country, and the making ol his 

 headquarters at Cincinnati sill materialy add to 

 his effectiveness in marketing the big output of 

 the company. 



Sawdust Club's Unique Banquet 



The Sawdust Club ol the Union League held 

 its lourth annual banquet in the Union League 

 building on December 8. The decorations were 

 elaborate and startlingly unique. Upon enter- 

 ing the banquet hall the eye lell upon a wonder- 

 IcUy realistic arctic scene. A block of Ice 

 weighing a ton glistened and scintillated in the 

 center of the table ; in this was planted the 

 much-contested North Pole, crowned with the 

 American flag ; and toy polar bears, arctic dogs 

 and Esquimaux were appropriately in evidence ; 

 candles with glistening mica shades added their 

 cold light to the frigid scene. During the first 

 course, under the shadow ol the imposing pole, 

 a poem written by Leigh Mitchell Hodges, enti- 

 tled "The Flag that Tops the World," was read, 

 alter which the guests began to shiver and com- 

 plain ol the cold, whereupon the committee in 

 charge, consisting of William J. Collins, Howard 

 Ketcham and Franklin Smedley, consented to 

 transport them to a warmer clime. They were 

 then conducted to an adjoining room, where by 

 means ol moving pictures a train ride bore them 

 happily to the sunny South. Miss Mae Forley. 

 a fine soprano, sang very sweetly selections ap- 

 propriate to the sections ol country through 

 which this imaginary journey was made. Finally 

 when the train reached Florida they all alighted, as 

 it were, and were escorted back to the dining room, 

 from which all traces ol the Arctic circle, with 

 its Impressive pole, had disappeared, and palms 

 and ferns. Beauty roses and warbling canaries 

 regaled their frozen senses. The white shades 

 of the candles were replaced by those ol a warm 

 red, which made the translormation complete. 

 The committee in charge ol this entertainment, 

 which was aided by Malcolm G. Campbell, a mem- 

 ber ol the Kindergarten Club ol the Union 

 League, received high praise Irom the diners. 

 The decorators, who were Habermehl's Sons, all 

 agreed, achieved their usual success. 



The Sawdust Club is an organization ol Union 

 League members who are members ol the Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange. The members and their 

 guests at the dinner were : 



Members 



Frank Buck, Stanley L. Buck, William J. Col- 

 lins, George F. Craig, A. J. Cadwallader. Charles 

 Este, A. M. Fox. Jr.. Frank C. Gilllngham, P. M. 

 Gillinghara, Emil Guenther, Nathan B. Gasklll, 

 Edward F. Henson, Howard Ketcham, Robert C. 

 Lipplneott. Edwin B. Malone, Henry C. Riley. 

 John T. Riley, Franklin Smedley, William H. 

 Smedley. Samuel E. Slaymaker. Charles H. 

 Thompson, Samuel B. Vrooman, George Warner 

 and Robert F. Whitmer. 



