HARDWOOD RECORD 



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60MK SPLENDID .MAIIUGAM LL.MUEK, PROl'EUTi: OV 

 WARPvEN ROSS LUMBER CO., JAMESTOWN, N. Y. 



TUE TYPE OF LOGS FROM WlIUJIl TIIIO LUMP.KIt 

 WAS CUT. 



use in warm climates, but it lias been demou- 

 strated in Egypt that highly satisfactory results 

 can be obtained. Consequently, buyers of fur- 

 niture are now disposed to look with favor upon 

 furniture manufactured from this wood, both in 

 I his country and abroad. The supply of higU- 

 srade boards has been rather light for the past 

 two months, with a consequent considerable rise 

 in price per cubic foot. What stoclis have been 

 received recently have gone directly into manu- 

 facture, and as a consequence of the steady and 

 increasing demand for this grade, stoclis are very 

 low. The middle grades are, as a rule, not as 

 good sellers as the uppers, but considering 

 everythmg, there is a very reasonable demand 

 and a promise of increase in the future, in the 

 event that the price of the high-grade boards 

 continues to advance. In the shipments of low- 

 grade stock there are invariably a few parcels 

 which do not conform to specifications, and are 

 therefore offered at a lower figure, and conse- 

 quently unfair competition with the prime stock 

 results. Shippers are demanding a slightly 

 higher price for the middle grades of boards 

 (han that which prevailed a month ago, and it 

 seems evident that they have no difficulty In 

 getting what they ask. 



The general market quotations on this wood 

 are advancing steadily. Shippers in this coun- 

 try are apparently firm and are indisposed to 

 contract except at prices above those last quoted. 

 They will probably have no difficulty in holding 

 their own, and in any case it is almost futile to 

 expect prices to drop, with the present prevailing 

 market conditions. 



Arbitra.tion : J. Randall Williams, chairman, 

 Uerbert E. Wcitzel and William T. Betts. 



George A. Howes, chairman of the ofiice and 

 entertainment committee, stated that prepara- 

 tions are being made for another annual base- 

 ball game between the nines of the Lumbermen's 

 Exchange and the Master Builders' Exchange, 

 which will be played some time in June. The 

 proceeds will be donated to the Jane D. Kent 

 Day Nursery, Philadelphia Modified Milk Society, 

 Red Bank Sanitarium, Children's Country Week 

 and Evening Telegraph Free Ice Fund. 



Monthly Meeting Philadelphia Exchange 

 The Lumbermen's Exchange of Philadelphia 

 held its regular monthly meeting May 5, pre- 

 ceded by the usual luncheon. It was the first 

 meeting under the new administration and was 

 well attended. 



The routine business was transacted and the 

 following committees appointed for 1910. Legis- 

 lation : Samuel B. Vrooman, chairman, Edwin 

 H. Coane, EH B. Hallowell, Paul R. Weitzel, 

 and H. Ashton Souder. 



Office and Entertainment : George A. Howes, 

 chairman, George Rodgmen, Benjamin Stoker, 

 Victor E. Kugler and James A. Richard-son. 



By Laws and Rules : Robert G. Kay, chair- 

 man, Edwin B. Malone and John J. Little. 



Credit Systems ; Frank L. Luckenbach, chair- 

 man, Henry H. Firth and Daniel Adams. 



Railroads and Transportation : Frederick S. 

 Underbill, chairman, Robert B. Rayner, Charles 

 M. Chestnut, Robert W. Schofield and Frederick 

 W. Unkel. 



Membership : A. J. Cadwallader, chairman, 

 W. Henry Smedley, Howard Ketcham, Horace A. 

 Reeves, Jr., and Joseph P. Dunwoody. 



Finance : Herbert P. Robinson, chairman, 

 George F. Craig and Franklin Smedley. 



Warren Ross has been in business about 

 fifteen years and some two years ago assumed 

 the present style. H. R. Black, in charge of 

 (he selling department, is a live and up-to-date 

 young lumberman, and is an expert in handling 

 the wants of the hardwood rcmanufacturing 

 trade. The constant growth of the business 

 shows conclusively that the concern is well con- 

 ducted and that the various departments are in 

 competent hands who are intelligently studying 

 the needs of the particular line of trade to 

 which the company caters. 



■Warren Ross' Jamestown Enterprise 



One of Ihe most enterprising hardwood con- 

 cerns in the country is the Warren Ross Lumber 

 Company of Jamestown, N. Y. This house is 

 engaged in all branches of the hardwood busi- 

 ness, manufacturing and distributing both at 

 wholesale and retail ; its specialties are ma- 

 hogany and cherry, also maple and all Penn- . 

 sylvania and southern stock. 



A recent visit to the company's big yards at 

 Jamestown revealed an exceptionally fine stock 

 of hardwoods, of which the concern may be 

 justly proud. The stock at present includes 

 some carefully selected mahogany, including a 

 superior assortment of 1-inch counter-top stock, 

 24 inches and w-ider and up to 30 feet long. 

 It is unquestionably as fine a lot of this wood 

 as was ever put on the market, perfectly clear 

 and especially suited for use as counter tops. 



One of the accompanying illustrations shows a 

 car of mahogany which the company loaded 

 recently. Back of the boards in the picture can 

 be seen a pile of stock which has not been 

 loaded in the car as yet. This was one of the 

 finest lots of mahogany ever seen in America. 

 It run 20 to 35 inches in width and 20 to 36 

 feet long, clean stock, practically every piece 

 absolutely free from defect, and some ot the 

 boards running as high as 100 feet to the piece. 

 The other illustration shows the class of ma- 

 hogany logs from which this stock was cut. The 

 company imports its mahogany and it has 

 l.rought into this country not a little timber of 

 unusual quality such as this. 



AnoBier feature of the Jamestown yard Is the 

 complete assortment of cherry lumber, which 

 the company claims is one of the largest and 

 most complete in the world. This includes all 

 thicknesses and grades, is dry and accurately 

 manufactured and of good average width and 

 length. This wood is largely forest growth. 

 West Virginia cherry and band-sawed. To 

 mahogany and cherry the company devotes its 

 special attention, but the yards also carry some 

 fine Circassian lumber and veneers and Ver- 

 million wood, as well as native walnut. Be- 

 sides its Jamestown business the company car- 

 ries a large stock of hardwoods at New York 

 City. 



French Walnut 



The so-called French walnut, a tree which 

 really grows in Persia and Asia Minor, is con- 

 sidered the finest and most costly of all woods. 

 In appearance it is warped and much contorted, 

 and the sole value lies in the large tough 

 excrescences growing on the trunk in the form 

 of burls. These burls, when cut, present a 

 singularly complicated and twisting grain, the 

 intricacy of which together with the .symmetry 

 is the determining element in fixing values. 

 Color and soundness also enter into the question 

 to a large extent, as trees of this sort are more 

 than liable to be unsound at the heart. A figure 

 of from $300 to $1,000 is not exceptional for 

 a good burl, and one recently sold in Paris, 

 weighing 2,200 pounds, for $5,000. The pro- 

 ducers of burls are apt to resort to dishonest 

 methods in order to get a higher price. Often 

 decay leaves large hollow spaces in the center 

 which if not discovered will, of course, reduce 

 the value. In order to guard against discovery 

 of these hollows .<is much as possible, they are 

 often filled by fraudulent dealers with weighty 

 substances which closely resemble wood. In this 

 way the burl is brought up to a more normal 

 weight, and the suspicions of the buyer not 

 aroused. Oftentimes stones and other hard sub- 

 stances are used as fillers, and the Innocent 

 purchaser is not aware of the fact until he 

 starts to cut his log, when his valuable veneer 

 knives or saws are completely ruined. 



Wisconsin Log Supply 

 Secretary R. S. Kellogg of the Wisconsin Hem- 

 lock & Hardwood Manufacturers' Association 

 states that sixty replies have been received from 

 association members in response to the request 

 of April 15, for information concerning the log 

 supply from this year's sawing. In hemlock, 

 five firms sawed this year which did not last : 

 twenty-four firms report a smaller supply than 

 in 1909, eleven firms the same quantity, and 

 twenty firms a larger supply this season than 

 last. 



In hardwoods, six firms are sawing which cut 

 no hardwoods last year; eighteen report a, 

 smaller quantity of hardwoods this year than In. 



