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HARDWOOD RECORD 



1910 directory of Purniture Manufacturers 



The Kecord has received a copy of the 1910 

 Directory of Furniture Manufacturers of the 

 United States, published by the Charles E. 

 Spratt Company of Chicago, which was presented 

 with the compliments of the Furniture Trade 

 Journal of Chicago. In presenting this new 

 directory to the trade the publisher calls par- 

 ticular attention to the numerous changes which 

 have been made as a result of careful inquiry 

 among users of past editions of the work as to 

 what was needed to make the book of greatest 

 value. 



The directory is divided into three parts, from 

 which its usefulness will be reatlily judged : an 

 alphabetically arranged list of manufacturers, 

 their addresses, what they make, and other in- 

 formation along this line ; a classified list of the 

 goods manufactured and the names and ad- 

 dresses of the manufacturers of the particular 

 article classified : a list of the manufacturers' 

 representatives, agents and salesmen, and their 

 personal mail address. No pains have been 

 spared on the part of the publisher to make the 

 alphabetical list of the furniture manufacturers 

 as complete and accurate as possible, and great 

 care has been taken also to properly list all 

 concerns under the various classified heads. 

 There has been an increase of sixty per cent in 

 these classifications, thus making them more 

 specific and showing at a glance the manufac- 

 turer of any certain line of goods. In this new 

 edition there has been a complete elimination of 

 duplication, each feature being recorded but 

 once. This has reduced the size of the book 

 considerably, making it compact and more easily 

 handled on account of its small size. This new 

 edition should be of great value to lumbermen 

 in identifying the various manufacturers in the 

 furniture trade who are such heavy consumers 

 of all lines of hardwood lumbe^". 



Death of Prominent Grand Rapids 

 Lumberman 



George S. Wilkinson, fifty-three years old, and 

 for the past seven years president of the Van 

 Keulen & Wilkinson Lumber Company, Grand 

 Rapids, Jlich., died at the U. B. A. hospital 

 August 21 quite suddenly. He had returned 

 from a business trip the previous day. was taken 

 ill and was hurried to the hospital. Uremic 

 poisoning was the cause of his death. Mr. 

 Wilkinson leaves a widow, a son and two daugh- 

 ters, also a sister in Grand Rapids. The son. 

 Dean, aged twenty-nine, lies at the family home. 

 366 N. Front street, very ill with tuberculosis. 

 The remains were taken August 23 to Lakeview 

 for funeral services and interment. In former 

 years Mr. Wilkinson was a lumber inspector and 

 he has traveled for a number of years on the 

 road, his work bringing him in touch with 

 many people in the trade. The floral offerings 

 were beautiful, including a fine piece sent by 

 the Grand Rapids Lumbermens' Association. 



Porestry at Michigan University 



When the course in forestry was established 

 at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 

 June, mOl. the principal aims in establishing 

 such course were to train young men for the 

 profession of forestry, to promote forestry in 

 Michigan, to assist in the proper care of state 

 forest lands and to care for the university 

 forest reserves. The university has succeeded 

 in its aims far better than the public in general 

 has any idea of, and in the nine years of its 

 existence it has grown to be a school of recog- 

 nized strength throughout the United States. 



Today Michigan men arc scattered all over the 

 country in the employ of the United States and 

 they have gained their positions through their 

 ability to stand first in the competitive examina- 

 tions in which the students from the best for- 

 estry schools of the country did their best to 

 carry off the high places. 



"What are my chances tor work If I take a 



course in forestry?" has so often been asked 

 of the professors in that department that there 

 has been a short article prepared to answer 

 .just this question in the very best possible 

 manner. Another answer, however, which is 

 fully as much to the point, is the fact that 

 each year there comes to Prof. Roth, head of the 

 department, calls for more men than he has 

 graduates. Before the end of May practically 

 every graduate in that department had accepted 

 or been assured of a fine position, and a goodly 

 number of the graduates this year never waited 

 after passing their last examination even to 

 get their diplomas, but took the first train for 

 the scene of their new activities. 



This is what the bulletin says in answer to 

 the question prospective students are asking 

 regarding their chance for work after taking 

 the course, which is a graduate one: 



It will require the trained heads and hands 

 of several thousand good men to start the work 

 of improving our woods, and it will require the 

 continuous effort tor all time of thousands more 

 to continue the work successfully. 



The awakening to the need for better treat- 

 ment of the woods lands is very general, and 

 .111 classes of people are beginning to realize 

 that it is poor business to destroy a forest and 



THE LATE GEORGE S. WILKINSON. 



throw away the land when, with a little care, 

 it might be logged and still leave a valuable for- 

 est for future use : also that it is wasteful to 

 leave the large areas of non-agricultural lands in 

 a non-productive wasteland condition, for all 

 lands cannot be made plow lands. 



As a consequence of this awakening, guided 

 and promoted especially by the intelligent ef- 

 forts of the United States Forest Service, hun- 

 dreds of forest owners have of late called for 

 the advice and assistance of men trained in 

 the right use and care of woods. That this de- 

 mand for help will increase is certain, and it is 

 i-easonable even to believe that quite a rapid in- 

 crease in this demand may be looked for. Today 

 there are hundreds of estates in the care of un- 

 tiained men. who are unable to provide more 

 than a patrol service, while the service of a 

 trained man would not cost any more and would 

 certainly yield larger returns. 



Then' there are hundreds of men engaged in 

 lumbering, or who would buy timbered land for 

 sneculation. who employ well-paid men as "tim- 

 ber-lookers" or "estimators." to make timber or 

 forest surveys, usually with a view to deterrain- 

 in,^ the present market value of the woods. That 

 a trained man who sees not only the merchant- 

 able stem, but also appreciates and is able to re- 

 port intelligently all features which make up the 

 forest and its wealth would be more useful than 

 tlie untrained man must be admitted without 

 argument. 



As to the prospective forester himself, he 

 should he a man of good physique, good dispo- 

 sition, frugal habits, absolute honesty and thor- 

 ough training. Half-prepared men are of little 

 use in forestry, especially in the beginning stage 

 of the profession in our country. It is strong, 

 well prepared men who are wanted in forestry, 

 but to these the profession not only assures a 

 good living, but a most useful and interesting 

 lite. 



Ties for the Santa Pe 



The Santa Fe Railway Company is about to 

 enter on a series of experiments with various 

 Mexican hardwoods for ties. Shipments of tim- 

 bers have been received which will be distributed 

 over the company's system in various parts of 

 the country, where the woods will be given crit- 

 ical tests. Among the ties are mahogany, ebony, 

 rative cedar and other woods, which will be 

 placed at different points on the line, where 

 atmospheric conditions, soil, insects and other 

 destructive forces will have different tendencies. 

 These ties will be watched carefully and reports 

 made from time to time as to how they are 

 standin:; the strain. 



A shipment of mahogau.v ties from Mexico 

 was received at Galveston recently. This con- 

 sisted of .S.OOO ties and is a part of the largest 

 tie contract with a foreign country on record. 

 Tile Santa Fe secured concessions from the Mex- 

 ican government, and has contracted for the de- 

 livery of something like twenty million ties. An 

 expert was sent into Mexico some time ago to 

 make a study of the native woods suitalile for 

 ties, and of the 373 varieties, chose 16. 



The Santa Fe is doing a great deal of ex- 

 ]ierimenting with various woods for use as ties. 

 A shipment of 89,000 hardwood ties from Japan 

 was received recently in California. These e.x- 

 periments are the result of a tour made by the 

 company's tie expert. Captain Carton, who was 

 sent two .vears ago to Japan and Mexico to make 

 investigations as to the varieties of timber suit- 

 able for railway ties, and to report on what 

 might be considered a source of supply tor com- 

 , ing years. The result of the experiments will 

 be of great interest to the railroads who have 

 spent a great deal of money trying concrete, 

 steel and various kinds of ties, none of which 

 have ever proven so satisfactory as those of 

 wood. 



Forest Conservation in Canada 



Consul H. D. Vansant o£ Kingston recently 

 stated that the question of conservation of Ca- 

 nadian forests is receiving the attention of 

 I>rominent Canadians in various lines, and adds 

 that the area of the merchantable forests of 

 Canada has been very much overestimated. The 

 total forest area is variously estimated at from 

 200,000,000 to 600,000,000 acres, and the timlwr 

 belt is supposed to stretch from Ungava, across 

 northern Quebec and Ontario, and from there, 

 north of the prairies, to the Peace River coun- 

 try. The area of merchantable timber, however, 

 is estimated to contain not more than 100.- 

 000,000 acres, and the remainder of the stand 

 is suitable merel.v for firewood and could not 

 be profitably transported for a long distance. 

 The secretary of the Forestry Association made 

 the assertion that Canada's merchantable tim- 

 ber supply is but one-third that of the Tuited 

 States, and that the timber of Ontario province 

 will, at the present rate of consnmption. last bur 

 thirty years. 



It is claimed that over S.000.000 acres of 

 waste lands in Ontario could be made to pro- 

 duce forest crops. There are. in addition, over 

 200.000 acres of sand lands which are more 

 suitable for the production of timber than tor 

 any other purpose. Considerable portions of the 

 waste sand areas in Ontario are already being 

 replanted, and surprisingly satisfactory results 

 are already in evidence. In the prairie prov- 

 inces, where the soil is richer, young trees have 

 met with even better returns. 



On the other hand, reports from the former 

 lumber districts which have in the course of 

 lime been denuded of their best timber, show 

 that these countries are not only retrograding 

 in production and fertility, but in population as 

 well. In all these regions, wood and all other 

 fuel is at a premium, and the price is constantly 

 increasing. 



Sometimes a man doggedly saves his pennies 

 and his dollars are blown in by his heirs. 



