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HARDWOOD RECORD 



winning feature was an actual surprise to the 

 designer, as Mr. Bolser only bad one idea in 

 view, and tliat was to sec that the Lumber- 

 men's Club was represented by a float worthy o£ 

 the position held by the Cincinnati lumber- 

 men in the city's business aflfairs. By unani- 

 mous verdict of the people, it was said that 

 this float should really have received the ad- 

 ditional reward for the "most unique display." 



Inside of the exposition buildings the yellow 

 pine lumbermen have a fine display. A hand- 

 some cottage has been erected entirely of yel- 

 low pine, and in the building are shown the 

 various methods in which yellow pine is used, 

 the lumerous cuts in flooriug. siding, interior 

 trim, doors, sash, and a display of moldings. 

 Another attractive feature is that the house 

 displa.vs all the various "finishes" of which 

 yellow pine is susceptible, there being imita- 

 tions of oak in all the various shades, mahogany. 

 Circassian walnut and others, besides showing 

 the beautiful appearance of the wood in its 

 natural finish. The display .nttracts much at- 

 tention. The Forestry Department has a dis- 

 play of trees and timbers which is very inter- 

 esting. In the southern states display the 

 various hardwoods are shown. 



Forestry at the Appalachian Exposition 



A building has lieen allotted to the forestry 

 and mining exhibits at the Appalachian Exposi- 

 tion, which opens September 12 at Knoxville. 

 and lasts till October 12. The forestry exhibit 

 will be in charge of W. M. Goodman, director- 

 general of the exposition, who keenly realizes 

 the educational opportunity that is thiLS otferert. 

 Lumbermen throughout the state have shown 

 their interest in the exhibit by contributing sam- 

 ples of southern w'oods. 



The United States Forest Service will have an 

 important share in the forestry exhibit. It has 

 furnished transparencies and bromide enlarge- 

 ments showing types of the forests In the Ap- 

 palachian region and elsewhere, the relation of 

 forests to farm, the effect of fire and careless 

 methods of lumbering upon the forest, methods 

 of lumbering in the Southern Appalachian region, 

 conservative versus wasteful methods of lumber- 

 ing, different wood-using industries, good and bad 

 methods of turpentining, work on the national 

 forests, and the effect of forests upon stream- 

 flow and erosion. 



Charts loaned by the service will show the 

 lengthened . life given to mine timbers, fence 

 posts, railroad ties, and the like, by preservative 

 treatment. Actual specimens of mine timbers, 

 treated and untreated, which have been in mines 

 for various lengths of time will give tangible 

 illustration of the value of preservatives. Maps 

 will present the various natural resources of the 

 United States and the rest of North America ; 

 the navigable waterways ; mineral deposits ; the 

 various uses to which all classes of lands will 

 probably be put in the future when conservative 

 use of the land has been fully developed ; forest 

 regions ; the location of the national forests 

 and of United States reclamation projects ; the 

 proposed systems of inland waterways, and the 

 present and possible future development of water 

 power in the Appalachian region. A low-relief 

 map of the region will also be exhibited. 



The results will be shown of pulp investiga- 

 tions with paper made from the waste of lum- 

 bering in the exploitation of various trees whose 

 range extends to the Appalachians ; and to these 

 will be added maps of the ranges of the trees 

 concerned and illustrations of the methods u.sed 

 in utilizing waste by this means. 



Twenty-one commercially important species of 

 trees will be displayed, cut to show the different 

 sections, and accompanied by range maps of the 

 species. An entire white oak tree, cut in logs 

 of regulation length, will be exhibited side by 

 side with the products that can be made from 

 the various logs when all parts of the tree are 

 utilized to the best advantage. Veneer will be 

 shown from the butt log, lumber from the sec- 



ond, railroad ties from the third, cordwood from 

 the top — cut to four inches in diameter — and 

 Irnm the large branches. 



Tannin extract and materials obtained through 

 distillation of oak. namely, charcoal, acetates, 

 nils, and alcohol, will be shown, as part of this 

 exhibit. Products of the turpentine industry 

 will be shown, and actual trunks of trees will 

 show the good and bad methods of turpentining. 

 In addition, there will be detachable-tooth cir- 

 cular saws and band saws, together with logs 

 <-ut by them, to demonstrate the economy secured 

 by using band saws instead of circular saws. 



Building Operations for August 



"The Zenith City ol the Unsalted Seas" helijcil 

 to turn the aggregate cost of building operations 

 of forty-four cities throughout the country into 

 a gain of nine per cent for the month of August, 

 as compari'd with th(? same month of 1009. The 

 L. S. Slcel Corporation is to build a branch plant 

 at Duluth and has taken out a permit to erect 

 the first 48 buildings at an estimated cost of 

 ¥10.000,000. The statistics as compiled by the 

 American Contractor, Chicago, show a gain in 

 twenty-live cities of from 3 jier cent to Duluth : 

 others showing a loss of from 3 to 69 per cent. 

 (_^itirs scoring a gain over 50 per cent are: Bal- 

 timore, 158; Uirmingham, 85; Columbus, 1'2'S ', 

 Duluth, ' ; Louisville, 114 ; Manchester, 50 ; 

 Nashville, 199; New Haven, 89; Portland, Ore., 

 150 ; Toledo, 84. The particulars will be found 

 in till' fiillowing table : 



August. August, 



1010. 1909. Per Cent 



Cil.v. Cost. Cost. Gain. Loss. 



Atlanta .$ 424.657 $ 412.295 3 



Baltimore 1,158.107 449,270 158 



Birmiiigbani .... 305.055 105,340 85 



Buffalo l.U69,364 795,000 34 



Chicago 0,743,200 4,801,650 44 



Clncliinatl .. 694,550 1,150,234 .. 39 



tMeveland 1,500,682 1,946.038 .. 22 



Columbus 549,649 aj5,695 123 



Dalla.< 141,175 357,435 .. 60 



"Duluth 10.105.140 293.793 



(irand Rapids 184,712 236,567 .. 21 



Hartford 264.545 351,780 . . 24 



Indianapolis 1,085,010 1,125,884 .. ;; 



Kansas City 898,382 1,137,1.35 .. 20 



Little Rock 104,520 77,865 32 



Los Angeles 1,378,580 1,555,199 .. 11 



Lonlsville 543,002 253,362 114 



Mantliester 180,710 100,510 59 



.Mempliis 374,660 353,311 



Milwankee 057,173 1,227,735 .. 22 



Minneapolis 1,370,605 1,312,520 4 



Nashville 407,634 136,263 199 



Newark 1,008,912 715,888 40 



New Haven 467,163 247,165 89 ' ,, 



New Orleans 285,027 258,180 16 



.Manhattan 8,106,268 0,659,467 21 



Krooklyu 2.307,430 6,958,625 . . 65 



Bronx 2,847,405 2,382,570 19 



New York 13..321,193 16,000,662 .. 16 



Oakland 374,297 547,836 .. 31 



Oklahoma City... 313.374 926,270 .. 66 



Omaha 468,795 721,365 .. 34 



Paterson 266,795 288,284 .. 7 



Philadelphia 2,034,265 6,338,875 . . 5S 



Pittsburg 1,355,399 1,096,301 23 



Portland. Ore 2.556.375 996.345 156 



Rochester 1,109,232 861,741 28 



.St. Leuis 2,316,169 2,962,950 .. 21 



San I''rancisco 1,472,078 2,279,376 . . 35 



.Seranton 180,210 395,818 . . 54 



Seattle 1,457,745 1,189,655 22 



Taooma 221,377 721,285 . . 69 



Toledo 271.215 146.709 84 



Wilkes-Barre . . . 188.903 180,800 4 



Total ¥60.790.732 $55,360,401 9 



'Dnluth issued $10,000,000 permit for steel t)lant, 

 48 buildings. 



Another Hardwood Market to Advertise 



At a recent meeting of the Nashville Lum- 

 bermen's Club it was resolved to devise ways 

 and means to properly advertise Nashville as a 

 lumber market. From statistics at hand figures 

 were carefully compiled, which, it is alleged, will 

 strengthen the claim that Nashville is the 

 largest hardwood producing market In the 

 world. During the meeting Hamilton Love, 

 chairman of the publicity committee, said: 



"We haven't a $50,000 hot-air fund to draw 

 from, nor do I believe we need it, as most every- 

 one knows that Nashville produces more hard- 

 wood lumber than any other city in the world ; 

 that we produce more oak flooring than any 



other city In the world and more than all of 

 the South combined ; that there Is always in 

 the Nashville district an average stock of 1.50,- 

 000.000 feet of dry lumber, ready for the mar- 

 ket ; that Nashville is surrounded by the finest 

 (juaiity of hardwood timber that grows on the 

 face of the earth ; that Nashville industries con- 

 sume more hardwood lumber than any city 

 south of the Ohio river, more than 100.000.000 

 feet. All these facts are known to most every- 

 one In the lumber world, but for the benefit of 

 The 'uneducated' we have decided, in a simple 

 way, to lay the matter before the public in a 

 convincing form and in a manner that will leave 

 no room for argument." 



In the past Nashville has been very negli- 

 gent in the matter of generally exploiting Its 

 advantages as a producing lumber center, as 

 well as its numerous lumber remanufacturing 

 entei'prises, and the Record is glad to note that 

 it is awakening to the necessity of falling in 

 line with other leading hardwood markets, and 

 putting itself on the hardwood map, as it were, 

 before lumber buyers. 



Entering Business on Own Account 



W. H. Klann. for a long time the active man 

 in the affairs of the F. S. Hendrickson Lumber 

 Company of Chicago, has entered the wholesale 

 northern and southern hardwood business on 

 his own account, with office at 1509 Masonic 

 Temple. In addition to hardwoods, Mr. Klann 

 will also merchandise in yellow pine, cypress 

 and dimension stock. He will also continue to 

 manage the affaii-s of the F. S. Hendrickson 

 Lumber Company. 



Mr. Klann left Chicago September 7 for a 

 trip to St. Louis and Memphis, and to his 

 company's mills in Oklahoma. 



Mr. Klann is well aud favorably known in the 

 Chicago trade and his venture on his own ac- 

 count will undoubtedly prove successful. 



A New Mexican Lumber Company 



The Colima Lumber Company, of Colima, Col., 

 Mexico, whose principal office is at Albany, N. 

 Y., has recently engaged in the lumber and stave 

 business. The company expects to market a 

 large portion of its output m Great Britain and 

 the continent of Europe, and also intends to ex- 

 Iiort considerable stock to South America. 



The manufacturing plant is in charge of H. C. 

 Converse, and he states that their oak makes 

 very fine ties and at the present time the com- 

 pany has a large contract with the National 

 Itailways of Mexico, but is in position to fill 

 more orders of the same kind. 



Biltmore Doings for August, 1910 



The following communication from the camps 

 of the Biltmore Forest School tells of the work 

 accomplished during August: 



We are comfortably located in camp, neai 

 Cadillac, Mich., on the property of the Cummer- 

 Biggins Company. 



During the latter part of our stay in North 

 Carolina, we listened to two interesting courses. 

 Law and Economics, the former by Edgar B. 

 Broadhurst, and the latter by Dr. St, G. Li 

 Sioussat, whilst Dr. Scheuck started "Forest 

 Finance." 



On August 10 the Victoria Inn at Asheville, 

 N. C, gave a "Forester's Ball" in our honor. 

 Tile ball room was appropriately decorated with 

 boughs of trees. Three hundred invitations were 

 issued which gave us an occasion to meet with 

 a number of the best Ashevillians. The foresters 

 pronounced the ball the "One Best Bet" of their 

 stay in the South. 



On August 11 we left Asheville in a private 

 car en route to Cincinnati. We were met at the 

 station in Cincinnati by the assistant secretary 

 of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of 

 the United States, who conducted us to the 

 offices of the secretary, Lewis Doster. An inter- 

 esting day had been arranged for us. 



The first visit was to the mills of C. Crane & 



