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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 2.-.. 1919 



Ask Your Dealer for 

 T one-ReLL Brand 



The above line appears in every advertisement 

 in our big, national advertising campaign. We 

 are advertising nationally in order to make 

 more sales for all dealers who sell lono-ReLL 

 trade-marked lumber products. By increasing 

 their business we increase our own. 



T one-ReLL 



The Mark on Quality Lumber 



Through our advertising the public will gain a better 

 appreciation of the value and quality of our products 

 and know that they are trade-marked l ono-RetL . 

 The demand for rono-Rgu. lumber will grow. 



Mr. Dealer! Now is the time to buy Ipno-RCLL 

 trade-marked lumber and benefit by an advertising 

 campaign that reaches over 37,000,000 readers. For 

 bigger, better business sell l ono-Reu. lumber. 



Tne T ono-ReLL T pmDer C ompanu 



R. A. Long Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. 



Manufacturer of Southern Pine^ Hardwood, Oak Flooring; Creosoted 

 Lumber, Ties, Posts, Poles, Piling and Wood Blocks. 



Mr. Stonebraker, who heads the new company, was in charge of the 

 Memphis offices of the Crittenden Lumber Company for a number of 

 years until he went with the Lansing Wheelbarrow Company at Parkin, 

 Ark. He left the latter Arm to engage in the exportation of southern 

 hardwoods, being American representative of Amedee C. Franck & Co., of 

 Antwerp, Belgium. When the war broke out and his export business was 

 cut off, he became secretary of the Southern Alluvial Land Association, 

 lie remained with the latter until the last annual meeting in January of 

 this year when he resigned to become identified with his old associates 

 in the Crittenden Lumber Company and the L. H. Gage Lumber Com- 

 pany of Providence, R. I., and Earle, Ark. 



Pertinent Information 



American Hardwoods in Belgium 



The London Timber Trades Journal, May 31, has the following: 

 Our Antwerp correspondent writes us that during the past week the 

 hardwood situation has undergone a complete change, and that on account 

 of considerable consignments of oak, red gum, sap gum and tupelo arriv- 

 ing, as well as being offered on contract by shippers who had booked 

 freight ahead in anticipation of selling before steamer actually sailed, 

 buyers have become timid, and are not offering to purchase except at 

 impossible prices. Our correspondent is of the opinion that the reason 

 for this state of affairs is that the consumers of American hardwoods 

 have not yet restarted their works to anything like normal capacity, which 

 has prevented importers dispasing of their purchases. The situation 

 should clear slowly, but only if consignments are discontinued, and ship- 

 pers should be careful to curtail shipments, as at present ocean rates, 

 which are not likely to go lower, consignments would show a heavy loss. 



Logging Still Held Up 



Further heavy rains have fallen throughout the Memphis valley terri- 

 tory during the past few days and these have given a fresh setback to 

 logging operations and therefore through to the manufacturer of hardwood 

 lumber. It stopped raining around the fourth of June and there were 

 about two weeks of quite favorable weather during which all possible tim- 

 ber was cut and hauled. As a result there was qyite an increase in the 

 quantity of logs rendered available for the mills in this territory. These 

 more recent rains, which fell during the past three days, put a partial 

 stop to work in the woods and the quantity of logs now being prepared 

 for shipment is extremely small for this time of the year. It is agreed 

 by all hardwood interests that there has never been a spring and early 

 summer Just like those through which the trade have passed or are now 

 passing. The rainfall has been excessive and it has been more continuous 

 than ever previously known, with the result that the woods have been 

 kept in almost unworkable condition. The quantity of timber cut and 

 hauled to the rights of way of the railroad.s and to river banks for trans- 

 portation to the mills has been well below 50 per cent of normal for mills 

 at Memphis and elsewhere in the valley territory since the first of the 

 present year and it is conservatively estimated that production has not 

 been any larger than the quantity of timber available. 



There has been no lack of effort on the part of hardwood manufactur- 

 ers. Indeed, they have tried harder than ever before to get out timber 

 because the market has been in such position as to justify herculean 

 efforts in this direction. But they have been under such serious handi- 

 cap that only partial progress has been possible. And, even now, although 

 it is a time of year when hot, sunshiny weather should be the rule, the 

 outlook for successful logging and nulling operations is anything but 

 encouraging. Indeed, the average manufacturer is completely in the air 

 *tn the question of log supply. He recognizes that enormous progress will 

 be possible as soon as the weather permits but he does not know to what 

 extent such permission is going to obtain. 



The Valley Log Loading Company has been estimating for some time 

 that it would be necessary to put on additional log loading equipment in 

 order to take care of the timber that would be ready for handling. But 

 it has not yet had to make anything beyond the slightest increases in its 

 equipment for the reason that continued rains have so slowed down log- 

 ging that the timber is simply not available for full loading. This firm 

 is operating only part of its equipment and estimates that it will not load 

 more than 700 cars of logs for the month of June, or less than 50 per cent 

 of the quantity that is normally handled during this particular month. 



There ought to be a large accunnilation of logs now for summer hand- 

 ling but there is a comparatively limited quantity of timber ahead. Thus 

 manufacturers of hardwood lumber are in the unhappy position of being 

 largely without log supplies at a time when they ought to be laying up a 

 surplus against their later needs. A number of prominent hardwood men, 

 in discussing this phase of the situation at the Tennessee Club recently, 

 said that they were not only losing time in the production of hardwood 

 lumber now but that the slowness in logging, forced by unfavorable 

 weather conditions, was almost certain to materially affect their output 

 several months hence, in addition to cutting it down so sharply at the 

 present time, by making it impos-sible to accumulate the logs needed this 

 fall and winter. 



