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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 10, 1919 



will install machinery in the near future for the manufacture o£ wall 

 board. It is expected that active operation will begin early in October. 

 Thos interested in the company are BufEalonians, who have grown up with 

 the industry and who control their own supply of semi-manufactured fiber. 



The McLean Mahogany & Cedar Company's office has been moved to 

 EUicott Square. 



Petitions are in circulation for the renomination of Commissioner A. W. 

 Kreinheder, who has held the office four years and has been urged to 

 run again. 



The New York State Conservation Commission is doing what it can to 

 promote the reforesting of waste lands in this state and is now offering 

 at cost small trees of various kinds. Reforesting has been neglected dur- 

 ing the war period, partly because of insufficient labor, while timber and 

 wood consumption has increased greatly during the past two years. 



As the stock of hardwood lumber grows scarcer at distant points, 

 South and West, certain enterprising Buffalo lumbermen are paying atten- 

 tion more and more to New York state tracts. Several of them are cutting 

 good lumber, not only in the Adirondacks, but in western New York and 

 northern Pennsylvania, one or two giving their whole time to that branch 

 of the business. It Is even stated that New York is going to be a com- 

 paratively large producer of lumber In the not far distant future, when 

 the big forests are exhausted. Ten years ago nobody suppased that this 



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 W. R. Grace & Co. ^uiSin. New Orleans, La. 



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. MANUFACTURERS 



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MIXED ORDERS OUR SPECIALTY 



D. E. Chipps Lumber Co. 



FORT WORTH, TEXAS 



Manufacturer of 



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Specializing in 



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Particularly anxious to show you 

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"crop" would keep up as it does. Tbe timber is mostly maple, asb and 

 bemlock, with some oak and chestnut. Unless the South and West cut 

 more logs this winter than they did last there will need to be a heavy draft 

 on Pacific Coast lumber to keep business going. 



Homer T. Kerr has been West lately to look up the lumber situation In 

 the Cheboygan district and has other lumber moving east to keep the 

 Buffalo dock active. 



The closing of the lumber operations of the R. W. Higbie Company, near 

 the little town of Newbridge, in the Adirondacks, leaves that place without 

 inhabitants and with a number of small but desirable houses. These 

 former homes of the lumbermen are being sold off at from $50 to $100 

 apiece, with the understanding that they be removed to another locatioii. 

 They make good summer camps and are being bought for this purpose. 



BALTIMORE 



The Baltimore Kash & Door Company, which conducted a large factory 

 and warehouse on South Howard street for a number of years, has wound 

 up the business, and the establishment has been disposed of to the Amer- 

 ican House Furnishers' Corporation, which will store large quantities of 

 furniture and other home equipment there. It is also said that I. J. 

 Miley, who was manager of the sash and door works, will direct the manu- 

 facture of cases for phonographs for the new owners. 



Frank Helm of Richard P. Baer & Co. is down South for some weeks, 

 dividing his time between the firm's mills at Mobile, Ala., and Bogalusa, 

 La., while A. O. Thayer, the regular superintendent, is away on a vacation. 



The Custodian, fifth of the big wooden tugs built by M. Mitchell Davis 

 & Son, Solomons, Md., for the United States Government, made her trial 

 trip last Wednesday and showed up to the entire satisfaction of the 

 builders and the federal oflScials aboard. The tug is more than 150 feet 

 long. 



The Baltimore Ship and Commerce Corporation has been incorporated 

 here with a capital stock of $500,000 to establish a steamship line. 

 Maurice B. Carlin, a well-known steamship agent and custom house broker, 

 has been elected president of the company, which, it is said, will draw most 

 of its capital from New York, though a number of men from this city are 

 interested in the company. Just where the vessels will run to has not 

 yet been announced. The new line, however, is expected to augment the 

 importance of Baltimore as a gateway for foreign commerce, and to afford 

 additional facilities for the shipment of lumber. 



COLUMBUS 



The A. & B. Woodworking Company, Chagrin Falls, has been chartered 

 with a capital of $10,000 by Charles R. Burnett, E. M. Parle, Harry R. 

 Allshouse, Irving H. Huggett and Jessie C. Allshouse. 



The James Ohlen & Sons Saw Manufacturing Company, Columbus, which 

 was organized sixty years ago, has been merged with George H. Bishop 

 & Co., of Lawrenceburg, Ind., operating two plants at Lawrenceburg. The 

 plans for the merger include the erection of additional buildings at the 

 Columbus plant. The combined output will be distributed through sales 

 offices established in Columbus. The name of the merger will be the 

 Ohlen-Bishop Company. 



Building operations in Colurabu.s continue to show activity. During 

 August the building department issued 324 permits having a valuation of 

 $763,830, as compared with 125 permits and a valuation of $305,025 for 

 August, 191S. During the first eight months of the year the department 

 issued 2345 permits, having a valuation of $4,142,280, as compared with 

 1322 permits and a valuation of $2,062,970 for the same period last year. 



The Neff Lumber Company, Neffs, O., has been chartered with a capital 

 of $30,000 by Alexander, Andrew T., H. B. and H. A. NetE, E. McFarland 

 and J. F. Mellott. 



Several C'olumbu.s lumbermen are arranging to attend the annual meet- 

 ing of the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Association to be held at 

 Detroit soon. -Among the number are Frank Lumbert and C. D. Brown. 

 Others will probably attend. 



F. B. Pryor of the W. M. Hitter Lumber Company reports a continuation 

 of the good demand for hardwoods with prices ruling high in every locality. 

 Buying is pretty evenly distributed between the retail trade and factories. 

 Shipments are delayed by shortage of cars. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



R. A. Creeman, formerly secretary of the Seymour Furniture Company, 

 and C. E. Loertz, a business man of Seymour, Ind., have formed the 

 Seymour Cabinet Company, with a capital stock of $35,000 and have pur- 

 chased the property and equipment of the Seymour Wood Working Com- 

 pany. The property will be remodeled as a furniture factory and the new 

 company will manufacture only one pattern of furniture. 



Charles E. Francis, age 59, senior member of the Charles E. Francis 

 Company, manufacturer of woodworker's machinery, died at his home in 

 Cincinnati. 



James W. McClintock and Dave H. Williams of the Delta Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, Belzonl, Miss., filed suit in Marion Circuit court against 

 the Central Lumber Company of Indianapolis, asking that the latter be 

 declared insolvent and a receiver appointed. They allege failure of the 

 Indianapolis company to pay a bill of $615. 



TimbermeUj cutting trees on Laughry creek for the John W. Whitlock 



