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HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 10, 1919 



Harvey M. Dickson, secretary of the National Lumber Exporters' As- 

 sociation, on being informed of the matter, promptly took it up and sent 

 a protest to the company, calling attention to the fact that all war 

 regulations on lumber shipments have been removed, and that, conse- 

 quently, the retiuircmcnt of the Shipping company appears to be wholly 

 uncalled tor. That It will cause more or less embarrassment and trouble 

 is generally admitted. The exporters are at a los.s for an explanation 

 why the company should thus seek to increase the difficulties of the 

 exporters. 



With the Trade 



Climax Lumber Company Moves Offices 



The Climax Lumber Company of Alexandria, La., announces that on 

 May 1 it moved its general offices from Alexandria to the Whitney Central 

 building. New Orleans, La. This change was made to bring the company 

 in closer touch with its customers. No change whatever has been made 

 in the organization. 



Kellogg Lumber Company Purchases Timber 



W. L. Crenshaw, president of the Kellogg Lumber Company, Memphis, 

 Tenn,, which recently took over the holdings of the Crenshaw-Gary Lum- 

 ber Company and which is now operating the mill of that firm at Richey, 

 Miss., has sold to the former 3,500 acres of timber lands which he indi- 

 vidually owned fourteen miles north of Richie on the Sunflower river. 

 The Kellogg Lumber Company will install specially constructed boats to 

 handle the timber to its mill. It is now making extensive repairs and 

 improvements and these will be completed around June 1. C. M. Kellogg, 

 for a number of years associated with W. R. Barksdale in the Barksdale- 

 Kellogg Lumber Company, is in general charge of operations at Richey. 



New Furniture Factory in Kansas 



At Wachita, Kan., a new building has been erected on the site of the 

 old Eagle Planing Jlill, and the Western Furniture Manufacturing Com- 

 pany will occupy the building, and will begin turning out furniture within 

 a month. 



The Eagle Planing Mill was destroyed by Are September 25, 1'91S. It 

 was run by F. II. Harper who was gradually turning the plant into a 

 furniture factory before the Are. The best of machinery is being obtained 

 for the new factory and the company is to make a specialty of library and 

 dining room furniture. The output will be handled by local retail furni- 

 ture establishments, and by other firms in the Southwest. George Curth 

 is president of the new company, H. E. Kirk secretary, and F. H. Harper 

 business manager. 



American Engineers Make Good 



E. C. Atkins & Co., silver-steel people, Indianapolis, tell of an incident 

 during the war in which Atkins' saws cooperating with the ingenuity and 

 pep of American soldier engineers, completed in ten days a job which the 

 French authorities estimated would take six months. 



The suspension bridge is illustrated in 

 the accompanying cut and has been in 

 existence for a good many years. The 

 bridge has a span of 300 feet from tower 

 to tower. However, when it became 

 necessary to use this bridge to carry 

 heavy American guns and trucks, the 

 French authorities said that it would 

 not stand the unusual load. Apparently 

 a serious problem confronted the trans- 

 portation authorities, as the Frenchmen 

 stated that six months would be required 

 to rebuild the structure and make its 

 strength adequate for the task before it. 



The Twenty-eighth American engineers 

 immediately made a thorough investiga- 

 tion and announced that the work would 

 be completed in six weeks. They stated 

 they wanted to let the French down 

 easy, hence their announcement that si 

 weeks would be required. As a matter 

 of fact, the work was entirely finished 

 in ten days. Three shifts of American 

 engineers were put to work. All the 

 limber used was of green oak cut in near- 

 by woods and split on nearby mills. Eacli 

 stringer was worked so as to correspond 

 with extremely accurate specifications. 

 The stringers were sixteen inches thick, 

 fourteen inches wide and twenty-two 

 inches long, tapered at both ends to six 

 inches. The final measurements did not 

 vary more than au eighth of an inch. 



Thus American men supplied with American tools did the work. Atkins 

 saws were used throughout the operation at the sawmill as well as at 

 the job. 



Furniture Plant Enlarges Capacity 



The work of enlarging the plant of the Noelke-Lyon Manufacturing Com- 

 pany of Burlington, Iowa, has been completed, thus doubling the capacity 

 of the furniture outfit. The plant is now manufacturing davenport beds 

 in large quantities. A large number of new^ machines have been added and 

 the delay attending their arrival retarded the operation of the furniture 

 department for several weeks. A substantial number of additional employes 

 will be put on. 



Large Hardwood Timber Deal 

 A timber deal, involving 17,000 acres, 85,000,000 feet, and a company 

 capitalized at .$500,000, has been consummated in Logan County, W. Va. 

 The purchasers were D. E. Hewett, A. JI. Hewett, E. K. Mann and Fred 

 C. Prii-hard, and the selling parties the Brown & Davis Lumber Company 

 and the Elk Creek Land Company. The timber is situated on Elk Creek 

 in Logan County, and consists of hardwoods, principally ash, maple, oak, 

 and yellow poplar. The land is underlaid witli coal, but the deal involves 

 the timber only. The purchasing company will commence the erection of 

 mills and houses in a short time. It Is expected that six or eight years 

 will be required to cut the timber. The tracts are accessible and the trans- 

 portation problem is not considereil serious. 



Lamb-Gary Lumber Company Starts Business 



The Lamb-Gary Lumber Company has been formed under the laws of 

 Mississippi, with a capital stock of $100,000, and is now making arrange- 

 ments to install a large hardwood mill just north of the yards of the 

 Anderson-TuUy Company at Vicksburg, Miss., that will cut around 40,000 

 feet of band sawn stock per day. The tracks are now being constructed 

 into the yards and the machinery will be set up as soon as It is received. 

 F. E. Gary is president of the company, fJeorge C. Ehemann is vice-presi- 

 dent, and J. A. Lamb secretary and general manager. Mr. Gary is one 

 of the best known lumbermen in this part of the country. He was for 

 years vice-president and general manager of the Baker Lumber Company, 

 Memphis, and Turrell, Ark., and, after that firm had cut out its holdings, 

 he formed the Crenshaw-Gary Lumber Company in conjunction with W. L. 

 Crenshaw. Some months ago he sold his interest in that firm to Mr. 

 Crenshaw, and since that time has had no active identification with the 

 lumber business. Mr, Ehemann is the principal in the wholesale hardwood 

 firm of George C. Ehemann & Co., Memphis, Tenn. His connection with 

 the new firm will not interfere in the least with the operations of his own 

 company. Mr. Lamb has been for some years manager at Memphis of the 

 business of Larkin & Co. of America. He tendered his resignation a short 

 time ago in order to become identified with the new firm. 



Freight Cars Accepted 

 Four hundred forty-seven new freight cars were accepted by various 

 railroads during the week ended April 12, according to reports to the Rail- 

 road Administration. 



THIS BRIDGE WAS ENTIRELY REBUILT BY AMERICAN ENGINEERS IN TEN DAYS, A JOB 

 WHICH THE FRENCH SAID WOULD TAKE SIX MONTHS. 



