October 10, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Overseas Forwarding Company at Helena. Mr. Schadd is expected by 

 his friends and admirers to make an excellent district manager and it is 

 not being overloolied tliat he must do so if he is to equal the brilliant 

 record made by Mr. Koehler. 



The Southern Hardwood Traffic Association has created a wholly new 

 position, that of assistant to C. A. New, assistant secretary-manager. 

 This is now being filled by Harry Kohn, who, like so many others identi- 

 fied with the association, received his training in the general freight 

 offices of the Illinois Central. Mr. Kohn is also acting as assistant to 



B. F. McCamey, vice-president of the .American Overseas Forwarding 

 Company. He began service with the association October 1. 



F. R. Gadd, manager of statistics for the American Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association, has returned from Milwaukee where he attended 

 the general meeting of lumbermen at which the forest industries ques- 

 tionnaire was discussed in its various phases. Mr. Gadd attended this 

 meeting in order that he might be able to acquaint members of the as- 

 sociation with its provisions during the meetings which will be held under 

 the auspices of this body, as scheduled elsewhere in this issue of Hardwood 

 Record. 



B. F. McCamey, vice-president of the American Overseas Forwarding 

 Company and assistant to J. H. Townshend, secretary-manager of the 

 Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, is in New Orleans where he Is 

 relieving A. C. Bowen, district manager of the latter, with headquarters 

 at that point. Mr. Bowen is taking a vacation of two weeks. 



J. H. Townshend and the other representatives of the Southern Hard- 

 wood Traffic Association, who recently returned from Washington, where 

 they protested against the proposed advances in freight rates of 1 to 4 

 cents per hundred pounds from Arkansas points and from Memphis to 

 destinations in northern, eastern and western consuming territories, are 

 in receipt of information that these advices have been held up until 

 December 1, 1919. They were to have gone into effect October 15 without 

 a hearing from shippers but the association got into the game and in- 

 sisted that shippers were entitled to be heard. These gentlemen appeared 

 before Directors Chambers and Thelan, with the result already announced. 

 The association has asked for a careful investigation of the situation and 

 this has been promised. It has likewise asked that, if advices are to be 

 made, these be as light as possible. It has also suggested that, if read- 

 justments are to be effected, some of these should be brought about by 

 reductions instead of through advances. It is regarded as possible that 

 the higher rates may never go into effect. Accompanying Mr. Townshend 

 to Washington were : James E. Stark, president of the association ; 



C. A. New. assistant secretary-manager ; J. A. Koehler, now with the 

 Archer Lumber Company, Helena, Ark. ; E. O. Johnson, president of the 

 Thane Lumber Company, Arkansas City, Ark., and W. H. Russe, of Russe 

 & Burgess, Inc., Memphis. 



The Valley Log Loading Company loaded 1,998 cars of logs during 

 September. This is the heaviest loading for any month this year. It 

 compares with 1,735 cars during August, 1919, and with 1,338 cars dur- 

 ing September, 1918. The greater portion of the logs loaded in September 

 this year were on the Tazoo & Mississippi Valley line of the Illinois Cen- 

 tral system where four loaders were in aTmost constant operation. Only 

 168 cars were loaded on the Missouri Pacific system. It is probable, how- 

 ever, that the company will have to transfer one of its loaders from the 

 Y. & M. V. to the M. P., for the reason that most of the mills drawing 

 their logs from the former are pretty well supplied at the moment. J. W. 

 Dickson, president of the Valley Log Loading Company, estimate.s that 

 there are approximately 8,000,000 feet of logs awaiting loading on these 

 two roads as compared with 28,000,000 at this time last year. In other 

 words, according to his figures, there is a deficit of 20,000,000 feet in log 

 supplies as compared with a year ago. This deficit, significant within 

 itself, becomes all the more impressive when it is reflected that there is 

 an acute shortage of labor that is interfering with logging operations at 

 the moment and when it is seen that the manufacturers of hardwood lum- 

 ber must necessarily enter the winter period with abnormally light sup- 

 plies of logs ahead. 



COLUMBUS 



Building operations in Columbus during September were unusually 

 active, as is shown by the report of the city building department. During 

 the month the department issued 332 permits, having a valuation of 

 $625,980, as compared with 169 permits and a valuation of $261,155 in 

 September, 1918. During the nine months ending September 30 the 

 department issued 2,677 permits, having a valuation of $4,768,260, as 

 compared with 1,491 permits and a valuation of .$2,324,125 in the corre- 

 sponding period of 1918. 



The New Home Building Company, Columbus, has been chartered with 

 a capital of $100,000 to build "knock down" houses of from four to seven 

 rooms. F. H. Hertel, president of the concern, is also financial agent. 

 The plant of the Leach Lumber Company has been leased for three years 

 to build the houses. 



The D. J. Patterson Lumber Company, Toledo, is constructing a large 

 wholesale yard in that city. A shed 300 by 75 feet will be constructed with 

 trackage on the inside. 



The first meeting of the winter season of the Columbus Lumbermen's 

 Club was held recently at the club rooms at High and Chestnut streets, 

 with about seventy-five present. After a dinner a round table discussion 

 was held under the charge of W. L. Whitacre. chairman of the meeting. 



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