November 25, 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



37 



for twelve and thirteen cents a bushel, the highest price on record. The 

 usual price for coal here during the winter season is ten cents a bushel, 

 some of the manufacturing plants have been forced to pay as high as 

 fifteen cents for coal during the past weels. .-^t Princeton, thirty miles 

 north of Evansville, coal has been selling for nineteen cents a bushel. 

 Prominent officials of the Louisville & Xashville recently stated that they 

 expected to see the situation improve in a month or six weeks. Officials 

 of other railroads were, however, more pessimistic, saying that the car 

 shortage would probably continue until next spring. Many factories 

 Ln this section are burning corn cobs and wood wherever it is possible 

 to get these substitutes for coal. 



Wooden Ships for Lumber Industry 



Fifty-three wooden vessels suitable tor coastwise or overseas lumber 

 traffic are now in course of construction in Oregon, Washington and 

 British Columbia, according to an announcement issued by the West 

 Coast Lumbermen's Association. 



In the construction of these vessels approximately 106,000,000 feet of 

 lumber will be used : when completed their combined lumber-carrying 

 capacity will be 79.500.000 feet per trip. 



This new capacity will be sufficient to handle an export trade, such as 

 prevailed last year, in five theoretical trips to Australia, the Orient and 

 west coast of South America ; and would handle a normal export move- 

 ment, such as prevailed prior to the European *ar, in approximately ten 

 trips. 



In addition to the fifty-three wooden ships now laid down or ordered, 

 there are unconfirmed reports of contracts for eleven additional wooden 

 vessels — three to be built in Seattle, six in Portland, and two at Marsh- 

 field, Oregon. 



While this new tonnage is for the most part being built specifically 

 for the lumber trade, comparatively few of the vessels in course of con- 

 struction are to be operated by mill companies. 



Will Manufacture Crating From Core Stock 



George Worland. secretary-treasurer of the Evansville Veneer Company. 

 Evansville, Ind.. has been piling up a bunch of veneer cores in gum, 

 poplar, beech, some oak, for some time past, as illustrated In the cut on 

 this page. He has just completed the installation of a miniature saw- 

 mill, a Sinker-Davis circular mill built along the lines of large mills ex- 

 cept that it is designed for purposes of just this character. With this 

 machinery the cores will be ripped up into crating material, and as they 

 are solid, clean stuff all the way through, they should make an excellent 

 product. They will be cut to sizes, but will run mainly three and four 

 inches wide, three-quarters of an inch thick by thirty-six to eighty-six 

 inches. The beech will run only in the forty-two inch length. 



Mr. Worland says that as he sees it. the principal reason why con- 

 cerns and individuals buying crating material should be interested in 

 this product is that having it cut to order they would be able to elimi- 



nate the waste of buying longer material, and there does seem to be a 

 lot of logic in that reasoning. 



The manufacture of crating material from veneer cores Is not entirely 

 a new proposition, but it does present possibilities for the utilization of 

 this material and its development should be encouraged wherever the 

 use of such material is possible in a practicable way. As the material 

 will be shipped out green, the Evansville Veneer Company will be ready 

 to handle orders on such stock at almost any time. 



Pertinent Information 



September Forest Products Exports 



The exports of forest products for the United States during September, 

 1916. were valued $366,000 above the exports for the corresponding month 

 of 1915. That is an increase of less than one per cent. The leading 

 items of export during September, 1916, follow : 



Kind Value 



Other lumber 267,043 



Doors, sash, and blinds.. .39,594 



Furniture 285,149 



Empty barrels 182,720 



Incubators and brooders. 5,315 



House finish 28,563 



Kind Value 



Round logs $ 95,871 



Fire wood 23,487 



Square timbers 513,030 



Lumber 2,361,967 



Railroad ties 273,247 



S'hingles 5,851 



Shocks 188,165 



Staves 409,024 



Heading 32,452 



Woodenware 27,228 



Wood pulp 230,448 



All other 710,483 



VENEER CORES FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CRATING AT THE PLANT OF THE EVANS- 

 VILLE VENEER COMPANY, EVANSVILLE. IND., SHOWING THE NEW CIRCUL-iR SAWMILL 



FOR THIS WORK 



Total $5,679,642 



Will Take 1916 Lumber Census 

 The Forest Service, in co-operation with the National Lumber Manu- 

 facturers' Association, will shortly commence collecting figures on the 

 1916 cut of lumber. It is proposed to include all sawmills, large and 

 small, in the United States. The work will be carried on in all lumber 

 regions at the same time and it is hoped that complete figures will be 

 available next June. Preliminary reports will be published earlier, giving 

 the cut of the more important species, like yellow pine and Douglas flr. 

 Blanks will be sent to all mill operators with the request that they be 

 properly filled and returned as promptly as possible. 



The Canary Cottage 



Just what a canary cottage is, is not yet apparent, but it may be 

 accepted on faith until there is more information on the subject. It is 

 said to be a California substitute for the bungalow. The Californians 

 claim that they were the originators of the bungalow and have a right 

 to change their minds in favor of the canary cottage if they want to. It 

 had been commonly supposed that the bungalow originated among the 

 negroes of South .\frica. but if the Californians want to dispute honors 

 with the Hottentots, let them do it. The 

 li ading feature of the canary cottage is prob- 

 ably its yellow color. Wood has a chance 

 to make good there. 



Baltimore Exports for October 



The situation with respect to the export 

 business in lumber and logs shows no Im- 

 provement, and is not expected to show any, 

 for that matter, as long as the war lasts and 

 the various countries, which were large con- 

 sumers of American woods, are excluded from 

 the consideration, while other markets that 

 remain open manage to restrict shipments to 

 insignificant proportions. The declared value 

 of the shipments for October, to be sure, ex- 

 ceeded that for the same month of last year 

 by nearly $21,000, but as was the case in Sep- 

 tember, the excess was more than made up 

 by one wood, spruce, which is being wanted for 

 a special purpose, and which, under normal 

 conditions, would cut far less of a figure in the 

 calculations. The value of the shipments of 

 spruce was not less than $46,583, against a 

 mere $1,941 for October, 1915. which had not 

 yet begun to develop the needs that were felt 

 later on. The total for the month of all the 

 wood would not amount to the value of the ex- 

 ports of oak alone under ordinary circum- 

 stances, which indicates the extent of the 

 shrinkage that has taken place. One unusual 

 feature of the exhibit was the shipment of 

 19.000 feet of fir boards, this having been the 

 first shipment of fir from Baltimore perhaps 

 in years. The shipments of oak were held 

 down to an insignificant 27.000 feet, against 

 more than 1.000.000 feet in normal times, 

 and the exports of poplar were also very much 

 restricted. Altogether it was a very unsatis- 

 factory month, with the business well nigh at 



