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HARDWOOD RECORD 



December 10, 1916 



Contract Left for Reconstruction 



Arrangements have been completed for the reconstruction of the 

 Chickasaw Cooperage plant at Memphis, Tenn., on lines which will make 

 it the largest cooperage plant in the world. The old plant, prior to Its 

 destruction, was the largest of its kind in the United States. It is hoped 

 that the new plant will be read.v for operation by March 1. 



Sam Thompson's Brother Dies 



The many friends of Sam A. Thompson, mana;,'er of the Anderson-Tully 

 Company, Memphis, will deeply regret to learn of the death of his brother, 

 L. Lamar Thompson, which occurred at Sam Thompson's home, 802 Court 

 avenue, Memphis, last Monday, December 4. 



Mr. Thompson was born in Memphis twenty-three years ago. He was 

 educated in the city schools and then attended the Mississippi Agricultural 

 College, from which he graduated four years ago. He then moved to New 

 Orleans to make his home with his mother, Mrs. Anna Pilcher Thompson. 



Two years ago he was injured in a street car accident, so seriously as 

 to confine him to his bed ever since and to which injuries he ultimately 

 succumbed. Until two months ago he had lived at New Orleans with his 

 mother, but when Sam Thompson assumed his new duties at Memphis he 

 established his mother and brother in that city. 



Mr. Thompson was first sergeant of Battery B, Washington artillery, 

 L. S. N. G. In addition to his mother and brother, he Is survived by 

 one sister, Mrs. K. Lee Hawes of New Orleans. 



Funeral services were conducted In St. Mary's Cathedral by Dean J. 

 Craig Morris, interment being in Elmwood cemetery. 



Press Plant Will Enlarge 



Increased demand for presses manufactured by the H.vdraulic Press 

 Manufacturing Company, Mt. Gilead. O., has made necessary immediate 

 extensions in plant and equipment. The principal changes will be in the 

 power plant, machine shop and stock room. Much more space will be 

 provided and considerable new equipment will be purchased for these 

 departments. 



One new building will be erected and extensions made to the three 

 departments mentioned, and an addition to the tool room and erecting 

 shop. The machine shop will have an addition 100x60 feet and con- 

 siderable new equipment, including a twentv-ton electric traveling crane, 

 a large rolling mill and a heavy duty motor driven planer. The power 

 plant will have a twenty-foot extension and, in addition, a new Corliss 

 engine and generator. This, with other new equipment, including boilers, 

 stokers, etc., will make the power plant substantially greater than it is 

 now. 



As far as service is concerned, the extension of the main stock room 

 has the greatest bearing. An additional story and added area will make 

 possible greater room for storage of small parts, accessories, etc. 



All of the improvements with the exception of the extension of the 

 erecting shop will be made immediately. 



Extends Corporate Existence 



Articles of association extending the corporate existence of the Grand 

 Rapids Veneer Works, Grand Rapids. Mich., until December 31, 1045. 

 ■were filed at the county clerk's office in Kent county, Michigan, a week 

 ago. The articles took effect November 29 and placed the capital at 

 $352,000. The principal stockholders are Cyrus E. Perkins and Z. Clark 

 Thwing. 



Will Open New Mill the First of the Year 

 The new hardwood mill of the Sabine River Lumber & Logging Com- 

 pany of San Antonio, Tex., which will be located at Oakdale, La., will 

 be ready for operation by the first of January, according to President 

 Albert Deutsch. The mill will be of double band mill type and will 

 operate on hardwoods exclusively. It had been expected that the mill 

 would be operating by the first of December, but machinery Is difficult 

 to secure these days and hence the delay. 



The Sabine company purchased the plant of the Buckley Lumber Com- 

 pany some time ago, this being situated immediately on the western 

 boundary of its holdings near Oakdale. This mill has been running on 

 pine exclusively for the past three months. It Is Intended to keep this 

 mill, which is located at Mab, sawing on pine, and the new mill when it 

 is completed will cut hardwoods. 



Pertinent Information 



West Coast Lumber Situation 

 The weekly statement issued by the West Coast Lumbermen's 

 tlon dated November 21, 1916, shows the following situation for 

 ending November IS, including 130 mills : 



Normal production 87,047,000 ft. 



Actual production 74,235,2.')0 ft. 



Actual production below normal 12,811.750 ft. 



Orders below normal production 10,823,619 ft. 



Orders above actual production 1,988,131 ft. 



.Shipments below normal production 29,248,987 ft. 



.Shipments below actual production 16,437,237 ft. 



Onbrs exceed shipments 18,425,368 ft. 



Assocla- 

 the week 



14.72% 

 12.43% 

 2.61% 

 33.60% 

 22.14% 

 24.17% 



Adamson Law Declared Unconstitutional 



The Adamson eight-hour law, passed hastily by Congress, under pre- 

 tense that by so doing a strike of railroad conductors would be avoided, 

 haa been declared unconstitutional by Judge Hook, of the United States 

 district court at Kansas City. It will now go to the United States supreme 

 court for final decision. 



Timber Tax Law Nullified 



The Mississippi supreme court has nullified the act of 1912 which 

 sought to impose an average tax or occupation fee on timberlands in the 

 state. The proposed tax was 20 cents per acre, without regard to value. 

 It was held by the court that tax must be in proportion to value, and 

 for that reason the tax was declared unconstitutional. 



A New Book of Forestry 



Frederick Franklm Moon, who is professor of forest engineering In the 

 New York College of Forestry at Syracuse, has written a book on forestry 

 which is evidently not intended primarily for students in forestry schools, 

 though doubtless many of the books will be used there. It is written for 

 boys of about the Boy Scout age ; those young Americans who are full of 

 energy and good will and in just the frame of mind to profit by what they 

 can see, hear, and find out about trees and the many other things asso- 

 ciated with woods and semi-wild life. Though the tone of the text indi- 

 cates that Mr. Moon in writing the book had the young naturalist- 

 student constantly In mind, there is plenty in the volume to interest read- 

 ers of years and maturity. It is filled with facts and information. It 

 tells things which, if the adult does not already know, he would like to 

 know. 



The author has combined history, geography, botany, and forestry in 

 a way to catch the attention of the reader and give instruction and enter- 

 tainment at the same time. The book reads easily, and may be read chap- 

 ter after chapter at a sitting without overtaxing the attention, as a text 

 book would do if read in the same way. It is a successful attempt to 

 popularize a subject which has too long beeen hedged about by technical 

 language. 



The book opens with a history — not of forestry but of American forests. 

 There arc just enough figures and statistics to illustrate the various 

 points, and the memory is not taxed with trying to recollect. The value 

 of the forests, chiefly from the standpoint of physical geography, is the 

 theme of the next chapter, followed by simple facts of botany as they 

 concern the growth of trees. From that point the story progresses naturally 

 to the end, including discussions of the properties of woods, life of a 

 forester, how forests are cared for, how the trees arc measured, cut and 

 converted into commercial products, and how wood may be protected 

 against decay. 



The most important trees arc represented by pictures of leaf, flower, 

 and fruit which are intended to assist the reader in identifying trees as 

 he finds them In the forest. The volume is further illustrated with appro- 

 priate half-tones, and it contains a dictionary of terms used in forestry 

 and logging. It is published by D. Appleton & Co., New York, and the 

 price is $1.75 net. 



Prospective Lumber Orders 



The Haskell & Barker Car Company of Michigan City, Ind., is in the 

 market for approximately 6,500,000 feet of lumber, and the American 

 Car and Foundry Company of Indianapolis needs about 4,500,000 feet of 

 lumber to fill large equipment orders from the Great Northern Railroad. 

 The former company has obtained orders for 500 refrigerator cars and 500 

 automobile cars, and the latter company will build 1,000 box cars for the 

 same road. Douglas fir and yellow pine are the principal species to be 

 used. The Chicago market probably will get the bulk of this business. 



Brief Filed for Implement Makers 



A brief has been filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission by 

 John R. Walker, attorney for the National Implement & 'Vehicle Associa- 

 tion, Hickory Products .\ssociation. Eastern Wheel Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, Spoke Manufacturers' Association, and Rim Manufacturers' .Asso- 

 ciation. The brief presents the argument presented by these associations 

 in the matter of rates on and classification of lumber and lumber prod- 

 ucts, under Docket 8131. 



Still Another Embargo 

 In attempting to find a remedy for the high cost of food articles, two 

 railroads, the Pennsylvania and the Erie, on Thursday. Dec. 7, placed an 

 embargo on certain products moving from the West to territory east of 

 Pittsburgh. The purpose was to give more cars to food articles and also 

 to lessen freight congestion at eastern points, .\lthough building material 

 is included in the embargo order, it is not believed that lumbermen will be 

 very seriously hurt ; unless the interruption of trafiic should be long con- 

 tinued or should be extended to additional roads. 



The Leading Hardwood State 

 West Virginia is credited with leading all other states in the production 

 of hardwood lumber. Its latest annual production is placed at 887,534,000 

 feet, of which 400,000,000 are oak. It cuts more oak, yellow poplar and 

 chestnut than any other state. 



Foreign and Domestic Commerce 



The annual report of the chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 

 Commerce for the fiscal year ending June 30. 191G, has been published. 

 It is especially timely in view of the unusual Interest now being taken In 



