December 25, 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Harvey M. Dickson, the newly-elected secretary of the Natioual LuiuiJer- 

 Exporters' Association, took charge of his-duties on December 15. He 

 has brought his family with him and will remain in Baltimore at least 

 temporarily. Whether the office of secretary will be continued in Balti- 

 more or transferred to Norfolk will be rteflnitely determined at the annual 

 meeting of the association in Pittsburgh, on January 24, 



Baltimore has been making a determined fight to prevent the abolition 

 of the sub-treasury here, along with those in a number of other cities, 

 and tor the time being has succeeded. Congress having voted down tlie 

 proposition last week. But the danger that the sub-treasury will be 

 eliminated is not yet over, a strong movement being afoot in the Senate 

 to make the change, and to ward off this new measure business organiza- 

 tions of the city are being called on to line up and make a fight. The 

 Lumber Exchange has been asked to name a committee of its most repre- 

 sentative men to be prepared to join similar committees from the other 

 •organizations and move upon the Senate in a body at a time yet to be 

 set. President Parker D. Dix, the president of the Exchange, has named 

 •on the committee Rufus K. Goodenow, the retiring president ; Pembroke 

 M. Womble, David M. Wolf, Lewis Dill and William JI. Burgan. 



From Winchester, Va.. it is reported that the Lost City Lumber Com- 

 pany, of which William B. Cornwell, an attorney of Romney, W. Va., is 

 president, has recently begun the construction of a railroad from that 

 city westward to Wardensville, Hardy county, W. Va., whicli is to be 

 iinown as the Winchester & Western Railway, and which will connect 

 with the Baltimore & Ohio at Winchester. The line will penetrate large 

 timber areas in Hardy, Grant and Pendleton counties. West Virginia, 

 and is expected to start an important development of the resources of 

 the region. Various spurs are to project from the Winchester & Western 

 Railway, to facilitate the operations of diverse industries. 



The city of Baltimore has sold all of the chestnut trees on the Gun- 

 powder watershed and in the Lake Roland district to get ahead of the 

 blight which made its appearance in that section some months ago. All 

 the trees on the east side of the Gunpowder have been disposed of for 

 5!8,600 and the trees on the west side have realized $3,000. Three more 

 sales will clear the chestnuts from the 4,500 acres of timberlaud included 

 in the watershed. The trees will be cut into telegraph poles, fence rails, 

 railroad ties and cordwood. 



The stave mill of J. Frank Beach & Co., at Sharptown, Md., was 

 destroyed by fire recently, entailing a loss of .$2,000. 



=-< COLUMBUS > 



GoverDor-elect James M, Cox is to be one of the speakers at the annual 

 banquet of the Ohio Manufacturers' Association, to be held in Colum- 

 Jjus, January 18. Frank A. Vanderlip, New York banker, is expected to 

 <Uscuss the foreign trade situation. Other speakers include Internal 

 Revenue Collector B. E. Williamson and Actuary Emile E. Watson of the 

 Ohio Industrial Commission. 



The Southwestern Lumber Company of Pittsburgh has opened an office 

 in Cincinnati. 



R. W. Horton of the W. M. Hitter Lumber Company reports a good 

 demand for hardwoods, despite the lateness of the season and the ap- 

 proach of the holidays. Buying is about equally divided between retailers 

 and factories. Prices are firm all along the line and every change has 

 been toward higher levels. Mr. Horton expects a good trade after the 

 first of the year. 



J. A. Ford of the Imperial Lumber Company says trade in hardwoods 

 is active and prices are steady in every locality. 



By the conditions of a business ti'ansaction, the Zahner Metal Sash & 

 Door Company of Canton is to take over the plant formerly occupied 

 by the Shiloh Metallic Company of Shiloh, O. The plant of the Canton 

 company was destroyed by fire recently and in order to continue in 

 husiness until it can be rebuilt a lease was taken on the Shiloh plant for 

 a period of three months. 



=■< CINCINNATI >•- 



A big timber deal in West Virginia, of more than usual local interest 

 because of the prominence of the purchaser, recently was consummated 

 when F. M. Massie, widely known lumber dealer, acquired title to 1,200 

 acres of valuable timberlaud on the Twelve Pole Creek, Wayne county. 

 West Virginia. Mr. Massie has announced that he will install in the 

 near future a large band sawmill and operations will be started imme- 

 diately thereafter. The development of the big tract will be pushed. 

 The consideration involved is said to be approximately $25,000. 



The Quaker Building Company was incorporated recently at Akron, 

 O., with capital stock of $20,000. The directorate of the new concern 

 will be composed of the following ; D. W. Holloway, O. G. Schultz, 

 G. E. Probert, Albert T. Townsley and C. D. Manbeck. 



The Herig Furniture & Manufacturing Co. was incorporated at Cleve- 

 land last week with a capital of $50,000. The incorporators are Ralph 

 S. Herig, Elliott W. Seeley, Paul G. Herig, Thomas N. Bradford and 

 Lewis A. Reynolds. 



Following filing of a suit in Common Pleas court last week by Erjest 

 J. Knabe, Jr.. president of the Knabe Brothers Company of Norwood, 

 piano manufacturer and extensive consumer of mahogany and other fine 

 hardwoods. Judge Geoghegan appointed H, N. Fairbanks of Springfield, 



-t)hi<=^Teceiver for the company, S'ome time ago when receivership pro- 

 ceedings were threatened action was postponed by a readjustment of the 

 company's affairs and it was thought at the time that the storm had 

 been weathered. Mr. Knabe sued as surety upon a demand note for 

 $10,000 given to the Fourth National Bank last September, upon which 

 he says demand has been made, and the company has made no effort 

 to take it up. It was announced that the concern has assets of more 

 than $700,000 and is solvent, but creditors pressing claims has threatened 

 the business .so the court is asked to take charge. Shortage of operating 

 cash, expensive litigation over a trade name caused much of the em- 

 barrassment. The new management will not suspend operations. A 

 creditors' committee agreed to the appointment of a receiver. 



According to figures given out by lumbermen interested in heavy ship 

 timber and other woods entering into tjie construction of vessels, both 

 lake and ocean going, merchant ships built in the United States in the 

 first eleven months of this year more than doubled in tonnage the total 

 output of last year. Wooden vessels stand high in the figures, total 936 

 with a tonnage of 127,276. Counting those now building and under con- 

 tract, it is said that this year's building will be the greatest in the history 

 of the country. 



=•< CLEVELAND >.= 



New mills of the I'eters Milhvork and Lumber Company and the Mi)ls- 

 Carleton Company, whose plants were visited by fire that threatened the 

 Flats last spring, will be started about the first of the year. All eQuip- 

 raent and arrangement of the plants have been made with an eye to effi- 

 cient production, in which respect these firms will be among the leaders 

 in the district. 



Arch C. Klumph, Cuyahoga Lumber Company ; C. H. Prescott, Saginaw 

 Bay Lumber Company : D. W. Teachout, the .-V. Teachout Company ; and 

 members of other building material concerns, have lieen appointed as a 

 committee to safeguard the lieu law now on the Ohio statutes. They 

 will hold their first meeting this coming week. 



J. V. O'Brien of the Cleveland Board of Lumber Dealers has returned 

 from the meeting of secretaries of lumber organizations from all over 

 the United States, held at Hotel Secor, Toledo, where they were the 

 guests of the Toledo lumbermen. Mr. O'Brien will present some sugges- 

 tions to the members here that he gleaned at this gathering. 



=-< TOLEDO > 



The Booth Column Company of Toledo reports a very nice line 

 of orders for both interior and exterior columns, the heavy demand com- 

 ing from the East and f^'outh. There is also a good demand for columns 

 in local territory. The car shortage has made shipping difficult and it 

 has also affected the incoming of materials. The factory is running at 

 capacity but would be running heavier if adequate help could be secured. 

 The coal shortage h^s made fuel both scarce and high. The concern is 

 in the market for poplar and cypress stocks suitable for its product. 



The Gotshall Manufacturing Company reports some difficulty in secur- 

 ing stocks and in making shipments on account of the car shortage, 

 although it is well stocked and has thus far had plenty to take care of 

 its business in good shape. This concern was the high bidder recently 

 on 388 acres of land in Hardin county, well stocked with oak, ash and 

 hickory timber. The land was placed on the market by the city of 

 Bellefontaine and all bids were subject to rejection. The matter will 

 probably be decided within a few days. 



The Hein Furniture Company recently secured a number of fine con- 

 tracts for office, bank and store fixtures which were to be the last word 

 in elegance and style in these particular lines. One was for the C. K. 

 Merrill Company's new wholesale jewelry store, which included floor and 

 wall cases and other fixtures in mahogany ; mahogany store fixtures for 

 the Xopper & Salm Company, a haberdashery ; complete equipment for 

 the F. A. Jones Company, department store in the Messinger block. Some 

 remarkably fine residence work was done by this concern for the W\ E. 

 Bock residence at Eagle Point, and the W. S. Walbridge home at Perrys- 

 burg. 



< INDIANAPOLIS > 



The Indiana I'ublic Service Commission has permitted interstate rail- 

 roads operating through Indiana to place in effect higher demurrage 

 charges which are practically identical with those recently established 

 by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Present demurrage charges pro- 

 vide the shipper shall pay $1 a day for cars held at unloading points tor 

 more than forty-eight hours following 7 a. m. of the first day after 

 delivery. The new charges would be $1 for the first day following the 

 forty-eight hour period, the second day $2, the third day $3, the fourth 

 day $4 and each day thereafter $5. 



The White Wood Products Company, a recently incorporated company 

 with a capitalization of .$50,000 to manufacture all kinds of wooden 

 handles, sustained a fire loss of approximately $1,200 last week when a 

 part of the company's plant near Crothersville, Ind., was burned. The 

 enameling department was destroyed and for a time the entire plant was 

 seriousl.v threatened. 



The Economy Box and Pieplate Company of Marion, Ind., has increased 



