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HARDWOOD RECORD 



December 23. 1916 



Something to Move Quickly 



Southern Stock 



■ FAS & No. 1 Common Plain Red Oak. 

 long stock. 

 No. 1 Common & Better Qtrd. White 



" No. 



1 Common & Better Qtrd. White 



Dry. 



4 cars 1" 



Oak. 



1 car Xy. 



Oak. 



5 cars 1" No. 1 Common White Ash 

 IISM 1" No. 1 Common & Better Sap Gum. 



2SM 1" No. 1 Common & Select Red Gum. 



6M 1" No. 2 Common Sap & Red Gum. 

 lOM 1%" & IH" No. 1 Common Red Gum. 



6M 2" No. 1 Common & Better Red Gum. 

 lOM 2" No. 1 Common & Better Sap Gum. 



6M XYa" No. 1 Common Cypress. 



4M 1" & 1%" No. 1 Common Cypress. 



4M 2" to 3" No. 1 Common Cypress. 



3M 1>4" and 1}/" No. 1 Common Cypress. 



Write for prices and further 

 Particulars 



PAYSON SMITH 

 LUMBER CO. 



MINNEAPOLIS 



MINNESOTA 



its capitalization I'l-om $25,000 to ?50,000. E. L. Weesncr, president of 

 tbe company, says enough orders have l)Con bookeil to lieep the plant in 

 operation up to its capacity for five or si.\ months. The company is 

 building an addition that will double its capacity and much ni'w equip- 

 ment will be purchased. 



The plant of the Greer-Wilkinson Lumber Company at Franklin, Ind.. 

 has been closed temporarily ou account of a coal shortage. Several 

 woodworking plants in Indiana have been threatened with a similar fate 

 but have succeeded in procuring enough steam coal to keep in operation 

 so far. A shipment of coal promised tbe Franklin plant two weeks ago 

 has not arrived. Twenty-five men were thrown out of employment. 



Frank Taylor of Bluffton. Ind., acting in licbalf of the Ditzler Hard- 

 wood Company, has purchased all of the hardwood timb(?r on a tract of 

 twenty-two acres owned by John Hawk, northeast of that city. The sum 

 of l);i,2n:', was paid for the timber. 



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J. C. Greer of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company bore has returned from a 

 business trip through the southern states and reports trade prospects for 

 1917 very encouraging. 



The Cellulite Manufacturing Company, with a capital stock of .fS.OOO, 

 has filed articles of incorporation in the county recorder's office here, the 

 incorporators being XI. D. Helfricb of the Helfrich Lumber and Manufac- 

 turing Company, O. E. Braun and II. F. Weaver. The business of the 

 ■company will be the coating of closet seats and other wooden objects with 

 a composition that resembles celluloid, tlie process being secret. A man 

 from the East has been secured by the company to do the coating and 

 work will start at once. For the present the company will be housed 

 with the Peerless Tank and Seat Company here and the products of this 

 company will be used for the coating. Later, it is intended to build a 

 separate plant for the new company. 



The Reel-Osterhage Lumber Company, with a capital stock of $50,000 

 has been incorporated at Vincennes, Ind. Lumber yards are to be estab- 

 lished by the company at Freelandville, Edwardport, S'andborn, West- 

 phalia and Bruceville. 



On Saturday, December 16, Maley & Wertz, hardwood lumber manu- 

 facturers of this city, shipped a carload of one-inch walnut to New York 

 and from that city it was sent by steamer to England, the lumber to be 

 used by the British government in the manufacture of aeroplanes. This 

 Is the second order for walnut lumber that Maley & Wertz have received 

 from the British government during tbe iiast month. They have re- 

 ceived a number of InQuiries for lumber for foreign shipment and have 

 started to operate their sawmill on a day and night schedule. 



On Saturday, December IG, employes of the Ulobe-Bosse-World Furni- 

 ture Company were given Christmas presents in tbe shape of a cash 

 bonus in their pay envelopes. About .'P12,000 in cash was distributed. 

 Mayor Benjamin Bosse, president of the company, announced that be- 

 ginning on January 1, 1917, the employes would receive increases in their 

 wages ranging from six to twelve per cent. The factory will also be 

 operated on a profit-sharing basis and each employe of the company will 

 get bis share of the profits at the end of the year. 



W. S. Burgess of Maley & Wertz has returned from a business trip to 

 northern Ohio and southern Michigan and says trade prospects are as 

 good as he ever saw them. He reports that indications point to a fine 

 automobile trade during 1917. The various body factories are being 

 operated on full time and manufacturers are most sanguine over the out- 

 look. 



Mayor Benjamin Bosse, president of the GIobe-Bosse-World Furniture 

 Company, has returned from a business trip to Chicago and the North- 

 west. He is sanguine over the business outlook for 1917. 



An immense pecan tree on the farm of W. A. Tonini, a few miles east 

 of Evansville, Ind.. was felled a few days ago and workmen are now 

 cutting it up into timber and stove wood. The tree was six feet in 

 diameter and according to the rings it was 400 years old. Two years 

 ago the officers of the National Nut Growers' Association visited the 

 tree and said then that it was tbe largest pecan tree then standing in 

 the United States. 



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J. F. Altord vt Co.. composed of J. W. Alford and R. L. Alford, have 

 filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States district 

 court. Tbe firm did a hardwood business in west Nashville. Liabilities 

 are about $10,000. 



A plant erected last year by John B. Ransom & Co., for manufacture 

 of walnut gunstocks for European countries, was destroyed by fire, caus- 

 ing a loss of $0,000, covered by insurance. The plant was adjacent to 

 the box factory and planing mills of the company, but tbe spread of the 

 flames was prevented. A large stock of gunstocks was destroyed. 



The traffic bureau has filed a complaint with the Tennessee Railroad 

 Commission, protesting against certain advances in lumber rates to 

 Nasliville announced by the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. liOUis Railway, 

 and seeking to have the same suspended. The rates are on lumber shipped 

 from Memphis to Nashville. 



It. S. Maddox, forester of Tennessee, addressed the meeting of the 

 Nashville Lumbermen's Club, asking for support in a movement to secure 

 laws for protection of forests of the state. Mr. Maddox stressed the 

 enormous loss caused by forest fires, and ascnbed a large part of this 

 htss to ignorance and maliciousness. More rigid laws were advocated, 

 lie read a draft of a bill along modern lines for forestry protection. 

 Harold M. Green, A. B. Ransom and J. M'. Overton were appointed by the 

 club a committee to co-operate with Mr. Maddox in securing the desired 

 legislation. 



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The C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company of Louisville has been awarded a 

 fancy contract for delivering approximately 1,500.000 feet of nmhogany 

 to tbe English and French governments for use in manufacturing aero- 

 planes. The lumber is to be delivered in hoards nine feet in length, 

 eight inches wide and one inch in thickness. Onivthird of the order will 

 be shipped as rapidly as possible, while the balance will be shipped at 

 intervals during 1917. It is understood that a part of the stock will be 

 manufactured into glued-up propeller blades In the East before being 

 exported. 



The Wood-Mosaic Company, New Albany, Ind., which has also received 

 a big war order for gunstocks, propeller blades, etc., is running adver- 

 tisements in the newspapers for 500 cars of walnut logs from which to 

 manufacture stock to fill the order. 



The Edward L. Davis Lumber Company has been featuring fine ash 

 stocks during the past few weeks, and is carrying a good supply of all 

 grades and thicknesses. There is a good demand for tough white ash 

 for automobile and vehicle construction at this time, and the company 

 is busy. 



The demand for Delta gum continues strong with the Churchill-Mllton 

 Lumber Company, which has had a very active season in furnishing gum 

 lumber for various purposes. Work is being pushed on the company's 

 new plant at Greenwood. Miss., W'hicli with the plant at Glendora should 

 give the company a tremendous production abUlty next year. 



Business has been active with the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Com- 

 pany, which has had a very active demand for gum, oak and other items 

 on the list. The car shortage has been about the only disagreeable 

 factor in fall business with this concern. T. M. Hrown has just returned 

 from a ten-day trip to- New York, and Graham Brown and John Miller 

 have left for Arkansas to inspect the company's mills. 



Starting about January 1 the Norman Lumber Company will place In 

 operation its new department for manufacturing poplar box shocks, the 

 plant having been completed recently. Poplar has been moving in fair 

 demand, but prices are still a little low. 



S. E. Booker, president of the Booker Box Company, at a recent meet- 



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