September 25, 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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ESTABLISHED 1867 



'NCGRPORATED 1904 





DRY HARDWOODS for IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT 



No embargo here 



WALNUT 



Fair stock, all thicknesses 

 and grades 



QRD. WHITE OAK 



Fair stock, all thicknesses 

 and grades 



POPLAR 



5/8" 3 cars 



1" 2 cars 



\Va" Vi car 



BEECH 



5/8" No. 2 C&B ... 3 cars 



INDIANA STOCK 



PLAIN RED OAK 



1" FAS 1 car 



1" No. 1 Com 2 cars 



1" No. 2 Com 5 cars 



5/4" step plank.... 1 car 

 25^2" very choice...}^ car 



ASH 



1" FAS 2 cars 



\" No. 2 Com 2 cars 



2V2" & 3" No. 2 C. 2 cars 



ELM 



2Y2" & 3" dry 3 cars 



BAND SAWED 



MAPLE 



3/8" 1 car 



5/8" wide 2 cars 



1", 12" and up '/i car 



1" No. 1 C&B 10 cars 



6/4" C&B 3 cars 



BUTTERNUT 



1" No. 2 & Btr 1 car 



BASSWOOD 

 1" No. 2 & 3 Com. . 2 cars 



HICKORY 

 V/2" & 2" No. 2 



Com. & Btr. . . 3 cars 



PLAIN RED GUM 



1" Com. & Btr 1 car 



OTD. RED GUM 



1" Com. & Btr 1 car 



SAP GUM 



1" Com. & Btr 1 car 



MIXED HARDWOODS 

 1" sound grade.... 10 cars 

 ROTARY CUT POPLAR 



1/8" 3 cars 



QTD. SAWED OAK 



VENEER 



1/20" 2 cars 



Hoffman Brothers Company 



Veneers, Hardwood Lumber 

 804 WEST MAIN STREET, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA 



With the Trade 



New Darnell Mill Ready in November 



R. J. Darnell, Inc., according to Roland H. Darnell, president, will com- 

 plete its single band mill and resaw at Darnell, La., on the Missouri 

 Pacific system, in West Carroll Parish, La., b.v November 1 next, and will 

 place it in operation at that time. It will hare a daily capacity of 45.000 

 to 50,000 feet. It is being constructed so that another band saw and 

 re-saw may be installed at will, practically doubling the indicated capacity. 

 The management also announces that it is preparing to install a single 

 hardwood flooring unit, to be operated in connection with the band mill, 

 that will cut from 15,000 to 20,000 feet a day. When the second band 

 saw is installed, another flooring unit will be added. 



R. J. Darnell, Inc.. will use this equipment for the development of 

 120.000,000 feet of timber on 15,000 acres It owns in the vicinity of 

 Darnell. Sixty per cent of this is oak and 75 per cent of the oak. accord- 

 ing to Mr. Darnell, is white. The company will specialize in thin stock for 

 both the domestic and foreign trade, continuing to produce the same char- 

 acter of lumber as it manufactured at its double band mill at Batesville, 

 Miss., before this was sold, about two years ago, to the Panola Lumber 

 & Manufacturing Company, composed of Memphis lumbermen. 



R. J. Darnell. Inc., still owns large timber holdings in the vicinity of 

 Batesville. Miss., and it is, under the terms of the sale of its mills at that 

 point to the Panola Lumber & Manufacturing Company, delivering logs 

 to that firm. 



Headquarters are maintained in the Bank of Commerce building, Mem- 

 phis, and the output of the new plant at Darnell will be handled through 

 the Memphis offices. 



Teaching Lumber Inspection 

 J. D. .\llen, Jr., of the F. E. Miller Lumber Company, Memphis, is 

 serving as instructor of the Smith-Hughes lumber inspection class, con- 

 ducted at the vocational school under the auspices of the Lumbermen's 

 Club of Memphis. Classes will be held two or three nights each week, and 

 Mr. Allen is planning to supplement technical or theoretical work with 

 practical application of the rules as far as this can be done. Classes are 

 now being held, hut the term really opens October 1. There were 2S pupils 

 last year, including one woman. It is doubtful if the enrollment will be 

 quite so heavy this year. Inspectors turned out by this school are giving 

 a good account of themselves. 



Firm More Than Doubles Capital 

 The Erskine Williams Lumber Company at a recent meeting of the stock- 

 holders voted to increase its capital stock from .$25,000 to $80,000, and it 

 has filed application for an amendment to its charter seeking this increase. 

 It has also opened yards at Mounds, 111., which are in charge of C. J. 

 Bernaeur, who has been elected vice-president. These yards are to facili- 

 tate delivery of lumber to consumers, with particular reference to oak, 

 ash and cypress. This firm takes the output of two large band mills. 

 G. F. Kerns was reelected president, while Erskine Williams succeeds 

 himself as secretary-treasurer. 



Bellgrade Acquires New Tract of Hardwood 

 The Bellgrade Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn., announces the pur- 

 chase of 7,000 acres of hardwood timber lands in the vicinity of Gary, 

 Miss., where one of its band mills is located. This is said to be the last 

 large tract of virgin timber in that section. It is well timbered with oak, 

 gum and cypress and contains a fair sprinkling of other hardwoods. This 

 purchase brings the holdings of this company to 37.000 acres and insures 

 a continuous supply for a practically indefinite period. The company ia 

 adding a re-saw at its Gary plant, and is making other improvements 

 which will bring this to the same size and* capacity as its larger mill 

 at Louise, Miss. 



New "Red Book" Issued 

 The Lumbermen's Credit Association, publisher of the "Red Book," has 

 just recently supplied subscribers with the August, 1922, edition of its 

 reference book. 



The new book indicates many changes have taken place during the six 

 months past. New ratings show radical changes in some cases. Through 

 their semi-weekly change sheets the association has predicted and reported 

 a great many failures. Numerous new concerns are shown in the August 

 book, which makes a service of this kind valuable to lumbermen from a 

 sales, as well as credit, standpoint. The "Red Book" was established in 

 1876. 



Donald R. Brewster 



Expert Consultant 

 OPERATION OF LUMBER DRY KILNS 



28 Blymer Building, Cincinnati. Obi* 



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