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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 10. 1922 



"Perfectly Dried Veneers' 



"Proctor" Dryers at U'ood-MoSiiic Co., Louisville, Ky. 



The Wood-Mosaic Company has hit the 

 bull's-eye of a tremendous buying-interest 

 with its well-known advertising slogan — 



"Perfectly Dried Veneers'' 



The Wood-Mosaic Company is gaining cus- 

 tomers and holding them because it makes 

 good the promise of that slogan, by employ- 

 ing the single perfect means of drying veneer 



The "Proctor" Veneer Dryer 



The "Proctor" Dryer never fails to pro- 

 duce perfectly dried veneer, of lasting 

 flatness and pliabiHty. Its reputation for 

 highest quality veneer-drying results is 

 endorsed by leading manufacturers. 



PROCTOR & SCHWARTZ, Inc. 



Formerly The Phila. Textile Mach'y Co. 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 





With the Trade 



Baltimore Exports for March 



Thi' statement of exports of lumber and logs from Baltimore in March, 

 the last available in complete form at the Custom Ilouse, does not make 

 an especially favorable showing. In fact, it may be regarded as distinctly 

 disappointing. Whereas in some former months a marked expansion in 

 the movement had be?n noted over the corresponding periods of last year, 

 the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction again, and March 

 looms up with one of the smallest totals as to declared value of ship- 

 ments recorded. This total amounts to .f93.835 against $134,107 for 

 March, 1921. For the first time In many months, oak timber is shown 

 separately, this item and hardwood logs being given In cubic feet instead 

 of square feet. A comparison of the figures for the two months also sug- 

 gests that the valuations seem to have reached the bottom of the decline, 

 the figures given for the two months being much the same. Among the 

 various items on the list are the following : Hardwood logs, 3,S24 cubic 

 feet, valued at $6,372 ; oak timber, 1,220 cubic feet, $1,312 ; oak boards, 

 349.000 feet, $26,149 ; poplar boards, 114,000 feet, $13,189 ; walnut 

 boards, 29,000 feet, $2,347 ; hardwood boards, 270,000 feet, $20.733 ; 

 staves, tight cooperage, 7,806, $1,800 ; veneers and plywood, 318,380 feet, 

 $1,944 : furniture, $2,692 ; implement handles, 83.460, $4,080, and "all 

 other manufactures of wood," 33,314 pounds, $11,417. This item for 

 March, 1921, was very much larger, as was that of hardwood logs, with 

 80,000 feet, of a declared value of $31,554. 



Weidman- Vogelsang Lumber Co. Organized 



The ^Y^■id^^;ln-\'(^gelsanLr Lumber Company has been organized by three 

 men favorably and widely known in the northern hardwood lumber pro- 

 ducing and consuming territory and offices opened at 205 Grand Rapids 

 National Bank building. Grand Rapids. Mich. The organizers are J. S. 

 Weidman, ,Ir., president ; W. E. Vogelsang, vice-president and general 

 manager, and R. M. Weidman, secretary and treasurer. The new company 

 will deal in hardwood and hemlock lumber and will be the exclusive sales 

 agent of the Weidman Lumber Company, Trout Creek. Mich., and the Berg- 

 land Lumber Company, Bergland, Mich. The mill shipping the stock will 

 in each sale invoice direct to the consignee, the Weidman-Vogelsang Lum- 

 ber Company acting merely as sales agent. 



Mr. Vogelsang was for a number of years associated with the Turtle 

 Lake Lumlier Company in the manufacture and sale of northern hard- 

 woods. 



Ryan Secures Judgment for One Thousand 



Judgment for .$1,000 was srcured liy the IMiilip A. Ryan Lumber Com- 

 pany of Memphis. Tenn., against the Sabine Tram Lumber Company of 

 Beaumont, Tex., in the district court of Angelina county, Texas, May IS. 

 The suit which resulted in the judgment for the plaintifC involved the 

 custom of the purchaser's liability to receive and pay the contract price 

 for all lumber up to grade in a shipment, regardless of the under grade 

 portion of a shipment that might be rejected. The verdict sustained the 

 custom. The dispute arose out of the alleged refusal of the defendant to 

 pay the full value of lumber accepted in shipments of 4/4" No. 3 common 

 mixed oak and 4, '4" No. 1 common red gum. when certain quantities of 

 the oak were found under grade. The defendant Is said to have withheld 

 payment for the gum shipment, subtracting from this sum due, expense 

 alleged to have resulted to defendant from inspection, unloading, storage, 

 demurrage and freight on the cars in which under grade lumber was found. 

 Plaintiff sued for the sum being withheld and secured judgment. 



Rush Lumber Company Incorporates 



The Rush Lumber (.'unipany lias lu-en iurorp<.iri. leii under a Tennessee 

 charter, with a capital stock of $100,000. Paul Rush is president, George 

 W. Ashby is vice-president, and C. L. Stevens is secretary-treasurer. The 

 company will continue to operate its band mill in South Memphis and 

 will supply this with timber from its lands in the vicinit.v of Sidon, Miss. 

 C. L. McRee and Mrs. Rush, widow of the late J. V. Rush, together with 

 the officers already named, constituted the stockholders of the company. 

 Paul Rush, the president, was associated for some years with his father 

 iu the lumber business and took over active control of the affairs of the 

 Rush Lumber Company on his father's death. George W. Ashby was. 

 prior to his connection with this firm, superintendent of operations at the 

 plants of the J. W. Frye Lumber & Veneer Company. Dayton, O. Mr. 

 Stevens graduated from the yellow pine business into the hardwood lumber 

 industry. He was with Nickey Brothers, Inc.. for some time. For the 

 greater portion of the past year he has liec'U with the Rush Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



Darnell Mill Going Up Rapidly 



R. J. Darnell. Inc., Is making rapid progress with the installation of its 

 band mill and resaw at Darnell, La., the new name for the location pre- 

 viously known as Floyd's Landing, according to a statement made by 

 R. H. Darnell, president. The firm will be ready to operate between 

 August 15 and September 1. The mill is being so constructed as to pro- 

 vide for the addition of another saw at will. The single plant will have 

 a capacity of 40.000 to 45,000 feet per day. The company owns 116.000.- 

 000 to 120,000.000 feet of timber. More than sixty per cent of this is 

 oak. about twenty per cent is gum, and the remainder is hickory and ash. 



