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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 10. 1922 



Archer Hardwoods 



have demonstrated their claim to the 

 front rank of quality and if you have 

 never used them it v^^ill pay you to get 

 in touch with us at once. 



WE SPECIALIZE IN 



Plain and Quarter-sawed 

 RED AND WHITE OAK 



Plain and Quartered 

 RED GUM 



We can supply your requirements in 

 Hardw^oods no matter how exacting 

 they are. Consumers whose reputation 

 rests on quality can maintain their stand- 

 ard by w^riting 



ARCHER LUMBER CO. 



HELENA, ARKANSAS 



anil door making plant, and much otlu-r wotidworkiug machimry. .V lai-ge 

 shed is also being put up. 



Much interest was manifested in Kaltinioro over the report from Phila- 

 delphia that a federal receiver was appointed there on May 1!) by United 

 States District Judge Thompson, for the Parsons Pulp and Lumber Com- 

 pany, operating timber lumber and pulp mills in West Virginia, Vir- 

 ginia and 3S'orth Carolina. The plant at Parsons in West Virginia, just 

 across the line from Maryland, is a big one. and a nund>cr of persons are 

 employed. The action was taken on application of William Whitnier & 



Sons, Inc., who are said to own all of the capital stock, the proc ling 



being a friendly one. The liabilities are placed at $4,00(l,<il"i. with ihc 

 assets .$1,000,000 greater. 



The J, I.. Gilbert & Bro. Lumber Company, which last year acquired 

 a large tract at Garrison Lane and the Pennsylvania railroad, in Balti- 

 more, as a site for the concentration of all of Its activities, instead of 

 having them spread over three or four dififerent places, has obtained a 

 permit for the erection of a two-story brick building. 100 by 120 feet. 

 in which sash and door and other wood working machinery will be in- 

 stalled. The cost of the structure, which is one of a number of ini- 

 [irovemeuts. is placed at S^SO.OOO. 



Richanl P. Baer of the hardwood tirm of Riihard P. P.aer & Co., has 

 followed his brother, M. S. Baer, with a trip to the sawmills of the Maga- 

 zine Hardwood Lumber Company, at Mobile, Ala., anil of the Baer & 

 Thayer Company at Bogaliisa, it being deemed desiraldc to keep in close 

 touch with operations now. 



G. L. Wood, general manager of the U. E. Wood Lumber Company, and 

 Mr. Hayes, the sales manager, have been away on Imsiness trips. 



CLEVELAND 



Vnliiablp tirst-haucl information on the lumber sitiuition generally and 

 the hardwood position particularly, in the Central West, was brought 

 back to Cleveland this week by S. O. Oliver, sales manager the Cuyahoga 

 Lumber Company, after an extensive trip through the Upper Michigan 

 peninsula. The most encouraging information he has to give to Northern 

 Ohio members of the industry, Mr. Oliver believes, is that while there is 

 a goodly stock of most hardwoods at shipping points, it is beginning to 

 move more freely, which is taken as a reflection of better demand, of 

 "which Cleveland interests must, in time, naturally get their share. 



Something equally encouraging is seen in the change in demand on the 

 pnrt of the larger hardwood users, according to Mr. Oliver. For exam- 

 ple, automobile manufacturers, who hitherto had not been so particular 

 al)rmt nithcr <iuality or »izes, uow are Insisting upon a 50 per cent divi- 



sion of firsts and seconds, and seem to require that the materials be at 

 least six inches wide and 10 feet long. 



Plans for meeting the renewed building demand for interior finish hard- 

 woods are being made at the Peters Mill Work and Lumber Company, 

 advantage being taken of the between-seasons condition. A good outlet 

 for the moderate priced grades of all hardwoods has been supplied by this 

 firm during the early season building activities, according to F. H. Peters, 

 head of the company. Now that building is going ahead with the settle- 

 ment of most of the disputes in the building industry, a much longer 

 season for housing is anticipated. 



Less inquiry for oak, and little or no demand for poplar, with a 

 marked increase in demand for both gums and birch, is being experienced 

 at the Phil Marquard Building and Realty Company and the Marquard 

 Sash and Door Manufacturing Company. In the last few weeks three 

 cars of birch or gum have been used to one of oak, according to Fred 

 Marquard. sales manager. The production plant of these companies is 

 w-orking full time to meet the housing requirements, and nearly a score 

 more additional operatives have been put on, according to Mr. Marquard. 



"It has been necessary to change our specifications for materials lately," 

 says Mr. Marquard, "because recent experience has shown us that we dis- 

 pose of our housing production more quickly and easily where interiors 

 are finished with gum or birch material instead of the standard oaks and 

 poplars, which was the case up to recently. 



Increased sales of both birch and gum are evident at the Trebing Manu- 

 facturing Company, although sales in all divisions show a marked im- 

 proveme it in the last month over those at the beginning of the season, 

 according to O. G. Trebing. 



One of the few establishments in town to offer a contrast to the average 

 trend is the Theodore Kundtz Company, which is finding a significantly 

 good outlet for maple, according; to Fred Wagner, sales manager. Here 

 as elsewhere in the trade the general demand is rather slow for the mo- 

 ment, owing to the between-seasons condition. 



W. P.. Martin, president the Martin-Barriss Company, has left for New 

 York City and the East on a business trip. 



Arch C. Klumph. president the Cuyahoga Lumber Company, is in Cali- 

 fornia in the interest of the Cleveland Rotary Club. 



CINCINNATI 



William (). Wenielsdorf, who came here from Detroit, Mich., to take a 

 position with the Thoman-FIinn Lumber Company, left that concern on 

 June 1. He has accepte<l the position of sales manager of the Buskirk- 

 Heyser Lumber Company, of this city. 



The Cincinnati office of the Finkbine Lumber Company of which J. 

 Cooper Campbell is manager has been moved from the Mercantile Li- 

 brary Builfling to 2.57 Hosea avenue, Avondale. 



Several departments of the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company, suspended 

 operation for a few days recently because of an explosion which oc- 

 curred in one of the dust separators. The separator in which the ex- 

 plosion occurred was situated on the roof of the boiler house. No damage 

 resulted from the explosion. H. J. Pfeister. president, said that the sev- 

 eral departments could have been operated without the dust collecting 

 system, but this would cause clouds of shavings to fly about the neigh- 

 borhood, and rather than cause this annoyance to the residents in the 

 vicinity the jilant was closed until the separator was repaired. 



Theodore Lutli. president of the Luth Carriage Company and former 

 president of the National Carriage Builders' Association, was in New 

 York City last month, discussing plans with officers of the national asso- 

 ciation for the 1922 convention which will be held in New York City. 



Chester F. Koin of the Korn Company, Sumter, S. C, was In 

 this city last month to attend a meeting of the Board of Directors of the 

 Winton IMace Savings Bank and Trust Company of which he is president. 



INDIANAPOLIS 



The Dubois Planing Mill, at Dubois, Ind., has increased its capital stock 

 from $5,000 to $40,000. 



The Gcgax Ladder Company has been organized at Elkhart, Ind., with 

 a capital stock of $10,000 for the purpose of manufacturing ladders and 

 other wood products. The organizers of the company are Willis R. 

 Gegax, George B, Pratt, Jr., George Unger and L. F. J. Croop. 



Fire of undetermined origin in the stockroom of the Muncie Casket 

 Company at Muncie, Ind., recently, caused a loss estimated at more than 

 $40,000. Silks and other goods used to trim caskets were destroyed and 

 much machinery damaged. Work of firemen was impeded by the heavy 

 bars that protected the doors to the stockroom. The plant will he closed 

 Indefinitely while repairs are made. Frank Barber, clerk of Delaware 

 county, is president of the company and the principal stockholder. The 

 loss is covered by insurance. 



LOUISVILLE 



M. S. Shadburne of the Louisville division. Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 Association, left Louisville on June 3 to attend the Shrlners' meeting on 

 the Coast, having arranged his vacation this .vear so as to take in the 

 coast trip. 



With a capital of $.S.000 and a debit limit of $23,000, tlie Cedar Supply 



