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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 10. 1112 



Moore Service 



More than eleven hundred mills are operating 

 Moore Dry Kilns every day. One mill alone is 

 drying six hundred thousand feet daily. More 

 lumber is being dried in Moore Kilns than in any other make in the universe. 



There is a deep-seated satisfaction in doing business with an experienced Dry Kiln manu- 

 facturer who knows your practical requirements and is equipped to furnish you promptly 

 what you need and at the right price. 



Our service is available to any plant that thinks their drying methods might be improved 



MOORE DRY KILN COMPANY 



"KILN BUILDERS SINCE m9" 

 JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA NORTH PORTLAND, OREGON 



At the first meeting recently ot creditors of tlie Seymour Cabinet 

 Company's banlsruptcy proceedings in federal court here, W. F. 

 Voss, of Seymour, Ind., the home of the company was named referee. 

 Conflicting claims of first mortgage bondholders to the sum of 

 $99,500, general creditors for the sum of approximately $20,000 and 

 of employes of the company for $4,023 in wages are to be adjusted. 

 Total liabilities are estimated at $142,986 and the value of the plant 

 is estimated at about $50,000. 



While lumber construction of all kinds especially the cheaper 

 construction is looked upon unfavorably by the Indiana Firemen's 

 Association, at the last convention which adjourned here July 22, 

 the main attention of the fire fighters was devoted to the shingle 

 roof. Chief John J. O'Brien ot the Indianapolis department made 

 a speech in which he urged the complete abolishment of the shingle 

 roof and the substitution of roofs of non-inflammable materials. Co- 

 incident with the convention the Indianapolis fire prevention depart- 

 ment had on display at the most prominent street intersection in 

 the city samples of prepared roofing materials as part of the propa- 

 ganda for fire prevention. The exhibit showed on one side of the 

 miniature roof the method of rolling and fire resistant shingles over 

 the wood shingles and the other side sliowed the method of sheeting 

 with fire-resistant material and placing the Are resistant shingles over 

 the new roof. 



In a further effort to increase forest cultivation in Indiana, Charles 

 C. Deam, state forester, has issued a bulletin entitled "Indiana 

 Woodlands and Their Management." which has been mailed to 

 nearly every farmer in the state. The bulletin takes up the history, 

 briefly, of the devastation of the hardwood forests in Indiana and 

 of the aid the state itself is giving farmers to devote at least part 

 of their land toward forest cultivation. Mr. Deam declared the 

 future of the state as a timber producer lay with the farmer. Part 

 of the bulletin is devoted to the care of the woodlot. Only seven 

 per cent of the native forests of the state remain as a result of 

 the exploitation of the timber resources for commercial uses and to 

 provide cleared land for agricultural purposes, according to a recent 

 survey. Mr. Deam calls on every farmer having eighty acres or more 

 at his disposal to put at least .seven to ten per cent of It in forests. 



He calls attention of the farmer to the fact that in the past the 

 dominant idea with agriculturists has been to get more cleared land. 

 The result was a by-product in the nature of timber which furnished 

 fencing, buildings, implements, etc., at the cost of manufacture. 

 Now timber is most as valuable as food, he declares, and where a 

 crop takes a year, the forest takes a generation. 



Thirty joists used in the construction of a school building at Sey- 

 mour, July 26, had been parts of standing trees in a woods near 

 Medora. twenty miles from the building, the day before. Work on 

 the building was held up by a delayed shipment of lumber, among 

 which were the joists, thirty feet long by four by fourteen inches. 

 The contractor gave a rush order to the Swain-Roach Lumber Com- 

 pany at Seymour for the joists. As no logs in the company's yards 

 were long enough, it was necessary to cut the trees and haul them 

 to Seymour on motor trucks. The order was rushed through the 

 mill and a few hours later, carpenters placed the joists in the floors 

 of the building. 



Donald R. Brewster 



Expert Consultant 

 OPERATION OF LUMBER DRY KILNS 



28 Blymer Building. Cincinnati, Ohio 



TRAINING OF KILN OPERATORS A SPECIALTY 



Tlie Hercules Corporation. Evansville. Ind., manufacturers of bug- 

 gies, furniture and gas engines, is arranging to manufacture refrig- 

 erators, according to an announcement by John D. Craft, vice- 

 president and general manager of the company. 



The Charles L. Runyan Company has been organized at Terre 

 Haute, Ind., for the purpose of engaging in the buying of timberlands, 

 tnanufacture of lumbei-, sale of lumber and the manufacture and sale 

 of lumber products. The organizers of the company are Charles L.. 

 Runyan, Marian B. Runyan and Erwin W. Dimmick. 



CINCINNATI 



K. F. Stemmelem, formerly connected with the Sugar Creek Lumber 

 Company at Indianapolis, Ind., and the Richey, Halstead & Quick 

 Lumber Company of this city, has joined the sales force of the 

 Warn-Hamrick Lumber Company. Mr. Stemmelem will call on the 

 lompany's trade in Michigan, Indiana and Illinois. 



Koy E. Thompson. President of the Thompson Hardwood Lumber 

 Company, has motored to Atlantic City with his family, where they 

 will enjoy a month's vacation on the seasliore. 



W. B. Wick, President of the Wick Lumber Company, Hamilton, 

 o.. was in charge of eighty orphans from the Hamilton Children's 

 Home, who picnicked at the Zoological Gardens in Cincinnati recently. 



The Cynthiana Carriage Company, for years located at Cynthiana, 

 Ivy., will move its general offices and main plant to Covington in the 

 near future. At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors, held 

 at Cynthiana, it was decided by a two-thirds majority that the com- 

 pany would locate in Covington. J. W. Leek of Cynthiana is pres- 

 ident and treasurer of the concern, while his brother, W. R. I*eK, 

 is secretary. 



Edward Conant, manufacturer of carriage woodwork in Cincinnati 

 from 1S85 to 1910, died at his fruit farm near Lakeland, Fla., July 

 ■n, according to word received by P. P. Hunter, president of the 

 .\meri<an Carriage Company. The body will be brought to Cincinnati 

 for burial. 



Morris Woodhull, 80 years old, pioneer carriage manufacturer of 

 liayton, O., died at his home at Oakwood near Dayton, August 1. Mr. 

 Woodhull, who was born in New York, was the founder of thi 

 Woodhull Carriage Company which has gone out of business. For 

 twenty years he held various offices in the National Carriage Builders' 

 A.ssmiation, the oldest trade organization in the United States. 



MEMPHIS 



.luhn W. Dickson, president ot the Valley Log Loading Company, an- 

 II uncus that a contract has been closed with the Illinois Central which 

 will permit of main-line loading ot logs between Hernando, Miss., and 

 Memphis. This will be a great convenience to patrons of this line in the 

 lerritory affected. The management of this road barred main-line loading' 

 ^'Miir months ago but it has made an exception in the present instancr 



Tlu' Southern Hardwood TrafBc Association, in a statement issued Jul.* 

 HI, says that the last report it received from the American Railway Assc 

 ' iitiiiii shows that 64,271 oars of lumber were loaded in a single week, tin 

 'li.i-iii'st loading for a similar period since the peak was reached during tin- 

 ' N'sing months of 1919, 65,020 ears. It adds that the loading during the 



I< in question was 13,000 cars greater than In 1921 and 5,000 oars 



iti-r than in 1920. 



riie Patton-Tully Company, an adjunct or subsidiary ot the Andcr- 



'-TuUy Company, manufacturer of hardwood lumber, veneers and 



I shocks, announces that it will place orders in the immediate 



I for several new steel barges with water compartments, 160 by 



in anticipation of a decided increase in the volume of water 



' I rtation. This company was originally formed for the purpose 



■lling logs and lumber for the Anderson-Tully Company but In 



