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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 25. 19J 



Miss M. E. McCafferty 



Woman Makes Good as Hardwood Executive 



The exi cutive ptTsonnel of the lumber busi- 

 ness has always been confined about as exclu- 

 sively to "He-Men" as any business in the 

 world, therefore, when a woman succeeds in 

 r, 'aching an executive position in this business 

 she must have real ability. Miss M. E. McCaf- 

 ferty. secr-tary-sales manag'T of the Philip A. 

 Ryan Lumbrr Company. Lufkin, Texas, is one 

 of the few women in the business who has 

 drmonstrated this special ability. She possesses 

 a very pronounced talent for business, having 

 initiative and alertness, besides a thorough 

 knowledge of the lumber business which she has 

 acquired by several years' experience. With 

 thes" qualifications to sustain a most charming 

 personalty, she is making good in a field that 

 is r<'markable for keenness of competition. Miss 

 McCnffi rty was employed in the Memphis, 

 Tenn.. office of the Philip A. Ryan Lumber Com- 

 pany for about a year, when it was decided to 

 discontinue that office. Then she was trans- 

 f rr d to Lufkin and made sales manager. Prior 

 to h r employment by the Philip A. Ryan Com- 

 pany, yiss McC-ifferty had several years' experi- 

 ence W'th other lumber concerns. Miss McCaf- 

 ferty ■ « s-JIled in th ' fine art of salesmanship 

 and knows hardwood lumber from the tree to tie f-u tory of the con- 

 sumer. She is as well posted on the grades and spi cies of Texas hard- 

 woods as the most expert. 



New Gayoso Mill Begins Sawing 



The Gayoso Lumber Company announces that its band mill at Grenada. 

 Miss., which was removed from Blaine. Miss., to that point, was placed 

 in operation Monday morning, August 21, with a good supply of logs 

 brought in over its own standard gauged road, 13 miles in length, which 

 has been under construction for some time. The plant, which is equipped 

 with a s«'ven-foot band saw and a re-saw, has a daily capacity of approxi- 

 mately 50.000 feet. A powerful derrick, entirely new, has been installed 

 and the company will be able to store as many as 1,500,000 feet of logs 

 on its site at one time. It owns 8.500 acres of hardwood timber lands in 

 the vicinity of Grenada, purchased in 1920, and about sixty per cent of 

 the timber is red and white oak. The remainder is gum, ash and other 

 southern hardwoods. The mill has been constructed under the personal 

 supervision of Charles R. Ransom. Removal from Blaine was made because 

 of the exhaustion of the firm's timber holdings in the vicinity of that town. 



The Gayoso Lumber Company also operates a big band mill in New 

 South Memphis, which is supplied with logs from its timber holdings in 

 the St. Francis valley in eastern Arkansas. 



Schleyer Will Organize New Company 



W. H. Schleyer. who recently disposed of his interi-sts in the Kosse. 

 Shoe & Schleyer Co., Cincinnati, O., and who has been taking a much 

 needed vacation at his old home in Circleville, O.. is arranging to organize 

 another lumber company to handle a general line of hardwoods. He expects 

 to have his company in operation by the first of October. 



Hardwood News Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The capital stock of the Dickerson Lumber Company at Huntington, 

 W. Va., has been increased to $20,000. 



W. C. Devore of Danville, 111., has l)een succeeded by the Piorson-HoUo- 

 well Hardwood Company with headquarters at Indianapolis. Ind. 



The business heretofore conducted by W. Rexford Brown at Newport. 

 Ark., is now operatid by the GoSE & Brown Lunibr'r Company. 



The Bennett-Hooper Lumber Company of Memphis has moved to 

 McKamie, Ark. 



The Trevlac Band Saw Mill Company has been incorporated at Indian- 

 apolis, Ind. 



BUFFALO 



Fire destroyed the plant of the Fallsburgh Lumber Co., located in the 

 town of that name in Sullivan county. New York, August 12, with a loss 

 estimated at $50,000. The cause of the fire has not been determined. 



Fire of unknown origin did damage estimated at $100,000 on August 



1(1 to the door plant of thi- A. Tfaehout Co., 52 Leslie street. The company 

 has had a branch heri* for a number of years, with Milton C. Bronek as 

 manager, the main plant being in Cleveland. A large stock of doors and 

 sash was destroyed and the building and site flooded. Several million feet 

 of lumber in the yard of Henry E. Mallue & Bro. adjoiniaig was saved. 



Richard S. Davis, representative of the Atlantic Lumber Co. in Wisconsin 

 and Michigan, with headquarters at Wausau, Wis., is spending several 

 weeks at the company's office and yard here. He will be married in this 

 city in September. 



William A. Perrin, of Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling, has retunued from 

 ;i month at his farm at Conesus Lake. 



PHILADELPHIA 



Application to the State for incorporation papers has been made by the 

 Expanded Wood Lath Corporation of Delaware. The statement of claim 

 asserts that the capitalization is .?285.000, Those signing the papers are : 

 F. R. Bogart, M. A. Bruce and C. H. Blaske, all of Wilmington, 



It is understood that considerable of the first mortgage 6 percent sinking 

 fund gold bonds of the Long-Bell Lumber Company are being sold in this 

 city. Halsey. Stuart & Co. is handling the issue of $9,000,000. 



The Cramp Shipyards, one of the largest users of hardwoods in the 

 East, reports excellent business. Three thousand additional hands have 

 been put to work and sufficient contracts have been obtained to keep the 

 plant in operation for more than two years. 



BALTIMORE 



Rny H. Jones, assistant chief of the lumber division of the Bureau of 

 Foreign and Domestic Commerce at Washington, came over to Baltimore 

 a week ago to confer with President D. D. Hartlove, of the National 

 Lumber Exporters' Association, and Secretary Harvey M. Dickson, in 

 regard to any possible improvement in the system of keeping lumber export 

 statistics. Mr. Jones desired to get the ideas of the two officials as to 

 the wishes of exporters generally, in order that the method in use might 

 be improved, so as to be of the greatest possible service to the trade. 

 Various fcaturi s of the compilations now sent out were discussed. 



Frank L. Heim, of Richard P. Baer & Co., has gone to Mobile to look 

 after the operation of the Magazine Hardwood Lumber Company's mill 

 there, while th*' manager. A. O. Thayer, is on his vacation in the North. 

 Mr. Thayer usually spends about six weeks every summer up in Maine, 

 and it is during this time that Mr. Heim acts as a substitute. 



Among the visiting lumbermen in Baltimore during the last week or ten 

 days was E. N. Stanforth. of the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company of Cin- 

 cinnati, O., who was on a trip through the Eastern sectioa;. He reported 

 that business is good, with his company's mill being in full operation. In 

 one morning orders for not less than nine cars were booked. Some trouble, 

 howevtr, was being experienced with shipments because of the railroad 

 strike. 



A white oak tree, believed to be at least 300 years old, on the farm of 

 Levi Maus Miller, in Adams county. Pennsylvania, has just been inspected 

 by J. S. Illick and Thomas Harbeson, of the State Department of Forestry, 

 The tree is thought to be the largest white oak in southern part of the 

 State. It measures 21 feet inches around eighteen inches from the 

 grouoid. has a branch spread of more than 116 feet and is 9S feet high. It 

 has been in the possession of the Miller family for four generations. 



Information comes from Pittsburgh that the Babcock Lumber Company 

 of that city has given orders for its big saw mill at Davis, W. Va., to 

 resume operation at full capacity. The plant had been shut down since 

 September, 1921. The hardwood situation is regarded by the Babcock 

 Company as so much improved as to justify the running of the plant, 

 which is one of the largest in that section. 



C. A. Weis. president of the Weis-Patterson Lumber Company, Inc., 

 large producer of cypress at Pensacola, Fla., stopped in Baltimore, Md., in 

 the course of an eastern trip and saw some of the hardwood men. It was 

 his intention to spend a week or two at Asheville, N. C, before returning, 

 as he felt that he needed a vacation. 



Still another caller was L. R. F. Perisz. of the Raines-Andrew Lumber 

 Company of Evenwood. W. Va., who also had something good to say for 

 the trade, handicapped though it is by the railroad and coal strikes. 



The Woodmere Lumber Company has been incorporated under the laws 

 of .Maryland with a capital stock of $200,000 by Enos S. Stockbridge. 

 Roland H. Brady and William Lentz. These men. however, are merely 

 acting for the interi:'Sts represented in the corporation. 



CINCINNATI 



The J. C. West Lumber Co. has opened a branch office in the Broadway 

 Market building, Detroit, Mich. P. D. Bailey, formerly connected with 

 the Kichey, Halstead & Quick Lumber Co., and the Eakin Lumber Co., Iq^ 

 manager of the oflBce. ■ 



Owing to the fact that Septc mber 4 falls on Labor Day, the first meet- 

 ing of the fall session of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Club has been post- 



