October 10. 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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NEW ORLEANS 



The Southwesteru Hardwood Manufacturers' Club will hold its usual 

 monthly meeting at New Orleans Lumbermen's Club on the second Wednes- 

 day of the month, which will be October 11, and officials of the club are 

 urging all members to attend for the consideration of important matters to 

 come before tJiat body for action. 



The recent meeting of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Institute, on Sept. 

 22. at Alexandria, La,, for the southwestern region, was largely attended 

 and evoked much new interest in the institute in these parts and the 

 manifold problems of moment to the trade with which it proposes to deal. 



According to press dispatches from Monroe. La., W. H. Evans and asso- 

 ciates of McGehee, Ark., will construct in the near future a hardwood saw- 

 mill plant at Riverton, about 20 miles from Monroe. A stave plant also is 

 to be operated In connection with the new hardwood sawmill, which will 

 be of the single band type. 



W. A. Capshaw of Elba, Ala., announces that he has recently placed his 

 new hardwood sawmill plant at that place in operation and that he has 

 sufficient timber to keep it running for many years. 



The Southern Hardwood Lumber company, operating a plant at Shrews- 

 bur.v, just across the river from New Orleans, announces the appointment 

 of R. M. Cust as the city sales agent for the hardwood flooring and interior 

 trim products it manufactures. 



A roseate future is the picture painted by Charles R. Currie of the 

 Ruddock-Orleans Cypress and the Southern Hardwood Lumber companies, 

 upon his return to New Orleans, following a trip up North. 



The state of Louisiana is advertising for sale at the court house in Lake 

 Charles. Calcasieu Parish, 13,877.110 feet of choice hardwood stumpage. 

 Two dollars and fifty cents per thousand feet is the minimum price the 

 state has announced it will accept for the hardwoods, all merchantable, 

 and it will give the purchaser or purchasers 15 years in which to remove 

 the timber. 



BUFFALO 



The annual chestnut outing of the Buffalo Lumber Exchange was held 

 at Boston Hills on October 10. An invitation had been extended this 

 year to the retailers to join the wholesalers in the day's outing. The 

 chairman of the outing committee was Fred M. Sullivan. The occasion 

 had its usual baseball game and other sports, besides some appetizing 

 out-door meals. 



Hugh McLean has returned from a three-weeks' hunting and fishing 

 trip to Canada. 



Frank T. Sullivan has gone on a month's business and vacation trip to 

 the Pacific Coast, where he will look over some lumber he has puchased 

 at the Navy Island shipyard. 



The eagerness with which lumber specialists snap up valuable timber 

 is shown by a late transaction here. A western New York farmer had a 

 long row of black walnut trees, some of them thirty inches through. 

 Standing on the south side of a field, they shaded it badly and made it 

 Impossible to raise a crop several rods to the north. He appealed to a 

 lumberman for an offer on the timber and it was immediately made, 

 though the amount to be paid for the lot is to be determined after the 

 "tract" is worked up. 



Fire caused damage of $45,000 to the plant, finished material and lumber 

 of the Auto Wheel Coaster Co., North Tonawanda, on September 25. 



The General Motors Corporation has bought a large factory site on 

 East Delevan avenue, near the Erie Railroad tracks, and will build an 

 assembling plant for the Chevrolet division and a branch plant for the 

 Fisher Body Co. 



An exhibition of Fordson tractors was held the first week of this month 

 at the old Carnival Court grounds on upper Main street. Tractors were 

 shown performing work of various kinds. In one corner of the lot a 

 sawmill was set up, where the logs were carried several hundred feet to 

 be sawed up. Another use of the tractor was in the moving of lumber 

 by a tractor and trailer, and it was stated that thirty trailers are being 

 used to haul lumber in the yards of Buffalo and the Tonawandas. 



The name of the McLean Mahogany & Cedar Co. is to be changed to 

 the Robert D. McLean Co. A meeting to ratify the change was held at 

 the company's office, 590 Ellicott square, on October 6. 



The G. Ellas & Bro. plant received an order last month for 150,000 feet 

 of lumber for immediate delivery and the work was turned out in record- 

 breaking time. The order was received on a Monday at 10 a. m., and the 

 lumber was loaded on cars and half the stock was delivered at Olean the 

 same day. This lumber was taken from yard stock and all had to go 

 through the mill to be worked, 70,000 feet being two-Inch stock dressed 

 and matched. At the same time an order for twelve houses, including the 

 lumber, frames, sash, doors and trim, was being shipped by motor trucks. 

 This complete order, shipped in lots as required, eight to ten loads daily, 

 was completed in eight days. 



CINCINNATI 



Myron G. Johnson, president of the Johnson Doppler Lumber Company, 

 has been appointed trustee in bankruptcy of Milne, Hall & Johns, whole- 

 sale lumber dealers of this city and New York. The company has be- 

 tween 250,000 and 300,000 feet of mixed hardwoods stored In Cincinnati 

 and bids for the lumber will be received by Mr. Johnson. 



Perry V. Shoe, vice-president of the Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer Company, 



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