November 10, 1918 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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house. This rule has made it necessary for a good many families to move 

 from their former quarters. 



The government appears to have got the idea that It is illsely to be 

 misunderstood In the matter of its use of the Erie barge canal. Just now 

 the canai is just as active as the small fleet will permit, but the govern- 

 ment has issued a statement that there is no material at hand now for 

 the building of a larger fleet. At the same time it seems to fear that 

 private shippers would understand that it had monopolized the canal, 

 so a statement has been sent out urging shippers to use the canal as far 

 as they are able, and giving them a permit to make any rate that they can 

 secure tonnage on. 



The real trouble with the canal is that nobody knows what the coming 

 boat Is to be, and it will be necessary to build boats of both wood and 

 metal and of various sizes until the most serviceable one is obtained. As 

 it seems not to be settled whether the canal is to be eight or twelve feet 

 deep, the handicap is seen to be great. What ought to be done is to build 

 barges as large as the depth of the canai will float, and so keep pace with 

 developments. Lumbermen will use it Just as much as the rates and 

 accommodations will permit. 



The pheasant season having arrived, the Buffalo lumbermen have been 

 Improving the opportunity to get a shot at the birds. Among those who 

 have been thus engaged lately are the following : Fred M. Sullivan, Coun- 

 cilman A. W. Krelnheder, City Treasurer I. N. Stewart, C. Walter Betts, 

 Maurice M. Wall and John McLeod. A late trip made by the lumbermen 

 was to the game wilds of Genesee county. 



able tracts of hardwood timber in Greenbrier and adjoining counties In 

 West Virginia and will have a big winter's cut there. 



-< BALTIMORE >= 



=-< PITTSBURGH >= 



H. E. Ast, manager of the Mutual Lumber Company, was down among 

 the hardwood mills in the South last week. He reports general demand 

 somewhat lighter than last month. 



The Acorn Lumber Company has had much better than average luck 

 all the year in keeping in line with live hardwood business, but its officials 

 admit that trade now is falling off considerably. 



Sales Manager H. C. Hermann of the Duquesne Lumber Company reports 

 some reduction in industrial business. The Pittsburgh district does not 

 seem to be contributing as much as the eastern markets to good business. 



The Kendall Lumber Company is diverting practically all Its manu- 

 factured lumber now to government needs. It is shipping considerably, 

 however, on mining orders. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company, according to President Woollett, Is quite 

 of the opinion that gum and Cottonwood are going to be perhaps higher 

 after the first of the year when present large stocks of manufacturers 

 have been worked off. 



The Prampton-Foster Lumber Company last month secured two vain- 



One of the visiting lumbermen at Baltimore In the last two weeks was 

 Edward Barber of the Howard & Barber Lumber Company. Cincinnati, who 

 called on Harvey M. Dickson, secretary of the National Lumber Exporters' 

 Association while here. Mr. Barber came East to get in touch with some 

 of the government officials at Washington concerning questions to which 

 the export situation has given rise, and also to see about some permits 

 for making shipments. He expressed his satisfaction over the beginning 

 of lumbering operations on a tract in Tennessee which the company 

 acquired some time ago and on which it erected a saw mill. The plant, 

 he said, was running regularly, and the output was being prepared for 

 shipment during the winter. The tract contains millions of feet of tim- 

 ber, mostly hardwoods. 



While many members of the lumber trade here became more or less 

 seriously ill during the epidemic of influenza, only one, Alexander Camp- 

 bell, secretary of the James Lumber Company, died. Mr. Campbell, who 

 passed away on October 23 after a short illness of pneumonia, was one 

 of the best known of the younger members of the trade. He was born 37 

 years ago in Baltimore and entered the employ of the N. W. James 

 Lumber Company as a stenographer after leaving school. By intelligent 

 application, industry and sheer ability he rose until he was made secre- 

 tary of the James company. He attended the meetings of the Lumber 

 Exchange regularly, was a member of the Retail Lumbermen's Club, and 

 supported every endeavor to promote the interests of the lumber trade. 

 His demise occasioned deep regret, and the two organizations mentioned 

 adopted resolutions expressive of the great loss sustained by the trade In 

 Mr. Campbell's demise. 



=■< COLUMBUS >- 



Despite the restrictions on building operations during the past month 

 and previous to that time, building operations in Columbus show up pretty 

 well. This is indicated by the report of the Columbus building depart- 

 ment showing 152 permits and a valuation of $216,855 for October, 1918, 

 as compared with 197 permits and a valuation of $286,835 for October, 

 1917. For the first ten months of 1913, the department Issued 1643 per- 

 mits having a valuation of $2,540,980, as compared with 1904 permits and a 

 valuation of $3,495,865 for the corresponding period of 1917. 



F. Everson Powell, secretary of the Powell Lumber & Construction Com- 

 pany, received a telegram from the National Retail Lumber Dealers' Asso- 

 ciation, of which he is a member, that a further modification of building 



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