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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 10. 1919 



sales agency for northprn mills, with Chlc-ago office, left town Wednes- 

 day night for a week's trip to the mills which he will represent. 



John Utloy of the Utiey-Ilolloway Lumber Company, city, says that 

 he believes, according to what ho can Jearn, that Glenn liolloway, as- 

 sociated with him in the company, will be back on the job now inside of 

 a very few weeks, pos.sll)ly by the early part of February. Mr. Holloway 

 is serving as first lieutenant In the Twentieth Engineers, Forestry Regi- 

 ment, and has been in France for the jiast year. 



Charles S. Holt, secretary of the Holt Lumber Company, city, passed 

 away recently. 



The Balkwill & Patch Furniture Company, city, has lost one of its mem- 

 bers through death, as has also the T). 11. Fritts & Co., whose vice-presi- 

 dent, George B. Fritts, died. 



=■< BUFFALO >- 



An event of much interest to linnbcirjieii is the War Exposition being 

 held at the Broadway Auditorium and Klmwood Music Hall from January 

 4 to 12, with a great display of war equipment of all kinds. The ad- 

 vance sale of tickets indicated that this affair would he very largely 

 attended and the lumber yards and offices planned to be there in force. 

 The following members of the lumber trade were appointed members of 

 the committee of business men who co-operated to make the exposition 

 a great success: Fred M. Sullivan, J. K. Wall, Hugh McLean, 0. E. 

 Yeager, W. K. Jackson, H. F. Taylor. W. II. Gratwick, C. W. Hurd, E. J. 

 Sturm and M. S. Tremaine. 



Hugh McLean spent the week prccedin;,- New Year's at his old home at 

 Thurso, Canada. 



Lieut. John H. Wall, who has been stationed at Aberdeen, Wash., In 

 connection with the spruce production division of the army, has returned 

 to this city and resumed work with the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany. 



=-< BALTIMORE >■= 



The attention of the members of the National Lumber Exporters' As- 

 sociation and of all other shippers, is turned to the future in the foreign 

 business, and the question most frequently asked is when the movement 

 to Europe will open up. For the present, those informed as to the situa- 

 tion say, there are important obstacles in the wav, one of them being the 

 lack of tonnage and others are yet to be solved. The steamship men have 

 thrown out feelers and suggested an early prospect of taking consign- 

 ments on the basis of $3.50 per 100. pounds as soon as cargo space be- 

 comes available. But for the present the British government is using 

 all of the ten per cent that is theoretically available for the purpose and 

 other shippers have no chance whatever. Just how long it will take 

 for the steamship lines to be in a position to accept shipments is entirely 

 a matter of speculation. The British government itself is in the market 

 as a seller, having contracted for great quantities of lumber, oak and 

 other woods, which the sudden termination of the war rendered super- 

 fluous. It is estimated that such stocks amount to from 1,'3,000 000 to 

 1., 000,000 feet, some on the other side and some at various points in 

 the United States. Xaturally Ihe British government desires to get rid 

 of Its acquisitions as soon as possible and in pursuance of this aim it is 

 in a position to benefit by various advantages. One of these, of course. 

 IS trade control. 



While the private shippers have a dim prospect of being able to forward 

 stocks on the basis of ,f,S.r,0 per 100 pounds, the British authorities have 

 been able to place their shipments in the home market on a freight rate 

 of approximately $17 per 1.000 feet, a difference so great that the private 

 shipper simply cannot do Inislness. 



Gustave A. Farber, Loudon representative of the Russe & Burgess, 

 Inc of Memphis, Tenn., who has been in the United States for several 

 weeks, sailed last Monday on the Mauretania for England to resume his 

 work on the other side. 



In the annual report of President S. W. Fordyce of the Houston Oil 

 Company of Texas, the stock of which is largely held in this city, there 

 is given information about the damage done to the timber tracts of the 

 company last August by the hurricane. On this subject the report says 

 that It is practically impossible accurately to estimate the damage done 

 cq'oo^.w?V*1'' ""^^ available sources of information, it is believed that 

 h9,^<{2,000 feet of yellow pine and hardwoods have been practically de- 

 stroyed, or, if uninjured, are left subject to grave risk of ultimate de- 

 struction by fires and by the ravages of insects. It remains to be seen 

 to what extent the damage may he offset by salvage, as this question 

 Involves not only legal complications, but also the matter of accessibilitv. 



C. P Rook, sales manager of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company, this 

 city who returned the day before Christmas from a trip south as "far as 

 I-ontana, where his company owns a large sawmill, states that on his 

 way back. December 19. he attended a banquet of furniture manufactur- 

 ers at the Hotel Elwood in High Point, N, C. The members of the or- 

 ganization generally inclined to the view that inasmuch as the furni- 

 ture dealers were either not buying at all or in a very small way, they 

 (the manufacturers) would h,dd back with purchases of lumber, regard- 

 less of price. There is no disposition to haggle over the cost of such 

 stocks of hardwood as may be wanted, but when it comes to buying for 

 ■future requirements the purchasers are disposed to wait, and even at- 

 tractive figures constitute no inducement. 



Notices have been sent out to the trade here that with the end of the 



year (be old firm of Amos Bright & Co., Baltimore and Holliday streets, 



wholesale dealers in hardw Is. oak staves, walnut logs and other forest 



products, ceased to exist, ami that it has been succeeded by the firm of 

 Thos. F. Christopher & Co. Mr. Christopher is the proprietor of the new 

 firm as he was of the old one, Mr. Bright having retired some time in 

 1918. There will be no change in methods or otherwise. 



=-< COLUMBUS >• 



The name of the King Lumber Company, Canton, has been changed to 

 the Walker Lumber Company. 



The authorized capital of the Atlas Lumber Company of Cincinnati 

 has been increased from .$25,000 to $50,000, 



Representative Longworth of Ohio has been promised by Chairman 

 Small of the house committee on rivers and harbors that adequate pro- 

 visions for continuing the improvement in the Ohio river from Pittsburgh 

 to Cairo would be made in the next rivers and harbors bill. For some 

 time the work was held up owing to war necessities. It is planned to 

 have a nine-foot stage the year around between the two named cities. 



I'aul B. Sisson. secretary of the Western Lumber Company, Columbus, 

 who was recently commissioned a first lieutenant of artillery, has been 

 In Columbus over the holidays on a furlough. He will soon be permanently 

 discharged from the service. 



Ben L. Stephens & Company of Toledo has purchased the yard and 

 business of Cotteral & Son at Curtis. 



R. W. Horton of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, reports a quiet 

 trade during the holiday period but that is the usual state of affairs. 

 He says factories are going slow while dealers' stocks are generally 

 pretty fair. Mt^re buying is expected when the semi-annual inventories 

 are completed. 



=-< EVANSVILLE >-= 



Carl Wolflin, son of Charles A. Wolflin, manager of the Wolflin West 

 Side Lumber Company, was here for the holidays visiting his parents, 

 Mr. Wolflin is with the government aircraft production department and 

 has been stationed at Niles. O., for the past several months. 



J. C. Rea, president of the Indiana Cooperage Company, whose large 

 plant in this city was destroyed by fire several months ago", is home from 

 Jackson, Miss., where he spent several months superintending the cut- 

 ting of a large tract of timbered laud that was left him by his late father, 

 Thomas Jefferson Rea of Columbia, Tenn. A large part of the lumber 

 cut from the tract was sold to the government. Mr. Rea says he is un- 

 decided about the rebuilding of his cooperage plant here. 



William H. McCurdy. president of the Hercules Buggy Company, is at 

 the head of the Hercules Mining Company that filed articles of incorpora- 

 tion a few days ago with the secretary of state at Springfield, 111. The 

 capital stock of the company is $200,000. The company will operate flour 

 spar mines in Ilardln county. 111. The principal office of the company 

 will be at Elizabethtown, III. 



A few days ago fire destroyed one of the buildings of the Knight- 

 Brinkerhoff Piano Company at Brazil. 111., the blaze having been caused 

 by the explosion of a tank of gasoline. The loss is about $40,000 with 

 part insurance. The factory will be rebuilt at once, it is announced. 



A. W. Lawson, head of the Lawson Aircraft Corporation of Green Bay. 

 Wis,, was in the city a few days recently interviewing officials of the 

 Chamber of Commerce in regard to locating his plant here. The com- 

 pany is incorporated at $200,000 and Mr. Lawson wants Evansville citi- 

 zens to take $,30,000 worth of the stock in the concern. If they do this 

 he will move his plant here. 



John D. Craft, vice-president of the Hercules Buggy Company, says 

 the new year has started off with much promise for the carriage" manu- 

 facturers of the central west and that they are looking for this year to 

 bring them in a much larger volume of business than last year. 



D. B. MacLaren of the D. B, MacLaren Lumber Company, says the 

 outlook for the hardwood manufacturers for this year is very good and 

 within a short time he expects to see a big improvement in business. 



The tact that the United States government during the recent war 

 with Germany conducted an investigation to find out how much walnut 

 timber is standing in the country developed the fact that there Is con- 

 siderable walnut in southern .Indiana that is uncut. There is quite a 

 lot of it too in southern Illinois and western and central Kentucky. 



-< MEMPHIS >= 



The Lumbermen's Club of Memphis is preparing a memorial tablet which 

 will show the total amount of money invested by lumbermen of Memphis 

 in Liberty bonds and war savings stamps, as well as contributed by them 

 to the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A. and other war work funds during the" period 

 of the war. President McSweyn, acting under a resolution unanimously 

 approved by the board of directors of this organization, has appointed a 

 committee of five to secure the necessary data and make the compilation, 

 F. E. Stonebraker, secretary of the Southern Alluvial Land Association, 

 is chairman. The other members are: S. C. Major, John W. McCIure, 

 W. S. Darnell and George C. Ehemann. 



Speaking of the tablet. President McSweyn said : "This tablet will be 

 fashioned in such manner that it will be a delight to the eye and a record 

 of the participation in general war work by the lumbermen which will 

 undoubtedly be pointed to with great pride as the years go by." 



