March 25, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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W. Tickle of the well-known Liverpool. England, firm of Tiokle, Bell & Co. 

 Mr. Tickle on leaving Chicago worked east toward the Atlantic coast and 

 anticipates sailing for home early in April. 



The National Implement and Vehicle Association announces it has 

 moved to its new address, 72 W. Adams street, suite 900-900. 



R. J. Lockwood of the Memphis Hardwood Flooring Company. Memphis, 

 Tenn.. and president of the Oak Flooring Manufacturers' Association, has 

 made two trips to Chicago within the last two weeks. On his second trip 

 he brought Mrs. Lockwood with him. Mr. Lockwood is putting all kinds 

 of pep into the administration of his new duties a.s president of the floor- 

 ing association and definite results may be expected from his work. 



A. M. Richardson of the A. M. Richardson Lumber Company. Helena, 

 Ark., made two hurried business trips to Chicago during the last couple 

 of weeks. Mr. Richardson said things are going along splendidly with 

 them and anticipates very active development of buying demand. 



"Bill" Wheeler of the Wheeler Lumber Company, Marshfield, Wis., was 

 in town a few days ago on one of his rather frequent visits to the center 

 of lumber consumption. Mr. Wheeler seemed fairly happy over his lot as 

 a lumberman in spite of an earnest discussion he had with Bob Lockwood 

 of the Memphis Hardwood Flooring Company as to the average lumber- 

 man's right to live in view of the meager proportionate results he gets 

 out of the time and investment he puts into his lumber business. 



Sam A. Thompson, manager of the lumber department of the Anderson- 

 Tully Company, Memphis, was one of the delegates to the National Whole- 

 sale Lumber Dealers' Association convention at Philadelphia last week. 

 Mr. Thompson passed through Chicago both going and coming, and ex- 

 pressed himself as pretty well pleased with the developments in hardwood 

 buying. 



W. T. Culver of the Stearns Salt & Lumber Company. Ludington, Mich., 

 and various other hardwood interests in the North and South, was in 

 Chicago a few days ago attending a meeting of salt producers. Mr. Culver 

 has just issued the announcement that the famous lumber interests of the 

 Stearns company of Ludington are lieing closed out there and henceforth 

 the northern hardwood lumber department will be concentrated on the two 

 big operations, the Stearns & Culver Lumber Company. L'Anse, Mich., 

 and the Consolidated Lumber Company. Manistique. Mich. 



V. L. Clarke, president of the Des Moines Saw Mill Company, Des 

 Moines, Iowa, spent several days in and around Chicago last week. Mr. 

 Clarke seems to feel that prospects are good for the continued expansion 

 of public demand for walnut and walnut goods. 



F. E. Latimer of the Foster -Latimer Lumber Company, Mellen, Wis.. 

 was in Chicago for a few days last week. 



Arthur F. Moul, who has been connected with the wood section of the 

 Navy Department at Philadelphia, primarily under naval aviation, and 

 who shortly will be associated wnth his father in the Hanover Bending 

 Works, Hanover, Pa., passed through Chicago last week on his way home 

 from a conference with oflScials of the Forest Products Laboratory at 

 Madison. Wis. Mr. Moul is making an exhaustive study of cost methods 

 and intends to institute a very thorough cost system on taking up his 

 new duties at Hanover. 



J. H. Walsh of the Chicago firm of Upham & Walsh, Inc., successors to 

 Cpham & Agler, is looking for advice. Mr. Walsh has long had a hope 

 of some day tacking up a shingle "Walsh & Son," whereas last week he 

 was presented with his fourth daughter. There is no doubt about his 

 being tickled to death with his growing family, but Mr. Walsh asks if it 

 wouldn't be strange to put up a sign "Walsh & Daughter." We might 

 suggest to him that he use the following as the ultimate style of his lum- 

 ber activities : "The Misses Walsh &. Father." 



It is a toss up between E. W. Meeker, our honorable managing editor, 

 and Mr. Walsh, above mentioned, as to which one has claim to be the 

 proudest father in the land. Mr. Meeker's daughter is just a few weeks 

 old, having landed in Chicago on March sixth. If she develops into an 

 obedient child, she will answer to the name of Martha Eugenie. 



George F. Kerns of the George F. Kerns Lumber Company, city, was 

 one of the delegates to the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associa- 

 tion convention, spending most of the week at Philadelphia and having re- 

 turned for the week-end. 



C. B. Dudley of the Dudley Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn., came 

 through Chicago this week on his way home from the wholesalers* con- 

 vention at Philadelphia. 



The Fox Hardwood Lumber Company has been incorporated at Centralia, 

 III., with a capital of $40,000. 



J. D. Andrews, secretary and treasurer of the Andrews Lumber & Mill 

 Company, died recently. 



H. J. Carney & Co. recently began business at 23rd and Laflln streets, 

 Chicago, handling hardwood lumber. 



The Victory Cabinet Company has been incorporated at Chicago. 



MEMPHIS 



R. J. Wiggs, president of the Darnell-Love Lumber Company, Leiand, 

 Miss., was a recent visitor in Memphis and reported that logging opera- 

 tions in his territory are exceedingly small as a result of the heavy rains 

 that occurred therein a few days ago. He also reports the market as 

 showing substantial improvement. 



R. M. DuBose, vice-president of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, 

 Charleston, Miss., is another Memphis visitor who reports conditions 



ns showing substantial improvement from the standpoint of increase In 

 demand and volume of business. Mr. DuBose says the plant of the com- 

 pany is operating steadily and that the percentage of Increase in ship- 

 ments is quite large. He is accompanied here by George Land, traffic 

 manager for this company. 



F. R. Gadd. manager of statistics for the .\merican Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association, is in Washington. He accompanied the delegation 

 of five members appointed by President Carrier to participate in the con- 

 ference between the industrial board recently named by Secretary Redfield, 

 of the Department of Commerce, and representatives of the lumber indus- 

 try for the purpose of stabilizing prices on lumber and other basic mate- 

 rials entering into building operations. The gentlemen representing the 

 association are : M. W. Stark, St. .\lbans, W. Va. : R. L. Jurden, Mem- 

 phis, Tenu. ; .Tames E. Stark, Memphis, Tenn. ; W. E. DeLaney, Lexington, 

 Ky.. and T. M. Brown, Louisville, Ky. The association feels that, in view 

 of the fact that lumber has advanced only 52 per cent over pre-war prices 

 as against an advance of something like 150 to 200 per cent in steel, 

 cement, iron and other basic materials, the lumber manufacturers of the 

 country have everything to gain and nothing to lose by the stabilization 

 plans outlined by Secretary Redfleld. They anticipate that the outcome 

 of the stabilization proceedings will be a material increase in demand for 

 lumber for the building trades as well as for industrial activities generally 

 because, in their opinion, such proceedings will remove the uncertainty 

 about prices now in the public mind and will start the wheels of industry 

 turning again in a wholly new way. 



The Memphis Corporation, with a capital stock of $50,000, has been 

 formed to purchase a portion of the assets of the Memphis Lumber Com- 

 pany which went into the hands of a receiver July 1, 1918, for the benefit 

 of its creditors. The yards and stock of lumber here have been acquired 

 and a general retail lumber business will be conducted under the manage- 

 ment of V. R. Smith, who was trustee of the old company. John W. 

 McCIure, Bellgrade Lumber Company, is president : Frank F. Hill, head 

 of the Vnion & Planters Bank & Tm.st Company, is vice-president, and 

 R. S. Polk, also identified with the Union & Planters, is secretary-treasurer. 

 W. H. Perkins, former manager of the Wyatt Lumber Company, Gandi, 

 Iowa, has been placed in charge of the Bradley Lumber Company at War- 

 ren, .\rk., according to announcement made by the hardwood department 

 of the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company at Memphis. The Bradley Lum- 

 ber Company is one of the producing firms identified with the Chicago 

 Lumber & Coal Company. 



"Alluvial Empire News", the organ of the Southern Alluvial Land Asso- 

 ciation, is the latest publication to make its appearance in Memphis. It 

 will be issued monthly and will contain the latest news of developments 

 in the southern alluvial region of the lower Mississippi Valley. The first 

 issue appeared here last week. It is edited by F. D. Beneke, the expe- 

 rienced newspaper man who recently succeeded F. E. Stonebraker as sec- 

 retary of the association, and it promises to be bright, newsy and attrac- 

 tive as well as an excellent medium of news regarding one of the coming 

 regions of the United States. 



Miss G. Gwinner is the new salesmanager of the Chisca Lumber Com- 

 pany. She succeeds Charles T. McManus and is in entire charge of the 

 Memphis offices of the firm in the Randolph building. Miss Gwinner has 

 been a "lumberman" for the last twelve years, having been formerly treas- 

 urer of the L. D. Murrelle Lumber Company. She is therefore not in the 

 least abashed over her new duties which involve, among other things, the 

 sale of the output of mills at Pace, Cleveland and Josephine, Miss. 



J. H. Townshend. secretary-manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 -Association, is quite ill at his home on Carr avenue and fear is entertained 

 that he is suffering from typhoid fever. Mrs. Townshend is also ill from 

 the same malady. 



Demand for hardwood lumber is steadily increasing throughout the 

 southern hardwood field and the volume of business is expanding daily. 

 Some members of the trade complain of irregularity in the flow of orders 

 but all agree that good days are coming much closer together and that the 

 number of bad ones are getting further and further apart. They all agree, 

 too, that inquiries are coming in sufficientl.v rapidly to suggest further 

 material expansion in buying in the near future. In the meantime, pro- 

 duction of hardwood lumber is exceptionally limited. Logging operations 

 are smaller than they have been for years at this date and there is so 

 much water in the lowlands that prospects are not at all favorable for 

 any increase in the quantity of timber coming out. The mills are con- 

 fronted with the greatest log shortage in fifteen years and they are forced 

 to operate intermittently at best. Every effort is being made to over- 

 come the log shortage but with indifferent success. The heavy rains of 

 the 15th, 16th and 17th, which extended all over the lower Mississippi 

 valley, put the woods in such condition that logging is almost at a stand- 

 still. The Mississippi river at Memphis is rising and indications are that 

 it will go to a stage of thirty-seven feet from the water now In sight. 

 With lumber sales increasing, with shipments growing larger and with 

 production decreasing instead of increasing, stocks are getting lower every 

 day. The situation is regarded by members of the trade as exceptionally 

 strong and there is a disposition among hardwood lumber interests here 

 to anticipate higher prices. Firmness characterizes practically all lum- 

 bermen and this is based on two conditions: (1) Knowledge that mill 

 stocks are already sharply below normal and decreasing further every 

 day, and (2) belief that, as soon as the peace treaty is signed, there will 

 be a rush for lumber without precedent in recent years. Lumber mano- 



