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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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With the Trade 



Mallam Resigns Secretaryship 

 Guy II. Mallam, Jr., has resigned as secretar.v of the -New Uileaus Lum- 

 bermen's Club to become associated with his father in the local lumber 

 business. He is succeeded by .1. W. Michel, formerly manager of the 

 Columbia Bo.x Company. 



Grismore-Hyman Sells Three Mills 

 The Grismore-llyman ('iimiiauy, witli iilhres in Memphis, has sold three 

 of its slack cooperage mills in Arkansas, located at Marked Tree, Lepanto 

 and Parkin, to the Algoa Cooperage Company of St. Louis for a considera- 

 tion of approximately $250,000. The selling firm owns other cooperage 

 plants and will continue its cooperage business together with the manu- 

 facture and sale of hardwood lumber. It owns ami operali-s a large hand 

 mill at Parkin, Ark. 



Boehm Returns from Long Tour Abroad 



European countrifs ;i> wt-ll as .Vfrica and Soutli .\merica felt the busi- 

 ness depression far more than the United States, s;iid .\. .1. Boehm. 

 assistant export manager of the Kosse, Shoe & Schleyer Company, who 

 has returned to Cincinnati. O., from a seven months' tour of South America 

 and the eastern hemisphere. 



"The reason for the Ktiropeau countries feeling the effects of the depres- 

 sion was largely due to the unbalanced rate of exchange." ^Ir. Boehm said. 

 "Business conditions in England. France and Belgium are not of an encour- 

 aging nature, but the business men abroad have confiden<*e that trade condi- 

 tions will right themselves within a course of time." 



Mr. Boehm's trip abroad was in the nature of a missionary. Ills main 

 object was to make connections for his company in the principal cities of 

 the countries in Europe, as well as Africa and South America, lie also 

 sought information on the business methods in these countries, in ;id<lition 

 to the prospects for selling .American lumber abroatl. 



Mr. Boehm said that his trip was an enjoyable one. He sailed from 

 Southampton, England to Capetown, in Southern .Vfrica, on a British 

 steamer, and from Capetown to Buenos Ayres, Argentine, on a Japanese 

 liner. He returned to the United States from the .\rgeutine Kepublic on 

 the new ocean liner "American Legion." which broke the rerorrl for speed 

 from New York to Buenos .\yres on its second trip by eighteen hours. 



Dyer Joins General Hardwood Company 

 Herliert E. It.ver has formed a connection with the General Hardwood 

 Lumber Company, Chicago, in the capacity of treasurer, and will look after 

 the purchases and have charge of the office of this corporation commencing 

 Xovemtter 1. Mr. D.ver is a thor<iughly experienced luntiierman. having 

 been for the past several years with the Wm. C. Schreiber lyumber Com- 

 pany, occupying the position of secretary of that corporation, and prior 

 to that with the Herman H. Hettler Lumber Company, both of Chicago. 

 He is also well experienced in traffic ami railroad matters. 



New Million Dollar Loan 



Baker, Fentress & Co.. bankers to lumliermen, Chicago, have loaned 

 $1,000,000 to John E. DuBois Lumber Company of Oregon. 



This loan is secured by ?2. 000, 000 first mortgage notes of the Oregon 

 .\nierican Lumber Company of Oregon, 80 per cent of whose capital stock 

 was recently acquired by Chas. S. Keith, as president, representing the 

 Central Coal & Coke Company of Kansas City, Mo. This ctmipany has 

 undertaken extensive developments of these Oregon properties. Mr. 

 Keith's lumber operations have been very successful. The Central Coal 

 & Coke Company's income for the past thirteen ywirs has totaled 

 S23. 610,68.1, an average of ?1, 200, 000 annually, or approximately ten 

 times the interest charges on the Oregon American Lumber Company's 

 notes. 



The Oregon American Lumber Company notes are secured by a first 

 mortgage on 24.000 acres of timber lands in Oregon, estimated to carry 

 2,.500,000,000 feet of highest grade yellow fir, valued at .<iJ<,T;')0,noo. 

 These properties have transportation facilities connecting with Port- 

 land, Ore. 



The loan rate is 50 cents per thousand feet, and the sinking fund 

 payments requireil are $1.35 per thousand feet, .\11 income from the 

 sinking fund, except the first $200,000 and interest thereon, must be 

 applied to pay the interest and principal of the DuBois $1,000,000 notes. 



The Late D. K. Jeffris 



David K. Jeffris Succumbs to Heart Attack 



David K. Jeftiis. 

 president of the D. K. 

 Jeffris Lumber Com- 

 pany of Chicago, and 

 the Cairo Wood Prod- 

 ucts Company, Cairo. 

 III., died at the Pres- 

 byterian Hospital in 

 Chicago the morning 

 of October 24 at the 

 age of fifty-four. 



Mr. Jeffris hail 

 achieved a conspicu- 

 ous success in the 

 lumher industry and 

 was one of the leaders 

 in Chicago and the 

 northern territory, lie 

 was a native of Wis- 

 consin, having been 

 l>orn in Janesvilie in 

 that state in 1.S67. 

 His first experience in 

 the lumber business 

 was in Janesvilie 

 where, with his father, 

 D. K. Jeffris, he manu- 

 factured sash, doors 

 and millwork and 

 operated a retail lum- 

 l>er yaril. Later he 

 operated a sawmill at 



Jeffris. Wis., and fnun there he went to Kentucky, where be operated the 

 Kentucky Kiver Poplar «_'ompany, with sawmills at Frankfort and Irvine, 

 Ky. Following this he returned to the north and in Chicago organized the 

 Chicago Car Lumber Compan.v, wholesaling and jobbing lumber through 

 this company. This marked the beginning of a considerable broadening 

 of Mr. Jeffris* interests and he participated in a number of lunii)ering and 

 other enterprises in various parts of the country. D. K. Jeffris &. Com- 

 pany, the imnu'diate forerunner* of the present firm, was organized in 

 1000 under that name and so operated until July, 1915, wheu the D. K, 

 Jeffris Couipany was incorporated. Mr. Jeffris organized the Cairo Wood 

 Pnxlucts Company in 101!*, establishing a main yard at ('airo. III., and a 

 branch at Evanston, HI. 'I'he D. K. Jeffris Lumber Company now operates 

 a hardwood mill at Montgomery, Tex., under the name of Montgomery 

 Lumber Company. This mill was estal)lished three years ago. 



Mr. Jeffris" death resulted from heart trouble and came with tragic 

 abniptness, though two years ago he suffered an attack whicit confined 

 him to the Presbyterian Hospital and forced him to take a sea voyage, lie 

 spent six months in Europe and when he returned was apparently well. 

 He suffi-red a recurrence of the attack, however, on Sun<Iay, October 23. 

 and died at 1 ;30 .M<mday morning. The body was taken to the old home in 

 Janesvilie, Wis., where funeral services were conducted with interment 

 at Oak Hill Cemetery. Lumbermen from Chicago and other i)oiDts attended 

 the services. 



The following survive Mr. Jeffris: A widow, one son, Donald II. Jeffris, 

 and two daughters, Mrs. Richard W. Farmer of Highland Park, III., and 

 Mrs. W. E. Clark of Milwaukee. Ills son is vice-president of the two com- 

 panies of which he was the head. 



Dudley-Du Bose Company Formed 

 With a firm conviction that the hardwood luiiibei- l»usiness is now 

 safely on an upward turn ami disregarding talk of "hard times," the 

 Dudley-Du Bose Lumber Co., ini'., has been organized by L. I'. Du Bose, a 

 New Orleans hardwood salesman, and C. B. Dudley of the Dudley Lumber 

 Co., Memphis, and the Creseent City's latest hardwood concern made its 

 debut in business Nov. 1. The company is capitalized at .iiSO.OOO. OflBces 

 are maintained at 1230-1231 new Hibernia Bank building. New Orlean's 

 greatest and newest skyscraper. The new company is launching into 

 the wholesale and export hardwood lumber business, witli emphasis on 

 the latter phase of the business. 



Both of the i)rincipals are widely and favorably known in the southern 

 hardwood lumber business. Mr. Du Bose was for two years manager for 

 the hardwood department of tlie A. J. Uiggins Lumber & Export Co., New 

 Orleans, and was for twelve years the sales manager for the Lamb-Fish 

 Lumber Co.. Charleston. Miss. Slmilarl.v, Mr. Dudley's experience with 

 the hardwood trade in the Memphis territory has been long and com- 

 prehensive. 



O'Connor Joins Landeck Company 

 I... J. Poineroy, manager of the Chicago office of the Landeck Lumber 

 Company, has announced that W. H. O'Connor, formerly vice-pre.sident 

 of Clarency Boyle (Inc.), has severed connection with that firm and 

 joined the Landeck Lumber Company as sales manager, with head<iuarters 

 in Chicago, Mr. O'Connor Is a lumberman of wide experience. He will 

 cover Illinois, Michigan and Imllana territories for his company. 



