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sible for the present stand-stili in exports to those countries. Lumber 

 manufacturers of this country who raised the prices of their wood as 

 the demand increased are, in a way, also responsible for this condition. 

 The continuance of these methods will seriously endanger their own busi- 

 ness. They will be cutting their own throats. 



"The decrease in freight rates and the improvement in exchanges were 

 responsible for the past increased demand for our lumber. The gi"eatest 

 demand has been for hardwoods, especially oak. With the inevitable 

 future resumption of demand for our woods I believe that the hardwoods 

 will again be at a premium. 



"Our foreign buyers believe that there will be a very noticeable decrease 

 in the prices of our lumber in the near future. There is a tendency over 

 there to expect a return of wood prices to the pre-war normal. This can 

 never be for the same reasons that apply to any other commodity on the 

 market. I believe that lumber prices will remain stationary for the pres-. 

 ent, but that in the future there will be a tendency towards higher prices. 



"I would like to advise United States lumber manufacturers against 

 sending consignment shipments," concluded Mr. Ilervey. "If they do so 

 they will be courting trouble for themselves." 



BUFFALO 



The semi-annual exposition of the furniture niauufacturcrs will be held at 

 Jamestown, X. Y., during the two weeks from November 7 to 15 and a 

 good deal of interest is expected to be shown. 



A number of cities and towns in Western New York, including. Buffalo, 

 are carrying out plans for the erection of public school buildings, and the 

 aggregate cost will run into the millions. Buffalo alone will put up school 

 buildings costing several millions. 



Justice Sears in Supreme Court has been calleil upon to give a decision 

 which is of much importance to the importers of hardwoods. The question 

 is whether the Philippines are to be considered commercially as a part of 

 the United States or as foreign territory. The New York Central railroad 

 has brought an action against the Warren Ross Lumber Company. Falconer 

 Junction, N. Y., over a shipment of Philippine mahogany. The amount 

 involved is only $510. but the railroad claims that higher rates apply to 

 such lumber than that from some other countries. It was argued by the 

 defendants that the lumber should he considered a native product, inas- 

 much as the islands are a political part of the nation. 



The Standard Hardwood Lumber Company has 3.000,0f(u feet of dry 

 lumber at its southern mills, which it will itring fdrward to Buffalo. 

 President R. F. Kreinheder has gone south to look over this Inmher and 

 visit some of the mills in that section. 



Railroad representatives have been canvassing some of the lumber con- 

 cerns lately to learn what the probable effect of a reduction in freight rates 

 would be. They have discovered that a good deal of long-haul lumber 

 trade, including that in hardwoods, is being lost by the present abnormal 

 rates, and that nearby lumber is being sought for because it can be landed 

 here cheaper. This has caused a lot of substitution among c(insuraers. who 

 have given up temporarily at least the use of woods which they formerly 

 thought they must have. The Pacific Coast has been particulnrly hit. it is 

 said, by the stiff rates. 



BALTIMORE 



'JHie Williamson-Kirk Veneer Company, which was incorporatetl recently 

 under the laws of Maryland to manufacture veneers, is authorized to have 

 a capital stock of 1.000 shares of common of no par value and 1,000 shares 

 of preferre<i of a par value of $100, and has acquired as a factory a struc- 

 ture at Texas, Md.. which was formerly used as a munitions plant. Opera- 

 tions have been under way of late, l)ut will be expanded. 



M. S. Baer of the hardwood firm of Richard r. Haer & Co.. this city, has 

 been on a trip of about two weeks down South visitiuK the sawmill of the 

 Magazine Hardwood Lumber Company at Mobile. Ala., ami that of the 

 Baer-Thayer Company at Bogalusa. La., two affiliated corporations. The 

 plant at Mobile resumed operations not long ago and the one at Bogalusa 

 was started up on November 1. as stocks of lumber held by the firm had 

 got down to such small proportions by numerous shipments that additions 

 have become desirable. Mr. Baer was accompanied on the trip by Alan 

 Dill of Lewis Dill & Co., who desired to look over the southern field. 



The State Board of Prison ContrqJ has sold to Philip Dennis and Thomas 

 X. Purnell, trading as the Jessup Lumber Company, the timber on 22.') 

 acres of land between the House of Correction and Annapolis Junction, 

 about fifteen miles from Baltimore, for ?2,000, and the purchasers will 

 manufacture the timber into lumber. 



Some 3,000 crossties of the Pennsylvania railroad at Fourteenth street 

 and near Sixth avenue, in the eastern suburbs of Baltimore, were burne<l 

 October 21. 



AmoBg the visiting lumbermen here last week was Mr. Brewster of the 

 Sun Lumber Company of Weston. W. Va., who called on various members 

 of the trade. 



COLUMBUS 



W. H. Schneider of Canton is building a new up-to-date mill directly 

 across the street from the main yard. 



W. A. Slatter, manager and principal owner of the Columbus Woodwork- 

 ing Company, will soon have the new mill on Leonard avenue completed. 



Machinery will soon be installed and it is expected to have it in operation 

 by the first of the year. The new mill will increase the facilities almost 

 threefold. The present mill at the East end of Long street will be aban- 

 doned at that time. The new plant consists of two sheds each 400 feet 

 long and a factory 60 by 80 feet. 



The George B. Adams Lumber Company of Dresden, O.. recently sus- 

 tained a loss of approximately $10,000 by fire. A warehou.se and 25.000 

 feet of finished lumber were destroyed. 



The John R. Gobey Liimber Company has placed Van Gardner on the 

 territory in central and northern Ohio which was covered by the late 

 William G. Emrich for more than twenty years. 



E. M. Stark, vice-president and treasurer of the American Column & 

 Lumber Company, reports a decided improvement in the hardwood trade. 

 There is a growing scarcity of the better grades of oak. i)oplar and chestnut. 

 Prices are advancing all along the line and ever.vone appears more 

 optimistic. 



F. B. Pryor, sales manager of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company, 

 announces that orders have gone out from headquarters to put all of the 

 company's mills on full time production. The concern has been operating 

 on a 40 per cent basis for some time. The company has mills in Virginia, 

 West Virginia and North Carolina. 



CINCINNATI 



The Appalachian Logging (.'ongress will hold its I'.tli'J spring meeting 

 in this city. The date for the convention has not been definitely decided 

 upon. Because of the cordial reception given delegates at the convention 

 of the congress here last spring, members of the association at Knoxville, 

 Tenn.. recently voted to return here in 1922. 



William J. Afsprung, general manager of the Bay Poplar Lumber Com- 

 pany, died of heart trnuhle while waiting for a street car with his two 

 sisters, just after returning to this city from a southern business trip. 

 Mr. Afsprung, who was sixty years old, had been in failing health for the 

 past two years. 



Proceedings in bankruptcy have been entered against the Probst Lum- 

 ber Company, who until two months ago had offices in the Second National 

 Bank Building, The creditors are Charles H. Sevick, Omaha, Neb.. Hazard 

 & Strickland of Ripley, Miss., and C. B. Colburn of Memphis, Tenn.. and 

 they say that the lumber company has made preference transfers of its 

 property to Joseph Ferguson of Little Rock, Ark., an<l to the Missouri 

 State IJfe Insurance <'ompany, St. Louis, Mo. W. S. Probst is president 

 of the lumtier ccmipany which was organized on January 1, 1915. by taking 

 over the Cincinnati l)ranch of the Prendergast Lumber Company, Mari- 

 etta. O. 



The Central Lumber Traffic Association, with offices in the Greenwood 

 Building, discontinued its operations on Nov, 1. The association was 

 organized early this year with a membership embracing lumbermen in 

 Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia. Tennessee and Virginia. William Lock- 

 wood, general manager has assumed an executive position with the 

 Buskirk-Heyser Lumber Company of this city. 



John W. <;oodspeed, treasurer of the American Box Board Company. 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., and Miss Madeline Famian, also of that city, were 

 married in Cincinnati recently. Mr. Goodspeed is 62 years old and his 

 bride 20. They motored to this city for the wedding. 



Roy Thompson, president of the Thompson Hardwood Company, has 

 returned from a three weeks' Imsiness trip in the South, where, he said, 

 a majority of the circular sawmills in the Mississippi Delta region are 

 closed down and probably will not resume operations until spring. 



Horace Pixon. export manager of the M. B. Ferrin Lumber Company, 

 lost his six-year-old son. ILirace, Jr., who was drowned when a raft on 

 which he and another boy were floating sank in a pond near the Dixon 

 home in Norwood. Mr. Dixon and his family moved here recently from 

 East Orange, N. J. 



Harry Freiberg, of the Freiberg Mahogany Company, who has just 

 returned from the company's mill at Harahan. La., said that there has 

 been a noticeable increase in the volume of orders for export trade, during 

 the past two weeks. 



Fire damaged the plant of Cramer & Brown, toy manufacturers In the 

 Nevada Buibling t<> the extent of $20,000. The fire started in the store- 

 room on the sixth floor where several thousands of dollars worth of 

 finished toys were awaiting shipment. The loss is covered by insurance. 



EVANSVILLE 



Gus Bauman, of the Malcy & Wertz Limiljor Conipany, returned a few 

 days ago from a trip through the south and reported upon his return that 

 business conditions are getting rapidly better and that he looks for the 

 volume of business during the next six months to be larger than for the 

 six months previous. 



Tie manufacturers and dealers of this city are looking for a big volume 

 of trade during the next year, as they feel like the railroads are going 

 to eQ^er upon a campaign of improvements. "The plant of the Indiana 

 Tie Company in this city is an active place and the company now has 

 enough work on hand to keep its force busy for several months to come. 

 A great many ties are being sent here by various railroads to be chem- 

 ically treated by the local plant. 

 The Evansville Sash and Door Company a few days ago purchased 



