November 2.".. 1!IL>1 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Cincinnati Plans to Welcome Exporters 



More than 100 exporters are expeeted to attend a two days' convention 

 of the National Liiiiilier Exporters' Assoeiatlon, which will he held in Cin- 

 cinnati at the Hotel Sinton on January 25 and 20. Arrangements for the 

 meeting are being prepared by a committee consisting ot J. J. Linehan, 

 sales manager of the Jlowbray & Robinson Lumber Company ; W. J. Bck- 

 man, vice-president of the M. B. Farrin Lumber Company, and K. Barber 

 of the Howard & Barber Lumber Company, all of that city. 



Memphis Club President Speaks on Revenue Law 



J. 11. nines, president, made a strong appeal to members ot the 

 Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, at the regular semi-monthly meeting at 

 the Hotel Gayoso. Saturday afternoon. Nov. 12, for prompt and positive 

 action in connection with the tax legislation now pending before Con- 

 gress. He thought that, since business men everywhere are vitally in- 

 terested in the income and excess profits taxes they have to pay, they 

 should make themselves heard while this legislation is in the making 

 rather than after it is completetl. He favored adoption of resolutions 

 setting forth the views of the club and sending copies ot such resolutions 

 not only to senators and representatives in congress from Southern 

 states but also to other business organizations, with the request that 

 they take similar action. The subject is now before the resolutions com- 

 mittee and it is not improbable that proper action will be taken before 

 the next regular meeting of the club despite the fact that Mr. Hines 

 failed to draw the response he felt the iinportance of the question should 

 command. 



Geo. C. Ehemann, chairman of the law and insurance committee, an- 

 nounced that George R. Christie, general manager of the Lumbermen's 

 Reciprocal Association, Houston, Tex., would address the club Saturday, 

 Nov. 26, on "Reciprocal Insurance." This is a subject in which lum- 

 bermen of Memphis are very much interested just now because of the with- 

 drawal of so many of the "old-line" companies from Mississippi as a 

 result of antagonistic tax legislation. A number of members have prac- 

 tically all tile saw mill and timber properties in Mississippi. 



Fleming Brown, teacher of the inspection class ot the club, has re- 

 eigned, according to H. J. M. Jorgensen, and has been succeeded by Mr. 

 Stevens, of the Rush Lumber Company. Mr. Jorgensen so informed the 

 club at this meeting. There are two of these classes in lumber inspec- 

 tion and they are doing excellent work. 



Chris A. Walker, manager of the Memphis offices of the Louisiana Red 

 Cypress Company, was elected an active member. 



Club Inaugurates Trading Hour 



Effective the loth of the present month, the New Orleans Lumbermen's 

 Club has established a regular trading hour from 11 a. m. until 12 noon. 

 The trading hour is proving effective in bringing together a large number 

 of buyers and sellers of lumber at the noon hour ; one of the motives be- 

 hind the directorate in deciding upon this feature of the club's activities 

 as well as the value it has for the members. 



With the Trade 



Fire Damages Box Factory 

 On October 2.3 the Goessling box factory at Blair avenue and Mul- 

 lanphy street, St. Louis, Mo., suffered a Are loss ot about $5,000. Sparks 

 from this fire set blaze to a lumber pile in the Boeckler Lumber Company 

 yard and caused $100 damage. 



White Takes Over Kundtz Plant 



One of the largest hardwood plants in the Cleveland district, the Theo- 

 dor Kundtz Cabinet Works Company, is passing. The company is now 

 operated by the White Sewing Machine Company. The company pro- 

 poses to vacate the property in Lakewood, adjoining suburb, where for 

 the last 25 years the plant has occupied a 37-acre parcel in the heart of 

 a high class residential district. The property has been held by contract 

 though in recent years building ordinances have restricted the develop- 

 ment of adjacent property to housing. The veneer plant and stocks 

 will be moved to the company's central plant in The Flats, at the B. & O. 

 tracks. 



Creditors Buy Mill Equipment 

 Stock and machinery of the t'nited Mill and Lumber Company, Cleve- 

 land, 0., has been bought from the receiver by three leading creditors of 

 that firm. The purchasers are the C. H. Foote Lumber Company, the Whit- 

 mer-Jackson Sash and Door Company and the Great Lakes Sash and Door 

 Company. The move speeds a satisfactory settlement of the Dnited's 

 affairs. 



E. L. Bruce Returns to Memphis for Holidays 



E. L. Bruce, president of the E. L. Bruce Company, manufacturers of 

 high quality oak flooring, who has been residing at the Ambassador Hotel 

 in Los Angeles, returned to Memphis, where the company's general offices 

 are situated, to spend Thanksgiving and the Christmas holidays. 



Mr. Bruce has much to be thankful for on this particular Thanksgiving, 



as his company enjoyed a bu.sy year, both the Memphis and Little Rock. 

 Ark., plants having been running full time and over to keep pace with the 

 orders. Mr. Bruce is well pleased with the results of the year, and is 

 looking forward with confidence to a bigger year to follow. 



Company to Import Tropical Woods 



The Tropical Hardwood ICxport Co., of which Charles B, Nelson is the 

 head, with offices at 511 Canal Coiumercial Bank Building, New Orleans, 

 is to file papers of incorporation within the next few days, it has been 

 announced. The company is to si)ecialize in the importation of tropical 

 hardwoods from the Central American territory, but it will also handle 

 domestic hardwoods and pine lumber for the export trade. 



Griffith Moves to Detroit 



Edwin Griflith, wholesale lumber ilcaler at South Charleston, Ohio, spe- 

 cializing in hardwoods and dimension stocks, has disposed of his interests 

 there and will move to Detroit, Mich., shortly, where he will engage in the 

 lumber business at 303 Woodmere street. Mr. Griffith, who has a large 

 following in the wood consuming industries, was formerly connected with 

 the KeuhlButcher Lumber Company of Detroit, before he engaged in the 

 business for himself at South Charleston. Mr. Griffith also will represent 

 the Farris Hardwood Lumber Company of Nashville, Tenn.. in the Detroit 

 and Ontario territory. 



Cleveland Companies Rebuild 

 The East Cleveland Lumber ('.>mpany and the Lake Erie Lumber & 

 Supply Company of Cleveland, 0., have started to rebuild their plants, 

 damaged by fire some time back. In a few weeks these motlern plants 

 are expecting to be in operation. The Lake Erie suffered $5,000 damage 

 to planing mill and lumber, and the East Cleveland about $100,000 to 

 various buildings and stock. 



York Opens Sales Office 

 The W. H. York Lumber Company, which has recently completed a 

 thoroughly modern band mill at Tuckerman, Ark., has opened sales offices 

 in the Randolph building, Memphis, in charge of J. D. L. Whitaker, a well- 

 known hardwood lumberman of that city. The York interests have recently 

 acquired the holdings of the Graham estate near Tuckerman, estimated 

 to contain at least 50,000,000 feet of hardwood timber. W. H. York is 

 in charge of operations at the new plant and is assisted in the manage- 

 ment of the affairs of the company by his son, William E. York. The 

 former was with the Anderson-Tully Company for some years. 



Foreign Buyers Visit South 



The Southern lumber belt, and more particularly New Orleans, has 

 been favored with two visits of foreign buyers within the past fort- 

 night that should be ot general interest to the trade and, as a result of 

 which, representative hardwood and other lumbermen in and about New 

 Orleans are looking forward to a material bulk of business. One of the 

 visitors were H. T. Grives of Robert Bruce & Co., London, Eng. Mr. 

 Grives called on a large number of the hardwood exporters, sounding 

 out the general trend of the hardwood business on this side of the 

 Atlantic and actually placed quite a few orders, with the prospects that 

 he will place many more later. 



The other visit was by G. M. Gardino and Luigi Gatano of the Gardino 

 Bros., lumber merchants of Genoa, Italy. They, too, spent several da.vs 

 visiting among the leading manufacturers and exporters of the Crescent 

 City and other Southern cities, including Gulfport, Miss., Mobile, Ala., 

 Pensacola, Jacksonville and other places, to ascertain "the lay of the 

 land" in the lumber industry in America. They reported that both 

 American hardwoods and Southern pine are going to he depended upon 

 very materially in the rehabilitation of their war-stricken country, which 

 is now practically denuded of timber resources and whose lumber needs 

 are most appalling. Everywhere the country is desperately in need of 

 more buildings and lumber is needed there for many other purposes, they 

 reported. However, they were not very optimistic over the outlook for 

 their countrj' to buy a great deal of American lumber during the present 

 unsettled condition of the foreign exchange and other troubled and 

 troublesome financial and economic conditions obtaining, not only In 

 Italy, but throughout Europe. But when conditions do loosen up over 

 there, they said, the .American manufacturers and exporters of hardwood 

 and other lumbers, could look out for an unprecedented volume of business. 



Production is being speeded up wherever practicable and as much as 

 possible. Of course, it still remains incomparably below normal, however. 

 The manufacturers of this section already are realizing keenly that even 

 with whatever special efforts they may make toward production before the 

 winter months set in with their logging handicaps they are going to be 

 hard pressed to meet the increasing demand for the better grades of stuff 

 during the winter and spring seasons. With this shortage, however, they 

 are feeling more optimistic on the score ot prices. The principal bulk of 

 the demand Just at present seems to be from the general consuming public, 

 as contradistinguished from any particular big Industrials. The orders are 

 taking their natural course through the retailer, thence through the whole- 

 saler and tlien from the manufacturer, with the result that the wholesale 

 business, which suffered acutely for a time, is faring considerably better 

 now. 



Absolutely no hope Is held out by representative hardwood manufac- 

 turers and wholesalers of the Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas territory 

 for any activity in the market for the lower grades until a drastic reduc- 

 tion and readjustment of railway freight rates shall have been brought 

 about. 



