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HARDWOOD RECORD 



December 10. 1921 



The Successful Mahogany Manufacturer 

 Must Have an Adequate Log Supply 



ShowiriK our fresh water pond within the Mississippi River at New Orleans, where our 

 steamers discharge their logs after completing a long journey from the tropics. This pond 

 is approximately one-half mile long; has a storage capacity of three to four million 

 feet of Mahogany logs, so that we are always assured of adequate supply: there our choice 

 Mahogany logs arc stored in a most advantageous manner, safe against the river currents 

 and storms, floating freely without chains, ready to go thru our mill. 



This Mahogany pond is the only one of its kind: all other features of our operations have 

 been worked out with equal care. 



with only $S(>9,0ti0 in November, 1020. thus showing a most gratifying 

 gain. 



A new wholesale concern ha.s been organized in Salem. Ohio, with capital 

 of $100,000. which will be known as the Wilhelm Lumber Company. The 

 officers are : J. R. Wilhelm, president ; E. E. Dyball, vice-president ; J. C. 

 Devlne. secretary ; A. M. Wilhelm, treasurer, and W. D. King, general 

 manager. 



The Wheeler & Dusenbury Company has started the manufacture of 

 lumber again on a large scale, near Endeavor, Pa. The company has more 

 than 14,000.000 feet of lumber in stock now in that district. 



The ^lonougahela Lumber Company reports industrial business not yet 

 up to standard by a long way. Manager Herrington of this company says 

 that purchasing agents seem to have definite instructions not to make 

 large purchases or contracts until after the first of the year, or until busi- 

 ness conditions have cleared up somewhat In a big industrial and financial 

 way. 



The hard maple groves of eastern Ohio are being rapidly cut down this 

 year and the lumber sold largely to furniture manufacturers. In addition 

 to the good price which is being received for this lumber farmers are cut- 

 ting this timber, becatase in many cases it is beginning to "go back." Very 

 little maple hardwood timber, except these maple groves, is found in the 

 border counties of eastern Ohio. 



BOSTON 



William E. Litchfield. 60 years old, of 75 Bellevue street, Newton, 

 president of the L, & H. Lumber Co., one of the oldest and best known and 

 most respected wholesale hardwoods men in the East, was killed Saturday, 

 November 19, when struck by a train at the Harrison square station in 

 the suburb of Dorchester. He was connected with many New England lum- 

 ber organizations and was long an authority in the hardwoods field here. 

 He was a member of the Newton Congregational church and a Mason. He 

 is survived by Cordelia Amy Gilbert and four children. His son, George 

 A. Litchfield, after service in the war across, about a year ago opened a 

 hardwoods mill in Indiana. 



BALTIMORE 



The value of forest products of Maryland, according to the Census 

 Bureau at Washington, in 1919 was double that of ten years before. 

 These products, which include fence posts, crossties. pulpwood. sawings. 

 poles, bark, turpentine and rosin, amounted to $4,673,,53G. The area of 



merchantable timber in the State in 1920 on 12,S3.'> farms reporting was 

 30."),7.")S acres. 



Building improvements, additions and alterations made in Baltimore 

 during November amiuuited in value to $1,412,700. against $1,209,000 for 

 October. The largest single item in the report for the Annex was for 

 44 two-story frame dwellings erected at a cost of $175,000. 



The death of Ilufiis K. Goodenow. president of the Canton Box Com- 

 pany, November 2.'>, after a short illness of pneumonia, came as a shock 

 to the lumber trade here, Mr. Ooodenow having been for many years 

 one of the most prominent members. He was 66 years old and a native of 

 Maine, having come to Baltimore as a young man. He had served as 

 president of . the Lumber Exchange and was a member of the Managing 

 Committee at the time of his death, having been renominated. His son, 

 Rufus K. Goodenow. .Tr.. will succeed him in the management of the 

 business. 



S. G. Ashly of the .\tliis Lumber Company of Cincinnati was a visitor 

 in Baltimore recently and saw some of the hardwood men here. 



E. M. Stark of the American Column and Lumber Company, with mill 

 at St. Albans, W. Va., and main office in Columbus, O.. made the rounds of 

 the trade here last week and gave it as his opinion that conditions gen- 

 erally presented a fairly promising aspect. 



The Atlantii' Mill and Lumber Company, on Caroline street dock, has 

 purchased the wharf occupied for many years by Thos. .1. Shryock & Co., 

 on Thames street, at riiilpot. and it is reported will erect shed, bridge, a 

 slip and make other improvements. The price paid is said to have been 

 $100,000. 



The increased interest in .Vmerican hardwoods in the United Kingdom, 

 especially of late, is indicated by the frequency with which representatives 

 of foreign firms are beginning to visit this country. One of the recent 

 callers was Robert Bruce of Robert Bruce & Co. of the well-known Liver- 

 pool firm, who saw some of the shippers in Baltimore and then continued 

 his trip. In the last few days John Pinnlngton of Duncan. Ewing & Co. 

 of London and Liverpool, has been in Baltimore. It is Mr. Pinnington's 

 first American trip, which he is making more to get acquainted with the 

 exporters at various points than with a view to taking up stocks. He 

 conferred here with some of the exporters, and state<l that it was his 

 purpose to make a swing down South as far as New Orleans, coming 

 East by way of Chicago and other points. 



The controlling interest In the lumber business of L. E. Williams & Co. 



at Salisbury, Md., has been acquired by R. G. Evans & Son, of that place, 



the consideration involved being put at $75,000. The Williams firm has 



been active for the last fifty years and owns some three acres of water 



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