Jamuiry 10, 1022 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Rib Lake Mill Is Again Operating 



The Rib Liike Lumbei' Coinpiuiy resumed openitious at its mill at Ril) 

 Lake, Wis., on January 4, after ii sluitilowii <it' two months for reimirs. 

 This was the longest sluitilown this mill has had since it was tirst jjut into 

 operation in February, 1917. There are plenty of logs on hand fur a full 

 .A'eai-'s cut 



Watrous Joins Chicago Lumber & Coal Company 

 1). S. Watrous, formerly proprietor of the It. S. Watrous Company of 

 Jlemphi.s, wholesalers of southern hardwood Umiber, joined the Chieaj,'.) 

 laMuber & Coal Company at Memphis as sales manager at the lieginning 

 of the New Year. Mr. Watrous has had a wi<le e-\perieuce in the trade 

 and his acquaintaiiie is large. He was for a long time with the Lansing 

 Company and later with the Chicago Lumber & Coal Company. 



New Wholesale Business Established 



The Charles O. .\Iaus lauaber ('iinipan\' has been ori;ani/.ed at South 

 Kend, Ind., by Charles O. Maus, who for the last nine years lias been re)i. 

 resenting the Hyde Lumber Company of South Bend in Ohio, Mirhigan. 

 Pennsylvania. New York and Ontario. The new company, which will 

 handle the cut of several mills in the South producing gum, oak, elm, ash. 

 tupelo and cypress, began business on .January 2. 



r.esides the southern woods handled the company will also market all of 

 the cut of Edward Clark & Sons, Ltd., of Toronto, Out., handled in the 

 I'nited Stales. This productitpn will consist chiefly of birch, maple and 

 basswood. 



.Mr. Mails' experience extends over twenty-two years, during which he 

 has acquainted himself with all phases of the hardwood hnnber business. 

 He started in the manufacturing end in 1899 with a large ohl riiiladi'lphia 

 Hrin, since gone out of business, for which he was traveling buyer. He 

 remained with tliis firm until 1903 and for ten years after that sold lum- 

 ber on a salary and commission basis for several substantial firms. In 

 1913 he joined the Hyde Lumber Company. Mr. Maus is favorably know-n 

 to a great number of the trade. He is a iirother of Harry H. JIaus, mau\i- 

 facturer and wholesaler of hardwood lumber at South Rend. 



Burke Reports Plans to Build Kirby Hardwood Mill Are Ready 



I'bins lia\e practically been <'.,iiipletr,l for llie consti'uction by the Kirliy 

 Lumber Ctmipany at Silsbee, 'J'e.x.. of a big liardwood mill, it was reported 

 b.v W. B. Burke, general manager of the hardwood operations of this com- 

 pany, while on a visit to Chicago during the last week of 1921. Mr. Burke 

 came north from Houston, Tex., the general headquarters of the company, 

 tdiielly for- the purpose of consulting with manufacturers of saw'niill 

 machinery with a view to placing orders tor the mechanical equipment 

 for this mill, Mr. Burke expressed the hope that it would be possible to 

 l>egin construction of the new mill shortly after the first of the year. The 

 mill will be thoroughly modern and will have a daily capacity of l.^iO.OOO 

 fi-et. Sixty-tive per cent of the cut will be gum, and the remainder oak 

 and the usual mixture of harilwooils, according to Mr. Burke's estimate 

 of the holdings which will supply the raw material for the mill. Speaking 

 fr«un the viewpoint of his long years of experience as a manufacturer of 

 iKiT-dwood. Mr. Burke said that he has never seen finer gum timl>er than 

 that on the Kirby Lumber Ctunpany holdings. 



The Kirby I/umber Company plans to erect two or mfire liardwood mills 

 at other strategic points in tlieir holdings after the big mill at Silsbee 

 has been placed in operation. Mr. Burke will make his headquarters at 

 Silsbee until he has the hardwood mills of the company up and operating 

 smoothly, after which he will remove to the headquarters of the company 

 at Houston. From the main oflice lie will direct all har<lwood operations 

 of the conipan.v. 



T. T. Jones Lumber Company Formed 



The 'i". T, Jones I, umber Ciunpaii\ is the name of a new liaidwood job- 

 bing company organized in ^Hnneapolis, iHnn., during the last week in 

 Ilecemtier. Ted T. Jones, president of the Northern Wholesale Hardwood 

 Lumlter Association, a lumberman of wide experience in the nortliern terri- 

 tory, both in manufacturing and wholesaling, will be manager of the firm, 

 (.►flices were opened at 701 Lincoln I'ank Building. Minneapolis, the first 

 week in January. 



Mr. Jones is a man of affable and engaging personality, with a line train- 

 ing and outstanding ability. He was born at Manitowoc, Wis., in 1880, 

 and attended school at St. Johns Militar.v .Xcademy and the Wisconsin 

 State University, where lie m;ide a reputation as a sprinter and football 

 player. 



.\fter leaving the university Mr. Jones became associated with the C. W. 

 Jones Ijumber Company of .^ppleton. Wis., of which his father, Frank 1'. 

 Jones, was one of tlie founders. He remained for some time with this 

 <'onipany as traveling representatl\'e in the ^Hddle West. Later he went 

 to the Pacific Coast and spent a year, after which he returned to .\ppleton 

 and resumed his connection witli the G. W. Jones company. He was 

 then and now is a stockholder in the company. 



r.eshles the honor of being presiilent of tlie Nortliern Wholesale Hard- 

 wood T,unil>er Association, which he now enjoys, Mr. Jones served as presi- 

 dent of the Northwestern Ilarilwooil r,umbermen's ,Association from 1915 

 to 1916. 



McLeod and Good Die on Same Day 



The overwhelming loss by death of two imiitprtant members of their per- 

 sonnel, Murdock McLeod auil Fred W. liood, was suffered by the Oconto 

 I Company of Chicago and Oconto. Wis., and the Bay de Noquet C'ompany 



of Nahnia. Mich., two closel,\' affiliated firms, on Tuesday. Ilecembei- 20. 



.Mr. Cood, who reshled at .N'ahma, was treasurer and general manager of 

 til.' Bay de .Noquet Company. Mr. McI<eod of Chicago was treasurer and 

 general sales manager of the Chicago-Oconto concern. They died within 

 two hours of each other. The tragic coincidence excited the keenest sym- 

 pathy among the many friends not only of the surviving relatives and the 

 decea.sed. but of the nfHllated companies. Numerous expressions of this 

 feeling of sympathy have come to George J. Fariuswortli. president of the 

 companies, who in a few hours lost two of the most valuable executives 

 in his companies. 



The death of Mr. McLeod came at 8 ;S0 o'idock Tuesday evening, Decem- 

 ber 20, as the result of liearl failure. He was seventy-three years of age, 

 and had been in failing health for months, having been forced to relinquish 

 his active duties several weeks before his death. He was born In Nova 

 Scotia in 1848 and moved to Detroit, Mich,, when he was twenty-three 

 years of age to engage in the retail yard business. The panic of 1873 

 forced him to dispose of his Detroit business and come to Chicago, where 

 he secured employment selling shingles on the cargo market at the foot of 

 Franklin street. He later became associated witli the A. U. Gray Lumber 

 Company, a prospering Chicago wliolesale concern, of which he was made 

 general manager. His connection with the Oconto Company began in 

 1888 and tie continued with tliat organi/ation as sales manager until the 

 time of his death. He had also been treasurer of the company since 1910. 



For two terms, 1909 to 1911, Mr. McI,eod was president of the Lumber- 

 men's Association of Chicago. He was an enthusiastic yachtsman and for 

 three years was treasurer of the Chicago Yacht Club. He was also active 

 in the affairs of the Y. M. C. A., and was a member of the general board 

 of managers of that organization. He was warden of St. Paul's Episcopal 

 church at Forty-ninth street and Dorchester avenue, Chicago, and had 

 served as president of tlie Church Club of Chicago. 



Mr. ^IcLeod's health was ba<lly shaken five years before his <leath by 

 the loss of his wife, followed within a short time by the demise of his 

 daughter, who had attained to young womanhood. He appeared never to 

 shake oft" the ill effects of this double calamity. The only surviving mem- 

 ber of his immediate family is a son, Norman L. McLeod, assistant secre- 

 tary of the Ayer & Lord Tie Conipan.v, Chicago, The funeral services, held 

 at St. Paul's Church on December 23, were attended by a numerous group 

 of Chicago lumbermen. 



Heart trouble was also the cause of the death of Mr. Good. He had been 

 ill for three months when his death came at about 10 :30 o'clock on the 

 evening of December 20. Mr. Good was born in Canada of Scotch-Irish 

 parentage, November 19, 18G3, and when three years of age came to this 

 country with his parents, who .settled in Minnesota. When a young man 

 he removed to Oconto, where he went into the lumber business with his 

 uncle, Ellis Jennings. In 1889 he received an offer from the late George 

 Farnsworth to get out logs in northern Michigan for the Bay de Noquet 

 Lumber Company. He accepted this offer and later was made sutierln- 

 tendent of woods operations. A few years ago, upon the removal to 

 Chicago from Nahma of George J. Farnsworth. wdio had been in charge 

 of the nortliern operations for many years, he was made treasurer anrl 

 general manager of the Nahma company. 



In addition to his position as a lumberman Mr. Good was a director of 

 the First National Bank of Gladstone, Mich., and for many years had been 

 a niember of the board of supervisors for Nahnia township. His wife died 

 on April 30, 1920, and in 1919 he lost a daughter, Mrs. Albert Pearce of 

 Foster City, Mich. These losses are thought to have hastened his death. 

 He is survived by two sons, Capt. Charles Good of Chicago, assistant to the 

 president of the Oconto and Bay de Noquet ciunpanies. and Fred Earl Good 

 of Detroit. Mich., wdio is In the real estate business. Other members of his 

 family who survive are two brothers, who reside in Minnesota, a iirother in 

 Spokane, Wash. ; three sisters, residents of Minneapolis, and a sister living 

 in Seattle, Wash. Burial services were conducted in Escanaba, Mich.. 

 under the auspices of the local lodge of Masons, Thursday, December 22. 



Goes to Europe for Two Companies 



J. P. Kellogg, who is a ilireclur in the I'anola Lumlier ..V: .Vlanufaeturing 

 Company. Batesville. Miss., and the Kellogg Lumber Company, Memphis. 

 Teun., sailed for Europe December 31 and will visit the principal western 

 countries thereof, including England, France, Belgium and Holland, during 

 the next sixty days in the interest of the export business of these two firms, 

 according to C. M. Kellogg, president of the latter and secretary-treasurer 

 of the fiu-nicr. J. P. Kellogg is in charge of operations of the Panola 

 Lumber & Manufacturing Company when in the t'nited States. 



Pritchard-Patterson Nuptials Solemnized 



Miss .Margaret Pritchard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Pritchard 

 of Menudiis, and promlneni In social circles of that city, was united in 

 marriage to Captain K. W. Patterson, Camp Dix, N. J., at Grace Episcopal 

 church, .'Saturday, December 31, at high noon, in the presence of relatives 

 and friends. The church was beautifully decorated in Christmas greenery. 

 The service was performed by the Rev. C. T. Wright. 



The bride was attended by Mrs. Horace Rosson of Jamestown, N. Y., as 

 matron of honor, and by Miss Norma Bass as maid of honor. She was 

 given In marriage by her father, who Is .secretary-manager of the .\merican 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, with headquarters in Memphis, 



J<din M. Pritchard, Jr., served the gro<un as best man. 



.\fter the wedding ceremony Captain and Mrs. Paltei-sou left for New- 

 York on their bridal tour. On expiration ..f llie leave of absence of the 

 former they will be at home at Camp l'l\. 



