March 10, 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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"Why Do It in Several Operations?" 



Everyone concerDed in the manufacture of mouldings will be interested 

 In a new four-page folder illustrating a number of very difficult mouldings 

 manufactured complete in one operation at fast feed which previously re- 

 quired from four to seven operations at slow speed. The title of this 

 new piece of literature is "Why Do It in Several Operations?" Copies 

 may be obtained by anyone upon application to the S. A. Woods Machine 

 Co., Boston, Mass. 



Fay and Egan to Move Their Plant 

 At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the J. A. Fay and Egan 

 Company, woodworking machinery manufacturers, formal notice was re- 

 ceived from the Cincinnati Terminal Warehouse Company of its Intention 

 to exercise its option to purchase the property used by the woodworking 

 machinery corporation at Front and John streets, Cincinnati. The J. A. 

 Fay and Egan Company, unless the unexpected happens, is given a year 

 in which to obtain new quarters. Following the meeting of the stockhold- 

 ers, it was said that no definite decision had been reached relative to 

 making use of an acerage tract held at the southwest corner Paddock 

 Road and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in Bond Hill, O. It is possible 

 that another site may be selected. This situation likely will develop 

 within a month. 



Clifford Egan was elected to succeed his father, the late Thomas P. Egan, 

 as president of the company. The following officers were re-elected : Si. 

 P. Egan and Fred T. Egan, vice-presidents; W. M. Green, secretary; A. A. 

 Faber, treasurer and R. W. Egan, general manager. The directors are: 

 Joseph Rawson, S. P. Egan, R. W. Egan, J. C. Grimes, J. E. Bruce, C. P. 

 Egan, A. A. Faber, C. II. Bembold and S. T. Egan. Mr. Grimes succeeds 

 the late Thomas P. Egan on the directorate. 



Motion Pictures for Lumber Industry 

 The Lumber Division of the Department of Commerce announces that the 

 Government will assist lumber manufacturers by taking motion pictures 

 of their plants and operations, and will also arrange to have these pic- 

 tures shown before engineering societies, manufacturers and other wood 

 users, both in the United States and in foreign countries. 



The Government is prepared to pay all the expenses of the experts who 

 will direct this work, but the films themselves wil^ have to be paid for by 

 the firms wishing such services. 



Memphis Has New Wholesale Firm 



The firm of J. C. Steele & Co. has recently been organized in Memphis. 

 Tenn., to do a wholesale hardwood lumber business. The firm comprises 

 J. C. Steele, who has been identified with the industry in Memphis for a 

 number of years, and A. R. Hunt, formerly associated with the Erskine 

 Williams Lumber Company, and the Thane Lumber Company, when the 

 Arkansas City concern bad an oflice in Memphis. The new firm has 

 acquired a lease on a yard in North Memphis with trackage and also a yard 

 at Holcomb, Miss. Arrangements have been made to dispose of the cut of 

 a mill at Ilolcomb. 



A. C. Wells Succeeds to Father's Place 



A. C. Wells, vice-president of the J. W. Wells Lumber Company, Menom- 

 inee, Mich., since its incorporation, was elected president at the annual 

 meeting of the company held in Menominee the later part of February. 

 Mr. Wells succeeded his father, the late J. W. Wells, who died last August. 

 W. E. Hallenbeck of Iron Mountain, Mich., was elected vice-president ; 

 C H. Law of Menominee, secretary, and Ralph W. Wells of Menominee, 

 treasurer. 



A. C. Wells was one of the founders of the company, which was incor- 

 porated Jan. 3, 190.3, with a capital stock of $100,000 and increased in 1910 

 to $650,000 on amalgamation with the Bird & Wells Lumber Company of 

 Wausaukee, Wis., controlled by the Wells interests. Since that time the 

 capital stock has been increase(4 until it now amounts to $2,000,000. 



The remarkable growth of the J. W. Wells Lumber Company is shown 

 by the fact that in 1003 its output was 15.000,000 feet of lumber per 

 annum, whereas in 1919 the production amounted to 40,000,000 feet, 

 together with 7,000,000 feet of maple flooring and 15,000,000 white cedar 

 shingles. The company has large timber holdings in the Sagola, Iron River 

 and Ontonagon districts, sufficient to operate the mills at present capacity 

 for fifteen years or more. At the present time the company employs about 

 one thousand men in its woods and sawmill operations, and produces about 

 1,000,000 feet of sawed lumber weekly, running part of the mill on a night 

 shift. In its logging operations the most modern labor-saving devices are 

 used, together with five locomotives, steam skidder, steam log loaders, etc. 



Hardwood News Notes 



MISCELLANEOUS 



The Arkansas Lumber & Manufacturing Company has been incorporated 

 at Little Rock, Ark. Other incorporations are: The Northwestern Manu- 

 facturing Corporation, Fort Atkinson, Wis. ; The Wolf-Alvarez Sash & 

 Door Company at Mobile, Ala. 



The business heretofore carried on under the style of E. L. Thompsou 

 & Co. at Baldwinsville, Mass., is now the E. L. Thompson Chair Corporation. 



The Medard Patent Pulley Company. St. Louis, has changed its name to 

 the Medart Company. 



CHICAGO 



The marked increase in building permits for February over the longer 

 month of January of this year and the corresponding month of 1921, has 

 heartened Chicago lumbermen who look to building operations this spring 

 and summer to improve local conditions. Permits for February were 58 

 per cent above January and 100 per cent higher than February, 1921.! 

 The permits issued numbered 634, compared with 437 during January, 1922, 

 and 30S during February, 1921. These were divided as follows: Apart- 

 ments, 192 ; residences, 2SS ; industries, 116 ; miscellaneous, 38. 



The Natalbany Lumber Co., of Hammond, La., announced during the" 

 week ending March 4 that W. E. Snider, for the last two years general sales 

 manager for the concern, took charge of its Chicago office March 1 and from 

 here w'ill cover northern Illinois and northwestern Indiana. Guy II. Ford- 

 ham, who for the last several months has represented the company in the 

 Chicago territory, has been sent to Pittsburgh, Pa., to open a new district 

 office for the company and cover that territory. 



Jlr. Snider has been succeeded as general sales manager with headquarters 

 at Hammond, by V. A. Stibolt, who in addition to retaining his former 

 duties as assistant general manager of the company, will also direct the 

 general sales activities. 



H. C. Lindahl has formed a connection with Manley & Boyd, wholesale 

 hardwood lumbermen of Chicago, succeeding James Pickens, who ' on 

 February 16 succumbed to a sudden attack of heart failure. Mr. Lindahl 

 was formerly in the commission lumber business in Rockford, 111. 



J. W. Thompson of the Interstate Lumber Company of St. Louis, Mo., 

 was in Chicago calling on the trade a few days ago. 



J. L. Straack, representative in this territory of the Hugh McLean Lum-" 

 her Company, made a trip to Grand Rapids the early part of the week 

 of March 5. 



G. W. Jones of the G. W. Jones Lumber Company, Appleton, Wis., was 

 in Chicago during the week ending March 4, visiting Al. Ruth, manager 

 of the Chicago office of the company. Mr. Jones was en route South, where 

 he will visit the company's mill in Louisiana and Hot Springs, Ark. 



J. A. Gorman, manager of the Chicago office of the Winegar-Gorman 

 Company, left March 4 for a trip to the company's mills at Winegar, Wis. 



J. T. Jones, representing the F. E. Miller Lumber Company, Memphis, 

 Tenn., was in Chicago the week ending March 4 visiting the trade. 



R. E. Boyd of Manley & Bo.vd recently returned to Chicago after a trip 

 to Buffalo, Toledo and Detroit. 



John I. Shafer of the John I. Shafer Hardwood Company, South Bend, 

 Ind., was in Chicago calling on the trade during the week ending March 4, 



Frank Fountain of the Fountain-Campbell Lumber Company, Lady- 

 smith, Wis., recently paid a visit to Chicago. 



Charles B. Dudley of the Dudley Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn., 

 visited Chicago during the week ending March 4. Mr. Dudley was 

 optimistic regarding developments in the hardwood market during the 

 next few months. 



En route to California for a short vacation, Hugh McLean of the Hugh 

 McLean Lumber Company, Buffalo, N. Y., passed through Chicago recently. 

 He was accompanied by Mrs. McLean and her sister. 



Frederick Klapproth, vice-president of the Chicago Mill & Lumber Com- 

 pany, is in the South tor a ten-day stay, where he will make a survey of 

 mill conditions. He went direct to Memphis from Chicago and intended 

 to go from Memphis to Arkansas mill points. 



J. J. Adams of Adams & Thorn, Wausau, Wis., recently visited the trade 

 in Chicago. Other lumbermen from the Wisconsin territory in Chicago 

 during the first week in March were Frank Handysides, sales manager of 

 the Chas. W. Fish Lumber Company. Elcho. Wis., and R. G. Sayer, assistant 

 sales manager for the Brooks & Ross Lumber Company, Scofleld, Wis. 



BUFFALO 



A new woodworking industry is to be started at Albion, N. Y., with Wil- 

 liam D. Wright of Brockport, as manager. It will be known as the Wright 

 Factory and will be located in the Austin Meland building on North Main 

 street. The products will include different types of grandfather, mission 

 and other fine wooden case clocks, household and other wocKlen ware. 



Arthur J. Teager has returned from a month's trip through Pennsyl- 

 vania visiting the furniture plants. He found a fair amount of activity 

 going on, though purchasing of lumber is being done only In small quan- 

 tities as a rule. 



A. J. Ellas spent a few days In Washington late last month In connec- 

 tion with the airplane interests of G. Ellas & Bro., who have been supply- 

 ing the government with bombing planes. 



Under the will of John M. Bemis, a prominent lumberman of Warren, Pa,, 

 who died last month at Pasadena. Cal., his stepson, John F. Knox, a 

 Buffalo lumberman and member of the Knox-Reimann Co., is left $1,200 



