March 25. 1922 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



51 



Fire in New York Lumber Yard 



Fire swept the yards of the H. Hermann Lumber Company, 125th Street 



ami East River, New York City, on March 7, doing damage estimated at 



$75,000- Flames spread to McCraclien's garage adjoining and destroyed 



twenty automobiles. The big yards contained lumber of every description. 



Wiggs Opens Office In Memphis 

 R. J. Wiggs is the principal owner of the R. J. Wiggs Lumber Company, 

 which has opened offices in the Bank of Commerce building in Memphis for 

 the wholesale handling of southern hardwoods. Mr. Wiggs. who was 

 iissociated for years with R. J. Darnell and the Darnell-Love Lumber 

 Company, Leland, Miss., is one of the best known lumbermen in Memphis. 

 .Tust before forming his new company he was sales manager for the Green 

 River Lumber Ci^mpauy ot Memphis. 



Byrns Brothers Lumber Company Formed 



The Byrns Bros. Lumber Company has bt-en organized in Cincinnati. O.. 

 with an authorized capital stock of $150,000, of which $100,000 has been 

 paid in. 



The officers of the concern are: John Byrns, president; C. B. Benedict, 

 vice-president; M. J. Byrns, secretary and treasurer. 



The Cumberland Valley Lumber Company and the M. J. Byrns Luml>er 

 Co., both of Cincinnati, have been merged into the new^ company, which 

 will continue the policies of the Cumberland Valley Lumber Company 

 and the M. J. Byrns Lumber Company, at the same time widening its 

 scope of wholesale business, specializing in West Virginia and southern 

 hardwoods, including gum and cypress. 



The new company will have direct representatives covering thoroughly 

 the states of Ohio, Indiana. Southern Michigan, western New York and 

 Pennsylvania, also the Province of Ontario, Canada. 



In addition to the company's own mills in eastern Kentucky, it has 

 some tirst-class connections, and is in a position to furnish anything in 

 lunilier, with the exception of West Coast products. 



Bachman Says Flooring Demand Is Growing 



The demand for hardwood flooring is steadily increasing, the public 

 realizing its advantages, as compared with carpeted floors, according to 

 Fred Bachman, president of the F. M. Bachman Company, manufacturers 

 of hardwood lumber, veneers, yellow pine and Parka flooring, a special 

 product turned out at the plant in Indianapolis. 



Lumber Export Statistical Service 



As previously announced, the Lumber Division (U. S. Department of 

 Commerce) will inaugurate a new statistical service in co-operation with 

 the Statistical Division of the bureau. Owing to extra work in connection 

 with the new export classification, which went into effect on January 1, 

 the returns for the month of January have been somewhat delayed. Four 

 complete statements, showing the exports of both soft and hard woods 

 by ports, species and countries of destination during January, will be 

 mailed shortly to all concerns interested in the lumber export trade. Sub- 

 sequent reports, however, -will be restricted to such concerns as have 

 shown their interest in the bureau's work by being listed in exporters' 

 index, this step being taken in order to eliminate waste of material and 

 efforts. There is no charge for this service nor for being listed in 

 exporters' index. — Commerce Reports. 



Lumber Exporters' Directory 



The work of compiling names of American lumber exporters for the 

 Lumber Exporters' Directory, which the Lumber Division (U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Commerce) intends to publish, is now well under way, and more 

 than 1,400 names of concerns directly or indirectly interested in the lum- 

 ber export business have been listed. It is estimated that there are from 

 1,800 to 2,000 lumber exporters in the United States, and it is expected 

 that the names of most of these concerns will finally be placed in this 

 directory. A short questionnaire has been prepared and will be mailed 

 during the month of March to every lumber exporter in the United States. 

 This questionnaire is very simple, and will require but five or ten minutes 

 of any one's time to fill in. With this questionnaire in hand the Lumber 

 Division will be in a position to direct such trade inquiries as it may 

 receive in the future to the proper persons handling the goods called for. 

 and it should therefore be in the interests of the exporters themselves tn 

 have this questionnaire filled in to the best of their ability. If the ques- 

 tionnaire has not been received by the 10th of April, the Lumber Division 

 asks that such concerns address the Lumber Division requesting that their 

 names be placed on the mailing list. 



It appears from the splendid co-operation the Lumber Division has 

 received thus far in compiling the directory that this work will he of 

 value to them in extending their markets in foreign countries. — Commerce 

 Reports. 



Three Engines Buck Through the "Big Snow" 



The man who logs timber and manufactures lumber in any part of the 

 . world is used to contending with the elements in their most savage moods, 

 but the operators in Wisconsin and Michigan had enough to keep them 

 interested during the great storm of snow and sleet that struck their 

 section of the north during the first week in March. Camps were snowed 

 under throughout the territory and great damage was done to timber in 

 the woods and to the towns. Transportation was tied up, both on the 



standard j;augi' and the logging railroads. The situatitin is well described 

 by the experience of the Thunder Lake Lumber <'ompany, Rhinelander, 

 Wis. It took the crews of this company six days' steady work to buck 

 through the snow and get the camps to operating again. The photographs 

 shown here were taken by one of the company's men while the main line 

 was being opened up. Three engines were hooked together aud they hit 

 the snow for all they were worth. They would plunge ahead as far as 

 they could, then the men would pitc-h in and dig them out. After this the 

 plunging would be resumed until the trains stuck again. In this way the 

 line was finally opened. 



Three Eng-ines Crawling Through the Deep Snow 



A stretch of Snow Over Which the Engines Have Bucked Their Way 



Woodsmen *'Mining*' Down to the 

 Buried Tractts 



Bucking Drifts High as the 



Smoke Stack 



Saw Is a Fatal Tool in Wisconsin 



.Vccording to a bulletin issued by the Industrial Commission of Wisconsin, 

 the saw is the most deadly piece of machinery used in Wisconsin. In a 

 six-year period. 1915-1920, inclusive, 3.319 compensable injuries, of which 

 eighteen were fatal and 734 permanent, caused the loss of 603,010 working 

 daj's in factories in Wisconsin. The most serious year was 1920, in which 

 660 saw accidents occurred which resulted in more than seven days' dis- 

 ability. Of these accidents, 421 occurred on circular saws, 215 on rip 

 saws, 7S on trim saws and 51 on band saws. Most of them were caused 

 by the failure to use sawguards. although a few were the result of em- 

 ployees removing guard furnished by employers. 



