May 10, 191T 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



In ISSO Mr. Lodge entered a partnership to manufacture machine 

 tools with William Balier, the firm being Lodge, Baker & Co. 



The present great concern. Lodge & Shipley Machine Tool Company, 

 was formed in 1S92. A specialty of Mr. Lodge was the making of lathes ; 

 he constantly was improving their Quality. 



Gadd-Uhl 

 Frank R. Gadd, assistant to the president of the Hardwood Manufac- 

 turers' Association of the United States, was married in St. Louis on 

 April 21 to Miss Pauline Gannon Chi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Silas W. 

 Uhl of Dixon, 111., the ceremony taking place at the residence of Mrs. 

 S. W. Uhl, on McPhei-son avenue. After the ceremony, the couple left 

 for French Lick Springs, Ind., where they spent their honeymoon of a 

 week. They then went to Washington, New York and other eastern cities 

 and after May 15 will be at home at the Altamont hotel, Ft. Thomas, 

 Ky., a Cincinnati suburb. 



Big Company Perfects Organization 



The Pritchard & Wheeler Lumber Company, Memphis, which recently 

 applied for a "charter, has received this instrument and perfected organi- 

 zation by the election of the following officers : President, William 

 Pritchard ; vice-president, C. L. Wheeler ; secretary-treasurer, Paul Rush ; 

 general manager, Charles G. Kadel. Directors chosen, in addition to the 

 foregoing, are ; Mack Pearce, C. P. Bodine, M. S. McGehee and J. M. 

 Clements. The company is capitalized ;it $300,000, all paid in, and owns 

 27,000 acres of hardwood timberlands in Louisiana, 15,000 near Wisner 

 and the remainder near Lake Bruin. It is now Installing a mill at the 

 former point and when this is completed it will establish another at the 

 latter. Both mills will have a daily capacity of 75,000 feet and will be 

 equipped with re-saws. Mr. Kadel l^ft Memphis May 1 to superintend 

 the construction of the mill at Wisner. Headquarters of the company 

 will be in Memphis, but Mr. Kadel will make his home at Wisner. 



Messrs. Pritchard and Wheeler are the owners of J. W. Wheeler & Co., 

 Memphis and Madison, Ark., while Messrs. Kadel and Rush are the princi- 

 pal stockholders in the Riel-Kadel Lumber Company. The latter gentle- 

 men, however, have sold their interest in that concern and will surrender 

 the management thereof on June 1. 



Big Operators Making Life Easier for Employes 



Lumber interests in Memphis territory are using various methods of 

 increasing the pay of their employes, including the buying of seed and 

 the setting apart of plots of ground for the raising of gardens and food- 

 stuff crops. Some are actually . paying higher wages. Included in the 

 latter number are Geo. C. Brown & Co., who have granted an increase 

 of 10 per cent in wages to all their employes, and J. W. Wheeler & Co., 

 who pay their employes a bonus on the tenth of each month equivalent 

 to 10 per cent of their wages for the preceding thirty days. 



Lumber interests recognize the tremendous increase in the cost of living 

 and the higher wages now being paid are directly in recognition of this 

 condition. 



The Paepcke Leicht Lumber Company and the Chicago Mill & Lumber 

 Company, both of which have branch offices in Memphis, have announced 

 that they will pay to all their employes who have already voluntarily 

 enlisted, or who may voluntarily enlist, full salaries for the period of the 

 war. This has been done to enable those having families dependent on 

 them to enlist if they feel so disposed. The proposal has greatly stimu- 

 lated enlistment of employes of the companies in both the army and the 

 navy. 



Large New Mill in Virginia 



The Holston River Lumber Company has completed a large double band 

 mill and a large number of houses for its employes at Clinchburg, Va., on 

 the Saltville branch of the Norfolk & Western Railway. It is said to be the 

 largest lumber operation in that part of the country. It will draw upon 

 the Clinch Mountain tract of timber purchased last year from the Parsons 

 Pulp Lumber Company. The logs will be hauled over a standard gauge 

 railroad which is now being constructed. Timber cutting on the tract has 

 already commenced. 



A Correction 



In the April 25th issue of Hardwood Record, the Dickelman Lumber 

 Company, Tiffin, O., was reported as having taken over the business of the 

 East Side Lumber Company there. This was incorrect, as the East Side 

 Lumber Company is still operating its retail yard there under that name, 

 but is incorporated under the name of The Washingtpn Lumber Company 

 of Washington C. H., O., with A. W. Johnson as president and treasurer ; 

 C. C. Sheppard, vice-president, and J. E. Sheppard, secretary and manager.^ 

 These also are the officers of the Washington Lumber Company, who re- 

 cently took over the business of the Dickelman Lumber Company. 

 Reorganized Machinery Company 



The William E. Hill Company of Kalamazoo, Mich., for a long time in 

 the sawmill machinery business, sends the following letter announcing the 

 reorganization of this company with new interests and new capital : 



The Wm. E. Hill Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, the well-known sawmill 

 machinery builders, announce that new capital and new blood have been 

 brought into its organization, with the result that it is again prepared 

 to actively push the manufacture and sale of the favorably regarded 

 "Hill Line." 



The new owners are Kalamazoo people, who have a sense of local pride 

 in the old Hill house, and who believe that in supplying the necessary 

 funds and injecting a new spirit in both the manufacturing and business 

 ends the "Hill Line" will very shortly be as well known and as broadly 



demanded by the young mill man. who has just stepped into the saw mill, 

 as was the case with his predecessors. 



Not only will the old tried and true desigus be employed (all old pat- 

 terns, tools, jigs, etc.. are available), but new construction and improve- 

 ments of merit will, so far as tests prove them practical and valuable to 

 the trade, be adopted. 



The Hill company will be very glad to hear from any saw mill machinery 

 user as to his old or prospective Hill equipment, and in re-introducing 

 Itself to the trade does so in the belief that it will be of even greater service 

 to you in the future than it was in the past. 



This Man Wants to Buy Cottonwood, Basswood, Maple, Oak 

 and Hickory ^ 



H.ARDWOOD Record has received the following letter from a subscriber 

 in Canada, dated May 4 : 



Kindly put me in touch with manufacturers of Cottonwood and bass- 

 wood which will go into the manufacture of wagon boxes. I also require 

 prices on maple, oak and hickory to be used in connection with building 

 farm wagons. 



Wisconsin Hardwood Men in Big Western Deal 



Prominent manufacturers of Wisconsin and upper Michigan are inter- 

 ested in one of the biggest of recent western lumbering purchases. It was 

 announced recently that the property of the Wind River Lumber Company 

 at Cascade Locks, Ore., near Portland, was sold to men interested In the 

 Bridal Veil Lumber Company, which also operates on the Columbia river. 

 The transfer involved about $1,500,000. The output of 100,000,000 feet 

 annually will be handled through the Douglas Fir Lumber Company as sell- 

 ing agent. 



E. B. Hazen, secretary of the Bridal Veil Lumber Company, and C. G. 

 Briggs of Portland acted for the purchasers in closing the sale. 



The company has 1.000,000.000 feet of standing timber on the Washing- 

 ton side of the Columbia river. 



Dr. I. E. Earle of Hermansville, Mich., will be president of the new 

 company, which will operate under the same name as before. C. G. Briggs 

 of Portland will be vice-president ; E. B. Hazen, secretary and treasurer. 

 The other Interests involved are I. N. Bushong of Gladstone, l\lich. ; I. N. 

 Moore, Fond du Uic, Wis. ; C. A. Mauk of Toledo ; H. H. Holland, Portland, 

 Ore., and H. A. Rnpp. Saginaw, Mich. 



Pertinent Information J 



Big Ship Building Developments in Baltimore 



.\t least two new projects involving the construction of wooden vessels 

 in accordance with the government program of constructing vessels faster 

 than the German submarines can sink them have taken tangible form as far 

 as Baltimore is concerned, while a third is talked of, though it has not so 

 far assumed definite shape and Is still in a very tentative stage. One of 

 these projects is represented in the formation of a .?1, 000.000 corporation 

 to be known as the Maryland Shipbuilding Company, by J. E. Aldred, chair- 

 man of the Consolidated Gas, Electric Light and Power Company, of Balti- 

 more, and associates. All the preliminary work of assembling material and 

 labor is said to have been completed, and it is expected that the plant 

 will be In active operation within sis months. It is estimated that one 

 vessel a month will be turned out, and the intention is to make the industry 

 a permanent one, to continue even after the necessities of the war have 

 been met. The initial plans call for a plant that will give employment to 

 about 2,000 men, but the statements so far made give little or no informa- 

 tion about the site. The incorporators besides Mr. .\ldred are John K. 

 Bland and M. Ernest Jenkins, with Charles E. F. Clarke of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Water and Power Company as president ; Thomas Benson, former 

 chief engineer of the floating equipment of the Baltimore, Chesapeake & 

 .\tlantic Railways, as vice-president ; C. E. C. Pusey, as secretary and treas- 

 urer, and Messrs. Aldred, Clarke, B. Howell Griswold, Jr., Jenkins, John 

 M. Dennis, Thomas M. Benson and M'r. Bland as directors. 



.\nother similar enterprise is that to be established on the Middle Branch 

 of the Patapsco, near Fort McHenry, by the Baltimore Shipbuilding and 

 Dry Docks Company, which has been for years conducting a yard for the 

 construction of steel vessels at Locust Point. The new plant will build 

 wooden ships only. A third enterprise is being promoted by Bernard N. 

 Baker, who was head of the .\tlantic Transport Line prior to its absorption 

 by the International Mercantile Marine. This project is said to involve the 

 organization of a $50,000,000 company to construct steel vessels and to 

 establish a steel works just across the river from Sparrows Point. In the 

 fourth place, the Bethlehem Steel Company, owned by Charles M. Schwab 

 and interests connected with him, plans a large extension of its shipbuild- 

 ing facilities at Sparrows Point. If all these undertakings are realized. 

 Baltimore will become one of the most important shipbuilding centers in 

 the United States, using large quantities of hardwood and other lumber, 



Baltimore Exports Lag 



There is no change in the export situation, as Indicated by the statement 

 of shipments from this port for March, which was delayed by the prepara- 

 tions for war and did not make its appearance until perhaps ten days after 

 the usual time. The statement shows that while the forwardings of walnut 

 logs Increased, as compared with the same month of last year, practically 

 every other item, with the notable exceptions of spruce and poplar, declined 

 as far as the volume of business done is concerned, some of the classifica- 

 tions, which formerly cut an Important figure in the trade, being wholly 



