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HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 10, 1017 



Resigns from Redwood Association 



Kfhviu E. Myers announces his resignation as secretary-manager o£ the 

 California Redwood Association, effective June 1, to embarl! in the 

 adTertising specialty business. Mr. Myers' successor has not been selected, 

 and E. A. Selfridge, Jr., president of the association, will temporarily 

 manage the association. Mr. Myers has equipped the association with a 

 splendid line of literature on redwood and its uses, and inaugurated an 

 advertising campaign that is rapidly forcing redwood to the front as one 

 of the country's leading softwoods. Mr. Myers came to San Francisco 

 from the Southern Pine Association at New Orleans, and previous to that 

 he was assistant secretary of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of 

 the United States, with headquarters at Cincinnati. 



Lumbermen Doing Big Work 



Eastern members of the lumber trade arc bringing honor upon the whole 

 industry by their worlt in the Lumbermen's National Service League of 

 New York City. The league is running six recruiting stations in Greater 

 New York and meeting with great success. Other stations will be opened 

 in other parts of the state, Buffalo and Jamestown being first on the list. , 



Will Open Hardwood Department 



On June 1, the .Smuli Texas Lumber ('Muiip.niy of Houston opened a 

 department for selling bardwo<id lumber at wholesah', with George W. 

 Cleveland, jr., in charge. The lumber to be handled through this depart- 

 ment will be the product of the company's plant at Oualaska. 

 Lafayette Lamb 



On May 30, 1917, occurred the death of Lafayette Lamb at his home, 

 Clinton. Iowa, aged seventy-one years. lie' was a pioneer lumberman and 

 for sixty years had been a resident of Clinton. He was a native of Car- 

 roll county, niinois, a son of Chancy and Jane (Bevier) Lamb. The 

 elder Lamb was a well-known lumberman of his day and the son grew 

 into the business as he grew into manhood. The family at one time 

 owned four mills, and many of tbeir logs were floated or rafted down the 

 Mississippi. The total output of white pine alone of the Lamb mills at 

 Clinton is said to have exceeded 3,000,000.000 during the forty odd years 

 of activity. 



Aside from his association with C. Lamb & Sons (Inc.), of which 

 he was president and treasurer, Lafayette Lamb was president of the 

 Shell Lake Lumber Company, Shell Lake, Wis.; Barronett Lumber Com- 

 pany, Barronett, Wis. ; Lamb-Davis Lumber Company, Leavenworth, Wash. ; 

 Lamb Hardwood Lumber Company, Memphis, Tenn. ; iJacon-Nolan Hard- 

 wood Company, Chancy, Miss. ; vice-president of the Mississippi Lumber 

 Company, .American Wire Cloth Company, Mississippi River Logging Com- 

 pany and the Clinton Sand & Gravel Company, all of Clinton ; a trustee 

 of the Weyerhaeuser Timber (.'ompany, Taconui, Wash. ; a director in 

 the Carpenter-Lamb Company, Minneapolis, Minn. ; Chippewa Lumber & 

 Boom Company, Chippewa Falls, Wis. ; White River Lumber Company, 

 Mason, Wis. ; McCloud River Lumber Company, San Francisco, Cal. ; Iowa 

 & Illinois Railway, Clinton ; a stockholders in the People's Trust & Sav- 

 ings bank. Clinton National bank, City National bank, Merchants' National 

 bank, Clinton Mineral & Mining Company and the Cromwell Hotel Com- 

 pany, all of Clinton ; a stockholder in the Northern Lumber Company, 

 Cloquct, Minn. ; Boulevard Hotel C(unpany, St. I.,ouis, Mo., and the 

 Tampa Hotel Company, Tampa, Fla. He had a one-third Interest in one of 

 the largest ranches in Colorado, nine miles east of Greeley and fifty miles 

 from Denver, known as the Studebaker-Lamb-Witwer ranch, and had 

 heavy interests in the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company, Charleston, Miss. 



On Aug. 21, 186(), he was married to Olivia A. Huffman of Clinton. 

 Their children were M'errette and Chancy U. Lamb. 



Experimental Basswood Seasoning 



The government laboratory at Madison. Wis., has been carrying out 

 tests in seasoning several thousand feet of basswood lumber. Green two- 

 inch planks were dried in thirteen days from ninety down to four per 

 cent of moisture, and inch boards from ninety to between three and eight 

 in nine dnys. 



Pertinent Information 



Hardwoods Are Advocated 



The case of Wisconsin and Michigan hardwoods was pleaded before the 

 lumber foreign trade commission at its sessions in Minneapolis, June 4, 

 by O. T. Swan, secretary of the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association. Mr. Swan recited the adaptability of birch, beech 

 and maple as well as of other hardwoods produced In this field to various 

 uses in Europe and theref<irc toe necessity of developing a generous export 

 trade by American manufacturers. .Ml are highly available for interior 

 trim and especially for veneer, curly and plain birch, making a pleasing 

 combination. Treatment with stain effects enlvmces the variability of the 

 woods, especially birch and iiuiple, the hitter bi'ing suitable not only for 

 flooring, but also furniture. It was pointed out that an effect similar to 

 walnut burl can be secured by combining blrdseye maple and brown-stained 

 maple. Attention was called by Mr. Swan to the fact that birch is already 

 Ijelng used for gunstocks in Russia, where it has supplanted beech and can 

 be used for aeroplane propellers, 4 field In which it compares favorably 

 with walnut and mahogany. The availability of other hardwoods of the 

 territory for vehicles and Implement parts was also emphasized. Mr. Swan 



also devoted considerable time to hemlock as a suitable wood for struc- 

 tural purposes, especially in houses of a portable nature and other shelters. 

 Roger E. Simmons, a member of the lumber foreign trade commission, 

 spent a day of this week at home here prior to the comiiiission's departure 

 for Cincinnati, O., to confer with the hardwood men of that territory. The 

 itinerary of the commission next includes Tonawanda, N. Y., whence they 

 leave for the Pacific coast. Thereafter they return east, going to Nova 

 Scotia, Halifax and St. John and make brief stops at Portland, Me., Phila- 

 delphia and Baltimore. According to present plans the commission will 

 depart for Europe before July 15. Mr. Simmons expressed himself as 

 highly gratified with the co-operation being extended the commissioners by 

 lumbermen in all parts of the country where they have visited thus far, 

 declaring that the investigation is proving much more fruitful than had 

 been expected and much valuable data on the American lumber industry 

 is being acciunulated for presentation to European and other foreign im- 

 porters and jobbers of American lumber. Every conceivable fact and 

 figure pertaining to the production of lumber in the United States is being 

 tabulated and prepared into statistical form, port and dock facilities even 

 being carefully noted. Timber holdings, period of available supply of logs, 

 stocks on hand in all dimensions, methods of productions, manufacture 

 at the mills, durability, fire resistant qualities, strength tests, and every 

 other detail about every variety of American-grown wood will be in the 

 hands of the commission, says Mr. Simmons, before it departs for Europe. 

 The main demand, as noted among American producers thus far, said Mr. 

 Simmons, is for a slight reduction in the grades now being specified by 

 European lumber dealers, the aim being to reduce the great percentage of 

 heart wood that is now called for in complying with the drastic grades. 



Portable Mills to Europe 



.\n agreement with the British war office, under which the six New 

 England states will send ten portable sawmill units, comprising 400 expert 

 woodsmen, to aid the British armies in France, has been announced by 

 the American Forestry Association. 



The members of the expedition will serve as civilian employes of the 

 British Government and will be fully equipped for logging and milling 

 operations. The plan is understood to have the approval of the War 

 Department, which on its account is enlisting a regiment of foresters to 

 serve vith the American army engineers ordered abroad. 



The enterprise w'as worked out by a committee of New England paper 

 manufacturers, lumbermen antl timberland owners, headed by W. R. Brown, 

 a member of the lumber committee of the Council of National Defense. 

 The New England committee was appointed by the Massachusetts Com- 

 mittee of Public Safety, which cabled the offer of ahl to the British war 

 office, and was notified that the war oIHce not only wouhl accept, but would 

 furnish transportation for the units. 



Each of the six state governments subscribed $12,000, the cost of a 

 single unit, and private sid)sci-iption provided four uiiils. 



Enormous U. S. Foreign Trade 

 During the twelve months ending April 30, 1017, the exports from 

 the United States were vahnnl at more than .$0,000,000,000. That is more 

 than $2,000,000,000 In excess of the largest annual exports for any pre- 

 vious year of our history. During the same period our imiHirts reached 

 the total of .$2,.''i(IO,01)0,000, making our foreign trade worth $8,500,000,000. 

 .V few years ago foreign trade of such dimensions would have been re- 

 garded beyond the range of possilillities. 



March Exports of Wood Products 



The exports of forest products from the United States were 70 per 

 cent greater in March, 1917, than for the corresponding month in 1916. 

 The total value this year was $5,990,243. The export of round walnut 

 logs increased four fold ; square southern yellow pine logs increased 

 nearly three fold. Shipments of logs, both round and square, to the Nethcr- 

 lantis rose from nothing in March, 1916, to a value of $21,187 in March 

 of this year. That shows that a few ships still run the submarine blockade. 

 Value of logs to the United Kingdom more than doubled, while the Increase 

 to the rest of Europe was twenty fold. Conditions in troubled Mexico 

 are improving it shipments of logs mean anything. When March this 

 year is compared with, the corresponding month of 1916, shipments to 

 Mexico show 300 per cent increase. Shipments of spruce lumber to 

 Europe Increased 400 per cent. The increases of a nundier of items to 

 the West Indies and South .\merica were larger, and show that trade 

 in that direction is Improving. 



Great Work of Reforestation 



Between 5,000,000 .ind i;,iJii(i,00ff acres of land included in the national 

 forests contain no tree growth. On some of this land the timber has 

 been killed in recent years by fire, and on other areas no tind)er has grown 

 since the region has been known to white men. It is unprofitable to leave 

 this land barren. It should be producing timber, but tl>e problem of 

 bringing on forests is a serious one. The work is expensive, and often 

 difliculty is met when attempts are made to induce trees to grow. Dry 

 weather may kill them, fire may destroy them, rabbits, rats and other 

 animals, large and small, may devour them. 



A study of the problem, with its diflicultics and promises, has been 

 made by C. K. Tillotson of the Forest Service, and published in a 62-page 

 bulletin (No. 475) which covers the entire field. It tells how, where, 

 when, and why plantings are made.. Retorcstallon of the barren areas 

 will ultimately supply an addition of 3,000,000,000 feet of lumber a year. 



