June 10, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



33 



Practical Book on Planting 



J. S. Illick, professor of forestry at the Pennsylvania State Forest 

 Academy, Mont Alto, Pa., is the author of a practical panii>hlet on forest 

 tree planting camps. Mr. Illick handles his suhject with the idea in mind 

 of giving information of a useable kind. With the growing interest in 

 forest plantations of a practical character (railroad and mine companies 

 are showing already that there is money in it for them) the pamphlet 

 will fill a real need. 



The Shipbuilding Program 



The Department of Labor is mobilizing ship carpenters to work on the 

 wooden ships. It was believed some time ago that no more than 15.000 ship 

 carpenters were to be had in this country, but already a force of 20,000 

 lias been raised, and partially trained men are being added by thousands 

 from technical schools. They will fill the place of apprentices and in much 

 of the carpentering they can do nearly as much as the regular carpenters. 

 In addition to the pine ships to be built in the South, contracts have been 

 let for 100 vessels to be of Douglas fir on the Pacific coast. The shipyards 

 of Texas claim to be able to turn out eighty-live ships. 



Lumber for Training Camps 



The government proposes to build from twelve to twenty camps for 

 training soldiers, and the lumber needed for each has been figured out. 

 .V camp large enough to accommodate 25,000 men calls for 13,519,394 

 feet of lumber. All the dimensions have been worked out so that any mill 

 may bid on what it can supply most quickly. Particular woods are 

 specified, but they are interchangeable. For instance, window strips 

 may be of various kinds of wood. New England mills may furnish spruce; 

 New York and Pennsylvania may offer white pine-; the southern Atlantic 

 coast may offer shortleaf pine ; the Gulf States, longleaf pine ; the Lake 

 States, white or Norway pine ; Northern Pacific coast, Douglas fir or hem- 

 lock ; plateau region, western white pine ; California, redwood and western 

 yellow pine ; Eastern States, yellow poplar and Cottonwood. 



Thus it goes, item by item. Different woods will answer, and every 

 forested region may furnish part. In that way, the country's whole timber 

 resources can he drawn upon and lumbermen everywhere can help furnish 

 the supply. Never before was there such an opportunity to mobilize the 

 country's whole forest resources. Hardwoods can do their whole part. 

 Practically every item calls for hardwood. Yellow poplar and chest- 

 nut are named oftener than any other woods ; but among others listed 

 are Cottonwood, oak, locust, black gum, cotton gum, beech, maple and 

 birch. It is somewhat disappointing to note the absence of red gum, ash, 

 hickory, elm and basswood from the list to be used in building the camps 



The training of each soldier, in the first call, requires 540 feet ot 

 lumber for camp equipment, but subsequent drafts can be trained in thfc 

 same camps without the purchase of additional lumber. It is said that the 

 lumber will be bought at a certain per cent above cost, no matter in what 

 region it is purchased. The purchase price thus fixes itself somewhat 

 automatically, provided the cost is known, and it will not be necessary 

 to call for bids with each purchase. 



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Hardwood Islews 'Notes 



-■< MISCELLANEOUS >= 



A receiver has been apiilied for lor tlie Macon Motor Car Corapauy. Ma- 

 con, Mo. 



At Kansas City, Mo., the Gateway Casket Company has been incorporated 

 at ?7,500. 



W. J. Clark is now sole owner of the Clark Lumber & Hardwood Com- 

 pany, Warrensburg, Mo. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed by the Schubert 

 Piano Company, New York, N. Y. 



A loss by fire has been sustained by the St. Louis Carbonating & 

 Manufacturing Company, St. Louis. Mo. 



The Standard Stair & Building Finish Company, Boston, Mass., has 

 filed an involuntary petition in bankruptcy. 



George Spratt & Co., Sheboygan, Wis., have changed their name to 

 the McNeill Chair Company, Sheboygan, Wis. 



The capital of the Herkert & Meisel Trunk Company, St. Louis, 

 Mc, has been increased to $225,000 from $75,000. 



An increase in capital stock to .$.300,000 has been effected by the .\ppo- 

 raattox Box Shook Lumber Company, Petersburg, Va. 



The A. Teachout Company has purchased the business heretofore owned 

 by the Standard Sash & Door Company, Cleveland, O. 



There has been a change in ownership of the Dare Lumber Company, 

 and its headquarters are now located in Elizabeth, N. C. 



The New England Lumber & Construction Company is a newly incor- 

 porated concern at Stougbton. Mass. ; capitalization, .$50,000. 



The style of the Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Company. Winnfield, 

 La., has been changed to the Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Company of 

 Louisiana, Inc. 



The H. G. Mueller Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Sheboygan, 

 Wis., has changed its name to the H. C. Mueller Manufacturing Company 

 and increased its capital from $38,000 to $60,000. 



Recent incorporations in North Carolina are : The Shawboro Lumber 

 & Manufacturing Company, Shawboro, capital $50,000, and the Cahill 

 Box Company at Winston-Salem with $25,000 capitalization. 



The following have increased their capitals : The Spies-Thompson 

 Lumber Company. Menominee, Mich., to $400,000; the Michigan Ladder 

 Company, Ypsilauti, to $100,000; the Stevens-Eaton Company, New 

 York City, from $100,000 to $200,000. 



New shipbuilding concerns are rapidly springing up in the state of 

 Washington, and the following are some of those recently incorporated : 

 Frank Oleson & Sons, capital $100,000; West Coast Shipbuilding Com- 

 pany, Spokane, $1.000,000 ; the Overseas Shipbuilding & Ciinstruction 

 Company, Seattle, $1,000,000; Ward & Burkheimer .'Shipbuilding Com- 

 pany, Seattle, $100,000 capital, and in Texas the Tarver Shipbuilding 

 Company, Beaumont, has incorporated. 



-< CHICAGO >■ 



The business operated under the style of Black & Cooper Lumber 

 Company, city, will now be conducted under the name. Black Brothers 

 Lumber Company. 



The capital of the John C. Moninger Company, Chicago, has been in- 

 creased to $148,000. 



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

 was In the city last week. 



The Drexel Motor Car Company, city, has filed an involuntary petition 

 in bankruptcy. 



J. H. StannSird of the Baker-Matthews Lumber Company. Ksher build- 

 ing, returned to the city May 31, after a week's trip in Michigan. 



The Big Bay Lumber Company has entered the wholesale and com. 

 mission lumber business at 327 South LaSalle street, Chicago, those 

 interested being M. K. Erickson and P. F. Ciralske. 



Walter N. Kelley of the Walter N. Kelley Company, Detroit, Mich., 

 stopped oft in Chicago recently on his way to Wisconsin mill points. 



The Atlas Floor Company, city, has filed an Involuntary petition in 

 bankruptcy. 



Clarence Boyle, Sr., head of Clarence Boyle, Inc., Lumber Exchange 

 building, Chicago, spent a month among Mississippi and Louisiana hard- 

 wood mills. 



H. F. Below of tne Below Lumber Company, Stanley, Wis., called 

 on the local trade the week of the twenty-seventh, as did also L. H. 

 Levisee of the Scott & Howe Lumber Company, Oshkosh, Wis. 



The Rottman Company, manufacturer of fixtures and cabinet work, 

 city, is liquiilating. 



G. H. Holloway of the Dtley-Holloway Company, Conway building, Chi- 

 cago, returned to Chicago the end of last week after a trip of several 

 days to southern points, Memphis particularly. The Utley-Holloway Com- 

 pany is every day demonstrating its right to a place among the ranking 

 hardwood firms of the country. 



=■< BUFFALO >• 



In spite of the many complaints of car shortage and inability in all 

 directions to get lumber in as they need it a number ot wholesalers now 

 report that their May shipments are larger than during any previous 

 month this year and compare favorably with many former months. This 

 means, they say, that cars and lumber can be obtained by hard work and 

 that they have worked very hard at the problem lately. Some of them say 

 that they have made the matter easier by securing cars and sending them 

 to the mills to load. They do not look tor the situation to improve very 

 much right away, as embargoes continue, and only the shipper who knows 

 his route best and understands the situation is likely to come out ahead in 

 this peculiar sort of business undertaking. 



The receipts of lumber by lake during May were less than a third the 

 amount that came in during the same month last year, the figures being 

 3,050,000 feet and 9.701,000 feet respectively. The decline was not due 

 so much to any falling off in the demand as to the lateness with which 

 the season started, because of an abnormal amount o£ ice in the lakes 

 during a large part of May. Now that the season is fairly under way 

 improvement in receipts is in evidence and the first week of the month 

 shows receipts of more than 4,000,000 feet, or more than all of May. 

 Cargoes came in about every day during the week mentioned, but it is 

 doubtful if anything like the activity will be shown during the remainder 

 of the month. Among the hardwood yards which have now received stock 

 are those of Taylor & Crate, the H. T. Kerr Lumber Company, and T. 

 Sullivan & Co. 



Howard Jackson, son of George A, Jackson of the lumber and cooperage 

 firm of Jackson & Tindle, is to be married on June 19 to Miss Mary Becker, 

 of this city. 



Hugh McLean is predicting some unusually strong conditions in hard- 

 woods in the near future and expects that the demand will be active as 

 compared with the limited stocks which the mills can furnish. 



During May the receipts ot lumber by lake at the Tonawandas were 

 13,246,631 feet, as compared with 21,760,000 feet in the same month a 

 year ago, a decline of nearly 40 per cent. June will see receipts much 

 heavier. 



Building permits for Buffalo showed a decline of 23 per cent for May 

 and 20 per cent for the first five, months of the year. The figures for May 

 were $892,000. as compared with $1,155,000 in the same month of last 

 year. For the first five months the figures were $3,209,000, as against 



