June 10, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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of the Mississippi river, and the plan is to bring lumber here by steamer 

 down the Pacific coast and through the Panama canal. The Weyerhaeuser 

 interests, after an investigation of the advantages possessed by the different 

 ^ ports on the Atlantic seaboard, concluded that the facilities for making 

 distribution and for receiving lumber were better here than elsewhere, and 

 ■ were also influenced by the railroad differential enjoyed by Baltimore over 

 the northern ports because it is nearer to the western cities. Work on a 

 dock, on a deeper channel and on various buildings, together with yard 

 equipment, will be commenced as soon as possible. The yard will have 

 direct connection with practically every one of the three trunk lines going 

 out from Baltimore. 



John L. Alcock of John L. Alcock & Co. is off on another trip to the 

 Pacific coast to look after some details in connection with contracts for 

 lumber placed there for foreign shipment. 



The steamship Jessmore, of the Johnston Line, has been torpedoed, it 

 was learned several days ago. The Jessmore is the fifth vessel of the line 

 destroyed within a few months. lu addition to other cargo it had a lot 

 of lumber aboard for the United Kingdom, these vessels having been among 

 the most active lumber carriers going out of Baltimore during the war. 

 The fleet is now reduced to insignificant proportions as far as the Baltimore- 

 Liverpool is concerned. 



The Augusta Wood Products Corporation, of 1428 South Penn square, 

 Philadelphia, which purchased a 50,000-acre tract of timber in Augusta 

 county, Virginia, is going ahead rapidly with the development of tne tract. 

 It has purchased ten stave and five portable lumber mills, the former 

 having an annual capacity of 12,000.000 staves, besides much lumber and 

 railroad material. An electric lighting plant is to be installed at Deerfield, 

 the center of the operation, where forty dwellings are to be erected, 

 together with a hotel, general store and other structures. A railroad from 

 Hotchkiss, Va.. to the timber, a distance of about thirty miles, is being 

 completed. 



The Woodson Lumber Company has purchased the plant of A. J, White 

 & Sons, together with 20.000 acres of timberland, the town of Woodson, 

 in Virginia, and a railway, and contemplates increasing the annual 

 capacity of the mills to 20,000,000 feet. The company has lately been 

 incorporated with a capital stock of .$100,000, C. H. Miller, of Fairwood, 

 Va., being secretary-treasurer. 



The A. F. Bantro Aerial Navigation Corporation has been formed at 

 Baltimore and has been chartered with a capital stock of $1,000,000. Adam 

 F. Bantro, L. Emerson Hoffman, and Stonewall Jackson Healy are the 

 incorporators. 



The retail lumber yard firm of Clarke & Fritz, at 1126 South Sharp 

 street. iBaltimore. has gone into the hands of a receiver. It is said that 

 the firm owes about ?13.000. No statement of assets has yet been made. 

 George H. Clarke, the senior partner, was for years with George F. Sloan 

 & Bro.. and afterward with the Sloan Lumber Company. Henry Fritz 

 is his son-in-law. 



A. W. Hart of Price & Hart, New York, stopped in Baltimore last week 

 on the way back from Annapolis, where he went to see his son take the 

 examination for the Naval academy. 



Edward Barber of the Howard & Barber Lumber Company, Cincinnati, 

 stopped in Baltimore about a week ago on his way from New York, where 

 he had gone to look after some export lumber, with regard to which ship- 

 ments more or less delay had been experienced. 



^-< CINCINNATI >•- 



Eight new directors were elected at the annual stocliholders* meeting of 

 the Ideal 'nTaeel Company. They are Louis J. DoUe, Alfred T. Giesler, 

 Charles A. Ayres. L. E. Levassor. Anthony Schewel, A. H. Ackerman, F. H. 

 Goosman and H. A. Dutemeyer. 



The Perry Lumber Company of Lexington, Ky., was incorporated re- 

 cently with a capital of $40,000. Incorporators are B. F. Perry, J. T. 

 Perry and K. N. DeHaven. 



Early relief from car shortage diflacultles in the South may be expected 

 as the result of the passage last week by Congress of the Esch bill, which 

 giyes the Interstate Commerce Commission jurisdiction oyer the distribu- 

 tion and handling of freight cars, according to P. L. Sanford, a prominent 

 lumberman of Zona, La., on his way home from Washington. 



The American Car Service Commission has ordered 13,500 empty cars 

 to be sent to all parts of the South at once, says Mr. Sanford. Many of 

 these cars, which will come principally from the eastern and New England 

 districts, are already on the way. They wijl be distributed both east and 

 west of the Mississippi river. As soon as each of these cars is loaded, it 

 has been ordered by the car service commission that another empty shall 

 take its place, so that the carriers will provide an automatically con- 

 tinuing supply of rolling stock to this section. Special provision has been 

 made to see that the east and west lines and the smaller railroads which 

 ha%'e suffered especially from the scarcity of cars shall get their full share 

 of added equipment now provided. 



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Cleveland building trades are now entirely at peace following the recent 

 settlement between the employers' association and the sheet metal work- 

 ers and the way is open for the carrying out of plans for a permanent 

 conciliation board, which is designed to avoid practically all labor trouble 

 in the future. 



The first creosoted wood block in the Euclid avenue paving improve- 

 ment was laid May 22 by Harry L. Davis, mayor of Cleveland. Euclid 

 avenue will be paved with wood block from Twenty-second to Fortieth 

 street. This is the first step in the expenditure of $10,000,000 for street 

 improvements of which the city wUl issue bonds for $3,000,000. Con- 

 tracts have been let for but $1,000,000 so far. 



The quick recuperation of Cleveland's building volume following the 

 recent disastrous lockout is indicated by the fact that building permits 

 issued during May, the first month after the ending of the lockout, were 

 greater than for the same month of 1916, and that the total for the first 

 five months of the present year is greater than for the corresponding 

 period of last year, in spite of the fact that building was practically at 

 a standstill during March and April just past. The figures are : May, 

 1917. .?3,l.s5.:.00 : May. 1917, $2,688,080; first five months this year, 

 $11,773,330 ; first five months last year. $10,305,220. 



Shortage of bpttoms for lumber on the Great Lakes is bothering Cleve- 

 land lumber shippers. Several have cargoes at upper lake ports ready to 

 move but are unable to locate tonnage. In answer to this condition vessel 

 men announced .June 4 that owing to an increased cost of operation and 

 a shortage of tonnage the lumber rate from the head of the lakes would 

 be advanced from $4.50 to $5 per thousand feet for hardwood and the 

 better grades of pine, and to $6 for poorer grades than Xo. 3 white pine. 

 Cleveland lumbermen were betorehanded this season and had a large 

 number of boats waiting at upper lake ports when the ice went out, get- 

 ting down their first loads in record time. The second loads are coming 

 in slower, the shipping being largely confined to firms owning their own 

 vessels. 



The Elworthy Helwick Company, Williamson building, wholesale 

 builder of homes, announces that it has purchased its entire stock of 

 lumber for the coming year, comprising the output of two mills, pre- 

 sumably somewhere in the South. One mill will turn out framing timber 

 and the other hardwood finishing lumber. The company is one of the 

 largest builders and sellers of complete houses in the country and Its 

 policy in buying for future needs at this time bears out the general con- 

 tention that prices cannot possibly come down for some time to come 

 and are probably bound for new high levels. 



Cleveland lumber dealers having hardwoods specified by the govern- 

 ment for military cantonments do not expect to place any bids except in 

 case one of the camps is established in the immediate vicinity of Cleve- 

 land. In that case they would expect to furnish certain requirements on 

 account of the facilities they would have for delivery. At the present 

 time they are busy taking care of local manufacturing and building re- 

 quirements. 



A recent fire caused a damage of $10,000 to the lumber plant of Ditzler 

 & Woods, Willshire. O. 



Fred A. Wilson, Columbus, O., has organized a wholesale lumber busi- 

 ness at that place. 



Mrs. Harry A. Dellenberger and Hazel Dellenberger, wife and daughter 

 of Harry A. Dellenberger, vice-president of the Akron Lumber Company, 

 Akron. O., were instantly killed when an interurban car struck an auto- 

 mobile which Mrs. Dellenberger was driving. Van Dalia Dellenberger, 

 another daughter, was probably fatally injured. 



=■< EVANSVILLE >■= 



Hugh G. Faith has completed the erection of his new sawmill on the 

 Troy road near Washington, Ind., and the plant is now in operation. 



John C. Keller, traffic manager of the Evansville Lumbermen's Club, 

 reports some change for the better in the car shortage situation iu Evans- 

 ville and southwestern Indiana- Lumber manufacturers say they are 

 getting more cars than they secured a month or two ago and that their 

 shipments are delayed like they were a short time ago. The manufacturers 

 are still suffering some delay in making their shipments, however, due 

 to the labor shortage. One large manufacturing concern in Evansville 

 reports that it found it impossible to get all the laboring men needed. 

 Manufacturers are also complaining over the high price of coal and claim 

 it is hard to make contracts just now. Coal is selling for fifteen and 

 sixteen cents a bushel in the Evansville market, the highest price on 

 record and the coal operators and retail dealers predict that coal will go 

 double this price by next winter. Lane B. Osborne, prosecuting attorney 

 of this (Vanderburg) county, has been collecting data on the coal prices 

 and this matter is to be presented to the grand jury in a short time. It is 

 charged that the coal operators and retail dealers are in a combine to hold 

 up fuel prices in this section. 



The employes of the Conrey-Birely table factory at Shelbyville, Ind., 

 have organized a protective association through which they hope to secure 

 food materials, fuel and household necessities at a lower price than is 

 quoted on the local market. Edward Burkher, a member of the Shelby- 

 ville city council, is president of the new association. 



Daniel A. Wertz of Maley & Wertz, hardwood lumber manufacturers of 

 this citj-. has been elected a director of the Wisconsin Smoke Consumer 

 Company that was recently organized in Evansville, the purpose of the 

 company being to sell a patent smoke consumer in the state of Wisconsin. 



Claude Wertz of Maley & Wertz has returned from a business trip to 

 Cincinnati and Dayton and reports trade conditions there coming along 

 all right. 



The tie companies operating in this city have been doing a very nice 



