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HARDWOOD RECORD 



July 10, 1917 



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B 1125 — Basswood 

 Buffalo, N. y., June 29. — Editor Hardwood Kf.coed : We are interestea 

 In basswood 2%" to 3" tbick and we are anxious to get in touch with 

 some mill which can supply us with this w^ood. 



B 1126 — Ash for Aeroplanes 



Chicago, 111., Jul.v M. — Editor Hardwood Ki:iui:d : We desire to secun 

 the names of manufacturess ot ash for aeroplanes. 



B 1127 — Government Wants Dressed Maple Flooring 



Hard maple manufacturers can render a patriotic service to tlie 

 government by following the suggestion made in the letter given 

 below from the office of Chief of Ordnance. Surely somebody can 

 supply this material. The letter follows: 



War Department, Gun Division, Office of the Chief of Ordnance, Wash- 

 ington. D. C. : I am directed b.v the Chief of Ordnance to request your 

 assistance in securing a carload of maple lumber 2x6, dressed, to be used 

 for flooring in the plant of the Eddystone Ammunition Corporation of Eddy- 

 stone, Pa. We have placed a large contract with them for ammunition 

 and they have written us stating that they were unable to secure the lumber 

 and asking our assistance. 



Will you not help to have this matter closed up by telegram direct with 

 the Eddystone Ammunition Corporation? 



(Signed) E. P. O'Hearx. Lieut.-Col. Ordnance Department. 



By F. C. Chesto.n. Lieut. U. S. Ordnance Dcparlnii'nl- 



B 1128 — Wants Panel Trimmings and Other Wood Waste 



Hardwood Record is in receipt of the following letter which may 

 open up a market for different types of wood waste: 



Buffalo, N. y.. July 7. — Editor Hakdwoop Uecord : We desire to pur- 

 chase wood waste varying in widths frtim iV tu \<i" and in thickness from 

 %" to 94". We want this material large enough to make in 1, 2 or 3 

 pieces, barrel or keg headings, 12 to 2n" in diameter. This would require 

 pieces 4 to 20" long. ' . 



Case Goods Association 



Delegates of the various case goods associations in the United States, 

 meeting at the Hotel Gibson, Cincinnati, O., last week, changed the form 

 and name of their parent organization from the National Furniture 

 Manufacturers' Association to National Alliance of Case Goods Associa- 

 tions. All the National Association's oiBcers were selected to serve in 

 similar capacities for the National .Alliance. They are : President, George 

 G. Whitworth, Grand Hapids, Mich. ; vice-president, C. H. Burt, Philadel- 

 phia ; treasurer, B. S. Hathaway, Grand Kapids ; Secretary, A. C. Brown, 

 Grand Rapids. 



Previously the organization was composed of association members as 

 individuals, while the new name will indicate who they really are and serve 

 their purposes better. 



At a meeting of the executive committee of the National Alliance of 

 Case Goods Association at the Hotel Gibson, Chicago was selected as the 

 place for holding the next meeting in December. 



Ne-w Manufacturers' Rule Book Published 



The Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the United States has 

 Just issued a revised copy of its grading rule book effective March 1, 1917. 

 The hook incUiiles all rules adopted at the las't annual meeting at Cin- 

 cinnati, January 31, 1917, covering such items as plain sawed red gum, 

 figured wood, quarter-sawed red gum, figured wood, selects oak, FAS 

 wormy oak, .No. 1 common wormy oak, core stock. 



Hardwood Men Working Strenuously 



The formation of the Southern Hardwood Emergency Bureau at a 

 meeting of the board of directors of the Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation of the United States, Cincinnati, O., has been proven fortunate by 

 the amount and quality of the work already done by this bureau. The 

 bureau consists of six men active and prominent in southern hardwood 

 circles: M. W. Stark. St. Albans, W. Va.. chairmiin : F. W. Mowbray. 

 Cincinnati, O. ; L. P. DuBose, Charleston, Miss. : II. H. Weiss, Memphis. 

 Tenn. ; B. K. Burns, Huntington. W. Va., and F. R, Gadd are the other 

 members, Mr. Gadd being secretary. It will represent all manufacturers 

 of southern hardwood lumber and will handle the work ot- tabulating 

 stock, distributing orders received from the government or from con- 

 tractors having government work, and will ilo everything possible in the 

 way of expediting shipments. 



It is suggested that it will d<iul>tless be necessary to establish head- 

 quarters in Washington, but lor the time being the association offices in 

 the Union Trust building. Cincinnati, will lie used as headquarters. 



With the Trade 



J. H. Bonner & Sons Purchase Hitt Stock 



The immense stock of dry hardwood lumber which has been seasoning 

 on the Mt. Vernon, Ala., yards of the H. H. Hitt Lumber Company, has 

 been purchased by J. H. Bonner St Sons, Memphis, Tenn. Word w'as re- 

 ceived by the Bonner company by wire from the trustee in liaukruptcy on 

 July 5. 



The stock consists of plain and quartered oak, plain and quartered red 

 gum, sap gum, tupelo, poplar, ash, Cottonwood and hickory. This addi- 

 tion to the big stock carried at the Bonner mills in Arkansas gives an 

 exceptionally well assorted line of hardwood lumber and the Bonner facili- 

 ties for taking care of its trade are thus substantially augmented at a time 

 when this stock will serve very useful purposes. 



The new stock taken on from the Hitt company amounts to a little 

 better than 2, .100.000 feet and is in first-class shipping condition. 



Guayandotte's Career Finished 



According to a story coming from Huutinuttm. U'. A'a.. the channel of 

 the Guyandotte river is for the first time in tweuty-tive years unobstructed 

 by logs. The last towing steamer left for Cincinnati on July 4 with a big 

 fleet of "poplar logs in tow. The fleet included, in aildition to the logs, 

 the boom and corker of the Guyandotte Boom Company, a subsidiary to 

 Cole lit Crane. It also included the pull boat which was used in the boom 

 and all other apparatus. 



Hardwood Men in Big Company 



-V new million dollar '.itT-puratiim has been organized at \\'ausau, W^s., 

 the purpose of wdiich is the erection and operation of a large sawmill 

 and lumber manufacturing plant at Sylacauga, Ala. The officers of the 

 company are : I*resident, E. J. Young, Madison ; vice president. Fred N. 

 Stephenson. Menominee ; secretary, W. C. Landou, Wausau ; treasurer, 

 Charles A. Goodman. Marinette. The Lathrop-llatten company's holdings 

 of timberland in Coosa county of .\labania have been purchased. It com- 

 prises 3."i.000 acres and is expected to funiish a cut of forty million feet 

 of long leaf yellow pine annually. Plans for the sawmill have been 

 drawn. They provide for a two band saw and one resaw plants, planing 

 mill and drying kiln together with the usual auxiliary buihlings. W. C. 

 Landnn of Wausau will be general manager. It is estimated that the 

 payroll will involve an expenditure id' nliout ."firp.UOO a month to begin 

 with. 



Fish Starts Antigo Mill 



'I'he wheels of the Fish Lumber Company of Antigo, Wis., recently 

 began tvirning. The boilers have been steamed up for several days and 

 tlie pumps and engines trlerl out. -Ml preiimiuiiry arrangements were made 

 last wei'U and logs have been brought in from the vast tract of timber 

 nearby while building operations on tlie mill were in jirogress, twenty 

 carloads having been available on the opening day. The hotpond as well 

 as the log channel were also in readiness on Saturday. Eight to ten 

 cars of logs are to be bi^ught in <Iaily from the Koopenick branch. A 

 night shift will be put on as soon as all machinery is well tuned up. A 

 planing mill is to be built next and will occupy a site east of the boiler 

 house. 



Enlarge Mill Capacity 



The Saline River Hanlwuod Company of I'iue Bluff, Ark., is adding sub- 

 stantially to its oak lloftring plant. With the additions the company will 

 have a capacity of 0."i,0(iO feet of oak flooring per <lay which, with the 

 .'i0,000 feet production of the Arkansas Oak Flooring Company, makes Pine 

 Bluff next to the largest oak flooring market in the world. 



Recent compilation shows that Nashville. Tenn., now leads with a 

 monthly output ot 1. '.100.000 feet; Cincinnati is second with 1.100,0011 feet: 

 :Memphis third with 900.000 feet, and Blissville. Ark., fourth with 900.000 

 feet. 



Birch Heartwood for Gun Stocks 



Tlic New ICnglanil Weslinghoiise ('ompany. .Mi-ridcn, rniin . is working 

 ■ m a contract to furnish l.iioii.OOO rifles to the Russian government. They 

 \\ill be stocked with hardwood of sweet and yellow birch instead of black 

 walnut, and each gun calls for seven feet of wood, or 7,000,000 feet for 

 the whole Job. The company now employs 1,000 hands and turns out 500 

 guns a day, but expects to increase this to 1.000 in a short time. Even 

 at that rate three years will be required to fill the contract. It is probable 

 that the war will be over before tlie last shipments of these rifles reach the 

 firing line. 



Arkansas News 

 In the case of the Minnequa Coopernge Company against G. W. Hen- 

 dricks, Judge of the third division of the Pulaski Circuit Cmirt, the supreme 

 court of Arkansas on July 2 decided that the ait of the .\rkansas General 

 .Vssembly of 1917, providing that nine or more members of a Jur\ may 

 render a verdict in a civil case, is unconstitutional. This suit grew out 

 of the case of C. E. Shiffer against the Minnequa Cooperage Company, 

 wherein Shiffer was seeking to recover danmgcs on account of an alleged 

 false imprisonment. When this case was tried in the circuit court, the 

 Jury being unable to reach a unanimous verdict, proceeded under the 

 authority of the act above mentioned and returned a verdict signwl by 



