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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Extracts from April Exports 



The exports o£ forest products. I'nth manut'actiii-cil ami unmanufactured, 

 from tbis country Ln April of this year were valued at $5,112,906, and 

 for the same month in 1916, the total was .'i!4, 336,163. This shows a 

 gain of .'8576,743. The volume exported was not as large in April of this 

 year as in the same month last year, but advance in value made the total 

 count more. The export of square timber to the United Kingdom was 

 about half as much in April. 1917, as in the preceding April. The in- 

 creased export to Canada made good what was lost in shipments to Eng- 

 land and Scotland. The falling off of exports of lumber to the United 

 Kingdom was in about the same proportion as the square timber, and 

 part of the loss was made up by exports of lumber to Canada. Compar- 

 ing the same month in both years, the export of staves increased 25 per 

 cent for April of this year. 



Timber for Batteries 



A report by an officer of the Russian government upon the destruction of 

 forests in Poland by the Germans who are occupying that region tempo- 

 rarily, says that 5.500 trees are cut for timbers in placing a battery of 

 German Held artillery, and that 1,000 such batteries are on the line. Every 

 time a battery is moved, a new supply of timber must be provided. The 

 result is, the forests of Poland have been practically destro.ved. The trees 

 are probably very small, for it is inconceivable that so large a number of 

 trees, as we understand the term in this country, are required to equip a 

 field battery. 



A Census Extract 



The Bureau of the Census has published in a volume of 700 pages an 

 abstract of the country's manufactures for 1914. 



The total value of lumber and its manufactures in the United States is 

 placed at $1,599,710,000. That includes not only lumber as such but 

 embraces practically all of the industries in which wood in some form is 

 the material of chief value. -Vpparently, there is some duplication in 

 arriving at the total value, for if the value of lumber is given and the 

 same lumber is figured again when it has been manufactured into furniture, 

 finish, vehicles and other articles, the same material is valued twice. 

 The millyard value of the lumber output in 1914 was probably about 

 $570,000,00(1. If this is subtracted from the above total value (because 

 counted twice) it apparently leaves the total value that year of "lumber 

 and its manufactures" at approximately .$1,029,710,000. It is not prac- 

 ticable, however, to figure it out exactly, because much of the lumber, 

 not being further manufactured, is counted only once. 



In compiling statistics of lumber and its manufactures it is next to 

 impossible to avoid counting some of the material more than once, be- 

 cause after each manufacture it appears in^ different forms ; for instance, 

 the first time it may appear as rough lumber, next as vehicle dimension 

 stock, and third as finished vehicles, but it is the same material all the 

 time. A similar things occurs, more or less, in all the wood-using indus- 

 tries. 



The ".Abstract" is for sale at 65 cents by the Superintendent of Docu- 

 ments, Government Printing C)flice, Washington, r>. C. 



Memphis, July o. — I am sending this picture of a steel car and a 

 "flock" of car stakes that cost seven dollars a car, on flats. The cost 

 of additional labor and three dollars extra freight, and utilizing some 

 No. 2 gum at ten dollars at the mill, indicates that the new proposed 

 law covering car stakes would be unfair to the shipper. The local on 

 ear stakes, the shortage of cars, the loading of ties on box cars at cost 

 of .five dollars per car, the demurrage proposition was unfair and for 

 many other reasons enumerated would soon convince the United States 

 that the railroads are taking advantage of conditions and putting some- 

 thing over. — E. H. D. 



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Hardwood 'News Notes 



-< CHICAGO >- 



C. R. Mengel of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, Louisville, Ky., ac- 

 companied by Mrs. Mengel, spent several days in Chicago, visiting Fort 

 Sheridan, Culver and other military posts. Their youngster is going to 

 war and, like many othep anxious parents, they desire to see that he starts 

 right in making a good soldier as w-ell as lumberman. 



S. M. and W. E. Nickey of the Green River Lumber Company, Mem- 

 phis, Tenn., spent several days the latter part of last week in Chicago. 



C. J. Tully of the Anderson-Tully Company, Memphis, Tenn., passed 

 through Chicago last week with his daughter on their way to northern 

 recreation points. 



George H. Ostrander has resigned his position as sales manager of the 

 Utley-HoUoway Company, Chicago, and has accepted charge of the New 

 England territory of the W. M'. Ritter Lumber Company. Columbus, O., 

 with which firm he was formerly connected. Mr. Ostrander will make his 

 headquarters in Boston. 



F. M. Cutsinger of Evansville, Ind., passed through Chicago last week 

 on his way back to Evansville after a five months' stay in California with 

 his family. Mr. Cutsinger said that California mills are now rather quiet. 

 He also stated that there is some difficulty in getting Japanese oak on the 

 Coast on account of the ocean freight rates. 



Clarence Ingalls, manager of the C. L. Willey Company, Chicago, left 

 for the *East last week, planning to spend a month of rest and recreation 

 in New York state points. 



Charles Dudley of the Dudley Lumber Company, Memphis, was in Chi- 

 cago last week. He is still very enthusiastic over the ash situation, being 

 a specialist in that line. He reports a nice increased volume of business. 

 While they carry good stocks at both Memphis and New Orleans, their 

 stocks are somewhat broken now. 



Mr. Ballou of the Ballou Lumber Company at Stanley, Wis., was in 

 Chicago recently. He reports the Wisconsin hardwoods strong and in 

 good demand. 



=■< BUFFALO >•- 



Some of the principal members of the hardwood lumber trade enjoyed 

 an outing at Hamburg, on June 2S, the occasion being the annual outing 

 of the Cult of the White Buffalo, which is made up of prominent workers 

 in the Chamber of Commerce. The day's program included races of 



