July 25, 191T 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



37 



Well on towards one third the number or 34 cities, show an Increase in 

 the volume of the permits issued. They are mainly from the smaller clus- 

 ters of cities. Cleveland, Hartford, Washington and the borough of Brook- 

 lyn, New York, are the only cities with an aggregate running Into seven 

 figures, that score an increase. Other notable gains include Atlanta, 166 

 per cent ; Bayonne, N. J., 123 per cent ; Ilarrlshurg, Pa.. 52S per cent ; 

 Huntington, W. Va., 336 per cent; Kansas City, Kans., 452 per cent; New 

 Bedford, Mass., 127 per cent; Oklahoma City, Okia,, 119 per cent; Pueblo, 

 Colo., 135 per cent ; South Bend, Ind., 212 per cent ; Spokane, Wash., 1S4 

 per cent ; St. Joseph, Mo., 107 per cent, and Youngstown, Ohio, 199 per cent. 

 There is another mitigating feature. During June last year the permits 

 issued in the borough of Mahhattan, New York City, were swelled to the 

 enormous volume of over .$18,322,110. 



Hardwood ISfeivs ISfotes 



-•< MISCELLANEOUS >- 



The American Casket company has been incorporated at Birmingham. 

 Ala., for $10,000. 



The Clanton Planing Mill Company, Clanton, Ala., has been incorporated 

 for $3,600. 



The Montgomery Toy Manufacturing Company has been incorporated 

 with authorized capital of $20,000 at Montgomery, Ala. 



At Savannah, Ga.. the Granger-Lewis Lumber Company has hied incor- 

 poration papers, with authorized capital of $250,000. 



The Eastman Gardiner Hardwood Company has been incorporated with 

 capital stock of $25,000 at Clinton, Iowa. 



Jones Hickory Company has been incorporated with capital stock of 

 $2,500, at Ready. Ky. 



The Trimble Cypress Company, Cincinnati, is reported to be in the 

 hands of a trustee. 



-< CHICAGO >• 



At the meeting of representative walnut manufacturers held In Chicago. 

 July IS, the American Walnut Manufacturers' Association elected the 

 following officers for the ensuing year : President, J. N. Penrod ; Ray E. 

 Pickrel. vice-president ; V. L. Clark, secretary-treasurer. 



Word comes from St. Albans' territory that Myron G. Gorder. Grand 

 Prairie, Tex., has accepted the position of sales manager for the American 

 Column & Lumber Company. 



Among the prominent northern visitors recently in the city were : J. T. 

 Phillips of the Diamond Lumber Company, Green Bay, Wis., C. J. Kinzel 

 of the Kinzel Lumber Company, Merrill, Wis., who attended the meeting 

 of the bureau of statistics of the Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association, Charles H. Law of the J. W. Wells Lumber Company, 

 Menominee, Mich., and John A. Defaut of the Lake Independence Lumber 

 Company, Big Bay, Mich. 



Various northern sales managers got together for an informal discus- 

 sion of market conditions last week, among them being H. H. Butts, Park 

 Falls Lumber Company/ Park Falls. Wis., Mr. Dark of the J. E. Stearns 

 Lumber Company. Odanah, Wis.. W. E. Vogelsang and John Fountain of 

 the Turtle Lake Lumber Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Earl Palmer, president of Ferguson-Palmer Company, Memphis, Tenn., 

 came through Chicago last week en route from northern Michigan, where 

 his family is spending the summer. He was visiting with his younger son, 

 John, who has just enlisted in Uncle Sam's ordnance department, this 

 being the second junior Palmer to join the army. Mr. Palmer's belief is 

 that Uncle Sam will be a large buyer of hardwood, especially oak, and 

 ash, during the next year or two, or as long as the war continues. 



John N. Penrod of the Penrod Walnut & Veneer Company, Kansas City, 

 Mo., and affiliated with other operations! spent a day in Chicago recently 

 en route to Louisville on his way from the East. He was accompanied by 

 Mrs. Penrod and was very much encouraged over prospects for future 

 walnut business. When an old-timer like Mr. Penrod gets new enthusi- 

 asm there must be a great future for this popular wood. 



George F. Kerns of the George F. Kerns Lumber Company, Chicago, 

 expects to take a vacation on Lake Erie. Nobody would ever think a 

 farmer boy like George would be a sailor, but he likes the taste of the 

 water in the inland lakes. One of these days he no doubt will be a full- 

 fledged sailor man. He reports a fairly good volume of hardwood busi- 

 ness and is feeling very optimistic about future business. 



The retirement from the hardwood business of Charles F. Thompson, 

 Perle Lowe, and the sale of the Mississippi Lumber Company of Quitman, 

 Miss., to the Long-Bell Lumber Company, Kansas City, we trust will not 

 put either of these gentlemen in inactivity. They have both been con- 

 nected with the lumber business for many years, and have always been 

 aggressive operators, although very little of their interests have been in 

 hardwoods. They own large yellow pine stumpage in Mississippi and 

 started operations only a few years ago in hardwoods. The Long-Bell 

 Lumber Company is increasing operations by the purchase of the Crandall 

 Lumber Company's plant, which makes this concern more of a factor in 

 eastern yellow pine, and its hardwood operations as well now are larger. 



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owning timber and mills at Pine Bluff, Ark., although yellow pine mills 

 are scattered in Arkansas, Louisisna, Mississippi and Texas. 



We part temporarily with our old friends the Mississippi folks and 

 liopc to hear of their coming back into the fold in some other way. The 

 Ijong-Bell Lumber Company, perhaps the largest operator in yellow pine, 

 no doubt in time will be fully as aggressive in hardwoods. Owning a 

 flooring, finish and other products as well as to the consumers' trade to 

 large number of retail lumber yards, their distribution no doubt will be 

 which they are now catering at their various plants. 



Frank F. Fish, secretary of National Hardwood Lumber .\ssociatioii, 

 reports an increase of sixteen new members since the annual meeting. 

 He stated that It certainly gives encouragement when a membership of 

 over 900 continues to grow towards the 1,000 mark. 



Theodore Schneider of the northern peninsula of Slichigan was in towa 

 the other day. He reported it his belief that the logging conditions would 

 tie more severe this fall than for some time past, and his company antici- 

 pating that condition has already a good stock of logs on hand — probably 

 one-half or two-thirds of the season's Cut. 



=-< BUFFALO >= 



The project of building ocean vessels at this port seems likely to be 

 carried to completion before long. H. S. Kerbaugh, Inc., is now developing 

 a shipbuilding yard south of the foot of Main street, where a large amount 

 of filling in is now being done. It will take some time to get things !■ 

 shape for the building of vessels, and some difficulty may be experienced in 

 getting sufficient skilled labor, but the company expects to be able to meet 

 the situation and there is certainly good demand for all the boats that 

 can be turned out. 



The Buffalo Lumber Exchange is arranging for an outing in the near 

 future and the committee, headed by Charles N. Perrin, expects to choose 

 the time and location in a few days. It is usual to have an outing during 

 June, but this year the weather was unsuitable and other matters also 

 contributed to a postponement. Mr. Perrin is going on a two weeks' vaca- 

 tion to the family homestead at Conesus very soon. 



The military draft is expected to reduce the working forces at the Buf- 

 falo hardwood offices, for almost every concern has at least one man 

 eligible, while some have half a dozen or more. Bufi:alo has a number of 

 young lumbermen who are already enlisted and some of them saw service 

 in Mexico recently. In this list Is Fleming Sullivan of T. Sullivan & Co., 

 who has been spending several weeks at the military training camp at 

 Madison Barracks. 



Members of the Russian commission visited this city on July 20 and 21 

 and inspected a number of the leading plants here, including those of the 

 Curtiss Aeroplane Company, the Lackawanna Steel Company and the 

 Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Company. On the local committee of entertain- 

 ment were Councilman A. W. Kreinheder, James B. Wall, City Treasurer 

 I. N. Stewart, James L. Crane and O. E. Yeager, members of the lumber 

 trade. 



:< PITTSBURGH >.. 



The Elkins Box Company is a new concern which is fitting up a plant 

 at Warren, Ohio, and will make crates chiefly for the Trumbull Steel Com- 

 pany of that city. 



The Frampton-Foster Lumber Company, which had the best shipments 

 in its history in June, reports business continuing good and does not look 

 tor any falling off this summer. In oak, it is getting by far the best de- 

 mand that it ever received. 



Harry Wilson, Bessemer building wholesaler, announces that railroafl 

 and trolley companies are not buying so much in the line of poles and ties 

 as a few months ago. There is still a fair market for ties, however, which 

 includes a big demand from the coal mines. 



E. V. Babcock, head of the Babcock Lumber Company, is a busy man 

 nowadays getting his campaign shaped "up for mayor of Pittsburgh. He 

 is going to make a mighty strong run for republican nomination at the 

 September primaries. 



The J. C. Cottrell Lumber Company is starting another hardwood miH 

 In the South which it expects to have running by September 1. Mr. Cot- 



