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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 25. 1917 



ilependent on a single line of railway are up against it in a most exas- 

 perating manner anil they see little hope of a change for the better in the 

 immediate future. 



Owing to the fact that a number of mills operating their own equip- 

 ment are receiving all the logs they want and owing to the fact that some 

 of the others are able to operate at capacity, it is estimated that the pro- 

 duction of hardwood lumber at present in the southern territory is around 

 75 per cent of normal or much greater than the indicated shortage in 

 flat car supply would seem to suggest. 



While outbound cars are scarce to the tune of something like 50 per 

 cent, as already indicated, there is nothing that points to a change for the 

 better in the near future. On the contrary, the view obtains among luml)er 

 interests that, with increasing requirements in the way of cars on the 

 part of the government for handling war materials,- troops and other 

 necessities' the car situation will become worse. The cotton crop move- 

 ment is not far away in the South and the movement of grain has already 

 bngun in the grain producing sectious. 



John Lind Assistant Secretary National Association 



John land has bfon appointrd assistant to the secretary of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association. Mr. I-.ind has bad a good deal of 

 experience in association work and was secretary of the National Slack 

 Cooperage Manufacturers' Association up to the time of the amalgamation 

 of that organization with the other cooperage associations into the Asso- 

 ciated Cooperage Industries of America. 



Northern Emergency Board Active 



The Hemlock Emergency Bureau, which has been doing wonderfully effi- 

 cient and quick work for the government in the way of securing lumlior 

 supplies, has now changed its title to the Northern Hemlock & Hardwood 

 Emergency Bureau and will continue its work from Oshkosh. Wis., herf- 

 after. Edward Hines is chairman of this bureau, O. T. Swan, secretary, 

 and the other members are : H. H. Butts of the Park Falls Lumber Com- 

 pany, Parks Falls, Wis. ; J. F. Halpin of the C. H. Worcester Company. 

 Chicago ; George S. Cortis. Chicago, Goodman Lumber Company, and M. P. 

 McCuUough of the Brooks & Ross Lumber Company. Sohotield, Wis. The 

 bureau in short order secured many million feet of lumber for the Camp 

 Grant cantonment at Rockford. 111., and will be kept mighty busy furnish- 

 ing hardwoods and hemlock for fnttuv army nc('<is. 



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With the Trade 



William Horner Purchase 



William Horner, wlio liiis largi; lianlwoiHl lionriii),' plants at Reed City 

 and Newberry, Mich., reeciilly purcliiised a tract of 8.000 acres of hardwood 

 timberlands situated south of Newberry, l<nown as the Cartier tract. 



Introducing New Factors in James D. Lacey & Co. 



.lames 1). Lai-i'y & t'o. of (_'lii( aKn have just iiuide an extensive announc'c- 

 ment <if the broadening of their Held thro\i^-h Ihe .-Hciuisition of E. A. 

 Sterling as eastern manager and ('. A. Lyford as chief forest engineer. 



Mr. Sterling as announced in a, recent issue will have charge of the eastern 

 office of the company. 



The announcement gives a summary of the history of the various princi- 

 pals in the institution beginning with James D. Lacey, the senior partner, 

 who has been identified with the lumber industry for a generation and who 

 began his career in the Lake states. He was one of the first men to antici- 

 pate the great market for cypress. Mr. Lacey will henceforth make the 

 New York office his eastern headquarters, as his home is at Newburgh, 

 N. Y. 



The other members of the firm are Wood Heal, who has been associated 

 with Mr. Lacey since 1SS2, and Victor Thrane. who has been in the 

 organization since 1900. Both are located at the Chicago office, as is also 

 J. W. AlcCurdy, who entered the employ of the partnership in 1906. In 

 .Seattle B. W. Bawdeu serves as manager, having occupied that position 

 since 1907. 



Mr. Beal has given particular attention to the southern and eastern 

 fields, while Mr. Thrane during the last few years has specialized in west- 

 ern timber and in bonds and other timber securities in connection with 

 the James D. Lacey Timber Company. 



Mr. Lyford comes from the firm of Clark & Lyfcu'd, Ltd.. of Vancouver, 

 B. C. He has had a wide range of experience and activity in forest en- 

 gineering and it is probable that no one knows tidewater timber on the 

 British Columbia coast so intimately as he. He has been closely con- 

 nected also with the pulp region of eastern Canada and with other timber 

 producing sections. He was formerly with the United States Forest 

 Service. 



E. A. Sterling, who resigned the position of manager of the trade exten- 

 sion department of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association, is 

 too well known to the trade at large to need further introduction. He is a 

 trained forest engineer and in addition to having had an extensive prac- 

 tical training in this country has studieil consj<lorably abroad. 

 The White River Lumber Company 



The White River I.undier Company, manufacluri'r and dealer of south- 

 ern hardwoods, recently incorporated, will be loealed in the Union & 

 I'lanters Bank &, Trust Company building. Memphis. Tenn. The officers 

 are C. G. Powell, president; F. J. Roys, vice-president; V. O. Woodruff, 

 secretary ; H. J. Aldworth, treasurer ; and J. H. Maassen, general manager. 



Messrs. Roys & Maassen will have active management of the company. 

 Mr. Roys, for the past fifteen years, has been general sales manager of 

 the Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber Company, South Bend, Ind., and 

 is well known through the consuming and prodttcing market. Mr. Maassen 

 for the past seven years has been in charge of tlie southern operations of 

 the Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lund)er Company, and lias been located 

 al Natchez, Miss., Littli' Kock, Ark., and Memphis, Tenn. 



The new comj»any now has an tip-to-date band mill in operation in 

 Mississippi, and has on hand approx'imately a million feet of hardwood 

 in good shipping condition at this 'time. It will employ a corps of compe- 

 tent inspectors, and due to the extensive experience of Messrs. Roys and 

 .Maassen it is needless to say that they know how to take care of the 

 consuming trade in a satisfactory manner. 



The White River Lumber Company will make a specialty of gum, ash, 

 r>;ik and elm as well as the lianitltng of all other southern hardwoods, and 

 is now ready for business. 



E. A. STERLING, NEW YORK, 

 Eastern Representative J. D. Lacey & Co. 



J.VMES D. LACEY. 



C. A. LYFORD, SE.VTTLE, WASH., 

 Chief Forest Engineer .1. U. Lacey & Co. 



