August 



191" 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Canada's Lumber Output, 1916 

 The value of the lumber, lath, and sliingle output reported l>y 2,G09 mills 

 operating in Canada in 1916 was as follows : Lumber, $58,365,349 ; lath, 

 $1,743,940; shingles, $5,962,933; total, $66,072,222. In 1916 Canada 

 cut 3,490,550,000 feet board measure of lumber, a decrease of 9.2 per cent 

 from 191.5. The cut decreased in all the eastern Provinces and increased 

 in all the western Provinces as compared with 1915, British Columbia 

 making the most pronounced gain. 



The following table of output and values shows that the average value 

 in 1916 was only 61 cents per thousand feet higher than in 1915. Oak 

 was much higher in value than an,v other wood, and spruce furnished the 

 largest yield. 



1915 1916 



Value Value 



per per 



Kinds of wood 1.000 ft. 1.000 ft. 1,000 ft. 1.000 ft. 



Ash 9.047 $1S.71 6,516 $19.43 



Balsam fir 233,521 14.25 180,349 14.86 



Basswood ■ 24,382 20.06 18,616 20.07 



B^ech .-1,343 16.47 6,403 16.05 



Birch S.-i,7:.:; 10.77 81,543 18.14 



Cedar (;T..;i;(; 17.40 91,373 18.24 



Douglas flr 4.-.:;. .134 11.76 574,626 14.04 



Elm 23.79.J 19.10 15.750 20.61 



Hemlock 238,992 13.69 177,354 14.57 



Jack pine 31,283 15.39 37,929 17.20 



Maple 47,418 17.89 32,402 19.73 



Oak 3.166 28.36 3.149 29.39 



Poplar 9.324 12.21 9,064 13.73 



Red pine 122,387 18.03 61,633 19.07 



Spruce 1,364,113 13.24 1,340,678 15.81 



Tamarack 36,192 13.59 40,031 15.75 



White pine 849,196 20.71 719,140 20.80 



Yellow pine 35,166 13.02 92.698 15.70 



All other 2,118 1,174 



Total 3,842.676 $16.11 3,490,530 $16.72 



Louisiana Railway Project 

 There is being considered by several Louisiana lumber companies a 

 railway project which promises to become an important factor of the trans- 

 portation system of the state. The plans embrace three so-called tap lines 

 and two unincorporated lumber roads, which it is proposed to consolidate 

 under one common carrier corporation. According to plans formulated, 

 the complete line will have its southern terminus at Kinder, where it will 

 connect with the Iron Mountain and Gulf Coast lines, whence it will 

 utilize the present line of the Kinder & Northwestern running north about 

 fifteen miles. New track will connect it with the present tracks of the 

 Industrial Lumber Compahy, which reach Elizabeth in a distance of about 

 eleven miles, with a branch to Oakdale of about twelve miles. Connection 

 will be made at Elizabeth with the Santa Fe, and at Oakdale with the 

 Santa Fe and Iron Mountain. Eight miles of the Industrial Lumber Com- 

 pany's tracks will be utilized north of Elizabeth. New construction four 

 and a half mile.s from this point will connect with the rails of the Louis- 

 iana Saw Mill Company, which run about fifteen miles northeast of Glen- 

 more, where connection is made with the Iron Mountain. From Glenmore 

 it will use the present tracks of the Glenmore & Western, which consists of 

 eleven miles north and east to a connection with the Iron Mountain at 

 Smith's Junction. From a point on this line a gap of three and one-half 

 miles to a connection with the Woodworth & Louisiana will be filled with 

 new track. By the last named line connection will be made with the Iron 

 Mountain at Woodworth, and with the Southern Pacific, the Chicago, Kock 

 Island & Pacific and the Texas & Pacific at Lamouri. The complete line 

 will be about ninety-five miles long and will have connections with six 

 trunk lines at various points 



To Build Many Wooden Residences 



One of the most extensive home-building projects that has ever been 

 undertaken in Wisc<msin is that at Beloit, where the Eclipse Home Makers, 

 a newly organized corporation, will erect 352 modern homes for employes 

 of the Fairbanks-Morse Company, besides a theater, club house for em- 

 ployes, and a number of store buildings. The average cost of the homes 

 themselves is estimated at about $3,000 and they will be built on modern 

 lines with a variety as to form, size, material and outside decorations as 

 well as to interior arrangement to suit the individual tastes of the pros- 

 pective tenants and occupants. 



The work is being done this summer so that the new buildings will be 

 ready for occupancy by next winter. Wisconsin hemlock, maple and 

 birch are to be used in the construction, and the entire building project 

 will repre.sent an outlay of about $1,000,000. The men directing the 

 project have spared no pains or expense in handling the various prelim- 

 inary details, complete investigations having been made as to various 

 building materials as well as the utility and availability of different woods. 



Testing a New Paint 



The Paint Manufacturers' Association of the United States has under 

 way a series of successful tests with a new fire retardant paint, and is 

 co-operating with the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association for the 

 advocacy of this brand of paint, as a measure of fire prevention. Th'e label 

 has been trademarked by the paint association and will be used only by the 

 manufacturers licensed to make the fire resistant paint under the new 

 formula. Other organizations interested in the great problem of reducing 

 the financial losses by fire are also interested in the new paint. 



=-< MISCELLANEOUS >= 



The East Coast Shipbuilding Company has been incorporated at Booth- 

 bay, Me., with $200,000 capital stock. 



The Morse Brothers Lumber Company has purchased the business con- 

 ducted heretofore by the Byrd-Matthews Lumber Company, Helen, Ga. 



The Selma Box & Basket Company is organizing at Selma, Ala. 



The Caflisch Lumber Company has succeeded to the business of the 

 Kuthbell Lumber Company, Albright, W. Va. 



The Henderson Shipbuilding Company at Mobile, Ala., and the Hutton- 

 Sye Lumber Company. Monroeville, Ala., have incorporated. 



The Proctor Furniture Company has been incorporated at Camden, 

 Ark., with a capitalization of $10,000. 



Increase in Ciipital stock has been made hy Fulton-Conway & Co., of 

 Louisville, Ky.. to $150,000. 



The Campbell Lumber Company, with headquarters at Bryan, O., has 

 succeeded the Stryker Boat Oar & Lumber & Mill Company at Stryker, O. 



The capital of the Beaumont Lumber Company, Beaumont, Tex., has 

 been increased from .$125,000 to $200,000. 



The Northwestern Lumber Company has moved from Eau Claire, Wis., 

 to Stanley, Wis. 



.1. W. Dunkley has been appointed receiver for the Standard Hardwood 

 Company, Ashridge, La. 



The capital of the Kentucky Lumber Company, Lexington, Ky., has 

 been decreased from $400,000 to $350,000. 



The American Reed & Willow Furniture Company has been incorporated 

 at Boston, Mass., with a capital of $25,000. 



At Pensacola, Fla., the Bagdad Shipbuilding Company has been in 

 corporated. 



George A. Lang has been appointed receiver for the Four-in-One Man- 

 ufacturing Company at Mitehawaka, Ind. 



The Liebke Lumber Company has been incorporated at Plaquemine, 

 La., and at Kansas City, Mo., the Peters-Dierks Lumber Company is a new 

 incorporation. 



The H. Ehrlich & Sons Manufacturing Company, St. Joseph, JIo., has 

 increased its capital from .*;73,000 to $155,000. 



Among recently incorporated shipbuilding concerns are : The Amer- 

 ican Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Beaufort, S. C, with a capital 

 of $320,000 : the Arundel Shipbuilding Company, Baltimore, Md. ; the 

 Housatonic Shipbuilding Company, Stratford, Conn. 



The American Casket Company has been incorporated at Birming- 

 ham, Ala. 



E. P. Futrell, I. B. Stacey. T. J. Spragins and R. F. Spragins are the 

 incorporators of the Futrell-Stacey Lumber Company, Jackson, Tenn., 

 with a capital of $10,000. 



The Interstate Folding Box Company, Middletown, O., has increased 

 its capital from $10,000 to $73,000. 



< CHICAGO >- 



The Mummert Lumber & Tie Company has been incorporated at 

 Chicago and opened an office at Hattiesburg, Miss. 



The Union Cabinet Corporation, city, has filed an involuntary petition 

 in bankruptcy. 



-V change is reported in the officers and stockholders of the Lord & 

 Bushnell Company, city. 



An involuntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed by the Inter- 

 national Aircraft Company, Chicago, 



Tbe National Hardwood Lumber Association has just issued volume VI, 

 being the second edition of the 1917 compilation of the Consumers' Reg- 

 ister, which volume shows listings aggregating two billion feet of lumber. 



The Huddleston-Marsh Mahogany Company, headquarters at New York. 

 N. Y., has dissolved corporation in the state of Illinois, continuing its 

 immense business in the East. 



The American Cross-Arm Company, Chicago, has changed its name to 

 the American Lune Materials Company. 



The death is announced of S. Walter Woodward, president and founder 

 of Woodward & Lothrop, Stockbridge, Mass.. which occurred on August 1. 



Among the Memphis visitors in town this week was S. M. Nickey of 

 the Green River Lumber Company, and H. B. Weiss of George C. Brown 

 & Co. 



The C. M. Kellogg Lumber Company, which has maintained an office in 

 the Fisher building for the past year and a half, has given up these quar- 

 ters and removed to the yard at Cairo. Mr. Kellogg desired to keep more 

 closely in touch with the yard end. 



W. D. Johnston, president of the American Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., spent a few days recently In Chicago in con- 

 nection with contracts which he is filling for the government. He is 

 supplying ship timber. 



Mr. Shapiro of the Shapiro Antique Company, Detroit, Mich., stopped 

 in Chicago last week on his way to veneer mills in Wisconsin, where he 

 went to contract for supplies of quarter-inch veneers of beech, birch and 



