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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 2."., 1917 



maple. He is a manufacturer of handmade furniture, whicli lieretofore 

 he has made exclusively of mahogany. He was formerly located in Vir- 

 ginia. 



H. B. Sale of Hoffman Brothers Company, Ft. Wayne, Ind., hit Chicago 

 twice this week on a business trip. He had only good words to say about 

 the trade and outlook for hardwoods. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills. Louisville. Ky., was in the 

 city during the week accompanied by Mrs. Kline. He also had a cheering 

 version of the state of trade. 



Louis E. Doster, who is iloinj; a great tleal toward keeping E. C Atkins 

 & Co., Inc.. saw factories full of orders, spent the last half of the 

 week in the city. He is a constant traveler among the mills and fac- 

 tories, and says tlie only thing that is worrying hini from the manu- 

 facturers' standpoint is continued difhculty in getting enough log-cars to 

 keep the mills busy. If they don't cut lumber they don't need saws. Lou 

 recently returned from one pilgrimage into hitherto undeveloped fields, 

 during which his work took him back forty or fifty miles from the rail- 

 road. Selling saws is no child's play. 



-< MEMPHIS >- 



The hardwood situation is one of continued strength. Deniaml is rather 

 below the more recent average, but it is considerably ahead of normal for 

 this time of the year and there are very few members of the trade Avho 

 complain on the score of inability to sell anything they want to sell. 

 There is a ready outlet for practically everything on the hardwood list 

 and the general disposition is to e.xpect an increased demand and well sus- 

 tained prices. .Tust now manufacturing operations are being greatly re- 

 stricted by the shortage of cars for handling logs to the mills and this 

 reduction in manufacturing operations is coming at a time when stocks 

 are below rather than above normal. This means that relations between 

 supply and demand are becoming still further straineil. Business is re- 

 stricted somewhat liy inability to secure cars for handling outbound ship- 

 ments. The situation, in this respect, is rather less sjitisfactory than 

 recently. And it is suggested that it will become even worse during the 

 next few weeks, with the result that lumber interests, while foreseeing 

 a large demand at full prices, are reganling the future with both iloubts 

 and fears. 



A very satisfactory deniaml is reported for ash and oak in all grades, 

 though there is some easing in the price of oak flitches. It is suggested 

 that the requirements of the government in the way of both plain and 

 quartered oak will be large and that ash will be taken in a big way by the 

 manufacturers of airplane parts. Gum goes well in the higher grades of 

 both red and sap, while there is an exceptionally aitive demand for the 

 lower grades used in box manufacture. Cotton wood is also eagerly taken 

 by the box makers. The latter say they are getting more business than 

 they can take care of and that their operations are limited i>nly by Ihe 

 supplies of raw material and not by the volume of business they would be 

 able to do if supplies were larger. A phenomenal call is noteil for wooden 

 C(mtainers of all sorts and the cooperage manufacturers are sharing in 

 some of the prosperity now being enjoyed by the manufacturers of boxes 

 and crates and other shipping packages. This means that they are using 

 large quantities of hardwoods, including oak. <'otton wood, elm and hickory. 

 Furniture and vehicle nianufacturi'rs of all sorts are in the market on a 

 pretty liberal scale and the big demand for trucks from the government 

 is linding relieclion in a large call tor hardwoods to be used in thi' manu 

 facture of the bodies for these. (Jovernment ordi'rs are expected to become 

 an increased factor in the hardwood situation, especially as soon as the 

 Southern Hardwood Emergency ISureau is given authority to look after 

 the needs of the government and gets actively down to the business of 

 finding where the hardwood lumber is and of distributing orders among 

 the manufacturers callable of taking care of the government's neeils. 



C. L. Wheeler of ,1. W. Wheeler & Co., Memphis and Madison. Ark., and 

 the Pritchard-Wheeler Lumber Company, .Memiihis and Wisner, La., has 

 installed a seven-foot band mill at Oak (Jrove, La., which he is operating 

 for his own account under the name of the Oak Grovi' Lumber Company. 

 The mill and timber are located more than twelve miles from the railroad 

 and the output of the plant, principally oak, is being handled to the rail- 

 road by means of trucks. 



It is announced that the Pritchard & Whecder Lumber C(unpany will 

 have Its new mill at Wisner, I,a., in operation by the middle of next month. 

 This plant has been in process of construction for several months under 

 the supervision of C. G. Kadel, formerly of the Kiel-Kadel I.uinber Com- 

 pany, who is general manager of the big new tirm. It is stated, however, 

 that the company will not proceed immediately with the building of the 

 second plant which was .scheduled for Bruin Lake, La., when it acquired 

 some 30,000 acres of Louisiana hardwood timber lands. The cost of ma- 

 chinery is so high that the time is not considered opportune for putting 

 up another plant. 



Harry B. .\nderson. treasurer and attorney for the .\nderson-Tully Com- 

 pany, has been given a caiitainey in thi' ordnance department of the regu- 

 lar army of the United States following the complellon ot bis work at the 

 officers' reserve camp at Fort Oglelhorpe, Ga.. while K. .M. Diirnell of K. .1. 

 Darnell, Inc., has been oommissioneil a second lieutenant in the lield 

 artillery, ollicers' reserve corps. Mr. .\nderson weighed 207 pounds when 

 he left .Memphis, hut the training was so strenuous that he now tips the 

 beam at only 10,5 pounds. He Is a son of Col. S. B. Anderson, president 

 of the Anderson-Tully Company, among the largest box and lumber manu- 



facturing companies in this part of the country. He is receiving the con- 

 gratulations of his many friends on the berth he has landed and is like- 

 wise coming in for much commendation because of his entrance into the 

 officers' training camp under the handicaps which he suffered. 



Memphis lumbermen are also well represented in the second <ifficers' 

 training camp at Fort Oglethorpe, which will be opened August 27. The 

 lumbermen who will seek commissions are : R. .1. Welsh of Welsh Brothers ; 

 H. H. Clark, assistant sales manager of Penro<l. .Turden & McCowen. Inc.. 

 and Edward Stanton, assistant secretary of the American Oak Manufac- 

 turers' Association. These gentlemen are ail of tine physique and are 

 expected to carry off some of the higher commissions when the tinal choice 

 is made. 



H. P.. Weiss of George C. Brown & Co., R. L. Jurden, Penrod. .Turden 

 & McCowen, both of Memphis, and L. P. DuBose of the Lamb-Fish Lumber 

 Company. Charleston. Miss., will leave for Washington this week, where 

 they will, with the other three members of the Southern Hardwood 

 lOmergeney Bureau, seek to determine just what is expecte<l of this body 

 in the securing of the needs of the government in the way of hardwood 

 lumber. The Memphians are imbued with the idea that the bureau can be 

 very successful if given broad enough power and if competitive buying of 

 southern hardwood lumber for the various branches of the service ig 

 eliminated. They are anxious fo do all they can in behalf of the govern- 

 ment in carrying out its war preparations and its actual war measures 

 and the hope is exjiressi-d that it will be given the necessary authority to 

 make it a distinctly helpful fact<ir in the present emergency. E. E. 

 Myers will be in charge of the bureau as manager, with headquarters at 

 Washington, while Messrs. Weiss. .Turden ami DuBose and the other three 

 members will act in an ailvisory capacity. 



John W. Mct^lure of the Bellgrade Lumber Company. Memphis, and 

 ihairmnn of the inspection rules ciunmittee of the National Hardwood 

 Lumber .\ssociation. has returned from Walloon Lake. Mich., where he 

 spent bis vacation. Mr. McClure reports that there is plenty of demand 

 for hardwood lumlu'r. but says that the distriburitux of cai-s ftu" ban 

 illing lumber shipments is quite inequitable and that much difficulty is 

 being encountered in securing cars f<ir shipping lumber. 



Ralph Jurden of Penrod, Jurden & McCowen. Inc.. Memphis and Helena, 

 Ark., is authority for the statennuit that it is e.\tremely difflcult to go 

 ahead with manufacturing operations because of the inadequate car 

 service furnished by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain ,.*c Southern. He says 

 that it> is Impossible to get all the logs needed ami that ojierations are 

 necessarily more or less intermittent and irregular. Other lirms having 

 mills on the Iron Mountain are likewise having nmeb difficulty in keep- 

 ing their plants going, so much so that, as a matter <if fact, quite a num- 

 ber of them are closed down. 



R. II. Ltarneli of R. J. Darnell. Inc.. reports quite extensive improve- 

 ments umler way in the yards ami handling facilities at Batesville, Miss., 

 where the lirm operates a big donbb* band mill. Conttrete alleyways are 

 being built and everything will be done that can contribute to a reduction 

 in the cost of handling lumber from the saw to the car, including the use 

 of the gravity system. Motor power will be used as far as possible and the 

 tirm hopes to have model yards ami facilities wh<'U it is through with the 

 idaiis now in ermti>mplation. 



-< BUFFALO >■ 



Nje Hari'ison Farnbam, for several years the traveling representative of 

 the .Mowtiray & Robinson Company of Cincinnati. In western New York 

 and Canada, died on August .*» in the Buffalo General Hospital. While on 

 his vacation with ills wife and two daughters he contracted pneumonia, 

 which proved fatal. He was born in Addison, N. Y., October 28, 1875. 

 .\tter completing his elementary studies he entered Cornell University, 

 grailuating in l.Hlt.K. He then entered the lumlier business and for two 

 years was in Minnesota. Iteturning to Buffalo, be worked for several years 

 with the former Empire Lumber Company. Later be was with the Interior 

 l.umlM.'r Ctuupany. Memphis. Tenn.. and had been for several years with the 

 Cincinnati company. Besides his tinmediate family be is survived by his 

 liarents. .Mr. and Mrs. George W. Farnham. and a lirotlier, Fred S. 

 Farnham. 



John N. Scatcherd, a veteran member of the Buffahi hardwood trade, 

 and former operator of a large yard here, was married on .\ugust 7 to 

 Mrs. Loiis Loring Ilorton of Orange, N. J. The ceremony was performed 

 in Westminster Church by the assistant pastor, the Rev. W. H. Benham. 

 .Mr. Scatcherd has many friends among lumbermen of the country and was 

 at one time |iresident of the National Hardwood Lumber .Vssoclation. 



The Atlantic Lumber Company is carrying an unusually large supply of 

 hardwoods at present. Lumber is lieing piled in every available portion of 

 the yard and s|iace is getting to be at a premium. 



The last factory of I'"itzpatrick & Weller, Salamanca. N. \'., was burned 

 on .\ugust 0. with a loss of .$7,000, including KO.iiiio last block.-;. 



The candidacy of A. J. Klias for mayor of Buffalo is lieing pushed by his 

 frieuds and with a good possibility of his receiving the nomination. .Mr. 

 lUias is having little compi'tition in the race so tar, though it is expected 

 that the present mayor will run again. The campaign is ex|>ected to tune 

 up in the near future. The local hardwood trade is already represented by 

 one of its uiemiiers on the city council, A. W. Kniiibeib.r. and would be 

 glad to see Mr. Ellas associated with him. 



This is the vacation season at the hardwood yards, as is shown by the 

 number who have either been away or arc about to start on their trips. 



