September 10, Idil 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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ii'ontinvicd I'rom Vugc 2:;i 

 that thf puhliciition was not unsatisfactoi-.v tci ciTlain pcdiilo comipftid 

 with the shipping linurrl and witli Ihc wlmlosalc luiulin- intin-psts. Hard 

 wood manufacturers say that tlie pnlilieatiim is erroneous and unwar- 

 ranted: that it was never proposed to have ruddi'r stoel< 40 feet long, 14 

 hy 24 inches, Init that 20 liy 20 inches 42 feet lonj; was the size originally 

 specified: that the prices aslied liy the hardwood manufacturers are not 

 unreasonnhle, hut quite tlie contrary : that it is ridiculous to suggest that 

 farmers saw sucli huge pieces of timlier; that it will complicate matters to 

 have a flood of offers from them of all sorts of oak timber: that the lumOer 

 committee agreed to the ,'ilin,". piioe asked by the hardwood bureau. It is 

 claimed that the government specifications are so difficult to meet that a 

 high price must be obtained in order to make up for the great waste 

 involved in getting out oak ship timbers. 



It is learned at the Southern Hardwood Kuicrgcucy r.ure;iii that the 

 shipping board experts have agreed to modify the specifications so that 

 item 14.'i of the wooden ship schedule, which is for rudder post stock, may 

 be 20 by 20 inches, ,'52 feet long, with a view ti> scarfing two pieces into 

 one rudder post, and that a certain percentage of wane and sap may 

 appear on these timbers provided it may be turneil off at one end to size 

 IS by 1.S inches. 



-■Vn interesting conference was held rec.utlj l)etwcen the committee on 

 lumber. Council of National Defense, and a committee representing the 

 hardwood manufacturing interests and particularly the Southern Hardwood 

 rimergency Bureau, .\mong the hardw.ood men present were W. M. Hitter, 

 Columbus, O. : \V. E. HeLaney, Lexington. Ky. ; F. If. (ladd, Cincinnati: 

 It. L. Jurden, Memphis: E. E. Myers, W. W. Stark, St. Albans, W. Va., 

 chairman of the emergency bureau committee : H. n. Weiss, Memphis : 

 .1. M. I'ritchard, secretary of the <!um Lumber Manufacturers' .Association. 

 who has been talking with government people with a view to interesting 

 them in gum wood for war inirposes : I,. I'. Dubose, Charleston, Miss.: 

 F. \y. Mowbray, Cincinnati, and H. H. Burns, Huntington, W. Va. 



There was a general discussion in the conference on the needs of the 

 government, the iiossibilities of the hardwood imlustry, how it can help 

 I'ncle Sam, cooperation in the industry. Unuber prices, methods of organiza 

 fion and operation of the hardwood bureau. The hardwood men agree<l tJiat 

 oak is needed in quantities not only for wooden ships, but for army escort 

 wagons, and that hickory is wanted lor artillery wheels, ash, mahogany, 

 walnut, cherry, birch and other hardwoods for airplane stock, walnut for 

 gun stocks, etc. .\s soon as the shipping situation eases up a bit so that 

 there is time availalde, the hardwoo'd emergency bureau will actively take 

 up the question of supplying the needs of other branches of the govern- 

 ment service for war piu'i'oses, iuchiding the eugineer liranch of the army, 

 the quartermaster de| artment. the navy Inireaus of construction and 

 repair iind supplies and accounts, the artillery an<l (u'dnance bureaus of 

 the war department, etc. .Ml hardwtiod mills have been requested to 

 cooperate in this work of supplying the needs of the government. 



F. U. Gadd, while liere recently, stated thai nmny new southern mem- 

 bers have joined the Hardwood Manufacturers' .\ssoeiation : that it will 

 open a branch office in Memphis and hold monthly meetings there to discuss 

 open price and open competition matters of interest to that section, as the 

 eastern end of these problems are taken up at meetings at Cincinnati. 



Of interest to the hardwood industry is the reported decision of the 

 shipping board not to negotiate any additional ccmtracts for wooden s!iip 

 cfmstruction at present and until a number of .contracts negotiations for 

 which were initiated by Cen. lioethals are executed. -Vdmiral Capps. 

 general manager of the fleet corporation, is going over these negotiations 

 and recommending the execution of many of the contracts. Ship board 

 officials say that the maximum facilities for wooden shi» construction will 

 be utilized when the (Joi'thals cimtracts are executed anti that it would 

 lie useless therefore to in'gotiate new (ontracts. Contracts already executed 

 and those awaiting the board's appi-oval, it is un<ierslood, provide for the 

 construction of ;ino to 400 wooden shins. The hoard's program of building 

 fabricated steel ships may be so successful as to do away with the neces- 

 sity for additional wooden ship contracts, it is suggestefl. However, orders 

 have already been placed tor oak items in the ship schedule for many 

 vessels with the soutlnM-n hardwood emergency bureau. Appropriations 

 aggregating about .'«7.">0, 000,000 have already been authorized by congress 

 for ship building and ship commandeering by this government and addi- 

 tional appropriations of S'Ooo.iioo.inio to .'«1, 000,000,000 are now being asked 

 liy the administration of nuigress tii continue and expand the shiiibuildinL^ 

 program, with a view to com.tleting from l.ooo to 2.ooif ships. 



While fabricated steel seems to be the favorite of the shipping board 

 now, it is reported that the board will encourage i)rivate yards to build 

 wooden ships for private iiurposes. 



The Ferris type of wooden ship is still preferred by the shipping board, 

 but it is reported recently to have contracted for a group of Hough tyt)e 

 wooden ships utilizing smaller tindiers at .1!2!)0,000 each. The hoard has 

 also authorized the construction of some vessels according to tin Gilder- 

 sleeve schedule in Conni'cticut, which utilizes smaller timbers, and it has 

 asked for a copy of the I'iaggio schedule, wh ch is being used with small 

 timbers in building a nuiidier of p'-ivate wooden ships on the Gulf coast. 



The wooden ship specifications of the government have l>een modified so 

 as not to permit the use of oak treenails. Locust and eucalyptus and iron 

 bark are now the only woods permitted for the treenail items. The Inter- 

 national Sales Corporation of Washington is selling many carloads of 

 lociLst treenails made in this city from locust wood cut in Virginia to the 

 go\ernnient and to sliipbuibling having government contracts. 



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With the Trade 



Sam Thompson Will Be Married This Month 

 Mr. and Mrs. Kthvard Hennct I-f Master of Mcmpliis, Teiin.. havo issued 

 invitathiiis for the marriage of their dauglitiT, Mary Bennet. to Samuel 

 Alfxamler Thoniiison. manager of the hardwood department of the Ander- 

 ■-^on-Tnlly Company at Memphis. Tonn. The wedding will take place at 

 the residence of the bride, 174.1 t'nion avenue. Memphis, on Wednesday. 

 September 19. The ceremony will occur at half past eight in the evening. 



Large Sycamore Log 



A sound sycamore log five feet in diameter is so unusual that one of 

 that size recently cut near Evansville, Ind.. l)y Maley & Wertz. has at-' 

 tracted considerable attention. Many a sycamore trunk is larger than 

 that, and some on record were eight or ten times as large; l)ut in nearly 

 every instance "those of excessive size have I^een hollow and worthless 

 for lumber. No other tree in this country is so apt to be hollow as ma- 

 ture sycamore. The tree cut by Maley & AV^-rtz will be sawed into quar- 

 tered stock at their plant in Evansville. 



Barr-Holaday Starts Mississippi Mill 



The riarrJInl;i.]a.\' Lumber V'onn)an.\' nl' ^Ircrnlii'ld, O., announces that it 

 has started operations at its new mill at Ilidly UlutT, Miss. This is a band 

 mill with !i capacity of 'iO.OOO feet per day. It will cut principally oak ami 

 gum. The niill will be operated under the same management as the one at 

 lionise. Miss., and all sales will be handled through the head office at Green- 

 field. 



The company owns about five miles of logging railroad through the 

 timberland adjacent to its mill and is assured of an adequate supply 

 of logs. 



Atkins Furnishes Hoo-Hoo Badge 



The big Ilon-IIoo sessions now on at the Hotel McAIpine, New York City, 

 are showing the organization to be in a remarkably strong position. The 

 Iloo-llou has made great strides ?ince the reorganization and the work that 

 has been accomplished is particularly noteworthy considering the general 

 state of affairs since the big house cleaning. 



E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc.. Indianapolis, manufacturers of the silver-steel 

 saws, have come to the front again with badges for the Hoo-Hoo delegates. 

 They have furnished a very attractive little badge containing the tdack 

 cat on a white circle with a golden emblem as a background. The emblem 

 is in the form of a log on which is shown the proper inscription. To this 

 is attached a pin with a miniature American flag. 

 Opens Branch at Memphis 



The Hrown P.rotlu-rs t'nmpany. locattMi ;it 11 liroadway, New York, 

 announces that in addition to the mills it is operating in Florida it has 

 opened up a bran-.-h at Memphis. Tnnn.. in charge of A. R, Krause, who has 

 lieen with the company for a number of years. 



The Brown Brothers Company is operating extensively in hickory and 

 ash dimension stock and makes a specialty of cutting out specialized sizes, 

 sawed free and clear of defects. It states that this product goes to prac- 

 tically every important commercial market of the world outside of enemy 

 countries, and believes that its Memphis liranch will Iie of material assist- 

 ancp in caring for increasing demaud. 



Becomes Sales Manager for Tallahatchie Lumber Company 



V. 11. Slnnford. wliu has been empbiyed in tlie sales office of the Lamb- 

 Fish Lumber Conii)any of Cbarleston, Miss., resigned that office on Septem- 

 ber 1 and has accepted the position of sale:-> manager of the Tallahatchie 

 Lumlier i'ompi'n.v of I'bilipi), Jliss. 



Mr. Stanford joined the sales force of the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company 

 in Charleston in .lanuary, 1914. but in the fall of that year, soon after the 

 outbreak of the war, he left for Texas, returning to Charleston in September 

 of last year, Mr. Stanford has a good reputation in the trade, is energetic 

 and an ambitiniis worker nnil has ample ability tii make good in bis new 

 position, 



C. Crane & Co. Resume Operations 



Logging operations uf C. Crane ^: i'i>.. which liuve been practically at a 

 standstill for several months following the exhaustion of logs from Buffalo 

 ("reek. W. Va., have been resumeil on the Big Coal Uiver and logs are now 

 being shipped fro n the new territory to the Crane niilis in Cincinnati, which 

 will shortly resume operations. 



It is announced that C. Crane & Co, have arranged for the construction 

 of two four-mile extensions on the I'hesapeake & Ohio railroad, one to 

 Pond Fork of the Little Coal River, and the other on the west fork of 

 Pond Fork, These exteosions will enable the company to cut the stumpage 

 from 36,000 acres of hardwood. 



Becomes General Manager for Canadian Firm 



p. Bass. wh'> iias lieen connected witli the Dermott Land & Lumber Com- 

 pany of Dermott, Ark., and Chicago, III., for the past five years, has 

 resigned his position as assistant sales manager of that company and on 

 September 1 beeame general manager of the Wilson Lumber Company, Ltd., 

 Toronto. Ont. 



The Wilson company operates a yard in Toronto and does an extensive 

 wholesale hardwood business. It also owns and operates the Mississippi 

 Hardwood Company of Jackson, Miss., which has a small band mill cutting 

 government and to shipbuilders liavinj; government contracts. 



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