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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 10, 1917 



R. J. Darnell, Inc., Expands Timber Holdings 



R. J. Darnell, Inc., Memphis, Tenn., has purchased the timber on 3,000 

 acres of land adjoining its large timber holdings near Batesville, Miss. 

 The Batesville & Southern, which runs through the timber properties of 

 this firm, also goes through the newly acquired timber holdings and will 

 be used for developing the latter. This firm is making many improve- 

 ments at Batesville, where Its double band mill is located, all with a view 

 to saving labor, and reducing the cost of manufacturing and distributing 

 its output. 



Norman-Fulton 



The wedding of Edwin Norman, vice-president of the Norman Lumber 

 Company, Louisville, to Miss Nell Cnitcher Fulton, daughter of Dr. Gavin 

 Fulton, Louisville, will be solemnized at St. Paul's church on the evening 

 of October 10. Mr. Norman is also vice-president of the Louisville Hard- 

 wood Club and a director of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, 

 Louisville branch. 



In His Father's Steps 



The annual announcement of the line-up of the football team to represent 

 tlie Louisville Boy's High School, carried the name of another Norman, the 

 Normans having been leaders in football in Louisville for a number of years. 

 A few years ago Barry Norman, head of the Holly Ridge Lumber Company, 

 and his brother, J. Van Norman, a well-known lumber and coal interstate 

 commerce authority, were noted local players. About two years ago Col- 

 gan Norman, eldest son of Barry Norman, broke into the game and became 

 a star, while in 1905 Edwin Norman, now of the Norman Lumber Company, 

 was a star. This season Barry Norman, Jr., will play as a guard on the 

 local eleven. 



Big Pritchard & Wheeler Mill Starts Cutting 

 C. G. Kadel, general manager of the Pritchard & Wheeler Lumber Com- 

 pany, is circulating among his many friends in Memphis this week. He 

 has just arrived here from Wisner, La., where he has been during the 

 past eight weeks. Mr. Kadel superintended the construction of the big 

 hardwood plant of the company at Wisner which was recently put in 

 operation. He said that the machinery had been pretty well adjusted and 

 that the plant would be going at maximum capacity, 75,000 feet per day, 

 very shortly.. Mr. Kadel also said that the company planned building its 

 second mill next spring. This is to be located at Bruin Lake, La., and is 

 to be similar in capacity and design to that constructed at Wisner. 



May Brothers Purchase Big Tract 



May Brothers, who operate a large band mill in Memphis, have pur- 

 chased 8,500 acres of hardwood timberlands in Grenada county, near Gre- 

 nada, Miss., for a consideration of between $.300,000 and $400,000. The 

 property was acquired from the Maley Land & Lumber Company of Evans- 

 ville, Ind., and the transaction was closed October 1. The land is well 

 timbered with oak, ash, gum and other hardwoods and the new owners 

 plan the installatinn of a mill for the development thereof, preferring this 

 to bringing the logs to Memphis. The property is located on the Yazoo & 

 Mississippi Valley line of the Illinois Central System, but Ralph May stated 

 that It would be necessary for the firm to build seven or eight miles of 

 railway to facilitate development. This is the third big tlmberland trans- 

 action recently in which Memphis lumbermen are Interested, the other two 

 being the joint purchase by Penrod, Jurden & McCowen, Inc., the Gayoso 

 Lumber Company and George C. Brown & Co. of 14,500 acres In eastern 

 Arkansas and the buying by the Pritchard & 'SVTieeler Lumber Company of 

 nearly 30,000 acres in Louisiana. 



Buys Government Timber 



One of the largest timber deals which has been made in Arkansas in re- 

 cent years was consummated on September 26, when the Forestry Depart- 

 ment of the United States Government notified the Fourche River Lumber 

 Company of Bigelow that it was the successful bidder for the 00,500,000 

 feet of yellow pine, white, red and black oak timber recently advertised 

 for sale by the government. The total amount of the sale price was 

 $269,275. This timber is located in the state's national forests, along the 

 watersheds of the Alum Fork, North Fork and Maumelle rivers, and com- 

 prises an area of 33,000 acres. The timber is made up of 15,600,000 feet 

 of white, red and black oak, and 80,900,000 feet of yellow pine. The bid 

 of the Fourche River Lumber Company, upon which the award was made, 

 was $2.75 per thousand feet for the yellow pine and $3 per thousand feet 

 for the hardwood. 



Under the contract the purchasing company is to begin cutting the tim- 

 ber by April 1, 1918, and is to have it all removed by April 1, 1928, or dur- 

 ing a period of ten years. 



The state, and especially its school and good roads funds, will profit 

 from the transaction, as twenty-five per cent of the receipts of the forest 

 sales are turned over to the state for school and road purposes. An addi- 

 tional ten per cent of the sale price will be spent by the Forestry Depart- 

 ment upon the roads within the forest reserves. The total amount that 

 will conic to the state for school and road purposes from this sale will be 

 $67,318.75, while $26,927.50 will be spent on the roads within the forests 

 by the government. 



John N. Scatcherd 



The death of John N. Scatcherd on Sept. 23, from apoplexy, removed a 

 lifelong member of the hardwood lumber trade, a man who in his day had 

 been very active in that branch of the business, although at the time of 

 his death he had practically retired. As the head of the extensive trade 



left him by his father, James N. Scatcherd, he not only conducted a large 

 business in Buffalo, but he owned a sawmill in Memphis, with a resident 

 manager, and was president of the Batavia & New York Woodworking 

 Company, a large establishment at Batavia. He still retained the exten- 

 sive family homestead near London, Canada. 



He was very active and public-spirited. For instance, he was called 

 the father of the grade-crossings movement in Buffalo, and he led It 

 actively so long as it was ufcessary. He was the chairman of the general 

 committee of the Pan-American Exposition in 1901 and at the time of his 

 death was a valued member of the Buffalo Terminal Commission, which had 

 secured the building of the large Lehigh Valley and Lackawanna passenger 

 stations in the city and was near to closing a contract with the New York 

 Central for the same thing. He stood high in banking circles and was 

 some time president of the Bank of Buffalo. Several years ago he was 

 an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Buffalo. He was more than once 

 president of the Buffalo Lumber Exchange and the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association, both of which he helped organize. He was 

 twice president of the Buffalo Merchants' Exchange. He was born in Buf- 

 falo September 12, 1857, and graduated at Helmuth College, London, Ont. 

 He was twice married. His first wife died in 1914, leaving one son, James 

 Newtop Scatcherd, and one daughter, Mrs. John G. Milburn, Jr. His 

 second wife was Mrs. Loris Loring Horton, to whom he was married on 

 August 7, 1917, and who survives him. 



Pertinent Information 



Some Big Masts 

 Ship masts 136 feet in length and 20 inches in diameter are big sticks 

 of timber, especially when they are to be shipped to Cape Town, South 

 Africa. Four masts of this size are being turned out by Robt. Mcintosh, 

 a pioneer shipbuilder of Portland, Ore., and they are among the longest 

 ship masts ever built on the Pacific coast, if not anywhere in the world. 

 They are free from the slightest blemish and constructed of Douglas fir 

 timber, which grew on the Cowlitz river. Six booms and four gaffs are 

 also being built by Mr. Mcintosh, which, together with the masts, will go 

 to the southernmost point of Africa. 



Hear Oral Arguments on Reconsignments 



Representing wholesale and manufacturing lumbermen, E. E. Ebcrt ap- 

 peared October 5 before the Interstate Commerce Commission in oral argu- 

 ments in the reconsignment case. Some lumber interests favor the impo- 

 sition of a heavier charge for the reconsignment privilege ; others oppose it. 

 .V. G. T. Moore, assistant secretary of the Southern Pine Association, 

 attended the arguments. The arguments were the first hoard oflicially by 

 the new members of the commission, just sworn in. 



The commission Is considering a proposition to order expansion of its 

 statistical system with reference to shipments of, rates on and revenue 

 from lumber. 



Lumbermen have also been attending arguments in the export freight 

 free time reduction case. 



The commission has denied the application of the Georgia, Florida & 

 .\labama Ry. for authority to establish a rate of 28 cents per 100 pounds 

 on tight wooden barrels In less than carload lots from Bainbridge, Ga., to 

 Carrabelle, Fla., without observing the long and short haul provision of 

 the fourth section of the interstate commerce act. 



Baltimore Exports 



The statement of exports from Baltimore for August, which was received 

 here September 25, shows no Improvement over the previous months, 

 though three additional Items as against July appear upon the list. All 

 with one exception are small, the exception being spruce, of which 916,000 

 feet was shipped during the month, against only 395,000 feet for August. 

 1916. The feature about this item, however, is the gain in declared value, 

 the shipments for August having been valued at $83,669 against $23,232 

 tor August, 1916. This would suggest either that more select lumber was 

 shipped or that the augmented demand for stocks suitable for aeroplane 

 construction forced up prices to a very pronounced degree. In the future, 

 of course, there is not likely to be a further augmenting of the quotations, 

 the government having taken over the control of this wood, making pur- 

 chases for the Allies as well as for itself. As for the rest of the list, it 

 included 5,000 feet of gum, 39,000 feet of oak and 32,000 feet of white pine, 

 with a small lot of office furniture. One item of an unusual character Is 

 implement handles, of which shipments to the value of $15,185 were made. 

 This is the first time in years the item has appeared on the exhibit. "Other 

 manufactures of wood" dropped to the insignificant sum of $216. 



Representations of Robert Beacham, secretary of the Merchants and 

 Manufacturers' Association, Baltimore, and others have resulted in the 

 Export Administrative Board deciding to establish a branch office here, at 

 which export licenses may be obtained, making it unnecessary tor exporters 

 to go to Washington for these documents. Exporters are now urging that 

 the branch office should be authorized not only to Issue permits for ship- 

 ments passing through Baltimore, but going by way of any other port, for 

 only In this manner will the object aimed at in the opening of the branch 

 office be really subserved, as exporters of lumber do not confine themselves 

 to any one port, but route shipments whichever way seems advantageous. 



