Novimlior 2r>, I'Jl" 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Occurrences at Washington Interesting to Lumbermen 



Procuring Wood for the Government and Organizations Which Will Do the Work 



Orders Follow Reorganization 



The reorgani/atioii of tlie ^!<o^ltlll•^ll Hanhvood Elmergcncy Bureau 

 has hei'H fdllowi'il by recei]>t of onlors. Besides the 700,000 feet 

 of oak onlereil from it not louj; ago for export to France for mil- 

 itary purposes, the bureau reeeiitly received an order from tlie 

 Frencli Ilif;h Commissiun for 10,000 ])ieces of oak tongues for ar- 

 tillery. It is for pieces 4>;'i by 4',y inches and 11 feet 6 inches long, 

 and will require about 200,000 feet. 



The hardwood bureau is now in touch with all purchasing 

 branches of the government and it is expected to receive addi- 

 tional orders on a considerable scale. Already F. K. Paxton, lum- 

 ber purchasing agent for the Emergency Fleet Corporation, who is 

 reported to have clashed with the bureau some time ago, has been 

 in conference with its representatives, aiul they expect that there 

 will be orders distributed for a quantity of hardwood ties and other 

 material for ship building yards and perhaps for other purposes. 



W. E. DeLaney of Lexington, Ky., former member of the old 

 lumber committee, is present daily at the offices of the emergency 

 bureau. 



Further o]iportunities for harilwood lumbermen are seen in the 

 proposal di.scusseil at the recent \o per cent rate advance hearings 

 that 100,000 freight cars should be built by the government with 

 a view to relieving the freight congestion prevailing in the coun- 

 try. President Rea of the Pennsylvania railroad advocated that 

 'his be done if the lumber and other materials can be obtained at 

 _ ivernment prices. Interstate Commerce Commissioner McChord 

 suggested that the government might lend the railroads money to 

 provide the cars. 



It is rejiorted that after the 22,000 airplanes now said to be 

 under contract are completed, it is planned to authorize the con- 

 struction of 7.1,000 more airplanes. 



Purchases of Lumber 

 The Xavy Department Bureau of Supplies and Accounts has 

 awarded contracts recently for a large number of lots of hardwood 

 and other lumber for various j)urposes. Much of this material, it 

 is said, is bringing high prices from T'nde Sam. Most of the lum- 

 ber is for stocks at the navy yards, naval stations and other 

 branches of the naval establishment. The navy contracts awarded 

 include the following hardwoods: 



drccii iliiint'stU'. white oak — ],2T.'».000 feet to .Tohn B. Yatos Lmnber 

 "■".. I'ennlmrri. Va.. $S4.72.5. 



.Mahogany — 4."i.00(l feet to the rainier & Tarkor Company, $10,860; 

 t;.:iO0 feet to wnilte Bros.. ?1.."71 ; 7,500 feet to same, »1.908. 



Maple— S.odo f.-ot to T. J. Shryock & Co., Washington, D. C, $829: 

 l.'i.ooo feet to Ixiui.svillp l\)int I.unilicr Company. $1,096; S.OOO foot t<i 

 Wyatt PriM-k Company. $2.".4 : ."..ooo fi.t to Elias & Bro.. Buftalo, $.^4.">. 



I'ophir- .S.<M10 fci-t to Burgess Bros. Company, $544; 113,000 feet to 

 .lames & .Mibott Conipan.v, Boston, $7,786 ; 10,000 feet to Loulsrllle Point 

 Lumber Company, $905. 



Black walnut — .■(,000 feet to .Staley Lumber Company, Liberty, N. C., 

 $4."iO. 



rilckopy 2.00(1 feet to White Bros., $:i;So ; 1,500 feet to Elias & Bro., 

 *1S7. 



Lignum vitae 140,000 |iounds lo .1. 11. Monteith, New York, $9,i:!7 ; 

 5.00O pounils to While Bros., $222. 



.\sh— 5.noo fpft to White Bros.. .San Tranclsco. $845; 16,000 feet to 

 linrgess Bros. Company. Brooklyn. $1,440; 72,000 feet to Ftlel-Kadcl 

 Lumber Company, Memphis, $7.4i;4 ; S2.000 feet to same, $S,7.S7 ; 29.000 

 feet lo Wyalt I'roek Lumber Company, rhiladelphia, $2,688; 1.5,000 feet 

 to Kiel Kadel Lumber Company, $1,440; 6,000 feet to Palmer & Parker 



nipany. Charlestown. Mass.. $492: 16.000 feet to Wyatt-Prock Lumber 



inpany. $1,264; .'SO.OOO feet to Klel-Kadcl Lumber Company, $2.7:!0 ; 

 :mi.oO(i feet to Durlley Lumber Company, .Memphis. $7,799; 144.000 feet 

 to same, $12,528: 90,000 feet to same $7,697; 210,000 feet to same, 

 »18.:i60; 6:i.000 feet to .1. E. Stark & Company, Memphis, $4,745; 38,000 

 feet to same, $2.9.TO. 



Agents for the government are reported to have placed orders in 

 Vermont and the Berkshire region of Massachusetts for a large 

 quantity of maple chunks and lumber for use in building roads and 

 as "stajdes for pile drivers" at the llogg Island ship yard, the 



material to be delivered in a succession of carloads over a ]>eriod of 

 two or more years. 



Wooden Ships 

 Joseph O'Xcil of the Henry O'Xeil Lumber Company, St. Louis, 

 has been appointed to act as secretary of the office of the director 

 of lumber under the Council of National Defense. He says that 

 the director of lumber wants price lists and stock sheets of hard- 

 wood and other lumber manufacturers and associations, so that he 

 can supply without delay information requested by officials of the 

 I'nited States Government and jiurchasing officers representing the 

 allies. These officers submit recjuisitions for special hardwood 

 stock and other lumber material on which they want immediate 

 action. 



Another big grist of contracts for hardwood and other lumber 

 has recently been awarded by the Xavy Department. The contracts 

 were made with the advice of W. M. Morford, the Nashville lum- 

 lierman, who is serving as an expert adviser on lumber to Admiral 

 McGowan, paymastei" general of the navy, who, by the way, is re- 

 ])orted as not unlikely to be deprived" of much of his power in the 

 near future by the navy entering into the agreement to purchase 

 war materials and sujijdies for the United States and the allies 

 through the .ioiut purchasing commission of the war industries 

 board. Council of National Defense. 



Oak. plain. I'.\S 56.000 feet, to Wyalt-Prock Lumber Company. Phlia- 

 (lelphia. $4,560 ; 200 white oak piles, to same, $4,160. 



I'lank, 34,000 feet, to Charles E. Lane Company, Parkersburg, W. Va., 

 $3,060. 



Teu tbousaiul feet butts, domestic, flitch-sawed, to Wyatt- Prock com- 

 pany, $620. 



Shaft logs, 21,000 feet, to W. M. Bitter Luml)er Company. Columbus, O., 

 $1.26(1. 



Plank for boat building. 57.000 feet, to the Lane company, $5,280. 

 .\n order for 1,210.000 feet plank was divided among several navy 

 yards, tlie Lane company getting allotments for Norfolk at $122,745. 

 lioston at $5.7(10 and Puget Sound at $7,150; and the Woodstock Lumlier 

 Comiiaiiy <^I' Boston getting a contract for $1,747 to be delivered at the 

 ("barieston. S. C.. navy yard. 



\Miite or red oak for bending contracts were awarded as follows: 82.000 

 feet to Wyatt-Prock company for $5..392 : 60.000 feet to same for $5,500; 

 90.000 feet to Charles E. Lane Company for $8,550; 42,000 feet to the 

 Bliss-Cook Oak Company, Bllssvillc. .\rk.. for $3,560; and 25,000 feet to 

 .Tames i:. Stark & Co., Memphis, for $1.7.50. 



No. 1 wliite oak timber, 59.000 feet to Lane company for $4,366 ; 50,000 

 feet to tile Kxport & Iiomestic Hardwood Company. New York, for $4,565; 

 130.001) feet to J. Natwick. Baltimore, for $0,260; 15.000 feet to tlie Kxport 

 & Domestic company for $825. 



Domestic, F.\S, quarter-sawed. 15.000 feet to North Vernon Lumber 

 Company, North Vernon, Ind., for $1,397; 30,000 feet to Wyatt-Prock 

 company for $2.9;!0 ; 15,000 feet to McEwen Lumber Company, .\zalla, 

 N. C.. for $L444 ; 22,500 feet to .Tames E. Stark & Co., Memphis, for 

 •*l.n47. and 15,001) feet more to the same concern at $1,285, 



White oak, P.VS, siiipping or air dry. 6 in<'hes and wider, average 9 

 inches by 8 to 16 feet long. 32.0(iii fret to Staley Lumber Co.. Liberty, 

 N. C.. for $2,144 ; 30,000 feet to Wyatt-Prock Lumber (."ompnny for $2,190; 

 690.000 feet to Charles E. Lane Company for $53,910; 10,000 feet to 

 Staley Lumber Company for $660; 52.000 feet to Ferd Brenner Lumber 

 Company. Alexandria. La., for $;!.623 ; and IS-.OOO feet to same for $1,005. 

 Four tlioiisand feet white ash, firsts, to Mowbray & Uoblnson Company, 

 Cincinnati, lor $600; ,88,000 feet to the same concern for $11,950. 



I!ox material — ^70,000 feet of No. 1 box boards, poplar, spruce and white 

 cedar, were awarded to James & .\libott Company. Boston, for $2,09:'.. 



Recently signed contracts for merchant ships for the government 

 account for a total of i).")0 steel ships and 4.50 wooden and composite 

 ships contracted for for war mercantile purposes. The first steel 

 shiii is to be com|ileted at Seattle November 24 at the plant of 

 .Skinner & Eddy, operated by an old lumberman, D. E. Skinner, 

 and the first wooden ship built for the government since the war 

 began is due to be launched about December 1. 



That the government should place soldiers at every sawmill to 

 protect the mill properties and keep agitators out is the suggestion 

 made recently by .1. T. Gregory of Tacoma, member of the old lum- 

 ber committee. 



The last requisition order for lumber by the shipping board is 



