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HILL-CURTIS COMPANY saw mill and allied machinery 



Kalamazoo Michigan 



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Wertz Buys Maley Interests 



Daniel A. Wertz has imn liiisc..l tlii' iiitiicst ■>!■ tliv Into Claude E. Maley 

 Id the firm of Maley & Wirtz. harilwiuid iiinilicr nmmifacturers of Evans- 

 vlUe, and will take ovor all tli<< Imsiai'ss ami ninrate it iiiuliT the same 

 name. There will tie no ehan^;e in the iifficial staff here. Tlie deal includes 

 two sawmills and large lumlier yards in Evansviiie, one mill and yards 

 at VIncennes. Ind.. and a sawmill at (iranimer. Ind. The business at 

 VIncennes is cradually being closed ont, and the mill at that place has 

 not been running for some time. The firm was started in Evansviiie 

 about fifteen years ago and is one of the best known in the West. The 

 business extends into many states. Mr. Wertz, who is now at the head 

 of this vast business, is the president of the Indiana Hardwood Lumber 

 Association. 



Maley & Wertz recently bought a liig supply of logs from John A. 

 Iteitz & Sons of Evansviiie. The Keitz mill is now closed down. 



A. Harvey McCay 



.\. Harvey McCay, for a nunilier of years lialtimore representative of 

 Wm. Whltmer & Sons. Philadelphia, with offices in the Equitable building. 

 died November 11, the direct cause l>eing pneumonia. Mr. McCay Iiaii 

 not l)een In good health for some years and had taken extensive vacations 

 during the summer. Last summer he spent some months on Long Island. 

 returning considerably improved, but a ner\*ous disorder reasserted Itself. 

 and for some months he had been under the doctor's care. Mr. Mcl'ay 

 was bom in .\ugusta. Ga.. about fifty years ago and came to Baltimore 

 with his father, the late Prof. Charles F. McCay, when quite young. He 

 was educated in the Monumental City and became prominent socially as 

 well as In a liusiness way. His brother, Lieut. H. Kent McCay. who is 

 now in the United States Navy, was formerly harbor engineer of Balti- 

 more. Two sisters also survive him. When increasing infirmities com- 

 I'flled Mr. McCay to curtail his activities, his nephew. Charles M. 

 Huchanan. took up largely the work of looking after the interests of the 

 Whltniers. Mr. Buchanan is now in the service as a member of Battery A. 

 IJght .■\rtillery, which was formed in Baltimore more than a year ago. 



Traffic Affairs 



The lieeson Stave Company of lluratio, -Vrk., has filed complaint with 

 the Inti'rstate Commerce Cummission against the Kansas City Southern 

 Railway. The complaint states that the complainant shipped a lot of 

 oak staves from Wickeg, Ark., to New York, but hilled to complete loading 

 In transit at Coke, Ark. The railroads charged the full 7-cent local rate 

 from Wlckes to Cove. Complainant claims that the through rate of 28 

 cents, Wlckes to New York, should have applied, plus a charge of $5 per 

 car for the privilege of loading In transit. The establishment of such rate 

 and charge Is asked of the commission, also reparation of the difference 

 between $.1 per car plus the through rate, and the local rate combination 

 paid, the said difference being $30. 



E. O. Boyil, agent, has applied to the commission for approval of a 

 tariff he wants to file cancelling routing in connection with lumber and 

 related articles from Wisconsin and Northern Railway stations via the 

 Soo Line, Pemblne, Wis., and the St. Paul Railway. 



.\ppllcatlon was also filed under the amended fifteenth section of the 

 Interstate commerce law for Increased rates on crossties from Hotilis 

 Island, .\la., to Cairo (proper ami for Iteyond), 111., and Brookport (for 

 beyond). III., provided In tariff I. C. C. No. 222S-A (Western Lumber 

 Tariff No. 7). 



K. .\nderson, agent, has filed application for approval of rates on box 

 material, staves and heading manufactured of cottonwood or gum lumber, 

 from Helena and West Helena, .\rk., to Council Bluffs, la.; Lincoln, Neb., 

 and Wichita. Kan., and other points. 



J. V. Norman, counsel of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, 

 Bays that the railroads made out a poor claim for higher rates In the 15 

 per cent advance rate case. Their own exhibits, he said, show that their In- 

 come this ye;ir Is 30 per cent higher than last year. Mr. Norman de- 

 clares that the railroads should not be permitted to interfere with govern- 

 ment operations for financing the war by competing with the government 



for investment lumls. He did not believe that the carriers need Increased 

 revenues, but if they do the government might loan them funds. 



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I Pertinent Information \ 



A Record in Lumber Shipments 

 Secretary t). T. Swan of the Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' .\ssociation, and also secretary of. the temporary Northern 

 Hemlock & Hardwood Emergency Bureau, told the other day of a new 

 record in slilpnients to meet the government needs for lumber. It seems 

 that the government contractor was shy about thirteen cars of mixed 

 lumber to finish up the cantonment at liockford. III. It was not possible 

 for him to get the material from local yards so on a Saturday morning 

 he called up Secretary Swan on the long distance 'phone, reaching him 

 at about eleven o'clock and explaining to him the circumstances, emphasiz- 

 ing the fact that the lumber must reach Rockford by Wednesday night 

 of the following week. Mr. Swan, of course, was dubious over the possl- 

 liillty at first, but promised he would get in action immediately and if It 

 could be done it would. 



He in turn communicated with the members of his association over the 

 long distance wires with the result that thirteen cars of mixed lumber 

 and flooring, the lumber dressed and matched and surfaced two sides, 

 and including two cars of dimension lumber, the entire lot having been 

 worked in the planing mills prior to being loaded, was on the way by 

 Sunday night. 



The lumber was furnished by the John S. Owen Lumber Company, Owen, 

 Wis.; tile .Medford Lumber Company, Medford, Wis.; the Westboro Lum- 

 liir Company. Westboro, Wis.; Park Falls Lumber Company, Park Falls, 

 and the Kncchind-McClurg Lumber Company, Philipps. The material was 

 shipped out oviT the Soo line and this road collaborated so well with 

 the secretary's ftlfice that he was able at any time to put his pencil on the 

 point of the map where each car was at that particular time. The lumber 

 lieg;in rolling into Rockford on Tuesday night and the entire shipment 

 was completed by Wednesday morning, thus Illustrating what can be done 

 through proper co operation. 



The Kiln Drying of Lumber 



H. D. Tlemann's book on kiln drying lumber has <ome from the press 

 of the J. B. Llpplncott Company, Philadelphia. H.xunwooD Recoup has 

 had occasion to speak In advance of this book. .Mr. Tlemann Is well 

 known to the readers of this paper. lie has contributed many articles 

 to its pages, relating to his specialty, the scientific seasoning of lumber. 

 He has worked along that line for several years, principally at the gov- 

 ernmi'ut laboratory, Madison, Wis., where he built a kiln after his own 

 ideas and where he carried out hundreds of experiments in all kinds of 

 wood drying. 



Every page of the book contains conclusions reached by his own experi- 

 ments and tests. Though the book is published as his Individual work, yet 

 investipitions carried on for and by the government are described or 

 referred to on every page. The book is for the general lumberman and It 

 is also for the scientist. The dry kiln operator will find In It a manual 

 for his guidance; and if the student of wood physics wishes to delve Into 

 the technical side of lumber drying, the mathematics, mechanics and 

 formulas are there. 



A table showing the dry weight per 1,000 feet of seventy-four American 

 woods will be appreciated by many a lumber shipper who has often 

 wanted that Informallon without being able to lay his hand on It at the 

 time wanted. Mr. Tlemann lists arbor vltae aa our lightest commercial 

 wood and osage orange as the heaviest, though there are heavier and 

 lighter woods among the minor species. 



It may be confidently predicted that Mr. Tlemann's book will take Ita 

 place among standard works on the kiln drying of lumber. 



