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HARDWOOD RECORD 



December 10, laiT 



Oak Maple 



Chestnut 



.vianufacturers and Dealers 



in — 



West Virginia and Southern 



HARDWOODS 



The Atlas Lumber & Mfg. Co. 



Union Trust Building, CINCINNATI, OHIO 



BUSS-COOK OAK CO. 



BLISSVILLE, ARKANSAS 



MAJMUFACTURERS 



Oak Mouldings, Casing, Base and Interior 

 Trim. Also Dixie Brand Oak Flooring. 



As Well As 



OAK, ASH and GUM LUMBER 



Can furnish anything in Oak, air dried 

 or kiln dried, rough or dressed 



MIXED ORDERS OUR SPECIALTY 



BIRCH 



We have a complete assortment of practically 



ALL GRADES & 

 THICKNESSES 



GOOD PLANING MILL FACILITIES 



Send us your inquiries 



Brown Land & Lumber Co. 



Rhinelander, Wis. 



Mills: RHINELANDER 

 PARISH 



HELENA, ARK. 



L-B QUALITY 



— Kraetzer Cured — 



GUM LUMBER 

 OAK LUMBER 

 OAK FLOORING 



(The Famous Forked-Leaf Brand) 



Southern Yellow Pine Unexcelled for Crating. 



We have 115,000,000 feet in pile. 

 Accurately Manufactured, Carefully Graded, Priced Right 



Long-Bell Lumber Company 



R. A. Long Building 



Kansas City, Mo. 



glncers. Mr. liarlow received a commission as captain of forestry engineers, 

 but until the reBiment was ready for actual duty as Indicated by its titlt, 

 lie and other officers were set at other necessary tasks somewhat out of 

 their line. 



The wholesale lumbermen of Superior, Wis., and Duluth, Minn., the 

 Twin Ports at the Ilead-of-the-Lakes, were the guests of the retailers of 

 the two cidcs on November 21 at a bancinit in the Hotel Superior. Last 

 summer the wholesalers defeated the retailers in a thrilling baseball game, 

 the stake being dinner. Advantage was taken of the occasion to talk over 

 business conditions. It was stated that although it appeared from the 

 building reports of the United States that the demand for lumber of all 

 kinds for construction purposes shows a falling off, the fact is that business 

 has been very good and much better than in some past years, due to the 

 heavy absorption of lumber by the government and those furnishing the 

 government with materials, supplies and other goods. 



The Upper Peninsula Loggers' Association was organized at a meeting 

 of representatives of twenty-five logging and lumbering operators in north- 

 ern Michigau, held November 30 at Houghton, Mich. The organization Is 

 similar in nature and scope to that recently formed in Wisconsin and other 

 stjites at the suggestion of the Council of National Defense and the Food 

 Administration. L. G. Hillyur of the Itaraga Lumber Company, Baraga, 

 Mich., was elected president and J. IT. Bice of the Greenwood Lumber 

 Company, Ontonagon, Mich., secretary and treasurer. Numerous lumber 

 companies of northern Wisconsin which operate logging camps in the 

 peninsula are members of the new association. 



W. A. Holt of the Holt Lumber Company, Oconto, Wis., was elected 

 president of the Northeastern Wisconsin & Upper Peninsula Loggers' 

 .Association, which was organized at a meeting held in Green Bay, Wis., 

 on November 16. Albert Klass, Oconto, was elected secretary and treas- 

 urer. 



C. J. LeSure. founder of the LeSure Lumber Company, Sellwood build- 

 ing, Duluth, Minn., who retired from its active management three years 

 ago, died from heart failure after an illness of two days, at the age of 

 sixt3'-six years. He was born in Genesee, Wis., on April 10, 18.t1, and 

 located in Duluth in 1S94, in which year he financed and supervised the 

 construction of the LeSure sawmill on Grassy Point, one of the largest mills 

 of the day and still an important producer. 



Edwin R. Radford, a leading timber and lumber operator of Menominee, 

 Mich., died at a sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich., on November 28, aged 

 sixty-seven years. Mr. Radford for many years was vice-president and 

 general superintendent of the Wisconsin Land & Lumber ("nmpany. Iler- 

 mansville, Mich. He was for twenty-four years chairman of the Menominee 

 county board of supervisors and held many other offices of public trust. 



•T. H. Reiser. Milwaukee, traveling representative of the Wausau Lumber 

 Company, Yawkey-Blsseii Lumber Company and Marathon Lumber Com- 

 pany, Wausau, Wis., has received word from his son, Raymond, who 

 enlisted in the United States Navy when war first was declared upon 

 Germany, that he now is a yeoman on board the United States supply ship 

 Kanawha. Mr. Reiser received a postal card message from his son at 

 Halifax upon his return from the first trip to Ftance. 



The Hardwood Market 



-< CHICAGO >■ 



The trade continues quiet in Chicago, inventory taking having its usual 

 further effect in addition to results from other causes. Local lumber- 

 men are laying their plans so as to be prepared in case certain of the 

 industries appearing on the list of 500 unnecessary articles be limited 

 in their manufacture or eliminated entirely from their usual production. 

 Some lumber is moving into Chicago, part for reshipment and a large 

 quantity for use in different factories which are operating on commodities 

 and materials having to do with the war. But the building situation 

 and its prospects remain unchanged insofar as betterment is concerned. 



The local trade dependent upon outside mills for its supply of lumber 

 is finding great difficulty in filling orders on books on account of car and 

 labor troubles at the mills. In fact, many lumbermen are concentrating 

 today on the question of getting shipments rather than soliciting new 

 business, and while results are not entirely satisfying, personal attention 

 to this feature is helping the movement somewhat. Some lumber is being 

 offered at reduced prices, but on the whole the difficulty in securing stocks 

 is maintaining the markets In firm shape. 



=■< BUFFALO >• 



Lumbermen generally are much disturbed about the rumors that the 

 trade is to be held up on account of decisions that their .shipments In 

 general lines are not needed. Lumber shippers with a supply on hand 

 are stiffening their prices on that account, while furniture and implement 

 factories are afraid to buy lest they find themselves unable to ship their 

 product after it is manufactured. This uncertainty bids fair to continue 

 indefinitely. 



The report that the government lias asked for 1,3,000,000 feet of heavy 



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