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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 10, 1015 



iuitial mils laid into virgin timber, and huB flrcd and knows the Inward 

 worlvltife's of cranky logging engines from tlie time wlien thi-y were tirst 



introdueed, 



\\Tiile today \V. L. Crenshaw Is a man of middle age, he can ki-i-p up 

 with the best of them in eIlMd)ing over log piles and cannot bo "stumped" 

 on any question propounded l>y the most practical of his woodsmen as to 

 Identity, size or contents of logs, or the best way of handling this or that 

 part of the equipment. 



Mr. Crenshaw typifies the busy business m;;n wlm slill barlmrs the 

 spirit of young manhood, ami it Is this spirit which endears lilm to the 

 emplijycs In the woods and in tbi> mills. Hcing on<' of them, he is able 

 to get their very best effort. 



V. E. Gary, who has charge of the seliin;;, nf tlie financial and the 

 office end of the business, is the opposite type of num. He is quiet and 

 conservative and has behind him years of e.xjierience in analyiiing and 

 meeting market conditions in various lines. Mr. <;ary was born in V'on- 

 neaut. O., in isr>.~i. He began his long experience In the lumber business 

 with the J. S. Stearns Lumber Company of Odanah, Wis., about 18f(."». 

 In 1000 he with I.. K. Baker, W. L. Ouerley, .Tohn W. Cary. and J. P. 

 IJrayton organized the Baker Lumber Company, which operated at Tur- 

 rell, Ark. The company there built a 100,000 feet capacity sawmill and 

 railroad for l(»gging and eventually cleared off 40,000 acres of fine tim- 

 ber. This company has cut out it's holdings and is now practically out of 

 business. 



Mr. Gary became associated witb Mr. Crenshaw in lltl'J, wlien the 

 Crenshaw-Gary Lumber Company was organized. He is interested in sev- 

 eral other sawmills, hut takes no active part in the running of any but 

 the Crenshaw-Gary Lumber Company. 



Mr. Gary's analytical mind is an important factor in the success of 

 the Crenshaw-Gary Lundier Company. 



' C. L. Crenshaw, tlie vice-president of the company, is the son of W. L. 

 C. L.'s duty is to properly and economically turn out the stuff at the two 

 mills at Richey. He is a man who has grown up in the lumber game and 

 while his years, of course, would not permit of his having had the Ipngth 

 of experience behind his father, he is demonstrating that he is thoroughly 

 capable of handling an operation in a manner that would do credit to 

 the elder Crenshaw. 



The woods operations these days are an important factor. . The Cren- 

 shaw-Gary company is well fortified in this department of its business, 

 having in charge a man who knows how to get out tlie stuff, and who is 

 perfectly capable of relieving the minds of the principals of any anxiety 

 as to log supply. 



J. H. Shields bears the title of superintendent of logging and has under 

 his direct charge the entire log operation. Mr. Shield is a young man. 

 unusually young, for one carrying his responsibilities, but he knows tim- 

 ber and his work is undoubtedly made more effective by the fact that he 

 can ever find inspiration and pleasure in the fine tract which the com- 

 pany is cutting. 



Incidentally, while we mentioned that a large part of the cut is gum. 

 there is also a large quantity of very fine oak and some cypress, elm, ash 

 and other minor species common to that territory. ' 



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The Mail Bag 



B-1164 — Wrong on Identity of Elm 



Hardwood Record has received the following letter from Xew 

 Zealand which may be of interest to some members of the trade, 

 particularly the reference to elm: 



Dunedin, New Zealfind, Nov. 21, 1917. — ^Editor IIaudwood Recohd : In 

 repl.v to your suggestion that wp could possii>ly keep you in touch with 

 developments in hardwood trade here. We are afraid there is little to 

 report at present owing to general slackness of trade, and great difficulty 

 of importing timlier. As you will be aware shipments of hardwood from 

 New York to New Zealand have practically ceased owing to freight rate 

 being so high, and we are obtaining all our oak from the East, freights 

 being less tlian half those ruling from New York. 



We do not olitain satisfactory asli. hickory, walnut, and chestnut, in 

 place of American supplies however, and will be glad to have these timbers 

 as soon as freight rate permits. 



* Is there a timl]er magazine puldished in Canada dealing with timber, 

 on same lines as your publication, it so we should like to subscribe to 

 same, as we desire to obtain a timber known here as Canadian elm, which 

 apparently does not grow in V. S. 



We have never heard of any IT. S. firm producing built up three ply 

 with one or both faces of oak, chestnut, or ash, but if you know of any 

 reliable manufacturer who is producing this line, we would be pleased to 

 have his name, as we desire supplies of such 3 ply. 



. Company. 



B-1161— A Correction 



Philadelphia, Pa., December 29. — Editor Hardwood Eecohd : In your 

 issue December 25 you make the statement that the Thomas E. Coale 

 luumlier Company. Philadelphia. Pa., is re-incorporated under Pennsylvania 

 laws, its capital being .$100,000. The facts are : 



The Thomas K. Coale I.uinlier Ciiin|iany, a ciirporatlon of Delaware, 

 .nvned a distributing yard in Philadelphia and felt it was to its ad- 

 vantage so as to keei) its business absiilutely straiglit. to sell its distribut- 

 ing yard, and it did sell same to a new corporation incorporated under 

 the laws of Pennsylvania, namely, the Thomas E. l"oale Lumlier Com- 

 pany of Pennsylvania, but this does not take the place of the Thomas E. 

 Cciale Lumber Company a corporation of Delaware. 



Thomas E. Coale Llmbeu Co., 



Thos. !•;. Coale, President. 



B-1165 — Government Wants to Hear from Manufacturers 



The I'lillowiii},' letter e.xpluiii.s itself: 



Waslilngtou, D, C., Jan. 2, 1917.— Uepiying to your letter of 28th uit.. 

 we wiiuld be glad to have any inilividuai manufacturers write us letters 

 describing their capacity and ability ici deliver any of the articles men 

 Ibineil. particularly packing boxes. 



IIknhy C. Plimi'Ton, 

 Captain Ordnance, K. C. Office of Clilet of 

 <)n!n;inee. Small .\rms Iilvlsiim. 



INoi I Street. 



B-1162— Wants War Orders on Mill Work 

 The following letter might be of interest to someone having con- 

 tracts for wood products for war work: 



Lawrence. Kans., December 19. — lOdltor IIaiu»w<)()D Uecokd ; Husiness 

 is dull with us and we have wiuuleretl if there might not bo some of the 

 wooden articles which we coulil make in our plant. We have not been 

 able tn learn of anything \^■e muld ni.-ike. . 



B-1163 — Interested in Maple and Ash 

 Have you for sale any of the stock mentione<l in the following 

 letter: 



New York. .N. Y,. December 29, 1917. — Editor Hardwood Record: Will 

 you kindly send copy of your paper to our New York otfice as we are 

 greatly interested in millwcirk. 



At the present we are looking for No. 1 and No. 2 maple and No. 1 com- 

 mon ash In 4/4", 5/4", 6/4" and 8/4". . 



B-1166 — Interested in Chestnut and White Pine 



Lyons. Midi., .lauuary 1, 1918. — Editor Hardwood Record: I am con- 

 sidering starting up the old Compan.v of , 



.Mich., and would ask if you could put me in touch with firms able to 

 ship mixed cars of sound wormy chestnut and wliite pine lumber. 



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First Regular Meeting of Memphis Club 



The new officers of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis were installed 

 at the first meeting of the New Y'ear held at the Hotel Gayoso on Janu- 

 ary 5, as follows : President, J. F. McSweyn ; first vice-president, M. B. 

 Cooper: second vice-president, D. F. Heuer, and secretary-treasurer, J. 

 Staley Wiiiiford. 



The retiring officers submitted their annual reports w^hile a feature of 

 the meeting was the presentation of a handsome silver service to D. F. 

 Heuer who, at this meeting, rounded out his third year of service as 

 secretary-treasurer of the club. This was given to him in recognition 

 of the faithful manner in which he discharged his duties during that long 

 period and he made a ver.y happy speech of acceptance. 



.\notber feature was the address delivered by Dwight M. Armstrong, 

 cashier of the Commercial Savings Bank & Trust Company and chairman 

 of the War Thrift and War Saving Stamp committee for this (Shelby) 

 count.v in the nation-wide move looking to the participation of the entire 

 civil population of the countr.v in the service of the government in the 

 winning of the war. Although cashier of one of the large banks in 

 Memphis, Mr. -Xmlstrong assurecj his hearers that the government offered 

 :i safer and more remunerative investment to the man who bought these 

 stamps than any bank in Memphis or elsewhere could offer and announced 

 that C. H. Ransom had been selected to head a committee which would 

 liring the purchase of these stamps before members of the club and be- 

 fore their employes. 



The club, by unanimous vote, ratified the action of the executive com- 

 mittee with reference to the participation of the club, jointly with the 

 other lumber organizations here, in the banquet to be tendered to all 

 visiting lumbermen in Memphis January 15 to January 18, inclusive, at 

 the Hotel Gayoso Friday evening, January 17, and with reference to 

 exempting all members of the club now in the service of their country 

 from paying dues for the period of the war. Those on the honor roll are : 

 H. D. Allen, Palmer Kellogg, Paul Rush, H. C. Dewey and H. B. Ander- 

 stm. 



Although much opposition developed, resolutions, offered by James E. 

 Stark, chairman of the river and rail committee, were adopted by a large 

 majority in protest against the embargo laid by the Yazoo & Mississippi 



