January 10, 1918 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Lumber Company, Memphis, Tcnu. ; tlie General Electric Company, 

 Schenectady, N. T., and the Miller Lumber Company, Marlunna, Ark. 



W. D. Stewart has been appointed receiver for the Independent Har- 

 vester Company. Tlano, HI. 



The Charles T. Wilt Company Incorporated at $49,000, has succeeded 

 the business of Charles T. Wilt Estate, Chicago. 



The Curtis Brothers Handle Company has been Incorporated locally 

 with a caplUH of $1,000,000. 



The Harms Manufacturing Company and Hoffberg Ilyman, both of 

 Chicago, have filed involuntary petitions in bankruptcy. 



With a $10,000 capital, the National Phonograph Company has been 

 Incorporated to do business In Chicago. 



C. B. .Mien of the Allen-Eaton Panel Company, Memphis, Tenn., was In 

 Chicago for a short time this week on a business visit. 



K. L. Jurden of Penrod, Jurden & McCowcn, Memphis, Tenn., was one 

 of the distinguished southern visitors In the city during the past week. 

 Mr. Jurden Is very busy these days on association matters having to do 

 with seeing that Uncle Sam gets his necessary supplies of hardwoods 

 and veneers. 



The Lincoln Porter Manufacturing Company, Sterling, HI., has sold out 

 to the E. L. Reed Manufacturing Comp-iny. 



I. R. Garretson, until recently lumber agent of the Chicago and Eastern 

 Illinois Railway, left that position January 1, 191S, to Join the organiza- 

 tion of the Marsh & Truman Lumber Company, Chicago, as traffic man- 

 ager. Mr. Garretson succeeds Capt. -V. Fletcher Marsh and E. L. Bronez 

 who have entered the U. S. array. 



On December SO, 1917, occurred the death of Arthur Nollau, president 

 of Nollau & WollI Manufacturing Company, Chicago, and member of the 

 Lumbermen's Association of Chicago. Funeral services were held January 

 2, from his late residence, 606 Arlington Place. 



The war service committee of the veneer and panel industry held a 

 meeting here this week attended by D. E. Kline, Ralph Jurden, Chairman 

 Lord, Howard Young and A. E. Gorham. 



Tom Christian of the Wood-Mosaic Company, Inc., New Albany, Ind., 

 was In Chicago this week. He reported his plant running full tilt and 

 very busy on walnut gunstock business both for home and foreign ship- 

 ment. He says his company has splendid demand for government mate- 

 rials of all kinds, and is very much pleased with the outlook for the year's 

 business. However, he says, the commercial demand, owing to the lack 

 •of cars, has necessitated conflning efforts almost entirely to government 

 business because of need of the stock and the fact that the interior busi- 

 ness hasn't been very active. In fact, It never is at this time of the 

 jear. He reports good poplar back to the old prices In its heyday with 

 the automobile trade, and a really good demand for both upper and lower 

 grades for the butter box trade. 



Max Pease of the Galloway-Pease Company, Poplar Bluff, Mo., and 

 Saginaw, Mich., says : "If Uncle Sam needs my services about half the 

 time, I am his huckleberry now until we get some relief on the car short- 

 age proposition. We don't think the commercial trade so good as it might 

 he. The fact that we can't deliver the stuff puts us in an uncomfortable 

 position and we haven't the effrontery to solicit business. Of course. It is 

 my opinion that the government's handling the railroads will relieve the 

 situation materially one of these days, and then we will all get busy. We 

 have had a scarcity of logs due to the car shortage, but we have a good 

 stock of firsts and seconds quartered oak and can take care of some gov- 

 ernment lumber business." 



L. W. Crow of the Mears-Slayton Lumber Company, city, will leave in 

 a few days for Washington, where he expects to represent the Lumber- 

 men's Association of Chicago, and see If It isn't possible to relieve Chicago 

 of 300,000,000 feet of dry lumber on hand suitable for government con- 

 tracts. It is believed that Chicago's locality, splendid facilities, added to 

 Its wonderful dry stocks on hand, will begin to get orders from Uncle Sam. 



Walter Burke In speaking about new things around the Lamb-Fish 

 Lumber Company plant at Cliarleston, Miss., said that the new distillation 

 plant which will turn slabs and waste, stumps and limbs from cut-over 

 lands Into alcohol, charcoal and other by-products, will be built this spring. 

 The machinery Is on the way and the location is selected. This plant 

 will no doubt be In full operation by the first of April. He .says: "We 

 are also building a new hotel at Charleston to take care of the Increased 

 number of travelers as well as the employes of this big operation." 



I know this Is the proposed "still" George Land has been fussing nround 

 with In the boiler room. 



J X. Penrod of the Penrod Walnut & Veneer Company. Kansas City, 

 Mo., was In Chicago the other day and left on the tall end of that greatest 

 snow storm on earth on Sunday night. Afterwards he came back and is 

 now at Washington. T). C. He has had large contracts for walnut for gov- 

 ernment use and has had a mighty busy year In 1917 getting out this mate- 

 rial. And in summing up the situation says he believes that 1918 will 

 also be a busy year. Of course, nowadays It's a good deal harder to gather 

 up walnut and put It into merchantable condition for Uncle Sam, but the 

 Penrod company has had a large volume of this business because It has been 

 for several years a big exporter for the Allies, and therefore in filling the 

 contract for Uncle Sam it feels right at borne. 



W. B. Delaney of the Kentucky Lumber Company, Lexington, Ky., was 

 a Chicago visitor during the holiday season. 



Charles Worcester of the C. H. Worcester Company, Chicago, and a 

 member of the war board, spent the holidays In Chicago and returned to 



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 Wlsner of Laurel, Miss., will return ready to take up more actively the 

 work this new year than they have ever done before. 



E. L. Edwards of the E. L. Edwards Lumber Company, Dayton, 0., 

 visited Chicago the last part of December and was as busy as a bumblebee. 

 He reports having a nice volume of business both on government work 

 and other lines. He was enthusiastic about the amount of business secured 

 if he could only get a car now and then. 



W. N. Kelley of the Walter N. Kelley Company, Detroit, Mich., spent 

 a day in Chicago during the new year. He reports having a very good 

 business, but naturally during the stock-taking period there wasn't so 

 much doing with the automobile people, although there has been some 

 lumber booked. He says an order for a car or two is coming in every 

 day, but because the automobile trade is uncertain as to what the govern- 

 ment is going to do wtih the Industry It Is not buying for future use to any 

 great extent, but It wants something quick and it Is not a question of price 

 so much as of being on the ground and giving service. 



C. A. Goodman of the Sawyer-Goodman Company, Marinette. Wis., 

 spent most of the holidays In and about Chicago. He wasn't playing all 

 the time either. He sold some thick stock he had In his yard, and be- 

 lieves there will be a good demand for 1018. 



T. T. Bartelme, formerly a lumberman of Minneapolis, and now In the 

 Red Cross service, returned recently from several months on the Con- 

 tinent, making headquarters at Paris, and is still in the same work liv- 

 ing In New York. Mr. Bartelme came home and spent Christmas with 

 his father and mother in Chicago. 



W. O. King shortly before Christmas returned from a trip to Wash- 

 ington where he had had some business transactions with the signal ser- 

 vice. And he is like most folks who go down there planning to accom- 

 lish something in a day or two, and find it generally takes two or three 

 trips and some work In order to accomplish anything with the depart- 

 ments. He really had a patriotic idea because he had the lumber but 

 it took him long enough to get the order so that it really netted him a 

 loss because of their dilly dallying and waste of energy. "Brother King, 

 you are not the only chap that has had some beautiful experiences of the 

 same kind." 



- < MEMPHIS > = 



Brown & Hackney, Inc., have bcg\m operation of their newly acquired 

 mill at Translyvania, La., and they are preparing to keep It going 

 steadily. They are bringing out logs with their own facilities and they 

 are building a line of railway to their timber which will Insure a con- 

 tinuous supply of logs at their plant. They have 6,000 acres of timber- 

 lands from which to draw, representing the property recently acquired 

 from the Tensas Land & Lumber Company when the mill Itself was 

 bought. 



J. W. Wheeler & Co., Memphis and Madison, .\rk., have had their mill 

 at the latter point closed down during the past two or three weeks for 

 repairs and improvements. These have been about completed and the 

 company will begin operating it again in the near future. C. L. Wheeler 

 and Wm. Prltchard of the Pritchard & Wheeler Lumber Company, are 

 the principal owners of this firm. 



John M. Prltchard, who Is giving all of his time t.i the affairs of the 

 Southern Hardwood Emergency Bureau in Washlngtun, spent Christmas 

 day with his family In Memphis. He has already returned to Washing- 

 ton. He will come back to Memphis in time to attend the annuals of 

 the Gum Lumber Manufacturers' Association, the Oak Manufacturers' 

 Association and the Commercial Rotary Gum .\ssoclation the third week 

 In January, lie Is officially connected with all of these bodies either as 

 secretary or treasurer or assistant secretary. He will deliver a special 

 addres? before the Gum Lumber Manufacturers' Association on "War 

 Orders for Hardwood Lumber and Their Effect on the Hardwood Lum- 

 ber Industry." While here he made it clear that the bureau Is not plac- 

 ing orders covering all requirements of the government in the way of 

 hardwood lumber but Intimated that plans are being worked out by 

 which this may be accomplished. While here he attended the weekly 

 meeting of the body organized in Memphis among hardwood lumber Inter- 

 ests to co-operate with the Iniroau and with the government. 



Maurice II. Welsh, who has been a traveling salesman for the I/amb- 

 Flsh Lumber Company at Charleston. Miss., for the past four years, has 

 become associated In similar capacity with the Welsh Lumber Company. 

 He is a brother of T. H. and J. W. Welsh, owners of this llrm, and he 

 will participate on an ownership basis. The company Is apparently able 

 to take care of all of the Immediate Welsh family, so far as the men are 

 concerned. Maurice takes the place made vacant by R. J. Welsh who 

 enlisted some months ago and who Is now doing his bit "somewhere iB 

 France." 



