July 25, 1015. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Chance to Sell Sawdust 



An American cousiilar orticer in an insular possession writes that saw- 

 dust in large quantities is needed in his district for packing fruits and 

 vegetables. Correspondence may be in English. Those who wish to investi- 

 gate this chance can obtain full information by communicating with the 

 Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington, D. C, and quot- 

 ing index number 17,507. 



Willow Furniture Wanted 



A consul in South America reports that a business man in that country 

 desires catalogues and prices from manufacturers of willow furniture in 

 America. Further information may be had by addressing the Bureau of 

 Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington, D. C, and referring to in- 

 dex number 17,566. 

 Lumber Rates from Southern Points to Ohio River Crossings 



On July 12 at Washington, D. C, the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 handed down a decision in Docket No. 520, concerning rates on lumber 

 from southern points to the Ohio river crossing and other points. A 

 summary of the commission's rulings is shown as follows : 



Proposed increased rates on yellow pine lumber from the southwestern 

 blanket to St. Louis, Mo., and East St. Louis, Thebes, and Cairo, 111., 

 not shown to be reasonable. 



The evidence of record does not show that the rates from Little Rock, 

 Ark., and Pine Bluff, Ark., should be increased to the blanket basis. 



Proposed Increased rates on hardwood lumber to St. Louis and Cairo 

 from the territory embraced in the yellow pine blanket not shown to be 

 reasonable, but increase in the rates on hardwood to the level of the 

 present rates on yellow pine justifled. 



Proposed increased rates on lumber, all kinds, from the territory north 

 of the .\rkansas River to St. Louis, East St. Louis, Thebes and Cairo 

 not shown to be reasonable. 



Proposed increased rate on yellow pine from points on the Kansas 

 City Southern Railway to St. Louis not justified. 



Proposed basing rate to Thebes and Cairo from certain stations on the 

 Memphis branch of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway shown 

 to be reasonable. Increases in the rates to Memphis from certain stations 

 on this line also justified. 



Proposed increased rates to Thehes and Cairo from certain stations 

 on the Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad shown to be reasonable. 



Cancellation of local rate to Cairo from points on the Texas & Pacific 

 Railway not justified. 



Proposed increased rates from stations on the Chicago, Rock Island & 

 Pacific Railway to Louisville, Ky., and Cincinnati, Ohio, not shown to be 

 reasonable. 



Proposed increased rates on lumber, all kinds, to New Orleans, La., 

 from groups of stations in the southwestern territory, not justifled. 



Increases not exceeding 1 cent per 100 pounds in the rates on lumber 

 justifled from Mississippi Valley territory and southeastern territory 

 to the north bank Ohio River crossings in those instances in which such 

 increases are necessary to effect a spread of 1 cent between opposite 

 crossings. Proposed rates to St. Louis also shown to be reasonable to 

 the extent that they do not exceed by more than 1 cent the rates now in 

 effect. 



Proposed increased rates to Ohio River crossings from points on the 

 Texas & Pacific Railway. Vickshurg, Shreveport & Pacific Railway, and 

 Southern Pacific system lines in Louisiana, shown to be reasonable. 



The record shows that Cottonwood and gum lumber are not entitled to 

 lower rates than other hardwood lumber. 



Proposed increased rates from Cincinnati. Ohio, to western termini and 

 points in trunk line territory, not justified. 



Commission Sustains Former Ruling 



On July 12 at Washington. D. C. the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion decided that a former ruling, investigation and suspension docket 

 No. 1S4, should not be changed, and the proceedings, asking for a re- 

 view, were accordingly dismissed. The question involved related to the 

 northbound rates on hardwoods from points in Arkansas, Louisiana, and 

 other places, to Memphis. Tenn. Among those asking for a review were 

 the following : Kirhy Lumber Company, International Harvester Com- 

 pany and Wisconsin Lumber Company, Nashville Lumbermen's Club, Lum- 

 bermen's Exchange of St. Louis and various manufacturers and dealers 

 In that city, Lumbermen's Exchange of St. Lnuis. Cooperage Traflic 

 Association, and Cairo Board of Trade, Soifthern Hardwood Traflic Asso- 

 ciation and Yellow Pine manufacturers west of the Mississippi river, 

 Ozark Cooperage and Lumber Company, Mill Shoals Cooperage Com- 

 pany, Bowles McBrlde Cooperage Company, Gideon Cooperage Company, 

 and United States Stave and Handle Company. 

 New Use for Sawdust 



New ways of putting sawdust to use continually make their appear- 

 ance. According to a telegram received from Cairo during the past week 

 there would seem to he a new use for sawdust there, also. Referring to 

 operations in the Dardanelles, it is stated that many of the shells fired by 

 the Turks are filled with sawdust. 



Lumber by Sailing Vessels 



A full cargo of red gum lumber has been shipped from Mississippi to 

 Genoa, Italy, by a sailing vessel. It is said that this is the first full ship- 

 load of red gum that ever went from America across the sea. Former 

 shipments have been in less than cargo lots. A number of sailing vessels 

 carrying lumber from southern ports have recently arrived in Spain, 

 where the market is sufficiently active to attract supplies. The scarcity of 

 steamers has brought the sailing vessels to the front as lumber carriers. 



Steamer Cargo of Hardwood 



What is said to be the first full steamer cargo of hardwood lumber to 

 be exported from the United States is booked to depart from a Mississippi 

 port in July for London. The demand is strong on the other side of the 

 sea and those who are in a position to take advantage of it ought to earn 

 satisfactory profits. 



Progressive Lumber Hauling Methods 



The problem of hauling lumber from its mills to the Canadian Northern 

 Railway tracks in winter has been solved in a novel manner by a big lum- 

 ber mill in Saskatchewan, north of Prince Albert. Taking advantage of 

 the almost level prairie, hard packed with ice and snow, the mill built a 

 huge sled locomotive which hauls a train with from 100,000 to 125,000 feet 

 of lumber at one time at from eight to ten miles an hour. The locomotive 

 runs without wheels or track. The engineers ingeniously substituted the 

 front truck of a narrow gauge locomotive with sled runners and put an 

 endless belt, with spikes on the outside, over the drivers. In this way 

 they obtained a sled locomotive which grips the surface and can pull heavy 

 loads. The steersman sits on the front, and the engineer in his cab 

 attends only to the motive power. 



Bringing Buyers and Sellers Together 



Since the inauguration of its wood waste exchange, on April 15 last, 

 the Forest Service has been requested to list 147 mills and factories as 

 having waste material for sale, while during the same time seventy-six 

 other wood-using concerns have asked to be listed as desiring to purchase 

 waste of a wide range of species in specified dimensions or as mill or 

 factory run. The latter have been included in the list of "Opportunities 

 to Sell Waste," which is sent monthly to concerns which have waste 

 material for sale. This list is growing steadily, but the Forest Service 

 is anxious to accelerate its rate of growth inasmuch as it comprises only 

 about half as many buyers as there are sellers listed under "Opportunities 

 to Buy Waste." 



The Forest Service has just been notified by a large novelty manu- 

 facturing concern in New York City that the wood waste exchange has 

 enabled it to obtain its raw material at a considerable saving of money. 

 This factory uses small, semi-finished blocks of dogwood which it makes 

 into patent spool holders. The factory's requirements were published 

 under "Opportunities to Sell Waste" and a manufacturer of shuttle 

 blocks promptly seized the opportunity to dispose of the pieces of dog- 

 wood which previously were discarded as waste in his factory. 



Similarly, others buyers are now, through the wood waste exchange, 

 obtaining material of good quality at a cost lower than they had been 

 paying for raw material in the form of logs or standard lumber, and 

 without themselves having to accumulate waste by cutting raw mate- 

 rial Into required sizes. On the other hand, many mills and factories 

 which were burning thei.* waste or disposing of it at firewood prices are 

 now selling it at a fair profit. 



The Forest Service desires the co-operation of all manufacturers of 

 small wooden commodities and invites them to list their requirements 

 with the wood waste exchange. There is no charge for this service. 



The Government Buys White Oak 



The government has bought a quarter of a million feet of white oak 

 lumber to be used in the Mussel Shoals development of the Tennessee 

 river and most of it will be employed in building barges and other 

 structural work. The oak grew in Alabama and Abner Rose, of Rogers- 

 ville, Ala., has the contract of furnishing it. 



Southern Pine Cut and Shipments 



The Southern Pine Association's July bulletin says that 152 mills 

 reported for June 1 and July 1. On June 1 there was lumber on hand 

 amounting to 1.166,7.10.510 feet, and on July 1 it had been reduced to 

 1,163,045,495. The June shipments exceeded the cut by 3,649,015 feet. 

 The stock on hand on July 1 this year exceeded that for the same date 

 last year by 99,907,769 feet. 



Decree for Sale of Lumber Company 



The Great Eastern Lumber Company will lose its plant through fore- 

 closure suit instituted by the Union Trust Company of Detroit. Judge 

 W. W. Lambdin ordered on July 13 that this company's property he sold 

 unless the company's Indebtedness of $1,000,000 is paid by August 2. He 

 approved the report of Col. William Girard, special master, who refused 

 to set aside the decree to permit the company to defend suit. September 

 15 is fixed as the date for the sale to take place at Savannah. 



Sash and Door Company Erects New Plant 



The Union Sash & Door Company, Cleveland, O., recently organized, 

 has just purchased the property at 3029 St. Claire avenue, which was 

 formerly occupied by the Cleveland branch of the Peter Schoenhoflfen 

 Brewing Company of Chicago. Consideration was not made public. 



