0':toi)er 25, 1920 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



51 



Building permits here have been running behind the corresponding 

 period of last year for the past two months, and the probability Is that 

 this month will be no different, although It may exceed the record of the 

 past month In total costs. 



BALTIMORE 



The storage of lumber on certain wharves, constructed and owned by 

 the city at comparatively small cost to the owners, has been brought to 

 the front in the last week, through a reference in the City Survey, made 

 at the direction of Mayor Broening, of the workings of the different 

 municipal departments. The survey points out that the lumber wharves 

 are virtually used as storage places, "keeping down the flow traffic." and 

 the reference is taken as an indication that an effort will be made to change 

 the system. The matter has been brought to the attention of the Export 

 and Import Board of Trade, and is likely to be kept in the forefront. 

 There are those in the lumber trade who contend that the availability of 

 the city wharves for storage purpose is a detriment rather than a bonetit, 

 in that It serves to attract large quantities of lumber and results in 

 accumulation, even in congestion, to the unsettlement of values. The 

 primary purpose, of course, was to enable the users of lumber to get stocks 

 at low prices, and It is to be said that this result has been accomplished. 

 Considerable dissent, however, has been manifested at times with this 

 purpose, the opponents of the system maintaining that it would be better 

 for the city and also for the trade it the burden of providing storage space 

 were thrown upon the lumbermen themselves, in that the latter situation 

 would tend to stability, which would in the last analysis prove an advan- 

 tage to the city. So far nothing has been done with the survey, but a 

 thorough discussion of the matter is sure to ensue. 



The new lumber firm started by T. W. Justus, who withdrew recently 

 from the firm of Natwick & Company, Munsey building, and W. J. Apple, 

 formerly of the Canton Lumber Company, will do business under the style 

 of T. W. Justus, maintaining close relations with the Justus-Murphy 

 Company of Parkersburg, W. Va., of which A. L. Justus, the son of T. W. 

 Justus, is the head. Hardwoods will receive special attention, other 

 kinds of lumber also being handled, and the firm is located at 1415 Munsey 

 building. Mr. Justus has become particularly familiar with stocks such 

 as are used by the railroads, and it is indicated that this division will be 

 looked after with much energy. 



Frank Helm of Richard P. Baer & Company is back from a trip of about 

 two and a half months down South, during which time he looked after the 

 operation of the saw mills at Mobile, owned by the Magazine Hardwood 

 <-'ompany, and of the plant at Bogalusa, conducted by the Baer Lumber 

 Company, both of them allied corporations. He took the place temporarily 

 of Albert O. Thayer, the regular manager of both plants, who was up 

 north on his vacation. Mr. Helm said that the hesitancy shown by buyers 

 elsewhere was also much in evidence down South, and there were many 

 reports in circulation to the effect that mill men, especially In the Memphis 

 district, were greatly curtailing their output. Prices had gone off to an 

 extent, Mr. Heim said, which made a readjustment in production cost 

 desirable and even necessary, and there was every indication that other 

 plants which had not yet done so would curtail. The Mobile plant is to 

 close for some weeks pending repairs and a general overhauling. 



H. Crowell of the Bee Tree Lumber Company of Massie's Mills. Va., 

 was among the visiting lumbermen here last week and called on some of 

 the hardwood men here. He said that he had found business decidedly 

 quiet in the course of his travels, with buyers disposed to hold off because 

 of the uncertainty that prices would be maintained. 



The barge Altamaha, from Darien, and the Joseph J. Hock, from Fernan- 

 dina, in tow, have arrived in port here with 3,100 piles for the foundation 

 of the new building of the American Sugar Refining Company, now being 

 constructed on the south side of the inner harbor. Many of the piles are 

 approximately 100 feet long. 



Cortez H. Jennings, one of the founders of the lumber towns of Jen- 

 nings, Garrett county. Md., and Jenningston, W. Va., and for years exten- 

 sively engage<l in lumbering operations in both places as a member of the 

 firm of Jennings Bros., died at his home in Towanda, Pa., early in October 

 of a stroke of paralysis, which he sustained some six weeks or more 

 before in the course of an automobile trip from his residence to Jennings. 

 When he got to Jennings he could neither see nor speak, and managed to 

 make his plight known through a note handed to a stranger at the hotel. 

 Later he was taken home on a special Pullman car. Mr. Jennings was 

 65 years old. and practically withdrew from lumbering activities about 

 ten years ago. The assets at Jenningston are being sold for a large sum. 

 He had various other interests. His wife, a son and a married daughter 

 survive. 



COLUMBUS 



Manufacturers 



of 



Southern Hardwoods 



Chapman & Dewey Lumber Co. 



MARKED TREE, ARKANSAS 

 KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI 



BEDNA YOUNG 

 LUMBER CO. 



JACKSON, TENNESSEE 

 MA NUFA CTURERS 



Quartered White Oak 



REGULAR WIDTHS AND LENGTHS 



Plain Red Gum FAS 4/4" 



Plain Red Gum No. I Common 4/4" 



Quartered Red Gum No. 1 Common 4/4" 



Sap Gum No. 1 Common 4/4" 



Plain Red Oak FAS 5/8' & 3/4" 



Plain Red Oak. No. I Com. 5/8", 3/4", 4/4" & 5/4" 



Plain Red Oak No. 2 Com. 4/4" 



Quartered Red Oak FAS 4/4", 5/4" & 6/4" 



Quartered Red Oak ...No. 1 Com. 4/4", 5/4" & 6/4" 



Quartered Red 0«k Nos. 2 & 3 Com. 4 4" 



Plain White Oak No. 1 Com. 5/8"", 4/4" & 5/4" 



Plain White Oak No. 2 Com. 4/4" 



Qtd. White Oak... FAS 5/8"" & 4/4" 



Qtd. W. Oak... No. 1 C. 5/8", 3/4", 4/4", 5/4" & 6/4" 



Qtd. White Oak No. 2 Com. 4/4" 



Poplar Panel, 18" & up 5/8" 



Poplar FAS 4/4" 



Poplar No. 1 Com. 5/8" & 4/4" 



Poplar No. 2 A& B 4/4" 



High Grade Hardwoods 



The Jefterson Lumber Company of Cleveland has been chartered with a 

 capital of $20,000 to do a general retail business. The incorporators are 

 F. W. Sharp, B. S. Brady, J. H. Kellogg, A. Cullen and R. Hall. 



Papers have been filed increasing the capital of the Auto Woodstock & 

 Ladder Company of Fremont from $10,000 to $50,000. The American 

 Steel Tie Company of Youngstown, O., has been chartered with a capital 

 of $100,000 to manufacture and deal in steel and wood ties. Incorporators 



are Thomas L. Glfford, August E. Hesselkur, H. A. Stockstitt, George F. 

 Patton and F. J. Fahl. 



Frank C. Kelton, aged 65, a well known lumberman of Columbus, who 

 was in charge of millwork and factory sales for the Powell Lumber Com- 

 pany, died recently at his residence, 51 North Monroe avenue. He was the 

 son of F. C. Kelton, a well known resident and one of the pioneers of 

 Columbus. In the early 70's he organized the Slade & Kelton Lumber 

 Company and later the Kelton & Connors Company. Another connection 

 was the Kelton & Brown Lumber Company. About ten years ago he retired 

 from active business, only to be attracted into the Industry again about 

 four years ago. He leaves a widow, two sons and a daughter. 



E. M. Stark, secretary of the American Column & Lumber Company of 

 Columbus, reports a slow trade, excepting in high grade poplar and in 

 basswood tor box manufacture. Another good feature of the market is the 

 demand for railroad stocks, especially cross and switch ties. Prices show 

 a rather wide range, but that is to be expected under the circumstances. 



The R. A. Miller Lumber Company of Middleport, Ohio, has taken over 

 the business of the Miller-Cllffton Co~mpany. 



C. R. Webb, formerly an attache of the H. R. Allen Lumber Company 

 of Columbus, has resigned his position and returned to his farm in Clinton 

 county. 



