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HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 25, 1920 



Hardwood News Notes 



PITTSBURGH 



CHICAGO 



The numerous friends of Roy Smith are congratulating him on the fact 

 of his having become the Chicago sales agent of the Charles W. Fish 

 Lumber Company of Elcho, Wis. Mr. Smith formerly represented the 

 Forstner Lumber Company in this territory. His headquarters are now 

 at No. 10 South La Salle street. The large company which he now repre- 

 sents have Ave modern band mills situated at the following points in Wis- 

 consin : Antigo, Birnamwood, Crandon, Elcho and Hiles. The annual 

 capacity of these mills is 100,000,000 feet, consisting of black ash, bass- 

 wood, birch, rock and soft elm, hemlock, hard and soft maple. Mr. Smith 

 is one of the best liked and well known lumbermen in Chicago, and a 

 considerable success Is predicted for him in the marketing of the Fish 

 Lumber Company's cut. 



J. C. Ulrich of the Montgomery Lumber Company, Montgomery, Tex., 

 arrived in Chicago a few days ago to spend a two weeks' vacation with 

 his family that resides in Austin, 111., a suburb of Chicago. 



Eay McQuillan, secretary and general manager of the Langlade Lumber 

 Company, Antigo, Wis., recently made a visit to Chicago. 



G. W. Jones, president of the G. W. Jones Lumber Company of Appleton. 

 Wis., visited A. L. Kuth, manager of the tirm's Chicago office, last week. 

 Mr. Jones was accompanied to Chicago by Mrs. Jones, who came for a 

 shopping tour. 



G. H. Bulgrin, sales manager for the R. Connor Company, Marshfield, 

 Wis., was in Chicago last week, having just completed an extended tour 

 of the eastern states and Canada. His investigations found the market 

 rather dull in the east, but he found that many of the retailers and others 

 are buying up considerable stocks because of the belief that present prices 

 are great bargains and that the lumber can be disposed of later at good 

 profits. 



A. B. Smith of the A. B. Smith Lumber Company of Paducah, Ky., 

 stopped over in Chicago last week while enroute to Minneapolis, Minn., and 

 other northern market points. Mr. Smith is a large handler of poles, such 

 as used by telephone and telegraph companies. 



Hugh McLean of the Hugh McLean Lumber Company, Buffalo, stopped 

 over in Chicago a few days ago enroute to Memphis to visit his company's 

 interests in that city. 



John W. McClure of the Bellgrade Lumber Company, Memphis, was in 

 Chicago last week, having stopped over while returning to Memphis, after 

 having attended a meeting of the trustees of the National Wholesale 

 Lumber Dealers' Association in New York. Mr. McClure is president of 

 that association, 



R. E. Hollowell and P. C. Pierson of the Eel River Fall Lumber Com- 

 pany, Spencer, Ind., were in Chicago on an important business mission last 

 week. 



Sam Thompson of the Anderson-Tully Company, Memphis, and R. M. 

 Kellogg of the Kellogg & Panola Lumber Companies, Memphis, were in 

 Chicago the first of this week. 



BUFFALO 



Asa. K. Silverthorne took the stand in the government case against his 

 lumber company a few days ago and denied all the charges of irregularities 

 which were made by witnesses for the prosecution. The case has been on 

 trial for over six weeks, and lately an adjournment occurred because of 

 the illness of the government's attorney. 



At the last meeting of the Buffalo Lumber Exchange a talk was given 

 by James B. Wall, who described Interestingly his tour abroad with the 

 Knights of Columbus party. 



.\ugu.st C. Hager, president of the B. M. Hager & Sons' Lumber Com- 

 pany, died at his home on Nov. 16, aged 53 years. He sustained an opera- 

 tion a week ago, after a lingering illness of two years. He was born in 

 this city, and after graduating at Canisius College became associated with 

 his father in the lumber and planing mill business. Besides his wife, he 

 leaves three daughters, his mother, two brothers, George J. and Edward 

 J. Hager, and two sisters, Mrs. Joseph Kam and Mrs. Caroline Dumphey. 



Buffalo building costs for October were $1,106,000, or 32 per cent short 

 of the same month last year, when the total was $1,629,000. The year 

 to Nov. 1 shows a total of $11,568,000, as compared with $10,833,000 in 

 the same period of 1919. The report from Rochester for October shows 

 a decline of 69 per cent. 



Hugh McLean is spending about ten days inspecting the mills of the 

 McLean Lumber Company at Memphis and Little Rock. 



The Kerr & Ingram Lumber Company has bought the plant of the 

 Homestead Brewing Company at Sixth avenue and West street, Home- 

 stead, and will convert it at once into a millwork and lumber plant. The 

 property was worth about $400,000 and includes a good five-story building. 



The Standard Flooring Company, 6601 Kelly street, East End, has lately 

 increased its capital from $8,000 to $100,000. The officials of the com- 

 pany are : Edward J. Steeb, Jr., president and general manager ; Walter 

 P. Neubert, vice-president ; E. J. Steeb, Sr., secretary ; Don S. Leet, treas- 

 urer, and J. O. Cornelius, superintendent. 



The plant of the McLean & McGinnis Company, manufacturers of wagons 

 at 1427-1429 Liberty avenue, wa.s burned Nov. 17 with a loss of $200,000. 

 The plant was well Insured and may be rebuilt at once. 



The Frampton-Foster Lumber Company is winding up altogether the 

 best year in its business history. Its sales have been particularly large 

 in its Kentucky hardwood stocks, notably oak and chestnut, and the com- 

 pany feels mighty well pleased with the showing on its books. 



The Acorn Lumber Company has been finding industrial trade much 

 slower the past few weeks, although there is still now and then a good 

 order doing the rounds. Its officials believe that prices are about at the 

 bottom and must revive as soon as January buying starts. 



The Aberdeen Lumber Company looks for decidedly higher prices on gum 

 and Cottonwood stocks as soon as the inventory season is over. President 

 J. N. Woolett is now in the Southwest among the mills. 



J. C. Linehan & Co., hardwood wholesalers, report general conditions in 

 the hardwood market as decidedly bad, so far as building up a good whole- 

 sale business Is concerned. Industrial buyers are evidently waiting for 

 lower prices and railroad buying is not to be found. 



The Ricks-McCreight Lumber Company finds a much slower business 

 among the retailers than a few weeks ago. Hardwoods are hard to sellj 

 and its buyers, most of whom have fair stocks, are making purchases only 

 to fill in their immediate needs. 



BALTIMORE 



That the export business in American hardwoods is not as bad as cur- 

 rent reports might cause one to suppose is iudieated by the statement of 

 foreign shipments from this port for September, which was Issued last 

 week, being always a month and a half behind time. According to this 

 report the total declared value of the foreign shipments was not less than 

 $547,030, a bigger sum than has been recorded for a long time. It com- 

 pares with not more than $184,235 for the corresponding month of last 

 year. An analysis, hoM'ever. will show that much of the movement must 

 be credited to "other manufactures of wood," which contributed not less 

 than $224,283, or almost half, to the total for September. On the other 

 hand, the movement in oak boards took a jump, as against many previous 

 months, the shipments running up to 1,112,000 feet, of a declared value 

 of $145,500, so that about three-fourths of the aggregate exports are thus 

 accounted for. A fair business was done in hardwood boards, and for the 

 first time in a long while some mahogany wa-s sent out. Poplar, on the 

 other hand, dropped to a rather nominal quantity, and other "hardwood 

 stocks a)so appeared to lag. There was some business in hardwood logs, 

 also for the first time in many months, and the market on the whole 

 was far broader than the trade has been accustomed to since the begin- 

 ning of the war. Some attention was paid to sawn timber, with hard- 

 woods among this classification : and there were other features in the 

 exhibit of an encouraging nature. The diflference in the declared value of 

 the shipments as against September of last year cannot fail to attract 

 notice, being about as wide as ever before. 



John S. Helfrich, a well-known wholesale lumber dealer, has moved his 

 office from the seventh to the third floor of the New Amsterdam Casualty 

 Company building, formerly the Law building, on Courtland street. It 

 is thought that the Casually company will in time occupy the entire struc- 

 ture for its own business, and that the tenure of Mr. Helfrich is only tem- 

 porary. 



J. Sloan Hoskins of the lumber firm of J. S. Hoskins & Company, the 

 tower of the Maryland Casualty building, has been appointed a member 

 of the Industrial and "Welfare Commission, to investigate industrial and 

 welfare laws, and recommend to the Maryland Legislature of 1922 meas- 

 ures needed to bring about more harmonious relations between employer 

 and employee. 



John L. Alcock of John L. Alcock & Co., hardwood dealers and exporters, 

 Wunsey building, has been elected p>esident of the City Club, an organiza- 

 tion which is engaged in promoting measures designed to advance the inter- 

 ests of the municipality in every possible way. 



R. E. Wood, president of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company, Continental 

 building, is back from a trip to Texas, where he went to look after some 

 of his interests. He was away about two weeks. 



G. L. Wood, vice-president of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company, attended 

 the Appalachian conference at Knoxville, Tenn., of sawmill men called 

 to consider the advisability of curtailing production and other matters 

 of special interest to the trade at this time. 



The wholesale hardwood firm of Brown, Bowman & Bledsoe, in the 



