February 25, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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QUARTERED WHITE OAK L 



4/4" No. 1 Common a cars 



4/4" No, 2 Common 1 car 



PLAIN WHITE OAK 



4/4" No. 1 Common 3 cara 



4/4" No. 2 Common 3 cars 



ii/4" FAS 1 car 



6/4" No. 1 Common 1 car 



PLAIN RED OAK 



4/4" No. 1 Common 4 cars 



4/4" No. 2 Common 5 cars 



PLAIN MIXED OAK 



4/4" No. 3 Common 10 cars 



5/4" No. 3 Common 1 car 



QUARTERED GUM 



8/4" No. 1 Com. & Btr.. Red 2 cars 



8/4" No. I Com. & Btr.. Sap 3 cars 



PI^IN BED GUM 



4/4" No. 2 Common 3 cars 



5/4" No. 1 Com. & Btr 1 car 



6/4" No. 1 Com. & Btr 3 cars 



TUPELO 



4/4" No. 1 Com. & Btr 6 cars 



ELM 



4/4" No. 2 Com. & Btr 2 cars 



CYPRESS 



4/4" No. 1 Shop 5 cars 



4/4" Select 2 cais 



8/4" Select & Btr 1 car 



COTTONWOOD 



4/4" No. 1 Common 10 cars 



4/4" PAS. 6-12" Scar, 



4/4" FAS, 13-17" 1 car 



4/4" Box Boards, 9-12" 2 cars 



TWO BAND MILLS 

 100,000 /*. daily capacity 



Miller Lumber Co. 



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company in order to got tlioroviglily ai-iiuiiinti'd witli tlio storks in pilp 

 and also those in the process of manufacture. The meeting was concluded 

 Saturday with a general discussion of marl<et conditions, future prospects, 

 prices, etc. 



Those attending the meeting were : Franli R, Handeyside, .sales man- 

 ager; Miss E, S, Gallet, manager wholesale department; V, J. Euler, 

 assistant sales department manager ; L, B, Smith, in charge of Chicago 

 office ; H, A, Hazen, Rocliford, 111., representing Southern Wisconsin and 

 Northern, 111, ; Frank C. Sawtell, Rhinelander, Wis,, representing North- 

 ern and Central Wisconsin and Minnesota ; W. B, Sabin, Detroit and 

 Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Hardwood News Notes 



CHICAGO 



F. R. Gadd. manager of statistics of the American Ilanlwood Jlanutac- 

 turers' Association of Memphis, was in the city February 1-5. 



.\mong the southern hardwood lumbermen visiting in Chicago during 

 the week of February ending the nineteenth were S. M. Niclfey of Nicliey 

 Brothers, Inc, Sam Thompson of the .\nderson-Tully Company, Robert 

 Locljwood and H. P, Moyer of the Moyer-Shafer Hardwood Company, all 

 of Memphis, A. E. Moreland of the G. L, Keller Lumber Company. 

 Meridian, Miss., was also in the city during that time, 



-Vmong the Chicago lumbermen who attended the annual meeting of 

 tlie Northern Hardwood Wholesalers Association in Milwaul^ee Feb. 1.5 

 were F. M. Baker, A. J. Barker, Joe Dion, Tom Moore, E. A. Mercedal. 

 L. B. Smith, A. C. Quixley. G. H. Vangsness and Gus Heinemann. 



Considerable optimism is developing in the eastern lumber centers, 

 according to the experience of Claude Wertz and B. E. Bowman of the 

 Maley & Wertz Lumber Company, Ilvansville, Ind,, who stopped over in 

 Chicago on Feir, 21 while enroute home to Evansville. 



W. W. Schupner, secretary of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 

 .\sso,clation. New York City, was in Chicago recently conferring with 

 various local members of his organization concerning arrangements for the 

 annual meeting of the association. 



Two important lumber events that will take place in Chicago during 



March arc the annual meeting of tlie National Wholesale Lumlier Dealers' 

 .\ssociation at the New Dral;e Hotel, and the Third .-Vmerican Lumber 

 Congress nt the Congress Hotel. The former meeting will take place 

 Marcli 2n and W and the second March 30 to April 1. 



BUFFALO 



Numi'rous vacation trips are being ('n,ioycd by the members of the hard- 

 wood tradi' these days, Hugh McLean left a few days ago for a six 

 weeks' trip to California, W. W. Reilley has gone on a two months' trip 

 to Panama, California and the Hawaiian Islands. M. M. Wall left about 

 a week ago for a winter vacation at Mount Clemens. O. E. Yeager has 

 returned from a week at New York and Atlantic City, A, J, Chestnut has 

 been spending several weeks recuperating in Florida, 



Charles IT, Honeck, president of the Batavia & New York Woodworking 

 Company, is devoting his energies to putting across a ,fl5,000 campaign 

 to purchase a site for the new Batavia Car Works, Inc, Mr, Honeck is 

 president of the Batavia, N, Y„ Chamber of Commerce, and so has charge 

 of the drive, on which thirty teams are working. 



The corporation of Davenport & Ridley has been dissolved and is suc- 

 .I'l'iliMl l.y B. F. Ridley & Son at the same address, 112.S Seneca street. 



BOSTON 



Exports of hardwood lumber and other hardwood products from tlie port 

 .'f Boston for the month of December, li)20, statistics of which have just 

 been made available by the collectors of the port, were as follows : Hard- 

 wood boards, 84,000 feet, valued at $15,007, all going to England; boat 

 cars, $145: wooden chairs, $11,914, $9,361 of the shipment being to Cuba; 

 wooden office and store furniture, $1,601 ; other wooden furniture, $793 ; 

 staves, 66,926 pieces, valued at $2S,.S00, all going to Great Britain ; tool 

 handles, $57; heading, $21,850, all to Great Britain; woodenware, $777; 

 other manufactures of wood, which class of course contains some soft- 

 wood products, $250,126. It is interesting to note that hardwood boards 

 led in board exports from here, the exports of other boards being : white 

 pine, 11,000 feet, $630; spruce boards, 30,000 feet, $1,158, Total hard- 

 woods exports, $331,130. 



George E. French, manager of the Boston office of the Atlantic Lumber 

 Company, which specializes in hardwoods and yellow pine, and has large 

 mill connections in Kentucky and other points, said, when interviewed 

 in regard to the present outlook in the hardwood trade : "The point of 

 view has changed. There is already a much better feeling prevailing in 

 the trade. Prices have been liquidated a great deal in hardwoods and it 



