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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 10, 1921 



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Our well selected logs, our careful manufacture and the 

 grading of our stock, demonstrate a service built on expe- 

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 ture business. We make Hardwood Lumber that brings a 

 follow-up order. Keep in touch with us when in need of 

 future supply. Dry atock Is scarce now. A careful con- 

 suming manufacturer, however, looks to the future for sup- 

 plies that give satisfaction. 



We desire to get in communication with you so we may 

 know what your needs are and maybe by and by we can 

 help you. The erection of new mills and because of our 

 having a constant eye cast about for Increasing our timber 

 holdings, should put us at the head of the list of mlllB 

 when you want to buy Pine and Hardwoods. 



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I. umber MauufacturiTs .\ssociation are the following: C. E. Bauman, 

 Male.v & Wertz Lumlier Company, Evansville, Ind. ; II. W. Baker, Jr., 

 Daker-.Matlhews Couiiiany, Memphis ; Fred G. Christman, Christman 

 Veneer & Lumber Company and president of the Lumbermen's Exchange, 

 St. Louis, Mo, ; L. E. Cornelius, Cornelius Lumber Company, St. Louis, 

 Mo. ; Thos. B. Coppock, S. P. Coppock & Sons Lumber Company. Ft. 

 Wayne, Ind. ; Chas. C. Dickinson E. Sondheimer Company, Memphis ; W. H. 

 Day, Wood Mosaic Company. Louisville, Ky. ; Sam Thompson and M. W. 

 Enright, Anderson-Tully Company, Memphis ; Joe Thompson, Thompson- 

 Katz Lumber Company, Memphis; Earl Palmer, Ferguson & Palmer Com- 

 pany, Memphis ; John K. Ferguson, Ferguson Hardwood Company, Paducah, 

 Ky. ; M. J, Fox, Von Platen-Fox Company, Iron Mountain, Mich. ; Ted E. 

 Jones, F. T. Dooley Lumber Company. Memphis ; Preston P. Joyes, W. P. 

 Brown & Sons Lumber Company, Louisville, Ky. ; W. W. Knight, Long- 

 Knight Lumber Company, Indianapolis, Ind. ; C. M. Kellogg Panola Lum- 

 ber Company, Memphis ; Walter X. Kelley. W. N. Kelley Company, Detroit, 

 Mich. ; R. J. Lockwood, Lockwood Lumber Company, Brinkley. Ark. ; 

 O. M. Krebs, McLean Hardwood Lumber Company, Memphis ; U. S. Lam- 

 bert, Dlckson-Lambert Lumber Company, Memphis, and Hugh McLean, 

 Hugh McLean Lumber Company. Buffalo, N. Y. 



BUFFALO 



The Bohn, Fischer Company has filed plans for the erection of a new 

 planing mill to cost $25,000. It will take the place of -the one recently 

 destroyed by Are. G. Ellas & Bro. have received a permit for a sawmill, 

 which will soon be erected at the plant. 



Frank T. Sullivan has returned from a two weeks' trip to Bermuda. He 

 has added another room to his office in EUicott Square and will not move 

 to the Associated Service Building, as he intended to do. 



A Buffalo hardwood lumberman, who has an elegant stock of hardwood 

 stuff under cover, announces the policy that he intends to pursue until 

 business picks up. He says he has more than 500,000 feet of walnut, 

 twelve inches wide and up, and 3,000.000 to 4.000.000 feet of clear fir. 

 He bought it reasonably, but does not believe it will pay him to force a 



sale of it this year. It is paid for aud be will hold it until next year, when 

 he expects to get a much better price for it than he can get now. As tor 

 buying, there Is too much lumber flying around at a loss to warrant him 

 in drawing upon stock that he values especially. 



PITTSBURGH 



Fred R. Babcock, of the Babcoek Lumber Company, will represent the 

 Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce at the Convention of the United. States 

 Chamber of Commerce at .-Vtlantic City, April 27. 



E. H. Shreiner Lumber Company reports hardwood business extremely- 

 dull, and says that orders are very small and that cancellations are much 

 too fi'equent. 



J. C. Linehan & Company report that industrial concerns are buying 

 very little lumber Just now. Many of the plants are down and in others 

 they are waiting apparently for lower prices. 



The Baird Rees Lumber Company, which lately opened ofBces in the 

 Bessemer Building is getting a fine start. C. T. Baird, Jr., is president. 

 He was formerly sales manager of the Germain Company, of this city. 

 A. L. Rees is secretary and treasurer. Tile company has a capital of 

 $50,000. 



A new concern in Pittsburgh which will use considerable hardwood is- 

 Penn Woodenware Company, which has been organized by Max Rcdlich, 

 Samuel Margulies and .'\. Jones of this city. 



E. H. Pickett and L. D. Volk have organized a new wholesale lumber 

 company, with offices in the Park Building. Both partners worked for a 

 long time with Willson Bros., and are very familiar with general lumber 

 tradc and especially hardwood demand in the Tri-State territory. 



The Zeigler Lumber Company of this city has increased its capital from 

 $50,000 to $75,000 to extend its operations. 



The Edward Dambach Lumber Company, of Evans City, Pa., has bought 

 property at Zelienople, Pa., and will open a lumber yard shortly. 



The Lange Box & Lumber Company, of Pittsburgh, has been organized 

 by Paul W. and Louis Vi . Lange and Frank C. Miller of this city to do a 

 general lumber aud manufacturing business. 



BALTIMORE 



The Baltimore Buggy Top Company, which manufactures tops for car- 

 riages, using extensive quantities of hardwoods for the purpose, has moved 

 Into its new factory at Guilford avenue, near Chase street. This estab- 

 lishment, though only one story high, covers a space 90 by 150 feet, and 

 is so constructed that two more stories can be added at any time the 

 volume of business warrants the expansion. 



The Morgan Millwork Company, sash and door jobbers with a large- 

 establishment on West North avenue, near Maryland avenue, this city, is 

 planning the erection of a three-story addition in the near future, the- 

 addition to be used as a storage room. The company's business has beea 

 rapidly expanding and additional space is needed. 



C. C. Morse of Morse Bros., Rochester, N. Y., stopped in Baltimore the- 

 week ending April 2 on the way down to his company's mill at Helen, Ga. 

 While here he saw some of the hardwood men and exchanged views as to- 

 business conditions. He expressed the opinion that trade on the whole- 

 was quiet, with the outlook by no means clear. 



Another caller was John Raine, president of the Meadow River Lumber 

 Company of Rainelle, W. Va. Mr. Raine was making a short ea?^teru trip, 

 more to get a close view of conditions than with an idea of placing lumber,, 

 and he reported that he had found the requirements everywhere restricted^ 

 with buyers generally disposed to hesitate about placing orders. 



Geo. B. Jobson, who is in charge of the offices of the Douglass-Walkley 

 Company, in the Lexington Building here, has gone on a trip to Detroit, 

 Mich., evidently to call upon the automobile trade with regard to the- 

 probable requirements in tbe way of hardwood lumber. After that he 

 Intended to go to the company's saw mill in Virginia to look after opera- 

 tions. The company formerly made its headquarters in Cleveland, but 

 moved to be nearer to the eastern area of distribution and also to the 

 gateways for export business. 



The managing committee of the Baltimore Lumber Exchange held its- 

 monthly meeting this afternoon at the rooms of the Old Colony Club, in 

 the Southern Hotel, but found little business to transact. The proceedings 

 consisted largely of an informal discussion of trade conditions. W. Hun- 

 ter Edwards, the president, occupied the chair. 



COLUMBUS 



The report of the Columbus building department for the month of March 

 shows an increase in the number of permits issued, although a decrease in 

 the net valuation of the buildings projected. The same tendency is shown 

 in the comparative reports for the first three months of 1921, as compared 

 "with 1920. During March the department issued 520 permits, having a 

 valuation of $971,910, as compared, with 301 permits and a valuation of 

 $1,447,710 in Jlarch of last year. During the three months just past 

 the department issued 016 permits, having a valuation of $1,844,155, as 

 compared with 505 permits and a valuation of $2,897,290 for the corre- 

 sponding period in 1920. 



Papers have been file<l increasing the capital of the McKenzie Lumber 

 Company of Delaware from $50,000 to $100,000. 



H. D. Brasher, who has been in the lumber business in Columbus for a 

 dozen years and who was head of the Brasher Lumber Compan.v. recently 



