February 10, 1L»16 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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BIRDS EYE VENEER COMPANY 



Escanaba, Michigan 



for several years. His Jamestown address is 41 West Fourteenth street. 



Ordinarily it can be considered as more or less superfluous to say that 

 any lumber company has made a point of the maintenance of a good grade 

 of stock both as to technical grading and actual texture, as in the first 

 place the company that is conscientious in this particular will naturally 

 assume that the trade recognizes its policy, while a firm which is making 

 capital out of a pretense in this direction is going to demand that pres- 

 tige whether it is entitled to such consideration or not. 



However, in the case of the Utley-Holloway Company, it was considered 

 merely a matter of good business to work the operation from the beginning 

 along Just these lines. To facilitate the efforts to provide the best of 

 lumber and the best of grades, the company has been aquiring increasing 

 Quantities of timber and enlarging its sawmilllng operations. It now has 

 about completed the cnection of a substantial band sawmill at Helena, 

 Ark., having started a yard at that point about a year ago where it stored 

 lumber that was manufactured by custom mills in the vicinity. The mill 

 will be in operation in a sliort time and will cut onXv high-class oak and 

 ash from the company's holdings of St. Francis basin stumpage. The gum 

 and low-grade woods will be sold in the log to veneer and box companies 

 in that territory. 



The company also operates a mill at Kanema, .\rk., which is a producer 

 of high-grade gum and elm, with a lesser quantity of oak and some ash. 

 The reason for the manufacture of the lower-priced stuff at this operation 

 is that due to extreme efficiency the cost of operation has been reduced 

 to an astonishingly low figure, thus making possible profitable cutting of 

 these woods. 



The Dtley-Holloway Company will market this year about 1>«,000,000 

 feet of hardwood lumber of its own manufacture, all of which stock will 

 be handled very carefully witli close attention to the necessities of the 

 trade and with careful supervision in yardinij providing for the assorting 

 of widths and lengths. As show-n by the phottgraphs this careful handling 

 will involve piles of unusual precision on foundations well built and on 

 alleys well maintainetl so that conditions will be as near perfect as 

 possible for the proper drying and the maintaining of right conditions in 

 the yard under all circumstances. 



Annucd Meeting of Grand Rapids Woodworking Firm 



The Klise Manufacturing Company of Grand Hapids, Mich., makers of 

 wood carvings and mouldings, held its annual meeting recently and 

 elected the following officers : President, J. A. Klise ; vice-president, F. 

 Stuart Foote ; treasurer, Martha Frick. and secretary, James Veen. Louis 

 Warber and Charles Davies were elected to the directory. 



Baltimore Lumberman Makes Interesting Observations 



John L. Alcock of John L. Alcock & Co., hardwood exporters at Balti- 

 more, is back from a trip to the Pacific coast, during which he visited 

 Seattle, Portland, Tacoma and San Francisco. Mr. Alcock went to the 

 coast largely to look up some spruce for his European export trade, hav- 

 ing lately received offers of liberal orders. He took occasion to get in 

 touch with the lumber trade as much as possible, and brought back some 

 distinct impressions. One of these was that the business has attained a 

 A-ery fair volume, and that most of the mills are busy, though the trade 

 is also under various handicaps, some of thom being due to the war and 

 others to the closing of the Panama canal. The war tended to check 

 business to some extent, but on the other hand also created new demands 

 for Pacific coast woods. Thus, the Pacific coast lumliermen have been 

 finding a wider market, especially in the territory where Georgia pine is 

 used, the reason for this shifting heing, in Mr. Alcock's opinion, that 

 the Georgia pine mills received so many orders from foreign governments 

 at attractive prices that they became indifferent to the domestic demand, 

 leaving this open to the Pacific coast woods. Because of this condition, 

 spruce, fir and other Pacific coast woods have heen entering the eastern 

 markets in increasing volume and may strengthen their hold. This has 

 worked in a way to show the disadvantages of Baltimore as far as ship- 

 ping facilities are concerned. Many of the Pacific shipping agencies are 

 shippers as well as ship brokers, in other words, they own the com- 

 modities which they forward on their own vessels, and consequentl.v 

 maintain regular routes. There is no direct steamship connection between 

 San Francisco and Baltimore, for instance, so that if lumber is shipped 

 for any point near this city the shipment goes to New York, and is there 

 transshipped to this port, either by vessel or rail. This consumes time 

 and is expensive, putting a handicap upon Baltimore. The Maryland Steel 

 Works at Sparrows Point, for example, required considerable heavy timber, 

 such as is not now easily found in the South, but all of this lumber came 

 by way of New York simply because the shipper of the stocks had no 

 Baltimore-bound craft. The situation in this respect is made especially 

 difficult Just now, Mr. Alcock found, by the closing of the Panama canal, 

 which necessitates sending shipments by way of the long route around 

 Cape Horn. Only large vessels can take this route on account of the 

 rough voyage, the length of time it tal;es, and the large space for coal 

 needed, these considerations excluding altogether the sawmill vessels from 

 the Cape Horn route. It is not always practical, however, to load a big- 

 ship entirely with lumb?r, and therefore the lumber shipper must await an 

 opportunity to get his goods aboard some vessel as part cargo, which 



SOME GUM OF ITS "VERY OWN." THE CLASS OF TIMBER SAWED 



AT THE KANEMA, ARK., MILL OF THE FTLEY-HOLLOWAY 



COMPANY. FROM ITS OWN LANDS. 



GLENN nOLLOWAY GIVING MILITARY INSTRUCTION TO SOME OF 



THE EMPLOYEES AT THE HELEN.\ MILL OF THE 



UTLEY-HOLLOWAY COMPANY. 



