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With the Trade 



Penrod Sales Offices Established at Kansas City 

 The Penrod-Jurdeu-JIcCowen Lumber Company of Kansas City, Mo., 

 and Brasfield, Ark., announces that etfective October 1, the sales offices 

 of the company are located in Kansas City and requests that all cor- 

 respondence be addressed to that office. This change in its selling arrange- 

 ments is made necessary by reason of the company's having replaced its 

 former band mills at Brasfield, which were recently destroyed by fire, 

 with a newer and more modern plant of very much larger capacity, re- 

 quiring a more extensive organization than formerly to handle its greatly 

 increased output. 



The company believes that with this extension 'of its organization it 

 ■will be able to earn a greater patronage from the consuming trade. 



Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company to Establish Chicago Office 

 and Warehouse 



To better serve the increasing number of users of the Acorn brand of 

 oak flooring manufactured by the Nashville Hardwood Flooring Company, 

 Nashville, Tenn., that company has established at Western avenue and 

 Fifteenth place, Chicago, a warehouse for the storage of a half million 

 feet of flooring. The quarters are steam heated, damp-proof and every 

 facility is offered for careful and expeditious 

 iiandling of customers' orders. 



No stock will be sold to the consuming or con- 

 tracting trade, but tlie new warehouse will be for 

 the benefit of the Chicago dealers buying in 

 wagon lots or those who wish to use the ware- 

 house for their flooring requirements in prefer- 

 ence to carrying oak flooring in stock. In addi- 

 tion less than carload lot shipments will be 

 handled largely by package car service to dea'ers 

 in territory contiguous to Chicago. 



In the same connection John B. Rausom & (_^o., 

 of which concern the Nashville Hardwood Floor- 

 ing Company is an affiliated company, will have 

 a Chicago office at the same quarters for the 

 furtherance of its interests in this territory. The 

 affairs of both companies will be in charge of 

 Earl Bartholomew, who for several years has 

 been associated with the Ransom interests, and 

 who enjoys a large personal acquaintance with 

 the consuming hardwood and oak flooring trades. 



The wisdom of the policy of the late John B. 

 Ransom of supplying at a fair price the best oak 

 flooring that can be produced has been fully 

 exemplified by the increased yearly production 

 ■of the Acorn brand of oak flooring and its in- 

 creasing host of friends in the trade. This 

 policy is being carried along conscientiously by 



the present members of the Ransom interests. E. W. BARTHOLOMEW 



CATES IN 



Buys 'West 'Virginia Timber Land 



It is announced that a tract of 40,0U0 acres of stumpage in Nicholas 

 and Fayette counties in West Virginia has been bought by the Meadow 

 River Lumber Company of Cincinnati, O. More timber will be pur- 

 chased by the company as it is required. It will erect a sawmill and 

 build a railroad into the tract purchased. It is more than likely that 

 the Meadow River company will lay out and build in the near future 

 an up-to-date sawmill town in that vicinity. 



To Establish Hardwood Plant 

 It is reported from Hazelhurst, Miss., that J. D. Flanagan and business 

 associates of Grand Rapids, Mich., will establish a hardwood plant at that 

 point. It is further reported that the associations have leased the site 

 and equipment of the Hazelhurst Lumber Company and new machinery 

 and equipment will shortly be installed. 



New Michigan Furniture Factory 



The Kelley Chair Company of Grand Rapids, Mich., is erecting a fac- 

 tory at West Hancock, that state, which will be eighty feet long, thirty 

 wide, and two stories high. The machinery to equip the plant will be 

 shipped from the company's factory at Grand Rapids. The factory will 

 have a working force of thirty men at the start, and it is expected to be 

 in operation within two months. William A. Kelley is president. He has 

 had thirty years of experience in the furniture business. 



Lumber Burned by Bombardment 



The lumber yard of Lcgrand Brothers, at Rheims, France, wag caught 

 in the German bombardment on September 6, and more than $200,000 

 worth of lumber was burned. Doubtless many a good stick of American 

 •origin went up in smoke. There should be consolation in the fact that 

 there is plenty in this country with which to replenish the stocks de- 

 stroyed in war. 



Lumberman a Cavalry Officer 



A. Couspeire, a New Orleans timber exporter, is serving as a cavalry 

 captain with the armies of France. A letter from his French office gives 

 his address as Capitaine Couspeire, Etat-majors, Depots d'Remounte a 

 Alencon, Aine, which means, freely translated, that he was then attached 

 to the headquarters of the Remount depots at Alencon, in the department 

 of Aine. 



The Largest Redwood Tree 



B. F. Porter, a timber and lumber operator of Eureka, California, says 

 he is about to fell a redwood tree on his tract that will equal the record 

 value of any yet cut in California. It is 3S0 feet high, 26 feet in diam- 

 eter 7 feet from the ground, 261 feet to the first limb, where the diameter 

 is 11 feet, and scales over 344,000 feet of lumber. Fifty percent will 

 sell at ?35, 30 percent at $1S, and the remaining refuse at ?8. The total 

 value is estimated at more than ?9,000. 



S. B. 'Vrooman On Foreign Trade Committee 



Never in the history of Philadelphia has there been such a notable 

 gathering of prominent bankers and merchants from every branch of 

 industry as seen in the recent meetings held in this city for the purpose 

 ot expanding American trade, and on the basis of reciprocity the opening 

 up of our markets to the Latin-American states and the South African 

 countries. Every phase of the conditions prevailing in these new fields is 

 being carefully mvestigated by men of keen judgment and men who have 

 already had business experience in these fields. It is eminently satis- 

 factory to the lumber trade to learn that Samuel B. Vrooman, senior mem- 



her of Samuel B. Vrooman & Co., Limited, well 



known importers and exporters of mahogany, wal- 

 nut, veneers and fancy woods, has been ap- 

 pointed to represent the lumber industries on 

 this committee, as they realize that no one better 

 fitted to bring about good results could have 

 been selected. Mr. Vrooman stands conspicuously 

 in the front rank as a man of the highest integ- 

 rity and business probity. His many visits to 

 foreign markets both as a buyer and seller of 

 woods has given him a broad and valuable expe- 

 rience as to what measures to apply to gain 

 business in these fields, and with this equipment 

 he cannot fail to be of great service to the new 

 trade seekers. It is safe to assume that this 

 ijody of merchants and financiers will leave no 

 stone unturned for the development of plans to 

 Iiring about the desirable trade exchange between 

 our markets in the North and those of the South 

 .\merican countries. 



Louisiana to Chicago by 'Water 

 The first shipment of lumber from Louisiana 

 to Chicago by water arrived at its destination 

 October 13. There were sixty carloads of oak 

 from .TefCris, La., and the shipment was made 

 by D. K. JefTris & Co. Water transportation cut 

 tile freight bill twenty-five per cent. The lumber 

 was towed on barges by a river steamer and was 

 delivered at La Salle, 111., where it was trans- 

 ferred to small steel barges of fifty tons capacity, 

 or from 20,000 to 2.5,000 feet of lumber per barge. 

 The transfer was due to the fact that the large 

 barges which brought the lumber up the Mississippi river could not be 

 pa.^sed tbrcugli the canal locks. The small barges were taken through the 

 Illinois and Michigan canal, thence through the drainage canal to Chicago. 

 The company proposes to make all its lumber shipments from JefTris to 

 Chicago by that route. The time is a little longer than by rail, but the 

 saving in fi-eigbt justifies it. 



Dyes from Stumps 



The American Wood Products Company, Spokane. Wash., which Is 

 manufacturing a vaiiety of dyes from products of pine stumps, announces 

 that these dye.< will be suitable for some branches ot the textile industry. 

 In the present condition of the dyestulT market, due to the lack of ma- 

 terial heretofore obtained from Germany, the declaration by the above 

 chemists comes as a great relief to the textile trade of Philadelphia, as 

 this city is known as the most extensive textile manufacturing center In 

 the United States. 



Poor Economy 



A veritable riddle, especially at a time when the cost of living appears 

 to be the vital topic for consideration and a most careful economy be- 

 comes necessary in the matter of house building, has been puzzling 

 J. Elmer Troth of the J. S. Kent Company, Philadelphia. Among the'eoni- 

 pany's recent shipments Mr. Troth states are notable : "Two carloads of 

 Gx24" sawed cypress shingles, made in South Carolina, to a point In the 

 Province of Quebec; a lot of .5x24" sawed cedar shingles, made in the state 

 of New Jersey, to a point in Maine, and another lot ot 6x24" sawed 

 cypress shingles to a point in northern New York state ; It also has an 

 order to ship some yellow pine rift flooring from Alabama, to a point In 

 the stale ot Washington. 



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