1918 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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the following import restrittions have been announced by the war 

 trade board: 



'•Licenses for tlie following articles will be granted only for 

 shipments coming: (a) Overland or by lake from Canada; (b) 

 overland from Mexico; (c) as return cargo from European coun- 

 tries, and then only when shipped from a convenient port and when 

 loaded without undue delay: 



124. Baskets of wood, hiimboo. straw or compositions of wood. 



125. Cork unmnnnfnclured, nnd niiinufncturos thereof. 

 130. Furniture. 



"Licenses for the following article may be granted from any 

 country, but only for shipments coming as deck cargo or coming on 

 vessels unfit for essential imports: 

 146. Queliriu-lio wood. 



"All outstanding licenses to import the above articles from any 

 country, from which, under the above announcement, licenses for 

 such article will not be granted, shall expire and become void un- 

 less ocean shipment thereunder is made on or before May 13, 1918. 

 "Also, all outstanding licenses to import from European coun- 

 tries articles covered by above items numbered 122 to 145 in- 

 elusive, and all outstanding licenses for quebracho wood shall ex- 

 pire and become void unless ocean shipment thereunder is made 

 on or before May 13, 1918. As to these, new applications may be 

 made for shipments after May 13, 1918." 



The following freight embargo order has been approved by the 

 powers that be: 



"By authority of Begional Director Markliam you will cancel 

 his recent embargo against shipments of lumber or forest products 

 and all other outstanding embargoes against shipments of lumber 

 or forest products for movement to or via Hagerstown, Potomac 

 yards, or Norfolk, and reissue immediately in accordance with the 

 following: 



".Account accunnilntlon and to prevent further congestion embargo Is 

 placed effective -Vpril 27 on all shipments of lumber, lath, shingles, ties, 

 piling, sash, doors and mill work, for movement to or via Hagerstown, 

 Potomac Yards, or Norfolk, except when consigned 



"A. To the United States government or officer thereof. 

 "B. To the United States government for account of the agent or con- 

 tractor in charge of construction. 



"C. To an officer of the United States goverunu'nl for account of the 

 agent or contractor in charge of construction. 



"D. For or on account of the navy department, iiav.v yards, naval sta- 

 tions or marine corps. 



"E. To or for account of the United States shipping board emergency 

 fleet corporation. 



•'No reconsignments or reshipments will be permitted. This will not 

 permit shipments consigned to a government officer 'in care of an indi- 

 vidual, (irm or corporation. Outstanding transportation orders issued by 

 the war department and car service section (of the Railroad Administra- 

 tion) permits will be permitted." 



Kmliargn nf the Grand Trunk Railway has been removed except that 

 poinrs in lanada are still embargoed. Shipments to points on that line in 

 Michigan. Illinois and Indiana can now be accepted. 



Efforts to improve the water transportation situation include the 

 announcement that 200 wooden ships of 4,700 tons of the Daughcrty 

 or Ballin types are to be built by the shipping board, and the agree- 

 ment on 10,000,000 tons of shipping, including 2,.500,000 tons of 

 wooden vessels, as the government's shipbuilding program for 1919. 

 Lumbermen here predict that there will be lots of wooden ship con- 

 struction not only in Gulf and Pacific coast yards, but in Atlantic 

 coast yards as well. The proposed Daugherty government ships 

 will make the total wooden ships planned by the government 580. 

 The detail plans and specifications of the Daugherty wooden ship 

 have been under consideration and revision here for the past week 

 or two at the hands of James O. Heyworth, in charge of wooden 

 ship construction for the government; John H. Kirby of Houston, 

 Tex., representatives of the American Bureau of Shipping, and' 

 prominent southern pine lumbermen including F. L. Sanford, F. W. 

 Stevens, and W. J. Sowers, director of the Southern Pinq Emergency 

 Bureau. The plans and specifications may be ready any day. 



The wooden shipbuilding program will be helped materially by 

 Mr. Kirby 's plan to establish concentration yards for ship timbers 

 at Beaumont, Gulf port, Jacksonville and Brunswick. 



Four wooden ships for the government were launched during the 



past week with 14,000 tons total tonnage at Newark, N. J.; Port- 

 land, Ore.; Sturgeon Bay, Wis., and Astoria, Ore. The Grant- 

 Smith-Porter Company, Portland, and Standifer Construction Com- 

 pany, Vancouver, Wash., has each bet $10,000 that it can, In tli« 

 case of the former, beat any other yard in rapid construction of a 

 wooden ship, and in the case of the latter company, that it can 

 construct more wooden tonnage in a year than any other shipyard 

 in the country. The Supple & Ballin Company of Portland claim 

 a world record for getting the seventy-nine frames of a wooden 

 ship in place in forty-four hours. 



Although wooden barges are not to be built by the government 

 for the Eric Canal, the shipping board has just authorized the con- 

 struction of 50 wooden barges of 3,500 tons each for use in the 

 coastwise trade, together with 25 large seagoing tugs the board 

 recently ordered. These vessels will be used largely in carrying 

 coal. 



The wooden ship department with the rest of the emergency fleet 

 corporation is this month moving to Philadelphia, by order of 

 Charles M. Schwab, director general of shipbuilding, so as to be 

 nearer the shipbuilding center of the country. 



The shipbuilding program and various other war activities will 

 be speeded up as a result of the enactment of the general housing 

 bill, which passed the senate recently, but which must be adjusted 

 in a conference committee before finally signed by the president. 

 The bill authorizes the expenditure of $60,000,000 for housing of 

 munitions workers and other war workers, including government 

 emjiloyees in Washington. Under the bill as passed by the senate, 

 the president, not the secretary of labor, is endowed with extra- 

 ordinary powers as to buying, commandeering, building, leasing, 

 etc., of land and buildings for housing war workers, providing 

 community and transportation facilities for them, etc. It is planned 

 to build thousands of houses of one kind or another, the material 

 largely used being lumber. Model settlements are planned for 

 workers at Newport News, Va.; Hog Island, Pa., and Camden, N. 

 J., ship yards; Newport, B. I., navel station, Bethlehem steel works, 

 and other establishments that will require many millions more than 

 the $60,000,000 carried by the pending bill plus the $50,000,000 here- 

 tofore provided for housing under the shipping board. 



The army medical supply depot here wants bids on a quantity of 

 ambulance and other boxes, bread boards, folding chairs, medical 

 and surgical chests, field desks, wood veneer and other splints, and 

 folding wooden bedside tables, up to May 13. 



The navy department wants proposals on a number of lots of 

 white pine, redwood, and spruce. 



Government orders for softwood lumber to several trade emer- 

 gency bureaus here have been very heavy, especially to the South- 

 ern Pine Bureau, but shared in by the North Carolina, Georgia- 

 Florida, Alabama-Mississippi, and Douglas fir bureaus. They have 

 run up to 100,000,000 or more feet during the past fortnight, and 

 have been for British export orders, the United States navy, retail 

 yard replacement orders, army storehouses, terminals, powder and 

 bag plants, etc. 



Louis Wuichet of Chicago has been here to see about some box 

 material and other business in California sugar and white pine and 

 Arizona soft pine. 



E. H. Dowman, president of the National Lumber Manufactur- 

 ers' Association, has been here recently for a few days. He denied 

 reports that he would stay here on the job in the director of lum- 

 ber oflice. 



F. K. Paxton of the shipping board's lumber deijartment, and 

 Roland Parry, manager of the Georgia-Florida emergency bureau, 

 have returned from a trip to Jacksonville, Fla., on which they dis- 

 cussed with pine men matters pertaining to car shortage, price fix- 

 ing, labor supply, mill operation, etc., in that section. A committee 

 of the Georgia-Florida men came also to take up with the govern- 

 ment price questions. 



The output of farm implements is to be cut by eliminating 2,000 



