HARDWOOD RECORD 



May 10, 1918 



The assets of the C. H. Krause Lumber Company, Antigo, Wis., has been 



sold at public sale. 



J. W. Earle has sold out his interest in the See Lumbef Company at 

 Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. 



The Mississippi Hardwood Company has sold out to the Williams & 

 Vorls Hardwood Company. Jackson. Miss. 



The A. M. Richardson Lumber Company at Helena, Ark., has Incorpo- 

 rated under the same style, its capitalization being $100,000. 



.< CHICAGO >• 



The Lumbermen's Association's quarters at Chicago on Friday even- 

 ing, April 26, were the scene of the final concatenation in this district 

 to be held prior to the National meeting in September. Dinner was served 

 at six o'clock and an unusually good attendance showed up. 



It was announced that the annual meeting of the National Veneer and 

 Panel Manufacturers' Association is to be held at Chicago at the Audi- 

 torium hotel, June 20 and 21, and matters of great importance will 

 come up. 



Among the soldier lumbermen getting into Chicago recently was Paul 

 B. Berry, formerly representing Nickey Brothers, Inc., of Memphis. Mr. 

 Berry had just completed his course at the officers' training camp for 

 enlisted men at Leon Springs, Tex., and went through Chicago on his, 

 way to his home in Saginaw, Mich. He expected to be there for a week 

 or so and to leave directly from there fdr his former quarters at Camp 

 Sevier, S. C. Mr. Berry got through the strenuous training very success- 

 fully, but until the new draft units are further worked out will not know 

 what commission he will hold. This will probably be determined very 

 soon, but he is now ranked as a sergeant. 



Henry Ballon, Cadillac, Mich., was in Chicago for about a week a short 

 time ago having just come north from Florida, where he has been spend- 

 ing the winter. 



W. T. Thompson of the W. T. Thompson Veneer Company, Edin- 

 burgh, Ind., was in the city last week on business and while here was 

 looking for fir and spruce flitches. 



P. M. Gilbert and J. R. North, respectively vice-president and sales 

 manager of the Wisconsin Lumber Company, Chicago, have both left 

 for the company's operations in the South. Mr. Gilbert left last week and 

 will be gone two or three weeks, while Mr. North, is making a flying 

 trip of a few days. Both report sales excellent both as to quantity and 

 price. 



The Crosby-Gustus-Erzinger Company, Chicago, has changed its name 

 to the Orr & Lockett Refrigerator Company. 



=■< BUFFALO >- 



The main topic of discussion among hardwood men the past few weeks 

 has been the third Liberty loan. The city made an excellent showing under 

 the campaign management of Walter P. Cooke, president of the Great 

 Southern Lumber Company and prominent attorney here. He had a 

 liardworking set of business men to back him up and the visit of Secre- 

 tary McAdoo also was of much benefit to the local campaign, so that 

 Buffalo exceeded by several millions its quota of abo.ut $31,000,000. The 

 lumbermen's quota was placed at .$900,000 and after a good deal of per- 

 sistent effort of the lumber committee this amount was exceeded. Not only 

 did the lumbermen themselves take bonds freely, but their employes did so, 

 many yards and offices being eligible to the honor roll, with ninety to 100 

 per cent of the working force subscribing. 



J. B. Wall, president of the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Company, has 

 returned from a trip to the mills in Georgia, where he made purchases 

 of hardwoods and found much shortage of labor and cars. 



Frank T. Tindle of the lumber and cooperage firm of Jackson & Tindle 

 had the misfortune to sustain a wrenched knee last month as the result 

 of a fall while crossing a downtown street. The accident has confined 

 him to bed for about two weeks. 



People who understand how terribly short ocei\n-going vessels are of 

 the requirements and that the governnii m liiis niirly shut off all private 

 exporting and importing on that acc<niiii, will l.r uiail to know that the 

 opening of the lakes has already sent ti) t iil. \\;iirr .inifr a number of vessels 

 built at various lake shipyards. Most ni tlir I imiis atlantic tonnage Is 

 built of steel, though the government is so anxious to save steel for other 

 purposes that it has arranged for the building of smaller vessels of wood, 

 and already one or two of these have been launched at the new Empire 

 Shipbuilding Company's yard in Buffalo. This wooden craft so far Is 

 intended for lighters in the principal Atlantic harbors and will pass 

 through the new barge canal from Buffalo to the Hudson, some of It 

 starting as soon as the canal Is officially opened on the fifteenth. 



This wood construction of freight carriers on the water Is not only 

 encouraged here but in Canada. A lake captain who piloted one of the 

 steamers from the Ohio port, where It was built, to Montreal, states that 

 he saw in the St. Lawrence city four wooden steamers in process of con- 

 struction for ocean trade. They were all as large as wooden vessels are 

 usually built and had the advantage of quick completion and low cost. 

 At one time It was thought impossible to restore wood shipbuilding to the 

 lakes, as both shipbuilders In this class and also timbers are hard to find, 

 but research has discovered both In sufficient quantity. It was some time 

 ago said that by July the great shortage of ocean craft would be less 

 apparent. 



Frank T. Sullivan, a member of the Buffalo lumber trade for some years, 

 and actively engaged in the handling of hardwoods, was married on April 

 23 to Mrs. Ednah M. Hancock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer M. 

 Mable of this city. After an Eastern motor trip they will make their 

 home at 64 Berkeley place. Mr. Sullivan's office is now located at 600 

 Ellicott square, which is also the headquarters of the Aeroplane Lumbei 

 Company, in which he is interested. 



Hugh McLean, who has been giving much time as committee chairman 

 of the third Liberty loan campaign for several weeks, has been spending a 

 week at the mills of his company In the South. 



Charles Clifton has been reelected president of the Fierce-Arrow Motor 

 Car Company. The company is giving its attention to trucks for war pur- 

 poses. 



=< PITTSBURGH >-= 



The Hoffman Lumber Company Is opening up a very nice yard on 

 Rosedale street with Pennsylvania Railroad switch in Wilkinsburgh. The 

 company will carry a good line of building construction lumber and it 

 will be a strong on hardwoods. 



The Wigman Lumber Company has been declared a bankrupt. The 

 first meeting of the creditors will be on May 11, at the St. Nicholas 

 building in Pittsburgh. 



The James M. Bellinger Lumber Company has bought 300,000 feet of 

 logs from E. O. Bristol at Telescope, Pa., and is arranging with the 

 Emporium Lumber Company of Emporium, Pa., to cut the timber, a 

 large part of it being cottonwood. 



Frank E. Smith, president of the new Miners Manufacturing Lumber 

 Company, is not passing up any good hardwood orders. He was for 

 years hardwood manager of the C. E. Breltwleser Lumber" Company and 

 knows probably as many hardwood buyers In this part of the country as 

 any man in the state. 



The J. C. Linehan Lumber Company, new wholesaler In the Park 

 building, is going right after hardwood trade. The boys will remember 

 that J. C. and J. J. Linehan were leading hardwood wholesalers hert 

 under the title of the Linehan Lumber Company. 



The Pennsylvania Forestry Commission will have set out by the ena 

 of this month fully 7,000,000 seedling trees on Its forest reservation 

 The commission haf had much trouble in getting enough labor for this 

 work. 



The American Lumber & Manufacturing Company is working hard ox 

 its big government orders and is shipping a splendid lot of oak, especially 

 timbers, from Its plant at Lenox, Ky. President W. D. Johnston is kepv 

 busy a large part of the time getting around among the mills. 



The Joseph W. Cottrell Lumber Company reports a lot of labor 

 trouble in the South which is interfering with Its manufacture of hard- 

 wood. Nearly all mills there are low on stock, according to his report, 

 and many of them are cutting out shipments on account of government 

 contracts or railroad embargoes. 



The Forest Lumber Company has presented many of Its friends with 

 a big war map showing the battleground on the west front in Europe and 

 also the Italo-Austro-Hungarlan war fields. Few companies In the city 

 have more genuine enterprise than the Forest with President DIebold 

 and his hustling associates. , 



The Acorn Lumber Company reports an excellent demand for everv- 

 thing In hardwood which It can produce and secure. Prices are no 

 longer a question. The problem Is how to get the lumber and to get It 

 quick. President H. F. Domhoff finds his business pays with the manu- 

 facturing and industrial concerns as yard trade Is lagging badly. 



< BALTIMORE >= 



Buildiug in this city from having been very quiet for months has rather 

 suddenly taken on a degree of activity that can hardly fail to excite sur- 

 prise. For the first three months of the year the declared value of the 

 new structures for which permits were Issued did not exceed $600,000. 

 whereas in April alone the amount was over $1,000,000. The showing was 

 made possible by the beginning of work on sixteen manufacturing plants 

 and warehouses of a declared value of $996,543, outside of which the new 

 work authorized was very Insignificant, the grand total being $1,049,143, 

 against $1,677,540 for the year so far. The activity In the erection of 

 factories and warehouses, of course. Is due almost entirely to the growing 

 war needs of the country. The returns are only for the city proper, the 

 work on plants outside of the municipal limits not being Included. 



It might have been supposed that all of the hardwood timber on the 

 eastern shore of Maryland had been cut out, but such is by no means the 

 case, according to a paper published In that section, which in a recent Issue 

 makes mention of the extensive stumpage still available in what is known 

 as the Pocomoke Swamp. This swamp runs through Worcester and 

 Wicomico counties In Maryland, and Sussex county, Delaware, and It Is 

 estimated that there are many millions of feet of timber In the swamp. 

 Timber has been drawn from the swamp for generations, and the pine 

 and oak have disappeared, but there is plenty of cypress and gum left, 

 these woods being used in the manufacture of crates and other fruit pack- 

 ages. It Is said that the supply will last for many years at the present 

 rate of consumption. 



Among the visiting lumbermen here last week was Chester F. Korn of 

 the KornConkllng Company of Cincinnati. Mr. Korn was In Baltimore 



