HARDWOOD RECORD 



July 25. 1918 



Hoffman Brothers Company Increases Production 



The Hoffman Brothers Company, Fort Wayne, Intl., announces that it 

 has just purchased two hirge sawmill outfits, one in Indiana and one in 

 Ohio which will increase Its lumber output by 200 percent. The mills 

 are In conveniently located timber and are assured a very plentiful supply 

 of high-grade logs for a long time to come. This muvi' niatirially reduces 

 the inbound freight on log shipments which fmin. ili «. nt uito the Fort 

 Wayne plant. The mills are very well locati'd (''i ^hipinrnts of lumber 

 out. one having three main line railroads acccssiljlc :iiicl tbr other two. 



The production here will be a full line of northern hardwoods cover- 

 ing oak. ash, maple, poplar and walnut. One of these two mills — the 

 Ohio plant — is equipped to cut stock up to 50 feet in length, while the 

 Indiana mill can cut stock 24 feet long. 



The Fort Wayne mill is now divided Ijetween production of high-grade 

 veneers and high-grade lumber, the output running mainly to walnut and 

 quartered oak and with a substantial production of northern hard maple 

 and ash. 



Change in Crenshaw-Gary Lumber Company 



Some ihanges in the othcers of the t'rensluiw-(!ary Lumber Compiiu.*, 

 Memphis, Tenn., have been made recently, F. E. Gary having purchased 

 the interest of W. L. Crenshaw. The operations will continue as here- 

 tofore, and the company will run its mill at Rlchey, Miss., and cut out its 

 stumpage. 



W. L. Crenshaw has formed a new company with t. M. Kellogg and 

 figures on building a mill at Midnight, Miss., on the Yazoo & Mississippi 

 Valley railroad. 



Will Represent Northwestern Territory 



E. C. Atkins & Co., saw makiTs of iTiilianiip.ilis, Ind., have arranged for 

 a new representative in the nortlnvestern territory, with headquarters at 

 510 First street, Seattle. Harry I'.lair will fill the place which until 

 recently was filled by F. B. Leach, who resigned to go into other business. 

 Mr. Blair, who is a young man, has Ijeen with the Atkins company more 

 than ten years, part of the time in the home office in Indianapolis, and 

 later in char;;r .if ili'- .\i « iiiI.mh- hr.nhli lie has many friends among 

 those who UII..U liirii :iih| n i :, ,ii. ^ih-, ibat he will add enormously 

 to the niuiii"] ill III- Hi V, h. I.I -h 111- I'l iiic coast. He will have entire 

 charge of thr sales Im^nir^- in lii~ ii. h Ii.M. 



Buys Big Hardwood Tract 



The Crittenilen Lumber Company, with main offices in Trovidence, R. I., 

 and mill .it Karlc. Ark., a fi>w ojiles west of Memphis, lias pundiascd ll.iKiii 



settlement. Officers of the company are: 

 ^'hurles R. Palmer, vice-president, and Chai 

 :reasurer. These gentlemen all have their 1 

 K. T. Sellew is in charge of operations at Ear 



. H. Walcott, president ; 

 •s C. Gardner, secretary- 

 adquarters at Providence. 



ing a<lcquat 

 is heavily i 

 fair sprinkl 

 eastward ti 



and other j 

 pany is he 

 operates a : 



future operations. 

 Ilk. ash and gum, 

 •s in one solid trac 



ly interested in thi' Ci ittciiilrn Itaihvay I'.ni 

 between Heth. Ark., on the Rock Island syste: 

 on the Missouri Pacific system, thus connecting the two. 

 position it will make of its interests in this road Is 



matter for future 



Goodman — Curtis 



Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Goodman of Marinette, Wis., have announced 

 the engagement of their only daughter, Margaret, to Lieut. Kenneth 

 Curtis, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Curtis of Chicago. The wedding date 



Barge Lines Are Assured 



Hardwood lumber interests throughout the valley territory are much 

 pleased with the official announcement, made by M. J. Sanders, federal 

 director of inland waterways transportation, that $8,200,000 is available 

 for the establi.shment of barge lines on the lower Mississippi and on Black 

 Warrior river in Alabama, and that such further sums as may be required 

 will be forthcoming. 



Pleasure is also expressed over the fact that steps are going to be 

 taken to put these barge lines in operation from St. Louis south to New 

 Orleans In the shortest possible time. Already Mr.. Sanders is in the 

 market for seventeen towboats and fifty barges to be put in this service. 



Coal, lumber, iron and steel, cotton and other heavy freight will be 

 handled for both domestic and foreign markets by means of the barge 

 lines, and lumbermen and other business interests anticipate that estab- 

 lishment of this service will insure far better transportation facilities 

 than they have enjoyed at any time since the war began, to say nothing 

 of the lower rates which rehabilitation of water transportation insures. 



Memphis is preparing to spend $500,000 for the building of such river 

 and rail terminals here as will make it possible for that city to participate 

 fully in the use of the increased facilities so to be provided on the 

 Mississippi. 



Corporal David H. Day, Jr. 



It is gratifying to use in these columns the pictures of our boys on the 

 other side, and to note their activities. One of the youngsters who couldn't 

 wait, but must do his bit for Uncle Sam, enlisted when he was eighteen 

 years old, and went over with Pershing's first contingent. He is now 

 Corporal David H. Day, Jr., and his first assignment was to a machine 

 gun company. lie was afterwards transferred to the light artillery and 

 head(|iiaif.is r,,Tiipany. and then to motorcycle despatch bearing, passlnj, 

 thn.ii;;li iliii ihiii.'s of these two branches. He is now driving a car tor 

 P.riiiaclii r lirii. lal Hanson E. Ely. Like father, like son — always on the 

 tirini; liiii' lie is the son of D. H. Day of Glen Haven. Mich., one of the 

 liii^Kist li.irilwood manufacturers of the Northwest for many years. If it 



was ■••ssary to build a road across the creek the senior Day got busy 



liimsrir and put it under way. He has always been active in Wisconsin 

 and National hardwood associations, and we are not surprised to see the 

 youngster serving Uncle Sam with satisfaction. 



We salute Corporal Day and we know that every lumberman who is 

 acquainted with the senior Day will join us in congratulations for junior 

 Day. 



California Laurel for Boat Building 



Bids are out calling for the purchase of -tr,.5(io feet of California laurel 

 for the navy yard at San Francisco. The wood is to be used as shaft logs 

 for motor boats. In the East, white oak answers this purpose, hut the 

 oak which grows on the Pacific coast is not considered suitable, and laurel 



CORPORAL DAVID II. DAY, JR 



