HARDWOOD RECORD 



JULI- 25, 191S 



THEO. FATHAUER CO, 



1428 CHERRY AVENUE 

 Telephone Diversey 1 824 



HARDWOOD LUMBER 



YARD 

 CHICAGO. ILL. 



Direct Shipments in 



CAR AND CARGO LOTS 



a Specialty 



MILL 

 HELENA. ARK 



Address Correspondence to Chicago Offic^ 



thor 



does 



be much cause 



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bis 



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Phil. Gardiner of the 

 spending some time with his f; 

 a good part of last year in ,i>^i: 



Frank B. Roberts i iIm 



Tenn., was up last wr. k ,i-iti 

 amount of business with litUc 



Gardiner Company, Laurel, Miss., is 

 ily in New York. Mr. Gardiner put In 

 Hu I lie Y. M. C. A. In France. 

 n^iis.in & Palmer Company, Memiihis, 

 -"111.- of his trade. He reports a fair 

 pecial lines. 



Sam Thompson, manager of the lumber department of the Anderson- 

 Tully Company. Memphis, was another southern visitor during the past 

 two weeks. He stopped off in Chicago a day on his way to New York 

 and other eastern points. 



R. L. Jurden of Penrod, Jurden & McCowen, Inc., Memphis, went 

 through the city last week and while here had a confab with his illus- 

 trious senior, J. N. Penrod of Kansas City. 



W. A. and C. R. Ransom of the Gayoso Lumber CoiiiiMiny. Mrini-his. 

 have made deep inroads into the finny tribes of the Missi^-ipin iii,' hu 



ing the past couple" of weeks. The two Ransoms have sprni ii i •!<■ 



time at the mill, but have found occasion to get out lishiu- qiiu.- 

 frequently. 



It is reported that the John Schroeder Lumber Company, Milwaukee, 

 Wis., will shortly erect a $100,000 sawmill at Mantee, Fla., to manu- 

 facture yellow pine and cypress. The company has big timber holdings 

 in this section. 



R. M. Carrier of the Carrier Lumber & Manufacturing Company, 

 Sardis, Miss., has been a northern visitor of late where he was getting 

 lined up on machinery to replace the mill destroyed at Sardis several 

 weeks ago. 



The Clyde Iron Works at Duluth had its annual conference here re- 

 cently, among those in attendance being .Tohn Kelley of the southwestern 

 district and Harry Schroth of the centr:il -;.hii linn ilistrict. The various 

 representatives of the company were M.niiimly in a happy frame of 

 mind due to tlir riicl that the demand l.n ciy.l.- skiddcrs and loaders is 

 heavier than • , ^i, |,ii. .,f the scarcity ot Iron ami steel. 



IlAItDWOOl 



of Mr 



announce receipt of news of the deal 

 W. H. Sullivan of the Great Souther: 



if tjie National Hardwood Lumber Associa- 

 a trip to Washington, D. C. Mr. Pish had 



icmann of the B. Ileinemann Conipf 

 of last week in Chicago on business. 



=-< BUFFALO >.= 



othe 



libers of 



.Sullivan. 



connected with 

 vived by a son. 



Bogalu^.i. l.n , .nrl.\ this month by the death of Mi>, ' 



wife ft ilii' nni.M.i 111' the city and general suii.Tintr 



Southuru Luijilicr Company. Mrs. Sullivan had iiiauy 



northwestern Pennsylvania, where her husband was 1 



the Goodyear interests. Besides her husband, she is 



Lieut. Frank Sullivan, a member of the United States artillery, and. a 



daughter, Elizabeth Sullivan. 



The office of Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling is being enlarged and will be 

 about twice the former size, thus affording much needett room. W. L. 

 Blakeslee is now on a motor trip with a party of friends and will visit 

 New Hampshire. 



The lumber business of W. G. Palmer, Inc., North Touaw\anda, has filed 

 a certificate of increase in capital stock from $100,000 to .$200,000. This 

 company has been doing rnnsiderable war work and a new plant is being 

 constructed to take the jilncc nf mic' Imrned. 



Lumber receipts cnntiiiin- t.p slmw up favorably as compared with last 

 year, the total so far runnini; a little ahead of 1917 to date. 



The future of luuiber prices is up for discussion among local real estate 

 men and they have been querying well-informed lumbermen as to their 

 opinions. The prevailing sentiment thus far is that lumber prices will 

 stay up for at least several years and that it would be unwise to look for 

 any sudden ilncline in tbr price of general building matiy-ials. A. J. Ellas 

 exprcssi'.l hinisi-ir as iinitr sure that no decline could be looked tor for a 

 long tinic nlirnd. A siniilnr view is held by Maurice E. Preisch, president 

 of the Ilaiucs I.nii r r,,iii|inny. 



James B. Wnll, pi . -.iili nl i.i' the BufEiilii Hardwood Lumber Company, is 



spending abmil mm. «r,k- in the Souti 

 which the coiiipniiy is iiii. listed. 



The first half of lOl.s showed a loss 

 costs as compared with the same periw 

 191S the figures were $3,545,000 and fo 

 they were $4,553,000. June was the i" 

 the total costs \y.Ti- less than half those 

 do considerably lictln- ilinn .Inn.-. 



:uimber of mills in 



in Buffalo building 

 ir the first half of 

 nding part of 1917 



:-< PITTSBURGH >-= 



J. N. Woollett, president of the Aberdeen Lumber Company, spent 

 thirty days in the Southwest recently among the gum and cottonwooii 

 mills. He reports production not over 50 per cent, chiefly because of 



Johnston-Davie 



npaiiy reports 



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