HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 10, 191S 



We Offer for May Shipment 



4«,(I00' 4/4 No. 1 C. & B. End Dried White Maple 



45,000' 8/4 No. 1 C. & B. End Dried White Maple 



40,0«O' 5/4 No. 1 C. & B. End Dried White Maple 



60,000' 6/4 No. 1 C. & B. End Dried White Maple 



150,000' 1x6" up No. 1 C. & B. Hard Maple 



200,000' 4/4 to 16/4 No. 2 C. & B. Soft Elm 



40,000' 4/4 No. 2 C. & B. Birch 



113,000' 8/4 No. 2 C. & B. Beech 



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East Jordan Lumber Co. 



Manufacturers "IMPERIAL" Maple Flooring 



East Jordan Michigan 



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GRAND RAPIDS 



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GRAND RAPIDS 

 MICHIGAN 



GUARANTEES 



There is a difference in tliem — not alone in word- 

 ing and salesmanship, but in intent, in actual 

 service and in ability to perform. 

 The Grand Rapids Vapor Kiln guarantee is based 

 on a scientific measurement; it is original and the 

 result of our thirty years' experience in wood- 

 working. 



We know the difference between ordinary kiln 

 operation and ordinary guarantees, and we know 

 you do want dependable guarantees based on real 

 service and tests. 

 Need we say more? 



Grand Rapids Veneer Works 



Grand Rapids Mich Seattle, Washington 



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knonii in noithern hanlwoud liilRs, was in the city on business the latter 

 part of this week. 



J. R. North, sales manager of the Wisconsin Lumber Company, Chicago, 

 left this week for St. Louis and other southern points on a business trip. 

 Mr. North reports things moving along very nicely. 



William C. Knox, son of J. C. Knox, secretary of the Michigan Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' .Association, Cadillac, Mich., has finally realized a 

 long standing ambition and become one of the famous body of Jackies In 

 training at the Great Lakes station. Mr. Knox, Sr., was in Detroit re- 

 cently attending a Michigan hardwood meeting and received a message 

 from bis son who was in Chicago at the time, to come to the big city as 

 he was going to join the service. This makes the second son of Mr. 

 Knox who is under the colors, the other son being now abroad in the 

 military end. 



Frank PurccU of Kansas City passed through the city this week on his 

 way home from Washington, D. C, where he with other walnut manu- 

 facturers was in conference with government officials on the walnut situa- 

 tion. The walnut work is now lined up in good shape and the govern- 

 ment's canvass of the available timber shows it to be far greater in extent 

 than the most optimistic had thought. 



All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if 



ri;iniel Wertz of Maley & Wertz, accompanied by several of his chums 

 I'roni Evansville, Ind., dropped in at Chicago and is enjoying this summer 

 resort during the visit here. Dan says vacations come seldom with him 

 and he is trying to see everything there is in and about Chicago. 



Earl Palmer of the Ferguson & Palmer Company, Memphis, Tenn., was 

 in Chicago last week en route home. He was asked "How is business?" 

 and said : "Have been up north for about a month with my family and 

 forgot there was such a thing as business, and if you will drop in tomor- 

 row or next day I will tell you." 



W. A. Ransom of the Gayoso Lumber Company, Memiibis, has been 

 spending the last two weeks in and about Chicago, as his family is mak- 

 ing this its summer home. He is visiting the various markets and reports 

 a good feeling, but not so much activity as there might be in the demand 

 for lumber. He attributes this, however, to the vacation period, and 

 remarked that their business has been excellent right along. 



C. R. Ransom of the same company came north early in the month and 

 spent a week or two with his family in Michigan. 



George F. Kerns of the George F. Kerns Lumber Company, Chicago, 

 has just returned from an auto trip to his old home In Illinois, where he 

 went to pick up his family. He reports landing some good orders on the 

 way and having had a good time. He looks forward to more business as 

 the summer wanes. 



F. E. Gary of the Crenshaw-Gary Lumber Company, Memphis, was in 

 Chicago a day last week en route ta his summer habitation at Ludington. 



J. G. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company, Louisville, 

 Kj., came to Chicago last week to confer with some of his district sales 

 managers, including John H. V. Smith of Detroit. The peculiar condi- 

 tions in the automobile business ilue to government rulings rather dampen 

 the usual enthusiasm in this trade, although the Brown folks have a good 

 \ Illume of business in various lines. They have a large capacity and their 

 versatile product makes it possible to keep a good amount of orders all 

 the time. Mr. Smith in speaking of progress, reported almost complete 

 delivery of June orders to the Michigan trade and is now spending most 

 of his time with his "tin Lizzie" visiting his customers in order not to 

 let the summer vacations and government's orders on automobiles reduce 

 the volume of business. 



Major Sam I. Barr of Washington, D. C, was in town. He has been a 

 sort of a guiding angel in lumber deliveries. He reports government con- 

 ditions very much improved and the lumbermen co-operating everywhere 

 very thoroughly with his department. 



=< BUFFALO >- 



An important visitor to this city during the past few days was Charles 

 Evans Hughes, who came here to conduct an inquiry into charges con- 

 cerning the Curtiss Aeroplane Company. It is claimed that production 

 has not been speeded up as it should have been. Efforts to learn the line 

 of inquiry to be made have been unavailing, as Mr. Hughes has declined 

 to give out any interviews. The aeroplane company is now reported to 

 have a much larger output than a short time ago. 



Ernest A. Hazell, a member of the lumber "and planing-mill firm of 

 Dohn, Fischer & Beyer, died suddenly on July 24, aged fifty-three years. 

 He was an active member of the Masons, being connected with the Lake 

 Erie commandery. His wife, two daughters and a sister survive. 



Lake receipts of lumber have fallen off during the past month, but the 

 stocks of hardwoods so far brought in compare favorably with those of 

 a year ago. 



Buffalo has returned to shipbuilding with considerable vigor. The 

 BuCEaio drydock has a Welland Canal size steel steamer well under way, 

 but to the lumbermen the operations of the Empire Engineering Com- 

 pany, which has built twenty wooden lighters for New York harbor, are 

 most interesting. These boats are in reality only scows without propelling 

 or steering machinery, yet they have to be put up by ship carpenters and 

 calked and completed as any wooden vessel would be. The list is so 

 nearly completed that other work in wood will be looked for at once, though 

 it is probable that some weeks will elapse before the last boat sails. The 

 company has demonstrated that wooden ship-building is feasible and It 

 is now looking for similar work for the Erie barge canal. 



The housing problem for Buffal.. Ii;is raiiM.I :i u"."i .leal of vexation to 

 large industrial plants, and an rti.ni i> Mill Imihl 1,- to get the gov- 

 ernment interested in doing sum. tlihiu in ih. i, n "i helping out the 

 situation, as it has already done at Niagara la IK I'he housing com- 

 mittee of the Chamber of Commerce has advised government officials that 

 the number of houses and apartments in Buffalo is entirely inadequate, 

 as the population has increased rapidly in the past year. 



0. E. Yeager and M. M. Wall have returned from a fishing trip to Port 

 Rowan, on the north shore of Lake Erie, which they can recommend as a 

 good fishing ground for lumbermen in search of black bass. 



W. L. Blakeslee has returned from a two weeks' trip by automobile to 

 New Hampshire. W. A. Perrin is also spending some time on a motor trip 

 to the East. 



William P. Belts has been named as chalrma 

 committee of the Buffalo Lumber Exchange and ■ 



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