August 111, 101! 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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LUMBER 



Cut from logs such as 

 these ranks high in 

 quahty and grade. All 

 our stock is from St. 

 Francis River basin logs 

 which produce the high- 

 est quality of Gum lum- 

 ber on the market. 



recent visit to Beaumont, that he would have the contract for six barges 

 rnnging in capacity from 2500 to 3500 tons to begin with, and these con- 

 tracts would be as plentiful as his ability to turn them out. 



Lumbermen predominate on the Beaumont board of the resources and 

 conservation section of the War Industries Board, and the work of chang- 

 ing and equipping the Industrial plants from non-essential to essential 

 production in the prosecution of the war will fall largely upon their 

 shoulders. The district is composed of the lumber producing counties of 

 Jefferson, Orange, Ilardin, Liberty, Chambers. Newton, Jasper and Tyler. 

 Those not engaged In the lumber Industry directly are connected with 

 supply houses. 



Beaumont has recently been honored by a visit of the heads of the 

 wooden ship building division of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and 

 they were entertained at the Country Club, Ben S. Woodhead, president 

 of the Beaumont Lumber Company and also head of the Chamber of Com- 

 merce, acting as toastmaster. Jas. O. Heyworth Informed the Beaumont 

 shipbuilders and lumbermen that no uneasiness might be felt over wooden 

 ship construction for he felt safe in assuring them that they would have 

 all they could do. not only for the duration of the war, but for at least 

 five years thereafter. He said that the government had no Intention of 

 alloning a single way to remain idle, and the recent order for 200 barges 

 of capacities of 2500 and 3510 tons would be placed largely in the South. 



n. G. Pattee has been appointed trafDc manager of the Sabine Tram 

 Company and allied Interests and will enlarge that department to take 

 care of the growing business of the concern. He was formerly with the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission and later with the Gulf Coast lines, 

 being ranked as one of the best posted traffic men in the state. 



Rex Browne, manager of the hardwood department of the Beaumont 

 Lumber Company, is making a tour of the northern hardwood consuming 

 districts. 



With a total of $107,034 for the month of July, building permits for 

 the first seven months In lOlS for Beaumont aggregate more than 51,000,- 

 000, approximately equal to any previous year in the history of the city. 

 The corporate limits have not been extended for several years and at 

 least that much building has been going on outside the city limits which is 

 not included in the above totals. The major part of the construction 

 has gone in frame residences, they having been constructed during the 

 present year at the rate of al)Out three a day. 



Bank clearings in Beaumont for the month of July amounted to $5,538, 

 524 against 54,606,638 for the correspondinsr period in 1017. 



-< ARKANSAS >= 



E. D. Plant and George H. Vogel of Jncksonport have purchased the 

 timber on 164.") acres of land on the Black River, near Paradise, Ark., 

 from Harvey Brothers of Swifton. The purchasers have sawmills In the 

 vicinity of the tract and the timber will be cut off for commercial pur- 

 poses. It consists mainly of oak and other hardwoods. 



The Allen Lumber & Box Company recently sustained a loss estimated 

 at $20,000 by the burning of the company's sawmill and box plant at 

 Nashville, Ark. The fire is said to have originated from a trash pile. Only 

 by hard fighting were the members of the fire fighting company able to 

 prevent the flames from spreading to the nearby buildings. 



The Union Sawmill Company of Huttig, .\rk., recently sustained a loss 

 estimated at 540,000 to $45,000 on account of a fire which destroyed its 

 planing mill, power plant and a large part of its sawmill. The change 

 of the direction of the high wind which was blowing Is credited with 

 the stopping of the flames, which otherwise would probably have spread 

 throughout the entire plant. This is the first Are of any consequence that 

 this company has sustained in Its more than fifteen years of continuous 

 operation at that place. The loss was partially covered with Insurance. 



=-< MILWAUKEE >- 



The Krelter Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee and Marinette, Wis., 

 a large manufacturer of pianos and phonographs, has earned deeds to the 

 real estate and factory which It has been occupying for the last seven 

 years in Marinette by meeting all of the conditions named in its agree- 

 ment with the local Chamber of Commerce. The Krelter company agreed 

 to spend $200,000 in wages to employes resident in Marinette during a 

 seven-year period beginning April 8, 1911. At the conclusion of the 

 period it was found that the actual wage disbursement was $312,258, and 

 the total for wages, salaries, cartage, etc., was $327,847, not including 

 $11,057 paid for local taxes. The Marinette chamber acquired the prop- 

 erty from the defunct A. W. Stevens Company at foreclosure sale for 

 $19,978 and feels more than amply repaid In its bargain with the Krelter 

 company. 



The Wachsmuth Lumber Company, Bayfield, Wis., has encountered con- 

 siderable difficulty with forest fires in its logging camp in the Sand river 

 district during recent weeks, but actual losses have been kept to a minimum 

 by energetic work. 



The John Schroeder Lumber Company, Milwaukee, has been awarded a 

 coninict to furnish all lumber and timbers required for the new plant of 



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