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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August -lo, 1918 



the 



Cork Harvest in Tunisia 



• l'i:iiiii\ise" o£ July 6 says that the forostry service has 

 I 111. ...rk liMi'vest of the Khroumirie forest. The crop for 



..\ ;ii : I r.il.OOO quintals and will be placed on sale to- 



.1 ^,1 I. iiiinr. The publication says that "it is hardly 

 liv ^;!ir will have any better success than last year because 

 tnnisportation, unless the French corkmakers succeed in 

 for the designation by the government of the necessary 



Austria's After-war Lumber Plans 



The Swedish Trade Journal for June conta; 

 plans from Germany : 



The so-calli'd Hungarian Crrdit lustitutf for f 



cided 



following business 



•r iTulustry has de- 



_■ (iiio liiio Austrian 



rate) partly 



'III Aktienge- 



iiiy expenses 



i~ received a 



Is and lum- 



ii.-r ' .: normously and In : , , ii;i> been used 



as :i' I i ■ II -i:.' materials that w.t. ■ , i, .!.■. The im- 



ni.ii- :■ ii I . : iiithians on the bordi I ' I: n.i Roumania 



havi' iiinn-.i in iiii|i..iiiini-t>. It is calciilai-i 111 11 lip ri.rost in the 



part cediMl til Austria bv Roumania has a valur nsiiliiiii; up in the bil- 

 lions. The most suitable procedure for exploiting the territory acquiredl 

 through conquest is being considered. 



Fewer French Walnuts 



A consular report from Grenoble, France, serves as a notice that 

 Americans may expect to receive fewer French walnuts than formerly, 

 at least while the war continues ; but the deficiency may be made up, in 

 part, by walnuts grown in California, Utah, and elsewhere in this country. 

 The walnuts are practically the same in quality. The consular report 



the 



United States has been greatly affected 

 the Grenoble district by restrictions on 

 I the American Governments. With a 

 -ill prices, a great many exporters have 

 if the war continues no attempt at 



mg 



ind in value. 



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Hardwood 'News Notes 



< MISCELLANEOUS >= 



The Shepard Hardwood Products Company has beguu operation uf a 

 sawmill at Shepard, Mich. 



The Lilierty Hardwood Milling Company has been incorporated at 

 Houston, Tex., capital stock being $20,000. 



At Memphis, Tenn., the business of Chas. B. Carothcrs has been incor- 

 porated. 



The SheltoD & Miller Lumber & Timber Company was recently organized 

 at Mount Airy, N. C. 



At Attica, N. T., Geo. C. Broadbrooks has been succeeded by the Geo. 

 C. Broadbrooks Company, Inc., capital stock being $30,000. 



The Curtis Lumber & Millwork Company of Clinton, Iowa, has increased 

 its capital stock to $2,750,000. 



'1 In i: n - 111 sli.ink & Lumber Company has been incorporated at New 

 Y.iil ,i:il of $10,000. 



Ill I || M , n lie Lumber Company of Memphis, Tenn., has increased 

 its iiiiiilil ^iiii I: tn IflOO.OOO. 



J. A. Wolf and G. C. Tenant have been appointed receivers for the 

 Ebbecke Furniture Company, Hoboken, N. J. 



The Winchester Lumber & Manufacturing Company, Winchester, Ky., 

 is reported as having sold out. 



=-< CHICAGO >- 



Harry Fowler of the Case Fowler Lumber rninpauy, Maeoii, f.a., was 

 in Chicago this week. He reports poplar conditions very good. 



W. H. Russc of Russc & Burgess, Inc., Memphis, Tenn., who has been 

 visiting in Washington and New York, spent a couple of days in Chicago 

 this week. He says business is good. 



Jess Thompson of St. Louis dropped in town this week, en route to 

 Michigan. 



One of the most disastrous fires in the history of the Chicago lumber 

 trade occurred on Wednesday, August 14, at the plant of the Red River 

 Lumber Company, Ashland avenue and Twenty-second street. The fire 

 spread very rapidly and consumed the plant and stock of California sugar 

 and white pine. The loss is estimated at $200,000, fully covered by insur- 

 ance. 



Among the initial memberships of the new box division of the Lumber- 

 men's Association of Chicago, division "H," are the Acme Box Company, 

 Chicago Mill & Lumber Company, Harry R. Gibbons, Kurz-Downey Com- 

 panj', Maxwell Bros., Republic Box Company, Stinson Box Company, Tegt- 



meyer Box & Lumber Company and Henry Stephens. In division "G" the 

 new members elected are Ickes-Braun Mill Company and the Melrose Mill 

 Company, while in division "A" is the Alexai.b i T imlii i «' pany. 



A meeting interesting to lumbermen was In i i ' : i list wec^k at 

 Hotel Sherman, on which date the American w i - i Muhiue Manu- 

 facturers' Association met for discussion of Ini-ii n -- imili m- I'rosperity 

 was noted among the manufacturers present. 



Fred Konn of the Bayou Land & Lumber Company, Yazoo City, Miss., 

 was a visiting lumberman last week. Mr. Konn was accompanied by his 

 wife and they spent a number of days around the northern metropolis. 



Hardwood Record was pleased to receive a visit last week from Sam 

 Burkholder of the S. Burkholder Lumber Company of Crawfordsville, Ind. 

 Mr. Burkholder is not Bow manufacturing any lumber in the Hoosier state, 

 but has a fine mill operation at Homer, La., which is in charge of his son. 



It is reported that the Metropolitan Picture Frame Company of Chicago 

 has increased its capital stock to $15,000. 



Report comes from Decatur, 111., that the Decatur Lumber & Manu- 

 facturing Company has increased its capital stock to $60,000. 



C. L. Wheeler of the J. W. Wheeler Lumber Company, Memphis, visited 

 nis friends in the North last week and incidentally while 'in Chicago 

 dropped his card in the callers' tray in the Record offices. 



Hardwood Record is in receipt of official report of the twenty-first 

 annual convention of the National Hardwood Lumber Association, which 

 convention was held at Chicago on June 20 and 21. The association 

 officers maintain that this meeting was the most notable ever held. The 

 report is put up in excellent style and is not only worth reading but very 

 attractive. 



Memphis and southern lumbermen were pretty well represented in 

 Chicago this past week. R. L. Jurden of Penrod, Jurden & McCowen, 

 Inc., Memphis and James E. Stark of James E. Stark & Co., were here 

 on Monday. R. J. Wiggs of the Dirnell-Love Lumber Company, Leland, 

 Miss., came through Chicago on a visiting trip to his customers. 



C. B. Dudley spent a day or two here with his family last week from 

 his old home in Grand Rapids. 



W. A. Ransom of the Gayoso Lumber Company was here visiting his 

 family and was joined by Charles Ransom who has been spending a few 

 weeks at Ludington, and they were joined by their father from Tennessee. 

 In fact, they had a regular Ransom family visit here. 



F. E. Gary of Memphis has been taking a summer vacation at Luding- 

 ton and comes into town every week or so. 



Brown Morgan of the Morgan Veneer Company, Pine Bluff, .\rk., spent 

 a day or two in Chicago. He reports the mill running full capacity now, 

 although his company has been delayed considerably this summer on 

 account of the scarcity of labor. 



Frank F. Fish of the National Hardwood Lumber Association spent 

 several days at Detroit recently, stopping at the home of John H. P. Smith 



G. J. Staples, manager of the Northwestern Cooperage & Lumber Com- 

 pany was in Chicago this week, and also Walter Clark of Grand Rapids 

 who has been spending most of his time working for Uncle Sam at Wash- 

 ington. ' 



Sash and door manufacturers and jobbers from all parts of the country 

 are In Chicago this week and all report that the country trade as well 

 as some business picked up at Washington has been their principal de- 

 mand. The cities do not seem to be furnishing many orders. The gov- 

 ernment, however, has helped out considerably in the big demand for 

 doors for camps, etc., but the interior finish business has been pretty 

 dull for some time. 



=-< BUFFALO > 



The local demand for piling keeps up in an encouraging way. A new- 

 outlet for this class of timber has just been reported. The pile dealers 

 have been active for some time providing piles for the new shipbuilding 

 plant of the Ferguson Steel & Iron Company on the upper Buffalo -iver, 

 in the city. This contract was completed and the piles were said to 

 have been all driven. Complaint is made that competition is sharp and 

 prices are not high, but the movement indicates a building progress here, 

 in spite of government restrictions as to dwellings and some other classes 

 of structure. The piles used are mainly yellow pine, if it can be obtained, 

 but since that timber has become so hard to get New York state hard- 

 woods are used to a great extent. 



The Pierce-.Vrrow- Motor Car Company, which has been turning out 

 trucks on war orders for some time past, will engage within three or 

 four months in additional war work, — the manufacture of the Ilispano 

 Suiza type of airplane motor. Production plans have not yet been en- 

 tirely completed, but the motor will be the only airplane part turned out 

 at the plant. No new buildings will be required to carry on operations. 

 The announcement of the new line of activity, together with the establish- 

 ment of the new Curtiss flying field, means that Buffalo is to become more 

 than ever one of the leading airplane centers of the country. 



William T. Charlton, who had been a resident of North Tonawanda 

 since 1884, much of the time as an active member of the lumber trade, 

 died at his home there on August 17, aged fifty-four years. For the past 

 four years he was a member of the staff of the sheriff of Niagara County. 

 He was a strong Republican and much interested in politics. He was 

 an exempt fireman, a former member of the 25th National Guard Com- 

 pany, and a member of Tonawanda lodge, F. & A. M. He is survived by a 

 widow, one daughter and three sons, two of whom are in the army. 



