HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 10, 1918 



lu proof of this it states that tlie Federal Government in its various 

 departments, war, navy, shipbuilding, aeroplane, hospital, munitions, etc., 

 and the industrial housing of euiplo.ves of war material producers, is requir- 

 ing enormous quantities of furniture, cabinets, desks, tables, chairs, cases, 

 boxes and other makes of wood. The statement also points out that the 

 furniture and woodworking industry of the United States is now co-operat- 

 ing with the government and is doing all in its power to help Uncle Sam 

 win the war. A few nights ago the Evansville Central Labor Union passed 

 resolutions endorsing the plan of the manufacturers of this city to form 

 a holding company for the purpose of bringing more war contracts to 

 Evansville. The resolutions state, however, that the workingmen of 

 Evansville will expect the manufacturers in these plants to give them the 

 same hours and working conditions as laid down by the war labor board 

 iind the national government. \ committee representing the manufac- 

 turers of this section recently went to Washington to try to Jand more 

 war contracts for this section. 



The Connersville Furniture Company, Connersville, Ind., has been 

 awarded the contracts by the Federal Government for the making of 

 100,000 boxes and this work will be rushed. McFerson and Foster, box 

 manufacturers, have been working for «(.vcr;il months on wmt fnntr;>fts 

 aud have enough of tTiese orders on liiin.l ii"\v i., k. , ]i m. plant in npiTa- 

 tion for several months. The Evaiisvillr l.i.il W.nk- an.! ili.' Ilci.ules 

 Buggy Company are working on war .onlracls i..r tlic Kiivnnniniil. and 

 many more of the local industries are expecting similar contracts within 

 a short time. 



The Fourth Liberty Loan campaign here will start on September 28 

 and will continue until .16,000,000 worth of bonds have been sold in 

 Evansville and Van.lnilnirf; county. Henry C. Murphy, sales manager for 

 the campaign. lni~; a|i|i"iiitcMl committees of five hundred manufacturers 

 and business iinai t.. iak( part in the big drive and make it a success. 

 Many lumberincu an- uu the list. 



The plant of the Whitmore llaj].!!.- (■"nii>aiiy. Mt. Vernon, Ind., destroyed 

 by fire several weeks ago at a I"ss ni' ali.mt .l^liO.noO, has been rebuilt. The 

 machinery has liccn installed and the I'aitury is In operation again, being 

 opnai-cl . n i.a,iy time. The company has a large contract to make 

 haul I II. 1^ Island navy yard, which will keep the plant operat- 



iu- in.' time. 



K.'i.M >> li.iinia. k. aaed sixty-tbree years, one of the best-known lum- 

 bermen of this sccticin. (lied a I'cw d.ays ago at his home in Evansville after 

 a short illness. For many y.ai-i Mr. Shalmack has been connected with 

 the Helfrich Lumtim- ami MannI arinring Company in Evansville, and was 

 well known to tbn tra.lr in ^.mlli. in Indiana, southern Illinois and western 

 and northern K'iitn'k,\ II. lia.l -ji.m m-.^t ..i liis life in Evansville and 

 was active in ri\i< alVaii- M f. Slialmaik is ^iii\i\'-d by his widow, two 



sons and four .lan^lii.a-, I' liis s..nv k.-iin; ii,.ni-y Shalmack, who is 



fighting in the front lim. tivmln'-. in lian... uilh tin. .Vmerican army. 



Fred Bergman <■!■ l;.rL:rnan ,\ Mann, li ..r .l.al.Ts ami pianino mill 



owners at Chrisney. In. I, v>a-a ..'..rK i.n-in.-- vi ii,.r in Kvansiill... II,. 

 said the country plai.iim miil- ami hnnii.'i- yai-.i. l.a.i lia.i rallief ■■r..ugh 

 sledding" this year, and he is not expecting liusiness to pick up any the 

 balance of the year. 



.Tohn Byers, a lumber dealer in northern Oklahoma, for many years 

 located in the lumber business at llopkinsvillr. Ky.. stnppeil here on his 

 way home from Petersburg, Ind.. »lni.. In. visit. d his m..tliii-. Mr. r.yers 



reported the crops in Oklah a lia.ll.v in n.-..! ..1 rain ami i.ai'...l the 



drouth that has prevailed tber.. tnr si.m<.Umi. wmil.l il.> a yr.'.at .leal of 

 damage to both cotton and corn. 



Several of the larg^ woodworking plants in Evansville are in need of 

 additions, but in most instances these improvements will not be made 

 until the close of the great world war. 



.1. Stuart Hopkins, general manager of the Never-Split Seat Company of 

 this city, says trade with his concern has been good all season and that 

 be is looking for a nice fall and winter trade. The plant has been 

 ..peratcd steadily, although Mr. llii|ikius lias been hanilicappi'.l at films 

 Ill-cause of the labor shortage. 



--< MEMPHIS >= 



The Deer Creek Lumber Company has been chartered under the laws 

 of Mississippi. It has a capital stock of $25,000 and the incorporators 

 include : Claude Crenshaw. Memphis, president ; Chester F. Korn, vice- 

 president, and Frank A. Conklim;. s...].iai y Inasurer. Tlie two latter 



are identified with the Triaiiyl.- I.ni !■ c.mip.iny, witli ii...iiUiuarters at 



-MemphLs. and with mill at r.i.,i. .Miss. Iln. , .,m|iaiiy has already in- 

 stalled a circular mill ,.f -J."..!" I .apacily at .Metcair. near Greene- 



ville. Miss. Its head.pia it.rs uiil he in Memphis. 



The Triangle Lumli. r i'..m|Kiny. .Mi-mphis, has purchased the timber on 

 3,,500 acres of land in Wa-liin^i.in .■..iiiity lieI(.nj;iiiK to W. L. Crenshaw, 

 a former partner in it.- . i. n h.i.i ...im I.nmli.r i' pa n \ . an.l will re- 

 move its band mill 1 1 ■ I : ^1 i Miiiii !;! Mi 1-1 III., .bv.dop- 

 uient of this timb.r .1 1 ii I, Mil .1 r.f.y. It is 



already shipping r.iil in.! .il ii.iiil i.. Mi.ini.'ii .m.l will im- 

 mediately begin the cmstruction ..f a railr.ia.l ^..m.. mil. - in length for 

 handling the timber to the mill. Mr. Cr..|islia\\ l..in;;lit this property 

 with a view to forming a company for its ilev.-!..! nt. Ila\ing sold this, 



thereto. 



James E. Stark, head of James E. Stark & Co., Inc., and president 

 of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, just returned from Chica>.'.i 

 where he spent several weeks on account of the illness of his wife, wlm 

 is now much improved. Mr. Stark gave considerable attention to busi 

 ness conditions while in Chicago and declared that, in view of what h.. 

 saw and heard, he is more optimistic regarding the hardwood lumber in 

 dustry than at any time since the war began. He believes that condi- 

 tions with respect to both labor and transportation are going to be such 

 that replenishment of depleted hardwood stocks is largely out of the 

 question. He further believes that there is a possibility, if not, indeed, 

 a probability, that hardwood lumber will command higher prices this 

 fall and winter than ever before. He is particularly impressed with the 

 fact that in the North and East, where stocks are in hand and readily 

 available, there is a good volume of business under way, and he antici- 

 pates that there will soon be an invasion of the southern field by buyers* 

 for the government and for private industry. 



B. C. Orner, who has had wi.i.. ..\p. riiii... in the sale of southern hard- 

 woods, has -accepted the positi i ~al.- manager of the H. W. Darby 



Hardwood Lumber Company win. h i.-..nily removed its headquarters 

 from Grenada, Miss., to Mempliis. .\lr. Oruer served for some years as 

 sales manager for the Chapman-Dewey Lumber Company, Memphis and 

 Marked Tree, Ark., for the Racine Lumber & Manufacturing Company, 

 Racine, Wis., and for the I'owoll-.Myers Lumber Company, South Bend, Ind.. 



coming from the latter t.. his mw . ..nm.li.in. Hi- sm-. Is F. A. Brewer. 



The H. W. Darby llai.lH 1 l,nmi..i- i'.im|.any ..p.a'.al..s I'.uir mills in 



Mississippi and speeiali/.-s in .ill kin. I- ..r mim. im-imlin^ inp..|... 



The J. W. Dickson r..in|..in,\ . «itli b.-.i.l.iiiart.-rs at M.iiiiibis, is pre- 

 paring to close down its mill in Mississippi. According to the manage- 

 ment of this firm, it is .'ustin;; liiii per cent more to put lumber on sticks 

 than a comparatively sli.jit tiiii.' a.no because it Is so difficult to secure 

 labor and because the labor obtainable is so inefficient. It further de- 

 clares that there is neither pleasure nor profit in operating under such 

 conditions and that it prefers to conserve its timber and other resources 

 to dissipating th.-m under such circumstances. 



Til. ....... I. Mini. 1 I ..iiipany, which has a large mill at Blaine, Miss., 



an 11 II iiing to close down that plant, largely because 



of .111! lalii.r. Other companies are giving serious con- 



siil.rai i.n 1 iiiiliii.ni nf operation voluntarily because they believe 



they ill.- g.iiug to la- fiirced to such a course in the near future if they 

 do not take such action. 



W. A. Waddington, of the Valley Log Loading Company, -will return in 

 a few days from Petorsboro. Pan lie was stricken with paralysis some 

 months ago ami w.nt tli.-ir • fm- his h.altii. His condition is reported 

 materially iiiipf.i\ .-.1 hut h.- is still lar tr.-m himself. 



J. W. Dii-ks.m, .l..an i.r til.. Iia nl W.....I liiiiih..r fraternity in this city and 



section, is r...'.'i\ ini: lli.. .■..ii.L.'ratulations of hi- m i..ii. rii..nds on the 



recovery u( in- wii. ir.nn typhoid fever. Mi I- m.w at her 



home after a -ia\ ..i .iii.,iit .-leven weeks in St i. i iiial. 



A. B. Tiini.f, in .h:u-. ..f the offices of tin- f. n ■ n I ,iiir..-r Company, 

 Memphis and Trumann, .\rk., is .|iiit.- ill witli t.\].li..i.l l..\.f. His condi- 

 tion is somewhat inipi.-M-.i l.nt In- is still m.t i-iillr.ly .ml of .langer. 



A branch of the K.il.ial It.'-.iM- r.aiik. .inlitli .listii. t, St, Louis, was 

 opened in Memphis Tu.-s.lay. willi .1. -p. .sits of l«a, 000,00(1. It is expected 

 that this branch will greatly facilitate Memphis banking institutions in 

 taking care of currency and other requirements of their customers, in- 

 cluding lumbermen, as well as in handling rediscounts. All banks in 

 West Tennessee, North Mississippi and East Arkansas preferring to do 

 business through the Memphis branch instead of the parent bank at St. 

 Louis are given opportunity of doing so. 



=^ BEAUMONT >-= 



One of the most gratifying pieces of news since the recent gulf hurricam- 

 whiih swept through Louisiana near the Texas border is that the loss of 

 timlier will not be so great as first reported. Rex Browne, in charge of 

 the hanlw.iod department of the Beaumont Lumber Company, has just 

 returneil from the Bon Ami district and found that in some instances 

 where the lumbermen thought their damage would be 50 per cent, a closer 

 inspection after the tops had time to die, revealed that in many districts 

 this loss would be cut down to 10 and 15 per cent. The most troublesome 

 feature of the situation is that the trees were blown down in widely 

 separated sections, making the work of salvaging both difficult and expen- 

 sive. 



The Lone Star Shipbuilding Company of Beaumont has launched its 

 second ship, the "Aredo." Another keel was laid in the vacated ways 

 before sunset. This is the second Ferris type ship to be launched by the 

 company, making the sixth for Beaumont. It was immediately towed to 

 the equipping dock, where the machinery will be Installed. 



Three Ferris ships, fully equipped for sea, are expected to leave Beau- 

 mont during the present week for their maiden trips. The Beaumont Ship- 

 building & Dry Dock Company have the "Oneda" and "Swampscott" ready 

 for sea with the exception of a few minor fittings, which are coming by 

 express, and the same condition prevails at the yard of the Lone Star 

 Shipbuilding Company with the "Lone Star." Eight vessels altogether 

 are being equipped in Beaumont, two of the hulls having been constructed 

 in Houston. 



J. W. Link, president of the Beaumont Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Com- 

 pany anil I'lirmer Orange lumberman, has purchased a home In Beaumont 



