HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 10. 1918 



Of course it is true that 



Red Gum 



is America's finest cabinet wood — but 



Just as a poor cook will spoil the choicest 

 viands while the experienced chef will turn 

 them into prized delicacies, so it is true that 



The inherently superior qualities 

 of Red Gum can be brought 

 out only by proper handling 



When you buy this wood, as when you buy a new 

 jnachine, you want to feel that you have reason for 

 believing it will be just as represented. 



We claim genuine superiority for our Gum. The 

 proof that you can have confidence in this claim is 

 shown by the letter reproduced herewith. 



Your interests demand that you remem- 

 ber this proof of our ability to preserve 

 the wonderful qualities of the wood 

 when you again want RED GUM. 



Paepcke Leicht Lumber Company 



CONWAY BUILDING 111 W. WASHINGTON ST. 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



Band MlJJs: Helena and BlythevUle, Ark.; GreenvUle, Ml8«. 



for the lumbermen is .$1,400,000 and of this amount $250,000 was raised 

 the first day. 



The planing mill of H. Clark & Son, Corry. Pa., was destroyed by an 

 incendiary fire on September 19. Other buildings and lumber were saved. 

 The loss was .$10,000, partly insured. 



The official report of the activity of the Erie barge canal Is much more 

 favorable to operations than was the case of a private report from a 

 marine paper, which seemed to show that it was doing nothing. Up to 

 August 15 the canal had carried 505,117 tons of freight, which is 80,000 

 tons more than was carried in the supposedly better year of 1915, when 

 grain was plenty. 



The new wooden canal-terminal building on No. 1 pier in the Erie basin 

 has been ready for use for some time, but it could not be reached for 

 traffic on October 1, as was hoped, because the railroad connection was 

 not complete. It is believed, however, that the government will continue 

 to improve the canal until It is up to its best possible efficiency. 



The Curtiss Aeroplane & Motors Corporation has a contract with the 

 government for 15,000 airplanes, which will be furnished at the rate of 100 

 a day when work is going in good shape. This is the largest contract for 

 planes the government has given out. It will mean an addition to the 

 factory force of about 8,000 workers and ought to create much activity in 

 the local building industry, since there are not houses, apartments or rooms 

 enough to accommodate any large number of new occupants. 



:< PITTSBURGH >.= 



The Frampton-Foster Lumber Company last month bought 5,000 acres 

 of oak and hardwood timber at White Sulphur Springs. W. Va., on the 

 C. & O. railroad. It now has four mills working on this operation and 

 also sixteen small mills cutting hardwood in western Pennsylvania and 

 eastern Ohio. 



Frank Smith, manager of the Miners' & Manufacturers' Lumber Com- 

 pany, reports business in hardwoods very quiet. Demand is slacking off 

 the past two weeks, but even the industrial concerns are taking less 

 lumber. 



President J. C. Cottrell of the J. C. Cottrell Lumber Company, announces 

 that his company has shut down one of its hardwood mills in the South 

 and Is running the other at only about two-thirds normal, owing to the 

 embargo. Prices on hardwoods are keeping. up pretty well in general, he 

 says, and he expects that the embargo will later on result in general good. 



President J. N. Woollett of the Aberdeen Lumber Company has just 

 returned from a long trip among the gum and Cottonwood mills of the 

 Southwest. He reports many of them bad off financially because of the 

 recent embargo, for these mills cut lumber in order to pay interest, and 



they cannot cut lumber unless they can load it. The Aberdeen has 

 10,000,000 feet of gum and cottonwood on piles and President Woollett 

 looks for higher prices before spring, although just now there is a UtUe 



H. E. Ast, manager of the Mutual Lumber Company, spent a few days 

 among the hardwood plants in West Virginia lately. He found the mills 

 with a fair supply of lumber, but a very short supply of labor. 



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Many familiar faces are missing in the local trade by reason of the 

 serious epidemic of Spanish influenza prevailing in New England. On 

 September 27 Alonzo H. Richardson of the A. H. Richardson Lumber 

 Company of Boston and also the Mansfield Lumber Company, Mansfield, 

 died at his home in Ashmont, aged fifty-four years. Another death noted 

 is that of William A. Waterhouse at his home in Melrose on October 1, 

 aged sixty-six. These well-known members of the lumber fraternity of 

 Boston had been in active business until attacked by the fatal malady. 



H. W. McDonough, president of the Massachusetts Wholesale Lumber 

 -Association, Inc., visited Washington on behalf of the New England trade, 

 which resulted in a meeting at Boston on September 30, at which W. D. 

 Kendall of the car seVvice section and other traffic representatives arranged 

 for a special committee on permits for New England to be located at 

 Boston in the very near future. A formal protest at the opening of the 

 Boston & Maine railroad for shipments originating and terminating on 

 that road was sent to Washington on the ground of (indue preference to 

 shippers and customers happening to be in line for free shipment. This 

 brought forth a telegraphic order from the car service section forbidding 

 any general superintendent so opening his road without a controlled permit 

 system as contemplated in the one-line-haul exception to the general 

 embargo. 



r< BALTIMORE >= 



The campaign for the Fourth Liberty Loan is in full swing here, with 

 pledges amounting to many millions already given, and with every indica- 

 tion that the city's quota, some $64,000,000, will be subscribed in record 

 time and greatly exceeded. As in other similar drives, the members of the 

 lumber trade are taking a prominent part. 



Work on the new saw mill being erected at Bogalusa, La., for the 

 Magazine Hardwood Company, the manufacturing end of the wholesale 

 hardwood firm of Richard P. Baer & Co., this city, is going on so rapidly 

 that the plant will probably be in operation by December 1. Materials are 

 being received under priority orders from the government, which arrange- 



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