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'News Miscellany 



Returns to Otis Company 



The Otis Manul'actiiring Company of New Or- 

 leans, prominent as a leading manufacturer of 

 mahogany, sends out an announcement that on 

 May 15, Eoderich S. Huddleston of the Huddles- 

 ton-Marsh Lumber Company, returned to its 

 office in the capacity of general manager. In 

 his new position Mr. Huddleston will have abso- 

 lute authority in all matters pertaining to the 

 Otis company's business. The magnitude of his 

 respcnsibilities can be better comprehended 

 when it is stated that the company's cut of ma- 

 hogany during the calendar year of 1911 aggre- 

 gated 12,000,000 feet. No introduction of the 

 Otis company and its product is necessary to 

 the trade, as it is a well-known fact that this 

 concern is without an equal in its particular 

 line. 



It is evident that a concern of these propor- 

 tions would need as general manager a man 

 unusually well versed in the intricacies of the 

 manufacturing and marketing of mahogany, and 

 Mr. Huddleston is probably better equipped in 

 this particular line than any other man in the 

 country. He has had a practical experience of 

 about twenty-five j'ears in mahogany manufac- 

 ture and sales from the woods to the installation 

 of the lumber in its final form. For twenty years 

 he worked with the Otis Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, being advanced during that period through 

 successive stations until he attained the position 

 of secretary and sales manager. The last ten 

 years of his connection with the Otis company 

 were spent as Chicago representative. In fact 

 his entire career in the mahogany business, with 

 the exception of about three and a half years 

 interruption during which period he has been 

 at the head of the Huddleston-Marsh Lumber 

 Company of Chicago, was spent with the Otis 

 company. Mr. Huddleston left the active par- 

 ticipation in the affairs of the Otis Manufactur- 

 ing Company in 1909 to organize the Huddles- 

 ton-Marsh Lumber Company, which concern, 

 however, was nominally Chicago representative 

 of the Otis company, selling Otis stock to a 

 great extent. 



Mr. Huddleston retains his interest in the 

 Huddleston-Marsh Lumber Compan.v, but will 

 spend practically his entire time in New Or- 

 leans, making occasional trips to Chicago. 



Mr. Huddleston's return to the Otis Manu- 

 facturing Company was brought about by the 

 retirement from active management of that 

 concern of H. A. Otis, the president. 



The Otis Manufacturing Company is running 

 night and day, and yet is behind on orders, so 

 great is the demand for its product. The mill 

 is shut down for forty-Qve minutes at noon and 

 forty-five minutes at midnight, and on Sundays. 

 With this exception it has been running con- 

 tinuously for many months. 



The success of Mr. Huddleston on his return 

 to his old working field is assured, and Hakd- 

 wouD Record extends to him its cordial good 

 wishes in his new connection. 



The New Dictionary 



The G. & C. Merriam Company, Springfield, 

 Mass.. has just published Webster's New Inter- 

 national Dictionary, edited by Dr. W. T. Harris, 

 late United States commissioner of education. 

 The book is new in every detail, contains a key 

 to literature of seven centuries and over four 

 hundred thousand defined words and phrases. 

 The general information as contained in the old 

 edition has been practicall.v doubled. In all 

 there are twenty-seven hundred pages and six 

 thousand illustrations. 



The edition has been adopted by the editorial 

 department of Hardwood Record. 



New Orleans Ocean Trade 



The pending opening of the Panama canal is 

 creating considerable activity in gulf ports look- 

 ing toward educating the public to advantages 

 of the various ports as shipping points for the 

 gulf trade. The New Orleans Chamber of Com- 

 merce has recently issued a bulletin setting forth 

 New Orleans' advantages. In it are contained 

 excerpts from the report of Commissioner Her- 

 bert Knox Smith. The report contends that 

 New Orleans is one of the most important as 

 well as the most interesting harbors in the 

 country, particularly in its advanced terminal 

 facilities, its organization and its methods of 

 public administration. It is contended that New 

 Orleans is the natural metropolis of all this 

 southern country, and that its importance, both 



R. S. HUDDLESTON. GENERAL MANAGER 



OTIS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 



NEW ORLEANS, LA. 



in domestic and foreign trade, must steadily and 

 rapidly increase. 



The exports from New Orleans during 1909 

 were valued at $144,981,000, and imports at 

 ?45,713.000. In the year 1910, 1,060 vessels 

 cleared from New Orleans in the foreign trade 

 alone, representing a tonnage of 2,168,716. For 

 the fiscal year 1910, New Orleans' exports were 

 1140.376,000. and her imports «55,712,000. 



The computation of the statistics for the eight 

 leading ports of the United States for the fiscal 

 year 1910 shows that New Orleans ranks third 

 in imports and exports, and fourth in number 

 of vessels and tonnage. New York and Boston 

 rank ahead of New Orleans in imports and ex- 

 ports, while New York, Boston and Philadelphia 

 are ahead of the southern metropolis in the 

 number of vessels and tonnage. 



Forest Fires in North Carolina 



The North Carolina Geological' & Economic 

 Survey has compiled statistics covering the forest 

 fires of 1910 and 1911, in which it is shown that 

 the destruction during 1911 was a little less 

 than the previous year, and is estimated at 

 $450,000, including damage to young growth. 

 There were 637 flres recorded which burned over 

 an area of 160.000 acres, a little less than one- 

 third of the area burned in 1910. Systematic 

 efforts, looking toward the control of forest 



fires, have reduced the average area of each fire 

 from 667 acres in 1909 to 250 acres in 1911, but 

 it would appear that the average damage per 

 acre burned over is steadil.v increasing, it hav- 

 ing been sixty-six cents in 1900 and $2.80 in 

 1011. 



Good Time Planned for. Memphis 



Liunhermen 



The entertainment committee has announced 

 that an annual picnic will be given under the 

 auspices of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, 

 Saturday, June 29. It has been customary for 

 the club members to hare an annual outing to 

 which their friends were invited, but this year 

 the committee has provided something a little 

 different from the events of the past. 



The steamer Pattona has been chartered and 

 will leave the foot of Monroe avenue at 9 a. m., 

 returning about 9 p. m. It will be at the serv- 

 ice of the club throughout the entire day. All 

 of the members of the club are expected to pro- 

 vide basket lunches for themselves and their 

 guests. The luncheon is to be served on board 

 the boat. 



Music will be supplied by a good orchestra 

 throughout the entire day, furnishing ample 

 opportunity for those desirous of dancing to do 

 so. The ladies will be given an opportunity of 

 playing bridge, if the.v so wish. Prizes will 

 be provided to make the game as attractive as 

 possible. The members of the club are requested 

 by the committee to bring their baseball para- 

 phernalia in order that there may be a game of 

 ball during the day. It is not specified whether 

 this will take place on the boat, in the water 

 or on land. The committee assures all those 

 who attend that good fishing will be provided, 

 and insists that all members bring fishing tackle 

 and bait. 



The committee which has arranged the fore- 

 going program is composed of J. W. Dickson, 

 chairman. F. E. Stonebraker, W. A. Ransom, 

 S. C. Major and R. J. Lockwood. 



New Tennessee Concern 



The East Tennessee Lumber & Development 

 Company is the style of a new organization at 

 Pristol, Va.-Tenn. The new organization will 

 develop timber lauds in eastern Tennessee and is 

 capitalized at $300,000. The principals in the 

 new concern are C. L. Morris of Morristown, 

 Tenn., J. A. Smith of Bristol and C. J. King of 

 Pennsylvania. The exact location of the mill 

 has not yet been announced, but definite plans 

 for the exploitation of the company's timber are 

 already under way. 



New Chicago Hardwood House 



The newest acquisition to the Chicago trade 

 is the partnership of Osgood & Richardson. Both 

 the principals are well-known in local circles. 

 George B. Osgood for a number of years has 

 represented the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company of 

 Charleston, Miss., in the Chicago territory. A. 

 M. Richardson was formerly Chicago manager 

 for the VoUmar & Below Company of Marsh- 

 field, Wis. 



The new organization will exclusively repre- 

 sent the Lamb-Fish Lumber Company in this 

 territory, and will also handle a large quantity 

 of northern hardwoods and western pine. In 

 addition it has hardwood mill connections in the 

 South at other points. 



Mr. Osgood will specialize in the handling of 

 gum. which is one of the largest products of 

 the Lamb-Fish Luml)er Company's mill. 



Osgood & Richardson are located at 943 Peo- 

 ples Gas building. 



Quebracho 'Wood 



The Forest Service has just issued a pamphlet 

 under the above caption treating of the import- 

 ance of Quebracho wood as a producer of valuable 

 tanning extract. This is a South American 



