HARDWOOD RECORD 



39 



Death of Christian F. Liebke 



Christian F. Liebko. president of tlje C. F. 

 Liebke Hardwooil Mill & Lumber Company, died 

 in St. Louis. Sept. 30. of acute nephritis. He 

 was ill only eight days. He was seventy-six 

 years old and was one of the pioneer lumber 

 dealers in Missouri, having entered the lumber 

 Imsiness in IS.^8. 



TllK L.VIE (' F l.lKHKi;. ST. LOUIS. MO. 



He was born near lierlin, Germany. Aug. i:;. 

 ISaO, and came to St. Louis when a boy. He 

 was educated in the public schools of St. Loui.s 

 and married Miss Marv Uuth Yore on Oct !,"> 

 1S73. 



When fourteen years old, Mr. Liebke was en- 

 gaged in the furniture business. Later he went 

 ro San Francisco, Cal.. and engaged in various 

 occupations. In l.S,j6 ho returned to St. Louis 

 and again entered the furniture business. H',- 

 entered the mill and lumber business in 183^* 

 and in 18S6 became the sole owner of the com- 

 pany with which be was connected until his 

 death. 



He was a pioneer in barging on the Missouri 

 liver. In 1804 he brought out logs at great haz- 

 ard, because no insurance company would take 

 the risk. He was one of th? first to load barges 

 with logs by derricks on the lower ^lississippi 

 river, and to have them towed to St. Louis. In 

 rjO.j-6 he was the president of the Lumber- 

 men's Kxchange of St. Louis, and was also a 

 member of the Mercantile Club. lie is survived 

 by three sons and one daughter. 



A Lumberman's Handbook 



H. R. A. Baughman. of Indianapolis, Intf. , 

 lias just issued a new edition of his "Buyer .t 

 .Seller*', which is a handy book containing .a 

 vast amount of information of value and in- 

 terest to lumbermen, carpenters and builders. 

 .Many new ideas made it necessary to change 

 1 he style of the book and as a result it is 

 ■ considerably more comprehensive than pre- 

 \'ious issues. This is the twelfth edition. 



In rewriting the text all articles were put 

 ay far as possible in a rational order. Each 

 table win give a greater range of sizes than 

 the tables in former issues. This publication 

 lirst came out twenty-flve years ago. and while 

 each year it has undergone extensiv^e revision, 

 the changes this year are much broader than 

 ever before. The book contains tables for 

 •■very size and dimension of lumber, gives in- 

 formation as to lumber weights, figuring 

 tapering lumber, length of rafters, how to fig- 

 ure flooring, siding, shingles, etc. In fact, 

 practically everything necessary for lumber- 

 men to know in connection with the mechan- 



iearHetails of the business is shown in the 

 book. 



Important Mississippi Timber Purchase 

 T. J. Spragins & Son are reported to have 

 closed a deal whereby the Honochitto Lumber 

 Company of Bude, Miss., will dispose of all of 

 its hardwood timber situated on its holdings 

 at Franklin and Amite counties, Mississippi. 

 There is an estimated stand of 100.000,000 

 feet of hardwood on the 100.000 acres of prop- 

 erty owned by this company. Most of this 

 timber runs to white oak and poplar. The 

 hardwood will be cut in the woods with the 

 pine, but will be delivered separately to Bude 

 to which point the mill will be moved from 

 Fenwiek. its present location. 



Exports and Imports of Lumber for July 



The monthly summary of Commerce and 

 Finance, issued by the Bureau of Foreign and 

 Domestic Commerce at Washington, shows 

 that the total import value of all woods and 

 manufactures of wood in July, 1912, was 

 sr., 992, 621 as compared with $4,900,897, the total 

 value for July, 1911. 



The total value of pulp woods imported dur- 

 ing this period in 1912 was $898,636, which is 

 :in increase of about $150,000 during the year. 

 1 'abinet woods valued at $119,319 were brought 

 into this country from abroad during the past 

 .luly. Such manufactures of lumber as boards, 

 planks, deals and other sawn stuff to the 

 \alue of $2,666,653 were imported during July, 

 1912. The import value of these commodities 

 lii July, 1911, was $1,597,341. The import value 

 of furniture increased during the year by 

 ybout $14,000. but aggregated only $54,347 in 

 July of this year. 



to $41,100 in July. 1912. Figures are not 

 available for the export of railway ties in 

 1911, but in July. 1912, 514,889 ties, valued at 

 $216,002, were shipped from this country. The 

 export value of furniture during tlie same 

 period increased from $401,062 to $524,379. 

 Such exports as wood pulp, woodenware, trim, 

 mouldings and house finishings; hogsheads 

 and empty barrels: sash, doors and blinds; 

 .shingles, headings and boxes, all show grati- 

 fying increases in export value. The only 

 important commodity which showed any 

 marked decrease was staves, the export value 

 c.r which tell oft from $747,597 in July. 1911. 

 ;o $650,080 in July, 1912. 



A Valuable Catalogue 



The Philadelphia Textile Machinery Com- 

 pany has issued a catalogue in neat booklet 

 form whicli contains a treatise on the sub- 

 ject of veneer drying, dedicated to the veneer 

 industry of the world. It deals objectively 

 with the "Proctor System" drying machinery, 

 which is manufactured by this concern; giv- 

 ing photos and important details of the sys- 

 tem, and incidently quoting the opinions and 

 approval of some of the leading houses in the 

 veneer trade who have employed the Proctor 

 system in their extensive plants. The coni- 

 1 any will forward a copy of this catalogue on 

 request to any veneer manufacturer. If he 

 If! sufficiently interested, and none of the 

 houses mentioned now using the process are 

 convenient for investigation, other names will 

 be cheerfully furnished and expert men, em- 

 I ioyed for the purpose, will accompany any- 

 i.ne interested to some convenient point where 

 the dryer may be seen turning out all kinds 

 of veneer. 



I'lllL.MiKl.l 



1[|.\ TE.XTILi: VE.NEEIt lUtYElt IN Col USi: OF Co.NSTlirCTlON 



The total export value of all wood and 

 manufactures of wood increased from $8,100.- 

 S60 in July. 1911, to $10,215,464 in July. 1912. 

 The total export value of all round timber 

 this year was $462,600 as against $316,421 in 

 July, 1911. 



Hewn and sawed timbers valued at $1,119,- 

 712 were exported in July, 1912, as compared 

 with export value for this stock of $l,037,52i.' 

 in July, 1911. There was an increase in the 

 export value of all lumber, including boards, 

 planks and deals in cypress, gum. oak. pine, 

 poplar, redwood and spruce from $4,092,413 in 

 .Tuly, 1911, to $5,274,790 in July, 1912. To this 

 is added an export in joists and scantling-; 

 which decreased from $60,906 in July, 1911 



As the drying process in the veneer manu- 

 facturing industry is most important, this 

 catalogue must unquestionably prove a valu- 

 able piece of literature for all those connected 

 with this line of business. Among the many 

 concerns listed as using the latest type Proc- 

 tor veneer dryer are the Kiel Wooden Ware 

 Company, Mellon, W'is.; Virginia Veneer and 

 Panel Company, Norfolk, Va.; C. L. Willey. 

 Memphis, Tenn.; Standard Veneer Company. 

 Stockholme, Me.; Blair Veneer Manufacturing 

 Company, North Troy, Vt.; Tennessee River 

 Veneer Company, Sheffield, Ala.; Buffalo 

 Veneer Company, Buffalo, N. Y.; Mengel Box 

 Company, Hickman, Ky., and others in ever> 

 section of the country. 



