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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Owing to the transfer to Chicago of W. W. 

 Dings of the Garetson-Greascn Lumber Company. 

 Walter L. Jones, a buyer and inspector for the 

 company in the South, has been promoted and 

 hereafter will take charge of the local sales and 

 will give particular attention to handling the 

 railroad material end of the business. 



After a visit to the mill in Mississippi, George 

 H. Barnes of the George H. Barnes Hardwood 

 Lumber Company has returned home. He says 

 the car shortage will not hurt his business, as he 

 is well supplied with lumber. 



A satisfactory volume of business is reported 

 by Eichard J. O'Reilly of the O'Reilly Lumber 

 Company. 



A better feeling in the lumber trade is re- 

 ported by John A. Rebels, president of the St. 

 Louis Lumber Company. While business is not 

 what it should be, the prospects are brighter 

 than they were a short time ago. 



Quite a nice business was done during the 

 months of October by the Charles F. Luehrmaun 

 Hardwood Lumber Company. Nearly all classes 

 of hardwood lumber were Included in the sales 

 made. There was a particularly good demand 

 for oak, which is strengthening. 



William L. Boeckeler of the Boeckeler Lumber 

 Company says the volume of business that the 

 company is doing is most satisfactory. Last 

 month's sales were particularly gratifying. 'Xhe 

 trade in the out-of-towu department was particu- 

 larly good. Having a big stock of lumber on 

 hand, it was able to supply the calls made with 

 quick shipments. 



Fifteen striking millmen from the Interstate 

 Planing Mill & Lumber Company of East St. 

 Louis were named in a temporary injunction 

 granted last week by the circuit court at Belle- 

 ville on application of the concern. The strikers 

 were enjoined from interfering with workmen 

 employed to take their places. The planing mill 

 company represented that sixty of its employes 

 went out October 22 because of its refusal to 

 reinstate two men who were discharged and the 

 posting of a notice that the plant would be an 

 open shop hereafter. It was alleged that strikers 

 were intimidating men employed to take their 

 places by picketing the plant and the homes of 

 the employes and threatened them, and that a 

 mill hand had been assaulted by the strikers and 

 has been in the hospital ever since. 



For the second time in live days, incendiaries 

 tried to destroy the lumber yard of the Claes & 

 Lebnbeuter Manufacturing Company on Novem- 

 ber 3. The first blaze was started Sunday night, 

 when it was kindled under one of the stacks of 

 lumber. Prompt work by the fire department 

 saved the yards. The last fire was started in a 

 similar manner and resulted in $100 damage. 



BIRMINOhAM 



A slight improvement has been noted in the 

 Alabama hardwood market, quotations on poplar 

 showing gratifying improvement. Demand for 

 this wood is growing stronger, and further ad- 

 vances are looked for. Gum ranges nest in the 

 activity, this class of stock moving freely. Oak 

 is still dull. 



An increase in hardwood output is noted. 

 The mills Landliug hardwood exclusively are all 

 working on full time and the yellow pine plants 

 in cutting more pine naturally are turning out 

 a larger per cent of the hardwood as a side 

 line. In poplar and gum eastern markets seem 

 ready to take care of the increased output, and 

 other lines are likely to be affected by the gen- 

 eral improvement. 



Car shortage continues to be the one big fea- 

 ture of the entire lumber trade in Alabama, 

 for not in two years has the congestion been 

 more pronounced. Manufacturers from all over 

 the state report trouble. The principal cause 

 for the inconvenience is the fact that the cot- 

 ton crop movement is now in full swing, and 

 for several weeks will continue to claim the full 



attention of the roads. The movement is offi- 

 cially estimated to be a little more than half fln- 

 ished, so that from now on some relief may be 

 expected. 



The Jefferson County Building Material Men's 

 Kxchange will hold its monthly meeting on No- 

 vember 11, with prospects for the largest at- 

 tendance in the history of the organization. It 

 will be the first meeting in the handsome new 

 quarters of the exchange in the Chamber of 

 Commerce building. 



A. B. Cleneay. hardwood expert for the Oden- 

 Elliott Lumber Company, has just returned from 

 an extensive trip through southern Alabama. 

 J. J. Ell.iott of this house has removed his home 

 from Childersburg, Ala., to Birmingham. 



Among recent hardwood men in Birmingham 

 was E. Rotha of the Wildberg Lumber Company 

 of Cincinnati. 



NEW ORLEANS 



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Not a little interest attaches to the announce- 

 ment that New Orleans will probably supply 

 several million cross ties for use in railroad 

 construction in France during the next two or 

 three years as a result of the activity of the 

 Southern Trading Company of this city. Some 

 time ago this company had been offered a large 

 contract in France and shipped to that country 

 a sample shipment of white, cow post and over- 

 cup oak ties. These samples have proved to be 

 satisfactory and the ties will be bought in 

 America if, the prices are satisfactory and in 

 keeping with the views of the French pur- 

 chasers. 



The Grand Rapids Veneer Works, through its 

 local agent, D. B. Alexander, has just closed a 

 contract to install four large dry kilns for the 

 F. B. Williams Cypress Company, which is build- 

 ing one of the largest and most up-to-date 

 cypress mills in the South. The kilns will be 

 on concrete foundations with brick and tile 

 walls and tile roofs. 



Announcement regarding the organization of 

 the Opdenwe.ver-Fischer Lumber Company of 

 New Orleans have excited much interest. Frank 

 Opdenweyer, John Opdenweyer and C. B. Fischer 

 are the incorporators. The new company will 

 succeed the Opdenweyer Cypress Company and 

 has recently purchased about 120,000.000 feet of 

 standing cypress timber in St. Tammany parish 

 from the Salmen Brick & Lumber Company of 

 Slidell. The purchase price for the timber was 

 said to be about $600,000. 



The second annual meeting of the Gulf Coast 

 Lumber Exporters' Association was held at Mo- 

 bile within the last fortnight, with representa- 

 tives from all of the Gulf shipping centers in 

 attendance. Many subjects relating to the ex- 

 portation of lumber were discussed and it was 

 decided to establish agencies of the association 

 in European countries. London will be the 

 headquarters for the agencies and branches will 

 be placed in all the cities with which the mem- 

 bers of the organization trade. The reports of 

 the officers showed the organization to be in 

 good shape and the prospects for the coming 

 year to be bright. Officers elected were : Rob- 

 ert Hunter, Mobile, president ; G. Eitzen, Pensa- 

 cola, vice-president ; J. O. Elrner, Mobile, secre- 

 tary, and A. C. Ganahl, Mobile, treasurer. 



Announcement is made that W. R. Montgom- 

 ery will establish at Shreveport a large plant 

 for manufacturing folding furniture. 



The McCarroII Lumber Company has been in- 

 corporiited at Hammond, La., and will establish 

 a large plant there. It has a capital stock of 

 $40,000. James F. McCarroll is president and 

 treasurer ; Harry C. Page is vice-president, and 

 Arthur T. Gomilla is secretary. 



M. S. Hill and L. G. Wales have incorporated 

 the Hill-Wales Lumber Company at Canton, 

 Miss., with $10,000 capital stock. 



The Bowie Lumber Company in Assumption 

 parish, this state, has purchased from the Ilut- 



tig-Moss Manufacturing Company of St. Joseph, 

 Mo., that company's holdings, including about 

 75,000,000 feet. The consideration was $390,000. 



MILWAUKEE 



Milwaukee lumbermen were shocked by the 

 sudden death recently of John J. Johnson, one 

 of the best-known wholesale lumbermen in the 

 city, formerly president and treasurer of the 

 Johnson Lumber Company. Mr. Johnson passed 

 away in the library of his home, presumably of 

 heart disease. He was sixty-three years of age 

 and had been engaged in the lumber business all 

 his life, for the past fifteen years being in the 

 wholesale business. A few years ago he retired 

 in favor of his three sons, George T. Johnson, 

 now president and treasurer of the concern ; W. 

 A. Johnson, vice-president, and T. Y. Johnson, 

 secretary. 



E. A. Braniff, mill superintendent at the gov- 

 ernment reservation at Neopit, Wis., has resigned 

 and has been succeeded by A. M. Riley of Rhine- 

 lander, Wis. Mr. Rile.v, until recently, has been 

 superintendent and manager of the Atwood Lum- 

 ber & Manufacturing Company of Park Falls, 

 and is one of the best known logging operators 

 of northern Wisconsin. His son, A. J. Riley, has 

 received the appointment of logging superintend- 

 ent of the reservation. 



Following the action of the Mellen Lumber 

 Company of Mellen, Wis., in purchasing addi- 

 tional timber holdings and lumber interests, the 

 company has increased its capital stock from 

 $450,000 to $1,000,000. 



The Wisconsin legislative committee on water 

 powers has completed its work of investigating 

 the water powers, forest reserves and logging 

 methods followed in the state and is now com- 

 piling its data at Eau Claire. At Cass Lake, 

 Minn., it also investigated the method followed 

 by the Weyerhaeuser interests in burning hard- 

 wood slash. The committee gained the impression 

 that slash burning is most advantageous and not 

 too expensive. 



John Fountain, well known lumberman of 

 Appleton, Wis., was a recent Milwaukee visitor. 

 The GUkey & Anson Lumber Company of Mer- 

 rill, Wis., has closed its mill and will dissolve 

 partnership at once. L. N. Anson and his son 

 George will purchase the Gilkey interests and 

 after overhauling the sawmill will operate it. 

 L. N. Anson & Son have extensive timber hold- 

 ings that will keep the plant in operation for 

 many years. Mr. Gilkey, who is heavily inter- 

 ested in the lumber business at Oshkosb, will 

 later locate in the West, where he owns extensive 

 timber interests. 



The Wilson-Weber Lumber Company of Menom- 

 inee, Mich., owning a line of yards in Michigan 

 and Wisconsin, has sold its interests to the 

 North Star Lumber Company of Minneapolis, 

 Minn. 



Kncchtel & Trestek, loggers of Manitowoc, 

 Wis., have secured a contract to log 5,000.000 

 feet of logs for the Long Lake Lumber Compai^ 

 of Forrest county, AVisconsin. 



The Wilbur Lumber Company of Milwaukee 

 has sold its entire plant at Beaver, Wis., includ- 

 ing planing mill, 500,000 feet of lumber and a 

 large amount of standing timber, to Nelson & 

 .Armstrong. 



The story that has been going the rounds in 

 Wisconsin newspapers that a discharged woods- 

 man "shot up" the town of Goodman, the seat 

 of the Goodman Lumber Company, has been de- 

 nied by Robert B. Goodman of the company. The 

 man simply attempted to discharge a gun in the 

 offices of the company, but was intercepted and 

 arrested. 



Employment bureaus at Milwaukee and other 

 Wisconsin cities are meeting with an unusual 

 call from lumber companies for men to go into 

 the northern woods this fall. The available sup- 

 ply of men is scarce and wages will be abnor- 

 mally high. 



