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Michael Sol Collection 68 AMERICAN LUMBERMAN. NOVBKBD 6, 1920 6, 1920 AMERICAN 69 COIMEND -SHIPPING BOARD APPOINTIENT PORTLAND, ORz., Oct. 30.-Appointment of J. N. Teal, of Portland, to membership on the Federal shipping board bas met with strong approval here on all sidee for his ability along this line has long been recognized. Anent the appointment, the Oregon Journal of Oct. 28 comments as folloWs: Tbe Coast and the country are to be felicitated upon tbe fact tbatt Joseph N. Teal has been called to a place on the shipping board. No better appointment could bave been made. No man In tbe country is better verSed In ship- ping problems. No man has deeper CODvlctlons as to the value of and the necessity for maritime com- merce and facllitles and instrumentalttles for for- warding that commerce. The rela tlon between ra tee and business, the In- fluence of transportatloD of all kinds on human welfare and commuDlty development, have been a favorite theme of dlscu88ton and a constant sub- Ject of study by Mr. Teal for many years. His knowledge of all tbe facts and maxims bearing upon the Is practical, sound and utiUtarlan. Be ... !Dto the Be", DOtdtton. not as a dreamer or' a theorist or a faddist. In the splendid school of broad experience, he has accUlDulated the ideas tbat will serve him well and Bene the country well as a member of the board. His weight will go for justice and a square deal among the ports of the cOllnU7. Undoubted mis- takes and blunders bave been made by tbe men who have been at the bead of the couDtry'S new mercbant marine. It was a new enterprise. It was a new field of eadeavor. Policles had to be eatabllsbe4 and the wort organbed. We are a big countl'J. Our ports are many and their interests conftlcting. It was natural that in his ,hands the job ot cruising several hundred thousand acres in various townships in Maine. On the reports he returns to the &88e880ra will be based the valuation for taxation purposes. LUIBER SHIPPED IN COAST BUILT CARS SEATTLE, WASH., Oct. SO.-As an indication that lumber is being shipped by rail from the north Pacific coast to the East, there is shown in the picture herewith a train of filty-one ears loaded with western lumber from mills less than one hundred miles from Seattle, all routed to points on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, and hauled by an electric engine--as the western end of this railroad system as well as a long stretch thru Montana and Idaho is now operated by electricity. This picture also shows that bOI ears can be built of fir lumber in the West, for these filty-one cars were all built at the Renton shops of the Pa- cific Car & Foundry Co. Renton is a suburb of8eattle. These cars were made from old bad order bOI cars that were delivered by the railroad to the Renton plant. The old trucks were used, steel underframes were placed and all other parts of the ear built entirely new. A total of 250 ears are being built lor the Mil- waukee by the Pacific Car & Foundry Co. This train received a great deal of attention on its way east as never before had a full train been run with all the cars of the 88me eu.et type and length. Then, too, lreight trains of late have been made up of ears bearing the COLLEGE SERVES SEILER AND BOYER SYRACUSE, N. Y. Nov. I.-Forestry as a pub- lic industrial service, conducted by the State, bas been given a notable demonstration during the last year, thru the wood utilization serviee of the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse. The annual report of this service just completed, shows that the college has done a notable service to manufacturers and producers in the State by its cooperative service to bring the two together. It has not been an advertising development, for no names are given in classi- lying needs of wood users and stocks on hand, until a call comes from one or the other which can be :filled thru this service. Four bulletins were issued, containing a total of ninety-three items, representing forty-one counties. Erie County stood at the head, with six items o1fered, Chautauqua and Chenango second with five items each. There were three regions which notably did not have a single item for the bulletin. These were in the small COUD- ties immediately surrounding New York City, the counties in the vicinity of Albany-Albany, Schenectady, Saratoga, Schoharie, Otsego and Montgomery; and, third the region- about Bing- hamton, including Broome, .Tioga, Schuyler and Chemung counties. The various bulletins ·announced a total of 13,758 acres of timber land for sale, and 2,739,- 000 teet 01 lumber. Pine led in the lumber, totaling 1,345,000 feet, with oak second at 718,- 000 feet. In addition, 1,800 cords of fuel wood were offered, and much poplar pulp ,nd railroad ORANGE SBlPYARD STillE SlnuD ORANGE, TEX., Nov. I.-The "vaeation" at the yards of the National Shipbuilding Co. is oyer and the plant is again operating to its full capacity. This settlement of the strik«r- for such it was--was effected Thursday, Oct. 28. Organized labor got a', slap on the wrist" it will remember for ROme time to come from General Sims, of the National. HiB &Mertion that he would Dot reinstate either former Superintendent Wicker or Carpenter Forman Bell was stood up to manfully and, ODe by one, the disaffected ones ( in reality dupes of Wicker and Bell) reported for duty llDtil on Thursday the eompany had a full ere", of 325 men and some twelve applications from former employees for wort in addition thereto. The are running full blast and the work of and getting ready for sea of the three bIg taDker8, DtJtI{J1wr1y, UtiM and Bluff- to'", for the National Oil Co.'a fleet is being pushed as fast &8 men, mODey and cooperation push them. NEW SOOTHED PINE COKCERN JACKSON, MISS., Nov. 2.-A. C. List, formerly wes manager for the Enoeha Yellow Pine Co., baa resigned to organise the Colonial Lumber <Jo., of J aU80n, with a capital of $100,000. Mr. List expeets to do a wheleeale lumber business in southern pme. He is an expel'ieneed .wmill man and sales manapr and his eompany will be another wholeeome faetor ill belpbaa some difficulty in securing a suitable site tor a proposed woodworking plant will be accom- modated in the building! made vacant by the removal of theae store8 and another industry be added to tho8e here. SURELY WAS AWOODEN IEDDIlfG NORFOLK, VA., Nov. I.-As an advertifring campaign for "Wood Where Wood Is Good," you'll have to hand the first prize to the par- tiee below as demonstrating that there is a place and a U8e for most every kind of wood and that in this case, it seems, substi- tutes would n(Yt have answered the purpose A-T ALL. The following dispatch haa jWJt beeD received from Washington, N. C., in tho heart of the North Carolina pine distriet, dated Oet. 31: Wha twa. unquestionably one of the m08t UD- usual marriages that bas ever taken place in this eeetton occurred Friday night wben MI. Ada Oakes, daughter of Mr. and "l.In. J. C. Oakes, ,be- came tbe bride of Walter Pine, formerly of 8all. bUl7t now enpKed in the tobaceo bU8ines8 here. Wnen Mr. Pine won MI88 Oakes' consent to be Jlle brlde, they decided to have a "wooden weddm." at the verJ bedDDIDar of their married Ufe. That they succeedea 18 e"ldent from the tollowtn. list of persons wbo parttclpated In tbe eeremoDy FrI- da, nlgbt: Tbe Pine. Tht- brlde--Mi. Ada OakeB. Tbe belt man-Robert L. BIrdL The bridesmaid-Anna Lee Laurel. Tbe ceremony waa oertormed by Rev. Oscar T. Wood, of Columbia, N. C. The bride aDd groom left on tbe midnight tra1D tor HIckory, N. C., to SIIOWS GIW1 HINDERED BURDIKG NEW You, Nov. 2.-A mas! of testimony introduced at the last two sessions of the Lock- wood legislative committee investigating the al- leged building materials trust exposed almoet incredible grafting in the building trades, the burning of ineriminating records by union mem- bers and the wanton destruction of business where blood money W88 refused. The latest testimony served to focus attention on Robert P. Brindell, president Building Trades Council. Witne88e8 told of Brindell's grip on the build- ing situation; how be controlled jobs; hOlY he determined prices to be paid for ,,·ork and how. he had to be paid before contractors could take jobs on which they were bidding. William Waixel and Jaeob Fradus, wrecking contractors, testified that they had paid Brindell $3,000 in this way, Waixel making t\VO pay- ments of $1,000 each and Fradus paying simi· lar tribute once. It was also testified by George H. Clark, civil engineer, that he had visited Brindell in behalf of Fradus and that BrindeD demanded $7,500 &8 a rakeo1f for himself before he would allow the contractor to take over the job in question. Arthur Greenfield, a member of the Metallic Furring &; Lathing Association, admitted that records which he said were of an incriminating nature had been deatroyed at a meeting of his organization last Monday on the adrice of the Building Trades Employers' Association lor fear they might fall into possession of the Lockwood committee. A TRAIN OF FIF'l'Y-ONJ: CHIOAGO, MILWAUKEB • 8'1'. PAUL RAILWAY NEW BOX CABS MADE AT BBHTON, WA81L, LOADED WITH NOBTH OOA8'r FOBBS'!' PBODUOTS BN B.OUTB BAST so new and so great an undertaking mistakes . WObld be made. Teal-Is 8. fortunate tlelectlon In that he will ,.. take lIltG tbe Service a profound and practical in- (ormatioD that will help the board meet its prob- leol8 wisely and effectively. The mere fact of his appointment and accept- ance will give new confidence In the board to 'men in the water commerce world all over America. TIMBER CRUISERS HAVE BUSY YEAR OLD TOWN, ME-, Oct. 29.-James W; Sewall, of this city and Washington, D. C., and his foree of timber land cruisers and forest en- gineers have been kept very busy all this year making examinations of the holdings of many companies, including those of Williamson & Grombie, Kingsbury, Que., and ltfcLachlin Bros. Co. (Ltd.), of Arnprior, Onto James A. Con- nors and Edward W. Conners, of Mr. Sewall'8 have charge of the Williamson & Crombie cruising and Lewis T. Calhoun is chief of party on the work on the ;McLachlin holdings in On- tario. W. H. Wentworth, another of Mr. Sew- all's chiefs of party, has just completed an examination of a considerable traet for the Sissihoo Pulp & Power Co., of Weymouth, N. S. Sewall also has other crews working in Quebec, Nova Scotia and Maine, and he has cruised approximately 1,5'00,000 acres of land this year, not all of which were situated up north hut some in and North Carolina. The St.ate assessors of Maine have given into name of every railroad in the country, while these aU bore the name of the Chicago" Mil- waukee & St. Paul Railway. The freight ton- nage was 2,800 tons. There has been JDuch talk of late and much written in the newspapers about the possibility of shipping lumber by water thru the Panama Canal to AtlAntic coast points and from there reshipping to the interior, and there is no doubt but that this traffic will increase. It was the hope of Pacific coast lumbermen that when the Panama Canal waB completed that route would be used to ..advantage, but the World War pre- vented developments. N ow there are indica- tions that the near future will see much heavier shipments of forest products from the Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast bv water. How- ever, lumber is still going by rail, as this Mil- waukee freight train picture indicates. NEW PLANT ALMOST COMPLETED BUNKIE, LA., Nov. I.-The new plant of the Hollyridge Lumber Co., work on which began about Aug. 1, is about completed. The nla- chinery is now being installed. The plant, which will manufacture barrel staves and heads from white oak, red oak, gum, ash and hack- berry, will .have a capacity of 10,000 staves a day. Thirty to thirty-five men will be enl- ployed 3t the start, but it is proposed lat.er to ndd a finishing plant, when one hundred to one hundred fifty men will be needed. tie material. Calls for lumber totaled 1,827,000 feet, with oak leading at 720,000 feet, and aah second with 360,000. Five concerns wanted hardwood stumpage, six hardwood logs, and others called for softwood logs, cherry logs, ash and chestnut stumpage and hickory poles. An entire lack of offerings of cordwood is noted in the first compilation of calls this year. TO CONFER ON LOGGED-OFF LAND SEATTLE, WASH., Oet. 30.-The Seattle Cham· ber of Cornmerc,e announC(lS a logged-off land conference in this city Dec. 6 and t.· Only thoSE' who have practical ideas about logged·off land8 are to be given a place on the program.. I D this connection the State development bureau points out that the area of logged·ofI lands in western Washington is increasing rapidly, and this problem has b(len before the western part of the State for more than ten years. In 1908 the nineteen counties of Washington west of the Cascades had a total area of 5,180,000 acres of standing timber. The decrease of standing tim- ber in the succeeding decade was 165,000 a year. It is said further that if the Pacific slope of tlle Cascades continues to be stripped of timber at the present rate of three billion feet it wHl mean' t.he addition of 100,000 acres of logged-off land annually. The conference will deal with practical problems resulting from the of this area, which presumably may he made productive thru intelligent effort. to continue JackSOD all one of the principal wholesale 8hipping points of 80uthern pine. The oftieers are: T. E. Griffin president; Mr. List vice president and treasurer aDd E. M. West secretary. Mr. Griftln was until Oct. 30 manager of the Hattiesburg office of the George T. Mickle Lumber Co. , and hu a wide acquan- tanee with southern pme manufacturers in this section. BUYS FLEET CORPORATION MATERIALS ORANGE, TEXAS, Nov. l.-L. C. Carter, auditor of the Southern Dry Dock & Ship Co. here, has purchased from the Emergency Fleet Corporation about a quarter of a million dollars' worth of unused materials left over when the ship yards here completed its ('on- traet with the Emergency Fleet Corporation and dent out its last Ferris type ship· from the local ways about a year ago. Mr. Carter made the purchase as an indi- vidual and not a8 an official of the company, which corporation has not as yet haa a settle- ment with the Emergency Fleet Corporation for work finished and delivered. As an individual investor in this valuable material he will re- dispose of it at private sal£1 to yards and Rhip- ping interests su('h as are rom- prised in his purchase. Some of this stuff is already "moving" and Mr. Carter exp<.'l'ts to have it all disposed of within a short time. It is openly hinted at in local and inaneial circles that. an industry which has had spend a week with the groom's aunt, Mrs. E. W. Shingle. CIRCULAR SADILLS ARE CLOSED DOWN McMINNVILLE, TENN., Oct. 29.-Practically all the circular sawmills in this territory are elosed down and the latest to close are the cir- cular mills of the McMinnville Manufacturing Co., of this place, dealer in hardwood lumber, oak and molding. The present depres- sion in the lumber market has closed many mills here, a8 they can not afford to .sell their prod- uct at less than cost. When the market rises to a level on which they can resume operations on a profitable basis, the mills of this territory probably will again begin operations. SAIPLES OF COMMERCIAL WOOD Thirty samples of 88 many commercial woods in sets have prepared hy the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse for dis- tr.ibution where they ,vill do most good. Of thfl8e twent.y-nine are native of the United States, anel one, Spanish cedar or baywood, (Jonles from the countries south of us. The samples have been passed thru a planer but have rel'fliv(\d no additional finish and have the advantage of showing what the woods look like in thflir natural st3te. The samples have been identified and a few facts reprding each are pasted on, such as common name, botanical name, weight, habitat, and principal uses. Attorney Samuel Untermyer showed that graft and extortion have greatly increased the. cost of all building, and that in some iD:Stanees efforts had been made to add $125,000 to the cost of contracts amounting to $275,000. Mr. Untermyer also showed close cooperation be- tween the Building Trades Coun('il and the em-. ployers' association and developed the fact that the walking delegate of the metal union was on the payroll of the employers' association. Roswell D. Tompkins, secreta,ry and treas- urer of the Building Trades Couneil, said that about 115,000 members of the 137 unions affili- ated with the council paid $1 a year into the treasury. This, he said, went to the compensa- tion bureau, of which he professed to know virtually nothing. The only outlays which he could enumerate were the salaries paid to two or three investigators, a secretary, l\fargaret E. Doyle, and Stephen Birmingham. He said he did not know what became of the rest of the money. THE CHAMBER of Commerce of Memphis, Tenn., haa issued an urgent appeal, asking that at least one thousand families of that city share their homes with other families in the effort to meet the housing situation. Further, every person. having rooms that could possibly be rented is urged to rent thpm, even if not being accustomed to taking lodg:ers. The ap- peal is based upon civie and humanitarian RTounds, to the end that the housing gap may be bridged until construction catches up.
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68 AMERICAN LUMBERMAN. NOVBKBD 6, 1920 ~OTDIBD 6, 1920 AMERICAN LUM~ERMAN 69
COIMEND -SHIPPING BOARD APPOINTIENTPORTLAND, ORz., Oct. 30.-Appointment of
J. N. Teal, of Portland, to membership on theFederal shipping board bas met with strongapproval here on all sidee for his ability alongthis line has long been recognized. Anent theappointment, the Oregon Journal of Oct. 28comments as folloWs:
Tbe Coast and the country are to be felicitatedupon tbe fact tbatt Joseph N. Teal has been calledto a place on the shipping board.
No better appointment could bave been made.No man In tbe country is better verSed In shipping problems. No man has deeper CODvlctlons asto the value of and the necessity for maritime commerce and facllitles and instrumentalttles for forwarding that commerce.
The relatlon between ratee and business, the Influence of transportatloD of all kinds on humanwelfare and commuDlty development, have been afavorite theme of dlscu88ton and a constant subJect of study by Mr. Teal for many years. Hisknowledge of all tbe facts and maxims bearingupon the 8t1b,1~ct Is practical, sound and utiUtarlan.
Be ... !Dto the Be", DOtdtton. not as a dreameror' a theorist or a faddist. In the splendid schoolof broad experience, he has accUlDulated the ideastbat will serve him well and Bene the countrywell as a member of the board.
His weight will go for justice and a square dealamong the ports of the cOllnU7. Undoubted mistakes and blunders bave been made by tbe menwho have been at the bead of the couDtry'S newmercbant marine. It was a new enterprise. Itwas a new field of eadeavor. Policles had to beeatabllsbe4 and the wort organbed.
We are a big countl'J. Our ports are many andtheir interests conftlcting. It was natural that in
his ,hands the job ot cruising several hundredthousand acres in various townships in Maine.On the reports he returns to the &88e880ra willbe based the valuation for taxation purposes.
LUIBER SHIPPED IN COAST BUILT CARSSEATTLE, WASH., Oct. SO.-As an indication
that lumber is being shipped by rail from thenorth Pacific coast to the East, there is shownin the picture herewith a train of filty-oneears loaded with western lumber from millsless than one hundred miles from Seattle, allrouted to points on the Chicago, Milwaukee &St. Paul Railway, and hauled by an electricengine--as the western end of this railroadsystem as well as a long stretch thru Montanaand Idaho is now operated by electricity. Thispicture also shows that bOI ears can be built offir lumber in the West, for these filty-one carswere all built at the Renton shops of the Pacific Car & Foundry Co. Renton is a suburbof8eattle. These cars were made from oldbad order bOI cars that were delivered by therailroad to the Renton plant. The old truckswere used, steel underframes were placed andall other parts of the ear built entirely new.A total of 250 ears are being built lor the Milwaukee by the Pacific Car & Foundry Co.
This train received a great deal of attentionon its way east as never before had a full trainbeen run with all the cars of the 88me eu.ettype and length. Then, too, lreight trains oflate have been made up of ears bearing the
COLLEGE SERVES SEILER AND BOYERSYRACUSE, N. Y. Nov. I.-Forestry as a pub
lic industrial service, conducted by the State,bas been given a notable demonstration duringthe last year, thru the wood utilization servieeof the New York State College of Forestry atSyracuse. The annual report of this servicejust completed, shows that the college has donea notable service to manufacturers and producersin the State by its cooperative service to bringthe two together. It has not been an advertisingdevelopment, for no names are given in classilying needs of wood users and stocks on hand,until a call comes from one or the other whichcan be :filled thru this service.
Four bulletins were issued, containing a totalof ninety-three items, representing forty-onecounties. Erie County stood at the head, withsix items o1fered, Chautauqua and Chenangosecond with five items each. There were threeregions which notably did not have a single itemfor the bulletin. These were in the small COUD
ties immediately surrounding New York City,the counties in the vicinity of Albany-Albany,Schenectady, Saratoga, Schoharie, Otsego andMontgomery; and, third the region- about Binghamton, including Broome, .Tioga, Schuyler andChemung counties.
The various bulletins ·announced a total of13,758 acres of timber land for sale, and 2,739,000 teet 01 lumber. Pine led in the lumber,totaling 1,345,000 feet, with oak second at 718,000 feet. In addition, 1,800 cords of fuel woodwere offered, and much poplar pulp ,nd railroad
ORANGE SBlPYARD STillE SlnuDORANGE, TEX., Nov. I.-The "vaeation" at
the yards of the National Shipbuilding Co. isoyer and the plant is again operating to itsfull capacity. This settlement of the strik«rfor such it was--was effected Thursday, Oct.28. Organized labor got a ' , slap on the wrist"it will remember for ROme time to come fromGeneral ~anager Sims, of the National. HiB&Mertion that he would Dot reinstate eitherformer Superintendent Wicker or CarpenterForman Bell was stood up to manfully and,ODe by one, the disaffected ones ( in realitydupes of Wicker and Bell) reported for dutyllDtil on Thursday the eompany had a full ere",of 325 men and some twelve applications fromformer employees for wort in addition thereto.The yard~ are running full blast and the workof eom~leting and getting ready for sea of thethree bIg taDker8, DtJtI{J1wr1y, UtiM and Bluffto'", for the National Oil Co.'a fleet is beingpushed as fast &8 men, mODey and cooperation~aD push them.
NEW SOOTHED PINE COKCERNJACKSON, MISS., Nov. 2.-A. C. List, formerly
wes manager for the Enoeha Yellow Pine Co.,baa resigned to organise the Colonial Lumber<Jo., of J aU80n, with a capital of $100,000. Mr.List expeets to do a ~ral wheleeale lumberbusiness in southern pme. He is an expel'ieneed.wmill man and sales manapr and his eompanywill be another wholeeome faetor ill belpbaa
some difficulty in securing a suitable site tora proposed woodworking plant will be accommodated in the building! made vacant by theremoval of theae store8 and another industrybe added to tho8e here.
SURELY WAS AWOODEN IEDDIlfGNORFOLK, VA., Nov. I.-As an advertifring
campaign for "Wood Where Wood Is Good,"you'll have to hand the first prize to the partiee mention~d below as demonstrating thatthere is a place and a U8e for most every kindof wood and that in this case, it seems, substitutes would n(Yt have answered the purposeA-TALL. The following dispatch haa jWJt beeDreceived from Washington, N. C., in tho heartof the North Carolina pine distriet, datedOet. 31:
Whatwa. unquestionably one of the m08t UDusual marriages that bas ever taken place in thiseeetton occurred Friday night wben MI. AdaOakes, daughter of Mr. and "l.In. J. C. Oakes, ,became tbe bride of Walter Pine, formerly of 8all.bUl7t now enpKed in the tobaceo bU8ines8 here.
Wnen Mr. Pine won MI88 Oakes' consent to beJlle brlde, they decided to have a "wooden weddm."at the verJ bedDDIDar of their married Ufe. Thatthey succeedea 18 e"ldent from the tollowtn. listof persons wbo parttclpated In tbe eeremoDy FrIda, nlgbt:
Tbe ~room-WalterPine.Tht- brlde--Mi. Ada OakeB.Tbe belt man-Robert L. BIrdLThe bridesmaid-Anna Lee Laurel.Tbe ceremony waa oertormed by Rev. Oscar T.
Wood, of Columbia, N. C. The bride aDd groomleft on tbe midnight tra1D tor HIckory, N. C., to
SIIOWS GIW1 HINDERED BURDIKGNEW You, Nov. 2.-A mas! of testimony
introduced at the last two sessions of the Lockwood legislative committee investigating the alleged building materials trust exposed almoetincredible grafting in the building trades, theburning of ineriminating records by union members and the wanton destruction of businesswhere blood money W88 refused. The latesttestimony served to focus attention on RobertP. Brindell, president Building Trades Council.Witne88e8 told of Brindell's grip on the building situation; how be controlled jobs; hOlY hedetermined prices to be paid for ,,·ork and how.he had to be paid before contractors could takejobs on which they were bidding.
William Waixel and Jaeob Fradus, wreckingcontractors, testified that they had paid Brindell$3,000 in this way, Waixel making t\VO payments of $1,000 each and Fradus paying simi·lar tribute once. It was also testified by GeorgeH. Clark, civil engineer, that he had visitedBrindell in behalf of Fradus and that BrindeDdemanded $7,500 &8 a rakeo1f for himself beforehe would allow the contractor to take over thejob in question.
Arthur Greenfield, a member of the MetallicFurring &; Lathing Association, admitted thatrecords which he said were of an incriminatingnature had been deatroyed at a meeting of hisorganization last Monday on the adrice of theBuilding Trades Employers' Association lorfear they might fall into possession of theLockwood committee.
A TRAIN OF FIF'l'Y-ONJ: CHIOAGO, MILWAUKEB • 8'1'. PAUL RAILWAY NEW BOX CABS MADE AT BBHTON, WA81L, LOADED WITH NOBTH OOA8'r FOBBS'!' PBODUOTS BN B.OUTB BAST
so new and so great an undertaking mistakes. WObld be made.
~Ii'.· Teal-Is 8. fortunate tlelectlon In that he will,.. take lIltG tbe Service a profound and practical in
(ormatioD that will help the board meet its probleol8 wisely and effectively.
The mere fact of his appointment and acceptance will give new confidence In the board to'men in the water commerce world all overAmerica.
TIMBER CRUISERS HAVE BUSY YEAROLD TOWN, ME-, Oct. 29.-James W; Sewall,
of this city and Washington, D. C., and hisforee of timber land cruisers and forest engineers have been kept very busy all this yearmaking examinations of the holdings of manycompanies, including those of Williamson &Grombie, Kingsbury, Que., and ltfcLachlin Bros.Co. (Ltd.), of Arnprior, Onto James A. Connors and Edward W. Conners, of Mr. Sewall'8forc~, have charge of the Williamson & Crombiecruising and Lewis T. Calhoun is chief of partyon the work on the ;McLachlin holdings in Ontario. W. H. Wentworth, another of Mr. Sewall's chiefs of party, has just completed anexamination of a considerable traet for theSissihoo Pulp & Power Co., of Weymouth, N. S.~Ir. Sewall also has other crews working inQuebec, Nova Scotia and Maine, and he hascruised approximately 1,5'00,000 acres of landthis year, not all of which were situated upnorth hut some in Tennes~e and North Carolina.The St.ate assessors of Maine have given into
name of every railroad in the country, whilethese aU bore the name of the Chicago" Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. The freight tonnage was 2,800 tons.
There has been JDuch talk of late and muchwritten in the newspapers about the possibilityof shipping lumber by water thru the PanamaCanal to AtlAntic coast points and from therereshipping to the interior, and there is no doubtbut that this traffic will increase. It was thehope of Pacific coast lumbermen that when thePanama Canal waB completed that route wouldbe used to ..advantage, but the World War prevented developments. Now there are indications that the near future will see much heaviershipments of forest products from the Pacificcoast to the Atlantic coast bv water. However, lumber is still going by rail, as this Milwaukee freight train picture indicates.
NEW PLANT ALMOST COMPLETEDBUNKIE, LA., Nov. I.-The new plant of the
Hollyridge Lumber Co., work on which beganabout Aug. 1, is about completed. The nlachinery is now being installed. The plant,which will manufacture barrel staves and headsfrom white oak, red oak, gum, ash and hackberry, will .have a capacity of 10,000 staves aday. Thirty to thirty-five men will be enlployed 3t the start, but it is proposed lat.er tondd a finishing plant, when one hundred to onehundred fifty men will be needed.
tie material. Calls for lumber totaled 1,827,000feet, with oak leading at 720,000 feet, and aahsecond with 360,000. Five concerns wantedhardwood stumpage, six hardwood logs, andothers called for softwood logs, cherry logs,ash and chestnut stumpage and hickory poles.
An entire lack of offerings of cordwood isnoted in the first compilation of calls this year.
TO CONFER ON LOGGED-OFF LANDSEATTLE, WASH., Oet. 30.-The Seattle Cham·
ber of Cornmerc,e announC(lS a logged-off landconference in this city Dec. 6 and t.· Only thoSE'who have practical ideas about logged·off land8are to be given a place on the program.. I D
this connection the State development bureaupoints out that the area of logged·ofI lands inwestern Washington is increasing rapidly, andthis problem has b(len before the western partof the State for more than ten years. In 1908the nineteen counties of Washington west of theCascades had a total area of 5,180,000 acres ofstanding timber. The decrease of standing timber in the succeeding decade was 165,000 aere~
a year. It is said further that if the Pacificslope of tlle Cascades continues to be strippedof timber at the present rate of three billionfeet it wHl mean' t.he addition of 100,000 acresof logged-off land annually. The conferencewill deal with practical problems resulting fromthe aequi~ition of this area, which presumablymay he made productive thru intelligent effort.
to continue JackSOD all one of the principalwholesale 8hipping points of 80uthern pine.
The oftieers are: T. E. Griffin president; Mr.List vice president and treasurer aDd E. M.West secretary. Mr. Griftln was until Oct. 30manager of the Hattiesburg office of the GeorgeT. Mickle Lumber Co., and hu a wide acquantanee with southern pme manufacturers in thissection.
BUYS FLEET CORPORATION MATERIALSORANGE, TEXAS, Nov. l.-L. C. Carter, auditor
of the Southern Dry Dock & Ship Buildin~ Co.here, has purchased from the Emergency FleetCorporation about a quarter of a million dollars'worth of unused materials left over when the~ompany'e ship yards here completed its ('ontraet with the Emergency Fleet Corporation anddent out its last Ferris type ship· from the localways about a year ago.
Mr. Carter made the purchase as an individual and not a8 an official of the company,which corporation has not as yet haa a settlement with the Emergency Fleet Corporation forwork finished and delivered. As an individualinvestor in this valuable material he will redispose of it at private sal£1 to yards and Rhipping interests needin~ su('h stor('~ as are romprised in his purchase. Some of this stuff isalready "moving" and Mr. Carter exp<.'l'ts tohave it all disposed of within a short time.
It is openly hinted at in local bURin('~s andinaneial circles that. an industry which has had
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CIRCULAR SADILLS ARE CLOSED DOWNMcMINNVILLE, TENN., Oct. 29.-Practically
all the circular sawmills in this territory areelosed down and the latest to close are the circular mills of the McMinnville ManufacturingCo., of this place, dealer in hardwood lumber,oak fioorin~ and molding. The present depression in the lumber market has closed many millshere, a8 they can not afford to .sell their product at less than cost. When the market rises toa level on which they can resume operations ona profitable basis, the mills of this territoryprobably will again begin operations.
SAIPLES OF COMMERCIAL WOODThirty samples of 88 many commercial woods
in sets have b~en prepared hy the New YorkState College of Forestry at Syracuse for distr.ibution where they ,vill do most good. Ofthfl8e twent.y-nine are native of the UnitedStates, anel one, Spanish cedar or baywood,(Jonles from the countries south of us. Thesamples have been passed thru a planer buthave rel'fliv(\d no additional finish and have theadvantage of showing what the woods look likein thflir natural st3te. The samples have beenidentified and a few facts reprding each arepasted on, such as common name, botanicalname, weight, habitat, and principal uses.
Attorney Samuel Untermyer showed thatgraft and extortion have greatly increased the.cost of all building, and that in some iD:Staneesefforts had been made to add $125,000 to thecost of contracts amounting to $275,000. Mr.Untermyer also showed close cooperation between the Building Trades Coun('il and the em-.ployers' association and developed the fact thatthe walking delegate of the metal union was onthe payroll of the employers' association.
Roswell D. Tompkins, secreta,ry and treasurer of the Building Trades Couneil, said thatabout 115,000 members of the 137 unions affiliated with the council paid $1 a year into thetreasury. This, he said, went to the compensation bureau, of which he professed to knowvirtually nothing. The only outlays which hecould enumerate were the salaries paid to twoor three investigators, a secretary, l\fargaret E.Doyle, and Stephen Birmingham. He said hedid not know what became of the rest of themoney.
THE CHAMBER of Commerce of Memphis,Tenn., haa issued an urgent appeal, asking thatat least one thousand families of that cityshare their homes with other families in theeffort to meet the housing situation. Further,every person. having rooms that could possiblybe rented is urged to rent thpm, even if notbeing accustomed to taking lodg:ers. The appeal is based upon civie and humanitarianRTounds, to the end that the housing gap maybe bridged until construction catches up.
