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HARDWOOD RECORD 



The Robe-Lake Lumber Company has filed an amendment to its charter 

 through which the name is to be changed to the Brown Brothers Land 

 and Lumber Company. The Robe-Lake Lumber Company was organized 

 several years ago to take OTcr a large tract of land in Arkansas and was 

 controlled by a number of Memphis lumbermen. The incorporators who 

 signed the foregoing amendment are W. B., J. G., and T. M. Brown. 

 W. M. Wood and Leroy Olcott. 



Walker L. Welford, vice-president and general manager of the Chicasavv 

 Cooperage Company, says that the new plant now being erected at Bing- 

 hampton will be in readiness for operation by the first of February. It 

 will be used chiefiy for the manufacture of heading and staves. The old 

 plant at Sycamore and North Front streets will be used for finishing pur- 

 poses. The former will employ about 200 men and the latter about 250. 



J. W. '^'heeler & Co.. Madison, Ark., have recently made extensive 

 additions to the plant at that point. It was necessary to close down for 

 some time as a result of inability to bring out timber. During the inter- 

 mission advantage was taken o£ the opportunity to make repairs and 

 improvements. A resaw has been added and the capacity of the plant 

 has been materially increased. Heretofore the company has cut about 

 40,000 feet per day. Its output under the new regime will be approxi- 

 mately 53,000 feet. The company is also negotiating for additional tim- 

 berlands in that section. The recent rise in the St. Francis river has 

 given it an ample log supply for the immediate future. 



The plant of the Morgan-West Box Company, Madison, Ark., has been 

 able to resume operations also as a result of the rise of the river at that 

 point. For quite a while it was impossible for this firm to run its plant. 

 It had plenty of timber near the river but the water stage was too low 

 to enable it to bring this down. 



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Widespread damage was done in this city and throughout this entire 

 section by the floods during the past ten days or two weeks. The Cum- 

 berland river was higher than it has been for the past sixteen years and 

 as a result the lumber interests suffered materially. Many lumber yards 

 in Nashville, located on the river banks, were submerged and in numerous 

 cases the water rose to the engine rooms of the lumber plants, making 

 temporary shutdowns necessary. All along the river banks, both above 

 and below this city, quantities of logs, many of them ready for transpor- 

 tation in rafts, crossties and manufactured lumber were washed away and 

 heavy losses thus sustained. Many rural mills were forced to suspend 

 operations for a time also. In Nashville it is estimated that the losses 

 totaled something like $10,000 or .$12,000. The river is now again within 

 its banks, however, and operations have been resumed. 



The Nashville Lumbermen's Club has invited the LouisTille, Ky., 

 organization to visit this city the second Tuesday in February, which in- 

 vitation has been accepted. The Kentuekians will reach Nashville early 

 in the day and will be shown numerous attentions, including a banquet 

 at the Commercial Club in the evening. They will be given a genuine 

 good time. ^ 



An increase from $9,000 to $15,000 has been made in the capital stock 

 of F. L. Estes & Co., manufacturers here of woodenware, etc. This in- 

 crease was made necessary Ijy reason of the growing business of the com- 

 pany. The company will install additional equipment. 



Members of the local trade anticipate considerable benefits as a result 

 of the completion of the Panama canal. The opening of this canal will 

 mean more to the lumber trade of this section than to any other branch 

 of export business. The southern trade at present is largely confined to 

 eastern states and Europe, but the canal will make it possible to develop 

 large Pacific coast interests as well as trade in South America. 



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Dr. C. S. Aldrich ot Johnson City, Tenn.. was a visitor here this week. 

 He is president of the Carolina Spruce Company, a large lumber corpo- 

 ration which is installing a big band mill near Pcnsacola, for the de- 

 velopment of a large area of timber. The mill is on the Black Mountain 

 railroad, which connects with the new Clinchfleld. It will soon be put 

 into operation. 



O. U. Vail of Waynesville, N. C, head ot the Waynesville Lumber 

 Company, was a visitor in Bristol this week. His company has completed 

 the erection of a band mill at Waynesville. for the manufacture of a large 

 area of timberland twenty miles east of Waynesville. A line of railroad 

 has been built and the company will turn out a large quantity of stock. 



Fred K. Paxton of the Paxton Lumber Company, who has been located 

 at Charleston, W. Va., in charge of the company's new operations in that 

 section, is a visitor at the .general oflices in this city. 



It was announced this week that the Norfolk & Western, Southern & 

 Virginia and Southwestern, will, before Feb. 1, put into effect the reduced 

 milling-in-transit charge at Bristol, in accordance with a recent order 

 of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the case of the hardwood lum- 

 ber Interests of Bristol against the railroads. They will be compelled to 

 make restitution of one half cent per hundred pounds on all milllng-in- 

 transit shipments since the rate was arbitrarily advanced from one to two 

 cents. The new rate is one and one-half cents. 



The Wilkinson-Matthews Lumber Company, which was organized in 

 Bristol some months ago by E. H. Wilkinson, J. H. Matthews and others, 

 last week filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. The assets are 

 $18,000 as against liabilities of $21,000. 



Among the buyers in Bristol this week was Frank B. Clayton, of the 

 .\merican Lumber and Manufacturing Company ot Pittsburg, which is 

 buying heavily on the Bristol market at present. 



J. A. Stone of the Stone-Huling Lumber Company, has returned from a 

 business trip to Norfolk and Washington. 



The Levisa Land and Timber Company was organized last week at 

 Grundy, Va., by E. R. Boyd and associates, with a capital stock of 

 $50,000. 



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.7. E. Barton, state forester of Kentucky, has taken occasion, in view 

 of the floods along the Ohio, Kentucky and other streams in this state, 

 to point out the possibility of preventing them by the placing of forests 

 at their head-waters. He takes the ground that floods are largely due 

 to the cutting out of forests at the sources of the streams, denuding the 

 land and permitting the rainfall to run off immediately. This has the 

 eflject of causing flood conditions when with the forests present the stage 

 of the rivers would not rise to a dangerous point. He urges that this 

 question be taken up by Kentucky and neighboring states, and adds that 

 his department is already entering into a study of the question. 



The flood caused a considerable damage in Louisville, chiefly, however, 

 through interruption of business. Among the concerns which were com- 

 pelled to stop their operations for the time being were the Louisville 

 Point Lumber Company, Louisville Veneer Mills, Booker-Cecil Company 

 and the Booker Box Company. The yard of the Booker-Cecil Company 

 was not actually flooded, but the tracks of its switches were covered, so 

 that business could not be continued for several days. The Louisville 

 Point Lumber Company succeeded in removing most of its lumber before 

 the water got into its yard, scy that its loss from flooded stock will be 

 relatively small. 



The Roberts-Conner Veneer Company, New Albany, Ind., across the 

 river from Louisville, had to shut down on account of the flood. B. W. 

 Lord of the Chicago Lumber and Veneer Company, Burnside, Ky., esti- 

 mated the loss to the lumber and timber interests of the Cumberland 

 valley at close to a million dollars. His own company was fortunate in 

 saving most of its logs. The Kentucky Lumber Company, Burnside, suf- 

 fered through the flooding of its yard. B. F. Rakestram of Burnside is 

 reported to have lost lumber valued at $25,000 from the flood. The Cum- 

 berland river situation is being used as a strong argument in favor of 

 improving the river and creating a navigable stage for most of the year. 

 Kentucky river mills sufllered as well as those on the Cumberland nver. 

 Those at Frankfort were invaded, but as several were closed down any- 

 way, the loss was comparatively small. 



The Louisville Board of Trade has engaged Louis B. Wehle to prepare 

 its complaint, which is to be filed with the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company for the pur- 

 pose of compelling that road to accept switching from competitive points. 

 The board believes that the present statutes afford ground for relief, but 

 additional help will be given by Congressman A. O, Stanley, who has 

 secured a favorable report on an amendment to the interstate commerce 

 law which will force the railroads to accept switching business of the 

 kind to which the Louisville & Nashville objects. 



State Forester J. E. Barton hopes to be able to secure the use of gov- 

 ernment funds under the Weeks law for the establishment of a patrol 

 system in the forests to prevent flres and waste. The state will put up 

 an amount equal to the expenditure authorized by the federal government. 

 Mr. Barton is compiling statistics showing the increase in timber values 

 in this state. He is to be given the services of an assistant, the work of 

 the department having developed rapidly since he took hold four or five 

 months ago. 



The fact that the production of lumber in Kentucky fell off in 1911 as 

 compared with previous years is not taken to mean that the state is losing 

 its grip as a manufacturing section. On the other hand, it is pointed out 

 that numerous mills are being located in eastern Kentuck.v. which Is now 

 being opened up by new railways, and that during 1913 and 1914 the 

 production of hardwood lumber in this state should be close to a billion 

 feet. In 1911, according to figures ot the Census Bureau, the manufac- 

 ture of lumber amounted to 632,415,000 feet. 



The Kentucky, Tennessee & Alabama Railroad is to build between Wil- 

 liamsburg, Ky., and Chattanooga, Tenn., paralleling the line of the Cin- 

 cinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific for most of the way, it is reported. 

 It is to take the place of the Appalachian Railroad Company, which was 

 chartered last May. 



R. S. Hill, formerly general manager of the Adler Organ Company of 

 Louisville, has purchased the old factory building of the Chilton-Guthrie 

 Trunk Company in Highland Park, south of Louisville, and is now equip- 

 ping it for the manufacture of or.gans. It will have a capacity of 4,000 

 a year, he states. Mr. Hill will be in the market tor lumber, including 

 dimension stock, veneers and possibly glued-up stock, as soon as his fac- 

 tory is in running condition, which will be in about sixty days. 



J. M. Rice of Dry Ridge, Ky., is preparing to establish a small band 

 mill, and is in the market for used equipment of that character. 



The W. F. Gokra Tie Company, Cleveland, O., Is reported to be planning 

 the establishment of a tie creosoting plant at Maysville. Ky. 



Among the Louisville hardwood men who attended the annual of the 

 Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen's Association in Indianapolis last week 

 were T. M. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company ; Edward 



