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HARDWOOD RECORD 



manufactured therefrom has been shipped out 

 over the lines by which the inbound ship- 

 ments were made. Elliott Lang and several of 

 the representatives of the plaintiffs, May Broth- 

 ers et al., contended that it would be much 

 fairer to lumber interests at Memphis if the 

 rate were made lower and lumbermen were left 

 to ship their products over any line they saw 

 fit. Very particular emphasis w^as laid upon the 

 fact that it was frequently either inadvisable 

 or undesirable to make shipments of lumber out 

 over the same line that brought in the logs and 

 that in all such cases the shipper lost the ben- 

 efit of the refund. It was also pointed out that 

 it was necessary frequently to use the longer 

 instead of the shorter haul in order to secure 

 the refund. The Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion has taken the case under advisement. 



The Bellgrade Lumber Company has cut out 

 much of its timber at Cathey. Miss., and is 

 looking to the future. It has already pur- 

 chased about 3200 acres of land near Isola, 

 Miss., and will remove its mill and logging outfit 

 from Cathey to Isola within the next few 

 months. The company has cut some ten to 

 twelve million feet of hardwood lumber a year 

 at Cathey and Belzoni during the past several 

 years. The site for the mill at Isola has already 

 been secured. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission has 

 again awarded decision in favor of local Inmber- 

 men in the Pacific coast cases. The trans- 

 continental roads annouuced some months ago 

 that they proposed to advance rates from seven- 

 ty-five to eighty-five cents per hundred pounds. 

 The freight bureau and the Lumbermen's Club 

 of Memphis took up this sub,iect and went be- 

 fore the Interstate Commerce Commission. 

 That body has just decided that the advance 

 to eighty-five cents is unreasonable and unjusti- 

 Uable and has ordered that the present rate of 

 seventy-five cents be retained. The ruling affects 

 Memphis and all Mississippi river points. This 

 is the second time the Memphis lumbermen have 

 been successful in restraining this advance. They 

 won a similar victory several years ago in the 

 case of George D. Burgess et al. vs. the Trans- 

 continental Freight Bureau. 



NASHVILLE 



INDIANAPOLIS 



T. E. Lewis of the Burnet-Lewis Lumber 

 Company has returned from a southern trip. 



C. F. Gray, a lumberman of Meridian, Miss., 

 was in the city for a few days recently. 



T. A. Winterrowd, city building inspector, 

 reports that permits issued by the city in Octo- 

 ber amounted to $757,445 as compared with 

 $777,325 in October 1911. 



In October the value of walnut, rosewood 

 and mahogany logs passing through the In- 

 dianapolis custom house was $26,540, which is 

 above the average. They went to various piano, 

 veneer and furniture manufacturers over the 

 state. 



Fred C. Gardner, treasurer of E. C. Atkins & 

 Co., expects to make his final report soon as re- 

 ceiver for the Atlas Engine Works. Mr. Gardner 

 has sold the Atlas property and business to the 

 Lyons-Atlas Company, composed of Chicago men, 

 for a consideration of approximately $1,500,000. 



The Indianapolis Trade Association will make 

 Its twelfth trade extension trip Nov. 12, 13 and 

 14. A special train has been arranged for and 

 merchants and dealers in thirty-nine Illinois 

 cities and towns will be visited. The associa- 

 tion has just adopted a new reciprocity plan. 

 When the salesman for one line of goods finds 

 a merchant in the market for .something the 

 salesman's house does not handle, he will notify 

 the association, which will turn the information 

 over to concerns handling the line In which the 

 merchant is interested. About twenty lumber 

 concerns belong to the association, which in- 

 cludes more than 250 manufacturers, whole- 

 salers and jobbers representing all lines of 

 trade. 



Some of the best virgin forests in the South 

 are involved in the fate of the Bon Air Coal, 

 Iron & Lumber Company, which has been in the 

 hands of a receiver for more than a year. The 

 case was to have come up recently in the chan- 

 cery court, but was postponed, as efEorts are 

 being made by some of the largest stockholders 

 to effect a reorganization of the company, which 

 has combined properties to the value of $6,000,- 

 000 or $8,000,000. Gen. Robert Vaughn, clerk 

 and master, and one of the receivers, had a 

 measurement of the timber on the lands of the 

 company made by order of the court. Two 

 tracts of 15,000 acres each in Wayne county 

 have by measurement 102,672,000 feet of timber, 

 501,000 oak railroad ties, 75,000 pine ties, 14,- 

 000 cords of chestnut bark and 6.500 chestnut 

 telephone poles. Between 45.000 and 50,000 

 acres in White, Cumberland and Van Buren 

 counties have 152,000,000 feet of lumber, ac- 

 cording to the report of the expert. The timber 

 includes large quantities of red and white oak, 

 ash. hickory, walnut, poplar and other native 

 hardwoods of Tennessee. No steps have yet 

 been taken in development, the company's at- 

 tention having been devoted to coal and iron. 



Lumber trade in the Nashville market is feel- 

 ing the effect of the car shortage. Cars are 

 more scarce on the branch railroads, which fur- 

 nish many logs to this market, than here. Ship- 

 pers get fairly satisfactory service in moving 

 out lumber, but there is much difficulty in get- 

 ting inbound freight from the branch lines. 



The building permits at Nashville for the 

 month of October amounted to $66,518, against 

 $73,632 for the same month last year. 



The Hardwood Manufacturing Company, re- 

 cently incorporated with authorized capital stock 

 of $35,000, is making active preparation for fu- 

 ture business. The company is putting in a 

 5%-feet band mill at Tullahoma. Tenn., where 

 it will have headquarters. The mill will be used 

 to supply material for a large furniture factory 

 there. Harry Parker, general manager, and 

 Frank P. McDowell, superintendent, have been 

 connected with the lumber trade at Tullahoma 

 many years. 



A. E. Wiede, representing the Antoine-Govers 

 Company, Antwerp, Belgium, has been in Nash- 

 ville, coming here to make some purchases of 

 hardwoods for his company. It is understood 

 that he closed some contracts for oak. 



Fire destroyed the big sawmill of the Graves- 

 Gilliland Company in east Nashville, causing a 

 loss of $7,000, with $5,000 insurance. The com- 

 pany is now taking steps to rebuild, and ar- 

 rangements have been made for a seven-feet mod- 

 ern band mill. The company has a large custom 

 sawing business. 



,T. Barthell Joseph, a popular Nashville lum- 

 berman, has accepted a position with the M. B. 

 Farrin Lumber Company of Cincinnati. He will 

 be connected with the buying end, and will have 

 headquarters in Nashville. He was formerly 

 with the Tennessee Hardwood Lumber Company 

 of this city. 



The Davidson. Hicks & Greene Company has 

 been gradually increasing its holdings of timber- 

 lands in Franklin county, and now has acquired 

 about 15,000 acres on which it is estimated that 

 there is 75,000,000 feet of hardwood timber. 



LOUISVILLE 



Friends of A. E. Norman, president of the 

 Norman Lumber Company, have extended con- 

 dolences following the recent death of his 

 mother, Mrs. Lucinda Van Dyke Norman, who 

 passed away at an advanced age. Mrs. Norman 

 was a member of a pioneer family of Kentucky, 

 and had numerous prominent connections. 



The Falls City Lumber Company, of which 

 Charles H. Stotz is the head, has moved its 



offices from the Keller building to the new 

 eighteen-story Inter-Southern Life building, 

 which has just been completed. It is the largest 

 office building in Louisville. 



The Von Behren Manufacturing Company of 

 Evansville, and the Himmelburger-Harrison 

 Lumber Company of Cape Girardeau, Mo., were 

 the principal complainants in a case heard in 

 Louisville by C. C. McCord of the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission, involving the reason- 

 ableness of Frisco rates fx-om southeastern Mis- 

 souri, the movement chiefly involved being from 

 Morehouse, Mo., to Thebes, 111. At the same 

 hearing Toung & Cutsinger, Evansville sawmill 

 operators, presented proof in their petition for 

 refunds on log shipments which they received 

 during the time the Louisville & Nashville had 

 a milling in transit arrangement allowing only 

 six months in which to move the lumber man- 

 ufactured. This was later increased to one year, 

 and the lumbermen showed that the six months 

 allowed constituted too brief a period for the 

 completion of the movement. They also pre- 

 sented an agreed case whereby the Illinois Cen- 

 tral is to refund part of the freight charge on 

 logs shipped from a blind siding, the tariff ap- 

 plying to which did not state, as it should have 

 done, that the milling in transit arrangement 

 was to be used. 



The New Albany, Ind., Veneering Company has 

 been forced to run its panel plant over-time 

 of late on account of the large increase in the 

 demand. The furniture trade especially is active, 

 according to the report of President and Gen- 

 eral Manager E. V. Knight. 



By a recent purchase of timberland adjoining 

 its holdings at Holly Ridge, La., the Norman 

 Lumber Company of Louisville, has now suffi- 

 cient timber to insure the continuance of its 

 operations there for at least twelve years, and 

 possibly longer. It purchased 7000 acres, con- 

 taining oak, gum and other wood. The mill is 

 now running steadily, cutting about 35,000 feet 

 a day. E. B. Norman, vice-president of the com- 

 pany, will give practically his entire time and 

 attention to the Holly Ridge operation. 



The Louisville Hardwood Club has supplied 

 to the bureau of foreign and domestic trade com- 

 merce of the Department of Commerce and Labor 

 statistics requested by the bureau for use In 

 compiling a national directory of commercial 

 organizations of the United States. 



ST. LOUIS 



J 



A falling off of $100.02-1 in the cost of the 

 buildings authorized during October by the build- 

 ing commissioner as compared with the same 

 month last year was shown in the summary 

 given out on Nov. 1. 



Receipts of lumber last month were 16,294 

 cars by rail and none by river. Receipts for 

 October last year were 13,757 cars by rail and 

 none by river or 2.537 cars more by rail this 

 year than last. Shipments by rail last month 

 were 11,310 cars and none by river. Shipments 

 during October, 1911, were 9,615 cars, showing 

 an increase of 1,695 cars. 



W. D. Reeves, head of the W. D. Reeves Lum- 

 ber Company, one of the largest manufacturers 

 of hardwoods in Helena, Ark., was a visitor 

 in the city. He brings a good report on the 

 present conditions of the hardwood business la 

 his section of the country. 



Thomas E. Powe, president of the Thomas E. 

 Powe Lumber Company, who with his wife and 

 daughter has been on a visit to his old home 

 at Cheraw, S. C, has returned home from a 

 most enjoyable stay. 



W. W. Dings, secretary of the Garetson-Grea- 

 son Lumber Company, says its three mills have 

 practically been compelled to go out of business 

 on account of the car shortage. The company 

 is getting very few cars and can not fill the 

 orders it Is receiving. Inquiries are most numer- 

 ous, and if the company could get out only half 

 I he orders it receives, it would be quite busy. 



