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midnight with the sense of having been -shown" that Nashville has a 

 brand of hospitality no whit infei-iot- to tluit of I.ouisvilk'. The Nasli- 

 ville Clu'> will shortly he asked to sojourn In Louisville. E(Jwai-cl I.. 

 Davis, president of the Louisville Club, and Hamilton Love, head of the 

 Nashville Lumbermen-s Club, vied with each other in tossing vei-b.-,I 

 lunifiuets in the direction of their respective organizations. 



The Louisville Board of Trade has nied a formal complaiul «itli lb.. 

 Interstate Commerce Commission, asking that the Louisville & Nashvill • 

 be compelled to exchange switching facilities with oth-r roads. Lum- 

 bermen, who are daily affected by the regulations of the Louisville & 

 Nashville shutting out other lines on competitive business, arc keenly 

 interested in the progress of the complaint. 



Harry K. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills, is chairman of the 

 Point Improvement Association, composed of lumbermen and others who 

 are seeking the construction of a dike around the northeastern portion 

 of Louisville for the purpose of protecting the industries located there 

 against the overflow of the Ohio river. The government has agreed to 

 survey the Point and take the project under consideration. It is proba- 

 ble that the work will be done by joint expenditures on the part of the 

 municipal and federal governments. 



Continued advances in ash and plain oak have featured the local situa- 

 tion of late. The general belief among lumbermen, however, is that prices 

 have about reached their limit, and that it will not be good policy to 

 attempt to shore tliem much higher. Large consumers have arranged 

 their year's work on the basis of prices current earlier in the season, 

 and it would be hard on them and would probably affect consumption 

 if quotations were increased to a great extent. The local lumbermen, 

 as a rule, are willing to go ahead on the present basis and turn over 

 as much lumber as possible. 



J. E. Davis, vice-president of the Edward L. Davis Lumljer Company. 

 is now associated with that company activel.v. after having been at 

 Hope. Ark., for several months. Mr. Davis was working on a timber 

 tract there with the Kansom interests of Nashville, and was intending 

 to operate a sawmill for the manufacture of the lumber. The plan now 

 arranged, however, is to have the lumber cut by contract. Consequently 

 Mr. Davis will not be compelled to maintain his residence at Hope, but 

 will be able to devote his time to the Louisville situation. 



I'he new resaw of the Norman Lumber Company at its Holl.v Ridge. 

 La., mill has been started in operation. Tlie company now expects to 

 average t.000.000 feet of lumber a month. 



The Swann-Dav Lumber Company has announced plans for the eree- 

 tiou of a large mill near McKoljerts. in tlio recently opened up eastern 

 Kf-ntucky district. The company is said to have secured one of the fin- 

 est bodies of timberland in that part of the state. It is principally 

 poplar. 



The C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, mahogany manufacturer of Louis- 

 ville, has increased its capitalization from $1,700,000 to $3..')00.000. a 

 total incrca.se of $1,800,000. The company's business has been growing 

 rapidly, and the additional capital will be used to enable it to take 

 care of expansions as Ihe.v develop. No definite plans for improvements 

 have been made, however. 



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Louis Leidiger was elected president of the Merrill A'eneer Company 

 at the annual meeting of the directors this month. Napoleon Desrosier 

 Is vice-president, and W. A. Runge is secretary-treasurer. 



The Badger Basket & Veneer Company of Burlington has been reor- 

 ganized and the capital Increased to enable the extension of the busi- 

 ness along several lines. H, Wegwart^ president, will become sales- 

 manager. Ralph W. Story, secretary-treasurer, who recently purchased 

 a one-third interest in the concern, has taken over the business manage- 

 ment. An extension will probably be made to the factory this summer. 



Another chair factory is to be erected in Sheboygan. The Shebo.vgan 

 Couch' Company has been incorporated for $.50,000 and contemplates 

 erecting a large factory in that city for the manufacture of furniture. 



Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Kuney-Parrette Lum- 

 ber Company of Three Lakes. The concern has been incorporated by 

 Charles T Kuney, J. P. Parrette and R. L. Parrette with a capital 

 stock of $20,000. 



Several carloads of machinery are being received by the owners of the 

 new Peshtigo sawmill and it is being installed as rapidly as it is re- 

 ceived. The structure is being rapidly completed, the open winter hav- 

 ing permitted more work than usual. 



The F. Eggers Veneer Company of Two Rivers, one of the world's 

 largest veneer goods manufacturers, has acquired the plant of the de- 

 funct Plymouth Veneer Company of Plymouth. The two plants will be 

 combined at Two Rivers. 



The investigation in wood distillation, which has been carried on dur- 

 ing the last three years at the United States Forest Products' Laboratory 

 at the TTniversity of Wisconsin at Madison, is to be further developed 

 by supplementary work at the fniversity of Washington. Dr. L. F. Haw- 

 ley of the Wisconsin laboratory has just returned from the Northwest 

 where be co-operated with the Washington men in getting the investi- 

 gations under way. The L'nited States Forest Service has set aside $10.- 

 000 for the work in the western state. Scientific data concerning the 

 utilization of mill waste, of logging waste and of stunted forest growth 

 is being obtained. The work will also be continued at Wisconsin. 





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^ Kraetzer-Cured lumber is susceptible of be- 

 ing thoroughly kiln dried or air dried in less than 

 one-third the time ordinarily required for season- 

 ing unsteamed wood. 



^ Kraetzer-Cured lumber does not case-harden, 

 check, end-split or stain, and dries without warp- 

 ing or buckling. 



^ Kraetzer-Cured lumber has a uniform tone of 

 color. Its working qualities are greatly im- 

 proved, and the beauty of the flake on quarter- 

 sawed stock is enhanced. 



^ Kraetzer-Cured lumber dries out to materially 

 less weight than unsteamed wood, ranging from 

 200 to 500 pounds per thousand feet. 



C| Kraetzer-Cured lumber will neither shrink nor 

 swell, and the grain will not raise when water 

 stains are employed in finishing. 



^ Kraetzer-Cured lumber is not impaired in 

 strength or quality by the process. 



^ Kraetzer-Cured lumber is produced by the use 

 of the Kraetzer Preparator, a steel cylinder per- 

 manently closed at one end and fitted at the 

 other end with a quick-opening and closing 

 steam-tight door, manufactured by 



The Kraetzer Company 



537 South Dearborn Street 

 CHICAGO, ILL. 



Kraetzer-Cured lumber is produced by the following 

 well-known manufacturers: 



John Schroeder Lumber Company. .. .Milwaukee, Wis. 



Maple. Birch and Oak Flooring 



Russe & Burgess, Inc Memphis, Tenn. 



Red and Sap Gum, White and Red Oak 



Bennett Hardwood Lumber Company. Memphis, Tenn. 



"White and Red Oak, Red and Sap Gum, Sycamore and Cypress 



Lamb-Fish Lumber Company Charleston, Miss. 



Red and Sap Gum. White and Red Oak. Cypress 



Santee River Cypress Lumber Co Ferguson, S. C. 



White and Red Oak. Red and Sap Gum, White Ash 



Forman-Earle Company Heidelberg, Ky. 



Poplar. White Oak and White Oak Flooring 



C. L. ■Willey Chicago, 111. 



Mahogany and all figured Foreign and Domestic Woods 



New England Hardwood Co Mountain Mills, Vt. 



Birch. Beech and Maple 



Saline River Hardwood Company Pine Bluff, Ark. 



White and Red Oak. Red and Sap Gum 





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