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HARDWOOD RECORD 



substantial line of liousehold furniture will bo 

 turned out. 



Mr. Bigsby of tbe Bigsby Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, Decatur, Ala., one of the large manufac- 

 turers of hardwoods of north Alabama, was in 

 Nashville recentl.v. Mr. Bigsby is very optimistic 

 In regard to the future of hardwoods, and said 

 that high values were being realized by the 

 Decatur trade. 



The North I<"orl< Lumber and Timber Company 

 is the name of a new firm that has been organ- 

 ized at Jackson, Ky., composed of S. J. Young 

 and W. L. Eversole. The company will operate 

 mills at Yerkes, Ky. S. J. Young will be active 

 manager. 



The Louisville & Nashville Railroad is taking 

 steps to build a branch from Iron City, Lawrence 

 count}', to Martin's Mills, Wayne county, a dis- 

 tance of about thirty miles. The branch is being 

 built to reach valuable timberlands. Wayne 

 county has some of the finest undeveloped hard- 

 wood forests in Tennessee. 



The record of the building inspector of Nash- 

 ville shows permits for improvements in the city 

 for the first ten months of 1912 amounting to 

 $1,005,406, against $1,113,754 for the correspond- 

 ing period of inil. 



The Diciison Planing Mill Company, a well 

 equipped company at Dickson, Tenn., has recently 

 awarded a contract for remodeling two of its 

 30-foot kilns to Fitch H. Kelly, manager of the 

 Memphis branch of the Grand Rapids Veneer 

 Works. 



W. V. Davidson, president of the Davidson, 

 Hicks & Greene Company, left this week for 

 Cocoa, Fla., to look over his property there. Mr. 

 Davidson has a winter home in Florida, and will 

 go there with his family later in the winter. 

 His company is one of the largest hardwood 

 operators in middle Tennessee. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission will take 

 up the hearing of the case involving over- 

 weights on car shipments of lumber at Memphis, 

 Dec. 18. The Nashville Lumbermen's Club will 

 send its trafiic committee, composed of A. B. 

 Ransom, chairman, G. A. Washington and Charles 

 M. Morford, to Memphis to represent the club. 

 Other local lumbermen will attend. The case is 

 one of great interest to the lumbermen of this 

 section. 



The car situation continues to hamper the 

 lumber business in tliis section. Lumber manu- 

 facturers and shippers are unable to get large 

 supplies of logs that have accumulated along 

 the lines of the different railroads to market, 

 which interferes greatly with their abilit.v to 

 fill orders. Cars to move shipments out of Nash- 

 ville can be secured in fairly satisfactory man- 

 ner, but the manufacturers are now more anxious 

 to get the raw material. Railroad officials of this 

 section have again is.sued appeals to shippers 

 urging them to cooperate with the railroads by 

 prompt loading and unloading of cars, and not 

 to order more cars than they can load promptly. 

 They claim that all shippers have not been 

 cooperating as they should in this matter. 



LOUISVILLE 



The annual meeting of the Louisville Hardwood 

 Club was marked by the election of I?dw. L. Davis 

 to the presidency, succeeding T. M. Brown of the 

 W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company, and the 

 re-election of Vice-President D. E. Kline and 

 Treasurer C. M. Sears. Mr. Sears is starting on 

 his fifth consecutive year as treasurer of the 

 club. 



Mr. Davis has named his committees as fol- 

 lows: 



Finance — T. M. Brown. W. P. Brown & Sons 

 Lumber Companv. chairman ; D. E. Kline. Louis- 

 ville Veneer Mills, and C. M. Sears, Edw. L. 

 Davis Lumber Company. 



AovERTisiNfi — D. E. Kline, chairman; G. D. 

 Crain, Jr.. and T. M. Brown. 



Membership — P. G. Booker. Booker-Cecil 

 Company, chairman ; R. F. Smith, Ohio River 

 Saw Mill Company. 



Entertainment — Stuart R. Cecil. Booker-Cecil 

 Company, chairman ; G. D. Crain, Jr., and C. M. 

 Sears. 



Constitution and By-Laws — D. E. Kline, 

 chairman ; P. G. Booker and Smith Milton, 

 Louisville Point Lumber Company. 



TRAN.sroRTATiON — A. E. Nomiau. Norman 

 Lumber Company, chairman, and E. B. Norman, 

 Norman Lumber Company. 



Loos — II. E. Kline. Louisville Veneer Mills, 

 chairman, and Edward S. Shippen, Louisville 

 Point Lumber Company. 



After a two-day shutdown, due to the necessity 

 of making some machinery repairs, the sawmill 

 of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company has been 

 put in operation again full time, this meaning 

 day and night. The demand for mahogany lum- 

 ber continues unabated, while the call for veneers 

 also is picking up. The veneer mill, however, is 

 running at a normal rate and putting in little 

 overtime. 



The New Albany Veneering Company is secur- 

 ing additional floor space by the erection of a 

 large balcony in its gluing department, which 

 will be devoted to handling Circassian walnut 

 veneering. Business with the company has been 

 so good as to .iustify enlargements in the plant. 



The Robe Lake Lumber Company is now headed 

 by W. P. Brown, Mr. Brown succeeding M. A. 

 St. John as president. The other officers are : 

 J. G. Brown, vice-president ; T. M. Brown, treas- 

 urer, and Leroy Alcott. secretary. Headquarters 

 of the company, which owns 12,300 acres of tim- 

 berland in Arkansas, will be retained at Memphis. 



Owing to the fine, dry weather which has 

 marked this fall, mills in this territory are 

 operating full time. Men and teams have been 

 available during the past month in greater num- 

 ber, witli the harvesting of the crops completed, 

 and logs have been coming out in .greater quantity 

 than for several years. 



The Jefferson Woodworking Company of Louis- 

 ville has decided to go into the veneering busi- 

 ness, and will make veneered table tops as soon 

 as an addition now in course of construction is 

 completed. The new department will start about 

 Jan. 1. Table slides have been about the only 

 product of the concern heretofore. 



ST. LOUIS 



The board of directors of the Lum)>ermen's 

 Exchange held a special meeting on Nov. 12 to 

 discuss what action, if any, it should take in 

 regard to the general advance in hardwood 

 rates to nineteen cents, from the greater part of 

 .\rkansas and Louisiana to St. Louis. The ad- 

 vance will amount to from two to three cents. 

 It was decided that Thomas E. Powe and George 

 McBlair, president and secretary respectively 

 of the exchange, should attend a meeting called 

 for the next afternoon at the traffic department 

 of the Business Men's League. At this meeting 

 it was decided to refer the matter to their I'c- 

 spective organizations. 



Another meeting was held on Nov. 18, at which 

 (he traffic olBcers of the St. Louis and south- 

 western lines and tlie liardwood representatives 

 attended to confer further. The lumber repre- 

 sentatives outlined that if the railroads were 

 going to advance the rates generally, the rail- 

 roads should now re-establish the old rate basis, 

 which existed prior to January, 1911, between 

 Cairo, Thebes and St. Louis ; that the reason 

 of the advance having been made at that time, 

 so it was claimed by the railroads, was on ac- 

 count of the low rates on lumber, rendered that 

 service unprofitable ; that since the railroads 

 were to get higher rates, they should be willing 

 to give St. Louis its Just dues. The railroad 

 officials took the matter under advisement. 



The C. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany reports a good healthy demand for nearly 

 every item on the hardwood list. This is espe- 

 cially true of red gum and ash. Other hard- 

 woods, of which it has a good assortment on 

 hand, are also being freely called for. 



E. W. Blumer, sales manager of the Lothman 

 Cypress Company, has recently returned from 



a selling trip. As is usually the case, he brought 

 a nice bunch of orders. He says the conditions 

 in the East are most encouraging for future 

 business and he believes the present good de- 

 mand for cypress will continue for some time to 

 come, provided the weather continues favorable 

 for building. 



The Linderman Machine Company of Muske- 

 gon, Mich., has opened an ofiice at 1808 Lumber- 

 men's building, St. Louis. Mo., with D. H. 

 MacLean in charge. 



NEW ORLEANS 



Thirty thousand acres of cutover land In La 

 Salle and Catahoula parishes are to be con- 

 verted into a forest reserve for reforestation, 

 under the direction of the Conservation Com- 

 mission, thus inaugurating the first effort toward 

 scientific forest cultivation attempted in Lou- 

 isiana. Wardens are to be placed in charge of 

 the land to watch the growth of the trees and' 

 to protect them against forest fires and against 

 llie ravages of stock. Tlie area is in the center 

 ijf a splendid hardwood and yellow pine belt. 

 .\il available timber has already been cut from 

 the land and new trees are to be grown and 

 cared for. 



The outcome of the experiment will be watched 

 witli much interest by lumbermen of the state, 

 and from present indications the project is sure 

 to load to similar ones. 



The regular monthly meeting and dinner of 

 tbe Lumberman's Association of New Orleans 

 was held Nov. 12. After the usual bountiful . 

 dinner, the meeting was called to order and 

 luisiness matters were taken up. Transportation 

 questions were particularly discussed and it was 

 decided tliat the transportation committee would 

 take up the matter with several of the railroads. 



.\s a result of the law passed by the recent 

 state legislature taxing timber at its worth 

 when cut from the soil, a suit has been filed by 

 prominent lumbermen of the state as to the 

 constitutionality of this act. The Conservation 

 Commission is doing its best to enforce the law, 

 while the big companies are trying to have the 

 value per acre of the standing timber taxed. 

 The matter is still pending, and from present 

 indications the fight will be a long and hard one. 



MILWAUKEE 



The free employment offices in Milwaukee and 

 other large cities of the state have found that 

 the present demand for laborers, especially the 

 common laborer, is far be.vond the supply. Dur- 

 ing October more than 2,900 men and 670 women 

 were referred to employers, of which 1,538 men 

 and 331 women accepted the positions. Many 

 offers were received from construction companies 

 and the building trades who wish to finish as 

 much work as possible before the frost. The 

 woodworking and furniture plants were amon^ 

 the lead of those who demanded laborers. 



George P. Noble, wholesale lumberman of this 

 city, has filed a voluntary petition of bankruptcy 

 before Referee Nye, giving his assets as $46,- 

 919.57 and liabilities as $40,315.36. Of his 

 claims, $25,113.05 are unsecured and $14,436.46 

 are secured. 



H. R. StoUe of Tripoli, a prominent lumber- 

 man of this state, has purchased a large part 

 of the stock of the Badger Basket and Veneer 

 Company of Burlington. 



The White Star Lumber Company has become 

 possessor of the sawmill formerly owned and 

 operated by the Antigo Manufacturing Company 

 of Antigo. The plant, which has been idle for 

 the past two and one-half years, will require 

 alterations and improvements. 



The Mason-Donaldson Lumber Company of 

 Rhinelander, recently disposed to Montgomery 

 Ward & Co. of Chicago over ten thousand 

 acres of heavily timbered laud just north of the 

 state line. 



