HARDWOOD RECORD 



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raiiterial of local concerns. It is estimatad tbat about 5,000,000 feet of 

 oak, poplar, chestnut, hickory, walnut anU other hardwoods have arrived 

 from the upper river country. 



The death of Robin Orr, aged ninety-one years, one of the oldest citi- 

 zens living near Lynnville, Tenu., has resulted in some magniflcent oak, 

 walnut, hickory and poplar on his farm being placed on the market. So 

 long as the venerable citizen lived he would not allow the ax to be place<l 

 to the magniflcent trees on his place, and they were long admired by his 

 neighbors. 



The saw and planing mills of Sid Farmer, twelve miles from Dresden, 

 Tenn., were blown up with dynamite by unknown miscreants, while Mr. 

 Farmer was in Mississippi. A loss of $4,500 resulted, and Mr. Farmer 

 had no insurance. 



The many friends of Charles M. Morford, a prominent lumber manu- 

 facturer, were greatly gratified at his election as president of the Nash- 

 ville Manufacturers' Association. The Manufacturers' association started 

 an important movement to bring all of the commercial organizations of 

 Nashville, more than one dozen in number, together into one big building. 

 The Nashville Lumbermen's Club is included in the number. If the move- 

 ment is successful it will be the biggest thing ever attempted in Nash- 

 ville in the way of commercial organization, as many millions of dollars 

 of capital will be represented bj such an amalgamation. 



The Tennessee Timber, Coal & Iron Company, which owns 65,000 acres 

 of timberland in Morgan, Cumberland and Fentress counties, has perfected 

 its plant four miles from Nemo, a station on the Queen & Crescent rail- 

 road, and will soon be turning out 75,000 feet of lumber daily. The com- 

 pany is composed of Boston capitalists, and will have offices at Cartoosa. 

 Tenn. It is said that the company has an investment of about $1,000,000. 



The Cahaba River Lumber Company has been organized at Brent, Ala., 

 by Thomas Goodall of Xasbville, and others. The company contemplates 

 putting in a circular mill, with daily capacity of 15,000 feet of lumber. 

 The company owns about 3,500 acres, including largely oak and poplar 

 limber. 



=•< LOUISVILLE y 



It the plans of C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company are carried out as in- 

 dicated, Louisville will have probably the largest mahogany sawmill in 

 the country. The company, as recently reported, has increased its capi- 

 talization by $1,800,000, and the sale of this stock will enable it to ex- 

 pand its business enormously. It is definitely determined to build a new 

 and much larger mill, while the facilities of the company for storing and 

 handling lumber will also be enlarged. The concern has- a site of over 

 100 acres In South Louisville and so has plenty of room in which to ex- 

 pand. The veneer mill may also be increased, but plans in regard to this 

 have not been elaborated. Clarence R. Mengel, president of the company, 

 believes that the present boom in mahogany is a permanent condition, 

 and that the demand for the aristocrat of hardwoods will continue large 

 indefinitely. Hence the company has every confidence in the advisability 

 of making permanent betterments on a large scale. 



The Edward L. Davis Lumber Company has been going over its local 

 sawmill and getting things in shape for a heavy run during 1913. Mem- 

 bers of the company are much pleased with the demand for quartered 

 oak, in which the concern specializes, and report that the furniture fac- 

 tories and other important branches of the consuming trade are calling 

 for more quartered oak than in some time. J. E. Davis, vice-president, 

 is now on the road in the interests of the company, handling the buying 

 of both logs and lumber. 



The Booker-Cecil Company, one of the youngest and also one of the 

 most hustling and successful of local hardwood concerns, has recently 

 added a Hupmobile touring car to its equipment. The auto will assist 

 in calling on the local trade. P. G. Booker, who does most of the buying 

 lor the company, has returned from a trip through central Tennessee. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills is enthusiastic over the con- 

 dition of business, reporting the demand for both veneers and panels to 

 he well up to expectations and in fact above normal. The company has 

 been pushing its figured gum panels aggressively, and is booking enough 

 business to indicate that It is delivering the goods in fine style. 



The Louisville & Nashville is now enforcing its tariff relative to mill- 

 ing-in-transit. The tariff is not exactly in accord with the most recent 

 opinion of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which provides that 

 hardwoods may be substituted for hardwoods, and not necessarily oak for 

 oak, hickory for hickory, etc. As the general substitution will solve the 

 problems incident to handling mixed cars of logs and lumber, the lum- 

 bermen are veiT anxious to have the Louisville & Nashville amend its 

 tariff, which doubtless it will do in the near future. The Illinois Central 

 and Southern railways will probably adhere to their original methods on 

 the subject. . , . ., 



J E Barton state forester, has been active of late in informing the 

 public of the work of the forestry department. He addressed the state 

 farmers' institute at Paducah recently, referring to the danger of fire 

 which he said the department will do its best 1o prevent. He declared 

 that Kentucky is the natural center of the hardwood produc ion by 

 reason of the variety of its woods and the location of the state. He 

 believes Ihat the law under which the department is operating is prac- 

 tically ideal. He spoke before the Women's Outdoor Art League in Louis- 

 ville this week. The state board of forestry has about completed plans 



and will announce the territory which has been secured in a few weeks. 

 A tract of land near Frankfort has been secured for nursery purposes, and 

 will be used in addition to a similar plat which Is located adjoining the 

 state fair grounds in Louisville. 



Lumbermen who are anxious to have the Louisville & Nashville adopt 

 a reasonable attitude in regard to switching, and who are supporting the 

 Board of Trade in its action before the Interstate Commerce Commission 

 looking to the forcible interchange of switching facilities, have been en- 

 couraged by the fact that the commission has ruled favorably to the ship- 

 pers on a similar case, coming up from Baltimore. Consequently it Is 

 hUievcd that an opinion will be handed down In which the Louisville * 

 Nashville will be compelled for a reasonable charge to accept switching 

 on cars originating at competitive points. 



Favorable tides are running In the tributaries of the Kentucky river 

 and a large quantity of logs and rafts are coming out. This means that 

 mills in that part of the state will get an early start on their season's 

 sawing. 



The Southern Lumber & Boom Company at Valley View, Ky.. has sold 

 its mill at that point to Mliiiken ,& Aldrlch, who, it is reported, will re- 

 move the equipment to Irvine, further up the river. 



The sawmill formerly operated by the Washington Mining & Manufac- 

 turing Company at Park's Ferry, Ky., has been sold to W. F. Clark and 

 will be put in operation. Dr. G. E. Martin, who bought the property at 

 a bankrupt sale, will retain control of the planing-mlll. 



=■< ST, LOUIS >■ — 



Building permits showed quite a gain during February this year over 

 those during the corresponding month last year. 



Receipts and shipments of lumber at St. Louis during the month of 

 B'ebruary showed an increase over the corresponding month last year, 

 according to the report of the Merchants Exchange. Receipts by rail this 

 year were 17,757 cars, showing an increase over last year of 4,028 cars, 

 when 13,729 cars came in. Shipments this year were 11,219 cars, e 

 gain over last year of 1,989 cars, when 9,230 cars were shipped. 



The stockholders of the Wm. G. Frye Manufacturing Company have 

 asked for a dissolution of the company. The corporation has not been In 

 active operation since July, 1911, when its storehouse was burned down. 



W. W. Dings, secretary of the Garetson-Greason Lumber Company, who 

 has been out on the Pacific coast on a selling trip, returned home .i few 

 days ago, but did not tarry here long, leaving after two or three days for 

 Texas on another selling trip. 



E. W. Blumer, sales manager of the Lothman Cypress Company, is out 

 on a selling trip but is expected home in a few days. 



Many important matters came up at the weekly meeting of the board 

 of directors of the Lumbermen's Club, held a few days ago. Bettering 

 the club and making it the best of any of the lumbermen's clubs in the 

 country is the ambition of President Thos. C. Whitmarsh, and most of 

 the suggestions which have been offered and are now being carried out, 

 came from him. The new propositions are to extend invitatious to the 

 members of every lumbermen's club in the country, to make their head- 

 quarters in the rooms of the local club when they come to St. Louis. 

 Desks and writing material will be placed at their disposal and they can 

 write their letters, meet friends and make themselves generally at home ; 

 a booklet, containing the constitution and by-laws of the club and a roster 

 of the members of the club, to show the many benefits that can be ob- 

 tained by becoming a member, whether they are local residents or not. 



The office of the Lumbermen's Club was moved last week from the ninth 

 to the twelfth floor of the Wright building. 



Thos. E. Powe, president of the Thos. E. Powe Lumber Company, re- 

 turned home a few days ago from a trip through the South. He visited 

 many mills and he found that there was a great scarcity of dry lumber. 

 When it can be obtained, it com.mands a fancy price. 



-■<, MILWAUKEE y 



for the establishment of a reserve i 



n the mountains of eastern Kentucky. 



The Workingmen's Compensation Mutual Liability Insurance Company 

 of Milwaukee has been incorporated and has opened offices in the Majestic 

 building to issue policies to Wisconsin manufacturers, protecting them 

 from all losses which may be caused as a result of injuries received by 

 emploj-es. The company will settle all claims under the provisions of the 

 Wisconsin Workmen's Compensation act. About fifteen per cent of Mil- 

 waukee employers of labor have accepted the terms of the act, and the per- 

 centage is constantly increasing, as employers are becoming more and more 

 convinced that settling under the terms of the act is much cheaper and 

 more satisfactory than to defend personal injury suits in the courts. This 

 has resulted in the need for such a company to settle all claims made by 

 the workmen, as awarded by the State Insurance Commission, which Is 

 the jury 'oy the terms of the act to decide the amount of damage done. 

 The high rates charged by casualty companies on account of the provisions 

 in thelicf has resulted in the forming of this mutual company. Tlic em- 

 ployers who are Insured will be charged premiums as low as can possibly 

 be done and still be able to pay the claims and the expenses of carrying 

 on the work. The forming of the company will also do much toward rid- 

 ding the city of "professional personal Injury" lawyers, who get most of 

 the damage awarded the Injured by a court while the latter gets practi- 

 cally nothing. „ , ^, , 



The deal whereby the Edward Hlnes Lumber Company of Chicago 

 come into possession of valuable timberlands in northern Wisconsin was 



