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the name of the Weldon Stave Company. There 

 is also an allied firm known as the JJuirheart 

 Shingle Company. The latter is engaged in 

 working up cypress timber which belongs to 

 members of the firm. 



NASHVILLE 



During the pnst month tin' lniildins permits 

 here totaled more than four times the amount 

 for November a year ago. those for November. 

 ]012, being .i;'.;56.9.">8 and the amount for No- 

 vember. 1911, being !ff>i!..s01..-iO. Some large 

 permits have been issued during the past month, 

 including one for a handsome .|80,00(J busi- 

 ness house. 



The Milne Chair Factory plant was totally 

 destroyed by fire at Cleveland, Tenn.. Dec. 0. 

 the loss being fully $1.jO.OOO. The origin of 

 the flre is unknown. There is talk of rebuild- 

 ing the plant at Chattanooga but this is being 

 resisted by the citizens of Cleveland who have 

 offered special inducements in the way of tax 

 exemptions, etc., if the company will remain in 

 that town. 



The Mobile & Ohio Railroad has been given 

 the right by the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion to establish a thirteen-cent rate per hundred 

 pounds on lumber in carloads from main line 

 points north of Meridian, Miss., to Antesia, 

 Miss., inclusive of Nashville. 



Active logging operations have opened on 

 the Tennessee river and during the week past 

 more than 160,000 feet of poplar, oak and othef 

 timber have been rafted down this stream. 



Indications point to an early advance in furni- 

 ture prices throughout this territory. Kepre- 

 sentative manufacturers from throughout the 

 Middle South met in Nashville the other day 

 and the above statement followed their confer- 

 ence. The decision was unanimous on the part 

 of those present. Steady advances in thi; prices 

 of labor and material, especially the latter, are 

 the causes assigned. This question has been 

 under consideration for some time and the de- 

 cision here is merely a part of a movement that 

 is sweeping the entire country. About twenty- 

 flve representative men were at the meeting 

 ■which was called at the instance of Nashville, 

 Memphis and Chattanooga manufacturers. 



Dan Rose of the ICnoxville lumber fraternity 

 was a visitor on this mark.-t ri'cc>ntly. 



C. L. Dews of the Woodclifl I.umlwr Company. 

 Monterey, Tenn., was here recently on a busi- 

 ness trip and reports activity in the lumber 

 business in his section. 



Tom Le Sueur has returned from a vacation 

 trip to Arkansas where he hunted and fished 

 ■with good luck. 



LOUISVILLE 



T. M. Brown of tlu- \V. 1'. Brown & Sons Lum- 

 ber Company attendi'd a meeting "f the board of 

 trustees of the National Wholesale Lumber 

 Dealers' Association in New York last week. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills has 

 returned from the annual meeting of the Na- 

 tional Veneer and I'anel JIanufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, held in Chicago. 



Barry Norman, vice-president of the Norman 

 Lumber Company, has come up from Holly 

 Ridge. La., where he has been looking after the 

 operations of the company's mill there, to spend 

 Christmas with his relatives. The .7. A. Fay & 

 Egan resaw ordered for the mill will be in opera- 

 tion by Jan. 1. 



Local lumbermen have received advices to the 

 effect that the LouisviUe & Nashville Railroad 

 (^ompany has made tentative proposals looking 

 to the substitution of flat rafs for the present 

 milling in transit arrangement at Evansville, 

 Louisville, Nashville and Memphis. If the 

 present net rates can be retained under the flat 

 rate arrangement, it is Iwlieved that it would 

 be favored by lumbermen. The matter is not 

 ypt definitely in band. 



The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company 

 seems to be in for a beating on its switching 

 proposition in Louisville. It refused to deliver 

 cars originating at competitive points to ship- 

 pers having an outlet only upon its tracks. The 

 Board of Trade, backed by the lumber and other 

 shipping interests, has started a fight which will 

 111' taken to the Interstate Commerce Commission, 

 and the presentation of a bill in Congress by 

 Representative A. O. Stanley of Henderson. Ky.. 

 in which it is provided that carriers must receive 

 such competitive business, seems to top off the 

 action needed to bring the Louisville & N.ash- 

 ville around. 



Louisville hardwood men have received notice 

 that the next hearing of the Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission on the proposed .advance in 

 rates on lumber from the South will be held at 

 Cincinnati Jan. 24. It will take up the ques- 

 tion where it was left off at St. Louis last week. 



The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company 

 is to spend approximately .fl40.000 lor a creo- 

 soting plant to bo erected at Guthrie, Ky. It 

 will treat ties, bridge timbers, etc. 



Owing to the alleged depredations of log 

 thieves along the Kentucky river, who sink logs 

 and then recover them,/ being permitted b.v 

 statute to require the payment of salvage on 

 such logs, the sawmill men along the stream 

 have organized the Kentucky River Sawmill 

 Association and will handle all of the business 

 of raising and disposing of sunken logs through 

 this organization, which is incorporated with 

 .f.scKi capital stock. The members of the asso- 

 ciation are the Ohio Valley Tie Company. Louis- 

 ville : Mowbray & Robinson, Cincinnati ; Re- 

 liance Manufacturing Company, Jackson : Ever- 

 .sole Lumber Company. Frankfort ; Belle Point 

 Lumljer Company. Belle Point ; J. D. Hughes 

 Lumber Company. High Bridge, and Basil Ken- 

 ney Lumber Company. I'rankfort. The olBcers 

 are K. O. Robinson, president and treasurer ; J. 

 D. Hughes, vice-president, and W. S. Rosson, 

 secretary. Mr. Rosson's address is Frank- 

 foi^, Ky. 



S. P. Chandler of the Buckeye Veneer Com- 

 pany, Dayton, O., was in town recently. He re- 

 ported that the Capital slicer installed July 1 

 has been working overtime to supply the demand 

 for slice-cut oak stock. 



ST. LOUIS 



The Caretson-Creasiiu I.umlier Company is 

 having a steady demand for r;iilroad and car 

 material. Mr. (iaretsou, president of the com- 

 pany, was at the Brockett mill last week, hav- 

 ing been called there on account of an accident 

 to one of his old emplo.ves. \V. W. Dings, secre- 

 tary of the company, says he is well satisfied 

 with the volume of business being done and the 

 prices obtained. 



E. H. Luehrmaun of the Chas. F. Luebrmann 

 Hardwood Lumber Company states the company 

 is having a good call for the majority of its 

 principal lumber stocks. This is I'specially true 

 as to choice red gum. of which it makes a spe- 

 cialty. Oak is also in good request. .Although 

 the calls have been frequent and numerous it 

 still has a big stock of nearly everything in the 

 hardwood line and can fill all orders. 



Charles E. Thomas of the Thomas & Proetz 

 Lumber Company visited Memphis on business a 

 short time ago. 



The Thomas E. I'owe Lumber Company re- 

 cently suffered a loss of lumber worth about 

 .fO.OOO by fire. 



R. F. Krebs of the Krebs-Scheve Lumber Com- 

 pany reports a good volume of business for this 

 time of the year. The outlook, he says, is good 

 for next year and he believes business will start 

 early, 



George A. Cottrill, secretary of the American 

 Hardwood Lumber Compan.v, reports that while 

 the market has been quiet recently owing to the 

 nearness to the holidays, conditions are satisfac- 



tory. The car shortage is easing up gradually 

 and will soon be normal. 



The Steele & Hibbard Lumber Company is 

 having a seasonable volume of trade, with every 

 indication of an early start soon after the be- 

 liinning of the new year. 



MILWAUKEE 



The offices of the state free employment bu- 

 reau advise that lumber camps in northern Wis- 

 consin and the upper peninsula are no longer 

 in need of men. Some time ago the shortage 

 of help was severely felt at the logging camps, 

 although good wages were offered. Many con- 

 cerns applied at the free employment offices to 

 secure men to work in the woods, which re- 

 suited in securing positions for a large number. 



Two timber companies have been formed at 

 Janesviile and articles of incorporation filed with • 

 the secretary of state. The Coquille Timber 

 Company, with a capital of .fl.'iO.iHib. and the 

 I'nioii Timber Company, also with .$l.")ti.Ot>0 cap- 

 ital. Both companies are incorporated by O. A. 

 Oesterich. I^. A. Avery and L. Westlake. 



E. C. True of the .\merican Timber Holding 

 Company and Albert Leeland, both of Milwau- 

 kee, are at the head of a new motor boat fac- 

 tory to be located at Waukegan, III. The con- 

 cern will be incorporated under the laws of 

 Maine with iflOO.OOO ca|iital stock, and will be 

 known as thi' Waukegan Motor lioat Company. 

 A .l.iO.OlHi factory will be erected. Mr. Leeland 

 will be resident manager. 



The building inspector of Milwaukee reports 

 that permits issued during the first week of 

 December brought the record for the year above 

 the .$1."..000.000 mark and that the total build- 

 ing record for the year would be close to $15,- 

 .'500,000. This will mean an increase of about 

 !f3,000,000 over the building record of 1911 and 

 is largely responsible for the tremendous gain in 

 the. lumber business during the past few months. 



The warehouse of the Menasha Woodenware 

 Company, Menasha. Wis., was destroyed by flre 

 im Dec. 7. The loss is estimated at .^IIO.OOO, and 

 includes a large stock of unlinished staves. 



'ITie North-Western railroad was ordered to 

 reduce its rate on tan bark from ll',4 to SVi 

 cents by the State Railway Commission. A re- 

 fund of !fl!98.0.j was also ordered by the com- 

 luissinn on excess charges by the railroad on 

 shipments of tan bark from near Wausau to She- 

 boygan by the Barker *; Stewart Lumber Com- 

 )iany. 



.\ contract for logging ].."i00.000 feet of hard- 

 wood timber tor the Kiel Wooden Ware Com- 

 pany. Kiel. Wis., has lieen awarded to Scheldt 

 & Dekenster of Wausaukee. The timl>er is 

 situated at Mitchell Spur, near Channing. Mich., 

 and tt'ill be used in manufacturing cheese boxes 

 and veneers. 



Frank Wittock of Wausaukee has started a 

 logging camp at Randvilh', Mich., where he 

 will cut 6,000,000 feet of timber, mostly hard- 

 wood, for the J. W. Wells Luml>er Company. 

 The contract covers three season's work, and 

 the logs will be shipped to Menominee for saw- 

 ing. 



About .S,")0,000 feet of timber will be cut this 

 winter at Taylor Rapids by John Regan of 

 Oconto. Mr. Regan has been cutting on this 

 tract for the past two seasons for the J. W. 

 Wells Lumber Company, who again gave him a 

 contract this year. 



The sawmill of the llatten Lumber Company 

 at New London, resumed operations last week 

 after a shut down of two weeks for repairs and 

 overhauling. With the exception of a few 

 days during last summer's flood, the mill had 

 a steady run since Dec. IG, 1011. As soon as 

 a tall of snow facilitates the getting out of logs, 

 the mill will run both night and day. 



The McDonough Manufa<'turing Company of 

 Kau Claire, has received several more large 

 orders for sawmill equipment. Orders which 

 will require both day and night shifts for sev- 



