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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Nashville filed its answer recently, contending tbat tlio commission bad 

 no jurisdiction over its industrial switches and that its rules were all 

 right anyway. Lumbermen would be very much pleased to see an open- 

 door policy laid down by the commission, although most of them have 

 become so accustomed to the methods o£ the Louisville & Nashville in en- 

 forcing its "whole hog or none" ideas that they are accepted now as a 

 matter of course. 



While no decision on the project has been reached, it is possible that 

 the Louisville Point Lumber Company will expand its operations by 

 locating a sawmill in Arkansas. President Edward S. Shippen recently 

 returned from the southwestern state after looking over a tract of timber 

 which had been called to his attention. A decision one way or the other 

 will probably be made in the near future. In case a mill is put up, most 

 of the machinery formerly used by the Boone Lumber Company at Ford, 

 Ky., will probably be utilized. 



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Company, think that they have a great proposition in the timber tract 

 in Arlian&as formerly owned by the Robe Lalse Lumber Company and now 

 the property ol' the Brown Brothers Lumber & Land Company. There is 

 no intention of operating it in the near future, but it will be held for 

 investment purposes. 



Mills affected by the transit arrangements of the Louisville & Nash- 

 ville are furnishing reports of the inbound log shipments and outbound 

 lumber shipments in accordance with the tariff requirements of the road, 

 the Southeriv Weighing & Inspection Bureau looking after this detail. 

 However, the reports are now not required to be made daily, which ia 

 some help. The Louisville & Nashville has not yet changed its rules 

 regarding substitution, but is still requiring oak for oak and ash for ash, 

 although the Interstate Commerce Commission has stated that hard- 

 woods for hardwoods would be an acceptable basis of providing substi- 

 tution of tonnage. 



Inasmuch as several local veneer mills manufacture poplar crossband- 

 ing. there was considerable interest in a conference of poplar men held 

 at the Seelbach hotel here a few weeks ago. There was no definite ob- 

 ject of the meeting except to talk over conditions iin the trade, the fea- 

 ture of the situation developing in the high price of logs. It is said that 

 for good logs suitable for veneer manufacture the highest prices in the 

 history of the business are being paid, and that accordingly present 

 veneer prices are out of line with the cost of production. 



J. W. Park of the Elkton, W. Va., Box Company, which is one of the 

 largest consumers of hardwoods in the package business, using about 

 10.000,000 feet of low-grade oak a year in the manufacture of crates for 

 tbe tinplate mills, was in Louisville recently. He has a theory that 

 too much value is being placed upon low-grade oak and not enough on 

 the upper grades ; and while he leans in the direction of cheap cull oak 

 by reason of his position as lumber buyer for his concern, he has some 

 good arguments in favor of his theory. 



The use of the river in the transportation of forest products is being 

 accentuated by a move of the Big Four railroad, which has acquired 400 

 acres of land at Brookport, 111., opposite Paducah, Ky., and will receive 

 barges of ties brought up the Ohio river and transferred at Brookport 

 to the cars. The development of the river traffic through the completion 

 of tbe improvement of the Ohio and the opening of the Panama canal is 

 declared by experts to be a certainty. 



J. E. Barton, state forester of Kentucky, has succeeded In getting 

 strong sentiment stirred up in favor of the organization of a state for- 

 estry association. The idea was broached by him in a recent address 

 in Louisville, and will be carried out, it Is expected, at a meeting of the 

 Kentucky Educational Association in Louisville, April 30. Mr. Barton 

 and the state board of forestry are now completing arrangements for the 

 establishment of a nursery at Frankfort. Another will be located in 

 Louisville. 



C. M. Soars of the Edward L. Davis Lumber Company, who is one 

 of the closest observers of business conditions in the local hardwood 

 trade, is convinced from an investigation of conditions in the furniture 

 business that the factories in that line are going to have a big year. 

 Most of them are buying freely and appear to be turning out goods at 

 an unusually rapid rate. 



W. P. Bolton, formerly in charge of the wholesale department of the 

 W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company, and now conducting a lumber 

 business with offices in the Peoples Gas building, Chicago, was in Louis- 

 ville recently and attended a meeting of the Louisville Hardwood Club, 

 which welcomed him as an old friend. Mr. Bolton reported conditions 

 in the Windy City trade to be good. 



Most of the Kentucky river sawmills now have enough logs on hand to 

 insure a pretty steady run through the summer, the stream and its tribu- 

 taries having offered a logging stage for several weeks, and this has 

 been taken full advantage of. 



The C. C. Mengel & Brother Company recently received the last lot 

 of African mahogany logs which will be available until midsummer, 

 when the results of the spring rains will be developed in the form of 

 shipments from Axim. The company has a big supply of logs on hand 

 at present and is cutting them up as fast as possible. Plans for its 

 new mill are now in [process of development. 



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A thousand acre tract of hardwood timber land in Menominee county 

 in tbe vicinity of Wausaukee will probably be taken over by Missouri 

 parties, who have secured an option through Wausaukee agents. If the 

 deal is consummated, a mill will be established on the tract, the timber 

 cut and sawed into lumber. T. H. Marrow and Oliver Harmon of 

 Clarence, Mo., are the holders of the option. They expect to ship the 

 lumber into their state, where they operate yards. 



The Burdick Cabinet Company has been incorporated with a capital 

 stock of .i;i50,000 at Milton. Paul M. Green, B. H. Wells, T. A. Saunders, 

 and J. G. Carr of Milton. Dr. A. S. Maxson and Prof. Allen B. West of 

 Milton Junction are the incorporators. A factory employing thirty to 

 Hfty men will be erected between the two villages to manufacture the 

 products of the concern. 



A fire in the drykiln and wood mill of Charles Scholz, at 740 Twentieth 

 street, Milwaukee, recently caused a damage of $700. 



Logging camps are breaking up early this spring, due to the mild 

 weather, those camps which have long hauls being most affected by the 



