Ma/ 10, 1"J19 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Tbe Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company has applied to the Louis- 

 ville District Freight Traffic Committee for a revision of switching charges 

 on logs, slabwood and lumber at Barbourville, Ky., asking for an increase 

 to $6.50 per car instead of $5 as at present. The Southern railroad pro- 

 poses to increase carload minimum weights on shipments of lumber mov- 

 ing from stations at which there are no track scales from 40,000 to 60,000 

 pounds. 



t'nder the new licensing ordinance as passed by the general council of 

 Louisville all lumber brokers will pay a license fee of $25 annually Instead 

 of $50, as propounded in the original ordinance. 



W. H. Day of the Louisville plant of the Wood-Mosaic Company reports 

 logs as coming in well, many inquiries, good orders and many orders from 

 new customers who had not been sold by the company previously. One 

 excellent order was secured a few days ago for 100,000 feet of Inch com- 

 mon walnut. 



George Wilcox of the I. B. Wilcox Lumber Company, Louisville, operating 

 mills in Mississippi, reports a very heavy demand for red gum. The mill 

 is producing and selling more gum today at good prices than ever before 

 in its history. 



TEXAS 



B. B. Hall, general sales agent of the Sabine Tram Company and allied 

 interests, has just returned from a five-week trip through the North and 

 reports conditions very promising for the lumber industry. He states 

 that this was the case with particular reference to hardwoods and that a 

 general advance was bound to take place within a short time. The com- 

 pany has not yet closed a contract for the erection of its new hardwood 

 mill, but expects to start construction work at an early date. Much of the 

 machinery will come from a mill dismantled several months ago in a 

 section where the timber has been cut out. 



A proposition has been made by J. Frank Keith to Install a series of 

 dams in the Neches river and thus make available approximately 800,- 

 000.000 feet of virgin hardwood. The dams are to be constructed for the 

 purpose of conserving fresh water for irrigation purposes and enable the 

 navigation board to do away with tbe salt water locks, but they will serve 

 to get out the hardwood at the same time. 



W. A. Nichols, who for several years has been connected with the Keith 

 Lumber Company, has opened up wholesale offices in Beaumont and will 

 handle both yellow pine and hardwood. 



J. H. Burton of New York has been spending several days In the Texas- 

 Louisiana timber belt looking over conditions. Mr. Burton maintains a 

 branch office at Orange and is a heavy buyer of southern forest products. 



WISCONSIN 



The F. Eggers Veufer Seating Company, Two Rivers, Is contemplating 

 the erection of a large addition to its factory and mili, but details of the 

 project have not yet been made public. The present facilities have been 

 overcrowded for many months. 



The Keeno Board Company, Sheboygan, manufacturing games and play- 

 boards, has Incorporated its business as the Keeno Company, The capital 

 stock is $10,000. Alex, George and Franklin Deblack, founders of the con- 

 cern, remain the principal stockholders. 



Creditors of the American Auto Body Company. North Milwaukee, whicb 

 was petitioned into bankruptcy some time ago, are receiving checks in 

 payment of the first dividend, equivalent to 1,5 per cent of proven claims. 

 The assets of the company were bid in by E. ,T. Patterson for $7,750, 



The Universal Shipbuilding Company, Sturgeon Bay, which until now 

 has constructed wooden hulls exclusively, has taken a contract to build 

 two 250-foot steel ships for eastern interests, which will use the vessels 

 for transporting mahogany timber from South Africa to New York and 

 other .\tlantlc coast ports. The identity of the concern or Its backers Is 

 not revealed. The two vessels are to be delivered late next fall or early 

 In the spring of 1920. Both will have a 42-foot beam, 19-foot depth, and 

 be powered with semi-Diesel engines. 



The Northern Furniture Company, Sheboygan, has broken ground for a 

 four-story brick and mill manufacturing addition, 60x150 feet in size, which 

 will represent an Investment of between $75,000 and $90,000 when com- 

 pleted. Edward llammett Is president and general manager of the com- 

 pany. 



Charles O. Forster. owner of the Forster Lumber Company, First 

 National Bank building, Milwaukee, is planning to retire from the indus- 

 try, Mr. Forster already has disposed of his Milwaukee residence and in 

 June will move to Florida with Mrs. Forster and their three children. 

 The extensive timber and land interests in Wisconsin will be disposed of 

 by Mr. Forster as rapidly as possible. 



The Radclitre Manufacturing Company, West Allis. has sold its mill, 

 factory and other property, to the Gerlinser Steel Foundries Company, 

 and will retire from the woodworking indu.stry. .lames E. Radcliffe, 

 founder and chief owner of the business, died a year and a half ago. Tlie 

 Cerlinger foundries adjoin the Kadcliffe plant, which will be used as a 

 pattern shop, storage vault and fi>r other purposes in connection with the 

 casting shops. 



The Prie.stley Tjumber Company. Milwaukee, wholesale hardwoods and 



