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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 25, 1919 



and poplar, oak beliig.good In both quartered and plain cut. Ash, hickory, 

 gum, elm and other hardwoods have been selling very freely, and there 

 is a good demand for poplar and chestnut core stock. Rotary veneers for 

 built up work have been selling nicely. In fact everything is in demand, 

 and Jobbers as well as manufacturers are having trouble in buying lumber 

 to flu requirements. The flooring trade is showing up better, and there 

 are better prospects for interior trim. The bulk of the demand continues 

 to come from the cabinet manufacturers, especially the musical instrument 

 trade, but buying on the part of furniture manufacturers Is picking up 

 nicely. 



The Wood-Mosaic Company, Louisville, is starting work on a new plant 

 for the manufacture of veneers. Heretofore the Louisville plant cut only 

 lumber, featuring walnut and oak, and now will install a high-class veneer 

 plant, fully equipped with all modern machinery for the manufacture of 

 the very highest grades of veneers. 



T. M. Brown and J. G. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Com- 

 pany are being watched with interest just now locally, in connection with 

 the recent purchase of two large pieces of fine property at Fourth and 

 Broad, which it is alleged will be remodeled for rental stores. However, 

 there are several rumors out to the eSEect that the Statler hotel interests 

 of Cleveland are planning to erect a high-class hotel on this corner. 



The C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company reports that the demand for mahogany 

 lumber and veneers, and also for walnut, is coming back nicely, and since 

 the first of the year the demand has developed so rapidly that the com' 

 pany is today being kept good and busy. This company through main- 

 tenance of its own ocean going boats is managing to get its logs in and 

 exports out with less difficulty than experienced by most concerns. 



The Hilton Collins Company, Louisville, manufacturer of singletrees and 

 vehicle Woodstock, has gone into the manufacture of baseball bats, plac- 

 ing a considerable portion of its plant at the disposal of the bat turning 

 department. 



R. R. May, manager of the Louisville division of the Southern Hard- 

 wood Traffic Association, is busy with a number of rate adjustments, and 

 has several cases before the Louisville District Freight Traffic Committee, 

 In connection with rates on lumber and logs principally in Kentucky, 

 Indiana and Tennessee. Last week he was in Indianapolis, with C. H. 

 Barnaby of Greencastle, J. H. Stimson of Huntlngburg, Ind., and others, 

 at a hearing before the Indiana Public Service Commission, over enforce- 

 ment of certain log rates in Indiana. The Louisville division has recently 

 secured several new members, Including the Combs Lumber Company, 

 Lexington ; Mound City Veneer Mills, Louisville, and Mound City, 111., and 

 the Lanham Hardwood Flooring Company, Louisville. 



A fair volume of interior trim and hardwood flooring is in sight in the 

 Louisville district if even half of the proposed buildings are erected. A 

 $300,000 apartment house, two additions to large office buildings, an addi- 

 tion to a negro school of .$50,000 ; new Masonic lodges at JetCersonville, 

 Ind., and Hickman, Ky. ; hoteUs in Louisville, Lexington, Frankfort and 

 Bowling Green, are only a few of the manj' projects under consideration. 



John P. Taylor, Colly, Ky.. operator of a hardwood mill in that vicinity, 

 and senior member of the Taylor-Franklin Lumber Company, recently died 

 of acute indigestion. Mr. Taylor was forty-six years old. He is survived 

 by his wife, four children, a father and several brothers and sisters. 



The Russell Hardwood Lumber Company, Russell, Ky., was recently 

 incorporated with a capital of $25,000 by James Collins, J. W. Ramey 

 and others. 



At Owensboro, Ky., the Carriage Woodstock Company, manufacturer of 

 vehicle Woodstock and auto woodwork, has increased its capital from 

 $100,000 to $500,000. 



Charles R. Mengel of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company and Mengel Box 

 Ccimpany has been named chairman of an export trade committee of the 

 Louisville Board of Trade, which is planning to install a big foreign trade 

 department, and make an organized effort to Invade southern countries. 

 It is planned to secure and carry on file full data concerning sailing 

 schedules of vessels, rates, insurance, etc., and also carry a translation 

 department. It is planned to make this department do a tremendous work 

 for Louisville shippers who are interested. 



Capt. C. P. Huhlein of B. F. Avery & Sons, implement manufacturers, 

 is on a trip to Mexico and Central American districts, to look over the 

 export prospects in that section. The Avery concern for several years has 

 handled a large export business. 



BUFFALO 



The Fifth Victory Loan campaign is opening with the same prospects 

 of success as former Issues have gained. The allotment for this city Is 

 over $40,000,000. Walter P. Cooke, president of the Great Southern Lum- 

 ber Company, and well-known attorney, continues as general chairman of 

 the campaign. The lumber committee Is headed by Horace P. Taylor, who 

 win have about the same committee of lumbermen to assist him aa on 

 the occasion of the fourth loan. 



Orson E. Yeager has been chosen as one of the three members of the 

 appraisal board which will negotiate between the city and the International 

 Railway to bring about a servlce-at-cost agreement. Witnesses will be 

 heard and public sessions will probably last two or three weeks. Some 

 difference of opinion exists as to the value of the company's property. 

 Including what are known as intangibles. 



One of the largest building projects here in a long time Is new bank 

 structure for the People's Bank at the southwest corner of Main and 



— Seneca Btrects at a cost of about $1,000,000. It Is proposed to run the 

 building through the block from Main to Pearl street and to Include two 

 buildings owned by the New York Telephone Company. Condemnation 

 proceedings will be necessary to close an alleyway and by motion of Coun- 

 cilman A. W. Kreinheder this step will be taken by the council. 



A serious lumber fire occurred at North Tonawanda early on April 12, 

 with a loss of $45,000. The property destroyed was the planing mill, box 

 shop and sash factory of the G. C. Meyers' Lumber Company and two 

 loaded freight cars of dressed lumber. 



H. B. Gorsline of the National Lumber Company has returned from a 

 trip to Michigan and Wisconsin, where he found the maple flooring busi- 

 ness In a flourishing condition. Stocks are small at the mills and prices 

 are strong. 



Hugh McLean Is on a business and pleasure trip to California and other 

 Paclflc Coast territory and will probably be away from the city for a 

 number of weeks. 



William W. Bellley Is a member of a subcommittee of the soldiers' and 

 sailors' welcome committee which proposes to build a Victory Music Hall 

 as a permanent memorial to the soldiers and sailors who fought and died 

 In the late war. 



Two DOW wholesale lumber concerns are locating In the downtown dis- 

 trict this spring. Both are to be In the Prudential building. One — the 

 Trotter-Kelleran Lumber Company, which comes here from Rochester — has 

 already located on the eighth floor. The other is the C. W. Bodge Lumber 

 Company, which has taken an office on the fourth floor. Mr. Bodge was 

 for several years the representative of the Consolidated Sawmills, St. Louis, 

 and for the past few months has been In business for himself in this city. 

 He win deal principally In yellow pine. 



BALTIMORE 



The first of the eight wooden steamers which were to be built by the 

 Henry Smith & Son Company was launched on April 7 from the yard of 

 the corporation at Curtis Bay. The vessel was named .\quasco, and Mrs. 

 G. F. Beckerley, wife of the assistant Inspector at this port, was the 

 sponsor. The Aquasco Is 281 feet long and will have a deadweight 

 capacity of 3,500 tons, the vessel being of the standard Ferris type. Only 

 two of the eight craft contracted for will be finli^hed, the orders for the 

 others having been canceled. The two are to be completed because their 

 construction has been so far advanced that to stop would have entailed 

 considerable loss. 



Daniel Blau, Dayton, O., has been appointed receiver for the Lumber 

 and Trades Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore. The corporation had 

 not done a large business. 



The body of George Lohr, a lumberman, aged about forty-five years, was 

 found floating In the Chesapeake and Ohio canal at Cumberland, Md., on 

 April 13. The man had been dead about a week. There were no marks 

 of foul play. 



It Is reported here that all or at least a large quantity of the surplus 

 lumber owned by the government for use in connection with Its various 

 building enterprises around Baltimore has been purchased by John M. 

 Nelson. 



The sawmill erected at Bogalusa, La., by Richard P. Baer & Company, 

 of this city, began running regularly two weeks ago and Its output Is 

 now wellnigh up to capacity, the labor situation in the South having 

 Improved and less difficulty being experienced In perfecting organiza- 

 tions. What is more, the new organizations now formed are more effi- 

 cient because the larger labor supply enables employers to make their 

 pick. 



COLUMBUS 



The public generally is now reconciled to the fact that prices on build- 

 ing materials will not decline this spring and there is a general Improve- 

 ment In building circles. During the week ending April 19 permits issued 

 by the building department were valued at $82,375 bringing the total for 

 the past four weeks up to $367,873. Despite the fact that permits during 

 the past week did not show up as well as during some previous weeks. 

 It Is noted that the permits were more evenly distributed showing a good 

 feeling In all sections of the city. However the Inclination to build Is 

 gaining Impetus and It Is expected that building operations will be under 

 full sway by May 1. 



Papers have been filed with the secretary of state increasing the au- 

 thorized capital of the Peter Kuntz-Cook Lumber Company, Dayton, from 

 $5,000 to $100,000. 



The authorized capital of the Boulevard Lumber & Supply Company, 

 Columbus, has been Increased from $10,000 to $25,000. 



The Cambridge Lumber & Coal Company, Cambridge, has been char- 

 tered with a capital of $25,000 by J. C. Bay, J. E. Bay, J. C. Purkey, 

 Fred B. Falrchlld and William McMullen. 



Alfred M. Stearns, president and treasurer of the Lockland Lumber 

 Company. Lockland, a suburb of Cincinnati, died at his late home in 

 Wyoming at the age of seventy. He has been In falling health In recent 

 years. 



The Harmount & Woolf Tie Company, Chllllcothe, has been chartered 

 with a capital of $75,000 by TImmons Harmount, Harry Harmount, 

 Arthur Harmount, N. F. Clyburn and John P. Phillips, Jr. 



The authorized capital of the Central Lumber & Supply Company, Niles, 

 has been Increased to $20,000. 



R. W. Ilorton, of the W. M. RItter Lumber Company, reports a better 



