June 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Cut from logs such as 

 these ranks high in 

 quality and grade. All 

 our stock is from St. 

 Francis River basin logs 

 which produce the 

 highest quality of Gum 

 lumber on the market. 



2 Band Mills 

 100,000 ft. daily capacity 



MILLER LUMBER CO. 



I MARIANNA, ARK. 



largest logs that have been cut iu this (Vanderburg) county in a good 

 many years. The poplar logs that were cut from the tract are being 

 shipped to Chicago to be cut into veneers, while the large white oak logs 

 are being hauled to Evansville, where they will be sawed into lumber at 

 the plant of the Evansville Band Mill Company. For several weeks Grim- 

 wood & Hinton have been shipping a large number of black walnut stumps 

 to Lawrenceburg to be cut into veneers for piano and furniture manufac- 

 turers. These stumps are rather scarce in this section and are bringing 

 high prices. Grimwood & Hinton. who have been manufacturing graf- 

 ophones at Owensville for some time, are making arrangements to manu- 

 facture the machines in Evansville on a large scale. 



Walter Ilaney. a well-known lumber dealer of this city, recently pur- 

 chased a tract of timherland on Green river near Rumsey, Ky., which is 

 said to be the finest tract of timberland to be found in the Green river 

 country. The consideration was not made public. Haney has secured 

 a sawmill to he moved to the tract and will saw up the timber. 



George O. Worlaud, secretary and manager of the Evansville Veneer 

 Company, says the veneer manufacturers of this section have about all 

 they can do at present and he is expecting one of the best years that his 

 company ever enjoyed. Mr. Worland says prosperity is already here and 

 that all the manufacturers have to do is "to sit steady in the boat and go 

 after the business." 



The Karges Furniture Company and the Evansville Furniture Company 

 are arranging to build new additions to their plants this summer that will 

 cost about $50,000 each. The new addition of the Wertz-Klamer Furniture 

 Company has been completed and work has been started on the new plant 

 for the Wemyss Furniture Company. 



LOUISVILLE 



The Louisville Hardwood Club has adopted twice a month meetings for 

 the summer period, due to vacations, etc., announcing that it will meet 

 on the second and fourth Tuesdays through September. The first outdoor 

 meeting of the year was recently held at the "Devil's Kitchen." 



The Wood-Mosaic Co., Louisville and New Albany, recently passed out 

 a bonus of a week's pay to every man who, had been with the company for 

 six months. The distribution was made at the Louisville and New Albany 

 plants, and amounted to approximately $14,000. President W. A. McLean 

 made a talk to the men at New Albany, and Will Day did likewise at 

 Louisville. In each pay envelope was the following notice : 



We appreciate the fact that during the pressure of war work the men 

 h>yatly coiiperated with us. 



We are glad to hand you the enclosed to show our appreciation. 



During the reconstruction period of the future the same loyal coopera- 

 tion will be needed and we feel sure you will accord it. 



Cost of living is now high. We want to pay the best wages we can 

 afford. A full day's energy put into a day's work, with avoidance of 

 waste, by every man in the country, will enable this to be done, and is the 

 only thing that will h<dd down for each of us the cost of whnt we all need 

 to eat and wear and thus result to our mutual benefit. 



The New Albany Veneering Company, New Albany. Ind.. has announced 

 a protit-sharing plan retroactive from April 1, 1019. to be computed at the 

 end of March. 1920, under which ten per cent of all net profits will be 

 divided among the stockholders, and the balance divided among employees 

 and stockholders. It is planned to make this a regular annual feature. 

 The company now has about 175 employes, but plans to enlarge its force 

 to 250 men. A short time ago it reduced working hours to fifty-five per 

 week and granted a ten per cent increase. President Knight reports that 

 the company has increased its business from $100,000 annually to a million 

 dollars. 



Announcement was recently made of the marriage of Miss Katherine 

 Elizabeth Conley of Louisville to George (iiugliano, who is connected with 

 the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company, and who was formerly on the 

 road for the Churchill-Milton Lumber Company. 



The Jefferson Woodworking Company. Louisville, has started work on 

 improvements costing $50,000, which will include a number of additional 

 lathes, scroll saws of the band type, etc.. for manufacturing table parts. 



The Edward L. Davis Lumlier Company is again operating its mill at 

 Mobile, but is down at Gilbertstown, due to shortage of logs, but expects 

 tu get started again within a few days. 



Ed Norman of the Norman Lumber Company reports a very active 

 demand, although the box shook business is dull. 



TEXAS 



Beaumont, Orange, Port Artlmr and Galveston lumber exporters are 

 receiving their first Ferris type ships for lumber and are having better 

 success in loading tbem than at lirst anticipated. The first cargoes sent 

 out contained little better than 1,000,000 feet, while a closer study ot the 

 hold and making the cargo fit the i^hip has enabled some of them to go a 

 little above 1,200,000 feet. The construction ot these ships will probably 

 cause more hardwood to be mixed in yellow pine cargoes than would other- 

 wise be the case. 



Hold No, 4 is very small and has to be practically filled with cross ties 

 and similar lengths. To load them to capacity it is necessary to use about 

 200,000 feet in .short lengths. At the present time there is no market for 

 ties on the other side and exporters expect to lose money on everyone 



