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HARDWOOD RECORD 



July 10, lai!) 



The Harlan Countv Coal Operators' Association has started a fight reia- 

 llve to the bad .onditiou of cars throuRh the National Coal Association m 

 a protest to the U. S. Kallroad Administration. With a heavy movement 

 of crops, coal, lumber, etc., this fall it is held that traffic will be paralyzed 

 in the South, unless cars arc kept in full repair. 



The Churchlll-Mllton Lund>er Company has moved its general offices 

 back to the I'aul .Tones bulldinf,-. Louisville, after nearly two years at 

 (Sreenwood. Miss., where it has its mills. The company found that its sales 

 ollice was too far away from the markets, but has changed its method of 

 l.>K!,'lnK. and the ollicers do not need to stay so close to the mill. The 

 company has been logj-'inK by river, hut recently purchased a tram line 

 and full equipment, and is now loggin;: its timber by rail. Tom Fullen- 

 love and .lohn Churchill expect to spend a good deal of time at the mill 

 In the future, but on short trips. River logging has been completed. 



The W. I". I'.rown & .'<ons Linnber Coiniiany has recently filed articles of 

 incorporation for the KcMitucky business, listing a capital stock of .$500,000. 

 with a ilebt limit of $2,000,000. T. M. Itrown, J. G. Brown and Preston 

 .loyes sigiu'd the articles. The company has a number of mills in the 

 South and .Mid West, operating a large yard at Louisville. 



The KenliuUy Wood I'roilucts Company, capital $25,000, has been char- 

 tered in Louisville to manufacture wood specialties, .such as shuttle blocks, 

 golf club heads, ship treenails, faucets and similar articles. The plant is 

 located on Krankiin street, near Jackson. Dogwood, locust, persimmon 

 anil hickory will be llie principal woods handled. G. A. Bush is president i 

 R. A. I'alfrei'man, superintendent, and Marion Ferguson, foreman. About 

 thirty n\en will be emplo.ved. 



J. S. Thompson. Louisville district manager for the Southern Hardwood 

 Traffic .Vssociation, has recently returned from Cincinnati, where he repre- 

 sented the Fearon Lumber & Veneer Company, Ironton, O., in its com- 

 plaint before the Cincinnati District Freight Traffic Committee, relative 

 to reestahlishinent of transit arrangements on lumber at Ironton, which 

 were removed iluring the war. Mr. Thompson saw some fifteen lumber- 

 men who are anxious to have a branch traffic office established in the 

 Queen City. This plan has been pending for some time. Mr. Thompson 

 ri'ports that the Floyd County Veneer Mills, of New Albany, have recently 

 been ailded to the membership of the local department. During .Tune the 

 local branch broke all rcc^irds for the number of claims filed and claims 

 collecterl. 



The Dawson Lumber Company, which was established here in January. 

 has been growing rapiilly. and has recently moved its general offices from 

 the yards at Beech and Woodland avenues to the Inter .South'ern building. 

 The company's first six months proved excellent, and it is gaining ground 

 rapidly under the able management of J. L. Dawson. 



J. V. .^tinison & Co.. Owensboro, has been making some improvements to 

 the mill, includini: a new saw carriage and general overhauling. It has 

 plans for furthei- improvement of the plant. 11. It. May, sales manager. 

 who was in TiOUis^-ille over the Fourth, reports that business is fine, and 

 that the great difficult.v is in securing lumber. Morris Stimson, son of 

 D. C. Stimson. is back after fifteen months in France with the Twentieth 

 Kngineers. l.'Uh I'ontpany. 



Louisville luinlH'r concerns and general business bouses were down for 

 three (hiys. closing on July :!. and remaining down until the morning of 

 July 7, givim; crnployi's the longest vacation known in several years. 



The MilN'i's Creek Lumber Company, operating in Lee county. Ivy., a few 

 years ago. retaini'd all mineral rights [o the lands when it sold the cut 

 over product. Heirs of the purrhaser recently filed suit in Federal court 

 in an effort to prove that in the woril "mineral" oil was not included. 

 However. Judge Cochran of the Federal Court held that oil was a min- 

 eral, and that he couldn't decide further than the original titles went. 

 The lamls in ipiestion have proven to !»• the best oil lands in the dis 

 trlct. 



The last of the Meugel boys is now out of service. J. Torbitt Mengel, 

 a lieutenant in the A. E. F.. and son of C. C. Mengel having .iust returned. 



The Iventucky Workmen's Compensation Board recently granted per- 

 mission to the Elkhorn Collieries Company and the KIk Stave & Lumber 

 Company to carry their own risk without insurance and furnishr'd bond 

 in the sum of J2!),000. 



Col. E. V. Knight of the New .\lbaiiy Venei'ring Ciiinpany. New Albany. 

 Inrl.. has recently announced a profit sharing plan, whereby all employes, 

 numbering nearly 250 all told, will share in the annual' profits of the 

 company, the plan being retroactive as of .\pril 1. 



The Woo<l-Mosali- Company is making consideralde headwav on its new 



veneer plant at Louisville, whi.b it i'm Is to have in operation within 



sixty days at the most. 



The demand for hardwoods continues much greater than production. 

 with the result that the manufacturers are having trouble in taking 

 care of the demand, and jobbers are having a great deal of trouble in se" 

 curing supplies to fill orders. Options are limited to twentv-four hours 

 which makes it very hard for the Jol.her to quote prices .and receive orders 

 before expiration of options, with the result that the wires are being used 

 to a considerable degree. There probably never has been a time in the 

 history of the American hanlwood Industry when it has been as hard to 

 fill orders, or when prices were stronger than they are today. Stocks of 

 dry lumber on sticks in the South are very low. and production has been 

 short all season due to rains and shortage of logs. (Jum is vi'ry active 

 with many concerns sold up. and not offering a.iything. Very few con- 

 cerns have or will accept any contracts in fa.e of an expected car sh.u-t- 



age. and advancing market. The demand is coming from every source, 

 with the talking machine, piano, furniture and auto trades all buying 

 freely, and an improved demand from the flooring factories and interior 

 trim manufacturers. Many inquiries are coining in for American walnut for 

 office and store trims at this time. Oak is in big demand, in both red and 

 white, quartered and plain, all grades and thicknesses. Ash is active, with 

 elm, poplar, mahogany, maple and walnut all active. Veneers are good, as 

 are built up stocks. Jobbers and manufacturers are making "I wish I 

 hadn't" a regular slogan, as the market has been advancing so rapidly 

 that on many orders higher prices could have been secured by holding. 



BUFFALO 



The New York Central Railroad Company has surprised everybody by 

 announcing that it is ready to build its long-delayed new passenger station 

 in the city. The plan is to utilize the Exchange street side from Main 

 street eastward, which will bring ail the passenger stations up to Main 

 street and reasonably close together. It is too early for details as to time 

 and outlay and nothing short of a large and modernized structure with 

 ample trackage can possibly be contemplated. It is necessary that a public 

 meeting be held before any contract can be entered into between the city 

 and the railroad. 



F. Chase Taylor, who is asosciated with Taylor & Crate, and the son of 

 Horace P. Taylor, was married on June 21 to Miss Lois DeUidder. 

 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver E. DeRidder, of Brighton, N. Y. The 

 ceremony was performed by the Rev. Paul M. Stra.ver of the Third Presby- 

 terian Church of Rochester. Horace F. Taylor, Jr.. acted as best man. 

 The bride was attended by her sister. Miss Grace DeRidder. After an 

 extended wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Taylor will make their home in 

 Buffalo. 



Reports from eastern Canada say there is an active demand for various 

 kinds of lumber, with business getting back to a morb normal basis. For 

 several weeks buying has been noticeably increasing. The automobile 

 industry has been the largest buyer of hardwoods, taking thick ash and elm 

 for making car bodies. Shortage of southern lumber has le<l the automobile 

 makers to do some buying in Canada, as well as to turn to the Buffalo 

 market. An active building campaign is on in Ontario province and it is 

 expected that the next two months will be a time of scarcity fi>r all kinds 

 of lumber. 



The vacation season is about starting at the hardw 1 yards. Elmer J. 



Sturm, of Miller. Sturm & Miller, has returned from a vacation trip to 

 Michigan, during which he attended the convention of credit men of the 

 country at Detroit. D. E. Darling, of Blakeslee, Perrin & Darling, has 

 been spending two weeks at Brocton. N. Y. C. N. Perrin is gcdng on a 

 fishing trip north of Temagami. Canada, this month. 



The White Buffaloes, an organization composed of leading workers of the 

 Chamber of Commerce, held an outing at Hamburg, on June 25. C. Walter 

 Belts was chairman of the entertainment committee. There was the usual 

 quoit pitching and baseball game and plenty of good things to eat and 

 drink. 



The niraiher of iiermits being taken out in Buffalo thesi' days is the 

 largest on record, though the average value of permits is not abnormal. A 

 large number of people are buying automobiles and building garages for 

 them, but at the same time many are either building new homes or making 

 repairs to their present quarters. The aggregate costs are running ahead 

 of last .year, though smaller than the preceding years. 



The joint legislative committee on liousing. which is maknig a tour of 

 the state, held a meeting at the Buffalo city hall on June 27. It is co- 

 operating with the New York State Reconstruction Commission. The 

 hearing was directed toward learning how it will be possible to remedy the 

 shortage of houses jiiid.also to develop legislation that wilt encourage and 

 stimulate building. 



PITTSBURGH 



The East Ohi<i Lumber Company, a big hanlwood ilistrihuting tvjncern at 

 Niles, Ohio, has iucreased its capital from $100,000 to $175,000. 



Marry Wilson, specialist in poles, ties and piling, reports very slow 

 demand. 



Tom Harrinjjton. who has been in the lumber business in France for two 

 years, is back with J. C. Linehan & Co., well-known hardwood firm in this 

 city. 



J. N. Woollett. president of the Aberdeen Lumber Company, is sure that 

 prices are going to keep up for a long time, especially in gum and cotton- 

 wood. 



H. F. DomholT, president of the Acorn Lumber Company, reports demand 

 fairly good but irrt'gular, and says prices arp very high and going higher. 



The Frampton Foster Lumber Company is doing much the biggest busi- 

 ness in its history, largely along railroad lines. 



BALTIMORE 



Harvey M. Dickson, secretary of the National Lumber Exporters' Associa- 

 tion, states that no formal action was taken in the shape of the adoption of 

 resolutions or other method of procedure at the semi-annual meeting of the 

 board of managirs of the organization held at Chicago on June lit. and that 

 the transactions consisted in the main of a discussion of prevailing condi- 

 tions in the hardwood trade, with an exchange of views on some of the more 

 difficult problems confrimting the trade .'it thi-^ time. It was deemed advis- 



