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arc busy haviling wheat, while it is felt that logs can wait. With a threat- 

 ened severe car shortage mills are making a hard drive to secure log 

 stocks, fearing that much trouble will he experii*ncotl this fall unless fair 

 log stocks are piled up before the car shortage becomes severe. 



The principal matter of interest in Louisville during the past few days 

 has been the rapid advance of quartered oak. one manufacturer stating 

 that he could sell some firsts quartered, 4/4 thickness, at $250 if he had 

 the right sort of stock on hand. Some quartered oak in 4/4 has been sell- 

 ing at around -5175, hut has since advanced and the market is really rather 

 uncertain, it being merely a question of how much the holder can get. 



W. A. McLean of the Wood-Mosaic Company, New Albany, Ind., has 

 recently returned from a trip to the East, where he spent several days, 

 principally in New York. 



C. S. Willett of the W. R. Willett Lumber Company has been a shining 

 star on the Country Club links this season, having played the best game 

 in his history and ju-countt'd for some trophies. 



Additional storage capacity due to increased business has resulted in 

 additions to several plants in the Falls cities. Permits have recently been 

 taken out for additions to the plants of the Fred G. Jones Lumber Com- 

 pany, Louisville Point Lumber Company, Uouisville Planing Mill Com- 

 pany and others, while work is under way on additions to the New Albany 

 Veneering Company, and work has been completed on the Southern Veneer 

 Company's plant, and new departments for the Kentucky Lumber & Mill- 

 work Company. The new veneer plant of the Wood-Mosaic Company i*; 

 nearing completion, and the Jefferson Woodworking Company has started 

 work on enlarging it.s plant. 



J. E. Gamble of LouisVille. well known lumberman, is ont- of thn incnr- 

 porators of the Valley Oil Company, a $100,000 company which plans to 

 develop Kentucky oil lands. The Forman Lumber Company has recently 

 let contracts for five test wells on a 3,000-acre tract in Owsley county. 



Automatic sprinklers saved the New Albany plant of the Wood-Mosaic 

 Company from heavy loss, if not complete destruction, when fire starting 

 from a rosin puddle spread to the dry kilns on July 9. The sprinklers 

 hfld the fire in check until the fire department arrived. The damage was 

 estimated at about $5,000. 



John N. Roberts, head of the Rulierts Veneer Company, Xew Albany, Ind.. 

 has sold his half interest in the concern to Ray E. Pickrcl of St. Louis, who 

 was vicc-prpsidcLt and half owner of the concern, folhiwing his purchase 

 uf the stock of James W. Conner, when the latter retired. The plant was 

 moved to New Albany from Indianapolis fifteen years ago following a fire. 

 Jlr. Pickrel plans to reorganize the company and greatly enlarge the plant. 



Following kidney trouble uf three months' standing death nvertook 

 Fred G. Jones, forty-nine years nf age. president of the Fred <;. Jones 

 Lumber Company. Louisville, on July IS. Mr. Jones was a native of 

 Louisville and was with the W. J. Hughes & Sou Lumber Conipany for 

 nuiny years, becoming sales manager of the concern. He left in 1907, 

 establishing his own company, which prospered. At the time of his death 

 he was interested in yards at Elizabethtown, Danville. Pleasureville, 

 Hodgenville and elsewhere. He is survived by a son, Hugh Jones, his wife, 

 and one daughetr. 



Thomas Jefferson (Elder) McCowan of Penny. Ky.. pioneer lumberman, 

 who retired a few years ago. recently ilied at the age of seventy-two years, 

 following a long illness. Mr. McCowan in his early days was a big figure 

 on the Big Sandy River, where he handled large logging and mill opera- 

 tions. -\fter retiring from the lumber business he took up the mini.stry. He 

 is survived by several .sons and daughters and leave>; a large estate. 



In a recent report from P>eattyville. Ky., it was stated that the Mowbray 

 & Robinson Company. Cincinnati, has purchased another large tract of 

 hardwood in Lei- i-ounty. near lieattyville, in the heart of the present oil 

 boom. 



The Paducali Cooiterage Company will receive $1,092.54 with ;;ix. per cent 

 from April. 191t). under a recent decision of the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission, ordering reparation for overcharges on -staves and heading from 

 points in Arkansas by the Iron Mountain and Rock Island over the Illinois 

 Central to Padiicah. 'l*he case was in the courts for a long time. 



TEXAS 



The Beaumont Export and Inipr»rt Company has been organized in 

 Beaumont anrt in addition to a general line of merchandise will make a 

 s|»ecial etfort to push lumber sales in Mexico. The company has a 4-apital 

 stock of $;iii,(M)0. with Wm, Saenger, president : H. A. Perlstein. first vice- 

 president ; Arthur Dooley, second vice-president: P. P. Butler, secretary- 

 treasurer. These together with B. A. Stelnhagen form the board of 

 directors. Daniel Huley, who will have charge of lumber ami luiilding ma- 

 terial sales in Jlexico, has been selling lumber in the southern repeblic 

 for the past twenty-five years, the past eight of which has been as a .repre- 

 sentative of the Lutcher & Moore Lumber Company of Orange. 



The Sabine Tram Company is clearing the ground for a hardwifod mill 

 of 45,000 feet capacity and expects to have it in operation within the 

 next sixty days. It will be a circular saw outfit built almost entirely from 

 machinery taken from the dismantled mills at Felicia and Juanita. The 

 mill is being so constructed that it can be enlarged or changed into a liand 



