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HARDWOOD RECORD 



October 23. I'.i' 



preparations are being made accordingly. The excellence of the demand is 

 resulting in very great firmness in prices and is leaving sellers in quite an 

 independent position. They are able to choose orders they wish to All and 

 are not forced to take business which is offered at prices that are not at- 

 tractive. Box interests have enjoyed a period of very great activity during 

 the past year or more, but it is only within the past few months that prices 

 have been high enough to afford anything like a fair return on the money 

 invested. There is a scarcity of cottonwood and gum in the lower grades 

 and this is an added source of strength to the market for wooden contain- 

 ers, the greater proportion of which are made from the material in ques- 

 tion. 



E. E. Smith, principal of the Central Fligh School here, has called upon 

 John M. Pritchard, secretary of the Gum Lumber Manufacturers' Associa- 

 tion, and somewhat surprised the latter with the statement that two school 

 buildings in Richmond are finished in gum. In addition to giving him this 

 information Mr. Smith also told him several qualities whicli red gum pos- 

 sessed which very greatly favored it as a material for interior trim in 

 school structures. Mr. Pritchard never overlooks an opportunity to boost 

 gum and he immediately asked Mr. Smith to supply him with cuts of the 

 two buildings, as well as with the name of the architect. He also requested 

 that Mr. Smith, in a communication to him. give a brief statement of the 

 superior qualities possessed by gum for this particular purpose and told 

 him that this information would be published in the various literature 

 which is being circulated by the organization in its efforts to build up new- 

 outlets tor this material. Mr. Smith has agreed to comply with this 

 request and it is possible that through this plan gum may be made quite 

 popular as a material for finishing school structures in the United States. 



The car shortage appears to have become even more acute during the 

 past fortnight than heretofore and is seriously affecting the movement of 

 both logs and luniber. At a conference of representative lumbermen held 

 here October 20 to discuss conditions it was pointed out that on twenty-five 

 of the leading southern roads over which they ship it is impossible to 

 secure more than forty per cent of the cnr-i needed for filling orders for 

 hardwoods and yellow pine and it was decided tliat the seriousness of the 

 shortage justified an appeal to the Ncwlands Congressional Committee and 

 to the Interstate Commerce Commission. It is hoped to secure some relief 

 in this way and lumber organizations throughout the country are to be 

 asked to co-operate to this end. 



Shippers here are able to secure a fair quota of their requirements, hut 

 those at outside points are very seriously hampered in liandling their busi- 

 ness for the reason that they cannot get .nnywhcre near the number of cars 

 requisitioned. Woodworking enterprises of all kinds are suffering from 

 the car shortage and, as cotton is moving freely and as general traffic is so 

 heavy as to overtax the roads, the outlook, from a transportation stand- 

 point, is considered quite disconcerting. 



Some days ago the outlook brightened somewhat with respect to the 

 supply of flat cars available for handling log shipments, but now there is 

 such a shortage of this sort of equipment that a serious curtailment of 

 hardwood output is threatened. A number of mills in .Memphis have already 

 been forced to close down, while others liave such a limited supi)ly of logs 

 on hand that they are on the eve of suspending operaticms. Outside mills 

 are experiencing more difficulty in securing logs than those at Memphis and 

 many of them an^ forced to run intermittently if able to operate at all. 



Officials of the Valley Log Loading Company report that they are not 

 able to secure more than fifty per cent of their requirements in the way of 



WE MANUFACTURE bandsawed, plain and quarter sawed 



WHITE AND RED OAK AND YELLOW POPLAR 



We make a specialty of Oak and Hickory Imple- 

 ment, Wagon and Vehicle Stock in the rough. 

 Y our Inquiries soMclte d 



ARUNGTON LUMBER CO., Arlington, Kentucky 



The Tegge Lumber Co. 



High Grade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 



cars for handling logs and that they are therefore forced to reduce their 

 operations to that basis. A short time ago they wpre getting about seventy- 

 five per cent of the cars required, which would indicate that conditions 

 have grown worse during the past fortnight. One of the active officers of 

 this company said today there was do prospect of an early change for the 

 better and that many of the mills for which it loaded logs were finding it 

 necessary to close down. 



Officials of the Southern Logging Association held a conference here some 

 days ago with railroad men and objected to the plan of using five-foot stakes 

 on flat cars. The railroad men, however, suggested that an increase in log 

 loading of twenty-five per cent could be effected without the use of these 

 i-:lakes and this plan is now being tried out. It remains to be seen, however, 

 what can be accomplished, and meantime mills are suffering for lack of 

 logs to an unusual degree. 



::•< NASHVILLE >= 



Building operations in Nashville continue on a large scale. During Sep- 

 tember .'i50 permits were issued for buildings and improvements to cost 

 $405,000, compared with 89 permits and $S4,28G for the same month last 

 year. Building operations have been large in Nashville since the first of 

 the year, exceeding the record of any other city in the South. 



The Volunteer Stave Company, Kingston Springs, Tenn.. with authorized 

 capital stock of $2,500, has been incorporated l\v J. E. Nesbitt and others. 



The Tennessee Handle Company, Bolivar, Tenn., with authorized capital 

 stock of $5,000, has been incorporated by E. C. French and others, and will 

 manufacture and sell wood pro^lucts. 



F. M. Hamilton, a veteran lumberman of Nashville, died, aged seventy-five 

 years. Mr. Hamilton was well known to the lumber Interests of this section, 

 and was said to be t\u: oldest man in the business in Nashville. He organized 

 the Indiana Lumber Company of this city, and was its president for a num- 

 ber of years. He later organized the Hamilton Lumber Company, having 

 associated with him his son, James Hamilton, and this company is still doing 

 business. He leaves a widow, one son and one daughter. 



Lumbermen of Nashville are interested in a meeting to he lield in Memphis, 

 called by the Soutliern Hardwood Traffic Association to consider the trans- 

 portation situation. Several representatives will be present. The lumber 

 interests claim that they are being discriminated against in the matter of 

 cars during the present shortage, and methods will be considered of securing 

 relief. There has been talk of taking the matter to the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission. John W. McClure of Memphis is president of the Southern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association, and issued the call for the meeting. 



< LOUISVILLE >: 



The wedding of Miss Nina Harlan Bingham, daugliter of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Harry Bingliam, to Mr. Preston Tope Joycs of the W. P. Brown 

 & Sons Lumber Company was solemnized at the home of the bride on 

 October 11. Mr. and Mrs. Joyes are spending a honeymoon in the 

 South. The Louisville Hardwood Club presented the young couple with 

 a fine Persian rug. 



W. U. Willett. head of the W. R. Willett Luniber Company, returned 

 recently from a trip to St. Louis and Mississippi. While in the home 

 of the Browns and Cardinals he was a member of the Louisville Coun- 

 try Club golf team, wbiih made a trip on Friday, October 6. to that city 

 to play oft a match. Later he visited the mills in Mississippi, where he 

 heard little else than car shortage. 



The Lebanon Lumber Company, Lebanon, Ky.. has reorganized under 

 the title of the Lebanon Hardwood Flooring Company. 



The woodworking plant of the Hilton Collins Company, singletree 

 manufacturer of Louisville, was slightly damaged a few days ago when 

 sparks from a passing train burned the roof from the engine and boiler 

 rooms. 



Work has been stalled on the new woodworking plant of R. H, 

 Humphrey of Corydon, Ind., and DePauw, Ind.. who is erecting a new 

 plant at New Albany. Ind. The two plants now operated at Corydon 

 and DePauw, manufacturing vehicle and automobile Woodstock, will be 

 consolidated in the new building. 



Through the efforts of R. R. May, manager of the Louisville branch 

 of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, and secretary of the 

 Louisville Hardwood Club, assisted by J. V. Norman, a local attorney, 

 proposed rate advances on logs from points north of Jackson, Miss., 

 and Memphis, Tenn., over the C. M. & G. and I. C. roads have been sus- 

 pended until February 9, a hearing to be made previous to that time 

 as to the reasomibleness of the Increases. A hearing of the New Albany 

 Box & Basket Company, New Albany, transferred from St. Louis, to 

 Louisville, for hearing on October 9, was cancelled, as the decision in 

 the above case will cover the contentions of the bo.x company. 



Three million feet of mahogany lumber will be sawed by the C. C. 

 Mengel & Brother Company, when two cargoes of logs from Axim, West 

 Africa, arrive in Louisville. The company is shipping in its own 

 bottoms to Pensacola, Fla., where the logs will be transferred to flats 

 and brought to Louisville. 



The Green River Lumber & Tie Company, Greenville, Ky., has been 

 incorporated with a capital of $15,000 by D. M. Roil, W. E. Drake and 

 H. L. Drake, all of Greenville. The company is preparing to cut a 

 large timber boundary on property of the Greenville Coal Company. 



Recent visitors to the Louisville market included Max Splckcr of 



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