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HARDWOOD RECORD 



November 10, 1916 



phiB, has been given a certificate by tlie collector of customs here. The 

 barge Is equipped with a powerful gasoline engine and also with derricks 

 for loading logs from the banks of the Mississippi and other streams and 

 will be used for transporting timber to the mill of the company which is 

 located on Wolf River. 



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Edward L. Davis of the Edward L. Davis Lunilier Company. Louisville, 

 and Allen McLean of the Wood Mosaic Company, New Albany, Ind., re- 

 cently returned from Memphis, Tenn., where they attended the hearing of 

 the Federal Trade Commission relative to the lumber Industry in the 

 South. Mr. Davis and Mr. McLean were delegates from the Louisville 

 Hardwood Club. 



The local authorities are making an issue of the smoke .prevention 

 laws and have issued a warrant against the Jefferson Woodworking Com- 

 pany, citing the offlcials of that concern to appear in the ordinance court 

 on a charge of failure to comply with the local smoke ordinance. 



The value of automatic sprinklers was recently demonstrated when 

 fire broke out in the plant of the Ross Chair Manufacturing Company. 

 The work of the sprinklers was such that the blaze was out by the 

 time the fire company arrived on the scene. 



While the articles of incorporation filed by the Cal F. Thomas Com- 

 pany authorize the company to do a general timber and lumber busi- 

 ness, and to operate sawmills, the company for the present will confine 

 its activities to the contracting field, probably carrying some lumber for 

 its own convenience. 



J. J. Quinn of the American Cabinet Manufacturing Company of Chi- 

 cago last week announced that the company has arranged to start a 

 branch factory at New Albany, Ind., and for the present will be busy 

 manufacturing talking machine cabinets for the Edison company. About 

 forty-five men will be employed at the start, a loft having been acquired 

 and machinery purchased. Mr. Quinn stated the company was dissatis- 

 fied with labor conditions in Chicago and was considering the advisa- 

 hility of moving its entire business to New Albany if the branch proved 

 satisfactory. 



J. E. Hannan of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company is back on the job 

 after being away on account of illness. Emmet Ford of the dimension 

 department has also been away, having been up to Washington for a 

 week or more. Business with the company is active, there being a 

 good demand for walnut and mahogany stock and veneers. 



The city building inspector's office has had a good deal of trouble 

 lately in explaining that new orders from State Fire Marshal T. B. Pannel, 



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relative to garage buildings, supersede the local building cod.'. Under 

 the state fire marshal's orders only fireproof garages or those made "&» 

 slow burning as possible" are permitted anywhere in the city. If of 

 frame construction the timber must be covered with metal. 



The lumber yard of Woodford Button, Lagrange, Ky., was destroyed 

 by an early morning blaze on October 31. The loss was estimated at 

 about 3.000, partly insured. 



J. R. Dickerson, Glasgow, Ky., has purchased a small sawmill at Mt. 

 Hermon, Ky., and has moved to that point. 



At Hazard. Ky., it is reported that the Mowbray & Robinson Company 

 of Cincinnati, O., has placed a mortgage for $1,000,000 on several thousand 

 acres of virgin timberland, and will use the money in developing property 

 held by the company and marketing the timber. The company has large 

 holdings in Perry, Knott, Leslie and Clay counties. 



Fred W. Wilson, formerly of Lexington, Ky., who for several years 

 has been operating in the Philippines, where he organized the Kollambugan 

 Lumber & Development Company, was recently visited in Lexington. He 

 stated that the company now controls 83,000 acres of mahogany timber 

 land, and has nearly 5,000 men on the payroll. Mr. Wilson will go to 

 London and Scotland on business before returning to the Philippines. 



The Hubbard Lumber Company, Harlan. Ky., has filed articles of 

 incorporation, listing a capital stock of $10,000. The incorporators are 

 W. P. Hubbard, J. A. Creech and E. Creech. 



John J. Telford, who for many years has been secretary of the trans- 

 portation committee of the Louisville Board of Trade, and who has 

 handled traffic matters for that organization, which has always pulled 

 with the lumber trade, has resigned, his resignation to take effect Jan- 

 urary 1. Mr. Telford in the future will give his entire attention to the 

 duties of secretary of the Merchants' & Manufacturers' Association. .V 

 new secretary will be appointed by the Board of Trade, which plans to 

 increase the facilities of the traffic department. 



R. L. Green, auditor, representing the Commonwealth of Kentucky, hiis 

 started proceedings against four banks and T. C. Millard of Danbury, 

 Conn., seeking to, escheat to the state 5*2,000 acres of land, valued at 

 .f.'JOO.OOO, in Knott and Perry counties. It is claimed that this land 

 has been held for over five years in violation of the Kentucky statute 

 Ijrohibitlng an outside corporation from iioUUn.L; land for more than five 

 years except in the pursuit of business. The banks hold that the.v 

 have nothing to do with the land, claiming that it is held by Millard, who 

 purchased it at a receiver's sale in the Bell county circuit court, follow- 

 ing the assignment of F. A. Mull of Danbury, Conn., the former owner. 

 Considerable interest is being taken in this case, which may have a 

 strong bearing upon un<levelopcd timberland in the future. 



The National Fibre Reed Company. New Albany, to manufacture chairs 

 from paper fibre, and take the surplus output of the Indiana Reforma- 

 tory, has been incorporated with a capital of $.^)0,()00. and succeeds the 

 II. E. Cook Company, which held the reformatory contract. The in- 

 corporators are A. D. McBurnie. Jackson, Mich.; F. W. Green, Ionia, 

 Mich., and H. E. Cook, New Albany. 



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The Badger Basket & Veneer Company. Burlington, Wis., has started 

 work on a second story addition to the cast wing of its factory, which 

 is 39 by CO feet in size. 



Blum Brothers, Marshfleld, Wis., will establish a branch factory at 

 New Richmond, Wis., for the production of cheese boxes and butter 

 tubs. The concern has established a distributing point here until spring, 

 when manufacturing will be commenced. 



Work has been started on the construction of the new factory of the 

 Eau Claire Box and Crating Company at Eau Claire, Wis. The building 

 will be SO by 150 feet and will be ready by December 1. giving employment 

 to eighty men. 



Leo Schoenhofen, sales manager of the R. Connor Company of Marsh- 

 Held, Wis., for a number of years, has resigned, effective January 1, to 

 accept a similar position with the Langlade Lumber Company of An 

 tigo, Wis. 



The Kneeland-McLurg Lumber Company, Phillips, Wis., was given a 

 refund of 152.32 on account of overcharges on several shipments of car- 

 loads of lumber over the Milwaukee road and Soo Line by the' Wisconsin 

 Railroad Commission recently. 



.\ contract for 100 sets of sleighs was recently awarded to the Bonnel! 

 Wagon Works of Eau Claire, Wis., by a national tea and coffee dis- 

 tributor. The sleighs will be shipped to various parts of the country. 



The Yawkey-Blssell Lumber Company, which is erecting a big sawmill 

 at White Lake, Wis., has caused such an Increase in the population of 

 that place by establishing the mill, that additional teachers will be neces- 

 sary in the school there. 



The steamer Phelltus Sawyer loaded with lumber, bound for Chicago. 

 sank off Bayliss harbor in northern Wisconsin before the boat could be 

 put to shore after springing a leak. 



J. S. Laudon, who has been manager for the Hatton Lumber Company 

 at New London, Wis., has resigned to accept a similar position with the 

 Medford Lumber Company at Medford, Wis. 



The latest addition to the woodworking industry at Prairie du Chien, 

 Wis., is the cabinet and mill work estalilishment of Martin Sebastian on 

 Iowa street. A twenty horse power motor will be Installed to operate 

 the maehlniry. Just purchased. 



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