December 25. 1916 



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log of tLc Louisville Hardwood Clul., delirered an interesting tall; on the 

 subject of wooden and paper containers. Mr. Booker stated that the 

 high cost of paper had made the paper container so expensive that many 

 consumers of corrugated boxes were coming back to the wooden con- 

 tainer, the cost of which was very little higher than the paper package. 

 At Crothersville, Ind., a few miles north of Louisville, the plant of the 

 H.vatt Cooperage Company has changed hands, Mrs. Linnie Hyatt of 

 Indianapolis, having sold her interests to Henry Benham, Fred Mitchell 

 and A. W. Benham of Crothersville. who have organized a ?10,nOO com- 

 pany to operate the plant. Officers named are: A. W. Benham, presi- 

 dent; Henry Benham. secretary, and Fred Mitchell, treasurer. It is said 

 that the company will install some additional machinery. 



L. G. Grume of Shelbyville, Ky., has sold his interests in the Hall & 

 Crume Lumber Company to J. E. Davis of Taylorsville, who was for- 

 merly in the lumber business at Louisville. Starting January 1 the busi- 

 ness will be operated as the Hall & Davis Lumber Company. 



Lumber operators of Kentucky are greatly interested just now in a 

 movement looking toward a special session of the state legislature In 

 January to revise the state tax laws, a new series of laws having been 

 drawn up by a special tax committee appointed by the Governor last 

 spring. The proposed new tax laws would reduce the state tax to forty 

 cents a hundred instead of fifty-flve cents, and would change the system 

 so that intangible property and machinery of manufacturing concerns, 

 raw materials on hand and in process of manufacturing would be subject 

 to a state tax only. This reform is intended as an inducement to cap- 

 ital and as a boon to- the industrial development of the state. The new 

 law also provides for a state tax only on bank deposits, this tax to be 

 ten cents on the hundred dollars, which the banks themselves may pay. 

 It further provides for real estate mortgages to be subject to state tax 

 alone, and a recording tax of twenty-five cents on the hundred dollars at the 

 expiration of three years. 



J. Crepps Wiekliffe, secretary of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company, 

 who recently returned from a business trip to Europe, where he landed 

 some good export orders for mahogany and walnut, left the city recently 

 for a short trip to Grand Rapids. 



The Louisville Board of Trade is figuring on bringing the L. & N. 

 switching case up again, and will probably ask the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission to reopen the case shortly. It is claimed that so far no 

 relief has been given the shippers, and that the interpretation placed 

 by the L. & N., on the order of the I. C. C, has failed to bring results. 

 Through the efforts of W. R. Willett of the W. R. Willett Lumber 

 Company, and R. R. May, manager of the Louisville branch of the 

 Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, reductions have been made in 

 lumber rates from Bond, Ky., to Frankfort, tbe old rate of 16 cents 

 having been reduced to 12 cents. .\ reduction from 18 cents to 16 

 cents was also gained to Shelbyville. both points being on the L. & N. 

 Mr. Willett represents the Bond & Foley Lumber Company of Bond. Ky.. 

 as sales agent. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission has announced that I. & S., 

 docket No. 944, relative to suspension of increased tariffs on logs from 

 points on the C. M. & G. and I. C, north of Memphis and Jackson, 

 Tenn., to Louisville, will be heard at Louisville on February 9. 



The Murphy Chair Company of Detroit, Mich., has purchased a plant 

 at Owensboro, Ky., and will probably put in machinery and prepare to 

 start operations soon. It is said that the company is anxious to get 

 closer to a coal and timber supply base. 



The Salyersville Cooperage Company of Salyersville. Ky., recently filed 

 amended articles of incorporation in which the capital stock is increased 

 from $15,000 to $16,500. 



G. A. Roy of Nicholasville, Ky., who was formerly well known in lum- 

 ber circles in the Bluegrass and also at Cincinnati, where he held inter- 

 ests, has incorporated the Roy Lumber Company, with a capital of 

 $30,000, and will have offices and yards at Lexington and probably also 

 at Nicholasville. It is reported that Mr. Roy has contracted for a 

 half million fe£t of eastern Kentucky lumber for the new business. 



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The Jefferson Hardwood Company of Wabbaseka on December 1.3 filed 

 articles of incorporation with Earl W. Hodges. The new company, 

 which has a capital stock of $5,000 was incorporated by M. P. Allport, 

 T. H. Ashcraft, J. P. Alexander. 



A saw mill, planing mill and shingle mill will be added to the present 

 plant of the Emerson Gin Company, at Emerson, Ark., and the steam 

 engines which are now used by that company will be replaced by oil 

 burning engines. 



The Arkansas Cooperage Company of Jacksonport recently filed ar- 

 ticles of Incorporation, showing a capital stock of $10,000. The in- 

 corporators are E. H. Vogal, F. L. Vogal and L. L. Campbell. 



At the regular annual meeting of the stock holders of the Beebe Stave 

 Company at Little Rock, H. C. Kober of Little Rock, J. R. Raible and 

 Mrs. C. L. Snyder of Denver were elected directors. 



The machinery for the new plant of the E. L. Bruce Company of Little 

 Rock, is now being installed, and it is expected that the new plant 

 will be ready for operation by January 15. The site of the company, 

 which is located just east of Little Rock, comprises fifteen acres. -Although 

 all of the buildings owned by the company were destroyed by the big 



fire in September last, they have all been rebuilt so that the entire 

 plant will be new. It will represent an investment of $150,000. The 

 company will have a daily output of 100,000 feet, made up principally 

 of oak flooring, but oak finish, and oak molding will also be manu- 

 factured. 



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The Antigo Commercial Club has raised $4,000 in cash and secured 

 a thirty-acre site to secure the new sawmill of the Charles W. Fish 

 Lumber Company for that city. The Fish concern operates at Elcho- 

 and Birnamwood and will establish a third plant at Antigo. 



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