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HARDWOOD RECORD 



January 25. 1917 



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 sollclte d 



ARUNGTON LUMBER CO., Arlington, Kentucky 



The Tegge Lumber Col 



High Grade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 



H. B. BLANKS LUMBER CO. 



L. C. ZINK 



SALES MANAGER 



(NOT INCORPORATED) 



CAIRO, ILLINOIS 



siderable timber, lumber and milling interests in tlie territory tributary 

 to Earle, Arlt. 



R. J. Welsh of the Welsh Lumber Company is home from the border 

 on furlough. He is a member of Company I, Chickasaw Guards, First 

 Tennessee Infantry, and will be at home for about two weeks longer. 

 Mr. Welsh is one of the officers of the Welsh Lumber Company, and Is 

 in the best of spirits and in fine physical condition. 



The Bush-Moseley Lumber Company has purchased a fine body of timber 

 near Tuscaloosa, Ala., and is building a mill with capacity of 30,000 

 feet for the development thereof. A kiln will also be operated in con- 

 nection with the mill, an order having been placed for one of the moist- 

 air type. 



The Clancy-Webb Lumber Company is building a sawmill at Sardls, 

 Ala., on the Louisville & Nashville railroad, near Selnia. This mill will 

 have a daily capacity of l.'J.OOO feet. J. L. Clancy. Selma, has been ap- 

 pointed general manager of the company and will have active charge of 

 the plant. 



It is announced that the Edward C. Allen Lumber Company, Memphis, 

 Tenn., has leased the mill of J. L. Haley, of the Haley-Rucker Company 

 at Itta Bena, Miss., and that it will begin operating this as soon as the 

 necessary repairs can be made. This will be about February 1. This 

 firm recently acquired 4,000 acres of timberland near Itta Bena, and 

 has already brought out about 1,000,000 feet of logs. The mill has a 

 capacity of 2S,000 feet daily and a railroad has been built which con- 

 nects the timberlands with the plant. Edward C, H. L., and H. D. Allen 

 are the principal owners of this firm. 



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and it is expected that loggers will get very busy. Usually there are sev- 

 eral high tides during the fall season. Local firms are getting short on 

 logs, and the movement will be very gi'atifying. Lieberman, Loveman & 

 O'Brien and John B. Ransom & Co. are the largest receivers of river 

 logs. 



H. M. Gorman, formerly timber purchasing agent for the Virginia & 

 Carolina railway, has become associated with the John Morrow Lumber 

 Company, Harrlman, Tenn., one of the large hardwood firms of that terri- 

 tory. The company has been incorporated with capital stock of .$'20,000. 

 and elected the following officers : John Morrow, president ; Albert Cram- 

 ley, vice-president ; H. M. Gorman, treasurer, and J. M. Holland, secre- 

 tary. The company has purchased 12,000 acres of fine hardwood timber- 

 land in Fentress county, Tennessee, which will be developed shortly. 



A charter has been granted by the secretary of state to the American 

 Lumber and Manufacturing Company of Johnson City. Tenn., with author- 

 ized capital stock of $25,000. W. S. Smith, A. B. Biddle, W. O. Nelson. 

 Henry Ehret and B. H. Taylor are incorporators. 



The Dickson & Shannon Lumber Company of Dickson, Tenn., has in- 

 creased its capital stock from $10,000 to $20,000. 



The Huff-Stickler Lumber Company, South Bend, Ind., has registered 

 its charter with the secretary of state, and is thereby authorized to do 

 business in Tennessee. 



High tide on the Cumberland river is expected to replenish the stccks 

 of logs of Nashville hardwood manufacturers within the next week. It 

 Is expected that 20,000 to 25.000 logs will be brought to this market 

 within the next week by the river tide. This Is the first tide of the 

 season high enough to float logs from the tributaries of the Cumberland, 



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The lumbermen here are anxious to have .t representative on the Fed- 

 eral Trade Board and with this object in view Orville A. Pier, secretary 

 of the Lumbermen's Exchange, has sent letters to the Missouri congress- 

 men and senators, urging their support in the movement. 



At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Philip Gruner & Bros. 

 Lumber Company, held recently, R. E. Gruner was re-elected president. 

 R. Schroeder and W. P. Gruner were re-elected vice-president and secre- 

 tary, respectively. Including the officers, J. P. Gruner and Emmet Gruner 

 were re-elected on the directorate. 



The Banner Buggy Company has decreased its capital from $400,000 

 to $100,000. 



The Krug Lumber Company has recently been incorporated here with a 

 capital of $10,000. 



The R. J. O'Reilly Lumber Company has moved its office to the corner 

 of Broadway and Tyler streets from lO.'iO North Main street. The yard 

 will remain where it was. 



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Smith Milton of the Churchill-Milton Lumber Company has been 

 spending a good deal of time at Glendora, Miss., where the company 

 operates mills, and at Greenwood. Miss., where a new plant is being In- 

 stalled. This new plant will probably be in operation about March 1. 



T. M. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company has re- 

 turned from a trip to Chicago. 



T. L. Thorne, manager of the Greenwood, Miss., mill of the Churchill- 

 Milton Lumber Company, and Howard S. Shead. Chicago manager for the 

 Holly Ridge Lumber Company of Louisville and Holly Ridge. La., were 

 visitors at a recent meeting of the Louisville Hardwood Club. At this 

 meeting the principal business handled was that of discussion of plans 

 relative to members attending the Indiana hardwood convention, the Hard- 

 wood Manufacturers' convention, and the gum and oak meetings. 



C. B. Stafford, formerly manager of the Merchants' Exchange of Mem- 

 phis. Tenn., has been named secretary of the transportation department 

 of the Louisville Board of Trade, succeeding John J. Telford, who re- 

 signed January 1. Mr. Stafford has had several years' experience In 

 traffic work. 



Forester & Havine. lumber operators of Whitesburg. Ky., have started 

 a big movement of poplar timber on the Poor Fork branch of the Cum- 

 berland river. A force of several hundred men is being kept busy in 

 getting out the logs, which are floated down the Cumberland to various 

 mills. 



The Ashland Hardwood Lumber Company of -Vshland, Ky.. has been 

 incorporated with a capital of $50,000 by John E. McCall, S. S. Willis, 

 and II. H. Vansant. 



The Louisville Point Lumber Company has been meeting with a big 

 demand for hard maple lately, and has been endeavoring to secure sup- 

 plies to cover orders. 



The Glasgow Flooring Company, Glasgow, Ky.. with about one-half 

 million feet of plain oak on hand, has resumed operations at Its plant, 

 after having been shut down for some months. 



Articles of incorporation have lieen filed by the Hieronymus Tie & Tim- 

 ber Company of St. Helens, Ky., listing a capital of $10,000 and naming 

 G. D. Hieronymus, Hill Congleton and R. Van Metre. 



CJround was broken last week at S.alem. Ind., for the new plant of the 

 Stout Furniture Company, to replace that burned in a $200,000 flre in 

 December. There was some talk of moving the plant to Louisville, but 

 the company decided to rebuild at Salem, but on a new site. 



Nearl.v 350 shippers, railroad men, lumber men and traffic experts were 

 present at the annual banquet of the Louisville Transportation Cluh on 

 January 12. Frank Trumbull of the C. & O. and W. L. Mapother of the 

 L. & N. gave some interesting dope on railroad operations and need for 

 changing state and federal regulations. 



The Greasy Ford Coal & Timber Company, 524 Paul Jones building, 



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