February 10, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Mayor Benjamin Bosse, president of the Globe Cosse^'TiTlrnrUrmture 

 Company and well known among bard-svbod lumber manufacturers, has 

 announced he will seek rt^-nomination for mayor in the democratic pri- 

 maries in March. Mayor Bosse is now serving his first term of four years 

 and during that time has given all the salary drawn back to the city. 



Many of the hardwood lumber manufacturers of this section, as well as 

 the owners of several wood consuming plants, report that they are still 

 having a hard time getting all the labor they want. Manufacturers say 

 that they can not recall a time when it was so hard to get laborers. There 

 are five free emplo.vment bureaus in the state maintained by the state, one 

 of which is in Evansville and for the past several months these bureaus 

 have been unable to supply the demand for help. In most instances the 

 manufacturers are iiaying the highest wages on record. 



Veneer manufacturers in Evansville report a good steady trade at the 

 present time and say that indications point to a better volume of business 

 this year than during 1910, 



The month of .January liroke all records for building permits in Evans- 

 ville, according to Edward C. Kerth, city building Inspector. During the 

 month just closed there were fift.v-seven permits issued and the total 

 valuation was .?94,2S5. The record exceeded last year by thirteen permits 

 and the valuation b.v over $62,000, the number of permits for January 

 of last year being fort.v-four and the valuation $31,862. In .Tanuai?y 

 1915 and 1914 the respective permits were thirty-five and fifty-eight and 

 the valuations respectively .$69,050 and .$70,236. Inspector Kerth is of 

 the opinion that this is going to be a good building year in Evansville in 

 spite of the fact that building materials are advancing steadily. 



On February :; fire destroyed the sawmill of the C. r. White Lumber 

 Company at Evansville. the fire having originated in tlie engine room. 

 The fire was a stubborn ime, the mercury at the time hovering about zero 

 and the firemen suffered intensely. The loss is about .$25,000, partly cov- 

 ered by insurance. The C. P. White Lumber Company moved here several 

 years ago from Boonville, Ind. C. P. White, the manager of the company, 

 has announced he will start at once to re-build the plant. 



It is the pla i of W. Paul Luhring. viee-gerent snark of the Hoo-Hoo in 

 this territory, to hold a concatenation in Evansville about the last of 

 April or the first of ^la.v. It has been four or five years since a concatena- 

 tion was held in Evansville. Mr. Luhring says it will be an easy matter 

 to get a class of about fifty kittens from southern Indiana, southern Illi- 

 nois and western Kentucky. The concatenation will be followed by a 

 banquet and it is hoped to have some of the big Hoo-Hoo officials here for 

 the affair. 



=< MEMPHIS >•- 



T. M. Cathej', president of tlie Beligrade Lumber C'ompany. has gtuie to 

 Louise, Miss., where he is looking after the settling up of the mill at that 

 point recently acquired from Ferd Brenner at Zwolle, La. The timbers for 

 the mill have already been cut at the plant of the company at Isola, Miss., 

 and shipped to Louise, while the mill has also been delivered at that point. 

 It is probable, however, that the mill will not be ready for use until 

 about May 1, The Beligrade Lumber Company sometime ago acquired a 

 tract of about 5,000 acres of land near Louise and the new uiill will be 

 tised for the development thereof. 



J. H. Bonner & Sons have opened oflBces in the Bank of Commerce & 

 Trust Company building through which the selling end of their business 

 will be handled in future. H. .1. Richards is in charge. Mr. Richards was 

 formerly sales manager of the Tallahatchie Lumber Company. W. C. 

 Bonner will continue to make his headquarters at Jonquil, ,Vrk., and will 

 look after the operation of the mill at that point. 



The Miller Lumber Company is making extensive repairs and improve- 

 ments in the sawmill and box factories it recently acquired from the 

 Indiana & Arkansas Lumber Company at Marianna, Ark., and will place 

 these in operation as soon as this work has been completed. Tile ^filler 

 Lumber Company owns and operates other plants besides those acquired 

 at Marianna and is now quite an important manufacturer of lumber and 

 boxes. 



Jas. E. Stark of Jas. E. Stark & Co. left several days ago for the Pacific 

 coast en route to Honolulu. He is accompanied by Mrs. Stark and plans 

 to be gone until about the first of March. It is wholly a ple.isure trip. 



Building ope. ations in Memphis during January involved a total of 

 nearly .$100,000 in excess of the corresponding month last .year. There 

 is still much activity in building circles and, as there are some large 

 projects to be covei'ed by permits to be taken out during the coming month, 

 the showing for February is expected to be quite good. 



■< LOUISVILLE >= 



other visitors present at the meeting were C. E. Platter of the North 

 Vernon Lumber Company, and C. E. Talbot, Parkland Planing Mills. Re- 

 ports were received at this meeting from the various delegates to the 

 lumber conventions, including C. M. Sears, who attended the oak manu- 

 facturers' convention, at Memphis ; Barry Jsorman. who attended the gum 

 meeting at Memplus ; and Harold Gates, who attended the Indiana hard- 

 wood meeting. 



W. R. Willett of the W. R. Willett Lumber Company has returned from 

 a two weeks' trip through the South, where he inspected some lumber. 

 The company has just completed remodeling its oflices in the Starks 

 Building. 



The Louisville Hardwood Club recently held an interesting meeting, at 

 which a full attendance was recorded, this being the first time for several 

 weeks. H. C. Baldwin, school forester of Harvard University, delivered an 

 interesting talk concerning the work of that department, giving some of 

 the details of the course. He stated that he was taking a semi-post gradu- 

 ate course in forestry, he having at the university's expense undertaken a 

 tour of the various mill districts, v.-here he was getting a lot of valuable 

 information concerning the manufacturing end of the lumber industry, by 

 visiting various saw mills, planers, veneer plants and other manufacturers 

 of wood products. 



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