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HARDWOOD RECORD 



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HoTemter 



9th. 



1915. 



Peepcke Lelght I'br. Co., 



Chicego, 



111 . 



aentlemeB:- 



We cire using your. Bed Oub loi&ber in the 

 nanufacture of but high claee Interior 

 trim and general planing mill work. 



ThiB gum i8 giving excellent eatisf action, 

 'being highly graded, soft texture, good 

 widths, end long lengths, also dry, straight 

 tnd flbt. 



Respectfully. ''st-^^-sh 



Karris, iLcUenry & Baker £0. 



Diet. 



Of course it is true that 



Red Gum 



is America's finest cabinet wood — but 



Just as a poor cook will spoil the choicest 

 viands while the experienced chef will turn 

 them into prized delicacies, so it is true that 



TTie inherently superior qualities . 

 of Red Gum csm be brought 

 out only by proper hcindling 



When you buy this wood, as when you buy a new 

 machine, you want to feel that you have reason for 

 believing it will be just as represented. 



We claim genuine superiority for our Gum. The 

 proof that you can have confidence in this claim is 

 shown by the letter reproduced herewith. 



Your interests demand that you remem- 

 ber this proof of our ability to preserve 

 the wonderful qualities of the wood 

 when you again want RED GUM. 



Paepcke Leicht Lumber Company 



CONWAY BUILDING 111 W. WASHINGTON ST. 



CHICAGO, ILL. 



Band Mills: Helena and BIytheville. Ark.; Greenrille, MUs. 



The W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company expects to complete its new 

 band mill at Guin, Ala., aboat April 1. This mill will be complete with 

 planer and dry kilns, giving the company five large mills in Alabama and 

 Arkansas, other mills being at Fayette, .Ala. ; Brasfield, .\llport and 

 Furth, Ark. 



The first annual meeting o£ the Louisville Branch of the Southern Hard- 

 wood Traffic Association was held at the Seelbach Hotel on February 6. 

 A good attendance was present, and an excellent report was made by Man- 

 ager R. R. May. 



Examiner A. R. Mackley of the Interstate Commerce Commission pre- 

 sided at a hearing of I. & S. docket, No. 944, relative to rates on logs in 

 car lots, from points on the Hlinois Central, in the Dyersburg, Tenn.. 

 district to Louisville, New Albany and other Ohio river crossings, the 

 hearing being held in Louisville, February 2. Just after the hearing was 

 called it was announced that .1. Van Norman, representing the Louisville 

 branch of the Southera Hardwood Traffic .Association, and the New Albany 

 Box & Basket Company, plaintiffs, had effected a compromise with Jos. 

 Hattendorf, general freight agent of the Illinois Central, this compromise 

 being satisfactory to all parties. Under this compromise tlie rate to 

 Louisville from stations north of Jackson and Memphis. Tenn., and some 

 stations in the Birmingham district, will be advanced one-half cent over 

 the old rate, while New .'Ubany and JefEersonville, Ind., will get a reduc- 

 tion of one to four cents. Other river crossings such as Cairo. 111., East 

 Cairo, Ky., Henderson, Owensboro, Paducab, Metropolis, Brookville, Mounds 

 and Mound City, are also affected. The complaint of the New Albany Box 

 & Basket Co., I. C. C. Docket 8428, was consolidated with that of the 

 traffic association, at a preliminary hearing in Louisville several weeks ago. 



Col. C. C. Mengel has been in bed for several days as the result of a 

 severe attack of grip. His condition, however, is not considered serious. 



The Bowling Green Lumber Company, Bowling Green, Ky., has sold Its 

 band mill to E. L. Hendrick and J. J. Sledge of Mississippi, who will 

 transfer the machinery to a large tract of timber in that state. The 

 Bowling Green company will hereafter job hardwoods such as oak, poplar, 

 ash and walnut, operating its old yards at Bowling Green. 



The Paragould Handle Manufacturing Company, Paragould, Ark., is 

 establishing a branch plant at Bardwell, Ky„ under the management of 

 John N. Lynch, this plant to buy hickory billets, and cut dimension 

 stock for the Paragould plant. It is said that lathes will later be installed, 

 so that completed handles may be made at the Bardwell plant. 



The Glasgow Flooring Company, Glasgow, Ky., is now running full 

 time, and buying oak logs and lumber. 



The Mengel Box Company has sold 3,600 acres of cutover land in the 



All Three of Us Will Be Benefited if 



Hickman, Ky.. district to Col. C. L. Walker and associat'-s. w bu will 

 clear the land for a cotton plantation. 



Heavy snows in January caused a n\iml)or of building collapses Itt 

 Kentucky, the stave mill of EIrod & Co., at Columbia. Ky., having col- 

 lapsed under twelve Inches of snow. 



Dissolution notice has been filed by the Rockville Heading Company 

 of Morehead, Ky., following a meeting held In January. 



On account of inability to secure coal the plant of the Clearfield Lumber 

 Company. Morehead. Ky., was recently closed down for a fow days. The 

 Lancaster Flooring Company, Lebanon, Ky., was forced to take the same 

 action. 



It is rumored that the Interstate Public Service Corporation is plan- 

 ning a waterpower electric plant at White Cloud, Ind., to furnish power 

 to plants and industries in the New Albany, Ind.. district. 



L. G. Givens timber buyer of Elizabethtown, Ky., recently purchased 

 a carload of dogwood, which was shipped to Bowling Green, to be manu- 

 factured into weaving shuttles. 



The Jenkins-Essex Company, Elizabethtown, Ky., which recently pur- 

 chased the Glendale and Vine Grove, Ky., lumber ya.rds, is installiDg a 

 new planing mill to supply lumber for these new yards. 



TJlie Murphy Chair Company of Detroit, Mich., will have its new plant 

 at Owensboro, Ky., in operation about the middle of April, according to- 

 recent announcement. 



The Wirth, Lang & Borgel Manufacturing Company of Louisville, capital, 

 $20,000, has been incorporated to manufacture office and bank fixtures. 

 Edward C. Wirth is president ; M. Lang, secretary-treasurer, and Ernest 

 Borgel. vice-president and general manager. The two latter men tor 

 years were connected with the fixture house of R. .Mansfield & Son, Inc., 

 which has Just been taken over by Carl L. Wedekind and R. O. Rosen. 



The Livermore Timber Company, Livermore, Ky, capital $5,000, has 

 just been incorporated by C. A. Shaver, K. J. Meyer and W. R. Render, 

 and will do a general timber business. 



=•< ARKANSAS >■= 



Operations have been resumed by the E: L. Bruce Company of Little 

 Rock in its oak flooring mill. The old plant of this company was destroyed 

 by Are on September 20, 1916, but a new plant, thoroughly modern through- 

 out, has been erected, which has a capacity practically double that of the 

 old one. The fire resulted in practically a complete loss. Including the 

 main building, the boiler house and power plant and some of the dry 

 kilns. The loss is placed at $50,000. 



The new plant is equipped with the gravity system of handling lumber. 



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