April 10, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Jolm C. Keller, traffic manager of the club, will make a report on the car 

 shortage situation. Charles A. Wolflin, chairman of the membership com- 

 mittee, expects to repcirt some ne'.v members. ^ ■ 



Work has started on the new addition ^of the Novelty Works at Jasper, 

 Ind., and will be pushed. This company manufactures desks and special 

 orders of furniture. During the past year it has received many orders 

 from foreign countries. The company is now about fifty carloads behind 

 in its orders. 



=< MEMPHIS y 



Lumber interests liere are manife.^ting a most patriotic spirit and have 

 signified in numerous "ways tlieir willingness to aid the government in 

 every way both in its preparedness program and in its actual prosecution 

 of the war if matters proceed that far. They have particularly denoted 

 their -willingness to give the government's orders for hardwood lumber 

 and lumber products preference over all others received. It is suggested 

 that there will be some large orders to be placed for oak, ash, gum and 

 other southern hardwoods for military purposes and southern interests 

 not only have these to sell but they have the disposition to meet the gov- 

 ernment half way In supplying them. 



S. L. Dodds, president of the Hickman Wagon Company, whose factory 

 is located at Clarksdale, Miss., has sent the following telegram to John 

 Sharp Williams, senior senator from Mississippi : "Please offer to Presi- 

 deni: Wilson and Secretary of War Baker the use of my wagon factory at 

 Clarksdale, Miss., free of profit for anything for which it may be used ; 

 also a large home I own on the Mississippi coast at Biloxl for any emer- 

 gencies for which it may be needed." 



Speice Brothers have sold their sawmill at Pocahontas, Ark., to the 

 Warren Cooperage Company, Warren, Ark., and the latter is preparing to 

 install a plant at the former point for the manufacture of cooperage 

 stock, principally heading. 



The Webster Lumber Company has been organized at Corinth, Miss., for 

 the purpose of manufacturing yellow pine lumber and handling this at 

 wholesale. Its general oflices will be located at Corinth, while its sawmill, 

 planing mill and timber holdings are in Webster county, Mississippi. 



The trustees of the Mississippi state penitentiary have purchased a 

 sawmill and will install this for the cutting of logs from 1,000 acres of 

 timberlands belonging to the Quitman convict farm. It is the purpose of 

 the trustees to use a portion of the output of the plant for the construc- 

 tion of such buildings as may be needed at the convict farm and as may be 

 needed by any other departments of state in Mississippi. The land thus 

 cleared will be put in cultivation. The mill will be operated by convict 

 labor. 



The Rockwell Manufacturing Company, Camden, Ark., which recently 

 lost its big screen door factory at that point by fire, with estimated dam- 

 age of $250,000, has announced its willingness to rebuild there provided 

 the authorities guarantee sufticient fire fighting facilities to prevent a 

 recurrence of such a conflagration as destroyed the old one. 



Building operations in Memphis during March involved a total of ?329,- 

 150 compared with $305,090 the corresponding month last year, an in- 

 crease of slightly more than $23,000. This is the third increase shown 

 thus far this year, with the result that the excess for the first quarter 

 of 1917 over the same period last year is quite large. Furthermore, the 

 outlook is regarded as exceptionally favorable for continued activity in 

 building not only in Memphis but also throughout the Memphis territory. 



=■< NASHVILLE >.- 



The Nashville Lumbermen's Club has reorganized with the election of 

 the following oflicers : President, H. M. Greene, Davidson, Hicks & Greene 

 Comi^any ; first vice-president, Thomas K. LeSueur, John B. Ransom & 

 Co. ; second vice-president, A. C. Farris, Farris Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany ; secretary-treasurer, M. H. Chandler : directors, T. A. Washington, 

 Hunt, Washington & Smith ; J. M. Whitson, Whitson Lumber Company : 

 Henderson Baker, Baker, Jacobs & Co. ; A. B. Ransom, John B. Ransom 

 & Co., and Hamilton Love, Love* Boyd & Co. The new president is an 

 aggressive young man in the hardwood lumber trade, and has been 

 actively identified with the club. W. M. Farris, Jr., is the retiring presi- 

 dent. Mr. Green says that plans will soon be announced for aggressive 

 activities on the part of the club. 



Wilson A. Ward, who has been in the hardwood lumber brokerage 

 business at Smyrna, Tenn., has been convicted in the United States court 

 at Nashville of using the mails to defraud. He was accused of securing 

 lumber without paying for the same by use of the mails. 



=■< LOUISVILLE >= 



Edward L. Davis and C. M. Sears, president and secretary-treasurer of 

 the Edward L. Davis Lumber Co., Louisville, have returned from a week's 

 trip to the New Orleans district. 



Harry Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills reports a very active demand 

 for mahogany and walnut veneers. Oak has been a little quiet, but is 

 picking up. Sliced and rotary cuts are getting the call at this time. 



E. E. Foster, connected with the C. L. Willey Company, exclusive 

 manufacturers of mahogany and walnut veneers at Chicago, as a guest of 

 the Louisville Hardwood Club, recently made a short talk on conditions 

 in the veneer trade in which he stated that the volume of business handled 



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