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HARDWOOD RECORD 



NASHVILLE 



The Monoid Lumber Company lias bought a 

 tract in White county, Tennessee, on which are 

 many carloads of fine white oalc logs, and the 

 timber is being moved to this market. The com- 

 pany also bought about 100.000 feet of fust and 

 second quartered oak at Shelbyville, Tenn. 



The Southern Lumber & Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, whose mill and other buildings were 

 burned a few months ago, is rebuilding the mill 

 and bo.v factory, the new plant to cost about 

 $50,000. The company expects to have the plant 

 in operation by Dec. 1. The company will 

 use 40,000 or 50,000 feet of lumber daily. 



Last year was a big year with the Nashville 

 hardwood flooring concerns and the output this 

 year will l>e about thi' same as last. Orders 

 this year have not been so large as last but they 

 have been more numerous, the companies having 

 broadened their business by judicious advertising. 

 The IJead-Wooten Company of Carthage, Tenn., 

 has closed a contract for the erection of a large 

 spoke and hub plant, work on which will begin 

 at once. The company will have one of the 

 largest and best equipped plants of the kind in 

 the state and Carthage is located conveniently 

 to one of the best hardwood producing sections 

 of Tennessee. 



The Decatur. (Ala.) Lumber & Manufacturing 

 Company has been chartered with flo.OOO cap- 

 ital. W. K. and D. A. Blxby and E. M. Knight 

 are the incorporators. 



At the last regular meeting of the Nashville 

 Lumbermen's Club there was more than the 

 usual amount of trading. There was special 

 demand for 0,'4 ones and twos poplar and some 

 thicknesses of plain and quartered oak and sev- 

 eral carloads changed hands. Upon recommenda- 

 tion of Secretary S. C. Ewing. who had been 

 appointed to prepare resolutions indorsing the 

 attituil.- of the Grand Rapids Lumbermen's As- 

 soclaii lu of Michigan, regarding overcharges on 

 weights on lumber shipments, a committee was 

 named to go over the resolutions. E. Hunt, E. 

 E. Bartholomew and Henderson Baker were ap- 

 pointed for this duty. 



BRISTOL 



fh(* liearing of the case of the Bristol lumber 

 shippers against the Southern, Norfolk c& West- 

 cm and Virginia & Southwestern railroads was 

 held in this city last week before Special Ex- 

 aminer Boyle of the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mlBsion. Iwfore which the complaint was filed a 

 few weeks ago. Attorney Walter E. McCornack, 

 formerly attorney for the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission, who is counsel for the local lum- 

 bermen, was here and conducted the hearing for 

 the complainants in a manner to them thor- 

 oughly satisfactory. The case involves the mlll- 

 ing-in transit rate, which was increased last 

 spring to two cents. This rate was only .$2 per 

 car al one time but the railroads have boosted 

 It up to $12 to $14 per car. It was 1 ceiit per 

 hundred Inst spring when it was advanced tS>two 

 cents per hundred. It was then that the Bristol 

 lombermen resolved to go before the Interstate 

 Commerrr- t'ommlsHlon and assail the rate as ex- 

 cessive. It is claimed by the local lumbermen 

 that tliev are seriously handicapped by the heavy 

 mllllnE In-tr.nnsit charge. The rale has been put 

 to two ,^ents elsewhere on the lines of the South- 

 cm and Vlrgln'a & Southwestern. George M. 

 Speigle & Co., Newport, Tenn., recently secured 

 reparation against the Southern on the ground 

 that he was compelled to pay a rate higher than 

 that cliargefl nt Bristol, whereupon the rate here 

 was promptly doubled. 



Frank Codling of the Codling Lumber Com- 

 pany, riilladelphia, I'a.. was a visitor on the 

 Bristol lumber market last week. Ills companj* 

 In buying considerable stock on this market. 



The new mill of the I'lltshurg Lumber Com- 



pany at Hampton, Tenn., near Bristol, will be 

 put in operation at an early date and will be one 

 of the largest operations in Carter couut.v. The 

 company is busy constructing a liuc of railroad. 



The Champion Lumber Company, which is re- 

 modeling the band mill at Crestmont, N. C, re- 

 cently bougl-t from the Pigeon River Lumber 

 Company, is preparing to operate on a much 

 larger scale and is increasing the output of the 

 plant to 12,").000 feet daily capacity. The com- 

 pany is spending a large amount of money in the 

 building of a railroad to log its timber and the 

 installation of the most modern logging equip- 

 ment. 



The government is considering the purchase of 

 other timber in this section, in addition to that 

 conli'Uiplated by the Weeks bill, making the ap- 

 propriation for the Appalachian Forest Reserve. 

 Congressman Sam H. Sells, an active lumberman 

 and business man, was in this city this week and 

 stated that he was now very hopeful of having 

 the government purchase much more timber land 

 in his district than was at first contemplated. 

 Cruisers and investigators are at work cxaminiUL; 

 the White Top tract of T.'i.OOO acres, east of 

 Bristol and the third Appalachian tract offered, 

 near AshevlUe, N. C, of about 70.000 acres and 

 it is believed that both tracts will soon be taken 

 over by the goverrfrnent. 



LOUISVILLE 



The Louisville Hardwood Club, nearing the 

 third anniversary of its birth, is doing some fine 

 work for a three-year old these days. The vigor 

 of youth in the organization is being tempered 

 by the conservative spirit of riper years, as far 

 as the life of a trade body goes, and the present 

 season finds the Gateway City club doing some of 

 the finest work of its career. The program of 

 discussions upon general business topics in their 

 relative bearing to the hardwood industry has 

 been temporarily discontinued but will be re- 

 sumed at an early day with a talk upon credits 

 by one of the best-known credit men in Louisville. 



The routine life of the club was varied by au 

 athletic interlude during the recent World's 

 Series. Most of the hardwood lumbermen of 

 Louisville are enthusiastic "fans" and several 

 of them, including Mart Brown of the W. 1'. 

 Brown & Sons' Lumber Company, president of 

 the club, went to Gotham and to the City of 

 Brotherly Love to watch the Elephants and the 

 Giants battle for supremacy. 



At a recent meeting of the Hardwood Club a 

 resolution was passed strongly indorsing the 

 recent move made by the Grand Rapids Lumber- 

 men's Club in Michigan toward standardization 

 of railroad weights on carload shipments. The 

 Grand Rapids interests propose to petition the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission to establlsli 

 au ofllcial system of weighing carload lumber 

 shipments. Inasmuch as railroads throughout the 

 country are discovered to be in gross error In 

 their weights every day, owing to lack of ade- 

 quate Inspection and standardization of weigh- 

 ing apparatus and units. These errors are sel- 

 dom in favor of the shipper and tin- lumberman 

 finds that he works to a great disadvantage, 

 which would easily be rectified by the establish- 

 ing of olllclal weighing methods. The Louisville 

 Club has promised to lend Its support to the 

 movement projected by Michigan lumbermen. 



A joint meeting of representatives of the Na- 

 tional Hardwood Lumber Association and the 

 Hardwood Manufacturers' Association of the 

 I'nlted Slates was held In Louisville a few days 

 ago at the Seelbach hotel. The purpose of the 

 conference was to elTcct, If possible, equalization 

 •'f the ineaHureinent systems now used by the 

 two bodies. However, no statement was given 

 out at the close of the meeting and the conclu- 

 sion arrived nt by the conferring parties Is not 

 made public. 



Impersonating a $10,000,000 lumber company 

 of Kansas City, Mo., In the lapaclly of "Siiedal 



representative in Kentucky," Frank M. Stanley, 

 a well-dressed and athletic-looking young man, 

 recently used the mails to defraud prominent 

 mercantile houses throughout the country to the 

 extent of .'«20,000 worth of goods, operating from 

 Bluegrass headquarters. Stanley was arrested 

 and subsequently convicted of having used the 

 mails to defraud and was sent from the federal 

 court in Louisville last week to the penitentiary 

 in Atlanta, Ga., where he will serve one year at 

 hard labor. 



Examiner G. P. Boyle, of the United States 

 Interstate Commerce Commission, visited Louis- 

 ville last week to sit at rate hcarlugs involving 

 a number of the most prominent lumber concerns 

 in Louisville and Kentucky. The grievances of 

 the lumber companies mainly concerned the basic 

 values of railroad rates upon lumber shipments 

 through the Ohio valley as compared with steam- 

 boat charges for the same shipments, the stand- 

 ardization of a 10.000-pound minimum carload 

 above the Mason & Dixon line and of a 30,000- 

 pound minimum in southern and southwestern 

 territory, and the adjustment of rates upon rail- 

 road tie and miUwork shipments in connection 

 with charges made upon rough lumber consign- 

 ments. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Com- 

 pany was made defendant in a majority of the 

 cases. The Wood-Mosaic Company, in Louis- 

 ville, filed a complaint demanding a refund upon 

 shipments over the Louisville & Nashville which 

 had been received and were again forwarded 

 over that road, in accordance with a ruling of 

 the Commission which makes such a refund legal 

 if the fact is published beforehand. The Louis- 

 ville & Nashville had neglected to publish the 

 refund .Tnd refused to pay, on the ground of its 

 illegality when this error had been committed. 

 Examiner Boyle refused to allow the confession 

 of the railroad for $10,000 and said that the 

 merits of the case would have to be further in- 

 vestigated. The complaints registered with re- 

 gard to rate regulation in the t^hio valley were 

 filed agaiiiSC the Louisville & Nashville by the 

 Norman Lumber Company, the L. C. Gooch IjUm- 

 her Company, the W. A. McLean Lumber Com- 

 pany and the Alfred Struck Company of Louis- 

 ville, together with the J. H. Strlcklin Company, 

 a cross-tic concern of Insko, Ky. Examiner 

 Boyle's hearings have not yet been completed. 



ASHLAND 



.Tohn G. Johns of Winchester. Ky.. was a re- 

 lent visitor en route to Big Sandy points where 

 he has timber interests. 



.L B. Kitchen, manager of the Standard Plan- 

 ing Mill & Building Company, attended the Lex- 

 ington trots, last week. 



Fred A. Wilson and W. A. Cool of the 'Vansant, 

 Kitchen & Co. sales force were visitors at the 

 uiill the first of this week. 



S. H. Nigh of S. II. Nigh & Bro., has returned 

 from a trip to New York and eastern points lu 

 the Interest of his firm. 



T. N. Fannin and ,Iohn W. Kitchen have re- 

 turned from a trip to their luml>er mill at De- 

 catur, Ala. 



ST. LOUIS 



Lumber receipts flurtng Septembei', as reported 

 by the .Merchants' Exchange, aggregated i:!,4:ir) 

 cars. Hecelpts for Si'ptemher, 1910, totalc<l 

 10,706 cars, ;i,36l cars more than this year. Re- 

 i-eljiis of lumber by river during Sepliuuber were 

 H'lil.OOO feet. Receipts for the corresponding 

 month In 1010 were also 10(1. nilO feel Ship- 

 ments of lumber by rail last month were 10.224 

 ears. Shipments by rail for September, lOUI. 

 were 10,7.'>0, ■'■)2C cars more In liilO than during 

 September Ibis year. Shipments of lumber by 

 river last month were .'in, 000 feet. lUver shlp- 

 minls for September, 1010, were 182,000 feet, 

 127,000 feet mine than this year. 



