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HARDWOOD RECORD 



large mill in the eaily spring and begin opera- 

 tions on a large scale. 



Bristol hardwood mannfacturers are eagerly 

 awaiting a decision in the case of the Peter- 

 McCain Lumber Company and others, including 

 all of the Bristol hardwood shippers, against the 

 Norfolk and Western. Southern and Virginia, and 

 Southwestern railroad, involving the milling-in- 

 iransit rate for lumber at Bristol. This charge 

 has of late been arbitrarily doubled by the rail- 

 road.s, and lumbermen are making a determined 

 fight before the Interstate Commerce Commis- 

 sion to have the charge reduced on the ground 

 that it is excessive and unreasonable. The pres- 

 ent rate makes it cost lumbermen $S to $14 per 

 car for milling at the Bristol mills. 



The Sells Lumber & ^Lanufacturing Company 

 of Johnson City, Tenn., has just closed a very 

 large contract for hardwood finish material In 

 New York. The company has business on hand 

 to keep its plant running regularly for a long 

 time to come. 



Among hardwood lumbermen who were yisitors 

 on the Bristol market last week were P. W. 

 Bevins, Jliltons, Va. : J. M. Lacy, superintendent 

 of the Whiting Manufacturing Company ; J. 

 Walter Wright of Mountain City, Tenn. ; Mr. 

 Mcllvain of .7. Gibson Mcllvain & Co., Philadel- 

 phia, and others. 



The W. M. Kitter Lumber Company of Colum- 

 bus, O.. which is operating two band mills in 

 Buchanan county. Virginia, will start a third 

 one on llorse Creek about the first of the year. 

 .\ band mill in Buchanan county belonging to 

 the Ritter company was destroyed by fire some 

 months ago. 



LOUISVILLE 



The 1911 convention of the National Veneer 

 & Panel Manufacturers" Association, which will 

 be held in Chicago this week, will be attended 

 by several prominent members of the trade in 

 the Fall Cities who are deeply interested in 

 the event. It is expected that the Louisville 

 delegation will be composed of the following : 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills. 



E. Y. Knight of the New Albany Veneering 

 Company, New Albany, Ind., and H. M. Mc- 

 Cracken of the Kentucky Veneer Company. 



The annual championship gridiron contest of 

 the interscholastic football world in Louisville, 

 held on Thanksgiving Day between teams of 

 the Male High School and the Manual Training 

 • High School, excited the usual amount of in- 

 terest In the Louisville hardwood trade. Sel- 

 dom during the past several years has the 

 hardwood fraternity failed in having actual 

 representatives in the game. In the recent 

 event John Shippen, son of Edward S. Shippen 

 of the Louisville Point LunUier Company, put 

 up a corking good game for the Manual squad, 

 although his aggregation was beaten 16 to 0. 

 Barry Norman of E. B. Norman & Co., S. E. 

 Booker of the same company and Everett 

 Haynes of the Mengel Box Company turned 

 out for the game, to live their own pigskin 

 victories over again. 



C. C. Mengel & IJro. Company of Louisville 

 has added a link in the chain of scientific man- 

 agement which surrounds the extensive Men- 

 gel interests, through the adoption of dicta- 

 phones In the corre.spondcncc department of the 

 company. 



W. I". Brown, founder of the well-known 

 Louisville lumber firm of W. P. Brown & Sons 

 Luml>er Company, now retired from business 

 and a resident of Indianapolis, Ind., paid a 

 visit to Louisville with other members of his 

 family on ThanksRlvlng Day. Mr. Brown en- 

 Joyed a Turkey dinner with his sons, T. M. 

 and J. G. Brown, and showed up hale and 

 hearty and In the best of spirits. 



Adolph lleldt, Cincinnati, O., manager of 

 the Franke Lumber Company, paid a visit to 

 Louisville last week and was the guest of the 

 LunlSTlIle Hardwood Club. Mr. Hcldt expressed 



The opinion that the export lumber trade is 

 in an exceptionally Hourishing condition. 



E. C. Allen, manager of the Richland Parrish 

 Lumber Company's mill at Kayville, La., con- 

 ferred with members of the company in this 

 city a few days ago and was entertained at 

 Ihe meeting of the Hardwood Club. 



The "Arion." chartered by the C. C. Mengel 

 v^c Bro. Company of Louisville, has finished un- 

 loading a big cargo of mahogany logs from 

 British Honduras. The price of mahogany Is 

 steadily ascending, ,iud the Mengel report is 

 that demand from both furniture; manlifac- 

 turers and Interior builders is very good. 



It was recently reported that the Robe Lake 

 Lumber Company, composed of prominent Louis- 

 ville and Memphis hardwood men, and owning 

 an extensive tract of land in Arkansas, is to 

 build a big band mill on the Prairie county 

 property in the near future. T. M. Brown of 

 the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company of 

 Louisville, an officer of the Robe Lake con- 

 cern, has stated, however, that plans for the 

 Arkansas band mill are merely in embryo at 

 present and no definite action will be taken for 

 some time. 



I). C. Harris, traffic manager of the C. C. 

 Mengel & Bro. Company, and C. R. Mengel, 

 president of the company, returned a short time 

 ago from an extensive visit to Mexico. Presi 

 dent Mengel and Mr. Harris have been in the 

 land of revolutions since July. 



.John L. Cochran, president of the John L. 

 Cochran Lumber Company of New York City, 

 paid a visit to Louisville last week. Mr. Coch- 

 ran began his career in the lumber business 

 with the Norman Lumber Company in this city 

 find was gladly received by his numerous friends 

 in the trade. 



The Mengel Box Company of Louisville has 

 commenced work upon a big box factory in 

 Wlnston-Salem, N. C and expects to have the 

 plant rea_dy for operation within eight months. 

 The new structure will lie made entirely of 

 reinforced concrete and will contain a full com- 

 plement of the most up-to-date box machinery. 

 The investment represents about .$100,000. 



A meeting of the Louisville Transportation 

 Club to re.iuvenate that body was held a few 

 days ago in the Gait House, with President 

 L. J. Irwin presiding. The conclave was the 

 first one held by the club since May 8, interest 

 in organization work having fallen into a gen- 

 eral decline during the summer. At the in- 

 stance of President Irwin a program of the 

 winter's work was laid out at the recent meet- 

 ing. Among the feature addresses at coming 

 meetings are those by H. E. Mack, general man- 

 ager of the railway mail service of the Ilarri- 

 man lines and by Col. C. C. Mengel, founder 

 of the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company in Louis- 

 ville. 



The Roy Patton Lumber Company of Jack- 

 son, Ky., recently purchased the sawmill and 

 planing" mill, timber leases, building supply and 

 chair and automobile stock of Thomas Bundy, 

 near that city. The new owners propose to 

 equip the Bundy property with machinery for 

 the manufacture of automobile bndi's .•ind 

 spokes from hickory timber. 



ST. LOUIS 



The building iieriults Issvied for November 

 by the coniuilssiimer nf pul>llc buildings, show 

 an Increase of more than Iwenty-lhree per cent 

 over permits issued in November last year. 

 During (he month :i08 permits were issued for 

 new liulldlngH and 200 permlt.s for allcrntlons, 

 to cost In the iiggregale $1,011,0(12. In No- 

 vember, 1010, ."r>8 permits wrre Issued for 

 buildings and altiuatlonK to cost .$1 ,:i00.02:!. 



The Morriss Lumber Company has recently 

 been Incorntuated wllli a capital stock of SJ.IO,- 

 000, one-half paid in. although they have been 

 doing business for some time as a partnership 

 firm. The shares are Inld by H. M Mnrrlss 



of St. Louis. J. 0. Nesson and George J. Green 

 of Chicago and F. J. Wolf and Howard Cole. 

 I'lie company is doing both a yellow pine and 

 hardwood business and has mill connections 

 at Clio and Kearney, Ark., and Bastrop, La. 

 The Morrlss Lumber Company now contro4s the 

 output of the band sawmill of the J. I-I. Ham- 

 mond Company at Countiss, Ark., thus adding 

 to its shipping capacity fifty cars of gum and 

 oak lumber of fine quality. 



Replies to Chairman Thos. E. Powe's letter 

 to the local lumbermen regarding contributions 

 (o the freight rate fund, made necessary by 

 (he postponement of the hearing, are coming 

 in with gratifying promptness, indicating that 

 local lumbermen are taking a very keen interest 

 in this fight. 



George McBlair, secretary of the Exchange, 

 reports that during the past two weeks in- 

 spections by the Lumbermen's Exchange have 

 increased considerably, indicating that a large 

 volume of stock is being moved into St. Louis 

 on the present market. 



The members of the Lumbermen's Exchange 

 .ire looking forward with much interest to the 

 nieeling and banquet which will be held the 

 latter part of December. The election of offi- 

 cers for the year 1912 will he a feature of 

 this meeting, which will probably be held at 

 the Missouri Athletic Club. 



Henry W. Ballman, for fifteen years presi- 

 dent of the Laclede Lumber Company, St. 

 Louis, died at his home Thursday, Nov. 30. 

 He was fifty-seven years of age and had been 

 ill for several months. The funeral look place 

 Saturday afternoon, Dec. 2. Mr. Ballman was 

 born in St. Louis. For twenty years he was 

 ( onnected with the Knapp-Stout Lumber Com- 

 pany, and then assumed control of the La- 

 clede Lumber Company. He was prominent in 

 North St. liOuis politics, having been a demo- 

 cratic leader there and a candidate for the 

 (?ity Council several years ago. He was a 

 member of the Mullanphy Board for four years 

 and belonged to the North St. Louis Business 

 .Men's Association and the Retail Lumber Deal- 

 ers' Association. He is survived by Mrs. Ball- 

 man, one daughter and three sons. Walter G.. 

 secretar.v, and Leonard H.. vice-president of the 

 Laclede Lumber Company, and Albert J. Ball- 

 man. 



MILWAUKEE 



Construction wurk has bfcn liei.'un at the 

 West .Milwaukee shops of the Chicago, Milwau- 

 kee & St. I'aul railwa.v on 500 new cars. A. 

 E. Manchester, superintendent of motive power, 

 announces that it will be necessary to Increase 

 (be working forces in all the departments at 

 the plant. 



The Japanese government has awarded the 

 .\ilis-Chalmers Company of Milwaukee the con- 

 tract to supply the logging and sawmill ma- 

 i-blnery for the first lumber plant which the 

 government will establish at Kogi on the island 

 <ir Formosa. The contract calls for the in- 

 stallation of all the electrical apparalus, steam 

 lurblnes and motor driven machinery and in- 

 volves, it Is understood, about .$.-)00.000. The 

 entire plant will cost about $700,000. 



In order to refund all banking obligations 

 and to arrange for sufllcient working capital 

 to open three new departments, (be Mitchell- 

 Lewis Motor Company of Raeine, manufacturer 

 of wagons and automobiles, has negotiated n 

 loan of $2,500,000 through New York and Chl- 

 lago banks. The company will now build all 

 aulomoblle bodies and tops as well as trucks. 

 The company has a capital stock of $10,000,000. 



The Hat ton Lumber Company of New Lon- 

 don has placed its sawmill in operation, fol- 

 Irrtvlng a close down while its log slip was 

 clinuKed for winter use. The usual January- 

 February cIo.se down will not occur this year. 



The 'I'wo Rivers Manufacturing Company of 

 Two RIvi'rs has purchased the machinery of the 



