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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Tlie North Vernon Lumber Company is again running its Louisville 

 sawmill. It is in charge ot Charles Platter, one of the officers of the 

 company. 



The Edward L. Davis Lumber Company is running its sawmill at night, 

 having a large supply of logs on hand. It is especially pleased with the 

 character ot the oai; timber it has been able to buy. 



The C. C. Stengel & Bro. Company has discontinued night work after 

 a long run. 



=-< ST. LOUIS >-= 



Receipts of lumber in St. Louis during the month of August, as re- 

 ported by the Merchants Exchange, were 18.402 cars. During August 

 last year the receipts were 18,114 cars, showing a gain during August 

 this year of 288 cars. Shipments of lumber by rail last month were 

 12,729 cars. A year ago the shipments were 13,305, showing a falling 

 off this year of 576 cars. 



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W. W. Dings of the Garetson-Greason Lumber Company left recently 

 for a trip to the mills of the company in Arkansas. Before going he 

 stated that the company was having all the business it could handle. 

 The car shortage has commenced to be felt and although it has not 

 handicapped them seriously, they are slow in getting out some of their 

 orders on this account. They have just finished the installation of an 

 eight-foot band mill at their Wasson plant and it has started up. Owing 

 to the heavy demand that has been made on them for some time, their 

 stocks have been greatly reduced. The railroads and car manufacturers 

 are coming in quite liberally with orders. 



E. H. Luehrmann of the Chas. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany is up North en his vacation. G. E. W. Luehrmann has just re- 

 turned from a business trip to Chicago. He says bis company is having 

 an increased demand for nearly every item on the hardwood list. Oak, 

 ash and gum are in good request and bringing good prices. He is well 

 pleased with present conditions, considering the weather has been so 

 unseasonably hot and sees nothing but a fine fall trade in sight. 



Geo. E. Hibbard of the Steele & Hibbard Lumber Company, reports a 

 seasonable call tor hardwood lumber which is bringing very good prices. 

 L. M. Burgess, secretary of the company, left Monday on a selling trip 

 through Iowa, Minnesota and northern Illinois. He will be gone for 

 five or six weeks, Mr. Steele, who has been in the East on his vaca 

 tion, returned this week. 



J. T. McRoberts, sales manager of the Hooton Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, has been away on two trips recently. He was up in Iowa, Wiscon 

 sin and northern Illinois on his first trip and later on took a run up 

 to Kansas City and the western part of the state. He says considerable 

 lumber is being bought by consumers and that the prospects are very 

 good tor a nice fall trade. 



Frank G. Hanley recently returned from a trip to New Orleans and 

 vicinity. He saj's the car shortage is beginning to be felt in that sec- 

 tion and from present indications it will be very acute before traffic 

 conditions become normal again. Cotton, rice and sugar are being given 

 preference by the railroads and lumber has to await their pleasure. As 

 the crops are very heavy it will probably be some time before lumber 

 can be shipped out as rapidly as the manufacturers desire. Mr. Hanley 

 found dry cypress very limited in quantity and continuous and heavy 

 rains prevent the stock from drying out. 



=-< ARKANSAS >= 



The handle and stave plants of Corning, Ark., have resumed opera 

 tions, some of them running both day and night shifts. 



The Southern Piling Company of Camden, Ark., has recently been in- 

 corporated with a capital stock of $10,000 fully paid up. The officers of 

 this company are R. C. Powell, president ; J. E. Van Cleave, secretary- 

 treasurer and general manager ; M. D. Wright, H. S. Powell, all of Cam 

 den, and B. H. Chrass of New Orle.ins and E. E. Cole of Saginaw, Mich., 

 being the other stockholders and members of the board of directors. 

 Tliis company has a considerable holding of cypress and pine timber 

 near Camden, as well as several other timber holdings in southern 

 .Vrkansas. The company will do a general business in cypress and yellow 

 pine piling. A one-line ground skidder of the Clyde Iron Works make 

 has been ordered and the company will begin operations at an early date. 



Following the ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States, by 

 the terms ot which decision the .\rkansas Railroad Commission's Stand- 

 ard Freight Distance Tariff No. 3 was made effective in July of this 

 year, five of the principal railroads in Arkansas have made application 

 to the Railroad Commission to have Distance Tariff No. 3 revised. The 

 railroads have prepared a proposed rate, and in some cases a reclassifica- 

 tion, which will place freight charges on a higher basis than that fixed 

 by the Railroad Commission tariff. It is said by the railroads that the 

 commission's tariff was suitable to the conditions existing a few years 

 ago, namely. In 190S, when the Standard Freight Distance Tariff No. 3 

 was made, but that it is now too low to enable them to make a profit as 

 carriers between intrastate points. The railroads hope to be able to 

 induce t'.e commissioners to raise the rates as proposed in their new- 

 tariff. The business men of the state are strongly protesting against 

 a revision of the tariff, and their Interests are being represented by the 

 freight traffic bureaus of the various cities throughout the state. A 

 conference between the representatives of the various traffic departments 

 of the railroads in Arkansas and the various managers of traffic bureaus 

 of the ciiies In the state, together with the members of the Arkansas 

 Railroad Commission was to be held in Little Rock on Sept. 2. This 

 meeting, however, was postponed until Monday, Sept. 15. At that time 

 a hearing will be had and definite action taken by the Railroad Com- 

 mission of Arkansas. 



On Aug. 27, Judge Z. T. Wood of the Chicot County Chancery Court 

 issued an Injunction against the American Forest Company to prevent 

 that company from violating the provisions of a contract which it had 

 entered Into with the Cincinnati Cooperage Compan.v, agreeing to trans- 

 port over the Forest company's private line of railroad all timber bandied 

 by the Hudson & Dagger Company of Memphis, purchased from the Cin- 

 cinnati Cooperage Company. The American Forest Company Is a New 

 York rorporntinn operating in Chicot and Drew counties, Arkansas. The 

 Cincinnati Cooperage Company also owns several thousand acres of land 

 In southeastern Arkansas. The Injunction grew out of the refusal of the 

 American Forests Company to transijort over Its line the timber cut and 



