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Shaffer tract of 30.000 acres was taken together with tracts owned by 

 the Interstate Coal and Iron Company and the Unaka Springs Lumber 

 Company. 



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There was a decrease in the volume of building operations in St. Louis 

 last month amounting to nearly a million dollars. The lateness of this 

 season and the filing of several large permits last year increased opera- 

 tions last year over the normal. 



Receipts of lumber by rail at St. Louis during April this year as 

 reported by the Merchants' Exchange were 16,725 cars. During April 

 last year the receipts were 12.767 cars, showing a gain in receipts this 

 April of 3,958 cars. Shipments of lumber by rail last month were 

 14,301 cars. A year ago the shipments were 10,002. an increase this 

 April of 4,209 cars. There were no shipments or receipts by river during 

 either of the years. 



Twenty-four new members joined the Lumbermen's Exchange at the 

 last meeting of the board of directors. The membership came from Mis- 

 souri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Ohio. The aggressive campaign recently 

 Inaugurated by President F. H. Smith is responsible for the big gain. 



The inspection department of the Lumbermen's Exchange is busy. Not 

 only has the local work increased but that from the outside is growing 

 all the time. 



H. Borcherding is now covering the South for the Thomas E. Powe 

 Lumber Company. Mr. Borcherding was formerly of Baton Rouge, La. 



W. W. Dings of the Garetson-Greason Lumber Company says that 

 company is getting more orders than it can fill, their railroad business 

 being especially heavy. The recent heavy rains have bothered the com- 

 pany's mills, one or two of them working only part of the time and the 

 others working" whenever possible. 



E. H. Blumer of the Lothman Cypress Company is in the northern 

 territory looking after his customers. He said before leaving that busi- 

 ness was good and that the company is well satisfied with both the 

 volume of business it is doing and the prices obtained. 



Thomas E. Toungblood. secretary of the Payson-Smith Lumber Com- 

 pany, is in the South buying lumber for the company. While the head- 

 quarters of the company are located in Minneapolis, it has a branch in 

 St. Louis, of which Mr. Youngblood is the local manager. The company 

 handles principally oak. gum, ash and hickory. 



Roland F. Krebs of the Krebs-Scheve Lumber Company, who was mar- 

 ried a couple of weeks ago, has returned from his wedding trip and has 

 located in his new home in the West End. 



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The Louisville Hardwood Club entertained President Charles H. 

 Barnaby and members of the official staff and directorate of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association May 6. Mr. Barnaby is a favorite of 

 Louisville lumbermen, and they had been planning to greet him and his 

 official family for a long time. The executive committee of the associa- 

 tion met Tuesday morning. A luncheon followed, the Louisville lumber- 

 men being hosts. The afternoon was taken up in various ways, many 

 of the lumbermen visiting the yards, which were in the flooded district. 

 In the evening the visitors were entertained at dinner. President Edward 

 L. Davis of the Hardwood Club presiding. Numerous informal talks 

 were made regarding the lumber business in general and the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association in particular. The affair was most 

 enjoyable. 



The Louisville Hardwood Club has joined with the Kentucky Retail 

 Lumber Dealers' Association in a protest to President Wilson against 

 the approval of the Sundry Civil Service Appropriation bill in its present 

 form, under which farmers' organizations and labor unions are exempted 

 from prosecution with funds appropriated for the use of the trust- 

 busters. The lumbermen felt that while there was no immediate pros- 

 pect of its becoming necessary to undertake prosecutions of the exempted 

 type, such a provision was decidedly tinged with the spirit of class leg- 

 islation, and was accordingly unwholesome. The bill now pending is 

 similar to that which was vetoed by President Taft just before his re- 

 tirement from office. 



Louisville lumbermen report that a slight car shortage is about the 

 only visible effect of the recent floods, and that is accounted for on the 

 ground that much delayed freight is in transit, many cars which should 

 have been released still being held up awaiting delivery. However, the 

 difficulty regarding rolling stock is by no means serious, and it is ex- 

 pected that it will have completely disappeared within a few weeks. 



Hardwood interests watched with considerable satisfaction the progress 

 of the suit of the Ohio Valley Tie Company of Louisville against the 

 Louisville & Nashville Railroad, which culminated in a verdict for a 

 little more than $56,000 damages in favor of the tie company. The 

 charges in its suit were that the railway endeavored to ruin its business 

 by posting prohibitive rates on ties and in other ways interfering with 

 the legitimate operation of the business. The fact that the road pro- 

 vided an insufficient number of cars and required the tie concern to re- 

 handle them into other cars in Louisville was one of those regarded as 

 most damaging to the case of the railway, which put up a strenuous 

 fight. The Louisville & Nashville, it is also stated, has put into effect 

 all over Its line in Kentucky a tie rate no greater than the rate on rough 



lumber of the same kind, thus carrying out the principle laid down by 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission on numerous occasions. 



Friends of D. E. Kline, head of the Louisville Veneer Mills, are con- 

 gratulating him on the appearance and general make-up of a brochure 

 which has just come from the press, entitled "A Novelty That Has 

 Become a Staple: Figured Gum." The booklet exploits the advantages 

 and desirability of figured gum lumber, veneers and panels, and, besides 

 showing the splendid facilities of the Louisville Veneer Mills for pro- 

 ducing that kind of stock, presents some impressive arguments relative 

 to the development of the wood from a despised second-rater, used for 



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 fact — 



We have secured some unusually 

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