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HARDWOOD RECORD 



allied problems. The organization is to be known as the National Colonial 

 Column Association. J. L. Fetterman of the Weis & Lesh Manufacturing 

 Company, Jackson, Tenn., was one of those who participated in the meet- 

 ing here. Others were ; B. McGregor of the Itta Bena Column Company. 

 Itta Bena, Miss. ; A. E. Jackson of the Florence Column Company, Flor- 

 ence, Ala. ; C. Bryson of Bryson, N. C, and J. A. Sturfleld of the Enter- 

 prise Lumber Company. Corinth, Miss. 



Bluestone Land & Lumber Company 



MANUFACTl'KERS 



WEST VIRGINIA HARDWOODS 

 Soft White Pine, Oak, Poplar, Chestnut, Hemlock 



Band Sawed Stock RIDGWAY 



PENNSYLVANIA 



MILL FACILITIES 

 COMPLETE PLANING 



PHIS 



Wholesale Manufacturers and Exporters 



RED GUM 



SAP GUM 



COTTONWOOD 



CYPRESS 



ASH 



PLAIN OAK 



Aiir- J J TL- u QUARTERED OAK 



All (jrades and I ntcknesses ^ HICKORY 



Wemake a specialty of mixed cars SOFT ELM 



SYCAMORE 



of Sap and Red Gum, Cne-balf to 

 Two inches thick. 



VANDEN B00H=ST1MS0N LUMBER COMPANY 



Manofactnrers Sontherfl Hardwoods 



Red Qum a Specleilty^ 

 Memphis Tennessee 



TIMBER ESTIMATES 



REPORTS INCLDPED 

 TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP, DETAIL ESTIMATES 4 WRITTEN REPORT 



GARDNER & HOWE 



ENGINEERS 



Clarence W. Griffith "'S.'J?t«°.*ui^nt*"' Memphis, Tenn. 



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Several new members have been adileil recently to the ranks of the 

 Louisville Hardwood Club. They Include the North Vernon Lumber Com- 

 pany, the Anderson Veneer & Sawmill Company and the Kentuclsy-Indiana 

 Hardwood Company. The first two operate mills and the latter a whole- 

 sale yard. They will be represented in the club by Charles Platter, 

 August Kahler and Herbert Bauman, respectively. 



The members of the Nashville Lumbermen's Club will journey to Louis- 

 ville about the middle of October for the purpose of accepting the hos- 

 pitality of the Louisville Hardwood Club. The latter has asked that the 

 Tennesseans return the visit which the Louisville lumbermen enjoyed to 

 Nashville last sprin,:;, and the Lumbermen's Club of the southern city has 

 indicated that it will gladly avail itself of the opportunity. 



The exhibit ol the Louisville Hardwood Club at the Kentucky state 

 fair, held in Louisville, September 15-20, attracted wide attention. It 

 formed the main portion of the forestry exhibit arranged by J. E. Barton, 

 the state forester. Over thirty varieties were represented, and until they 

 were labeled during the iatter part of the fair week, some interesting 

 and rather amusing efforts were made by the public to decide what woods 

 were represented. Few, for instance, recognized the persimmon board 

 which was shown, the coloring and figure of this wood being strange even 

 to the average lumberman. 



A discussion of the cost of doing business marked a recent meeting of 

 the Hardwood Club, T. M. Brown of the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber 

 Company, who has had experience in both the manufacturing and whole- 

 saling end of the business, leading the discussion and presenting some 

 figures taken from his own records. Other lumbermen indicated what 

 their costs for various operations were, and the interchange of informa- 

 tion proved helpful to everybody present. 



Congressman John Langley is endeavoring to interest the War Depart- 

 ment in a plan to rid the upper Big Sandy river of stumps. The snags 

 have caused considerable timber losses. 



George S. Wood of Chicago, manager of the Forest Products Exposition, 

 was In Louisville last week talking to local lumbermen about the project. 



P. G. Booker, president of the Booker-Cecil Company, is out again after 

 having been laid up over three months with typhoid fever. Mr. Booker 

 is rapidly recovering his strength and will soon be in tiptop shape. 



The Edward L. Davis Lumber Company is continuing the operation ot 

 Its mill at night, having piled up a lot of logs which it is anxious to get 

 out of the way. 



The Interstate Commerce Commission held a hearing in Louisville, 

 September 24 for the purpose of taking evidence in the complaint filed 

 by the W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company and other local hardwood 

 concerns agaiust the Louisville & Nashville railroad, involving rates on 

 that line north of Decatur. Ala., recently advanced. The case affects 

 Uvansville and Cincinnati directly, as both cities are named in the tariff 

 which was oljjected to. 



The sawmill of the Beaver Lumber Company, recently organized at 

 Ashland, Ky., will be located in Lawrence county, it Is reported. 



Most of the country mill operators have discontinued for the season, it 

 is generally reported. The dry weather which marked the summer made 

 teams and labor plentiful and enabled a lot of timber to be gotten out 

 and worked up ; but the slack demand during the past month or two 

 caused many of the small operators to discontinue. 



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The car shortage, as a rule is not quite so senous this season as it was 

 last, but there are still many sections where there are long delays in get- 

 ting out shipments. In other sections, the delays are only slight. The 

 carriers as we'll as the shippers are using every effort to reduce the de- 

 lays, in the way of unloading, etc. 



R. U. Fletcher, vice-president of the Hooton Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, is on a buying trip in the South. Mr. McRoberts, sales manager of 

 the company, has just returned from a trip through Iowa and northern 

 Illinois. He brought in some good orders. 



\V. W. Dings of the Garetson-Greason Lumber Company visited the 

 mills of the company last week. On his return be stated that the new 

 mill being erected at Wasson, Ark., will soon be In operation. 



F. H. Smith of the Smith-Sueme Lumber Company is back from his 

 vacation, which he spent in the North. He says that just at present 

 business is a little quiet owing to the weather conditions but he looks 

 for considerable improvement in the near future. 



There is a pretty fair demand for gum and oak, reports E. H. Luehr- 

 mann of the Chas. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber Company. He says 

 there is also a good call for the other items on the hardwood list and 

 the call Is getting better all the time. The company is in good shape to 

 take care of business, as it has a large and well assorted stock on hand. 



L. M. Borgess of the Steele & Ilibbard Lumber Company, who is on a 

 selling trip in Iowa and Minnesota, is sending In some nice orders. He 

 wrote that while the line yards and the consumers are buying fairly 

 well, they are not placing the orders they should with the stocks so low 

 and poorly assorted. 



Thos. E. Powe of the Thos. E. Powe Lumber Company says there Is a 

 seasonable demand for oak, poplar, ash and cypress. Prices are keeping 

 up quite well. The business has developed quite rapidly and Mr. Powe 

 says there is considerable of an Increase over sales of a year ago. 



