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lumber cut from the logs as shown iu the waybills. Re-shipping privi- 

 leges were fully considered by the members of the club together with 

 what action the club should take in the premises. It is claimed that 

 to date the railroads have not abandoned their system of keeping a record 

 of inbound logs and outbound lumber shipments in order that advantage 

 may be taken of through rates. In the first place, the local club will 

 try to get the railroads to issue these tariffs and what further action 

 will be taken will be decided later. " In the meantime, the transportation 

 committee of the club will continue to work on log rates. 



H. H. Snell representing the Lathrop Lumber Company, Birmingham, 

 Ala., was a recent visitor to the local market. 



=■< BRISTOL y- 



The H. P. Wjman Lumber Company of this city, is prcpanng to start 

 its new mill in Lee county, Virginia, where the company has purchased 

 a large area of hardwood timberland. A line of railroad, connecting 

 with the Virginia and Southwestern, is now being constructed. 



Parties interested with J. A. Williiuson liave just closed a deal for one 

 of the best small tracts of timber in Sullivan county. Tennessee. It is 

 .situated on Eden's ridge, flfteen miles south of Bristol, and consists of 

 GOO acres. The consideration is said to have been in excess of $40,000. 

 The property will be developed at an early date. 



Among the buyers on the Bristol market this week were George P. 

 Bartlctt, a wholesale lumberman of Philadelphia and J. W. Ilodlin, rep- 

 resenting the Virginia Lumber Company, of Columbus, Ohio. 



T. G. Griffin of Price & Pierce. Ltd., London, arrived this week to flic 

 a claim of about .$50,000 againt the J. A. Wilkinson Lumber Company. 

 Inc. The first dividend is l>eing held pending the filing of the London 

 claim. Trustee Whaley has sold off most of the assets and has the cash 

 in bank ready to disburse as soon as the contest over the Price & Pierce 

 claimed is settled. Some of the creditors contend that it is in fact a 

 claim against J. A. Wilkinson individually and not the J. A. Wilkinson 

 Lumber Company, Inc. 



The Tennessee Lumber ^lanufacturing Company, which has operated 

 a band mill at Sutherland. Tenn.. for many years, is closing out its 

 operation and shipping the stock on its yards. The company will with- 

 draw from this section. 



The Peter-JIc(-"ain Company will shortly begin the development of a 

 tract of timber in Carter county. Tenn.. which it purchased at $50,000. 

 The company will soon exhaust its timber supply in the Holston moun- 

 tains on the Holston Valley railroad. The Carter county timber will be 

 hauled to the band mill in this city. 



John C. Anderson, vice-president of the Bristol Door and Lumber Com- 

 p.Tuy. Inc., a prominent banker of Bristol, died last week at the asje 

 of sixty-three years. 



The Paxton Lumber Company is doing an extensive business. The com- 

 pany is now operating in Bristol, in western North Carolina and near 

 Charleston, W. Va. 



The Adams Lumber Company has purchased an additional tract of 

 timber south of Blountville and will continue cutting in that section for 

 some time. 



^-< LOUISVILLE y. 



The Kentucky-Indiana Hardwood Company, which started business ia 

 Louisville about a year ago. has purchased the entire block on which 

 its yard is located, at Twent.v-third street and Standard avenue. The 

 company is making fair progress under the management of Herbert A. 

 Bauman. 



Edward S. Shippen, president of the Louisville Point Lumber Compau.v, 

 was the host of the members of the Louisville Hardwood Club and their 

 ladies at a dinner given at his home last Tuesday evening. May 20. 

 Covers were laid for twenty-four. The dinner was informal and thor- 

 oughly enjoyable. 



A. E. Norman, Jr., of the Norman Lumber Company read a paper 

 before the Louisville Hardwood Club recently, dealing with the manage- 

 ment of a wholesale yard, in which he discussed the proper layout and 

 equipment of the yard as well as the handling of men. Although Mr. 

 Norman has been out of college for only a year, having graduated from 

 Princeton in 1912, he has taken hold of the lumber business in fine 

 style, and coming from a family of lumbermen has made an auspicious 



gentry into the bu.siness. His paper showed a fine grasp of the details 

 of running a wholesale hardwood yard. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills may be wearing the title 

 of president of the largest commercial organization in the country before 

 very long, as he recently became first vice-president of the Louisville 

 Commercial Club, which claims the distinction of having more members 

 than any other business body in the United States. Jlr. Kline has been 

 n director and active in the work of the club for a long while, and was 

 reappointed to the important post of chairman of the transportation 

 committee. Incidentally, it may be noted that Mr. Kline is serving his 

 second term as vice-president of the Louisville Hardwood Club. 



The mill of the Edward L. Davis Lumber Company has been running 

 day and night of late, the demand for lumber having been such as to 

 v.-arrant overtime operations. The company has been getting in plenty of 

 logs and is in good condition to keep up its fast pace, as far as the 



• double-shift manufacturing plans are concerned. 



JIahogany logs are not parlicularly plentiful and the C. C. Mengel & 

 Pro. Company, which has been running steadily for months with a 

 good deal of night work in that period, in an endeavor to catch up with 

 the demand for lumber, may have to curtail its operations in the neav 

 future on account of a shortage of material. However, more logs will 

 arrive from Central .\mcrica in a short time, so that the interim will 1>6 

 sbori. 



Some question has arisen as to when the Louisville & Nashville ex- 

 pects to adopt the suggestion of the Interstate Commerce Commission as 

 to milling-in-transit rules. The commission suggested, in an opinion 

 handed down several months ago, that it would be in line with its ideas 

 to have the lumbermen substitute hardwoods for hardwoods in shippir.; 

 out lumber corresponding with log tonnage affected by the milling-in 

 trinsit arrangement, but the Louisville & Nashville, the principal carrier 

 affected htre. has not seen fit to make the change. Hardwood men are 

 still making their reports to the Southern Weighing and Inspection Bu- 

 reau with oak tonnage canceling oak tonnage and ash, ash. This is 

 obviously a hardship and makes it ditlicult if not impossible to get the 

 refund on a large number of mixed cars, which probably predominate iu 

 this territory. 



Active railway construction work aflfecting the lumber trade will b" 

 carried forward this summer, the Lexington & Eastern having decided 

 upon another extension up Rockhouse creek from Whitesburg, a dis 

 tauce of twenty miles. The Cincinnati. Licking Valley & Virginia, which 

 will build up the valley of the Licking river into eastern Kentucky, 

 announced from its headquarters at Winchester that plans had been com 

 p'eted for con^^truction work and that contracts would be let shortly. 



Lcland G. Banning of Cincinnati, O.. has purchased the Sawmill of 

 the Eversole Lumber Company at Frankfort. Ky. W. S. Kossnn will 

 remain in charge of the plant as manager. The Eversole compauy has 

 its headquarters at London. Ky.. and has been prominent in the Kentucky 

 river trade for several years. 



=-< ST. LOUIS >• 



The Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis will hold its next monthly meeting 

 at the Glen Echo Country Club, in St. Louis county, on Tuesday evening. 

 June 10. The ladies have been invited to attend this meeting. The 

 speaker of the evening will be N. S. Darling of Oklahoma City. There 



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