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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Company of Detroit a tract of land at Buckingham street and Cleveland 

 avenue, wliere its lumber yards have been located. The site is to be 

 used to erect a large assembling plant which will be a branch of the 

 Detroit branch. Possession is to be given Oct. 2.5 when the Knox com- 

 pany will secure a new location. 



H. R. Allen of the H. R. Allen Lumber Company has returned from 

 an extended vacation trip in Michigan. 



John R. Gobey of John R. Gobey & Co., has returned from an auto- 

 mobile trip in the East. He reports a fairly good demand for hardwoods 

 with prices well maintained in every particular. He says the prospects 

 for the future are good in every way. 



J. A. Ford of the Imperial Lumber Company reports a good demand 

 for many varieties of hardwoods. He says there is not a great deal of 

 trouble with car shortage up to date. 



W. L. Cortelyou of tlie Appalachia Lumber Company says conditions 

 in the hardwood trade are a little quiet although prices are holding up 

 well in every respect. Manager D. H. Maul of the company recently left 

 on his annual vacation. 



F. Everson rowell of the Powell Lumber Company says there is a fair 

 volume of business in hardwoods with prices steady. 



W. B. Sissons, sales manager of the Sowers-Leach Lumber Company, 

 says there has been a pretty good demand during the past week or two, 

 and the market appears to be a little stronger. Shipments are coming out 

 promptly. 



R. W. Horton, sales manager for the central division of the W. M. 

 liitter Lumber Company, says trade is all that could be expected for the 

 lime of the year. The volume of business is far ahead of July of this 

 year and also aacad of August of last yrav. 



The Pape-Glair Wood Products Company of Creston, O., has been In- 

 corporated with a capital stock of $15,000 to deal in wood products of 

 all kinds. The incorporators are W. H. Pape, J. G. Pape, H. A. Stearns, 

 C. G. Matteson and G. W. Coftey. 



The Builders' Exchange completed the plans for its new free employ- 

 ment bureau and set the new department at work. Applications in all 

 lines of the building trade will be received at the headquarters of the 

 exchange in the Arcade building. The contractor also will make arrange- 

 ments to exchange men so that the best mechanics may be at work all the 

 time, whether the contractor with whom they have been employed bas 

 work or not. 



Operation of the Ohio mechanic's lien law, enacted by the last legisla- 

 ture, began Aug. 5 after which date all building contracts must comply 

 with its provisions. Local lumbermen, material dealers and credit asso- 

 ciations are ready with the required blank forms and information regard- 

 ing the law. Those organizations, together with the Builders' Exchange, 

 have made every arrangement for providing the prospective builder with 

 every aid in meeting the requirements of the law, and to this end pamph- 

 lets are being prepared and will be mailed, giving full advice. 



For the purpose of pushing the project to give Columbus a large, 

 modernly equipped trade school, the builders' exchange has authorized 

 the appointment of a committee to co-operate with the board of educa- 

 tion in the proposition to sell the Front Street School building now used 

 as a trade school. This is said to be unfit for ordinary school purposes, 

 to say nothing of a trade school, and its continued use is regarded as a 

 detriment to the progress of trad'! educalion in this city. Builders' ex- 

 changes throughout the state have gone on record unanimously as in- 

 dorsing the trade school idea. 



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The Booth Column Company reports a continued good business, with 

 the factory running full capacity to keep up with orders. The greatest 

 call is for interior columns. 



The Builders' Exchange at Dayton, O., gave its annual outing Aug. 7. 

 It was attended by practically every member of the exchange with his 

 family. The picnic was held at Miller's Grove, Harshmanville. The 

 events included trap-shooting and athletic contests. A fried chicken 

 dinner was served. William H. Crume, Andy Kemper, Charles Schaeller. 

 Kuss Whitney, George Blanehard, and Joe Boren had charge of the 

 arrangements for the affair. 



The mill of the West Side Lumber Company of Dayton, O., recently 

 destroyed by tire, will be rebuilt as soon as the insurance adjustment is 

 made. 



Saturday morning 2.700 lumbermen, with their families and members 

 of the Builders' Exchange with their families, attended the annual 

 outing at Sugar Island. The trip was made on the steamer Grey- 

 hound. There were ball games, tug-of-war and all sorts of contests. 

 A iiienic dinner was served under the shade of original forest trees, 

 which are one of the attractions of the Island. The various lumber 

 concerns of the city closed the doors of their industries for the day 

 and supplied their employes with steamer tickets that they might 

 enjoy the day without transportation expense. The affair was one of 

 the most enjoyable ever held. 



.-< MEMPHIS >• 



sippi and the movement is expected to begin assuming fair proportions 

 in the Mississippi valley by the first of September. Officials of all the 

 roads entering Memphis are looking for a record yield of cotton and this 

 means that they will probably have some difficulty in taking care of this 

 without the usual neglect of lumber and other freight, as has been the 

 case during the fall and early winter for a number of years. All of the 

 roads in this section \rith the exception of the Frisco System have in- 

 creased their equipment and have taken steps to put themselves in 

 position to render good service to shippers of all commodities, but present, 

 indications are that there will be so much cotton to move that other 

 shippers will, in all probability, suffer their usual fate of lack of cars 

 and slow handling of their offerings. There is much optimism over the 

 magnificent crop prospects in the Mississippi valley and hardwood lum- 

 ber interests believe that they must share in the prosperity which such 

 a large yield of cotton foreshadows though they do not see any escape 

 from the scarcity of cars and lack of motive power and delayed handling 

 of shipments such as they have experienced in other years in the height 

 of the crop moving period. 



The receivers of the Frisco System have, through their attorney here, 

 brought suit against the principal stockholders of the Russell Uniform 

 Stave Company through which it is sought to secure release of the 

 property on which the company has its plant. It is pointed out that the 

 company agreed to pay a fixed monetary consideration for the use of the 

 land and that it also agreed to ship its output over the line of the 

 plaintiffs. It is still further asserted that, owing to inability of the 

 stockholders to get together, the railroad is deprived of the fixed con- 

 sideration in question and is likewise the loser of a large revenue which 

 would result from the operation of a going concern. 



The box factory of the Anderson-Tully Company at Vicksburg. Miss., is 

 closed down at present for repairs but will be placed in operation again 

 shortly. The two sawmills of the firm at that point are being operated 

 on full time and are preparing a good supply of cottonwood to be used 

 in the box plant. All of the box factories of the company at Memphis 

 are running on full time and the sawmill here is also in operation at its 

 capacity. This firm has recently doubled the output of its plant for the 

 manufacture of three-ply gum veneers. This has been quite successful 

 from the start and the company is finding .no difficulty in disposing of its 

 output which now amounts to about 25,000 feet per day. 



R. J. Darnell, Inc., has placed the order tor the new band mill which 

 is to be erected at Batesville, Miss., to replace the one recently destroyed 

 by fire at this point and the work of Installing the new plant will be 

 pushed as rapidly as possible. As previously stated in Habdwood Recobd, 

 this firm decided to remove Its band mill to Batesville in order that it 

 might be able the more easily to develop its timberland holdings near that 

 point. No definite statement can be given as to the time the new plant 

 will be in actual readiness for operation. 



The Kennedy Heading Company of this city is building a big circular 

 heading mill at Hagler, near Stuttgart, Ark. The plant will be in readi- 

 ness for operation about Sept. 1 and will give employment to about 

 seventy-five men. It will be in charge of L. L. Somers. The Kennedy 

 Heading Company operates a large heading plant in New South Memphis 

 and has been prominently identified with the tight cooperage industry 

 of this city and section for a number of years. 



The Welch Stave Company of Memphis has recently acquired 2,600 

 acres of hardwood timberland near Brownsville, Ark., and is now con- 

 sidering plans looking to the development of the timber on this property. 

 It is suggested that a plant will be established at a point coifvenlent 

 1 hereto. 



There is considerable complaint against the Illinois Central and Yazoo 

 & Mississippi Valley roads because of the unusual delays in making re- 

 funds on log shipments over their lines. Although officials of these ro.ads 

 testified in the case of May Brothers that two weeks was ample time in 

 which to make these refunds it is pointed out that it is taking anywhere 

 from sixty to seventy-five days to collect them. There has been con- 

 siderable discussion of the matter recently and it is stated that the 

 Southern Hardwood Traffic Bureau will take up the subject in a vigorous 

 manner if there is not some change on the 'part of these roads in refer- 

 ence to the time required for these refunds. 



John G. Meiser and H. W. Brown have purchased the yards of the 

 Arkmo Lumber Company at Paragould, Ark. The new owners will con- 

 tinue operations under the name of the H. W. Brown Lumber Company. 



=-< NASHVILLE y- 



Lumber interests have not yet had to contend with any shortage of 

 cars but they anticipate that their days of grace in this respect are 

 somewhat limited. The cotton crop has not yet begun to move in this 

 territory but "first bales" are being received from Arkansas and Missis- 



There was a concatenation of the Order of Hoo-Hoo for the middle 

 Tennessee District, attended by about sevcnty-flve lumbermen. Vice- 

 gerent Charles M. Morford officiated, assisted by former Grand Scrivenoter 

 James H. Baird. Fifteen new members were initiated. A Dutch supper 

 was the closing feature. The concatenation brought to Nashville the 

 largest gathering of lumbermen that has assembled here the past year. 



The Tennessee Stave & Lumber Company of Scott county has been 

 incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $,''>00,000. J. II. Ray, 

 J. T. Anderson, W. B. Ray, E. W. Christian, O. 11. Anderson, D. W, 

 Speek, J. M. Anderson, S. B. Anderson and S. A. Christian are incorpo- 

 rators. 



The sawmill of Monroe Boyd at Keely, near Hopklnsvlllc, Ky., was de- 

 stroyed by fire of unknown origin, causing a loss of $1,200, with no 

 insurance. 



