.Tiinf 10. 1921' 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



53 



& Lumber Company, Louisville, has been chartered by R. J., F. W. and 

 J. B. Leet. 



At New Albany, Ind., some of the hardwood men are charter members 

 of the New Albany Country Club, which has secured a 77-acre tract of 

 land and will install a golf course, club house, etc. E. V. Knight of the 

 Navco Hardwood Company and New Albany Veneering Company, and 

 H. N. Kannapell of the Period Cabinet Company are among the incor- 

 porators. 



J. S. Thompson of the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association claims 

 that there should not be any slump in shipments during June on account 

 of the freight reduction, as most of the reduction was already in effect, 

 and as lumber is sold delivered the reduction does not aCEect the buyer. 



George Wilcox of the I. B. Wilcox Company reports that their mill is 

 running full time at Burdette, Miss., and getting all the logs needed at 

 this time. 



Work has started on a kiln to cost about $6,000 at the plant of the 

 Louisville Point Lumber Company, which in answer to a general demand 

 is now installing dry kiln facilities, after depemling on dairying for 

 many years. 



BEAUMONT 



Ben S. Woodhead, president of the Beaumont Lumber Company, has 

 returned from a two week's jaunt to the West Indies. Mr. Woodhead 

 reports business good in Porto Rico, but Cuba and other West Indian 

 islands are going through a period of depression. He went as a member 

 of the chamber of commerce committee of Beaumont. 



The J. M. West Lumber Company has purchased all the timber rights 

 on the D. A. Patillo league in Orange county for $25,000. 



L. L. Chipman, manager of the export department of the Long-Bell 

 Lumber Company, will sail from New York on June 10 to visit the principal 

 market centers on the other side. He will visit England, Holland. Ger- 

 many. Belgium. France and possibly Italy. He will return about Sep- 

 tember 1. 



TORONTO 



The Batchhawana Timber and Improvement Co., Ltd., has been incorpo- 

 rated under the laws of Ontario with a capital stock of $30,000 and with 

 power to engage in a general lumbering business. Among the incorpora- 

 tors are B. W. Sippy. A. F. Sippy, Carl B. Davis and N. S. Heany, of 

 Chicago, and G. G. Gleason, of Walkerville, Mich. 



At a meeting of the Toronto Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association 

 held in Toronto May 1, it was decided to make representations to the 

 Dominion Government to have the sales tax on lumber changed so that 

 it will apply in the same manner as on other commodities. The para- 

 graph in the sales tax resolution applying to lumber reads as follows : 

 "Provided that in respect to lumber an excise tax of 3 per cent shall be 

 imposed, levied and collected on sales and deliveries by the Canadian 

 manufacturer and ot 4% per cent on importations, and that no further 

 excise shall be payable on resale." The wholesalers claim that according 

 to the excise tax regulations they have to absorb the tax instead of pass- 

 ing half of it to the retailer, as in other lines than lumbering. 



The entire plant of the Muskoka Wood Manufacturing Company, one 

 of Huntsville's biggest industries, was completely destroyed by fire on 

 May 28. The plant consisted of a large and well-equipped sawmill, a hard- 

 wood flooring factory, the output of which found a market in all parts of 

 Canada, a large drying kiln and extensive warehouses in which were 

 stored large quantities of dressed floorings awaiting shipment. The 

 plant was erected twenty-three years ago, and was one of the largest 

 flooring and lumbering businesses in Canada. 



A judgment in which liability is expected to exceed a million dollars was 

 rendered in Vancouver, B. C, a few days ago against the Canada Timber 

 & Lands, Limited, whose head office is in Toronto. The successful plain- 

 tiffs are seven loggers, who entered into a contract with the company to 

 purchase two hundred million feet of timber at Toba River, B. C. A 

 portion of this had been logged, when the company repudiated the con- 

 tract. The decision is to be appealed. 



H. J. Terry of Terry & Gordon, Ltd., Toronto, who is the chairman of 

 the wholesale Lumber Dealers' Association, Inc., and a director of the 

 Toronto Rotary Club, has gone to Los Angeles to attend the International 

 Convention of Rotary Clubs. 



R. Lockhart of R. Lockhart & Co., Ltd., Fort Francis, Ont., and R. P. 

 Wescott, formerly connected with the McDonald Lumber Company, Ltd., 

 and the McI>onald Lumber Yards, Ltd., have opened a wholesale lumber 

 office in the Mclntyre Building, Winnipeg, Man. 



The Gravel Lumber Company. Ltd.. Etchemin Bridge, Que., of which 

 Sir William Price is president, has opened an office at 501 Drummond 

 building, Montreal, under the management of L. G. Gravel, the assistant 

 general manag^-r of the company. The company, which has been estab- 

 lished 42 years, specializes in Quebec spruce, birch flooring and boxes. 



B. W. Lakin. who for the past fifteen years has been the logging super- 

 intendent for the Cookstou Lumber Company of Bemidji, Minn., has been 

 appointefl general manager of the Shevlin-Clarke Lumber Company at 

 Fort Francis. Ont. He succeeds J. A. Mathieu, M. L. A., who resigned 

 a few weeks ago. 



King MiU & Lumber Co. 



PADUCAH, KENTUCKY 

 Manufacturers Soudiern Hardwoods 



Ash, Elm, Oak, Gum 

 Maple,Cypress, Hickory 



Cypress Shingles 



WE SHIP STRAIGHT OR MIXED CARLOADS 



HARDWOODS and SHINGLES 



BLAIR 

 LUMBER CO. 



Hardwood 

 Manufacturers 



CHATTANOOGA, TENN. 



The Hardwood Market 



CHICAGO 



The improvement begun some weeks ago in the Chicago market con- 

 tinues. All the various Industrial consumers are a little more active in 

 buying, the total making a considerable improvement in demand. Prices 

 are holding firm, or advancing. Wholesalers report increased difficulty In 

 securing needed stocks, indicating shortage of popular items at the mills 

 both north and south. The recent order of the Interstate Commerce Com- 

 mission for the general reduction of railroad freight rates has had only a 

 slightly deterrent influence on the purchase of hardwoods in this market, 

 because of the little real difference it will make in the cost of this product. 



BUFFALO 



The hardwood demand has been on the increase during the past month, 

 and has generally been the best month so far this year. With some con- 

 cerns the sales ran close to those of the best months of 1921. The advance 



