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HARDWOOD RECORD 



with all the Interstate Commerce decisions 

 affecting freight rates. John W. Love of Love, 

 Royd & Co. is a member of the Board of Trade 

 Committee named to get data regarding the 

 operations and the effectiveness of such rate 

 bureaus in otber cities in which they have been . 

 maintained. Love, Boyd & Co., John B. Ransom 

 & Co. and the Morford Lumber Company have 

 already subscribed to the bureau. The dues are 

 $50 a year for three years, with the guarantee 

 that the subscriber will give the bureau as much 

 as $100 worth of worli a year. 



M. F. Greene has been up at Wilder, Tenn.. 

 for the past few days, where the Davidson, 

 Hicks & Greene Company has one of its mills. 



Lumber Company of Lexington, in that city, 

 will enter the hardwood business, it is an- 

 nounced. Thomas E. Trimmell will be general 

 manager. It is also announced that the capital 

 stock of the company will be increased. 



& Creosoting Company of Texarkana for creo- 

 sotod railroad ties. It is one of the largest 

 tie contracts made in recent years. The ties 

 are to be chiefly of white oak and several modern 

 tie machine plants will be installed in the dis- 

 trict from which the timber is to Ix' taken. 



LOUISVILLE 



T. M. Brown of W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber 

 Company, the new president of the Louisville 

 Hardwood Club, expects to announce his stand- 

 ing committees for the coming year in the next 

 few weeks. 



D. E. Kline of the Louisville Veneer Mills 

 has been in New York and other eastern cities 

 of late. Harry Kline of that firm reports busi- 

 ness considerably improved, but collections un- 

 satisfactory. 



"They're a pair of 'white elephants' on our 

 hands," said J. C. Wickliffe, secretary of C. C. 

 Mengel & Bro. Company, referring to two young 

 leopards which came over from Africa with a 

 cargo of mahogany logs. An effort is being 

 made to dispose of them to a circus or zoological 

 garden. The youngsters don't seem to mind their 

 transplanting, and are getting along fine. 



The new office building of the Xorman Lumber 

 Company is one of the finest of the sort in the 

 country. It is built of pressed brick, with red 

 tile roof. Open fire-places and paneled walls, 

 made of the Norman company's own oak, are 

 features of attraction, while a big brick vault, 

 built into the house, is another advantage. The 

 offices are as roomy and commodious as any 

 to be found anywhere. The stables also are of 

 brick. The quarters of the company are now 

 at Xinth and Magnolia streets. 



W. V. Shepardson of the Kentucky Hardwood 

 Flooring Company, who is also manager of the 

 Louisville Planing Mill and the Anderson Veneer 

 & Sawmill Company, was a recent visitor at the 

 Hardwood Club. 



Harold Gates of the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company is on a trip through the East. He 

 has reported that business in that section shows 

 signs of improvement. 



The Ford. Ky., mill of the Louisville Point 

 Lumber Company has been closed as the result 

 of the completion of its work in cutting up the 

 available supply of logs. As soon as another 

 log tide rises in the Kentucky river the mill 

 will start up again. 



The mahogany sawmill and veneer mill of C. 

 C. Mengel & Bro. Company has been running 

 day and night for the past few weeks. The 

 demand for both lumber and veneers is good. 



The new mill of the North Vernon Lumber 

 Company, which was recently set up at Dyers- 

 burg. Tenn., Is now in operation, and is cutting 

 about S.'i.OOO feet a day. 



J. E. Davis of the Edward I,. Davis Lumber 

 Company came up last week from Barren county, 

 where he is in charge of the company's saw- 

 mills. The Davis mill in Louisville has been 

 running overtime of late. C. M. Sears of the 

 company is now on a trip through the Middle 

 West. 



I). (". Harris, traflic manager of C. C. Mengel 

 & Uro. ('(inipany, has returned from an expedi- 

 ^ tion Ibniiigb the logging sections of Arkansas 

 and Louisiana. 



Work has been begun on the new extension 

 of the Lexington & Eastern Railroad, which 

 will run ninety miles east of Jackson through 

 the lumber district of eastern Kentucky. 



The Penn Lumber Company of Georgetown, 

 which has purchased the branch of the Combs 



ST. LOUIS 



The National Association of Agricultural Im- 

 plement & Vehicle Manufacturers held a three- 

 day meeting in St. Louis, Mo.. November 1, 2 

 and 3. One of the chief things done was the 

 merging of the following associations : The 

 National Plow Association, National Wagon 

 Manufacturing Association, National Vehicle 

 Manufacturer.s' Association and the Cost Educa- 

 tional Association of America. The new asso- 

 ciation will be known as the National Imple- 

 ment & Vehicle Association of the United States 

 of America. The organization represents the 

 plow, wagon, implement, harvester and binder 

 manufacturers of America, and represents a 

 combined capital of $700,000,000 and a com- 

 Hfed annual output of $900,000,000. 



Edward D. Metcalf of Auburn, N. Y., former 

 chairman of the Executive Committee of the 

 National Association of Agricultural Implement 

 & Vehicle Manufacturers, was elected president 

 and W. J. Evans. Chicago, former secretary of 

 the old association, was elected secretary. Mr. 

 Evans was also made general manager of the 

 new organization. He will rank with the presi- 

 dent and will be the executive bead. 



Frank C. Johnson of Springfield, Ohio, was 

 made chairman of the new Executive Committee. 

 Vice-presidents were elected as follows : W. A. 

 Taylor, La Porte, Ind. ; William Louden, Fair- 

 field, la. ; S. M. Nomes, Louisville. Ky. ; E. P. 

 Curtis, Worcester, Mass. ; B. T. Skinner. Battle 

 Creek, Mich. ; A. T. Stevens, St. Louis ; Richard 

 Graves, Dayton, O. : R. S. Buch, Elizabetbtown, 

 Pa. ; J. S. Baker, E'vansville, Wis. ; Fred H. 

 Bateman, Grenloch, N. J. ; Judson Buchanan, 

 Chattanooga, Tenn., and G. B. Demster, Beatrice, 

 Neb. The new organization will meet in Chi- 

 cago next year. 



The total number of permits issued in October 

 was 948, according to the report, and aggre- 

 gated $l,18."i,791. The most costly building to 

 be erected for which a permit was taken out 

 is the freight house of the Missouri, Kansas 

 & Texas Railroad Company. It will cost $100,- 

 000. 



According to A. H. Bush, secretary of the 

 lumbermen's Exchange of St. Louis, the lum- 

 ber Inspected and measured by the exchange 

 during the month of October was as follows : 



Feet. 



Yellow pine 12,989 



Oak . . . 253,834 



Quartered oak 113,25ft 



\sh 119,107 



Gum 76,190 



Maple 23,849 



Hickory 2,569 



Elm . 47.423 



Locust 1^1 



Hackberry 248 



Coffee nut 76 



Cypress 42,415 



Total 692,129 



The Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis scored 

 the prohibition amendment as a menace to nil 

 interests in Missouri, at a meeting held recently. 

 The club members pledged themselves to work 

 for the defeat of the amendment which will 

 be voted on at the election to be held in the 

 state, November 8. 



A recent visitor in St. Louis and a leader in 

 the hardwood trade, was Gus Landeck of Mil- 

 waukee, Wis., who passed through the city on 

 the way to the hardwood mills in Arkansas. 



The Chas. F. Luehrmann Hardwood Lumber 

 Company reports a fair amount of business. All 

 the hardwood items arc in about the same de- 

 mand. 



The Cotton Belt road has recently made a 

 $2,000,000 contract with the National Lumber 



NEW ORLEANS 



I'residont C. H. Ellis of the New Orleans 

 Board of Trade has invited the American Lum- 

 ber Trade Congress to hold its next convention 

 in New Orleans. John A. Bruce, Strader, La., 

 president ; Geo. E. Merrill, Salt Lake City, Utah, 

 vice-president, and other officials of the lumber 

 organization are in favor of holding the next 

 session here. 



The Orleans Manufacturing Company, Newton 

 E. Schirer, general manager, will erect a five 

 story reinforced concrete coffin factory, 238x122 

 feet. 



The Port Barre Lumber Company's big hard- 

 wood mill at Port Barre, La., closed down on 

 the night of November 3, 1910, after bein^ 

 placed in the hands of the Interstate Trust & 

 Banking Company of New Orleans, as received 

 This mill was running five band saws, cutting 

 approximately 70.000 feet of lumber per season. 

 It is expected that operations will be resumed 

 in ninety days at the longest. 



The hardwood mill of William Drews, Jr., at 

 Denham Springs, La., has been closed for a 

 period of several weeks. The company is pre- 

 paring to extend its logging road in another 

 direction, in order to get into a tract of first- 

 class hardwood timber. 



MILWAUKEE 



R. S. Kellogg of Wau.sau, secretary of the 

 Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufacturers' 

 Association, has ^ent out circular letters urging 

 the members to attend the hearing of the State 

 Railroad Commission at Madison on November 9. 

 .Vt this time evidence will be submitted to prove 

 whether or not the railways of the state are 

 rromptly disposing of claims, and whether the 

 railroad companies, through their agents, are 

 deciding claims for overcharges of freight equit- 

 ably to the railroads and the shippers over their 

 lines. 



The Wachsmuth Lumber Compauy has closed 

 its mill at Bayfield. Wis., after a season's cut of 

 20,000,000 feet. The mill was closed because 

 no more logs were obtainable at the present time. 

 Several camps have already been set out by this 

 company in preparation for the winter's logging 

 operations. 



The J. S. Stearns Lumber Company has com- 

 pleted its operation at the Red Cliff mill of the, 

 Red Cliff Lumber Company and will now confine 

 its operations to its own mill at Washburn, Wis., 



The Wisconsin railroad commission has ordered 

 the Chicago, St. I'aul, Minneapolis & Omaha and 

 the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie 

 roads to reduce their rate on lumber shipped be- 

 tween Siilon Springs and Superior from i% to 

 3% cents per hundred weight. 



Pl.ans have been completed for the new plant, 

 to be erected at Neenah, Wis., by the Hardwood 

 Products Company, recently organized. Excava- 

 tions for the foundation, which will be of con- 

 crete, have already been commenced. The plans 

 show a main factory building three stories high, 

 .■t two-story power plant, two dry kilns and a 

 two-story warehouse building. All of the build 

 ings will be constructed of brick. 



The Boyd Lumber ..*c Improvement Company. 

 Boyd, Wis., has been incorporated with a capita) 

 stock of $100,000. A plant with a capacity of 

 at least 6,000,000 feet annually will be erected. 



The Racine Stool Manufacturing Company, 

 Racine, Wis., has commenced the erection of a 

 new brick dry kiln which will hold 50,000 feet of 

 lumber. A new sprinkler system is being in- 

 stalled in the company's plant. 



