HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Executive — -The oflScers of the club, including 

 T. M. Brown, W. I'. Brown & Sons : S. E. Booker, 

 E. B. Norman & Co., and Claude M, Sears of the 

 Edward Tj. Davis T,uml)pr Company. 



Jlerabership — Edward Ij, Davis, chairman : Ed- 

 ward Siiippeii, Louisvilh." Point Lumber Com- 

 pany; D. E. Kline. Louisville Veneer Mills; A. 

 E. Norman, Norman Lumber Company, 



Advertising — S. E. Boolier, chairman ; D. E. 

 Kline, Claude M. Sears, J. C. Wicltlifte, C. C. 

 Mengel & Bro. Company, 



Transportation — E. B. Norman, E. B. Norman 

 & Co., chairman ; Everett Haynes, Mengel Box 

 Company ; D. C, Harris, C, C. Mengel & Bro. 

 Company, and J. C. Wicklille. 



Stocli List — A. E. Norman, Norman Lumber 

 Company, chairman ; H. .7. Gates, Louisville Point 

 Lumber Company, and Edward L. Davis. 



Entertainment — Claude M. Scars, chairman ; 

 J, G. Brown, W, P. Brown & Sons Lumber Com- 

 pany ; II, E. Kline. S. E. Booitcr. E. B, Norman. 

 H. .1. Gates, R. F, Smith, Oliio Uiver Sawmill 

 Company, 



Logs — Harry Kline, chairman : W, N. Hess, 

 North Vernon Lumber Company ; R. Talbot, North 

 Vernon Lumber Company ; Edward L. Davis. 

 Edward Shippen, E. B, Norman. 



The entertainment committee will have a par- 

 ticularly interesting taslv in connection with the 

 trip to tlie Mempliis convention of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association. There is talk 

 of a special car and a lot of other fixin's. Of 

 course Louisville will not ask for the next con- 

 vention, but the local crowd will be in a posi- 

 tion to work hard for the town to which they 

 throw their strength. The entertainment com- 

 mittee will also have charge of the weekly din- 

 ners of the club, which are held every Tuesday 

 evening at the Seelbach hotel. The latchstring 

 of the Hardwood Club is always on the outside 

 and visitors to this market are invited to attend 

 the meeting and accept the ol<l fashioned Ken- 

 tucky hospitality, which is always in evidence at 

 the club meetings. 



A recent visitor at the Hardwood Club was 

 S, E. Taylor of Taylor & Mason, Buffalo. Mr. 

 Taylor has made a dose study of existing con- 

 ditions, and his views ou the subject proved in- 

 teresting. 



A situation which is worrying lumbermen here 

 who have southern mill connections and who buy 

 logs in that section is tlio scarcity of cars. Roll- 

 ing stock, according to railroad statistics, should 

 be in good supply, but this is apparently not the 

 case. The anomaly is explained on the ground 

 that a large percentage of the cars which are 

 apparently available are really not on account 

 of being in poor repair. The resi^lt is that on 

 the eve of the busiest season of the year the rail- 

 roads are without a sufHcient number of good cars 

 to take care of business. This is true of South- 

 ern roads, and local lumbermen hear from those 

 in other lines that it is also true of roads in 

 other sections. 



The Louisville Commercial Club is making an 

 effort to establish a traffic bureau which is in- 

 tended to act in an advisory capacity for local 

 shippers. The hardwood trade has been ap- 

 proached through its individual members, and 

 many have signified that tliey would support 

 such a plan. The Louisville Hardwood Club, how- 

 ever, has taken up the idea that a traffic bureau 

 intended for the use of lumber lirms and lumber 

 consumers could fill a long felt want and would 

 have plenty of work to keep it busy. With that 

 Idea in mind a special committee has been ap- 

 pointed to look into the proposition, and they 

 will report at a meeting in the near future as to 

 the advisability of establishing the bureau. 



The opening of the hunting season in Ken- 

 tucky took place November l.">, and it was the 

 signal for a generous exodus of local nimrods. 

 The hardwood men especially took advantage of 

 the opportunity to pursue the festive partridge 

 to its accustomed haunts. A. E. Norman, of the 

 Norman Lumber Company ; E, B, Norman, of E. 

 B. Norman & Co., and Edward L, Davis, of the 

 Edward L. Davis Lumber Company, were among- 

 those who went out ou the opening day, and all 

 reported fair luck. 



Harry Gates, of the Louisville Point Lumber 

 Company, is in the east, and reports from him in- 

 dicate a marked stimulation of business. Ed 



Shippen. head of the company, said that the past 

 two weeks have been exceedingly active ones for 

 his Arm, and he believes that there is a generally 

 improved condition noticeable. The Ford, Ky., 

 mill of this firm lias been closed for the winter, 

 as no more logs will be available until the spring 

 freshets result in a log tide in the Kentucky 

 river, 



D. E. Kline, of the Louisville Veneer Mills, has 

 been in New York recently and has also visited 

 other eastern cities. Harry Kline, who has been 

 in charge during his absence, said that the veneer 

 trade is improving. The furniture factories have 

 begun ordering in about normal volume and this 

 lias had a good effect on the situation. 



Claude M. Sears, of the Edward L. Davis Lum- 

 ber Company, has started on a trip through the 

 .Middle West. Business willi this company is 

 good. .T. Earl Davis, wlio is in charge of the 

 mill in Barren county, was in the city recently 

 and reported that log prices are still high, but 

 that fewer Ijuyers are in the market. The com- 

 pany has added greatly to its yard as a result of 

 the removal ot the Norman Lumber Company to 

 Xintli and Magnolia streets. The Davis stock 

 is now being piled on both sides of the railroad 

 track and its transportation facilities ai*e couse- 

 (inentiy much improved. 



Business with C. C. Mengel & Bro. Company 

 has been so good that the big mill in South 

 Louisville has been running day and night for 

 some time. D. C. Harris, manager of the traffic 

 department of the company, iuis returned from a 

 logging expedition through the Soutii.. 



T. M. Brown, of the W. I'. Brown & Sous Lum- 

 ber Company, states that business is improving. 

 All the mills of the company, including the one 

 recently started at Dickson. Tenn.. have been 

 running steadily and the situation there is satis- 

 factory. 



The Dyershurg, Tenn., mill c)f the Noi-tli Ver- 

 non Lumber Company is now running, all the now 

 equipment wliich had been ordered having been 

 installed. Manager \V. N. Hess reports business 

 picking up. 



Attorneys who are representing local hardwood 

 firms in their litigation before the Interstate 

 Commerce Commission have received tr:inscripts 

 of the evidence and will journey In Washing- 

 ton shortly for the purpose of working uj) the 

 exhibits which have been tiled Ijy the railroads. 

 They arc confident that they will be able to 

 show that discrimination in the matter of rates 

 actually exists, and they believe that a decision 

 l>y the commission will be forthcoming witliin the 

 next few months. 



Work ou the now extension of the Lexington ^\: 

 Eastern railroad is Ix-iiig pushed rapidly. The 

 final contract was let least week to Winston & 

 Co., of Richmond, Va., who will build twelve 

 miles of track east of Whilesbiirg, Ky. This 

 section is without railroad activities of any kind 

 and its valuable timber stand has remained prac- 

 tically untouched. 



ST. LOUIS 



The Lumbermen's Club of St. Louis held its 

 regular monthly meeting at the Planters hotel 

 Thursday evening, November 17. After the 

 usual dinner the members listened to an ad- 

 dress by former Judge O'Neil Ryan, on "Civic 

 Spirit." 



Two committees to nominate officers for tlie 

 ensiling year were appointed, one by the presi- 

 dent, R. ,T. O'Reilly, composed of R. S. Price, 

 .1. A. Rebels and Geo. E. Hibbard, and the 

 other by the members from the floor, consisting 

 of .Tuliiis .Seidel, Louis Essig and Frank Goepel. 

 Each of these two committees will nominate 

 c andidates, who will be voted on at the Decem- 

 ber meeting, when the jearly election will be 

 held. 



Since the last issue of the H.\rdwood Record 

 went to press, the wedding of Thomas E. Powe 

 and Miss Grace MeCulIocb has taken place. 



The wedding occurred on November 10 and the 

 marriage ceremony wa.s performed by the Rev. 

 I>. C. Garrett, at the St. Peter's Episcopal 

 (liiircb at H o'clock In the evening. After the 

 < eremony a reception was held at the residence 

 of the bride's parents Capt. and Mrs. Robert 

 McCulloch, after which the bridal couple left 

 on a short trip to the East. 



They were the recipients of many valuable 

 and beautiful presents, among which was a 

 beautirul mahogany hall clock from St, Loul.s 

 lumbermon. 



A fair demand for the leading hardwoods Is 

 reported by the Charles R Luehrmann Hard- 

 wood Lnmlii'r Company. This is particularly 

 true of choice red gum and plain sawed oak. 

 These two items command a fair price 



Car oak is In luetty good demand. W. W. 

 Dings of the fJaretson-Greason Lumber Com- 

 pany says. His company makes a specialty of 

 high-grade oak stock and is generally in the 

 market to sell when there is a call for this Item. 



E. W. Blunipr. sales manager of the Lothman 

 C.vpress Company, who has just returned from 

 a .selling trip, says he was quite successful. He 

 found the trade feeling much better on his last 

 trip than on the one he made several weeks ago. 

 lie is looking for a good call for cypress later 

 in the season. 



Charles Thomas of the Thomas & Proetz Lum- 

 ber Company reports inquiries have been com- 

 ing in quite freely of late. He believes It will 

 only he a question of a few weeks before busi- 

 ness will he much better. 



George E. Hibbard of the Steele & Hibbard 

 Lumber Company anticipates an increase In 

 prices for all the better grades of hardwood 

 lumber as soon as business begins to Improve. 

 Mr. Hibbard says trade has recently been quite 

 good with them and they have booked several 

 good-sized orders at satisfactory prices. 



LITTLE ROCK 



I'.y an agreement lietween the Arkansas Rail- 

 road Commission and the traffic departments of 

 the various railroads, a pronounced reduction 

 has been secured in the estimated weights of 

 dressed lumber. Heretofore, there has been but 

 one system of estimating, the same estimate, 

 .'!.250 pounds per thousand feet, applying alike 

 to dressed and rough lumber. Manufacturers 

 .'bowed the unjustne.ss of this, and the railroads 

 agreed to a reduction based upon the figures 

 of the shippers on dressed lumber. The reduc- 

 tion will amount to, approximately, 30 ^er cent 

 of the former basis of estimating. 



'I'lie Cotter Manufacturing Company recently 

 commenced business at Cotter, Ark., for the 

 l>urpose of manufacturing wagon material. The 

 plant is l)eing erected by a company In which 

 1). W. M. Marshall, the wealthy Cotter lum- 

 berman, is largely Interested, 



Work has commenced on the rebuilding of 

 the plant of the Diamond Basket Company, re- 

 cently destroyed by fire In this city. 



Leslie is much pleased over the prospect of 

 securing the machine shops of the Missouri & 

 Nortli Arkansas Railroad, in addition to the 

 roundhouse, which is already located at that 

 point. Ground is said to have been leased for 

 the shops. The Missouri & North Arkansas Is 

 a new line and threads the finest hardwood sec- 

 tion of the entire state. Many large wood- 

 working plants are going up along the Hue in 

 the northwestern portion of the state. 



.7, F. Hasty & Sons have entirely rebuilt their 

 plant at Paragouid, which was destroyed by 

 fire last July, and It is now la operation. 



The new supervisor of the Arkansas forest 

 reserve, including many counties In western 

 Arkansas, has invented a fire signal station 

 which he believes will do much toward eliminat- 

 ing forest fires. Under the new system the 

 stations will be operated as a series, at least six 

 being established so as to command the entire 



