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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 10, 1021 



CHICAGO OFFICE 



N. S. JOHNSON 

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will be a git'at dcHl of construotion work rlone id Evansville and towns in 

 this linnu'djatc vicinity during the months of September, October and 

 N.)vtnib(*r. They are also of the opinion tliat 1!)22 will witness more build- 

 iii;^ Hum hKs been done during the present }*ear. 



LOUISVILLE 



That production of hardwoods as well as pine in the South are below 

 consumption, and I hat stociis are being depleted, is the report of E. F. 

 Ilolway. as of Sept. 5, to Washington for District No. (I, of the U. S. Em- 

 |)b)yment Service, in discussing employnient. Mr. Ilolway has Ken- 

 lucky. Tennessee. Alabama and Mississippi. He reports that pine mills 

 have been starting, and production of pine is now up to about eighty per 

 cent of normal, hut that hardwood productI<in is below lifty per cent of 

 ncirnial, and consumption in excess of that figure. lie reported especial 

 dullness in hardwood production in Mississippi, where restricted operation 

 has eut production by two-thirds, lie reported better production in a 

 few points, including Padueah. Ky. He held that reserve stocks in man- 

 ufacturers hands are beginning to show the effect of steady depletion. 



A report from Padueah, Ky.. tells of a contract being let by the A. li. 

 Smith Lumber Co., to L. N. Gregory, contractor of Hickman. Ky., for 

 erection of a coffin proilucing jilant at Ltundurant. Ky.. below Hickman, 

 where the Smith company has some Unnber operatiuns. The plant will be 

 two stories. 48x100 feet, and employ 100 men when running full time. 



The Louisville Veneer Mills, Louisville, have started work on a new 

 frame drying room, to cost about $3,000. 



Mrs. Lucy McCowen, 44 years of age, wife of the late Herbert A. Mc- 

 Cowen. prominent walnut manufacturer, died at her home in Louisville, 

 on August 28. Mr. McCowen died about five years ago. shortly after being 

 instrumental in the formation of the American Walnut Manufacturers' 

 Association. 



Announcement was made in Louisville a few days ago of the engage- 

 ment of Walter Cumnock, of the Roth I^umber Conipany. to Miss Emily 

 Marston. Mr. Cumnock is a brother-indaw of W. U. Willett of the W. R. 

 Willett Lumber Co. 



S. F. McCormick. lumberman of Le.'^ington, Ky., was a visitor to Louis- 

 ville a few days ago. He reported very fair activity in the Bluegrass 

 metropolis. 



The J. W. Ford Sawmill Company. Hartford, Ky., capital SSOO, has been 

 chartered by ,T. W. Ford, Jessie R. Simmerman and R. B. Lee Simmerman. 



Announcement has recently been made of the arrival of a son to the 

 Robert Morrow Meugels. The baby is a grandson of C. C. Mengel, Jr., 

 vice-president of the Mengel Company, Louisville. 



William G. Gamble of Chicago, brother of James F., and P. Hoyt Gam- 

 hie. Louisville, died in that city on August 23, following a short illness. 

 Mr. Gamble was in the insurance business. The Louisville men operate 

 Gamble Brothers, a hardwood lumber concern. 



Leroy Olcott. of W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co., has left on a two 

 weeks" mill inspection trip to company mills in Alabama, Arkansas and 

 Mississippi. The company has not definitely decided as yet concerning 

 lilans for starting production again this fall. 



TORONTO 



The Simpson planing mills, at the foot of Spadina avenue, Toronto, 

 were badly damaged when fire of an unknown origin broke out a few 

 days ago. The loss to stock, mill and plant is estimateil at about $10,000, 

 but is covered by insurance. 



J. A. Cadenhead, formerly of the Anderson-Miller Lumber Company. 

 Toronto, has been engaged as an inspector for the National Hardwood 

 Lumber Association at Chicago. Mr. Cadenhead is well and favorably 

 known in lumber circles in Ontario. 



William Robertson of the forestry branch of the Department of Lands, 

 Victoria, B. C. and formerly British Columbia lumber commissioner for 

 the east, has been spending some days in Toronto. 



NEW ORLEANS 



Not a wheel is being turned at any of the sawmill or box and veneer 

 plants at Hazelhurst. Miss. The box factories expect to reopen about 

 the middle of September, but the sawmill owners say their plants are 

 down until there shall have been clearly demonstrated a real demand for 

 their products and a reasonable price for them. 



Fire of unknown origin some days ago destroyed several million feet 

 of lumber. i)rincipally hardwoods, but some pine and cypress, and several 

 buildings, belonging to the Butler Hall Lumber Co.. at Woodson. Ark.. 

 The mill itself was saved only after the hardest struggle. The loss was 

 placed at $55,000 and was partly covered by insurance. 



The ]\Iartin Wagon Co. has c<mipleted erection of a 40.000 foot capacity 

 electrically operated hardwood sawmill at Lufkin. Tex., which will be 

 operated in connection with the log wagon manufacturing plant, it has been 

 announced by the management. 



The Harris Hardwood Company, of Roanoke, Va., of which Allen Harris 

 is president, has increased its capital stock from $50,000 to $500,000. 



"On to New Orleans!" This is the cry being raised with regard to the 

 idace for the February meeting, next year, of the Southern Sash, Door 

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