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logs from his own concern for it. without disclosing his bidden connection 

 to his Louisville employers. 



J. S. Thompson, manuger of the Louisville division, .Southern Hardwood 

 Traffic Association, claims tlmt movement of low grade lumber is prac- 

 tically at a standstill due to high freight rates, and that lumber manu- 

 facturers arc allowing low grade saw logs to decay in the woods rather 

 than haul and saw them for prices such as can be obtained for the milied 

 lumber. 



W. H. Day, of the Wood Mosaic Company, back from an Eastern trip, 

 reports much improvement in the East, with buyers far more willing to 

 place orders, and conditions generally looking better. 



Reductions in rates figuring three to live cents a hundred pounds have 

 been secured on lumber moving from the Cumberland & Manchester K. R. 

 stations, to Louisville, from Eastern Kentucliy, this reduction being 

 secured through the Louisville division of the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 Association, which also reports two new members, these being Hoffman 

 Brothers Company, hardwoods and veneers, Burnside, Ky., and the Long- 

 Knight Lund^er Co., hardwoods and veneers, at Indianapolis. 



Preston P. Joyes, of W. I'. Brown & Sons Lumber Company, claims that 

 if prices were Just better conditions would be satisfactory, but that there 

 is still too much cheap lumber in the marltet. which is causing prices to 

 remain lower than they should be under existing conditions. 



WHEELING 



. It is reported that Huntington, W. Va.. luinlu'rmou will make a strong 

 effort to have their city selected as the scene of the fall meeting of the 

 Appalachian Logging Congress at the spring meeting in Cincinnati April 

 28-30. John Raine, president of the Cherry River Boom & Lumber Com- 

 pany, will be one of the leading Huntington boosters at the spring con- 

 gress. The 191S spring meeting of the loggers was held in Huntington 

 and more than 200 lumbermen from Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky 

 and West Virginia attended. 



D. W. Walker and R. B. Davidson, who has been engaged in the lumber 

 business in New York City for a number of years, recently visited Parkers- 

 burg, W. Va., and vicinity with a view to establishing a sawmill near 

 the headwaters of the Little Kanawha and an office in Parkersburg. He 

 paid a visit to the headwaters of the river and inspected a timber tract 

 fur which they have been negotiating. 



The establishment and maintenance of a state forestry nursery and a 

 forestry experiment station is the object of a bill reported back favorably 

 on April 14 by the senate committee on forestry and conservation of the 

 West Virginia legislature. Senator Bloch, chairman of this committee, is 

 also author of the measure. 



The Cline-Morgan Lumber Company, West Moreland, W. Va., has been 

 incorporated for $50,000. The incorporators are J. Weaver Cline, P. E. 

 Morgan, Mollie Morgan, Verea Cline, Mrs. J. W. Cline, Huntington. 



The English-Ott Lumber Company of Charleston, W. Va., has been 

 authorized to increase its capital stock from $175,000 to $225,000. 



A report from Kanawha Falls, W. Va.. says that the chief industry of 

 that community is now lumber, stating further that the Coleman Timber 

 Company and Brown Brothers & Abbott are manufacturing and shipping 

 considerable lumber. 



ST. LOUIS 



A concatenation is to bo held by the Hoo-Hoos in St. Louis April 27. 

 Vern C. Cornelius is Chairman of the committee of "cats" which has 

 charge of arrangements for the concatenation. 



At a luncheon of the young members, held in the American Annex 

 Hotel, the plans for the concatenation were made and a Boosters' Club 

 was formed to promote the interests of the Order in St. Louis and vicinity. 



A 6-Poom and bath home and a building lot donated by the St. Louis 

 Lumber Trade Exchange, will be given away at an "Own-Your-Own- 

 Home" show here at the Coliseum, April 25 to May 1. Plans for the 

 house, which is to cost between 10 and 12 tliousand dollars, including the 

 lot. will be drawn by three members of the St. Louis chapter, American 

 Institute of Architects. 



NEW ORLEANS 



With the beginning of actual construction of the Southern Hardwood 

 Lumber Company's plant just out of the city comes an announcement by 

 R. M. I'arker. president of the Brooklyn Cooperage Company of New York. 

 the cooperage subsidiary of the American Sugar Refining Company, tliat 

 the company has Just closed a deal for 1.400 acres of the best of hard- 

 wood timber situated in St. Landry parish and that it will in the near 

 future erect a big, modern cooperage plant somewhere in this section, 

 probably at New Orleans. The recent acquisition of the St. Landry tim- 

 ber brings the total holdings of the vast refining company up to 26,000 

 acres in Louisiana, most of which is held in fee, which contain, it is esti- 

 mated, about 220,000,000 feet of standing hardwood timber. 



The Southern Hardwood Lumber Company is building a plant at Shrews- 

 burry in Jefferson, just o\it of New Orleans. It has an excellent site. 

 The twenty-acre tract lies lietween the tracks of the Hlinois Central, the 

 Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company and the Southern railway, 

 which have all been connected with the company's yards. Offices and 

 garages and a dry kiln already have l)een constructed. The enterprise is 



Carolina Portland Cement Co. 



ATLANTA, GEORGIA 



WE WANT -TO MOVE QUICK: 



riiKST\i;T 



Xo, 2 and Sound Worroy 200,000' 



No. 1 Com. Sound Wormy 100.000' 



QTD. WHITE OAK 

 6/4" No 1 Cora, i Btr J cmri 



QTD RED OUM 



8/«" No, 1 Cora. & Btr.. SND. 2 can 



.SAP GUM 



1/4" PAS 200.000 ' 



4/4" No. 1 Com 300.000' 



MUls in GEORGIA, I 



TENNESSEE, ALABAMA and 

 MISSISSIPPI 



WE WANT TO BUY: 



HICKORY 



5/4" -6/4" No. 1 & Btr 10 Mrs 



PLAIN OAK 



4/4" FAS 100.000' 



CHESTNUT 

 4/4" PAS SO.OOO' 



SAP GUM 



4/4" No. 2 Com 100.000' 



8/4" FAS 10 care 



13/17" Boxljoarda 3 cars 



We can Drj- Klin 



and Surface Stock from oar I 



Livingston TenneHsee Mills 



Send Us Lists of IVhat You Have to Offer or Ifant to Buy 



FOR SALE 



Southern Hardwoods 



OAK, GUM, ASH, ELM, 

 MAPLE, CYPRESS, 

 HICKORY, POPLAR 



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Jerome Hardwood Lumber Co. 



JEROME, ARKANSAS 



WE SHIP STRAIGHT OR MIXED CARS OF FLOOR- 

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BEDNA YOUNG 



Lumber Company 



Jackson, Tennessee 



Manufacturers of 



Quartered White Oak 

 Quartered Red Oak 



and Other Hardwoods 



When in the market for 



High Grade Lumber 



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