>>i'Ptciubor 25, 1921 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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at a liasioball gaini> which (••aiun'il thr julut mei'Ilin; of lh<- l.iimlitr C'liilc 

 4111(1 thp Buihiers' Supplj lioaiii (if (•kvtlancl, with the iisiilt that th. 

 lumborites won with casi'. Tlie Akron Club is out with a challcnur. 

 which will be accopted by the Cleveland contingent. 



Old tirm under new name, and incorporated, is the Kijulty Lunilu-i 

 Company, at PalnesviUe, which formerly was Wyraau and tiregory. l"lan^ 

 call for enlargement of the plant and selling organization. Officers of 

 the Arm are : President. Guy Wynian ; vice president and secretary, U. K 

 (Jregory ; treasurer and general manager, U. O. Carroll, formerly of the- 

 Harbor Lumber Company. 



New plant of the Home Lumber Company, Warren, is practically com 

 pleted, the rebuilding l>eiug under way for the last several months, fol 

 loiving a tire last spring which damaged the original plant. Improve 

 nvmts include new warehouses, an electrically operated mill and modern 

 ofllce faeilities. 



MEMPHIS 



S. H. Anderson, head of the Anderson-Tully Company and member of 

 the Memphis Uiver Terminal Commission, and Mayor .7. K. I'aine of this 

 eity have returned from Washington, liringing with them a contract signed 

 liy the government for !f4,"i0,000 to be furnished by the latter for the con- 

 struction of adequate river terminals at this point. This contract has 

 already been passed upon by the city attorney and returned to Washing- 

 ton. The funds are to be immediately available. The government has 

 also agreed to let the city have live concrete barges to be used as Hoating 

 docks. Execution of this contract means the realization of a dream of a 

 lifetime — direct connection of Memphis, through the Mississippi river, with 

 ocean-going vessels of tlie world and facilities at Memphis making it possi- 

 ble for exporters and importers here to take full advantage of everything 

 such connection means. Shippers of all commodities. Including lumber, 

 believe that the completion of these terminals and continued operation of 

 the government barge line will prove a most potent factor in the downward 

 regulation of freight rates on all commodities and particularly on heavy- 

 tonnage freight, such ns cotton, lumber, steel, iron and coal. The new 

 terminals are to be supplied with pliysical connection with all of the 

 railroads entering Memphis and they will be large enough to take care of 

 ear load freight in volume. The city has $500,000 of bonds to be sold to 

 carr>' out its part of the transaction and it is anticipated that work will 

 begin very shortly on the construction of the terminals. 



The American Oversees Forwarding Company received telegraphic ad 

 vices Sept. 13 that conference rates on hardwood lumber and forest 

 products had been reduced on that date, effective immediately, 5 cents 

 per hundred pounds from North Atlantic and southern gulf ports to the 

 United Kingdom. The export market is showing decldeil tendency toward 

 expansion and it is believed that the lower tendency of ocean freight rates 

 ■will prove a decidedly stimulating influence. 



LOUISVILLE 



-Vfter many months of full car supply and after reaching the point 

 where it was believed that a ear shortage could not happen this year, it 

 is beginning to look as though the fall will land the railroads again ham- 

 pered In supplying equipment, and shlppei^ having trouble in handling 

 their business. Already some of the Louisville companies with mills in the 

 isolatwl points of the South are reporting car troubles, and calling on 

 the local hardwood traffic association to aid them in supplying equipment. 

 It is held that much of the troul>le is due to railroad cars being in bad 

 repair, especially on Southern lines, where the heaviest percentage of bad 

 order or shop marked cars are to be found of any section In the country. 

 The percentage of bad order locomotives is also heavy, and coal movement 

 has been slow all summer, and Indications are for a rush movement of fuel 

 this winter, which along with crop movement should result in trouble for 

 the shippers, especially it business picks up generally and there is a heavy 

 fall movement. 



.T. S. Thompson, manager of the Louisville division of the Southern 

 Hardwood Traffic Association, left on September 18 for Chicago, and will 

 get data in shape to present before a meeting of the transcontinental 

 carriers on September 22, in connection with rates on hardwoods from tin- 

 South and East moving to the coast, it being reported that lower rates must 

 be granted in order to compete with Japanese oak on the coast. Shippers 

 will ask for restoration of rates in effect prior to the last general raise, as 

 of Aug. 26, 1920. 



Louisville hardwood men report that hardwood llooring has Ijceu vi-ry 

 active, one of the local manufacturers reporting more building In this 

 section than he has ever known before. The demand for interior trim is 

 also fair. 



The A. B. Smith I-umber Company at Paducah, Ky., which is installing 

 a new coffin manufacturing plant at ISondurant, Ky.. eight miles from 

 Hickman, has named C. M. House as manager of the new plant. Mr. 

 House has had considerable experience in coffin manufacturing and handling 

 at Paducah, Russellville and elsewhere. 



The Mengel Company. I.,ouisville. which some weeks ago closed down 

 its mills at Mengelwood, Tenn., and started dismantling, has moved its 

 stocks of merchandise from its general store at thiit point, to a new com 

 missary store which has been opened at its lumber operations at South 

 Hickman, Ky. 



One to increased demand for lumber and reduced stocks the Louisville 



King Mill and Lumber Co. 



PADUCAH, KENTUCKY 



Manufacturers Southern Hardwoods 



Ash, Elm, Oak, Gum 

 Maple, Cypress, Hickory 



Cypress Shingles 



WE SHIP STRAIGHT OR MIXED CAR LOADS 



HARDWOODS and SHINGLES 



One of the largest 

 wholesalers i",f " ^7t"h 



more than twenty branches lo- 

 cated in the principal Hardwood 

 consuming centers is in a position 

 to handle successfully the output 

 of a Hardwood band mill located 

 in West Virginia, Virginia, Ken- 

 tucky or Tennessee. Will only 

 consider high-class mill that 

 knows how to manufacture and 

 take care of its lumber. Will 

 make attractive arrangements 

 with right kind of mill. In first 

 letter give full information con- 

 cerning your operation and the 

 kind of arrangement you feel 

 would be satisfactory to you. 



.A-Qciress 

 "BOX D 75," care Hardwood Record 



Specials for Prompt Shipment 



BASSWOOD S/4 End Dried White 4.0O0' 



4/4 Full Log Run .. 250,000' 6/4 End Dried White. «,00O' 



4 4 Straight No. 3 C SO.OOO' «'■' No. I C.& B.. Soft SO,000' 



BEECH 



MAPLE 5/8 Log Run 100.000' 



4/4 Quarter-sawn 50,000' 4/4 Log Run 105.000' 



4, 4 End Dried White .40,000' t/4 Log Run 30,000' 



A Full Stock of No. 3 Common Hardwoods 



WRITE US FOR PRICES 



East Jordan Lumber Co. 



EAST JORDAN, MICHIGAN 



house of W. P. Brown & Sons Luniljor Company Is again producing. In 

 .\ugust the company re-oponcil Its mill at Guin, Ala., and a few days ago 



