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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Mav 2.-1. 1:121 



BEDNA YOUNG 



Lumber Company 



Jackson, Tennessee 



Sales Office, Indianapolis, Ind. 



610 Lombard Building 



Marmfacturers of 



Quartered White Oak 

 Quartered Red Oak 



and Other Hardwoods 



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en in the mar 



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or 



High Grade Lumber 



please let us have your enquiries. 



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agiT <>1' the r.alM-nck I'oal & Cuke Coinpany, a sul>sidiai-.v (M* III'' I'.alMi.ck 

 Lumber Cuiupan.v at Fajctte Cit.v, W. Va. 



LuinlKT (IcahTs were iiotilled last week b.v the renus.ylvania railruad 

 that il has extemled Cincinnati switching limits to Reading. Norwood 

 Heights and Madisonville, Ohio. Tlie carriers, however, have not can- 

 celled througli rates which are \)ul)lislied to these points, so until these 

 rates are eancclled and references carried in tariffs for application of 

 Cincinnati rates to the above points, all carload shipments will be con- 

 signed to Cincinnati and reconsigniug instructions placed with delivering- 

 lines at Cincinnati. This will enable the shippers to obtain protection of 

 Cincinnati rates to the above destinations. 



EVANS VI LLE 



The reduction in the cost of prepared lundjer iov homes here dnrini^ the 

 past two weeks has called attention to the fact that everything in the 

 building line is having its inning toward the lower trend of prices. Mill 

 men generally are looking for the dosing of many contracts that have 

 been waiting for the last word in redviction, ami it seems now to have 

 come. Some of the mills that furnish plans for bungalows and take ciiu- 

 traets have had many Inquiries on tiieir books for some months, and these 

 will now be followed up in the hope that people will see the value of 

 building now instead of later. The Evansvllle Planing Mill Company, 

 which announced the reduction In prices for the mill men of the city, has 

 announced that a 1wo-stor.v brick addition will be huill immediately to 

 take care of the new work that is already in sight. Work on the addition 

 will start at once. The company is building a number of resident buildings 

 in the city this summer. 



Claude Wertz of the Maley & AVertz Lumber Company helped to arrange 

 an ouling of tlie I'ross Club members of this city on the steamer May 

 tjueen on the Ohio river on Sunday. May 1.1. which was attended by most 

 of the members of the club. Mr. Wertz formerly was secretary and treas 

 uier of the club. 



The Mvitvuil Truck Manufacturing Company of Siillivan. Ind.. will not 

 move its plant to Peru. Ind.. as was planned several weeks ago. A. W. 

 Pierce, the inventor, who desircil to move the factory from Sullivan to 

 Pern, had sohl bis interest in the concern for ^.'lO.OOO and is planning to 

 start another factory at Peru independent of the Sullivan factory- 



,1. W. Whits(uij representing the Wbitson Lumber Company of Nashville. 

 Tenn.. was a busim'ss visitor in Evansvllle a few days ago. Ho said that 

 while the lumber trade In the South had been sluggish for some time past 

 that things now are getting a whole lot better. 



l>aniil Wertz of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company and .loe Waltman 

 of the Evansvllle Pand Mill Company are among the local lumbermen 



who will attend the annual convention of the hardwood lumber manu- 

 facturers of the Inited States at Philadelphia in June. Mr. Waltman will 

 drive through in his car and will be accomp«nle<l l>.v his wife ami son. 



.loseph I'". Mertes. representing the U. S. Hacon Veneer Company of 

 Chicago, was in Evansvllle on business a few days ago and called on the 

 local trade, lie reported that he had noted some improvement in trade 

 during the past few weeks. 



I), li. .MacLaren. formerly engagi'd in the lumber business lieic, now 

 engaged in the same business at Indianapolis, was here a few days ago 

 calling on the local trade. Mr. MacLaren formerly was president of the 

 Evansvllle Lumbermen's Club. 



,lohn C. Creer of the J. C. Greer Lundjer Company and presidi'iit of the 

 Evansvllle Lumljermen's Club, has returned from Tenn.-ssei'. where be 

 inspected the stave mills of his company. lie reports tli<' stave business 

 is very good at the present time and he is looking for it to get better still. 



Cus .\. Itauniau of the Maley & Wertz Lumber Company has returned 

 from a business trip in the South. 



Charles A. Wolflin, president of the Woltlln West Side Lumber Company, 

 liiis returned from a business trip to (,'hicago. Mr. Wolllin's son. Carl A. 

 Wolllin, is now associated with a large lundier concern at Minneapolis, 

 .Minn., and is doing well, lie will return here in a short time to marry Miss 

 ll.ilene Husse. only daughter of Dr. Edward P. Busse. 



Lawrence Effingei^ has accepted a jjosition as salesman with the W. M. 

 Simpson Lumber Company at Poseyville. Ind. tie is well and favorably 

 known to the trade in southern Imliana. 



There is miu-e activity in the logging camps along Creen river in western 

 Kentnck.\- than for several months past. ;ind it is expected that many logs 

 will lie gotten out this summer and brought to the locjil saw mills. For 

 many years past many of the mills in the Evansvllle district have secured 

 Tiincli of their log supply from the (iri'en river valley. .\t one time prac- 

 llinllv .ill Ibc lii^s i-onsume.l by the In.iil mills came from Creen river. 



MEMPHIS 



The York Lumber & Manufacturing Ccmipauy is Hearing coni[ib'tioo of 

 its big plant in East Memphis on Bellevue avenue, which is being built 

 to replace the one burned some months ago. Several departments have 

 already been placed in operation, while the entire plant will be under 

 sti'am within less than thirty days. 



.More hardwood plants have closed down in Memphis proper during the 

 past fortnight and not a single one that wjs previously out of commission 

 b.'is resumed operations. It is declared by members of the trade here that 

 the best information obtainable bears out the idea that liardwood produc- 

 tion throughout the valley territory does not amount to more than in 

 per cent of normal, with the tigure rather below this mark. It nmy he 

 said. also, that logging operations are practically at a standstill and that 

 no preparations are being made to resume these. Hardwood interests are 

 coniing more and more to the conviction that there will be very little 

 lumber produced this year that will be available for use during 1921. R. L. 

 .lurden of the Penrod-Jurden Company, Memphis, and Helena, Ark., is 

 authority for the statement that not a single hardwood mill in the latter 

 center is operating at the present time, the last one having suspended 

 iiuleliniely during the current week. 



The Hill of the late J. V. Rush of the Rush Lumber Company bequeathes 

 two-thirds interest to his son, Paul, and the remaining one-third to his 

 widow, Mrs. Fannie W. Ru.sh, after payment of bequests of $.")00 to each 

 of the pastors of Sacred Heart Church. Memphis, and Church of the Ascen- 

 sion. Evansvllle, Ind., and .$250 each to charitable organizations in the two 

 cities named. Mr. Rush was a native of Evansvllle, but had made Mem- 

 phis his home since 1909 and the two cities shared exactly alike in his 

 benefactions. 



W. E. llyde of the Hyde Lumber Company and DeSha Lumber Company 

 will sail for Europe in the immediate future. He will be accompanied Tjy 

 .Mrs. ll.vde. 



Roland H. Darnell of R. J. Darnell, Inc., is another prominent member 

 of the lumber industry who is planning to sail for Europe. He is getting 

 his passports and other credentials together and w-ill go across early 

 in .lidy. 



LOUISVILLE 



Edward L. Davis of the Edward L. Davis Lumber Co., recently returned 

 from a trip to both the New York and Boston district as well as the 

 Lake .Michigan district, visiting Detroit, Toledo, Chicago and other points, 

 lie reportetl stocks in consumers* hands in good shape, nuiny having three 

 to live months supply, and buying merely as they need stock to replace 

 short lines. 



W. A. McLean and Will Day, of the Wood Mosaic Company, are mem- 

 bers of a party that Mr. McLean has taken to Ottawa, Can., for a few 

 days of ashing, at his private estate. 



Preston P. Joyes of the house of W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Com- 

 pany, is shooting some good golf this year, leading the Louisville Country 

 Club players with a net 70 on Saturday, May 14. T. H. Gamble, hard- 

 wood operator, and C. C. Mengel, Jr., both shot 74. 



A. E. Norman, Jr., of the Norman Lumber Company, reports business 

 as under that of sixty days ago, lumber being a little scarce. 



At Owensboro, Ky.. the Haydeu Planing Mill Company, capital $15,000, 



