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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Octohei- 111, 11121 



SPECIALS 



Attractively Priced for Prompt Shipment 



4/4 Log Run Hackberry 50,000 



6/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr, Hackberry 12,000 



12/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr. Hackberry 13,000 



6/4 Log Run Pecan 40,000 



6/4 Log Run Hickory 22,000 



4/4 Softwood Boxing 70,000 



5/8 Softwood Boxing £0,000 



5/8 Log Run Sycamore 70,000 



5/8 Log Run Elm 50,000 



4/4 Log Run Elm 150,000 



6/4 Log Run Elm 25,000 



8/4 Log Run Elm ;0,000 



10/4 Log Run Elm 40,000 



12/4 Log Run Elm 30,000 



5/8 Log Run Sap Gum 180,000 



10/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr. Ash 70,000 



12/4 No. 1 Com. & Btr. Ash 60,000 



Thi.s lumber is all dry, band sawed, edged 

 and trimmed and can be shipped promptly 



We specialize in 



KRAETZER CURED GUM 

 5 8 LUMBER 



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North Vernon Lumber Mills 



NORTH VERNON, INDIANA 



Thomas Forman Company 



DETROIT, MICHIGAN 



Lumber and Interior Finish 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 



KOREM.AN'S F.AMOr.S FLOORING 



OAK AND MAPLE 



We Specialise in Less than Carload Shipments 



Bert TisscratHl. lor many years with lli(_> J. C. Greer Lumber Company, 

 who is now engagoU in the oil Ijusincss at Wichita Falls, Tex., is in tho 

 city for a short lime visiting old friends. He has a high opinion of 

 Texas and believes that the state has a great future. 



Announcement was made a few days ago to the effect that the fur- 

 niture factory of Bowers Brothers, located at Bowerstown, will be 

 moved to Muncie, Ind., and when in operation will employ a large num- 

 ber of workmen. 



Gus Banman of the Maley and Wertz Lumber Company, is back from 



a tjusiness trip to Memphis and the south. Fie reports trade conditions 

 in that section looking up a whole lot and It is his belief that fall trade 

 will be (pilte lively as compared to summer trade. 



Plow manufacturers here report that trade is gradually picking up In 

 the south and southwest and that they are looking for a fairly good 

 fall and winter business. As cotton moves in the south conditions are 

 l>ecoming better and farmers in that section are now in better shape 

 than they have been in a long time. The local plow f:u-tnries are running 

 on a much better schedule than they did during the summer. Reports 

 from many sections are to the effect that the fiirniers are buying more 

 agricultural implements than they did early in the season. 



LOUISVILLE 



T. J. Fuik'iiluvc, fornierl.v vicei)n;si<Jfnt of the ('linnhiU-Mllton Lum- 

 ber Co., who joined the sale.s force of W. P. Brown ^V Son.s Lumber Co., 

 about the liist of this year, has taken charge of the company's Chicago 

 sales, ami lias mored to that city where he has located in the Lincoln 

 Apartments, lfi4.S Luut Avenue. 



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

 Association, reports that two cases will be heard by an Interstate Com- 

 merce Commission Examiner at Louisville on Octolier 11 and 12. One 

 of these on October 12, is the protest of the association asking that the 

 carriers be forced to publish rates suggested by the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission in Docket S131, which proposed that plain veneers take 

 lumber rates, and figured veneers a rate of 15 per cent over lumber. At 

 the present time all veneers are handled on class rates, which it is held 

 is an injustice to the shipper. 



The other case will be heard on October 11, and is a protest of the 

 association for transit privilege at Louisville on shipments originating 

 on the Rock Island lines, and stopped off at Louisville. The Rock Island 

 published the tariff, but took over the through rate on shipments moving 

 North and East where stopped off at Louisville. As transit privileges 

 are permitted at Thebes, 111., it is held that the present regulations arc 

 discriminatory. 



The Wood-Mosaic Company, reports better general business, its flooring 

 business having been very good, while there has been a much better 

 demand for walnut. 



The Louisville Point Lumber Co., is cutting at full speed at Louisville, 

 but is not operating at High Bridge, and may dismantle that mill, ship- 

 ping the machinery to Louisville for a proposed new mill here, founda- 

 tions for which were built some time ago. No definite decision has been 

 made as yet concerning the High Bridge operation. 



The Mengel Company, of Louisville, has taken off the night shift at 

 its veneer mill at Hickman, Ky., the night shift having recently been 

 taken off of the sawmill. After closing down the Mengelwood, Tenn.. 

 operations, which are being dismantled, the company was forced to run 

 double shifts at the Hickman operations for a time in cutting out logs 

 from Arkansas, which were diverted from the Mengelwood operations. 



The Norman Lumber Company, Louisville, has doubled the capacity 

 of its poplar box shook plant, and is planning to further enlarge, as a 

 result of capacity business. This department was originally opened 

 as a side lino to work off poor grade poplar and short stuff, but has 

 developed into a big business. The company reports only a fair lumber 

 business, with its drop siding business rather quiet. 



Walter Priest Cumnock of the Roth Lumber Co., and Miss Emily 

 Marston, were married on October 3, at the home of the bride, it being 

 a very pretty wedding. Following the ceremony the young couple left 

 for a trip East. 



In connection with reductions of prices of farm implements and wagons 

 the Kentucky Wagon Mfg. Company, reported reductions in September, 

 of about 15 per cent, and B. F. Avery & Sons and Brinly Hardy Co., 

 reported ten to twenty per cent reductions. The International Harvester 

 Co., announced a ten to twenty per cent reduction at about the same 

 time. Reductions have now carried prices of implements and wagons 

 down some 25 to 33% per cent from the peak. R. V. Board of the 

 Kentucky Wagon Company, reports a very fair auto demand, especially 

 for closed cars. William Black, president of B. F. Avery & Sons, reports 

 fair prospects, but the salesmen are just taking the road, and the plant 

 is not employing more than ten per cent of its force. 



NEW ORLEANS 



Chris Walker, manager of the hardwood department of the Louisiana 

 Red Cypress Company of New Orleans, returned to the Crescent City 

 last week from an extended trip throughout the North with the announce- 

 ment that while in Indiana he closed a deal for the sale of the output of 

 the Joseph L. Eckstein & Son hardwood mill at Jasper in the Hoosier 

 state. The plant manufactures oak and ash lumber of the highest variety 

 and Mr. Walker announces that hereafter the entire output will be 

 handle<l by the Louisiana Red Cypress Company of New Orleans. 



With F. H. Stanford, manager, present the Southern Hardwood Sales 

 Company, Indianapolis, Ind., held its regular annual meeting at the 

 Lumbermen's Club, New Orleans, last week. The one session was brief 

 and devoted entirely to business of the compan.v. The entire slate of 

 officers was re-elected for another year, including J. B. Robinson, president. 



Those attending the meeting and participating actively in the pro- 

 ceedinjis included the following : 



