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pany moving its yenoi-al or commissary store stoclvs from MciiKcIwood, 

 Teun., to its mills at Ilicliman, Ky.. the company having arrangoil to ilis- 

 umntlc the Wengehvood mills, having dospd down some time ago. 



The Mcngel Cumpany has laid u|i its steamer Seminole at Hickman tor 

 lioller repairs, and has placed the Kxporter in service towing logs from 

 Hales Point, Tenn., to Mengel's hanhvood plant at Hickman. The Kxporter 

 is one of the largest towboats on the Ohio and Mlsslaaippl, and for some 

 time past has been towing logs from White Kiver. .\rk., to the .Mengel 

 mills at Hickman. 



i^EW ORLEANS 



Chris A. Walker, formerly of the Diamond I.umlier and Veueer Com 

 pany uf Shelbyville. Ind., has recently been employed by the Louisiaim 

 Ked Cypress Company of New Orleans as manager of its hardwood ilepart 

 raent. Mr. Walker, who succeeds H. T. Kemper, has had consldc nilde 

 experience in the handling of southern hardwoods and Is considered linn- 

 oughly conversant with this branch of the lumber business. 



The lionita Lumber Company, situated at lionlta. I. a., near New t)rleaiis. 

 has Increased its capitalization from $200,1X10 to S,')00,000. The company 

 has a big hardwood plant at Bouita and expects to increase its operating 

 activities to a large extent by means of the increase in its capitalization. 



Two of the largest hardwood lumber orders ever placed for shlpmeni 

 in the southern .\rkansas or north Louisiana territory were placed a few 

 days ago when two concerns of the Helena. Ark., region signed up to 

 make a shipment of approximately 1,000,000 feet each. The hardwood 

 market for that region, which has been marking time for several months 

 past, received quite a boost from such orders, which were mostly for oak 

 in Nos. 1, 2 and 3 common. 



The Roseland Veneer and Package Company at Koseland, La., has begun 

 the construction of a new logging railway to the northwest, which will 

 make CIreensburg, Ija., the other terminus. 



The hardwood plant of Houston Brothers at Vickslmrg. .Miss., lias beiu 

 closed down temporarily to await an improvement in the hardwood market. 

 Operations will not be resumed until a perceptible improvement obtiiins. 

 according to announcement of the nmnagement. 



The Universal Crate Company, .\inite. La., through .1. .L Dablstonu. 

 treasurer, has established an office in New Orleans in the Weis liuildiiij; 

 to handle its rapidly increasing luisiness in the city. The plant is situ 

 ated at Ponchatoula. La., and it manufactures folding crates, of a kinil 

 upon which the company has taken out a patent. 



The Bailey-Rood Box Company has been organized at Laurel. .Miss., and 

 is soon to begin the construction of a .'S.'JO.OOO box manufacturing plant 

 and planing mill in that vicinity. The management hopes to have liotli 

 plants completed some time in October. The company will specialize in 

 the manufacture of boxes for the butter industry, but it will also make 

 practically all other kinds of boxes. It will require about S.OOO.Oon 

 feet of low grade hardwoods annually in the box industry. Officers are : 

 Charles Green, president; J. W. Bailey, vice-president, and R. S. tlood. 

 second vice-president and general manager. Mr. Green is also vlce-presi 

 dent and general manager of Eastman, Gardiner ami Company and Mr. 

 Bailey is general manager of the Eastman, Gardiner Hardwood Company. 



J. B. Edwards, president of Hillyer, Deutsch, Edwards, Inc, of Onkdale, 

 La., and bride spent a few days in New Orleans last week on the return 

 from their honeymoon. Mr. Edwards, though a young man, is known 

 throughout the South for his progressiveness as both a hardwood and pine 

 manufacturer. 



The Lutcher and Moore Cypress Company closed its logging camp at 

 l^'all. La., several days ago for the purpose of catching up with tlM' extra 

 supply of logs on hand. The company is using the time to make a liumber 

 of important repairs on its logging machinery, especially on its locomotive. 



The Sparkman Hardwood Lumber Company ha.i started up its plant 

 at Sparkman, .\rk.. after having been closed down for several weeks past, 

 during which time the company made a number of important repairs and 

 gave Its mill a thorough overhauling. 



S. A. .McKinney, formerly connected with A. O. liavls, a Shreveport, Lii.. 

 hardwood man. has come to New Orleans, where he has be<'ome associati'il 

 with the Fleming Lumber Company as head of the hardwooil ilepartment. 



General .Manager G. A. Walker of the cooperage plant of the Walker 

 Cooperage Company at Newport. Ark., announces that the plant has 

 recently resumed operations and that improvement In the cooperage Indus 

 try Is appearing decidedly certain despite general business depression and 

 the Volstead .Vet. 



With H. O. Cooksey as chairman, a temporary Hoo Hoo club has been 

 organlzeil at Oakdale. La., and plans are being whipped into shape for a 

 permanent organization. H. R. Isherwood. of St. Louis, participated In a 

 preliminary concatenation there recently, at which temporary r>fflcers wen- 

 elected and nine kittens, all of Oakdale, were put through. 



TORONTO 



A cargo of lumber shipped from Vancouver to .Montreal arrlveil a day 

 or two ago and the lumber dealer behind the enterprise is bringing in 

 another cargo. The enterprise will be watched with Interest because of 

 the high freight rates on th'e transcontinental rail haul and the price- 

 slaughtering of the heavy stocks of lumber held in New Brunswick by 

 foreign governments. So far as the Vancouver-to-Montri-al shipments are 



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