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HARDWOOD RECORD 



February 25, 1919 



^■< CINCINNATI >•- 



Among the concerns reporting to the U. S. Employment Bureau that It 

 has reemployed its workers who have returned from the army or navy 

 Is the Mowbray & Robinson Company. 



The M. B. Farrln Lumber Company has prepared plans for the construc- 

 tion of a frame warehouse of two stories, 64x108 feet, to be built in con- 

 nection with its plant. The structure will be used for the storage of lilln- 

 dried lumber. 



Capt. H. J. Pfiester, U. S. Army, who has been with the American expe- 

 ditionary forces in France in the air service since November, 1917, returned 

 to Cincinnati last Thursday and resumed his duties as president of the 

 M. B. Farrln Lumber Company. 



The Louisiana Red Cypress Company has not yet announced a successor 

 to the late J. D. Farley, who died January 31 from influenza. Miss Mary 

 Kauffmnn, who was Mr. Farley's stenographer, is at present in charge of 

 the office. 



W. H. Lockwood has again opened his office, 910 Provident Bank build- 

 ing .where he operates the Lockwood Service Company, handling traffic 

 problems for Cincinnati lumber concerns. 



W. E. Heyser of the W. B. Heyser Lumber Company is back from an 

 extensive selling trip. He predicts a big revival in the hardwood industry 

 within sixty days. 



Candidates for officers of the Lumbermen's Club of Cincinnati will be 

 selected by nominating committees, which will be at its meeting March 3. 

 Members of the Tellow Pine Association here were recently taken in as 

 associate members. At the club's last meeting resolutions were adopted 

 calling for the deportation of enemy aliens and early return of the rail- 

 roads to their owners. 



A settlement has been effected in the estate of Melvin R. Short, lumber- 

 man, who committed suicide June 28, 1917. Under it hie son receives the 

 bulk of the estate. 



•< EVANSVILLE >■ 



J. C. Greer of the J. C Greer Lumber Company, Daniel Wertz of Maley 

 & Wertz, and Elmer D. Luhring of the Luhring Lumber Company, were 

 among those from this city to attend the recent state convention of 

 rotarians at Indianapolis. 



Claude Wertz of Maley & Wertz, hardwood lumber manufacturers, has 

 been re-elected secretary and treasurer of the Evansville Press Club, an 

 organization of newspaper men. He has ably filled this position for the 

 past two years. 



Oak, Ash, Hickory 

 Poplar, Walnut 



Our Ash is the best texture 

 for AEROPLANE construc- 

 tion, or for any purpose 

 vv^here tensile strength is an 

 item. 



Ash 



Walnut 



J. V. Stimson & Co. 



Owensboro, Ky. 



Some time ago Mayor Benjamin Bosse appointed a port commission 

 to devise ways and means of building and maintaining Ohio river ter- 

 minals here. Plans for these terminals have been drawn at the instance 

 of E. H. Hyman, secretary and manager of the Evanaville Manufacturers' 

 Association and provide for machinery to hoist and lower freight on the 

 wharf here. 



J. C. Greer of the J. C. Greer Lumber Company, returned a few days 

 ago from a business trip through the southern states and reported trade 

 conditions better than a month ago. His company's three large etave 

 mills in Tennessee have been operated steadily for several months and the 

 business outlook is quite encouraging. 



Veneer manufacturers in Evansville and in other towns along the lower 

 Ohio valley say trade has been gradually picking up during the past few 

 weeks and that they are looking for a very nice trade during all of the 

 present year. Labor is easier to get and there is now little or no trouble 

 on the car shortage situation. In fact the whole situation is better from 

 many angles and manufacturers are looking upon the bright side of the 

 trade picture. 



Mayor Benjamin Bosse, who Is Interested in many wood consuming 

 factories in Evansville, says the situation from the standpoint of the 

 furniture manufacturers is quite encouraging and that the furniture mak- 

 ers are looking for quite a good trade all of this year. 



=■< LOUISVILLE >-= 



In spite of the reluctance of consumers to build under existing high 

 prices of material and labor, indications are that there will be a fair 

 volume of building in Louisville this season, and a corresponding increase 

 in the demand for flooring, interior trim, etc. Whereas annually Louis- 

 ville has permits of $4,000,000 to $6,000,000 in new construction, and 

 there has been hardly any building for two years past, much work Is 

 likely to come out. Architects report that they are carrying a consider- 

 able volume of prospective business on their books, and are making numer- 

 ous sketches, which may and may not develop business. Plans are now 

 being drawn for large additions to the Bank of Commerce building, and 

 also to the twenty-story Inter-Southern building. In the housing way 

 Louisville has outgrown herself, with the result that the demand for 

 medium to good residences, apartments, etc.. can't be filled. Finding a 

 house or apartment in Louisville is like looking for the proverbial needle, 

 as the real estate men haven't anything to offer, and even sale property Is 

 scarce. A big building boom is bound to come sooner or later, and the 

 plans are to get it through this season. 



The general lumber and supply houses, building trades, etc., are start- 

 ing a campaign through the newspapers to show the public that prices 

 won't go lower and may go higher. The trades have gotten together, 

 being led by the lumber interests, and are planning a very active pub- 

 licity campaign, which it is believed will bear fruit. Retailers out in the 

 state are in some instances guaranteeing the prices of building lumber 

 against decline in order to create Immediate business and keep things 

 moving. 



James C. Hannan, formerly assistant secretary of the C. C. Mengel & 

 Bro. Company, has been elected secretary, succeeding J. Cripps Wicklifee, 

 who resigned about the first of the year to go with I. F. Williams & Sons 

 of New York. Mr. Hannan in discussing the hardwood situation said : 

 Inquiries are fine and so are orders, and the past three weeks have been 

 hummers. We have secured a couple of good parcels of logs for delivery 

 in the United Kingdom and also in Scandanavia, these parcels running 

 from 300 to 400 logs each, shipped from New York, to which point they 

 will be brought by our own steamers and transferred. Veneers are very 

 good, and we have received some excellent dimension orders, especially in 

 the East. Our present demand for walnut lumber and veneers is running 

 ahead of mahogany, which Is also very good. 



John Churchill of the Churchill-Milton Lumber Company, Greenwood, 

 Miss., was recently in Louisville. He reported a very active volume of 

 business, especially on gum lumber. Good water in the South has resulted 

 in the company's getting in about 2,000,000 feet of logs at the Greenwood 

 mill. The plant at Glendora was sold some time ago. 



The Louisville and Memphis divisions of the Southern Hardwood Traffic 

 Association are making a hard drive to secure the milling-in-transit 

 privilege on lumber for Louisville, Evansville, Nashville and Memphis. 

 Another hearing on the subject was held in Louisville a few days ago 

 before the Louisville District Freight Traffic Association, the hardwood 

 Interests being represented by J. H. Townshend, R. R. May and J. Van 

 Norman, while a number of lumber operators were present, and representa- 

 tives of the Illinois Central and Louisville & Nashville railroads. 



K. Uchida, Tokio, Japan, was recently in Louisville where he investi- 

 gated operations at a number of veneer plants, lumber plants and var- 

 nish factories, going over the manufacture of high grade woods, and 

 finishing preparations. Mr. Dchida is reported to be a millionaire lum- 

 ber operator of the Orient. 



W. C. Hanafoe, who for several years has been with the timber depart- 

 ment of the Wood-Mosaic Company, New Albany, Ind., has been trans- 

 ferred to Jackson, Tenn.. where he takes charge of the company's new 

 mill, recently purchased from T. J. Sprague, who had previously bought 

 it from the Arlington Lumber Co., and sold without turning a wheel. 



It is reported that Hoyt & Hiestand, operating a sawmill at Pekin, 

 Ind., forty miles from Louisville, will rebuild the plant which was de- 

 stroyed by fire at a loss of $15,000. 



