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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 10. 1919 



also recommend the establishment of a liiireau of forestry, to be under 

 the direction of the Department of Agriculture. 



The state board of administration, composed of Got. A. H. Roberts, 

 chairman ; Hill McAllister and Lewis Tope, general manager recently met 

 at the office of the governor to discuss various institutions of the state 

 and fix basis of action. The board appointed Thos. E. Wilson of Cum- 

 berland county, a prominent timberman. . to supervise the cutting and 

 manufacture of the timber of Brushy mountain tract. It was decided 

 that one mill would be started and if the plan proves profitable, three 

 other mills will be put to work. It is estimated that there will be several 

 million feet of flrst-elass lumber manufactured from this tract, which is 

 made up of virgin timber. 



The Welch-Mallard Company. Nashville, is operating lumber and stave 

 mills In middle Tennitisee and in Arkansas and reports spring operations 

 about normal. 



The Smyrna Lumber Company, Smyrna, Toun.. is getting out consider- 

 able cedar stock in that section. 



Hannibal S. Seagle, aged fifty-three, died at his home in Chattanooga 

 recently. For many years Mr. Seagle had been engaged in the lumber 

 business. 



The Kon Air Lumber & Manufacturing Company, with oflSces in the 

 Stahiman building, is developing some sawmill and timber properties on 

 the Cumberland Plateau. 



O. I. Frazier Company, lumber and stave manufacturer, has moved 

 from the eighth floor to offices at 629-631 of the Stahiman building re- 

 cently. Mr. Frazier has returned recently from Chicago and Middle 

 West points. 



D. S. Hutchison of the box department of the John B. Ransom & Com- 

 pany, reports business fair in packing boxes, but a little quiet in wire 

 bound boxes, and veneer material somewhat out of proportion on price 

 schedules. Mr. Hutchison was formerly in Kansas City and other box 

 centens and is one of the best informed box men in the South. 



A. L. Goldberg & Son hai-e succeeded the old firm of Cohn & Goldberg. 

 Nashville. 



The National Body Company. Nashville, has been chartered with a 

 capital stock of $10,000 by H. C. Blackwood, S. G. Holland, J. H. Whaley, 

 Stanley Horn. C. R. Wood and J. N. Moorehead. 



The Cherokee Wood and Timber Company, Knoxville, has been chartered 

 with a capital stock of .$50,000 by R. F. Calgan, T. G. McConnell, Chas. 

 M. Seymour and others. 



LOUISVILLE 



The Wood-Mosaic Company has been operating full time at its mills at 

 Louisville, New Alban.v. Cincinnati, O., and Jackson, Tenn., and at that 

 Is not accumulating any stock to speak of, as the market is so active that 

 full production doesn't equal demand for some items. 



The Louisville Point Lumber Company has been down for several weeks 

 and reports making rapid progress in cleaning up stocks, but probably 

 will not start the mill until better and cheaper logs are available than 

 those now obtainable. Farmers are busy in the fields, well fixed financially, 

 unposted on log markets and asking sky high prices. 



At the last meeting of the Louisville Hardwood Club the Mengel Box 

 Company was again taken into the club after an absence of several years. 

 One or two additional members are in prospect. The members at this 

 meeting discussed conditions freely, showing that orders were coming in 

 nicely, but for small lots up to four or five cars for the most part. How- 

 ever, orders and inquiries are numerous, and light and often buying is 

 entirely satisfactory. 



Business with the Edward L. Davis Lumber Company has been holding 

 up extremely well, as oak and ash have continued in big demand right 

 along since the close of the war, and business has been if anything better 

 than it was at that period, when it was very hard to locate requirements. 



W. R. Willett of the W. R. Willett Lumber Company in discussing con- 

 ditions now existing said : "Business is much better than it was last month. 

 and we've -been making considerable progress. We're feeling very much 

 pleased with the way things are working out in both the hardwood and 

 softwood departments, and feel that the reconstruction period has so far 

 been very satisfactory." 



Business with C. C. Jlengel & Bro. Company is very active, as there 

 Is an excellent demand for mahogany and high-grade walnut in the musical 

 instrument trade, both lumber and dimension stock moving well. 



Harry Kline. Louisville Veneer Mills, is reporting nothing but good 

 business for his plant, which has been operating at capactiy for some 

 weeks. 1). E. Kline, head of the company, is expected back shortly from 

 a trip to California. 



In the death of Daniel Boone Logan of Bell county, Kentucky, at St. 

 Petersburg, Fla., early in the month, Kentucky lost one of her most Illus- 

 trious citizens, and Bell county lost her richest resident and largest coal 

 and lumber operator. Mr. Logan made Kentucky history in the eighties 

 when he cleaned out the famous Tolliver gang, which had been responsible 

 for a reign of terror and lawlessness in Rowan county, resulting in the 

 deaths of more than twenty men. two of whom were relatives of Mr. Logan. 

 After being warned to leave the county he asked the governor for per- 

 mission to organize a force to arrest and bring to Justice certain members 

 of the band. Being refused his request he personally armed a band of men. 



which went into the county and cleaned out the leader and several of his 

 henchmen. Over 1500 shots were fired in pitched battles from the hills. 

 Rowan county has since made excellent progress. 



The biggest tiniberland suit that has been filed in Kentucky in several 

 years was filed at Frankfort on March 31 by almost one hundred heirs 

 of Malcolm Hart of Virginia, this suit being in Federal court and against 

 the Stearns Lumber & Coal Company. Intermountain Lumber & Coal Com- 

 pany and other operators owning 20.000 acres of timber and coal land in 

 Harlan and Leslie counties on the North Fork of the Kentucky river. The 

 suit also asks damages of $500,000 and is based on a land grant made by 

 the state of Virginia to Hart In 1787. 



W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company report demand so good at this 

 time that production is keeping merely a jump ahead of sales, which have 

 been good on almost every item produced. 



Harbey Miller, forty years of age, well-known eastern Kentucky lumber 

 and coal operator, with important hardwood mills in the Whitesburg dis- 

 trict, recently died of influenza, following a short Illness. The remains 

 were taken to his old home in Lee county for interment. 



Louisville lumber interests are facing several forms of taxes In con- 

 nection with a new licensing ordinance which has been introduced in the 

 city council for the purpose of making up about $600,000 in revenue which 

 will be lost when prohibition becomes effective. Brokers will be licensed 

 at the rate of $50 annually, while manufacturers and salesmen will be 

 licensed on a sliding scale, the former on the basis of number of employes. 

 Almost every business interest and all professional men, merchants, etc., 

 will be hit by the ordinance if passed as introduced. 



The Pope-Caywood Lumber & Supply Company, Harlan, Ky., capital 

 $90,000, has been chartered by Jeff H. Rice, F. F. Caywood and J. M. Pope. 



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

 that the demand for box shooks is not especially good just now, due to the 

 general dullness in the box trade, and that some classes of poplar are 

 hard to secure. However, the poplar business as a whole is good. 



TEXAS 



W. A. Priddie, Supreme Snark of Hoo-Hoo. has left with his family for 

 a six weeks' stay on the Pacific coast. While Mr. Priddie is going largely 

 for a rest, he will go up the coast from Los Angeles as far as Portland 

 and stage a few concatenations. 



The Neches Shipbuilding Company of Beaumont, has finally received 

 a settlement from the Emergency Fleet Corporation which was very 

 satisfactory, many Beaumont lumbermen being interested in the com- 

 pany. The firm had a contract with the government for the construc- 

 tion of six 3500-ton barges and had just completed the construction of 

 four ways and placed orders for material when the fleet corporation can- 

 celed the contract. It is unofficially understood that the government 

 allowed it a pro£t of 32 per cent on its $100,000 capitalization. 



J. T. Sullivan, formerly in charge of the Detroit branch of the Mow- 

 bray & Robinson Company, Cincinnati, has accepted the management of 

 the hardwood department of the Beaumont Lumber Company and entered 

 on bis new duties April 1. Mr. Sullivan succeeds Rex H. Browne who 

 recently embarked into the hardwood mill business. 



Herschel E. Halskell. manager of the lumber department of Mayer & 

 Loge, New York, has been spending several days in the Texas lumber belt 

 looking over conditions and making a few purchases. 



R. W. Deshon who represented the export firm of H. Cuejell & Co.» 

 Mobile, in Beaumont prior to the outbreak of the war, has returned to 

 Beaumont after receiving his discharge from the army and will again 

 enter into the export business. Mr. Deshon went through the campaign 

 which resulted in the armistice. 



B. B. Hall, general sales agent of the Texas Tram & Lumber Company, 

 has spent two weeks visiting the northern and eastern consuming dis- 

 tricts. 



MILWAUKEE 



Articles of incorporation have been filed in behalf of the United Wood 

 Products Corporation, Chippewa Falls. The capital stock is $75,000 and 

 the object is to manufacture hardwood and similar products. The in- 

 corporators are J. J. Phalen, Frank Roach, William Hebert and Abe 

 Juster. 



The Bissell Lumber Company. Rhinelander, which took over the entire 

 property of the Stolle Lumber & Veneer Company, centralized at Tripoli, 

 within the past year, is making Important improvements In the enlarg- 

 ing of the plant. Among the largest pieces of work Is to, double the 

 capacity of the sawmill. The planing mill and veneer mills also are 

 scheduled for extension and complete modernization. 



The Automatic File & Index Company. 145 South Pearl street. Green 

 Bay, will spend $60,000 for additions and new equipment. The contract 

 for the erection of new buildings has been awarded and work is now 

 under way. The project Is In charge of P. T. Benton, architect. Green 

 Bay. M. Strobel is president and general manager of the company. 



The P. B. Tates Machine Company, Belolt, formerly known aa the 

 Berlin Machine Works, surprised its employes on Its latest pay day by 

 inclosing in each pay envelope a check representing a bonus on 1918 

 earnings. The chocks ranged from $40 to $125, and the aggregate 

 amount of the distribution Is said to have been approximately $50,000. 



The John Schroeder Lumber Company, Milwaukee and Ashland, Is 



