HARDWOOD RECORD 



UcIcWer 



Carl 1>. Hendrickson, who was an active member of the hardwood 

 lumber industry here for a anmber of years, hut who had to leavi. 

 Memphis because of ill health, has returned to Memphis. His health is 

 better and it is understood that he will re-enter the wholesale hardwood 

 lumber business. His old firm was the C. D. Hendrickson Lumber 

 Company. 



The government has attached its signature to the agreement with the 

 City of Memphis whereby the former is to provide the latter with 

 S450,000 for the construction of car-load river terminals here. The 

 cit.v has provided the necessary site and rail connections and it is stated 

 that work on the new terminals will begin shortly after the first of the 

 new year. Lumbermen are very much Interested in the proposed terminals 

 because the latter will make it possible for them to utilize the river for 

 handling shipments of logs and lumber at rates 20 per cent below those 

 charged by the railroads. S. B. Anderson, head of the Anderson-Tully 

 Company, is a member of the River Terminal Commission which will 

 have charge of the construction and administration of the new facilities. 



J. H. Hines, president of the Lumbermen's Club of Memphis, is Just 

 back from a business trip to Chicago. He says that consumers of hard 

 wood lumber are quite active and that the outlook for a large business 

 and better prices is quite good. 



Frank May of May Brothers, who'has been in a sanitarium in Denver. 

 Colo., during the past two months, returned to Memphis October 17. He 

 is much improved in health and has the same keen joy in living which has 

 always characterized him. 



W, R. Foley, vice-president of the Chickasaw Cooperage Company and 

 the Pekin Cooperage Company, who has heretofore had his headquarters 

 in New Orleans, has moved his family to Memphis and will reside here 

 in the future. This announcement is made by Walker Welford. general 

 manager of the former company anil an official of the latter. 



C. B. Allen, president of I hi- Allen Ka ton I'ancl Company, has gone to 

 Detroit for a conference with Henry Fonl regarding the disc auto wheel, 

 made with laminated wood, which the former recently invented and 

 patented. Mr. Allen made tlie trip in response to a telegram from the 

 automobile wizard. 



The E. Sondheimer Co. of .Memphis. Tenn.. has p\irchased the saw 

 mill and mill site of the W'eis-I'atterson Lumber Company, at Alexandria, 

 I^., which consists of twenty-eight and a halt acri's of land, with a yard 

 holding 10,000,000 feet of lumber; an eight-foot band mill, with resaw, 

 planing-mill. lathe and shingle mill. 



The company will remodel this mill, and expects In ;;et il in operation 

 shortly after the first of the year. 



This mill will cut the timl)er off the ic.ooo-acre trad of land, which 

 the company has owned for some years, in Avoyelles and St. Landry 

 Parishes, Iji., comprising about 100,000.000 feet of cypress and hard 

 woods, fifty per cent of which is the finest ipiality of Louisiana red 



c.vpress. 



LOUISVILLE 



I). E. Klino, «)f the Ltiuisvillc Voiif.T Mills, who lias hwn reported as 

 seriously ill, is now reported to he improving rapidly, and is expected to 

 be fully recovered in a short time. li. K. Snyder. >if th<' same company. 

 haK also been away on account of illness. 



Mare Lewis Wyniond of the Holly Ki)!K< buiiilM*r Tn.. nin hit ft just 

 about as mueli bad luck as can befall a man mi his weddiii;; iiisbt. 

 Following a reception after the wedding Mr. and Mrs. Wynioud wer** 

 driving back to the bride's home for her ^rip, when at an intersection 

 his heavy car *Tashed into. a Ford Sedan. For a time it was thought 

 Mrs. Wyniond would die as a result of a deep rut in the throat. She is 

 reported as nearly out of danger. Mr. Wymond was also hadly cut anil 

 -sent to the hospital. Two womeu in the Ford car suffered severe injuries 

 and are also in the hospital. The honeymoon triji has been indefinitej\ 

 postponed. 



Walter Cummock of the Koth Lumber Co., has become head of that 

 ciinceru. following the retirement of John C. (iraham. The company 

 plans to rebuild sohh- sh<*ds and other buildings wbi<-h were burned a 

 short time ago at thi- yards. 



ST. LOUIS 



On October S during the investigation being conducted by Attorney 

 General Barrett to determine the legality of the St. Txmis Lumber Trade 

 Exchange, Geo. L. Walters, secretary-treasuri'r id" the Mound City Lumber 

 Company, testified that, at ime time the Exchange was going to bring a 

 friendly suit against the lleim Lumber Company after that company had 

 withdrawn from the Eschangtr but was not certain that the legality of tlie 

 Exchange's practices would be sustained l)y tlie courts. 



In defense of the Exchange, kiehard E. (Jruner, president of the Phillip 

 fJruner & Bros. Luniber Company, testified the Exchange was formed to 

 put an end to unethical practlees among lumber dealers. He said these 

 unethical practices included short measure, substitution of grades and 

 I»Rictices of contractors in '"playing"' one lumber dealer against another 

 with the resulting sale of lumber lielow cost. 



IjCO F. Ganahl, lumber p(ir( ha.sing agent of the St. T^iiis Car Company, 

 ;i witness for th^;>:xcl^i^age, tewtitied that before .the^ Exchange was formed 

 and as late as 11*17 lumber dealers robbed home builders by short measure 



and substitution of inferior grades. Mr. Ganahl is a brother of Adolph 

 Ganahl, president of the Fred Heim Lumber Co. and he told Attorney 

 General Barrett on cross-examination that he and his brother had nothing 

 to do with each other at this time, for personal reasons. 



August J. Immer. purchasing agent in the office of the City Supply 

 Commissioner, testifieil that bids on lumber were uniform but said also 

 that bids on other materials sucli as iron pipe were also uniform. He 

 said at times he allowed firms to toss a coin to see which one would get 

 an order, so, he could not be accused of favoritism. 



NEW ORLEANS 



The hardwood mill of Faust Brothers Lumber Company at Crew Lake, 

 near Monroe, La., is to ro.*iume operations on November 1, according to 

 announcement within the past few days of B. M. Wakefield, who is secre- 

 tary, treasurer aud general manager of the company. The mill has been 

 down about eight months. Mr. Wakefield admitted that there was at 

 present scarcely anything in the hardwood market to justify resuming 

 operations, hut he stateil he was doing so with the optimistic belief 

 that the time has arrived for a drop in freight rates and that he further 

 believes the market will undergo a big change before the beginning of 

 the New Year. 



Another plant in the M<)nroe, La., district, making preparations to 

 increase its operations is that of the Interstate Cooperage Company, which 

 recently has purchasetl 1,000 acres of splendid timlier, in Morehouse 

 parish, twenty-five miles North of Monroe. The company already has 

 begun preparations for extending its logging operations into the tract and 

 it proposes to place its plant on a night as well as a day shift. 



Louisiana luniber nfanufacturers are proving themselves truly phil- 

 osophical as well as patri<dic over the wrangle before the General Assembly 

 in session at I'.alon Kf>uge concerning the severance tax on the state's 

 natural resources. The tax hits the lumbermen for upward of $1,000,000 

 now and a strenuous attempt is being made to increase it from the 

 present two to three per cent. The tax was agreed upon at that figure 

 at a conference between Governor I'arker, the lumbermen and other 

 natural resource people. They agreed not to fight the tax proposed by 

 the governor on condition it should not exceed two per cent. They 

 played hands off at last year's legislature, the law was passed and now 

 the present legislature is trying to increase the tax to three per cent. 

 The governor is standing by his "gentlemen's agreement" with the lum 

 bermeu ami the (piest ion has been also raised, under a new constitution 

 enacted this year, that the change will necessitate a constitutional 

 amendment, obtainable not earlier thau November of 1922. The question 

 still is being agitated bitterly before the legislature, however, with thf 

 governor's opponents flaying him for "bartering away the people's right 

 to the corporations," etc. 



The hardwood department of the Louisiana Ued Cypress <'4>mpany, New- 

 Orleans, will be transferred to Memphis. Tenn., according to announce- 

 ment by Chris A. Walker, manager of that department. Mr. Walker 

 stated the change woulil lie made in ord<'r to place his department In 

 closer touch with certain big operations the Louisiana Ued has con- 

 tracted with to supply its hardwood needs. 



The .Tames W, Callahan Lumbi-r <'ompany, who own a vast tract of 

 hardwtwd timlter near Mernientan, La., have Just begun the operation of 

 their new mill there. 



The White River Ijuid A; Lumber Company, .Xugu.-^ta. Ark., has placed 

 its hardwood mill in operation again within the (lasl few days, after 

 being down ever since last Spring. 



The Siidth-Uameron Luniber *.**itni>any. has just startt><i its plant, the 

 only one df its kind in the city, on Carrollton avenue. The machines arc 

 operated by indivitlual idectric motors and the plant is engaged In the 

 manufacture of hardw<»od flooring and mouldings and hardwood apparatus 

 incidental to the handling of hardwood lumber. 



The Penn-.larratt Lumber Company. Marianna, Fla., has appointed 

 the Phil Marx Lumber Company, New Orleans, as its sales representative 

 for the New Orleans territorj-. 



The Alexandria (La.) District Lumbermen's Exchange, comprised prin 

 cipally of pine manufacturers, hut including a number of leading hard 

 wood men, also, hehl its October meeting at the Lumbermen's Club, 

 Carondelel and Union streets. New Orleans, Saturday, Oct. IT), with 

 approximately thirty leading delegates from upstate in attendance. 



The meeting was short and snapp.v, consisting of a luxurious repast 

 and a couple of hours discussion of various timely topics facing the 

 hnnber manufacturing industry, the delegates apparently being in the 

 mood to "take in the town" as well as to talk business. 



The program was informal. Fred Miller, chairman of the day, declar- 

 ing he would call upon various d<'legates at randdm for something to say 

 "for the go<»d nf tbc industry." .lames G. Simpson, a Lako Charles. La., 

 lumberman and supreme jabberwaik of the Concatenated Order of Hoo 

 Hoo. delivered a beautiful panegyric on the merits of that organization 

 and outlined to the meeting plans for the big concatenation which the 

 order will htdd at Lake Charles. Novendier 19, and which be insisted 

 all should attend. 



The various talks on the nmrkel outlook were all of an optimistic turn, 

 various hardw<iod spokesmen predicting that their liranch of the lumber 

 industry doubtless will not be much longer in hitting a stride similar 

 to that now characterizing the pine trade. 



