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HARDWOOD RECORD 



April 1(1. 1922 



Plain and Qtd. Red and White 



Even VJ /\ JV Soft 



Color AND OTHER Texture 



Hardwoods 



Soft Yellow Poplar 



MADE (MR ) RIGHT 



OAK FLOORING 



PROMPT SHIPMENTS 

 The 



Mowbray dC Robinson Co. 



(INCORPORATED) 



CINCINNATI, OHIO 



Kentucky Lumber Co. 



LEXINGTON, KENTLCKY 



Manujiicturers 



SHORT LEAF YELLOW 



PEINE 



GUM OAK TUPELO 



Mills at Stilligent, Alabama 



DRY KILNS AND PLANING MILLS 



A, F. Karjit^, president ; the Uiube-Bosso-World Furniture Company 

 and Edward Pager, treasurer: the Goshen Veneer Company, Goshen, 

 Ind.. and Myron C. Dow, secretary-treasurer, and the Hoosier Manufactur- 

 ing Company, New Castle, and J. S. McQuinn. secretary-treasurer. The 

 plaintiff alleged infringement of their patent rights and is seeking 

 damages. 



BEAUMONT 



The Southern Pacitic has made a 25 per cent reduction in freight rates 

 on dunnage to all Texas ports. In the past dunnage has been taking the 

 same rate as lumber, which was prohibitive. 



Roy KoUenborn, editor of "The Log," the Long-Bell publication, is in 

 the Beaumont territory securing some photographs for the next issue. 



LOUISVILLE 



With a capital of $100,000, the Elliott Wood Bending Co., Louisville, has 

 been chartered by Charles W. Elliott, 11. R. Friend, Albert Simpson and 

 Lorenzo Johnson. The debt limit is equal the capital. 



The Rice Hub & Rim Co., English, Ind.. on March 24, suffered fire loss 

 of about .^.38.000, partly insured, when two large buildings containing 

 stock and machinery burned. 



Amended articles have been filed liy the Frey Planing ;MiIl Co.. Louis- 

 ville, increasing Us capital stock from $75,000 to $150,000. 



NEW ORLEANS 



The Southweslern IIardwui>d Manulartun'rs' Club, comprising leading 

 manufacturers of the three states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, 

 after holding its monthly meetings at various dates for the past three 

 months, for first one reason and then another, effective in April, is revert- 

 ing to its regular meeting date : namely, the second Wednesday of each 

 month, which for April falls on the twelfth. 



The Dudley-DuBose Lumber Company. New Orleans, is making use now 

 of the port of Mobile, Ala., for the purpose of exporting large quantities 

 of its hardwood lumber. L. P. DuBose, of the company, gives as the com- 

 pany's reason for using the Alabama port instead of the home port the 

 charge that the Crescent City port lacks proper facilities and also the 

 charge that the hardwood products can he handled substantially cheaper 

 fr(»m Mobile than they can from New Orleans. Two steps are now being 

 taken, httwever. to relieve the hardwood and other shippers through the 

 port of New Orleans, it should be recorded ; first, the Dock Board is 

 making arrangements to assign the lumbermen a special space along the 

 waterfront for the handling of lumber products, and the Association of 

 Commerce and other agencies are conducting a vigorous investigation into 

 charges that the Public Belt Railroad is mulcting shippers through this 

 port. 



The Faust Brothers Lumber <'n. has made arrangements with the E. L, 

 Hendricks Lumber Co., both 4>f Jac-kson, Miss., whereby the former will 

 aid the latter in operating its huge hardwood sawmill at South .Tackson, 

 Miss. The mill Is to be run steadily, cutting high-grade hardwoods, con- 

 sisting of poplar, oak, ash, gum and also cypress, at the combined rate 

 of eight million feet per annum. The sales of the plant, it is understood, 

 will be handled through the Faust Brothers Lumber Co. V. E. Porter will 

 have charge of the .Tackson plant and he will also attend to the purchasing 

 of logs. The Faust Brothers Lumber Company's own plant at Crew Lake, 

 La., has an annual output of about seven million feet per annum. 



The wholesale lumber and tie business of L. W. Bower Lumber Com- 

 pany. Camden, Ark., has recently been bought out in its entirety from the 

 other member of the firm. W. H. Hyatt, by L. W. Bower, senior member, 

 who now is the sole proprietor of the business. 



The Texas Company, of Houston. Texas, has recently purchased the 

 famous Black tract of hardwood stumpage, consisting of 13.000 acres of 

 choice timber, from the Singer Sewing Machine Company, situated in Evan- 

 geline Parish, Louisiana, which stood for years in the individual name of 

 H. Frederick, of Cold water, Mich. Oak. ash, gimi anrl hickory abound 

 on the tract in the finest quality and greatest quantity. 



The Tegge Lumber Co^ 



High Grade 



Northern and Southern 



Hardwoods and Mahogany 



Specialties 



OAK, MAPLE, CYPRESS, POPLAR 

 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 



TORONTO 



Death cnnio siiddcnly on Mari-li "JS to John P-nrry. a wiilnly-known To- 

 ronto liinibeniian. Mr. Itarry had hcoii associated with John R. Smith & 

 Sons, I>td., for .'iT years and for the past 20 years was inanaj^er of their 

 himlier yards at the Dtindas liridKes in the city. 



The Fletcher Lumljer Company, Windsor, Ont., has commenced work 

 (pn a planinj; mill and peneral otRce. The planing mill is to l^e one story, 

 .■10x50, while the otBce bniUIing will be 24x24. 



D. A. Davis, treasurer and manager of the Bancroft Lumber and Manu- 

 facturing Company. Bancroft. Ont., has returned from a several weeks* 

 trip throuKh Michigan. Ohio and Indiana. It is said that the production 

 of lumber in the vicinity of Bancroft, which is in the northern part of 

 Hastlns county, will only be about .'iO per cent of what it w'as last 

 year. 



Robert E. Stocking of the New York lumber tirm of Messrs. I'ower. Moir 

 & Stocking is in Quebec consulting with the president of the company, 

 W. Gerard Power, on business connected with the company and railway 

 shipments of lumber to New York and other United States points. Mr. 

 Stocking is urging lower transportation rates in order to conserve the 



