June 10, 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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For Greatest Range of Uses 



Th) "HOOSIEtl," the rip saw which makes profitable 

 dimension manufacture and grade refining at the mill 

 possible. Hundreds of users already — you will be an- 

 other If you will let us tell you all about it— Will you? 



and 



Easiest Handling 



buy the 



Hoosier Self Feed Rip Saw. This machine has earned thousands 

 of dollars for owners in the manufacture of dimension lumber, crating, 

 etc., because its entirely novel design, resulting in surprising ease of 

 operation and adaptability, makes possible a profit where a loss is 

 often expected in this work. The 



Hoosier Self-Feed Rip Saw 



has a positive and powerful feed which handles the heaviest material 

 the sawmill takes just as readily as the lightest. 



The table, raised and lowered with the crank in front of the ma- 

 chine, is always level — always securely locked. 



The Hoosier rips anything up to 6 inches thick and 17 inches wide. 

 It feeds 35, 75, 100 or 150 feet a minute. 



Manufactured 



X c I u s i V e I 



by 



The SINKER -DAVIS COMPANY 



INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 



p. Stenning Coate. who recently huught the interest of the estate of the 

 late George D. Burgess in Russe & Burgess. Inc.. has been elected treasurer 

 of that corporation anj is getting rapidly broken into the intricacies of the 

 lumber industry. Mr. Oxholm, of the Federal Lumber Trade Commission, 

 said Saturday, during the course of his address, that the most disappoint- 

 ing feature of the lumber industry in this country was the lack of organ- 

 ization. Mr. Coate, on the other hand, says there are more organizations 

 in the lumber industry than in anything with which he was ever associated. 

 He is busy learning the names and functions of those with which Russe & 

 Burgess, Inc.. are connected as members. 



The Price Veneer & Lumber Company has been granted a charter under 

 the laws of Mississippi. The capital stock is $20,000 and headquarters 

 are at Columbia. F. V. B. Price. V. F. Price and others are the incor- 

 porators. 



Hubbard & Henning, who are rapidly completing removal of the timber 

 from a tract of 2oS acres of hardwood lands at Friendship, Tenn., which 

 they bought some time ago at approximately §100 per acre, will sell this 

 at auction June IS to buyers who wish to engage in farming, stock raising 

 or other pursuits. 



=■< LOUISVILLE >: 



News was received in Louisville last week by the C. C. Mengel & Bro. 

 Company of the sinking of the company's large sailing vessel, Tltc Dingo, 

 off the coast of Plymouth, England, by a German U-boat on May 31. The 

 crew of thirty-one men, with the exception of Third Mate Ray. was landed 

 in safety at Plymouth. Ray was drowned while endeavoring to get into a 

 small boat. The German submarine, on sighting the big four-masted 

 lumber booker, starting shelling her, and the crew took to the boats when 

 the third shell landed solid. Bombs were placed in the hold, and the 

 vessel totally destroyed. The Mengel company had been using the vessel 

 as a mahogany log handler, bringing in logs from West Africa and South 

 America to Pensacola, Fla., but during the past few months had been 

 using her as a blockade runner. When sunk she was carrying a heavy 

 cargo of steel and oil to Havre, France, and from that port was to have 

 gone to West Africa for a cargo of logs. The vessel was insured for 

 $225,000, this figure not being her true worth under the rapid advance in 

 the price of freighters. The cargo was valued at $."iOO,000. 



The Churchill-Milton Lumber Company has met many delays in start- 

 ing its new mill at Greenwood. Miss., and the time for getting up operating 

 steam has been delayed so often that it is now about two months behind 

 the proposed schedule. However, Smith Milton states that it will be 

 running by June 1.5, and will represent a most thorough hardwood, double 

 band mill. 



Much damage was done in Kentucky and vicinity in recent cyclones 

 which swept through the district. At North Vernon. Ind., the North 

 Vernon Lumber Company had its plant partially unroofed, and damage 

 done to several buildings. The A. B. Smith Lumber Company, Paducah, 

 had two of its country mills badly damaged, but its big plant at Bondurant 

 escaped. J. V. Stimson. operating hardwood mills at Owensboro, Ky., 

 Huntingburg, Ind,, and elsewhere, was in Owensboro when advised that 

 his mill at McKenzie, Tenn., had been destroyed at a loss of approximately 

 $20,000. Various other mill property suffered. 



A nuinber of the Louisville hardwood men have been taking an active 

 part in the campaign to sell liberty loan bonds in I^ouisville. John 

 Churchill and Tom Fullenlove of the Churchill-Milton Lumber Company. 

 are among the leaders. Mr. Churchill being a colonel and Mr. Fullenlove a 

 captain. Preston Jeyes of W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Company, \. E. 

 Norman. Sr., of the Norman Lumber Company, and Edward L. Davis of 

 the Edward L. Davis Lumber Company are among the leading workers in 

 the campaign. 



At a lively me'eting of the Louisville Hardwood Club, held on Tuesday, 

 May 29, a resolution was adopted under which members who in the future 

 fail to be represented will be forced to pay a little fine of .$5 into the 

 club treasury. Several years ago when the club was organized a .$10 fine 

 was scheduled, but was later taken off on objection of the regular 

 absentees, Edward L. Davis of the Edward L. Davis Lumber Company, 

 one of the original charter members of the organization, jumped on the 

 members for failing to attend the meetings regularly, proposing that either 

 a fine be imposed on absent organizations or fewer meetings be held eiieh 

 month. Mr. Davis spoke at some length on the founding and long life 

 of the club, and stated that never before in its history were business and 

 national conditions in shape where the club needed each man's ideas as 

 much as at the present time. The result was that the members decided 

 to continue the weekly meetings, and to plaster a fine on all absent mem- 

 bers, the rule going into effect at the first June meeting. Mr. Davis also 

 recommended that the meetings be given over more to business, and less 

 to outside interests, such as baseball, politics, "hoss" racing, golf. etc. 

 These matters are good material for discussion during the dinner, when 

 shop talk should be forgotten, but when the business meetings are called 

 all outside matters should be forgotten. 



Several interesting subjects were discussed, principal of which was the 

 liberty loan problem. Several speakers voiced their views on this subject, 

 the gist of the talks being to the effect that the lumbermen thought favor- 

 ably of the loan, felt that It would draw a lot of dead money into circula- 

 tion on the part of small investors, and while it might cut down bank 

 deposits for a time no bad effect is expected from such source. It was 



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