HARDWOOD RECORD 



June 25, 1917 



E. A. Mercadal Lumber Co. 



WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION 



953 National Life Bldg., CHICAGO 



Northern Hardwoods Southern Hardwoods 



3 cars 8/4 No. 1 Com. & 1 car 4/4 Fas Tupelo Gum 



Better Birch 

 2 cars 6/4 No. 1 Com. & 



Better Birch 

 5 cars 1" No. 3 Maple 

 1 car 1" No. 2 Birch 

 1 car 6/4 No. 2 Com. Oak 

 1 car 4/4 No. 2 Com. Oak 



1 car 4/4 No. 1 Common 



Tupelo Gum 



2 cars No. 2 Merchantable 



Hemlock 

 2 cars 1x4 Merchantable 



Hemlock Strips 

 1 car 1 " Fas Basswood 



Strips 



-< INDIANAPOLIS > 



Imlianaijolis lunilHTnu'U havt- lost in thoir rampai^'u to iiului-e the war 

 ilfpartnu'Dt to establish another traiuinj; ramp near Imlianapnlis, Louis- 

 ville, K.V.. havintr won in the contest that was (■<]inluete<l vipn-ously by 

 several cities in the MiiMIe West. Imlianapolis lunilnTnieu siibsi-rilieil $ln.- 

 000 to a fund which was to have been used to huy a camp site to be turned 

 over to the government. Disappointment is not felt keenly here because 

 of the large amount of construction work that is being done at Fort Benja- 

 min Harrison, where about 12JK)0 men already are under arms. The post 

 is being enlarged from a regimental to a divisional heatlquarters and the 

 trade is being kept extremely busy in fullilling the government's re<iuire- 

 nients for lumber. 



Five furniture manufacturing companies of Shelby ville, I ml., have 

 adopted a bonus salary plan for their 4-niployes. The plan became effective 

 June 15. I'ncler the plan the men will receive a per cent of their weekly 

 wages as a bonus. Coupons will be issued weekly to employes and these 

 coupons will be cashed at intervals of fourteen weeks. Charles A. Spiegel, 

 of the Spiegel I'^urniture Company said the payrolls of the live plants would 

 be increased .f20,(M)0 a year by the change. 



The J. T. Kitchen Lumber Company of Columbus. Inrl.. has just paiti 

 Thomas Cox $ll.nOO for an SO-acre tract of tindierland near that city, 

 ctmsistlng mostly of white oak and poplar. John Kitchen, president of 

 the company, said that 'lOO.OOO feet of lumber wouhl l>e cut from the 

 tract. 



The C. C. Shaler Lumber Company of South lU-ntl. Ind.. has purchased 

 an SO-acre tract of heavily wooded tlmberland near lUichanan. Mich., 

 for $25,000. The company will erect a plant on the tract in the near 

 future. 



Incorporation papers have been Issued ftir the J. A. <;ianton Furniture 

 Company of (Vdumbus, Ind.. which has a capitalization of .^fUi.noo. Di- 

 rectors are James ,V. (Ilanton, Clarence <'. McCcdlough ami John W. Kellcy. 



The John Montano Lundn'r Company, T'nion i'ity. !nd.. has been incor- 

 porated with a capitalization of $15.(100, the directors being John Mon- 

 tano, Emmet Mabcr and Cyrus M. Thompson. 



=-< MEMPHIS >-= 



Memphis hunbermen who attended the annual of the Natiounl ilardwooii 

 Lumber Association at Chicago have returtied and they n-port that the 

 meeting was one of the most successful in tin- history of this organization. 

 Much pleasure was expressed over the patriotic spirit displayed l>y every- 

 body who took part in the prr>ceediugs and there was also not a littU* 

 gratification over the adoption of the greater portion of the recouimenila- 

 tions of the inspections rules committee. A gentleman officially con- 

 nected with this <nmmittee is authority for the statement that the changes 

 made in the inspectlipu rules will go a long way toward restoring harmony 

 among tin' lumbermen and toward strengthening the hands of ibis already 

 powerful body <d' iuriilper interests. 



F. \V. Dugan, president of the F. W. Dugan Lumber Company, reports 

 that his tirm has purchased the tindn'r on l.Ooo acres of land in Mont- 

 gomery county, Mississippi, consisting principally of oak, ash, cottonwood 

 and gum. and that the mill of the company, which has been operated 

 for some years at Roundaway. Miss., will be removed In the near future 

 to Thurman, Miss., which Is near the new holdings. This company main- 

 tains its headquarters in Memphis. 



Col. S. H. An<lerson. president of the Anderson-Tully Company, has 

 undertaken to secure en(uigh money from the lundtermen of Memphis and 

 vicinity to take care of 100 orphans In France for a period of two years. 

 It will require approximately .$7.oOO, but C<d. Anderson believes that, when 

 the liberality of Memphis lumbermen Is coupled with a cause so worthy as 

 that represented by the fatherless children of France society, there will 

 be no difficulty in securing the necessary funds. In any event he has 

 pledged his best efforts in behalf of the orphans 1o the local branch of this 

 society and will make his report later. 



.\mong lumber and allied firms which contriluiled largely to the pir 



campaign Red Cross fund in Memphis this week were : Anderson-Tully 

 Company, $1,000 ; Pidgeon-Thomas Iron Comi)any, $1,000 : Reichman- 

 t'roshy Company, $1,000 ; Memphis Furniture Manufacturing Company, 

 $1,000, and Gayoso Lumber Company, $500. There is no doubt that all of 

 the lumber interests of Memphis will respond generously to the call of 

 the nation for Red Cross funds this week but the foregoing were secured 

 ahead of the opening of the actual campaign so that the movement might 

 be launched und'>r the most favorable conditions. 



S. M. Nickey of the Green lliver Lumber Company, says that it will be 

 several months before the mill of this firm now being rebuilt in North 

 Memphis to replace that destroyed liy fire some time ago will be ready 

 for operation. Mr. Nickey says that the machinery manufacturers are 

 all slow with deliveries now because of the rush they are encountering 

 imt. that, in addition to this delay, a still fui-ther one lias been caused by 

 the retiuisition by the government of some of the equipment intended for 

 this plant. 



, F. E. Gary of the Crenshaw-Gary Lumber Company says the car situa- 

 tion is still Quite irregular and that, because of the uncertainty of the 

 situation in this respect, it is rather difficult to map out or accomplish 

 any definite line of action in the manufacture of lumlier. He says that 

 liis firm, which owns two mills in Mississippi, is operating only one of 

 these at present, largely because of insufficient car supply. He says that 

 there are dflys when there are plenty of cars but that, just when it looks 

 as if the transportation fiituation was adjusting itself to a satisfactory 

 l)asis. there is a run of days when practically no equipment is available, 

 nther lumtier manufacturers in Mississippi and Arkansas are encounter- 

 ing a similar proldem. 



LumbiTmen realize the seriousness of the car situation not only for 

 the pri'srnt liut also for the future and they are co-operating with the 

 carriers in every way. They enjoy the distinction of lieing among the 

 first shippers in this part of the country to load cars to their full capacity 

 and they also enjoy the distinction of telling the carriers how they might 

 nuiterially improve the situation by more frequent switching. The lum- 

 liernuui are refusing to sell small quantities of lumlier requiring only part 

 of the available space in a ear and are trying to bring their selling basis 

 in line so that It is possllde to sidp a full car load every time an (U'der 

 goes out. 



There is rather more building activity in Mi-miibis just now than dur- 

 ing the past few weeks, l^ulte a lull appeared during May and com- 

 paratively little was accomplished. Returning confidence, however, is 

 bringing about a renewal of building en a more aggressive scale and good 

 n-turns for Memphis nuiy be expected for the current month. 



=-< LOUISVILLE >= 



.XftiT Itt'inK down for soverul wofks the Louisville Point Liiml)er Coin- 

 piiny on .Iiini' IS starti'il its Louisville mill, ami Is lUttinK oal;, ash. poiilar. 

 elm anil other luirdwotiils. priiicipally thick storks, which ai'e in Itij! deinainl 

 at this time. 



'i'he Chui-ihlll Milton Luniher Company on .lune IS started Its new hard- 

 wood plant at (Jri'enwood, Miss., which will have a daily capacity, with its 

 ih.ulde liand mill, of a little more thiin lOO.tHIo feet of hardwood dally. The 

 company will cut principally red thdta gnni, ash. oak ami elm. nht>ut ei;;hty 

 per cent of the cut bciny of i;um. The other mill at tilcndora. Miss., has a 

 capacity of ."ill.iMKt feet daily, giving the eomiiaiiy a total cai>acily of a little 

 better than a,(i(i(i,00(l feet n month. 



The Wood-.Mosaic Company, New Albany, Ind., and Ilighland I'ark, Ky,, 

 recently ijurt-hased (he tindter on the i,.->00 acre Sears estate, at Scotts- 

 ville, Ky., the property heiny sold at the court housi^ door, ami purchased 

 liy O. L. Hayes, representini; the lund)er company, for $H7.()T."i. The land 

 was sold separately for ,$24,0(10 to other parties. The Wood-Mosaic Cimi- 

 l>any will cut the timber and ship it to the mills at Louisville and New 

 .\Ibany. 



Louisville ln!nt>erinen and citntractors, those tlealing in both soft and 

 hardwoods, are watching with much interest the recent announcement of 

 the K.ivernment to the effei't that one of the cantonments would be estab- 

 lished at Louisville. On ,Inne 18 word was received from Washington, 

 stating that the Mason-IIanKer Company of Richmond and Ijcxington, 

 Ky., with other offices in New York, had been given the general contract 

 on a pcrccntagi' l)asis. under which net proHts are not to exceed ,$22."i.(i(1il, 

 ,\ nundier of large local contracting concerns and lumber houses en<leavorcd 

 to land the contract, but ligiire that they will probably get a nnndier id" the 

 subcontracts and supply contracts im the work. It is estimated that it 

 will cost close to .fCi.ooo.ooo to erect the camp, and that when It is com- 

 pleted the government will spend $1,500,000 nomthiy on supplies and in 

 paying salaries. Local utility concerns will also expend about a half 

 million in extending service lines to the new camp site. 



'the demand for lalau' is growing at .such a pace that some of tbc> local 

 ncwspaiiers have announced that in the future they will take no advertis- 

 ing for labor to go out of Louisville, Carpenters are especially scarce, as 

 most of the building that has been done during (lie past few months has 

 been of frame. It is estimaled that 8,000 biliorers will be required In 

 building the new government camp, which will house sr^OOO or more men 

 from Kentucky and Indiana. This will cause a still greater demand for 

 labor, and some will have to be brought In from the outside, .'^awudlis 

 have been having considerable trouble, and In some cases have closed down 

 :iTid sent the mill forces into (be woods to aid in getting out timber. 



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