July 



1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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est a great deal of money, but did not bring much in the way of results. 



Machinery is now being installed in the plant of the Kahler Manu- 

 facturing Company at New Albany, which was destroyed in the cyclone 

 of March 21. The new plant is somewhat larger than the former one, 

 and is being equipped with the most modern machinery for making auto 

 bodies and woodwork. 



The Old Hickory Novelty Company, is a new handle manufacturing 

 concern which will operate at Stephensport, Ky., with its office at Hard- 

 insburg. W. E. Foster and J. L. Ferguson are behind the company, 

 which has secured a tract of hickory which will last them about five 

 years. Machinery is now being installed to finish handles at the 

 rate of a car a weeli. 



The property of the Say Lumber & Coal Company, in Wolfe County, 

 Kentucky, has been taken over by the newly organized Bluegrass Oil 

 Company, a producing concern of Winchester, Ky., in which F. W. 

 Mowbray and E. O. Robinson, large timber and lumber dealers and 

 manufacturers of Cincinnati are stockholders. The new company has 

 just been organized. Mr. Robinson and Mr. Mowbray are connected 

 with the Mowbray & Robinson Company of Cincinnati, which has 

 large interests in Kentucky timber lands. 



At Scottsville, Ky., the Wood-Mosaic Company of New Albany, has 

 erected a small lumber plant to work up the timber on the recently 

 purchased tract, and is now shipping lumber to its yards at New Al- 

 bany and at 'Highland Park. 



Some big developments are planned by the Harlan-Knox Coal & 

 Lumber Company, recently organized to market timber in Knox county, 

 Ky., and coal from Harlan, Ky. The companies main office is at 

 Pineville, Ky., and is in charge of A. C. Caruthers. 



=■< LITTLE ROCK >■= 



The Griswald Cedar Factory, at Cotter, Ark., last week started opera- 

 tions after having been closed down for a year. This factory manufac- 

 tures rc<lar lumber, (limon?inn shuli and pencil slats. 



The t.'bkago Veneer Company iiccntly filed a copy of its cbnrtei wllli 

 (he secretary of state of Arkansiis. John W. Newnjan, an attorney al Lit- 

 tle Rock, is named as the company's agent for service in Arkansas. 



The T. S. Graysnn Luml)er Company of Finns, Quachita county. Ark.. 

 has lileO a ccrtillcate with thn secretary of state of Arkansas, announcing 

 the surrender of its '.-liorter. 



The Ohio Lumber (,'cm|inny of Donuldsun, Ark., last week filed artides of 

 Incorporation with a capital stock of .|20,000. of which $18,200 has been 

 subscribed. The officers and incorporators are : Wm. J. Baldwin, presi- 

 dent : W. W. Vosbnrgh, vice-president, and Harvey E. Webster, secretary- 

 treasurer. 



The Liberty Lumber Company of St. Louis, Mo., has filed a certified 

 copy of its charter and has been granted permission to ttansact business 

 in this state. J. F. Bibb of Willow, Ark., has been named as the agent 

 for service in Arkansas. 



Forest Supervisor C. A. Clark of the Ozark National Forest, whose head- 

 quarters are at Harrison. Ark., has recently spent several days in southern 

 Arkansas in the interest of recruiting the Forest Regiment. Hot Springs 

 county is said to have furnished a larger quota of high-class men for this 

 regiment than any other county in the state. At Malvern twenty-six 

 skilled lumberjacks, mill men and auto truck drivers were recruited for 

 the Forest Regiment, into the unit known as the Tenth Engineers. Na- 

 tional Army, and are to be transported to Fort Leavenworth, Ivan., at 

 once for military training. Among the men who enlisted at Malvern is 

 J. B. Woods, who is well kaown in lumber circles. He has been commis- 

 sioned as first lieutenant and will rcimrf to Washington. D. C. at once. 



=-< WISCONSFN >.= 



The Automatic Cradle Company. Stevens Point, Wis., has taken occu- 

 pancy of its new factory, which represents an investment of about .$1110,- 

 000. The former plant has been turned over to the Bukolt Mfg. Company, 

 of which J. J. Bukolt, head of the Automatic company, is president. 



The sawmill, planing mill, warehouses and yards of the Gagen Lumiier 

 & Cedar Company, Gagen, Oneida county. Wis., were almost totally de- 

 stroyed by fire recently, with a loss of $50,000. It is likely that the com- 

 pany will rebuild at once. 



The West Milwaukee car and locomotive shops of the Chicago, Milwau- 

 kee & St. Paul Railway Company are engaged in the production of l..jOO 

 gondola cars at the rate of five to si.x daily. A call has been issued for 

 500 additional woodworkers. 



Jay Lett, river foreman of the Paine Lumber Company, Oshkosh, Wis., 

 fias been recommended for the award of a Carnegie hero medal because of a 

 thrilling rescue he made a year ago of a party in a burning launch on 

 Lake Winnebago. 



The Mohr Lumber Company, Tomahawk, Wis., is completing work on a 

 potash plant, which will use its own ashes and that of other lumber indus- 

 tries in the. vicinity. 



Contracts will be awarded at once by the Silent Washer Company, for- 

 merly of Appleton, Wis., for the erection of its new an<l permanent works 

 at Clintonville, Wis. It will he -10x120 feet, two stories, and equipped 

 for manufacturing washing machines, both manual and power. Robert 

 Fischer is secretary. 



The Jlonroe Woodworldug Ccunpany, Monroe, Wis., has been consoli- 



dated with the new Wausau Wood Products Company, Wausau, Wis., ac- 

 cording to reports, and the equipment will be moved to Wausau immedi- 

 ately. Arthur W. Wenger, Monroe, becomes vice-president and manager 

 of the new company. 



The Globe Shipbuilding Company, organized at Superior, Wis., in Feb- 

 ruary as a Wisconsin corporation with $00,000 capital, has re-incorpo- 

 rated under the laws of Delaware, with $500,000 capital. It is building 

 eight ocean-going trawlers for the Norwegian government. B. C. Cooke 

 is president. 



The .into Body Manufacturing Company, Appleton, established a plant in 

 February, and is making plans for the erection and equipment of a new 



E. A. Mercadal Lumber Co. 



WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION 



953 National Life Bldg., CHICAGO 



Northern Hardwoods Southern Hardwoods 



3 cars 8/4 No. 1 Com. & 



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 Fas Tupelo Gum 



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 



WE MANUFACTURE bandsawed, plain and quarter sawed 



WHITE AND RED OAK AND YELLOW POPLAR 



We mike a srecialty of GaW and Hickory Imple- 



mtnl, Wagdn and Vehicle Stock in the rough. 



Vour I riq Ulrica lallclte d 



ARLINGTON LUMBER CO., Arlingten, Kentucky 



5775' in this 

 white oak 



Lenox SawMillCo. 



Mills: Lenox, Kentucky 



Sales Office 



American Lumber & Mfg. Co. 

 PITTSBURGH, PA. 



Soft Texture 



KENTUCKY 



WHITE OAK 

 & POPLAR 



Chestnut, Beech, etc. 



Band Sawn on our new Electric 

 mill out of the be^ timber ever 

 grown anywhere. 



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