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HARDWOOD RECORD 



August 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. &. 



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 have the following dry stock to offer: 



One Car of 

 10/4" No. 3 Common 

 Rock Elm 



Let us have your inquiries. 



FOSTER BROS., Tomahawk, Wis. 



WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN HARDWOODS 



(WHITE OAK) 



LENOX LOGS 



KENTUCKY SOFT TEXTURED 



White Oak, Poplar 



HARDWOODS 



AMERICAN LUMBER & MFG. COMPANY 



PITTSBURGH, PA. 



nounced that it will move its plant at East London, Ky., to some other 

 district, having purchased practically all of the timber in the district. 



The Kentucky Elver Hardwood Company and the Mowbray & Robinson 

 Company recently closed a deal at Quicksand, Ky., which involved a lot 

 of logging equipment and hardwood timber tributary to the plants of the 

 llowbray company, and which should add to the mill output considerably 

 in production capacity. For several years the Mowbray company has been 

 buying a lot of timber from the hardwood company, delivered In the 

 Mowbray pond, while the hardwood company logged a lot of timber owned 

 by the Mowbray company. In the new deal the Mowbray company takes 

 over about fifty miles of 42-inch railroad, the logging equipment, and bal- 

 ance of standing timber belonging to the Kentucky Kiver Hardwood Com- 

 pany, and in the future will operate the entire woods end of its business. 

 This deal has not increased the stumpage owned by Mowbray Interests to 

 any great extent, but should increase the mill capacity. The company Is 

 undertaking some big developments in eastern Kentucky, and has mills-at 

 West Irvine, Viper and several thousand acres of timber. 



C. H. Willett of the W. R. Willett Lumber Company is back from a 

 lumber buying trip to the South, having visited mills in a number of 

 districts. 



Work has been started by the Edward L. Davis Lumber Company on 

 remodeling its office, and when completed the company will have an office 

 of real beauty and paneled in some fine specimens of hardwoods such as 

 handled by the concern. 



W. H. Stubbs, Canadian representative of the Card Lumber Company, 

 Chattanooga, was recently in Louisville on his return from a trip to the 

 mill, and attended a meeting of the Louisville Hardwood Club. Mr. Stubbs, 

 who a few weeks ago talked before the club on the lumber situation In 

 Canada, was called on again, and discussed conditions at some length. 

 He stated that the company's mills are busy, but are behind on getting out 

 and shipping orders. The company is expecting some trouble this winter 

 with car shortage and embargoes, but at the present time conditions are 

 good. In Canada business at the present time is fine, but would be much 

 better except for the labor shortage, high-class woodworkers being very 

 scarce, a larger percentage of skilled men having entered the army than 

 of unskilled ones. This has hit the piano trade very hard, and one large 

 piano manufacturer has been importing piano cases from the states, paying 

 a thirty per cent duty, and a seven per cent war tax. This manufacturer 

 lost thirty-seven men out of his woodworking shop alone, and was almost 

 compelled to close the department, it being impossible to replace the 

 hands with skilled material. Other Industries have lieen hit just as hard, 

 even the contractors being up against a serious labor .shortage. 



R. R. May, secretary of the Louisville Hardwood Club and manager of 

 the Louisville branch o( the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association, has 

 been wrangling with the insurance companies for several days over the 

 complete loss of a fine new six-cylinder Bulck car, which was totally de- 

 molished by unknown parties who stole the car from Walnut street, while 

 Mr. May was attending a meeting of the club at the Seelbach. Leaving the 

 hotel shortly after 9 o'clock he found that the car was missing, although 

 it was left under lock on Walnut street between Third and Fourth. The 

 police department late at night notified him that the car had been found 

 on the Shelbyville road, smashed beyond recognition in a collision with a 

 bridge abutment. No trace of the thief has been found. 



According to one of the local newspapers, Col. V. C. Mengel, head of 

 the Mengel Box Company and connected with the C. C. Mengel & Bro. Com- 

 imny, is very much elated over having cut his golf game and having 

 r( cently made an even hundred on the Louisville Country Club course. The 

 newspapers In commenting on the event said : "He was more excited than 

 when the Germans sank one of his ships off the coast of France. He 

 onlercd Charlie to see that there was not a dry throat in the clubhouse; 

 went home and raised the servants' wages, subscribed for two golf maga- 

 zines and arranged bis business so that in the future it would not interfere 

 with his playing golf seven days a week." 



L. K, Kirtley of Lebanon, Ind., is endeavoring to sell a modern wood- 

 working plant, equipped for manufacturing chairs and kitchen cabinets. 

 This plant is equii)ped with all modern machinery, has good railroad and 

 interurban connection, steam heat, electric lights and is ready for 

 operation. 



.Vnnouncement was made last week of the resignation of Fred M. 

 ;5ackett, president of the Board of Trade, who was recently appointed 

 Federal Food Commissioner of Kentucky by President Wilson. .7. W. 

 Oliver, vice-president of the board, has been elected president, and the 

 olher officers all moved up a notch. 



With the departure of the coal handling fleets on the Ohio river it 

 develops that many of the old tugs used for handling coal barges are now 

 handling logs and lumber, and while the river ha.s been going down for 

 ten years so far as tonnage handling is concerned, there Is a possibility 

 that lumber concerns will use it more and more due to the car shortages, 

 embargoes, and fact that boats are available for handling lumber. The 

 Karrett fleet of six boats, formerly used for towing coal. Is now handling 

 logs and lumber almost exclusively, and the Jim Woods is towing lumber 

 and logs out of Cairo. Many of the old boats have been sold by the coal 

 companies into the western trade or the Mississippi river trade, and river 

 rhal is now going largely by rail, and the Pittsburgh demand is such that 

 there Is small chance of coal from the upper river coming West or South 



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