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HARDWOOD RECORD 



September 10, 1917 



WE MANUFACTURE band»awed, plain and quarter Mwatf 



WHITE AND RED OAK AND YELLOW POPLAP 



We in»ke a specialty of Oak and Hickory Im^le- 

 ■«at. Wafon and Vehicle Stock in the rough. 



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ARLINGTON LUMBER CO., Arlingttii, Kentucky 



Wistar, Underbill & Nixon 



Real Estate Trust ■uilding 

 PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 



CHOICE DELTA GUM Dry and Straight 



Northwestern 

 Cooperage and Lumber Co. 



GLADSTONE, MICHIGAN 



Western Office: Mills at Gladstone and 



S16 Lumber Exchange, Minneapolis, Minn. Escanaba, Mich. 



Manufacturers of the following 



"PEERLESS" STANDARD BRAND PRODUCTS 

 Hardwood Flooring, Staves, Hoops, Heading 

 and Veneers, Hemlock Lumber, Lath, Shingles, 

 Posts, Poles and Ties, and Hemlock Tzm Bau'k 



tile year 1918 and from present imlicaticms it is expected the four larjre 

 plants here will be able to operate full time all of next year. 



-< MEMPHIS >- 



Construction of the aviation cani]) at Millin^lon. on the Illinois Cen- 

 tral, a few miles north of Memphis, has already begun and between 500 

 and 1,000 men are employed thereon. More than .">0 frame l>uildings will 

 have to be erected and the necessary lumber has already been delivered 

 or is in process of delivery. .Vccommodations for some l.SOO persons 

 directly identified with this camp as aviators or their helpers will have 

 to be provided. It is estimated that the camp will be completed in aliout 

 eight we-'ks. While a c<mtracting firm outside of Memphis has secured 

 the work, emiiloyment is being given to practically all contracting firms, 

 carpenters and other interests here identified with the huildiug trades. 



Information has been received from Galveston, Tex., of the death of 

 J. B. Allen, of T. B. Allen & Co. Mr. Allen was connected here for a niim- 

 her of years with one of the hig mercantile agencies but later engaged in 

 the export business, making a specialty of lunilier and forest products. 

 He remained here until about fifteen years ago when the firm with which 

 he was identified at the time of his death removed its headquarters to Oal* 

 veston. News of his death has been received by his many friends with 

 much regret. 



Tennessee and Arkansas are today for the first time in their history 

 directly connected by a highway following the opening of the free wagon 

 way over the new bridge across the Mississippi at this point, known as 

 the MemphisJ. T. Harahau bridge. The approaches on both sides have 

 ,iust been completed and the wagon way is expected to prove of immense 

 advantage to lumber interests having holdings across the river. The high- 

 way will be connected with the St. Francis levee by the middle of this 

 month. There are large woodworking enterprises across the Mississipjii at 

 West Memphis and the wagon way will be of much service to all of these. 

 The opening of this highway will, it is expected, also greatly stimulate 

 the development of cutover lands in eastern Arkansas which are thus 

 brought in easy working distance of an open market. No celebration has 

 attended the opening of this wagon way but it is regarded by business and 

 agricultural interests as a most important step in the direction of the 

 easy and rapid development of a vast area of almost unparalleled fer- 

 tility. 



It. L. .lurden of r'eurod. .lurdon & McCowcn, Inc.. has left Memphis 

 for Detroit. He has bought a new WIS Packard ear which was delivered 

 to him on his arrival in Detroit, Friday, and he will use this for exten- 

 sive touring. Sir. .Turden is a member of the Southern Hardwood Emer- 

 gency Bureau and is i)rominently identified with the hardwood trade of 

 the Memphis territory. 



There is an unusually active demand for all sorts of veneers, according 

 to a member of the trade here who is an extensive mainifaclurer in that 



line. He says that it is almost impossible to keei^ even within hailing 

 distance of orders and that many of the latter have to be turned down 

 because of inability to take care of them. As illustrating the position of 

 the market, he reports that as a rule veneer manufacturers are from 30 

 to 90 days behind on their deliveries, which would indicate that they have 

 met with little success during the past few months in overcoming the de- 

 layed shipments which characterized this business earlier in the year. 



Lumbermen here owning extensive cutover lands in Arkansas, Missis- 

 sippi, Louisiana and Missouri have taken an active interest in the experi- 

 ments made recently under the auspices of the Southern Alluvial Land 

 Association in the removal of stumps. It has lieen demonstrated that they 

 can be blasted with a cheap black powder and then pulled or burned with- 

 out entailing probil>itive expense. There is no problem connected with 

 the hardwood lumber Industry that is being studied with greater care right 

 now than that of preparing these cutover lands for cultivation and the 

 removal of the stumps is second only to the preparation of adequate 

 drainage facilities. When one realizes the vast extent of the area cov- 

 ered by these cutover lands one begins to realize something of the Impor- 

 tance of the problem of preparing for their successful cultivation. The 

 liassage of the flood control bill at the last session of Congress has very 

 irreatly stimulated the development of these lands in^cause furnishing as- 

 surance that the improvements pl.iced thereon will n^it be lost tbrough 

 overflow. The need of greatly increased foodstuff production, too, has 

 been a most important factor in bringing about their preparation for use 

 with as much rapidity as practicable. 



The Valley Log Loading Company reports increased loading of logs 

 during the past few days by virtue of increased equipment in the way of 

 Hat cars provided by the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley railroad. This com- 

 pany has been ojierating onl.v i>art of its equipment for some time but the 

 ioad in question has furnished enough flat cars recently to enable the 

 ■ ompany to put one more loading mnrhine to work. 



=-< LOUISVILLE >= 



Louisville hardwood dealers and manufacturers were somewhat cha- 

 grined with the action of the Interstate Commerce Commission on Septem- 

 lier 1, in suspending commodity rate raises as proposed on a number of 

 articles, but leaving lumber and logs to carry a portion of the increase. 

 Tile wires were kept busy Saturday in finding out when and how the 

 increase in C. F. A. territory would effect the industry in Louisville, par- 

 ticulars being badly wanted. 



"Trade .Vcceiitances" were discussed at some length before a recent 

 meeting of the Louisville Hardwi>od Club, and a nuinlter of the members 

 stated that they belleveil that adoption of such aiceptances would result 

 in easier oiieration of the lumber industry, if made a general term proposi- 

 tion, and generally accepted. The matter was found 1o be so lengthy and 

 of such interest that no action was taken and the matter will be discussed 

 further at another meeting. 



The Wood-Mosaic Company, New .\lbany. Ind.. oiierating mills at High- 

 land Park, Ky.. and elsewhere, is advertising for 2,00(1 cars of black walnut 

 logs, to l>e used in filling a large government contract for gunstoeks. The 

 company is scouring Indiana and Kentucky for the logs, and playing on 

 the patriotism of timber merchants and farmers to furnish the material 

 for X'ucle Sam. Covernnient insjiectors are checking up the material as 

 manufactured. 



The li. S. Hill Organ I'oinpany and Henry Pilchers" Sous, organ manu- 

 facturers of Louisville, may shortly turn their plants or parts of their 

 plants into aeroiilane plants, and at the present time are negotiating 

 for contracts. Both companies would be glad to land the business and 

 figure that if could be handled with minor changes. 



\ visit was recently paid to Louisville by (Tcorge H. .Symouds. repre- 

 si'Uting the .Vmerican Oraiihophone Company of Bridgciiort. Mass.. manu- 

 facturer of Columbia talking machines. Mr. Synuulds is assistant to the 

 general superintendent and was on his way to the caliinet plants at Salem 

 and other soutlu'rn Indiana cities, which have contra<-ts for m;iking <'olum- 

 Ida cabinets. 



George Shii>peu, a son of Kdwanl Shippen, head of the Louisville Point 

 Lumber t'f»mpan,\-, was rec^'ntly commissioned a second lieuti'iiaut in the 

 officers' Ueserves. Mr, Shipiien and .Tohn SOller of W. P. Brown & Sons 

 I.umln'r Company, <'ommissioncd a first lieutcn;iiit, were guests at a recent 

 meeting of the Louisville Hardwood Club, attending in uniform. 



The labor situation in Louisville has been relievi'd somewhat due to the 

 release of many men, emiiloyed on Cam]) Taylt>r, with the completion of 

 the contracts. However, many of these workmen received such large sal- 

 aries during the course of camp building, that they can't get adjusted to 

 working on ordinary wages again, and in many cases are living on savings 

 made during the big rush, when carpenters drew .?4.''i a week. 



The tremendous demand for hardwood lumber this spring luis enabled 

 the Churchill-Milton Lumlier Company to start its new ilouide haml mill 

 at Greenwood, Mis.s., operate it in addition to the mill at Gleudora, and 

 at the same time not have to make any special drive to get business to 

 operate the mills at capacity. Both mills are now running full, and the 

 company has abandoned a proposed selling trip by auto through the North 

 and East having found that the additional consumption was absorbed with- 

 out chasing for business. In order to take care of the additional business 

 the comiJany has increased its capital stock to $200,000. divided into :i.")n 

 shares of pivl'erii'd. and l.i;."iii shares of com i. 



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