September 10. 1917 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Arthur ilussellman, presideut of the Hardwood Mauulacturiug Com- 

 pany of Louisville, recently became father of a daughter, this making 

 his seventh child, and giving him quite some little family. 



A recent report of the Louisville Industrial Foundation, the milliou 

 dollar factory fund formed by local citizens to bring new industries to 

 Louisville, showed that six new factories had been secured in the little 

 while that the organization has been operating, and that these six factories 

 brought $1,299,000 of additional capital to the city. 



About October 1 the Inman Veneer & I'auel Company expects to start 

 operations in its new plant at Louisville. The company recently took over 

 the Portsmouth, O., Veneer & Lumber Company, and has moved the ma- 

 chinery and a lot of the men to Louisville. The company also controls 

 a veneer plant at Mound City, 111. 



Capt. D. H. Smith, of the convict vessel, Success, a former British 

 India trader and later a prison ship at Melbourne, Aus., is considering a 

 plan to place the vessel in the lumber trade, having received an offer 

 from A. O. Anderson & Co., of New York, with offices in various North 

 Sea ports. This old vessel after laying on the bottom in Melbourne har- 

 bor for five years, was raised and taken to England. She was later shown 

 at the Panama-Pacific exposition, and then brought to New Orleans and 

 shown all along the Mississippi and Ohio as an exposition boat, the old 

 prison cells still remaining. At the present time the vessel is in Louis- 

 ville, having come up the Ohio, and it being planned to take her to Pitts- 

 burgh and Cincinnati. However, Capt. Smith may place her in the lumber 

 trade, as .she has a capacity of 7-50,000 feet and is badly needed. The old 

 boat is a sailing barketine, over 100 years of age, but built of solid teak 

 wood, and well preserved. In 1912 she crossed the Atlantic under her 

 own sails in ninety-sis days, and should be good for about three trips a 

 year. 



A big educational campaign to restore normal movement of lumber and 

 building materials has been undertaken by the architects, lumber dealers 

 and general material supply houses of Louisville, the general building 

 trades taking a part in the campaign. About $6,000 will be spent in the 

 local newspapers within the next few months in an effort to show the 

 public that now is a good time to build, and that there is nothing in con- 

 servative building. The plans were about completed at a big get together 

 dinner held recently at Sennings Park, there being more than 100 men 

 present. 



Building operations in Louisville showed a decided slump for the fiscal 

 year winding up August 31, 1917, according to the city building inspec- 

 tor's office. While the report is not complete as yet it is estimated that 

 the total permits issued for the year will run between $2,500,000 and 

 ii;3,000,000. as compared with $4,080,430 in 1915-16 ; $3,860,040 in 1914- 

 15 ; $4,443,470 in 1913-14 ; and $4,358,230 for 1912-13. 



Barry Norman of the Holly Ridge Lumber Company. Holly Ridge. La., 

 is back home from a two-weeks' vacation at Atlantic City, it being claimed 

 that this is his fir.st vacation since entering the lumber business. 



The Louisville Cooperage Company has closed a timber deal iu Knott 

 county, Kentucky, and is planning to install portahle mills and start 

 developments shortly, shipping the material to the cooperage works iu 

 Louisville. 



Charles M. Knuckles, Viper, Ky.. near Wliitesburg, has closed an im- 

 portant-timber deal in Leslie county, KeOtucky, and has stated that the 

 property would be opened and mills installed. 



Joseph Ledfo'^d of Lombard, Jlenifee county, Kentucky, near Mt. Ster- 

 ling, has sold 3,000 acres of timborland to the Broadhead-Garrett Company 

 of Clay City. The timber is across the line of Menefee and Wolfe coun- 

 ties. This company operates mills in eastern Kentucky, at Nada and Clay 

 City, and may not open the new holdings for some time. 



The Kentucky Wagou Manufacturing Company is handling a large 

 volume of business this season, a portion of which is government work 

 on assembling motor ambulances. The company has been advertising 

 steadily for both skilled and unskilled labor, and has been having trouble 

 in getting as many men as are needed. 



George Mercke, formerly head of the American Laundry Company of 

 Louisville, recently sold his interests in order to go in with his brother 

 Charles Mercke of the Jefferson Woodworking Company, operating a large 

 plant in southern Louisville. 



The Southern Railway, through its foreign freight traffic manager. 

 R. L. McKellar, is working hard on a proposition to get the large shippers 

 and exporters of the North and East to ship more material through 

 southern ports for export, and has diverted solid train loads, of material 

 to southern ports. It is claimed that shipping through southern ports 

 would relieve the car shortage materially iu that section, and relieve con- 

 gestion in the East and North. The empty cars could be loaded back 

 North, and increase the car supply greatly. For instance cotton, lumber 

 and various agricultural lines can be shipped to advantage through southern 

 ports. It is claimed by some shippers that the boats do not stop at vari- 

 ous ports, but it is said that if thf merchandise were offered for export 

 in the southern ports the boats wnuld be there to take it. 



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The Norton & Wheeler Stave (.'onipauy of I'ine lUulf. is huiltling a saw- 

 mill at Roe, Ark., which will have a daily capacity o( 25,000 feet. 



J, n. Keller of Piggott, Ark., on September 1, closed a deal whereby he 

 became the owner of all of the timber of Seven Mile Island, located in the 



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